ACCORDING TO THE MAORI CREATION MYTH, IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS NOTHINGNESS, BUT THEN CAME "PAPATUANUKU", THE EARTH MOTHER". "SHE IS EMBODIED, LITERALLY, IN THE LAND". SHE WAS CREATED BY "TE KORE", THE MAORI DIVINE PRINCIPAL, AND UNITED WITH "RANGINUI" (RANGI), THE SKY FATHER, AND FROM THEIR PROGENY CAME MANY OFFSPRING--THE VARIOUS INHABITANTS OF EARTH, THE FORESTS, THE FIRST HUMANS, WATER, AND EVERYTHING ELSE BETWEEN THE SKY AND EARTH.
IT IS SAID THAT "PAPATUANUKU" AND "RANGI "LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH THAT THEY PREVENTED LIGHT FROM REACHING THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THEIR CLOSE EMBRACE, AND, AS A RESULT, THEIR OFFSPRING LIVED IN A WORLD OF ETERNAL DARKNESS AND IGNORANCE BETWEEN THE BODIES OF THEIR PARENTS. THE CHILDREN FINALLY DECIDED THAT THEIR PARENTS HAD TO BE SEPARATED TO LET LIGHT INTO THE WORLD SO THEY ABOUT THEIR TASK. TAWHIRI MATEA", THE GOD OF WINDS AND STORMS WAS THE ONLY CHILD WHO DID NOT WISH FOR HIS PARENTS TO BE SEPARATED BECAUSE HE FEARED THAT HIS KINGDOM WOULD BE OVERTHROWN.
IT WAS "TANE", THE GOD OF MAN AND FORESTS, WHO RENDERED THEM APART BY RESTING HIS SHOULDERS UPON "PAPATUANUKU" AND THRUSTING HIS LEGS UPWARDS AND PUSHING "RANGINUI "TO THE SKY, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE CHILDREN WERE ABLE TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. "TAWHIRI MATEA", WHO HAD BEEN AGAINST THE SEPARATION OF HIS PARENTS, LEFT FOR THE SKY TO JOIN HIS FATHER, AND IT IS SAID THAT THE TURBULENT WINDS AND STORMS WE EXPERIENCE HERE ON EARTH ARE CAUSED BY "TAWHIRI MATEA "IN REVENGE FOR HIS BROTHER'S ACTS.
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VANTH is the Etruscan Goddess of death. She appears when death is near and also helps guide the newly dead to the Underworld. Vanth is depicted as a winged woman, wearing a short skirt and with only leather straps across her bare chest. There are sometimes eyes on her wings, symbolic of the omnipresence of death. The items that Vanth carries are also representative of her role as a psychopomp or escort of the dead--she carries a torch to light the way and a key to open the gates to the Underworld. Other items that she is sometimes shown with include a sword, a scroll, and snakes, all symbols of fate. Vanth's name, which has been interpreted as "one who keeps the door," is also seen as VAN.
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"SHE RISES AT SUNSET WHEN THE MOON AND SUN ARE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE EARTH AND OPPOSITE ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS. FULL MOON TIME IS A TIME OF DEEP INTENSITY AND CLARITY, OF STRONG ENERGIES THAT SEEM TO BE PULLING ONE IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS; IT IS A TIME OF HIGH CREATIVITY, EXCITEMENT, TENSION, AND TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL. THE SEED OF THE NEW MOON IS NOW REALIZED AND ESTABLISHED. ONE MAY FEEL THE URGE TO CONNECT PSYCHICALLY WITH SOMEONE YOU LOVE WHO IS FAR AWAY. TAKE TIME TO WRITE A LETTER TO SOMEONE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IN A LONG TIME. BE YOUR MOST CREATIVE SELF FOR ELECTRICITY IN THE AIR IS AT ITS GREATEST JUST BEFORE AND ON THE DAY OF THE FULL MOON...AND WHEN SHE ACTUALLY PEAKS IN HER FULLNESS, YOU WILL ACTUALLY FEEL A SENSE OF RELIEF. THE FULL MOON REPRESENTS THE MATURITY, NURTURING, AND RICHNESS OF THE MOTHER ASPECT OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS."
One such goddess is Aspelenie, an Eastern European goddess of hearth and home. I've found no photos of Her, but it is said She took the form of a friendly serpent. The domestic green snake was considered a highly revered animal in Baltic folklore, and to have one cross your path indicated a future marriage or the birth of a child. Among the pre-Christian Lithuanians, She was considered a servant of the sun goddess, Saule, and was thought to bless the home with abundance and protection. The corners of a home and the area behind the stove are Her sacred areas.
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Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the king of Crete. It so happened that Minos needed to settle a dispute with his brother and prayed to the sea god, Poseidon, to send him a bull as a sign that the throne rightly belonged to him. Minos promised that he would then sacrifice the animal to Poseidon. So, in response, Poseidon sent a magnificent white bull. The story goes that Minos liked the bull so much that he decided to keep it and instead sacrificed another bull...making Poseidon so angry that he cursed Ariadne's family, causing the Queen to have passionate feelings towards the bull. Well, eventually the Queen and the bull mated, and she became pregnant...giving birth to a boy with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man, the Minotaur. Minos banished him into the labyrinth blackness below the palace. From thence on, Ariadne's half-brother was fed on sacrificial children sent from Athens every seven years. Heroic Theseus was one of the 14 youths sent to Crete to face death at the hands of the Minotaur.
When Theseus arrived to participate in the bull games. Ariadne too one look at him and her passions ignited. She devised a plan to help him to slay the minotaur and return safely ghrough the dark tunnels of the labyrinth. So, through the labyrinth he crawled, quietly, so as not to awaken the sleeping Minotaur. Wrapped around his wrist was a ball of yarn provided by Ariadne which he had tied to the pillar at the gate at the entrance to the maze so that he could find his way back to the outer world. For her complicity, Theseus promised that he would marry her and take her to Athens.
Theseus succeeds and that evening, he and Ariadne escaped...she having betrayed her family. The next night they reached the island of Nexos and, exhausted by travelling and passion, they collapsed into a deep, deep sleep. But, the next morning when Ariadne awakened, she discovered that her lover had vanished, and while standing at the edge of the shore she could make the sails of his ship in the distance. The ungrateful Theseus was pursuing his way home...without her. Ariadne, abandoned and betrayed, descended into her own complex world on the shores of Nexos.
Aphrodite, the goddess who had ignited her passions, those passions which led to her suffering, then appeared to Ariadne and revealed her true fate. Ariadne was to marry her real soul mate, the divine Dionysus who celebrated their sacred marriage by offering her the crown as the symbol of their intimacy and eternal union. Soon after their marriage, Ariadne gave birth to many famous children.
Ariadne is the one who chooses Theseus, finding him attractive and falling in love with him. She also sees him as a way to escape her father's home. Blinded by her own passions, Ariadne had been a willing participant in her abandonment. In betraying her family to follow Theseus, she had set the cycle of betrayal in motion. Alone, she was forced to connect with her internal world.
This myth portrays the heart's painful journey when connection to the inner self is severed and sacrificed to the lover. Ariadne chose to follow her lover's course rather than her own internal labyrinth journey, and lost her direction....thus, loosing contact with her own inner wisdom. Abandoned, she could no longer define herself exclusively through her partner paving the way for a more authentic sense of self to emerge. The painful process she went through of confronting her naive trust and blind faith in Theseus enabled her to find renewal and redemption allowing for a more divine sense of union.
Ariadne's story also teaches us that things may not always happen the way we expect or hope they will, but sometimes these unexpected turns on our paths can lead us to wonderful, new options that we hadn't even considered.
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