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Board index The Music Place OLD IDEAS
How Would You Rate Old Ideas?
Leonard Cohen's previous album (January 2012)
literman
Re: How Would You Rate Old Ideas?
Post by literman » Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:29 am
Chris I really aprecciate your post, but I would like to ask your oppinion about Come Healing, the only track you havent commented.
As someone wrote I agree that old ideas seems the natural prolongation or evolution of Ten New Songs and Dear Heather.
The Cohen I love begins on Song of L.C and ends on The Future, in my mind the subsequent albums are something like a tip.
Indeed every song from Suzanne to Tacoma Trailer, are perfect, only dress rehersal rag and diamond in the mine, hasent aged very well.
After many years of listening to Cohen, and reading his books too, my oppinion is that lyrically death of a ladys man is his most acomplished album,
its a sort of deep exploration and can almost call it conceptual, i get a sort of same feeling but in a lesser degree with new skin.
Anyway on old ideas there are some good songs, and i have the feeling that on the next album we will also find a few, so picking
the tracks from each album you may even get something close to Cohen clasic.
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Juergiano
Post by Juergiano » Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:58 am
I dont overly like Anyhow, Crazy to love you, and Banjo. The other songs are somewhere between pretty good and very good
The lyrics of "Going home" are very strong IMO. I was surprised to learn that many people don t agree with me on this one, but I will get over it
Thanks Leonard!
alb123
Post by alb123 » Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:14 am
literman wrote: Chris I really aprecciate your post, but I would like to ask your oppinion about Come Healing, the only track you havent commented.
Ah, I did forget to comment on "Come Healing"...Well, I think it is one of the stronger songs, lyrically, on Old Ideas. This track has me perplexed as of now. I don't know exactly how I feel about the abundance of the backing vocalists, basically taking the driver's seat, with this track. The female vocals on Banjo blend beautifully on a song like "Banjo", even though it's not my favorite track - it's production is fantastic. I know what Leonard was trying to do with that track and he did it very well. Now, on "Come Healing", I really feel like this is a prayer...more than it is just a song. There are some beautiful lyrics in that track!! I just listened to "Come Healing" three times so I would be able to write this response. I can picture Leonard on bended knees, reciting this prayer. I just wish that he did something different with the opening, instead of having the girls begin...
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LisaLCFan wrote: I loved Old Ideas from the first moment I heard it. I thought that every song was stunning, beautiful, amazing, and I was in awe. It touched me to my core the very first time, and repeated listenings simply intensify this feeling.
I remember the very first time that I heard Songs of Leonard Cohen and Songs From a Room. Each CD was played, start to finish, while I sat in my room alone and I remember getting goosebumps. I couldn't understand how someone could write such beautiful lyrics. Songs that were so deep, like "The Stranger Song" just blew me away. "Bird on the Wire" made me want to cry. I always get pulled into a song by the lyrics first, the music second and then the overall production last. Leonard knocked my socks off with those hauntingly beautiful lyrics!! I wish I got the same feelings from Old Ideas. I envy you!!! I really do! I know the feeling that you're experiencing and I'm so jealous.
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Post by Jonnie Falafel » Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:17 pm
We are so various in our responses aren't we? The women vocalists opening Come Healing I find just perfect! It's right that LC begins with the understood ye deeply inpenetrable "Behold the gates of Mercy/In arbitrary space"..... To me the must surprising (and moving) lyric is Lullaby: "The mouse ate the crumb/Then the cat ate the crust/Now they've fallen in love/And they're talking in tongues" ....
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Post by John Etherington » Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:57 pm
Jonnie- I'm totally in agreement there and also with Lisa's quote "I do not like to compare Leonard's albums to one another: each is a unique work that should be assessed on its own. This is one of the reasons why I love Leonard Cohen's work: he does not put out the same record, year after year, rather, he creates something new and unique each time".
Personally, I see all of Leonard's albums as the unfoldment of a journey, and would not wish to put value judgements on "Old Ideas" which I've only listened to six times, so far. My favourite albums in the past have included "Songs of Love and Hate", "Recent Songs" and "The Future". The only two I found lacking in parts were "New Skin","Dear Heather", and "Death of a Ladies Man" (which I actually like a lot and played repeatedly).
"Old Ideas" has already risen to a position way beyond my initial expectations. The depth and profundity of some of the lyrics are only just beginning to reveal themselves to me- especially in "Amen", "Come Healing" and "Different Sides". I particularly like "Though it all may be one in the higher eye/Down here where we live it is two".
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TipperaryAnn
Post by TipperaryAnn » Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:36 pm
alb123 wrote: Leonard knocked my socks off with those hauntingly beautiful lyrics!! I wish I got the same feelings from Old Ideas. I envy you!!! I really do! I know the feeling that you're experiencing and I'm so jealous.
Ah, but you were so much younger then - a different person, really. So was Leonard. Time marches on...
Forget your perfect offering -
There is a crack in everything...
Post by LisaLCFan » Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:06 pm
alb123 wrote: I wish I got the same feelings from Old Ideas. I envy you!!! I really do! I know the feeling that you're experiencing and I'm so jealous.
