as i open this new series of posts, i want to sum up the general purpose in this blog and to show how this series fits in the overall scheme. the over-arching contention of this blog is that knowledge, especially in the form of folk-religion and tribal consciousness, has always been the enemy of imperial culture. the history of humanity is the history of cultural warfare between city states, empires, and so-called 'heathens', 'barbarians' and so forth. in humanity's ancient past it was realized that without a mythos or basic psychological programming, there is no unity to accomplish any aim. families and tribes are held together by generally biological concepts of tribalism and survival within a nomadic or pastoral setting. because an empire can only arise by gradually enslaving groups of tribes or family clans, it has to somehow create a counterfeit for the mythos and ethos that naturally arises in humans based on the biology of clan loyalty, and then proceed suddenly or gradually to supplant tribal consciousness with imperial consciousness and replace agricultural deities with warlike or mercenary heroes consistent with empire, or else a kind of olympian hierarchical system with a supreme father god that rules over his children and demigods the way an emperor rules over conquered tribes. for the most part, people in our 'civilized' society completely discount any influence of spirituality as part of the past and nothing but superstition. science and a peculiar form of materialistic 'reason' is their new deity. yet, in truth, the principles of spiritual archetypes and other psychological constructs that were once cobbled into religions are still used in every facet of our society to herd the masses and install a kind of cultural 'software' or 'operating system' in their psyche which proscribes and limits the types of propositions they can formulate or rationales for the status quo they can entertain. now, this blog is called "A Druid's Hedgerow", right? what does any of this have to do with that? well to me, personally, the historical context of druidry and the gradual elimination of their culture and social framework lies right on the transition between agrarian 'heathen' worldview (their natural science), and the current state of the world, which i personally still equate with a later phase of the roman empire (which would now be the EU and central banking axis that now runs global war and weapons trafficking out of what was once called the 'holy roman empire'). my speculations go much further than i have hinted at so far, but one summary would be that abrahamic religions as well as freemasonry/templarism and our governmental schema actually date back much further than rome by way of what would now be considered 'asia minor' and centered on modern Turkey. as a brief case in point, i introduce the topic at hand:
The cult of Cybele as an instrument of psychological warfare and imperialism:
as in prior posts, i'm just gonna start with the most basic info:
Cybele (/ˈsɪbᵻliː/; Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubeleyan Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she has a possible precursor in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük, where the statue of a pregnant, seated goddess was found in a granary. She is Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably its state deity. Her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor and spread to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies around the 6th century BCE.
In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She was partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia, her Minoan equivalent Rhea, and the Harvest-Mother goddess Demeter. Some city-states, notably Athens,
evoked her as a protector, but her most celebrated Greek rites and
processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess
who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music,
wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. Uniquely in Greek religion,
she had a eunuch mendicant priesthood.[1] Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort Attis,
who was probably a Greek invention. In Greece, Cybele is associated
with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals,
especially lions.
In Rome, Cybele was known as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"). The Roman State adopted and developed a particular form of her cult after the Sibylline oracle recommended her conscription as a key religious component in Rome's second war against Carthage. Roman mythographers reinvented her as a Trojan goddess, and thus an ancestral goddess of the Roman people by way of the Trojan prince Aeneas. With Rome's eventual hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanised forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout the Roman Empire. The meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods were topics of debate and dispute in Greek and Roman literature, and remain so in modern scholarship. . . .
Romans knew Cybele as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), or as Magna Mater deorum Idaea ("great Idaean mother of the gods"), equivalent to the Greek title Meter Theon Idaia ("Mother of the Gods, from Mount Ida"). Rome officially adopted her cult during the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BCE), after dire prodigies, including a meteor shower, a failed harvest and famine, seemed to warn of Rome's imminent defeat. The Roman Senate and its religious advisers consulted the Sibylline oracle and decided that Carthage might be defeated if Rome imported the Magna Mater ("Great Mother") of Phrygian Pessinos.[40]
. . .
