October 30, 2007 at 6:01 pm by mahud
The Primordial Prophecy of Genesis
In Christian tradition, the Genesis Protevangelium, or Proto-Gospel has long thought to be a prophecy relating to the Messiah (the Christ), pronounced after the serpent in the Garden of Eden (equated with “that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray” [Rev 12:9]), first tempted Eve, […]
October 30, 2007 at 7:12 am by mahud
I’ve been researching Thor’s definitive battle with Jormungandr (the Midgard Serpent said to surround the Nordic cosmos), and until now I believed that at Ragnarok Thor specifically killed the serpent with a blow to the head. Unfortunately I’m unable to track down any sources yet (primarily in the Eddas) to verify this.
According to the Prose […]
October 25, 2007 at 11:25 am by mahud
A series of sexy posts from Primordial Blog.
Sex in Mythology
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Ancient Egypt
Canaan
October 24, 2007 at 7:30 am by mahud
Thanks to Kay for tagging me. Although It’s all a bit depressing my life.
10 Years Ago (Age: 23)
It was somewhere around the middle of 1996 that I became and was baptized a Christian. It was also the time I began alienating all of my friends. I studied the Bible in a major way, but lacked […]
October 22, 2007 at 11:30 pm by mahud
After reading Medusa in mythology, I thought I’d resurrect this older post, regarding the Gorgon aspect of the Goddess Athene.
The Aegis is a coat/shield/breastplate with powerful protective properties. It also acts as a kind of weapon. It was said to belong to Zeus, and was made from the skin of a goat that raised Zeus […]
October 22, 2007 at 10:18 am by mahud
I’m spiritually inept.
Part of my problem is unbelief. This has a lot to do with why I ceased living as a Christian. To be precise, my prayer life ceased. For intermittent periods of time over 10 years, I would pray. I would repeatedly pray for myself and others, but nothing in my life […]
October 18, 2007 at 10:11 pm by mahud
Dionysus, accompanied by his army of bacchic revellers, was accredited as the universal distributor of his own worship and the knowledge of the vine. Like Noah, he was the inventor of wine, and like Soma, he himself was the ambrosial drink poured out, everywhere releasing mankind from suffering. Below, in one of many magnificent […]
October 12, 2007 at 11:26 pm by mahud
Based on the the vision of Aphrodite, Drawing from classical sources by Sannion.
a darker side to Aphrodite’s nature, as a chthonic Goddess of love, sex and death. As the “brightly shining” Goddess, who rises from the dark oceanic depths of potentiality, Aphrodite reveals herself to be a vital force in both the making and […]
October 12, 2007 at 8:37 pm by mahud
Where do I want to be in five years, and what am I willing to do to get there? A few months ago I decided to give myself five years to transform my life and get to the place where I want to be. I didn’t really have any framework or guidelines to help […]
October 11, 2007 at 10:48 pm by mahud
In a previous post, I mentioned the symbolism of Cernnunos’ mouth on the Gundestrup cauldron, comparing it to other representations of the God that reveal that he not only feeds his worshippers with the Ambrosial Boon of Life, but also himself:
The God in anthropomorphic form holds the serpent’s mouth up to his lips, while the […]
October 6, 2007 at 9:34 pm by mahud
The Buddha had both a Solar-Transcendent nature — as the fully enlightened one (facing sunrise beneath the cosmic Pipal), who passed into Nirvana — and a Lunar-Imminent nature — as compassionate bodhisattva self-bound to the wheel of Samsara.
As a Royal descendant of the sun, his emblem was a six or eight spoked ‘solar’ wheel, […]
October 4, 2007 at 4:22 pm by mahud
The myth of how Ganesha got his elephant head.
The Birth of Ganesh 1
The Birth of Ganesh 2
October 3, 2007 at 12:55 pm by mahud
I’ve finally set up an altar, and have chosen an image of Cernunnos as a representation of my Panentheistic understanding of divinity. The arrangement is pretty simple to look at, although It is based on a wide range of mythic images, as I understand them.
Altar (click image to enlarge)
The necklace represents the cosmic order […]
October 1, 2007 at 3:04 pm by mahud
One of the most widely recognized features of Hinduism is the doctrine of reincarnation or Samsara, the endless cycle of birth-death-and-rebirth, within which all forms of life are fixed. The sadhu in his quest towards the transcendent seeks release from the ever-revolving cycle through various forms of religious discipline. We are told in the Chandogya […]