The Celtic Cross-A Christmas Story

[pulcinellagawain]

I can honor this ancient symbolism, for watch as four points reach and find the four corners of the earth, the pagan pillars have wept and frozen, and they now glisten with frost, a sugarplum thistle that becomes a blinding guide, and covers the land in the everlasting light of sacrifice.
Here,
The viny weeds of paganism have crawled up the church walls and Irish Catholisicm can see revealed the unshakeable roots, AYE YOUR FAITH DOES GROW LIKE WILDFLOWER, NO FUNNEL SHALL DIRECT IT For the cup has overflowed, wine runneth under the door through the cracks in flagstone, cement portraits bearing the eagles head find the fissures and fractures as valleys to hold a river of merciful blood.
All the candles have been snuffed out behind the closed door elveneth hour mass, blind and dying of thirst they are prostrated on all fours, frantically lapping up wine as it escapes through the tiled ground, hysterical that it will be lost AYE BUT IT HAS REACHED THE BRIAR OUTSIDE YOUR DOORS TENDRILS CRAWL UP YOUR BUILDING AND PRY OPEN THE DOORS THE UNKEMPT WILDERNESS, STRENGTHENED BY INANNAS LIGHT HAS DRUNK THE BEAUTIFUL TALE OF YOUR CHILD

Aye, she says, the evening star of christmas, no more alone in the cold night shall ye shiver

Shatter the windows of the stained church, by the brightness of the evenstar and mourning daylight joined in the sky, the ceiling a cradle is undone, and it falls like ribbons off a present;
We no longer need gift wrapping to adore our creator.

[Caylus Ark]

"Both Mithras and Christ were described variously as 'the Way,' 'the Truth,' 'the Light,' 'the Life,' 'the Word,' 'the Son of God,' 'the Good Shepherd.' The Christian litany to Jesus could easily be an allegorical litany to the sun-god. Mithras is often represented as carrying a lamb on his shoulders, just as Jesus is. Midnight services were found in both religions. The virgin mother...was easily merged with the virgin mother Mary. Petra, the sacred rock of Mithraism, became Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church."

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"Mithra or Mitra is...worshipped as Itu (Mitra-Mitu-Itu) in every house of the Hindus in India. Itu (derivative of Mitu or Mitra) is considered as the Vegetation-deity. This Mithra or Mitra (Sun-God) is believed to be a Mediator between God and man, between the Sky and the Earth. It is said that Mithra or [the] Sun took birth in the Cave on December 25th. It is also the belief of the Christian world that Mithra or the Sun-God was born of [a] Virgin. He travelled far and wide. He has twelve satellites, which are taken as the Sun's disciples.... [The Sun's] great festivals are observed in the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox—Christmas and Easter. His symbol is the Lamb...."

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/new ... 670611007/

[Týsköll]

"Both Mithras and Christ were described variously as 'the Way,' 'the Truth,' 'the Light,' 'the Life,' 'the Word,' 'the Son of God,' 'the Good Shepherd.' The Christian litany to Jesus could easily be an allegorical litany to the sun-god. Mithras is often represented as carrying a lamb on his shoulders, just as Jesus is. Midnight services were found in both religions. The virgin mother...was easily merged with the virgin mother Mary. Petra, the sacred rock of Mithraism, became Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church."

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"Mithra or Mitra is...worshipped as Itu (Mitra-Mitu-Itu) in every house of the Hindus in India. Itu (derivative of Mitu or Mitra) is considered as the Vegetation-deity. This Mithra or Mitra (Sun-God) is believed to be a Mediator between God and man, between the Sky and the Earth. It is said that Mithra or [the] Sun took birth in the Cave on December 25th. It is also the belief of the Christian world that Mithra or the Sun-God was born of [a] Virgin. He travelled far and wide. He has twelve satellites, which are taken as the Sun's disciples.... [The Sun's] great festivals are observed in the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox—Christmas and Easter. His symbol is the Lamb...."

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/new ... 670611007/

You hopping around in my off-site consciousness storage again lady?
I just brought up with someone last night; Mithras, Mithridates, Teuthras, the Moses story essentially being a re-write of one of theirs, Wordsworth's references to Mithridates travelling north and becoming Odin, etc.