elliotaldrson-archive-deactivat:
"(...)And there does Odin | each day choose
The men who have fallen in fight."– The Poetic Edda
Month: June 2013
MOLOCH
[noun]
1. a system or method that requires frightful sacrifice.
2. something possessing the power to exact severe sacrifice.
3. in the Bible, the god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom children were sacrificed.
4. a lizard (Moloch horridus) of the deserts and plains of central and southern Australia, having a head and back covered with large spiny scales.
Etymology: Late Latin < Greek Móloch < Hebrew Mōlekh, alternative of melekh – king.
James L. Wilber
Author of Matchmaker, My Babylon – Book Two, My Babylon – Book One, Of Little Faith, My Babylon – Book Five, My Babylon – Book Four, My Babylon – Book Three, Buffy, and Goblin Markets
Goodreads is a social network for people who love to read. It helps you keep track of what you’ve read, find new books to read, and connect you with other readers.
Check out my profile. The great thing about Goodreads is, you can rate a book without writing a review. I wouldn’t mind if you rated all my books. (A review would help too). More than one website, including Kobo, gets all their reviews from Goodreads. It would help me out tremendously.
In the last Scroll of Thoth podcast, I mentioned a short story that I wrote about Odin returning to Earth. I think it will be of interest to those who wonder if the gods have changed along with our culture. To give you a sample of my fiction, I’m offering it as a free download to everyone on Kobo, and through the Scroll of Thoth mailing list.
The old gods are returning, or have they always been here?
Odin wakes to the call of a dying warrior, crying out to be taken to Valhalla. Roused from his centuries of slumber, he wanders the Earth until he finds gods old and new. Do they have the answers he seeks? How does an ancient god of war find his place in the modern world?
A musing on the nature of religion and spirituality. We may no longer need a patriarch, but do we need to rediscover our divinities?
This isn’t pagan.
Not sure why it’s in the pagan tag.
This is at least a step up from it being in the witchcraft and wicca tags however.
I disagree. It talks of the planets which were manifestations of the gods to the Romans. It also speaks of goetic entities, most of which were demonized pagan gods.
and
Please accept with the humor in which it is intended.
Lilith is a demoness in Jewish mythology, probably inspired by the “Lilitu”, a sect of female demons from ancient Assyrian and Babylonian texts. “Lilitu” or “Lilu” actually translates as “mean spirits".
There are a variety of myths surrounding Lilith, but the most common is that she was the first wife of Adam, the first man created by God. The tale goes that she either refuses to be subordinate to the dominant male, and/or that she ventured out of the Garden of Eden, and mated with the archangel Samael. Lilith decided to permanently leave the Garden, and in stead ventured out into the world, becoming a lover of demons, and bearing a hundred children a day. Some lore states that as punishment for her defiance, God took away her demon-children, which set Lilith on a course to torment pregnant women (what in a fit of jealousy? perhaps).
There are a couple variations in Lilith’s story depending on what your source text is (Dead Sea Scrolls, Gemara of the Talmud, Alphabet of Ben-Sira, Zohar, etc.), but the “song remains the same", essentially.
Want to learn more? Try this: http://www.lilitu.com/lilith/ OR http://tinyurl.com/ldapvn5
