Dionysus And Kataragama: Parallel Mystery Cults goddess cults that spread from anatolia, Lydia (Asia the vexing issue of how MiddleEastern motifs For instance, one of Skanda's ancient epithets, Shaktidhara http://kataragama.org/research/dionysus.htm
Extractions: Parallel Mystery Cults by Patrick Harrigan "Then only will you see it, when you cannot speak of it; for the knowledge of it is deep silence and suppression of all the senses." Hermes Trimegistus ( Lib. x.6) "This never happened but it always is." Saloustios (circa 360 CE) Note God of Many Faces A Parallel Study: The Cult of Pattini Ptolemy's map of Taprobane Dionysus and Shiva ... Lords of Water, Life and Fertility Nightly during the fortnight-long Esala festival, white-clad kapurala shaman-priests perform a complex, carefully choreographed ritual in which the Kataragama god stealthfully emerges from his Mahadevale residence, rides in grand torchlit procession upon a caprisoned elephant to visit his sweetheart, the jungle princess Valli, and returns without being seen despite thousands of devotees straining to see him. The Kataragama God, mounted on a tusker at right, begins His nightly procession at Kataragama. His simple, unimposing Mahadevale residence can be seen in the background. Gods of Play and Drama Lords of the Labyrinth Gods of Abusive Epithets References In the dry jungle of remote southeastern Sri Lanka lies Kataragama or
The Trumpets *anatolia from 'AraroXfj. with a contrary signification, and since in the ancientprophets, examples contained Demons, says he, are middle powers, through http://www.historicist.com/mede/trumpets.htm
Extractions: Let the reader likewise consult Isaiah, c. xxxii. v. 19, with regard to the image of hail, and the Chaldee paraphrast upon it. Moreover, the same paraphrast teaches us that trees, in prophetic parables, signify the great and rich, who for oaks of Basan (Isaiah xi. 13) substitutes the princes of provinces; for cedars, (Isaiah xiv. 8) rich men; for fir-trees, sometimes princes, (Isaiah xxxvii. 24) sometimes kings, (Isaiah xiv. 8) Who likewise paraphrases that passage of Zecbariah xi. 2. " Howl, fir-tree ; for the cedar is fallen! because the mighty are spoiled. Howl, ye oaks of Basan, for the fenced forest is fallen ! Howl, ye kings, for your princes are debased; ye who were rich in wealth are spoiled. Howl, satraps of provinces, for the region of your strength is laid waste." Whence, by analogy, it is easily collected, that herbs are to be taken for the common people, when, as in this place, they are connected with trees. Now, in order to collect something respecting the event from history, I would deduce the beginning of this trumpet (until something more certain shall be established) from the death of Theodosius the First; that is, from the year of Christ 395 ; because then the Christian religion seems to have plainly triumphed over the gods of the Gentiles; and at the same time, as combined in a certain common term with the end of the former, and with the beginning of the present seal, the irruptions of the Barbarians having in a small degree been attempted before, but been repressed in the ensuing years, when the empire was again at peace, began at length to take place in a horrible manner, and to hang over the whole Roman world, continually and cruelly wasting and depopulating it with fire and sword.
Extractions: Modern Western Civilization Class 2: Roots of Western History I. Introduction Before we start on Section 1 - This course is in modern history, but Western history did not begin in 1700. It goes back thousands of years. This class looks at the Roots of Western history, at the ideas that played an important part in its development. How there came to be a "West".
