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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

t in the i\lid. ages black madonnas were both painted and carved, the holy virgin appearing tlien as a sorrowing goddess of earth or niglit; such at loretto, naples, einsiedeln, wurzburg (altd. w. 2, 209. 28g 'at oettingen (goethe's corresp. with a child 2, 184, at puy (biisching's nachr. 2, 312-333, marseilles and elsewhere. i think it specially signilicant, that the erinnys or furia dwelling in tartarus is also represented botli as black and as half ivhite half black- swed. has more, correctly iha>l, i.e, ihal (fred, af normandie 1299. 13-56. 1400. 1414. in ostgotalagen p. 8, one reading has already ihiaill for ihad; they no longer grasped the meaning of the term. 314 goddesses. helreis lrynhildar and tlie vegtamsqvisa; in the latter, osin's ride on sleipuir for baldr's sake seems to pre

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ven low cunning. it can be played by more than two players, but the more there are, the more the element of chance comes in; and this is hateful to really fine players and diminishes the excitement. the rapier-play of two experts, when a word changes from one line of formation to another, and then again, perhaps even a third time, is as exhilarating as a baseballgame or a bull-fight. and what the tartarus-tophet-jehanna has all this to do with education, and the great work? this, child! h.g.wells and others have pointed out with serene justice that a gap in your vocabulary implies a gap in your mind; you lack the corresponding idea. too true "erbert! but i threap that a pakeha with such xerotes as his will chowter with an arsis of ischonophony, beyond aught that any fub, even in vigonia an

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

oul. i am nature and god: i reign, i am, alone. none other may abide apart: they perish, drawn into me, into my being grown. none other bosom is, to bear, to nourish, to be: the heart of all beneath my zone of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish my own life's being, that is, and is not other; for i am god and nature and thy mother. 75 i am the thousand-breasted milky spouse, virginal also: tartarus and gaia twinned in my womb, and chaos from my brows shrank back abashed, my sister dark and dire, mother of erebus and night, that ploughs with starry-sandalled feet the fields of fire; my sister shrank and fell, the infernal gloom changed to the hot sweet shadow of my womb. i am: that darkness strange and uterine is shot with dawn and scented with the rose; the deep dim prison-house of

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

by prometheus to men was a conquest made from heaven "now according to greek ideas (identical in this with those of the occultists "this possession forced from jupiter, this human trespassing upon the property of the gods, had to be followed by an expiation. prometheus, moreover, belongs to that race of titans who had rebelled* against the gods, and whom the master of olympus had hurled down into tartarus; like them, he is the genius of evil, doomed to cruel suffering, etc, etc" that which is revolting in the explanations that follow, is the one-sided view taken of this grandest of all the myths. the most intuitional among modern writers cannot or will not rise in their conceptions above the level of the earth and cosmic phenomena. it is not denied that the moral idea in the myth, as prese

n floors. the odyssey makes of him the guardian and the "sustainer" of the huge pillars that separate the heavens from the earth (1, 52-53. he is their "supporter" and as both lemuria, destroyed by submarine fires, and atlantis, submerged by the waves, perished in the ocean deeps* atlas is said to have been compelled to leave the surface of the earth, and join his brother iapetos in the depths of tartarus. sir theodore martin is right in interpreting this allegory as meaning, atlas "standing on the solid floor of the inferior hemisphere of the universe and thus carrying at the same time the disc of the earth and the celestial vault- the solid envelope of the superior hemisphere (memoires de l'academie des[[footnote(s* christians ought not to object to this doctrine of the periodical destru

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

world was much the same. in southern europe the idea of hell appears to have been strongly influenced by both classical and jewish concepts. the best picture of the medieval idea of the place of punishment is undoubtedly found in dante s inferno. basing his description on the teachings of contemporary schoolmen, dante also acknowledged virgil as his master and followed him in many descriptions of tartarus. the semitic idea crops up here and there, however, such as in the beginning of one of the cantos, where what looks suspiciously like a hebrew incantation is recorded. in later medieval times the ingenuity of the monkish mind introduced many apparently original concepts. for instance, hell obtained an annex: purgatory. its inhabitants took on a form that may be alluded to as european, in

