Age of Mythology

Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode 10 (Final Episode) "Thor"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:38:00 +0200

Thor

In the 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen records in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor, who Adam describes as "mightiest", sits in the Temple at Uppsala in the center of a triple throne (flanked by Woden and "Fricco") located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. Adam details that "Thor, they reckon, rules the sky; he governs thunder and lightning, winds and storms, fine weather and fertility" and that "Thor, with his mace, looks like Jupiter". Adam details that the people of Uppsala had appointed priests to each of the gods, and that the priests were to offer up sacrifices. In Thor's case, he continues, these sacrifices were done when plague or famine threatened. Earlier in the same work, Adam relays that in 1030 an English preacher, Wulfred, was lynched by assembled Germanic pagans for "profaning" a representation of Thor.

Two objects with runic inscriptions invoking Thor date from the 11th century, one from England and one from Sweden. The first, the Canterbury Charm from Canterbury, England, calls upon Thor to heal a wound by banishing a thurs. The second, the Kvinneby amulet, invokes protection by both Thor and his hammer.
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Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode 9 "Tolkien's Monsters"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:34:00 +0200

Tolkin's Monsters

This Episode is not about mythology of one past civilizations. It's about a combination of many civilizations mythology. Tolkin worlds became very popular and it named according to John Ronald Reuel (J. R. R. Tolkien).

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode 8 "Beowulf"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 8 May 2013 09:46:00 +0200

Beowulf Fighting a Dragon

Beowulf

The main protagonist, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a sword of a giant that he found in her lair.

Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound. He attacks the dragon with the help of his thegns or servants, but they do not succeed. Beowulf decides to follow the dragon into its lair, at Earnanæs, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf dares join him along with Tinshaw. Beowulf finally slays the dragon, but is mortally wounded. He is buried in a tumulus or burial mound, by the sea.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem also begins in medias res ("into the middle of affairs") or simply, "in the middle", which is a characteristic of the epics of antiquity. Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival, Grendel's attacks have been an ongoing event. An elaborate history of characters and their lineages is spoken of, as well as their interactions with each other, debts owed and repaid, and deeds of valour.

Clash of the Gods Season I Espoid:7 Odysseus: Warrior's Revenge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 6 Jan 2013 11:40:00 +0200

Odysseus: Warrior's Revenge

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey portrayed Odysseus as a culture hero, but the Romans, who believed themselves the heirs of Prince Aeneas of Troy, considered him a villainous falsifier. In Virgil's Aeneid, he is constantly referred to as "cruel Odysseus" (Latin "dirus Ulixes") or "deceitful Odysseus" ("pellacis", "fandi fictor"). Turnus, in Aeneid ix, reproaches the Trojan Ascanius with images of rugged, forthright Latin virtues, declaring (in John Dryden's translation), "You shall not find the sons of Atreus here, nor need the frauds of sly Ulysses fear." While the Greeks admired his cunning and deceit, these qualities did not recommend themselves to the Romans who possessed a rigid sense of honour. In Euripides's tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis, having convinced Agamemnon to consent to the sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, Odysseus facilitates the immolation by telling her mother, Clytemnestra, that the girl is to be wed to Achilles. His attempts to avoid his sacred oath to defend Menelaus and Helen offended Roman notions of duty; the many stratagems and tricks that he employed to get his way offended Roman notions of honour

Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode "Odysseus: Curse of the Sea"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 6 Nov 2012 12:35:00 +0200

The Great Series Clash of Gods

Season 1

Odysseus

Episode "Odysseus: Curse of the Sea"

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"Cruel Odysseus"

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey portrayed Odysseus as a culture hero, but the Romans, who believed themselves the heirs of Prince Aeneas of Troy, considered him a villainous falsifier. In Virgil's Aeneid, he is constantly referred to as "cruel Odysseus" (Latin "dirus Ulixes") or "deceitful Odysseus" ("pellacis", "fandi fictor"). Turnus, in Aeneid ix, reproaches the Trojan Ascanius with images of rugged, forthright Latin virtues, declaring (in John Dryden's translation), "You shall not find the sons of Atreus here, nor need the frauds of sly Ulysses fear." While the Greeks admired his cunning and deceit, these qualities did not recommend themselves to the Romans who possessed a rigid sense of honour. In Euripides's tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis, having convinced Agamemnon to consent to the sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, Odysseus facilitates the immolation by telling her mother, Clytemnestra, that the girl is to be wed to Achilles. His attempts to avoid his sacred oath to defend Menelaus and Helen offended Roman notions of duty; the many stratagems and tricks that he employed to get his way offended Roman notions of honour.

