In this post, we are taking a closer, deeper look at the ALPS. I believe you will be surprised by some of the things revealed here. I know that I was really amazed.
Now, you know the subject of the Ruling Elite and their meetings wherein the decide the fate of all of us is not a new topic for me. Nor is it new, that I share how they are related to the GIANTS/Nephilim who are returning. The truth is that everything that we see happening in our world today is directly related. Our world is being transformed, our reality is being convoluted an our bodies have been invaded. They are on a fast track to take minds and our will, and if possible our very souls.
It is my hope that after viewing this post today, you will be able to put a few more of the puzzle pieces together and recognize the truth of what is happening.
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69TH BILDERBERG MEETING
69th Bilderberg Meeting to take place 18 – 21 May in Lisbon, Portugal
LISBON, 18 May 2023 – The 69th Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 18 – 21 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal. About 130 participants from 23 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on bilderbergmeetings.org.
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- In researching this post I learned something amazing!! ALP/ALPS is not only the name of the Mountain Range in Europe, it is actually the name of a FAMILY/SPECIES of DEMONIC SPIRITS. Which means the ALP Mountain Range is named for those entities. So, when they world elite, who claim to be descended from the GIANTS, talk about the spiritual aspect of the mountains they are referring to the spirits residing there from whom they take their directions.
Alp (folklore)
An Alp (plural Alpe or Alpen)is a supernatural being in German folklore.
Alp (folklore)
Supernatural creature in German folklore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the similarly named Alp-luachra, the Alp is sometimes likened to avampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. It is distinct from both of these creatures in that it wears a magic hat called a Tarnkappe, from which it draws its powers. The word Alp is the German form of the word that comes into English aself, both descended from Common Germanic. It is also known by the following names: trud, mar, mart, mahr, schrat, and walrider. Many variations of the creature exist in surrounding European areas, such as the Drude or, in the British Isles, the Old Hag, related to now commonly recognized sleep paralysis.
In medieval sources
In the period before about 1000, the Old High German word alp is attested only in a small number of glosses.It is defined by the Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch as a “nature-god or nature-demon, equated with the Fauns of Classical mythology … regarded as eerie, ferocious beings… As themarehe messes around with women”. Accordingly, the German word Alpdruck (literally ‘elf-oppression’) means ‘nightmare’. There is also evidence associating elves with illness, specifically epilepsy.
In a similar vein, elves are in Middle High German most often associated with deceiving or bewildering people “in a phrase that occurs so often it would appear to be proverbial: ‘die elben/der alp trieget mich’ (the elves/elf is/are deceiving me)”. The same pattern holds in Early Modern German. This deception sometimes shows the seductive side apparent in English and Scandinavian material: most famously, the early thirteenth-century Heinrich von Morungen‘s fifth Minnesang begins “Von den elben virt entsehen vil manic man / Sô bin ich von grôzer lieber entsên” (“full many a man is bewitched by elves / thus I too am bewitched by great love”). Elbe was also used in this period to translate words for nymphs.
In later medieval prayers, Elves appear to be threatening, even demonic, force. Evidence includes Latin prayers found inscribed in lead amulets from southern Scandinavia and Schleswig. The most famous is the fourteenth-century Münchener Nachtsegen, a prayer to be said at night, which includes the lines:
- alb vnde ł elbelin
- Ir sult nich beng’ bliben hin
- albes svestir vn vatir
- Ir sult uz varen obir dē gatir
- albes mutir trute vn mar
- Ir sult uz zu dē virste varē
- Noc mich dy mare druche
- Noc mich dy trute zciche
- Noc mich dy mare rite
- Noc mich dy mare bescrite
- Alb mit diner crummen nasen
- Ich vorbithe dir aneblasen
- elf, or also little elf,
- you shall remain no longer (reading lenger)
- elf’s sister and father,
- you shall go out over the gate;
- elf’s mother, trute and mare,
- you shall go out to the roof-ridge!
- Let the mare not oppress me,
- let the trute not ?pinch me (reading zücke),
- let the mare not ride me,
- let the mare not mount me!
- Elf with your crooked nose,
- I forbid you to blow on [people]
Correspondingly, in the early modern period, elves are described in Northern Germanyas doing the evil bidding of witches; Martin Luther believed his mother to have been afflicted in this way.
As in Old Norse, however, there are few characters identified as elves. An elf does appear in an account of the parentage of the heroHagen (ON Högni) which survives only in the Old Norse Þiðreks saga but which was translated from a German text (now lost). Here, Hagen is the product of his mother Oda being impregnated by an elf (ON álfr) while she lies in bed. Otherwise, it seems likely that in the German-speaking world, elves were to a significant extent conflated withdwarves (Middle High German: getwerc). Thus some dwarves that appear in German heroic poetry have been seen as relating to elves, especially when the dwarf’s name is Alberich, which etymologically means ‘elf-powerful’(thus Jacob Grimm thought that the name echoed the notion of the king of the nation of elves or dwarves). The Alberich in the epic Ortnit is a dwarf of childlike-stature who turns out to be the real father of the titular hero, having raped his mother. The Alberich who aids Ortnit is paralleled by the French Auberon, who aids Huon de Bordeaux and whose name derives from Alberich. Auberon entered English literature through Lord Berner‘s translation of the chanson de geste around 1540, then as Oberon, the king of elves and fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (see below).
As the apparent convergence with dwarves suggests, the word alp declined in use in German after the medieval period, though it still occurs in some fossilised uses, most prominently the word for “nightmare”, Alptraum (“elf-dream”). Variations of the German elf in later folklore include the moss people and theWeiße Frauen(“White Women”). In Teutonic myth and folklore, Alpe were considered friendly elf-like beings which lived in the mountains,but eventually turned more negative and malevolent. The characteristic magic that the Alpe possess also bear the creature much resemblance to the Kobold, particularly Hodekin. As in English, however, twentieth-century fantasy fiction has helped to reinvigorate the term. J. R. R. Tolkien recommended using the older German form Elb in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings (1967) and Elb, Elben was consequently introduced in the 1972 German translation of The Lord of the Rings, having a role in repopularising the form in German.
Post-medieval folklore
An Alp is typically male, while the mara and mart appear to be more feminine versions of the same creature. Its victims are often females, whom it attacks during the night, controlling their dreams and creating horrible nightmares (hence the German word Alptraum [“elf-dream”], meaning a nightmare). An Alp attack is called an Alpdruck, or often Alpdrücke, which means “elf-pressure”. Alpdruck is when an Alp sits astride a sleeper’s chest and becomes heavier until the crushing weight awakens the terrified and breathless dreamer. The victim awakes unable to move under the Alp‘s weight. This may have been an early explanation for sleep apnea and sleep paralysis, as well as night terrors. It may also includelucid dreams.
Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming, Subliminal Recordings, Binaural Beats, White Noise
Sexual attacks by the Alp are rare.
The Alp is often associated with vampires because it will drink blood from the nipples of men and young children, though women are the preferred victim of the invariably male Alp, for it favors the taste of breast milk.
Alpe also exhibit a tendency for mischief similar to elves, like souring milk and re-diapering a baby; a maid must sign a cross on the diaper or the Alp will put the soiled diaper back on her child. They also enjoy tangling hair into “elfknots” or chewing and twisting horse’s tails. They will ride a horse to exhaustion during the night and may sometimes crush smaller farm animals such as geese to death during a pressing attack. Alpe are also similarly blamed for minor illnesses and milking cows dry, for they enjoy the taste of cow’s milk as well.
The Alp, in many cases, is considered a demon, but there have been some instances in which the Alp is created from the spirits of recently dead relatives, more akin to a spirit or ghost. Children may become an Alp if a woman bites a horse collar to ease the pain during an extremely long and tortuous childbirth. Also, a child born with a caul or hair on the palms may become an Alp. If a woman who is pregnant is frightened by an animal, the child may be born an Alp. Stillborn infants are also suspected to return from the grave as Alpe and torment their family. People who have eyebrows that meet are suspected to be Alpe. As with the case of werewolves, sometimes a normal human or animal may become an Alp during the night. They are typically unaware of their nocturnal activities and are invariably in disguise while doing so. Finding an Alp while it is not active simply requires injuring or otherwise marking it during one of its attacks, and seeking out the being with a similar mark during the day. The person can then be cured if it is found out who sent them the curse, or how they became cursed to begin with. Witchcraft is often the prime suspect in this case.
Sometimes an Alp is a spirit summoned by a witch or an evil person wishing harm on another, and sent to torment them. Tricking an Alp may lead a person to its master.
Characteristics
The Alp is best known for its shapeshifting abilities, similar to the creatures from werewolf lore.It may change into a cat, pig, dog, snakeor a small white butterfly. It has also been said that it can fly like a bird and ride a horse. The Alp always wears a hat, giving it an almost comical appearance. The hat is known as a Tarnkappe (the literal translation being “camouflage cap” or “cap of concealment”)which is simply a hat (or less commonly a veil) that gives the Alp magic powers and the ability to turn invisible while worn (see also cloak of invisibility). The hat is visible no matter what shape the Alp takes. An Alp who has lost this hat will offer a great reward for its safe return.The Alp also possesses an “evil eye” whose gaze will inflict illness and misfortune. Removing or damaging this eye also removes the Alp‘s malicious intentions.
