Goddess-Born (A Tale of Two Worlds Book 2)

In my opinion have our ancestors all over the World got some similar information's about cosmological conditions which modern astrophysics have rediscovered in the modern time with technological instruments. But how was that possible for our ancestors on the north hemisphere to recognize the southern heaven an the Milky Way figure and its cosmological knowledge? By spiritual journeys of wise men and woman and trough intuitive knowledge! I know this from some visions and dreams of my own. And there are more astonishingly knowledge from our ancestors to come in the following content.

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The specific interpretation of the southern Milky Way figure are that it is female in its quality. Just as in the case with the northern Milky Way contours and figures there also are a mixed symbolizing with the southern Milky Way contours or figures. Many cultures have seen the contours as a cow known as The Heavenly Cow, maybe also because of the similarity with the white colour of milk as well as a symbol of a nourishing animal.

Dragons are legendary creatures, typically with serpentine or otherwise reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. This is very understandably since the origin comes from the large southern Milky Way contours. All these animals are told of in the Creation Myths. Typically it is a place where the souls of the departed go, an afterlife or a realm of the dead. Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underworld". The center of our Milky Way is of course very important in all Myths of Creation and our Solar System is also created from this center i.

When reading of the mythical Gaia, several contradictions and illogical explanations occur.

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It seems that the story scholarly is interpreted without connection to the full mytho-cosmological context. The four elements of water, air, fire and soil in their latent stages. The complementary qualities of the four elements. Mythological female and male symbolism. The formative action started and restarted eternally by light electric currents and sound. Via these elements and their formative qualities, everything is created, dissolved and eternally recreated.

This whole mythological scenario shall of course be seen, interpreted and connected to everything humans can observe with their physical eyes as well as with their spiritual skills, as it is the case with many individuals and prophets when they have their visions and meeting with the divine creative forces.

In the many cultural Stories of Creation, the Earth and the Solar System is not the first to be formatted. The Solar System is an integrated part of the Milky Way rotation and thus also an integrated part of the galactic formation. So, how do the mythical Gaia fits into this explanation? Gaia was the great mother of all: The gods reigning over their classical pantheon were born from her union with Uranus the sky , while the sea-gods were born from her union with Pontus the sea.

Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. Gaia represents the female attractive and formgiving qualities. As mentioned above, the formation of stars and planets in our Milky Way, takes off from within the center and spreads out from there as large and gigantic heavenly rivers which are given names as Titans and Giants and the huge primeval female and male deities flying around in the night Sky.

As a giver and former of these heavenly structures, subsequently and logically the Gaia deity represents the Galactic Mother and not the Earth. My personal Mytho-Cosmological Website - http: Thursday, July 31, Comment on the subject of "Virgin Mother and Parthenogenesis posted on http: Thanks a lot for this excellent article! In my opinion nothing really can act parthenogenetically in itself, there are always some external as well as internal creative forces at play. But on the larger picture everything in the Universe acts parthenogenetically when understanding the Creation as an overall self sustaining an eternal motion of creation, dissolution and recreation.

Mary conceived Jesus in more or less the same way". We all live in the same Earth; in the same Solar System; in the same galaxy and in the same part of the Universe. Global of Virgin Goddesses - http: Ancient cultures pictured their primary creator deities in the mind of humans i. The Stories of Creation tell of "a mound" that appeared when the elements interacted.

This light represent the luminous center in the Milky Way galaxy and if observing the MW-Contours around the Earth in nighttime on a clear night and in a favorable season, one can easily imagine a huge Serpent around the Earth, and thus we have the telling of "a snake in the Garden of Eden".

If dividing the Earth hemispheres in 2, the northern hemisphere MW-contours easily can be imagined as a huge man The Great God seemingly revolving around the celestial pole area. So, coming around from the very telling of the Virgin Birth theme over the parthenogenetically perception and creation, to the connection of the Stories of Creation connected to the Milky Way galaxy and its formative creation, symbolized as a celestial woman on the southern hemisphere, from which "cosmic womb", everything in our galaxy is conceived, formed and born.

Sam, as you noted in your article: This goes very much for me too.

Best Wishes and thanks! In the study of mythology and religion , the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife , referring to any place to which newly dead souls go. In most cultures the term refers to a neutral or dystopic realm of the afterlife, instead of a heavenly or paradisiac one. Sometimes the underworld is identified as " Hell " because Hell is thought to be under the Earth.

The earth-diver is a common character in various traditional creation myths. In these stories a supreme being usually sends an animal into the primal waters to find bits of sand or mud with which to build habitable land. Some scholars interpret these myths psychologically while others interpret them cosmogonically. In both cases emphasis is placed on beginnings emanating from the depths. Earth-diver myths are common in Native American folklore but can be found among the Chukchi and Yukaghir , the Tatars and many Finno-Ugrian traditions.

