Mythology and Paganism
According to Hindu mythology, in the beginning nothing existed apart from the Supreme Self (Atman) who was manifest in the form of a man and filled the entire universe.
Perceiving only himself he cried aloud, “I!” and the notion of the ‘self’ came into being. aware that he was alone, he immediately became fearful, but then […]
In Hinduism, since the Puranic age, time has been divided up into cosmic cycles, known as yugas, mahayugas and manvantaras. Like this classical world ages of Greece and Rome, time is divided into four consecutive ages: Krita (or satya), Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. Kali is the current yuga, which began on midnight, February 18th, 3102 […]
Herod the Great and Jesus
Like Astyages, Herod the Great attempted to kill the Messiah king whom the Hebrew scriptures foretold would one day rule the people of Israel. Unlike Astyages, Herod was ignorant concerning the new born king’s identity and ordered the wholesale slaughter of all the boys up to two years of age in […]
In a previous entry I gave my interpretation of the slaying of Medusa interpreted as Cosmogonic myth, associating Medusa with the temporal realm (in its primordial chaotic state), and the separation of both the temporal and eternal orders of reality, symbolized respectively by the birth of Pegasus (linked with the streams of Oceanos), and the […]
Shiva sits in meditation, between the dissolution and creation of the universe. He is often seen with a new moon anchored in his hair, while the Ganges River flows perpetually, like a life-giving fountain, from his top knot.
His entanglement of matted locks is the ideal means by which the catastrophic might of the Ganges is […]
I classify Cernunnos (Celtic) as a threshold God. Other mythological characters of this type I include Noah (Hebrew), Dionysus (Greek), Shiva (Hindu), and many more, but for this brief article I want to focus on Cernunnos and the iconography surrounding this God, particularly the God’s headdress as shown on the Gundestrup cauldron (Denmark: 2nd to […]
The Mythological Victim as the God Soma according to the Rig Veda.
The God, King Soma, was personified as the Plant of Immortality, which in turn was equated in the Rig Vedic hymns (I am using the Ralph Griffith 1896 translation) with the mythical World Tree (Footnote: Axis-Mundi) that upheld the sky, like a cosmic temple […]
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 […]
The myth of how Ganesha got his elephant head.
The Birth of Ganesh 1
The Birth of Ganesh 2
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