There’s sumfing Narstie at the Bottom of the Garding
The Catholic establishment diminuend the fairy because the
Dragon
Blood posed a threat to that establishments hold on government. This
is easy to understand. More difficult, if fairies were supposed to
be harmless, friendly beings or at worst just mischievous
pranksters, is the diminution of them, which occurred between the
late Dark Age to Reformation period, by the wider population of the
period.
The problem was that fairies weren’t just ethereal pygmies, nor were
they just "almost ordinary folk", which is the picture we might tend
to get from Murray’s sympathetically understated description of
them.
The true nature of the fairy, one that has already been hinted at,
can be found by studying the various names they were given over
time, names which now conjure up images of garden ornaments and
wispy elementals, but in the past seemed to be epithets of terror.
The last thing you would want in your little patch of suburban
heaven is the original version of the Garden Gnome.
True enough fairies loved nature and greenery, they were after all
the children of the greenwood and the descendants of the kings and
queens who, at the dawn of history laid out the Garden of Eden. So
it seems appropriate that we have statues of them fishing in our
goldfish ponds or sitting looking sternly at the lawn that should
have been mown a week ago.
But the real thing itself was the very reason why the plastic
version now holds court on patios across the length and breadth of
Merrie England. The gnome was, for man’s ancestors, a horrible
creature and sometimes a very real threat to life and this is why
it, along with all the other beings we think of as separate classes
of Fairies, was reduced in stature by ordinary people.
What do we do if we are beset by problems that we can’t get rid of?
More often than not we try and make light of them and ridicule them
in order to make them smaller, thereby alleviating the fear in which
we hold them.
This was one of the reasons behind the diminution of fairies by the
peasants. Fairies, hard pressed by adverse conditions, during the
Church’s burning times and because of the relentless expansion of
the human population into their territories, often continued old
traditions out of a ritual context.
No doubt with a certain imperious callousness, considering the
treatment they were then receiving at the hands of their former
client peoples. It has been stated elsewhere that elves did not
steal human adults or children for ritual purposes and this stands
true. Nevertheless during the medieval period cannibalism was
endemic in the whole British population because of the disasters
caused by war, plague and famine. It is warranted therefore that the
elves ate what they could, especially as they were additionally a
people forced to the very margins of society.
The Catholic establishment diminuted the fairy because the Dragon
Blood posed a threat to that establishments hold on government. This
is easy to understand. More difficult, if fairies were supposed to
be harmless, friendly beings or at worst just mischievous
pranksters, is the diminution of them, which occurred between the
late Dark Age to Reformation period, by the wider population of the
period.
The problem was that fairies weren’t just ethereal pygmies, nor were
they just "almost ordinary folk", which is the picture we might tend
to get from Murray’s sympathetically understated description of
them. The true nature of the fairy, one that has already been hinted
at, can be found by studying the various names they were given over
time, names which now conjure up images of garden ornaments and
wispy elementals, but in the past seemed to be epithets of terror.
The last thing you would want in your little patch of suburban
heaven is the original version of the Garden Gnome.
Although it has become a tradition to put the little folk into
classes or categories, if we look closely at the etymology and the
origins of the words used to describe each type of fairy, we will
find that, rather than defining differences between various types of
ethereal pygmy, the words or names describe the different attributes
of only one type of being. Robin Goodfellow for instance is called
Hobgoblin, which is another name for a Gnome, which we think of as a
cute little fellow in a red cap. And indeed he or she probably was;
to another gnome. In fact the name "Redcap" associated with the fly
Agaric or fairy mushroom, was another epithet for The gnome and
the
pixy, which we know was the Pict-Sidhe.
However, the red cap was not associated with the gnome or pixy
because of the color of the mushrooms they were fond of sitting
under, but because they used to dye their hoods or their pointed,
Phrygian headgear in the blood of passing travellers.
Perhaps as time passed the fairy actually did became smaller in
stature than ordinary people. However, as Murray points out, this
was probably caused by the restriction in diet which, in turn, was
caused by the increasing scarcity of resources available to them as
a people, because of their having to go into hiding from the Church.
Nevertheless the fairy, here described as the "gnome", was once a
being of considerable stature until he was forced into forest
regions that could hardly support him and which were, even then,
being populated and deforested by farmers wanting to clear the land
to provide grazing for sheep and cattle.
In Africa the exact same process is now happening to the
Hadza
people. These nomadic tribesmen are the last true hunter gatherers,
they keep no livestock and depend entirely on their fantastic
knowledge of the terrain to support themselves and their families.
Their impact on the environment is minimal and sustainable; and to
all intents, they live in harmony with nature.
Today their range is diminishing even further because
agriculturalists and pastoralists from the outside are coming into
their lands, cutting down tree stock to provide overnight enclosures
for their cattle, which they only use once before moving on, thereby
overgrazing the entire territory.
Because of this the Hadza population is dying out and over the last
century their numbers have dwindled to no more than a thousand
people. This was the fate of the Shining Ones and it is a story that
has been repeated all over the world.
The Wise Ones
So we have suggested that the fairies, the "little people" in pre-christian
history times were vampiric by necessity and inclination, and fed
purely on the blood of their own kind for magical reasons. But later
on, during the one and a half millennia following Christ's death,
being pushed into a comer, they also fed on human blood and the
occurrences were frequent enough to become a major problem for
incursive agriculturalists in the second millennium, who
consequently held the "gnome" in awe, as an object of fear. In order
to cope with the danger of living in Fairy Lands, the response of
the invader was to diminute the beings, from once proud Kings to a
race who eventually became dietarily disadvantaged fugitives of the
forests, and finally into ethereal pygmies that were harmless.
As the fairy populations in each region died out completely, the
incomers were left with a memory of a small elusive folk who, as
time passed, became smaller still in the mind’s eye of those who,
though responsible for their genocide would, nevertheless, rather
forget them altogether.
The words gnome, sprite and goblin; like
fairy, elf and pixy
therefore all refer to one race: The Scythians or Sidheans, and
relate to various practices and ritual identities amongst this once
ancient and noble people.
’Gnome’ comes from the Greek and is related to the
root ’gno’. From
this same root we obtain our words gnosis and gnobilis or
nobilis.
Both these words relate to knowledge and wisdom, and point to an
origin within the Aryan culture, Aryan also meaning wise, or ’Race
of the Wise’, ’The Noble Race’.
A ’Gnome’ is one of the race of the Wise Ones, the ancient king
tribe of the Aryans or Scythians, who were the genetic guardians of
a blood chemistry, of rituals and lore from which they derived a
perceptual state of gnosis or transcendence. The gnome is said to
have been a creature of the mines and mounds, just like the
hobgoblin.
This description, linked both to alchemy and smithing, is also
associated with their ritual practice of living in specially
prepared chambers in burial mounds, tombs and pyramids which links
the gnome, as a priest-king figure, with the cult of Nergal and the
otherworld or underworld.
