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O goddess, the Kula is that supreme and terrifying radiance which is the lord of all, which is all, and is established in all.â [= tejas, radiance, radiant energy]
Without it, there is no mokᚣa. Without it, there is no progress. Without it, there is no (supernatural) attainment, especially in the (way of the) BhairavÄgama.
According to Jagdish Narain Tiwari and Dilip Chakravati, the Matrikas were existent as early as the Vedic period and the Indus Valley civilization. Seals with rows of seven feminine deities or priestesses are cited as evidence for the theory. The Rigveda speaks of a group of seven Mothers who control the preparation of Soma, but the earliest clear description appears in select chapters of the epic Mahabharata dated to 1st century AD. Madhu Wangu believes that Matrika description in Mahabharata is rooted in the group of seven females depicted on Indus valley seals.
In the Egyptian records of about 2000 BC it was described as Scarabaeus (Scarab), the sacred emblem of immortality. In Babylonia the constellation was known as MUL.AL.LUL, a name which can refer to both a crab and a snapping turtle. On boundary stones, the image of a turtle or tortoise appears quite regularly and it is believed that this represents Cancer since a conventional crab has not so far been discovered on any of these monuments. There also appears to be a strong connection between the Babylonian constellation and ideas of death and a passage to the underworld,
TrimĹŤrti (/trÉŞËmĘÉrti/;[1] Sanskrit: तŕĽŕ¤°ŕ¤żŕ¤ŽŕĽŕ¤°ŕĽŕ¤¤ŕ¤żÂ trimĹŤrti, "three forms" or "trinity") is the triple deity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified as a triad of deities, typically Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer,
Image of a tricephalic god identified as Lugus, discovered in ancient Paris.
It is possible that Lugus was a triune god, comprising Esus, Toutatis and Taranis.
his Welsh counterpart is Lleu Llaw Gyffes, "The Bright One with the Strong Hand".
The Irish word "dar" means by, in a sense "i swear by". This word is used in swears and oaths and invokes the god as a witness. There are several versions of this swear all with the same meaning "by God": "Dar Dia", "Dar Duach" and "Dar Crom"
Triglav is allegedly depicted as representation of three major Slavic gods that vary from one Slavic tribe to others that serve as the representatives of the above-mentioned realms. An early variation included Svarog, Perun, and Dazhbog. Later, Dazhbog was replaced by Svetovid or Veles. Triglav is depicted as a three-headed man sometimes with bands of (gold) blindfolds over his eyes, or a man with three goat heads.
The name of the god IÄnus, meaning in Latin 'arched passage, doorway', stems from Proto-Italic *iÄnu ('door'), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *iehânu ('passage'). It is cognate with Sanskrit yÄti ('to go, travel'), Lithuanian jĂłti ('to go, ride'), Irish ĂĄth ('ford') or Serbo-Croatian jĂ hati ('to ride')
And when Uranus came to lie with Gaia, Cronus castrated his father, and "the bloody drops that gushed forth [Gaia] received, and as the seasons moved round she bore ... the great Giants." From these same drops of blood also came the Erinyes (Furies) and the Meliai (ash tree nymphs), while the severed genitals of Uranus falling into the sea resulted in a white foam from which Aphrodite grew.
The name "Gigantes" is usually taken to imply "earth-born", and Hesiod's Theogony makes this explicit by having the Giants be the offspring of Gaia (Earth). According to Hesiod, Gaia, mating with Uranus, bore many children
The mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD) adds that Gaia bore Typhon in anger at the gods for their destruction of her offspring the Giants
Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at ĂatalhĂśyĂźk, where statues of plump women, sometimes sitting, have been found in excavations. Phrygia's only known goddess, she was probably its national deity.
In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She became partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia. Romans believed that Cybele, considered a Phrygian outsider even within her Greek cults, was the mother-goddess of ancient Troy (Ilium).
... the third season, saying: "The wretched, fallen chief of Libya, Meryey, son of Ded, has fallen upon the country of Tehenu with his bowmen â Sherden, Shekelesh, Ekwesh, Lukka, Teresh, Taking the best of every warrior and every man of war of his country. He has brought his wife and his children â leaders of the camp, and he has reached the western boundary in the fields of Perire
The Nine Bows were acting under the leadership of the king of Libya and an associated near-concurrent revolt in Canaan involving Gaza, Ashkelon, Yenomand the people of Israel
"I have bound Habhaby. I have bound his tongue. I have found the barrier of his teeth. I have bound you on a black stone by the double doors and struck the Sea (tihamatim) with a reed. I have bound you by seven mighty contraptions. I have bound you by the zidanu and amana. I have bound you by the tails of the Sun and by the horns of the Moon.
Seven youths and seven maidens are exalted, and [...] the Star (kabkabu). The bricklayer will lay the bricks by the double doors of Ellil, father of the gods and the Star has established him as representative to Ellil, father of the gods. Ellil, the father of the gods performs the magic. Spell of the Star. [...] I have bound you on Zazaum, O no-good one. [...] O Sun-god! May you lay the bricks and build the house of Ellil the father of the gods. [...] The Star is appointed as the emissary to Ellil the father of the gods. [...]
