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Every religion on earth was either a plagiarized or stolen concept of the ancient black Africans and our mythologies included. There are 7 BASIC chakras in the BASIC chakra system but as a historical fact it is over 1000 in number. A chakra is a Sanskrit word that literally translates as "wheel" or "disk".
Every religion on earth was either a plagiarized or stolen concept of the ancient black Africans and our mythologies included. There are 7 BASIC chakras in the BASIC chakra system but as a historical fact it is over 1000 in number. A chakra is a Sanskrit word that literally translates as "wheel" or "disk".
Every religion on earth was either a plagiarized or stolen concept of the ancient black Africans and our mythologies included. There are 7 BASIC chakras in the BASIC chakra system but as a historical fact it is over 1000 in number. A chakra is a Sanskrit word that literally translates as "wheel" or "disk".
[Beginners guide to the African metaphysical world and reality] Remember: like in any researching or studying, reading and writing is a must. This alone, what you are reading at this moment being also written in small print because it is symbolic to what must be known about metaphysics, metaphysical science, alchemy, history, culture. Everything known to man today came from Africans, any spirituality, every religion, every concept known to the natural earth and its original people. As of today, it is a known fact that every religion on earth was either a plagiarized or stolen concept of the ancient black Africans and our mythologies included. Metaphysics or Spiritual Alchemy to our ancestors was just a common way of living and is known as the battery behind our cultures. Study and read into everything because of the recent diaspora of our people, not only did they steal us as a global entity but they also stole the cultures, sciences, and mythologies in which things where placed into to teach Africans. LEAVE all and any SPOOKISMS or negative views based on white European supremacy about African magic. In the media and European western religion they tell you that anything African is evil or wrong and to stay away from it, simply for the reason of they completely know that they are your enemy and this spiritual science is a tool that can destroy them. So of course, the enemy will tell you its wrong. Now here are some interesting sights into the world of metaphysics to get acquainted with but majority of the search must come from inside of you for no Ones spiritual journey is the same and cannot be lead into their OVERSTANDING. P.E.A.C.E. 7 BASIC CHAKRA SYSTEMS A Chakra is a Sanskrit word that literally translates as "wheel" or "disk". It is a NILE VALLEY concept of AFRICAN origin that chakras are treated as "energy vortexes", and their sacred balance is crucial to our physical,mental,emotional, and spiritual well-being. There are a total of 7 chakras in the BASIC chakra system but as a historical fact it is over 1000 in the body alone. Each of these seven chakras, are located in different areas of the body. Here is a list of the sevenchakras with their locations and a brief description of what they are responsible for.
The Crown Chakra: Located at the top of the head. The crown chakra is linked to understanding, cosmic consciousness, and ability to eventually achieve enlightenment.
The Third Eye Chakra or Pineal Gland: Located at the middle of the forehead. The third eye chakra is directly linked to an individuals clairvoyance or psychic abilities and intuition. It is activated by drinking of water, since 75% of the body is water and being acknowledgeable of yourself as a global universal entity. Europeans cannot access the pineal gland because of non-melaninated skin and its predisposition of crystallization in the womb. Therefore they have no rhythm, or universal balance.
The Throat Chakra: Located at the throat. A person with a strong and balanced throat chakra will have good communication skills and creativity.
The Heart Chakra: Located at the center of the chest, a person with a healthy heart chakra will have a strong ability to love his or herself as well as others. It is also the center of hope and compassion.
The Solar Plexus Chakra: Located at the solar plexus. This chakra is the center of energy, vitality, desire, and power.
The Sacral Chakra: Located just below the belly button. This chakra is the source of emotions, sexuality, and intimacy.
The Root Chakra: Located at the base of the spine. This is where your survival instinct comes from. It is also a source of security and grounding.
For more info in the chakras and metaphysical teaching, check out the works of some our greatest teachers, Dr. C. Freeman El, Bobby Hemmitt, Bro Panic Demonium, Dr. Delbert Blair, Malachi Z York. Also further overstanding of the physical and metaphysical dimensions would be better if the study of Hermetic Laws (Laws of Djhuti or Tihuti) was applied.
ANCIENT AFRICAN DIETIES Abassi The Efik sky god who set the first human couple on earth on the advice of Atai, his consort.
Abonsam A malevolent spirit of West Africa near the Gold Coast.
Abora The supreme god of the heavens of the Canary Islanders on the island of Palma - is both good and evil, and considered the creator of heaven and earth. .
Acoran The supreme god of the Canary Islanders on the island of Gran Canaria.
Adaheli The Surinam's sun god.
Adro The Tutelary god of the Lugbara; he is the immanent aspect of the sky god Adroa.
Adroa The sky god of the Lugbara. He is the creator of heaven and earth and both good and evil and is remote to earthly and human affairs.
Agbe-Naete The son of Mawu-Lisa who rules the waters of the earth.
Age The god of barren wastes and animals.
Ajalamo The Yoruba god of unborn children.
Ajok The principle god of the Lotuko of Sudan.
Akonadi The supreme creator god of the Ngombe of Congo. It is believed he once lived with humans but disappeared into the forest once people proved too fractious. There is another version in which humans lived with him in heaven, and were then placed on earth.
Akuj The supreme god of the Turkana people of Kenya.
Alatangana The Kono creator god. (West Africa)
Amma The supreme Dogon god who created the sun and the moon. The myth of Dogon is used to justify female circumcision as it is practiced in many parts of Africa. It is said that he tried to procreate with the earth (female) except his passage was blocked by a "red termite hill" that had to be cut away before he could mate with the earth. (Mali)
Anansi The Ashanti spider trickster deity. This god was the representative of the supreme god until he was replaced by the chameleon.
Aondo The Central Nigerian creator god.
Apap The Ugandan creator god.
Apedemak The Sudanese war god who was depicted with a lion's head and human body. Elephants and cattle were sacred to him.
Arebati The sky god of the Bambuti of the Congo who created the first man from clay.
Arom Kafir god of contractual agreements.
Asis The sun god of Kenya and Uganda Suk and Pokot.
Astar An Ethiopian sky god.
Ataa Naa Nyongmo The Gan creator god of Ghana.
Ataokoloinona The son of the supreme god of Madagascar.
Avrikiti The Fon god of fishermen.
Balubaale The Bagandan gods of earth, death, lightning, plague, and the rainbow.
Bandara A group of Singhalese gods superior to the Yaksas.
Banga The Ngbandi of northern Zaire god of clear waters.
Behanzin The fish god of Fon in Dahomey. He was invoked by fishermen to ensure a bountiful catch.
Beher An Ethiopian sea god.
Bo A god of the Ewe in Benin; a protector of warriors.
Buadza The Gan god of the wind. (West Africa)
Buku A West African sky god.
Bumba The creator and supreme god of the Boshongo. With horrible stomach pain, he vomited up the earth, sun, moon, and all living createures; the last being mankind. (sounthern Africa)
Cagn The supreme god and creator of the Kalahari Bushmen of southern Africa.
Cghene The Creator and supreme god of the Isoko of souther Nigeria. This god is remote to human affairs and is little celebrated. He has no temples or priests.
Chango The Yoruban orisha of thunder, rain, lightning, fire, and masculine fertility. He is a smooth-talking con- artist and symbolises the element fire, truth, intelligence, and courage. Animals sacred to this orisha are the quail, tortoise, and black cat.
Chikara A sky god of teh Korekore people of norther Zimbabwe. Nosenga is his son.
Chiuke Also called Chuku he is the sky and creator god of the Ibo of Nigeria. He is seen as the source of all that is good.
Chiuta The supreme sky god of the Tumbuka in Malawi who is responsible for the life-giving rains.
Chwezi The hero gods of the Nyoro of North Uganda.
Col A Nuer rain god.
Danh The snake god of the Fon people who's 3,500 coils above and below the earth supported creation by his parent Mawu-Lisa. This concept of the serpent is seen in both the Fon and Yoruba mythology.
Deng An African sky god who is assoicted with rain, fertility, and birth. He is the creator of the Dinka people of the Sudan.
Dugbo The main god of the earth in Sierra Leone.
Dxui A creator god of the Bushmen of south Central Africa.
Emeli-hin The Tuareg name for god.
En-Kai A Maasai rain god.
Eranoranhan The protector god of the Canary Islands.
Esu Yoruban god of watchfulness who judges men and records their actions and then reports them to Olorun.
Eshu The Trickster god and divine messenger of the Yoruba and a major Orisha. He is related to Legba of the Benin of Dahomey. In recent times he is seen as a very young and handsome mulatto man who has three tribal scares on his cheeks ot represent him and his children on earth. His sacred days are Sunday and Monday, his feast days are the 1st January, 13th June, and 2nd November. The numbers associated with him are three and twenty one. He enjoys hard candies, coconuts, tobacco, hard liquor, and cigars and his favorite animal sacrifices are white and black hens and she goats. All crossroads are sacred to him and were his presence can be felt. He also lurks in dark shadows and plays pranks on non-believers and those who offend his mysteries. His alter is kept behind the front door of the home or outside directly to the left side of the door, must be kept at ground level, and never over a human's height.
Fa A Benin god of destiny.
Famien A god of fertility in Guinea.
Faro The Bambara of West Afica sky and water god.
Fidi Mukullu The creator god of Bena Lulua in Zaire.
Garang and Abuk This couple was the first man and woman in Dinka mythology and Garange is also seen as a divine influence on human live. Abuk, who was made fully formed but very small, was popped into a pot of water by the creator god where she swelled up to full human size. They were only given one grain ot eat a day but Abuk ground it to make a paste and planted the next grain. That planted grain became the source of all grain. A little snake represents her, all women, and gardens.
Ge The Moon god of Benin.
Geni The main deity or masked spirit of the Poro people of West Africa.
Gu The Fon's of West Africa god of smiths and war.
Gua The thunder-god of the Ga of West Africa.
Gulu The Buganda king of heaven.
Gunab - The Hottentot god of evil.
Guruhi The Gambia god of evil.
Gurzil The bull-god of Tripolitania.
Gwalu The Yoruba rain god.
Hammon The Lybian god of the setting sun.
Heitsi-Eibib The Benign sorcerer god of the Hottentots.
Hevioss The Benin god of thunder.
Huveane The creator god of the Basuto people of Lesotho.
Ifa The Yoruba oracular demi-god.
Ikenga The god of the Ibo of Nigeria.
Imana An African creator god who tried to save men from death. He was chasing after death one day and a human woman allowed Death to hide underneath her dress. Imana became very angry and felt betrayed so he let Death do as he wished and if it were not for this incident man would be immortal.
Iruwa The Chaga sun god of East Africa.
Juok The Shilluk people's of East Africa creator god.
Ka Tyeleo The supreme go dof the West African Senufo.
Kalumba The creator god of the Luba of Zaire.
Khebieso The Ewe god of lightning.
Khuzwane A creator deity of the Lovedu (a Bantus people of the Transvaal).
Kibuka The Baganda war god and brother of Mukasa.
Kwammang-a - A Bushmen of south Central Africa god.
Kyala The creator god of the Nyakyusa of South West Tanzania.
Legba A celestial trickster spirit of Benin who taught the people the arts of divination.
Leza The main god of Zimbabwean Bantu Nation.
Libanza The Supreme god of the Upotos of the Congo.
Lyangombe A god chief among the people of the Congo.
Olokun The Yoruba god of the sea and wealth.Portrayed with a coral dress and mudfish legs, with lizards in both hands.
Olorun The supreme god of the Yoruba and is considered so remote from human affairs he is not worshipped because it would gain no reaspons. He is son of Olokun.
Orahan The god of the Canary island Gomera.
Orisa Nla The Yoruba creator and sky god who was sent by Olorun to create the earth, the other gods, and all living things.
Orishako The Yoruba god of agriculature and consort of Odudua.
Orunjan The Yourba god of the midday sun.
Orunmila The god of compassion, Yoruba.
Oshalla A Yoruba god, son of the sun and husband to the earth goddess.
Oshossi Yoruban god of hunting and the forest whos symbol is the bow.
Oshun The African (Yoruban) orisha of love, sexuality, beauty and diplomacy; a wife of Chango. She is the keeper of the sweet waters and patroness of the Oshun river. With her pure sweetness, she overcomes the most difficult obstacles. She is the protector of the abdominal area and the teacher of pleasure and mirth. Oshun is generous and a great giver, but when she is angry, it is very difficult to calm her down. Her worshippers wear amber beads. Her price is the sacrifice of a small chicken, but it is well worth it, for great and powerful spells can be worked through her. She can be invoked for love, money, beauty, joy, and health (abdominal).
Oya African (Yoruban) warrior orisha of the wind, symbolic of the winds of change. Every breath we take is a gift from Oya. She is tall and regal, strong, assertive, courageous and independent and is always willing to take risks. Oya is a great witch and the guardian of the gates of death. Women often ask her to give them the ability to choose their words so that they speak persuasively and powerfully. She symbolizes transformations, power, action, life, vivacity. Oya is invoked in case of illness. Wife of Chango. Rock-Sene The god of the Serer people of Gambia.
Ruwa The high god of the Djaga of Kilimanjoro.
Sagbata The god of smallpox in Benin.
Sakarabru The god of justice, retribution, and medicine of the Agni people of Guinea.
Sakpata The Dahomey god of smallpox and ruler of the earth.
Sango The Yoruba god of thunder.
Shango The thunder god of the Yoruba of West Africa.
So The Ewe god of lightning and thunder.
Tano The Ashanti river god of Ghana and Togo.
Tore The Bambuti god of wild animals and the forest.
Tsui'goab The rain god of the Hottentot of South Africa.
Twe A lake god of Ghana.
Umvelingqangi A Zulu creator god.
Unkulunkulu The high god of the Amazulu also known as Nkulnkulu.
Unumbotte The creator god of Basari of Togo.
Uwolowu Akpossa of Togo sky god and creator of everything including minor gods who also gave mankind fire. Gernerally he is seen as a beneficiant and is invoked for spring, rain, agriculture (harvest), sun, and birth.
Wak African (Ethiopian) god who dwelled in the clouds. He was supreme and a benefactor god. He kept the heavens at a distance from the earth and ornamented it with stars. When the earth was flat, Wak asked man to build himself a coffin. Man did so and Wak shut him up in it and buried it. For seven years he made fire rain down. This is how the mountains were formed. Wak then danced upon the place where the coffin was buried and man sprang forth, alive. He was sure he had slept for a brief moment only and was shocked to find it had been so long and earth had changed so much; this is why man is awake for most of the day. Eventually man grew tired of living alone. Knowing of man's loneliness, Wak took some of his blood and after four days, the blood turning into a woman whom the man married. Man and woman had 30 children, but man was so ashamed at having had so many that he hid fifteen of them away. Wak was angry at this, and as a result, the children man hid away were turned into animals and demons.
Waka The bengign rain god of the Oromo of Ethiopia.
Wele The supreme god of Bantua Kavirondo.
Were An African creator god who is the giver of life and the cause of death. He is similiar to Zeus in that he punishes evildoers with lightning bolts.
Wulbari The supreme god of the Krachi of West Africa.
Wuni A creator god and shaper of destiny. He is the supreme god of the Dgamba people of Ghana.
Xewioso The Dahomey god of fertility and thunder.
Yemonja One of the great African goddesses, specifically of Nigerian Yoruba. She was the daughter of the sea into whose waters she flows. Her breasts were enormous because she mothered so many Yoruban gods. She also is the Mama Watta, or "mother of the waters", and gave birth to all the bodies of water in the world. She is the sister and wide of Aganju, the soil god, and together they had Orungan, god of the noonday sun, as their child.
She is known by many different names, each with some variations in character: As Yemayah or Yemoja, she is the orisha of the oceans, seas, fish, and motherhood. Nurturing, feminine, and life-giving.Considered the epitome of feminine power. Like the ocean, she can be not only gentle but destructive and torrential as well. She holds the secrets that are within the sea. She can be invoked for issues with childbirth, mothers, fertility, or anything involving women's issues or women's mysteries.
As Imanje or Yemanja in Brazil, she is the ocean goddess of the crescent moon.
As Ymoja in West Africa, she is the river goddess who grants fertility to women.
In Cuba, she is Yemayah. Yemaya Achabba, stern goddess - Yemayah Oqqutte, violent goddess - Yemayah Ataramagwa, wealthy queen of the sea - Yemayah Olokun, dream goddess.
She is Agwe in Haitian voodoo beliefs. Finally, she is Yamoja, a combination of the phrase Iyamo eja ("our mother").
ANCIENT AFRICAN/ KEMETIC DEITIES AKER An earth-god also presiding over the juncture of the western and eastern horizons in the Underworld. The motif of Aker consists of the foreparts of two lions, or two human heads, juxtaposed so that they face away from each other. Aker opens the earth's gate for the king to pass into the Underworld. He absorbs the poison from the body of anyone bitten by a snake and neutralizes the venom in the belly of a person who has swallowed an obnoxious fly. More importantly he imprisons the coils of the snake Apophis after being hacked to pieces by Aset (Isis). This idea of enclosure accounts for the socket holding the mast of the Underworld ferryboat being identified with Aker.
AMANUET A goddess whose name means 'hidden one' and whose shadow, among the primeval gods, is a symbol of protection. A deity at Karnak temple at least since the reign of Sesostris I (Dynasty XII), she is predominantly the consort of Amun playing, however, a less prolific role than his other wife Mut. A statue datable to Tutankhamun's reign which was set up in the Record Hall of Tuthmosis III at Karnak shows the goddess in human form wearing the Red Crown of the Delta.
AMMON Also AMON; AMMON; AMUN; AMEN "Hidden Self or Hidden One." A bearded Man wearing a cap surmounted by two tall plumes. A ram, a ram headed man, or a ram headed sphinx. Self-created at the beginning of time.Believed to be the physical father of all Pharaohs.King of the gods of Egypt.Patron of the Pharaohs.Originally a god of fertility, a local deity of Memphis. Ammon became linked with the sun god Ra through the royal family, becoming Amen-Ra.
Early, a god of air and wind.Later, a fertility god.The Creator of all things. During the New Kingdom he became "The king of the gods". He was said to be able to assume any form he wished, with each of the other gods being one of these forms. From the eighteenth dynasty on he was a national deity. Through political means managed to assimilate many lesser gods.
One of chief Theban deities; united with sun god under form of Amen-Ra. As the city grew from a village to a powerful metropolis so Amun, whose name signifies 'hidden', grew in importance. He ousted the Theban god of war, Mont, and went on to be regarded as chief god Egypt, 'King of the Gods'. Originally he might have been a wind or air god; later he was given several powers and attributes.
As an ithyphallic god, either standing or enthroned carrying a whip, Amun was god of fertility. At Karnak he was considered to be incarnate in a sacred ram which was kept in that temple. Another symbol of sexual power, the goose, was also sacred to him.