For this very same reason the fairy is also called the Sprite. This
word is a reduction of the word Spirit and also has the same
associations with the Scythian practice of regularly inhabiting
tombs to obtain knowledge from the ancestors.
Gnome (also relating to ’judge’) as Nobilis gives us another
familiar name for the fairies - the Gentry or Noble ones. Gnome also
refers to a canon or body of law and this is reminiscent of the role
of the Pictish - "pixy" - Druidic High Kings as custodians of the
Law and Culture of their peoples.
These Kings, the Brudes or Bruidhes, were the Judge-Poets and
magicians whose expertise lay in spellcraft, rhetoric and satire.
Their female counterparts were the Bruidhinas, Sirens, Morrigans and
Melusines, the Raven women and Swan Maidens, female "Gnomes", Ban
Sidhes - female fairies - the custodians of wisdom and law, weavers
of spells and vampire princesses, which is exactly what Melusine
d’Avalon was. The Sprite is additionally known as the Goblin and the
origin of the epithet "Red Cap" actually derives, not solely from
the later need for the consumption of human blood as a staple food,
but originally from the ritual practice of coloring the Hood or Cap
with menstrual blood, which was consumed, along with its precious
cargo of neurotransmitters, to facilitate wisdom.
As the cap covers the head, so symbolically the blood feeds the
spirit, the soul and the intellect, situated in the pineal gland and
the "Wings of the Swan" in the brain. The blood drinking rituals of
the gnome-goblin-sprite and his or her habitual occupation of tombs,
as god-kings or queens of the otherworld, led to the notion of the
vampire as a bloodthirsty ghost.
Sprite then means Spirit-People, or people of the spiritual realms,
those who have congress with the inhabitants and gods of the
otherworld. It also refers to the blood drinking Scythian
’Ghost-Warriors’ who painted their bodies grey-blue to look like
corpses when they entered naked upon the battle field.
Sprite was a name given to Robin Goodfellow or
Hood who was also
known as Puck meaning Boucca or Bolg, the God.
Sprite therefore
expands the meaning to include People of the Gods, which is entirely
appropriate, as the fairies, the Dragon Clan, were the descendants
of the original gods of the earth.
Elementals and Diminution
Given that the Fairies, according to Murray, were still around in
Shakespeare's time (Edward de Vere?), it seems to me that at least
one individual who is said to have been a member of the literary
syndicate that produced A Midsummer Night’s Dream, diminuted the
fairies, his own race, it could be argued, in order to alleviate the
persecution that was raging against them, persecution that carried
on for nearly two hundred years after his death.
This individual used a form of diminution, turning fairies into
elementals, a type of anthropomorphization, which in reverse is the
same as the process of deification, turning the ancient priest-kings
into the gods.
Through this persons influence, the fairies who
traditionally yielded power derived from their understanding of the
elemental forces in nature, became associated with those forces to
the extent that they were thought to be the elements themselves. in
doing this he instituted a situation where the fairies could side
step out of this world into another, taking them out of human
history altogether and thus out of harms way, eventually.
It is possible that his patron, the self styled "Faerie Queen"
Elizabeth I, sympathized with and supported
such a move. She was supposed to be marginally descended from
Margaret of Anjou and this house
claimed a supposed descent from Melusine, the High Queen of the
Fairies of All Europe who were, like Elizabeth herself the arch
enemies of Catholicism.
Rob as Rob reinforces the fairy element in the Robin Hood story as
does Dob or Dobin. Odin’s mount - the eight legged Slepnir (a
funeral byre) was similar to the Celtic Rhiannon and Epona. Like
Robin’s father Herne or Oberon, who inhabited the underworld, the
horse deities were also related to the Scythian death cult of Nergal, all three were white (fairy) horses who carried the rider to
the grave - the otherworld, the realm of sovereignty and wisdom.
Related to this, the Funeral Byre in Pakistan which is carried by
four men (eight legs), is called the Breghi Moru. Similarly
Odin had
a son called Breghi who can be related to Robin. Robin was said to
be a gifted musician and Bereghi was a god of music who, like
Orpheus, traversed the Underworld or Death.
The name often given to a horse was Dobbin and it is
feasible that
Robin Hood - son of Odin/Herne - was, as a Magus, a psychopomp
associated with the Celtic realm of death, sovereignty and the horse
deities. Robin Hood as Puck was related
to the Irish ’pooka’ as well
as the Boucca, from whence comes the Dutch ’spook’
meaning sprite or spirit, the Welsh ’puca’ and the Icelandic ’piki’.
The ’peoka’, was a shape-shifter which often took the form of
animals, the horse being one of them. Likewise the witches god would
often appear in animal form, regularly as a horse, often as a Stag,
but also in a variety of shapes according to the tribal totem animal
traditionally associated with the region or the clan of the
officiate/god.
The Icelandic ’piki’ is close to ’pixy’ or
Pict-Sidhe, a painted
Elf; meaning that piki-puck-boucca-bolg-god indicates the status of
Robin Hood/Goodfellow/Artisson as a ’Puck" or shapeshifting,
shamanic, Pictish God-King or Priest-King.
Puck is not a name
therefore, but a title, related to bogey-man and boggart, a god-man,
a druid prince or priest king.
Included in the Dobbin epithet there is also a relation to the
origins of Robin’s ancestors as mounted bowmen. We know from
folklore that Robin was both a horseman and a gifted archer. We know
from history that he was neither Norman nor Saxon, being of princely
Flemish descent and an accomplished veteran cavalryman.
We also know that the bow wasn’t merely a yeoman’s weapon and that
the term yeoman was relative anyway. If one combines the two ideas,
those of the archer and the cavalryman, one arrives at the origin of
the Centaur and the Sagittarii.
The Centaurs were extraordinary mounted archers who were said to
have fought at Troy, whilst in other accounts they were said to be,
like the Scythians, rapists and pillagers.
The amazing skill of the Thracian horse warrior, whose symbiosis
with his mount seemed to make him a part of the horse itself;
contributed to the development of the image of the Centaur as half
man half horse, and it is likely that the Thracians and the
Sarmatians, who wore fish scale armour, were originally related to
the Zmei of Russia.
The Zmei were mounted, fish scale or dragon scale armoured lords
whom the people referred to as Dragons. Like the fabled Centaurs
they were wise but brutal and similarly to the legend concerning the
Cimmerians, they appeared at night.
It is likely that they were descended from the same central European
Scythian tribes that migrated to Britain to become the Picts and the
Dalriada, or Horse Lords, from whom Robin Hood partly descends.
The Centaur Cheiron was, like all Centaurs one assumes, the son of
Cronos or Anu and the water fairy Oceanid. This confirms that the
Centaurs, the Sagitarii, were Dragon Lords. Cheiron kept a school
for princes at Thessaly and was the Tutor to Jason, Odysseus and
Achilles.
