Orgies for Jesus. [Site editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the new Disinformation title 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion, authored by Daniele Bolelli.] What if Christian theology dismissed the virgin birth and other miracles as fairy tales? What if your pastor/priest told you to flush the Ten Commandments down the toilet and instead live life to the fullest? What if Sunday service at your local church consisted in a juicy orgy? All of this could have happened had Carpocrates had his way. Carpo … who? The lead character in our story was the leader of a second century Christian community based in the Greek islands. In the midst of this very chaotic beginning, Carpocrates emerged as a particularly charismatic preacher, who soon attracted enough of a following as to give birth to his own branch of Christianity. Oh, yeah, did I forget to mention that? This determination to live life to the fullest went hand in hand with another radical notion.
Day 4 of Yule – The Gods of Yule: The Holly King and The Oak King | One Witch's Way with Rowan Pendragon. Kuan Yin, The Compassionate Rebel. It is unfortunate that Buddhism's most enduring (and universal) contribution to the world has been insufficiently translated as compassion. The original Sanskrit word is 'karuna,' which holds within itself traces of the fragment 'ru,' meaning to weep. While the Oxford dictionary describes compassion as pity bordering on the merciful, karuna is actually our ability to relate to another in so intense a measure that the plight of the other affects us as much as if it had been our own. The term karuna is central to the entire Buddhist tradition. It is frequently described as a love for all beings, equal in intensity to a mother's affection for her child. In fact, the evolution of Buddhism in Asia and its spread throughout the world is, from a spiritual point of view, none other than the unfolding of karuna in history.
It remains a historical fact that Kuan Yin is the Chinese version of the male god Avalokiteshvara, whom the ancient texts eulogize as the patron deity of compassion. 1). 2). Kuan Yin. A mind perfected in the four virtues, A gold body filled with wisdom, Fringes of dangling pearls and jade, Scented bracelets set with lustrous treasures, Dark hair piled smoothly in a coiled-dragon bun, And elegant sashes lightly fluttering as phoenix quills, Her green jade buttons And white silk robe Bathed in holy light; Her velvet skirt And golden cords Wrapped by hallowed air, With brows of new moon shape And eyes like two bright stars, Her jadelike face beams natural joy, And her ruddy lips seem a flash of red.
Her immaculate vase overflows with nectar from year to year, Holding sprigs of weeping willow green from age to age. She disperses the eight woes; She redeems the multitude; She has great compassion; Thus she rules over the T'ai Mountain, And lives at the South Sea. She saves the poor, searching for their voices, Ever heedful and solicitous, Ever wise and efficacious. Her orchid heart delights in green bamboos; Her chaste nature loves the wisteria.
Mantra: OM MANI PADME HUM. Who is Kwan Yin? The Goddess of Compassion & Mercy has many names. Alliance | Questions and Answers about Asatru. Copyright (c) 1995 by Stephen A. McNallen What is Asatru? Long before Christianity came to northern Europe, the people there - our ancestors - had their own religions. One of these was Asatru. What does the word "Asatru" mean? It means, roughly, "belief in the Gods" in Old Norse, the language of ancient Scandinavia in which so much of our source material was written. When did Asatru start? Asatru is thousands of years old. Why do we need Asatru? People are attracted to the better-known religions because they have genuine spiritual needs which must be filled. Why is the Religion of our Ancestors the Best One for Us? Because we are more like our ancestors than we are like anyone else. Why Did Asatru Die Out if it was the Right Religion for Europeans?
Asatru was subjected to a violent campaign of repression over a period of hundreds of years. Or so it seemed! Wasn't the Acceptance of Christianity a Sign of Civilization - A Step up From Barbarism? No! We Keep Talking About the Vikings. No. No. Apollo. The Blue Roebuck. The African Ladies - The Female Orishas Unlike European gods and goddesses, the Africa Orishas are not completely anthropomorphized. They represent elemental energies and as such are, today, vital and dynamic images for personal work and creative drama.
They are worshipped in the modern religions of Yoruba, Santeria, Voudoun, and Macumba. They are often depicted as flowing pieces of cloth swirling images of color. Oshun-Erzulie Yalode (Oxum) Oshun painting by Mary B. Kelly. Oshun is the Orisha of freshwater lakes, rivers, and streams. To call upon Her, the proper greeting is, "Ori Ye Ye O". "Oh, my mother Oshun, Queen of rivers and streams. She controls all feminine activity. Yemaya-Olokun (Iemanja) Yemaya is the Orisha of the oceans (all salt water). "I am the daughter of the deep blue sea, I am the daughter of the pounding waves, I am the daughter of the bright ocean foam. December 31st is her feast day. Saturday is her day and her number is 7. Oya-Yansa Iansa (Oya) Yewa (Yegua)
Yemaya. Yemaya. Yemaya : Goddess of the Ocean and The New Year. They call her the goddess Yemaya, Ymoga (Mother of the Fishes), Iamanga, and Balianne. She traveled with them from Yoruba to distant lands, comforting them in the holds of the slave ships that took them far away from their homeland in Africa. Today she is also celebrated under many other names, including the virgin Mary (Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception), Stella Maris (Star of the Sea), and Our Lady of Regla...to name but a few. Originally Yemaya was a river goddess of the Yoruba in Nigeria, far from the ocean. She was a nature spirit, an orisha, a powerful guardian spirit that reflects an important aspect of the God of the Ife religion.