I am actually surprised that numerous people on the forum seem to share your feelings about Old Ideas (I am not being critical, I am simply genuinely surprised about the somewhat less-than-enthusiastic initial response some people have had). I have not always been immediately blown away by Leonard's albums, there were 2 or 3 that needed to grow on me a bit, but Old Ideas resonated so deeply right from the start. It is certainly a wonderful feeling!
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Post by Evie B » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:04 pm
alb123 wrote:
According to the cd jacket, Chris, Dana Glover is the only female singer on this track (Come Healing) so the harmonies (including the intro) must have been her voice layered. Who sings on which track is clearly accredited and the Webbs only sing on The Darkness (with Sharon). It is confusing because Dana can at times sing in a very similar style to the Webbs, but I think I have it fixed in my head now who sings with Leonard on each track.
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Post by John K. » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:48 pm
Rating Leonard Cohen albums is difficult, because there's the scale that rates them against everything and then there's the scale that rates a new album against the other works by the artist.
On the first scale, "Old Ideas" represents a return to form after "Dear Heather", and is one of the better things I've heard in several years. I would rate Paul Simon's "So Beautiful or So What" a bit higher, but nothing that my other favorite performers (Neil Young, Paul Westerberg, R.E.M., Kevn Kinney, Chris Difford) have done for many years compares. There isn't one "bad" song per se, and the only weaker points are those that reminded me of Dear Heather, but there were only a couple of the ten songs. I give it a 9 on this scale.
On the "Leonard Cohen scale", Old Ideas is, in my honest opinion, quite average. This is not a bad thing, average Leonard Cohen is much much better that almost everything else in modern music. On this harder scale I rank it a 7, in the middle group of his albums, which would be (in chronological order within category):
Tops: Songs Of LC, Songs of Love & Hate, Recent Songs, Various Positions, I'm Your Man
Middles: From a Room, New Skin, The Future, 10 New Songs, Old Ideas
Lows: DOALM, Dear Heather
This doesn't mean that a "middles" doesn't have moments that compare to a "tops", but rather that the middles aren't consistently in that tops place.
And that's the last time you'll see me analyze this in that much detail, I'm a big picture guy. Oh, and I LOVE the packaging and the way it was put together and the casual photo of LC on the front. The only flaw is that it should have been a digipack vs. jewel case.
Yers,
Private John K.
I love to speak with John
He's a pundit and a fraud
He's a lazy banker living in a suit
http://www.johnkloberdanz.com
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Home > Press > Bearing Witness in Belarus — Jewish Community Project Downtown, July 27, 2018
Bearing Witness in Belarus — Jewish Community Project Downtown, July 27, 2018
Bearing Witness in Belarus
by Andy Bachman
My grandmother, like Jewish grandmothers everywhere, was known for her kugle, which she called "sour" because it didn't have cinnamon or sugar (God forbid). She made her own blintzes, too, which were sweet, as they should be. Her recipes were handed down to her by her mother Rebecca, with whom she immigrated to Milwaukee four years after Rebecca's husband Chaim had set sail, bought two horses and started a burlap bag business in Milwaukee's Jewish ghetto.
(Pictured above: Rebecca and Chaim Siegel)
The Siegels came from Kopyl, Minsk, a small town of some five thousand souls in which Jews made up 60% of the population, the majority of whom were murdered in one February day in 1942. These Jews of Belarus died at the hands of Nazis and others who forced Jews to dig their own graves and then murdered them brutally, usually in the span of twenty-four hours. And this was a pattern repeated in the nearly 200 Jewish communities in Belarus. Most estimates state that nearly 90% of the one million Jews living in Belarusian territory during the war were murdered. When you stand above these sites you begin to understand why the Yale historian Timothy Snyder refers to these as the "Bloodlands."
Like some American Jews, I wasn't told any of this as a kid. My grandparents and parents were devoted more to the American "project" than the Jewish one. My grandmother made it out in 1903 and never really looked back. But as I matured and decided to re-dig the wells of the Jewish past, I set out to learn more.
(Site of the Jewish mass murder in Kopyl, Minsk)
Finally, in the summer of 2016 I traveled to Minsk and to Kopyl, to see the family homeland, to pay tribute to the memory of the thriving Jewish life in Belarus, to say Kaddish at gravesides and perhaps most important, to bear witness. I met Belarusians whose grandparents families would have witnessed or even taken part in the destruction of my grandparents' families and came away convinced that it ought to be the birthright of every Jew, if she or he is able, to return to these lands where our people lived for centuries — if only to testify to our endurance and survival. One of our guides was a schoolteacher because she said, she felt duty bound to teach children about the war and the lives that were lost. Another guide felt equally duty bound to narrate a lost past because as she put it, to deny the past is to deny reality as it is meant to be understood.
Waiters in restaurants; bartenders; store clerks; cab drivers — each were mystified by this sudden appearance of the Jews ( I had traveled with my colleague Leonard Petlakh, himself a refugee from Minsk in the 1980s, and my cousin Dave.) We told people we were the Sons of Minsk. A nerdy, intellectual, non-violent version of the Avengers, perhaps.
