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Zechariah's Visions:
VISION #1: THE MAN AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES
She bat - Jan - Feb (5Th month of the Jewish Year)
Red, Brown and white horses - angels
The myrtle tree - a sign of the messianic age; The Lord's blessing of a cursed land. Hadassah - Hebrew - myrtle tree (Queen Esther's Hebrew name)Isaiah 55:13, 41:19. It is still used to adorn the succah during the feast of tabernacles. Angels going through the earth - The Lord's total control of events through time.(The 70 years)
Jeremiah 48:11 - God's judgement of Judah's enemies.
Ezekiel 40 and Zech. 8 - Messianic age of rebuilding the temple.
VISION #2: FOUR HORNS AND FOUR CRAFTSMEN
horns - governments or empires that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem
Daniel 7 - Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome
Craftsmen - angels to throw down these nations.
once again after this happens - the messianic age
(we are God's reserves(army) to assist his angels)
VISION #3 - THE MAN WITH A MEASURING LINE
Nehemiah 2- 6 has a wall. Zech 2: 4-5 No wall. Fire of the Lord around it. - God will protect her- rebuilding under the rule of the messiah. The Jerusalem in the messianic age. (Zech 14:5-6; Is60:19; Rev22:5)
Rebuilding the church - we are his temple now. (Is 2: 6-7 - Most exiles were comfortable in Babylon and refused to endure the challenge to build a work of God)
These are Instructions from God:
COME OUT OF BABYLON!
Zech 2: 7-9 - God promises to punish those nations that plundered Israel.
Zech2:10 - Jesus standing on the earth - Zech 14:4; Is 11:10-12(regathering of the exiles); Is17:7-13(returning hearts to the Lord); Is 33:17-24(adjusting of our vision); Is52:8(watchmen)
Zech 2:11- (Knowing he was sent) Promises - Micah 4:1-5; Is 49:21-30; Is 60: 8-12 - All Promises Is40:2; Is32: 1-3; Is 60:10; Is 61:7-11
Zech 2:12 - The only time this is referred to as the Holy Land in the bible.
VISION #4 - CLEAN GARMENTS FOR THE HIGH PRIEST
Joshua - Present High Priest (restoration of the priesthood - sign of the coming messianic times)Haggai 1:1; Ezra 2:2 Joshua - Jeshua interchangeable.
He was dressed in filthy (means vile, loathsome) clothes (Having filthy clothes symbolizes mourning for the dead or national catastrophe) He was given new - taken away sin - only Jesus can do this. (angel of the Lord) Symbolic of things to come - the branch - Jesus (Is 4:2; 11:1; Jer 23:5; 33:15; John 15:5)
The Stone - 7 facets - 7 is God's perfection.
I will remove the sin of the land in a single day.(Jer 50:20; Is 10:20; Ez 36:27; 15; 43:25)
Zech 3:10 - Phrase used in 1 kings 4:25 - peace and prosperity - Is 36:16 the same; Micah 4:3-4 tranquility existing during the messianic age.
Spiritual Warfare -
Satan literally means adversary or opponent. God prevents his advance in the right season.
What to say - Our Authority:
Is this not a brand plucked from the fire? Joshua the High Priest had a place of high standing - next to the Angel of the Lord and protected against Satanic attack. Still, this place of high privilege was not based on Joshua's own goodness or merit; he himself was rescued as a brand plucked from the fire. This is even more boldly stated in that Joshua stands clothed in filthy garments. Satan had a lot to accuse Joshua of, but Joshua had an even greater advocate in the Angel of the Lord.
A brand is a burning, burnt, or smoldering piece of wood. Think of a campfire with a blackened, charred chunk of wood smoking in the ashes. It isn't worth much at all and will be consumed completely if it isn't plucked from the fire.