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The pattern of distribution of these stories suggest they have a common origin in the eastern Asiatic coastal region, spreading as peoples migrated west into Siberia and east to the North American continent. Characteristic of many Native American myths, earth-diver creation stories begin as beings and potential forms linger asleep or suspended in the primordial realm. The earth-diver is among the first of them to awaken and lay the necessary groundwork by building suitable lands where the coming creation will be able to live.

In many cases, these stories will describe a series of failed attempts to make land before the solution is found. These myths all deals with the telling of the Creation which is connected to the Milky Way Centre on the southern "underworld" hemisphere and the Great Mother deity. In emergence myths humanity emerges from another world into the one they currently inhabit. IVAR and the process of emergence is likened to the act of giving birth.

The role of midwife is usually played by a female deity, like the spider woman of Native American mythology. Male characters rarely figure into these stories, and scholars often consider them in counterpoint to male oriented creation myths, like those of the ex nihilo variety. Often the passage from one world or stage to the next is impelled by inner forces, a process of germination or gestation from earlier, embryonic forms. The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands.

Finnish mythology Tuonela Greek mythology Main article: Unlike many of his contemporaries among the deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shares his power with no female divinity, nor is he the divine Husband or Lover of any. King, Lord, Master, Judge, and Father. Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theologians, however, are quick to point out that God is not to be considered in sexual terms at all.

Yet the actual language they use daily in worship and prayer conveys a different message and gives the distinct impression that God is thought of in exclusively masculine terms. And while it is true that Catholics revere Mary as the mother of Jesus, she cannot be identified as divine in her own right: Christianity, of course, added the trinitarian terms to the Jewish description of God. And yet of the three divine "Persons," two—the Father and Son—are described in masculine terms, and the third—the Spirit—suggests the sexlessness of the Greek neuter term pneuma.

This is not merely a subjective impression. Whoever investigates the early development of Christianity—the field called "patristics," that is, study of "the fathers of the church"—may not be surprised by the passage that concludes the recently discovered, secret Gospel of Thomas: For I tell you truly, that every female who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Further exploration of the texts which include this Gospel—written on papyrus, hidden in large clay jars nearly 1, years ago—has identified them as Jewish and Christian gnostic works which were attacked and condemned as "heretical" as early as A. What distinguishes these "heterodox" texts from those that are called "orthodox" is at least partially clear: Although one might expect, then, that they would recall the archaic pagan traditions of the Mother Goddess, their language is to the contrary specifically Christian, unmistakably related to a Jewish heritage.

Thus we can see that certain gnostic Christians diverged even more radically from the Jewish tradition than the early Christians who described God as the "three Persons" or the Trinity. For, instead of a monistic and masculine God, certain of these texts describe God as a dyadic being, who consists of both masculine and feminine elements. One such group of texts, for example, claims to have received a secret tradition from Jesus through James, and significantly, through Mary Magdalene.

Since the Genesis account goes on to say that mankind was created "male and female" 1: The characterization of the divine Mother in these sources is not simple since the texts themselves are extraordinarily diverse.

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Nevertheless, three primary characterizations merge. First, a certain poet and teacher, Valentinus, begins with the premise that God is essentially indescribable. And yet he suggests that the divine can be imagined as a Dyad consisting of two elements: Followers of Valentinus invoke this feminine power, whom they also call "Grace" in Greek, the feminine term charis , in their own private celebration of the Christian eucharist: When they describe God in this way, different gnostic writers have different interpretations. Some maintain that the divine is to be considered masculo-feminine—the "great male-female power.

A third group suggests that one can describe the Source of all things in either masculine or feminine terms, depending on which aspect one intends to stress. A second characterization of the divine Mother describes her as Holy Spirit. One source, the Secret Book of John, for example, relates how John, the brother of James, went out after the crucifixion with "great grief," and had a mystical vision of the Trinity: I am the One who is with you always: Where the Greek terminology for the Trinity, which includes the neuter term for the spirit pneuma , virtually requires that the third "Person" of the Trinity be asexual, the author of the Secret Book looks to the Hebrew term for spirit, ruah—a feminine word.

He thus concludes, logically enough, that the feminine "Person" conjoined with Father and Son must be the Mother! Indeed, the text goes on to describe the Spirit as Mother: She became the mother of the all, for she existed before them all, the mother-father [matropater]. The author interprets a puzzling saying of Jesus in the New Testament "whoever does not hate his father and mother is not worthy of me" by adding: Here again the Spirit is praised as both Mother and Virgin, the counterpart—and consort—of the Heavenly Father: Yet because this process is to be understood symbolically, and not literally, the Spirit remains a virgin!

But the author ridicules those "literal-minded" Christians who mistakenly refer the virgin birth to Mary, Jesus' earthly mother, as if she conceived apart from Joseph: Besides the eternal, mystical Silence, and besides the Holy Spirit, certain gnostics suggest a third characterization of the divine Mother as Wisdom. Here again the Greek feminine term for wisdom, sophia, like the term for spirit, ruah, translates a Hebrew feminine term, hokhmah. Early interpreters had pondered the meaning of certain biblical passages, for example, Proverbs: In such passages, at any rate, Wisdom bears two connotations: One gnostic source calls her the "first universal creator"; 20 another says that God the Father was speaking to her when he proposed to "make mankind in our image.

