The Fellowship of Isis liturgy "Life Forms" was celebrated in 2007 at the annual Goddess Festival. It is about Nuit, the Egyptian Goddess of the night sky. She holds the seeds of the worlds in her pot, which she pours out as stardust creating the Milky Way. The seeds of new life are in the heavens.
In this liturgy, we learn about the cycle of life and death, and creating new life. Deena related it to Jack and the Beanstalk, where Jack plants the magic seeds, and then climbs up the beanstalk that grows from the seeds to get the treasure from the giant above the clouds (Upperworld).
In the liturgy, the amorous earth god Seb reaches his volcanic cone of fire up to Nuit. As the Great Cackler Goose, Nuit then laid the Egg of Life, which hatched the sun god Ra.
Ra traversed the sky, from birth to manhood to death, and then was absorbed back into his Great Mother, Nuit and her twin sister, Naut, the sky under (on the other side of) the Earth. Traveling in his boat through Naut's Underworld, Ra is born again as the Hawk God Horus. "And thus it is to this day": this established the cycle of the day and night, the established order of bringing things into manifestation and latency.
Those who worked on this piece experienced the need to surrender to great forces at work. There was a sense of deep initiation into the Void that is part of Nuit: the absolute suspension of activity in the darkness of the womb.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Welcome to The Creation of Life Forms
If you are studying and working the Fellowship of Isis liturgy "The Creation of Life Forms," this blog will provide you with helpful ideas and resources.
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