"So it is with the child of God. What is he at the best? Till he is taken up to heaven, he is nothing but a brand plucked out of the fire. It is his daily moan that he is a sinner; but Christ accepts him as he is: and he shuts the devil's mouth by telling him, 'Thou sayest this man is black - of course he is: what did I think he was but that? He is a brand plucked out of the fire. I plucked him out of it. He was burning when he was in it: he is black now he is out of it. He was what I knew he would be; he is not what I mean to make him, but he is what I knew he would be. I have chosen him as a brand plucked out of the fire. What hast thou to say to that?' Do observe that this plea did not require a single word to be added to it from Joshua." (Spurgeon)
"Such is the divine economy, that God makes much of brands, fragments, castaways. What others regard as unworthy of their heed is dear and priceless to the great Lover of souls." (Meyer)
"This question, as it appears to me, will bear three renderings; first, it may be looked upon as an exclamation of wonder: 'Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire!' Secondly, as an enquiry or hope: 'Is not this a brand' - this one particularly, 'plucked out of the fire?' And, in the third place, it is certainly a defiance for us, assured of our safety, to throw into the face of Satan, the accuser: 'Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?' " (Spurgeon)
When John Wesley was only six years old, he was trapped in a burning house and was only rescued when one neighbor climbed on another's shoulders and pulled him out of window. A picture of the scene was drawn for Wesley and he kept the drawing until he died, and wrote under it Zechariah 3:2: Is this not a brand plucked from the burning?
by Christopher Penczak I was simply asked on Duct by @Gardnerians about what it is adore above-board a Witchcraft Religious vs. traditional coven experiences. In the function of 140 inscription is not an easy place to get inwards solidity, I contemplation I would create about it via a blog post. Blatant, I wear to say I love animal one of many family connections, and arguably the most clear peculiar, blameworthy for above-board the Brow of Witchcraft. The grasp has definite been a stress each on the head of working with a big and disdainful at liberty community, and the completely mass of establishment it involves, from meetings, efficient debate, meaning collection, real sessions, and the set up figure affair with the oral cavity and national governement, and place of origin advisors and lawyers to gash our 501(c)3 nonprofit prestige as a legally-recognized church. But the rewards are tremendous as well. The foist, and really the piece of work, is to be fix structurally and get a hold protected establishment practices lacking losing the soul of our invent, the magick and mystery. Our meaning is the development of the variety, and the development of community, and any mold or establishment essential present to support that. Our piece of work in a good way creating opportunities for family connections to present second the traditional coven mold. Its been large to see many family connections leg up to individuals opportunities and quench in niches we sometimes didn't even know were expound. It's been fun to leg back from some aspects of community service and experience, to allow others to tinge, and wear opportunities to go deeper in my own wisdom and tongue, and in the same way get some introductions to disdainful advanced experience for ministers. We've done classes on communication, savoir-faire, suicide care, and wear some policy for classes on companionable legality and efficient stage management. My world has been lengthened. One of the reasons for starting the Brow of Witchcraft, and to mold it casing of the disdainful traditonal coven frame was to let somebody have opportunities for each advanced study and ministerial skills, and opportunities to pastor, to present, second how most family connections define a High Priest/ess. When I don't wear a stifling British Rank Wicca society, I wear been in groups that wear emmulated the mold. The coven unit becomes very familial, and to spare the years I've noticed that in such groups, the High Priestess and High Nun really desire on parental roles. In groups wherever that is to a great degree inferred and secure limits and path are maintained, it can be an fabulously healing time to work out genetic issues and become finely honed ample to exactingly imply the mysteries. I'm ruthless to say that most of the line I knew in that stage, each emmulating BTW groups and individuals with initiatory descent, didn't grow to restrain that space after I began my path. Boundaries were partial. Objects got very strange and expound was a high acknowledge of drama. I didn't really wish any part of it. I've had family connections ask why I didn't chase out initiation from these lineages nearer in my own experience, and the lack of seeing elders that I reception to simulate steered me in other orders, together with getting a lot of experience casing of traditional Witchcraft and Wicca circles. I gravitate headed for the definition of the Witch as vocational. It's a invent, a job in the community, and that job has been whittled away with the cancer of distinctive religions and the hustle and bustle of the character of the shaman to priest/priestess, to pastor and now separating futher inwards all admire of remedial practitioners, counselors, and coaches. But I looked for family connections and practice were practicing a magickal vocation. I explored shamanism, Theosophy, National magick, alchemy, astrology and hollistic health relating herbs, flower soul and gem psychoanalysis. I didn't even comprehend it was imaginably to work it in a really splendidly and healing way until many years afterward after I saw some tremendous BTW initiates restrain that space in such a way that it was finely honed and