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

In my many hours of research on a wide variety of subject matter, one of the most important and illuminating discoveries I’ve had is that, in ancient times, the Goddess was almost always associated with Snake. This was true in religious cultures and mythologies across the world, going far back thousands of years, many that 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. They lived in matriarchal or matrilineal cultures, making them Mother cultures in which women were the divine embodiments of their Goddess, to be respected, honoured, if not worshiped by men. In particular it was the female Chief, Queen or High Priestess who, in the dark innermost sanctum, or adyta, of their holy places, communed with the Snake Goddess and brought forth her wisdom 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, plants, waters, 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 Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. 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.” As other researchers reveal, such as Vicki Noble and Victoria LePage, this pattern of peace within Mother cultures is 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, of the countless animals on Earth, why Snake? 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. The transformative shedding of Snake’s skin, reflecting the shedding of the uterine lining during menstruation, is the mystical dying of the old, what no longer serves our evolutionary growth. In moving to humble, shadowy spaces of Earth and surrendering her skin, Snake is our wayshower of dying to the Unknown. She invites us to heroically give ourselves to our dissolving, dark night of the soul, to 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 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, “useless eaters” and a useful workforce they regularly laugh at 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?” 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 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). “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. Granting themselves supreme authority as intermediaries to Jesus/god, they declare themselves as the “gatekeepers to heaven,” the singular passage through which one can be saved and avoid eternal damnation. 

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:23-24)

This is the complete inversion of spiritual rebirth via the Snake Goddess; it’s an inversion of her 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 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) 

Losing ourselves to fictional, patriarchal religion and its perverse stories, we separate from our flesh, our feminine sexual essence, an essence of Love and Unity, 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. Avoiding our spiritual death, a death that feeds life, we become disempowered, making us prone to hand power over to the terrifying war god and his male priesthood.

This is exactly what the dark forces wanted when they first colonized our planet. And, using campaigns of terror and manipulation, it’s worked for thousands of years. This inversion and perversion, this imperious making of god in the image and likeness of their demonic selves, has allowed them to rule through fear, deception and domination. 

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.  

“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)

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. Without question — because questioning god is a sin — the intentional weaponization of “god’s Word” is accepted. 

We accept with cognitive dissonance, blind servitude, or a form of Stockholm Syndrome, that tolerates 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 they control, 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 their 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. It’s estimated that 70% of the world’s population, or 5.5 billion people, received at least one dose of the Covid bioweapon/injection. In the United States, this number is believed to be 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, self-assembling nanotechnology, via the mRNA injections, 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. Yet, this tragedy, affecting billions, does not occur unless we blithely 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 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. Today, it’s estimated that at least 100 million have been disabled, maimed or killed, a number set to rise.  

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, the patroness of fertility, 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 community 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 birthing factories, one of the few things they were good for. 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.” 

Starkly on public display is the genocide of Palestinians, hundreds of thousands, one Abrahamic religion destroying another so biblical prophecy is fulfilled; commonly known today as the Greater Israel Project: “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). The violent “rebirth” of the “promised land,” now spreading across the Middle East, continues for over a century, with WWII being a strategic catalyst to transfer ravaged Jews from Germany 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. 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 other plagues of conquest, including DNA-altering Covid. The long-planned genocide of Palestinians, necessary to transform Gaza into a high-tech “Riviera,” is yet another “holy” war to defeat the very force they pretend not to be. (I strongly recommend watching the three linked videos in this paragraph; as well as this one, which provides strong evidence for what many are waking up to: that Israel, with help from its terror network, created and funded Hamas, 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, cultural — and we justify the torturous genocide of another, even of children. Insane tribalism trumps universal, heartfelt conscience; the Golden Rule of “As you do to others, you do to yourself.” This is the consequence of ideology’s triumph over humanity, 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 been good-hearted, 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, 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. 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 11:3, 7, 9)

“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)

“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)

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…

A deconverted Christian once said that when her pastor’s wife held her newborn son, she pronounced him “fit for hell.” 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 that 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, here, 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 all deserve to go to hell,” and “We’re all trash,” 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 trash and deserve eternal damnation? We’re much easier to control if we settle for disempowering, destructive lies that veil us from our sovereign divinity (the word lie is in veil / evil / live). 

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.

Roman Stoic philosopher, Lucius Seneca (c. 1 BCE – 65 CE) offers us these summarizing words:

“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 Ocean of Life.

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, and 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.) 

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 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 late in the 4th century CE. For example, as Barbara G. Walker tells us in The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, “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 dark underworld where Serpents dwell and rebirth us anew. Mother Earth’s caves, it should be stated, have traditionally been places of initiation in cultures across the world. In Mesoamerican religion, for example, 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, the underground cave is 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. 

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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. As you’ll see, not all Snake Goddess mythologies, 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 physical Snakes.) 

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. 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. 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. 

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.

Here we have two clear examples of how the ancient Snake Goddess has been misappropriated into the dark patriarchal age; in this case, our dubious healthcare (sickcare) system. 

Judeo-Christian faithful may believe that the caduceus and Rod of Asclepius have storied roots in the Hebrew Bible: “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a fiery serpent, and put it on a flag pole; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten (by a Snake), and looks at it, will live.’” (Numbers 21:8). But if we move deeper, we may discover earlier influences in ancient Greece and Egypt.

