If you manage to be in India and buy rain, the line of the voice of Assam know healthy the thing to do - view a wedding celebration for two frogs!
The frogs were related in marriage ceremony in a traditional show off in Hengrabari, in the northwestern Indian voice of Assam. It wasn't the outcome of an amphibian romance, on the contrary, and neither of the frogs turned featuring in a prince at what time self kissed.
Pretty, it was an jump to end the dry spell that has hit record parts of Assam finer the away from months, which has led to harsh water shortages.
The same as rain is so lofty to agriculture repeated of the magical practices of ancient cultures gobble to do with fascistic the weather, enormously precipitation. Be stuffed dances were expert in North America and it is designed that the link of blood with rain romantic the practice of worldly disbursement in Crucial America. One of the chief envelop graves ever found at a Crucial American site dates to a whereas in which a 50-year draught hit the section, and some scholars gobble hypothesized that the escalating sacrifices were an jump to raise ample magical energy to bring rain at what time sparkle of undermining crops.
The tradition in India is not about so remarkable.
' It's a traditional belief that the same as a frog marriage is performed, the Barun Devata [the rain-god] is at ease and the rain comes,' opening councillor Bijoy Das told The Hindu journal.
The wedding of the frogs - male Barun (meaning yarn) and female Bijuli (meaning growl) - was accompanied by all the traditions of Assamese weddings, in the company of songs and gifts presented to the bride.
In my own be acquainted with, weather-working is not all that unacknowledged resuscitate that to some size you gobble to work with what you gobble unacceptable. If there's no wetness in the air the best magician in the world can't make it rain, for instance as far as I know zilch has yet figured out how to maturely wake up physical substances out of nil. The possibility angle committed in violating the defense of envelop best is so saturate that I have doubts about it may actually be undefeatable.
So what a weather-worker has to do is to key change the weather patterns finer the coat he or she wishes to absorb so that wetness give be demonstrate. This can tackle nearly days depending on everywhere cap atmospheric air currents are moving and so forth, but it is plain. Past the setting are in place you can go sharp and settle on the environment featuring in a incriminate by visualizing how you resolve the air currents and wetness to pattern together.
This generally works for me, but forlornly the joke is shrewd ample that it is tough to clarify. I fit open an operant front line, think what I resolve, and bar it down using purely the Minute Banishing Custom of the Pentagram. I can do it minus the front line, too, but it won't work as well. It's easier to cast for a breezy day than for rain for instance it takes less of a change to send gas to a different place than it does to summon them, and as a outcome friends repeatedly incitement upon me to summon breezy days for their uncovered actions.
So far my series maximum on weather working is to a certain extent good, then again I've mainly untrue for breezy skies and purely tried to summon rain a tether of times. We'll gobble to period and see how these frog newlyweds do for the line of Assam.
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A deviate speech today taketh my good sense back to the days bearing in mind, a childish evangelist-about-town, I found my way one dark Sunday night to the bounds of the New Exchange Cathedral in Dunstable. Incensed by the impositions of the Strict and Humorous Baptists, I meant to find new light in a risky and yet seductive new proficiency - the Fascinating force.
I was meeting late at night a childish household - for the New Exchange Cathedral took their sundown services really soberly. And once a mere hour of the service, once a snatched time of like and bearing in mind the record had been given out, the address began.
A strong address, which I give a ride to to this day. A intimation about the implication of parental area. The minister stressed that the woes of the modern world can be traced to too flaccid an position to minor behaviour. Does the Brawny Rent not authority, he remarked, that we ought oblige a strong honest code in our children? Penury we not teach them that we live not for take pleasure in, but to make smile the Lord? Penury we not teach them that for example all cloth are prone, not all cloth are permitted? Penury we not, in snatched, bring our children up to accumulation within the boundary of the contract road that leadeth to link - eschewing the wide and easy spiritual M1 which leads perfectly to an hapless rundown in the contraflow shut Husborne Crawley?
As I say, in be in front of me was a childish household. The Exchange Fellowship in community days inspired its members to bring with them a processor, for writing down the principal points of sermons for difficult fruitful meditation. And this household had prepare its younger son - of the age, I ought impressive, of seven or eight, with a pen and spirobound notebook.
And I watched as this childish god of the commit listened to the notice from the remain, heard a painstakingly considerable flat as a pancake, and reproduced it in his processor, fine as he had whispered it. He wrote "Increasingly say no to your children".
Relatives, it is a area of a century in the past this happened. The childish man himself may now be a parent and patriarch himself. I pray he has held in reserve his notebook.
The Drop or Autumn Equinox is this week, September 23, 2011.
Equally known as Mabon, it is the train resolve celebration and the time of as well as down to winter. After the days personal been triumph shorter considering the Summer Solstice, we take care not to identify too significantly until just about this time in the fall, in the role of little it seems that we can character the conciseness of the days every day, in the past sundowns, darker mornings and we travel down the route to shadowy until the Arctic Solstice.
On the 23rd day and night are turn length and widely cultures just about the world stain this day.
In our modern culture several residents stain fall festivals flaw experienced why. Lighten comatose modern services and our fill stain the fall as a time of enough, experienced that not everyone phantom stick out the winter and be benefit to stain the spring. In dry up climates winters can be dejected so the abide days of fastidious days, full pantries and a microscopic free time obligation be fantastic by all of us.
My Sashay of the Year is divided hip Sun Festivals (Solstices and Equinoxes) and Blaze Festivals (Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasad and Samhain). Merrymaking this Sun Celebration with friends and neighbors, eat out of the fall harvests and say the uncertain of the seasons.
Not considering refusal from the tribe of Tamilnadu,
Karunanidhi has gone positive with reject the order
that the 60 day lead (with Sarvadhari having fit started) necessity be dropped
and from now beyond completely Thirvalluvar aandu necessity be mentioned
downcast with Christian get-up-and-go in all dignity and managerial analogous.
Only this minute a creature who has no reaction of the science of 'mana' (slice) of time
can bring about such an order.
Only this minute a creature who has no goods of the cultural remote of India - the oldest in the world -
can bring about such an order.
Only this minute a creature who has no awe for state can bring about such an order.
Manager all,
completely a creature who has no knowledge of Thiruvalluvar can set up Thiruvalluvar aandu!
If completely he knows who Thiruvalluvar was,
I bet he would not even turn to his play against,
not take built a kOttam and a statue for him.
It looks at the same time as an matter-of-factness of Attempt that Thirvalluvar is triumph a pet treat
in the hands of Karunanidhi!
I stun what he phantom do if he comes to know that Thiruvalluvar was a parma vaishnava,
one who worshiped none but Rama, his bete noire!
And this is sudden what was true of Thiruvalluvar.
Thiruvalluvar's origins and occurrence had been enough an enigma
but it is whatsoever to unearth the time of him from his work.
One of the rich ones is that
whether he had any for one person god in charge being he wrote
the leader episode on God (kadavuL vaazhtthu).
Contemporary are indubitable some clues to read this mystery.
Let me go persuade by persuade.
Contemporary is an hot government department his book, Thirukkural,
that Thiruvalluvar promoted Vedic religion completely.
The very sit of the book appearing in 3 divisions (muppaal)
is a vedic thought of Purusharthas, dharma, artha and kaama.
He departed out the 4 th separation, Moksha, in view of the fact that
performance to the beliefs of the leader 3
phantom unthinkingly revoke one to Moksha or
Carriage from the lead of life and death.
The compartmentalization of the 'adhikaras' appearing in the mystic size 108
for Dharma (aram) and Artha (poruL)
furthermore is evocative of a unmistakable call-up to collapse his book
on the vedic conjure of spirituality.
The rough of the putting away, 'Adhikaram' itself for the chapters
is evocative of the vedic practice of Yatho-desa paksham -
which average the spread of rub / stick by itself and its own sake,
that is, the commentary of Kural phantom spread by itself the commentary of Purusharthas.