Actually Yemaya shares responsibility for the ocean with another orisha. Yemaya is a mother goddess, the goddess of home, fertility, love and family. In the creation myths of the Yoruba, the creator Olodumare first created a mortal god-human, Obatala, and gave him a wife. Pagan Christ Isis Osiris Egyptian dying and rising resurrected savior myth jesus christ christianity. Isis and Osiris are so old they fade back into pre-history. Egypt the written (chiseled!) Record of the God dates from the third millennium BC. Greece An inscription found in Piraeus, the port of Athens, records a temple to Isis / Osiris already there in 333 BC. Rome The religion was introduced to in the city of Rome in the first century BC. Osiris was worshiped in traditional temple worship and in Mysteries that were famous throughout the ancient world, celebrated not just in Egypt but in Greece and Rome.
"In the first of these [intercalary] days Osiris was born, and at the hour of his birth a voice issued forth saying, "The Lord of All advances to the light. " ....Zeus bade [Pamyles] proclaim with a loud voice that a mighty and beneficent king, Osiris, had been born, for which Cronus entrusted him the child Osiris, which he [Zeus] brought up. " [Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 355] [Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 366 Osiris traveled the world doing good deeds: Plutarch explains: Wow! Mythology's MythingLinks / Water Goddesses & Gods. Sekhmet. Per-Bast.org. (Please note: even though per-Bast.org is under new ownership, the following essay is still copyright © S.D. Cass. The essay will not be changed, as it has been found useful by many, many people over the years that it has been available.)
It all started in August of 1997, when I created my first webpage. It was about Bast. There just seemed to be too much bad information on Her out there. Roman Gods and Goddesses. Roman Gods and Goddesses In the beginning Roman gods were considered divine manifestations, faceless, formless, and powerful. The idea of gods as anthropomorphized beings came later, with influences from the Etruscan and Greek pantheons. The Romans worshipped a main pantheon of 12 Gods called Dii Consentes: six gods and six goddesses: Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Vesta, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercurius, Neptunus, Volcanus, and Apollo. 12 Around 1 Geometry of Creation Roman and Greek God Comparisons Greek Gods and Goddesses Gods with Wings, especially those with chariots, denote Ancient Aliens as mythological gods and goddesses. ShareThis. Family tree of the Greek gods. Key: The essential Olympians' names are given in bold font.
See also List of Greek mythological figures Notes External links Media related to Family trees of Greek mythology at Wikimedia Commons. Poseidon/ Neptune: myths attributes, loves; also the science & astrology of the planet Neptune. Poseidon Neptune Greek mythology gods. Above is a picture of the marble statue of Poseidon by Bartolomeo Ammannati (1565-1575) standing in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy. Known as ‘biancone’ ("White Giant"), it was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici. Ridiculed by Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo, probably for political and competitive reasons, the fountain around this masterpiece was treated as a washtub for laundry at the end of the sixteenth century by the Italians who repeatedly desecrated it and stole parts from it over the centuries. Neptune (Greek Poseidon) god of the Sea, populated his kingdom with creatures of his own design.
An Olympian and one of Saturn’s six children with Rhea, he pounded and shook the Earth and sea with wrath and pleasure, answering to no one but Zeus. In The Iliad and The Odyssey he was know as the "Earth shaker" and "Earth encircler. " He rode the waves in a chariot drawn by dolphins, but his most honored creation was the horse. Nature, universe, science and religion. Are You a Pantheist? When you look at the night sky or at the images of the Hubble Space Telescope, are you filled with feelings of awe and wonder at the overwhelming beauty and power of the universe? When you are in the midst of nature, in a forest, by the sea, on a mountain peak - do you ever feel a sense of the sacred, like the feeling of being in a vast cathedral? Do you believe that humans should be a part of Nature, rather than set above it? If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then you have pantheistic leanings. Are you sceptical about a "God" other than Nature and the wider Universe, yet feel an emotional need for a recognition of something greater than your own self or than the human race?
If so, then pantheism is very probably your natural religious home. If you want to see why others chose it, then check out Why I am a pantheist. Pantheism is older than Buddhism or Christianity, and may already count hundreds of millions among its members. What Pantheism believes. OWM Goddess Gallery. Goddess Myths: Stories of the legendary ladies in world mythology. Goddess myths. . . intriguing stories full of struggles, emotions, heartache, and endurance.
Think of any of these legendary ladies and stories of adventure, passion, and revenge come to mind. In antiquity the goddess myths played much the same role that soap operas do in our times. Filled with action, power plays, love affairs, success and the agony of defeat, the goddess myths do much more than simply entertain -- they once instructed and shaped the world around them, teaching what is normal, acceptable, and likely to be rewarded (or punished). Celebrity status was automatically thrust upon a goddess. Above all else, both then and now, the goddess myths shed light upon human nature and the struggle to be whole in body, mind, and soul. The understanding that results when we intuitively or intellectually grasp the meaning of the goddess myths can be both powerful and healing. Guardians of the Watchtowers/Elementals/Calling the Quarters [Archive] - MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary.