Chapter Seven - More Sacrificial/Saviour God Stories

There are many other Sacrificial/Saviour god stories. Which is a mystery, because you would assume that patriarchal rulers would want religions of warrior gods that reflect masculine values. So of course they wouldn’t want sacrificial/saviour gods that teach love. Yet, in spite of this, these type of gods kept on re-appearing. Although, the priests of these religions were put under pressure to change the nature of these gods to fit in with the masculine values of the rulers. A good example of this would be Hercules.

It is surprising that Hercules is also a sacrificial/savour god as he is portrayed as a macho hero in stories where he fought monsters, giants, lions and even Amazons. As we see in the 12 Labours of Hercules where he does all sorts of heroic deeds. Yet in his original form, his name Hercules or Heracles means, “Glory of Hera”. He was born of the virgin Alcmene. then spends a year as a slave to Queen Omphale, spinning flax on a spinning wheel and wearing a female dress. For this reason the early priests of Hercules also wore female dresses. He died by building his own funeral pyre and burning himself to death and entered the underworld. He was then reborn in the womb of the Earth Goddess Hera and was made a god. In his original form he was called “Prince of Peace”, “Son of Righteousness” and “Light of the World”. This religion also influenced early Christianity.

So this clearly illustrates that many of these stories may start with a Sacrificial God that teaches love. But then later the teachings are distorted or subverted to mean something else and the original loving teachings are forgotten. This is also true of Christianity, but somehow Jesus’s teaching about love has survived the many attempts to change Christianity into a more masculine religion.

So in the many Sacrificial/Saviour god stories we will star with the three Nordic Sacrificial/Saviour gods; Loki, Odin and Bader.

Loki

The oldest of the Nordic Sacrificial/Saviour Gods is Loki. We know little about his original story except he was periodically sacrificed to the Goddess Skadi. So he was one of the original Sacrificial/Saviour Gods, but later fell out of favour with Nordic patriarchal rulers. So the stories about him changed and he later becomes the god of mischief, a cunning trickster, shape shifter and finally the villain in the Bader story.

Odin

The next Nordic Sacrificial/Saviour God is Odin and was called God of the Hanged. As he seemed to have been a voluntary human sacrifice on the world tree, in the sacred grove of Uppsala and hung there for nine days and nights. Like Jesus he was wounded in his side with a spear as he was dying on the Cross. This is a symbol of what is called the ‘wise-wound”. Which is a woman’s vagina when she is menstruating. Also in this story, Odin has only one eye. The symbolism of that; could be that women have one eye as well. The vagina is also called an eye, because it has the same shape. So having a one eye man in a symbolic story, does suggest feminine influence. We see the same thing is Greek mythology of the Cyclopes who also only had one eye and involved in Zeus's battle against the Titans.

Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans; Cronus and Rhea, but he overthrew his father and ruled instead. What this story may be about, was the overthrow of the rule of the Goddesses. It seems that the Greek myth-makers didn’t want to directly say this. There might have been Gods in the past who were ruled by Goddesses, which they called the Cyclopes. Zeus overthrew these ancient Gods who were subservient to female rule. But it seems the Cyclopes, (Goddesses) survived. but now had to accept male rule in the form of Zeus. Something similar probably happened in Nordic mythology, with ancient Gods like Loki, being downgraded because they were subservient to Goddesses.

It is claimed that by his sacrifice Odin won for men the female secrets of saga, Which means becoming a medium or prophetess. As we mention before, for men, love and sacrifice are the same thing, so by sacrificing himself, he learns love which makes it possible for him to communicate with the Great Mother. This has been a big problem for patriarchal priests, they took over using deception and violence but through that, lost their contact with the Great Mother. Which the priestesses were able to do, through unconditional love. So the patriarchal priests needed some other way of doing this. They might have tried to do this through love and sacrifice. So this is what Odin’s self-sacrifice is all about. But we know from history that not many priests are willing to be self-sacrificial, so other ways had to be found. One of the ways of communicating with spirit is through pain and suffering. The idea is that if the body is experiencing long term pain, then, it is possible for the spirit to leave the body. And so it’s also possible to communicate with the spirit world by this means.