At Pessinos in Phrygia, the mother goddess—identified by the Greeks as Cybele—took the form of an unshaped stone of black meteoric iron,[10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele
here i would like to illustrate 3 key points:
1. the location of the cult within turkey about 500 miles west of Gobeklitepe, one of the oldest archaelogical and megalithic sites currently being studied, and about the same distance from the birthplace of the self-proclaimed messiah and sexual deviant sabbatai zevi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbatai_Zevi (who will probably be the subject of an entire post coming soon, also not far from any of the seven churches mentioned in the book of revelation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_churches_of_Asia
2. the very close linguistic affinity between the name Cybele and more modern words like cabal, ka'aba, kabbalah, merkabah, and Cybernetics
3. the brief mention here that her cult was tranferred to rome as part of a campaign of colonization/warfare.
so why would the elite of rome think that merely introducing a religious icon would make the difference in ongoing warfare and go to trouble and expense to transport it and foster the cult in their cities? to me this is a clear instance of ancient governments understanding the power of psychological warfare. so what is this goddess a symbol of? what is it about her that romans would find useful in their conquests?
well let's see: 1. she subdues lion's (an animal found mostly in africa like their enemy Carthage), which to this day are for some reason the symbol of many 'european' royal dynasties . . .hmm. 2. she has a walled fortress as her crown, which is also the origin of the aramaic and egyptian words "magdala"/"migdol" 3. she was identified with a black chunk of meteoric iron much like that inside the Kaabah which might even be named after her. 4. her worship is intimately associated with castration, which i'm sure the romans were thrilled to have as many of their colonists voluntarily castrate themselves as possible so they could become as docile as possible. doe's it really seem like a coincidence that a religion that worships the goddess of city walls and castrated males was promoted by an empire trying to subdue nomadic populations and get them to give up their sovereignty (as well as their cock/balls) and take refuge from the lions behind the comfort of the roman fortifications?!
so, as if that isn't bizarre enough so far, let's get to the really disgusting part of this cult:
Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 17. 8 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"The local [Phrygian] legend about him [Attis] being this. Zeus [i.e. the Phrygian sky-god identified with Zeus], it is said, let fall in his sleep seed upon the ground, which in course of time sent up a Daimon, with two sexual organs, male and female. They call the daimon Agdistis. But the gods, fearing Agdistis, cut off the male organ. There grew up from it an almond-tree with its fruit ripe, and a daughter of the river Saggarios (Sangarius), they say, took the fruit and laid it in her bosom, when it at once disappeared, but she was with child. A boy was born, and exposed, but was tended by a he-goat. As he grew up his beauty was more than human, and Agdistis [Kybele] fell in love with him. When he had grown up, Attis was sent by his relatives to Pessinos [city in Phrygia], that he might wed the king's daughter. The marriage-song was being sung, when Agdistis appeared, and Attis went mad and cut off his genitals, as also did he who was giving him his daughter in marriage. But Agdistis repented of what she had done to Attis, and persuaded Zeus to grant the body of Attis should neither rot at all nor decay. These are the most popular forms of the legend of Attis."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 12 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (C5th B.C.) :
"Some say the half-woman [i.e. eunuch] Attis went mad shouting for lovely Kybele (Cybele) in the mountains."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. 103 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Pines, high-girdled, in a leafy crest, the favourite of the Gods' Great Mother (Grata Deum Matri) [i.e. Cybele], since in this tree Attis Cybeleius (of Cybele) doffed his human shape and stiffened in its trunk."
Ovid, Fasti 4. 222 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"‘What causes the impulse [of Cybele's initiates] to self-castrate?’ I was silent. The Pierid [goddess Muse] began : ‘A woodland Phrygian boy, the gorgeous Attis, conquered the towered goddess with pure love. She wanted to keep him as her shrine's guardian, and said, "Desire to be a boy always." He promised what was asked and declared, "If I lie, let the Venus [i.e. lover] I cheat with be my last." He cheats, and in the Nympha Sagaritis stops being what he was: the goddess' wrath punished him. She slashes the tree and cuts the Naiad down. The Naiad dies: her fate was the tree's. He goes mad, and imagines that the bedroom roof is falling and bolts to Dindymus' heights. He cries, "Away torches!", "Away whips!", and often swears the Palestine goddesses have him. He even hacked his body with a jagged stone, and dragged his long hair in squalid dirt, shouting, "I deserved it; my blood is the penalty. Ah, death to the parts which have ruined me!" "Ah, death to them!" he said, and cropped his groin's weight. Suddenly no signs of manhood remained. His madness became a model: soft-skinned acolytes toss their hair and cut their worthless organs.’"
