The Three Roads of the Condition (True Vampyrism)20:57 Jul 26 2005
Times Read: 631
These Roads are taken straight from the Strigoi Vii Teachings, I will add stuff later on things from the Liber Cain, a different set of ideas on the Condition.
Mradu (Pages 127 - 128 of Liber Jahira)
The Warrior in the old tongue are known as the Mradu. These are the protectors, guardians and warriors of the Condition. They are individuals gifted with physical prowess and the knowledge of protective, grounding energy and military arts. It is the Mradu's Purpose to safeguard the Ramkht and Kitra, seeing that none come to any harm whether from threats within the community or outside. It is common for a Ramkht to have at least one Mradu who is especially trusted and is a companion and guard. The Mradu help enforce the rules within the community and see to it that the authority of the Magisters is respected. They are the physical, aggresive male energy within a group, virile and powerful, and at the same time stable and trustworthy as their element, the Earth. Mradu are most often Male, but it is common to find females in the Mradu Road.
Mradu talents include: grounding energy, Martial Arts, diplomacy (within and outside the community), cleansing, banishing, military tactics, perspective in politics, security, practical matters, building and contrsution and mechanics. In ritual it is their Job to generate the energy and maintain the protective circle.
Kitra (See Pages 126 - 127 of Liber Jahira)
The Kitra serve a multitude of functions with a community. They are lovers and donors, councelors and confidants. They are caretakers and healers. In rituals, such as the Sanguine Mass, they often serve as alters, acting as the fulcrum of power between Mradu and Ramkht. Most Kitra are lovers of submissive play, reveling in the attention and power it gives them. Kitra are also often skilled donors and keep their energy in top form to nourish members of their group. Often they are the keepers of an Order's Golden Circle of Donors. They are very sensual people, trained in the arts of lovemaking and enterainment, thus highly sexually charged. This Road is modeled from the example of temple concubines, young men and women pledged to their temples who offered service through their flesh. Other functions include pratical administative tasks and emotional support for the community members. Their element is Water: emotional, life giving, conductive, nurturing and supportive. They are often female, embodying the best qualities of that sex, but male kitra are not uncommon.
Kitra talents include: functioning as an energy generator, ceneter and collector in Sanguine Mass, being a good advisor and reality check for the community, being a good submissive (not a slave) in the BDSM circuit, learning how to function as a skilled donor without harming themselves, performance art and dance, skills in tantric sex and psychology. In ritual, it is their job to function as the energy vortex and vessel, and, ultimately, the kitra is the one who sends this energy forth to do its work.
Ramkht (See Page: 128 of Liber Jahira)
(Note: This passage isn't complete because the people who made the book do not understand basic graphic and design)
The Ramkht are priests of the community and are scribes, record keepers and guide the community to a productive goal. They rely on the kitra to care for them and the Mradu to safe guard them. Their Element is Air: quick, flightly, cerebral and unperdictable. Ramkht seem to be the most evenly split road between male and female, perhaps because the physical plays such a little role in their activities.
Ramkht talents include: writing, orgininizing events, leadership, and monetary affairs. In ritual, the Ramkht are the ones who take the energy from the Mradu, refine it and place it in the Kitra. They give it its purpose and direction.
I will add more later, right now this is the basics of what these roads are.
COMMENTS
-