We see this is Medieval Christianity where monks would torture each other. It was commonplace for monks to beat each other, wear hair shirts and starve themselves. In the mid-14th century, people called the flagellates, they whipped each other as much possible. The German flagellates even became an organized sect. The church leaders condemned this practise and it gradually died out. We see the same in Hinduism and Sufism where Fakirs do things like walk on hot coals or lay on bed of nails. They even do things like push long pins into their bodies. Although meditation is probably a more preferable way to communicate with the Great Mother. The problem is, that men find it harder to be mediums than women and some try to do it, through alcohol and drugs. Which is not a good idea, as these substances can be addictive. Of all these options I personally think that learning meditation and unconditional love is a far better way of doing this.

Bader

The third Nordic Sacrificial/Saviour God is Bader. He was the son of Odin and was seen as the perfect God of Love, peace, justice and light. But he predicts his own death, so his mother the Goddess Frigg, made him invincible, so nothing could harm him. When the other Gods discovered this, they use to pass the time by throwing spears and other weapons at him, knowing he couldn’t be hurt by them. Then Loki discovered he wasn’t protected against the mistletoe as Frigg didn’t think anyone would make a weapon out of that. So he made a dart out of mistletoe and gave it to Bader’s blind brother, Hodr who then threw the mistletoe dart at Bader which killed him.

Bader descends into the underworld and the Gods wanted Hel the goddess of the underworld to return him. She said she would providing everyone mourned him. Everyone did except for one women who wouldn’t shed any tears for him, and so the Goddess Hel kept him in the underworld. It seems that the women who wouldn’t cry, was Loki in disguise. But it was predicted on doomsday Bader will return to earth in a second coming. Then he will establish a new heaven and earth after the passing of all the old destructive gods. This sounds very similar to the promises in Revelations, in the New Testament, of Jesus’s second coming.

Mithra

The next is Sacrificial/Saviour God is Mithra, Mithraism is a very old religion from Persia and had travelled east as far as India. What many people find shocking about this religion is it is very similar to Christianity. Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th and his birth was witnessed by shepherds and a Magi who brought gifts. He performed miracles like Jesus, raising the dead, healing the sick, casting out devils, making the blind see and the lame walk. His holy day is also Sunday and he ascended to heaven at the spring equinox (Easter) and he had 12 disciples.

Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace. Like Jesus he was called “The Good Shepherd”, “the way, the truth and the light” as well as the “redeemer”, “Messiah” and “Saviour”. He even had a last supper like Jesus and also spoke about eating his body and drinking his blood. He was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again and then ascended to heaven. Early on in his religion, there was a feminine Mithra but later on, all feminine attributes was taken out of the religion and women were banned from Mithraic temples.

The Emperor Constantine liked Mithraism and it was his first choice to be the state religion of Rome but it wasn’t popular with the people. But although it lost out to Christianity in becoming the state religion of Rome, many of the Mithraism customs were adopted in Christianity. For instance early Christianity had female priests but they were banned to fit in with Mithraism customs of having only male priests who were celibate.

Dionysus

Dionysus is one of the more popular Sacrificial/Saviour gods. There were Dionysus festivals which it was claimed where drunken orgies. He was called the wine-god as well as a horned god and was associated with the God Pan. In the stories about him he was killed by his own priestesses the Maenads whom torn him apart and ate him. Although in other stories he was killed by the Titans who also devoured his body. Which is a reflection of what Jesus said in the Last Supper about eating his body and drinking his blood. Dionysus was resurrected by Zeus.

There was human sacrifice in the Dionysus religion where a man was made king but then later killed and cannibalized. So the symbology of Jesus, saying; eat of my flesh and drink my blood like we see in the last supper of Jesus and in Christian Church services. Was acted out for real, in the Dionysus religion.