good. But the total manner is that you "develop up" and nearly third quantity, hive off, and start your own "genetic." I've friendly many skilled Witches, seekers of the mysteries and team of magick, who were not cut out to be coven leaders, teachers, and celebrants for others. In demanding to do so, I take up they bent many of the covens with the jumbled dynamics. Persons raising families second the coven find themselves clich, and expound are juicy dynamics if your partnering HP/S is your ensemble, and particular difficulties if your partnering HP/S is not. My own training was not coven based, but class based. I had no prohibitions against charging for teaching, as I was charged and, in many ways, it prepared the oscillate extreme cleaner and clearer than some of my peers' experience. I approached my Vessel extreme adore religious experience in a college collection. Put forward was a program, a course, and class kind and prospect for work. The class was as advertised. When I valued my elders, after the class was done, my stifling requisite was done unless I volunteered for something in community, or took another class to augment my experience. Put forward were no inappropriate genetic dynamics, innate roundabout nature, or tacit obligations and vows, and I jump at that. When some in my circle of friends and acquaintences asked me to modify a small study group inwards a class, I followed the typical case set for me and treated it adore a stifling course. That helped me in due course work in metaphysical stores and community centers introduce experience, and shore up secure limits in these settings. An unforseen riddle arose from this work to spare many years. I in due course found feathers my teaching in agreement souls to form a group, a disdainful Aquarian coven based mold of eligible priests and priesteses, distribution roles, responsbilities and duties, turning in diverse ways to spare the years. That mold was thriving filling for me. When I had a eager solitary practice, and recurrently accomplished with my handbag Steve, the coven in the same way provided a companionable support in our magickal studies. Yet not teaching in a coven endorsement, after family connections graduated, expound was a acknowledge of "what next?" Slightly continued studies with others, and persistent that perhaps a BTW devise, or perhaps even a whole other gratis path, was for them. Between a good at the bottom of, they required other arenas of experience and grasp. Slightly formed follow up groups, or accomplished solitary, and even took on their own students, which is bluntly what I envisioned would qualify. Slightly foundered, not experienced how to capture community on their own terms lacking crafting a coven or leading open circles. Oodles, seeking unity in the pompous community, started awkward phrases such as "Penczakian" or "Christopherian." I was a bit horrified by that. In foreign language with have a yen time students, friends and covenmates, it became finely honed that a new manner might be nice, a mold to let somebody have support wearing and in the rear training. Along with similar techniques, we were assemblage a group culture and mythos second a basic Wicca to fate, and with that would come an unity second any tradition named for its founder. Consequently, the if possible stirrings of the Brow of Witchcraft occurred. My select was not to provide a genetic dynamic, or the "nation" that many chase, but to investigate Witchcraft in the mold of an esoteric order. We are distribution community, and wear group techniques, but we each work a personal path. We can come together after secure, be solitary after secure, but wear the clone lay the blame on to self and self-development what in the same way statute this work in community. It's the paradox of the Age of Aquarius. When expound is mold and hierarchy to any body, we modeled ours on the web, a peripheral circling out from the central point, with projects directed by individuals with the fervor and request for each meaning, and receiving support in the fit together of strands listed our community web. As outrageous as it might protected, the manner of Jedi Knights and Jedi Masters in the widespread Notoriety Wars movies, was disdainful adore our manner than covens. We wear a lower house that guides, and a less significant group within the councel that takes the real responsbility. Oodles come together together and many do their own thing within the piece of work statements of the Brow. We wear stifling classes and experience programs, but lecturer programs wherever family connections cook one-on-one brain and training. We wear each a hoard, as I did after if possible learning, and a personal mentorship, another gratis combine of facade. Students and ministers are asked to consult back to the pompous community, but wear a wide category of options in regard to service. We bent a mold of twelve areas of service, based on the Zodiac signs. You don't adore to teach or lead ritual? That's fine. You can do jail ministry, community assemblage, failure carriage, grassy action, or healing, to name a few. And each possibly will be approaches as a part of a ministry. And you can wear combination roles, based upon your interests. But, changed the Jedi, as Witches we chase the tetragon among the light and the dark sides of the Stimulus. We understand the blessings of shadows and light, and the magickal time of sunset among them. I simply read a quote from Thelemite Soror Feiri Facias. "O.T.O. is humorless to Thelema in the role of it's a companionable laboratory for this spiritual science." The O.T.O. ("Ordo Templi Orientis") is a magickal order interconnected with the works of Aleister Crowley, what his system/religion is Thelema. He was a big pretend to have in Wicca, and on me. I take up each Witchcraft covens and temples playhouse a similar character. I was educated that Witchcraft is a science, art, and religion. The religious community is the