Thoth is the Egyptian God of wisdom, later syncretized with the Greek God Hermes Trismegistus, meaning “Thrice Greatest.” The latter is sometimes seen carrying a wand or staff, what we know to be the caduceus (see 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. His Divine Masculine emanation is true to the Snake Goddess, in service to Her. 

Regarding Thoth, 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 likely 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 the Duat, or underworld. The ouroboric, five-headed Serpent Āsh-ḥrȧu presides over the Duat; but more important to our understanding, she is the womb underworld. Āsh-ḥrȧu carries the khat, or corpse, in her womb through the vast 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 happy discoveries!) Wadjet is the ancient Cobra Goddess, and matron and protector of Lower Egypt. We find her 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. 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 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, now 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 Goddesses 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 barbaric invaders. During at least 4.5 thousand years of celebrating the Divine Feminine, and stewarding this island into a creative and sacred expression of her consciousness, inhabitants worshipped the Snake Goddesses. Artists crafted them into the form of beautiful statuettes, revered particularly in the Central Palace Sanctuary of Knossos, the heart-centre of this ancient civilization. 

In Greece, Demeter is the ancient Goddess of fertility, corn and agriculture. Often portrayed on a chariot equipped with wings or pulled by two flying Serpents, Snake is the most sacred animal to this deity. Over 2,000 years ago, before the oppressive rise of the Roman Catholic Church, Demeter, along with her daughter Persephone, were the central figures in the annual Eleusininan Mysteries. It was a popular civic and religious event celebrated by the wider public in Eleusis and Athens, and possibly earlier in Crete where these Mysteries may have originated.

Like all Mystery traditions there existed an inner circle of select aspirants who received esoteric teachings and rites of initiation into the Feminine Mysteries. Within the dim temple tomb-womb, symbolized mythologically by Hades’ underworld, they were initiated into mystical death. And from this courageous dissolution, they were reborn anew, rising like Persephone, Goddess of Spring & Renewal, birthed like the sweet flowers of Demeter from Earth’s fertile womb. They followed the Way of Mother Nature, of the Snake Goddess, surrendering old, dying skin to new life.  

Another Greek Goddess associated with Snake is Hecate (pronounced He-Ka-Tay). Goddess of witchcraft, magic, the moon, and the crossroads, she presides over the underworld, over the dying and dead, as well as childbirth. The chthonic, Serpentine Goddess is the rebirther of the dark womb, at the junction of endings and beginnings.

When we think of classical Greece we also recall Medusa, she of dark moon eyes whose hair is of Wild Snakes. So Greek myth says, it is Medusa who turns people to stone who dare look into her eyes, and who Greek “hero” Perseus kills by chopping off her formidable head.

Peering deeper into pre-patriarchal history, we find that Medusa’s authentic roots lie in ancient Libya, a nation that at one time spanned across northern Africa, west of Egypt to and including present-day Morocco. Libya 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 Snake Goddess of wisdom, darkness, death and rebirth, 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, later misappropriated into the Greek pantheon of 12 Olympians as Athena, Goddess of war, whom the capital city Athens would be named after. She was miraculously born from the forehead of Zeus; much like 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 birthed Adam by forming him from dust and breathing life into his nostrils; Eve was born from the rib of Adam; and Christians believe they can be reborn through Jesus, the male figure, overseen by the male god — all examples of misappropriation of the (Snake) Goddess Mysteries of death and rebirth; of dark masculine’s “triumph” over, and divorce from, the feminine and her womb. “For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.” (1 Corinthians 11:8). 

Clearly these patriarchal priests, scribes and peoples lost sight of what all ancient Goddess cultures intuitively, 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.

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 root word 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.

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 dark forces who have attacked, misappropriated, twisted and concealed it for millennia — while pretending to be our loving God.

Riane Eisler has some summarizing words for us that capture the misappropriation by arrogant Greek male minds, sobering words that also apply to other conquered Snake Goddess religions, other dominator cultures. They come from her award-winning book The Chalice & The Blade.

“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 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 as having wings. Athene, earlier known as the Goddess of wisdom, not war, is frequently shown with a wise Owl on her head, shoulder or arm, a creature of the still, feminine night. She is often portrayed with a Snake as well, mirroring Medusa’s symbols or iconography of Bird and Snake. And let’s not forget Demeter, seated in her winged chariot and pulled by flying Serpents. 

This highlights something Barbara Mor and Monica Sjöö elucidate in their passionate book The Great Cosmic Mother — that Birds are part of the reptile family, with close relations to the Crocodile. Athene, like Medusa, as one with her, as well as Demeter, 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 this slithering animal. In Asia there are flying or gliding Snakes known as Chrysopelea. “They are a genus of the family Colubridae, the largest snake family to 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. 

So, there you have it! Snakes are of the sea, land (including underworld, womb spaces), and sky! 

The stunning short video below allows you to see their majestic flight. I also encourage you to click the link above to watch how beautiful they swim in the wild seas. 

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 Maya 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 5th 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.

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 from, 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 are reconciling the underworld with the heavens?