From being worshipped as a god of generative power to being worshipped as an agricultural deity responsible for the growth of crops was but a short step for Amun. He then rose to be the patron of the Pharaohs, and because of the inevitable connections between royalty and the sun, became linked to the great god Ra. As Amen-Ra he became supreme among the gods and ruler of the Great Ennead. During the reign of Akhenaten, the worship of Amun, like that of all the other great gods, was severely curtailed.
On the death of Akhenaten the new king, the boy Tut-ankh-aten, changed his name to declare his allegiance to the neglected but now ascendant Amun; the youthful monarch is known to us as Tut-ankh- Amun. Thebes, home of the god Amun, developed into a state within a state, a rich and powerful inner kingdom ruled by the high priestess of Amun and staffed by men of nobility and genius.
The god's fame extended well beyond the boundaries of Egypt; Ethiopia was virtually a vassal state to the city of Thebes. To the west, in Libya, his priesthood was the center of public religion, lasting well into Classical times as the cult of Jupiter Ammon. Even Alexander the Great thought it worthwhile consulting the oracle of Amun.
He received a favorable reply and assumed the title, Son of Amen. Apart from Thebes, which grew so important that it was simply known as 'the city', Amen was worshipped all over Egypt, and his magnificent temples at Luxor and Karnak are among the finest remains of antiquity. Amen formed a triad with his wife Mut and his son Khonsu.
AMMUT A combination of the head of a crocodile, the middle of a lioness and the hind quarters of a hippopotamus.
We find Ammut during the weighing of the heart of a deceased person against the feather of Maat. It was Ammut who would devour the souls of those who's hearts proved heavier than Maat. This was a terrifying prospect for the ancient black Egyptians. It meant the end of existence. They would never meet Asar(Osiris) and live forever in the Fields of Peace.
ANDJETY God in anthropomorphic form originally worshipped in the mid-Delta in Lower Egyptian Nome 9. Andjety (meaning 'he of Andjet', i.e. the town of Busiris) was the precursor of Osiris at the cult centre of Busiris. The iconography of this god persuasively argues for his being the forerunner of Osiris. Andjety holds the two scepters in the shape of a 'crook' and a 'flail', insignia which are Osiris's symbols of dominion. Also his high conical crown decorated with two feathers is clearly related to the 'atef' crown of Osiris.
ANHUR (Anhert, Onouris, Onuris) A sky god associated with Shu. Anhur is shown as a man with one or both arms raised. He wears four straight feathers on his head and sometimes holds a spear. His name is interpreted as 'skybearer', or 'he who leads that which has gone away'. He was a warrior, and was invoked against both human and animal enemies whom he chased in his chariot. Apart from being a personification of war, he was also regarded as the creative power of the sun. Sometimes he is shown holding a string by which he leads the sun; this to recall the story that when Ra's eye meandered away it was Anhut who went to fetch it back. He was a popular god in the New Empire with cult centres at Sebennytus and This. Married to the goddess Mehit, Anhur was a generally benign god, warlike in order to be helpful. His festival included a playful mock combat between the priests and people, who hit each other with sticks in honour of their saviour god.
ANTA - ANAT Considered by the Egyptians to be a daughter of Ra, Anta is an aspect of Ishtar. She was that of a warrior goddess of Ugarit on the Syrian coast and attested in Egypt from the end of the Middle Kingdom. The Hyksos rulers seem to have promoted her cult and in the Ramesside era Anat was a crown flanked with plumes, her martial nature is emphasized by the shield, lance and battle ace. The fact that Anat can be shown under the iconography of Hathor is not surprising since Hathor can closely relate to foreign deities (ex: Baalat at Byblos or in the Sinai peninsula) as well as possessing a bloodthirsty, albeit usually subdued, side to her nature. Anat is called 'mistress of the sky' and mother of all the gods' but it is her warlike character that predominates in both Egyptian and Near Eastern references to her. Anat's introduction into the Egyptian pantheon was on account of her protecting the monarch in combat.
ANUBIS - ANPU A man with the head of a jackal.A dog or a jackal.The jackal-headed god. Anubis can foresee a mortal's destiny and is associated with magic and divination. Anubis supervises the weighing of the soul when the departed are brought to the hall of the dead. Guardian of the Necropolis (cemetery). He was the guide of the dead as they made their way through the darkness of the underworld. As a patron of magic, it was believed he could foresee a persons destiny, in this role he was the announcer of death.
Anpu was the patron of embalming. He was also the keeper of poisons and medicines. He provided unguents and rare herbs to help Isis and Nephthys with the embalming of Asar. Anpu then performed the funeral of Osiris, which would be the model for all funerals to come. As he received the mummy into the tomb, he performed the 'Opening of the Mouth'ceremony.
ASTARTE ISHTAR The Assyro-Babylonian goddess Ishtar, inducted into the Egyptian pantheon and made a daughter of Ammon-Ra. Sometimes identified (or confused, which is the same thing) with Isis.
Astarte was one of the earliest Mother Goddesses. The "bird-headed" figure above left are very common and thought to represent Astarte or one of her precursors. Parts of the world that honored the Astarte archetype were Indo-European, the Anatolian and Indo-Iranian branches, eg, areas where these statues are found. The bronze figure on the right is intriguing and rare.
ATON ATEN - Pharaoh Akhenaten The Pharaoh Akhenaten was known as the Heretic King. He was the tenth King of the 18th Dynasty. Egyptologists are still tying to figure out what actually happened during his lifetime as much of the truth was buried, for all time, after he died.
Akhenaten lived at the peak of Egypt's imperial glory. Egypt had never been richer, more powerful, or more secure. Up and down the Nile, workers built hundreds of temples to pay homage to the Gods. They believed that if the Gods were pleased, Egypt would prosper. And so it did.
ATUM Atum was one of the most ancient gods in Egypt and was part of the Heliopolitan cosmology. Originally an earth god, he became associated with Re, the sun god. Specifically, he was considered to be the setting sun. In later times he became associated with Ptah and eventually Osiris.
According to the priests of Heliopolis, Atum was the first being to emerge from the waters of Nun at the time of creation. Originally, he was a serpent in Nun and will return to that form at the end of time. However, Atum was depicted in art as a man wearing the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. As such, he is the first living man god conceived of by the ancient Egyptians. Until then, their gods were all forms of animals.
AUF - EFU RA An aspect of the sun god Ra Auf was a ram-headed god who wore the solar disc and traveled at night through the Underworld waterways in order to reach the east in time for the new day; however, he still had to fight off the creatures of the Underworld. Demons and gods towed his boat along while Auf stood in a deck-house, over which was coiled the serpent Mehen who warded off the dangerous Apep. The boat of night was crewed by the gods Hu, Saa and Wepwawet.
Ba Neb Tetet (Banebdjedet, Baneb Djedet, Banaded)
Ram god whose name means 'ba (or 'soul') lord of Mendes', his cult centered in the north-east Delta.
When the two gods Heru (Horus) and Set were making the heavens ring with their wranglings over precedent, it was the ram-god Ba Neb Tetet who sensibly suggested to the gods in council that they should write a letter to the goddess Neith and ask for her opinion. His suggestion opened the way for discussion and arbitration which finally settled the dispute. His character, one of peace and level- headedness, has been sadly perverted in sensational 'occult' fiction, for Ba Neb Tetet is the benign original for a travesty called the 'goat of Mendes', who is supposed to be some sort of diabolic spirit. At Mendes was kept a sacred ram, worshipped as the incarnation of Ra and Osiris. Originally a local god, Ba Neb Tetet was given the solar disc and uraeus (coiled cobra) and brought into the main-stream of religious life.
BAAL Prominent god of the sky and storms whose cult spread from Ugarit in Syria into Egypt, where he possessed a priesthood by Dynasty XVIII. Aliyan Baal, son of a less well-attested god Dagan, dwelt on Mount Sapan (hence Ball-Zaphon) in North Syria but also became associated as a local deity of other sites such as Baal-Hazor in Palestine, and Baal-Sidon and Baal of Tyre(Melkart) in the Lebanon. Although the anme Baal can mean 'lord' or 'owner' it was being used as a proper name for a specific god by the sixteenth century BC.
Baal has a pointed beard, a horned helmet and wields a cedar tree, club, or spear. His epithet in the cuneiform texts, 'he who rides on the clouds', is admirable for a god of tempests and thunder- relating thereby to the Mesopotamian thunder- god Adad and in Kemet (Egypt) to the god Set. Ramesses II in his almost fatal struggle against the Hittite confederation at the battle of Kadesh is called 'Seth great of strength and Baal himself'. The war cry of Ramesses III is like Baal in the sky, i.e. Baal's voice (the thunder) which makes the mountains shake. His relationship to the warrior-pharaoh image may account for the popularity of his cult at Memphis, capital of Egypt, and the theophorous name Baal-Khepeshef or 'Baal-is-upon-his-sword'.
BAST BASTE The cat-headed goddess, a local deity of the delta.The kindly goddess of joy, music and dancing. Cats were sacred to Bast as a symbol of animal passion. Bast's devotees celebrated their lady with processions of flower-laden barges and orgiastic ceremonies. Her festivals were licentious and quite popular. She appears as a woman with the head of a domesticated cat, sometimes holding a sistrum. The town of Bubastis was the priestess hoodcenter of this solar goddess represented as a woman with a cat's head, or simply as a cat. The goddess holds a sistrum or rattle. She was identified and confused with both Mut and Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess. Bastet wore an aegis or shield in the form of a semi-circular plate, embellished with a lion's head. She was goddess of pleasure and inevitably became one of the most popular deities. In her temple were kept sacred cats, who were supposed to be incarnations of the goddess. When they died they were carefully mummified. The Egyptians found something to worship in just about every animal they had: dogs, cats, lions, crocodiles, snakes, dung- beetles, hippos, hawks, cows and ibises.
As the daughter of Ra she is associated with the rage inherent in the sun-god's eye, his instrument of vengeance. It was probably this ferocity that made the analogy so plausible between Bastet and lioness. Her development into the cat-goddess par excellence, of the Late Period of Egyptian civilization, retains the link with the sun-god but in some ways softens the vicious side of her nature. She becomes a peaceful creature, destroying only vermin, and unlike her leonine form she can be approached fearlessly and stroked.
It has been suggested that in one myth the Egyptians saw Bastet's return from Nubia, where she had been sent by Re as a lioness and had raged in isolation, to Egypt in the form of the more placid cat as an explanation of the period of inapproachability in the cycle of menstruation. A tangential evidence that advocates of this theory cite the scenes in New Kingdom tomb paintings at Thebes where a cat is depicted under the lady's chair as a deliberate ploy to indicate that she will always be available for sexual intercourse with the tomb owner in the Afterlife.
In her earliest appearances in the Pyramid Era Bastet is a goddess closely linked to the king. A magnificent example of precise engineering in the Old Kingdom, namely the valley temple of King Khafra at Giza, carries on its facade the names of two goddess only- Hathor of Southern Egypt and Bastet of the north. The latter is invoked as a benign royal protectress in the Pyramid Texts where, in a spell to enable him to reach the sky, the king proclaims that his mother and nurse is Bastet.
Besides the king, Bastet has a son in the form of the lion-headed god Mihos and is also the mother of a more artificial offspring combining the natures of Nefertum and the child Horus, personifying her connection with perfume and royalty. With the dramatic extension of the roles of deities to assist Egyptian courtiers as well as the pharaoh that we find in the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom, Bastet gives immense protection as first-born daughter of Atum. The aggressive side of Bastet can be seen in historical texts describing the pharaoh in battle. For example, Amenhotep II's enemies are slaughtered like the victims of Bastet along the road cut by the god Amun.
From her epithet 'lady of Asheru', the precinct of the goddess Mut at Karnak, it is clear that Bastet had a place on Theban soil where she could be equated with the consort of Amun- especially since the lioness and the cat were also claimed as sacred animals by Mut. Reliefs in the temple of Karnak show the pharaoh celebrating ritual races carrying either four scepters and a bird or an oar in front of Bastet who is called ruler of 'Sekhet-neter' or the 'Divine Field'- i.e. Egypt.
BES A guardian god.Dwarf-god, grotesque in appearance, benign in nature.A god of a far different order from the serene and poised figures of the official pantheon. He was a plump, bandy-legged, hairy, rude dwarf with a wicked gleam in his pop-eyes. his tongue resolutely stuck out at the follies of mankind. Bes was a foreign god, an import from the land of Punt (Libya). He was a swaggering, jolly, mock-gallant pigmy, fond of music and clumsy, inelegant dancing.
He was a popular proletarian god who was adopted by the middle classes; he was considered a tutelary god of childbirth and, strangely enough, of cosmetics and female adornments. Bes chased away demons of the night and guarded men from dangerous animals. His image was carved on bedpost, bringing a touch of coarses geniality into the boudoir. He eventually became a protector of the dead and, amazingly, competed with even the refined and magnificent god Asar for the attentions of men. Bes' only clothing appears to have been a leopard skin tied round his shoulders for his high status of the Craft of Amen Ra and an ostrich feather stuck in his uncombed hair.
Duamutef - Tuamutef A funerary god, son of Heru. Like Anpu his uncle, he was jackal-headed and concerned with the dead. The stomach was Duamutef's sphere of influence, the preserved viscera in question being removed from the body, preserved in spices and placed in a jar on which was a mode of Duamutef's head. The viscera were preserved as being essential parts of the mummified human.
GEB Son of Shu and Tefnut, twin brother of Nut, husband of Nut, father of Osiris and Isis, Seth, Nephthys. As a vegetation-god he was shown with green patches or plants on his body. As the earth, he is often seen lying beneath Nut, leaning on one elbow, with a knee bent toward the sky, this is representive of the mountains and valleys of the earth. He was often pictured with a goose on his head or as a goose. Geb represents the earth, he is often seen reclining beneath the sky goddess Nut. Geb was called 'the Great Cackler', and as such, was represented as a goose. It was in this form that he was said to have laid the egg from which the sun was hatched. He was believed to have been the third divine king of earth. The royal throne of Egypt was known as the 'throne of Geb' in honor of his great reign.
HA God of the desert, particularly the regions of the west including the oases. Ha is anthropomorphic and wears the symbol for desert hills on his head. As lord of the desert he wards off enemies from the west, probably referring to invading tribes from Libya.
HAPI Husband of Nekhebet. A bearded man colored blue or green, with female breasts, indicating his powers of nourishment. As god of the Northern Nile he wears papyrus plants on his head, and as god of the southern Nile he wears lotus plants. He is often seen carrying offerings of food or giving libations of water from a vase. Sometimes he is pictured offering two plants and two vases, which represented the upper and lower Nile.
HATHOR She symbolizes rebirth.Hathor is a sky goddess, sometimes represented as a woman with cow's horns between which hangs a solar disc, sometimes portrayed as a cow. Hathor concerns herself with beauty, love and marriage, and watches over women giving birth. Mother and wife of Ra. Hathor is also a goddess of death and offers comfort to the newly dead as they pass into the after-world.
HEKET - HEQET Goddess of creation, birth and the germination of corn. Heket was pictured as a frog, or a frog-headed woman. She is a midwife, assisting at the daily birth of the sun. An earlier Theogony made greater claims for her, saying that with Shu as husband she gave birth to the gods. A goddess of very antiquity, her cult never really got off the ground.
HORUS- HERU He who is above.The heroic son of Aset and Asar or called Isis and Osiris by the Greeks. We find him worshipped as Mekhenti-irry which translates as 'He who has on his brow Two Eyes', the sun and moon representing his eyes. On nights when there is no moon we find him worshipped as Mekhenti-en-irty, 'He who on his brow has no eyes', in this form he was considered the god of the blind.
The followers of Heru emerged in Kemet in pre dynastic history, at this time he was venerated as a victorious warlord. He became a part of the state religion and was associated with the sun god, Ra. Horus was so important to the state religion that Pharaohs were considered his human manifestation and even took on the name Heru.
In the more popular religious beliefs of the Asarian priesthoods, he was the son of Osiris and Isis. The avenger of his father's murder and the model of a dutiful son.Its in these stories that we find him doing battle with his uncle, Set.
* Representation: You will find different Representations of Horus that fit with the different names that are listed below, however, the most common is a falcon or falcon headed man.
Other Names: Herueris (Horus the Elder) An early form of Horus. He was a god of light. His eyes represented the sun and the moon. He was also the brother of Asar and Set. Sometimes he was the son, or the husband of Hathor.
Horus Behudety In the form of Heru of Edfu, he represented the midday sun. This Horus was worshipped in the western Delta and later, as his cult spread south into Upper Egypt, a cult center was established in Edfu. Heru of Edfu fights a great battle against Seth and an army of conspirators. He is pictured as a winged sun-disk or as a hawk headed lion.
Ra-Herukhute (Heru of the two horizons) This Heru was identified with Ra and the daily voyage of the sun from horizon to horizon. The two deities combined to become Ra-Herukhute. He was represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man wearing the solar disk and double crown or the uraeus and the atef crown.
Harmakhet (Horus in the Horizon) In this form he represented the rising sun and was associated with Khepri. He was also considered to be the keeper of wisdom. He was sometimes pictured as a man with a falcon's head, or a falcon headed lion. But his most recognizable form is that of a sphinx, or as a ram- headed sphinx.
Harsiesis (Horus son of Isis) This Horus was the son of Isis and Osiris. He was conceived magically after the death of Asar and brought up by Aset on a floating island in the marshes of Buto. The child was weak and in constant danger from the scheming of his wicked uncle Seth, who sent serpents and monsters to attack him. But his mother, Aset was great in the magical arts and she warded off this evil by using a spell against creatures biting with their mouths and stinging with their tails, and the young Horus survived and grew.
Harpokrates (The infant Heru) As a child he represented the new born sun and was often pictured being suckled by Isis. he was usually represented as a seated child, sucking his thumb, his head was shaved except for the sidelock of youth. Even as a child, he wore the royal crown and uraeus.
Harendotes (Horus the avenger of his father)
Har-pa-Neb-Taui (Horus Lord of the Two Lands)
IMHOTEP God of learning and medicine.A rare example of a commoner who reached the rank of god by sheer merit. Of the non royal population of Egypt, probably one man is known better then all others. So successful was Imhotep (Imhetep, Greek Imouthes) that he is one of the world's most famous ancients, and his name, if not his true identity, has been made even more famous by various mummy movies. Today, the world is probably much more familiar with his name then that of his principal king, Djoser. Imhotep, who's name means "the one that comes in peace". existed as a mythological figure in the minds of most scholars until the end of the nineteenth century when he was established as a real historical person.
