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We live in an upside-down world. Depravity is celebrated, corruption sanctified, and while loyalty and obedience to a government is demanded, it never reciprocates. The people in charge live a libertine life in not-so-secret, and the average person is left scratching their heads, asking “How on earth did all this come to pass?”

The answer lay at the very bottom of a particular rabbit hole, one you may not have thought to look in. You also may have looked, and think you know the truth about the god of the elites, but you’re in for a surprise. You’ve learned from a previous series of mine that the god of the ruling class is actually a goddess. But even this, they do not do in its correct form and have inverted her worship just as they’ve corrupted everything else they get their demented hands on.

You must understand that, for a very long time, there exists a religious persuasion that doesn’t see piety, faith, and moral rectitude as virtues. These orthodox practices do not interest these people, who instead follow heterodoxy in pursuit of salvation. This is what’s known as the Left Hand Path in occult circles, and Antinomianism in religious discussions. Groups following this hedonistic persuasion have appeared throughout human history, such as the Frankist Jews of the 18th and 19th century, who continued the Sabbatean heresies of the 17th. Also noteworthy are the Tantric Sex cults that began in 9th century India, who call this path Vāmācāra and continue to operate to this day.

In India his group appears to have emerged alongside the Hatha Yoga movement, and built strange and unique temples throughout India dedicated to Yoginis, where their sex rituals were performed. One of these sex rituals is described in chapter 40 of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā, a Hatha Yoga text published around the same time by Matsyendranātha. While the original intent was likely that these rituals would be performed by consenting adults, it is clear it was also done to children.

Temple prostitution continues to this day in India, where girls aged 6-7 are offered as a sacrifice to the temple, who then uses her as a sex slave and prostitute. After reaching maturity she is ejected from the temple with nothing and no-one willing to help her, lest they dilute their own standing in the community. In the Devadasi system, the goddess being invoked here is a minor one called Yellamma, but the Yogini cult invoked the Devi herself, the wife of Shiva, Shakti.

For over a thousand years this cult operated freely in India, and then the British drove it underground. There it continues, along with a myriad other antinomian practices believed by the ruling elites to bring them closer to enlightenment. However, a millennia is but a heartbeat in the lifespan of human history and these people have been around for far longer than that.

In the Beginning

Six thousand years ago the city of Uruk was founded. It was the first city built by human hands acknowledged by archeologists (Taş Tepeler, and Atlantis, notwithstanding). It was created after two neighboring settlements merged together. Each settlement had its own temple district, one dedicated to the God of Heaven, An, and the other to the Queen of Heaven, Inanna. Her name was likely derived from the Sumerian phrase nin-an-ak, which literally translates to “Lady of Heaven.”

This was a very, very special place, for here we have the earliest examples of writing (cuneiform) as well as megalithic architecture. These people were some of the most sophisticated and inventive humans on the planet and we should not ignore how they perceived and worshiped their gods. Uruk ultimately chose Inanna over An to be the patron deity of the city, and this is reflected in the many stories they told about her, which you must learn yourself if you are to decipher the true identity of the goddess. Her credits are legion, and she possesses more epithets than any other Mesopotamian deity.

Origin Stories

How this goddess came to be is almost as important as her deeds during the height of her power. Read on for a summary of her major legends, as told in ancient Sumer.

Enki and the World Order

When the universe was just being formed, the god Enki was charged with dividing powers over the earth amongst the other gods. After the task is complete, Inanna approaches Enki and complains that she did not receive an apportionment of powers. Enki replies that her father, An, had already assigned her her powers and that there was no need to assign her any others.

This story shows us that Inanna stood apart from the other gods in the Mesopotamian pantheon, in the minds of Sumerians. Why she was so special and apparently favored by An is something you’ll learn as we proceed through this article.

Inanna and the Huluppu Tree

In this myth Inanna is still young and not yet stable in her powers. It begins with a huluppu tree, possibly a willow, growing on the banks of the Euphrates. It gets washed away by a storm and Inanna rescues it, wishing to plant it in her garden at Uruk and to make a bed and throne out of its wood when the time is right.

However, three interlopers come to inhabit the tree after Inanna plants it; a snake, Anzu bird, and the demoness Lilith. She recruits the help of Gilgamesh, who kills the snake and evicts the other two. The tree is felled and constructed into her bed and throne. Inanna gifts Gilgamesh with a drum and drumsticks made from the same wood as his reward.

This is the first story of Inanna’s life that may seem familiar to you. A tree cared for by a god, inhabited by a snake. Hang on, because the similarities are just getting started.

Inanna and Utu

Now in adulthood, Inanna asks her brother, the sun-God Utu, to take her into the underworld. There she says she will find a tree whose fruit will reveal all the secrets of sex to her. Utu complies, Inanna eats the fruit and becomes knowledgeable.

Here Inanna continues the theme of a sacred tree, and this time eating its fruit imparts special knowledge. This motif was repeated wholesale in the story of the Fall of man from the Book of Genesis.

But wait, there’s more!

Inanna Prefers the Farmer

In this tale Inanna’s brother Utu reveals that it’s time for her to marry. At first Inanna prefers a farmer named Enkimdu. The other candidate, the shepherd-god Dumuzid, enlists the help of Utu and together they convince Inanna that he is the superior suitor.

The text is famous for the erotic language used by Inanna, who asks repeatedly “Who will plow my vulva?” Agriculture and human sexuality are linked with a great deal of innuendo from all parties. The marriage is consummated and this union becomes the known as the hieros gamos, an ancient sex ritual and basis for all the others, where the King of Sumer and High Priestess of Inanna would re-enact their copulation on an annual basis. The purpose of this ritual was to bestow the male participant with the goddesses powers and authority, earning him the right to rule as her husband and King.

This story is mirrored by that of Cain and Abel in the Bible, where God chooses between a shepherd and a farmer.

