As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In a historical wonderment, that while the Romans and such were gutting goats to discern if all was well with the gods, the Israelite ancestors of the English and Americans had a rather interesting oracle, which continues on to this day in the love of the horse in British and American peoples.
"the Jutish leaders who led the earliest Teutonic host into Thanet should bear the names of Hengest and Horsa, the stallion and the mare."
Grant Allen. Early Britain / Anglo-Saxon Britain
What is most fascinating is the revelation of their oracles which transcend to the pagan groves which Solomon infected Israel with, but transformed into living oracles kept in those groves of the white horse.
"Among the most sacred animals of the Aryan race was the horse. Even in the Indian epics, the sacrifice of a horse was the highest rite of the primitive religion. Tacitus tells us that the Germans kept sacred white horses at the public expense, in the groves and woods of the gods: and that from their neighings and snortings, auguries were taken.
Amongst the people of the northern marshlands, the white horse seems to have been held in especial honour, and to this day a white horse rampant forms the cognisance of Hanover and Brunswick. The English settlers brought this, their national emblem, with them to Britain, and cut its figure on the chalk downs as they advanced westward, to mark the progress of their conquest."
Grant Allen. Early Britain / Anglo-Saxon Britain
These religious oracles were so ingrained in Americans, that George Washington rode the white horse and in fiction the Lone Ranger's horse, Silver, was white.
I am fascinated by this, not to indulge in, but just what these rugged individuals, discerned from their white horses, kept in the groves of the gods or demons.
While termed barbarians, it seems a much more civilized method of inquiry than killing goats and reading livers.
How much we see before us is in our genetics, as our ancestors were drawn to these things of mystery and they still symbolize the same in the modern era.
"It may be worth while to note, too, that the name Æsc means the ash-tree; and that this tree was as sacred among plants as the horse was among animals.
Grant Allen. Early Britain / Anglo-Saxon Britain
Æsc was the son of Hengest, who came to power, after his brother Horsa was killed in combat against the Welsh. Hengest the next season made war on the Welsh in Kent, killing 4000. It was after that the Britons quit Kent and went to London-bury.
It amazes me.
agtG
