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The beauty of your face Glitters when you rise Oh come in peace. One is drunk At your beautiful face, O Gold, Hathor. From a hymn to the goddess
Hathor, Egypt,
18th Dynasty
Nor would I pass by thee in
silence. Larentia, nurse of so great a nation … Your honour will
find its place when I come to tell of the Larentalia; that festival
falls in December, the month dear to the mirthful spirits (genii). Ovid; Fasti, 111. 57
I
am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I
was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook
kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of
manufacturing hair goods and preparations ... I have built my own
factory on my own ground. Sarah Breedlove (Madam CJ Walker),
African-American businesswoman and philanthropist, born on December
23, 1867; to theNational Negro Business League Convention,
July, 1912
There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. Madam CJ Walker
I got my start by giving myself a start. Madam CJ Walker
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell(1872 - 1970); on December 23, 1954, the
British philosopher broadcast on 'Man's Peril' – the H-bomb
Note: The
solstice (Yule) can occur either on December 21 or
22.
In the Book of Days, our information is on December 22.
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Christmas page at the Scriptorium.
Also, this Book of Days has Christmas Eve
folklore from many lands.
December
23 is the only blank day of the Celtic tree calendar,
and the only day in the year not ruled by a tree and its corresponding Ogham letter.
Its name denotes the quality of potential in all things.
The unhewn stone has significance outside the
Celtic neopagan tradition. The Freemasons refer in their secret rites to
the unhewn stone, the stone that has not been cut by iron. The Biblical
Hebrew patriarch and predecessor of Solomon, Enoch, is an important
Masonic character. He received the gift of wisdom and knowledge from God
and was learned in astronomy and astrology. After receiving God's true
name in a dream, Enoch's vision continued and he was taken vertically
through nine arches into a subterranean vault that contained a triangular
plate of gold upon which was written the name of God. Enoch took the dream
as a sign from God and after a long journey through Canaan, or the Holy
Land, he excavated nine chambers or 'apartments' vertically into the
earth, each covered with an arch, and the lowest hewn out of solid rock.
In this apartment he placed an alabaster pedestal and mounted upon it a
cube of agate into one side of which he had sunk a triangular plate of
gold inscribed with the name of Deity.
Above the chambers, he built a modest temple of
unhewn stones with a secret passage into the apartments under a stone with
a ring through it.
When
Moses returned to his people from Mt Sinai, he was told by God to
construct an altar for Him, of simple and pure unhewn stone. The
foundations of that altar were to be made of rock upon which no iron had
come.
The Bible provides us with the reason for unhewn
stones, for Yahweh (the Hebrew God) commanded His altars to be such:
And
if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of
hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted
it. Exodus
20:25
Candidates into the
Rosicrucian order traditionally stand on a carpet upon which an unhewn
stone appears opposite
to the planet Saturn. The unhewn stone is like the stone which Jacob
set up at Bethel when his dream of a ladder, on which angels were
ascending and descending, turned his lonely bed into a house of god and a
gate of heaven.
Early idols
The earliest physical
representations of deities were made simply, often of uncut rock.
According to Pausanias,
the Greek traveller and
geographer of the 2nd century CE, the Greeks originally used
unhewn stones to represent their gods and goddesses, thirty of which
Pausanius says he saw in the city of Pharae. These stones were cube-shaped, and because most of them were dedicated to the god
Hermes, or
Mercury, they received the generic name of Hermae.
Celtic
Tree Calendar Months
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The first date is the one with the article for the month
The Stone of Scone: A famous rough-hewn stone
A famous rough-hewn
stone from the British Isles is the Stone of Destiny, also known as the Stone
of Scone, and the Coronation
Stone (the picture at left shows a ring in it; note the same in Enoch's
stone, above). It is a block
of sandstone
historically kept at the now-ruined abbey in Scone, near Perth, Scotland. It is also known as Jacob's
Pillow and as the
Tanist Stone.