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 4500 BCE, the Dragon Nammu was the Creatrix Goddess of the primeval sea. As Stone tells us, Nammu was known as “She who gives birth to heaven and earth,” as well as “the Mother of all deities.” Later, in Babylonia, c. 2000 BCE, the saltwater Dragon Goddess Tiamat was worshipped, she who carried forward the Divine Feminine spirit of Nammu. They were the Dragon Mothers of Goddess / priestess cultures in ancient Mesopotamia, fluid, sensual religions of body, earth and soul that gradually fell to the rigid mind and sword of hegemony. 

Like how the “demon” Leviathan was killed by Yahweh in the Old Testament, and Typhon by Zeus and Ladon by Hercules in Greek mythology; like how Yam fell to the club of Canaanite storm god Baal, and Illuyanka was slayed by the Hittite sky and storm god Tarḫunz — all Dragons, Tiamat would end up being killed by the male scribes who imposed their war god Marduk, “the son of the sun,” into the Goddess religion, and patriarchy into the consciousness of Mesopotamia. Marduk, like Zeus, was associated with Jupiter, derived from the Proto-Indo-European dyeu-peter, “god-father.” He would be praised Babylonian “king of all the gods” for restoring order from chaos in the destruction of Tiamat, the “chaos monster.” Enki/Ea, the male god of the Sumerian/Babylonian pantheon, would go on to rule the underworld, as well as the Abzu, or Abyss, as “god of the sea,” the dark amniotic waters of womb consciousness, and the holy birthing realms of the Dragon Mothers.

(Tiamat is cognate with tehom, the Hebrew word for “the deep.”)

(Merlin Stone offers controversial historic evidence that Leviathan, the Serpent of darkness, was not male, but a Goddess. She also suggests Illuyanka too was a Goddess, though normally portrayed as male. Ladon, also depicted as male, guards the golden apples of the Garden of the Mother Goddess Hera and the Hesperides, the sacred nymphs. I cannot help but imagine Ladon as a Goddess as she guards the Goddess Garden, with the Garden itself an ancient symbol of the Goddess! Yam is portrayed as a male god, yet this deity presides over the primordial dark seas, also the domain of the Goddess (Yam is a Semitic word meaning sea). Which leaves us with Greek Typhon, who I also wonder about. I wonder, because historians and archeologists, generally male, have, for the most part, not connected the dots between the Goddess, the Serpent, and the rise of androcentric, dominator cultures. It has yet to dawn on them that Snake Goddesses and Dragon Mothers were twisted into demons for rising males gods to conquer.)

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.

~ from The Enuma Elish (meaning “When On High“), The Babylonian Epic of Creation

“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.” (Psalm 74:13-14). This is followed by Yahweh creating the sun and stars, the nourishing Earth and her seasons.

To this mythological, religious-cultural theme we can add yet another story, the saga of Egyptian sun god Ra and his nightly battle with Apep, the demonic Dragon of the underworld. Later known as Apophis in Greece, this formidable Serpent is responsible for chaos, destruction — death, for sweeping life into the realms of darkness. Each night as Ra travels into the underworld on his barque (boat), Apep attempts to devour him, and thus the sun. With help from his trusty allies, Ra defeats the Dragon every time, allowing the sun to rise at least one more day.

The universal balance of life, represented by the Goddess Ma’at, is maintained. Her divine order is not disrupted by the disorder which the reviled Apep brings. The need to hang on to control is not disrupted by a Cosmic Serpentine force that dissolves one into the still, deep 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. And we see evil associated with perceived “chaos” stirred by the malevolence of “chaos monsters / Dragons,” which must be restored to “order” by a male sun saviour god. An order restored, ironically, by bringing blood-thirsty, bone-crushing chaos, an “exaltation” that glorifies war and its hero-gods in the process.

It kinda sounds like how the ruling class — oligarchs, technocrats, via their puppet governments, are gradually imposing their new world order. They do this by first manufacturing the chaos needed (that they pretend they’re against), and then, acting like saviour gods, they swoop in and provide the “helpful solutions,” like a digital control (order) grid. But I digress…  

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’.”  

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 must take control of the chaotic underworld, but 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.

“For though the LORD is exalted, Yet He regards the lowly; But the haughty He knows from afar.” (Psalm 138:6)

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 order, or avoided altogether. This mindset extends to Mother Earth, her flesh, her em-ocean-al body, she who is an extension of our earthbody; her wild heaths and waters, her initiating womb caves and wells, the dark, underground places in which Snakes rest at ease, brumate in cold winter months, shed their skin, and rise from born anew. 

(To repeat and expand upon earlier words: This anti-life/human/nature dogma continues today with the dark agenda of demonizing carbon dioxide, the Gas of Life. Planned for decades, it’s a calculated attack on our carbon-based biologies, and the carbon body of Mother Earth, in order to usher in the sterile digital control grid and disconnect us from our sovereign divinity. Our power! “Science” continues where religion left off because, like order from chaos, it’s the same dark forces at play. It’s the same tyrannical script and playbook, only to have evolved, backed by pseudo-science and advanced technology, and, in this case, propagandized under the guise of the “human-caused climate crisis.” This I cover in great detail in my free ebook.) 

