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How to Make a Zombie
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Bokors in the religion of Vodou are sorcerers
or houngan (priests) or mambo (priestesses)
for hire who are said to ‘serve the loa with both hands’,
meaning they practice both dark and light magic.
Their black magic includes the creation of zombie
and the creation of ‘oungas’, talismans that house spirits.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokor
According to local lore,
a bokor captures a victim's ti bon ange,
or the part of the soul directly connected to an individual,
to create a zombie.
But during his research, Davis discovered that
the bokor used complex powders,
made from dried and ground plants and animals,
in their rituals
- https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/zombie1.htm
zombies,
they make them out of the living,
you know.
A little powder,
a little chanting
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
- William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Distillation is a key process on all levels of alchemy.
It involves releasing volatile essences from their prison in matter
and condensing them in purified form. In practical terms,
this involves heating a substance until it boils,
and then condensing the vapors into a purified liquid.
- azothalchemy.org/azoth_ritual.htm
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is
- William Shakespeare
Macbeth
a whole new story,
one so fantastic that people just have to see for themselves.
- https://lettersandliquor.com/31-THE-ZOMBIE-1934
How do you get people to drink
- https://lettersandliquor.com/31-THE-ZOMBIE-1934
to see for themselves.
- https://lettersandliquor.com/31-THE-ZOMBIE-1934
challenge them to finish a drink so strong
it turns lesser mortals into Zombies.
- https://lettersandliquor.com/31-THE-ZOMBIE-1934
The lighting of the drink is pure showmanship.
Humans are drawn to flames —
fire is exciting and can really start the party.
Done the right way,
a flaming drink can also be very romantic.
- www.askmen.com/fine_living/wine_dine_archive_300/303_how-and-why-to-set-drinks-on-fire.html
Put the lime in the coconut,
you drink 'em bot' up
- Harry Nilson
Coconut
(Now you’re under control.)
- Rage Against The Machine
Killing In the Name
enter the circle which Prospero had made,
and there stand charmed
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Above the circle is the word Occultum,
meaning secret or hidden,
since the essences at
the beginning of this stage are invisible.
- azothalchemy.org/azoth_ritual.htm
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The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor studied Louis’ face for signs of what was happening beneath the surface. Heronimus knew he had his speech synchronized properly with the Voices. Everything had been prepared in accordance with The Book. But have we pushed too far, too quickly? "God-making", as Jung the Elder referred to it, was delicate and dangerous work. The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor wasn’t certain Louis was ready, but the cogwheels had already been set in motion. It was time to light the fuse. It was time to pull the trigger. It was, at last, now or never.
It is time to begin.
“Verily, I couldst continue mi meanderin’ ramblin’ ad nauseum, but I doth fear I wouldst merely obfuscate this matter further for thee. There already be rumours amongst our bred'ren that I doth practise Black Magic or Necromancy.”
The Voices in Louis' head began to babble, again. Louis hardly heard Heronimus' final rhetorical question as it bled into the screaming stream.
"Hath thou not heard I doth be turnin' mi crew into undead? Praytell, Louis, how doth thou suggest I wouldst be beginnin’ ye process? Perhaps by administerin’ an alchemical potation, & then invokin’ ancient deities through formulaic incantations? Verily, doth that not sound most preposterous? Be honest with me, Louis. Doth thou believeth I be turnin’ thee into a zombie?”
The Reverend Doctor's final, almost unheard, word echoed, rippling, and then merging into the burning aetherial ocean of word-sounds in which the Voices immersed Louis to the point of drowning. Louis believed he was dying; so why was he beginning to suspect this would never end?
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The snake had charmed me.
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
zombie (n.)
1871, of West African origin
(cf. Kikongo zumbi "fetish;" kimbundu nzambi "god"),
originally the name of a snake god,
later with meaning "reanimated corpse" in voodoo cult.
But perhaps also from Louisiana Creole word meaning "phantom, ghost,"
from Spanish sombra "shade, ghost."
Sense "slow-witted person" is recorded from 1936
- www.etymonline.com/?search=zombie
Nzambi
Creator god. Bakongo [Zaire, central Africa].
He created the first mortal pair or, in alternative tradition,
an androgynous being in the guise of a palm tree
called Muntu Walunga (the complete person).
He also endowed this being with intelligence.
In wooden sculptures the tree bears a woman’s head and breast on one side
and a bearded face on the other.
Eventually the tree divided into two separate sexes.
