Albion Calling: Some Thoughts on Academic Impact and the Contempor...

Albion Calling: Some Thoughts on Academic Impact and the Contempor...: As most academics must surely be aware, a major factor of contemporary academia, at least in the UK, is that of impact ; the contribution...

A bad witch's blog: Review: All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive W...

A bad witch's blog: Review: All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive W...: I was chatting to a gay pagan friend on the bus the other day about how he finds it comic when Wiccans insist on gender polarity in ritual...

Scandalous Women: Marie Antoinette's Birth Chart

Scandalous Women: Marie Antoinette's Birth Chart: Since Marie Antoinette and I share a birthday, every year I

Random Blog Links

https://etheria888.wordpress.com/category/metaphysics/

http://theprincessgagaproject.blogspot.kr/2010_07_01_archive.html

Brezny

from Rob Brezny:
SAGITTARIUS  Harper Lee was born and raised in
Alabama. At the age of 23, she relocated to New York City with hopes of
becoming a writer. It was a struggle. To support herself, she worked as a
ticket agent for airline companies. Finding the time to develop her craft
was difficult. Seven years went by. Then one Christmas, two friends gave
her a remarkable gift: enough money to quit her job and work on her
writing for a year. During that grace period, Lee created the basics for a
book that won her a Pulitzer Prize: *To Kill a Mockingbird.* I don't foresee
anything quite as dramatic for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. But
I do suspect you will receive unexpected help that provides you with the
slack and spaciousness you need to lay the foundations for a future
creation.
http://live.ezezine.com/ezine/archives/3_11/3_11-2014.12.08.10.49.archive.html

A bad witch's blog: Festival of the Week: Krampusnacht or Krampus Nigh...

A bad witch's blog: Festival of the Week: Krampusnacht or Krampus Nigh...: It has been a while since I've picked a Festival of the Week on my blog, but here is one to get in the winter holiday spirit: Krampusnac...

Sethian

http://www.livescience.com/48833-ancient-egyptian-handbook-spells-deciphered.html

Stars Over Washington: Manly P. Hall March 18, 1901 and an excerpt of a l...

Stars Over Washington: Manly P. Hall March 18, 1901 and an excerpt of a l...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLghF_i4-GA&sns=em Occultist, astrologer, researcher, author, and lecturer Manly Palmer Hall was born i...

http://luxoccultapress.blogspot.kr/2012/03/witches-origin-of-witch.html

http://luxoccultapress.blogspot.kr/

http://beingthere723.blogspot.kr/2010/05/1st-off-film-is-called-lost-boys-in.html

A bad witch's blog: News: Ancient Trees, Witchcraft and Fertility Gods...

A bad witch's blog: News: Ancient Trees, Witchcraft and Fertility Gods...: "'Tree of the Year' competition finalists announced" - story on BBC England: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29739284...

Johannes Trithemius

http://westcorktimes.com/home/archives/28813
Lilith; Johannes Trithemius

AL

Alabama Witches
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/10/witches_pagans_and_wiccans_in.html

http://speechinthesilence.com/silence-in-speech

A bad witch's blog: News: Halloween, Wicca and Witchcraft

A bad witch's blog: News: Halloween, Wicca and Witchcraft: With Halloween this Friday, newspapers and websites are producing the usual large number of features and articles about Wicca and witchcraft...

Bones and Sky: Shadowy Yet Unbroken

Bones and Sky: Shadowy Yet Unbroken: Written during a waxing moon in the sign of Capricorn on a day ruled by Jupiter   The breeze—the breath of God—is still— And the m...

Stars Over Washington: Nov 6, 2014 Full Moon @14Tau26: Oxen, Eagles, Pres...

Stars Over Washington: Nov 6, 2014 Full Moon @14Tau26: Oxen, Eagles, Pres...: Nov 6, 2014: 1st Full Moon Following the Oct 23rd Solar Eclipse @00Sco24 by Jude Cowell The Full Moon of November 6, 2014 @14Tau26 f...

Magaly Guerrero’s Pagan Culture: A Fancifully Twisted Halloween Masquerade

Magaly Guerrero’s Pagan Culture: A Fancifully Twisted Halloween Masquerade: “Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.” ~ Oscar Wilde The words mask and disguise can inspire thoughts of deception; but as ...

Rue and Hyssop: The Great October Book Giveaway - Listen to Them W...

Rue and Hyssop: The Great October Book Giveaway - Listen to Them W...: Our next book is the latest release from Mama Starr - "Listen to Them Whisper" - Honoring the Ancestors.   Mama Starr is ...

