Includes teachings from: Pagan/wiccan/neo-druidism
While this does not necessarily revolve around food and eating it does;however, embrace the idea of worshiping nature and Earth. What does nature and the Earth give us? Plants. For the sake of this site, I am adding information about this theology as plants give us food. It helps support my argument that eating and food are not evil and bad, but beautiful and spiritual.As I became vegan and ate only organic, whole foods I noticed a lot of me started opening up my eyes to New Age-ish, Gaia-ish, Wiccan-ish beliefs about food. Plants are given to use by Mother Earth and she provides us with what we need. Man is the one who created all these "rules" regarding how much we can and can't eat, what we should and shouldn't put into our bodies (gluten, oil, carb free diets anyone?) the food we eat is sacred and eating it is beautiful and connect us with nature. People shouldn't be told by MAN that the food Mother Nature/God gives us is shameful or bad.
*This will NOT include and is NOT about food rules in religion such as fasting,kosher,etc.This is to show how SACRED food and eating is and should not be shamed or seen as shameful
*This will NOT include and is NOT about food rules in religion such as fasting,kosher,etc.This is to show how SACRED food and eating is and should not be shamed or seen as shameful
- The Business of Bliss: The Relationship Between Tantra and Raw Food - I don't like the raw food diet as it is restrictive, but I have the same feeling about eating healthy. I also hate how they say "leaner" body because that isn't the importance of eating wholesome foods that nourish your body, mind and soul.
- Bellies, “Guts” and the Colonial Anxiety Surrounding Non-Empirical Knowledge - "I think the fear of fat bellies is connected to our cultural anxiety around trusting our “gut” - or instincts - because we have spent hundreds of years trying to suppress it culturally....Dieting is all about the denial and repression of valuable instincts in the name of getting “exclusive” privileges meted out by the nation’s wealthy elite. This fear of actual bellies feels connected to this greater fear of our ability to access intuitive knowledge - or “gut” knowledge - and instincts. The impulse to force us to slim down is in many ways about the cultural terror of desire, the complexity of our own humanity, and what might happen if we actually (and metaphorically) just ate the damn cake.
- Top 3 Sacred Eating Rituals That Will Change Your Life Posted by Monica Rodriguez - "1) Eat in gratitude, as the act of eating is a sacred communion with the natural kingdom. 2) Eating is a sacred ritual that fulfills its holy purpose only in the silence of thoughtful contemplation and sensitive awareness. 3) Eat in silence as far as possible and send waves of gratitude to your food, that the communion between you two be deep and powerful."The "life" I think of is the "life force"of the amazing food (plant based diet,remember :P) or "part of Mother Nature or the Earth" I am ingesting.
- Who is the The Green Man, Spirit of the Forest?
- What is the holiday called Beltane?
- You never eat alone. How food connects us by Crescent Dragonwagon. / cookforgood - not really pagan/wiccan but has the same ideas about how nature connects us, food connects us,etc.
- The Pagan Roots of Easter by Marysia Miernowska @ Sacred Science
- How does Jesus and the Easter Bunny relate to one another by HLN
- Wheel of the Year
- **Deities of the Fields Gods and Goddesses of the Early Harvest
- **Harvesting The Mythologies Of Our Ancestors
- **Wiccan deities of flowers, harvest @Pintrest
- REL 3108/RELIGION AND FOOD
Includes teachings from:Thelma, Satanism,etc.
- "Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales." - Aleister Crowley (Brainy Quote)
Includes teachings from:New age, new thought,Alchemy,etc.