Expanding Powers

Now in adulthood, Inanna embarks upon a series of more daring adventures. The result of which is her consolidating more power, bringing her into confrontation with other powerful gods.

Inanna and Enki

In this myth, she travels from her own city of Uruk to Eridu to meet Enki, god of water, wisdom and creation. Enki is glad to see her, and invites her into his home for a meal. Inanna then challenges him to a drinking competition, and the games begin. However, Inanna tricks Enki into thinking she’s actually consuming the alcohol. She stays sober, while Enki eventually gets blackout drunk.

While inebriated, Inanna convinces Enki to turn over the mes to her. These are sacred items that each embody an aspect of civilization. These aspects were very diverse and the mes listed in the poem include abstract concepts such as Truth, Victory, and Counsel, technologies such as writing and weaving, and also social constructs such as law, priestly offices, kingship, and prostitution. The mes were believed to grant power over all the aspects of civilization, both positive and negative. She also convinces Enki to give her the Boat of Heaven, to ensure her safe return back to Uruk.

After coming to, Enki realizes what had happened. Enraged he sends seven waves of monsters after Inanna who, with the help of her attendant Ninshubur, defeats them. Enki eventually relents, realizing the mes are well-protected by their new custodian.

Here Inanna’s powers in battle are prominently displayed, as well as her guile, ultimately gaining patronage over all human culture.

Inanna Takes Command of Heaven

In Uruk there lay the Eanna District, an area of the city where some of the most important human achievements in history were made. The name translates to “House of Heaven” and this story explains how the temple of Eanna came to be dedicated to Inanna.

It begins with Inanna’s lament to Utu that the temple of Eanna is not within her domain and she resolves to claim it as her own. Inanna travels to her father An, who is shocked by her arrogance, but nevertheless concedes that she has succeeded in her petition and that the temple of Eanna is now her domain.

It is uncertain whether or not the Eanna temple was ever dedicated to any god other than Inanna, and this tale may be illustrative of a transfer of power from An to Inanna. More on that in the last section of this report.

Crime and Punishment

Now at the height of her power, Inanna embarks upon a series of deeds that demonstrate her strength and ferocity towards those who cross her. She’s audacious and bellicose in the face of danger, no doubt contributing to the great admiration she received in the ancient world.

Inanna and Ebih

This myth begins with Inanna’s travels around the world, until she comes across Mount Ebih and becomes infuriated by its glorious might and natural beauty, considering its very existence as an outright affront to her own authority.

She is warned by An not to attack the mountain, but she does anyways, destroying it utterly. This incredible feat is only ever accomplished by one other Mesopotamian god in the poem Erra and Ishum. There the gods are astonished by Erra’s power and praise his greatness.

That Inanna’s might is now irresistible, and she can destroy anything with impunity, appears to be what the story is meant to communicate here. Her banner was flown high by the conquering Akkadians, who called her Ishtar, and this seems to have been a propaganda piece meant to intimidate neighboring city-states who planned to resist “The Dynasty of Ishtar,” as the Akkadians called themselves. More on them later.

Inanna and Shukaletuda

This story begins praising Inanna as the planet Venus, which she is deeply linked to. In fact, the Sumerians worshipped her as both the morning and evening star, which they correctly understood, even 6,000 years ago, as this inner planet. It then introduces us to Shukaletuda, a gardener who is terrible at his job. Everything dies, except for a poplar tree. To his amazement, Inanna takes rest under this tree and falls asleep.

Shukaletuda proceeds to undress and rape the sleeping Inanna. Upon waking and realizing what had happened, Inanna is determined to bring her attacker to justice. In a fit of rage, Inanna unleashes a horrible plague upon the Earth, turning water into blood. Not finding her assailant, she unleashes yet more until he is driven out of hiding. Inanna finally locates Shukaletuda, who vainly attempts to invent excuses for his crime against her. Inanna rejects these excuses and kills him on the spot.

While literary analysts have focused on the movements of Inanna in the story possibly being linked to the movements of Venus, another lesson is important here. This goddess is no fan of forced intercourse, handing down the ultimate penalty to those who offend her. The similarities to the Biblical plagues unleashed on Egypt are also impossible to miss.

Epic of Gilgamesh

In this, one of the earliest literary epics ever written, Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu go on a quest to eliminate the forest guardian, Humbaba. So impressed by this feat of strength and combat skill was Inanna that she paid Gilgamesh a visit and demanded he become her consort. He refuses in the most unceremonious terms.

Enraged, Inanna petitions her father An to give her the Bull of Heaven, that it might slay Gilgamesh and Enkidu for their insolence. She threatens to raise an army of the dead, who will outnumber and consume the living, if she is refused. An reluctantly agrees and the Bull is sent to attack. Gigamesh and Enkidu instead slay the Bull and begin mocking Inanna. She retreats and assembles all the prostitutes of Uruk to mourn over the corpse of the slain Bull.

Later in the Epic, Gilgamesh encounters Ziusudra (Utnapishtim or Atrahasis in Akkadian), the Sumerian flood hero, and analog to the Biblical Noah. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh the story of the Great Flood, sent by Enlil, and how he was informed by Enki to build a boat that would rise with the waters and keep his family safe. He explains that Inanna wept for the destruction of humanity as the Flood came. Later, when the waters subsided, Inanna appeared to Utnapishtim and explained that Enlil never informed the other gods of what he was about to do. She swears she will never allow Enlil to destroy humanity again, offering her lapis lazuli necklace as proof of the covenant.

Here we see quite clearly that Inanna is a friend to humanity, like Enki. By excluding Enlil from her proclamation, we also see the beginning of a rift forming between her and this pernicious god. Like the god of the Bible, she also makes a pact with the story’s hero to never again destroy the world.

