GODDESS BLESS YOU !!!
You are Loved
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I LOVE YOU ~ HAVE 100% FAITH.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Crystal L. Cox ~ the Sacred Living of Every Day ~ Reverend Crystal Cox on Sacred and Spiritual in Every Moment
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GODDESS BLESS YOU !!!
GODDESS BLESS YOU !!!
It is Imperative that you know who you ARE, know your TRUTH for you.
What you Focus on you Create in your Life, you Manifest in your Life and you Live.
What you have in the "works" of your own thoughts creates your day, your energy field and what you attract into your life.
Focus on what you want your life to be. Focus on what you DO want, all day as much as you can. Do NOT focus on what you don't want in your life. Even if you are thinking and focusing on what you want instead of what is at this moment.
Let you Mind be ALIVE and Vibrant with the JOY of what you like, what makes you feel good, what feels RIGHT for you, happy and GOOD. Don't ever entertain a thought that makes you feel bad. If one sneaks in, quickly move to something that feels good, Anything, if only a favorite place, meal or experience. Whatever brings you a joyous feeling, move to that quickly.
When you HEAL, you are healing for all lifetimes since the beginning of Creation. Be gentle on yourself and keep at the FOCUS of what you want, what feels GOOD and simply do not give THOUGHT to anything that feels bad to you.
Goddess Bless You,
Reverend Crystal Cox
Bringing Back Goddess Church
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Witchcraft is a Religion. It is the oldest of Religions. Witchcraft has been around Mother Earth for over 35,000 years.
The WORD witchcraft is scary and confusing to many. Many associate the word WITCH with EVIL or darkness, that is far FAR from the Truth.
Witchcraft is THE OLD RELIGION and predates all other Religion. Goddess worship predates Christianity, Buddhism and all the rest. Witchcraft is most like Native American Tradition and Shamanism.
Witches are HEALERS. Witches are Oracles, Seers, and Wise Ones.
Study Witchcraft and Goddess Worship inDepth and remove YOUR FEARS.
Witchcraft takes it's scripture from NATURE. From Mother Earth, from the Sun and the Moon, the Tides, the Rivers, the Forests the birds flight and the cycles of the seasons.
Check Out the Book "the Spiral Dance" by STARHAWK as a Great Place to Start Learning about the OLD Religion of Witchcraft.
http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/witches_starhawk.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk
http://starhawk.org/
http://reclaimingspiraldance.org/
http://starhawk.org/writing/books/the-spiral-dance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_dance
Witchcraft is THE OLD RELIGION and predates all other Religion. Goddess worship predates Christianity, Buddhism and all the rest. Witchcraft is most like Native American Tradition and Shamanism.
Witches are HEALERS. Witches are Oracles, Seers, and Wise Ones.
Study Witchcraft and Goddess Worship inDepth and remove YOUR FEARS.
Witchcraft takes it's scripture from NATURE. From Mother Earth, from the Sun and the Moon, the Tides, the Rivers, the Forests the birds flight and the cycles of the seasons.
Check Out the Book "the Spiral Dance" by STARHAWK as a Great Place to Start Learning about the OLD Religion of Witchcraft.
Research Links ~ Starhawk and the Old Religion
http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/witches_starhawk.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk
http://starhawk.org/
http://reclaimingspiraldance.org/
http://starhawk.org/writing/books/the-spiral-dance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_dance
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Asclepius ~ a Great Healer before the Time of Jesus and using the same Methods. Jesus was an Example, a Teacher, a Leader. Be Like Jesus, Strive to actually be Christ Like, Asclepius like and HEAL.
"Asclepius (/æsˈkliːpiəs/; Greek: Ἀσκληπιός, Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) was a god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius
In some accounts Koronis abandoned her child near Epidaurus in shame for his illegitimacy and left the baby to be looked after by a goat and a dog. However, in a different version of the story Koronis was killed by Apollo for being unfaithful, whilst, in yet another version, the Messenian Arsinoe was the unfortunate mother of Asclepius.