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

make the simple beh (pix) stand for hell 3: in dem beche, 1 csedmon still pictures the witehus (house of torment) as deop, dreama leas, sinnihte beseald. striking images occur in a doc. of the llth cent (zeitschr. f. d. a. 3 445: swevilstank, genibele, todes scategruobe, wallente stredema, etc. 2 so all the greek heroes sink into hades house under the earth. but it is hard to distinguish from it tartarus, which lies lower down the abyss, and where the subjugated giants sit imprisoned. this denoted therefore, at least in the later times, a part of the underworld where the wicked dwelt for their punishment, which answers to the christian hell. but that the roots of earth and sea from above grow down into tartarus (hes. theog. 728) suggests our norse ashtree, whose root reaches down to niflh

ortui, sepulcrum, orcus, but derived from maa (terra, mundus, and only accidentally resembling manalis. dille-stein. muspilli. 807 like her brother fenrir, and every abyss gapes: 1 os gehennae in beda 363, 17 is the name of a fire-spouting well (puteus; 2 in an as. gloss (mone 887) mud1 (os) means orcus. the same coll. of glosses 742 puts down sedff (puteus, barathrum) for hell, and 2180 cwis for tartarus, 1284 cwis-husle, where undoubtedly we must read cwis-susle. to cwis i can find no clue but the on. qvis calumnia [quiz, tease? queror, questus; susl is apparently tormentum, supplicium, the dictionaries having no ground for giving it the sense of sulphur (as. swefel; susle ge-innod/ caedm. 3, 28, 1 take to be supplicio clausum. the notion of the well agrees remarkably with the fable in t

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

er murdering the king candaules, married his widow. plato tells us that gyges descending once into a chasm of the earth, discovered a brazen horse, within whose opened side was the skeleton of a man of gigantic stature, who had a brazen ring on his finger. this ring when placed on his own finger made him invisible. hades (gr, or aides, the "invisible" the land of shadows; one of whose regions was tartarus, a place of complete darkness, as was also the region of profound dreamless sleep in amenti. judging by the allegorical description of the punishments inflicted therein, the place was purely karmic. neither hades nor amenti were the hell still preached by some retrograde priests and clergymen; and whether represented by the elysian fields or by tartarus, they could only be reached by cros

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. there is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comets tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of tartarus. out of that dream came rescue-the vigilant, the vice-admiralty court, the streets of dunedin, and the long voyage back home to the old house by the egeberg. he could not tell- they would think him mad. he would write of what he knew before death came, but his wife must not guess. death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories. that was the document i read, and now i have pl

t speech at hacher's hall in 1765 against the setting off of north providence as a separate town with a pro-ward vote in the general assembly did more than any other thing to wear down the prejudice against him. but ezra weeden, who watched him closely, sneered cynically at all this outward activity; and freely swore it was no more than a mask for some nameless traffick with the blackest gulfs of tartarus. the revengeful youth began a systematic study of the man and his doings whenever he was in port; spending hours at night by the wharves with a dory in readiness when he saw lights in the curwen warehouses, and following the small boat which would sometimes steal quietly off and down the bay. he also kept as close a watch as possible on the pawtuxet farm, and was once severely bitten by t

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

scant patience with good dr. halsey and his erudite colleagues; and nursed an increasing resentment, coupled with a desire to prove his theories to these obtuse worthies in some striking and dramatic fashion. like most youths, he indulged in elaborate daydreams of revenge, triumph, and final magnanimous forgiveness. and then had come the scourge, grinning and lethal, from the nightmare caverns of tartarus. west and i had graduated about the time of its beginning, but had remained for additional work at the summer school, so that we were in arkham when it broke with full daemoniac fury upon the town. though not as yet licenced physicians, we now had our degrees, and were pressed frantically into public service as the numbers of the stricken grew. the situation was almost past management, an

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

o a foam which only ancient skies have looked on before, and at night on helicon the shepherds hear strange murmurings and half-remembered notes. woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial ocean yields up curious sights beneath thin moons. the gods are patient, and have slept long, but neither man nor giant shall defy the gods forever. in tartarus the titans writhe and beneath the fiery aetna groan the children of uranus and gaea. the day now dawns when man must answer for centuries of denial, but in sleeping the gods have grown kind and will not hurl him to the gulf made for deniers of gods. instead will their vengeance smite the darkness, fallacy and ugliness which have turned the mind of man; and under the sway of bearded saturn

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. there is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet's tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mucking imps of tartarus. out of that dream came rescue- the vigilant the viceadmiralty court, the streets of dunedin, and the long voyage back home to the old house by the egeberg he could not tell -they would think him mad. he would write of what he knew before death came, but his wife must not guess. death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories. that was the document i read, and now i have plac