In Celtic mythology, the Lia Fail or the
Cloch na Fail was a
magical stone brought to Ireland by the Tuatha de Danaan. When the rightful King of
Ireland put his feet on it, the stone was said to roar in joy. This is
believed to be the origin of the Stone of Destiny.
Traditionally,
it is supposed to be the stone which Jacob used as
a pillow. It was originally supposed to have been used as the Coronation
Stone of the early Dalriada Scots when they lived in Ireland.
When they invaded Caledonia, it is said to have been taken with them
for that use. Certainly, since the time of Kenneth Mac Alpin at around 847, Scottish
kings were seated upon the stone during their coronation ceremony. At this
time the stone was situated at
Scone, a few miles north of Perth.
For all its
emotional significance to so many people, the Stone of Scone, as it is
most popularly called, isn't much to look at. It is a rather
plain-looking block of rough-hewn, reddish sandstone measuring 66 cm
(26") long, by 40 cm (16") wide, by 28 cm (11") high, and weighing
152 kg (336 lb). It has only one inscription, a Latin cross, which gives
no clue as to the Stone's heritage.
Cambray, in his Monuments
Celtiques, claimed to have seen the stone when it bore the prophetic
Latin inscription:
Ni fallat fatum,
Scoti quocumque locatum
Invenient lapidiem,
regnasse tenetur ibidem – variously translated as
Fate hath designed
That wheresoe'er this Stone
The Scots shall find,
There they shall hold the Throne.
Or,
If the Destiny prove true,
then the Scots are known
to have been Kings
where'er men find this stone.
Also,
Except old seers do feign and wizard wits be blind, the Scots in place must reign where they this stone shall find.
According
to one old chronicler, "no king was ever wont to reign in Scotland
unless he had first, on receiving the royal name, sat upon this stone at
Scone, which by the kings of old had been appointed to the capital of
Alba".
The ritual of
crowning Scots monarchs while they are seated on the Stone of Scone has
been practised for more than 1,000 years, in fulfilment of the ancient
prophecy .
But where did this lump of rock, with all its
significance, come from? One theory has it that the Stone originates from the Middle East
and was subsequently brought to Scotland, arriving in the British Isles
around 850 CE. Another says the
sandstone block was quarried on the West Coast of Scotland near Oban,
while yet another says that it comes from the Irish Kingdom of Dalriada
which existed from around 400 CE to about 850 CE.
Legend
claims that it is the very stone that the Biblical Jacob used as a pillow
at Bethel and then anointed and erected as a pillar. Later, it became the
pedestal of the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple at Jerusalem, whence it
found its way to Syria. The remarkable stone was taken from Syria to Egypt
by one Gathelus, who, in order
to escape the plague, was then advised by Moses to set sail from the Nile
with his wife and the Stone of Destiny, which he did, the fabulous rock
thus arriving in Spain. From there, Gathelus sent the stone to Ireland
after he had invaded that country, and it was later removed to Scotland
where it stayed in Scone Abbey until Edward I of England carried it off to
Westminster Abbey in England in 1296.Seven
centuries after it was stolen, on St Andrew's Day, November 30,
1996, Scotland's coronation stone, the Stone of Destiny, was finally installed in
Edinburgh Castle.
In dispute Whether that stone is
the real Lia Fail, the true Stone of Destiny, however, is in some dispute.
Some say that the true stone is a Shivaite Hindu
lingam-shaped one
in a field
in County Meath, Ireland (pictured), on the
Hill of Tara,
and it looks nothing like the rock in Edinburgh Castle. Whatever its
true provenance, and wherever the fabled rough-hewn stone really is today,
which we are likely never to know, the fabled Stone of Scone has had a
strange history and continues to exert a powerful influence on the lives
of many.