The motherless Asclepius was then brought up by his father who gave him the gift of healing and the secrets of medicine using plants and herbs. Asclepius was also tutored by Cheiron, the wise centaur who lived on Mt. Pelion. Asclepius had many children - two sons: Machaon and Podaleirios, and four daughters: Iaso, Panacea, Aceso, and Aglaia.
In some traditions he was married to Hygeia, also a goddess of health; in another version she was his daughter and Asclepius married Epione.
The descendants of Asclepius, who continued in the art of medicine and healing, were known as the Asclepiads. Machaon, for example, helped Menelaos when he was wounded in the Trojan War, but the most famous doctor of the family was undoubtedly Hippocrates.
An artisan named Thrasymedes had constructed a magnificent statue made of gold and ivory, located inside the sanctuary at Epidaurus. Asclepius was represented as a handsome and manly figure, much like Zeus. He was seated on his throne, holding a staff in one hand, and with the other resting on the head of a serpent/dragon. By his side lay a dog.
Other representations show him holding in one hand a phial, and in the other a staff. Sometimes a boy is depicted standing by his side - He is the genius of recovery, and is called Telesphorus, Euamerion or Acesius.
His temples were strategically built in places that exuded healthiness, such as hills outside of town, or near wells which were said to have healing powers.
Very much like our modern day hospitals, these temples were not only places of worship, but were also filled by great numbers of sick people seeking cures.
There was a famous healing temple, or asclepieion, on the island of Kos, where the legendary father of medicine, Hippocrates, was rumored to have begun his medicinal career.
Depictions of Asclepius almost always show him holding a staff with snakes. This is often confused with the Caduceus of the god Hermes, which is differentiated by two wings at the top, and two snakes, compared with one snake for the staff of Asclepius.
These non-venomous snakes, called the Aesculapian Snakes, were used in healing rituals to honor Asclepius. The snakes were let loose to slither freely around the floor where the sick people or those who were injured lay or slept. They were considered good luck and were not harmed.
Eventually the cult of Asclepius grew very popular, with pilgrims and the sick flocking to his temples to be healed of their ills. They would make offerings according to their means and would spend one or two nights in the abaton (or abyton), which was the holiest part of the the temple.
Source and Lot's More
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius
"Asclepius was the ancient Greek god of medicine and he was also credited with powers of prophecy. The god had several sanctuaries across Greece; the most famous was at Epidaurus which became an important centre of healing in both ancient Greek and Roman times and was the site of athletic, dramatic, and musical Games held in Asclepius’ honour every four years.
ASCLEPIUS IN MYTHOLOGY
In Greek mythology Asclepius (or Asklepios) was a demi-god hero as he was the son of divine Apollo, and his mother was the mortal Koronis from Thessaly.
In some accounts Koronis abandoned her child near Epidaurus in shame for his illegitimacy and left the baby to be looked after by a goat and a dog. However, in a different version of the story Koronis was killed by Apollo for being unfaithful, whilst, in yet another version, the Messenian Arsinoe was the unfortunate mother of Asclepius.The motherless Asclepius was then brought up by his father who gave him the gift of healing and the secrets of medicine using plants and herbs. Asclepius was also tutored by Cheiron, the wise centaur who lived on Mt. Pelion. Asclepius had many children - two sons: Machaon and Podaleirios, and four daughters: Iaso, Panacea, Aceso, and Aglaia.
In some traditions he was married to Hygeia, also a goddess of health; in another version she was his daughter and Asclepius married Epione.
The descendants of Asclepius, who continued in the art of medicine and healing, were known as the Asclepiads. Machaon, for example, helped Menelaos when he was wounded in the Trojan War, but the most famous doctor of the family was undoubtedly Hippocrates.
Asclepius met a tragic end when he was killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus. This was because the father of the gods saw Asclepius and his medical skills as a threat to the eternal division between humanity and the gods, especially following rumours that Asclepius’ healing powers were so formidable that he could even raise the dead (for which he used the blood of Medusa given to him by Athena).