Death and Resurrection

The theme of a dying and resurrected god is ubiquitous throughout human history. Many cultures over the millennia have had at least one god that either dies and is resurrected, or takes a one-way journey into the Underworld and miraculously returns. As far as we currently know, this literary motif began with Inanna, who did them both.

Inanna’s Descent Into the Underworld

With the Bull of Heaven slain, Inanna resolves to enter the Underworld and pay respect to her sister, Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld. Inanna refers to the Bull as Gugalanna, the husband of Ereshkigal, and so the journey and what happens next make a lot of sense. Any journey into the Underworld is fraught with risk and usually a one-way trip, so she informs her Ninshubur to plead with the deities Enlil, Nanna, An, and Enki to rescue her if she does not return after three days.

After donning her best attire and symbols of her authority, she ventures through the seven gates of the Underworld. Arriving at the first gate, she once again threatens to raise the dead to consume the living if she is not granted entrance. The rules are such that she must remove an article of clothing to pass through each gate. Inanna complies, arriving before her sister naked. The seven judges of the Underworld then spoke to the disempowered Inanna angrily, transforming her into a corpse and hanging her on a hook on the wall.

Three days pass and Ninshubur does as she was instructed. She pleads with the other gods to rescue Inanna, but only Enki agrees. He was troubled because as soon as Inanna left for the Underworld, procreation of humans and animals completely stopped. Without her influence, all life would expire. Enki creates two sexless creatures named gala-tura and the kur-jara from the dirt under two of his fingernails. They go to Ereshkigal and find her in great pain. She offers them whatever they want, including life-giving rivers of water and fields of grain, if they can relieve her, but they refuse all of her offers and ask only for Inanna’s corpse. The gala-tura and the kur-jara sprinkle Inanna’s corpse with the food and water of life and revive her.

Inanna makes her way out of the Underworld, but this time accompanied by demons known as gallas, who insist someone must take Inanna’s place in the Underworld. They try three times to take three different attendants of Inanna, but she refuses them each time because they were all in mourning for her. Then they come across Dumuzid who, instead of mourning the loss of Inanna, is enjoying himself under a tree with a group of courtesans. Displeased at his utter lack of grief or loss, Inanna decrees that he will take her place, and the gallas drag him down to the Underworld.

The loss of Dumuzid eventually weighs heavily on Inanna as well as his sister, Geshtinanna. They plead with Ereshkigal and a deal is reached where Dumuzid will spend half the year with Ereshkigal in the Underworld, and the other half in Heaven with Inanna, while Geshtinanna takes his place.

The themes in this myth were so popular that they were re-created by nearly every other culture and transferred to both male and female gods alike. Nevertheless, this is the earliest literary example of a god dying and being resurrected three days later.

Defiling Divinity

Around 4,300 years ago, Sargon of Akkad conquered the city of Uruk, marking the beginning of the Akkadian Empire. Control of Uruk was pivotal for Sargon in establishing the world’s first empire. Seizing the center of Inanna’s worship would cement his rule in the minds of the conquered Sumerians.

The symbolism of the “Governor of Enlil” leading the king of Uruk (Inanna’s husband) in a collar to the gate of Enlil should not escape you. Here was the representative of Enlil conquering Inanna, taking possession of her and her royal powers. Sargon declared himself the husband of Inanna, began emphasizing her aspects as a war goddess, and exported her cult to great reception across the Akkadian Empire and beyond.

It would be easy to say that the inversion of goddess worship began here, but in truth it had probably begun before this goddess was even known as Inanna. Recall the demons from the underworld called gallas, this also happens to be what Inanna’s priesthood (as opposed to the priestesses) in Sumer called themselves. While many of them were heterosexual men with wives and children, others were homosexuals and transgenders that engaged in ritual group sodomy events. As time progressed, this minority group of men eventually became the leading feature of temples to Inanna/Ishtar. As the Akkadians exported the worship of Ishtar, so too did the Gala priesthood, becoming known as the Enaree in Scythia and the Galli in Phrygia.

A secret priesthood that engages in ritual non-procreative sex and that rapes and murders the fruits of such an act (children), would be a powerful message sent by Enlil to Inanna that he is desecrating everything she stands for. Indeed, this is what these priests have been doing for millennia. Enlil is well-known for his hatred of humanity, and what better way to desecrate the goddess of fecundity, loved by all, and who certainly would herself proclaim “Be fruitful and multiply”?

This priesthood also celebrated the consequences of their abuses and inversions, by praising homosexuality and men transitioning into women. You see, it was discovered long ago by these people that sexually abusing prepubescent boys can sometimes cause their sexual drives to lock onto the wrong gender when they come of age, and can lead to all manner of confusion and abomination. The further into the delusion you go, the more you are elevated to a class of divinity within their ranks, beyond criticism, and given nearly unfettered access to other children.

Inanna’s Symbols

Being able to identify the symbols of Inanna is more likely to lead you into a den of galas than any genuine practitioners of Inanna’s rites. You should nevertheless know when reference is being made to her so that you can decide for yourself what sort of person you’re dealing with.

Stars

As the Queen of Heaven, Inanna’s celestial representation is in the form of nearly every rendering of a star you’ve ever seen. Most popular is the eight-pointed star, however she sometimes appears as a six or five-pointed star. The latter being the star most commonly associated with Inanna’s planet, Venus. The six-pointed star, today called the Star of David despite there being nothing Jewish about it, may surprise you as also being a symbol of the goddess. Yet, it is found in a temple of Dionysus on the island of Cyprus, where many Phoenician goddess worshippers could be found, next to yet another symbol that might shock you.

Yes, the swastika too is likely another rendering of an asterism meant to invoke the goddess Inanna. Swastika’s were found all over the city of Uruk and the surrounding area, and so its potential link to Inanna cannot be ignored.

Revisiting the eight-pointed star, we also note this symbol is associated with other popular goddesses like Lakshmi, where each point represents a kind of wealth one can attain in life.

