Many of the Irish, Scotts, and Welch still believe in fairies. In fact, if they don’t believe, they can be punished. Miners won’t make the sign of the cross while down in the mine for fear of offending the fairies in their own territory. In the pagan place of the fairies there is no death, sin or transgression. It is a golden dreamtime when heroes were deified by sacred marriage with the Goddess. “The God, Lug, father of Ireland’s dying savior, Cu Chulainn, came out of the underground of Tara from where the gods came who settled Ireland. They built temples of stone, which they sent to Stonehenge (Thoth, the Anunnaki god built Stonehenge). The fairy queen was the ancient fertility-mother like Demeter or Ceres. She was called Dame Abonde, “Abundance.” She was also called Titania or Rhea, ruler of the Titans, predecessors of the Olympian gods. She was a Triple Goddess, including the death- dealing Crone, so the Irish title Bean Sidhe was corrupted into “banshee,” the shrieking demoness whose voice brought death. In the form of the Triple Morrigan, she sang of blood sacrifices in connection with springtime renewal of vegetation. She was also known as the horrible Morgan le Fay, also known as Morque la faye. This was a secret religion because practitioners could be burned at the stake. Joan of Arc said she loved the fairies and did them reverence. Why would she say that knowing what the consequences were? Common to all mythologies is the Triple Goddess as Three Fates: rulers of past, present and future or creator, preserver and destroyer. The Three Fates were weavers: Clotho the Spinner, Lachesis the Measurer and Atropos the Cutter of Life’s Thread. All the Fate Goddesses were based on the primordial Indo-European Mother of Karma, Kali Ma.
When men found out they could father children, they wanted to be deified by generations as were the goddesses. They craved similar notions of descendents as goddesses had. A tribal ancestor achieved great glory in the afterworld; this they strived for. They turned their allegiance from the Great Mother to gods like Yahweh, who was nothing more than a tribal god (and look where he is now: worshipped by billions). Except that the Universal Father is hardly Yahweh; in fact, the Gnostics maintained that he was not God or a Creator, but a lesser being. I think he was played by Enlil, the Commander of the Anunnaki. According to Sitchen, Enlil knew there would be a Flood because of tsunamis from Antarctica and did nothing to warn the people. His half-brother Enki told Noah ( the Anunnaki Noah, Ziusudra,) to build a boat because a flood was coming. Gods like Yahweh promised to “make of them a great nation, to bless them, to make them fruitful and to make them kings” (Genesis 12, 17). Patriarchy, compared to matriarchy, was a rather sad affair. In Britain marriage was not observed. Sons were not important to their fathers. They didn’t “know who begot whom.” Finally, the Church stepped in and Thomas Aquinas gave the official opinion that the father is the true parent (not knowing about egges and sperm). The mother was “only the soil” in which the father’s “seed” grows. The son was an extension of the father’s ego, and his interest in his sons was selfish. The underlying philosophy of Western patriarchy has forced feminine existence to be determined by the masculine world of consciousness and its values (this is according to Walker and it would take forever to figure out what she means.) I’m not sure her statement is entirely accurate for all women.
Juno Capitolina, Goddess of the Fig tree, was fertilized by her lecherous horned goat god. Jesus cursed a fig tree because it had no fruit on it (it wasn’t in season, so it was probably symbolic of Israel). Mithra, a rival of Jesus, was involved with the maternal fig tree. Mithra, abandoned at birth, was adopted by a fig tree, which provided him with a continual supply of food and clothing (fig leaf). According to Genesis, fig leaves were the world’s first clothing, covering Adam and Eve in their shame. Adoption by the fig tree also figures in the life of Buddha. He was protected by the ficus religiosa, the Holy Fig, when he received enlightenment on Full Moon Day in the Month of May. The fig and the lotus symbolize female genitals. Italians make the “fig-hand” conveying the same idea as the raised middle finger. Hindus called the fig-hand the sacred mudra. Ovid said Romans used it as a protection against evil spells. To Christians it was manus obscenus, “the obscene hand.”
The Dactyls-Fingers-were spirits born from the fingerprints of the Goddess Rhea: 5 males from the from the prints of her right hand and 5 females from the prints of her left hand. A sacred fetish of these prints was found in the ruins of Pompey. The thumb and first 2 fingers are raised, invoking Jupiter, Juno and Mars (Father, Mother and Son). It became the hand of blessing for Christians (mano pantea). The index finger was the Mother, the one who pointed, controlled and cast spells. The middle finger was the Father, a phallic symbol for thousands of years, up to the present day. The middle finger was associated with the devil by Christians, who called it “digitus infamis,” the vile finger. It was considered evil to wear a ring on the middle finger. The years circle around and history comes back where it started. The archetypes don’t change from one millenium to the next. They just have different characters playing the roles. Women rediscover the Goddesses and repudiate the Father. Panicky men like Trump try to put it all back together. And other souls are returning to religion. People are still working out the same archetypes as they did millenia ago.
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 