"IN ANCIENT CHINA, PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT SUPERNATURAL BEINGS COULD PROTECT THEM FROM ILLNESS, OR HELP THEM IF THEY GOT SICK. MA GU," THE CHINESE GODDESS OF HEALTH AND LONGEVITY IS A KIND-HEARTED, HAPPY GODDESS OF THE DAOIST PANTHEON. SHE IS REVERED NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF HER WARMTH AND DEEP BEAUTY AND ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS ABLE TO REMAIN ETERNALLY YOUNG. "MA GU" IS THE ORIENTAL PERSONIFICATION OF BEAUTY, ELEGANCE AND YOUTHFULNESS.
SHE IS USUALLY DEPICTED AS A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN WITH LONG FINGERNAILS WHO WEARS AN APRON OR A SHAWL OF LEAVES. SHE CARRIES A BAMBOO STAFF WITH BASKET OF "PEACHES" HANGING FROM IT. SHE IS OFTEN IN HER ARMS OR A POLE FROM WHICH PEACHES HANG AND IS USUALLY ACCOMPANIED BY A FAWN. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THE LEGEND OF "MA GU". "
According to one tale, She was a kind-hearted woman from "Shandong "province and lived during the reign of the "Emperor Huan." She was responsible for the reclaiming of flooded coastal area and converting it into a mulberry orchard..It is said that "Magu "had witnessed the ocean turn to a mulberry field three times, thus symbolizing her great age and confirming her title of goddess of Longevity.
A SECOND TALE TELLS OF A YOUNG GIRL WHOSE FATHER WAS SO MEAN THAT HE MADE HER WORK FROM MORNING TIL NIGHT. EVENTUALLY, SHE COULD TAKE NO MORE, LEFT HOME, AND MADE HER WAY TO THE MOUNTAINS. HER FATHER REALIZED THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS AND CRIED OVER HER LOSS SO BITTERLY THAT HE BECAME BLIND. SHE RETURNED HOME AND CURED HIM WITH A SPECIAL WINE, BUT DID NOT STAY. INSTEAD, SHE TRANSFORMED HERSELF INTO A BIRD AND FLEW TO THE HEAVENS.
"THERE WAS A GODDESS NAMED MA GU. SHE WAS VERY YOUTHFUL AND PRETTY SHE LOOKED LIKE AN 18 YEAR OLD GIRL" But in fact, she had lived for thousands of years.
Because Ma Gu has such longevity,
if one can drink from her
he will also be youthful, beautiful, healthy and alive forever.
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ITZPAPALOTL (pronounced its-pah-pah-LO-tl) is the Aztec Goddess of fire. Her name means either "obsidian butterfly" or "clawed butterfly", which may refer to the fact that she is sometimes depicted with bat wings. Her wings are made from obsidian, a black stone that was used for knives. Itzpapalotl rules over Tamoanchan, a paradise where the first humans were created, and where the souls of stillborn babies and women who died in childbirth went.
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Monthu was a falcon-god, of war. Monthu's name, shown in Egyptian hieroglyphs to the right, is technically transcribed as mntw. Because of the difficulty in transcribing Egyptian, it is often realized as Menthu, Montju, Ment, Month, Montu, Monto, Mentu, Mont or Minu'thi. Monthu was an ancient god, his name meaning nomad, originally a manifestation of the scorching effect of the sun, Ra, and as such often appeared under the epithet Monthu-Ra. The destructiveness of this characteristic led to him gaining characteristics of a warrior, and eventually becoming a war-god. When Thebes gained prominence, and thus its patron god Amun became more significant, changing his wife to Mut, Monthu was chosen as the necessary child to satisfy Mut's strong maternal desire to adopt, since he represented strength, virility, and victory. Because of the association of raging bulls with strength and war, Monthu was also said to manifest himself in a white bull with a black face, which was referred to as the Bakha. Egypt's greatest general-kings called themselves Mighty Bulls, the sons of Monthu. In the famous narrative of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramesses II was said to have seen the enemy and "raged at them like Monthu, Lord of Thebes". In Ancient Egyptian art, he was pictured as a falcon-headed or bull-headed man who wore the sun-disc, with two plumes on his head, the falcon representing the sky, and the bull representing strength and war. He would hold various weaponry, including scimitars, bows and arrows, and knives in his hands During the New Kingdom, large and impressive temples to Monthu were constructed in Armant. In fact, the Greek name of the city of Armant was Hermonthis, meaning the land of Monthu. Earlier temples to Monthu include one located adjacent to the Middle Kingdom fortress of Uronarti below the Second Cataract of the Nile, dating to the nineteenth century BCE. Mentuhotep, a name given to several pharaohs in the Middle Kingdom, means "Menthu is satisfied".
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Kali, the dark one, the black pearl of the night, is one of India's most popular goddesses; her picture hangs in many homes, and her image is seen at virtually all of the Navratri celebrations. She is known as the Mother of eternal Time and is adorned in gold and moonhloe pearls, armed with a sword. Her temple city is Calcutta (Steps of Kali). Is she a demon or a goddess? In essence, Kali is the ultimate reality.
Kali is often depicted as the Black Goddess, the essence of all perishable things. Her blackness symbolizes her comprehensive nature. The Sanskrit word "Kali" means "time". She is the personification of time, so why should it be so surprising that she has such a terrible image? Kali's four arms represent the complete circle of creation and destruction. Her left hands which hold a sword and a demon head represent her destructive side. Her right hands represent her creative aspect.
It is very important to realize that Kali is not evil. She does not represent destruction as a negative force but as a positive grace of change. She is the Divine Mother of Protection. She takes on the personality of terror to induce fear and terrorize demons and evil, and when She takes away the darkness of the outside world, She grants illumination of the inner world. Hence, she is said to kill the ego, our attachment to pettiness. With her love we cease to react emotionally to the circumstances of life and to plan our actions out fully before acting.
Kali taches us that pain, sorrow, death, and destruction are not overcome by denying or trying to explain them away. These are inevitable parts of life that each of us must face if we hope to realize the fullness of our being and to realize our potential...we must accept these parts of our existence. Kali is our Mother because it is She who reveals to us our mortality and releases us to act fully and freely. This is the path that Kali shows.
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