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plants, with a similar appearance as satyrs. The Greek satyrs had animal ears, horns, the tail of a horse and a hairy body. Like and they were often depicted in an ityphallic form. The chief of satyrs was Silenus, a minor forest deity, with the ears, the taU and of a horse. and satyrs to the retinue of Dionysus. powers associated with their dark, demonic aspect - with their wild cries and night They steal and from shepherds and frighten the peasants. Satyrs were also called fauns, the name derived from the Roman Faunus, patron of shepherds and woodlands. from his benevolent and Faunus was also malicious and just like the Greek satyrs. His consort was the Fauna, worshipped by women as the Great Goddess. Their offspring were the Fatui, spirits of fields and woods that haunted human dreams - either future events or evoking ghoulish Also in we encounter the equivalent of Pan: the Min was presented in an ityphallic form, which points at his function of the of and sexuality. At the same time he was the of food and all herbs. In Egypt, however, there was also another ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, observes: "The Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods. Now in their painting and sculpture, the of Pan is made with the head and the of a as among the not he is to be in fact or unlike other but why him so, I have no wish to say. The Mendesians consider all goats the male even more than the female, and goatherds are held in estimation: one he-goat is most sacred of when he dies, it is ordained that there should be great mourning in all the Mendesian district. In the Mendes is the name both for the and for Pan."67 Pan was also included in the group of Dionysus' companions along with the the the and the maenads. Sometimes he was sexuality. the of nature, and All depictions of Pan and similar deities were horned, or at least connected with the animal - the symbol of wild, untamed nature. In ancient times horns virility and strength. They were the attribute of warriors and in some cultures they were placed on OrIot nh
that the of the word "hams" is similar to the term " crown", and originally the crown was a pointed diadem the same "tT,pn.:Tth as hams. The horns were also a common attribute of gods and the emblem of divinity. Among homed deities we can mention e.g. the Mesopotamian Adad or Anu, the Hathor, the Semitic the Nigerian god Ikenga, the old-Egyptian Satis, or the Celtic homed god Cernunnos. Also Moses was believed to come down from the mount Sinai with horns on his head.58 The most of the horns is that of phallic, masculine energy and strength. force and the primal, instincts. shape corresponds to the concept of the Kundalini, the energy described as a "Pl"npr,t coiled around the the vital force of creation and evolution. But hams are also the of the fertility and which particularly refers to the hams of a cow or The mythical Amalthea, who the stands for abundance and maternal powers. Goats were one of the first domesticated animals and were used in ceremonies and celebrations the fertility nature. This twofold symbolism of hom implies its hi",PY1'" character - and from the outside, and and rr'DT'I,t",o on inside. the hom is a lingam, the symbol of sexuality, the union of genders, the fertile force of nature.69 Another symbol of strength and vital that we find in Pan is his hair. In traditions hair represented vitality and virility. The the type of energy or its level: "Whereas hair on the because it grows on the top of the human body, symbolizes spiritual forces and can be equated, within the symbolism of water, with the 'Upper Ocean', body-hair is equivalent to the 'Lower Ocean', that is to say, it denotes the proliferation of the irrational power of the cosmos and of the instinctive life. This explains why the priests of many religions, the among them, shaved off all their hair. And it also explains why the of the devil was with Jegs."70 helret()re. the attributes of Pan - the the hairy body, and the phallus - represent fertility, untamed sexual energy, urge, and sexual and lewdness that is found in the universe and is a 68 this ae�iCTIlPtlCm is often attributed to a wrong translation material. 69 Juan Cirlot: A Dicti011!aru 70 Ibid. -124 -
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process of - and this process is To
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pY1nr� • .,.,iinn of man's proj
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man in a similar way. of clusters c
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Typhonian Tradition is rooted in an
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structures by the solar current. Fo
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Tree these entities reside on the a
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Sansenoi, and Semangelof, to bring
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Mehetabel daughter of and the is so
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Lilith is also associated with the
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Agrat - but these are rather her ri
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were as animals from time immemoria
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"Nagaraja", liKing of Serpents" . I
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worlds, embodying particular aspect
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the symbolism of the serpent has a
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instance, neutralP three essences -
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" I was, am now, and shall have no
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test. filled two vessels with mud,
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Taus is therefore also a of man: th
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Zoroastrianism The cult of the Wise
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monarchic emerged. The Persian myth
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The old Persian was unknown to the
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Yatukan Ritual of the Black Dragon
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Naonhaithya! Spirit of Discontent!
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qlipothic In his theories, Steiner
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The curved branches represent two h
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years in earth evolution. On such o
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putting a ring and a pentacle, and
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eturned and saw what happened, to e
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