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The Magician’s Tomb | Tree of Visions
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The Magician’s Tomb. October 2, 2015. October 4, 2015. Attached to larger Egyptian temples was the library known as the Per-Ankh the House of Life . Here texts were kept and studied by magician-priests called. The Book of Appeasing Sekhmet, The Book of Magical Protection of the King in his Place, Spells for Warding Off the Evil Eye, The Book of Repelling Crocodiles, The Book of Knowledge of Secrets of the Laboratory, The Book of Knowing the Secret Forms of the God. Fragments of four ivory magical wands c...
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davidgnez | Tree of Visions
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Sacred Kings of Mesopotamia. August 5, 2016. August 5, 2016. Tigris River outside Dyarbakir, Turkey. photo: Bjorn Christian Torrissen. Mesopotamia was inhabited long before the rise of these historical civilizations however. Paleolithic hunter-gatherers lived in the Zagros mountains and sporadically dwelled in the lowlands until the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 BCE. Female statuette from Samarra. 6,000 BCE. Louvre. Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld. History begins at Sumer. Noting that the firs...
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Tree of Visions | magic & shamanism | Page 2
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Vision Quests and Guardian Spirits. June 6, 2015. August 4, 2015. In the last post we discussed. In shamanic as well as magical traditions of Eurasia, the Near-East and Europe. In this post we turn to Native American. Which are used for the purpose of acquiring a personal. Traditionally the vision quest was usually undertaken by pre-teenage or adolescent children as a. Petroglyph–Horsethief Lake, Washington state. Among the Wasco tribe of Oregon, guardian-spirits were known as. Healed by sucking or casti...
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The Mysteries of Osiris | Tree of Visions
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The Mysteries of Osiris. July 4, 2015. July 5, 2015. Osiris as green-skinned god from tomb of Nefertari. In the previous post we looked at the myth of. In which that god was murdered and dismembered by the Titans. The Orphics believed that as a result of this act mankind was created–and we inherited the spark of immortal spirit from Dionysus. It is likely the Greeks borrowed elements of the myth from the story of the Egyptian god. Death and Resurrection of Osiris. Isis with Horus the Child. Who presided ...
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Heka-Egyptian Magic | Tree of Visions
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September 24, 2015. October 1, 2015. In ancient Egypt there was no word for religion the closest thing to it was. Magical power. Heka literally means the activating of the. The magician’s power is extolled:. 8220;The sky quivers, the earth quakes before me, for I am a magician, I possess magic”. Heka holding serpent staffs. Ishtar holding double serpent wand. Terracotta relief, early 2nd millennium BCE. Serpents symbolize fertility, rebirth, and immortality and are associated with. The psycho-spiritual f...
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Etana’s Heavenly Ascent | Tree of Visions
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Etana’s Heavenly Ascent. July 28, 2015. July 28, 2015. Etana and the eagle. Akkadian cylinder seal. In previous posts we discussed the myths of Inanna and Orpheus which feature descents to the underworld. These were compared to shamanistic narratives of journeys to the land of the dead to retrieve souls as well as undergo initiation ordeals. Shamanic lore also speaks of. 8230;Come, let me take you up to heaven,. Put your chest against my chest, Put your hands against my wing feathers,. The land is a hill...
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Tep-Zepi–Prehistoric Roots of Ancient Egypt? | Tree of Visions
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Tep-Zepi–Prehistoric Roots of Ancient Egypt? August 14, 2015. August 15, 2015. 8220;Narmer Palette” showing the king smiting an enemy. 3,100 BCE. The first time believed to be the golden age when the gods lived upon the earth. Was the. A distant memory of their prehistoric ancestry? Alternative historian Robert Bauval in his book. Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt. Budge found numerous similarities between ancient Egyptian and modern African religion and magic: ancestor worship, ven...
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Pharaoh as Shaman | Tree of Visions
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September 2, 2015. September 2, 2015. In this post we continue to explore ancient Egyptian magic looking at possible parallels between the. King Khafre 2,650-2480 BCE. photo: Jon Bodsworth. The Egyptian king, or pharaoh, who served as political and religious leader of his people was believed to be a. He was seen as the incarnation of the deity Horus the son of Osiris and representative of the gods on earth. He was responsible for maintaining. According to philosopher Jeremy Naydler. Rain-maker kings and ...
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Inanna’s Descent | Tree of Visions
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July 16, 2015. July 16, 2015. We previously discussed shamanic initiations which involved visions of descent to the underworld. There the candidate experienced ordeals of death and dismemberment prior to rebirth and attainment of shamanic powers. This age-old drama of spiritual catharsis and transformation has uncanny parallels in the Sumerian myth of. Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld. The oldest recorded myth of a journey to the netherworld, composed sometime between 1900 and 3500 BCE. In the myth of.