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The Deva of the Setting Sun . by Alice B. Clagett

The camcorder coddles forth a diminishing view of a Deva of the Sunset, which has been morphed to the art images in this post.

  • INTRODUCTION
  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • VIDEO CREDITS
  • CONCLUSION
  • MORE INFORMATION
  • ART PHOTOS BY ALICE

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

Here is a video about a Deva of the Setting Sun. In this instance the camcorder coddles forth a diminishing view of a Deva of the Sunset, which has been morphed to the art images in this post.

I just read online to my shock that while Devas (divine beings or gods of the natural world) are considered benevolent in Hinduism they are considered evil in Zoroastrianism. I hope my readers will not take my meaning of the word Deva in the Zoroastrian sense.

While it is true that the Devas lack the human sense of right and wrong, I feel that their duties have to do with the natural flow of creation, the burgeoning of the All that occurs through complete Awareness in the current moment … in the Now.

One might say that human codes of ethics such as may be found in Zoroastrianism and in Confucianism are approximations derived through the rational mind to prevent humankind from hindering the flowering forth of Divine creation.

Because of the rational filter, these codes understandably separate good from bad and hope to reinforce the former in humankind. Yet without rational thought the natural world unthinkingly and perfectly creates cycles of birth, life-sustaining energy, death, and rebirth. Though some be termed ‘good’ or ‘bad’, each spoke of the incarnational wheel is important to the cycle of incarnation.

I think of Devas as the great beings assigned by God to care for all aspects of His creation. My own notion is close to that in the esoteric literature, in which I gather Devas to be personifications of the forces that rule the natural world.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

The Deva of the Setting Sun
By Alice B. Clagett

Alice to Readers: Tne Deva of the Setting Sun! Did you see it? Wow! …

Dog (introducing itself): Ruff!

Alice to Readers: I’ll try again …

Dog (introducing itself again – Look at me!): Ruff!

Alice to Readers: Wow!

Dog (agreeing with me): AAR-ff!

Alice to Readers: Wow, you guys!

Dog (simultaneously): Arf! … Arf! Arf!

Alice to Readers: See? Oh, wow!

Dog (agreeing with me): AAR-ff!

Alice to Readers: Cool!

Dog (expressing joy): AAR-ff! AAR-ff! … Arf-uh-uh … Afr Arf-uh-uh … Arf. Arf-uh Arf-uh-uh … Arf Arf-uh … Arf Arf-uh-uh … Arf uh.

VIDEO CREDITS

“The Deva of the Setting Sun”
By Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 9 October 2024 and produced on 30 October 2024
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA

Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International by Alice B. Clagett

CONCLUSION

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 9 October 2024 and published on 30 October 2024; revised on 3 November 2024; youtube transcription edited on 19 February 2026

MORE INFORMATION

See also … Link: “Raven Says Goodnight to Sun,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 5 October 2024 and published on 3 November 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-yZp ..

See also this blog category: Devas of Dawn and Sunset

ART PHOTOS BY ALICE

The Deva of the Setting Sun

Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Deva of the Setting Sun 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Succulents 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Succulents 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Succulents 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Succulents 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 9 October 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Are Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu Warring Gods from Alpha Centauri? . by Alice B. Clagett

Are Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu Warring Gods from Alpha Centauri?

Composite Image: “Alpha Centaurian,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 15 August 2022, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Head view of ant Messor stoddardi specimen casent0005735,” by AntWeb.org, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messor_stoddardi_casent0005735_head_1.jpg … CC BY 4.0 International. Image: “Alpha Centauri A and B as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope,” by ESA/Hubble and NASA, 24 August 2016, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha-centauri-AB.png … CC BY-SA 4.0 International.

Composite Image: “Alpha Centaurian,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 15 August 2022, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

CREDITS: Image: “Head view of ant Messor stoddardi specimen casent0005735,” by AntWeb.org, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messor_stoddardi_casent0005735_head_1.jpg … CC BY 4.0 International. Image: “Alpha Centauri A and B as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope,” by ESA/Hubble and NASA, 24 August 2016, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha-centauri-AB.png … CC BY-SA 4.0 International.

Dear Ones,

Are Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu warring gods from Alpha Centauri? That is a good question. Taking a leap of creative imagination, I have come up with an answer never till now so much as surmised! Read on …

I saw online an image of two stars in the Alpha Centauri system …

Alpha Centauri A and B

Image: “Alpha Centauri A and B as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope,” by ESA/Hubble and NASA, 24 August 2016, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha-centauri-AB.png … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

Image: “Alpha Centauri A and B as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope,” by ESA/Hubble and NASA, 24 August 2016, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha-centauri-AB.png … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

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This reminds me of a Wiki image by Talonabrazas df03A7j of Ahura Mazda … https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gods_and_demons/images/7/7d/Ahura_mazda_by_talonabraxas_df03a7j-fullview.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220815215643 … Ahura Mazda is the good Creator god of Zoroastrianism,

Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest known religions on Earth; it may go back as far as 2000 BC. According to that religion, Ahura Mazda is not a supreme god, but is more powerful than his evil antagonist Angra Mainyu (aka Ahriman).

