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Post by Tamrin on Aug 9, 2008 10:33:28 GMT 10
Norman Lindsay, The Crucified Venus, 1912 We read: In 1912 he moved to Springwood in the Blue Mountain region of New South Wales. Except for a short hiatus in the late 30's, he would live there until he died. If you've seen the movie, Sirens, you've seen the actual house and grounds. It's now The Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum and is open to the public. Lindsay created cement statuary, carved and decorated the furniture, designed and built chairs and most of all he drew. One of his pen drawings, The Crucified Venus, actually did create the stir depicted in the film and was even removed from a Melbourne art show until the president of the Society of Artists threatened to remove ALL the paintings from the exhibit unless Lindsay's drawing was reinstated. It was.
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Post by maximus on Aug 23, 2008 9:23:10 GMT 10
Lilith
When I last had a man I lost him in the infinite blackness of my hair he was holding on grasping with his greedy hands when he disappeared somewhere around my vast hips I had sung my siren-song and he was gone * * * in the beginning there was my face-off with God and Adam I refused to serve His will I refused to tend the Garden clad only in my hair I refused to bathe with the animals I refused to be put on my back instead, I sleep with the demons I travel through mirrors, through night I fly with the screech owl and the bat and carry the bodies of babies in my ragged fingers * * * --when I slip naked between your sheets beware that you do not lose your way-- * * * witch that I am, I seduce your husbands I kill your newborns I drive your daughters into the night * * * you accuse me of these witchcrafts (banished me from Eden when I whispered His name from my heat into the balmy breeze) so I live through others my insides are warm, fiery to the touch I wed through adultery I conceive through murder I love as you forbid your daughters to do the same sin is my life sin is my pathway to the world * * * does this mean I must be exorcised through your pretty trinkets, marvelous amulets the three angels can do nothing though I leave of my own free will I do relish my flight my creation of so much darkness to combat the glaring light --just look into my eyes-- do you see me do you see through me do you see at all but I see you * * * just try to banish me again just try to keep your loved ones away from me just try to close the door to my cave the windows are your vanity your shame your longings for purity in blood-covered bodies I came First I had the First Man I danced with the First Cause * * * when I last had a man I swallowed him whole and he laughed with joy inside my belly
- Anon
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 23, 2008 12:45:01 GMT 10
After dismissing puerile, salacious accounts, saying, "Well they would say that, wouldn't they?!" I am inclined to the view that Lilith is no less than a demonised form of Asherah / Auset (Isis) and the moral panic associated with Lilith was originally a sacramental celebration of life. Further to this point, we read (appears to draw on William Bond's, Freemasonry and the Hidden Goddess, n.d., pp.78/79, or visa-versa): In religious scholarship there is a truism that, "as new religions replace older religions the deities of the old religion become the devils of the new religion." This is because the priests of new religions in a effort to attract new followers attempt to discredit the deities of established religions. This is true of Baal-Zebub, a Philistia God who was known as the "Lord of Flies". He was later to become known as Beelzebub "The prince of devils" in the Bible. So clearly he was once an important god that had to be discredited by the emerging Jewish faith as he was too popular and represented serious competition to the Jewish god Jehovah. It seemed that this also happened when ancient Goddess religions were replaced with patriarchal religions. The evil gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called either the Devil, Satan or Lucifer.
What is not so well known is that all these deities were once Goddesses of older religions. There is a mystery about the name of Egyptian Goddess Isis. All other ancient Egyptian deities like Ra, Horus or Nut are known by their Egyptian names, but Isis is always referred to by only a Greek translation of her name. A clue to this mystery is that in Ancient Egypt, the Goddess Isis is called As Set. Now the problem with this is the ... word Satan comes from the word Set or Seth. It seems that Set or Sata was the original Egyptian Mother Goddess and Egypt was once known as the Land of Sata. Then Set became both male and female with the feminine version being As Set or Isis as in the Greek translation. The male Set was then known as a benevolent serpent god who would die and be reborn in the womb of the Mother Goddess, As Set. Later on the male Set became an evil god and the god Osiris took his place. So a new story was created, in this version As Set or Isis would swallow Osiris whole and then he would be reborn from her as the God Horus. Then in later versions of the same story, it was male Set who murdered Osiris and cut him up into many pieces and As Set or Isis put him back together again and brought him back to life to mate with him. From this union the God Horus was created. The religion of Isis later became very popular in Greece and the Roman Empire which created a problem when Rome became Christian. Because the Judo-Christian devil was called Satan which was the same name of a very popular Goddess Isis. So not wanting to start a war with the followers of Isis the Egyptian name of Isis was quietly censored in Europe.
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 23, 2008 12:50:27 GMT 10
Further to my previous post, perhaps the definitive case of demonisation was that of Pan, the personification or rather the deification of all that it. He became the stereotype for the Judeo-Christian devil, with his horns, cleft feet and tail.
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Post by maximus on Aug 23, 2008 13:16:06 GMT 10
And I note that both Aset and Lillith are both depicted with wings. I'm rather fond of Lilith, and am the owner of a limited edition (1000 copies) of Liber Lilith, by Donald Tyson. Very interesting read.
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 30, 2008 20:39:16 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 2, 2008 7:36:38 GMT 10
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