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[Earthwise] Digest Number 2492

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Larentalia

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:43 am (PST)




Larentalia
By Winter Wren

December 23

This date marks the ancient Roman festival of Larentalia to honor the Lares, who were the esteemed guardians and protectors of families. With this in mind, it is a good time to renew the protections upon your residence. Choose four quartz crystals. Dedicate one to each of the directional/elemental guardians. Place each crystal in a window or over a doorway facing its dedicated direction. As you place the crystal, chant:

Keepers of the gate, I invoke you to keep watch over my home.
Grant me and mine your protections,
keep out negative influences and unwanted energies.
Hail and welcome.

Once all four crystals are in place, return to the center point of your home and see clearly a ring of white light going from one crystal to the next, protecting your dwelling within:

By the powers of the guardians, my home is safe, my family secure. So mote it be.

Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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2a.

La Befana

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:43 am (PST)




La Befana

Other names: La Strega, La Vecchia

Etymology: "Epiphany"

Themes: Overcoming Evil; Wisdom
Symbols: Broom; Horns; Hag Poppets

La Befana or St. Befana is an ugly but good-natured old hag who leaves presents in the stockings of children on the eve of the Epiphany (the Twelfth Night) in parts of Italy and Sicily. In Christian legend, the three kings passed an old lady on their way to adore the Christ Child. They invited her to accompany them but she was too busy cleaning her house and did not come with them. Later, she attempted to follow, but became lost along the way and never saw the Holy Child. Every year she comes looking for him. She visits the children while they sleep and fills their stockings, giving the good ones candy and the bad ones stones or charcoal.

The name is said to be a corruption of Epiphany (Epiphania), but parts of the legend pre-date Christian times.

Sources:

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend.

Brewer's Book of Myth and Legend.

Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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Mother Berhta's Coming To Town

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:44 am (PST)




Mother Berhta's Coming To Town
By Steven Posch

You've heard of Mother Berhta, right? Every year, during the season of Yule, there she is, leering from every billboard and greeting card, riding her goat Gnasher Skeggi with greasy old sack slung over her shoulder, brimming with wonderful presents. But it could be filled instead with squirming, cauldron-bound children. With Mother Berhta, you can never tell for sure.

Oh, I've heard about the old days, before Berhta made it big. Pagan households were few and far between in those times. Berhta was not a baby-napper back then.

Back in the old days, too, the days would grow cold and the nights would grow long, and suddenly it would be Mother Night, the night that gives birth to the rest of the year - also know as Midwinter's Eve, the longest night of all. From out of the darkness, you would hear the sound of bells, which meant You Know Who was coming. And sure enough, soon there'd be a pounding on the door to make the windows rattle, the door would fly open, and in would stride Mother Berhta, like an indoor blizzard.

"Good Yule, you Yule-time fools!" she hollers, dropping the goatskin sack on the floor, and dragging out the feast. And oh, what a feast! Roast goose stuffed with chestnuts, turkey with wild rice dressing, plum puddings, cranberries, pizza - whatever it is that you most like to eat. Berhta brings more food than anyone can eat in all thirteen nights of Yule, much less one sitting.

Then, with an ear-to-ear grin, old Mother B holler, "Come 'ere ya old goat!" and Gnasher Skeggi prances innocently. Berhta then grabs him by the forelock and pulls his head back, and pht! The athame flashes and the goat's throat is cut, neat as you please! Mother Berhta is not a goddess for the faint=hearted. In a jiffy, she guts him and skins him and chops him into little pieces to throw in the cauldron with some onion, a little garlic, some sage, a pinch of rosemary. Et voila! Goat stew!

And just as everyone sits down to eat, Mother Berhta tosses her old goatskin sack down on the floor right next to the table, yelling: "Throw the bones in here and don't break any!"

Of course as we eat we are careful to do just as she asked. When the feast is over, Berhta grabs the sack and gives it a shake, and in a voice to wake the dead she bellows, "Come on out, you old goat!" and sure enough, out capers Gnasher Skeggi, just as raunchy and as randy as ever. Mother Berhta slings the sack over her shoulder, hops up onto Skeggi's back, and off she goes.

And don't forget the presents. Along with the feast out of her sack come presents like you've never seen before, in all shapes, colors, sizes, and styles.

Of course, it went this way for I don't know how many years, until one day everything changed. A little boy, whose name I'm afraid nobody remembers anymore, broke on e of the bones when throwing it back into Berhta's sack. So when Berhta gave the sack a big shake and hollered, "Come on out, you old goat!" Out hobbled poor old Gnasher Skeggi on three legs, looking not at all happy.

