✖ ✖ The Rites of October
Holidays from the Pagano Calendar
October 4 . Festa del Bosco.
October 16. Festival of Astarte.
October 20. Feast of Pan.
October 22. Feast of the Elves.
October 28. Lime Day. Isia Die
October 31. Great Sand for Halloween.
October 4 . Festa del Bosco.
October 16. Festival of Astarte.
October 20. Feast of Pan.
October 22. Feast of the Elves.
October 28. Lime Day. Isia Die
October 31. Great Sand for Halloween.
pagan festival: Italian Stregheria - Sabba
Calenda (Name Celtic: Shamain, Halloween, ShadowFest, Martinmas, Old Hallowmas): [October 31] raccolto.La Last night he won the day, and the goddess die to be reborn in the form of Dio.Gli last fruits can be harvested, but dispossession is the prelude to the arrival of death purifying and dark. We understand that nothing in this day and 'eternal and that life and' a cycle of death rinascita.E 'time perhaps the most' magical and meaningful year for us. In fact, this festival 'was a real headache for the Christians in those who hinder' to resist despite the repressioni.Per as it is a holiday invented ad hoc (the Christians have never had cults of the dead or spirits in their culture ) as the party of the dead continues to be remembered as the "Festival of Witches".
evocations are favored and all the rites aimed at restitution of wrongs.
AND 'the pagan new year. Late summer and early winter for the Celts, or the end and beginning of the new year ... passing perhaps the most 'important. This festival is also considered the third and final harvest festival.
In this event, the Goddess is asleep and the scepter passed to God, old and declining in winter. Even nature seems to die, but awaken 'the next season, coming back to life with the Goddess.
For some traditions, the Goddess does not fall asleep, but descends into the ground, away from light, assuming the dark side that characterize 'the winter. In other traditions, this celebration is the "death" of God, born again 'and then the Winter Solstice, from the womb of the Goddess. The Calenda
or Samhain, and 'a moment of inner reflection, of abandonment of the old and preparing for the renewal. We stop, we reflect on what 'we have made during the year, and as' doing look at what's to come'. As the nature strips, stops and falls asleep, as much do we, using this regenerative sleep to prepare for the new life and new cycle.
The night of this festival and 'also the time of year when the "divisions" between the planes of reality' become thinner, and the contact between them and 'more' intense.
Even for this in the past it was believed that on this night, the spirits of the dead would return to walk the earth, and to visit the living. Originally
fact they put away the lights and lanterns to show the way to the spirits.
This festival is considered the New Year, or better known as "Black Time": a day that is not important nor appearance at 'year that ended it in what was coming, which fell every barrier between the living and the dead and the two worlds could communicate. Those who had not reincarnated in this world could return to see again the places and people, saying that anyone could uncover the tomb to meet their deceased loved ones: the only condition was to remain in the afterlife for one year, until the next Samhain. Risk so that the deceased chose to stay near the loved one no longer among the living let it go.
Samhain is also called the Feast of shadows, souls of the death of 'Another World, was and is a special time for the rites of divination.
At sunset you turn off all lights and fires, lit a bonfire and this is then lit the torch with which rekindled the hearth, this task was waiting to heads of families.
priests celebrated for three days, in which it came into close contact with the gods: the first commemorating the heroes, in accordance with the deceased, and third were held fairs, games, horse racing, convivial gatherings and rejoicing at the end of hostilities, it was suspending the practice during the cold war.
Samhain is the only event which has a purely agrarian., The animal consumed at banquets was the pig, a sacred animal and symbol of prosperity and sovereignty, mead was a traditional drink beer together and gave immortality.
In Ireland the day was reserved for the consecration of a new king (if he died the previous year) the celebration that followed lasted a week, and sanctified by the sacrifice of a white bull of Aigli. On the solemn occasion
Samhain became Halloween, and the like a second Carnival, but the word Halloween has its origins Catholic Nov. 1, the day dedicated to the saints, was celebrated with bonfires because the light shone frightening spirits that roamed the 'air that they were gone.
People used to dress to avoid being recognized and taken away by witches and spirits. In English that day was the All Hallows 'Day Celtic tradition and how he wanted the festival began at sunset, so that was the eve of All Saints> All Hallows' Eve which Halloween.
