"MANASA "IS THE HINDU SERPENT GODDESS. HER NAME DERIVES FROM "MANAS, "A POWERFUL WORD THAT MEANS "OF THE MIND. "HER NAME MEANS "INTENTION." SHE IS A VERY POWERFUL GODDESS WHO IS WORSHIPPED THROUGHOUT INDIA. SHE IS THE SISTER OF VASUKI, THE KING OF THE SNAKES. HER WORSHIPPERS ARE DEVOTED TO HER AND BELIEVE THAT SHE IS A PRIMEVAL FORM OF THE GREAT GODDESS HERSELF. SHE IS BELIEVED TO PROTECT HER PEOPLE FROM SNAKEBITES, BUT HAS ALSO BEEN KNOWN TO CURE DISEASE AND TO BRING WEALTH.
ONE OF HER BEST KNOWN MYTH INVOLVES THE MISFORTUNES THAT MANASA INFLICTS UPON A MAN WHO REFUSES TO WORSHIP HER. FIRST, SHE DESTROYS HIS GARDEN AND THEN SLAYS SIX OF HIS SONS WHILE SINKING THE SHIPS THAT CARRY HIS WEALTH. FINALLY, SHE KILLS HIS LAST SON WITH THE BITE OF A POISONOUS SNAKE. AT THE URGE OF HIS WIFE, HE OFFERS MANASA A PEACE OFFERING...A FLOWER...AND AGREES TO WORSHIP HER AS A GODDESS, SHE ACCEPTS HIS TOKENS AND RESTORES HIS SONS AND HIS WEALTH. SHE HAS BEEN WORSHIPPED AS A GODDESS EVER SINCE. EVER SINCE.
MANASA IS WORSHIPPED DURING THE RAINY SEASON, THE TIME OF THE MONSOONS OF EARLY AUGUST, THE RAIN FORCES THE SNAKES FROM THEIR LAIRS. IT IS A TIME OF COMMUNAL CELEBRATION; THE VILLAGERS GATHER CLAY POTS, WOVEN BASKETS, GARLANDS, AND FOOD OFFERINGS OF MELONS, BANANAS, AND VARIOUS SWEETS. SNAKE CHARMERS BRING COBRAS, VIPERS, AND PYTHONS AND PERFORM WITH THE POISONOUS SNAKES WHILE CHANTING HYMNS PRAISING HER. SOME PARTICIPANTS EVEN ENTER INTO TRANCES.
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"JULUNGGUL" is the Austrialian Goddess of Initiation....the great goddess of the Aborigines. She is depicted as a rainbow serpent goddess who oversaw the maturation and initiation of boys into manhood, giving them the strength and wisdom to overcome the trials of puberty. At initiation, the young boys were symbolically swallowed and then spit out as men.
AS THE GREAT RAINBOW SERPENT OF THE DREAMTIME, SHE HOLDS THE POWERS OF REBIRTH AND IMMORTALITY...RAIN AND WATER. SHE FLOWS INTO PEOPLE'S LIVES, PROVIDING THEM WITH SACRED DREAMS AND THE EXPERIENCES THEY NEED FOR POSITIVE GROWTH. IT IS JULUNGGUL WHO CREATED ALL THE RIVERS OF THE LAND....AND THEN WENT TO LIVE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEPEST WATERHOLE. SHE IS EMBODIED IN THE PEARLS, CRYSTALS, THE OCEAN, WATERFALLS, AND THE DEEP POOLS WHERE SHE LIVES. ACCORDING TO THE MYTH, ONE DAY THE WAWALAG SISTERS (TWO MYTHOLOGICAL SISTERS WHO CIVILIZED AUSTRALIA) CAME TO CAMP BY HER WATERHOLE, AND ONE OF THEM ACCIDENTALLY DRIPPED SOME OF HER MENSTRUAL BLOOD INTO THE WATER. JULUNGGUL REARED UP OUT OF THE DEPTHS WITH WATER FALLING FROM HER BODY AS RAIN. SHE SWALLOWED THE SISTERS, BUT LATER SPIT THEM BACK OUT.
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Nyx is a primal goddess who comes from the earliest times in Greek mythology and is a pivotal member of the creation myth of the theology of the Orphis-Dionysic mysteries. In the beginning there was chaos, and out of this chaos the first God was born. According to the myth, she was the daughter of Progonus, the first God; she was born without a mother, and the moment Nyx was born, she ruled with her father until he made her the supreme ruler of heaven and earth. Later, she gave up her rulership to her son, Uranus.
With her brother Erebus, Nyx bore Aether (upper air) and Hemera (Day). She also bore Moros (Doom), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), Charon and Nemesis (Retribution) and the Fates (Moraie).
Nyx was sometimes seen as a winged Goddess. Her wings were dark and shadowy, and she was called "Swift Night". Later, she became the personification of the night and was its Goddess. She was revered for Her ocular powers, and Her realm was in a cave in the far was. She was portrayed as a young women dressed in a star covered gown. Her attribute is a reversed torch.
She is associated with the night; the color black; eggs and birth. Nyx is a good Goddess for you to call forth when you need to reclaim your awareness of your original essential nature.
"BLACK-WINGED NIGHT,"INTO THE BOSOM OF THE REBUS DARK AND DEEP,"LAID A WIND-BORN EGG, AND AS THE SEASONS ROLLED"FOR SPRANG LOVE, THE LONGED FOR,"SHING WITH WINGS OF GOLD."--ARISTOPHANES
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"JURATA" (YOO-RAH-TUH) IS THE BEAUTIFUL LITHUANIAN SEA GODDESS, THE GODDESS OF THE BALTIC; HER NAME MEANS "SEA." SHE LIVES UNDER THE SEA IN A SPLENDID PALACE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BALTIC WHICH IS MADE OF AMBER...POLISHED TO LOOK LIKE GOLD. SHE IS SAID TO HAVE THE APPEAR TO OTHERS AS A MERMAID.
LEGEND HAS IT THAT THE MIGHTY GOD OF THUNDER, PIORUN, FELL IN LOVE WITH HER BEAUTY, BUT IT SEEMS THAT JURATA ONLY HAD EYES FOR A HANDSOME YOUNG FISHERMAN. EVERY NIGHT SHE SWAM TO THE SHORE TO MEET HER SWEETHEART. AND SO IT WAS THAT IN A JEALOUS RAGE, THE GOD OF THUNDER CAUSED A GREAT LIGHTNING STORM, AND THROWING DOWN A THUNDERBOLTS, HE SHATTERED JURATA'S CASTLE...KILLING JURATA AND ALL OF HER COURTIERS. THE YOUNG FISHERMAN WAS CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA WHERE HE DROWNED.
AND IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT, TO THIS DAY, YOU CAN HEAR THE YOUNG FISHERMAN'S MOURNFUL CRIES ANY TIME THERE IS A LIGHTNING STORM ON THE BALTIC...AND THE AMBER WHICH IS CAST ASHORE BY THE WAVES OF THE BALTIC ARE THE BROKEN FRAGMENTS OF JURATA'S CASTLE.
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