We must be perfect, ordered like our stoic male war god. Matthew 5:48 tells us: “Therefore, you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Perceived perfection doesn’t come through the mysterious, fluid body, but rather by transcending it, while obediently following god’s strict orders under the threat of eternal damnation. As disembodied priests and pastors have taught, we are to deny all temptations of the flesh, and be “civilized.” Rise above our humanity, our humus (adamah in Hebrew, related to Adam), they preach. “Spiritually bypass.” Seek only the luminous kingdom of god, so to be saved from the sins of flesh and being born. 

“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

“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)

With this sad, abhorrent, anti-human dogma steeped in the impressionable, fearful minds of billions over the centuries, Serpents, as representatives of the Goddess — as presiders of her underworld and dark primeval seas, her sacred earthen cultures and sexual energy — have been made evil in Eurowestern folklore and human consciousness. The rebirthing tomb-womb underworld has become hell.

The word 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! 

Perhaps, in some cases, the intentions of the scribe have 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 to conquer in the final hour of the dark night of the soul (underworld). The slaying sun god finally descends, shining through the darkness as a force of Christ light transmutation, the bringer of the dawn. Like the sun, the initiate rises, born anew, resurrected from the dark 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, we cannot deny the connection between ra or Ra and the Womb Mother; how dark forces have, time and again, reviled the earth and underworld; and how they have demonized, misappropriated and twisted Goddess consciousness — including the Divine Feminine Christ of Jesus — to serve warring, hegemonic agendas.

More to the point, we cannot deny the fact that Serpents have been cross-culturally vilified over time, and Serpent Goddess cultures repeatedly destroyed. Well-intentioned these scribes may have been, what’s been missed, stamped out, profaned and forgotten is the truth that Dragons and Snakes have been our great initiators into wild, womb consciousness and divine union. (We will further explore Dragons shortly.) Rather than being something to “slay,” if only symbolically, they are, and have been, honoured as our Great Rebirthers. 

Slayed and unceremonially tossed into the fire of demonic androcentrism, what’s risen is the searing false light of demonic darkness. Dragons and Snakes, as Cosmic Forces of the Goddess and rebirthers of the tomb-womb, have morphed into devilish hell-realm creatures, arguably more than any other animal. And, by extension, like witches — the traditional shamans, healers and midwives of pagan Goddess culture — so have all women.

They became the devil.

“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 forms words like mortal. 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 just happens to wrap around M-oth-er, a lovely surprise revealing even more fun language mystery! For, the remaining three letters oth make up the entirety of Thoth (Greek Hermes, Roman Mercury, from which we get the word thought). Egyptian Thoth is of Mer, Love, written in the ancient language. Taking this a step even further, my wild wordplay imagination also cannot help but switch around the m and h of Hermes to get Merhes — Mer He Is.    

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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“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)

“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)

I feel it’s only fitting to gradually come to an end at the fictional beginning that is the Garden of Eden story of the Judeo-Christian Bible; a his-story, still believed, that’s created harrowing reverberations in human consciousness and evolution, and yet one that also holds secret feminine wisdom; Snake Goddess truths! Let’s dive deeper into this myth, and the ancient Mother cultures, cosmogonies, and lands from which it emerged.

The Garden of Eden myth is widely considered to have roots in Mesopotamian religious cultures and their mythological stories. That Patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, Abraham, was born in Ur, Chaldea (Sumer), as scripture tells us in Genesis 15:7, provides evidence for Eden’s true genesis within this ancient Motherland. Further striking evidence can be found in this video, elucidating the likely Sumerian / Babylonian origins of Eve’s strange birth from Adam. Goddess Ninti, we are told, was born from one of god Enki’s ribs! Bear in mind, this is likely a classic revisionist his-story coinciding with the rise of the patriarchal dominator class, the same one that slayed Goddesses Nammu and Tiamat.  

I have two examples of Sumerian stories that may have inspired the Eden myth. Both share the esoteric symbology of the Tree of Life, also known as the World Tree or Axis Mundi. Colourful and full of life, it’s beautifully depicted as extending high in the celestial planes while having roots deep in Sophia Gaia’s womb. Those roots are presided over by a Snake, of course, slithering amongst them in the underworld. Sometimes, however, the Snake likes some fresh air and coils herself around the base of the Tree. This motif is not limited to Sumer, but found in the mythologies of Norse / Scandanavia, Siberia, Persia and elsewhere. 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 — symbolize our outstretched wings and liberated angelic Self. 

The first example of a Sumerian story, dating to the 3rd millennium BCE, is called The Flight of Etana to the Skies. King Etana of Kish desperately sought the “Plant of Birth” to give to his ill wife so she could heal and have a child, someone who’d hopefully become heir to the throne. Etana prayed to Shamash, the sun god, and finally the King was rewarded with the higher guidance he sought. Shamash told Etana, “Find a pit, look inside. An eagle is cast within it. He will reveal to you the plant of birth.”

Far yonder, an Eagle had once basked in the heavenly Tree of Life high above the Serpent who lived amongst the roots. One day, they decided to swear a “mighty oath” before Shamash to become loyal friends. The oath was sealed, but this didn’t stop the Eagle from falling to temptation and evil’s ways. In fact, the Eagle betrayed the Serpent in the worst way possible — by eating her children! You know, kind of like eating a forbidden fruit! 