(Sons of Minsk)
In the marketplace outside of one town we bought blintzes from a food cart; we ate latkes and sour cream for breakfast each day. We never did find a sour kugle. But we were unquestionably immersed in our own soul food, our own hard-earned memory and a chromosomal connection to the past in appetite, body type, and outlook. On the roads between towns as we drove from cemetery to cemetery, pears and peaches and apples hung from trees; corn grew tall from the fertile earth; rain came and went. This was the Breadbasket of Belarus. No wonder my great-grandfather chose Milwaukee in 1899. It reminded him of Minsk.
(Latkes)
But of course, there was an eerie, indescribable pallor that hung over each day. The awareness of the enormity of the loss of life was an inescapable weight. It exhausted us each day. To contemplate the generations of the writers, the poets, the doctors and lawyers; the journalists and farmers and shopkeepers and shoemakers; the rabbis, the nurses, the Zionists and the dreamers; the socialists, the communists, the capitalists and the non-ideological mass, merely eeking out a living and yearning for a slice of the sacred, if elusive, peaceful life. All gone.
Precisely because of this powerful confrontation with a painful past, I decided to go back. I needed to go back and felt duty-bound as a Jew.
I'll be in Minsk from July 26 to August 3 to visit seniors, raise memorials for lost communities and do a small bar mitzvah.
The Joint Distribution Committee in Minsk continues to provide critical humanitarian assistance to an aging population of poor Jews in the capital and the countryside. The JDCs center is a hive of activity and its remarkable director, Natalia Maletz, is as devoted and generous as a saint. There is a Reform rabbi in Minsk named Grisha Abramovich, a kind and soulful man who serves small Jewish enclaves, mostly elderly, throughout the country. This coming Saturday I will officiate at his son's bar mitzvah. To think of my own ancestors reading Torah on this soil for generations and helping a young person to raise himself up to our sacred text is an honor unlike anything I've ever experienced.
And then on Sunday and Monday next week, I will travel again with Leonard along with Joni and Cary Kletter and Michael and Diane Lazarus, families who have made part of their own sacred mission the memorialization of Belarusian Jewry. Together, these families have raised nearly ninety memorials in the towns and shtetls where Jews once lived. The modest marble and granite edifices are the standard bearers of Jewish memory in towns where there are no longer any Jews.
(Memorial to the murdered Jews of Kopyl)
We will dedicate memorials in Byhov and Sapezhinka on Sunday and then again in Svisloch and Porozovo on Monday. We will be joined by the towns' mayors and priests and in some instances by American and Israeli diplomats. We will remember the souls of lives lost with Kaddish. We will testify. Perhaps some of you will join me on this trip again next year or in the future.
It's a hard trip but it's a meaningful trip and I can guarantee you that it will root you in your history in new ways that will open up vistas of insight and understanding.
And as I found among others back in 2016, it's likely some of you have relatives or ancestors of your own that came from Belarus. If you know the town, let me know and I'll make sure to stop there next week and say Kaddish for your family. We are all each other's emissary for doing these mitzvot, connecting with the past, and building lives of meaning now, today. And if you want to support this ongoing work in memory of a loved one, you can give to us at JCP and we will dedicate those funds to the ongoing educational work of knowing our past and building a meaningful and deeply rooted Jewish future.
I look forward to sharing this journey with you when I return. In the meantime, please enjoy the rest of your summer. Here's to a wonderful adventure together this Fall at JCP.


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Please note that Reiki and Massage are not currently available but yoga is available as below.
Jude is a fully qualified massage and Reiki therapist and Yoga teacher. For the ultimate chillout – why not book a relaxing massage treatment in your room or private yoga lesson during your stay? If you have spent the day walking or cycling, massage is the perfect way to ease tired or sore muscles.
Massage can be used to promote general wellbeing and enhance self esteem, while boosting the circulatory and immune systems to benefit blood pressure, circulation, muscle tone, digestion and skin tone. It can be relaxing or invigorating as required. Uses unscented or blended aromatherapy oils or lotions. 1 hour – £35, 30 mins – £20.
Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to client to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy. It is a holistic natural hands on energy healing system that touches on all levels: body, mind and spirit. Reiki is a Japanese word representing the Universal life energy which is all around us. 1 hour – £35, 30 mins – £20.
Yoga is a centuries old spiritual science focusing on harmony, or synthesis of intellect, heart, mind, body and spirit. We teach traditional Hatha Yoga influenced in parts by the Sivananda, Ashtanga and Iyengar styles of Yoga that we have studied. Classes include asana (postures) meditation and breathing techniques with the emphasis on creating balance and stillness in the body and mind. Individual Yoga Lessons – £45 for an hour and 30 mins (groups of 1-4). Find out more at the Mahashakti Website.


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While much credit is due, tires are the unheralded, often unmentioned component behind modern performance and tuner car feats. It's not an exaggeration to suggest that without sufficient tire technology, vehicle performance progress would be impossible. Nevertheless, their contribution is largely overlooked.
For example, Hennessey's Venom GT Spyder set the world top speed record for a convertible last year. Unreported was the fact that record was accomplished with a performance street tire -- the Michelin Pilot Super Sport.
The fact that an "off the shelf" performance tire can remain intact at 265 mph is truly remarkable. And thankfully for us performance geeks, the trend and demand for ultra-ultra high performance tires continues to increase at a rapid rate. That means greater R&D is set to be invested in the tire segment, and U-UHP tire products should progress accordingly.
