The Ancient Gods have returned!
The bear. A symbol of primitive brute force. The bear was an
incarnation of the Norse God Odin and the Viking beserker warriors wore
bareskin tunics. In Greece the cult followers of Artemis dressed as bears. The
bear is linked with many other war like divinities including the Norse God Thor
and the Celtic thunder god. To the ainoo new of north Japan and to Native
Americans the bear is an ancestral figure the closest relative to humans as
bears can walk on two legs. It is also linked with resurrection symbolism
perhaps because of its hibernation. The formless bearcub licked into shape by its
mother became an image of the heathen needing the spiritual ministrations of
the church. Similarly the bear is the alchemic symbol for the primary state of
matter.
Bear worship (also known as the bear cult or arctolatry) is
the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian
ethnic religions such as the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu,[1] Basques, Germanics, Slavs
and Finns.[2] There are also a number of deities from Celtic Gaul and Britain
associated with the bear, and the Dacians, Thracians, and Getians were noted to
worship bears and annually celebrate the bear dance festival. The bear is
featured on many totems throughout northern cultures that carve them.
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,