*Amber*

*Amber may be used to increase vitality, motivation, and creativity. It is a powerful amulet when worn for protection, especially when carved into the shape of your totem animal.
*Wear amber to attract warm, loyal, and generous people into your life; or carry amber on your person to lend logic or wit to a difficult situation.
*Mixed with turquoise, amber is reminiscent of Sky Father or the sun in the sky. This combination if energies may be used successfully to quiet the mind and calm the nervous system.

Fish

To see fish swimming in your dream, signifies insights from your unconscious mind. Thus to catch a fish, represents insights which have been brought to the surface.

 

Alternatively, a fish swimming in your dream may symbolize conception. Some women dream of swimming fish when they get pregnant. The fish is also an ancient symbol of Christianity and Christian beliefs. Consider also the common phrases “like a cold fish”, “fish out of water” or something that is “fishy” about a situation. It may also imply a slippery or elusive situation.

Bear

To see a bear in your dream, symbolizes independence, the cycle of life, death and renewal. It may signal of period of introspection and thinking. The dream may also be a pun on “bare”. Perhaps you need to bare your soul and let everything out into the open.

Alligator

Aggression, survival, adaptability. Cunning, deceptive.
To see an alligator in your dream, symbolizes treachery, deceit, and hidden instincts. It may be a signal for you to take a new perspective on a situation. It may also represent your ability to move between the material world of waking life and the emotional, repressed world of the unconscious. Alternatively, the alligator represents healing powers and qualities. An alligator also suggests that you are thick-skinned or insensitive.

Erichthonius

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D.

 

Erichthonius – the Athenian mythical king  According to the tradition the parents of Erichthonius were Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithies and Gaia, the goddess of the earth. Apollodoros was describing a story about Hephaestus and his strange encounter with Athena, when he tried to rape her. He was not successful, but from sperma-impregnated earth Erichthonius was born. Because Gaia did not like such a situation, she did not want this child and so Athena took care of Erichthonius. She brought him within a closed basket into the sanctuary of the Athenian Acropolis and insisted to her priestesses – Aglauros, Herse and Pandrosos, the daughters of the first Athenian king Cecrops – not to open the basket.

Dievturiba

by Aldis Putelis

 
A recent Latvian religious system belonging to the group of the so-called “new religions” and neo-paganism.
Established in 1925 by a group of artists and men of letters. The system is based on Latvian folklore, mainly folksong texts, using also the data of other genres and much comparative material. It is claimed that this is the actual ancient religion of Latvians, having preserved much of the original Indo-European ritual and mythology, as well as culture and worldview. It is admitted that it is re-organized for more convenience in
modern situation.