The Ancient Snake Goddess ~ Condemned, Suppressed, yet Now Rising in the Great Return of the Divine Feminine

I am here,
and have always been.

I rise now,
quickly,
as the ecstatic consciousness
of humanity’s body,

and in you,
as you,
inasmuch as you
welcome my return.

I rise from the underworld,
from the still primeval seas
of life’s holy black womb,
so you may as well,
the sexual, serpentine being you are,

of dark and light,
a field of mysterious life
that dissolves
and rebirths anew,

endlessly spiralling you
into greater dimensions
of the Goddess,
the pure Love,
you are.

What we deny within we may find ourselves making enemies of in the world. Our hungry shadows are cast forth, projected onto others. “They are the demons!” we exclaim, as we artificially raise ourselves high and mighty, preaching from false light. 

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“The main theme of Goddess symbolism is the mystery of birth and death and the renewal of life, not only human but all life on earth and indeed in the whole cosmos. Symbols and images cluster around the parthenogenetic (self-generating) Goddess and her basic functions as Giver of Life, Wielder of Death, and, not less importantly, as Regeneratrix, and around the Earth Mother, the Fertility Goddess young and old, rising and dying with plant life. She was the single source of all life who took her energy from the springs and wells, from the sun, moon and moist earth. This symbolic system represents cyclical, not linear, mythical time. In art this is manifested by the signs of dynamic motion: whirling and twisting spirals, winding and coiling snakes, circles, crescents, horns, sprouting seeds and shoots.” ~ Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), leading archeologist of the ancient Goddess; from her book The Language of the Goddesses

During my countless hours of research on a wide variety of subject matter, one of the most important and illuminating discoveries I made is just how often the Goddess was associated with Snake in the ancient world. Revered in sacred shrines, figurines, pictorial paintings, and devout hearts, the Snake Goddess imbued religious cultures and mythologies throughout the planet, many we’ll explore in this writing. 

With this discovery I also found that within these tribes and regions women were equal to men, if not of higher status. Though not hierarchal, they lived in matrilineal cultures (defined shortly), making them Mother cultures in which women were the divine embodiments of the Goddess, to be respected, honoured, if not venerated by men. With women performing the miracle of childbirth, they were seen as sharing in the fertile, mysterious powers of the Mother Goddess who, as Giver of Life, birthed the plants, animals, waters, all the necessities for living. Women were thus held as sacred for the continuity of life, just as Mother Earth was and the Creative Source of life perceived as feminine in nature. 

Taking the lead in these communities was often the initiated female Chief, Queen or High Priestess. In the dark innermost sanctum, or adyta, of their holy places, she communed with the Goddess and brought forth her wisdom, vision and love to the people. Like shamans, they were the bridges between Heaven and Earth, inspiring lives of harmony and sacredness with each other, and with the land, animals, and the seasonal / astrological cycles. Though not perfect, though they had their daily struggles and conflicts, in comparison to the last five thousand years, these Goddess cultures lived in far greater communal peace.

This is supported by archeological evidence in eastern Europe during the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, spanning approximately from 50,000 to 10,000 BCE and from 10,000 to 3500 BCE, respectively. As Gimbutas unequivocally states, there are “no depictions of arms (weapons used against other humans) in Paleolithic cave paintings, nor are there remains of weapons used by man against man during the Neolithic of Old Europe.” (Old Europe, for Gimbutas, is a south/southeastern area roughly ranging from Kiev to Malta to Bulgaria.)  Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, who dedicated their lives to researching the Goddess of western tradition, including the Near East and Egyptian cosmologies, support this conclusion. In their remarkable book The Myth of the Goddess, they assert, “If we hold that human beings are and always have been primarily hunters and warriors, then we are more likely to overlook evidence to the contrary and conclude that war-like aggression is innate. No evidence has been found that Palaeolithic people fought each other.” Other researchers, like Vicki Noble and Victoria LePage, further elucidate a pattern of peace within Mother cultures repeated across the ancient world. 

History shows that when the Goddess is free to shine in the hearts of her people — women, as well as men and children — cooperation, creativity and empowerment, not the oppressive violence we’re accustomed to, define cultures. In her masterful book, The Chalice & The Blade, Riane Eisler writes: “But in societies that conceptualized the supreme power in the universe as a Goddess, revered as the wise and just source of all our material and spiritual gifts, women would tend to internalize a very different self-image. With such a powerful role model they would tend to consider it both their right and their duty to actively participate and to take the lead… (and they) would tend to see themselves as competent, independent, and most certainly creative and inventive.”

A Goddess to look up to and feel in their hearts gave women permission to own the Goddess within. She empowered women to own their regenerative, womb power, their gifts of fertility meant to be expressed rhythmically with the rebirthing cycles of nature. The Goddess empowered women to never forget who they are and their divine purpose as mothers, herbalists, gardeners, shamans, mystics, midwives, artists, lovers, and more. Indeed, with the Goddess beating in their hearts, girls and women could stand tall in their sovereign divinity, equal to boys and men, as sacred creators and embodiments of their Divine Feminine souls.

This has always been the esoteric power and purpose of the Snake Goddess; and it’s why the rising dark, patriarchal powers saw the Snake Goddess and her Mother cultures as a threat, and actively destroyed them. But we will come to this shortly. 

At this point you may be wondering why Snake, in particular, was so important to the Goddess? From the perspective of the physical, it’s one of the oldest creatures on Earth, with some suggesting a presence of 167 million years. Snake has also been one the most abundant animals across our planet. Currently Snakes exist in all but a few countries. If traveling through Iceland, New Zealand, Greenland and Ireland, for example, you will not encounter any of our slithering friends. But in most countries, you might!

Yet there are deeper, mystical reasons for why Snake has so frequently been associated with the Goddess across cultures and time; why it is arguably the most influential animal in defining our legends and cosmological myths, and in guiding our human evolutionary story. 

In essence, Snake represents death and rebirth, and therefore what intelligently and wisely guides evolution and growth. As Goddess of the Underworld, she powerfully embodies dark, fertile, tomb-womb consciousness, the still, primordial place of no-thing that dissolves and renews life. Like a tree that slows its metabolism and withdraws inwardly during the cold winter in order to renew, Snake similarly withdraws during this season to “hibernate,” or brumate to be more accurate. Entering her dim, womb den lends to her mysterious, chthonic instinct to regenerate rhythmically with the larger cycles of Creation. More widely known is the transformative shedding of Snake’s skin. Reflecting the releasing of the uterine lining during menstruation, in this sacrifice we see the mystical dying of the old, what no longer serves evolutionary growth.

In both examples — brumation and skin-shedding — Snake is our wayshower of dying to the Unknown in humble, shadowy spaces. Snake invites us to heroically give ourselves to our dissolving, dark night of the soul, to still, black tomb-womb consciousness, where we experience ourselves as neither here, nor there. This is our sacrifice for the sacred, a courageous, mystical death that makes space for new dimensions of life, inside and out. (In fact, our skin renews itself every 28 days. Dead cells are continuously shed, about 30,000 to 40,000 every minute, or about 9 lbs. per year.)

Snake is the waning moon Goddess before her waxing into glorious light. She is the dying plant that gives her seeds to the earth and the flowering of colourful innocence. Snake is wild, dark Mystery, the untamed primeval seas of our Cosmic Soul, that initiate us not only into the humble vulnerabilities of darkness and dying, but into realizing how beautifully and necessarily death feeds life. 

Turning towards the Snake Goddess and her life-giving ways, we feel how death and rebirth are not separate at all, but one continuous, fluid life expression, the life we are. Awakening this wisdom through stages of evolution and maturity, we come of new age, down, deeper into our bodies, into the fertile, chthonic underworld, where Snakes are at home, while rising into spiralling circles of ever-expanding creation.

The ancient Snake Goddess is thus our great teacher and initiator into dark Divine Feminine wisdom; the rebirthing, womb wisdom that initiated aspirants in the ancient Mystery Schools of Egypt, Greece (Eleusis), India, Tibet, Britain, and elsewhere. The Snake Goddess initiates us into surrendering to the rhythms of creation and destruction, rising and falling, such that we honour and celebrate life as eternal and ever-renewing; as beautiful, even, if not especially, in dying days when the veil separating us from the shimmering Otherworld thins and we humbly open to the dawn of transformative light.

We live more like the pagan cultures of old that honoured the rhythmic, undulating Snake Goddess and her womb wisdom, often under still, silver moonlight or in the darkness of caves. Land-lovers who ecstatically danced with the movements of animals, moon, sun and stars, with the glistening ripples on their sacred springs, with the changing seasons, the fall, decay and rise of life; a sacred dance that honoured their inseparability from the death-rebirth cycles of Mother Nature, and the Snake Goddess who represented this timeless continuum of creation.  

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Pagan comes from the Latin “pagani,” which means “of the land.” It also derives from “paganus,” or “peasant.” Pagans were peasant people of the “uncultivated land,” or “heath.” They were wild! For this reason, Christians called them idol-worshipping, uncivilized “heathens,” which was both an attack on their way of being, and on Mother Earth, with earthbodies seen as evil. (“Civilized” comes from the Latin “civitatem,” meaning “city.”) “The heathen who contumaciously reject Christ are already judged and condemned,” wrote St. Thomas Aquinas, referring to John 3:18 and Mark 16:16.

We now segue to the next rabbit hole I tumbled down into (or further down to be more exact; and perhaps I should call it a Snake hole!): the cascade of implications that come when Goddess cultures are usurped by rising patriarchal religion; a consciousness that diametrically opposes the spiritual, feminine and chthonic foundations of the Snake Goddess, and her serpentine sexual energy. For the next few minutes, in a serpentine, winding way, this historic context must be established before furthering our understanding of the ancient Snake Goddess. Shortly, in rich detail, we’ll uncover her many emanations across a wide variety of cultures spanning the world; but first we must dive into the painful shadows of history leading us to present day.

The cultural shift away from the Goddess and into the dark patriarchy began about 5,000 years ago. Taking place in regions like Europe and the Near East, this transformation in consciousness drastically altered identity, perception, and systems of political and religious authority, as well as family. Rights of title, land and property inheritance descending, for centuries, through the matrilineal line were replaced by patrilineal ownership, with all rights passed down to a line of sons (making males the desired gender of a man’s offspring). The daughter succeeding and choosing her husband, the next chieftain or king most worthy, was no more. Rather than women inheriting land and property, they and their daughters became the legal property of husbands and fathers (Deuteronomy 22:13-21 & 28-29). Indeed, gradually, if not quickly, relationships between man and woman, parent and child, with one’s soul or divinity, and with Mother Earth, were lost to dogmas of androcentrism, fear, morality, violence and separation. To inversions of everything that is sacred, loving and true. 

To understand this dramatic shift into a dark age, we must understand the nature of the demonic forces that exist on this planet in incarnate form and as disincarnate entities ruling from unseen dimensions. Researchers and mystics have a variety of names for these inter-dimensional beings: Annunaki, Nordics, Greys, Insectoids, Draco Reptilians, and Elohim, which means “the Shining or Powerful Ones.” These are the most common categories. There has certainly been more than one kind of dark race controlling this planet for millennia. To make things simple, I call them the dark or demonic forces, with some looking reptile-like, tail, scales, and so forth. It is these forces, in their disincarnate and incarnate forms, that are ultimately behind the global child rape trafficking enterprise used to blackmail the billionaire and political classes, as well as the Covid plandemic and related geoengineering and transhumanist/AI agendas. And so much more!

In my free ebook I’ve written extensively about them, primarily contextualizing their paradoxical role in today’s global chaos, our great, laborious rebirth. However, to further summarize, the dark forces are anti-life, anti-human, anti-nature and anti-Truth in every sense. They believe that, through their ancient bloodlines, it is their “divine (satanic) right” to own this planet and to own you and I. Completely void of compassion, the very definition of psychopathy, they see us all as their loathsome slaves to use, abuse and discard. We are simply chattel or serfs to them, “vermin” as one ex-Freemason said. We are “useless eaters” and a useful workforce they laugh at regularly while sipping their $50,000 bottles of wine in their citadels. 

These ruthless, yet highly clever demons are nothing like you and I; and it’s important to remember this so we can grapple with the extraordinary scale of their evil. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, an absolute monster, is reported to have said, “If the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.” Though inseparable from the light, our feudal overlords dwell in the shadows of all that is of the Goddess, eternally resistant to and rebellious against her life-giving ways, the heart womb of the Divine Feminine Soul, as well as the Divine Masculine inherent to all, irrespective of gender.

From both their disincarnate and incarnate states, they have always sought to rule others by infiltrating their minds and moulding them into their own likeness. They masterfully deceive and manipulate to turn us against ourselves, our innate goodness and hearts, and each other. This programming is encoded in Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” We are to disobey the heart, except when obeying Yahweh: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways submit to him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6). 

By betraying our inner light and heartfelt truth, not only are we prone to being enslaved to a satanic consciousness of domination and control — a consciousness that is without and within, for we carry all potentials — but we’re prone to being unwitting and witting servants to it. Evil, which is live spelt backwards, lords over us, as we bow in fear. 

One of their most effective strategies of mind control has been to attack, oppress, misappropriate and invert the religions of old — the Goddess religions; and to superimpose tyrannical male gods who proudly rule through fear, punishment, misogyny, abuse and war. Female deities are demoted or cast out altogether, as the new patriarchal hierarchy and moral order reshapes human consciousness; not only through scripture, but a religious gestalt repeatedly portrayed in art, plays, architecture, stories and general literature, permeating and molding minds century after century.

The feminine is now, at best, an angelic helper to the male god, reflecting the designated subservient status and role of women in relation to men over the last few millennia. God rules from far above, with no wife (in the Abrahamic religions), no loving Goddess whispering ancient womb wisdom from his side. “Woman was merely man’s helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone,” said Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Regius (354 — 430 CE). “She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.” 

Vicariously through their fictional god and via their carefully crafted doctrine, the ruling dark forces — historically only men — act as self-appointed divine representatives of their deity: kings, emperors, popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and so on. They do so while communicating to the masses, particularly women, only they have direct access to god. They are closer to him in the divine hierarchy, much like how husbands, bearing male-god’s image, are closer to god in the family hierarchy. Granting themselves supreme authority as intermediaries to Jesus/god, redemptive power is centralized in the church. The self-appointed declare themselves as the “gatekeepers to heaven,” the singular passage through which one can be saved and avoid eternal damnation. 

This is the complete inversion of spiritual rebirth via the Snake Goddess; it’s an inversion of her decentralized, ancient womb consciousness inherent to each of us as living fractals of Creation. It’s a deliberate undermining of the Goddess who rebirths us through the cycles of Creation, in the garden, sacred waters and womb spaces of Gaia, and through our miraculous temple bodies — the real Church of Christ! A fictitious male deity, via celibate male proxies in stale churches distanced from Mother Nature, usurps the role of rebirther traditionally given to the Divine Feminine innate to all. 

This distortion and fabrication gained influence with the deliberate veiling and perversion of prominent female spiritual figures, like Ishtar, the Babylonian Snake Goddess who’ll we explore later, and Mary Magdalene. Far from a sinful whore, Mary was Jesus‘s equal, a luminous, initiated master and Seraphic Goddess in her own right. As full embodiments of Serpentine consciousness, they co-led their ministry of healing and empowerment, death and rebirth, to throngs of hungry souls in Palestine. Yet, in the centuries following Jesus’s death, Mary was demoted and demonized: “And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils…” (Luke 8:2).

By portraying Mary as a sinful, wretched women and as Jesus’s penitent disciple, what was the sacred marriage between the archetypal God and Goddess was ruptured and hidden for 2,000 years. Jesus was portrayed without a beloved, just like his Father in Heaven, and Mary took on the lowly image of Eve, forced upon women thereafter. A divine image of man and woman being equal, in love and service to humanity, could not flower into the collective psyche. And so it was that his-story, this enormous, devilish lie, was necessary to uphold a monotheistic religion in which a male god is supreme above all.  

Losing ourselves to fictional, patriarchal religion, void of the passions of intimate union, we separate from our flesh, our feminine sexual essence, an essence love and compassion, and from the Soul and flesh of the Earth. We abandon the natural rhythms of death and rebirth, guided by the body and soul, the celestial spheres, Gaia and the Goddess. Instead, we settle for illusions of being “born again” through the mighty male religion, or for rising to the top in a hyper-materialized world in which nothing is ever enough. Avoiding our spiritual death, a death that feeds life, a death that roots us down and in, we become disempowered, making us prone to hand power over to the terrifying war god “On High” and his male priesthood.

This is exactly what the dark forces wanted when they first colonized our planet and gradually drove us from the lush, open countryside into fortified cities. Away from the whispers of the Goddess heard in rivers and owls, trees and grass, we became easier to control (which is why, today, our overlords are at war with nature and actively attempting to herd us into megacities or “Smart” cities). Using successive campaigns of terror and manipulation, their power only grew with time. They ruled through the imperious making of god in the image and likeness of their demonic selves, while concealing the true nature of the Feminine Mysteries we once lived by. 

“I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled in destruction. You will be fuel for the fire, and your blood will be spilled in your own land. You will be utterly wiped out, your memory lost to history, for I, the LORD, have spoken!” (Ezekiel 21:31-32)

The more we lose ourselves to the manipulative games of the dark forces, and the more we entrust ourselves to a violent, yet “all loving and forgiving” fictional god, the veil thickens (also in evil / live), and the knowing heart clouds over. We disconnect from our loving conscience, the truth of our sovereign divinity. We forget the ancient traditions and womb wisdom of the Snake Goddess woven in Mother cultures the world over, and we identify with a demonic mythos that prioritizes violent control and superficial “salvation” over death and rebirth.  

Our identification with gods of violence and oppression, not the Snake Goddess of Love, and calibrating vibrationally to our overlords’ frequency of terror, versus our primordial heart womb frequency, is the fundamental goal of the dark forces. Remember, we are frequency beings; and being steeped in occult knowledge, they know this. They eternally seek to veil us from our sovereign divinity, and have us vibrationally resonate with their political-religious-militant systems and ideologies; their impoverished consciousness that scares us into submission or attack (emotional, mental, physical). With resonant identification, abuse and oppression — war consciousness — are rationalized, justified, sanctified, even glorified. We lose sight of what Marija Gimbutas alerted us to while uncovering the sacredness of our lost Goddess past: “It is a gross misunderstanding to imagine warfare as endemic to the human condition.” Violence is not natural to who we are, just as it’s never been to the Motherly Goddess. But our overlords want us to believe the opposite is true: that we and natural life itself are inherently violent. Their dominion depends on this illusion.   

In resonantly identifying with evil, we, without question — because questioning god is a sin — accept the intentional weaponization of “god’s Word.” With cognitive dissonance, blind servitude, or a form of Stockholm Syndrome, we tolerate the intolerable, the abuse of self and other, even our children. Our unresolved pain and poor self-worth (eg: “I’m inherently flawed / sinful”), our unhealed fears, hatred, and unchecked anger, spanning lifetimes, resonate with their demonic consciousness of abuse and insanity. And the dark forces, being astute psychologists and master manipulators, know this. With planning and precision, and through the media channels they control (including music and Hollywood), they cleverly trigger, amplify, and leverage collective wounding and us-versus-them consciousness to their advantage. 

Cruelty and insanity ensue and become normal, if not encouraged, institutionalized at home and work, in entertainment, “education,” sports, “health/medicine,” politics, law, the military, and so on. All arenas they control. With fear, anger and hatred permeating the collective field, tensions and social divisions grow, serving the age-old tyrannical strategy of divide and rule: between nation, culture, creed, class, race, sex and politics. Divided between illusions of “left” vs “right,” we lose touch with our heart-centre. We are vulnerable to condoning acts of violence towards the “other,” the “enemy” or “terrorist” they want us to believe in, fear and hate. This is when “wars on terror” are justified and cheered on, when, in fact, they are perpetual wars of terror used to consolidate more wealth and power, and to keep us divided, poor and afraid.    

A prime example of rationalizing and justifying violence, and granting unquestioning power to tyrants and demonic frequencies, is what took place during the Covid era. Disconnected from whispering, prodding hearts, most moved into a mass formation psychosis while turning a blind eye to the greatest crime against humanity in history. Lost to the divide and rule drama and fear porn, to the largest ever mind control experiment, the majority went along with the Great Poisoning. Dr. Francis Boyle, the Harvard educated law professor who drafted the 1989 Biological Weapons and Antiterrorism Act, which passed both houses of Congress unanimously, classified the Covid injections as “biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction.” It’s estimated that 70% of the world’s population, or 5.5 billion people, received at least one dose. In the United States, this number is approximated at 80%.

Research published in 2026 shows that mRNA, plasmid DNA, and spike protein have been repeatedly detected more than 3.5 years after the final injection. Further, and perhaps most disturbing, self-assembling nanotechnology made by the military and contained within the mRNA platform has been discovered traveling the entire body through the bloodstream. (One nano is 1 billionth of a metre.) Along with the mRNA itself, these complex technological structures consisting of microchips and filaments can shed from one person to another (here, here & here). Led by the likes of Elon Musk, synthetic or digital biology is a core part of the transhuman agenda to make us more android-like in a post-human world. Not only do we disconnect from our humanity and soul essence, but we connect to the expanding digital control grid, the “Internet of Bodies & Things.” Nanotech, which acts as a transceiver, makes this possible: it transmits and receives frequency fields of information. In a diabolical inversion of divine Oneness, from the inside-out and outside-in, we fuse with the singular, satanic AI god which does our thinking for us.  

“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” said Elon Musk, robo-billionaire and conman extraordinaire. In February 2026, this same dark entity driving human-technological convergence, or “directed evolution,” announced on X, “I agree with the teachings of Jesus Christ.”  

The consequences of the Covid trojan horse on the physiology and psychology have been staggering, to say the least. Our bodies and minds have been attacked and drastically altered, causing severe neurobiological damage, and little-discussed neuropsychiatric conditions associated with suicide and homicide. As you likely know, there have been dramatic surges in turbo, or fast-metastasizing cancer, with people experiencing late-stage cancers at younger ages than ever before. The sudden rise in cancer rates was brought to public attention by two huge studies published in 2025, one with a 300,000 person cohort and another with an 8.4 million person cohort. The results showed increased risks of multiple types of cancer including colorectal, lung, bladder, breast, prostrate, gastric and thyroid. 

It’s true, we were manipulated, coerced and pressured; and we believed we were doing the right and responsible thing. There were all sorts of uncomfortable, if not severe consequences to speaking up, saying No, and walking away. And we’ve been conditioned from cradle to grave to deny our “deceitful” heart, while having an external, versus internal, locus of control. Yet, this tragedy, affecting billions, does not occur unless we go along with it. And going along can only arise if we ignore our inner voice and vibrationally resonate with demonic agendas and super-predators, like Anthony Fauci, WHO eugenicist Bill Gates, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla (the supposed Veterinarian). The largest crime against humanity cannot transpire if the insanity, like the insanity of any cruel deity, doesn’t make sense energetically at the level of the collective.

Not only did the vast majority conform and comply (because questioning authority is a “sin”), but a large percentage of the population encouraged and even pushed the demonic agenda onto others, like children. Doctors, nurses, police officers, school employees, “celebrities,” and so on, became active, unquestioning servants to sublime evil.

The conservative estimate is that at least 100 million have been disabled, maimed or killed, a number set to rise. Others suggest the numbers are much higher. On March 9, 2026, I read (without a source link to provide) that 500-900 million people have been injured, which feels far more accurate given the injections’ nefarious contents. The reality is, if you received the injection, you were violated or harmed in some way — because you were lied to, you were deceived, just as I have been deceived by the same system. The bioweapon was mandated by a predatory rape consciousness, the one that rules the world.  

Another example of sanctioning violence and cruelty in mass formation psychosis, or collective resonance, is the stupendous turning away from the most grotesque child abuse. I am speaking specifically about fundamentalist/evangelical Christians who perpetuate the historic pattern of denying the facticity of child abuse within their communities of faith; of covering it up, protecting men of power over victims, and acting like (sexual) abuse is no big deal. They dare not question the behaviours of their prolific pedophilic pastors, just as they refuse to admit that their political “Christian” god-king-heroes are complicit in the Epstein scandal. 

In direct contrast to the teachings of Jesus, “righteous” Christian Nationalists lack the courage to acknowledge the horrors of abuse in the wider world, for they cast a confronting mirror on the horrors of their “moral” religious communities. Indeed, Evangelicals fear rocking the boat of their religious tribalism and having their cherished beliefs/illusions crumble. They dare not abandon the demonic energies they identify with and worship, institutionalized in the church’s unholy fusion with “right-wing” politics. 

Being a psychopathic predator makes (energetic) sense, given Evangelicals bow to a psychopathic, predator god. In Leviticus 26:29-30 we read: “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.” Not only is child abuse perfectly acceptable, according to scripture, but so is rape. Says Isaiah in 13:16: “Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.”

As we participate in these and other forms of madness, our stirred up, coalesced, low vibrational energies feed our parasitic rulers and their programmed matrix. The disincarnate and incarnate entities who control this planet literally consume our fear-based energies, what some call loosh. Though they lust over anger and hatred, terror is their absolute favourite frequency food, harvested particularly during the satanic ritual abuse (SRA) of wartime and of children (Covid was one big satanic ritual for our overlords). SRA of children occurs in places like underground military bases, and in dark “ceremonial” spaces beneath mansions, famous museums, elementary schools, and the Lucifer-worshipping Vatican. 

Once again, this collective madness is the age-old consequence of resonantly identifying with demonic energies, the gods of violence and oppression, a pattern of frequency resonance transcending this lifetime alone. And, as we’ll explore much further, this collective insanity is the consequence of demoting and demonizing the Mother Goddess of Love; of burying the sacred feminine treasures of the Snake Goddess deep in the earth and in our wounded psyche. With the Divine Rebirther — patroness of childbirth, fecundity and the hunt, and protectress of children, animals and women — systematically veiled from human consciousness, it became much harder for inhabitants to calibrate vibrationally to her, and model themselves and their lives after her Divine Feminine essence.

Resonating with gods of darkness, and having pained, clouded hearts — hearts believed to be “wicked,” wittingly and unwittingly, we’ve been active participants in evil’s ways. We’ve been enforcers, colonialist tools, and sources of “food.”

Time and again, for millennia, we’ve joined the “Dark Side” and become like them, made in their “image and likeness.” 

“It was not the truth they wanted,
but an illusion they could bear to live with.”
~ Anaïs Nin, French-born American author (1903 — 1977)

And so, with its vast his-story of resonant identification with evil, humanity has a painful past, socially engineered by largely hidden hands, religious “founding fathers” and their dogma determined to crush the Divine Feminine Christ. By the 4th century CE, pagan Goddess cultures, their sacred temples, shrines and statues, were forcibly closed, destroyed or converted into Christian churches. Via the imperial church, the dark forces “seized over five hundred temples to the ancient Mother across Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Portugal.”

Divine Feminine Christ teachings brought forth by Jesus and Mary, and later written in at least 100 secret or apocryphal texts (Gnostic/Hermetic), were destroyed or forced underground. Two large collections of teachings, preserved for approximately two millennia, were miraculously discovered in the 1940s, shining light on our lost her-story: the Nag Hammadi codex and the Dead Sea Scrolls, unearthed in Upper Egypt and the Judaean Desert, respectively. Earlier discoveries of our forbidden, forgotten past were made in the secret archives of the Vatican by historian and scholar Dr. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely in the 1920s. (The underground Vatican archives are believed to contain miles worth of secrets our overlords wish us to not know, so we remain identified with illusions and evil versus Goddess qualities our ancient ancestors lived by.) One such writing, published in 1937 by Szekely, was Book One of The Essene Gospel of Peace, of which there are four volumes transcribed from Aramaic. Reading the following excerpt gives you a sense of why this, and other sacred feminine texts, were considered heretical and deemed an enormous threat to the emerging patriarchal powers. They diametrically opposed the narrative being constructed by the Christian Roman Empire that sought to demonize the Divine Feminine and women:

“Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you she gives you life. It was she who gave to you your body, and to her shall you one day give it back again. Happy are you when you come to know her and her kingdom; if you receive your Mother’s angels and if you do her laws. I tell you truly, he who does these things shall never see disease. For the power of our Mother is above all.”

The imperial ambitions to crush all expressions of the “evil” Divine Feminine Soul continued long after the early centuries of the Common Era. Respected historians estimate that 50 million heretics, a conservative number, were slaughtered by Roman authorities between 600 CE and the mid-19th century CE. As a result of the European Inquisitions, which began with Pope Gregory IX’s papal bulls in 1233, anywhere from 1 to as many as 9 million witches were burnt alive between the 15th and 18th centuries. Prior to the 15th century witches were called heretics, and punished under this title.

Witches/heretics were the traditional healers, midwives, shamans, keepers of the feminine mystery traditions and secrets of Mother Earth. Bravely, just beyond the looming shadows of the church, they offered herbal contraceptives, challenging the church’s notion that women should be ceaseless breeding factories, one of the few things they were good for. “God has granted you another opportunity of salvation, by the bringing up of children, so that you are saved….” (Homily 9 on First Timothy). Further, these creative, peasant women concocted herbal remedies to mitigate birthing pains. This was a direct assault on Yahweh’s “curse” promising “pains in childbearing (forever be) very severe” (Genesis 3:16).

Indeed, women were a direct threat to the church’s attempt to control the female body, just like how today bodily autonomy is under attack by the same patriarchal powers (see Covid, whose tactics for mind/body infiltration and control grew out the CIA’s Project Artichoke). For these reasons, altogether, during the medieval period, “80 percent of those accused, tortured and burnt were women,” leaving, in countries like Germany and France, whole villages empty “of their female populations… including very young girls and very elderly women.”    

“In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway.” ~ Tertullian, “the father of Latin Christianity” (c. 160-225): De Cultu Feminarum (On the Apparel of Women), Chapter 1

The “holy” crusades were also responsible for killing millions across Europe and the Near East. The word crusade derives from the Latin crux, meaning cross. (Latin was the official language of the church and court.) The nine major crusades, lasting two centuries beginning in 1096 CE, were calls to “take up the cross.” To rape and pillage, to burn people, books and temples, in the name of Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose primary message was love and tolerance of others. These plagues of conquest didn’t stop in Europe and the Near East, as we know. They spread across the Atlantic and beyond, imposing the new androcentric creed and destroying all competing traditions. Indigenous peoples on every populated continent were brutally Christianized. In Canada, it’s estimated that during a 150-year period spanning from the mid 1800’s to the final decades of the 20th century, 150,000 children were forced into residential schools. After being stolen from their families, they endured ongoing beatings, rape, starvation, and even medical experimentation. Memories of their sacred heritage, their place of tribal belonging, were wiped from their consciousness under threat and duress. 

Desmond Tutu, the now deceased South African Anglican bishop and theologian, had this to say about the history of global Christianizing: “When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.” American civil rights activist, Nina Simone (1933-2003), shared these creative words highlighting the same brutal, cunning story: “The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky.”

“You must completely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess have served their gods, on high mountains, on hills, under any spreading tree; you must tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, set fire to their carved images of their gods and wipe out their name from that place.” (Deuteronomy 12:2,3)

And then there is the barbarism of genital mutilation which continues to this day, the war on our sacred, sexual and fertile bodies (sacrilege perpetuated by the Covid injections that destroy the reproduction system as part of the depopulation plan). Scripture encourages genital barbarism: “For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh.” (Philippians 3:3). In my italicized words we see manipulative language summoning us to identify with circumcision. Doing so, we identify with Christianity’s version of Jesus, and the god of destruction. We’re part of The Demonic Cult. 

