Lesson learned death is a natural and normal process that we go through during our lives. Change is inevitable & it is also who and what we are. We are never the same. We are dynamic beings that are ever evolving.
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Birney Imes, Baptism, Crawford, Mississippi
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Erelim (Arelim)
In Jewish mysticism, the Erelim are huge angels who look after plants and vegetation. They observe what it happening in the natural world and report their findings directly to God. This is easy for them to do, as they apparently have seventy thousand heads, each head having seventy thousand mouths. Each mouth has seventy thousand tongues, and each tongue then has seventy thousand sayings. The Erelim are made of white fire. Raziel is generally considered chief of the choir of Erelim.
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Oya represents the change needed to progress from one form to the next (Energy transformation 1st law of thermodynamics). Things must die before they can be reborn and progress.
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Fertility Goddess (Yakshi)
At the Museum of Fine Art, Boston.Northern India, second-third quarter of the 1st century A.D.
Yakshis and their male counterparts, yakshas, are semi-divine nature spirits believed to bring good luck, wealth, and other blessings such as the birth of children. They were worshipped in India prior to the development of Buddhism and were placed on early Buddhist monuments to attract good furtune—and converts—to the new religion. The yakshi’s ripe body and unabashed femininity emphasize her role as a source of fertility.
This figure once formed part of a bracket on one of the four large gateways of the monumental railing surrounding the Great Stupa at Sanchi. Originally she reached one arm upward to grasp the branch of a fruit-bearing tree
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4-meter (13-foot) long carving of Tlaltecuhtli, the Aztec earth goddess, 1502 approx., Templo Mayor, Mexico.
Tlaltecuhtli was one of the most feared deities. She represented life and nurturing, as well as death. Stories recount her insatiable appetite for blood and the large, unearthed carving depicts a stream of blood rushing out of her mouth.
To honor the powerful goddess, the Aztec buried an odd assortment of offerings, including a wolf adorned in turquoise jewelry (featured in the picture to the right), underneath the stone slab. Many pieces of the offering hailed from distant lands, such as shells from the ocean. - news.discovery.com
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A partial text of the Gospel of Mary written in Coptic.
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Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man-a woman who was ‘one-in-herself.’ The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chasity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past…, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus-they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramatic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chasity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle-‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’ - the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshipped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.
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Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor in the book “The Great Cosmic Mother -Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth” (via sacredwoman)
Interesting.
The other week a couple of bible-and-pamphlet-carrying folks wanted to tell me about God The Mother, and pointed to passages in the Bible that would indicate that the Christian God was not one male God but actually two, male and female. Stuff like the use of “We” referring to God, and a mention of God and his Bride.
(They got kinda tired of my “Wow, that’s really interesting! No, sorry, I’m not religious/don’t believe in souls, etc” bit, though. Their pamphlet also had a crappy comic in it with ridiculous dialogue and all the text was in Comic Sans. BUT, I’m still kinda fascinated.)
But that makes a whole lotta sense that “virgin” didn’t have the same meaning that we give it today.
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Sita Under The Banyan Tree, 2005
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William Blake - And Elohim created Adam, 1795
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Apkallu are the Seven Sumerian Sages created by Enki to give civilization and culture to humanity. Due to the supposed time of their existence and their capacity to mate with humans, they are possibly synonymous with other ancient giants, such as the Biblical Nephilim.
They tend to be bird-headed, human, or fish-like in appearance.
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Perchta or Berchta was once known as a goddess in Southern Germanic paganism in the Alpine countries. Her name means “the bright one”. Perchta was at first a benevolent spirit. In Germanic paganism, Perchta had the rank of a minor deity. That changed to an enchanted creature (spirit or elf) in Old High German - such as Grimm describes - but she was given a more malevolent character (sorceress or witch) in later ages.
Gerald Brom’s New Dark Fantasy Art
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