The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the
Spirit (1937)
Page 116 -17 the Red Knight is mentioned as an ambiguous figure.
Also in the Aryan Epic. Cuchulain of Muirthemne. Lady Augusta
Gregory.[1902]
"I swear by the gods (dia) that my people swear by" Red Branch the
Knights of Emania Macha.
Of course there is no connection here to today's loyalist death
squads in the North of Ireland.
In certain Aryan languages Dia refers to God, but this refers to no
particular god.
[dia], [Dia] nm. g. dé, Dhè; pl. déathan, a god, God
From: John Fiske Chapter IV. LIGHT AND DARKNESS. Myths and Myth-
Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative
Mythology.
Zeus—Dia—Zhna—di on ............ Plato Kratylos, p. 396, A., with
Stallbaum's note. See also Proklos, Comm. ad Timaeum, II. p. 226,
Schneider; and compare Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mundo, p. 401, a, 15,
who adopts the etymology. See also Diogenes Laertius, VII. 147.
Teutonic words devil, teufel, diuval, djofull, djevful, may all be
traced back to the Zend dev
See Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, 939.
Fiske equates Dia with Devil. RED DEVIL Perhaps??
Later this:
From the lightning-god Thor he obtains his red beard, his pitchfork,
and his power over thunderbolts; and, like that ancient deity, he is
in the habit of beating his wife behind the door when the rain falls
during sunshine.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@l...>
wrote:
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> The terminal hermetic phase is the red 'rubedo' (see J. Evola 'La
Tradizione Ermetica' sect. 21: "Conoscenza del Rosso") related to
the secret fire or Kundalini, symbolized, among many images, as a
serpentine fire from the sky as lightening or from the bowels of
earth as the fiery breath of the dragon. Red and orange are also the
colours of the rusted iron, and iron is the metal of the planet/god
of the war, Mars ('La Tradizione Ermetica' quoted, sect. 24). In the
ancient Rome the hero, hosted in the Temple of Hercules, wore a red
gown and his face was tinted of red. Note that even in not-Aryan
cultures, like the Egyptian, the planet Mars was called 'Horus the
Red'.
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> As for the Christian hell's flames, quoted by 'darkiexx', watch
how different was the Beyond in the Greek-Roman word in 'Revolt
against the modern world', chapter. VIII: The two ways of the
beyond. Those flames are probably only the counter-part of the 'red-
hot' wounded heart of Jesus dropping the blood to drink at last
supper in some sort of (cannibal-like?) echo of the ancient
sacrifice of the King, in Latin environment the 'Rex Nemorensis' or
King of the Wood ('Revolt' quoted, chapter. II: Regality).
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