Many don't realize that the name holly wood (as in the holly we use at Christmastime) comes from "holy wood," a tree sacred in a special way to Druids and occultists. Is there a coincidence here -- or a number of them (given St. Michael right there at the base)?
"The Druids were tree worshippers, especially the oak," explains one website (Secrets in Plain Site). "The holly was their most sacred symbol because it was sacred to mother Holle or Hel, the [Norse] goddess of the underworld…"
Holly wood has long been the material used for magician wands. Magic everywhere here: from the "silver screen" (and its "idols," its Oscars) to Disneyland (and Mickey's wand). It's what Harry Potter's wand was also made of.
More coincidence.
Nearby, along the "Walk of Fame," on seedy Hollywood Boulevard, are the strip clubs, tattoo parlors, smoke shops, lewd posters, palm readers, psychics, aggressive hawkers, a Masonic Temple, advertisements (appropriately) for an exhibition on Pompeii, and even a museum dedicated to L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the occult religion of Scientology, which has a huge temple nearby that services the rich and famous and looks like something out of Potter). One looks not up but down (at those sidewalk "stars"). Many lures.
http://www.spiritdaily.net/Holywood.htm
"The Druids were tree worshippers, especially the oak," explains one website (Secrets in Plain Site). "The holly was their most sacred symbol because it was sacred to mother Holle or Hel, the [Norse] goddess of the underworld…"
Holly wood has long been the material used for magician wands. Magic everywhere here: from the "silver screen" (and its "idols," its Oscars) to Disneyland (and Mickey's wand). It's what Harry Potter's wand was also made of.
More coincidence.
Nearby, along the "Walk of Fame," on seedy Hollywood Boulevard, are the strip clubs, tattoo parlors, smoke shops, lewd posters, palm readers, psychics, aggressive hawkers, a Masonic Temple, advertisements (appropriately) for an exhibition on Pompeii, and even a museum dedicated to L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the occult religion of Scientology, which has a huge temple nearby that services the rich and famous and looks like something out of Potter). One looks not up but down (at those sidewalk "stars"). Many lures.
http://www.spiritdaily.net/Holywood.htm
