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The Spiral and The Bee

Game of the Goose

The game is a spiral consisting of 63 squares. The number 7 multiplied by 9 gives us 63, and each box with the number 9 and its multiples have the image of a goose.

other hand the writer Rafael Herrera Alarcón, author of "The Other Spain's Temple," "In the Shadow of the Templars, Puzzles Magic of Spain" among others, states that the goose game consists of 64 boxes and not 63 as stated: "The correct number of boxes is 64. Of these, 63 are numbered and the last, 63, is the Gate of the Garden of the Goose, the garden itself has no number but accounts for 64. But, as center Mystical, not numbers ever. 6 + 4 = 10 1 + 0 = 1, Unity, the One, the Invisible.
is a confusion created by printers, making the board without knowing the ancestral tradition. The board has suffered many strains in modern times we use to study the oldest "esoteric

Some believe the Game of the Goose, is a symbolic map of the Camino de Santiago encryption, where the Templars and Partners Builders, marked places that had a particular significance. It would be a rebus, where the symbols were known to the initiates of the Order, and that allowed an understanding to all Knights of the Order regardless of the language of each. Those who attribute its origin to the Templars, with the theory that, they would use for their leisure time in Jerusalem, the shells of the "Nautilus", which assigned him apart from the recreational component, a cryptographic message that only certain members of the Order, were able to decipher. On this, Rafael Alarcón explains:

"The Templars, can they played at the Goose, as everyone in the Middle Ages. But they did not invent the game, the game comes from classical antiquity at least. This is a fake news "thank you" to the Internet runs like wildfire.
Similarly, the game is not a "map" Camino de Santiago, both paths have points in common, they respond to a similar symbolism are mutually influenced, but the game is not the Way. This fanciful and misguided interpretation comes from intellectual speculation, some authors did for the 70 and 80 of the last century, about the symbolism of the Game of the Goose. "

Origins of the Game Oca :

Phaistos Disc

The discovery of the Phaistos Disc in 1908 in the ruins of Palace of Crete (Greece) opened a new line of research on the origins of the game. Phaistos disc belongs to the Middle Minoan III period and so their age must be within the range from 1580 to 1700 BC C. It consists of a clay disk, circular and about 16 cm. in diameter and 2.1 cm. thick. Both sides of the disk containing spiral paths, which are divided into 30 and 31 boxes, which appear in several drawings, among which we can appreciate the figure of 8 birds, which could well be geese. Hieroglyphs representing
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Characters: men, women and children in body, bare heads and helmets.
Animals: fish, birds.
Plants: flowers, swords
Miscellaneous objects: containers, weapons, ships ...

There have been many theories about the meaning of this record, some historians think the Phaistos disc reproduces a letter: a hymn (Fernández, 2001), whose characters would be the script (pictographic script representing identifiable objects) that was used in Crete in the time that was modeled and recorded around 1700 BP. O is considered as a matrix for the cymbals. We read in the Encyclopedia U. Volume 23 (1988, 101): "In Faistos was discovered the famous album of that name and, according to Dr. Pernier, is a matrix of cymbals used in traditional rites of a great goddess, which was recorded in the invocation that the worshipers would sing it. Contains a hymn in verses docmíacos dedicated to Minerva. "(Being the docmio, a foot consisting of a verse poetry short, two long and two short and 8 units in length).





The Symbol of The Goose

Goose's name has been kept in various European linguistic expressions. In Spain, has kept the name Oca, but most used the term goose ansar
The problem to decipher the myth of Paw has been unable Oca mostly because of the many stories on it are counted, leading to confusion and sometimes contradiction.

Robert Laffont, in his "Dictionary of Symbols", indicates that the Goose was very important in the Egypt of the pharaohs. For example, the hieroglyph of Geb, heir to the throne of Horus, is a goose and a leg. He adds that when the pharaohs were identified with the sun, his soul was represented in the form of a goose, as is the sun Oca hatched early.

also expressed that the geese were seen as messengers between heaven and earth. The advent of a new king was announced, among other rituals, releasing four geese to the four directions.

