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the rake at the gates

17:29 / 28.12.01

after reading mc lentils post, i was thinking about ganesha and that saint guy who finds things for people, and i began to wonder which other gods, deiteies and servitors does everyone use, and more importantly what do they do?

18:18 / 28.12.01

Horus, Odin, any of the one-eyed gods have always been there for me when i needed them. I have a tendency to call on them when I'm feeling weak-with-a-need-for-strength, or for larger attempts like weather manipulation (usually good for bringing rain) or for getting a thought across to a population. Loki, Bast and Anubis are strong as well, usually for play, sensuality and grace, respectively. I wear an etching of Ganesh on my navel ring to help keep my silly anorexic stomach full. I'm a big fan of the black void of squirming nameless gods, unrecognized or forgotten. It's tough to pull any one specific message or idea, and they can turn somewhat antagonistic, but my rather fragmented psyche just seems to communicate well with them, and keep them and bay when they get too frisky.

19:40 / 28.12.01

Ganesh.. brought me to Burningman this past year with Great success...

Kali: has often been present to remind me of the passing nature of things worldly.

Hermes: always makes my travels safe & speedy

Maya: often helps me get past the illusions of the lack of inspiration.

03:01 / 29.12.01

Ahh the body of Nuit...I am enraptured by Her. I am even a bit envious of Her.

Bast...the playful kitten is the perfect deity for adult enterainment!

Tara...compassionate tibetan female buddha

Thoth...if you have to know something, ask Him he will only speak the truth

Vajrasattva...tibetan, cleanses impurities

Lucifer...The Lightbringer, Morningstar. He quenches my thirst for knowledge.

-May Tricks

08:20 / 29.12.01

there's this one in america called God...fuck he's an asshole

11:51 / 29.12.01

Orpheus is a personal favorite as are St. Michael, and St. John the Evangelist. I invoke the 1st and last for my poetry and the 2nd for power.

I've had good luck with Ghede and Legba recently too; they fast becoming favorites.

I've also had some luck bringing up the dead as guides. W. B. Yates has been very helpful. I want to try invoking the attributes of living persons at some point. People like Noam Chomsky, Jesse Jackson, and Bill MacMillan would have some very interesting abilities to impart.

Anyone tried god-form shapping focused on living, larger-life-figures?

-Jesse

18:52 / 29.12.01

Thoth, Hermes, Ganesh, Eleggua... these are the members of my crack team of reality rewriters!

word

00:03 / 05.02.02

All depends which one I feel is most appropriate for what I'm trying to do (deity-surfing!)

Nietzsch E. Coyote

00:49 / 05.02.02

I Like my Norse Keggers, Odin, Thor and Loki.
Their Voodoo counterparts Gede, Ougun and Legba (very arguable equivilence)

King Mob turned me on to Ganesh(a)

And of course ERIS

11:53 / 05.02.02

I don't use them – they use me.

Bran the Blessed

The Morrígan – I'll never forget my first one...

The Lord Shiva

Kali Ma

Ave Saturnus!

Hel –just in time for our runic library!

Dionysos – It's a family affair (my relationship with the deity, not the website!)

Just a few I've worked with successfully...

16:10 / 05.02.02

The biggest ones for me, at least those I've had the most working contact with:

Norse: Tyr, Freya, the Norns, and the unavoidable Odin and Thor.

Efa: Legba, Ogun, Oya

Egyptian: Thoth, Maat, Osiris, Bast, Ra

Archangels: Michael, Azrial

Saints: Anthony

Hindu: Shiva, Kali

Animals: Horse, Bear, Snake, Thunderbird, Dragon, Firebird

Planets: Sun, Neptune

18:28 / 05.02.02

Heh, I like Ierne's comment...

I've worked for a bunch of Them: Brigid, the Morrigan, Macha, Herne, Sekhmet, Isis, the Caillach, Lugh, the Dagda, Odhinn, Freya, Ganesha, Kali Ma, Legba, Obatala, the Baron, Eruzlie-Freda, Mary, Inanna, plus a number of older deities that don't seem to have recorded names. It all depends on Who wants what done.

I'm terribly fond of Ganesha though.

Speaking of which, I have a question which sort of hits into this subject.

Has anyone worked with the Spirit / God of the Automobile? I'm wondering if I should have a chat with Karl Benz or Henry Ford?

I'm trying to improve my driving and I wouldn't mind a bit of Other help.

18:40 / 05.02.02

Wyrd: I'd go for Karl Benz, because he started the whole shebang. Henry Ford is more about the assembly line, and the affordability of cars. He'd be a better choice if you were looking to buy a car (although you might end up buying a Ford car...

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[ 05-02-2002: Message edited by: Ierne ]

18:53 / 05.02.02

Wyrd, this is a bit of co-incidence - this morning, i think I did contact the spirit of the automobile. My car wouldn't start, and when it did, it kept stalling. I was getting really angry, and tense. Then I got out of the car, walked around a bit, got into the car and prayed to it (and any other gods who were listening) and it started first time! And it behaved itself all day.

