The practice of keeping a flame alit is sacred to the Indo-European religion, see it in Zoroastrianism and the Roman Tradition. A sacred flame must be lit for ritual purposes, the promethean flame is undying and present in all our sacred acts.
Forwarded from White Alchemy Studios
Interesting connections between Celtic mythology and the Iranian mythology of the Caucasus mountains.
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Deep Sight with John Colarusso: Narts in the Closet - E6
Legends of King Arthur and the Secrets of Odin
The transition from older Celtic lofre to King Arthur – something has happened?
Clearly some new component has crept in after the old work of Wace and Layamon.
Nart elements in Malory’s version
Round table…
The transition from older Celtic lofre to King Arthur – something has happened?
Clearly some new component has crept in after the old work of Wace and Layamon.
Nart elements in Malory’s version
Round table…
If you are wondering why is an "Indian" god so important to the European ethnic religion, you haven't learned about the Aryan Invasion yet. And if you have not done that, go do that.
Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
Ritual honoring of the gods is to be a daily part of our lives.
Forwarded from White Alchemy Studios
Comparative immortality.
In India we find the story of the substance Amrita.
Amrita is a word that literally means "immortality" and is often referred to in ancient Indian texts as nectar. "Amṛta" is etymologically related to the Greek ambrosia. Its first occurrence is in the Rigveda, where it is considered one of several synonyms for soma, the drink of the devas.
The photo is of the goddess Mohini, the female form of Vishnu, holding the pot of amrita which she distributes amongst all the devas.
In Norse mythology there is the goddess Iduna who guards the golden apples of imortality.
"Iduna, the Goddess, tended the tree on which the shining apples grew. None would grow on the tree unless she was there to tend it. No one but Iduna might pluck the shining apples. Each morning she plucked them and left them in her basket and every day the Gods and Goddesses came to her garden that they might eat the shining apples and so stay for ever young."
In Greek Mythology we have the Hesperides, the daughters of Night, who guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean in the far west of the world.
One of the twelve labors of Hercules is to go to the Garden of the Hesperides and pick the golden apples off the Tree of Life growing at its center.
In China there is the legend of Queen of the west. A goddess who guards the peach tree that grows the peaches of immortality that grows on mount kunlun. Mount kunlun considered to be a central world pillar or axis mundi.
Some common elements of these and other similar stories is that the substance of immortality is guarded by a goddess, has an association to a tree and is located at some central world pillar.
There is also some crossing over event or entering a beyond the mundane realm before this mythical destination can be reached.
In India we find the story of the substance Amrita.
Amrita is a word that literally means "immortality" and is often referred to in ancient Indian texts as nectar. "Amṛta" is etymologically related to the Greek ambrosia. Its first occurrence is in the Rigveda, where it is considered one of several synonyms for soma, the drink of the devas.
The photo is of the goddess Mohini, the female form of Vishnu, holding the pot of amrita which she distributes amongst all the devas.
In Norse mythology there is the goddess Iduna who guards the golden apples of imortality.
"Iduna, the Goddess, tended the tree on which the shining apples grew. None would grow on the tree unless she was there to tend it. No one but Iduna might pluck the shining apples. Each morning she plucked them and left them in her basket and every day the Gods and Goddesses came to her garden that they might eat the shining apples and so stay for ever young."
In Greek Mythology we have the Hesperides, the daughters of Night, who guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean in the far west of the world.
One of the twelve labors of Hercules is to go to the Garden of the Hesperides and pick the golden apples off the Tree of Life growing at its center.
In China there is the legend of Queen of the west. A goddess who guards the peach tree that grows the peaches of immortality that grows on mount kunlun. Mount kunlun considered to be a central world pillar or axis mundi.
Some common elements of these and other similar stories is that the substance of immortality is guarded by a goddess, has an association to a tree and is located at some central world pillar.
There is also some crossing over event or entering a beyond the mundane realm before this mythical destination can be reached.
Forwarded from ☀️The Sun Riders☀️
>"By slaying the Dasyus (natives), he [Indra] protected the Aryan color"- [Rig Veda 3]
>"Indra protected in battle the Aryan worshipper, he subdued the lawless for Manu, he conquered the black skin." - [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 130.8 ]
>"the thunderer who bestowed on his white friends the fields, bestowed the sun, bestowed the waters." - [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 100.18]
>"Thou to the son aof Vidathin, Rjisvan, Thou smotest down the swarthy fifty thousand, and rentest forts as age consumes garment." - [Rig Veda , Indra - 4.16.13]
>"Active and bright have they come forth, impetuous in speed like bulls, driving the black skin far away." - [Rig veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.41.1]
>The sacrificer poured out thanks to his god for "scattering the slave bands of black descent", and for stamping out "the vile Dasyan colour." - [ Rig Veda . II.20.7, II.12.4 ]
>"O'er Sire and Mother they have roared in unison bright with the verse of praise, burning up riteless men, Blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates."- [Rig Veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.73.5]
>" Indra in battles help his Aryan worshipper, he who hath hundred helps at hand in every fray, in frays that win the light of heaven. Plaguing the lawless he gave up to Manu's seed the dusky skin; Blazing, 'twere, he burns each covetous man away, he burns, the tyrannous away." - [Rig Veda , Book 1]
>"Black skin is impious" (Dasam varnam adharam)- [ Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 12.4]
>"the vile Dasyan (native) colour." - [Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 20.7]
>“ the black skin, the hated of Indra" - [Rigveda, Book 9, Soma Pavamana .IX.73.5 ]
>"Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus , the prosperer of man, the lord of the sky." - [Rigveda, Book 8]
>"Indra protected in battle the Aryan worshipper, he subdued the lawless for Manu, he conquered the black skin." - [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 130.8 ]
>"the thunderer who bestowed on his white friends the fields, bestowed the sun, bestowed the waters." - [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 100.18]
>"Thou to the son aof Vidathin, Rjisvan, Thou smotest down the swarthy fifty thousand, and rentest forts as age consumes garment." - [Rig Veda , Indra - 4.16.13]
>"Active and bright have they come forth, impetuous in speed like bulls, driving the black skin far away." - [Rig veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.41.1]
>The sacrificer poured out thanks to his god for "scattering the slave bands of black descent", and for stamping out "the vile Dasyan colour." - [ Rig Veda . II.20.7, II.12.4 ]
>"O'er Sire and Mother they have roared in unison bright with the verse of praise, burning up riteless men, Blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates."- [Rig Veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.73.5]
>" Indra in battles help his Aryan worshipper, he who hath hundred helps at hand in every fray, in frays that win the light of heaven. Plaguing the lawless he gave up to Manu's seed the dusky skin; Blazing, 'twere, he burns each covetous man away, he burns, the tyrannous away." - [Rig Veda , Book 1]
>"Black skin is impious" (Dasam varnam adharam)- [ Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 12.4]
>"the vile Dasyan (native) colour." - [Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 20.7]
>“ the black skin, the hated of Indra" - [Rigveda, Book 9, Soma Pavamana .IX.73.5 ]
>"Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus , the prosperer of man, the lord of the sky." - [Rigveda, Book 8]