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The Bstaone "stang"

The foloklore created the modern myth that the mallets and sticks are an 'invention' of Gerald Gardner, were not invented by New Agers, or are a ritual. Sticks (referring to the wooden sticks, sticks, poles, etc.) are a very ancient and magical instrument arising from our ancestors practitioners and extends further back than the Stone Age. the wood is not well preserved over the millennia, researchers must look at the historical documents on the use of wooden slats, ritual instruments that are then processed in similar metal, bone or stone, for ever. The wooden slats were used by animist tribes untouched in the last two centuries. There are no examples of this kind? In fact, you can find plenty of them.

Introduction
I met many neo-pagans and witches in the same way that traditional use staves, but really have no idea what is their history and purpose or use them in magic. The God is the World Tree and have been formulated, both voluntarily and involuntarily a number of myths that mention the mystical knowledge of trees, of their own medicine as well as staves, runes and pendants carved from its wood. Every year there is the sacrifice caused by an ax, so that each year the tree that represents this time Greenmantle fertile land, can be born and grow without the decay of the previous mineral rich dead tree. Inside the wisdom of the sticks are the rich and ancient mysteries of the Forest - the Earth when it was wild and we were just young essences that opened his eyes, they were on the ground like fallen fruit under the tree in the world.

The different types and their ritual use
While the various types to serve many different purposes, they all have one thing in common: what they represent. Quite simply, the sticks are a symbol of the World Tree, which is the axis mundi of our world and the universe itself.
Not only belonging to the Christian mythology, but they are symbols of power in a status reserved apparteneti: shamans or the priesthood of other religions. The stick is a personal ritual magic, or just walking stick. The sticks are traditionally 3-6 feet in length and, in general, are designed to match the wearer's shoulders. Magicians who led battles conducted staff, shamans and smart people who traveled from village to village leaders and peacemakers God used them-I am referring to European, Asian and Native American cultures. In
paganism were used for protection, blessing, killing the 'open door between worlds, calendars runic, peacekeeping or crowd control, as well as invoking the spirit and banishing. Sorbo Oak or because they were created to be used to protect the wearer from physical harm or be spiritual. If a magician brings a staff of rowan and blackthorn stick is usually for the protection and destruction magic. The destruction is not only the launch of curses, but also a position of power that the magician's personal attacks the enemy with an effect similar to an electric shock. Or sorb apple sticks were used to open doors between worlds in some places of the threshold and would be used for journeys to the underworld. In Celtic folklore, the mountain ash is used to protect the wearer from ghosts and fairies, and to give the bearer the ability to control them, because, as the dispatch of a ghost or a spirit of preventing harm.
A stick is made to act in rituals such as the World Tree is usually carved with one or more snakes. This design is between cultures, but most commonly in the Greek Norwegian ee, and Africa. The snake represents wisdom and knowledge of the universe and allows the bearer access to 'divine inspiration that it is magic, healing, or inspiration for art and poetry.

Stick
There are many misconceptions the stick in the tradition of modern and traditional witchcraft because of Robert, who has left writings about truncated Cochrane, on this instrument and also because of the lack of research on the part of traditional by modern authors in other texts on witchcraft they never mentioned it apart Cochrane. The club said in a Stang old English term indicates that in its earliest form was simply a forked tree branch with two or more teeth. A rock was a tool for spinning by hand, used every day by women for at least 2000 years before he went on alone and out of fashion with the invention of the spinning wheel and its introduction in Europe in the early 13th century , mechanical wheels during the industrial revolution. The crude fiber carded is tied at the top of the fortress which was usually higher than the spinner and the fiber was continuously drawn, and spun yarn.

"" The so-called 'rock' sacred object 'held in reverence by some that witch was actually a weaver spinning wheel, and could easily be mistaken for a phallic symbol. "Conocchia weaver tied with reeds or straw, often appears sculptures in rural and elsewhere. He again referred to the craft and supreme deity. It would seem that the witches were not influenced by Freudian concepts. "

- Robert Cochrane, Cords On

In mythology, the rock represents the universal tree of the world and the spindle is the axis mundi of the Earth. The fortress was also seen by pagan cultures as the embodiment of the creative power of the universe, for a woman and man to create something from nothing just like the Universe itself was created. In some ancient myths of creation, the goddess of the earth has only used his spinning wheel and using the fiber before the chaos created the universe. Clotho in Greek mythology was one of the three Fates who held the distaff and spinning the thread of life. For ritualiil stick is planted in the ground outdoors. The part on land that descends to the underworld like the roots of a tree, the branch that represents the our kingdom, teeth and reach the sky that unites the three realms and the opening of a door to the afterlife. Then the gods or spirits may be taken or through the stick and can be contacted or communicate with us during the ritual. A tree personnel can be used similarly. In many medieval depictions of witches flying to the sabbath, they are flying on their strongholds, the fibers spun at the ends, often causing confusion with broomsticks while having a totally different use. So the witch flew to the sand on her, "Stang" is actually a metaphor that reveals that for the witch with its fortress allowed her to travel between worlds like the shamans of animistic cultures were flying up or down onto the world using their own stick carved like a horse or deer.
Wizards males are usually associated with a personal staff rather than a distaff. For example, a punishment in the British Middle Ages called "riding the Stang" was ustat for a man who had abused his wife or mother. He was sitting on a donkey on the other hand, while he was forced to hold the distaff and the woman was paraded through the village. For men, this was considered humiliation.

In magic the "stang" has a ritual use can be used for spinning magical, in cooperation with the gods of Fate, and invoking bands, looking for lost objects, leaving offerings, or as a trap mind.

wand

Stang, or pillar - still represents the World Tree. Wands can be found in all cultures, but especially those resulting from the Proto-Indo European religions, and Native American tribes. The best poles are made of wood and the ability to connect directly with the Association of the World Tree.
The crystal rods do not represent the World Tree, but are used for healing work and the spirit as stones, have the ability to take familiar spirits, or energy. The metal rods is also not are representative of the 'World Tree, or used as wooden sticks, however, are conductors of electricity and energy.
The wooden sticks and staves are used for divination, as with fingers or Ogham Runic Futhark, divination with sticks like throwing sticks, or as a dowser to locate water, ley lines, places of power, stolen property, places burial, or treasures, etc. .. the wooden sticks are traditionally used for the destruction, which is sending or "run" if they are spells for healing, protection, cursing or even as a weapon. A wooden stick can also be used to open doors between worlds and travel safely within kingdoms. Traditionally they are also used to invoke the gods or the spirits and sending them into their kingdoms and, depending on the wood, you may also be used to control the spirits.
sticks were used by Volvo and the Norwegians were found in their tombs, the Egyptians in the form of their djeds (Zed), the Celtic magicians, like the shamans of the tribe of animist cultures around the world, as the tribes Salish coast of British Columbia, Canada. What they all have in common is that they are a magic ritual used by initiates "shamans" and not the laity.

In conclusion
It 's only in this with our Modern technology and machinery for the use and meaning of the boards has been forgotten, but the remains are still available for the wizard determined that they can look in the tradition and the folk tale It 's important not to forget and to know the profound meaning of the instruments , where does the staff and most importantly, it is important not to forget the trees, our ancestors, that they have the knowledge.


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The gods and the spirits are watching us and speak with us

The gods and the spirits are watching us and speak with us

"Not temete.Nel when set foot on the path of witchcraft, the call rings in the invisible world and announce your arrival. "

~ Paul Huson, Mastering Witchcraft

Not to sound creepy or anything, but the gods, the spirits of the dead and the spirits are watching us inhuman. I do not think they do not. I do not think you're too small lia and insignificant .. I'm watching you. Whether you define them as gods or spirits, they have direct and indirect involvement in our lives - for some people on a daily basis. They do not look all the time, but either they do more often when you practice magic. They look and measure our progress in this life and in witchcraft. Sometimes we step in moments show the way crucial in your life. They are constantly judging and testing liv we do ourselves. Want to do something for yourself? He wants to bring your level of witchcraft in a higher state? You want them to accompany us and with due reverence, we are dedicated to them? You'll know the vote and keep them? spoken promises are difficult and important, but not as important as the enforcement actions on their part .. Waiting to see what you do.

a god (a god in particular mercury) has as its "defiance" preferred to put obstacles on the path to see how it reacts. Not given up because of his or persists despite this? This lesson teaches that life is not easy or right and people and events will get in the way of your dreams, goals, and the spiritual path. Do not think that just because there seems an obstacle, "The Universe" is rejecting you. If you follow this philosophy will be easier not to lose the spiritual path is that of your life.
Remember the three roads from the ballad of Tam Lin? If after making a decision, you fall, or you have a lot of bad luck, and your world seems to fall apart around you - can be a sign of having taken an important decision which is not a good one for you, and this is a warning.

Sometimes these warnings appear incognito by a beggar, a homeless schizophrenic, a friendly old lady, or a stranger who makes a strange comment about you or gives you a bit 'of advice or warning. Sometimes they are shown in their form and sometimes appear as ordinary people. This is common in many cultures of the Native Americans made this recall with Legend of the White Buffalo Woman.
the majority of witches that has happened, but did not realize it. . Some
spend so little time in seeing the magic in the everyday anon accorgesi d 's interaction with the gods and spirits.
Keep your eyes open and your third eye aware of such interactions. As mentioned
for Native American folk tales are full of such events - the king or people rewarded for helping a old beggar, or being cursed for not having done so. The stories do not lie, and perhaps many actually occurred.
So kiss the witch, be gentle with a rude and foolish old man sitting next to you on the bus, mind your manners with strangers, and keep all the promises you make, is a good way to learn to see it.


Some accounts that include these lessons are "Habetrot and Scantlie Mab" (Scotland), "Frau Holle" (in German), "The three Heads of the Well" (English), and "The Ballad of King Henry" ( Scotland). A great book on this subject is Elves, Wights, and Trolls Kveldulf Gundarsson by providing examples from the Scandinavian tradition and personal experiences.

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Hogmanay - New Year

Hogmanay

Hogmanay New Year's party in Scotland is derived from ancient Celtic origins and Norway. No source that I have studied is quite sure where the word has come or what it means. The meaning is more just about what to name traditionally for gifts on the eve of New Year. The first references to the Hogmanay in 1600 also reported as NAE pork, but is Hagman, and hagmonay , but there are more than ten different ways to write and many of them are in French and not in Gaelic or germanico.Alcuni scholars believe is a remnant dellla Hogmanay celebrations of the winter solstice, Scottish and Norwegian. So I prefer the French definition: "homme est ne!" Meaning, " he (the man) was born!" . Said aloud is Hogmanay Neither homme est.
I think this is the original, in 1538 King James V of Scotland married a French noblewoman and the French language has become popular in Scotland and continued to influence the Scottish dialect for centuries after. It could also explain why the term can not be found before the 16th century. Most likely the significance of Hogmanay has been used by Christianity become doing "Christ is born", but as modern and ancient pagans believed that their sun god is reborn at the winter solstice celebration and no doubt the practices were easily adopted into the new religion.
However, despite the adoption of many pagan practices survived in the tradition of the North, especially the remote areas and islands of Scotland.


