9 World Chronicles

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

It is name for the Ethiopian Princess Andromeda who is famous for the story of her rescue from a sea dragon by the Greek Hero Perseus.

Distance to Earth: 2.537 million light years

Radius: 110,000 light years

Age: 10.01 billion years

Stars: 1 trillion

The constellation is associated with the Andromedids meteor shower (also known as the Bielids), first documented on December 6, 1741 over Russia.

Batara Guru

A creator God of the Sumatra mythology. One day Batara Guru sent a swallow down to the sea with a handful of soil to create dry land upon which Batara Guru scattered many seeds. From the spring all the different species of animals. Batara Guru then sent down a heroic incarnation of himself to defeat not a para ha the serpent ruler of the underworld. The divine hero was rewarded with the hand of Batara Guru daughter. They became the parents of the first humans

is the name of a supreme god in Indonesian His name is derived from Sanskrit Bhattaraka which means “noble lord". He has been conceptualized in Southeast Asia as a kind spiritual teacher, the first of all Gurus in Indonesian Hindu texts, mirroring the guru Dakshinamurti aspect of Hindu god Shiva in the Indian subcontinent.

Hut-ka-Ptah (meaning "Enclosure of the ka of Ptah

The Temple of Ptah is a shrine located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. It lies to the north of the main Amun temple, just within the boundary wall. The building was erected by the Pharaoh Thutmose III on the site of an earlier Middle Kingdom temple.

The great temple of Ptah was one of the city’s most prominent structures. According to an Egyptian document known as the “Memphite Theology,”

Ptah created humans through the power of his heart and speech; the concept, having been shaped in the heart of the creator,

The mythology of the Greek character Andromeda who in real life was a beautiful melanated Ethiopian woman. Well documented in history as such. Yet in the 1981 film the clash of the Titans she is portrayed as a non woman of color to the detriment of the story

Chinna-masta

Pantheon: Hindu Tantric

Classification: Devi

Meaning whose head was cut off

Culture :Indus Valley  Bengel, India

In Tantrism she hold her own in one hand and heads mouth opens to receive the blood the spurts from the gaping neck

Abode  Cremation ground

Weapon               khatri – scimitar

Consort                Shiva as Kabandha o

is a Hindu goddess (Devi). She is one of the Mahavidyas, ten goddesses from the esoteric tradition of Tantra, and a ferocious aspect of Parvati, the Hindu Mother goddess. The self-decapitated nude goddess, usually standing or seated on a divine copulating couple, holds her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants.

Cherubim

Classification: Unearthly being, sub class of Angels

Kerubim connected with the Assyrian word Karibu)

Hybrid creatures, half animal half huan  who appear in the Old Testament.

A cherub is one of the unearthly beings who directly attend to God, according to Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden

They are presented as guardians of the sacral points round which Jewish life and belief center the Tree of Life , the Ark of the Covenant , the temple and they indicate the presence of God.

In the vision of Ezekiel they for the living chariot of Yahweh.

In the book pf Revelation as they are described as beast and they stand around the throne of God.

They are full of eyes before and behind and this identifies them as cosmic being symbolizing the stars.

According to a Christian interpretation which goes back to the Greek Dionysius

In Islam, the cherubim are the angels closest to God and sometimes include the Bearers of the Throne and the archangels. Below the angels of the throne, the angels subordinative to Michael are also identified as cherubim. In Ismailism, there are seven cherubim, comparable to the Seven Archangels.

Their protective symbolism derived from the earlier Persian an Mesopotamia am gars guardian spirits who flight temples. They are usually appear in art as blue winged heads sometimes with the book symbolizing define divine knowledge by reason of their proximity to God whom they are sometimes shown supporting in flight. In baroque art cherubs are undistinguishable from cupids or putti.