For girls the barbarism has been much worse. Female genital mutilation (FGM) — circumcision, excision and infibulation — “began with the arrival of Islam in some parts of subSaharan Africa,” writes this author. “The purpose (of FGM) is motivated to maintain virginity, child marriage and control sexual desire.” (Italics my own.) Remembering that Abrahamic Islam runs downstream from the Jewish Garden myth, it’s believed that all females are images of Eve, the original temptress who forever stained humanity by eating the forbidden fruit. Women are unrelenting dangers to men, seducing them into sin by emitting sexual impulses, projections of the flesh; “carnal lust,” as officials of the Inquisition taught, that “allows the devil more power over the venereal act, by which original sin is handed down….” The need to destroy women’s sexual nature also conveys the message that all males are uncontrolled, lustful beasts, who, like Adam, easily fall to seduction. Males, stigmatized as a consequence, suffer as well. But, without question, females have suffered most. The author goes on to say that “200 million women alive today have undergone FGM in Africa.” 

“I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth…. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.” (Revelation 8, 12-14, bolding my own). Note that there was a Blood Moon on March 3, 2026, only a few days after Israel-U.S. first struck Iran. It’s all satanic ritual scripted far in advance, in ways most cannot begin to imagine. More examples to come.

Starkly on public display is the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, the latter a genocide that’s killed hundreds of thousands so the powers-that-be can transform Gaza into a high-tech “Riviera.” One Abrahamic religion destroys another, while using the fulfillment of biblical end times prophecy as justification. The Greater Israel Project is the religious, ideological weapon for the colonization, meant to appeal to brainwashed Judeo-Christian minds who see scripture as infallible divine revelation: “On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I have given this land — from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates….’” (Genesis 15:18).

In early March 2026, it was revealed that “US commanders from every arm of the military have told their units that the war on Iran is ‘anointed by Jesus’ and would bring about his return to Earth as part of the ‘Armageddon.’” Apparently, the Prince of Peace requires mass bloodshed to initiate his second coming. One U.S. non-commissioned officer shared that their commander said the war with Iran is “all part of God’s divine plan,” while repeatedly referring to the Book of Revelation. This same zealous commander is reported to have said, “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” The “Armageddon” is led (seemingly) by the messiah Trump; as well as U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (formerly Defense), the ultra-conservative “Christian” Zionist who has been described as the Pentagon’s “holy warrior.” Should we be surprised that Hegseth wrote a book called American Crusade?

The violent “rebirth” of the “promised land,” spreading across the Middle East, continues for over a century, with WWII being a strategic catalyst to transfer ravaged European Jews to Palestine so the independent State of Israel could be declared in 1948; a country, to be clear, whose “leaders” do not represent or reflect the goodness of Jewish people worldwide. They are fake “Jews,” cunning imposters using Judaism as a shield and sword. This is even encoded in Revelation 2:9: “I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.” See also Revelation 3:9.

Past and present, this colonial violence is the will of god, the biblical god of Israel, a command, a promise to obey and glorify. It’s the continued fascist ideology of “Manifest Destiny” of a “chosen” few, the “pure-blooded master race”; of eugenics that drove Nazism, and continues today in secret, underground locations through the genetic manipulation of children and adults, and through the DNA-altering Covid injections designed to “upgrade” us into cyborgs.

Indeed, the war in the Middle East has long been in the works, following a scriptural map and timeline littered with demonic fingerprints. It’s yet another “holy” war to defeat the very anti-Christ force the Accusers and Deceivers pretend not to be. When one understands that Israel, with help from its terror network, created and funded Hamas, the deception and illusion of “the enemy” becomes more clear. Hamas, like western intelligence projects ISIS and Al-Qaeda, is the controlled opposition that tyrannical regimes depend on to achieve full-spectrum dominance.

“Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, And whoever curses Israel will be cursed.” ~ From Numbers 24:9 of The Good News Translation

Fanatically identify with one “side” — religious, political, ethnic, etc. — and we justify the torturous destruction of another, even of children. We blindly blend into a larger demonic program, The Script cloaked in false light, to summon “the return of Jesus” and “New Jerusalem,” which is religious cover for humanity’s “Great (AI) Reset.”

Fanatically identify with one “side” — religious, political, ethnic, etc. — and insane tribalism trumps universal, heartfelt conscience. Superiority reigns, while compassion is seen as “toxic,” “dangerous,” even “sinful,” an attitude that will “align you with hell.” We forget the Golden Rule: As you do to others, you do to yourself.

All this is the consequence of evil’s triumph over our fundamental nature of love. It’s the continued, age-old story of perverse ideology triumphing over the noble heart of humanity, and our Family of Souls. 

In one sentence, French philosopher Voltaire (1694 — 1778) summarized this pattern of insanity, of resonating with evil: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

We glorify the gods of violence by being violent ourselves. 

For the most part, people of patriarchal faith (which includes Hinduism) have lived good-hearted lives, filled with kind intentions. Their hearts and conscience have not been completely veiled and corrupted by illusion. Certainly, as a whole, we’ve come a long way in how we treat children and animals, with women’s rights, our sexual freedom, and much more. These positive evolutionary shifts, however, do not change the facts of history, how it repeats itself. How it’s repeating now, each moment, at gross levels, endlessly fed we are with copious streams of religious-moral-war propaganda, diabolical deception, in this age of addictive technology.

Inasmuch as we consume the lies, we forsake our goodness and fall as angels, a descent that can continue across lifetimes. As we fall we feed, if only energetically, the matrix of fear, violence and control. We become vibrationally attuned and enslaved to a force of Cosmic Terror that parasitically feeds off of our fear. Spiritually impoverished this force is, nothing is ever enough.

This is frequency warfare, the essence of all spiritual warfare going back into deep time. And it’s a war raging on our planet now to insane technological heights, with the rapidly growing global religion being transhumanism — to replace all others — and AI the new god.

The war on flesh / carbon / biology continues, but with advanced technology. It continues, because it’s the same anti-life, anti-human force that interceded millennia ago. From the tyranny of ecclesiastical code we upgrade to digital code, and a globally centralized digital dictatorship necessary for Total Control.

At least, that’s The Plan… 

Here are more words from the dark priestly scribes; ideas they wanted us to identity with and obediently act upon, fear frequencies they wanted us calibrated to into perpetuity so we forget the Goddess:

“Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you.” (Deuteronomy 28:63)

“Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark…. Then he said to them, ‘Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!’ So they went out and began killing throughout the city.” (Ezekiel 9:6-7)

“For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.” (1 Corinthians 11:8-9)

“Let the woman keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, so save the law. And if they learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” (I Corinthians 14:34-35)

“To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’” (Genesis 3:16)

“If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days… But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation.” (Leviticus 12:2, 5)

“Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.” (Isaiah 3:16-17)

“You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.” (Exodus 20:5)

“If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God… (he) will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him… You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.” (Deuteronomy 28:15, 20, 30)

“They (women) pay no attention to beauty, they pay no heed to age; whether he is handsome or ugly, they make love to him with the single thought, ‘He’s a man!’ Lechery, fickleness of mind and hard-heartedness are innate in them; even when they are carefully guarded in this world, therefore, they become hostile towards their husbands.” ~ The Manusmrti or Law of Manu, a comprehensive set of legal codices of Hinduism

“Men are in charge of women by (right of) what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend (for maintenance) from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard. But those (wives) from whom you fear arrogance – (first) advise them; (then if they persist), forsake them in bed; and (finally), strike them. But if they obey you (once more), seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.” (Qur’an 4.34)

“We conquered all his towns and completely destroyed everyone—men, women, and children. Not a single person was spared.” (Deuteronomy 2:34)

“Though shalt not kill; except for when I command you to, because it’s politically convenient.” ~ The Truer 6th Commandment

Most Abrahamic faithful would never, ever, condone these attitudes and behaviours in a fellow human being. And yet, over half the world’s population finds a way to justify, if only to themselves, their worship of a god of this evil — a god who leads the slaughter of millions as compared to the devil who, in the Bible, at most kills ten; a god who sends countless souls to hell to suffer infinite torture for a finite “misbehaviour”; a god who followers say they get their conscience from. Even with the “New Covenant,” it’s still the same monster at the helm, just pretending to be nicer. 

But Vince, isn’t there ever a time for a righteous war? You mean like the Albigensian Crusade (1209 – 29) in southern France, a genocide that killed 1 million heretics — children, women and men? 

But Vince, you are taking these verses out of context. And on it goes…

If we are taught that, from the moment of conception, we deserve hell, then we are susceptible to supporting punitive, violent, dehumanizing acts, from another and ourselves. Our family of humans, whether Jew, Muslim, black, gay, and so forth, is not perceived as innately deserving love and compassion. It is not their divine birthright as sinful souls to be held this way, for that is not the view of intolerant, hard god who leads by the crushing sword of “moral justice.” It is this very attitude that creates a punitive world. 

A deconverted Christian once said that when her pastor’s wife held her newborn son, she pronounced him “fit for hell.” She passed on the brainwashing set forth by Saint Augustine who, 1,600 years earlier, wrote in Confessions, “No one is free from sin in your sight, not even an infant whose span of earthly life is but a single day.” Even without a word spoken, the perspective that our little angels are inherently not good enough, flawed, sinful, and hell-bound is child abuse. Children, sensitive they are, energetically pick up on this. Inevitably, parents act out these toxic beliefs through words and actions; by not seeing the divine truth of their child’s original innocence and holding them in this intarnishable truth. Subtly or overtly, indirectly or directly, parents instil terror and cruel lies into their children. Made in this god’s “image and likeness,” Christians act out their Lord’s abusive nature, while ignoring it as their own.

Ultimately, this is about existential fear — the need to hold on to comforting beliefs and painful illusions, so one holds one’s familiar, pained self together, and doesn’t vulnerably fall apart and dissolve in the dark tomb-womb of Uncertainty, where the Snake Goddess dwells.

We are speaking of mystical death and rebirth, ironically, the veritable, sacrificial teaching of Jesus upon the cross.

Who am I if I no longer believe…?

French essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821 — 1867) wrote that, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” While a good one, for our overlords rule through secrecy, perhaps the “Devil’s” (dark forces’) greatest trick has been convincing the multitude he is “all-loving” God.

By worshipping “God,” people worship — give their power away and calibrate vibrationally to — trickster demons. They resonantly identify with parasitic forces of evil who need to keep us in a low vibrational state, lifetime-after-lifetime, stuck on the Wheel of Samsara in dimensions where a consciousness of fear, survival and materialism pervades. Dumbed and numbed, by choice and by design, we act as frequency food and ignorant slaves for their ceaseless imperial ambitions. We agree to the story, as Christians do, that “We’re all trash” and “We all deserve to go to hell,” self-loathing sentiments I saw two worshippers recently share.   

Isn’t this exactly what the dark forces want us to think — that we’re all worthless and deserve eternal damnation? We’re much easier to control if we settle for disempowering, destructive lies that veil us from our innate goodness and sovereign, divine power (the word lie is in veil / evil / live). 

Further, by demons disguising themselves as “God,” they can, through their human proxies, like scripture-reciting military personnel, cross- or kippah-wearing politicians, and radical imams, declare that those who oppose “his” rule serve the devil. You are either with “God/Allah,” or against “him” — against us! You are either on “God’s side,” or, using Pete Hegseth’s words from a March 2026 Christian Prayer Service, on the side of the “enemies of righteousness… who deserve no mercy”.

If you don’t support our latest holy war, or, if as a woman, you refuse to submit to men, which you are commanded to do in our “unerring, divinely inspired” scripture, you stand against the “Supreme Being” — his “Word,” his “Divine Law.” You are a danger to “god’s moral order,” a “threat to national security,” especially when expressing the desire for peace, freedom and equality, or standing up for bodily autonomy and the Divine Feminine soul (things that do not profit the Machine). You are an enemy of the “Father,” “his” State, and “his” plan for “salvation” that must include war, division and oppression. Having committed the “unforgivable sin” of opposing the “Most High,” at minimum, your fate is the “lake of fire.”

For millennia, this is how zealous fools have been manipulated into supporting and participating in foolish, imperial agendas. The agendas resonate, because they identify with, or “get their conscience” from, “God/Allah.” 

Member of the “synagogue of Satan,” Benjamin “Netanyahu” Mileikowsky, adds further clarity on how demons disguised as “God” weaponize religion. In Oliver Stone’s 2003 HBO documentary, Persona Non Grata, the Israeli PM plainly said, “To get somebody to blow up a bus full of children, or a building full of innocent civilians, you have to grind it into their minds; you have to wash their brains and tell them there is a higher cause out there. It’s religious, ethnic, racial, whatever. And for that higher cause, you can disregard all the normal rules of morality.”  

Knowing that Abrahamic “God” is demonic consciousness deceptively disguised in false light, we can better appreciate the impassioned words of Jesus spoken to Jewish leaders, written in John 8:44: “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” Early Gnostic Christians held a similar view that Jesus did of Yahweh. They saw the god of the Hebrew Bible as the evil Demiurge (also called Ialdabaoth) who controlled humanity through a legion of archons, meaning rulers in Greek.

Is it no wonder that the Hebrew Bible is not a story of the Hebrews’ steadfast obedience to Yahweh, but rather their continuous disobedience, to the point of forcing their god into heavenly exile?

Roman Stoic philosopher, Lucius Seneca (c. 1 BCE – 65 CE) offers us these summarizing words that encapsulate the occult purpose of patriarchal religion:

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

Within all religions
there are streams and rivers
of pure truth,

each flowing
to the same Source,

the Maternal Ocean of Life.

“A simile: Like unto a cave on the seashore: when the waves rise, it fills with water, yet the sea is in no way diminished. Thus it was with the Tent of Meeting (most holy place or heart womb of the desert Tabernacle): it became filled with the glory of the Shekinah, but the world was in no way diminished.” ~ By Rabbi Yehoshua of Sikhnin, 3rd — 4th century CE Palestinian Amora (Jewish scholar/sage), his beautiful simile alive with Divine Feminine symbolism and meaning. Sourced from Pesikta de-Rav Kahana by Bernard Mandelbaum. Shekinah was considered in certain post-biblical times Kabbalistic, Midrashic and Talmudic literature the feminine emanation of Yahweh, contradicting the tenet of a strictly male god.

The Hebrew and Christian Bibles are a patchwork of older, cross-cultural mythological storylines, themes and characters, as well as original writings motivated by political imperialism. Increasingly, historians and scholars believe that the rudimentary formation of the Hebrew Bible began as early as 1000 BCE, drawing upon a number of writers and myths from different regions around the Mediterranean and within Mesopotamia. Not all intentions were nefarious in the creation of scripture. Some writings were divinely inspired; such as The Song of Songs, the love poetry of the Hebrew Bible, though passages from Egyptian and Sumerian sacred marriage hymns dedicated to Osiris and Isis, and Inanna and Dumuzi, appear in this biblical poetry. There is also the works of Paul, with 1 Corinthians 13 being perhaps his most beautiful testimony to love (I personally believe that Paul was not as misogynistic as he is portrayed in the Bible, and that some of his original teachings were perverted to suit the patriarchal, political agendas of that time.) Within the Bible, Old Testament and New, there are numerous passages that encourage social justice, equality and kindness, words not simply from Jesus that carry both beauty and power. In Proverbs 31:8-9 we read: 

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Some people groups were sincerely motivated to create a new religious story after losing their cultural history in battle. For example, the Judahites had to reimagine their religion after being conquered by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in late 6th century BCE, a destruction that included Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. To lose their central place of worship on top of having their city seized and people upturned was a devastating death for the Judahites. Once freed from captivity in Babylon in 539 BCE, they incorporated the plurality of spiritual influences discovered in this multicultural city into a new religious story, with Persian Zoroastrian, possibly the oldest dualistic religion, being one source.

Over the next few hundred years, however, monotheistic Judaism took form, with Yahweh and his priests increasingly demanding exclusive worship, often through brute violence. The earliest records of widespread Torah observance date to the second century BCE, during the Hasmonean period in Judea. This suggests that it wasn’t until about 350 years into the post-exilic period (after Babylon) that the Hebrew Bible was canonized. Strict religious reforms spread, and the Yahweh priests coerced and mentally captured a relatively large percentage of the Jewish population, converting them into Torah-observing monotheists.

Until this time, going back likely to 1200 BCE, the Hebrews/Israelites practiced polytheism, something we’ll touch upon more later. In their book Christ to Paganism, Joyce and River Higginbothem write:

“Most people are unaware that monotheism within Judaism developed as a minority movement and remained a minority for hundreds of years, becoming a majority only in the fifth century B.C.E. or perhaps even later. Many people do not realize that throughout most of this time temples, shrines, priests, and ordinary people were routinely polytheistic in their practices and observances, and were generally not interested in monotheism. All archeological findings to date, and they are numerous, support the existence of routine polytheistic practices in the region, both in the temples and among the populace.”

The rise of monotheistic Judaism meant a rise in centralized, patriarchal power, symbolically enforced by the universal tyrant god Yahweh who used fear and deception to subjugate the masses. This, however, didn’t completely stop the Divine Feminine from sharing her ancient wisdom through the new religion. Textual dependence on older myths from Mother Cultures like Sumer, and themes of mystical death and rebirth in Gaia’s various wombs, placed the Goddess into the imperial doctrine. Light was allowed into dark, ruling pages, bringing elements of ancient mysticism to the Bible. For over two millennia, this has allowed depth, beauty and esoteric truth to mischievously shine from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. 

Incorporating elements of the Goddess/paganism into patriarchal religion, its scripture, customs and symbolism, was, more often than not, done unwittingly; but it was also done intentionally in order to deceive and gain pagan acceptance of the new religion. This is evident in Christianity and the New Testament, canonized into orthodoxy by Roman authorities in the 4th century CE. The resurrection of Jesus, for example, corresponds with the regeneration of Earth’s bounty after a long winter spell in the tomb-womb underworld. Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the “paschal” full moon, meaning the first full moon following the spring equinox. These were all significant, ritualized events within pagan cultures symbolizing resurrection and rebirth that were adopted into Christianity.

Barbara G. Walker, in her book The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, provides another example of how Christian authorities gradually “introduced” pagans to Christianity. “Pope Gregory the Great directed that Christian relics must be placed in the inner shrines of pagan temples, and the people converted gradually to the idea that their deity was a saint instead of an un-Christian spirit.” Walker goes on to say that at Christmas, near the holy day of winter solstice, pagans could sacrifice and eat oxen, so long as it was to glorify the Christian god, rather than their devil. 

(The Christmas tree, incidentally, represents the Tree of Life, an insight the wonderful spiritual teacher Tricia McCannon sparked in me. The Tree of Life is an ancient symbol of Goddess and shamanic cultures worldwide that connects Earth and the Heavens. The colourful, sparkling bulbs are planets and the little, glowing lights are stars. Together, they spiral their way up to the Great Central Star at the top, a path mirroring the pointed pyramid. This is our spiralling journey of ascension — The Way of the Rose Heart — into the pearlescent white Primordial Light or First Ray emanating from our Divine Mother‘s black womb.) 

Snake Goddess wisdom found numerous pockets of inspiration in scriptural storylines. We will explore these biblical, Serpent motifs as we go further along; but, for now, two examples lie in the legends of Lazarus’s and Jonah’s spiritual rebirth in a cave and whale (or Serpent?), respectively. Both are symbols of the tomb-womb, the underworld where Serpents dwell and rebirth us anew. Dark, moist and still, Mother Earth’s caves were once sacred places of initiation across the ancient world. By entering a cave, sometimes surrounded by wall paintings of animals, one would humbly surrender to the regenerating, mystical body of the Goddess, where the veil thins between human and spiritual consciousness. In Mesoamerican religion, rich with Serpent mysticism, shamanic rites were performed in caves by calendar priests, and the king-shaman was associated with caves, the “portal between worlds.” For the Hopi people today, the underground cave continues to be a communal ceremonial space called a kiva, which translates to ceremonial room.

Like Lazarus and Jonah, Jesus was scripturally mythologized as being reborn in a tomb-womb. Some of his authentic, Divine Feminine Christ teachings stayed alive and found their way into the Christian canon, sourced from early Christian, Gnostic, Pagan or Hermetic writings. An example is, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19:14). There is also this seemingly forgotten, salient truth that subverts the priesthood’s notion of being the “gateway to heaven”: “The kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21). And let’s not forget Jesus’s charged words in John 8:44, shared above, clearly worthy of our inquiry: “You are of your father the devil.” Though Jesus likely did not use these exact words, they overall represent the essence of his empowering and iconoclastic teachings. 

Lest we forget the prophecy of Mother Mary’s immaculate conception of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14), foretold by Hebrew prophets over the five centuries prior. Also called parthenogenesis — Greek parthenos (virgin) + genesis (creation), immaculate light conception is an ancient and advanced magickal art commonly practiced in high societies. It’s a means of conceiving high-frequency beings, like Jesus, through the stargate of the sacred, mysterious womb. 

With all this said, there are more shadows in patriarchal scripture than the light of truth, a defining feature and cause of a dark age, ours being at least 5,000 years. What I know about the ruling dark forces is that they must give us just enough good stuff — their “soft sell” — to lure us into their malicious agenda and their demonic consciousness. The “devil” must play both sides — good parent and bad parent, villain and saviour (Christian Jesus, “messianic” political hero, controlled opposition) — if darkness is to ultimately win. 

That is the other reason for truth being mixed with abhorrent lies, and for schizophrenic god appearing as both “all-loving” and immensely cruel. 

“We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we are the directors, we are the producers, we are the main actors. The world is our stage.” ~ Extraordinary disclosure from a former Mossad (Israeli intelligence) agent on 60 Minutes. The motto of Mossad is “By way of deception, though shalt do war.”

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Imagine a world where people grow up knowing they are made in the image and likeness of the primordial Goddess, the Divine Mother of All Life?

The power the dark forces have over us depends on our belief in psychotic, inhumane ideas that in no way reflect the truth, love and innocence of our Holy Spirit. With resonant identification we disconnect from that which they are completely terrified of — our sovereign divinity, a limitless Cosmic Soul Power that perfectly and holographically mirrors All That Is: 

The Divine Mother of All Life, also known as Sophia; Her complete, unconditional Love and Acceptance.

We need not earn Sophia’s love, acceptance, and therefore forgiveness. It is granted always, in all ways, no matter how far we have fallen, no matter our “trespasses.”

As living fractals of Her still black and pearlescent white emanations, we are equally this immaculate maternal love, this holy heart womb consciousness; a Truth that is nothing at all like the punitive, patriarchal gods of war, yet One that loves and accepts their inventors, in full, nonetheless.

For how could limitless Love not Love itself without limits?

The Snake Goddess, in her myriad emanations, is a unique and pure reflection of our Divine Mother. In ancient times, she shone as an overlighting presence in Mother religions and pagan cultures across the world, while inviting open hearts into still, womb darkness of temple body and earth. The Snake Goddess was not just an underworld presence, a dissolving force of the dark night, but a midwife into new light. In sacred alchemy, central to the Holy Heart, she initiated the marriage between dark and light, such that one embodied higher states of divine union with the body of Sophia Christ. 

And so let’s go back in time together, and travel a diverse spectrum of mythologies and religious cultures from around the world dedicated to the Snake Goddess. As you’ll see, not all Snake Goddess cosmologies and traditions have disappeared. They still remain in the hearts of indigenous peoples as a living reality. Further, while some Snake deities are male, most are represented by the feminine principle. I’ve chosen not to exclude any male representations I’ve come across to honour the meeting of God and Goddess, the union of Divine Masculine and Feminine within us all.  

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Considered one of the oldest myths on the planet, the Rainbow Serpent for the Australian Aborigines is a shared ancestor and primordial force associated with creation — fecundity, water, death and rebirth. Long ago, it arose from the still, quiet Dreamtime, from deep within the underworld, to stir life into being. Though sometimes portrayed as male, the Rainbow Serpent is also seen as the Snake Goddess of many names.

“The people of the oldest continuing culture on the earth’s face, the Australian natives, name Eingana the Mother as the creator, maker of all water, land, animals, and kangaroos. This huge snake-goddess still lives, they say, in the ocean, rising up occasionally to create yet more life.” This same author speaks of another Rainbow Snake Goddess named Julunggul who, like Eingana, is eternally pregnant. “She is embodied in the pearls, crystals, the ocean, waterfalls, and the deep pools where She lives.” 

Amongst Ayahusquero shamans, with jungle roots in the Amazon, the Cosmic Serpent is considered the Mother of Ayahuasca. A powerful traditional spirit plant medicine, I’ve been blessed to drink Ayahuasca in 40 very challenging, yet deeply rewarding ceremonies. In one ceremony in 2015, I had a mystical and overwhelming encounter with the Cosmic Serpent Mother and her healing medicine, which I share in my Ancient Shamanic Snake ceremony description. (I also share my remarkable mystical encounter with three normally timid garter Snakes.) In short, the Mother of Ayahuasca entered my temple body through the gateway of my wounded, aching heart. In every cell of my being I was animated by her; I was filled with the euphoria of experiencing myself as one with her Cosmic Serpentine presence.

Moving to the mythologies of Hinduism and Buddhism, there is the semi-divine, half human and half Cobra being named Naga, which means “Serpent” in Sanskrit. The King of Nagas in Hinduism is Shesha Naag, the thousand-headed Serpent of Eternity responsible for gravity and the orbits of the stars and planets. Notable within the Vinaya Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, it is written that the King of Nagas, Mucalinda, protected Buddha from a great rainstorm for seven days, which arose just after his enlightenment. Some suggest the King is, in fact, a Queen — a Goddess, who “is at once serpent and tree.” Coiled beneath him as a steady throne, as if merged with his body, mind and soul, she “raises her seven hoods to offer him a protective canopy as he confronts the destructive powers of the universe on the night of his awakening.”

Given the tendency for dark ones to revise her-story, or for male scribes to project masculine definitions/ideals onto the feminine, with Buddhism being no exception, it would not surprise me if Shesha Naag was originally a Serpent Goddess.

Snake is a powerful totem for alternative healers, but also for healing itself. This latter point is exemplified in the caduceus and Rod of Asclepius. Asclepius, son of Apollo and grandson of Zeus, was the Greek god of medicine and healing who healed a Snake on the brink of death, and then became the beneficiary of the secrets of healing taught by the grateful creature. Today, the caduceus and Rod of Asclepius are insignias for Western Medicine and the nefarious World Health Organization. Snake, or the Snake Goddess, has been appropriated as a symbol to represent the dubious system of sickness masquerading as health. 

Judeo-Christian faithful may believe that the caduceus and Rod of Asclepius have storied roots in the Hebrew Bible. In Numbers 21 we read of the impatient, tired Israelites endlessly wandering through the wilderness and speaking against Moses and the Lord about insufficiencies in food and water. Bitter Yahweh hears these ungrateful grumbles, and decides to cast heat waves of venomous punishment. The all-just Lord sends fiery Snakes amongst his chosen people, many of whom are bitten and die as a result.

Recognizing their grave error, the terrified Israelites admit their sin to Moses, and ask him to pray that Yahweh take away the formidable, biting Serpents. Yahweh responds by invoking the timeless, healing medicine of Snake, and requesting it be placed upon a cross-shaped pole: “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a fiery serpent (Nehushtan), and put it on a pole; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten and looks at it will live.’” (Numbers 21:8).

Like many of the biblical motifs, this story that synthesizes Snake and the cross, a symbol for the Tree of Life, is unoriginal. The story of Nehushtan derives from earlier influences in Greece and Egypt, and, as we’ll uncover later, likely even older sources in the Near East.  

Thoth is the Egyptian God of wisdom, later syncretized with the Greek God Hermes Trismegistus, meaning “Thrice Greatest.” Hermes is sometimes seen carrying a wand or staff, what we know to be the caduceus, as seen in the image above. Usually depicted in his left hand, we can imagine the Staff of Hermes showing the Way of the Left Hand Path of the Divine Feminine Christ. His Divine Masculine emanation is true to the Snake Goddess emblematized on the caduceus, in service to her.

The left hand is controlled by the intuitive, creative, feminine hemisphere of the brain. Yet in patriarchal scripture, the right hand side is right and held as supreme. This is demonstrated by Jesus who sits to the right of god and his heavenly throne, signifying the highest honour and their shared power and authority.

Regarding Thoth, from whose name we get thought, there is a relief in the Great Temple of Abydos which portrays Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Seti I receiving healing and regeneration from the God himself. Thoth holds two entwined serpentine staffs in his left hand with wings at the top — the caduceus, while presenting the sacred Ankh of Life to Seti’s nose in his right hand (reminiscent of Yahweh breathing life into Adam’s nostrils). Considered the Key of Eternal Life, the Ankh is an ancient womb symbol.

Remaining in Egypt, we find the possible origins of the aforementioned Ouroboros. An early depiction of this Snake Goddess is enshrined in the tomb of Tutankhamen, the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharoah. Another is seen in the image above encapsulating the Sixth Hour of the Night, when darkness is at its most intense in Duat, or the underworld. This most arduous stage of initiation is symbolic of the dark moon phase of surrender, wherein light is completely absent for three days, leaving us “in the dark,” before rays of hope slowly rebirth us in the fashion of a waxing moon. The Sixth Hour of the Night metaphorically corresponds to the “bottom of the clock,” or deepest underworld; whereas the Twelfth Hour represents our arrival into the luminous full moon, our resurrection from the dissolving Duat into enlightened embodiment.

The ouroboric, five-headed Serpent Āsh-ḥrȧu presides over Duat and is our faithful guide and Divine Rebirther. She “resembles the Old Serpent that encircled Atum in the waters of the Nun just before creation.” But more important to our understanding, she is the womb underworld. Āsh-ḥrȧu “encircles the fluid of future life.” She carries the khat, or corpse, in her womb through the vast, unspeakable dark night, from death to rebirth. Atop the body’s crown is the dung beetle Khepera, who brings the medicine of divine transformation. 

The circular womb of the Ouroboros (which has four o’s!) thus holds the message and mysteries of death feeding life in never-ending cycles of Creation. She embodies the feminine cycles of time as perceived by the Ancients who, themselves, embodied her rhythms in Earth and Sky. Cyclical time is clearly distinct from the later adopted linear, masculine time of the Julian and Gregorian calendars that further removed us from the Goddess.

The coiling Snake
on the ground
and circling up branches,

she is the sacred geometry
of the spiral,

revealing
feminine cycles of time

rebirthing us
into greater dimensions 
of our divinity.

Indeed, Snake was highly revered in ancient Egypt as a representation of the Divine Feminine and her womb wisdom. So much so that the hieroglyph for Goddess and Priestess is a Cobra! (One of my most favourite discoveries!) Wadjet is the ancient Cobra Goddess, and matron and protector of Lower Egypt. We find her rearing on the gold crowns or headdresses of the Pharaohs presiding over this land. This crowning presence, called the uraeus, speaks to the venerated, regal power the Snake Goddess had in ancient times, in this case Egypt. She was the respected, guiding Divine Feminine force behind the male Pharaoh; at least, that was her intended purpose as she peered authoritatively from the king’s third eye. Please see the image above of Ramses II for an example.

According to Egyptian scholar Normandi Ellis, the Goddess Neith, considered the grandmother of all Egyptian deities, is depicted in one Creation story as a “serpent lying in the abyss.” “She is the reason that the hieroglyphic sign for a goddess (any goddess) is a cobra.” (Parenthesized words her own.) Ellis tells us that, “Neith is the oldest divine being: her name reaches back to the pre-dynastic culture,” prior to 3000 BCE. As the primordial Creatrix weaving life into being from nothingness, “Her energies are serpentine and undulating, progressing as she slips quickly side to side, back and forth.” 

