MUSE OVER YOUR CANDLES

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Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus, by Nicolas Poussin

Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, by Marcantonio Raimondi

The importance of the Muses, a Greek link

Arthur Hacker
British, 1858 - 1919
Mount Etna from Taormina

      
Mount Parnassus is in Greece, above the village of Arachova

   Candles   -  

Dedicate Candles for Art in Your Home and Work Place

        The Heliconians' myth is intertwined with that of one of the major Gods, Apollo, who brings relief to mortals with his divine smile and the gift of art. When Apollo went to Mt. Parnassus, he settled there with the nine Muses in a holy assembly devoted to the fine arts travelling together throughout Greece on the back of Pegasus, the winged horse. Candles here.

The Greek Key and Divine Attributes in Modern Dress

     Although well represented in art, the use of mythological attributes to designate an Olympian deity is less common in fashion. However, the ancient Greek practice of recognizing achievement and bestowing honor through the presentation of a coronet of flowers and leaves has been adumbrated in Neoclassical embroideries and in the more recent work of a number of designers. The materials comprising the coronets originally associated with the presiding deities—laurels for Apollo, olive leaves for Athena, roses for Aphrodite, ivy for Dionysos (35.11.3)—were perhaps too esoteric for the purposes of fashion and have generally been obscured. But other mythic attributes have continued with their original meanings intact. Designers as disparate in style as Christian Dior (C.I.53.40.5a-e; C.I.53.40.7a-e), Valentino, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace (1999.328.4) have incorporated in their work attributes symbolic of Greek goddesses—peacock feathers for Hera; the aegis, or breastplate, for Athena; and sea foam and shells for Aphrodite.

Full Article at MET

Theirs was a wandering life, hence the name of Apollo Musagetes,
                that means he who leads the Muses.   Full article

 

BRING EACH MUSE TO YOUR TRANQUILITY ROOMS WHEN YOU  LIGHT NINE CANDLES AT THE SAME TIME [NOON OR MEDITATION TIME] OVER NINE CONSECUTIVE DAYS

              
               Dedicate nine white or gold candles to the Muses. Place them in the center of the still zone or tranquility zone in your home and work place. Each day, light the candles one by one. For each candle say the name of a Muse and imagine their special gifts as they will manifest in your home and work space. Some of the hot links under the names  go to statuary and other art that will help your visualization. The nine inspirational daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne [Memory], daughter of Gaia and Uranus, were born in Pieria, the region on the east slopes of Olympus. All nine sisters settled on the top of the Parnassus and presided over the arts and sciences with Apollo.

   Calliope, 'beautiful voice',  the heroic epic [mother of Orpheus];
     Muse of Eloquence and heroic Poetry. Her name means fine voice
     and she is depicted with stylus and tablets.

  Clio, 'kleos', glory; 'kleiein', to celebrate; celebration/fame - Muse of
     History. She is depicted as a virgin with a laurel wreath, a trumpet in
     one hand and a volume in the other one.

  Euterpe, 'delight' - music; Muse of Music. Her name means she who
     makes herself loved and she is usually represented as a maid crowned
     with a flower garland, playing the instrument she invented, the flute.

  Terpsichore, 'delight of dancing', 'chorus' - lyric poetry; Muse of Dance.
     Her name means she who loves dance. She is depicted as a young
     woman, crowned with flower garlands, who dances and plays the harp.

  Erato, 'eros', 'love', 'lovely one' - love poetry, hymns; Muse of Lyric
     Poetry and Anacreontic Poetry. She is represented as a nymph
     crowned with myrtle and roses, holding a lyre and a bow.

  Melpomene, 'melpein' 'the singing Goddess' - Muse of Tragedy,
     represented as a woman in buskins, holding a sceptre and a
     dagger covered in blood.

  Thalia, 'thallein', 'to bloom', 'festivity' - Muse of Comedy, depicted as
    a young woman crowned with an ivy garland, holding a mask and
    wearing ankle boots.

