9 World Chronicles

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.

The Book of Thoth

Classification: Sacred Text

Last Known Location: The Tomb of  Neferkaptah the City of Memphis

Author: Thoth Djhuty

Associated: Supreme knowledge

The Book of Thoth represents the accumulated knowledge of the wisest of the Kemetic Ntrs. Ut is said to contain the secrets of the universe and the most sacred and powerful spells in existence. The wielder of this book would attaint supreme knowledge. But the knowledge is far to great for mortals. And carries a curse of the Gods.

Karkota the 3 Eyed Goddess

Culture/Area: Hindu

Classification Goddess

Snake

Of the Mahanagas

Naga, (Sanskrit: “serpent”) in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, half human and half cobra. They are a strong, handsome species who can assume either wholly human or wholly serpentine form and are potentially dangerous but often beneficial to humans.

Color Black

Attributes : Rosary and waterjar

Karkota Dynasty ruled over the Kashmir valley and some northern parts of the Indian subcontinent during 7th and 8th century. The Serpent Empire as it was called was founded in 625 bce. Their rule saw a period of political expansion, economic prosperity and emergence of Kashmir as a center of Indian culture and scholarship.

Astoreth

Classification : Goddess

Origin Palestine and Philistine

AKA; Astarte

Known Period of Worship

1200 BCE to 200 BCE

Cult Center Palestine Costal region including Jerusalem

Various art references

Literary Source Vetus Testamentum

She was initially a goddess of both war and love. And is usually depicted wearing a horned head dress.

Biblical references include Kings 11.5 and II kings 23.13. Solomon is said to have built a temple in her honor near Jerusalem.

Astarte, also spelled Athtart or Ashtart, great goddess of the ancient Middle East and chief deity of Tyre, Sidon, and Elat, important Mediterranean seaports. Ashtaroth, the plural form of the goddess’s name in Hebrew, became a general term denoting goddesses and paganism.

King Solomon, married to foreign wives, “followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians” (1 Kings 11:5). Later the cult places to Ashtoreth were destroyed by Josiah. Astarte/Ashtoreth is the Queen of Heaven to whom the Canaanites burned offerings and poured libations (Jeremiah 44).

Astarte, goddess of war and sexual love, shared so many qualities with her sister, Anath, that they may originally have been seen as a single deity. Their names together are the basis for the Aramaic goddess Atargatis.

Astarte was worshiped in Egypt and Ugarit and among the Hittites, as well as in Canaan. Her Akkadian counterpart was Ishtar. Later she became assimilated with the Egyptian deities Isis and Hathor (a goddess of the sky and of women), and in the Greco-Roman world with Aphrodite, Artemis, and Juno.