Sublime

The same religion required that the hearth should be fixed to the soil, that the tomb should neither be destroyed nor displaced. Suppress the right of property, and the sacred fire would be without a fixed place, the families would become confounded, and the dead would be abandoned and without worship. By the stationary hearth and the permanent bur

When we make a tree or a stone or a wafer of bread the subject of our worshipful attention, we transform it into a hierophany, an object of the sacred.

Ritualize your writing; make this part of your sacred container. When we write in ritual, we can better trust what is coming through us.

But the patricians satisfy themselves by deciding that henceforth it shall be elective, and they fix the forms of election with marvellous skill. The senate must choose the candidate; the patrician assembly of the curies must confirm this choice; and, finally, the patrician augurs must declare whether this newly elected king is pleasing to the gods

The citizens who sat at the sacred table were clothed, for the time, with a sacerdotal character; they were called parasites.

Sain means “to bless, consecrate, or make sacred.” The practice is Celtic in origin, and is still widely done today. Saining can take many forms, but they all share the intention of imbuing sacredness into a person, place, or object. Sprinkling yourself with water can be a form of saining, as can lighting a candle and watching the flame burn down.

Para libações: vinho e azeite de oliva Para incensos: carvalho Para cura: erva-doce, efedra e artemísia Para vestes cerimoniais dos sacerdotes e sacerdotisas: linho Encontrados no chão do templo: junco e lírio-branco Bosque sagrado próximo ao templo: carvalho e salgueiro