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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

es likewise dwell less on the priestly functions of women, than on their higher gift, as it seems, of divination: perita angurii femina, saxo gram. 121. a''aldamarr konungr atti mosur miok gamla ok orvasa, sva at hun la i rekkju, en ]70 var hun framsyn af fitons anda, sem margir heisnir menn (king v. had a mother very old and feeble, so that she lay in bed, and there was she seized by a spirit of python, like many heathen folk, fornm. sog. 1, 76. of like import seems to be a term whicli borders on the notion of a higher and supernatural being, as in the case of veleda; and that is dis (nympha, numen. it may be not accidental, that the spakona in several instances bears the proper name tliordis (vatnsd. p. 186 seq. fornm. sog. 1, 2.55. islend. sog. 1, 140. kormakkss. p. 204 seq; dis however

turius l.l. securius (al. segomunus) pro se quisque (see suppl. 5 ahnost the same, granting a change of tfi into/(as in tirjp, 4']p) i of f'ur a standing for greek j there are more examples: fnasu, blasu= nvfi/a (pxvo .s zeitschr. j copenh. ed. of the edda, sajm. 2, 889 sigemon, and in finn scgemon, is said to have been a name of the celtic mars; a gruter 372. heroes. whom apollo overcame, and as python guarded the delphic oracle, the dying fafnir prophesies^ we must take into account losfdfnir saem. 24, 30. sinfiotli, who, when a boy, kneads snakes into the dough, is comparable to the infant hercules tested by serpents. through siegfried the prankish welisungs get linked to the burgundian gibichungs, and then both are called nibelungs. among gothic heroes we are attracted by the ovida and

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

akes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

orphyry and yellow marble. the floor was of black granite; the roof of white marble. on the southern side was my couch, a softness of exotic furs. to roll in them was to gasp for pleasure. in the centre was a tiny fountain of pure gold. the sunlight came through the space between the walls and the roof, while on the other sides i could look through and up into the infinite blue. there was a great python that inhabited the hall; but he was very old, and too wise to stir. but- so i then believed- he watched me and conveyed intelligence to the old magus of the well. page 7 gulf.txt now then the folly of my guardians appeared in this; that while all day i slept and languished and played idly, at night while they supposed i slept, i slept not. but i rose and gave myself to the most violent exer

he ceremony of osiris, and for the last time the shameful farce was played. but in my heart i vowed secretly to cleanse the temple of its chicanery and folly. therefore at the end of the ceremony did i perform a mighty banishing, a banishing of all things mortal and immortal, even from nuit that circleth infinite space unto hadit the core of things; from amoun that ruleth before all the gods unto python the terrible serpent that abideth at the end of things, from ptah the god of the pure soul of aethyr unto besz the brute force of that which is grosser than earth, which hath no name, which is denser than lead and more rigid than steel; which is blacker than the thick darkness of the abyss, yet is within all and about all. amen! then during the day i took counsel with myself, and devised a

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

on of the ancient secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all

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led uti there come into the stone a white goat, a green dragon, and a tawny bull. but they pass away immediately. there is a veil of such darkness before the aethyr that it seems impossible to pierce it. but there is a voice saying: behold, the great one of the night of time stirreth, and with his tail he churneth up the slime, and of the foam thereof shall he make stars. and in the battle of the python and the sphinx shall the glory be to the sphinx, but the victory to the python. now the veil of darkness is formed of a very great number of exceedingly fine black veils, and one tears them off one at a time. and the voice says, there is no light or knowledge or beauty or stability in the kingdom of the grave, whither 71 thou goest. and the worm is crowned. all that thou wast hath he eaten

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far from the path that i have a real good mind to get maryt to let me perform the black mass on her at midnight. i would 29 just love to bring up typhon, and curse osiris and burn his bones and his blood! at least, i now solemnly express a pious wish that the crocodile of the west may eat up the sun once and for all, that set may defile the holy place, that the supreme blasphemy may be spoken by python in the ears of isis. i want trouble. i want to say indra's mantram till his throne gets red-hot and burns his lotus-buttocks; i want to pinch little harpocrates till he fairly yells and i will too! somehow! 6.15. i have now got into a sort of smug content, grinning all over like some sleepy chinese god. no reason for it, lord knows! i can't make up my mind whether to starve or sandwich or

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

. magister templi. there was no crackling in the dried leaves [capricornus "joins" aquarius "kneeling" aquarius "and" capricornus. master, we beseech thee to permit the ceremony to proceed. magister templi. there was no heart in the black lamb["all" probationers "join" aquarius "and" capricornus "kneeling] all. master, we beseech thee to permit the ceremony to proceed. magister templi. the sacred python was found dead [mater coeli "comes forward, kneels before" magister templi "thus making the apex to the pyramid of petitioners, rises and plays her petition< then again kneels] magister templi. let the ceremony proceed [mater coeli "returns to her throne" aquarius "rises, and" capricornus "returns to his post and lights the lamp" 12 aquarius "and all present dance wildl

