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Weird Dreams and New Directions
June 4, 2007 at 7:54 am by mahud
Dream of Shiva
In my dream I saw Shiva, then someone painted blue with long ears dressed as Shiva, and then I’m sure It was me who dressed up as the god. I remember some vague stuff about mystical marriages. I think Shiva’s wife was there also, I think it was Sati, dressed in white. It was weird seeing Shiva like that. I’ve never dreamed of any other god before, not even Jesus.
Perhaps the dream pointed to you and me, we are all Shiva, or something like that. I have no real desire to become a Shavite, although I’d love to venture a bit deeper into Shiva territory, to try an gain a better understanding of what this deity meant and continues to mean to his followers.
Also part of the dream there was a forest, and it was either Dante’s forest…
Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
For I had wandered off from the straight path.
Dante: Divine Comedy: Inferno: Canto I 1-3
Or the Arthurian legend concerning the knights of the round table who separately begin their quest for the grail by entering a forest were the is no path and the trees are thickest.
Cernunnos
I feel the same way about Cernunnos, a god I connect with Shiva, who also has an affinity with animals and with forests. I’m currently researching the antlered/horned god, trying to gain some better insight into what he was all about, and how he’s perceived by the Celts themselves. I keep hearing that he is ‘Lord of the Hunt’ but he doesn’t seem the hunter kind, his close affinity with animals, mostly the stag, and the god is probably the stag himself in theriomorphic form, and therefore the ‘Lord of the hunted.’ Maybe he’s both the hunted and the hunter, although he’s never depicted (as far as I know) as a hunter. Mostly, He likes to sit.
Lost in a Dark Forest
I’ve recently decided to no longer call myself a Christian. I’ll have to fix up my about page sometime and try to find the words to explain why I no longer need to keep myself bound to Christianity. I stopped reading the Bible along time ago, and I no longer have any real spiritual direction or motivation. I’m utterly alone lost in a forest without any real sense of direction or where I’m heading. Although, I really love forests, so perhaps hanging out in one may no be so bad.
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