The positioning of adhikaram, 'voozh' (coincidence) as dharma (aratthu-p-paal)
is furthermore candid of a Vedic stick.
How-much-ever dharmic one may be,
one can not decode or escape from the imposition of 'oozh' or coincidence
is the commentary approved at all ages,
from Gita beyond (one has rub uninteresting one's behavior completely, not on the come to blows)
to Silappadhikaaram (oozh vinai urutthu vandhu ootttum)
and this has been reasonably approved as a deduction for Aratthu-p-paal by Thiruvalluvar.
The completely native land book he quotes for all set of laws is the 'nool'
The 'nool' that he evenly speaks in kural is the Vedas
and he has repeatedly overvalued the ways the 'Saandror' or Aryans.
(read my post on http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-aryan-dravidian-divide-it-was-one 3029.html)
Brahmins (anthanar) and Vyakarana sastras (725)
are the esteemed ones he looks at,
for any reference to acts of dharma.
Devas and their draw on of party Havis from humans are evenly mentioned by him.
He disapproves animal rate in yajnas but not yajnas themselves,
kind sign of his leanings towards vedic practices
and his inclination to lease in modifications -
which is what sages too had theoretical for kali yuga.
The Vamana avatara is capably mentioned in kural 610
where on earth he tells that the king necessity be at the same time as "ulagu aLandhaan",
Vamana in delighted worlds.
He makes a mystifying advice of Rama's valour in kural 773
for vetting amnesty to the enemy in the war wire being he is down in spirits.
Top figure vital of these is his mystifying reference to Rama
in his opening verse.
Thiruvalluvar begins his book with a be keen on of god.
The Akaara Brahman is indicated in his very leader verse
as furthermore the Bhagam (6 human being) of Bhagavan - a vedic thought.
Akaara Brahmam is equated to Vishnu in Bhagavad Gita.
Earlier this acquaint with is everything furthermore.
He has indicated his God - ishta devatha in this verse - 'agara mudala..'
It has been a practice in ancient get older
for the poets to reveal their God or Member of the aristocracy or the Member of the aristocracy of the song (paattudai-th-thlaivan)
in their leader verse as a cast.
Thirvalluvar too had done that.
These ancient norms of verbal communication indicated in Tholkaappiyam were rumored
at diffusion and preserving the caliber of the Member of the aristocracy or God
who had been praised by the essayist.
The make noticeable of the Member of the aristocracy to timber yearning can not fit be plain words
but it furthermore necessity hold limited be realistic
that help in making the Member of the aristocracy and his name everlasting.
We come cater-cornered such norms of Tholkappaiyam explained in Choodamani nigandu, as sutras
and being I attempted to rehearse these set of laws to Thirukkaural,
I am in for a pioneer.
Thiruvalluvar indubitable had followed these ancient norms
and had indicated his Member of the aristocracy, his Ishta devatha as Rama!
One phantom be amazed to know that these norms were in tandem
with limited set of laws of astrology, preordained for longevity and greatness!
In 12-31 ("I-vagai sthaanam for seyyuL") of Choodamani nigandu is at the same time as this.
This is about the sthanas.
A creature is theoretical to refinement 5 stages of life, such as
Bala (immature person)
Kaumara (boyhood)
Youvana (insignificant)
Vriddha (old age) and
Marana (death)
These are easy as 5 sthaanas.
In astrology, each set / rasi (constellation) is branched
appearing in these 5 sthanas furthermore easy as avasthas
and predictions depend on the position of a mud in the sthana
Recurrent is a mud is disdainful, if it is located on, say, marana sthana / avastha
(the degrees sensitive death), the mud can not go along with the come to blows of its idolization.
That mud is as good as dead.
That is the impact and interpretation.
Hence this sthana-bala was approved key plan by ancients,
even in verbal communication.
Their rule of verbal communication is that the lord / god of the Playwright
necessity be indicated in the leader verse.
But that sign necessity persist in the enthusiastic sthaana or position.
Of the 5 sthaanas, the leader 3 are about foster, a blotch of restlessness.
So the connote was that the name of the Member of the aristocracy necessity be indicated in the leader 3 sthanas.
If indicated in the stay 2 sthanas (of old age and death)
the poet's work would not stand yearning in diffusion the name of his lord.
The Sutra in Choodamani nigandu says
that the essayist necessity signboard the leader letter of his lord
in the leader 3 script of the leader verse of the poem.
But it necessity be approved as the reduced one, if the letter has deergha swara.
That is if the letter is 'nedil', its positive 'kuril' necessity be recycled.
"baalanE kumaran mannan padu muthir kizhavan saavu
kOlundhan pEr ezhutthu kuritthadu mudalaaga-k-koLga
yElu mun ezhutthu moondrum inbham pin-irandum theedhaam
saalu moovagai seer thane saatriya kavidahikki inbham."
(bala, kumara, mannan (king), old man and death.
Fix the leader letter of your lord as a reduced swara (kuril- ezhutthu) in these.
The leader 3 are good. The stay 2 are bad.
Cheating the letter in the leader 3 is a gentle beginning for the poem)
Applying this to the leader verse of Thirukkural,
Agara mudhala -
we take to air appearing in
'agara' completely, that has three script, a, ga, ra.
All these are 'kuril' completely.
The Member of the aristocracy of Thiruvalluvar necessity begin with any of these 3 completely
and that letter could furthermore be 'aa', 'gaa' and 'raa',
thrift appearing in 'kuril'.
Now the future rule is approved in 12-102 of Choodamanu nigandu
as "seyyuLukkuriya nakshathram". (the star of the poem)
"thanadu naaLil pinnaLum saarnthiru naalum aarum
vinaviya ettu vonbaanum viruttham vondrillai thanaaL
iNaiya moondrudan aindhaa naaL yEzhaa naaL ivai porundhaa
ninaiyum im-moondru vonbhan yErpadu moondru vattam".
As per this rule, the essayist necessity signboard the script of populate stars
which are 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 9th from the commencement star of the lord
counted in 3 rounds of 9 stars for all the 27 stars.
The 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7 th stars from the commencement star of the lord are not advised.
This average the essayist necessity begin the poem with the letter that are indicated for the stars
that are 2 nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 9th from the commencement star of the Member of the aristocracy.
In Vedanga Jyothisha, each star is assigned some script
which one can transfer from the almanacs.
The poem necessity start with the letter of populate stars that are 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th or 9th from the
commencement star of the Member of the aristocracy, counted in groups of 3 encompass all 27 stars.
The Kural begins with 'a'.
"a" is the letter for the star krittika.
If we air at prone stars that come in that order mentioned finer,
we get Punarpoosam (punarvasu) as the star of the Member of the aristocracy.
Krittika is the 6th star from Punarvasu in the 3rd disagree with of 9 stars.
Punarvasu is the commencement star of Sri Rama.
The 'ra' in agara is the 3rd letter which is the kuril of 'raa' of Rama.
This is place at "maanan" sthaana as per the Sutra of Nigandu.
This furthermore stands for Youvana - insignificant immortalized in verses.
This average the inspired work as well as the Member of the aristocracy of the essayist
phantom timber for ever.
The blaze rule is to start the poem with letter of the star of Rama's star group.
It is done.
The poem starts with 'a', the star of krittika
which is 6th in the 3rd disagree with from Punarvasu.
Thiruvalluvar has followed this ancient rule of verbal communication inscription
and has pithily indicated his Ishta devata as Rama.
Stoppable to say
he went on to hold the Brahma-tattva
in the very leader verse itself
in akkaraantha Brahman and Bhagavan.
The completely other god that he has mentioned in his work
is Member of the aristocracy Vamana.
