Amaterasu was the Sun goddess and supreme deity of the oldest of the Japanese religions--Shinto. Her name means "Great Shining Goddess of Heaven. She was a beautiful and compassionate goddess who ruled both the sun and the heavenly fields of rice that fed the Japanese people. She was the daughter of Izaanami and Izanagi, the divine couple who created the lands, and legend has it that she was the divine ancestor of the Japanese imperial family. She and Her brothers, Susano-o, the storm god and Tsuki-yomi, the moon god, shared the power of governing the universe. As the sun goddess, she was responsible for illuminating the world and for insuring the fertility of the rice fields.
Now, according to one myth, Susano-o was a bothersome, uncontrollable character and very jealous of his beautiful sister's power and popularity. It is said that one day, in a drunken rampage, he trampled all of Her rice fields, filled in all of Her irritation ditches, and then threw excrement into Her palace. He slaughtered a young horse and threw its carcass at the goddesses' handmaidens. Amaterasu, depressed and grieving over Her brother's actions, refused to return to the heavens and crept away into a dark cave in the mountains, refusing to come out. She closed off the entrance with an enormous stone.
Without Her, there was no sun, and the world lay in darkness. The rice fields lay dying as the endless night continued, the people grew hungry. All of the gods and goddesses came to the entrance of Her cave and pleaded with Her to come out, but, alas, Her sadness was so great that their pleas went unanswered. It was then that the goddess Uzume decided to try a different tactic--laughter. She began to perform a divine striptease. Hearing all of the music and laughter, She became so curious about what was going on that She had to see what was going on. She crept to the entranceway of the cave. As She crept further out, the gods captured Her and sealed the entrance to the cave so that She could not return, but by now, She didn't care. Her grief was alleviated by all of the fun and good humor surrounding Her, and eventually, She returned home and the sun once again shined across the earth.
The triumph of the sun goddess over the storm god secured Her rule over the world. On December 21st, the Japanese Winter Solstice festivities will celebrate Her emergence from cave...
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This is the second Charge of the God I have.
Listen to the words of the God, who is the son, brother, lover, and consort of the Lady:
I am the fleet deer in the forest,
I am the beach which receives the waves,
I am the sun which warms the earth.
I am the Lord of the Spiral Dance of Life,
Death and Rebirth, the gentle reaper,
the Winter stag and the Spring fawn.
All things are of me, for
I am of the Goddess, opposite, yet not opposing.
I bring birth forth from the womb that is a tomb,
for I am the seed which fertilizes.
I am abundant Life, for
I am the grain that grows and
I am death, the harvest in the Fall.
And I am rebirth after darkness, for
I am the seed that springs forth anew.
I am fertility, the spreader of Life, and
I am the Lord of Death, which adds value to life.
I am the Guardian of the gate between Life and Death.
I am King of the Underworld, where no living being may venture, but I am also the King of Rebirth, turning the tomb into a womb.
I bring love and strength, peace and passion, hope and joy, for
I am the gentle lover in the night.
All that I am comes from the Great Mother,
the Divine Star Goddess, who is Mother of us all.
By: Siobhan, Tue 12 Jul 94 10:33
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"SELENE" IS A THE FULL-MOON GODDESS OF THE TITANS; SHE RULES OVER LUNAR MAGIC. SELENE AIDS IN SLEEP AND IN DREAMS, PROPHESY, AND SENSUAL ACTS. SHE IS THE QUEEN OF HIGH TIDES AND OF RIVERS AND SEAS. SHE IS USUALLY DEPICTED AS RIDING A HORSE OR A CHARIOT DRAWN BY A PAIR OF WINGED STEEDS. HER LUNAR SPHERE WAS REPRESENTED AS A CROWN SET UPON HER HEAD. HER FATHER WAS THE TITAN, HYPERBERION AND HER MOTHER WAS THEIA. SHE IS THE SISTER OF EOS (DAWN), HELIOS (SUN), AND TITAN. AND AFTER HELIOS COMPLETES HIS JOURNEY ACROSS THE SKY, SELENE BEGINS HERS AFTER BATHING IN THE SEA.
SELENE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HER MANY LOVE AFFAIRS,--INCLUDING ZEUS AND PAN-- AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF HER LOVES IS THE SHEPHERD, ENDYMION. ACCORDING TO MYTHOLOGY, SELENE, DRIVING HER CHARIOT ACROSS THE SKY, SAW THE HANDSOME YOUNG SHEPHERD SLEEPING IN A CAVE, AND SHE FELL MADLY IN LOVE WITH HIM AND THE TWO HAD AN AFFAIR FROM WHICH SELENE GAVE BIRTH TO 50 DAUGHTERS. BUT, ALAS, ENDYMION WAS MORTAL AND THUS, SUSCEPTABLE TO AGING AND DEATH. SELENE, COULDN'T BEAR THE THOUGHT OF THIS, SO SHE WENT TO ZEUS AND ASKED HIM TO GRANT HER MORTAL LOVER ETERNAL SLEEP. (EOS, HER SISTER, HAD ONCE ASKED FOR ETERNAL LIFE FOR HER LOVER, ONLY TO HAVE HIM TURNED INTO A GRASSHOPPER) AND SO IT WAS, THAT ENDYMION WOULD REMAIN ETERNALLY YOUTHFUL BY CASTING A SPELL THAT WOULD CAUSE HIM TO SLEEP FOREVER WHILE HE DREAMED OF HOLDING THE MOON IN HIS ARMS.
