After a fall you are humbled, you find yourself in the depths, low, in the darkness among the settling ash and embers. What is a welcome after this fiery desolation? Water! A cleansing rain from the heavens.
In The Halloween Tarot, The Star is pictured as the Gargoyle. Gargoyle is:
"grotesque carved waterspout," connected to the gutter of a building to throw down water clear of the wall, common in 13c.-16c. buildings; late 13c., gargoile, also gargule, etc., "carved mouth of a rainspout, a gargoyle," from Old French gargole, gargoule, "throat;" also "carved downspout," in the form of a serpent or some other fanciful shape, also from Medieval Latin gargola, gargulio -EO
early 15c., in anatomy, tubular passage in the body through which fluids or solids pass;" mid-15c., "a pipe for liquid;" from French canal, chanel "water channel, tube, pipe, gutter" (12c.), from Latin canalis "water pipe, grove, channel," noun use of adjective from canna "reed"... [OE]
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The throat has a canna "reed" of sorts in the form of the trachea. The throat connects the lower chakras with the upper chakras.
The throat chakra, Vishuddha, is the fifth primary chakra associated with the color blue and the sound/mantra 'ham/hum/hmm'.
The throat chakra is located in the throat. The Vishuddha chakra is considered to be the energy center that fuels your identity, your voice, and your truth.
Its name comes from its particular function of purifying toxicity that we 'breathe' in. This toxicity can be more than physical, like thoughts and ideas. 'Vishuddha', in the Sanskrit language, means detoxed.
It is derived from the two Sanskrit words, visha (poison) and shuddhi (purification). This chakra is associated with space or ether. It is considered the be the source of the purifying force that removes all toxicity that we accumulate over time. Vishuddha Mantra, Mahakatha.com
Another etymology states,
In Sanskrit, the throat chakra is called the vishuddha chakra. Shuddhi translates as "pure," an vi strengthens the word; therefore, vishuddha means especially pure. wanderlust.com
So, Vishuddha is either the "purification of toxins" or "very pure." In this way this chakra that is associated with the "neferet" (celestial cow, Taurus), could be said to be the chakra that makes one to be nefer "good/well," by removing toxins.
We both eat and breathe toxins into the body from the throat, and vomiting or throwing up(through the throat) is an acrid('sharp;' violent) way of cleansing toxins(poison) from the body.
The Mesopotamian goddess of physicians, healing arts and medical practices was called Gula meaning "Great" in Sumerian (sometimes connected with BaU-Baba-Gula).
As a goddess of healing, this great lady(gula) must have been adept at preparing curatives that enter the body through the gula "throat," such as pharmaceuticals(i.e. poison "medical drink"), and perhaps what effects the health of Vishuddi, throat chakra.
The title of GU.LA is also used for the constellation Aquarius, the water bearer (with water poring out of the "gula" of his pitcher)
Aquarius is identified as GU.LA "The Great One" in Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase. wikipedia, Aquarius (constellation)
This flowing water symbolizes a cleansing, life giving or living water[as discussed here He's a Magic Man], a most potable drink(poison/potion). A drink appropriately meted can be medicine, but taken in the wrong quantity the same drink can be deadly. Even water can be a poison/toxin if consumed in too great a measure.
Toxic is by way of French from Latin toxicum "poison,"
from Greek toxikon (pharmakon) "(poison) for use on arrows," from toxicon, neuter of toxicos "pertaining to arrows or archery," and thus to a bow, from toxon "bow,"[*or arc] which has been regarded as a loan-word from Scythian. [OE]
*The Scythians were feared and admired for their prowess in war and, in particular, for their horsemanship. Scythian -Brittanica
The Scythians would have been centaur-like in their appearance riding horses into battle. The Greek name for the centaur constellation Sagittarius, the "archer," is Τοξότης Toxótēs the "archer," and since an archer is an "arc-er"(arcus "bow, arch), perhaps we should say an archer is a "bow-er". In this respect Sagittarius is the Great Bower or Bow Gula.
Chiron(Χείρων Kheiron, from χείρ "hand"[yad, which sometimes can mean "finger," which looks like a pointer. So what's the point? Hands have 10 saggitae]) the centaur son of Cronus/Saturn and the Oceanid Philyra[not his wife], therefore, brought into being by the folly of this philandering 'filly', is Sagittarius / Toxótēs.