The name Sagittarius can be broken into two separate words -
Sagitta
and Rius or Arius. From the root ’Sag’, though said to mean
arrow
from the Latin, are also derived the words Sagacious and Sage, both
pertaining to wisdom. The last syllables Ri-us or
Ari-us can mean
either
a) king or Rig with Latin male suffix
’us’, or b) an arrow
Sagittarii may then mean either "Wise Archers" or "Archer Lords",
but either way it doesn’t matter because both come down to the same
thing. Related to Arya and the Noble or Wise Race of Kings - lord is
one of the order of the Nobilis or wise ones anyway. We are then
back firmly in Scythian Dragon territory and the realm of the horse
lords and the King Tribe, with its gnomes, pixies, sprites, fairies
and boggarts.
As we have seen Hrodebert was the original spelling for
Robert and
its affectionate diminutive Robin, which gave us Hob and Dob.
Another affectionate diminutive of Robert is Robby which, as you
might expect, also has an old variation which expands upon the story
of the link between Robin Hood and his ancient cultic and equestrian
roots. The abbreviation of Hrodebert is, as one would guess;
Hrodin
or Odin: The Lord of the Rings.
The Hobby Horse is a sight familiar to all who have attended the
Spring fairs and have enjoyed the sight of Morris Men or the Sweeps
on summer outings to country public houses and village fetes. In
earlier times, the Hobby Horse was a notorious character who
accompanied the Coal Black Man, Jack-in-the-Green, Robin
Hood and Maid Marion on the Maying where he was was noted for his lascivious
behavior in chasing and indecently assaulting young village girls
as they paraded with the May Day throng.
Nevertheless, Charles Burland tells us that the Hobby Horse was a
popular figure in those days, before political correctness had been
thought up by fat lesbians. Then, the only social workers for miles
around were likely to have been called either Rosy or Mother Demdike.
The Hobby Horse and his antics have echoes in the Wild Hunt for
elf
maidens at Samhain, in the days when, like Herne,
Robin and the
witch princesses, or Odin and the Valkyries: The vampire kings and
queens; the Pictish and Scythian horsemen and horsewomen, roamed the
forests in a ritual search of their dragon princesses, whom they
would ritually kidnap and feast upon.
Hereto we have the Hobby Horse or Robin o’ the Horse and the
reinforcement of all the ancient connections between he and his
fairy cohorts in this world, and their longing to return to their
otherworld home - Elphame.
With regard to the Coal Black Man, some scholars have linked him
with the Morris and both with some fertility ritual originating in
Africa, based on the supposition that Morris was originally spelt
Moorish. The Coal Black Man or the Sweep is a variant of
Jack-in-the-Green. He is Black because of the magical custom, like
Santa Claus’, of entering and exiting houses via the chimney which,
when the house was a building similar to a Rath or a Mound, also
doubled up as the front door.
He is linked to the ancient chimney climbing shaman, to the
witches
who flew up chimneys to get to the Sabbat, all blacked up with soot
and flying ointment based on goose grease; and thus the witches god,
the Man-in Black or Coal Black Man is Odin and St. Nicholas, the
Horned God, always accompanied a Maying by the mummer of the Dragon.
The Sweep therefore is also Jack or Herne, who is sometimes referred
to as the Foliate Man or the Green Man, another name for
Robin Goodfellow or Hood, the sprite, gnome or pixy. He is the witches
god, not from an exotic imported cult, but from the Northern Lands
of Europe.
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Phrygians and Scythians
The Red Cap of the Gnome and the Pixy is the pointed cap associated
with witchcraft and shamanism, examples of it can be found in
Babylonian stone bas-relief depictions of the gods, in burial sites
in Takla Makan and elsewhere in the Celtic world. In relation to the
Gnome or the Pixy, this headdress is of Phrygian origin, where it
was once worn with the point folded towards the front of the head. A
portrait of Liberty leading the French Revolution depicts her
wearing this same Phrygian Cap.
The Phrygians migrated from Thrace, the original home of
Dionysus,
to lands adjacent to Galatia in central Anatolia around 500
BC. They
were probably descended from the same stock as those earlier
Scythians who migrated to Thrace from Ireland.
Returning there they became the Fir Bolg and the Phrygians revered a
Goddess Queen of the same Dragon Pantheon from which the
Fir Boig of
the Tuatha de Danaan were descended. This deity - Cybele - was a
native of mountains and forests. Originally known to the Greeks as
Rhea, the Titaness and mother of Zeus by Cronos, she can be
identified as the Sumerian Antu, wife of Anu, from whence the
Danaan
derive their name - Tuadha d’Anu.
The Phrygians also worshipped Mithras who was the Persian god often
identified with Mazda. Mithras is often depicted as slaying the
"world bull" which represents what the gnostic dualists call the
demiurge, the subordinate creator and "Lord of this World".
Cybele
as Antu was the Mother of Enlil (who later became
Zeus and
Jehovah)
whilst Mithras as Mazda was originally Enlil’s brother Enki, and
Enlil was Ahriman in the Persian dualist cult that revered
Mithras
who, like Herne was associated with the Underworld and caves. Like
Mithras, Herne is further linked both to the
Stag and the Bull.
Enki became Samael and here we enter the realm of the cult of the
twin and the rivalry between the Light and Dark represented
respectively by Mithras the bull slayer and the demiurge, the bull
itself symbol of Mazda-Mithras’s brother Enlil-Zeus-Jehovah.
In slaying the bull, Mithras is destroying the world of form and
illusion created by the language we use to interpret the stimulus
received by the human senses. In one sense human beings are the bull
itself, and here we enter the true meaning of the christian message.
From the death of the bull is brought forth new life. From the death
of the christian believer is brought forth new life in the spirit of Christ.
This world of form hides the true nature of existence which is
creativity, symbolized by the flowers that issue from the neck wound
of the bull. Essentially Mithraism was a transcendent philosophy
intended to get people to see beyond the semantic, material world -
the "bull" of Enlil-Zeus-Jehovah, to
The world of eternity beyond
Thought and beyond the form defined erroneously by language.
The bull turns up a lot in Druidic lore and it was sacrificed
regularly at the Nemetons, the major druidic gatherings, which were
held in Galatia, next door to Phrygia and in Ireland and Scotland.
This sacrifice was the Mithraic sacrifice of human delusion, not the
sacrifice of a God. The druids didn’t worship anyone and the bull
was definitely no God. The druids and consequently the fairies,
vampires and witches were dualist philosophers, not religious
devotees. In history the deities (more properly "cosmic forces")
have been reversed by various vested interests and in some
variations of the dualist philosophy Enlil, Jehovah-Zeus the
Appis
Bull, was a symbol of the material world of nerve-endings and hence
the capacity to experience misery and suffering whilst Enki, the
Dragon of Light or Satan, was the deliverer from pain, the
enlightener.