Lions

The early Mesopotamians, as with many cultures that followed, regarded lions as a symbol of power and authority and so it was natural that Inanna would be associated with these. In many depictions she is shown sitting or standing on a lion, or holding one on a leash. A modern example of Inanna’s inspiration would be the Hindu god Durga, one of the principal aspects of Devi. Durga shares many of the same attributes as Inanna, being associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction, and wars. She is almost always pictured riding either a lion or tiger.

Doves

Doves are another animal featured prominently alongside many illustrations of Inanna, and the Sumerians even believed she could take the form of a dove. As Inanna moved westwards and evolved into the Greek Aphrodite, her doves and other symbols went with her.

Owls

The Burney Relief is a 4,000 year-old depiction of Inanna that prominently links her to the owl, a symbol of wisdom. While wisdom was typically associated with Enki, Inanna’s procurement of the mes probably meant that she would now be associated with it as well. In Greece, we saw this materialize in the goddess of wisdom and war, Athena.

Roses

Another symbol Inanna shares with Aphrodite and other goddesses of love are roses. The rose itself being a symbol of the female vulva. An architectural design feature you’re no doubt familiar with is the rosette, and it should be no surprise they draw their inspiration directly from Inanna.

Her Hidden Identity

As we’ve learned from the revelations published in The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya, the ancient gods of the Near-East and Mediterranean were the Atlantean royal family. An ancient source for their story has been in the hands of modern man for over a millennia, and yet you’ve been told Plato was the only one.

Diodorus provides a more down-to-earth account, invoking no gods in his recounting of the founding family of the first great civilization to ever exist on this planet. Instead of the god Poseidon and Cleito being the founders, it was a man named Uranus and his wife, Titaea.

The People of Heaven and Earth

Atlanteans practiced a form of stellar ancestor worship, and when important people died they named a part of the cosmos after them. Being the founders, Uranus became the sky or heavens themselves, and Titaea was honored as the earth, becoming Gaia. This union of heaven and earth is ubiquitous in creation myths and is forever embedded in the Sumerian/Akkadian word anu-na-ki, meaning the “People of Heaven and Earth.” Where An/Anu is the Sumerian word for heaven, and Ki the word for earth, it was how they referred to members of the Atlantean royal family. The Greeks knew Poseidon as “Husband of the Earth,” and now you can plainly see why.

Together, Uranus and Titaea bore numerous sons and daughters. However, one daughter stood apart from the rest.

Almost immediately it is clear Inanna is the Atlantean Basileia, eldest daughter of founders Uranus and Titaea. And there is much more to suggest that this woman was the true inheritor of the entire Atlantean kingdom. The Atlantean royal palace, or citadel, was called “Basileia” according to Plato in Critias. It also means “The Kingdom of God” (basileia tou theou), or Kingdom of Heaven, in Christian theology. As the eldest she inherited the throne of Atlantis directly from her father and singularly ruled the entire Kingdom. She earned the title of “Great Mother” by rearing all the other ‘gods’, one that was subsequently stripped from her, though never in its entirety.

Wanting a line of successors, she married Hyperion (“He that walks on high”), and together they produced Helios (Sun) and Selene (Moon). This close relation to the sun and moon continued with Inanna, whose father is sometimes the moon god Nanna (not An), and whose brother is the sun. Here the connection is even stronger, as she is the mother of both.

Betrayed and Destroyed

Greedy for power, some of her brothers conspired and murdered Hyperion and Helios, breaking the royal line of succession. Despondent, Selene committed suicide. With her immediate family gone, Basileia abdicates the Atlantean throne and goes into a self-imposed exile, traveling the Mediterranean and spawning numerous cults devoted to her in pre-Flood times. Only then is Atlantis divided into ten sub-kingdoms and the story of the brothers Atlas and Cronus begins. It continues describing Cronus as a tyrant and hints at a possible war between him and his own son, Zeus.

With her true identity revealed, we can now see the many parallels between Inanna and Basileia. Her taking command of “Heaven” can now be properly understood as her ascension to the throne of Atlantis after Uranus had passed. We also see the beginnings of strife between her and Cronus in the Epic of Gilgamesh, with her criticism of and exclusion of Enlil, and why the followers of Cronus (also known as Saturn) might want to destroy her memory.

And so they have, gradually stripping Basileia of her more dignified traits and slowly reducing her to an object of lust for chronically stupid men.

What should be evident to you now is that the sex rituals being performed by the ruling elites today are simply the same old performance that conferred royal authority on the mate of Basileia who, by his marriage to her, ascends to the Atlantean throne as king. As the goddess of love and fertility, the organized ritual murder of infants can only be meant to desecrate her even further.

Conclusion

Make no mistake, the ruling class are no true worshippers of any goddess. They are a Saturnian cult that has been covertly inverting every institution they can infiltrate, then donning the hollowed-out edifice as a disguise. Of all the gods, only Cronus is the murderer and devourer of children. His worship is known and proudly admitted by his followers to be of antinomian design, who will even call themselves “anarchists” or “freedom fighters” while lending their time and resources to the expansion of State power, or as they commit atrocities against children. They have forever been the enemy of humanity, possessed by a hatred of women that seems to go beyond mere misogyny.

Just as these degenerates appropriated the symbols of Freemasonry to hide their identity, the same was done with the goddess many millennia before. Now a superficial researcher might come to the conclusion the ruling class are indeed followers of Inanna, when nothing could be further from the truth. Evil must be called out by its proper name, and now you have the knowledge to start doing so. Reject Cronus/Enlil’s scapegoats, rescue the goddess from the clutches of evil, and help re-establish the Kingdom of God here on earth.

How’s that for a Hero’s Journey?

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In the previous post we discovered that the true identity of Lucifer is Aphrodite, and what’s considered ‘Satanism’ or ‘Luciferian’ are the more extreme forms of worship of this goddess. Now it’s time to explore just what that is, how long it’s been going on, and what it means for us in the present.

