5 PHILOSOPHIES
5 Mt Understanding of Mind, Myth, Culture & Religion
(WOODSTAR)
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendent Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.
Below you will find an overviews of 75 spiritual movements, spread over the course of the year. Each lasts 5 days, and 3 of them make up a fortnight. Five fortnights make a season, and 5 seasons make the year.
They are placed in groups of five, corresponding to the 5 seasons and the five regions of their development. These 5 geographic regions were ancient civilization centers where different groups evolved unique understandings of the exterior and inner worlds. Here we have also associated them with a sacred Mountain and also assigned them to one of the five Elements of antiquity.
At the dawn of human consciousness and awakening of awareness of unseen forces, mountains represented the Great Mystery as well as the sources of life via the snow melt that fed the rivers around which humanity flourished and eventually farmed. The rivers flowing from their snowy heights came to represent the feminine mystery of life, and the unassailable heights of certain snow capped mountains came to be associated with male mountain divinities. From these earliest urges evolved the later ideas of gods and spirits that characterized the earliest civilizations of earth and which still linger in some traditions such as Bonpo and Shugendo.
These early nascent cultures, sometimes called River Valley Civilizations, gradually evolved and transformed themselves into the 25 diverse spiritual Paths honored here. These 5 Mts, and their associated River Valley Civilizations and traditions, "represent" the source codes for the 5 Spiritual Traditions honored on Miryai Mt. Much nonsense and encrusted false traditions arose in these areas as well, and so the selection of concepts and practices from each of them has been precise and surgical. Unlike most movements of the past, Miryai-ji uses the synthesis of 5 x 5 different Cultures/traditions in its pursuit of perfection, doing so to increase the diversity and flavor of various periods of practice in the same way that 5 different cuisine's and spice groups are used to enhance the culinary experience on the Mountain. It is thought that thru balanced juxtaposed difference comes transcendence. (Note: These mundane mountains, and the polluted rivers, are not themselves sacred, but are only symbols of the sacred.)
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Everything outward is also in us, everything is one... Yangtze/Han
Civilization (S.W. China, Tibet, India, Nepal, S. America)
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Everything is an illusion, deceptive, corrupt, mind numbing....Nile
River Civilization (Africa, Pagan Europe & C.&N. Americas)
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There is a war within and without, light against darkness...Tigris-Euprates
River Civilization (Byzantine, Mesopotamian & Persian Empires, Silk
Road, Rome)
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Nature reveals our Buddha nature.....Yellow
River Civilization (Northern China, Japan, Korea, S.E. Asia)
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Strive to remain clean, washing off the filth often...Eastern
Mediterranean (Greece, S.E. Italy-Magna Grecia), Cyprus, Crete, Antola,
& Levant)Each Fortnight is divided into three columns that represent the 3 five day periods of that fornight. The 3 rows represent the "Culture" or religeous tradition or school associated with that 5 day period, the "Praxis" are practices to be undertaken within it, and the "Mythos" is the symbolic story associated with it.
The Spring season concentrates on the Himmalayan region. Its five fortnights celebrate the Bon, Jain/Sikh, Nyingma, New Translation Schools, and Dzogchen Path. As in all Seasons, there is a progression from more primitive to later expressions of a regions spiritual worldview. There is an attempt to distill the essence of various Paths, extracting the best of each and discarding the rest.
Note: This system is not guru based,
but founded on the principle of becoming spiritually illuminated
and liberated on one's own, relying directly on the Divine, rather than
an exterior guru.
Rituals: The major influence of
this season is the Bonpo.
Symbolic Script: Tibetan.
Color: Red
Principles: Light, activity, time,
transformation, change.
Symbolic Grain/Legume: Buckwheat
(Tibet), Flax (India), Quinoa, Kaniwa, Amaranth (Andes)
(All dates are plus or minus
7 days and occur on the new or full moon beginning of the lunar fortnight.
The 1st fortnight of the year starts on thee first new or full moon after
the spring equinox (~Mar 20), all others following every 14.75 days
thereafter.)