Protections against an Alp include laying a broomstick under a pillow, iron horseshoes hung from the bedpost, placing shoes against the bed with the toes pointing toward the door, or placing a mirror on the chest. Steel and crosses are also used. If awoken by the Alp and finding him still there, one can address him by asking him to return in the morning to borrow something or have coffee. The Alp will dash away at once, arriving in the morning either in his “true” form, or else in the form of a human with eyebrows that meet to receive his gifts. The creature can be convinced to leave the victim alone at this time, but the Alp will beg pitifully and at length not to be turned away. Plugging up any holes, specifically keyholes, before a visitation will keep the Alp out. Plugging them during a visitation will invariably seal it inside the room, as they can leave only through their original entrance. A light kept constantly on during the night will also effectively ward off an Alp. A sentry may also be employed to wait and watch for the Alp to attack the helpless sleeper, the Alp may be driven away if caught by someone not under the Alp‘s influence. Similar to the German Neuntoter, Alpe are weakened or immobilized by shoving a lemon in its mouth should it be caught resting during the day. The Alp appears all but impossible to kill, and sometimes even after being turned away it may reappear years later in a worse mood.
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elf (n.)
- Related Topics: Märchen / changeling
Elf, in Germanic folklore, originally, a spirit of any kind, later specialized into a diminutive creature, usually in tiny human form. In the Prose, or Younger, Edda, elves were classified as light elves (who were fair) and dark elves (who were darker than pitch); these classifications are roughly equivalent to the Scottish seelie court and unseelie court.The notable characteristics of elves were mischief and volatility. They were believed at various times and in various regions to cause diseases in humans and cattle, to sit upon the breast of a sleeper and give him bad dreams (the German word for nightmare is Alpdrücken, or “elf-pressure”), and to steal human children and substitute changelings (deformed or weak elf or fairy children). In the British Isles, flint implementscalled elf-bolts, elf-arrows, or elf-shot (which are now known to be prehistoric tools used by the aboriginal Irish and the early Scots) were believed to be the weapons with which elves injured cattle. Elves occasionally also were benevolent and helpful. The second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, which was published in 1777–84, calls the word elf obsolete but reports that belief in such creatures “still subsists in many parts of our own country. . . In the Highlands of Scotland, new-born children are watched till the christening is over, lest they should be stolen or changed by some of these phantastical existences.” In time, elves came to be indistinct from fairies, though both older classics—such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem “Der Erlkönig” (“The Elf King”)—and such modern classics as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (1954–55) still treat elves as a distinct type.
- Plural: Märchen
- Key People:
- Wilhelm Carl Grimm
- Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
Märchen, folktale characterized by elements of magicor the supernatural, such as the endowment of a mortal character with magical powers or special knowledge;variations expose the hero to supernatural beings or objects. The German term Märchen, used universally by folklorists, also embraces tall tales and humorous anecdotes; although it is often translated as “fairy tale,” the fairy is not a requisite motif.
Märchen usually begin with a formula such as “once upon a time,” setting the story in an indefinite time and place. Their usual theme is the triumph over difficulty, with or without supernatural aid, of the one least likely to succeed. The characters are stylized—wicked stepmothers, stupid ogres, or handsome princes. The situations are familiar to the listeners; i.e., European Märchenreflect the economic and domestic arrangements of peasants and simple workmen, such as millers, tailors, or smiths. Those of ancient origin may reflect archaic social conditions, such as matriarchy, primitive birth and marriage customs, or old forms of inheritance. The hero, however poor or friendless, has easy access to the king and may, through luck, cleverness, or magic information, win the king’s daughter in marriage and automatically inherit the kingdom.
Versions of these stories, sometimes almost identical, have been found all over the world. Their origin is unknown. They have been subjected to literary reworking from very early times. Interest in the serious study of Märchen developed in the early 19th century. The first systematic attempt to transcribe and record them verbatim from oral tradition was the collection Kinder-und Hausmärchen (1812–15) of the Brothers Grimm, popularly known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales. See alsofairy tale.
pixie
Also spelled: pixy
- Related Topics: Märchen / mythical being
Their prank of leading people astray gave rise to the terms pixie-led and pixilated to describe a person who becomes lost on a familiar road.It was later extended to mean any state of bewilderment or confusion.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kara Rogers.
Jötun, in Germanic religion, race of giants that lived in Jötunheim under one of the roots of Yggdrasill.They were older than and ruled before the gods (Aesir), to whom they remained hostile. It was believed that Ragnarök, the destruction of this world and the beginning of a new one, would be brought about by a final battle between gods and giants.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
brownie
Brownie, in English and Scottish folklore, a small, industrious fairyor hobgoblin believed to inhabit houses and barns. Rarely seen, he was often heard at night, cleaning and doing housework; he also sometimes mischievously disarranged rooms. He would ride for the midwife, and in Cornwall he caused swarming bees to settle quickly. Cream or bread and milk might be left for him, but other gifts offended him. If one made him a suit of clothes, he would put it on and then vanish, never to return.
The boggart of Yorkshire and the bogle of Scotland are hostile, mischievous brownies indistinguishable from poltergeists.See alsopuck.
Goblin, in Western folklore, a wandering sprite and bogeyman of sorts that is usually mischievous but often malicious. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes but attach themselves to households, where they are believed to bang upon pots and pans, snatch nightclothes off the bodies of sleeping people, move furniture at night, and flee after rapping on walls and doors.They are thought to help parents discipline children by rewarding the latter with presents when they are good and punishing them when they are disobedient. The word goblin derives from the Greek vkobalos (“rogue”).
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- Also spelled: Barguest, orBargest
- Related Topics: Märchen
Dwarf, an individual who is much below the ordinary stature or size for his ethnic group or species. (For the physiology of dwarf human beings, seedwarfism. See alsoPygmy.)
In Teutonic and especially Scandinavian mythology and folklore, the term dwarf (Old Norse: dvergr) denoted a species of fairy inhabiting the interiors of mountains and the lower levels of mines. Dwarfs were of various types, all of small stature, some being no more than 18 inches (45 cm) high and others about the height of a two-year-old child. In appearance they were sometimes beautiful, but more usually they resembled grave old men with long beards and, in some cases, humped backs.
The mountain dwarfs were organized in kingdoms or tribes, with their own kings, chieftains, and armies. They lived in subterranean halls, believed to be full of gold and preciousstones. They were principally famous for their skill in all kinds of metalwork and the forging of magical swords and rings, but they were also credited with profound wisdom and secret knowledge, having power to foresee the future, assume other forms, and make themselves invisible.
Many legends show dwarfs as kindly beings, generous to those who pleased them but vengeful when offended. The Swiss dwarfs, or “earth-men,” sometimes helped in agricultural work, found straying animals, and put out firewood or fruit for poor children to find. In Scandinavia and Germany also they were friendly to men, but occasionally they stole corn, teased cattle, and abducted children and young girls. Services rendered to them were often repaid by gifts of gold from their hoards; but those who stole their treasures either met with great misfortune thereafter or found the gold turned to dead leaves when they reached home.
In some societies dwarfs have served as favourites, jesters, or entertainers in the courts of sovereigns and the households of important persons. Household dwarfs were kept by the early pharaohs of Egypt and still abounded at the courts of the Ptolemies. They played no part in Homeric and Classical Greece but flourished in imperial Rome, where slave children were sometimes stunted to increase their price. Household dwarfs were known in medieval Europe, and during the Renaissance their vogue increased and individual dwarfs became famous. Isabella d’Este designed part of her palace for them and remembered two in her will. The paintings of Diego Velázquez record the appearance of the dwarfs of the court of Philip IV of Spain. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the tsars and noblemen of Russia kept innumerable dwarfs. Elaborate dwarf weddings were celebrated at court, and in 1710 a dwarf couple spent their wedding night in the tsar’s bedchamber.
nix German mythology
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- Related Topics: Märchen / mermaid
Nix, in Germanic mythology, a water being, half human, half fish, that lives in a beautiful underwater palace and mingles with humans by assuming a variety of physical forms (e.g., that of a fair maiden or an old woman) or by making itself invisible. One of three attributes may betray the disguises of nixes: they are music lovers and excellent dancers, and they have the gift of prophecy. Usually malevolent, a nix can easily be propitiated with gifts. In some regions, nixes are said to abduct human children and to lure people into deep water to drown. According to some sources, nixes can marry human beings and bear human children.-
Fairy tales
Many folk tales are derived from pre-Christian Gaulish and Germanic culture; as such, many are similar to French and German versions. In 1891, schoolteacher Jules Lemoine and folklorist Auguste Gittée published Folk tales from the Walloon country. They focused on strictly transcripting and translating tales from original Walloon manuscripts, mostly from Hainaut and Namur.[1]In 1918 William Elliot Griffis published Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks:[2] This was followed in 1919by Belgian Fairy Tales.[3]Also in 1918, Belgian writer Jean de Bosschère published Folk Tales of Flanders (published in English as Beasts and Men).The Belgian tale “Karl Katz” is similar to both the German folk tale “Peter Klaus” and Washington Irving‘s “Rip Van Winkle“. Charles Deulin was a French writer, born near the Belgian border. He wrote stories based on the folk tales of the countryside.[4]The Nettle Spinner is a Flemish fairy tale later included in Andrew Lang‘s 1890The Red Fairy Book.