Marilyn Monroe Yogi

From http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4438/Marilyn-Monroe-Yoga-Superstar.html

"Not only did Marilyn Monroe crank out inspirational wisdom, but she also got her yoga on. Seems like the spirit of Marilyn is in the air as I've seen lots of Marilyn yoga photos floating around the internet the past few days.

Did you know that Marilyn learned yoga from Indra Devi, who many consider to be the "The First Lady of Yoga"?

At any rate, Marilyn Monroe was a yogi! "

http://nosmallthing1.blogspot.kr/2013/03/like-marilyn-monroe-in-sundress.html

https://mmmyoga.wordpress.com/category/celebrity-yoga/

http://www.prasanayoga.com/blog/marilyn-monroe-the-complete-yoga-poses/

Magikal News

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/6323
An interesting timeline of witchcraft persecution, focused on "November 13th."

http://blog.ctnews.com/connecticutpostings/2014/10/12/talk-oct-27-on-witchcraft-in-connecticut/
CT Witchcraft Trials

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000137655/woman-her-three-daughters-attacked-for-witchcraft-claims

The Burning Times Continue

Mob burns alive 7 witchcraft suspects 

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tanzania-mob-burns-alive-7-witchcraft-suspects/1/395477.html

 

Two thrashed on witchcraft slur

http://www.ekantipur.com/2014/10/13/national/two-thrashed-on-witchcraft-slur/396271.html 

 

 

Athlete tortured on witchcraft charges in Assam

http://bdnews24.com/neighbours/2014/10/17/athlete-tortured-on-witchcraft-charges-in-assam 

 

Witchcraft prosecution: Chasing the devil in Connecticut

http://www.eastoncourier.com/15277/witchcraft-prosecution-chasing-the-devil-in-connecticut/ 

 

 

 

 

A bad witch's blog: Tarot: Death - Meaning and Symbolism at Samhain

A bad witch's blog: Tarot: Death - Meaning and Symbolism at Samhain: Death comes to us all and all that lives must die. Of course, drawing the Death card, number 13 in Tarot's Major Arcana, doesn’t usual...

Stars Over Washington: Discovery of Uranus: America's totem planet of War...

Stars Over Washington: Discovery of Uranus: America's totem planet of War...: William Herschel's discovery of planet Uranus in 1781 was the first of the 'modern' (transpersonal, or, outer) planets to ent...

Marbas

http://faustuscrow.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/goetia-girl-marbas-succubus-frankenstein-nurse-of-pure-trance/

A bad witch's blog: Spirits of the Sacred Grove/Druid Priestess in Pri...

A bad witch's blog: Spirits of the Sacred Grove/Druid Priestess in Pri...: A classic book about druidry by Emma Restall Orr is back in print this month. The new edition of Spirits of the Sacred Grove  has been bro...

A bad witch's blog: News: Witch's Grave, Life after Death

A bad witch's blog: News: Witch's Grave, Life after Death: "Bones of ‘Witch Girl’ from Middle Ages unearthed in Italy" - story on news.com.au: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/bone...

The World Through a Druid's Point of View: British Pagan Historical Documentary

The World Through a Druid's Point of View: British Pagan Historical Documentary: I recently came across this wonderful series set in four episodes about Paganism in Europe which aired on BBC. I wanted to share these becau...

A bad witch's blog: Review: The British Witch - The Biography

A bad witch's blog: Review: The British Witch - The Biography: I do love a good history book about witchcraft. After finishing reading The British Witch: The Biography the first thing I can think to say ...

A bad witch's blog: British Museum Witchcraft Talk: Evil Hags and Moth...

A bad witch's blog: British Museum Witchcraft Talk: Evil Hags and Moth...: On Friday evening I went to a brilliant talk at the British Museum called Evil Hags and Mothers: Women and Witchcraft in Germany. I know I...

Albion Calling: New Publication: "The Goddess Frig: Reassessing an...

Albion Calling: New Publication: "The Goddess Frig: Reassessing an...: Apologies for posting again so soon after my previous post (and on a rather similar topic to boot), but I've just come upon some news ...

A bad witch's blog: This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London

A bad witch's blog: This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London: Now to 11 January 2015. Witches and Wicked Bodies exhibition at the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Free event. Fo...

A bad witch's blog: News: Witches, Devils, Pagans and the Occult

A bad witch's blog: News: Witches, Devils, Pagans and the Occult: "Trainee witch plays devil’s advocate" - story at Milton Keynes Citizen: http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/trainee-witch-pl...