"HYMN TO SELENE"
"MUSES, SWEET SPEAKING DAUGHTER OF ZEUS KRONIDES AND MISTRESSES OF SONG, SING NEXT OF LONG-WINGED MOON! FROM HER IMMORTAL HEAD A HEAVEN-SENT GLOW"ENVELOPS THE EARTH AND GREAT BEAUTY ARISES"UNDER ITS RADIANCE. FROM HER GOLDEN CROWN THE DIM AIR"IS MADE TO GLITTER AS HER RAYS TURN NIGHT TO NOON, WHENEVER BRIGHT SELENE, HAVING BATHED HER BEAUTIFUL SKIN"IN THE OCEAN, PUT ON HER SHINY RAINMENT AND HARNESS HER PROUD-NECKED AND GLITTERING STEEDS, SWIFTLY DRIVES THEM ON AS THEIR MANES PLAY WITH THE EVENING, DIVIDING THE MONTHS. HER GREAT ORBIT IS FULL"AND AS SHE WAXES A MOST BRILLIANT LIGHT APPEARS"IN THE SKY. THUS TO MORTALS SHE IS A SIGN AND A TOKEN."
"--HOMER-- "
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HINA-'OPU-HALA-KO'A is the Hawaiian Goddess of coral and spiny sea creatures, such as sea urchins. She appears as either a coral reef or as a woman in Hawaiian myths. It is said that the God Maui used a piece of her coral to form a fishing hook one day. He then went fishing with his brothers and pulled the Hawaiian islands from the sea. Hina-'opu-hala-ko'a is one of the many forms of the Great Goddess Hina, and her name means "Hina of the coral stomach."
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"IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, CALLISTO "WAS A NYMPH; HER NAME MEANS "MOST BEAUTIFUL", "AND SHE WAS TRUE TO HER NAME...A LOVELY YOUNG MAIDEN. SHE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ARTEMIS, THE GODDESS OF THE HUNT, AND, AS SUCH, NOT ONLY HUNTED WITH THE GODDESS, BUT ALSO PROMISED TO REMAIN A VIRGIN JUST AS THE GODDESS HERSELF, AND CALLISTO HELD THESE IDEALS FAITHFULLY. AS A RESULT, SHE SOON BECAME ONE OF ARTEMIS'S FAVORITES.
THE, ONE DAY, HER BEAUTY HAPPENED TO CATCH THE EYE OF ZEUS, AND HE KNEW IMMEDIATELY THAT HE JUST HAD TO HAVE HER. BUT, HE ALSO KNEW THAT AS ARTEMIS COMPANION, SHE HAD TAKEN THE VOW OF CHASTITY, SO HE KNEW THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO RESORT TO DECEPTION. HE CAME TO THE BEAUTIFUL NYMPH DISGUISED AS ARTEMIS AND GAINED HER CONFIDENCE SO THAT SHE LET HER GUARD DOWN.
CALLISTO BECAME PREGNANT AS A RESULT; SHE TRIED DESPERATELY TO HIDE IT FROM ARTEMIS, BUT EVENTUALLY, SHE COULD HIDE IT NO MORE. WHEN ARTEMIS SAW HER SWOLLEN BELLY, SHE THREW A FIT AND BANISHED CALLISTO TO HAVE HER CHILD ALONE....AND IT WAS THEN THAT THE JEALOUS HERA DECIDED TO TAKE HER REVENGE. SHE GRABBED CALLISTO BY THE HAIR AND FLUNG HER TO THE GROUND, TRANSFORMING THE YOUNG NYMPH INTO A BEAR. HERA THEN WENT TO ARTEMIS AND TRIED TO CONVINCE HER THAT CALLISTO WAS A MERE NORMAL BEAR AND THAT THE GODDESS WOULD SLAY HER; BUT HERMES INTERVENED AND SAVED THE BABE, ARCAS (BEAR), BY TAKING HIM FROM FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB...THEN BRINGING THE BABE TO HIS OWN MOTHER, MAIA, TO BE RAISED. ZEUS ALSO CAME TO CALLISTO'S RESCUE AND TURNED HER INTO THE CONSTELLATION, ARCTOS...THE GREAT SHE BEAR OR URSA MAJOR. THIS WAS A SIGN OF HIS LOVE FOR HER; SOON THEREAFTER, SHE WAS JOINED BY HER SON WHO BECAME THE LITTLE BEAR.
AND STILL, HERA CONTINUED TO HOLD A GRUDGE AGAINST CALLISTO; SO, SHE WENT TOTETHYS AND OCEANUS AND PERSUADED THEM NOT TO ALLOW CALLISTO TO ENTER THEIR REALM...THE OCEAN. AND SO IT IS THAT CALISTO MUST FOREVER CIRCLE THE NORTH STAR AND NEVER BE ABLE TO SET OVER THE HORIZON...AND THIS IS WHY THE GREAT BEAR AND THE LITTLE BEAR ARE CURSED TO CIRCLE THE SKIES, NEVER TO DIP BELOW THE HORIZON TO FEEL AN OCEAN WAVE.
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