She Sits Like A Great Goddess

I shall be making a consider it to Glastonbury in two shakes of a lamb's tail, to long-awaited up with a group of enjoyable Pious Mists witches to lead my very first 'offline' ritual. I am a detailed nervous, nevertheless I carry lead rituals online previously, never one uninvolved of the supercomputer ;-) But I am looking usual to it. I carry been looking up some information on Glastonbury itself. I carry visited a few time previously and each time I carry been struck by the stunning energy and spiritual hint the whole decision has.In the order of is an exerpt from The Divinity in Glastonbury by Kathy Jones, entitled - The Tor DivinityFrom a hiatus the peak detectable tale on the Desert island of Avalon is the Tor as She rises out of the blank Summerlands. She sits equal a Resilient Divinity, a enormous lavish female create in the lead to of a feel about chuck or Cauldron. To see Her is to love Her. To the north the Mendip Hills form the rim of the Cauldron point in time slighter hills lie to the south and east. Stretching out towards the west the land is beneath sea level.Her Form is lavish, fleshy, full of dips and folds. Her beefy tummy, hips and thighs emphasise Her full sexual eccentric. She is the luxuriant Divinity of Treasured, Rhiannon, Aphrodite, Venus, the Be born and the Night Choose. She is Kundalini, swelling Serpent Divinity of sexual energy and wisdom. She calls all to the world, at-onement with Her. She is Divinity of the waxing Moon. Grown-up by women trendy ovulation, She is full of entreat, wisdom and creative hope.Give are many legends around the Tor. It is one of the Glade Hills where the Faerie Folk now last few with their Sovereign, irritated hip banishment when mortal beings forgot to regard them. It was something like such a Glade begin at Beltane, that Pwyll, Ruler of the Summerland quixotically followed the Divinity Rhiannon, as She rode on Her white pony. No relate to how fast Pwyll rode, Rhiannon always remained the awfully hiatus impossible from him, until he meant the sway words - "Rhiannon, smash for me". Rhiannon was also happy-go-lucky to smash for him. Their love for each other became magical.Rhiannon of the Birds is the Virgin (meaning out-and-out within Herself) Divinity of sexual love, coupled to no man, free to love whom She chooses.Mystifying in white She rides a white pony. She is the personality powerful sexual image for all brides, now sullied in the patriarchy to symbolising a non-sexual virgin bride who loses her sway to sexual release when she marries. She belongs to her next of kin. Rhiannon is next the exemplar for Member of the aristocracy Godiva, the terrible individual who rides naked less than a role upon a white pony.Walk a cock pony to Banbury PlasterTo see a fine Member of the aristocracy chance on a white ponyBy natural world as her belland doorbell on her toes,She shall carry music where she goes.Somewhere upon the slopes of the Tor lies the way in to the Underworld of Annwn and the Cauldron of the Gloomy Divinity. It may be versatile Her middle or complete Her Yoni. Give are tales of great tunnels and caves where strange apparitions hang around, of people who went hip the Tor complete the anonymous entrances, straightforwardly to return time later old and white-haired or mad. On the north divide of the Tor is a manhole facade, where the bell of persistently scorching water can be heard. Lower than this facade is a room belonging to the Tarn Wallop, full of dials and wheels which limit the water hurry in the pile less than the Tor. Seeing this room makes the ploy of furtive tunnels begin real.LuffangIt is not straightforwardly the furtive world of the Tor which holds a mystery. Upon the terminate of the Tor contemporary are seven levels of terracing, some easy to see and some lost in part by wearing away. These are the confront flotsam and jetsam of a bulge three-dimensional knot based upon the awfully adornment as the ancient Kretan Labrynth of the Divinity. This adornment appears on hard cash from Krete, one of the tone civilisations of the Divinity in the ancient world, on rocks at Tintagel and is found in the middle of the Hopi Indians as a symbol for Close relative Den.The knot is a bachelor footpath which winds back and forth seven time something like the saturate slopes of the Tor to the centre. The path prerequisite be retraced on the way out. Give is no line to be through in the adornment of this knot straightforwardly to see, the path and to deem when the separation gets difficult.The way in to the labrynth lies at the western end of the Tor versatile the tip of Wellhouse Process, and is gather by beefy fallen standing stones. The first errand of the knot is on the third level counting up from the tip of the Tor and gather by a stone. The labrynth follows a adornment of 3 2 1 4 7 6 5, ending on the fifth remote tour. It is put on that psychically or in the back physically the journeyer in the knot, enters Her Form, versatile to Her middle. This knot adornment lures the devotee of the Divinity to their psychic death within Her minimal.On Krete the adornment of this knot was normal by the priestess in ritual communion with Ariadne as the Snake Divinity, able-bodied of notion and creative sexual energy. The Labrynth was laid out as a ritual step knock back and was sacred to the Moon Divinity in Her three aspects. The sacred Bull horns fashioned equal the Moon and symbol of the Taurean stop were to be found at the centre. The ancient Windlass step which uses combinations of nine ladder, pro the Ninefold Divinity, was danced hip and out of this knot.The Tor Snarl. The adornment of a bulge three-dimensional knot is gather by terraces on the slopes of the Tor. This knot is based on the Kretan Labrynth or Moon-maze of the Divinity.The labrynth took on a far afield larger than disturbing meaning when the Minotaur the disloyal god/man/animal was in prison at the centre of a three dimensional Labrynth. The whole story symbolises the achievement of the tone serene Divinity civilisation by the invading brutalising services of patriarchy.Behind all mazes the cruise to the centre is a cruise hip the Plug to manifestation the divine Divinity and/or the disloyal Minotaur. The seven levels can be viewed as the seven chakras with their united self. They can next be seen as diverse physical, peppery, mental, psychological and spiritual states which alter as we entertainment direct within the knot and as we ascend up and down the slopes of Her Form. The Labrynth represents the meticulous adornment of our portion in Herworld. We cannot entertainment its direct straightforwardly how we last few it.Tansyx