He was the world's first named architect who built Egypt's first pyramid, is often recognized as the world's first doctor, a priest,.scribe, sage, poet, astrologer, and a vizier and chief minister to Djoser (reigned 2630&Mac255;2611 BC), the second king of Egypt's third dynasty. He may have lived under as many as four kings. An inscription on one of that kings statues gives us Imhotep's titles as the "chancellor of the king of lower Egypt", the "first one under the king", the "administrator of the great mansion", the "hereditary Noble", the "high priest of Heliopolis", the "chief sculptor", and finally the "chief carpenter".
Of the details of his life, very little has survived though numerous statues and statuettes of him have been found. Some show him as an ordinary man who is dressed in plain attire. Others show him as a sage who is seated on a chair with a roll of papyrus on his knees or under his arm. Later, his statuettes show him with a god like beard, standing, and carrying the ankh and a scepter.
ISIS- Aset Isis is the feminine archetype for creation - the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She has gone by many names and played many roles in history and mythology - as goddess and female creator. In the duality of our reality - she represents our feminine aspects - creation - rebirth - ascension - intuition - psychic abilities - higher chakras - higher frequency vibrations - love and compassion. She is the Yin energies - the mother nurturer - the High Priestess - the Goddess of all mythological tales - to other female icons in the mythos of creation. She is the essence of the feminine energy which is part of us all. Isis - the iris of the eye - the eye of Horus Isis linked with Sirius - eye of Ra - the source of creation. Osiris - 'O'=completion of the work of Isis of this level.
Kek (Masculne) and Kauket (Feminine) The Egyptians believed that before the world was formed, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos. In this chaos lived the Ogdoad of Khmunu(Hermopolis), four frog gods and four snake goddesses of chaos. These deities were Nun and Naunet (water), Amun and Amaunet (invisibility), Heh and Hauhet (infinity) and Kek and Kauket (darkness). The chaos existed without the light, and thus Kek and Kauket came to represent this darkness. They also symbolized obscurity, the kind of obscurity that went with darkness, and night.
The Ogdoad were the original great gods of Iunu (On, Heliopolis) where they were thought to have helped with creation, then died and retired to the land of the dead where they continued to make the Nile flow and the sun rise every day. Because of this aspect of the eight, Budge believe that Kek and Kauket were once deities linked to Khnum and Satet, to Hapi - Nile gods of Abu (Elephantine). He also believed that Kek may have also been linked to Sobek.
Kek Kek (Kuk, Keku) means darkness. He was the god of the darkness of chaos, the darkness before time began. He was the god of obscurity, hidden in the darkness. The Egyptians saw the night time, the time without the light of the sun, as a reflection of this chaotic darkness. As a god of the night, Kek was also related to the day - he was called the "bringer-in of the light". This seems to mean that he was responsible for the time of night that came just before sunrise. The god of the hours before day dawned over the land of Egypt. This was the twilight which gave birth to the sun.
Kauket The feminine of the god Kek, Kauket (Keket) was a much more obscure goddess than her husband. She was a snake-headed woman who ruled over the darkness with her husband. Her name also meant darkness, as did her husband's name, but with a feminine ending.
O you eight chaos gods, keepers of the chambers of the sky...The bnbn [phoenix] of Ra was that from which Atum came to be as ... Kek, darkness... I am the one who begot the chaos gods again, as Heh, Nun, Amun, Kek. I am Shu who begot the gods.
- Coffin Text, Spell 76
Kauket was the feminine to Kek's masculine, more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess, so she was even less of a deity than Kek, and much more of an abstract.
She was, though, also related to the day - she was the "bringer-in of the night". This seems to show her to be the goddess of the night, just after sunset. The goddess of the the hours of the evening, as night covered Egypt, and the sun had disappeared. This was the twilight which turned into the darkness of night.
KHEPRI KHEPRA Sun-god creator in the form of a scarab beetle. The word kheper (or hprr) means scarab, and as the animal was associated with life and rebirth. Literally the word means "he who is coming into being". Like Atum, Khephir was a self-created god. The scarab lays its eggs in a ball of dung and rolls it to hide in a safe place. From this unlikely substance the Egyptians observed new life emerging, seemingly from the Earth. Hence he was a god of creation and rebirth.
KHNUM Attributes: A very ancient deity. As a water god he was closely associated with the annual flooding of the Nile. His name means to create. He was the creator of all things that are and all things that shall be. He created the gods and he fashioned mankind on a potterswheel. Representation: A ram headed man.
MAAT Goddess of Truth, Justice and Universal Order. She is depicted as a tall woman wearing a crown surmounted by a huge ostrich feather. Her totem symbol is a stone platform or foundation, representing the stable base on which order is built. The word, Maat translates "that which is straight." it implies anything that is true, ordered, or balanced. She was the female counterpart of Thoth. We know she is a very ancient goddess because we find her in the boat of Ra as it rose above the waters of the abyss of Nu on the first day. Together with Tihuti (Thoth by Greeks), they charted the daily course of the sun god Ra. She is sometimes called the 'Eye of Ra' or the 'Daughter of Ra'.
MAFDET A woman with the head of a cheetah, her hair braided and ending in scorpion tails. Sometimes she wears a headdress of snakes. Description: The ancient Egyptians revered felines as sacred for many centuries apparently, as Mafdet is a very old goddess, dating to around the First Dynasty. She was prayed to for protection against scorpion stings and snakebite, and invoked in healing rituals for those who had been afflicted by such. .
Mafdet, "The Runner", was a panther goddess whose ferocity prevails over snakes and scorpions. the scratch of her claws is lethal to snakes, so symbolically the harpoon of the king becomes Mafdet's claws for decapitating his enemies in the Underworld. When Mafdet is described as leaping at the necks of snakes, the imagery seems to suggest her form takes on that of a mongoose. In one epithet, Mafdet wears braided locks, probably a reference to her displaying the jointed bodies of the scorpions which she has killed.
Mafdet was depicted in the Pyramid texts as killing a snake. Her fame came mainly in the Old Kingdom and not so much is known about her except that she stood for (official) power. She could appear as a lynx, a leopard or a cheetah, but normally she was shown as a woman dressed in a cat's skin. She fought snakes and scorpions and evildoers in general and could be seen as a cat climbing up a pool (by some said to be used for executions), and if so thereby manifesting the judicial authority.
MIN Attributes: In early times Min was a sky-god whose symbol was a thunderbolt. His title was Chief of Heaven. Well into the Middle Kingdom he was identified with the falcon-god Heru the Elder. Above all, Min was worshipped by men as a fertility god, a bestower of sexual powers. He was also seen as a rain god that promoted the fertility of nature, especially in the growing of grain.
During the Min festivals that celebrated the beginning of the planting season, we find renderings of pharaohs ceremonially hoeing the ground and watering the fields under the supervision of Min. Likewise at the Min festival that marked the beginning of the harvest season, the pharaoh was seen reaping the grain.
Despite his fertility associations, Min was also known as Lord of the Eastern Desert. In this role he was the protector of the caravan routes from his cult center at Koptos to the Red Sea. As the Lord of Foreign Lands he was the protector of nomads and hunters.
* Representation: Min was pictured as a bearded, ithyphallic man, with his legs close together. He wore two tall feathers, the same headdress that we find Amun wearing. His arm is raised, holding a whip, or a thunderbolt. In the New Kingdom he was represented as a white bull. Relations: Son of Ra or of Shu.
MUT Mother Goddess of the New Kingdom.Wife of Amen, Vulture Goddess.Mut (Maut) was the mother goddess, the queen of the gods at Waset (Thebes), arising in power with the god Amen. She came to represent the Eye of Ra, the ferocious goddess of retribution and daughter of the sun god Ra. Originally a local goddess, probably from the delta area, she became a national goddess during the New Kingdom and was adored at one of the most popular festivals at the time - the Festival of Mut.
NEBETHETEPET A goddess of Heliopolis whose name 'mistress of the offerings' conceals a more intellectual concept. Like Iusaas she is a feminine counterpart to the male creative principle embodied in the sun-god Atum. She is therefore transformed from merely a manifestation of Hathor at Heliopolis into an integral element of the creator-god, namely the hand with which he grips his phallus prior to bringing the Egyptian cosmos into being.
NEFERTEM Patron of: the rising of the sun. Appearance: a man with a crown of lotus blossoms. Nefertem was the god of the sunrise who helped to bring the sun into the sky where Ra was. According to myth, he had no father and no mother, instead being born from a lotus blossom. Nefertem had no formal priesthood or temple. His primary devotion seems to have been in the form of small statues of him carried by people, similar to modern saints medals.
NEHEBKAU - NEHEBU- KAU A snake-god, 'He who harnesses the spirits', whose invincibility is a source of protection both in Egypt and in the Underworld. Looking like a serpent but with human arms and legs, Nehebkau lurked in the Underworld as a constant menace to gods and men. He was however a subject of Ra and would often give food to the dead. He is sometimes shown with two heads at one end of his body and another head at the other end.
Neith Nit (Net, Neit, Neith) was the predynastic goddess of war and weaving, the goddess of the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the patron goddess of Zau (Sau, Sai, Sais) in the Delta. In later times she was also thought to have been an androgynous demiurge - a creation deity - who had both male and female attributes. The Egyptians believed her to be an ancient and wise goddess, to whom the other gods came if they could not resolve their own disputes.
NEKHEBET - NEKHEBET - NECHBET Guardian goddess of Upper Egypt who looked after children and mothers.A woman with the head of a vulture. Nekhbet () was the predynastic vulture goddess who was originally a goddess of a city, but grew to become patron of Upper Egypt, a guardian of mothers and children, and one of the nebty (the 'two ladies') of the pharaoh. "She of Nekhb", named after the town Nekhb (El Kab) , was a local goddess who, with the rise of the pharaohs, became the great goddess of all of Upper Egypt, while the other 'lady', Uatchet (Uatch-Ura, Wadjet), became goddess of Lower Egypt. These two goddesses were linked closely together due to the Egyptian idea of duality - there must be a goddess for both of the Two Lands. Nekhbet became Upper Egypt (the south) personified.
NEPHTHYS Attributes: Her name means 'Lady of the House' it's thought to be referring to Asar's Palace. Nephthys conceived no children with her husband Set. Her son, Anpu was conceived from a union with Asar. It is said that she tricked Osiris into this union by making him drunk, or by disguising herself as Aset. Fearing Set's anger, Nephthys hides the infant in the Delta marshes shortly after his birth. Set murders his younger brother Asar and Nephthys flees in fear. She finds her sister, Aset, and helps in the search for Asar's body. Nephthys tells her sister about the infant. During the search for Asar, Aset finds Anpu and adopts him. After finding the body of Asar, she helps Aset embalm him. The two sisters turn into birds and fly about mourning over the dead body. She is often rendered on the head of coffins, as Aset is rendered at the foot, with long wings spread to protect the deceased.
Representation: A woman wearing on her head the hieroglyphic symbol of her name.
Relations: Daughter of Nut and Geb. Sister in kind to Asar, Aset, and Set.Wife of Set, mother of Anpu, Aunt of Heru.
NUT NUIT Nut was the Goddess of heavens and sky.Nut represents resurrection. She was the consort of Geb, God of the primal waters. Her name is pronounced 'Noot'. 'Nuit' means 'night.She was the daughter of the air god, Shu and water goddesses, Tefnut. Nut was typically depicted as a woman with blue skin - her body covered with stars - standing on all fours - leaning over her husband, Geb - representing the sky arched over the Earth. Blue represents the blueprint of reality based on Sacred Geometry
OSIRIS - WESIR - ASAR - ASAR UN-NEFER God of Resurrection, The Underworld and The Judge of Dead. God Of The Perfect Black Skin. First child of of Geb and Nut Brother of Seth, Nephthys, and Isis who was also his wife.Father of Horus by Isis Father of Anubis by Nephthys who seduced him. Osiris ruled the world of men in the beginning, after Ra had abandoned the world to rule the skies, but he was murdered by his brother Seth. Through the magic of Isis, he was made to live again. Being the first person to die, he subsequently became lord of the dead. His death was avenged by his son Horus, who defeated Set and cast him out into the desert to the West of Egypt (the Sahara).
Prayers and spells were addressed to Osiris throughout Egyptian history, in hopes of securing his blessing and entering the afterlife which he ruled; but his popularity steadily increased through the Middle Kingdom. By Dynasty 18 he was probably the most widely worshipped god in Egypt. His popularity endured until the latest phases of Egyptian history; reliefs still exist of Roman emperors, conquerors of Egypt, dressed in the traditional garb of the Pharaohs, making offerings to him in the temples.Osiris is regarded as the dead king that watches over the nether world and is rejuvenated in his son Horus. As the symbol of eternal life he was worshipped at Abydos and Philae. This ancient Egyptian god's annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature. His domain is the Duat - the Egyptian Underworld. Originally he was a vegetation god closely linked to corn; later god of the dead, the supreme funerary deity.
PAKHET Patron of: inner strength, especially that of women.Appearance: a woman with the head of a lioness.Pakhet in all likelihood was a combination of Bast and Sekhmet. As her cult was centered in Middle Egypt, between the cult areas of Bast and Sekhmet, this may be the case. Her attributes of both ferocity and femininity further lend strength to this conclusion.
PELICAN The Pelican found in livestock scenes on the walls of courtiers' tombs, figures in royal funerary texts from the Pyramid Age as a protective symbol against snakes. The description of the Pelican falling into the Nile seems connected with the idea of scooping up in its prominent beak hostile elements under the guise of fish- a concept comparable to the dragnets and bird nets used for trapping sinners in the Underworld.
That the Pelican is a divinity must be assumed from the reference to it in the Pyramid Texts as the 'mother of the king', a role which in religious documents can only be ascribed to a goddess. In non-royal funerary papyri the Pelican has the power of prophesying a safe passage for a dead person in the Underworld. The open beak of the Pelican is also associated with the ability of the deceased to leave the burial chamber and go out into the rays of the sun, possibly an analogy made between the long cavernous beak of the pelican and the tomb shaft.
PTAH - PTEH PETEH God of creation and rebirth, craftsmen, artisans and artists designers, builders, architects, masons, and metal workers.Master architect of the universe.The origin of Ptah's name is unclear, though some believe it to mean 'opener' or 'sculptor'. As a god of craftsmen, the latter is probably correct. He was a patron of the arts, protector of stonecutters, sculptors, blacksmiths, architects, boat builders, artists and craftsmen. His high priest was given the title wr khrp hmw, 'Great Leader of Craftsmen', and his priests were probably linked to the different crafts.His wife is said to be Bast or Sekhmet. Their children are Nefertem, Mahes, and Imhotep.
RA Ra or sometimes called Re (where the sun word Ray also come from), was the Egyptian sun god of the sun people (africans), who was also often referred to as Ra-Horakhty, meaning Re (is) Horus of the Horizon, referring to the god's character. The early Egyptians believed that he created the world, and the rising sun was, for them, the symbol of creation. The daily cycle, as the sun rose, then set only to rise again the next morning, symbolized renewal and so Re was seen as the paramount force of creation and master of life. His closest ally is Ma'at, the embodiment of order and truth.
Ra was also closely connected to the Pharaoh, Egypt's king. While the king ruled earth, Re was the master of the universe so they were of the same nature and were in effect a mirror image of each other. Interestingly, up until the 2nd Dynasty, there is an absence of references on Ra, but his development began in the late 2nd Dynasty and matured through the 5th Dynasty. Re became more and more associated with the king, who was both human and a god at once, embodied in the falcon named Horus and by the 4th Dynasty, referred to as the son of Ra. Hence, a relationship also developed between Heru and Ra as they were merged in the symbol of a winged sun disk, an icon that remained constant in Temples and religious monuments through the end of Egyptian history.
Ra's early worship really became very significant during the 5th Dynasty, when kings not only erected pyramids aligned to the rising and setting sun, but also built solar temples in honor of Ra. This sort of temple must have been a difficult conception for the Egyptians, because Re never had a sanctuary with a cult statue. Instead, his image was the sun itself, so the sun temples were centered upon an Obelisk over which the sun rose, and before the obelisk would be onan alter for his worship. However, the most significant early solar temple was probably erected at Heliopolis, where a pillar resembling an obelisk made up part of the hieroglyphs for the city's name, Iwn. Unfortunately, that structure is now completely destroyed by white and Aryan-asian invaders.
These 5th Dynasty rulers were also responsible for the first Pyramid Texts during the Old Kingdom, a collection of spells describing the journey of the dead pharaoh through the underworld. These texts were some of the first decorations inscribed in Pyramids, and are an important source of information on the sun god.
SEKHMET - SAKHMET - SEKHET NESERT She Who Is Powerful - Eye of Ra. Goddess of divine retribution, vengeance, conquest and war. Sekhmet is usually portrayed as a woman with the head of a lioness. Sometimes the linen dress she wears exhibits a rosetta pattern over each nipple, an ancient leonine motif that can be traced to observation of the shoulder-knot hairs on lions. She is daughter of the sun-god Ra.Sekhmet is closely linked to the Uraeus (Buto or Wadjyt) in her role as the fire-breathing, 'Eye of Ra'. The pyramid texts themselves mention that the King or Pharaoh was conceived by Sekhmet, Herself.
Seshat, The Scribe The Queen of Feminine Spirits- Seshat is the Goddess of Libraries, all forms of Writing and the Measurement of Time.She wears a leopard skin dress as her high statue in the royal african priestess hood.The symbol over her head is a seven-pointed star or a rosette above which is a pair of inverted cow's horns suggesting a crescent moon.
SET - SETH SUETEKH Son of Geb and Nut. Brother in kind to Isis, Nephthys, and older brother of Asar. The husband of Nephthys or sometimes the husband of Taurt.Man with the head of an unknown animal. Sometimes he takes the form of a crocodile. He is represented as a hippopotamus or a black wild boar in his battles with Heru, his nephew. Red of hair and eyes, darkest of skin, of drought, of destruction, thunder and storm. Set tore himself from his mother's womb in his hurry to be born. Every month Set attacks and devours the moon (new moon period), the sanctuary of Asar and the gathering place of the souls of the recently dead.
Shesmu Shesmu (Shezmu, Shesemu, Shezmou, Shesmou, Sezmu, Sesmu, Schesmu, Schezemu) was an ancient Egyptian demon-god of the underworld. He was a slaughtering demon, god of precious oils for beauty and embalming and a god of the wine press. He was thought to be a helper of the justified dead, offering them alcoholic red wine to drink. Yet he was also seen to be a demon who would tear off the head of a wrongdoer, throwing the head into the wine press to squeeze out the blood as if it was grape juice.
Shesmu's dual personality was evident from the texts in the Pyramid of Unas and the Book of the Dead. Throughout Egyptian history, from the early dynastic times through to the Roman period he was seen as both a kind benefactor to the good and a cruel dispatcher of those who deserved it.