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So, Fairy Tales, which is how they want us to think of MYTHOLOGY as well, mostly originated in the land of the North or Scandinavia, Germany and France which are all centered around the ALPS. THis should not surprise us because most of the authors names were very Germanic.
Now, story telling among the Ancients was not new. From the beginning, parents committed to memory the people and events that occurred in their lifetime or memory so that they could teach them to their children. This was a great tool for passing beliefs, laws, societal structure and history from generation to generation. It was also a very important method of teaching their progeny about the gods/goddesses they served and what those entities demanded.
In ancient times, the progeny of the Fallen had fully established themselves as rulers of the world. Each having their own domain and each demanding their own forms of appeasement and worship. People had o trea very carefully because een if you were new in town and did not know the spirits that ruled you were still expected to comply or suffer the consequences. This is the bondage that Jesus Christ delivered us out of and why anyone wants to return to it is beyond my understanding. But, that is what is happening all around us. The return of pagan beliefs and practices as well as the manifestation of the ancient demon spirits.
Many of these have been reintroduced very subtly to our families and especially to our children. Take a look at these “FADS” of current timeframe.
A fad, trend, or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture,fad | Etymology of fad by etymonline
Perhaps shortened from fiddle-faddle. Or perhaps from French fadaise “trifle, nonsense,” which is ultimately from Latin fatuus “stupid.”From 1881 as “fashion, craze,”or as Century Dictionary has it, “trivial fancy adopted and pursued for a time with irrational zeal.” Sep 28, 2017
fancy – Wiktionary, the free dictionaryFrom Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”) ... |
Fanatical – Definition, Meaning & Synonyms – Vocabulary.comFanatical comes from the word fanatic, which itself came from the Latin fanaticus, meaning “mad” or “inspired by a deity.”The root word is fanum, or “temple.” The original English meanings of both fanatic and fanatical implied that the person being described was insane with enthusiasm, like a religious zealot. |
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1960sThe dolls were first created in the late 1950s, and introduced in 1959, before becoming one of the United States’ biggest toy fads in the early 1960s. They became briefly popular again during the 1970s through the 1990s and were copied by several manufacturers under different names.
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Whimsical, funny, vulgar: A brief history of the garden gnome
https://www.washingtonpost.com › home › 2023/03/16Mar 16, 2023 — Their popularity skyrocketed in the United States in 1976, when Wil Huygen’s book “Gnomes,” featuring charming illustrations by Rien Poortvliet, …
How the Elf on the Shelf tradition started
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What is mermaiding?
Mermaids have enchanted humans for years. As kids we all imagine being mermaids while we go swimming. Now, we can engage in an activity that actually transforms us into mermaids.“Mermaiding” emerged around 2004,with the appearance of professional mermaids such as Hannah Fraser, Linden Wolbert, Melissa Dawn and Mermaid Kariel. (Most of them giving a magical twist to the sport of freediving)
Currently there are thousands of mermaid performers and enthusiasts around the world. What they all have in common is that they love to put on a mermaid tail and swim in the water, gliding gracefully and powerfully with their monofin propelling them. To learn more about mermaiding, check out this article.
Conventions and competitions take place around many different regions. It is easier than ever to meet and engage with other mermaids, through these events and through social media, and websites like Mernetwork.com.
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WHAT’S WITH THIS FAIRY GARDENS FAD?
WHAT’S WITH THIS FAIRY GARDENS FAD?
Fairy Gardens are in fashion right now. They derive from miniature gardens, which are small gardens sometimes decorated with tiny patio furniture, landscaping, varieties of flowers, succulents, mosses and rocks.Dismissed sometimes in favor of more “serious” gardening, the skill in landscaping and carefully maintaining a garden with so little room to do it makes keeping a miniature garden an engaging project.
Miniature gardens are by no means new. For the first miniature garden, we can thank Anne Ashberry, a 1950’s nursery owner. She started it as a garden for elderly, handicapped and apartment dwellers. But she created such intelligently designed and delightfully beautiful miniature gardens, gardeners of all ages and ability were inspired.
Fairy Gardening History:
Did you know that Fairy Gardening first began as bonsai dish gardens and gained its popularity in the US at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1891? The lore of tiny fairies, pixies and spirits has touched every culture in the world dating back many centuries. Thought to be lurking in our woodlands and possessing magical powers, fairies have always lived within our imaginations and in the beds of our gardens. Tiny and human-like in appearance, fairies are shy and only come around when settings and conditions are just right. Source
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Many nature photographers say rock stacks are an eyesore, distracting from the untouched environment © Getty Images
Rock-stacking is one of humanity’s most ancient art forms. But it is also contentious.
Hike far enough on just about any trail in the world and you’ll likely spot a collection of stones placed atop each other that form impromptu sculptures.
Some call them cairns. Others favor more colorful terms like “stone balancing” or “prayer stone stacks.”Whatever the name, the act of stacking rocks atop each other is as ancient as it is ubiquitous.
Over the past decade or so, for better or worse, rock-stacking has become even more popular thanks to social media. What many don’t know, though, is that the practice is controversial, particularly in national parks and other protected areas. Depending on whom you ask, it can be a crucial navigational device, a rewarding mindfulness practice, or an environmental menace.
So, is rock stacking as harmless as it seems? Let’s dig in.
When a pile of rocks points the way home
These days, most rock stackers do it to mark a trail, especially in less frequently navigated backcountry. Others claim that slowly and deliberately stacking rocks is a way to practice mindfulness.
While its meditative benefits are open to interpretation, a well-placed cairn can indeed save lives. For that reason, Michael Larson, a public information officer with the U.S. National Park Service doesn’t recommend kicking them over when you come across them, despite what you see on TikTok or online hiking forums. He points to certain locations where cairns are part of official policy.
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Learn more about CAIRNS in my Series:
ROCK CAIRNS – Part 1; Part 2: Part 3; Part 4
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By: Alex Postrado
The German Nightmare Vampire
There is a great chance that you are already familiar with elves.
Sure enough, you, too, already know what vampires are!
And you also may have heard — at least once — about the incubus.
While all of these beings of lore may be unalike in most facets of their definitions, there is a creature from German folklore that ties them all together.
It is called the Alp.
A mischievous,shapeshifting midnight monstrosity that has a taste for blood, horror, and… breast milk?
But how exactly did this folkloric fiend manage to be this infamous?
Well, believe it or \not, it was with the help of a magical hat!
Do you think this creature could be more intriguing than it already is?
What is the Alp?
Similar to both vampires and werewolves, German folklore’s Alp — the plural of which is spelled as Alpe or Alpen — is a creature that is notorious for its shapeshifting abilities.
Said to take the shape of any animal of its liking, the Alp more commonly transforms into a cat, a dog, a pig, a snake, or even a white butterfly.
Other times, though, it could also present itself as a mist, which helps it carry out its nasty agenda toward its victim — but more on that later!
The lore says that the Alp can ride a horse, fly, and even turn invisible. Moreover, it can mete out bad luck, as well as a disease to people that catch the gaze of its “evil eye“.
All of these powers— which the Alp harnesses to spread either harm or devilry — come from a magical hat, or sometimes veil, that the diminutive monsterpossesses.
This is known to many as a Tarnkappe — meaning, “cap of concealment” or “camouflage cap“.Talk about a cloak of invisibility of some sort!
Be that as it may, it is only the wearer — in this case, the Alp — that is granted concealment.
The hat — for some reason — stays visible no matter what shape the Alp may take.
This accounts for versions of the lore where the Alp somehow loses its hat. The person who, then, sees it and brings it back safely to the creature is thereby given a great reward.
The inclusion of a hat in the story of the Alp may seem comical in some ways, but the Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch — or, in English, the Old High German Dictionary — reveals that comical is actually not the right word for it.
As it describes, the Alp is a “nature-god” or a “nature-demon” that is “eerie”, “ferocious“, and “messes around with women“. Its name derives from Germanic Alp — meaning, “nightmare” — which is also the root of the English word elf,used to define a class of small, magical entities — or fairies — that are often capricious by nature.
Likely due to this relation with elves, in Teutonic mythology, Alpe were regarded as mountain-dwelling, elf-like beings.
And unlike the “ferocious” portrayal of Alpe in most sources, back in the day, they were known to be friendly, even to humans.
But the increase in hostile depictions of elves in later medieval years consequently altered the way people perceived Alpe.
Instead of their once genial image, the name Alp quickly became synonymous with malevolence and roguery — with the creature, now bearing more resemblance to kobolds or sprites.
Creatures of Nightmares?
Over the years, a lot of elements in the lore of Alpe changed — yet one key detail remained the same:
Alpe typically strike in the middle of the night.
That is because the people they tend to attack are those who are sleeping. And they do this malicious deed in theform of nightmares!
In German, there is a term known as Alptraum — meaning, “elf dream“.
