#spiritus

[khorusia]

Spiritus - He made several poor decisions in his life. Later, he will become a daddy.

[kejklir]

na téma 'za zdí' pro český časopis spiritus

[wind-tied]

some rocky shore characters

lummock, hwen, creigh, tadhg, and lemet (plus uncolored boazu)

[tides-of-truth]

When "what is life?" became "who am I?"

Matriarchy & Patriarchy

The arcane words related to breath across languages & cultures are rooted in a tacit understanding of the question "what is life?".

The life principle is associated with the feminine / with Shakti.

The apparent different words for "what is life?", have grown on branches on a tree from an ancient common seed - - from the same underground soil / the deep unconscious / the underworld.

The myth of Persephone is about picking flowers & fruits in the upperworld but having accepted & received seeds in the underworld. On one level the myth is about the turn of the wheel of the seasons / the circle of LIFE, but read in another way it is about receiving knowledge in the underworld that allows the upperworld to flourish. 'Something' is drawn up from the underworld to flourish in the upperworld.

The cycle of LIFE is a much deeper reality & mystery / occult knowledge to be experientially remembered.

Arcane, primeval knowledge is always handed to the underworld journeyer to be brought to the living. Like Inanna you can't enter the underworld clothed with a body. Like Ramana Maharishi demonstrated, we either sit the body down or we lie down, so as to die to the upperworld / the land of the living & we sink down into what we are- on the currents of prana / the life force / the Serpent of the Deep / that takes us deep into the stream of life itself or the Self, we drift to the centre of what we are.

In the Eastern tradition a mantra

may be given that rides on the

tides of the breath to the center, the fountainhead of LIFE.

Understanding has evolved from the notion of vital breath, to eternal Soul, supreme Spirit, the Self or consciousness but are but different pointers to a reality that is so vast, that no single word can fully contain it. The words are seeds that inwardly grow into true knowledge through experiencing their meaning directly.

The mysteries of old facilitated the experience of true knowledge.

[swordduels]

Here's an illustration depicting a nordic folklore creature named spiritus from the book Nordiska väsen by Johan Egerkrans. A spiritus is usually a bug like creature to be man made by a witch. In order to make one the person has to make a contact with evil forces like the Devil. One way to create one was by fishing with a human bone 3 thursday nights in a row. During the third thursday there will a nasty insect on the hook, that is the spiritus. Another way was to have rooster egg in one's armpit until the spiritus flies out...a rooser in folklore normally lay one egg in a year :''3 A spiritus usually lives inside a small wooden box and would be fed each morning with...spit. As long as the spiritus is feed it will stay and give the owner riches. It's also important to feed it before having breakfast and to never place tobacco inside the wooden box. The spiritus will fly away to the Devil or take a nasty revenge on the owner. The riches made is actually a loan from the Devil himself. It was important to sell the spiritus before dying or one would be sent to hell. If one has bought a spiritus that had been sold twice they would be stuck with the spiritus and therefore be sent to hell after death...

@estarion This was the creature I was thinking of when I saw the gif set with the tadpole thing :3

[ethernalium]

[aurahouse]

As the moon transits Capricorn...