Andraste, according to Dio Cassius, was a Celtic goddess thanked by Boudica while fighting against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 61. She is mentioned only once. She may be the same as Andante, mentioned later by the same source, and described as ‘their name for Victory’, i.e. the Goddess Victoria. [1].
Some Celtic coins are said to show images of Andraste.
by Cyril Korolev
In Russian folklore Alyosha Popovitch is an epic hero, a mighty warrior and a trickster. Unlike Ilya Muromets and Dobrynya Nikititch and other heroes, who served prince Vladimir of Kiev, protected borders of old Russia and fought with various monsters, Alyosha won battles not by his physical superiority but by insidious tricks. He was always ready to play mischievous pranks on his friends too. Once, when Dobrynya went far away, Alyosha came to Dobrynya’s wife and told her that her husband was dead and that she should marry him. She rejected him, and afterwards Dobrynya beat Alyosha to death.
Parts 6 to 15 – Basic Structures
Perhaps the most important task of interpreting a chart is to derive its basic structures. Once you know these basic structures, you have done in a matter of minutes the task that takes a psychologist a few hours of elaborate testing, … and more!
You do the structuring by means of categorizing. For instance, it makes a significant difference whether most planets are above the horizon at the time of birth or whether they are below the horizon.
May we walk upon this earth once again,
Once again beneath the same blue sky.
Then may our lives again entertwine,
And may we remember, you and I.
by Dr Anthony E. Smart
One of the ancestral snakes of the Binbinga people of northern Australia, Bobbi-Bobbi once sent a number of flying foxes for men to eat, but these bats escaped. So the snake, underground, watching, threw one of his ribs up, where the men on the ground received it and, using it as a boomerang, slew the bats and cooked them. Later they used the boomerang to make a hole in the sky, and Bobbi-Bobbi, angered, took back his rib, dragging down into his mouth two young men who had tried to hold onto the boomerang.
by Dr Anthony E. Smart
Chief West Semitic goddess of love and war, the sister and helpmate of the god Baal (Bel). Once she slayed all his enemies at a feast. She is a goddess with four differing aspects: mother, virgin, warrior, and wanton. Though a “mother” she was ever a “virgin”. Her lust for blood, and or sex, was legendary. She was worshipped throughout Canaan, Syria and Phoenicia. She was a popular goddess of war and fertility. She was largely syncretized with Asherah and Astarte, and so there is some confusion as to her myths and relationship to other deities of the area.
by Aldis Putelis
The Latvian word for “mother” and used to form the names of some sixty (some sources give the number seventy) Latvian deities. They are different and the ease with what they have been created lead to a conclusion that it has been a pattern at some time, assuming that there is a Mother for every thing and activity. Some of them have quite clear descriptions and functions (as Veja mate – Mother of Winds, Zemes mate – Mother of Soil/Land, Velu mate – Mother of the Dead Souls (veli), etc.), the others are mentioned just
a couple of times or even just once.
Witch's Well 