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

ibes the judgment of a soul after death. the soul has been freed from the an 18th century print of charon receiving a dead soul into his boat taking the oblos (coin (fortean picture library) halloween 103 body, which is considered a form of prison. now in its naked reality, the soul is judged in a meadow at the intersection of two roads one leads to the isles of the blessed and the other leads to tartarus. the three judges are: rhadamanthys for souls from asia, aeacus for souls from europe, and minos for any cases about which there is indecision. the examination seems to be more medical than conversational. the soul is presented as marked by the actions of life, particularly in the sense of being malformed or wounded by authoring unjust actions. the judges have only to examine the marks on

from europe, and minos for any cases about which there is indecision. the examination seems to be more medical than conversational. the soul is presented as marked by the actions of life, particularly in the sense of being malformed or wounded by authoring unjust actions. the judges have only to examine the marks on the soul to determine the appropriate judgment. the wicked are set on the road to tartarus to be rehabilitated or eternally punished. the good are sent to the isles of the blessed, and are pictured as having lived philosophic lives. in homeric mythology, tartarus was a region underneath hades where rebellious deities, particularly the titans, were sent for punishment. in this dialogue, it has been transformed into a general place of punishment. in the afterlife myth in the phae

lives. in homeric mythology, tartarus was a region underneath hades where rebellious deities, particularly the titans, were sent for punishment. in this dialogue, it has been transformed into a general place of punishment. in the afterlife myth in the phaedo, the judgment of the dead is supposed to take place at the acherusian lake. the incurable evil ones will spend an eternity of punishment in tartarus. the curable evil may spend only a year there. if those whom they mistreated in life agree to pardon them, they may be sent back to earth to live another life, the same fate as those who led lives of goodness. philosophical souls are granted the ultimate boon, freedom from another bodily birth and an eternity of contemplation among beautiful surroundings. in the republic, the afterlife is

into the sky. judges sit in the middle and send the good souls up one of the upper openings and the evil soul down one of the lower openings. there, the souls are either rewarded or punished tenfold for one thousand years. after that time the souls come down or go up to the other openings and meet together in a meadow to swap experiences. the worst souls do not emerge, but are thrown forever into tartarus. see also cerberus; underworld for further reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. grant,michael, and john hazel. who s who in classical mythology. new york: oxford university press, 1993. hamilton, edith, and huntington cairns, eds. the collected dialogues of plato. princeton, nj: princeton university press, 1961. macgregor, geddes. images of after

e earth, which can be entered by the cave near lake avernus. it is thus very different from homer s underworld, located in the far northwest, but still apparently on the earth. virgil s underworld is populated by the shades of great personages of legend and of the ordinary men: the righteous souls are allocated to the right region called elysium and the sinners are punished in the left one called tartarus, while the souls of those who have died in infancy and of those who have died a violent death inhabit limbo and the region next to it. anchises, aeneas s father, leads his son on to a third division of the underworld, the banks of lethe, where the souls destined to return for another life to the upper world are gathered. here v 271 272 virgil aeneas receives the famous philosophical accou

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

hrodism, because it is both male and female; odd and even, for being added to the even it makes odd, and to the odd, even; god, because it is the beginning and end of all, but itself has neither beginning nor end; good, for such is the nature of god; the receptacle of matter, because it produces the duad, which is essentially material. by the pythagoreans monad was called chaos, obscurity, chasm, tartarus, styx, abyss, lethe, atlas, axis, morpho (a name for venus, and tower or throne of jupiter, because of the great power which abides in the center of the universe and controls the circular motion of the planers about itself. monad is also called germinal reason, because it is the origin of all the thoughts in the universe. other names given to it were: apollo, because of its relation to th

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

d waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the older gods goes unmentioned in the biblical genesis account, but remains in the greek tradition. according to greek mythology zeus, along with his brothers poseidon and hades, defeated the older gods, called the titans, and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these titans, who were the offspring of gaia (tiamat, once ruled the earth; their brutish nature corrupting and spoiling the planet. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. it is also worth mentioning that prometheus sided with zeus (the olympians) in the war of the titans. although the g

. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. it is also worth mentioning that prometheus sided with zeus (the olympians) in the war of the titans. although the greek mythology does not mention it, eventually a flaming rock was hurled to the earth from space, killing this race of terrible beasts, and casting their souls to tartarus. it is important to bare in mind that there were 2 wars, or en-masse desertions, in heaven. the first between the angels--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 77 and the spawn of tiamat, and the second heavenly conflict was between satan s angels and jehovah s angels. the only trace of this event in the genesis account is subtle, and easily over-looked. in genesis 1:28 we read: and god ble

bound in a single body. leviathan is also closely related to the primal goddess tiamat, because it said that she [leviathan] had been at war with the angel race before the fall of azazel. imagery of water is frequently related to the abyss, and so leviathan is called the serpent or dragon of the depths. i have also heard it remarked that it was another fallen angel, dagon, who bound leviathan in tartarus. satan [5.6] satan is easily the most enigmatic character in all the occult and mythology; no character out there is more shrouded in a cloak of names. i admit much remaining confusion regarding the details of this character because of the name game that magicians tend to play regarding his different aspects. the first thing you should do is free yourself from the mindset that this charac