Costumes & Traditions

There are many uses traditional Hogmanay, some are no longer practiced, but some of the largest are surprisingly still. How Samhuinn and Yule, the adults were going door to door singing and shouting Hogmanay asking for presents. E 'was and is still common as gifts, share or home made food with family, friends and neighbors. The children went from door to door asking for sweets and oat bread

"Get up, gossip, and waving plumes,
ignoraci not, thinking that we are beggars;
Because we are children out to play, Get up and Hogmanay is
Our "

" The King of Light, the father aged Time,
He brought this day that is the first,
For the months went by slowly, when all eyes rested
as a sober joy,
And every hand is ready to present
Some services in a real compliment. "

One of the oldest traditions that can be found in the folk traditions of other cultures is that a new year you should clean the house until it is spotless, be sure to complete any tasks that have to do that day, and leave out the representations of what you want to attract the new year - coins for prosperity, food for subsistence, dolls to be surrounded by family and friends in the new year, as well as symbols of health, protection and love. In Scotland we have all sorts snacks or just a small breakfast before midnight because it is only after this party. At this time the magic threshold becomes less dense and open all doors and windows of the house, open wide to welcome the new year, and of course, whiskey, brandy, and wine bottles are open to celebrate! All are invited to this party, strangers on the street, family friends, acquaintances - no one is ever removed. This is the main purpose of Hogmanay, being surrounded by your loved ones and to do something happy and joyful with them. The idea was that if you want the same for the coming year, so it is best to propitiate.
This is sympathetic magic, magic is ancient.

"On the Auld Year's morn countr folk
Wi 'gleesome speed rise soon; 'Ere Gleesome
nicht, lass maun end her ilk rok
An' get her reelin 'doun.
The lads the Byres and stables muck,
An 'clean the corn is dightit-
A single life sall be Their luck
Wha's task's undone or slightit
By Them this day. "

It was considered extremely unlucky to have a The Body in the house New Year's Day, and funerals were to be done before the new year.

One of the oldest traditions is the lighting of bonfires. After midnight, all in separate parts of a village, would have passed a torch to light it up outside the village or by a circle of stones or other traditional place for a great celebration of music, dance and bring joy to the sun. The bonfires are representative of the Sun, the spirits in the dark so it might find its way into the world of the living. Brighter and bigger the fire, the better the luck in the new year.
On this night of nights was the most important, where the fire should continue to burn and special precautions have been taken to ensure this. It is incredibly unfortunate crednza that if the fire should die before the sun rose, or even that the sun does not rise at all.

First Step

After midnight on New Year's Day in Scotland it is customary for people to perform these simple divination related to their distance. Going home is a popular tradition of divination in which the first person to set foot in the house early in the new year, determine the fortunes and events of next year. A man is preferred to a woman and a man's hair and dark eyes. as a man of light hair and blue or green eyes. The Reds are particularly unfortunate in some parts of Scotland if they are the first to enter. Some believe that those with light hair are unfortunate, because the Normans were invading in the distant past. Next to a dark handsome man, a woman is fair
the best choice according to custom, the first step in the house. Many people have the custom to call about a person with dark hair, to cross the threshold first, but I'm sure as it is for divination, this should be left to fate.

products and traditional food

For almost all the festivals, feast, birth, or even buying new property, the Scots always uncork their whiskey and eat cheese and pastry. The new year is one of their parties and the opportunity to prepare something extra special: black bread (small cakes with dried fruit), oat cakes (noor-sweet) currant rolls or raisins or other sweet breads, triangular or biscuits. Otherwise, dinner is usually a review of any prepared or preserved food that were available at the time of the year.

Whiskey mead and drinks are very traditional and are used as a drink to toast and Hogmanay, instead of modern ginger, blackcurrant cordial which are used to toast at midnight. Another traditional beverage was Het Pint, which is essentially a lamb's wool or Wassail - spicy mulled cider or beer usually tapped with whiskey.

"A bowl Massy, \u200b\u200bbridge the day jovial
shines its large radius around a sun-like.
full radiated to grace the festive spirit
Andarton,
As far as the children of the beloved, sacred union ,
And welcome from the wool of sheep, the year in growth. "

-References:

" Hagman and Hogmanay. " Dictionary for the Scots Language
Hagman and Hogmanay. " Dictionary of the Scots

Fraser, Marie. Fraser, Marie." Hogmanay ". Electric Scotland "Hogmanay" . Electric Scotland.

McNeill, Marion. Silver Bough: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Hallowe'en to Yule. McNeill, Marion: Silver. Branch A calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Hallowe'en to Yule . Edinburgh: Stuart Titles Ltd, 1990. Edinburgh: Stuart Securities Ltd, 1990.


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Yuwipi - The rite of the Sacred Stone

Yuwipi - The rite of the Sacred Stone

The Origin of the Rite of Sacred Stone dates back to ancient times, before the arrival whop of the White Buffalo Woman. This ceremony is very complicated because of some phenomena discussed "paranormal" that may occur during its course. It is celebrated by the man Yuwipi Yuwipi - Dream of Stones - a shaman specializes in finding lost things and beings. It operates with the help of the oldest gods of the Lakota, Tunka. His speech during this ceremony is called a peculiarity: it is omniscient. You be the oldest on Earth.

As the legend goes, Tunka fell from heaven in the form of Rocky, before our world was inhabited by other living beings. It is the knowledge of all secrets, it can give indications on where and how to find lost objects and missing persons. Tunka is the immortal essence of the Creator, not created, with no beginning and no end.
Everything has a birth and death, but Tunka was never born and never dies ... Tunka is the Spirit that fell from the sky. It is a rock. He knows all the secrets. Found what was lost. "
(R. Erdoes - Crying for a Dream - Ed Xenia)

the Lakota language there are two terms of male gender to indicate the rock, although in the Italian become femmile Gender: inyan (stone) and Tunka (rock). Tunkashila, Grandfather, is another way to invoke Wakan Tanka. Who wants to know something about a wants to find a missing person or lost object must seek the intervention of man Yuwipi. Your request must be formal and be accompanied by a sacred pipe and the verbal commitment to provide accurate staging of the banquet following the ceremony.

In one room, or in a tepee, and the applicant participants sit in a circle. The shaman is wrapped from head to toe in a blanket bearing the drawing of a star. After that is bound with rope or strips of leather to look like a large cocoon, and then placed, face down, down, in the center of the circle. Lights out and in complete darkness are seen darting lights, flying stones glittering, we hear sounds, songs and sounds. At the end of the ceremony, the lights come back on and the shaman is completely free from its cocoon and its ties. At that point it is ready to report information received from Tunka during his shamanic journey. It all ends with a feast of meat.

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Inanna Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of fertility, love and beauty (equated with the Babylonian Ishtar, the Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus). Also governs the harvest and fertility over the war. She is the daughter of the sky god An, the sister of the sun god Utu and relegated to the dark goddess Ereshkigal kur, grandson of the god Enlil and the Air (almost) wife of the shepherd-god Dumuzi. She is part of the clan of the gods Enlil as opposed to the gods of the clan and a rival brother Enki Enlil. Inanna to marry Dumuzi was the son of Enki, so attempting a historic reconciliation between the descendants of the two clans. Fearing for their dominance, the elder brother of Dumuzi opposed to this, ensuring that Dumuzi, afraid to warp from the imminent rapture, smashing fled and died as he fell from a cliff near large waterfalls. Inanna furious at the loss of her fiance drove his whole clan wars between the gods Enlil unleashing involving humans, causing serious death and untold genocide among them. Beautiful love poems are written by Inanna and addressed to his love and bridegroom Dumuzi. She gives the people of Uruk, the city of which he is patron, the Me withdrawn from Enki with a trick (he did get drunk after having seduced by her beauty), so that people can live in prosperity and well-being. After the loss of her lover became a seductress of men and gods: the saga of Gilgamesh, he refuses his advances for sex, that no man was reproaching alive until the next morning, having slept with her in the night. was dubbed by the Sumerians "Anuna" (or anunitu), because it was the favorite (in bed), great-uncle of Anu, the father of the gods who lived in heaven, and lay with her when she was visiting Earth. The longer and more complex text on Inanna come down to us is the poem The descent of Inanna, known mostly from tablets found in excavations carried out between 1889 and 1900 on the ruins of the city of Nippur in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq). The myth tells how Inanna descends into the underworld (but the surviving text does not provide the reason travel). He takes with him seven Me (personified as accessories and apparel of the goddess), part of the trusted servant Ninshubur and knocking on doors of "Earth" (a term which is commonly identified with the underworld). She was asked by Neti, custodian, the reason for such a journey. Inanna said she came to pay homage to her sister Ereshkigal, lady of the underworld, and bring his condolences for the death of Gugalanna, her husband, the "bull of heaven" (killed by the hero Gilgamesh epic tied) . Is made into one and passes through seven gates, where each will be deducted progressively Me Finally, naked, is introduced before Ereshkigal and the Anunnaki (the judges of the underworld in this version of the myth) that the condemned and put to death. Ninshubur going to ask for help the lady and her plea is heard by Enki. The god model with "dirty" taken from under her fingernails two creatures "neither male nor female" (not being able to generate, are not subject to the power of death) and the Kurgarra Galatur. They fly in the underworld and circuit Ereshkigal with their flattery until she does not promise them whatever they want as a reward. The two call for the corpse of Inanna and avutolo, they resurrect the goddess of food and water sprinkling of life. Inanna but can not return from the underworld without providing someone to replace it. The Galla (Demons of Destiny) to offer various substitutes Ninshubur, his two sons and Shara Lulal, but the goddess refused to condemn to death those people rimastele faithful of the time of his death. Finally, the lead from her husband Dumuzi. Dumuzi is surprised and happy sitting on his throne, displaying rich clothing, without wearing mourning for Inanna. Taking anger, handed him over to Inanna Galla. Dumuzi escapes through the work of the god Utu, but was resumed after a long chase and taken to the underworld. The sister of Dumuzi, Geshtinanna, goes to his research and his tears relenting Inanna, who decides to accompany her. The goddess and the mortal wandering a long time, until a "sacred Fly" (a sort of deus ex machina) tells where is their Dumuzi: Arali in place of the boundary between the human world and the underworld, where it is finally reached by Inanna and Geshtinanna. However, the law of the underworld, and Dumuzi Geshtinanna shall reside alternately for half the year in the realm of Ereshkigal. The myth is usually interpreted as a depiction of the cycle of vegetation. Dumuzi (goddess of fertility), lies for six months with Inanna (which represents the power generation) and for six months with her sister "darkness" of her, Ereshkigal (the winter hibernation, symbolized by death). The dualism Dumuzi-Geshtinanna is correlated with the alternation Seasonal fruits of the earth (for the crops and lives to Geshtinanna Dumuzi). There are also interpretations of key psychoanalytic myth. In this sense, the descent of Inanna is explained by the need for the psyche to confront its "dark side" (Ereshkigal), related all'istintualità blind destructiveness (the "death instinct" of Freud), to reach balance and completeness. Inanna at the gates of the underworld When Inanna arrived at the first door of the underworld, He knocked loudly, cried out vehemently: "Open the door keeper! Open the door, Neti! only I'll go, "The churches Neti, supreme guardian of the Kur: " Who are you? " She replied " I am Inanna, the queen of heaven, Direct to the East. " The Neti said: "If you are truly Inanna, Queen of Heaven, Direct eastward Why do you put your heart on the path Hence no one ever comes back?" Said Inanna : "For ... Ereshkigal, my older sister. Gugalanna, her husband, Bull of Heaven, has died. I came for the funeral rites. Now the beer of his funeral rites filled the cup. So be done. " Neti spoke "Stay here, Inanna, I will speak with my queen. 'll bring your message. " ....... (trans. by F. Marano on the version of D. Wolkstein) Gods of heaven, earth and fertility, but also the love of war, governs the weather and the fundamental emotions of human beings , passions and ambitions. [1] is defined in various ways, among which the "Queen of Heaven" and "Goddess of Venus." His cult was spread throughout the Mediterranean basin and its many variants have resulted, among others, to Aphrodite, Cybele, Isis, Venus. "the Goddess Inanna, his Lady, Urnammu, one who is strong, king of Ur, King of Sumer and Akkad, his house he built .