Also Nyambi; Nzambe; Yambe; Zambi.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Nyame
Creator god. Akan
[Southern Ghana, West Africa].
An androgynous being
symbolized in his male aspect by the sun,
and his female aspect by the moon.
He gave mankind its soul and is the controller of destiny.
He enjoys a dedicated priesthood
and is worshipped in the form of a treetrunk.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Outside the need to create intellectual controversy,
it is perhaps foolhardy for anyone
with a broad knowledge of various world religions
to deny the obvious correspondence of identity
between the African Oludumare/Nyame,
on the one hand,
and the Christian God (Yahweh),
as well as Allah
– God in the Islamic faith –
on the other.
- Nelson Olabanji Fashina
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
Then said Gangleri: “exceeding many names have ye given him;
and, by my faith, it must indeed be a godly wit that knows all the lore
and the examples of what chances have brought about each of these names.”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin
name (n.)
Old English nama, noma "name, reputation,"
from Proto-Germanic *namon
(cf. Old Saxon namo, Old Frisian nama, Old High German namo,
German Name, Middle Dutch name, Dutch naam,
Old Norse nafn, Gothic namo "name"), from PIE *nomn-
(cf. Sanskrit nama; Avestan nama; Greek onoma, onyma;
Latin nomen; Old Church Slavonic ime, genitive imene;
Russian imya; Old Irish ainm; Old Welsh anu "name").
- www.etymonline.com/?search=name
The word nam in Sikhism has two meanings.
“It means both an application and a symbol
of the All-pervading Supreme Reality
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satnam
Ataa Naa Nyongmo is a supreme being,
an eternal, infinite, nocturnal being associated with the sky,
the source of life. He created the universe and its creatures,
and controls cosmic processes and thereby the lives of mortal creatures.
He is nurturing, controlling the falling of the rain and the shining of the sun,
determining the growth of plants
on which animals and human beings depend for subsistence.
Human beings depend on him not only for existence
but for the means of perpetuating life.
If humans anger the supreme being
by failing to perform certain rites or by violating divine injunctions,
Ataa Naa Nyongmo may punish them
by withholding the means of perpetuating life
or by causing such calamitous events as epidemics or earthquakes.
- www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095431657
The Nommo are ancestral spirits
(sometimes referred to as deities)
worshipped by the Dogon people of Mali.
The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word
meaning "to make one drink."
The Nommos are usually described
as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures.
Folk art depictions of the Nommos
show creatures with humanoid upper torsos, legs/feet,
and a fish-like lower torso and tail.
The Nommos are also referred to as “Masters of the Water”,
“the Monitors”, and "the Teachers”.
Nommo can be a proper name of an individual,
or can refer to the group of spirits as a whole.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nommo
Atea
Supreme god. Polynesian.
The father of the gods depicted as a hybrid,
his body divided vertically,
the left half being fishy and the right half of human form.
In the tradition of the Hervey Islands,
he is the firstborn son of the primordial mother
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
He is largely comparable to Tane, the god of light.
Also Avatea, Vatea, Wakea.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Tane(mahuta)
God of light. Polynesian (including Maori)
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Kane
God of light. Polynesian [Hawaii].
A sky god
comparable with the more widely known Polynesian deity Atea.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Similarities between two related languages must be systematic
and too great to be explained by chance.
This is often represented by a set
of regular sound correspondences in the vocabulary.
For instance, it is not enough to show that the word for “eye”
sounds very similar in the two languages,
e.g., mata and maka,
only differing in one consonant sound,
[t] as opposed to [k].
This could be a mere coincidence.
Rather, we must show that this t-k correspondence is
recurrent. That is, there are a number of examples o
f [t] in Language A corresponding to [k] in language B.
If that is the case, we have reason to believe
that somewhere in its history,
[t] was replaced by [k] in Language B
(or alternatively, [k] was replaced by [t] in Language A).
- www2.hawaii.edu/~yotsuka/course/PN_history.pdf
Consider the following two sentences:
(1) Hesperus is Hesperus
(2) Hesperus is Phosphorus
We can begin by noting that each of these sentences is true,
and that ‘Hesperus’ refers to the same object
as ‘Phosphorus’ (the planet Venus).
Nonetheless, (1) and (2) seem to differ
in what Frege called cognitive value.
One way of analyzing this notion is to say that
a person could rationally believe (1) while denying (2).