MORALS AND DOGMA

m, the misery of the templars at the ruin of their order and the death of de molay, or the world's agony and pangs of woe at the death of the redeemer, it is the right of each to do so. the third apartment represents the consequences of sin and vice and the hell made of the human heart, by its fiery passions. if any see in it also a type of the hades of the greeks, the gehenna of the hebrews, the tartarus of the romans, or the hell of the christians, or only of the agonies of remorse and the tortures of an upbraiding conscience, it is the right of each to do so. the fourth apartment represents the universe, freed from the insolent dominion and tyranny of the principle of evil, and brilliant with the true light that flows from the supreme deity; when sin and wrong, and pain and sorrow, remo

pular creed. to them the gods and the idols of the gods were symbols, and symbols of great and mysterious truths. the vulgar imagined the attention of the gods to be continually centred upon the earth and man. the grecian divinities inhabited olympus, an insignificant mountain of the earth. there was the court of zeus, to which neptune came from the sea, and pluto and persephon from the glooms of tartarus in the unfathomable depths of the earth's bosom. god came down from heaven and on sinai dictated laws for the hebrews to his servant moses. the stars were the guardians of mortals whose fates and fortunes were to be read in their movements, conjunctions, and oppositions. the moon was the bride and sister of the sun, at the same distance above the earth, and, like the sun, made for the ser

ntain that which we owe the laws, is found in that well-known verse of virgil, borrowed by him from the ceremonies of initiation "teach me to respect justice and the gods" this great lesson, which the hierophant impressed on the initiates, after they had witnessed a representation of the infernal regions, the poet places after his description of the different punishments suffered by the wicked in tartarus, and immediately after the description of that of sisyphus. pausanias, likewise, at the close of the representation of the punishments of sisyphus and the daughters of danaus, in the temple at delphi, makes this reflection; that the crime or impiety which in them had chiefly merited this punishment, was the contempt which they had shown for the mysteries of eleusis. from this reflection o

ation of the punishments of sisyphus and the daughters of danaus, in the temple at delphi, makes this reflection; that the crime or impiety which in them had chiefly merited this punishment, was the contempt which they had shown for the mysteries of eleusis. from this reflection of pausanias, who was an initiate, it is easy to see that the priests of eleusis, who taught the dogma of punishment in tartarus, included among the great crimes deserving these punishments, contempt for and disregard of the holy mysteries; whose object was to lead men to piety, and thereby to respect for justice and the laws, chief object of their institution, if not the only one, and to which the needs and interest of religion itself were subordinate; since the latter was but a means to lead more surely to the fo

it. it is a still greater mistake to imagine that they were the inventions of charlatanism, and means of deception. they may in the lapse of time have degenerated into imposture and schools of false ideas; but they were not so at the beginning; or else the wisest and best men of antiquity have uttered the most willful falsehoods. in process of time the very allegories of the mysteries themselves, tartarus and its punishments, minos and the other judges of the dead, came to be misunderstood, and to be false because they were so; while at first they were true, because they were recognized as merely the arbitrary forms in which truths were enveloped. the object of the mysteries was to procure for man a real felicity on earth by the means of virtue; and to that end he was taught that his soul

were true, because they were recognized as merely the arbitrary forms in which truths were enveloped. the object of the mysteries was to procure for man a real felicity on earth by the means of virtue; and to that end he was taught that his soul was immortal; and that error, sin, and vice must needs, by an inflexible law, produce their consequences. the rude representation of physical torture in tartarus was but an image of the certain, unavoidable, eternal consequences that flow by the law of god's enactment from the sin committed and the vice indulged in. the poets and mystagogues labored to propagate these doctrines of the soul's immortality and the certain punishment of sin and vice, and to accredit them with the people, by teaching them the former in their poems, and the latter in th

t influences of the stars-_the gods in heaven adore thee, the gods in the shades below do thee homage, the stars obey thee, the divinities rejoice in thee, the elements and the revolving seasons serve thee_ at thy nod the winds breathe, clouds gather, seeds grow, buds germinate _in obedience to thee the earth revolves_ and the sun gives us light. it is thou who governest the universe and treadest tartarus under thy feet" then he was initiated into the nocturnal mysteries of osiris and serapis: and afterward into those of ceres at rome: but of the ceremonies in these initiations, apuleius says nothing. under the archonship of euclid, bastards and slaves were excluded from initiation; and the same exclusion obtained against the materialists or epicureans who denied providence and consequentl

entrance to the sanctuaries was allowed to the virtuous only, and elysium was created for virtuous souls alone. the precise nature and details of the doctrines as to a future life, and rewards and punishments there, developed in the mysteries, is in a measure uncertain. little direct information in regard to it has come down to us. no doubt, in the ceremonies there was a scenic representation of tartarus and the judgment of the dead, resembling that which we find in virgil: but there is as little doubt that these representations were explained to be allegorical. it is not our purpose here to repeat the descriptions given of elysium and tartarus. that would be aside from our object. we are only concerned with the great fact that the mysteries taught the doctrine of the soul's immortality