Similarly, the word Alpdruck or Alpdrücke translates to “elf oppression” or “elf pressure“.
In English, we understand this simply as nightmares.But the lore behind both of these Old German words is a little more complex than that.
Male Alpe are generally known as Alp. This could also — sometimes — be used to refer to their female counterparts.
But, in most cases, female Alpe are called mare, mara, mar, mart, or mahr.
In post-medieval folklore, these two kinds of Alp suggest two, different ways of attack.
Alpdruck often alludes to when a mare sits astride a victim’s chest, rendering them unable to move under the monster’s crushing weight, which — the lore says — is bound to get heavier and heavier until it either awakens the nearly-breathless victim or cuts off their air supply entirely.
On the other hand, Alptraum is more fitting to the male Alp’s attack, which is done by the creature, first turning into a snake or a mist, then entering the sleeper’s body through their mouth to have the power to plague the victim with atrocious nightmares throughout the night
Malice and Mischief of the Alp
Although Alpe are sometimes viewed as incubus-like creatures,Alp attacks with rather sexual undertones are said only to happen rarely.
When it does, however, it may involve the Alp, drinking from the nipples of its victim — sucking blood from men and children, and breast milk from women.
Moreover, as it happens, women are Alpe’s victims of choice!
More specifically, pregnant women who commit an “unforgivable sin” during their gestation period.
Other than this, Alpe also has a “tendency for mischief“.
They go from less serious acts, like:
Tangling hair into elfknots; twisting horse’s tails; souring milk; milking cows dry;
To more alarming ones, like:
Putting back used diapers on babies; riding horses to exhaustion; and crushing animals to death.
Things like these help easily attach the “demon” connotation to the nightmare-inducing Alpe.
But, as several tellings signify, Alpe can be spirits. And they allegedly can be created from the ghosts of:
- Children born with hair on their palms;
- Children birthed by women who bit horse collars as they pushed through an “extremely long and tortuous childbirth“;
- Children birthed by women who got frightened by any animal during pregnancy;
- Stillborn infants;
- Or other recently departed relatives.
Furthermore, Alpe can also be normal, living humans by day, who transform — often unconsciously — into nightmarish monsters by night.
This could supposedly be caused by witchcraft.
But, nevertheless, it is believed that one indicator that someone is secretly an Alp is if they have a unibrow.
Though that so-called “sign”, of course, leaves a lot of room for wrongly-placed judgment.
For this reason, many still fall back to the belief that injuring an Alp and leaving a mark on them during one of their attacks would help single them out from real humans during the day.
The Origin of the German Fiend
To understand the origin of the Alp, we need to analyze some small — yet absolutely relevant — pieces of its lore.
According to its history, near the start of the creature’s run, Alpe were believed to inhabit the mountains. This detail backs the theory suggested by some about how the Alp may have originated from the mountainous regions of Germany and, perhaps, even Austria.
In addition to that, the Alp’s iconic hat — the Tarnkappe — along with the powers it bestows upon the demon-like being call to mind certain elements that play out in the German epic poemNibelungenlied, in the form of the legendary character King Alberich.
In the story, Alberich is the king of the dwarves. And as we know, dwarves and elves — of which the Alp was closely related to — are both species of small, humanlike supernatural creatures.
Moreover, Alberich’s distinguishing attribute is that he has “the strength of twelve men” — which lies parallel to the mare’s hulking weight and force.
On top of all that, somewhere in the epic poem, a cloak of invisibility was actually mentioned. And it is called Tarnkappe!
All of these factors added together make it clear that none of it was purely coincidental;
That, despite the Alp lore having garnered other influences through the years, the Nibelungenlied was definitely a “source of inspiration” for many of its key elements.
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Cloak of invisibility
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cloak_of_invisibility
... tarnkappe came to be regarded as a cap of invisibility. The tarnkappe (or tarnkeppelin) is also owned by the dwarf king who is the title character in Laurin.
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Cloak of invisibility
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Alberich puts on the Tarnkappe and vanishes; illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner‘s Das Rheingold
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| Function | Renders the wearer invisible |
A cloak of invisibilityis an item that prevents the wearer from being seen. In folklore, mythology and fairy tales, a cloak of invisibility appears either as a magical item used by duplicitous characters or an item worn by a hero to fulfill a quest. It is a common theme in Welsh and Germanic folklore, and may originate with the cap of invisibility seen in ancient Greek myths. The motif falls under “D1361.12 magic cloak of invisibility” in theStith Thompsonmotif index scheme.
In folklore
Cloaks of invisibility are magical items found in folklore and fairy tales. Such cloaks are common inWelsh mythology; a “Mantle of Invisibility” is described in the taleCulhwch and Olwen (c. 1100) as one of King Arthur‘s most prized possessions.[1]The mantle is described again, and in more detail,[1] in the Breuddwyd Rhonabwy, and is later listed as one of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain.A similar mantleappears in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, in which it is used by Caswallawn to assassinate the seven stewards left behind by Bran the Blessed and usurp the throne.[1][2]
In the English fairy taleJack the Giant Killer,the hero is rewarded with several magical gifts by a giant he has spared,among them a coat of invisibility.Iona and Peter Opie observe in The Classic Fairy Tales (1974), that Jack’s coat may have been borrowed from theTale of Tom Thumbor from Norse mythology, but they also draw comparisons with the Celtic stories of the Mabinogion.[3]
The counterpart in Japan is the kakuremino (隠れ蓑), a magical “straw cape” or “raincoat” of invisibility.In the folktale of the “Peach Boy” Momotarō,one of the treasures the hero collects from the ogres is a cape of invisibility, paralleling the story of Jack the giant-slayer.[4]
Tarnkappe
Although occurrences in fairy tales are rare,[5] the cloak of invisibility appears in the German tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses (KHM 133) and in The King of the Golden Mountain(KHM 92) in Grimm’s Fairy Tales.[6] The cloak in German fairy tales may be traceable to the tarnkappe (“cloak of concealment”),[5] such as the one that the hero Sîfrit (Siegfried) acquires from the dwarf Alberich in the Middle High German epic Nibelungenlied.[7] The Grimms clarify that Sîfrit’s kappe is a cape that covers not just the head but enshrouds the body, though in later times tarnkappe came to be regarded as a cap of invisibility. The tarnkappe (or tarnkeppelin[8]) is also owned by the dwarf king who is the title character in Laurin. In different passages or variant manuscripts of these works, the tarnkappe is also referred to as the tarnhût (mod. Ger. Haut “skin”)[7][9] or hehlkappe (mod. Ger. hehlen “to hide”).[10][11]
Modern adaptations
In the original epic Nibelungenlied, the hero’s cloak not only grants him invisibility, but also increases his strength, to win over the Icelandic queen Brünhild. In Richard Wagner‘s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, the cloak becomes a magic helmet called the Tarnhelm, which also imparts the ability to transform upon its wearer. When Fritz Lang adapted Nibelungenlied for the movie screen in his 1924 film Die Nibelungen,Siegfried uses a veil or net of invisibility gained from the dwarf Alberich.[citation needed]
In science
On October 19, 2006, a cloak was produced that routed microwaves of a particular frequency around a copper cylinder in a way that made them emerge almost as if there were nothing there.The cloak was made from metamaterials. It cast a small shadow, which the designers hope to fix.
The device obscures a defined two dimensional region and only at a particular microwave frequency. Work on achieving similar results with visible light is in progress.[13][14]Other types of invisibility cloak are also possible, including ones that cloak events rather than objects.
However, cloaking a human-sized object at visible wavelengths appears to have low probability.[15] Indeed, there appears to be a fundamental problem with these devices as “invisibility cloaks”:[16]
It’s not yet clear that you’re going to get the invisibility that everyone thinks about with Star Trek cloaking device or the Harry Potter’s cloak. To make an object literally vanish before a person’s eyes, a cloak would have to simultaneously interact with all of the wavelengths, or colors, that make up light.
On the other hand, a group of researchers connected with Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley believe that cloaking at optical frequencies is indeed possible. Furthermore, it appears within reach.Their solution to the hurdles presented by cloaking issues are dielectrics. These nonconducting materials (dielectrics) are used for a carpet cloak, which serves as an optical cloaking device.[17][18] According to the lead investigator:
We have come up with a new solution to the problem of invisibilitybased on the use of dielectric (nonconducting) materials. Our optical cloak not only suggests that true invisibility materials are within reach, it also represents a major step towards transformation optics,opening the door to manipulating light at will for the creation of powerful new microscopes and faster computers.
