I feel like AA.

Amon Garam is underrated tbh

(Warning: Spoilers for Yugioh GX)

When talking about GX characters I feel like a lot of people overlook Amon Garam/Adrian Gecko. He is probably one of my favorite characters.

Look, I get it, he's a piece of crap and deserved to be wiped out by Yubel/Johan. But I like what he represents in the story and how different he is from the rest of the main cast.

He's introduced as a jovial and sort of eccentric ace duelist in S3. Like a personal rival to Manjoume/Chazz, same background (rich boy) but somewhat...better (less impulsive, more clever, overall better duelist) which is exposed on their sky duel.

And then he starts to change and become colder, more ruthless, smug and manipulative as S3 goes on, especially after partnering with Yubel. He sacrifices the woman he loves in order to attain Exodia's power without any second thoughts and he really seems to embrace his new role as King.

The scene where he's riding Exodia and refuses to finish the recently de-SKized Judai/Jaden is quite telling. He's drunk on power. He gambled and got a hell of a pay. And unlike Judai, who became SK after a hell of a traumatic event or Saio/Sartotius who was possesed by the Light of Destruction, Amon did it all consciously and out of his own will. No demonic possession, no LoD, no ancient millenary item possesion, nothing. Just an extremely ambitious bastard. In a way, he reminds me of Seto Kaiba in the early Yugioh manga chapters, before he got Mind Crushed by Yami.

Eventually, Yubel possessing Johan snaps him back to reality by kicking his ass and wiping him out. Right before dying he 1) reveals that actually he wanted to become King to the typical "making the world a better place" shtick and 2) shows regret for killing Echo.

While number 1 seems to come out of nowhere and feels like a lame attempt to somewhat redeem him, I think it makes him even more tragic. I think of Amon and he reminds me of complex antihero "ends justify the means" characters like Canute from Vinland Saga and Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass.

(YES I just compared Yugioh with Vinland and Geass)

I feel like, if Yugioh broadened its scope to maybe a more mature setting, characters like Amon could probably be rewritten in a more neutral or even sympathetic light. And yet, because GX is deeply inside a shonen anime focused on promoting a card game, such risks couldn't be taken.

And don't get me wrong, I think Amon was very well handed. He feels like an inverse of Axel O'Brien. While Axel starts as a stoic, cold and aloof duelist loyal to the shady Professor Cobra, Amon gets introduced as a charming and skilled guy who seems to oppose Cobra's schemes (after all, that means he's a good guy, right?) And yet, Axel ends up warming up to the main cast and even being (along with Jim) the one who saves Judai, while Amon ends up going the dark route. The fact they both come from Academies located on opposite cardinal points (Amon from east, Axel from west) might not be a mere coincidence.

To top it off, I just love how Amon and Axel end up in such different spots at the series finale.

Axel? With the main cast, being one more of them, eating, drinking, cracking a few jokes, enjoying their company. He's part of the gang despite arriving later. Like Johan (and my boy Jim)

Amon? Who the hell knows. And who the hell cares. Dead. Forgotten. Vanished into nothing. Sentenced to life in the Shadow Realm. And the best part is that, aside from his aparition on the "missing student cards" on S3 ending, nobody brings him up at all. They dislike him so much that for what they know he may be being devored by harpies or tortured in some dungeon in the Dark World, it's all the same for the gang. They have better things to think about than some power drunk greedy ambitious asshole who killed the woman he loved for nothing.

Axel won friends, which is why he was given a second chance in S4. Amon lost it all, which is why he's one of the few GX characaters that died permanently. Maybe it was Shin Yoshida's intention to send a message in favor of personal bonds and connections. Maybe he forgot about Amon.

But no matter what, Amon is probably one of the GX characters that caught my attention the most.

My first expertience with a transgirl !

I was in my 27 years . I have had just launched my business in decoration where my feminine part of my brain was doing well ...

My first big client was a wealthy Lady living in the quarter of the ambassades in Paris ....and thus , not far from the famous Bois de Boulogne ...

I had finally come to understand that this Lady was single in her life but decieved by mmost the men she had met before me ...

SHe had been married to a spanish prince and have recieved after her divorce a very big inheritage ....SO one day as I was workingin her apartment .., she came to me and tell me the story of a great female seducer well known of the " tout Paris " ....This great lady told this sentence : for being really happy a woman needs three things in her life : the ecus ( listen Money in old europe ) , the Ecu whioch can be translated by the Blason of ancient noble families , and the Cul which can be translated by " the ass " ... or the sexual pleasure !

I have fastly understoond that she had not been lucky in this third matter of her life ...;and I have answered her : " You know , Miss , I'm not rihc , I am no longer a noble man ...but I can maybe help you with your beautiful ass !

I thought to myself that she would feel offended by my answer ...

But No she has came uimmediately close to me me and has given me one of the best french kiss of my life ...But one secon later she has begun to test my hard on through the fabric of my trouser !..

A few moment later ; of course I was driven by a real fury in her bedroom and she has undressed me faster than I have ever been able to do it by myself .

I was comletely overwhelmed by strong feelings of shyness ( I had only three girlfriend in my life at this time of my love career ) and deep desires to try to satisfy this beautiful abnd elegant lady and suddenly I was afraid of losing her as a good client too .

For me it was an evening of bliss and I was enough excited to have a big hard on and try to make her moan like she finally ended to do .

But after a long while trying to regain my vitality after my first assaults .... she took my face in her hands and told me : " my boy, it's not bad bu you definitely don't know what a woman really needs to get an orgasm !"

It was one of the biggest cold shower I have taken in my whole life .

But force it to confess it was quite the truth ...So she has offered me the deal : wether I will never see her again at the end of my work for her , wether she offered me to become my teacher of sex .

Of course , I answered positively to her deal .My pride was talking for me instead of my brain .

Thus she has given me my frist lesson by teaching me how to lick her and how to explore gently but firmly her labial clitoris till she get a real orgasm ! ...and effectively it was quite stronger that my first attempt.

Then she has become more demanding and more and more domineering with me ...In a certain way I was become a sortof human sex toy for her ....And to teach me humility and not to bragg for my new performances ...One day she has invited me to stay at her home for the whole evening and night !..

But it was a trick bag. She was dressed mostly in leather corset and dress ; and she has told me that now has come the second part of my training . As she feared I was getting to proud of myself she has decided to make me discover a hidden part of my sexuality .

Then ,while she was speaking she served me an aparitive drink ...that she has slighlty drugged to be sure of my comliance .