Traditionally Jesus was identified as the Sol Invicta or
Mithras,
the deliverer of mankind - the enlightener: Lucifer or
Satan, who
guides the magus in his quest to transform his perception of the
material world, in order that he may see that eternity and the realm
of Elphame lie hidden just beneath the skin of our fears and
opinions, the thoughts that make up our world of suffering, just as
the flowers lie hidden in the brutish body of the world bull. The
philosophy of dualism works on two levels however and whilst one
relates to our perception of existence, the other relates to the
interplay of those forces which make up the very life we so often
perceive in error.
The Phrygian cap worn by Mithras, the badge of transcendence, was
the same cap worn by all shamans since the Golden Age of the Titans,
those
Anunnaki (Anunnagi)
ancestors of the Dragon Clans, from whence
emerged the Fairy Race of the ancient Dragon and Grail Blood; the
Gnomes, Pixies and Sprites. It was once said that the Phrygian
devotees of Mithras would soak themselves in the blood of sacrificed
bulls. Anciently the skull of the bull was used to symbolize the
female organs.
The Horns were often tipped with round golden balls and these and
the horns themselves represented the ovaries and fallopian tubes
which were joined to the cranium, which symbolized the womb, a
symbolic connection between the brain and the uterus, or
intelligence and menstrual blood.
The nasal passage and mouth of the bull represented the vagina and
to be soaked in bull’s blood, was to be soaked in the blood of the
womb. The red cap of both the Phrygian and the Fairy therefore was
originally colored by the blood of wisdom and a garden gnome will
never look the same again.
Tomb Dwellers
As predicted, the Ziggurat and the Pyramid are now academically
confirmed as being symbolic, ritual mountains and, as also
predicted, they are the monumental granddaughters of the sidhe
hills: The Beth, the Tel, the Rath, the Kurgan and the Tepes, the
ritual chambers of which, in turn, are also the symbolic caves in
the mountains of the original Carpathian Homeland of the Anunnaki
where, like Cybele, the Dragon mothers once wandered amongst the
forests.
These structures, like the caves themselves were used to bury the
dead. Adjacent to the main burial chamber was a sleeping chamber
where members of the Clan would spend the night in order to obtain
information from the ancestors in dreams. Here we have the origin of
one of the Irish words for Vampire: Crechaire - meaning tomb, shrine,
sepulchre. The Crechaire or Tomb dweller was a
Druidic, Fairy God-King or Queen who, as the mediator between this world and the
otherworld, would reside in the sleeping chamber of the Rath, next
to the ancestors. The image of the Vampire as one who lives in tombs
is therefore correct. Tomb dwelling was common amongst the Egyptians
and Sumerians, and consequently we have another cultural
Fairy link
between these peoples and the Scythian Pict-Sidhes. Another
reinforcing link also appears between the Vampire and the Smith, the
Alchemist, the Magi, the Fairy or Titan, Robin Hood and Odin.
The shapeshifting Robin or Puck, shares this shamanic attribute with
Merlin and with Odin/HodiWWolden, who also shares his knowledge of
alchemy and forging; and his one eyed attribute with the Cyclops,
the Titanic Fairy smiths who so closely resemble the
Irish Sidhe and
Balor of the Formorians, who were formidable, giants (often
described as one-eyed) who were said to have been descendants of
Ham.
In legend part of the wave of Scythian migrants who settled in
Eire
decamped and fled for the Northern Isles of the World. This is
obviously Scandinavia and it is interesting to note that on their
return to Ireland they established their Fairy reign as the Tuatha
de Danaan.
It seems probable therefore that the Danes and the Danaan are
directly related which would explain the link between Odin, later
the "antecessor" god of the Scandinavian witches, and Robin Hood or
Hodin, Robin (Artis-son) being of Irish origin via the Picts.
With Robin Buried in an Oak Tree, Odin hanging from an Ash Tree and
Jesus nailed to the Rood or Holly Tree it would seem that each is
cultically related to the other, as shamans and as druidhes or
Wallimen (men of the trees), a name of the witches god in the Viking
isles of Orkney.
In Britain the witches god was often dressed as Odin and it appears
that in the Orkneys it would be Odin who is Walliman or Ualla-man, a
word related to Uilidian, the Irish Sacral Royal House of the Fir
Bolg (Boucca/Puck/Robin) who settled in Scotland.
Likewise in Gundestrop in Denmark there was unearthed a cauldron
upon which was embossed the distinctly Celtic figure of Cemunnos or
Heme, Lord of the Forests (wearing torcs [variants of the Ring] and
sitting cross legged, holding a serpent or dragon in each hand),
another Ualla-man and the father of Robin Hood.
The cauldron is a common symbol in Celtic lands and always
associated there with blood and the Grail, similarly the Gundestrop
Cauldron is considered to have been a vessel for catching the blood
of victims sacrificed to the Danish gods, Odin the Ring Lord being
the father of them all.
Sacred to Odin were the Raven and the Wolf, and similarly the
companions of Merlin at Hart Fell were the Raven, the Wolf and the
Boar, being symbolically a Morgana (a Morrigan or
Bruidnina), a
Warrior and a Druid, who probably fled with Merlin following the
battle in which his patron Gwenddolau was killed. The Wolf and the
Raven are also connected to the cult of Mithras.
It is highly likely that Odin and Merlin, though not the same
person, were closely linked as royal priests of druidic castes who
performed similar invocational functions and shared similar
attributes within a religious tradition that originated from the
early Eurasian dualistic cult from whence arose the Druids, the
Parsi, the Magi and the Brahmins
Odin was a Seer and Merlin means
Seer. This being the case, then the
legendary relationship between Merlin and Arthur (and Lancelot) is
the same as the relationship between Herne/Odin and Robin (and
Little John).
Both, in a cultic sense, are late aspects of the Monarchic dualistic
concept of the triad or trinity and the cult of the twin, which
began with Arin-Enki-Enlil. This has established a Dragon Culture
whose symbolism, ritual practice and royal priesthood has lasted
7000 years and included Jesus as an apostolic successor of
collateral blood descent.
The Danaan were sidhe or fairies, which are
druidhes or witches
(derived from the Old English Wic/ca) and we know that these
descriptions are aspects of one identity. Similarly the word Viking
is derived from the word Wic, mistakenly thought to derive from Old
Fresian - an inlet dweller.
The word actually comes from the same Old English word as witch does
- Wicca, meaning to yield or bend, as the Christianized Saxons would
have it - "to demons", which is a Greek word (daemons) and means
gods or intelligences.
From this can be inferred that they obtained otherworldly wisdom, as
yielding or understanding - to "stand under" or "give way to", so we
can render Viking as witch - as in Celtic druidhe is also a witch,
this goes some way in explaining the close similarity between the
Danish Odinic Nine World or Sphere system set against
Yggdrasil; and
the Druidic symbol of the Apple Tree.The Apple Tree bears the
spherical fruits, the chakras or sephiroth, which is what the Viking
Nine Worlds are. As the Danaan are sidhe, so the Vikings also had
their Siddhirs or weavers of dreams.