A classic symbol of Halloween is the pumpkin lantern's function, to drive out the spirits or lead the way, but still, its seeds are always Usti for divination under the influence of the moon, his flesh shall enter in the rituals of prosperity.
rituals of Halloween
A tip is to never ask too much, although it is a magical night can not work miracles, try to keep our feet on the ground so maybe things denied , for a fortunate circumstance might well be given away.
Rite of Luna
vine If you want to see the face of the person destined to live life with you, go on the evening of Samhain in a place where the moon is visible, votategli shoulders and make sure that she is reflected in a mirror that you hold in your right hand. Light a green candle and place it so that it too see in the mirror in her left hand instead, hold a branch of dried lavender. On your left shoulder should face then look in the mirror, the person you marry.
premonitory dreams.
If a woman wants to dream of her future husband, on the evening of October 31 should eat a salted smoked herring: if in a dream some men marry with a pitcher of water that the water will make us spend thirst.
If a man wants to dream about his future wife, before going to sleep to put a stick of rowan in a glass of water on the bedside table: if will dream of falling into a river, the woman who will save the one he marries.
Dinner Suit
In this festival you can also run the dinner suit, a ritual that serves to communicate with a loved one there is no more, is in addition to a ritual that requires 13 days of preparation, or another way to reveal to you your future partner / a.
The second ritual that is less "dangerous" than the dinner suit necromancers can be found HERE
L 'spell of the cross of rowan
This ritual was used by the Celts who followed him, at Samhain, or November 1, in the Middle Ages was even made in December for the Solstice. Light a red candle, after fumigated the room with incense. Linked together to form a cross two twigs of rowan, using red floss, reciting these words and mental load of Light:
For this cross Sorbo
I (name) to forbid all persons
adverse and hostile
to enter the house of (name) I forbid you
get close to his body and his soul
I forbid you to enter his mind fear and pain. What will stop this cross
until you have crossed every mountain
crossed every river and every lake
counted every grain of sand on every beach
counted all the stars in the night sky.
I (name) to forbid all persons
adverse and hostile
to enter the house of (name) I forbid you
get close to his body and his soul
I forbid you to enter his mind fear and pain. What will stop this cross
until you have crossed every mountain
crossed every river and every lake
counted every grain of sand on every beach
counted all the stars in the night sky.
Keep hanging on the cross' incense burner for a while, so good that absorbs the smoke, then hang it over the entrance of your home, or on the inside neck of the person to be protected, saying
cross of rowan, cross magic
Protect (name, shines the way I want
command, so I can be.
Protect (name, shines the way I want
command, so I can be.
October 28 to November 3 ISIA DIE
Wife of God, worship of God, and Hand of God,
Mother of God and the Great Royal Wife, Lady of the Decoration and Adornment
of the building.
Lady and the desire of the Green Fields,
girl who fills the palace with her beauty,
Fragrance of the palace, mistress of joy,
That completes its course in the divine place.
rain cloud that makes green the fields when descending,
girl, sweet love, Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt,
What gives orders in the divine Ennead,
According to these commands is governed.
Princess, great praise, charming lady, whose face
appreciates the trickle of fresh myrrh. From
III Hymn to Isis, Temple of Philae
ISIDE
Burt Seligmann
Isis is the great generative power of women,
the essence of things.
Plato, according to Plutarch
An element intended to survive the cosmogony of the ancient Egyptian magic was the worship of the great goddess Isis, the one that evokes everything nice, the tenderness of a mother's devotion his wife, fertility and grace of women.
She enlivens all that is born and everything that grows, with his tears swell the waters of the Nile, overflowing, fertilize the district. His soul dwells in the star Sirius, which for thousands of years, popping up in the morning sky during the summer solstice, the Egyptians signaled the return of beneficial flooding of the Nile. So he repeated the act eternally creative raised by tears of Isis, her husband Osiris, the sacred Nile, rose to new life and fertility the green land of Egypt.
Isis by many names combines the quality of many local deities. The faithful sought
her protection and the stranger recognized in her the traits of the mother goddess of their own land: Minerva, Aphrodite, Ceres, Hecate ... But Isis
hung over all. Her mother made her character more repugnant to contrast the obscene and cruel conduct of Astarte, the Anaitis, of Cybele, the formidable Eastern gods who demanded the sacrifice of young girls and maiming of young people. In the face of those who takes delight in human sacrifice, war, infertility, Isis loved and protected life.
