Eleven wrote:@Chuckman: I am currently searching for some kind of encyclopedia of the occult, a book which gives a good overview of the most important aspects / mythologies / etc. But I have abolutely no idea how to identify a good one. ("good" meaning as objective as possible with this subject.) I need some kind of "starting point". Do you have any suggestions?
I liked that idea, but I think people on the site may not like the topic, so just put a few key words and basic concepts taking a lot of Wikipedia, to be more accessible.
Seele – Cargo Cult. When the Americans and Japanese began the war in the Pacific large quantities of military equipment and supplies that both sides were launched from aircraft (or taken by helicopter by airstrips) to troops. To these islands meant drastic changes in lifestyle of the islanders, many of whom had never seen anything of it before: manufactured clothing, medicines, canned food, tents, weapons and other goods arrived in large quantities to the soldiers, who often shared some of the supplies to the inhabitants of the islands of Tanna Island (Vanuatu) who were their guides and hosts or so stragglers crates they were simply found by the natives and used. This was true for the US Army as well as the Japanese army, at least initially, before relations deteriorated in most regions.
With the end of war, the military abandoned air bases and stopped falling loads. In response, charismatic individuals developed services between remote populations of Melanesia promising to grant his followers deliveries of food, weapons, vehicles, etc. The leaders of sects explained that the load would present their own ancestors, or from other sources, as had occurred with the hosts out. In an attempt to bring the load to fall parachute or land in planes and ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the soldiers, sailors and airmen use. Cult behaviors typically involved imitating the day -to-day and dress styles of American soldiers, as the realization of floor exercises parade with wooden rifles or recovered. The islanders carved wooden headphones and wore them while sitting in manufactured control towers. They waved the landing signals standing on runways. They lit bonfires and signal flares to illuminate runways and lighthouses. In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of straw aircraft and cut new tracks military-style landing out of the jungle, hoping to attract more aircraft.
Cargo cults are typically created by individual leaders or great men of culture of Melanesia, and this is not at all clear whether these leaders were sincere, or were simply running scams on gullible population. Leaders generally perform worship rituals well away from established towns and the colonial authorities, becoming reliable information on the practices very difficult to acquire. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
Evas - Golem In Jewish folklore, a golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/GO-ləm; Hebrew: גולם) is an animated anthropomorphic being, magically created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material (usually out of stone and clay.)
The Hebrew letters on the creature's head read "emet", meaning "truth". In some versions of the Chełm and Prague narratives, the Golem is killed by removing the first letter, making the word spell "met", meaning "dead".
The golem activation phrase is usually:
Yahweh Elohim Amet - יהוה אלוהים אמת - The truth of the Lord Jehovah.
Yahweh Elohim Met - יהוה אלוהים מת - Lord Jehovah is dead.
(Adapted from Wikipedia)
The giant Rei / Kaworu – RebisThe Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.
After one has gone through the stages of putrefaction and purification, separating opposing qualities, those qualities are united once more in what is sometimes described as the divine hermaphrodite, a reconciliation of spirit and matter, a being of both male and female qualities as indicated by the male and female head within a single body. The sun and moon correspond to the male and female halves, just as the Red King and White Queen are similarly associated. The dragon in alchemy represents the prime matter, as well as the third alchemical element sulfur. The winged dragon suggests ascension, a merging of material and spiritual. Fire is a common transformative symbol.
The Rebis image first appeared in the work Azoth of the Philosophers by Basil Valentine in 1613. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
The forbidden union of Adam and Lilith - Hieros gamosHieros gamos or Hierogamy (Greek ἱερὸς γάμος, ἱερογαμία "holy marriage") refers to a sexual ritual that plays out a marriage between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities.
Variations of this ritual appear in Hinduism, in Greek mythology, in Tantric Buddhism, in ancient Sumerian, etc.
An example would be the dream that Julius Caesar had before crossing the Rubicon river and dominate Rome: Caesar dreamed to rape his own mother and the augurs interpreted the dream saying he would rule Rome, the mother of all. In EoE, Gendo claims to have become one with Adam and performs Hierogamus with Rei, his "daughter", a clone of Yui, his wife, and Lilith, the mother of mankind. All aspects of the Goddess, submissive, moaning in pleasure at this "great man." I cannot imagine a better euphemism for rape and incest that "Forbidden Union".
Glyphs -Enochian Enochian is a name often applied to an occult or angelic language recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. Kelley was a spirit medium who worked with Dee in his magical investigations. The men claimed that the language was revealed to them by the Enochian angels. The language is integral to the practice of Enochian magic.
Instrumentality - Entheogen An entheogen ("generating the divine within")] is a chemical substance used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context[5] that may be synthesized or obtained from natural species. The chemical induces altered states of consciousness, psychological or physiological (e.g., bullet ant venom used by the Satere-Mawe people). Entheogens can supplement many diverse practices for transcendence, and revelation, including meditation, yoga, and prayer, psychedelic and visionary art, chanting, and music including peyote song and psytrance, traditional medicine and psychedelic therapy, magic, and psychonautics.
外道 --- Gedou --- Heretical doctrine The name Gendo is basically a paronym of his function to Seele in Eva. This I admit that's news to me. I checked with the Google translator and seems to be true, but if someone else can confirm I thank you.
Gashadokuro Gashadokuro (がしゃどくろ, literally "starving skeleton," also known as Odokuro) are mythical creatures in Japanese mythology.
The Gashadokuro are giant skeletons that are fifteen times taller than an average person, said to be created from the amassed bones of people who died of starvation. These Yōkai roam after midnight, grabbing lone travelers and biting off their heads to drink their spraying blood. There is a tell sign as the victim would hear the sound of loud ringing in the ear. The Gashadokuro are said to possess the powers of invisibility and indestructibility; though Shinto charms are said to ward them off.[1][
As Shinji is called "gaki" (hungry ghost) I found it appropriate to mention this Japanese myth. I discovered this myth in a fanfiction when Shinji sees the cemetery of Evas.
