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undercrypt

Food-for-Thought Snack Bar

Jan 23, 2007 15:10

There's a distinct correlation between a GANTT chart and a musical score. Both are identifying the relationships between different entities over time in the creation of one thing. By extension, composers and project managers might be expected to have a lot of overlapping skills ( Read more... )

music, necromancy, religion

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sepheri January 23 2007, 21:57:47 UTC

I think everyone can dowse, can't they?
My father is a telephone engineer with little or no spiritual thoughts of any description as far as I am aware and he was shown how to dowse for buried telephone cables.

mplsfish January 23 2007, 22:49:39 UTC

I have read several articles and one book on dowsing. Seems to run at about 50% of people who try. Maybe there is something about people who try that makes this number higher than than in the general population.

cor_cordivm January 24 2007, 06:23:24 UTC

I think one can dowse for nearly anything. Why not burials?

Isis becoming the Black Madonna makes a lot of sense to me. Isis and Mary are both mother Goddesses whose Sons are mythologically similar; Their cults existed in the same parts of the world; and Their cults were contemporaneous for something like four centuries before the Christians drove the pagans underground.

The figure of the Queen being installed in the crypt: Some guesses: 1. In Christianity, Mary intercedes with God on behalf of sinners, so maybe She's in the crypt to look after the dead and see that they get into Heaven. 2. Isis traveled all over looking for Osiris's body, then resurrected him from the dead. If Isis became syncretized with Mary, it makes sense to put a figure of the Resurrectress in the crypt. 3. In Christian tradition, Mary mourned the dead Jesus (eg, all those Pietas in art) . . . and Mary Magdalene was the first person to see and greet the resurrected Jesus. Now, I ain't no Bible scholar, but I always did wonder why there were two ( ... )

kynthos333 January 24 2007, 15:12:27 UTC

Absolute agreements on all points! Also, Mary and Isis both had the title of "Queen of Heaven" and they were both also associated with healing. A lot of the Marian sites have a VERY strong healing aspect. Persephone as queen of the underworld did not have the Queen of Heaven title, and I don't think she was ever associated with healing . . . at least not that I've ever run across.

undercrypt January 24 2007, 20:37:13 UTC

Ah, yes, quite so. Persephone is about as far from Queen of Heaven as you can really get, isn't she? And no, not really known as a healer. The Isis associations do make a lot more sense.

I think one can dowse for nearly anything. Why not burials?

So it would seem. I ran across an interesting article on dowsing that specifically mentions finding graves.

...resurrectress...

What a lovely word.

The figure of the Queen being installed in the crypt...

Odd trivia point: It doesn't seem to be common usage currently, but that section of a church is occasionally referred to as an undercrypt.

kynthos333 January 24 2007, 22:40:32 UTC

"... that section of a church is occasionally referred to as an undercrypt."

More church word trivia . . . I've not heard "undercrypt", you're right, but most Episcopal churches refer to all or part of their basement as the "undercroft." That British Isles stuff, don't you know.