Apollo protested against his son’s treatment but was himself punished by Zeus for impiety and made to serve Admetos, the king of Thessaly, for one year. Asclepius himself was deified following his death, and in some local myths he also became the constellation Ophiuchus. "
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"Asclepius was the ancient Greek god of healing and medicine. His father was the great god Apollo, and his mother was a mortal princess called Coronis (sometimes spelled Koronis). One version of the birth of Asclepius holds that Coronis died in childbirth, and her body was laid out on a funeral pyre to be consumed by fire.
However his father Apollo managed to rescue the child from the flames, cutting him from her womb before he perished. Thus his given name of Asclepius, which means "to cut open."
Another version of his birth claims that his mother Coronis was unfaithful to Apollo. While pregnant with Apollo's baby, she had seen and fallen in love with a man named Ischys. Apollo had ordered a raven to follow her, and upon hearing the news about her infidelity, asked his sister Artemis to find the unfaithful woman.
The enraged Apollo then proceeded to curse and transform the raven into pitch black, whereas previously it had been pure white. This was its punishment for delivering the bad news about Coronis and Ischys.
Others say that it was Apollo's own power of prophecy that revealed Coronis' betrayal. In either case, Artemis located Coronis in her house at Lacareia in Thessaly and told her brother her whereabouts.
It was said to be Apollo himself who killed Coronis and her lover Ischys, then laid her out on the funeral pyre to be burned, but that either Apollo or, in some versions, Hermes, rescued the unborn baby before it was too late.
Apollo delivered Asclepius to the respected Centaur called Chiron, who was half-man and half-horse. The centaur tutored young Asclepius in many things, but mainly in the arts of medicine and hunting.
Eventually Asclepius married a woman named Epione, and together they had six daughters and three sons, who are essentially the personification of his healing powers:
Daughters - Aceso, Aglaea, Hygeia, Iaso, Meditrina and Panacea.
Sons - Machaon, Podaleirios and Telesphoros.
Asclepius also had a son named Aratus with a different woman, whose name was Aristodama.
Asclepius was said to be one of the participants in the famous hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He was usually depicted as a bearded and kindly-looking man holding a snake-entwined staff.
How did Asclepius develop his healing powers? There are two versions:
1) Asclepius had received from the goddess Athena the blood of the slain Gorgon. The blood that had flowed from the veins on the right side of her body possessed the power of restoring the dead to life, while the blood from the left veins were used to destroy people.
2) Another tradition holds that Asclepius had been standing at the house of Glaucus, whom he had been asked to cure, when a serpent came and twined itself around his staff. He proceeded to kill this snake.
Another serpent then appeared, carrying in its mouth a medicinal herb. Asclepius used this herb to bring the original snake back to life, then used the same herb to perform the same life-restoring healing on humans.
Asclepius was said to have resurrected a man named Hippolytus, or even the aforementioned Glaucus, from the dead for a fee of gold. This angered the king of the Olympians, Zeus, who had expressly forbidden this act. He feared that men might conspire to bypass death altogether. Zeus struck down Asclepius with a thunderbolt, killing him instantly.
Another version of his death holds that Hades became angry at Asclepius because he kept bringing back people from the dead. The lord of the Underworld believed that no more dead spirits would venture to his realm, and thus asked his brother Zeus to dispose of him.
The murder of his son incensed Apollo, who retaliated by slaying the mighty Cyclopes, the giant one-eyed craftsmen that had created Zeus' thunderbolts.
Needless to say Zeus was so furious at Apollo that he banished him from Mount Olympus and ordered him to obediently serve King Admetus of Thessaly for a period of one year.
Following the year-long sentence Apollo was permitted by Zeus to return to the home of the gods, and simultaneously Zeus brought the Cyclopes back to life, because he was grateful to them for presenting him with the almighty thunderbolts.
All was well on Mount Olympus. Zeus was also alleged to have placed the body of Asclepius among the stars following his death, as the constellation called Ophiuchus, which translates to "The Serpent Holder."
Some say that to prevent further conflict with his son Apollo, Zeus later resurrected Asclepius, transformed him into a god and permitted him residence on Olympus.
