Goddess of fate. Pre-Homeric Greek. According to Hesiod, one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. One of an ancient trio of MOIRAI with LACHESIS and KLOTHO. She is responsible for the final part of a mortal life, the unturning inevitability of death, and she is depicted holding a pair of scales. The name of the plant Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) derives from her.
They come two in one
One melting of two lights
Dark to light to one
Moon to Sun, Mother-to-Father
They come full force as one
They come fire to water
World unspoken to a shouting force
Tornado manifesting the unseen
Face of wax melting to steel
Iron fist hiding velvet
Soft to hard, water to rock
Earth to wind, Love to Hate
One equal power to many sides
Twisting to one fate, destiny
Love the great force unseen
Invisible glue of all matter
Come and going into being
From nowhere to the seen
From evesight to oblivion
Tunnel without light beckoning
I call forth the fire
I call forth the water
I call forth the visible
I call forth the unseen
One Power. One Force. One Love
Falling thru Time
Time mirror of illusion.
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.” — C.G. Jung
There Once was a time when Wild Magick was free,
Where everything existed and ceased to be,
Where Gods and Goddesses ruled the Earth,
And with their knowledge gave Birth,
Now dark times call once again,
A hero is needed to stop the Pain,
The world is dying because of us,
Now we must learn to wish and trust,
We must re-awaken magick forgot,
And loosen the world from its shackled knot,
Remember the Old ways and follow the lines,
Bring forth the past of olden times,
With their knowledge the Earth shall have life,
Without it nothing but pain and strife,
Don’t ignore the warnings of fate,
Act now I charge you before it’s too late.
Continue reading “A Warning”
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
Opheltes was the son of the Nemean king Lycurgus and his wife Eurydice. He became a well-known hero for his tragic fate, which was caused by his nurse Hypsipyle.
Hypsipyle, who was previously the queen of the island Lemnos, was a slave of Lycurgus in charge of his son Opheltes. One day, when she was walking in the meadows with Opheltes in her arms, she met the seven Argive generals in their march against Thebes. They asked her to show a water-spring for lest their thirst. Hypsipyle put the child in the grass where wild celery was growing, and guided them to a spring hidden in the forest. During her absence a large snake came out from the brushes and crawled around Opheltes neck, strangling him. The soldiers and Hypsipyle returned too late, and found the boy already dead. Lycurgus wanted to kill Hypsipyle but one of the soldiers protected her against his anger.
by Aldis Putelis
Laima is the deity of fate, the personification of it, whether as luck or as bad luck. The name is similar to laime – “luck”, with both grammatical variants traceable in the folklore material. The name of this deity also differs in different sources. She assists childbirth, therefore is honored by both maidens and married wives, controls the most important events of a person’s life, such as birth, marriage and death. As a person may mention or even condemn the respective Laime, it may be understood that the concept 1) was in stage of turning into a synonym for liktenis – ‘fate’, 2) this deity is understood as opposable, although the judgment cannot be affected in any way. One of the first appearances of Laima in a document is again Paul Einhorn’s Historia Lettica (1649).
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