Continental has made a commitment to the segment by partnering with some of the foremost tuning firms in the world, including AC Schnitzer, Brabus, edo competition, TechArt, and others.
As detailed in this case study, Continental's work with tuners pushing the vehicle power and top speed limits serves as the perfect testbed for ultra-ultra high performance tire testing and development.
Continental's SportContact 6 was engineered to satisfy the needs of the tuning community. It's brimming with advanced design concepts and optimized for speeds up to 217 mph (officially speaking).
Continental's work with tuners has helped them break through engineering dilemmas and problems, including overcoming the zero sum situation between rolling resistance (fuel economy) and braking traction. "Black Chili" and "Aralon 350" technologies, which were originally developed for U-UHP tuner car purposes, work to solve this dilemma and advance mainstream performance tires.
Continental's commitment to U-UHP tires is reflected in their new $45,000,000 High Performance Technology Center in Korbach, Germany. The small plant is equipped to handle small production runs of U-UHP tires; up to 350,000 tires per year for tuning firms.
"The expertise gained in U-UHP tire development and at the high-tech site will be transferred to all Continental tire plants and will have a positive impact on the company's entire product portfolio."
Current performance tires are massively more capable than those from just one or two generations ago. These are the sorts of activities occurring behind the scenes that drive the progress. With demand on the rise, the future of U-UHP tires is looking very promising indeed.


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Goddesses of the Witches
Some things I have been playing around with for various books. Didn't fit with anything I am working on now, but I don't want to go to waste.
Names of the Goddess
The Goddess is known by many names, but each is but an aspect of the true goddess. What follows is a listing of Goddesses from Earth's mythologies. In each case a possible or likely alignment is included as well as areas of domains for clerics and witch coven spells. Descriptions of that Goddess' coven might also be included.
Witches who worship the Artemis aspect of the Goddess are on good terms with druids. These witches are common in amazon societies. As a witch of Artemis a woman pledges never to copulate with a man. These witches are both chaste and celibate. These witches may also choose to take the bow and arrow as their weapon.
She is part of a trinity of Artemis (maiden), Hestia (mother), and Hecate (crone).
Alignment: N or CG
Areas of Influence:Hunting, Moon, Women
Astartë
Astartë (Ah-star TAY) is the goddess of love, fertility as well as war and lasciviousness (lust) to the ancient peoples of Canaan and Phoenicia, she was worshiped as far West as Carthage, Sicily, Sardinia and Cyprus. Her name and cult were derived from Babylonia, where as Ishtar, she represented the evening and morning stars and was accordingly androgynous in origin. Under Semitic influence, however, she became solely female, although retaining a trace of her original character by standing on equal footing with the male divinities. She represents the productive power of nature. She is also a moon goddess. Her symbol is the crescent moon with "horns" turned up.
She is related to the devil Astoroth, some say that she is now this devil, others say that that Astoroth is her son/consort. Astoroth has also been associated with the Canaanite god of Thamudzi/Damuz.
Alignment: N or LN
Areas of Influence:Fertility, Magic
The Goddess of War and Wisdom sprang fully grown and armored from Zeus', her father, head. She represents wisdom in matters of life and war.
Her worshippers are normally generals fighting just causes. The witches of this sect are usually on good terms with those of Artemis. This witch is favored in the Craft of the Wise tradition because of Athena's renowned wisdom. They may choose the spear as their weapon.
Alignment: LG
Areas of Influence: War, Wisdom, Women
Bast is an ancient Goddess and the mistress of all cats. Nearly every Find Familiar spell known invokes her name. Witches of Bast, few as they are, live a cat-like life style. They prefer the comforts and leisure life that cats enjoy. Then spend long afternoons lying in the sun and enjoying the sensuous side of life. Regardless, do not confuse leisure with laziness. Witches of Bast are dedicated fighters of evil, in particular the workings of the minions of Set. Witches of Bast may choose weapon mastry in one edged weapon at the loss of one feat. They also gain a +1 to hit and damage when fighting snakes.
Her consort is Aelurus, who appears as a tanned human male with a cat's or lion's head.
Alignment: NG or N
Areas of Influence: Cats, Good, Hunting
Brigit
Brigit, also known as Brigantia, Bridget, or Brigid, is the Celtic Goddess of the rivers and rural life. She is also the Goddess of Healing, Midwifery and Wisdom. She was raised on the milk creature of the other-world, a white, red-eared cow. Brigit is one of the great Triple Goddesses of the Celtic people. She appeared as Brigit to the Irish, Brigantia in Northern England, Bride in Scotland, and Brigandu in Brittany. Many legends are told about Brigit. Some say that there are three Brigits: one sister in charge of poetry and inspiration who invented the Ogham alphabet, one in charge of healing and midwifery, and the third in charge of the hearth fire, smithies and other crafts. This actually indicates the separate aspects of her Threefold nature and is a neat division of labor for a hard-working Goddess. Indeed, various interpretations of her name exist including, "Bright Arrow," "The Bright One," "the Powerful One" and "The High One," depending upon the region and the dialect.
Her coven is known as the Daughters of the Flame. These lawful good witches keep a holy flame burning at all times.