The problem, however, is that
proper names are often taken to have no meaning beyond their reference
(a view often associated with John Stuart Mill).
But this seems to imply that
if a person knows the meanings of the words in (1) and (2),
he cannot rationally believe one and deny the other:
(1) and (2) are synonymous.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%27s_Puzzle
Aten(the sun disc)
Origin: Egyptian. Creator sun god.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Utu is the god of the sun,
justice, application of law, and the lord of truth.
He is usually depicted as wearing a horned helmet
and carrying a saw-edged weapon not unlike a pruning saw.
It is thought that every day, Utu emerges
from a mountain in the east, symbolizing dawn, and
travels via chariot or boat across the Earth,
returning to a hole in a mountain in the west, symbolizing sunset.
Every night, Utu descends into the underworld
to decide the fate of the dead.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utu
And the shadow ship started to emerge
- A.E. Von Vogt
Earth Factor X
here they come
Out of the shadows
- Big Data
Dangerous
And he heard their voices calling his name,
and shouting from field to field
telling one another of the coming of his ship.
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
Aken
Chthonic underworld god. Egyptian.
The keeper of the underworld ferry boat.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon
(/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/; Greek Χάρων) is
the ferryman of Hades
who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers
Styx and Acheron
that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon
The ancient historian Diodorus Siculus thought
that the ferryman and his name
had been imported from Egypt.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon
Aker
Chthonic earth god of passage. Egyptian.
Known from the Old Kingdom (circa 2700 BC onward).
Controls the interface between
the eastern and western horizons of the underworld.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Aker provides a safe course for the craft of the sun god
during its passage through the underworld at night.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
In the Coffin Texts Aker is referred to in the plural as a class of Gods,
‘the Akeru’, earth Gods who threaten to seize the soul,
but in the singular as the God whose name is given to the hull
or the mast socket of the ferryboat which is needed to cross the Field of Rushes
(spell 404, see also Book of the Dead spell 99).
The Akeru are referred to in spell 474 as ‘fishermen’
who preceded Geb, the well-known earth God,
and who threaten to net the soul
(see, similarly, Book of the Dead spell 153).
- https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/aker/
Atl
Creator god. Aztec
(Classical Mesoamerican.[Mexico].
The sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages
each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years,
each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years.
Assigned to water and presided over by Chalchiuhtlicue.
According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction
caused by a deluge
during which all the human population were turned into fish.
Illustrated by the "Stone of the Four Suns"
[Yale, Peabody Museum].
Also 4(Atl), Atonatiuh
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Atonatiuh
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
a-ta-no-dju-wa-ja
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena
In the still undeciphered corpus of Linear A tablets
—written in the unclassified Minoan language—
a sign series a-ta-no-dju-wa-ja is to be found.
This could be connected with the Linear B Mycenaean expressions
a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja and di-u-ja or di-wi-ja
(Diwia, "of Zeus" or, possibly, related to a homonymous goddess),
resulting in a translation "Athena of Zeus" or "divine Athena".
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena
Atunis
God. Etruscan.
Known from circa 350 BC onward in local inscriptions.
See Adonis.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
[Heb. Adonai, my lord < Phoenician Adona, lord.]
- American Heritage Dictionary
Plato believed that Athena's name was derived
from Greek Ἀθεονόα, Atheonóa—
which the later Greeks rationalised
as from the deity's (θεός, theós) mind (νοῦς, noũs).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena
The Old Norse noun odr may be the origin of the theonym
Odinn (Anglicized as Odin),
and it means “mind”, “soul” or “spirit”
(so used in stanza 18.1 of the Poetic Edda poem Voluspa).
In addition, odr can also mean “song”, “poetry” and “inspiration,
and it has connotations of “possession”.
It is derived from a Proto-Germanic *wod- or *wop-
and it is related to Gothic wods (“fury”, “rabies”)
and woo (“song”, “cry”, “voice”, “poetry”,eloquence”).
Old Norse derivations include oedi “strong, excitation, possession”.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odr
The name could be spelled Wodan, Wotan, Wuotan, or Woatan,
depending on regional dialect.
After Christianization, the name persisted in folklore
and formed various derivations,
such as Old High German Wuotunc, Wodunc, medieval Wuetung.
In modern (19th century) folklore
invocations of the God could still be found.
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wotan
The similarity between the names Votan and Wotan
has also been the source of much confusion.