Witch Persecutions in the News

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-dalit-woman-beaten-up-in-bihar-on-suspicion-of-witchcraft-2021967

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2767833/Married-couple-used-African-witchcraft-terrify-trick-two-women-coming-Britain-work-prostitutes-court-hears.html

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Nigerian-women-trafficked-UK-sex-trade-feared/story-22968176-detail/story.html

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-18015-Prophet+in+court+over+witchcraft/news.aspx

http://dailypost.ng/2014/09/22/three-minors-others-paraded-cultism-witchcraft-ondo/

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/article/2000136429/ugandan-parliament-outlaws-backseat-driving-witchcraft

A bad witch's blog: News: Witch Hunts and Witch Persecution Old and Ne...

A bad witch's blog: News: Witch Hunts and Witch Persecution Old and Ne...: "The Real-Life Letter Of Apology Written By The Salem Witch Trial Jury" - Excerpt from a new book The Penguin Book of Witches, on ...

A bad witch's blog: October, Samhain and a Month of Celebrating Death

A bad witch's blog: October, Samhain and a Month of Celebrating Death: I'm going to be celebrating death on A Bad Witch's Blog over the next few weeks. Well, it is October, the month that culminates i...

A bad witch's blog: Extract: Naming the Goddess - Eris

A bad witch's blog: Extract: Naming the Goddess - Eris: A book that I am very proud to have had a part in writing has been released today. It is called Naming the Goddess and is published by Moon ...

Pathworking

http://dreaminghades.com/articles/pathworking/what-is-pathworking

http://owlsundown.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/pathworking-with-the-tarot/

http://omegaproject.info/nickfarrell/nick-farrell-magical-pathworking.html



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pagan-Portals-Pathworking-exploring-understanding/dp/1780992858

http://thepaganchest.com/pagan-portals-pathworking-poetry/

Highways of the Mind: The Art and History of Pathworking

by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

4.38 of 5 stars 4.38  ·  rating details  ·  16 ratings  ·  0 reviews

Pathworking is a term given to a specific kind of guided visualization exercise in which the mind is projected into a series of situations and landscapes that can be viewed on a mental screen. Tracing them from the earliest cave paintings, through the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Bardic tradition and the story-tellers of Ireland, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki shows pathworkings to be a part of a much greater structure in the make-up of man, pertaining to his hopes and dreams and his ability to make those dreams come true. Used with purpose and by trained minds, the pathworking becomes a series of controlled thought patterns - and thought is the basis of creation. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/486523.Highways_of_the_Mind

http://www.gippeswic.demon.co.uk/books.html

http://www.qabalah.dk/pathwork.html


http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738719061

Neopagan Priestess: Faerie Star Spread

Neopagan Priestess: Faerie Star Spread: Recently, one of the tarot blogs I follow ( Songs from the Wishing Tree ) posted a spread for working with Faerie energies.  I'm in the ...

Neopagan Priestess: Fairy Ring Oracle Interview

Neopagan Priestess: Fairy Ring Oracle Interview: ©Anna Franklin & Paul Mason Something I like to do with new decks is "interview" them, to get a feel for how we may best w...

Neopagan Priestess: Fear and Time

Neopagan Priestess: Fear and Time: Another draw from the amazing creative team of Lucy Cavendish and Jasmine Becket-Griffith, this time from the Oracle of Shadows and Light ...

The Fifth House by Dana Gerhardt

http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_dgfifthhouse_e.htm

Stars Over Washington: The Mountain Astrologer: Mars square Neptune (the ...

Stars Over Washington: The Mountain Astrologer: Mars square Neptune (the ...: America's natal Mars-Neptune square has been a continual fuss here at Stars Over Washington and President Obama's new cycle of war i...

A bad witch's blog: News: Stonehenge, Druids, Equinox, Burials, Salem

A bad witch's blog: News: Stonehenge, Druids, Equinox, Burials, Salem: "Stonehenge Mystery: Will Druid King Get a Parking Space for His Kawasaki?" Story at The Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.co...

A bad witch's blog: Autumn Equinox: Balancing the Sun and Moon

A bad witch's blog: Autumn Equinox: Balancing the Sun and Moon: This weekend is the Autumn Equinox, when the hours of day and night are of equal length. It is a time in pagan Wheel of the Year to honour ...

A bad witch's blog: Back to Magic School: Hedgewitchery

A bad witch's blog: Back to Magic School: Hedgewitchery: Hedgewitchcraft is a form of witchcraft inspired by the magic of cunning folk, wise women and traditional witches. As well as being knowle...

