Holy Trinity, Four Elements, Days and Correspondences – sacred points and divisions of the Circle.
Month: December 2013
Ave Babalon
A poem I had started writing for Ginandjack’s Agon, but couldn’t manage to finish until after the deadline.
I’m loading it anyways because even though the video is crud, I like the poem.
Praise Dionysus!
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“Each whisper
Every word that I swallow is like a seed from a dark and bitter fruit.
Each one takes root
in my heart
but these truths I eat don’t sprout beautiful flowers
The grow hooks
each pulling my muscles in different directions.
He comes to me
His fingers slip between my ribs
His fingers rip beneath my ribs
And He digs into this little scatter heart
this little flowerpot of hooks
this graveyard of honesty and unsaid truths.
Like I’ve been running
each muscle catches on bones and I scream out as He dives in.
Ecstasy
The god within.
There is no room for these things I’ve choked down in fear if He is in me
There is no space for these ideas, these arguments, these truths and screams and shouts
if He is in me.
And He is.
And so I have no spaces left inside where I can horde these words and whispers.
No corners where dark shadows devour my rebel yell and hide it so perfectly that even I have lost my voice.
He takes up all the room once given to shame, and withering flowers.
Now I am a garden of rageful snapdragons.
Of honest bleeding hearts.
He lives inside my chest and limbs and head and spine
He lives in my teeth and my tongue
I no longer swallow words.
My mouth is full.
With wine.
Or blood.
Or truth.
He slips beneath my skin and bones and tears me up.
Then, with heartstrings He sews me up
and I know I needn’t worry about hearts, or ribs, or fingers.
I needn’t worry about bruised hearts, or broken ribs, or pointing fingers.
I no longer suck on the seeds of dark and bitter fruit.
I force them down the throats of others.
And He is in me while I do it.”
– Anthos, A Changing Altar
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
GODDESSES OF MYTH: Andraste
Origin: Celtic
Andraste is the Celtic goddess of war. She is the mother of victory in combat and was invoked before battles to predict the outcome, and alter it to the invoker’s favor. Andraste was famously invoked by Boudicca and the Iceni people against the Roman forces. She is known as the “Invincible One” and her named means “She Who Has Not Fallen”. She is also a goddess of the lunar cycle and female fertility. Her sacred animals are hares and ravens.
Akhentaen, Nefertiti and their daughters worshiping the sun god Aten, Amarna Period, 18th dynasty
Ave Babalon
“In the Egyptian drawings of him, Thoth carries a waxen writing tablet and serves as the recorder during the weighing of the souls of the dead in the judgment Hall of Osiris—a ritual of great significance. Hermes is of first importance to Masonic scholars, because he was the author of the Masonic initiatory rituals, which were borrowed from the Mysteries established by Hermes. Nearly all of the Masonic symbols are Hermetic in character. Pythagoras studied mathematics with the Egyptians and from them gained his knowledge of the symbolic geometric solids. Hermes is also revered for his reformation of the calendar system. He increased the year from 360 to 365 days, thus establishing a precedent which still prevails. The appellation "Thrice Greatest” was given to Hermes because he was considered the greatest of all philosophers, the greatest of all priests, and the greatest of all kings. It is worthy of note that the last poem of America’s beloved poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was a lyric ode to Hermes.“ – Manly P Hall ‘The Secret Teachings Of All Ages’ [x]