Mythology and Paganism
Around March I devised a Cosmic-Lunar Calendar to help develop awareness of the cycles of the moon in conjunction with my own syncretic mythos through meditation and myth. Its going to be in thirteen parts, so I hope you stick around to the end. I’m hoping I can make at least two or three posts […]
A series of sexy posts from Primordial Blog.
Sex in Mythology
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Ancient Egypt
Canaan
An Egyptian myth from the late second millennium B.C, involves Bata, who hid his heart within a pine tree. The Ennead saw that Bata was lonely, and so they created a beautiful wife for him. Bata loved his wife, and fearing for her safety, he warned her never to leave their house, should the sea […]
One night set discovered the dead body of Osiris in the marshes, and tearing it to pieces, he scattered the limbs across Egypt.
Isis managed to reclaim all the body parts, except for the phallus, which had been swallowed by a fish. Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming and guide to the underworld, treated the body […]
Image requested by Jane (Semi-Charmed Wife)
Isis (large)
Isis (small)
Photos
Kite in flight
Think About It
An Egyptian magical text, that functioned as a remedy for snakebite (dating to about 1200 B.C), concerns the goddess Isis and how she obtained the hidden name of Ra.
The goddess was dissatisfied with the realm of mankind and desired to dwell among the gods. The elderly Ra, the self created creator of everything, would […]
Originally part of the Lunar Beasts series, but I felt that it doesn’t quite fit the subject matter, which primarily focuses on the Lunar Beast, a symbol that is related to other mythical ideas of the ever-revolving cosmos of death and life, such as this one, although without any actual lunar-moon symbols.
According to […]
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