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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Celtic Calendar

Celtic Calendar-

For today's post I am going to bring you to the Celtic Days with a quote Everyday. I hope you like the idea{o:) I thought besides my For the Garden on Saturdays I would bring to you a little more with the Celtic ways. I do have a Scott in my heritage which I am very proud of. I do hope you all Enjoy this new Idea {o:)
First before I actually start my Celtic days, I thought I would give you a bit of history on the Celtic Calendar if you will. To start the Celtic Calendar is always; These were called the Gages of the YEAR.
Samhain; The Winter quarter as they called it-
November, December and January
Imbolic; The spring quarter as they call it-
February, March and April
Beltane: The Summer quarter as they called it-
May, June and July
Lughnasadh; The Autumn quarter as they called it-
August, September and October.
Each of the Celtic Gages or Gateway was as they are called too/ to mark the four periods of the Calendar year. Well correspond to the growth cycle of rest; sprouting; burgeoning and fruiting too. One may think it to be odd to have a calendar year to start in November, but for the Celtics - these were made many centuries ago as gateways to follow the lunar cycle of the moon which underlies their whole agricultural year. Meaning their calendar year ends and begins in late Autumn when the Harvest is over and the soil is prepared for the winter planting.
Of course Each of the Seasons have their own traditional characteristics too-
Samhain; Is the period of ancestral communion and introspection-
Imbolic; Is associated with beginning and primal innocence-
Beltane; Is a period for creative and powerful expression-
Lughnasadh; Is associated with maturity and consolidation.
Besides the Seasons the different Gateways marks the movement of the Sun &Moon which was
Used quite often if not everyday in ancient Celtic days. And even today in modern days too.
Marks of the movement of the Sun and Moon-
September 21st
Autumn Equinoxes-
December 21st
Winter Solstices/Yule-
March 21st
Spring Equinoxes-
June 21st

Summer Solstices-

I hope that you all Enjoyed my post and will look for my up coming '

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The Lamia

The Lamia-

The Lamia in one of her many forms

In my next tale I will bring you to the beautiful story/sad story of Lamai. It seems that its origins has many different folktales within the Greek Mythology. It seems that the main story that most folktales come from
and the Greeks tale the story is that of Lamia -was a Libyan Queen who was loved by the God Zeus. However, when Zeus's Jealous wife the Goddess Hera learned of their affair she stole away her children. So
You would image how the Libyan Queen would have felt when her children were taken from her. In those ancient times it wasn't easy of women to have children.. The child bearing years were very difficult.. So It is said that Lamia went mad with grief and tore out her own beautiful eyes when she could not find her children.

So In a nut shell of sorts - LA'MIA - LAMIA -Daughter of God of Water/Oceans Poseidon, she became by Zeus; God of all Gods the Mother of the Sibyl Herophile. After becoming the Mother of Sibyl; Herophile/female Phantom by which all children were frightened - According to the ancient traditions; She was originally a beautiful Libyan queen of great beauty and the daughter of Belus. Lamia was beloved by
Zeus, and Hera his Queen in her jealousy robbed her of her children. Lamia, from revenge and despair, robbed others of their children, and murdered them savagely cruelty in which she now indulged rendered her ugly and her face became fearfully distorted because of her hatred, revenge and despair of loosing her own

The Lamia as Lamiae
when she would shape shift into
a very attractive ghostly
woman use her voluptuous
artifices to attracted young men
then enjoy their pure flesh
and blood

children. Lamia had let it consume her very soul it seems. It was said that Zeus gave her the power of taking her eyes out of her head and putting them back again when need.
There are some ancients that called her the mother of Scylla, but In later times Lamiae as she was called was
conceived as a very attractive ghostly woman who would by her voluptuous artifices ways attracted young handsome men, in order to enjoy their young fresh, Youthful and pure flesh and blood. is what she craved. Thus the ancient Vampires legends were born. I will have a link below that will give you a bit more info on this subject... But of course there is more to this tale... In this part of the tale of Lamia I am going to talk a bit about the women of Greek Mythology and their plight of being born beautiful/this could be either an Queen; Princess; Nymphs or all types; Muses; or just lovers humans. Some how they all manage to get into the sight of the Almighty God Zeus. And as we all know Zeus get what he wants all the time in the ancient days of Greece. One of his favorite things to do was to entertain young beautiful women/girls/lovers and bring them into his royal bedroom chambers on Mount Olympian. The problem was these beautiful young girls/women of all types were the ones that would get blamed afterward. Never did Zeus get blamed for his infidelity to his wife Hera the Goddess of Mount Olympian. So the story of Lamia was actually typical in the life of all woman of ancient Greece that caught the great God Zeus eye. Even today we will never really know when Lamia as the Queen of Libya came to Zeus by choice or by force. This seems to be the pattern to many of
Zeus affairs. As in all his affairs Hera took her anger out on the Innocent young women/girls that were

probably force into their bed chamber. Of course this has ran its course even to modern times.. It seems like