Father, Mother, unity, Root of all things. The Garden of Eden, then, is Moses' symbolic term for the womb, and Eden the placenta, and the river which comes out of Eden the navel, which nourishes the fetus. The Great Announcement, for example, having described the Source as a masculo- feminine being, a "bisexual Power," goes on to say that "what came into being from that Power, that is, humanity, being one, is found to be two: Yet this reference to the creation story of Genesis 2—an account which inverts the biological birth process, and so effectively denies the creative function of the female—proves to be unusual in gnostic sources.

More often, such sources refer instead to the first creation account in Genesis 1: Then he split Adam in two, and made two backs, one on each side. Marcus whose prayer to the Mother is given above not only concludes from this account that God is dyadic "Let us make mankind" but also that "mankind, which was formed according to the image and likeness of God [Father and Mother] was masculo-feminine.

All the texts cited above—secret "gospels," revelations, mystical teachings—are among those rejected from the select list of twenty-six that comprise the "New Testament" collection As these and other writings were sorted and judged by various Christian communities, every one of these texts which gnostic groups revered and shared was rejected from the canonical collection as "heterodox" by those who called themselves "orthodox" literally, straight-thinking Christians.

By the time this process was concluded, probably as late as the year A. What is the reason for this wholesale rejection? The gnostics themselves asked this question of their "orthodox" attackers and pondered it among themselves. Some concluded that the God of Israel himself initiated the polemics against gnostic teaching which his followers carried out in his name.

They argued that he was a derivative, merely instrumental power, whom the divine Mother had created to administer the universe, but who remained ignorant of the power of Wisdom, his own Mother: But he was unaware that the ideas he used came from her: For if there were no other god, of whom would he be jealous?

Then the Mother began to be distressed. The gnostic teacher concluded: Taken from Womanspirit Rising pp Christ and Judith Plaskow. Pagels received her Ph.

Iris (mythology)

She also serves nectar to the gods and goddesses to drink. Iris is married to Zephyrus , who is the god of the west wind. Their son is Pothos Nonnus , Dionysiaca. She is also known as one of the goddesses of the sea and the sky. Iris links the gods to humanity. She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other, [1] and into the depths of the sea and the underworld. In some records Iris is a sororal twin to the Titaness Arke arch , who flew out of the company of Olympian gods to join the Titans as their messenger goddess during the Titanomachy , making the two sisters enemy messenger goddesses.

Iris was said to have golden wings, whereas Arke had iridescent ones. She is also said to travel on the rainbow while carrying messages from the gods to mortals. During the Titan War , Zeus tore Arke's iridescent wings from her and gave them as a gift to the Nereid Thetis at her wedding, who in turn gave them to her son, Achilles , who wore them on his feet. Achilles was sometimes known as podarkes feet like [the wings of] Arke.

Podarces was also the original name of Priam , king of Troy. Iris is frequently mentioned as a divine messenger in The Iliad , which is attributed to Homer. She does not, however, appear in The Odyssey , where her role is instead filled by Hermes. Like Hermes, Iris carries a caduceus or winged staff. By command of Zeus , the king of the gods, she carries an ewer of water from the River Styx , with which she puts to sleep all who perjure themselves.

Iris also appears several times in Virgil 's Aeneid , usually as an agent of Juno. In Book 4, Juno dispatches her to pluck a lock of hair from the head of Queen Dido , that she may die and enter Hades. In book 5, Iris, having taken on the form of a Trojan woman, stirs up the other Trojan mothers to set fire to four of Aeneas' ships in order to prevent them from leaving Sicily. According to the Roman poet Ovid , after Romulus was deified as the god Quirinus , his wife Hersilia pleaded the gods to let her become immortal as well so that she could be with her husband once again.

Juno heard her plea and sent Iris down to her.

With a single finger, Iris touched Hersilia and transformed her into an immortal goddess. Hersilia flew to Olympus, where she became one of the Horae and was permitted to live with her husband forevermore. According to the " Homeric Hymn to Apollo ", when Leto was in labor prior to giving birth to Apollo and his twin sister Artemis , all the goddesses were in attendance except for two, Hera and Ilithyia , the goddess of childbirth. On the ninth day of her labor, Leto told Iris to bribe Ilithyia and ask for her help in giving birth to her children, without allowing Hera to find out.

The brothers had driven off the monsters from their torment of the prophet Phineus , but did not kill them upon the request of Iris, who promised that Phineus would not be bothered by the Harpies again. In Euripides ' play Herakles , Iris appears alongside Lyssa , cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.

There are no known temples or sanctuaries to Iris, and while she is frequently depicted on vases and in bas-reliefs, no statues are known to have been made of Iris during the antiquity.