In other stories of Dionysus he is hung from a cross like Jesus and was called, “King of Kings” and also “god-begotten”, “virgin-born” and “anointed One”. He was also born of a virgin on December 25th. He was a travelling teacher who perform miracles like turning water into wine. The Roman version of Dionysus was Bacchus.

Bacchus

Bacchus was known by the Romans as the god of wine and debauchery and consort of the Goddess Liberia. But it seems the Romans turned this religion into drunken orgies, which probably wasn’t a good idea. We see this with the Hippies in the 1960s. They had ideas like, peace and love and had love-ins, but used alcohol and drugs. Which resulted in too many Hippies becoming alcoholics or drug addicts. As previously mentioned; the reason why ancient religions resorted to alcohol and drugs is that men have real problems in trying to communicate with the Great Mother. Although meditation, and unconditional love is probably a far better way to do this.

The word orgy comes from the Greek orgia, which means “Secret worship”. This was probably ancient sexual rites in ancient Goddess religions which didn’t see sex as a sin, but something holy and sacred. But later in Roman times, it’s doubtful if many of the Bacchus orgies were sacred or holy.

Orpheus

Orpheus was another popular Sacrificial/Saviour god. Some commentators equate his teachings with Buddhism, claiming they were very similar. It is also related to the Dionysus religion, as the priestesses of the religion were known as the Maenads in both religions. Orpheus was killed by the Maenads for advocating homosexual love and then he descended into hell where he meets Persephone the Queen of the Underworld, whom liked him so much, she make him a god. The Orpheus religion was one of the rivals to early Christianity and was then merged with it, when it became the state religion of Rome.

The most popular story of Orpheus was his descended into the Underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice. When she died from a snake bite, after their wedding. He then charmed the God Hades and the Goddess Persephone with his wonderful lyre playing and was allowed to take Eurydice out of the underworld. But he was warned not to look back, which is what he did and lost his wife.

Osiris

Osiris was the Egyptian Sacrificial/Saviour God but he doesn’t actually sacrifice himself in the stories about him that survived. His story is part of the Isis religion that at one time was a rival to Christianity in becoming the state religion of the Roman Empire. Like the later Jesus, his coming was announced by three wise men but also the three stars of Orion. Osiris was the husband, lover or son of the Goddess Isis, (there are many versions of his story), but he killed by his brother Set, who then cut him up into many different pieces and scattered them over the land. Isis then finds all the different pieces of Osiris and put them all back together and restored him back to life. So again it is a death and rebirth story.

The story probably symbolises the different nature of men and women. Osiris being killed by his brother, cut up and scattered far and wide, demonstrates men’s violence, ruthlessness and destructive tendencies. While Isis finds the scattered pieces and brings Osiris’s body back together again and brings him back to life. Symbolising women’s maternal love by bringing everything back together and bring life back into Osiris’s body. In the myth, Isis and Osiris then have sex together, after she raised him from the dead and then she gives birth to the God Horus. Historians have pointed out the similarity between Osiris and Jesus, both were called the Good Shepard and born on the 25th of December. A lot of Osiris teachings that survived are very similar to what Jesus taught. The Lord’s Prayer in the Bible is the same as a Osiris hymn. As was the 23rd Psalm in the Old Testament about Osiris the good shepherd:

1 The LORD is my shepherd;

I shall lack nothing.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.

3 He restores my soul.

He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil, for you are with me.

Your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil.

My cup runs over.

6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.

The World English Bible

This psalm would make no sense if it is about a judgemental and punitive, Old Testament God. It is instead a psalm for a loving god like Osiris or Jesus, or a loving Goddess like Isis or the ancient Great Mother who loves us all unconditionally.

Krishna

Krishna is a Hindu god far older than Jesus. Some scholars claim that the stories about him are a thousand years older than the story of Jesus Christ. Although classed as a Sacrificial/Saviour God, he doesn’t actually sacrifice himself, in the surviving stories of him, but is killed. Like Jesus his coming birth was announced by a new star and his birth was witnessed by shepherds and wise men. While still a child he survived a slaughter of the innocent. In the same way both Jesus and Moses did.

