The Great Lunar Cycle: The Horse Twins and the Grail: Part 7 of 12

https://taliesinsmap.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-great-lunar-cycle-horse-twins-and_30.html?m=1

Part 7: Freyr’s Horse Twin Characteristics

We come at last to a central question in our investigation:
“Does Freyr then match any of these common Horse Twin elements?”

And we uncover an ancient divine parentage controversy:
“What this shows is that there was somewhat of a controversy in Northwestern Europe about who the true father of the 'Divine Son' Horse Twin was, whether Moon God or Father Sky.”

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
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This is important to understanding why nature itself isn't divine but can be sacred. Divinity comes from the word "Tív", the root of the word "Tívar", a word for the Æsir. You can see the divine in nature but nature itself is not divine. Only the Gods are divine. This doesn't mean nature is vulgar but that there is a distinction between what is heavenly and what is earthly.

Achilles dying in Corfu

Vájra (वज्र), "the hard or mighty one", from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáȷ́ras and, ultimately, Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-, "strong".

The Vájra is a symbolic weapon in Indian religion, notably the Rigvedic, which symbolises diamond (industructability) and lightening (unstoppable force). It is mentioned in the Rigveda as Indra's weapon, with which he slaughters the unbelievers, the sinners; Dāsa.

The Great Lunar Cycle: The Horse Twins and the Grail: Part 8 of 12

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Part 8: The Welsh Cycle: Pwyll, Rhiannon and Pryderi

This part is the most challenging bend in the road to the grail, yet there will be as many revelations as mysteries.

“...this Welsh myth thus essentially stands as the Welsh Lunar Cycle, and ultimately, among other things, is believed to be the likely origin of at least one of the key features of the later Grail myth: the "wasteland."”

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
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Learn a Skill

Are you in quarantine or voluntary isolation?
Think of what our ancestors did during the long winter months.
They kept productive by honing their skills, such as textile arts or woodworking.

Is there a skill you’ve been wanting to learn or hone, thinking you just don’t have enough time?
Well, you have got it now.

Make the best of it!

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Honoring your ancestors

I spent the last weekend back in my home town, visiting family. However, I made it a point to carve out a couple of hours to visit the local cemetery many of my ancestors are buried in.

What stood out to me were all the graves with decorations, mementos, plants, etc. It had been a while since I had been there, so I forgot about this practice. What also stood out to me were all the graves that had nothing there. When was the last time these were visited?

We as a people have holidays associated with remembering the dead, honoring them and leaving meals out for them. Examples include the Celtic Samhain and the Lithuanian Vėlinės. But don’t let these be the only times you honor them. If you have the opportunity, visit their grave stones. Even if you have nothing to offer them at the time, just let them know they are still honored in this world. Let them know we still think about them. Even if they were before your time, and you never met them, let them know they are still remembered here. You carry on their legacy: to you their torch was passed.

And make sure their stone or grave site is well maintained. Too many graves I saw neglected, poorly maintained, covered in grass or obscured by weeds. It is up to us to keep their stones, not groundskeepers.

-Hariwulfaz, The Sun Riders
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The Roman Goddess Diana. She was the Goddess of the Hunt and one of the most widely followed dieties.
#RomanGoddesses
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The Great Lunar Cycle: The Horse Twins and the Grail: Part 9 of 12

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Part 9: The Welsh “Aesir-Vanir War”; Manannan as Agni

In this part, we elucidate two things in Celtic mythology that have not previously been accurately understood: the Welsh “Aesir-Vanir War” and Manannan’s true identity.

“...in the Welsh version, the Swine of the Underworld take the identical position taken by the Sabine Women in the Roman version.”

“Having these three forms, Agni was said correspondingly to have three legs, and is frequently depicted thus. Manannan is famously said to have three legs as well, on which he rolls across the ground like a wheel.”

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
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Zeus | Ζεύς — Zeus Patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus ph2tēr.

Zeus' name is derived in the intermediary from Proto-Hellenic *dzéus. It is cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀇𐀺 ("diwos").

Other cognates are found across the Indo-European family, including the Norse Týr, Latin lūpiter and the Illyrian Dei-pátrous.

Doric Greek: Deipáturos, Δειπάτυροϛ

The above post provides excellent linguistic information especially regarding the Proto-Hellenic, Mycenaean, and Doric cases. I believe that, with regard to Týr, the term “cognate” is purposely being used in a broad sense in order to give an idea of all the names that ultimately share a common origin with Zeus. It’s important for us to clarify, though, that Norse Týr is probably more of an indirect cognate of Zeus and *Dyḗws, and seems to directly derive from the term for “god” ( *deywós, *deiwo-, cognate of deus) rather than from the term for “sky” as in “Father Sky” (*Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr).