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Clash of the Gods Season01 Episode 04 Medusa

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:54:00 +0200

Clash of the Gods

Season01 Episode 04

Medusa

Medusa

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The three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were all children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or Phorkys) and his sister Ceto (or Keto), chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain":
Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged
With snakes for hair— hated of mortal man—
While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born of monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked Medusa".
In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was caught being raped by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned.
In most versions of the story, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus. In his conquest, he received a mirrored shield from Athena, gold, winged sandals from Hermes, a sword from Hephaestus and Hades' helm of invisibility. Medusa was the only one of the three Gorgons who was mortal, so Perseus was able to slay her while looking at the reflection from the mirrored shield he received from Athena. During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a golden sword-wielding giant, sprang from her body.

Viking myth Gods names

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:41:00 +0200

Balder: The Good

Bragi: The God of Poetry and Music

Freyr: God of Fertility

Forseti: The God of Justice

Heimdall: The Guardian of Bifrost

Kvasir: The God of Poetry and Wisdom

Odin: Chief of the Aesir Gods

Thor: The Thunder God

Clash of Gods Season 1 Espoide 4 Minotaur

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:05:00 +0200

The Great Series Clash of Gods

Season 1

Episode Minotaur

Clash of Gods

Minotaur

Before he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos struggled with his brothers for the right to rule. Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of approval by the gods for his reign. He promised to sacrifice the bull as an offering, and as a symbol of subservience. A beautiful white bull rose from the sea, but when Minos saw it, he coveted it for himself. He assumed that Poseidon would not mind, so he kept it and sacrificed the best specimen from his herd instead. When Poseidon learned about the deceit, he made Pasipha, Minos' wife, fall madly in love with the bull. She had Daedalus, the famous architect, make a wooden cow for her. Pasipha climbed into the decoy and fooled the white bull. The offspring of their lovemaking was a monster called the Minotaur.

The creature had the head and tail of a bull on the body of a man. It caused such terror and destruction on Crete that Daedalus was summoned again, but this time by Minos himself. He ordered the architect to build a gigantic, intricate labyrinth from which escape would be impossible. The Minotaur was captured and locked in the labyrinth. Every year for nine years, seven youths and maidens came as tribute from Athens. These young people were also locked in the labyrinth for the Minotaur to feast upon.

When the Greek heroTheseus reached Athens, he learned of the Minotaur and the sacrifices, and wanted to end this. He volunteered to go to Crete as one of the victims. Upon his arrival in Crete, he metAriadne, Minos's daughter, who fell in love with him. She promised she would provide the means to escape from the maze if he agreed to marry her. When Theseus did, she gave him a simple ball of thread, which he was to fasten close to the entrance of the maze. He made his way through the maze, while unwinding the thread, and he stumbled upon the sleeping Minotaur. He beat it to death and led the others back to the entrance by following the thread

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Clash of Gods Season 1 Espoide 2 Herclues

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 May 2012 17:02:00 +0200

The Great Series Clash of Gods

Season 1

Episode 2 Herclues

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Clash of Gods Season 1 Espoide 1 Zeus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:13:00 +0200

The Great Series Clash of Gods

Season 1

Episode 1 Zeus

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Clash of Gods Zeus

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Anceint Greek Godsses Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:13:00 +0200

This is the second part of the last Video (Anceint Greek Gods Tales)

This movie is talking about Gods in ancient Greek and tells us the story the ancient Greeks believed in.

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Bastet - God Protector of Cats

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:10:00 +0200

Bastet

Daughter of Ra

Bastet - Protector of Cats
Cat or head of a cat

she also called as Bast, goddess of cats. She was imagined as a human with head of a cat, but originally she had the head of a lion.
Every day, Ra would travel in his ship. Every night the snake Apep would to his journey through the underworld. Ra was usually won these battles. However, on stormy days, or during an eclipse, the Egyptians believed that Apep had been victorious and swallowed the sun. Bastet defended her father Ra against the snake.

Bastet was the protector of cats. The Ancient Egyptians had a great respect for cats since they protected the grain from mice and rats, which can also cause disease. Killing a cat was punishable by death. When a cat died, the family mourned it, shaving their eyebrows to mark their sadness. Cats were sometimes mummified, like people, and their mummies have been found.