One of the most fascinating myths about Chiron involves Heracles and Prometheus. While visiting the centaur, Heracles accidentally pricked Chiron with one of his arrows poisoned with the blood of the Hydra. The poison's virulence made the wound incurable, despite Chiron's skill[*sagacity] in healing, and the centaur was doomed to an eternity of agony. So Chiron went to Zeus [*his half-brother] and offered to give up his immortality in exchange for the freedom of Prometheus. The king of the gods agreed, Prometheus was freed, and Chiron's soul was placed among the stars, where he became the constellation, Sagittarius. -Madeline Miller
So, the archer, Toxótēs(Chiron), was pricked by a toxikon(poison) and being that he was the sagacious centaur who was taught the arts of music, archery, medicine and prophesy by his foster father, Apollo, this set him on the journey of the "wounded healer". Therefore he was very handy(skilled) at medicine, as his name implies.
An "archer," sagittarius, is one who is "pertaining to sagittas 'arrows,'" therefore toxótēs, is one who is toxikon "pertaining to toxa "bows" or archery(bowery). Another Latin word for "archer" being arcuarius "maker of/pertaining to "bows"(arcus)." Therefore toxin, i.e. poison/medicine, could be said to be that which pertains to THE saggitarius /(arcuarius which is probably too close sounding to aquarius "pertaining to water") "archer," who is Sagittarius, i.e., Chiron. I love what you do but you know that you're toxic!
Things are rarely simply always 'good' or 'bad' in and of themselves, or are 'only a poison/toxin' and never a 'medicine'. And medicine itself is often a poison/toxin, and sometimes intoxication is a medicine. Sometimes wounding is a type of medicine. Not only was Chiron a pharmakeus "druggist/poisoner,"who used pharmaceuticals, which are pharmakeia "a healing or harmful medicine; a drug, poisonous potion" to heal others, but he himself was (accidentally) wounded by the pharmakeia/poison/toxin (Hydra's[water snake] venomous blood) on the tip of Heracles' arrow which proved to be an incurable wound for, Chiron, the immortal son of Cronus. However, in his quest for his own cure, he became a great healer.
In ancient Egyptian sšr is "arrow" and sšꜣt meaning 'female scribe'(so perhaps the one who writes/scrivens with a sharp pointed object like an arrow, or shoots her words[hopefully not from the hip]) is the name of the goddess of writing, wisdom and knowledge. Her name, Seshat, means "female scribe," but it is similar to the word for arrow and therefore, her name calls to mind something piercing, acute, sharp and swift, like an arrow or the mind of someone with sagacity. So someone who is sagacious has a mind like an arrow. She's quite sharp.
And dressed sharply as well, we might say. She and her priest's were known for wearing speckled cheetah robes. The priests of Seshat were the scribes/doctors of the 'church'(who would scribble prescriptions ℞, or spell out spells to be ingested). Seshat was "mistress of builders," she would assist in the "stretching of the cord/'sash'" for foundations of temple. She was considered the inventor of writing as "Mistress of the (scrolls)/library[called 'The House of Life']". So we might say is the inventor of archetypes "models", i.e., type/prototypes. She was also a measurer and time keeper, as seen below marking out notches on a palm frond.
The ark(Hebrew aron, Latin arca "chest, box, coffer, coffin, place for safe-keeping") of the covenant was both toxic, and a protective weapon, and God's arc/bow in the clouds was a sign of hope/health/safety to Noah and his ark(in Hebrew tebah "box built for protection[arca], and it was a "bear"[arkos] of a boat), but only after a very toxic watering(deluge); a real tower moment.
Or the "sharp" like an arrow star of ancient Egypt, Sopdet/ Spdt "srt thorn/acute/pointed, Sharp One"], aka, in latin, Sirius, "the Dog Star," was beloved in Egypt for her helical rising heralding the inundation of the Nile(which brought fertility to the soil), but was not viewed favorably by the Greeks due to her appearance during the "dog days of summer," when heat and illness flourished.
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The words for bear (arkos) and ark (arca) can actually be connected through the constellation of Ursa Major[which is near the north celestial pole], due to the Arabic name for the constellation.