SHe has decided to lead me to her garage and I was so excited and curious of what may followed that I didn't find the intellectual force to question her .

Actually she has decidded to humiliate me by driving me to the Bois de Boulogne's part where everybody coulkd see and find some transsexual girls mostly coming froom Brazil , Argentina and sometimes other latin countries or even africa .

Happily for me and because she was not a pure sadistic woman , she has led me to a latin trans sexual who was rather feminine and had not a bass male voice which I was considering as very funny and destroying their sex apeal ...

Because I must admit that certain of these transgurls were really feminine and sexy to me .But some of them , a third of them , were taller than me and I was fearing that their dicks could have been far longer and thicker than mine .

DUring our walk on the sidewalks of these alleys my Misstress was constantly looking at my reactions to the sight of these wonderful creatures . I was totally subjected and mesmerized by their feminine beauty and didn't find them ridiculous as certain cross dressers I have already seen in some of the street or restaurants of le Marais .

Then she has decided to stop and she has gone to talk to a latine ladyboy who was perharps in her mid thirties ...

I remember her because she has a ponytail and had a special color of skin . SHe was certainly half indian and form a mixed mariage .

Then, my Mistress come back to me and took me by my arm with a certain strenght which means I had no choice but to obey her .

SO once arrived in front of this pretty trans indian or mexican girl , she obliged me to touch her and caress her breasts . The latine Tgilr smiled at me and found me at her taste ....she fastly shown me her claeavage and eased my hand to reach her nipples which were alreayd firm.

Then she began to unzipp my pant and touch my dick which had become sufddenly so hard that I was almost ashamed to have such a hard on in front of my Mistress ....But this Lady was enjoying the show telling me to see that I was a good sex slave eager to please his mistress ...

The she put her hand on the zipp of the trouser of the Lady boy and she exhumed a big and firm dick with abrown sugar skin color !

At this moment I was completely disoriented and feeling strange but so mesmerized by this dick just standing there in front of my face ....and my lips .

this is the moment my Mistress choosed to put her hand on my neck and just pressing her face behind my head by telling me now to show some admiration to this dick and open my mouth !

As a good pupil and obedient stupid young man eager to please the one who could have been the woman of my life , I opened my mouth and the rest had occured almost naturally .

I was first surprised by this firmness and the softenss of the skin of its head .ANd for my loss of pride , by the taste of it that I found so enjoyable .

without realisizing it I was pumping and kissing its head with the will to make her moan and enjoy my sucking . THe latine Tgilr didn't wait too long to talk to me dirty and tell me to suck her dick better and with more enthousisasm .

I was completely under their spell and sweet voices who were telling such naughty and kinky words to me .I had become their obedient sex machine and then, when she saw i was forgotten completely I was doing all this in public outside any apartment privacy ...

Then the two " women " with one glance made the choice to pull me in the back of an alley wqhere the little threes begun to be more thick and numerous .There my mistress obliged me to go on all four and slipped down my pant on my ankles ....In the same mvoement the latin tgilr did the same with my underwear and begins to push one and two wet fingers inside my asshole ....At my big surprise , Ididn't found it painful at all .

My Mistress stroke my dick while the laine lady boy began to thrust his dick into my boy cunt .and she succeeded in introducing herself in one single thrust ... which was not hardfull and painfull ....

I was completely ashamed of my attitude in front of my former lover but the hands of this latin lover on my hips and his groanings when she was stirking against my ass cheeks mad me feel like a real slut .And my honesty commands me to say that I did enjoy it as a wanton whore in heat .

Was it my real nature or the help of th drug my mistress had given to me despite my will ....Anyway , during the week after I have had enough time to remind me that I never refused each of the steps which had led me to this final exotic first time .

and believe me or not it was more than confusing in my mind .....

At midnight on the first night of Sködanda (a Jorvegian fall celebration similar to Halloween and Samhain), the spirits of the afterlife are allowed to mingle with their living kin. While human spirits join their friends and family, herds of ghostly equines race around the Forgotten Fields, the rememnats of an ancient forest, ready to welcome newcomers into their fold.

Those who pass by the fields at night may be fortunate to see one these docile spirits, and perhaps even the Spirit Rider. Almost nothing is known about this aparition, with some debating it might not be a human spirit at all, but a different entity completely. What is known about them is that they ride a skeletal horse and help guide equine spirits from all across Jorvik to the afterlife.

Should you encounter the Spirit Rider, leave a red apple at the location of the sighting as a sign of respect and thanks to the tireless guide.

The Alchemic:

"Long ago there used to be a person of few friends that would often wander in the forest for plants and ingredients for their  remedies and beverages.

One particular day this alchemist went into the forest but didn't come back, they organised some search but it wasn't useful, there was not much concern since just very few people actually knew them.

Few years ago there was an aparition in the same forest of a big and ancient creature who would commonly help those who were sick or ill."

CHARACTER DESIGN

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Estelle

Race: Magical (Sorcerer)

Age: 17

Magic: 

Father-inherited: Air - Sun          Mother-inherited: Fire - Moon

Strand (Other World): Alchemy

 CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

Dealer at a human school.

Used to be an alchemist student from a parallel world but went through a portal.

Her body's artificial with insertion of a soul and magic from both of her parents because her parents are of different species and can’t produce and offspring.

She strong (power-wise in using magic) but her stamina is weak.

PERSONALITY

Arrogant (at first) and sassy but chill.

Gets easily frustrated when she can’t be good at something right away.

Has an inferiority complex because of her situation in the magical world but she slowly learns to accept herself through her time on earth while making business with people and learning about humans and spending her days in “Luna Magica Academy”.

TRINKETS

Heirloom 

holds partial magic. Every magical has this object or something of the like. It's for controlling power. It’s comparable to a wand or staff used by magicians from classic literature and story books. 

It helps manifest the power and change its form. For example if an individual inherited water-based magic, using the heirloom, they can transform it into water healing magic. Skilled users can even transform their element to use a different element (but to an extent).

Basically, if your magical energy stored within the heirloom is the same amount of energy as the magic you want to use, you can transform your magic to an ability outside of your own capabilities with the heirloom. 

Amount and power of magic depends on the wielder's skill, and talent regardless of quality of heirloom (although quality of heirloom is also a big factor in magic making).

Suitcase 

That's where she lives.

A gift from parents because since she’s from the alchemy division, she does frequent research and tends to stays over at school or goes home late. It was given to her so she could stay at school when she needs to. Permission was asked from the headmaster so it’s all good.

Also made it into a storage room so it's a mess.