Last, but certainly not least in this complex, Serpent-rich Egyptian cosmology, we have the four ancient Goddesses of Creation making up the Ogdoad of Hermopolis — Naunet, Amaunet, Kauket and Hauhet. All are depicted as Snakes, while their respective husbands — Nun, Amon, Kuk and Heh, are Frogs!

Within Persian cultures, Shahmaran (or Şahmaran) is the ancient half-Woman, half-Snake Goddess, revered particularly in Anatolia (modern Turkey), and amongst the Tatars and Chuvash to the East. Legend tells the story of a young man named Tahmasp descending into a cave to collect honey. It is there he meets the beautiful Shahmaran, surrounded not by harmful Snakes, but many “intelligent, compassionate, and peaceful ones.” Initially shocked and afraid, and not knowing how to escape, Tahmasp comes to trust Shahmaran, and eventually they become lovers.

Associated with sacred wisdom, power and protection, the Serpentine Feminine of Shahmaran, in her tomb-womb, rebirths the young man into a wise man. Having communed with her in hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, he “(takes) on some of the characteristics of the snakes.” He surrenders to the Goddess in the Great Below, awakening the Serpentine Feminine within, a theme within this writing and the living stories of old. 

It’s worth noting that mar in Shahmaran, means serpent; but it’s also the prefix to mar-riage, which esoterically refers to the mystical union of masculine and feminine, and our union with The Beloved within. Union ~ U ‘n I One. Also, look closely at the last four letters of hi-eros. Move the e of this love-word to the back and you get rose, as in our sacred rose heart. A rose that arose, spiralling ecstatically open, in union with The Beloved.

A vulnerable, erotic rise the Snake Goddess births us into!

In Western Africa, the supreme birther of life is Nana Buluku, the Great Mother Goddess, who travels in the form of a freshwater Snake. Beautiful artist depictions show a Snake loosely coiled around her neck, like sacred jewelry, or woven into a luminous halo that spirals down from her head. For the people of this region, Nana Buluku “holds immense significance as a creator, cosmic force, and maternal figure,” writes this author. She is deeply loved “in the hearts of believers across diverse cultures.”  

(Since we are in Africa, it’s worth mentioning that there is a revered Mermaid Goddess called Mami Wata, also with a Snake wrapped around her. Her traditions and culture are particularly strong in coastal southeastern Nigeria.)

North of the African continent, across the deep blue, we discover the ancient Snake Goddess of Crete. Archaeological evidence reveals an authentic, advanced gem of a Mother Culture on this Mediterranean island that evolved from as far back as 6000 BCE to about 1500 BCE, before falling to earthquakes and barbaric invaders. For at least 4.5 thousand years, the embodied presence of the Goddess stewarded this island into a creative, peaceful and thus sacred expression of her consciousness. Artists crafted the Snake Goddess into the form of beautiful statuettes, revered particularly in the Central Palace Sanctuary of Knossos, the heart-centre of this ancient civilization. 

Below are two stunning examples of the statuettes discovered in Crete. Made of painted faience, a high quality earthenware, you can see they are beautifully preserved in structure and in how they exude passionate Serpentine feminine energy. Wearing elaborate Minoan garments, the Goddess on the left has Snakes coiling around her body, including her arms and neck, and Serpentine patterns are embroidered on her apron. On the right, we see the Goddess raising Snakes high in the air, a statement of untamed, primordial life force and divine authority which the Goddess empowers in her beloved people. 

Indeed, with voluptuous, bare breasts, and Snake-adorned arms proudly extending out, there is nothing “conservative” about the Snake Goddess of Crete. She represents the antithesis of patriarchal religious “values” that suppress the Wild, Sensual Feminine in favour of the highly controlled and controlling dark masculine.  

There is evidence to suggest that in a subterranean level of the Temple-Palace of Knossos there once existed a labyrinth. This added further striking imagery of the Snake Goddess to this Mother culture, a motif surviving from the Neolithic period in which the labyrinth was engraved in stone and painted on vases used in shrines and at home. On Crete, a great many silver coins were minted depicting a labyrinth, with one example just below. Also discovered was a fragment of a fresco with a painted labyrinth design dating to 1700-1600 BCE, believed to be part of a floor decoration.

Labyrinths connect us with the ancient, chthonic wisdom of the Snake Goddess, who guides us through her Serpentine body. We enter a place of solitude and reflection, symbolic of the dark moon phase or dark night of the soul, wherein certain “dead ends” are reached. With courageous persistence we carry on in our quest, and eventually we reach the heart womb of the Feminine Mysteries, the very centre of the Serpentine labyrinth body.

Having gathered the wisdom only found in tomb-womb darkness, in the still, dark depths of the Great Mother Herself, we are reborn anew.

 

In Greece, Demeter is the ancient Goddess of agriculture and the harvest. As Corn Mother, she births her seed daughter Persephone each year into the fertile womb beneath her. She falls into the earth, and there she remains a death that eventually germinates into new life, bearing the fruits that feed the many. Demeter is older than the Olympian Pantheon she was incorporated into as wife of Zeus, and thus she and Persephone predate the underworld belonging to Hades, brother of Zeus and Poseidon, the god who in the most famous version of the myth abducts Persephone into his dark kingdom. 

In the cycle of creation and within the body of Sophia Christ, the maidan Persephone cannot be distinguished from her mother. She is of Demeter’s stalk, carrying the same fundamental vegetative essence that she embodies. Therefore, “Demeter contains within herself both the upper and the lower worlds, and her story explores the paradoxical relation between them, for what dies above the earth falls below and comes back new, different yet the same.” 

Participants in the annual Eleusinian Mysteries taking place in Eleusis, 20 miles (32 km) from Athens, embodied the life wisdom or fruit contained in the story of Demeter and her daughter. Lasting at least 2,000 years, it was a popular civic and religious event celebrated by the wider public, and possibly earlier in Crete where these Mysteries likely originated from. Like all Mystery traditions there existed an inner circle of select aspirants who received esoteric teachings and rites of initiation. In the case of Eleusis, the stages were separated between the Lesser Mysteries and Greater Mysteries, with the former occurring near the beginning of Spring, and the latter advanced stages in Autumn, during the season of darkening days. Within the tomb-womb temple, symbolized mythologically by Hades’ underworld, aspirants were initiated into mystical death and rebirth, aided by kykeon, a psychedelic barley brew, possibly sweetened by mint. Courageously reborn from within the womb of Earth Mother Demeter, they rose like Persephone, Goddess of Spring & Renewal.

Snake is most sacred to Demeter, who embodies with her daughter the fertile, transformative depths of nature. This is visually depicted in the dramatic, artistic portrayals of the Goddess seated in her winged chariot, pulled by wild Serpents. In a beautiful 15th century painting by Italian Pinturicchio called The Chariot of Ceres, Demeter, dressed in a flowing red gown, holds a sheaf of corn as she rides through the wilds behind her two beloved Snakes.  

Below is an exquisite stamnos, or Greek vase c. 480 BCE, showing Triptolemos, King of Eleusis, seated in the winged chariot familiar to Demeter. Notice the two Snakes winding around the top of the wheels. Demeter stands in front of him, pouring the secrets of agriculture into his dish, and behind him is Persephone. Having been initiated by Demeter into the Feminine Mysteries, he is prepared to travel the world seeding these esoteric secrets of Nature into the hungry multitude. It is Demeter who has anointed him with this noble mission, knowing he has made the way possible through his heroic, alchemical sacrifice, such that greater sacredness can be born. 

Triptolemos, the newborn King, crowned with his laurel wreath, has indeed risen as Spring into the warmth of light, a gift of Earth and Heaven, illuminated by the deep feminine wisdom found only in womb darkness. He flies free across the land, with the hard-won winged chariot an expression of his angelic body, a body reunited with Earth Mother Demeter’s, empowered by his boundless Serpentine soul.

Another Greek Goddess associated with Snake is Hecate (pronounced He-Ka-Tay). Goddess of witchcraft, magick, the moon, and the crossroads, she presides over the underworld, over the dying and dead. Hecate is the rebirther of the dark womb, our faithful guide at the junction of endings and beginnings that the Holy Cross brings us to.

In the crucible of the underworld, related to crucifixion, we are called to give ourselves to our cross, to bear what sometimes feels utterly unbearable, and to heroically surrender ever more deeply to its transformative wisdom. Drawing upon her Serpentine magick and with silvery eyes that pierce the deep night, Hecate guides us through this rite of passage to our destiny: our crossroads in time, centred in the heart. Spirit meets flesh in unio mystica, sacred marriage, and with a heart opened to the timeless numinous, we are reborn anew. 

When we think of mythological Greece we also recall Medusa, she of dark moon eyes whose hair is of wild, unruly Snakes. She is most commonly associated with Serpentine energy due to what we see writhing upon her head; yet the Goddess also bears the image of the caduceus on her belly, or womb, as seen, for example, on a 6th century BCE vase.

So Greek myth says, Medusa was the Queen of the Gorgons who turned people to stone who dare look into her dreadful, fearsome eyes. She lived in a distant lair at the threshold between worlds, the known and the Unknown, a chthonic, mystical realm that the sun’s rays could not penetrate. It was tasked upon hero Perseus, son of Zeus and mortal Danae, to brave the adventure to her distant cave and slay the Goddess. With demi-god strength, power and intelligence, and using the bronze shield given by Athena as a mirror to guide him closer to Medusa, thus evading her petrifying eyes, Perseus fulfils his duty of chopping off her monstrous head. 

Peering deeper into pre-patriarchal history, we find that Medusa’s authentic roots may lie in ancient Libya, a nation that at one time spanned across northern Africa, west of Egypt to and including present-day Morocco. Libya, many believe, was ruled by a tribe of women warriors called Amazons. Within their matriarchal cultures “women held the supreme power and royal authority,” writes Merlin Stone, referencing the words of Diodorus Siculus, the Greek historian who, 49 years prior to the birth of Jesus, wrote down his findings from travels in Libya.

The Amazons worshiped the Triple Goddess whom Medusa, the tomb-womb Snake Goddess, was one face. Another face was Neith, more commonly associated with Egypt as the “serpent lying in the abyss.” Her prominence as a Goddess across northern Africa furthers our understanding of why she is considered the oldest divine being amongst many Egyptians, the Grandmother of all Gods & Goddesses. The third face of the Amazon Triple Goddess was Athene, who was later adopted into the Greek pantheon of 12 Olympians as Athena, Goddess of war, whom the capital city Athens would be named after.

Like Medusa and Neith, Athene or Athena was a resounding Snake Goddess. Snakes, integral to her worship as Patroness and Protectress of many Greek cities, can be seen coiled around her legs, just as Snakes encircle the roots and base of the Tree of Life. The Goddess in one marble statue caresses a Snake spiralling up a tree trunk, as if the animal were part of her own body (image further below). One hand fondly embraces the Snake’s head, while her bare foot rests gracefully upon its lower body.   

Snakes were believed to live in the acropolis, the ancient Athenian citadel dedicated to the Greek Goddess. In and outside temples, this sacred animal was seen as embodying the divine qualities Athena was known for: wisdom, regeneration and protection. These qualities were magnanimously acted upon or expressed through the good counsel she was ordained to give, appearing to those in need at the right moment with guiding, practical wisdom and as a steady, caring ally.

One of the best examples of this comes from Homer’s Odyssey, in which she is instrumental in ensuring hero Odysseus’s safe passage home. In Book 3, we read of Nestor, wise king of Pylos, speaking to Telemachus, son of Odysseus, saying, “Would that bright-eyed Athena should care to love you as once she cherished mighty Ulysses (Odysseus) in the land of the Trojans, where we Achaeans suffered woes — for I never saw the Gods showing such open affection as Pallas Athena stood by him for all to see.”

Her wise counsel as Snake Goddess cannot help but be compared to the Serpent in the Garden of Eden who, too, acts as wise counsellor, in this case, to Eve, a topic we shall come to shortly.  

We can possibly look to Hesiod’s Theogony, composed c. 700 BCE, as a primary source for Athena’s shift from sovereign nature Goddess of wisdom to stoic Goddess of war; she who, hardened by armor, toils under the brooding narcissism of her father Zeus, chief god of the pantheon. In this poetic creation myth, at one point we read of her mother Metis, pregnant with Athena, being devoured by husband Zeus. The sky god:

… put her down
Into his belly, so that the goddess could
Counsel him in both good and evil plans… 

In having the wise Snake Goddess inside counselling Zeus in both good and evil, we can, once more, imagine a synchrony with Eden’s wise Serpent, who invites Eve to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil. In both stories, there is an ingesting of higher wisdom. 

From Hesiod’s creation account, we then read of Zeus who:

… himself produced, from his own head,
Grey-eyed Athene, fearsome queen who brings
The noise of war and, tireless, leads the host,
She who loves shouts and battling and fights.

With his-story, Zeus cannot birth, yet from his mighty head he can miraculously “produce.” God or man replacing Goddess or woman as source of life is one of the most bizarrely inverted themes of patriarchal religion. In Hesiod’s myth, we are reminded of how Shu and Tefnut, brother and sister deities, were born from Egyptian god Atum’s masturbation-induced ejaculate; Anatolian god Kumarbi gave birth to three child deities after biting off the genitals of his high god Anu; Norse Creator giant Ymir birthed a man and woman from his sweaty armpit and a six-headed being from his legs; Yahweh, like Allah, “produced” all Creation, with his first offspring Adam formed from Father’s dust and Father’s life-giving breath; Eve, the afterthought, was born from the rib of Adam; and Christians believe they can be reborn through Jesus, the male figure who exists as one with the male god.  

These wild tales are examples of misappropriation of the (Snake) Goddess Mysteries of life, death and rebirth. They are overwhelming and, frankly, boring examples of dark masculine’s “triumph” over, and divorce from, the feminine and her womb.

This is a good time to return to 1 Corinthians 11: “For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of man. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.” And let’s go back earlier in time to the source, spoken in Genesis 2:23: “Then Adam said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

I’m open to the possibility that in at least one of these creation accounts there is a deeper, life-giving mystery behind the literal storyline, esoteric wisdom that feeds and marries the masculine and feminine, within and without. Perhaps the original intent of Hesiod’s poem (which may have been corrupted over time) was to demonstrate a male god merging with the Divine Feminine, in order that she birth from within Sophianic wisdom that unifies polarities, in this case good and evil. Using Hesiod’s language, Athena counselled the male, which we can imagine representing either the human self or inner principle. She initiated the masculine, as shaman-priestesses have in their own mystical ways for thousands of years. We must also consider that when it came to the ancient Greek philosophers, and poets and mystics in general, they took liberties in articulating the mysteries in a way that weaves light and shadow, truth and fiction, the absolute and the relative. As Kingsley states, while including fifth century BCE philosopher, Herodotus, the “Father of History,” in the mix, “for the ancient Greeks truth and lies existed side by side, went hand in hand. One was connected to the other deep inside their being.”  

The greater likelihood in most, if not all, these creation accounts, is that men, whether priest-scribe or poet, lost themselves to a consciousness that seeks dominance over women and the feminine principle. They gave way to the perversions of revisionist his-story, a pattern of re-writing and falsifying that endeavours to veil us from what all ancient Goddess cultures instinctively, if not logically, knew: that Mother — Divine, Earth and biological (human and animal), as a unified Divine Feminine creative force — is primordial as blueprint and birther.

Other comes from m-other, not father!

Scientifically speaking, Feminine primacy stands true in that every soul is born into a female body, with this originating embryonic blueprint remaining so for the first 9 weeks. Around this time of gestation, for boys the developing clitoris forms the penis and the vagina’s lips seal together to create the scrotum. This biological truth bomb has been known for longer than you might imagine. In her 1973 book, The Nature & Evolution of Female Sexuality, Dr. Mary Jane Sherfey writes, “The innate femaleness of mammalian embryos was firmly established between 1957-58 (with, of course, over fifteen years of prior research); but the biologists recorded the fact with little comment.” This confronting, feminine truth did not flourish in the collective zeitgeist, for it was too confronting to established, patriarchal beliefs and the Patriarchal Establishment they were beholden to.

There is a hidden clue in the word man that sheds light on embryonic gestation from female to male. Man is appended to the seed syllable ma, which, cross-culturally, means mother. Ma, as Mother, is found in Hindu Goddess Kali Ma, or Dark Mother, Chinese & Taiwanese Mother Goddess Mazu, Zoroastrian Moon Goddess Mah, Roman Fertility Goddess Maia, and Egyptian Goddess of Truth Ma‘at. Ma is also the prefix for Mary, Magdalene, maiden, matron, matriarch, and, my favourite, mama. She is the root, she is the beginning, just as we see in wom(b)-an. And when reversed, Ma is Am! The word man growing out of ma can be considered a tidy linguistic clue that feminine begets masculine, or embryonic boy grows from embryonic girl; a stark and ideologically troublesome contrast to Eve being born from Adam’s rib.

“Man was first formed, and elsewhere he shows their superiority.” ~ The disturbingly misogynistic Homily 9 on First Timothy

There is further intriguing evidence for Feminine primacy. Science tells us that our mitochondria are inherited from our matrilineal line, not patrilineal. Existing within each of our 50 trillion cells, mitochondria are the power generators for our body, converting glucose and sunlight into adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, what’s considered our most important molecule. Mitochondria “are the biggest determinant of whether we are healthy or sick, and on a bioenergetic level, whether we feel full of anima, vitality, radiance and life force,” writes Dr. Azra Bertrand (his italics). “Mitochondrial failure is at the root of nearly every modern chronic disease, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune issues, and many more.”

Even more clear evidence for Feminine primacy lies in the fact that our blood, as well, comes from the matrilineal line. This sacred, maternal, biological elixir begets our early baptism of placenta and embryo, nourishing us into life. Easy to forget or overlook, it’s humbling to remember that blood, like milk, is of the mother, not father.  

Divine Feminine primacy, indeed. A primordial womb consciousness inherent to all; one that terrifies the patriarchal dark forces who have attacked, misappropriated, twisted and concealed it for millennia, while pretending to be our loving parent-god.

Prior to being “taken” as Zeus’s wife, Hera was a primary deity of worship in feminine cultures throughout Greece, above and beyond any male counterpart. Hera, the older sibling of Zeus, is the Goddess of women, family, marriage and childbirth, with epithets of Queen of Heaven, The Noble One and Giver of All. Her temple in Olympia, the Heraion, built c. 600 BCE, is much older than Zeus’s in the same city, estimated to be built about 150 years later. Argos claims to be her birthplace, as does Samos, with both locations being principle locations of temple worship at one time. Her temple in Samos, Peter Kingsley writes, “was famous throughout the Greek world. During the sixth century BC it was vastly enlarged and rebuilt; the new design was based on Egyptian models.”

Even after being forcibly married to Zeus during the Bronze Age courtesy of priestly scribes, around the 13th century BCE, she continued for some time to take centre stage. Marija Gimbutas writes, “In sanctuaries and pictorial representations, Hera is shown in the central position; she occupies the throne, not Zeus who stands at her side.” Baring and Cashford draw our attention to one specific example in which we see the power dynamic reversed from its Classical, patriarchal structure. It appears on a C5 BCE metope (a rectangular slab on the outside of Doric temples) located at the Temple of Hera in Sicily. Hera stands over the seated Zeus with the commanding authority of a Goddess in her Divine Feminine power. Her arm raised, the god leans backwards passively, in a suppliant pose. 

Hera is indeed Queen of Heaven, but she is also Queen of the Underworld — a Snake Goddess in her own right! In many of her artistic portrayals — sculptures and descriptions, her “hair curls like snakes… and a snake winds or zigzags vertically in the middle of her skirt.” But with the rise of patriarchy, her feminine, serpentine essence, her power as a leading, influential presence, became veiled. “Archaic features to be found in portrayals of Hera betray much that links her with the Old European Snake Goddess. Both, Hera and Athena, are true heiresses of the Old European pantheon.” 

The pattern is clear, is it not? For those with eyes to see, his-story is a painful tale of the determined pursuit to conceal, refashion or misappropriate the Goddess, to turn her into a subservient model for political purposes. Gods usurp Goddesses and roles twist, such that gods are now divine birthers to fear and obey, and Goddesses are iron-clad soldiers, demoted, like Mary Magdalene, on the heavenly hierarchy. In the case of Hera, she became wrathful and resentful towards her philandering, belligerent husband, a rebellious soul fighting for her cherished independence. The sovereign Goddess she once knew herself to be, the warm, maternal presence who created safe, life-giving passage for birthing mothers and their newborns, became armoured, not with iron, but searing pain. Her relationship with Zeus was not one of sacred marriage, an image of love others could be inspired by, but strenuous, bitter discord, in which man, like Jesus over Mary, was the dominant figure.

It is from these distorted images that a pained and divided consciousness, mirroring its mythology infused into the wider fabric of culture, is molded into being.      

Riane Eisler speaks powerfully to this assault on the Divine Feminine. In her provocative book, The Chalice & The Blade, she shares piercing, sober words that succinctly encapsulate and summarize the rise of arrogant Greek male minds and their capture of the Snake Goddess; words that can easily apply to other conquered Goddess religions, other dominator cultures:

“Thus, in Greek mythology, at the side of Olympian Zeus the serpent becomes a symbol of the new power… This appropriation of the serpent by Greece’s new Indo-European overlords served very practical political purposes. It helped to legitimize the power of the new rulers. Through the disorienting effects of finding a powerful symbol that once belonged to the Goddess in alien hands, it also served as a constant reminder of the defeat of the Goddess by the conqueror’s gods of violence and war.” 

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Prior to being coopted into patriarchal Greek mythology, Medusa, as a Libyan Snake Goddess, was “depicted as having birds resting on her head or shoulder.” Even the Greeks sometimes portrayed her with wings, as seen on the aforementioned vase. Athene or Athena, Goddess of wisdom, is frequently shown with a wise Owl on her head, shoulder or arm, a creature of the still, feminine night. Snake, as we know, was her other sacred animal, woven into much of her imagery: “Portrayals of Athena on black- or red-figure vases of Ancient Greece reveal her intimacy not only with birds but also with snakes.” Thus, Athena mirrors Medusa’s iconography of Bird and Snake. And we should not forget Demeter, seated in her winged chariot pulled by Serpents. In the Goddess of the Harvest we further see a connection between these two mythic animals. 

The union between the Snake Goddess and Bird Goddess is “old and intimate,” writes Marija Gimbutas, evidenced by widespread archeological findings. “The presence of the Bird and Snake Goddess is felt everywhere — on earth, in the skies and beyond the clouds, where primordial waters lie.” Gimbutas also shares, “The Snake Goddess and the Bird Goddess appear as separate figures and as a single divinity. Their functions are so intimately related that their separate treatment is impossible. She is one and she is two, sometimes snake, sometimes bird.”

Barbara Mor and Monica Sjöö, in their passionate book The Great Cosmic Mother, remind us that Birds are part of the reptile family, with close relations to the Crocodile. Athena, like Medusa, as well as Demeter and certainly more, are Reptilian Goddesses of Snake & Bird!

Like their winged family members, Snakes lay eggs. In fact, “around 70 percent of all known species of snakes are oviparous,” writes this author. And, as Mor and Sjöö rightly point out, “the egg belongs to the Goddess.”

But there is another connection between Snake and Bird, one few know of that adds to the mystique of our slithering animal friend. In Asia there are flying or gliding Snakes known as Chrysopelea. “They are a genus of the family Colubridae, the largest snake family (making up) 51% of all known living snakes,” writes this author. “There are 5 species of flying snake, which inhabit jungles, forests and woodlands of South and Southeast Asia. They can ‘fly’ from trees gliding as far as 330 feet (100 metres).” They do so by flattening their ribs once leaping from a high branch, doubling the width of their bodies, and then gracefully undulating as they fall through the air to create a majestic, serpentine gliding motion. 

Like certain Birds, certain Snakes are also of the water. They share the aquatic realms with all sorts of wading and diving winged ones, like Ducks, Pelicans, Swans and Cormorants. This further speaks to the mystical nature of the Snake & Bird Goddess, her place as a “universal water divinity,” to use words from Marija Gimbutas. She as Creatrix dwells in the primeval seas, the amniotic fluid of Sophia’s black womb, the watery abyss, that make up so many of the creation myths across our world. She is the Goddess of the still, living waters from which life springs and to which all life returns. 

And so it is, that Snake is of the sunlit land, Earth’s dark, cold underworld spaces, the fluid waters, and the bright, spacious sky.

Take a moment to enjoy the stunning, short video below showing Snake’s majestic flight. I also encourage you to click here and breathe in how gracefully these animals swim in the wild seas. Their sinuous, aquatic elegance, their mastery in the ocean currents, I find moving.

Truly, with an undulating body that shapes itself after waves (and the underworld), it only makes sense that Snakes find their home in the watery abyss.  

Beyond Greece and Libya, we find other ancient deities that bridge Snake and Bird, either as a single God/dess or duo.

For the Toltecs of Mesoamerica, Quetzalcoatl was the “Feathered Serpent,” the God of wind and rain, and creator of humanity and the world. (Quetzalcoatl was Kukulcan in Mayan culture.) At the Egyptian gate in Pushkin, Russia, there is a beautiful fragment showing the Goddess Ma’at who tends to cosmic order, truth and justice. Graced by her traditional large feathered wings (similar to Isis), she is shown holding two Ankhs. One is regular size, the other is long, like a staff, with a spiralling Serpent wrapped around it, coiling down to her left fingertips. In Egypt, during the Fifth Dynasty, Horus, the Hawk god, presided over the heavenly realms, while Seth, the Serpent god, ruled the subterranean realm.

Also in Egypt, as stated, Wadjet was the Cobra Goddess of Lower Egypt; yet it is the Vulture Goddess Nekhbet who was the Heavenly Queen of Upper Egypt. Though split between Upper and Lower, together they served as one Divine Feminine force, as the Snake & Bird Goddess. “The serpent and the vulture… often framed the entrances to temples, one on either side, symbolizing the union of the two lands and, more generally, the union beyond duality required in the heart for contemplation.”

What if Lower symbolizes the dark, chthonic underworld of death, from which we are reborn into newfound heavenly f-light represented by the Upper? What if Lower signifies the quiet kundalini base where the Serpent rests and rises, an ascent into the Upper dimensions of our being, the transcendent winged-Angel we are that our crown chakra opens us to?

Indeed, what if the Snake & Bird Goddesses of old reveal the sacred unity between the underworld and heavens, Earth and Spirit, a wholeness embodied and lived in the lunar cultures of Palaeolithic and Neolithic times?

Which brings us back to the caduceus, the Snake & Bird, the Serpent rising into ascended flight. 

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In ancient Greece, the Temple of “Apollo” at Delphi housed the Pythia priestesses, named after the mystical Python slayed and tossed deep into its chamber by the sun god Apollo. Greek legend tells us that Zeus sent two of his royal messengers, Golden Eagles, east and west, in opposite directions, and where they met was the location of Delphi. (This reflects the Norse myth of Odin sending out his two Ravens, Huginn and Muninn, each day to collect information.)

This was the original founding of the temple site. Intoxicating fumes from the dead Python rose to the Pythia who sat on a tall tripod above, subsuming herself in them, and casting oracular words of the transcendent Apollo who spoke through the Serpent mist… or so the story goes. The Pythia provided sage, prophetic guidance to everyone from kings to laypersons, on matters from war strategy and political affairs to domestic issues and spiritual empowerment. (According to the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, it was Apollo who gifted Hermes the golden caduceus.)

The great Greek philosopher and polymath Pythagoras (ca. 570—490 BCE) was named after the Pythia. His father, Mnesarchus, according to the Neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus (ca. 242—325 CE), visited the Oracle at Delphi, and she told him prophetic words that “his wife was now with child… a son who would surpass all who had ever lived in beauty and wisdom.” Upon realizing this truth in living flesh with his wife Parthenia back home at Sidon in Phoenicia, the name Pythagoras was given to the newborn in honour of the priestess. It’s a combination of Pythias and Agora, the latter deriving from “ageirein,” meaning “to gather.” Agoras in ancient Greece were important public gathering centres for all sorts of activities.

Now that we’ve covered the mainstream his-story of this temple, here is a second version, the her-story we aren’t told in our literature, schools and elsewhere.

What if the Pythia worked independent of any male sun god — the fictional Apollo in this case — in the still, dark womb chamber of Gaia? What if Divine Feminine sovereign power was the true origin and life unfoldment of the Oracles prior to patriarchal religion, ideals and hegemony; prior to the conquering of Goddess cultures of Old Europe?

Considered the most sacred site to the ancient Greeks, Delphi / the temple was a psychic power centre for the Divine Feminine, and a womb portal. Quoting this author, “The name Delphi comes from the same root as δελφύς, or ‘womb,’ and may indicate the veneration of Gaia since the enormous cliff with a huge cleft in it near the site was referred to as ‘the womb of the world.’” Aeschylus, the classical Greek playwright of 5th century BCE, wrote in the prologue of the Eumenides that Delphi and the Oracles were originally about the worship of the Goddess. The Pythia were womb shamanesses and Snake Goddesses communing with Mother Earth and this sacred animal.

A sacred mound-shaped stone, or omphalos, meaning navel, was located in the innermost sanctuary of the temple. Many saw Delphi as being the centre of the world, with the omphalos considered the navel of the Earth. Through the omphalos and womb energy of the land and dim temple chamber, one connected to the Mother Goddess. 

Her-story tells us that Pythagoras (commonly believed to be born in Samos, Greece, not Phoenicia) visited Delphi where he learned ethics and wisdom from one of the Oracle priestesses, Themistoclea. Like Socrates, who, according to Plato’s Symposium, was taught “the philosophy of love” by the priestess Diotima of Mantinea, Pythagoras was guided by a wise woman. (Maresilio Ficino, an Italian scholar and Catholic priest of the Middle Ages, suggested Diotima never existed, discrediting her as a prominent influence in the life of Socrates. A woman, after all, according to the androcentric creed, could never hold the wisdom of the ages and be a guiding force in a man’s life.) From Themistoclea’s Serpentine Spirit and heart womb wisdom, in resonance with that of the temple and land, she initiated Pythagoras into being the “Father of Philosophy”; for it is he, with her help, who coined the word philosophy. Deriving from the Greek philos, φίλος, and sophia, σοφία, it means lover of wisdom. We can therefore imagine how much the Snake Goddess not only shaped the wisdom of Pythagoras, but also inspired his vast legacy of teachings — like sacred geometry (Pythagoras’ theorem) — that we are the beneficiaries of today.

Perhaps the Father of Philosophy was not given the name Pythagoras at birth, but rather he changed his name to Pythagoras after visiting the Oracle. So moved he was by Themistoclea’s sage guidance, he chose a name to reflect and honour her Pythianic consciousness of love and wisdom, received in the agora of the sacred temple. 

Like many sacred pagan sites throughout the patriarchal kingdom, the holy Temple of Delphi was eventually “censored.” It was forbidden in 394 CE by Roman Emperor Theodosius who lived according to the will of his jealous god who tolerated no competition, certainly not from heathens of the Goddess religion. As we recall: “You must completely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess have served their gods.”

And with this oppression of the Snake Goddess who dwelt in the dark womb of Mother Earth, great truth was replaced by a great lie; feminine rebirthing wisdom by stale male myth and liturgy. The light of the sun god Apollo rose On High, far above wise, wild darkness, as his story and his-story grew in expanding, deceptive in influence.  

“A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them.” (Leviticus 20:27)

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Since we know that Snakes can fly, we can creatively imagine them with wings, legs and feet — as glorious Dragons, soaring, colourful Serpents that, like Snakes, love swimming the deep primordial seas.

