Eso’s Chronicles 328 / 4
Odds and Ends
© Eso A.B.
All comments appearing within brackets [ ] are editorial in origin.
Odds and Ends
© Eso A.B.
All comments appearing within brackets [ ] are editorial in origin.
THE TRAGEDY OF JOHN AND IESU (3 of 4)
In some ways John the Baptist or Christener
and Jesus Christ may be one and the same person, and their basic message of
love may be the same.
Still, there are some important differences
between the two.
Even while the New Testament admits that John
precedes Jesus and that he Baptized or Christened Jesus, there are some
substantial differences. A careful reader will have noted that my two previous
blogs, 326 & 327, dwell on how deliberate and politically motivated changes
in the meaning of names set the stage for the Big Lie.
We discovered that the word pagan, really means
pa-Yan, a word that stands for a ‘belittled’ reindeer (or other forest animals)
herder in the Eurasian woods. A neighbor of mine, who was born in Siberia,
reminded me that the word ‘pa-gan’ also rhymes with the Russian word for the
fly-agaric (aka amanita muscaria), the famous red mushroom capped by white
dots, frequently used by native shamans of the wood https://www.google.lv/#q=images+of+fly+agaric
. Its Russian name spells ‘pa-gan-ka’.
It is easy to imagine how a townie alienated
from nature, would in later years condescendingly call a dweller of the wood a
Paganka. This name calling does not differ much from today’s city or government
elite calling a marihuana smoker a ‘pothead’.
Nevertheless, John Allegro wrote a controversial
book, which he called “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross”, in which there are a
number of images from ancient art showing the use of the mushroom for visionary
purposes http://psypressuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/mushroom-in-christian-art.jpg
. Since we live in a cultural atmosphere that accepts that the thinking process
is a matter of digitization, the chemical process as a facilitator of visions has
been viciously denied and repressed by do-gooder political organizations and
religious organizations lobbied by secular governments. The “yes-no” process of
“yes-no”, “yes-no” ad infinitum has
unfortunately brought our urban desert civilization to the state of near idiocy.
The fact that both John and Jesus were men of
the wood and not from Nazareth or the river Jordan, is hid by contrary
statements, such as Matthew 3:4, calls the wood ‘wilderness’ and describes John
wearing “a garment of camel's
hair and a leather belt around his waist””; while Jesus is popularly believed
to have been either a carpenter or the son of a carpenter, a belief derived
from Matthew 13:55: “"Is not this the carpenter's son?”
Who but men living in the
wild of nature (if not the wood) wear a garment of camel’s hair and are expert
handlers of wood, that is to say, are carpenters?
While most hominids of the times of John and Jesus were not urbanites as
today’s popular prejudice of churchmen encourages us to believe, they all
surely knew that the wolf could imagine having eaten Little Red Ridinghood only
if he had eaten a fly agaric.
And why would a wolf eat
a fly agaric? Probably because he mistook it for menstrual blood. As the color
red is associated with the color of blood and hence is a sacred color, and the muscaria
amanita is known to lower blood pressure, it may have been used by women during
their menstrual periods. Whether it was used externally, I do not know, but Red
Ridinghood is not a name of an ‘innocent’ little girl wearing a red hat in the
days when color red could be afforded only by royalty.
Yet, while John and Jesus
both stood for enduring suffering and pain in the name of love as a human
condition, there was also a distinct difference between them.
John was clearly a man of
the wood. His color was green, that of vegetation coming back to life in the
spring. In northern climes his month was April-May, the Beltaine Festival of Ireland (remember the clover leaf as its symbol)
and Scotland Europe this festival is
celebrated in June on the Summer solstice and is known as Johns Festival. It,
too, is associated with the color green and fire; it is a day when everyone in Latvia
As the summer solstice is
the day of the Goddess Sun, the celebrants in Latvia are called “children of
Johns”, however, the word ‘children’ may be a religio-political substitute for
the word ‘llaudis’ (Jāņu ļaudis), People. As I pointed out in blog 326, “…the acronym INRI (Latin:
Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx
Iūdaeōrum) should be substituted with the letter L [in
place of I], in which case the acronym reads ‘Lūdaeōrum’, which means ‘King of the People’ not of Jews.”
Indeed, in Latvian folk belief the Kings of the People are all named John.
Still, when Catholic
Christianity arrived to substitute the Christianity that arose of itself in the
wood and of ‘Lūdaeōrum’, the word was substituted by “Iūdaeōrum” or Jews (a people compelled to become tax collectors),
not only was there begun a tradition of prejudice by the elite against human
beings living in nature, but the nature of Christianity itself was changed for
a faith imposed on the People by princes and barons. In short, the name of John
was changed to Iesu, and this Iesu had no objections to either tax collectors
or tax collecting.
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