Ancient Greek Gods Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:52:00 +0200

This is a great short movie talking about Gods in ancient Greek and tells us the story the ancient Greeks believed in.

Ancient Egyptian Gods Tales

This is a good video about the ancient Greek Gods. It's Cool for who wants to know about ancient Greek Mythology

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Chinese Methology

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:21:00 +0200

Chinese Dragon

People worshiped many different gods in ancient China. Some of these gods have been worshipped since the Shang Dynasty (about 2000 BC). Others became popular later on.

Some of these gods are representations of the weather or natural forces like the sun or the moon or the rain. For instance, the goddess Ba, the daughter of Heaven, is a personification of drought (she's the human form of drought). Yu-huang is a sky god, and Fei Lian and Feng Po Po are wind gods. Lei-Kung and Lei-zi are the gods of thunder and lightning. Heng O is the moon goddess. Gong gong is the god of disastrous floods. Han is the god of the Han river - there were many such minor gods, each responsible for a particular river or mountain. Hou Ji is the god of millet, an important food in northern China.

Sometimes people made abstract ideas into gods, like Cai-shen, the god of prosperity, who you could pray to for success in business, for instance. Fan-kui is the god of butchers, and Sun-pi is the god of cobblers (shoe-makers). Fu-xing is the god of happiness, and Gong De Tian is the goddess of luck. Wei-tuo is the god of teaching.

Ancient Greek Gods & Godesses

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:21:00 +0200

Ancient Greek Gods

The myth of Ancient Greece has a very interesting story about human existence, with iconic gods and goddesses who controlled the destiny of the mortals. Ancient Greeks thought that their powers come from forces of nature that were referred to as Titans in Hesiod’s epic Theogony. It said that they are the first twelve children of Uranus (Father Sky) and Gaea (Mother Earth). The Titans were elemental rather than human; however their story is filled with more passion, greed, heroism, and violence than a modern day drama

The image below is the family tree of the Olympic Gods.

Tree of Family of Greek Gods

Let's try to sail in their stories and try to live the drama which was created be Greek minds.

Zeus Father of Olympic

ZUES (FATHER OF GREEK GODS)

Zues (Father of Greek gods)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:25:00 +0200

He is The Father of Greek gods & men. He is a sky god, He’s power to control Thunder & Lightning, which he uses as a weapon. He is the king of Olympus Mountain (home of Greek gods). Greeks also thought that he is the father of Greek heroes. Zeus mated with many mortals and goddesses but is married to his sister Hera (Juno).

Cronus sired several children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own son as he had overthrown his own father— an oracle that Zeus was to hear and avert. But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.

RA (Sun God)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:45:00 +0200

Ancient Egyptians looked to Ra as The King of Gods and imagined him as a falcon crowned with a disk (The Sun).

Ra sailed across heavens in a boat 'Barque of Millions of Years'. At the end of everyday he thought to die and sailed on his night voyage through the Underworld, leaving the Moon to light the world. The boat would sail through the twelve doors, representing the twelve hours of night-time. The next dawn, he was born again.

The Jaurney was not always smooth sailing. Ra had to fight his chief enemy, Apep which was a snake. Ra was helped aslo by the other gods, such as Seth and Bastet.

Often there is a cobra round sun disk on his head . This cobra appears on the forehead of Pharaohs.

Ra was the greatest of the gods and he kept his power in his secret name, which only he knew. He had started to grow old, and sometimes he dribbled. Isis collected some of his saliva and made it into a snake. She hid the snake where Ra would walk. When Ra trod on it, it bit him, and Ra screamed in pain. All the gods gathered round, but none could heal him. Isis said "If you tell me your secret name, this will give me enough magic power to heal you." Ra didn't want to do this, but eventually the pain was so bad that he had to. Isis healed him, and ever since then she has the magic powers that Ra had