Chapter IV of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882)
by Ignatius L. Donnelly,
titled “The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan”,
repeats Clavigero’s reference
in the context of speculation about Atlantis
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Votan
god (n.)
Old English god “supreme being, deity; the Christian God;
image of a god; godlike person,”
from Proto-Germanic *guthan
(cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god,
Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ),
from PIE *ghut- “that which is invoked”
(cognates: Old Church Slavonic zovo “to call,”
Sanskrit huta- “invoked,” an epithet of Indra),
from root *gheu(e)- “to call, invoke.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=god
Ultimately these Germanic words are derived
from the Proto-Indo-European word *wat-,
which meant “to blow (on), to fan (flames)”,
fig.“to inspire”.
The same root also appears in Latin vates (“seer”, “singer”),
which is considered to be a Celtic loanword, compare to Irish faith
(“poet”, but originally “excited”, “inspired”).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odr
ode (n.)
1580s, from Middle French ode (c.1500), from Late Latin ode “lyric song,”
from Greek oide, Attic contraction of aoide “song, ode;”
related to aeidein (Attic aidein) “to sing;”
aoidos (Attic oidos) “a singer, singing;” aude “voice, tone, sound,”
probably from PIE *e-weid-, perhaps from root *wed- “to speak.”
In classical use, “a poem to be sung,”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ode
The Hebrew name for Judah, Yehudah (יהודה),
literally "thanksgiving" or "praise,"
is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה),
"to thank" or "to praise."
His birth is recorded at Gen.29:35;
upon his birth, Leah exclaims,
"This time I will praise the LORD,"
with the Hebrew word for "I will praise,"
odeh (אודה) sharing the same root as Yehudah.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_(biblical_person)
wed (v.)
Old English weddian “to pledge oneself,
covenant to do something,
vow; betroth, marry,”
also “unite (two other people) in a marriage,
conduct the marriage ceremony,”
from Proto-Germanic *wadi-
(cognates: Old Norse vedja, Danish vedde “to bet, wager,”
Old Frisian weddia “to promise,” Gothic ga-wadjon “to betroth”),
from PIE root *wadh-
- www.etymonline.com/?search=wed
with (prep.)
Old English wid “against, opposite, from, toward, by near,”
a shortened form related to wider,
from Proto-Germanic *withro- “against”
(cognates: Old Saxon withar “against,”
Old Norse vidr “against, with, toward, at,”
Middle Dutch, Dutch weder, Dutch weer “again,”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=with
voodoo (n.)
religious witchcraft of Haiti and Southern U.S.,
ultimately of African origin, 1850,
from Louisiana French voudou, from a West African language
(such as Ewe and Fon vodu “spirit, demon, deity,” also Vandoo,
supposedly the name of an African deity,
from a language of Dahomey).
Compare vodun “fetish connected with snake worship
- www.etymonline.com/?search=voodoo
Edda (n.)
1771, by some identified with the name of the Old woman
(literally “grandmother” in the Old Norse poem “Rigspbul,”
by others derived from Old Norse odr “spirit, mind, passion, poetry”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Edda
Veda (n.)
Ancient sacred Hindu book, 1734, from Sanskrit veda,
literally “knowledge, understanding,”
especially “sacred knowledge,” from root vid- “to know,”
from PIE root *weid- “to see”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Veda
wood (n.)
Old English wudu, earlier widu “tree, trees collectively,
forest, grove; the substance of which trees are made,”
from Proto-Germanic *widu- (cognates: Old Norse vidr,
Danish and Swedish ved “tree, wood,” Old High German witu “wood”),
from PIE *widhu- “tree, wood” (cognates: Welsh gwydd “trees,”
Gaelic fiodh- “wood, timber,” Old Irish fid “tree, wood”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=wood
1560s, from French druide, from Latin druidae (plural),
from Gaulish Druides, from Celtic compound *dru-wid- "strong seer,"
from Old Celtic *derwos "true"
(from PIE root *deru- "tree," especially oak)
+ *wid- "to know" (from PIE root *weid- "to see").
Hence, literally, perhaps, "they who know the oak"
- www.etymonline.com/word/druid
1550s, from Latin dryas,
from Greek dryas (plural dryades) "wood nymph,"
from drus (genitive dryos) "oak,"
from PIE root *deru- "be firm, solid, steadfast,"
with specialized senses "wood, tree."
The English form comes via Latin,
not immediately from Celtic.