In ancient Sumer, now southern Iraq, a Divine Feminine culture dating to at least 5000 BCE, the Dragon Nammu was the Creatrix Goddess of the primeval sea. Her ideogram being the sea itself portrayed her home in the dark, chthonic waters. Merlin Stone tells us that Nammu was known as “She who gives birth to heaven and earth,” as well as “the Mother of all deities.” Others suggest her epithet was “Mother of Everything.” Later, in Babylonia, which came into power c. 2000 BCE, the saltwater Dragon Goddess Tiamat became syncretized with Nammu after said nation conquered its Sumerian neighbour to the south. Like Nammu, Tiamat was the primordial Dragon Mother of All who birthed creation from the womb of her sacred body. She was the essence of all living things who live inseparable from their holy mother. 

With the rise of patriarchal hegemony in Babylonia, Tiamat, and by extension Nammu, was absorbed into a violent mythology that turned the Dragon Mother into a monster to slay. The story is told in the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Epic of Creation, which, significantly, as will be further discussed, translates to “When On High.” In the epic, Tiamat is usurped by the new high god, Marduk, who happens to be her great, great, great grandson. He as “the Son of the Sun,” rather than She who dwells in Amniotic Darkness, becomes the focal point of the new patriarchal religion. 

The Enuma Elish is unreserved in depicting the vicious details of Marduk’s conquest over his great, great, great grandmother, a victory that allows him to take the throne over Tiamat, who “hath conceived a hatred over us.” Recited annually near the time of the spring equinox on the fourth day of the Babylonian New Year festival, collective voices sought to empower Marduk in his destruction of the Dragon Goddess: 

And unto Tiamat, whom (Marduk) had conquered, he returned.
And the lord stood upon Tiamat’s hinder parts,
And with his merciless club he smashed her skull.
He cut through the channels of her blood,
And he made the North wind bear it away into secret places.
His fathers beheld, and they rejoiced and were glad;
Presents and gifts they brought unto him.

Marduk, like Zeus, was associated with Jupiter, derived from the ancient Rig-Vedic sky god Dyaus Pitar, meaning Heaven-Father (Zeu/Ju-Pitar; though we can possibly correlate Zeus with deus, as well, Latin for god). Marduk would be praised Babylonian “king of all the gods” for restoring order from chaos in the destruction of Tiamat, the “chaos monster.” So great he was, that he took over the functions, or “stations,” traditionally held by the gods of the older Sumerian pantheon. Marduk rules the sky now, previously the domain of An, as well as the air, the domain once held by Enlil, and the Earth, the former domain of Enki. Under Marduk, Enki becomes Ea, An retains his name, and Enlil disappears, with the former two relegated to being lesser gods under the new king, the “director of the gods.” Under this hierarchy, Marduk rules not only the heavens, but the Abzu, meaning abyss or sea, as well as the underworld. The male god claims for himself the dark amniotic waters and chthonic earth, the traditional birthing realms of Dragon Mothers. Having taken control of all three domains — Heaven, Earth and underworld, humans are to serve Marduk and his gods, relieving them of their burdens, not the other way around.  

While Zoroastrianism and the earlier Vedic religion influenced religions to the west, the Enuma Elish is likely the most influential solar mythology of all. Assyrian, Canaanite, Hittite, Greek and Roman cultures, as Baring and Cashford elucidate so well, all adopted some of its iconography and motifs. For example, Marduk was associated with thunder, lightening and storms. The Canaanite god Ba’al was a storm god, as was Yahweh who was also associated with thunder and lightening. The weapon of choice for Zeus, called Jupiter by the Romans, was his mighty thunderbolt. Following the lead of Marduk, all these gods were sky or sun gods who dwelt “On High,” whether on clouds, mountaintops, or in Heaven. Though Zeus, like Marduk, was the supreme god, the Sumerian hierarchy shaped the Greek pantheon such that sky god Zeus generously shared powers with his two brothers: the sea god Poseidon, equated to Enlil (also of the air), and underworld god Hades, equated to Enki. Zeus thus took the image and powers of An, Sumerian sky god.        

Another syncretization between the Enuma Elish and later religious traditions is found in the word Tehom, a Hebrew word meaning The Deep. Mentioned a number of times in the Bible, Tehom is the chaotic waters or abyss that Yahweh brings to order: “Thou dost rule the raging of Tehom.” (Psalm 89:9). Tehom is not original to Hebrew mythology, but derives from the older word Tiamat, just like the theme of conquering the Great Below and her wild Sea Dragon originates in Mesopotamia. 

In yet another clear syncretization between the Enuma Elish and Hebrew Bible we find how Marduk, after killing Tiamat:

made the stations for the great gods;
The stars, their images, as the stars of the Zodiac, he fixed…
The Moon-god he caused to shine forth, the night he entrusted to him…

Marduk then commanded the Sun-god “to traverse her way.”

The parallels stand out unequivocally in Psalm 74:13-14: “You (Yahweh) stirred up the sea with your own strength. You smashed the heads of dragons in the water. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness….” And just a few versus later, “The day is yours (Yahweh), and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.”

The mythologem (reoccurring motif) of gods slaying Dragons spread west from Babylon where it was incorporated into the later mythologies of some of the mentioned religious cultures, as well as others. In Canaan, Yam fell to the club of the storm god Baal, and in Anatolia, Illuyanka was slayed by the Hittite sky and storm god Tarḫunz. In the Hebrew culture, the “demon” Leviathan was killed by Yahweh, and in Greek myth, Typhon was murdered by Zeus and Ladon by Hercules. There is also the story of the medieval, chivalric knight Saint George, considered the prince of the martyrs by some, who saves a princess and town from a hungry Dragon by killing the beast. And then there is Archangel Michael, who, as told in Revelation 12, defeats the Dragon named “deceiver of the whole world” in a “war in heaven” with help from his army of angels.  

In all these cases, the enemy is the formidable Dragon, and one generally considered male. Contrary to popular belief, Merlin Stone, through her years of extensive on-site research, offers evidence that, at least in some cases, he-Dragon is a she. Stone suggests that Leviathan, the Serpent of darkness, was not male, but a Goddess; as does John A. Phillips who draws a comparison between Tiamat and Leviathan’s “female forces and powers.” Stone also draws a similar conclusion for Illuyanka, the Hittite Dragon: that the underworld creature is no god, but a watery Goddess.

Ladon, also depicted as male, guards the trees of golden apples within the Garden of the Mother Goddess Hera and the Hesperides, the sacred nymphs and Goddesses of the Earth. Perhaps Ladon is not a he, but a she-Dragon who knows the Garden as her own sacred body, coiling ever-so gracefully around her grove of trees. She guards their fruiting bodies that bear the nectar of immortality, with the fruit, trees of life, and Garden all being ancient symbols of the Goddess. Turning to Yam, this Canaanite Dragon is portrayed as a male god, yet “he” presides over the primordial dark seas, which, like the Garden, has always been the province of the Goddess. The Dragon even bears the name of The Mother’s primeval image, with Yam being a Semitic word meaning sea.

Which leaves us with Greek Typhon and the Dragons killed by Saint George and Michael (and there are others I did not mention). We can only speculate their gender, and certainly it’s worth wondering about, at least for myself — because historians and archeologists, mostly male, have, for the most part, understood the world through interpretive bias, with masculinity or his-story being a dominant filter. The true, suppressed her-story of the Serpent has not been recognized, let alone honoured; nor has the Tehom, the primordial, womb darkness, which, as we know, belongs to the Goddess. Furthermore, there has been little understanding of the rise of androcentric, dominator cultures crushing the Divine Feminine, personified as Dragons of Dark Primeval Seas. Building on this point, nor has there been much contemplation over that fact that most of the Dragons mentioned, if not all, were conceived in the image of their distant predecessor, Tiamat-Nammu, the primordial Creatrix who Marduk, “with his merciless club he smashed her skull.” She and her blood-curdling plight were their “prototype.” Thus, to this day, most men — historian, archeologist, or otherwise, have yet to acknowledge, in their minds and hearts, the archaic mythologem of Snake Goddesses and Dragon Mothers being twisted into demons to slay by male sky and solar gods. 

To this mythological, religious-cultural theme of Serpent conquest we have yet another version to add, quite possibly influenced by the Enuma Elish: the Egyptian saga of sun god Ra and his nightly battle with Apep, the demonic sea Dragon and chief chthonic monster of the Egyptian cosmogony. Later known as Apophis in Greece, this formidable Serpent is responsible for chaos, destruction — death, for sweeping life into the realms of darkness each evening after dusk. One night to the next, Ra, “the self-created being,” travels into the underworld on his barque (boat) to conquer Apep, a battle in which the resilient Dragon does all “he” can to devour the solar god, and thus the luminous sun. With help from his trusty allies Ra defeats Apep each nightly descent, allowing the sun to rise at least one more day.

The universal balance between light and dark, represented by the Goddess Ma’at, is maintained. Her divine order is not disrupted by the disorder which the reviled Apep brings. This cyclical balance is accomplished not through the feminine way of honouring and trusting the inherent unity or wholeness of Creation, in which all phases of life, dark and light, are recognized as aspects of Great Mother’s rising and falling totality; rather, balance and order are brought about by destroying one aspect or polarity of life, the one seen as demonic and far below “On High.”

In this Egyptian myth, indeed, we find the way of divisive, domineering patriarchy, graphically encoded in fellow solar mythologies.

An illusion of control
is created,
one not disrupted by a
Cosmic Serpentine force,

She who dissolves the known
into the Unknown,

and thus the soul into the
still, deep and awesome night
of Mystery.

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Diving deeper into the mystery origins of Ra, we discover that in Greek ra is a root syllable carrying connotations of birth. Having the prefix mēt, meaning mother (mḗtēr), the Greek word for womb is mētRa (μήτρα). The Greek Goddess of childbirth is HeRa. Also in this language, womb translates to hysteRa (ὑστέρα), where we get our word hysterectomy from. We find mḗtēr in De-meter’s name, she who births agricultural life from dark, fertile soil — Gaia’s womb. The syllable root mēt is cognate with Mut, the Egyptian Vulture Goddess, hieroglyphically represented by both mother and death.

In Japanese mysticism and martial arts, the HaRa is the womb power centre, what Taoists call the lower Dan Tien, which translates to “the elixir of life field.” In Hebrew, me’aRa means cave, a womb symbol, and in the Bible me’arah is used to describe a burial place. The old Hebrew word kaRa, meaning hollow out, is related. To experience ourselves as hallow (rebirth), first we must give way to being hollow (death).

The Aramaic word aR’ā translates to earth or ground, and tellingly has connotations with inferiority. It forms other Aramaic earth-tomb-womb words like pagRā, meaning body, corpse or carcass; eqāRā, meaning root; and zeRa, meaning sow. And yet, also in Aramaic, sapiRa means good; šerāRā means truth; and nuhRā means light or illumination. This reflects other languages, like English, such as in our words Ray and Radiance, a broadcast of the Light of Truth. 

As you can see, ra invites us down into the dark, mysterious tomb-womb of reb-earth, and therefore into the Mother, from which we flower and radiate into new life. TerRa (Earth) provides further evidence for this, as does the Seraphic Womb Goddess Green TaRa. In Latin cultures, she is known as TaRahumaRa and Goddess TerRa. Caring deeply about us and our Earth Mother, the Ascended Master rebirths our earthbodies to root into a shared ecological consciousness with Sophia Gaia, and participate with her in our collective eco-ascension (see last link). 

And so, what if ra is first and foremost of The Mother, a sacred sound and energy pointing us to the Goddess of still, fertile blackness, rather than simply being a Serpent-slaying sun god? 

Speaking of The Mother, what if Israel, or Is-Ra-El, has hidden, esoteric meaning?

As the suffix to angEl, and four of the five Chief ArchangEls — MichaEl, RaphaEl, GabriEl & UriEl — El points us to our angelic divinity, the God/dess of our Soul, a Goddess which includes Sophia Gaia. Jesus was called ImmanuEl, meaning god with us in Hebrew, a title honouring him as the divine embodiment anchoring Heaven on Earth. El is cognate with Al, the suffix to Al-lat the original Goddess of the Arabic peoples before Al-lah; and it provides the root syllable for the english word All, as in All That Is and Yahweh’s title of “Al-mighty.”

El also provides the suffix for BabEl, as in Tower of Babel, which has Akkadian origins meaning Gateway to God. In Genesis 11, after the Almighty saw the multitude working together to build their city and tower while speaking a common language, he got very concerned. “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” The furious Lord descended, “confused their language” and “scattered them from there over all the earth.” This tale demonstrates how the dark forces fear strength through unity with one another and with the divine (via the Tower), and do everything to dumb and divide us. Divide and rule! (Some suggest the nefarious Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks with 63 members, such as the Federal Reserve, Bank of China, and Bank of England, is designed after the Tower of Babel. It’s headquartered in Switzerland, in BasEl — Basel/Babel!)

But I digress. Known as “Father of mankind” and “Creator of the creation,” El was the polytheistic high god of the Canaanite pantheon and the original god of the Hebrew people and Bible. He was Yahweh’s father, to whom he allotted an inheritance of land: Is-Ra-El. El’s gift to Yahweh, one of his 70 “divine sons,” allowed the aspiring deity to become the god of this future nation and its “chosen people” (Deuteronomy 32:8-9). In Hebrew scripture El is sometimes called El Elyon, meaning god Most High, or El Shaddai, meaning god Almighty. El becomes plural, god becomes gods, when Elohim. (In Hebrew, the suffix im appended to the root word usually causes it to be plural, with other examples being Seraph to Seraphim, Cherub to Cherubim, and Nephil to Nephilim.)

Piecing all this together, we can surmise that Is-Ra-El is the title of a land and its inhabitants that amalgamates Isis, Ra and El, in honour of deities from Egypt and Canaan. With close geographic proximity and established trade routes, these nations were tight trading partners and generally bore strong cross-cultural influence. Canaan, for example, was a major source of timber, wine, olive oil, textiles, resins for mummification, and other goods scarce in Egypt’s arid climate. The southern influence would eventually take a dark turn when, in the 15th century BCE, Egypt conquered Canaan, establishing a 350-year reign until about 1125 BCE.

There is another perspective, a far more esoteric one, of what could be encoded in Israel. What if Is-Ra-El means Seraphic Goddess Isis Rebirths (resurrects) the God/dess. In the story of Osiris’s death and resurrection, after his evil brother Seth tricks him into being encased in a dreadful box, the king of Egypt is tossed into the Nile River. (Some say the word satan comes from Seth or Set.) The box, or coffin, travels north to the Mediterranean Sea, and much further, eventually getting lodged in a tamarisk tree on the distant shores of Byblos in Canaan (today Lebanon). The king of Byblos hears of this intriguing tree (symbolic of the Tree of Life) and decides to have it be the central pillar in his opulent palace. Isis, who was away during the devious drama, discovers her tragic loss and waists no time boldly traveling to Byblos. She rescues her beloved and sails him home to Egypt back across the Mediterranean and along the Nile.

More drama would follow regarding Seth; however, to make a long story short, using her alchemical, healing magick, the Goddess resurrects her husband from the dead. Like Orion from the east, the Seraphic Lord of the Underworld rose as a light unto the world, initiated by Sirius/Isis, the Goddess of Rebirth. 

Isis, Is, rebirths, Ra, Osiris, El. And it is this same Seraphic Goddess energy that grows on our planet now, rebirthing us anew, giving rise to the Seraphic El/Al within.

As we will see, Canaan/Palestine/Israel has deep chthonic roots in the Serpent (Seraphic) Goddess of death and rebirth. Further east, she was once known as Nammu and Tiamat, but she shone in other forms and with many other names. The Goddess would migrate westward from Mesopotamia to Canaan during the wartime of second millennium BCE; yet, like Osiris and her Serpent predecessors, she/El would eventually be slayed, lost to the underworld. 

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“Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down — that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” (Revelation 12:7-9)

Just as Christian indoctrination has programmed us to call the ignominious, treacherous or wicked “witches,” it has incited us to use the pejorative labels “snakes” and “dragons.” It’s another way his-story has rebranded the truth of her-story and our pure divinity as evil. (From the Old English “wicce,” witch means “wise woman.”)

What we see in the legends of Serpent demonizing and slaying is the association of evil not only with the creature, but darkness, the Yin of feminine consciousness and its tomb-womb, watery underworld, that must be brought to (false) light. With this has come the association of evil with oppositional chaos, stirred by untamed seas and the malevolence of “chaos monsters / Dragons.” The chaos is the destructive aspect of the Dark Mother who brings the withering away or devouring of animal, vegetable, human and stellar life, and absorbs them back into her black womb. Chaos is also the uncertainty, confusion, pain and exhaustion experienced during one’s arduous initiation in the chrysalis, a cycle of life in which control is surrendered to the Great Void. The Divine Mother is therefore both womb and tomb, the Giver of All Life and She Who Taketh All Away. 

Dying and death, as lunar cultures knew and the waning moon teaches us, are phases of existence inseparable from life, the Totality of Being. The parts of ourselves deemed separate from the body of Sophia Christ dissolve and simultaneously integrate into the wholeness of Creation. In the solar mythologies of patriarchal cultures, this consciousness of unity became fragmented over time. Death not only separated from life, but became the enemy. Anything or anyone that represented the Dark Mother, like Serpent Goddesses, needed to be conquered so the sun or sky god remained completely in control, in the know, as the primordial risen force.    

The negative view of chaos as something to overpower versus accept, if not surrender to, was projected onto women, particularly during the Middle Ages at the height of the Roman Catholic Empire. Women were seen as emotionally volatile, dark and mysteriously dangerous, ruled by the unpredictabilities of Nature (like a wily Garden Serpent), including sexual desire. They lacked the steadying influence of a rational, predictable mind. Only a rational, clear-thinking, stern male, who embodies more fully these attributes native to god, could bring rightful order to the chaotic female; just as the rod was needed for the wild child and “dominion” was needed for wild animals, all of whom’s spirit must be broken (Genesis 1:26). Rarely did it dawn upon the “rational” man that a woman’s emotionality (e-motion / energy in motion) is a cry from being unheard, unfelt, unseen, and thus unable to live true to her Divine Feminine nature — an innateness seen as evil since Eve’s original sin.  

Serpent Goddesses and women, as wild embodiments of Mother Nature and the Dark Feminine, were conflated in the derogatory sphere of being “chaos monsters” of evil (this was also mythologized in tales about the dangerously seductive Mermaid Goddess who lures sailors to their death). As the flesh of Earth herself, the fecund heath, they were sinful, ignoble, a projected unholiness “heathens” knew all too well. Serpent Goddesses and women have thus, for millennia, been anarchic creatures to subdue and rule over, with our solar mythologies and their political-priest class providing the graphically detailed script for conquering both.

In slaying the wild Serpent and claiming her chaotic underworld a divine moral order is restored. In the Babylonian Enuma Elish, the Tablets of the Law represent this higher order (sometimes called the Tablet of Destinies). They once belonged to Dragon Mother Tiamat, she who created and sustained life with Natural Order. In balance and harmony, the moon and sun, like Heaven and Earth, danced as one in the endless rise and fall of the seasons of things. With Marduk coming to power, he stole the Tablets away from Tiamat to impose his new and exclusive hierarchal order, replacing the one that was always inclusive of all life. In this, a greater good could prevail. Reminiscent of our rulers today, the “rationale” of perceived order and goodness is not brought about through peaceful means, a peace that unifies, but by bringing blood-thirsty, bone-crushing chaos that further divides.

Upper is victorious over lower, and war and its hero-gods are exalted and glorified, much like how war criminals have statues erected of them and skyscrapers are risen in a ruthless president’s name. Kings of Patriarchy triumph over the Divine Feminine of Serpent and Women, she who roots in the tomb-womb of fertile darkness. This widens the dualism between Heaven and Earth, masculine and feminine, dark and light, spirit and flesh, death and life, “our/God’s side” and the “enemy” — a false, constructed separation that fosters collective psychosis, which means split.

With the conquest of lunar consciousness by imbalanced solar might a new story is told. In it, “the god becomes the maker of heaven and earth whereas the goddess was heaven and earth.” The two words are italicized by Baring and Cashford to further emphasize that, with Father god, what is made from him is understood as separate, whereas what’s birthed from Great Mother is part of her boundless body, the body of Sophia Christ; much like how a mother intuitively feels her children as part of her body even after birth, and how Corn Mother Demeter was indistinguishable from the seed of her daughter Persephone. With the Father god mythology, Heaven is divorced from Earth, and spirit from flesh and nature, creating a sense of superiority of the former and inferiority of the latter — “the other.” With the Divine Mother of All Life, however, there exists only sacred unity, a universal body bound by love, where each holographic part is blessed with being in the “image and likeness” of Sophia, the Totality of Existence.  

Father god mythologies, when identified with, veil us from the body of Sophia Christ and our immanent divinity; and they engender fear, a fear that needs to control and hang on to life, and order it in a certain way. These are the distortions and fragmentations needed for the demons to rule, to order life for us, the fearful many, in a certain way. (The word government literally means to govern the mind: govern-mental.) We not only disconnect from our sovereign divinity, but we lose sight of the original sacred image and purpose of the Snake Goddess as faithful guide and rebirther through the dark night. Altogether, this creates an amnesic, disembodied species who cannot see, yet be a living testament to, how death feeds life. 

With this understanding of his-story, it becomes clear why the rebirthing tomb-womb underworld, the domain of the Snake Goddess, has become hell. We’ve forgotten the true origin and meaning of the word, it’s been veiled from within the collective psyche (a Greek word meaning both soul and butterfly). Hell comes from the Proto-Indo-European kel, meaning to cover, conceal or save. In Norse mythology, the cognate Hel is not only the womb underworld, but the Goddess who presides over it. She is Hel! 

All this pernicious lust for order helps us better understand today’s pyramid of power, and how the predator class, via their puppet governments, are systematically imposing a top-down new world order. They do so in the most underhanded, deceitful ways, while following the ancient map, or blueprint, of solar mythologies. First, they manufacture the chaos or hell needed: plandemics, terrorist attacks (9/11), “natural” disasters like Lahaina (using directed energy weapons), and so forth. They create the chaos monster, a “Serpent enemy” that, we are told through repetitive media propaganda, is a “mounting threat” that requires “slaying.” “She’s” the “deadly” Covid virus, the “climate crisis” (Lahaina’s “wildfire” blamed on climate change), Iran’s “destructive nuclear capabilities” (though concealed is Israel’s secret nuclear program), and on it goes.

Drawing upon the Enuma Elish, the “Serpent,” we are told, is “evil,” has “hatred for us,” and “rageth, full of wrath.” Isn’t the virus and climate crises “full of wrath,” so to speak? Isn’t Iran “evil,” full of “hatred” for the western world, a myth sold by the very forces of evil who have unspeakable hatred for all humankind, and who only serve to benefit from this grotesque lie? Wasn’t this the wicked image sold to Babylonians of their loving Dragon Mother Tiamat, a myth baked into the collective psyche annually during the festive recitation of the epic? 

Next, acting like saviour gods riding solar barques, our heroes swoop in and attempt to “slay” the “dangerous enemy” in our midst. Inevitably, in some way, we get pulled into the crisis via their “helpful solutions,” which is always The Plan. “Solutions” are implemented right on schedule, the ones they had prepared long before the orchestrated disasters struck: a “vaccine,” a “Smart” city blueprint (see Lahaina), carbon taxes, electric vehicles controlled centrally by AI, Agri-Tech farming, a war “on” terror, lockdowns and rationing, or a digital control grid — all steps needed for the technocratic new world order, the “Great Reset.”

Ordo ab Chao: Latin for Order out of Chaos, the motto of our overlords. Power is increasingly consolidated as the demons remain “On High,” secretly out of sight at the higher altitudes of the pyramid of power, while detached from the “lower” world, the hell where so many of the “inferior” struggle to make ends meet.   

Generally speaking, there is nothing new under the sun. This deceptive, violent pattern is ancient, and, again, it’s unequivocally encoded in our solar mythologies and scripture. In her seminal work God: An Anatomy, Francesca Stavrakopoulou writes, “In the Bible, the battle is fought between Yahweh and the aqueous chaos monster, whose various names attest to its dangerously disordered, unbounded nature… In several biblical texts, Yahweh is praised for ‘driving back’ Yam, ‘breaking the heads of the sea monsters’, piercing Rahab’, ‘smashing the heads of the Leviathan’, dismembering and ‘cutting openings’ in the corpse of chaos ‘for springs and torrents’.” Yahweh, in his pursuit of life being a certain way, is praised as a relentless war god with nothing of the mercy he claims to emanate. 

In the Enuma Elish, which, as stated, greatly influenced the character of Yahweh and biblical stories, we read of Marduk, who “With his unsparing mace he crushed (Tiamat’s) skull.” The Assyrian god, Erra, “Lord of Plague & Carnage,” let out the following battle cry to summon bloodshed in Babylon, conquered in 745 BCE: “Respect no god! Fear no man! Put to death young and old alike, the suckling and the babe — leave not anyone!” Notice how much this sounds like Deuteronomy 2:34: “We conquered all his towns and completely destroyed everyone — men, women, and children. Not a single person was spared.” Yahweh, with his penchant for punitive plagues, like the Plague on the Firstborn, may have adopted this strategy from Erra, “Lord of Plague.”  

Given the repetitive, age-old power of these motifs, how much space they take in the collective psyche, how easily they shape minds, should we be surprised to hear Pete Hegseth’s March 2026 Prayer Service carrying these same barbarous themes; a “prayer,” a battle cry, recited from the same ancient Script? He said, “They cried for help, but there was none to save. They cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them. I beat them fine as dust before the wind. I cast them out like the mire of the streets.” Do you hear the same poetic drama, the same war drum beating the rhythms felt in older gods of war?

Violence is glorified to rally the warrior spirit into endless battles on behalf of god, wherein hardened soldiers rape, plunder, and steal victims into slavery (with children of war today taken into the international Epstein web). Warriors of god unwittingly do the bidding of hidden, dark forces who rule through the frequency captured king, emperor, politician, or others of power. Though there is bravery, there is very little that’s noble in their military service, for it serves not the innocent, but the ruthlessly powerful whose thirst for more is never quenched.

Former U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger (1923 — 2023), an international war criminal and author on books on AI, and one called World Order, made this reality clear when he said, “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” Kissinger was largely responsible for orchestrating the Vietnam war, a war that killed 3 million Vietnamese and 50,000 Americans, a war in which he sought “peace with honour” — a war catalyzed by a monstrous lie. There was no attack by Vietnamese torpedo boats on U.S. destroyers, just as there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or Kuwaiti babies pulled out of incubators by Iraqi soldiers, more monstrous fabrications that catalyzed Gulf War II and I, respectively. In 1973, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  

“My message is, I can see in my mind’s eye, there was rows and rows of white stones of all the hundreds of my friends and everybody else that gave their lives for what? The country of today. No, I’m sorry. The sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.” ~ Alex Penston, 100-year-old British WWII Veteran who shared on Good Morning Britain, with great public reaction, his heartbreaking thoughts on the futile nature of the war 

Orchestrating it all are the disincarnate demons, whose consciousness of us-versus-them terror strengthens and proliferates across the Earth, as it has for at least 5,000 years. Chaos monster Saddam Hussein, like Osama Bin Laden blamed for 9/11, both western intelligence assets, and countries like Iran, are just a continuation of the myth of “the other” that we must collectively believe so the AI order, sold as “ordained order,” is imposed.

This is cruel his-story, the “higher cause” Netanyahu referred to that serves the “exalted” one percent.  

And so it’s been, that the wild, untamed underworld of Gaia and the amniotic black womb of Sophia, the very places we go for death and rebirth, are a threat to the false light of sun and sky gods / “Olympians”; to a false, inverted and perverted Yang-masculine terrified of darkness and divorced from the feminine. The gods of false light take control of the chaotic underworld, but, like our rulers today, mostly remain “On High” on mountains like Sinai, Zaphon, Zion and Olympus, or hovering amongst clouds, enthroned in heaven, or riding in solar boats, as in the case of Ra.

The underworld of our emotional, sexual body, our temple of death and rebirth, is, by extension, also seen as evil. Its initiating messiness and wildness, too, must be put in “right,” oppressive, numbed order, notably through the medical mafia, or avoided altogether. A numbed, cold, ordered body/mind is more willing to take orders, such as from coercive medical tyrants pushing “vaccines,” or while in the military where we unquestioningly fight their brutal wars, ones they control and profit from on both “sides,” and that are used throughout history to reshape the global order.

“For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.” (Romans 7:18)  

The need to suppress and control the body extends outward to our relationship with Mother Earth, her flesh, her em-ocean-al body, she who is an extension of our earthbody. Her wild heaths and rivers, her sweet winds and rain, her initiating womb caves and moist soil — they are all under assault, more than ever before, by individuals completely disassociated from the Great Below. At its most extreme is the growing array of frequency weapons like HAARP, chemtrails and 5G towers that, among other consequences, destroy our precious bee and insect population.

The assault on the human-Earth-body also comes via the demonizing of carbon dioxide, the Gas of Life, under the guise of “human-caused global warming,” a fabrication engineered by the likes of the Rockefellers that has absolutely no basis in actual science (see last link). We are made to believe, as written in their Club of Rome report, that “The real enemy then is humanity itself.” We are to blame for their illusions and pseudo-science. Our carbon-based biologies, and the carbon body of Mother Earth, are purposely made evil so we better accept unnatural and unhealthy “solutions,” like lab-grown meat and becoming artificial ourselves as transhumanoids.  

The message is clear: Rather than being wild and untamed, like Mother Nature, our roaming Neolithic/Palaeolithic ancestors, or exuberant children who are “closest to God,” we must be perfect, sterile, ordered. We must behave a certain way, disconnected, like programmed robots, stoic, military-minded males, or a hard war god who tells us to “subdue” the Earth and “rule over” her creatures (Genesis 1:28). “Therefore, you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,” says Matthew 5:48. The perfection being asked of us via The Script cannot come down and in through the mysterious, sensual body of human and Earth, the messiness of grounded, natural life children thrive in. It cannot come through the curiosities and deep listening when exploring the unknown, an ungraspable Mystery within and surrounding us each moment. God’s “perfection” therefore cannot come by ecstatically embodying the divine presence of dancing willows, soaring Eagles, or raging rivers, the animating, non-dual presence of the Mother Goddess, the sacredness of Her body that is Life itself.

No, the “perfection of divine living” asked of us by patriarchal religion can only come by transcending it all. 

And we wonder why Evangelicals, contrary to the teachings of Jesus, care far more about posting the 10 Commandments in every classroom than feeding the poor (using 2 Thessalonians 3:10 as justification), or converting non-believers than increasing access to welfare programs. Christians, starting when young, are terrified of taking risks, for they are terrified of doing something wrong and thus being imperfect in god’s eyes. This paralyzes the curious child and inner child whose natural instinct follows the proclamation of Jesus, “seek and you shall find.” A transcendent perfection causes millions of Christians, still, to this day, to believe sex is a sin, but to hold obedience as a divine virtue. That is how you express your love for god. But not through the body, our earthen humus — adamah in Hebrew, related to Adam, with passionate sex being one of the most powerful gateways to God/dess.

Rise versus root is the destructive message concealed in god’s perfection. Seek only the luminous kingdom of god, and be saved from the sins of flesh, the sins of “demonic” ecstasy, and thus the sin of simply being born a curious child into this world. Pine and prepare for the long-anticipated “rapture,” from the Latin raptus, meaning to “carry off.” Pine and prepare for the coming hour and moment, the end of a long, linear Creation story… a moment that never comes, and never will.

Wait, in other words, wait to start truly living your life as an enraptured soul. And in the meantime, serve “god.”