The Egyptians depicted him as a full man, a lion-headed man or as a hawk. On the list of Decans (star groups into which the night sky was divided, with each group appearing for ten days annually) at the temple of Hathor at Dendera, Shesmu appeared as a man on a boat with a uraeus on top of his head, between two stars. When writing about the Shesmu Decan, the star hieroglyph () was added to his name.
Writing was invented in ancient Egypt about 3200 BC. Wine had been manufactured earlier than this date because the wine press served as one of the first hieroglyphs. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs used specialized terms for grapes, specifically: (yrp), raisins (wnsy), grapevines (yarrt), and wine press (smw).
- Reading 11 - Wine (Part 1), Louis E. Grivetti
Shesmu's name includes the word 'wine press' which could be spelled out as smw () or as the hieroglyph of the wine press () which is also read as smw.
The connection between wine and blood, and thus between helper god and punishing demon, came from the red wine the Egyptians drank. The white variety of wine appeared in the Middle Kingdom, and was a favourite of the Greeks. It was this red wine - or blood - that Shesmu offers the pharaoh in the Pyramid Texts and the deceased in their travels.
..."As concerning 'the night when the sentences of doom are promulgated,' it is the night of the burning of the damned, and of the overthrow of the wicked at the Block, and of the slaughter of souls."
Who is this [slaughterer of souls]?
"It is Shesmu, the headsman of Asar.
"[Concerning the invisible god] some say that he is Apep when he riseth up with a head bearing upon it [the feather of] Ma'at (Truth). But others say that he is Horus when he riseth up with two heads, whereon one beareth [the feather of] Ma'at, and the other [the symbol of] wickedness. He bestoweth wickedness on him that worketh wickedness, and right and truth upon him that followeth righteousness and truth.
"Others say that he is Heru-ur (the Old Horus), who dwelleth in Sekhem; others say that he is Thoth; others say that he is Nefertem; and others say that he is Sept who doth bring to naught the acts of the foes of Nebertcher.
- The Book of the Dead
SHU Shu (Shoo) was the god of dry air, wind and the atmosphere. He was also related to the sun, possibly as an aspect of sunlight. He was the son of the creator god, father of the twin sky and the earth deities and the one who held the sky off of the earth. He was one of the gods who protected Ra on his journey through the underworld, using magic spells to ward off Ra's enemy, the snake-demon Apep. As with other protector gods, he had a darker side - he was also a god of punishment in the land of the dead, leading executioners and torturers to kill off the corrupt souls. His name might be derived from the word for dryness - shu, the root of words such as 'dry', 'parched', 'withered', 'sunlight' and 'empty'. His name could also mean 'He who Rises Up'.
Sobek Sobek (Sobeq, Sebek, Sochet, Suchos) was an ancient god of crocodiles, first mentioned in the Pyramid Texts. His worship lasted till Roman times, the people of Egypt worshiping him to gain his protection and strength, or reviling him and killing the crocodiles of the area because of the evil that they could do. To his worshipers, he was a god who created the Nile, a god of fertility and rebirth, and the symbolic strength of the ruler of Egypt.
The ancient goddess of war, Neith, was revered as the goddess of wisdom. At different periods she was identified with Athena, noted as the sister of Isis, and named the protector of Duamutef. Neith was the mother of Sobek.
Depicted either as a crocodile-headed man or as a full crocodile, Sobek was shown wearing a plumed headdress with a horned sun disk or the atef crown. In his hands he was shown to carry a was sceptre and the ankh sign of life. His sacred animal, the crocodile, was both revered and reviled by the people of Egypt - in some areas, a tame crocodile was worshiped as the god Sobek himself, while in other places the reptiles were killed. The Egyptians seemed to both respect and fear the power of the crocodile, and as the result of this, Sobek was seen as an ambivalent creature.
Sobek was most popular in the city of Arsinoe. In fact, the Greeks renamed the city Crocodilopolis. Ancient black Egyptians would keep crocodiles in pools and temples. They ornamented the crocodiles with jewels in honor of their beloved god, Sobek. The people of ancient Egypt worshiped Sobek in order to appease him, the crocodiles, and to insure the fertility of their people and crops.
Tatenen The Egyptian god Tatenen, sometimes written as Tatjenen, symbolizes the emergence of silt from the fertile Nile after the waters of the inundation recede. The meaning of his name is uncertain but may possibly mean "the rising earth" or "exalted earth".
He is usually depicted as entirely human (though with the beard of a god) in appearance, though he may be shown wearing a twisted ram's horn with two tall plumes (ostrich feathers), sometimes surmounted with sun disks, on his head. However, his face and limbs are often painted green in order to represent his connection as a god of vegetation. Furthermore, he could also be a she. One papyrus in the Berlin Museum calls Tatenen "fashioner and mother who gave birth to all the gods".
Taweret (Taueret, Taurt, Toeris, Ipy, Ipet, Apet, Opet, Reret) The Great Female.Taweret was the ancient Egyptian goddess of maternity and childbirth, protector of women and children. Like Bes, she was both a fierce demonic fighter as well as a popular deity who guarded the mother and her newborn child.
She was depicted as a combination of a crocodile, a pregnant hippopotamus standing on her hind legs with large breasts and a lion. Unlike the composite demoness Ammut, her head and body were that of the hippo, her paws were that of the lion, and her back was the back of a crocodile. All of these animals were man killers, and as such she was a demoness.
TEFNUT Tefnut (Tefenet, Tefnet) was the lunar goddess of moisture, humidity and water who was also a solar goddess connected with the sun and dryness (more specifically, the absence of moisture). She was the daughter of the creator god, mother of the twin sky and the earth deities and the 'Eye of Ra' as well as a creative force as the 'Tongue of Ptah'. Her name itself is related to water - tf is the root of the words for 'spit' and 'moist'. Her name translates to something like 'She of Moisture'.
Tefnut was generally shown as a woman with a lion's head, or as a full lioness. She was occasionally shown as a woman, but this is rare. She was shown with the solar disk and uraeus, linking her with the sun. She was often shown holding a sceptre and the ankh sign of life.
Related to moisture, she was also linked to the moon, as were other deities of moisture and wetness. She was originally thought to be the Lunar Eye of Ra and thus linked to the night sky as well as to dew, rain and mist.
As with other water deities, she took on some form of a goddess of creation. As the 'Tongue of Ptah', she was one of the gods in Mennefer (Hikuptah, Memphis) who helped Ptah - that city's main god - with creation by carrying out his will. Yet in the cities of Iunu (On, Heliopolis) and Waset(Thebes) she was more of a female form of her husband-brother Shu, whose main task was to start the sexual, creative cycle and give birth to Shu's children.
Atem is he who masturbated in Iunu. He took his penis in his grasp that he might create orgasm by means of it, and so were born the twins Shu and Tefnut.
- Pyramid Text 1248-49
Tefnut and Shu - god of dry air - were the children of Atem (a form of the sun god Ra), who in turn created the twins Nut and Geb. Originally, though, rather than being paired with Shu, she had been paired with a god called Tefen. Other than his name, little is known about this Tefen. It seems, though, that he and Tefnut were linked together in connection with the goddess Ma'at:
"Tefen and Tefnut have weighed Unas and Ma'at has listened, and Shu has born witness."
- Pyramid Text of Unas
During the Middle Kingdom Tefnut became connected to Ma'at, and as such this goddess is sometimes seen assisting Shu in his task of holding Nut above Geb. More often he is alone in the task.
"O Amen-Ra, the gods have gone forth from thee. What flowed forth from thee became Shu, and that which was emitted by thee became Tefnut ... thou was the lion god of the twin lion gods (Shu and Tefnut)."
- The Gods of the Egyptians, E. A. Wallis Budge
One story says that Shu and Tefnut went to explore the waters of Nun. After some time, Ra believed that they were lost, and sent the his Eye out into the chaos to find them. When his children were returned to him, Ra wept, and his tears were believed to have turned into the first humans.
THOTH- TIHUTI Tihuti was the wisest of the Kemetic gods. His other names include -Djhuty, Djehuty, Dhouti, Djehuti, Tehuty, Tehuti, Thout, Zehuti, Sheps, Lord of the Khemenu. Tihuti was usually depicted with the head of an Ibis bird.He was the Scribe who wrote the story of our Reality then placed it into grids for us to experience and learn.He was also called the God of the Moon. He created everything.He was sometimes depicted as a seated baboon-headed dog.
The Greek name Thoth means 'Truth' and 'Time'. Thoth was the Master architect who created the blueprint of our reality based on the mathematics of sacred geometry. It is here - in the Duality of our experience - reflected in gods and goddesses, the landscapes of Egypt including the pyramids and temples - the myths and metaphors - that we experience time and emotions.
According to Thoth, the Great Pyramid and all of the sacred sites in Egypt were built following the geometries of the human body. Just as there are black-light and white-light spirals that come off the human body, so there are similar spirals that come out of the Great Pyramid. One of these spirals used to pass through one end of the sarcophagus that is in the Kings Chamber.
Originally, Thoth was a god of creation, but was later thought to be the one who civilized men, teaching them civic and religious practices, writing, medicine, music and was a master magician. He took on many of the roles of Seshat, until she became a dual, female version of Thoth. Thoth was believed to be the inventor of astronomy, astrology, engineering, botany, geometry, land surveying. Thoth's priests claimed Thoth was the Demi-Urge who created everything from sound.
Thoth supposedly overcame the curse of Ra, allowing Nut to give birth to her five children, with his skill at games. It was he who helped Isis work the ritual to bring Osiris back from the dead, and who drove the magical poison of Set from her son, Horus with the power of his magic. He was Horus' supporter during the young god's deadly battle with his uncle Set, helping Horus with his wisdom and magic. It was Thoth who brought Tefnut, who left Egypt for Nubia in a sulk after an argument with her father, back to heaven to be reuinted with Ra.
When Ra retired from the Earth, he appointed Thoth and told him of his desire to create a Light-soul in the Duat and in the Land of the Caves, and it was over this region that the sun god appointed Thoth to rule, ordering him to keep a register of those who were there, and to mete out just punishments to them. Thoth became the representation of Ra in the afterlife, seen at the judgment of the dead in the 'Halls of the Double Ma'at'.
The magical powers of Thoth were so great, that the Egyptians had tales of a 'Book of Thoth', which would allow a person who read the sacred book to become the most powerful magician in the world. The Book which "the god of wisdom wrote with his own hand" was, though, a deadly book that brought nothing but pain and tragedy to those that read it, despite finding out about the "secrets of the gods themselves" and "all that is hidden in the stars".
He was one of the earlier Egyptian gods, thought to be scribe to the gods, who kept a great library of scrolls, over which one of his wives, Seshat (the goddess of writing) was thought to be mistress. He was associated by the Egyptians with speech, literature, arts, learning. He, too, was a measurer and recorder of time, as was Seshat. Believed to be the author of the spells in the Book of the Dead, he was a helper (and punisher) of the deceased as they try to enter the underworld. In this role, his wife was Ma'at, the personification of order, who was weighed against the heart of the dead to see if they followed ma'at during their life.
Thoth was usually depicted as an ibis headed man or as a full ibis, or with the face of a dog-headed baboon and the body of a man or, again, as a full dog-headed baboon. The ibis, it is thought, had a crescent shaped beak, linking the bird to the moon. The dog-headed baboon, on the other hand, was a night animal that was seen by the Egyptians who would greet the sun with chattering noises each morning just as Thoth, the moon god, would greet Ra, the sun god, as he rose.
In keeping with his many attributes, he was depicted with a variety of symbols. As a god of Egypt, he carried the ankh, the symbol of life, in one hand, and in the other he held a scepter, the symbol of power. In the 'Book of the Dead', he was shown holding a writing palette and reed pen to record the deeds of the dead. As voice of the sun-god Ra, he carried the utchat, or Eye of Ra, the symbol of Ra's ubiquitous power. Thoth was variously depicted wearing a crescent moon on his headdress, or wearing the Atef crown, or sometimes, the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
The god of learning was also reputed to have been a god of measuring the passage of time, and thus the god of the Egyptian calendar. It is interesting to note that although he is related to the solar calendar in myth (where he won five extra days a year from Khonsu, the moon god), but that as a moon god himself, he was very probably closely related to Egypt's original lunar calendar:
Thoth's center of worshiped was at Khmunu (Hermopolis) in Upper Egypt, where he was the creator god, in Ibis form, who laid the World Egg. The sound of his song was thought to have created four frog gods and snake goddesses who continued Thoth's song, helping the sun journey across the sky.
He was the 'One who Made Calculations Concerning the Heavens, the Stars and the Earth', the 'Reckoner of Times and of Seasons', the one who 'Measured out the Heavens and Planned the Earth'. He was 'He who Balances', the 'God of the Equilibrium' and 'Master of the Balance'. 'The Lord of the Divine Body', 'Scribe of the Company of the Gods', the 'Voice of Ra', the 'Author of Every Work on Every Branch of Knowledge, Both Human and Divine', he who understood 'all that is hidden under the heavenly vault'. Thoth was not just a scribe and friend to the gods, but central to order - ma'at - both in Egypt and in the Duat. He was 'He who Reckons the Heavens, the Counter of the Stars and the Measurer of the Earth'. Ancient Egyptians believed that before the dead could enter the Afterworld, their hearts were weighed against a feather of truth to determine whether they had led good and honest lives. In his role as scribe, Thoth recorded the results of each judgment.
Another wife of Thoth's was Ma'at. Her name means Truth, Justice, and perhaps even Tao or Balance. Ma'at was represented as a tall woman with an ostrich feather in her hair. She was present at the judgment of the dead; her feather was balanced against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led a pure and honest life. All civil laws in Ancient black Egypt were held up to the "Law of Ma'at " which essentially was a series of old conceptions and morals dating to the earliest times in Egypt. A law contrary to the Law of Ma'at would not have been considered valid in Egypt. She was also known by other names - Nehemaut or Sophia.
WADJET Serpent Goddess of Justice, Time, Heaven and Hell. Wadjet (Wadjyt, Wadjit, Uto, Udjo, Uatchet, Edjo, Buto) was the pre-dynastic cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, a goddess originally of a city who grew to become the goddess of Lower Egypt, took the title 'The Eye of Ra', and one of the nebty (the 'two ladies') of the pharaoh. 'She of Papyrus/Freshness' rose from being the local goddess of Per-Wadjet (Buto) ("The House of Wadjet (Papyrus/Freshness)") to become the patron goddess of all of Lower Egypt and 'twin' in the guardianship of Egypt with the vulture goddess Nekhbet. These two were the nebty (the 'two ladies') of the pharaoh and were an example of Egyptian duality - each of the two lands had to have its own patron goddess. Wadjet was the personification of the north.
Wepwawet It was not unusual in ancient Egypt for more then one god to take the same form, with similar functions as another god. Wepwawet (Ophios, Upuaut), called the son of Isis, was one of several Egyptian deities to take the form of a canine, today often incorrectly identified as a wolf. Egyptologists now believe that he was more likely associated with the jackal, though he is often depicted with a gray or white head.
Like Anpu, Wepwawet was also a funerary deity, and was one of the earliest of the gods worshipped at Abydos. Early on, Wepwawet's worship paralleled that of Khentyamentiu, but when Osiris absorbed that god's attributes, Anubis filled his funerary role. However, with the rise of the solar cult, particularly during the 12th Dynasty, Asar was limited to the underworld and the local god and lord of the cemetery at Abydos was filled by Wepwawet, who gained the titles, "Lord of Abydos" and Lord of the Necropolis".
RITUAL/ BLACK MAGIC HOURS Sun Sunday The planetary hours are based on an ancient astrological system, the Chaldean order of the planets. This is the sequence: Saturn, Jupiter, Moon Monday Mars Tuesday Mercury Wednesday Jupiter Thursday Venus Friday Saturn Saturday
Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, then repeating endlessly Saturn, Jupiter, etc. The Chaldean order indicates the relative orbital velocity of the planets. From a heliocentric perspective this sequence also indicates the relative distance of the planets from the center of their orbits, i.e., the distance of the planets from the Sun (with the Sun switching places with the Earth in the sequence) and the distance of the Moon from the Earth. From a traditional geocentric perspective the Chaldean order also shows the arrangement of the planetary spheres. The planetary hours are not the same as the sixty minute hours beginning at midnight that we use for normal timekeeping. The planetary days are divided into twenty four planetary hours with the first hour of the day beginning at sunrise and the last hour of the day ending at sunrise of the next planetary day. The period that extends from sunrise to sunset (daylight) is divided into twelve hours and the period extending from sunset to sunrise of the next day (nighttime) is also divided into twelve hours giving the twenty four hours of the planetary day.
Accordingly, as the duration of daylight and darkness varies except at the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes, on a particular planetary day the length of the hours of the day will differ from the length of the hours of the night.
The days and hours should be observed for your rites of Magic, which can greatly influence your success or failure. To get a more accurate time according to your region and time zone visit the US Naval Observatory.
See Planetary Notations (Reference Article due soon)
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 6:00 AM Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn 7:00 AM Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter 8:00 AM Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars 9:00 AM Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun 10:00 AM Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus 11:00 AM Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury 12:00 PM Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon 1:00 PM Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn 2:00 PM Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter 3:00 PM Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars 4:00 PM Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun 5:00 PM Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus 6:00 PM Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercuy 7:00 PM Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon 8:00 PM Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn 9:00 PM Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter 10:00 PM Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars 11:00 PM Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun 12:00 AM Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus 1:00 AM Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury 2:00 AM Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon 3:00 AM Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn 4:00 AM Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter 5:00 AM Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars y Morning-
Daylight hours are best for matters of the conscious mind, including magic for leadership, intelligence and all cognitive functions. The Sun is a welcome friend to chase any shadows that may be hiding in our lives. It is regarded as a beneficial sign of divine blessing when it shines on any special occasion. Mystical pursuits during daylight hours can be empowered when combined with a southerly wind. y Night-
The intuitive, emotional self, maternal nature, healing, fertility, and Moon magic area all part of the charm of the night. Wishing on stars, dreams, the eternal nature of the spirit, and ancient mysteries come into play once the Sun has set. If your observance can incorporate the west wind, all the better. This breeze is filled with flowing water and peacefulness. y Dawn-
Beginning any ritual, spell or celebration at dawn commemorates a new beginning, freshens, warmth and renewed hope. An especially potent time for Spring observances. Magic performed at dawn can also be accentuated by working with an easterly wind, blowing from the horizon where the Sun rises. y Dusk-
Closing and ending are the messages dusk brings. But this finality is not without promise. Dusk marks a temporary change toward darkness. It is a time to look within oneself and ponder universal truths. It is an excellent time to perform rites which mark the passage of a loved one, intense personal transitions, or to mark the end of any cycle. Magic performed at dusk is aided by the northerly wind, which is cool, brining heated matters to rest and an opportunity to reconsider our actions. y Midnight and Noon-
Commonly called the "in-between" hours (or "tween-times"), hanging between night and day. The most active times for elemental creatures such as the fairy folk and disincarnate spirits. Excellent for all magic pertaining to positive modifications in your life, endings and beginnings.
