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Recieved: 2003/02/03 22:54
Subject: Re: [k-list] Thanks to Sabrina
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2003/02/03 22:54, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 04:25 AM 03/02/03, rkshankar wrote:
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>> tribute to the descent of the goddess into the underworld for three days during the dark moon.
>I did not know that during the dark moon for 3 days the Goddess descends into the underworld
>Can you explain this a bit more in detail
As I did not respond to your earlier post, I thought I would respond to this one.
Pagan worship celebrates the cycles/circles of life. The Goddess is immortal, but the God is not, he dies and is reborn through the Goddess over and over, with the turning of the seasons.
He impregnates Her with his own son, who grows up, kills him and is killed in turn by his son. Over and over. The Pagan wheel of the year celebrates this. The winter solstice celebration was originally the re-birth of the son/sun, before being co-opted by Christianity as the birth of the son. :)
The Sun is male, the moon and the Earth are female.
This gender duality is carried, even to food. Goddess food is things like grapes, cheese that can be harvested without killing. God food is meat, grain that is cut at the turning of the seasons. Kali stands on Shiva, he is the source She springs from, and She is his Dominatrix, but She also eats him so he can be reborn.
Sun=Shiva, Ra... the light overhead. Prana squiggles are sun-sperm of Shiva. Sperm itself is male and female, X andY both. Shiva as Father is creative, Kali the destroyer is destructive, so the powers of creation and destruction are in both genders, like the dots in the Tao.
As you wrote, he shines his power into us, but does not manifest himself in us in the same way as the Serpent Goddess. Yet, seen in another way, we are that. The body, the ego which is born and dies, is God manifest. Prana does not judge what use is made of it. Goddess is consciousness, eternal... God is matter.
The pentacle itself, is the symbol of the human on the earth, and the symbol of the God and the Goddess together. Most pagan symbolism and ritual is based on the union of the God and the Goddess, unification of opposites making new creation. The Great Rite is Tantra, with the Priest calling the Moon Goddess into the Priestess, and so becoming the Horned God, and then copulating, but it is most often done symbolically, the althame or sword dipped into the chalice or cauldron. Lingham penetrates Yoni. The unification of opposites.
Upright, the pentacle is human, and reversed it is the goat... the animal nature... Pan, Herne, Cerunnos, the horned God.., the spirit of nature... which Christianity made demonic as part of the conversion propaganda, just as with the serpent.
The Serpent is an ancient pagan symbol of the earth itself, as well as healing, wisdom and rebirth. The Goddess... yet, phallic. Oroborus, the serpent eats its tail. Life eats life in an unending circle.
The Goddess, being immortal does not die, but She does descend into the underworld for a while, as guest and Queen of rebirth. This theme is manifested in the phases of the moon (Our Lady) and in the seasons... the myth of Persephone. Northern hemisphere, Winter is when Persephone is in the underworld, keeping company with her Lord Hades.
Kore-Persephone-Hecate is the triple Goddess, maiden, woman, crone. A trinity, three in one yet having a relationship with each other.
The symbol of Isis is the triple Goddess as three moons, the waxing, full and waning moons together side by side. Probably you have seen this symbol, of two crescents back to back with a full circle between. The new moon is implied, invisible on both sides of the crescents... the void, the space between things which unifies all. By the empty space of the new moon, the linear Goddess symbol makes a circle. The cosmic void where creation takes place, the womb of the Goddess. The space between the molecules, stars and neuron synapses.
Sat was Imbolc, and also Chinese new year... the year of the Ram/goat. Not so lucky in Chinese, but a good year for pagans!
Happy Imbolc Sabrina, and merry meet to all!
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