I did some research on it as I said earlier. i found out that Her following could be traced back to The pre-columbian goddess Mictecacihuatl and her husband. According to Aztec Mythology she and her husband were guardians of the underworld to guard the bones of the dead. she is or was refered to as some sort of shadow to the virgin mary whose aztec goddess parallel was tonantzin. Tonantzin was also Mictecacihuatls sister.
She is called a lot of things. She is actually banned by the catholic church in Mexico because this whole "jesus conquered death when he was resurrected" story. So she is a banned saint or something.
Belief in her has become a cult almost especially mexicoin places like tepitin. She removes evil spells curses and offers protection to all becaue death has dominion over everything. this is why she is often depicted with a globe. she also has a set of scales in her other hand or a scythe . The scales represent justice and equality and fair judgements.
She can bring death to ones enemies and other things regular saints just would not do.
Because she is death people who live on the marginal edge of society, particularly in mexico go to her for many things because she does not descriminate she loves all of her children.
since she does all of these things that are strongly related to black magic, the catholic church equates her with idolatry and devil worship. the priest in the cathedral in mexico city says that it is a form of satanism and anyone who does is worshipping the devil because they know the devil to do things like she does.
As mictecacihuatl is often depicted with a dress of live snakes and her sister is often depicted dressed with live snakes as well. I figure that since "mary" Is actually a botched version of Ishtar\isis\astart\astaroth I figure that Mictecacihuatl\lady death\holy dead\ must have some sort of relation to the pantheon of gods that we know.
I think that because of the nature of her origins and the things that she does and the things that she is equated with "justice to the just", she has basic principles that coincide with father.
I want to know who she is in our pantheon...and if Astaroth has a sister and if her sister is the same as Lady death.
Guidance please,
~Ave Satanas
From: Cam Kuzik <spudkuzik@...
To:
Sent: Sun, January 10, 2010 2:03:11 PM
Subject: Re: Candles
"Los Santismos Muertes" means "The Holy Dead". This stems from ancient MesoAmerican beliefs that the dead come to visit the living at a certain time of the year (End of October, beginning of November).. As these candles are designed for this holiday, they should
only be used for that holiday. However, they were probably made with Catholicism heavily in mind as the Christians and Catholics did adopt and dub it "All Souls Day". All Souls Day does umbrella over pretty much all pagan "death" holidays.
If I were you, pass these candles and keep looking. If you do buy them, only use them for the time period I mentioned. Even then, they are still Catholic candles.
GRAD SVAROG!
From: Lerdavian <lerdavian@yahoo. com
To: JoyofSatan666@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sat, January 9, 2010 8:55:09 PM
Subject: Candles
I wanted to know about some candles at the store that I found. Normally at some stores like dollar general etc "saint candles" are purchasable.
I just happened to see one I've never seen before that was different from the usual garbage. It was a black candle that said "Los santismos Muerte" or something. It meant the Holy dead.They also had a red and I white one and a blank jarred candle too. My knowledge of Spanish is limited so I couldn't understand enough on the back to know what it was for specifically.
I wanted to know if this candle was okay to use because it's black.I haven't bought one because I didn't know. If I need to I could break the jar.
I guess I figured that Day of the Dead (if that is what it is about or similiar to) is a basically pagan holiday and I thought that this is what that candle was about. It has a skeleton in a robe holding two skulls in its' hands.I don't know if that matters.I'm doing a bit of research on it right now, i just wanted someone elses input.
Thank you in advance.
~ave satanamas
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