UNCOS Los Angeles: The National Holocaust Sanctuary and Shrine of Hekate and Aphrodite/Venus at the Crossroads. The Witchholocaust sanctuary and shrine was dedicated by the council of the indigenous world religions called The Church of Opposition. [église d’opposition, церква опозиції opozytsiyna tserkva, Oppositionskirche] The council represented the indigenous (ex: Ukrainian Slavic, Celt, Norse) and ancient (Roman, Greek) religions to organizations and other members. Currently the classical, neo-classical and modern indigenous and ancient religions are named as the Pagan, Neo-Pagan and Wicca religions in the United States of America and are 100% legally recognized by the Hague and Geneva conventions. We provide publishing and consulting services.
2001 The Hekate Crossroads Sanctuary and Shrine moves to a different site in Southern California still unpublicized at the time. The dedication ceremony for The Hekate took place over two weekends. It was estimated that 250 to 400 cars arrived on Saturday and Sunday each weekend for a total possible number of 1500 to 2000 people.
The church council —organized around a crossroads shrine—was supposed to be a secret Los Angeles and San Francisco area coalition church 50 years ago, but now there is a new country and legal recognition in the United States of America of the ancient and modern religions. Without the legal recognition of the United States military the general population did not take the Pagans seriously. Prejudice has existed for centuries but we forgot about the Ukrainian Holocaust in the United States of America where millions of Christians were murdered. I am glad to see finally in the videos of the euromaidan revolution that the “Ukrainian National Church Council” had a Pagan on stage with them during euromaidan. Whether he was part of the UNCC or not it does not really matter to the public, the fact is there was a person in pagan clothing up there with the priests in black. If you did not know it the indigenous Slavic Religion is Paganism. In Europe the majority of Pagans killed in the Holocaust were Ukrainian.
The reason that the Ukrainian Holocaust shrine was never built in Los Angeles is a surprising one to many people. The majority of the people massacred were Christian and Christian/Pagan (~75%) The other 25% identify solely as Jewish or Gypsy and Pagan. All of them were Ukrainian+ . The country the shrine would have been in involved with in the 1970’s through 1991 was the USSR. Politically and legally you could not have a communist USSR Holocaust shrine in the United States. It would have been very offensive on the surface to the Jewish community in Los Angeles.
The resistance church members were still trying to get people out of the USSR and into Israel at the time so moving the holocaust survivors families behind the iron curtain took precedence. It was also deemed too risky a project to Holocaust families in the United States and the USSR. It would have exposed names to nazis and people that were still hunting and killing Jews, Gypsies and Pagans 10 to 20 years after WWII. Today the fear is still the same one of putting relatives of people in the United States—who live in certain countries—in political prisons overseas— hopefully not in The Ukraine but it still goes on today. This is why we will always be vigilant with our members and donor’s identities. This is why it was a secret for so long. The Israelis have their own country, for millennia all we had was Hekate and our crossroads shrines.
Coming soon you will be able to find it on the internet as thewitch.us as well as thehekate.com currently pointing to this website. If you are interested in opportunities with The Hekate Witch Sanctuary and Shrine please contact us through the verified Google business listing or through the older shrine Webpage:https://gypsypagan.com
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Ritual drama subject research
Links to institutions and papers
Posted on the night of the full cold moon
Explaining Cultic Theatres and Ritual drama to the modern non-christian requires a definition. Rather than a definition an example would be: The Cultus of Aphrodite would be practiced in the Temple of Aphrodite and/or the Sanctuary of Aphrodite. [A cult is the care of a God or Goddess. The cultus is the system or variety of religious worship] A cultic theater play or ritual and enactment is what they performed during feasts as well as for other ceremonies. As far as we know some of the Cultic Theater and Ritual Drama performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the latter half of the 20th century after WWII had not been enacted or performed for thousands of years. With help from the academic community in the University of California and The California State University, research and practical knowledge was shared between practitioners and professors.