He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love. But unlike Jesus he is a very erotic god and had sex with many different women. So he was more like Dionysus and Bacchus. In one story of him he saw some cowgirls bathing, so he stole their clothes and then made them come to receive them naked with their hand above their heads. This is a popular story about him.

In the Hindu classic the Bhagavad Gita which is a dialogue between the God Krishna and Arjuna. In this dialogue, Arjuna is a prince about to fight a battle, with Krishna as his charioteer. Arjuna realises that many of this friends and family are on the other side and decides he would rather lose his kingdom than be forced to kill them. But surprisingly Krishna talks him out of this and urges him to fight the battle. This has been a very controversial aspect of his story and perhaps this part of Krishna’s story might have been changed or influenced by the rulers of India of the time. The rulers fought wars between themselves and probably would have come down hard, on any religious sect that criticized their behaviour and advocated peace.

So Arjuna goes ahead and fights the battle but Krishna doesn’t come out unscathed from this. A woman called Gandhari those sons die in the battle, curses Krishna for not putting a stop to the battle, as she knows he had the power to do this. Then not long after he is killed by a hunter who had mistaken Krishna for a deer and fatally wounds him with an arrow, even though he is only wounded in the foot. But in the past, before antibiotics, people could die from a just a small wound if it is infected. Although in his story, it is claimed that his death was caused by Gandhari’s curse. Dying by an arrow wounding the foot is very similar to the story of Achilles the invulnerable Greek warrior at the siege of Troy. Likewise, he was killed by an arrow striking his heel.

It is also of interest that Krishna forgives Gandhari for cursing him and the hunter for shooting him with an arrow. Very much like Jesus dying on the cross who forgives everyone involved in his death and says: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Luke 23: 34 American Standard Version. But the Bhagavad Gita, is also about spiritual teachings and a brief summery these teaching are:

Karma Yoga (Path of Action): Perform your duties diligently but without attachment to success or failure, offering actions as a sacrifice to the divine.

Jnana Yoga (Path of Knowledge): Seek true understanding of the eternal self (Atman), recognizing that the soul is imperishable and distinct from the physical body.

Bhakti Yoga (Path of Devotion): Cultivate unwavering devotion and surrender to God, viewing the divine in all beings.

Equanimity and Self-Control: Maintain mental stability amidst pleasure and pain, controlling the senses and mind to achieve inner peace.

Impermanence of the World: Acknowledge that the material world is transient and that true reality lies in the eternal spirit.

Attis

Another sacrificial/savour God that is very similar to Jesus’s story is Attis, a Phrygian and Greek God. He was subordinated to the Goddess Cybele, who was called, the Great Mother of the Gods. He was born of the Virgin Nana. He was destined to become a sacrificial victim, so his death will bring salvation to mankind. He was castrated, then crucified on a pine tree. Then he descended into the underworld and like Jesus, on the third day he rose again from the dead. In their ceremonies his worshippers symbolically eat his body in the form of bread and drink his blood as wine, similar to what Christians do.

The yearly ceremonies of the Goddess Cybele were very masochistic, her priests like Attis were all castrated and wore female clothing. Her statue was paraded through streets every year and her priests would flagellate themselves with whips. Christians had problems with Attis, because his story was so similar to that of Jesus, they claimed it was the work of the Devil. There was another problem. Attis died on a tree, but there are verses in the Bible that say that Jesus like Attis also died on a tree. As we see in the following verses: The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. Acts 5:30

The same thing is said about dying on a tree, in the Gospel of Peter, which is not an ‘official’ gospel, but fragments of it was found in Egypt in the 19th century: He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24.

In pagan times, trees were sacred in many Goddess religions. So to die on a tree connects Jesus with a Goddess religion. But some people claim, like in the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect, that Jesus died on a pole rather than a cross, because the Romans did execute people on poles as well. This doesn’t sound like a big issue until you realise that in ancient Israel, there were poles of the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah. Which the Israel prophets opposed and said of her worship.-but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles. Exodus 34:13 World English Bible.