Anceint Egyptian Gods

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RA God of Sun

Bastet

Bastet God of Cats

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Name Gods of Lower Egypt

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:56:00 +0300

Name Gods of Lower Egypt

#	Name (English)	Name (Egyptian)	Location	Capital	God
1	White Wall	Aneb-Hetch	Memphis area	Memphis	Ptah Sokar Apis
2	Foreleg	Khensu	Southwest Delta apex	Letopolis	Horus Kherty
3	West	Ament	Northwest Delta flanking Libyan desert	Apis	Hathor
4	Southern Shield	Sapi-res	Southwest Delta	Tceqa	Neith Sobek Isis Amon
5	Northern Shield	Sap-meh	Sais area to coast	Sais	Neith
6	Mountain Bull	Kaset	Mid-Delta to coast	Xois	Re Amon-Re
7	Western Harpoon	Ament	Northwest Delta along Rosetta branch of the Nile	Senti-nefert	Ha
8	Eastern Harpoon	Abt	East Delta along Wadi Tummilat to Bitter Lakes	Succoth	Atum
9	Andjety	Ati	Mid-Delta to Busiris	Busiris	Osiris
10	Black Ox	Ka-qem	Southeast Delta around Athribis	Athribis	Horus
11	Ox-count	Ka-heseb	Mid-east Delta	Cabasus	Shu Tefnut Mihos Isis
12	Calf and Cow	Theb-ka	Northeast Delta from Sebennytos to coast	Sebennytos	Onuris
13	Prospering Sceptre	Heq-at	South-east Delta apex	Heliopolis	Atum Iusaas Mnevis Re
14	Foremost of the East	Khent-abt	East frontier Delta to Pelusium beyond modern Port Said	Sile	Seth Horus
15	Ibis	Tehut	Northeast Delta along Damietta branch of the Nile	Hermopolis	Thoth
16	Fish	Kha?	Northeast Delta from Mendes to coast	Mendes	Banebdjedet Hatmehyt
17	Behdet	Sam-behutet	Northeast Delta coast west of Damietta branch of the Nile	Diospolis	Horus-Behdety Amon-Re
18	Prince of the South	Am-khent	Northeast Delta around Bubastis	Bubastis	Bastet
19	Prince of the North	Am-pehu	Northeast Delta incorporating Tanis	Tanis	Wadjet
20	Plumed Falcon of Sopedu	Sept	Northeast Delta above Wadi Tummilat	Qesem	Sopdet

Name Gods of Upper Egypt

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:53:00 +0300

Name Gods of Upper Egypt

#	Name (English)	Name (Egyptian)	Location	Capital	God
1		Ta-Sety	First Cataract of the Nile to Gebel el-Silsila	Elephantine	Isis at Philae Khnemu Satet Anuket Harsiesis Sobek
2	Throne of Horus	Thes-hor	Edfu area	Apollinopolis Magna	Horus-Behdety
3	Shrine	Ten	Hierakonoplis to north of Esna	Nekheb / Esna	Horus of Nekhen Nekhebet Khnemu Menhyt Neith
4	Sceptre	Uast	Armant and the Theban area	Thebes	Amon Mut Khonsu Montu Sobek
5	Two Falcons	Herui	Area around Koptos	Koptos	Min Seth
6	Crocodile	Aa-ta	Most of the east to west bend of the Nile	Dendera	Hathor
7	Sistrum	Seshesh	The Nile's return to its South-North direction around Nag Hammadi	House of Horus	Bat Hathor
8	Great Land	Abt	Area around Abydos	Abydos / This	Khentamentiu Osiris Onuris
9	Min	Min	Area around Akhmim	Apu	Min
10a, 10b?	Cobra	Uatchet	North of Qaw el-Kebir	Aphroditopolis	Seth of Tjebu Mihos Hathor
11	Seth	Set	Smallest nome in Egypt on west bank of Nile near Deir Rifa	Hypsele	Seth Khnemu
12	Viper Mount	Tu-f	East bank of Nile around Deir el-Gebrawi opposite Asyut	Antaeopolis	Anti Horus
13	Upper Sycamore and Viper	Atef-khent	West bank of Nule around Asyut	Lycopolis	Wepwawet Anubis
14	Lower Sycamore and Viper	Atef-pehu	Vicinity of Meir and Cusae	Cusae	Hathor
15	Hare	Un	Area around el-Ashmunein and Antinopolis, including el-Amarna	Hermopolis	Thoth The Ogdoad Aten
16	Oryx	Meh-mahetch	From Beni Hasan to north of el-Minya	Hipponon	Pakhet Horus
17	Jackal	Anpu	Vicinity of Samalut	Cynopolis	Anubis
18	Anti	Sep	East bank of Nile including el-Hiba to opposite el-Lahun	Alabastronpolis	Anti Seth
19	TwoSceptres	Uab	West bank of Nile from el-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Biba	Oxyrhynchus	Seth
20	Southern Sycamore	Atef-khent	West bank of Nile around Benu Suef	Herakleopolis Magna	Heryshaf Khnemu Her-shefi
21	Northern Sycamore	Atef-pehu	West bank of Nile around el-Wasta and Meidum	Ermen-hert	Khnemu
22	Knife	Maten	Northernmost nome of Upper Egypt stretching along east desert from Atfih towards Memphis	Aphroditopolis	Hathor