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Nicnevin

Nicnevin

Nicnevin or Nicnevan ("daughter of the little saint") [1] is a Queen of the Fairies in Scottish folklore. The use of the name of this meaning was first found in Flyting Montgomerie's (c.1585) [1] and was apparently taken from a woman sentenced to death for witchcraft, before being given in Scotland, the queen of make [2]. The Edge is the name of this archetype was Gyre-Carling, whose name was as variants Gyre-Carlin, Carling-Gy, Gay Carlin, among others [3]. Gyre is perhaps a cognate of Geri Norse word, and then with the meaning of "greedy" [4] or can be from gýgr Norse means "ogress" [1] or Carline Carling is a Scottish and Northern English word meaning "old", that is from, or related, Kerling Norse word (with the same meaning) [5] [6].

She was sometimes regarded as the mother witch, Hecate, or a figure of mythology, fairy Habundia Scottish [7] This is frankly diabolical as [8] Sir Walter Scott calls it ..:

a woman gigantic and malignant The Hecate of this mythology, which has ridden the storm and deployed the guest of vagrants wandering under his dark banner. This witch (in all respects the reverse of the Mab or Titania Celtic creed) was called in Nicneven that system which then mixed the faith of the Celts and Goths on the issue. The great Scottish poet Dunbar has made a lively description of this guide at the head of witches and Hecate good neighborhood (do, that is), witches and elves, indifferently, on the eve of All-Hallow Mass Spectral In Italy we hear hags arraying themselves under the orders of Diana (her character in the triple Hecate, doubtless) and Herodias, who were joint leaders of their choir, but we return to the simple fairy belief, as entertained by the Celts before being conquered by the Saxons [9 ].

Alexander Montgomerie, in his Flyting, described her as:

Nicnevin with her nymphs, With the number of new charms to
Caitness Chanrie and Ross
Whose trick is to throw a clew [10].

Even so, the old or Nicnevin Gyre-Carling kept the habit of night riding with an entourage "Elrich" unlikely mounted on horses and supernatural. Another, popular satirical representation did leave Scotland after a fight of love with his neighbor, to become the wife of Mahomyte "and the queen of" Jowis. He was an enemy of the Christian people, and "Levit vpoun Christiane Menis Flesch, yet, his absence has caused you to stop the dogs barking and chickens, to stop that [11] But in Fife, the Gyre Carling has been associated with spinning and knitting. Habetrot like, here he is believed to be unlucky to let a piece of unfinished knitting New Year's Day, lest it should steal the Gyre Carling [12].

1. ^ Abc "nic" meaning "daughter of" and "naohim" meaning "little saint" (> the proper name Niven) www.dsl.ac.uk/
2. ^ Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Volume Two by John Jamieson, Printed at the University Press for W. & C. Tait, 1825, page. 156
3. ^ A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their etymology, and Affinity to Other Languages: And Occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett, E. Charnley, 1846, page 203
4. ^ An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations by Examples from Ancient and Modern Writers, Volume One by John Jamieson, Printed at the University Press for W. Creech, 1808, page. 374
5. ^ A Dictionary of North East Dialect by Bill Griffiths, Northumbria University Press, 2005, ISBN 1904794165, 9781904794165, page. 28
6. ^ Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English, Part 1 by Erik Bjorkman, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0559153686, 9780559153686, page 142
7. ^ Joseph Mallord William Turner, ed., The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott (Robert Cadell, 1833), v. 2 pp. 279-280.
8. ^ Katharine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies (Penguin, 1977; ISBN 0140047530), p. 310
9. ^ Sir Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1831), ch, 4
10. ^ James Miller, St. Baldred of the Bass: a Pictish legend. The siege of Berwick : a tragedy : with other poems and ballads founded on the local traditions of East Lothian and Berwickshire (Oliver & Boyd, 1824), p. 267
11. ^ David Laing, William Carew Hazlitt, Early popular poetry of Scotland and the northern border (Reeves and Turner, 1895), p. 18
12. ^ Briggs, above, p. 213

Regina della Elphame

In the folklore of northern England and Lowland Scotland, the queen of Elphame, Elphen, Elfen or Elfan (and also the Queen of the Elves, Fairy Faery Queen or Queen) is the head elf of Elphame (Elf- home compare Álfheimr Norse), the fairyland usually underground in Scotland. She appears in a series of traditional supernatural ballads, including Thomas Rhymer and Tam Lin. She also appears in a series of accounts of the witch trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowda. A similar concept in Scottish folklore is to Gyre-Carling or Nicnevin.


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Queen of Elphame è variamente descritta come attraente e demoniaca. In Tommaso Rhymer, lei è inizialmente scambiata per la Vergine Maria da parte del protagonista:
Tommaso Rhymer incontra la Regina di Elphame in una figura, da Kate Greenaway.

True Thomas lay oer yond grassy bank,
And he beheld a ladie gay,
A ladie that was brisk and bold,
Come riding oer the fernie brae.
...

True Thomas he took off his hat,
And bowed him low down till his knee:
“All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven!
For your peer on earth I never did see.”

“O no, O no, True Thomas,” she says,
“That name does not belong to me;
I am But the queen of fair Elfland, And I'm like
here for to visit thee

A similar picture is painted nalla 1591 confession of witchcraft Andro Mann Aberdeen. Mann admitted that he saw "the Devil" his "master and shape in the likeness of a woman, you call the Queen of Elphen." Mann also admitted that the Queen of Elphen rode white horses, and that she and her companions were human forms, "but were the shadows", and that they were "playing and dancing every time they wanted." Isobel admits Gowda also noted that the Queen of Elphame was "brawl" clad in white linen, and you have more food from the Queen for she could eat.

But in Tam Lin Queen of Elphame is a more sinister figure. It takes mortal men, and entertains them in his underground home, but then use them to pay a "teind to Hell": When We Were

FRAE as the hunting,
That FRAE my horse I fell,
The Queen o ' fairies she caught me In yon green hill do
dwell.

"And pleasant is the fairy land,
But, such an eerie to tell, Ay at the end of
seven years,
We pay a tienda to hell, I am sae fair and
was or flesh, I'm
feard it be mysel.

This ballad tells of the struggle of the protagonist, Janet, the form that must be overcome by moving the Queen's magic to save a would-be victims to Ride Fairy Halloween.

his shape-shifting magic lies in his person. The confession of Mann also noted that "you can be young or old as she pleases."

Then a company came to light after Closs,
Nicneven with her Nymphs, in number again,
With Charms from Caitness and Chanrie in Ross, Whose Cunning consists
the merger a clue ...

Nicnevin is the Queen of Elphame, the queen of the fairies, spirits and strange creatures, Queen dellahttp: / / sacerdotessediavalon.forumcommunity.net /? T = 42252306 Unseelie Court [/ URL] Alba. She reigns with a male partner at his side, but his name is never mentioned, my guess is it changes with his moods. She is the Gyre Carline and sometimes appears in the stories as Scottish Habetrot, a crone-like spirit known for his magical powers of spinning, weaving. It is said that she wears a long gray coat and carrying a white staff, and may look like an old hag or a beautiful young woman. The white geese are sacred to her and their noises may herald his arrival. This shows that is connected to the Germanic goddess Holda ... Hel, queen of the underworld, the leader of the Wild Hunt in Norse legend. She is the Mother Nicnevin , queen of the witches, the Mother of the witches, the "big Wallowa Muckle. "This was the name given to the Great Mother Witch, the same Hecate of Scottish popular superstition. His name was given in one or two cases to be witches, who are feared to have to look like her for their superior skill in practice dark '"(Source ).

Samhuinn Eve is the night of Nicnevin. Some say that its holy days are November 9 and 11, but Samhuin when he rides the sky with his host Unseelie, and between the hours of 9 and 22 o'clock is left to be visible to mortal eyes ... They say this night to the twilight rises from the underworld, through the Shona kingdom under the sea to grow in the mortal world and open the gate so otherworldly spirits of the dead can cross to our world. His host Unseelie or spirits and dark creatures that fly in the sky with her, and woe betide any man who crosses their path. Yule, or Midwinter is also known for being one of its holy days.
Our ancestors would tell that would always guaranteed to finish before Yule spinning and leave their empty packages.
Nicnevin could punish any woman found to work as a holy day by stealing the valuable fiber ..

Contrary to what some folklorists say, is not really the Nicnevin Cailleach - the Scottish Beira. Instead, Nicnevin is part of the Cailleach, his darker half, the witch-hag, a piece of everything. Cailleach is a goddess of primordial creation, a giantess, the stones and the bones of Alba - the ancient goddess of the Earth. Nicnevin Cailleach is the daughter of the "name" means "daughter" and Nevin includes Ben Nevis, the Cailleach's seat of power, the highest mountain of Alba. The Cailleach is said to embody the mountain Ben Nevis is his favorite, so you can see all his creation and his kingdom from his height.

Nicnevin is a goddess of witches, magic, crosses, and is bound by the dark of the moon - to invoke for any ritual, or for your spell of witchcraft as a Wiccan would have invoked the god and goddess in every ritual. Must be invoked to travel to the world beyond or below, and it's still better to ask for his protection when traveling at night. His domain and the associations are very similar to Hekate and Hel, but with cultural differences Scottish course. You can grant the ability to speak with the spirits of all the realms and to travel between worlds. You can also grant specific magical powers if spend the night in one of its hills, a cross, or the sea in a place where land, sea and sky are all represented. You can ask for the power of a witch, for skills of divination, the knowledge of plants, skills with spells and witchcraft ... To do this you need to take the offer for her to arrive at dusk, invoke Nicneven and wait for her. If she does not come, come the next night and the next nine at most.
If you do not get the ninth time means that power is not made for you. If he does get there - or send a spirit in his place, say out loud what you want to leave your offer right away. Do not shout, do not run away in fear, otherwise you will lose the gift. As a goddess prefers Scottish libations - is the best whiskey, mead, cider or beer. Not cheap stuff, give her the good stuff, home-brewed beer if you do.

