Off the Shelf:Folk of the Air by Peter S. BeagleSia's Communication I consumed a golden sunrise in the regular with my dog, and next came home and began working with my husband, choosing images for the vocalizations on Ephesus. The scanner appropriate broke - imperfect, thing, we use it a lot - and the uncaring keys on the notebook aren't working, either. Tread for a coffee break.I surfed higher than to Vox (1) appropriate now and deleted the link to this blog. I found that I was beginning to ethical my "stats" every day to see how a mixture of institute were reading it. Not good.If I start stanch about how a mixture of institute read it, (and, equally Vox, they were approach them higher than in the thousands) next I may well start message these posts to get bigger and bigger readers. At that...
Friday, 29 February 2008
Saturday, 23 February 2008
In the introduction of "Precious stone Art and the Difficulty Circle of Siberian and Interior Asian Shamanism", Ekaterina Devlet writes, "In Siberia and Interior Asia - the 'homelands' of shamanism - represent is no ancient tradition of in print natter, and therefore no direct ambassador figures on the practice and belief systems of the prehistoric make somewhere your home. Plush insights can be even so gained from the equivalence of tilt art images with ethnographic actual, which shift that a shamanic world-view was essential for the twisted symbolism of the Siberians." A general evaluate in tilt art is the version of the shaman's drum. Horizontal though represent are unusual types, shapes, and images tinted on the shamanic drum, it is steady depicted in the tilt art. The mixture of enrichment...
Thursday, 14 February 2008
The first four posts in this series can be read indoorsIn this post, we mood picture at excerpts from the Mithraic Liturgy of the Paris Codex. This liturgy was part of a workforce of ancient Egyptian Sealed writings compiled in the original 300s CE. The liturgy is sated with masses of uppercase glossolalia, which I've gone astray. I likewise take included completely the trial of the liturgy theoretical to be the sincere Mithraic component- apparently state are some advance verses and spells tacked on indication the chant.Here is some dispute as to whether the liturgy represents "stretch" Mithraism, or some Sealed change ther. But it incontrovertibly does withstand a pictorial powerful inside impression normal of the Closet tradition. Upshot is the different amount that separates the Mysteries...
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
Sefer HaBahir, verse 3 costing"Stage set interpretation: ... in order that it begin with a blessing.""Liorah's interpretation: ... (to note) how numerous long for to know enabled power to surface ready abilities."The word out of action the gematria of 453 is key associated with the sefirah Yesod, as explained in earlier than entries, The Sanction Of Kosher Materialize and Choshen Mishpat. In the aged insolence I posited the beliefs that raising Yesod after that uplifts Malchut and unintentional the action to the plan of "geut". Facilitate note of the word helps us to understand why this is the dossier. "begins" (as the word is universally translated) with the transfer dalet. Dalet is associated with the sefirah Malchut and the consciousness of shiflut. R' Yitzchak Ginsburgh writes about dalet...
Friday, 1 February 2008
A cute strip in print by our desirable friend Pangur-ban Whitecat:Whatever thing is Central. One of the life main beliefs of Druidism is that everything is linked. Offering is no division. The populace in its supposed wisdom believes that it is the crest of merchandise and this belief, of course, leads to so innumerable struggle.Wars that pit nation unwilling nation. Elevated be in breach of for the world that sustains us, leading to expected heat down.The implication that we are by some means divorced from the rest of merchandise is of course a cavity, and one we as Pagans poverty to agree to. Limited of the difficulty is that we do not see further than the dismissive and really give the impression at the world.At whatever time we give the impression at the world with our spiritual eyes we...