Dryu Spirits
Dryu Tree Spirits
Paradising and Terraforming, are two concepts that should be added to our vocabulary.
We have created quite a few problems to our environment and should repair.
5G technical excuse to cut down trees, is the latest attempt to carry on "sacrifice to the expense of the living".
If trees are the problem, then, why shouldn't concrete buildings be considered as a threat to microwaves?
Has all this to do with perpetual sacrifice, intoxication, destruction and ablation of nature carried out by a minority?
Is the Empire still cutting down trees? Woods, where the home to Pagan tribes, Celts, and Druids. We must not forget that A dryad
(/ˈdraɪ.æd/; Greek: Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology.
Drys signifies "oak" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used
for all tree nymphs in general, or all human-tree hybrids. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures except around
the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs. Dryu, so is a spirit, and if a manifestation is present,ù
there you shall find its conterpat in the spiritual realms. This is the reason for which you should not act against any living form.
Respect nature and condiser actions before damaging anything, because your body does not end where your skin does,
as you were told by those who claim to be the totality of understanding, owning and dictating laws made to create servants
rather than to serve the living. A paradigm shift is required. Action, and due consideration. Plant every seed you find. Take care of
of the environment. Fix things. Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes,
but some were a step beyond most nymphs. These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees,
such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods
punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating the tree-nymphs. Some of the individual dryads
or hamadryads are:
Energized Sacred Tree
Kodama (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) are spirits in Japanese folklore that inhabit trees, similar to the dryads of Greek mythology.
The term is also used to denote a tree in which a kodama supposedly resides. The phenomenon known as yamabiko,
when sounds make a delayed echoing effect in mountains and valleys, is sometimes attributed to this kind of spirit,
and may also be referred to as "kodama". These spirits are considered to nimbly bustle about mountains at will.
A kodama's outer appearance is very much like an ordinary tree, but if one attempts to cut it down,
one would become cursed etc., and it is thus considered to have some kind of mysterious supernatural power.
The knowledge of those trees that have kodama living in them is passed down by the elderly of that area over successive
generations and they are protected, and it is also said that trees that have a kodama living in them are of certain species.
There is also a theory that when old trees are cut, blood could come forth from them. Kodama is also seen as something that
can be understood as mountain gods, and a tree god from the old Kojiki, Kukunochi no Kami, has been interpreted as a kodama,
and in the Heian period dictionary, the Wamyō Ruijushō, there is a statement on tree gods under the Japanese name "Kodama" (古多万).
In The Tale of Genji, there are statements such as "is it an oni, a god (kami), a fox (kitsune), or a tree spirit (kodama)"
and "the oni of a kodama," and thus, it can be seen that kodama are seen to be close to yōkai. They are said to take on the appearance
of atmospheric ghost lights, of beasts, and of humans, and there is also a story where a kodama who, in order to meet a human
it fell in love with, took on the appearance of a human itself. In Aogashima in the Izu Islands, shrines are created at the base of large
sugi trees in the mountains and are worshipped to under the name "kidama-sama" and "kodama-sama," and thus the vestiges of belief
in tree spirits can be seen. Also, in the village of Mitsune on Hachijō-jima, whenever a tree is cut, there was a tradition that one must
offer a festival to the tree's spirit "kidama-sama." On Okinawa, tree spirits are called "kiinushii," and whenever a tree is cut down,
one would first pray to kiinushii and then cut it. Also, when there is an echoing noise of what sounds like a fallen tree at the dead of night,
even though there are no actual fallen trees, it is said to be the anguishing voice of kiinushii, and it is said that in times like these,
the tree would then wither several days later. In modern times, cutting down a tree which houses a kodama is thought to bring misfortune,
and such trees are often marked with shimenawa rope.
Jedi
Other Tree Spirits
Anito, various animistic nature
spirits in indigenous Philippine mythology are commonly believed to reside in
balete trees
Dryads and hamadryads of Greek mythology
Druantia, hypothetical Gallic tree goddess proposed by Robert Graves in his 1948
study The White Goddess; popular with Neopagans.
Hathor, also called Lady of the Sycamore in the Old Kingdom of Egypt
Kodama and Kurozome, the spirit of the Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry)
Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern
Baltic mythology
Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology
Metsaema Mother of the Forest in Estonian mythology
Metsavana Old Man of the Forest in Estonian mythology
Mielikki, Goddess of the Forests in Finnish mythology
Nang Ta-khian, related to the Hopea odorata (Ta-khian tree) in Thai folklore
Nang Tani, an ambiguous female spirit who lives in the Musa balbisiana (wild
banana tree)
Penghou, an edible dog-shaped spirit in Chinese mythology
Pi-Fang, a Chinese tree deity
Rakapila, a sacred tree deity of Madagascar
Sijou Euphorbia milii var. splendens the living embodiment of Bathoubwrai, the
supreme deity in the Bathouist religion of the Bodo people or Mech of Assam and
Nepal.
