The ancient Mother, Mokosh is older than Creation itself. She does not belong to the strictly Creative pantheon of the Slavs, yet she stands within their great Ennead.
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Myth
Among the luminous hierarchies of ministering spirits there exists one as necessary to human development as it is inaccessible to the human mind.
Beltane or Beltan (Ir. Bealtaine, Scot. Bealltainn, Eng. Beltane) is a Celtic festival marking the beginning of the bright half of the year, traditionally celebrated on May 1.
Among the various directions and currents of Magic, perhaps none is so difficult for a sober mind to understand as necromancy.
Risking the appearance of an uneducated retrograde, I will nevertheless repeat that, from the traditional point of view, there are currently no prospects for a synthesis of worldviews and none are in sight.
The Judeo-Christian tradition regards Ariel as an Angel ruling Jerusalem, thereby emphasizing his special mediatorial position between the Higher and Lower worlds.
Various traditions — from shamanism to psychoanalysis — have noted the dense population of the Psychocosmos. Some regarded its inhabitants as independent agents, others as merely psychic constructs; yet regardless, they acknowledged their active influence on life and on the balance of forces in the psychic universe.
The original concept of the Qliphoth is closely connected with ideas about the Tree of the Sefirot. It is held that each Sefira has its reflection — a qlippa. However, contrary to common belief, the Qliphoth are not “anti-Sefirot”.
Anyone who, in one way or another, has had the experience of perceiving the Interworld has noticed that a strong wind constantly blows there. Since it is odd to attribute the properties of earthly weather to the Elements, the question arises: what is the nature of this wind and what explains its its strength and constancy.
Although the concept of “Hell” in the familiar Christian sense is foreign to magical thought, magic nonetheless organically includes the notion of grim Worlds of Retribution.
The Myth under consideration describes life as an essentially unified, yet differentiated Flow, made up of individual Waves.
The Slavs were in particularly close communication with the spirits of nature, which is why Slavic lower mythology preserved numerous descriptions of the character and peculiarities of various Stikhials.
Arguably it is difficult to find, in any mythology, a figure as contradictory both in its very nature and in the attitudes toward it as Loki — the Cunning Aesir of the North.