The cult of Asclepius was celebrated in many places, including in Trikala, Arcadia, and even at Pergamum in Asia. However, his most famous temple was at Epidaurus, located in the region of Peloponnese.
His temple at Epidaurus was surrounded by an extensive grove, within which no one was allowed to die, and no woman permitted to give birth to a child.
An artisan named Thrasymedes had constructed a magnificent statue made of gold and ivory, located inside the sanctuary at Epidaurus. Asclepius was represented as a handsome and manly figure, much like Zeus. He was seated on his throne, holding a staff in one hand, and with the other resting on the head of a serpent/dragon. By his side lay a dog.Other representations show him holding in one hand a phial, and in the other a staff. Sometimes a boy is depicted standing by his side - He is the genius of recovery, and is called Telesphorus, Euamerion or Acesius.
His temples were strategically built in places that exuded healthiness, such as hills outside of town, or near wells which were said to have healing powers.
Very much like our modern day hospitals, these temples were not only places of worship, but were also filled by great numbers of sick people seeking cures.
There was a famous healing temple, or asclepieion, on the island of Kos, where the legendary father of medicine, Hippocrates, was rumored to have begun his medicinal career.
It goes without saying that many towns were eager to claim Asclepius as their own.
Depictions of Asclepius almost always show him holding a staff with snakes. This is often confused with the Caduceus of the god Hermes, which is differentiated by two wings at the top, and two snakes, compared with one snake for the staff of Asclepius.These non-venomous snakes, called the Aesculapian Snakes, were used in healing rituals to honor Asclepius. The snakes were let loose to slither freely around the floor where the sick people or those who were injured lay or slept. They were considered good luck and were not harmed.
Eventually the cult of Asclepius grew very popular, with pilgrims and the sick flocking to his temples to be healed of their ills. They would make offerings according to their means and would spend one or two nights in the abaton (or abyton), which was the holiest part of the the temple.
Any dreams or visions experienced at the abaton would the next morning be relayed to the temple priest, who would interpret the dream and prescribe an appropriate therapy, remedy or medicine. Sacred dogs were sometimes used at some of Asclepius' temples, to lick the wounds of the sick."
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Saturday, February 6, 2016
The Fates determine and are part of the pre-plan you made for your life, even though you continually work with Goddess to co-create your Reality Daily.
"In Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses who shaped people's lives. They determined how long a man or woman would live.
added a third goddess to complete the triad. In addition, they sometimes referred to fate or destiny as a single goddess known as Fortuna.
The Fates were three female deities who shaped people's lives. In particular, they determined how long a man or woman would live. Although a number of cultures held the notion of three goddesses who influenced human destiny, the Fates were most closely identified with Greek mythology.
The Greek image of the Fates developed over time. The poet Homer * , credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey, spoke of Fate as a single force, perhaps simply the will of the gods. Another poet, Hesiod * , portrayed the Fates as three old women. They were called the Keres, which means "those who cut off," or the Moirai, "those who allot." They may have originated as goddesses who were present at the birth of each child to determine the course of the child's future life.
The parentage of the Fates is something of a mystery. Hesiod described them as daughters of Nyx, or night, but he also said that they were the children of Zeus, the chief of the gods, and Themis, the goddess of justice.
The Fates had power over Zeus and the gods, and many ancient authors, including the Roman poet Virgil * , stressed that even the king of the gods had to accept the decisions of the Fates. Occasionally, however, fate could be manipulated. One myth says that Apollo * tricked the Fates into letting his friend Admetus live beyond his assigned lifetime. Apollo got the Fates drunk, and they agreed to accept the death of a substitute in place of Admetus.
