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Afrodita
De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Afrodita (en griego antiguo, Ἀφροδίτη) es, en la mitología griega, la diosa de la belleza, el amor, el deseo y la reproducción. Aunque a menudo se alude a ella en la cultura moderna como «la diosa del amor», es importante señalar que normalmente no era el amor en el sentido cristiano o romántico.
Afrodita tiene numerosas equivalentes: Inanna en la mitología sumeria, Astarté en la fenicia, Turan en la etrusca y Venus en la romana. Tiene paralelismos con diosas indoeuropeas de la aurora, tales como Ushás o Aurora. Según Pausanias, los primeros que establecieron su culto fueron los asirios, y tras ellos los pafosianos de Chipre y los fenicios que vivían en Ascalón (Palestina), quienes enseñaron su culto a los habitantes de Citera.[1] Se decía que Afrodita podía hacer que cualquier hombre se enamorase de ella con solo poner sus ojos en él.
El nombre Ἀφροδίτη era relacionado por etimología popular con ἀφρός aphrós, ‘espuma’, interpretándose como ‘surgida de la espuma’ y personificándola en un mito etiológico que ya era conocido para Hesíodo.[2] Tiene reflejos en el mesapio y el etrusco (de ahí «abril»), que probablemente fueron tomados prestados del griego. Aunque Heródoto estaba al tanto de los orígenes fenicios de Afrodita,[3] los intentos lingüísticos por derivar el nombre «Afrodita» del semítico Aštoret, mediante transmisión hitita sin documentar, siguen sin ser concluyentes. Una sugerencia de Hammarström,[4] rechazada por Hjalmar Frisk, relaciona el nombre con πρύτανις, un préstamo griego de un cognado del etrusco (e)pruni, ‘señor’ o similar. Mallory y Adams ofrecen una etimología del indoeuropeo abhor, ‘muy’ + dhei, ‘brillar’.[5]
Si procede del semítico, una etimología plausible sería del barīrĩtu asirio, un demonio femenino hallado en textos babilónicos medios y tardíos.[6] El nombre significa probablemente ‘la que [viene] al anochecer’, una manifestación del planeta Venus como estrella vespertina, un atributo bien conocido de la diosa mesopotámica Inanna/Ishtar.
El epíteto Afrodita Acidalia fue ocasionalmente añadido a su nombre, por la fuente que usaba para bañarse, situada en Beocia.[7] También era llamada Cipris o Cipria (Kypris) y Citerea (Cytherea) por sus presuntos lugares de nacimiento en Chipre y Citera, respectivamente. La isla de Citera era un importante centro de su culto. Estaba asociada con Hesperia y era frecuentemente acompañada por las Cárites, las diosas de las festividades.
Afrodita tenía sus propios festivales, las Afrodisias, que se celebraban por toda Grecia, pero particularmente en Atenas y en Corinto. En el templo de Afrodita ubicado en la cima del Acrocorinto (antes de la destrucción romana de la ciudad en 146 a. C.) las relaciones sexuales con sus sacerdotisas eran consideradas un método de adoración a la diosa. Este templo no fue reconstruido cuando la ciudad se refundó bajo dominio romano en 44 a. C., pero es probable que los rituales de fertilidad perdurasen en la ciudad, cerca del ágora.
Afrodita estaba asociada con el mar, y con frecuencia era representada con él y con los delfines, las palomas, los cisnes, las almejas, las veneras, las perlas, y árboles como el granado, el manzano, el mirto y las rosas.
Afrodita Urania y Afrodita Pandemos[editar]
Afrodita Urania, drapeada más que desnuda, con sus pies descansando sobre una tortuga (Museo del Louvre).
Para finales del siglo V a. C. los filósofos habrían separado Afrodita en dos diosas diferentes, no individualizadas en el culto: Afrodita Urania, nacida de la espuma después de que Crono castrase a Urano, y Afrodita Pandemos, la Afrodita común ‘de todo el pueblo’, nacida de Zeus y Dione.[8] Entre los neoplatónicos y finalmente sus intérpretes cristianos, Afrodita Urania figura como la Afrodita celestial, representando el amor del cuerpo y el alma, mientras Afrodita Pandemos estaba asociada con el mero amor físico. La representación de Afrodita Urania, con un pie descansando sobre una tortuga, fue interpretada más tarde como emblemática de la discreción del amor conyugal; la imagen se atribuye a Fidias, en un escultura criselefantina hecha para Elis, de la que sólo tenemos un comentario pasajero de Pausanias.[9]
Por esto, según Platón[10] Afrodita es dos diosas, una vieja y la otra joven. La mayor, Urania, es la hija de Urano; la menor se llama Pandemos, y es la hija de Zeus y Dione. Pandemos es la Afrodita común. El discurso de Pausanias distingue dos manifestaciones de Afrodita, representadas por dos historias: Afrodita Urania (‘celestial’) y Afrodita Pandemos (‘común’).