One of the questions discussed with the professors was the subject of Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama which was a major obstruction to the recognition of ancient religious practices by the state, local and federal governments of the United States of America. This is NOT a small issue and was directly tied into the 1960’s and 1970’s religious civil rights movements. This simple question of what was a governmentally recognizable religious observance of a prayer, a ritual or a rite was and still is a major topic when we begin to consider various forms of care and worship that wereindigenous public and private observances, rituals and ceremonies. Some of these early observances were forcibly broken up by various US federal, state and local police agencies. Indeed the problem remains to this very day that people do not understand that the religions are now 100% legal. The pieces are finally in place to accurately describe and protect one of the most sacred American liberties. The Freedom of Religion
Poster created during the Second World War (1943), according to the Declaration of the United Nations of 1942. This poster is important because it represents the origins of the United Nations as a wartime alliance (before it was a concrete organization). As a work of Office of War Information, a branch of the United States Federal Government, this work is in public domain.
Google books description of Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama: [full description] This well-illustrated book thoroughly investigates the relations between East and West in the Ancient world as seen through the lens of ancient religious practices. The author has concentrated on one aspect of the cult, the ritual drama, and its setting, the cultic theatre. The point of departure is the presence of a great amount of theatrical structures in the sanctuaries in Greece and Italy. Many of these structures were not proper theatres in the modern sense of the word, but rather primitive rows of seats, ‘a place to watch from’. These structures have never before been examined from a functional viewpoint, and the author proposes that their primary raison d’etre was the performance of ritual dramas at the great seasonal feasts. For various reasons, which she describes, the author points to the relative obscurity of this religious institution in the Greek and Roman world, and notes that as a result, it has received scant attention from scholars. In contrast, it is well known that ritual dramas had been performed in the distant past at the great seasonal feasts of the Orient, and the book includes an excellent overview of the development of this institution as well as the setting chosen for it in the Egyptian, Syrio-Phoenician and Anatolian cults, both in their homelands and in their new host countries in the West. This is a fascinating book for archaeologists and classicists, as well as for anthropologists and historians of religion, but it also gives food for thought for those who simply want to learn more about Oriental religious practices and the origins of theatre. [end Google books full description]
I/we were taught thatwhen those ritual dramas were performed in those temples or sanctuaries it was said that the actual deities were present in their spirit forms. The actors and participants who also included the priests and priestesses who were said to be the vessel of the spirit of whatever deity it was. They were honored as such because for a moment in time they were part of the pantheon or all the gods of the people. Modern paganism perhaps has forgotten that and we have waited lifetimes for confirmation of what we were taught as children and what our ancestors believed and passed down through the ages. Some of the rites and rituals had not been done for thousands of years so we drew down the gods and goddesses for the souls of all humanity.
We do not have to doubtthat what we were taught was true anymore. We also now do not have to worry about going to hell for participating in our first religion and first nations cultural and religiouspractices. They are legitimate practices and can either be thought of as cultural activity—if you are of some other faith—as well as the primary spiritual connection in your life.
Over 50 years ago there was a special church group in San Francisco and Los Angeles called the church of opposition. We performed public enactments (ritual dramas) of myths and legends as correctly as we could with the help of the academic community. . It helped start something that 50+ years later led to several classical,neo-classicalandmodern paganfaiths and religions to finally be accepted by the US federal government.
First Paragraph: When one studies ancient sanctuaries there is a tendency to focus on their primary functions, namely the rituals surrounding the cult itself, that is, the sacrifice to and the worship and the invocation of the deity. The historians of religions are of course well aware that the sanctuaries during the festivals, which were the only times when they were really the centre of religious action, served many secondary functions as well. The classical archaeologists have in this connection concentrated primarily on the so-called pan-Hellenic sanctuaries in Greece with their installations for sports, drama, choral singing, poetry and epic and, to a lesser degree, the sanctuaries for ludi in Rome. It is, however, important to remember that both in Greece and Italy not only this kind of sanctuaries, but also the “ordinary” sanctuaries, that is, those, which were not specially adapted to that kind of games, served other functions than the primary ones as well. One of these functions, I think, was the performance of ritual dramas, which may be defined as non-literary dramas based on the myth of the deity in the sanctuary in question, and performed at the great seasonal festivals, at which the myth illustrated the power of the god to conquer the various crises which society and its members had to go through. These crises could be, and often were in the agrarian society of antiquity, connected to the various transitions of the agrarian year, like sowing and harvest. But they could also refer to the transitions connected to the worshippers, such as the transition from child to puberty, the preparation of the young girl to her wedding, the change from youth to citizen, or, of course be connected to death, the so-called rites of passage.[end of first paragraph]