Bon
Spring - Fortnight 1 (Fire+Fire)
Sun Gazing, Fir Burning, Sweat
Lodges, Icon: Tapristi
Festival/Mar 27 (+-7 days): We begin our journey with the Bonpos
of Tibet. We shy not away from the primitive views of reality that once
dominated this region because the respect for Mt Gods, Lake Goddesses and
the Nagas (Ecology), as well as field to kitchen altar associations, albeit
not scientifically valid, is nevertheless psychologically of use in sounding
the subconscious. Modern man, divorced from nature, benefits from consciously
working at reestablishing this connection between conscious and subconscious
realms. Honoring mountain gods, lake and river goddesses, building shrines
and altars in various zones is a way to crystallize their inward and outward
connectivity. The altars being outward expressions of inward focal points
or complexes, bringing all together. Perception of mystery, of unknown
unseen power - Expressing the oneness of everything and establishing
the subconscious connection between the outer and inner world. Tantric
path of alteration within Bon and Vajrayana. Inner transmutation leading
to Dzogchenian unity. Everything outward is also in us, everything is one.
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Bonpo Oil Lamps | Bonpo ashes marking, confessions |
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2 Eggs, Yeshe conceived | Yeshe born behind walls |
Shakta/Jain/Sikh
Spring - Fortnight 2 (Fire+Wind)
Feast/Apr
11: The male-female, yin-yang side of creation.
The perception of two distinct expressions or characters of existence.
Shiva & Shakta union. Acknowledging the union of opposites in natural
phenomenon, human conception, and metaphysical practice. Devotional; worship.
Feeding people. Courage as warriors. (Celibacy as a deviation away from
this reality.) . The oldest strata of Shiva and Shakti worship is associated
with the first 5 day period of the 2nd Fortnight, The Jains and their 5
Jain Vows with the 2nd, and the Sikhs with the last third of the 2nd Fortnight.
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Jains, Mahavira, Buddha, Sidharta | Sikhs, Nanak |
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Bonpo staffs and incense | Bonpo tantric mandalas and banners, windhorse flags and books |
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Yeshe escapes, raped | Yeshe saved from forced marriage by Rinpoche |
Nyingma
Spring - Fortnight 3 (Fire+Zephyr)
Feast/Apr
26: Padmasambhava is the focus of the first
5 days, Yeshe Tzogyal of the second, and the Ngakpas and Ngakmas with the
third. This is the earliest buddhist vejrayana school to exist in Tibet.
From it we have the Kuntazangpo & Kuntazangmo union. 14 Root Tantra
Vows.
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Yeshe Tzogyal/Mother Lineage | Ngakpas |
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Bonpo offering bowls with seeds (Buckwheat, Flax, Quinoa, Kaniwa, Amaranth) | Bonpo torma offering |
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Yeshe 3 yrs in cave in practice | Yeshe beomces consort, subdues demons in Bardo |
New Translation Schools: Kagyu,
Sakya, Gelug
Spring - Fortnight 4 (Fire+Earth)
Feast/May
11:The 3rd fortnight focuses in on later schools
of Tibet - the so called New Translation schools of Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug.
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Sakya 1073 CE (Develop/Creation Stages) | Gelug 1409 CE (Study/discipline) |
| Bonpo field altar of stone, stone chortens | Bonpo prostrations before altar | Bonpo salt offering, Dzogchen visualizations (Jain encirclings) |
| Yeshe ransoms Acharye Sale, her consort | Longchenpa teaches them Dzogchen | Yeshe reveals hidden terma texts |
Dzogchen
Spring - Fortnight 5 (Fire+Water)
Feast/May
26: The fifth and last fortnight of the Spring
Season is associated with Dzogchen and its 3 expressions.
