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Modern Athames and Wands
Modern Athames and Wands
Athames are ritual knives. Athames today can be used to help create a sacred space by figuratively cutting off the mortal realm from the divine realm during the early stages of a ritual. They can also be used in many other ways as well, ways which are only limited by one's imagination.
Knives are the most fundamental of human tools having both a sharp blade for cutting and a flat side for crushing. They have an ancient association with humans which gives them some inherent emotional resonance. Magic crafters usually add to that resonance by ritually cleansing the atheme. Some wash it in moon water, that is, water which has been left out overnight under a full moon. Other do other things to make it unique to them or to certain types of rituals. Again emotional resonances are only fully known to the one who did them and they may believe others handling it would corrupt the magical energy they put into it. This is why most magic crafters frown on anyone else handling their ritual tools so always ask first if you have to move it.
Knives with sharp edges should not be used in group rituals to avoid the risk of injury. Wands are an acceptable alternative to athames because they also can be highly personalized.
The center sign Nun (N) means "to reveal" when applied to inanimate objects. Runic Letter assignments by Olmsted (Image from foldout 3 of Goldart and Poursat 1978)
Godart, L. and Poursat, J-C (1978) Malia. Le Quartier Mu 1. Introduction générale par J.-Cl. Poursat. Écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise par L. Godart et J.-P. Olivier. Études crétoises, 23, 1978 - 2021 École Française d'Athènes. Online at: https://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?site_id=1&actionID=page&serie_id=EtCret&volume_number=23&ce=oatbaqmb7gsvpv7saktgh9sd9dd7b3sr&sp=230
References
Godart, L. and Poursat, J-C (1978) Malia. Le Quartier Mu 1. Introduction générale par J.-Cl. Poursat. Écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise par L. Godart et J.-P. Olivier. Études crétoises, 23, 1978 - 2021 École Française d'Athènes. Online at: https://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?site_id=1&actionID=page&serie_id=EtCret&volume_number=23&ce=oatbaqmb7gsvpv7saktgh9sd9dd7b3sr&sp=230References
Minoan Shipping Tag For Knives From Malia 1700 BCE (Minoan Text 1.3.2)
Minoan Shipping Tag For Knives From Malia 1700 BCE (Minoan Text 1.3.2)
(December 2025) It reads from point to flat (right to left). Verb is shown italic bold..
Translation into Akkadian
Translation into Akkadian
- Ṣu Nu Ya | (3 knives) Nu
Into English
Into English
- For activities which are not being revealed | (3 knives) for revealing.
This trade tag is a combination of text and pictures. These 3 athames (ritual knives) are being used in a ritual to cut through the fog of the material realm to reveal the spiritual realm.
And archaeologists actually found a Minoan Athame with a golden handle in the earthquake ruins of Malia. It is now on display at the Heraklion Museum in Crete. It was found in a different work quarter at Malia away from the shipping tag called Mu
Floor mosaic from Hamat Tiberius Synagogue in Galilee showing a gateway surrounded by ritual tools. This was the center of Jewish mysticism/magic at that time. On display at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem. Online at: https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/archaeology/archaeology-land-israel
Athame and Other Ritual Tools Around an Altar on the Mosaic floor at the Hamat Tiberius Synagogue in Galilee (400 CE)
Athame and Other Ritual Tools Around an Altar on the Mosaic floor at the Hamat Tiberius Synagogue in Galilee (400 CE)
(December 2025) Image showing ritual tools around a gateway altar on the mosaic floor at the Hamat Tiberius Synagogue in Galilee (400 CE). This floor also had a zodiac. Surrounding the gateway are a ritual knife (athame), a sistrum rattle (also used in Egypt), and a horn.
This Divine gateway has a draped cloth to represent the veil which separates the material from the spiritual realm. The seven candled menorah represents the seven heavens, that is, the seven sky-shells holding the celestial bodies (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). The rounded arms represent these spherical sky shells.
Short Sword Representing Divine Feminine Powers
Short Sword Representing Divine Feminine Powers
(December, 2025) Athames do not have to be daggers but can also be swords. These short swords were found along the Rhine river in Germany.
This short sword has small gold inlays of the full and crescent moon. The full moon (or possibly a planet) corresponds to the celestial light goddess Selene/Selu who determines fate while the crescent moon corresponds to the goddess Ayu who edits the connections of the life network. These are both feminine powers yet Selene is a motion powers while Ayu is a life power.