The specific hours of the day also have magical associations in many cultures. Following is a brief summary of some of these:
o 1 a.m. - The first hour of a new day. Focus is on wholeness of self and the banishing of any shadows. o 2 a.m. - Ridding partnerships or relationships of negativity. o 3 a.m. - Determination, especially in matters that seem to hold you back. o 4 a.m. - Improved luck or victory over a specific set of deterring circumstances. o 5 a.m. - Encouraging growth of the psychic self. o 6 a.m. - Tenacity and perseverance, especially with something you have been putting off. o 7 a.m. - Hope, improved insight and perspective. o 8 a.m. - Personal change aimed toward the conscious mind. o 9 a.m. - Assistance for others, focusing on concrete matters. o 10 a.m. - Improving personal convictions and resolutions. o 11 a.m. - Energy directed toward transformations which may have seemed impossible.
(Noon, see above) o 1 p.m. - Self-image and personal security. o 2 p.m. - Building relationships, encouraging understanding and love between people, sexual symmetry. o 3 p.m. - Balancing matters of the body, mind and spirit. o 4 p.m. - Harmony of elements, sticking to schedules, magick to accentuate goals. o 5 p.m. - Insight to the self. Communicating with spiritual guides. o 6 p.m. - Matters of safety, protection and completion. o 7 p.m. - Diversity, blending or healing differences, gentle care towards others. o 8 p.m. - Leadership, command and guidance. o 9 p.m. - Comprehension of universal truth. o 10 p.m. - Improving the rational mind, sensibility and clear mindedness. o 11 p.m. - Coping with drastic change in a positive manner.
(Midnight, see above)
Although the below are your most likely "Power Days" please visit Cycles of the Moon and Retrogrades to make the most of your desired outcome!
Sunday- Sun (planet), health, success, career, goals, ambition, personal finances, advancement, drama, fun, authority figures, law, fairs, crops, totem animals, volunteer and civic services, promotion, the God, men's mysteries, children, buying selling, speculating
Monday- Moon- psychic pursuits, psychology, dreams/astral travel, imagination, women's mysteries, reincarnation, short trips, women, children, the public, domestic concerns, emotions, fluids, magick, spirituality, nursing, all things pertaining to water and bodies of water, antiques, trip planning, household activities, initiation, astrology, new-age pursuits, archetypes, totem animals, shapeshifting, religious experience
Saturday -Saturn- binding, protection, neutralization, karma, death, manifestation, structure, reality, the laws of society, limits, obstacles, tests, hard work, endurance, real estates, dentists, bones, teeth, farm workers, separation, stalkers, murderers, criminals in general, civil servants, justice, math, plumbing, wills, debts, financing, joint money matters, discovery, transformation, relations with older people MOON/ TIMES CHART
An Ephemeris is a day-by-day listing of the astrological positions of each planet. Ultimately, many important astrological techniques boil down to comparing your birth chart to the ephemeris and knowing how to pull information out of these tables. To most people, this is just a boring table of numbers. To me, an ephemeris is a fascinating story just waiting to be discovered. Using an Ephemeris in conjunction with Lunar aspects (below from 2012-2013) can give you a very high advantage with divinations and your life overall. Be sure to visit Retrogrades in conjunction to Power Days to make the most of your desired destiny!
Spell Timing:
Appropriate timing is very important when working with Magic and Ritual. The goal is to perform a rite or spell at the time when the forces at work in the natural world the Moon, the Sun, the Planets, the Zodiac, etc. are poised to give assistance to your cause, not work against it.
In the case of the Moon, there are thirteen Lunar Cycles per year, each with four phases. The most commonly recognized phase of each Lunar Cycle is the Full Moon also called an Esbat but the other three phases are also powerful times for magical spells to be cast. The best timing for different types of spells is as follows, along with some other helpful information for each Lunar phase:
New Moon (When the Earth's shadow has fallen over the moon, rendering it dark.):
This is the time for Scrying, looking for things that are hidden, and seeking out secrets and mysteries. Begin to plan for new beginnings.
If there are two New Moons in a given month, the second one is called the Black Moon, as is an especially powerful time for magic.
Some Goddesses appropriate for invoking at the New Moon: Hecate (for guidance in deciding which new goals to strive for) Artemis (for energy and guidance to bring new goals to fruition in the days ahead) Inanna or Persephone (for rebirth, life-changes, and new growth in the days ahead) Freya (for creativity and imagination) Brighid (for creativity, motivation and strength to begin work on new ideas and projects) Aradia (for beginning philanthropic projects to help your community, or beginning education with the goal of improving the conditions of your life)
Some Incenses appropriate to the New Moon: White Sandalwood Jasmine Lavendar Damiana Orris
Waxing Moon and First Quarter (the time when the moon grows; from New to Full):
This is the time to cast spells designed for invocation, new beginnings, and attracting things to you. It is also a good time to work on issues of self-esteem, personal balance, and integration of different aspects of the Self, or to work magic for the general good of the World compassion for mankind, healing for Mother Earth, etc.
At the First Quarter Moon, you may want to give an extra energy boost to projects, move them from the development stage to the building stage, or seek balance and pacing if you started too quick in the beginning of a project and now find it going haywire, developing too fast for you to maintain a sense of control and direction.
Some Goddesses appropriate for invoking during the Waxing Moon and at First Quarter: Artemis, Inanna or Persephone (for their continued assistance for projects you called on them for at the New Moon) Aphrodite (for self-esteem, and the confidence to follow through on developing projects) Venus (for balance and resolution of problems in growing relationships) Kwan Yin (for promotion of compassion, wisdom and healing within Mankind and the Earth)
Some Incenses appropriate to the Waxing Moon and First Quarter: White Sandalwood Rose Geranium Patchouli Vanilla
Full Moon (When the full light of the Sun is on the Moon, and it appears perfectly round and bright):
This is the time to bring all spells worked and projects begun during the Waxing Moon to fruition, or at least prepare them to move to the next stage of development. Invocation Magic will be more potent now that at any other time in the Lunar cycle.
If there is a second Full Moon in a particular month, the second one is called a Blue Moon. The appropriate magic is the same, only the available energy is much stronger.
Some Goddesses appropriate for invoking during the Full Moon: Demeter (for assistance bringing projects to completion, or to bring comfort or healing to the bereaved) Anu (for assistance bringing goals to fruition) Isis (to invoke nurturance and protection of yourself, your loved ones, projects or goals that are dear, or of Mankind of Mother Earth as a whole) Aradia (to invoke the blessings of learning, compassion, and a sense of community into yourself and Mankind as a whole) Selene (to invoke the blessings of love and happiness into your life and relationships) Inanna (to invoke fertility with the goal of motherhood) Lakshmi (to invoke abundance and growth on all levels of being, material, emotional and spiritual)
Some Incenses appropriate to the Full Moon: White Sandalwood Rose Coconut Lotus Lemon Balm Dittany
Waning Moon and Last Quarter (the fading time between the Full and New Moons):
This is the time to cast magic for purification, casting things out, banishing, releasing, and breaking old habits; also of seeking balance, winding down, learning to accept and work with the things that cannot be changed.
Some Goddesses appropriate for invoking during the Waning Moon and Last Quarter: Maat (for assistance in determining the cause of troubles and what in your life is worth furthering, and what would be best left behind) Themis (for the same assistance as can be provided by Maat, particularly with regard to relationships) Cerridwen (for assistance in gleaning wisdom from perceived "mistakes and failures") Hecate (for assistance in removing unwanted obstacles from your life so that you can be free to begin anew in the days ahead) Inanna (for guidance pertaining to soul-searching removal of the proverbial "seven veils" to reach the heart of your soul, in search for your own higher Truth and for strength to cope with the grief that comes from letting go of old habits and ideas)
Some Incense appropriate to the Waning Moon and Last Quarter: White Sandalwood Acacia Benzoin Lemongrass Verbena Rosemary Juniper
2012:
New Moon
First Quarter
Full Moon
Last Quarter January 1 January 9 January 16 January 23 January 31 February 7 February 14 February 21 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 30 April 6 April 13 April 21 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 20 May 28 June 4 June 11 June 19 June 27 July 3 July 11 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 9 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 8 September 16 September 22 September 30 October 8 October 15 October 22 October 29 November 7 November 13 November 20 November 28 December 6 December 13 December 20 December 28
2013:
New Moon
First Quarter
Full Moon
Last Quarter January 5 January 11 January 18 January 27 February 3 February 10 February 17 February 25 March 4 March 11 March 19 March 27 April 3 April 10 April 18 April 25 May 2 May 10 May 18 May 25 May 31 June 8 June 16 June 23 June 30 July 8 July 16 July 22 July 29 August 6 August 14 August 21 August 28 September 5 September 12 September 19 September 27 October 5 October 11 October 18 October 26 November 3 November 10 November 17 November 25 December 3 December 9 December 17 December 25
COLOR MAGIC/ MEANINGS White: Attributions: Gender: Either Planet: Moon Zodiac: Pisces and Aries (primary) Element: Air Chakra: First Chakra, Crown Sephiroth: Kether (The Crown)
Use to represent or honor the Moon or the Goddess (particularly in her maiden aspect) or, alternately, the Sun or the God. (Your personal interpretation is necessary here.)
Suitable for promotion of meditation, serenity, emotional healing and balance, spiritual strength, spiritual guidance, generosity, cleansing, purity, clairvoyance, and contact with the higher Self. May be used as a substitution for any other color, and because white light contains all colors, it can be used to meet any magical end.
Use to represent or honor the Moon or the Goddess.
Suitable for the promotion of purification and clarity, strength and stability, receptivity, psychic protection, astral projection, telepathy, clairvoyance, intuition, and meaningful dreams.
Very pale grey can be used as a substitute.
Yellow:
Attributions: Gender: Male Planet: Sun Zodiac: Taurus (secondary) Element: Air Chakra: Third, Solar Plexus Chakra Sephiroth: Tiphareth (Beauty; The King)
Use to represent or honor the Sun or the God, or the element of Air.
Suitable for promotion of intelligence, concentration, learning, memory, wisdom, mental accuracy, eloquence, creativity, imagination, confidence, attraction, charm, communication and persuasion.
Gold:
Attributions: Gender: Male Planet: Sun Zodiac: Virgo and Sagittarius (primary) Element: Fire Chakra: n/a Sephiroth: n/a
Use to represent or honor the Sun or the God.
Suitable for promotion of wisdom, grace, success, luck, happiness, vitality, confidence and money.
A rich yellow (the deeper the better) may be used as a substitute.
Orange:
Attributions: Gender: Male Planet: Mercury/Mars Zodiac: n/a Element: Air/Fire Chakra: Second, Sacral Chakra Sephiroth: Hod (Splendor)
Suitable for the promotion of health, strength, vitality, pride, energy, invigoration, acceleration, creativity, success, lasting prosperity, enthusiasm; especially good for ambitions concerning business, real estate or the law.
Red:
Attributions: Gender: Male Planet: Mars Zodiac: Taurus, Gemini, Leo, and Capricorn (primary); Sagittarius (secondary) Element: Fire Chakra: First, Root Chakra Sephiroth: Geburah (Severity)
Use to represent or honor the Goddess in her mother aspect, or the element of Fire.
Suitable for the promotion of passion, sex, lust, fertility, strength, courage, magnetism, energy, primal emotion, survival instinct, willpower, protection.
Pink:
Attributions: Gender: Female Planet: Venus Zodiac: Aries (secondary) Element: Fire Chakra: Fourth, Heart Chakra Sephiroth: n/a
Use to represent or honor the Goddess in her maiden aspect.
Suitable for the promotion of love, romance, relationships, communication, affection, femininity, caring, nurturing, fidelity, friendship, compassion; also excellent for fertility magic.
Purple:
Attributions: Gender: Male Planet: Jupiter Zodiac: n/a Element: Air Chakra: Sixth, Brow Chakra Sephiroth: Yesod (Foundation)
Suitable for the promotion of spirituality, power, spiritual growth, psychic abilities, influence, independence, balance, self-improvement, justice and contact with the otherworld as well as your higher Self.
Blue:
Attributions: Gender: Either Planet: Neptune/Mercury Zodiac: Aquarius (primary); Gemini and Libra (secondary) Element: Water Chakra: Fifth, Throat Chakra Sephiroth: Chesed (Mercy)
Use to represent or honor the element of Water.
Suitable for the promotion of gentle movement, peace, tranquility, harmony, accordance with the Self, prophesy, wisdom, emotion, spirituality, unity, hope and inspiration.
Green:
Attributions: Gender: Either Planet: Venus, Jupiter and Mars Zodiac: Cancer (primary); Aquarius, Pisces, and Leo (secondary) Element: Earth Chakra: Fourth, Heart Chakra Sephiroth: Netzach (Victory)
Use to represent or honor the element of Earth.
Suitable for promotion of wealth, abundance, monetary success, accumulation, employment, personal ambitions, prosperity, fertility, healing, growth and rejuvenation, good luck, and the health of the Earth, plants and trees.
Suitable for the promotion of stability, integrity, decisiveness, endurance, balance, grounding, family and the home, study, material gain, and working with familiars; especially good for locating lost objects.
Grey:
Attributions: Gender: Either Planet: Moon Zodiac: n/a Element: Water Chakra: n/a Sephiroth: Chokmah (Wisdom)
Suitable for promotion of neutrality, a fizzling-out of negativity, balance and peaceful resolution of conflicts.
Black:
Attributions: Gender: Male Planet: Saturn Zodiac: Libra (primary), Virgo and Scorpio (secondary). Element: Air Chakra: n/a Sephiroth: Binah (Understanding)
Use to represent or honor the Goddess in her crone aspect.
Suitable for promotion of meditation, spirit-working, shape-shifting, personal alchemy, divination, truth, wisdom, discipline, banishing, protection and stillness; especially good for binding and for negation of hexes.
ANCIENT CUSHITE/ INDIAN DIETIES Aditi Hindu Great Goddess, as the Woman Clothed with the Sun. Sun Goddess, Mother of all the Lights of Heaven. She gave birth to the twelve zodiacal spirits.
Ananta Indian Serpent Queen. aka Sarparajni. She enveloped all gods during their death, sleeping between incarnations.
Banka-Mundi Hunting Goddess of the Khoud. Merely uttering Her name made one fearless against jungle beasts.
Bardaichila Assamese Storm Goddess.
Bentakumari Assamese Water Goddess. First fish of the season was given to Her.
Bhasundara Tibetan Goddess of Prosperity
Bhavani Common name for Mother Goddess of India.Bestower of Existence. Evoked by women in labor, who burned perfume to honor Her.
Bisal-Mariamna Shakti of Sunlight in Mysore.Symbolized by a brass pot full of water called the Kunna-Kannadi or 'eye mirror'. Into this pot are put pepper leaves and coconut flowers, a small metal mirror leans against it.
Budhi Pallien Assamese Forest Goddess, appears as a tiger roving through the Indian jungle.
Chomo-Lung-Ma Goddess Mother of the Universe, original name of Mt. Everest.One of the oldest Indian deities.
Devi Dearly Beloved Goddess
Durga the Queen Mother, Warrior Goddess, rode tigers into battle defending Her children, the gods.
Hudigamma Hindu Mother Goddess served by eunuch priests dressed in women's clothes.
Indrani Queen of the gods.
Ista Devata Tantric Patroness of the Self.Individual Guardian Angel of the Enlightened Sage.
Kadru Serpent Goddess, Mother of the Nagas, or Cobra people.
Kali Black Earth Mother, Conqueror of Time, Goddess of fertility, death and regeneration. Dark Mother, Hindu triple Goddess of creation, preservation and destruction. Birth and Death Mother.Treasure house of Compassion, Giver of Life to the World. Her mantras brought into being the very things whose names She spoke for the first time, Originator of the creative word or Logos. A triple Goddess - Maiden, Mother, Crone.Lady of the Dead.The Ocean of Blood at the beginning and end of the world.Also known as Jagadamba.
Kauri Indo-European Swan Goddess. Cowrie shell was sacred to Her.
Khon-Ma Mother Earth, Ruler of All Spirits emanating from the Earth element.
Kundalini Serpent Goddess representing the inner power of the human body
Kurukulla Dravidian Goddess of Caverns.
Lakshmi Goddess of fortune,wealth and abundance. Portrayed as a golden skinned woman sitting or standing on a lotus, Her symbol. Hindu Goddess of Sovereignty.Source of the divine drink Soma.aka Padma, Lady Lotus. Goddess of Beauty and Good Fortune.
Manasa-Devi Serpent Goddess of Bengal, identified with the Moon, bearing the Moons's magic name Mana.
Marici Buddhist Diamond Sow, Great Goddess seated on a lotus surrounded by 7 pigs. Glorious One.Sun of Happiness.
Maya Virgin aspect of the triple Hindu Goddess, symbolized by a Spider, spinner of magic, fate and earthly appearances. The spider's web was likened to the Wheel of Fate and the spider to the Goddess as a Spinner, sitting at the hub of Her Wheel. Mother of the Enlightened One, Buddha. Her colors were white, red and black. Hawthorne, Her tree.
Nanda Devi Blessed Goddess. Mountain Mother Who gave birth to the Ganges. Nanda Devi is one of the Holiest Mountains of the Himalayan chain.
Parvati Maiden aspect of Kali.Daughter of the Mountain.Shiva's bride.Daughter of Heaven. Also known by Maya, Sati, Durga, Shakti, Privithi. Dark and colorful, ornate and mysterious. The richness of hues in Her attire as well as Her jewels symbolize Her power. She lifts Her veil to reveal Her beauty, shining like the Sun rising over the mountain of Anapurna. The cocoon, butterfly and the karmic golden wheel reflect Her deep connection with life and death, cause and effect, and transformation.
Prajnaparamita Personification of Wisdom
Prakriti Nature.Sanskrit title of Kali as female Holy Trinity, commanding the Gunas, the white, red and black threads of Creation, Preservation and Destruction. She embodied past, present, future; earth, sea, sky; youth, maturity, age.
Privithi Very ancient Earth Mother.
Sara Kali Queen Kali, Mother Goddess of the gypsies. The Mother, the Woman, the Sister, the Queen, the source of all Romany blood. Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Sarama Vedic Bitch Goddess, Mother of the brindled Dogs of Yama.The Huntress.