Furthermore, a new cloaking system was announced in the beginning of 2011that is effective in visible light and hides macroscopic objects, i.e. objects that can be seen with the human eye.The cloak is constructed from ordinary, and easily obtainable calcite.The crystal consists of two pieces configured according to specific parameters. The calcite is able to refract the light around a solid object positioned between the crystals. The system employs the natural birefringence of the calcite. From outside the system the object is not visible “for at least 3 orders of magnitude larger than thewavelength of lightin all three dimensions.“ The calcite solves for the limitations of attempting to cloak with metallic inclusions – this method does not require a nanofabrication process as has become necessary with the other methods of cloaking.The nanofabrication process is time-consuming and limits the size of the cloaked region to a microscopic area.The system works best under green light. In addition the researchers appear to be optimistic about a practical cloaking device in the future:[19][20]
In summary, we have demonstrated the first macroscopic cloak operating at visible frequencies, which transforms a deformed mirror into a flat one from all viewing angles. The cloak is capable of hiding three-dimensional objects three to four orders of magnitudes larger than optical wavelengths, and therefore, it satisfies a layman’s definition of an invisibility cloak:namely, the cloaking effect can be directly observed without the help of microscopes.Because our work solves several major issues typically associated with cloaking: size, bandwidth, loss, and image distortion, it paves the way for future practical cloaking devices
Another design calls for tiny metal needles to be fitted into a hairbrush-shaped cone at angles and lengths that would force light to pass around the cloak.This would make everything inside the cone appear to vanish because the light would no longer reflect off it. “It looks pretty much like fiction, I do realize, but it’s completely in agreement with the laws of physics,” said lead researcher Vladimir Shalaev, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. “Ideally, if we make it real it would work exactly like Harry Potter‘s invisibility cloak,” he said. “It’s not going to be heavy because there’s going to be very little metal in it.”
Furthermore, on April 30, 2009, two teams of scientists developed a cloak that rendered objects invisible to near-infrared light. Unlike its predecessors, this technology did not utilize metals, which improves cloaking since metals cause some light to be lost. Researchers mentioned that since the approach can be scaled down further in size, it was a major step towards a cloak that would work for visible light.[21]
Acoustic cloaking
Though perfect cloaking based on invisible paint is impossible if detectors (such as microphones) and sources (such as loudspeakers) are placed round a volume and if a particular formula is used to calculate the signals to be fed to the sources, perfect cloaking is possible.Such perfect cloaking does require that the information can flow through the volume fast enough and the calculations can be performed fast enough so that the necessary information can get to the sources on the far side of the volume fast enough.As a result, perfect cloaking for light is still probably at least very difficult if not impossible. For sound waves, though, such perfect cloaking is possible in principle; an object could therefore be made invisible to sonar, for example.
According to Fermat’s Principle, light follows the trajectory of the shortest optical path, that is, the path over which the integral of the refractive index function is minimal. Therefore, the refractive index of an optical medium determines how light propagates within it. Consequently, by a suitable choice of refractive index profile for an optical medium, light rays can be bent around and made to propagate in closed loops.
For more information on CLOAKING in the Modern World see the story of the Phildelphia Ship in my Post below:
It’s About TIME – Part 3 – Breaking The Time Barrier
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It is significant that the phrase translated “cast them into hell” in 2 Peter 2:4 is the Greek word tartaroo, a verb meaning “thrust down to Tartarus.” This is the only time in the New Testament that the word is used, meaning it requires special attention.
Tartarus was separate from Hades, a place of torture and torment even lower than Hades in Greek cosmology. It was believed to be as far below Hades as Earth is below Heaven. And Peter, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, chose that word to describe the punishment reserved for the angels who had engaged in illicit sexual relations with human women. Stick a mental bookmark there because we’ll have to come back to this.
The extra-biblical books of Enoch and Jubilees expand on the story, adding detail and context that’s not in the Bible. Mount Hermon is where two hundred Watchers, a class of angelic being mentioned in chapter 4 of the book of Daniel, descended and began cavorting with human women. From these unions came the Nephilim, the giants of Genesis6.
The Watchers, according to Enoch, were led by Semjâzâ, who was apparently worried that he’d take the fall for what they were about to do:
And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon…
The Book of Enoch 6:3-6a (R.H. Charles translation)
The trade offered by the Watchers was knowledge, just as it was in Eden. In exchange for the pleasures of the flesh, Semjâzâ and his minions offered charms and enchantments, astrology, the art of making weapons, cosmetics, and writing, among other things—presumably arts humans would have developed or discovered over time rather than downloaded on society all at once.
However, the giant offspring of these unholy unions, the Nephilim, pillaged the Earth and endangered humanity. They consumed everything men had. When that wasn’t enough, they began eating people and even each other.Enoch describes the giants as creatures of insatiable desire who threatened to terminate the bloodline of the future Messiah by violence—and, apparently, by corrupting the human genome.
The Book of Jasher suggests that the transgression of the Watchers and the Nephilim went beyond corrupting humankind, including “the mixture of animals of one species with the other”(Jasher 4:18).
We can only speculate as to what that was about. Was this where the legends of chimeric beings like centaurs and satyrs began? Or were they legends at all? But we do know that Yahweh sent a flood that rid the earth of all flesh except for the eight people and the animals aboard the ark. The Watchers who started it all, according to Peter and Jude, are chained in Tartarus, and they’ll stay there until “the judgment of the great day.”
But Mount Hermon’s role in history didn’t end with the flood of Noah. Another group of fallen bene elohim set up shop on the mountain after the showdown at Babel.
According to Belgian scholar Edward Lipinski, Hermon was known to the ancient world not only as the secret dwelling place of the Anunnaki, it was the mountain of the divine assembly of the northwest Semitic god El, the creator god of their pantheon. [iii]Mount Hermon is where El held court with his consort Asherah and the “seventy sons of El.”
Remember that number. We will see it again.
El was a name that came to be used in Hebrew as a generic term for “god”—El, Elohim, El Elyon, etc. It’s possible that the epithet El Shaddai, possibly meaning “god of the mountain,” was applied first to El. Another Mesopotamian god, Amurru, was called “Bel Šade,” or “lord of the mountain.” (The š sounds like “sh.”)This was another PSYOP by the Fallen—appropriating a name by which Yahweh identified Himself to confuse things. In Exodus, Yahweh told Moses that it was by the name El Shaddai, usually rendered “God Almighty” in our English Bibles, that He introduced Himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Exodus 6:3).That’s why Jacob became Isra-el, not Isra-yahu.
Of course, skeptics take this to mean that Jews and Christians are confused about who we worship. It’s El, they claim, and the followers of Yahweh are so dense we’ve gotten it wrong for the last 3,500 years. In point of fact, however, it’s the skeptics who have fallen for another PSYOP by the Enemy, who don’t care what we believe as long as it’s not the one thing that’s true.
But make no mistake: El of the Canaanites was not Yahweh of Israel, and Yahweh was not El. In the Canaanite pantheon, El was a figurehead. Real power was wielded by Ba`al, the king of the gods.In the Canaanite myths, there was a power struggle between the gods over who would hold that title, and El didn’t seem to have the power or the will to just pick a winner. Neither did he seem all that interested in ruling himself. If you had to pick a word to describe El, it would be “semi-retired.”
That is definitely not the God of the Bible.
One of the fascinating aspects of the story of Gilgameshis that archaeologists generally consider him a real, historic character.In 2003, a team digging at the site of ancient Uruk believed they’d found the tomb of Gilgamesh beneath what was the former course of the Euphrates River—but their discovery came a month after the United States military invaded Iraq in 2003, which put a stop to the dig.
Scholars have known for years that there are parallels in Mesopotamian legend and the biblical accounts of the patriarchs.
In our first article, we showed how the anointed guardian cherub of Eden, the nachash who lured Adam and Eve into sin, was cast down from God’s holy mountain to become lord of the dead. We will show in a future article in this series why Jesus chose Mount Hermon for several very specific incidents—strategic events aimed at the rebellious bene elohim. So to avoid repeating ourselves, we’ll hold some information back until later in this series. But we’ll share this: The people who lived in the Levant in the ancient world knew that Bashan, the kingdom of Og at the base of Mount Hermon, was known as the literal entrance of the netherworld.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MT HERMON, CHECK THE FOLLOWING POSTS:
Mt Hermon – They’re Here!
Mt Hermon Part 1 -GOD’s CREATION or PAN’s EVOLUTION?
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There is an entire group of people who believe that MOUNTAINS are either Giants that were petrified or captured within the Mountains. I have to say, there is some undeniable evidence that gives their belief credence.
Personally, I believe that the spirits that are assigned those Mountains as their territory are making their presence known. They are demonic spirits of the Giants/Nephilim.
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| SLEEPING GREEK WOMAN | SLEEPING WITCH |
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| BAVARIAN CHIEF | SLEEPING GIANT |
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| SOUTH TYROLEAN CHIEF | GOLEM |
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| ORC | TURBAN |
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| PAGAN GIRL | SCHILLER’s HEAD |
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| AUSTRIAN HEADMAN | MONTE SAN SALATORE |
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| PILATUS | KAISERKOPF |
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Of course, it is not just Mountains. The same things are true of TREES. I remember when I was young we had a World Book Series of Fairy Tales and Folklore and Poetry. I remember many stories of elves, fairies, trolls, Giants and both male and female entities that lived in TREES. Which always fascinated me. I just could not conceive how that was possible. In my childhood I had no concept of spirits/shapeshifters/demons.
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“Trees in particular were mysterious, and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the place that I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.” C.G.Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Druids love trees and often visit trees and woods to meditate there, hold ceremonies,or simply commune with Nature. Most Druids support tree-planting and reforestation programmesand the Order runs a Sacred Grove Planting projectto help members and the public create woodland sanctuaries.The Order also supports three tree-planting charities:Trees for Life, Tree Aid, and The Woodland Trust.