His cult spread through Western Europe and Asia, and was fit with nascent Christianity. Many attributes of the Virgin Mary dates back to Isis: the Immaculate Conception; Mater Domina - who has forwarded the name of the name Madonna.
"Actually," says JG Frazer in describing the cult of Isis "her stately ritual, its satin and tonsured priests, its matins and his vespers, the clink of his music, baptism el'aspersione consecrated water, the ceremonial processions, the jeweled image of the Mother of God, presented many points of contact with the pompous ceremonies of Catholicism. "
Each element relates to the figure and clothing of the goddess had placed its meaning. The pedestal of his statue in the city of Sais bore engraved these enigmatic words: "I am everything that was, is, who will be ... And no mortal could never discover what is hidden under my veil. "
Apuleius (second century of the Christian era) minutely portrays the goddess, and his vivid description of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) did make an incision in wood (bottom of the page), in which Isis is crowned with a braid of hair, a symbol of the lunar influence on grasses and forages. Adorn the ears of the wheat heads, because the grain goddess discovered and taught to cultivate. His hair is thesis around a sphere representing the world and rests on a wreath of flowers expressing its influence on the plant kingdom. In full head of hair two snakes represent the generative power of the moon and its winding path. The flowing hair appalesano for the nurse of the cosmos. In his left hand carrying a bucket, a symbol of the flood of the Nile in his right hand holding the sistrum, tinnulo the instrument of his cult, which, according to Kircher says the genius of the Nile and guardian against evil. The dress shines with all colors of the moon, queen of the heavens and what is covered in a blanket of stars, by leaps decorated with flowers, an allegory of the soil fertile and remember the fact that Isis discovered the virtues of healthy vegetable juices. On lap went a half-moon, whose rays magic fertilize the soil, rests with his right foot on the mainland and with left on the water, because presides over both elements. She is the Stella Maris, the patron saint of all those traveling on the ocean, and the ship, female symbol, is dedicated to her.
The faithful gazed with curiosity desiosa these attractive attributes that stimulate the imagination, and the figure of the goddess so occupied the minds of the simple man as philosopher. Those who craved a higher wisdom soon uninterested materialistic interpretation of the Stoics (for which the myth symbolized the Nile overflowing ol'eclissi moon or other astronomical events), and the world brute retreated to the realm of ideas, contemplation of find a key transcendental the legend of the mother in the world.
Plutarch, Plato and Eastern esoteric ideology sensitive, think in terms of the mysterious holy trinity of Osiris, Isis and their son Horus. These seem to personify the Intelligence, Matter and the Cosmos, and together form the perfect triangle, the proportions of which express a divine secret: the base, equal to four, is Isis, the female conceives, the height, equivalent to three, and Osiris, the masculine principle that creates, the hypotenuse, five, and Horus, the offspring.
Each triangle drawn according to these reports is a diagram with a sacred magical power, and the three numbers that the supernatural forces are manifest. Both the Egyptians as the philosopher Pythagoras had fans of the doctrine of numbers and in later times whenever numbers and geometric shapes appear in the circles or the magical talismans, descended from the ancient numerology.
"The numbers hint at some mystery that Pythagoras learned in Egyptian temples, and refer to the ceremonies that take place or symbols that you perform." So Plutarch is expressed, but can not or will not reveal the secret, although repeatedly stated that in this s'adombra a deep meaning in everything Egyptian religion - are his words - must be understood allegorically.
Isis received the Christian West not only in the cult of the Madonna, but also the occult doctrine of the wizards. These, following the ideas of Plutarch, discovered in the mother-goddess of antiquity the emblematic representation of the Soul of the World, which supplies the whole of creation according to divine order. Banished from heaven, Christian, Isis continues to sow in the world of stars and the essence of life on earth. "She is the feminine side of nature, or creative activity."
engraving of the seventeenth century shows the Soul of the World that still retains some symbols of Isis: the flowing hair, the crescent on her lap, one foot on earth and one in the water.
She is chained to God in the words of Plutarch: "Isis always part of the Supreme ', and man is chained to her, because life is the seed that flows from the breast.
