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This figure of a winged cobra with human head was placed over the neck of the king's mummy, in the fifth group of amulets. It is made of sheet gold, embossed and chased. At the back is an eyelet so that it could be suspended from a linen-thread necklace. A number of Egyptian goddesses, such as Wadjet, Meretseger, Werethekau, and Renenutet, were sometimes represented as winged serpents, but only Meretseger seems to be shown with a human head.
She was the tutelary deity of the Theban necropolis, where Tutankhamun's tomb lay. Her presence among the other head and neck amulets in the group would, however, be hard to understand. Furthermore, she was a late creation, whereas the other deities, whose figures were used as amulets on the king's mummy, had belonged to the Egyptian pantheon since ancient times. Carter, in his slip catalogue of the objects found in the tomb, was unable to suggest any identification and merely wrote "significance unknown."
Although the precise identification of the figure remains problematical, some evidence of its associations seems to be offered by the other amulets in its group. These amulets consist of five vultures, an erect cobra, or uraeus, and a pair of similar cobras joined together. The Middle Kingdom coffins generally depict, on the wall opposite the head of the deceased occupant, five vultures and five cobras, the latter usually represented erect, but one or more may be represented in repose.
The correspondence in the number of vultures suggests that there should also have been five cobras on the neck of the mummy. The human-headed winged cobra could be the fourth cobra, and the cobra in repose might be the fifth, assuming that it was misplaced by the embalmers. The texts on the coffins say that these vultures and cobras are to be put on the head of the dead person, but they do not mention their purpose. Perhaps they were intended to be protectors of the five royal names.
Source: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com
The Father of Wicca
Born June 13, 1884 -at The Glen, The Serpentine, Blundellsands, near Liverpool in England to a well-off middle class family as one of four brothers. From an English hereditary Witch and Gerald is largely responsible for reviving Witchcraft in the modern Western world. Gardner claimed to trace his roots to a Witch named Grissell Gardner who had been burned at the stake in 1610 at Newburgh.
He was instrumental in bringing the religion of Wicca to public attention and wrote some of its definitive religious texts.
In Gardnerian Wicca, the two principal deities are the Horned God and the Mother Goddess.
Gardnerian Wiccans organise into covens, that traditionally, though not always, are limited to thirteen members. Covens are jointly led by a High Priest and High Priestess. Gardnerian Wicca and other forms of British Traditional Wicca operate as an initiatory, membership is gained only through initiation by a Wiccan High Priestess or High Priest. Any valid line of initiatory descent can be traced all the way back to Gerald Gardner, and through him back to the New Forest Coven. A Gardnerian Wicca family tree can be viewed here
Died February 12, 1964. Several years after Gardner's death, the Wiccan High Priestess Eleanor Bone visited North Africa and went looking for Gardner's grave. She discovered that the cemetery he was interned in was to be redeveloped, and so she raised enough money for his body to be moved to another cemetery in Tunis,[54] where it currently remains. In 2007, a new plaque was attached to his grave, describing him as being "Father of Modern Wicca. Beloved of the Great Goddess
Books by Gardner:
* 1936: "Keris and Other Malay Weapons"
* 1939: "A Goddess Arrives" (fiction)
* 1949: "High Magic's Aid" (fiction)
* 1954: "Witchcraft Today"
* 1959: "The Meaning of Witchcraft"
* "The Story of the famous Witches Museum at Castletown, Isle of Man", a guidebook
Books about Gardner:
* 1960: "Gerald Gardner: Witch" by J.L. Bracelin
* 2000: "Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival" by Philip Heselton
* 2003: "Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration" by Philip Heselton
Resources
http://www.geraldgardner.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald Gardner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardnerian Wicca
http://www.chalicewellcoven.com/id24.html
http://www.bcholmes.org/wicca/gardner.html
South Profound Islet cemetery, Swimming pool Erie
(c) Patti Wigington 2009
Many modern Pagans swell ancestor flatter as part of their Samhain revels -- it's not out of the humble to play against members of the Pagan community who can hold forth their genealogy back ten or extra generations (I'm guilty of it for myself). Subdued rubbings are a popular way to give forth your home at this time of blind date -- and no, you don't have to use your own family headstones if you don't lavish to or if you don't have front entrance to them. If you find a testimonial that strikes you as quaint, there's symbols antisocial with making a abrasion from it, as covet as you matter a few simple guidelines. Give are some guidelines on how you can make abysmal rubbings of your own: Send a Subdued Rubbing
Familiar sight up for the Samhain Seven Day Sabbat Characteristic, Get Finished for Samhain!
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Reference: crafty-witch.blogspot.com
Includes Protecting home spells and a link for more reading and protection of your home.