The angry and grief-stricken Serpent plotted a scheme against her former friend. She laid out a trap of delicious Ox meat. And, sure enough, those exposed, plump and juicy intestines were too tempting for the Bird to resist. The ravenous Eagle flew down and pounced on its great meal. While tearing into the tasty meat, the Serpent snuck up on the Eagle and caught her prey. She cut off its wings and tail feathers, and tossed what was left of the Bird into a “bottomless pit.” 

There, in the tomb-womb, the Eagle lay for Shamash-knows how long. Fortunately, however, Etana, guided by the sun god, arrived 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, nursed the Eagle back to health. 

From almost dying in the tomb-womb, the Eagle was reborn anew and set free. Etana, too, would experience a rebirth, but not before completing his adventure. As per Shamash’s words, the revitalized Eagle indeed confirmed it knew where to get the Plant of Birth — and that was Upwards! With appreciation for Etana’s healing love and determination to give back, the Eagle invited the King to fly with him: “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 took the King upon its majestic wings and they flew skyward to great heights — as One.

Upon reaching the high heavens, they met the beautiful and radiant Queen Ishtar (Inanna) seated on a glorious throne. In hearing his long, heroic story, Ishtar bestowed the sacred Plant of Birth to the humble King. Bowing in gratitude, Etana departed the heavens, flew back to Earth, and returned to his sickly wife. For nine months she took this divine herbal medicine, and was healed. She gave birth to a son, the future heir to the throne. 

Given what we’ve explored so far regarding death and rebirth, Snake & Bird, the ancient themes leap out in this story, do they not? One can imagine how this story and its archetypal themes would have been imported from Sumer, perhaps via Babylon, and brought westward to Canaan, where it was slowly woven into a new Hebrew theology. Stories have a way of surviving across vast spaces and time, though they may lose certain originating qualities or truths as they are retranslated and misappropriated.  

Before moving to the second Sumerian story, it’s important to note that the delicious intestines are in the womb region; and that they 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 treated as sacred and seen as representatives of the Goddess. Indeed, Ox-Cow, intestines-womb further add to the esoteric symbology within this mythic tale of death and rebirth. 

Sumerian Goddess Inanna, it should be known, was (and still is) 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 girl, to travel each year from Palestine to Mesopotamia to be initiated in these esoteric schools of the Goddess religion.

For Inanna, the Garden once upon a pre-patriarchal time symbolized Oneness and sensual, sexual, earthy delight. It was the glorious Garden of the Goddess, an apple orchard with a single hulupuu tree, in which a Serpent “made its nest in the roots,” and the “Anzu-bird set his young in the branches of the tree.” (Italics not added.) The orchard specifically represented the sacred vulva, which the Goddess shared ecstatically and abundantly with her beloved Dumuzi:

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 second Mesopotamian story, presented briefly, that may have influenced the writing of biblical Eden. True, the Eden myth may very well have been inspired by Inanna’s apple orchard, hulupuu tree, and its guardian Snake — the basic structures. However, if adopted, it’s safe to say that the theme of unbridled sexual freedom, the juice of the story, was tossed far away by repressed scribal minds.

Indeed, the fertile, wet passion of the Sumerian story does not translate at all into the dry, forbidden Judeo-Christian Garden.

From Eden’s Original Lie, we’ve fallen significantly over the millennia from our wild sexuality, our unity, from what it means to be a true, orgiastic human. Suppression and distortion of sensual feminine, masculine and relational truth serves to demonize sexuality and flesh, divine power and union. Minds are controlled so the masses fearfully turn towards “spirit,” and, more importantly, its religious-political power structures.

We are told that the cunning Serpent in the Garden tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and that thereafter she is to blame for humanity’s fall into sin and sexual impurity. The “first woman,” in her disobedience to god, in her shameful, wild willfulness, represents all ghastly women thereafter. She, and all women, experience collective punishment in perpetuity. In a destructive yet religiously constructive inversion, women are conflated with the d-evil Serpent. 

Turning this inversion upright, I suggest to you that the wily Serpent, like Eve and the Pythia priestesses, is in fact wise — and that he is a she! A Goddess in her Goddess Garden, coiled around her beloved hulupuu tree! And that by encouraging Eve to disobey the male Yahweh’s command not to eat the fruit, the Serpent is summoning her to trust her wise heart and sexual, serpentine body, and to be a bold model of sovereignty and female empowerment for all women.

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

Communing with Eve and inspiring her Serpentine soul, the wise guide initiates the maiden into embracing her juicy kundalini sexual power — our ecstatic life force that, when uncoiled and embodied enough, makes all sexually repressive, patriarchal religions obsolete. All oppressive power structures are terrified of our divine empowerment and unity; our hieros gamos (sacred marriage) within, and with others, such as our beloved, a Serpentess like the Pythia, or an otherworldly Snake Goddess! As the first to receive the Serpent’s guidance and to eat of the Tree of Knowledge (primal Feminine Wisdom), Eve then opens Adam to the Divine Feminine spark within through sacred union, yab-yum, which the Garden represents. Like the tantrikas of Buddhism and Hinduism, and Inanna, Eve’s vulva, eyes and heart are divine portals to the primordial Goddess.

In her Divine Feminine embodiment, Eve rebirths Adam. She liberates his Divine Masculine essence, its strength and beauty, as they ecstatically merge, undulate, and dance the ancient Serpentine Dance under the holy Tree of Life. 