The Danish Vikings were generally an egalitarian people who operated
a social system not unlike the Danaan of Ireland, who considered all
of the blood to be equal. Both the Danaan and the Danes were a King
Tribe and the latter in the 11th century were invited to provide
princes and rulers for a foreign land, such was their expertise in
management and their love of order.
Hence the originally Danish, Svei Ruotsi Clan migrated to Novgarod
and founded what is now known as the Russian empire. This occured at
the height of their power when, with an entire population of little
more than 300,000 people, the Danes brought peace to the warring
Slavs of Russia, settled in America and traded for gold, spices and
silk as far away as the Indian Ocean.
Their markedly Celtic/Scythian artwork and jewellery is some of the
finest in Europe and forges a link between them and their
cousins, the Irish and Pictish Scots descendants of the original
Danaan Clans. Whilst examples of ornate Viking masonry can be found
in Constantinople, at home The Vikings tended to live in grass
covered halls often carved into hillsides, which are strongly
reminiscent of the raths or Sidhe Mounds of Ireland and Scotland, as
are the prolific amount of stone circles one can find in
Scandinavia. A Dragon People with Dragon Ships, (cf Tiamat, the Sea
Dragoness) the syinbol is everywhere in Danish art.
Their elite
warriors, the Berserkers or Bare-Shirts, took Amanita Muscaria and
fought naked in the same way as the Celtic warriors of the British
Isles and Gaul, neither having any fear of death whatsoever.
Steel Bras and Winged Hats
As the Valkyrie maidens dispatched the Danish warriors to
Valhalla,
so also the Raven women of the battle field, the
Morrigans of the
Celts, dispensed release from this world to Celtic friend and foe
alike. From Raven we obtain the word ravenous, which is akin to the
blood frenzy of the Morrigans or Morganas in the theatre of war, as
they drank the blood of the fallen. The Raven women, the Morganas,
are the baobhan sidhe, the vampire fairies who, off the battlefield,
become the laeanan Sidhe, beautiful fairy maidens like the Countess
of Salisbury (The Maid of Kent), who was called La Belle Dame Sans
Merci and acted as the Queen of Fairies and Witches in England.
These away from the field of bloodshed, drank dry the life force of
their human lovers. Along with the Ban Sidhe - Melusine, these
girls, the serene and graceful ladies of the lake and guardians of
the sacred Meres and secret fountains, are the legendary Swan
Maidens, the Valkyrie of the Danes.
The Priests of Odin were called the Godthi, which is pronounced
Gothi. Perhaps Odin as Woden, the god of the forest dwelling Goths,
is Woden the Wood Lord or Wolden or Wooden (Uailaman) and the Goths
themselves were, like the Danaan, a tribe of Priest Kings. Where
Godthi and Goth means ’men of the god’ or priests, so does Fir Bolg
or Bog, and so again we have a clear etymological link between the
druids and the sacred priests of Odin.
It is feasible that from Denmark settlers moved south, taking the
Valkyries; (known in Ireland and Scotland as the Swan Maidens) and
the Ravens of Odin with them. Odin, who has at least 30 other names,
was originally a Priest King, named Waeldeg or Waldeg (Wald =
Forest) who married the daughter of the Dalriadan king of Ireland,
Cormac Mac Art. We are instantly reminded of Robin Artisson.
In ancient Irish ’Art’ meant stone which could refer to a mason (cf Hiram Habiff and the Solomonic link) or to the Grail as the "Stone"
that fell to Earth, the Lia Fail, the jewel from Satan’s Crown; the
Lapsit Exillis, the Cubic Stone of the Holy Vampire Grail. It might
also refer to Cobalt.
Odin was Lord of the Wild Hunt in which he was accompanied by his
coven, the twelve Valkyrie. in Celtic Britain the Wild Hunt part of
the mythology of Windsor Geat Park, was led by Herne and his pack of
red-eared white (albe or fairy) hounds. In Anderson’s Genealogy
there is a table of the kings of the Herulii. It is thought that
this tribe of priests-magi were descended from the Danish Gothi of
Odin and formed the link between the Goths and the Scandinavian Dan
tribe. Herulii is composed, it would seem, of two words, Her and
Ulii.
Whilst Her is obviously Herr, meaning Lord, Ulii is
reminiscent of Ualla and Walloon, which is the name of the Frisian
people who occupy the region originally inhabited by the Herulii and
the Chattoi (forest Panther) tribes. It appears then that the
Herulii - as Her-Ulii, the sacred priests-magi, (the druidhes, the ’Men of the Trees’, were also called magi) are the Lords of the
Forest and relate directly to the Caledonian Picts, who were the
Calle Daouine, the People of the Forest.
So it would appear that the Goths could be of Danaan descent via the
Danes and the Herulii, giving a link between Odin and
Balor/Herne/Merlin, meaning that the Gothi and the druids are indeed
cast from the same mould if the Goths were the Godthi, sacred
priest-kings of the Scythian Dragon, it would explain why the
Merovingians formed alliances with Gothic princesses.
The Goths inhabited the vast, mysterious forests of central Europe
where the tops of oak trees of some thirty feet in diameter, formed
a canopy of up to one hundred and fifty feet in height, giving the
impression, mimicked in Gothic architecture, that the observer was
in the midst of a vast natural cathedral or many pillared hall.
Forests like this once spanned the length and breadth of the
continent and its islands, including Ireland, Wales, Scotland and
England.
It would he easy then to imagine that the Scythian tribes, though
dispersed by various migrations into different regions in the north,
would develop along similar cultural and spiritual lines that
continued to Mica, the corporate and emphasize the environmental
conditions of the regions they chose to occupy, namely their natural
and historical habitat, The Great Forests and the Ancient
Greenwoods.
In Forests Dark and Deep
In the German Rhineland Wotan reigned as chief of the gods and Lord
of the Wild Hunt, the Ring myth was prominent and the Swan Knights
and Maidens were an intrinsic part of Gothic and Teutonic
folklore. Wotan or Odin held court with his twelve
Valkyries, making
a Coven of thirteen priests of the old religion; and the
Rhinemaidens and the Nixes, like the Melusines and the
Morganas,
abided as the guardians of fairy fountains and forest rivers, brooks
and meres. By understanding that these myths emerge from a common
genetic and cultural source, which is manifest in these islands as
well as on the mainland, we can greatly expand on our own
appreciation of the finer details of the Dragon Tradition and the
Fairy History in Britain.
In assessing numerous Irish, Welsh and Scottish legendary figures
and events; and comparing them with those on the continent, our
aesthetic appreciation of the richness of our own fairy culture is
deepened in hue and in the clarity of its outlines.
In the depths of forest fastnesses, Odin the Ring Lord and the
twelve Valkyies reflected the myths of Robin Goodfellow and his
twelve witches. Odin’s or Wotan’s hall of heroes in that deep dark
forest mimicks the refuge of Robin and his valiant outlaws with
their own Val-Halla or Wal-Halla, their own Hall of Trees, set deep
in the heart of the Greenwood of Merrie England.