For decades now, the world has been confronted with horrifying stories of ritual child sexual abuse, murder, cannibalism, elite pedophilia, and more. In the last decade we’ve had transgenderism shoved in our faces from every direction and made into a protected and privileged class. In some cases, disobeying the ludicrous demands of trans activists is now being met with arrest and police harassment. Groups are even lobbying to pass bills making the misgendering of trans people a crime punishable by massive fines and even jailtime.

What does ritual abuse and the exaltation of transgenderism have in common, and what do either of these things have to do with the goddess of lust and fertility? In this report you’re going to find out the ugly, depraved truth behind the Canaanites, a group of people who have worked for millennia to keep humanity in chains and have been far more successful than most will ever admit.

Let’s examine the practices of goddess worship, region by region, and see for ourselves what went on in ancient times, and what apparently continues today.

Mediterranean

In Greece, several more themes emerged in the worship of Aphrodite and Adonis. For instance, it appears Adonis was bi-sexual, loving not only Aphrodite and Persephone, but also Apollo. He played the typical male role when with females and would adopt female behaviors when with males.

This crossing of gender roles gets even more extreme with Aphrodite. In Cyprus, an island with both Greeks and Phoenicians living on it, a version of Aphrodite emerged called Aphroditus. This was Aprhodite in every sense except that ‘it’ had a penis and sometimes a beard! Later this god (dess?) became Hermaphroditus, a child she produced with Hermes, another of her lovers. Hermaphroditus was born a male but was fused with Salmacis, a nymph who lusted after him and wanted to be united forever. Another child Aphrodite produced with Hermes was Priapus, a male with an oversized and permanent erection. In the story of Tiresias, we find Aphrodite exhibiting the power to change mortals into the opposite sex.

While in Greece, the worship of Aphrodite never got more extreme than orgies and some doves being sacrificed in her name, things get a little more interesting in ancient Egypt. Their analog for the goddess was Hathor, and it appears her worship included the occasional orgy on drugs. The Turin Erotic Papyrus illustrates one of these events; people engaged in all sorts of sex acts while under the influence of the blue water lily. This lily contains an alkaloid that metabolizes in to apomorphine, a drug used today to treat erectile dysfunction and can cause persistent erections (priapism) in men. It also induces a euphoric state, with heightened sociability.

The papyrus dates to the 20^th dynasty of Egypt, but use of the blue water lily appears to have been popularized in the 18^th dynasty. King Tut was buried with a great many of these, and it just so happens that this is the dynasty that took over Egypt right after the Hyksos expulsion. The Hyksos were a tribe of Canaanites that conquered Lower Egypt and possibly introduced these drugged out orgies during their rule from the 15^th to 17^th dynasties. The Egyptians described them as “bloodthirsty”, and we will soon see why. After being introduced to the lily and its psychoactive powers, its use spread throughout Canaan and even into Mesopotamia.

Speaking of Canaan, it’s appropriate now to look at these people and just what they got up to in their worship of the goddess, because it’s quite relevant to what we see in elite society today. As already mentioned, their name for the goddess of lust and sexuality was Astarte, in Northern Syria it was Atargatis, and in Carthage it was Tanit. It’s in the Canaanite culture that we find ritual child sacrifice, a practice that extended to their colonies in Carthage and throughout the Mediterranean. This was done on an almost industrial scale, with special cemeteries called tophets being discovered with tens of thousands of urns filled with the burned remains of murdered infants and sometimes the animals that were sacrificed alongside them.

They practiced ritual rape as well. When girls reached a certain age, they were taken to the temple of Astarte to be raped by a man who paid the temple handsomely for that privilege. After this rite of passage, the girl was told she had been blessed, and was sent back home.

Also of importance was their celebration of transgenderism. The priesthoods of these goddesses, in order to reach the highest levels of their order, would ritually castrate themselves, dress as women, and take on women’s tasks.

These depraved practices were not the exclusive domain of the Canaanites, either. The worship of this goddess is found further eastwards.

Mesopotamia

Arriving in the Fertile Crescent, we find that this goddess was worshipped under the names Inanna by the Sumerians, and Ishtar by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. We find yet more evidence of the sexual depravity practiced by the Canaanites.

In Sumer, Inanna’s consort was Dumuzid, whom the Hebrews called Tammuz. Every year, the Sumerian King would perform the Hieros gamos, a sex ritual commemorating the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzid, in view of the public with one of the priestesses of Inanna. The ritual is described in a sexually explicit hymn preserved on a cylinder seal at the National Museum of Iraq. She would “bathe her loins” in preparation for the King and declare “O my holy thighs!” as they proceeded in the act together. The priests of Inanna, known as the Gala, underwent a transformation into females, taking on their traditional roles, and engaging in sodomy.

Herodotus also tells us of a Babylonian custom that required every woman to deliver herself to the temple of Ishtar where she will be placed among the other women, while a line of men walk by to inspect them. The first man to offer her any sum of money must be accepted, and she must go with him to be raped. Herodotus goes on to say that this ordeal is over quickly for beautiful women, but the uncomely ones sometimes remain for years waiting for their turn to be defiled. A similar custom also took place in Cyprus.

Pontic-Caspian Steppe

Heading north into the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, where today we find Ukraine, Western Russia, and Kazakhstan, we find the ancient nomadic equestrians, the Thracians. They had many religious practices involving their divine lovers, including ritual orgies, human sacrifice, and transgenderism.

Many of these customs were replicated by the Scythians who co-existed with the Thracians during the first millennium BC. The Scythians even practiced ritual cannibalism, and their highest and most powerful aristocracy was known as the Enaree. This was an orgiastic cult devoted to their snake-legged goddess of sex, Artimpasa. Like Aphroditus, this goddess was often pictured with a beard.