Trees and the word ‘Druid’Some modern scholars agree with the classical Roman and Greek authors that the most likely derivation for ‘Druid’ is from the word for oak,combined with the Indo-European root wid – to know,giving their translation of the word Druid as ‘One with knowledge of the oak’ or ‘Wise person of the oak’. Those who possessed knowledge of the oak possessed knowledge of all the trees. The Druid was one with ‘knowledge of the trees’ and was a ‘Forest Sage’.Other scholars suggest that Druid is derived from the pre-Indo-European root deru – which means firm, solid, strong or steadfast, combined with the root weid – which means to see,creating a term that could translate as ‘Strong Seer’ (or one who practices Divination). To get a sense of how it might feel to be a Druid, try saying this: “I am strong – a steadfast seer, a knower of magic and enchantment. I am a sage of the forest. I know the secrets of the oak and the wildwood.”(I STRONGLY recommend you NOT speak that out!)Say it several times over, with as little inhibition and as much conviction as you can muster. It’s important to say it out loud, because the voice has magical properties. (Not only that the voice and words have power, but the declaration of who you are and how you see yourself. If you make that statement willfully your are declaring yourself to be in rebellion against GOD.) If the exercise works for you, you will have experienced something of what it means to be a Druid – a man or a woman who even today can feel the pulse of life in the earth beneath them and the trees around them.
OvatesToday, those who study as Ovates within Druidry learn to work with the powers of Nature – they learn the Ogham and come to know the trees as living Beings with their own medicines and gifts. They work with the sacred animals of tradition, and with different methods of divination,and many begin a study of herbalism or other methods of healing, and in particular they learn how to encourage the flow of Nwyfre through the body. Nwyfre is the Druid term for Life-force, known as Chi’ or Prana in the East.
Ogham – the Tree Alphabet of the Druids
Druids today use a particular method for communicating and remembering their wealth of tree-knowledge. This is known as the Ogham (which means ‘language’ and is pronounced o’um, or och’um). It consists of twenty-five simple strokes centred on or branching off a central line. It is similar in purpose, but separate in origin from the Nordic runes. The Ogham characters were inscribed on stones and probably on staves of wood.
Its origins are lost in the mists of time, and most of the existing inscriptions have only been dated to the fifth and sixth centuries, but whether originally Celtic or pre-Celtic, we may sense that it carries with it some of the very earliest of Druid wisdom. Amongst our sources of information about its use, we have from Ireland the twelfth century Book of Leinster, the fourteenth century Book of Ballymote, and O’Flaherty’s Ogygia (published in 1793). And from Scotland, transcribed from the oral tradition in the seventeenth century, we have The Scholar’s Primer. But it was the poet Robert Graveswho, following in his grandfather’s footsteps as an Ogham expert, brought this arcane system into public awareness once again, with his publication of The White Goddess in 1948.
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I occasionally carve tree wizards (wood spirits) in cottonwood bark. Several years ago I searched the internet and came up with (stole) several bits of lore, which I print (double-sided business card) and attach, via a string, to each carving. This was not intended to provide a complete, or accurate, history of these creatures, but to give the recipient a little idea of why these carvings are so popular.
The Wood Spirit Legend
No one really knows where or when the legend began. (That is because it has been Occulted/Hidden/Kept Secret The ROOT/BEGINNING/ORIGIN of everything and anything is SO VITALLY IMPORTANT! God told me the ROOT is ALL THAT MATTERS! God mad it very clear when and where the world began and how it was created! The first words reported in His WORD for us is “IN THE BEGINNING” Bereshit!:The Hebrew word bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית) can mean “in the beginning” or “at the start” or “at the head of (all things),” etc. (notice the term rosh (ראשׁ, “head”) . Source
If you don’t know the root, it’s origin and purpose…DON’T TOUCH IT!)
Folklore has many versions–all with one common theme: it’s a symbol of good luck and good fortune
Common names include Tree Spirit and Wood Wizard.
Green Men have leaves growing from the face instead of hair.
Wood Spirit carving has been part of European folklore for centuries.The tradition dates back to the Germans who carved faces in the trees of the Black Forest to mark their boundaries.
The term Waldgeist is German for Forest Spirit. They protected those with ‘pure spirit’ who entered the forest. The term ‘knock on wood’ was believed to have originated with hunters and woodsmen who, upon entering the forest, would knock on a large, old tree to awaken the spirit to ensure no evil came to them. Others would search the forest to try and spot a natural Wood Spirit. They would search in fallen logs, broken branches, and small tree trunks; but the Wood Spirits were so elusive, they could only be seen by a person of pure heart and good intentions.
Most spirits were found and seen by children.
Wood Spirits were often depicted in carved wooden form. They were often seen over doorways leading into homes, or on trees near the home, to ensure no evil entered.Dwellers would take a section of wood to the village woodcarver to summon forth the image of the spirit using the magic in their knives and chisels.
When you take your Wood Spirit home, give it a place of honor where visitors may see him and marvel at his mysterious image. Doing so may protect your dwelling and bring those sheltered good luck. (Don’t try it folks! That is worship of demonic entity)Last edited by dave.keele; 07-26-2018, 10:27 AM.spacer
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List of tree deities
Yakshi under a stylized ashoka tree. Railing figure at Bharhut Stupa, 2nd century BC, India. A tree deity or tree spirit is a nature deityrelated to a tree. Such deities are present in many cultures.They are usually represented as a young woman, often connected to ancient fertility and tree worship lore.[1] The status of tree deities varies from that of a local fairy, ghost, sprite or nymph, to that of a goddess.[2]
Examples of tree deities
The Yakshis or Yakshinis (Sanskrit: याक्षिणि), mythical maiden deities of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythologyare closely associated with trees, especially the ashoka tree and the sal tree.Although these tree deities are usually benevolent, there are also yakshinis with malevolent characteristics inIndian folklore.[1]
Panaiveriyamman,named afterpanai, the Tamilname for the Palmyra palm, is an ancient fertility deitylinked to this palm that is so important in Tamil culture. This deity is also known as Taalavaasini, a name that further relates her to all types of palm trees. Some other Tamil tree deities are related to ancient agricultural deities, such as Puliyidaivalaiyamman, the deity of the tamarind tree, and Kadambariyamman, associated with the kadamba tree. These were seen as manifestations of a goddess who offers her blessings by giving fruits in abundance.[3]
In Thailandthe village ghosts or fairies related to trees such as Nang Takian and Nang Tani are known generically as Nang Mai(นางไม้).[4]There are also other tree ghosts that are male.
Tree deities were common in ancient Northern European lore. In Charlemagne‘s time,following the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniaein 782 offerings to sacred trees or any other form of worship of the spirits of trees and springs were outlawed.Even as late as 1227 the Synod of Trier decreed that the worship of trees and sources was forbidden.[5]
List of tree deities
Tree deities in different cultures of the world include:
- Anito, various animistic nature spirits in indigenous Philippine mythology are commonly believed to reside in balete trees
- Bà Mộc, Vietnamese goddess of trees
- Druantia, hypothetical Gallic tree goddess proposed by Robert Graves in his 1948 study The White Goddess; popular with Neopagans
- Dryads and hamadryads of Greek mythology
- Hathor, also called Lady of the Sycamore in the Old Kingdom of Egypt
- Jinmenju, a tree with human-faced fruits in Japanese mythology
- Kodama and Kurozome, the spirit of the Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry)
- Kukunochi, Japanese tree spirit
- Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology
- Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or theKikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky).
- Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology
- Metsaema, mother of the forest in Estonian mythology
- Metsavana, old man of the forest in Estonian mythology
- Mielikki, goddess of the forests in Finnish mythology
- Nang Ta-khian, related to the Hopea odorata (Ta-khian tree) in Thai folklore
- Nang Tani, an ambiguous female spirit who lives in the Musa balbisiana (wild banana tree)
- Nariphon, a tree in Buddhist mythology which bears fruit in the shape of young female creatures
- Penghou, an edible dog-shaped spirit in Chinese mythology
- Pi-Fang, a Chinese tree deity[6]
- Rakapila, a sacred tree deity of Madagascar[7]
- Salabhanjika, another general term for Hindu tree nymphs
- SijouEuphorbia milii var. splendens the living embodiment of Bathoubwrai, the supreme deity in the Bathouist religion of the Bodo people or Mech of Assam and Nepal
- Spriggan Tree like creature from Cornish mythology
- Tāne-mahuta, atua (deity) of the forests and birds, and one of the children of Ranginui and Papatūānuku in Māori mythology[8]
- Tapio, god of the forests in Finnish mythology
- Curupira, a powerful Demon/Forest Spirit in Guarani mythology and Brazilian mythology.
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The whole world is adopting a new educational plan that was created by Norsemen/women and focuses on nature and nature spirits. It is called “THE FOREST WAY”
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Check out my series:
The Forest Way Part 1: Part 2; Part 3; Part 4
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Forest School 101
The Native School
https://www.thenativeschool.com › forest-school-101
The origin of forest schools have deep roots in Europe and Scandinavia, when the first kindergartens were established in the 1800s.
