Backstory
William Bell Scott's The Eve of the Deluge (1865)
Alchemist Sendivogius. 1867
ULTRATERRESTRIAL
The Dragon is the universal energetic field, slumbering at the center of the Universe. A hidden Dragon sleeps within our deep nature and guides our collective destiny. The vortex in the DNA (Starfire), implodes at light speed, enabling supraluminal 'samadhi' states, lucid dreaming, memory through death. All the virtual and electromagnetic waves bathe all things in this radiation, in their motion. Through miniscule perturbations, waves can change to forms and images that can speak, becoming voices that can be heard by our sensitive energy bodies, feeding on biophotonic light. Transformed to vision and dreams they produce presentiments in us.
We learn to see through our Dragon Eyes. "The Dragon" means the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragon ancestors. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", implying "to see clearly". "The Dragon", the inherited Dragon archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which this knowledge flows. Clear sight principally refers to transcendent consciousness. ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
If we are not only interconnected, but are actually one Self seeing through many eyes, then it should be clear that, like it or not, in the way we conduct our inner and outer lives, each of us is in fact always having an effect on the whole. What would you do if you realized that the entire human endeavor, the evolution of consciousness itself, depended on your willingness to transform your own consciousness? We are now at the Inflection Point, a critical event that changes the way we think and act.
Houses of the Holy, Prehistoric Sanctuary (Paleolithic-Neolithic)
Gobekli Tepe, circa 12,000 BC,
oldest known Holy Mountain built by The Watchers.
Gobekli Tepe, circa 12,000 BC,
oldest known Holy Mountain built by The Watchers.
The god-king children of the Anunnaki established incredible civilizations. The cultures of the Sumerians ("proto-Sumerian" originated in Transylvania), the Egyptians and even post-glacial settlers in northern Europe stemmed from this antediluvian prototype – the "Golden Age" presided over by ancient Dragon god-kings and goddess-queens. Scientists have suggested the Atlantean myth and Biblical Flood are linked to Ice Age glacial melt and encounters by Earth with cometary debris. Titanic and Olympian sagas unfold in the Dawn of the Gods.
Why has the idea of something like a dragon arisen in almost every culture around the world? There is no evidence of living classical dragons, yet the morif is common in most civilizations around the world. Ancient Greeks collected fossils to worship in their temples as Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners. In the the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, they encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground.
If dragon-like predators never existed with humans, why is it so commonly recognized and feared? According to Jung’s principles there must be "something" about this symbol that arose from a genetically stored memory in our collective unconscious. At some point in our evolutionary past something imprinted our response to a dragon symbol so that, with no foreknowledge of this predator and without having ever seen it ourselves, we can all still recognize a dragon and label it as dangerous. Maybe that is because it actually came from above.
What could it have to do with St. Germain's secret magic book, the Triangular MS, which begins with the symbol of a rampant Dragon? Is it his bloodline? His secret society? His ally? His nemesis? His god? His salvation?
In Solomonic magic, demons are bound by placing them in the Triangle of Art; perhaps dragons are, too. The Great Work of alchemy transforms an ordinary mortal into a self-realized immortal. It is a technology of regeneration.
Some claim the Grail is a symbol for a lost technology of individual, social and planetary regeneration. The Grail Quest then, is an allegory for the search and eventual recovery of this technology for the restoration of both the debilitated king and the devastated kingdom that has devolved into an infertile wasteland -- a "Doom Messiah".
Why has the idea of something like a dragon arisen in almost every culture around the world? There is no evidence of living classical dragons, yet the morif is common in most civilizations around the world. Ancient Greeks collected fossils to worship in their temples as Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners. In the the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, they encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground.
If dragon-like predators never existed with humans, why is it so commonly recognized and feared? According to Jung’s principles there must be "something" about this symbol that arose from a genetically stored memory in our collective unconscious. At some point in our evolutionary past something imprinted our response to a dragon symbol so that, with no foreknowledge of this predator and without having ever seen it ourselves, we can all still recognize a dragon and label it as dangerous. Maybe that is because it actually came from above.
What could it have to do with St. Germain's secret magic book, the Triangular MS, which begins with the symbol of a rampant Dragon? Is it his bloodline? His secret society? His ally? His nemesis? His god? His salvation?
In Solomonic magic, demons are bound by placing them in the Triangle of Art; perhaps dragons are, too. The Great Work of alchemy transforms an ordinary mortal into a self-realized immortal. It is a technology of regeneration.
Some claim the Grail is a symbol for a lost technology of individual, social and planetary regeneration. The Grail Quest then, is an allegory for the search and eventual recovery of this technology for the restoration of both the debilitated king and the devastated kingdom that has devolved into an infertile wasteland -- a "Doom Messiah".
Alchemical Philosopher's Stone; Precession
Squaring of the circle is a Hypercube. Tetrahedrons are the building blocks of 3-D univere.
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/18/alchemy-of-time-understanding-great-year-cycles-existence/
Squaring of the circle is a Hypercube. Tetrahedrons are the building blocks of 3-D univere.
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/18/alchemy-of-time-understanding-great-year-cycles-existence/
The prime paradigm of each era is that of its Age. Our story can only be understood against the vast backdrop of the archetype of Eternal Return: the Great Cycle of Precession which changes world Ages, but not without catastrophic growing pains. The Dragon remains unchanging at the heart of this process.
Earth wants an answer to Chaos, and it may be We Dragon. The axiom "As Above, So Below" means Earth's sacred dragon clan mystically connects with the Dragon, the "Infinite Nothing" at the center of the Universe. Society is recalibrated from this cosmic zero-point -- an Archaic Renaissance begins the Great Cycle anew, and Earth once again knows the Dragon's footprint.
All pantheons of gods are virtually identical with the Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Irish, Gaulish, Danish and Greek. They all stem from this early family of Elven goddess-queens and god-kings whose first home was found in The Balkans, Transylvania, Carpathia and the Caucasus regions of Greater and Little Scythia.
The early "Scythians", the people of the powers, occupied a region spanning The Balkans, Transylvania, Carpathia, the Ukraine and later, Siberia and Takla Makan where the Tocharians, as the Elves were mistakenly called by early linguists, spoke a ritual language which is now called Tocharian A but which originated in Thrace in 1800 BC and thus had connections with the Fir Bolg and consequently with the Tuadha d’Anu as a whole, who began migrating from Central Europe to Ireland at that period.
Over the centuries, from 5000 BC onwards, the Scythians had also migrated into the middle-east and had provided ruling families for many tribes and nations along and beyond the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Earth wants an answer to Chaos, and it may be We Dragon. The axiom "As Above, So Below" means Earth's sacred dragon clan mystically connects with the Dragon, the "Infinite Nothing" at the center of the Universe. Society is recalibrated from this cosmic zero-point -- an Archaic Renaissance begins the Great Cycle anew, and Earth once again knows the Dragon's footprint.
All pantheons of gods are virtually identical with the Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, Irish, Gaulish, Danish and Greek. They all stem from this early family of Elven goddess-queens and god-kings whose first home was found in The Balkans, Transylvania, Carpathia and the Caucasus regions of Greater and Little Scythia.
The early "Scythians", the people of the powers, occupied a region spanning The Balkans, Transylvania, Carpathia, the Ukraine and later, Siberia and Takla Makan where the Tocharians, as the Elves were mistakenly called by early linguists, spoke a ritual language which is now called Tocharian A but which originated in Thrace in 1800 BC and thus had connections with the Fir Bolg and consequently with the Tuadha d’Anu as a whole, who began migrating from Central Europe to Ireland at that period.
Over the centuries, from 5000 BC onwards, the Scythians had also migrated into the middle-east and had provided ruling families for many tribes and nations along and beyond the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Origins and name The Solomonar is a wizard who is believed, in Romanian mythology, to control clouds and rain. They are said to be able to control the movement of the "cloud dragons", to call a hailstorm, to cure diseases and to master the highest knowledge about the Universe. Their caste or order's origin is often linked[1] [2] to that of the Dacian priests.
The term "Solomonar" ("solomonar" - singular, "solomonars" - plural) started to be used in the Middle Ages probably under the influence of the Judeo-Christian culture, mainly because of a phonetic resemblance with the local term "salman" (another theory is that the etymology of the term "solomonar" is connected to King Solomon). The meaning of the term is very similar if not identical in all its occurrences because it always refers to an enchanter (practitioner of magic based on incantation), a summoner and master of high and subtle energies. The archaic, original term used to describe them, is "Zgrimțieș", or "Hultan".
Appearance and special abilities The Solomonars are said to be tall people, red-haired, wearing white capes on their shoulders and magic tools around their waists and they are most often seen around begging for alms or summoning and riding the "storm dragons" alone or together with Moroi. Fearing their wrath, people usually ask a Master Stonemason for advice. This Master Stonemason is a former Solomonar himself, who dropped the craft in favor of being again amongst people; his knowledge is highly prized because he knows the secrets of Solomonars.
The "Solomonars" were not supernatural creatures, but rather humans who learned special abilities. It is said that the children who become "solomonar" are born bearing a particular type of membrane on their head or on the whole of their body. Later, as the legend says, these children were to be selected into apprenticeship by experienced Solomonars, taken into forests or in caves which would usually be marked with encoded inscriptions. These children would learn the art and craft of wizardry, which they would use to fight against the dark forces of nature and of the human spirit. They are often said to be very secretive and if they lied or broke the caste rules, they were severely and cruelly punished. Some accounts state that Solomonars have a special book in which all their knowledge and power is gathered. This is the book they use during their apprenticeship and only one out of seven apprentices becomes a solomonar.
The Romanian tradition does not doubt their existence. There are even witnessing accounts in Transylvania and Bukovina regarding the existence of living solomonars. There are however many interpretations for the myth's origin, most of them connecting them with the Geto-Dacian priests, Kapnobatai and Ktistai, to which not only Christian concepts were added, the result being a syncretic product of myths and beliefs.
The Solomonars lived like ascetics, away from the civilized world, and sometimes they are said to actually live on "the other realm" although they are known to return to civilization and beg for alms although they do not need anything and wherever they are not received well, they would call a hailstorm as a means of punishment.
In early times, the solomonars were considered benevolent, but as Christianity began to supplement early beliefs, the "solomonars" started to be perceived as evil and the popular beliefs even invented an "anti-solomonar" hero type. Fortunately, like we saw, the belief in "solomonars" has not died out; it had diminished over time but it is still kept in remote locations of Romania. The "Solomonars" are often rather seen as cunning and intelligent people. However, generally speaking, people did and do not treat them as evil wizards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonari
References
The term "Solomonar" ("solomonar" - singular, "solomonars" - plural) started to be used in the Middle Ages probably under the influence of the Judeo-Christian culture, mainly because of a phonetic resemblance with the local term "salman" (another theory is that the etymology of the term "solomonar" is connected to King Solomon). The meaning of the term is very similar if not identical in all its occurrences because it always refers to an enchanter (practitioner of magic based on incantation), a summoner and master of high and subtle energies. The archaic, original term used to describe them, is "Zgrimțieș", or "Hultan".
Appearance and special abilities The Solomonars are said to be tall people, red-haired, wearing white capes on their shoulders and magic tools around their waists and they are most often seen around begging for alms or summoning and riding the "storm dragons" alone or together with Moroi. Fearing their wrath, people usually ask a Master Stonemason for advice. This Master Stonemason is a former Solomonar himself, who dropped the craft in favor of being again amongst people; his knowledge is highly prized because he knows the secrets of Solomonars.
The "Solomonars" were not supernatural creatures, but rather humans who learned special abilities. It is said that the children who become "solomonar" are born bearing a particular type of membrane on their head or on the whole of their body. Later, as the legend says, these children were to be selected into apprenticeship by experienced Solomonars, taken into forests or in caves which would usually be marked with encoded inscriptions. These children would learn the art and craft of wizardry, which they would use to fight against the dark forces of nature and of the human spirit. They are often said to be very secretive and if they lied or broke the caste rules, they were severely and cruelly punished. Some accounts state that Solomonars have a special book in which all their knowledge and power is gathered. This is the book they use during their apprenticeship and only one out of seven apprentices becomes a solomonar.
The Romanian tradition does not doubt their existence. There are even witnessing accounts in Transylvania and Bukovina regarding the existence of living solomonars. There are however many interpretations for the myth's origin, most of them connecting them with the Geto-Dacian priests, Kapnobatai and Ktistai, to which not only Christian concepts were added, the result being a syncretic product of myths and beliefs.
The Solomonars lived like ascetics, away from the civilized world, and sometimes they are said to actually live on "the other realm" although they are known to return to civilization and beg for alms although they do not need anything and wherever they are not received well, they would call a hailstorm as a means of punishment.
In early times, the solomonars were considered benevolent, but as Christianity began to supplement early beliefs, the "solomonars" started to be perceived as evil and the popular beliefs even invented an "anti-solomonar" hero type. Fortunately, like we saw, the belief in "solomonars" has not died out; it had diminished over time but it is still kept in remote locations of Romania. The "Solomonars" are often rather seen as cunning and intelligent people. However, generally speaking, people did and do not treat them as evil wizards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonari
References
- Herseni, Traian (1979). "Le dragon dace". Ethnologica (1): 13–22.
- Agrigoroaiei, Eugen (1981). Ţara neuitatelor constelaţii: folclor arhaic românesc. Junimea.
Without question, the dragon is virtually always connected to undeniably ELECTRICAL events in the sky. In its attack, lightning and thunder shake the earth. The ancient Anzu epic from Mesopotomia, depicting the fiery battle of the dragon and the god Ninurta, states, "Clouds of death rained down, an arrow flashed lightning. 'Wizzed' the battle force roared between them." In Hesiod's well-known account of the dragon Typhon's attack, the earth "groaned" beneath the god Zeus, "and the heat and blaze from both of them were on the dark-faced sea, from the thunder and lightning of Zeus and from the flame of the monster, from his flaming bolts, and from the scorch and breath of his storm winds."
The Sumerian texts describe the goddess Inanna as a blazing, destructive celestial force: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land...raining the fanned fire down upon the nation...With a roaring storm you roar...devastatrix of the lands...Mankind comes before you in fear and trembling at your tempestuous radiance. The Babylonian texts depict the goddess Ishtar in her terrible aspect: "...shining torch of heaven and earth...furious irresistible onslaught... I rain down like flames..."
Identical imagery occurs in Egyptian texts. The goddess Sekhmet becomes the Uraeus serpent raging in the sky: "A flame of fire in her tempest...the fear of me is in their hearts...the awe of me is in their hearts...No one at all can approach her...The streams behind her are flames of fire."
These are just a few instances -- out of hundreds -- pointing to the electrical properties of the cosmic serpent or dragon. If astronomers, scientists, and archaeologists are truly interested in human memories of cometary catastrophe, it is intellectually indefensible to ignore the overwhelming consensus of the testimony. And this consensus leads inexorably to decades of evidence from plasma experiments (a field largely ignored by mainstream astronomers).
The Sumerian texts describe the goddess Inanna as a blazing, destructive celestial force: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land...raining the fanned fire down upon the nation...With a roaring storm you roar...devastatrix of the lands...Mankind comes before you in fear and trembling at your tempestuous radiance. The Babylonian texts depict the goddess Ishtar in her terrible aspect: "...shining torch of heaven and earth...furious irresistible onslaught... I rain down like flames..."
Identical imagery occurs in Egyptian texts. The goddess Sekhmet becomes the Uraeus serpent raging in the sky: "A flame of fire in her tempest...the fear of me is in their hearts...the awe of me is in their hearts...No one at all can approach her...The streams behind her are flames of fire."
These are just a few instances -- out of hundreds -- pointing to the electrical properties of the cosmic serpent or dragon. If astronomers, scientists, and archaeologists are truly interested in human memories of cometary catastrophe, it is intellectually indefensible to ignore the overwhelming consensus of the testimony. And this consensus leads inexorably to decades of evidence from plasma experiments (a field largely ignored by mainstream astronomers).
THE AUGSBURG WUNDERZEICHENBUCH
A mid-sixteenth century book of miracles with 167 pages of gouache and watercolour images, some heightened with gold and each inscribed below with a description of the extraordinary event depicted. 202 x 307mm. Acquired by a Private Collector.
In December 2013 Taschen published a facsimile edition entitled "The Book of Miracles", with accompanying commentary by Till-Holger Borchert and Joshua P. Waterman. See also 'A miraculous Renaissance rediscovery', Daily Telegraph, Saturday November 16th, 2013: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10449378/ A-miraculous-Renaissance-rediscovery.html
A mid-sixteenth century book of miracles with 167 pages of gouache and watercolour images, some heightened with gold and each inscribed below with a description of the extraordinary event depicted. 202 x 307mm. Acquired by a Private Collector.
In December 2013 Taschen published a facsimile edition entitled "The Book of Miracles", with accompanying commentary by Till-Holger Borchert and Joshua P. Waterman. See also 'A miraculous Renaissance rediscovery', Daily Telegraph, Saturday November 16th, 2013: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10449378/ A-miraculous-Renaissance-rediscovery.html
THE SOLOMONARI - RIDERS OF THE DRAGON
The solomonarii take their prospects from their parents at age 7; hence St. Germain disappeared from his dynastic house and family. They watched for children born with a caul, a mark of second sight, symbolized in the Phyrgian liberty cap of Mithras and Perseus. It signifies the supernatural simultaneous 'sacrifice' and 'triumph' -- the sign of the 'Enlightened'.
The Scholomance was not a German superstition, but derived from the Romanian word Solomonari, meaning "students of alchemy". The Romanian healers are not allowed to eat meat, sleep during daytime or else essential things could be lost, or to touch a dying or a dead man. The place where they will perform their rituals needs to be “cleaned” by sweeping it six times in six different directions.
The name Solomonari is allegedly derived from the Biblical Solomon, perceived in Romanian tradition as someone quite extraordinary, if mysterious. Believed by some to simply mean "wise ones", it actually means "those learned in the Wisdom of Solomon" -- Solomon, the binder of demons and djinn. They are a secret order stretching back to the wise king, an order of wizards -- a secret society of elite human beings, trained in pairs and bound through eternity. In Romanian folklore, Uniila is termed as archdemon of solomonari.
A close examination of the ’Song of Songs’ attributed to Solomon will reveals certain esoteric references to the Grail. Solomon’s bloodline had Scythian Dragon origins and therefore connections with the Cult of the Head. That a head, said to be that of the Magdalene, successor to Sheba, to turn up in the inventory attached to the Templar trial papers should therefore come as no surprise.
The Pineal Gland is specifically associated with Grail Lore and closely aspected to manifestations of the Grail in the forms of a Cup, a Stone, a Cauldron, a Well, Mere or lake; a fountain, (such as that found in certain kabbalistic rituals) and an underground stream.
PRE-HISTORY
The Sumerians appeared first in Mesopotamia in 3500 BC. Prior to their emergence they were preceded by the Ubaid migrants from what is now southern Romania, from Carpathia and Scythia, who had fled south to escape the Black Sea flood of 4000 BC. Dated to about 5000 BC, archaeologists working in Tartaria in the Ubaid territory of Transylvania, discovered a ’tepes’ or Rath under which they found a fire-pit.
Buried amongst the ashes were the human remains of a cannibalistic sacrificial victim and two clay tablets. On these were inscribed the name of Enki (Samael), the number of Anu - 60 - and the image of a goat, Enki again, and a Tree - Lilith. In Hinduism Siva is the Goatherd of the Mountains.
The pictographic nature of the inscriptions convinced the archaeologists that the language was the forerunner of Sumerian and so they called it proto-Sumerian. Making it fairly obvious that the Sumerians were originally Ubaid Overlords from Central Eurasia.
The culture responsible for the production of the Tartarian clay tablets and the Rath structure was Ubaid - the founders of civilized Mesopotamia and, as it turns out, the Overlords of the Indus valley civilization of Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa where Ishtar reigned as Queen. (de Vere)
A Distinct Royal Caste
The Sumerians or Ubaid as we should call them, along with the pale-skinned and red-haired Lilith and her descendants, were the early Elven, Aryan-Scythian Dragon Overlords of what we know now as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
This particularly in the light of the discoveries of bat winged, serpent-god statuary found in Dacia and Tibet (not too far from Takla Makan!) which is said to date back at least 5000 years, putting it into the period of the emergence of civilization in Sumeria. The Vampire was and is. A very rare individual, a God-King amongst the race of human kings, the Vampire descends from the supernatural Dragon Royalty of Sumeria back to the Ubaid Overlords of what was to become known as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
Such figures we would readily identify as the Dragon or, in Gaelic - The Sumaire - whilst the Kurgans/Tells/Tepes that these early Transylvanian/Scythian Sidheans or Ubaid occupied were clearly duplicated in the Irish Raths of the Danaan, such as Newgrange with its spirally engraved stones, the Ziggurats of the Sumerians and the Pyramids of the Egyptians.
Ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme. The Orobourus, the reptilian symbol of completeness is the Sumaire, the serpent that encircles and spirals to create an inhaling vortex, a black hole that draws all energy and life into it.
Sumaire is pronounced shimmarie. Reminiscent of the word shimmer it suggests a relationship with that word which means to glow radiantly as with a light that had the power to fascinate perhaps. It is a pertinent meditation when one remembers that from the dawn of time the Elven Gods were called the Shining Ones. Here there is also a relationship with the words Shaman and Shamanism, a practice rooted in Northern Asia.
Whilst these ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme, the Egyptians too adopted the labyrinth and used the spiral as a hieroglyph which they termed the ’Mer’, a symbol of irrigation associating it with water and, via weir spelt Vere and Mhaior, rendering Muir, returning once more to the Egyptian Mer - the fish trap or fish-woman trap, the enclosure of the mermaid, the maze or labyrinth and intimations of the wild hunt.
The Vampire: the Dragon King or Queen was an Archdruid, a Witch Queen or King, a Fairy Princess or Prince amongst the race of Elphame. Consequently the Vampire, the Fairy, the Dragon and the Witch were all the same individual and far from being the characters of fable they were in fact very powerful, very real beings whose vampiric natures and rituals sustained their superconsciousness, transcendent vision which in its turn maintained their positions as the overlords of mankind.
These gods of flesh and blood were the only gods that ever actually existed: Myth, however, transformed them into the ethereal deities whom we are conditioned to think of as Gods now, and who came to be worshipped worldwide. Nevertheless flesh and blood they were and their bloodlines descend to the present day.
Though the Druids are associated with groves and, as some will insist, with oak trees, it is feasible to suggest that in the light of their Sumerian and Ubaid origins, the druids as priest kings of the Dragon, were connected specifically with the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, rather than with any mundane or temporal shrubbery.
Accepting this we may further suggest that, as priests of these pre-eminent Trees of Life and Knowledge, they may be further identified with those magicians and scholars whose Transylvanian descendants, the Scythian Aryans or Sumerian Anunnaki - the Dragon God-Kings - were instrumental in establishing the Chakric system of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra and Hebrew, Arabic and Greek Qabalah whose magical systems, as we all know, contain a glyph called the Tree of Life.
Generally speaking this Tree, a system of pathways both macrocosmic and microcosmic in nature, links the various subtle energy centers which are said to exist both in the universe, as levels of density and emanation relating to the manifestation of cosmic power and being, and in the human body - on the microcosmic level - as energy centers corresponding to the glands in the endocrinal system. In Qabalah the spheres which do not relate to the glands may be seen as points in the meridian system adopted by the Chinese. On another level, the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a genealogical chart of the Gods. The magical Tree is a universal symbol.