http://www.theoi.com/Phrygios/Kybele.html
so let's see know, we have incest, child sacrifice, and castration all rolled into one. and, guess what? the myths of babylonians, egyptians, canaanites/phoneicians, christians, freemasons and sabbataeans all have the exact same story as their basis: the seasonal sacrifice/castration of a male by a wife/mother associated with a tree or a pillar.
here we see some masonic art featuring a castrated pillar and a woman with the attributes of virgo and an alabastron as mary magdalene anointed jesus with shortly before his ritual murder.
yep. Astarte/Ashtaroth/Eostre/Ishtar/Isis/Mary Magdalene all come from the same story and are worshipped in public and private to this day including 'mock' and outright castration/circumcision and human sacrifice. In fact, as David Ovason clearly illustrates in his work, Secret-Architecture-Our-Nations-Capital the United States is actually consecrated to this same deity in a whitewashed form as Demeter/Liberty/Columba and all our dead soldiers are sacrificed to her for 'liberty'. Note that all masonic initiates are referred to as uncarved blocks or 'rough ashlars' (which the epithet of Cybele that we see above exactly refers to). they also have elaborate rituals with the laying of cornerstones. "the great work" of masonry is building the wall/tower out of individual 'stones' to erect the edifice of Cybele's empire. like her we see that masons must be symbolically castrated (as in the queen ceremonially putting a sword to both shoulders of a knight), and is symbolically emasculated by placing a female apron over his genitals. The obelisks in Rome/London/WashingtonDC are all circumcised/castrated penises consecrated to the Black Maria/Isis "Eastern Star" that you see here on this masonic regalia:
ever wonder why there are naked children on so many masonic and shriner buildings, or why conspiracy, prostitution and murder scandals have always been synonymous with masonic groups? I have. (click to enlarge images on the left)
here we see an image next to a mason's hall featuring a queen with a sheaf of wheat (virgo) next to a tower (magdala) showing us another version of the cybele/astarte/columba archetype
so, today, as i write this, the latest of two centuries of exposure of pedophilia and human sacrifice among america's 'elite' is being exposed and everyone is taken aback and shocked. I am not shocked one bit, because this is the religion of the people who created this country as it was among 'royalty' for thousands of years prior. it has always been used as it is being used now--to undermine and destroy the psyche of the nations they want to conquer. What are you going to do about this? Most will simply block it out or go into denial. I'm here to say that there is another choice, which i call facing the truth. I have put off publishing what i know for over a decade because it is simply too much for most people to handle or even comprehend. I can't do that anymore. There is much more to tell, all i can do is hope that telling the truth has power and can change the oppression of innocent people world wide. More to come. . .next time. . .the whore of babylon.
meanwhile here are some related posts from my other blog:
(above is the so-called skull of Mary Magdalene from Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume basilica in France)
The cult of Cybele as an instrument of psychological warfare and imperialism:
as in prior posts, i'm just gonna start with the most basic info:
Cybele (/ˈsɪbᵻliː/; Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubeleyan Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she has a possible precursor in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük, where the statue of a pregnant, seated goddess was found in a granary. She is Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably its state deity. Her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor and spread to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies around the 6th century BCE.
In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She was partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia, her Minoan equivalent Rhea, and the Harvest-Mother goddess Demeter. Some city-states, notably Athens,
evoked her as a protector, but her most celebrated Greek rites and
processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess
who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music,
wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. Uniquely in Greek religion,
she had a eunuch mendicant priesthood.[1] Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort Attis,
who was probably a Greek invention. In Greece, Cybele is associated
with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals,
especially lions.In Rome, Cybele was known as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"). The Roman State adopted and developed a particular form of her cult after the Sibylline oracle recommended her conscription as a key religious component in Rome's second war against Carthage. Roman mythographers reinvented her as a Trojan goddess, and thus an ancestral goddess of the Roman people by way of the Trojan prince Aeneas. With Rome's eventual hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanised forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout the Roman Empire. The meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods were topics of debate and dispute in Greek and Roman literature, and remain so in modern scholarship. . . .