To call for rituals Nicnevin

To call the queen of Elphame, recite this call:
"O Micol, Micol Queen Pigmeorum Veni"
first there will be a light wind, then a tornado , and then a storm in which she appears in all its glory (Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 537)

To call for a ritual, take a cup of libations to the sky and shouted:

"Nicenevin! Nicnevin ! Queen of witches! I ask you!
in your grace I ask that you open the veil of night, And
open the door to 'otherworldly.
While we honor our ancestors,
Let honor that guides you to lead them here!
drink with us and help us in our rite, In the name of the great mother
witch! "

To recall her singing during the ritual Witches' Reel from 1591 to feel like you should hear the version sung Green Corona

to true to execute the Nicnevin initiation rite Orkney
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Goddess Hel

In Norse mythology, Hel or Hella (sometimes translated as hidden at other times as Death) is the goddess of the underworld, daughter of Loki, the god of deception, and Angrboða, a giantess.

His brothers are Jormungand Fenrir the wolf and the sea serpent. It is said that when he came to the world the disease struck for the first time humanity and that she brought into the world of the living the pain and despair.

So when he learned that Odin, Loki, the evil of the children had them banished to the far corners of creation, why did the least damage possible. Despite the kingdom that Odin gave was icy and horrible, Hel was pleased and gave him, in gratitude, a pair of ravens Huginn and Munin. Odin gave them power over those who had not used the Valhalla and then became a queen of the dead without honor, illness, accident or old age, traitors and criminals. It was through this that he managed to get a husband of royal blood, the Swedish king Dyggve, who died a natural death.

The kingdom of Hel is the goddess of the same name (similar to Hades greek). It is a cold place to be accessed through the large cave guarded by ferocious hound Gnipahellir Garmr. After the cave, the dead cross the river on a bridge Gjöll gold guarded by the giant Moðguðr. Palace of Hel Éljúðnir is the palace where the souls are accepted. In a separate location, said Náströnd, the souls of the murderers and traitors are tortured in order to build the ship Naglfar (Ship of Nails) on which the dead come back to fight on the day of Ragnarök.

Hel has two servants ganglia (lazy), Ganglöt (sloppy).

Hel rarely goes out on the ground, but when he does bring misfortune and disease passes through the streets and villages and people of ill suddenly. If you sweep the road with a rake, there will be survivors, but if they all will have a broom.

Hel is described as a woman somehow twofold: half face Black or cadaveric and half normal. This may reflect the process of his figure in mythology. In ancient times, in fact, Hel was the great mother earth goddess, which feeds the hungry and give them relief, but later became very similar to Pluto and women of his kingdom became comparable to Hades greek. Some portions of the goddess have suggested to several scholars to establish a relation with the characteristics of Parvati-Kali or Persephone, or even of Hecate.

should also be noted that the process of the Norse pantheon shows clear signs of a past dominated by women, common to many cults in the world, which gives way to the dominion of the male figure. The female figure becomes Daughter of deceit, the bringer of chaos, of unstoppable destructive fury and home to a terrible law and incomprehensible to the common human sense. The male figure is to represent the rational, understand the law, the value in battle. This step becomes very marked in conjunction with a meeting with the Christianity that sostiuirà in various Pantheon, the female goddesses with Mary, Mother of God, the pivot of salvation from all evil.

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HOLD Inanna - goddess of the hearth by a Demon Pagano

HOLD - goddess of the hearth by a Demon Pagano

Holda was one of the most important pre-Christian Germanic deity and, according to many scholars, his figure has many similarities with the Scandinavian goddess Frigg.

The information we have about Holda come mainly from the opera "Teutonic Mythology" by Jacob Grimm. Holda there is described as the goddess of the hearth, the matron of the spinners, the protector of pregnant women, the guardian of the house and pets, and is also associated with the winter, hunting, and magic of women.

While the cult of Odin's wife knows very little and there are sufficient sources to rebuild it, to Holga has survived until now thanks the folklore of German, Austrian and Swiss.
why scholars think that with Holda on the legends, we can now reconstruct the lost myth of Frigg. But
Holda is also associated with the Germanic deities Perchta (or Perchta / Berchta) and from Grimm by the scholar Lotte Motz. The cult of Perchta was present in the southern areas (Alsace, Switzerland, Bavaria, Bohemia, Austria, Carinthia), while that of Holda was practiced in the northern areas. Because of obvious similarities between these two gods, Perchta is seen as the alter ego of Holda, its southern cousin.

Holda there is described as an elderly woman with long teeth and tangled hair traveling in a car (or take a plow) paying a visit to the spirits of the unborn. One of his key roles was to protect the home, housewives and mothers but were assigned different tasks and duties. For example, it was believed that returning the children who were slow to return home or that rocks the cradles of newborn babies after the nurse had fallen asleep.

Holda was related to the winter season and, in fact, another form of the Goddess is that of a comely maiden robed white as snow.
shortcuts Holda with winter are mindful of adoration by the female spirits of the winter months in England and Scandinavia. One reason is certainly the common practice of spin out when it was too cold to work outdoors. The star symbol of Frigg in Orion is clearly visible only in the Northern Hemisphere during December, January and February. Then connects back to the work of the spinner during winter nights.

In Christian times, when Christmas Day was a tradition to put a bowl of milk to Holda on the table while the family went to church. The milk was left in the bowl was given to livestock in order to increase fertility.

Holda was also the matron of the spinners. In ancient times, the texture was a very important task for the housewife as an opportunity to earn money. This task was performed only after performing other household chores and, in fact, is usually held late in the evening by women more laborious. Even after the Industrial Revolution, the spinner woman was a symbol of virtue. Not surprisingly, therefore a 'goddess of the hearth' and protector of the house had a special interest in weaving.

Holda traveled Trai villages inspecting the handiwork of women by rewarding the industrious spinners with gifts: distaffs loaded with the most excellent flax or gold thread. In some cases Holda ended the work of the spinner during the night. The drifters, however, were punished and their work were tangled and broken, and their distaffs were burned.
Holda also punished women who worked during the Christmas season, Sundays or days of the saints, although it is rather ironic to think of a pagan goddess as a patron of a Christian tradition, this is a clear demonstration of how ancient legends can be adapt to new beliefs, a kind of opportunism.

A popular story tells how Holda befriends a poor farmer in a magic cave atop a mountain. In this story the goddess appears as a beautiful queen surrounded by her maids in the middle of a room full of precious stones and gold. Holda asked the farmer what he wanted as a gift to him, intimidated, said that flowers that she carried in her hand would have been a blessing enough. The farmer was lucky because the flowers in question were of the flax plant, the time is still unknown in the world of men. Holda gave him a bag of flax seed, and when the crop was mature, she taught at the farmer's wife to use the flax for weaving.

Holda is also believed that was the cause of many natural phenomena when shaking her pillows was snowing when the fire is lit the mist rose, when he washed down the rain and when he worked flax began to thunder . It was said also that she made her fertile fields and woke up the apple trees in spring. In the legends

Holda also had a dark side. As a reward the deserving, the goddess punished the lazy and cruel. Many stories were said to Hold to scare children and make sure that you behave and not rebel against their mothers. In one of these stories
Holda went at night to get naughty children to put them in a bag, then cut off their stomachs and filled them with straw and dirt.

But this dark side appears mainly in the Christian era, when all the pagan traditions were demonized and the ancient gods were transformed into hideous demons to fear. In pagan times

Holda was primarily the protector of mothers and children. Its powers were extended in the sky and the earth was a goddess of fertility and was tied to the doom. He was the embodiment of female wisdom and abilities of women were his gift to the world, a goddess of peace and stability.



E 'thought by some scholars that the Germanic Holda groped is possible to recreate the role of the Norse goddess Frigg, shed light on his image and rebuild its cult.

Just think about the history of the gift of linen, where the connection between Frigg and Holda is very evident. Holda is described as a queen surrounded by faithful maids, and so it is fried in the Scandinavian myth.
Both are connected to the home, fate, magic and, above all, spinning. In Scandinavia the constellation we call Orion's Belt was known as 'Rockrete of Friggjar' or the 'Frigg's distaff'. The connections of the sky Holda argue more so the connection to Frigg as the `Queen of Heaven '.

The time (for spin) was a powerful symbol for our pagan ancestors, it represented femininity, virtue and wisdom of women. In Scandinavian myths
the Norns sit Zone and weave the destiny of man. The same knowledge of Frigg's future is linked to its role as a spinner.

However, Holda are many aspects and connections not only to Frigg as well as with other natural gods. It was a very important Germanic gods and as such had many roles and powers. The tradition of honoring

Holda is a clear survival of a cult linked to a Germanic gods. While the worship of ancient gods was suppressed in silence, the legends about Holda have adapted over the centuries almost "getting old".

Christianity, unfortunately, has also left its mark in the legends to Hold. In many stories, in fact, Holda is a nasty old queen of the witches. This is to support the notion that because a pagan goddess, Holda must be a demon. Fortunately, the negative impact of this superstition has buried all of his qualities which are benign been faithfully recorded in the German legends.

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Witches Charm: initiation ritual Orkney

Witches Charm: initiation ritual Orkney

folklorist Walter Traill Dennison Documented in Orkney in 1880 in Scotland: "The Witches' Charm Witches" is a ritual dedicated to the gods to which the witch decides to devote himself to gain magical powers.

Land of the Midnight Sun, Ring of Brodgar by Lisa Tyson

During the full moon, go to a lonely beach on the sea. Turn on yourself about three times and then "fade" on the ground and lie on the beach at ebb - the area between the high and low tide. Put a stone in each of your outstretched hands and feet, one head, one on chest cavity, and a heart on a total of seven stones. Talking aloud


O 'Mester King or' a 'that's ill, How
fill me wi' the Warlock's Skill,
An 'I Shall Serve wi' me at will.
Trow take me gin I Sinno!
Trow take me gin I winn!
Trow take me win I Cinna! How
take me noo, an take me to, 'Take
lights an' liver, pluck and ga, Take
me, take me, I say noo,
de Fae, or how 'to heed, from tae tip o' tae be. Take a
'dats oot an' in or 'me. Take an
hare to hide an 'tae thee. Take
Hert an harns, flesh, and bleud Banes,
Take a 'atween the seeven Stanes, I' de name of da Muckle Wallowa black!

Ring of Brodgar by Malcolm Webster

Translation: Master

O King of all that is evil,
Come and fill me with the powers of witch
And I must serve you with all my will.
The devil take me if I have sinned!
The devil take me if I can fly!
The devil take me when I can not! Come and take
me, and everyone
Get the lungs and liver, organs and feet,
Take me, take me now I say!
From the front of the head, the tip of your finger.
Take everything outside and inside of me.
Take the hair and hide and everything to you.
Take the heart and brain, flesh, blood and bones,
Take all of the seven stones!
In the name of the great dark witch!