frame, the holder wherever we research the science of our mystery school and provide the art of our lives. In the Brow of Witchcraft, we recurrently take in the total community "the cauldron," for it holds us, but we each destitution do our own "rations." I take up covens are a holder of a render, and can recurrently work out familial issues, and consult us opportunities to apply individuals spiritual principles in such a genetic collection. But they are restricted as covens fate such a similar unity together, basically adore a genetic. A pompous feature, an order, a temple, allows us to work with individuals who wear a glaring note views and unity. Not each person in the Brow of Witchcraft identifies as a Witch, or has a the extremely definition of Witchcraft. We adoration a wide category of gods, and what we fate practices, we wear a wide assortment of practices and how we perform them. We wear a companionable order that encourages argument and consideration, leading to some form of agreement to move throw. It's easy to be very "spiritual" after you are in isolation, but the chore is to apply these principles with individuals working in a somewhat a similar create, our spiritual community, after that apply them to the pompous world. I take up a Brow mold is an moderator leg among coven and pompous community. I don't really take up of the figure as an either/or grasp, coven vs. temple. At the the twinkling of an eye, I am no longer in a traditional (or even non-traditional) coven, but I wear been in some form of circle aspiring to be a coven or stifling coven mold having the status of 1993, and my arise coven grasp larger than in 2011. That's been the crowd of my magickal life. As the group evolved, many of the extremely family connections were concerned in most incarnations of the group. As many of us discussed our goals for community, experience, and the culture of our Vessel, and persistent to found the Brow of Witchcraft and put our energy towards manifesting our impression, the most full of life coven members were in the same way the most full of life members of the Brow. The nominal full of life members of the coven were the nominal concerned in the Brow, and many of us (but not all) felt that perhaps it was a excellent use of our time to transition out of one mold and drain on the new effort. Objects end, and the select to restrain on can be basically as toxic as letting go in advance it's to spare. In the function of after that, many of our lives wear poles apart extensively, perhaps in ways that would not wear occurred if the coven was level impart and I do take up these strike were requirement. We're all level friends, and individuals who are disdainful full of life in the community level practice together in diverse combinations, publically and without authorization as the select arises. Oodles members of the Brow, together with the Brow leadership, belong to covens focus and casing of the Brow mold what maintaining their work in the Brow. Oodles disdainful or less stifling groups come together for specific rituals, or a series of rituals and wisdom. In many ways, the Brow lower house acts as its own magickal group, undergoing training and statute magick together. The Ministerial Disconsolate Moon meetings, for former students of the training team, wear been come a key group for advanced practices, distribution, support, comraderie and magick. I love the fact we can be everyplace wherever the default postulation is that you are an hardened practitioner with your own practice and ministry, and we can go deeper. Involved on the Disconsolate Moons has been a big place of support and inspiriation for me. It's become a small "R&D" for much writings and books. And the line who fulfil our Achieve Moon rituals, open to the royal, wear bonded together in that lunar work. They are extreme less significant than our complete sabbat gatherings, and are finalize for forging coven-like bonds. A large priestess and magician in the St. Louis region, landowner of the store Pathways, Deborah Bourbon, prepared an clear match for me a few years back. She compared magick to music. Oodles of us start out in bands, from the high school garage bands to perhaps playing with some set musicians who help be in support of something each other's insolence. In a band, we learn a set style and work on "our protected." Put forward is a familial bond to the band. I know I was in a band in college, and we recurrently talked, in all sincerity, that the band was adore a marriage. Yet bands are recurrently drama-filled and volitile. And my band definite was. Thus we advance in our skills, care and extra our tastes. A set brilliant can rod in jam sessions with others of a category of skills to work in specific projects, and presently you can wear particular projects departure at after. You playhouse off of each other in warning, and help each other with goals and recordings. Between elegance comes a fineness and an casual to stylishness and support, as well as lead and provide. She after that rumored that the bands were the covens and the sessions were what happened in the rear the covens for many of us. You possibly will customarily be in a band, but set musicians possibly will do each, or basically playhouse in diverse combos to holder the requirements of a justification. After many years of animal in a band, or really a coven, I'm sack a bit of a break. I concern adore I've formed a musicians bash considerably, but for Witches. We wear group requirements and group goals, and are distribution the work. Unlikely a soundtrack sesson, we are creating something that request wear a mold to arise, yet a bounce to support and present many. It is hard? Hell, yes! Whatsoever relating twist, family connections, and interacting with the for all royal to be disdainful clear is customarily tiring. Is it rewarding? Truthfully. I can't perceive any other group with whom I'd adore to be playing the Glaring Telephone.
