In
Zoroastrianism, the Daevas are a class of demons that follows Angra
Mainya.The three Daevas mentioned by
the Gathas are Aka Manah, Druj, and Aeshma.
Aesma
comes to the material world once on each night and according to the Legends, he
is kept away by Sros.
The
word “daeva” can be translated as “wrong god”, “rejected god” and “false god”.
This term is used in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism in reference to their
divine gods.
He
was given the seven powers which he uses to destroy humanity and every other
creature. His work is to sow discord among men, and cause slaughter. He can
even incite demons to fight among themselves.
Due
to his seven powers, he is said to be immune to poisons, natural and magical
lightning.
Aeshma
is a strange-looking creature. His body and face are engraved with markings and
with two wings sprouting out of his back. Jagged spikes also form out of the
back of his wrists and this compliment the brutishness of his physique.
He
possesses great amount of physical strength, durability and great flight
skills. When he punches the ground, it results to powerful shockwaves and
fissures.
The
recitation of a prayer from the Vendidad can drive away Aeshma. The Vendidad is
a collection of texts that enumerate the various manifestation of evil spirits
and the different ways to confound them.The recitation of the Vendidad often requires a priest of higher rank.
Aeshma
is opposed to Asha Vahishta, the Amesha Spenta, or good spirit, who embodies
Truth. His chief adversary is Sraosha (Obedience), who is the principle of
religious devotion and discipline.
Andraste,
also known as Andrasta, Belladonna, Nike
Icenic
war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of
Britain in AD 60.
She
is Andate, and described as "their name for Victory": the goddess Victoria..
Nike, Bellona, Magna Mater (Great Mother), Cybele, and Vacuna—goddesses who are
often depicted on chariots. Her name has been translated as meaning
"indestructible" or "unconquerable".
"I
thank you, Andraste, and call upon you as woman speaking to woman ... I beg you
for victory and preservation of liberty."
His
image stands before temples to ward of those who are hostile to Buddhist doctrine.
He has
three eyes and six arms, and grinds his teeth. His weapons include the sword
the thunderbolt (Vajra) the ax and the noose.
Acala
is a dharmapala (protector of the Dharma), prominent in Vajrayana Buddhism and
East Asian Buddhism.
He
is classed among the Wisdom Kings and is preeminent among the Five Wisdom Kings
of the Womb Realm. Accordingly, his figure occupies an important hierarchical
position in the Mandala of the Two Realms.
In China
he is Budong Mingwang ("The Immovable Wisdom King"). In Japan, he is
known as Fudō Myōō,
Acala
is especially important in Japanese Buddhism, where he is venerated in the
Shingon, Tendai, Zen, and Nichiren sects, as well as in Shugendō.
He wields
a sacred vajra or treasure sword fashion after a talon. It has been described
as flaming in some myth.
At
temples dedicated to Acala, priests perform a ritual service to enlist the
deity's power of purification to benefit the faithful.
Kvasir
(pronounced “KVAHSS-ir”) is a being who was created by the Aesir and Vanir gods
and goddesses at the conclusion of the Aesir-Vanir War.
The
war had ended with a truce. In the tale of the Mead of Poetry, whose storyline
picks up where that of the Aesir-Vanir War leaves off, the deities sealed their
peace treaty by coming together to produce an alcoholic drink by an ancient,
communal method: everyone in the group chewed berries and spat out the
resulting mush into a single vat. This liquid was then fermented. In this
particular instance, the fermented liquid became the god Kvasir, whose name is
surely related to Norwegian kvase and Russian kvas, both of which mean
“fermented berry juice
Kvasir
was the wisest of all beings. There was no question for which he did not have a
ready and satisfying answer. He took up the life of a wanderer, dispensing his
wisdom to all whom he met along the road. When he came to the house of two
dwarves, Fjalar (“Deceiver” and Galar (“Screamer”, they killed him and drained
his blood into three containers. They told the gods that Kvasir had suffocated
from an excess of wisdom. The two dwarves then brewed mead by mixing Kvasir’s
blood with honey – the Mead of Poetry.
a
mead which imbues the drinker with skaldship and wisdom, and the spread of
which eventually resulted in the introduction of poetry to mankind.
Ancient
Goddess worshipped in Thebes During the Middle Kingdom.
Her
name means “Power”.
Her
Cult was centered at Thebes in Upper Egypt
She
is venerated as a protector of young Horus whom she was tasked with protecting.
And through that the protection of youth.
At
various times in his epic battle against his Uncle Set, Horus was aided by this
ancient goddess.