100sqm x 100 sqm, 2 floors on the inside

Glasses 

Conceals eye color so criminal magicals don’t finds out she's one of them or so that nobody thinks she’s weird.

Dealer jacket 

Contains magical stuff that she sells when someone approaches her for it... sort of like sketchy dealers from games and movies.

OTHER IMPORTANT CHARACTERS

Ellis

Met Estelle by asking her for a potion.

Has pure magical parents but was tossed out by relatives because they thought he had no powers, he's abandoned. He also knows this story because he was already conscious when this happened.

Didn’t know he was a magical until he found out Estelle wanted use him because her body’s too weak to handle very immense magic.

eyes: instead of having a glint is completely empty.

Thought he had no powers but he's made sort of like a shell (i.e. you can insert magic in him) 

Living heirloom (can transform into weapons or magical items)

Gemini

Junior gatekeeper(s) 

disguised as students because they were tasked to pursue Estelle.

not actually twins the sign gemini just needs to manifesters

magic: Air - Sun and Moon

Sansa

Estelle’s best friend from the Other World

magic:  aparition and astral projection

Turns out  they were following Estelle when she was breaking in the sacred rooms and reported everything to the ministry 

actually didn't like Estelle, she was jealous of her and was pushing her to steal the object.

LORE

The magic world has no concept of time so it's hard to control where you jump if you encounter a portal. It could be anywhere at any time and is dangerousif you’re not trained in time magic.

Powers are inherited

You could distinguish magicals from non-magicals with the glint in their eyes (Estelle has bluish gray eyes with a glint of pink)

Gatekeepers - guards time and space since it's very fragile, ancient, and barely touched magic.

Astrology is important because constellations and planet alignment are important to finding the gates that separate the two worlds.

Magic school - kind of like school on earth, from very young to high school students are taught the necessary things and basic magic and construct of the world while higher enchantment (SHS) gives students a choice for specialization. After HS you can go for higher learning or not.

Some jobs don't require magic at all

Current era earth contains very very tiny amounts of magic since criminals are banished here (explanation for sightings of the supernatural.. e.g. aswang and those who carry great “luck” that are the so-called “mediums” and “voodoo witch doctors” on earth)

“Luck“ is the only form of magic within humans. Their luck also coincide with Astrology and the alignment of various heavenly bodies. If it is taken out, they futures might turn haywire. If you have only a small portion of luck, you could still accumulate some through a) practicing good karma b)getting astrologically connected with your sun and moon signs.

In the past united non-magic earth and magic earth used to be one until the Disaster of Divine Separation happened where half of the population lost their magic and the other half didn’t. This caused a divide as the ones who retained magic called themselves the “chosen ones” and those who didn’t got ridiculed. So the now non-magicals threw a rebellion which forced the separation of the normal and supernatural. 

All magic fall under the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air) and two categories (Sun and Moon).

STORY

Estelle is a genius at their school although, she's arrogant and prideful because of her talent. You could say she's admired but also disliked. Her parents are also quite powerful and hold high regard of their daughter. Her co-students don't wanna praise her though because they know it'll further inflate her ego. 

Eventually their class went on a trip to the ministry of magic (not Harry Potter lol I just couldn’t think of a name) where all magic records, historical events, and experimentation are kept. The ministry also guards the sacred artifacts which hold the "secrets" of time magic. Only selected people could handle time magic, even if one is very powerful but cannot contain this magic will not be able to handle it. 

Prior to this trip, Estelle had a fight with her Higher enchantment  professor because she was saying she’ll make the ministry make her a gatekeep and was acting all high and mighty. Her professor told her "whatever you become, in that state, you’re not going to be as good as your parents". 

Maybe it was the professor’s choice of words but it didn’t sit right with her. Estelle’s parents were former gatekeepers that now work for the ministry after their contract ended (and also by choice). During the selection period, she didn't get picked. 

Due to desperation and wanting to “show them all” she planned to go to the artifact room and see if she could handle time magic. Her friend Sansa helped her with distracting security and Estelle was already good enough to bypass the guards.

When she reached the room of the sacred artifacts. Because she wasn’t at the right location and time of alignment, and for various other reasons, she failed in trying to use the items and the whole ministry’s magic got drained then she got transported to the earthly world.

Naturally she was very confused but one thing lead to another, she got scammed into enrolling into "Luna Magica Academy" which she thought was a magic school that could help her get back to the Other World, but in all truth it was just a name of a private school with zero magic. She wasn’t fond of reading history books as she thought they weren’t necessary. Here, aside from being frustrated by the whole ordeal, she get's a taste of failure as she doesn't know anything about earth and their studies. 

Here, she notices a lot of problems in the non-magic world that could easily be fixed by magic. From typical things like aching backs and sores to things done by other magical beings banished to the earthly world .

Because of this, she thought of opening up a service where she sells potions and extinguishes problems for a price of a portion of that person's luck. Since they didn’t know what she was talking about and thought they had nothing to lose, they’d agree to this contract. She puts their luck in her heirloom in hopes of trying to return (she still has this the sacred artifact btw).

Business runs smoothly but then she meets a guy asking for her help, a healer’s potion to be exact. Through the emptiness in his eyes, she figures out that he's a powerful living heirloom and makes a contract with him, without him knowing he was an heirloom. From here on out, he became her assistant and according to the contract will help her with whatever problem may be and agree if she asks for “divine” help.  

Long story short, as she interacts with more people and encounters their problems and commit many failures both in school and personal life, she slowly loses her will to do business for the sake of acquiring magic as she doesn't want to take away other people's luck and becomes guilty whenever she lets someone sign her contract. 

As she grows as a person, makes new friends and her abilities in academics improve (since she catches up quick), and feels normal, she felt like she found her place and nearly forgets her desire to go back to earth. She even thought of opening up a magic shop (totally not sketchy at all) after graduation. 

But of course fun times ain’t the end of it all, because someone enrolls in their school - part of the gatekeepers, Gemini. And everything was coming back to her. 

Of course this had to happen, she still had the artifact, naturally someone was going to chase her. Although she didn’t want to leave anyone behind and didn’t want anyone to forget her, she most of all didn't want to get the people she interacted with on earth involved because she knows at that point that she made a mistake. So it was back to plan A - to go back to before she stole the artifact, the day of the ministry field trip and he needed Ellis to get back.

When he found out he was mad, they fought but eventually made up. They talked to the people they helped in school and they all agreed to give her a part of their luck (she returned these people's lucks after meeting Ellis, also everyone at the school knows she’s not ordinary by now) to her.

