Author: Corbid Ravenous

Literally, this is all my baby says right now. She waves and says “hello” to everything and everyone in sight. Pets, people, toys, television characters, pieces of toast…

In Irish Gaelic literature, folklore, and mythology, a legendary heroine. Deirdre, who was renowned for her beauty, was brought up by Conchobar, King of Ulster, who planned to marry her. However, she fell in love with his nephew No�se and they fled to Scotland, accompanied by his two brothers. Emissaries of the king induced them to return to Ireland, and when they did, Conchobar had the three brothers treacherously killed. Deirdre then died of grief.

This story is told in the Ulster Cycle and inspired many later playwrights, poets and writers, such as William Butler Yeats, and forms the basis of J. M. Synge’s play Deirdre.

“Deirdre.” Encyclopedia Mythica.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/deirdre.html

[Accessed October 07th, 2003.]

FOUR OF STAVES

This card is a herald of success drawing on apace. Good financial opportunities. As for your health, don’t forget that talking can be releasing and healing. This card also stresses the importance of friends .

SEVEN OF COINS

This represents the circulation of wealth and material goods. It predicts money coming and going in a steady and regular flow. Thus, you won’t accumulate possessions. Reason is stronger now than feelings or it analyses them. Emotional therapy, psychotherapy. Love is androgynous, ambivalent, platonic.

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Saturday, October 04, 2003

Persephone (pur-SEF-uh-nee) Beautiful daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Carried off to the Underworld by Hades. Sometimes considered an Olympian. She paroled Sisyphus from the Underworld. Peirithous and Theseus attempted to abduct her.

Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was the goddess of springtime and, after her abduction by Hades she became his wife and Queen of the underworld for six months of each year. The mint and pomegranate is sacred to her.

Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful girl that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. When she was a little girl, she and the Oceanids were collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, when suddenly the earth opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. None but Zeus had noticed it. Broken-hearted, Demeter wandered the earth, looking for her daughter until Helios, the all-seeing, revealed what had happened. Demeter was so angry that she withdrew herself in loneliness, and all fertility on earth stopped. Finally, Zeus sent Hermes down to Hades to make him release Persephone. Hades grudgingly agreed, but before she went back he gave Persephone a pomegranate to eat, thus she would always be connected to his realm and had to stay there one-third of the year.

# posted by corbid @ 5:07 PM

Runes of the Day

Raido

This rune represents travel or movement. This can mean a journey through life itself, a pilgrimage, quest or a spiritual one towards enlightenment. It can mean information in the form of a message both received and given. Changes will operate at all levels when this Rune appears.

Isa

This rune represents freezing, coolness within friendships or relationships, inactivity, stagnation and waiting. Your plans may have to be put on hold or remain as they are until a more favourable time. Patience will be needed.

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Myth of the Day :Ariadne of Naxos

Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos of Crete, who attacked Athens after his son was murdered there. The Athenians submitted and had to sacrifice 14 youths to the Minotaur in his labyrinth every year. She fell in love with Theseus, a young man who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur, and helped him by giving him a magic sword and a ball of thread so that he could easily find his way out. She ran away with Theseus after he achieved his goal. But he left her sleeping on the island of Naxos, and Dionysus wedded her himself.

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Tarot Cards Of The Day:

Ace of Stones: Health. Prosperity. Beauty. Good weather.

Five of Stones (Material Difficulty): Wintry times. Money troubles. Illness. Isolation.

hmmm…opposites…

Wednesday, October 01, 2003

“O foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After having disobeyed my mother’s commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice you seem to think preferable to mine. I inflict no other punishment on you than to leave you for ever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion.” So saying, he fled away, leaving poor Psyche prostrate on the ground, filling the place with mournful lamentations.

# posted by corbid @ 11:26 PM

Tarot Cards of the day:

Strength: Inner strength. Love and gentleness. Confidence. Ability to give love.

Seven of Wands (Courage): Courage and daring – possibly, the courage to retreat. Using one’s power for transformation.

# posted by corbid @ 11:26 PM

Bulfinch’s Mythology, The Age of Fable – Chapter 11: CUPID AND PSYCHE

# posted by corbid @ 11:25 PM

Myth of the Day (Norse)

Brunhilde:

A mighty female warrior, one of the Valkyries, and a heroine from the German epics, especially in the Nibelungen saga, in which she is a Icelandic princess. She defied Odin and in punishment he imprisoned her within a ring of fire on earth, decreeing that there she would remain until a brave hero rescued her. Siegfied (Sigurd) braved the fire, broke her charmed sleep, and fell in love with her. He gave her the ring, Andvarinaut, unaware of its curse. Eventually she kills herself when she learns that Sigurd had betrayed her with another woman (Gudrun), not knowing he had been bewitched into doing so by Grimhild.

“Brunhilde.” Encyclopedia Mythica.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brunhilde.html

[Accessed September 29th, 2003.]

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Classical Deity of the day:Pan

The Greek god of shepherds and flocks, who was especially popular in Arcadia. He is a son of the god Hermes. He was depicted as a satyr with a reed pipe, a shepherd’s crook and a branch of pine or crown of pine needles. He had a wrinkled face with a very prominent chin. On his forehead were two horns and his body was hairy. He was a swift runner and climbed rocks with ease. Pan belonged to the retinue of Dionysus. Pan was also a god of fertility, unbridled male sexuality and carnal desire. He chased nymphs through the forests and mountains in the shape of a goat. Pan was not very liked by the other Greek gods.

“Pan.” Encyclopedia Mythica.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/pan.html

[Accessed September 25th, 2003.]