(Cold)Yin-Yang(heat) energy balancing
- The Navel Chakra (Sacral) / Solar Plexus - Think of your tummy as a sacred space that holds pleasure,creativity, sexuality,strength,learning and power
- Sacral Chakra - Svadhisthana2nd Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra - Manipura3rd Chakra
- "the belly is the home of the second chakra: Svadhisthana, or ‘Sweetness’. This chakra, one of the three ‘root’ chakras is related to the emotions, water and sexuality. It helps us connect to others through our feelings, desires and sensations, brings us fluidity and grace, depth of feeling, sexual fulfillment and ability to accept change!" Write a Love Letter to Your Sweet Belly @ Zoe Waggoner
- CHAKRA THREE: SOLAR PLEXUS, POWER ISSUES, DIGESTION
- Fire in the Belly: Manipura Chakra, Turning Power Into Peace
- Navel Chakra - Swadhisthana
- The Seven Major Chakras @ About
- The Second Chakra - the Belly Chakra
- The Woman's Belly Book by Lisa Sarasohn - "It's still today's best-kept secret: Your body's center, your belly, is home to your core life force.It's the site of your soul power, the source of your passion and creativity, your intuition and sense of purpose, your courage and confidence."
- MY EVOLUTIONARY QUEST WITH FOOD by Monica Rodriguez - "Another way of understanding this is to imagine that your food carries within it different kinds of Life Force (energy). And since all of life is literally energy, that potential energy is stored and transmitted by rocks, plants, soil, light, water, and other natural substances. When you eat, the energy of that food is merging with your being. It becomes a part of you and resonates with you at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.By recognizing and learning to understand food as “Life Force”, a new relationship between the two of you emerges. Food is no longer just something to eat, but it becomes an alchemical process of transformation, in which you merge with and harness the Life Force energies of the Universe. "
Includes teachings from: Christianity, Buddism,Taoism,etc.
- The Sacred Act of Eating: A Hindu Foodie's Daily Ritual by Deepa S. Iyer - "For me, eating is not just about sating a hungry stomach. It's about taking the time to prepare a varied meal and presenting it in an aesthetically pleasing way. I always eat sitting down, and try to eat unhurriedly, really tasting each bite. It's a way to ground myself in the evenings after work: a near-meditative experience. After a long day, I'm eager to come home, kick off my shoes, and dedicate evenings to achieving deliciousness.....Hindu traditions also place importance on the eater's experience. A Sanskrit saying from the Taittreya Upanishad -- "Annam Brahmeti Vyajanat" -- summarizes several scriptures on the topic. A mystic, meditating on his food, notices a subtle life force permeating the entire cosmos."
- Eating Brahman - The Transforming Power of Food Swami Vibhooti Saraswati - "In the ashram, food is referred to as prasad, that which has been sanctified, blessed or energized and purified by a higher or divine energy, whether God, a deity or a living saint. In the Paramahamsa Alakh Bara, Rikhia, the food is indeed blessed because it is prepared and eaten in the energy field of an enlightened sage. It is therefore saturated with prana. Food is Devi and should be received, treated and respected as such."
- The Sacred Act of Eating by Deepa Iyer - "Hindu culture has an extensive culinary theology that ascribes ritual and mystical importance to food. Food is a manifestation of Brahman, the supreme energy motivating the universe. "Food is God," my mother would tell me, as I pushed curry moodily around my plate as a child. At the time, I couldn't relate; eating quickly was a ticket to getting outside. Although I didn't revel in food, I always loved the rituals. They made meals more interesting for a child who would rather be playing with friends on the block.Hindu scriptures point to three forces that influence food's nutrition: pathra shuddhi, the cleanliness of the cooking vessels; paka shuddhi, the chef's cleanliness and mental attitude; and pachaka shuddhi, the quality of ingredients. Because "you are what you eat," Hindus believe that these three shuddhis, or purities, directly transfer to the eater.The practical message? Eat like it's your last meal, and be thoroughly aware of every bite. In Hindu culture, eating is a ritual: a sacrifice to the Supreme, unified by the recognition that process (cooking), object (food), and individual are all inextricably connected."
Chöd
Blót
Ganachakra
Ayatana / Ṣaḍāyatana
Your zodiac sign may impact how you see food and eating habits. This is just for fun,I believe in astrology, but none of this is written in stone. If you are a Leo you could be fat and if you are a Taurus you could be thin.