A bad witch's blog: Pagan Eye: The Last Witch Burnt in Scotland

A bad witch's blog: Pagan Eye: The Last Witch Burnt in Scotland: This picture was taken by John Dodds who visited Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands. He told me he went on a walk from the town out to the...

http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.kr/2014/09/astrology-and-chaos-part-2-of-3.html

Stars Over Washington: Horoscope: Autumn Equinox 2014: Jupiter becomes pr...

Stars Over Washington: Horoscope: Autumn Equinox 2014: Jupiter becomes pr...: Set for Washington DC, here is the horoscope for this year's Libra Ingress, or as I usually call it, Autumn Equinox, 2014. If you cli...

Pagan Time Capsule

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/panmankey/2014/08/pagan-time-capsule-1950s/

Goetia and such

http://www.magickpedia.com/goetia-summoning-pt-two-812

http://deeper-down-the-rabbit-hole.com/2012/01/carroll-poke-runyon-discusses-magical-evocation-goetia/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermetic-hour

Mary Shelley

http://mysticmedusa.com/2014/09/jessa-crispin-mary-shelley-super-plutonic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMedusa+%28Mystic+Medusa%29

A bad witch's blog: Psychogeography Reference Material

A bad witch's blog: Psychogeography Reference Material: Today I am giving a talk entitled Psychogeography: Pathways into the Visionary City at the Pagan Federation London Conference in Leytons...

Ashereh

Goddess of Sirius

Green Dragon Synchronicity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sopdet
Goddess of star Sirius
Sopdet in red dress, with star on the head
Name in hieroglyphs
Symbol	star
Consort	Sah (constellation of Orion)
Parents	Ra
Offspring	Sopdu

In Egyptian mythology, Sopdet was the deification of Sothis, a star considered by almost all Egyptologists to be Sirius. The name Sopdet means (she who is) sharp in Egyptian, a reference to the brightness of Sirius, which is the brightest star in the night sky. In art she is depicted as a woman with a five-pointed star upon her head.^[1]
Just after Sirius has a heliacal rising in the July sky, the Nile River begins its annual flood, and so the ancient Egyptians connected the two. Consequently Sopdet was identified as a goddess of the fertility of the soil, which was brought to it by the Nile's flooding. This significance led the Egyptians to base their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius.^[1]
Sopdet is the consort of Sah, the constellation of Orion, near which Sirius appears, and the god Sopdu was said to be their child. These relationships parallel those of the god Osiris and his family, and Sah was linked with Osiris, Sopdet with Isis, and Sopdu with Horus.^[1] She is said in the Pyramid Texts to be the daughter of Osiris.

Isis

Hathor

Sirius, aka Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Number One Big Dog Star, is the brightest star in the sky, blazing away at an apparent magnitude of -1.43.  (The latter is meaningless to most folks... except to note that Sirius is so bright relative to the other stars that it’s off the astronomer’s magnitude scale.  Siriusly.)  Sirius has a long history of observation (and speculation).  Its connection to ancient Egypt is perhaps the most notorious, but other cultures were heavily invested in an apparent appreciation of the star as well.

Astronomers at Louisville, Kentucky, noted the Dog Star’s veneration in ancient Mesopotamia, where its “old Akkadian name was Mul-lik-ud” (“Dog Star of the Sun”) and in Babylonia, Kakkab-lik-ku (“Star of the Dog”). Assyrians, not to be outdone, called Sirius, Kal-bu-sa mas (“the Dog of the Sun”), and in Chaldea, the star was Kak-shisha (“the Dog Star that Leads”) or Du-shisha (“the Director”). The later Persians referred to Sirius as Tir, meaning “the Arrow.”

Sirius has been identified by some as the Biblical star Mazzaroth (the Book of Job, 38:32). The Semitic name for Sirius was Hasil, while the Hebrews also used the name Sihor -- the latter an Egyptian name, learned by the Hebrews prior to their Exodus. Phoenicians called Sirius, Hannabeah (“the Barker”.), a name also used in Canaan.  Meanwhile, The Dogon Tribe, from the Homburi Mountains near Timbuktu (West Central Sahara Desert in Africa), have an apparent lock on traditions as they were able to describe in detail the three stars of the Sirian system.