In a 12th century manuscript Odin is described as a trinity. Despite
the possible christian influence upon the writer, the god actually
does appear to have been a late tripartite, composite figure. More
likely however is that Odin, a Prince Priest representing a
bipartite deity, had his own attributes added, by chroniclers or
devotees, at a later date to form a trinity.
In this sense, the actual name of the high priest incarnating the
god, or manipulating the creative force, was eventually attributed
to the god or force itselt, whose name was then forgotten, if it had
one in the first place.
In this way, behind Odin, Wotan, Herne, Jesus, Robin and a host of
other gods, there may simply be one god or force with many aspects,
represented by a different named or titled priest or priestess in
different regions. In all other respects, the priests were all the
same kind of people performing the same ritual function, arising
from the same bifurcated cultural roots.
The first two aspects of Odin the "god" were
Frey, who appeared
during the early hunter-gatherer period and Thor, who found
popularity at a transitional period between pastoralism and
agriculture, something that the Celts were accomplished at, but
their overlords the Danaan king tribe, the Scythian fairies, could
never master. Odin’s particular areas of influence came to include
the forces of Sorcery and War, which might have reflected a move
towards the Raid or Trade practices common amongst earlier Scythian
and later Scandinavian peoples.
Oddly enough Odin, at one stage in his career, was also called upon
as a god of mortal love, probably because of the Wild
Hunt and the quasi-sexual practices within Royal Vampiric Ritual.
Though as a guardian of Portals and a psychopomp he is identified
with Mercury, or Hermes in the Greek Pantheon, both
of whom were messengers of the gods and, like Robin and St.
Nicholas, were also the patrons of thieves.
Whilst the Nordic Taranis, Thor, is thought to compare with
Zeus-Dispater or Jehovah, Frey is identified with
Diana’s brother
Apollo. Some confusion exists over who came first, Odin or Thor,
with some commentators asserting that Thor was the son of Odin.
By studying his function and identity in other cultures, it is easy
to see that Odin started out not as a god, but as a priest-prince,
performing exactly the same mediatory function as any other Scythian
intermediary priest from whatever branch of the greater Dragon Tuadhe.
As an aside, Tuadhe is pronounced Teetha or Tootha, meaning an
Overtribe or nation. In this it is easy to see that the Dragon’s
Teeth, sown by Cadinus against Jason and the Argonauts, represented
Scythian warriors of the Dragon Tuadhe or nation. In the fable The
teeth, a play on words, which were sown in the sand, rose up as
skeletal soldiers, reminiscent of the grey blue, blood drinking
ghost warriors of the Scythian north.
In the mediatory sense, Odin’s story is no different to that of
Dracula or in fact Christ, who also acted as a priestly, human
intercessor, only to become identified with the Cosmic force, whilst
his close associate, Prince Vlad IV, also became deified in popular
folklore, as the Prince of Darkness, Satan himself.
The Wild hunt appears in vampire lore and the association of the
Valkyries with functions other than attending the fallen in baffle,
suggests that they were not necessarily Valkyria in the limited
sense, but that they also had an earlier role in the mystical
rituals of the northern tribes.
The first syllable - Val, which scholars appear to associate with
the Roman ’Vallar’, a wreath given to victors, may be an
erroneous laicization which, if that is the case, would lead us back into the
deep dark forest - as Val or Wal, in the language from which the
word Valkyrie originally comes, is related not to heroism, but to
Wald or Wold.
In respect to the second part of the word - Kyrie - which seems
related to the word Keuz -’To Choose’, we have a number of related
themes associated with the given meaning. Of some of them, ’pick’,
’select’ and particularly ’hunt’ do not seem entirely inappropriate.
The traditional task of the Valkyries apparently, was to choose
selected fallen warriors from the battlefield. These they would
conduct to Valhalla where these heroes and Odin would feast
together, so it was later taught.
It will be remembered that an earlier manifestation of Odin was
Frey
and it has been suggested that Valhalla was once the Hall of Frey
and his sisterbride Freja. The specially selected warriors whom the
Valkyries took to Valhalla were once intended, so it is said in
older traditions, to become repast for this particular Goddess, who
fed on their souls. "We would be delighted to have you for dinner"
might not have necessarily been an invitation to accept hospitality.
We will remember that in Celtic battles the Morrigans administered
the coup de grace, they dispatched the fallen by drinking their
blood and decapitating them. If we Latinize the word Valkyrie
completely we obtain Val meaning victor, and
Kyrie which is related
to mercy and this combined forms the basis of the idea behind the
coup de grace.
We may further recollect that the purpose behind this was based on
the idea that the spirit of a person whose body had been thus
mutilated, was bound to this plane of existence. Doubtless the
Morganas gave these heads to their tribal chieftains who had also
drunk blood and hunted for heads themselves, which they had then, as Tacitus attests, either nailed to the lintels and posts of their own
Val Halla’s, or had kept lovingly preserved, in display chests.
By doing this they added the spirit and strength of the fallen
warrior to their own both via the blood consumed on the field of
conflict, and by later consuming the soul from the head. These
corrupted late practices fall into the category of martial
vampirism, whichever way you dress it up.
There is nothing in my mind to suggest that the Valkyries played any
different a part in Nordic or Gothic lore than the Morganas did in
Celtic tradition; and it seems highly likely that Valhalla was a
forest Temple, though originally little different to a Scythian
chieftain’s hall nevertheless.
Close to the Grecian Lamia was the figure of the dragon tailed woman
Medusa, whose hair was a mass of writhing serpents. Both presaging
Melusine, the serpentine Lamia gave her name to a class of female
vampire in Romania whilst the Medusa’s hair was reminiscent of the
wild flailing elf locks or dreadlocks of the Morganas or
Morrigans
which, a short way off; looked like a head of slithering snakes as,
in a frenzy of lust, the Morganas or Valkyries bled the dying and
took their heads to the Halls of Feasting.
Here the souls of the fallen, imprisoned in their skulls, were kept
to feed the body and spirit of the early God-King Frey, whose priest
was once Odin; and the Goddess Queen Freja, whose priestesses were
once the Valkyries.
The activities of the Valkyries were not just restricted to the
battlefield. In the Wild Hunt, accompanying Odin, they would hunt
for their own kind, Elf Women to feed on, and in so doing, fed the
god and goddess they incarnated. The Wild Hunt is similar to the
Dyonisia of Greece and the Bacchanalia of Rome.
Thus the Val-Kyrie was a northern Bacchante, a
Forest Hunter, and
Odin was the Bacchus or Dionysus, the Forest Lord of the North. This
practice however, wouldn’t necessarily be murderous, but would have
comprised the corpus of the tradition of Royal Vampirism, which
formed the basis of later witch tradition in the noble covens of
Britain, where Herne and Robin conducted the Wild Hunt themselves
with the witches, with joyous hearts and mirthful songs.
At this kind of Sabbat, records of which exist from 17th century
Scottish accounts, the Noble Witches fed their Lord on their own
blood and it must be suspected that this ritual is a leftover from a
time when both the Valkyries and the Morganas fulfilled the same
function, by filling themselves with blood.
