En Aura (1962), la novela del escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes, los
personajes se desdoblan especularmente unos en otros (Consuelo en Aura; Aura en
el conejo llamado Saga).
La anciana Consuelo Llorente tiene por mascota a una coneja (o liebre).
"De la garganta abotonada de la anciana surgirá ese cacareo sordo:
- ¿No le gustan los animales?
- No. No particularmente. Quizás porque nunca he tenido uno.
- Son buenos amigos, buenos compañeros. Sobre todo cuando llegan la
vejez y la soledad.
- Si. Así debe ser.
- Son seres naturales, señor Montero. Seres sin tentaciones.
- ¿Cómo dijo que se llamaba?
- ¿La coneja? Saga. Sabia. Sigue sus instintos. Es natural y libre.
- Creí que era conejo.
- Ah, usted no sabe distinguir todavía.
- Bueno, lo importante es que no se sienta usted sola."
The earliest word in Western literature to indicate a Witch is the Greek word pharmakis, which means a person possessing the knowledge of plants (particularly the drugs extracted from them). The modern English word pharmacist is derived from this Greek root word. The etymology strongly suggests that early Witches appear to have been essentially herbalists.
In later times the Latin word saga replaced pharmakis. Saga indicated a person who performed acts of divination or fortune-telling (seer). The modern word sage is derived from the Latin word saga.
This was later changed by the Romans to the word
venefica, misunderstood today to mean one who uses poisons, but, as will shortly become clear,
venefica actually indicated one who prepared love potions. The root word for
venefica is the same as that for the word 'venereal', derived from the Latin
vene, indicating a relationship to Venus. Another example of the benign
vene root connection is the word 'venerate', meaning 'to regard with heartfelt deference'. In the book
Phases of the Religion in Ancient Rome (University of California Press, 1932) by Cyril Bailey, the scholar mentions that Venus was originally a deity of gardens and vines, the cultivator (NA) - before being perverted by the Catholic Church into a Pagan deity of sex, lust and promiscuity, she was a vegetation deity and also a fertility goddess (her offspring can be ideas, crafts, etc.) -. Putting this together, we have Venus as a Goddess of plants and the Latin word
venefica (replacing the Greek
pharmakis used to indicate one knowledgeable in plants), which all suggests that early Witches were in some fashion associated with the Goddess Venus, if only in their dealings with love potions. There may well be more to this, however, for indeed many centuries later (1375 C.E.) a woman named Gabrina Albetti is convicted of practicing Witchcraft after confessing to going out at night, removing her clothing, and worshipping the brightest star in the sky (which would actually have been the planet Venus). - Raven Grimassi, author and lecturer.
-Sources:
Also:
Raven Grimassi - Author and Lecturer: My View on Italian Witchcraft
As we have previously seen, we find
the exact Venus Sun conjunction at the Libra Full Moon, Full Moon in Libra, Moon Libra Sun Aries (Libra/Aries axis or Venus/Mars axis), April's Full Moon, Spring Moon, Vernal Equinox Full Moon, Ostara Moon, Paschal Full Moon, Pink Moon (this Full Moon
heralds the appearance of the moss pink or wild ground phlox, one of the
first Spring flowers), Fish Full Moon (because this was the time when the shad swam upstream to spawn. Going out in search of earth worms or Night Crawlers coming to the surface to use for bait for fishing season used to be a typical activity at this time of the year), Sprouting Grass Full Moon, Budding Trees Full Moon, Egg Moon, the Hare Moon... the Lil Robin Moon (following the March's Worm Moon, the last full moom of winter according to the Farmer's Almanac. Earthworms begin to appear as the earth warms up, and they boost the arrival of the lil robin, which symbolises the arrival of spring)... whatever this Full Moon is called in the different native traditions through the passing years, centuries and millenniums due to its special astral moment and unique characteristics, signaling the beginning of the New Lunar Year in the past, before the imprecise Gregorian calendar was imposed, it is always
the first Full Moon after the Vernal (Spring) Equinox (officially marked on March 21, but actually happening at some point between March 19-23) - the Church of course doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they plant their Easter holiday on the first Sunday, after the first Full Moon, after the Vernal Equinox. In case you had wondered why Easter moves all around the calendar each year, now you know.
http://deoxy.org/time/sabbats/03-20.htm
Within this larger
historical context, the Christian (Roman Catholic Church) celebration of Easter can be seen as an
adaptation of a much more ancient fertility rite celebrating the paired
movement and conjunction of Venus with the Sun. In the Hindu Vedas (the four oldest Sanskrit books or scriptures of Hinduism; Sanskrit véda वेद, "knowledge"), the same trinity is found as the Sun God Indra, the Venusian pair Vena-Shukra and the Earth-Moon Goddesses Kali-Candi. The Sun, Venus, Moon and Earth deities lived as a hierarchy on Mount Meru (or Sumeru).
