SWNOVELS Chapter To Envy Power
The Envy Of That Power.
After the volcanic destruction of Thera, and then the Minoan volcanic eruptions, there is archaeological evidence that religious statues of the so-called ‘snake goddess and her votary’ were smashed by people, seeking to either wreak vengeance on the idols, or to display their displeasure with those gods who had harmed them (as they believed), or at least the priests and priestesses who were sacred to those divinities.
But what is the connection between the ‘snake goddess’ and volcanic eruptions -, at least, what was it in the minds of the common populace there at the time?
With Minoan Crete and Thera and some other nearby islands and populated settlements, these had experienced a lot of earthquake activity over many many years. On the surface, and since it would have come to be known, that the ‘snake goddess’ was in some way linked to something that resided ‘very deep down,’ there is little room to doubt that ordinary people presumed the ‘snake goddess’ lived in, and came from, the bowels of the earth, and also from whence, both earthquakes and eventually, major volcanic eruptions came.
On the one hand, devotees of the ‘snake goddess’ were wealthy, and on the other hand, they were not prepared to extend the means or source of their wealth to the common people. A combination of material envy, and the assumption that it was some malice on the part of the ‘snake goddess’ living deep below in the earth, which had led to the disasters – readily turned the ordinary people’s wrath against the idols (statues) and likely too, against many of the priests and priestesses of the ‘snake goddess.’
Once again, it is pointless to mount ‘arguments’ or ‘disputes’ with people – and especially so since there is no formal written history about this; it is more productive for us to simply say the following, and without offering any formal evidence in support of it:
The ‘snake goddess’ is the figure featured in the Book of Genesis as the ‘Ishshah,’ (the word in there that is usually not translated at all) and it is also to be found in Egyptian ancient hieroglyphic sources as ‘As sa sa ra,’ and which is also the same identity as the Hittite ‘Ashassara,’ and which is attested by most standard academic sources as the precursor to ‘Athena Parthenos,’ and although these do not say so, it is the source of the New Testament appellation of ‘Mary the mother of Jesus’ as ‘Mary parthenoia.’
All of these figures have a kanoun on their head (a ritual basket containing poison, or medicines, or even snakes), snakes held in hand, and a sacral knot worn somewhere on them – and in the Greek, priestesses of these cults are called ‘kanephoroi.’
There is a festival that usually in ancient times was celebrated only by the high aristocracy in Greece and Egypt, called ‘Arrhephoria,’ which is a word composed of the words ‘mystery’ and ‘I carry.’ And it is celebrated after an incident in which the daughters of the founder of Ancient Greece, Cecrops, were given a basket by the Goddess Athena and told not to open it. Two of the daughters however, succumbed to their curiosity, and discovered the snake child Ericthonios inside the basket.
If we go back to a while ago now, in this dissertation, to the matter of the English occult and folkloric writers, Sir John Woodroffe, and Charles Webster Leadbeater, and to their implication that the Indian Sanskrit traditions say something about some ‘coiled snake’ residing in the metaphysical or ‘spiritual’ base chakra (what they are terming inaccurately something to do with ‘kundalini’) – where it is possible to uncover some reality to all of this, as well as a complete explanation, is at first on the Egyptian pyramidions and in their etchings.
What we are bound to underscore here, though – is that just as so much of recent and contemporary literature and documentation of ideas is suppressed, so too we have only a patchy record of what people knew at the time of the ancient Egyptians and before then. Partly this is simply because from so long ago, we do not now have any kind of complete set of papyri or artefacts and stone records and so on, but partly this is also to do with important matters of regal strata ‘power’ being extremely secret and not ever transmitted other than into initiated small groups; this latter we do know literally from documents about the so-called ‘mystery teachings’ and ‘mystery schools’ which say so clearly.
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[As previously indicated, we (as a joint group of writers who have composed this in its entirety) don’t propose to outline all of the details here – and not for no reason were these things called part of the ‘mystery school’ traditions or rituals in ancient Greek writings, since they are potentially dangerous and even deadly – but in a short summarised conclusion, I am myself personally able to simply say here and now (and as approved by others), that the whole point of the ‘kanephoroi’ rituals and teachings (in regard to certain of the Minoan statues, one can see poppy flowers inscribed over the outside of these baskets, which certainly give an indication that this is all about narcotic experiences, at minimum), is not only exactly the same as with the Hebrew ‘Ark of the Covenant,’ but of course, this means that it is to do with power, and material supremacy over adversaries, and as well it is to do with the gaining of material wealth, albeit it is a wealth prescribed by Divinity itself, rather than a profane kind of wealth. But it is about actual material wealth nonetheless, and let there be no doubt about that.
Anyone who wishes to see a form of authority for the key aspects of this from an actual standard Christian textual source, should refer to the Book of Hebrews Chapter 9:1-28, which deals specifically with the ‘Ark of the Covenant’ in the modern context.]