The Great Rite
Unlike other rituals it is the modern attitude about sex; with in the pagan beliefs it is part of nature. The Great Rite was not always just physical, it also was a symbolic act. Linking sexual act and divine forces were easy for early humans. The Prehistoric tribes divined their rituals with cave paintings, in early paintings and carvings showed that the reverence of fertility and her ability to give new life.
If very fertile a woman was favored by the God/Goddess and was granted favor by the tribe. As long as the woman were child bearing, she held great power, when she could not have children she was replaced and the new woman would take her place, soon to be shared with a male of the tribe.
It was a blessing and seen as a Goddess living within the woman. It was seen as providing fertility to the fields, herds of the farmers, and the tribes itself. From this was the concept of survival, …show more content…
Some tribes gave sacrifice of young men at one point. The Priestess would lay with a young man and she carried a leaf shaped knife to take the mans life, it was suppose to ensure the transference of his essence.
In the Bible the Queen Esther her being a Goddess or a priestess of a Goddess her husband had to prove that he had the right to lay down with her. The Great Rite is the Hieros Gamos The Sacred Marriage, or Holy Matrimony, dating back to neolithic periods. The Ancient kings had to have a union with a priestess in order to rule. It was said it took the both God and Goddess to create the Divine Spirit.
The Great Rite according to tradition it was performed in a Magik Circle with the High Priest and Priestess, it was for seasonal festivals and handfasting between newly married couples. I at times is was Initiation coven representing inner marriage of soul and spirit, ego and self. Done two ways either “In Token” symbolically using Ritual tools or “In True” a physical sexual
Unlike other rituals it is the modern attitude about sex; with in the pagan beliefs it is part of nature. The Great Rite was not always just physical, it also was a symbolic act. Linking sexual act and divine forces were easy for early humans. The Prehistoric tribes divined their rituals with cave paintings, in early paintings and carvings showed that the reverence of fertility and her ability to give new life.
If very fertile a woman was favored by the God/Goddess and was granted favor by the tribe. As long as the woman were child bearing, she held great power, when she could not have children she was replaced and the new woman would take her place, soon to be shared with a male of the tribe.
It was a blessing and seen as a Goddess living within the woman. It was seen as providing fertility to the fields, herds of the farmers, and the tribes itself. From this was the concept of survival, …show more content…
Some tribes gave sacrifice of young men at one point. The Priestess would lay with a young man and she carried a leaf shaped knife to take the mans life, it was suppose to ensure the transference of his essence.
In the Bible the Queen Esther her being a Goddess or a priestess of a Goddess her husband had to prove that he had the right to lay down with her. The Great Rite is the Hieros Gamos The Sacred Marriage, or Holy Matrimony, dating back to neolithic periods. The Ancient kings had to have a union with a priestess in order to rule. It was said it took the both God and Goddess to create the Divine Spirit.
The Great Rite according to tradition it was performed in a Magik Circle with the High Priest and Priestess, it was for seasonal festivals and handfasting between newly married couples. I at times is was Initiation coven representing inner marriage of soul and spirit, ego and self. Done two ways either “In Token” symbolically using Ritual tools or “In True” a physical sexual