But ancient Egypt provides the most regal history for Sirius.  Initially, it was Hathor, the great mother goddess, who was identified with Sirius.  But Isis soon became the major archetype, sharing honors with the title of Sirius as the Nile Star.  An icon of Sirius as a five-pointed star (shades of the Golden Mean) has been found on the walls of the famous Temple of Isis/Hathor at Denderah.  [The latter is possibly well connected to the Starfire of Laurence Gardner’s research.  See, in particular, Gardner’s book, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, HarperCollins, London, 2003; for some good stuff on Hathor and Denderah.]

But Isis was not a lone goddess.  Instead, her husband was Osiris (Orion), and the Sirius star system is thought by some to be Isis (Sirius A), Osiris (Sirius B), and the Dark Goddess as Sirius C (which apparently exists, but has not be seen directly by anyone other than the mentor of the Dogons).

[It is worth noting that Sirius B is a white dwarf star (one with the mass of our sun, packed into a sphere roughly four times that of the earth -- and thus with a density 3000 times that of diamonds, a hardness 300 times that of diamonds, and by virtue of its spinning on its axis every 23 minutes, the possessor of a huge magnetic field).  Sirius B, then being the archetype of a collapsed star, appropriately describes the death and diminution of Osiris.  The Dogon Tribe obviously had connections with those in the know!]

It might also be noted that instead of the Dark Goddess, the third alleged member of the Sirian system may also be represented by Anubis, the dog or jackel-headed son/god of Isis and Osiris, who assisted in the passage of the souls into the underworld.  Anubis was the one who weighed the hearts of the dead to determine if their good deeds outweighed their not-so-good acts.  Thus both Anubis and the Dark Goddess were feared by the evil doers, most Republicans and Democrats, and a fair number of Independents.

Sirius is also ancient Egypt’s inspiration for one of its first Calendars, a solar one with 12 thirty day months.  In the Egyptian Sirius calendar, the year began with the helical rising of Sirius on or near the Summer Solstice (the first day of summer, the longest day of the year, and the day when the noon sun stood highest above the horizon). This “helical rising” is named after the Greek word Helios for Sun.

The fact that the early Egyptian calendar only had 360 days might be of concern to anyone who notes that in a mere ten years, the calendar (and the harvest, flooding of the Nile, etc) would be roughly 53 days out of sync.  Accordingly, at some point, five feast days were added to the end of the year.  Interestingly, however, this is considerable evidence to suggest that at the time, the Earth did in fact rotate in 360 days.  Then, according to Immanuel Velikovsky, a close encounter by the Earth with Venus resulted in a change in the number of days in the year from 360 to 365.24.  At that point of Ages in Chaos, the five feast days were added.

The feast days, by the way, “celebrated” the births of five gods (and goddesses):           

            Day One: Osiris,

            Day Two: Horus (Heru-ur or Aroueris),

            Day Three: Set,

            Day Four: Isis, and

            Day Five: Nephthys.  

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, [Egyptian Magic, London, 1901]. The first, third and fifth feast days were considered unlucky.  This might have been due to the fact that Osiris was best known as the slain god, while Set and Nephthys were the dark god, dark goddess respectively.  The second and fourth days, however, were lucky, with both Horus and Isis being winged/ascended.  Apparently, being dead or dark was not much of a celebration.

from http://www.halexandria.org/dward108.htm 

Wish upon a star...

http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/connection-between-sirius-and-human-history/ 

The Sirius Mystery excerpt-

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/universo/esp_sirio09.htm 

Sirius, The God * Dog Star

The effect of Sirian energy and influences generated approximately 18 years ago, in 1993 / 1994 (the last cycle when Sirius A and B were closest), have created renewed interest in this most influential heavenly body. The history books and religions of the world have had much to say about the God * Dog star. This article reflects on our ancestors' beliefs and inspired insights into a great mystery ~ the mystery of the Dog Star and its influences on our little corner of the universe.

Sirius was an object of wonder and veneration to all ancient peoples throughout human history. In the ancient Vedas this star was known as the Chieftain's star; in other Hindu writings, it is referred to as Sukra, the Rain God, or Rain Star. The Dog Star is also described as "he who awakens the gods of the air, and summons them to their office of bringing the rain."
By the ancient Egyptians, Sirius was revered as the Nile Star, or Star of Isis. Its annual appearance just before dawn at the June 21 solstice, heralded the coming rise of the Nile, upon which Egyptian agriculture depended. This particular helical rising is referred to in many temple inscriptions, wherein the star is known as the Divine Sepat, identified as the soul of Isis.
For example, in the temple of Isis-Hathor at Dedendrah, Egypt, appears the inscription, "Her majesty Isis shines into the temple on New Year's Day, and she mingles her light with that of her father on the horizon." The Arabic word Al Shi'ra resembles the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian names suggesting a common origin in Sanskrit, in which the name Surya, the Sun God, simply means the "shining one."
For up to 35 days before and 35 days after our sun conjuncts the star Sirius ~ close to July 4 ~ it is hidden by the sun’s glare. The ancient Egyptians refused to bury their dead during the 70 days Sirius was hidden from view because it was believed Sirius was the doorway to the afterlife, and the doorway was thought to be closed during this yearly period.