"Archaeologists believe that the Druids probably used as
altars and temples the stone monuments known as dolmens (a type of
prehistoric chamber consisting of two or more large, unhewn, stone slabs
set edgewise in the earth and supporting a huge flat capstone which
serves as its roof. Dolmens were often covered with immense artificial
hillocks and were surrounded with a circle of more large unhewn stone
slabs that was known as a cromlech.) that are found throughout the areas
where Druidism flourished."Source
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In Egyptian
mythology, Hathor
is the mother goddess and goddess of love of ancient Egypt. She was
worshipped c. 2700 BCE or possibly earlier, to c. 400 CE, in a cult
that flourished in Ta-Netjer ('Land of God' – modern day
Dendera, or Dendara) in Upper Egypt, as well as Thebes and Giza, and
her priests included both men and women.
Other
names for Hathor are Het-Hert, Athyr and Hetheru. Her name appears
to mean 'house of
Horus', a reference to her role as a sky
goddess, the 'house' denoting the heavens depicted as a great
cow. (At the temple of Queen
Nefertari at
Abu Simbel, Nefertari is shown as Hathor, and
her husband Ramses II is shown in one sanctuary receiving milk from
Hathor the cow.) Hathor was often regarded as the mother of the
Egyptian pharaoh, who styled himself the 'son of Hathor'. During
the Old Kingdom she assumed the properties of an earlier bovine
goddess,
Bat. She is an ancient goddess and appears to
have been mentioned as early as the 2nd Dynasty.
Hathor
existed for the entire history of the ancient Egyptian culture as a
powerful and influential deity.
She was goddess of death, and the cow goddess. Her father is the sun
god Ra
(or Re). She was often described as mother of all pharaohs. In
myth, she is referred to as both Ra's Mother and his Daughter,
serving as both his purpose to continue his daily cycle (the
progression of the sun through the sky), and alternatively as an
agent of his will. In the 'daughter' aspect, she sits upon
Ra's brow as a coiled cobra, breathing flames and venom at his
enemies …
A festival in honour of Larenta(Acca Larentia), the wife of Faustulus and the nurse of
Romulus and Remus, or the she-wolf that suckled them. She was also
called Lupa on account of her 'loose morals' – she-wolf (lupa),
prostitute (lupa). After the death of her wealthy husband,
she inherited his fortune, and donated it to Rome, a generosity
which the Romans celebrated with an uproarious feast. The sacrifice
in this festival was performed in the
Velabrum at the place which led into the Nova Via, which was outside of
the old city not far from the Porta Romanula.
Acca is an
obscure Latin word: in Greek akko means a 'ridiculous woman'
or 'bogey'; in Sanskritakka means 'mother'. Acca Larentia,
therefore, would appear to be the Mater Larum (Mother of the Lares)
showing that she was originally a goddess of the earth, to whom men
entrusted their seed-corn and their dead. She is also called Lara,
Larunda, Larentina and Mania. In the old Roman calendar, this day
was called the Brumalia, the shortest day of the year. Festivities
took place at the foot of the Palatine between the Circus Maximus
and the Tiber.
This is also the
seventh, and last, day of the
Saturnalia. The Saturnalia is one of
the most festive and uninhibited holidays that the ancient Romans celebrated.
Known as
the Larentia, today was sacred to the goddess Laurentina, mother of
the Lares, an earth goddess who guards the dead and seed corn. It
commemorates the old year and potential of the new. Nigel
Pennick, The
Pagan Book of Days, Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont,
USA, 1992, p. 140
One of the two most important
holidays, the other being Jani.
Ziemassvetki celebrated the birth of Dievs,
the highest god of Latvian mythology.
The two weeks before Ziemassvetki are called Zveru laiks, the
'season of animals'.
During the festival, candles are lit for Dievs
and Martins
and a fire is kept burning until the end, when its extinguishment
signals an end to the unhappiness of the previous year. During the
ensuing feast, a space at the table is reserved for Dievs, who was
said to arrive on a sleigh. during the feast, certain foods were
always eaten: bread, beans, peas, beer, pork and pig snout and feet. Carolers (Kaladnieces)
went door to door singing songs and eating from many different
houses.
Feast day of St Victoria,
virgin and martyr
(Cedar of Lebanon, Pinus cedrus,
is
today's plant, dedicated to this
saint.)