Part of a trinity of Brigit (maiden) and Danu (mother), Morigann is the crone.
Alignment: NG or LG
Areas of Influence: Fire, Healing, Wisdom
Cardea
Often called the Roman Hecate, Cardea is the goddess of doors and the knowledge behind those doors. Cardea is a capricious Goddess, often requiring her witches to memorize a section of poetry or building a center of learning in exchange for Her gifts of knowledge. Cardea is open to all who wish to seek her out, but she makes no guarantees that her knowledge will be helpful to the seeker.
Alignment: CN or CG
Areas of Influence: Knowledge, Paths, Wisdom
Celtic Goddess of wisdom, intelligence, magic, divination and enchantment. She is the Goddess of the cauldron. Popular among the Celtic Classical and Craft of the Wise Traditions.
Cerridwen's cauldron has the power to return the dead to life.
Alignment: N
Areas of Influence: Intelligence, Magic, Wisdom
The Celtic Mother-goddess known as Danu to the Irish and Don to the Welsh (and simlar to the Greek Demeter below). The race of the Tuatha deDannan means "The Children of Danu". She is also the mother of many Irish Celtic gods Diancecht, Lir, Lugh, Oghma and others. Dagda is alternately mentioned as her son or father. She is fierce protector of home and hearth.
She is part of a trinity of Brigit (maiden), Danu (mother), and Morigann (crone).
Areas of Influence: Earth, Fertility, Nature
Also known as Kore. The great Greek Earth Goddess. She is the Goddess of grain and of the harvest. Her witch cults are among the oldest known. She goes down to the underworld to retrieve her daughter. During this time winter covers the land. Origin of most of the "Descent of the Goddess" legends.
Alignment: NG
Diana is the Roman Goddess of fertility, the hunt and forests. She is the roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess of Artemis. But unlike Artemis, the witches of Diana are not required to be chaste or celibate. In the celebration of Beletane the witch copulates with a druid priest in order to bring fertility back to the earth. Some have even become Tantric witches. Obviously these witches are on very good terms with Druids. Their religious practices are very similar to Druids and to that Artemis.
The covens of Diana are often very old and very popular. The Amazon tradition is often known as the Cult of Diana because of their fervent devotion to the Goddess.
Areas of Influence: Hunting, Moon, Women
Eir
Eir is the Scandinavian Goddess of Healing, and handmaiden of Frigg. No one is Her equal when it comes to healing. Her worshipers are all healers, either clerical or as herbal healers. Her clerics and witches must never pick up a weapon in anger or vengeance.
She is depicted as been a slight woman with reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes. Her arms are muscular. She commonly wears blue and red. Fires always light her temples and covens, which are known as centers of healing and succor. She is known for her patience.
All her worshipers must take the healing and profession (herbalist) skills.
Areas of Influence: Healing, Peace
Gaea (Gaia) is an Earth Goddess of Greek origin. It is she who is ultimately responsible for all life. It is claimed that she emerged from darkness and mated with Uranus (the Sky god) and bore the twelve titans.
Egyptian fertility Goddess. She is the celestial cow who created the earth and the sun. As a cow goddess she ruled love, joy, merriment, music and dance. She nourished the living with her milk , suckling Pharaoh and all others. She is also known as the Goddess of love, music, song, and pleasure. In this aspect She has many followers among Lorelei and Tantric witches. She was one of the Egyptian gods that help guide the dead to the other side.
She is a Goddess that represents life, thus all her witches must be forces of life. While some celebrate life, like the Lorelei and Tantric witches, others actively pursue careers to destroy those that threaten or mock life, such as the followers of Set or undead.
Alignment: CG
Areas of Influence: Creation, Fertility, Life, Magic
Hecate
Hecate is, in Greek mythology, the Goddess of darkness, magic and witchcraft. She is the daughter of the Titans Perses and Asteria. Unlike Artemis, who represented the moonlight and splendor of the night, Hecate represented its darkness and its terrors. On moonless nights she was believed to roam the earth with a pack of ghostly, howling dogs. She was the Goddess of sorcery and witchcraft and was especially worshiped by magicians and witches, who sacrificed black lambs and black dogs to her. As Goddess of the crossroads, Hecate and her pack of dogs were believed to haunt these remote spots, which seemed evil and ghostly places to travelers. In art Hecate is often represented with either three bodies or three heads and with serpents entwined about her neck.
Of all the deities who have covens, Hecate's covens are the most widespread and well known. Hecate was once a fairly benign goddess in early Greek times. She later became the dread Greco-Roman Goddess of ghosts, a close confidante of Persephone and a patron of witches. The brutally wronged Hecuba of Troy was reincarnated as one of Hecate's black dogs, which accompanied her on her night walks. When Hades kidnapped Persephone in the later Greek myth, farseeing Hecate was the only one who witnessed it. Hecate was worshiped at three-way crossroads at night even by ordinary Greek families and could ward off ghosts if properly propitiated. But Romans also believed She had more sinister worshipers; the witches and sorceresses who could coerce even the gods to do their will.