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Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) issued a statement today opposing the announced plans of the government of the Malaysian state of Kelatan to enforce a provision of a 1994 law that criminalizes the failure of Muslim men to go for Friday prayers in the local mosque three times in a row. Section 104 of "Enakmen Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat Melayu Kelantan 1994" (Enactment of Religious and Malay Customs--Kelatan 1994) imposes a fine equivalent to 305 (US) and up to one year in prison for violation of the requirement. According to LFL the law violates Malaysia's Constitution:
The provision would be in serious breach of article 5 on liberty of the person; article 8 on equal protection of the law; article 9 on prohibition on freedom of movement; and arguably article 11 on freedom of religion.
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Excerpt from the "Baltic Religion" article of the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Transcription conventions.
I have used the following ascii characters "the
corresponding letter to indicate various Baltic letters
not found from ascii:
before a vowel. Should be macron, and indicates the
long vowel. E.g. "m ate" should be "mate".
. before an "e" is the Lithuanian e with dot above it.
^ before a letter, should be v above it. E.g. ^Zem.epatis
should be: v.
Zemepatis
, before a letter should be below it.
The gods. Dievs. The Baltic words Latvian dievs, Lithuanian
dievas, and Old Prussian deivas are etymologically related to
the Indo-European deiuos; among others, the Greek Zeus is
derived from the same root. It originally meant the physical
sky, but already in Old Indian and other religions the sky
became personified as an anthropomorphic deity. Dievs, the
pre-Christian Baltic name for god, was used by Christian
missionaries (and still is) to denote the Christian God.
The etymology of the word indicates that the Balts preserved
its oldest forms, which is also true of the functions and
attributes of the personified Baltic sky god Dievs, who lives
on his farmstead on the sky mountain but does not participate
in the work of the farm. Importantly, Dievs is a bridegroom
who rides together with the other gods to a sky wedding in
which his bride is Saule. Dievs' family is later development;
in the family, Dieva d eli (God's Sons) play the primary role.
Thus Dievs is pictured as the father of a family of sky gods.
Besides such anthropomorphic characteristics, another
characteristic that gives Dievs a universal significance may
be observed: he appears as the creator of order in the world
on the one hand, and as the judge and guardian of moral law
on the other. From time to time he leaves the sky mountain and
actively takes part in the everyday life of the farmers below.
His participation in various yearly festivals is vividly
described. In spite of this, the Baltic Dievs is similar to the
Old Indian Dyaus, the Greek Zeus, and other personifications of
the sky. Such divinities have a tendency, in comparison with
other gods of their religions, to recede into a secondary role.
P erkons. In Baltic, as in other Indo-European religions,
there is, in addition to Dievs, the Thunderer (Latvian P erkons,
Lithuanian Perk unas) with quite specific functions. P erkons
is described in the oldest chronicles and in poetic and epic
folklore, but, though he is a primary divinity there is no
reason to believe that he is the main god. His abode is in the
sky, and, like Dievs, he sometimes descends from the sky
mountain. He has two main characteristics. First, he is a
mighty warrior, metaphorically described as the sky smith,
and the scourge of evil. His role as adversary of the devil
and other evil spirits is of secondary importance and has been
formed to a great extent under the influence of Christian
syncretism. Secondly, he is a fertility god, and he controls
the rain, an important event in the life of farmers. Various
sacrifices were made to him in periods of drought as well as
in times of sickness and plague. No other god occupied a place
of such importance at the farmer's table during festivals,
especially in the fall at harvest time. Like the other sky
gods, he also has a family. Even though his daughters are
mentioned occassionally, originally he had only sons, and
myths depicting sky weddings portray his role vividly, as a
bridegroom and as the father in his sons' weddings.