In Romania however, these grades with their animal totems or badges make up the degrees or conditions of vampirism. The most potent vampire is the Dracoi or female Dracoica, from whence the House of Drakul obtained its name, meaning ’Satan’ or ’Dragon’ whilst Drakulea or Dracula means ’son of Satan’ or ’son of the Dragon’. Lying at a close second place comes the Stregoi or female Stregoica, a being that manifests itself as either a wolf or a raven.
On his death in 1477, Prince Vlad Draculea’s body was taken to an Abbey he had built on an Island in the middle of a lake in Smyrna. Such a sanctuary has distinct Arthurian overtones and associations with the Isle of Avallon, upon which there was also built an abbey of the quasi-druidic Celto-Scythian Church.
This replaced the early Rath temple, grove and sanctuary of the Morganas, the ladies of the lake who were the Swan Maiden-Valkyries of the Scythian world, vampires and head hunters. In such sanctuaries headless corpses, as we have seen, were placed as portal guardians and it is in just such a condition that we discover that, according to local tradition, Draculea’s head was removed from his body and his corpse was buried beneath the stone flags beneath the doorway of the Abbey’s chapel.
A similar incident is reported to have occurred with the establishment of the Celtic Christian Shrine on the Island of Iona. Here it is St Columba who is said to have severed the head of one of his disciples and buried the blood drained corpse beneath the doorway of the chapel.
The Priestess Queens and Priest Kings, as we have seen, dwelt in the holy places, the royal Raths that served as both temple and tomb. These subterranean palaces mimicked the the Bergs or mound houses of the Scythians’ ’proto’-Sumerian ancestors, who originated in Transylvania and Carpathia. The cult of the severed head, as part of Celtic religious practice originated with the druids and therefore the Scythians.
The Solomons of Hermannstadt, Toledo and Transylvania became the hidden leftovers of an ancient, originally druidic educational system which necessarily went underground and became the subject of myth and fairytale, along with the bloodlines it once educated openly.
The Dragon Colleges produced the ’Uber’, the Overlords who, in Britain were called the Pendragons and in Transylvania the ’Dracoi’ or ’Dracoica’ - the ’vampires’. Only the highest graduates of the Druidic bangors would be thought of as true men or women of power, true Sidhe or Fairy Royalty and thus it was only the prince who ’rode the Dragon’ who could be said to fit the same criteria for inclusion in the bloodline of the vampire, the witch and the fairy families - The Dragon Kings.
OCCULT SCHOOL -
Kogaion (holy mountain)
The seers are the Watchers, described as "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool. Solomonari, which were a group of nobles and wizards. In early history, the “solomonarii” were considered benevolent, but as Christianity supplanted early beliefs, the “solomonarii” began to be considered evil. There is only one Kogaion in the Academy and he is considered to be the Preeminent Guardian.
Kogaionon was the holy mountain of the Geto-Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in an underground cave for three years. After his disappearance into Kogaionon, he was considered dead by the Getae but after three years he resurrected and showed himself to the people. One modern translation of Kogaionon is "sacred mountain", which would be connected to a probable Dacian word kaga meaning "sacred".
“Ancient Creed and Science Center”
The Dacians had sanctuaries all astronomically oriented and hold certain and complex scientific meanings. Dealul Gradiste was an outstanding spiritual center, likely the legendary Kogaion(on) mentioned by Strabo. The group of the three round sanctuaries: the “Great Round Sanctuary” (MSR), the “Small Round Sanctuary” (mSR) and the “Andesite Sun” (S.A.) - work together like a... real computer. They are depositories of numerical codified mathematic means (a numerical system on the basis of mixed “6”,“17” and "10"); that they are depositaries of the Dacian length modulus; depositaries of geodetic notions and of a wonderful calendar, etc).
But in Orashtie Mountains, into secluded nest of Dealul Gradiste, there was the heart of Dacian creed, a hiden place for Dacian treasury, a “sacred ironsmith congregation” and a virtual Dacian Academia, improved probably in the time of Decaneus (Deceneu). We guess that the place must have been a very older spiritual center, maybe from the time of Zamolxis (?) and, yes, that monastic center was raised around of a first astronomical (old) observatory, located on the top of the hill. Surrounded in three sides by more high mountains, as an astronomical observation, Dealul Gradiste had a single one "window", a single opening to the
mandatory, VISIBLE HORIZON (to West, 2700).
SPIRITUAL CULTURE
Nicknamed "Hyperboreeans", Thracians are called GETAE (in the South and East of Carpathian Mountains) and DACIANS inside the Carpathian Arch and in Pannonia. They say there was a large fraternity of old learned priests, a full town, which lead their life praising to
Apollo as the deity, in a very special location "close to the sky" and from where "... due to the clear atmosphere of place, you can see mountains in the Moon, like on the Earth". They built towers for astronomical research, as St. Germain would later in Germany.
The Great Round Sanctuary of Kogaion was built on the top of a much older one, marking Winter solstice sunrise. Its axis appears to be oriented to the First Century A.D. from the Dacian observatory of Godeanu.
Herodotus, Flavius Josephus, Strabo, Pausanias, etc, all agree about the high religious spirituality of that people lead by almost legendary rulers like Zamolxis (Salmoxis) and Dicineus (Decaneus). Those rulers have learned their special skills in the ambiguous spiritual arch which starts with the enigmatically Schytian mysteries and ends with the Egyptian famous knowledge. Geto-Dacian spirituality had another dimension: scientific knowledge.
Scholars & Astronomers
The very old religion used sophisticated mathematics,astronomy and geodetics, visible only to a researcher with connected skills. Dacians were the best scientists of that time. Their spiritual leaders learned the knowledge in Greek traditions and in the temples of Egypt. An excerpt from “THE HISTORIES” of Herodotus says the famous historian of Vth century BC refers to Salmoxis (Zalmoxe), considered as the first spiritual leader of “Getai” (the Greek name for Getae):
This Salmoxis I hear from the Hellenes who dwell about the Hellespont and the Pontus, was a man, and he became a slave in Samos, and was in fact a slave of Pythagoras the son of Mnesarchos. Then having become free he gained great wealth, and afterwards returned to his own land: and as the Thracians both live hardly and are rather simpleminded, this Salmoxis, being acquainted with the Ionian way of living and with manners more cultivated than the Thracians were used to see, since he had associated with Hellenes (and not only that but with Pythagoras, not the least able philosopher of the Hellenes)..., (...)....but I think that this Salmoxis lived many years before Pythagoras. However, whether there ever lived a man Salmoxis, or whether he is simply a native deity of the Getai, let us bid farewell to him now.)
Alike in fame historian Strabo, after four centuries, wrote:
"...For it is said that one of the nation of the Getæ, named Zamolxis,- had served Pythagoras, and had acquired with this philosopher some astronomical knowledge, in addition to what he had learned from the Egyptians, amongst whom he had travelled. He returned to his own country, and was highly esteemed both by the chief rulers and the people, on account of his predictions of astronomical phenomena, and eventually persuaded the king to unite him in the government, as an organ of the will of the gods. (...) This custom even continues to our time; for there is always found someone of this character who assists the king in his counsels, and is styled a god by the Getæ. The mountain likewise [where Zamolxis retired] is held sacred, and is thus distinguished, being named Kogæonus,
as well as the river which flows by it; and at the time when Byrebistus, against whom divus Cæsar prepared an expedition, reigned over the Getæ, Decæneus held that honour...”
The next excerpt regards outstanding astronomical activities of Geto-Dacian monks under the teaching of Decaneus, alias Dicineus; the quote is from “GETICA”, written in Latin by bishop Jordanes in 551 AD. In that book he put the equality sign between the Old Geto-Dacians and the Goths of his time (after he corroborated much information from the manuscripts than still preserved):
"... He taught them logic and made them skilled in reasoning beyond all other races; he
showed them practical knowledge and so persuaded them to abound in good works. By
explaining theoretical knowledge he urged them to contemplate the progress of the twelve
constellations and the courses of the planets passing through them, and the whole of
astronomy. He told them how the disc of the moon waxes and wanes, and showed them how
much the fiery globe of the sun exceeds in size our earthly planet. He explained with which
name or designations in the arching heavens the three hundred forty six stars hurtle from
their rising to their setting. Think, I pray you, what pleasure it was for these brave men,
when for a little space they had leisure from warfare, to be instructed in the teachings of
philosophy! You might have seen one scanning the position of the heavens and another
investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood one who studied the waxing and
waning of the moon, while still another investigated solar eclipses and observed how those
bodies which rush to go toward the East are whirled around and borne back to the West by
the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest. These and
various other matters DECANEUS taught (them) in his wisdom and gained marvelous
repute among them, so that he ruled not only the common men but their kings”.
http://www.aos.ro/site_mod/Editura/Online/Istorie/2013/Sunrises.pdf
Popular beliefs even invented an “anti-solomonar” sort of hero. St. German is one such hero from the earlier days of the mystery school. The belief in the “solomonarii” has not died out completely, since it remains in some of the most remote villages. Pricolici (a vampire or demon); Solomonari; Sânziana (or Drăgaică).
The sound of the voice or that of the instruments can bring a new sense of power to performers and auditors. The magician uses a special language. The words and syntax, the common constituents of language, are obscured, strange or totally abandoned.
The sonorous part of spells and incantations can be taken just as rows of syllables that the intellect refuses to understand. In fact, is a sacred language, sometimes spoken only by the performer. Nevertheless, an enormous psychological power is attributed to these incomprehensible and magic words.
Half divine being, they have magical powers.
The image of the Solomonar is to say the least, scary. He is seen as a giant wild man, with eyes that stick out and hard red hair, wearing a white coat. He carries an iron axe, filled with magical spells, that can be used either to bring hail or to steer away the thunder if it is stuck in the ground. A magical belt made of holy wood helps him to tame and control the dragons. The Solomonar's book in which resides all their power and knowledge hangs from his shoulder and on his chest he carries a piece of wood used to call the winds.
Romanian legends say that only a child born with a 'mask' over his face can become a Solomonar. Kidnapped as an infant by one of the old members of the order, the child s taken to the Solomonar's school, found somewhere at the end of the Earth in a deep cave. The legend says that out of nine children, only one can become a Solomonar, at the end of a teaching period that lasts twenty years, and done in highly difficult conditions.
In this school, The Cloud Travelers learn all the languages of all the beings from the Earth, all the magic spells ever done, and only after they lean all of these, they retire in a cave where, sitting at a rock table, write down all the knowledge of the world. The old ascetic priests of the Geto-Dacians were called Kapnobataii, 'The Clouds Travelers" or "The Smoke Walkers". They made important changes in the weather just by ordering it.
The world of the Solomoars is full of magic and mystery. They use their extraordinary powers in controlling the spirits and the elements of nature. They are seen is extraordinary circumstances: walking on the clouds riding dragons, flying through the sky and using their will can bring the rain.
Upon initiation each adept receives their own book, that is described as a stone talisman with nine mysterious letters in it, with spells and rituals. Once initiated, they became alchemists and sorcerers with the power to maintain the balance of nature and with the ability to preserve order. Among other things, they can summon and "ride" dragons, and call upon the aid and power of dragon potential to perform great magic. The Great Work allows the human body to contain the power of the Dragon.
PROTO-SLAVIC ZMAJ- "DRAGON"
Their origin is linked with ancient Dacian priests. The name “Solomonars” (plural), “Solomonar” (singular) is a recent name, given because of Christian influences into the folklore, probably in the seventeenth century, and means “a man learned in the wisdom of Salomo”, an incantator, a summoner and master of high and subtle energies. The original name for them, is “Zgrimties”, or “Hultan”. More properly, Zalmonari originate from the name Zalmoxe (or Zamolxe). They were healers, summoners, thaumaturgs who mastered the highest science and lore about the Universe that arose in Neolithic times, among the Vinca and Cucuteni-Trypillian cultures.
Solomonarii shamans receive their training in the Carpathians, in the massive steep-sided crater that still marks the fall of the Lapis Excelis, a grail to the stars. Their temple and library are built of shocked quartz (coesite) produced in the fiery cauldron like the building stone (suevite impact brecchia ejected from the crater) of the Nördlingen town church in the Reis Crater in Germany. In other words, the buildings contain millions of tiny diamonds made in the Miocene in the Promethean inferno; the altar is moldavite carved into dragons. A labyrinth of underground caves there leads into the netherworld.
Both are symbols of the mystic center. As a metaphysical image, the “Center” marks the “sacred space” par excellence. An individual reaches “reality” by returning to the “Center”, to the transcendental Absolute. The initiatory path marks the adept’s quest to the sacred “Center”, to the ultimate “reality”. The neophytes are taken to the “Crugu Pamantului” or Middle/Center of the World, where they learn all the mysteries and secrets to become “Solomonari” or Mages.
"The self is not only the center point, but also the extension that includes the conscious and the unconscious, it is the center of this totality, as the ego is the center of consciousness" (CG Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, p .45)
MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
The homology between Sky and World is manifested indirectly, through correspondences. Only in special, singular conditions, in a sacred “Center”, can the link be direct. Otherwise, the influences of the two planes are exercised through “proxims”; for example, every planet corresponds with a certain metal, a certain color, a certain God, etc. According to this, there are links between Shamash (Sun-God) and “gold”, between Anu and “silver”, between Ea and “bronze”, between Nimidni and “stone”.
The Sacred Ubaid Race settled Mesopotamia and founded the Anunnaki religion of the Sumerians in 3500 BC. Their Transylvanian ancestors were the Anunnaki Gods themselves, and their descents The Solomonari. The word 'vampire' has been identified with ’The Watchers’ (Seers - Derkesthai: Dragons). Originally Uber - Vampire - meant Overlord.
Solomonarii origin legends say that during the First Crusade in the Dark Ages, two Templar Knights discovered mysterious secrets on alchemy and magic in the legendary and secret library of Solomon. The knights returned to their homeland Wallachia and mastered the arts they had discovered. But soon their destinies and their spiritual paths were deeply divided.
Ancient tales claim there have been two Solomons: 1) Solomon the King, whose knowledge was closely related to the teachings of the Kabbalah; 2), and “Black Solomon”, known as Asmodeus, the king of demons. This devil claims a tenth of the Solomonari scholars for himself. Perhaps this is more than a metaphor for becoming the hallucinated by the archetype of the original land -- an act of possession, a monomania, with no way out of the labyrinth. Vlad Tepes was one such sacrifice.
The purer the blood was through unbroken descent from the Dragons, the stronger the return of the ancestors within. The stronger the blood the stronger the invocation and the more complete the possession. With mixed blood there was weak inspiration and little discernible presence.
The seer was possessed by a daemon, being by descent and heredity that daemon itself. It was his or her genetic inheritance and part of his or her consciousness, to which that person would yield, when occasion necessitated. They were trance seers (derkesthai), a practice rooted in Scythian shamanic culture. Such Priest Kings stood above all others as ultimate Overlords of Eurasia.
This is confirmed in the word genius, meaning inborn intellect or inspiration. Closely related to this word is genie, meaning a spirit, as in genius loci - ’a spirit of place’. In Arabic the jinni is a spirit of fire or inspiration. The Latin genius, in Greek, is a daemon or inspiring intelligence and the root Latin gens signifies birth, origin and especially blood. The daemon or genius of the Dragons is inherited through the blood.
Historically Draculea himself attended the ’Solomon School’ in Hermannstadt, an alchemical, hermetic college that taught magic to the sons of Royalty. Two other schools like this existed in Europe, one was in Toledo in Spain and the other was said to be in Transylvania. At the ’Solomon’ only one person per class ever graduated, or ’rode the Dragon’ as it was termed.
The ’Solomon School’ finished Vlad’s education and fitted him to become a Dacian counterpart of the British Pendragon, with all the brutal wisdom of his fairy ancestors and predecessors who, as God-Kings of the specifically intermediary, guardian-class of Anunnaki deities, were inhumed in the same manner that Dracula himself was laid to rest.
Draculea the prince of Wallachia was a Sacred Prince, a Hermetic scholar and initiate, a student of magic, Magus, Witch Lord and Dragon Prince, counterbalanced the bloodlust of his forebears with a refined knowledge and advanced practice of Grail procedure which echoes the teachings that the historical Draculea would have received at the ’Solomon School’, teachings encountered in the Dragon Court of which he was a member, teachings which were held in common by Archdruids, Alchemists, Tantric Yogis, Hermeticists and Qabalists alike, each discipline originating from one ancient Fairy Tradition in Sumeria and Transylvania - the heartlands of the Dragon Kings and Queens of the Sacred Danaan Peoples.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragoncourt02_02.htm
Each graduate had their hoary grimoires or books of magic with Sumerian origins. St. Germain's is based on the triangular Tetractys, which Pythagoras learned in Babylon as a mnemonic devise summarizing the ten principles of life. Pythagoras was quite a 'Demiurgos', with powers like healing people, soul and/or body, whispering to wild animals to make them obey his commands and prevent their possible aggressions, remote viewing and accurate prediction of future cataclysms .
Alchemy and kabbalah associated the progression of the tetractys with the restoration of unity. In the Human Tetractys the first three levels were the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit. Wisdom was the 4th level and component. To reach that 4th level however, the only possible way was to ensure that the first three had been already developed first in perfect equilibrium. Then the acquisition of wisdom, or the development of the 4th component, was finally possible, and the corresponding wisdom was constituted the only real form of human happiness on this Earth.
One knight, very likely an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The other knight became a devotee of ancient Transylvanian religion, and restored the contact with the archaic cult of the primordial Dragon-Deity. This is St. Germain's descent, and why the Dragon appears on his Triangular MS. and why he struggles with the Immortal within. They had a magical book used to cast magic spells together with the dragons. The solomonari concentrated on the book, and discerned what must be done. They also had the ability to affect the weather, bringing hail, rain or drought.
But over time their lines degenerated into corruption. Their notions of Global Oneness became exploitive, predatory. The Solomonari use the Dragons and their genetic 'gifts' for their own ends to increase their own power, ruling the world from behind the scenes. They are known by their cross-shaped birthmarks. They know about the Dragons, and the secrets of the summoning and binding Solomonic formulae. They free just enough draconian essence to allow it into our world, with only a fraction of the unbound power of its true potential. Corrupted stewardship has devolved into lust for personal power for its own sake -- the power to be Dragons. But, the question remains whether the human (now "Mandrake") or "Dragon" then predominates.
The Elixir Vitae and Philosopher's Stone purify the body that is powerful enough to contain the power of a Dragon. St. Germain, "Sol Luminari", has it and they want it from him and are willing to stop at nothing to get the formula. He has fooled them -- he no longer uses magic potions for longevity, but the science of quantum bioholography and gene silencing. But now a cosmic dragon, devoid of conscience -- long foreseen by St. Germain -- challenges the world from the edge of our Solar System. This partially aligns St. Germain with the goals of the rival Solomonari. He saw this grand dragon from his tower observatory with Prince Karl in a by-gone century, and now he is seeing it again, just as he had calculated.
“Another manifestation of the grail and the philosopher’s stone was the comet, the lance-shaped ray of light that could blight a land or bring salvation . . . Merlin was also an astrologer who interpreted to Uther Pendragon at Stonehenge the significance of a comet with two tails, shaped like a dragon, which he said presaged the death of a king and the rebirth of a dynasty, a time of joy and bliss . . .” --Jonathan Hughes, Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002), pp. 168 – 168.
Ancient people represented meteors, fireballs, comets, etc. by a variety of images, the most prominent of which were dragons and serpents, and thunderbolts. Other images and symbols included burning torches and lamps, swords, swastikas, beams, lances, swords, and stones. Comets were often depicted by long hair or beards, brooms, the omega symbol, chariots and scythes or sickles.
One indication that points to a general genetic knowledge rather then a learned response is the prevalence of the dragon myth. Jones cites 26 different cultures as having almost identical versions of the dragon. Even in cultures as vastly different as Icelandic, Dutch, and the Cherokee Indians of North America there are stories of dragons. If the dragon was a learned response to an immediate threat it would reflect the geographic enemies more clearly, although all of these cultures may have snakes, cats and birds of prey, they are all different species; however, their dragons are all too similar to reflect this. Dragons are not picked out of a landscape but are inherently recognized and feared.
Archaic cultures first used “meteoritic iron” of celestial origin. In the Sumero-Akkadian culture the meteoritic iron was called “AN-BAR” (“Sky” – “Fire”), meaning “celestial metal”. The word that later came to be used instead of it, “BAR-GAL”, meant “great metal”. The Egyptian word for iron “bi-n-pet” can be translated as “celestial metal”. A Hittite text tells of 14th century BCE kings obtaining “black iron from the Sky”. Iron was designated in ancient Greece by the word “sideros”, which links to the Latin word “sidus, -eris” (=star) and the Litvanic word “svidu” (=to shine), fact which shows the celestial origin of iron.
It also relates to "disaster". The root of the word disaster ("bad star" in Greek) comes from an astrological theme. It is the ancient name for a calamity blamed on unfavorable positions of planets (wandering stars); likewise they were leery of comets as ill omens. Therefore, metals – either coming from the Sky, having a celestial origin, or extracted from the bowels of the Earth – always represented powerful magical agents. Cosmologically speaking, in ancient cultures, metals took part in the great cosmic cycle – “birth” – “sexuality”/reproduction – “death”, as any other element of the cosmos. Even they must submit to the "torture of metals"; they must suffer and die in order to attain eternal life.
In Babylonian metallurgic art, the ore appears as a “divine embryo” (“an-kubu”). The ore is subdued in a series of magical operations (sacrifices, libations, purifications, etc.) to banish away the malignant forces. Therefore, in the cauldron the metal is passing through a mystico-magical rebirth, as the cauldron symbolizes, the womb of Mother-Earth. The secret school was born in a cauldron once boiling with the mingling of heaven and earth. The Solomonari train in soul communion with the forefathers in such a cauldron/crater/grail in perpetual remembrance of that horrific union.
Meteorites, such as that in the Kaaba to this day, were considered sacred and revered. The Solomonari used them for magic. Things which have been struck by lightning or meteorites are believed to carry the power of the sky. Some meteors and meteoric glass have been found, dug up, broken apart, studied, carved into objects, etc. but the essences of the Dragons remain bound within the matter. A Dragon can feed upon the life force of a human while mating with them.
Alchemy is a mystical method of self-perfection, by the symbolical exteriorization of the piritual processes, by projecting spiritual interior elements on an exterior plane, the metals. In this way, the Great Work is ambivalent: a holding of the tension of the opposites, interior and exterior, unifying the Microcosm and the Macrocosm and thus annihilating “Creation” (the dualistic, split world), reiterating the primordial Unity. During the quest from ordinary metals, to noble metals, the adept’s spirit is liberated from the mundane and reaches supreme metaphysical freedom.
After centuries of practice with various options, St. Germain finds he prefers the isolation tank above all for freeing his unbound spirit. The sensory deprivation Consciousness Induction Device reminds him of his old 'Witches Cradle'.