Ellis also agreed on letting her use him as an heirloom. They guided their way through the constellations while escaping Gemini’s surveillance. She finds the portal entry and uses Ellis to get back.

After the travel, she realizes she transported at the exact time that she left and found out her friend, Sansa snitched on her. Afterwards she got into all sorts of trouble and was banned from entering the Other World until she fixes everything on earth because after she opened the portal of time - the ministry which is also a prison had the criminals escape. 

She's gotta find em, on this journey she’s going to be accompanied by Ellis and Gemini.

 She goes back to earth and apologizes to everyone and thanks ‘em before venturing off through time and space to find these criminals.

to be continued in season 2... 

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Hamsa Blessed Water, the Five Fingers

Hamsa Blessed Water

5 World Traditions Holy Water / Blessed Water Hamsa, Fatima, Ganges, Evil Eye ++Get yours here at our Ebay store:

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5 Fingers of the Sacred Hand of World Traditions, healing, protection, removal of obstacles, blessing of self / life, anointing of quests, doorways, pets, photos, and your own forehead!

“Carlos, a priest of Afro-Brazilian Indigenous spiritual traditions in Santos, Braz. il, lead me out to the Statue of Yemanja, in the great bay, surrounded by beautiful coconut palm beach, stunning fluorescent pink sunsets, lighted cruise ships, and distant cargo ships for the largest port of South America, and shipping point for half the world’s coffee beans. There were other spiritual people visiting, wading the waste deep Atlantic ocean, half from this indigenous and ancient tribal belief, and half from all other spiritual traditions and interest, all open minded and intelligent persons on their own Soul Quests. 

It seemed peaceful as he said certain phrases and blessed the water gathered there. It seemed, for me, with a Ph.D., in world cultures, to be common to world universal spiritual views. I mean, it wasn’t odd, garrish, funny, or a spectacle. I’ve seen this belief worldwide and in multitudes of people, the same searching, prayer, honoring, and openness, whether it is the syncretised view of a Mexican at Virgen de Guadaloupe, a non-Catholic going to Fatima, Portugal, or even the 60% of the persons in my conservative state of Idaho, where those 60% state they have their true spirituality, it’s a mystery, but they’re satisfied with it and don’t feel they need a view of “another person” imparted or guilted onto them.  They are in contrast to the rigid and dogmatic, and they seek a Beloved, God, Goddess, Universe, or Unknown, with that universal tongue, from soul and (defined bottom of page), Universal Unconscious of Man/Woman kind, patterned even in our genetic code!

All 5 waters Blessed by local traditions. Blessed Waters, Holy Waters.

Most information is put onto posters here you can zoom in on each one for each finger, location of holy blessed water, traditions, more. 

You’ll not find this information Any place else, because this combination of Blessed, Holy Waters is based on my travels and research worldwide for my Ph.D. in World Cultures and World Religions. I also believe these ancient traditions and symbols, found in EVERY culture, are valid for us today. These views are pancultural: found in all places.  I collected the not just as an academic, but a world mystic and respector of these views, their validity, and world people. I believe in the power you’ll find in the 5 Fingers, 5 blessed waters, and that the symbolism will connect you with your soul and a greater Universe or Beloved. 

Size:

Each purchase is one tiny bottle, shipped in triple protection.

One tiny bottle will recharge one million gallons of water! It’s not necessary to buy a big two liter of this, or ever by more!  The Blessedness of this water is spread throughout all particles, and if you put it in a fountain, or a crystal jar: it’s all blessed.

But, this product is for sensible folks: see the note at the bottom of the text: consider this like water from a local stream or mountain river: you don’t drink it, give it to kids or pets, or get in eyes. It’s NOT dirty or buggy, it’s natural. (Remember when your mother told you to not put that in your mouth?).

Each Purchase is:

One tiny light proof bottle, with ALL 5 waters mixed in, described below. Yep, all 5, through great personal travail to get……  You’d think water like this should be given away: but you make the journeys, pay the tickets, and work to get the waters all blessed! Whew….

About  1-3ml. Use to recharge other water, for you, gifts to others, anointing of self, object, pets, etc.

This is Quantum Blessing:

Rumi: “the Universe is held in a drop of Water”.

5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, and the message:

Don’t Fear

Be Healed

Be Protected

·        Hamsa Hand

·        Hand of Fatima or

·        Abhaya Mudra

A tradition and symbolism known and respected worldwide: the Holy Hand.

The 5 fingers:

5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions,     4 Continents, Healing Goddess within saying: the messages:

ü Don’t Fear (Fear Not)

ü Be Healed

ü Be Protected

1.      Fatima: Holy Water from Fatima, Portugal Shrine

2.      Lourdes: Holy Water from the Grotto of Lourdes, France

3.      Ganges, India: Holy Water from 1,000 locations along the Holy Ganges River, India

4.      Brazil and Africa, and Santeria and Indigenous religions worldwide: Water from Statue / Atlantic at Santos Brazil, priest blessed. Yemanja (Iemanja), traditions from all Brazil, all sub-Saharan Africa, and all World Santeria

5.      Americas:  5. Water from Ecuadorean Andes: combined / joined / synchretized Mary Aparitions in Quito and 50 other sites and Kechua Indigenous Beliefs: a. Shown: Virgen has a lizard like creature chained, is only winged Mary in world. b. Our Lady of Clouds Aparition. c. Quechua people, indigenous of Ecuador

Information on the 5 fingers, symbolism, and world traditions

1.      Evil Eye

2.      Abhaya Mudra

3.      And more background for the 5 Fingers / 5 World Traidtions

HAND OF FATIMA

positivity | abundance | faith

The Hand of Fatima is an ancient talisman that symbolizes feminine power. Originating from the Hebrew word hamesh, literally meaning five, the hand is worn as a defense against negative energy, deflecting the gaze of the evil eye away from the wearer. Believed to channel the forces of good, the Hand of Fatima promotes healing and fosters miracles.