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Dzogchen (Longde) | Dzogchen (Menngagde) |
| Bonpo body cleansing with water, 5 herb baths of Tamarisk, Juniper, Rhododendron, Ephedra & Artemisia (Sikh baptism) | Bonpo hand washing | Bonpo sacred drink, Tibetan Fasting |
| Yeshe descends to hell, liberates her enemies | Yeshe crowned Dakini | Yeshe merges with Prajnaparamita, beauty, compassion, enlightenment |
Wood-Star
Nile River Civilization (Africa, Pagan Europe
& C.&N. Americas)
Summer - Fortnight 6-10 Kilamonjaro
& Nile River Civilization
Isis Osiris Cult, Gnostics, Pagan
Europe, Monastics, Jung
The Summer season concentrates on Gnostic and Jungian worldviews and other traditions from the Egyptian, African, Pagan Europe and American regions. These are the areas that the Mayan, Egyptian, Ethiopian, and pagan Europe evolved, as well as Monasticism like that of Thomas Merton, Teressa of Avila and Hildegard of Bingen. Manichaean influenced European groups like the Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars as well, with some worthwhile ideas arising in masonry, Rosicrucianism, Knights Templar, Golden Dawn, OTO and other such esoterics lodges. The major influence is from the Gnostic schools of Egypt (Sethites), Neo-Platonist from Egypt, Jung, a self proclaimed "gnostic", bought many of the original manuscripts from Nag Hammadhi and even wrote a Gnostic scripture. Therapuetae of Egypt. The 5 Fortnights of this season are associated with the 5 stages of Jungian "soul" progression, from Shadow, Persona and Ego levels, up thru the anima and true self stage where Individuation is possible. Jung's Redbook and the Nag Hammadhi and Pistis Sophia are important texts. The symbolic script is Coptic. (Each Fornight has 5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.)
Developing psychological understanding
of oneself. Linking the unconscious and subconscious elements and archetypes
to the outer world., seasons of the year, and the winter death and spring
rebirth of nature. Reaping what we sew, inwardly and outwardly. Deviations,
death, darkness and rebirth. Everything is an illusion, deceptive, corrupt,
mind numbing....
Rituals: The major influence of
this season is the Sethite Gnostics, as well as the Jungian School, with
slight additions from the Isis Cult of Roman Egypt, Pagan, Masonic and
Monastic Europe, and Hermetic groups like the Golden Dawn.
Symbolic Grain/Legume: Corn (C.
America), Sorghum (Africa), Teff (Africa), Wild Rice (N. America), Oat
(Europe)
The Persona, Nile Civilization
Summer - Fortnight 6 (Wind+Wind)
Festival/Jun
9: The subconscious mind, sewing seeds
therein. Sewing seeds in the earth. The development of the Persona and
early family life. This 6th fortnight has ancient Egypt as its theme.
(Lubisz writings)
| Set-Osiris Cult, Old Egypt, Set=Shadow, Lychnapsia (Isis Festival of Lights) Ankenaten | Isis-Osiris Cult, | Roman Isis Cult in Egypt, Compassion of the Great Mother, Ptolemy Egypt |
| Pagan May Pole with flowers, Gnostic prayer beads and mantras and antiphonal chanting | Gnostic staffs and incense | Gnostic banners and books |
| Deep emanates Pleroma Aeons | Aeons pair up | Sophia desires to create without her consort |
The Ego, Ptolemy Egypt, Theraputai,
Sethite Gnostics
Summer - Fortnight 7 (Wind+Zephyr)
Feast/Jun
24: Various Gnostic enclaves of first
and second century Egypt. Repentance's of Pistis Sophia after chasing
false light. False light equating with false goodness and virtue signaling.The
need to be liked, to fit in, to conform. Attraction to acceptance, praise,
social advancement. False gods. Sethite Gnostics of the first few centuries
AD.
| Pistis Sophia, Alien to this World | Nag, Gnostic Sethites in Egypt, | Nag Burial, Desert Fathers, Pachamonius Rule, Monastics vs Hermits |
| Gnostic statues/icons | Gnostic seed offerings and plate (Corn, Sorghum, Teff , Wild Rice, Oat) | Gnostic sacrament, Pistis Sophia sacraments |
| Sophia makes abortion, veils it off from view | Sophia chases reflected light into Chaos, is entrapped | Sophia repents, Savior lifts her out of Chaos |
The Shadow, Pagan/Celtic/Masonic
Europe
Summer - Fortnight 8 (Wind+Earth)
Feast/Jul
9: The search for meaning and purpose.