Qlippoth, Hebrew, "shells, husks," is a term in the Kabbalah tradition means "Lords of Unbalanced Powers" referring to demonic entities from a former universe who survived in the present one. The Qlippoth are the subject of a vast but uncertain demonological lore, which originated from Jewish sources but also was barrowed or came from other sources, and parts expounded upon by later occultist theorists. Also see qlippoth - breaking of the vessels: http://www.themystica.org/mystica/articles/q/qlippoth.html
TEMPLARS
Some say St. Germain is/was a Templar knight, certainly in the masonic sense. Templars live from a stone of the purest essence…the Lapis Exilis -- lapis ex caelis - “stone from the heavens”; or of lapis lapsus ex caelis - “a stone fallen from the heaven” or of lapis elixir - the fabulous Philosophers Stone of alchemy.
By the power of this stone the Phoenix, another masonic symbol, is burned to ashes, but from the ashes is reborn. The phoenix is established alchemical shorthand for resurrection or rebirth. This stone confers such powers on mortal men that their flesh and bones are made young again. The stone is called the Grail, and it is unknown and protean -- stones fallen from heaven, dragons, the phoenix, the universal medicine, the divine king, and holy blood.
The solomonarii take their prospects from their parents at age 7; hence St. Germain disappeared from his dynastic house and family. They watched for children born with a caul, a mark of second sight, symbolized in the Phyrgian liberty cap of Mithras and Perseus. It signifies the supernatural simultaneous 'sacrifice' and 'triumph' -- the sign of the 'Enlightened'.
The Scholomance was not a German superstition, but derived from the Romanian word Solomonari, meaning "students of alchemy". The Romanian healers are not allowed to eat meat, sleep during daytime or else essential things could be lost, or to touch a dying or a dead man. The place where they will perform their rituals needs to be “cleaned” by sweeping it six times in six different directions.
The name Solomonari is allegedly derived from the Biblical Solomon, perceived in Romanian tradition as someone quite extraordinary, if mysterious. Believed by some to simply mean "wise ones", it actually means "those learned in the Wisdom of Solomon" -- Solomon, the binder of demons and djinn. They are a secret order stretching back to the wise king, an order of wizards -- a secret society of elite human beings, trained in pairs and bound through eternity. In Romanian folklore, Uniila is termed as archdemon of solomonari.
A close examination of the ’Song of Songs’ attributed to Solomon will reveals certain esoteric references to the Grail. Solomon’s bloodline had Scythian Dragon origins and therefore connections with the Cult of the Head. That a head, said to be that of the Magdalene, successor to Sheba, to turn up in the inventory attached to the Templar trial papers should therefore come as no surprise.
The Pineal Gland is specifically associated with Grail Lore and closely aspected to manifestations of the Grail in the forms of a Cup, a Stone, a Cauldron, a Well, Mere or lake; a fountain, (such as that found in certain kabbalistic rituals) and an underground stream.
PRE-HISTORY
The Sumerians appeared first in Mesopotamia in 3500 BC. Prior to their emergence they were preceded by the Ubaid migrants from what is now southern Romania, from Carpathia and Scythia, who had fled south to escape the Black Sea flood of 4000 BC. Dated to about 5000 BC, archaeologists working in Tartaria in the Ubaid territory of Transylvania, discovered a ’tepes’ or Rath under which they found a fire-pit.
Buried amongst the ashes were the human remains of a cannibalistic sacrificial victim and two clay tablets. On these were inscribed the name of Enki (Samael), the number of Anu - 60 - and the image of a goat, Enki again, and a Tree - Lilith. In Hinduism Siva is the Goatherd of the Mountains.
The pictographic nature of the inscriptions convinced the archaeologists that the language was the forerunner of Sumerian and so they called it proto-Sumerian. Making it fairly obvious that the Sumerians were originally Ubaid Overlords from Central Eurasia.
The culture responsible for the production of the Tartarian clay tablets and the Rath structure was Ubaid - the founders of civilized Mesopotamia and, as it turns out, the Overlords of the Indus valley civilization of Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa where Ishtar reigned as Queen. (de Vere)
A Distinct Royal Caste
The Sumerians or Ubaid as we should call them, along with the pale-skinned and red-haired Lilith and her descendants, were the early Elven, Aryan-Scythian Dragon Overlords of what we know now as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
This particularly in the light of the discoveries of bat winged, serpent-god statuary found in Dacia and Tibet (not too far from Takla Makan!) which is said to date back at least 5000 years, putting it into the period of the emergence of civilization in Sumeria. The Vampire was and is. A very rare individual, a God-King amongst the race of human kings, the Vampire descends from the supernatural Dragon Royalty of Sumeria back to the Ubaid Overlords of what was to become known as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
Such figures we would readily identify as the Dragon or, in Gaelic - The Sumaire - whilst the Kurgans/Tells/Tepes that these early Transylvanian/Scythian Sidheans or Ubaid occupied were clearly duplicated in the Irish Raths of the Danaan, such as Newgrange with its spirally engraved stones, the Ziggurats of the Sumerians and the Pyramids of the Egyptians.
Ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme. The Orobourus, the reptilian symbol of completeness is the Sumaire, the serpent that encircles and spirals to create an inhaling vortex, a black hole that draws all energy and life into it.
Sumaire is pronounced shimmarie. Reminiscent of the word shimmer it suggests a relationship with that word which means to glow radiantly as with a light that had the power to fascinate perhaps. It is a pertinent meditation when one remembers that from the dawn of time the Elven Gods were called the Shining Ones. Here there is also a relationship with the words Shaman and Shamanism, a practice rooted in Northern Asia.
Whilst these ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme, the Egyptians too adopted the labyrinth and used the spiral as a hieroglyph which they termed the ’Mer’, a symbol of irrigation associating it with water and, via weir spelt Vere and Mhaior, rendering Muir, returning once more to the Egyptian Mer - the fish trap or fish-woman trap, the enclosure of the mermaid, the maze or labyrinth and intimations of the wild hunt.
The Vampire: the Dragon King or Queen was an Archdruid, a Witch Queen or King, a Fairy Princess or Prince amongst the race of Elphame. Consequently the Vampire, the Fairy, the Dragon and the Witch were all the same individual and far from being the characters of fable they were in fact very powerful, very real beings whose vampiric natures and rituals sustained their superconsciousness, transcendent vision which in its turn maintained their positions as the overlords of mankind.
These gods of flesh and blood were the only gods that ever actually existed: Myth, however, transformed them into the ethereal deities whom we are conditioned to think of as Gods now, and who came to be worshipped worldwide. Nevertheless flesh and blood they were and their bloodlines descend to the present day.
Though the Druids are associated with groves and, as some will insist, with oak trees, it is feasible to suggest that in the light of their Sumerian and Ubaid origins, the druids as priest kings of the Dragon, were connected specifically with the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, rather than with any mundane or temporal shrubbery.
Accepting this we may further suggest that, as priests of these pre-eminent Trees of Life and Knowledge, they may be further identified with those magicians and scholars whose Transylvanian descendants, the Scythian Aryans or Sumerian Anunnaki - the Dragon God-Kings - were instrumental in establishing the Chakric system of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra and Hebrew, Arabic and Greek Qabalah whose magical systems, as we all know, contain a glyph called the Tree of Life.
Generally speaking this Tree, a system of pathways both macrocosmic and microcosmic in nature, links the various subtle energy centers which are said to exist both in the universe, as levels of density and emanation relating to the manifestation of cosmic power and being, and in the human body - on the microcosmic level - as energy centers corresponding to the glands in the endocrinal system. In Qabalah the spheres which do not relate to the glands may be seen as points in the meridian system adopted by the Chinese. On another level, the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a genealogical chart of the Gods. The magical Tree is a universal symbol.
In Romania however, these grades with their animal totems or badges make up the degrees or conditions of vampirism. The most potent vampire is the Dracoi or female Dracoica, from whence the House of Drakul obtained its name, meaning ’Satan’ or ’Dragon’ whilst Drakulea or Dracula means ’son of Satan’ or ’son of the Dragon’. Lying at a close second place comes the Stregoi or female Stregoica, a being that manifests itself as either a wolf or a raven.
On his death in 1477, Prince Vlad Draculea’s body was taken to an Abbey he had built on an Island in the middle of a lake in Smyrna. Such a sanctuary has distinct Arthurian overtones and associations with the Isle of Avallon, upon which there was also built an abbey of the quasi-druidic Celto-Scythian Church.
This replaced the early Rath temple, grove and sanctuary of the Morganas, the ladies of the lake who were the Swan Maiden-Valkyries of the Scythian world, vampires and head hunters. In such sanctuaries headless corpses, as we have seen, were placed as portal guardians and it is in just such a condition that we discover that, according to local tradition, Draculea’s head was removed from his body and his corpse was buried beneath the stone flags beneath the doorway of the Abbey’s chapel.
A similar incident is reported to have occurred with the establishment of the Celtic Christian Shrine on the Island of Iona. Here it is St Columba who is said to have severed the head of one of his disciples and buried the blood drained corpse beneath the doorway of the chapel.
The Priestess Queens and Priest Kings, as we have seen, dwelt in the holy places, the royal Raths that served as both temple and tomb. These subterranean palaces mimicked the the Bergs or mound houses of the Scythians’ ’proto’-Sumerian ancestors, who originated in Transylvania and Carpathia. The cult of the severed head, as part of Celtic religious practice originated with the druids and therefore the Scythians.
The Solomons of Hermannstadt, Toledo and Transylvania became the hidden leftovers of an ancient, originally druidic educational system which necessarily went underground and became the subject of myth and fairytale, along with the bloodlines it once educated openly.
The Dragon Colleges produced the ’Uber’, the Overlords who, in Britain were called the Pendragons and in Transylvania the ’Dracoi’ or ’Dracoica’ - the ’vampires’. Only the highest graduates of the Druidic bangors would be thought of as true men or women of power, true Sidhe or Fairy Royalty and thus it was only the prince who ’rode the Dragon’ who could be said to fit the same criteria for inclusion in the bloodline of the vampire, the witch and the fairy families - The Dragon Kings.
OCCULT SCHOOL -
Kogaion (holy mountain)
The seers are the Watchers, described as "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool. Solomonari, which were a group of nobles and wizards. In early history, the “solomonarii” were considered benevolent, but as Christianity supplanted early beliefs, the “solomonarii” began to be considered evil. There is only one Kogaion in the Academy and he is considered to be the Preeminent Guardian.
Kogaionon was the holy mountain of the Geto-Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in an underground cave for three years. After his disappearance into Kogaionon, he was considered dead by the Getae but after three years he resurrected and showed himself to the people. One modern translation of Kogaionon is "sacred mountain", which would be connected to a probable Dacian word kaga meaning "sacred".
“Ancient Creed and Science Center”
The Dacians had sanctuaries all astronomically oriented and hold certain and complex scientific meanings. Dealul Gradiste was an outstanding spiritual center, likely the legendary Kogaion(on) mentioned by Strabo. The group of the three round sanctuaries: the “Great Round Sanctuary” (MSR), the “Small Round Sanctuary” (mSR) and the “Andesite Sun” (S.A.) - work together like a... real computer. They are depositories of numerical codified mathematic means (a numerical system on the basis of mixed “6”,“17” and "10"); that they are depositaries of the Dacian length modulus; depositaries of geodetic notions and of a wonderful calendar, etc).
But in Orashtie Mountains, into secluded nest of Dealul Gradiste, there was the heart of Dacian creed, a hiden place for Dacian treasury, a “sacred ironsmith congregation” and a virtual Dacian Academia, improved probably in the time of Decaneus (Deceneu). We guess that the place must have been a very older spiritual center, maybe from the time of Zamolxis (?) and, yes, that monastic center was raised around of a first astronomical (old) observatory, located on the top of the hill. Surrounded in three sides by more high mountains, as an astronomical observation, Dealul Gradiste had a single one "window", a single opening to the
mandatory, VISIBLE HORIZON (to West, 2700).
SPIRITUAL CULTURE
Nicknamed "Hyperboreeans", Thracians are called GETAE (in the South and East of Carpathian Mountains) and DACIANS inside the Carpathian Arch and in Pannonia. They say there was a large fraternity of old learned priests, a full town, which lead their life praising to
Apollo as the deity, in a very special location "close to the sky" and from where "... due to the clear atmosphere of place, you can see mountains in the Moon, like on the Earth". They built towers for astronomical research, as St. Germain would later in Germany.
The Great Round Sanctuary of Kogaion was built on the top of a much older one, marking Winter solstice sunrise. Its axis appears to be oriented to the First Century A.D. from the Dacian observatory of Godeanu.
Herodotus, Flavius Josephus, Strabo, Pausanias, etc, all agree about the high religious spirituality of that people lead by almost legendary rulers like Zamolxis (Salmoxis) and Dicineus (Decaneus). Those rulers have learned their special skills in the ambiguous spiritual arch which starts with the enigmatically Schytian mysteries and ends with the Egyptian famous knowledge. Geto-Dacian spirituality had another dimension: scientific knowledge.
Scholars & Astronomers
The very old religion used sophisticated mathematics,astronomy and geodetics, visible only to a researcher with connected skills. Dacians were the best scientists of that time. Their spiritual leaders learned the knowledge in Greek traditions and in the temples of Egypt. An excerpt from “THE HISTORIES” of Herodotus says the famous historian of Vth century BC refers to Salmoxis (Zalmoxe), considered as the first spiritual leader of “Getai” (the Greek name for Getae):
This Salmoxis I hear from the Hellenes who dwell about the Hellespont and the Pontus, was a man, and he became a slave in Samos, and was in fact a slave of Pythagoras the son of Mnesarchos. Then having become free he gained great wealth, and afterwards returned to his own land: and as the Thracians both live hardly and are rather simpleminded, this Salmoxis, being acquainted with the Ionian way of living and with manners more cultivated than the Thracians were used to see, since he had associated with Hellenes (and not only that but with Pythagoras, not the least able philosopher of the Hellenes)..., (...)....but I think that this Salmoxis lived many years before Pythagoras. However, whether there ever lived a man Salmoxis, or whether he is simply a native deity of the Getai, let us bid farewell to him now.)
Alike in fame historian Strabo, after four centuries, wrote:
"...For it is said that one of the nation of the Getæ, named Zamolxis,- had served Pythagoras, and had acquired with this philosopher some astronomical knowledge, in addition to what he had learned from the Egyptians, amongst whom he had travelled. He returned to his own country, and was highly esteemed both by the chief rulers and the people, on account of his predictions of astronomical phenomena, and eventually persuaded the king to unite him in the government, as an organ of the will of the gods. (...) This custom even continues to our time; for there is always found someone of this character who assists the king in his counsels, and is styled a god by the Getæ. The mountain likewise [where Zamolxis retired] is held sacred, and is thus distinguished, being named Kogæonus,
as well as the river which flows by it; and at the time when Byrebistus, against whom divus Cæsar prepared an expedition, reigned over the Getæ, Decæneus held that honour...”
The next excerpt regards outstanding astronomical activities of Geto-Dacian monks under the teaching of Decaneus, alias Dicineus; the quote is from “GETICA”, written in Latin by bishop Jordanes in 551 AD. In that book he put the equality sign between the Old Geto-Dacians and the Goths of his time (after he corroborated much information from the manuscripts than still preserved):
"... He taught them logic and made them skilled in reasoning beyond all other races; he
showed them practical knowledge and so persuaded them to abound in good works. By
explaining theoretical knowledge he urged them to contemplate the progress of the twelve
constellations and the courses of the planets passing through them, and the whole of
astronomy. He told them how the disc of the moon waxes and wanes, and showed them how
much the fiery globe of the sun exceeds in size our earthly planet. He explained with which
name or designations in the arching heavens the three hundred forty six stars hurtle from
their rising to their setting. Think, I pray you, what pleasure it was for these brave men,
when for a little space they had leisure from warfare, to be instructed in the teachings of
philosophy! You might have seen one scanning the position of the heavens and another
investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood one who studied the waxing and
waning of the moon, while still another investigated solar eclipses and observed how those
bodies which rush to go toward the East are whirled around and borne back to the West by
the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest. These and
various other matters DECANEUS taught (them) in his wisdom and gained marvelous
repute among them, so that he ruled not only the common men but their kings”.
http://www.aos.ro/site_mod/Editura/Online/Istorie/2013/Sunrises.pdf
Popular beliefs even invented an “anti-solomonar” sort of hero. St. German is one such hero from the earlier days of the mystery school. The belief in the “solomonarii” has not died out completely, since it remains in some of the most remote villages. Pricolici (a vampire or demon); Solomonari; Sânziana (or Drăgaică).
The sound of the voice or that of the instruments can bring a new sense of power to performers and auditors. The magician uses a special language. The words and syntax, the common constituents of language, are obscured, strange or totally abandoned.
The sonorous part of spells and incantations can be taken just as rows of syllables that the intellect refuses to understand. In fact, is a sacred language, sometimes spoken only by the performer. Nevertheless, an enormous psychological power is attributed to these incomprehensible and magic words.
Half divine being, they have magical powers.
The image of the Solomonar is to say the least, scary. He is seen as a giant wild man, with eyes that stick out and hard red hair, wearing a white coat. He carries an iron axe, filled with magical spells, that can be used either to bring hail or to steer away the thunder if it is stuck in the ground. A magical belt made of holy wood helps him to tame and control the dragons. The Solomonar's book in which resides all their power and knowledge hangs from his shoulder and on his chest he carries a piece of wood used to call the winds.
Romanian legends say that only a child born with a 'mask' over his face can become a Solomonar. Kidnapped as an infant by one of the old members of the order, the child s taken to the Solomonar's school, found somewhere at the end of the Earth in a deep cave. The legend says that out of nine children, only one can become a Solomonar, at the end of a teaching period that lasts twenty years, and done in highly difficult conditions.
In this school, The Cloud Travelers learn all the languages of all the beings from the Earth, all the magic spells ever done, and only after they lean all of these, they retire in a cave where, sitting at a rock table, write down all the knowledge of the world. The old ascetic priests of the Geto-Dacians were called Kapnobataii, 'The Clouds Travelers" or "The Smoke Walkers". They made important changes in the weather just by ordering it.
The world of the Solomoars is full of magic and mystery. They use their extraordinary powers in controlling the spirits and the elements of nature. They are seen is extraordinary circumstances: walking on the clouds riding dragons, flying through the sky and using their will can bring the rain.
Upon initiation each adept receives their own book, that is described as a stone talisman with nine mysterious letters in it, with spells and rituals. Once initiated, they became alchemists and sorcerers with the power to maintain the balance of nature and with the ability to preserve order. Among other things, they can summon and "ride" dragons, and call upon the aid and power of dragon potential to perform great magic. The Great Work allows the human body to contain the power of the Dragon.
PROTO-SLAVIC ZMAJ- "DRAGON"
Their origin is linked with ancient Dacian priests. The name “Solomonars” (plural), “Solomonar” (singular) is a recent name, given because of Christian influences into the folklore, probably in the seventeenth century, and means “a man learned in the wisdom of Salomo”, an incantator, a summoner and master of high and subtle energies. The original name for them, is “Zgrimties”, or “Hultan”. More properly, Zalmonari originate from the name Zalmoxe (or Zamolxe). They were healers, summoners, thaumaturgs who mastered the highest science and lore about the Universe that arose in Neolithic times, among the Vinca and Cucuteni-Trypillian cultures.
Solomonarii shamans receive their training in the Carpathians, in the massive steep-sided crater that still marks the fall of the Lapis Excelis, a grail to the stars. Their temple and library are built of shocked quartz (coesite) produced in the fiery cauldron like the building stone (suevite impact brecchia ejected from the crater) of the Nördlingen town church in the Reis Crater in Germany. In other words, the buildings contain millions of tiny diamonds made in the Miocene in the Promethean inferno; the altar is moldavite carved into dragons. A labyrinth of underground caves there leads into the netherworld.
Both are symbols of the mystic center. As a metaphysical image, the “Center” marks the “sacred space” par excellence. An individual reaches “reality” by returning to the “Center”, to the transcendental Absolute. The initiatory path marks the adept’s quest to the sacred “Center”, to the ultimate “reality”. The neophytes are taken to the “Crugu Pamantului” or Middle/Center of the World, where they learn all the mysteries and secrets to become “Solomonari” or Mages.
"The self is not only the center point, but also the extension that includes the conscious and the unconscious, it is the center of this totality, as the ego is the center of consciousness" (CG Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, p .45)
MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
The homology between Sky and World is manifested indirectly, through correspondences. Only in special, singular conditions, in a sacred “Center”, can the link be direct. Otherwise, the influences of the two planes are exercised through “proxims”; for example, every planet corresponds with a certain metal, a certain color, a certain God, etc. According to this, there are links between Shamash (Sun-God) and “gold”, between Anu and “silver”, between Ea and “bronze”, between Nimidni and “stone”.
The Sacred Ubaid Race settled Mesopotamia and founded the Anunnaki religion of the Sumerians in 3500 BC. Their Transylvanian ancestors were the Anunnaki Gods themselves, and their descents The Solomonari. The word 'vampire' has been identified with ’The Watchers’ (Seers - Derkesthai: Dragons). Originally Uber - Vampire - meant Overlord.
Solomonarii origin legends say that during the First Crusade in the Dark Ages, two Templar Knights discovered mysterious secrets on alchemy and magic in the legendary and secret library of Solomon. The knights returned to their homeland Wallachia and mastered the arts they had discovered. But soon their destinies and their spiritual paths were deeply divided.
Ancient tales claim there have been two Solomons: 1) Solomon the King, whose knowledge was closely related to the teachings of the Kabbalah; 2), and “Black Solomon”, known as Asmodeus, the king of demons. This devil claims a tenth of the Solomonari scholars for himself. Perhaps this is more than a metaphor for becoming the hallucinated by the archetype of the original land -- an act of possession, a monomania, with no way out of the labyrinth. Vlad Tepes was one such sacrifice.
The purer the blood was through unbroken descent from the Dragons, the stronger the return of the ancestors within. The stronger the blood the stronger the invocation and the more complete the possession. With mixed blood there was weak inspiration and little discernible presence.
The seer was possessed by a daemon, being by descent and heredity that daemon itself. It was his or her genetic inheritance and part of his or her consciousness, to which that person would yield, when occasion necessitated. They were trance seers (derkesthai), a practice rooted in Scythian shamanic culture. Such Priest Kings stood above all others as ultimate Overlords of Eurasia.
This is confirmed in the word genius, meaning inborn intellect or inspiration. Closely related to this word is genie, meaning a spirit, as in genius loci - ’a spirit of place’. In Arabic the jinni is a spirit of fire or inspiration. The Latin genius, in Greek, is a daemon or inspiring intelligence and the root Latin gens signifies birth, origin and especially blood. The daemon or genius of the Dragons is inherited through the blood.
Historically Draculea himself attended the ’Solomon School’ in Hermannstadt, an alchemical, hermetic college that taught magic to the sons of Royalty. Two other schools like this existed in Europe, one was in Toledo in Spain and the other was said to be in Transylvania. At the ’Solomon’ only one person per class ever graduated, or ’rode the Dragon’ as it was termed.
The ’Solomon School’ finished Vlad’s education and fitted him to become a Dacian counterpart of the British Pendragon, with all the brutal wisdom of his fairy ancestors and predecessors who, as God-Kings of the specifically intermediary, guardian-class of Anunnaki deities, were inhumed in the same manner that Dracula himself was laid to rest.