Victoria's
legend states that she was stabbed through the heart in 250 at
Trebula Mutuesca (today Monteleone Sabino) or at a place called
Thora, Thyrum, or Thurium (the identity of the place is not clear).
An elaboration on her legend states that her murderer was
immediately struck with leprosy, and died six days later. Victoria
is associated with Ss
Anatolia and
Audax, and a serpent. Anatolia was also killed in 250 either at
Trebula. Her legend states that she was at first locked up with a
poisonous snake which refused to bite her, whereupon a soldier named
Audax was sent into her cell to kill her. The snake attacked him
instead, but Anatolia saved him from the snake. Impressed by her
example, he converted to Christianity and was martyred by the sword
with her.
"Born in
Iceland, he became a deacon when he was fifteen and was ordained
when he was eighteen. He was sent abroad to study, reportedly
visited London, and returned to Iceland in 1161. He founded a
monastery at Thykkviboer, became its abbot and in 1178 was named
bishop of Skalholt, one of the two dioceses of Iceland. He reformed
the see, insisted on clerical discipline and celibacy, abolished lay
patronage and fought simony. He planned to resign and retire to
Thykkviboer, but he died on Dec. 23 before he could do so. He was
canonized by the the Iceland Althing five years later, but his cult
has never been formally approved by the Holy See."
Source
"In past centuries fresh fish was a common food on Ţorláksmessa
in Iceland. The origins of the tradition of eating fish on
Ţorláksmessa is that this is the last day of the Catholic
Christmas fast, and of course people weren't expected to eat
meat on this day. The tradition continued after the country
converted to Lutheranism, because this was a busy day, and food
had to be quick and simple. (No work was done on Christmas Day
and Boxing Day, so everything had to be ready by Christmas Eve.)
"Source
Meat
Hook
"On 23 December, St. Ţorlákur's Day, Ketkrókur (Meat Hook)
arrives. He adores all meat. In olden days he would lower a hook
down the kitchen chimney and pull up a leg of lamb hanging from a
rafter, or a bit of smoked lamb from a pan, as smoked lamb was
traditionally cooked on St. Ţorlákur's Day." Source
Christmas parade in Igls, Austria About 250 children parade by torchlight on
December 23. They enact a tableau vivant of the manger scene in a
pageant that is very popular with tourists.
"The city of Oaxaca
takes modern art to extremes with this unusual festive fiesta of
sculpture. Everything from flowers and animals to saints and
nativity scenes is carved from the local speciality - radishes.
During the popular event the zocalo (central square) is filled with
stalls and there is music, traditional dancing and pińata prizes
before the event ends with a huge fireworks display.
"In
addition to the radish-carving, judged by the governor, ready-to-eat
food is the fiesta's strongpoint. The speciality of Radish Night is
buńuelos, deep-fried doughnuts drenched in syrup. After munching
your way through this starch-laden load, you are not expected to
return your plate - tradition dictates that you throw it over your
shoulder: the number of pieces it falls into denotes your fortune
for the coming year."Source
"The
Emperor of Japan does not rule, but is a symbol of the nation.
It is customary for the Imperial Family to appear on the balcony
of the Imperial Palace and exchange greetings with the public,
who are allowed to enter the compound."
Source
Many
Christmases ago,
Frank Costanza went to buy a
doll for his son, George. He went to reach for it because it was the
last one, but so did another man and as Frank rained blows upon him,
he thought there could be another way. The doll was destroyed, but
out of that, a new holiday was born. It was called Festivus …
Festivus is a fictional
holiday created by Frank Costanza (played by
Jerry Stiller) on the popular American
television comedy, Seinfeld. Some fans of the show now celebrate this
fictional holiday in real
life.
Festivus
is a holiday
held on December 23 of each year. It was created as
a response to the commercialism of the other December holidays. Its
motto is 'Festivus, a holiday for the rest of us'.
