WATER PRIESTESS SOLSTICE
It is the hydro-lines that feed us. The water nymph said. She was the main High Priestess. Although many rotated and shared the title with her. She was the nymph of most antiquity. She knew instinctively how many water-ley-lines and how many underground rivers flowed beneath each site. And this, well this one was her most prized one. She had incarnated many times over, into a more human form, in order to bring this Sacred Sanctuary into being.
It is the flow from within and under that comes up and out. Up and out she repeated a fluid hand motion with her sing-sing fingers. It is a work of the most high geometric harmony in accordance with the waterways. We are here to see how the crescendo of the underground hydro-lines come up and out adding rejuvenation energies for all.
I can hear her but I do not see her. She is no longer physically here. But maybe once she was very much part of the essence of this nymphaeum. I am standing in the ruins of a very living sanctuary in the Ancient Roman city of Ostia Antica. It is a port city on the ocean twice the size of Pompeii: an ancient city frozen in time. Full of food shops, markets, commercial centers, living quarters and the temples. The temples are everywhere and the nymphaeums. Small, large, round and square. Why is no one talking about all the nymphaeums?
You know, I tell her, that here in Italy now they have forgotten who you are. Who we were. Now the nymphs have been reduced to the lowest common denominator. But once, oh so long ago, the nymphs were glorious goddesses. Human and not. Not one or the other but both. A special hybrid being who was a human and a water-spirit. The local deity of the fluid, sacred waters.
As time went on some water nymphs chose to retreat and return to a more ethereal, non-physical form. A form far, and safely away from any form of human contact. Whilst other water-nymphs purposely chose to begin the process of slowly, over time, incarnating again and again into human form.
I am one of those water-nymphs.
I am a nymph posing as a human. In order to survive I must, and this is crucial, live in close proximity of a large body of water. Lakes. I am a lake nymph. Others are river nymphs, ocean nymphs and so much more. We recognize each other in the twinkle of an eye. For once, long ago we were The Mother Creatrix Network. Through the underground water-lines, the rivers, lakes and underground hydro lines we were part of a vast, world wide network of seers, healers and prophetesses.
The Mother Creatrix created from within her womb water worlds.
There is much you have forgotten, she tells me. Since the time of the takeover of the Thunder Gods. They came with light, they came with bolts, they came with lances and they speared through the water, the All. And they segregated. The cut through. But, all things come to an end. And as we Priestesses know, all comes in cycles. A cycle has ended and one has just begun.
Beware of your power ladies, she continues. For it has been several millennia since you last fully picked it up. What is it like to be full-force again, she asks wistfully. Your power has been patiently waiting. It is anxious, excited and eager to re-emerge.
It is time to come out and play, Priestesses.
It is truly time.
The water beckons you.
*NYMPHAEUM – is the Latin word for water sanctuary of the nymphs.
**NYMPHA – is the ancient Greek word for Virgin or young, pure girl to be married
***ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATION Nympha – in Latin the word nymph is associated most frequently with water. Each river, stream and natural spring had a nymph associated to it. Known as the water-spirit of each location. It could be an indication of an early civilization or belief system. Such as the Etruscans who are well known for their advanced water works and their great veneration for all things water. It is a lesser known fact that what many believe was Ancient Roman as far as water architectures was originally Etruscan.
The NYMPHS are a clue. Some time ago, before the Ancient Romans there were water priestesses who knew about rejuvenation, regeneration and revitalization. The Romans were epic at identifying power, taking over the power and pumping the power source for all it had. They were clever in taking over temples and forcing priestesses to continue the spiritual work. Such as the Temple of Vesta and the Vestal Virgins who were the last remains of a whole vast group of specialized priestess groups. The Vestal Virgins were allowed to stay on and escaped extermination because the Romans associate the Spirit of Rome to the eternal flame of Vesta.
However, power is not sustainable when it is taken with force and against others will. And the Ancient Roman empire only lasted less than 1,000 years. A spec in time in comparison to other known civilizations such as the Ancient Egyptians. It is believed by some that the Etruscan civilization lasted several millennia and had even more ancient ancestors.
The WATER NYMPHS are a link between worlds. From our current world and an ancient lost world.
IMAGE SOURCE: Cosmic Svasti