After the Wild Hunt or the battle perhaps they took it back with
them so to speak, where its spirit and vitality was let from their
own veins to feed the Odin, the god-king in Valhalla, the Temple of
the Greenwood and the Forest Groves.
Odin was later known as the ’Sky Father’ and is reminiscent of
Anu
whilst Thor identifies with Enlil; and Frey shuts similarities with
Enki. Here we have a late arid perhaps confused dualistic triad
which, comprising of two figures and a mediator, compares with the
original pattern that first set the trend for the whole Dragon
Tradition. By looking at the various triads through history, it is
possible to construct an apostolic succession of mythic
gods-incarnate (High Priest-Kings) with a close descent
Dualism and Christianity
The various triads related to Monarchic Dualism include:
Odin Merlin Oberon Herne
A A A A
Frey Thor Arthur Lancelot Robin Little John Robin Tuck
Arawn Kether Brahma Jehovah
A A A A
Pwyll Hafdan Chokmah Binah Vishnu Shiva Christ Satan
Ra Isaac Joseph Aubrey
A A A A
Osiris Set Jacob Esau Jesus James Robert John
Lucifer Anu Zirvan Chronos
A A A A
Jesus Jehovah Enlil Enki Ormiad Ahriman Prometheus Zeus
The Figures:
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Anu, Kether,
Brahma = Mediation, Balance
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Zirvan, Chronos, Lucifer, Odin, Merlin, Oberon, Herne, Arawn, Jehovah, Ra, Isaac, Joseph, Aubrey = Space-time, Potential
The Figures:
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Enki, Ormuzd, Prometheus, Jesus, Frey, Arthur, Robin, Pwyll, Chokmah, Vishnu, Christ, Osiris, Esau, Jesus, Robert = Light, Kinesis, Expansion, Expression, Fire, Heat, Yes
The Figures:
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Enlil, Ahriman, Zeus, Jehovah, Thor, Lancelot, Little John, Tuck, Hafdan, Binah, Shiva, Satan, Set, Jacob, James, John = Dark, Stasis, Contraction, Definition, Ice, Cold, No.
In the tradition associated with all of the foregoing examples bar
one, the figures represent complementary forces that work together
to produce the manifestation of Life. There being no such process as
destruction, the apparently opposed forces work both in conflict and
in harmony to produce change. In both are elements of the other,
represented in the yin and yang symbol.
In the objective observation of these Processes of expansion and
contraction we see movement and define this as Space-Time, a
phenomena which arises from the dynamic interplay of forces, but
also provides the setting or potential for their relationship to
each other. In the mediatory sense both forces emanate from the one
potential or balancing force, whilst the extent of the activity of
either force is determined by the mass or extent of the potential
itself
Ultimately the forces are impersonal and are beyond moral
hypothesis. This being the case, in order to make them
understandable and accessible, numerous esoteric philosophical
expressions have been publicized in exoteric forms that were
intended to enable people to get to grips with a few of the profound
ideas being expressed.
Invariably the people, over the course of history, have responded by
turning these ideas into "gods" and, instead of trying to understand
them, they have anthropomorphized them and elected priests, whom
they also later deified, to assist in their worship. Buddhism is an
ideal example of this process. The Buddha Siddinarta, a
royal brahmin, stated emphatically that there were no gods,
only forces;
so people turned Buddha into a god and worshipped him instead.
In the case of dualism, and in this last example, that of Catholic
Christianity, the people have relatively recently decided, aided
and abetted by unscrupulous christian priests, that the two opposing
forces of Light and Dark must be either good or evil, because humans
are, or so they would like us to think. Having had the forces
anthropomorphized, it seems inconceivable that they could exist
without some moral imperative and hence some kind of motive or
raison d’etre.
The moral quality of either force seems governed by the consensus of
religiously guided popular preference reinforced by propaganda.
Likewise the expansion potential of either force in christianity is
governed, not by natural law, but by the projected mass personal
ambition or desire of the body of believers, that being for ease and
security always. Which isn’t how the universe works, so the priests
have modified people’s expectations by turning the forces of
darkness into the arch enemies of the forces of light, meaning that
people can’t always expect to be sat on the gravy train, because
nasty old Satan, the enemy of all that is Good and Godly, is forever
trying to upset the boat.
However, the priests have assured the
righteously expectant that the God of Light, Jehovah, is ultimately
all powerful and will defeat evil in the end. In which case, if this
were true and there were such things as good and evil as morally
motivated forces, as soon as the force of containment and
definition, the dark force of so called evil - the big nasty NO - is
finally vanquished by the Great and Good God of Light - the
impetuous rampant YES - then the entire universe as we know it would
expand and express itself without limit and without definition.
Indeed if "God" were more powerful than "Satan" this would happen
anyway and we would simply vanish in a puff of indefinability.
From the point of view of a religion based on motivation, in this
case Fear, there is no point in saying that the forces are balanced,
because balance implies that there is ideologically nothing to fight
for.
If both forces define parameters and are in balance, then both are
essential to the maintenance of life, and if this is the case, then
neither can be sinful, and without sin, you don’t have a hook into
the people or a big stick to beat them with.
The essential elements in the success of late christianity, as a way
for a lazy minority to take control of a majority and their material
resources with the least amount of effort, are fear and confusion.
In a sense the way was already paved for ecclesiastical exploitation
because sadly the majority of people are also either inherently lazy
themselves or neurochemically inept and won’t or can’t think for
themselves.
This generally being the case, and if it weren’t there wouldn’t be
any politicians, understandably most folk just want to get on with
their immediate lives and attend to the upkeep of their comfort
zones, then the most they expect from religion, if anything, is to
be assured that things can’t or won’t get any worse.
They welcome leaders, religious or otherwise, as a way of fobbing
off the decision making process onto someone else. Arising from
their ranks in about 300 AD there emerged in response, an equally
inept and slothful group of freeloaders who saw an opportunity to
get as much out of life as they could, for the least amount of
personal effort, by virtue of the inbuilt incapacity or lethargy
endemic within the population as a whole.
Because they were secure in the knowledge that the majority of
people weren’t interested enough to figure out that they, the self
appointed divines, were pulling a fast one, these early christian
priests modified the philosophy of dualism to make it imbalanced and
introduced the Gentile population to the concept of Mortal Sin, the
Prince of Ultimate Evil and the surety of eternal suffering and
damnation.
It is quite possible that many of them actually came to believe this
themselves. This created a gap in the market, a gap characterized by
new fears which, surprisingly enough, the parvenu priesthood of the
nascent, exoteric form of the christian faith had the power to
assuage, at a price.
This example of exoteric dualism with conscious, motivated forces,
in the form of gods as anthropomorphizations of universal
principles, owes its emergence to the same inherent laziness,
indifference or incapacity of mind which is responsible for the
decline of factual ancient history into the realm of myth.
