9 World Chronicles

Lead

Magical Ingredients

Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and has a relatively low melting point.

The base metal of alchemy and therefore a metaphor for humanity at its most primitive level of spiritual development. It is more general symbolism of dull heaviness is linked not only to its physical weight but to its ancient Association with the God Kronos, called Saturn by the Romans.

Bellphano put lead down the throat of the monstrous chimera which died when its fiery breath melted the metal . An episode linked to the belief that lead has protective properties.

In ancient Germanic Culture lead was used for prophecy for the New Year. As melted lead was poured into cool water if formed shapes that we then interpreted by a Wise woman.

Bad omens were buried, while those that promised good fortune were carried for luck.

In ancient Turkish beliefs lead  is used to find out the cause of negative energy and also to remove it from a person. Lead pouring into water over the head of an afflicted person is believed to remove any evil.

Lead is associated with the Roman god Saturn, The Greek Vulcan, The Orisha Ogun

The Heart and Tongue – How God Created the Cosmos.

The power of the spoken word is significant in the creation of the world in many mythologies.

In Kemetic beliefs its is Atum the Hidden god who is created with creation.

Atum himself is a product of the Vibration created by the Primordial beings of the Ogdoad cosmology. He becomes self-aware and speaks himself into existence.

With the help of the Ogdoad he would create all other things.

The intellectual powers that enable the creator to bring him or herself into existence and to create all other beings with sometimes conceptualize as deities.

The most important of these gods were Sia, Hu and Heka.

 Sia was the power of perception or insight which allowed the creator to visualize other forms.

Hu was the power of authoritative speech which enabled the creator to bring things into being by naming them.

 In coffin text spell 335 Hu and Sia are said to be with their father Atum every day. In illustrated underworld books of the new Kingdom these two deities were often shown accompanying the creator sun God.

The power by which thoughts and commands of the creator become reality was Hekka or magic. In coffin tech spells 261 the God Heka claims to have been with the creator even in the primeval era.

 In the cosmology of Neith this goddess creates the whole world with seven magic words.

When Auset came to be worshipped as a creator deity during the same. She was called mistress of the word in the beginning.

 From at least as early as the new Kingdom the God Ptah could represent the creative mind then Sia and Hu were identified as the heart and tongue of Ptah. This concept is expounded in the Memphite theology and in the various hymns of Ptah. The ancient Egyptians believe that the heart was the organ of thought and feeling.

  Ptah was said to have made the world after planting it in his heart. It was through what the heart plans and the tongue commands that everything was made.

Bible account “In the begin was the word, and the word was God and God was the word.”

According to Bambara  legend, in the beginning there was nothing but the emptiness of the void. The universe began from a single point of sound—the sound Yo. Everything—including human consciousness—came from this root sound. Yo—the primeval creative spirit—created the structure of the heavens, the Earth, and all living and nonliving things

Lapis Lazuli – The Truth Stone

Neptune, Venus, Auset

Type: Mineral

Magical Form: cut and polished

Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.

Its deep, celestial blue remains the symbol of royalty and honor, gods and power, spirit and vision. It is a universal symbol of wisdom and truth.

The stone of truth lapis heals karmic wounds and helps you understand your true path in life, wear it to prevent the repetition of mistakes and to move your life forward in a positive way.

Meditate on the stone to get in touch with spirit guides and receive messages.

The darkest blue stones male the wearer more mysterious and attract love and openness. Lapis Lazuli is a powerful crystal for activating the higher mind and enhancing intellectual ability. It stimulates the desire for knowledge, truth and understanding, and aids the process of learning. It is excellent for enhancing memory.

Lapis Lazuli activates the psychic centers at the Third Eye and balances the energies of the Throat Chakra.

Lapis Lazuli is connected to Athena Greek, Hera Greek, Auset, Nuit  (Egyptian), Inanna (Summerian) , Dana (Celtic)

coffin text is a modern name for the diverse body of spells or recitations used on burial equipment during the middle Kingdom.

These texts were mainly painted on wooden coffins but also appeared on tomb walls and on funerary items such as a steel or canopic chest.

 The coffin texts were composed in middle Egyptian a form of Egyptian language that became the standard for literary works the text were usually written in simplified hieroglyphics.

Many spells in the coffin text are also known from versions in the pyramid texts. Both collections may derive from an archive of more to Sherry text written on a papyrus that does not survive.

Some of the coffin tech spells are given titles that define their functions such as a spell for navigating in the great baroque of Ra or include instructions for the ritual that should accompany them.