Image: “The Middle Persian word ʾhlmn’ (Ahreman, “the Evil Spirit”) in Book Pahlavi script. The word is traditionally always written upside down,” by ZxxAxxA, 1 August 2014, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Text-pal-Ahlmn%27-ahreman.png … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … COMMENTS: I have seen interpretations of this image as a Lion with claws extended. However, I see that it is drawn upside down, possibly to prevent evil from leaping out at the viewer … or so it seems to me. Despite my inclination not to defy this ancient taboo, I went ahead and turned the image right-side-up. It looked just a little more like an ant bearing a seed of grass in its claws, but not convincingly so, I feel. What do you think? –Alice B. Clagett

Image: “The Middle Persian word ʾhlmn’ (Ahreman, “the Evil Spirit”) in Book Pahlavi script. The word is traditionally always written upside down,” by ZxxAxxA, 1 August 2014, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Text-pal-Ahlmn%27-ahreman.png … CC BY-SA 4.0 International …

COMMENTS: I have seen interpretations of this image as a Lion with claws extended. However, I see that it is drawn upside down, possibly to prevent evil from leaping out at the viewer … or so it seems to me. Despite my inclination not to defy this ancient taboo, I went ahead and turned the image right-side-up. It looked just a little more like an ant bearing a seed of grass in its claws, but not convincingly so, I feel. What do you think? –Alice B. Clagett

Angra Mainyu is an unmerciful god who thinks and speaks and acts against all of Ahura Mazda’s creatures. An image of this evil god by genzoman on Wiki is here … https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gods_and_demons/images/e/e9/Angra_mainyu_by_genzoman_d1ezm7r-fullview.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200729142848 ..

Here is an image of an angry, fiery red Angra Mainyu, added by B1bl1kal … https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/9/9e/Angra_Mainyu.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140611024613 ..

In the early days of life on the Iranian plateau, there must have been an ongoing battle between human beings and other beings living there and competing for food supplies …

Image: Very large ant and shorter man holding up a stalk of grass (attribution is unknown) … https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxl4tuPg01r3iylco1_400.jpg .. 

It could be that battle has to do with the Zoroastrian myth of the good Creator god Ahura Mazda and the bad god Angra Mainyu.

It could be that Angra Mainyu was meant to represent the deva or devas of the beings that competed with the early humans on the Iranian plateau for food.

It could be that Ahura Mazda represented the deva or devas that guided humankind in the same geographic region.

From the hint of the NASA image of the Alpha Centauri twin stars and the Wiki image of a dark god with eyes like twin stars (linked to above) I have leapt to the notion that Alpha Centauri may house competing star brothers and sisters … Christed and non-Christed star races.

It could be that devic emissaries from both groups on Alpha Centauri donated star DNA codes to the earliest human civilizations in or near the Mesopotamian lowlands ‘breadbasket’. It could be that Angra Mainyu had earlier donated star DNA for the development of ants and maybe other social insects, for instance. Very clearly these war with the welfare of mammals, including human beings, for whom it is possible Ahura Mazda (of Alpha Centauri?) donated a different kind of star DNA.

Ants and humans have very different personalities. Their social values have some overlap, but amongst humans there is far more emphasis on attaining joy through individualization. Amongst ants, there is far more emphasis on attaining joy through selfless service.

In the occult lore, while both self-development and loyalty to the All are good qualities, the one, it is said, leads to God-consciousness, and the other leads to hive consciousness. Yet, according to the esoteric lore, given time … a great deal of time, apparently … there is a bifurcation of those beings with hive consciousness. Little by little, these species begin to experience individuation.

For instance, according to esoterica, nature spirits are like this. Young nature spirits are rather like ants in their unquestioning loyalty to their devas. When they pass on, according to the occult lore, they go back to the group Soul of their nature spirit species. Yet there comes a time when nature spirits individuate.

Which nature spirits will those be, since having died, they merge with the group Soul? Does a particular clan of nature spirits flip from group Soul to many individual Souls?

Might this be true of social insects such as ants as well? Time … quite a lot of time, apparently … will tell.

At any rate, I get an inkling from my research today that Alpha Centauri might have been divined by ancient seers and prophets on the Iranian plateau and possibly in the Mesopotamian breadbasket to be a place of origin of both human and insect species on Earth. I get that the ancients felt that humankind was a superior life form, but that social insects were a force to contend with.

Image: Numbers of ants in New York City compared to numbers of rats and humans … https://assets.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-files/03.size-comparisons-copy.gif?itok=XrdU-Rhw ..

From observations of the the abundance of ants on the palm tree in my yard yesterday, I tend to agree. Because we live in houses that are relatively insect-free, we forget how formidable a threat the inroads of insects on ancient granaries must have been.

Even today, with but a hop and a blip in the global economic outlook, these tensions between the devas of humankind and the devas of the ants might suddenly take the limelight. Our existence might hang on getting hold of ant insecticide (which does not to me seem to work worth beans) or else on finding herbal ant repellants.

When those times come round again, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu may once more find a prominent place in the religions of the world.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 16 August 2022
Location: Los Angeles, California
Previously titled: Ahura Mazda, Angra Mainyu, Ants, and Alpha Centauri 

P.S. I have “Insectian Star Race 2 – Ant People” currently under the category “Orion – Mintaka” star systems and “Insectian Star Race 1 – Termite People – tentatively” under the category “Alpha Centauri.” From today’s blog, I am leaning towards both star systems contributing Insectian star DNA to Earth beings. Future revisions of my blog categories may reflect this.

I see that there is talk of a one-eyed, sentient hexapod hermaphroditic race of beings from Alpha Centauri. There is an image of a member of that race on the webpage as well. If that proves to be the consensus in future, then that would lean toward a six-footed star race, maybe inhabiting both Alpha Centauri and Orion star systems, and conveying the influence of its propensity for six-footedness and for the virtues of industriousness, perfect loyalty, and hive mind to the social insects of Earth …

Link: “Alpha Centauran,” at “Alien Species” in Wiki Fandom … https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Alpha_Centauran ..

Added to … Link: “Alpha Centaurians,” a vision by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 25 June 2021; revised on 16 August 2022 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-nvi ..

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