9 World Chronicles

Agwé

Loa of the Sea, Earth Shaker

Venerated in      Haitian Vodou

Symbols: Shells, fish, blue, white, green, brown, oars, boats, mirrors, telescope, fish hooks, net, sailors uniform

Patronage           Sea, river, fishermen, sailors, sea captains, pirates, Thursday, ships, boats, wind, waves, sea travelers

He is known as the great Admiral and the sovereign King of the sea.

His Kingdom is shared with Laserenia,  she is a beautiful deity who many people associate as his consort.

Although in some mythology she is seen as his daughter.

These two are known as the royalty of the sea Agwe is more than simply King of the waters or the sea god is an old spirit one of the first to manifest on earth.

It is believed that Agwe existed in the primordial waters that covered the earth before life began.

Met Agwe is the loa of direction. His territory is the winds and the currents, waves and depths of the oceans. He helps sailors find their bearings when lost at sea. He provides inspiration and guidance whenever an individual needs them in times of turmoil, loss, or indecision. He lives in a glorious palace under the seas. Patron of sailors, sea travelers, and pirates. ("Master Agwe")

Papa Agwe is envisioned as a handsome African man with green eyes,, often wearing a naval officer's or sailor's uniform. He is considered to be a gentleman who commands respect and embodies several ideals of masculinity including bravery, reserve, and provision.

Worship

His colors are blue, white, and occasionally sea-green or brown. His ritual symbol) is a boat with sails. His symbols are painted shells, painted oars, and sea life like the seahorse and starfish. He is syncretized with the Catholic saint Ulrich of Augsburg and occasionally the archangel Raphael, both of whom are depicted holding fish. His holy day is Thursday.

He is saluted or signaled with blowing on a conch shell and/or volleys of gunfire. When he possesses a devotee he often pushes himself around the temple on a chair (his boat) with a cane (his oar), shouting naval commands and saluting members of the congregation. His chevals ("horses" or possessed devotees) need to be kept moist with wet sponges or damp towels and have to be kept from running into the sea, where Agwe belongs.

Offerings

Small offerings to Agwe are poured or dropped overboard in deep ocean water. Large offerings to Agwe are left on constructed rafts (barques d'Agwe) which are floated or towed out to sea. If the raft sinks, it is accepted; if it returns to shore it is rejected.After the offering is left, the supplicants cannot look back at that place or it will anger Agwe. Chevals must be prevented from falling or leaping into the sea and drowning, as it would offend Agwe. Nothing toxic (lead pipes, cement bags, garbage) must be used to weigh down the raft; if it will hurt or pollute the sea, it will anger Agwe.

His offerings include:

Beverages: champagne, naval rum, or anisette. Coffee with sugar and cream.

Items: mirrors, a telescope, toy ships or scale ship models, oars or paddles, sea shells, turquoise beads or jewelry, fish-shaped sculptures or jewelry, fish hooks and nets, nautical uniforms or medals.

Food: Savory exotic foods, melon, boiled cornmeal, rice cooked in coconut milk, rice cooked with lima beans, boiled or fried ripe bananas, white cake, cane syrup, almond oil, olive oil.

Sacrificial Animals: White roosters, male ducks, and white rams or goats whose wool has been dyed with indigo. They are afterwards prepared, cooked, and then placed in serving dishes or on plates as a sacrifice (as king of the seas, he doesn't get hot food at home)

Agwey likes songs

Takes the form of a Handsome old man

He is known for carrying the soul of Africans who died in the Slave trade.

Possession, Agwe can summoned for possession, and its described as a benevolent helpful

Muso Koroni

The pure woman with the primeval soul.

The Knowledgeable One; The Pure Woman with the Primeval Soul

Also known as:

Nyalé; Mousso Koroni

Origin:

Bamana/Bambara

According to myth, Muso Koroni, Leopard Goddess of Mali, is the world’s first female while the first male was a blacksmith. Muso Koroni is among those spirits involved with the magical traditions of smithcraft. Originally a divine Creatrix, she traveled as a whirlwind sparking the process of creation.

She was venerated as  fertility goddess Bambara Mali West Africa.

The mother of all living things she introduced mankind to the principles of farming.