The Lamia as a beauty with
the snake at the waist

that everyone in someway were connected to each other in the ancient Greek times like Lamia being the daughter of the God of Poseidon.. It is said that before being transformed into the horrible monster - according to other version of the legend that when Lamia remove her eyes and put them back in again at will
the Lamia was then again a beautiful young woman again and could attract the attention of the gods even Zeus himself. I found doing this post that there were many different versions from many writers. Some say the Lamia was a shark others a snake, serpent's tail that began at the waist.. its truly hard to tell who is telling the true. they all are for she probably was all of these different creatures. It seems that the myth of the

The Lamia
Seduce men to drink their
BLOOD

Lamia became less of a monster about devouring children around the world in full to more on the

sucking of just their blood. So there became the vampire figure of ancient times, rumors of her presence were used by mothers in ancient Greece to scare their young ones - probably to get to them to behave kinda like our bogeyman ...So there you have the Lamia throughout Greek Mythology History for ever changing in time shifting and changing over time and so has the legend/myth of the Lamia too As she has changed to a vampire to a more modern time monster. So instead of having a serpent tail, shark, dragon etc - Lamia remains as finally as a beautiful woman type of monster as she is depicted 'The 1909 painting The Lamia by Herbert James Draper - and was said to seduce men to order to drink their blood and drain their life -' So the tale of the Lamia has gone full circle, from a beautiful maiden to monster that eats all children for vengeance of her own without a care to later; again a beauty maiden that is the first of the legends of vampires that seduced young men in order to drink their blood. It is a strange thing how the world works and how we see what a monster might be to ones eyes! Looking at Herbert James Draper painting of the Lamia as on of the first 'monsters of the Vampires its hard for me to see her as a monster compared to the 21st century and all our are high tech ... movies, TV. and even paintings. It seems that it was a much more innocence time then with monsters...etc. I hope anyways that you all Enjoyed this post on the Lamia. I will try my best my dears to write more fun, interesting stories and tales for you all my dears readers, friends and followers Your

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Echidna

Echidna-

Echidna 'Mother of all Monsters'

In this post my dears, I am going to bring you to Echidna. There have been many different versions of her
tale in Greek Mythology but, I found this account to be the most appealing and I would like to thing the most truth. Echidna parents were said to be Peiras and Styx long ago in the Age of the Gods of Zeus and Goddess of Hera. Echidna was a Drakaina, with the face and torso of a beautiful woman [sometimes said to be that of a beautiful Nymph on top] and the body of a serpent. Echidna - in Greek mean Exiova - ekhis - meaning 'she is a viper'. Who is a legendary monster in Greek Mythology. "MOTHER OF ALL MONSTERS''. because most of the monsters in Greek mythology were believed to be her offspring. You may ask why? its because the Gods described her as the Goddess fierce Echidna who is half a nymph with lusting eyes, fair cheeks and a sexual bodes. Then below her half again a huge snake, great and awful , with speckled skin. Eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth of her cave, that is deep down under a hollow rock far from the gods/goddess and all mortal men. There is where the Gods appointed her a glorious house to dwell in. And of course Echidna keeps guard of her home in Arima beneath the earth. In other versions of this tale some say Echidna was the daughter of Tartarus and Gaea/ or Ceto and Phorcys/Chrysaor and the naiad Challirhoe. It's really hard to tell it been so long ago. All we know is that is is the Mother of all the Monsters of the Greek Mythology. And the Gods/Goddess had placed her in high ranks to give her a grand home secret cave to live out her days in. The site of her cave was called 'Arima.' Now life wasn't always calm and quite for the Mother of all Monsters even though she was in a good light of sorts with Zeus God of the Olympians. There is one story that I did find about Echidna, that

