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 […]
The Phrygian myth concerning the goddess Cybele and Attis…
The myth is cosmological, explaining the creation of the present universe. Like other myths it reveals that in the beginning something separated the created order from it’s source, which should of resulted in it’s total destruction, yet miraculously and paradoxically did not.
The Divine Source within the Cosmos
…begins […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lunar Beasts (part 1)
Lunar Beasts (part 2)
Lunar Beasts (part 3)
Lunar Beasts (part 4)
Lunar Beasts (part 5)
Lunar Beasts (part 6)
Lunar Beasts (part 7)
Lunar Beasts (part 8 )
Cosmic Release in the Mysteries of Mithras
Those initiated into the mysteries of Mithras achieved cosmic release by way of the revolving planets, which appear in Mithraic Iconography, each planet (Saturn, […]
Lunar Beasts (part 1)
Lunar Beasts (part 2)
Lunar Beasts (part 3)
Lunar Beasts (part 4)
Lunar Beasts (part 5)
Lunar Beasts (part 6)
Lunar Beasts (part 7)
Lunar Beasts (part 8 )
The God Dionysus
Dionysus , accompanied by his army of bacchic revellers, was accredited as the universal distributor of his own worship and the knowledge of the vine (The ambrosial plant). […]
This post originally started out as a comment to a recent post at Druid Journal, Hearing the Song of the World, where Jeff shares the story of Komo the Shepherd boy.
It’s surprising that the tale of Komo is not traditional. I also thought of the myth of Adam, naming all the animals in the garden, […]
leontocephaline: Of Time and Eternity
Also associated with the Mithraic cult was the statue of a lion-headed figure (leontocephaline), whose body was entwined by a spiraling serpent.
This statue, I believe, represents both the lunar-temporal reality, corresponding with the revolving (serpentine) planetary path leading to cosmic release, and the solar-eternal reality, corresponding with the eighth gate mentioned […]
Demeter and her daughter Persephone — known as ‘the two goddesses’ — were the prominent deities associated with the famous Eleusinian Mystery cult, celebrated for over a millennium until the end of the 4th century A.D.
“For those who were initiated into the mysteries of Demeter, an identification was made between the resurrection of the new […]
My contribution for the Mythology Synchroblog on the theme of Motherhood. For more posts see below.
Sections
The Anatolian Mother
Cybele in Greece
Magna Mater in Rome
Magna Mater’s Spring Festival (15th and 27th March)
The Taurobolium in the Magna Mater Cult
The Anatolian Mother
Both the Greek and Roman worship of the Great Mother derives from Anatolia/Asia Minor (Turkey). Her name appears […]
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