The planet Venus has
been the prime feminine archetype for God and fertility across many cultures
and religions. She was personified as Shukra in the Indian Vedas, Inana in
ancient Sumer, Ishtar in Assyria and Babylonia, Isis in Egypt, Lilith in
ancient Israel, Astarte or Aphrodite to the Greeks, Freyja to to Nordics,
Quetzalcoatal to the Maya and Venus to the Romans. In every case, Venus
was considered the goddess of love, beauty and music and was often associated
with a 5-pointed star or pentagram. The reason for this association is found in
the astronomical fact that Venus traces out a pentagonal rose pattern in the
sky as seen from Earth over an 8-year period. In ancient times, this
orbital pentagram of Venus was very well known and deeply revered. It was
called the Morning Star. It was this pentagonal
star that was the most likely source for Venus' attributes of love, beauty and
music. It offered hope and an undisputable proof of order and divine
intelligence in the cosmos. After all, how could anyone think life is random
and meaningless when the same star is found in the seed pattern of an apple,
the five petals of a rose and even their own anatomy?
Ostara Witch. The pentagram in the Witch's Hat heralds the Eostara, and children still dress up as witches at Easter for the Pagan traditions in some Northern European countries such as Sweden
Long before the
Greeks, Indian shaman described the star in theological terms as the Sun
inseminating the orbital pattern of Venus, giving birth to the World Egg. The World Egg, also called the Cosmic Egg, is the idea that the Earth is inside a giant egg. Early philosophers may have deduced this from the relative sizes of the Earth and the Moon, which can fit together inside the geometrical proportions of a common hen's egg.
http://www.tokenrock.com/secret_resonance/vedic_musical_cosmology.php
http://www.academia.edu/661338/Evidence_of_Vedic_Cosmology_and_Harmonic_Science_in_the_Pyramid_Civilization_of_Ancient_Bosnia
“A red light breaks
over the horizon. Slowly and surely, a golden shaft creeps over the hills, with
a quivering wind at its footsteps. The goddess of dawn arouses the hills by
breathing life into it. It is as though the world was holding its breath under
the spell of night.
In vigilant awe and silence, we see the very first red to appear, a single sunray, that part where the sun and the horizon haven't completely separated. This moment of sunrise when the sun is not distinct, this is what the Romans called Aurora, and what the Greeks called Eos. This dawn of the year is the aura of spring. And for those of us who got up especially early, just before the sun, a bright star, or rather a planet appears. It is the planet Venus that brings this amazing dawn.
http://www.magickalwinds.com/info/2011/03/19/all-about-eostreostara-and-the-origins-of-easter/
April was the Eosturmonath. Ēostre derives from Proto-Germanic:*Austrō; Northumbrian Old English:
Ēostre; West Saxon Old English: Ēastre; Old High German: *Ôstara, as well as from the Proto-Indoeuropean root word *aues-, "brillar".
Ostara
or Eostara (from eosturmonath, eostremonath or ostaramonath, ancient German
name for April, meaning Spring month, shining like a 'star'. The name 'Easter'
is taken from the Spring month of Eostremonath on the
Norse/Teutonic/Scandinavian calendar - known as the German calendar. In other
words, Eostremonath is simply the name of the Spring month, and there is not
historical evidence for such creature as a goddess name Eostre, as modern
Wiccans and Pagans suggest. In fact, there is no such goddess recorded,
worshiped or celebrated in either European or Scandinavian cultures. It
eventually evolved into the English 'Easter' as brought to England by the
Saxons. Though April’s derivation is not certain, a common theory is that the
name is rooted in the Latin Aprilis (Etruscan Apru) which is derived from the Latin aperire
meaning “to open” — perhaps referring to blossoming petals and buds. This
coincides not only seasonally but etymologically with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις (opening) for the word spring). It is possible that April 1 (the first day
of Eostre’s month) in the pre-Gregorian calendars would have been our March 21. It is also reasonable that April was named after Aphrodite (Greek Aphros, a short for Aphrodite).
The Romans, whose
early Etruscan religion had roots in Vedic beliefs, apparently understood this
connection very well when they renamed the Greek goddess Aphrodite to Venus
(from the ancient Vedic feminine fertility
goddess associated with the planet Venus named Vena, root "wenos" or
Sanskrit "vanas")
In ancient times the
Cosmic Wisdom was perceived as having much to do with the wisdom of the cosmos
but also with knowledge of the creative forces of the earth, with fertility and
birth and in this aspect she was seen at various times as a moon Goddess, since
the moon’s cycles are connected intimately with the forces of reproduction and
for other reasons which will become apparent later. The male deities were
always associated, on the other hand with the Sun. They were the ‘bridegrooms’,
the heavenly creative forces that came from above and fertilized the bridal
womb – the earth." - Rudolf Steiner.
The April's Pink Moon is the perfect time for Witches to invoque Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love, and work her magic. This is a very special, powerful and magical Full Moon that strikes with the quadruple conjunction (union of four heavenly bodies) of Venus, the Sun (the Sun conjuncts or aligns with Venus in an exact Sun Venus conjunction), Uranus and Mars in Aries opposed by the Moon in Libra.
http://intuitiveinsightcatherinealmeten.blogspot.com.es/2013_03_01_archive.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/full-crow-moon-libra-crown-of-fire
http://www.sagegoddess.com/working-aphrodites-magic-at-the-april-pink-moon/
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