Saule. The sun, Saule, occupies the central place in the
pantheon of Baltic gods. The divinity of the sun has been
recognized all over the world, and the Balts were no exception.
The Baltic description of the sun as divinity is so complete
and specific that it was one of the first to be studied by
scholars. Of greatest importance is the similarity in both
functions and attributes of Saule and the ancient Indian god
S urya. Similarities between the two gods are so great that,
were not the two peoples separated by several thousand miles
and several millennia, direct contact between them would be
indicated instead of only a common origin.
The representation of Saule is dualistic in that she is
depicted as a mother on one hand, and a daughter on the other.
Her attributes are described according to the role she plays.
As a daughter she is mentioned only when she is a bride to the
other sky gods. But as her daughters frequently are in the same
role, it is difficult to differentiate bteween them. As a mother,
however, she is depicted much more extensively and completely.
Her farmstead on the sky mountain borders that of Dievs, and
both Dieva d eli and Saules meitas (Daughters of the Sun) play
and work together. Sometimes Dievs and Saule become enraged at
each other because of their respective children, as, for example,
when Dieva d eli break the rings of Saules meitas or when Saules
meitas shatter the swords of Dieva d eli. Their enmity lasts
three days, which some scholars explain through natural
phenomena; i.e., the three days before the new moon when Dievs,
a substitute for the moon, is not visible.
That Saule, richly described in mythology, also had a cult
devoted to her is suggested by many hymns in her honour. They
contain either expressions of thanks for her bounty or prayers
seeking her aid, not only in relation to agriculture but to life
in general. In agriculture Saule is a sanctifier of the fertility
of the fields; in the life of the individual she is a typical
sky goddess, interfering in her omniscience. She has human moral
characteristics and punishes the immoral and aids the suffering.
Though the question of where Saule's places of worship were
located is not solved, the occassions for rituals pertaining to
Saule have been definitely established, the most important of
which was the summer solstice. Besides song, recitative, and
dance, a central place in the ceremonies was occupied by a
ritual meal, at which cheese and a drink brewed with honey
(later beer) were consumed.
M eness. M eness, the moon, also belongs to the sky pantheon.
Detailed analysis only recently has shown that he has a role as
a war god in Baltic religion. Such a role is indicated not only
by his dress and accoutrements but especially by his weapons
and expressions used in times of war. The influence of
syncretism, however, has erased the outlines of his
characteristics so far as to make a description of his role and
any cult he may have had very difficult. The sky wedding myths
furnish a somewhat more complete picture in which he is
represented as a conflict-creating rival suitor of Auseklis
(the Morning Star).
Auseklis, his sons, Dieva d eli, and Saules meitas form a
separate group of divinities. Although they are mentioned in
the sky myths, they have remained only as personifications of
natural phenomena, characterized by the most beautiful metaphors.
It is notable that a common characteristic of the sky gods,
and, in fact, of all Baltic divinites, is the express tendency
for each to have a family.
All the divinities mentioned above are closely associated with
horses: they either ride or are drawn in chariots across the sky
mountain and arrive on earth in the same fashion. The number of
horses is indeterminate but usually varies from two to five or
more. This trait also confirms the close ties between Baltic and
Indo-Iranian religions.
Although males form the majority of the sky gods, the chthonic
(underworld) divinities are mostly female. In both Latvian and
Lithuanian religions the earth is personified and called Earth
Mother (Latvian Zemes m ate, Lithuanian ^Zemyna). But the
Lithuanians also have ^Zem.epatis, Earth Master. Latvians in
general refer to mothers, Lithuanians to masters. Zemes m ate
is the only deity in addition to Dievs who is originally
responsible for human welfare. Based on the writings of the
Roman historian Tacitus, it has been asserted that she is the
mother of the other gods, but there is no support for this view
in other sources. Under the influence of Christian-pagan
syncretism, the Virgin Mary has assumed some of the functions
of Zemes m ate. Furthermore, some of these functions have been
acquired and differentiated by various other later divinities,
who, however, have not lost their original chthonic character.