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

. for, if the followers of the roman church are taught that mercury and aesculapius, or asclepios, who are, in truth, one, are "devils and sons of devils" and the wand and serpent of the latter were "the devil's wand; how about the "brazen serpent" of moses? every scholar knows that both the heathen wand and the jewish "serpent" are one and the same, namely, the caduceus of mercury, son of apollo-python. it is easy to comprehend why the jews adopted the ophidian shape for their "seducer" with them it was purely physiological and phallic; and no amount of casuistical reasoning on the part of the roman catholic church can give it another meaning, once that the mystery language is well studied, and that the hebrew scrolls are read numerically. the occultists know that the serpent, the naga, a

two contrasted lights, and the two serpents of the gnostics, the good and the evil one; they also know that, when generalised, the conclusions of both science and theology present two most ridiculous extremes. for, when the former tells us that it is sufficient to trace the legends of the serpents to their primal source, the astrological legend, and to meditate seriously on the sun, conqueror of python, and the celestial virgin in the zodiac forcing back the devouring dragon, if we would have the key of all the subsequent religious dogmas; it is easy to perceive that, instead of[[vol. 2, page] 209 cobras as symbols. generalising, the author simply has his eye on christian religion and revelation. we call this one extreme. the other we see in this: when, repeating the famous decision of th

eligions of the past, it is in egypt we have to seek for its western origin. the ophites adopted their rites from hermes trismegistus, and heliolatrous worship crossed over with its sun-gods into the land of the pharaohs from india. in the gods of stonehenge we recognise the divinities of delphi and babylon, and in those of the latter the devas of the vedic nations. bel and the dragon, apollo and python, krishna and kaliya, osiris and typhon are all one under many names- the latest of which are michael and the red dragon, and st. george and his dragon. as michael is "one as god" or his "double" for terrestrial purposes, and is one of the elohim, the fighting angel, he is thus simply a permutation of jehovah. whatever the cosmic or astronomical event that first gave rise to the allegory of

s head, played a prominent part in the mysteries of the sun's (vikarttana's) initiation, when the candidate and the dragon had a supreme fight. the caves of the rishis, the abodes of tiresias and the greek seers, were modelled on those of the nagas- the hindu king-snakes, who dwelled in cavities of the rocks under the ground. from sesha, the thousand-headed serpent, on which vishnu rests, down to python, the dragon serpent oracle, all point to the secret meaning of the myth. in india we find the fact mentioned in the earliest puranas. the children of surasa are the "mighty dragons" the vayu purana replacing "surasa (of vishnu purana) by danayas or danavas- the descendants of danu by the sage kasyapa- and those danavas being the giants (or titans) who warred against the gods, they are thus

erpretations for monotheistic purposes, elevated though they be into not-to-be questioned church dogmas, prove nothing, except the abuse of human authority and power, perhaps. apollo is helios (the sun, phoibus-apollo("the light of life and of the world) who arises out of the golden-winged cup (the sun; hence he is the sun-god par excellence. at the moment of his birth he asks for his bow to kill python, the demon dragon, who attacked his mother before his birth* and whom he is divinely commissioned to destroy- like karttikeya, who is born for the purpose of killing taraka, the too holy and wise demon. apollo is born on a sidereal island called asteria "the golden star island" the "earth which floats in the air" which is the hindu golden hiranyapura "he is called the pure[[agnos, agnus dei

orn on a sidereal island called asteria "the golden star island" the "earth which floats in the air" which is the hindu golden hiranyapura "he is called the pure[[agnos, agnus dei (the indian agni, as dr. kenealy thinks, and in the primal myth he is exempt "from all sensual love("book of god" p. 88. he is, therefore, a kumara, like karttikeya, and as indra was in his earlier life and biographies. python, moreover, the "red dragon" connects apollo with michael, who fights the apocalyptic dragon, who wants to attack the woman in child-birth (see revelation xii, as python attacks apollo's mother. can any one fail to see the identity? had the rt. hon. w. e. gladstone, who prides himself on his greek scholarship and understanding of the spirit of homer's allegories, ever had a real inkling of t

lled adam; as (the man) in the bible, he is made perfect. but afterwards joins[[footnote(s* the "life and the light" of the material physical world, the delight of the senses- not of the soul. apollo is pre-eminently the human god, the god of emotional, pomp-loving and theatrical church ritualism, with lights and music* see chap. xii. in revelation where we find apollo's mother persecuted by that python, the red dragon, who is also porphyrion, the scarlet or red titan[[vol. 2, page] 384 the secret doctrine. with the dragon of the deep, the animal of tiamat, the spirit of chaos, and offends against his god, who curses him, and calls down on his head all the evils and troubles of humanity "this is followed by a war between the dragon and the powers of evil, or chaos on one side and the gods

e principle of all things" that developed on the globe later on. and our geologists have ascertained that there was such a terrestrial conflagration in the early geological periods, several hundred millions of years ago* as to the tradition itself, every country and nation had it, each under its respective national form. it is not alone egypt, greece, scandinavia or mexico, that had their typhon, python, loki and its "falling" demon, but china, also. the celestials have a whole literature upon the subject. in king, it is said that in consequence of a rebellion against ti of a proud spirit who said he was ti himself, seven choirs of celestial spirits were exiled upon earth, which "brought a change in all nature, heaven itself bending down and uniting with earth" and in the "y-king" one read

idad, farg. xix, iii) in the vendidad the daevas are called "evil-doing" and shown to rush away "into the depths of the world of hell" or matter (47) this is an allegory showing the devas compelled to incarnate, once that they have separated themselves from their parent essence, or, in other words, after the unit had become a multiple, after differentiation and manifestation. typhon the egyptian, python, the titans, the suras and the asuras, all belong to the same legend of spirits peopling the earth. they are not "demons commissioned to create and organize this visible universe" but fashioners (the "architects) of the worlds, and the progenitors of man. they are the fallen angels, metaphorically "the true mirrors of the eternal wisdom" what is the absolute and complete truth as well as th

