Some notes:
There are generally only 7 "types" roughly.
The Seven are:
0. Originator Authority (Sun / Space / Stars)
1. Sky Stormer, Chief, Mover (Jupiter / Zeus)
2. Ocean Of Wisdom / Treasures (Moon / Ea)
3. Sower of Karmas, Judge of Dead (Saturn)
4.Luck,Trade,Trav'l,Industry,Temple(Mercury)
5. Sex,Growth,Love,Ambition,Beauty(Venus)
6.Light,Omen,Music,Healing,Destroyer(Mars)
These 7 "Houses" or Theme collections have a lot of interlinked symbols and signs which they usually come packaged with repeatedly and show up throughout history all the way up until now in media and literature today.
I reccomend looking through the links and what has been mentioned here earlier and finding and listing all your favorites and what attracted you to them and why!
Here are some other notes I copy pasted to a notepad on my phone earlier:
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In some gnostic systems, the Supreme Being is known as the Monad, the One, the Absolute, Aiōn Teleos (the Perfect Aeon, αἰών τέλεος), Bythos (Depth or Profundity, Βυθός),Proarchē (Before the Beginning, προαρχή), Hē Archē (The Beginning, ἡ ἀρχή), the Ineffable Parent, and/or the primal Father.
Apocryphon of John, written c. 180, gives the following description:
The Monad is a monarchy with nothing above it. It is he who exists as God and Father of everything, the invisible One who is above everything, who exists as incorruption, which is in the pure light into which no eye can look. “He is the invisible Spirit, of whom it is not right to think of him as a god, or something similar. For he is more than a god, since there is nothing above him, for no one lords it over him. For he does not exist in something inferior to him, since everything exists in him. For it is he who establishes himself. He is eternal, since he does not need anything. For he is total perfection.[4] A being can have a relationship with a God but not the Monad as that would be a contradiction.[5]
The Apocryphon of John was banned by the Christian Church[attribution needed] and rediscovered among other gnostic texts in a large jar at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945.
Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern writes in his comparative study of Babylonian and Hebrew creation myths:
According to both traditions before the creation all was water. The deep is personified as a terrible monster, which in the Babylonian version bears the name of "Tihamat," corresponding to the Hebrew "Tehom," used as the technical expression for the primæval ocean. The Hebrew word is employed without the article, like a proper name, thus indicating that in Israelite tradition also it stood originally for some mythological being.[3]
Robert R. Stieglitz stated that Eblaitic texts demonstrate the equation of the goddess Berouth in the mythology of Sanchuniathonwith Ugaritic thmt and Akkadian Tiâmat.[4]
The Ancient Egyptians envisaged the oceanic abyss of the Nun as surrounding a bubble in which the sphere of life is encapsulated, representing the deepest mystery of their cosmogony.[3] In Ancient Egyptian creation accounts the original mound of land comes forth from the waters of the Nun.[4] The Nun is the source of all that appears in a differentiated world, encompassing all aspects of divine and earthly existence. In theEnnead cosmogony, Nun is perceived as transcendent at the point of creation alongside Atum the creator god.[3]
During the late period when Egypt was occupied by foreign powers, the negative aspect of the Nun (chaos) became the dominant perception, reflecting the forces of disorder that were set loose in the country.[3]
In this respect, in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology it referred to theprimeval sea below the void space of the underworld (Kur) and the earth (Ma) above.
Certain tanks of holy water inBabylonian and Assyrian temple courtyards were also called abzu (apsû).[2] Typical in religious washing, these tanks were similar toJudaism's mikvot, the washing pools ofIslamic mosques, or the baptismal font inChristian churches.
The Sumerian god Enki (Ea in the Akkadian language) was believed to have lived in the abzu since before human beings were created. His wife Damgalnuna, his motherNammu, his advisor Isimud and a variety of subservient creatures, such as the gatekeeperLahmu, also lived in the abzu.