These priests were effeminate and androgynous. They performed women’s work, spoke, and dressed like women, and potentially even castrated themselves as part of their “transformation” into women. They may even have been sodomized by other men in sex rituals while pretending to be women.

Early in their history the Scythians invaded Canaan and sacked the temple of Astarte in Ascalon. The transgenderism of the Enaree was assumed to be a curse from the goddess who, as mentioned in the case of Tiresias, has the power to change men into women.

A similar transgender priesthood, known as the Galli, existed in Phrygia and were devotees of their own version of the goddess, Cybele and her castrated partner Attis.

A less ancient people of this area were the Khazars and by all accounts they continued many of the same practices as the Thracians and Scythians. Their religion was called Tengrism, which included shamanistic practices while dressed up like an animal.

The Khazarians are rumored to have converted to Judaism in the 10^th century CE, and some evidence does exist in support of that. This is, however, a contentious matter and camps on both sides continue to dispute whether this actually took place.

Nevertheless, the 1972 Surrealist Party, held by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and her husband Guy at the Chateau de Ferrières, appears to have echoed many Khazarian cultural practices.

Abrahamic Era

Is it any wonder why, in the Bible, God warns the Israelites to never deal with or mix with Canaanites. Here’s but one of many quotes:

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them [Canaanites] before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. – Deuteronomy 7:2-4

Furthermore, the Bible warns of infiltrators not only into Christianity, but also into Judaism:

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ … Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities … Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core … These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever … And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. – The Book of Jude

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. – Revelation 3:9

Just who are these infiltrators that Enoch prophesied about? We must consult the Book of Enoch for that answer:

And Uriel said to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, here shall they stand, till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. – Enoch 19:1-2

A complete reading of the Book of the Watchers, in Enoch, reveals he’s talking about the Nephilim, children of the Fallen Watchers, angels who rebelled against God along with Satan; a thieving, murderous group of cannibals that also drank blood. In other sections of the Bible, it makes the connection between the Nephilim and Canaanites.

Aside from Jude, we have further evidence of the Canaanite infiltration into Christianity and the practice of their depraved rituals. Consider this passage about the sect of Borborites, who allegedly engaged in ritual orgies:

But even though one of them should accidentally implant the seed of his natural emission prematurely and the woman becomes pregnant, listen to a more dreadful thing that such people venture to do. They extract the fetus at the stage which is appropriate for their enterprise, take this aborted infant, and cut it up in a trough with a pestle. And they mix honey, pepper, and certain other perfumes and spices with it to keep from getting sick, and then all the revellers in this herd of swine and dogs assemble, and each eats a piece of the child with his fingers. And now, after this cannibalism, they pray to God and say, “We were not mocked by the archon of lust, but have gathered the brother’s blunder up!” And this, if you please, is their idea of the “perfect Passover.” – Epiphanius, Panarion, Chapter 26.5.4

This is not even the full extent of Canaanite influence over the ancient world, a whole book would be needed for that, but there is one last thing worth mentioning. DNA studies performed on the nearly 3,000 year-old Paracas skulls of Peru reveal they came from Syria – making these Canaanites the earliest transatlantic voyagers known, nearly two millennia before the Vikings. Should it be a surprise, then, that we also find human sacrifice, cannibalism, and ritual sex in Mesoamerica?

This discussion wouldn’t be complete without addressing the Catholic eucharist, either. For what more perfect evidence of the corruption of Christianity is there but the practice of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a man-God? This is a very serious matter, as the doctrine of transubstantiation mandates that Catholics truly believe this is an act of cannibalism. Furthermore, spitting it out is known as ‘host desecration’, a sin so egregious that only the Pope himself can forgive the offender, or excommunicate them.

I would also be remiss to not mention the recent case of a “Gay Orgy” being organized by Catholic Priests in Poland that went horribly wrong. The event involved a male prostitute and “potency pills,” just like the drugged up Canaanite orgies of old, and ended with emergency services being called to tend to a man that had collapsed unconscious on the floor.

Present Day

These cult activities manifest today in many ways. Aside from the global phenomenon of ritual child abuse already mentioned, take the example set by Harry Hay. He was an LGBT activist, staunch defender of pedophilia, and acolyte of Aleister Crowley and his sex magick. Hay glorified promiscuous sex and sodomy as a path to spiritual enlightenment. The drugged orgies of old are now taking place as ‘chemsex’, a meth-fueled anal sex marathon. Satanic gay men and transgender women are found everywhere in the US government now. Rape, torture, murder, and cannibalism are being celebrated in art, most notably by Marina Abramovic who also hosts ‘Spirit Cooking’ sessions and parties with cakes shaped as people, that are chopped up and eaten.

Can all this help explain recent events in the middle east? Consider the fact that Gaza was originally part of the Philistine States, separate from the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. If the Zionists of today were truly seeking a restoration of the original Hebrew Kingdoms, they would have no interest in Gaza, or Ashkelon for that matter. The Philistines, today’s Palestinians, were not one of the nations the Israelites were told to displace in the Bible. In fact, Genesis 21 and 26 recount two separate treaties Abraham and Isaac made with them.

The only thing that could explain the Zionists lust for the Gaza strip is that they are not, in fact, being led by Jewish sentiment, but Canaanite. The Philistine States are a part of Canaan, and the Philistines seem to have immigrated there from the Aegean Sea shortly after the Late Bronze Age Collapse, when the Canaanite societies would have been economically weakened.

Canaan is the lands extending across the entire eastern Mediterranean coast, from just south of Gaza, all the way to northern Syria. If the government of Israel were being run by Canaanites, their incessant conflicts with Lebanon and Syria now make perfect sense. They’re trying to re-establish Canaan, not the Hebrew Kingdoms described in the Bible.