l pursued by the dragon, who flees again, and casts out of his mouth water as a flood, when the earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood; and the dragon went to make war with the remnant of her seed who keep the commandment of god, etc (see xii, 1, 17) anyone, who reads the allegory of latona pursued by the revenge of jealous juno, will recognise the identity of the two versions. juno sends python, the dragon, to persecute and destroy latona and devour her babe. the latter is apollo, the sun, for "the man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron" of revelation, is surely not the meek "son of god" jesus, but the physical sun "who rules all nations; the dragon being the north pole, gradually chasing the early lemurians from the lands which became more and more hyperborean

w latona "to bring forth (the sun to appear "she is driven from heaven, and finds no place where she can bring forth" until neptune (the ocean, moved with pity, makes immovable the floating isle of delos (the nymph asteria, hitherto hiding from jupiter under the waves of the ocean) on which latona finds refuge and where the bright god[[delios] is born, the god, who no sooner appears than he kills python, the cold and frost of the arctic region, in whose deadly coils all life becomes extinct. in other words, latona-lemuria is transformed into niobe-atlantis, over which her son apollo, or the sun, reigns- with an iron rod, truly, since herodotus makes the atlantes curse his too great heat. this allegory is reproduced in its other mystic meaning (another of the seven keys) in the[[footnote co

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priests despised equally the shrine and the god. 29. yet all the whie thou wast hidden therein, as the lord of silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus. 30. thou art sebek the crocodile against asar; thou art mati, the slayer in the deep. thou art typhon, the wrath of the elements, o thou who transcendest the forces in their concourse and cohesion, in their death and their disruption. thou art python, the terrible serpent about the end of all things! 31. i turned about me thrice in every way; and always i came at the last unto thee. 32. many things i beheld mediate and immediate; but, beholding them no more, i beheld thee. 33. come thou, o beloved one, o lord god of the universe, o vast one, o minute one! i am thy beloved. 34. all day i sign of thy delight; all night i delight in thy so

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

scotland.29 professor alexander thorn, emeritus professor of engineering science at oxford university from 1945 to 1961, discovered that the builders of stonehenge knew of "pythagorean" geometric and mathematical principles thousands of years before pythagoras was born.30 the same was true of those who built the giza pyramids. now we can see why. the greek genius pythagoras, which means "i am the python" or "i am the serpent",31 and all the famous greek mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, doctors, and so on, inherited their knowledge through the highly secretive mystery schools from the sumerians, minoans, and egyptians, who atlantis revisited 59 were all the same peoples in reality. and they, in turn, inherited from atlantis and lemuria. history becomes much simpler once this sequen

" leaders, which have horns and tails, and at the very top are beings with a white, albino-like, skin and not the greenish or brownish colour of the others. witnesses and abductees have reported seeing reptilian beings with albinolike skin and these descriptions can also be found in ancient texts. in africa the reptilians are known as the chitauri or "children of the serpent" and "children of the python. this is so close to the central american term "people of the serpent. africa is another continent awash with the legend of the serpent race. for anunnaki, annetoti, nagas, dravidians, and so on, read chitauri. different names, same people. credo mutwa talks for hours on the video the reptilian agenda, part one, about the background and history of the chitauri, and he confirms the theme of

laurel leaves, the sacred herb of the goddess or "pythoness. the laurel leaves are used by the illuminati in the symbol of freemasonry and the logo of united nations, in which they frame an earth broken into an esoterically significant 33 segments (figure 18. pythagoras, the famous greek hero and mathematician, grew up in the mysteries of the serpent goddess cult and his very name means "i am the python" or "i am the serpent. dna of the dragon queens the author, sir laurence gardner, says that the ancient imperial royal dragon court and order can first be identified as the dragon court of ancient egypt under the patronage of the priest-prince ankhfn-khonsu in about 2170bc. it later became a "pharaonic institution" thanks to queen sobeknefru (c.1785-82bc) and operated as a sort of "royal ac

ed".28 in waddell's translation of the edda, wodan was an aboriginal chief of a moon and serpent-dragon cult seeking to defeat the nordic-aryans of thor-indara. we find the same story in the indian vedas attributed to indra, their name for thor-indara, who was said to have battled with budhnya or "the bottom. budhnya was known as "the great serpent of the bottom or deep."29 this was the puthon or python of the greeks, says waddell. budhnya and wodan are the same character. in india, wednesday or "wodens-day" is known as budh!30 interesting how close that is to buddha, and, according to waddell, buddha is a derivative of woden and buddha claimed to have had several "former births" as a serpent. the indian brahmans adopted the moon and serpent cult. so too, according to waddell, did the "sem

tauri arrived in these craft from much bigger "motherships" that orbited the earth credo mutwa, the 79-year-old zulu sanusi or shaman. who has been initiated throughout his life into the secret knowledge of the reptilian control a painting from ancient and modern descriptions by credo mutwa of one reptilian species. he calls them the chitauri. the "children of the serpent" or the "children of the python" an earth woman alongside a symbolic "extraterrestrial" with a big willy. this portrays the interbreeding of the chitauri with human women- a constant theme throughout the ancient world. the image of the "et" is symbolic because the chitauri forbade the people to portray them as they really are picture section 185 one example of the reptilian gods portrayed more accurately. many of these re