[First paragraph] Ritual drama was an important feature in antiquity—more important than the paucity of evidence suggests. No scripts have survived, since they were generally unnecessary, though we have a few accounts from inscriptions or literary sources about what was done and said. Ritual drama might typically be a reenactment of a myth, such as a fight between a king/god and a monster; the disappearance, return, and sacred marriage of a young god; or wanderings in the underworld. Historians of Greek and Roman drama would naturally like to know much more. A few paintings and reliefs seem to depict costumed performers of ritual drama; often they were priests or cult members, not professional actors. Masks discovered at religious sanctuaries certainly indicate the existence of religious performances. [End first paragraph]
Antike.Architektur.Geschichte Edited by Stephan Faust, Martina Seifert und Leon Ziemer
[First paragraph] In her work Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama, Inge Nielsen has shown that many sanctuaries in the ancient Mediterranean world can be expected to have had a theatron of some kind for ritual dramas or performances. Among her examples feature some sanctuaries in Karia, such as those of Hekate at Lagina, Artemis at Amyzon, and Zeus at Panamara 1. I suggest that Labraunda should be added to the list 2. The written sources are silent about ceremonies and rituals at this sanctuary of Zeus, but the archaeological material may provide some clues. In this paper I propose that the Monumental stairs in the Propylon courtyard at Labraunda may have been used as the theatron of a cultic theatre and not only as processional steps 3. The Propylon courtyard, the forecourt of the sanctuary, would have served as the orchestra.
[End of first paragraph]
The above reference came to my attention thanks to Aytekin Büyüközer who bookmarked it.
Chapter 25
Theater
Susanne Gödde [The first two paragraphs]
Introduction: Theater and Cult
Throughout Antiquity, Greek – and later Roman – theater was closely tied to religious practice due to its integration into religious festivals and its spatial proximity to temples and altars. Whereas in classical Athens the performances of tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays had been restricted to the cult of Dionysus, this exclusivity gradually dissolved, with the result that plays could, especially in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, also be performed at festivals in honor of other gods. Starting with the first Roman stone theater, the famous Theater of Pompey in Rome, dedicated in 55 BCE, one occasionally finds the combination of theater and temple within a single structure, unified by a strict spatial arrangement along a shared axis. In his standard monograph, John Arthur Hanson(1959) described these structures as “theater‐temples”, but their function is subject to ongoing debate (cf. Sear 2006: 44–5). Despite the historical and “genetic” proximity between theater and cult, it remains difficult to decide whether the theater of Antiquity was a sacred or profane institution, not least because the border between these two spheres – especially in Greek culture – is so fluid.
Archaeological evidence, however, suggests that theatrical performances also took place as part of cult – in forms quite independent of the written evidence of the surviving plays. Inge Nielsen (2002) and others have shown that structures similar to theaters existed in many Minoan (3000 to 1050 BCE) and Mycenian (1600-1050 BCE) palace‐ and temple‐complexes. The most well‐known are the stepped “theatral areas” in Cnossus and Phaestum (Nielsen 2002: 69–76).Temples of later date also show assembly and audience areas (theatra) which may have been used for cultic performances (cf. Anti 1947: 27–51; Sear 2006: 44–6; critical of the idea that these were predecessors of later theaters: Pöhlmann 1981: 136; Isler 2002:260). Based on the assumption that so‐called “cultic dramas” were staged in these locations, structures of this kind are termed “cultic theaters” or“sanctuary theaters” in modern ~~~
Observing the signs:
I see things like this all the time around Xxxxx’s roadside shrine and magic spot. that’s why it’s called Magic. The best kinds of daily magic are the real ones you can see the signs of, if you just open your eyes and think about things a little differently. If you are new to this website my front property was dedicated by the un-named church as a “Hekate,Venus/Aphrodite” sanctuary and shrine.
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Explanation:
At it’s very simplest (in this context) if you had to explain it to a young male or female legends of magic reading American child it is the Goddess sanctuary and shrine of Hekate (Magic, Spirit, Protection) and Venus/Aphrodite (Woman/Ancestress). Within the context of a secret “magic” religion this would be appropriate and correct. Hopefully, I am finally presenting and explaining these things so people can understand it.
The daily ritual or ceremony:
I burned phosphorus and said the single word: Enough.