Hesiod called the Fates Clotho ("the spinner"), Lachesis ("the allotter"), and Atropos ("the unavoidable"). In time, the name Clotho, with its reference to spinning thread, became the basis for images of the three Fates as controlling the thread of each person's life. Clotho spun the thread, Lachesis measured it out, and Átropos cut it with a pair of shears to end the life span. Literary and artistic works often portray the Fates performing these tasks.
manipulate to influence or control in a clever or underhanded way
The Romans called the Fates Parcae, "those who bring forth the child." Their names were Nona, Decuma, and Morta. Nona and Decuma were originally goddesses of childbirth, but the Romans adopted the Greek concept of the three weavers of Fate and
In Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses who shaped people
In Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses who shaped people's lives. They determined how long a man or woman would live.
added a third goddess to complete the triad. In addition, they sometimes referred to fate or destiny as a single goddess known as Fortuna.
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added a third goddess to complete the triad. In addition, they sometimes referred to fate or destiny as a single goddess known as Fortuna.
triad group of three
A triad of goddesses linked with human destiny appears in various forms in mythology In addition to the Moirai, the Greeks recognized a triad of goddesses called the Horae, who were associated with the goddess Aphrodite * . Their names were Eunomia (Order), Dike (Destiny), and Irene (Peace.)
The Norse * called their three Fates the Norns: Urth, the past; Verthandi, the present; and Skuld, the future. Sometimes the Norns were referred to as the Weird Sisters, from the Norse word wyrd, meaning "fate."
The Celts * had a triad of war goddesses, collectively known as the Morrigan, who determined the fate of soldiers in battle. The image of a triple goddess may be linked to very ancient worship of a moon goddess in three forms: a maiden (the new moon), a mature woman (the full moon), and a crone (the old moon).
The Greek image of the Fates developed over time. The poet Homer * , credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey, spoke of Fate as a single force, perhaps simply the will of the gods. Another poet, Hesiod * , portrayed the Fates as three old women. They were called the Keres, which means "those who cut off," or the Moirai, "those who allot." They may have originated as goddesses who were present at the birth of each child to determine the course of the child's future life.
The parentage of the Fates is something of a mystery. Hesiod described them as daughters of Nyx, or night, but he also said that they were the children of Zeus, the chief of the gods, and Themis, the goddess of justice.
The Fates had power over Zeus and the gods, and many ancient authors, including the Roman poet Virgil * , stressed that even the king of the gods had to accept the decisions of the Fates. Occasionally, however, fate could be manipulated. One myth says that Apollo * tricked the Fates into letting his friend Admetus live beyond his assigned lifetime. Apollo got the Fates drunk, and they agreed to accept the death of a substitute in place of Admetus.
Hesiod called the Fates Clotho ("the spinner"), Lachesis ("the allotter"), and Atropos ("the unavoidable"). In time, the name Clotho, with its reference to spinning thread, became the basis for images of the three Fates as controlling the thread of each person's life. Clotho spun the thread, Lachesis measured it out, and Átropos cut it with a pair of shears to end the life span. Literary and artistic works often portray the Fates performing these tasks.
manipulate to influence or control in a clever or underhanded way
The Romans called the Fates Parcae, "those who bring forth the child." Their names were Nona, Decuma, and Morta. Nona and Decuma were originally goddesses of childbirth, but the Romans adopted the Greek concept of the three weavers of Fate and
In Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses who shaped people
In Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses who shaped people's lives. They determined how long a man or woman would live.
added a third goddess to complete the triad. In addition, they sometimes referred to fate or destiny as a single goddess known as Fortuna.
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Divine Spinners - the Fates or Fades.
"The earliest known sources show the Old Goddess as a spinner. She is Fate, whose spinning has immense creative force in time and space. A Finnish kenning for the sun — “God's Spindle” — reflects her power. [Kalevala, 32, 20, in Grimm, 1500] The Goddess's spinning and weaving also “symbolize the creation of matter, especially of human flesh.” [Matossian, 120]
There are countless avatars of the spinning goddess: Mari of the Basques, Holle of Germany, Laima of Lithuania and Latvia, Mokosh of Russia, the old Frankish Berthe Pedauque, They include local fatas such as Tante Arie in French Switzerland, Habetrot in Britain, and the Wendish Pshi-Polnitsa.