She is depicted either in human form sometimes with many breasts or as a Panther in later guys she uses her claws to bring on menstrual cramps in  women and to  circumcise both sexes.

prior to circumcision a youth is set to possess an untamed wildness. Muso Koroni is pursued by the sun God Pembo. Who impregnates her in the form of a tree.

Color:

Black, associated with fertility and black fertile soil

Elements: Fire, air (wind)

Offerings:

Smiths traditionally craft metal images of her in the form of candelabra. Her spirit is invoked when the lamp’s cups, filled with shea butter, are lit.

Ahriman Chthonic God of Darkness

Culture Zoroastrian (Farsi-Persian)

Ahriman is the evil spirit in Early Iranian Religion, Zoroastrianism, and Zorvanism, Lord of Darkness and Chaos, and the source of human confusion, disappointment, and strife.

The antagonist of Ahura Mazda, the god of light and his attendant Mithra.

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Is said to have tried to persuade his attendant animals including the scorpion, ant, snake to drink the blood of the bull slain by Mithra in the premiere myth legend of dualistic conflict. If he had succeeded he would have prevented life from forming on earth. In another legend he tried to thwart a horror Mazda by sending a flood to destroy the world. Also recognize in Roman Mithraism. Rituals included animal sacrifice.

Book of Jamaspi"Ahriman, like a worm, is so much associated with darkness and old age, that he perishes in the end."[

the Zurvanite Ulema-i Islam Ahriman, "being devoid of anything good, does not issue from that which is owing to truth." (62.2)

He is the Angra Mainya (evil spirit) while Ahura Mazda is the Spenta Mainya  good or bright spirit)

He is the demon of demons, and dwells in an abyss of endless darkness in the north, the traditional home of the demons. Ignorance, harmfulness, and disorder are the characteristics of Ahriman. He can change his outward form and appear as a lizard, a snake, or a youth. His aim is always to destroy the creation of [Ahura Mazda] and to this end he follows behind the creator's work, seeking to spoil it. As Ahura Mazda creates life, Ahriman creates death; for health, he produces disease; for beauty, ugliness. All man's ills are due entirely to Ahriman.

The Younger Avesta. Vd. 19.47, Yt. 15.43, and Aogəmadaēca 28 place Angra Mainyu’s sojourn in the nether world, a world of darkness. According to Vd. 19.1 and 44, he dwells in the north, the region of the daēvas.

Angra Mainyu is the chief of all the daēvas and is called (Vd. 19.1, 43-44) daēvanąm daēvō “the daēva of daēvas.”

Esmun Etruscan God of Healing

God of Healing

Culture/Region Western Semetic  (Phoenician)

Known first from the Iron age levels at Sidon, his cult spread as far as Carthage, Cyprus and Sardinia.

His name is linked to the mother Goddess Caelestis.

He is linked with the development of medical science in the early Phoenician cultue and his cult centers were typically attached to education in healing arts.

His sacred stone is Amber which is said to help draw sickness from the body and negativity from the emotional energy.

He was incorporated into Greek culture as the physician God Asklepios.

He was venerated as such from roughly 800 bce until the Christianization of the empire.

Cult Center was in Pergamon,

Asklepios is associated with the medical symbol of the two serpents which we still see today.

Shanakdakheto  shah-nahk-dah-kee-toh

Classification :  Important Historical Figure

Culture/Region: Meroe Nubia

Ruling Queen of Kush Empire

Reign: Circa 177 to 155

Preceded by       Unknown

Succeeded by    Tanyidamani

Queen Shanakdakhete was the first African queen of Nubia.

References: Wall Inscriptions at Temple F in Naga. Her name appears in Meroitic Hieroglyphics in the middle of an Egyptian text

She styled herself as Son of Re, Lord of the Two Lands,

Center of Cult: A Temple was dedicated to her at Meroe

She is said to have ruled with full power in the Meroë Empire.  She is also said to have ruled without a king. It is also stated that as queen she played a significant role in the Meroitic religion.[5] In the 2nd century BC Shanakdakheto built the Temple F at Naqa.

As an African beauty, the queen is shown with a strong build, and bejeweled, a trait indicating wealth, power and prosperity, and childbearing capacity.