The Festivus
celebration includes three major components:
The Festivus
Pole – display of an unadorned aluminum pole, apparently in
opposition to the commercialization of the decorated Christmas trees.
The Airing
of Grievances – where the celebrant tells their friends and
family all of the instances where they disappointed the celebrant
that year.
The Feats of Strength – where the head of
the family tests their strength against one participant. Festivus is
not considered over until the head of the family has been pinned. A
participant is allowed to decline to attempt to pin the head of the
family only if they have something better to do instead.
1646Jean
Hardouin,
French classical scholar with strange ideas,
declaring that, with the exception of the works of
Homer,
Herodotus and
Cicero, the Natural History of
Pliny, the Georgics of
Virgil, and the Satires and
Epistles of
Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece
and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the
13th Century.
"Jean Hardouin
(1646-1729) was a scholar of classical literature. In 1685 he
published an edition of Pliny's Natural History. There was
nothing unusual about the edition itself, which was considered to be
of merit and very well edited. What was unusual was that despite
being so knowledgeable about classical literature, Hardouin had very
strange ideas about its origins.
"According to Hardouin, the majority of classical Greek and
Roman literature had not been produced by Greek and Roman
authors. Instead, it had been forged during the Middle Ages by a
group of Benedictine monks. He also argued that all extant Greek
and Roman coins were forgeries. He never revealed why such a
vast deception had occurred. He only declared, elliptically,
that when he died the reason would be found written on a piece
of paper the size of his hand. The reason, unfortunately, was
never found."Source
He got the
idea for his spinning machine one day when he saw some workmen
elongating a red-hot bar of iron between rollers. He knew that the
current Hargreaves jenny could only be used for the weft of a piece
of material; there was at that time no known way to mechanically
spin the warp of the fabric. He reasoned that he could apply the
workmen's style to spinning, and succeeded. He patented his
invention in 1769. He made such a fortune that his son Richard died
the wealthiest commoner in England.
A medallion
owned by Joseph Smith is almost identical to a talisman of the Roman
god Jupiter, used by Francis Barret, astrologer and author of the
occult classic,The Magus
(1801):
"Barret's book also played a
significant role in one of the most interesting discoveries and
subsequent controversies involving Joseph Smith, the founder of
the Mormons or Church of Latter Day Saints.
"In 1974 Dr. Reed C. Durham, a
Mormon and noted scholar of Mormon history gave a lecture
entitled,
'Is
there no help for the Widow's Son?'. Durham revealed a
medal worn by Joseph Smith and long thought to be a Masonic emblem
was, in fact, a talisman of Jupiter. Smith's talisman appears to
left.
"What is interesting to note is
that Smith's Jupiter talisman is almost identical to the example
given by Barrett above and to the right. This format is not
provided in either Agrippa's Latin original nor the English
translation of 1651 by John Freake. The illustration in the
English translation appears below to right. Note the break in the
seal which seems to be a printer's error and does not appear in
the Latin original though it is faithfully copied in the Magus
and Smith's talisman."Source
(with images)
1860Harriet
Monroe, American poet, founder/long-time editor of the
influential Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, through which she
introduced the world to Imagism and other 'new poetry'
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363 CE "The Emperor Julian died in battle with the Persians.