... from the Arabic term banāt na'sh al-kubra meaning 'the great daughters of the bier', for the Arabs regarded this figure not as a bear but as a bier [*something that bears] or coffin[*box]. They saw the tail of the bear as a line of three mourners (banāt, the daughters) leading the coffin, al-na'sh. Similarly, the seven stars making up the little dipper in Ursa Minor were known as the Little Daughters of the Bier. Star Tales -Ursa Major/The Great Bear
So the "Big," the "Great," al-Kubra, constellation with a box/bier/arca/ark, which is roughly cubular in shape, is seen as an arkos "bear," Arktos Megele(Ursa Major), by the Greeks. So in English that would be bear and not a bier, box, or cube(however this bear is seen with her cub, Ursa Minor, which is a little cube).
It is also of note that this ark(bier) never dips into the sea(it is observed as circumpolar in most of the Northern Hemisphere), so it does stay safely "afloat" like Noah's ark. And Noah had three son's, which gave him three daughters(daughter's-in-law), banāt, therefore three daughters aboard his ark, as well as three female mourners at his bier/funeral.
Noah's name comes from a word meaning "rest, repose"nuach . So the repose(funeral) of Noah/Noach, would be the nuach of Noach, or the noah of Noah, or simply the "Noah."And in Arabic, Arcturus, the "guardian" of Arktos[the Big Dipper], is as-simāk "the uplifted one," and it is one of the two stars called al-simāk "the uplifted ones," which isn't too far off by certain tongues and ears to Lamech/Lemek the "guardian" or father of Noah, whom Lamech named "rest." The son who was destined to in some way mitigate the curse of Adam.
he named him Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief[*nacham] from our work and from the toil of our hands." Genesis 5:29 NRSCV
And Noah was given a sign of relief/nacham/noah, i.e., the bow[quesheth = Gk toxon], aka, said to be the "rainbow," after the flood(the toxic watering).
God said, "This is the sign[oth] of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set[nathan "placed"] my bow[quesheth] in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."Genesis 9:12-17 NRSCV
So this could simply be talking about a rainbow, like we have been taught. However, perhaps it could mean more as well. Whenever "clouds" are brought over the earth, that can mean there is a "storm," or by extension some "disturbance," like a person with a "cloud hanging over their head." So clouds coming can metaphorically mean something like hard times or sadness. And since clouds can also by extension mean the "sky," if the arc/bow/toxon is seen in the "clouds," it could mean it is seen in the "sky/heavens." So when things seem bad we can look to the sky and see Sky/Heaven/God's oth, which is a covenant of safety and therefore rest(Noah) for our worried minds, and that sign is the bow/arc in the sky. And in times of darkness, i.e. night, 'the arc' could be the greater arc and the little arc traveling around the celestial pole, which never are "submerged beneath the ocean"/horizon, or never dip into the underworld.
In the time of Noah, if the year was 2472 BC, the prevailing pole star would have been Thuban of the constellation Draco, and not Polaris[stella polaris](which is a star at the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper), therefore in the time of Noah both the Great Arc and the Little Arc would have been circumnavigating the pervading pole star(Thuban) together, which itself was part of an even larger arc in the sky about which the whole heavens appeared to revolve.
Given this hypothesis, that would make the 'sign from God' a great bow/arc in the sky, but this 'bow'/boa was known as the constellation of the 'dragon/snake'). So that would be bow/toxon 🌈 'good', or bow/toxon 🐍 'bad,' or neither/either good nor bad, like medicine💊💉/toxin☠️?
Just as Moses raised up[hypso] the serpent[ophis] in the desert[eramos] [on a/the pole], so must the Son of Man be raised up John 3:14
Or if the bow was referencing the bows of the Big Dipper (which is an arc connected to an ark/arca) and the Little Dipper (a smaller arc connected to an ark/arca), that would be a double [rain]bow!! 🌈🌈 around the larger bow, Wow! {furthermore that would make the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper double (golden "advantageous, successful, promising") arches, namely, Big 'Mac' and Little 'Mac'}.
The stars of the constellation of Hercules, the hero/giant of old, were the pole stars ≈ 10,000 BC - 6,000 BC(before the flood 2472 BC), before the pole shifted to the stars of Draco ≈ 5875 BC - 500 BC, when we could say, God, nathan "placed, appointed, assigned" the "bow" to be a sign in the sky in such a way that it never dipped below the horizon(because of its proximity to the prevailing celestial pole).
The stars of the Hercules constellation look a bit like a flailing "giant" from a certain angle, like a giant getting drowned in the sea at the time of the 'flood'(when it dips into the sea), or perhaps, from a different perspective a dancing hero, who survived the flood in his ark, a sign of great jubilation! Huray!
