Tuesday, October 18, 2011


My understanding of ritual is a set of actions made for a value of some sort. To achieve or destroy something they want to reach.
Temenos - "is a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, holy grove or holy precinct.
Eleusinian Mysteries - "were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece. Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance. It is acknowledged that their basis was an old agrarian cult which probably goes back to the Mycenaean period and it is believed that the cult of Demeter was established in 1500 B.C. The idea of immortality which appears in syncretistic religions of antiquity was introduced in late antiquity."



PEITHO “was the goddess or spirit (daimona) of persuasion, seduction and charming speech. In combination with force (bia) she also represented forceful inducement and rape (including bridal abduction). Peitho was a close companion of the goddess Aphrodite.
Pietho was usually depicted as a woman with her hand lifted in persuasion or fleeing from the scene of a rape. Her attributes sometimes included a white dove and ball of binding twine.”

Zeus and Athena don’t like circles, they like straight lines. Circles disturb them because they represent cycles.








Thonic – related to the underworld.
Furies -Three goddesses of vengeance: Tisiphone (avenger of murder), Megaera (the jealous) and Alecto (constant anger). They were also called the Daughters of the Night, but were actally the daughters of Uranus and Gaea. Another name for them is the Erinyes. 
Without mercy, the Furies would punish all crime including the breaking of rules considering all aspects of society. They would strike the offenders with madness and never stopped following criminals. The worst of all crimes were patricide or matricide, and first and foremost, the Furies would punish this kind of crime. 

They would also be the guardians of the law when the state had not yet intervened or did not exist, or when the crime was a crime of ethics and not actual law . For example, they would protect beggars and strangers, punish those who stole the birds' young and even look out for the dogs.

Horrible to look at, the Furies had snakes for hair and blood dripping from their eyes. They changed into the Eumenides, protectors of the suppliant, after Athena had made them merciful sparing Orestes, whom they had stalked for a long time after the murder of his mother and her lover.
From these beings we have the words "furious" and "infuriated".
Metis - Titan generation, mother of Athena, goddess of wisdom. (Μῆτις, "wisdom," "skill," or "craft")
Origin of
Athena – Daddy’s girl.
Precedence behind every action.
Archetype – the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
Matricide – killing your mother.
Senator comes from the word senex; the wise old man (also called senex, sage or sophos) is an archetype.

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