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Hamsa Hand: history

Examples of Khamsa

Early use of the hamsa has been traced to ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) as well as ancient Carthage[citation needed] (modern day Tunisia). The image of the open right hand is seen in Mesopotamian artifacts in the amulets of the goddess Ishtar or Inanna.[2] Other symbols of divine protection based around the hand include the Hand-of-Venus (or Aphrodite), the Hand-of-Mary, that was used to protect women from the evil eye and/or boost fertility and lactation, promote healthy pregnancies and strengthen the weak.[2] In that time, women were under immense pressure and expectation to become mothers.[8] The woman’s upbringing was centered on becoming a mother as an exclusive role, and it indicated child bearing as necessary.[9] It was also thought that marriage was a sense of protection for both the man and the woman.[10] In Jewish culture, the hamsa is associated with the number five because of the five fingers depicted on the hand.[11]

Art depicts a hamsa

One theory postulates a connection between the khamsa and the Mano Pantea (or Hand-of-the-All-Goddess), an amulet known to ancient Egyptians as the Two Fingers. In this amulet, the Two Fingers represent Isis and Osiris and the thumb represents their child Horus. It was used to invoke the protective spirits of parents over their child.[2] Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia, modern Tunisia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.[12] According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism.

This relates to the belief that God exists in everything. Another meaning of this symbol relates to the sky god, Horus. It refers to the Eye of Horus, which means humans cannot escape from the eye of conscience. It says that the sun and moon are the eyes of Horus. The Hand of Fatima also represents femininity, and is referred as the woman’s holy hand. It is believed to have extraordinary characteristics that can protect people from evil and other dangers.[13]

Symbolism and usage

Clay hamsa with an inscription in Hebrew (translates to “good luck”)

Amulet with two hands of Fatimah, bearing the inscriptions “God is the guardian”, “God brings consolation in all trials”

The Hand (Khamsa), particularly the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings, power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye.[2][18] One of the most common components of gold and silver jewelry in the region,[19] historically and traditionally, it was most commonly carved in jet or formed from silver, a metal believed to represent purity and hold magical properties.[2][20] It is also painted in red (sometimes using the blood of a sacrificed animal) on the walls of houses for protection,[21][22] or painted or hung on the doorways of rooms, such as those of an expectant mother or new baby.[2] The hand can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck.[23] Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to bestow blessings. Highly stylized versions may be difficult to recognize as hands, and can consist of five circles representing the fingers, situated around a central circle representing the palm.[23]

Hamsa in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Used to protect against evil eye, a malicious stare believed to be able to cause illness, death or just general unluckiness, hamsas often contain an eye symbol.[20][24] Depictions of the hand, the eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek (“five [fingers] in your eye”).[24] Raising one’s right hand with the palm showing and the fingers slightly apart is part of this curse meant “to blind the aggressor”.[21] Another formula uttered against the evil eye in Arabic, but without hand gestures, is khamsa wa-khamis (“five and Thursday”).[25][26] As the fifth day of the week, Thursday is considered a good day for magic rites and pilgrimages to the tombs of revered saints to counteract the effects of the evil eye.[27]

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Evil eye

Nazars, charms used to ward off the evil eye.

The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury,[1] while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called “evil eyes”.[2][3]

The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Portugal, Brazil, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, parts of North India, Palestine, Morocco, southern Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania, the Balkans, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bahrain, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists.

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The Hand up: Abhayamudra

Remember: the message of all Gods, all traditions: FEAR NOT

Hindu Gods, most with right hand held up, palm out.

Buddha with his right hand in abhaya mudra.

Dewi Sri (Parvati) with her right hand in abhaya mudra, Bali Indonesia.[1]

The Abhayamudrā “gesture of fearlessness”[2] is a mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in many Indian religions. The right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.[3] This is one of the earliest mudrās found depicted on a number of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh images.

The abhayamudrā represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. The Hindu god Nataraja is depicted with the second right hand making the Abhaya Mudra, bestowing protection from both evil and ignorance to those who follow the righteousness of dharma. In Theravada Buddhism, it is usually made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, the arm bent and the palm facing outward with the fingers upright and joined and the left hand hanging down while standing. In Thailand and Laos, this mudra is associated with the Walking Buddha, often shown having both hands making a double abhayamudrā that is uniform.

Yemanja, Iemanja:

Goddess protector of Africa, Brazil, and world Santeria Traditions

Goddess of the Andes:

See posters for info on:

Holy Water, blessed,

From Cathedral de Fatima

Note on Santeria: a serious faith of followers based on Afro-Brazilian Indignous religions, and is only mocked in caricature of voodoo, the New Orleans movie parody and not related to indigenous religions.

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Above info from Wikipedia.com

Now: this is water collected worldwide: use some sense here:

It’s not for children, ingestion.

It’s often used to anoint a forehead, objects, or places: but don’t drink, get on lips or eyes, mix with foods or drinks, give to children. If anointing pets, do on top of head, not eyes or mouth. Keep the contents away from children, jokers, pets.

This isn’t dirty water, but consider it as any water from a local creek or river: you don’t drink it. Hey, you’re an adult here so take charge of the concepts, bottle, because you’re assuming risks of misuse by others, kids, pets. 

We’re providing a leak  proof bottle, and pack to prevent breakage up front: all items at Scooter Bee’s are pretty scrutinized: no refunds or returns in any situation. We also don’t accept returns as nobody wants used stuff.

This is genuine: collected waters. To purchase means you’ve read all the text and know what you’re buying. We’re not shipping you several liters silly. Read all, buy, enjoy, be healed and don’t forget to bless that cat. 

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Please ask the day your order, and we’ll add a set of full page copies of the “posters” above, for your use. No Charge. 

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Where will you keep your Blessed Water, that you charge? Here’s a idea:

Treat the charged water just like you would if you were making a personal home altar: 

Set an intention of finding an a bottle or air proof container that is special to you. Give it a week or two for that item to “find” you. For one person, it could be something found at a yard sale, old, but then you wash it. For another person, it could be something costly, or a bottle you then embellish with tiles or gems. What ever it is for you, it will be “important”. Than, add your water to the container. It’s just me, but I’d use a highly filtered water (even from the machine at Walmart), because this would be missing local contaminants and smells, but a simply bottle of your favorite commercial water would do!  

Then, add 2-3 drops of Blessed Water. It will charge the whole bottle. As I’ve done this personally, and kept both the original blessed waters and my “charged water to use”, they last and last. For instance, I may dab my pets on the forehead, the doorways inside and out to, of my home, a sacred object that may mean nothing to another person, my own forehead with prayers, a piece of clothing for some reason of prayer, blessing, to unseat obstacles, and open myself to what I view as God, the Universe, the Mystery, and the universal and pan cultural myths of ALL religions and the gods within. 