A few sections on the coffin techs have vignettes illustrations that form an integral part of the spell. the most elaborate of these are the two Maps that belong to a section of the coffin text known as the book of two ways. These Maps which are usually painted on the floor of coffins are the earliest known Maps from any culture.

The book of two ways was nothing less than an illustrated guide to the afterlife. It claimed to give 2 routes one by land and one by water through a sinister divine realm beyond the horizon. and to provide the deceased with the spells they would need to get past the monstrous guardians they would face on the way.

The deceased had to pass through the mysterious region Rosetau where the body of Osiris lay surrounded by walls of flames. If the deceased man or woman proved worthy, he or she might be granted a new life in a paradise call the field of offerings.

 Although they are not narrative's some spells in the coffin text describe major events in the Egyptian creation story and even provide evidence for the Egyptian views about the end of the world. The creator Atum Ra and his offspring Shu and Tefnut are particularly prominent.

Much of the texts deal with transformation of the sun God into various forms. A new element is a stress on the dangers faced by the sun God during his celestial voyage such as attacks by the chaos monster Apep Snake

Coffin texts have been found in sites all over Egypt but the majority come from the geographical region known as middle Egypt. The local deities of middle Egypt such as Toth and the group of primeval beings later known as the Ogdoad it of Hermopolis feature in many of these spells. Djehutey also appears in many of the spells that allude to the conflict between Horace and Set and the rescue of the body of Osiris.

Laufey – The Jotun Queen

Classification: Jotun, Giant

Culture: Norse Germanic

Symbol: The Flames, The Screeching Dragon.

Laufey is an important figure in Norse mythology. She is the wife of Farbauti who is the King of the Jotun.

She is the Mother of Loki, Byleist and Helblindi.

She gave birth to Loki after she was struck by a bolt of fire by Farbauti.

She is called Nal.

The pyramid texts. The pyramid texts are the oldest of the three principal collections of Egyptian literary text. They are among the earliest religious writings known from anywhere in the world. The texts are divided into sections each is preceded by an Egyptian phrase meaning words to be spoken which is very often translated to mean a spell or incantation.

 These incantations can be as short as a single sentence or contain many paragraphs. The illustrations. No illustrations accompany the pyramid texts although the ceilings or Royal burial chambers are usually decorated with stars. The text themselves seem to have adapted from a variety of genres such as hymns list a divine names and epitaphs spells from the type of magic used in daily life and resuscitation that accompany ritual actions.

The main purpose in assembling these texts and describing them inside pyramids was to help the body of the deceased King to escape the horror of petrifaction and his spirit to ascend to the celestial realm where he would take his place among the gods. Some of the tests were probably recited during the King's funeral or part of the Mortuary cult that continued after his death. Others may have been intended to be spoken by the deceased as he entered the afterlife.

Roughly 200 Deities are mentioned in the pyramid texts most are the major deities known from cult temples such as the fertility God men and the creator goddess Neith. Others are deities such as snake gods and celestial ferryman who inhabit a complex an intensely imagined realm of gods.

The most frequently mentioned duties are Anubis (Anpu),  Atum, Geb, Horace (Heru),  Isis (Auset)  Nephthys, Nut, Osiris (Ausar), RA,  Set, Shu and Thot (Djehuty) . These include most of the deities who make up the Ennead of Heliopolis.

Although the pyramid texts are not a collection of narrative, they do contain numerous allusions to myths. They take up important themes in Egyptian mythology such as the journey of the sun God and his solar bark. The murder of the good God of Ausar and the violent conflict between Heru and Seth.

The Lamb –

Associated: Christ, Innocence

Type: Meat Sacrifice

Sacrificial form: roasted.

The sacrificial lamb was a powerful symbol at the last super or pass over meal.

In Christianity is represents Christ, the lamb of God who died for the sins of man.

 the lamb represents Christ as both suffering and triumphant; it is typically a sacrificial animal, and may also symbolize gentleness, innocence, and purity.

In Judaism it represents the sacrifice made to spare the lives of the Jews.

The Blood of the lamb was spread on doorpost to protect them from the plague of Egypt.

The smiting of the first born son.

When depicted with the LION, the pair can mean a state of paradise. In addition, the lamb symbolizes sweetness, forgiveness and meekness.

Eat lamb for protection and to cleanse your soul.

Air is a symbol of spiritual life, freedom, and purity air is the primal element in most cosmology equated with the soul by many philosophers.

