DECEMBER 21st 2012 - THE SEA WASHES AWAY ALL EVILS OF MEN

Winter Solstice

Date: December 21 2012 11:12 (UTC)

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Earthquakes

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Volcanic Eruptions

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First Full Moon after Winter Solstice

Date: December 28 2012 10:22 (UTC)


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Opening of the Sea

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Also called:Yule, Jul, Saturnalia, Christmas, solar/secular New Year

dates:around December 21 colors: red, green, white

tools:mistletoe, evergreen wreath, lights, gifts, holly, Yule log, Yule tree

energy:regeneration & renewal

goddesses:Great Mother, Isis, Mary, Tonazin, Lucina, Bona Dea

gods: Sun Child, Horus, Jesus, Mithras, Santa/Odin, Saturn, Holly King

rituals: personal renewal, world peace, honoring family & friends

customs: wreaths, lights, gift-giving, singing, feasting, resolutions

Last Edited by Son of the Isle on 12/17/2012 05:00 AM

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Esus / IESU / AEsus / The Lord

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The Divine Woodman hews ('Chops away at' | Shapes) the Tree of the Bull with Three Cranes.

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Image ( [link to en.wikipedia.org] )

The two statues on which his name appears are the Pillar of the Boatmen from among the Parisii and a pillar from Trier among the Treveri. In both of these, Esus is portrayed cutting branches from trees with his axe. Esus is accompanied, on different panels of the Pillar of the Boatmen, by Tarvos Trigaranus (the ‘bull with three cranes’), Jupiter, Vulcan, and other gods.

Last Edited by Son of the Isle on 12/17/2012 05:32 AM

ISIS

Ritual Day: Winter Solstice
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Aka. ISHTAR ( [link to en.wikipedia.org] ):

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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Ishtar in the Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh contains an episode involving Ishtar which portrays her as bad-tempered, petulant and spoiled by her father.

She asks the hero Gilgamesh to marry her, but he refuses, citing the fate that has befallen all her many lovers:
Listen to me while I tell the tale of your lovers. There was Tammuz, the lover of your youth, for him you decreed wailing, year after year. You loved the many-coloured Lilac-breasted Roller, but still you struck and broke his wing [...] You have loved the lion tremendous in strength: seven pits you dug for him, and seven. You have loved the stallion magnificent in battle, and for him you decreed the whip and spur and a thong [...] You have loved the shepherd of the flock; he made meal-cake for you day after day, he killed kids for your sake. You struck and turned him into a wolf; now his own herd-boys chase him away, his own hounds worry his flanks."

Angered by Gilgamesh's refusal, Ishtar goes up to heaven and complains to her father the high god Anu that Gilgamesh has insulted her. She demands that Anu give her the Bull of Heaven. Anu points out that it was her fault for provoking Gilgamesh, but she warns that if he refuses, she will do exactly what she told the gatekeeper of the underworld she would do if he didn't let her in:

If you refuse to give me the Bull of Heaven [then] I will break in the doors of hell and smash the bolts; there will be confusion [i.e., mixing] of people, those above with those from the lower depths. I shall bring up the dead to eat food like the living; and the hosts of the dead will outnumber the living."

Anu gives Ishtar the Bull of Heaven, and Ishtar sends it to attack Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull and offer its heart to the sun-god Shamash.
While Gilgamesh and Enkidu are resting, Ishtar stands upon the walls of the city (which is Uruk) and curses Gilgamesh. Enkidu tears off the Bull's right thigh and throws it in Ishtar's face, saying, "If I could lay my hands on you, it is this I should do to you, and lash your entrails to your side." (Enkidu later dies for this impiety.) Then Ishtar called together "her people, the dancing and singing girls, the prostitutes of the temple, the courtesans," and had them mourn for the Bull of Heaven.

( source: [link to en.wikipedia.org] )
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Aka. The Whore of Babylon ( [link to en.wikipedia.org] ) :
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An 1800s Russian engraving depicting the Whore of Babylon riding the seven-headed Beast ( [link to en.wikipedia.org] )
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Last Edited by Son of the Isle on 12/17/2012 05:27 AM

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Esus / IESU / AEsus

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The Divine Woodman hews the Tree of the Bull with Three Cranes.

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Image ( [link to en.wikipedia.org] )

The two statues on which his name appears are the Pillar of the Boatmen from among the Parisii and a pillar from Trier among the Treveri. In both of these, Esus is portrayed cutting branches from trees with his axe. Esus is accompanied, on different panels of the Pillar of the Boatmen, by Tarvos Trigaranus (the ‘bull with three cranes’), Jupiter, Vulcan, and other gods.

Last Edited by Son of the Isle on 12/17/2012 05:13 AM

Taurus / Horus

Symbol: [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by Son of the Isle on 12/17/2012 05:11 AM