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s rite describes the ecstasy of magick- the tortured-ecstasy of the contorted face, the writhing of the hag body that ground down it s beast. the storm of lust and pain and madness. it was night s hollow wretching at her captive dragon, whose blood was seed of the blind and furious stars. she was like hecate in a death-dance, satan-possessed, convulsive, pumping my life, body and soul, as twere a python in his agony. she certainly gave me what i ve been losing. youth s intensity .that sacrament of satan that may be consummated only beneath night s dome, in utmost silence, because it s elements are not symbols of things, but they themselves. aleister crowley, the magical record of the beast 666 here we see the infernal union of both outward with his partner, but also a mirror shining into t

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pent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-9. the serpent of genesis is identified as the devil or satan. moreover, the serpent is said to be a dragon. this is not as strange as might first appear. in past times, dragons and serpents were often confused together- a great snake such as a python was called a dragon by the romans, for example. dragons were sometimes called "worms" in ancient anglo-saxon literature. another important point to gather from the quote above is that the old serpent is identified with the leader of the angelic rebellion, lucifer, the light-bearer, second only to god in his glory. the bible has little to report about the fall of the angels. fortunately, the

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

ities; charms and bewitchments clothed in incomprehensible jargon; and ceremonial processes for the fulfillment of imprecations of misfortune, calamity, sin, and death. the deity who was worshiped and whose powers were invoked in the practice of black magic had many names: the source and creator of evil, satanas, belial, the evil, a debased descendent of the egyptian set, the persian ahriman, the python of the greeks, the jewish serpent, baphomet of the templars, the goat-deity of the witches sabbat. he was said to have the head and legs of a goat and the breasts of a woman. his followers called him by the names of forgotten deities as well as the black one, the black he-goat, the black raven, the dog, the wolf and snake, the dragon, the hell-hound, hell-hand, and hell-bolt. his transforma

of psychic phenomena of all kinds. the society s website can be reached at: http//www.psychognosis.com. sources: abbott, g. f. macedonian folklore. chicago: argonaut, inc, 1909. apuleius. the golden ass. trans. adlington. london: william heineman, 1935. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. fontenrose, joseph. python: a study of delphic myth and its origins. berkeley, calif: university of california press, 1959. lawson, john c. modern greek folklore and ancient greek religion. 1910. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1964. melton, j. gordon. the vampire book: an encyclopedia of the undead. detroit: gale research, 1994. psychognosis center, island of cyprus. http/ www.psychognosis.com. june 6

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and uttered words deemed to be inspired. later as the danger of inhaling the fumes without proper caution was known, the fissure was covered by a table, with a hole in the center and called a tripod, so that those who wished to try the experiment could safely. eventually, a young girl became the medium for responses, now deemed oracular and called pythian, as proceeding from apollo, the slayer of python, to whom delphi was consecrated. a wooden structure of laurel branches was erected over the spot and the pythoness sat on throne to receive apollo s dictation. as the oracle became better known, the structure was constructed of more costly materials. the tripod was made of gold but the lid continued to be made of brass. the pythoness began by drinking from a sacred fountain (castalia) adjoi

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

p. 496-500] 1 "the phoenicians represented the god nomu (kneph or amun-kneph) by a serpent" 2 "in egypt, a sun supported by two asps was the emblem of horhat the good genius; the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god [the word "tutelary" means "guardian] 3) in ancient tyre, and india "a serpent was. coiled around the trunk of a tree. python, the serpent deity, was esteemed oracular; and the tripod at delphi was a triple-headed serpent of gold [note: also, pike capitalized as we printed, above] 4 "the portals of the egyptian temples are decorated with the hierogram of the circle and the serpent" 5) the serpent "is found upon the temple of naki-rustan in persia, on the triumphal arch at pechin, in china, over the gates of the gr

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

oned in the twenty-first century bce. a much later creation myth explained that apophis sprang from the saliva of the goddess neith when she was still in the primeval waters. her spit became a snake 120 yards long. he 106 handbook of egyptian mythology was the great rebel, the evil one who led the forces of chaos against the sun god ra. the idea of the apophis snake may have come from the african python, which can open its mouth wide enough to swallow a person. apophis is probably the unnamed snake demon who tried to swallow the nun, the primeval waters, but was forced to cough them up again. the eyes of apophis seem to have been particularly feared, and he was said to make a terrible roaring sound. the movement of his body could cause earthquakes, and he was associated with the hidden san

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

s) one of the upanishads. a very occult treatise. apollo belvidere of all the ancient statues of apollo, the son of jupiter and latona, called phoebus, helios, the radiant, and the sun-the best and most perfect is the one of this name, which is in the belvidere gallery in the vatican, at rome. it is called the pythian apollo, as the god is represented in the moment of his victory over the serpent python. the statue was found in the ruins of antium in 1503. apollonius of tyana a wonderful philosopher born in cappadocia about the beginning of the first century; an ardent pythagorean, who studied the phoenician sciences under euthydemus, and pythagorean philosophy and other subjects under euxenus of heraclea. according to the tenets of the pythagorean school he remained a vegetarian the whole