as artemis, she is the principle of its destruction; but artemis proserpina is also cote soteria, the saviour, who leads the spirits of hercules and hyacinthus to heaven. many other emblems were employed in the mysteries--as the dove, the myrtle-wreath, and others, all significant of life rising out of death, and of the equivocal condition of dying yet immortal man. the horrors and punishments of tartarus, as described in the ph do and the neid, with all the ceremonies of the judgments of minos, eacus, and rhadamanthus, were represented, sometimes more and sometimes less fully, in the mysteries; in order to impress upon the minds of the initiates this great lesson--that we should be ever prepared to appear before the supreme judge, with a heart pure and spotless; as socrates teaches in the

rks of plato, is but a passage to a happier state; but one must have lived well, to attain that most fortunate result. so that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul was consoling to the virtuous and religious man alone; while to all others it came with menaces and despair, surrounding them with terrors and alarms that disturbed their repose during all their life. for the material horrors of tartarus, allegorical to the initiate, were real to the mass of the profane; nor in latter times, did, perhaps many initiates read rightly the allegory. the triple-walled prison, which the condemned soul first met, round which swelled and surged the fiery waves of phlegethon, wherein rolled roaring, huge, blazing rocks; the great gate with columns of adamant, which none save the gods could crush;

me style wrote the hierophants of ph nicia. the division of things into the active and the passive cause leads to that of the two principles of light and darkness, connected with and corresponding with it. for light comes from the ethereal substance that composes the active cause, and darkness from earth or the gross matter which composes the passive cause. in hesiod, the earth, by its union with tartarus, engenders typhon, chief of the powers or genii of darkness. but it unites itself with the ether or ouranos, when it engenders the gods of olympus, or the stars, children of starry ouranos. light was the first divinity worshipped by men. to it they owed the brilliant spectacle of nature. it seems an emanation from the creator of all things, making known to our senses the universe which da

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

heir names were: oceanus, ceos, crios, hyperion, iapetus, cronus, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, and tethys. now uranus, the chaste light of heaven, the essence of all that is bright and pleasing, held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and moreover feared that their great power might eventually prove hurtful to himself. he therefore hurled them into tartarus, that portion of the lower world which served as the subterranean dungeon of the gods. in order to avenge the oppression of her children, the giants, gaa instigated a conspiracy on the part of the titans against uranus, which was carried to a successful issue by her son cronus. he wounded his father, and from the blood of the wound which fell upon the earth sprang a race of monstrous bein

ed to his brothers offices of distinction, subordinate only to himself. subsequently, however, when, secure of his position, he no longer needed their assistance, he basely repaid their former services with treachery, made war upon his brothers and faithful allies, and, assisted by the giants, completely defeated them, sending such as resisted his all-conquering arm down into the lowest depths of tartarus. second dynasty. cronus (saturn. cronus was the god of time in its sense of eternal duration. he married rhea, daughter of uranus and gaa, a very important divinity, to whom a special chapter will be devoted hereafter. their page 13 children were, three sons: aides (pluto, poseidon (neptune, zeus (jupiter, and three daughters: hestia (vesta, demeter (ceres, and hera (juno. cronus, having

omachia) at last came to page 21 an end. among the most daring of these earth-born giants were enceladus, rhoetus, and the valiant mimas, who, with youthful fire and energy, hurled against heaven great masses of rock and burning oak-trees, and defied the lightnings of zeus. one of the most powerful monsters who opposed zeus in this [21]war was called typhon or typhoeus. he was the youngest son of tartarus and gaa, and had a hundred heads, with eyes which struck terror to the beholders, and awe-inspiring voices frightful to hear. this dreadful monster resolved to conquer both gods and men, but his plans were at length defeated by zeus, who, after a violent encounter, succeeded in destroying him with a thunderbolt, but not before he had so terrified the gods that they had fled for refuge to

ared for him by the sea-nymphs, recruits himself for another life-giving, joy-inspiring, and beauteous day. it may appear strange that, although the greeks considered the earth to be a flat circle, no explanation is given of the fact that helios sinks down in the far [63]west regularly every evening, and yet reappears as regularly every morning in the east. whether he was supposed to pass through tartarus, and thus regain the page 68 opposite extremity through the bowels of the earth, or whether they thought he possessed any other means of making this transit, there is not a line in either homer or hesiod to prove. in later times, however, the poets invented the graceful fiction, that when helios had finished his course, and reached the western side of the curve, a winged-boat, or cup, whi

