0 Comments | April 15, 2009 at 8:57 am by mahud
As mentioned by Joseph Campbell (citing Classical scholar Gilbert Murray: Occidental Mythology p.162-163), in Homer’s Odyssey, there is found a grand celestial and mythic theme that mirrors the 19 year Metonic Cycle (the meeting of the sun and Moon). Yet the Odyssey pre-dates the discovery by the astronomer Meton (5th century BC), by well over […]
0 Comments | April 2, 2009 at 2:04 pm by mahud
The (cosmic) ocean vessel or container that transports the divinity or hero across a threshold of death and rebirth, I would say, is closely related (and likely the prototype) to the waning and waxing moon, occasionally depicted as a lunar boat, passing across the waters of destruction and creation into a new mode of supra-cosmic […]
1 Comment | March 14, 2009 at 11:05 am by mahud
A widely dispersed African myth tells that long ago Heaven and Earth were connected by a rope or ladder (or some other link) forming a primordial state of paradisical oneness between divinity and humankind. In the Nuer version of this myth human beings dwelt in the sacred presence of Kwoth. As long as they were […]
2 Comments | March 6, 2009 at 12:35 am by mahud
An African (Ashanti) myth records that God separated himself from Mankind after an old woman carelessly injured him [wound motif] with her pestle. In a futile attempt to reunite heaven and earth, the old woman gathered together all her children, and stacking large numbers of mortars, one on top of another, constructed a tall tower.
Only […]
0 Comments | February 28, 2009 at 7:53 am by mahud
In Chinese mythology it is the character of the maimed and limping Yu who plays the role of cosmic walker in nine steps within a nine fold cosmos, incorporating Daoist philosophy of an ever changing universe through the cyclic processes of yin giving perpetually birth to yang giving birth to yin (and so on), in […]
2 Comments | January 30, 2009 at 9:13 am by mahud
The Cyclic Serpent
The tail devouring serpent, known as the Ouroboros, is unarguably a cyclic symbol. In Norse mythology it is the sea-dwelling Midgard Serpent (Jormungand) that surrounds the world (Voluspa 50; Gylfaginning 34, 48; Skaldskaparmal 4; Hymiskvida 22; Husdrapa 4), making it a symbol of the cosmos, or like the Greek god Oceanos, the ocean […]
1 Comment | January 22, 2009 at 11:41 am by mahud
A Mythology is like a series of sign posts, that direct us through this cosmic mystery, which is also the mystery of our own existence. Mythology is a product of the sub-conscious, which in turn, is the product of the underlying cause of all things, and so creation myths and end of the world myths, […]
4 Comments | January 4, 2009 at 2:22 pm by mahud
My Pagan-Mythic Path is greatly influenced by the mystery of the lunar cycle, focusing mainly upon the waning and waxing crescents, that I term the ‘lunar double-door.’ It is within the lunar double-door that the opposites of manifest cosmic reality become one (more on that aspect of my mythos later).
My mythos is greatly influenced […]
1 Comment | January 1, 2009 at 1:47 pm by mahud
Happy New Year!
As you can see I’ve given the blog an overall, changed the title (formally known as ‘Between Old and New Moons’) to “Cernunnos’ Path” and have created a logo to represent my religious path through Pagan-Mythic symbolism.
The idea for the logo was largely the by-product of ritual I created and performed by […]
0 Comments | December 9, 2008 at 9:05 pm by mahud
And the crocodile, who’s the hand-devouring, time-sensitive crocodile; who’s that?
Hecate: First Star on the Left and Straight on Till Morning
This is not meant to be a authoritative interpretation on the nature and relationship that exists between Peter Pan, Captain James Hook and the Crocodile. Rather, I’d like to look at the symbolic themes from a […]
2 Comments | December 8, 2008 at 10:49 pm by mahud
In my recent post Would You Like to Know the Truth? Part 2 (Will war and suffering ever end?), Tom challenged the idea that Jesus and the repentant thief, who hung next to him upon the cross, entered paradise upon the point of death. Now, I personally do not accept this Biblical account as historical, […]
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