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh.” (Galatians 5:16-17)

This is what has been asked of us by the inter-dimensional dark forces via their hierarchical, patriarchal order, a conspicuously inconspicuous command mythologized in scripture, and specifically in the stories of Serpent/Yin-slaying. It’s a cunning message that continues today in its most diabolical, hyper-masculine form to date: the transhuman myth, which seeks to slay all that is sacred and born, even to the point of having artificial wombs. Indeed, the anti-human, anti-nature, colonial, polarizing themes advance onward, driven by the hubris of unchecked, technological might; for it’s the same ruling demons ultimately drawing upon the same, time-tested Colonial Playbook. The Script!

See the ancient pattern and you see the progression, what David Icke calls the “totalitarian tip-toe.” From obeying in fear the commands of god’s heavenly tyranny, our evolution is being directed towards bowing to a demonic, AI-generated god whose biologically installed commands become our own. Obedience is no longer necessary when we literally merge with the “Singularity,” “the Beast,” in what is the complete inversion of hieros gamos, sacred marriage. 

“What is seen with the eyes of the Creator is masculine, and not feminine, for God does not stoop to look upon what is feminine and of the flesh.” ~ Selecta in Exodum (Fragments on Exodus), Patrologia Graeca 12, Column 296–297

Perhaps, in some cases, the intentions of the priest-scribe has been good, his pen dipped deep into esoteric, feminine truths darkness holds. Perhaps he has innocently used Serpents as representatives of venom — pain / trauma that needs transmuting into higher wisdom. Perhaps he has innocently used Serpents to represent the slippery, deceptive ego, or our shadow side (underworld), that we must overcome during our dark night of the soul. The slaying sun god finally descends, shining through the abyss as a force of Christ light transmutation, the bringer of the dawn. Like the sun, the initiate rises, born anew, resurrected from his dark night in the tomb-womb underworld, with body and mind divinized by holy light.

Maybe Ra, and other sun gods, are the great redeemers after all.

Maybe.

While this may be true in some myths and mystery traditions, it’s curious and deeply ironic that ra or Ra, meaning birth, would be chosen for a solar god’s name who slays the Serpent Goddess, She of the Womb. I’m open to the possibility that the name Ra was chosen innocently, infused by ancient knowledge I’m unaware of; however, we cannot overlook that this male god named after birth carries connotations to Zeus and Adam “birthing” Athena and Eve, respectively, along with the other examples mentioned.  

More broadly speaking, what is certain is the cross-cultural extent that Serpents, arguably more than any other creature, have been vilified, and the extent to which Serpent Goddess cultures have been destroyed. The pattern, inscribed or enacted, is unmistakable. Stamped out and profaned, we’ve lost touch with the sacred role that our Mothers, whether Snake or Dragon, have played as our Cosmic Rebirthers. To state what I hope is now obvious, this has been no accident, but deliberate; for our overlords do not want empowering, loving Goddesses as our Way Showers, but only they themselves through the elaborate fictions of their ruthless and terrifying solar kings. 

Indeed, with our Rebirthing Mothers slayed and unceremonially tossed into the fire of demonic androcentrism, what’s risen instead is the searing false light of demonic darkness. Dragons and Snakes have morphed into shadows of their true essence, devilish hell-realm creatures, “enemies of righteousness.” And by extension, like witches, the traditional healers and midwives of pagan culture, and Nature herself, so have all women.

They became the devil — dangerous, subdued and put in right order.

“The great dragon was hurled down — that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan.” (Revelation 12:9)

“What (a woman) cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one’s guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil.” ~ Saint Albertus Magnus, Dominican theologian, 13th century

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That the brilliant stars
are dwarfed by the
great sea of darkness

tells us

what is primordial
in Creation.

The Rosarium Philosophorum, a 16th-century alchemical treatise, offers a different story. Rather than the sun descending into demonic darkness to conquer it, its masculine / father presence surrenders to her. It experiences the esoteric process of alchemy, a word that comes from the Arabic al-kamiya, meaning divine chemistry or chemistry of god; and which has even deeper roots in Kemet, the original name of ancient Egypt. (Al-kamiya indicates another connection to El.)

In woodcut 12 (see last link), we see the sun’s descent into the mercurial bath. Mercury, in this case, is a philosophic principle, not the crude chemical. Associated with spirit / Æther, it’s one of three elements needed to create the Philosopher’s Stone, along with sulphur (soul) and salt (body). The Lapis Philosophorum is necessary to turn base metals, like tin and lead, into gold and silver; to complete the Magnum Opus, or Great Work. Gold, considered a regal metal (along with platinum), represents immortality in alchemic philosophy. (It also represents the Golden Age, or Satya Yuga using the Vedic cosmological term.) Awakened immortality is the Magnum Opus achieved by all avatars, derived from the Sanskrit avatāra, to descend. The universally celebrated Mahavatar (Great Avatar) Babaji is known as “The Immortal Yogi.”  

In Illumination (woodcut 12), we see the masculine sun descending into liquid mercury (a sun, interestingly, with wings). The philosophic mercurial principle represents the receptive feminine, and is symbolized by Dragons or Snakes; and its spirit (alcohol derived from fermentation) acts as a solvent. Rather than conquering the dissolving maternal sea, the sun/father/mascuine humbly sacrifices himself for the sacred — related words — so the Magnum Opus is achieved in unio mystica.  

As the text indicates, “Here Sol dies again and is drowned with the Mercury of the Philosophers.” He dies the philosophic death to Æther so he may know himself as eternal life. He fulfills the teaching of Jesus as the dying sun god born again from the alchemical womb of no-thing — the prima materia or First Mother, resurrected in newfound light. Jesus, along with Osiris, Horus and Mithra, are sacrificial solar deities with symbolic birthdates of December 25th. Each follows the sun’s annual, initiatory pilgrimage into chthonic alchemy. On winter solstice, the sun descends into the underworld and remains there at its lowest level for “three days and three nights.” On Christmas day, the Sun/Son of Goddess resurrects and is reborn anew, glorified through mystical death in the tomb-womb of still darkness. 

Noteworthy to this poetry of timeless wisdom is that the prefix of dissolving mer-cury means to die, and is related to mortal, mot in Hebrew, mourir in French, morire in Italian, and others. Mer is also the prefix of mer-ge (submerge / emerge), cognate with marry, as in sacred marriage. Mer / Mar also means sea and mother, and is in Mermaid (Maiden of the Sea) and Mary (Magdalene & Mother Mary). Further, the related mārē, in Aramaic, the Mother tongue of Jesus, is an honorific meaning master.  

Far less known is that mer is an ancient Egyptian word meaning love. We find it as the prefix to mer-kabah, the six-pointed star, commonly known as the Star of David. Mer+ka+bah essentially means light body of love, a sacred geometric pattern and consciousness perfectly woven into Archangel Metatron’s Cube. 

Mercury, therefore, invites us to mystically submerge and die in the tomb-womb (crucifixion), emerge (resurrect), and merge with (ascend into) the Amniotic Sea of the Mother, The Beloved, and the Master we are!

Mer and Mor just happen to wrap neatly around M-oth-er / Mo-the-r, a lovely surprise further revealing how death (tomb) and birth/life (womb) are encoded in the Feminine Mysteries of Divine Mother. Regarding Mer, if we remove these three letters from Mother, the remaining letters oth make up the entirety of Thoth (Greek Hermes). Egyptian Thoth is of Mer, Love, written in the ancient north African language. Taking this a step even further, my wild wordplay imagination cannot help but switch around the m and h of Hermes to get Merhes — Mer He Is, whose Roman counterpart, significantly, is the God Mercury.    

Weaving this all together, I close this section with these beautiful words from the alchemical treatise, in gratitude to C. G. Jung for his contribution:

“Then Beya (the maternal sea) rose up over Gabricus and enclosed him in her womb, so that nothing more of him was to be seen. And she embraced Gabricus with so much love that she absorbed him completely into her own nature, and dissolved him into atoms.” ~ The Conjunction, Rosarium Philosophorum

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“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjugation. But I suffer not a woman to teach or to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed and then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression…” (I Timothy 2:11-14)

We cannot appreciate the esoteric dimensions of the ancient Snake Goddess and her loss from human consciousness without returning to the biblical Garden of Eden, the perceived origins of the human story. On the one hand, this his-story, still believed by billions as being the literal ground of Creation, has created harrowing reverberations in the collective psyche and evolution, and yet it holds timeless, feminine wisdom embodied in the Snake Goddess. Let’s dive deeper into this myth and uncover some of its possible cosmological roots and untold mysticism. 

The tale of the Garden of Eden is widely considered to derive at least some of its motifs from the mythologies of Mesopotamia. That Patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, Abraham, was born in Ur, Chaldea (Sumer), as scripture tells us in Genesis 15:7, offers us a hint that Eden’s true genesis lies in this ancient Motherland. Further striking evidence can be found in this video, elucidating the possible Sumerian/Babylonian origins of Eve’s strange birth from Adam. Goddess Ninti, we are told, was born from one of god Enki’s ribs! With ti meaning rib, Nin-ti translates to Lady of the Rib. In another interpretation of this myth, and what seems the most popular, Goddess Ninhursag creates Ninti specifically to heal Enki’s rib. His sickness is resultant of being cursed by Ninhursag for eating the forbidden plants. Interestingly, ti also means to make live, therefore Ninti also translates to Lady Who Makes Live. In what seems a play on words, the Lady Who Makes Live heals that which is encoded in her name. Whatever the exact interpretation, we can safely assume this story was not inspired by the priestesses of the older Sumerian religion, guided by the whispers of Dragon Mother Nammu. Rather, it was written by patriarchal priest-scribes, a myth that, in all likelihood, infused the minds of the Hebrews biblical writers, possibly while exiled in Babylon.  

I have three examples of Mesopotamian stories, with at least one, I am certain, contributing to the Eden myth. They share the mythic image of the Tree of Life found in the Garden, also known as the World Tree or Axis Mundi and traditionally a symbol of the Goddess. Lush, beautiful, filled with colour and life, the Tree is classically depicted as reaching high into the celestial planes while having roots deep in Gaia’s earth womb. Wrapped around the roots is a Snake, guardian of the Tree and the threshold to the underworld. Sometimes she coils around the base of the trunk, imbibing the sunlight and fresh air, and in other depictions she lies deeper in the dark, chthonic space beneath the great Tree.

This mythologem is not limited to Mesopotamia, but found in the mythologies of Norse/Scandinavia, Siberia, Persia, Mesoamerica, truly across the entire world. Significantly, and little known, it’s also represented by the caduceus, a Tree of Life in wonderful disguise! In all cases, the Tree’s branches — where Birds love to nest and rest — signify our outstretched wings and liberated angelic Self. Across the Axis Mundi, the body of the Tree of Life, Snake and Bird, Underworld, Earth and Heaven, co-exist as one, in what is the esoteric anatomy of the Goddess, and ourselves. 

Let’s now explore three possible influences for the biblical Garden of Eden. Dating to the 3rd millennium BCE, the first comes from Sumer and is magickally called The Flight of Etana to the Skies. Though the story normally refers to the Goddess as Ishtar, the heavenly Queen of Babylonia and Akkad, Etana’s epic is considered Sumerian in origin. For this reason, I refer to the Goddess by her Sumerian name Inanna, who, with the fall of Sumer, would become syncretized with Ishtar.  

Legendary King Etana of Kish, the prominent Sumerian city-state, is desperate for medicine and a miracle from above; not for himself, but his gravely ill wife. A return to health would not only be a great blessing to her, but with her recovery and their rekindled union they could, perchance, have a child who would be the long-desired heir to the throne. Fervently Etana prays to Shamash, the sun god, and finally the King is rewarded with the higher guidance he seeks. Shamash tells Etana, “Find a pit, look inside. An eagle is cast within it. He will reveal to you the plant of birth.”

Far yonder, and some time before, an Eagle basks in the branches of the Tree of Life high above the Serpent who dwells amongst the roots (I shall make the Eagle male and Serpent female). One day, they decide to swear a “mighty oath” before Shamash to become loyal friends. The oath is sealed, but this doesn’t stop the Eagle from falling to temptation and evil’s ways. In fact, the Eagle betrays the Serpent in the worst way possible — by eating her children! 

Wily like the Edenic Snake, the angry and grief-stricken Serpent plots a scheme against her former friend. She decides to capture the miserable Bird by using a trap of delicious Ox meat. And, sure enough, those exposed, plump and juicy intestines are too tempting for the him to resist. The ravenous Eagle flies down and pounces on the sumptuous meal. Yet lo and behold, while tearing into the tasty treasure, the Serpent sneaks up on the Eagle and snatches her prey. Without hesitation, she cuts off his wings and tail feathers, and tosses what’s left of him into a “bottomless pit.” 

There, in the tomb-womb, the Eagle lays for Shamash-knows how long. Fortunately, however, Etana, guided by the sun god, arrives on the scene just in time, only to find the poor Bird shattered, broken, thirsty and starving to death. With love and time, the King, regarded as a Shepherd, nurses the Eagle back to fine health. 

From almost dying in the dim tomb-womb, the Eagle, like the vegetation of spring or a rising son-god, resurrects anew and opens to the light of Creation. Etana, too, has a destiny of miraculous rebirth in the wings, but first he must complete his mission. As per Shamash’s words, the regenerated Eagle indeed confirms he knows where to get the Plant of Birth — and this lies Upwards! With overflowing gratitude for Etana’s healing love and with heart-thumping determination to give back to the noble king and his ailing wife, the Eagle invites him to hop aboard and fly:

Come, let me take you up to heaven.
Put your chest against my chest.
Put your hands against my wing feathers.
Put your arms against my sides.

The Eagle takes the King upon its majestic wings and they fly skyward to great heights — as One.

Upon reaching the celestial realm they meet the beautiful and radiant Queen Inanna, seated majestically on her glorious throne. In hearing his long, heroic story, Inanna bestows the sacred Plant of Birth to the humble king. Bowing in gratitude, Etana departs the heavens eager to get home to his sickly wife who he has not seen for weeks. He flies back to Earth, and gives the sacred herbal medicine to her. For nine full months, the time of gestation in the womb, she continues to imbibe the medicine of Earth and Heaven, of the Goddess herself, and miraculously, she is healed.

And so it is, that the earthly queen gives birth to a son, and she and Etana hold in their arms the future heir to the throne. 

Death and rebirth, Snake & Bird, sacrifice for the sacred, tomb and womb, all wrapped around the Tree of Life which brings new life from Heaven to Earth. Creatively and clearly, the ancient themes discussed so far leap out in this most delightful myth. In a moment we will unpack the motifs more thoroughly and examine how the epic may have been adopted into the biblical Garden story. First, however, we must embark on another heroic Mesopotamian adventure, one that, not surprisingly, carries parallels to The Flight of Etana to the Skies.  

The Plant of Birth may remind you of the Plant of Immortality in the more widely known Sumerian myth, the Epic of Gilgamesh. The King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who is two-thirds divine, embarks on a long, arduous quest, a journey in search of the Greater Mysteries of his eternal soul and Creation. He seeks the mystical Utnapishtim, whom they call the Faraway. Once the great king of the world and survivor of the mythical flood, Utnapishtim entered the assembly of the gods and they gave him immortal life. He now lives in Dihnun at the place of the sun’s transit, east of the great Mount Mashu.

Brave Gilgamesh in his heroic quest for immortality and everlasting youthfulness passes through the perilous twelve leagues of darkness within Mount Mashu, crosses the waters of death, amongst other trials. He says, “I have wandered over the world, I have crossed many difficult ranges, I have crossed the seas, I have wearied myself with travelling; my joints are aching, and I have lost acquaintance with sleep which is sweet.” Eventually it comes to pass that the warrior meets the master, Utnapishtim, who is surprised that anyone could have endured such a dangerous journey. That anyone could have found him! Hearing Gilgamesh’s plea for knowledge about “the living and the dead… the life for which I am searching,” Utnapishtim responds, sagely, by saying: 

‘There is no permanence. Do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep forever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? It is only the nymph of the dragon-fly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom?”

Knowing the impatient longing in his heart, the luminous master transitions from perennial wisdom to offering a vision of action, the real hope for Gilgamesh’s quest. The warrior is told that there exists a sacred, thorny plant in the deep waters (symbolic of the thorny rose, emblematic of the sacred heart, with the waters representing the amniotic womb). If he can find it, the plant will give him eternal life and eternal youth, what Utnapishtim has realized for himself.

Gilgamesh embarks on the next stage of the quest, and upon reaching the waters he ties heavy stones to his feet which pull him down to the water-bed. In the blue-green murkiness he sees the magickal plant before him, and retrieves it but not without incurring a prick from its sharp thorns. After rising to the surface, Gilgamesh, delighted with his accomplishment, begins his long journey home to Uruk, with magnanimous plans to first give the plant to “the old men” before eating it himself. With a heart swelled with pride and joy, he decides the plant will be called “The Old Men Are Young Again.”

Traveling further in the heat of the Middle Eastern day, he pauses for a well-earned respite in a fresh spring. As the king descends into the waters for his bath, he fails to notice that in this same pool there swims a stealthy Snake, one I shall make female here, as well. With her keen senses she picks up the sweet fragrance of the plant, and then rises in graceful undulations to the surface where she seizes the great prize for herself. At once, the Snake consumes its regenerative powers, allowing her skin to shed and body to animate the secrets of youth and eternality. She becomes the Immortal One!

Upon realizing his loss, Gilgamesh’s joyous triumph descends into wailing heartbreak. He cries out, “was it for this that I toiled with my hands, is it for this I have wrung out my heart’s blood? For myself I have gained nothing; not I, but the beast of the earth has joy of it now.” Despite his moment of darkness, the king eventually accepts his fate as one third mortal, and therefore embraces his humanity. This, for him, was the most important lesson of all.

Perhaps the wise Snake, like the master, knew exactly what she was doing. 

In each of these epics, it’s clear we see storylines told in the biblical Eden. Both the Plant of Birth and the Plant of Immortality point to the Garden and its pure, deathless state. They are the fruits of the Tree of Life that bear the transcendent nectar of unity consciousness only few realize in flesh. In each Sumerian story a Snake is paradoxically antagonistic or mischievous while serving a greater life-giving purpose to unfold. Reflecting the Serpent of the Garden, only in the Epic of Gilgamesh does the animal render the main character mortal, at least in part, and thus one-third removed from the divine Garden, if you will. The Snake literally steals the chance for immortality, not only for Gilgamesh, but for “the old men,” much like how the Garden Serpent leads Adam and Eve into the ruins of death and decay.

In the epic of Etana, the Tree of Life, like its counterpart in Eden, stands for renewal in union with the rhythms of Creation. They are axes between Heaven above and Mundi below. For Etana, as embodied by the Eagle who he angelically unites with, the Tree provides a direct pathway of ascension into the celestial realm. By traveling this path both up and down, a waning, darkened and increasingly hopeless state (sick wife/unhappy family) mystically transforms into the light of new life (health, child and heir). Thus, in the Epic of Etana as compared to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Tree of Life symbolizes far more than the flowering life of immortality. 

In resurrecting from death, the Eagle, like Triptolemos, has come sensually alive to the Mysteries, and in his heartened state can, and feels compelled to, serve something greater. Through his own rebirth, the Eagle initiates this very experience in Etana and his family, and by extension, the body of Creation. The mystical Bird gives the human wings, and as one ecstatic body they ascend from Earth into the realm of Heavenly Spirit, up the Tree of Life wherein the sacred elixir awaits, bestowed by the Goddess Inanna.   

Each story, therefore, as we can see, carries elements portrayed in Genesis, alluring motifs that may have inspired the myth of Eden in the Hebrew priest-scribes. Yet only in the epic of Etana do we behold the wonderful, mystical blending of Snake, representing tomb and womb, with the Tree, the Eagle, and man himself, thus forming the universal image of the sacred caduceus inherent to our own being. Together, they serve the union of man and woman, in flesh and spirit, a sacred marriage that births a child. 

Two final, related thoughts about the epic of Etana before moving to the third Sumerian story. It’s important to note that the delicious intestines that the ravenous Eagle gobbles up are in the womb region of the Ox. This suggests a curious relation with the “bottomless pit” he is tossed into. For it is directly from the womb of the Ox that the Eagle enters his initiatory, earthen tomb-womb, his “Mystery School” presided over by the Snake.

Further, the intestines belong to not just any animal, but an Ox who is a close relative of the Holy Cow. As I touch upon in the Epilogue, cross-culturally, Cows have been perceived as sacred representatives of the Goddess, and treated as such; and it is the tomb-womb, the Goddess Inanna, and the alchemical spirit of rebirth that the animal sacrifice opens the way for.

Her death, too, we must not forget, feeds life.

The Sumerian Mother Goddess Inanna was, and still remains, the wild and sensual “Queen of Heaven & Earth.” Ritually honoured and cherished across this divine feminine heartland, Inanna was the Patroness of temple mystery schools in which initiates were reborn into sacred embodiment, at one with Inanna and her ancient womb wisdom. Even long after the fall of Sumer, these schools refused to die, and determinedly kept the light of Inanna alive in the hearts of the willing. Starting at a young age, Mary Magdalene had the rare fortune, especially as a female, to travel each year from Palestine to Mesopotamia to be initiated in these esoteric schools of the Goddess religion. Her father took her there, and did so with noble courage given the oppressive, dangerous times of patriarchal rule. It’s quite possible that, while in the east, Mary partook in courting Inanna’s Serpentine Feminine consciousness through mystical song, for the Sumerian Mother Goddess was “often addressed in hymns as ‘the dragon’.”

In the bedchamber of the temples dedicated to Inanna, priestesses who were graduates of the mystery school would have invoked the Goddess’s animating presence as they enacted sexual rites with men. The temple was the earthly body of Inanna, similar to how the Temple of Jerusalem and the Tabernacle were considered the mystical body of Yahweh. With initiation, the priestesses realized their bodies as being the sacred temples they were, a manifestation of the Goddess and dedicated to housing her mysteries embodied as their own epiphany. In sexual union, the aroused man, ecstatically open in heart, merged with and imbibed the Beloved of Inanna through the beloved of his female partner. In the heat of passionate embrace, secrets of Inanna held dormant in the man’s DNA activated by “entering” the temple body of the priestess. The man calibrated to the consciousness of Inanna through divine union with his human Goddess, which brought to life the codes of his angelic genes containing these very frequencies. Like activates like. The spirit of Inanna and divine qualities she is known for, also inherent to his soul and encoded in his holy of holies, flowered into sacred embodiment, empowering him to know his divinity and to enshrine the Goddess in his temple body. (In this you may better understand how, in complete inversion, the dark forces attempt to have us calibrate to their demonic frequencies. Rather than enshrinement, this is human possession through the most subtle form of genetic manipulation, or inter-dimensional, epigenetic frequency warfare.)

Let’s now look more closely at who Inanna is. For the Goddess, the Garden contains the spirit of lush Oneness, in which all, in some mysterious way, touches another in sacred entanglement. Purity and ecstatic freedom flows from all directions, inviting the pleasures of sensual, sexual and earthy delight. The Garden is of the Goddess, as it always has been, and in the case of Inanna in Sumer it consisted of an apple orchard with a single hulupuu tree, emblematic of the Tree of Life. A Serpent “made its nest in the roots,” and the “Anzu-bird set his young in the branches of the tree.” (Italics the authors’.)

The orchard specifically represented the vulva, which the Goddess shared blissfully and abundantly with her beloved Dumuzi, the Shepherd (later Tammuz in Akkad/Babylonia, husband of Ishtar). In the orchard of pleasure she invited him into the Garden of Heaven, and there they danced as one:

He met me — he met me!
My lord Dumuzi met me. 
He put his hand into my hand.
He pressed his neck close against mine.

My high priest is ready for the holy loins.
My lord Dumuzi is ready for the holy loins.
The plants and herbs in his field are ripe.
O Dumuzi! Your fullness is my delight!

Inanna also exclaims:

Then plow my vulva, man of my heart!
Plow my vulva!

This is the third possible Sumerian source for the biblical Garden, a truly joyous poetic love presented ever-so briefly. We can speculate that the Tree of Life in the Garden originates, at least in part, from the hulupuu tree, a tree that stands as a glorious, sacred presence in Inanna’s world, and just happens to bear fruit and have a guardian Snake. The Tree of Life was, as stated, an ancient symbol across the world, including in the southern Levant long before the Hebrews established themselves there. One could argue that the Jewish priests and prophets already knew of the mythical tree prior to being influenced by Mesopotamian myths, and that this knowledge was translated into Aaron’s budded almond staff, contained in the Ark.  

If true that Inanna’s Garden played a defining role in the Eden narrative, what we can assert is that tossed far afield by the righteous Hebrews was the unbridled passion in the Sumerian love poetry — the juice of the story! And yet, paradoxically, Solomon’s Song of Songs, clearly influenced by the vegetative imagery and passion of Inanna’s love poetry, bears this very juice. Nonetheless, ecstasy, as a whole, was perceived by the Hebrew priest-scribes as demonic possession, and sex, as some believed, was the devil’s favourite playground.

Further rejected was nature’s aliveness, and the allowance for this aliveness to interact intimately with humans. In the Sumerian love poetry we see nature’s interplay with the sexual magick of Inanna and Dumuzi, a euphoria of pleasure intimately shared with the untamed wilds. Indeed, in Inanna’s Garden, the heath and heathens exist in sacred marriage, with each embodying the spirit of Creation, which is the Goddess herself. But in the hardened purview of the priest class, nature is dead, as well as evil, much like the body, through which the sins of sexuality are enacted and passed from one generation to the next. Therefore nature as an animate, participatory force embodying sexual life held no space in the religion of strict “purity” and transcendence.  

And so, while some structural themes from Inanna’s Garden may have been adopted into the Garden of Eden, there is no doubt that the wet passion did not translate at all into the supposed paradise, one that only allowed so much juicy aliveness. 

“There is hardly an evil like that in a woman; may she fall to the lot of the sinner!… Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.” ~ The Book of Sirach (25:19, 24)

We’ve fallen significantly over the millennia from our wild sexuality, our ecstatic unity, from what it means to be a true, orgasmic human in touch with the living, breathing planet and Cosmos. Suppression, fragmentation and distortion of sensual feminine, masculine and their sacred bond has served its purpose of demonizing sexuality and flesh, divine power and union, and Mother Nature whose body is our own. Our minds have been controlled so we reject the earthly experience, and instead fearfully and obediently turn upwards to the gods who dwell there, through which the demons rule the Earth. Our overlords “On High” have thus disempowered us by convincing us to reject the Garden of our Humanity, wherein we came to realize, in living flesh, the sacredness of life. 

The story of Eden tells us that the cunning Serpent tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and that thereafter she is to blame for humanity’s fall into sin, death and sexual impurity. The “first woman,” in her disobedience to god, in her shameful, wild willfulness, is cursed, and all ghastly women thereafter suffer because of her. “To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’” Bearing the image of Eve as a seductive devil, who in turn inherited the image of the wily Serpent, all women thereafter inherit the original curse from conception. Women experience collective punishment in perpetuity, and live to submissively serve men, the superior sex. 

Recall the words of church father, Tertullian (c. 160-225), shared earlier, in which he speaks to the body of womanhood: “And do you not know that you are Eve? God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway.” 

The doctrine of “original sin,” it is vital to understand, was invented by the sexually troubled Saint Augustine (354 — 430 CE) as a way to reconcile his vexatious impulses, shared with earlier Christian fathers who saw sexuality as dangerous and the body as evil. As a young man he struggled, unusually so, with overwhelming lust, or with what he called in Confessions 2.2.2, “being engulfed in a whirlpool of sins.” Influenced by the already prevalent religious paradigm of sex and women being sinful, he projected his visceral angst and confusion wound up by the lustful temptings of body and mind onto the imagined notion of original sin. Rather than being a personal struggle to take responsibility for, he cast blame on the seductive transgression of Eve which set in motion a curse he inherited.    

Original sin, mythologized into the Word of god, became a fundamental tenet in Christianity, contributing greatly to its polarizing doctrine intended to fragment the eternal wholeness of the Divine Feminine, split woman apart from man, and humans from nature. Responsibility for original sin was also partially placed upon Adam, for it was through his stained seed that the curse of sin and death was passed down, “contaminating” the human species to use Origin’s word (C3 church father). Romans 5:12 says, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.” 

But the greater blame was placed upon Eve, the original sinner, for it was she who not only tempted Adam, but made sexuality a weapon of seduction to lure men from god and bind them to the perilous evils of this world. She brought Adam “down to Earth,” which is contradictory to the mandate of Yahweh which has always been to rise above it. And it was naked seduction that was her primary tool to hold Adam prisoner to a world beyond the Garden of God. For this reason, she did not resemble god quite like Adam, even so much as to lack a soul as was believed until about tenth century. Augustine wrote in On The Trinity, “… the woman together with her own husband is the image of God, so that that whole substance may be one image; but when she is referred separately to her quality of help-meet, which regards the woman herself alone, then she is not the image of God ….”

Having for centuries literalized original sin as uncontrovertable truth, the human mind has adapted by suppressing natural instincts engendering pleasure and wild abandonment, qualities seen in the purity of children and animals. In Christian culture and later Islamic, as it had been already in Jewish, women, more than men, became “modest.” 1 Timothy 2:9-10 condescendingly states, “I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.” By not making themselves too attractive, such as by covering their bodies with burkas or full-length dresses, or even by refraining from singing, smiling and laughing, as is required in certain Muslim cultures, women do not tempt men to repeat Adam’s mistake. This is an echo of ancient Hebraic customs and law, when girls and women were under the watchful control of fathers and husbands who owned them as property. Women, in this convoluted paradigm, are responsible for men’s reactions, rather than men. They are Eve.

In certain parts of the world, women are still to blame for being raped, again, a downstream effect of Genesis and biblical law. Deuteronomy 22:22-23 outlines that if a married woman is raped by a man, she and him are put to death. She is only spared if the rape occurs in the countryside, where her scream cannot be heard. Today, in the seemingly progressive, western Christian world, raped women are not met with compassionate understanding or a desire to seek proper justice; instead, the priority is: “What were you wearing?” or “What were you doing?” implying she is at fault, not the man (empathy is “toxic,” remember?). She is the seducer, like Eve. She is not “modest” enough. Given men more fully bear the pure image of god, and are the stronger, more rational sex, one would expect they could hold themselves together.  

“A woman should cover her head with shame at the thought that she is a woman.” ~ St Clement of Alexandria, prominent 2nd century Christian theologian and philosopher

Modesty has also been conflated with pre-marital celibacy, the “holy” commitment to chasteness being necessary to control the sexual indecencies of women. For women, this expectation has brought greater pressure than it has for men, for they must uphold the “modesty of a virgin womb,” to use Augustine’s words. Modesty equates to sanctity (virginity), which is equated to pre-Fall conditions, and this sanctity determines both the nature of the child and the wider family’s cleanliness in god’s eyes. Regarding the last point, to not maintain the “modesty of a virgin womb” can bring overwhelming shame upon the family. At its extreme, in radical Islamic cultures like Pakistan, “honour killings” by enraged family members are justified for victims of sexual assault/rape or even “smiling and laughing in the rain outside their family home.” Less extreme is what occurs in the Christian west, where being pregnant before marriage remains tantamount to a grievous sin. I have heard de-converted women share that, as a teenager raised in a Christian home, they would have rather admitted to their parents that they murdered someone than tell them they were pregnant. They also shared how common this belief was amongst Christian women who feared the consequences if they “contaminated” their womb that seems to represent the Garden.

Only through marriage, still arranged in Muslim cultures, can intercourse commence, with the traditionally stated goal that the uneducated, young woman give birth to as many children as possible (“multiply”), furthering her dependency on her husband as sole breadwinner. With this home-shackled, breeding-as-divine-duty arrangement she is even more under his control, and, by extension, the heavenly, overseeing Father who knows what’s best. 

