"SIDURI" IS THE BABYLONIAN GODDESS OF IMMORTALITY AND WISDOM. SHE GUARDS THE ENTRANCE TO THE GARDEN OF THE GODS, ENSURING NO MORTALS ENTERS THE FORBIDDEN PARADISE. SHE DISTRIBUTES THE WINE OF IMMORTALITY TO THE DIVINE AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SACRED WATERS OF THE SEA.
SHE LIVES IN A TAVERN ON THE SHORE OF THE SEA, BEYOND WHICH IS THE "LAND OF LIFE". ALSO CALLED SIDURI SABITU OR THE INN-KEEPER, SHE IS REFERRED TO IN THE "THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH "AS "THE REFRESHER" OR "THE GIRL WHOSE DRINKS REFRESH THE SOUL." SHE ADVISES GILGAMESH TO GIVE UP HIS QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEATH OF HIS COMPANION, ENKIDU. ON FIRST SEEING HIM COMING TOWARDS HER TAVERN, SIDURI BARRED THE DOOR TO GILGAMESH, BECAUSE OF HIS UNKEMPT APPEARANCE. WHEN HE TOLD HER HIS IDENTITY AND OF HIS TRAVELS TO FIND THE IMMORTAL HUMAN UTNAPISHTIM, SHE INVITED HIM IN AND SHARED HER WISDOM:
"YOU SHALL NOT FIND THE LIFE YOU SEEK,"FOR AT THE CREATION OF MANKIND"THE GODS ALLOTTED DEATH TO MEN."THEY RETAINED LIFE IN THEIR OWN HANDS."GILGAMESH, LET YOUR BELLY BE FULL,"MAKE YOU MERRY BY DAY AND BY NIGHT."MAKE EVERYDAY A DAY OF FEASTING AND OF REJOICING"DANCE AND PLAY, BY DAY, BY NIGHT,"LET YOUR CLOTHES BE SPARKLING AND FRESH"WASH YOUR HAIR"BATHE YOUR BODY"ATTEND TO THE BABE WHO HOLDS YOU BY THE HAND"TAKE YOUR WIFE AND LET HER REJOICE IN YOU."FOR THIS IS THE LOT OF MANKIND TO ENJOY BUT IMMORTAL LIFE IS NOT FOR MEN. FROM THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, TABLET X"
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"AOIFE" (INCREDIBLE BEAUTY) WAS A FIERCE SCOTTISH WARRIOR GODDESS; SHE WAS CALLED THE "PRINCESS OF THE ISLE OF SHADOW". SHE WAS A CELTIC QUEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SCOTLAND. HER RIVAL WAS" SCATHACH" (SOME SAY THEY WERE SISTERS) AND THE TWO OFTEN CLASHED. ACCORDING TO LEGEND, BOTH OPERATED A SCHOOL ON THE ISLE WHERE THEY TRAINED WARRIORS, BUT "AOIFE'S" SCHOOL WAS MUCH LESS SUCCESSFUL.
DESPITE CONFLICT BETWEEN SHE AND "CUCHULAIN", THE TWO PRODUCED A SON NAMED "CONLA. " LEGEND HAS IT THAT "CUCHULAIN" LEFT "AOIFE "BEFORE FINDING OUT SHE WAS PREGNANT, AND, WHEN HE WAS LEAVING HER, HE AVE HER LITTLE GOLDEN RING. "AOIFE "RAISED "CONLA "IN SECRET, TRAINING HIM IN THE DARK ARTS AND COMBAT, AND WHEN HE WAS OLD ENOUGH, SHE SENT HIM OUT INTO THE WORLD TO SEEK HIS DESTINY...GIVING HIM THE RING AND TELLING HIM NEVER TO TURN HIS BACK WHILE IN COMBAT. THE LAD FOLLOWED HIS MOTHER'S ADVICE ALTHOUGH IT LED TO HIS DEATH AT THE HANDS OF HIS FATHER WHO WAS UNAWARE THE THE BOY WAS HIS SON. BY THE TIME HE SAW THE RING, IT WAS TOO LATE.
OTHER SOURCES PLACE HER AS A CONSORT OF THE SEA GOD "MANANNAN" OR ONE OF HIS SONS, AND SAY SHE STOLE THE" ALPHABET OF KNOWLEDGE" FROM THE DEITIES TO GIVE TO HUMANKIND. FOR THIS TRANSGRESSION, ALONG WITH HER GENERAL MEANNESS, SHE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A CRANE BY THE ELDER DEITIES. SOME LEGENDS SAY SHE HAUNTS THE COUNTRYSIDE IN THIS FORM TO THIS DAY, OTHERS THAT SHE WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY HUNTERS.
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SESHAT is the Egyptian Goddess of writing, measurement, libraries, and archives. She kept the records of the ruling king, tracking the length of their reigns and transcribing their speeches. She was also the "mistress of builders", and assisted with measuring the boundaries of temples and other sacred structures. She is described as either the daughter or wife of Thoth, a moon God who was later credited with inventing writing. She is depicted in human form with a headdress featuring a seven-pointed star and a set of downward facing horns, which may have originally been a crescent moon. She holds a palm leaf rib on which she records the passing of the years. Another of her names was SAFEKH-AUBI, which means "She Who Wears the Two Horns" and relates to the horns on her headdress.
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IN MUCH OF ASIA, RICE IS CONSIDERED THE EMBODIMENT OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO DISLIKES BEING MAN-HANDLED. MEN ARE PERMITTED TO PREPARE THE LAND, BUT IT IS WOMEN WHO HAVE TO PLANT AND COOK THE RICE. AT HARVEST TIME, THE PREGNANT EARTH MOTHER IS DELIVERED.
"DEWI NAWANG SASIH "IS THE RICE GODDESS OF INDONESIA; SHE IS THE GODDESS WHO TAUGHT THE PEOPLE TO COOK RICE. LEGEND HAS IT THAT SHE TAUGHT THE WOMEN TO PUT ONE GRAIN OF RICE IN THE BOILING POT, AND IT WILL SWELL AND THEN DIVIDE AGAIN; THE POT WILL SOON BE FULL OF RICE. HER ONE RESTRICTION WAS THAT 'NO MAN SHOULD TOUCH THE UTENSILS'. THUS, THE PEOPLE OF INDONESIA WERE ABLE TO EAT VERY WELL....UNTIL....A KING WHO THOUGHT THAT HE WAS ABOVE THE LAW INTENTIONALLY TOUCHED A POT. THE GODDESS, IN DISGUST, DEPARTED FROM THE EARTH, AND SINCE THAT TIME IT TAKES A WHOLE BUNCH OF RICE TO FILL A POT BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH THE GRAINS SWELL, THEY NO LONGER DIVIDE AND REPRODUCE.
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