Well! In all those years of Berhta, nobody had ever seen her quite as angry as this. "you imbeciles!" She yelled. "Now I'll have to carry my goat instead of riding him!" - which, of course, is where that expression comes from, if you've ever heard it before.

Before anybody realized what was happening, Berhta had grabbed the little bone-breaker by the scruff of his neck and stuffed him into her sack just like that. Then, slinging the sack over one shoulder and Skeggi over the other, she tromped out into the dark. I'm sure I don't need to tell ou that nobody ever saw that little boy again. And now, on midwinter's eve, when the door flies open and Mother Berhta comes storming into your living room, you never know for sure whether she's going to dump gifts out of her sack - or stuff little kids in!


Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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Midwinter Sleep Charm

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:47 am (PST)




Midwinter Sleep Charm
By Elizabeth Barrette

Winter is a time of peace and rest. Unfortunately, the hectic hustle and bustle of the holiday season often make it difficult to get to sleep. One night as I lay awake in bed, the image came to me of a dragon sleeping peacefully in its lair of thick, impenetrable stone. Along with that came this little rhyme:

These things I give
To the waking world,
Now let me sleep
With my great wings furled.

One by one, I called up all the thoughts that were keeping me awake, and I piled them into a heap. I repeated the rhyme each time I added something to the heap. Everything would still be there in the morning, and I could deal with it then; but in the meantime, I could get some sleep. It worked.

Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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5a.

Gobekli Tepe on History Channel's Ancient Aliens show

Posted by: "karentate108" karentate108@ca.rr.com   specialjourn

Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:55 pm (PST)



Greetings,
I know a lot of us have been interested in the discovery of Gobekli
Tepe, Turkey and there's been a limited amount of pictures available of
the site. History Channel is currently running a series called
Ancient Aliens in which Gobekli Tepe is highlighted.

If you aren't yet aware of this site, only 5% of the site has been
excavated in the yeast 13 years, so the site has much more yet to
reveal. The site is 12,000 years old, older than Stonehenge, Egyptian
Pyramids and 7,000 years older than Mesopotamia. They've found no
agricultural or stone cutting tools and the megaliths depict a menagerie
of animals carved in stone. And no, they didnot show the sheela na gig
found at the site and I'm told is hidden away.

You'll have to check your local cable listings - but the particular
Ancient Aliens episode had something to do with Unexplained Structures.

Enjoy.

Karen

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Re: Gobekli Tepe on History Channel's Ancient Aliens show

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sat Dec 18, 2010 8:27 pm (PST)




I've been watching some of the episodes, that sounds like it will be a very interesting episode... I'll be looking for it here in my area for t.v. listings.

Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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> From: karentate108@ca.rr.com
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:54:50 -0800
> Subject: [Earthwise] Gobekli Tepe on History Channel's Ancient Aliens show
>
> Greetings,
> I know a lot of us have been interested in the discovery of Gobekli
> Tepe, Turkey and there's been a limited amount of pictures available of
> the site. History Channel is currently running a series called
> Ancient Aliens in which Gobekli Tepe is highlighted.
>
> If you aren't yet aware of this site, only 5% of the site has been
> excavated in the yeast 13 years, so the site has much more yet to
> reveal. The site is 12,000 years old, older than Stonehenge, Egyptian
> Pyramids and 7,000 years older than Mesopotamia. They've found no
> agricultural or stone cutting tools and the megaliths depict a menagerie
> of animals carved in stone. And no, they didnot show the sheela na gig
> found at the site and I'm told is hidden away.
>
> You'll have to check your local cable listings - but the particular
> Ancient Aliens episode had something to do with Unexplained Structures.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Karen
>
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Letter to Goddess....working with the lunar eclipse energies

Posted by: "karentate108" karentate108@ca.rr.com   specialjourn

Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:51 pm (PST)



Letter to Goddess...working with lunar eclipse energies
http://exm.nr/h4WCe3

Whether one calls it a prayer or working a spell, meditation or doing a
positive affirmation for the coming year, writing a Letter to Goddess
will be how I'm personally working with the natural universal energies
brought on by the lunar eclipse, which will occur about 10PM this Monday
night, if you're in California.

Take a look at the above link and feel free to leave your comments.

May the Great She embrace you in her golden wings,

Karen Tate
www.karentate.com

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offended by a posting, write to me at
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Thank you.
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Earthwise is a world wide group.
We are based in Western Sydney, NSW. Australia.
Located in the valley before the beautiful Blue Mountains were
we hold sacred rituals, workshops, social events and outings,
for more information see our calendar of events at Witches Meetup
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