Is That all you have Got? - International Social Equality/Unity

There are many stories of sacrifice and from these we create our mythologies. This would include the Christ myth, or if you practice the dogmatic faith-reality, that it is a reality of historical and proven fact. The kernel of this mythos is the image of masochist and I paraphrase from a book on Inanna-Ishtar.

The martyr has his fate imposed on him, it is not freely chosen. In the case of Venus, Inanna -Ishtar the immolation of the woman is chosen.The warrior route. She still, however, descends into a chosen death and gets cut to pieces. She re-emerges and we have Resurrection mythology.

Imposition of fate or acceptance of the fates, the furies and the unresolved dogmatics that provide for us a systemisation which we do not believe in, but accept because we do not want to sacrifice what is our entitlement in modern Western society.

Except that, like the witnesses to the emergence of Hitler, we are complicit in the abuse of nations and our passivity is creating a mythology which is dominant and not culture aware.

I am bleeding from the wounds that I have unwillingly and unwittingly given to my brother/sister. The illusion on the material plane is that she/he is not really wounded. They are and we are perpetuating it. The image of victim is a yoke easily worn. We have to reject the cultural use of imagery which perpetuates the lies that we are entitled to immunise ourselves from suffering.That we can rationalise the way we live by accepting the lies of the dogmatic churches which have wounded women and children and that make choices regarding the mythos we choose to represent our cultural dominance.

The male Christ figure is a masochist figure who did not deny his martyrdom it was nonetheless imposed on him.

The female equivalent of Inana-Ishtar is less passive, but again she is a sacrificial figure brought up through our cultural teachigs. Neither of these figures represent for us the reality of what we face in terms of true equality.

The hidden face of women in our linear acceptance of historical fact, the nexus of Government/Church/Academia is perpetuated again and again in an anti-capitalist fight which chooses to ignore in mythos/teachings the warrior in the woman and her choosing of her fate. As women fighters against a bulwark of two thousand years of mythos, we need to re-ignite the symbols chosen to represent our own heroes. Inanna-ishtar, a goddess of war, re-juvenation and sacrifice could be a beginning or we could make our own models through defining our position within a system designed to blind-side us through the virtue of its exsistence.

The era of suffering which we witness on a daily basis is something we contribute to in our silent acceptance of outdated modes of institutional abuse. The language of images, symbols and juxtaposition of the two contribute to the stasis of perpetuated mythos. We need to create and choose our own mythos, and no longer accept those that have been given to us.

The origin or "kernel" of resurrection is Osiris not Ishtar, but his resurrection was dependent on Isis who gathered the dismembered body parts of her husband/consort and brought him back to life. It is critical to the symbolism to note that Isis was unable to locate the phallus of Osiris. She fashioned a phallus from 'gold' and attached that to her husband. He was thus able to 'rise' as the sun God that his myth represents.

There were many Gods of resurrection prior to Christ (Dionysus was direct competition to Christ, "true vine"). Jesus was the Johnny-come-lately, the last of a long tradition and a poor imitation of the Solar phallic Gods before him.

"Masochism" is stretching the point -- early civilizations appreciated Gods as terrible and wrathful. Their relationship with humanity was one of terror and appeasement. Jehovah was one of those wrathful demanding Gods that required blood sacrifice on a regular basis. To appease the blood-lust of his father, Jesus offers himself as the final sacrifce. This was actually a gesture of suicide as Jesus and the Father are one -- modern Christianity fails to regard the insanity inherent in a God who suicides to satisfy an addiction.

Jehovah as 'God' was under no constraints whatsoever -- the self-destructive aspect of Jesus/Jehovah creates a God of the absurd, as any 'God' could easily have relinquished an unnecessary behaviour pattern (blood-lust) without the need for the convolutions that follow as Christian mythology.

The reference to the Egyptian Nuit -- Goddes of the firmament in Revelation 12:1 is unmistakeable

"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:"

The Goddess is replete with the twelve constellations the Sun and the Moon and is in the process of giving birth to the 'new' son/sun.

The connection of the life giving Sun with the erect phallus of the Solar Gods rising (resurrection) every morning was not lost on primitive societies but is lost today!

A more accurate representation of Christ as renewal/regeneration; a God that embodies all the coherence of the Gods of resurrection and life, would be his 'dead' body on the cross supporting an erect (living) phallus!

Mythology is a universal language that carries with it a message from the ancients. The objectification of myth into impossible 'reality' (literal resurrection) destroys the message of the myth and assassinates the options for renewal and transformation offered by the BROAD and rich experiences of Life. The removed God thus becomes unattainable in the immediate sense but available in a "narrow" deferred sense -- a perfect candidate for theological 'mediation' (institutional religion).

I would add that Infinity (GOD) is NOT narrow nor are there any restrictions in Infinity -- that is obvious! The tragedy today is that millions of religionists are effectively robbed of the immediate joys that life on earth has to offer. This is evidenced by their bitter violence and infatuation with death, annihilation and millennialism.

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