- www.etymonline.com/word/dryad
others derived from Old Norse odr
“spirit, mind, passion, poetry”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Edda
The Old Irish form was drui
(dative and accusative druid; plural druad);
Modern Irish and Gaelic draoi, genitive druadh "magician, sorcerer."
Not to be confused with United Ancient Order of Druids,
secret benefit society founded in London 1781.
- www.etymonline.com/word/druid
If I’m a pagan of the good times
My lover’s the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
- Hozier
Take Me to Church
William Dever's book Did God Have a Wife?
adduces further archaeological evidence—
for instance, the many female figurines unearthed in ancient Israel,
(known as Pillar-Base Figurines)—
as supporting the view that in Israelite folk religion of the monarchal period,
Asherah functioned as a goddess and consort of Yahweh
and was worshiped as the Queen of Heaven,
for whose festival the Hebrews baked small cakes.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
The children gather wood,
and the fathers kindle the fire,
and the women knead their dough,
to make cakes to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings
- Jeremiah 7:18
King James Bible
Od in Turkish means ‘fire’,
odun means ‘firewood’.
Odin the Ygg was the ‘good young firewood’.
- Carl J. Becker
A Modern Theory of Language
Atar (Avestan atar) is the Zoroastrian concept of holy fire,
sometimes described as “burning and unburning fire”
or visible and invisible fire” (Mirza, 1987:389).
In the Avestan language, atar is an attribute of sources of heat and light,
of which the nominative singular form is atars,
source of Persian atas (fire).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atar
Aodh, or Aed, is an Irish and Scottish word
of Indo-European origin,
equivalent to fire in English.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aodh_(given_name)
Aed, or Aodh, is the prince of the Daoine Sidhe
and a god of the underworld in Irish mythology.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aed_(god)
Atri probably denotes the devourer, from ad, ‘eat’,
and indeed once occurs in an epithet of Agni,
whence Bergaigne has suggested that
Atri is really in origin Agni himself.
- Arthur Berriedale Keith
The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads
Ag·ni (ŭg'nē) n. Hinduism.
The Vedic god of fire and guardian of man.
[Skt. agnih, fire.]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
said to have had his sight restored by the Açvins,
and this, taken in conjunction with
his connexion with the fire worship,
has suggested the theory of Bergaigne
that he is really the sun during the night,
or more generally the hidden Agni
- Arthur Berriedale Keith
The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads
Acintya, also Atintya
(Sanskrit: “the unthinkable”, “the inconceivable”,
“he who cannot be imagined”),
also Tunggal (Balinese: “Unity”)
is the supreme god of Indonesian Hinduism
(formally known as Agama Hindu Dharma),
especially on the island of Bali.
He is the equivalent to the concept of Brahman,
and is the Supreme God
in traditional wayang (shadow puppet) theatre.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acintya
Acintya corresponds to a rather recent trend
towards monism in Bali,
according to which there is one supreme god,
and that the other gods are only manifestations of him.
Acinthya is emptiness,
and considered as the origin of the Universe,
all other divinities emanating from him.
He is often associated to the sun god,
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acintya
Sumerian utu ‘sun’.
This combined with a free-word association with Utnapishtim,
the legendary Babylonian survivor of the World Flood,
evokes a Sumerian name
Utu-zi ‘Life-breath of the sun” being readapted to
Ut-napishtim (napishtim = ‘life,breath’)
but still written in script using the Sumerograms UD-ZI.
- Glen Gordon
www.paleoglot.blogspot.com/2009/11/odysseus-uthuze-and-utnapishtim.html
We know that Utnapishtim and Atrahasis are one and the same.
Atrahasis’ name was simply changed to Utnapishtim
after he was granted immortality.
This explains why the name Atrahasis occurs in the Gilgamesh flood story
even though the character is introduced as Utnapishtim.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziusudra
Atrahasis
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziusudra
Kothar-wa-Khasis.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
A contemporary hypothesis on Khidr's prototype
compares him with the Ugaritic god Kothar-wa-Khasis.
First of all, both figures possess wisdom and secret knowledge.
According to the Quran, "Khidr" (although not named directly)
has a special wisdom and esoteric knowledge
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
Kothar is a craftsman god
and almost all blacksmiths and craftsmen
are wise, clever and skillful figures in the mythology.
Because people believed that
they have some secret powers and wisdom
to work metals;
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
Blacksmiths and craftsmen played
a central role in ancient society.