In an article called Asherah: God’s Forgotten Wife, by Anya Leonard. It says:

Asherah became increasingly marginalized in the scriptures to the point of being reduced to her cult object—the stylized tree or wooden pole which became known as asherah or asherim. Trees were revered as symbols of life and nourishment in arid regions and so became associated with Asherah…

Although it’s doubtful if the Jehovah’s Witnesses were thinking about Asherah poles, when they insist that Jesus died on a pole. Because the idea of Jesus dying on a pole rather than a cross connects Jesus with the ancient Jewish Goddess Asherah.

Quetzalcoatl

Also known as the Feathered Serpent. Quetzalcoatl is the Aztec savour god. According to official history there was supposed to have been no contact with South America before Columbus. But the Spanish had problems with this Central American God because his story is similar to that of Jesus Christ. He was also born of a virgin, he was castrated and then sacrificed, descended into hell and rose again from the dead. The Church of the Latter Day Saints, claimed in the Book of Mormons, that Jesus visited America after his resurrection and was called Quetzalcoatl by the native people.

The mother of Quetzalcoatl was Coatlicue, who was like the Hindu Goddess Kali, she had a skirt of snakes and a necklace of skulls and other body parts. In Aztec myths she died when she gave birth to the war god, Huitzilopochtli who then slaughtered her other children. As the Aztecs were into human sacrifice on an industrial scale, it’s not surprising for them to worship a god like this.

We don’t know a lot about Quetzalcoatl because the Spanish did their best to destroy any text or images of Quetzalcoatl. The reason being, is that they said that the story of Quetzalcoatl was too much like that of Jesus. So they claimed this was the; “work of the Devil”. Although it did make it easy for Central American people to convert to Christianity, as they saw Jesus and Quetzalcoatl as the same god.

There is another aspect of these sacrificial/savour gods and that is they are very similar to what is called nowadays the Near Death Experience. Because of modern medicine they have become more commonplace because doctors with modern technology are better able to revive patients at the point of death. But some people have also experienced NDEs without medical help like when drowning or nearly dying of cold.

For this reason NDEs would be experienced in the past. An example of this would be Julian of Norwich. She was born is 1343 and was a anchoress, then at the age of 30 she nearly died of an illness and had a NDE. When she recovered, she secretly wrote about her experiences. In these writings she reiterated that God is a god of love whom she called “Mother God”. She goes on to talk about, “The loving motherhood of God”. She also said she met Jesus and claimed he loved her like a mother. Even today, the part of her writing that says, God is a mother, is not talked about too much. To quote from her book, Revelations of Divine Love.

And our Saviour is our true mother in whom we are eternally born and by whom we shall always be enclosed.

This was written at the time when the Church were frightening people that if the people didn’t obey God, (which in practise means the Christian priests), they will all burn in hell, when they die. So they didn’t want any teachings that told the people that God loves us all, or any talk about mother Jesus. So her writings were hidden for 600 years and found in the British library, at the beginning of the 20th century, in a private collection. This had been donated to the British library and had been hidden away in the witchcraft and magic section of the collection.

Julian would know the Church would not like her writings, so she had the sense to keep them secret and only gave them to sympathetic nuns who preserved them. It is more than likely many more people in the past experienced NDEs but either they didn’t have the education to write down their experiences. Or if they did, the Church successfully destroyed their writings. The reason for this is that what people experience when going into the spirit world, is not the same as what religions want to tell you about life after death.

It’s true that modern reports from modern NDEs, don’t say that God is a woman, but the reason from this is that most people who visit the spirit world, do tend to see what they expect to see. People who are brought up as Christians may end up meeting Jesus. While a Hindu may end up meeting Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Some people do end up going to a Christian hell but then are saved by angelic beings or escape by questioning the reality of what’s happening to them. It seems most people are so brainwashed into thinking God is a man, that people find it hard to see God in any other way, even when they enter the spirit world.