  Polyhymnia, 'poly', many, 'hymnos', hymn; 'mnasthai' to remember;
     many songs/hymns - sacred poetry, mime, considered the inventor
     of the lyre; Muse of Rhetoric and of vocal Music. She is depicted
     with a flower or pearl crown, dressed in white, her right arm in the
     act of haranguing, her left hand holding a sceptre.

  Urania, 'ouranos', 'heavenly sky' - Muse of Astronomy. She inspires
     chaste love, and is represented as a virgin holding a globe and a bar.

 

To the Muses and Apollo

I will begin with the Muses and Apollo and Zeus. For it is through the Muses and Apollo that there are singers upon the earth and players upon the lyre; but kings are from Zeus. Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his lips.

Hail, children of Zeus! Give honour to my song! And now I will remember you and another song also.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Siti Tara, Gold, suggested for Stillness Tranquility Zone

Green Tara, 20th Century, suggested for shared space, meeting place

OM MANI PADME HUNG (blessed be the jewel in the lotus) is inscribed on rocks,
 Prayer wheels, Chaitya walls, and loose stones heaped on the approach to the door.

Colour palette suggestion

Colour Index     Sacred Place

Mandala of the Elements for Deva power space

Note: The Kiva may be linked with this constellation, because of an ancient association with transmigration of souls, the belief held by some that souls migrate together and incarnate as family units time after time. The early Christian burial chambers contain groups of 'bone boxes' arranged in "cluster" formation suggesting  traditions of "the spirit of the ancestors" did not originate during the Piscean Era but had been held through an earlier period.

Praesepe

Cancer or Moonchild, is not a brilliant constellation, however, at its heart is a lovely star cluster, a mysterious glow M44 (NGC 2632), a cluster of stars better known by the name the "Beehive Cluster", or the Latin equivalent, Praesepe, which not only means a "hive" but also a "Manger", or "Crib". The name Beehive derives from the appearance of a swarm of stars in a dance of activity. There are at least 40 stars in the cluster that are visible to the naked eye as a cloudy patch, its 1.5 degree size is equivalent to three full moons end-to-end. In ancient times this cluster often served to predict the weather; if not crystal clear inclement weather might be on the way. Pliny said, "If Praesaepe is not visible in a clear sky it is a presage of a violent storm".

"Auspicious", with Brihaspati, the priest and teacher of the gods as presiding divinity. It was sometimes figured as a Crescent, the head of an Arrow and also called Sidhaya "Prosperous".

(Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley Allen, 1889).

Julius Staal (The New Patterns in the Sky) identifies Praesepes with Midas "A story involving the Praesepe relates to King Midas who once wished that everything he touched should turn to gold. His wish was fulfilled, but he soon realized that he would starve to death because even the food he touched turned to gold. As a warning to others, Midas was later placed in the stars of Praesepe".

In Egyptian hieroglyphic language, the sign of the bee was a determinative in royal nomenclature, partly by analogy with the monarchic organization of these insects, but more especially because of the ideas of industry, creative activity and wealth which are associated with the production of honey. In the parable of Samson (Judges xiv, 8) the bee appears in this same sense. In Greece it was emblematic of work and obedience.

Bees represent; an ordered community, obey their ruler, cooperation, industry, thrift, diligence, royalty, cleanliness, purity, chaste virgins, sweetness, honeyed words [An illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols, JC Cooper]; "mellifluous" (from Latin mel-, honey and fluus, flowing) means "flowing with sweetness or honey; sweet or rich in tone".

Astrologically Praesepe makes founders of large businesses ['business' from the 'buzzing', 'busy' bee]. The Egyptian Coptic Ermelia, "Nurturing," - honey is a pure food. Causes love, friendship and society of fellow travelers, drives away mice, afflicts captives and causes their imprisonment. With Moon transiting here; navigate.

Influences: favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ointments, medicine and purchase of carriages when containing the moon (The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923)

The sign of the Moon enables a man to carry his investment of foreign merchandise from city to city and, with an eye on steep rises in the price of corn, to risk his money upon sea-winds; to sell the world's produce to the world, to establish commercial ties between so many unknown lands, to search out under foreign skies fresh sources of gain, and from the high price of his goods to amass sudden wealth. [see John D. Rockefeller]   [Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD]

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