Wosret
was rarely depicted, and no temples to her have been identified. When she was
depicted, it was wearing a tall crown with the was sceptre (which was related
to her name) upon her head and carrying other weapons such as spears and a bow
and arrows.
She
was Amun's first wife.
An
Ancient Egyptian city was named for her.
She
was a minor goddess, but three pharaohs during the Twelfth Dynasty incorporated
her name into theirs: Senwosret, or Senusret, means "man of Wosret".
Ymir
birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat
a six-headed being.
Ymir
was slain by the gods Odin Vili and VE and his body was used as raw material
for the creation of the world.
They fashioned Earth from
his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, from his
hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and
from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives,
Ndjambi is a sky god of the
Herero people in south west Africa. He is the creator of the Primoradial
Omumborombonga tree from which Mukuru, the first human emerges, With his wife
Kamungarunga they become the progenitors of all humans.
Ndjambi Karunga, an
omnipresent God who lives in Heaven, from where he protects and blesses his
people with benevolence.
He is the source of all good
deeds and to commit acts of kindness is to honor him.
Whoever dies a natural death
is borne aloft by him.
The place of worship is a
sacred shrine, called Okuruo, standing prominently inside the village and can
only be accessed by the priest who performs religious rituals.
the Okuruo contains the
‘holy fire’ that symbolizes life, prosperity and fertility
The Herero do not speak to
Ndjambi directly instead using their anscectors to convey messages to the deity
for help or protection.
But it is not permissible to
utter his name except of certain special occasions.
Naunet is the one of the
eight ancient deities of Ogdoad theology in Hermopolis. She is the consort of
Nun and represented chaos and the primeval waters to which everything have
sprouted from nothingness. Like her three sisters Kauket, Amaunet and Hauhet,
she was represented as a woman with the head of a snake, mostly that of a
cobra. Her name may also be spelled as Nunet.
. She guards the twelve
veils of negation believed to be the flaws of the original creation. Access to
these cracks would lead to the void that was Nun. She embodies the primal womb
– where cycles of life, death and rebirth continues for all creatures and
beings. She is depicted as the one who have freed all creations to pursue their
individual life cycles making her “the Mother of all
Mothers
She was rarely described as
a personified deity, and is not often mentioned without her partner Nun although
she is sometimes described as the mother of the sun god along with the
composite deity Nun-Ptah.
In the old religious text
she is the underworld equivalent to heaven which the sun traverse during the
night.
#Kronos#Chronos#GreekMyth#Uranos#Zeus#Titan
Name : The Titans
Aliases : Children of Uranos
Classification: Pantheon of Cosmic deities
Literature: the Hesiod,
The Theogony, Greek Mythology
Parents : Uranos and Gai
Associated: Chaos, Creation
Patheon/Faith : Ancient Greek
Cultural : Ancient Mediterranean
In Greek mythology the Titans were a secondary race of gods. they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and his mother, Gaia (Earth) Comprising the six sons and six daughters of the Sky God Uranos and the earth goddess Gaia
Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus, and six female Titans, called the Titanides Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.
Cronus mated with his older sister Rhea and together they became the parents of the first generation of Olympians: the six siblings Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. Descendants of the Titans are sometimes also called Titans.
The Titans were the former gods, the generation of gods preceding the Olympians. They were overthrown as part of the Greek succession myth, which told how Cronus seized power from his father Uranus, and ruled the cosmos with the Titans as his subordinates.
and how Cronus and the Titans were in turn defeated and replaced as the ruling pantheon of gods, by Zeus and the Olympians, in a ten-year war called the Titanomachy. As a result of this war of the gods, Cronus and the vanquished Titans were banished from the upper world, being held imprisoned, under guard in Tartarus.
Oceanus and Tethys, Coeus and Phoebe, Hyperion and Theia, and Cronus and Rhea. The other two Titan brothers married outside their immediate family. Iapetus married his niece Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, while Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. The two remaining Titan sisters, Themis and Mnemosyne, became wives of their nephew Zeus.
From Oceanus and Tethys came the three thousand river gods, and three thousand Oceanid nymphs. From Coeus and Phoebe came Leto, another wife of Zeus, and Asteria.
From Crius and Eurybia came Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses.
From Hyperion and Theia came the celestial personifications Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn).
From Iapetus and Clymene came Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
From Cronus and Rhea came the Olympians: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.
By Zeus, Themis bore the three Horae (Hours), and the three Moirai (Fates),
and Mnemosyne bore the nine Muses.
Chakras can be defined in simple terms as energy centers
that naturally exist in the human body and mind. But each chakra represents an
aspect of existence or being and balance in the energies of these chakra are
central to maintaining good physical mental and spiritual health.