They made many tools that people needed,
from agricultural tools like the reaping-hook (the sickle or scythe)
to weapons like arrows, spears, axes and swords.
They made musical instruments, too.
Therefore, the metalworkers or craftsmen were considered the lords
of many social inventions like agriculture, music, writing, fire, etc.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
Kothar was also inventor of magical incantations;
in addition, he was believed to have been the first poet.
He is a soothsayer and magician, creating sacred words and spells,
in part because there is an association in many
cultures of metalworking deities with magic.
Sanchuniathon says that Chusor invented the art
of composing chants and incantations.
In Ugaritic texts kotharat means singer women.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
Kothar and Khidr are known as "sailor" figures
who are symbolically associated with sea, lake and rivers.
Chusor is an inventor of the boat and he saves sailors.
It believed that he was the first voyager on a boat.
Khidr helps people when they need help and
the most of these dangerous conditions are about seas, lakes and rivers, etc.
For example, he sometimes helps children
when they are drowning in the water
or he helps boatmen during stormy weather.
The Alevi Kurds of Dersim saw him as a savior
and describe him as a "sovereign of the seas".
He is a patron "saint" of the rivers in India.
This characteristic feature of Khidr is not only from new syncretisms,
it is basically connected with Kothar's characteristic features.
Because Chusor (Kothar) was inventor of the boat
and sailors believe that he protects them when they voyage.
One of his epithets was bn ym (son of the sea).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
Athirat is almost always given her full title
rbt ‘atrt ym, rabat “Atirat yammi,
‘Lady Athirat of the Sea’
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
Atrahasis boards the boat with his family and animals
and seals the door.
The storm and flood begin.
Even the gods are afraid.
After seven days the flood ends
and Atrahasis offers sacrifices to the gods.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis
“He offered a sacrifice” – Atrahasis III, v, 31
“And offered a sacrifice” – Gilgamesh XI, 155
“offered burnt offerings on the altar” – Genesis 8:20
Built an altar and sacrificed to the gods” – Berossus.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziusudra
He was warned of the flood
by the Matsya (fish) avatar of Vishnu,
and built a boat that carried the Vedas,
Manu’s family and the seven sages to safety
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)
who are the seven Hotrs
with whom Manu made his first offering.
- Arthur Berriedale Keith
The Religion and Philsophy of the Veda and Upanishads
“seven Hathors” who predict the fate of a child at birth
and these deities were often called upon in spells.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
The cult of Hathor predates the historic period,
and the roots of devotion to her
are therefore difficult to trace,
though it may be a development of predynastic cults
which venerated fertility, and nature in general,
represented by cows.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor
If Asherah is to be associated with Hathor/Qudshu,
it can then be assumed that
it is the cow that is being referred to as Asherah.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
A couple of divine Hotrs,
who are mentioned about twelve times in the Rigveda,
seemed to be based on some pair of sacrificers in the ritual.
Of individual seers Atri is the most famous,
mainly through the myth of his being saved
by Agni and by the Açvins,
who took him from a burning chasm, and refreshed him:
once too they are said to have made him young again.
The other legend attaching to him, or to the Atris, is
the finding of the sun,
when it was hidden by the demon Svarbhanu,
and placing it again in the sky.
This legend is often mentioned in the Brahmanas
and the Catapatha adds the detail
that Atri originated from and is even identical with Vac.
- Arthur Berriedale Keith
The Religion and Philsophy of the Veda and Upanishads
In the early Rigveda (books 2 to 7), vāc- refers to the voice,
in particular the voice of the priest raised in sacrifice.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vac
May she, the Gladdener, yielding food and vigour,
the Milch-cow Vak, approach us meetly lauded.
- Rig-Veda 8.89.11
Vak or Vac (stem vac-, nominative vak)
is the Sanskrit word for “speech”,
from a verbal root vac- “speak, tell, utter”.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vac
utter (v.)
"speak, say," c. 1400, in part from Middle Dutch uteren
or Middle Low German utern "to turn out, show, speak,"
from uter "outer," comparative adjective from ut "out" (see utter (adj.));
in part from Middle English verb outen "to disclose,"
from Old English utan "to put out," from ut (see out (v.)).
Compare German äussern "to utter, express," from aus "out;"
and colloquial phrase out with it
- www.etymonline.com/word/utter
udder (n.)
Old English udder “milk gland of a cow, goat, etc.,”
from Proto-Germanic *udr-
(cognates: Old Frisian uder, Middle Dutch uyder,
Dutch uijer, Old High German utar, German Euter,
and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse jugr)
- www.etymonline.com/?search=udder
jugular (adj.)