Prostitución ritual[editar]
Un aspecto universal del culto de Afrodita y sus predecesoras que muchos mitógrafos de los siglos XIX y XX han omitido[11] es la práctica de la prostitución religiosa en sus santuarios y templos. El eufemismo griego para estas prostitutas es hieródula, ‘sierva sagrada’. Esta costumbre fue una práctica inherente a los rituales dedicados a las antecesoras de Oriente Medio de Afrodita, la sumeria Inanna y la acadia Ishtar, cuyas meretrices de los templos eran ‘mujeres de Ishtar’, ishtarium.[12] Esta práctica ha sido documentada en Babilonia, Siria y Palestina, en ciudades fenicias y en la colonia tiria de Cartago, y para la Afrodita helénica en Chipre, el centro de su culto, Citera, Corinto y Sicilia.[12] Afrodita es en todas partes la patrona de las heteras y cortesanas. En Jonia, en la costa de Asia Menor, las hieródulas servían en el templo de Artemisa.
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What is the origin of the names of the months?
A lot of languages, including English, use month names based on Latin. Their meaning is listed below. However, some languages (Czech and Polish, for example) use quite different names.
| Month | Latin | Origin |
| January |
Januarius |
Named after the god Janus. |
| February |
Februarius |
Named after Februa, the purification festival. |
| March |
Martius |
Named after the god Mars. |
| April |
Aprilis |
Named either after the goddess Aphrodite or the Latin word aperire, to open. |
| May |
Maius |
Probably named after the goddess Maia. |
| June |
Junius |
Probably named after the goddess Juno. |
| July |
Julius |
Named after Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E. Prior to that time its name was Quintilis from the word quintus, fifth, because it was the 5th month in the old Roman calendar. |
| August |
Augustus |
Named after emperor Augustus in 8 B.C.E. Prior to that time the name was Sextilis from the word sextus, sixth, because it was the 6th month in the old Roman calendar. |
| September |
September |
From the word septem, seven, because it was the 7th month in the old Roman calendar. |
| October |
October |
From the word octo, eight, because it was the 8th month in the old Roman calendar. |
| November |
November |
From the word novem, nine, because it was the 9th month in the old Roman calendar. |
| December |
December |
From the word decem, ten, because it was the 10th month in the old Roman calendar. |
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Cracking Pi – Part 3
by Marty Leeds
Greetings again World Mysteries readers! This is the third part in a series called Cracking Pi. Please see
blog.world–mysteries.com/category/guest_authors/marty–leeds
for the first two segments or click on direct links below:
Cracking Pi – Part 1 | Cracking Pi – Part 2
This entire series will be available in the upcoming book The Peacock’s Tales, the Alchemical Writings of Claudia Pavonis. Please visit www.martyleeds3.com for more information, free videos and music as well as books, DVDs and CDs for purchase.
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Pi Embryology
Now that we have made our geometric, linguistic, symbolic and philosophical journey back to the very beginning of the birth of the universe by cracking pi, we can now come to understand the birth story of the universe of you using the very same concepts, mathematics and symbolism. Embryology is the science of the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the foetus stage and as we will see, this multi-layered story of cracking pi is reflected in this story of human reproduction. By calculating the gematria for the words Eighty Six, the number we found within The Great Pyramid of Giza, Circumference / Diameter, as well as the Three Point One Four Two of pi, we find the number 46. The human being is constructed using 46 chromosomes.
In the act of procreation, in the first stage of embryology, both man and woman contribute 23chromosomes. A chromosome is a single piece of coiled DNA containing the genetic information for human development. When the father’s sperm enters the mother’s egg, the two unite into the conception of one child, making a total of 46 chromosomes, with 46 being once again THE VERY FIRST OCCULTED OR HIDDEN NUMBER WITHIN our all-important number 86.
In order to understand how the creation of you reflects the cracking of our primordial pi, we must have a general understanding of the process of human reproduction.
