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Interesting!

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I think sometimes it helps to go the original archetype. Merlin was Thoth.

The aging backward aspect is allegorical, I think.

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I agree; it was probably allegorical.

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posted March 28, 2006 01:40 PM         

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Not that it would take away from it's significance. Archetypes and accurate allegories are often more real than "real". You know?

Stumble upon anything interesting, artlovesdawn?

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I don't think he was a wizard.

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I'd like to know why your friend says not to say the name of Th*th aloud... for some reason I have never said it because it somehow resonates to me as very powerful.

There were some words I repeated once, which I had heard were very powerful... I read about them in a book called 'Words of Power'. They started to have a weird effect on me like my head was getting light-headed... I'm very careful about words now.

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Artlovesdawn..A beautiful observation!

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Oh, interesting! Good point. Somebody said to me once that curiosity and then fear are the first steps to occult knowledge. He likened it to having neighbours you're a bit worried about meeting, but then you visit their house and you realise they're actually quite nice.

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Another thing... in Polynesian languages, 'sacred' is 'tabu' or 'tapu'. In Maori culture, anything that is tabu/tapu cannot come into contact with the everyday or common - so must be dealt with in a special ritualistic manner. (A dead body for example is tapu, as might be a very high ranking person of the tribe, or a piece of sacred ground). The interesting thing is that tabu (the original word - 'tapu' came later as Polynesian languages split off and evolved separately) sounds like a lot like 'taboo'. Something that we should not approach, or at least approach with great delicacy or caution maybe.

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