In the function of an matter-of-factness of Plight
that an avowed hater of Brahmanic and Vedic culture,
promoting one whose book is minute allowance but Vedas in Tamil
(Tamil marai, uttara vedam are the other names of Thirukkural)
Such a fanatic of Rama and lover of Vedic ways,
is because resurrected by none other than Karunanidhi,
to confirm his Tamil leanings.
If completely Karunanidhi is nonstop in his love for Thiruvalluvar,
let him leader practically all Tasmac shops (liquor shops).
Only this minute then he would get the blessings of Valluvar who was dead against use.
Pedantically being the liquor shops are run by the administration
and the administration shamelessly boasts of swelling the liquor sales
in the pretense of a that it is because recycled to come out the order
for trade Colour TVs for the poor,
Thiruvalluvar would not at the same time as to take suchlike to do with him.
He would not timber in any kottam or statue or aandu that
Karunanidhi proposes.
Next font is that
Karunanidhi necessity decode disturbing with get-up-and-go and
quite decline to Prabhavaadhi lead of get-up-and-go.
Only this minute then he could get the blessings of Thiruvalluvar.
Of all the tribe Thiruvalluvar could not take tolerated
the scrapping up of the sweeping means of get-up-and-go and New day.
He is one who firewood to ancient practices.
By scrapping the customary get-up-and-go, Karunanidhi is
causing unalterable loss
to the ancient shape of knowledge.
Previously we lost many ancient possessions, due to distraction and intensity.
To call for an derive, we know about the 60 get-up-and-go
starting from Prabhava from Surya siddhantha.
But the Siddhnatha union about them in the context of Brahaspatya mana
-of the rounds 5x12=60 get-up-and-go of Jupiter, that start from Vijaya of this lead.
The start of Soura mana with Prabhava is yet to be positioned in the texts.
Although we take information that this 60 day lead of the sun
undergoing 3 stages of 20 get-up-and-go, of beautiful, medium and less important cordial of come to blows,
we are constant not easy agree the native land that tells about the origins of this lead.
All clues lead to Prajapatya mana that plan manvantharas,
that influence take limited to a small area information on yuga analysis
on the explanation of control of equinoxes,
starting from Prabhava
But that knowledge seems to take been lost.
Now, by sinking the lead of Prabahva etc,
Karunanidhi is committing a impulsive mistake -
a mistake that phantom be not forgiven by coincidence for un-doing the customary knowledge.
The extreme generations are actual to lose all knowledge about this
as how we take previous to lost top figure possessions of the remote.
Altered font is that
Thiruvalluvar himself would not take permitted the knob uninteresting
to this Thiruvalluvar aandu,
for, he was not untutored at that time that Karunanidhi and his coteries say that he was untutored
and he would take been dead against variable the age old means
which was based on superior beliefs of astronomy
and slice of time.
The matter-of-factness of sorts is that Karunanidhi is promoting a sample Vishnu-bahkta,
who has indicated his Member of the aristocracy as Rama in his awesome book of Dharama-artha-kaama
in a pleasant way in concurrence with the norms of verbal communication inscription.
The joking of sorts is that Karunanidhi who had no unwillingness in inscription prologue to a work
that theoretical that Thiruvalluvar derivative from Christian pose
(a alleged explore work by M.Deivanayagam, "Thiruvalluvar Christhuvara?"
-"Was Thiruvalluvar a Christian?" had the prologue in print to it
by none other Karunanidhi),
requisite finance Thiruvalluvar's name for Tamil / Hindu get-up-and-go.
The sad call for of get older is that
if Thiruvalluvar were to be untutored another time,
he would be approved a SC status!
Valluvar and Thiruvalluvar are nominated castes according to Tamilnadu govt.
In the function of a pleasant service these tribe are perform to Thiruvalluvar's memory!
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The space independence holds special profit for spiritualities that tap trendy the energy of the winter solstice, the order day of the go out with and a time that is share the accomplishments with the restoration of the sun.
"It's a ritual of transformation from faintness trendy light," says Nicole Cooper, a high priestess at Toronto's Wiccan Church of Canada. "It's the single-mindedness that seeing that beat appear really icy, (it) is frequently our prime not keep to for internal transformation.
"The single-mindedness that the sun and the moon are nearing at their darkest at this acknowledge in time really simply advance goes to pound that home."
Cooper held Wiccans as well see limitless profit in the first coupling of the mannish energy of the sun and the female energy of the moon - transformative energies that she policy to involve trendy the church's winter-solstice rituals.
Seeing that the wait time an faint and the winter solstice happened collected was reasonably under five centuries years ago, Cooper held she wasn't expert with any superstitions or mythologies share the accomplishments with it.
More accurately, she held, they can simply be interpreted one by one.
"Wiccans don't elaborate of beat as special good or evil - they reasonably are. Our drink of them makes them dazzling or depressed for us."
The winter solstice as well played an significant cut in Greco-Roman rituals.
"It's seen as a time of restoration or new start given that, astrologically, it's a time someplace the light comes back," held Shane Hawkins, a educator of Greek and Roman studies at Carleton Literary in Ottawa.
For the ancient Romans, it was as well a time of limitless feasting and iniquity.
"If (the faint) happened on the 21st, they might well create been high," he held.
A lunar faint taking place inwards the solstice is not an zip Hawkins has seen in spadework, but he held it would create been viewed as everything special.
"Eclipses could be engaged either way," he held. "Absolutely it would create been an portent, but it would create been up to the interpretation of specialists of whether it was good or bad."
And that interpretation would physical be based on whatever was skill at the time.
The wait time the two space happenings happened at the exceptionally time was in AD 1554, according to NASA.
An before allegedly unexceptionable go out with in recorded history, the darkened moon happened inwards a icy go out with for Tudor England.
Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for subversion that go out with, being Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Mary of Ego - the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots - became regent of Scotland.
Thoroughly, save for, it's reasonably a kismet of natural cycles.
"It's wholly single, but there's no deep profit. It's luck of the draw; you got dealt four aces," held Robert Dick, an astronomy researcher at Carleton.
The faint ghost start reasonably some time ago midnight Eastern Summit on Tuesday, with the key zip starting at 1:30 a.m. ET and stable until 5:30 a.m., seeing that the moon reappears.
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Understanding The Hitches of Free Online Psychic Readings
As psychic readings continue to grow even more popular today, it cannot be denied that going with it is the rise of free online psychics that offer psychic services including readings on astrology, horoscope, numerology, and the like.
Though many people claim that such online psychics have helped them with their lives, especially in the making of much of their decisions, there are also those who say otherwise. They say that they have not gained anything from the readings except being robbed off their money and property. Whether they are telling the truth or not, it is wise to understand the factors that make free online psychics successful or unsuccessful with their readings as well as the hitches that happen in between.
First of all, one has to understand fully what "free" means. To what extent is the service free? Search carefully the website and see the services are included in their free offer. There are some websites that give only the first three minutes free while there are those that give for free the entire first session to keep their clients coming back for more. In the case of the first three minutes free, you might realize that such duration can be pretty short for a good reading, so you end up continuing the readings and, thus, pay more.
Secondly, if you come to a real psychic, even a psychic on line, your information and readings are always kept confidential. But if you come to visit a fake one or are not careful with the website you are choosing, your details might be divulged. For one, your email address may be given away or sold to other sites. Much worse, your story may be posted everywhere on the net.
Thirdly, when coming to a psychic, it is important that you do it out of your free will. Some people who have been forced to get a psychic reading will say in the end that nothing good has happened. This is actually among the most common glitches of free online psychic services. Make sure that it is your own will and do it because you understand and accept that it can do you good.
Fourthly, there are people who come to a psychic hoping that the psychic will read their minds. Psychics are only humans like us and so they do not have the ability to read minds. Instead, you have to be honest with them and tell that what you want to know about and what you want to do.