Julian, a Greek Stoic, had tried to make the newly powerful Christians accept
the traditional Roman policy of Universal Toleration. The Christians, however,
remained aggressively intolerant. The result was two centuries of riots, temple
desecrations and legalized confiscations of property, the destruction of
priceless art and sculpture, persecutions and public murders of those branded
with the epithet 'pagan', mass book burnings, and the ultimate outlawing of the
Religion of Nature."Source
"MACDONNELL (or MACDONELL), ALESTAIR (i.e. Alexander)
RUADH (c. 1725-1761), chief of Glengarry, a Scottish Jacobite who has been
identified by Andrew Lang as the secret agent " Pickle," who acted as a spy
on Prince Charles Edward after 1750. The family were a branch of the clan
Macdonald, but spelt their name Macdonnell or Macdonell. His father was
John, 12th chief of Glengarry, a violent and brutal man, who is said to have
star/ed his first wife, Alestair's mother, to death on an island in the
Hebrides. Alestair ran away to France while a mere boy in 1738, and there
entered the Royal Scots, a regiment in the French service. In 1743 he
commanded a company in it, and in 1744 was sent to Scotland as a Jacobite
agent. In January 1745 he was sent back with messages, and was in France
when Prince Charles Edward landed in Scotland. Late in 1745 he was captured
at sea while bringing a picquet of the Royal Scots to help the prince. He
remained a prisoner in the Tower for twenty-two months, and when released
went abroad. In 1744 his father had made a transfer to him of the family
estates, which were ruined. Alestair, who still affected to be a Jacobite,
lived for a time in great poverty. In 1749 he was in London, and there is
good reason to believe that he then offered his services as a spy to the
British government, with which he communicated under the name of Pickle. His
information enabled British ministers to keep a close watch on the prince
and on the Jacobite conspiracies. Though he was denounced by a Mrs Cameron,
whose husband he betrayed to death in 1752, he never lost the confidence of
the Jacobite leaders. On the death of his father, in 1754, he succeeded to
the estates, and proved himself a greedy landlord. He died on the 23rd of
December 1761."Source
1777A plot against George Washington was
discovered.After Washington's
defeats at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, Thomas Conway and other
plotters hoped to replace him with General Horatio Gates, who had won an
impressive victory at the
Battle of Saratoga.
"In a December 1899 issue
of the Sun, a Long Island, New York newspaper published by another Henry
Livingston, this Henry argued that the rightful author of A Visit from St.
Nicholas was, in fact, his grandsire. And though the article did bring
together other descendants to share their stories with Long Island Henry, it
didn't result in much impact on the public's attribution of the poem to Moore."Source
"Until
recently it was believed that this ballad was written in 1822 for
Clement
Clarke Moore's two daughters, Margaret and Charity, and later
anonymously published in the Troy [New York] Sentinel on
December 23, 1823. But, according to
University
of Toronto English Library, in 2000, Don Foster, in his book Author
Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous (New York: Henry Holt,
2000) was able to demonstrate that Moore could not have been the
author. Foster concluded that it was probably written by Major
Henry Livingston Jr."
1888
During an argument with fellow painter Paul
Gauguin, Vincent
van
Gogh cut off his earlobe and was soon afterwards placed in an asylum at St
Remy, France.
1901
In a clearly racist action, the Australian parliament passed the
Immigration Restriction Act, which set for prospective immigrants a
spelling test of 50 words in any European language.
1969
A newspaper advertisement brought together Elton John and lyricist
Bernie Taupin. They conducted their early song writing collaboration
by correspondence, and had written 20 songs before they even met.
1973
Under the influence of the Shah of Iran, oil prices were doubled and
the world plummeted into an energy crisis.
1983
"On the morning of 23 December 1983, the caretaker entered the
Condor Topless Dancing Club in north Beach, San Francisco, to find
the corpse of 'Jimmy the Beard' Ferrozzo on top of a naked
23-year-old dancer, Teresa Hall, both pinned against the 12-foot
ceiling by a trick piano, a gutted Steinway. Topless star Carol Doda
used to make her entrance through a trap door, reclining on the
piano. Ms Hill was so drunk she didn't remember what happened. It
took three to four hours to free her, as the lift motor had
'apparently' burnt out. We presume the trap door only opened
downwards."Source
1985
Six white people died in a bomb blast in Durban, South Africa.
1986
Under Mikhail
Gorbachev's liberal policy of glasnost, Andrei Sakharov and
his wife Yelena Bonner returned to Moscow. The Soviet dissident and
physicist Dr Sakharov had been in internal exile in
Gorky since
1980.
1989
As another crack in the Communist wall appeared, the Romanian army
announced that it had President Nicolae
Ceausescu and his wife Elena under
arrest.
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