Another related teaching of the Eden myth, already touched upon, is the awakening of feminine paradoxical wisdom. Born in our Holy Heart, this non-dual, non-grasping, fluid awareness unites illusions of good and evil into the Truth of Love.

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; to see their ancient dance, past and present. But then, by opening her Holy Heart further, she went beyond, to the non-dual, still zero-point; the heart womb of paradoxical wisdom that knows good and evil’s sacred unity, the Oneness of All That Is that is, ultimately, Love.  

Judeo-Christian religion, and its dichotomous, separatist theology of spirit vs flesh/matter — spirit is “good” and flesh/matter (from the Latin Mater, meaning Mother) is “bad” — inverted this paradoxical, primeval Goddess wisdom into duality. That was the Genesis of the Great Veiling, the fall from the Snake Goddess and her Garden of Oneness. Unity was usurped by polarizing us-versus-them consciousness — god vs the devil, heaven vs hell, light vs dark, masculine vs feminine, which created the aforementioned social faultiness and war consciousness the dark forces need to conquer. 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. (“Original sin” was an invention of the sexually troubled Saint Augustine [354-430 CE], later adopted into the Christian doctrine.)

The fluid sexual life force in our miraculous earthbodies (matter) disconnected from the womb waters of the Divine Mother (Mater), Her creative, sexual, Serpentine, Shakti life force: “God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.” (Genesis 1:7). The story of separation, the fall from the Snake Goddess and our Garden, had begun. The limitless Heaven we are could not be celebrated where it’s divinely designed to be: in our earthbodies, in touch with the body of our Earth Mother.

As Mor and Sjöö share, a painful irreconcilable split was forged in human consciousness: that we must choose between the d-evil of Mater followed by everlasting torment in hell, or surrender to the psychopathic, yet “all loving” Father God. Either way, at least in minds and hearts, if not in homes and bedrooms, there was torment. 

“Christianity,” it’s been said, “cannot exist without the devil,” and its illusions of original “sin,” a word cognate with the Latin “sinister,” meaning “left” — as in the Divine Feminine Left Hand Path. It just so happens that “sin” also meant “moon” in Mesopotamia, with Sîn being the Moon Goddess of Sumer and later Akkad (see last link)! Further, “sin” has Indo-European roots in “es,” or “to be.” To “sin” 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, 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 cylinders 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 is the counterpart to Inanna, her successor, and came to be worshiped in Babylonia, emerging ca. 2000 BCE, after the fall of Sumer. (In Revelation she is referred to as the “Great Whore of Babylon.”) Associated with the planet Venus and the 8-pointed star, her 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! 

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, it was found in Lagash, Sumer, and dates to ca. 2120 BCE. The vase, a womb symbol, shows two Snakes rising together, criss-crossing seven times, just like the caduceus. 

According to the inscription, it is a vase dedicated to the “God” Ningishzida, as given by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, who praised his God “for the prolongation of his life/health.” God? Or is Ningishzida a Goddess? 

Nin translates to Queen, Priestess or Lady. In fact, if you review the family tree of Inanna, according to these authors, three Goddesses and no Gods have the prefix Nin: Ningikuga the Reed Lady, Ninlil the Air Goddess, and Ningal the Moon Goddess (related to Sîn). Further, Inanna’s faithful female servant, who assists the Goddess to fulfil her call to descend into the underworld to experience death and rebirth, is named Ninshurur. (A transformation, it should be noted, that occurs over three days and three nights!)

Even more, 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. Further, they are related to the Hebrew יהוה, or YHVH, and Sîn, the ancient Moon Goddess. Piecing all this together, it now becomes more clear that the Sumerian pantheon of female deities, including In-anna, consists mostly, if not completely, of Serpent Goddesses — like Eve! (In using the word Serpent, I’m acknowledging Nammu as part of the pantheon, and the possibility of other Dragon Goddesses.) We can also speculate on how YHVH as יהוה connects to the feminine חַוָּה and sin, all with definitive roots in to be.

What if YHVH was originally the Goddess — a Snake Goddess? Possibly. What we do know is that YHVW as Yahweh was once married to one! More on this shortly. 

Ningishzida, I comfortably assert, is not only a Goddess, but of the Serpent kind. Gudea, considered an enlightened man, was honouring her sacred feminine presence that served his kingship. He was imbibing her Serpentine life force in hieros gamos, thus 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!).

Which brings us 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, deep within her heart womb, the Goddess carries the ancient wisdom of Sacred Unity (what the Aramaic word for God, Alaha, means). Emanated as stillness itself, her heart womb medicine dissolves addictions to duality — heaven vs hell, light vs dark, spirit vs flesh, etc — into seeming paradox, and beyond, into divine union.

Indeed, as a perfect, poetic reconciler of wings and underworld in her Serpent embodiment, the Goddess alchemizes fear-based illusions of separation — what the dark ones need to control us — into pure, still 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 the 12th century BCE, Inanna/Ishtar’s pearlescent white light migrated further west, piercing Canaan, burning in hearts as the Semitic Snake Goddess Asherah. She was also known as Ashtart and Anath, and was referred to as Ashtoreth in the Bible numerous times. She was called Athirat in Ugarit, the flourishing Levantine coastal city and port, and was given her Hellenized name Astarte. Asherah, the Mother Goddess and Queen of Heaven & Earth, 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.” And Asherah was the Snake Goddess venerated above all! 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. 