Writing in 300 BC Euhermerus pointed out that the ancient gods and
goddesses were originally great men and women of renown who had
undergone the process of deification, which is shorthand for the
process whereby a people forget the original plot and the finer
detail of the stories from their past. This process, in which whole
chunks of heritage are disregarded for one reason or another and
have to be best- guessed by later generations, is called
myth-making.
The ancient gods and goddesses were flesh and blood beings and the
word ’god’ had altogether different connotations than the one it has
now. In those ancient times the ’gods’, essentially the priest-kings
and priestess-queens of the people, were responsible for a variety
of functions, not less that of being the shepherds and teachers of
their client tribes. In this capacity the ’gods’ performed plays or
rituals in which they were expected to be the incarnate
representatives of the forces they depicted in the rites they
enacted for the edification or blessing of the people.
In the passage of time and in the absence of that standard of oral
teaching that ensured that right up to the last millennium the
Druids
still didn’t worship "Gods", many other races came to believe that
the priest-kings and priestess queens who incarnated the universal
forces were in fact those forces themselves.
The net result of this process of forgetfulness being that the
impersonal forces of the Cosmos and the elemental animistic,
pantheistic forces of client tribes, took on the everyday
characteristics of the priest-kings and priestess-queens.
They in turn became deified and secondarily associated with lower,
animistic elementals because they had become identified with the
forces they represented in a ritual context. This would have tended
to occur amongst the laity particularly where these forces or
elementals were being perceived in relation to the priesthood, as a
result of the use of physiological, hallucinogenic drugs during
ceremonies, for example.
Where the ancient, gnostic, Hermetic philosophy of dualism is
concerned, this has generally become identified with the slightly
later Cult of the Twin, precisely because of this mythic process.
Whilst the fairy kings and queens have become associated with the
dryads, sylphs and undines commonly associated with drug induced
states and vice versa.
The primal dual forces of increase and decrease became confused with
two ancient brothers, Enki and Enlil. One was a genial and amicable
fellow who favored man, whilst the other detested human beings
altogether. Both were God-Kings of the sort hereto described.
The friendly, helpful one - Enki, by a process of human projection,
became associated with the force of increase and "Good" as one would
expect given human nature, whilst the other Enlil, became hated and
feared, ultimately to be likened to the force of decrease and
"Evil". whilst the family and descendants of the two brothers
remained aware of the fact that these two boys were not Cosmic
Forces in themselves, other tribes and their descendants, on the
other hand, developed, continued with and embellished upon the anthropomorphization.
These two brothers had a domestic squabble one day and as a
consequence of this, several thousand years later, the Cosmos is
described as being divided into two conflicting sections, one "Good"
and one "Evil", according to ones tastes and expectations. Early on
the two brothers had attracted two factions, each one demonizing the
other.
The stronger, or it might be said the more fearful faction won the
day and the so-called "Evil" brother, by this time a
Cosmic Force,
had been cast in the role of the God of Light, whilst the other,
originally the nice helpful one, became in the minds of millions,
the epitome of moral destitution and desolation.
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The faction that thought Enki was a decent fellow were known as
gnostics and some of them believed he was a transcendent
God.
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The
factions that called Enki Satan and cast his misanthropic brother in
the role of the transcendent God
Jehovah, the God of Light were
known as Jews and Catholics.
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The faction that knew
Enki was a
granddad of theirs and not a God were called Druids and
Witches,
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The faction that knew that
Enki’s grandson Jesus was a granddad of theirs and wasn’t a god either, were called
Celtic
Christians, Cathars, Albigensians and Witches.
Typical also of human nature, other than going after the main chance
and the easy option, is to dislike being in error or backing the
wrong horse. People want to be associated with winners and in
pursuit of this aim it became necessary for one of these lately
superannuated characters to become the stronger, ultimately
victorious one. They also want scapegoats.
The only people who seemed particularly bothered by this were the
Jews and later the orthodox christians, with their deliberately
imbalanced interpretation of early christian doctrine. By a twist of
fate the doctrinal perversion gained imperial sanction, for
political expediency as much as anything else, and its somewhat
pedestrian, grossly manipulative and opportunistic view of life
became widely adopted, aided greatly by fire, the sword, threats of
torture; and torture and death itself
Railing against such a view were the Manicheans, the Arians, the
Nestorians and numerous other pre-Nicacan christians for whom
Jesus,
like Enki, with whom they identified Jesus, was not a god and nor
was he the son of God. In the fullness of time however this
inconvenient opposition was dealt with in the manner to which we
have become accustomed, where the Catholics are concerned.
As a result the legacy of their religious ambition has left us with
a lopsided form of monarchic dualism where Jehovah is
God, Jesus is
the Light and the reversed Satan or Enki, rather than being the
essential facility of restraint, is instead the quintessential
manifestation of absolute evil.
In christianity there can be no reconciliation and no compromise.
The cult of Joy from Death has become the cult of the Fear of Death;
and Satan, the weaker enemy of all that is "Good" will finally be
crushed and obliterated at the end of time. The earlier forms of
dualism, some represented in the other foregoing examples, even
though sometimes they might have confused the issue and gone in for
a bit of deification, generally understood Cosmic reciprocity and
unity. For them each aspect of the Cosmos was related and reconciled
with the other, forming an eternal and infinite whole.
Christianity however, stands alone in demanding that mankind believe
in two unequal, bitter enemies who are not part of each other and do
not work together or compliment each other. Supposedly therefore, as
"God" is separate from his creation, so also is he separate from the Dark Side for whose creation, by their christian logic, being the
superior being, he is ultimately responsible nevertheless.
Not only is such an attitude cowardly and irresponsible, for God’s
minions deflect any blame for "evil" from their Master to another
unattached, intentionally wicked entity and to those people who are
weak enough to succumb to its temptations, but furthermore this
attitude creates a religious mentality that is riddled with fear,
bitterness and multiplicity. The truly sinister aspect of this whole
situation however, is that the irresponsible and cowardly, divisive
and paranoid, self-hating spirit of corruption which rests at the
heart of christianity, does so with the express intention of its
hierarchy, who are further committed to ensure that it remain there
permanently. Without it, people cannot be controlled and without
social control, the Catholic priesthood loses its free ride on the
gravy train.
In Mithras we have an example of symbolic conflict in dualism which
intends that in the destruction of one principle by another, the two
may be united and together transcend. The same dynamic is found in
the story of Morgan Ia Fey and Holger Dansk and the whole point
about dualism on the personal level is not one of exacerbating
strife or perpetuating violence, as it is in post-Nicaean
christianity, but of healing it and going beyond the very elements
of human perception that cause it in the first place.
In this
respect the dualism of the Draconian Fairy culture and all its
collateral branches demonstrates a far earlier origin than that of
modern imbalanced, post imperial christian dualism. In tracing a
line of blood descent for the Fairy Race, we also trace a line of
apostolic succession for its original Magean, dualist
prince-priesthood, a line with many collateral family branches.
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