Horse Sacrifice : Significance Tighe, Sushama, Sheikha

 The universal significance of horse-sacrifice: 'ashwamedha' in Vedas: "We mortals who owe our Self to Time are performing a sacrifice ceaselessly. The Dawn (Usha) is the head of the sacrificial horse ; the Sun his eye, the wind his breath; his open mouth the universal Fire (Agni), and Time, measured by our human parameter as year is the body of the sacrificial horse; the sky his back, the atmosphere his belly, the four quarters his ribs, the seasons his limbs, the half months and months his joints, days and nights his feet, the stars his bones, the clouds his flesh." An excerpt from <Yajnyawalkya> by Sushama Karnik

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Sushama Karnik
Tighe O'Donoghue Ross I thought this archetype would be of interest to the imagination and intuition of the artist in you.
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Tighe O'Donoghue Ross
Sushama Karnik tremendously so...there must be some link back to the Indo European connection...in Gaelic Scottic culture a horse sacrifice initiated a new clan Chieftain...🔥
Sheikha A.
reading your comments, i am reminded of a dream i had probably 3 yrs ago or so, (also why i found Sushama's comment so much more striking), where I saw a boy that appeared to be of the brahmin faith (i could be wrong) because he was wearing an orange robe and had his hair shaved off save for a pony tail hanging from the centre of his scalp...and i saw him with a scythe running towards a brown horse, he rushes to the horse and in some kind of zest or rage (i couldn't tell since he was yelling a cry of war) and cut off the horse's front legs in one swift wiedling of the scythe. the horse just lay on the ground and i saw its forehead cover with blood. i can't remember exactly what the boy did afterwards (i think he may have taken a circular run back to the horse to cut off its head...but don't remember if he did...when i woke up from the dream, i found it utterly pointless and horrifying and thought i was probably losing my head (or faith) to see such appalling dreams...but, reading your comments, I'm gaining some perspective...!
Sushama Karnik
Sheikha A.Interesting! The chains of our incarnations go long back into distant times (it seems). Civilizations are old and so are our souls! I had dreams as lucid and vivid as the one you described, and they seemed to indicate that in some past incarnation my father, I, and my husband were of Islamic faith. It is good that these dreams expand my perspective and enable me to probe deep into the mysteries of religions and tell me that at the deepest core of our personalities we share the same seed of awareness. It gets diversified but the essence is that our memories are linked by the archetypes.
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Tighe O'Donoghue Ross
Sushama Karnik I could not agree more with these instincts...ancestral memory is deeply imbued in our DNA....no doubt about it.🤯
Sushama Karnik
Tighe O'Donoghue Ross That dream came to me when I had gone deep into the study of Theosophy. I was traveling in that dream in a horse cart with my husband and his name was Murad Ali.We came to a vast stretch of sand which resembled the descriptions of Sahara. Many people of Islamic faith had gathered there for Namaz and they were kneeling in prayer to a Big Mosque which I later realized was somewhat like mosque of Mekka. On one side camels were parked. They were sitting in the sand. As I started walking towards the mosque I saw my father walking with his back turned to the mosque. He was alone. I knew him as my father and had a strong urge to stop him. He gave me a glance of a stranger and walked in his chosen direction away from the mosque. I turned to see where he was going and I saw that he was walking towards a statue of Nandi, the sacred bull of Hindu deity Shiva.
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Tighe O'Donoghue Ross
Sheikha A. Fabulous dream, recently mine are so real they don’t seem like dreams anymore...your dream carries enormous symbolism, violent yes...but somehow detached and full of clues...eg...boy was Chinese oriental, Horse was from the Takla Makan Horse culture of Western China desert...conflict indeed...horse major symbol...
Sheikha A.
Tighe O'Donoghue Ross oh yes! i never thought of the possibility of the boy being either a monk or from the chinese oriental! it was a violent dream, yes. but years later when i recollect the remnants of the dream, the whole stage of it feels like a sacrifice. the horse had a white star mark on its forhead.
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Tighe O'Donoghue Ross
Sheikha A. The gallant horse is the most prestigious sacrifice...even old Stone Age cave artists did not show the horse as ordinary food game animal...
Horses and dogs are special in Indo European cultures.

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