In the decorations of her mortuary chapel, the architectural features are highly artistic. In one sunken relief the queen is depicted wearing an embellished garment and bejeweled, sitting on a royal seat shaped as a lion, carrying a spear and palm branch in her right, with her left hand raised.

Sandstone relief from south wall of funerary chapel of Queen Shanakdakhete; right: queen enthroned, prince behind, both figures protected by wings of Isis; left: religious scenes and rows of attendant figures bearing palm-branches; formed from fifty-one blocks.

Africa: sub-Saharan Africa: Sudan: Northern Nile: Meroë (Nubia - archaic)

Acquisition name

Donated by: Government of Sudan

Acquisition date

1905

Haubas the God of Contracts

Classified: Jinn, god,

Venerated : 1,300 BCE until modern times

Associated: Wishes, Contracts, debt

Literature references: The Guru Granth Sahib Sikhism . The Avesta Zoroastrian

Haubus is depicted as a male human though having blue skin and in most representations long pointed ears or a tale. He was associated with travelers along the Incense Route. 

The early myth of this Entity suggests that the first travel along this route had exhausted all of his resources after taking this daring venture and was ready to accept his own death. Haubus appeared and offer to save their lives and guarantee them prosper in this trade route if he continued to bring desperate people to him.

The trader accepted his offer and Haubus granted his wish. He brought any who had lost the fortune or were facing difficult time before this powerful Jinn.

But overtime the trader came to see that Haubus was taking advantage of these desperate people that he sent to the Haubus.

He was also said to be an oracle and kings sent emissaries for around the world to consult with him.

Haubus has amassed  a large fortune from his tribute as a Oracle and wish grantor. He employees to Hell Hounds to guard his treasure.

While it is possible to negotiate a deal with Haubus, he is fickle and moody and a mast trickster.

The two Horus of Kemetic/Egyptian mythology

Horus was the celestial Falcon and the embodiment of kingship. The conflict between Horus and Seth the two Lords was an enduring theme an Egyptian mythology.

The name Horace translates to meaning the distant one  but there were two main forms of Horace that appear in Kemetic mythology.

These are sometimes regarded as separate gods belonging to completely different  epox but sometimes has aspects of the same deity.

Horace the great or Horace the elder was a primeval being who initiated creation. As Lord of the Sky his wingspan the heaven, and his eyes were the sun and the moon. This Horus was the son of a Sky goddess either Nut or Hathor. Horace the younger was the son of Isis or Auset who grew up to avenge his murder father who was Osiris and take his place as the ruler of Kemet.

He was usually shown as a Falcon headed man. He represented Kingship Each King of Egypt was acclaimed as a living Horus.

Egypt's earliest Kings were shown as Hawks praying on their enemies. Many Egyptian deities could be represented by birds of the Hawk family. The hawk the cult of some of these gods such as Nekheny  were gradually assimilated with that of Horus.

One of the earliest divine images known from image from Egypt is that of a Falcon in a barque. This represents Horus as a star or planet crossing the winding waterway of the Sky. And later text paint a dazzling picture of “the one of dappled plumage who opened his eyes to dispel both darkness and chaos”.

Like other primary primeval deities the celestial Falcon coalesce with the creator son God.

He then became Ra Horakthy meaning Ra Horace of the double horizon. He  Who triumphed over his enemies to rise in the East. The union of these two powers could be symbolized by a Falcon Crowned with the sun disk or a sun disk with a falcon's wings.

When a King appeared to his subjects it was compared with the glorious rising of Horace in the horizon. The two Lords, Horus and Seth were depicted either as brothers or as nephew uncle.  Many theories have advanced to explain the origins of their combat from memories of an ancient civil War Two observations of storms or astronomical phenomenon.

When the combatants are Horace the elder the celestial Falcon and set the chaotic God of storms the conflict seems to belong to the primeval age 1 opposing element come together to create a divine order. Thus order dominating chaos.

The necessity of Horus and Seth being reconciled is stress in many sources. one of the key images of Royal art was Horus the Uniter Set tying together the plant of upper and lower Kemet to symbolize the union of the two lands into one perfect Kingdom.

although the figure is sometimes replaced with Thoth indicating that Set’s role as the Slayer of Osiris could not be overlooked.