The earth has confined the serpent (bashanu); O serpent in the sea (ba-tihamat)! [...] So says the magician Dagama [to the serpent]: 'I have smitten thee'. [...] May Hadd fetch the dazzling stone and the triple-garment for the Star [who was appointed to induce Ellil to perform the magic]".
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
It appears in the Hebrew Scriptures as Mount Zaphon (Hebrew: ׌פ×× TsÄfĹn). In ancient Canaanite religion, Mount Sapan was sometimes accounted as the home of all the gods, not only BaĘżal and his sister. As Mount Zaphon, it appears in that role in the Hebrew Scriptures' Book of Isaiah, along with the Mount of the Congregation. From its importance and its position at the northern end of Canaan, it also became a metonym and then the word for the direction "north" in the Hebrew language.
Tsaphon, or Tsephon, Tsephona, means in Hebrew, and in Phonician, the North, or the darkness, or the shadow, or the winter, or the region of destructive winds; as over against the South, the light, the summer, the region of calm and warmth; âsince the ancients regarded the North as the seat of gloom and darkness, in contrast with the bright and sunny South;â as âthe dark cold region, where the sun and stars are extinguished, and the light swallowed up.â
The mountain, Robin Lane Fox observes, had an earlier sacred history among the Hurrians, who had known the mountain as Hazzi and placed their own storm god Teshub on its summit. Hittite rulers took up the name of its storm king and his victory over the sea by which he established his "kingship in heaven", according to texts found at the Hittite capital Hattusa
Ras Kouroun, El-Katieh, or El-Kas, also known as Casius Mons in Latin, or Kasion Oros to Greek geographers such as Herodotus (who considered it to mark the boundary between Egypt and Syria), is a small mountain near the marshy Lake Bardawil, the "Serbonian Bog" of Herodotus, where Zeus' ancient opponent Typhon was "said to be hidden".Here, Greeks knew, Baal Sephon was worshipped.
But, according to Manetho (Josephus contra Apion. 1, 26), the name of Typhon's city was Avaris (Îá˝ÎąĎΚĎ), which some, as Champollion (who writes ÎÎĽÎÎĄÎ, and renders "causing malediction;"Â
Avaris was the Hyksos capital of Egypt located at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta.
Sandalphon is an archangel in Jewish and ChristianÂ
writings, although not in scripture. Sandalphon figures prominently in the mystical literary traditions of Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, notably in the Midrash, Talmud, and Kabbalah and is generally seen as gathering prayers and passing them on to God.
Physical descriptions of Sandalphon vary depending on the source. He is uniformly depicted as extremely tallâhe exceeds Hadraniel (another angel) in height by a 500-year foot journey. During Moses' visit to the Third Heaven, he is said to have glimpsed Sandalphon and called him the "tall angel" (though this legend dates to much later than the time of the Torah). The Babylonian Talmud "Hagigah" 13b says Sandalphon's head reaches Heaven, which is also said of Israfel and of the Greek giant Typhon, with whom Sandalphon seems to have similar mythological roots. He is also described as being a member of the "Sarim" (angelic princes), and a "Hazzan" (master of heavenly song).
Indra cursed Vayu and Agni to fall down on Earth from Swarga( heaven) and both the Devas entered into a Jala Kumbha or Water Pitcher as a single body. Meanwhile, Sages Nara and Narayana were in Tapasya ( penance) on Gandhamadana Mountain, and Indra was concerned that they might be a threat to his chair; he despatched a few Apsaras to the Mountain along with Kamadeva ( Lord of Love) but their attempts to tempt the Maharshis failed. As the Apsaras continued to be stationed there, Narayana Rishi created a damsel of exquisite attraction from his thighs and named her Urvasi; he desired that Apsaras should realize that their beauty was nothing compared to whom they could materialize as Urvasi and they could not possibly tempt Nara Narayan Maharshis. Mitra -Varuna happened to see the damsel and could not resist the fall of their combined semen of Mitravaruna which was deposited in the same Jala Kumbha (pitcher) that fell down from the Swarga and thus Agastya was born as Kumbha Sambhava.
This Hindu legend describes the creation of a "pot of amrita (nectar of immortality)" after the forces of good and evil churn the ocean of creation. The gods and demons fight over this pot, the "kumbh," of nectar in order to gain immortality. In a later day extension to the legend, the pot is spilled at four places, and that is the origin of the four Kumbha Melas.
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There the sages (called ummiÄnu) seem to be guilty by implication since we are told that they were dispatched for good to the apsu at the time of the flood and may have been deprived access to the mes-tree, âthe flesh of the gods,â which provided them with the special material to make divine and kingly statues (as well as knowledge, skill and longevity?), but which was hidden from them (and all future mortals) forever when Marduk cast it into the deep.
If the flood is the same Abubu perhaps the mes-tree (see footnote 11 below) may be compared with the plant (of life) whose hidden location in the deep Utnapishtim revealed to Gilgamesh.
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The ancient British God of the Sea was said to have a magic cauldron in which he placed the bodies of men who had been slain in battle and brought them back to life again.