Alignment: LE or LN
Areas of Influence: Ghosts, Magic, Moon, The Crossroads
One side of Hel's face was that of a beautiful woman. The other half was that of a rotting corpse, green and black, or of a skull. She ruled the realm of Niflheim, a huge black canyon in icy mountains, where those who did not die gloriously in battle went when their span of life was up. Niflheim was not burning but icy cold, filled with sleet, icy slush, cold mud and snow. Garm, the horrible hound whose breast was splattered with the blood of the dead, guarded the entrance. Her hall was called Damp-With-Sleet. Her plate was Hunger, Her knife Famine; Her two servants were both called Slow-Moving. Her bed was Sick-Bed, the stone at the entrance to her hall Drop-to-Destruction. So the Vikings described Her and Her home. Though the Vikings regarded her with horror, the common people worshiped her.
Alignment: NE
Areas of Influence: Death, Destruction, Evil
Hestia is one of the Grecian hearth goddesses. The Romans later called her Vesta. Hestia was said to preside over all sacrifices. One of the prohibitions was that should her fire ever go it, it could not be rekindled by an ordinary fire but only by the sun's rays or by the friction of two pieces of wood. As Vesta, the leaders of her cult were the Vestal Virgins (these were six girls from ages six to ten) who entered her college and stayed there for thirty years. Those breaking their vow of chastity were whipped to death or entombed. Her witches will be the older women who have completed their temple service.
Areas of Influence: Hearth, Healing, Home
Holda
Holda, or Frau Holt, is the Goddess of Teutonic witches and Hags. She is seen as both a caring mother and a frightening hag—a witch that calms children's fears or eats them. These polar opposites are common in many of the guises of the Goddess. Classic witches typically honor her "good" side and Hags her "evil" one. Holda is often depicted as riding a broom or a giant flying goose. She can appear as a kindly old mother, a small child wearing all white or a viscous hag-like monster. She is the goddess of spinning, vegetation and children. She is also a fertility goddess and her consort is known as the Wood Man.
The Oskorei, or the Furious Horde, a legion of fallen heroes and others, who have died before their time, similar to the Wild Hunt of the Celts or the Valkeries of the Norse, follow her on her nightly rides.
It is also believed that Frau Holt is the model for the children's storybook character "Mother Goose".
Alignment: CG or CE
Areas of Influence: Night, Mysteries, Witches and Hags
Ishtar of the Babylonians, and alternately Inanna of the Sumerians, represent the duality approach to the female deity, both are to be considered Nature deities; that is, human nature. Both are the chief goddesses of their pathos, both are the goddesses of love, and therefore sexuality. Also both are the goddesses of War, and therefore violence. Their witches tend to have mercurial, almost chaotic personalities. Covens tend to be very ancient and set in their ways. Rituals will usually be consisted of old, lengthy litanies and sacrifices. Ishtar's witches are also as likely to pick up a weapon, as they are to use magic.
Alignment: CN
Areas of Influence: Love, Nature, War
Covens of Isis are old and represent ancient powers of the universe. These witches are in tune with the fundamental powers and forces of the universe. Isis' name is called in rights of fertility. She is also the patron Goddess of Magic. There is much rivalry between Hecate and Isis in this category. All of Isis' covens are the paramount of good. Isis is also a feminine ideal. With Osiris, Isis and Horus (the divine child) made up a Holy Trinity. She is the Goddess of marriage, motherhood, fertility, magic, healing, reincarnation and divination, to name but a few. Isis is the patroness of priestesses. One myth has Isis poisoning the Sun God Ra, offering to save him only if he would reveal his secret name. At last, at the brink of destruction, Ra gives Isis his heart, with the secret name it held, and his two eyes (the Sun and the Moon). Isis quells the poison and ends up with Ra's supreme power. In time the great Eye was passed along to her son Horus. Proclus mentions a statue of her which bore the inscription "I am that which is, has been and shall be. My veil no one has lifted". Hence, to lift the veil of Isis is to pierce the heart of a great mystery.
Areas of Influence: Healing, Magic, Women
Kali is the supreme Dark Goddesses. It has been claimed that Her name is derived from the Hindu word for Time, yet also means, "black". She is also called Durga.
Her very appearance is meant to terrify. She is black and emaciated, with fangs and claws. She wears a girdle of severed arms, a necklace of skulls or severed heads, earrings of children's corpses, cobras as bracelets or garlands. Her mouth is smeared with blood. Often She is shown standing or dancing on the corpse of the god Shiva; here, She feasts on his intestines.
Yet even Kali is not always dark. She also is a loving mother, and especially in that aspect is worshipped by millions of Hindus and her witches.
Her witches also see Kali as an Earth-Fertility Goddess, is thus worshiped by many Tantric witches. There are many parallels between the witch's view of Kali and that of Ishtar. Kali's regular priests (Thuggee) see her as the destroyer and a Goddess of death. Her witches, however, view Kali as the Force of Nature, a mother who can give life and take it away. Witches of Kali generally have several Thuggee males in their covens as their strong arms. Slaves are kept and human sacrifice is common. Kali's holiest nights are on the new moon and Wednesdays.
Alignment: CE
Areas of Influence: Death, Destruction, Fertility
Lilith is many things, first woman, wife, mother of demons, consort to men, demons, devils and gods, witch, demon and Goddess.