Among the Greeks, the spinner Fates are threefold, the ancient, mighty Moirae. This triunity is repeated in innumerable folk traditions all over medieval and early modern Europe. French peasants of Saintonge said that the fades (fates) or bonnes (“good women”) roamed in the moonlight as three old women, always carrying distaffs and spindles. The fades had prophetic powers and cast lots. They were seen along the banks of the Charente river, or near certain grottos, or near megalithic monuments. [Michon, Statistique de la Charente, in Sebillot I 444]
In Berry, a white faery carrying a distaff was said to walk on certain nights at the edge of an old mardelle called Spinner's Hole. Three pale ladies spun their distaffs by the Faeries' Rock near Langres. A spinner could be heard at Villy, but was only seen at dawn or dusk. [Sebillot, Metiers, 23-4] Portuguese women made offerings to faeries whose name shows its derivation from “the dianas”:
In the Algarve the memory is not extinct of female creatures called jãs or jans, for whom it used to be customary to leave a skein of flax and a cake of bread on the hearth. In the morning the flax would be spun as fine as hair and the cake would have disappeared. [Gallop, 58]
Women in western France made similar offerings. In the Landes, women placed fine flax at the entrance of caves or the edge of fountains inhabited by the hades, who instantly turned it into thread.
It was once believed that the faeries would come to the aid of spinners who implored them; in Upper Bretagne, if buttered bread and a flax doll was placed at the entrance to one of their grottos, the next day it would be found very well spun in the same place. [Sebillot, Metiers, 23-4]
Even in the far north, in a very different cultural world, the spinning wheel was sacred to the spring goddess of the Saami. She is the spirit maiden Rana Nedie, who makes the mountains green and feeds the reindeer. When sacrifices were made to her, they rubbed the blood on a spinning wheel and leaned it against her altar. [find cite]
The spinning faeries are often encountered near water. A Welsh faery woman would emerge from Corwrion Pool to spin on beautiful summer days, singing to herself, “Sìli ffrit, sìli ffrit...” Another tale says a faery used to borrow things from a Llyn farmwoman, but wouldn't give her name. Once she borrowed a spinning wheel. The woman overheard her singing while spinning, “Little did she know/ That Sìli go Dwt/ Is my name.” [Rhys II, 584, compares Silly Frit and Sìli go Dwt with the Scottish seelie (591) as in “seelie wights,” helpful faeries.]
The border Scots revered Habetrot as the goddess of spinners. She is seen near water, usually by a “holey” stone that is a gateway to the Otherworld. Habetrot appears as a helper and initiator of girls, bringing good fortune to them. It was said that “a shirt made by her was a sovereign remedy for all sorts of diseases.” [Briggs, 216] (More on her in another installment.)
Another spinning water faery was the Loireag. Warping, weaving, and washing of webs were her sacraments, and she saw to it that women followed the traditions. Singing was one of them, and it had to be melodious. A modern source dismisses the Loireag as “a small mite of womanhood that does not belong to this world but to the world thither” and “a plaintive little thing, stubborn and cunning.” [from Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, in Briggs, 271]
Scottish faery lore is full of spinning and weaving. The Gyre-Carling, queen of the “good neighbors” (faery folk) oversaw the work of spinners in Fife. [Briggs, 325] The faeries could sometimes be heard chanting waulking songs: Ho! fir-e! fair-e, foirm! Ho! Fair-eag-an an cló! (“Well done, grand, bravo the web!”). Border Scots believed in the thrumpin, a fateful guardian with the power to take life, or Thrummy-cap, a faery wearing a hat made of wool that weavers clipped from the ends of their webs. [Evans-Wentz, 395]
The French said that faery divinities came to houses to spin on certain nights. An Alsatian ballad pictured them as three fates: “When midnight sounds / not a soul in the village awake / Then three spectres glide in the window/and sit at the three wheels / They spin, their arms moving silently / the threads hum rapidly onto the spindles...” As they finish, an owl cries from the cemetery, “What will become of the fine fabric/ and will there again be three engagement robes?” [Sebillot, M, 15]
Spring gossamer was often explained as the craft of faeries. An Italian saying—“See how much the three Marias have spun tonight”—substitutes a Christian name for the old triune goddess. [Grimm, 1533] The sacraments of spinning and weaving were transferred to certain saints: Germana of Bar-sur-Aube; Lucie of Sampigny, whose stone helped women conceive; and Genovefa of Brabant, who was said to sit behind the altar at the Frauenkirchen (“women's church”) where the buzz of her spinning wheel could be heard. [Eckenstein, 25-6]"
There are countless avatars of the spinning goddess: Mari of the Basques, Holle of Germany, Laima of Lithuania and Latvia, Mokosh of Russia, the old Frankish Berthe Pedauque, They include local fatas such as Tante Arie in French Switzerland, Habetrot in Britain, and the Wendish Pshi-Polnitsa.