Draculea the prince of Wallachia was a Sacred Prince, a Hermetic scholar and initiate, a student of magic, Magus, Witch Lord and Dragon Prince, counterbalanced the bloodlust of his forebears with a refined knowledge and advanced practice of Grail procedure which echoes the teachings that the historical Draculea would have received at the ’Solomon School’, teachings encountered in the Dragon Court of which he was a member, teachings which were held in common by Archdruids, Alchemists, Tantric Yogis, Hermeticists and Qabalists alike, each discipline originating from one ancient Fairy Tradition in Sumeria and Transylvania - the heartlands of the Dragon Kings and Queens of the Sacred Danaan Peoples.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragoncourt02_02.htm
Each graduate had their hoary grimoires or books of magic with Sumerian origins. St. Germain's is based on the triangular Tetractys, which Pythagoras learned in Babylon as a mnemonic devise summarizing the ten principles of life. Pythagoras was quite a 'Demiurgos', with powers like healing people, soul and/or body, whispering to wild animals to make them obey his commands and prevent their possible aggressions, remote viewing and accurate prediction of future cataclysms .
Alchemy and kabbalah associated the progression of the tetractys with the restoration of unity. In the Human Tetractys the first three levels were the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit. Wisdom was the 4th level and component. To reach that 4th level however, the only possible way was to ensure that the first three had been already developed first in perfect equilibrium. Then the acquisition of wisdom, or the development of the 4th component, was finally possible, and the corresponding wisdom was constituted the only real form of human happiness on this Earth.
One knight, very likely an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The other knight became a devotee of ancient Transylvanian religion, and restored the contact with the archaic cult of the primordial Dragon-Deity. This is St. Germain's descent, and why the Dragon appears on his Triangular MS. and why he struggles with the Immortal within. They had a magical book used to cast magic spells together with the dragons. The solomonari concentrated on the book, and discerned what must be done. They also had the ability to affect the weather, bringing hail, rain or drought.
But over time their lines degenerated into corruption. Their notions of Global Oneness became exploitive, predatory. The Solomonari use the Dragons and their genetic 'gifts' for their own ends to increase their own power, ruling the world from behind the scenes. They are known by their cross-shaped birthmarks. They know about the Dragons, and the secrets of the summoning and binding Solomonic formulae. They free just enough draconian essence to allow it into our world, with only a fraction of the unbound power of its true potential. Corrupted stewardship has devolved into lust for personal power for its own sake -- the power to be Dragons. But, the question remains whether the human (now "Mandrake") or "Dragon" then predominates.
The Elixir Vitae and Philosopher's Stone purify the body that is powerful enough to contain the power of a Dragon. St. Germain, "Sol Luminari", has it and they want it from him and are willing to stop at nothing to get the formula. He has fooled them -- he no longer uses magic potions for longevity, but the science of quantum bioholography and gene silencing. But now a cosmic dragon, devoid of conscience -- long foreseen by St. Germain -- challenges the world from the edge of our Solar System. This partially aligns St. Germain with the goals of the rival Solomonari. He saw this grand dragon from his tower observatory with Prince Karl in a by-gone century, and now he is seeing it again, just as he had calculated.
“Another manifestation of the grail and the philosopher’s stone was the comet, the lance-shaped ray of light that could blight a land or bring salvation . . . Merlin was also an astrologer who interpreted to Uther Pendragon at Stonehenge the significance of a comet with two tails, shaped like a dragon, which he said presaged the death of a king and the rebirth of a dynasty, a time of joy and bliss . . .” --Jonathan Hughes, Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002), pp. 168 – 168.
Ancient people represented meteors, fireballs, comets, etc. by a variety of images, the most prominent of which were dragons and serpents, and thunderbolts. Other images and symbols included burning torches and lamps, swords, swastikas, beams, lances, swords, and stones. Comets were often depicted by long hair or beards, brooms, the omega symbol, chariots and scythes or sickles.
One indication that points to a general genetic knowledge rather then a learned response is the prevalence of the dragon myth. Jones cites 26 different cultures as having almost identical versions of the dragon. Even in cultures as vastly different as Icelandic, Dutch, and the Cherokee Indians of North America there are stories of dragons. If the dragon was a learned response to an immediate threat it would reflect the geographic enemies more clearly, although all of these cultures may have snakes, cats and birds of prey, they are all different species; however, their dragons are all too similar to reflect this. Dragons are not picked out of a landscape but are inherently recognized and feared.
Archaic cultures first used “meteoritic iron” of celestial origin. In the Sumero-Akkadian culture the meteoritic iron was called “AN-BAR” (“Sky” – “Fire”), meaning “celestial metal”. The word that later came to be used instead of it, “BAR-GAL”, meant “great metal”. The Egyptian word for iron “bi-n-pet” can be translated as “celestial metal”. A Hittite text tells of 14th century BCE kings obtaining “black iron from the Sky”. Iron was designated in ancient Greece by the word “sideros”, which links to the Latin word “sidus, -eris” (=star) and the Litvanic word “svidu” (=to shine), fact which shows the celestial origin of iron.
It also relates to "disaster". The root of the word disaster ("bad star" in Greek) comes from an astrological theme. It is the ancient name for a calamity blamed on unfavorable positions of planets (wandering stars); likewise they were leery of comets as ill omens. Therefore, metals – either coming from the Sky, having a celestial origin, or extracted from the bowels of the Earth – always represented powerful magical agents. Cosmologically speaking, in ancient cultures, metals took part in the great cosmic cycle – “birth” – “sexuality”/reproduction – “death”, as any other element of the cosmos. Even they must submit to the "torture of metals"; they must suffer and die in order to attain eternal life.
In Babylonian metallurgic art, the ore appears as a “divine embryo” (“an-kubu”). The ore is subdued in a series of magical operations (sacrifices, libations, purifications, etc.) to banish away the malignant forces. Therefore, in the cauldron the metal is passing through a mystico-magical rebirth, as the cauldron symbolizes, the womb of Mother-Earth. The secret school was born in a cauldron once boiling with the mingling of heaven and earth. The Solomonari train in soul communion with the forefathers in such a cauldron/crater/grail in perpetual remembrance of that horrific union.
Meteorites, such as that in the Kaaba to this day, were considered sacred and revered. The Solomonari used them for magic. Things which have been struck by lightning or meteorites are believed to carry the power of the sky. Some meteors and meteoric glass have been found, dug up, broken apart, studied, carved into objects, etc. but the essences of the Dragons remain bound within the matter. A Dragon can feed upon the life force of a human while mating with them.
Alchemy is a mystical method of self-perfection, by the symbolical exteriorization of the piritual processes, by projecting spiritual interior elements on an exterior plane, the metals. In this way, the Great Work is ambivalent: a holding of the tension of the opposites, interior and exterior, unifying the Microcosm and the Macrocosm and thus annihilating “Creation” (the dualistic, split world), reiterating the primordial Unity. During the quest from ordinary metals, to noble metals, the adept’s spirit is liberated from the mundane and reaches supreme metaphysical freedom.
After centuries of practice with various options, St. Germain finds he prefers the isolation tank above all for freeing his unbound spirit. The sensory deprivation Consciousness Induction Device reminds him of his old 'Witches Cradle'.
Qlippoth, Hebrew, "shells, husks," is a term in the Kabbalah tradition means "Lords of Unbalanced Powers" referring to demonic entities from a former universe who survived in the present one. The Qlippoth are the subject of a vast but uncertain demonological lore, which originated from Jewish sources but also was barrowed or came from other sources, and parts expounded upon by later occultist theorists. Also see qlippoth - breaking of the vessels: http://www.themystica.org/mystica/articles/q/qlippoth.html
TEMPLARS
Some say St. Germain is/was a Templar knight, certainly in the masonic sense. Templars live from a stone of the purest essence…the Lapis Exilis -- lapis ex caelis - “stone from the heavens”; or of lapis lapsus ex caelis - “a stone fallen from the heaven” or of lapis elixir - the fabulous Philosophers Stone of alchemy.
By the power of this stone the Phoenix, another masonic symbol, is burned to ashes, but from the ashes is reborn. The phoenix is established alchemical shorthand for resurrection or rebirth. This stone confers such powers on mortal men that their flesh and bones are made young again. The stone is called the Grail, and it is unknown and protean -- stones fallen from heaven, dragons, the phoenix, the universal medicine, the divine king, and holy blood.
School of the Devil
The Scholomance is a legendary school of magic run by the Devil himself in the Romanian mythology. It`s location supposed to be near a lake in the Carpathians (the mountains south of the city of "Hermannstadt" or Sibiu, as it was called by Romanian inhabitants) in the famous already Romanian land of Transylvania. The place is mentioned twice in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker:
"The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due."(Chapter 18)
"He dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay."(Chapter 23)
The form of the name Scholomance appears transcribed as it is in the work of a Scottish lady-author: Emily Gerard. She was the wife of a Polish noble and cavalryman and he was stationed in Romania. Emily Gerard joined him in Hermanstadt (Sibiu) and found the archaic superstitions of the zone very surprising and even primitive.She used the time spent there to give detailed description of the folklore in her article "Transylvanian Superstitions". This is a quote of the article that was published in the English monthly literary magazine "The Nineteenth Century"(1885, page 136):
"As I am on the subject of thunderstorms, I may as well here mention the Scholomance, or school supposed to exist somewhere in the heart of the mountains, and where all the secrets of nature, the language of animals, and all imaginable magic spells and charms are taught by the devil in person. Only ten scholars are admitted at a time, and when the course of learning has expired and nine of them are released to return to their homes, the tenth scholar is detained by the devil as payment, and mounted upon an Ismeju (dragon) he becomes henceforward the devil's aide-de-camp, and assists him in 'making the weather,' that is, in preparing thunderbolts. A small lake, immeasurably deep, lying high up among the mountains south of Hermanstadt, is supposed to be the cauldron where is brewed the thunder, and in fair weather the dragon sleeps beneath the waters."
The forms of the words "Scholomance" and "Ismeju" are different from how are they transcribed today in Romanian (Solomonarie - with the variant Solomanta - and Zmeu) and is obvious that, unfamiliar as she was with the Romanian language, she tried to transcribed the words as she heard them. However the information is genuine and based on very old traditions, maybe of pre-Christian but with some imported Christian traits.
The scholars of this school are associated with real persons known in Romanian folklore as Solomonari.
Stoker was inspired by the book of Emily Gerard and extended the name of the city Hermanstadt over the legendary lake from the area, as in reality there is no such a lake. The lakes who could be bound by Emily Gerard`s article, as Solomonari`s lake could be either Paltinis or Balea Lake.
There are at least two more novels that mention Scholomance:
- "Lord of Middle Air" by Michael Scott Rohan
"In the book Lord of Middle Air by Michael Scott Rohan, the wizard Michael Scot reveals that he dared to train at the Scholomance on two occasions, as there was so much knowledge it could not all be learned in one night."
- "The Scholomance" by R. Lee Smith
"For centuries, there has been a legend of a hidden school where magic is taught by the demons who dwell there to anyone who seeks them out, but they ask a terrible price: Anyone who reaches the door of the Scholomance may enter, but the Devil takes every tenth student who tries to leave. A hidden school. Demonic masters. An inescapable fate for one out of every ten graduates. But Connie would do anything to have the magic her best friend was born with."
Solomonari (sing.Solomonar) was the generic term used by Romanians (Vallachians) for the peasant-magician who were once wondering through their villages. They were also named grindinari, hultani, ghetari or zgrabuntasi.
In the Romanian folklore they could indeed master the storms by creating and taming the water-dragons that lived in the mountain lakes. They carry usually a strange book (that contains all their magical knowledge and spells), an axe (that could change the weather once it`s plunged in wood or in the threshold or that could release the dragon from the frozen lake), a small semantron (that could be used to invoke the spirits of the wind, Vantoasele) and other rather shamanic artifacts such as "moime".
They are considered sometimes bad or good in nature (even Godly people rather then malefic servants of the dark forces) and many consider them as good magicians since they could bring the rains in the arid areas. It`s possibly that the Christian religion that influenced them to be the one who put the stigmata of evil on them the same as it happened with the benandanti in Italy.
Katherine Ramsland (doctor in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, and philosophy and teacher at DeSales University) describes them as: "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool...[with] several instruments of magic and a book of instruction." They are "trained for nine years...overcoming obstacles and surviving ordeals. Their final examination involved copying all that they knew about humanity into the Solomonar's book."
The name comes probably from Bible`s King Solomon, but the fabulous association with the dragon may have pre-christian origins, some would trace it to the ancient Dacian civilization that held the dragon as one of their main religious emblems. In ancient Dacia some of the priests of the old religion(s) were named Kapnobatai and this may be translated as "the ones who walk/climb on the clouds" and this habit of walking the clouds is sticking similar with the habit of the solomonari of riding the water-dragons hidden in the clouds. Just as kapnobatai, solomonari are abstinent and doesn`t eat meat.
One of the main powers of the solomonari was to see the major events from the future.
- Gerard, Emily. TRANSYLVANIAN SUPERSTITIONS, The Nineteenth Century, 1885, p. 128-144
- Bram Stoker, DRACULA, 1897
- Ioan G. Coman, L'IMMORTALITÉ
CHEZ LES THRACO-GÉTO-DACES.
- Iulia Gorneanu , POVESTI CU SOLOMONARI, Jurnalul National, 25 september 2011
- the main site dedicated to solomonari (in Romanian): Tara Solomonarilor www.solomonarii.uv.ro/
The Scholomance is a legendary school of magic run by the Devil himself in the Romanian mythology. It`s location supposed to be near a lake in the Carpathians (the mountains south of the city of "Hermannstadt" or Sibiu, as it was called by Romanian inhabitants) in the famous already Romanian land of Transylvania. The place is mentioned twice in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker:
"The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due."(Chapter 18)
"He dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay."(Chapter 23)
The form of the name Scholomance appears transcribed as it is in the work of a Scottish lady-author: Emily Gerard. She was the wife of a Polish noble and cavalryman and he was stationed in Romania. Emily Gerard joined him in Hermanstadt (Sibiu) and found the archaic superstitions of the zone very surprising and even primitive.She used the time spent there to give detailed description of the folklore in her article "Transylvanian Superstitions". This is a quote of the article that was published in the English monthly literary magazine "The Nineteenth Century"(1885, page 136):
"As I am on the subject of thunderstorms, I may as well here mention the Scholomance, or school supposed to exist somewhere in the heart of the mountains, and where all the secrets of nature, the language of animals, and all imaginable magic spells and charms are taught by the devil in person. Only ten scholars are admitted at a time, and when the course of learning has expired and nine of them are released to return to their homes, the tenth scholar is detained by the devil as payment, and mounted upon an Ismeju (dragon) he becomes henceforward the devil's aide-de-camp, and assists him in 'making the weather,' that is, in preparing thunderbolts. A small lake, immeasurably deep, lying high up among the mountains south of Hermanstadt, is supposed to be the cauldron where is brewed the thunder, and in fair weather the dragon sleeps beneath the waters."
The forms of the words "Scholomance" and "Ismeju" are different from how are they transcribed today in Romanian (Solomonarie - with the variant Solomanta - and Zmeu) and is obvious that, unfamiliar as she was with the Romanian language, she tried to transcribed the words as she heard them. However the information is genuine and based on very old traditions, maybe of pre-Christian but with some imported Christian traits.
The scholars of this school are associated with real persons known in Romanian folklore as Solomonari.
Stoker was inspired by the book of Emily Gerard and extended the name of the city Hermanstadt over the legendary lake from the area, as in reality there is no such a lake. The lakes who could be bound by Emily Gerard`s article, as Solomonari`s lake could be either Paltinis or Balea Lake.
There are at least two more novels that mention Scholomance:
- "Lord of Middle Air" by Michael Scott Rohan
"In the book Lord of Middle Air by Michael Scott Rohan, the wizard Michael Scot reveals that he dared to train at the Scholomance on two occasions, as there was so much knowledge it could not all be learned in one night."
- "The Scholomance" by R. Lee Smith
"For centuries, there has been a legend of a hidden school where magic is taught by the demons who dwell there to anyone who seeks them out, but they ask a terrible price: Anyone who reaches the door of the Scholomance may enter, but the Devil takes every tenth student who tries to leave. A hidden school. Demonic masters. An inescapable fate for one out of every ten graduates. But Connie would do anything to have the magic her best friend was born with."
Solomonari (sing.Solomonar) was the generic term used by Romanians (Vallachians) for the peasant-magician who were once wondering through their villages. They were also named grindinari, hultani, ghetari or zgrabuntasi.
In the Romanian folklore they could indeed master the storms by creating and taming the water-dragons that lived in the mountain lakes. They carry usually a strange book (that contains all their magical knowledge and spells), an axe (that could change the weather once it`s plunged in wood or in the threshold or that could release the dragon from the frozen lake), a small semantron (that could be used to invoke the spirits of the wind, Vantoasele) and other rather shamanic artifacts such as "moime".
They are considered sometimes bad or good in nature (even Godly people rather then malefic servants of the dark forces) and many consider them as good magicians since they could bring the rains in the arid areas. It`s possibly that the Christian religion that influenced them to be the one who put the stigmata of evil on them the same as it happened with the benandanti in Italy.
Katherine Ramsland (doctor in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, and philosophy and teacher at DeSales University) describes them as: "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool...[with] several instruments of magic and a book of instruction." They are "trained for nine years...overcoming obstacles and surviving ordeals. Their final examination involved copying all that they knew about humanity into the Solomonar's book."
The name comes probably from Bible`s King Solomon, but the fabulous association with the dragon may have pre-christian origins, some would trace it to the ancient Dacian civilization that held the dragon as one of their main religious emblems. In ancient Dacia some of the priests of the old religion(s) were named Kapnobatai and this may be translated as "the ones who walk/climb on the clouds" and this habit of walking the clouds is sticking similar with the habit of the solomonari of riding the water-dragons hidden in the clouds. Just as kapnobatai, solomonari are abstinent and doesn`t eat meat.
One of the main powers of the solomonari was to see the major events from the future.
- Gerard, Emily. TRANSYLVANIAN SUPERSTITIONS, The Nineteenth Century, 1885, p. 128-144
- Bram Stoker, DRACULA, 1897
- Ioan G. Coman, L'IMMORTALITÉ
CHEZ LES THRACO-GÉTO-DACES.
- Iulia Gorneanu , POVESTI CU SOLOMONARI, Jurnalul National, 25 september 2011
- the main site dedicated to solomonari (in Romanian): Tara Solomonarilor www.solomonarii.uv.ro/
DRAGON RATH
This school is no mere piece of fiction, however. As has been well-documented, Stoker derived his knowledge of the Scholomance from Emily Gerard’s 1885 article on “Transylvanian Superstitions”:
As I am on the subject of thunderstorms, I may as well here mention the Scholomance, or school supposed to exist somewhere in the heart of the mountains, and where all the secrets of nature, the language of animals, and all imaginable magic spells and charms are taught by the devil in person. Only ten scholars are admitted at a time, and when the course of learning has expired and nine of them are released to return to their homes, the tenth scholar is detained by the devil as payment, and mounted upon an Ismeju (dragon) he becomes henceforward the devil's aide-de-camp, and assists him in 'making the weather,' that is to say, preparing the thunderbolts.
But what exactly was this Scholomance, and where did the legend come from?
Gerard’s version of the story is not a professional anthropological report, but rather the story of an amateur traveling through the (then) Habsburg territories. By luck, a folklorist, R. C. Maclagan, produced a report for the journal Folklore in 1897 that included a more accurate version of the story then-current in Transylvania:
Here we find that the drac is the devil in person, who instructs certain persons to be magicians and medicine men in a college under the earth. Of these, one in eight receives instruction during fourteen years, and on his return to earth he has the following power. By means of certain magical formulae he compels a dragon to ascend from the depths of a loch. He then throws a golden bridle with which he has been provided over his head, and rides aloft among the clouds, which he causes to freeze and thereby produces hail.
Notice that now the school is under the earth, which forms one part of the solution to the puzzle of the Scholomance. There are two other parts that complete the picture. To understand this, however, it’s important to remember that before Transylvania was a Christian territory, it was part of the pre-Christian Roman province of Dacia, which before the Roman conquest was culturally affiliated with Thrace. In both regions, priests of the pagan gods retreated to the woods and secret places to learn the secrets of the gods.
The first puzzle piece is the presence of the supposed scholars of the Scholomance among the Transylvanians. These scholars learned to control the weather and ride dragons, which is a strange thing for the devil to teach until one realizes that Transylvania (now Romania) has an indigenous legend of itinerant wizards who perform those same two miracles: riding a dragon and summoning storms.
Later called the Solomanari (after the supposed connection between Solomon and alchemy), the Zgriminties or Hultan were shaman-priests who claimed control over storms and could summon a balaur (dragon) to ride. Before Christianity, they were seen as benevolent forces able to implore the gods to deliver much-needed rain to fertilize the crops. Christians defamed the Solomonari as devil-worshippers, but in reality they originated as pre-Christian pagan priests. They most likely worshipped the pre-Christian god Zalmoxis or Salmoxis (also: Zalmus), whose power they are able to wield. Remarkably little is known about this god outside of Greek reports, but the ancients declared that he taught astrology (Strabo, Geography 7.3.5) as well as the doctrine of immortality (Plato, Charmides 156-158). According to Diogenes Laertius, he was the equivalent of the harvest god Kronos (Saturn) (Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 8.1.1), and Hippolytus asserted that those who followed this god as disciples (= scholars) worshipped him in isolated, underground chapels (Refutation of All Heresies 1.2).
The earliest, and likely quite distorted, account of Zalmoxis occurs Herodotus (followed by all later authors) in a passage that explains, I think, the origin of the Scholomance. Herodotus wrote that Zalmoxis was not really a god but a slave of Pythagoras, and that after being freed and gaining great wealth he
prepared a banqueting-hall, where he received and feasted the chief men of the tribe and instructed them meanwhile that neither he himself nor his guests nor their descendants in succession after them would die; but that they would come to a place where they would live for ever and have all things good. While he was doing that which has been mentioned and was saying these things, he was making for himself meanwhile a chamber under the ground; and when his chamber was finished, he disappeared from among the Thracians and went down into the underground chamber, where he continued to live for three years: and they grieved for his loss and mourned for him as dead. Then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and in this way the things which Salmoxis said became credible to them. (Histories 4.94, Macaulay translation)
Herodotus says this story is how the Greeks understood the Thracian/Dacian (pre-Christian Romanian) god’s story. But the likelihood is that this is a distortion of the actual Dacian religious story, which probably involved the god’s death and resurrection in an underground chamber, a great hall where he taught the secrets of immortality and of life and death. The ethnocentric Greeks interpreted this as a version of their own Pythagorean philosophy, and in so doing sought to make the Dacian faith little more than a derivative of a Greek original. Modern scholars believe the myth of Zalmoxis as Pythagoras' slave derives from the Dacian and Thracian priests' forehead tattoos, which the Greeks misinterpreted as slave-traders' brands (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 15; E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, 163n.44).
It seems to me that the pre-Christian religious teachings of Zalmoxis are what first Greeks, then Romans, and then Christians misunderstood, the Christians slandering the old god as the Devil himself, and his underground chamber where he taught the secrets of immortality as the school of the Devil. Whether this underground cult center was entirely mythical or whether it reflects a genuine Dacian or Thracian cult center where worshippers received priestly indoctrination and training (perhaps at what Strabo calls Zalmoxis' holy mountain of Cogaeonum in Geography 7.3.5), it is impossible now to say.