The word Chakra we recognized from hindu beliefs but a
relatable term for the Yourubawould be
the Orisa who are as much as part of
nature as they are to human existence. Taoism Buddhism.
Its is common that holy or scared entities, prophets angels
Avatars have physical representation inside of man.
Cultural interpretations aside we can show synchronization
with the Yoga chakras, or wheels of energy, and the correlation of the Orisha.
Development and of the chakras is key to the Orisha concept
of the Orisha Internal.
The chakras have three main functions:- To vitalise each
auric body and therefore the physical body. To promote the development of
different aspects of consciousness. Each chakra relates to a specific
psychological function. To transmit energy between the auric layers.
When our main seven chakras are open and balanced, energy
can flow freely through our bodies and minds. When any of these energy centers
are blocked, it leads to stagnation and can contribute to a variety of physical
and spiritual ailments. If you are experiencing any recurring pain or
stiffness, read along to see if a chakra imbalance could be the cause and find
out how chakra balancing could help.
1. Root Chakra – Shango (Muladhara).
The root chakra represents our foundation. On the human
body, it sits at the base of the spine and gives us the feeling of being
grounded. When the root chakra is open, we feel confident in our ability to
withstand challenges and stand on our own two feet. When it's blocked, we feel
threatened, as if we're standing on unstable ground.
Location: Base of spine, in tailbone area.
What it controls: Survival issues such as financial independence,
money, and food.
Mantra: "I can't grow from an unsteady
foundation."
Color: Red.
Element: Earth.
Stone: Hematite.
2. Sacral Chakra Yemoja. (Swadhisthana).
The sacral chakra helps inform how we relate to our emotions
and the emotions of others. It also governs creativity and sexual energy. Those
with a blocked sacral chakra could feel a lack of control in their lives.
Location: Lower abdomen, about 2 inches below the navel.
What it controls: Your sense of abundance, well-being,
pleasure, and sexuality.
Mantra: "I always honor others but not before
myself."
Color: Orange.
Element: Water.
Stone: Tiger's Eye.
3. Solar Plexus Chakra Oshun (Manipura).
The third chakra, the solar plexus chakra, speaks to your
ability to be confident and in control of your life. Think back to the last
time you had butterflies or felt a pit in the stomach: That's the Manipura
chakra at work. If your solar plexus chakra is blocked, you might feel
overwhelming amounts of shame and self-doubt. Those with open sacral chakras
are free to express their true selves.
Location: Upper abdomen in the stomach area.
What it controls: Self-worth, self-confidence, and self-esteem
Mantra: "Self-love starts when I accept all parts of
myself."
Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Stone: Amber
When it develops: 15-21 years old
4. Heart Chakra Ogun, (Anahata).
The heart chakra is the bridge between the lower chakras
(associated with materiality) and the upper chakras (associated with
spirituality). As the name suggests, this chakra can influence our ability to
give and receive love—from others and ourselves. Someone with a blocked heart
chakra will have difficulty fully opening up to the people in their life. If
someone's heart is open, they can experience deep compassion and empathy.
Location: Center of chest, just above the heart.
What it controls: Love, joy, and inner peace.
Mantra: "When I love myself, loving others comes easily."
Color: Green.
Element: Air.
Stone: Rose Quartz.
5. Throat Chakra Obatala - (Vishuddha).
The throat chakra gives voice to the heart chakra and
controls our ability to communicate our personal power. When it's functioning
at full capacity, it allows us to express ourselves truly and clearly. Someone
with a blocked throat chakra will feel like they have trouble finding the words
to say how they truly feel.
Location: Throat.
What it controls: Communication, self-expression, and truth
Mantra: "I speak my truth, always."
Color: Light Blue/Turquoise.
Element: Sound/Music.
Stone: Aquamarine.
6. Third-Eye Chakra Orunmila (Ajna).
As we move up the body, we're getting closer to communion
with the divine. The third-eye chakra controls our ability to see the big
picture and connect to intuition. Think of it as the eye of the soul: It
registers information beyond the surface level. Visions and intuitive hits are
not uncommon for someone with an open third-eye chakra.
Location: Forehead between the eyes
Intuition, imagination, and wisdom.
Mantra: "I am open to exploring what cannot be
seen."
Color: Dark Blue/Purple.
Element: Light.
Stone: Amethyst.
7. Crown Chakra Ori (Sahasrara).
The crown chakra, the highest chakra, sits at the crown of
the head and represents our ability to be fully connected spiritually. When you
fully open your crown chakra—something very few people ever do!—you're able to
access a higher consciousness.