Spell for finding a new house/home
A house of my own
a house to be free
a house that loves me
and is perfect for me
a perfect house
to rest and to play
where my heart is at home
is now coming my wayMy own home to live,
to love and grow
tis is my will,
now make it so!
So mote it be
Link to Luna's Grimoire
http://www.lunasgrimoire.com/category/spells/home/
Do you feel that your house has some type of evil energy, evil eye or negative vibrations because of which you are having lots of bad luck, unhappiness, fights, unknown problems in your house?
Anyways with the help of casting this simple spell you can protect your house from all the evil energies and/or black magic so that only positive energy will be in your house and success and happiness will always be with you and around you. It takes 40 DAYS to perform, but has an almost permanent influence
You will need 2 white candles in each room. On each candle you will write SOX NOZ ARU MAU NE.
Then once this is done you will need to light the 2 candles in each room of yours for 40 days. All the black magic, evil eye or negative energy that is in your house will be destroyed and only positive energy will remain in your house.
When you buy the candles and have lit them - you have to calculate so they will last for 40 days. You are not supposed to burn them out at once.
Maybe it will be enough if you have them lit for 10-15 minutes each day - but make sure you have time to lit them every day
Hey, blogfans!
It's been absolutely crazy in my-book's-just-come-out land. While it's wonderful to travel the country signing and scribbling and pressing the flesh, there hasn't been a lot of time to consider the other important things in life - like the rituals of the seasons (I think I just missed the Southern Hemisphere Candlemas) or what to do with a polished lump of forest jasper.
Secretly, forest jasper sustains and supports through times of stress.
And I have been so busy I have considered EATING THIS STONE.
Burnt Snow has been getting fantastic reviews, which is awesome. There's now a handy Facebook fanpage for the book, where all the press and reviews and an upcoming *fun competition* get recorded and discussed. There's also a Facebook group called Brody Meine is So Much Hotter than Edward Cullen which you can join if you wanna debate whether the guy in the video promo looks like Brody or Christian Slater does. This group was not actually started by me so you can imagine my surprise/delight/kinda-weirdness when I found out it was there. Remind me to talk about my "Dark Half" syndrome at some point.
The two big pieces of news at this end is that I'm having my FIRST GUEST BLOGGER appear on these pages shortly; my old friend and comics author Christian Read (who has written for "Buffy"," Star Wars Adventures" and "Batman", amongst other works of complete genius) will be donating a piece on Voodoo Queens of New Orleans. HOW FUN IS THAT?
ALSO: I will be attending the National Young Writers' Festival AND Crack Theatre Festival which are part of the amazing TINA (This is Not Art) Festival in beautiful Newcastle (the Australian one)... as from Thursday, SEPTEMBER 30 until Sunday, OCTOBER 3. So if you wanna see me bang on about: me, my book, TV, literary fiction, me, performance poetry, theatre literary management, me and theatre for social change (sometimes simultaneously - I am so way versatile) NOW YOU CAN! And it's free! MY FULL SCHEDULE IS BELOW.
Would love, love, love to see y'all there - and if we haven't met personally before, do make sure to say hello.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
15:00 - 16:15 / Special Event
Festival Club
LAUNCH PAD: BURNT SNOW
"Did I really think that this would ever happen to me? ELEVEN years after my first NWFY appearance as an angry young radical playwright, I have returned to launch a fun, chunky book about witches and spookiness.
I'm doing a Newcastle/NYWF launch of Burnt Snow for the sentimental reason that it was going to my first NYWF that convinced me I had the entitlement to call myself a writer. Please come join me as I celebrate coming full circle and the 10-year journey that's brought me back to TINA. I'll read a bit of my witchy book, answer a few questions - and there's a rumour of a celebrity launcher guest who may or may not drop in. (Ooh, he'd better).
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1ST
12:00 - 13:00 / Panel
Crackhouse: Lodge of Research
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LITERARY MANAGEMENT...
"This panel is part of the Crack Theatre Festival and it's where I put my theatre-mafia hat on and bring out the violin case. Literary Management is what I do at my other job at the Finborough Theatre in London - that's someone who selects scripts for development and programming and works with writers making their work better. Kinda useful to know about if you want to write for the theatre. My fellow panelists are Chris Mead (who runs Playwriting Australia) and Pater Matheson, who is not only my guru like Master Po to David Carridine in Kung Fu but also the former literary manager of the Melbourne Theatre Company.
