Pagan Paths
Hellenismos, otherwise known as Greek Reconstructionist Paganism, is the traditional, polytheistic religion of ancient Greece, reconstructed in and adapted to the modern world. It's a vibrant religion which can draw on a surprising amount of ancient sources. Baring the Aegis blogger Elani Temperance blogs about her experiences within this Tradition.
Be Wary of the Evil Eye
We have already established that certain doom is sent by the Gods and should be suffered through. But there is another kind of doom, sent not by the Gods, but by fellow men. And against this, one is absolutely encouraged to fight.
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Monday, 03 September 2012
Hey, an essay on ritual gestures I think you might like http://hellenismo.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/ritual-gestures-in-the-hellenic-tradition/
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Tuesday, 04 September 2012
That is a fantastic website! Thank you, I hadn't discovered that one. I'll study that one in the coming days.
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Wednesday, 05 September 2012
Hey! It is very interesting in that in my late teens I experienced a kind of 'Aura Sight', which seemed different than anything I could find in books at the time. I noticed that when a friend would call his black lab, she would turn her head and glare at us, and these little red rings would come shooting out of her eyes. But they would only go about 15'. Later, I would watch humans arguing, and it was 'little red rings', it was fully formed arrows, darts, daggers, and swords! They would fly out of the yeller's eyes and 'stick' in the air hovering near their targets. Sometimes I would run across people on the bus who weren't arguing but who had hundreds of daggers 'stuck' in the air around them. After a few weeks of this, I was idly people/ aura watching, and I saw a girl with an arrow 'stuck in the air' near her elbow, trip while going down a set of stairs, fall and break her elbow. The aura of the break was difficult to look at, but the arrow was gone. I began to theorize about the source(s) of 'bad luck'. Later I learned techniques like Grounding and the Fountain that cleanse the human aura of all the 'glare-weapons'/'evil eye uses?' that it may have accumulated. But I wonder if these are teh same thing??
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
We, too, in Natib Qadish have a concept of the 'enu, the Eye. We've been lucky enough to have a 3200 year old text preserved that gives most of a prayer a priest would make against the 'enu, sending it back to the person or people who sent it in the first place. There's also a modern Lebanese tradition that I believe traces back to the ancient Canaanite one. I enjoyed this post; thanks.
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Friday, 14 September 2012
Thank you for your reply, Tess! It's fantastic you have a text like that. We don't have the actual words that were used, but I'm very grateful we know which deities were appealed to remove the Eye.
It's interesting that so many cultures have something like the Evil Eye and even more telling that it's not a part of modern society. -
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Sounds like this may be the origin of parents not complimenting their children's accomplishments for fear the child would get "a big head" and act above their lot/station.