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- adverb Wicca Alternative spelling of
deasil .
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Examples
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Move clockwise, called deosil, to charge up with energy, and move counterclockwise, called widdershins, to banish energy!
Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002
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Move clockwise, called deosil, to charge up with energy, and move counterclockwise, called widdershins, to banish energy!
Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002
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Making certain I moved clockwise, deosil, around the circle, I went to Menessos and repeated the actions on him—minus the tattoo to use as a pattern.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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Just have Homan and a few hundred of his close friends run deosil (the other way) this year, and the city's problems would disappear like Nagin after a press briefing?
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She draws the Circle in a East to North or deosil or clockwise direction.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Conspiracy Area 1 2009
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She draws the Circle in a East to North or deosil or clockwise direction.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Ordo Templi Orientis 2009
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The High Priestess lays down the sword and admits the High Priest with a kiss while spinning him deosil and whispers:
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Science 2009
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The High Priestess lays down the sword and admits the High Priest with a kiss while spinning him deosil and whispers:
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Ordo Templi Orientis 2009
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She draws the Circle in a East to North or deosil or clockwise direction.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Science 2009
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The High Priestess lays down the sword and admits the High Priest with a kiss while spinning him deosil and whispers:
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Conspiracy Area 1 2009
treeseed commented on the word deosil
In Scottish folklore, Sunwise or Sunward was considered the “prosperous course�?, turning from east to west in the direction of the sun. The opposite course was known in Scotland as widdershins (Lowland Scots), or tuathal (Scottish Gaelic, lit. northerly), and would have been anti-clockwise. It is perhaps no coincidence that, in the Northern Hemisphere, "sunwise" and "clockwise" run in the same direction. This is probably because of the use of the sun as a timekeeper on sundials etc, whose features were in turn transferred to clock faces themselves. Another influence may also have been the right-handed bias in many human cultures.
This is descriptive of the ceremony observed by the druids, of walking round their temples by the south, in the course of their directions, always keeping their temples on their right. This course deiseal was deemed propitious, the contrary course, tuathal, fatal, or at least, unpropitious. From this ancient superstition are derived several Gaelic customs which were still observed around the turn of the twentieth century, such as drinking over the left thumb, as Toland expresses it, or according to the course of the sun. Wicca uses the idiosyncratic spelling deosil - however, this is not used in any of the three Gaelic languages.
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January 26, 2008