Asar, Amshet, Apis, Hera, Nerthus, Bragi

Asar, known also as Osiris written records of this god of the Egyptians are dated back to over 4000 years ago and Osiris and here the brother and sister combo comes to play as a

role in the birth of Osiris because his parents were siblings (Geb and Nut). Osiris has a number of different names so they all apply to the one.

Amshet, The funeral deity and attributed to the jars used to hold the organs of the body after death. Always depicted in human form and a God of the southern region.

The jars were four in number and carried the lungs, stomach, liver and intestines being set in their temple quadrants of West for intestines, North for lungs, South for liver and East

for stomach. Amshet was associated to the Jar in the south and the liver.

Apis: King of the renewal of life. 

A bull deity that was worshipped at Memphis, Egypt and considered to be top dog as gods go, or top bull actually.

Many sacrifices to the deity and he shows up all over the crypts and tombs and in one early excavation a large tomb found a herd of sixty guarding tombs.

Hera: Greek Goddess has the correlation to marriage and essential womanhood as the elder sister of Zeus there are monuments built to Hera that date back nearly 3,000 years.

As usual the stories of old get a little weird with Cronus swallowing his kids and then later regurgitating them to live a healthy life later on and of course because they were born as

children of a god they could not die but just grew up in the stomach of their parent god.

Which was the case with Hera being consumed by Cronus and then later on regurgitated back up to carry out her history and having her brother's children (Zeus). Apparently they

had less of a problem with incest back in the day because brothers and sisters were pretty close back then.

One thing these stories definitely communicate is how twisted our ancestors were with their views and concepts by comparison to how we think today.

Although there is a Solomon story that says he was swallowed by a great eagle and spit out over 400 miles away and who's to say that that is the best way they could describe a

helicopter picking him up and dropping him off?

It is only by these comparisons that we are certain of what our personal viewpoints exist as and so they have value to us, more value than what is initially considered.

Venus: Once again the beautiful Venus of Rome appears on the cards and this time she comes with the first female beginning in the form of a body.

You could call the primal female totally spiritual in nature and when that nature mixes and combines with a body this is the result. 

Here she would represent the actual embodiment of the female nature in its physical formation, curves and supple nature of a woman.

Utterly and completely female with the eventual ability of being able to create new life within the form in which she was created.

The different natures of Venus are closely related and stand firmly separate as for any.

Nerthus: A Norse goddess of Earth that was a sister to Freya and here's another that had children by her brother.

Adored as the goddess of fertility and the essence of earth she and Loki had a thing for a while but they broke it off. (frisky minx.) 

Witchcraft is associated to her and likely the first witch, as the craft goes.

She is associated to prosperity and fortune also and has many lost stories and much speculation conjured by mankind around Nerthus so apparently she still gets around.

Bragi: The patron of Norse poetry and the son of Odin and Frigg.

You could call him the sensitive Viking son sitting in the basement all day writing poetry and humming happy tunes.

He had a good choice of wives because she was the eternal youth goddess (Idun) so he could be with the eternal babe and write poems all day. What a life.

But he was important to the point that one tradition was before a king ascended a throne he drank from the cup of Bragi.

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