The Shadow, Set and the killing of Osiris. Scattering of consciousness
(Osiris), Isis (Anima) seeking the lost part. Farming metaphor. Osiris
rising and Barley sprouting. Barley Harvest. Hallucinations of humans and
LLM''s. Development of Masonry, Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn in mediaeval
Europe. Wicca, witchcraft, pagan festivals, seasonal attunement, conflation
of paganism with Catholicism. Virgin Mary as Animus. Devil, OTO,
Crowely.
| Sextus/Constatine Rome, Virgin Mary, Saints of old Gods | Tuscany, Medici, Art, Roman/Pagan Christianity, Medieval Alchemists, Transmutation | Masonry, Dee, Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn, OTO, |
| Gnostic altars | Gnostic prostrations before altar | Gnostic salt consecration/purification, Jung active imagination |
| Sophia's rescuer battles demons, rearranges their heaven | Sophia's Redeemer continues cosmic labors | Sophia's Redeemer unveils his light |
The Anima, Monastic Europe
Summer - Fortnight 9 (Wind+Water)
Feast/Jul
24: Monastic institutions. Thomas Merton and
the Cistercians and his insights into ego submission in monastic
scenarios. Guidance from within. Teressa of Avila and her seven mansions
and its theme of the persona of righteousness vs the actual spirituality
of a person. Carmelite diet reforms.
| Rule of the Master, Benedictine Rule | Terresa of Avila, St John, Carmelite Reform | Thomas Merton, Cistercians |
| Gnostic baptism | Gnostic hand cleansing | Gnostic chalice/wine (Ophite wine) |
| Archon's fashion and infuse Adam and Eve | Redeemer gives gnosis to Adam | Sophia sends Zoe to guide humanity |
The Self, Jung, Red Book
Summer - Fortnight 10 (Wind+Fire)
Feast/Aug
8: Carl Jung and school. German back to nature
movement. Hildegard of Bingen insights. Philoman mandala. Active imagination
and dream work. Individuality. Luminous dreams.
| Hildegard of Bingen, German Health Movements | Jung, 7 Sermons | Jung, Redbook, Individuality |
| Gnostic bonfire, St John bonfire leaping | Gnostic candles, Pagan Maypole ceremonies (New Fire in Churches, Candlemass) | Gnostic ashes on forehaed (Ash wednesday), Gnostic Fasting, confessions |
| Melchizedec guides souls out of purgatory | Sophia glorified and perfected | Sophia and Annointed unite eternally |
Zephyr-Star
Tigris-Euprates River Civilization (Byzantine,
Mesopotamian & Persian Empires, Silk Road, Rome)
Late Summer - Fortnight 11-15 Mt
Ararat & Euphrates/Tigris River Civilization
Zarathustra, Tammuz, Sumer,
Mani, Manichaean, Sufi, Rumi
The Late Summer season accentuates
the Manichaean Religion of Light, along with earlier Summerian and Zarathustrian
and later Sufi influences. Mani tended to categorize many things in groups
of 5, and this Pentadization is a focus here. The descent of Innana to
the underworld is a theme. The region is the Tigris-Euprates watersheds,
eastward over the Silk Road and northwest thru Eastern Turkey, Central
Italy. Texts: Poems of Rumi, Gathas of Zarathustra, Manichaean Hymns, Kephalaia,
Cologne, Gospel of Thomas. Ziwaneh Light Sparks is a major theme. The Manichaeans
were known for an obsession with food categorization and this season concentrates
on that, reworking the outdated Chinese 5 Element color system for a more
accurate botanical model.Being loving, good, doing no harm either to nature
or man. Ishtar between two lions. Taming the wild within. Discernment,
separating good from bad. Gathering in scattered light sparks. Descent
into shadow, taming darkness within. Dammuzi descent foreshadowing Primal
Man's descent and dismemberment. There is a war within and without, light
against darkness..
Rituals: The major influence of
this season is the Manichaean, but their rituals have not been well preserved.
