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Oh, and men on the spiritual path fall under the opposite statistical scenario?.. So comforting to know. It's only women who get fucked up by choosing the spiritual path, or alternatively, the spiritual path is laid down just so as to fuck up only women. Well, we women have it made then. Exemplary specimens of mental, emotional and physical health is all we'll encounter in our endeavor to mate with a spiritually slanted male. Hooray.

On the other Foote we have different toes, but they don't go to war

By "neither real nor fake" I mean transmitted in dreams, visions, "channeling," etc..? I have noticed intriguing stylistic similarity between the sigils of the zonei and the sigils of the Voodoo deities. It vowed me at first but then I found out that Simon the publisher was a researcher of many things magickal, including Afro-Caribbean religio-magical traditions. I'd feel a tad more intrigued if he wasn't, though of course it's no proof of a hoax in and of itself. On the other hand, the preface lists Peter Levenda as one of the translators -- his work I know pretty well and have no reasons to suspect of any hoaxes. However, he collaborated on Necronomicon over 30 years ago, so who knows what he was like back then?.. Anyone with any substantiated opinions and/or experience? (No, "Lovecraft says he made it up, ergo it's fake" does not qualify as a substantiated opinion, because practitioners of the craft in general and of the dark arts especially seldom tell any truth at all about anything whatsoever to the general public.) ?

This must be yummy, I love doing stuff with cauliflower. But microwave ovens were launched by the devil's apprentice. Respectful bows to the Old Gods and humble apologies to the Ancient Ones for another distraction.

I've always said that wheat is the devil.

Mark, can't see the pic!

No, no. "I" was first, "you" have always been second. Chicken and egg, bro. Chicken and egg, bro, A salmon called Mary-Ann remains Mary-Ann. Remains Mary-Ann has turned into! But the cat loves her just the same. Loves her just the same, Mary-Ann turned sashimi. Even with ginger.

That's very generous, Mary-Ann's man!

I like ginger, though my cat makes a face and says it spoils sashimi

"In the underground tomb of Fan Yen-Shih, d. A.D. 689, two painted silk veils show the First Ancestors of the Chinese, their entwined serpent bodies rotating around the invisible vertical axis mundi. Fu Hsi holds the set-square and plumb bob … as he rules the four-cornered earth, while his sister-wife Nü-wa holds the compass pointing up, as she rules the circling heavens. The phrase kuci chü is used by modern Chinese to signify “the way things should be, the moral standard”; it literally means the compass and the square." And, yes, those are the sun and the moon .

Nuwa an Fuxi in the second picture actually show where they come from. Those little connected circles around them, they are not decorations, they are constellations. Some are recognizable, e.g. Fuxi has the Big Dipper over his shoulder (if you look closely, it is complete with two stars to the left and to the right of the handle, these stars used to be visible in the sky but then became invisible. Taoist texts assert that cultivators of a certain level can see them again.) Nuwa has the Little DIpper over her head. Its orientation does not look the same as in modern times, but it does seem to point where it always points -- to the North Pole Star. People who know more (e.g. a taoist in Xi'an in whose little Museum of Acupuncture I saw this picture for the first time) recognize more of the constellations and their connection to Chinese astrology (of which there are several major systems and the one dealing with stars and planets analyzes some 60 of them.) Then you take a look at the tools they're holding -- don't they look familiar? Where did the freemasons get theirs d'you reckon?

Read some more of it, and now I understand what Nungali may have meant when he said he "fixed it" in application. It is full of booby traps! Not suitable for a beginner or dabbler, can trip someone experienced too, easily. Regardless of whether it is a transmission or a compilation, it is primarily a test, woe to whoever fails. There's another herb mentioned, forget its Necronomicon name but that one I know -- peony -- and the Necronomicon suggests to use it when summoning an entity from the realm against which this herb is "normally" used specifically to repel rather than attract entities of that nature. What will happen if you invoke a very great and short-tempered power, not known for its benevolence, and as soon as it shows up, squirt it with pepper spray? Ugh. Dangerous stuff.

Halloween so close! Make a dentist's appointment, fill all hollows in.

Before you do, would you please help me ascertain that I understand you correctly -- are you saying that Los Angeles is in Africa?..

Well, yeah. But thank you. And as to whether they practice kunlun, some of them are in on it, though I wouldn't say they practice it, more like, if you practice it, they may establish a line of communication if you are of interest to any of them. (And then just hope it's the "right kind" you are of interest to rather than the wrong kind. ) One has to keep in mind that even here on earth we are dealing with species hundreds of millions of years older than our own. A lot can happen in a time period hundreds of millions of years longer than our own. I recently listened to a Tibetan lama teaching communication with the nagas. The subject of the lecture was attracting wealth. In Dzogchen (Tibetan Buddhist tradition) they use nagas for this purpose. The purpose is not seen as good or bad in and of itself -- how you will handle the wealth you attract is what will make or break your virtue. He said that they are a bit like mafia, nagas are, and mafia started out to right the wrongs but proceeded to commit quite a few wrongs of their own in the process. He asserted that if you establish contacts with them (he teaches how), you have to keep in mind that you are asking favors of a gang, a power that is akin to organized crime whose activities can, however, be legitimized in some cases. They are much like armies, which are thought of as legitimate units of power by most governments and their constituents, whereas another way to look at them is, they are nothing but organized crime that has gained mainstream acceptance, usually by force. Serving the nagas is like serving in the army -- can be used for good or for bad.

Indeed. When I first came here, the shuttle from the airport to my destination was boarded by a Native American in full traditional costume, with fringes, feathers, many rings on his fingers (I do remember one shaped as a lizard, turquoise, quite startlingly huge). I didn't know what to think -- Hollywood spilling over into airport shuttles, or something quite common you'd see around here on a daily basis? Now that I've been living here for a number of years, I know it's not common -- in fact, I never saw another person looking like this ever again. So, the guy on the shuttle was talking to some people, explaining he was a chief of a certain tribe but also a professor of some university (both names, the tribe and the university, elude me), on a visit to give some lectures at a local one. Then he turned to me and said, "Oh and by the way, you think you have troubles but it's nothing, really nothing, believe me. What you came here for will work out. I promise you. I guarantee it." I thought, "God damn Hollywood, hippie happy happy joy joy dressed-up make-believe prophets, god damn it all to hell." He laughed, and then got off and was gone. Two ways to see the episode, the way I saw it then and the way I see it now, are not even of the same dimension.

In 1876, Heinrich Schliemann who believed that Greek mythology was rooted in historical facts wound up digging up Troy. How is researching Native American mythology in the same tradition of inspired archeology different, or insulting to one's intelligence?

_/\_ Ganying strikes again!

Yup. And my favorite metaphor for "the whole is not the sum total of its parts" is ice cream. Despite the name containing both words, it's neither ice nor cream, neither ice with cream nor cream of ice, neither iced cream nor creamy ice, neither icy cream nor creamed ice, neither cream made of ice nor ice made of cream. One lick and you know what it is though.

Once did, long ago, once you did throw thunderbolts. Now you throw three coins.

LOL!