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Post by Charlotte on Feb 23, 2018 9:43:55 GMT -5
Speaking of Treasures Surfed into 'National Treasure' on TV. It's been ten years since I wrote about it and it all came back to me. A great film, methinks. It was almost at the beginning when Grandpa tells the boy Benjamin Gates of a treasure "beyond all imaginings", a Treasure too big for one man, even a King, which the Knights Templar found under the vault under Solomon's Temple. Wars were waged over it, it was lost and found again and hidden away in years gone by. Ben is a youth of keen mind, wants to know if the Gates are Knights, so Grandpa asks him to kneel to bestow Knighthood on him: "Benjamin Franklin Gates, do you take upon yourself the duty of the Templar, the Free Masons, and the Family of Gates, do you so swear?" Ben so swears and the search for the Treasure begins. Grandpa reminds Ben to make sure the Treasure "falls into the hands of the British", which is an odd request as in the film and in reality they brought the Treasure to America, perhaps meant is the ruthless Ian Howe and gang concerned with the material spoils. The one elusive Treasure, as I see it, is the same which Griffins, Dragons, Serpents, and the Giant Rübezahl guard, as also the Lagina Brothers dig for at Oak Island at great expense. They study and mull over the Templar, hoping to find the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant, taking into consideration the legend that a 7th prospector must die before the Treasure can be found. I wish them all the best with their quest. In 'National Treasure" the treasure "beyond all imaginings" is found under the Trinity Church in New York, flying a beautiful embroidered red flag adorned with the Keltic Triquerta, the "Trinity Knot". Thank God, Ben doesn't have to go to jail bernardzeephotos.com/odds/DSC_6699.jpgFor where your treasure is, there will be your heart also Matthew 6:21
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Post by Don Barone on Feb 23, 2018 19:59:48 GMT -5
Mysterious Shell Grotto, Margate, England Very special ! Thanks Charlotte.
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Post by Charlotte on Feb 24, 2018 11:42:54 GMT -5
Indeed Don, truly a labor of love, were it within driving distance I'd visit today!
In the footsteps of Rübezahl
According to Wikipedia, Martin Helwig (1561) depicted Rübezahl "as a tailed demon". In my time, most folks in Bavaria were very superstitious, one did not speak about mysterious persons or events, but rumors persisted and us children gave our imagination free reign, basically thinking of Rübezahl a a harmless old man with a long beard, rather substantial staff, 2 acorn on top of his Rucksack, as he was depicted, fascinated by what he was all about.
Wikipedia
"The origin of the name is not clear. One interpretation is from the storyHow Rübezahl Got his Name, by Johann Karl August Musäus, which recounts how Rübezahl abducted a princess who liked turnips (German: Rübe). The princess gets very lonely there in the mountains. To keep her company, Rübezahl turns the turnips into her friends and acquaintances. As the turnips wilt after a little while, so do the persons that were created by Rübezahl's magic. The princess ask him to count (zählen)the turnips in the field. While he counted, she escaped.
"Another proposed etymology is Riebzagel, from a combination of the personal name Riebe and the Middle High German zagel, meaning "tail", from his pictorial representation as a tailed demon.
"Rübezahl is a name of ridicule, the use of which provokes his anger. The respectful name is "Lord of the Mountains" or "Lord John".
Were Rübezahl to read this concocted version of the origin of his name which doesn't make any sense, it would surely provoke his anger and call upon his dwarfs to tunnel the ground under Herrn Musäus feet, for in Silesian folklore, he is calle "Prince of the Gnomes".
This song we sing during Oktoberfest and the many other Fests, note at 4:15 mark the old Keltic Chapel constructed with out a nail my Sister and I visited.
