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Of Cities and Citybred Monsters

By © E. Antons Benjamiņš, 2017

It has  come to be that the atheist-controlled community of government has become the fake Godhead over the community of Nature. Likewise, government has made itself to become the People.

The Great Grandson of God* (a play)

*God—see Post Script

(A retelling of the story of King Oedipus)

Master of Ceremony:

According to myth, King Agenor’’s daughter Europa, was kidnapped by a white bull and taken ‘West’. White, as we know, is the color of purity. As we have learned by now, ‘West’ is an illusion that no longer holds.

Cadmus, Europa’s brother, went looking for Europa. Cadmus, among other things, is said to have been the founder of the Holy City of Thebes. In the process of founding the city, Cadmus gave himself in sacrifice, when he slew the Serpent sent against him by the ‘pure’ political powers of the West. The Serpent, having been implanted with a chip of artificial intelligence at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussells, lied to one and all: “I am of the protectors of Civilization.”

Cadmus cut out the tongue of the Serpent, and threw the tongue between the rows of armed men, who had risen from the teeth of the serpent: the teeth siezed not only the tongue (it speaks crooked to this day), but Cadmus as well. Thus, the holy city of Thebes was founded on the efforts of a King willing to sacrifice himself.

Be that as it may, the abduction of Europa started a long chain of events that the West has since tried to deny. It is possible that once brought to the West, Europa was renamed Joan from Ark and burned by the Catholic English at a stake in France. Today the Pope has tried to resurrect Joan by making her a Saint.

King Cadmus was survived by a son named Laius, possibly pronounced Ludis or Ludwig, who too died a sacrificial death, when he was killed by his estranged son Oedipus at the cross roads in a forest near Thebes.

Oedipus, legalistically speaking, was the great grandson of King Agenor. On the other hand, from the point of view of a more intimate perspective, Prince Oedipus was but the son of his mother Iocaste, who had saved him from possible death as a child sacrifice on Mount Citheron, a sacred mountain on a mountain range that lay between two temple cities—that of Thebes and Corinth. It has been rumored that Europa, when unable to bear children, bore a mythic twin sister, and Iocaste was her.

Before their marriage to their respective kings (Iocaste to King Laius, Europa to King Polybus), the sisters had served as temple whores at the temple of the holy city of Corinth. Both sisters (well versed in the art of make-believe love) had lucked out and persuaded the kings of two kingdoms (Thebes and Corinth) that the Goddeses of Fate, the Moirae, had created them solely for their pleasure, upon which the kings married them. Still, unlike men, who for the lack of a womb are born to be dedicated to the entire community, the women were loyal only to their children and immediate family. Therefore, Queen Iocaste’s refusal to go along with her husband, King Laius, when he wished to expose his son to the test of the Gods (Will he or will he not survive the night alone in his crib?) was natural enough. Instead of leaving Oedipus in his crib on the altar on Mt. Cytheron, Queen Iocaste secretly spirited him away to Corinth, where she left him in the care of Europa.

By the way, Oedipus had been likely conceived before Iocaste married King Laius. One of Oedipus’ possible fathers was the husband of Queen Europa—King Polybus.

Indeed, our play, “The Great Grandson of God”, is based on one of the most complex stories the world has ever known. The psychologist Sigmund Freud, to whom we owe the survival of the story in our day, hardly knew what he was getting into when he discovered the story useful to his own purposes.

(The Master of Ceremonies leaves the stage. He is replaced by a Chorus of Luds of the Wood or people of the forest. The Chorus is of two parts, the Strophe and Antistrophe. Queen Ismene enters after the Chorus has taken its place. Ismene is the only survivor of the Court of King Oedipus.)

Chorus:

So many dead!

How can it be?

Every mother desires

For her children more

And better!

Did they drink

Too much of

Henbane laced beer?

Tell us—what happened,

Queen Ismene.

Queen Ismene:

Before my mother,

Queen Iocaste,

Returned

from sacred Corinth,

And threw

her witche’s mask

into the ditch,

she and her sister,

Queen Europa,

Conspired

And told Prince Oedipus,

(Queen Europa’s

Adopted son)

That

the King of Thebes

Owed Queen Europa

a pot of gold

From the days of old.

The Prince was to go

To Thebes

And collect the debt.

If King Laius responded

That he did not remember

Any such debt,

Prince Oedipus

Was to tell him

That Queen Eiropa

vouched that

It was a debt

To the sacred whorehouse

Of Corinth.

King Laius ought not

Bring dishonor on himself

By not giving love its due.

If the King still

did not remember,

She, Queen Eiropa,

matron of the temple

of love’s make believe

would tell the world.

Strophe:

The twin sisters

Also contracted

for Prince Oedipus

An armed guard.

Its captain was

An accomplice of theirs:

Queen Eiropa had

Given him of her love.

Queen Ismene:

For her part,

My mother, Queen Iocaste,

Disguised as a witch,

Told my father,

Then but a prince,

That King Laius,

My grandfather,

Scoundrel that

He was said to be,

Would not bring

A pot of gold,

But a palanquin full

Of motherless

Children sired

in the whorehouse

at Thebes’s

holy of holies.

Antistrophe:

Queen Iocaste,

soon hastened back

To Thebes

And told,

Nay, whispered

Into the ear

Of her husband,

King Laius,

Who was old

And nearly blind

from cataracts:

“My beloved, Laius,

King Polybus,

The King of Corinth,

Is sending us

a divine present

--a palanquin full

Of orphans,

Borne by temple whores.

“The orphans are

for sacrifice

On holy days

And days of need.

“To epress our thanks

Be so good and

Take a pot of gold

And give it

To the Conduit,

Of the palanquin

caravan.”

Queen Ismene:

In truth, mother

Had another plan.

She drugged the orphans

With milk seeped

In henbane leaves,

And instead

Of a pot of gold,

Loaded the palanquin

Meant for baggage,

full with

a fast asleep bunch

Of children.

My father

Sitting in his sedan

Had no idea that

He was the victim

Of a plot

By women in revolt

Against men,

Who had come to power,

By trying to fool them

With a trick

That claimed:

They’d overcome

Fear of death.

Strophe:

Furthermore,

The captain of

King Laius’s

Body guards,

Complicit in the plot

Of the queens,

Would surprise

Prince Oedipus and

offer to sellll him

(In return for

A pot of gold)

Ten children

for temple sacrifice.

Queen Ismene:

Pure horror followed.

My father

saw himself again

As one of the children

Raised for sacrifice

And drew his sword.

In the fight

My grandfather,

King Laius, was killed.

Antistrophe:

Of course, King Oedipus

Did not know,

That he,

By arrangement

of our mother

had killed our father.