Unlike lighting a candle or incense daily in the morning, this blessed water blessings is often done on a special day, special time, or struggling time, occasionally. It’s also important to do at the start of journey, quest, new jobs, new relationships, new intentions and dreams. How and by who’s power does the water work? It is the Mystery that lives in every person, and it’s the mystery of how the Spiritual World works. There are those who doubt, or totally disbelieve anything, but there are those who know that this world is as real as the seen and touched world. It’s sort of like the mystery and science writers of 1,000 to 3,000 years ago: they wrote about particles smaller than atoms, and edges of universes, and other realities and parallel universes now accepted by the most noted brained physicists. Why would then so many worldwide believe in this unseen? Carl Jung, European Psychiatrist, wounded healer, and deceased, said: 

These ideas are patterned in every brain to know and believe that. Some body tells you about the spiritual world (which is often apart from organized religion), and you just “know”. These concepts exist in all persons, all places, and all times that we know of. Even if you have persons in an isolated tribe, they have these spiritual concepts, which are brain archetypes called the Collective Unconscious of Man/Woman Kind. They are not just there for a survival mechanism. Did the great mystery called God, Deity, Universe or Mystery put them in our genetic code? Or are they part of our soul: we just function so naturally with a concept of the Beloved: one or many or a mystery that we seek, seeks us, can be prayed to, is part of each person’s personal definition of that (you know for yourself who the Beloved is, apart from, or just influenced by books), you can reach directly, and yet is a Mystery of the Unknown and Unseen. 

Some Quotes from the Poet Rumi, 13 Century Mystic Sufi Poet, and Seminary Teacher at a school in Turkey that taught to seekers from All religions, not presenting a dogma view:

“God is nearer to you than your self.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

― Rumi

“One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.

A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.”

The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.”

The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation

this man returned to the door of the Beloved.

He knocked.

A voice from within asked: “Who is there?”

The man said: “It is Thou.”

The door was opened for him.

The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,

they’re in each other all along.

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,

The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

When your chest is free of your limiting ego,

Then you will see the ageless Beloved.

You can not see yourself without a mirror;

Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky

And you lift me up out of the two worlds.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops,

So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled.

In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be

stitched.

O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning

fire of love–

Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned

in any school.

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,

as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,

collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more

marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one

already completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness

in the center of the chest. This other intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,

and it doesn’t move from outside to inside

through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.”

“What else can I say?

You will only hear

what you are ready to hear.

Don’t nod your head,

Don’t try to fool me—

the truth of what you see

is written all over your face!” 

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

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“Why are you so enchanted by this world

when a mine of gold lies within you?” 

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“In the heavens I see your eyes,

In your eyes I see the heavens.

Why look for another Moon or another Sun?—

What I see will always be enough for me.” 

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“Lose yourself,

Lose yourself in this love.

When you lose yourself in this love,

you will find everything.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Do not fear this loss,

For you will rise from the earth

and embrace the endless heavens.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from this earthly form, 

For this body is a chain

and you are its prisoner.

Smash through the prison wall

and walk outside with the kings and princes.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself

before the King

you will become the King.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from the black cloud

that surrounds you.

Then you will see your own light

as radiant as the full moon.

Now enter that silence. 

This is the surest way

to lose yourself. . . .

What is your life about, anyway?—

Nothing but a struggle to be someone,

Nothing but a running from your own silence.” 

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“Then I looked within my own heart

and there I found Him—

He was nowhere else.” 

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“I once had a thousand desires,

But in my one desire to know you

all else melted away.

The pure essence of your being

has taken over my heart and soul.

Now there is no second or third,

only the sound of your sweet cry.

Through your grace I have found

a treasure within myself.

I have found the truth of the Unseen world.

I have come upon the eternal ecstasy.

I have gone beyond the ravages of time.

I have become one with you!

Now my heart sings,

“I am the soul of the world.” 

 Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved, book at all book resources. 

Where will you keep your Holy Water? 

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Thank you to my friend bringing me the Holy Water, official type, from Fatima and Lourdes. The other three were gathered on my own journeys and quests. All, come out of a “quest, seeking, journey, sincerity”

