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    Wicca: religion resurrected, or contrived myth?

    The more I look into things involving Wicca, the more I have to wonder about it's history. I've read up on many forms of religion, because myth plays such an important role in many of them. There's nothing concrete to prove that Wicca is based on older ways and beliefs that have been preserved...
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    Templar mythology

    THE HIRAM KEY, by Knight and Lomas .... Christian historians do NOT like that book, and I can see why. There's a sequel of sorts, THE SECOND MESSIAH, which argues for the Shroud of Turin to be one Jacques DeMolay (a branch of the Masonic lodge wears his name today) and not Christ.... Anyways...
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    The nazis and the ocult.

    Many regions of the world developed their "own" version of a cross.... there's Celtic, Orthodox.... and the now-infamous swastika, which was among the most revered in it's time... that Hitler usurped it and gave it the negative connotation that it has today is an affront to history, and an...
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    Confusion regarding frigg and freya

    I believe that one of the first books on Norse myth that I read (understand, that's more than 30 yrs ago now) was German in it's origin. There's a lot of parallels in the worlds' myths, sometimes the only thing that's different is the names used in the tale!
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    Hair

    I wonder if the tale of Rapunzel would qualify? Her hair was what saved her, ultimately. ;)
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    Curious facts

    L'anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland, proves that Vikings were in North America more than 300 yrs before Columbus. There's norse runes carved into rocks in the area, too. Hugh Sinclair (St Clair) was in MA region before Columbus too.... he of the famous ROSSLYN CASTLE, knights Templar, and...
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    Crazy gas prices

    Vancouver, Canada, is selling gas for $1.35 per metric liter... that's $5.40 per US gallon, folks. UGH The cost of fuel is reflected in the local grocery stores... the cost of produce has sky-rocketed.
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    The slaem witch trials

    History tends to back that theory, and it makes sense, really. John Proctor was having an affair with his maid, and ended it when his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Proctor, became pregnant again. The maid's bitterness had her accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft ... John stepped up to defend his wife. She...
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    Confusion regarding frigg and freya

    I can't lay my hands on the book I read about it in, but the links below speak to it... http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/articlesSymbol.php?d=FriggAndFreya-0688.htm&p=34 QUOTE: One explanation for the confusion of Frigg with Freya is that the latter was identical with the former amongst...
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    Pregnancy myths/old wives tales

    I have a friend in Chicago... show her a picture of the mom-to-be, from the side, at about 6 months along: she'll tell you if it's a boy or a girl, and damned if she isn't ALWAYS right. That she has 8 of her own may have something to do with it. She just looks at the mom and how she's carrying...
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    The slaem witch trials

    I'm related to one of the families that figured in Salem. Ergotism from the bread given out during the church services, in combination with the very strict and boring lifestyle the Puritans lead, combined to create one of the biggest legal embarrassments in US history. My family was ruined...
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    Do you believe in forerunners?

    It's a form of precognition, isn't it? I know that I'm one of several females in the family that has such moments, most often dreams (bad ones) that come to be reality. Empaths are more likely to have the trait in a 'working' or 'apparent' form.
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    Omens

    I've encountered a lot of really neat "omens" and superstitions about sightings/happenings/occurences .... a Welsh tidbit about finding a bird in your home but having no idea of how it got in: someone you love is about to die. Some of the older families in the British Isles have haints of...
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    Favorite norse myth?

    It's something I read in a book, and because I've read so many at this point, I can't remember WHICH book I read it in... I'm pretty sure that it was an encyclopedia of norse mythology that I had out from the library, and I was actually up to the library to see if I could lay my hands on it...
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    How were you introduced to mythology?

    First by my father: Greek and Roman myths. I also studied bits and snippets through out my high school years as regards the Greek and Roman, it wasn't until a teen that I first encountered Norse myth, and that's funny because I'm norse!
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    Favorite norse myth?

    LegendofJoe, I'm sorry, but there's more than one source that claims Frigga and Freya were in fact confused and mixed up in that tale, that it was in fact Frigga that owned the necklace.... I'll see if I can find a link. I've read several authors' arguements for the confusion factor, and it...
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    Breaking mirrors

    I stumbled across that in a book, years ago, and then found myself looking into what it takes to make glass by hand: it's quite the process, and it does take a very very specific touch. No matter how good that touch, though, it can never be as flat and accurate as a machine-made mirror. Modern...
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    Favorite norse myth?

    Favorite myth.... hmmm, Frigga sleeping with the dwarves for her necklace.... it was Freya that was promiscuous, yet Frigga took on Freya's behaviour/traits to secure something she truly truly wanted. It's a reminder that even the best of us can make choices that seem incongruent at the time...
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    Breaking mirrors

    O wow, I actually know where this "myth" comes from, and I simply have to share. Centuries ago, mirrors were made by hand. The better the quality of the mirror, the higher it's price... and the rich were determined to have good quality reflective glass, not distorted imagery. It got to the...
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    Black cats: bad luck, good luck, or just cats?

    I was taught that we make our own luck: if you're having a rough 'go of things, look within, and see if there isn't something about how you look at things that could be lending itself to the complaint. :)
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