Category Archives: Deities

Nemesis as the goddess of vengeance

Posted on June 20, 2016 by esotericnz

From Notes & Queries.,Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 June 1884 https://beta.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FRERE18840601.2.17 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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The Noosing of the Sun-God

Posted on February 8, 2015 by esotericnz

The Noosing of the Sun-God Jessie Mackay 1910 “Tiraha, Te Ra! I am Maui,— Maui, the bantling, the darling;— Maui, the fire-thief, the jester;— Maui, the world’s fisherman! Thou art the Sun-God, Te Ra of the flaming hair. Heretofore man … Continue reading →

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Some idle Dionysian musings

Posted on January 5, 2015 by esotericnz

THE CULT OF DIONYSUS. Sun, Volume I, Issue 2, 7 February 1914, Page 6   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=SUNCH19140207.2.91.62&srpos=49&e=——-100–1—-0dionysus– SOCIAL SERVICE. Observer, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 7 December 1912, Page 3 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TO19121207.2.3.4&srpos=61&e=——-100–1—-0dionysus– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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The Land of the Gods.

Posted on December 22, 2014 by esotericnz

The Land of the Gods. Otago Witness , Issue 2725, 30 May 1906, Page 85   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19060530.2.202&srpos=33&e=——-100–1—-0dionysus– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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THE NATURE OF DIONYSUS.

Posted on October 10, 2014 by esotericnz

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10479, 11 June 1910, Page 2     http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OAM19100611.2.63.7&srpos=5&e=——-100–1—-0dionysus– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ COLUMN 1904

Posted on March 17, 2014 by esotericnz

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ COLUMN Otago Daily Times , Issue 13141, 26 November 1904, Page 8 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19041126.2.62&srpos=261&e=——-10–261—-0diana+goddess– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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A Demand for an Offering to Zealandia

Posted on December 2, 2013 by esotericnz

  Another voice raised for the importance of cultural output to the future of the country THE COMING BOOM FOR NEW ZEALAND.   Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 222, 18 September 1889, Page 4   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS18890918.2.21&srpos=22&e=——-10–21—-0zealandia+goddess– With thanks to the … Continue reading →

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Hygeia Goddess of Health 1932

Posted on November 25, 2013 by esotericnz
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Mokoia Island: Spirit and Place in New Zealand

Posted on November 4, 2013 by esotericnz

AS ISLE OF GHOSTS. Otago Daily Times , Issue 15780, 3 June 1913, Page 3 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19130603.2.7&srpos=16&e=——-100–1—-0occult+portent– with thanks to the National Library of New Zealand    

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Maori decorative art 1925

Posted on September 9, 2013 by esotericnz

Born in Scotland, Robert Donn came to New Zealand in 1921. He was a landscape watercolourist, as well as an art instructor at Dunedin Technical College and Auckland Teachers College in 1925 he composed this talk on Maori art as decorative art, it serves as … Continue reading →

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