Egyptian Symols

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:22:00 +0300

	It's known that the ancient Egyptians took their language from their environment They took some symbols to record all they need with their own language. Adoration (dua) - "dore"
	Akh (akh) - "Effectiveness"
	Ankh (ankh) - "Life"
	Ba (ba) - "Soul"
	Baboon (ian) - "Sun", "Moon"
	Basket (nebet) - "All", "Lord"
	Bow (iunet, pedjet) - "Enemies"
	Brazier (khet) - "Fire"
	Cartouche (shenu) - "Sun", "Pharaoh"
	Cobra (iaret)
	Colors
	Djed Column (djed) - "Stability"
	Ear (mesedjer) - "Hearing"
	Eye of Horus (udjat, wadjet) - "Sun"
	Feather (shut) - "Truth"
	Gold (nebu) - "Tomb"
	Headrest (weres) - "Sun"
	Heart (ieb) - "Soul"
	Ka (ka) - "Conscience"
	Knife (des)
	Knot of Isis (tiet) - "Life"
	Lapwing (rekhyt) - "Peoples"
	Lotus (seshen) - "Lower Egypt"
	Menet Necklace (menet)
	Mountain (djew)
	Nefer (nefer) - "Beauty"
	Palace Wall (serekh) - "King's Home"
	Papyrus (mehyt) - "Upper Egypt"
	Phoenix (benu) - "Sun"
	Pool (she) - "Water"
	Praise (henu) - "Praise"
	Sa (sa) - "Protection"
	Sail (hetau) - "Breath"
	Scarab beetle (kheper) - "Sun"
	Sekhem Scepter (sekhem) - "Power", "Might"
	Senet Board Game (senet)
	Shen Ring (shenu) - "Eternity"
	Sistrum (sesheshet) - "Placation"
	Sky (pet) - "Sky"
	Star (seba) - "Afterlife"
	Swallow (menet) - "Souls"
	Tree (nehet) - "Life", "Rising Sun"
	Vulture (neret)
	Was Scepter (was) - "Power"
	West (imenet) - "Afterlife"

Sekhmet the Goddess of Vengence and Hathor the Goddess of Love

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:00:00 +0300

The lioness-headed Egyptian goddess, Sekhmet. Sekhmet(AKA Sekhmet, Sakhmet, or Sekhmet the Destroyer)is the Goddess of sunset, destruction, death, rebirth and wisdom. She is also sometimes defined as a warrior or huntress goddess. Worship of Sekhmet was centered in Memphis.

When Ra rose from the mists, he created night and day, and Apophis, the Dragon of Evil formed in the darkness of the night vapours and tried to spoil all that was bright and good

. Apophis was the enemy of the good rule of Ra as Pharaoh, and as Ra grew old, Apophis reached into the hearts of the people of Egypt and many followed his false promises of power and rebelled against Ra.
Ra called a counsel of his children, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut and Hapi. He also called on Nun who ruled the spirit of the primeval waters. And he asked them all what he should do about the evil among the people of Egypt.

"They gather in Upper Egypt to go greater evil even as we meet here," he said. "Should I strike them all down with a burning glance of my all-seeing Eye?"
Nun, the eldest, spoke first. "Pharaoh do not turn your eye upon Egypt, for you will destroy every being and every thing. Destroy only the evil men and women and spare the good."
Ra nodded and spoke the word Sekhmet and a mighty lioness sprang into the counsel circle. She circled the floor and finally stopped in front of the throne of Ra. For many moments Sekhmet looked at the face of Ra, then she twitched her tail and turned and leapt out of the circle and sped to Upper Egypt.

The mighty jaws and claws of Sekhmet slaughtered the evil doers in Upper Egypt until the Nile ran red with their blood. Her hunger was endless and every day she stalked the men and women of Upper Egypt, and hid by night licking her paws and dreaming of new prey in the coming morning.
But Ra did not want to destroy mankind, only the evildoers. He decided to trick Sekhmet to stop her slaughter, but said, "I will not humble her for she has done what I asked, but I will give her a far greater power over men so that she will not be dishonoured." But first he had to catch her.
So to trap Sekhmet he sent messengers to Elephantine Island at the First Cataract of the Nile, telling them to bring red ochre.
He sent the ochre to Heliopolis to the priest of the Temple of the Sun, Ra's temple. He commanded the priests and all the royal court to make beer and to mingle it with the red ochre so that it was red as blood.
"Quickly, carry the blood red beer to Upper Egypt and spread it on the land to trap Sekhmet," commanded Ra.