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nifies the salvator. the following is the recognitory mark or talisman of the ophidi: f. the scarabaeus, bee, ass, typhon, basilisk, saint-basil, the town of basle (basil, or bale, in switzerland (of this place it may be remarked, that the appropriate cognisance is a basilisk, or a snake, the mythic horse, or hippocampus, of neptune, the lion, winged (or natural, the pegasus, or winged horse, the python, the hydra, the bull (osiris, the cow (or io, are mythological ideas which have each a family connection. all the above signify an identical myth. this we shall presently show conclusively, and connect them all with the worship of fire. our readers have no doubt often wondered to see on the table-monuments in christian cathedrals a creature resembling a dog, or generally like some four-foot

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 13 29. yet all the while thou wast hidden therein, as the lord of silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus. 30. thou art sebek the crocodile against asar; thou art mati, the slayer in the deep. thou art typhon, the wrath of the elements, o thou who transcendest the forces in their concourse and cohesion, in their death and their disruption. thou art python, the terrible serpent about the end of all things! 31. i turned about me thrice in every way; and always i came at the last unto thee. 32. many things i beheld mediate and immediate; but, beholding them no more, i beheld thee. 33. come thou, o beloved one, o lord god of the universe, o vast one, o minute one! i am thy beloved. 34. all day i sign of thy delight; all night i delight in thy so

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so far from the path that i have a real good mind to get maryt to let me perform the black mass on her at midnight. i would just love to bring up typhon, and curse osiris and burn his bones and his blood! at least, i now solemnly express a pious wish that the crocodile of the west may eat up the sun once and for all, that set may defile the holy place, that the supreme blasphemy may be spoken by python in the ears of isis. i want trouble. i want to say indra.s mantra till his throne gets red-hot and burns his lotus-buttocks; i want to pinch little harpocrates till he fairly yells. and i will too! somehow! 6.15. i have now got into a sort of smug content, grinning all over like some sleepy chinese god. no reason for it, lord knows! i can.t make up my mind whether to starve or sandwich or g

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eek culture. the oracle of apollo at delphi remains one of the unsolved mysteries of the ancients. alexander wilder derives the name delphi from delphos, the womb. this name was chosen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature that had crept out of the slime left by the receding flood that had destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo, climbing the side of mount parnassus, slew the serpent after a prolonged combat, and threw the body down the fissure of the oracle. from that time the sun god, surnamed the pythian apollo, gave oracles from the vent. with dionysos he shared

d destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo, climbing the side of mount parnassus, slew the serpent after a prolonged combat, and threw the body down the fissure of the oracle. from that time the sun god, surnamed the pythian apollo, gave oracles from the vent. with dionysos he shared the honor of being the patron god of delphi. after being vanquished by apollo, the spirit of python remained at delphi as the representative of his conqueror, and it was with the aid of his effluvium that the priestess was able to become en rapport with the god. the fumes rising from the fissure of the oracle were supposed to come from the decaying body of python. the name pythoness, or pythia, given to the female hierophant of the oracle, means literally one who has been thrown into a re

trength of madmen, tore themselves from those seeking to restrain them, and, jumping into the vent, perished. in order to prevent others from doing likewise, a wall was erected around the fissure and a prophetess was appointed to act as mediator between the oracle and those who came to question it. according to later authorities, a tripod of gold, ornamented with carvings of apollo in the form of python, the great serpent, was placed over the cleft, and on this was arranged a specially prepared seat, so constructed that a person would have difficulty in falling off while under the influence of the oracular fumes. just before this time, a story had been circulated that the fumes of the oracle arose from the decaying body of python. it is possible that the oracle revealed its own origin. for

as supposed to have the power of curing disease. the scorpion shown above was composed of several metals, and was made under certain planetary configurations. paracelsus advised that it be worn by those suffering from any derangement of the reproductive system. p. 88 earth. the serpent mounds of the american indian; the carved-stone snakes of central and south america; the hooded cobras of india; python, the great snake o the greeks; the sacred serpents of the druids; the midgard snake of scandinavia; the nagas of burma, siam, and cambodia; the brazen serpent of the jews; the mystic serpent of orpheus; the snakes at the oracle; of delphi twining themselves around the tripod upon which the pythian priestess sat, the tripod itself being in the form of twisted serpents; the sacred serpents pr

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o her husband, in the same tomb. typhon was represented as born of the earth; the upper part of his body covered with feathers, in stature reaching the clouds, his arms and legs covered with scales, serpents darting from him on every side, and fire flashing from his mouth. horus, who aided in slaying him, became the god of the sun, answering to the grecian apollo; and typhon is but the anagram of python, the great serpent slain by apollo. the word typhon, like eve, signifies _a serpent, and _life.[2] by its form the serpent symbolizes life, which circulates through all nature. when, toward the end of autumn, the woman (virgo, in the constellations seems (upon the chald an sphere) to crush with her heel the head of the serpent, this figure foretells the coming of winter, during which life s

m apollo and hercules, two names of the sun. athenion says that the young cabirus so slain was the same as the dionusos or bakchos of the greeks. the pelasgi, ancient inhabitants of greece, and who settled samothrace, celebrated these mysteries, whose origin is unknown: and they worshipped castor and pollux as patrons of navigation. the tomb of apollo was at delphi, where his body was laid, after python, the polar serpent that annually heralds the coming of autumn, cold, darkness, and winter, had slain him, and over whom the god triumphs, on the 25th of march, on his return to the lamb of the vernal equinox. in crete, jupiter ammon, or the sun in aries, painted with the attributes of that equinoctial sign, the ram or lamb--that ammon who, martianus copella says, is the same as osiris, adon