Saranyu Goddess Who gave birth to all animals, Mother of all Creatures. Vedic Mare Goddess, Mother of the Centaurs.
Sarasvati White skinned Goddess of poetry, music, science and learning as well as all creative arts. Inventor of the Sanscrit language. She wears a crescent moon on her brow and rides a swan or a peacock, or is seated on a lotus. The Flowing One. Inventor of all the arts of civilization: music, letters, mathematics, calendars, magic, the Vedas and all other branches of learning. Ancient River Goddess.Queen of Heaven.Mother of Waters.aka Ganga. Originally a River Goddess, She originated in the Ocean. Great culinary Goddess, She invented Soma, or Amrita (drink of bliss). Independent of nature.Goddess of sensual love, creativity, beauty, art and music. Goddess of learning and teaching
Savitri Hindu Mother of Civilization, She Who brought forth music and literature, rhythm, time, measurements, day and night, memory, conquest, victory and yoga.
Shakti Tantric title of the Great Goddess.Cosmic Energy. The Tantras say the female principle antedates and includes the male principle and this female principle is the Supreme Divinity. Tantric doctrine says mortal women are life itself, and Goddess-like, because they embody the principle of Shakti. The series of Universes appear and disappear with the opening and shutting of her eyes. (from the Lalita Sahasranamam) Final union with Shakti occurred at the moment of Death, according to Tantric mystics.
Shasti Bengali Feline Goddess, depicted riding a cat. Goddess of childbirth and Protectress of Children.
Shitala Protectress against small pox. Mothers appealed to Her for help for their children.
Sita Furrow, the Goddess Earth as the wife of Rama (Krishna).
Smashana-Kali Kali Ma as the Goddess of cremation grounds and other places of Death. Her yantra was an 8 petaled lotus with multiple repetitions of the inverted triangle. The meaning was Rebirth following Death. Her priestesses, called dakinis, arranged funerals and tended the dying.
Tara Pre-Vedic Savior Goddess, known from India to Ireland. Indo-European primal Goddess Earth. An extremely ancient festival held annually at Athens was named after Her, Taramata (Mother Tara) nicknamed The Rioting because of its wild orgiastic customs. The sacred grove of Tara in Ireland was the Goddess's genital shrine. In India, Tara is calledThe Most Revered of the old pre-vedic Goddesses. Wine is sacred to Her. Goddess of Compassion, The Diamond Sow. Diamonds are Her sacred stone. Tibetan Buddhist Great Mother. She is a Boddhisattva, an enlightened One who has vowed to incarnate until all beings have attained enlightenment. She also vowed to incarnate only as a female. She governs the Underworld, the Earth and the Heavens, birth, death and regeneration, love and war, the seasons, all that lives and grows, the Moon cycles. Green Tara is Her Nature-related aspect. Typically She is seen as a slender and beautiful woman of white complexion, long golden hair and blue eyes. She can also appear as red, black or dark blue. Her animals are the sow, mare, owl and raven. Goddess of spiritual transformation. When worshiping Tara, recognize all you see as Her body, made of green light, all you hear is Her divine speech, and all your thoughts as Her divine wisdom. Every molecule of air is Her divine energy and when you lie down, your head rests in Her lap. More on Tara
Uma The Golden Goddess, personifying light and beauty. Daughter of the Mountains, Patroness of yogic ascetism.Kali's Crone aspect.aka Prisni, Mother of the Dark Season, Daughter of Heaven. Mother Death.
Aventurine Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Air; Planet: Mercury Magical Intents: Mental Clarity, Independence, Gambling, Wealth, Prosperity, Eloquence, Self-Esteem, Career Success, Contentment, Luck, Money, also Physical Strength and Endurance.
Azurite Affinities: Gender: Female; Element: Water; Planet: Venus Magical Intents: Calming, Love, Friendship, Wisdom, Compassion, Spirituality, Psychic Ability, Mysticism, Divination, Sleep, Dreams and Communication with the Higher Self.
B
Beryl Affinities: Gender: Female; Element: Water; Planet: Moon Magical Intents: Love, Energy and Vitality and Social Influence.
Bloodstone Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Mars Magical Intents: Healing (especially of open wounds), Physical Strength, Protection, Success, Courage, Self-Esteem, Willpower, Business Success, Wealth and Prosperity, Gardening and Luck; an excellent Talisman for Men, Police Officers, Soldiers, and people recovering from Surgery.
Brass Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Sun Magical Intents: Healing, Protection, Courage, Money, Wealth and Prosperity.
C
Calcite Magical Intents: Spirituality, Centering, Peace, Purification, Protection and Vitality.
Mica Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Mercury Magical Intents: Mental Clarity, Eloquence, Communication with the higher Self, Relationships and Wisdom.
Moonstone Affinities: Gender: Female; Element: Water; Planet: Moon Magical Intents: Goddess Magic, Protection, Beauty, Sleep, Dreams, Divination, Psychic Ability, Love, Grounding and Gardening, makes a great Dieters Talisman, also good for Image Magic.
Mother-of-Pearl Affinities: Gender: Female; Element: Water; Planet: Moon Magical Intents: Protection, Wealth and Prosperity, Love, Spirituality, Happiness and Friendship.
Onyx Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Mars and Saturn Magical Intents: Protection, Grounding, Centering, Happiness, Mental Clarity, Courage, Willpower, Self- Esteem, Recovering from Addictions. Worry Stones are often made from Onyx.
Pyrite Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Mars Magical Intents: Mental Clarity, Concentration, Money, Luck and Divination.
Q
Quartz Crystal Affinities: Gender: Both; Element: Fire and Water; Planet: Moon and Sun Magical Intents: Protection, Courage, Vitality, Psychic Ability, Magical Focus, Magical Potency; also magnifies the energy of any other stone carried with it.
Quartz, Rose Affinities: Gender: Female; Element: Water; Planet: Moon Magical Intents: Friendship, Love, Fidelity, Peace, Happiness, Beauty and Self-Esteem.
Quartz, Smokey Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Sun Magical Intents: Grounding, Centering, Protection, Happiness, Mental Clarity and Dreams.
R
Rhodochrosite Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Mars Magical Intents: Mental Clarity, Vitality, Love and Peace.
Tourmaline, Red Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Mars Magical Intents: Protection, Energy and Vitality, Courage, Willpower, Success and Social Influence.
Tourmaline, Watermelon Affinities: Gender: Both; Element: Fire and Water; Planet: Mars and Venus Magical Intents: Balance, Love, Friendship, Reconciliation, Fidelity, Fertility, Virility, Success.
Turquoise Affinities: Gender: Female; Element: Earth; Planet: Venus and Neptune Magical Intents: Protection, Luck, Peace, Grounding, Centering, Stability, Friendship, Love, Courage, Healing, Growth, Business Success, Wealth and Prosperity, Wisdom, Beauty, Happiness, Compassion and Spirituality.
Z
Zircon Affinities: Gender: Male; Element: Fire; Planet: Sun Magical Intents: Protection, Healing, Mental Clarity, Integrity, Self-Esteem, Luck and Business Success.
Zircon, Brown Magical Intents: Grounding, Centering, Wealth and Prosperity, Gardening.
Zircon, Clear Magical Intents: Consciousness and Protection.
Zircon, Green Magical Intents: Wealth and Prosperity.
Zircon, Orange Magical Intents: Protection, Travel and Beauty.
Zircon, Red Magical Intents: Healing, Protection, Wealth and Prosperity, Energy and Vitality.
Zircon, Yellow Magical Intents: Happiness, Consciousness, Love, Lust and Business Success.
MAKING CANDLES/ CANDLE MAGIC
Gather the following: Paraffin wax, or scraps of left over candles. Crayons (for color), or candle dye. Candle figure. A strand of candle wick. Large bowl heat-proof. Small pot heat-proof. Wick tabs. Funnel. (optional, but makes it easier) Herbs, stones, and oils. (optional) Wooden spoon. (to stir the wax with) Wax paper or foil. (to catch wax drippings) Place wax inside small pot.
Place small pot in large bowl.
Fill pot with heat water until you reach half way up the outside of the can. You can do this also on a fire but it's more dangerous that way. After wax and color is completely melted, turn off the heat. Remember to stir your wax every so often.
Cut off a length of wick and attach it at the bottom of your candle figure with a wick tab.
Wrap the top of the wick around a pencil and support it on top of the container. Now is the time to add your herbs, stones, or oils if you desire. Be sure to place wax paper or foil under your work area before pouring your candles. Wax is not fun to scrape off of surfaces. Pour the wax into the candle figure.
After you have poured as many candles as you want, let them sit for 4-6 hours before attempting to remove them from the candle figure. (If you are having trouble getting the candles out of the figures, they will settle easier by putting them into the freezer for approx. half an hour.
After removing the candles from the containers, wipe away the oily substance and let them sit for at least another 3-4 hours to dry.
If you have left over wax in your coffee can, allow it to cool, then put a lid on it and store it away until next time.
Now you may proceed with your Candle Magic
CANDLE MAGIC
One of the simplest of magical arts, which comes under the heading of natural magic, is candle burning. It is simple because it employs little ritual and few ceremonial artifacts. The theatrical props of candle magic can be purchased at any department store and its rituals can be practiced in any sitting room or bedroom.
Most of us have performed our first act of candle magic by the time we are two years old. Blowing out the tiny candles on our first birthday cake and making a wish is pure magic. This childhood custom is based on the three magical principals of concentration, will power and visualization. In simple terms, the child who wants his wish to come true has to concentrate (blow out the candles), visualize the end result (make a wish) and hope that it will come true (will power).
The size and shape of the candles you use is unimportant, although highly decorative, extra large, or unusually shaped candles will not be suitable as these may create distractions when the magician wants to concentrate on the important work in hand. Most magicians prefer to use candles of standard or uniform size if possible. Those, which are sold in different colors for domestic use, are ideal.
The candles you use for any type of magical use should be virgin that is unused. Under no circumstances use a candle which has already adorned a dinner table or been used as a bedroom candle or night-light. There is a very good occult reason for not using anything but virgin materials in magic. Vibrations picked up by secondhand materials or equipment may disturb your workings and negate their effectiveness.
Some magicians who are artistically inclined prefer to make their own candles for ritual and magical use. This is a very practical exercise because not only does it impregnate the candle with your own personal vibrations, but also the mere act of making your own candle is magically potent. Specialist shops sell candle wax and moulds together with wicks, perfumes, and other equipment.
The hot wax is heated until liquid and then poured into the mould through which a suitably sized wick has already been threaded. The wax is then left to cool and once is this has occurred the mould is removed, leaving a perfectly formed candle. Special oil-soluble dyes and perfumes can be added to the wax before the cooling process is complete to provide suitable colors and scents for a particular magical ritual. Craft shops, which sell candle-making supplies, can also provide do-it-yourself books explaining the technicalities of the art to the beginner.
Once you have purchased or made your ritual candle it has to be oiled or 'dressed' before burning. The purpose of dressing the candle is to establish a psychic link between it and the magician through a primal sensory experience. By physically touching the candle during the dressing procedure, you are charging it with our own personal vibrations and also concentrating the desire of your magical act into the wax. The candle is becoming an extension of the magician's mental power and life energy.
When you dress a candle for magical use, imagine that it is a psychic magnet with a North and a South Pole. Rub the oil into the candle beginning at the top or North end and work downward to the halfway point. Always brush in the same direction downward. This process is then repeated by beginning at the bottom or south end and working up to the middle.
The best type of oils to use for dressing candles is natural ones, which can be obtained quite easily. Some occult suppliers will provide candle magic oils with exotic names. If the magician does not want to use these, he can select suitable oils or perfumes from his own sources. The oils soluble perfumes sold by craft shops for inclusion in candles can be recommended. The candles you use can be colored in accordance with the following magical uses:
White - spirituality and peace - Female Astrological Sign: Cancer Red - health, energy, strength, courage, sexual potency - male astrological signs: Scorpio, Aries . Pink - love affection and romance - venus female astrological sign: Taurus Yellow - intellectualism, imagination, memory and creativity - astrological Sign: Gemini Green - fertility, abundance, good luck and harmony - female or male astrological Sign: Taurus Greenish Yellow: jealousy, anger, discord Blue - inspiration, occult wisdom, protection and devotion Light Blue: tranquility, patience, health, astrological sign: Pisces Dark Blue: depression, changeability, strological Sign: Aquarius Purple - Material wealth, higher psychic ability, spiritual power and idealism - male astrological sign: Sagittarius Silver - clairvoyance, inspiration, astral energy and intuition - astrological Sign: Cancer Orange - ambition. Career matters and the law, action - male astrological sign: Leo Black: discord, evil, drawing-expelling negativity, confusion, two-toned with appropriate corresponding color M/F Astrological Sign: Capricorn Brown: neutrality, uncertainty, hesitation, female astrological sign: Libra Gray: neutrality, stalemate, negativity
If you wanted to use candle magic for healing, you would select a red candle to burn. To pass an exam, burn a yellow candle, to gain esoteric knowledge burn a blue candle or for material gain, burn a purple one. It is obvious these colors relate to the signs of the zodiac and the planetary forces.
The simplest form of candle magic is to write down the objective of your ritual on a virgin piece of paper. You can use color paper, which matches the candle. Write your petition on the paper using a magical alphabet, such as theban, enochian, malachain, etc. As you write down what you want to accomplish through candle magic-- a new job, healing for a friend, a change of residence, a new love affair, etc.-- visualize your dream coming true. Visualize the circumstances under which you might be offered a new job, imagine your employer telling you that your salary has been increased or conjure up a vision of your perfect love partner.
When you have completed writing down your petition, carefully fold up the paper in a deliberately slow fashion. Place the end of the folded paper in the candle flame and set light to it. As you do this concentrate once more on what you want from life.
When you have completed your ritual, allow the candle to have completely burned away. You do not need to stay with the candle after the ritual, but make sure that is safe and that red-hot wax will not cause damage or fire. Never re-use a candle, which has been lit in any magical ritual. IT should only be used in that ritual and then allowed to burn away or be disposed of afterwards.
If you are conducting a magical ritual, which involves two people (e.g. an absent healing for a person some distance away), then the second person can be symbolically represented during the ritual by another candle. all you need to do is find out the subject's birth date and burn the appropriate candle for that zodiacal sign. These are as follows ARIES - Red TAURUS - Green GEMINI - Yellow CANCER - Silver, White LEO - Orange VIRGO - Yellow LIBRA - Pink SCORPIO - Red SAGITARIUS Purple
BASIC INTRODUCTION TO NUMEROLOGY introduction to Using Numerology
Numerology is perhaps the easiest of the occult arts to understand and use. All you need is the birth date and the complete name of an individual to unlock all of the secrets that the numbers hold. There are eleven numbers used in constructing Numerology charts. These numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 22. Larger numbers that occur from adding the numbers in the complete birth date or from the values assigned to each name and are reduced by adding the digits together until the sum achieved is one of the core numbers. Merely add the components of the larger number together (repeatedly, if necessary) until a single digit (or the "master" numbers 11 or 22) results. Each of these numbers represents different characteristics and expressions. Master numbers are the only exception to rule of reducing to the single digit. The master numbers 11 and 22 are intensified versions of the single digit number they replace (2 and 4). These numbers suggest a potential for a high degree of learning and/or achievement very often in a more stressful environment. In many individuals, the master numbers operate at a much more tangible or practical level, becoming essentially the same as the single digit parallel. Letters and numbers, you will learn, are always one and the same. Here is a chart of the values assigned to each of the letters in the English alphabet: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This article is simply designed to help you determine the number most correctly asscociated with the spell working you have in mind. It is best to try to be consistent with the numbers for your spell; to pick one number and try to keep all the correspondences working within it. Numerical Table of Associations Number Associations 1 new beginnings, new happenings, new potentials, complete in oneself, the beginning, creative, individual, and positive 2 balances, balance of energy, gentle, natural, imaginative, romantic, couples, love 3 creativity, activity, results, ambitious, control and authority over others, moving forward 4 foundation, building, structure, stability, at rest, health 5 action, energies, conflicts, opposition, versatility, communications, quick, impulsive 6 kindness, luxury, love, friendship, money, artistic, affection, also health 7 spiritual, mystical, imagination, psychic, secret, travel, change, intuition, clairvoyance 8 karma, stability, intense, strength, loneliness, hidden feelings, secrets, institutions, hospitals and health, long term illnesses 9 fruition, accomplishment, courage, completion, very spiritual number (as in 3 x 3) and a good number to use in all spells in some fashion Other numbers of course are the "compound" numbers, which are a combination of the numbers 1 through 9. Whenever you have a compound number, you can add the digits together to reduce it down to a single digit number and thereby get its essence. This can come in handy, especially when figuring times to do circle. For example, if you plan to use 7's in your ritual, but you know that there's no way you can start the ritual at 7pm, then you can choose to use instead a number that will add up to 7, like 9:25, where 9 + 2 + 5 equals 16 and 1 + 6 equals 7. The number of herbs, or candles, or incenses, or ingredients in your spell should also be figured numerologically to be in tune with what you want to accomplish. Let's say you are looking for a new home, well, you can go with the number 1 for newness. Or you can go with the number 4 for stability, or 8 if it's a home you want to keep for a long time. Then you would choose to use that number of candles, that number of herbs in the incense, that number of the hour of the ritual, that number of minutes in your ritual bath, etc. It's a good idea to stick with one main number, and not to try to combine more than one number in one spell. As you will see as you get into the planetary hours, and the colors, and all the other attributes you have to choose from, it can get confusing enough on it's own, without adding to it by picking more than one number! Consistency is the key to good spell crafting, pick one number for one idea and work with that. It will increase your focus, and keep you on track to your goal.
Mayan/ Olmec Deities
Quetzacoatl was identified to Atlantis Egypt, Sumer, then later to Mesoamerica and Peru as Quetzacoatl.
Quetzalcoatl ("feathered snake") is the Aztec name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern Central American civilizations.
Chac Chac was the god of rain. He was a benevolent god for the Mayans who often sought his help for their crops. Chac was associated with creation and life. Chac was also considered to be divided into four equal entities. Each division represented the North, South, East, and West. Chac was also apparently associated with the wind god, Kukulcan. Some debate persists as to whether or not Kukulcan was just a variotion of Chac.
Sun God - Kinich Ahau Kinich Ahau was the Sun god. He was the patron god of the city Itzamal. Supposedly, he visited the city at noon everday. He would descend as a macaw and consume prepared offerings. Kinich Ahau is usually shown with jaguar-like features (ex. filed teeth). Kinich Ahau also wears the symbol of Kin, a Mayan day. Kinich Ahau was also know by the name Ah Xoc Kin, who was associated with poetry and music.