This is my private ritual not for the public to do.
If the public wants me to burn phosphorus and say some words for them then that becomes a votive offering. The shrine keepers can do that for people if people leave their wishes at the shrine. People can also come to the roadside shrine and say their words either silently in their mind or out loud if they want to. You just need to remember which spirit or goddess or god you are talking to and be appropriate. If you leave a problem for Hekate to show you the way forward on your path in life, you might want to read about how it works first. I can tell you that at the very least you can leave a problem at the crossroads by speaking the words then forget about it and leave it to god. You just have to be open to the small signs of magic in your every day life to be able to hear the answers back.
The coincidences or signs/answer:
The next day I received a white dove, and a raven from the south east flying towards the north west with a lizard in its beak. I took pictures of the dove because it was sitting still but not the raven. This is NOTauspicia or Roman auspicia publica some call it augury. This is not exactly bird omens where you release the dove and see where it lands in your temple although it involves birds but rather auspicia oblativa and auspicia privata. For what a Roman festival that might include auspicia publica looks like please see this post. I am using the Roman pagan language to explain things consistently.
What we look for in modern paganism is auspicia oblativa and auspicia privata. These are signs that “the gods favor you” or god favors you and you will have good fortune. If the gods are favoring you—meaning they are literally paying attention to you—then you stand a good chance of having good things happen. At the very least being able to see the signs of gods or goddesses favor in daily magic gives you the hope that there is something beyond death. That there is another existence waiting for you after this life. This does not mean that other faiths and beliefs and religions are wrong. It just means that there are older belief systems that came before the modern ones. Some of them make sense and some of them do not.
Please remember this shrine is a Hekate crossroads shrine. it’s just a magic spot on the side of the road on a property where a priestess said a blessing to get rid of the ghosts and evil spirits and invite certain deities to pay attention to this spot. You have to invite the spirits and provide a place for humans to stop and think about it for a moment.
In the ancient world people would leave a piece of paper or something of significance at the niche or on a offering plate and then the next time a ritual or ceremony was performed the staff would read the requests to the spirit of the roadside shrine. If the request was granted the shrine became known for real magic and people would start to support it with gifts of food for the people that lived there or money or things they said they wanted.
How the auspicia privata fits into my life: Hekate’s answer of a white dove at the lantern and a black raven with a lizard is about something that happened in the past that I and only a few people know about. That’s why it’s called auspicia privata (private signs or private answers). If I tell you what the signs were, you need to figure out what that means in your private life. Then the signs become Auspica Publica and Auspicia Oblivata. The signs that the gods favor you, your family and/or “your public family” and the signs that people can come to that spot and request signs for their own life. I don’t need or want to know what you do, only that it works or not. If you are happy with the results then you should give thanks back. Simple eh?
Back to how it fits in my life:
This goes back to a troubling historical story (1) from Arcadia where there was someone competing with the Szandor newsletter and he called it the Salamander newsletter. In later years this possibly became the “lizard coven” in Redlands California. Inadvertently I moved into the center of their night time circles 19 years ago from the Los Angeles area and until now there has been some not so insignificant conflict between the two groups, one which has a decidedly Crowley leaning and of course us. The Crowley person is a man who was publishing and distributing a copycat newsletter at the racetracks for money. They even took our newsletter, cut the title off of it, photocopied it in Arcadia and sold it in the tunnels under the track to the infield. Our [un-named church] newsletter was given out to the travelling jockeys and the horse people in their trailers away from the general public. The other man’s newsletter was sold in the parking lots and the tunnels. The Arcadia Police Department mixed the two up of course and spoke to Howard about the wrong one. Giving newsletters to subscribers is one thing, copying and selling them is another thing entirely.
The newsletter was a special kind of a church, it is amazing to think about it now but all you needed to go to church was the newsletter. It was the non sanctuary old world shrines (?) church. Nobody knew about it at first. The secret was that it was a old gypsy and pagan magic newsletter like they sold at carnivals and circuses. Grandma’s and Grandpa’s read it. It had a list of convocations, a prayer list and who did what ceremony where. It also had old herbal remedies and recipes. This was over 50+ years ago. If you subscribed to it they had a post office box you could send general questions and prayer requests to. You could also send letters to other members if they dropped off the map and had no address. The office would hold the letters for you and let you know if someone was still alive if they got in contact with them.