Among the Greeks, the spinner Fates are threefold, the ancient, mighty Moirae. This triunity is repeated in innumerable folk traditions all over medieval and early modern Europe. French peasants of Saintonge said that the fades (fates) or bonnes (“good women”) roamed in the moonlight as three old women, always carrying distaffs and spindles. The fades had prophetic powers and cast lots. They were seen along the banks of the Charente river, or near certain grottos, or near megalithic monuments. [Michon, Statistique de la Charente, in Sebillot I 444]
In Berry, a white faery carrying a distaff was said to walk on certain nights at the edge of an old mardelle called Spinner's Hole. Three pale ladies spun their distaffs by the Faeries' Rock near Langres. A spinner could be heard at Villy, but was only seen at dawn or dusk. [Sebillot, Metiers, 23-4] Portuguese women made offerings to faeries whose name shows its derivation from “the dianas”:
In the Algarve the memory is not extinct of female creatures called jãs or jans, for whom it used to be customary to leave a skein of flax and a cake of bread on the hearth. In the morning the flax would be spun as fine as hair and the cake would have disappeared. [Gallop, 58]
Women in western France made similar offerings. In the Landes, women placed fine flax at the entrance of caves or the edge of fountains inhabited by the hades, who instantly turned it into thread.
It was once believed that the faeries would come to the aid of spinners who implored them; in Upper Bretagne, if buttered bread and a flax doll was placed at the entrance to one of their grottos, the next day it would be found very well spun in the same place. [Sebillot, Metiers, 23-4]
Even in the far north, in a very different cultural world, the spinning wheel was sacred to the spring goddess of the Saami. She is the spirit maiden Rana Nedie, who makes the mountains green and feeds the reindeer. When sacrifices were made to her, they rubbed the blood on a spinning wheel and leaned it against her altar. [find cite]
The spinning faeries are often encountered near water. A Welsh faery woman would emerge from Corwrion Pool to spin on beautiful summer days, singing to herself, “Sìli ffrit, sìli ffrit...” Another tale says a faery used to borrow things from a Llyn farmwoman, but wouldn't give her name. Once she borrowed a spinning wheel. The woman overheard her singing while spinning, “Little did she know/ That Sìli go Dwt/ Is my name.” [Rhys II, 584, compares Silly Frit and Sìli go Dwt with the Scottish seelie (591) as in “seelie wights,” helpful faeries.]
The border Scots revered Habetrot as the goddess of spinners. She is seen near water, usually by a “holey” stone that is a gateway to the Otherworld. Habetrot appears as a helper and initiator of girls, bringing good fortune to them. It was said that “a shirt made by her was a sovereign remedy for all sorts of diseases.” [Briggs, 216] (More on her in another installment.)