Romans knew Cybele as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), or as Magna Mater deorum Idaea ("great Idaean mother of the gods"), equivalent to the Greek title Meter Theon Idaia ("Mother of the Gods, from Mount Ida"). Rome officially adopted her cult during the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BCE), after dire prodigies, including a meteor shower, a failed harvest and famine, seemed to warn of Rome's imminent defeat. The Roman Senate and its religious advisers consulted the Sibylline oracle and decided that Carthage might be defeated if Rome imported the Magna Mater ("Great Mother") of Phrygian Pessinos.[40]
. . .
At Pessinos in Phrygia, the mother goddess—identified by the Greeks as Cybele—took the form of an unshaped stone of black meteoric iron,[10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele
here i would like to illustrate 3 key points:
1. the location of the cult within turkey about 500 miles west of Gobeklitepe, one of the oldest archaelogical and megalithic sites currently being studied, and about the same distance from the birthplace of the self-proclaimed messiah and sexual deviant sabbatai zevi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbatai_Zevi (who will probably be the subject of an entire post coming soon, also not far from any of the seven churches mentioned in the book of revelation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_churches_of_Asia
2. the very close linguistic affinity between the name Cybele and more modern words like cabal, ka'aba, kabbalah, merkabah, and Cybernetics
3. the brief mention here that her cult was tranferred to rome as part of a campaign of colonization/warfare.
so why would the elite of rome think that merely introducing a religious icon would make the difference in ongoing warfare and go to trouble and expense to transport it and foster the cult in their cities? to me this is a clear instance of ancient governments understanding the power of psychological warfare. so what is this goddess a symbol of? what is it about her that romans would find useful in their conquests?
well let's see: 1. she subdues lion's (an animal found mostly in africa like their enemy Carthage), which to this day are for some reason the symbol of many 'european' royal dynasties . . .hmm. 2. she has a walled fortress as her crown, which is also the origin of the aramaic and egyptian words "magdala"/"migdol" 3. she was identified with a black chunk of meteoric iron much like that inside the Kaabah which might even be named after her. 4. her worship is intimately associated with castration, which i'm sure the romans were thrilled to have as many of their colonists voluntarily castrate themselves as possible so they could become as docile as possible. doe's it really seem like a coincidence that a religion that worships the goddess of city walls and castrated males was promoted by an empire trying to subdue nomadic populations and get them to give up their sovereignty (as well as their cock/balls) and take refuge from the lions behind the comfort of the roman fortifications?!
so, as if that isn't bizarre enough so far, let's get to the really disgusting part of this cult:
"LOVE OF CYBELE & ATTIS
LOCALE: Phrygia (Central Anatolia)Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 17. 8 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"The local [Phrygian] legend about him [Attis] being this. Zeus [i.e. the Phrygian sky-god identified with Zeus], it is said, let fall in his sleep seed upon the ground, which in course of time sent up a Daimon, with two sexual organs, male and female. They call the daimon Agdistis. But the gods, fearing Agdistis, cut off the male organ. There grew up from it an almond-tree with its fruit ripe, and a daughter of the river Saggarios (Sangarius), they say, took the fruit and laid it in her bosom, when it at once disappeared, but she was with child. A boy was born, and exposed, but was tended by a he-goat. As he grew up his beauty was more than human, and Agdistis [Kybele] fell in love with him. When he had grown up, Attis was sent by his relatives to Pessinos [city in Phrygia], that he might wed the king's daughter. The marriage-song was being sung, when Agdistis appeared, and Attis went mad and cut off his genitals, as also did he who was giving him his daughter in marriage. But Agdistis repented of what she had done to Attis, and persuaded Zeus to grant the body of Attis should neither rot at all nor decay. These are the most popular forms of the legend of Attis."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 12 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (C5th B.C.) :
"Some say the half-woman [i.e. eunuch] Attis went mad shouting for lovely Kybele (Cybele) in the mountains."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. 103 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Pines, high-girdled, in a leafy crest, the favourite of the Gods' Great Mother (Grata Deum Matri) [i.e. Cybele], since in this tree Attis Cybeleius (of Cybele) doffed his human shape and stiffened in its trunk."
