XPost: alt.arts.poetry.comments, rec.arts.poems, alt.religion.wicca   
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   From: pedohunter@countyjail.org   
      
   On 18 Mar 2005 in rec.arts.poems, "Will Dockery"  made   
   their contribution to mankind by stating in news:1111169138.058477.32930   
   @l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:   
      
   >   
   > Shez wrote:   
   >> In article , ThePsyko   
   >> >>>skye wrote:   
   >> >>>> To whomever it concerns:   
   >> >>>>   
   >> >>>> Please stop cross-posting to 'alt.gathering.rainbow' -- these   
   >> >>>> pedantic-bantering opinion-flogging posts don't have anything to   
   > do   
   >> >>>> with agr. Not only are they trite and confusing, but these posts   
   > just   
   >> >>>> unnecessarily and rudely clog the agr forum with what seem to be   
   >> >>>little   
   >> >>>> more than ego-driven banter. While of evident interest to those   
   > folks   
   >> >>>> of other newsgroups who regularly reply, no-one on agr   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>You've taken a poll? No-one, not even one?   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Not funny Will.... crossposting is a pain, and those who crosspost   
   > are a   
   >> >> bigger pain... leave them alone.   
   >> >>>   
   >> >   
   >> >You'd think will would have learned the dangers of crossposting by   
   > now...   
   >> >   
   >> He finds it amusing, but it always backfires..   
   >   
   > Actually, I see it as educational, informative, but I trim newsgroups   
   > on request... as this one will vanish from a.r.w. after this final fare   
   > thee well.   
   >   
   > If it takes a turn for the "magickal", I'll bring it back for input   
   > from ya'll... as I wrote before, poetry and song are forms of magick,   
   > it was created by Odin Himself!   
   >   
   > A quick search on Odin and the magickal creation of poetry:   
   >   
   > From: Pastor James P.S. Templeton   
   > Subject: Parable of the Two Sticks Part Nine   
   >   
   > His name defines him as the god of inspired mental activity and strong   
   > emotional stress, as it is related to Icelandic óðr, which applies to   
   > the   
   > movements of the mind, and to German Wut, meaning "rage," or "fury."   
   >   
   > This qualifies him as the god of poetic inspiration and the stories   
   > about   
   > the origin of poetry narrate how Odin brought the sacred mead of poetry   
   > to   
   > the world of the gods. This beverage was first brewed from the blood of   
   > a   
   > wise god, Kvasir, who was murdered by dwarfs. It later came into the   
   > hands   
   > of a giant and was stolen by Odin, who flew from the giant's stronghold   
   > in   
   > the shape of an eagle, carrying the sacred mead in his crop to   
   > regurgitate   
   > it in the dwelling of the gods. Therefore, the early skalds designate   
   > poetry   
   > as "Kvasir's blood" or "Woden's theft."   
   >   
   > There is also a darker side to Woden's personality, for he incites   
   > kinsmen   
   > to fight and turns against his own favourites, because he needs heroes   
   > in   
   > the other world to join him in the final battle against the forces of   
   > destruction at the time of Ragnarök. Therefore, the fallen warriors on   
   > the   
   > battlefield are said to go to his castle Valhalla the "Hall of the   
   > Slain,"   
   > where they live in bliss, training for the ultimate combat. This is   
   > where I   
   > saw his daughters who were his favourites. They were there, waiting for   
   > the   
   > time when they would become human sacrifices.   
   >   
   > He is a necromancer and a powerful magician with the power to make   
   > hanged   
   > men talk. He is called the god of the hanged, because he hanged himself   
   > on   
   > the cosmic tree Yggdrasill to acquire his occult wisdom. As the   
   > "Hávamál"   
   > tells us, he hung there for nine nights, pierced with a spear,   
   > sacrificed to   
   > himself, nearly dead, to gain the mastery of the runes and the   
   > knowledge of   
   > the magic spells that blunt a foe's weapons or free a friend from   
   > fetters.   
   >   
   > Woden could change his shape at will, and, with his body in cataleptic   
   > sleep, he travelled to other worlds, like a shaman. As god of the dead,   
   > carrion beasts, two wolves and two ravens accompanied him. These birds   
   > kept   
   > him informed of what happened in the world, adding to the knowledge he   
   > had   
   > acquired by relinquishing his one eye in the well of Mimir under the   
   > tree   
   > Yggdrasill.   
   >   
   > Woden may break the most sacred oath on the holy ring. As   
   > "spear-thruster,"   
   > he opens the hostilities, and in the bellicose period of the Viking   
   > expeditions his cult appeared to gain momentum. Woden is essentially   
   > the   
   > sovereign god, whom the Germanic dynasties, in England as well as in   
   > Scandinavia, originally regarded as their divine founder. He thus   
   > maintains   
   > the prominent position of Woðan[az] in classical antiquity, to whom,   
   > according to Tacitus, human sacrifice was offered. Latin writers   
   > identified   
   > Woðan[az] with Mercury, as the name of the day, Wednesday, (i.e., "day   
   > of   
   > Wôden"), for Mercurii dies (French mercredi), indicates. It is   
   > possible that   
   > the tribal god of the Semnones, described by Tacitus as regnator omnium   
   > deus   
   > ("the god governing all"), could be identified with Woðan[az]. They   
   > would   
   > indeed sacrifice a man to him in a sacred grove in what the ancient   
   > author   
   > describes as a "horrendous ritual." END OF PART NINE.   
   >   
   > So, as you can see, the discussion of poetry is very on-topic, being a   
   > powerful form of magick, thus the crossposting.   
   >   
      
   Nobody cares spanky.   
      
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