Echidna in her Cave

Zeus had to punish her. Its seems that Echidna and her mate Typhon, went to attacked the Olympians. So Zeus had to beat them back and punish them. He punished Echidna lover Typhon by sealing him under Mount Etna. However, Zeus allowed Echidna and her children to live as a challenge to to future heroes. There were other stories according to the different gods and goddess of the Olympians. One of these stories was being that she was immortal and a ageless beautiful nymph - Echinda used to 'carry off passers to her cave' until she was finally killed where she slept by the Argus Panoptes the hundred-eyed giant. Of course there are many other stories of Echidna being that she is the mother of all monsters. It would be to hard to but all their offspring and stories in one post. So what I thought I would do is just name a few for you all; Echidna was the mother by Typhon by many
monstrous offspring; The two-headed dog; Cerberus - the many-headed dog which guarded the gates of Hades; The Lernaean Hydra - many-headed sea monster which when one of its heads was cut off grew two more; The Chimera - the fire breathing beast that was part lion,part goat and had a snake-head tail; Caucasian Eagle ; The Crommyonian Sow; The Gorgon; The Colchian Dragon - that guarded the Golden Fleece; The Teumessian Fox -A fox that was destined never to be caught;
Finally one of last of her offspring I think that rather interesting is that Ladon the dragon which guarded the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. So there you have the Mother of all Monsters of the Greek Gods/Goddess of the Olympians. Most famous was her dragon that guarded the Golden Apples of Hesperos; the Hydra - the many-headed dragon/serpent; The Chimaera; The Orthus a hell-dog; And the

Cerberus - an more famous of the hell-dog with three heads; The Crommyonian Sow; the Cancasus Eagle and finally the Nemean Lion. Echidna was at times definitely a creepy and scary monster Yet beautiful monster of sorts with her beautiful Nymph upper half on top. She live with her mate Typhon [this was the monster who had challenged all the Greek Gods and ended up under Mt. Aetna or having it thrown on top of him by Zeus himself in a cave in Scythia. Which ended the happy relationship between Echindna and Typhon. However as I have noted above Zeus allowed Echidna and her children future monsters to live in her home cave to challenge future heroes. In fact that is what happened in Greek history.. So my dears,

Readers, Friends and Followers I hope that you find this Mother of all Monsters Echidna interesting as

I did myself I hope to find more interesting tales & stories for you all .I love you all very much your WENDY

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Monday, September 8, 2014

Super Harvest Moon Last Night-

Harvest Moon Last Night-

SuperMoon In Seattle

Last night was an Super Moon which is called an Harvest Moon, the full moon that falls the closest to Autumnal Equinox.
Its considered to be the fullest moon that falls the closest to the earth the first day of autumn. This year it happens to be a super moon because it will be the closes to the earth last night 'Harvest Moon' and it won't happen again til the year 2017'. I myself got to see it last night and I must say it was beautiful hear in Seattle Washington. Standing in my garden we had a little family affair with my husband and my son around 6pm and then I check it out again at 12am and it was beautiful too. I could see the glow of my garden with the Harvest Moon. I hope that your folks all over the world had a peek at the Harvest Moon last night. Since we will have to wait till the next one til the year 2017..
How for a bit of history about the Harvest Moon - It seems that for many years farmers have taken advantage of the light of the Super moon after the sun had set. It allows them to work into the night to gather their Autumn harvest. Although last night will shed a bit more light on the farmers fields because the Harvest moon is a Supermoon'. This effect happens when the moons elliptical orbit brings it the closest to the Earth. I my research on SuperMoon we have had the total of 5-Supermoons! 2-in January; 1-July; 1-August and Now September, 9 2014 too. Now some say with these super full moons it coincides with natural disasters. And other believe that the appearance of these so many Supermoons within this year may trigger major disasters on our planet such as volcanic, enormous storms, earthquakes and even higher tides within the shorelines. The Native Americans and settlers of the south west would call the supermoon a huge moon of the summer the Comanche Moon. It has also been called at various times the Harvest Moon, Corn Moon, The Buck Moon and the Strugeon Moon. It's interesting with the Supermoon /Harvest Moon that we had Last night on September 9, 2014 had narrowly beat another October Full Moon Harvest Moon. It seems that if the September supermoon had happened 16hours earlier this year the October 2014 Full Moon would have claimed the Harvest Moon... So now it seem it was the last October Harvest Moon was Oct 4,2009 and the next one will occur in the year of 2017 of OCT 5.

I also discovered that all of us around the world will see the Supermoon Harvest Moon basically the same across the US and even from across the world. Which makes it quite unique in away if you think about! However, Some of us will see the Supermoon as a shining solitary splendor of glowing white, while others might see it as a big reddish moon low in the sky, even more might seen it low in the horizon as a splendor of glowing white moon just a bit smaller than some across the world. At any rate I hope that all of you were able to get a glimpse of the Supermoon last night, where ever you might be around thee world.

The image above is a shot I found of the Supermoon In Seattle where I am..

I love your all my dears,friends, readers and followers I hope your Monday is going well.

The link below is more info for you if you are more interested...

Minor lunar standstill lessens impact of 2014 Harvest Moon

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