Goddesses meaning

The powder was fused with NaOH, then treated with acid, and distilled. The acrid-smelling condensate contained a compound of a metal which was called osmium, and the residue contained a compound of a second metal which was called iridium. Os was named after the Greek word osme which means stench, and Ir was named after Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow. 

The Romans also imbued opium with mythical meanings. Roman mythology was full of references to the effects of opium. Somnus, the Roman god of sleep, was often envisaged as a boy carrying a handful of opium plants. Geres, the goddess of fertility, used the drug as a pain reliever. Perhaps the best evidence of... 

The scholars tell us that the term kali was probably derived by the Arabians from the Sanscrit. It appears to have been the Hindu name for a destroying goddess who had numerous arms and red-palmed hands her eyes were red, and her face and breasts were besmeared with blood. The name Calcutta is derived from Kalighat, meaning Kali s landing-place. ... 

The name comes from the Latin iris, meaning rainbow, which in turn comes from Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow. It was named 1803 by Smithson Tennant (1761-1815), who discovered it while working on ore from... 

Isis, Queen of magic, Goddess of Ten Thousand names. Goddess of love, truth, and beauty. Nuit, the Goddess of the night sky, whose name literally means heaven, is the Goddess often invoked in sex magic, where the return to primal unity requires union of male and female. 

The bee has continued through the millennia as a symbol of the soul s survival after death and limitless existence in the harmony of Golden Age of the world. However, the bee also had a very dark side. It remained a primary s5mibol of the Afro-Asiatic Triple Goddesses such as Demeter, Hecate, Persephone, Aphrodite and the pre-Indo-European aspect of Artemis. Arcadians worshipped both Artemis and Persephone under the name Despoina, which means mistress. 

Canaanite Ugaritic texts from the fourteenth century BCE call the two pillars cutter-twins. They are the Asherah poles called Shacharu and Shalim, meaning integration and completion respectively." These two pillars support the deathly net of Asherah, the most ancient of all mother goddesses. 

By means of the early rationalizations, Rosiemeians helped transform English Freemasonry from its literal Roman Catholie foeus into a common forum for all religions, espeeially Gnostie Christians and Jews. The blending of Rosiemeian Indo-Hittite myths expressed by Zoroastrianism together with Afro-Asiatie mysteries of the Mother Goddess is perhaps the major reason why the flavor of Freemasonry is so unique. 

In child sacrifice, the priestesses castrated a boy, tore him apart and consumed him in a Eucharist called the omophagia. Later, the priestesses baked his blood in baked barley cakes and ate the cakes in honour of the Barley Goddess.This is the esoteric meaning of barley cakes. 

The alchemists used various pictorial symbols to represent elements and stable compounds. Each of these symbols had a deep philosophical meaning, There are several alchemical symbols for copper, but one is the traditional symbol representing Venus, the Roman goddess of love (Figure 13.9). 

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