Tuesday was the first of the Three Benziten Days, the days dedicated to the Maristella, the Star of the Sea, the High Lady of Wisdom. She is of course, Our Lady of the Sea in a more exalted state, the Mother of Art and Wisdom and prayer. Her other names in the West are Metis or even Mnemosyne, Prudenita, and Minerva, Sophia and Sapientia. In India she is Saraswati, Goddess of Creation and the Secret River. Further east she is called Benziten. In these days before Allantide, one day is not enough for her, and so there are two more Benziten Days.
Tonight is the Dedication of Babalon, the Spirit of Lust, she who shares her nature with Asherah, Astarte, Inanna, Aphrodite. She is the Whore of Blood and Fire, the hot wind from the plain. Among her other faces may be Lillith. Her hot winds stir up and bring to life. It is possible she is Isis or Nephthys. On this night we dedicate to the flesh, to the beauty of lust and the sacredness of sex. There will also be to other dedications to Babalon before Allantide.
Of course, with a great name there must be many faces, the greater the name, the greater the god the more the faces. It seems there are at least two Asherahs, that Our Lady of the Sea is Asherah, but that Babalon is Ashera as well, one hailing from the fiery desert and one coming up from the water, Isis and Nephthys together. At the close of the year, we honor her two faces.
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