Festival Muerte
Nov. 1st, 2011 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebris~Within the context of a Universal Matriarchal Calendar there will many local holidays, such as the Wiccan Sabbats and Esbats for example. But so far our only Universal Holidays are The Festival of The Turning, the week long intercalendary holiday at the turning of the year, and The Temple's Birthday, a two day holiday on 8th and 9th Novembria. Those are both 'set in stone' as it were.
So I am proposing another Universal Holiday; Festival Muerte, literally 'Death Party', for 10th and 11th Undenia, which are respectively October 31st and November 1st, Halloween and All Saints Day, in the Gregorian Calendar.
Obviously, this is a clear expropriation of la Día de los Muertos, which is ruled over by one of my favorite Goddesses, Mictecacihuatl ['Meek-teka-see-wahdl'], an ancient Aztec vampire Moon Goddess, and is a near Universal Holiday already.
I use a Spanish name because of this: “The seed of The Temple has been planted in Southern California, a region dominated by English and Spanish. I fully expect that in the future the common tongue of The Sisterhood will an Anglo-Iberian patois, largely based upon English grammar and with numerous loan words from around the world. Both American English and Mexican Spanish have a long history of that type of linguistic adaptation and expropriation.”
The reasons for this holiday are several.
First, given the nature of The Sisterhood, clearly and openly honoring Death is an essential part of our Spiritual Practice, the Turing of The Wheel, teaching our Daughters early on to respect but not fear The Dark Mother.
Second, it would culturally absorb and subsume three existing and popular holidays [All Souls Day, Nov 2nd being the third], which is key to our Vital Meme, “the Idea that is so compelling and dynamic that that is spreads like wildfire. That Idea exists; a entirely new and modern form of Matriarchy. Our task is to create that Idea as a Practical Reality, a Practical Reality that becomes the microcosm of this new society, a Practical Reality that is vital, replicable, adaptable, and then plant it in the societies that presently exist.”
Third, said would allow us to 'surf' those existing Tulpas, using their Energy to build our own Tulpas in that temporal space. To quote myself regarding another holiday, “Today, Easter Sunday, is a day of Great Power. Not because of what supposedly happened today, but because of what tens of millions of people believe happened today. They are feeding massive amounts of Energy and Focus into The Jesus Tulpa, have been all week, all month, all year, many for all of their lives. As the First Valance says, “Energy can be Transformed,” so on Power Days like this we can Sleep and Dream and do Majickal Workings that ride upon and steals from that Energy and Focus for our own Purposes.”
However, at this point this is simply a 'proposal' and not a 'proclamation'. In the long term, The Sisterhood itself shall decide whether or not to accept it.
So I am proposing another Universal Holiday; Festival Muerte, literally 'Death Party', for 10th and 11th Undenia, which are respectively October 31st and November 1st, Halloween and All Saints Day, in the Gregorian Calendar.
Obviously, this is a clear expropriation of la Día de los Muertos, which is ruled over by one of my favorite Goddesses, Mictecacihuatl ['Meek-teka-see-wahdl'], an ancient Aztec vampire Moon Goddess, and is a near Universal Holiday already.
I use a Spanish name because of this: “The seed of The Temple has been planted in Southern California, a region dominated by English and Spanish. I fully expect that in the future the common tongue of The Sisterhood will an Anglo-Iberian patois, largely based upon English grammar and with numerous loan words from around the world. Both American English and Mexican Spanish have a long history of that type of linguistic adaptation and expropriation.”
The reasons for this holiday are several.
First, given the nature of The Sisterhood, clearly and openly honoring Death is an essential part of our Spiritual Practice, the Turing of The Wheel, teaching our Daughters early on to respect but not fear The Dark Mother.
Second, it would culturally absorb and subsume three existing and popular holidays [All Souls Day, Nov 2nd being the third], which is key to our Vital Meme, “the Idea that is so compelling and dynamic that that is spreads like wildfire. That Idea exists; a entirely new and modern form of Matriarchy. Our task is to create that Idea as a Practical Reality, a Practical Reality that becomes the microcosm of this new society, a Practical Reality that is vital, replicable, adaptable, and then plant it in the societies that presently exist.”
Third, said would allow us to 'surf' those existing Tulpas, using their Energy to build our own Tulpas in that temporal space. To quote myself regarding another holiday, “Today, Easter Sunday, is a day of Great Power. Not because of what supposedly happened today, but because of what tens of millions of people believe happened today. They are feeding massive amounts of Energy and Focus into The Jesus Tulpa, have been all week, all month, all year, many for all of their lives. As the First Valance says, “Energy can be Transformed,” so on Power Days like this we can Sleep and Dream and do Majickal Workings that ride upon and steals from that Energy and Focus for our own Purposes.”
However, at this point this is simply a 'proposal' and not a 'proclamation'. In the long term, The Sisterhood itself shall decide whether or not to accept it.
