This page is just some notes.

This page is just some notes.  I'm getting ready to write about sea-horses in Assisi Embroidery in my next page...

Bunch of questions-

About the Goddess Embroideries, I want to know whether the Berehynia is the same as the Blessed Virgin Mary?  Did people often see them as the same?  I think so.  But I would like to find some proof.

I'm wondering if pagans sometimes have disagreements about gender?  One tribe might believe that water is female, and another tribe might believe the spirit of the ocean is male...  bit of a problem with their neighbors...

I was fascinated to read that in the 1800's, Christian missionaries used to go around Africa saying, "the dead do not speak."  This was to oppose tribal beliefs.  It seems to illustrate the power of culture, because there are still people in Africa who believe that the ancestors do not go away but stay and guide their descendants.  I'm not into the occult at all, but I sat and read about the African origins of Voodon, Santeria, and Candomblé.  I asked myself, " do my ancestors speak?"  Which is a tough question since I'm married to a scientist, and I see myself as a practical person.  I don't go for things that can not be proven, and although I love a good fairy tale, I find it difficult to believe in anything.

But yes, sometimes my ancestors try to guide me.  They aren't noisy.  I make lots of mistakes, and they don't talk.  I imagine they are sometimes discouraged about me.  It's just that I sometimes try to think they still care for me.

It's like I'm attempting to believe that they could send me a sign if they needed to.  Right now I'm a Unitarian Universalist, which means 1) attend fellowship meetings on Sundays ("church") and 2) figure out what you believe regarding God, and 3) practice your religion.  I'm not attending church these days as I'm doing a radio show (that's another story).  I got tired of UU fellowship meetings because I'm not very good at being social nor friendly.  People exhaust me; I'd rather have books.  I'm sort of low energy - often tired because I don't sleep well.

What I believe about the God has everything to do with the Unitarian 7th principle:

7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

In other words, I'm an environmentalist.  For me, that's the first principle, the most important one...  that's the whole point of this blog: to change the culture where I live.  I want to see deep change in people's hearts.  I want to live where people don't have a throw-away culture.  I want it to be understood that there is no other planet we can go to.  I'm being too serious, I suppose.

Last night was Halloween.  So we watched the movie, The War of the Worlds. It was the one from the 1960's, so in the movie they tried to use a nuclear bomb against the invading Martians.  Not funny at all.  I was so horrified by the bomb, that's why I'm being serious.  My kid decided to be a bomb for Halloween.  Aargh!

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