Supposedly there is a local legend of how my father from afar got ahold of that newsletter ANDlater he received the racetrack, circus and entertainment distribution franchise which was a whole different worldwide thing in Los Angeles. He was supposed to sell flyers to get money for his kids including the one that was in the hospital and got adopted in Southern California. This was the start of the new legends (post WWII) of the world wide gypsy pagan nomad caravan church. It’s the very lowest gypsy pagancaravan franchise or legal job you can hold in a territory: handing out the flyers for the “nomad caravan” at the crossroads and maintaining the shrine/signpost. There is a very dark side aspect of the crossroads newsletter business that we will not tell here. Today we are writing the story in the light of day because the opposition religions are finally legal in the USA.
Nobody made very much money from it, it paid for the post office box, dinners and gas money to drive around and sell it and books. Supposedly it was to be like the handouts you got at the crossroads when there was a carnival or a circus or the gypsies or pagans were staying nearby. (+ the travellers, the ones in the caravans)
It was very exclusive you could only get it from the legitimate church. You had to find the church first, then arrange to meet them, then have your background vouched for and sometimes it took years to do this to become a member. Originally It had a very small number of member families that I can remember. This was the “gypsy pagan and nomad caravan convocation” “church newsletter”.
The Salamander’s had a presence in the tunnels under the Santa Anita Arcadia Racetrack and at the LA County Arboretum. They used LSD in their practice sometimes and felt that if they used LSD near XYZ, the “messages and visions” would come to them. Some of them drove up to Richmond and parked next to The Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx. I was not involved with them but the police department let me know when they were around. Apparently some of them came by a few years ago and said they were the ones who took XXX to the Zoo.
Summary:
This was AnatolianGreek and Roman if you wanted to know from Xxxxx’s sanctuary and shrine in Redlands CA The Roman is honored today as Venus Woman Ancestress not as Roman auspicia publica although if they need the legal observance for a unspecified reason here it is.
Xxxxx Xxxxx in Los Angeles says the signs were:
White Dove at the lantern and keys. See pictures. Raven with lizard in mouth flying E/SE towards W/NW on 10/18/18 No pictures. The meaning of these signs in your life is up to you. This is what the newsletter is for. This is our gift to you:
The symbolic continuity of the religions of the indigenous nations.
The sacred fire has never gone out all around the world.
It’s obvious that the whole world wants to know how to do “Magic” in real life which is simply witnessed by the fact that 3/4 of a billion books have been sold with a total focus or partial focus on Magic. That’s 10% of all the people on the whole blue planet you are standing on. How you get there is up to you. People want to do it and see it and have it explained to them.
The next morning: Nov 18 2018 7:10 AM —Shrine Journal this is just a running commentary of what I do and what the observed results are.
I posted on Legitimus-usa.comand here plus Nextdoor.com saying that I had a white dove on top of the roof next to the Hekate lantern and if it was yours (banded) could you please come pick it up? (Totally forgetting what I did with the phosphorus the night before -BTW)
Someone drove by and I heard the random words: “I put it there”, (we have a family near here that flies homing doves) but Christians have been messing with me for so long now that after I posted it and got a comment, my alternate perspective on it is:
IF someone put it there as a token of peace to somehow absorb something from the lantern somehow, THEN that was a neat thing to do. That’s their magic not mine, I don’t ask questions like that. Maybe their family has a white dove of protection and peace now. That still does not explain the raven with the lizard from a particular direction flying towards the Xxxx’x house later the same day. After posting this yesterday the Christians said it was a trained Raven. With a lizard in its beak? Maybe we should ask the Carians.
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Yes this was “the fairy tale” told in Los Angeles to people about the Pagan, Romani, Sinti and Traveller newsletter business. The problem is some of the Sxxxxxxx and Cxxxxxxxxx argue about what was said and done.I think they are flat out evil because the people believed in it. Once people believe in something trying to take it away with lies makes people very upset.
XXX references deleted by cease and desist letter from Cxxxxx XXX’s agent for process in Berlin not by XXX. We consider receiving that letter literally a heart stopping moment but will comply for sensitivity reasons. We are not compensating for any one particular historical perspective or record. There are many stories from that time period in Los Angeles. XXX told me to change my last name.
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