1 Comment | March 13, 2010 at 8:00 pm by mahud
My interest in myths spanned the entire ten year period as a Christian. If I wasn’t reading about Christianity or studying the Bible, I was fervently reading about world mythology. From mythology I began reading about ancient cultures, especially Mesopotamian cultures. Studying Sumerian, Akkadian and Neo-Babylonian history had quite an impact on my view on […]
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 | 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 […]
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 […]
10 Comments | April 2, 2008 at 6:52 am by mahud
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 […]
6 Comments | September 5, 2007 at 11:23 pm by mahud
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, […]
5 Comments | June 17, 2007 at 2:23 pm by mahud
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 […]
2 Comments | February 10, 2007 at 4:05 pm by mahud
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, […]
2 Comments | February 6, 2007 at 3:46 pm by mahud
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). […]
0 Comments | November 15, 2006 at 8:10 am by mahud
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 […]
0 Comments | November 15, 2006 at 7:50 am by mahud
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 […]
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