filled her whole disk. the sixth full moon occurred in libra, over the divisions separating which from virgo are the celestial ship, perseus, son of the king of ethiopia and bo tes, said to have nursed horus. the river of orion that sets in the morning is also a paranatellon of libra, as are ursa major, the great bear or wild boar of erymanthus, and the dragon of the north pole, or the celebrated python from which the attributes of typhon were borrowed. all these surround the full moon of libra, last of the superior signs, and the one that precedes the new moon of spring, about to be reproduced in taurus, and there be once more in conjunction with the sun. isis collects the scattered fragments of the body of osiris, buries them, and consecrates the phallus, carried in pomp at the _pamylia

, horus her son deprived her of her ancient diadem, when she rejoined osiris as he was about to attack typhon: but mercury gave her in its place a helmet shaped like the head of a bull. then horus, as a mighty warrior, such as orion was described, fought with and defeated typhon; who, in the shape of the serpent or dragon of the pole, had assailed his father. so, in ovid, apollo destroys the same python, when io, fascinated by jupiter, is metamorphosed into a cow, and placed in the sign of the celestial bull, where she becomes isis. the equinoctial year ends at the moment when the sun and moon, at the vernal equinox, are united with orion, the star of horus, placed in the heavens under taurus. the new moon becomes young again in taurus, and shows herself as a crescent, for the first time

s used in the feasts of bacchus. in the isiac mysteries a basilisc twined round the handle of the mystic vase. the ophites fed a serpent in a mysterious ark, from which they took him when they celebrated the mysteries, and allowed him to glide among the sacred bread. the romans kept serpents in the temples of bona dea and sculapius. in the mysteries of apollo, the pursuit of latona by the serpent python was represented. in the egyptian mysteries, the dragon typhon pursued isis. according to sanchoniathon, taaut, the interpreter of heaven to men, attributed something divine to the nature of the dragon and serpents, in which the ph nicians and egyptians followed him. they have more vitality, more spiritual force, than any other creature; of a fiery nature, shown by the rapidity of their moti

rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of arist us, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally victorious. christina crushes the head of the serpent calyia; apollo destroys python, and hercules that lern an monster whose poison festered in the foot of philoctetes, of mopsus, of chiron, or of sagittarius. the infant hercules destroys the pernicious snakes detested of the gods, and ever, like st. george of england and michael the archangel, wars against hydras and dragons. the eclipses of the sun and moon were believed by the orientals to be caused by the assaults of a

hrenos or musaros of syncellus, was the midgard serpent which odin sunk beneath the sea, but which grew to such a size as to encircle the whole earth. for these asiatic symbols of the contest of the sun-god with the dragon of darkness and winter were imported not only into the zodiac, but into the more homely circle of european legend; and both thor and odin fight with dragons, as apollo did with python, the great scaly snake, achilles with the scamander, and bellerophon with the chim ra. in the apocryphal book of esther, dragons herald "a day of darkness and obscurity; and st. george of england, a problematic cappadocian prince, was originally only a varying form of mithras. jehovah is said to have "cut rahab and wounded the dragon" the latter is not only the type of earthly desolation, t

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

an oracle. at length he reached the southern side of the rocky heights of parnassus, beneath which lay the harbour of crissa. here, under the overhanging cliff, he found a secluded spot, where, from the most ancient times, there had existed an oracle, in which gaa herself had revealed the future to man, and which, in deucalion's time, she had resigned to themis. it was guarded by the huge serpent python, the scourge of the surrounding neighbourhood, and the terror alike of men and cattle. the young god, full of confidence in his unerring aim, attacked and slew the page 79 monster with his arrows, thus freeing land and people from their mighty enemy. the grateful inhabitants, anxious to do honour to their deliverer, flocked round apollo, who proceeded to mark out a plan for a temple, and, w

et with a repulse, or his union with the object of his affection was attended with fatal consequences. his first love was daphne (daughter of peneus, the river-god, who was so averse to marriage that she entreated her father to allow her to lead a life of celibacy, and devote herself to the chase, which she loved to the exclusion of all other pursuits. but one day, soon after his victory over the python, apollo happened to see eros bending his bow, and proud of his own superior strength and skill, he laughed at the efforts of the little archer, saying that such a weapon was more suited to the one who had just killed the terrible serpent. eros angrily replied that his arrow should pierce the heart of the mocker himself, and flying off to the summit of mount parnassus, he drew from his quive

immense riches, the offerings of kings and private persons, who had received favourable replies from the oracle. the greeks believed delphi to be the central point of the earth, because two eagles sent forth by zeus, one from the east, the other [83]from the west, were said to have arrived there at the same moment. page 89 the pythian games, celebrated in honour of the victory of apollo over the python, took place at delphi every four years. at the first celebration of these games, gods, goddesses, and heroes contended for the prizes, which were at first of gold or silver, but consisted, in later times, of simple laurel wreaths. on account of its being the place of his birth, the whole island of delos was consecrated to apollo, where he was worshipped with great solemnity; the greatest ca

specially appointed for the purpose. the most famous of these institutions was the oracle of apollo at delphi, which was held in general repute all over the world. people flocked from far and near to consult this wonderful mouth-piece of the gods, one month in the year being specially set apart for the purpose [195] the priestess who delivered the oracles was called the pythia, after the serpent python, which was killed by apollo. having first bathed in the waters of the castalian spring, she was conducted into the temple by the priests, and was seated on a sort of three-legged stool or table, called a tripod, which was placed over the mouth of a cave whence issued sulphurous vapours. here she gradually became affected in a remarkable manner, and fell into an ecstatic condition, in which