16.00 - 17.00 / Panel
Crackhouse: Lodge of Research
"THEATRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE "
On this, another theatre panel, I'll be trying to answer the question: Can you use theatre to make the world a better place?... without cynicism. Hmm. Should be an interesting panel because the discussion of how much of this whacky artform can possibly change the world is certainly older than the Brecht/Lukacs stoushes of the 1950s ("Aristophanes is a big, fat fascist!" anyone?). Good panelists! Brenna Hobson from Company B Belvoir, Jane Gronow from Lowdown magazine and Alex Kelly from "Ngapartji Ngapartji".
17:30 - 18:45 / Panel
City Hall: Mulubinba Room
"DEBATE: FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION IS FOR OLD PEOPLE AND IDIOTS "
This should be fun - though god knows why I was selected for this panel* - my experience of TV is appearing in crowd scenes at demos and writing some sick-child scenes for a BBC hospital drama. I only watch television to see live sport - but if you want to see a paranormal YA novelist/radical playwright talk about the upcoming NRL grand final with passion an integrity (CARN THE MIGHTY ROOSTERS), come along. The other people on either side of the debate are pretty cool - Zora Sanders who writes about TV, Alexandra Neill who is 9 or something and writes for "Good News Week" and William Kostakis who wrote the novel "Loathing Lola". *I may be deliberately underplaying this because it is one of those comedy "Great Debate" things and I now have a comic persona to maintain. Sigh.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2
14:30 - 15:45 / Panel
Staple Manor
VAMPIRES, DETECTIVES AND ROCKET SHIPS: OH MY?
This panel I'm REALLY looking forward to as it's about that old chestnut of genre fiction vs literary fiction - and why one side often has a very negative attitude towards the other, and vice versa. It's been a particularly interesting journey for me writing genre fiction because a lot of people who knew me as a playwright were (hopefully mock-) horrified when I announced my recent "Burnt Snow" career diversification. Again, the people on the panel are cool: Sommer Tothill, a writer who also reviews for the Brisbane Times; Kate Eltham, the CEO of the Queensland Writers' Centre; microfictionista Daniel Walker; Krissy Kneen (who writes erotic memoirs, oh my!) and Thomas Benjamin Guerney, performance poet.
17:30 - 18:30 / Special Event
Crackhouse: Grand Lodge
"PERFORMANCE VS POETRY "
Okay, so all I'm going to say about this debate thing is that my exboyfriend was a performance poet and I'll be publicly releasing a lot of anxiety built up from three years of going to events that involved shoeless wankers screaming out nonsense like "I wanna be your dolphin!" during my debate speech allocation. I don't even care who is on the rest of the panel because this one is all about ME... (although, some rather major poetry and performing people like writer/performer Tom Doig, poet/theatremaker Hadley, performance poet Steve Smart, poet/storyteller Candy Royalle, "drag king/queen wandering poltergeist" Di Drew and theatremaker Laura Scrivano are also rumoured to be involved). If you've ever heard the words "I want to explore the tundra of your womb" said to an audience without irony - and no, I am not joking - "come stand with me".
Hope to see y'all soon. OH, and do feel free to follow me on Twitter if you're curious to hear the kind of things I occasionally scream at the television.
Xxx
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Surfing around the web yielded what looked like a lot of information, but shortly turned into the same information repeated over and over. I didn't really know what I was looking for and the google results for Wicca or witchcraft gives limited returns as far as original material.
I put together a list of metaphysical bookstores in the area and set out to find one. Most, I am sorry to say, had closed. I had no idea how old my list was, but there were buildings on the (former) sites of some stores that had been there for years.
I thought I had found one, it turned out the old bookstore sign was still up.
I went inside and found a magician's paradise....if you were a 10 year old boy adept at sleight of hand.
But I asked the owner about the bookstore sign and he said that they had moved and gave me the new address.
The owner there was very helpful and gave me a copy of....ta da! Cunningham's Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner.
Looking back I feel very fortunate. Cunningham is just the right blend of spirituality, magick and 'there is more to learn' for many novices such as myself, unsure of exactly what we are looking for.
If I had picked up some of the whack-job books out there....or even one of the more advanced books on magick, I probably would have run for the hills.
Instead, like so many others in my shoes, I read with fascination that the things that I felt and believed and was afraid to say to anyone else for fear of being ridiculed, was a real religion. And further more, it was based on the idea that people have always worshipped the Goddess, the God, the Divine, the Source, whatever you want to call it, from a basic belief in the value of nature and its natural cycles.
A whole new world had opened up for me.
At the time I was working in a job with a high level security clearance and most of my friends leaned more toward the atheist and agnostic variety than the church variety, so I did not run out and buy a big gaudy pentacle to wear, stick a "Goddess Bless" bumper sticker on my car or leave books on witchcraft laying around on my desk at work.
But what is more important is that I felt pure, unrelenting joy in the idea of what was to come.