1590s, “pertaining to the throat or neck”
(especially in reference to the great veins of the neck),
from Modern Latin jugularis, from Latin iugulum
“collarbone, throat, neck,”
diminutive of iugum “yoke,”related to iungere “to join”
(cognates: Sanskrit yugam “yoke,” yunjati “binds, harnesses,”
yogah “union;” Hittite yugan “yoke;” Greek zygon “yoke,”
zeugnyanai “to join, unite;” Old Church Slavonic igo,
Old Welsh iou “yoke;” Lithuanian jungas “yoke,”
jungiu “ fastened in a yoke;”Old English geoc “yoke;”
probably also Latin iuxta “close by”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=jugular
yoke (n.)
Old English geoc “contrivance for fastening a pair of draft animals,”
earlier geoht “pair of draft animals” (especially oxen),
from Proto-Germanic *yukam (cognates: Old Saxon juk, Old Norse ok,
Danish aag, Middle Dutch joc, Dutch juk,
Old High German joh, German joch, Gothic juk “yoke”),
from PIE root *yeug- “to join” (see jugular).
Figurative sense of “heavy burden, oppression,
servitude” was in Old English.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=yoke
ox (n.)
Old English oxa “ox” (plural oxan),
from Proto-Germanic *ukhson (cognates: Old Norse oxi,
Old Frisian oxa, Middle Dutch osse, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso,
German Ochse, Gothic auhsa), from PIE *uks-en- “male animal,”
(cognates: Welsch ych “ox,” Middle Irish oss “stag,”
Sanskrit uksa, Avestan uxshan- “ox, bull”),
said to be from root *uks- “to sprinkle,”
related to *ugw- “wet, moist.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ox
aqua-
Word-forming element meaning "water,'
from Latin aqua "water; the sea; rain,"
cognate with Proto-Germanic *akhwo,
source of Old English ea "river," Gothic ahua "river, waters,"
Old Norse Ægir, name of the sea-god,
Old English ieg "island;" all from PIE *akwa- "water"
- www.etymonline.com/?search=aqua-
water (n.1)
Old English wæter, from Proto-Germanic *watr-
(source also of Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water,
Old High German wazzar, German Wasser,
Old Norse vatn, Gothic wato "water"),
from PIE *wod-or, suffixed form of root *wed- (1) "water; wet."
- www.etymonline.com/word/water
water (v.)
Old English wæterian "moisten, irrigate,
supply water to; lead (cattle) to water;"
- www.etymonline.com/word/water
some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- “poured,”
from root *gheu- “to pour, pour a libation”
(source of Greek khein “to pour,”
also in the phrase khute gaia “poured earth,”
referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)).
“Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have
referred in the first instance to the spirit
immanent in a burial mound” [Watkins].
- www.etymonline.com/?search=god
Hathor greeted the souls of the dead in Duat,
and proffered them
with refreshments of food and drink.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor
Atri probably denotes the devourer, from ad, ‘eat’,
and indeed once occurs in an epithet of Agni,
whence Bergaigne has suggested that
Atri is really in origin Agni himself.
- Arthur Berriedale Keith
The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads
said to have had his sight restored by the Açvins,
and this, taken in conjunction with
his connexion with the fire worship,
has suggested the theory of Bergaigne
that he is really the sun during the night,
or more generally the hidden Agni
- Arthur Berriedale Keith
The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads
Ag·ni (ŭg'nē) n. Hinduism.
The Vedic god of fire and guardian of man.
[Skt. agnih, fire.]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
“Since man first discovered fire,” Edmond shouted,
“this river has been gaining power.
Every discovery became a tool
with which we made new discoveries,
each time adding a drop to this river.
- Dan Brown
Origin
ocean (n.)
Late 13c., from Old French occean "ocean"
(late 12c., Modern French ocean),
from Latin oceanus, from Greek okeanos,
the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth
(as opposed to the Mediterranean), of unknown origin.
Personified as Oceanus,
son of Uranus and Gaia and husband of Tethys.
