Do you believe in werewolves, or spiritual possession, /x/? What of the demon-possessed man from Mark 5:5? What of the werewolf in the Epic of Gilgamesh, or classical/antiquity accounts of? Considering we now know meltwater pulse 1B coincided nearly exactly with the biblical floods and floods expected in almost every religious text around the same time, how much else may exist out there we dismiss?I met someone here in passing a few years ago from tg who remember Eui, are you still around? What was your name there?
Zār is a possession cult found primarily in Northeast Africa and the Middle East, in Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea, and also in Iran. The term Zār designates both the spirit and the ritual associated with it. It is believed that certain illnesses, states of hysteria, or melancholy are caused by Zār spirits that have "settled" in a person. The ritual, conducted by women or shamans, involves music, dance, trance, drums, sacrifices, and perfumes (to please the spirit). Healing occurs when the spirit is appeased and "agrees" to coexist without causing harm. The Zār are conceived as spirits of the air, often of foreign origin (Ethiopian, Turkish, Arab, etc.), reflecting ancient layers of syncretism between African, Semitic, and Islamic religions.
>>42942978>In all Afroasiatic civilizations, the memory persists of intermediary, subtle entities, made of breath and fire, which inhabit the air between worlds, the invisible domain where the spirit moves like the wind. The Zār of Northeast Africa, the Djinn of Islam, the Dybbukim of the Kabbalah, and even the riding spirits of Voodoo and the East represent, under diverse names, a single ontological category: pneumatic beings, residues or reflections of ancient cosmic powers. In origin, these powers belonged to the order of the air daimones, the "wind spirits" of the Semites and proto-Africans, which translate the vital breath (ruach, pneuma, ka, ashe) as the vehicle of consciousness. When mankind distanced itself from the spiritual center, these intermediaries, once messengers and guardians of the spheres, became unstable and fallen, acting in a possessive manner, like wandering fragments of the universal soul.
>>42942986>The Jewish Dybbuk is a soul deviated from the cycle of Gilgul, incapable of reintegrating itself; the Zār is a foreign wind that penetrates the body and disturbs its harmony; the Djinn, an aerial fire between the angelic and the demonic; and the exorcist or Baal Shem, heir to the primordial theurgy, seeks to restore the spirit to its place in the order. In all cases, it is a matter of an imbalance of subtle influences, a loss of correspondence between the human microcosm and the celestial macrocosm. These forces can be seen as degenerate echoes of the ancient "zodiacal spirits," the intelligences that governed the twelve signs and their seventy-two subdivisions, the "archons of the circle," which later occultist symbolism reinterpreted as the 72 genii or wind demons. Thus, modern accounts of possession, exorcism, and reincarnation would be nothing but residual manifestations of a sacred science that saw in the cosmos a hierarchy of breaths, and in man the mirror where these winds converge.
>>42942991The primordial breath is the first emanation of Being, the vehicle through which the One expresses itself in the manifold. In all superior traditions, from the Sufi Nafas ar-Raḥmān to the Hellenic pneuma and the Hebrew ruaḥ, the breath is the animating principle that transmits life to forms, the vibration that makes the cosmos breathe. This breath, which in primordial states flowed uninterrupted between the divine Intellect and the manifested world, became progressively fragmented as the intermediary hierarchies, the secondary Logoi, daimones, angels, and archons, assumed an autonomous role in the chain of manifestation. Air, in this sense, is not the physical element, but the symbol of the subtle substance that links spirit to matter, the universal mediator that makes communication between the high and the low possible. The ancients spoke of seventy-two "winds", equivalent to the zodiacal archons or decans, sidereal powers that regulated the flow of the cosmic soul through the twelve signs. Each wind corresponded to a specific divine "puff," a mode of vibration of the Logos's energy in the world. After the "fall" or twisting of the emanation, that is, when the intermediary functors began to operate as autonomous centers, forgetting their unitive origin, these winds became dispersed and inverted. What was once the harmonious respiration of the anima mundi became a cacophony of disconnected astral currents: from this arise demonic influences, djinn, prethas, dybbukim, and all forms of possession and psychic imbalance.
>>42942952>Do you believe in werewolves, or spiritual possession, /x/?Not particularly. But I'm fascinated by the subject anyway and choose to study and prepare for the eventuality that such things may, in fact, exist.But I'm also fascinated with abnormal psychology, so... mental or neurological problems are also a possibility. Either way, I want to be ready to deal with such cases and help in any way I can.
>>42943223You and me both. It's interesting to think of the possibilities mundane or extranormal, especially when we've found so many things that line up with biblical events or events also described in other religious texts of the era.
>>42942952There are creatures that hunger because they are empty. There are creatures that feed because they refuse to change. And there are creatures that become monsters because something inside them was never permitted to speak.The Werewolf belongs to the third kingdom. It is the body remembering what the mind attempted to bury.The jaw tightens.The heart accelerates.The hands tremble.The blood becomes hot.Something has crossed a boundary.Something has been endured too long.Something has been swallowed one time too many.Then the moon rises.The cage opens.And the creature comes out.This is the Werewolf Principle. A system becomes werewolf-like when instinctual pressure is suppressed beyond its capacity for symbolic expression and eventually erupts as involuntary behavior. The werewolf is therefore not simply a creature of rage. It is a creature of exiled instinct. The human self has not integrated the beast. So the beast eventually integrates the human self.That's just my interpretation.
>>42942952>What of the werewolf in the Epic of Gilgamesh, or classical/antiquity accounts of?We have accounts of similar beings in more modern times. Scroll down to page 170 here and you will find a compelling account of a shapeshifter in colonial guatemala, and right above it is a somewhat less credible account of the same type of being. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54425/pg54425-images.html#CHAP_XX
https://libraryofrickandria.com/werewolves/
>>42945469I'll give this a read