To the Celts, the goose was also a messenger from another world. The Romans, meanwhile, paid him special attention, as were the geese, the geese of the Capitol, which warned in time a surprise attack. Charpentier

any mythology says that the goose is a symbol that reflects the "insider" and it is given from the earliest times. Goose is usually symbolized by his leg, which seems right as this was the principal hallmark of her.

This sign of the Goose is also the story of a Queen Pedauque (goose foot) with a sense of "initiation." This Queen Pedauque (not to be confused with the story of Queen Patojo, variant also goose foot) seems to be originating from the region of Toulouse in the French side of the Pyrenees. This seems right, because after the innovations of the barbarians, and perhaps before, there is only one way of initiation in the West and its tradition is in the Pyrenees, the Cantabrian coast and the coast of the estuaries of Galicia to the open Atlantic . Charpentier
make a real journey through the initiatory path acknowledging the permanence of geese throughout their length.

"But we discovered (...) goose with its original name Oca or Indo-European version of "goose" or "loop"

"In the region of Jaca, origin of the road, so we" Anso "in the" valley of Anso "crashed not far from the" barracks Lizarra "(instead of stars in Basque language). We return to find it again in the nomination of two streams, which bear his name and took him: the river "oja" Alfredo Gil River was originally believed that the river "goose" and who gave his name to the "Rioja" then another "river Oca, Montes de Oca, where there is a" Peak Piedraja "that it seems to be "Stone Jars (goose), not far from a" Ocon, "which is quite expressive."

In the course of the Camino de Santiago, there are two areas in which populations persist name: Duck, Goose, Ansar, Jar .. The Rioja region of Villafranca Montes de Oca. Berciana area from El Ganso to Vega de Valcarce.

Mari, númen main Basque mythology is represented in many different ways, you may receive from a lady dressed in red satin, even as a village more often
identifiable by having a foot of duck or goose (which described as Lamia Queen of the fairies for excellence in Euskal Herria). The lamias are nocturnal creatures that have a female anthropomorphic figure, but her feet are actually legs, usually palmípeda.Viven bird on the banks of rivers, where they often dip when they detect human presence, but there is a legend too extended counts as a pastor and a lamia fell in love.

* Bertha, Queen Pedauque French folklore, is the queen Visigoth Ragnachilde, Eurico wife, was later identified Bertrana, the mother of Charlemagne, which was famous for her deformed foot. In the tomb of Pedauque is an allegorical figure that has made the legend speaks of a Goose Pie Queen lying there, turning what should have been a foot deformity in poultry.
Legend Pedauque attributed to order the construction of a bridge. Berta or Bertrana is famous for being a benefactor of children, so the mob turned in no less than the fabled Mother Goose. Hertha is Queen Pie de Oca that builds and governs the bridge, but she is also the same bridge. This has survived in Christian clothing, such as the Puente de la Reina de interesting name-in Navarra, in the middle of which is a chapel dedicated to a Black Madonna and protects a crucifix with the figure of the symbol peculiar Pie de Oca

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Queen Bee

Bees have always been a symbol of divinity and after the monarchy. The queen bee to everyone else was served, was seen in the Neolithic as an epiphany of the Goddess herself.

- seems that this cult of the bee extended from Crete to the islands of the Aegean and mainland Greece. Mythology Jupiter realizes that his childhood was fed with honey than had Melissa, daughter of a Cretan king, to a cave where they had hidden the child.


The seal of a ring of gold (1450 BC) in a tomb in isopathic locatd near Knossos. Shows the relationship between the Goddess and her priestesses with the queen and pawns, and others performing a dance. This ring was found in a tomb in Crete, probably because the bee was considered the life out of death. The Bee Goddess stamp appears in the center, down to earth between snakes and lilies and being adored by her priestesses. Honey was used to embalm the dead.