In Norway this cauldron is defined as the âseething cauldronâ, because from it the drizzle formed from fire and ice coalesces and thus life can be formulated. One of these goddesses was Karidven mostly represented on a throne, from where she managed Death and Life. On her left hand she held the regenerating vessel which permitted the eternal sublimation of beings. She really was the divine door which the Soul looking for immortality must necessarily go through.
Mircea Eliade, deep connoisseur of celtic tradition, wrote on the topic: â According to celtic people the cauldron is comparable to the horn, or vessel, of abundance, or cornucopia.
"I am Asalluhi, who was born in the Eunir-temple"
"I am Asalluhi, who knows the depth of the vast netherworld-river
"I am Asalluhi, whom Laguda magnifies in the Lower Sea"
"I am Asalluhi, being the bond of all and the first-born of Mami."
"I am Asalluhi, unveiling cuneiform"
"I am Asalluhi, whose glare destroys a wall of stone"
"I am Asalluhi, inspecting esoteric sources, creating cosmic plans"
"I am Asalluhi, who removes illness and destroys the great demons
O city rising from the abzu like barley, cloudy plain, taking the divine powers from its midst, Kuara, your foundation and just banqueting hall, the lord who does not hold back his goods stands ready for admiration. The Seven Sages have enlarged it for you from the south to the uplands.
Your prince, the most precious prince Asarluḍi, the most precious one, is a warrior, born a noble prince, a leopard who seizes prey. He is like an onrushing storm battering the rebel land. As long as it remains disobedient, he pours spittle upon it. Asar-alim-nuna, the son of the abzu, has erected a house in your precinct, O house Kuara, and taken his seat upon your dais.
Enki has named you with the River of the ordeal, the sublime course. You cleanse the just man like gold, and you hand over the wicked to extinction
I am milk of the god. I am pre-eminent in the mountains. I am the milk of the god, of Dumuzid. I am pre-eminent in the mountains. The mountains in my hands, the mountains at my feet, Elam in my hands; I have a pointed dagger in my belt. The gods are small birds, and I am the falcon. The Anuna gods butt each other, but I am the wild cow. I am the grandiloquent daughter of Enlil. I am the formidable one of my father Suen. I am the queen created by Nudimmud.Â
the evil genius and the evil alĂť-demons incline their head before the basin with water of purification of Ningirim, and the god of that man will duly praise Enki, Nammu, and Asari, the son of Eridu.
The incantation-speech of Ningirim, the lady of sweet Ĺ uruppak, the incantations of Asalluhi, child of Enki in the abzu, cannot be undone.
May the incantations of the Abzu of Eridu,of Asalluhi, son of Eridu,not be broken.
water, well-natured (receiving a good nature) in the mountain flood-water, well-natured in the mountain, deep in the mountains!
Well-natured between low and high land in an immaculate spot, well-natured in the (cosmic) popular, which cannot be withstood,well-natured, (dripping) from the thick horns of the stag, well-natured (flowing through) the split horned plants (moss),well-natured, (flowing from) the cow-shaped horn of the mouflon.
Running by itself (?), carrying splendor, the king, the son of his god on the pure quay, purify, make shining!
âTake your son, your only son â yes, Isaac, whom you love so much â and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you.â
âNote also that any one of his possessions which a man vows as doomed to the Lord, whether it is a human being or an animal, or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor ransomed; everything that is thus doomed becomes most sacred to the Lord. All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death"
"I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering...
When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter â his only child â ran out to meet him...
her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin"
"On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you"
"Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God"
And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me âMy Husband,â and no longer will you call me âMy Baal'
For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their motherâs womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heavenâs sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it (Matthew 19:12).
the name âYahwehâ does not even sound Semitic, he produces examples from Exodus 15 with âYahwehâ and âYahowahâ in the same sentences. Those with âYahowahâ sound âsmooth and poetic,â while those with âYahwehâ âsound rough and unrythmical.
The accumulated data points heavily in the direction of a three syllable word, whose middle syllable was hĂ´ or hĂť. The first two syllables were YahĂť or YahĂ´ that were sometimes abbreviated to YĂ´
Isaiah 14:13-14: I will sit on the Mount of Assembly in the recesses of Zaphon. I will climb to the top of thunderclouds, I will rival the Most High
Yahweh is great and supremely to be praised, in the city of our God, the holy mountain, beautiful where it rises, joy of the whole world; Mount Zion, in the recesses of Zaphon, the city of the great king; here among her palaces, God proved to be her fortress. (Psalm 48:1-3)
Psalm 18:18 âsmoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.â
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Exodus 22:29-30
âYou shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The first-born of your sons you shall give to me. You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.â
Ezekiel 20:25-26
âMoreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.â
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While there is considerable controversy about the matter, the consensus over the last decade concludes that child sacrifice was a part of ancient Israelite religion to large segments of Israelite communities of various periods
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For most of biblical history, Yahweh was not against child sacrifice per se, but rather against child sacrifice to other gods.
Levenson states that "only at a particular stage rather late in the history of Israel was child sacrifice branded as counter to the will of YHWH and thus ipso facto idolatrous.
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the cult of child sacrifice was felt in some circles to be a legitimate expression of Yawistic faith