In mythology the dog Sirius is one of the watchmen of the Heavens, fixed in one place at the bridge of the Milky Way, keeping guard over the abyss into incarnation. Its namesake the Dog Star is a symbol of power, will and steadfastness of purpose, exemplifying the initiate who has succeeded in bridging the lower and higher consciousness.
Located just below the Dog Star is the constellation called Argo, the Ship. Astrologically this region in the sky has been known as the River of Stars, gateway to the ocean of higher consciousness.
The Chinese recognized this area as the bridge between heaven and hell ~ the bridge of the gatherer, the judge. In the higher mind are gathered the results of the experiences of the personality.
Between each life the Soul judges its past progress, and also the conditions needed to aid its future growth. As long as it is attached to desire, sensation, and needs experiences, the Soul continues to come into incarnation. Until it is perfected, the Soul cannot pass over, or through, the Bridge.
The association of Sirius as a celestial dog has been consistent throughout the classical world; even in remote China, the star was identified as a heavenly wolf. In ancient Chaldea (present day Iraq) the star was known as the "Dog Star that Leads," or it was called the "Star of the Dog." In Assyria, it was said to be the "Dog of the Sun." In still older Akkadia, it was named the "Dog Star of the Sun."
In Greek times Aratus referred to Canis Major as the guard dog of Orion, following on the heels of its master and standing on its hind legs with alpha star Sirius carried in its jaws. The concept of the mind slaying the real can be seen in the tales which relate the dog as the hunter and killer ~ the hound from hell.
Manilius called Canis Major the "dog with the blazing face." Also called the Large Dog, Sirius appears to cross the sky in pursuit of the Hare, represented by the constellation Lepus under Orion's feet.
Mythologists such as Eratosthenes said that the constellation represents Laelaps, a dog so swift that no prey could escape it. Laelaps had a long list of owners. One story says it is the dog given by Zeus to Europa, whose son Minos, King of Crete, passed it on to Procris, daughter of Cephalus. The dog was presented to Procris along with a javelin that could never miss. Ironically, Cephalus accidentally killed her while out hunting with Laelaps.
Cephalus inherited the dog and took it with him to Thebes, north of Athens, where a vicious fox was ravaging the countryside. The fox was so swift that it was destined never to be caught ~ yet Laelaps the hound was destined to catch whatever it pursued.
Off they went, almost faster than the eye could follow, the inescapable dog in pursuit of the uncatchable fox. At one moment the dog would seem to have its prey within grasp, but could only close its jaws on thin air as the fox raced ahead of it again. There could be no resolution of such a paradox, so Zeus turned them both to stone and placed the dog in the sky without the fox.
In the Chinese tradition, there is a remarkable analogy in the double meaning of the word Spirit and the word Sing (star). Shin and Sing, the Chinese words for soul and essence, are often interchangeable, as they are in the English language.
It is said that the fixed stars, and their domain, contain the essences or souls of matter ... a living soul is a higher essence of matter, and when evolved may also be called a star. These stars and essences become gods.
Like souls, stars are regarded as having divine attributes. Stars look down from regions of chaotic, violent, purity onto the world of humanity and influence the energies of humankind invisibly, yet most powerfully.

In June of 1993, as our sun covered Sirius from the Earth's view, the largest flood of the past century occurred. The waters of the Mississippi, the Nile River of the U.S., overflowed its banks. The flood that year continued until the middle of August. When Sirius re-appeared from behind the sun, the flood waters receded and the immediate life-threatening crisis subsided. Could this have been a reflection of the great rivers of energies streaming out from Sirius?
http://www.souledout.org/cosmology/sirius/siriusgodstar.html

http://www.mirrorofisis.freeyellow.com/id63.html

http://www.siriusascension.com/sirius.htm

by Robert K. G. Temple
1976
 

Sirius was the most important star in the sky to the ancient Egyptians. The ancient Egyptian calendar was based on the rising of Sirius. It is established for certain that Sirius was sometimes identified by the ancient Egyptians with their chief goddess Isis.