But, with this information, we now have the essential elements of the Scholomance and the scholars who study there. As for the dragon, so widespread are dragon myths in Greek, Slavic, and Christian lore that I'm not sure a specific origin for the Solomonari's dragons is possible, or enitrely necessary. Maclagan may well have been right in 1897 when he suggested that the dragon was a symbol for the thunderclouds the shaman-priests claimed to command.
It is rather remarkable that in its essentials this story should survive in folklore for 2,500 years, more remarkable still that our archetypical vampire Dracula more or less accidentally draws on this ancient set of beliefs in the power of pagan resurrection to fuel his own unholy un-death. And as with the pagan gods, the cross and the communion wafer destroyed Dracula. Without Stoker’s conscious knowledge, Dracula recapitulates the process whereby the pagan scholar-priests and their god were demonized and forced to submit to the dominance of Christianity. http://www.jasoncolavito.com/scholomance-the-devils-school.html Bookmark the permalink. The Order of Solomonarii Sep7 by Kingdom of Auria
Solomonarii (sg. Solomonar, also known as Kapnobatai)- the enigmatic creatures of the eastern European mythology, better known in Transylvania and Moldova, live half in the Legend, half in the reality of the traditional culture. Semidivine characters, the Solomoniarii are known among the people wearing different names: Hultani, Grindinari, Salmani or their ancient name, Kapnobatai. The legends say they are related with the jinns, especially with the Spirits of the Winds and Forests, assigning them powers like the taming and riding of the Dragons, heavenly ascents, the imposing of their own will upon the weather phenomena (especially hail and storm) and the power of healing.
The image of the Solomonar is one often unusual: they are seen like enigmatic creatures, even savage ones, dressed in rather unusual clothing. The props of a Solomonar usually contains an iron axe with magical powers from which he produce the hail with and also has the role of a lightning rod if implanted in the ground, a rein which he can tame the dragons, The Book of the Solomonarii, where all their power and knowledge is written down and a small wooden jar where he keeps the winds.
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Solomonarii (sg. Solomonar, also known as Kapnobatai)- the enigmatic creatures of the eastern European mythology, better known in Transylvania and Moldova, live half in the Legend, half in the reality of the traditional culture. Semidivine characters, the Solomoniarii are known among the people wearing different names: Hultani, Grindinari, Salmani or their ancient name, Kapnobatai. The legends say they are related with the jinns, especially with the Spirits of the Winds and Forests, assigning them powers like the taming and riding of the Dragons, heavenly ascents, the imposing of their own will upon the weather phenomena (especially hail and storm) and the power of healing.
The image of the Solomonar is one often unusual: they are seen like enigmatic creatures, even savage ones, dressed in rather unusual clothing. The props of a Solomonar usually contains an iron axe with magical powers from which he produce the hail with and also has the role of a lightning rod if implanted in the ground, a rein which he can tame the dragons, The Book of the Solomonarii, where all their power and knowledge is written down and a small wooden jar where he keeps the winds.
Lazar Saineanu and his studies in folklore. An ethnographic controversy
http://www.icr.ro/bucharest/the-continent-of-romania-romania-s-national-minorities-27-2006/khazar-jews-romanian-history-and-ethnography.html
Lazar Saineanu was a very important linguist, but his brilliant career was stopped suddenly and violently around 1900. Thus, in a booklet published in 1991 in France, and addressed to his own daughter, he tells how “a presentation made within the proceedings of the Romanian Academy and an article in Romania magazine in Paris, where the author (probably himself of Khazar origin) tried to follow the steps of the first Khazar settlements in Oltenia with the physical description of these new inhabitants, and the reconstitution of their language, started such a stern opposition on the part of the academicians, that the researcher was forced to emigrate.”[1]
In the above mentioned booklet, Saineanu says that “in 1887 I published in Literary Conversations a study entitled The Jews or the Tatars or the Giants, in which I aimed at elucidating this bizarre association of ethnic names by bringing up a historical hypothesis. After grouping all the available elements of a linguistic, archeological and topographic origin, which testify on behalf of the identification, in the traditions of our people, of the Jews with the Tatars and with the Giants, I asked myself the following question: Was there in the past a people about which one could claim with certainty that it was both Tatar and Jewish at the same time?
My answer to this question is that such a people existed, and it is known in history under the name of Khazars, a Tatar people that occupied almost the whole of meridional Russia which, adopting Judaism in the 8th century, survived as a Judaic state for over three centuries (1016). After spreading its domination over Eastern Europe, these Jewish-Tatars suddenly disappeared from the stage of history. What became of them?
These Khazars, once their power vanished, became one with the other Tatar peoples by the Black Sea, but the echo of their origin did not completely disappear from people’s memory. A part of these Khazars will have looked early on for a shelter in Ardeal (i.e. Transylvania), from where they crossed to the Danube countries, especially in Muntenia (i.e. Wallachia), particularly in Muscel and Romanati districts, where the traditional memories regarding them seem to be concentrated. Could they have been the ones who built that building with a cyclopean-Jewish appearance whose name only tells about those old times?
The settlements and their dwellings left important traces that took on colossal proportions in people’s imagination. People of a supernatural size seemed to have lived – according to the voice of the century – in an ancient time, which the old can hardly remember, and our peasants call those giant people Jews or Tatars.
It is very likely that those Tatars turned Jews maintained their religion in the middle of a peaceful population terrified by their imposing power, and that Khazar blood might be running in the veins of the primitive strata of Romanian Jews. This is the objective study that started the calumny, which I had written against my country.”[2]
In his arguments, Saineanu comes up with interesting information, searched for and gathered through field work and written in “the archeological questionnaire of Mr. Odobescu, today in possession of the Academy.” Thus, “the Romanian peasant uses the word Jewish with different acceptations, which could be inferred from the basic meaning of Giant. In Dragoslavele commune from the former district of Muscel (today Arges) persisted the tradition according to which “there were some Jews in Ghimbavului Stone where there is a hole in which stone milk flows; and that the son of a Jew from Yellow Stone, being in love with the daughter of a Jew in Ghimbavului Stone, secretly left to see her. His father saw him on the top of Prislop mountain, threw a boulder at him to hit him, but it is said that he didn’t. This boulder can be seen even today on the top of Prislop mountain and weighs about 6000 pounds.”[3]
Further on, Saineanu argues “the typical expression, ever since the Jews or the Tatars or the Giants, to point to an old age, that the peasants attribute to the crumbled walls whose building date they don’t remember.” The author also presents two examples. The first one refers to information gathered from Radomir commune, in Ocolu area in the former district of Romanati (today Olt). Here, on the occasion of the fitting out of the railway tracks, a “fathom deep hill” was sectioned, where “they found several walls made of small stones and very big bricks as well as shards of very big and thick pots. We can infer that the place was an ancient settlement from the times of the Giants and the Jews.”
The toponym of Jidova remains very interesting still (the place of the Jews/Giants) or the Giantess near Campulung. This place was in Poenari commune, Argesel area in the former district of Muscel (today Arges). Here were the ruins of Jidova fortress which “according to our elders is a very old wall”. Then, in the commune of Schitu-Golesti, Nucsoara plain, in the former district of Muscel, there was Valea-Uncheasului hamlet which “is a fortress with extremely crumbled walls. This fortress called Jidova is said to have been built by the Tatars and the Jews.”
The toponym of Jidova can be encountered in the case of some forms of relief. Thus, in Ianca commune, Balta area in the former district of Romanati, “there is a knoll, that is said to have been pulled out from the Earth by the Jews, and which is called Jidova knoll because the place or the hole, where they pulled it from can be seen even today, and is east of it.”
Then, in Raureni commune, Riurile area in the district of Muscel, “you can still see a hillock with the height of 8 fathoms and a half and 30 fathoms around it; it is round with a pointed top, and it is said to have been made by Jews. Even farther down the valley, in the same commune, there is, in the forest, a 50-meters long clearing, where the Tatars’ camp is said to have been placed.” Such a hillock with this toponym can be found in Cacalet commune, Ocolul area, in Romanati. Under this “big hillock of earth, 5 fathoms high, 27 fathoms around it and flat top, there are Jews’ bones.”
Saineanu brings as argument also “the popular metaphor Jewish work to characterize a very hard work that goes beyond the powers of common man, a tireless and stubborn work.” He brings examples from Romanian fairy tales from the southern region of the country; thus in Pipelcuta or Cinderella fairy tale we find that: “the girl accustomed from an early age with poverty, worked like Jews day and night and did all the hard tasks.”
The author concludes by asserting about the word “Jew in the sense of giant” that it is “a vague reflex of the first Tatar invasions in these countries. It concentrates in itself the memory of a Turanian people turned Jewish, which disappeared completely later on as a nation, which also crept into the Danube valley and one part of which will have persisted in these places, forming the ethnographic kern of Judaism in the Danube countries.”
Following the arguments above, which support the idea of the existence of Khazar communities in the Romanian ethnographic space, we will bring into discussion an element of Romanian mythology: the Red Man. What could be the connection between this evil fairy tale character and Khazar Jews? If the Jewish-Tatars or the Giants with supernatural powers could have full power over the life and death of people, the Red Man from the Romanian fairy tales concentrates in himself all the forces of evil.
Khazar Jews described by their contemporaries had blue eyes and reddish hair; this generalized light coloring could be a heritage of the medieval Khazar infusion.[4]
According to Koestler, “the colour of the complexion of Khazar Jews was white, their eyes were blue and their hair was mainly reddish, their bodies were big, powerful and their behaviour was cold, distant. Their general outlook was wild.” That’s where the association with the Giants in Romanian mythology comes from.
The popular Jewish legends do not mention a Khazar kingdom but a kingdom of the red Jews, red being the color of their hair and maybe due to the mongoloid pigmentation of many Khazars. No doubt, the Red Man and the Red Emperor of Romanian fairy tales can be identified as the Khazar Jew. In Romanian mythology, the Devil himself “appears under the form of a red man and he lives on Red Hill.” The Red Man is thought of by the people “as a bad omen, a great danger.” It is said in Harap Alb (White Moor), the Moldavian fairy tale: “remember the piece of advice that I give you: in your journey you will need both bad and evil creatures, but beware of the red man, and especially of the bald one, as much as you can do not get involved with them.”[5] The bald man can be compared to the Tatar that often shaves his head.
We have, besides the Red Man, another evil character called the Red Emperor, the perpetual enemy of another character, the Green Emperor or the White Emperor. According to Saineanu, “the emperor that bears, in fairy-tales, this epithet is characterized as being the cruelest tyrant of his time, as opposed to White-Emperor, the epitome of kindness and justice for the people. During the reign of this emperor all sorts of bizarre things happen: the monsters steal the sun and the moon. Just like the demon, Red-Emperor likes enigmas and threatens to kill his rival should he not be capable of solving them. There are infernal monsters in his service, like Half-Man, who dies and comes to life again at the same time”. Then, let’s not forget the odd character “the girl with the red ear, who, being dead, raises at midnight from her coffin with a pig snout and threatens to swallow her guardian.”
These fairy tale creatures cover all the Romanian ethnographic areas. Fairy tales from Moldavia and Transylvania, from the South of the country and from Bucovina advise that the red man should be avoided.
In Barnusca fairy tale, discovered by Simion Florea Marian: “The boy had heard it in advance that the marked people like (…) and the ones with the beard red like fire, and the hair black as a crow’s feather, are very evil and dangerous.”
Here we should make note of Koestler’s description which is related to the fairy tale: Khazars “have black hair and are of two kinds: some called Kara-Khazars (black Khazars) dark-complexioned, with almost olive skin as if they were Indians, and the others, white (Ak-Khazars), amazingly handsome.”
In the Saxon tale The Three Men with Red Beards, “a man dressed in a grey cloak advises the three sons of a poor old man to beware of men with red beards because it’s not a good thing. And indeed, the three men with red beards were devils, and the man with the grey cloak was God himself.” Then a Hungarian saying says “Red dog, red colt, red man, none is good.”
What is more, “in a version of a South-Slav fairy tale, there is the Red Wind”, which is “a terrible being, which ate people and tortured them excruciatingly” and in the Hungarian fairy tales, “the betraying gipsy is nicknamed the Red Knight.”
In Romanian mythology, Tatars or Jews, associated with giants, cyclopean beings with supernatural powers, are “man eaters”. According to Saineanu, “the principle that relies on such names is the predominantly pagan character of those peoples, to which we add the distance in time and space. Thus, Serbs associate the giants with Jews, Czechs with Avars, and Germans with Huns.”
Always, the conflict between Red Emperor and Green or White Emperor ends in favour of the latter, and is solved by decoding dreams. The dream “is a first-rank mythopoeic factor” in Romanian fairy tales. Thus, “in the Banat fairy-tale Red-Emperor and White-Emperor, the emperor discusses with the wise men about the depth of dreams, and his daughter saves the kingdom from danger two times with her dreams, which must be coming from God. The dream is, in the stories, a forerunner of future reality.”
With Khazars, there is the sect of dream hunters, a Christian sect of Khazar priests who “knew how to read the dreams of the others, to live in them like in their own house.” Even those “are long gone”, still, “their predictions were preserved”.
In Romanian mythology there is a series of strange characters called solomonari (seers), with “shamanic attributes, capable of riding dragons, making ascensions to the sky above the clouds”. It is worth noticing that “their name (solomonar or sholomonar) and their magical powers can be explained by the fact that they are the successors of the wisdom and wizardly skills of King Solomon. They are recruited from the people, resemble savage giants (Saineanu’s version), have red hair, bulging eyes, hairy body with a tail; they dress in white long and large peasant clothes, or go dressed modestly in clothes made only of patches (an image of the carts full of oriental Jews that emigrated to the Romanian countries as described by their contemporaries), carry bags with magic tools, among which an iron axe, reins of birch tree, a book of wisdom (the predictions – solomoniile – that Pavici talks about) As to the origin of the belief in solomonari, it is also mentioned “the influence of the figure of the Jewish rabbi (the cabbalist, the Hasid), mythicized in folklore, because it is said in Bucovina that “the solomonari raise only from among the Jews”.
The presence in Romanian mythology of characters like the Jewish-giants or the solomonari with “red hair”, in the main ethnographic regions of the Romanian space, can demonstrate the fact that this territory was under the direct control of the Khazar Empire that probably owned it either partly or totally for a limited period of time. Moreover, still in Oltenia, “Avraam is the name of a dough-twist made for funerals.”[6]
I want to draw your attention here to another ethnographic element, concerning the Szeklers this time. Szeklers have a type of funerary monument represented by a wooden pillar made of hardwood (in order to last as long as possible), in which were sculpted, using various symbols, the most important events (successes or failures) from the life of the deceased; these types of messages can be decoded only inside the community, and a most of their meaning was lost. In the Szekler cemetery of Sfantu Gheorghe we saw such impressive monuments, many of a recent date. It seems to be a Turanian tradition, because Khazars also “carved on their sticks the crucial events of their lives, and those notes had the form of animals that symbolized states of mind, not events. The animal that most often appeared on the stick gave then the form of the tomb of the owner of that stick.”
All these mythological or cultural symbols are of course the remains of a possible direct Khazar influence in the Romanian territory, either through a period of temporary domination, or through a lengthy cohabitation which followed the period of domination. Although it is not the object of this paper, we should remember that many recent opinions regarding the ethnogenesis of eastern Jewry maintain the important role of the Khazar element. In fact, it was a syncretism, and a lengthy process of acculturation, that took place over a vast area of Central Europe. According to David Keys, in the 9th-to-13th centuries, on the background of the dismembering of the Khazar state and of the invasions of the Cuman and Mongolian hordes that followed, a great number of Khazar refugees and influential Khazar groups that professed Judaism migrated to the east of Europe, where they mingled with other Semitic Jewish groups from the East, from Germany, and from northern Italy.
A similar standpoint is presented by Kevin Alan Brook and by the historian Victor Neumann.
In the end, we have the unsolved problem of the ethnographic identification of the Romanian legend mentioned by Baron and Koestler. Fairy tales and Romanian mythology, as well as a series of toponyms, remind us of the presence of Khazar Jews in the main Romanian ethnographic regions.
The invasion of Khazar Jews probably happened either through a periodic penetration of the Eastern Carpathians, or the other way around, through Mures river valley, from Hungary. There is still of course the variant of the penetration through the Southern Carpathians, in the direction of Oltenia, where the image of the giant Jews that lived in the mountains from ancient times persists.
Another passage where Khazar armies started military campaigns to control it is the line of the lower Danube and of the middle Danube, up to Hungary – an old commercial route. So, it seems that the entire Romanian space was somehow affected by the Khazar presence, and the legend of the invasion probably refers to this reality. These short historical and ethnographic considerations can be made complete with field research in all the Romanian ethnographic regions, because, except for the brief research of Lazar Saineanu, no extensive work on this topic has been done yet.
[1] Mioara Cremene, Initiatory Dictionary of Knights’ Orders, Universal Dalsi Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, p. 449
[2] Lazar Saineanu, A Philological Career (1885-1900). The History of an Uprooting. An Autobiographic Memoir, Bucharest, 1901, pp. 17-18
[3] Lazar Saineanu, A Page of Medieval History. A Historical-Linguistic Incursion. The Jews or the Tatars or the Giants, Literary Conversations, XXI, 1887, Bucharest, p. 523
[4] Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai, The Myth of the Jewish Race, Detroit, MI., Wayne State University Press, 1989, p. 26
[5] Lazar Saineanu, The Anthropological Importance of Fairy-tales, in Romanian Fairy-tales, Minerva Publishing House, Bucharest, 1978, pp. 24-25
[6] Ion Ghinoiu, Celebrations and Customs, vol. I, Oltenia, Enciclopedica Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, p. 371
by Adrian Majuru (b. 1968)
Romania, Zamolxe
Alexaner Michael
"Zamolxe" from Romania (DACIA)
We are presenting ourselves as the polytheistic religious group “Zamolxe” from Romania.
Zamolxe cult it is practicing the religion which predated christianism or some paganist practices who survived after christianization in the region inhabited by thracian peoples.
We are celebrating the gods of Gebeleizis, Dardelas, Bendis, Sabazios and Dionisos.
The dacian pantheon:
GEBELEIZIS, He is the Thunder. He is a celestial god. His atribute is the eagle.
Gebeleizis, representts the clear sky. Everything that disturbs his harmony, storms, clouds, have to be combated. That's why the Dacians shoot arrows towards the sky, in the clouds - to drive them away, to help Gebeleizis (this custom is related by Herodotus).
BENDIS
The goddess Bendis is corresponding to Artemis, in the Greek mythology, or Diana, in the Roman mythology. Therefore, Bendis is a goddess of the moon, of the forest. Herodotus wrote that this goddess is adored by the Thracian women, being borrowed from the populations at the north, who can only be the Dacians.
The cult of this goddess was confirmed by the archeological discoveries (a head of bronze found at Costesti, a medallion of clay, discovered at Sarmizegetusa, and a bronze bust from Piatra Rosie).
Her cult survived during the period of Roman occupation, in the form of Roman godess Diana. The name of Diana can be traced in the Romanian words zana, sanziana (Sancta Diana) or cosanziana (Quo Sancta Diana).
DERZELAS
Derzelas (Darzalas) is a Thracian chthonic god of health and human spirit's vitality.
Darzalas was the Great God of Hellenistic Odessos (modern Varna) since the 4th century BC and was frequently depicted on its coinage and portrayed in numerous terra cotta figurines, as well as in a rare 4th-century BC lead one, found in the city. There was a temple dedicated to him with a cult statue, and in 238 AD, games (Darzaleia) were held in his honor, possibly attended by Gordian III. Darzalas was often depicted in himation, holding cornucopiae with altars by his side.
A temple dedicated to Derzelas was built at Histria (Sinoe) - a Greek colony, on the shore of the Black Sea in the 3rd century BC. Derzelas was a main Dacian god during the life of Burebista's high priest Deceneus, who eventually became king.
HEROS
In Thracian mythology, Heros was a god of the underworld, usually depicted on funeral statues as a horseman slaying a beast with a spear. He was also known as Pirmeroula or Karabazmos, epithets which have not been deciphered. His cult is attested from Thrace to Moesia and Scythia Minor.
He gained a widespread importance especially after the Roman conquest. After Christianity was adopted, the symbolism of Heros continued as representations of Saint George slaying the dragon.
SABAZIOS
Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Thracians.
In the Roman times he is shown always on horseback, as a nomadic horseman god, wielding his characteristic staff of power.
Under the Roman Emperor Gordian III the god on horseback appears on coins minted at Tlos, in neighboring Lycia, and at Istrus, in the province of Lower Moesia, between Thrace and the Danube.
Small votive hands, typically made of copper or bronze, are often associated with the cult of Sabazios. Many of these hands have a small perforation at the base which suggests they may have been attached to wooden poles and carried in processions.
He is identified sometimes with the thracian (danubian) horseman, his representation on the horse back appearing in many statues.
DIONISOS
Dionisos is the thracian god of wine.
The bull, the serpent, the ivy and wine are the signs of the characteristic Dionysian atmosphere, infused with the unquenchable life of the god. Their numinous presence signifies that the god is near. Dionysus is strongly associated with the satyrs, centaurs and sileni. He is often shown riding a leopard, wearing a leopard skin, or being pulled by a chariot drawn by panthers and has been called the god of cats and savagery. He always carries a thyrsus. Besides the grapevine and its wild barren alter-ego, the toxic ivy plant, both sacred to him, the fig was also his.
ORFEU
Orfeu is a mithological thracian character born in Rodope mountains.
As one of the pioneers of civilization, he is said to have taught humanity the arts of medicine, writing and agriculture. Closely connected with religious life, Orpheus was an augur and seer; practised magical arts, especially astrology; founded or rendered accessible many important cults, such as those of Apollo and the Thracian god Dionysus; instituted mystic rites both public and private; and prescribed initiatory and purificatory rituals.
DOBATOPIENOS
Dobatopienos is the god of metalurgy with atributes similar with Hefaistos.
HESTIA
Is a godess of the hearth fire, of sacred fire having the atributes of roman godess Vesta.
KANDAON
Is the god of war.
The thracian gods are:
* Bassareus
* Bendis - the goddess of moon, forests and magic
* Darzalas
* Dionysus
* Heros - the horseman god
* Kotys - mother goddess
* Orpheus - god of song and the lyre
* Sabazios
* Semele mother of Dionysus. Semele is Thracian or Phrygian (cf. Phrygian Zemelô, an earth goddess).
* Zibelthiurdos - god of thunders
The profet Zamolxe reformed the thracian paganist religion.
The name of Zamolxe comes from the thracian word for "earth" which is zamol. This name can be compared with the name of Zemelo, the Phrygian goddess of the earth, and with the Lithuanian chthonic god Zjameluks.
A possible connection with the Sanskrit Zal-moksha (literally, "to go|see|praise nirvana") cannot be ruled out given the northern Iranian origin of the Scythians and Sarmatians. Moreover, legend has it that Zalmoxis "disappeared" for a few years in an underground cave (see below), which suggests some kind of ascetic practice.
