Mythology and Paganism
The Mythological Victim as the God Soma according to the Rig Veda.
The God, King Soma, was personified as the Plant of Immortality, which in turn was equated in the Rig Vedic hymns (I am using the Ralph Griffith 1896 translation) with the mythical World Tree (Footnote: Axis-Mundi) that upheld the sky, like a cosmic temple […]
The constellation Hercules (Greek: Herakles) can be compared to the poetic and prophetic revelation of a saviour-to-come, as found in the book of Genesis (Footnote: Genesis Protevangelium).
Herakles and the Proto-Gospel
Herakles, as we have seen is the mythological victim of the Greek Protovangelium, that corresponds with the second clause of the Protevangelium.
he will crush your […]
In the myth of Okuninushi, the theme of the eighty brothers who are motivated by jealously and conspire to kill Okuninushi has it’s parallels in a number of corresponding myths.
The Murder of Okuninushi
According to the Japanese ‘Izumo Cycle’, the hero Okuninushi had 80 brothers who were jealous of his marriage to the princess Ya-gami-himi, and […]
The slaying of Medusa, the cutting off of her head, mythologically re-enacts the primordial event of death, and the simultaneous creation of the temporal universe, from within the threshold of Death and Life.
Medusa and her two sisters, Euryale and Sthenno, were known as the Gorgons, and are the goddess in triple aspect. Medusa’s head of […]
An Egyptian magical text, that functioned as a remedy for snakebite (dating to about 1200 B.C), concerns the goddess Isis and how she obtained the hidden name of Ra.
Isis, dissatisfied with the realm of mankind, desired to dwell among the gods. The elderly Ra, the self-created creator of everything, would regularly walk between the […]
Before the universe existed there were three Emperors.
Emperor Shu of the southern Ocean, Hu the Emperor of the Northern Ocean, and in the centre lived Hun dun (Often interpreted to mean ‘Chaos’, but this is uncertain), who showed the two Emperors great kindness and hospitality.
To repay Hun dun for his kindness, the Emperor of […]
Plato’s Cosmic Man
According to Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, the Creator God wanted all things to be like himself and modelled the universe on the eternal.
Using the four elements, earth, water, fire, and air, he created order from chaos using, as his blue print, a perfect and intelligent living being. Creation, according to Plato, […]
Demeter and her daughter Persephone — known as ‘the two goddesses’ — were the prominent deities associated with the famous Eleusinian Mystery cult, celebrated for over a millennium until the end of the 4th century A.D.
“For those who were initiated into the mysteries of Demeter, an identification was made between the resurrection of the new […]
The Phrygian myth concerning the goddess Cybele and Attis…
The myth is cosmological, explaining the creation of the present universe. Like other myths it reveals that in the beginning something separated the created order from it’s source, which should of resulted in it’s total destruction, yet miraculously and paradoxically did not.
The Divine Source within the Cosmos
…begins […]
The hero-victim alone can withstand the wrath-bliss of Eternity, sharing, as he does, the exact same indestructible nature.
And He drove the man out. And he caused to dwell the cherubs at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword whirling around, to guard the way to the Tree of Life. Genesis 3:24 […]
The Place of the Double-Axe
The Place of the Double-Axe, or Labyrinth, was a mythical maze built by Daedalus on the island of Crete to house the Minotaur, the monstrous progeny of Queen Pasiphae and the bull (tauros) of King Minos.
“The place of the double-axe was the threshold period when the moon appeared to be […]
The Foot/Heel Wound
In Greek myth, the hero Philoctetes was bitten on the foot by a snake, or as another account records, he accidentally wounded himself, when one of his poisoned arrows (which once belonged to Herakles) accidentally slipped from his quiver. The injury remained incurable until a son of Asklepios put Philoctetes into a deep […]
The Sumerian king list, that can be reconstructed though a number of cuneiform tablets (the earliest dating back to the early 3rd Millennium BC), list’s a total of 8 kings before the universal flood. Some tablets bring the number of pre-flood Kings up to ten, including the Sumerian Noah Ziusudra, who Berossus, whose list dates […]
Long ago, Sun lived on the island of Mofia, and spent his time weaving rugs, as gifts for all the people.
Sun warned them, however, to never make rugs for themselves, but to always come to him, because no one could make them better than he could. Three sisters ignored the wishes of Sun, and […]
According to the Japanese Izumo Cycle, the hero Okuninushi had 80 brothers who were jealous of his marriage to the princess Ya-gami-himi, and so, plotted to kill him.
After telling Okuninushi to help them hunt a huge boar, they heated a large rock and pushed it down a mountainside to wards their brother below. Thinking […]
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