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Hamsa Blessed Water, the Five Fingers Hamsa Blessed Water 5 World Traditions Holy Water / Blessed Water Hamsa, Fatima, Ganges, Evil Eye ++Get yours here at our Ebay store: https://ift.tt/2OfKHDZ . 5 Fingers of the Sacred Hand of World Traditions, healing, protection, removal of obstacles, blessing of self / life, anointing of quests, doorways, pets, photos, and your own forehead! “Carlos, a priest of Afro-Brazilian Indigenous spiritual traditions in Santos, Braz. il, lead me out to the Statue of Yemanja, in the great bay, surrounded by beautiful coconut palm beach, stunning fluorescent pink sunsets, lighted cruise ships, and distant cargo ships for the largest port of South America, and shipping point for half the world’s coffee beans. There were other spiritual people visiting, wading the waste deep Atlantic ocean, half from this indigenous and ancient tribal belief, and half from all other spiritual traditions and interest, all open minded and intelligent persons on their own Soul Quests. It seemed peaceful as he said certain phrases and blessed the water gathered there. It seemed, for me, with a Ph.D., in world cultures, to be common to world universal spiritual views. I mean, it wasn’t odd, garrish, funny, or a spectacle. I’ve seen this belief worldwide and in multitudes of people, the same searching, prayer, honoring, and openness, whether it is the syncretised view of a Mexican at Virgen de Guadaloupe, a non-Catholic going to Fatima, Portugal, or even the 60% of the persons in my conservative state of Idaho, where those 60% state they have their true spirituality, it’s a mystery, but they’re satisfied with it and don’t feel they need a view of “another person” imparted or guilted onto them. They are in contrast to the rigid and dogmatic, and they seek a Beloved, God, Goddess, Universe, or Unknown, with that universal tongue, from soul and (defined bottom of page), Universal Unconscious of Man/Woman kind, patterned even in our genetic code! All 5 waters Blessed by local traditions. Blessed Waters, Holy Waters. Most information is put onto posters here you can zoom in on each one for each finger, location of holy blessed water, traditions, more. You’ll not find this information Any place else, because this combination of Blessed, Holy Waters is based on my travels and research worldwide for my Ph.D. in World Cultures and World Religions. I also believe these ancient traditions and symbols, found in EVERY culture, are valid for us today. These views are pancultural: found in all places. I collected the not just as an academic, but a world mystic and respector of these views, their validity, and world people. I believe in the power you’ll find in the 5 Fingers, 5 blessed waters, and that the symbolism will connect you with your soul and a greater Universe or Beloved. Size: Each purchase is one tiny bottle, shipped in triple protection. One tiny bottle will recharge one million gallons of water! It’s not necessary to buy a big two liter of this, or ever by more! The Blessedness of this water is spread throughout all particles, and if you put it in a fountain, or a crystal jar: it’s all blessed. But, this product is for sensible folks: see the note at the bottom of the text: consider this like water from a local stream or mountain river: you don’t drink it, give it to kids or pets, or get in eyes. It’s NOT dirty or buggy, it’s natural. (Remember when your mother told you to not put that in your mouth?). Each Purchase is: One tiny light proof bottle, with ALL 5 waters mixed in, described below. Yep, all 5, through great personal travail to get…… You’d think water like this should be given away: but you make the journeys, pay the tickets, and work to get the waters all blessed! Whew…. About 1-3ml. Use to recharge other water, for you, gifts to others, anointing of self, object, pets, etc. This is Quantum Blessing: Rumi: “the Universe is held in a drop of Water”. 5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, and the message: Don’t Fear Be Healed Be Protected · Hamsa Hand · Hand of Fatima or · Abhaya Mudra A tradition and symbolism known and respected worldwide: the Holy Hand. The 5 fingers: 5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, 4 Continents, Healing Goddess within saying: the messages: ü Don’t Fear (Fear Not) ü Be Healed ü Be Protected 1. Fatima: Holy Water from Fatima, Portugal Shrine 2. Lourdes: Holy Water from the Grotto of Lourdes, France 3. Ganges, India: Holy Water from 1,000 locations along the Holy Ganges River, India 4. Brazil and Africa, and Santeria and Indigenous religions worldwide: Water from Statue / Atlantic at Santos Brazil, priest blessed. Yemanja (Iemanja), traditions from all Brazil, all sub-Saharan Africa, and all World Santeria 5. Americas: 5. Water from Ecuadorean Andes: combined / joined / synchretized Mary Aparitions in Quito and 50 other sites and Kechua Indigenous Beliefs: a. Shown: Virgen has a lizard like creature chained, is only winged Mary in world. b. Our Lady of Clouds Aparition. c. Quechua people, indigenous of Ecuador Information on the 5 fingers, symbolism, and world traditions 1. Evil Eye 2. Abhaya Mudra 3. And more background for the 5 Fingers / 5 World Traidtions HAND OF FATIMA positivity | abundance | faith The Hand of Fatima is an ancient talisman that symbolizes feminine power. Originating from the Hebrew word hamesh, literally meaning five, the hand is worn as a defense against negative energy, deflecting the gaze of the evil eye away from the wearer. Believed to channel the forces of good, the Hand of Fatima promotes healing and fosters miracles. ******************************** Hamsa Hand: history Examples of Khamsa Early use of the hamsa has been traced to ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) as well as ancient Carthage[citation needed] (modern day Tunisia). The image of the open right hand is seen in Mesopotamian artifacts in the amulets of the goddess Ishtar or Inanna.[2] Other symbols of divine protection based around the hand include the Hand-of-Venus (or Aphrodite), the Hand-of-Mary, that was used to protect women from the evil eye and/or boost fertility and lactation, promote healthy pregnancies and strengthen the weak.[2] In that time, women were under immense pressure and expectation to become mothers.[8] The woman’s upbringing was centered on becoming a mother as an exclusive role, and it indicated child bearing as necessary.[9] It was also thought that marriage was a sense of protection for both the man and the woman.[10] In Jewish culture, the hamsa is associated with the number five because of the five fingers depicted on the hand.[11] Art depicts a hamsa One theory postulates a connection between the khamsa and the Mano Pantea (or Hand-of-the-All-Goddess), an amulet known to ancient Egyptians as the Two Fingers. In this amulet, the Two Fingers represent Isis and Osiris and the thumb represents their child Horus. It was used to invoke the protective spirits of parents over their child.[2] Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia, modern Tunisia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.[12] According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism. This relates to the belief that God exists in everything. Another meaning of this symbol relates to the sky god, Horus. It refers to the Eye of Horus, which means humans cannot escape from the eye of conscience. It says that the sun and moon are the eyes of Horus. The Hand of Fatima also represents femininity, and is referred as the woman’s holy hand. It is believed to have extraordinary characteristics that can protect people from evil and other dangers.[13] Symbolism and usage Clay hamsa with an inscription in Hebrew (translates to “good luck”) Amulet with two hands of Fatimah, bearing the inscriptions “God is the guardian”, “God brings consolation in all trials” The Hand (Khamsa), particularly the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings, power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye.[2][18] One of the most common components of gold and silver jewelry in the region,[19] historically and traditionally, it was most commonly carved in jet or formed from silver, a metal believed to represent purity and hold magical properties.[2][20] It is also painted in red (sometimes using the blood of a sacrificed animal) on the walls of houses for protection,[21][22] or painted or hung on the doorways of rooms, such as those of an expectant mother or new baby.[2] The hand can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck.[23] Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to bestow blessings. Highly stylized versions may be difficult to recognize as hands, and can consist of five circles representing the fingers, situated around a central circle representing the palm.[23] Hamsa in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam Used to protect against evil eye, a malicious stare believed to be able to cause illness, death or just general unluckiness, hamsas often contain an eye symbol.[20][24] Depictions of the hand, the eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek (“five [fingers] in your eye”).[24] Raising one’s right hand with the palm showing and the fingers slightly apart is part of this curse meant “to blind the aggressor”.[21] Another formula uttered against the evil eye in Arabic, but without hand gestures, is khamsa wa-khamis (“five and Thursday”).[25][26] As the fifth day of the week, Thursday is considered a good day for magic rites and pilgrimages to the tombs of revered saints to counteract the effects of the evil eye.[27] ********************************************* Evil eye Nazars, charms used to ward off the evil eye. The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury,[1] while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called “evil eyes”.