In early times, when the only known land masses were Eurasia and Africa,
the ocean was an endless river that flowed around them.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ocean
You’re the fire and the flood
And I’ll always feel you in my blood
- Vance Joy
Fire and the Flood
In Norse mythology,
Óðr (Old Norse for the "Divine Madness,
frantic, furious, vehement, eager",
as a noun "mind, feeling" and also
"song, poetry"; Orchard (1997)
gives "the frenzied one) or Óð,
sometimes angliziced as Odr or Od
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odr
Additionally the Old Norse noun æði 'rage, fury'
and Old High German wuotī 'madness'
derive from the feminine noun *wōđīn, from *wōđaz.
The weak verb *wōđjanan, also derived from *wōđaz,
gave rise to Old Norse æða 'to rage',
Old English wēdan 'to be mad, furious',
Old Saxon wōdian 'to rage',
and Old High German wuoten 'to be insane, to rage'.
Over 170 names are recorded for Odin.
These names are variously descriptive of attributes of the god,
refer to myths involving him,
or refer to religious practices associated with the god.
This multitude of names makes Odin the god with the most names
known among the Germanic peoples.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
Aodh, or Aed, is an Irish and Scottish word
of Indo-European origin,
equivalent to fire in English.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aodh_(given_name)
Aed, or Aodh, is the prince of the Daoine Sidhe
and a god of the underworld in Irish mythology.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aed_(god)
He is often seen as a psychopomp,
and has strong affiliations with Tir na nOg
(the Irish Otherworld),
the weather and the mists between the worlds.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manannan_mac_Lir
In Irish mythology and folklore,
Tir na nOg (“Land of the Young”)
or Tir na hOige (“Land of Youth”)
is one of the names for the Otherworld,
or perhaps for a part of it.
It is depicted as a supernatural realm
of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance, and joy.
Its inhabitants are the Tuath De,
the gods of pre-Christian Ireland.
In the echtrae (adventure) and immram (voyage) tales,
various Irish mythical heroes visit Tir na nOg
after a voyage or an invitation from one of its residents.
They reach it by entering ancient burial mounds or caves,
or by going under water or across the sea.
Tir na nOg is best known from the tale of Oisin and Niamh.
In the tale,
Oisin (a human hero)
and Niamh (a woman of the Otherworld)
fall in love.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tir_na_nOg
and Enki bound by an oath
to keep the plan secret.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis
at least from the masses.
- Adolphe Francke
The Kabbalah
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The Voices faded away to nothing as unexpectedly as they had overwhelmed him. Louie the Loon's left eyelid flickered chaotically. He appeared to be winking repeatedly, possibly even exaggerating the motion for theatrical effect, but his facial tics were entirely due to involuntary muscle spasms. Louis struggled to regain control of himself. He swayed the wrong way as the ship rolled with a wave, catching his balance just before he fell into The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor. It took a great effort of will to bring his rebelling body back under control and then to focus his attention on the physical world around him. Heronimus watched Louis expectantly, much like a midwife might examine a mother in labor. Barely able to think in coherent sentences, Louis lapsed into French before quickly switching back to English with a chuckle.
“Pardon moi, mon capitan. Je n'ai pas…. Ha ha, forgive me, sir.”
Louis smiled nervously, but internally he frantically sought through his thoughts in search of what was real and what was fiction. He couldn’t keep track of the boundaries between his reality, his dreams, and the Voices. He blurted out their common denominator, the only constant in his swirling mental state.
“It was only that I was lost in thoughts about the woman, Phoenix. She is always on my mind”.
The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor took hold of Louis’ shoulder gently, knowingly, like a father with his son. Together, they laughed. The helmsman’s laugh was, of course, much more timid than the captain’s, which was a tad bit madder – an occupational hazard for pirate captains and those who delve into the occult (also for hatters).
Yo ho ho! Exactly so, mon ami, Louis! Exactly so, & yet deeper still than thou doth knoweth. D'Agon fhtagn! Now, iffen thou hath any more doubts, merely be meditatin’ upon Moses' wife & ye Burning Bush.’”
Louis laughed awkwardly, a little too loudly for the circumstance, and then stopped abruptly. His brow furrowed. His lips screwed together. Nothing made sense. Too much was happening all at once. He couldn’t focus his thoughts. The confusedused and pained grimace on Louis’ face was due not only to his hyper-stimulated mental state. Something else, something physical was happening. Small dewdrops of perspiration formed rapidly on his forehead, swelled, and then fell from him in salty precipitation. His stomach twisted tighter, growling menacingly. Louis gasped.
"Mon Dieu! What the devil? "
Louis the Loon had no idea what had just happened, but he could sense it was about to begin again.
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