wisdom of the ancients.

our tribal ancestors cross culturally would have very similar celebrations which involved the ritual of becoming inebriated (to become drunk or any other altered state) and these annual events were usually in honor of celestial movements in they sky. our ancestors were extremely in tune with the cycles of the earth and how it revolves, revealing patterns with the sun moon and the constellations. what is interesting about this is that all monotheistic religions theoretically can base their entirety to these ancient belief systems that involve visible celestial bodies, cosmic events and our relationship with entheogenic plant life. one of the most ancient traditional esoteric teachings that circulated amongst various mystery schools during the 16th century, is the notion that "on earth as it is in heaven" or "as above so below". this simple teaching acknowledges the idea of polar opposites that create a whole (ying, yang, microcosm and macrocosm) this can be displayed by playing octaves on a piano, they may not resonate the same frequency but they are able to harmonize with eachother. one really good example of how the ancients represented this idea of polar opposites is the scandinavian symbol of the tree of yggdrasil which depicts a tree with branches above and branches of roots below in the ground. it is also interesting to note that mesoamerican cultures also have symbolic representations of the "world tree".

the animal constelations in the sky that make up the zodiac are zoomorphisms that were revered as gods by people who beleived in ancient astrology. these zoomorphisms can be looked upon as projections of our selves, (as above so below). the attributes we apply to these constelations dwell whithin us all. these celestial representations were written whithin metaphors and poetics which ultimately breathed life into these symbols to help us understand the concepts we created. the same thing occurs when we anthropomorphize these celestial bodies into the gods we base our religions upon. we create these gods in the likeness of ourselves and in the likeness of natural phenomena, for example we have fertility goddeses, sun gods, moon gods, gods that represent death, so on and so forth. (as above so below). murals or other forms of artwork of these anthropormized deities are merely characters, what is truly inportant is there appearance and their attributes that they aquire given by humans. was it isnteresting to the least is that cross culturally, societies that worshipepd the son also ascribed a charachter to anthropomorphize it in myth, judeo/christian, islam, egyptian, mayan, olmecs, toltecs, varous other native american tribes, sumerians, assyrians, persian and many others have deitic representations. what is really interesting is the fact that many of the same attributes are equally applied to this sun god deity. for example, christ and horus were both birthed from a virgin.

scientifically it is the rotation of the tilting of the earhs axis that causes the sky to move as it does, this single handedly has become the foundation for many mystic belief. if you were to take a timelapse photgraph of the north star you will see that it appears that the stars surrounding it appear to be rotating around the north star, or the stars on an easter horizon would appear to be rising as the sun does. this cyclical moving of cosmic bodies became mapped and were used as tools for human beings. for example, at morning during the spring time, the sun rises abov ethe horizon and is in front of pisces, in autumn the sun is still in the same position in the sky during that particular time of day. during winter the sun appears to be lower o nthe horizon during the same time it was previously during spring and autumn. this position change occurs when he sun is in the house of scorpio as it has brought death and the coming of winter. it has been interpereted as being the deciever as it looks right into you as it strikes you with its venomous tail. in correlation, the decsiple judas as one of the twelve apostles (scorpio in the zodiac) is depicted giving christ teh kiss of death symbolizing the death of the sun and the coming of winter. on the day of the winter solctice, the sun stops its descent and for three days it rises in the same place until after the third day it begins its slow ressurection as teh days get longer. doesnt this sound familiar?......

to be continued.