Laverna is the Roman Goddess of thieves, Who hears the prayers of robbers. This design is available on prints through Society 6. God of: Travel, roads, thieves, sports, and shepherds Symbols: Tortoise. Titles: "Mother of the Gods," "Defender of the Gods" This card is also representative of a return to innocence, the ability to adopt a new positive attitude after events threaten to make one jaded.Īlternate names: Nü-kua, Nü Kua Shih, Nü Hsi, Nü Wa, Nugua She is the tempering influence that calms situations and brings level-headedness. Nü Kua represents the restoral of order and innocence after chaos. She was said to have brought civilization, taming wild animals and teaching humans irrigation. She is also said to have tamed a dangerous giant called King-of-Oxen, by running a rope through his nose. The Heavenly Bamboo can be seen as a variant of the axis mundi, or axis or the world, representing the mythical center of the world. Nü Kua then repaired the sky and restored order. Nü Kua restored order with five colored stones, fixed the directions on the legs of a tortoise, controlled the water and put out the fires, and repaired the sky.Īnother version of the myth calls Nü Kua a Goddess queen who defeated a powerful king angered at being beat up by a girl, he ran to the top of a mountain and pulled down the Heavenly Bamboo, tearing the sky in the process, and letting in floods of water from the heavens beyond. Fires raged out of control, the waters overran the world, and the cardinal points became misaligned. In a great battle, the monster Kung-Kung wreaked a lot of havoc, flattening mountains, tilting the earth and tearing a hole in the sky. Some legends seperate Her into a male named Nü and a female named Kua who were the first humans. She is also depicted as a serpent with a woman's head and may be of both sexes. I am here even on the well-lit street, for light always makes the darkness. I am the snatching hand, the purse lifted and the coin lost and I am the woman in the shadows, watching, always watching. Nü Kua was variously said to have the body of a serpent and the head of an ox, or ox-horns on a human head. Darkness and the slow mould of the Earth: the lives buried, the gems undug, the riches hidden. This is explained that the more finished ones represent the nobility, the less finished ones the poor. She was said to have created humans from yellow clay, but grew bored before She finished, and left some of them more blob-like. Some tales make Her the wife of Her older brother, Fu-hsi, one of the first sovereigns, whom She later succeeded. This design is available on prints at Society 6.Nü Kua is the Chinese divine foremother of humans, Who repaired the sky and invented marriage. Someone is taking something that doesn't belong to them. This card in a reading points to trickery and nefarious plots. From the same root as Furina (which means "thief") comes our word "furtive." She was sometimes confused with the Furiae (the Furies, the Roman name for the Greek Erinyes), due to the similarity of Her name. She had an annual festival called the Furrinalia, Her own priest, and a grove or shrine on the Janiculum, the ridge alongside the west bank of the Tiber, opposite the Aventine Hill. Her name is said to derive either from the Latin latere ("to lurk"), levare ("to relieve, lessen or lighten," something pickpockets certainly do) or levator ("a thief").įurina, a Goddess later associated with Laverna, was originally a very ancient Etruscan Goddess of thieves who ruled over the Earth and the dark. Perhaps originally an Underworld Goddess of the Etruscans, Laverna became Goddess of thieves because thieves operate in darkness. She also had a sacred grove on the Via Saleria, a famous ancient highway that went crosswise across the calf of the boot of Italy, beginning in Rome, following the River Tiber for a ways, then crossing the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. The Porta Lavernalis (Lavernal Gate) on the Aventine Hill was named for Her, and She had an altar nearby. Taking back what is yours is not stealing.
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