Navratri (from another list)

[Guest guest]

hi,

 

this week has seen the Hindu festival of Navratri - the Nine Nights

of the Goddess Durga.

 

G from the group has been helping me to identify some deities in

ancient Anatolia, which may have some bearing on Avebury, if the

theory is accurate that farming originated in the Middle East/ SE

Europe, and

spread north, ultimately to Britain, about five thousand years ago.

 

so what is the connection? Durga is worshipped in India with nine

different types of plant 'Navapatrika' - one for each of her nine

divine

manifestations; Robert Graves presents the 'Hanes' or 'Song of

Blodeuwedd' - Brythonic goddess - in his poetic history entitled

the 'White Goddess', which mentions,

 

'Nine powers of nine flowers,

Nine powers in me combined,

Nine buds of plant and tree...'

 

apparently drawn from ancient Welsh source material. There are other

similarities as well - in the Mabinogion, two of three plants

mentioned in connection with the owl goddess Blodeuwedd are yellow:

flowers of broom and meadowsweet; and one of Durga's epithets is Maha

Gauri, 'the great golden one'.

 

is it just possible that the goddess of nine plants was first

worshipped in earliest agricultural Asia Minor and spread eastwards

to pre-Vedic India and north to Britain, where she may even have been

celebrated at the Great Circle of Neolithic Avebury, along with a

multitudinous pantheon of related deities?

 

bests,

 

ric

 

 

 

http://www.thewhitemoon.com/gallery/Blodeuwedd2.html

 

http://www.yoniversum.nl/dakini/navadurg.html

[Guest guest]

I believe that there was a place where everything started, for lack of

better words...then each culture basically did their own thing as far as how

to worship God/dess and whatnot. Just the similarities are so hard to

ignore. I personally expect all religions and cultures to eventually become

one again in the long, distant future. It is just my theory, though.

 

Of course, I could be wrong, but I am convinced that all used to be "one",

then spreaded into many, etc...

 

 

Blessings,

>"m6" <megalith6

>

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> Navratri (from another list)

>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:31:38 -0000

>

>

>hi,

>

>this week has seen the Hindu festival of Navratri - the Nine Nights

>of the Goddess Durga.

>

>G from the group has been helping me to identify some deities in

>ancient Anatolia, which may have some bearing on Avebury, if the

>theory is accurate that farming originated in the Middle East/ SE

>Europe, and

>spread north, ultimately to Britain, about five thousand years ago.

>

>so what is the connection? Durga is worshipped in India with nine

>different types of plant 'Navapatrika' - one for each of her nine

>divine

>manifestations; Robert Graves presents the 'Hanes' or 'Song of

>Blodeuwedd' - Brythonic goddess - in his poetic history entitled

>the 'White Goddess', which mentions,

>

>'Nine powers of nine flowers,

>Nine powers in me combined,

>Nine buds of plant and tree...'

>

>apparently drawn from ancient Welsh source material. There are other

>similarities as well - in the Mabinogion, two of three plants

>mentioned in connection with the owl goddess Blodeuwedd are yellow:

>flowers of broom and meadowsweet; and one of Durga's epithets is Maha

>Gauri, 'the great golden one'.

>

>is it just possible that the goddess of nine plants was first

>worshipped in earliest agricultural Asia Minor and spread eastwards

>to pre-Vedic India and north to Britain, where she may even have been

>celebrated at the Great Circle of Neolithic Avebury, along with a

>multitudinous pantheon of related deities?

>

>bests,

>

>ric

>

>

>

>http://www.thewhitemoon.com/gallery/Blodeuwedd2.html

>

>http://www.yoniversum.nl/dakini/navadurg.html

>

>

>

>

>

 

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