The reproductive process goes generally like this: At a certain point in a woman’s menstrual cycle (a cycle intimately linked to the waxing and waning cycles of the moon) the woman’s hormones trigger her body to produce and release one egg from either the mother’s right or left ovary, a process called ovulation. We will be equating this egg to our initial sphere or primordial egg of creation. This egg drops from the ovariesinto her uterus through a canal called her fallopian tubes. It is in this window of time that a woman may become pregnant. Man and woman unite through the act of sexual intercourse and the man ejaculates his sperm into the vagina of the woman. After the sperm fuses with the egg during fertilization, a new organism begins developing known as the zygote. The human sperm cell is known as a haploid, a term meaning that its 23 chromosomes can join the 23 chromosomes of the female egg to form a diploid cell. The haploidnumber is the number of chromosomes in a gamete of an individual. A gamete (From the ancient Greek gametes meaning “husband” and gamete meaning “wife“) is a cell that fuses with another cell during fertilization / conception. The female produces the larger type of gamete—called an ovum or egg (or symbolically, our primordial egg)—and the male produces the smaller serpentine tadpole type—called a sperm. Male sperm cells contain one of two types of sex chromosomes. They are either X or Ychromosomes while the female egg contains only the X with the sperm cell determining the sex of an individual. If a sperm cell containing an X chromosome fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote will be XX or female and if the sperm cell contains a Y chromosome, then the resulting zygote will be XY or male. There are two types of chromosomes, sex chromosomes that determine gender and autosomes which contain the rest of the hereditary information. Once fertilization is complete, the chromosomes of the female are denoted by the letters XX and the male denoted by the letters XY.
When they merge, a child begins to develop through a process of cell division called meiosis. The first cell splits into two more cells, and those split again, and yet again, eventually forming the human being within the womb. The term embryo refers to the sphere of dividing cells from the moment the zygote implants itself in the uterus wall until the end of the eighth week after conception. Beyond the eighth week after conception (tenth week of pregnancy), the developing human is then called a foetus. This entire universal story of birth lasts for roughly nine months, segmented into trimesters, or three months each, in which afterwards a new child is born.
Since we already know the ending of our story, and that is, of course, the birth of the universe of you, let’s take a journey through the reproductive system to find out just exactly how this divine universal reflection of the great spirit called the human being came into existence.
GRABBING THE BULL BY THE HORNS
Before we move on to look at the mathematics, symbolism and gematria of this process, let’s first look at the female reproductive system symbolically. It is interesting to note that the shape of a woman’s reproductive area and the head of a bull are strikingly similar in appearance.
 There are many references to bull worship throughout religions worldwide. The name El has long been associated with the name of the bull God in many languages (Hebrew, Greek and Egyptian) and is a suffix and prefix found within many names of saints, disciples and divine characters: GabriEL, MichaEL, RaphaEL, SamuEL, AngEL. Bull or calf worship is prevalent in Hindu, Egyptian, Grecian, Minoan, Roman and biblical religious art and architecture, to name but a few. This bull was often depicted with the sphere or egg of creation nestled between its horns.
Astro-theology, or more widely known as astrology, is the subject of study that laid the foundation for nearly all of the religious mythologies of the world and it is here where we the see the golden calf most prominently referenced, in the constellation Taurus, the Bull.
In ancient religions, star worship was directly related to the universe of man and man was in turn a reflection of the firmament of stars above, an idea known as the anthropocosm. The constellations above were mapped onto the human body below, as man was but a reflection of the creative power of the heavenly spheres and lights of our night sky.
Considering that the ancients deemed the stars and constellations of our zodiac to be mirroring the temple of man, it is quite pertinent to point out the linguistic similarities of UTERUS and TAURUS as well as OVARIES and ARIES within the female reproductive system. Aries is the Ram constellation and the zodiacal sign that is attributed to
enlightenment, most notably referenced with Jesus Christ being the Lamb of God. The sun rises in the constellation of Aries during spring. It is at this time in which the sun crosses, or passes-over the equator, around Easter, signifying the blooming of a new year and the rebirth of life (ancient Roman calendars began their year in March). Passing Aries on its annual path, the sun then makes its journey through the constellation Taurus, the Bull. It is during this time of year when life is renewed and the earth springs up from the depths and death of winter and the sun makes its long crawl up to the Tropic of Cancer. The correlation we may make to the womb where the human mother gives birth (the ovaries and the uterus) and the season in which the rebirth of life occurs on mother Earth (or the zodiacal signs of Aries and the Taurus) is most fitting. If man is indeed a reflection of the first moment of creation and, as the ancients believed, a reflection of the heavens above as well, these correlations within the words of human anatomy and the stars above should come as no surprise to anyone who is well versed in esoteric or occult lore. Only those with a willingness to consider deeply the nature of such parallels will recognize the true ingeniousness of the ancients who once walked this Earth. On the zodiacal makeup of man the constellation Aries was assigned to the head and Taurus was assigned to the neck and isn’t it quite interesting that the first things that emerge from the womb or vagina in labor is the head and neck of the baby.
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