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Anonymous ID: 5e482d Dec. 29, 2020, 10:27 p.m. No.12233842   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3852 >>3985 >>4091 >>4190 >>4289 >>4393

>>12233814

 

December 21

Thomas, (born, probably Galilee—died 53 ce, Madras, India;

Western feast day December 21,

feast day in Roman and Syrian Catholic churches July 3,

in the Greek church October 6),

one of the Twelve Apostles.

 

His name in Aramaic (Teʾoma) and Greek (Didymos) means “twin”;

John 11:16 identifies him as “Thomas, called the Twin.”

He is called Judas Thomas (i.e., Judas the Twin) by the Syrians.

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket

 

Thomas Becket (/ˈbɛkɪt/), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London[1] and later Thomas à Becket[note 1]

(21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170),

was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170.

 

He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral.

Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

 

TWICE BORN

Anonymous ID: 5e482d Dec. 29, 2020, 10:35 p.m. No.12233896   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3908 >>4170 >>4300

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calming_the_storm

 

Calming the storm' is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, reported in Matthew 8:23–27, Mark 4:35–41, and Luke 8:22–25 (the Synoptic Gospels). This episode is distinct from Jesus' walk on water, which also involves a boat on the lake and appears later in the narrative.

 

According to the Gospels, one evening Jesus and his disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee in a boat. Suddenly a furious storm came up, with the waves breaking over the boat so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was asleep on a cushion in the stern, and the disciples woke him and asked, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"[1] The Gospel of Mark then states that:

 

He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"[2]v

Anonymous ID: 5e482d Dec. 29, 2020, 11:14 p.m. No.12234219   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4289 >>4393

>>12234208

>EPIPHANY

 

Wednesday, January 6

Epiphany 2021

 

Epiphany is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ. In Western Christianity, the feast commemorates principally the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child, and thus Jesus' physical manifestation to the Gentiles. Wikipedia

Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Also called: Baptism of Jesus, Three Kings Day, Denha, Little Christmas, Theophany, Timkat, Reyes

Anonymous ID: 5e482d Dec. 29, 2020, 11:26 p.m. No.12234305   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>12234246

 

Arachne

 

https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/the-minoan-path/the-mmp-pantheon-the-goddess-arachne.html

 

You may have heard the Greek tale of Arachne, the mortal woman who angered Athena with her perfect weaving and ended up as a spider. What if I told you that Arachne was originally a goddess, and specifically a fate goddess? Like Ariadne, who was also "demoted" to mortal status in Greek myth, Arachne turns out to be a Minoan goddess.

 

In the MMP pantheon, Arachne is the daughter of Therasia, our Sun goddess. Across Eurasia, Sun goddesses have long been associated with fate - our days are numbered by the rising and setting of the Sun, after all. The name Arachne comes from the pre-Greek (Pelasgian) word for spider; we don’t know what the Minoans called their fate goddess. It’s likely that “spider” was one of her epithets, since spiders spin threads and webs, longtime symbols of the winding and tangled paths of human lives.

 

In MMP we also call this goddess Ananke, a name that means 'necessity' and that can also be interpreted to mean the laws of nature. Though the Orphics, many centuries after the fall of Minoan civilization, considered Ananke to be a cosmic creator-goddess like our Ourania, in MMP she’s the goddess of fate.

 

We don’t know how the ancient Minoans understood the idea of fate, or whether they felt as powerless against the whims of the gods as the later Greeks apparently did. Our experience with Arachne in the modern world suggests that she’s not so much the designer of each person’s individual destiny as she is the one who tallies our decisions, for good or ill, and keeps track of where we’re going. In other words, she’s the Counter of Consequences, and it’s her thread, her web that we either climb to great heights or hang ourselves with.