[2][3] The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Portugal, Brazil, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, parts of North India, Palestine, Morocco, southern Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania, the Balkans, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bahrain, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists. *********************************** The Hand up: Abhayamudra Remember: the message of all Gods, all traditions: FEAR NOT Hindu Gods, most with right hand held up, palm out. Buddha with his right hand in abhaya mudra. Dewi Sri (Parvati) with her right hand in abhaya mudra, Bali Indonesia.[1] The Abhayamudrā “gesture of fearlessness”[2] is a mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in many Indian religions. The right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.[3] This is one of the earliest mudrās found depicted on a number of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh images. The abhayamudrā represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. The Hindu god Nataraja is depicted with the second right hand making the Abhaya Mudra, bestowing protection from both evil and ignorance to those who follow the righteousness of dharma. In Theravada Buddhism, it is usually made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, the arm bent and the palm facing outward with the fingers upright and joined and the left hand hanging down while standing. In Thailand and Laos, this mudra is associated with the Walking Buddha, often shown having both hands making a double abhayamudrā that is uniform. Yemanja, Iemanja: Goddess protector of Africa, Brazil, and world Santeria Traditions Goddess of the Andes: See posters for info on: Holy Water, blessed, From Cathedral de Fatima Note on Santeria: a serious faith of followers based on Afro-Brazilian Indignous religions, and is only mocked in caricature of voodoo, the New Orleans movie parody and not related to indigenous religions. *********************************** Above info from Wikipedia.com Now: this is water collected worldwide: use some sense here: It’s not for children, ingestion. It’s often used to anoint a forehead, objects, or places: but don’t drink, get on lips or eyes, mix with foods or drinks, give to children. If anointing pets, do on top of head, not eyes or mouth. Keep the contents away from children, jokers, pets. This isn’t dirty water, but consider it as any water from a local creek or river: you don’t drink it. Hey, you’re an adult here so take charge of the concepts, bottle, because you’re assuming risks of misuse by others, kids, pets. We’re providing a leak proof bottle, and pack to prevent breakage up front: all items at Scooter Bee’s are pretty scrutinized: no refunds or returns in any situation. We also don’t accept returns as nobody wants used stuff. This is genuine: collected waters. To purchase means you’ve read all the text and know what you’re buying. We’re not shipping you several liters silly. Read all, buy, enjoy, be healed and don’t forget to bless that cat. ****************** Please ask the day your order, and we’ll add a set of full page copies of the “posters” above, for your use. No Charge. ******************* Where will you keep your Blessed Water, that you charge? Here’s a idea: Treat the charged water just like you would if you were making a personal home altar: Set an intention of finding an a bottle or air proof container that is special to you. Give it a week or two for that item to “find” you. For one person, it could be something found at a yard sale, old, but then you wash it. For another person, it could be something costly, or a bottle you then embellish with tiles or gems. What ever it is for you, it will be “important”. Than, add your water to the container. It’s just me, but I’d use a highly filtered water (even from the machine at Walmart), because this would be missing local contaminants and smells, but a simply bottle of your favorite commercial water would do! Then, add 2-3 drops of Blessed Water. It will charge the whole bottle. As I’ve done this personally, and kept both the original blessed waters and my “charged water to use”, they last and last. For instance, I may dab my pets on the forehead, the doorways inside and out to, of my home, a sacred object that may mean nothing to another person, my own forehead with prayers, a piece of clothing for some reason of prayer, blessing, to unseat obstacles, and open myself to what I view as God, the Universe, the Mystery, and the universal and pan cultural myths of ALL religions and the gods within. Unlike lighting a candle or incense daily in the morning, this blessed water blessings is often done on a special day, special time, or struggling time, occasionally. It’s also important to do at the start of journey, quest, new jobs, new relationships, new intentions and dreams. How and by who’s power does the water work? It is the Mystery that lives in every person, and it’s the mystery of how the Spiritual World works. There are those who doubt, or totally disbelieve anything, but there are those who know that this world is as real as the seen and touched world. It’s sort of like the mystery and science writers of 1,000 to 3,000 years ago: they wrote about particles smaller than atoms, and edges of universes, and other realities and parallel universes now accepted by the most noted brained physicists. Why would then so many worldwide believe in this unseen? Carl Jung, European Psychiatrist, wounded healer, and deceased, said: These ideas are patterned in every brain to know and believe that. Some body tells you about the spiritual world (which is often apart from organized religion), and you just “know”. These concepts exist in all persons, all places, and all times that we know of. Even if you have persons in an isolated tribe, they have these spiritual concepts, which are brain archetypes called the Collective Unconscious of Man/Woman Kind. They are not just there for a survival mechanism. Did the great mystery called God, Deity, Universe or Mystery put them in our genetic code? Or are they part of our soul: we just function so naturally with a concept of the Beloved: one or many or a mystery that we seek, seeks us, can be prayed to, is part of each person’s personal definition of that (you know for yourself who the Beloved is, apart from, or just influenced by books), you can reach directly, and yet is a Mystery of the Unknown and Unseen. Some Quotes from the Poet Rumi, 13 Century Mystic Sufi Poet, and Seminary Teacher at a school in Turkey that taught to seekers from All religions, not presenting a dogma view: “God is nearer to you than your self.” “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ― Rumi “One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked. A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.” The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.” The door was shut. After a year of solitude and deprivation this man returned to the door of the Beloved. He knocked. A voice from within asked: “Who is there?” The man said: “It is Thou.” The door was opened for him. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. When your chest is free of your limiting ego, Then you will see the ageless Beloved. You can not see yourself without a mirror; Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror. Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky And you lift me up out of the two worlds. I want your sun to reach my raindrops, So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched. O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning fire of love– Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned in any school. There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets. There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid, and it doesn’t move from outside to inside through conduits of plumbing-learning. This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.” “What else can I say? You will only hear what you are ready to hear. Don’t nod your head, Don’t try to fool me— the truth of what you see is written all over your face!” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved tags: life, love, poetry, rumi 14 likes Like “Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “In the heavens I see your eyes, In your eyes I see the heavens. Why look for another Moon or another Sun?— What I see will always be enough for me.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “Lose yourself, Lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Do not fear this loss, For you will rise from the earth and embrace the endless heavens. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Escape from this earthly form, For this body is a chain and you are its prisoner. Smash through the prison wall and walk outside with the kings and princes. Lose yourself, Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself before the King you will become the King. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. Now enter that silence. This is the surest way to lose yourself. . . . What is your life about, anyway?— Nothing but a struggle to be someone, Nothing but a running from your own silence.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “Then I looked within my own heart and there I found Him— He was nowhere else.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. The pure essence of your being has taken over my heart and soul. Now there is no second or third, only the sound of your sweet cry. Through your grace I have found a treasure within myself. I have found the truth of the Unseen world. I have come upon the eternal ecstasy. I have gone beyond the ravages of time. I have become one with you! Now my heart sings, “I am the soul of the world.” Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved, book at all book resources. Where will you keep your Holy Water? ************** Thank you to my friend bringing me the Holy Water, official type, from Fatima and Lourdes. The other three were gathered on my own journeys and quests. All, come out of a “quest, seeking, journey, sincerity” **************** I think for a while we’ll not put a glitzy label on the tiny bottles, so that it is fully neutral and you. 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