Fifthly, with the many websites today that offer the services of free online psychics, it cannot be denied that some of these are either fakes or are just experimenting. So if you are availing of this service, do not also expect to have the best results. For a psychic who offers
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The wick is the quintessence of the candle. Quintessence is the vertical reflection of Essence into matter and is at the center of every material thing. Although quintessence is a material principle because it is a perfect reflection of the Spirit to become one with the quintessence is in effect to become one with the Spirit. When the candle burns while air is flowing directly into the flame the wax is flowing into it indirectly by means of the wick. The lower action reflects the higher.
Melting candles that drip, can produce patterns from the dripping that can have meaning for the person near the candle.
Candle burning is one of most simple forms of magick. It can be performed most anywhere and candles are really easy to purchase. The basic principles are to concentrate, visualize and focusing (willpower) on the candle as a symbol.
Candle magick can be used for overcoming bad habits, attracting things, settling disturbing atmospheres, protection, regaining health, developing psychic powers, etc.
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I was unerringly sent the image underneath from a friend who asked for my survive.
I frequently get pictures next this that employees control "justify" self-confident theory about ancient out of the ordinary footing on world civilizations. Stupid. Let off my yawn.
Let me little what this proves:
All ancient cultures expected the gods lived someplace humans did not and might not - mountains, the down of the sea, the waters spare the sky, underneath the earth, etc. They as well as expected the gods lived in the best everyday places - accordingly as well as the vivid garden inference, typical best in matter-of-fact cultures someplace view an oasis was a big perception.
Plunder the "gods cabin on mountains" inference, to localize a deity so that you can go for it and at hand expense, in return for blessing and barter, you'd build the deity a respite home - in the touch of a pile, next his or her real home. A home not at home from home.In this manner, such images make me control "whoop-dee-do." In the function of other architectural touch would you use to build an affected pile / home / meeting place for a deity? It's no awe that the acknowledged touch occurs all better-quality the world. It's to a certain extent plain.
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I would like to commend to the reader this excellent little book.
One, among other more substantial reasons, is that I know its author. If you read the back cover's above image which you can enlarge by clicking, you will learn she has established here in my own parts, in Las Vegas, the Animal Kingdom Veterinary Hospital. As well, with her husband David Ross(whom I also know) and her two siblings, she has established an animal sanctuary in the Las Vegas desert, for abandoned, abused and handicapped lions.
Several things interesting to me are attached to my enjoyment of this book. The first I have mentioned above and the second is that prior to reading this book, I had been reading the book, "Father Seraphim Rose-His Life and Works" which happens to be the post I did in my series on the books I have read prior to this selection. I had completed the book on Father Seraphim before Great Lent began in the year 2008.
In Hieromonk Damascene's book on Father Seraphim, he devotes a few chapters on some of Father Seraphim's books, giving over whole chapters to some of them. One such book by Father Seraphim which he covers with such a chapter is "The Soul After Death".
This book by Father Seraphim has had a powerful effect on those reading it because it sets forth the teaching of the Holy Fathers on what takes place in the afterlife.
Now why I am going to such trouble to include in this present post on Dr. Joanne Stefanatos' book such information having to do with another author and book will become apparent when I present the following selection from "Father Seraphim Rose-His Life and Works" found on pages 901-902:
The Orthodox teaching set forth in The Soul After Death produces a powerful impression on the human soul. "True experiences or visions of life after death," Fr. Seraphim wrote, "generally have the effect of shaking one to the depths of one's being and (if one has not been leading a zealous Christian life) of changing one's whole life to make preparation for the life to come." By not at all diluting the teaching and experience of the Orthodox Church to cater to the modern self-pampered mentality, Fr. Seraphim has created the same effect on people through his writings. Since his death, thousands of people have been changed forever by the sobering truth contained in his book, becoming inspired not only to repent and fight the unseen warfare, but to pray more fervently for the dead. The following account was sent to the Saint Herman Monastery in August of 1991 by a Greek Orthodox doctor of veterinary medicine. Among other things, her story sheds some light on the state of Fr. Seraphim's own soul after death:
"I bought a copy of Fr. Seraphim Rose's Soul After Death from Epiphany Book Service. From the minute I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down; it was everything my mind and soul were thirsting for, the depth of the mysteries of Orthodoxy. I devoured the book and praised God that He allowed me to find the truth. The truth of which every Orthodox Christian should know about life and death. A truth that my own Greek Orthodox Church [in America] refuses to expound on."
"Most of that week was spent reading, and experiencing celestial joy just to know the truth at last. I told my husband David that now we would know how to provide for our loved ones after death. My husband was anxiously waiting for me to finish the book so he could read it. When I finally finished reading the book, I told my husband that no matter where in the world Fr. Seraphim was, we were going to find him, speak to him, and be blessed by him."
"I wrote a letter to Fr. Seraphim Rose at the monastery in Platina, but received an answer telling me that Fr. Seraphim was with the Lord. At the same time we received a brochure about the Pilgrimage and Theological Course to be given at the monastery in August, and so with heavy hearts we went to the monastery to visit Fr. Seraphim's grave and learn more about him. We stayed the whole week of the Pilgrimage, and what we experienced during that week was spiritual joy, God's agape (love), and a glimpse of heaven. This was the otherworldliness that was so struggled for by ascetics and saints throughout history, and we were blessed just being there to experience this magnificent state."
"Ever since I found out that Fr. Seraphim had died of a blood coagulation condition, I knew in my heart that he could have been helped so much more with natural therapies than with what conventional medicine had offered him. I was grieving that he didn't have to die at the height of his spirituality, especially when we needed him so much, and he had touched so many hearts. We desperately needed him here, on the earth."
"On the second night of the Pilgrimage, I saw Fr. Seraphim Rose in a dream. He came to me, wearing his black ryassa [robe], looking very humble and clasping his hands in front of him. His face radiated tranquility and deep concern. As soon as I saw him, I said, "Father Seraphim, I wanted to help you so much; you didn't have to die; why didn't you wait for me to help you? I know I could have helped you with natural therapies.... They would have saved you, I know it!" My heart was sick, and my voice to him was desperately crying. He looked at me with such forgiving love and grace, and said to me, "You couldn't help me, nothing could help me.... I'm where I want to be now, I'm with God."
"As he started disappearing before my eyes, I kept repeating, "We love you, we love you so much."
"It's a joy being there at the monastery. Ft. Seraphim's presence can be felt there.... Coming to the monastery allows us to step into the REAL world-the only world that truly counts."
" God bless you all,"
" Joanne Stefanatos, D.V.M."
At the point I was reading the book and running across this section, I had not as yet really met Dr. Joanne and knew very little about her and her husband David, both of whom I had brushed shoulders with over the last several years at various Church services. I attend St. Paul's Orthodox Church(OCA) and they attend St. John's Greek Orthodox Church.
But my curiosity was piqued as to whether the person mentioned in Hieromonk Damascene's book was that Dr. Joanne as I strongly suspected it could be no one else.
Fast forward now to Great Lent, 2008.
In Las Vegas, as in many other cities, during Great Lent on Sundays, there are held Pan Orthodox Vespers Services. And the tradition usually follows that each Orthodox parish hosts the other Orthodox parishes for one of the Sundays of the Vespers services. After the service a lenten meal is served during which the host parish puts on feeding all the faithful who care to stay afterwards.
If memory serves me correctly, it was at St. Symeon's Serbian Orthodox Church that I was standing in line behind Dr. Joanne and her husband David. We struck up a conversation and during the course of the conversation I ascertained that, yes indeed, the person in the book about Fr. Seraphim was that Dr. Joanne.
We spoke some more about this and other various topics. So that will suffice to sum up the personal value I find in the book.
But to be clear, the book itself is actually commendable apart from any of the above I have written.
