Fraxinus excelsior Anhängsel

 

Schützt vor Wasser, verbindet Wassert mit Licht/Wärme (Eschenspeer = Sonnenstrahl/Lanz und Gral = Sonnenlicht + Wasser/Mit Lanzen aus Frax. töten Götter Drachen/Schlangen), Chiron

(= Centaur der Achilles heilte) hatte Lanz aus Eschenholz, aus Erle = 1e Frau/aus Esche 1e Mann geschaffen (Gott schoss Pfeil in Esche, aus dem Loch entsprang 1e Mann), Esche entspring

aus Blut Uranos = erste, herrschende Kraft auf Erde, Esche = Yggdrasil streckt 3 Wurzel nach Assen-/Riesen-/Niflheim, unter den Wurzeln leben drei Nornen, die Lebensfaden spinnen +

Yggdrasil bewässern, bewohnt von 2 Hirschen/ Ziege Haidrun, Oben: Adler/unten: Schlange/zwischen beiden stiftet ein Eichhörnchen (Merkurius) Unfrieden/= Tantrabaum

heiliger Baum der Druide/zur Feuerschlagen gebraucht, für Speer/Lanze/Ruder/Bootgerüst/Kriegswaffen benutzt

Eschenymphe versorgt Zeus nach seiner Geburt

Sonne/Mond   nasser Boden/frostempfindlich/treibt Blätter spät, Regenzauber/Wasserschutz

Geschlecht einhäusig/zweihäusig/Zwitter was per Baum/per Jahr wechseln kann.

Windbestäubung, blüht nicht jedes Jahr,

Fraxinus folgt auf Alnus, schlägt nach abholzen immer neu aus.

Hexenbesen aus Birkereiser gemacht mit Stiel aus Escheholz und zusammengehalten mit Bänder aus Weide

 

Germanic mythology: Askr (= ash) and Embla (= elm) were the first human couple created by gods from trees. Yggdrasil (means ‘I-bearer) = giant ash = the tripartite axis and pillar of the world.

= power centre of the world. Yggdrasil means “bearer of Ygg” (= Odin or Wotan, father of all gods). Yggdrasil has 3 roots.

R.S.: 3 sources of the I-individuality: The “I” which had been there before but has only now risen to consciousness.

 

1st root: comes from Niflheim. Nidhogg (= a serpent) gnaws at the roots.

Excesses of the uncontrolled sexual instinct gnaw at this root of man.

2nd root: heart. From here comes the new life of man. In all his doing the human being is driven by the heart. He feels what makes him happy or unhappy.

He feels the present, but he also feels the element in which he grows into the future; the true destiny of man is felt in the heart. The initiating priest therefore said: at the spring from which this root grows 3 norns are sitting and spinning the threads of fate. They are Urd (mistress of the past)/Verdandi (knows about the

Present/about that which is and what is evolving)/Skuld (knows what will be in the future). The future comes about because something goes on beyond the present which has to be redeemed. (“Schuld” also = “guilt”).

3rd root: Mimir’s well: Mimir who drinks the water of wisdom. This is what comes to expression in speech. The crown of the tree grows into the spirit land and from the spiritual world come drops

of the fertile nerve essence.

The initiates put it like this: In the crown of the world ash a goat is grazing and from its horns a continuous supply of mead is dropping.

Thus the below is continuously fertilized by the above. A squirrel keeps running up and down the stem bearing spiteful words to and fro: = battle of lower against higher nature.

The ash stands at the centre of the entire germanic mythological world as an image of the threefold human being.

In this mythology the ash is the bearer or carrier resisting all powers of destruction. Like no other tree it gives strength in all kinds of catastrophes. Interestingly, its significance is not limited to Germanic mythology.

 

In Greek mythology the ash is also assigned important and partly similar functions: the original goddess of the ash was Adrasteia, who nurtured the infant Zeus. “Adrasteia” means “conciliating

the jealousy of the Gods through humble deeds”. This corresponds to the quality of the Norn Urd described above as residing at the root of one of three sources in the Edda. In Greek mythology Adrasteia is equivalent to Nemesis, the relentless persecutor of any kind of hubris i.e. excessive superciliousness. She makes sure that hubris is always repayed with misfortune.

In Greek mythology the ash was consecrated to Poseidon, the god of the sea. The Aeolians, to whom the Trojans belonged, were devoted to and protected by Poseidon. According to Hesiod the Aeolians descended from the third generation, the Bronze Age, of men that had been created from ash trees. Their armour and houses were of bronze, and they worked with bronze. Hesiod writes that these men worshipped only the deeds of the war god Ares and that they were the cause of tears and violence. They hearts were hard as iron and their arms were unconquerable.

Hesiod makes a connection between bronze and ash.

This “Bronze Race” or “Ash Race” perished with Atlantis.

Again, we find the power of destruction and the doom of the gods as in Germanic mythology and also in the fall of Troy. Virgil indeed compares the fall of Troy to the cutting down of an old ash

in the mountains.

Another reference: the ash nymphs are said to have been created from the blood that was shed when Uranus was castrated by Cronus. The Greek word “melia” means “ash” as well as “lance”.

As in the Norse language we find again a connection between ash and spear and it does not surprise us that the spear of the centaur Chiron used by Achilles to kill Hector was also made of ash wood.

 

Viscum fraxini. = Mistel gewachsen auf Esche (Anobaviscum = Abnoba GmbH, Pforzheim)

 

 

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