Yumil Kaxob The Maize god is representative of the ripe grain which was the base of the Mayan agriculture. In certain areas of Mesoamerica, like Yucatan, the Maize god is combined with the god of flora, Yumil Kaxob. The Maize god is principally shown with a headdress of maize and a curved streak on his cheek. He is also noticeable from other gods throug his youth. Despite this youth, the Maize god was powerless by himself. His fortunes and misfortunes were decided by the control of rain and drought. The Rain god would protect him. However, he suffered when the Death god exercised drought and famine.
Yum Cimil The death god was called Yum Cimil. He also could be called Ah Puch, the god of the Underworld. His body is predominantly skeletal. His adornments are likewise made of bones. Yum Cimil has also been represented with a body covered with black spots (decomposition). He also wears a collar with eyeless sockets. This adornment was the typical symbol for the Underworld.
Ixtab The suicide goddess was called Ixtab. She is always represented with a rope around her neck. The Mayans believed that suicides would lead you to heaven. Hence, it was very common for suicides to happen because of depression or even for something trivial.
Kukulcan The wind god was also known as the feathered-serpent god Kukulcan.The ancient Mayans used the doorways and windows of their buildings as astronomical sightings, especially for the planet Venus.
Ix Chel Ix Chel, the "Lady Rainbow," was the old Moon goddess in Mayan mythology. The Maya people lived around 250 AD in what is now Guatemala and the Yucatan in Mexico. Mayans associated human events with phases of the moon.
Ah Kinchil: the Sun god.
Ah Puch: the god of Death.
Ahau Chamahez: one of two gods of Medicine.
Ahmakiq: a god of Agriculture who locks up the wind when it threatens to destroy the crops.
Akhushtal: the goddess of Childbirth.
Bacabs: the bacabs are the canopic gods, thought to be brothers, who, with upraised arms, supported the multilayered sky from their assigned positions at the four cardinal points of the compass. (The Bacabs may also have been four manifestations of a single deity.) The four brothers were probably the offspring of Itzamn, the supreme deity, and Ixchel, the goddess of weaving, medicine, and childbirth. Each Bacab presided over one year of the four-year cycle. The Maya expected the Muluc years to be the greatest years, because the god presiding over these years was the greatest of the Bacab gods. The four directions and their corresponding colours (east, red; north, white; west, black; south, yellow) played an important part in the Mayan religious and calendrical systems.
Cit Bolon Tum: a god of Medicine.
Cizin (Kisin): "Stinking One"; Mayan earthquake god and god of death, ruler of the subterranean land of the dead. He lives beneath the earth in a purgatory where all souls except those of soldiers killed in battle and women who died in childbirth spend some time. Suicides are doomed to his realm for eternity.
Ekahau: the god of Travellers and Merchants.
Itzamn: "Iguana House";, principal pre-Columbian Mayan deity. The ruler of heaven, day, and night, he frequently appeared as four gods called Itzamns, who encased the world. Like some of the other Mesoamerican deities, the Itzamns were associated with the points of the compass and their colours (east, red; north, white; west, black; and south, yellow). Itzamn was sometimes identified with the remote creator deity Hunab Ku and occasionally with Kinich Ahau, the sun-god. The moon goddess Ixchel, patroness of womanly crafts, was possibly a female manifestation of the god. Itzamn was also a culture hero who gave humankind writing and the calendar and was patron deity of medicine. See also Bacab.
Ix Chel (Ixchel): the goddess of the Moon.
Ixtab: the goddess of the Hanged. She receives their souls into paradise.
Kan-u-Uayeyab: the god who guarded cities.
Kinich Kakmo: the Sun god symbolised by the Macaw.
Kisin: see Cizin
Kukulcan: the Wind god, who is recognizable in Classic reliefs is the Feathered Serpent, known to the Maya as Kukulcan (and to the Toltecs and Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl). Probably the most ubiquitous of all is the being known as Bolon Tzacab (first called God K by archaeologists), a deity with a baroquely branching nose who is thought to have functioned as a god of royal descent; he is often held as a kind of sceptre in rulers' hands.
Mitnal: Mitnal was the underworld hell where the wicked were tortured.
Nacon: Nacon was the god of War.
Tzultacaj (Tzuultaq'ah): For the Mayan Indians of central Guatemala, known as Kekch, this was the god of the mountains and valleys.
Yaxche: Yaxche is the Tree of Heaven under which good souls rejoice.
Yum Kaax: the Maize god.
AFRO-ASIATIC DIETIES CHINA AO The Four Dragon Kings Ao Chi'in, Ao Kuang, Ao Jun, and Ao Shun, gods of rain and the sea. Subjects of the Jade Emperor.
CH'ENG-HUANG God of moats and walls. Every village and town had its own Ch'eng-Huang, most often a local dignitary or important person who had died and been promoted to godhood. His divine status was revealed in dreams, though the gods made the actual decision. Ch'eng-Huang not only protects the community from attack but sees to it that the King of the Dead does not take any soul from his jurisdiction without proper authority. Ch'eng-Huang also exposes evil-doers in the community itself, usually through dreams. His assistants are Mr. Ba Lao-ye and Mr. Hei Lao-ye -- Mr. Daywatchman and Mr. Nightwatchman.
CHU JUNG God of fire. Chu Jung punishes those who break the laws of heaven. KUAN TI God of war. The Great Judge who protects the people from injustice and evil spirits. A red faced god dressed always in green. An oracle. Kuan Ti was an actual historical figure, a general of the Han dynasty renowned for his skill as a warrior and his justness as a ruler. There were more than 1600 temples dedicated to Kuan Ti.
KWAN YIN also KWANNON Goddess of mercy and compassion. A lady dressed in white seated on a lotus and holding an infant. Murdered by her father, she recited the holy books when she arrived in Hell, and the ruler of the underworld could not make the dead souls suffer. The disgruntled god sent her back to the world of the living, where Kwan Yin attained great spiritual insight and was rewarded with immortality by the Buddha. A popular goddess, Kwan Yin's temple at the Mount of the Wondrous Peak was ever filled with a throng of pilgrims shaking rattles and setting off firecrackers to get her attention.
LEI KUNG God of thunder. Lei Kung has the head of a bird, wings, claws and blue skin, and his chariot is drawn by six boys. Lei Kung makes thunder with his hammer, and his wife makes lightening with her mirrors. Lei Kung chases away evil spirits and punishes criminals whose crimes have gone undetected.
PA HSIEN The Eight Immortals of the Taoist tradition. Ordinary mortals who, through good works and good lives, were rewarded by the Queen Mother Wang by giving them the peaches of everlasting life to eat. They are: LI TIEH-KUAI Li of the Iron Crutch. A healer, Li sits as a beggar in the market place selling wondrous drugs, some of which can revive the dead. CHUNG-LI CH'UAN A smiling old men always beaming with joy, he was rewarded with immortality for his ascetic life in the mountains.
LAN TS'AI-HO A young flute-player and wandering minstrel who carries a basket laden with fruit. His soul-searching songs caused a stork to snatch him away to the heavens. LU TUNG-PIN A hero of early Chinese literature. Renouncing riches and the world, he punished the wicked and rewarded the good, and slew dragons with a magic sword.
CHANG-KUO LAO An aged hermit with miraculous abilities. Chang owned a donkey which could travel at incredible speed. The personification of the primordial vapor which is the source of all life.
HAN HSIANG-TZU A scholar who chose to study magic rather than prepare for the civil service. When his uncle chastised him for studying magic, Han Hsiang-Tzu materialized two flowers with poems written on the leaves. TS'AO KUO-CHIU Ts'ao Kuo-Chiu tried to reform his brother, a corrupt emperor, by reminding him that the laws of heaven are inescapable.
HO HSIEN-KU "Immortal Maiden Ho." A Cantonese girl who dreamed that she could become immortal by eating a powder made of mother-of-pearl. She appears only to men of great virtue.
P'AN-CHIN-LIEN Goddess of prostitutes. As a mortal, she was a widow who was much too liberal and inventive with her favors, and her father-in-law killed her. In death she was honored by her more professional associates and eventually became the goddess of whores.
SHI-TIEN YEN-WANG The Lords of Death, the ten rulers of the underworld. They dress alike in royal robes and only the wisest can tell them apart. Each ruler presides over one court of law. In the first court a soul is judged according to his sins in life and sentenced to one of the eight courts of punishment. Punishment is fitted to the offense. Misers are made to drink molten gold, liars' tongues are cut out. In the second court are incompetent doctors and dishonest agents; in the third, forgers, liars, gossips, and corrupt government officials; in the fifth, murderers, sex offenders and atheists; in the sixth, the sacreligious and blasphemers; in the eighth, those guilty of filial disrespect; in the ninth, arsonists and accident victims. In the tenth is the Wheel of Transmigration where souls are released to be reincarnated again after their punishment is completed. Before souls are released, they are given a brew of oblivion, which makes them forget their former lives.
TI-TSANG WANG God of mercy. Wandering in the caverns of Hell, a lost soul might encounter a smilng monk whose path is illuminated by a shining pearl and whose staff is decorated with metal rings which chime like bells. This is Ti-Tsang Wang, who will do all he can to help the soul escape hell and even to put an end to his eternal round of death and rebirth. Long ago, Ti-Tsang Wang renounced Nirvana so that he could search the dark regions of Hell for souls to save from the kings of the ten hells. Once a priest of Brahma, he converted to Buddhism and himself became a Buddha with special authority over the souls of the dead.
T'SHAI-SHEN God of wealth who presides over a vast bureaucracy with many minor deities under his authority. A majestic figure robed in exquisite silks. T'shai-Shen is quite a popular god; even atheists worship him.
TSAO WANG God of the hearth. Every household has its own Tsao Wang. Every year the hearth god reports on the family to the Jade Emperor, and the family has good or bad luck during the coming year according to his report. The hearth god's wife records every word spoken by every member of the family. A paper image represents the hearth god and his wife, and incense is burned to them daily. When the time came to make his report to the Jade Emperor, sweetmeats were placed in his mouth, the paper was burned, and firecrackers were lit to speed him on his way.
TU-TI Local gods.Minor gods of towns, villages and even streets and households.Though far from the most important gods in the divine scheme, they were quite popular. Usually portrayed as kindly, respectable old men, they see to it that the domains under their protection run smoothyly.
YENG-WANG-YEH "Lord Yama King." Greatest of the Lords of Death. Yeng-Wang-Yeh judges all souls newly arrived to the land of the dead and decides whether to send them to a special court for punishment or put them back on the Wheel of Transmigration.
YU-HUANG-SHANG-TI "Father Heaven." The August Supreme Emperor of Jade, whose court is in the highest level of heaven, originally a sky god. The Jade Emperor made men, fashioning them from clay. His heavenly court resembles the earthly court in all ways, having an army, a bureaucracy, a royal family and parasitical courtiers. The Jade Emperor's rule is orderly and without caprice. The seasons come and go as they should, yin is balanced with yang, good is rewarded and evil is punished. As time went on, the Jade Emperor became more and more remote to men, and it became customary to approach him through his doorkeeper, the Transcendental Dignitary. The Jade Emperor sees and hears everything; even the softest whisper is as loud as thunder to the Jade Emperor.
PACIFIC ISLANDS/ AUSTRAILIAN DIETIES
OCEANIA (PACIFIC ISLANDS AND AUSTRALIA) AGUNUA (Solomon Islands) Serpent god. All other gods are only an aspect of Agunua. The first coconut from each tree is sacred to Agunua.
ALULUEI (Micronesia) God of knowledge and navigation. Aluluei has two faces, one to see where he is going, the other to see where he has been. Aluluei makes his home on sandbars.
BUNJIL (Australian) A sky god. Bunjil made men out of clay while his brother, Bat, made women out of water. To mankind Bunjil gave tools, weapons and religious ceremony.
DARAMULUN (Australian) A sky god, a hero. There are many tales of his adventures. Daramulun is usually portrayed with a mouth full of quartz and a huge phallus, carrying a stone axe.
DREAM TIME (Australian) The period of creation when the gods brought the world and all living creatures into being.
GIDJA (Australian) Moon god. In the Dream Time, Gidja created women by castrating Yalungur, for which he was punished by Kallin Kallin. Gidja floated out to sea and ended up in the sky, where he became the moon.
GREAT RAINBOW SNAKE Also JULUNGGUL, GALERU, UNGUR, WONUNGUR, WOROMBI, YURLUNGGUR, LANGAL, MUIT and many others names. (Australian) The great giver of life who lives in a deep pool, stretches across the sky and shines with water drops, quartz and mother of pearl. In the Dream Time, the Great Rainbow Snake created all the waterways and all living creatures. The Great Rainbow Snake is the greatest of all the gods, and no wise man will dare offend him. Many pools are sacred to him and must not be contaminated with blood. Sorcerers perform their magic with pieces of quarts and mother of pearl, because their iridescence holds the life force of the Great Rainbow Snake.
HINA Also HINE (Polynesia) Goddess of darkness, who brought death to humankind by slaying the god Maui. While sailing with her brother Ru, she drifted off to the moon, liked what she saw, and decided to stay, thereby becoming Hina the Watchwoman and a patroness of travelers.
IO (New Zealand) "Io of the Hidden Face," "Io the Originator of All Things," "Io Eternal," "Io God of Love." Supreme being of the Maori, master of all the other gods, known only to the priesthood.
KALLIN KALLIN (Australian) Chickenhawk. Kallin Kallin punished Gidja for castrating his brother Yalungur, the Eaglehawk, by ambushing Gidja as he crossed a bridge and throwing him into the ocean. Realizing that Yalungur was now a woman and therefore no longer a member of the tribe, Kallin Kallin took Yalungur as his wife and so established the custom among Australian aborigines of taking wives from different communities.
KUKLIKIMOKU (Polynesia) God of war. His colors are red and yellow, and his is the crested feather helmet of the Hawaiians.
MARRUNI (Melanesia) God of earthquakes. Marruni's tail terrified his wives, so he cut it into pieces and from them made animals and human beings. MAUI (Polynesia) "Maui of the thousand tricks." A trickster and a hero god. Maui lived when the world was still being created, and fought on the side of humankind, constantly struggling to get them a better deal. Maui raised the sky and snared the sun. His death at the hands of Hina brought death into the world.
NAREAU (Micronesia) Actually two gods, Old Spider and Young Spider. Creators and tricksters. Old Spider created the world from a seashell, but the heavens and the earth were not properly separated, so Young Spider enlisted the aid of Riiki, the eel, to fix the problem. They then created the sun, moon and stars, and a great tree from which came the race of men.
OLIFAT (Micronesia) A trickster. Olifat invented the custom of tattooing. Olifat loves pranks and is constantly spoiling food, ruining fishing trips and seducing men's wives.
PELE (Polynesia) Goddess of volcanic fire and sorcery. Pele lives in Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii. Altars to Pele are built beside lava streams, though only those descended from her worship her.
QAT (Polynesia) Creator god. Qat was born when his mother, a stone, suddenly exploded. Qat made the first three pairs of men and women by carving them from wood and playing drums to make them dance. Qat stopped night from going on forever by cutting it with a hard red stone, which is the dawn. Qat sailed away in a canoe filled with all manner of wonderful things, leaving behind the legend that he would one day return. When the Europeans first came, many believed that Qat had finally come back. R
UA (Tahiti) The Abyss. God of craftsmen. Rua invented wood carving.
TAWHAKI (Polynesia) God of thunder and lightening.Noble and handsome.TU (Polynesia) "Tu of the Angry Face," "Tu the Man Eater," "Tu the Lover of War," "Tu of the Narrow Face."God of war.
WONDJINA (Australian) The primordial beings of the great Dream Time, who created the world. They are shown in rock paintings with halos and no mouths, their eyes and noses joined. The Wondjina give both rain and children, and their paintings are touched up every year so that they will continue to bring rain at the end of the dry season.
YALUNGUR (Australian) Eaglehawk. Yalungur defeated the terrible ogress Kunapipi and became the first woman.
BLACK CELTIC/ DRUIDIC (MOORISH) DEITIES
CELTIC ANGUS OF THE BRUGH Also OENGUS OF THE BRUIG God of youth, son of the Dagda. In Ireland, Angus is the counterpart of Cupid. Angus' kisses turn into singing birds, and the music he plays irresistably draws all who hear. ARIANRHOD "Silver Wheel," "High Fruitful Mother." One of the Three Virgins of Britain, her palace is Caer Arianrhod, the Celtic name for the Aurora Borealis. Read more!
BADB A goddess of war.One of a triad of war goddesses known collectively as the Morrigan. Bird shaped and crimson mouthed, Badb uses her magic to decide battles. Badb lusts after men and is often seen at fords washing the armor and weapons of men about to die in combat.
BRIGHID also BRIGIT. Goddess of healing and craftsmanship, especially metalwork.Also a patron of learning and poetry. In Wales she is Caridwen, who possesses the cauldron of knowledge and inspiration. The Celts so loved Brighid that they could not abandon her even when they became Christians, and so made Brighid a Christian saint. Read more!
CERIDWEN also HEN WEN; in Wales, BRIGHID "White Grain," "Old White One."Corn goddess. Mother of Taliesin, greatest and wisest of all the bards, and therefore a patron of poets. The "white goddess" of Robert Graves. Caridwen lives among the stars in the land of Caer Sidi. Caridwen is connected with wolves, and some claim her cult dates to the neolithic era. Read more!
CERNUNNOS Horned god of virility. Cernunnos wears the torc (neck-ring) and is ever in the company of a ram-headed serpent and a stag. Extremely popular among the Celts, the Druids encouraged the worship of Cernunnos, attempting to replace the plethora of local deities and spirits with a national religion. The Celts were so enamored of Cernunnos that his cult was a serious obstacle to the spread of Christianity. Read more!
DAGDA Earth and father god. Dagda possesses a bottomless cauldron of plenty and rules the seasons with the music of his harp. With his mighty club Dagda can slay nine men with a single blow, and with its small end he can bring them back to life. On the day of the New Year, Dagda mates with the raven goddess of the Morrigan who while making love straddles a river with one foot on each bank. Read more!
DANU Mother goddess, an aspect of the Great Mother.Another of a triad of war goddesses known collectively as the Morrigan.Connected with the moon goddess Aine of Knockaine, who protects crops and cattle.Most importantly, the mother of the Tuatha de' Danann, the tribe of the gods.
DIAN CECHT A healer. At the second battle of Moytura, Dian Cecht murdered his own son whose skill in healing endangered his father's reputation. The Judgments of Dian Cecht, an ancient Irish legal tract, lays down the obligations to the ill and injured. An agressor must pay for curing anyone he has injured, and the severity of any wound, even the smallest, is measured in grains of corn.
DIS PATER Originally a god of death and the underworld, later the cheif god of the Gauls. The Gauls believed, as their Druids taught, that Dis Pater is the ancestor of all the Gauls.