By Ruth A. Wilson
State and national forests are often used as outdoor classrooms, but in some places, the forest isn’t just a classroom: it’s the school itself! These outdoor schools — designed for young children, usually ages three to five — are called “forest kindergartens” or, in German, “waldkindergartens.”
Wald = Etymology 1From Middle English walden, from Old English wealdan(“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldan, from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). |
Etymology 2From Middle English wald, iwald, from Old English weald(“power, authority”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“power”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”).Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”). |
“Waldkinder” means “children of the forest,”and in Europe, waldkindergartens abound with many such programs having no building at all. Forest kindergartens are especially popular in Germany, where there are now approximately 450 such programs, some partially supported by the government.
The recently developed Nature Action Collaborative for Children has more than 1,600 members from six continents.Other growing initiatives focusing on children and nature include the Children and Nature Network and the National Wildlife Foundation’s “Get Outside” program.
The first students from forest kindergartens in the U.S. are just now entering the public school system, so it’s too early to tell what long-term benefits the nature immersion program has had on them.
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There are a few key factors present at forest schools that can be translated to programs across the country. The first is something called “risky play.”
Researchers define risky play as taking part in mostly unsupervised activities that push boundaries;for most of us, risk amounts to conducting physical, emotional or social experiments to see what we can withstand. Playing on a slippery mud slope during a rainstorm would qualify as risky play,as would climbing trees or making up games in an area where there are pointy objects nearby. … time spent gathering insects and exploring the preserve around the school might also be considered risky play,as the children interact with various unknown elements.Rough and tumble play is also risky, as it involves a chance that children could hurt each other while they’re wrestling.
According to a 2018 study, participating in risk-taking behavior is essential for positive social development, especially in young children. A 2008 literature review found that risky play benefits kids by igniting positive self-esteem, increasing levels of enjoyment and excitement and offering a sense of pride. In a 2011 editorial, author Helen Sandseter suggested that the key benefit of risky play was “the lessons for life that [kids] unconsciously learn while practicing handling risks.”
“These types of activities can help kids learn to have confidence in themselves and [it gives them the] power to make independent decisions,” Louv says.
“[Students often] resort to old-fashioned, inquisitive play, using natural objects and hiding places and make-believe adventures,” Muhammad says. “This ‘prehistoric play’has reduced the number of fights and disagreements during play. Yes, there are more scraps and bruises and even tears, but the bounce back and recovery … builds character.”
A 2015 study looked at a group of 4- and 5-year-olds and asked them to take part in activities initiated by adults, as well as activities they came up with themselves. While both setups showed positive increases in learning, the kids demonstrated better self-regulation and an increased awareness of their own emotional states when they initiated the activities themselves, suggesting that self-guided activities “maximize opportunities for children’s autonomy and control.”
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Just remember these are children in their formative years. Very young! Nursery school age to 5 year olds. This is a time in children’s lives when they are naturally SELFISH and SELF CENTERED. These are the years when the Parents need to exercise CONTROL and instill good values. IT is the parent’s parents job at this stage in their lives to PROTECT them. To help them to learn to channel their energies properly and to direct their learning to things that will benefit them later in their lives. Naturally, children will prefer to self direct. To SELF anything. SELF and PRIDE are enemies of their souls.
Do you really want you little ones to taught and lead by nature SPIRITS??
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How Scandinavia has Connected Children’s Education to Nature
Scandinavia has a rich history in appreciation for nature. North mythology connected Norsemen to different gods based on their natural surroundings. For example, Norsemen believed Yggdrasil was a tree that held the whole world in its branches.People in Sweden have tales of Radanda which are tree spirits, and Skogsra, a mythical female creature of the forest.
Forest schools first developed in Denmark, established by Ella Flautau. Flautau observed neighborhood children gathering in the forest. She came up with a concept to teach children in these natural areas and also have access to a daycare. These nature centered schools by Flautau were called naturebørnehavens. Today, 10% of Danish schools are forest schools. In Sweden, a concept called “Skogsmulle school”meaning Wood Mulle was founded by Gosta Frohm (1950). (Wait! Did they not just tell us that Skogsmulle is a mythical female creature of the Forest?? How does her name suddenly mean Wood Mulle?)
The first modern forest school in the US was established in California, 1996.In 2020, there are about 585 forest schools across the United States. In Illinois,
According to Stephanie Dean (2019), this pedagogical approach allows children to work on their self-esteem, self-confidence, and independence.Forest schools allow children to spend time outdoors and learn how to care for nature. Children to learn how to start fires, climb trees and make their own carving tools with pocketknives. Forest schools may not work as well in areas around the world where they place high value on the security and safety of their children.
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Part 2
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Authored By : Bill Kochman
Published On : April 11, 2019
Last Updated :April 11, 2019
We are repeatedly told about unclean spirits throughout the New Testament. Where did these beings come from, and why are they referred to as being unclean? … in the Book of Jubilees we read that the Watchers — or the Fallen Angels — “made the beginning of uncleanness”.
That startling statement was made by the Patriarch Noahas he admonished his grandchildren to remain true to the ways of the Lord.Noah pinned the blame for uncleanness entering the world directly on the rebellious Watchers,and he was absolutely right to do so. … from the Book of Enoch, in chapter ten, the Lord directs the Archangel Michael in the following manner:
“Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness.”
Likewise, in chapter nine of the same Book, we are told that the Fallen Angels “have defiled themselves” by sleeping with human women. In other words, through the action of engaging in illicit sex with the women of Earth, the Fallen Angels became unclean.They defiled themselves. They were no longer pure in God’s eyes. Through their sexual lust for the women of Earth, and engaging in sex, they lost their purity. Not only that, but that very same behavior which made the Fallen Angels defiled, also made their giant offspring unclean,and their spirits unclean as well.The uncleanness was passed on to them.
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If you have not viewed my series on the Fallen Angels and humans, check it out:
GIFTS FROM THE FALLEN – PART 1 – Origins; Part 2;
Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8; Part 9
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This reminds me of something that the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians chapter seven where he engages in a discussion regarding marriage relationships between Believers and nonbelievers.More specifically, Paul discusses how such relationships affect the spiritual status of their children. Consider the following two verses:
“And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.”
So just as a believing spouse sanctifies — or makes holy — the children that are born from that relationship, the exact opposite must hold true as well. Thus, because the Fallen Angels became defiled and unclean, their offspring — that is, the Nephilim giants — were likewise unclean as well. So that, in my opinion, is why God views the Nephilim giants as being both unclean and evil.If you still doubt that this is so, then consider what Enoch wrote in the fifteenth chapter of his Book, where he plainly tells us that the spirits of the Nephilim are evil spirits, and that “they shall be evil spirits on earth”:
“And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.”
Can it be any clearer than that? The spirits of the ancient Nephilim giants are unclean, evil spirits which roamed the Earth millennia ago, which roamed the Earth during Jesus’ day, and which apparently still roam the Earth today as well. Not only that, but they are very violent spirits which are capable of influencing people to do very unspeakable things. Furthermore, we are told that these evil spirits were NOT born in Heaven, and are NOT of Heaven. God did NOT create them. They were the by-product of Fallen Angel-human sexual relationships.They are unclean, wicked, violent spirits of the Earth which remain bound to the Earth.
Before moving on, allow me to stress an important point here. Some Christians — and I may have done this myself in the past — sometimes interchange the words “Fallen Angels” and “Demons”. Let us be clear about this. They are not the same thing by any means, according to everything I’ve just shared with you. The Angels — whether fallen or not — were created by God in Heaven. They proceeded from God’s own Spirit. Just because they have rebelled against the Lord does not turn them into demons. They are backslidden, rebellious Angels, and they are defiled and unclean. Demons, on the other hand, were never in Heaven, and they were not created by God.They are the result of corrupted human-Angelic DNA, and a merger of human flesh and Angelic spirit, so-to-speak.
To continue then, if my understanding of all of the previous verses is correct, is it possible that down through history, and maybe even in our current time, certain people who have committed unspeakable, gross acts of violence such as serial murders, cannibalism, cruel torture, etc., have also been possessed by these very same ancient spirits of the Nephilim? Taking this thought a step further, can we likewise attribute modern warfare and other acts of destruction to some people unknowingly giving their ear to, being oppressed by, or even possessed by these very same demonic forces of ages past? All of these heinous acts certainly seem to agree with what we understand about the extremely violent nature of the Nephilim giants. Allow me to share some additional quotes with you from the Book of Enoch which again seem to support this position:
“And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences.And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement— thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated.“
To reiterate this point, considering that the giant Nephilim were violent creatures, and masters of war, it makes perfect sense in my mind, that in our current time, as well as in times past, their spirits would continue to counsel men in the affairs of war, even if such men are not fully aware of it. Destroy, destroy destroy. That wasis the Nephilim’s goal. If you ask me, that certainly explains the spiritual forces which are in control, and at work, in war rooms around the world. As we have already seen, these ancient spirits just thrived on bloodshed, violence and war.And if they’re truly our modern demons as well, they must love watching nations and peoples destroying each other, just like millennia ago. The situation today is just like in the Book of Genesis before the Flood. Let me remind you of those verses again:
“And GOD saw that the WICKEDNESS of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only EVIL continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them . . . The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with VIOLENCE. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with VIOLENCE through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
… regarding the man in the country of the Gadarenes who became possessed by the horde of demons known as Legion, allow me to share with you one additional interesting point. In the Gospel story, we are told that this demon-possessed man cut himself with stones. Some of you who are reading this article are probably familiar with the Old Testament story regarding how the Prophet Elijah challenged the four hundred and fifty false prophets of Baal. During the test, as a result of their false god Baal failing to perform as the false prophets had expected, we are told that they became so desperate, that just like the man in the country of the Gadarenes, they too began to cut themselves with knives and lancets, until their blood gushed forth, as we see by the following group of verses:
“And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.”
