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cuddlycenobite:

Of Myth and Legend →  Al’Uzza

Al-Uzza, “the Strong One”, was one of the most venerated Arab Deities, and the Goddess of the morning and evening star, Venus. She had a temple at Petra (though which one that was has not been determined), and may well have been the patron Goddess of that city. Isaac of Antioch (a writer of the 5th century CE) calls Her Beltis (“Lady”, a title shared by many other Semitic Goddesses), and Kaukabta, “the Star”. He also says that women would invoke Al-Uzza from the rooftops, a form of worship appropriate to a Star Goddess. St. Epiphanius of the 4th century CE calls Her the mother of Dusares, the local mountain God, calling Her by the title Chaamu or Chalmous, meaning “young girl or virgin”. She has connections with the acacia tree, and Her sanctuary at Nakhlah had three acacias in which She was believed to descend. She has much in common with Ishtar and Astarte as Morning and Evening Star Goddesses—they all have aspects of both Love and War Goddess, and big cats were sacred to Them.  She was associated by the Greeks with their Aphrodite Urania, “Heavenly Aphrodite”. (x)

ghoulnextdoor:

Wicca by Fragoline on DeviantArt

thesilverpaws:

“Ooooh yes, give me aaaall the sunshine. LET ME ROLL IN SUNSHINE!!”

— Faolan, Oriental Shorthair and sun worshipper

nearlylost:

Shop update. Some simple #assemblage pieces with enamels. I really enjoy how the enamel coin chain turned out #nearlylostjewelry #assemblagejewelry #handmade #smallbusiness #shophandmade #etsy #insectjewelry

anthropologyofgenesis:

An Iron Age Celtic Chieftain’s roundhouse. Sadly the demographic with the highest death rate among the Celts were females between 12 and 25. This says a lot when one takes into account the amount of warfare the men engaged in – often completely naked so to strike terror in the hearts of their opponents with a display of fearlessness. The Celts were by no means “barbarians” as the Romans and Greeks would identify them. They had a deep spiritual understanding of the immortality of the soul, the importance of truth and rightful conduct, and a broad knowledge of astrology. They practiced forms of skull and brain surgery, poetry, engaged in trade, and invented a number of things which the Romans and others later copied from chainmail armor and the scutum shield to road building techniques and mining technology. -H.J.N.

lucidnirvana:

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