- FOOD AND ZODIAC SIGNS @ Astrology-Zodiac-Signs
- Why I WOULD & WOULD NOT date a #TAURUS - "Because they like to eat lots of food, me too!"
- What Your Moon Sign Reveals About Your Eating Habits
- Lifestyle column: Fitness, Diet, and the Zodiac - but don't pay attention to the "eat this type of meat" because animal suffering isn't cool
- Signs What They Eat by Fun With Zodiacs - again, don't pay attention to meats, dairy, and other animal products. Great vegan faux meats can replace those and give you the same experience.
- How Your Moon Sign Influences Your Eating Habits --relying on food to soothe you is fine so I don't agree with that, but I do agree with the exercising as everyone should exercise.
- Annapurna Devi: Goddess of Food @ MISTRESS OF THE HEARTH - "Devi [Goddess] is the one who gives not only food, but blesses all beings with everything needed for the sustenance of life."
- Annapurna or Annapoorna (Bengali: অন্নপূর্ণা, Devanagari: अन्नपूर्णा from Sanskrit meaning the giver of food and nourishment. Also called অন্নদা (annadaa) in Bengali.) is the Hindu goddess of nourishment. Anna means "food" or "grains". Purna means "full, complete and perfect". She is an avatar (form) of Parvati, the wife of Shiva. ...Worship of food and Annadhana, the offering of food, is highly praised in Hinduism and hence Annapurna is regarded as a popular deity. As per legend, Annapurnd fed the whole world along with her consort Shiva, who was begging for food on account of a whim created by her. "
- "Adephagia (Ancient Greek: Ἀδηφαγία) in Greek mythology was the goddess and personification of gluttony. She is only mentioned in one source, as having a temple on the island of Sicily at which she was worshipped alongside Demeter." - Wikipedia
- PLOUTOS (or Plutus) "was the god of wealth. In agrarian Greece he was at first associated purely with bounty of rich harvests. Later he came to represent wealth in more general terms." -
- Ceres - "In ancient Roman religion, Ceres /ˈsɪəriːz (Latin: Cerēs [ˈkɛreːs]) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.[6] She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebei..." - Wikipedia
- "Limos (Greek: λιμός; "starvation"; Roman: Fames) - "in ancient Greek religion, was the goddess of starvation...In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Limos is said to make her home in a freezing and gloomy wasteland at the farthest edge of Scythia, where the soil is barren and nothing grows" - Wikipedia
- Erysichthon of Thessaly - "Demeter responded to the nymph's curse and punished him by entreating Limos, the spirit of unrelenting and insatiable hunger, to place herself in his stomach. Food acted like fuel on a fire: The more he ate, the hungrier he got. Erysichthon sold all his possessions to buy food, but was still hungry. At last he sold his own daughter Mestra into slavery. Mestra was freed from slavery by her former lover Poseidon, who gave her the gift of shape-shifting into any creature at will to escape her bonds. Erysichthon used her shape-shifting ability to sell her numerous times to make money to feed himself, but no amount of food was enough. ...." - Wikipedia
- Demeter - "In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, Demeter (/dɨˈmiːtər/; Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Her cult titles include Sito (Σιτώ), "she of the Grain", as the giver of food or grain and Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law; "phoros": bringer, bearer), "Law-Bringer," as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society.
Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon. In the Linear B Mycenean Greek tablets of circa 1400–1200 BC found at Pylos, the "two mistresses and the king" may be related with Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon. Her Roman equivalent is Ceres." - Wikipedia - Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Dionysus @ info Please - God of wine and indulgence
- Agricultural Deities @ Horticulture & Science Wiki
- Agricultural & Mystery Gods @ THEOI
- Agriculture Gods @ God Checker
- Deities Worshipped by Farmers
- Aztec Gods - Who's Who
- Diets and Deities: Food Themes in World Religions
- List of nature deities @Wikipedia
- The Opiconsivia: Harvest Time and the Chthonic Deities