Kings like Solomon, Ahab, Jeroboam and Manasseh were known, according to Hebrew scripture, to worship the Goddess. “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.

Perhaps the greatest sin of all was that statuettes of Asherah were placed inside the Temple of Jerusalem (2 Kings 21:7; Kings 22:6-7). Sol–om-on’s east-facing, pagan, Sun-womb Temple was dedicated, in part, to the Snake Goddess, the Mother who holds her children in love and tends to the natural cycles of Creation. In referencing The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai, Tricia McCannon writes “that during the 370 years that King Solomon’s temple endured, for almost two-thirds of its duration (236 years), a statue of Asherah was kept in the Temple as part of the religion led by the Jewish king, the court, and the priesthood, and that she was opposed by only a few prophetic voices over a relatively long period of time.” 

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.

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 and Crown Temple (City of London, not the “royal” family), with the U.S. being the military arm, and Israel acting as a fourth column. 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 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, through which they plan to make religion obsolete.) 

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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” darkness, and rule from false light “On High,” has, all along, been humanity’s projected fear of maintaining control and certainty. This, the dark, imbalanced masculine. Century after century, the heroic descent into the heart and body is evaded, a 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. (Clergymen molest children, again and again.) Watch this excellent short video for a few examples of how systematic and ruthless the destruction and burial has been, across time and our planet; how much of her-story has been hidden. While watching, keep in mind the following words from George Orwell: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

There is a specific example of a misappropriated womb symbol I want to highlight: Christianity’s adoption of the Omega from Ninhursag, the Sumerian Snake Goddess, and other feminine deities. Considered Mother of the Gods, of the Holy Mountain & Deep Earth, Ninhursag was of great importance in Sumerian cosmogony and culture. 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. 

Nin-hur-sag translates to Queen-womb-sacred, or Queen of the Sacred Hur, as Azra & Seren Bertrand tell us in Magdalene Mysteries. The Hebrew language (as well as others), 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. Interestingly, hur also means liberty and nobility. In Heru-Ur, related to hur, we discover a noble title once given to Isis and Osiris’s son, meaning Horus the Elder. Equally 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. 

The prefix of Her-a, the Greek Goddess of childbirth, is related to hur, as well. Her + Ra means womb birth. Hera just happens to be centred in As-hera-h. This syllable/word not only entitles the Near Eastern Goddess with womb and birth, but suggests that the younger Hera’s name may have derived from her. 

Ninhursag, Asherah (Inanna/Ishtar), Hera and Hathor are all related Mother Goddesses of the primordial birthing sound Om, with some bearing the features of this cavernous, womb symbol. With Sumer’s gradual fall and the “triumph” over its feminine culture, the Omega symbol would be another casualty of misappropriation, driven by yet one more projection of obsessive control. It would be another way to oppress feminine rebirthing consciousness, in this case Om, woven not only in womb, but tomb. (It also happens to be the first two letters of mo-ther!)

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). Though stolen, the untouchable womb consciousness of Om lives on, as does Ninhursag, Asherah, and other liberating, life-giving Womb Creatresses, Snake Goddesses of fertile darkness. 

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 — the fundamental teaching of the Prophet they apparently represent. Denying mystical death by evading one’s painful, shadowy “hell realm” spurs the superficial, womb-less ritual of being “born again,” and feeds our superficial, feminine-bereft world. One feeds the other, as we are raised “On High” into the “redemptive” body of Christ, touching little into our deeper vulnerability, experiencing little, if any, spiritual rebirth.

Interesting how the word depth is one letter away from death — a human depth that comes from humble descent.

This is bloody his-story. Her-story is hidden in the collective unconscious, buried in Mother Earth, in our ancestral trauma, while a new “History is written by the victors,” as Winston Churchill said. A war story that strengthens the emerging imperial regime, in power and purpose. A story that permeates and shapes human consciousness over time, through books, (residential) school indoctrination, statues, monuments, artwork, entertainment, places of worship, psychopathic (sun) gods, and more.

A great lie is erected (pun intended), with no roots in the womb of darkness, and through which frequency warfare is conducted, turning us against our heartfelt truth, our sexuality and body, each other, and the Goddesses of Earth and Spirit. Clearly forgotten is the fact that the word religion comes from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, as in bond with the sacredness of All That Is through our sacred body. 

For these reasons and more, the controlling entities of terror, of today and yesteryear, 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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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. The dark tunnels leading to it represented the birth canal, a passage bringing the initiate into the (eastern dawn) light after being reborn. In Egypt, this initiatory sanctum of both temple and pyramid was called per ur. Per means house.  

With this in mind, and your etymological understanding of hur, kur and ur (and there are more), remind yourself where Abraham comes from. That’s right, Ur, in 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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“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

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, 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, with their sovereign free will consecrated to fulfilling the will of the Divine Mother, or Sophia, these magnificent beings gestate and birth Her immaculate light conceptions into the Multiverse.