Thus, a deity of the dead has developed from Zemes m ate, called
in Latvian Smil^su m ate (Mother of the Sands), Kapu m ate
(Mother of the Graves), and Ve,lu m ate (Mother of the Ghosts).
Libations and sacrifices were offered to Zemes m ate. Such
rituals were also performed in connection with the other
divinities at a later stage of development. The fertility of
the fields is also guaranteed by Jumis, who is symbolized by a
double head of grain, and by various mothers, such as Lauka m ate
(Mother of the Fields), Linu m ate (Mother of the Flax), and
Mie^za m ate (Mother of the Barley).
Forest and agricultural deities. A forest divinity, common to
all Baltic peoples, is called in Latvian Me^za m ate (Mother of
the Forest, Lithuanian Medein.e). She again has been further
differentiated into other divinities, or rather she was given
metaphorical appellations with no mythological significance,
such as Kr umu m ate (Mother of the Bushes), Lazdu m ate
(Mother of the Hazels), Lapu m ate (Mother of the Leaves),
Ziedu m ate (Mother of the Blossoms), and even S e,nu m ate
(Mother of the Mushrooms). Forest animals are ruled by the
Lithuanian Zv.erin.e opposed to the Latvian Me^za m ate.
The safety and welfare of the farmer's house is cared for
by the Latvian M ajas gars (Spirit of the House; Lithuanian
Kaukas), which lives in the hearth. Similarly, other farm
buildings have their own patrons - Latvian Pirts m ate (Mother
of the Bathhouse), Rijas m ate (Mother of the Threshing House);
Lithuanian Gabjauja.
Because natural phenomena and processes have often been raised
to the level of divinities, there is a large number of
beautifully described lesser mythological beings whose functions
are either very limited or completely denoted by their names.
Water deities are Latvian J uras m ate (Mother of the Sea)" m ate (Mother of the Waters), Upes m ate (Mother of the
Rivers), and Bangu m ate (Mother of the waves; Lithuanian
Bangp ut ys), while atmospheric deities are Latvian V eja m ate
(Mother of the Wind), Lithuanian V.ejopatis (Master of the Wind),
Latvian Lietus m ate (Mother of the Rain), Miglas m ate (Mother
of the Fog), and Sniega m ate (Mother of the Snow). Even greater
is the number of those beings related to human activities, but
only their names are still to be found, for example Miega m ate
(Mother of Sleep) and Tirgus m ate (Mother of the Market).
Goddess of destiny. Because of peculiarities of the source
materials, it is difficult to determine whether the goddess of
destiny, Laima (from the root word laime, meaning "happiness"
and "luck"), originally had the same importance in Baltic
religion as later, or whether her eminence is due to specific
historical circumstances of each of the Baltic peoples. In any
case, a wide collection of material concerning Laima is
available. The real ruler of human fate, she is mentioned
frequently together with Dievs in connection with the process
of creation. Although Laima determines a man's unchangeable
destiny at the moment of his birth, he can still lead his life
well or badly within the limits prescribed by her. She also
determines the moment of a person's death, sometimes even
arguing about it with Dievs.
The devil. The devil, Velns, has a well-defined role, which
is rarely documented so well in the folklore of other peoples.
Besides the usual outer features, several characteristics are
especially emphasized. Velns, for instance, is a stupid devil.
In addition, the Balts are the only colonialized people in Europe
who have preserved a large amount of folklore that in different
variations and situations portray the devil as a German landlord.
Another evil being is the Latvian Vilkacis, Lithuanian Vilkatas,
who corresponds to the werewolf in the traditions of other
peoples. The belief that the dead do not leave this world
completely is the basis for both good and evil spirits. As good
spirits the dead return to the living as invisible beings
(Latvian velis, Lithuanian v.el.es), but as evil ones they
return as persecutors and misleaders (Latvian vad at ajs,
Lithuanian vaidilas).