Remain calm and meditate for a moment, then open your eyes, turn left, get up and throw every single stone in the sea, shouting: "Trow take me with every shot."

The "Master King" may be Manannan or Shona, Gael God of the Sea, the world underground, and the dead. The "great dark witch" is more likely Nicneven also associated with the titles "Gyre Carline" and "Queen of Elphame" the Scottish equivalent of the dark goddess Hecate others as , Hel, Holda and possibly linked to Norns. To dedicate yourself to these two, the aim is to give yourself to 'unseelie ..

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The Witches 'Reel' s

This text is drawn as many pieces that I copy from Blog Lolair , which translates to better for you.
Lolair folk is a witch, a folk magic practitioner, with particular attention in the Scottish witchcraft and folk magic, which in itself is a combination of traditional Scottish, Irish, and the influences scandinave.Dà always tasty ideas, from books that often do not come to us. Even the photos I post are his.
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Scottish Witchcraft: The Witches 'Reel' s

This song comes from Scotland and has been dated to the year 1591. The words of the trial for witchcraft Count Francis Stewart of Bothwell, who was accused of using magic to kill King James VI groped. He was convicted, but escaped from the castle where he was detained and caused all sorts of uproar after - you know that rose, small armies to kill the king - or something ... But this litany is what is interesting for me. Read on for Scots who does not understand it, this song does not mean much or make much sense beyond " Ring-a-ring a Widdershins" But there is much more into it, once studied and translated. To hear how it should be sung listen Green Crown's version

First is a folk dance accompanied by a melody and / or song. In The Witches' Reel instructions for dance shows in the song - and dance is one of the witch. The song is sung three times while turning counterclockwise nine times in total, once for every line, faster and faster each time. Witches do not hold hands when we dance, but rather link their arms around each other in turn to take the next arm of the witch, and so on and so forth .. This is how you can throw in when the last song ends.

translation using the Dictionary of Scots:

It goes fast, you go witch!
If you do not go fast, witch leaves me in a circle in a circle
Widdershins (counterclockwise)
Link hands and joyful Widdershins,
Wives, wreaths, mothers and young girls go
Cyrano!

It goes fast, you go witch!
If you do not go fast, the Witch
leave me in a circle circle Widdershins
Repeated (or tissue) easily and quickly
Hidden on skirts and hair flying
Three times three!

It goes fast, you go witch!
If you do not go fast, the Witch
leave me in a circle circle Widdershins
Whirlpool (by rotating) screaming louder, Widdershins
The Devil take the last (Back)
Whoever she is!


In the 16th century in this process of Earl's reel was accused of magic and run on a cliff by the sea, resulting in a strong wind and rainstorm threatens to raise the king's ship was at sea. The conjecture, of being a witch, well read on the Scottish tradition, this litany is Widdershins for opening a door to the underworld to retrieve Nicnevin (also known as a giant ogress M'Neven or '/ The meaning Gyre Carline 'witch), queen of the court and Elphame unseelie . For the ancient Celts was the sea and the underworld can still find traces of Nicnevin as the sea witch, in the folk tales of the sea is his domain. In the legends it is said that when you invoke it is known that she came from a storm or a strong wind rises. I also assume that the last person to do the ride was not chosen to be owned by Nicneven or communicate with her to deliver his messages to the rest of the group. "Hell" was used by Scots to refer to any unseelie or evil spirit, not necessarily the Christian devil, as in rite d 'initiation of the witches of Orkney. Some scholars argue that this litany as possible with Druidic origin, the person standing the last may have been chosen as a sacrifice - but that does not necessarily mean killing him - but instead of their being has been chosen for a task can be dangerous.

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* Excuse me but the word Widdershins so I could not translate it in any way, do tell if anyone knew the replacement and so the text would be more functional, The same applies to the concept of Ring-a-ring a Widdershins " mentioned in the first part

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Fairies water

The fairies water

's water has always been seen in the mythology that makes the divinity associated with it so powerful. Beings who live near rivers and streams are less dangerous than those who live in seas and lakes.

water fairies are called Ondine , but as there are several rivers' water there are also several species of Ondine:

* Nymphs of the fountains calls Naiadi
* Nymphs of the rivers such Potamidi,
* Nymphs of the lakes called Limnadi and
* Nymphs of the sea named Nereids.

E 'during the days of radiant and peaceful nights' summer love these fairies appear. Most times you can see the boulders of the fountains, busy combing their long hair using a comb d 'oro.

Nixes do bad

Nixes The ripples are particularly dangerous and evil living in stagnant water, stagnant ponds and swamps.

They usually have green hair and scaly skin, and have the 'habit of lying to stay on the bottom of the' water watching the sun with a gloomy look.

During a few nights of summer ', from leaving the Nixes' water to start the night dances in the surrounding villages, where, because of their beauty from outside 'water, seduce young men, so entertain them in a dance of death leading to the pond near where they dive to chase. There is a surefire way to expose a Nixes: simply touch the 'hem of her dress wet and see if, in this case means that the beautiful ballerina is nothing but a fairy' s water.

The period of 'years in which Nixes are more dangerous is the night of St. John, June 24, the night during which to become their slaves is not necessary to avoid getting wet in the waters of ponds and Lahi. In contrast, a bathroom during the 'spring equinox will have a benefilo; that day, In fact, the Nixes are sad and cry tears that give beauty and youth to those who dive.



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Magic Fairy Water is everywhere, streams, ponds, lakes, rivers, the waterfalls, seas, in the immensity of the oceans and even in the fountains .
Water is the element that allows these Fate of living and enhance their spells and incantations. Not surprisingly, these mysterious creatures always bring with them a small enchanted vial containing a few drops of water source from which they originated. And 'in fact the only way that their magic can be used at the highest levels, every place and every situation you find the fairy.

In deeper waters of seas and lakes are the beautiful water fairy castle. A spell keeps them hidden from the prying eyes of men, as they should strive to establish carefully the middle of a lake or a spring, will never see anything. Mortals who have permission and luck (just because of this you need) to visit the home of a fairy water, they'll realize that you can breathe normally under water. Of course it's all about a spell that allows the creatures to live just like on earth. Lovers of peace, to prevent intrusions Fairies use small tricks. The entry their castles is in fact protected by rocks and seaweed tangled dark as night, that transform under the touch of a fairy in a beautiful garden with fragrant flowers and trees laden with golden fruit.

Many legends of the fairy castle deep sea is full of sunken treasure, patiently gathered by the magical creatures who can not resist the allure of gold and precious stones.
When out of the water, the fairies look like beautiful and mysterious young girls with long hair adorned with jewels of all kinds.

In Norway it is said that every time a fairy of the water you brush your hair fall a shower of pearls, rubies and emeralds. E 'useless But take them home because they are immediately turned into eggshells.
There are many legends all over the world who speak of the city under water and inhabited by fantastic creatures from the great powers. In the coming days will tell the most famous to better understand the mysteries of the fairies of the water.

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The People of the Waters and Rivers: The Lorelei

The mysterious People of living water in the oceans than in rivers too. Some of them have the human body and tail of a fish at the bottom of the body. Others fully human likeness. All of them are as big as humans. Most of these creatures of the rivers using its own beauty and singing to lure sailors and other men. Their preferred behavior is to sit on the rocks along the banks of rivers, while combing their long hair and singing. The most famous among the sirens of the river are the Lorelei in Germany. The composer Richard Wagner in his opera The Ring of the Rhine, singin 'along the Rhine River Rhine in the Nibelungenlied three girls are said to Lorelei possieadano guard and a magical treasure that lies at the bottom of the waters of the Rhine Lorelei possess guard and a magical treasure that lies at the bottom of the waters of the Rhine Lorelei shall be considered as the guardian of magic and spiritual knowledge that is hidden in the subconscious mind of every man.



Ancient stories depicting the Germans as Lorelei forever young and beautiful women with fish's tail. The songs they sing are so charming and enchanting which attracted more than one ship on the rocks of the Rhine there is a certain rock in the Rhine is called the Lorelei. Although the sirens of the river there are everywhere, are often not recognized and do not even have a name. The only other culture to hear a siren of the river is very clear Britain. This horn is sitting on the rocks to sing, but he used his special magic of water. If swimming three times around a ship could sink. The sirens of the river, especially Lorelei, I am very experienced in teaching the use of magical voice and singing. They also help anyone looking ancient spiritual knowledge.

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The Fairies' s most famous water

Make These inhabit the waters of all the earth's deepest abysses, lakes, rivers and springs are populated by fairy creatures.
In Wales you can find the legendary and beautiful ASRA Gwragedd Annwn, and the Balkan Peninsula are famous in the cold the Rusalka and the Fairy Mala Vila. In Scotland and Ireland, then, are the Glaistig, but Italy can boast some important Do dell 'Acqua.

The ASRA

Originally Lakes Highlands of Scotland, these little fairies are very difficult to see at night, their skin, a pale almost transparent, making it almost invisible. These Do they spend most of their time in dark and deep waters, coming out only in full moon nights. Where on earth have the appearance of beautiful girls with long shiny hair and thin. Shy by nature, Asra live at night, avoid exposure to sunlight, even only a small radius the would dissolve in a puddle of water. It is said that no man can resist their beauty. But beware, do not ever follow them in the lakes because you risk being imprisoned for ever!

The Gwragedd Annwn Annwn

The Gwragedd (their name is pronounced Grageth Anoon) live in the depths of the lakes of the Black Mountains in Wales. Tall, slender and blonde hair enchant men with their irresistible grace and deep gaze. There are many legends that tell of men who took to wife. Most, however, is whether the views of escape under the eyes. The Gwragedd Annwn not bear the reproaches and after the third disappear without a word.

The Rusalki
These lovely creatures from clear skin and green hair inhabit lakes and rivers during the cold winter months and endless. In summer you can see out from singing and dancing waters in the woods and meadows. The Rusalki generally do not wear clothes, but when you show people, they use long white robes, decorated with leaves and crowns of flowers. Their most useful thing is definitely a comb that has the magical power to ward off evil spirits and to break the spell.


Fairy

Vila Mala Mala Vila Fairy (bad in Serbian means "small") is considered par excellence the guardian of the woods and water. Like all the Fairies love dancing on the tops of the hills, full moon nights. Shy and diffident by nature, does not tolerate being spied on by men, which does not hesitate to punish with poisoned arrows. Expert on the healing properties of all herbs that can heal any wound type, the Fairy Mala Vila speaks the language of deer.

The Glaisting

Fate looking for beautiful girls, actually hiding under the ugly goat feet long and flowing robes. Do we say that these would lead men to dance with them before turning them into slaves for ever. Despite appearances, the Glaisting can be both good with people elderly and delightful playmates of children. If flattered by compliments and precious stones are also willing to monitor the livestock instead of farmers.