When the great conflict is presented as a dynastic feud between young Horace and his usurper uncle.

Horace must triumph and Seth must be punished so that just kingship can be established for humanity. Horace who was son of Isis was destined to be King from the moment of conception his epitaph Horus who is upon the papyrus alludes to the myth that Auset hid the infant Horace in the papyrus thickets of a hidden island among the Marshes. The nest of Horace was guarded by divine beings such as a cow and scorpion goddess.

The young Horace grew up to become “the pillar of his mother” and “the Avenger of his father”.

 Advised by isis Horus fought Seth in many different ways. He turn set sexual aggression to his own advantage and overcame the temporary loss of power in his eye . Horace argued his father's case before the divine tribunal led by Geb.

Osiris is granted sovereignty over the dead and Horace over the living .

Horace the devoted son becomes the prototype for all funerary priests and performs a series of rituals to rise up Osiris. He also becomes an intermediary between the world of the living and the dead.

Horace is shown in the book of coming forth by day presenting  deceased souls before the throne of Osiris. The reign of Horus as King of Egypt was considered the model for all subsequent rains. The semi divine Kings who came after him in mythological history were called the followers of Horus

 In a few magical test text a scorpion goddess called Ta Bitjet is called the wife of Horus.

 A passage in the coffin text makes Horus the elder and his sister Isis the parents of four protective deities known as the sons of Horus. A festival at Edfu temple celebrate the beautiful union between Horus and Hathor the lady of Dendera. Here Horace is an aspect of the sun God uniting with the goddess to renew the cosmos.

.A mythical history of temples relates how to mysterious being subdued the primeval swamp by cutting down reads. When they struck a Reed in the ground it became a perch for the celestial Falcon, Horus the Elder.

The Reed Hut built to house the Falcon was set to be the center of the world and the first temple.

In the legend of the wing disc Horace the distant one takes the role usually given to the distant goddess and transforms himself into a fiery disc to blind and destroy the sun God's enemies. In the ritual drama known as triumph of Horace. Horus the son of Isis harpoons Seth in his hippopotamus form. After a series of battles by land and water he drives Seth and his followers out of Egypt just  as the Egyptian Kings hoped to drive out foreign invaders.

Nanaja goddess of sex and war

Classification: God

Cultures: Mesopotamian Babylonio Akkadian Fertility goddess.

Period of Worship : 3000 bce to roughly 800 BCE

Sacred Animal: the Hawk

Sacred Color: Blue

Sacred Stone Amethyst

Cult Centers: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq

Art references: the Stele of King Melispak II _circa 1186-1172 bce

She was venerated as a war goddess and was also known to the Babylonians as Tasmetu.

) is the canonical name for a goddess worshipped by the Sumerians and Akkadians, a deity who personified voluptuousness and sexuality, and warfare. Her cult was large and was spread as far as Egypt, Syria, and Iran.

the Voluptuous One

The Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru is a stele of King Meli-Shipak II (1186–1172 BCE). Nanaya, seated on a throne, is being presented the daughter of the king, Ḫunnubat-Nanaya.

Uruk circle of gods, forming with An/Anum and Inanna/Ishtar the dominant divine ‘Triad’.

Nanaja has taken many names over her long history. At times she has been confused with Inanna, but in art reliefs the two are often shown together.

Hequet Goddess of the Primeval slime

She who hastens the birth

Classification: Goddess

Culture: Kemetic/Egyptian

Associated: Birth, Rebirth  

Heqet is a frog goddess who helped women to give birth and the dead to be reborn. The knife wielding frog shown on ivory wants or probably hack at in her role as defender of women and children.

The beginning of her cult dates to the early dynastic period at least. Her name was part of the names of some high-born Second Dynasty individuals buried at Helwan and was mentioned on a stela of Wepemnofret and in the Pyramid Texts. Early frog statuettes are often thought to be depictions of her.

Hackett mistress of joy was among the followers of the Inundation God Hapi when he brought the new life of Egypt each year.

Egyptians believed that frogs were spontaneously generated from the mud left by the receding Nile flood. Heqet it came to be worshipped as the goddess of the primeval slime who gave birth to the sun God.

She was regarded as a female counterpart to the creator God canoe and the two are linked in a middle Kingdom Royal birth myth.