“Woman is slow in understanding, and her unstable and naive mind renders her by way of natural weakness to the necessity of a strong hand in her husband.” ~ Pope Gregory I (540 — 604 CE)

Modesty, as defined by the early Christian fathers, has become so much a part of Christian thinking that believers identify as “conservative,” both at the personal and political levels. This fusion of the two under the umbrella of Christian conservatism calls, either implicitly or explicitly, for the fusion of state and religion and the formation of theocratic governance, as seen in Islamic nations. Historically, and to this day, religion has been used, for example, to appeal to the government to pass laws against abortion rights and same sex marriage. “Divine law,” encoded in the 10 Commandments and Word of god, must be enshrined as declared legislation in as many institutions as possible. This is on par with declaring war in the name of god and his plan for salvation, something conservatives have supported more than liberals.

For American Christian Nationalists, to not vote Republican is to not be a true Christian conservative; and for their president to not be a Christian conservative (and none are, though pretending to be) is to not be a true, god-fearing man serving one nation under god. To choose outside the bounds of traditional conservatism, such as by voting Democrat or having an abortion (a liberal idea), is to risk the ideals of god and America (“the Christian nation”), and even the abandonment by one’s tribal family (blood and church community). Having many children in fundamentalist households has been a means to “outbreed the Democrats,” who, with their liberal principles, like giving free access to birth control, are considered satanic. “Outbreeding Democrats” is not only a way to strengthen the conservative/Republican movement which sees itself at war with the satanic Democrats, but it’s the continued paradigm of eugenics. All measures must be taken to advance the “master/superior race” and depopulate the “inferior race,” traditionally blacks, indigenous, homosexuals and the disabled. In eugenics-mad Nazi Germany, the “superior” were the white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryans, and the “inferior” were the untermenschen, meaning subhuman. 

Identification with “conservative,” as we can see, is identification with the demonic frequencies ultimately behind patriarchal religion and partisan politics, the ones that want us divided from each other and from our wild innocence, a childlike, “Garden” spirit that sees all as equal. Identification with either imaginary “side” makes it harder to find value in the other “side,” and sets us astray from Truth centred in the compassionate heart that transcends all perceived opposites, and cares for the wellbeing of all humankind. “Modesty,” a compensatory construct derived from Eve’s transgression, set the way for the oppositional extremes of duality felt across our planet, manifested as identity politics. Being Democrat, Liberal or even Green is an attempt to counter a social/political imbalance the biblical narrative played a major role in developing in the collective psyche.

The values/principles that a “side” stands for, like rights for immigrants and secure borders, is not the issue; rather it’s the identification with “left” or “right.” Left unchecked, “my side, your side” loses itself to myopia, naivety, arrogance and aggression, attitudes and behaviours socially engineered by our overlords who care for neither “side,” but need both and play one against the other (such as when Trump called the Epstein scandal a “Democrat hoax”). We do not need either to be a powerful leader, just as we don’t need institutionalized religion to know God/dess and live deeply meaningful lives. Like children and animals, we can be liberal and conservative when necessary — for there is a time for both — without identifying as Liberal or Conservative and getting stuck in either; an attachment that comes with over-identification. 

Standing with one foot in the world and one outside it, we live closer to how the great masters have; like Jesus and Mary, who embodied fluidity, adaptivity, curiosity — qualities of play — while not identifying with any construct of the world. We are in the world, but not of the world. This non-dual, heart-centred awareness is what enabled Jesus and Mary to free people from the oppressive system whose architects want us to believe we need it/them, a system that cannot survive without our participation in us-versus-them identity politics. 

The master, 
with his will consecrated
to the Will of Sophia, 
serves as one with Her,

our Great Mother, who, 
unlike a tribal god,
takes no sides,

but loves and cherishes all
equally
as One. 

Which segues us to another negative consequence of the Garden of Eden story. The myth of the Fall and, specifically, the doctrine of original sin laid the ground for Jesus being the sacrificial saviour for the sins of humanity that no human, through their own endeavour, can possibly overcome. In On the Grace of Christ and on Original Sin, Augustine wrote that “through the sin of the first man, which came from his free will, our nature became corrupted and ruined; and nothing but God’s grace alone, through Him who is the Mediator between God and men, and our Almighty Physician, succours it.” Jesus was the great redeemer for all humankind because he was god in flesh on account of a miraculous birth due to his mother abstaining from sex. Virgin Mary, uncorrupted by the sins of sex, was chosen by god as the pure vessel for his son and his redemptive mission. Jesus being the sole intermediary to god granted extraordinary power to the church, which believed (and still believes) it held a monopoly on Christ. Indoctrinated with the fear of hell and programmed to shame themselves without end, the vulnerable and confused multitude turned to the invention of church, “only” through which salvation was possible. To their unholy gates the masses have flocked for millennia, tithes in hand, while avoiding the gate of their own priceless hearts.

Mor and Sjöö, in their exceptional book, summarize this manipulation and mind control. They point to what was and has been a painful, irreconcilable split forged in human consciousness: that we must choose between two hugely consequential lies — everlasting torment in hell, or surrender to the psychopathic, yet “all loving” Father god who tells us we are inherently flawed, and that no amount of saving faith and good works can overcome this. Either way, in minds and hearts, homes and bedrooms, there is torment, for we are made to disavow the truth of our sovereign divinity, an image and likeness of All That Is meant to know itself in flesh. 

In this human tragedy we, once again, find the age old Colonial Playbook at work. Tyrannical power cannot succeed without illusions of lack, in this case, innate goodness, worth and divinity.

Lack fuels fear, depression and dependency.

And dependency equals control.

Being weak in mind and easily beguiled, Eve was swayed by the wily Serpent; yet Adam, it’s believed by the early church fathers, would not have been if the Serpent had first approached him. He, however, could not forgo the fruit of temptation offered by his beloved Eve, for he loved her. In City of God, Augustine wrote that Adam “could not bear to be severed from his only companion, even though this involved a partnership in sin.” And so he ate the fruit. Here, in this slightly redemptive perspective of the Fall, we find an opening to turn this perverted myth upright into a more mystical and loving story.

Let’s begin by asking: What if the wily Serpent was, like the Pythia priestess, in fact wise — and that he was a she?! A Goddess, like Inanna, in her Goddess Garden, coiled around her beloved hulupuu tree!? And what if by encouraging Eve to disobey Yahweh’s command not to eat the fruit, the Serpent summoned her to trust her wise heart and sexual, Serpentine body, and to be a bold model of sovereignty and empowerment for all women?

To be a Snake Goddess herself of the abundant, fertile Garden!

To Eve the wise Serpent said, “when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Eve saw that the forbidden fruit was “desirable for gaining wisdom,” and she ate it (Genesis 3:4-6). Like all initiates, it was necessary for her to discern good from evil, the forces of light from the forces of darkness, using her conscious mind in union with her awakened, knowing heart. The fruit of wisdom granted her the awareness to step back as a conscious, individuated observer of life, versus being the fullness of life itself.

By eating the fruit, and then inviting Adam to do the same, a passage opened beyond the Garden’s threshold, symbolized by Yahweh’s banishment. There, Eve and Adam’s souls could travel deeper into the mysteries of dark and light, unmanifest and manifest, over countless incarnations. They could learn to dance their ancient dance, a dance not possible in the Garden, and know the secrets of paradoxical wisdom in their non-dual heart that reconciles good and evil, shadows and light. Evil, for example, like all contrasting experiences, would be seen as serving an evolutionary purpose. Sometimes great suffering is necessary to catalyze great awakening, much like how the difficulties of our dark nights do. This is especially true for a stagnant, deeply complacent population, such as the one on Earth at this time, who need a substantial push from evil to stop settling for abusive lies and for so little. Direct experience as active, participatory individuals would allow these paradoxical mysteries and their wisdom to gradually integrate into Eve and Adam’s souls, as both a becoming and remembering.

With enough experience and mastery, paradox found in the dance between good and evil, light and dark — “my side versus yours” — would transcend into sacred unity. Here, the age-old dance between seeming opposites softens and then stills into an all-embracing Cosmic consciousness within the pure silence of Sophia’s black womb, the zero-point of Creation wherein all is known and nothing is certain.

This is the heart of what advanced initiation brings us to, and what High Priestesses and Priests, like Jesus, Mary, as well as Mother Mary, have embodied throughout time: being open to all possibilities without judgment, a realization earned inasmuch as we empty of all things, including ideas of how life ought to be. 

This is when, using the wise Serpent’s words, one “will be like God,” an apotheosis that Yahweh and organized religion have concluded is utterly impossible. Assuming our divinity as sinful beings is the height of blasphemy, a sublime arrogance worthy of being put to death (though god did say we are made in his image and likeness). Jesus, the iconoclast, embodying the Garden Snake’s Serpentine wisdom and following her “footsteps,” declared his divinity with the innocence of a child: “I and the Father are one.” (John 10:30). For this audacious assertion, his Jewish opponents wanted to stone him. Jesus, “a mere man, makest (himself) God,” they cried out, incredulously (John 10:33). In response, the erudite Jesus exclaimed, while referring to Psalm 82:6, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods’?” (John 10:34).

Indeed, Jesus, seeing the whole, holy truth in others, shared the same empowering message that the wise Serpent did, who, herself, saw the divine truth in an unsuspecting Adam and Eve. This seeing and empowerment was also demonstrated by Jesus when he said to his followers that they can “do even greater things than these” (John 14:12). Given the miracles Jesus performed, doing greater works could only be possible if his followers were equally divine, Gods and Goddesses in their own right. Thus Jesus and the wise Serpent, in seeing and holding others in their highest light, reflected how Sophia beholds all her children, all ways. With this divine love, we can live true to Jesus’s teaching in Matthew 5: “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you….” 

The mystical prophet knew the truth the Jews did not have ears for. His guiding light was too strong for clouded hearts and minds not ready to allow light’s passage inward. The resistant Jews were too attached to, or invested in, ideas of worthlessness that they personally gained from on some level, that ensured some degree of perceived stability and power. They were not ready to be crucified by the Light of Truth. Eve, on the other hand, as well as Adam, in their purity of heart and childlike innocence, imbibed the full sweetness of this divine reality, and to the great disliking of Yahweh. Fortunately, they were not stoned to death by their outraged Father, only cast into an Unknown where the illusion of death awaited them. 

From this mystical retelling of the Garden myth, flesh is not against spirit, nor is spirit “good” and flesh or nature “bad.” Partaking in the fruit of knowledge opened Eve and Adam to the mysteries of The Mother to be found in all matter, most significantly their temple bodies. The word mother derives from the Proto-Indo-European and later Latin mater. Mater is written as the original Mother. Encoded in our wonderful English language, therefore, is the truth that matter is of The Mother — Divine and Earth. She is immanent in all Creation, which ancient cultures implicitly knew. Mater, thus, matters, as when a mother births her child. The Unmanifest becomes manifest without any degree of separation. Eating the life-giving fruit, Eve and Adam became more conscious of this ever-presence in their body, and in their surroundings, and that this presence is their sacred inheritance, a gift to share with manifold life. 

Without this mystical knowledge that reconciles seeming opposites, namely Mater and matter, and good and evil, and with the hegemonic intent to turn one against the other (like “sides”), the Abrahamic religions inverted paradoxical wisdom into duality. Humankind fell into the barren, dogmatic drudgery of extreme polarization or us-versus-them consciousness — god vs the devil, heaven vs hell, life vs death, light vs dark, spirit vs flesh/nature, masculine vs feminine, all of which has created the aforementioned social faultiness and war consciousness the dark forces need to rule. Central to the Eden story man was pitted against woman, the original sinner, a dynamic of dominance and separation that has caused untold suffering, and that still plagues our world today.

Historically, in organized religion, there has been little room for curiosity; for daring to ask, “But why?” This, despite the glaring contradictions in the Bible, the hypocrisy of Yahweh’s “love,” and the thousands of denominations with diverging, if not competing, interpretations of god’s Word. Curiosity challenges Yahweh’s supreme authority which demands absolute obedience; and it challenges his righteous priesthood, prophets and lawgivers who assume to know how things “should” be, without question. Show me a tyrant who has ever encouraged the masses to be genuinely curious; to be independent, free thinkers, and to seek and find truth. Jesus, being a curious man of truth, dared not to accept the status quo, but to ask “Why not?” Again and again, he did just this, as Great Ones do. Jesus’s rebellious spirit shines in Mark 2, where he allows his disciples to pick grain on the Sabbath, a version of eating the forbidden fruit. When the Pharisees, whose name means “to separate,” confronted him on the matter, the master replied, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” (Notice how close matter is to master. Could the s stand for Sophia?)

Curiosity is the divine quality that, in my mystical retelling of Genesis, the wise Serpent initiated: a curiosity that is beautiful, wondrous, and indeed childlike. Eve, in her innocence, was curious, if only because her father forbade her from eating the fruit. As a child knows who is told, “Whatever you do, don’t open that box,” Yahweh’s strict commandment only added intrigue regarding the mysterious fruit. It became that much more tempting, desirable. The Goddess Serpent, sensing Eve’s curiosity, essentially said “Why not?” She encouraged Eve’s independence from her domineering Father authority. She encouraged her to have a will of her own, to exercise her sovereign free will, what woman have, for millennia, been punished and demonized for. In being independent, Eve could allow herself to be guided by her childlike instincts and wonderment which wanted to know the whole Garden, not just the “good,” not just certain trees or the “sides” of life permitted.

As Baring and Cashford write, “Here, the serpent is the image of that divine curiosity which disturbed the established order so that we are drawn deeper into understanding.” Though Christians believe their god has granted them free will, we cannot move deeper into understanding if our choices are limited by our Creator; if we have a God/dess who allows only so much (curiosity). 

Curiosity is the dream of the child
in us all
that wants to know itself
in ever more wonder and glory.

Moment-by-moment
we are dreamt into being 
beyond thresholds of the known, 

our curiosity
the higher, guiding impulse
that urges us to risk everything
for life.   

Curiosity, acted upon with wisdom and discernment, invites our Serpentine soul to rise. And this is the other positive view we now come to in the myth of Adam and Eve. Communing with Eve and inspiring her Serpentine soul to be in touch with the fruits of her sensual body, the wise Serpent initiates the maiden into embracing her juicy kundalini sexual power — our ecstatic life force that, when uncoiled and embodied, makes all sexually repressive, patriarchal religions obsolete. As the first to receive the Serpent’s guidance and to eat of the Tree of Primeval Feminine Wisdom, Eve then opens Adam to the Divine Feminine spark within through sacred union, yab-yum, which the Garden, itself, represents. Like the priestesses of Inanna, Eve’s vulva, eyes and heart are, as one, a divine portal to the primordial Goddess and the sexual nature of Existence which rises and creates through the sensual, rhythmic body.

The Feminine Mysteries esoterically woven in the Garden story, acted out across time and culture, tell of Eve, in her Divine Feminine embodiment, rebirthing Adam. She is the first to be initiated into the Snake Goddess Mysteries by the wise Serpent Goddess, the High Priestess of the Garden, just as Inanna’s priestesses preceded the men in the temple mysteries. They rebirthed them through sacred tantric rites. Thus, in eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, which is the Tree of Life, Eve becomes a Snake Goddess herself, a divine rebirther of life. 

Her sexual union with Adam
liberates his Divine Masculine essence,

its strength and beauty,
his Feminine, Serpentine soul,

as they ecstatically merge,
undulate,
and dance the ancient
Serpentine Dance

under the holy Tree of Life. 

In concluding this section on the Garden of Eden let’s return to the idea of original sin, so, in this as well, we can find positive esoteric meaning.  

Christianity, it’s been said, cannot exist without the devil, and its illusions of original sin, a word cognate with sinister, as well as sinistra, Latin and Italian for left — as in the Divine Feminine Left Hand Path! How interesting, how telling it is that sin is related to the word left and another meaning evil. In what seems less than coincidental, they have been conflated: sin, left, evil. Recall that the left half of our body, controlled by the right hemisphere, is considered our feminine side. I have yet to find an artistic portrayal of Mary Magdalene, painting or sculpture, in which she holds her sacred anointing jar in her right hand (that doesn’t mean there aren’t any, either!).  

But there is more to this puzzle!

It just so happens that sin, once upon a Mesopotamian time, meant moon. Sîn was the Moon Goddess of Sumer and later Akkad, who, at a later point, was turned into a moon god (see last link).

What if Sîn or sin is cognate with Yin?

And then there is this incredible etymological discovery: sin has Indo-European roots in es, or to be. 

To sin,
therefore,

is to be sexually alive,
Goddesses of the Moon,
Stars and Serpent,

the holiness of eternal Life!

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Since we’re in the Fertile Mesopotamian Crescent, decoding the profound behind the profane in the Eden myth and its implications for sexual, serpentine rising, there is a twist I feel it’s time to reveal. 

What if the caduceus does not originate with Thoth-Hermes, as most believe, but rather in Mesopotamia? With the Snake Goddess?!

Arthur Lincoln Frothingham, Jr. (1859 – 1923), professor of art history at Princeton University and archaeologist, told us over a hundred years ago of a new story — her-story! According to cylinder seals discovered in Mesopotamia, “The caduceus is the common emblem placed in the hand of the Babylonian Mother Goddess, whom we shall call Ishtar, when she is represented as standing.” 

Ishtar, as we’ve discovered, is Inanna in her later Akkadian/Babylonian form, a kingdom in northern Sumer that emerged ca. 2000 BCE, and spread in conquest across what was once Sumer before falling to the Assyrians who took full control of the Middle East. In Revelation Ishtar is referred to as the “Great Whore of Babylon,” a crude pattern that follows the priest-scribes of Babylonia turning Tiamat into a vile, hate-filled beast. As one, Ishtar-Inanna embodies the 8-pointed star we call Venus and the crescent moon (a motif discussed in the epilogue), and two birds sacred to her are the feminine Dove and the Owl. Ishtar and Inanna were known as “Divine Lady Owl.”

So entwined these Mesopotamian Goddesses are, Ishtar’s name in Akkadian cuneiform matches the Sumerian cuneiform for Inanna:

Sixty years after Frothingham published his work, Merlin Stone, through her extensive research, corroborated his archeological discovery: “Ishtar was depicted sitting upon the royal throne of heaven, holding a staff around which coiled two snakes. One seal from Babylon, which shows Ishtar holding the serpent-entwined sceptre, was inscribed, ‘Lady of Vision of Kisurru.” Kisurru was a city in Sumer. Stone goes on to state “Ishtar was elsewhere recorded as ‘She who Directs the Oracles….” This wonderfully brings greater light to the sacred work of the Pythia at Delphi, and the heavenly Snake Goddess inspiring them and other Serpent priestesses around the world. 

Frothingham poetically continues his descriptive praise of the Babylonian Goddess: “Ishtar is the mother of the gods, mistress of the gods, mother and creator of mankind, the personification of fertility, of productivity, the source of all life, the beauty of heaven, the associate of the sun and moon gods, the helper in divination.” He succinctly summarizes my feelings and words, and what we are ready to remember and give rise to: “…in practically all ancient thought the snake was the typical life-spirit or daimon.” Not demon! Also spelt daemon, it means guiding spirit, genius and divine force. 

There is further evidence linking the caduceus and its association with the Snake Goddess to Mesopotamia. It comes from the discovery of the Libation Vase of Ningishzida. Made from green steatite, the vase, a womb symbol like the chalice, was found in Lagash, Sumer, and dates to ca. 2120 BCE. It was used by the ruler to pour out liquid offerings to the deity, possibly milk, wine, honey or water. Just below is a stunning rendition of the artistry circling its exterior. We see two winged Dragon Mothers opening the way for the rise of the entwining, dancing Serpents who magnificently form the caduceus.

According to the inscription, and as you can see in the name given, it is a vase dedicated to the God Ningishzida. In pouring out libations to him, King Gudea, ruler of Lagash, praised Ningishzida “for the prolongation of his life/health.”

God? Or is Ningishzida a Goddess? A Snake Goddess?!

Nin translates to Queen, Priestess or Lady. In fact, if you review the family tree of Inanna, according to these authors, four Goddesses and no Gods have the prefix Nin: Ningikuga the Reed Lady, Ninlil the Air Goddess, Ninsun the Sheep Goddess, and Ningal the Moon Goddess. Further, In-anna’s faithful female servant, who assists her descent into the underworld where she undergoes mystical death and rebirth, is named Ninshurur. (A transformation, it should be noted, taking place over three days and three nights!) There are many more examples, including Ninhursag, the Great Sumerian Mother Serpent Goddesses who we’ll explore shortly, and the aforementioned Ninti, Lady of the Rib. It’s also worth noting how Nin appears cognate with Sîn, the other Sumerian Moon Goddess, and with Yin as well. 

Ningishzida, it would seem, at least originally, was indeed a Goddess, and of the Serpent kind. She may be another example of God turned Goddess to suit the power transition to a solar patriarchy. Gudea, considered an honourable man, with some even claiming he was enlightened, would have, using his libation vase, invoked and venerated Ningishzida who served his kingship. Kings called upon the Goddess who was Patroness of the city for all kinds of purposes, whether they be sacred marriage — him with her, through the High Priestess who embodied her, or for reasons of war, as was the case with Ishtar. In ritual fashion, Gudea would have thus communed with Ningishzida’s Serpentine life force in hieros gamos, realizing it as his own. 

The water in the libation vase, carrying the essence of the Goddess, symbolizes rising kundalini energy. With its caduceus design, the green womb chalice artistically displays our fluid Cosmic spirit snaking upwards, crossing over our central Shushumna channel seven times, marking and animating our seven major chakras, our “rainbow bridge.” 

This esoteric anatomy corresponds to the ancient Vedic yogic tradition, possibly predating Sumer. It elucidates the Ida (feminine / moon) and Pingala (masculine / sun) Nadis on either side of the Shushumna, the three pranic energy channels that the caduceus, or Staff of Inanna / Ishtar, mirrors. Together, they beautifully reveal the ancient Serpentine dance secreted within we are here to awaken and embody, the Way of the Spiral — of Spirit! The rise of the Snake God/dess we are!

Ultimately, the true source of the caduceus is not Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia or India, but rather Source; the ancient Divine Feminine Serpent consciousness we are, without end, encoded in our angelic DNA.

The staff represents the Tree of Life, Inanna’s hulupuu, which, in turn, represents our branching neural pathways and subtle energy channels. The liberated Serpent rising from earthen roots slowly opens our wings like a canopy of branches and leaves spread across the heavenly sky. Our body’s network fills with glorious vital life force, and we remember the angels we have always been, and fly (like Anzu-Snakes!).

Rooted in our body and soaring as angels, hearts open wide, we come home to the Snake Goddess’s heart womb, where we find yet another esoteric teaching touched upon earlier. Within the still zero-point of no-thing, in the heart womb of the Goddess, we remember the ancient wisdom of Sacred Unity (what the Aramaic word for God, Alaha, means). Black womb stillness dissolves addictions and attachments to the story that never was manifested as duality — heaven vs hell, light vs dark, spirit vs flesh, us vs them, and so on. Dissolution, the death that the Serpent Goddess initiates into, births seeming paradox, which, with maturity, gives way to the pure emptiness of divine union.

Indeed, as a timeless reconciler of Heaven, Earth and Underworld, in her winged Serpent embodiment, the Goddess alchemizes fear-based illusions of separation into the eternal truth of Oneness. 

Interestingly, the name Ninghiszida is commonly interpreted as Goddess “of the Good Tree.” 

For another fascinating twist to the story of the caduceus / staff and sacred alchemy, please be sure to read the epilogue to this article. I reveal surprising, secretly encoded information that further enriches our understanding of the Magnum Opus, and Mother Sophia.

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In the Garden of the Goddess
you find me everywhere,

in the sacred groves and on mountain tops,
in the sparkling pools and quiet forests,
in the flowers, their sweet perfumes,
and the beating hearts of wild animals,

I am Asherah, Queen of Heaven & Earth,
and behold, for I am within your heart,
as well,

forever singing the forgotten Song
of the Divine Feminine
that births life anew.

Sumer all but lost its Goddess culture by 3000 BCE; and Babylonia fell as well, ultimately into Persian captivity by 539 BCE. Courtesy of the rising dark priesthood, Ishtar devolved into a war Goddess, mirroring Athene’s demise into an armoured deity of sword and shield. Both were coopted to sell androcentric dominator cultures. The Goddess was used to make war compelling, even sexy, so to usurp true sexual, feminine, serpentine power — a power that cares not for armour, but amour!  

However, in humble places, if only in hearts, a devoted Mother culture stayed alive in Babylonia, in loving praise of Ishtar, meaning star. By as early as the second millennium BCE, Inanna/Ishtar’s pearlescent white light migrated further west, piercing Canaan and surrounding areas, burning in hearts as the Goddess Asherah. Her epithets included “Lady Asherah of the Sea” and “Progenitress of the Gods.” She was also known as Ashtart, and was referred to as Ashtoreth in the Bible numerous times. In Ugarit, the flourishing Levantine coastal city and port, she was called Athirat, in southern Arabia the Goddess was Atharath, and amongst the Hittites of Anatolia (modern Turkey) she was Ashertu.

In the Jewish colony of Elephantine island in the Nile of Upper Egypt, c. 400 BCE, she was worshipped as Anathbethel. One written record shows her receiving almost the same amount of donations that Yaho (Yahweh) was given, whose following, as we can see, extended a fair way south of the Levant. The Lady was also popularly called Astarte. She had temples made in her honour by seafaring Phoenicians on the distant island of Cyprus. Once in the midst of the Greeks, it’s believed Astarte evolved into Aphrodite, the Goddess of Sexual Love. The original meaning of Astarte/Ashtoreth is “womb,” or “that which issues from the womb”; intriguing, indeed, given the secreted meaning we’ll uncover shortly in the name Asherah. 

As Mother Goddess and Queen of Heaven & Earth, Asherah was widely worshipped in the southern Levant as early as the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 BCE) and into the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE). In her luminous book Return of the Divine Sophia, Tricia McCannon writes, “We know from numerous tablets found in Ugaritan in Syria that the Goddess Asherah was the major female deity of the cities of Tyre and Sidon, going back to at least 1300 BCE….” In 1 Kings 11:33 she is referred to as “the goddess of the Sidonians.” There is ample evidence that Asherah was also venerated in cities like Gezer, Beth-shan, Beth-shemesh, Shechem, Hazor, to name only a few other locations.

In this region we see a strong association, once again, between Snake & Bird. The bird, in this case, is the Dove, a representative of the Holy Spirit and Divine Feminine that descends upon Jesus after his rise from baptismal waters (Matthew 3:16). Writes this author:

“Cultic or ritual vessels unearthed from Early Iron Age Canaan bear decorations with the serpent-dove motif…. A two-handled cylindrical receptacle, dating to the time of Ramses III (1198–1166 B.C.), was uncovered at Beth-shan, a major city lying between the Jezreel and Jordan valleys. According to experts, this cultic object, which was decorated with serpents coiled around the sides from bottom to top, with doves perched on the handles, may have been used in sacred rites associated with agriculture.”

Snake Goddess “idolatry” was widespread in Canaan in pre-biblical times. Notes the same author, “Serpent veneration is attested in virtually every region of the Mediterranean basin, but nowhere more explicitly than in the Holy Land.” In his scholarly book, The Hebrew Goddess, Raphael Patai shares that plaques were found southwest of Hebron, on the Israeli-Jordanian border, dating between the 21st and 13th centuries, of the nude Astarte, in many cases with “her arms upraised, grasping lily stalks or serpents in both.” They were the most common religious objects found in that area. By the 1940s, at least 300 terracotta figurines and plagues of Astarte were discovered in Palestine, many holding serpents.

In the Hebrew Bible, there are about 40 references to Asherah, mostly written as “asherim,” or sacred objects of worship. Also called “poles” by the biblical authors, these wooden statuettes were dedicated to the Goddess, and also represented the Tree of Life by way of how they were carved or placed next to sacred trees. “Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills.” (Jeremiah 17:2). Along with Snakes and Lions, Asherah, like Inanna/Ishtar, was closely associated with the Sacred Tree, an ancient symbol of the Goddess. 

Kings like Solomon, Ahab, Jeroboam and Manasseh were known, according to Hebrew scripture, to worship the Goddess. In the Bible we read that “Manasseh had an idol of Asherah made…” and “has also made Judah sin by (worshiping) his idols.” (2 Kings 21:7,11). “Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.” (1 Kings 16:33). 1 Kings 18:19 tells us that 400 prophets of Asherah ate at the table of Queen Jezebel, wife of King Ahab (c. 9C BCE). Not surprisingly, Jezebel, like Eve, was turned into the archetype of an evil woman.

Raphael Patai shares that a statuette of Asherah stood in Samaria, in the royal chapel of the capital. Her statuettes were also venerated in many local sanctuaries. But likely the greatest sin of all was that at least one statuette of Asherah graced the Temple of Jerusalem (2 Kings 21:7; Kings 22:6-7; 2 Kings 21:3). Sol–om-on’s east-facing, pagan, Sun-womb Temple was dedicated, in part, to the Snake Goddess. Patai tells us that “of the 370 years during which the Solomonic Temple stood in Jerusalem, for no less than 236 years (or almost two-thirds of the time) the statue of Asherah was present in the Temple, and her worship was a part of the legitimate religion approved and led by the king, the court, the priesthood and opposed by only a few prophetic voices crying out against it at relatively long intervals.” Century after century, from Yahwist reformers like Kings Asa, Jehoshaphat and Josiah, Asherah endured attacks and oppression, only to rise again. Tellingly, the nurturing Mother Goddess who cares not for rigid, Mosaic law, but holds her children in unconditional love endured in ways the cult of Ba’al did not, whose opposition was far more severe. 

Asherah was not only worshiped as the Goddess, but as the consort of El. El and his wife were the two high deities of the Canaanite pantheon, and therefore Asherah is Yahweh’s mother. Yahweh, when only a minor god, was part of this polytheistic family that also included his brother Ba’al, sister Anath (sometimes associated with Asherah), and other local deities like Qetesh, Goddess of Love, and Shapash, Goddess of the Sun. As early as the 8th century BCE, however, Yahweh took Asherah to be his consort. Or she took him! This is evidenced by a number of archeological findings dating to that time. 

In 1967, in a tomb at Khirbet el-Qom, today’s West Bank in Israel, an inscription on the limestone wall was found saying, “May Uriyahu be blessed by Yahweh, my guardian, and his Asherah.” In 1975-76, also dating to 8C BCE, another archeological discovery was made that would further rock the Abrahamic world. This one was in Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, an ancient trade route in northeastern Sinai. There, a potsherd was found inscribed with a message written in Hebrew script, saying, “I bless you to Yahweh of Samaria and to his Asherah.” Drawn on said potsherd is a man and woman / God and Goddess, standing next to each other, presumed to be Yahweh and his Asherah. In the background is a women/Goddess playing the lyre, a sacred, devotional instrument in ancient times.

I have wondered if Snake Goddess Asherah was wed to Snake God, or possibly, Goddess Yahweh. A Jewish amulet, dating to the first or second century BCE of the Roman and Hellenistic periods, has the inscription “Yahweh with Serpent legs,” and shows just this image here & here. What you see is the first pictorial representation found of Yahweh. Recall that this is the same god who commands Moses to create a cross-shaped pole bearing the image of a Serpent — an image that has divine healing powers, as if emanating the powers of Yahweh himself.

Recall further, that, in Hebrew, Eve or Chavah, Giver of Life, is written as חַוָּה. This is cognate with חיוא, or Chivya in Aramaic, which we know means Snake. Moreover, they are related to Hebrew יהוה, or YHVH, which, like sin, means to be. I also cannot help but notice how יהוה and חַוָּה look similar to nin, with the prefix Nin being a designation for Goddess.

