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The Wheel — a continuous double rotation with heavy wooden clubs, built for shoulder endurance and full upper-body coordination. One of Zurkhaneh's most demanding rituals. www.instagram.com

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【江の島　天王祭】

【Enoshima Tenno Festival — Traditional Summer Festivalat Yasaka Shrine】

We can see performance in the Cena as ritual given the fact that Trimalchio’s dinner was an oft-repeated event. Based on internal evidence, we know that those in attendance (aside from Encolpius and his friends) have seen the show before, perhaps multiple times. Also, the dining room itself is characterized as a sacred space as it must be entered right foot first (an enslaved member of the household stands by the dining-room door and reminds everyone to enter in a religiously respectable manner). Everything that takes place during the dinner, therefore, can be characterized as an imitation of ritual.

On a similar note, most argue that the performance ends when Trimalchio's wife, Fortunata, calls Trimalchio canis, "a dog", after he kisses one of the enslaved boys. Encolpius tells us that it was at this moment that the good nature of the dinner ended, but that does not necessarily mean the performance stopped, only that the tone of the performance shifted. The mood quickly becomes tragic as tears begin to flow: Fortunata cries, Trimalchio cries, and even Scintilla and Habinnas cry. The change in mood leads to Trimalchio's extended speech which doubles as an autobiography and ultimately his mock funeral. It seems unlikely that the mock funeral would have been introduced without the major shift in tone.

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The Annual Ancient Archetypal Ritual of the Winter Solstice~ 21/12

written by astrolocherry

“But the wind blew cold. The Sun Queen looked tired and old. We thought The Sun Queen was dead,” the Faeries answered her. “How can this little baby be the Sun Queen?”..... “That is the great secret of the Winter Solstice.” The Old Wise One touched the baby’s cheek with her wrinkled hand. “Every year the Sun Queen must come to the sacred grove during the darkest days of winter where She dies. I take Her spirit to the Mother who gives Her new life again. This is the way for all creatures, not just the Sun Queen.”

The annual ancient Solstice and Saturnalia festivals live on, exhibited by the celebratory symbols all surrounding and from within us at this time of year. The historic Saturnalia Festival was held in the Winter Solstice and marked the Sun's entrance into Capricorn. To the ancients, this time represented the death of a Sun, and the rebirth of an ‘Unconquerable Sun', as they witnessed the Sun's return from descent and paralysis into zenith and the warmth and life that followed. Darkness and night reconciles with the light of day. We take the good with the bad. Life and death become one. The wisdom of darkness and Saturnian melancholia is respected, revered, and harvested by the light. Our Tibetan mantra for the month of Capricorn goes, “Lost am I in Light Supernal, yet on that Light, I turn my back.” The elder finds the child. The young are given gifts from the old. The gift is the ultimate gift of life - the 'son', the 'sun' of God. You are the newborn Sun/Son.And this is why the Sun is the centrepiece of your horoscope. During this solstice period, one archetype that we embody is Pan as we recite and emulate this dual deity of spiritual light and spiritual darkness, and transition from mortal to immortal.

“The cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is built upon the ancient site of a Temple of Isis, and that the early Church very frequently availed itself of a so-called heathen opportunity to determine a Christian rite or a day of sacred remembrance. Even the establishing of Christmas Day on December 25th was so determined. Annie Besant tells us that: "He is always born at the winter solstice, after the shortest day in the year, at the midnight of the 24th December when the sign Virgo is rising above the horizon; born as this Sign is rising, he is born always of a Virgin, and she remains a Virgin after she has given birth to her Sun-child as the celestial Virgo remains unchanged and unsullied when the Sun comes forth from her in the Heavens. Weak, feeble as an infant is he, born when the days are shortest and the nights are longest...."

Another element of this ritual is part of this begins on Christmas Eve when we celebrate the second re-birth of Dionysus. This is a 12 day event where we make offerings, sing hymn's, and rejoice with intoxication, fruit, consume wine instead of water, and relish in a banquet. Dionysus is known as the spirit of the Christmas present who was recipient of 7 toys known as the toys of Dionysus. He is often depicted riding a chariot pulled by exotic beasts that transform into the sleigh and the reindeer. The ‘3 wise men’ followed a ‘star’ or ‘horoscope’ to find the child saviour. This is the ‘way’ in which your astrological chart can direct you through to your ultimate potential, so it may be a reaffirming gift to read and reflect on your own. Happy solstice, Love Cherry

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