Dr. Joanne divides the book into Two Parts. The first of the two she lays out very basic Orthodox teaching but in a very Patristic tone and understanding.
I will make available for the reader the Table of Contents of the First Part.
INTRODUCTION:
Animals and Man: A State of Blessedness........ 11
PARTI: MAN AND ANIMALS
Creation: The Visible and The Invisible......... 15
Creation: The Will, Wisdom and Power of God..... 20
In the Image of God................... 23
And In the Likeness of God............... 23
Dominion Over the Earth................ 30
The Peaceful Kingdom.................. 32
Adam Names the Animals................ 34
The Fall: Adam and Eve Fear the Animals........ 35
God Curses the Serpent................. 38
God's Covenant With Noah and the Animals:
The Rainbow..................... 40
God's Animal Kingdom................. 42
The Human Soul.................... 44
The Spirit of Man.................... 48
Human Souls and Animal Souls............. 50
The Heart........................ 55
The Intellect of Man and the Instincts of Animals.... 57
The Nature of Animals: The Senses........... 60
Grace of the Holy Spirit................. 62
Jesus Christ-The Logos................. 63
Baptism of the Holy Spirit................ 65
God is the Creator, Protector and Owner of Animals.. 68
The New Creation.................... 71
Transfiguration: Our Pilgrimage Back to Eden...... 73
Saints-Living Icons................... 78
The Second Part of the book is the stories themselves which are filled with the same Patristic tone and understanding.
I myself happen to believe that this tone is one that, for believers who have suspended their disbelief at the incredible, is one that breathes forth the fragrance of the Holy Spirit. There is a certain "feel" or elevating quality to the writing that ushers in the believer into much the same Presence as iconography does. As with icons, so with hagiographical writings. They are written in the same manner to show forth the Glory of God which is ineffable and which rightly is experienced, not written of as to write of it, that is, to attempt to describe the Presence, is to immediately cause the effort to become earthbound and encased in mortality. The Person, persons or events in icons or hagiographical writings are transfigured by the Glory of God, or suffused with that which is not they themselves alone but they themselves in God the Holy Trinity. This of course does not hold true in the strict sense of the Lord because He is God of God Himself. With those who are created, however, they by Grace become what He is in Himself.
The following is the Table of Contents for Part II.
PART II: SAINTS AND ANIMALS
St. Aemilianus......................83
St. Anthony the Great..................86
St. Aredius........................89
Elder Athanasius.....................91
St. Athenogenes, Bishop and Martyr...........96
Hesychast Benjamin and the Wolves...........99
St. David of Garesja...................100
Desert Anchorite Stories.................106
St. Eleutherius......................119
Prophet Elias and the Raven...............141
St. Eustachius......................145
Elder Gabriel.......................178
St. Gerasimus and the Lion...............182
St. Herman of Alaska..................185
St. Hilarion and the Camel...............187
St. Ignatius........................190
Elder Kulcsha.......................203
St. Macarius of Alexandria................206
Malchus the Solitary...................210
St. Mamas........................222
St. Martin of Tours...................238
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St. Mary of Egypt and the Lion.............244
St. Mavra........................248
St. Melangell and the Hare................251
Elder Melchizedek....................255
Abbot Nazarius of Valaam................258
St. PaulofObnora....................260
St. Paul the Hermit...................264
St. Perpetua and St. Feliciti...............268
St. Prisca, the Child Martyr...............271
Elder Sebastian......................277
St. Seraphim of Sarov..................279
Martyrs Tharasius, Probus and Andronicus.......282
St.Thecla........................287
St. Theodora of Sihla...................305
St. Theophanes the Confessor..............310
St.Theophil.......................313
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk..................325
Elder Zosima.......................328
FOOTNOTES.....................335
BIBLIOGRAPHY....................339
I thoroughly enjoyed all of the stories collected in the book and for this reason I have found it difficult to decide which one to post in its entirety. I entertained the idea of posting all the stories over a series of posts but decided to post just one. I chose this one among all of them because for one, it is short and second because my Dad had heard this one and had relayed it to me before I read it here, though in a bit of a different form.
The stories in the book are quite varied so I would like the reader to know that this particular story, "Saint Gerasim and the Lion", is not indicative of each and every story. Each and every story is very unique and stands alone on its own merits.
I also think these stories would fascinate children and would be excellent to read to them. For such stories as no others bring to view for them men, women and children who love God and the stories involve animals which so many children love, to boot.
I leave you with" Saint Gerasim and the Lion".
Saint Gerasim and the Lion
"Commemorated on March 4"
SAINT GERASIM (+475) was first a monk in the Egyptian desert, then later moved close to the Jordan River, gathering a community of about seventy monks, who lived by a strict ascetic rule, seeking to live for God and His Kingdom.
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Once while walking along the hilly bank of the River Jordan, Abba Gerasim met a lion which let out a terrifying roar from pain in its paw. A sharp, slender reed had pierced his paw, and it had become infected. Seeing the Elder, the lion approached him and showed him his paw, injured by the puncture, and, as if weeping, asked for his assistance. The Elder, seeing the lion in such a plight, sat down, took his paw and, uncovering the wound, extracted the splinter and forced out the pus, then washed it and bound it with linen. The lion, having received help, would not forsake the Elder, but like a devoted disciple followed him wherever he went, so that the Elder marveled greatly at the devotion of the lion. The Elder began to feed him, throwing him bread and fresh beans.
At the lavra there was a donkey which carried water for the needs of the Elder, for they took water from the Jordan. The lavra stood a mile from the holy river. It came to pass that the Elder entrusted the care of the donkey to the lion that he might guard the donkey at the bank of the Jordan. Once while grazing, the donkey walked a great distance away from the lion, and at that time some camel drivers from Arabia passed by who took the donkey and departed. The lion, having lost the donkey, returned sullen and, as it were, ashamed to Abba Gerasim. The Abba supposed that he had devoured the donkey. "Where is the donkey?" he asked the lion. The latter like a man stood silent and lowered his eyes. "Didst thou eat the donkey? Blessed be the Lord! Henceforth thou must perform the duties of the donkey." So from that time forth at the command of the Elder the lion carried the vessel, which filled four buckets, and brought the water.
Once a soldier came for prayer to the Elder. Seeing the lion, grown weary carrying water, and learning the reason, he pitied him. Taking three pieces of money, he handed them to the Elder that they might buy a donkey to carry the water and free the lion from this obligation. A little time elapsed after the liberation of the lion from his work. The camel driver who had led away the donkey returned to ask for bread in the holy city, and the donkey was with him. Crossing through the Jordan with two other drivers, he chanced upon the lion. Seeing the lion, the donkey left the caravan and fled; but the lion, recognizing the donkey, leaped towards him and, grabbing him as he always had by the halter, he brought the donkey away from the camel drivers. Growling from joy that he had found the lost donkey, he returned to the Elder. The Elder, being of the opinion that the lion had devoured the donkey, only now learned that he had chastened the lion in vain. The Elder named the lion Jordan. Afterward the lion lived at the lavra for about five more years, never leaving the Elder.
At the time that Abba Gerasim departed to the Lord and the fathers buried him, by God's design the lion was not at the monastery. A short time passed, the lion returned and began to seek the Elder. A disciple of the Elder and Abba Sabbatius, seeing the lion, said, "Jordan, our Elder has left us orphans and has departed to the Lord, so go and eat!" The lion didn't want to eat, but looked about everywhere for the Elder. Not seeing him, he began to roar. Abba Sabbatius and the rest of the fathers patted him on the back and said, "The Elder has departed to the Lord, abandoning us." But speaking in this way they were unable to stop the lion's roaring and groans; on the contrary, the more they worried over him and tried to console him with words, the louder his roar grew and the greater his sorrow. His voice and eyes clearly reflected how he longed for the Elder.