So just focus and ask it for help.

18:57 / 05.02.02

Let's see...
Lord Ganesh, Papa Legba, Ellegua, Exu, Yemaya, Vishnu, Shiva, Odhinn, Freyja, Tyr, Heimdall, Thorr, the Norns, Hel, Diana, Inanna, Ereshkigal, Lucifer and some other deities, animal spirits, and ancestors that don't wish to be named.

quote:Originally posted by Wyrd:

Has anyone worked with the Spirit / God of the Automobile? I'm wondering if I should have a chat with Karl Benz or Henry Ford? I'm trying to improve my driving and I wouldn't mind a bit of Other help.

YES! I've always tried to create personal relationships with my vehicles to varying levels of success. In some ways it's similar to the spiritual relationship I have with my shamanic drum (both are vehicles that I have to partner with in potentially dangerous situations).

As for 'umbrella' car spirits/deities, I really found revelation in the Chariot=Car meme that popped up in the Barbelith Tarot thread. Tapping into that energy has helped increase the sense of my car being an extension of my being. Potentially something similar could be done with the runic energies of either Ehwaz or Raidho.

I don't feel any sort of connection with the human 'inventors' of the automobile but I'm sure some people might find power there. I'd find more power with the modern mythical heroes who partnered with the automobile.

<Mason Lang movie mode>
After tapping into that energy, watch Mad Max as a metaphor for shamanic initiation. Car=drum.
</Mason Lang movie mode>

And then... go for a drive!

(safely of course).

[ 05-02-2002: Message edited by: Lothar Tuppan ]

19:10 / 05.02.02

I've always been fond of the Mach 5 from Speed Racer for that sort of thing. I mean, Its even got a big Ehwaz rune on the hood. How can you go wrong with that?

19:25 / 05.02.02

And all the cool 'magical' toys that the Mach 5 had make it especially cool.

I just don't want to ever invoke Spridle or Chim Chim.

At least in pop culture the car/chariot meme will be coming back full force in the next couple of years.

Not only is Mad Max 4 going into production in 2002 but Harlan Ellison's story 'Along the Scenic Route' is being made into a movie called 'Drive'.

[ 05-02-2002: Message edited by: Lothar Tuppan ]

20:34 / 05.02.02

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm getting a car in a couple of weeks time and plan to establish contact with its own Spirit once it's in my hands. It was owned by a pagan pal of mine so I'm sure it will have a well-defined personality.

I'm more concerned about the mechanics of driving - the techniques, etc. I'm a bit of a beginner so I'm looking for some extra guidence. I wouldn't mind have a chat with the Automobile Spirit, or the Great Driving Spirit, to try and improve my driving. I think Mad Max might want me to go a bit faster than I'm willing to go at the moment.

I do intend getting a little Ganesha image for my car - the story Ganesh (of Barbelith fame) told is very inspiring on that score! I've also been given a basic design of a talisman/pouch that I'll put together for extra protection too.

12:41 / 06.02.02

*ahem* Returning to the original topic...

I feel like such a lightweight after reading all these other lists...I tend to have stuck with the voudoun/santeria pantheon pretty much since I started in this line (tho' that was only 1996, so give me time...). Of the vodoun guys I've worked with Oggun, Chango and, most recently Obatala & Yemaya - Obatala for my writing and Yemaya to counteract the effects of spending too much time invoking her boy, Chango, which, while fun, did rather tend to turn me into a surly, bad-tempered, rude, egotistical geezer. At least Yemaya seems to have better manners...
I did once, right at the start of my 'career', do an invocation of Azrael - not the angel, but the one from the Batman books. I'd been reading Flex Mentallo at the time and the idea appealed to me...

12:50 / 06.02.02

Gee, I was starting to worry because nobody mentioned comic book chatacters...
...I was starting to believe i'm crazy...

When I started in this gig, I didn't use any Archetypal invocation... but since it's more powerful, I started doing it...
using superhero toughtforms...
and it has worked excelently 90% of the time.

13:03 / 06.02.02

Hmm, I think I forgot the Pantheon Neil Gaiman created...

Dream
Death
Desire
Delerium
Destruction
Despair
and... Destiny

Thanks for the reminder ciarconn

~May Tricks

13:58 / 06.02.02

While I've never invoked comic book characters I have invoked 'The Death and Ressurection Show' style of rock star personas. Not the artists themselves but the fictional personas they gave birth to in their music and on stage.

Including, Alice Cooper (probably the first bit of magic I ever did was channelling Alice to keep me from getting beat up as a kid), Ozzy Osbourne, and the collective cosmollogy of Blue Oyster Cult.

Hell, the entire BOC discography could be considered a hypersigil in which synchronicities abound and strange things happen easily.