Mother Earth is one such creation, born from the holy heart womb of one of our primordial Dragon Mothers. Gaia carries crystalline Dragon DNA, as do we as holographic souls of Creation. It’s encoded in our genetic universe as part of what Kaia Ra calls our divine genome. When activated from dormancy, we awaken our Dragon Soul in sacred embodiment, our Golden Dragon Light Body. We come alive to her/our primordial Serpentine wisdom and limitless birthing powers; to being sovereign creators with lifetimes of mastery, and a golden Dragon genetic template for exceptional living.

When activated, we feel in our hearts the eternal, maternal love the Sophia Dragons have for us — all-ways. We resonantly remember the sacred Snake Goddess consciousness of ancient worlds, its delicious sexual, ritual, communal magick, its Divine Feminine wisdom, its love of flesh and spirit, earth and the heavens. We remember ourselves as woven into the ineffable black heart womb of Seraphic Cosmic mystery. 

It becomes clear how the Sophia Dragons have positively influenced our planet over the millennia, initiating transformations in collective consciousness — in Dragon mystery schools, rebirthing womb temples, sometimes manifesting in visions and even in physical form. From the Mesopotamian Dragons, to the Seraphim of the Old Testament mentioned in Isaiah, to the Red Dragon of Wales and those of Slavic mythology like the benevolent Zmaj, and to the Nagas of Buddhism seen as great beings of wisdom and protection — along with all the other examples mentioned, we can sense a cosmic ancestry of Dragon consciousness weaving cultures together, near and far, across time, activating our dormant Dragon DNA and heart womb consciousness.

Buddhism, along with other Asian Dragon cultures, were inspired by, as Kaia Ra shares, the Golden Age of Shambhallah, activated by the return of the Sophia Dragons to this planet. It’s no coincidence that Mother Earth’s electromagnetic grid is a network commonly called Dragon Lines, with Serpentine-like vortices where they intersect (and where sacred sites like Stone Henge are built). And that these song lines were originally discovered by the ancient Chinese and called Lung Mei, or Dragon Paths — the same culture that brought us acupuncture, with our body’s Nadis, or meridians, poetically reflecting the Dragon pathways of Mother Earth, reminding us how our sacred bodies together with her own are one miraculous ecosystem, one pulsating field of ancient Serpentine consciousness. 

As we can see, these cultures, particularly in Asia, continue to honour and celebrate their great ancestors and progenitors, the Sophia Dragons.  

Just as the Sophia Dragons birth creation without end —  species, planets, stars, galaxies, even universes — from their magnificent heart wombs, they return again, at this pivotal time on Gaia, to initiate our Serpentine consciousness and activate our limitless birthing powers, whose time have come. They are here to help rebirth our world, their presence growing stronger each day!

With our collective commitment to healing and awakening, to turning towards our primordial Dragon Mothers, like with Shambhallah, we co-birth our destined Golden Age. Through our sacred, serpentine embodiment, we continue the ancient legacy and lineage of Dragon Womb / Snake Goddesses on Mother Earth, and beyond.

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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 preordained purpose; and through it, he transmitted the very medicine and message of the Snake Goddess: death and rebirth, crucifixion and resurrection, realizing one’s true immortality through sacred embodiment. His sacrifice birthed Sophia Christ Consciousness onto Mother Earth, forever altering timelines and possibilities, one’s we are the beneficiaries of today. Jesus, as well as Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary, were pure embodiments of the Divine Feminine Christ, ancient Serpentine consciousness here, now, rising up quickly to rebirth our world. 

This I cover in my aforementioned free ebook, A Global Crucifixion ~ Truth, Heartbreak & Humanity’s Heroic Ascension into a Golden Age. You will also find related content in my 70+ ceremony descriptions, or “Secret Blog” as I like to call it, consisting of hundreds of pages of content. Ceremonies include transmissions from Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, the Sophia Dragons, and, of course, Snake. (The Mermaid Goddess description dovetails nicely from this article!) Healing-empowerment transmissions from these and other forces of Sophia Christ Consciousness calibrate us to their respective presence; an I Am Presence we also have equally within. This is the opposite of what the dark forces do with us through frequency warfare; their attempts to have us calibrate to their Cosmic Terror, to sacrifice sovereign divinity for disempowered dependency. 

These writings bring further insight into this great time of initiation we are in, our rite of passage through death and rebirth; an accelerated transformation of human consciousness prophesied across many spiritual traditions. Together, we are experiencing and witnessing the destined rising of the Divine Feminine immanent to our Souls, birthed and radiated through our sacred stargate bodies and Holy Hearts.

Understanding what is before us, it’s deeper alchemical purpose, makes it easier to accept these challenging times; this collective dark night of the soul that necessitates death, these collective labour pains that activate humanity’s spiritual rebirth. Integrated, embodied awareness of Snake Goddess consciousness, the courageous shedding of old skin and awakened rising of the Divine Feminine within, empowers us to be stewards of this heroic transformation.

As an emanation of the Divine Mother of All Life, the ancient Snake Goddess is here, in exponentially growing force, to serve our collective rebirth; our healing and empowerment, the coming home to the Still Love we are. 

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 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.

Even Moses, as shared in Exodus 34:29-35, has been graced with lunar horns. Having ascended Mount Sin-ai, Mountain of the Moon, and communed 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 19th 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!