Lilith was the first wife of Adam, the first man. Adam and Lilith never found peace together, for when he wished to lie with her, she took offence at the recumbent position he demanded. "Why must I lie beneath you?" she asked. "I also was made from dust, and am therefore your equal". She became proud and refused to lie beneath him during intercourse. This violated the command to be fruitful and multiply, since she was not being impregnated. Some traditions hold that she was impregnated and bore demons from him. Others claim She had two daughters with Adam. Naamah and Tubal are referred to as Cain's sisters. Naamah is the mother of many devils. He pushed the issue of her submission, and she uttered the Holy Name of God and flew away.
It is said that soon after Lilith left Adam he stood in prayer before his creator and said: "God of the World, the woman that you gave me has run away from me". God tried to force her to return to Adam and sent therefore the death-angel Azrafil to her in the desert at the Red Sea, where she dwelled with the djinns, giving birth to countless demons. Then God dispatched the three angels, Sanvai, Sansanvai, and Semangelof to bring her back. They caught up with her in the desert near the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to which she bore Lilim at the rate of more than one hundred a day. "Return to Adam without delay," the angels said, "or we will drown you!" Lilith asked: "How can I return to Adam and be his woman, after my stay beside the Red Sea?" "It would be death to refuse!" they answered. "How can I die," Lilith asked again, "when God has ordered me to take charge of all newborn children: boys up to the eighth day of life, that of circumcision; girls up to the twentieth day? Nevertheless," she said, "I swear to you in the name of God who is living and exists, that if ever I see your three names or likenesses displayed in an amulet above a newborn child, I promise to spare it". To this day they agreed; however, God punished Lilith by making one hundred of her demon children perish daily, and if Lilith could not destroy a human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she would spitefully turn against her own. As late as the 18th century, mothers and children across many cultures took advantage of the protection offered by these amulets. Charms and rituals accompanied the use of the amulets, protecting mothers and infants from the retribution of Lilith. Baby girls were considered vulnerable in their first three weeks of life. Boys, on the other hand, were believed to be vulnerable for longer periods of time. Any boy under the age of eight was possible prey.
Areas of Influence: Evil, Moon, Women
Lovitar
Of the Finnish, "the people who ran from the woods," few Goddesses are as evil and sadistic as Lovitar, Maiden of Pain. Witches of Lovitar dispense pain to all of their enemies. Typical garb is white and all kinds of daggers are allowed as weapons. Her coven spells deal primarily with pain and cold.
Areas of Influence: Cold, Evil, Pain
The Queen of the Sidhe. Mabd is the prototypical elven Goddess of Celtic lore. Her high time is the Summer Solstice. She is also known as Mab, Meave and to the Briton Celts, Titania. She is a mercurial Goddess that reflects the nature of the forest; life giving to some, deadly to others.
Witches of the Faerie Tradition honor Mabd and many of the Classical Traditions also pay her honor.
Alignment: CG or CN
Areas of Influence: Elves (Sidhe), Mysteries
Morigann
The Raven, the Celtic goddess of war. Known as The Morigann, Morigan, Macha and Morigu. She is the Goddess of war, battle and death, but not evil.
Alignment: CN or CE
Areas of Influence: Chaos, War
This Welsh Goddess is well known for her appearance in the Mabinagion. In penance for a crime that she did not commit, she sat for seven years outside Pwyll's palace and offered to carry any visitor on her back like a horse. The singing of her three magic birds could be heard over the sea, could wake the dead and could lull the living to sleep. She was also identified with Epona (a horse cult). The Roman Calvary favored Epona and her shrines were covered with roses.
Areas of Influence: Horses, Fertility, Women
Tiamat is the great creation Goddess of water and chaos to the Sumerians. She gave birth to all of the Sumerian (Babylonian) gods and ruled them all, until the god Marduk defeated her. He used Her body to create the sky and earth. She was described as a great dragon or a being of chaos. Like so many other destructive Goddesses, Tiamat is a Goddess of creation. It is believed by the Sumerians that she created the world. In Babylonian myths, Tiamat is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the saltwater ocean, the water of Chaos. She is also the primordial mother of all that exists, including the gods themselves.
The Cult of Tiamat is extremely far reaching. The primary duties of her witches are to venerate Tiamat and destruction in any way they can and to spread the word of the cult. Often "spreading the word" implies random acts of violence and attributing them to Tiamat herself. It is her capacity as the dark Goddess of chaos and creation that attracts so many witches to her cult.
Her witches tend to belong to the Malefic or dark Tantric Traditions.
Areas of Influence: Chaos, Creation, Dragons, Water
Tlazolteol
Aztec witches who worship Tlazolteol, the Goddess of vice, are often tantric or malefic witches. They spend a great amount of time on their appearance and try to look as desirable as possible. Once they have someone alone they will attempt to corrupt or kill them. Most prefer to corrupt others. Bards speak of a particularly successful witch of Tlazolteol who had been in the bedrooms of many of a particular country's politicians. Single handedly she had very nearly toppled the government through jealousy and deceit.
Tlazoteol is also seen as a necessary evil. She takes in filth and sin so it may be disposed of. It is this aspect that she is most often worshiped and served by her witches. Confessing ones sins to her or to her witches, one would be purified of those sins. Mothers in childbirth often called on her aid. Her witches, learned in all manners sexual, are also skilled midwives and nursemaids, after all birth is a natural consequence of sex. Her witches are believed to be adulterous and women born under her sign (The Ocelot) were believed to become her witches.