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Post by Charlotte on Feb 25, 2018 10:13:43 GMT -5
Much ado about Rübezahl This is how we as children and I as an adult saw the Giant, close to the woodcarved statue I purchased at the Wang Church, Poland, I noted in the video. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Rübezahl.jpgBecause of the outlandish interpretation of Rübezahle by Johann Karl August Musäus, I was curious to know welch Geistes Kind Herr Musäus was, found him to be a versatile person with a varied career, "most celebrated for a collection of german fairy tales retold as satires, the stories, therefore, lack the simplicity of genuine folk-lore." I understand better now. He described the Giant: "Rübezahl, you should know, has the nature of a powerful genius: capricious, rascally, crude, immodest, haughty, vain, fickle, today your warmest friend, tomorrow alien and cold; ...roguish and respectable, stubborn and flexible..." Given these attributes and being the Spirit of the mountain range, anyone can think of him as we like him best. Since the origin of his name is not clear, I interpreted the Name "Rübezahl" as one who counts the roots, Rübe = roots, Zahl = number, zählen = he who counts the roots of history. August Musäus sort of affirms this in that the Princess asks Rübezahl to count the turnips in the field, but there are other vegetables with roots. Rübezahl is 999 years of age, his staff of experience become wisdom helps him navigate the mountains, he has 2 acorn's on his Rucksack, the Oak being the hardiest of trees. "In legends, Rübezahl appears as a capricious giant, gnome, or mountain spirit. With good people he is friendly, teaching them medicine and giving them presents. If someone derides him, however, he exacts a severe revenge. He sometimes plays the role of a trickster in folk lore." In one German video he changes into Robin Hood and a Druid. The mysterious Spirit World, Riesengebirge, second try commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jojo-Maly_Szyszak_2005.jpg
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Post by Charlotte on Feb 26, 2018 9:57:03 GMT -5
Translated, Rübezahl declares:
'I command the lightening and thunder, the wind and the rain, the trees are my witness' as I protect animals, flowers and the fruits of the earth. I safguard the Holy Quellen unseen, the herbs and roots that restore health to the ailing. But under the earth my domain has no borders, thousands of Dwarfs mine gold, silver and precious stones for me in these mountains. In this my cave by a waterfall, I dwelled for 999 years, since, I did not want to see another human who are false and ungrateful.
In a flash of light one of his Dwarfs appears and pleads with Rübezahl to come up out of his cave for thieves and rubbers, gluttens and drunkards, lazy, stingy and arrogant people increase, and the good people call you for help. So it has been for centuries, Mankind did not better themself, replies the Giant. Are there at least good children? Some are, but others don't listen to their parents, says the Dwarf, they don't fear you because they don't believe that you no longer exists, that the stories told of you are silly.
This angers Rübezahl, he will show them that the Mountain Spirit never dies, is alive in legends, myths and music.
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Post by Charlotte on Feb 28, 2018 11:41:29 GMT -5
Ending the notes on Rübezahl with a tribute to the Spirit of the Mountain, Carl Maria von Weber
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Post by Charlotte on May 30, 2018 8:20:27 GMT -5
Mythical Ireland
The Tuatha Dé Danann; Cutlture of Wisdom from the Trinity Well.
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Post by Charlotte on May 31, 2018 9:40:07 GMT -5
How green is the Emerald Isle
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Post by Charlotte on Jun 11, 2018 8:42:25 GMT -5
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Post by Charlotte on Jun 16, 2018 9:41:45 GMT -5
An old Armenian Monastery was posted on FB, this one called "a Beacon of Light". Devoted to the spiritual and preferring solitary life, Monks, the mindful and educated elite then and now the world over, keep the light shining for centuries.
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Post by Charlotte on Jun 29, 2018 8:21:12 GMT -5
We are the stuff that dreams are made of and our little life is rounded on a sleep. WS
In the dream-time, there was a great waterfall flowing from a mountain. Beside the waterfall was a cave where lived a women of power. When people died, their Soul went to the women and remained until is was time to be born again. We are born out of our own eternity.
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Post by Charlotte on Aug 15, 2018 8:18:36 GMT -5
Ministers of the New Testament bid us to interpret myths and other obscure things not by the letter, but by the spirit, for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life.
"Nations have established and do employ symbols, some obscure, some more intelligible, in order to lead the understanding into things divine. In the same way you must hear the stories about the gods and receive them from such as interpret myths, in a reverent and philosophical spirit".
Plutarch
"Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God".
Kepler
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