:Helrúnar:

April 1st.

Mushhushshu — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:58:40 +0000

Normally I am not a fan of April 1st pranks and jokes, but this one got a chuckle

That Great Old One

March 18th

Mushhushshu — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0000

On this day:

Year 37: The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.

Year 1227: The death of Pope Honorius III who wrote The Great Grimoire of Pope Honorius III

Year 1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.

The Return…

Mushhushshu — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:26:18 +0000

It has been a long time since my last post. Many circumstances led to this break from Helrúnar.

My personal Work with the Mesopotamian Mysteries and the book I am currently working on can be followed at www.e-abzu.blogspot.com

Helrúnar will continue to be general musings on initiation, authors, mythology and whatever inspires me in my life.

But please check out my new blog about my Magnum Opus that is the Mesopotamian Mysteries and Tradition.

Walpurgisnacht

Mushhushshu — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:10:06 +0000

Walpurgisnacht is also known as Hexennacht and Witches’ Night, and is commonly referred to as the night where the witches dance at bonfires at hilltops and flies on their brooms to Blocksberg in Northern Germany to meet and hold revels with their gods. Or at least that is what Christianity has told us for many years, transforming the night into one of their tools in controlling the flock.

Walpurgisnacht has origins in Northern Tradition, and is an important night for the vitki. In reality, Walpurgis Night begins on April 22nd and concludes on April 30th at the stroke of midnight. The nine days from April 22nd till April 30th symbolize the nine days of Odin hanging on the tree to learn the secrets of the Runes. On the ninth day, Walpurgisnacht, he falls, grasps the Runes and Remanifest. The first stroke at midnight is the second where he grasps the Runes. In that very second Cosmos collapses and only Chaos reigns. The Gate to Hel is open and the dead can roam Midgard on this night. At the next stroke he Remanifest and Cosmos returns in an altered state. The people of Scandinavia celebrated the Remanifestation of Odin by bonfires on hilltops and Walpurgisnacht was a night of celebration. The next day, May 1st, is the Day of Light. Mayday is a day of celebration for the new Being of Odin.

Zoroasters birthday

Mushhushshu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:34:05 +0000

March 26th is Zoroasters birthday.

This I ask you, O Ahura, tell me truly: Of what kind is the first (stage) of Best Existence? The desired one who implements it so that we may enjoy benefit, that one indeed, holy through truth, watching with His spirit the outcome left for all, is the healer of existence, (our) ally, (you), O Mazda.

- Gathas

Ides of March

Mushhushshu — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:46:14 +0000

March 15th is the Ides of March, a festive day dedicated to the god March. It is also the day Julius Caesar was assassinated, in the year 44 BCE.

Synchronicity

Mushhushshu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:16:12 +0000

A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeud beetle, the common rose-chafer, which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since.

- Carl Jung

Quote of the Day VII

Mushhushshu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:01:11 +0000

Suppose you were told that there was a tiger in the next room: you would know that you were in danger and would probably feel fear. But if you were told “There is a ghost in the next room,” and believed it, you would feel, indeed, what is often called fear, but of a different kind. It would not be based on the knowledge of danger, for no one is primarily afraid of what a ghost may do to him, but of the mere fact that it is a ghost. It is “uncanny” rather than dangerous, and the special kind of fear it excites may be called Dread. With the Uncanny one has reached the fringes of the Numinous. Now suppose that you were told simply “There is a might spirit in the room” and believed it. Your feelings would then be even less like the mere fear of danger: but the disturbance would be profound. You would feel wonder and a certain shrinking–described as awe, and the object which excites it is the Numinous.

Quote of the Day VI

Mushhushshu — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:58:06 +0000

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

- Wernher von Braun

Winter Solstice

Mushhushshu — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:29:26 +0000