A Ting is a place ...
... where people used to gather, often in a stone circle, to excercise judicial and legislative power. Stories of truth and great wisdom were created and spread from there. "On the journey to and from the Thing, and during its duration, all the men were peace-holy." The Viking Age, Paul B. Chaillu, Vol 1
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Most people know of the hero’s journey. Joseph Campbell made it famous, when he discovered that mythological stories from all over the world have a similar inner build-up: There is always a hero in the story who leaves his regular life with a mission to change the status quo. After many adventures, trials and coming into contact with the divine, the hero returns home as a new person. There are mostly male heroes in those stories.
What most people DON’T realize is that the hero’s journey is much much older than the mythological stories found in the written classical mythology. It truly dates back to the Neolithic Age. The older version found in the oral story tradition reveals a view on life that is closer to nature and features more details and also more female protagonists, because it stems from a matriarchal time.
This true hero’s journey can be found in wonder tales, a subgroup of folklore, which were orally transmitted from generation to generation over the past millennia. It depicts the adventures of a person, who is exposed to the cosmic dynamics on planet earth. The true hero’s journey is therefore a human's (hero's) path through life, as he or she is exposed to the ever changing influence of the sun and the moon.
Stories containing the true hero’s journey must have been created around the time when societies began to change from a matriarchal to a patriarchal lifestyle, which would explain, why in the later classical mythologies certain elements in the hero’s journey went missing, got changed or were misunderstood.
This is why so many of us who identify with a hero or heroine on a journey feel that struggle is just a part of the deal going through life. However, when you can understand that in ancient times, life was viewed to be shaped by cosmic cycles and wonder tales were told to depict a human’s life under those natural rhythms, you get to see that your struggles always reflect a soul’s intention to move towards more harmony with the shape-giving cycles.
So, everyone’s life follows the hero’s journey as portrayed in wonder tales. This true hero’s journey begins on the day you were born. It is possible to pinpoint where you are in your journey and what you already mastered by looking at your age. This ancient way to chart your soul biography will guide you towards alignment with the natural rhythms and will change your entire way of looking at your life, because you suddenly get to experience the cosmic order and recognize the context of your own story. Then you see how your soul always knows the way forward.
- Learn about the original version of the hero’s journey and see how it is connected to the stone circles
- Adopt a new view on folk tales, as they are the wisdom stories of our ancestors
- Learn about the matriarchal worldview, which invites peace and abundance
- Detect your own heroic journey in your biography, and begin to understand how the inner and outer events of your life are related
- Discover how the heroes and heroines of fairytales find happiness and restore peace
See for yourself how this ancient wisdom gives your life a deeper meaning and guides you to more balance, peace, and happiness.
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Hidden within fairy tales lies ancient instruction on how to lead a happier and more balanced life. More than 5,000 years old, fairy tales contain voices from a distant past—timeless matriarchal and astronomical messages that are as relevant today as they were five millennia ago. As a whole, fairy tales tell of a heroic journey that aligns with the cosmic cycles of the Sun and the Moon. Neolithic astronomers tracked this balanced soli-lunar calendar using stone circles such as the former Aubrey Circle at Stonehenge. However, with patriarchy on the rise, the Sun began to be favored over the Moon, and people’s awareness slowly shifted away from the original ancient calendar system. This exclusion of the Moon from time measurement had severe consequences. People lost an awareness of how everything was inter-connected, and even began to belittle, disempower, and even demonize the lunar and feminine. Following these unfortunate developments, Fairy tales served to remind people of the old calendar system and of the way that it had provided them with deep intuitions about life and meaning.
Even today, the original version of the hero’s journey can still provide us with vital instructions on how to get back in sync with the natural rhythms of the world we live in. This is especially relevant to those experiencing any imbalance or difficulties in their lives. All one needs to do to attain peace and well-being is to become aware of his or her own heroic journey and start to move back into alignment with the cosmic order, as is demonstrated in these ancient tales.