IN THE KAEVALA,THE TALE OF THE OLD FINNISH GODS, WE MEET ILMATAR, THE GODDESS OF CREATION. SHE IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE "DAUGHTER OF AIR", SHE WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ILMA, THE SKY, AND AT THE BEGINNING OF TIME, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING BUT AIR AND WATER, ILMATAR WOULD FLOAT THROUGHT THE EITHER. BUT, ONE DAY SHE CAME DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS AND RESTED ON THE WATERS. BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LAND, SHE FLOATED ON THE WATERS FOR SEVEN CENTURIES. SHE LOOKED AROUND AND SAW NOTHING...AND SHE WAS LONELY.
NOW, ILMATAR WAS A VIRGIN GODDESS AND HAD NEVER BEEN TOUCHED BY ANOTHER BEING, BUT ONE NIGHT, AFTER THE SEA HAD LASHED OUT IN A TREMENDOUS STORM, SHE FOUND HERSELF MYSTERIOUSLY IMPREGNATED BY THE PRIMORDIAL WATERS. AND, SHE REMAINED PREGNANT FOR MANY YEARS...UNABLE TO GIVE BIRTH.
THEN, ONE DAY, WHILE SHE WAS FLOATING, PREGNANT AND IN GREAT DISCOMFORT, A CELESTIAL EAGLE FLEW DOWN AND BUILT A NEST ON HER KNEE. THE POOR BIRD WAS PREGNANT AND HAD BEEN DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LAND. THE BIRD LAY SEVEN EGGS WHICH EVENTUALLY FELL FROM HER KNEE AND HATCHED OPEN. AND OUT OF THESE EGGS CAME THE EARTH, THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE CLOUDS. ILMATER WATCHED WITH WONDER AS THE WORLD WAS FORMED. DELIGHTED THAT SHE NOW HAD SOMETHING TO WORK WITH, SHE BEGAN A LONG PERIOD OF SHAPING. SHE FORMED THE ROCKS AND THE BAYS, THE SHORES, AND THE OCEAN DEPTHS. AND, WHEN HER WORK WAS COMPLETED, SHE FELT A STIRRING INSIDE AND GAVE BIRTH TO VAINMOINEN, THE WORLD'S FIRST SHAMAN. AND HE WENT ON TO COMPLETE THE CREATION THAT ILMATER HAD BEGUN.
"JOURNAL QUESTIONS:"
"HOW MAY I BE MORE CREATIVE AND ACTIVELY USE MY INSPIRATION AND IMAGINATION?"
"HOW MAY DREAMS AND FANTASIES HELP ME TO EXPERIENCE MORE FULFILLMENT?"
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"KUPULO" IS THE SLAVIC GODDESS OF WATER, SORCERY, AND HERBAL LORE. IN EASTERN EUROPE, SHE IS ALSO SEEN AS A GODDESS OF FIRE. SHE IS A SEASONAL GODDESS OF THE SUMMER SOLSTICE WHO CONTROLS THE MAGICAL PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND RULES OVER ALL OF THE PLANTS OF THE EARTH. SHE TEACHES HER FOLLOWERS THE PROPER MAGICAL USES OF VEGETATION IN SPELLCASTING AND RITUALS. HER CULT PRESERVED AN EXTENSIVE LORE OF MAGICAL PLANTS AND HERBS WHICH GAVE MANKIND THE POWER TO READ MINDS, CONTROL EVIL SPIRITS, AND FIND HIDDEN TREASURES. HER SACRED PLANT IS THE FERN.
KUPULO PERSONIFIES THE BOTH MAGICAL AND SPIRITUAL POWERS INHERENT IN WATER; HER DEVOTEES WORSHIPPED HER WITH RITUAL BATHS AND OFFERINGS OF FLOWERS CAST UPON THE WATER...AND, SINCE FIRE, AS WELL AS WATER, IS ASSOCIATED WITH PURIFICATION, CELEBRANTS ALSO DANCED AROUND AND LEAPED OVER BONFIRES. IT WAS ALSO CUSTOMARY FOR THE REVELERS TO CREATE AN EFFIGY OF KUPULO WHICH, AT THE END OF THE HOLIDAY WAS TORN APART AND TOSSED INTO THE BONFIRES OR CAST INTO POOLS OF WATER.