DONN Irish counterpart to Dis Pater. Donn sends storms and wrecks ships, but he protects crops and cattle as well. Donn's descendents come to his island after death.
EPONA Horse goddess. Usually portrayed as riding a mare, sometimes with a foal. Roman legionaires, deeply impressed with Celtic horsemanship, took up the worship of Epona themselves and eventually imported her cult to Rome itself. Read more!
ESUS A god of the Gauls "whose shrines make men shudder," according to a Roman poet. Human sacrifices to Esus were hanged and run through with a sword. For unknown reasons, Esus is usually portrayed as a woodcutter.
GOVANNON The smith god. The weapons Govannon makes are unfailing in their aim and deadliness, the armor unfailing in its protection. Also a healer. Those who attend the feast of Govannon and drink of the god's sacred cup need no longer fear old age and infirmity.
LUG also LUGH, LLEU A sun god and a hero god, young, strong, radiant with hair of gold, master of all arts, skills and crafts. One day Lug arrived at the court of the Dagda and demanded to be admitted to the company of the gods. The gatekeeper asked him what he could do. For every skill or art Lug named, the gatekeeper replied that there was already one among the company who had mastered it. Lug at last pointed out that they had no one who had mastered them all, and so gained a place among the deities, eventually leading them to victory in the second battle of Moytura against the Formorian invaders. (The Formorians were a race of monsters who challenged the gods for supremacy in the first and second battles of Moytura.) The Romans identified Lug with Mercury. The most popular and widely worshipped of the Celtic gods, Lug's name in its various forms was taken by the cities of Lyons, Loudun, Laon, Leon, Lieden, Leignitz, Carlisle and Vienna. Read more!
MACHA "Crow." The third of the triad of war goddesses known as the Morrigan, Macha feeds on the heads of slain enemies. Macha often dominates her male lovers through cunning or simple brute strength. MEDB "Drunk Woman."A goddess of war, not one of the Morrigan.Where the Morrigan use magic, Medb wields a weapon herself. The sight of Medb blinds enemies, and she runs faster than the fastest horse. A bawdy girl, Medb needs thirty men a day to satisfy her sexual appetite.
MORRIGAN, THE also MORRIGU MORRIGAN A war goddess, forerunner of the Arthurian Morgan La Fey? Like Odin, fickle and unfaithful, not to be trusted. A hag with a demonic laugh, the Morrigan appears as a grotesque apparition to men about to die in battle. Her name is also used for a triad of war goddesses, who are often thought of as different aspects of the Morrigan. Read more!
NEMAIN "Panic." A war goddess.
NUADHU also NUD, NODENS, LUD. "Nuadhu of the silver arm." God of healing and water; his name suggests "wealth-bringer" and "cloud- maker." At the first battle of Moytura, Nuadhu lost an arm, and Dian Cecht replaced it with a new one made out of silver. Because of this, Nuadhu was obliged to turn leadership of the Tuatha de' Dannan over to Lug. People came to be healed at Nuadhu's temple at Lydney, and small votive limbs made of silver have been found there.
OGMIOS also OGMA "Sun Face." A hero god like Hercules, a god of eloquence, language, genius.Generally portrayed as an old man dressed in a lion skin. From his tongue hang fine gold chains attached to the ears of his eager followers.
SUCELLUS Guardian of forests, patron of agriculture. His consort is Nantosvelta, whose name suggests brooks and streams. Sometimes considered synonomous with Cernunnos or Daghda.
TUATHA DE' DANANN The divine tribes and people descended from the goddess Danu. Skilled in druidry and magic, the Tuatha de' Danann possess four talismans of great power: the stone of Fal which shrieked under the true heir to the throne; the spear of Lug which made victory certain; the sword of Nuadhu which slays all enemies; and the ever full cauldron of Daghda from which no man ever goes away hungry.
HAITIAN YORUBA VODOUN DEITIES Ayida: The female counterpart Ayida: The female counterpart
Adjasou: Characterized by protruding eyes and a bad humor, lives under the mombin tree near a spring and is very fond of vermouth, rum, and cognac.
Agassu: Dahomean in origin and belonging to the Fon and Yaruba tribes. When a person is possessed by Agassu, his hands become crooked and stiffened, therefore resembling claws. In Dahomey, he is the result of a union between a panther and a woman. He is associated with water deities and sometimes takes the form of a crab. He is one of the mythical creatures who once gave assistance to the Ancestor. He is considered one of the loa masons.
Agau: Agau is a very violent god. Earth tremors and the frightening sounds associated with storms are because of Agau. The trances induced by his mounting are so violent there have been deaths associated with his brutality. When one is mounted one attempts to imitate the sounds of thunder and tremors, if they are strong enough to utter sounds under the possession. The possessed person keeps repeating, "It is I who am the gunner of god; when I roar the earth trembles."
Agwe: (Agive) He is invoked under the names "Shell of the Sea," "Eel," and "Tadpole of the Pond." Sovereign of the sea.One of the many lovers of Erzulie. Under his jurisdiction come not only all the flora and fauna of the sea, but all ships which sail on the sea. His symbols are tiny boats, brightly painted oars and shells, and sometimes small metal fishes. He likes military uniforms and gunfire. He is the protector of seafaring men. The service for Agwe is quite different from others since it is on the sea itself.
Ayezan: (Aizan, Ayizan) This is the Legba's wife. She protects the markets, public places, doors, and barriers, and has a deep knowledge of the intricacies of the spirit world. Selects and instructs certain novice houngans. When feeding her or her husband, a black or white goat or russet colored ox is offered up. Her favorite tree is the palm tree. Ayezan is symbolized by mounds of earth sprinkled with oil and surrounded by fringes of palm. Ayezan is Dahomean in origin and represented by an old woman in personification. She is one of the oldest gods and is therefore entitled to first offerings at services. She often mounts people only after her husband appears at the scene. Her mounts are never severe; therefore, she can sometimes take quite a while to spot.
Ayida: The female counterpart of Dumballah, his mate, is Ayida. She is the mother figure. She is the rainbow. Together they are the unitary forces of human sexuality. Her symbol is also a serpent. She is quite submissive and very delicate. Her co-wife is Erzullie. It is said that whoever "can grasp the diadem of Ayida will be assured wealth" (Metraux, p. 105). Also known as Ayida Wedo: her job is that of holding up the earth.
Azacca or Zaka: This is the loa of agriculture, but is generally seen as the brother of Ghede. For this reason Ghede will often come to the ceremonies for Zaka and come when Zaka has mounted someone. Zaka is a gentle simple peasant, but greatly respected by the peasants since he is a very hard worker. He is addressed as "cousin". He is found wherever there is country. He is usually barefoot, carries a macoute sack, wears a straw hat, and has a pipe in his mouth. By nature he is suspicious, out for profit, fond of quibbling, and has a fear and hatred of town folk. His vocal stylization consists of the almost unintelligible sounds of a goat. He is known for his gossip he spreads and for his "girl chasing." He is young and like to play when not working.
Bade: The loa of wind. He is the inseparable companion of Sogbo, god of lightning. He also shares his functions with Agau, another storm spirit.
Bakulu: (Bakulu-baka) He drags chains behind him and is such a terrible spirit that no one dares to invoke him. His habitat is in the woods where offerings are taken to him. He himself possesses no one. Since no one wants to call on him, people simply take any offerings that go to him and leave them in the woods.
Bosou Koblamin: Violent petro loa. Bosou is a violent loa capable of defeating his enemies. He is very popular during times of war. He protects his followers when they travel at night. Bosou's appearance is that of a man with three horns; each horn has a meaning--strength, wildness, and violence. Sometimes Bosou comes to the help of his followers but he is not a very reliable loa. When a service is held, Bosou appears by breaking chains that he is restrained. Immediately upon appearing he is given a pig, his favorite food. The ceremony in honor of Bosou always pleases a congregation because it allows them to eat. Usually a good number of people attend such a service.
Brise: Brise is a loa of the hills. He is boss of the woods. Brise is very fierce in appearance. He is very black and has very large proportions. Brise is actually a gentle soul and likes children. Brise lives in the chardette tree and sometimes assumes the form of an owl.
Congo: A handsome but apathetic loa. Content with any clothing and eats mixed foods with much pimiento, and is fond of mixed drinks.
Congo Savanne: A fierce petro loa. He is malevolent, fierce, and strong. Savanne eats people. He grinds them up as we would grind up corn. His color is white. He is a loa not to be messed with.
Dinclusin & Chalotte: These two loa are among the French "mysteries." People mounted by these gods talk perfect French and seem to be unable to speak Creole normally or properly. Chalotte often demands upon the most defined forms of ritualistic protocol. Dinclusin can be recognized by his habit of pocketing everything given to him.
Dumballah (Dumballah Wedo, Damballah): Known as the serpent god, he is one of the most popular. Dumballah is the father figure. He is benevolent, innocent, a loving father. He doesn't communicate well, as though his wisdom were too aloof for us. Dumballah is the snake. He plunges into a basin of water which is built for him, or climbs up into a tree. Being both snake and aquatic deity, he haunts rivers, springs, and marshes. Again, as the snake he is rather uncommunicative, but a loving quiet presence. Dumballah does not communicate exact messages, but seems to radiate a comforting presence which sort of sends a general spirit of optimism into all people present. Because of this, he is often sought after during ceremonies. When Dumballah mounts someone the special offering to him is the egg, which he crushes with his teeth.
Erzulie: (Ezili) Voodoo does not have a woman as goddess of fertility. Fertility is regarded as a unified principle, equally held by male and female forces. Thus Dumballah is united to his Ayida. Agwe has his counterpart in La Sirene, the Marasa; the twins are contradictory and complementary forces of nature and so on. Erzulie is the female energy of Legba. She has tremendous power and is feared as much as she is loved. Also, she has several different roles: goddess of the word, love, help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune, as well as goddess of jealousy, vengeance, and discord. She is usually known as a serpent that coiled upon itself lives on water and bananas.
Erzulie Jan Petro: Violent spirit loa belonging to the Petro tradition. Jan Petro is called upon to take responsibility for the temple where spells are on display; although she is a neutral entity, when not called upon it is the duty of the devotees to make them behave peacefully or violently, depending on their motivation for dealing with the spirits. Jan Petro as a protector of temples is very powerful; when people come to the temple they soon find out. Jan Petro likes fresh air and water; she is a sea spirit. She likes perfume and lotion-- any temple dedicated to her usually smells like lotion, for it is thrown on those things she possesses.
Ghede: (Papa Ghede) Ghede is the eternal figure in black, controlling the eternal crossroads at which everyone must someday cross over. His symbol is the cross upon a tomb. Known as the spirit of death, other spirits fear him and try to avoid him.
Baron Samedi represents the death side of Ghede (Guede). He talks through his nose, is cynical, jovial, and tells broad jokes. His language is full of the unexpected. His tools are the pick, the hoe, and the spade. He is the power behind the magic that kills. He controls the souls of those who have met death as a result of magic.
Gran Boa: Lives in the deep forest where the vegetation is wild. He is the protector of wildlife, and doesn't like to be seen. He eats fruits and vegetables all day in the woods and when called in a ceremony, he is usually not hungry but the people always have food for him anyway. He is the loa that must be called upon before one is ordained into voodoo priesthood.
Grande Ezili: An old woman, crippled with rheumatism and she is only able to walk by dragging herself along on the ground with a stick.
Ibo Lele: He is independent and hateful; proud of himself and ambitious. He likes to be exclusively served and doesn't like to associate with the other loa. He relies heavily on the people for his food, but the people are never certain what kind of food he is likely to eat.
Jean Petro: Jean Petro is a deformation of Don Pedro, the name of the Spanish slave. Jean Petro is the spirit-leader of a group of strong and violent spirits called petro. The difference between the good loa (rada) and the evil loa (petro) is still far and wide. Voodoo services are rarely held for petro loa; however, they still do occur but most services are for family and rada loa. Some say that Jean Petro was brought about by Don Pedro who was a Negro slave of Spanish origin. He acquired much influence by being denounced as the instigator of some alarming plots to overthrow the government. Because of this he symbolizes resistance, force, uprisings, and a sort of black power ideology.
Kalfu (Carrefour, Kalfou): Legba is twined with his Petro opposite. Kalfu too controls the crossroads. Actually, were it not for him the world would be more rational, a better place. But, not unlike Pandora in Greek religion and myth, Kalfu controls the evil forces of the spirit world. He allows the crossing of bad luck, deliberate destruction, misfortune, injustice.
Krabinay: Krabinay loa are petro loa. They dress all in red and do high impressive jumps. People are warned away from Krabinay. However, they are very tough and can offer a great deal of assistance to a houngan.
Legba: Old man who guards the crossroads. He is the origin of life, so he must be saluted each time a service or any other activity with the loa will begin. Legba controls the crossing over from one world to the other. He is the contact between the worlds of spirit and of flesh. He can deliver messages of gods in human language and interpret their will. He is the god of destiny and is also the intermediary between human beings and divine gods. Legba is one of the most important loa in Haitian voodoo. He is the first loa to be called in a service, so that he can open the gates to the spirit world and let them communicate with other loa. No loa dares show itself without Legba's permission. Whoever has offended him finds himself unable to address his loa and is deprived of their protection. He is the origin and the male prototype of voodoo.
Lemba: is symbolized by an iron bar.
Linglessu: This is one of the loa free masons. When feeding this loa, all meat prepared for him must be liberally salted. He prefers the ends of the tongue, ears, front teeth, and the end of a tail of a goat. When this loa mounts somebody, it is violent and his voice is highly distorted.
Linto: The child spirit of the Guede family. He induces childish behavior in those he rides. They walk clumsily, much like a baby who hardly knows how to use his legs. They babble and cry for food. The company Linto is in teases him but only in good humor.
Loco: (Loko) is the spirit of vegetation and guardian of sanctuaries. Mainly associated with trees. He gives healing properties to leaves; the god of healing and patron of the herbs doctors who always invoke him before undertaking a treatment. Offerings are placed in straw bags which are then hung in its branches.
Marasa: Twins who died in their early childhood and are innocent and capricious. They are thought to be orphans with no discipline in terms of good eating habits. They eat from twin plates and they eat all of what they are offered at once, always coming very hungry to the ceremonies. They must be fed until they are content and then they will listen to the people. They have a reputation for doing harm to those who have forgotten to provide food or who have not kept their promises, but also refuse to take responsibility for any wrong doing or illnesses.
Marinette-Bwa-Chech: Literally "Marinette of the dry arms." This is a petro loa or an evil spirit. Worship of her is not spread all over Haiti but is growing rapidly in southern parts. Her ceremonies are held under a tent and lit with a huge fire in which salt and petrol are thrown.
Obatala: Obatala is a sky loa. He is the loa responsible for forming children in the womb. Thus, Obatala is responsible for birth defects. He is also called king of the white cloth, and all his followers wear white. Obatala's favorite food is edible snails.
Ogoun: (Ogorin, Ogu-badagri) Ogoun is the traditional warrior figure in Dahomehan religion. He is quite similar to the spirit Zeus in Greek religion/mythology. As such Ogoun is mighty, powerful, triumphal. In more recent time Ogoun has taken on a new face which is not quite related to his African roots. This is the crafty and powerful political leader. However, this political warrior is much more of an image of where struggle is in modern Haiti.
Petite Pierre: is a gluttonous and quarrelsome spirit who tries to pick fights with the audience.
Petro: Comes from a new nation of spirits forged directly in the steel and blood of the colonial era. They reflect all the rage, violence and delirium that threw off shackles of slavery. The drums, dancing, and rhythm are offbeat sharp, and unforgiving, like the crack of a rawhide whip. The Bizango is an extreme form of the Petro and it is sometimes described as the wild Petro. Bizango occurs by night, in darkness that is the province of the djab, the devil.
Rada: The loa that represents the emotional stability and warmth of Africa, the hearth of the nation. Rada derived almost directly from the Dahomean deity is highly religious in nature; rite is never celebrated without the performance of Mahi dances and without honoring and invocation of Nago gods. The Rada drumming and dancing is on beat whereas the Petro is offbeat. Rada stands for light and the normal affairs of humanity.
Simbi: (Simba, Simbe, Simbi Andezo) is guardian of the fountains and marshes and cannot do without the freshness of water. Voodoo rituals are held near springs. Several of their songs mention these sorts of places. He is a very knowledgeable loa because he spends a lot of time learning about the nature of illnesses of supernatural origin and how to treat them. He is either with you or against you by protecting those who have good relations with him and turning his back on those who do not. As part of Ogou's army he is the chief of the coast guard and goes wherever he pleases.
Siren and Whale: These two loa are marine divinities, so closely linked that they are always worshipped together and celebrated in the same songs. Some people say the Whale is the mother of the Siren, others that he is her husband; others say they are used for one and the same deity. Popular opinion says the Siren is married to Agwe. When Siren turns up in a sanctuary, the person possessed by her appears simply in the role of a young coquette most careful of her looks, and speaking in French, often offending the peasant serviteurs. Both the Siren and the Whale are often viewed as "upper class."
Sobo (Sobo Kessou): Loa of strength. Sobo is a very powerful loa and well known for his bravery as a warrior. When he possesses someone, that person must dress up like a general in the army. When he addresses the congregation during a mounting it is like a general addressing his troops. Sobo is considered an important figure in voodoo mythology. He is the symbol of strength, the ideal of voodoo priests who want to be respected figures in their communities. Because of the strength he procures for his followers, Sobo's presence is continually requested to bring security and protection to the congregation. He who is with Sobo is protected against wild spirits.
Sogbo (Soybo): He is the god of lightning and the protector of flags. Sogbo is the brother of the three-horned Bosu. Sogbo is always accompanied by his companion Bade, who is the loa of the winds. These loa share functions with Agau, who is also a storm loa.
Taureau-trois-graines: His name means bull with three testicles. This loa is a product of the fanciful imagination of the people in Haiti and is considered a Creole loa. He is the great loa of the Jacmel region. His appearances are terrible; people possessed by him are seized with destructive rage and create havoc all round unless appeased by the offer of a handful of grass. This they munch at once. During trance, they bellow ceaselessly.
Ti-Jean-Petro: This is a black magic or "petro" loa that is depicted as a dwarf with one foot. Even though Ti-Jean-Petro has a French name, his roots can be traced back to Africa. He is easily comparable to a spirit that roamed through the bush. This spirit, too, was depicted as having only one leg. This loa often protects and assists black magic sorcerers. Ti-Jean-Petro also is recognized under the names of Petro-e-rouge, Ti-Jean-pied- fin, Prince Zandor, and Ti-Jean-Zandor. He has a violent and passionate nature that becomes apparent when he mounts people.
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