The ceremonies of the season therefore rely upon Magian rites, of which
the Manichaean school sourced, as well as some Sufi. The Parsees have preserved
many of the older Zarathustrian Rites, and many are well documented by
Drower and others. The relationship between Magian/Zoroastrian rites and
Mandeans one is pronounced.
The symbolic script is Aramaic.
Symbolic Grain/Legume: Eikhorn,
Emmer, Spelt, Rye, Triticale (Italy, Fertile Crescent)
Tammuz, Ishtar, Inanna, Magi
Late Summer - Fortnight 11 (Zephyr+Zephyr)
Festival/Aug
22: Summer and Babylon and Roman cultures
and calendars. Struggling against chaos (Tiamat). Bringing order. Buried
in the tomb of flesh and materiality. The stinking bag of pus.
| Sumer, Inana Descent to Underworld, Tammuz Ishtar, writings, diaries | Babylon & Calendar, Murdok, Ishtar, Tiamat, Gilgamesh | Roman Calendar |
| Manichaean statue | Manichaean alms or seed offering (Eikhorn, Emmer, Spelt, Rye, Triticale) | Parsee sacramental feast/meal/Manichaean elect meal |
| Parents of Light | Primal Pair | Paradise with 5 Trees |
Zarathustra, Zurvanism
Late Summer - Fortnight 12 (Zephyr+Earth)
Feast/Sep
6: Good thoughts, good words, good deeds of
Zarathustra. Two brothers, dark and light. Ahriman vs Ahura Mazda. (Grape
Harvest)
| Zarathustra, Magi | Zurvanites | Zoroastrians, Magians |
| Manichaean altar | ManichaeanElect prostrations, Sufi whirlings | Sufi sand purification |
| Primal man defeated by darkness, captured | 2nd Creation emanated to rescue Primal Man, Call God | Living Spirit rescues Primal Man |
(Elchasaites), Western &
Central Manichaean
Late Summer - Fortnight 13 (Zephyr+Water)
Feast/Sep
21: The ziwaneh sparks hidden in matter. Respect
for life. Alms growing and giving. 5 Types of botany families. Heaven,
water, oil, salt and earth as Elchasaite 5 element symbols. Elchasaite
rejection of celibacy and meat eating. Manichaean Virtues, 10 and 5 Vows.
Separating light from darkness, pure from turbid, fiber from food. Elxai
gardening and food categories. 5 farming groups of food. Balance, rotation,
preparation.
| Elxai, purity | Mani, Cologne Manuscript, Separation from Turbid | Iranian Manichaeanism, Wars |
| Parsee Nahan baptism | Sufi hand washing | Parsee saced haoma drink with water from sacred well |
| Living Spirit creates 10 Heavens from demon bodies | Living Spirit creates 8 Earths over Hell | Envoy and Maiden unclothe, seeding ecosystem and starting natural cycles of time, weather |
Denewar Eastern Manichaean, White
Lotus
Late Summer - Fortnight 14 (Zephyr+Fire)
Feast/Oct
6: 12 Eastern expressions of Manichaeanism.
Elect virtues. Elect meals to redeem sparks. Respecting sparks in their
trapped state. Walking gently on the earth. Confession Principles.
| Silk Road Manichaeanism, Spark, Ziwaneh | Denewar Cult, Meditation | White Lotus Sect |
| Parsee fire kindling/leaping | Manichaean incense | Parsee use of sacred fire ash, Manichaean confessions |
| Humans created by Archons | Yeshu awakens Adam to his plight and true nature | Light Mind helps guide humanity |
Sufi, Rumi, Hafiz, Rabia
Late Summer - Fortnight 15 (Zephyr+Wind)
Feast/Oct
21: Manichaean influence on Shiites, Sufi
and Dervish. Rumi, Hafiz, Rabia poetry. Loving life, seeing beauty everywhere.
