I, Believe!
© by Kemander
The World’s population is the masses of every kind of common people who struggle to get by every day and who couldn’t care less about what some mortal man who has set himself up as their leader, wants, nor what his supporting cast of flunkies, including all of the various sets of organized religious clerics consumed by delineating what they deem as “right” in opposition to what is “wrong”, as a means of protecting the livelihoods and lives of themselves and all of the minions supporting that ruling “leader” from what they would otherwise be faced with, that being anarchy, since it would cause a cessation of contributing to their “status quo”. All of that in one long sentence. Hmm, I need to work on that.
My point is, this hasn’t always been the way humanity has lived, nor is it something that has changed in any short period of time. There was a time when the feminine wonders were viewed with awe and treated as qualities to be respected and protected by men, because they’d been worshiping a far more Ancient Religion dating back to living in caves, based on the traditions of: Woman Represents the Earth which is the central Core of All Existence, Nature is Violent and Destructive and creates New Life through it’s Violence and Destruction and it’s Fertility, making Woman the Great Earth Mother with and through Feminine Procreation, Feminine Mystery and Mystique inherent in her, Her Nature being one of the Nurturer, Agriculturalist, Gleaner and Gatherer, and Source of Health and Healing, and Her being in Symbiotic Guidance of the male Hunter and Protector by virtue of Her innate wisdom’s ability to navigate through the Miasma of the darkness each nightfall brought and to guide past the fear of the Unknown with Her knowledge, love, softness, kindness and perceptiveness, even as she saw the wisdom of having man protect her.
This is the original and true religion of being a pagan, based on the belief that the Earth is the foundation of all life and nature. That even as it nurtures, it also creates by means of violence and destruction and re-creation, all of which is most fully represented in Woman. No one can grasp Nature’s bared blade’s edge without shedding their own blood, any more than you can grasp my naked sword, nor I yours. Yet Woman, although pliant, cannot be owned and she chooses, whether the choice is made available or not, in the same way no man can control Mother Nature, or the lost in the antiquities of time’s legends, the old nurturing forces called Inanna, or Velan, the most probable original Earth Mother ever recorded and venerated.
Creation by means of violence and destruction and re-creation suits using the ideal of fecund women giving birth perfectly, as there is destruction of tissue, lots of blood and plenty of gore during and throughout the process of giving birth to new life. Her mysterious procreative powers and the resemblance of her rounded breasts, belly and hips to earth’s contours put woman at the center of early symbolism. She was the model for the Great Mother figures who crowded the birth of religions worldwide. Thus women became the embodiment and representations of these ancient beliefs. The ruins of the Temples to her, teaching, through erotic sculptures covering their exteriors, about how to please and pleasure her and make and keep her happy, are being discovered throughout India’s wilderness by anthropologists yet to this day.
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This original Earth Mother, Mother Nature religion has been kept alive outside of “civilization” by women’s continued, inexplicable forces of connection and energy flowing past, through and within us while we sleep at night and it is what I believe in, worship and practice any protection I can give unto it with my whole being. The worship of all that is entailed in the very fabric of a woman in her physical, mental, emotional and mystical nature and her connection to a power and energy no man can truly know, become familiar with or control.
There is no form or rituals to it, nothing resembling an Episcopalian or Catholic worship service, as the modern day “Druidism” has adopted, no “Wiccan” beliefs, no spells or enchantments, even if some herbal knowledge may be involved in healing, no prayers except to the benevolence of Nature, if such be. There is nothing to denote it as a religion. It is simply living, being one’s own way of being, with a reverence and awe for creation; which women, each of them being her own Mylitta , ‘Aphrodite’, Gaiia, Inanna, or Velan, represent with their physical, mental, emotional and mystical nature, their innate wisdom and ability to navigate through the Miasma of the darkness and fear of the Unknown with their knowledge, love, softness, kindness and perceptiveness and the utter bliss; the Zen, of knowing your belief in all this is Right and Good! And I believe and support and I will protect and defend that nature in women as being superior in every meaningful way to man and his egotistical, ‘I can control everyone, anything and everything. I’m on a par with God, so I will it, so be it.’
I live by this belief in, feeling protective for, woman’s innate powers, not out of subservience, nor as some machismo proof of raging testosterone, nor to be a martyr for any cause, but simply because it is the only belief system I can, with full feeling of self-credence, completely support and be in awe of.
I state none of this to raise any argument, nor is it open to debate. It is simply a statement of my beliefs, and why I’ve rejected all of the organized religions I have disdained. My views are what have led me to what I believe and why I am the pagan and heathen I am. This isn’t an effort to convert anyone to my beliefs. You live your way and let me live mine, and know that I neither want to, nor will attend to any explanation of why you believe as you choose to. It simply isn’t important to me if you disagree, because I know what is right for me, and I don’t care if you see things differently. Your freedom of choice gives you that option and I am not a government, so I do not have to accord you any freedom of speech in any effort to change my mind.
҂ Greek historian Herodotus (l. c. 484–425/413 BCE) is often criticized for inaccuracy in his Histories, yet his frequently-anthologized On the Customs of the Persians is regarded as accurate. In this, he says, “The customs which I know the Persians to observe are … to … offer to the sun and moon, to the earth, to fire, to water, and to the winds. These are the only gods whose worship has come down to them from ancient times. At a later period, they began the worship of (sic) Mithra, which they borrowed from the Arabians and Assyrians. Mylitta is the name by which the Assyrians know this goddess, whom the Arabians call Alitta, as the Persians vall her Mithra.
҂ Credit: oracc.museum.upenn.edu › amgg › listofdeities › ninlil
