The Thunder, Perfect Mind

“I cannot recommend anything other than a personal journey”.

In spiritual paths we are always alone, every journey is personal. Places like AT, or those we meet in our lives and call lovers and fiends, are no more (no less), than a palliative for solitude.

“No matter where on looks, someone else has been there before”.

Somebody has been there before. But, if this somebody was not myself, why do I miss it so deeply? Can one miss what one doesn’t know?

“Inanna, Ishtar and Astarte have been deliberately made obscure”. They have willingly made themselves obscure – for our sake. Mercifully. So that we can, like small children, grow together with their light, and eventually shine as one.

I might be aware that the journey is personal, the solitary and single journey of One to One. But I also believe in sharing, that is, in Love, the true medicine that can turn loneliness into oneness.

Silvia

Rosette of Inanna

Various Sources:

This image is modelled after a labyrinth found on the floor of Chartres Cathedral near Paris, France. Made around 1200 A.D., it is 42.5 feet across and set out in flagstones on the floor. Labyrinths have long been used as meditation and prayer tools. In the past the Chartres Labyrinth was walked as a pilgrimage; a questing, searching journey with the hope of becoming closer to God. Sometimes it would serve as a substitute for an actual pilgrimage to Jerusalem and as a result came to be called the 'Chemin de Jerusalem' or Road of Jerusalem. At the center is a rosette design which has a rich symbolic value including that of enlightenment.

Chartres Rosette

The Zuni sacred rosette (top) closely resembles Japan's
national symbol, a stylised chrysanthemum (bottom).

Rosette window

dear smleite

smleite said:

I might be aware that the journey is personal,
the solitary and single journey of One to One.
But I also believe in sharing, that is, in Love,
the true medicine that can turn loneliness
into oneness.

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For some time now I have had a very strong feeling that "La Papess" might
actually have once been the nickname for a flower ~ perhaps a crowned Lily,
or a member of the Rosette family, something given this traditional folk
name in a playful sense, but with all the seriousness of play as we know it.

Is there a flower known to the rural folk of Europe that fits this description,
a beautiful budding plant that has long been called La Papess by the
local people and the little children, though maybe never in official circles?

Dodal's "La Pances"...?

Various sources:

TARO (also called EDDO) Colocasia esculenta
Coarse, herbaceous plant of the family Araceae. Probably native
to southeastern Asia, whence it has spread to the Pacific islands.
It has become a staple crop cultivated for its large, starchy,
spherical underground tubers, which are consumed as cooked
vegetables, made into puddings and breads, and also made
into the Polynesian poi, a thin, pasty, highly digestible mass
of fermented taro starch.

A form, still grown in Egypt, and used as food by the labouring
classes, is known to be of great antiquity. The roots are used in
many other ways, like the potato. The leaves also, when cooked
to destroy their acridity, are used for food.

TARO Colocasia antiquorum esculenta and related forms.
Of the Arum family, widely grown for food in tropical regions.
The plant has large, heart-shaped leaves, from thick tuberous
roots, and small greenish flowers, resembling those of the
Calla to which it is related.

Cup-flowered Sea Daffodil - Pancratium calanthinum

How weird that you should ask this question about flowers. I’ve worked on a research project in University, trying to make connections between European flowers, their depictions in XV and XVI century art (mainly in Portugal), and their symbolic meanings. I still have long lists of the scientific, common and popular / traditional names of plants and flowers in Portugal, Spain, France and Germany, since medieval times. I don’t recall any “papess”, but well, flowers devoted to Mary cover the widest range possible of names and meanings, and I will search that for you.

Silvia

trois petites bonnes

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Calla palustris

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Calla palustris (Araceae )

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Calla palustris

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[a little side note - which I am of course certain both Fulgour and smleite already know - that the Papesse is 'papissa' in Mediaeval Latin]

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I finally located the deck that uses this

powerful reflection...but I'm not certain it can be traced in a 'traditional' kabbalistically or alphabetically structured way.

http://www.elementaltarot.com/Tarot/tar-maj.htm

It's a powerful poem that you posted and I actually like seeing it by itself rather than an excerpt on each major card.

Regards,

Cerulean

Definition: \Lo"tus\, n. [L. lotus, Gr. ?. Cf. {Lote}.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as {Nelumbium
speciosum}, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in
Egypt, and to this day in Asia; {Nelumbium luteum},
the American lotus; and {Nymph[ae]a Lotus} and {N.
c[ae]rulea}, the respectively white-flowered and
blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with
{Nelumbium speciosum}, are figured on its ancient
monuments.
(b) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in
Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain
(Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly
sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers
who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all
desire to return to it.
(c) The lote, or nettle tree. See {Lote}.
(d) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling
clover. [Written also {lotos}.]

{European lotus}, a small tree (Diospyros Lotus) of
Southern Europe and Asia; also, its rather large bluish
black berry, which is called also the {date plum}.


http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/lotus