0 Comments | March 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm by mahud
My spiritual beliefs have been and remain to an extent shaped by Christianity. Growing up I didn’t really have much exposure to spirituality. I was raised in a monotheistic culture. I knew the stories of the Old and New Testaments. I sang Christian Hymns every morning at school. But It was never something that had […]
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 […]
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 […]
0 Comments | February 26, 2009 at 5:52 am by mahud
It was through the study of the relationship between the cosmic hero and the cycles of time that I was able to interpret Thor’s nine steps backwards (see the quotations from Voluspa and Gylfaginning below) as a cyclic return back to the cosmogonic beginning through the act of an eschatological destruction, with Thor in the […]
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, […]
0 Comments | December 3, 2008 at 6:13 pm by mahud
Three months ago, during a visit to the town of Banff, I picked up a necklace with a dragon tooth pendant to wear as a replacement for the ‘lunar’ dolphin necklace I discovered at a Medieval Fair earlier in the summer:
I was really happy when I discovered this crescent-shaped dolphin necklace. As the cycle of […]
5 Comments | August 1, 2008 at 7:24 pm by mahud
Thank You Grian for responding to my post So who is this Cernunnos dude? (A to Z).
This post was originally a comment in response to Griane’s comment, but as is often the case it evolved into something worthy of posting status. Griane (Lee Hutchings of Panthea: All Things Are Goddess) has also posted her […]
4 Comments | July 30, 2008 at 5:31 pm by mahud
The current incarnation of my altar
My Altar has been steadily evolving since I first set it up back in October last year. The mythical symbolism remains the same. The necklace (symbolic of lunar-cosmic space-time) I’ve replaced with a wonderful wooden snake I won at a medieval fair last weekend. As soon as I saw it […]
7 Comments | May 1, 2008 at 7:15 am by mahud
This post is one of many in the third Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
…the primordial image of Mother Earth…is found throughout the world in countless forms and variants. It is the Terra Mater or Tellus Mater so familiar to Mediterranean religions, who gives birth to all beings.
…In some religions Mother Earth […]
4 Comments | April 7, 2008 at 2:45 am by mahud
Having recently bought a pack of tarot cards, I have been spending time familiarizing myself with the deck, primarily through the book that came with it Beginner’s Guide to Tarot, and an online Tarot course (also check out: Tarotpedia, Symbol Meanings of the Tarot, Major Arcana (Wikipedia), The Tarot (Sacred Texts), Toni Allen, Aeclectic Tarot). […]
0 Comments | December 15, 2007 at 10:05 am by mahud
All myths participate in some sort in the cosmological type of myth — for every account of what came to pass in the holy era of the beginning (in illo tempore) is but another variant of the archetypal history: how the world came to be.
The creation of the World being the pre-eminent instance of creation, […]
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