Whirling, dancing, happiness. Manichaean fasting. Scattered soul sparks
(Henry Corbin in Iranian Man of Light) (Olive Harvest.)
| Shiites, Crypto Manichees, Last Iman, Corbin texts. | Rumi | Sufi Orders |
| Manichaean malas and mantras | Sufi staff/ parsee barsom stick bundle | Manichaean banners and illuminated books, Manichaean double Yimki Fast |
| Just Judge, Guide, maiden of alms & good deeds | 3 Angels and Column lead to New Aeon | New Aeon absorbed into Light Land, Diety unveils |
Earth-Star
Yellow River Civilization (Northern China, Japan,
Korea, S.E. Asia)
Fall - Fortnight 16-20 - Kunlun
Mts & Yellow River Civilization
Pure Land, Chan, Zen, Shinto, Shingon,
Tendai, Soto, Shugendo
The Fall Season focuses on
China, Japan, and Korea and the spiritual movements that arose there. Taoism,
Shinto, Chan, Shugendom Shingon, Tendai and Soto are all contributors.
Lao-tzu, Bodhidharma, Baizhang and Dogen are major figures and mountain
farming, especially monastic farming, is a theme. (Each Fornight,
associated with the 5 Ranks of Zen, has 5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.)
The Japanese 72 season calendar, with its 5 day periods, is discussed.
Properly structuring and balancing life. Natural lifestyle, communal life.
Sustainable, ordered, natural, harmonious and peaceful lifestyle. Nature
reveals our Buddha nature.....
The symbolic script is Japanese.
Bigu fasting and 5 day Fasting Mimicking Diet. Healing, health, fasting.
Nudging the future thru small insignificant acts.
Rituals: The major influence of
this season is the Shugendo groups of Japan, but also some Shinto, Taoist,
Tendai, Shingon and Soto Zen and Korean Seon.
Symbolic Grain/Legume: Rice (Japan),
Barley (Japan), Proso Millet (Japan), FInger Millet (China), Jobs Tears
(Japan)
Internalizing the twofold oneness and mystery. Third principle arising from their union and the Golden Elixir. Awareness of inward energies, breath flow = chi movement within. Tao like water, yielding but strong. Living in the flow, adaptability. Taijuto Shuo Diagram.
Festival/Nov
4: Shamans of Shinto and Shang.
Purity and power of nature, sensing the essence (Kami) in everything and
everyone. The pre-buddhist pre-tao animistic traditions of northern China
and Japan. Lao-Tzu.
| Shang Matriarchal Kingdom/Shinto 16th BCE Bone Oracles, Shinto, Kami in all...Korean Mu | Lao Tzu 6th c BCE | Chuang-Tzu 286 CBC |
| Shinto altars | Shinto/Zen buddhist prostrations | Shinto salt ceremony |
| Kotoamatsu-kami in Heaven | Izanagi and Izanami | Shinto kami |
Fall - Fortnight 17 (Earth+Water)
Feast/Nov 19: Internalizing the twofold oneness
and mystery. Secret
of the Golden Flower Neiden Inner Alchemy Schools
of Taoism. Neidan_Master_Chen-Nine_Stages_of_Transformation
| Zhang Daoling/5 Pecks 156 CE | Zhang/So. Neidan 11thc CE | Wang/No. Neidan 1170 CE |
| Shinto/Shugendo Misogi waterfall purification | Shinto onsen bathing | Zen matcha green tea ceremony |
| Izanagi and Izanami create worlds with spear | Izanami dies birthing fire god, Izanagi descends down to Yomi to retrieve rotting Izanami | Izanagi reascends, purified in waterfall, gives birth to kami |
Chan/Bodhidharma/Baizhung
Fall - Fortnight 18 (Earth+Fire)
Feast/Dec 4: China, Chan's transition to "Agricultural
Chan" under Baizhang (720-814). Bodhidharma, and Baizhang who began the
tradition of self sustaining farming in Buddhist communities. "Agricultural
Chan" in China with self sustaining monasteries. Patience sitting, facing
walls. Farming as meditation.
| Bodhidharma/Chan 5thc CE | Baizhang 8thc CE Baizhang & Agricultural Chan, Farming for Enlightenment | Xuyun d1959 CE (119yrs) Chan Monasteries |
| Shugendo/Shingon goma fire ceremony | Shinto lamp ceremony | Shinto sacred ash, Buddhist confessions |
| Pangu creates heavens, Susanoo or Nuwa kills dragon | P'an-Ku's bones turned to rock, flesh to earth, etc. | Amaterasu (Sun Goddess) retreates to cave |
Shugendo, Shingon, Tendai,
Fall - Fortnight 19 (Earth+Wind)
Feast/Dec
19: Japan. Shugendo, Tendai and Shingon
Sects. The taming of nature in the farm and garden and orchard. One straw
revolution. Korean natural farming. Swales, permaculture ponds. Mt Koyosan.