 Air shares much of the symbolism of breath and wind. In terms of a spirit air is considered one of the three great spirit forces in Inuit beliefs together with the sea spirit and the moon spirit. It is known as weather or the intelligence the air spirit lives far above the earth controlling rain, snow, weather, and sea. It is inherently benevolent but is perceived of as threatening because of its sensitivity to human misdeeds to which it responds by sending sickness, bad weather and failure in hunting.

Kemetic Myth:  Shu, god of the Air.

He was called “the emptiness" or "he who rises up" was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, spouse and brother to goddess Tefnut, and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony. He was the god of peace, lions, air, and wind.

Enlil, the Sumerian god of air, wind, breath, loft

is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians.

Stribog is the name of the Slavic god of winds, sky and air.

The Norse God King Odin, was also considered a god of the air/breath.

Persian Zoroastarian Vata is the god of atmosphere/air.

Lucifer the Light Bringer

Classification: Fallen Angel, Divine Entity

Culture: Hebrew, Christian, Greek

Symbol: The Wheel

A name in Christianity for the devil the embodiment of evil and discord. It is first mentioned in the Book of Isiah where condemnation to hell of the King of Babylon of compared the fall of Lucifer, the morning star.

Lucifer is the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet Venus.

Due to the unique movements and discontinuous appearances of Venus in the sky, mythology surrounding these figures often involved a fall from the heavens to earth or the underworld.

Christian tradition of apply the name Lucifer, and its associated stories of a fall from heaven, to Satan.

Generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage (Isaiah 14:12) as "morning star" or "shining one" rather than as a proper name, "Lucifer”.

In the Book of Luke the name is applied to Satan where it is said he was to have fallen like lightning from heaven.

A similar theme is present in the Babylonian myth of Ethana and Zu: Etana was led by his pride to strive for the highest seat among the star-gods on the northern mountain of the gods ... but was hurled down by the supreme ruler of the Babylonian Olympus.

In Sumerian Mythology the goddess Inanna, known for her rebellious nature, is associated with Venus. She attempts and fails, to conquer both heaven and the underworld on separate occasions.

In Canaanite myth Attar who is the personification of the Morning Star attempted a coup against the throne of Baal. After his defeated he descended to the underworld to rule.

Certain Gnostics sects view him as a divine figure who is the first born son of god.

In classical Greek mythology, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus, though it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch.

The Greek name for this planet was variously Phosphoros (also meaning "light-bringer") or Heosphoros (meaning "dawn-bringer").

Lucifer was said to be "the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx". He was often presented in poetry as heralding the dawn.

Hyperion, Sango, Bladr

The ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds, that inhabit wetlands, forests, and plains.

The African sacred ibis was an object of religious veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the deity Djehuty or otherwise commonly referred to in Greek as Thoth. He is responsible for writing, mathematics, measurement and time as well as the moon and magic.

 In artworks of the Late Period of Ancient Egypt, Thoth is popularly depicted as an ibis-headed man in the act of writing.

The symbolism was perhaps based on the habits as an inquisitive wading bird with a curving beak somewhat like a Crescent moon. Hundreds of thousands of mummified Ibis have been discovered at Sakkara, near Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt.

Loki God of Mischief

Classification: Jotun

Culture: Norse Germanic

Symbol: The Wheel

Sacred Stone: Jade

Sacred No: 12

Loki is the embodiment of ill intent in the Norse Mythology. And the sire of several entities hostile to the Aesir empire.

His is the son of the defeated Jotan King giant Fárbauti. Taken by Odin and raised in Asgard along side Thor the Thunder God.

Among his misdeeds he causes the death of the beloved son Balder.

Steals the golden locks of Thor’s beloved Sif.

With the Goddess AngrBoda the Bringer of Grief he fathers the Fenrir wolf. Who is prophesized to devour the All Father Odin at the time of Ragnarok.

The pairing would also produce the Mid-Gard Serpent who would kill Thor.

And Hela who would lead the forces of chaos.

At the coming of Ragnarok he would align with enemies of Asgard.

Loki is a shape-shifter who could take any form male or female. He is said to have given birth to the stallion Sleipnir.

His German name Lohe means fierce flame.

Locana goddess of peace

Classification: Goddess

Culture: Buddhism

Region: Indus River Valley

Symbol: The Wheel

Sacred Stone: Jade

Sacred No: 12

A Buddhist goddess partnered with Vairocana.

She is depicted as an all white spirit expressing the attribute of peace and tranqulity.

Her attribute is the wheel.

It is said that Lochana, Mamaki, Pandara and Tara represent the four elements i.e. earth, water, fire and air.