Tāne-mahuta, atua (deity) of the forests and birds and one of the children of
Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku Maori mytholog
Tapio, God of the Forests in Finnish mythology
THE MELIAI (Meliae) were the Oread-nymphs of mountain ash-tree, born of Gaia (Gaea, the Earth) when she was impregnated
by the blood of the castrated Ouranos (Uranus, the Sky). They were the wives of the Silver Race of Man and mothers of the Bronze, the third
generation of mankind. They nursed their sons on the honey-sap (Greek meli) of the ash, and armed them with spears crafted from the wood of their
trees (Greek melia). The Bronze were an overly warlike race who incurred the wrath of Zeus and were destroyed in the floods of the Great Deluge.
The Meliai were probably the same as the honey-nymph (meliai) nurses of the god Zeus--Ida and Adrasteia. The manna (meli) of the ash and the
honey (meli) of bees were both thought to be ambrosial foods rained down from the stars of heaven.
In Hesiod's Theogony the Meliai were born alongside the Erinyes avengers of the castrated Ouranos--and the Gigantes.
The latter appear to be the Kouretes (Curetes), the male guardians of the infant Zeus.
As children born of Heaven's castration, it is appropriate that the Meliai and their brothers would have some role to play in the downfall of the
perpetrator Kronos (Cronus). The Meliai were also probably identified with the Hekaterides and Kabeirides (Cabeirides), sister-wives of
the Kouretes, Daktyloi and Kabeiroi.
According to Hesiod, the Meliae (probably meaning all tree-nymphs) were born from the drops of blood that fell on Gaia [Earth]
when Cronus castrated Uranus. In Hesiod's Works and Days, the ash trees, perhaps meaning the Melian nymphs, are said to have been
the progenitors of the generation of men belonging to Hesiod's Bronze Age. The Meliae were nurses of the infant Zeus in the Cretan Dikti
mountains, according to the 3rd century BC poet Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus, where they fed him on the milk of the goat Amalthea
and honey. Callimachus appears to make the Theban nymph Melia, who was, by Apollo, the mother of Tenerus and Ismenus,
one of the "earth-born" Meliae. Elsewhere, however, this Melia is an Oceanid, one of the many daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.
The Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides were nymphs of apple and other fruit trees and the protectors of sheep.
The Greek word melas—from which their name derives—means both apple and sheep. Hesperides, the guardians of the golden
apples were regarded as these type of dryad.
Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs.
These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it
died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating
the tree-nymphs. (associated with Oak trees).
The dryads of south Asia were called the Dryad. The ash-tree sisters tended the infant Zeus in Rhea's Cretan cave. Gaea gave birth to
the Meliae after being made fertile by the blood of castrated Uranus. The Epimeliad were nymphs associated with apple trees,
and the Caryatids were associated with walnut trees.
In The White Goddess, Graves proposed a hypothetical Gallic tree goddess, Druantia, who has become somewhat popular
with contemporary Neopagans. Druantia is an archetype of the eternal mother as seen in the evergreen boughs.
Her name is believed to be derived from the Celtic word for oak trees, *drus or *deru. She is known as "Queen of the Druids".
She is a goddess of fertility for both plants & humans, ruling over sexual activities & passion. She also rules protection of trees,
knowledge, creativity.
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Going back to Bharata here are the meanings of the root seed "dru":
m. dru tree
f. dRz sight
f. dRz eye
f. dRz view
n. dRka opening
n. dRka hole
f. dhRti self-command
f. dhRti courage
adj. dRDha tight
adj. dRDha massive
adj. dRDha stiff
adj. dRDha firm
adj. dRDha rigid
adj. dRSNu insolent
n. dRSTa observation
ppp. dRSTa regarded
ppp. dRSTa considered
ppp. dRSTa experienced
ppp. dRSTa treated
f. dRSTi vision
f. dRSTi opinion
f. dRSTi point of view
f. dRSTi attitude
m. f. dRSTi view
m. druma tree
adj. druta express
adj. druta quick
adj. druta rapid
adj. druta active
m. dRzya view
n. dRzya show
n. dRzya scene
adj. dhRSNu arrogate
ppp. dhRSTa cheeky
adj. dhruva fixed
adj. dhruva stable
Where we finally find the original root sound that Greece, Clets and other cultures imported from the East. In short, A tree that enables vision,
the opening, a point of view that is to be considered as experienced, or a stable scene, that can be perceived through the hole, sight and vision,
as a point of view or opinion. Immediate point of observation. The truth... in fact has to do with this root. Tru... ( dru )... ly, a spiritual point of view.