Life
Herodotus was told by the Euhemeristic Pontic Greeks that Zamolxe was really a man, formerly a disciple of Pythagoras, who taught him the "sciences of the skies" at Samos. Zamolxe was manumitted and amassed great wealth, returned to his country and instructed his people, the Getae, about the immortality of the soul.
According to Herodotus, at one point Zamolxe traveled to Egypt and brought the people mystic knowledge about the immortality of the soul, teaching them that they would pass at death to a certain place where they would enjoy all possible blessings for all eternity.
Zamolxe then had a subterranean chamber constructed (other accounts say that it was a natural cave) on the holy mountain of Kogaion, to which he withdrew for three years (some other accounts considered he actually lived in Hades for these three years).
After his disappearance, he was considered dead and mourned by his people, but after three years he showed himself once more to the Getae, who were thus convinced about his teachings: an episode that some considered to be a resurrection (Thus he can be seen a life-death-rebirth deity, parallel to Tammuz or Jesus.)
Plato says in the Charmides dialogue that Zalmoxis was also a great physician who took a holistic approach to healing body and mind; not just the body, as was the Greek practice.
During the rule of Burebista, the traditional year of his birth, 713 BC, was to be considered the first year of the Dacian calendar.
Aristotle equates Zamolxe with Phoenician Okhon and Libyan Atlas.
Mnaseas of Patrae identified him with Cronos (Hesychius also has Σάλμοξις· Κρόνος). In Plato he is mentioned as skilled in the arts of incantation.
ROMANIAN PANTEON
After christianism arrived in romanian inhabited teritories, christianism imposed slowly in a long process which had taken hundred of years.
Paganism was never totally eradicated. Some pagan beliefs, holidays and acknowledging of gods persisted till the contemporary period.
The gods, demigods and heroes from the contemporary romanian mithology are the followings:
ARMINDEN, is a god of vegetation, protector of sowing, vineyards and orchards of cattle and horses.
The customs used at Arminden’s holiday on 1 of May are: the decoration with green branches of pillars, doors and houses in order that peoples and animals to be protected from the evil spirits.
On this holiday the peoples were celebrating in forest and fields, they were eating lamb and drinking wormwood wine in order to change their blood..
ALA, is a personification of summer storms.
AURAS PACURAS, is an elf invocated by the children.
BABA DOCHIA, (The old women Dacia)
Is a mitological old women. The legends of Dochia are introducing us in the old city atmosphere. Baba Dochia is a personification of the aging of time. Is a personification of winter. It is celebrated on march . The legend sais that in march Dochia is going with their flocks of ships in the mountains thinking that spring has come but the winter cames back and Dochia dyes because of cold.
BABA OARBA, (The old blind women)
She is a old blind women camed from ancestor world who wants to kidnap children and to take them in her world.
BOURA,
It is a zoomorfic mask representing the deity who is borning and dying in the New Year holiday.
BARBA OGORULUI (The beard of the field)
Is a spirit of grain represented by several ears of grain left in the field with the intention that will grow in the next year
BENGA
is a feminin malefic spirit who is kidnaping the new born babies.
BLOJ
Is a god of fertility and fortune represented by an old man.
BOADNICU
Is the dead body of god Christmas represented by a tree who dies by cuting and is reborning through burning.
BONZA
Is a mithical masculine character who is scaring the people in the forests.
BORZA
Is a mithical feminine character who is scaring the children when they are sleeping.
BOSORCOI
Is a malefic spirit (strigoi) who in the nightime is stealing the milk from the cows.
BOZ
Is a divinity of vegetation represented by a plant who is bringing the rain.
BRADOSI
Are the spirits of ancestors celebrated at the Old New Year (Spring Echinox).
BUTUC DE CRACIUN, (Christmas log)
Is considered the same character as BOADNICU. He represents the genealogic tree.
BUTURUGA
It is othe form of Christmas log.
BUZDUGAN (the batlle log)
Is a spirit of grain. It is asociated with Barba Ogorului.
His atribute is stich of wood who could be used as a weapon.
CALOIAN,
Is a pluviometricat divinity.
CALUS
Is a horse god. It is atested also at the ancient thracian peoples as the Thracian (Danubian) horseman.
CAPCAUNI
Are antropofags monster with dog heads, one eye in the forehead and one eye in the nape who are leaving in caves and forests.
CEAS RAU (bad moment)
Is a malefic spirit who brings illnes and bad things.
CÎRCOVII DE IARNA (winter spirits)
They are meteorogical spirits from winter who bring extreme weather events
CÎRCOVII DE VARA (summer spirits)
They are meteorogical spirits from summer who bring extreme weather events.
CIURICA
Is a mithological representation who protect the married women.
CRACIUN (Christmas)
Is a solar indo-european god, specific to thracian inhabited teritories similar to roman god Saturn and iranian go Mithra.
CUNUNA GRÂULUI (grain coronet)
Is one of the names is known the spirit of the grain.
DODOLOAIA
Is a godess of rain.
DRAC
Is a chtonian god of earth of getian origin.
It was usurped by christianism who identified him with Satan or a demon.
Drac is origin of tenebrous Dracula.
DRAGOBETE
Is the god of love celebrated on 24 of February identified with Cupidon or Eros.
DRAGAICA
Is an agrarian godess identified with the thracian godess Bendis or with Cosanziana (Quo Sancta Diana) or Artemis. Is celebrated at the summer solstice.
DRAGOSTITELE
Are vergin geodesses celebrated at the spring equinox.
FATA PADURII (The forest girl)
Is a mithological girl who lives in forest , her mother is Muma Padurii (Mother of the forest).
FETELE DE APA (The water girls)
They are sirenes the daughters of Stima.
FLORII (The flowers)
Are godesses of spring represented by flowers.
FRUMUSELELE (The beautifuls)
Are personifications of the winds.
GAIA
Is the godess of death, represented by an eagle is identified with the greek godess Gaea.
GADINET SCHIOP (leam man)
Is a divinity of the wolves celebrated on 30 of November.
GOGEA
Is a demon who scares children.
GURBAN
Is a god of vegetation and the protector of horses and cattle.
IAMA
Is a god of death.
IELELE
Are mithical feminine representation who appear in the night. They appear like girls dressed in white and they harm the peoples they meet.
INATOAREA
Is a mithical feminin malefic representation.
LUOTOARE (The takener)
Is a feminine representation who steals the power to grow or the crops fom the fields or weakens the animals.
LUP (the wolf)
Dacic totem. He is respected as a powerful forest being., totem al dacilor si
MAMA CALOIANA (Mother of the horses)
Is a rain godess.
MAMA CÂMPULUI (The mother of the field)
She is the master of the crops from the field.
MAMA GAIA (Mother Gaia)
Is a death godess represented by an eagle (Milvus Milvus).
MIEZILA
Is a personification of the midnight the period from the first singing of the cock to the second singing.
MOARTEA (The death)
Is the antropomorph godess of death.
MOASA PLOII (the rain which)
Is a messenger sent to the rain god.
MOS AJUN
Is the messenger of Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve (24 december)
MOS URS (Old Bear Man)
Personification of the bear important dacian god celebrated on 1 of August.
Bear holidays are:
Ursii de Toamna (Autumn bears) (12-14 november)
Ursii de Iarna (Winter Bears)(1-3 February)
Ziua Ursului (Bear Day)(2 February)
And another holiday, a week before Florii
MOSI DE IARNA (Winter ancestors)
They are spirits of ancestors and dead peoples celebrated in winter.
MUMA PADURII (Forest mother)
She is a godess from the forest relative with Mosul Codrului (the ancestor from forest), 0mul Padurii (forestman) and Fata Padurii (forestgirl)
In some songs she is identified with Muma Mumelor (Mother of the Mothers).
MUTA PAMÂNTULUI (The dumb of the earth)
Mithical dumb feminine representation who lives in center of the world and makes the people she encounters dumb.
NASI
Representants of the ancestors in the present world they help the transmigration of the soul from Existense to Preexistence.
PADUROIUL
Is the master of the forest and of the mithical world from the forest.
PRICOLICI
Is a spirit who in the night is transforming in wolf and comes to villages.
PROCOAVA
Metheorological divinity celebrated on 1 of October who covers in the winter time the earth with snow.
SAMCA
Dangerous spirit for the pregnant women and the new born babies.
SÂNZIENE
Godesses from the procession of Sanziana (from the latin words Sancta Diana) who are celebrated at the summer solstice and bring wealth.
SCALOIAN
Is a messenger of the raining god.
SIVA
Is the pig spirit sacrificed on the Christmas.
SOARE
Personification of the sun.
SOLOMONARI
Wizzards who can move the clouds from the sky.
SORCOVA
Divinity who protects children.
STEJARUL (the oak)
The sacred oak tree identified also with Butuc or Buzdugan.
STRIGOI MORTI (fantoms)
Spirits of the deads who are discontent and come in real life and bring sufferings to their relatives.
STRIGOI VII (alive phantoms)
Spirits who in the night live their dead bodies and come tharras the living peoples
SUL
God of vegetation substituet of Butuc who fertilize the crops.
SARPE
Personification of the snake.
STIMA APEI
Godess , the white and cold master of the waters
TARTACOT
Malefic bearded dwarf.
URIASI
Giants who built the ancient stone fortresses and kurgans.
URS
Personification of the bear.
URSITOARE
The fate personification who assist the born of a child and decide his destiny.
VACA NEAGRA
The black cow who provoke epilepsy.
VALVA
Teluric godess, she is a mother godess.
VÂNT
The god of winds.
VÂNTOASA
Feminin personification of wind and storms.
VÂRCOLACI
Monsters born from the third or the seventh chil of an unmerried women who is eating the moon and the sun especially on eclipse.
VERBIN
God of fertility who brings good growing of crops and domestic animals.
VERGEL
Reprezentation who brings marriage to a person.
VERGELATOR
Person who in new year’s eve predict what will happen in the next year.
ZAU
Divinity invoked like a sermon by the calusari (persons dressed and masked like horses who perform the dance of horse).
ZÂNA, sol trimis la divinitatea pluviometrica sa dezlege sau sa lege ploile, substituit de o papusa confectionata din lut.
ZÂNE
They are all the godesses.
ZÂRNA
Mithic representation who watch the tresures.
ZEITA PASARE
The bir godess in her bilateral form: godess of regeneration (stork) and godess of death (black eagle Milvus Milvus).
ZILELE MOSILOR (days of ancestors)
Cicle of 9 days in pagan calendar from 9 of March to 17 of March dedicated to the ancestors.
ZMEU
This word means literally god and is the masculine corespondent of zana (godess). He flies in the night bringing unrest and the disturbance of sleep to women.
The divinities mentioned above are present nowadays in romanian folk mithology and they survived to christianity.
Thiese divinities appear in romanian modern stories and fairy tales and there are a rezidual paganism.
Our religious organization “Zamolxe” is worshiping the thracian dacian religion and its gods and rituals, the romanian rezidual paganism with its gods and mithology and also recognize the ancient roman and greek polytheistic religion who in the past where practiced in teritory of Romania.
We also recognize the existence of the gods of other european ancient paganistic religions.
Before the romanian latin language to be spoken in present Romania it was spoken dacian a thracian dialect lingvisticaly closed with albanian and baltic languages as lithuanian and letonian. In antiquity the baltics were the northern neighbours of dacian in teritory of Ukraine before the baltics migrated northward to the Baltic Sea shore.
The Zamolxe cult is practicing the old way, the old religion and culture usurped by the alien, imposture and iligitimate christianism imposed by force. The zamolxism wants to make a conection with their real origin and culture, to gain back to romanians the dignity to worship their religion, culture, true origin and identity.
“Here we find that the drac is the devil in person, who instructs certain persons to be magicians and medicine men in a college under the earth. Of these, one in eight receives instruction during fourteen years, and on his return to earth he has the following power. By means of certain magical formulae he compels a dragon to ascend from the depths of a loch. He then throws a golden bridle with which he has been provided over his head, and rides aloft among the clouds, which he causes to freeze and thereby produces hail.”
Jason Colavito is an author and editor who is internationally recognized by scholars, literary theorists and scientists for his pioneering work exploring the connections between science, pseudoscience, and speculative fiction. His investigations, which have appeared on the History Channel, examine the way human beings create and employ the supernatural to alter and understand our reality and our world. Photo courtesy of Jason Colavito. Copyright 2012.
Of this paragraph from folklorist R. C. Maclagan’s article, renown xenoarchaeologist Jason Colavito recently made these keen and scholarly observations :
“Notice that now the school is under the earth, which forms one part of the solution to the puzzle of the Scholomance. There are two other parts that complete the picture. To understand this, however, it’s important to remember that before Transylvania was a Christian territory, it was part of the pre-Christian Roman province of Dacia, which before the Roman conquest was culturally affiliated with Thrace. In both regions, priests of the pagan gods retreated to the woods and secret places to learn the secrets of the gods.
Later called the Solomanari (after the supposed connection between Solomon and alchemy), the Zgriminties or Hultan were shaman-priests who claimed control over storms and could summon a balaur (dragon) to ride. Before Christianity, they were seen as benevolent forces able to implore the gods to deliver much-needed rain to fertilize the crops. Christians defamed the Solomonari as devil-worshippers, but in reality they originated as pre-Christian pagan priests. They most likely worshipped the pre-Christian god Zalmoxis or Salmoxis (also: Zalmus), whose power they are able to wield. Remarkably little is known about this god outside of Greek reports, but the ancients declared that he taught astrology (Strabo, Geography 7.3.5) as well as the doctrine of immortality (Plato, Charmides 156-158). According to Diogenes Laertius, he was the equivalent of the harvest god Kronos (Saturn) (Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 8.1.1), and Hippolytus asserted that those who followed this god as disciples (= scholars) worshipped him in isolated, underground chapels (Refutation of All Heresies 1.2).”
A basic understanding of Transylvania’s (now Romania) indigenous legends of itinerant wizards who perform those same two miracles (riding a dragon and summoning storms) will help to bring into focus this now rather fuzzy picture from the ancient past…of which current rumors profess continues even today.
Unfortunately for the pre-Christian teachers and their ancient doctrines, Christians – following ‘Biblical authority’ (e.g. 1 Corinthians 10:20) – saw this god as a devil or demon, as they tend to do with all pagan gods. St. Augustine even went on to decree that pagan gods are the “most impure demons, who desire to be thought gods,” (City of God 7.33, parallel to Psalm 96:5).
Perhaps the earliest known account of Zalmoxis can be found in a passage that possibly explains the origin of the Scholomance: Histories 4.94. In it, Herodotus wrote that Zalmoxis was not really a god but was instead a slave of Pythagoras. After being freed and gaining great great wealth Zalmoxis then:
“prepared a banqueting-hall, where he received and feasted the chief men of the tribe and instructed them meanwhile that neither he himself nor his guests nor their descendants in succession after them would die; but that they would come to a place where they would live for ever and have all things good. While he was doing that which has been mentioned and was saying these things, he was making for himself meanwhile a chamber under the ground; and when his chamber was finished, he disappeared from among the Thracians and went down into the underground chamber, where he continued to live for three years: and they grieved for his loss and mourned for him as dead. Then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and in this way the things which Salmoxis said became credible to them. (<em “mso-bidi-font-style:=”">Histories 4.94, Macaulay translation)
Herodotus leaves little room for doubt in this passage that this was how the Greeks understood the pre-Christian Romanian god’s story. However, Colavito has gone on the record to state that he believes that this is a distortion of the actual Dacian religious story, which likely involved the god’s own death and resurrection in an underground chamber: a great hall where he taught the secrets of immortality and of life and death. The Greeks, famous for their ethnocentrism, then proceeded to interpret this as a version of their own Pythagorean philosophy. In so doing they sought to make the Dacian faith little more than a derivative of a Greek original.
Today, many modern scholars – most notable among them xenoarchaeologist Jason Colavito - believe the myth of Zalmoxis as Pythagoras’ slave derives from the Dacian and Thracian priests’ forehead tattoos, which the Greeks misinterpreted as slave-traders’ brands (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 15; E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, 163n.44). For more information on these learned, ancient peoples look up “Celts in Transylvania” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_in_Transylvania). It is a fascinating synopsis on these truly remarkable peoples.
Colavito asserts that the pre-Christian religious teachings of Zalmoxis are what first Greeks, then Romans and later the Christians misunderstood, with the Christians proceeding to slander the old god as the Devil himself, and decreeing his underground chamber – where he taught the secrets of immortality itself – as the “school of the Devil.”
The $64,000 question remains: was this underground cult center entirely mythical or did it reflect a genuine Dacian or Thracian cult center where worshippers received priestly indoctrination and training? The modern world may never know for certain.
For more information on this subject, please check out:
The Magus, Celestial Intelligencer: a Complete System of Occult Philosophy, Forgotten Books Publishing http://www.amazon.com/Magus-Celestial-Intelligencer-Philosophy-Forgotten/dp/1605065757/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351495086&sr=1-1&keywords=Francis+Barretts+%27The-Magus
Herodotus’ The Histories, Folio Society Publishing http://www.amazon.com/Herodotus-Histories/dp/B000R8T51K/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351496510&sr=1-2&keywords=Herodotus-+Histories
Thanks to xenoarchaeologist Jason Colavito , from whose brilliant and scholarly reports this article is based upon. Please check out his enlightening, amazing newsletter ‘The Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist, found at http://www.jasoncolavito.com/
This school is no mere piece of fiction, however. As has been well-documented, Stoker derived his knowledge of the Scholomance from Emily Gerard’s 1885 article on “Transylvanian Superstitions”:
As I am on the subject of thunderstorms, I may as well here mention the Scholomance, or school supposed to exist somewhere in the heart of the mountains, and where all the secrets of nature, the language of animals, and all imaginable magic spells and charms are taught by the devil in person. Only ten scholars are admitted at a time, and when the course of learning has expired and nine of them are released to return to their homes, the tenth scholar is detained by the devil as payment, and mounted upon an Ismeju (dragon) he becomes henceforward the devil's aide-de-camp, and assists him in 'making the weather,' that is to say, preparing the thunderbolts.
But what exactly was this Scholomance, and where did the legend come from?
Gerard’s version of the story is not a professional anthropological report, but rather the story of an amateur traveling through the (then) Habsburg territories. By luck, a folklorist, R. C. Maclagan, produced a report for the journal Folklore in 1897 that included a more accurate version of the story then-current in Transylvania:
Here we find that the drac is the devil in person, who instructs certain persons to be magicians and medicine men in a college under the earth. Of these, one in eight receives instruction during fourteen years, and on his return to earth he has the following power. By means of certain magical formulae he compels a dragon to ascend from the depths of a loch. He then throws a golden bridle with which he has been provided over his head, and rides aloft among the clouds, which he causes to freeze and thereby produces hail.
Notice that now the school is under the earth, which forms one part of the solution to the puzzle of the Scholomance. There are two other parts that complete the picture. To understand this, however, it’s important to remember that before Transylvania was a Christian territory, it was part of the pre-Christian Roman province of Dacia, which before the Roman conquest was culturally affiliated with Thrace. In both regions, priests of the pagan gods retreated to the woods and secret places to learn the secrets of the gods.
The first puzzle piece is the presence of the supposed scholars of the Scholomance among the Transylvanians. These scholars learned to control the weather and ride dragons, which is a strange thing for the devil to teach until one realizes that Transylvania (now Romania) has an indigenous legend of itinerant wizards who perform those same two miracles: riding a dragon and summoning storms.
Later called the Solomanari (after the supposed connection between Solomon and alchemy), the Zgriminties or Hultan were shaman-priests who claimed control over storms and could summon a balaur (dragon) to ride. Before Christianity, they were seen as benevolent forces able to implore the gods to deliver much-needed rain to fertilize the crops. Christians defamed the Solomonari as devil-worshippers, but in reality they originated as pre-Christian pagan priests. They most likely worshipped the pre-Christian god Zalmoxis or Salmoxis (also: Zalmus), whose power they are able to wield. Remarkably little is known about this god outside of Greek reports, but the ancients declared that he taught astrology (Strabo, Geography 7.3.5) as well as the doctrine of immortality (Plato, Charmides 156-158). According to Diogenes Laertius, he was the equivalent of the harvest god Kronos (Saturn) (Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 8.1.1), and Hippolytus asserted that those who followed this god as disciples (= scholars) worshipped him in isolated, underground chapels (Refutation of All Heresies 1.2).
The earliest, and likely quite distorted, account of Zalmoxis occurs Herodotus (followed by all later authors) in a passage that explains, I think, the origin of the Scholomance. Herodotus wrote that Zalmoxis was not really a god but a slave of Pythagoras, and that after being freed and gaining great wealth he
prepared a banqueting-hall, where he received and feasted the chief men of the tribe and instructed them meanwhile that neither he himself nor his guests nor their descendants in succession after them would die; but that they would come to a place where they would live for ever and have all things good. While he was doing that which has been mentioned and was saying these things, he was making for himself meanwhile a chamber under the ground; and when his chamber was finished, he disappeared from among the Thracians and went down into the underground chamber, where he continued to live for three years: and they grieved for his loss and mourned for him as dead. Then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and in this way the things which Salmoxis said became credible to them. (Histories 4.94, Macaulay translation)
Herodotus says this story is how the Greeks understood the Thracian/Dacian (pre-Christian Romanian) god’s story. But the likelihood is that this is a distortion of the actual Dacian religious story, which probably involved the god’s death and resurrection in an underground chamber, a great hall where he taught the secrets of immortality and of life and death. The ethnocentric Greeks interpreted this as a version of their own Pythagorean philosophy, and in so doing sought to make the Dacian faith little more than a derivative of a Greek original. Modern scholars believe the myth of Zalmoxis as Pythagoras' slave derives from the Dacian and Thracian priests' forehead tattoos, which the Greeks misinterpreted as slave-traders' brands (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 15; E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, 163n.44).
It seems to me that the pre-Christian religious teachings of Zalmoxis are what first Greeks, then Romans, and then Christians misunderstood, the Christians slandering the old god as the Devil himself, and his underground chamber where he taught the secrets of immortality as the school of the Devil. Whether this underground cult center was entirely mythical or whether it reflects a genuine Dacian or Thracian cult center where worshippers received priestly indoctrination and training (perhaps at what Strabo calls Zalmoxis' holy mountain of Cogaeonum in Geography 7.3.5), it is impossible now to say.
But, with this information, we now have the essential elements of the Scholomance and the scholars who study there. As for the dragon, so widespread are dragon myths in Greek, Slavic, and Christian lore that I'm not sure a specific origin for the Solomonari's dragons is possible, or enitrely necessary. Maclagan may well have been right in 1897 when he suggested that the dragon was a symbol for the thunderclouds the shaman-priests claimed to command.
It is rather remarkable that in its essentials this story should survive in folklore for 2,500 years, more remarkable still that our archetypical vampire Dracula more or less accidentally draws on this ancient set of beliefs in the power of pagan resurrection to fuel his own unholy un-death. And as with the pagan gods, the cross and the communion wafer destroyed Dracula. Without Stoker’s conscious knowledge, Dracula recapitulates the process whereby the pagan scholar-priests and their god were demonized and forced to submit to the dominance of Christianity. http://www.jasoncolavito.com/scholomance-the-devils-school.html Bookmark the permalink. The Order of Solomonarii Sep7 by Kingdom of Auria
Solomonarii (sg. Solomonar, also known as Kapnobatai)- the enigmatic creatures of the eastern European mythology, better known in Transylvania and Moldova, live half in the Legend, half in the reality of the traditional culture. Semidivine characters, the Solomoniarii are known among the people wearing different names: Hultani, Grindinari, Salmani or their ancient name, Kapnobatai. The legends say they are related with the jinns, especially with the Spirits of the Winds and Forests, assigning them powers like the taming and riding of the Dragons, heavenly ascents, the imposing of their own will upon the weather phenomena (especially hail and storm) and the power of healing.
