The Rainbow Serpent

In the Dreamtime all the earth lay sleeping. Nothing grew. Nothing moved. Everything was quiet and still. The animals, birds, and reptiles lay sleeping under the earth’s crust. Then one day the Rainbow Serpent awoke from her slumber and pushed her way through the earth’s crust, moving the stones that lay in her way.

When she emerged, she looked about her and then traveled over the land, going in all directions. She traveled far and wide, and when she grew tired she curled herself into a heap and slept. Upon the earth she left her winding tracks and the imprint of her sleeping body. When she had traveled all the earth, she returned to the place where she had first appeared and called to the frogs, “Come out!”

Sage advice - flu remedy from your lawn

With the threat of swine flu epidemic, you can start now and get ready for a herbal remedy to have at hand. You don't even have to go to the store - if you are one of those people who do not use weed-killer in their lawns.

The following three herbs, known as lawn weeds in the US, are exceptionally efficient for flu:

American, African, and Old European Mythologies

Mythologies By Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger

Offers illuminating examples of the workings of myth in the structure of societies past and present--how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions about ourselves and our world. Almost all of Mythologies,originally published as a two-volume cloth set, is now available in four paperback volumes. These volumes reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologiesset, and each includes a new Preface by Wendy Doniger.

African Studies of Witchcraft

In contemporary scholarly and popular discourse, the term witchcraft refers to a wide variety of ideas, practices, and institutions. Among most social science
scholars of Africa, particularly anthropologists, witchcraft is defined as an act of magic that results in harming a person or aspects of the material world on which he or she depends. In this context, witchcraft and magic are used interchangeably; it is assumed that magic used for harm and magic used for healing, or enhancement, can be distinguished, either conceptually or in practice.

Forgotten Goddesses - Coyolxauhqui

The moon goddess according the Aztec mythology. Her name means "Golden Bells." She was the daughter of the earth goddess, Coatlicue and the sister of the sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Coyolxauhqui encouraged her four hundred sisters and brothers to kill their dishonored mother. Coatlicue gave birth to Huitzilopochtli after a ball of feathers fell into the temple where she was sweeping and touched her. Huitzilopochtli sprang out of her mother as an adult fully armed and slew Coyolxauhqui and his other star sisters and brothers. Coatlicue regretted such violence. Thus, Huitzilopochtli cut off Coyolxauhqui's head and threw it into the sky to form the moon. aglow with the golden color of her bells.

(Read more at "Shrine of the Forgotten Goddesses")

OKC Pagan Pride Day reaching out

We are reaching out for entertainers for the Oklahoma City Pagan Pride Day 2009.
To all our bards, drummers, singers, groups, players, dancers, we need your help to organize our first Pagan Pride Day!

 

We also have an Oklahoma City Pagan Pride Day logo design contest, for all you pagan artists out there!

 

Please see http://www.okc-ppd.com for more information.

Signs out of Time

A documentary on archeologist Marija Gimbutas, who found that Europe's origins lay in a cooperative, peaceful, neolitihic Goddess culture. Her theories challenge conventional archaeology, spirituality, theology, and religious studies, while inspiring artists, feminists, environmentalists and activists.

 

The Advanced Bonewits’ Cult Danger Evaluation Frame

(Version 2.6)

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Introduction

Orpheus's descent in the Underworld - the counterpart of Inanna's descent

The ancient myth describes a hiatus in temporal continuity; the creation of a distinction between being and loss of being, between the active wholeness of achievement and the passive fragmentation of loss, between the "narrated", the "non-narrating" and the present narration. It describes in detail how the inversion of the space-time progression activates the negative undertaking of the unelaborated caesura.

Animal Power - Predator Birds Symbolism

Number 3 is the symbol of the hawk and the falcon. We do use the Arabic writing when it comes to numbers, and the number 3 is the image of a hawk/falcon in flight.

It is also the number of the Egyptian God Heru (Horus), the Falcon-God, God of the Sky and of the Triple Wisdom, Hunter God and God of War. His hyeroglyphic sign is a falcon. There are many depictions of Him as a hawk/falcon-headed man.