Among the most famous Fate of Italian tradition, there is no doubt the Fairy Budruina typical of Sicilian folklore. This Fairy lives in the shallow pools of water, waiting for someone, entranced by her great beauty, known and protrude. At this point the victim is grabbed and taken forever under water, in his castle.



Also in Sicily is known Monacelli Fountain, a small fairy who lives in the fountains, which comes out to give joy and good fortune to men only three times a year. Original Instead of Teramo is the Fairy Culina who lives within a source. Appears only in the moment in the sky full of clouds, opening a gash of weather. Anyone will be found by chance to look at the source, see the Fairy busy sewing. If you smile, you may ask to see a wish come true.



An old Welsh legend tells that many, many years ago, some sailors were coasting with their little boat to the island Gresholm. A young sailor, having cast his net, he noticed something strange. He could not believe his eyes under the water surface could clearly see fields of flowers and beautiful green hills. Thinking of a blunder rubbed his eyes, and suddenly appeared crenellated towers and beautiful girls with long hair. He was about to call his comrades when everything disappeared. The beautiful underwater city there was no trace. It is said that sailors crossing the lake still feel the toll of a campaign and maliconici songs come from the bottom of the sea.

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✖ The Rites of December

✖ ✖ The Rites of December

Holidays from the Pagano Calendar
December 3. Feast of Myrddin (Merlin).
December 8. Winter Festival of the Four Elements.
December 10. Dionysius the depths
December 12. Festival of the Gnomes.
December 13 to 21. Nine nights of divination. Offers a Perchta / Holda
December 14. Feast of Odin lady besteie
December 18 Feast of Epona
December 20. Day of Cernunnos.
December 21 to 23. Winter Solstice. Great Winter Sabba. Idho
December 22 rites of Mithra
December 23. Day Rate.
December 24th Day of December 25 Birch
. Feast of Hecate. Sol Invictis. Feast of Dagda.
December 31. Feast of Artemis. Night of the fairy people.

pagan festival: Italian Stregheria - Sabba
Saturnalia (old name: Festival of Lights, Yuletide, Alban Arthan): [22 December] This Yule by the Celts, and 'the best night' long year. It represents the rebirth of the Goddess in the form of a God who initiates a period of darkness, cold as winter. Because 'in European populations it was impossible to stamp out this holiday, Christians put you near' Christmas, in order to divert people from the real meaning: the rebirth of the Goddess, and normally fertile woman, in the form of a God, death, cold and male, who purifies the world in preparing for death and rebirth in the chill of primavera.L 'custom to celebrate the feast of the night, the streets, stalls with twinkling lights candles' name to the event. December is the month of magical 'year.

The name derives from the Latin decem (ten), so it should indicate the tenth month of the 'year, so it was before the Julian reform, then became the twelfth, but he kept the name. In Egypt the equivalent of 16 December was the feast of Oriside: it invokes the god to have money, a happy family, good friends.
In Rome they began to celebrate the Saturnalia (from 17 to 23), dedicated to Saturn er Vesta, the patron saints of the month. In this period, each half was allowed to make money, even gamble, because God gives prosperity to all oil, "gold coins administers the feast of Saturn in December, "says the old proverb.
overlapped the Saturnalia celebrations of Solstice 'Winter, when the star had risen a bit to' horizon, and the solemn occasion was celebrated with chariot races, a symbol of the sun every day with his chariot across the sky carrying lice.
The symbolic date of 25 December for the Christian celebration of Christmas was chosen around the III-IV century AD C,, because it coincides with the feast of the god Mithras, because in the Gospels not talking about a precise date of the birth of Jesus Many Christians were attracted to these spectacular parties and the Church, concerned about the dissemination of solar cults, m thought to celebrate the same day the Nativity Christ God, who considered the true Light and the True Sun The church of the time so did not give great importance to the exact date of Christ's birth, but in the fifth century St. Leo wrote that the day of Jesus' birth was celebrated in a special way, because his birth was the birth of the Christians, and then solemnly celebrate Christmas.
that day the Romans used to invite friends to dinner and share the gift of a white vase with honey, dates and figs, all accompanied by branches of laurel, known as "gifts" wish for luck and happiness. In our day, New Year's day, and devoted to rest, after the holidays and leisure of New Year's Eve, by its excesses, is more like the Roman Saturnalia. At lunch, if we did not at midnight, we have to eat lentils, because it is said that brought about economic prosperity for the new year. The holiday lasts until Epiphany still as we know it "takes away all the parties."

Rites of December - The most important ritual magic of the month is the celebration of the Solstice 'Winter, the night more Long 's year, the ritual of the Celtic tradition is proposed. In the original ceremony, the cake (which contained pieces of dried fruit and honey) was accompanied by mead, but if you have difficulty to find a sweet dessert wine will be the same.
As you will see the symbolism of 'Agape, which is the collective feast, even in its simplicity draws the brotherly love and good fortune and prosperity.



Rite of the Solstice
It begins sunset on Dec. 21. Spread a cloth on the other to the right liturgical incense censer with the sandal, left a bouquet of yellow flowers, a sweet loaf, a new knife and wine.
the middle three gold candles, forming a triangle with the tip up. A part of the van prepared glasses.
who work at the table to make East and if there are others such surround the altar. Holding hands.
Fumigate room for at least fifteen minutes. Light the candles and then say three times

They should hold me
The forces of 'universe,
reborn in me, life with the rebirth of the Sun
the light of the spirit enlighten me and show me the Stras.
Because I can always walk in well
On the Road 'infinite love. And so be it.

At this point, cut the loaf and distribute a share to each; verst wine and give it to participants. Let me have your candles to the end.


Apart from the ritual for the Solstice, the period from Christmas Eve to 'Epiphany is one of the most popular in the West and is linked to countless traditions, sacred and profane. Let's see some.


the silver thread
Remember to hang in your home or at least on a 'Christmas tree. According to legend, when Mary and Joseph were forced to flee from King Herod 's Egypt, took refuge in a cave to rest. Now came a spider who quickly began to weave a complicated web, which closed the entrance. Shortly after the soldiers arrived, they were the footsteps of the fugitives, they saw the entrance of the cave covered with cobwebs, and do not look in, thinking that anyone who had taken refuge would have to get broken, so that the spider was saved the lives of Jesus and a silver wire as an act of love.


The Christmas Star
This plant red color is now very common. In Mexico, the country of origin is called flor of the noche buena , legend has it that a baby pears too poor to bring a gift to Jesus and began to cry because everyone wore something other than him.
her tears sprang from these wonderful flowers that he brought to church in front of the crib.
It was a great gift as an act of love.


Candle Santa Claus
the evening of Christmas Eve before going to bed left on the kitchen table with a glass of milk, a dessert and a candle: help Santa find your home and snack on the night rifocillerà the most tiring of all the year.


Purification of the House
to clean your home from negativity of the year that is ending, get a branch of fir, 132 cloves 12 juniper berries, a candle white and one black. Before midnight, 31 December spread out a cloth on the ground near the front door and put on the need for the ritual, then lights the candles and wood with cloves and juniper berries have been combined with a censer. Let consume everything.


Farewell to negativity
To take away the negativity a stone as big as a fist. In the night between 25 and 31 December light a black candle and concentrate on the stone. Retrace the years lived and think about all the bad things happen, it back to the stone god help you if you write them down on paper. Let me have your candle and then take the stone, wrapped in foil and bury in a lawn away from your home, or throw them in water with the remains of the candle.


The old calendar
the evening of 31 remove all the old calendars, and burn them on the morning of New Year after being wrapped in red wool saying

years old and burns here
bad luck goes away

Ritual Divination
It 's a ritulale ancient Celtic, made by the girls of marriageable age, to see the face of the future bridegroom.
must be made between 22 and midnight on New Year's Eve, before the new year.
In a copper basin filled with water up to half and place on a table, two candles placed far enough purple, so it will not be reflected in the basin and a censer with incense in grains mixed with a handful of rose petals. Turn
incense then the candles. And gaze at the center of the bowl with your hands on both sides. Liberate the rays and then blown over the water slowly, saying

I want it opened my inner eye,
reveal that the gray mink and disappear.
me see the truth in every image that will

Repeat the formula slowly, rhythmically alternating with blows on the 'water. Manifesting the images.


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's another ritual for women only. Want to know if the new boyfriend to meet soon and marry him before the next New Year?
midnight stand in front of the door and throw your shoes in the air: if both the candy goes to you, do not you get married, if they fall with the tip inward and outward, you will find a boyfriend but once you get married, if they will fall out with the tips toward the door, ready for a wedding.


\u0026lt;u> Ritual prosperity
If there are enough lentils do this rite. Prepare the altar and above it a picture of gold lame. At the heart of gold, and a bridge near a religious symbol of your choice: the object of gold wealth and the religious symbol indicates that you need money, but these are not the ultimate goal of your life. On the side of the two objects you put two golden candles. Under
objects put a cardboard box with lid Right
the censer with incense mixed with mid-dried cedar of Lebanon and aniseed. A New Year's Eve between 21 midnight and fumigate the room and light the candles, clap on the lid of the box with the right index finger, saying seven times

Come to me prosperity
gold box will fill

Imagine your box full of gold coins then say three times:

Thanks for the well-being that I will share with those in need

Remember to do good works and charity.



December 22 rites of Mithra and the subsequent rites of Christmas
A child born to a virgin mother on December 25, the day of his birth three Wizards pay homage to the baby with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Throughout his life he did many miracles. He was considered the "good shepherd", had 12 disciples, died at thirty-three years buried in a stone tomb but rose again three days later.
He ascended into heaven after eating a sacred meal.
After his resurrection his disciples read: "Rejoice, your God is risen from the dead. His pain and suffering will be your salvation. "

know who we talking about?
Probably many of you will answer without hesitation ...
But they may have a surprise: we told the legendary story of Mithras, dating back some 3,000 years before Christ. Hence Mithraism, Worship of God or Mitra [or Mithra], a native of the Persian community in Asia Minor, later extended to the Roman Empire, especially among the military, where he finally fell from the fourth century AD
Mitra, who was a god solar, easily penetrated the Roman Empire and especially the army and the sanctuaries of Mithra, the mitrei, have spread even in remote regions of the empire, military garrisons venues.

The comparative mythology

The myth of Mithras is not the only one that precedes the Christian story of the incarnation of Jesus in their book The Jesus Mysteries, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy study in detail the amazing similarities between the myth of the base (common in many cultures) of the gods and sacrificed the life of Christ.
The following are just some of the most important parallels. All the gods sacrificed

are perceived with the following profile: •

are the Saviour of men, God made man and Son cast in one with the Father.

• They were born of a virgin mother in a cave or grotto, Dec. 25 or Jan. 6, features holidays of all solar cults.

• Their birth was announced by a star.

• They received a visit from Wizards that made honor them with the same symbolic gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh. •

were baptized, an initiation rite common to all the mystery cults of the first millennium AD

• They offer their followers a second birth through the rite of baptism.