This was not even being done in secret not too long ago. In 1939 a movement was founded by Palestinian Jews with the express purpose of re-creating Canaan. A group of Lebanese Nationalists also got involved in their own efforts to bring back this ancient national identity. In fact, it was recently discovered that the Lebanese people share 90% of their DNA with the ancient Canaanites. Culturally or not, Canaanites continue to exist to this very day.

Conclusion

Returning full circle to my article about the Taxil hoax, we can see that his fabrication includes many elements of truth. Practitioners of this depraved form of goddess worship do indeed engage in the very same activities he leveled at the Masons. Thus, this hoax served as a wonderful device to project this cult’s misdeeds onto other parties.

It should be remembered that Pope Leo XIII’s only complaint about Freemasons was that they were successfully advancing the idea of separation between Church and State, something enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution. This Pope was, in a very real way, anti-American. He narcissistically saw anything that could diminish his control of nations around the world as ‘Satanic’ and wanted to rouse a reactionary movement against the principles of the Enlightenment that were spreading rapidly through Western society.

By a long and persevering labor, they endeavor to bring about this result – namely, that the teaching office and authority of the Church may become of no account in the civil State; and for this same reason they declare to the people and contend that Church and State ought to be altogether disunited. By this means they reject from the laws and from the commonwealth the wholesome influence of the Catholic religion; and they consequently imagine that States ought to be constituted without any regard for the laws and precepts of the Church. – Pope Leo XIII, Humanum Genus, Section 13.

I highly recommend reading The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya for more information about this cult. Nothing else I’ve ever read more completely explores their history and activities. It tells you in detail exactly where these people originated and why they have such a seething hatred for the rest of humanity. This has been going on for far longer than most can presently imagine.

Nothing worthy of God is to be found in the acts of this demented group. They take their most base, animal desires and make rituals out of satisfying these urges. Rituals that can irreparably harm their non-consenting victims, leading them into lives of substance abuse, prostitution, depression, dissociative identity disorder, and other mental health issues.

We aren’t living in a world besieged by “the Joos” or “duh Freemasons”, it’s a nameless gang of marauding Canaanites and those they’ve tricked into adopting their ways by promises of wealth, power, and influence. It’s been a few thousand years and now is the time to unmask these traitors to humanity and pull the rug out from underneath them, permanently.

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In my last article, The World’s Greatest Hoax, I exploded the myth that the Freemasons were at the center of a devil-worshiping conspiracy for world domination. As expected, this left some of the simpler minds out there thinking “If it’s not the Freemasons, he must be saying the whole thing is a lie!”

Not so, not even close.

Half the truth is often a great lie. – Benjamin Franklin

For those unfamiliar with the term ‘limited hangout’ I’ll explain. The best deceptions will always contain elements of the truth, and where these disclosures are bound to stir up public anger, they’re seeded with lies to scapegoat innocent parties. This is what Ben Franklin is talking about in the quote above, and it’s what Malcolm X was talking about in the quote used to kick off my last article.

Leo Taxil’s Jesuit education is an indication that he knows more than the average person about what is truly going on behind the scenes in the world. This may have served as a model for the hoax he ultimately created. In this report we’re going to explore what he said in detail, and ultimately coax out the identity of the god of the elites, and why they all appear to be engaged in the same depraved rituals.

Origins of Lucifer

Taxil’s hoax starts off with Doctor Bataille’s encounter on a boat with an Italian man named Gaetano Carbuccia, who recounts to Bataille his experiences with the Palladium Rite. Carbuccia explains the strange rituals they performed, and one in particular where they summoned Lucifer himself. The fictitious whistleblower assures the reader this is a real spiritual apparition, that even shook hands with one of the ritual’s attendees, and proceeds with giving us a general physical description:

I then looked at the spirit that appeared. In all the previous evocations, in which I had taken part, when the spirit evoked had wanted to appear, it was always a ghost with more or less vaporous forms, a fluidic being, essentially impalpable. This spirit, on the contrary, was indeed a being like you and me, in flesh and blood, but with a truly radiant body. In the theater, sometimes, a jet of oxyhydric light is accompanied by the main character on stage; nevertheless, the trick is easy to see, since the light, directed from any point on the artist, widens towards him in the form of a barely opened compass; the light falls on man and illuminates him. Far from there, the spirit which had just appeared to us was itself the center of the glow, the luminous focus illuminating the room. There was no doubt; we were indeed in the presence of Lucifer himself.

When he shows himself, is he always like I saw him?… That, I don’t know… That day, he had the features of a man between thirty-five and thirty-eight years; tall in stature; without beard or mustache; rather lean than fat, but by no means bony; the fine, distinguished physiognomy; I don’t know what melancholy in his eyes; a nervous smile tugging at the corners of his lips. He was naked, with white, slightly pink skin, wonderfully decoupaged, like a statue of Apollo. – Léo Taxil, Le Diable au XIXe Siècle, pp. 16-17

This sympathy for the Devil, so to speak, carries on throughout the book and is the reason why Taxil refers to this fake group of Masons as “Luciferians.” However, the real Albert Pike, who Taxil portrayed as the ringleader of the bogus group of Masons, has published a great deal of literature under his own name, the most famous being the much-maligned Morals and Dogma.

The subject of Lucifer is raised only FOUR times in this 860 page book. Quite amazing for a supposed Luciferian. Pike is hardly venerating the deity, either. Reproduced here for you are the only four parts, with a little truncation in places to compensate for Pike’s loquaciousness:

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice. It is Satan attempting to clothe himself in the angelic vesture of light. It is equally detestable in morals, politics, and religion; in the man and in the nation. To do injustice under the pretence of equity and fairness; to reprove vice in public and commit it in private … and sell one’s vote for place and power, are hypocrisies as common as they are infamous and disgraceful. To steal the livery of the Court of God to serve the Devil withal; to pretend to believe in a God of mercy and a Redeemer of love, and persecute those of a different faith … to inculcate humility, and in pride surpass Lucifer … is indeed to be like unto whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outward, but are within full of bones of the dead and of all uncleanness. – Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 73.