Although some people do claim that God is neither male or female and there is some true in this. Only loving beings can enter the realm of the Great Mother but when these loving being come to Earth they nearly always enter the bodies of females. While beings that come from the sea of chaos always enter the bodies of males. So we are only male and female on this planet, but that has less meaning in the spirit world, where what is more important is your ability to love.

From modern NDEs we know the experience can change a person completely. For a start they completely get over their fear of death. If they are atheists then they discover that there is life after death after all, so their beliefs change. But also in their time in the spirit world they can experience profound teachings. Back in the past, before Christianity and Islam, someone going through a NDE may come back with teachings they receive from the spirit world, could find themselves regarded as a seer or prophet. Given them both power and status in the community. Although the downside to this is that this would encourage con-men to claim they also died and returned and make up stories about life in the spirit world. People reporting they had a NDE, might have been acceptable in pagan times, but once countries had state religions like Christianity or Islam, then they could be charged with blasphemy or witchcraft, by talking about the spirit world.

Christianity actively discouraged any contact with the spirit world. Claiming it was full of ghosts, demons and malevolent spirits. Which is totally different to what most people report who have had NDE experiences. The word demon comes from an Ancient Greek word Diamon which means guardian angel or soul. But Christianity twisted this, to mean something bad and evil. But it might be where many of the sacrificial/savour gods originated. Most men cannot compete against women as mediums but in a NDE, men are just as good as women in reporting what happened to them in the spirit world. So if they come back with profound teachings, they may end up being seen as a prophet or even a god.

Many Sacrificial/Saviour Gods are associated with a Goddess, Like Enki with Inanna, Shiva with Kali, Osiris with Isis and Orpheus with Persephone. But in the official story of Jesus, he is not associated with any Goddess. But that’s not true in the Gnostic gospels. The official Christian Church only recognizes four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But at one time there were many more, it has been claimed there were 150 different gospels, but except for the four gospels, they were destroyed when Christianity become a state religion. But some did survive and a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Some of these Gospels are controversial as we have; The Gospel of Judas, The Gospel of Mary and The Sophia of Jesus Christ, and in this Gospel, Sophia is called; The Mother of the universe, and that her name is love. But this Gospel was banned when Christianity became the state religion of Rome.

So we know little about Jesus’s relationship with the Goddess Sophia. But we know she was important in early Christianity and the Eastern Orthodox Christians adored her. The largest church in Constantinople was the Church of the Holy Sophia, or Hagia Sophia. For nearly a thousand years it remained the largest church in the world until in 1453 AD, when Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople and converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Christians don’t like to admit this church is dedicated to Goddess, but Sophia is the Goddess of wisdom and so they say Sophia means wisdom and leave out the Goddess aspect of her.

The Goddess Sophia is a ancient Jewish Goddess. What is not well known, is that Judaism once had a pantheon of different gods and goddesses, like the ancient Greeks and Romans. Then later patriarchal priests in an effort to discredit her, made up a story blaming the ills of mankind onto her. They claim she gave birth without a man inseminating her. (Which is also the story of the Virgin Mary). And because of this, gave birth to demons who have been tormenting mankind ever since. This is like the way the Greeks tried to discredit the Goddess Pandora with the story of Pandora’s Jar. Or the way Eve was blamed for Adam and Eve being cast out of the garden of Eden, because she ate the forbidden fruit.

Different Christian sects say different things about Sophia. Some claim she is the Holy Spirit. Others that she and Jesus got married after he was resurrected. She is also called Saint Sophia who is supposed to be a Christian martyr and had three daughters, Faith, Hope and Charity who were also martyrs.

What is interesting about Christianity is that Jesus is the last of the sacrificial/saviour gods but all the others have disappeared except for Shiva and Krishna in Hinduism. And Christianity has become the largest religion on our planet. So why did the religion of Jesus succeed but most of the other sacrificial/saviour gods disappeared? It might be because although these gods started off teaching love and sacrifice like with see in the New Testament. The priests of these other sacrificial/saviour god religions, over the years took this part the teachings out of their religion and gave their god a more macho image. To please patriarchal rulers. So the loving aspect of the God was downplayed and eventually forgotten, but because of this, the religion died.