. Honey also played a central part in the new year in the rituals of the Minoans. The new year began in the Cretan summer solstice, when the heat was at its peak, and July 20 was the day that the great star Sirius rises in conjunction with the sun, as in Sumeria and Egypt. In these other two countries Sirius was explicitly called "the star of the Goddess" (Inanna in Sumeria, Egypt and Isis), and the temples, palaces on Crete were oriented to this star. Sirius Rising ending a 40-day ritual during which we obtained the honey bee hives in the darkness of the caves and forest. The honey was made and fermented mead and drunk as an intoxicating liquor which accompany ecstatic rites that were celebrated.
(Goddess bee Sumeria)


onyx jewel also found in Knossos shows Labiosa bee taking horns of a bull's head and double ax inside the curve of the horns. Dogs - dogs later belonging to the underworld Hecate and Artemis - have wings and fly so close that their wings goddess, at first glance, appear as their own.





tombs at Mycenae are shaped like beehives, and the omphalos at Delphi in ancient Greece, where Apollo ruled with its main oracular priestess, the Pythia, who was called Delphic Bee. In the Greek Homeric Hymns to Hermes written in the eighth century BC, the god Apollo spoke of three women visionaries like three bees or bee maidens, who like himself, practiced divination. These bee-maidens sacred with his gift of prophecy, Apollo was the gift of Hermes, the god who is the only one who can lead the souls of the dead to life and, sometimes, back again


According
Strabo, Eleusis and Ephesus in the priestesses who once held the ancient mysteries were called Melissai 'Bees', and few initiates who had attained an indisputable purity also received this name. The bee was Melissai or priestesses of Artemis, and were directed by the "king bee" (the Greeks did not know that the bees had no queen and king). Bees were associated with Ephesus for many reasons, it was said that muses in the form of bees were those who had led the Athenians who came to colonize the land.

Figure of Artemis was in his belt and faldafiguras of bees were also found in excavations gold figures. Coins of Ephesus had in any of their faces always bee.



- Egypt begin to represent her as a symbol of man's soul is embodied in the tombs as an image of survival of the soul after death. But at the same time serve as emblematic of the pharaonic dynasties of Upper and Lower Egypt, represented by a bee and a blade of straw. One of the funeral hymns addressed to Pharaoh says userto II and "Married to rush to the bee", a statement that is interpreted as that reigned in the two Egypts. Bees have also been found burial in the tomb of the Pharaoh of Egypt, Ahotpu I.. According to Egyptian myth, honey bees were the tears of the sun god Ra. Its religious significance was extended to an association with the goddess Neith, whose temple in Lower Egypt was known as per-bit - which means "house of the bee '. Honey is considered a symbol of resurrection and also thought to give potection against evil spirits.



(Image: bees in the tomb of Childeric I)

- Within Europe also bees have been found in tombs barbarous Gaul, mainly in the tomb of the Frankish king Childeric (d. 481). The bee became the symbol of the French monarchy.




- In the Basque country were part of the family and they communicate the most important events of family life, because if they did so the bees are dying or leaving the hive.

have always been in the Basque Country and deep respect for
special to the deceased, as evidenced by many old traditions.
after death, the nearest neighbor called relatives and
himself or someone in the house, gave the news to the animals, especially
to bees.

Juan García Atienza, known popularizer of esoteric subjects, speaks in one of his books 1 a curious discovery made by visiting the interior of the parish of San Torcuato: In the corridor leading to a small chapel located between the old apse and the back of the altar, this author found two fresh different from each other but both with similar symbols and certainly very characteristic of esoteric art: Sendos landscaped and quite crushed diamonds each containing bee in the center and two six-pointed star on both ends

- The Maya culture is not known bee goddess, but a fellow bee god of the Moon Goddess, probably influenced by patriarchal culture.