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SABRINA is the Celtic Goddess of the river Severn, which flows from its source in Wales through England and empties into the Bristol Channel and then on into the Celtic Sea. The river is named for Sabrina, whose original Welsh name was HAVREN or HABREN; Sabrina is the Romanized version.
The legend of how the Severn got its name begins with Brutus of Troy. He led a band of Trojan exiles to Britain, and the land was named for him. On Brutus's death, the land was divided into four parts and given to his three sons, Locrine, Camber, and Albanact, and his good friend Corineus. To cement the alliance, Corineus's daughter Guendolen was promised to Locrine in marriage. Before they were to be married, Britain was invaded by the Huns, and Locrine led the fight against the invaders. A princess named Estrildis was one of those captured, and Locrine fell in love with her. He asked Corineus to let him out of his engagement to Guendolen, but Corineus would not hear of it. Locrine married Guendolen, but he had secret rooms built under the castle where he hid Estrildis away. For the next seven years, Locrine continued to see his true love, using the excuse that he was making offerings to the Gods. After a time, Estrildis gave birth to Locrine's daughter, Havren.
When Corineus died, Locrine divorced Guendolen, sent her back to her father's kingdom, and acknowledged Estrildis and Havren as his family. The jilted Guendolen raised an army of her father's men against Locrine, and he was killed in battle. Guendolen ordered that Estrildis and Havren be thrown into the mighty river that ran through Locrine's kingdom. She then declared that the river would be henceforth named after Havren, so that Locrine's infidelity would be forever remembered. When the Romans invaded, they changed the name to their own version, Sabrina, which means "from the boundary".
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"INDRANI" IS THE HINDU GODDESS OF INSIGHT; SHE IS A GODDESS OF GREAT BEAUTY AND IS THE WIFE AND CONSORT OF THE KING OF HEAVEN, "INDRA." SHE WAS THE QUEEN OF GODS. SHE IS DEPICTED AS A FIERCE GODDESS WITH ONE THOUSAND EYES AND HOLDING A THUNDERBOLT IN ONE HAND AND A CHILD IN THE OTHER. HER COMPLEXION IS RED, AND SHE WEARS A CROWN AND BEAUTIFUL ORNAMENTS. SHE IS OFTEN FLANKED BY AN ELEPHANT. GODDESS "INDRANI" IS ONE OF THE "SAPTA MATRIKAS"...THE SEVEN DIVINE MOTHERS IN THE HINDU RELIGION. THE DIVINE VEHICLE FOR THE GODDESS WAS EITHER A LION OR AN ELEPHANT. SHE IS ALL-SEEING, AND CAPABLE OF PERCEIVING THE SECRETS OF THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS.
IN THE EARLIER VEDIC ACCOUNTS, "INDRANI" WAS DEPICTED AS A FEMALE SHADOW OF "INDRA". SHE WAS, FOR A SHORT WHILE, CONSIDERED TO BE AN EVIL SPIRIT. SHE WAS SAID TO BE THE DAUGHTER OF A DEMON; THUS, SHE IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE GODDESS OF WRATH. THEN, IN LATER HINDU INTERPRETATIONS, SHE BEGAN PERSONIFYING JEALOUSY AND EVIL INTENT, BUT AFTER A FEW YEARS, SHE BECAME AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY WORSHIPED ASTRAL SPIRIT IN SOUTHERN INDIA AND IS WORSHIPED THERE UNTIL THIS DAY...
...AND, ACCORDING TO THE "RIG VEDA", "INDRANI" IS CONSIDERED A MOST FORTUNATE FEMALE FOR INDRA GRANTED HER IMMORTALITY. IT IS SAID THAT HE CHOSE HER OVER ALL OF THE OTHER GODDESSES BECAUSE OF HER MAGNETIC ATTRACTIONS. THOUGH, SHE HAS NEVER BEEN HELD IN VERY HIGH ESTEEM AS A GODDESS, A "PUJA" DEDICATED TO HER IS PERFORMED DURING THE A"SHADA NAVRAT".
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