The image of the Solomonar is one often unusual: they are seen like enigmatic creatures, even savage ones, dressed in rather unusual clothing. The props of a Solomonar usually contains an iron axe with magical powers from which he produce the hail with and also has the role of a lightning rod if implanted in the ground, a rein which he can tame the dragons, The Book of the Solomonarii, where all their power and knowledge is written down and a small wooden jar where he keeps the winds.
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Solomonarii (sg. Solomonar, also known as Kapnobatai)- the enigmatic creatures of the eastern European mythology, better known in Transylvania and Moldova, live half in the Legend, half in the reality of the traditional culture. Semidivine characters, the Solomoniarii are known among the people wearing different names: Hultani, Grindinari, Salmani or their ancient name, Kapnobatai. The legends say they are related with the jinns, especially with the Spirits of the Winds and Forests, assigning them powers like the taming and riding of the Dragons, heavenly ascents, the imposing of their own will upon the weather phenomena (especially hail and storm) and the power of healing.
The image of the Solomonar is one often unusual: they are seen like enigmatic creatures, even savage ones, dressed in rather unusual clothing. The props of a Solomonar usually contains an iron axe with magical powers from which he produce the hail with and also has the role of a lightning rod if implanted in the ground, a rein which he can tame the dragons, The Book of the Solomonarii, where all their power and knowledge is written down and a small wooden jar where he keeps the winds.
Lazar Saineanu and his studies in folklore. An ethnographic controversy
http://www.icr.ro/bucharest/the-continent-of-romania-romania-s-national-minorities-27-2006/khazar-jews-romanian-history-and-ethnography.html
Lazar Saineanu was a very important linguist, but his brilliant career was stopped suddenly and violently around 1900. Thus, in a booklet published in 1991 in France, and addressed to his own daughter, he tells how “a presentation made within the proceedings of the Romanian Academy and an article in Romania magazine in Paris, where the author (probably himself of Khazar origin) tried to follow the steps of the first Khazar settlements in Oltenia with the physical description of these new inhabitants, and the reconstitution of their language, started such a stern opposition on the part of the academicians, that the researcher was forced to emigrate.”[1]
In the above mentioned booklet, Saineanu says that “in 1887 I published in Literary Conversations a study entitled The Jews or the Tatars or the Giants, in which I aimed at elucidating this bizarre association of ethnic names by bringing up a historical hypothesis. After grouping all the available elements of a linguistic, archeological and topographic origin, which testify on behalf of the identification, in the traditions of our people, of the Jews with the Tatars and with the Giants, I asked myself the following question: Was there in the past a people about which one could claim with certainty that it was both Tatar and Jewish at the same time?
My answer to this question is that such a people existed, and it is known in history under the name of Khazars, a Tatar people that occupied almost the whole of meridional Russia which, adopting Judaism in the 8th century, survived as a Judaic state for over three centuries (1016). After spreading its domination over Eastern Europe, these Jewish-Tatars suddenly disappeared from the stage of history. What became of them?
These Khazars, once their power vanished, became one with the other Tatar peoples by the Black Sea, but the echo of their origin did not completely disappear from people’s memory. A part of these Khazars will have looked early on for a shelter in Ardeal (i.e. Transylvania), from where they crossed to the Danube countries, especially in Muntenia (i.e. Wallachia), particularly in Muscel and Romanati districts, where the traditional memories regarding them seem to be concentrated. Could they have been the ones who built that building with a cyclopean-Jewish appearance whose name only tells about those old times?
The settlements and their dwellings left important traces that took on colossal proportions in people’s imagination. People of a supernatural size seemed to have lived – according to the voice of the century – in an ancient time, which the old can hardly remember, and our peasants call those giant people Jews or Tatars.
It is very likely that those Tatars turned Jews maintained their religion in the middle of a peaceful population terrified by their imposing power, and that Khazar blood might be running in the veins of the primitive strata of Romanian Jews. This is the objective study that started the calumny, which I had written against my country.”[2]
In his arguments, Saineanu comes up with interesting information, searched for and gathered through field work and written in “the archeological questionnaire of Mr. Odobescu, today in possession of the Academy.” Thus, “the Romanian peasant uses the word Jewish with different acceptations, which could be inferred from the basic meaning of Giant. In Dragoslavele commune from the former district of Muscel (today Arges) persisted the tradition according to which “there were some Jews in Ghimbavului Stone where there is a hole in which stone milk flows; and that the son of a Jew from Yellow Stone, being in love with the daughter of a Jew in Ghimbavului Stone, secretly left to see her. His father saw him on the top of Prislop mountain, threw a boulder at him to hit him, but it is said that he didn’t. This boulder can be seen even today on the top of Prislop mountain and weighs about 6000 pounds.”[3]
Further on, Saineanu argues “the typical expression, ever since the Jews or the Tatars or the Giants, to point to an old age, that the peasants attribute to the crumbled walls whose building date they don’t remember.” The author also presents two examples. The first one refers to information gathered from Radomir commune, in Ocolu area in the former district of Romanati (today Olt). Here, on the occasion of the fitting out of the railway tracks, a “fathom deep hill” was sectioned, where “they found several walls made of small stones and very big bricks as well as shards of very big and thick pots. We can infer that the place was an ancient settlement from the times of the Giants and the Jews.”
The toponym of Jidova remains very interesting still (the place of the Jews/Giants) or the Giantess near Campulung. This place was in Poenari commune, Argesel area in the former district of Muscel (today Arges). Here were the ruins of Jidova fortress which “according to our elders is a very old wall”. Then, in the commune of Schitu-Golesti, Nucsoara plain, in the former district of Muscel, there was Valea-Uncheasului hamlet which “is a fortress with extremely crumbled walls. This fortress called Jidova is said to have been built by the Tatars and the Jews.”
The toponym of Jidova can be encountered in the case of some forms of relief. Thus, in Ianca commune, Balta area in the former district of Romanati, “there is a knoll, that is said to have been pulled out from the Earth by the Jews, and which is called Jidova knoll because the place or the hole, where they pulled it from can be seen even today, and is east of it.”
Then, in Raureni commune, Riurile area in the district of Muscel, “you can still see a hillock with the height of 8 fathoms and a half and 30 fathoms around it; it is round with a pointed top, and it is said to have been made by Jews. Even farther down the valley, in the same commune, there is, in the forest, a 50-meters long clearing, where the Tatars’ camp is said to have been placed.” Such a hillock with this toponym can be found in Cacalet commune, Ocolul area, in Romanati. Under this “big hillock of earth, 5 fathoms high, 27 fathoms around it and flat top, there are Jews’ bones.”
Saineanu brings as argument also “the popular metaphor Jewish work to characterize a very hard work that goes beyond the powers of common man, a tireless and stubborn work.” He brings examples from Romanian fairy tales from the southern region of the country; thus in Pipelcuta or Cinderella fairy tale we find that: “the girl accustomed from an early age with poverty, worked like Jews day and night and did all the hard tasks.”
The author concludes by asserting about the word “Jew in the sense of giant” that it is “a vague reflex of the first Tatar invasions in these countries. It concentrates in itself the memory of a Turanian people turned Jewish, which disappeared completely later on as a nation, which also crept into the Danube valley and one part of which will have persisted in these places, forming the ethnographic kern of Judaism in the Danube countries.”
Following the arguments above, which support the idea of the existence of Khazar communities in the Romanian ethnographic space, we will bring into discussion an element of Romanian mythology: the Red Man. What could be the connection between this evil fairy tale character and Khazar Jews? If the Jewish-Tatars or the Giants with supernatural powers could have full power over the life and death of people, the Red Man from the Romanian fairy tales concentrates in himself all the forces of evil.
Khazar Jews described by their contemporaries had blue eyes and reddish hair; this generalized light coloring could be a heritage of the medieval Khazar infusion.[4]
According to Koestler, “the colour of the complexion of Khazar Jews was white, their eyes were blue and their hair was mainly reddish, their bodies were big, powerful and their behaviour was cold, distant. Their general outlook was wild.” That’s where the association with the Giants in Romanian mythology comes from.
The popular Jewish legends do not mention a Khazar kingdom but a kingdom of the red Jews, red being the color of their hair and maybe due to the mongoloid pigmentation of many Khazars. No doubt, the Red Man and the Red Emperor of Romanian fairy tales can be identified as the Khazar Jew. In Romanian mythology, the Devil himself “appears under the form of a red man and he lives on Red Hill.” The Red Man is thought of by the people “as a bad omen, a great danger.” It is said in Harap Alb (White Moor), the Moldavian fairy tale: “remember the piece of advice that I give you: in your journey you will need both bad and evil creatures, but beware of the red man, and especially of the bald one, as much as you can do not get involved with them.”[5] The bald man can be compared to the Tatar that often shaves his head.
We have, besides the Red Man, another evil character called the Red Emperor, the perpetual enemy of another character, the Green Emperor or the White Emperor. According to Saineanu, “the emperor that bears, in fairy-tales, this epithet is characterized as being the cruelest tyrant of his time, as opposed to White-Emperor, the epitome of kindness and justice for the people. During the reign of this emperor all sorts of bizarre things happen: the monsters steal the sun and the moon. Just like the demon, Red-Emperor likes enigmas and threatens to kill his rival should he not be capable of solving them. There are infernal monsters in his service, like Half-Man, who dies and comes to life again at the same time”. Then, let’s not forget the odd character “the girl with the red ear, who, being dead, raises at midnight from her coffin with a pig snout and threatens to swallow her guardian.”
These fairy tale creatures cover all the Romanian ethnographic areas. Fairy tales from Moldavia and Transylvania, from the South of the country and from Bucovina advise that the red man should be avoided.
In Barnusca fairy tale, discovered by Simion Florea Marian: “The boy had heard it in advance that the marked people like (…) and the ones with the beard red like fire, and the hair black as a crow’s feather, are very evil and dangerous.”
Here we should make note of Koestler’s description which is related to the fairy tale: Khazars “have black hair and are of two kinds: some called Kara-Khazars (black Khazars) dark-complexioned, with almost olive skin as if they were Indians, and the others, white (Ak-Khazars), amazingly handsome.”
In the Saxon tale The Three Men with Red Beards, “a man dressed in a grey cloak advises the three sons of a poor old man to beware of men with red beards because it’s not a good thing. And indeed, the three men with red beards were devils, and the man with the grey cloak was God himself.” Then a Hungarian saying says “Red dog, red colt, red man, none is good.”
What is more, “in a version of a South-Slav fairy tale, there is the Red Wind”, which is “a terrible being, which ate people and tortured them excruciatingly” and in the Hungarian fairy tales, “the betraying gipsy is nicknamed the Red Knight.”
In Romanian mythology, Tatars or Jews, associated with giants, cyclopean beings with supernatural powers, are “man eaters”. According to Saineanu, “the principle that relies on such names is the predominantly pagan character of those peoples, to which we add the distance in time and space. Thus, Serbs associate the giants with Jews, Czechs with Avars, and Germans with Huns.”
Always, the conflict between Red Emperor and Green or White Emperor ends in favour of the latter, and is solved by decoding dreams. The dream “is a first-rank mythopoeic factor” in Romanian fairy tales. Thus, “in the Banat fairy-tale Red-Emperor and White-Emperor, the emperor discusses with the wise men about the depth of dreams, and his daughter saves the kingdom from danger two times with her dreams, which must be coming from God. The dream is, in the stories, a forerunner of future reality.”
With Khazars, there is the sect of dream hunters, a Christian sect of Khazar priests who “knew how to read the dreams of the others, to live in them like in their own house.” Even those “are long gone”, still, “their predictions were preserved”.
In Romanian mythology there is a series of strange characters called solomonari (seers), with “shamanic attributes, capable of riding dragons, making ascensions to the sky above the clouds”. It is worth noticing that “their name (solomonar or sholomonar) and their magical powers can be explained by the fact that they are the successors of the wisdom and wizardly skills of King Solomon. They are recruited from the people, resemble savage giants (Saineanu’s version), have red hair, bulging eyes, hairy body with a tail; they dress in white long and large peasant clothes, or go dressed modestly in clothes made only of patches (an image of the carts full of oriental Jews that emigrated to the Romanian countries as described by their contemporaries), carry bags with magic tools, among which an iron axe, reins of birch tree, a book of wisdom (the predictions – solomoniile – that Pavici talks about) As to the origin of the belief in solomonari, it is also mentioned “the influence of the figure of the Jewish rabbi (the cabbalist, the Hasid), mythicized in folklore, because it is said in Bucovina that “the solomonari raise only from among the Jews”.
The presence in Romanian mythology of characters like the Jewish-giants or the solomonari with “red hair”, in the main ethnographic regions of the Romanian space, can demonstrate the fact that this territory was under the direct control of the Khazar Empire that probably owned it either partly or totally for a limited period of time. Moreover, still in Oltenia, “Avraam is the name of a dough-twist made for funerals.”[6]
I want to draw your attention here to another ethnographic element, concerning the Szeklers this time. Szeklers have a type of funerary monument represented by a wooden pillar made of hardwood (in order to last as long as possible), in which were sculpted, using various symbols, the most important events (successes or failures) from the life of the deceased; these types of messages can be decoded only inside the community, and a most of their meaning was lost. In the Szekler cemetery of Sfantu Gheorghe we saw such impressive monuments, many of a recent date. It seems to be a Turanian tradition, because Khazars also “carved on their sticks the crucial events of their lives, and those notes had the form of animals that symbolized states of mind, not events. The animal that most often appeared on the stick gave then the form of the tomb of the owner of that stick.”
All these mythological or cultural symbols are of course the remains of a possible direct Khazar influence in the Romanian territory, either through a period of temporary domination, or through a lengthy cohabitation which followed the period of domination. Although it is not the object of this paper, we should remember that many recent opinions regarding the ethnogenesis of eastern Jewry maintain the important role of the Khazar element. In fact, it was a syncretism, and a lengthy process of acculturation, that took place over a vast area of Central Europe. According to David Keys, in the 9th-to-13th centuries, on the background of the dismembering of the Khazar state and of the invasions of the Cuman and Mongolian hordes that followed, a great number of Khazar refugees and influential Khazar groups that professed Judaism migrated to the east of Europe, where they mingled with other Semitic Jewish groups from the East, from Germany, and from northern Italy.
A similar standpoint is presented by Kevin Alan Brook and by the historian Victor Neumann.
In the end, we have the unsolved problem of the ethnographic identification of the Romanian legend mentioned by Baron and Koestler. Fairy tales and Romanian mythology, as well as a series of toponyms, remind us of the presence of Khazar Jews in the main Romanian ethnographic regions.
The invasion of Khazar Jews probably happened either through a periodic penetration of the Eastern Carpathians, or the other way around, through Mures river valley, from Hungary. There is still of course the variant of the penetration through the Southern Carpathians, in the direction of Oltenia, where the image of the giant Jews that lived in the mountains from ancient times persists.
Another passage where Khazar armies started military campaigns to control it is the line of the lower Danube and of the middle Danube, up to Hungary – an old commercial route. So, it seems that the entire Romanian space was somehow affected by the Khazar presence, and the legend of the invasion probably refers to this reality. These short historical and ethnographic considerations can be made complete with field research in all the Romanian ethnographic regions, because, except for the brief research of Lazar Saineanu, no extensive work on this topic has been done yet.
[1] Mioara Cremene, Initiatory Dictionary of Knights’ Orders, Universal Dalsi Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, p. 449
[2] Lazar Saineanu, A Philological Career (1885-1900). The History of an Uprooting. An Autobiographic Memoir, Bucharest, 1901, pp. 17-18
[3] Lazar Saineanu, A Page of Medieval History. A Historical-Linguistic Incursion. The Jews or the Tatars or the Giants, Literary Conversations, XXI, 1887, Bucharest, p. 523
[4] Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai, The Myth of the Jewish Race, Detroit, MI., Wayne State University Press, 1989, p. 26
[5] Lazar Saineanu, The Anthropological Importance of Fairy-tales, in Romanian Fairy-tales, Minerva Publishing House, Bucharest, 1978, pp. 24-25
[6] Ion Ghinoiu, Celebrations and Customs, vol. I, Oltenia, Enciclopedica Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, p. 371
by Adrian Majuru (b. 1968)
Romania, Zamolxe
Alexaner Michael
"Zamolxe" from Romania (DACIA)
We are presenting ourselves as the polytheistic religious group “Zamolxe” from Romania.
Zamolxe cult it is practicing the religion which predated christianism or some paganist practices who survived after christianization in the region inhabited by thracian peoples.
We are celebrating the gods of Gebeleizis, Dardelas, Bendis, Sabazios and Dionisos.
The dacian pantheon:
GEBELEIZIS, He is the Thunder. He is a celestial god. His atribute is the eagle.
Gebeleizis, representts the clear sky. Everything that disturbs his harmony, storms, clouds, have to be combated. That's why the Dacians shoot arrows towards the sky, in the clouds - to drive them away, to help Gebeleizis (this custom is related by Herodotus).
BENDIS
The goddess Bendis is corresponding to Artemis, in the Greek mythology, or Diana, in the Roman mythology. Therefore, Bendis is a goddess of the moon, of the forest. Herodotus wrote that this goddess is adored by the Thracian women, being borrowed from the populations at the north, who can only be the Dacians.
The cult of this goddess was confirmed by the archeological discoveries (a head of bronze found at Costesti, a medallion of clay, discovered at Sarmizegetusa, and a bronze bust from Piatra Rosie).
Her cult survived during the period of Roman occupation, in the form of Roman godess Diana. The name of Diana can be traced in the Romanian words zana, sanziana (Sancta Diana) or cosanziana (Quo Sancta Diana).
DERZELAS
Derzelas (Darzalas) is a Thracian chthonic god of health and human spirit's vitality.
Darzalas was the Great God of Hellenistic Odessos (modern Varna) since the 4th century BC and was frequently depicted on its coinage and portrayed in numerous terra cotta figurines, as well as in a rare 4th-century BC lead one, found in the city. There was a temple dedicated to him with a cult statue, and in 238 AD, games (Darzaleia) were held in his honor, possibly attended by Gordian III. Darzalas was often depicted in himation, holding cornucopiae with altars by his side.
A temple dedicated to Derzelas was built at Histria (Sinoe) - a Greek colony, on the shore of the Black Sea in the 3rd century BC. Derzelas was a main Dacian god during the life of Burebista's high priest Deceneus, who eventually became king.
HEROS
In Thracian mythology, Heros was a god of the underworld, usually depicted on funeral statues as a horseman slaying a beast with a spear. He was also known as Pirmeroula or Karabazmos, epithets which have not been deciphered. His cult is attested from Thrace to Moesia and Scythia Minor.
He gained a widespread importance especially after the Roman conquest. After Christianity was adopted, the symbolism of Heros continued as representations of Saint George slaying the dragon.
SABAZIOS
Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Thracians.
In the Roman times he is shown always on horseback, as a nomadic horseman god, wielding his characteristic staff of power.
Under the Roman Emperor Gordian III the god on horseback appears on coins minted at Tlos, in neighboring Lycia, and at Istrus, in the province of Lower Moesia, between Thrace and the Danube.
Small votive hands, typically made of copper or bronze, are often associated with the cult of Sabazios. Many of these hands have a small perforation at the base which suggests they may have been attached to wooden poles and carried in processions.
He is identified sometimes with the thracian (danubian) horseman, his representation on the horse back appearing in many statues.
DIONISOS
Dionisos is the thracian god of wine.
The bull, the serpent, the ivy and wine are the signs of the characteristic Dionysian atmosphere, infused with the unquenchable life of the god. Their numinous presence signifies that the god is near. Dionysus is strongly associated with the satyrs, centaurs and sileni. He is often shown riding a leopard, wearing a leopard skin, or being pulled by a chariot drawn by panthers and has been called the god of cats and savagery. He always carries a thyrsus. Besides the grapevine and its wild barren alter-ego, the toxic ivy plant, both sacred to him, the fig was also his.
ORFEU
Orfeu is a mithological thracian character born in Rodope mountains.
As one of the pioneers of civilization, he is said to have taught humanity the arts of medicine, writing and agriculture. Closely connected with religious life, Orpheus was an augur and seer; practised magical arts, especially astrology; founded or rendered accessible many important cults, such as those of Apollo and the Thracian god Dionysus; instituted mystic rites both public and private; and prescribed initiatory and purificatory rituals.
DOBATOPIENOS
Dobatopienos is the god of metalurgy with atributes similar with Hefaistos.
HESTIA
Is a godess of the hearth fire, of sacred fire having the atributes of roman godess Vesta.
KANDAON
Is the god of war.
The thracian gods are:
* Bassareus
* Bendis - the goddess of moon, forests and magic
* Darzalas
* Dionysus
* Heros - the horseman god
* Kotys - mother goddess
* Orpheus - god of song and the lyre
* Sabazios
* Semele mother of Dionysus. Semele is Thracian or Phrygian (cf. Phrygian Zemelô, an earth goddess).
* Zibelthiurdos - god of thunders
The profet Zamolxe reformed the thracian paganist religion.
The name of Zamolxe comes from the thracian word for "earth" which is zamol. This name can be compared with the name of Zemelo, the Phrygian goddess of the earth, and with the Lithuanian chthonic god Zjameluks.
A possible connection with the Sanskrit Zal-moksha (literally, "to go|see|praise nirvana") cannot be ruled out given the northern Iranian origin of the Scythians and Sarmatians. Moreover, legend has it that Zalmoxis "disappeared" for a few years in an underground cave (see below), which suggests some kind of ascetic practice.
Life
Herodotus was told by the Euhemeristic Pontic Greeks that Zamolxe was really a man, formerly a disciple of Pythagoras, who taught him the "sciences of the skies" at Samos. Zamolxe was manumitted and amassed great wealth, returned to his country and instructed his people, the Getae, about the immortality of the soul.
According to Herodotus, at one point Zamolxe traveled to Egypt and brought the people mystic knowledge about the immortality of the soul, teaching them that they would pass at death to a certain place where they would enjoy all possible blessings for all eternity.
Zamolxe then had a subterranean chamber constructed (other accounts say that it was a natural cave) on the holy mountain of Kogaion, to which he withdrew for three years (some other accounts considered he actually lived in Hades for these three years).
After his disappearance, he was considered dead and mourned by his people, but after three years he showed himself once more to the Getae, who were thus convinced about his teachings: an episode that some considered to be a resurrection (Thus he can be seen a life-death-rebirth deity, parallel to Tammuz or Jesus.)
Plato says in the Charmides dialogue that Zalmoxis was also a great physician who took a holistic approach to healing body and mind; not just the body, as was the Greek practice.
During the rule of Burebista, the traditional year of his birth, 713 BC, was to be considered the first year of the Dacian calendar.
Aristotle equates Zamolxe with Phoenician Okhon and Libyan Atlas.
Mnaseas of Patrae identified him with Cronos (Hesychius also has Σάλμοξις· Κρόνος). In Plato he is mentioned as skilled in the arts of incantation.
