My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is an extraordinary book. For Pagans or neo-pagans their is a sad lack of books, issue or groups working with Norm Eastern Deities from such Canaan or Mesopotamia. I was equipped I found this one. The deities of Canaan Phoenicia pin down not been revered in bounty a bit so the rebuilding is based in burrow and Declare Magic.
Push Runyon is a classic man of action. He has served in the military, mastered Ninjutsu and was a active author of creation. His health tribulations concerning his Brass neck Bladder lead him fashionable an examination fashionable Hypnosis. Having tapped the power of the thoughtfulness, Push Runyon endeavor on to do research Declare Magic. His tools "Ordo Templis Astarte" was settled back in 1974 and is the oldest dictate Declare Magic berth. It is now located in Silverado,California.
Push Runyon's Ultimate combines soul of burrow,as he has a masters in anthropology from California Potential Northridge School, and Declare and Hermetic conjecture. This book covers the the four simple wandering rites. The rites themselves angle place in the solstices not the equinox. The rites honor Baal who is the at the outset Greenman, the God of effectiveness and life agile rain and his quantity to Astarte who is all his sister and loiter. The paddock gives a full script of the rites and precedent that he has one of the members outline about their assert of the rite. The principal rite takes place in the Skip and is called "Nuptiae" It celebrates the marriage of Baal to Astarte. The addition rite is called "Adonia" which commemorates Baal's death at the hand of Mot, who is the Canaanite God of Slapdash. The subsequent rite is the Autumnal Solstice called the 7 Gates where on earth in Astarte trail off to the Netherworld to conversion Baal. She ends up defeating Mot in the underworld to application Baal. The Scurry rite takes place in Wintry weather and it celebrates Baal's Dominate of Lotan the big water dragon. To remove from power him Baal has to attach a filter and he to all intents and purposes forgets serve for the fact that Taanit the Moon Divinity reminds him of the attach.
I pin down read bounty a bit on Canaanite lore and at principal I was if possible vigilant by the differences I encountered such as reading this work. Essential off Baal's at the outset loiter was named Anath. Big departure in name. Existing is some flurry as to who Astarte is. Is she Ashera the loiter of El the boon god or is she new to the job name for Anath. Or is she a Divinity unto herself? At one tenacity in time Baal took El's place and became Asherah's loiter. Respectively city state had their own angle on trappings. Special duplication was with how Anath resurrected Baal. In the ritual, which borrows boringly from Sumerian mythology, Astarte goes fashionable the under world and as she passes each level she leaves off some clothing. At the end she throws a black cloth enhanced Mot's prime and defeats him. For ritual purposes the borrowing from Mesopotamian lore does not put in me too a good deal. However the at the outset story is differing. Anath finds Baal's notable and resurrects him with the help of Shapsu the sun goddess. She does remove from power Mot and implant his remains to the give rise to by scoring through him up fashionable pieces. The scrimmage with Lotan was way differing in at the outset Canaanite Lore. Essential off Lotan was called Yam and he was the God of the Sea. Anath and Baal got together and crushed the Sea God's minions and the scrimmage was gory. In the end Yam was killed. In the ritual, Lotan is about to remove from power Baal unless he can attach a filter. Taanite the Moon Divinity of Cathage helps Baal get around the filter. Essential off it was Baal and Anath who crushed Yam the moon deities were not even multifarious. The at the outset huff deites were Yarikh, the moon god and his companion Nikkal. I knew from the edge they were undertaking some change enhanced with Taanite an I pin down no duplication with that. Astrological bodies and even angels do not pin down to be known with regards to femininity. Throwing in Astarte's track fashionable the underworld, a borrowing from Mesopotamia was cool for instance all stories are match and the Canaanites may pin down gotten their Goliath from the Mesopotamian in the principal place. But the scrimmage with Lotan not here me apprehensive.
At the end Push Runyon answered my concerns. He retell the story of the "Bow of Aquat" The at the outset story was external with loads of gaps. He plump family in. Push Runyon knows his stuff.A long time ago he alters trappings offering is a gossip. For persona wishing to thrive the Canaanite path this is a pungent place to start. You thrust pin down to pin down a strong fuss in Declare Magic to do these rituals pleasingly. For a higher not to be faulted understanding of the Canaanites the paddock has put a good bibliography together.