Ultimately, the term for “god” and the term for “sky” do likely go back to a shared original word in the distant Proto-Indo-European past, but long ago came to mean different things and to be attached to different deities as the terms split off. What this means is that a link between Týr and Zeus, both linguistically and mythologically, is far weaker than it might seem, and we shouldn’t equate the name of Týr directly with that of Zeus.

Have a look at our “The Case for Týr = Mitra: Part 1” for a detailed discussion of this issue.


https://taliesinsmap.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-case-for-tyr-mitra-part-1-of-4.html

And check out Arya-Akasha’s “Dyaus; Deva, Deus, Tyr: Many Gods, One Sky Father” for an excellent chart and explanation mapping these linguistic developments.

https://aryaakasha.com/2020/07/22/dyaus-deva-deus-tyr-many-gods-one-sky-father/

Divine Lineage in Mythology

https://telegra.ph/Divine-Lineage-in-Mythology-08-09

In this article I show how we are related to the Gods and the various stories of divine lineages in Mythology from Germanic to Roman to Vedic. I explain the various stories of divine progenitors and their subsequent lineages, such as the story of Tuisto and the Ynglings. The subject is an interesting one and I hope you enjoy reading it.

- Kalin, The Sun Riders
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“Cotopaxi” by English Landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church. (1862)

The Great Lunar Cycle: The Horse Twins and the Grail: Part 10 of 12

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Part 10: The Welsh Horse Twin(s) and the Grail

We dive deeper into the Welsh mythology to show how the Horse Twin god Pryderi developed into the grail quester Peredur and then into Perceval.

“Clearly, there is a well-established case for the continuity of the figures Pryderi, Peredurus, Peredur, and Perceval, and hence a strong foundation for a case that the original grail quester was based on the Horse Twin god.”


- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

The Great Lunar Cycle: The Horse Twins and the Grail: Part 11 of 12

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Part 11: The Grail King. Welsh Myth and the Story of the Grail

Who is the Grail King, really? And why are there two? In this part we uncover specific scenes in the Welsh myths that are as ancient as any we’ve seen.

“The detail of the virginity-preserving Gandharva staff, in particular, makes it seem that the episode between Pwyll and Arawn, rather than being a late malformation of the Lunar Cycle, appearing in a relatively late manuscript (12th-14th Century) as it does, actually has claim to the preservation of some of the most archaic details of all the versions we have examined.”


- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

''Old Slavs lived in villages, sometimes quite large, inhabited by whole tribal groups; hence such villages were often given names that end in ići, -ovići, -ovci. The economic unit was the patriarchal large family or large family community, which was called house (kuća) or a cooperative unit (zadruga) amongst the Southern Slavs. This is how Engels characterizes this Slavic family community: "... the patriarchal home community, as we still find it today with Serbs and Bulgarians under the name of a cooperative unit (zadruga) or fraternity (bratstvo) ... constituted a transitional stage between the matriarchal family and the individual family of the modern world.

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The South Slavic cooperative unit provides the best living example of such a family community. It encompasses several generations, descendants of one father, with their wives, all living together in one court, cultivating their fields together, feeding and dressing of the common stock and sharing the excess of income. The cooperative unit is under the supreme authority of the host, who represents it outside ... He is selected and by no means the oldest. " Old Slavic settlements consisted of such large family communities. This is also evidenced by the statement of Pseudo-Mauritius that in the ancient settlements, some semi-underground dwellings are connected by secret corridors, thus representing the whole complexes of rooms united by a common household. Large family communities united into tribes, with tribal leaders (filars, as the Byzantine writers call them) at the head. But the power of these leaders was not great, the national assemblies (councils) were of great importance. The first embryos of slavery were still patriarchal. Pseudo-Mauritius thus characterizes slavery in the old Slavs. »They do not keep their captives in captivity indefinitely, like other nations, but, by limiting their time, leave them to choose: either they want to return to their homeland with some ransom, or to remain where they are in the position of free men and friends «.The patriarchy of the lives of Slavs and Ants is evidenced by the hospitality, which is widely developed in them. »They are kind and kind to the guests, and follow them from place to place, where they are needed, so that if the carelessness of a host causes the guest to suffer any harm, his neighbor, who handed him the guest, will quarrel against him. considering the guest's revenge for a holy duty. " (Pseudo-Mauritius) ... '' - '' History of the Hearts of the I Century ''.

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