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e tribe he is known as ture. one of the best-known myths is the one in which anansi asks the sky god onyankopon (also called nyame) if he can buy the stories for which he is famous. what makes you think that you can buy my stories? asked the god. i have refused them to the great and powerful and you are noone important. but anansi insists on a price, so onyankopon tells him to bring him onini the python, osebo the leopard, mmoboro the hornet swarm, and mmoatia the spirit creatures that he considers impossible to catch. but anansi, with his wife s help, traps them all, adding his own mother for good measure! the sky god is so impressed that he gives anansi his stories with his blessing. since then, they have been called spider-stories. anansi or nancy stories are now commonly told in the we

me back to land. wives when lumaluma emerged from the sea, he stole two wives while the men were out fishing. these wives traveled with him and shared in his death; their skeletons lie next to his. like lumaluma, they continued to teach the religious rituals as they were speared to death and were responsible for teaching the women s religious ceremonies. log coffin this log coffin depicts a water python on one side and a goanna on the other (hidden from view. above it is a long tom fish also carved by yiridja clan members. these traditional designs are also used in body painting, ground sculptures, and bark paintings. moieties in arnhem land, everything in the universe is cla ssified as belonging to either the dua or yiridja moieties, according to a division laid down in the dreamtime. the

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART II

in the tarot by a monster throned upon an altar, mitred and horned, having a woman's breasts and the generative organs of a man. a chimera, a malformed sphinx, a synthesis of deformities. below this figure we read a frank and simple inscription. the devil. yes, we confront here that phantom of all terrors, the dragon of all theogonies, the ahriman of the persians, the typhon of the egyptians, the python of the greeks, the old serpent of the hebrews, the fantastic monster, the nightmare, the croquemitaine, the gargoyle, the great beast of the middle ages, and. worse than all these. the baphomet of the templars, the bearded idol of the alchemist, the obscene deity of mendes, the goat of the sabbath. the frontispiece to this gritual h reproduces the exact figure of the terrible emperor of nig

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ng it inward and discovering the great secrets hidden within. i hope you were able to extract one idea from this ritual description that will in some way help you to continue to xeper and remanifest ritual of the self. for the text of another is an affront to the self .the book of coming forth by night the following ritual was inspired by the diabolicon (and possibly by the classic scene in monty python's life of brian in which brian tells the crowd "you are all individuals" and everyone responds in chorus "yes! we are all individuals, and came into being immediately after the second international conclave of the temple of set (6/22/xv. as the rite is a glorification of the self, yet is intended for group ritual, each task prior to the passing of the cup must be performed by one individual

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'll smash the lot. the word _clock_ will be expunged from our dictionaries. after the revolution there will be no birthdays. we shall all be born again, all of us the same unchanging age in the eye of almighty god" he falls silent, now, because below us the great moment has come: the people have reached the guns. which are silenced in their turn, as the endless serpent of the people, the gigantic python of the risen masses, embraces the guards, suffocating them, and silences the lethal chuckling of their weapons. the imam sighs heavily "done" the lights of the palace are extinguished as the people walk towards it, at the same measured pace as before. then, from within the darkened palace, there rises a hideous sound, beginning as a high, thin, piercing wail, then deepening into a howl, an

SATANGEL

puck, pukje, pukis (english, norwegian, baltic. a kind of goblin or evil spirit. purson (goetia, 29th spirit. formerly of the order of thrones. king commanding 22 legions. appears as a comely man with a lion face, riding a bear and carrying a viper, proceeded by trumpets. knows all hidden things, discovers treasures, tells fortunes, can assume either aerial or physical form. gives good familiars. python (greek. dragon guardian of the oracle of gaia, finally slain by apollon. prince of the lying spirits. serpent with oracular powers. rahab (hebrew, the violent one. serpent monster of chaos (job 9:13, 26:12. originally the prince of the primordial oceans. early in creation, god commanded him to separate the earths and the oceans, yet he refused. god destroyed him, but somehow he appears agai

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

evil even grotesque piece of occult art. the serpent has long been associated with the goddess. at right are depictions of the greek goddess medusa, whose hair was a nest of snakes, and the cobra, a holy egyptian symbol for the goddess religion (from book, new age lies to women, by wanda marrs) the riddle of the great seal of the united states 281 singer/entertainer britney spears used this white python serpent in one of her music videos. some in witchcraft falsely believe the white snake is the possessor of good magical powers because of its "pure" color. the satanist knows otherwise. dr. michael aquino, high priest of the temple of set, once stated on the oprah winfrey tv show that there is no real difference in good vs. evil magic. magic is magic (photo: the tennessean. december 19, 200

