A Wiccan Bible - Exploring the Mysteries of the Craft from Birth to Summerland

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Liber ab Clementia (Book of Humanity)^391


Oil Recipe
9 drops Dragon’s Blood perfume oil
6 drops Geranium essential oil
1/2 ounce base oil

Shou-Xing—Male—Central Asia
(Also known as Shou-Hsing)
Animal associations: Bat, Stag
‘Star of longevity’—One of the three Chi-
nese gods of good fortune, the San-Xing. He
is the god of long life and wisdom.

Shou, Mo Li—Male—Central Asia
Animal association: Dragon
Mo Li Shou is the Chinese Buddhist guard-
ian of the North. His statue is often included
at the North point of Buddhist temples. In the
modern practice of Feng Shui, his statue is
placed in the North most part of a home to
protect from negative influences coming from
that direction. In Wiccan ritual, he is one of
the names for the four Quarters, the other
three being Hung, Chung, and Hai.

Shu—Male—African
Animal associations: Ostrich, Ram
Plant associations: Banyan, Damiana, Jasmine
Egyptian Air god who holds his daughter
Nut above her brother and husband Geb. He
was created by Ra and is often associated with
the East/Air Quarter in Wiccan ritual. See also
Ra, Tefnut, Seb, and Nut.

Incense Recipe
2 parts Jasmine
2 parts Gum Arabic
1 part Damiana
Enough Shu oil or Jasmine absolute to bind

Oil Recipe
12 drops Jasmine absolute
18 drops tincture of Damiana
6 drops tincture of Gum Arabic
1/2 ounce base oil

Sida—Male—Malaysia
(Also known as Sido)

Melanesian folk hero of Torres Island who
taught his people both oral and written lan-
guage. Later, he was viewed as a fertility god
who created many useful plants and instructed
humanity in the use of those plants.

Sif—Female—North Europe
Husband: Thor
Scandinavian Earth Mother described as
having beautiful golden hair. As a joke, Loki
once snuck into her bed chambers and lopped
off her hair. So furious was Thor that he put
fear of death into Loki should he not return
and repair the hair. Fearing for his life and re-
alizing he had gone way too far in his trickery,
Loki replaced the hair with magickly spun gold.

Sigmund—Male—North Europe
Wife: Hjordis
Scandinavian folk hero, loyal to Odin. Af-
ter Odin plunged a sword into a tree, he de-
clared the sword would belong to the man who
had the might to draw it from the tree.
Sigmund was that man and later won many vic-
tories with it. His last battle was with Odin who
defeated Sigmund while in disguise by break-
ing the sword and wounding him severely. His
wife Hjordis wanted to heal his wounds, but
he declared that if his lord Odin desired him
dead, then he must surely die. Upon his death-
bed, he still valued the sword so much that he
willed it to his unborn son, Sigurd, that he
might continue the family tradition in service
to Odin. Sigurd became the most noted of the
Germanic heroes.

Silenus—Male—Mediterranean
Greek tutor and friend to Dionysus. Always
drunk but also full of knowledge and able to
divine the future. He presents the most un-
usual form of divination one can find. If you
could knock him down and tie him up, forcing
him to stop drinking long enough to sleep, he
would dream of your future. If, however, you
failed in your attempts, then your future would
be filled with bruises from where he struck you
repeatedly.

z WB Chap 17.p65 391 7/11/2003, 6:05 PM

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