uler of olympus, fearing that mankind, thus protected against sickness and death, would be able to defy the gods themselves, killed asclepius with one of his thunderbolts. the loss of his highly gifted son so exasperated apollo that, being unable to vent his anger on zeus, he destroyed the cyclops, who had forged the fatal thunderbolts. for this offence, apollo would have been banished by zeus to tartarus, but at the earnest intercession of leto he partially relented, and contented himself with depriving him of all power and dignity, and imposing on him a temporary servitude in the house of admetus, king of thessaly. apollo faithfully served his royal master for nine years in the humble capacity of a shepherd, and was treated by him with every kindness and consideration. during the period

a of her son's conduct, she pointed to the innocent babe then lying, apparently fast asleep, in his cradle, whereupon, apollo angrily aroused the pretended sleeper, and charged him with the theft; but the child stoutly denied all knowledge of it, and so cleverly did he play his part, that he even inquired in the most naive manner what sort of animals cows were. apollo threatened to throw him into tartarus if he would not confess the truth, but all to no purpose. at last, he seized the babe in his arms, and brought him into the presence of his august father, who was seated in the council chamber of the gods. zeus listened to the charge made by apollo, and then sternly desired hermes to say where he had hidden the cattle. the child, who was still in swaddling-clothes, looked up bravely into

e guilty souls, after leaving the presence of minos, were conducted to the great judgment-hall of hades, whose massive walls of solid adamant were surrounded by the river phlegethon, the waves of which rolled flames of fire, and lit up, with their lurid glare, these awful realms. in the interior sat the dread judge rhadamanthus, who declared to each comer the precise torments which awaited him in tartarus. the wretched sinners were then seized by the furies, who scourged them with their whips, and dragged them along to the great gate, which closed the opening to tartarus, into whose awful depths they were hurled, to suffer endless torture. tartarus was a vast and gloomy expanse, as far below hades as the earth is distant from the skies. there the titans, fallen from their high estate, drag

existence; there also were otus and ephialtes, those giant sons of poseidon, who, page 149 with impious hands, had attempted to scale olympus and dethrone its mighty ruler. principal among the sufferers in this abode of gloom were tityus, tantalus, sisyphus, ixion, and the danaides. tityus, one of the earth-born giants, had insulted hera on her way to peitho, for which offence zeus flung him into tartarus, where he suffered dreadful torture, inflicted by two vultures, which perpetually gnawed his liver. tantalus was a wise and wealthy king of lydia, with whom the gods themselves condescended to associate; he was even permitted to sit at table with zeus, who delighted in his conversation, and listened with interest to the wisdom of his observations. tantalus, however, elated at these distin

upon his position, and used unbecoming language to zeus himself; he also stole nectar and ambrosia from the table of the gods, with which he regaled his friends; but his greatest crime consisted in killing his own son [135]pelops, and serving him up at one of the banquets to the gods, in order to test their omniscience. for these heinous offences he was condemned by zeus to eternal punishment in tartarus, where, tortured with an ever-burning thirst, he was plunged up to the chin in water, which, as he stooped to drink, always receded from his parched lips. tall trees, with spreading branches laden with delicious fruits, hung temptingly over his head; but no sooner did he raise himself to grasp them, than a wind arose, and carried them beyond his reach. sisyphus was a great tyrant who, acc

soon as it reached the summit, always rolled back again to the plain below. ixion was a king of thessaly to whom zeus accorded the privilege of joining the festive banquets of the gods; but, taking advantage of his exalted position, he presumed to aspire to the favour of hera, which so greatly incensed zeus, that he struck him page 150 with his thunderbolts, and commanded hermes to throw him into tartarus, and bind him to an ever-revolving wheel. the danaides were the fifty daughters of danaus, king of argos, who had married their fifty cousins, the sons of agyptus. by the command of their father, who had been warned by an oracle that his son-in-law would cause his death, they all killed their husbands in one night, hypermnestra alone excepted. their punishment in the lower world was to fi

ld she be found. at length, hearing a sound above his head, he looked up, and beheld medea gliding through the air in a golden chariot drawn by dragons. page 262 in a fit of despair jason threw himself on his own sword, and perished on the threshold of his desolate and deserted home. pelops. pelops, the son of the cruel tantalus, was a pious and virtuous prince. after his father was banished into tartarus, a war ensued between pelops and the king of troy, in which the former was vanquished and forced to fly from his dominions in phrygia. he emigrated into greece, where, at the court of oenomaus, king of elis, he beheld hippodamia, the king's daughter, whose beauty won his heart. but an oracle having foretold to oenomaus that he would die on the day of his daughter's marriage, he threw ever

