Mythology and Paganism
Origen, in Against Celcus (6:24-25), relates the description of a diagram, drawn by Celcus, of ten separate circles joined by a single circle that represented the universal soul. The name of the universal soul was ‘Leviathan’ (The multi-headed sea serpent of Hebrew mythology) , its name given to both the centre and the circumference of […]
Lunar Beasts (part 1)
Lunar Beasts (part 2)
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Lunar Beasts (part 7)
Lunar Beasts (part 8 )
From Bull to Serpent
The horns of the bull and the horns of the Moon are equated. The Moon is that celestial sphere that dies and is resurrected. It carries its […]
The secular philosopher Wang Chung (27 BC - 97 AD) quotes a myth concerning a mountain called Tu Shuo, situated in the eastern ocean, from a lost version of the Shan Hai Jing, ‘classic of mountains and oceans’ (4th-3rd century B.C).
Overshadowing the island mountain grew a huge peach tree, its branches extending for three […]
The description of a divine encounter given below, is almost identical to an experience I had a number of times, about ten years ago. I was on the verge of becoming a Christian, but I was unable to believe in God. I would lay on my bed at night and kind of ‘meditate’ desperate for […]
In a previous entry I gave my interpretation of the slaying of Medusa interpreted as Cosmogonic myth, associating Medusa with the temporal realm (in its primordial chaotic state), and the separation of both the temporal and eternal orders of reality, symbolized respectively by the birth of Pegasus (linked with the streams of Oceanos), and the […]
Mofian Storytellers often begin an evening of Starlight Stories, reminding his or her audience that their stories are sacred and to be trusted, unlike the stories of their enemies:
Mofia have two Important story cycles; those that are revealed to the Granda on the peak of the mountain, and those whispered in the forests of luft, […]
Lunar Beasts (part 1)
Lunar Beasts (part 2)
Lunar Beasts (part 3)
Lunar Beasts (part 4)
Lunar Beasts (part 5)
Lunar Beasts (part 6)
Lunar Beasts (part 7)
Lunar Beasts (part 8 )
In both the Zoroastrian Creation myth and the Taruoctony (Bull Slaying scene) of the Mithras Cult, the Cosmic Man and Bull are depicted as separate entities, the bull being […]
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