More time passed, but did not erase his image. At the end of the seventeenth century, was remembered by people who believed they would be impervious to any magical feeling, the leaders of the French Revolution. In the solemn ceremony performed in honor of the Supreme Being, Robespierre, in a vague memory of the mysterious inclusion of Sais, lifted the veil that covered a giant statue of a woman, Isis, whose generative power was now interpreted as the reason, the Nurse of progress.
Adapted from "The Mirror of Magic" by K. Burt Seligmann, Casini Editions, 1965
HYMN OF ISIS
Why I am I am the first and last
revered and despised,
I am the prostitute and the saint,
I am the wife and the virgin,
I am the mother and daughter,
I am the arms of my mother, I am the
sterile, but there are many my children,
I am a married woman and unmarried,
I am the one who gives birth and she who has never given birth,
I am the consolation for the pain of childbirth.
I am the bride and groom,
It was my man who nurtured my fertility
I am the mother of my father,
I am the sister of my husband,
And he is my rejected son.
Rispettatemi always
Since I am the scandals and the Magnificent.
Found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, dating from the III-IV century BC
HYMN TO ISIS
Why I am I am the first and last
revered and despised,
I am the prostitute and the saint,
I am the wife and the virgin,
I am the mother and daughter,
I am the arms of my mother, I am the
sterile, but there are many my children,
I am a married woman and unmarried,
I am the one who gives birth and she who has never given birth,
I am the consolation for the pain of childbirth.
I am the bride and groom,
It was my man who nurtured my fertility
I am the mother of my father,
I am the sister of my husband,
And he is my rejected son.
Rispettatemi always
Since I am the scandals and the Magnificent.
Found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, dating from the III-IV century BC
HYMN TO ISIS
You, indeed, holy
and always ready to come to the aid of all men, always
generous to mortals, to the poor in misfortune
agreements sweet love of the mother.
Not even a day or night and not a single moment,
however brief it may be,
passes without your blessing, without
that you protect the men on land and sea and offers
your right hand that offers aid, removed
the storms of life,
through which undoes the laces
inextricably tangled in each destination,
calm the storms of fortune and stop the cruel course of the stars.
The Gods you worship survivors,
the hell do you honor,
you do turn the ball in the sky, the sun illuminates
,
rule the world and casts the Tartar.
Thanks to you the stars become favorable, thanks to you return the
seasons,
gods rejoice, and the elements are your slaves.
At your nod the winds blow, the clouds give nourishment,
the seeds sprout, the sprouts grow.
birds crossing the sky,
the animals that roam its mountains,
snakes that lurk on the ground,
the monsters that swim in the sea fear your majesty.
But my skills are too weak
to echo your praises,
are so rich that we can offer sacrifices, nor do I have such a great
fruitful
be able to say those things I feel for your majesty, nor
would be sufficient thousand mouths and as many languages,
or a concatenation of an endless sermon tireless.
Therefore I will only do what we can do
indeed one who is devout but the rest is poor:
behold your divine appearance and your holy god
placed in the most secret recesses of my heart keep them in forever. "
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, XI, 25
and always ready to come to the aid of all men, always
generous to mortals, to the poor in misfortune
agreements sweet love of the mother.
Not even a day or night and not a single moment,
however brief it may be,
passes without your blessing, without
that you protect the men on land and sea and offers
your right hand that offers aid, removed
the storms of life,
through which undoes the laces
inextricably tangled in each destination,
calm the storms of fortune and stop the cruel course of the stars.
The Gods you worship survivors,
the hell do you honor,
you do turn the ball in the sky, the sun illuminates
,
rule the world and casts the Tartar.
Thanks to you the stars become favorable, thanks to you return the
seasons,
gods rejoice, and the elements are your slaves.
At your nod the winds blow, the clouds give nourishment,
the seeds sprout, the sprouts grow.
birds crossing the sky,
the animals that roam its mountains,
snakes that lurk on the ground,
the monsters that swim in the sea fear your majesty.
But my skills are too weak
to echo your praises,
are so rich that we can offer sacrifices, nor do I have such a great
fruitful
be able to say those things I feel for your majesty, nor
would be sufficient thousand mouths and as many languages,
or a concatenation of an endless sermon tireless.
Therefore I will only do what we can do
indeed one who is devout but the rest is poor:
behold your divine appearance and your holy god
placed in the most secret recesses of my heart keep them in forever. "
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, XI, 25
Sources: The Gardens of the Moon
www.ilcalderonemagico.it
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