She is seen as lustful maiden, mother or priestess and crone, devourer of youth, depending on her mood. She is always depicted nude in all of her aspects, as the Mother she is seen having just given birth. She wears a gold and turquoise necklace and her temples are adorned with gold bells. Of note she is also sometimes depicted as wearing a conical "witch's" hat.
Alignment: CE or CN
Areas of Influence: Chaos, Fertility, Trickery, Vice
Posted by Timothy S. Brannan at 9:42 AM
Labels: goddess, Lilith, Tiamat, witch
Dr. Theda said...
Happy New Year good Sir....
Timothy S. Brannan said...
and a very good new year to you as well!
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Problem: Discuss how you would go about building a single-tower, symmetric cable-stayed bridge. Include why you would choose this design over alternatives, and how you would build it.
Solution: This is the sort of problem that is designed to get you out of your element and a topic that you know well and see how you can approach a problem in which you have very little background.
Let's start with a picture to make sure that we understand the basics of the problem. Pic 1 shows a basic symmetric, cable-stayed bridge. If you don't know what this type of bridge is, it's good to ask your interviewer, and then draw a picture.
1. It is a bridge (seems obvious, but don't overlook this) -- as opposed to a tunnel, ferry, etc.
There are other advantages as well, but this is an early list and is actually pretty good.
Now, let's talk about how we would build it. This will probably lead to more potential benefits for the bridge.
Let's look at the picture and see what we would build first. Well, nothing jumps out at me, so let's think about how the bridge works and see if this gives insight.
The cables hold up individual pieces of the roadway. They both pull the individual pieces towards the tower and hold it up because they come at an angle. Therefore, the cables seem necessary before the roadway. And, the cable need to go through the tower. So, at a minimum, we need the tower first.
So, we would start building this bridge by building a major tower. Then, with our previous insight, we can run cables over the tower and slowly build out the roadway. We can then walk out on the currently built roadway and continue to build out. We could keep doing this until we got to the edges of the distance we want to build. Then, the bridge would be complete. But, do we have to do anything else?
It's worth thinking about this for completion. At a minimum, there are probably approach roads to build, signage, lighting, etc.
This is actually a pretty good answer, but it's always worth thinking about trying to go even further in an interview.
Let's also think about other types of bridges to contrast it with. One common type of bridge is a bridge like the Golden Gate, Verrazano Narrows, or other iconic type bridges shown in pic 2.
In these types of bridges, there are two towers. Thus, they do not require a tower in the center of the bridge. Also, the cables which support the roadway (called suspenders) do not come in at an angle, but come from above. Think of what the benefits here are. In the bridge in pic 1, the cable come an an angle.
By coming from above, the span could in theory be longer, as more of the strength of the cable is used to hold up the roadway. Hence, the type of bridge in pic 2 can span longer distances with similar strength materials.
However, look closely at pic 2, especially the edges of the bridges. You'll notice some black marks, but these are a key part of the bridge. Essentially, we need some way to hold the cables to the edges of the land. These are called anchorages. In pic 1, we do not have these as the cables essentially anchor themselves by balancing out the two pieces of roadway. This is another major advantage of the symmetric cable-stayed bridge; we do not need to build anchorages.
Well, this is a pretty good description of the benefits of a symmetric cable-stayed bridge. This is a type of problem designed to see how you approach a problem which you do not have a background in. As a general rule, it's good to draw a picture, make sure that you understand the problem, immediately state all of the seemingly obvious benefits (to make sure that you don't miss them) and then start going deeper. Try going backwards and forwards as we did in the construction element.
Then, don't stop at a 'good answer.' Interviewers love to see someone who flexes the answer. Try to go deeper when possible, as in this case with the comparison with the two tower bridge.


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Q: "Store WSDL file into a folder" I have a flow where I am getting the WSDL defination by using CXF and java component. http://localhost:8081/soapapi?wsdl  Here I am getting the WSDL defination but I am not able to store that output into a file.
 <http:listener-config name="HTTP_Listener_Configuration" host="0.0.0.0" port="8081" doc:name="HTTP Listener Configuration"/>
<ws:consumer-config name="Web_Service_Consumer" wsdlLocation="helloworld.wsdl" service="IHelloWorldService" port="IHelloWorldPort" serviceAddress="http://localhost:8081/soapapi" doc:name="Web Service Consumer"/>
<flow name="WSDL_Create">
    <http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_Configuration" path="/soapapi" doc:name="HTTP"/>
    <cxf:jaxws-service serviceClass="com.example.wsdl.IHelloWorld" doc:name="CXF"/>
    <component class="com.example.wsdl.HelloWorldWSImpl" doc:name="Java"/>
    <file:outbound-endpoint path="C:\Workspace\mule3\wsdl\src\main\wsdl" outputPattern="helloworld.wsdl" responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="File"/>
</flow>

above is my code. How can I store the WSDL into a file?

A: If you want just the wsdl, no need for CXF, that will actually host the web service itself. Just use the http requestor to access the wsdl:
<http:request url="http://localhost:8081/soapapi?wsdl" />