The companion of Isis was Osiris, the chief Egyptian god. The 'companion' of the constellation of the Great Dog (which includes Sirius) was the constellation of Orion. Since Isis is equated with Sirius, the companion of Isis must be equated, equally, with the companion of Sirius. Osiris is thus equated on occasion with the constellation Orion.

We know that the 'companion of Sirius' is in reality Sirius B. It is conceivable that Osiris-as-Orion, 'the companion of Sirius,' is a stand-in for the invisible true companion Sirius B.

'The oldest and simplest form of the name' of Osiris, we are told, is a hieroglyph of a throne and an eye. The 'eye' aspect of Osiris is thus fundamental. The Bozo tribe of Mali, related to the Dogon, call Sirius B 'the eye star'. Since Osiris is represented by an eye and is sometimes considered 'the companion of Sirius', this is equivalent to saying that Osiris is 'the eye star', provided only that one grants the premise that the existence of Sirius B really was known to the ancient Egyptians and that 'the companion of Sirius' therefore could ultimately refer to it.

The meanings of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and names for Isis and Osiris were unknown to the earliest dynastic Egyptians themselves, and the names and signs appear to have a pre-dynastic origin -- which means around or before 3200 B.C., in other words 5,000 years ago at least. There has been no living traditional explanation for the meanings of the names and signs for Isis and Osiris since at least 2800 B.C. at the very latest.

'The Dog Star' is a common designation of Sirius throughout known history. The ancient god Anubis was a 'dog god', that is, he had a man's body and a dog's head.

In discussing Egyptian beliefs, Plutarch says that Anubis was really the son of Nephthys, sister to Isis, although he was said to be the son of Isis. Nephthys was 'invisible', Isis was 'visible'. (In other words, the visible mother was the stand-in for the invisible mother, who was the true mother, for the simple reason that the invisible mother could not be perceived.)

Plutarch said that Anubis was a

'horizontal circle, which divides the invisible part ... which they call Nephthys, from the visible, to which they give the name Isis; and as this circle equally touches upon the confines of both light and darkness, it may be looked upon as common to them both.'

This is as clear an ancient description as one could expect of a circular orbit (called 'Anubis') of a dark and invisible star (called 'Nephthys') around its 'sister', a light and visible star (called 'Isis) -- and we know Isis to have been equated with Sirius.

 

What is missing here are the following specific points which must be at this stage still our assumptions:

(a) The circle is actually an orbit

(b) The divine characters are actually stars, specifically in this context

Actually, Anubis and Osiris were sometimes identified with one another. Osiris, the companion of Isis who is sometimes 'the companion of Sirius' is also sometimes identified with the orbit of the companion of Sirius, and this is reasonable and to be expected.

Isis-as-Sirius was customarily portrayed by the ancient Egyptians in their paintings as traveling with two companions in the same celestial boat. And as we know, Sirius does, according to some astronomers, have two companions, Sirius B and Sirius C.

To the Arabs, a companion-star to Sirius (in the same constellation of the Great Dog) was named 'Weight' and was supposed to be extremely heavy -- almost too heavy to rise over the horizon. 'Ideler calls this an astonishing star-name', we are told, not surprisingly.

The true companion-star of Sirius, Sirius B, is made of super-dense matter which is heavier than any normal matter in the universe and the weight of this tiny star is the same as that of a gigantic normal star.

The Dogon also, as we know, say that Sirius B is 'heavy' and they speak of its 'weight'.

The Arabs also applied the name 'Weight' to the star Canopus in the constellation Argo. The Argo was a ship in mythology which carried Danaos and his fifty daughters to Rhodes. The Argo had fifty oarsmen under Jason, called Argonauts. There were fifty oars to the Argo, each with its oarsman-Argonaut. The divine oarsman was an ancient Mediterranean motif with sacred meanings.

The orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A takes fifty years, which may be related to the use of the number fifty to describe aspects of the Argo.

There are many divine names and other points in common between ancient Egypt and ancient Sumer (Babylonia). The Sumerians seem to have called Egypt by the name of 'Magan' and to have been in contact with it.

The chief god of Sumer, named Anu, was pictured as a jackal, which is a variation of the dog motif and was used also in Egypt for Anubis, the dog and the jackal apparently being interchangeable as symbols. The Egyptian form of the name Anubis is 'Anpu' and is similar to the Sumerian 'Anu', and both are jackal-gods.

