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A Mythological Cosmic-Lunar Calendar (3 of 13)

July 27, 2008 at 4:51 pm by mahud

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.
For other posts in this series check out the Cosmic-Lunar Calendar Category

Lunar Wheel of the Year (Click To Enlarge)

3rd Lunar Month: LunaSol (Bull)
The deities Luna and Sol […]


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Cocles and Scaevola

January 12, 2007 at 11:41 am by mahud

Livy (History of Rome), and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities) acknowledge Publius Horatius and Gaius Mucius for their exceptional heroics, during the Roman Etruscan war in the 5th century B.C.
Horatius was named Cocles, ‘one-eyed’, due to losing an eye in battle (Roman Antiquities 5.23), while Mucius, after plunging his arm into the fire in […]


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The Great Mother from Asia Minor to Rome

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 […]


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The Proto-European Cosmogonic Battle Theme

August 28, 2007 at 12:37 pm by mahud

In deos Shadow’s latest podcast The Celtic Creation Story, Brendan Myers explains why he believes that the battle between the Fomorians and Tuatha De Danann at the The Second Battle of Mag Tuired, was originally a Celtic creation myth.
I’d like to expand upon this idea with a theory of my own concerning the duel roles […]


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