When Sekhmet came out in the morning to feast on the wicked, she saw no men, but instead saw what looked like pools of blood spread over the land.
She found she was thirsty and she drank the blood until she was drunk and helpless. And Ra called to her, "Come my pretty one," and she staggered down the Nile to Heliopolis.
Ra met her and lay his hand on her head, "Sekhmet, you have come in peace, so peace be with you, and a new name.You will no longer be Sekhmet the Slayer; you will be Hathor the Lady of Love. You will no longer rule man by terror, but will rule them by the passion of love. For Love is stronger than Hate and Terror, and all men will grow weak with love and be in your power."
"And I decree that on the first day of every year that the priestesses of love will mix the ochre of Elephantine with the beer of Heliopolis at a great festival to Hathor."
And the evil of Apophis was stopped and the bittersweet gift of love was bestowed on mankind.

Huangdi (Yellow Emperor)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:49:00 +0300

Huangdi (Yellow Emperor) and Yandi (Yan Emperor) are generally regarded as the ancestors of the Huaxia race. His surname is Ji and he is called Xuanyuan. He is the son of Shaodian.

It is believed there were many tribes settled down near Yellow River and engaged in farming about 4,000 years ago. Huangdi was the chief of a large tribe lived around Ji River. As the legend goes, at that time, Yan Emperor disturbed the other tribes in the region and Yellow Emperor defeated Yan Emperor at Banquan. Later the tribes lead by Huangdi killed Chiyou, a troublemaker, who was the chief of a large tribe in the east. Then he became the leader of all the tribes.

It is also believed there were many inventions originated from the time of Yellow Emperor, such as characters, ships and carts, medicines, music, sericiculture and some daily utensils. Thus Huangdi was said to be the founder of Chinese civilization.
Huangdi is also regarded as the central god among the five gods in the heaven in Chinese mythology.

Chinese Ghosts

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:26:00 +0300

There are many ghosts in Chinese culture. Ghosts have been believed and worshipped by Chinese for a few thousand years. Even Confucius said, "Respecting ghosts and gods, but away from them."
Many people believe ghosts, yet many don't. Chinese people often say, "If you believe it, there will be, but if you don't, there will not." Here is a story about this saying.
Zhuxi was a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279). He believed there were no ghosts in the world, so he decided to write an essay "No Ghost." It was said he was a great sage so even ghosts were afraid of him. If he said no ghosts, ghosts could no longer exist. When ghosts knew he was writing the essay, they gathered together to discuss this and decided to send the smartest ghost to entreat him abandon the writing.
So one night, the smartest ghost appeared at Zhuxi's desk and kowtowed towards Zhuxi repeatedly. Zhuxi was surprised and asked:

"Where comes the ghost? How dare you disturbing me at night." "Yes, I am a ghost, but ..." "Why don't you leave and why do you come in my study room?" "I am here to entreat ..." replied the ghost. "People are in the Yang world and ghosts are in the Yin world. We are in the different worlds so there are no way I can help you." "I have very important things to entreat you, Sir." "Ok, say it!"

Then the ghost told Zhuxi the reason and beg him to abandon the writing to save them. Zhuxi laughed and said:

"You, the ghosts have been worshipped in the human world for so long. Isn't the time for you go away all together." "We also have good and bad ghosts..." "Well, I heard you can do anything. Can you move me to the outside?" "Certainly, Sir."

Zhuxi was moved to the outside instantly without even noticing it. Zhuxi was astonished by the ability of ghosts, but was unwilling to say it. Then he asked again,

"You can move my body. Can you move my heart?" "That is impossible to do, Sir." "But we can move things or a person's body so that it proves we exist." "We exist in illusion. If you believe it, there will be, but if you don't, there will not." "Can you say something like that in your essay, Sir?"

Zhuxi felt the words did have some merits so he promised the ghost he would do that. The ghost left happily. Therefore, Zhuxi wrote the words, under the title of the no ghost essay, "If you believe it, there will be, but if you don't, there will not."