The famous Egyptologist Wallis Budge was convinced that Sumer and Egypt both derived their own cultures from a common source which was 'exceedingly ancient'.

Anu is also called An (a variation) by the Sumerians. In Egypt Osiris is called An also.

Remembering that Plutarch said that Anubis (Anpu in Egyptian) was a circle, it is interesting to note that in Sanskrit the word Anda means 'ellipse'. This may be a coincidence.

Wallis Budge says that Anubis represents time. The combined meanings of 'time' and 'circle' for Anubis hint strongly at 'circular motion'.

The worship of Anubis was a secret mystery religion restricted to initiates (and we thus do not know its content). Plutarch who writes of Anubis, was an initiate of several mystery religions, and there is reason to believe his information was from well-informed sources. (Plutarch himself was a Greek living under the Roman Empire.) A variant translation of Plutarch's description of Anubis is that Anubis was 'a combined relation' between Isis and Nephthys. This has overtones which help in thinking of 'the circle' as an orbit - a 'combined relation' between the star orbiting and the star orbited.

The Egyptians used the name Horus to describe 'the power which is assigned to direct the revolution of the sun', according to Plutarch. Thus the Egyptians conceived of and named such specific dynamics -- an essential point.

Plutarch says Anubis guarded like a dog and attended on Isis. This fact, plus Anubis being 'time' and 'a circle', suggests even more an orbital concept -- the ideal form of attendance of the prowling guard dog.

Aristotle's friend Eudoxus (who visited Egypt) said that the Egyptians had a tradition that Zeus (chief god of the Greeks whose name is used by Eudoxus to refer to his Egyptian equivalent, which leaves us wondering which Egyptian god is meant - presumably Osiris) could not walk because 'his legs were grown together'. This sounds like an amphibious creature with a tail for swimming instead of legs for walking. It is like the semi-divine creature Oannes, reputed to have brought civilization to the Sumerians, who was amphibious, had a tail instead of legs, and retired to the sea at night.

Plutarch relates Isis to the Greek goddess Athena (daughter of Zeus) and says of them they were both described as 'coming from themselves', and as 'self-impelled motion'. Athena supervised the Argo and placed in its prow the guiding oak timber from Dodona (which is where the Greek ark landed, with the Greek version of the Biblical Noah, Deukalion, and his wife Pyrrha). The Argo thus obtained a distinctive 'self-impelled motion' from Athena, whom Plutarch specifically relates to Isis in this capacity.

The earliest versions of the Argo epic which were written before the time of Homer are unfortunately lost. The surviving version of the epic is good reading but relatively recent (third century B.C.).

The Sumerians had 'fifty heroes', 'fifty great gods', etc., just as the later Greeks with their Argo had 'fifty heroes' and the Argo carried 'fifty daughters of Donaos'.

An Egyptian papyrus says the companion of Isis is 'Lord in the perfect black'. This sounds like the invisible Sirius B. Isis's companion Osiris 'is a dark god'.

The Trismegistic treatise 'The Virgin of the World' from Egypt refers to 'the Black Rite', connected with the 'black' Osiris, as the highest degree of secret initiation possible in the ancient Egyptian religion -- it is the ultimate secret of the mysteries of Isis.

This treatise says Hermes came to earth to teach men civilization and then again 'mounted to the stars', going back to his home and leaving behind the mystery religion of Egypt with its celestial secrets which were some day to be decoded.

There is evidence that 'the Black Rite' did deal with astronomical matters. Hence the Black Rite concerned astronomical matters, the black Osiris, and Isis. The evidence mounts that it may thus have concerned the existence of Sirius B.

A prophecy in the treatise 'The Virgin of the World' maintains that only when men concern themselves with the heavenly bodies and 'chase after them into the height' can men hope to understand the subject-matter of the Black Rite. The understanding of astronomy of today's space age now qualifies us to comprehend the true subject of the Black Rite, if that subject is what we suspect it may be. This was impossible earlier in the history of our planet.

 

It must be remembered that without our present knowledge of white dwarf stars which are invisible except with modern telescopes, our knowledge of super-dense matter from atomic physics with all its complicated technology, etc., none of our discussion of the Sirius system would be possible; it would not be possible to propose such an explanation of the Black Rite at all -- we could not propound the Sirius question.

Much material about the Sumerians and Babylonians has only been circulated since the late 1950s and during the 1960s, and our knowledge of pulsars is even more recent than that. It is doubtful that this book could have been written much earlier than the present. The author began work in earnest in 1967 and finished the book in 1974.