The divine king brought blessings to the earth, improved agriculture, made the arts flourish and covered palaces with jewels and precious feather decorations. He taught a philosophy of gentleness and austere asceticism, offering blood from his ears and limbs daily to the gods in the outer heaven. But when the revolutions of time brought the stars into a pattern which meant that his planet was setting, he was tempted.
The goddess approached him and visited his court, bringing with her many magicians and enchanters, among whom was the black Tezcatlipoca. At a festival she offered the god-king a bowl of alcoholic pulque prepared from the agave heart. Then as he became intoxicated, she offered him hallucinogenic mushrooms and induced a trace-like ecstasy in which he abandoned his austerity and raped her.
On awakening, appealed at his break with the ascetic code of priestly behavior, Quetzalcoatl left Mexico. He gave over his power to Tezcatlipoca and sailed into the sun, where his heart burnt up and ascended again as the morning star. teacher institute.yayle.edu
"'The price is one of your eyes Alfather. You must pluck it out and drop it in the well so that all that stare into its waters will see the sacrifice of Odin,' Mimir replied"
But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity. Psalm 37:11 NIV
"Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star[astéra= kokab 'a star, a prince'] as it rose, and we have come to worship him." Mt. 2:2 NLT
In the years surrounding 0 AD the pole would have appeared to be circumnavigated by the box/ark/basket/"manger" portion of the Little Dipper, so the pole, which HAD been Kochab "THE Star" of the Little Dipper, would have come to 'noach in the manger/ark,' or been encribbed in the Little Townhome of Bethlehem "House/aka, Crib of Bread/Food," i.e., a manger.
"'But you, Bethlehem["house of bread"/"crib of bread"], in the land of Judah, are by no means least[little] among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'" Mt. 2:6 NIV
Which is also interesting because this "shepherd," Cepheus, looks like a forked object, like a tuning fork, or the forked was scepter of ancient Egypt which is an enigmatic emblem and symbol that portrayed the "Set animal/Typhonian beast." The last time this constellation contained the pole star was round 22,000 BCE. When The Shepherd was the pole star constellation, it would have been seen in the "desert"(ruled by the god Set) of the sky, the North which is the left of the east(rising sun), and is a bit Saturnian in that the stars there can act like a (counter-clockwise/backwards/black mirror of the ecliptic)clock which revolves around the celestial pole. So Set, god of chaos, would have been the *di-mon/time keeper. And he is a god who is demonized. Especially when your alarm is set for before dawn 😉.
The Hebrew word "tsaphon" primarily denotes the direction "north." It is used in the Bible to describe the geographical orientation, often in relation to the land of Israel. In a broader sense, "tsaphon" can also symbolize mystery or hiddenness,
[820] But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite. Strength was with his hands in all that he did and the feet of the strong god were untiring. Hesiods Theogony, 820-824
When Daneb was the pole star Cygnus would have been a whirling blade-like compass.
But in this backwards / counter-clockwise clock we go from the cross(Cygnus), i.e., the cruxifixction to Christmas, rather than from the Nativity to the cross. This mirroring is what helps us to know the time and the season. And it is inevitable that after the death comes the birth. It is the eternal cycle of life.
If the "Swan" Cygnus, was a prediluvian constellation of the pole star / black sun ("illuminates" times and seasons)/ black star leading up to the great flood, and the pole was moving on to Vega [around 12,000 BCE] which is in the constellation of Lyra "the lyre,"[as the swan was moving away from the pole and thus becoming less and less visible above the celestial plane(the ocean), but rather was dipping into the water, and then the this flood happened somewhere before or after the pole moved onto Hercules, this would give new meaning to the term "swan-song," which is a saying of enigmatic origin, and "black swan" event i.e., the cataclysm/flood.
And this could also mean that many important symbols of ancient Egypt were all representative of past pole constellations. The was = the Shepherd/Set, (similar to the ancient Egyptian kherep/ ḫrp-scepter, a stylized lyre /or sekem/ sḫm-scepter sistrum ), the ankh = Cygnus. . .
Alpha Lyrae, Vega comes from Arabic "falling" or "landing," from the full name an-nasr al-wãqi, "the falling/landing eagle." Tranquility base here. The eagle has landed.
the celestial pole being actually invisible,i.e.'black,' because it is just a point in the sky that is at 90° from the equator, and the "pole stars" are often at less than 90°, or, more than 0° separation from the actual pole, so this is similar to how there is a point in space identified as Black Moon Lilith[the point of lunar apogee in astrology], and the moon is only coincidentally there sometimes.