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, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. delphi for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco-roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moon-goddess artemis through their priestess daughters, the pythonesses or pythia. according to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and claimed the shrine and the pythia for himself, imprisoning the serpent seer in the recesses of a cave beneath the temple. the historian plutarch (c. 46 120 c.e, author of plutarch s lives

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abundance. but even a handful of such ancient monsters existing in isolated lakes and forested valleys would not have gone unnoticed, even in the sparsely populated europe of the dark ages. the discovery of even just a few of these great reptiles would have given rise to a far-reaching legend. a more palatable theory is that the ancient historians were actually describing huge snakes such as the python, which often reaches a length of more than 30 feet. a number of dragon stories from the middle ages tell how the dragon wound itself about its prey and slowly crushed it. the giant snake theory does not account for descriptions of the dragon s feet or its ability to walk on all fours, but some species of giant lizard, such as the komodo dragon, attains a length of 10 12 feet. the komodo pre

ization progressed, the outdoor toilet was a place that often harbored snakes that would scare or bite a person, which would possibly lead to death. with centuries of apprehension about snakes it seems a natural progression to bring such primitive fear into man s modern plumbing and toilet facilities. the story: perhaps the most common version of this urban legend has someone with an enormous pet python moving into an apartment building. in order not to alarm his neighbors, the individual keeps the nature of his pet a secret from everyone (sometimes the story states that he or she is with a traveling circus and is only staying in the apartment for a few nights) one day, the snake fancier carelessly leaves the toilet lid up in his bathroom, and the big serpent wiggles its way into the bowl

ing in the apartment for a few nights) one day, the snake fancier carelessly leaves the toilet lid up in his bathroom, and the big serpent wiggles its way into the bowl, enters the drain pipe, and emerges in the toilet of the next door apartment. the startled individual is horrified to see a monstrous snake suddenly rear its head from the toilet bowl, and as he runs from the bathroom, the mammoth python begins to slither its way into his apartment. this account usually ends with the frightened apartment dweller calling t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 236 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends the zoo or the animal control center and a crew of men arriving to wrestle the monster python of 15 to 20 feet out of the b

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d anyone else of reasonably high status who was anxious to hear a favorable word from the gods. for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco- roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. at various times throughout its long history, the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moongoddess artemis through their priestess daugh- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 154 prophecy and divination painting depicting aegeus of athens consulting the oracle of delphi (fortean picture library) ters, the pythonesses or pythia. then, according to myth, the god

c myth to christian symbol (1963, by roger s. loomis, and the evolution of the grail legend (1968, by d. d. r. owen. the legendary holy grail remains nearly as popular in modern culture as it was during the period from 1150 to 1250. back then, grail stories were a hit in the courts of france, england, and germany. nowadays, books about grail adventures are popular, as are films ranging from monty python and the holy grail (1975, to excalibur (1981, to indiana jones and the last crusade (1989. whether magical or divine, the grail persists as a symbol of a higher order of being for which people are searching, a striving toward some ultimate achievement. m delving deeper bernstein, henrietta. the ark of the covenant, the holy grail. marina del rey, calif: devorss publications, 1998. goodrich

re of the alchemists have come to light, it becomes clear that the philosopher fs stone wasn ft really a stone at all.even though it is always referred to as such. sometimes the catalyst of transmutation is described as a divine child, an angel, a drag- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 206 objects of mystery and power cast members of gmonty python and the holy grail. h (the kobal collection) thelegend of the holy grail has been perpetuated through literature since the twelfth century. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d objects of mystery and power 207 the use of the prayer wheel as a mystical practice dates back to at least 400 c.e. in china. the idea itself of the prayer wheel m

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TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

gment you are witnessing, but a kind of dramatic enactment of it. the ruling intelligence of the trump is the archangel gabriel, who will sound his horn on judgment day, causing the dead to rise from their graves. go to him and converse with him. he will give you good advice. xxi the world hebrew letter: tau (cross) correspondence: saturn path: thirty-second a woman dances on a stage with a great python that wraps its gleaming, multicolored coils around her naked body and weaves its head and neck in time with the music of the flute and drum. her long hair is bound up on the back of her head in a twisted braid, and chapter twelve: the tarot 219 her legs cross as she leaps in time to the music from one bare foot to the other. she uses two small white wands to guide the serpent, holding one i

ands to guide the serpent, holding one in each hand and applying them so skillfully that there is never a threat of her being bitten. on the stage curtain behind her are painted four heads that represent the four winds at the corners of the world-the heads of an angel, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. the members of the audience in the small, dark theater strain with mingled wonder and horror as the python sways and hisses. it is evident that they are not accustomed to such worldly entertainments. leaving the theater, you find that it is contained within a fairground tent. other tents beckon, advertising their shows as the wonders of the world. their lights shine brightly in the gathering twilight, but the fairground is strangely deserted. the ruling intelligence of this trump is urania, the

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ow from their various combinations. such affections, however, have a greater power and influence over some of them than over others, just as there are different degrees of virtue and vice found in these daemons as well as in mankind. in like manner, the wars of the giants and the titans which are so much spoken of by the greeks, the detestable actions of kronos, the combats between apollo and the python, the flights of dionysos, and the wanderings of demeter, are exactly of the same nature as the adventures of osiris and typhon. therefore, they all are to be accounted for in the same manner, and every treatise of mythology will readily furnish us with an abundance of other similar instances. the same thing may also be affirmed of those other things which are so carefully concealed under th

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