From sound dhara we find:
m. dAra hole
m. dAra wife
m. dara navel
m. pl. dArAH wife
ind. daram little
adj. dhara sustaining
adj. dhAra coming down in a stream or as rain
adj. dhara bearing
adj. dhAra holding
adj. dhara preserving
adj. dhara carrying
adj. dhara possessing
adj. dhara observing
adj. dhara supporting
adj. dhara having
adj. dhAra containing
adj. dhara keeping
adj. dhAra supporting
f. dharA earth
So, incarnation of the spirit.
Root sound connected to dream-vision, or insight.
verb 2 drAti { drai } sleep
adj. drezya visible
verb 1 drAyate { drai } sleep
verb 1 drAyati { drai } sleep
verb dhrejati { dhrij } go
verb dhrejati { dhrij } move
verb dhrekate { dhrek } sound
verb avadrAyati { ava- drai } fall asleep
This explains why meanings as "perspective" and "optics", are present and related to this root sound, as subsequent derivative definitions.
Pagan was originally a term used to describe people who practiced non-Christian religions. The term, which had a derogatory connotation, was assigned by early Christians. As Christianity was spreading in its early days in Europe, there were still many people who maintained their polytheistic beliefs. Those people were subject to the pejorative term, which served as a form of social pressure to convert to Christianity, and identified targets for discrimination. However, since the 21st century, certain people of non-Christian faiths, primarily those that adopted a form of spirituality, began to use the term to describe themselves. Paganism is now a religion of its own. But early pagans are credited with laying the foundation for the Easter as we know it today, and thus, some people consider it a pagan Easter.
Easter most likely takes its name from the names of goddesses associated with spring, vernal equinox and renewal. Eostre was the Saxon mother goddess, the source of all things and the bringer of new life. Around the same time, Teutonic tribes worshiped the dawn goddess Ostara, who also represented fertility and rebirth.
Other pagan cults and deities played a part in the formation of Easter, too. Around 200 BCE, the mystery cult of the goddess Cybele was popular in Rome and its surrounding areas. Cybele, another goddess of renewal and spring, had a lover named Attis, who was born of a virgin, and died and was reborn every spring. The legend of Attis’ birth is also associated with other deities including Dionysius, Tammuz and Osiris – and, scholars believe, with the life and death of Jesus.
As Christianity rose to prominence alongside those pagan beliefs, elements of the celebrations of Eostre, Ostara, Attis and other deities became inextricably intertwined with the Christian narrative of Jesus’ death and resurrection. The rabbit, symbol of fertility and agility, was sacred to Ostara. Eggs, chickens, green grass and sweets speak to the ancient celebration of new life and rebirth during warm spring days. Many ancient pagan cultures exchanged eggs as a celebration of the changing season into spring and blessing of fertility. Surprises stand for new borns, but as nature does not do something only once or twice, but propagates its waves accross the entire multiverse, so, the cycle or reincarnation called samsara took place. This one is continuous and neverending.
Various faiths that nowadays we can recognize as non original, are infact forms of cultural plagiarism, and simply based upon the interpolation of a few elements, a different perspective and subsequent elaborations. A plot often used to legitimate actions in the name of "The One", that only have to do with the interest of a minority, proving the evidence that egOs only work for themselves. A "Melange", is in no way a concept of unity, but a formula that is based on partiality. This dualism, being the cause of detachment itself from the true law of Love that unites everything. Monolatries, so, are a consequence of separation rather than unification. They shall show no interest in Harmony and Equilibrium, Correct Conduct and good examples. You shall find Prejudice there, great walls to protect material wealth, hierarchy, social status, and all the missing books they have used to rebuild for themselves new bodies of thought, that are still immanent Koshas, and have nothing to do with the eternal.
Dharma only requires consciousness, awareness and respect. You know if You are doing wrong or not showing respect. You do not need to ask someone else. Interference, abuse and selfishness, are the consequence of a predatory attitude based upon the wish to own and control what might be considered as a property by using power to dictate. Stay within, avoid greed. This does not follow nature's path, and nature shall take back what it gave. The idea of Anthropomorphic Selfish Gods that own everything instead of sharing creation, never fall in love, and hate so much the living to kill them all if they do not follow their law, is a curse. Love and compassion is needed to embrace. Pity, fear and punishment, only grant those who are not able to make themselves understood the advantage of a perfect illusion that does not serve life, but their needs.
This is the justice of the "sword and scale". Maat terms would be "heart and feather", placed upon the scale, where love, enables the soul to reach the light, if its weight is lighter than a feather. Those who have made their heart a stone are in fact living in obscurity. It is the Ego, ultimately, that makese the Gods fight one against the other, killing themselves in neverending sacred crusades. Such perishable gods truly miss the concept of unity, sinergy, sharing and serving, and soon find themselves amongst Egregore, Religo and Commandements. Anyhow, You shall not see them around, because they send men to fight their own wars and once they taste blood, they shan't be love no more.
In the faith of love act truly.
Jedi Simon