And so given the image of “Yahweh with Serpent legs” and the connecting words/syllables, what if Yahweh was once, at least to some, a Snake Goddess? At minimum, he appears to have been a Snake God.

In any case, over a number centuries, Yahweh gained greater standing in the southern Levant/Canaan and its polytheistic religion. After Ba’al became the chief god, overtaking his father El, Yahweh would eventually usurp his brother to become the major tribal god. Yahweh adopted some of Ba’al’s attributes and motifs, such as being a warrior storm god riding a chariot of clouds, who also slays a sea “chaos monster.” As Yahweh rose in power he became wed to Asherah, while El gradually faded in influence as the high god. It is likely that, for a period of time, Asherah was considered Yahweh’s consort by some, while simultaneously considered the wife of El by others. This could have varied region-to-region, as the transition of power shifted from El, to Ba’al, to Yahweh. Based on my research, none of this is certain. What we can therefore surmise is that Asherah was worshipped in Solomon’s Temple either as the wife of El or Yahweh, or perhaps both over a period of centuries.  

What we are certain of is that Asherah’s presence as both influential Goddess and wife of Yahweh had become completely unacceptable and untenable for the rising patriarchal powers and their monotheistic religion. Asherah empowered girls and women, and the marriage of Divine Feminine and Masculine, both within, and in partnership and leadership. She inspired the union of Heaven and Earth in sacred sexuality, sensual living, and divine embodiment, rather than enforcing illusions of separation and duality, a split between flesh and spirit. Asherah represented peace, prosperity and harmony for all, not war, conquest and enslavement. There is virtually no evidence for violence in the matrilineal, Mother cultures of antiquity; that is, until the imperialism of sword, rape and plunder arrived. 

Asherah, as Mother Goddess and wife to Yahweh, was indeed a categorical threat to the god the dark forces had their eyes set on for some time. Yahweh was their chosen one, their puppet deity, destined to become the regional ruler, the tyrannical, misogynistic god of Israel and Judaism, who would go on to rule the world as God the Father. To effectively dominate through this deity, Yahweh could have no other, no Goddess who would unify and balance the sexes, and empower the Divine Feminine and Masculine in sacred harmony with Mother Earth and Sophia. 

And so coercive, religious reforms came, as did physical violence; the gradual suffocation and destruction of the Goddess religion and the eradication of women’s rights, led by the likes of King Josiah, 16th king of Judah (c. 640–609 BCE). Century-by-century, the Divine Feminine was systematically slayed and buried, a continuation from the earlier Mesopotamian loss of Inanna and Ishtar, Nammu and Tiamat.

Spreading their demonic plague across the southern Levant, the ruthless Yahweh kings and priests made their commands known:

“You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God….” (Exodus 20:3-5) 

Bow to the Dark Overlord was the order, and obey his imperious, political-religious class who desire no competition. The demons working through their incarnate proxies consolidated further power in the Near East, and then beyond: through the Roman Empire, then Catholic tyranny of the Middle Ages, followed by the sprawling British Empire rising in the 17th century. Today, most the world’s power is centralized in the Vatican, which includes its bank and the Jesuit Order, and the Crown Temple located in the City of London (not the “royal” family). The U.S., having largest and most lethal military in the world, provides the weaponry for continued colonialism, and the ethno-supremacist Rothschild project of Israel acts as a fourth column (the same family dynasty of whom Jeffrey Epstein wrote, “As you probably know, I represent the Rothschilds.”). They all work underneath the largely inbred Roman/European aristocratic/papal bloodlines who are ultimately in charge on Earth.

The same colonial powers at work, only expanding and rebranding from Mesopotamia, and the surrounding regions, to slowly claim the world. However you wish to call our overlords, it is they who hold power to this day, with patriarchal religion being their greatest weapon of mind control.

That is, until, AI, the new face of the demonic mythology, to replace the old religions and their hero-puppet-gods.

“The world needs a savior, and the hope is that AI is the savior….” ~ Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, spoken at a World Economic Forum event

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“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it…” ~ John 12:24,25

“For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, then we shall truly dance.” ~ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Every breath is a chance to be reborn spiritually. But to be reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.” ~ Shams Tabrizi, teacher of Sufi poet Rumi

What if the real promise of the “Promised Land” lies in the esoteric meaning of Is-Ra-El: the promise of a return to the Divine Feminine Christ through the rebirth of Her Serpent consciousness — a resurrection from the tomb-womb mysteries, and from the buried grounds of systematic oppression? This is the Seraphic Sophia Christ consciousness Jesus taught and emanated with Mary and Mary, and that he rebirthed — resurrected — through his mystical crucifixion. 

The ultimately futile attempt to conquer the Feminine Soul and ecstatic earthbody is the attempt to conquer death — the greatest fear of all. The lost and confused, oppressive tyrants of old and present day, have always sought to triumph over death. (Today, it’s artificial immortality through transhumanism, the new “master race.”) Which really means bypassing their vulnerable, emotional body, down and in, to avoid this deepest fear; an existential terror of losing control (order) to the wild feminine Unknown (perceived chaos and hell), the dissolving, rebirthing holy black womb, a terror they violently project onto others, especially women.

Thus, the age-old need to demonize and slay Serpents, turn the underworld into hell, order “chaotic” dark seas, and rule from false light “On High,” has, all along, been humanity’s projected fear of maintaining control and certainty. This has always been the blood-thirsty pursuit of the demonically-ruled and highly imbalanced masculine. The heroic and humbling descent into the heart and body is evaded, the surrender to tomb-womb darkness, the wild, unpredictable currents of Serpentine, feminine life. 

Instead of embracing this fear of death, and driven by terror, hatred and obsessive control, troubled souls violently act out their shadows. Snake Goddess cultures are destroyed and buried, and their treasured stories, temples, relics, symbols and Goddesses are misappropriated.

There is a specific example of misappropriation I’d like to share with you now. This example elucidates that whenever the dark forces misappropriate there are always more than one agenda at play. Not only does misappropriation serve to distort and fragment feminine consciousness, but it serves to weaponize its newly formed version against us. As this occurs, we forget the deep, authentic and peaceful roots of her-story, and, instead, resonantly identify with the shallow violence of his-story. 

The misappropriation is of an ancient womb symbol, one you’ve likely seen before: the Omega. Christianity adopted it from Ninhursag, the Sumerian Goddess, and other feminine deities. Considered Mother of the Gods, of All Living, and of the Holy Mountain & Deep Earth, Ninhursag was a principle Serpent Goddess who dwelt in the chthonic depths and heights of Sumerian cosmogony and culture (the mountain is symbol of the womb). Carrying the primordial sound-birthing frequency of Om, the Omega symbol is woven into Ninhursag’s consciousness and iconography, indicating her role as a veritable Mother Womb Goddess. It was part of her divine image long before the invention of the Greek alphabet. 

Below is a striking stone plaque showing Ninhursag flanked by two long Omega wombs. The Goddess is also sometimes portrayed with a mace or staff with an Omega motif at the top; or she is depicted with long hair flowing over her shoulders that follows the shape of this womb symbol. Barely noticeable below is her tiered crown, symbolic of the World Mountain she reigns over. Presiding over the Great Below and Great Above, she carries the qualities of the Snake & Bird Goddess. 

Ninhursag was “the lady who gave birth,” the “Opener of the Womb.” These and other related epithets are quietly encoded in her name’s syllables. Nin-hur-sag translates to Queen-womb-sacred, or Queen of the Sacred Hur, as Azra & Seren Bertrand tell us in Magdalene Mysteries (Queen can be substituted for Lady). The Hebrew language, the authors point out, provides a helpful clue, in that hur means hole and cave. Both are womb symbols and dark, chthonic places Snakes make their home. Most interestingly, hur also means liberty and nobility. In Heru-Ur, related to hur, we discover a noble title given to Isis and Osiris’s brother (not son), Horus the Elder. Also interesting, the rebirthing womb-underworld Inanna descends into — assisted by Ninshurur — is the etymologically-related kur. Remember, avatar means descent, where we go to be liberated into our noble spirit, the wise elder within. 

Hur and kur are cognates of ker, the Proto-Indo-European seed syllable meaning to grow. The modern Greek word kēros means wax, as in the waxing moon. Anne Baring and Jules Cashford suggest that an ancient Greek word e ker means fate, death, and Goddess of Death; and that the word for honeycomb, a nursery in the bee womb hive, is to kerion. Honey in Goddess cultures like Crete was sacred, and gifted as a votive offering to the Goddess who often took the image of a Queen Bee. 

Ker, like hur and kur, is related to mer, meaning MothER; which, in turn, is cognate with mor, meaning death, also in MOtheR. Fabulously encoded in mother, among other secrets, are womb, sea, death and growth. These motifs of life, death and rebirth are, as we can see, also encoded in the names of other Serpent Goddesses, something that will become more clear just below. 

In many languages ker provides the seed syllable for heart, an anagram for earth, the sanctum of our tomb-womb. For example, the Greek word for heart is kardiá, in Latin it’s cor, Italian cuore, and French cœur. These are all interconnected words that carry this familiar and primal sound resonance also found in hur, kur, mer, and more. 

We can tie these etymological discoveries with some words/names mentioned earlier. Ker provides the seed syllable for Kore, the waxing Arabian Moon Goddess who is one face of the Triple Goddess Al-lat, the authentic, pre-Islamic progenitor of Allah. Thus we see ker as being the feminine, womb root for the Koran, the holy book of the patriarchal Abrahamic religion. Let’s also remember the Proto-Indo-European root for hell which is kel — related to ker — meaning to cover, conceal or save. Hell, profaned by the demons, has always held the secrets of the tomb-womb underworld. Uncovering feminine etymology, we realize that it’s been the heart of the Feminine Mysteries of death and rebirth presided over by the Snake Goddesss.  

But there is even more to this wonder of chthonic etymology, more we must uncover if we are to return back to Om, the primordial birthing cry of home.  

The prefix of Her-a, the Greek Snake Goddess of childbirth, is related to hur/ker, and therefore kel. Her + Ra means womb birth. Hera just happens to be centred in As-hera-h. Asherah, as Raphael Patai explains, “promoted fertility and facilitated childbirth,” evidenced by a “7th-century B.C.E. Hebrew incantation text… (showing that) Asherah is sought for a woman in delivery.” The seed syllable her in Asherah’s name not only entitles her with womb and birth as a Divine Rebirther, but also suggests that Hera, and perhaps her mother Rhea bearing the exact same letters, possibly derived their names from the Near Eastern Goddess.

We must also not lose sight of a word more familiar to us english-speaking folks: the feminine pronoun her. Look at how the secrets of her have all this time been secretly concealed in HEaRt. The feminine pronoun her therefore tells a much deeper story of our ancient Mother her-itage existing in this world, and in the timeless dimensions of Creation. Her literally means heart womb, and speaks of the primordial rose heart that roots in the fertile, mysterious depths of Sophia’s black womb; a Serpentine heart spiral of love from which we were born as Divine Love Herself. 

This is one of the great secrets of the Feminine Mysteries of death and rebirth, poetically encoded in the ancient Goddesses who bore them in their names and wisdom stories. Passed through the shadows of ages gone by, these treasures have never been fully lost, only buried in our feminine hearts, yet now rising like a Serpent Goddess to meet us at our crossroads in time. 

Ninhursag, the Serpent Goddess held by two Omega symbols, along with Asherah (Inanna/Ishtar), Hera, Kore, Hathor, and others, are all related Mother Goddesses of the holy hur, which, as we can better see, is inseparable from Sophia’s primordial birthing sound Om. Om, emanating from the Great Below, is not only woven in home and womb, but also tomb. This is why caves were so special to Goddess cultures: in their dark depths, they contained sacred frequencies that connected visitors to the rebirthing, tonal powers of Sophia’s black womb; to our Divine Mo-ther, whose first two letters are Om. 

As Om is to Sophia, hur has been to mothers bringing a child into the world. Hur, the Bertrands write, is “a universal sound that transcends language, made by birthing mothers in the throes of their womb surges since time immemorial.” The authors further elucidate that when toned as a vibratory field, hur “extends down and opens the womb, making the guttural whore sound.” Whore (hor) is emphasized by the Bertrands to highlight its true, sacred relation to hur; and how this womb seed syllable has been twisted and coopted by dark forces to demonize Ishtar, Mary Magdalene, and countless other human Goddesses.

As hor is to whore, har is to harlot, the sacred sexual role priestesses played in the temples of Inanna, and later Ishtar, where men communed with the Goddess, embodied by the priestesses, through the ecstasies of making love. The tantrikas of Hinduism and Buddhism, as explained brilliantly in the award-winning book Passionate Enlightenment, served a similar purpose in inviting men to commune with the Goddess through the passions of sex-tacy. The sacred harlot in sexual union provided an opening, a divine portal, through which the Goddess birthed more of herself not only into the couple, but the world. She flowered through HiERos gamos, their sacred MARriage, feeding the vegetation, animals, waters, and general life of the Earth and community. Sexual union was thus a ritual act of consecrating and empowering the continuous union of Heaven and Earth and cycles of Creation on behalf of the greater whole. 

With this understanding, let us return a blasphemed word to its sacred origins. The priestesses of Inanna/Ishtar, as well as other women enacting rites of sexual union, were the original life-giving prostitutes. Etymologically, prostitution means to stand before and establish oneself, a stark contrast from the profaned meaning spread by the church to demonize sex, women, and standing tall in one’s sovereign divinity. The inversion of prostitution is prostration, which, in its unhealthy, obsequious form, is what the patriarchal, satanic “gods” demand.  

For Sophia, Om serves the same creative purpose, only across the complete multidimensionality of life, in all its forms. With this primordial sound frequency She ecstatically births species, planets, stars, galaxies, universes, and souls, like you and I. She casts sound waves of love that harmonize the infinite diversity of life into a divine fabric of Creation, an unbreakable wholeness. 

Feeling into Om we discover another Cosmic purpose for this sound: it provides a familiar, enchanting feeling-resonance that continuously calls us back to the stillness of peace. This peace is experienced most profoundly in the Yin of primordial, womb blackness. I suggest that encoded in the seed syllables mentioned, forming sacred words like womb, heart, earth, Asherah, whore, as well as IsHtAR and MARy, is an ancient sound frequency that calibrates us to this primordial Divine Feminine consciousness that is our home. 

What if the name Jerusalem bears the feminine secrets of Her? Written as Urusalim in the 14th century BCE Amarna Letters, Uru traditionally means Foundation. Salem is cognate with the Hebrew shalom and Muslim/Arabic salaam, which together mean wholeness, completeness and peace. Could it be that the esoteric meaning of Jerusalem (HeruSalem) is Womb of Peace, the Foundation of Life?

If so, HeruSalem brings greater depths and meaning to IsRaEl (IsRaAl), and vice versa.

With the colonial conquering of Sumer and other Mother cultures, the Omega symbol would be another casualty of misappropriation, driven by yet one more projection of obsessive control. For the same reasons hur was made whore, the coopting of Om became a means to distort, fragment and oppress womb consciousness and its Cosmic sound frequencies that remind us of the Mother Goddess and attune us to our Feminine soul.

God the Father took the omega womb away from the Goddess, claiming it to further cement his illusory place as Cosmic Birther, along with other aforementioned gods declaring this same maternal capacity. Alpha & Omega would signify the Christian god thereafter, and to this day:

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” (Revelation 22:13) 

With Mother cultures destroyed, buried and misappropriated, the new imperial regime remains safely “On High” in great cathedrals and opulent palaces, drunk on power. With a mind controlled army / police resonant with war consciousness, the overlords (seemingly) “own” the feminine underworld, her cultural stories, her womb bodies and souls, lording over the holy hur, all the while silently evading the eternal call of dissolving darkness. Of death, mer/mor — the fundamental teaching of the sacrificial Prophet they apparently represent; an experience of surrender to uncertainty the obsessive controllers are absolutely terrified of.

They are terrified of dark, mysterious, devouring her!

Denying mystical death by evading one’s painful, shadowy “hell realm” compels us to conquer others as a way to conquer our own fear of death. As Baring and Cashford explain, the sacrifice of “the other” in war or the annihilation of an entire tribe serves as a substitute. Nothing is ever enough, because no heroic, humbling journey inwards into the dark, tomb-womb night has been embarked on. Without following the instinct to surrender to our own inner dissolution, without accepting somatically the rhythm of the waning moon, death is projected outwards, and cowardly destruction substitutes for vulnerable transformation. Hence the endless need to find “enemies,” and the ceaseless war machine “on” terror that everyday citizens pay for, financially, if not with their life.

This fearful avoidance of mystical death spurs another substitute: the superficial, womb-less ritual of being “born again.” Though less violent than killing others, Christian baptism feeds our superficial, feminine-bereft world, an impoverished consciousness that easily gives way to violence, if only with oneself or in one’s home. It contributes to the illusion of being raised “On High” into the “redemptive” body of Christ (“grafted in”), perceived as external and paradoxically unattainable as holy divinity.

In truth, there is a long list of substitutes for feeling into our deeper vulnerability, the roots of our being, and experiencing spiritual rebirth: pornography, gambling, alcoholism, drugs, sex, codependent relationships, workaholism, competition. These are all the compulsions and addictions that arise from an imbalanced masculine consciousness that believes that success and happiness is a ladder or mountain to climb; and that there is no value in the mystical river valleys where our ancient ancestors once made their home. 

Interesting how the word depth is one letter away from death — a human depth that comes from humble descent into the hel of Mother Goddess.

This is shallow and bloody his-story. Her-story — the sacred egalitarian one wherein the divine whole of Creation is recognized and lived as immanent — is hidden in the collective unconscious, buried in Mother Earth, in our ancestral trauma, while a new story is written by the colonial victors. His-story is made insidious, steeped, permeating and shaping human consciousness one generation after another: through facile books and stories, and the oppressive regime of (residential) school indoctrination; through statues of celebrated war criminals and monuments dedicated to them; through increasingly violent and perverse artwork, entertainment (Top Gun et. al), video games and sports; through places of worship where a genocidal, misogynistic god is bowed to; through solar mythologies of bloody conquest. And so much more.

Overtime, with enough violence, suppression, deceit and amnesia, his-story is perceived as normal and accepted as natural. A war story, a story of us-versus-them, necessary to strengthen the imperial regime, in ever-growing phases, in power and conquest.

Should we be surprised in the rise of dependency on psychiatric drugs? In one year alone, $1.78 billion was spent on prescribing these drugs, which have serious documented risks, to nearly 3 million American children, in just 32 states, with 270,000 being under the age of 5. This is a period in which little ones are highly sensitive and their brains and self-identity are developing most quickly. This brazen distribution of toxic drugs at such a young age contributes to the epidemic of adult chronic illness in the sickest country in the world. The U.S. spends more on “healthcare” than any other country by a significant margin, yet “it consistently ranks near the bottom of high-income nations for life expectancy, chronic disease burden and preventable deaths…. Research in 2023 found that 76.4% of American adults live with at least one chronic condition, while 51.4% were managing multiple chronic illnesses.”

Watch this excellent short video for a few examples of how systematic and ruthless the destruction and burial has been of our forgotten past; how much of her-story has been hidden. While watching, keep in mind the following words of George Orwell: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” Or remember the warning from music artist Michael Jackson, spoken in 2002, the talented gentleman who knew well the inner workings of the controlling system having been raised in it: “They manipulate our history books. The history books are not true, it’s a lie. The history books are lying. You need to know that.” 

Indeed, far more than most can possibly comprehend, a great lie/veil has been erected (pun intended) and has thickened over time, with no roots in the womb of darkness, and through which frequency warfare has been conducted, turning us against our heartfelt truth, our sexuality and body, each other, and the Goddess of Earth and Spirit. As Baring and Cashford eloquently share, this division of the primal unity has removed us from our instinctive body, such that we reflexively take orders from the god above versus being moved spontaneously by the Goddess of Nature within.

Forgotten in this dark age of separation consciousness is that religion comes from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, as in bond with the sacredness of All That Is through our sacred body. The heart of religion is a journey of living true to the immanence of our oneness with the body of Sophia Christ. 

In the Gospel of Thomas, another text excluded from the New Testament, Jesus speaks to this Sacred Unity:

It is I who am the light
which shines on everyone.
It is I who am the All.
The All came forth from me,
and unto me did the All extend.

Split the wood, and I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me.

In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus also says:

The Kingdom of the (Mother)
is spread out over the whole earth,
and people do not see it.

For reasons listed and more, the controlling entities of terror, past and present, are the greatest cowards of all. Instead of surrendering to their own spiritual death, to vulnerability and Truth, to the true teachings of Jesus, they violently act out their suppressed existential terror by bringing death and destruction to the innumerable, while turning themselves into gods we must fear, worship and unquestionably obey — the trick of the ages! A mind-control trick strengthened by the doctrine of hellfire.

In contrast, the brave-hearted, so often guided by High Priestesses & Priests and Shamans within the wilds and womb temples, the dim chthonic realms, have always vulnerably given themselves to spiritual death. Like the caterpillar in its tomb-womb, its chrysalis-cross, they have dissolved in the still black of Mystery, from which they’ve been reborn into new dimensions of Mastery, of angelic f-light, integrated Divine Feminine & Masculine Love, paradoxical wisdom, a Breath of Life without beginning or end, ever-flowing through the Garden of Oneness, the awakened Eden of sacred embodiment.  

In death 
I alas came to know myself
as life,

a boundless life that only knows
love,

giving of itself
through the 
endless dance of creation,

of dark and light,
death and rebirth,

of coming home to
stillness,

and rising once again.

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“I am the lion with a ferocious look born by the dragon.” ~ Excerpt from a hymn dedicated to King Shulgi of Ur who reigned from 2094 to 2047 BCE, succeeding his father King Ur-Nammu, which, as you will see, means Womb-Dragon

When the heavens above did not exist,
And the earth beneath had not come into being,
There was Apsu, the first order, their begetter,
And demiurge Tiamat, who gave birth to them all.
~ From another translation of the Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation

“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.'” ~ Isaiah, in 6:1-3, describes his ecstatic vision of Yahweh surrounded by our primordial Dragon Mothers, the Holy Seraphim

Though Goddess cultures had been largely conquered in Europe, the Near East, and elsewhere, the invincible Spirit of Nammu/Tiamat, Inanna/Ishtar/Asherah, Ninhursag, the Pythia, and other Serpent Goddesses lived on; for they are eternal expressions of our primordial Dragon Mothers, the Sophia Dragons. Representing the highest angelic order of the Cosmos — the Holy Seraphim — the Sophia Dragons, with their sovereign free will consecrated to fulfilling the Will of the Divine Mother, gestate and birth Her immaculate light conceptions. Species, planets, stars, galaxies, even universes are born from their ineffable heart wombs, forming the unfathomable multiplicity of life within our Multiverse. 

Mother Earth is one such creation, a child of born from one of our Sophia Dragon Mothers. Gaia is indeed blessed with crystalline Dragon DNA, and this Seraphic planetary consciousness has been influential in birthing the ancient Mother Cultures explored thus far, as well as present-day Dragon religions we’ll come to in a moment. We, too, as holographic souls inhabiting earthbodies carry this sacred inheritance of Dragon DNA. It’s Serpentine secrets are encoded in our genetic universe as part of what Kaia Ra calls our divine genome. Lying nestled against the full length of our carbon-based genome, most of our divine genes, Dragon or otherwise, are asleep at this time. Yet, like seeds planted in the earth, their light codes are full of life potential, waiting to “sprout.” 

Birthing (“sprouting”) our Dragon DNA from the holy of holies of our genetic universe (“fertile carbon earth”) within our temple bodies (humus/human) brings to life divine qualities the Sophia Dragons are know for, and that we are equally endowed with. Specifically activated is our Golden Dragon Light Body, one of our infinite light bodies, which you can read more about via that link. Dragon qualities inherent to us include: ancient wisdom, alchemical magick, sublime strength, fierce parental love, optimal health, and parthenogenetic birthing powers. Inasmuch as we are ready, these encoded qualities awaken, and thus so too does our ancient Dragon soul (what’s latent as divine talent comes alive, with one being an anagram for the other). Like Persephone rising from Hades or Inanna resurrecting from the kur, these gifts and talents flower from our “genetic underworld.” Their Seraphic sacredness illuminates our humanity, and, by extension, they are a gift of renewal to the world. 

Sacred embodiment is experienced as liberated Dragon consciousness supercharging the Tree of Life that is our subtle energy channels and nervous system. Our divinity fills our branches, just as sap rises and fills a tree during the warming season. This is the esoteric anatomy of the Christian Mysteries and the quintessence of sacred marriage, with our heart, mind and body rebirthed into greater union with the Garden of Sophia Christ.

Centred in our sacred rose heart, this marriage between our Higher Self and body/human awareness is a gradual unfolding spanning many heroic lifetimes. In successive stages of integration, we, as living fractals of Creation, slowly realize the same qualities and creative powers as that which we have activated: in this case, our Dragon Mothers. With oversight from our Higher Self, this crystalline immanence gradually blossoms into our human awareness at a pace that we can handle, without being overwhelmed. It flowers through our Tree of Life, in what is the true meaning of transfiguration or anthropos, the divine human. What this means is that you, as well, as a hologram of Sophia and Her Dragons, are divinely designed to birth species, planets, stars, galaxies, even universes! Whether you are a man or woman, you are blessed with the limitless birthing powers of black womb, Cosmic consciousness, creative powers equal to their own. This is how magnificent you are as a Universal Soul!

Sophia made you in Her image and likeness; yet, Her other gift was to make you a fingerprint soul with a unique genetic sequence. Just as your carbon-based DNA is uniquely encoded, so is your crystalline DNA. You therefore contain all the powers and potentials of Creation, but with creative instincts of distinct, sovereign individuality. You are endowed with the complete genetic blueprint of our primordial Dragon Mothers, and yet there is no Dragon soul quite like you!

These are the sacred, Serpentine powers and gifts whose time have come, an inexhaustible wealth of secrets encoded in our holy of holies. Through our shared humanity they are meant to come alive now, to rise from the shadows of pain and amnesia. They are meant to pierce through the dense, heavy soil we’ve been stuck beneath for millennia, so to reveal our suppressed her-story, our ancient Snake and Dragon Goddess past. In this, we give birth to a new, uplifting story, here, at our crossroads in time.

The Sophia Dragons
are enshrined 
in our temple bodies,

just as the priestesses of Inanna
enshrined the Dragon Goddess
in their own,

and through us,
from the inside-out,
we birth Seraphic, Serpentine consciousness 
on Earth.

Rebirthed by the consciousness of our Dragon Mothers, we indeed bring the dawn of the “Second Coming of Christ.” We anchor and broadcast this activated Sophia-Serpentine Christ light in and through our miraculous bodies, which act as both temple and stargate. Our bodies are natural and extraordinarily powerful transmitters of divine consciousness; of Christ light, which is the starlight of our soul star essence. In fact, as frequency beings we are at all times sending out broadcast signals. It’s a matter of what kind, how powerful our transmissions are, and their impact on others and the planet. What determines this is what divine genes have been activated and how pure our hearts are; in other words, how open our vessels are to the Christ light of our Higher Self that wants to know itself and make itself known through the human experience. 

Being great masters of pure heart, Jesus and Mary shone a powerful light unto the world, a miracle made possible because, across many lifetimes, their divine genome became fully activated. During their time in Palestine this light radiated from the empyreal dimensions of the high Light Realms; it cascaded down through their stargate temple bodies as a field of consciousness their advanced souls had already merged with in hieros gamos. Among other frequencies activated, like Diamond light, they anchored and broadcasted the consciousness of the Sophia Dragons. Those ready received advanced initiations into the Mysteries of the Sophia Dragons and thus Sophia Herself in Her white and black emanations. Healing and DNA activation purified their hearts, minds and bodies, creating quantum space for their Dragon Mothers to resurrect in their consciousness, suffuse their Tree of Life, and be remembered as their ancient ancestors.

But Jesus and Mary’s dharmic broadcasts went much further, for like all masters before and since, they came to do world-work. Their continuous transmissions extended far beyond the borders of Palestine, touching the collective field, a supernal blessing that not only transmuted dense, circumglobal energies, but seeded Sophianic-Dragon consciousness for future generations, including our own at this pivotal time of rebirth.   

As Jesus and Mary well knew, none of these miracles were possible without sacred marriage with Sophia and Her Dragons; without marrying any holy frequency, for that matter, like Diamond light, in the bridal chamber of the temple body. In John 5:19, Jesus speaks to this when humbly referring to his body as a vehicle for greater works: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” The Son and Daughter can do as Mother does, being made in Her image and likeness. In Her holy, whole conception, Sophia would not, could not, have made us any less than She, and thus any less capable of commanding miracles of creation. Yet doing as Mother does, as Jesus and Mary did, is only possible if we first consecrate our will to Her own. That is our sovereign choice to make, one that does not render us without sovereign identity and free will. We maintain our fingerprint nature while experiencing the tremendous joy and honour of commanding miracles and birthing life as She does, of shining as one with Her in service to the body of Sophia Christ. 

To be a master
is to be a ma-star:
Star of the Mother.

This is the
literal meaning of the word.

We shine
in sacred union
with Her primordial light,

we shine forever
as One. 

Activating our Dragon DNA is a powerful step towards achieving mastery. This Seraphic consciousness comes online, as it were, in our neurobiology, empowering our body to be a vehicle of collective rebirth in union with the Sophia Dragons. Activation marries us to them in the bridal chamber of our temple body: our Dragon Temple. Like with Jesus and Mary, our awakened Dragon light invites their own to cascade down through our stargate form in such a way that we realize our shared Seraphic power, our shared Dragon body. As above, so below. Like attracts like. No effort or special technique is needed to broadcast these ancient celestial frequencies, only a pure, heartfelt desire to serve, the innocence of curiosity. Simply by being true to our divine nature and walking the path of our hearts, we touch lives. Whether we are gardening, cooking, swimming in the ocean, or singing, we anchor and broadcast Seraphic light just by being ourselves. 

Intimately merging with the Sophia Dragons not only awakens us to our Seraphic birthing power, but also to the power of their eternal, maternal love for us; a heart womb love that is ancient as much as it is ineffable. Internalizing the immense love of our Dragon Mothers in our hearts holds the possibility of bridging us across time and activating concealed memories of her-story, the lost treasures of this world. Curiosity sparks, as does our love for truth — Serpentine Truth, as we are drawn into the timeless, quantum field, where we connect to our distant ancestors and their love for the Goddess. With appreciation, what comes alive is the passionate, ritual purpose behind the figurines dedicated to Asherah; why they were placed in groves or on “high places” and under the Tree of Life. We take to heart the rites dedicated to Inanna and Demeter whose regenerative powers were invoked to sow seeds and bring forth the harvest. We are touched, moved, by how much the Goddess was intimately wed with everyday matters, from giving birth to a child, caring for animals, seasonal festivals, constructing shrines and temples, and rites of initiation. Indeed, we sense how and why the Serpent Goddess was immanent as Mater, and thus a matter of the heart for ancient peoples.  

As we resurrect our forgotten Snake/Dragon lineage from its buried place in our genetic underworld, our sacred her-story unravels through our Tree of Life as resonant truth. Past and present merge in the ever-present now, centred in our timeless hearts. Along with the positivity and beauty, what becomes visceral in cells, bones and hearts is the extent that the Goddess and her Mother cultures were shamed, attacked and repressed. It’s only natural that uncovered memories stir anger and grief, feelings felt and unfelt passed through time. Courageously, by healing and activating, by sacrificing the pain of what’s been for the sacredness of what’s always been, we act as a vehicle for the restoration of the Divine Feminine Christ, and, specifically, the Serpent Goddess. We do so through our bodies on behalf of our family of souls, our ancestors who suffered tremendously with their loss of dignity and ritual life.