We see this happening in Christianity where many Christians ignore Jesus’s teachings on the; Sermon on the Mount. While at the same time promoted the teachings from the Old Testament. Fortunately, Jesus’s teachings about love did survive and although they weren’t liked by the career minded priests or the ruling elite. The concept of a loving God, did strongly appeal to the common people. And the Roman elite wanted Christianity to be a popular religion.

So the Roman elite realized the importance of teaching love when they adopted Christianity. Probably because they compared Mithraism to Christianity. Mithraism was the religion they wanted, but by then, all the teachings about love had been purged from it. For this reason, it no longer appealed to the common people. So the Roman elite were willing to compromised and left in the teachings about love in the Bible to placate the population. They also may of decided that teaching people to be meek and subservient might be a good idea, as it makes the people easier to rule and control. It also helped with the discipline of their troops.

Another point about this, is having a male God teaching love does effeminates him. So why are we having a male God teach about love, when it would be more appropriate for a women to do this? Simply because male rulers preferred to have male gods rather than Goddesses. In the Gnostic gospels we find that Mary Magdalene plays a more important role than in the official gospels. Because one of the Gnostic gospels is called: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Yet, one of the early popes, Pope Gregory I, claimed that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. So where did he get that information from? It probably came from early Christian text that they didn’t want released to the public. But we also know that patriarchal priests called priestesses of Goddess religions, temple prostitutes. So was Mary Magdalene a former priestess of a Goddess religion? But that is unlikely, as the Jewish population wouldn’t allow a Goddess religion, 2,000 years ago. Yet we must remember that the region was now under Roman rule, who at that time did allow Goddess religions in the Roman empire. So because of the Roman occupation, an underground Goddess religion could have survived in the area. Although, if Mary Magdalene was to openly speak in public about the religion she belong to, she would probably be killed. For that reason, the goddess teachings had to come from a man, which was Jesus. But he couldn’t talk about a Goddess of love, so they had to compromise further and have a God of love instead. This is why the New Testament is probably a slightly distorted fragment, of the teachings from an ancient Goddess religion.

But all patriarchal religions distorted the teaching they got from the previous Goddess religions. An example of this would be absolution, like we see in some Christian sects. Where priests can give a dying person, absolution, where a person is forgiven of their sins before they die and will go to heaven. Although it’s strange that a priest is given the power to forgive sins and not God or one of his angels. But the reason for this, is priests want to be the gate-keepers between God and the common people. Which give the priests power and a way of making lots of money. So rich people can buy a ticket to heaven, by bribing priests to give them absolution. Or priests would threaten dying people to leave their money and land to the Church, or they won’t receive absolution, and go to hell.

But the original concept of this in ancient Goddess Religions was probably that if a person dies while they are full of hate. Then they cannot return to the Great Mother. So the priestesses of Goddess religions would make it clear to dying people, that it would be a good idea to forgive everyone whom they feel any hatred for, before they died. Which is exactly what nurse Edith Cavell did before she was executed when she said: I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

It’s doubtful if she knew about any ancient Goddess teachings. But the Germans put her into solitary confinement before they put her on trial. And because she was a religious person she would have spent that time in pray and contemplation. So when doing this, her spirit, higher self or God, however you see it. Would have had time to teach her the importance of letting go of any hatred or anger before she died. She also would have known that Jesus forgave everyone involved in his crucifixion before he died. This is why prayer, contemplation or meditation is so important for spiritual minded people, as the spirit world has a chance to communicate with us.

It’s not that people will automatically end up swallowed in the sea of chaos, if they die hating someone. They can still save ourselves if they let go of that hatred, after they die. It only becomes a problem if they insist on holding on to that hatred, then loving souls from the Great Mother cannot protect them from the sea of chaos.