The Feminine Principle in Myth

The fairy queen was the ancient fertility mother, like Demeter or Ceres (we get the word cereal from Ceres. She was Dame Abonde (Abundance), and was also Diana, Venus and Hecate. Demeter was a Triple Goddess, including the Crone, which is the reason the title “woman of the Fairy Mounds” was corrupted into “banshee,” the shrieking demoness whose voice brought death. In the form of Triple Morrigan, she sang of blood sacrifices related to springtime renewal of vegetation. A variation on her title was the notorious Morgan Le Fay, also known as the death goddess, Morgue la faye. There were many fayes in Britain as seen through the eyes of “The Romance of Lancelot du Lac.” The knights of the fayes did not speak of them because the Church was hell-bent on wiping them out. These women knew the power of words to make majic and also the power of stones and herbs. The church offerred Mary in substitute for the fayes who lived in the remote forests, but Mary’s magic was not as strong as the fayes. So the powers of fayes have persisted up into modern times in parapsychology and modern witchcraft. In a free country anything is possible. My son-in-law is faye. He “saw” smoke and flames coming out of the towers 3 months before they were destroyed on 9/11. He’s from Scotland, which tracks, because his mother, who came to the US, is also faye. She influenced bees not to bite her day-care children in the backyard. I had an infestation of fruit flies and nothing I did to get rid of them worked. I was in a terminally stressed mood and decided to just ask them to leave. And they did leave! Not one fruitfly has ever returned. I also had a mouse problem and I knew somehow that they wouldn’t leave no matter what I said to them. But I was rescued by a new landlord who called in a pest control company. At first, I trapped 7 mice in 7 days, but then NO MICE. I haven’t seen a mouse since the pest control started working. I also got rid of the bees on my balcony in another house. The only funny thing that happened was that one of the bees stopped in front of me and looked me in he eye as if he didn’t believe anyhing I said. But the bees never came back. If insects are that smart, imagine how smart your dog is. Your dog knows your every mood and thought, and that’s just for beginners.

The word fairy mutated into Latin “fatare-to enchant”. then mutated again into fear and fate. Most mythologies in ancient times had the Triple Goddess as the Three Fates: Rulers of the Past, Present and Future or in the persons of the Virgin, Mother and Crone or (Creator, Preserver and Destroyer). In the North the female assumed guises such as the Norns or Weird Sisters (from wyrd-fate). The fates were usually weavers. The Moerae were Clotho the Spinner, Lachesis the Measurer and Atropo the Cutter of life’s thread. All were aspects of the archaic Triple Aphrodite, who was a Fate Goddess. All of these goddesses were based on the primordial Indo-European Mother of Karma, Kali Ma.

The fig leaf is more important than one might suppose. Jesus cursed a fig tree because it had no fruit (Mark 11: 13-22). It was out of season for figs, so Jesus must have made the symbolically. Maybe the tree was the people of Israel and he was pained by their disobedience and hearts of stone. Walker says “the story was probably intended to express hostility to a well known Goddess symbol. The heart shared leaves representing the conventional form of the yoni.” But I doubt that interpretation; Jesus never openly challenged the old gods before; he had no reason. He did like to debate with their devotees, however. Adam and Eve covered their genitals with figleaves after they disobeyed God and did the very thing he told them not to do. There are even fig trees in the life of the Buddha. Buddha was protected by the Tree of Wisdom, the Holy Fig when he received Enlightenment on Full Moon day in the month of May. The word fig eventually became the derogatory word “fuck” in Anglo-Saxon areas because it was a short leap from “ficus” to “fig” to “fuck.” The raised middle finger followed the same historical path and means the same thing. The middle finger was a phallic symbol for thousands of years, up to and including the present day.

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