The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry. For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the God PAN; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend. – Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 102.

The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed. Plato and Philo, also, were inspired. – Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 321.

It is by His uttered Word that God reveals Himself to us; not alone in the visible and invisible but intellectual creation, but also in our convictions, consciousness, and instincts. Hence it is that certain beliefs are universal. The conviction of all men that God is good led to a belief in a Devil, the fallen Lucifer or Lightbearer, Shaitan the Adversary, Ahriman and Tuphon, as an attempt to explain the existence of Evil, and make it consistent with the Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Benevolence of God. – Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 324.

It’s obvious that Pike’s (and that of the world at large) conception of Lucifer is heavily influenced by Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Milton’s Paradise Lost. It was in these fictional works that Lucifer was cast as an angel who rebelled against God’s “plan” for humanity, in favor of his own and, after a war, was cast out of heaven along with the rest of his followers.

The canonical reality is that “Lucifer” appears only once in the KJV Bible, in Isaiah 14:12, and that is the result of King James’ translator working from a copy of the Vulgate. The translator was less than adept at Latin and he had no idea what the word meant, and so left it untranslated. Isaiah was written during the Babylonian captivity and is a litany against the King of Babylon. The word ‘Lucifer’ is used in a list of epithets for the King. Working from the original Hebrew version of Isaiah we see the word is actually correctly rendered in English as “Day Star,” or “Morning Star,” a reference to the planet Venus when it appears just prior to sunrise in the east, of which Pike is clearly aware. This planet, the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon was worshipped as a goddess in Rome, and in Greece she was known as Aphrodite, and Phosphorus.

And so there you have it, Lucifer is Aphrodite. Not a fallen angel who rebelled against God, but the godDESS of lust and sexual pleasure!

Need more evidence? Venus orbits the sun thirteen times for every eight orbits of the Earth. By following the orbit of Venus from our geocentric perspective, we see that its course through the heavens traces out a pentagram – the symbol ostensibly used to summon!

Divine Lovers

It’s no controversy to say that the patriarchal Abrahamic faiths eliminated the entire female aspect of God, and now we can see the original template they worked from. You shouldn’t be surprised at this, because many early Christian apologists outright admit their dogma was borrowed heavily from the earlier pagan mythologies.

And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. – St. Justin Martyr, The First Apology, Chapter 21.

Let’s now go back to the quotes from the Taxil hoax, because they clearly convey a very different conception of Lucifer than Pike did.

Therefore, when the autocratic Empire of Russia will become the citadel of papist adonaism, we shall unleash the revolutionary nihilists and atheists, and provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will demonstrate clearly to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief, mother of savagery and of the bloodiest disorder. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the mad minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilization; and the countless disillusioned adonaites, whose deist soul have up until that time remained without a compass, thirsting for an ideal, but not knowing which God is worthy of tribute, will receive the True Light, by the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, at last made public, an event that will arise from a reactionary movement following the destruction of atheism and adonaism, together at the same time vanquished and exterminated. – Léo Taxil, Le Diable au XIXe Siècle, Vol. II, p. 605.

That which we must say to the world is that we worship a god, but it is the god that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: The masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the Purity of the Luciferian doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him? Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods; darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy, and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil. – A. C. de la Rive, La Femme et l’Enfant Dans la Franc-Maçonnerie Universelle, pp. 588-589.

Here these hucksters are setting up a form of dualism in the form of Lucifer and Adonai, which is indeed one of the names of God according to the Hebrews. Adonai is associated with the Greek god Adonis, and now, suddenly everything fits together.

Because Adonis and Aphrodite were lovers, not adversaries!

The worship of Adonis in Greece and Phoenicia includes a great many rituals and themes you may find familiar. The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible is an authoritative resource on this and the entry for Adonai is quite interesting.

Whereas Aphrodite self-formed from the castrated genitals of Ouranos, Adonis was born to mortals. He’s the son of Princess Myrrha, who was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father after her mother bragged that Myrrha’s beauty surpassed that of the goddess. Children being punished for the transgressions of their parents is a common theme in ancient myths and this one carries on that tradition. Myrrha conceals her identity, and she manages to sleep with her father several times without being recognized, becoming pregnant. When the truth of her deeds is discovered, her father exiles her from his kingdom. She eventually is changed into a myrrh tree, but nevertheless gives birth to a child, Adonis.

This child is taken by Aphrodite to Persephone, who raises him in the underworld. After reaching adulthood, Aphrodite returns to find he has grown into a stunningly handsome man. The two goddesses quarrel over who gets to be with him and a resolution is reached where he will spend one-third of the year each with Persephone and Aphrodite, as their lover. The remaining third was his choice, and he went with Aphrodite.

Adonis, being beautiful, but ultimately useless as anything other than a boy toy, is mortally injured by a wild boar one day and dies in the arms of Aphrodite. Deemed a paragon of anti-heroic behavior, he represented the opposite of the positive sides of matrimony and manliness. An annual festival was instituted to commemorate his death by cultures throughout the Mediterranean. As recounted by many historians, these festivals usually take place over the course of three days. The first day the death of Adonis is mourned, and on the third day he is resurrected so they can repeat it all again next year.

Sound familiar?

In the Phoenician city of Byblos this event was celebrated in the temple of Astarte, the Canaanite equivalent of Aphrodite. Adonis also had an equivalent known as Baal-Adon. In Greece the women would celebrate this time in an atmosphere of frolic and licentiousness. They would also conduct orgies in honor of Aphrodite, but this was about as extreme as they got. In Byblos they would engage in sacral prostitution and much, much more.

As you shall see in the next part, coming next week, the Canaanites and other cultures further east took their worship of the divine lovers to the heights of depravity.

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