Another spinning water faery was the Loireag. Warping, weaving, and washing of webs were her sacraments, and she saw to it that women followed the traditions. Singing was one of them, and it had to be melodious. A modern source dismisses the Loireag as “a small mite of womanhood that does not belong to this world but to the world thither” and “a plaintive little thing, stubborn and cunning.” [from Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, in Briggs, 271]
Scottish faery lore is full of spinning and weaving. The Gyre-Carling, queen of the “good neighbors” (faery folk) oversaw the work of spinners in Fife. [Briggs, 325] The faeries could sometimes be heard chanting waulking songs: Ho! fir-e! fair-e, foirm! Ho! Fair-eag-an an cló! (“Well done, grand, bravo the web!”). Border Scots believed in the thrumpin, a fateful guardian with the power to take life, or Thrummy-cap, a faery wearing a hat made of wool that weavers clipped from the ends of their webs. [Evans-Wentz, 395]
The French said that faery divinities came to houses to spin on certain nights. An Alsatian ballad pictured them as three fates: “When midnight sounds / not a soul in the village awake / Then three spectres glide in the window/and sit at the three wheels / They spin, their arms moving silently / the threads hum rapidly onto the spindles...” As they finish, an owl cries from the cemetery, “What will become of the fine fabric/ and will there again be three engagement robes?” [Sebillot, M, 15]
Spring gossamer was often explained as the craft of faeries. An Italian saying—“See how much the three Marias have spun tonight”—substitutes a Christian name for the old triune goddess. [Grimm, 1533] The sacraments of spinning and weaving were transferred to certain saints: Germana of Bar-sur-Aube; Lucie of Sampigny, whose stone helped women conceive; and Genovefa of Brabant, who was said to sit behind the altar at the Frauenkirchen (“women's church”) where the buzz of her spinning wheel could be heard. [Eckenstein, 25-6]"
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the Old Goddess - Goddess Worship predates God Worship ... Sacred Goddess
"Excerpt from the SECRET HISTORY OF THE WITCHES .... Max Dashu
The Old Goddess of the pagans lived on in popular speech, in rituals of hearth and earth, in festival custom with its cargo of symbol and myth. She was still seen as the source of life power and wisdom. People prayed to her for well-being, abundance, protection, and healing.
They invoked her in birth, and the dead returned to her (especially the unbaptized) and moved in her retinue. They said that the Old Goddess rode the winds, causing rain and snow and hail on earth, and that she revealed omens of weather and deaths and other momentous things to come.
Across Europe, Friday was observed as her holy day, beginning with its eve on Thursday night. The dark of the year was sacred to Old Goddess. On winter solstice nights, she was said to fly over the land with her spirit hosts. Tradition averred that shamanic witches rode in her wake on the great pagan festivals, along with the ancestral dead.
Reverence was made to Old Goddess in planting and harvesting, baking, spinning and weaving. The fateful Spinner was worshipped as Holle or Perchta by the Germans, as Mari by the Basques, and as Laima by the Lithuanians and Latvians.
She appears as Befana in Italy and as myriad faery goddesses in France, Spain, and the Gaeltacht. In Serbia she is Srecha; in Russia she is Mokosh or Kostroma or the apocryphal saint Paraska.
I call her the Old Goddess because she was commonly pictured as an aged woman, and her veneration was ancient.
While the goddesses of the various ethnic cultures have their unique qualities, they share certain traits, some international deep root of commonality.
Old Goddess is like the weathered Earth, ancestor of all, an immanent presence in forests, grottos and fountains.
In her infinitude she manifests in countless forms, as females of various ages and shapeshifting to tree, serpent, frog, bird, deer, mare and other creatures. In the middle ages and even under the downpour of diabolism during the Burning Terror, she remained beloved by the common people.
THE OLD GODDESS / FRIDAY GODDESS OF THE WITCHES
Andra Mari ... (Euskadi / Basques)
Laima ... (Lithuania, Latvia)
Nicniven, Gyre Carline ...(Scotland)
Hulda ... (Denmark)
Holle, Holda, Fraw Holt ... (north Germany)
Perchta, Perhta Baba, Zlata Baba ... (south Germany, Austria)
Fraw Saelde, Zälti ... (Austria)
Luca, Szepasszony... (Hungary)
Saint Friday ... (Estonia)
Mokosh / Paraskeva ... (Russia)
Dame Habonde, Abundia ... (France)
Befana (Epiphania) ... (Sicily)
Signora Oriente, Diana, Signora del gioco, Sapiente Sibillia ... (Italy)"
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http://www.suppressedhistories.net/secrethistory/oldgoddess.html
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