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

the stream will feel like a bath of warm milk; to the evil, it will be agony, as their sins are burned away. the new world will be immortal and everlasting, and free of taint. gods of olympus 22 hades hades (see pp. 28 29, zeus brother, was the god of the underworld. he was married to persephone (see above. cronos and rhea this couple may depict zeus parents, cronos and rhea, who were banished to tartarus in the underworld. cronos, whose name means time, castrated his father uranus with a sickle. t he gods of the ancient greeks lived at the top of mount olympus, the highest peak in greece. later their home was conceived of as a heaven in the skies. from olympus, the gods loved, quarrelled, watched the world, and helped and hindered mortals according to their whims. presided over by zeus (r

him at the dead of night, and entrusted him to the care of her mother gaia. she gave cronos a stone to swallow in the baby s stead. when zeus was grown, he asked to be made cronos cup-bearer. he mixed his father a powerful emetic, causing him to vomit up both the stone and the five older children. zeus then led his brothers and sisters to war against the titans whom they defeated and confined to tartarus in the underworld. thereafter, zeus reigned supreme among the gods. prometheus 24 prometheus prometheus, a titan, was the creator of humankind, whom he made out of clay and water. although he and his brother epimetheus sided with the olympian god zeus (roman jupiter) during the war of the titans (see box, prometheus relationship with zeus was uneasy because zeus thought him wily and, bein

nd his wife pyrrha (daughter of epimetheus and pandora. zeus then offered them any gift they desired, so they asked for more people. each stone they threw over their shoulders became a new man or woman. clash of the titans t he 12 titans, children of uranus, the sky, and gaia, the earth, were the first gods. they were deposed after a 10-year struggle by zeus, son of cronos (see p. 23, and sent to tartarus in the underworld, locked behind bronze doors guarded by three 100-armed giants. zeus and his siblings then became the gods of mount olympus. prometheus and epimetheus sided with zeus in this war; his older brothers, menoetius and atlas, supported the titans zeus killed menoetius and sent him to tartarus; atlas he condemned to support the heavens on his shoulders for eternity. prometheus

rus the three-headed watchdog prevented escape. hades had several entrances to the upper world and could also be reached by sea, as odysseus did (see pp. 64 -65. the majority of ghosts conceived of literally as shadows of their former selves stayed on the featureless plain of asphodel. a lucky few went to elysium, the islands of the blessed. an unlucky few were condemned to everlasting torment in tartarus among these were the titans (see p. 23; king tantalus, who killed his son, abused the gods friendship and was condemned to stand chin-deep in water that he could never drink (thus forever tantalized; and sisyphus, deceitful and disobedient, who was forced to roll a heavy rock uphill for eternity every time it neared the top, the rock rolled back down. the underworld cerberus by william bl

PROMETHEUS

he will of the gods. for this reason she was called pandora. but prometheus he bound with an iron chain to a mountain in scythia named caucasus for thirty thousand years, as aeschylus, writer of tragedies, says. then, too, he sent an eagle to him to eat out his liver which was constantly renewed at night. some have said that this eagle was born from typhon and echidna, other from terra [gaia] and tartarus, but many point out it was made by the hands of vulcanus and given life by jove. the following reason for the release of prometheus has been handed down. when jupiter [zeus, moved by the beauty of thetis, sought her in marriage, he couldn t win the consent of the timid maiden, but none the less kept planning to bring it about. at that time the parcae [moirai] were said to have prophesied

RUBY TABLET OF SET

by my faithfulness. as a scorpion in the desolate realm have my doings proven to be. with offerings of poison has my hand waxed strong, and images of the deathless world have i hurled at those who are without. with the command to look have i proffered my image to the weak and exalted your semblance through visions of unseen terror! through the power of the tempestial cycling winds of the kings of tartarus have i brought back to life my brothers who have faltered along the way. in the names of the great harlot babylon, hecate, and lilith the scarlet sorceress, have my lusts been satisfied and consummated unto the logos of indulgence! in the name of satan, archdaemon of hell, ruler of the world and price of the pit, have i brought my enemies to their knees, and made myself as a devouring dem

SATANGEL

ons and powers. he presented noah with the knowledge he required to build the ark, and with a medical book/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identified in hebrew tradition as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the underworld. uri-el fire of god, identified in later scriptures with phanuel, face of god. the angel who gave mankind the kaballah. presides over tartarus (hell, being both seraphim and cherubim. identified as the cherub who stands at the garden of eden with a fiery sword, and who watches over thunder and terror. appears as the angel of repentance in the apocalypse of st. peter; uri-el, the angel of god, will bring forth an order, according to their transgression, the souls of those sinners. they will burn them in their dwelling places in e

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

narrow sphere of his appointed adagios or allegros. the audience, too, aware of his propensity, were quick to perceive the least deviation from the text; and if he wandered for a moment, which might also be detected by the eye as well as the ear, in some strange contortion of visage, and some ominous flourish of his bow, a gentle and admonitory murmur recalled the musician from his elysium or his tartarus to the sober regions of his desk. then he would start as if from a dream, cast a hurried, frightened, apologetic glance around, and, with a crestfallen, humbled air, draw his rebellious instrument back to the beaten track of the glib monotony. but at home he would make himself amends for this reluctant drudgery. and there, grasping the unhappy violin with ferocious fingers, he would pour