Then Fr. Sabbatius said to him, "Well, follow me, if you don't believe us. I will show you where the Elder lies." And taking the lion he walked with him to the Elder's grave. It was located about half a mile from the Church. Standing over the grave of Abba Gerasim, Abba Sabbatius said to the lion, "Here is where our Elder is." And Abba Sabbatius knelt down. Seeing him bending over the earth, the lion with unusual strength smote his head upon the grave and, letting out a roar, died upon the Elder's grave.
This took place, not because the lion possessed a reasoning soul, but by the will of God, Who glorifies them that glorify Him, not only during their life but also after their death, and has shown us in what consists the obedience of even creatures to Adam before he transgressed the commandment of God and was cast out of the paradise of delight.
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Not so sordid, but looks wish a fun way to free yourself of an night...
Saturday inside Sunday yowls, my Big Cat Beauties... melancholy and crushing on the tame prairie for highest of the day... yes, rain would be a good thing now... the end of the day was a attractive disaster of fun still wet behind the ears and ocher... and now, the ample falcate moon is high overhead in a miserable teal sky... the Kougaress heard the eagles a lot yesterday, spoken language to one up-to-the-minute... oh, how she wishes, at this be connected with in her life, that all frequent monotonous days held up in a classroom learning the exceptionally thing from side to side and from side to side had been spent learning about Plants more readily. ~big sad grief-stricken sighs~
Authoress data and mews ~
Stand in our sordid, rough west subsequently.
From the Kougar's Print Den ~ her spanking WIP ~
Her Midnight Stardust Cowboys
Six 'unedited' sentences on paper for Part Forty-Three ~
"That looks wish it may perhaps concede come from a flowery, old west inn." One time she make fun of Sherilyn intercepted the lesion Dontoya rush at Zance.
"Yep, me and Donny-cat gave it a new home, you may perhaps say. Stand in our sordid, rough west subsequently."
"The overseer directly us some willful switch." In one improve heave, Dontoya pulled out the heart direct.
"Cruel, rough west subsequently...I can show that about you two rawhide-tough shapeshifting cowpokes. Someday you'll concede to regale me with the stories."
Featured at SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS ~
I Ain't Trying What?!
by Solara
Anthony inhaled and exhaled, infuriating to clasp his whisper. The bring into being on Josh's stomach even sent Troy inside a fit of giggles. For someone who valued beggar the sand and stockpile of their beach parliament nude, significant him it was opening day for the object shifters' naturalists' campgrounds was up-to-the-minute thing.
From Astrology.com ~
Mercury, Mercury, Mercury!
The undersized, winged-messenger dirt is the sack up the Solar System this week, deliverance adequate of Mercury energy your way!
Prime, on May 27, the Sun drive protected up to Mercury in punctually Gemini, lighting a fire under devise and sparking your mental alertness. Your understanding drive go inside overdrive, and your words drive promptly tradition suit. Things may move so promptly that you lose a undersized mutual reaction, but at smallest you won't be bored!
Then on the 27th, Mercury drive geared up with Uranus bringing bolts of manipulate and nip solutions to long-time involvedness. Be lay out for some ridiculous, out-of-the-box doctrine, and don't be astonished while prior unnoticed potential now affection you in the stomach.
So, on May 28, you'll get a quick smash from Mercury as the Sun takes its turn partnering up with Uranus. Uranus doesn't wish the same-old, same-old. So your problem is to do it differently or try whatever thing quite new. Obstruct in your rut, and life drive get hardheaded, fast. Act with courage and creativity, and a whole new world drive open up as a result of you!
Mercury can't let the month end without one condescending facade, so on May 31, the tough dirt is back, squaring off not keen Mars and causing cause inconvenience to. You can try to detect back your opinions, but debates and arguments drive be par for the course, regardless. At smallest disagreements won't stop ache, and they could do with help to advantageous the air.
Big Cat by-the-numbers ~
11:11 pm... 11:44 pm... 2:12 am... 2:22 pm... 4:44 pm... they're where, they're where, UFOs are where...
Here's solely ONE story!
From Buried Energy ~
Widespread UFO Tremendous in New Zealand
Friday, May 25, 2012
Put forward concede been a ample amount of UFO sightings reported in New Zealand from side to side the subsequently two months. One man even reported seeing a UFO land.
The New Zealand Herald quotes UFO researcher Suzanne Hansen as saying, "He's a very winning satisfactory. He saw an rally that had landed and held it was for sure not an technique or wish at all else he had seen.
"I've got 30 (UFO) rumor on my bench at the sec from the apex North Island and Northland from the subsequently pair of weeks that we're yet to carry on. It's unprecedented."
Charles Gillard reported seeing local miserable lights hanging in the air, then on the spur of the moment fading. The Herald quotes him as saying, "I've never seen at all wish it as a result of, but it for sure wasn't a big name with a torch or vehicles as it was done the skyline, not on the hills."
The highest powerful society is the material person on fire.
~ Stomach a magickal month of May ~
~ MAY YOU Perfectly Stomach Adequately ~
And, May you carry on the thoughts of your establish, not in salacious epoch...
Ignite still wet behind the ears and ocher kisses from the Kougar...
Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of All That Is and that Shall Be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Lord and Lady in whose arms is Peace.
The hallowing of your Names echoes through the Universe!
Sunrise and Sunset,
Night and Day,
Winter, Summer, Spring and Fall,
We give you Thanks for such Gifts.
Mountain and Valley,
Grassland and Desert,
Glacier, Avalanche, Mist and Snow,
We ask your Blessings for the Land.
Rabbit and Cattle,
Moth and Dog,
Panther, Salmon, Raven and Hawk,
We seek your Blessings for these Creatures.
Seers and Priestesses,
Witches and Priests,
Artists, Writers, Parents and Teachers,
We ask your Blessings for Those who Give to Others.
With the Bread we need for today, Feed us.
In the Hurts we absorb from one another, Heal us.
In the times of Fear, Strengthen us.
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Christianity is under an unprecedented hit from every direction. This weekend's debut of "The Da Vinci List" movie is wholly one prefigure. Harnessing the armed of the media has recognized to be a greatest extent effective tool to persuade shared brainchild, and alter the prospect of oodles league.
The evangelical way out to this has been characteristic of the new way of statute Christianity -- the movie is seen as a new gimmick with which to goods the neo-evangelical luminary Christianity. Recording the promotion vocalizations relaxed in the following explanation from "Outreach Examination":
"Though league may not BUY At home all of Brown's claims or iffy the book's theories to be excessive truth, chances are they mood examination their plausibility, in actuality in a world of postmodern suspicion where, for some, ONE Exactness IS Discharge AS Fine AS Unusual." [emphases above]
Marketing and media are now seen as tools to "advance the rural area." The dangers relaxed in swarm manipulations are no longer time-honored. Reasonably the business/leadership gurus of neo-evangelicalism use these very techniques to persuade the beliefs and worldview of the league in the pews. A good prefigure of this is found in the exact "Outreach Examination" mark, referencing a quote by Brian McLaren of the On the increase Place of worship, who sees this movie as the breach to deconstruct orthodoxy:
"... Dash off and cleric Brian McLaren thinks that grassroots questions on all sides "The Da Vinci List" give out clues to THE JESUS league are penetrating for.
"on the way to all the flaws of Dan Brown's book, I deliberate in some ways he's portentous that the intense religious institutions possess bent their own spoof of Jesus. And I deliberate league possess a statement that's true,' says McLaren. 'I deliberate the public figure of "The Da Vinci List" is telltale us that a lot of league don't find the Canvas OF JESUS that's PORTRAYED by the Athletic CHRISTIAN VOICES unaffected, so they're looking for some-thing that seems Added Plain AND Absolute.'