To explore ultimate reality thru ritual, mantra and mandala. Appreciation
of multi-culturalism and multi-religeous observance. (Japanese
Zen vs Chinese Chan.)
More evolved farming. 5 Food
groups. Harvesting and storing food. (Shugendo is a mix of Shinto,
Tao, Buddhism) The forest as mystery and Fudo. Hiking, seeking, exploring,
pushing ones limits. Food forests, foraging wild food vs cultivated farming.
75 Nabiki prayer stations.
| Enno Gyoja/Shugendo 8thc CE (Kimpusen-ji & Haguro-san & Katsuragi Shugendo) | Saicho/Tendai 822 CE (Shozan-ha Shugendo) 33 Worship sites. | Kukai/Shingon d835 CE (Tozan-ha & Honzan-ha Shugendo) |
| Shingon malas and mantras, 5 Bamboo breathing | Shingon/Zen incense, shinto paper strips, forest bathing, Shugendo Nozoki rope over cliff | Shingon womb and diamond world banners, diamond sutra |
| Fuxi & Nuwa creates humanity | Fuxi teaches Humanity (Sui -Jen, brings fire) | Fuxi instructs Humanity |
Pure Land, Rinzai, Soto
Fall - Fortnight 20 (Earth+Zephyr)
Feast/Jan
3 The Pure Land, Rinzai and Soto schools.
Greenhouses and wapinis. Shojin Ryori cuisine. Respect for growers and
cooks, 5 Oryoki bowls, food proportions, 5 tastes and colors and cooking
methods. Dogen as lineage holder of Baizhang.
| Honen/Pure Land 1212 CE | Eisai/Rinzai 1215 CE | Dogen/Soto 1253 CE |
| Shugendo statue of Fudo | Shugendo seed offering (Rice, Barley, Proso Millet, Finger Millet, Jobs Tears) | Soto Shojin Ryori feast with Oryuki bowls, Bigu Taoist Shugendo Fast |
| Jade Emperor judges the deceased | Milky Way Queqiao bridge to Paradise | - |
Water-Star
Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, S.E. Italy (Magna
Grecia), Cyprus, Crete, Antola, & Levant)
Winter - Fortnight 21-25
- Mt Herman & Jordan River Civilization
Pythagorean, Canaanite, Mandaean,
Qabbalah
The Winter Season, ruled by the
Water Element, concentrates on traditions from the Eastern Mediterranean
region, S.E. Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Antola and the Levant. The focus is
on Mandaean understandings, but also Pythagorean and Kabbalistic musings.
Purification, especially with water, is a major theme. (Each Fornight has
5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.) The symbolic script is Hebrew (Greek).
Golden Verses, Plato, Ginza, Yohon, Qulasta. Zohar, Yetzirah, etc. Earliest
stirrings: Gobeki Tepe, Knossis, Asherah, Elusian Mysteries. Mandaean
Creation w 5 Kings of Darkness. Logic, intellect, first principles thinking.
Education. Strive to remain clean, washing off the filth often.
Rituals: The major influence of
this season is the Mandaean, with some Qabbalistic.
Symbolic Grain/Legume: Lentil,
Beluga Lentil, Fava, Desi Chickpea, Kabuli Chickpea (Mid East)
Pythagorean, Elusian Mysteries,
Greek, Knossos
Winter - Fortnight 21 (Water+Water)
Festival/Jan
17: The Pythagorean Path, Plato and ancient
Greece. The importance of the mind and of hidden relationships, mathematical
underpinnings, statistics, A.G.I. Tetrakytis symbol, greek gematria.
Bringing order and logic to the world, numbering, data, statistics.