ROMANIAN PANTEON
After christianism arrived in romanian inhabited teritories, christianism imposed slowly in a long process which had taken hundred of years.
Paganism was never totally eradicated. Some pagan beliefs, holidays and acknowledging of gods persisted till the contemporary period.
The gods, demigods and heroes from the contemporary romanian mithology are the followings:
ARMINDEN, is a god of vegetation, protector of sowing, vineyards and orchards of cattle and horses.
The customs used at Arminden’s holiday on 1 of May are: the decoration with green branches of pillars, doors and houses in order that peoples and animals to be protected from the evil spirits.
On this holiday the peoples were celebrating in forest and fields, they were eating lamb and drinking wormwood wine in order to change their blood..
ALA, is a personification of summer storms.
AURAS PACURAS, is an elf invocated by the children.
BABA DOCHIA, (The old women Dacia)
Is a mitological old women. The legends of Dochia are introducing us in the old city atmosphere. Baba Dochia is a personification of the aging of time. Is a personification of winter. It is celebrated on march . The legend sais that in march Dochia is going with their flocks of ships in the mountains thinking that spring has come but the winter cames back and Dochia dyes because of cold.
BABA OARBA, (The old blind women)
She is a old blind women camed from ancestor world who wants to kidnap children and to take them in her world.
BOURA,
It is a zoomorfic mask representing the deity who is borning and dying in the New Year holiday.
BARBA OGORULUI (The beard of the field)
Is a spirit of grain represented by several ears of grain left in the field with the intention that will grow in the next year
BENGA
is a feminin malefic spirit who is kidnaping the new born babies.
BLOJ
Is a god of fertility and fortune represented by an old man.
BOADNICU
Is the dead body of god Christmas represented by a tree who dies by cuting and is reborning through burning.
BONZA
Is a mithical masculine character who is scaring the people in the forests.
BORZA
Is a mithical feminine character who is scaring the children when they are sleeping.
BOSORCOI
Is a malefic spirit (strigoi) who in the nightime is stealing the milk from the cows.
BOZ
Is a divinity of vegetation represented by a plant who is bringing the rain.
BRADOSI
Are the spirits of ancestors celebrated at the Old New Year (Spring Echinox).
BUTUC DE CRACIUN, (Christmas log)
Is considered the same character as BOADNICU. He represents the genealogic tree.
BUTURUGA
It is othe form of Christmas log.
BUZDUGAN (the batlle log)
Is a spirit of grain. It is asociated with Barba Ogorului.
His atribute is stich of wood who could be used as a weapon.
CALOIAN,
Is a pluviometricat divinity.
CALUS
Is a horse god. It is atested also at the ancient thracian peoples as the Thracian (Danubian) horseman.
CAPCAUNI
Are antropofags monster with dog heads, one eye in the forehead and one eye in the nape who are leaving in caves and forests.
CEAS RAU (bad moment)
Is a malefic spirit who brings illnes and bad things.
CÎRCOVII DE IARNA (winter spirits)
They are meteorogical spirits from winter who bring extreme weather events
CÎRCOVII DE VARA (summer spirits)
They are meteorogical spirits from summer who bring extreme weather events.
CIURICA
Is a mithological representation who protect the married women.
CRACIUN (Christmas)
Is a solar indo-european god, specific to thracian inhabited teritories similar to roman god Saturn and iranian go Mithra.
CUNUNA GRÂULUI (grain coronet)
Is one of the names is known the spirit of the grain.
DODOLOAIA
Is a godess of rain.
DRAC
Is a chtonian god of earth of getian origin.
It was usurped by christianism who identified him with Satan or a demon.
Drac is origin of tenebrous Dracula.
DRAGOBETE
Is the god of love celebrated on 24 of February identified with Cupidon or Eros.
DRAGAICA
Is an agrarian godess identified with the thracian godess Bendis or with Cosanziana (Quo Sancta Diana) or Artemis. Is celebrated at the summer solstice.
DRAGOSTITELE
Are vergin geodesses celebrated at the spring equinox.
FATA PADURII (The forest girl)
Is a mithological girl who lives in forest , her mother is Muma Padurii (Mother of the forest).
FETELE DE APA (The water girls)
They are sirenes the daughters of Stima.
FLORII (The flowers)
Are godesses of spring represented by flowers.
FRUMUSELELE (The beautifuls)
Are personifications of the winds.
GAIA
Is the godess of death, represented by an eagle is identified with the greek godess Gaea.
GADINET SCHIOP (leam man)
Is a divinity of the wolves celebrated on 30 of November.
GOGEA
Is a demon who scares children.
GURBAN
Is a god of vegetation and the protector of horses and cattle.
IAMA
Is a god of death.
IELELE
Are mithical feminine representation who appear in the night. They appear like girls dressed in white and they harm the peoples they meet.
INATOAREA
Is a mithical feminin malefic representation.
LUOTOARE (The takener)
Is a feminine representation who steals the power to grow or the crops fom the fields or weakens the animals.
LUP (the wolf)
Dacic totem. He is respected as a powerful forest being., totem al dacilor si
MAMA CALOIANA (Mother of the horses)
Is a rain godess.
MAMA CÂMPULUI (The mother of the field)
She is the master of the crops from the field.
MAMA GAIA (Mother Gaia)
Is a death godess represented by an eagle (Milvus Milvus).
MIEZILA
Is a personification of the midnight the period from the first singing of the cock to the second singing.
MOARTEA (The death)
Is the antropomorph godess of death.
MOASA PLOII (the rain which)
Is a messenger sent to the rain god.
MOS AJUN
Is the messenger of Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve (24 december)
MOS URS (Old Bear Man)
Personification of the bear important dacian god celebrated on 1 of August.
Bear holidays are:
Ursii de Toamna (Autumn bears) (12-14 november)
Ursii de Iarna (Winter Bears)(1-3 February)
Ziua Ursului (Bear Day)(2 February)
And another holiday, a week before Florii
MOSI DE IARNA (Winter ancestors)
They are spirits of ancestors and dead peoples celebrated in winter.
MUMA PADURII (Forest mother)
She is a godess from the forest relative with Mosul Codrului (the ancestor from forest), 0mul Padurii (forestman) and Fata Padurii (forestgirl)
In some songs she is identified with Muma Mumelor (Mother of the Mothers).
MUTA PAMÂNTULUI (The dumb of the earth)
Mithical dumb feminine representation who lives in center of the world and makes the people she encounters dumb.
NASI
Representants of the ancestors in the present world they help the transmigration of the soul from Existense to Preexistence.
PADUROIUL
Is the master of the forest and of the mithical world from the forest.
PRICOLICI
Is a spirit who in the night is transforming in wolf and comes to villages.
PROCOAVA
Metheorological divinity celebrated on 1 of October who covers in the winter time the earth with snow.
SAMCA
Dangerous spirit for the pregnant women and the new born babies.
SÂNZIENE
Godesses from the procession of Sanziana (from the latin words Sancta Diana) who are celebrated at the summer solstice and bring wealth.
SCALOIAN
Is a messenger of the raining god.
SIVA
Is the pig spirit sacrificed on the Christmas.
SOARE
Personification of the sun.
SOLOMONARI
Wizzards who can move the clouds from the sky.
SORCOVA
Divinity who protects children.
STEJARUL (the oak)
The sacred oak tree identified also with Butuc or Buzdugan.
STRIGOI MORTI (fantoms)
Spirits of the deads who are discontent and come in real life and bring sufferings to their relatives.
STRIGOI VII (alive phantoms)
Spirits who in the night live their dead bodies and come tharras the living peoples
SUL
God of vegetation substituet of Butuc who fertilize the crops.
SARPE
Personification of the snake.
STIMA APEI
Godess , the white and cold master of the waters
TARTACOT
Malefic bearded dwarf.
URIASI
Giants who built the ancient stone fortresses and kurgans.
URS
Personification of the bear.
URSITOARE
The fate personification who assist the born of a child and decide his destiny.
VACA NEAGRA
The black cow who provoke epilepsy.
VALVA
Teluric godess, she is a mother godess.
VÂNT
The god of winds.
VÂNTOASA
Feminin personification of wind and storms.
VÂRCOLACI
Monsters born from the third or the seventh chil of an unmerried women who is eating the moon and the sun especially on eclipse.
VERBIN
God of fertility who brings good growing of crops and domestic animals.
VERGEL
Reprezentation who brings marriage to a person.
VERGELATOR
Person who in new year’s eve predict what will happen in the next year.
ZAU
Divinity invoked like a sermon by the calusari (persons dressed and masked like horses who perform the dance of horse).
ZÂNA, sol trimis la divinitatea pluviometrica sa dezlege sau sa lege ploile, substituit de o papusa confectionata din lut.
ZÂNE
They are all the godesses.
ZÂRNA
Mithic representation who watch the tresures.
ZEITA PASARE
The bir godess in her bilateral form: godess of regeneration (stork) and godess of death (black eagle Milvus Milvus).
ZILELE MOSILOR (days of ancestors)
Cicle of 9 days in pagan calendar from 9 of March to 17 of March dedicated to the ancestors.
ZMEU
This word means literally god and is the masculine corespondent of zana (godess). He flies in the night bringing unrest and the disturbance of sleep to women.
The divinities mentioned above are present nowadays in romanian folk mithology and they survived to christianity.
Thiese divinities appear in romanian modern stories and fairy tales and there are a rezidual paganism.
Our religious organization “Zamolxe” is worshiping the thracian dacian religion and its gods and rituals, the romanian rezidual paganism with its gods and mithology and also recognize the ancient roman and greek polytheistic religion who in the past where practiced in teritory of Romania.
We also recognize the existence of the gods of other european ancient paganistic religions.
Before the romanian latin language to be spoken in present Romania it was spoken dacian a thracian dialect lingvisticaly closed with albanian and baltic languages as lithuanian and letonian. In antiquity the baltics were the northern neighbours of dacian in teritory of Ukraine before the baltics migrated northward to the Baltic Sea shore.
The Zamolxe cult is practicing the old way, the old religion and culture usurped by the alien, imposture and iligitimate christianism imposed by force. The zamolxism wants to make a conection with their real origin and culture, to gain back to romanians the dignity to worship their religion, culture, true origin and identity.
“Here we find that the drac is the devil in person, who instructs certain persons to be magicians and medicine men in a college under the earth. Of these, one in eight receives instruction during fourteen years, and on his return to earth he has the following power. By means of certain magical formulae he compels a dragon to ascend from the depths of a loch. He then throws a golden bridle with which he has been provided over his head, and rides aloft among the clouds, which he causes to freeze and thereby produces hail.”
Jason Colavito is an author and editor who is internationally recognized by scholars, literary theorists and scientists for his pioneering work exploring the connections between science, pseudoscience, and speculative fiction. His investigations, which have appeared on the History Channel, examine the way human beings create and employ the supernatural to alter and understand our reality and our world. Photo courtesy of Jason Colavito. Copyright 2012.
Of this paragraph from folklorist R. C. Maclagan’s article, renown xenoarchaeologist Jason Colavito recently made these keen and scholarly observations :
“Notice that now the school is under the earth, which forms one part of the solution to the puzzle of the Scholomance. There are two other parts that complete the picture. To understand this, however, it’s important to remember that before Transylvania was a Christian territory, it was part of the pre-Christian Roman province of Dacia, which before the Roman conquest was culturally affiliated with Thrace. In both regions, priests of the pagan gods retreated to the woods and secret places to learn the secrets of the gods.
Later called the Solomanari (after the supposed connection between Solomon and alchemy), the Zgriminties or Hultan were shaman-priests who claimed control over storms and could summon a balaur (dragon) to ride. Before Christianity, they were seen as benevolent forces able to implore the gods to deliver much-needed rain to fertilize the crops. Christians defamed the Solomonari as devil-worshippers, but in reality they originated as pre-Christian pagan priests. They most likely worshipped the pre-Christian god Zalmoxis or Salmoxis (also: Zalmus), whose power they are able to wield. Remarkably little is known about this god outside of Greek reports, but the ancients declared that he taught astrology (Strabo, Geography 7.3.5) as well as the doctrine of immortality (Plato, Charmides 156-158). According to Diogenes Laertius, he was the equivalent of the harvest god Kronos (Saturn) (Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 8.1.1), and Hippolytus asserted that those who followed this god as disciples (= scholars) worshipped him in isolated, underground chapels (Refutation of All Heresies 1.2).”
A basic understanding of Transylvania’s (now Romania) indigenous legends of itinerant wizards who perform those same two miracles (riding a dragon and summoning storms) will help to bring into focus this now rather fuzzy picture from the ancient past…of which current rumors profess continues even today.
Unfortunately for the pre-Christian teachers and their ancient doctrines, Christians – following ‘Biblical authority’ (e.g. 1 Corinthians 10:20) – saw this god as a devil or demon, as they tend to do with all pagan gods. St. Augustine even went on to decree that pagan gods are the “most impure demons, who desire to be thought gods,” (City of God 7.33, parallel to Psalm 96:5).
Perhaps the earliest known account of Zalmoxis can be found in a passage that possibly explains the origin of the Scholomance: Histories 4.94. In it, Herodotus wrote that Zalmoxis was not really a god but was instead a slave of Pythagoras. After being freed and gaining great great wealth Zalmoxis then:
“prepared a banqueting-hall, where he received and feasted the chief men of the tribe and instructed them meanwhile that neither he himself nor his guests nor their descendants in succession after them would die; but that they would come to a place where they would live for ever and have all things good. While he was doing that which has been mentioned and was saying these things, he was making for himself meanwhile a chamber under the ground; and when his chamber was finished, he disappeared from among the Thracians and went down into the underground chamber, where he continued to live for three years: and they grieved for his loss and mourned for him as dead. Then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and in this way the things which Salmoxis said became credible to them. (<em “mso-bidi-font-style:=”">Histories 4.94, Macaulay translation)
Herodotus leaves little room for doubt in this passage that this was how the Greeks understood the pre-Christian Romanian god’s story. However, Colavito has gone on the record to state that he believes that this is a distortion of the actual Dacian religious story, which likely involved the god’s own death and resurrection in an underground chamber: a great hall where he taught the secrets of immortality and of life and death. The Greeks, famous for their ethnocentrism, then proceeded to interpret this as a version of their own Pythagorean philosophy. In so doing they sought to make the Dacian faith little more than a derivative of a Greek original.
Today, many modern scholars – most notable among them xenoarchaeologist Jason Colavito - believe the myth of Zalmoxis as Pythagoras’ slave derives from the Dacian and Thracian priests’ forehead tattoos, which the Greeks misinterpreted as slave-traders’ brands (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 15; E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, 163n.44). For more information on these learned, ancient peoples look up “Celts in Transylvania” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_in_Transylvania). It is a fascinating synopsis on these truly remarkable peoples.
Colavito asserts that the pre-Christian religious teachings of Zalmoxis are what first Greeks, then Romans and later the Christians misunderstood, with the Christians proceeding to slander the old god as the Devil himself, and decreeing his underground chamber – where he taught the secrets of immortality itself – as the “school of the Devil.”
The $64,000 question remains: was this underground cult center entirely mythical or did it reflect a genuine Dacian or Thracian cult center where worshippers received priestly indoctrination and training? The modern world may never know for certain.
For more information on this subject, please check out:
The Magus, Celestial Intelligencer: a Complete System of Occult Philosophy, Forgotten Books Publishing http://www.amazon.com/Magus-Celestial-Intelligencer-Philosophy-Forgotten/dp/1605065757/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351495086&sr=1-1&keywords=Francis+Barretts+%27The-Magus
Herodotus’ The Histories, Folio Society Publishing http://www.amazon.com/Herodotus-Histories/dp/B000R8T51K/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351496510&sr=1-2&keywords=Herodotus-+Histories
Thanks to xenoarchaeologist Jason Colavito , from whose brilliant and scholarly reports this article is based upon. Please check out his enlightening, amazing newsletter ‘The Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist, found at http://www.jasoncolavito.com/
WHY IS HIDING THE TRUTH??
The origin of the Romanian people has been extensively discussed and has sparked polemics between specialists. Here is some information about our ancestors, who probably didn't know!
In Oltenia area is the oldest living in huts in the world (18,000 years BC), the oldest mining activity, the oldest miner pickaxes unearthed there, the oldest metallurgical activity of copper (8,000 years BC), the oldest writing in the world (the Tartaria tablets, Alba county 5-6,000 BC). Here he invented the bow, appeared the first blast furnaces in Europe, and all have gone and have formed other Indo-European peoples and others, such as Iranians, carians, italicii, frygienii, scitii, cimmerienii, Iberian tribes, Basques, sarmatii, Hellenes (achaeans and Dorian), Phoenicians .... etc.
Thraco-DACIANS represents the oldest and highest culture on Earth, the Sumerian civilization, past and also the most numerous (180-200 tribes). They could be found throughout Europe (the Balkans, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Asia minor, Africa ... ... even the Boers of South Africa are all a nation If that was part of himself.
Writing and along with it the history, appeared first in the Thracian space and only later in the Greco-Roman, probably went there all of the tribes who migrated here. THRACO-Dacians were the oldest in Europe, agriculture (Neolithic) and among the oldest in the world. In their day they were the only people in the world who used the devices for measurement of time, according to ToataRomania.ForumHit.ro since 1995, after long studies, but intentionally kept in the basement, a number of prestigious American scholars have come to the conclusion that the flood described in the Bible took place on the western shore of the Black Sea, where he lived a population unexpectedly developed(who does?). Incidentally, the legendary Mount Olympus in Greek mythology (ULIMP-Light or Effulgence, limba traco-if), there was nothing but the Bucegi mountain you don't by chance last second Sphinx on Earth. Homer said that history only knew to fight back the THRACIANS and the arc starting with five Millennium BC.
Thraco-DACIANS are served through a fairness, all the conventions concluded by word of mouth and then stored with holiness. Lack of home was signaled by a bat left at the gate, being more than enough.
Thraco-Dacians were the only civilization in the world that didn't use slavery in any form.
Around the year 1400 i. C, is being built in northern Thrace-Dunareana, the first local school by itself on Earth, called Androniconul, where the Zamolxieni priests teach all academic disciplines from theology (the cult of the Sun-God and the twelve constellations).
According to the testimony left posterity of Plato and Socrates, Pythagoras himself and completed his studies at the Zamolxiana school, and they also said that in that time in Dacia, there were most of the time doctors realize.
Herodotus, ii consider Cimmerians originating on the North-eastern slopes of the Carpathians, (today Moldova). Then some of them went to the South, in Anatolia, where they were known as Cimiry. Subsequently the Migrati Italy, Spain, England and Ireland were known as the Celts.
North area-Dunareana (today's Romania), was considered a haven of old.A land rich in almost all the riches of the Earth, with agricultural land (Granarul of Europe later), large pastures, all forms of relief, an incredible natural waters, an area well defended against the majority of natural disasters ... etc. As a unique miracle of history, the inhabitants of this area could not be expelled from the land and no hearth deznationalizati.
The Romans continued to keep the language, traditions, customs, Harbour ancestors of about 7,000 years ago. Thorough analyses of blood, demonstrates another miracle: despite numerous invasions, including Roman occupation much distorted, we have preserved the genetic purity, specific to our ancestors.
Romania remains a miracle, whom he envisioned a messianic future. Indian Prophet Sundhar Singh wrote in 1922, as the Romans would become a people loved and respected by all peoples of the world.
Source: cultural.bzi.ro-See more at: http://stirile.rol.ro/adevarata-istorie-a-romaniei-ascunsa-la-nivel-mondial-909407.html#sthash.IgeSYCd8.QdD9q70L.dpuf (Translated by Bing)
The origin of the Romanian people has been extensively discussed and has sparked polemics between specialists. Here is some information about our ancestors, who probably didn't know!
In Oltenia area is the oldest living in huts in the world (18,000 years BC), the oldest mining activity, the oldest miner pickaxes unearthed there, the oldest metallurgical activity of copper (8,000 years BC), the oldest writing in the world (the Tartaria tablets, Alba county 5-6,000 BC). Here he invented the bow, appeared the first blast furnaces in Europe, and all have gone and have formed other Indo-European peoples and others, such as Iranians, carians, italicii, frygienii, scitii, cimmerienii, Iberian tribes, Basques, sarmatii, Hellenes (achaeans and Dorian), Phoenicians .... etc.
Thraco-DACIANS represents the oldest and highest culture on Earth, the Sumerian civilization, past and also the most numerous (180-200 tribes). They could be found throughout Europe (the Balkans, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Asia minor, Africa ... ... even the Boers of South Africa are all a nation If that was part of himself.
Writing and along with it the history, appeared first in the Thracian space and only later in the Greco-Roman, probably went there all of the tribes who migrated here. THRACO-Dacians were the oldest in Europe, agriculture (Neolithic) and among the oldest in the world. In their day they were the only people in the world who used the devices for measurement of time, according to ToataRomania.ForumHit.ro since 1995, after long studies, but intentionally kept in the basement, a number of prestigious American scholars have come to the conclusion that the flood described in the Bible took place on the western shore of the Black Sea, where he lived a population unexpectedly developed(who does?). Incidentally, the legendary Mount Olympus in Greek mythology (ULIMP-Light or Effulgence, limba traco-if), there was nothing but the Bucegi mountain you don't by chance last second Sphinx on Earth. Homer said that history only knew to fight back the THRACIANS and the arc starting with five Millennium BC.
Thraco-DACIANS are served through a fairness, all the conventions concluded by word of mouth and then stored with holiness. Lack of home was signaled by a bat left at the gate, being more than enough.
Thraco-Dacians were the only civilization in the world that didn't use slavery in any form.
Around the year 1400 i. C, is being built in northern Thrace-Dunareana, the first local school by itself on Earth, called Androniconul, where the Zamolxieni priests teach all academic disciplines from theology (the cult of the Sun-God and the twelve constellations).
According to the testimony left posterity of Plato and Socrates, Pythagoras himself and completed his studies at the Zamolxiana school, and they also said that in that time in Dacia, there were most of the time doctors realize.
Herodotus, ii consider Cimmerians originating on the North-eastern slopes of the Carpathians, (today Moldova). Then some of them went to the South, in Anatolia, where they were known as Cimiry. Subsequently the Migrati Italy, Spain, England and Ireland were known as the Celts.
North area-Dunareana (today's Romania), was considered a haven of old.A land rich in almost all the riches of the Earth, with agricultural land (Granarul of Europe later), large pastures, all forms of relief, an incredible natural waters, an area well defended against the majority of natural disasters ... etc. As a unique miracle of history, the inhabitants of this area could not be expelled from the land and no hearth deznationalizati.
The Romans continued to keep the language, traditions, customs, Harbour ancestors of about 7,000 years ago. Thorough analyses of blood, demonstrates another miracle: despite numerous invasions, including Roman occupation much distorted, we have preserved the genetic purity, specific to our ancestors.
Romania remains a miracle, whom he envisioned a messianic future. Indian Prophet Sundhar Singh wrote in 1922, as the Romans would become a people loved and respected by all peoples of the world.
Source: cultural.bzi.ro-See more at: http://stirile.rol.ro/adevarata-istorie-a-romaniei-ascunsa-la-nivel-mondial-909407.html#sthash.IgeSYCd8.QdD9q70L.dpuf (Translated by Bing)
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