Ovid, Fasti 4. 222 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"‘What causes the impulse [of Cybele's initiates] to self-castrate?’ I was silent. The Pierid [goddess Muse] began : ‘A woodland Phrygian boy, the gorgeous Attis, conquered the towered goddess with pure love. She wanted to keep him as her shrine's guardian, and said, "Desire to be a boy always." He promised what was asked and declared, "If I lie, let the Venus [i.e. lover] I cheat with be my last." He cheats, and in the Nympha Sagaritis stops being what he was: the goddess' wrath punished him. She slashes the tree and cuts the Naiad down. The Naiad dies: her fate was the tree's. He goes mad, and imagines that the bedroom roof is falling and bolts to Dindymus' heights. He cries, "Away torches!", "Away whips!", and often swears the Palestine goddesses have him. He even hacked his body with a jagged stone, and dragged his long hair in squalid dirt, shouting, "I deserved it; my blood is the penalty. Ah, death to the parts which have ruined me!" "Ah, death to them!" he said, and cropped his groin's weight. Suddenly no signs of manhood remained. His madness became a model: soft-skinned acolytes toss their hair and cut their worthless organs.’"
http://www.theoi.com/Phrygios/Kybele.html
so let's see know, we have incest, child sacrifice, and castration all rolled into one. and, guess what? the myths of babylonians, egyptians, canaanites/phoneicians, christians, freemasons and sabbataeans all have the exact same story as their basis: the seasonal sacrifice/castration of a male by a wife/mother associated with a tree or a pillar.
here we see some masonic art featuring a castrated pillar and a woman with the attributes of virgo and an alabastron as mary magdalene anointed jesus with shortly before his ritual murder. yep. Astarte/Ashtaroth/Eostre/Ishtar/Isis/Mary Magdalene all come from the same story and are worshipped in public and private to this day including 'mock' and outright castration/circumcision and human sacrifice. In fact, as David Ovason clearly illustrates in his work, Secret-Architecture-Our-Nations-Capital the United States is actually consecrated to this same deity in a whitewashed form as Demeter/Liberty/Columba and all our dead soldiers are sacrificed to her for 'liberty'. Note that all masonic initiates are referred to as uncarved blocks or 'rough ashlars' (which the epithet of Cybele that we see above exactly refers to). they also have elaborate rituals with the laying of cornerstones. "the great work" of masonry is building the wall/tower out of individual 'stones' to erect the edifice of Cybele's empire. like her we see that masons must be symbolically castrated (as in the queen ceremonially putting a sword to both shoulders of a knight), and is symbolically emasculated by placing a female apron over his genitals. The obelisks in Rome/London/WashingtonDC are all circumcised/castrated penises consecrated to the Black Maria/Isis "Eastern Star" that you see here on this masonic regalia:
ever wonder why there are naked children on so many masonic and shriner buildings, or why conspiracy, prostitution and murder scandals have always been synonymous with masonic groups? I have. (click to enlarge images on the left)
here we see an image next to a mason's hall featuring a queen with a sheaf of wheat (virgo) next to a tower (magdala) showing us another version of the cybele/astarte/columba archetype
so, today, as i write this, the latest of two centuries of exposure of pedophilia and human sacrifice among america's 'elite' is being exposed and everyone is taken aback and shocked. I am not shocked one bit, because this is the religion of the people who created this country as it was among 'royalty' for thousands of years prior. it has always been used as it is being used now--to undermine and destroy the psyche of the nations they want to conquer. What are you going to do about this? Most will simply block it out or go into denial. I'm here to say that there is another choice, which i call facing the truth. I have put off publishing what i know for over a decade because it is simply too much for most people to handle or even comprehend. I can't do that anymore. There is much more to tell, all i can do is hope that telling the truth has power and can change the oppression of innocent people world wide. More to come. . .next time. . .the whore of babylon.
meanwhile here are some related posts from my other blog:
modern psychopathy and its origins in the sequestration of the divine feminine (part I)
psychopathy and the sequestration of the divine feminine II: DC, the columbian district of criminals