Taking the road less traveled. Avoiding mass hysteria.
| Ancient Greece, Knossos, Elusian Mysteries, Pythagoras | Plato | Neo-Platonists |
| Mandaean Maswetta/Tamasha baptism | Mandaean Rushuma hand washing | Mandaean masbutta raisen wine |
| Hiya Rba | Shislam/Zlat | Ziwa-Nahura Paradise |
Yohon, Canaanite Myths, Ashtoroth,
Zadokite
Winter - Fortnight 22 (Water+Fire)
Feast/Feb
2 Yohon the baptist, his Maswetta ceremony.
the abandonment of polluted cities. Secret groups, prepping, survival.
Wise relocation, walled communities. Civilization collapse. Preservation.
Reform, renewal, rejecting the norm. Enclaves, withdrawal from declining
civilization. Moral decay. Repentance. Simple, secret, sparse. Low profile.
| Caananites, Syrians, Phoenicians, Hebrew Temple Cult, (Moshe) | Zadokites, Teacher of Righteousness | Yohon Reforms |
| Mandaean Misha brihi fire saucer | Mandaean oil lamp | Mandaean Misha anointing, confessions |
| Hibil lost in underworld, Yushamin, Abatur and Ptahil fall | Simat Hiya and Yawar Ziwa. Zahriel lusts after Hibil | Hibil ascends with Ruha and Zahriel, baptized by Simat |
Nazoreans, Yeshu, James, Miryai,
Salome, Bardesains, Nestorians, Paulites. Greek Christians.
Winter - Fortnight 23 (Water+Wind)
Feast/Feb 17 Paradigm shift. Yeshu and Miryai
as a new way. Baptism of fire vs Yohon's water. Miryai and her dream sister,
anima, and being led from within. Thinking outside the box. Open mindedness.
Cultural shifts. Renewal.
| Yeshu | James | Miryai |
| Mandaean prayer beads and mantra sayings (good is the good....) | Mandaean margna staff and incense cube and myrtyle wreath and morning breeze prayer | Mandaean drabsha banner and ginza rba |
| Manda dHiya creates heavens | Ptahil creates the world | Yukabar and Hayatta deal with demon shells |
Zazai, Shlama
Winter - Fortnight 24 (Water+Zephyr)
Salome-Shlama preserving texts leads to Zazai in southwest Syria. Fleeing
to marshes. Colonizing Mars as a fail safe. Purity.
| Salome/Shlama, Ginza Rba | Zazai, Qulasta | Mandai |
| Mandaean icon drawing of deity | Mandaean seed offering (Lentil, Pea, Bean, Coffee, Sesame) | Mandaean food ceremonies, 60 Pihtas |
| Ptahil & Ruha create Adam and Eve | Adakas (Hibil-ziwa) awakens Adam | Naziruta enlightens humankind |
Qabbalah, Luria, Zohar
Winter - Fortnight 25 (Water+Earth)
Akiba, Luria, Abulafia and other Kabbalists. Climbing the tree,AGI, LLM,
neurolink, Optimus like golems with kill button aleph. Study, debate,
truth. The last 5 days are fast days and are linked to the 5 Days of Panja.
| Zohar | Luria | Abulafia, Sevi |
| Mandaean altars and Manda temples | Mandaean prayers and bowings | Mandaean salt purification, Masqita for the dead and monastic birth, Panja fast |
| Abathur and Habshabba and Kana-dZidqa | 3 Uthrai helpers | Adam Kasia Hawa Kasia perfected |
*Firstfruits Temple Calendar: 26th
of 1st Month - Barley/Flax; 15th of 3rd Month - Wheat/Fig;
15th of 5th Month - Grape; 22nd of 6th Month - Oil
*Firstfruits Miryai Mt Calendar:
Jun 1 - Barley/Flax; Jul 1 - Wheat; Sept 15 - Grape;
Oct 15 - Oil
* This fortnight overlaps with
the 1st one about every 5th year (combine two Bon Fortnights into one when
this occurs) 368.882 days long, 3.6398 more, thus every 4.05242046 years