The sun God RA sends a group of deities to assist a woman name Ruddaddet giving birth to three children who were destined to be Kings . 4 goddesses Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Hequet disguise themselves as dancing girls while canoe pretends to be their servant.

At the House of Ruddadet her distraught husband asked him for help because his wife's labor is so painful and difficult.

The deities locked themselves in the room with Ruddadet and Hequet hastens the birth of the Royal triplets.

Isis names the children,  Meskhennet predicts their fate Khnum make, some strong and healthy.

The beauties create three crowns for the triplets and hide them in a sack of Burley before returning to their divine realm.

The story implies that the children were sired by RA and they grow to be the sun worshipping Kings of the 5th dynasty.

In new Kingdom Royal birth myths Hequet gives life to the body and Ka  of the Royal infant shaped on the Potter's wheel of Khnum. And temples of the first Millennium BCE known assisting goddess is giving birth to divine children.

At Abydos Haquet was revered for helping Isis bring Horus into the world and for assisting the murdered God Osiris to be reborn. All Egyptians hoped that after they died Hequet would act as a divine midwife to their rebirth.

Barque of Millions

Solar barques were the vessels used by the sun god Ra in ancient Egyptian mythology. During the day, Ra was said to use a vessel called the Mandjet or the Boat of Millions of Years, and the vessel he used during the night was known as the Mesektet.

Ra was said to travel through the sky on the barge, providing light to the world. Each twelfth of his journey formed one of the twelve Egyptian hours of the day, each overseen by a protective deity. Ra then rode the barque through the underworld, with each hour of the night considered a gate overseen by twelve more protective deities. Passing through all of these while fending off various destructive monsters, Ra reappeared each day on the eastern horizon. He was said to travel across the sky in the Mandjet Barque through the hours of the day, and then switch to the Mesektet Barque to descend into the underworld for the hours of the night.

The progress of Ra upon the Mandjet was sometimes conceived as his daily growth, decline, death, and resurrection and it appears in the symbology of Egyptian mortuary texts.

The Underworld Journey of Ra

1st gate: Sia, deification of perception,  standing on the prow of the sun boat, invites a snake called "Desert-Protector" to unlock the gate to the arrival of Ra who, in the form of the god Atum (deification of the sunset sun , observes his enemies being massacred.

2nd gate: the guardian god is called "Swallower Of Sinners" and his gate precedes a lake of fire.

3rd gate: its guardian snake is "Stinger" while the portal itself is the goddess "Mistress Of Food"; some jackals watch over the "Lake of Life" interdicted to the dead because it is the place where Ra draws his breath.

4th gate: some deities carry ropes to measure the extension of the netherworld fields — as well as, in the daily life of the Egyptians, the measurement of the fields was carried out for tax purposes; this is also where the four human ethnic groups (according to the Egyptians) were depicted: the "cattle of Ra", i.e. Egyptians themselves, Levantines, Libyans and Nubians.

5th gate: this gate is the goddess "Lady Of Duration" while its guardian serpent is "Flame-Eyed"; this access is inhabited by the perfidious demon Apep — embodiment of evil and chaos (Isfet), bitter enemy of Ra  — here called "Evil Of Face". 20 deities manage to stem his devastating power by continuing to dissect it, while the heads of those he devoured emerge from his coils. The sun boat moves on and Ra leaves this dramatic region.

6th gate: Ra's boat approaches to seven jackal-headed poles with two enemies bound to each one, waiting to be beheaded.

7th gate: this gate is the goddess "Shining One" and beyond it there are 20 gods holding a rope ending in four whips, four falcon heads and four human heads.

8th gate: this access is inhabited by a flaming snake who burns up the enemies of Ausar.

9th gate: here stand Horus and Set on a hawk-headed lion.

10th gate: Apep appears again, but chained in order not to harm Ra in his transit.

11th gate: this gate is called "Mysterious Of Approaches" and is overseen by the cat-headed god Meeyuty (meow onomatopoeia).

12th gate: here stand the goddesses Isis and Nephthys in the form of snakes: the journey through the gates of the afterlife is finished and the sun rises on the world in the form of a sacred scarab (Khepri, deification of the morning sun.