My new Athamé (Magickal Knife for directing energies).
It's blade is 9 cm long, and whole Athamé is 17.5 cm long.
-=- Silver Athamé with Amethysts. -=-
-=- (Colours on image altered by lighting; for original images on Etsy.com: click here) -=-
My roleplaying character, sorcerer named: 'Attentus', used similar one, he had silver Athamé at his left hip.
This Athamé knife (as on image above) is made of silver alloy with amethysts, and violet/purple was colour used by Wethrillina Aeliath, Attentus's witch-lover.
/ In witchcraft, the
colour of purple symbolizes: Power, Color of Royalty and Spiritual Authority, also associated with sexual pleasure. /
Attentus, on the other hand used Black and Silver - the colours of the Buddhist Protector's. Attentus was wearing Black Magician's robe with a touch of Silver embroidery, and had silver Athamé at his left hip. He was snobbish gentleman too.
He meditated for spells in the zazen position (Sitting on heels, as is practiced both in Martial Arts and in Zen Buddhism as well).
/ It is curious that in Buddhism, Black & Silver are on a cover of the booklet: 'Summoning Protector. Black Coat.' But with help of Wethrillina, Attentus's choice of colours was Black & Silver before I knew that buddhist protector Mahakala uses these colours too. The Protector summoned is known as: '
Mahakala', translated as: 'Great Black'. I think that 'Mahakala' can be perceived as either: 'Protecting Energy', 'Buddhist Protector', or/and: 'Wrathful Deity'. /
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So, my new Athamé knife is like Attentus's Athamé, but with a nice magickal, feminine aspect added to it. :)
/ It is long, so it is mostly a masculine tool. It has purple/violet, round amethysts so it has feminine aspect as well. I think it unifies masculine energies with feminine energies, and can be used to direct these in an act of spellcasting. Union of masculine and feminine energies is more than energies of a man and of a woman taken separately. /
I am styling myself as Attentus, want to look like him... it's a part of style in Arts that i am creating, style named: 'Art of Magick & Light'.
Art of Magick & Light is a style that uses symbolics, wisdom and lore of the Wicca/Witchcraft.
During one of Attentus/Wethrillina conversations, Attentus admitted that he craves power to protect Wethrillina, his love.
I also want to use my Athamé (and other tools) to protect a Buddhist woman I love, as well as our friends, teachers and gurus, as long as I have permission to do it.
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One curiosity about Athamé is that it is never meant to draw blood. If it does, it loses it's magickal properties forever. And it works like it never had such powers before. So spells cast using it in past, cease working.
... but what about using Athamé to cast offensive spell without piercing skin or drawing blood in the direct contact?
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I'll need to consecrate this Athamé knife as well.
I was advised in
Phyllis Curott's facebook Wicca/Witchcraft group to use method described in 'Witch Crafting' book by Phyllis Curott, in the 'Potions and Notions' chapter.