The earth has a black sun/clock/star that is the North Pole because the earth has a wobble. . . . "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!" And this "black sun" symbol sometimes can look like a cross or + that is in motion, somewhat like a whirling cross, or swastika.
The word swastika comes from Sanskrit meaning 'conductive to well-being.' In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ('sun'), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) is called sauvastika symbolizing night or tantric aspects of Kali. wikipedia-Swastika
So the symbol originally meant something very positive, or had a name of honor, before it was used by the Nazis and became a "name of shame,"as evidenced below.
I can't send a bit of the theturquoise sky,Or the mountain's sunset glow.Here's the good luck sign ofa hundred landsAnd the flower of Colorado.
postmarked Aug. 2[*], 190[*]
May everyDaybe BrightwithMorrowBrighter.
Post cards addressed to my maternal grandmother's father taken from a large binder collection of a wide variety of postcards, all from the turn of the 20th century.
But the celestial pole has no "proper" star, yet sometimes certain stars are coincidentally more or less conjunct the celestial pole. The earth's axis, so a point upon the earth indicates the direction of the celestial pole, but the celestial pole is not fixed.
So, it's pretty clear that this wandering pole is the cause of much confusion(babel) to say the very least. Because what one people call and experience as quite constant, true-fixed, resting, unassailable, unshaken is in fact in vain.
I could be well moved, if I were as you:
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine;
But there's but one in all doth hold his place.
So in the world: 'tis furnished well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That, unassailable, holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion; and that I am he.
Let me a little show it, even in this —
That I was constant Cimber should be banished,
And constant do remain to keep him so. -Shakespeare, Caesar, Act III, scene I, lines 59-74
Now that is a very salty Ceasar salad!
Since the procession of the equinoxes/polar wobble is such a long cycle(around 25,765 years), it is not readily observable except over thousands of years of time. So, when people have stories about what they see in the sky, and then the sky changes slowly over time their language of talking about the world, i.e., History, gets confused for sure. So, maybe we should call it the Tower of Wobble instead, or Wobbylon. Wobble on!
The goddess who was associated with weaving and therefore spiders and therefore the hub of the wheel of the heavens, therefore we could say the pole was Neith/Nit/Net. She was a primordial creator goddess from ancient Egypt associated with sagittas "arrows"(sšr-w) and the toxa "arcs/bows." She was a protectress, mother goddess, associated with the implements of war(as well as weaving), called "Mistress of the Bow," "Ruler of Arrows" -ancientegyptonline
Neith's symbol was two arrows crossed over a shield. She was also associated with weaving(ntt "weave"), her symbol being a weaving shuttle, but "weaving" in a really cosmic way. She was the divine matrix, mother of all the gods who wove the universe on her loom. Nit knit it all together. It was all Net's work.
Although archery and weaving don't at first seem to be related, the implements of archery are connected to the names given to the implements and products of weaving. Such as the word bolt "short, stout arrow with a heavy head," is used to describe a length of cloth, i.e. a "bolt" of fabric, and shuttle "a weavers instrument," is from Old English scytel "dart, arrow," and a weaving beam and the stock of a crossbow is a tiller, from Latin telarium/tela "web, loom,"[as well as other words discussed here, BabyYou're a Firework].
And let's not forget that weaving can be an act of war! Think of Arachne. She was the greatest weaver who was turned into a spider — a hyphe(web) spinner/conector due to her hubris.
Here Neith is depicted with an erected "loom," i.e. penis, supposedly next to the family "jewels," i.e., heirlooms. She must have had some balls, given she was a war goddess.
Neith had no known husband, so was designated a "Virgin Mother Goddess". The phallic symbolism in the hieroglyphics surrounding her is a nod to the masculine energy also required in the creation of the universe. mythology.net- Neith
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seculsiom, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. Psalm 139:15 NLT
The knitting needle of Nit would be the pole/axis.
Like the Norns who wove the tapestry of fate and were carvers of runes.
Outlook Good . . .
The. stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone....
Stars denote "the great" the important people in the play/movie, those who have a staring role
stars all the objects in the sky are used for appointment navigation because they stand firm to their courses. They guide.
steer (v.) establish times
PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm"
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