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Tabiti was called “the Queen of the Scythians”; she appears as the Lady-goddess of the subterranean fire. She is a formidable, “enkindling” Goddess, whose various functions were those of the household fire, the sacrificial fire, and, consequently, of prayer.
Although, according to Herodotus, “Among the Scythians there are many diviners who predict by means of numerous willow rods as follows: bringing large bundles of rods and laying them on the ground, they spread them apart and then, moving the rods one by one, they divine; speaking the predictions, they at the same time gather the rods again and lay them out one by one. Such is their ancestral method of divination,” the most venerated of the seers were precisely the Enarei, for the Great Goddess had given them this faculty.
Based on the beliefs of the peoples of Dahomey (now Benin, located in the region between the modern states of Togo to the west and Nigeria to the east) and their synthesis with Catholicism in Haiti several centuries ago, a system of beliefs emerged — Voodoo. A similar religion, Santería, based on the beliefs of the Yoruba people, arose in Cuba; macumba, likewise rooted in Yoruba beliefs, appeared in Brazil.
As we have already said, the kabbalists hold that the two world-principles—Attractiveness and Expansiveness—are not equivalent. Attractiveness is regarded as a created quality, while Expansiveness is an attribute of the Absolute. Nevertheless, when the Light of the Absolute enters the Vessel of Creation, that Vessel acquires certain properties of the Light. This phenomenon—the form of the Absolute’s presence in the world—is called the Shekhinah.
Alongside the well-known and indisputable wisdom of the druids, the literature about them often contains indications—almost bashful hints—of human sacrifices practiced by them.
It is well known that the druids and the religion they represented had, by the beginning of the 1st century CE, become the target of successive measures of suppression carried out by the Roman authorities.
Alongside the legends of Atlantis, the classical tradition preserves a legend of Hyperborea — a land where a sacred people with superhuman gifts once lived. According to ancient authors’ descriptions, this mythical country lay somewhere far to the north of the Mediterranean.
Among the kings and rulers of the ancient world several towering figures stand out, exceeding the bounds of ordinary humanity and rightly regarded as demigods. One of the best-known rulers who manifested divine power was Ramses the Great.
They say the Valknut possesses immense magical Power, though it is relatively seldom used in Magic.
Yet the same assertions pass from article to article, from book to book, none of which take into account the Valknut’s real place in the ancient worldview.
The graphic beauty and precision of this sign substitute for its mythological meaning, and it is cast more in Greco‑Egyptian than in northern tones.
The Way of the Magus is the Way of mastering Power and mastering oneself. The chief consequence of accumulating Power is precisely the gaining of independence, control over oneself, and the end of existing as a victim.
From this arise two approaches, each of which calls itself “Magic”.
Among all Magi — real and mythical — perhaps none is as widely known as Merlin.
The last Magus and the most famous druid of Britain, he is remembered not only as King Arthur’s mentor but also as a distinct, deeply ambiguous figure who looks through the veil of later retellings.
Among people there are those who appear very devout, whole in their “spotlessness,” radiating light and anointing, yet prove to be black and cold within. There are also people who do not display piety and righteousness, yet are filled with a light not apparent to everyone.
Mesopotamian notions of postmortem existence are as elaborated as those of the Egyptians or Buddhists, although, unlike the latter two, they are not collected into “Books of the Dead.”
If, according to Egyptian myths (and, correspondingly, ancient Greek ones) the Judgement of the Dead leaves the soul a chance to enter Paradise (“Fields of Iaru,” “Elysian Fields”), Chaldean culture imagined a darker—and apparently, more plausible—picture.
Strikingly, the mythologies of many lands share the same motif — the god’s victory over the Dragon. Typhon and Jormungand, Vritra and Vritra’s counterpart, and the Black Serpent resisted the gods’ formative influence on the world.