In heartbreak, both grief and love, being two sides of the same heart, return us to the Serpent Goddess of old and present day as irrefutable truth, and as our ancestors knew her to be: Queen of the Underworld; Lady of the Mountain, Primeval Seas and Heavenly Light; Protectress of the Sacred Animals; Goddess of the Deep; Goddess of the Holy Womb. Remembering her, we remember ourselves beyond the human drama, as woven into the ineffable black heart womb of Seraphic Cosmic Mystery, a Stillness of Mystery that also contains the Divine Masculine, whose purpose has always been to serve the Feminine, She who is primordial to Creation.  

With the flowering of our Tree of Life things become even clearer, Dragon dots connect even more. Our childlike curiosity travels to all sorts of interesting places on Earth, and we progressively discover the extent that Dragon consciousness has initiated, guided — rebirthed — human consciousness and shaped our collective story. We see the Holy Seraphim in the Dragon Mystery Schools like the one Mary Magdalene attended in Mesopotamia, a lineage brought forth by the priestesses of Inanna and later Ishtar. The Seraphim appear to Yahweh in a vision mentioned in Isaiah 6, hinting of spontaneous visions of Dragons that have taken place throughout time. First dreamt in one’s imagination, they’ve then manifested into fairy tales, poems, dance rituals, mystery plays, and songs like Puff the Magic Dragon, who lived by the sea and lives forever. Seraphim, believed by most to be, like Mermaids and Unicorns, pure fiction, have, for some little known reason, manifested into the folklore and customs of peoples around the world. 

Alongside the examples told in this writing, our Dragon Mothers are found in the Red Dragon of Wales, those of Slavic mythology like the benevolent Zmaj, and the sacred Dragons of China seen as great beings of strength, wisdom and protection. Their images and inspiration can also be found Tibet, as well as the small south Asian nation of Bhutan, whose flag, like the flag of Wales, bears a great Dragon (my father, tellingly, was born and raised in Swansea, Wales!). These are only a few examples on top of those already given, a list that doesn’t come close to capturing the fullness Dragon lore and imagination on this planet. With enough activation, heart opening and seeking, we grok this vast cosmic lineage of Dragon consciousness weaving cultures together, near and far, across time. We grok that this permeation of Seraphic life is no accident at all — for Dragon consciousness is in Gaia’s DNA, and our own!

There was one seminal event that activated this collective consciousness, arguably more than any other. It occurred when, millennia ago, the Sophia Dragon Mother who birthed our planet manifested in form. She returned, as Dragon Mothers do on occasion, to offer care and guidance for her child. As Kaia Ra splendidly writes, her presence initiated the Golden Age of Shambhallah which eventually birthed the aforementioned Dragon-centric cultures in Asia, as well as others. The epicentre of Shambhallah was the region of the Himalayas, the womb mountains and sacred abode dear to Ascended Master Mahavatar Babaji, The Immortal Yogi, who serves Cosmic life closely with the Sophia Dragons. The return of our Dragon Mother at what was a crossroads in human and planetary evolution can be compared to Jesus whose empyreal presence activated the Age of Pisces and, in doing so, rebirthed the collective field (hence the “fisher of men’s” association with the Ichthys, or “Jesus fish,” which is the vesica piscis, symbolic of the yoni or womb).

Reflecting the visits of other advanced beings from star systems like the Pleiades and Sirius, the Sophia Dragon brought teachings that were universal in nature and immanent to souls as encoded light information. In those ready, the inherent Dragon life became activated, and this sacred knowledge manifested into temple cultures in everything from architecture, the arts, ritual practice, and the flourishing of Dragon Mystery Schools; a flourishing that would later extend into Mesopotamia. A radical transformation began to unfold within the Asiatic region, a birth of Seraphic consciousness that eventually permeated every corner of the world, weaving the dreaming, mythic minds of children and adults alike. 

All in all, Earth’s Dragon Mother came at the perfect moment when we were ready to advance as a species to the next stage of our evolution, in consort with Seraphic life. This consciousness, however, already existed as a potential long before Shambhallah; it waited patiently to resurrect into the collective field, much like how our divine DNA lays asleep as dormant potentials. Conceived in the heart womb of her Dragon Mother, Gaia was blessed with Dragon DNA which spirals throughout her body, a genetic inheritance that reflects our own. The Golden Age of Shambhallah was initiated because these dormant Dragon potentials activated in Gaia’s body, just as Seraphic life awoke in human beings. This liberated Dragon consciousness coalesced and proliferated within the inseparable bodies of human and planet.  

We can further appreciate Mother Earth’s inheritance of Dragon consciousness through her electromagnetic network of ley lines, more aptly called Dragon lines (also poetically called song lines, as they chant the songs of Sophia Christ whose base tone is Om). Criss-crossing the full breadth of our planet, they consist of Serpentine-like vortices where lines intersect. Here, at these sacred locations, depending on the rotation of the vortex, energy is drawn up from the inner Earth and transmitted across Gaia’s body along her Dragon lines, transforming the collective field. These intersection points also draw celestial frequencies into Earth’s body, light from countless stars, including our precious sun. Thus, like some of our famous pyramids, as well as our sensitive earthbodies, the vortices act as communication hubs that transmit and receive consciousness. They are power centres which inspire, initiate, and activate the evolutionary growth of the entire ecosystem of Gaia, one that is inseparable from the celestial bodies and the Sophia Dragons who carefully watch over their creation. For these reasons, the ancients — pagan, Druid, or otherwise — built their temples at these power spots, with the finely tuned astronomical, initiatory site of Stonehenge being one example.

Originally discovered by the ancient Chinese, they call this electromagnetic grid Lung Mei, meaning Dragon Paths. Significantly, this is the same culture who absorbed much of the consciousness born from Shambhallah and whose most sacred animal totem is the Dragon. Further testament to China’s longstanding Dragon consciousness lies in the fact that they brought the world acupuncture, and, in doing so, taught that our earthbodies’ Nadis, or meridians, reflect the Dragon paths of Mother Earth. Where the needle is placed in our Lung Mei mirrors the power spots on Gaia’s body, the key activation points that stimulate life force and bring regeneration to the greater whole.

With the activation of Dragon DNA in our body (or any DNA for the matter), this life force, as mentioned, supercharges our Tree of Life consisting of our subtle energy channels, or meridians, and nervous system. As it is with our body, it is with the body of Mother Earth — her expansive Tree of Life. When Gaia’s DNA activates, this life force not only travels through her Dragon lines, but through her vast nervous system. Every living creature has a nervous system, and humans are part of the greater neurological network of Gaia. Our nervous systems, in other words, are inseparable from that of a Whale, Rose and Cedar tree. Sitting in the stillness of Mother Nature teaches us this. She soothes our nervous system in a process called co-regulation, wherein the calm of singing robins and swaying fields engenders our calm. Our nervous systems, though seemingly distanced, are in fact enmeshed through the quantum field. They are in touch, a myriad of frequency beings always and mysteriously communicating within and as the interconnected web of life.

A most palpable example of the subtle field of co-regulation lies between parent and young child. Vital to their health and development, when children co-regulate with their parents, as in nature, mommy or daddy’s calm engenders their calm. The child’s nervous system entrains with the parent’s, allowing the little angel to rest in connection and experience secure attachment. A secure bond fosters a secure identity, and builds within the child a neurological network that knows its place in the heart and soul of not only the parents, but the greater body of Sophia Christ that includes Mother Earth.  

And so the broader Tree of Life of Earth, consisting of her criss-crossing Dragon Lines and immense nervous system, cannot be separated from our own inner Tree of Life. Our endowment of genes must also be included in this miraculous biological map. Every living expression of Mother Nature’s Earthbody is encoded in our biological DNA, with concomitant divine expressions encoded in our angelic DNA. We have, in other words, a biological and corresponding divine gene for every manifestation of Creation. For example, we have a carbon gene for every species of Hawk, and a divine counterpart representing the soul or higher nature of the animal. These genes lay nestled against one another in the holy of holies of our human ecosystem, our temple body. Activating the higher gene brings to life an aspect of our Higher Self, in this case, the divine qualities of the mighty Hawk. The lower carbon gene of our lower animal nature is alchemically upgraded to crystalline light; it’s sacrificed for the sacred, the Hawk Nature of our angelic soul — a soul uniquely made in the image and likeness of The All. 

As without, so within. As our souls are living fractals of Sophia, so are our bodies of Earth. Together, with Mother Earth, our bodies are thus one miraculous ecosystem, one flowing Tree of Life, one pulsating field of ancient Serpentine consciousness that intimately touches all living creatures on Earth, the Sophia Dragons, indeed, the entire Cosmic Body-Tree of Sophia Christ.  

In the image above, we see on the left the Andromeda galaxy, the closest galaxy to Earth consisting of 1 billion stars. Our Milky Way is estimated to have one tenth this amount, or 100 million stars. On the right we see the image shown earlier of the Python coiled up in a way that reflects the sacred geometry of Andromeda. This ancient structural pattern, encoded in the Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Ratio, provides the geometric blueprint for everything from DNA, seashells, flowers, pinecones, ocean waves, right up to galaxies. Much of our body follows this spiral design, including our fingerprints, heart, and our whorling hair follicles. Even our breath spirals into our lungs, which is why the act of breathing is called re-spir-ation. The Breath of Life is the Spirit or Spiral of Life, and as one creative force this life manifests into countless examples of this precise sacred geometry. 

As scientists are now discovering, the galactic centres of spiral galaxies are black holes. Existing within the unfathomably diaphanous “bulge,” they are, in fact, wombs, from which countless stars are born. From the galactic centre spirals out the light of life, and this starlight is the light of our Cosmic souls that shine as bright as the countless stars of Sophia combined. The spiral galaxy shows the way of the Serpent who, from her womb, births life in the most glorious ways possible. Looking above into the sea of stars and deeper into the still blackness that engulfs them we remember our own womb consciousness, our limitless birthing powers, the Serpent of our Soul who breathes with the silence of Feminine Mystery preceding all the eyes can behold.  

The ancients saw this tapestry of heavenly light and darkness as a cosmovision that wove together the sacred geometry of galaxies with that of the Serpent Goddess. With decades of profound archeological discoveries and scholarly work in the field of education, Marija Gimbutas was able to articulate this cosmovision to the world: “The snake and its abstracted derivative, the spiral, are the dominant motifs of the art of Old Europe…. The mysterious dynamism of the snake, its extraordinary vitality and periodic rejuvenation, must have provoked a powerful emotional response in the Neolithic agriculturalists, and the snake was consequently mythologized, attributed with a power that can move the entire cosmos.”

Recall that 70% of known Snake species lay eggs, a creation that happens to bear the image of the elliptical orbits of stars and planets in spiral galaxies. Indeed, the ecliptics of these celestial bodies do not follow the geometry of the circle, but the oval egg: the Cosmic Egg, which, as we know, belongs to the Goddess. Across ancient cultures, the Cosmic Egg was seen as the womb of Creation that birthed Heaven and Earth, while held in the amniotic waters, the primeval seas, of life.

And to whom was given the dive purpose of being Protectress of the Cosmic Egg? None other than the spiralling Cosmic Serpent, She who follows the sacred geometry of the Feminine Christ within us all. 

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In the ancient temples of the Feminine Mysteries, the innermost sanctum, or holy of holies, was the rebirthing tomb-womb. There, Gods & Goddesses were born in flesh. As with the initiatory caves of Palaeolithic and Neolithic cultures, many temples aligned with the solstices, such as Newgrange in Ireland and the temples of Malta. Further, the dark tunnels leading to the temple-cave sanctum represented the birth canal, a passage bringing the initiate into the (eastern dawn) light after being reborn. This is similar to how, as numerous near death experiencers have reported, we move through the dark tunnel into the numinous light after departing our body.

In Egypt, this initiatory tomb-womb of both temple and pyramid was called per ur. Per means house. The pyramid, or per-áa-met, “is a house of endings and beginnings,” writes Egyptian scholar Normandi Ellis. Carrying the suffix met, meaning mother, a per-áa-met is a House of the Mother Goddess, wherein she dissolves and rebirths us anew in Her still, black holy of holies.

The innermost sanctum of all sacred tomb-womb spaces — temple, pyramid and cave — represent and serve as one with the Holy of Holies of Sophia’s black womb, which, in turn, represents and serves as one with our innermost holy of holies: our genetic universe held within our temple bodies, wherein our inner God/dess is born.

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” states the Second Hermetic Principle, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. This reflective unification of Cosmic body, outer temple body, and personal temple body, from which the inner Christ rises as the sun from the east, is one of the deepest secrets of the Feminine Mysteries. Transmitted in the ancient mystery schools, these secrets are embodied by the Snake Goddess, the Cosmic Rebirther, and encoded in your divinity.

With this in mind, and your etymological understanding of hur, kur, ker and ur (and there are more, as we know), recall where Abraham comes from: Ur, the ancient home of the Snake Goddess Mysteries of death and rebirth, SU-meR, the Motherland; with other cities called Kissura, Urukag, Shuruppak, Nippur and Uruk, and major temples called Ziggurats.

Maybe, the Abrahamic religions began in the Serpent womb more than we realize!

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The whole universe rests upon Her,
Rises out of Her and melts away into Her…
She is both mother and grave…
The gods themselves are merely constructs out of Her maternal substance…

~ Hymn to the Goddess, Devi Bhagavata Purana

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return.” ~ Job 1:21

Jesus’s colossal demonstration on the cross was not strictly painful punishment; it was far grander: the fulfillment of preordained mystical purpose. Through this final human ordeal he transmitted his final legacy teaching, one that is everlasting, ever true, and which is the very medicine and message of the Snake Goddess: death and rebirth, endings and beginnings, crucifixion and resurrection; the realization of our Immortal Nature in sacred embodiment, the human temple of Christ.

Jesus sacrificed for a sacredness far more profound than most can comprehend. In his dying breath and through his limp, nailed, stargate temple body, he birthed a miraculous broadcast of Sophia Christ consciousness onto Mother Earth. Cascading down from the high Light Realms, this light forever altered Gaia’s quantum nature, our collective timelines and possibilities, setting the way for what would occur 2,000 years later: our great awakening at the crossroads in time. As mentioned, these advanced, multidimensional frequencies were already transmitting through Jesus throughout his life, as was true for high adepts Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary. Yet, the moment of his death created the most spacious opening for new life, the Divine Feminine Christ, to be born.

This seminal moment in human evolution and what is the essence of the Christian Mysteries is mythologized in the Bible. In Mathew 27 we read: “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split.” The cherubim-embroidered curtain, or parochet, protecting the holy of holies in the Temple of Jerusalem was no more. The innermost sanctum, where Gods and Goddess are born, was unveiled to the world. The Temple, representing the body of Christ, the body of humanity, was filled with radiant light. The Divine Feminine Christ within resurrected, and She suffused the Tree of Life of Earth and humankind to greater glory. 

Fast-forward to today, and, with eyes to see, we recognize how this Tree is meant to fill to evermore glory; for, indeed, our destined hour has come. Jesus, Mary and Mary, in initiating the Age of Pisces, seeded this possibility; but with today’s masses of awakening souls and the Cosmic light entering our planet from multiple star systems (not just our sun), our transition into the Age of Aquarius is meant to be much more of a collective effort, and, therefore, it’s meant to escalate at exponential speed. Together, as a conscious family of souls, we are here to steward our Great Rebirth, one that necessitates a Great Death. The “Great Reset” is its diabolical inversion, orchestrated by a select few terrified of death and who compensate through obsessive control. Daunting and unstoppable the dark push can seem at times, the “Great Reset” will only go so far.

Paradoxically, our dark overlords serve an evolutionary purpose by initiating the dissolution of the old, pained world that most humans are afraid to let go of, attached they are to their pain and complacently addicted to the illusion of “normal.” The demonic forces act as a wrecking crew of sorts as they break down a global system that never had roots in fertile womb consciousness. It was a “house built on the sand,” as it were. As they destabilize and destroy the economy, energy sector, and more, and as they ambitiously install their digital control grid, what’s quietly emerging is the new world set to replace the old. With their occult knowledge that includes astrological events, they know the divine clock is ticking. Despite their meticulous efforts, divine destiny is not an “AI World Society,” as the UN documents it, with us being “AI Citizens” shackled to an all-surveilling social credit system, Big Brother who rewards and punishes depending our compliance. No, instead, the divine destiny is the Age of Light, which, in a strange way, the self-appointed, evil wrecking crew is creating sacred space for.  

First and foremost, we must understand that our purpose at this time is to birth the Age of Light. The transformation of human consciousness and the tired world occurs through our miraculous stargate temple bodies. We are not alone, however, not by a long stretch, for our inspiration and actions are guided by orders of watchful angels who are here, in great abundance and eagerness, to assist us each step of the way. But it begins with us. Birthing is, in essence, a Divine Feminine process, just as, to state the obvious, birthing is of the mother, not father. But what comes next, beyond the immeasurable essence of things, calls for our Divine Masculine, which manifests as the rational, calculating mind. Its sacred role is to shape, organize, systemize, direct, and generally make available the “divine child” we are here to birth and gift to the world. Our feminine soul of love is the guiding overseer of this process, and, with her masculine soulmate, “they” raise the “crystal child” in such a way that “his/her” blessings find their most impactful place of belonging. 

Fulfilling our divine destiny, meticulously mapped out prior to incarnating, is easier if we have faith in our Great Ending. The world, as we’ve known it to be, is now “officially” on the Holy Cross, where it needs to be. Jesus showed the way, for just as dark souls hung him on the cross, dark souls today have placed our world on its own. Our overlords are done with this dysfunctional world, but then, so are we, if only we’d admit it. Therefore, they are paradoxical in purpose, as they were 2,000 years ago, by initiating a global crucifixion, the death of the old word older; again, a mystical death most are too afraid to initiate on their own.

As the crucifixion transpires at both the individual and collective levels, the Divine Feminine Christ is being born, rapidly so, resurrecting from dormancy within the holy of holies of the Temple of Humanity. The kundalini Serpent is uncoiling from her base and flowering through the Tree of Life she is known to make her home. Indeed, in the legion of human light workers or starseed warriors angelic DNA is activating, while trauma and programming is being healed; our subtle energy channels and nervous systems are being filled with the consciousness of the new dawn. We are birthing the coming age simply by being a courageous participant willing to sacrifice for the sacred, inside and out. 

Understanding the monumental transformation before us, its her-story, destined timing, and deeper alchemical purpose, makes it easier to accept the sweeping and oft-disturbing challenges before us; to embrace our collective dark night of the soul and rebirth that brings with it labour pains that are intense, yet are necessary to activate humanity’s alchemical Magnum Opus, or Great Work. With expanded awareness earned through the rigours of our dark nights, we are less inclined to fear the collective death, to hold on to what’s been. This doesn’t mean we aren’t affected by the tragedy and suffering and all that’s quickly surfacing, like the Epstein files. We are meant to be affected, to feel shock, outrage, disgust and grief. Indeed, we are not here to “spiritually bypass.” That’s not what heart warriors do. It’s just that, with the integrated awareness of the Snake Goddess, her/our paradoxical, rebirthing wisdom born in the tomb-womb, we more easily accept the messiness of it all, and therefore our own messiness. The heartbreak that comes with these emotions creates sacred space for a swelling of compassion our world increasingly cries out for, a compassion that is both human and spiritual, and is capable of holding space for all of it.  

We are not meant to turn our backs to the suffering, yet we’re not meant to fix or save either. The Snake Goddess of our souls knows the wisdom of the dark night, the Serpentine, rebirthing intelligence of blackness native to the underworld, this crucible, that dissolves and renews. The Snake Goddess of our souls also knows that, often, where there is strong attachment to the old world order inside, there is great resistance when change announces itself, creating great suffering. From the perspective of the initiating Snake Goddess immense suffering, especially on this planet, is inevitable, and so not to be avoided. Even more, it’s seen as sacred, an underworld of sacred pain and disorientation not to be helped out of, but one that serves an alchemical, catalyzing purpose. To help out would be a tremendous disservice to the soul who came here to experience rebirth with the rest of us. This is why we don’t see the angels rushing in and rescuing us. They always serve our passage through, but never help us out. 

The alchemical crucible (cognate with crucifixion) provides the heat and pressure needed for surrendered dissolution and transformation. The gold being born in millions, as we speak, is the gold of the Golden Age. The angels are certainly here, and so are the unusual amount of Cosmic Waves; but, to reiterate, it is we humans, above all, who are meant to birth the Golden Age by embodying the gold of our immortal divinity. This is the Magnum Opus, or Great Work, known by the few wise alchemists.

And so it is: that which brings forth the new world is who we are.

I invite you, therefore, to see these turbulent times as a collective summoning rather than merely a collective suffering in which we are meant to wait for a saviour. As Jesus said, “even greater things than these” we are meant to do, here, at this crossroads in time. We’ve come to live the legacy teaching of Jesus, both by giving ourselves to our own cross of mystical crucifixion, and by compassionately stewarding our global crucifixion. One supports the other, with our sacred rose heart being the cardinal centre for this integrative calling.    

As always, in all ways, the Snake Goddess, like the Sophia Dragons and our Divine Mother, are here, in exponentially growing force, to support us. They serve our healing and empowerment, our heroic rebirth, and, beyond, our coming home to the stillness of pure love in the holy womb of no-thing.  

On behalf of the ancient Snake Goddess,
the Sophia Dragons,
and our Divine Mother,

blessings to You,
your rising Serpentine Soul!

Vince Gowmon

Epilogue: Sophianic Secret Alchemy of Baphomet

“Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.” ~ Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Intriguing, insightful, controversial and puzzling, Baphomet characterizes all these juicy qualities, and more. In our brief epilogue, we will explore this androgyne figure and the surprising occult connections with Sophia, our Divine Mother, while recognizing Baphomet as a unique bearer of the Serpentine Mysteries. 

I seesawed over whether to add the epilogue due to the negativity surrounding this character, present-day and over the centuries; however, given Baphomet’s creative, amalgamated representation of many of the topics and themes outlined thus far, and that Snakes and Dragons, too, have been portrayed as both evil and good, I found it necessary to write onwards. 

Recognized as far back as 1200 CE, theories abound as to the origins of this figure; too many to list here. I cannot help, however, to see a possible connection between Baphomet and Pan. Meaning all, Pan was a popular pagan God prominent in Greek mythology, and son to Hermes. Depicted as playing a pan flute, and seen as guardian of the wilds, as untamed wildness himself, like Baphomet, he is half-human, half-goat, with horns, pointy ears and hoofs. Pan is male (at least that’s what his-story tells us), however, not androgynous, with his lower body being furry and goat-like. Baphomet’s goat representation, by contrast, is depicted mostly in the head and horns.  

Goats bring the medicine of balance, exemplified by their exceptional climbing skills on steep, rocky mountains. They are masters at maintaining a discerning, instinctive equilibrium, a sure-hoofness on Mother Earth, while ascending to higher, heavenly planes upon which they make their home. This medicine and message of Goat is something to consider when reading onwards and weaving the alchemical symbolism of Baphomet. 

Some speculate that Pan was misappropriated by early, dark “Christian” leaders to create the horned d-evil; a figure that has simultaneously served the purpose of inciting fear and obedience to fictional god (the dark forces), and been used to demonize pagan cultures and Mother Earth. 

Could there be a connection between Pan and Baphomet? And was Baphomet originally a benevolent creation, only to be misappropriated by the dark forces? I can only imagine this is possible. 

Let’s keep exploring…

Regarding Baphomet, for hundreds of years this much-maligned figure has been associated with satanism. In the Middle Ages, members of the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping this “idol,” an act of supreme heresy that contributed to their fate in the torturous dungeons of the Roman Catholic Inquisition. In recent times, the “Sigil of Baphomet” has been a foremost symbol for the Church of Satan; and it has been coopted by the ruling dark forces, proudly displayed by certain prominent frontmen and conmen as their own demonic “idol.”

And yet Baphomet is a powerful sigil for mystical alchemy. This became apparent when the deity was reinterpreted by French Occult Philosopher Éliphas Lévi (1810 — 1875) in his book Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual. Likely inspired by the Magician Arcana (Tarot), in Lévi’s depiction of the hermaphroditic Baphomet, we see the unity of opposites woven together in creative iconography: masculine and feminine principles, as well as the unity of the five primary elements — Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Æther. 

Earth is symbolized by the wild, animal nature; Water by the fish-like scales in its intestinal region; Air by the dome-like atmosphere above and behind the scales; Fire by the luminous flame above its head symbolizing gnosis or apotheosis; and Æther (Spirit) by the celestial wings. 

One hand points up to the Heavens, and one down to Earth, signifying the union of the two, and the Hermetic axiom “As above, so below.” And the pentagram on Baphomet’s forehead is upright (inverted by Satanists), signifying the unity of All That Is as Truth transcendent of illusory duality (one point over two points.) 

And what about those devilish-looking horns? Perhaps they don’t represent evil, and not simply our wild animal nature, either. Maybe they also represent the crescent moon and her feminine, rebirthing wisdom that crowns sacred Goddesses of Old Worlds. Inanna, Ishtar, Isis, Diana and Selene are all portrayed with a crowned crescent moon, its points reaching starward, showing the way of Feminine ascension. Mother Mary, as well, in statues and paintings, is beautifully unified with the crescent moon upon which she rests, sometimes cradling baby Jesus.

Even Moses, as shared in Exodus 34:29-35, is associated with the crescent moon, graced he is with with spectacular lunar horns. After ascending Mount Sin-ai, Mountain of the Moon, and communing with Yahweh, they appear on his head, a sign of his divinized state achieved On High. This horned apotheosis has been expressed through various artistic renditions, most famously a sculpture by Michelangelo (ca. 1513 – 1515) of pagan-looking Moses housed at the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.

Associated with Goats and Cows, the moon is feminine in essence. Flipped upside-down, with the curve at the top, and the crescent moon resembles a womb. The two descending arcs are the fallopian tubes, leading to the ovaries, and new life.

Both Goats and Cows produce milk, the life-giving and nourishing fluid of the mother. Within the Hermetic alchemic tradition, from the prima materia, or Sophia’s black womb, flows immaculate lac virginis, or virgin’s milk. It is the pure “Mercurial Water, the Dragon’s Tail; it washes and coagulates without any manual labour.” The Judeo-Christian faithful, too, along with other cultures like the ancient Sumerians, have praised Mother’s Virginal Milk: “Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment.” (Peter 2:2-3).

With milk cross-culturally considered holy, Cows, also horned, have been accepted as holy creatures throughout the world, notably in India. Hence, “Holy Cow!” They represent the Divine Mother, She who bestows lac virginis and spiritual milk upon us. (Interestingly, sadly, and unnecessarily, Cows and Goats were regularly sacrificed to Yahweh during biblical times in order to purify oneself and atone.)

That Baphomet has two breasts can be considered symbolic of the nourishing milk associated with the feminine, and with Mother consciousnesses in general, an essence emanated by the moon.

Wonderful, indeed! But there is something else, something of even greater intrigue to me that connects Baphomet to Sophia.

First we must consider the possibility that the head, not the body, of Baphomet is a Ram, not a Goat. Rams are male Sheep, and a different species altogether from Goats. Rams belong to the genus Ovis aries, and have 54 chromosomes. Sheep, on the other hand, belong to the genus Capra aegagrus hircus, and have 60 chromosomes.

Some speculate that Baphomet was originally born during the Age of Aries (Ovis aries), the Age of the Ram, as a dedication to the Egyptian Ram god Amun (which means the deity’s horns may once have been curled/spiralled rather than pointed up like a Goat). Each celestial age or month lasts 2,160 years, as part of the Great Year spanning 25,920 years during which time our solar system orbits around Alcyone, the brightest star of the Pleiades (12 x 2,160 = 25,920). Jesus ushered in the Age of Pisces, which began after the Age of Aries in approximately 100 BCE. This means that the Age of Aries began around 2260 BCE.

It was during this celestial month, under the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1213 BCE) of the Nineteenth Dynasty, that Amun, solarized as Amun-Re, became the most popular god in Egypt, with worship centred at the magnificent Temple at Karnak. Ramses II and his grandfather Ramses I, founding pharaoh of this dynastic period, just happen to have Ram as the prefix to their name. Though Jesus birthed the Age of Pisces (Fish), it’s worth noting that he was called the Shepard, the protector of Sheep; and he was also considered the sacrificial Lamb of God.

Baphomet carries the prefix Ba, which in Egyptian means soul. Ba also just happens to be the sound that Sheep make: Baaaa! Remembering that met means mother, the esoteric translation of Ba+pho+met is Soul from The Mother. Baphomet, according to this understanding, was a Ram deity born of Sophia who represented the Age of Aries.

But there is another encrypted connection Baphomet has with Sophia, perhaps the most fascinating of all, an astonishing link that inspired me to write this epilogue.

When the ancient Hebrew Atbash cipher is applied to “Baphomet” — a simple code that equates Z to A, Y to B, and so on, one referenced in the Old Testament going back ca. 500 BCE — we discover “Sophia”! “Baphomet” in Hebrew is בפומת — “bpwmt.” Deciphered using Atbash, and remembering Hebrew is written and read from right to left, it becomes שופיא — “šwpy,” “Shofya.” Interpreted as “Sophia,” we discover the Divine Mother in Baphomet, the profound in the seemingly profane. (Credit and thank you to Dr. Hugh Schonfield, Hebrew scholar and researcher, who uncovered this remarkable connection while studying the Dead Sea Scrolls.) 

There is yet another marvellous occult connection Baphomet has with Sophia. Referencing the above-linked article again, the author shares a gem in quoting from Craft Symbolism in the Gnostic Mass: “An interesting point about Baphomet is that the Greek translation of this name breaks down into the words bafe (BAPhE—baptism) and metis (METIS—wisdom): Baptism of Wisdom.”

Recalling that “Sophia” in Greek also translates to “wisdom,” and remembering the symbolic descent into the dissolving, mercurial bath, then it comes to pass that Baphomet represents Baptism of Sophia’s amniotic womb! 

Baphomet teaches us that by embracing our immanent wealth of Sophia Christ consciousness, the Magnum Opus, or Great Work of spiritual alchemy, is achieved — the lapis philosophorum of unio mystica. We dissolve into the still, black primordial heart womb of prima materia, First Mother, and are reborn anew in mystical union. (See “SOLVE” and “COAGULA” written on Baphomet’s forearms, two of the seven stages of spiritual alchemy). 

And let’s not forget the caduceus / staff of rising Serpentine kundalini, this living alchemical symbol within Baphomet. Though it only travels up to the solar region, we know it cresendoes into outward flowing wings, which Baphomet, like the ancient Snake Goddess, has been glorified into. 

And so, is Baphomet good or evil, both or neither? Perhaps the more important question is: What really matters? 

For within the symbology we see another polarity, which, in Truth, is paradox. Yes, for some, perhaps you, there is something about Baphomet that feels both evil and good. Descending deeper into the mercurial bath, however, could it be that Baphomet is inviting us into another esoteric alchemical teaching, the most important of all: the paradoxical union of dark and light, evil and good, within the Great Mysteries and Tree of Life? 

In Truth, there is no separation between the two, no clear distinction point, just as there isn’t in the grey spectrum that blends black and white, and in the mysterious Baphomet. The controversially intriguing character alchemically marries both together, puzzling dualistic minds, yet reminding non-dual hearts of our own darkness and light, our potential for evil and good, and the endless, sacred continuum of their unity, that is life. 

The clue lies in the word itself: live spelt backwards is evil. 

It’s All One!