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Egyptian Book of the Dead | Tree of Visions
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Egyptian Book of the Dead. October 22, 2015. October 22, 2015. Symbol of the House of Life. Osiris stands in the center surrounded by the primordial deities of the elements. Fragment from Book of the Dead. ca. 1075-945 BCE. Instructed by funerary texts such as the. Egyptian Book of the Dead. Initiates may have engaged in visionary journeys to the. They were training manuals preparing them for the afterlife experience, so to speak. By studying them initiates could cross the threshold of death while st...
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The Magician’s Tomb | Tree of Visions
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The Magician’s Tomb. October 2, 2015. October 4, 2015. Attached to larger Egyptian temples was the library known as the Per-Ankh the House of Life . Here texts were kept and studied by magician-priests called. The Book of Appeasing Sekhmet, The Book of Magical Protection of the King in his Place, Spells for Warding Off the Evil Eye, The Book of Repelling Crocodiles, The Book of Knowledge of Secrets of the Laboratory, The Book of Knowing the Secret Forms of the God. Fragments of four ivory magical wands c...
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I’m getting a little tired of coming back to this argument | Forging The Sampo
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I’m getting a little tired of coming back to this argument. I would post a comment on the actual article. I cannot accept what really amounts to anecdotal evidence as objective proof. Moving from the present to the historical, even if most modern polytheists hold a ‘panentheistic monist’ theology, does that mean that the religions they are a part of always did? Could that not, in some cases, be a more recent innovation? The Shape of Ancient Thought. This entry was posted in theology. February 11, 2014.
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holy days | Forging The Sampo
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Category Archives: holy days. William Blake’s God Judging Adam. Did you know that according to the Talmud Saturnalia was invented by Adam, but then those wicked Romans got their hands on it and went and ruined it? 3] Perhaps because I sinned the world is going dark around me and returning to chaos and disorder! 4] This must be the death sentence that was decreed for me from Heaven! File this under: mostly useless, but amusing and an excuse to practice my Hebrew, which has been neglected these past years.
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gods | Forging The Sampo
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Folk religion and the limitations of the historical record. Imagine, if you will, that you are a person in the 21st century trying to study folk religion among the Baltic Finns over the last few centuries. Now, also imagine that the great enthusiasm for the collecting of folklore and study of folk religion that swept Europe in the 19th century never happened. What then would your source material be for such a study? Gus diZerega makes this curious claim:. I’m also more than a little disturbed at wh...
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Sacred Kings of Mesopotamia. August 5, 2016. August 5, 2016. Tigris River outside Dyarbakir, Turkey. photo: Bjorn Christian Torrissen. Mesopotamia was inhabited long before the rise of these historical civilizations however. Paleolithic hunter-gatherers lived in the Zagros mountains and sporadically dwelled in the lowlands until the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 BCE. Female statuette from Samarra. 6,000 BCE. Louvre. Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld. History begins at Sumer. Noting that the firs...
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Tree of Visions | magic & shamanism | Page 2
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Vision Quests and Guardian Spirits. June 6, 2015. August 4, 2015. In the last post we discussed. In shamanic as well as magical traditions of Eurasia, the Near-East and Europe. In this post we turn to Native American. Which are used for the purpose of acquiring a personal. Traditionally the vision quest was usually undertaken by pre-teenage or adolescent children as a. Petroglyph–Horsethief Lake, Washington state. Among the Wasco tribe of Oregon, guardian-spirits were known as. Healed by sucking or casti...
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The Mysteries of Osiris | Tree of Visions
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The Mysteries of Osiris. July 4, 2015. July 5, 2015. Osiris as green-skinned god from tomb of Nefertari. In the previous post we looked at the myth of. In which that god was murdered and dismembered by the Titans. The Orphics believed that as a result of this act mankind was created–and we inherited the spark of immortal spirit from Dionysus. It is likely the Greeks borrowed elements of the myth from the story of the Egyptian god. Death and Resurrection of Osiris. Isis with Horus the Child. Who presided ...
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Heka-Egyptian Magic | Tree of Visions
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September 24, 2015. October 1, 2015. In ancient Egypt there was no word for religion the closest thing to it was. Magical power. Heka literally means the activating of the. The magician’s power is extolled:. 8220;The sky quivers, the earth quakes before me, for I am a magician, I possess magic”. Heka holding serpent staffs. Ishtar holding double serpent wand. Terracotta relief, early 2nd millennium BCE. Serpents symbolize fertility, rebirth, and immortality and are associated with. The psycho-spiritual f...