If we stop and think about it, this is the exact opposite of what Jesus did for us. In other words, as most Christians know, Jesus shed His Blood for the remission of our sins.But in this story, we are told that the false prophets of Baal in vain shed their blood for their phony god. Of course, it is common knowledge that blood sacrifices have been a part of human rituals for millennia. Even today, it is claimed by some people that both animal and human sacrifices continue to be performed by the practitioners of the dark arts.Of course, I don’t know if this is really true or not. But the point remains that whether it is true or not, it is totally contrary to the plan which God devised for the Salvation of the human race.Jesus shed His blood for the remission of our sins.We do not have to shed our blood for Him; unless, of course, God calls us to be a martyr for the Cause of Christ.
But what I will say is the following, and it may trouble you as it troubles me, given the topics we have been discussing in this article. As I sit here typing up this new article, reflecting on the violent, bloody, evil deeds of the ancient Nephilim, I am rather unsettled as my mind ponders some of the things which have come to pass in more recent decades.For example, while people may no longer cut themselves with stones until the blood gushes out, it is disturbing to know that some people do something very similar: they cut their wrists — such as in a suicide attempt — or they repeatedly cut some other parts of their body with a razor, due to some anxiety or psychological problem in their lives. But is it possible that it is really the influence of an unclean, evil spirit which has gained control of their lives? Are they in fact oppressed or possessed by an ancient spirit of the Nephilim?
Directly related to this issue are the popular practices — particularly amongst young people — of cutting their flesh — including their faces, breasts, tongues, noses, bellies, ears, etc.— in order to insert pins, rings and chains; gouging out their ear lobes and stretching them in a very ungodly fashion; or slicing open their flesh in order to insert some object which will give them fake horns, bumps and such. You will find images of some of these strange practices in the “BBB Graphics Library”. Now, I might accept one earring being artfully inserted into some fellow’s ear — although I do not wear any jewelry myself — but some of these people go to the extreme with dozens of pins or rings inserted all over their faces and ears. They look absolutely hideous.
Add to the above all of their strange tattoos, the special contact lenses which give them the appearance of having demon’s eyes, the dark goth clothing and the accompanying dark makeup which makes them look dead, plus their strange hairstyles, and I find it all very disturbing. Tragically, I have a few online friends who claim to be Christians, who dress in the very same fashion, and who find nothing wrong with it. I honestly do not understand them. We are supposed to reflect the Lord’s light,and not the Devil’s darkness. As I have mentioned before, the Apostle Paul admonishes us with the following wise counsel:
“Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
Now, on the surface, by themselves, some of these practices might seem kind of innocent. People might argue, “Oh, they are just having a little fun.” Or “Don’t worry. They’re just going through a stage in their life right now.”Or, “Relax. That’s just their way of expressing their rebellion against society.” Or, “It’s okay. They are just purposely trying to shock people.” However, when viewed collectively, all these things send a very negative, dark message, in my view. As responsible Christians, it is our duty to question who or what may really be behind all of these so-called “fads”. Is it the demonic forces of the Nephilim?It is almost as if the wicked spirits of the ancient Nephilim are living vicariously through the people who do these weird things to themselves.
Another area of popular culture where we’ve clearly seen an invasion by the forces of darkness is in the entertainment industry. Whether we are talking about the movie industry, the television industry or the music industry, it is quite simply everywhere. Things which would have never ever been allowed on the airwaves, or in movie theaters when I was a young boy growing up, are now commonplace, and many people accept it, as if there is nothing wrong with it. I am not just talking about the blatant sexuality which is shoved into our faces — both heterosexual and homosexual — at every turn, ad nauseam. Song lyrics now use such vulgarity, and such a degree of explicitness when it comes to sexual acts, that I have to wonder how it evades the censors, and is even allowed on the airwaves. And then there is the disrespect for figures in authority. It is mind-boggling. Such people need to be reminded of this verse:
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
To make matters worse, whether it is simply a gimmick to generate publicity, or controversy, or because they really mean it, a growing number of artists are publicly claiming their allegiance to Satan,and telling us that they sold their soul to the Devil in order to become rich and famous. We are all familiar with the two-finger, “horned” salute which is used by everyone from politicians to the kid on the street who has no idea what it means. I have been told by some of my online Christian friends that some of the popular artists who make these claims are not just joking around.They are dead serious about worshipping Satan. I honestly don’t know what to think about it. But what I do know is this:
“Neither give place to the devil.“
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
On the more serious side, there have also been reports of people drinking animal, or even human, blood, because they believe that they derive some benefit from doing it.This is directly tied to the modern fascination with vampirism. As many of you will already know, vampirism has been glorified as a “cool” thing in both novels and movies, and the goth look is a direct knock-off of that. Again, this is a wicked thing.You may recall that in the Book of Enoch we were also told that the Nephilim began to “devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood“. As I explain in other articles, this is clearly prohibited throughout the pages of the Bible. For example, consider the following verses and be warned:
“But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.”
“And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.“
“Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.“
“Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.”
“And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood. Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.”
“Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. . . For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication:from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”
“As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.”
Equally as bad, indeed if not worse, are the alarming stories which have come to light in recent decades regarding modern cannibals.As many of you will know, we are not just talking about some lost tribe in the Amazon or in Indonesia who have an appetite for their fellow human beings. It might interest you to know that as of this date, the Wikipedia website lists twenty-one notorious cannibals in the United States alone, such as the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer — a.k.a. the “Milwaukee Monster” — who raped, murdered, dismembered, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on, seventeen men and boys from 1978 to 1991. Tragically, there have been other such sickos since him.
So putting together everything that I have shared with you in the previous paragraphs, as Christians who understand ancient Biblical history, how can we arrive at any other conclusion than the fact that some very dark, very ancient, very evil, powerful force is at work in our modern world?Whatever this force is, it is increasingly manifesting itself by way of the things which I have just described for you. Let me give you a quick recap of what they are:
• Unending wars, skirmishes and civil unrest.
• Decade after decade of violence and bloodshed of every kind.
• Sexual perversions of every kind which become more blatant with each passing year.
• Genetic modification of plants, animals and humans, such as GMOs, stem cell research, somatic cell nuclear transfer, gender reassignment surgery, etc.
• People cutting, mutilating and disfiguring their flesh.
• People glorifying Satan in their songs, talk, dress and general lifestyle.
• Total defiance against God’s Laws.
• Serial murders.
• Human and animal sacrifices, including abortion by the millions every single year.
• Cannibalism.
• Drinking of blood.
In fact, if you go back and re-read the quotes that I shared with you from the Book of Enoch, you will see that I have not even included everything. In addition to the previous list of the sins of our modern society, Enoch also names the following:
• Astrology
• Charms and enchantments
• Creation of makeup
• Creation of jewelry
• Creation of weapons of war
So tell me; are you starting to get the picture yet? Stated plainly, every single thing that the Fallen Angels and the Nephilim were guilty of doing millennia ago, which resulted in God’s Wrath being poured upon the Earth, we are now doing today as well. In fact, we are committing the same sins at an increasing rate.Now are you starting to see the connection with the distant past? Are all of the aforementioned things symptomatic of an invisible incursion by the wicked, violent spirits of the ancient Nephilim giants? Are they here amongst us,and we don’t even realize it? Are they influencing our thoughts and actions?If the Nephilim were not spared from God’s Wrath, how can we possibly expect anything different to eventually happen to us as well,unless we all repent, and do it quickly while there is still time?
For additional information, you may want to refer to the list of reading resources below which were also mentioned in this article, or which contain topics which are related to this article. All of these articles are likewise located on the Bill’s Bible Basics website:
Demonic Possession and Sickness: A Biblical Perspective
Dracula, Nosferatu, Twilight: The Vampire Fad
God’s Mercy, Judgment and Fallen Angels
Judgment of Azazel: Scapegoat of the High Priest
Nephilim: The Giants of Genesis
Noah’s Ark and the Genesis Flood
Parable of the Raven and the Dove
Satan: His Origin, Purpose and Future
Satan: King of Tyrus, King of Empires
Sex, a Bowl of Soup, and the Nature of Angels
The Book of Enoch: Truth or Heresy?
The Children of Light: Are You One of Us?
The Judgment of Angels, Demons and Men
This Little Light, Glory of the Lord and Our Bright Future
What Happened to the Evil Spirits Known as Legion?
When Was Satan Cast Out of Heaven?