SOLOMON

s thus frustrated. 26. and i summoned again to stand before me beelzeboul, the prince of demons, and i sat him down on a raised seat of honour, and said to him "why art thou alone, prince of the demons" and he said to me "because i alone am left of the angels of heaven that came down. for i was first angel in the first heaven being entitled beelzeboul. and now i control all those who are bound in tartarus. but i too have a child, and he haunts the red sea. and on any suitable occasion he comes up to me again, being subject to me; and reveals to me what he has done, and i support him. 27. i solomon said unto him "beelzeboul, what is thy employment" and he answered me "i destroy kings. i ally myself with foreign tyrants. and my own demons i set on to men, in order that the latter may believe

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ace of society, they have been very little noticed. i have followed what i conceive to be the true orphic system, in the little analysis which i have here endeavoured to give. this was probably the true catholic faith, though it differs considerably from another ancient system, described by aristophanes;4 which is more poetical, but less philosophical. according to this, chaos, night, erebus, and tartarus, were the primitive beings. night, in the infinite breast of erebus, brought forth an egg, from which sprung love, who mixed all things together; and from thence sprung the heaven, the ocean, the earth, and the gods. this system is alluded to by the epithet wogenoj, applied to the creator in one of the orphic litanies:5 but this could never have been a part of the orthodox faith; for the

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

odd proceed both odd and even. 4. matter, the last development of universality. 5. chaos, which resembles the infinite, indifferentiation. 6. confusion. 7. commixion. 8. obscurity, because in the ineffable principle of things, of which it is the image, all is confused, vague and in darkness. 34. 9. a chasm, as a void. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 10. tartarus, from its being at the lowest extremity, is dissimilarly similar to god, at the highest end of the series. 11. the styx, from its immutable nature. 12. horror, the ineffable, is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible. 13. void of mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable. 14. lethe, oblivion, ignorance. 15. a virgin, from the purity of its nature. 16. atlas, it conn

DEITUS

: earth, air, fire, and water. there are also the four great watchtowers: north, east, south, and west. above the earth are the seven planetary spheres: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. beyond the planetary spheres are the fixed stars and the primum mobil, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the heavenly spheres. beneath the earth lies the land of the dead (hades, the tartaran abode (hell, and the realm of the abominations of chaos. all spirits, demons, angels, and other beings of an archetypal nature are said to reside in one of the archetypal spheres. there are, for example, many ranks or orders of angels such as seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, virtues, archangels, etc. each angelic choir is said to reside in a particular heavenly sphere. simi

DEMONIC BIBLE

manifest thyself (drink from chalice) the 72 djinn of babylon after invoking the eight sub-princes of hell and the nine lords of the abyss, the magician may call upon the 72 lords of the djinn. the 72 lords rule over the 72 divisions of the earth. invoking these 72 lords gives the magician power over all the demons which dwell upon the earth but not the demons which dwell in the firmament, in the tartaran abode, or in the abyss of chaos. power over these spirits is gained by entering the underworld, crossing the planetary spheres, and finally descending to the depths of chaos. the descriptions which follow are taken from a very old grimoire known as the goetia or lesser key of solomon. these descriptions are provided so that the magician may note the fear with which medieval sorcerers appr

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

arth, there can be no resurrection in our magistery. for in earth is the balm of nature, and the salt of the sages. at the end of the world, the world shall be judged by fire, and all those things that god has made of nothing shall by fire be reduced to ashes, from which twelve keys of basil valentine 36 of 95 ashes the phoenix is to produce her young. for in the ashes slumbers a true and genuine tartaric substance, which, being dissolved, will enable us to open the strongest bolt of the royal chamber. after the conflagration, there shall be formed a new heaven and a new earth, and the new man will be more noble in his glorified state than he was before. when the sand and ashes have been well matured and ripened with fire, the glass vblower makes out of it glass, which remains hard and fir

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

s then strain and add two tablespoonsful of yeast spread on a piece of toast. leave, covered, for ten days, stirring two or three times each day for the first four days. then strain and bottle. bee wine into a syrup solution of two tablespoonsful of sugar to a pint sent received sent received sent received figure 12.7 186/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft of water, put a very small pinch of tartaric acid and a piece of yeast the size of a dime. start it off at blood heat and stand the glass jar in a warm room near the window and leave it to work. in a day or so the yeast will begin to grow and collect bubbles so that the lump floats up and down (like a bee; hence the name. fermentation will proceed until the liquid is converted into a sweet wine, which you may flavor by adding fruit

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