shock and awe

[Byron]

Tho the ETA is possible, I think the muslim fanatics
did it. Thank God Bush has defeated them, and captured
Isama, or they would still be doing things like this.

Actually, what I think we saw in Madrid was "Shock and
Awe."

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The Syrian God Adonis is another one (Adonai.) 

The Lord, as the Christians later translated their
version of a mix up, salad style, of Adonis the Syrian
and some Jewish stuff out of the Dead Sea Scrolls (who
after departing the Temple in a huff spent some time
in Syria.) 

The big event in the Syrian story is when they brought
his effigy in, hanging from a tree or a pole. 

This is done three days before the V.E., or Easter as
it came to be known. 

They put the effigy in a coffin to much weeping and
wailing from the girls. The weeping and wailing from
the ladies continued for the requisite three days.
Then on the morning of the V.E. (aka the beginning of
the year, also every once in a while the beginning of
the New Age, and wouldntyabelieveit, circa 1 ce was
indeed the beginning of a New Age) they opened the
tomb. And by golly, it was empty. He had risen! The
empty tomb. Much hilarity followed.

Not only is this the conclusion of the Xn gospel of
Mark ... right to the weeping ladies, and their big
discovery ... but you ain't lived Xn style until
you've gone to a "Good Friday service" as I did last
year, Episcopal style.

After much gloomy verses they undress the sanctuary,
taking everything away at a good clip, but with much
redundant motion. Once it is disrobed and empty, and
the last candles snuffed, everyone departs having
locked their lips with little keys. Giggling from the
teenagers is discouraged, though not prevented. Great
theater. Almost embarrassingly obviously great
theater. What if this great theater was where it all
began?

It has always embarrased the literal that the "first"
Christian writer, Paul of Tarsus the Home Town of
Mithras and Astrology, didn't seem to know anything
about the charming gospel narratives, miracles,
sayings. Nada. Not a word. He supposedly has a few
fracases with the Brothers of The Lord in Jerusalem,
but still he hasn't a clue.

After a vision of the sun, all he says is he picked up
on this great religion ("He was up, He was down, He
was up") which relieved him of worrying about breaking
the Jewish regulations. 

Also Paul uses the name "Jesus", ie, a Greek version
of "Joshua", a popular Samarian mountain dude, and
Paul's Greek version is very nifty. It adds up to 888,
a magic number of the sun god. Funny he should care
about that.

Like the carefree use of "The Annointed" and "The
Lord", 888 was probably free for the picking.

Interesting that Mel the Gib didn't use Greek for the
founding days of a religion that started in Greek.

In Siberian religions of the Finno-Ugric kind, they
worship the great Bear, especially when they kill him
and eat him. Re Adonis, they are fascinated with the
male genitals of the Bear, which are human like, but
bigger. Heap big adonis, I guess. 

The following poem by yours truly refers to a version
of the myth of the Bear:

      The grave forest stretches mile on mile
      And from a golden cage and from the Nail
      Around which the true world turns
      His Father lowers him upon 
      A golden chain. He waves.
      And there is a very wise tomcat
      Who climbing down, sings songs
      And climbing up, tells tales.


I threw in the tomcat as a bonus.

By the way, the Bear goes back up to Daddy after he is
eaten.

--B

PS I really like "Xianity"






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