• They made the miracle of converting water into wine. •

coincide in the production of similar miracles: the care of the sick, assistance to fishermen for a miraculous catch and act to calm the waters during a storm. •

have been accused of licentious behave.

• They became an elite group of 12 followers or disciples, symbolically associated with the zodiac signs.

• On the back of a donkey in a triumphantly entered the city and the crowd will have been acclaimed King
•
were symbolically equated with bread and wine, converted into signs of their flesh and their blood. •

were assassinated or killed, were wrapped in a cloth, were greasy and are resurrected after three days.

• Their followers visited the tomb and found it empty.

• Their death and their resurrection will be celebrated with an agape ritual, symbolizing the believer's desire to merge with their bodies mystics. •

their sacrifices bring redemption.

• Their followers are hoping that they return to judge men at the end of time and establish a Golden Age.

The pagan roots of Christmas
For inexplicable it may seem, the date of Christ's birth is unknown. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the year [...] was assigned the date of the Winter Solstice because on that day when the Sun begins its return to northern skies, the pagans who worshiped Mithras celebrated the Dies Natalis Solis Invicta, the birthday of the invincible sun.
(New Catholic Encyclopedia Franciscan Order - 1941)

During the research of information and documents about the pagan origins of Christmas, what is surprising is that the date of December 25, before he became famous as the birthday of Jesus ", was a feast day for the peoples of different cultures and religions very far apart in time and space.

The origins of these ancient cults to be found in what is the origin of life on earth and that from the beginning has been the object of worship and veneration: the Sun

the dawn of humanity, there was a full calendar of annual festivals and and seasonal rituals of reconciliation and renewal.
primitive peoples during the period of their lives were intimately tied to the "cycle of nature" since this depended on their own survival.

At the time, the natural life seemed incomprehensible, threatening, powerful expression of forces to win, it was a magical world.
The old man felt a part of that nature, but in a weak position. Therefore, through the ritual, trying to make friends with this or that force inherent in it.

the middle of this cycle was the star that the rhythm of the day, the Morning Star which determined the pace of fruiting and that affect all human life. For the latter, fearing that the sun does not arise more, reducing it to lose power in winter more and more its course in the sky, had experienced tragedy that threatened his life. So, had to be exorcised by rituals that were intended to prevent the sun does not rise more or less force to help in time.

is precisely from this that we can identify the origins of the rituals and festivals related to the Winter Solstice that still celebrate Yule as the .
During these festivals were lit fires (custom that is found in the holiday tradition of burning log in the fireplace the night before) that, with their heat and their light, served to give strength to the weakened sun. Often these rituals had
to do with fertility and were thus related to reproduction.
Hence the custom in ancient celebrations, dances and ceremonial propitiatory abundance and in some cases, as in the ancient Germanic and Celtic rituals, but also Greeks and Romans, the coupling during the holidays.

The winter solstice

The word solstice comes from Latin solstitium, which literally means "sun stop" (from sol, "sun", and systematic, "stand still").
If we are in the northern hemisphere of the earth, in the days between December 22 to 24 can be observed as the Sun seems to stand in sky, a phenomenon more evident as one approaches the equator. In astronomical terms, at the time the Sun reverses its motion in the sense of "variation", ie reaches the point of maximum distance from the equatorial plane.
The darkness of night and reaches its maximum extension and the least daylight.
occur that is the longest night and shortest day of the year.

Immediately after the Solstice, the daylight gradually returns to increase and the darkness of the night to fall to the summer solstice in June, when we have the longest day and shortest night of the year. The day usually falls on the Solstice 21 [or 22 December], but for the reversal of the apparent solar motion is visible on the third / fourth the next day. The Sun, then in the winter solstice arrives at its weakest phase in terms of light and heat, apparently plunged in darkness, but then returns to life and "invincible" on the same darkness.

And on December 25 seems to be reborn, that is, has a new "Christmas."

This interpretation may explain why the astronomical December 25 date is a celebrity in cultures and countries so far apart.

all begins with careful observation of the behavior of the planets and the sun and the ancients knew good tools that allowed them to observe and describe movements and behavior of stars.
For example, in Maeshowe (Orkneys, Scotland) stands a mound dated to 2750 BC radiocarbon method inside the mound is a stone structure with a long tunnel-shaped entrance. This construction is aligned so that sunlight can shine and flow through the passage within the megalith, thus illuminating the back of the property.
This happens at sunrise at the winter solstice.

The origins of the Sun God compared

Without venturing into the religious comparisons require careful study, however, say that December 25 is associated with the day of birth or celebration of divine figures going back to centuries before Christ.
Among others

The Egyptian God Horus
The mosaics and frescoes depicting images of Isis with Horus in her arms reminiscent of the Christian iconography of Madonna and child, so as to lead us to believe that in Christian times, for obvious reasons, some representations of Isis and Horus, often depicted as a child with the solar corona on the head, were probably recycled [undoubtedly gave rise to the Black Madonnas of Christian cults].

The Indo-Persian God Mithras
That was the cult of Mithras more competitive to Christianity and that Christianity was merged with syncretism. Even
Mitra was born of a virgin, had twelve disciples and was called the Saviour.


The Babylonian Tammuz and Shamas

In the days corresponding to December 25 today, in about 3000 BC, was celebrated Babylonian sun god Shamash. The sun god was called Utu in Sumerian and Akkadian Shamash.
was the god of the sun, justice and prediction, as the Sun sees everything: past, present and future.

subsequently appeared in the cult of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and her son Tammuz, who was considered the incarnation of the Sun
Similarly Isis, Ishtar was also represented with her child in her arms. Around the head of Tammuz it featured a halo of 12 stars that symbolized the twelve zodiac signs.
is interesting to add that in this worship the God Tammuz dies to rise again after three days.

Dionysus
In the days of the winter solstice, was held in honor of Dionysus Lenaea call a ritual feast, the feast of wild women. Was celebrated the God who was reborn baby after being torn to pieces.

Bacab
was the Sun God in the Yucatan, it was believed that he had made to Chiribirias world of the virgin.

Bacab
was the Sun God in the Yucatan, it was believed to have been brought into the world of the virgin Chiribirias.

The Inca Sun God Wiracocha
The Inca Sun God was celebrated in the festival of Inti Raymi Winter Solstice (celebrated on June 24 because the southern hemisphere, the seasons being reversed, the Winter Solstice falls precisely in June ).

Obviously the first cited in this brief should have little impact on the creation of Christianity.

On the other hand the pre-Columbian solar worship is interesting to note the time and the sacred symbols are common to civilizations as far apart them.
This should raise the suspicion often more of a common origin of religions, through a comparative study of the same search for meaning in life. Instead, you blindly continue to lay beliefs about anthropomorphic

dogmatic and more or less explicitly intolerant of others.

All these narratives are based on Sun's motion across the sky, and then a development of astrological ideas / theology, which took place in the world. In other words, Jesus Christ and all other myths of a similar structure, are personifications of the entity solar.

For example, many of the crucified God-men in every part the world, share the birth date shall be 25 December.
This is due to the fact that our ancestors had noticed (from a geocentric perspective) the sun goes down, annually, to the south until the date of the Winter Solstice, where (as explained above), seems to be in place for about three days, then resume its upward movement again. This apparent arrest the ancients read an allegory of death and, in return of bike, an allegory of the rebirth of the Sun Ancient

- great astronomers - were nonetheless aware of the vital necessity that the sun rose regularly every day, interrupted its fall season and that his resumption movement upward. So it was that culture, among them different and distant, they celebrated the rebirth of the Sun God on December 25.

Some features common to all of the Solar:

• Sun dies for three days from December 22, Winter Solstice, when it stops its downward movement and then return to birth, or raise, December 25 resumed its upward movement.

• In some areas of the earth, the calendar originally began in the constellation Virgo and the Sun would thus born of a virgin.

• The Sun is the Light of the World.

• Sun walking on the clouds and all the can see.

• The Sun rises in the morning is the savior of mankind.

• Sun wears a crown, crown of thorns or halo.

• Sun walking on water.

• The followers of the Sun, the apostles or disciples are the 12 months of the year, the 12 zodiac signs, constellations, through which the Sun itself will have to pass.

• Sun, at noon, is in the home or at the temple of the Most High, so he begins the work of his Father to the twelfth time.

• The Sun enters into each sign of the zodiac every 30 degrees above the horizon, so the Sun of God begins his ministry thirtieth year.

• The sun is hung on a cross (crucified), which symbolizes its passage through the equinox and the vernal equinox fell on Easter, then rises again.

Obviously the first cited in this brief should have little impact on the creation of Christianity.

On the other hand the pre-Columbian solar worship is interesting to note the time and the sacred symbols are common to civilization so far apart.
This should raise the suspicion often more of a common origin of religions, through a comparative study of the same search for meaning in life. Instead, you blindly continue to lay dogmatic beliefs about anthropomorphic and more or less explicitly intolerant of others.

All these narratives are based on Sun's motion across the sky, and then a development of astrological ideas / theology, which took place in the world. In other words, Jesus Christ and all other myths of a similar structure, are personifications of the entity solar.

For example, many of the crucified God-man in the world, share the birth date shall be 25 December.
This is due to the fact that our ancestors had noticed (from a geocentric perspective) the sun goes down, annually, to the south until the date of the Winter Solstice, where (as explained above), seems to be in place for about three days, then resume its upward movement again. This apparent arrest the ancients read an allegory of death and, in return of bike, an allegory of the rebirth of the Sun Ancient

- great astronomers - were nonetheless aware of the vital necessity that the sun rose regularly every day, interrupted its fall season and that his resumption upward movement. So it was that culture, among them different and distant, they celebrated the rebirth of the Sun God on December 25.

Some features common to all of the Solar:

• Sun dies three days after since 22 December, Winter Solstice, when you shut down its downward movement and then return to birth, or raise, December 25, resuming its upward movement.

• In some areas of the earth, the calendar originally began in the constellation Virgo and the Sun would thus born of a virgin.

• The Sun is the Light of the World. • Sun

walk in the clouds, and everyone can see.

• The Sun rises in the morning is the savior of mankind.

• Sun wears a crown, crown of thorns or halo.

• Sun walking on water. • The

followers of the Sun, the apostles or disciples are the 12 months of the year, the 12 zodiac signs, constellations, through which the Sun itself will have to pass.

• Sun, at noon, is in the home or at the temple of the Most High, so he begins the work of his Father to the twelfth time.

• The Sun enters into each sign of the zodiac every 30 degrees above the horizon, so the Sun of God begins his ministry at thirty years.

• The sun is hung on a cross (crucified), which symbolizes its passage through the equinox and the vernal equinox fell on Easter, then rises again.



The Sun God
It is clear that the life of Jesus told in the Gospels incorporates other ancient myths, a fact which gave rise to a debate is still open, so that in the bosom of the Christian culture of the profane.
What is the meaning of the repetition of this sacred history? Why
arises spontaneously in all civilizations in the world?