From YouTube video above: https://www.youtube.com/live/VVr9Df-cHIc
Another Short Sword Also Having the Pleiades Star Cluster Below the Full Moon
Another Short Sword Also Having the Pleiades Star Cluster Below the Full Moon
(December, 2025) This short sword also has gold inlays of the full and crescent moons on the front but it also has bronze inlays of a crescent moon and a hollow circle filled with a triskelion which represent celestial motion powers . The hollow circle represents the dark new moon god Su who is associated with the astrology magic used to shift the fate defined by goddess Selene. He like Selene is a motion power source.
Below the full moon are a pattern of small dots which represent the Pleiades which is the core of the Druid constellation of Selene (see below).
Reference
Reference
From YouTube video Druids and divination: new investigations at Castell Nadolig, Ceredigion Toby Driver RCAHMW (2025) by Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZthBLV878yk
Inlays on Long Swords
Inlays on Long Swords
(December 2025) The only other place where sword inlays occur during this time period are on some long swords. These two drawings show swords having full moons representing Selene. In contrast the close-up shows a pair of crescent moons on the left representing the goddess Ayu while its right side has a dark open circle representing the dark new moon god Su who is involved with astrology magic.
From YouTube video above: https://www.youtube.com/live/VVr9Df-cHIc
Distribution of Ritual Swords
Distribution of Ritual Swords
(December 2025) The black dots are long swords while the white dots are short swords. They are part of the northern Druid tradition.
From YouTube video above: https://www.youtube.com/live/VVr9Df-cHIc
This lecture was sponsored and hosted by the Society of Antiquaries of London in its apartments at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
Overview Video of These Inlay Swords
Overview Video of These Inlay Swords
(March 2, 2025) Castell Nadolig is a large iron age hillfort dating to between 800 BCE to the Roman conquest in 48 CE. "Castell" "Nadolig" in Druid Akkadian is "K.ST.EL.L" "N.D'.L.IG" or in English "Involving the allocation of the high-powers lacking" the "Divine revelations reducing the eyes-of-fate."
References
References
https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/item/ash-object-319452
Pleiades As It Appears In the Night Sky
Pleiades As It Appears In the Night Sky
(December 2025) This image is a photo of the central star cluster of the Pleiades. The Druid Pleiades seems to have been the center of its own Druid constellation. This is unlike today where it has been downgraded to an appendage of the Greek (Indo-European) constellation of Taurus.
Of all the Druid deities the most astronomical is the celestial light goddess Selene whose celestial light also represents the spark of life. Thus, thus the Druid Pleiades constellation has to be the goddess Selu/Selene.
Photo from Wikimedia Commons at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg
Nebra Sky Disk With Pleiades Upper Right 1700 BCE
Nebra Sky Disk With Pleiades Upper Right 1700 BCE
(December 2025) The Nebra sky disc is a bronze disc of around 30 cm (12 in) diameter and a weight of 2.2 kg (4.9 lb), having a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. It was buried on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra in Germany. It is dated by archaeologists to c. 1800–1600 BCE and attributed to the Early Bronze Age Unetice culture.
Notice that the Pleiades in this image can be imagined as a woman (added white drawing). Today the hand stars are called Algol and Epsilon Persei. The feet stars are Aldebaran and Lamda Tauri. The head is the star Mirfak at the center of the constellation Perseus.
It has the same inlay pattern as the ritual swords.
For an excellent detailed analysis see: https://www.emuseum-himmelswege.de/en/archaeostories
Now at Louvre. Inventory number: AO 1985. Online at: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010144574
Back Side of Corner Temple Token From Palmyra, Syria Has Pleiades - 50 BCE
Back Side of Corner Temple Token From Palmyra, Syria Has Pleiades - 50 BCE
(December 2025) These early texts are mostly Etruscan in style with a bit of Punic (Carthage). The image within the disk seem to be the constellation Pleiades with its 7 stars. Surrounding it are 4 other stars making up the core of the Druid constellation representing Selu/Selene. The disk on which the Pleiades is carved may thus represent the full moon.
Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 68.2)
(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. (Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration) Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 68.2)
- AMu Gu UZu (Lev 68.2.1)
- UGu Bu Ṣu (Lev 68.2.2)
In English
In English
- The Reed-Boat (Ayu) is being energized by frustration
- The powers-of-death are being nourished by activity (motion powers of fate from Selu/Selene)
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