Abzu (apsû) is depicted as a deity[3] only in the Babylonian creation epic, the Enûma Elish, taken from the library of Assurbanipal (c. 630 BCE) but which is about 500 years older. In this story, he was a primal being made of fresh water and a lover to another primal deity, Tiamat, a creature of salt water. TheEnuma Elish begins: "When above the heavens (e-nu-ma e-liš) did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, the first, the begetter, and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, she who bore them all; they were still mixing their waters, and no pasture land had yet been formed, nor even a reed marsh." This resulted in the birth of the younger gods, who later murdered Apsu in order to usurp his lordship of the universe. Enraged, Tiamat gives birth to the first dragons, filling their bodies with "venom instead of blood", and made war upon her treacherous children, only to be slain byMarduk, the god of Storms, who then forms the heavens and earth from her corpse.
Frāxkard (Middle Persian: plʾhwklt, Avestan:Vourukaša; also called Warkaš in Middle Persian) is the name of the cosmic ocean.[2]
In Chinese philosophy the universe consists of heaven and earth. The five major planetsare associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood (木), Mars 火星 is Fire (火), Saturn 土星 is Earth (土), Venus金星 is Metal (金), and Mercury 水星 is Water (水). Also, the Moon represents Yin (陰), and the Sun 太陽 represents Yang (陽). Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy. The five elements also play an important part inChinese astrology and the Chinese form ofgeomancy known as Feng shui.
The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles of balance, a generating or creation (生, shēng) cycle and an overcoming or destruction (克/剋, kè) cycle of interactions between the phases.
Generating
Wood feeds fire;Fire creates earth (ash);Earth bears metal;Metal collects water;Water nourishes wood.
Overcoming
Wood parts earth;Earth absorbs water;Water quenches fire;Fire melts metal;Metal chops wood.
There are also two cycles of imbalance, an overacting cycle (乘，cheng) and an insulting cycle (侮，wu).
A text written in Egypt in Hellenistic or Romantimes called the Kore Kosmou (“Virgin of the World”) ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus(associated with the Egyptian god Thoth), names the four elements fire, water, air, and earth. As described in this book:
And Isis answer made: Of living things, my son, some are made friends with fire, and some withwater, some with air, and some with earth, and some with two or three of these, and some with all. And, on the contrary, again some are made enemies of fire, and some of water, some of earth, and some of air, and some of two of them, and some of three, and some of all. For instance, son, the locust and all flies flee fire; the eagle and the hawk and all high-flying birds flee water; fish, air and earth; the snake avoids the open air. Whereas snakes and all creeping things love earth; all swimming things love water; winged things, air, of which they are the citizens; while those that fly still higher love the fire and have the habitat near it. Not that some of the animals as well do not love fire; for instance salamanders, for they even have their homes in it. It is because one or another of the elements doth form their bodies’ outer envelope. Each soul, accordingly, while it is in its body is weighted and constricted by these four.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche states that
physical properties are assigned to the elements: earth is solidity; water is cohesion; fire is temperature; air is motion; and space is the spatial dimension that accommodates the other four active elements. In addition, the elements are correlated to different emotions, temperaments, directions, colors, tastes, body types, illnesses, thinking styles, and character. From the five elements arise the five senses and the five fields of sensory experience; the five negative emotions and the five wisdoms; and the five extensions of the body. They are the five primary pranas or vital energies. They are the constituents of every physical, sensual, mental, and spiritual phenomenon.[28]
The system of five elements are found inVedas, especially Ayurveda, the pancha mahabhuta, or “five great elements”, ofHinduism are bhūmi (earth),[6] ap or jala(water), tejas or agni (fire), marut, vayu orpavan (air or wind) and vyom or shunya (space or zero) or akash (aether or void).[
Earth represented things that were solid.Water represented things that were liquid.Fire represented things that destroy.Air represented things that moved.Void or Sky/Heaven represented things not of our everyday life.
In Hindu mythology, the Dānavas were a race descending from Dakṣa.
They were the sons of Danu, the daughter ofDakṣa. Danu is connected with the waters of the heavens and is likely associated with the formless, primordial waters that existed prior to creation. The name is connected with thePIE root *danu, "river" or "any flowing liquid."
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