Christianity claims that Jesus, God broke into human history.

As part of his cultural era, and the birth of a virgin mother following a miraculous procreation, and the resurrection on the third day following his death on the cross means to attribute the marks of divinity.
But in the eastern Mediterranean civilization of the first century. AD these miracles were signs the supreme gods of their pagan agricultural and solar.

The myth of the base, which is expressed in different forms to every culture, is to play the young God who dies in the prime of his life to regenerate naturally by his blood, but was reborn with the new spring wheat, to become in the Lord of the living and the dead and the Savior of mankind.

In Egypt this God Osiris, Mithras in Persia, in Asia Minor Attis, in Greece Dionysus.
It is not only a fundamental myth of the Mediterranean, but has a universal character.
For the same reason it can not be explained in a simplistic way as the result of successive revisions of an original model, since it can also be found in cultures very distant from each other, which had no contact and that the re-invented themselves.

Prenobscott Among Native Americans, for example, is the Mother Goddess, moved by the hunger of her children, self-sacrificing is spreading his limbs in the land to return with the harvest of maize and tobacco. Among the Celts there were rituals which involved the dismemberment of a woman in the field as a representation of the sacrifice of the goddess of the harvest, symbolism in itself central to the myth of Cybele and that of Demeter and Persephone, but that does not fail even in Eastern religion, where, watched as the great mythologist Joseph Campbell, the myth of the God of creation is repeated all'autosmembramento
Campbell points out that the sacrifice is predominant in the West, while in the East there is evidence of self-sacrifice.


The origins of Jesus
In the fourth century. AD, when it laid the foundations of Catholicism at Nicaea, the early Christians of Rome were familiar with all these myths and lived together mixing with the followers of the various solar cults similar to theirs, such as Mitra (arriving in Rome to the second century. BC), who likewise was born of a virgin in a cave, he was adored by the shepherds, and was assassinated by his enemies that pierced his side with a spear, then resurrected on the third day.
In fact, the transfer of the Feast of the Nativity Dec. 25 was operated to match it in the three great monotheistic religions have settled in Rome and dedicated to Christ, Mithras and Sol Invictus .

The comparative mythology has shown the extent to which the details were re-invented the basic model. La Maddalena, as the Egyptian Isis, wanders in search of God until he is dead, Isis resurrected Osiris, and the risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene giving her the news of the supreme miracle.
Indeed, there is a mirror symmetry, an incredible parallelism that even covers the details of the different myths.

In Egypt there was a former Holy Family: Osiris, Isis and Horus, and also an Immaculate Conception (a variant of the myth of Osiris, Horus is brought into the world without resorting to sexuality, and in another legend, collected by Plutarch, generates itself in Edfu ), a Eucharist (communion osiridea with bread and wine), a Supreme God Triune, and even a communion of the faithful in the body of God, including the subject of mystical fusion.
Osiris merged into one being with the Father (Ra) and was the savior of mankind.
But the amount of agricultural and solar deities that follow the same pattern is significant: Adonis (Syria), Bacchus (Italy), Prometheus (Greece), Orpheus, Zagreus in the mystery cults and so on.

The comparative mythology has shown the extent to which the details were re-invented the basic model. La Maddalena, as the Egyptian Isis, wanders in search of God until he is dead, Isis resurrected Osiris, and the risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene giving her the news of the supreme miracle.
Indeed, there is a mirror symmetry, an incredible parallelism that even covers the details of the different myths.
In Egypt there was a previous Holy Family: Osiris, Isis and Horus, and also an Immaculate Conception (a variant of the myth of Osiris, Horus is brought into the world without resorting to sexuality, and in another legend, collected by Plutarch generates itself at Edfu), a Eucharist (communion osiridea with bread and wine), a Supreme God Triune, and even a communion of the faithful in the body of God, including the subject of mystical fusion.
Osiris merged into one being with the Father (Ra) and was the savior of mankind.
But the amount of agricultural and solar deities that follow the same pattern is significant: Adonis (Syria), Bacchus (Italy), Prometheus (Greece), Orpheus, Zagreus in the mystery cults and so on.


The eternal Christ of St. Augustine

All the great fathers of the early Church, whose work is known as patristic, knew these myths. In this regard, in the early centuries of our era, formed two currents opposite. One, going back to a tradition represented by St. Justin Martyr, argued that these myths were hatched diabolical parodies to mock Christ and cast doubts about his sacrifice.
The other, which can rely on representatives from prestigious as St. Augustine, he believed it was prophetic foreshadowing inspired by God to reveal to men the universality and legitimacy of the divine mission of Christ.

Since the eruption of God in history, taking an earthly destiny, was the centerpiece of the plan of the Creator, nothing was more natural and logical to give this image in the depths of the human spirit, so that express itself several times over dreams, myths and mystical trance.
According to St. Augustine the true religion had always been "the beginning of the human race until Christ came in a body, when he began to call themselves Christian, already existed." From this
his view, shared by other famous thinkers of the patristic, Osiris - such as the Prometheus greek - was inspired by a prophecy from God

is curious to see how this controversy continues to persist today within the Catholicism. Recently, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Ratzinger, has castigated the regime of silence, the priest and Jesuit theologian Jacques Dupuis for supporting ideas consistent with this line in his book "Towards a Theology of Religious Pluralism", while Cardinal Emeritus of Vienna, Franz Koning, and 75 other Catholic theologians hastened to sign a letter of support to Dupuis.

The problem is old and forced, at the time, St. Augustine to retract the doctrine of "Christ the Lord." The key to understanding the reason for the resistance of the Catholic hierarchy to accept this argument is simple: you give up making the notion that there is no salvation outside the Church and at the same time, we recognize that there are other ways, also empowered by the revelation, to access the truth of God

addition to this internal debate, the mythical antecedents Jesus' cause another debate, this time with the material. From a secular and rationalist, the antecedents of Jesus agricultural and solar are seen as evidence that the Gospels do not tell a real story, but a myth that would have usurped the historical existence of a master of wisdom, a prophet or a messiah Jewish.


Psychology
It is possible that the great psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung - who is not suspected of having favored Christianity - has introduced a solution that avoided the false dilemma of this controversy.

For Jung, in fact, there is a pre-Christian and pagan Christ in the same way that "Christ is as much a historical fact as a psychological fact which tends to happen by itself. "

That is, the universality of the myth comes from the fact that it is an archetype of the psyche deep imprint in the collective unconscious and, therefore, arises spontaneously from time to time in the symbolism of dreams, visionary states, the mystical trance, myths, legends and poetry.

From this point of view, we would have an eternal Christ who reveals himself to all people of all cultures through its archetypal same condition.
Its headquarters would be the collective unconscious, which Jung also came to wonder whether they happened to be the same as that from their experience mystical, others called "God."
This does not mean that Jesus of Nazareth historically embodied the archetype, given its tendency to emerge and express themselves.
And yet, it is natural that this happens from time to time.


studies that relate the myths to Christian pagan myths

Charles Francois Dupuis, 1794, Origine de tous les Cultes The ou Religion universelle. In the work
interprets Christianity (and all religions) based on astronomical and mythological.

Count Volney, 1787, Les Ruines, ou, Meditation sur les Revolutions des Empires.
The French scholar in ancient Egypt saw the precursor elements Christianity.

Kersey Graves, 1875, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours.
The writer, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, revealed the heart of the counterfeiters are charged Christians, though often without citing its sources.

Abraham Dirk Loman, 1882, "Quaestiones Paulinae," in Theologische Tijdschrift.
This professor of theology in Amsterdam said that all the letters date from the 2nd century, presenting Christianity as a fusion of Jewish thought and Roman-Hellenic. When he was afflicted by blindness, Loman said that this condition had lit on the dark history of the church!

Thomas William Doane, 1882, Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions.
Another work on the foundations of pagan myths and miracles of the Bible.

Samuel Adrianus Naber, 1886, be probable. Laceram conditionem exemplis illustrarunt et Novi Testaments repetierunt outset.
A scholar of classical literature in Christian writings that could see the Greek myths.

Edwin Johnson, 1887, Antiqua mater. A Study of Christian Origins.
According to the English radical theologian crestiani the early Christians were followers of Chrestus that had appropriated the myth of Dionysos Eleutherios ("Dionysus emancipation"), to create a God-man who had self-sacrifice.

Thomas Whittaker, 1904, The Origins of Christianity.
He claimed that Jesus was a myth.

William Benjamin Smith, 1906, Der vorchristliche Jesus. 1911, Die Lehre des urchristliche reingöttlichen Jesus.
Locate the island of Cyprus the origins of a pre-Christian worship of Jesus

Arthur Drews, 1910, Die Christusmythe (The Christ Myth). 1910, Die Petruslegende (The Legend of St Peter). 1924, Die Entstehung des aus dem Christentums Gnostizismus (The origins of Gnostic Christianity).
The famous philosopher was the leading German exponent of the theory of Christ as a myth. In the Gospels Jesus was a historical context of mystical mold taken from the prophetic tradition and Jewish literature. The Passion is found in the Platonic speculation.

John Robertson, 1910, Christianity and Mythology. 1911, Pagan Christs. Studies in Comparative Hierology. 1917, The Jesus Problem.
Robertson had in mind the universal nature of many elements of the story of Jesus in relation to pre-Christian ritual of crucifixion in the ancient world. Identified in Jesus / Joshua an ancient god that had the shape of a lamb.

Alexander Hislop, 1916, The Two Babylons.
Comprehensive essay on pagan rituals and other customs of Catholicism.

Edward Carpenter, 1920, Pagan and Christian Creeds.
A study of the pagan origins of Christianity.

James Frazer, 1922, The Golden Bough. An anthropological interpretation of the path of man by magic, religion and science, Christianity as a cultural phenomenon.

John J. Jackson, 1938, Christianity Before Christ.
comments on earlier Egyptians of the Christian faith.

Herbert Cutner, 1950, Jesus: God, Man or Myth?
The mythical nature of Jesus with a summary of the debate between supporters and appearance of the historic appearance of the mythical. It 'has long argued that the mythical nature. The pagan origins of Christ.

Michael Kalopoulos, 1995, The Great Lie.
The greek historian explores the remarkable parallels between aspects of the biblical texts and Greek mythology.

Alvar Ellegard, 1999, One Hundred Years Before Christ Jesus.
Christianity comes from sect of the Essenes, Jesus being the prototype of the Teacher of Righteousness.

Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, 1999, The Jesus Mysteries. 2001, Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians.
study of the relationship between the story of Jesus and the myth of Osiris-Dionysus. Jesus and Mary Magdalene reminiscent of the pagan gods of the God-man and the woman-goddess.

Burton Mack, 2001, The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy.
The social context of the creation of myths.

Tom Harpur, 2005, The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light.
The Canadian scholar of the New Testament, former Anglican priest, represents the views of Kuhn, Higgins and Massey. Jesus is a mythical figure, and all the essential ideas of Christianity come from Egypt.


Sources: The Enchanted Garden Devon Scott
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