In the Lemurian period, the
Zodiacal sign of Aries was called "Pythia," a term which much later
in history was used in conjunction with the Oracles of Delphi in Greece. The
Lemurian word, "Pythia," meant to keep sovereign or pure. It also
meant to "sustain, to mark, and to give in offering." Despite the
various meanings, the essence of all these definitions was "to hold above
all else as cherished and without blemish."
To the Lemurians and the Atlanteans, all Zodiacal signs were
feminine in their inner mystery, and masculine in their elemental power. Aries,
or "Lady Pythia", is the first sign of the Zodiac, and as such, offers
the birth of the other eleven signs as her mark of purity in the heavens. She
gives birth to the eleven initiations that come after her, for she contains the
consciousness of all twelve within her nature. Yet all but the first, Pythia/Aries
herself, remain unborn within the womb until humanity brings her consciousness
into its being.
In Mur-Atlan (the cross-culture of Lemuria-Atlantis) symbology,
Lady Pythia was depicted as a fair-haired woman standing somewhat like the
statue of liberty, holding a torch high in her right hand to light the way
through the twelve Zodiacal initiations to follow. In her left hand she carries
a red stone, held in her open palm, as in a gesture of offering. This stone
symbolizes the blood of the womb, which we might now associate symbolically with
the Blood of the Lamb. It is her offering of gestation. "From the womb of
Pythia shall the sons of heaven and earth be born."
On Pythia's's left arm hangs a small woven basket, with three
small serpents peering above the rim. These are the three-fold powers of
creation in the earth: conception, gestation and birth. This symbol reveals
Pythia to not only be an archetype of the cosmos, but to also be intimately
connected with the rituals of birth and re-birth in the realm of the earth. Even
though she is a being of "pure aether," her works are performed within
the serpentine creational fires of earth.
The true role of the Goddess in the earth, or the feminine
principle, is not to be found within the elements themselves, but as a steward
or power over the elements. The divine feminine hierarchical station is within
the world of the aether--an uncontaminated substance of fire/air. Her power is
utilized to direct and protect the earth. The elements are comprised of cosmic
energy which is crystallized within the matter plane of the earth, and which
represents a masculine/positive polarity.
With the progressive lowering of the planetary etheric
vibration through the ages, it has been necessary for the divine feminine nature
of the aether to descend ever closer into proximity with the bonding forces of
the elements. She now touches the core of the fire within the atom. However, the
quality of the negative polarity which is referred to as the divine feminine has
never been, nor ever will be, the elemental serpentine fire itself.
Therefore, in a higher plane of perception Aries represents
the Immaculate Conception of all spiritual consciousness held within in the
twelve Zodiacal signs. Indeed, the actual physical birth of Mari Anna, the
Mother of Yeshua, was within the sign of Aries. Her birth date was April 16th;
while Yeshua, the host for the Christ incarnate, was born in Taurus on April
24th. From the fiery aether of Aries, the "immaculate" gives birth to
the sacred word or logos within the Taurean earth.