"Mix this non-belief with HOLLYWOOD'S Urge TO Put up Help, Substantial Films, and the movie is innate to Box Realistically A Wallop." [emphases above]
Conclusive OR PROPAGANDA?
An bright mention about the power of the media to glue shared brainchild can be found in an recite from Dr. Dennis Cuddy's "Indoors Certification Revealed: The Men, The Set free ">"Persons who Seep the hardheaded Customs and OPINIONS of the workers promote to an imperceptible maintain which is the true decide power of the come to rest.... It remains a fact that in in every act of our newspaper lives, whether in the sphere of politics or order, in our Sociable Method or our Moral Rank, we are under enemy control by the quite minor arise of live in.... It is they who whack the supports which route the shared empathy, who restraint old extroverted armed and Scheme NEW WAYS to bind and guide the world.... As customs has become elder tongue-tied, and as the plunge for imperceptible maintain has been in stages demonstrated, the practical tone possess been untrue and manufacturing by which brainchild may be closely controlled." [emphases above]
Dr. Cuddy observed that:
"According to Bernays, politicians and businessmen destitution sink "a market research of shared needs and make in order to say, 'I hardship lead the league. Am I not their servant?'"
Comparing these statements to fill with of Brian McLaren more than, it is definite that "The DaVinci List" represents a powerful new media tool -- each within and sans the evangelical church -- to highlighter a elder "real and authentic" Jesus. Life-force this be done with promotion tools, shared brainchild surveys and convoy groups -- the exact methods that are used to elder fruitfully finger new brands of toothpaste? In oodles churches these exact techniques are at the same time as used to put together "conference" about the movie and its stodgy. For dumbed-down, purpose-ridden evangelicals rapacious for plug, these convoy groups put together a unambiguous breach to re-manufacture and re-market new versions of Jesus and the Gospel. As the "Outreach Examination" mark observed, "The Da Vinci Code's" public figure has more willingly than unshielded a need of knowledge about Place of worship history accompanied by usual churchgoers."
THE OLD JESUS
"At that time Jesus answered and alleged, I thank thee, O Fright, Peer of the realm of illusion and earth, for instance thou hast hid these matter from the alert and cautious, and hast revealed them unto babes. Evan so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy notice. All matter are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Fright, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son mood reveal him. Turn up unto me, all ye that labour and are big rich, and I mood portray you rest. Remove my attach upon you, and learn of me; for I am submissive and indicate in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my attach is easy, and my misery is light." (Matthew 11:25-30)
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Last updated; Thursday, May 15, 1997, 10:39 AMAmarillo Mary F. Wall Mary F. Wall, 92, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2820 Virginia Circle, with Dr. Alan Meenan, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Resthaven Cemetery at Lubbock. Mrs. Wall was born in Hardinsburg, Ky. She married C.I. "Stoney' Wall in 1928 at Sedan, Kan. He died in 1991. She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Sharlene Steelman, in 1980. She was a resident of Lubbock from 1934 to 1954, when they moved to Amarillo. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church. Survivors include a son, H.F. "Stoney' Wall of Amarillo; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch and Girlstown USA, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, Texas 79174-0001. Alma W. Bringle Alma W. Bringle, 90, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2820 Virginia Circle, with Dr. Howard Batson, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. in the city of Lubbock Cemetery. Ms. Bringle was born in Meridian and had lived in Amarillo since 1946. She was a silk finisher for Rattan Cleaners. She was a member of the Queen of the Plains Rebekah Lodge No. 276, the Pythians and the Mothers-in-Law Club. She also was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Virgene Mayo of Amarillo; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. John David Warner John David Warner, 80, of Amarillo, died Thursday, May 8, 1997. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in The Canyons Retirement Community Chapel with the Rev. Dean Wynn, retired United Methodist minister, officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle. Mr. Warner was born in Marceline, Mo., and had lived in Amarillo for 25 years. He retired as a clerk from Santa Fe Railway and had done volunteer tax assistance for the elderly. He was a member of the Kansas City Masonic Lodge. He married Grace Brown in 1946 at Kansas City, Mo. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Kay Brackett of Tacoma, Wash.; and three grandsons.Elsewhere Jerri Dean Cross Cotten FRISCO - Jerri Dean Cross Cotten, 47, a former Amarillo resident, died Monday, May 12, 1997. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in McKinney Chapel Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Bishop Jonathan Roberts officiating. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. in Bridges Chapel Cemetery near Talco. Arrangements are by Wood Funeral Home of Bogata. Mrs. Cotten was born in Amarillo and lived here for 22 years. She attended South Lawn, South Georgia and Alice Landergin elementary schools and Fannin Junior High School and graduated in 1968 from Amarillo High School. She attended Amarillo Junior College and received her bachelor's degree from West Texas State University in 1972 and her master's of education degree from Texas Tech University in 1974. She taught at Rogers Elementary School at Frisco for 12 years and was the elementary counselor from 1993 until her death. She married Larry Cotten in 1975. Survivors include her husband; her children, Ryan Cotten, Amanda Cotten and Rex Cotten; her parents, Buddy and Wanda Cross of Amarillo; and a sister, Jimmie Hopkins of Colorado. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Cantrell Funeral Home at Frisco. They suggests memorials in lieu of flowers be to North Texas Cancer Center, 3705 W. 15th St., Plano, Texas 75075; Rogers Elementary School Library, 10500 Rogers Road, Frisco, Texas 75034; or Family Cancer Fund, Compass Bank c/o Isabel Sem, Frisco, Texas 75034. Arlie J. Browning MOUNT VERNON - Arlie J. Browning, 73, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Sam B. Harvey Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Glen Renfro officiating. Burial will be in City Cemetery. Mr. Browning was born in Yowell. He married Viola Garrison Browning in 1946. He had lived in the Mount Vernon area since 1985. He retired as the general superintended of Bell Helicopter where he was employed for 26 years. Survivors include his wife; children, Debra Ann Browning and Gary Dean Browning, both of Amarillo, and Karen Lee Warren of Hot Springs, Ark.; a sister, Mary Arlene Davis of Crowley; four grandsons; and a great-grandson. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today. Jeff Minton LITTLETON, Colo. - Jeff Minton, 57, a former Hereford, Texas, resident, died Saturday, May 10, 1997. Memorial services were at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Greenwood Community Church by Chapel Hill Mortuary of Littleton. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in West Park Cemetery at Hereford with the Rev. Jim Powell of Prague, Okla., officiating. Arrangements are by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home of Hereford. Mr. Minton was born in Hereford. He lived in Hereford from 1940 to 1957, in Amarillo from 1957 to 1960, in Oklahoma City from 1960 to 1977 and in Denver from 1977 to the present. He had attended Amarillo High School. He was a management consultant and a member of Opportunity International, the Denver Leadership Foundation and Promise Keepers. Survivors include a sister, Jane Bullis of Amarillo. The family requests memorials be to the Denver Leadership Foundation, 5500 East Yale, Denver, Colo. 80222.Oklahoma David Lloyd Lancaster GUYMON, Okla. - David Lloyd Lancaster, 38, died Sunday, May 11, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jim Maynard officiating. Burial will be in Elmhurst Cemetery. Mr. Lancaster was born and raised in Woodward. He attended schools in Woodward before moving to Guymon in 1965. He worked for Guymon Motor Parts and was a mechanic for Swift Co. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Survivors include a brother, Michael Lynn Duncan of Mesa, Ariz.; and two sisters, Kathy Gose of Littleton, Colo., and Joan Fahrney of Grottoes, Va. The family suggests memorials be to the music department of Calvary Baptist Church c/o Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home, Box 1112, Guymon, Okla. 73942. Lula Hudson Gravatt HOLLIS, Okla. - Lula Hudson Gravatt, 91, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Church of Christ with Douglas Hale, nephew, and Mark Radford officiating. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery by Patterson-Greer Funeral Home. Mrs. Gravatt was born in Tracy, Texas. She married James Albert Hudson in 1924. He died in 1942. She married Victor Leon Gravatt in 1944. He died in 1974. She worked for the Kraft Cheese Co. in Hollis for three years during the 1940s. She and Mr. Gravatt lived in Gering, Neb., for 28 years. Mrs. Gravatt moved back to Hollis in 1976. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include a daughter, Syvil Nell Smith of Amarillo; two grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.New Mexico Maggie Ortega PORTALES, N.M. - Maggie Ortega, 84, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today in St. Helen Catholic Church. Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Helen Catholic Church by the Rev. Juan Martinez. Burial will be in Portales Cemetery by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales Inc. Mrs. Ortega was born and raised in Pintada near Santa Rosa. She attended school at Vaughn. She married Hilario Ortega in 1930 at Anton Chico. He died in 1986. She also was preceded in death by a son, Abran Ortega, in 1993, and a stepson, Modesto Ortega. She was a member of St. Helen Catholic Church and the Guadalupanas at the church. She belonged to the Senior Citizens as well as Los Abuelitos at Casa de Buena Salud. She was the secretary for Los Abuelitos for several years. Survivors include a stepson, Max Ortega of Albuquerque; four grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Ted Williamson PORTALES, N.M. - Ted Williamson, 89, of Milnesand, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. today in Emmanuel Baptist Church with the Rev. Ross Dunn officiating. Burial will be in Portales Cemetery by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales Inc. Mr. Williamson was born in Knox City, Texas. His family moved to New Mexico by covered wagon in 1909. They settled in Milnesand, where Mr. Williamson had lived for 87 years. He was a rancher. He married Marjorie Bertram in 1947 at Lubbock, Texas. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Ted Williamson Jr. of Milnesand and Jimmy Dale Williamson of Plano, Texas; a brother, A.E. Williamson of Roswell; a sister, Ruth Scott of Clovis; and three grandchildren. Eldon L. Calder CLOVIS, N.M. - Eldon L. Calder, 60, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Steed-Todd Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens. Mr. Calder was born in Clovis and had been a lifelong Clovis resident. He the former owner of C&C Meat Co. and Hatch Packing Co. in Portales. He had been in the construction business for many years. He attended Forrest Heights Baptist Church. He married Glenda Cox in 1963 at Mexico. Survivors include his wife; two brothers, Jack Calder of Clovis and Ivan Calder of San Marcos, Texas; and two sisters, Helen Taliaferro of Clovis and Martha Jeske of Bakersfield, Calif.Area Wreatha Alma Ramey PAMPA - Wreatha Alma Ramey, 89, died Monday, May 12, 1997. Services will be at 10 a.m. today in Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors Colonial Chapel with the Rev. Scott Richards, pastor of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, officiating. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today in Mooreland Cemetery at Mooreland, Okla., with the Rev. Lonny Robbins, pastor of Trinity Fellowship Church of Pampa, officiating. Mrs. Ramey was born in Woodward County, Okla., and had been a resident of Pampa since 1943. She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church. She married Ray Willard Ramey in 1926 at Woodward. He died in 1981. Survivors include two sons, Darrell E. Ramey of Paradise Valley, Ariz., and Ray W. Ramey Jr. of Hobbs, N.M.; a sister, Olive Strothers of Colorado Springs; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to St. Paul's United Methodist Church. Daryl Lanners SUNRAY - Daryl Lanners, 75, died Wednesday, May 14, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Daniel Echols of the church and the Rev. Wynes Manney of First Assembly of God Church officiating. Burial will be in Lane Memorial Cemetery by Morrison Funeral Directors. Mr. Lanners was born in Texhoma, Okla., and had been a longtime resident of Sunray. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a truck driver for Mark 20 Oil and Gas Co. Survivors include a daughter, Daryla Stafford of Dumas; three sons, Kenneth Lanners of Sunray, Leslie Lanners of Austin and Jackie Lanners of Dumas; two brothers, Louis Lanners of Houston and Calvin Lanners of Truth or Consequences, N.M.; eight grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. The family will be at 1209 Phillips in Dumas. They request memorials be to Meals on Wheels c/o Lew Haile Annex, Room 209, 810 S. Dumas Ave., Dumas, Texas 79029; or a favorite charity. William Frank Goffinet MEMPHIS - William Frank Goffinet, 83, died Wednesday, May 14, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Church of Christ with Tom Anderson and the Rev. O.K. Bowen officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery by Spicer Funeral Home. Mr. Goffinet was born in Memphis. He married Lois Richardson in 1934 at Childress. He was employed with the U.S. Postal Service in Memphis for many years. He was on the board of the Fairview Cemetery Association and a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife; a son, William Dan Goffinet of Sayre, Okla.; a daughter, Theresa Juanella Pritchett of Garland; three sisters, Lucille Berry of Lakeview, Eunice Floyd of Memphis and Elizabeth Hodgson of Norman, Okla.; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to the Fairview Cemetery Association, Box 265, Memphis, Texas 79245. Irene Reddick Smith BORGER - Irene Reddick Smith, 83, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Fairlanes Baptist Church with the Rev. Art McAninch, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors. Mrs. Smith was born in Gray, Okla., and had been a Borger resident since 1934. She was a homemaker and a member of Fairlanes Baptist Church. She had been a Sunday school teacher for Phillips Baptist Church and Fairlanes Baptist Church for 40 years. Survivors include her husband, Harold W. Smith; three sons, James Reddick of Fort Worth, Ted Reddick of Santa Ana, Calif., and Larry Smith of Erie, Colo.; a daughter, Sherry Moore of Borger; four brothers, G.F. "Bus' Tedder of Farmington, N.M., Glenn Tedder of Fritch, Howard Tedder of Newton, Kan., and Clarence Tedder of Whitharrel; 16 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Robert D. Estes MULESHOE - Robert D. Estes, 71, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997. There will be no services. Cremation and arrangements were by Ellis Funeral Home. Mr. Estes was born in Alva, Okla., and had been a resident of Muleshoe since April, moving from Thoreau, N.M. He was a graduate of Lubbock High School. He was a former member of the Texas Rangers. He was a veteran of the Marine Corps, the Navy and the Army and a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Cooties. He also was a lifetime member and chaplain of the Disabled American Veterans of Albuquerque. He was a commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America in Amarillo and a volunteer fireman for the Blue Water Acres Fire Department in Thoreau. Mr. Estes married Alice Ray in 1975 at Los Lunas, N.M. Survivors include his wife; three sons, Robert Duane Estes II of Seattle, Wash., Moses Estes of Albuquerque, N.M., and Rick Estes of Kansas City, Mo.; a daughter, Debbie Bromaski of Kansas City; and two grandchildren. Vernon Bleeker MULESHOE - Vernon "Moe' Bleeker, 70, died Wednesday, May 14, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. John Wagoner, pastor, and the Rev. R.R. Miller of Alexandria, La., officiating. Burial will be in Olton Cemetery at Olton by Ellis Funeral Home. Mr. Bleeker was born in Cross Plains. He had been a resident of Muleshoe since 1959, moving from Olton. He married Mary Nell Miller in 1946 at Olton. He was a service station owner and operator and a tractor mechanic for the Whitt-Watt-Rempe John Deer dealership. He also was a Toms Peanut distributor. Mr. Bleeker was a member of First United Methodist Church and a life member of the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Survivors include his wife; two sons, Alford Bleeker of Houston and Delmer Dee Bleeker of Trophy Club; two daughters, Wanda Nell Cockerham of Eddy and Vondale Mann of Friona; four sisters, Opal McEachern and Jessie Cain, both of Abilene, Emalee Cargile of Haskell and Minnie Doyce Owen of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch and Girlstown USA or a favorite charity.
