Breds, why you calling my name in this ting? Yuh eh find I have enough enemies on Imix? De amount of time I sure I get burn in effigy for “attacking” and “insulting” de ppl religion.

Anyhow, sh*t dat oui, dey cyar hit mih and whoever try it go end up in Intensive Care. But seriously, age does SOMETIMES bring restraint and understanding and I don’t think it makes much sense to make flat simplistic statements like Xianity is a fraud and so on; this is a very complex issue (never mind the equally simplistic bible-wavers who refuse to read and critically think). There have been indeed a lot of fraudulent practices by early Church leaders who wanted to win converts to further their own narrow political agendas and, most important, were products of their very misogynist societies, which is principally why women were marginalised in Xianity.

It’s not so much the religion is a fraud, it’s just that it became hijacked by a small elite. There were numerous “Christianities” you know, we only know about the Roman Church and its derivatives that became Protestant and evangelical and so on. Years ago as I began researching for my own book I realised that some of these “Christian” sects – for wont of a better term since not all of them worshipped the concept of the Christ as the Catholic Church and its derivatives have done – acknowledged the Divine Feminine, which has been cleverly concealed by the Catholics in the form of Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene which is really one and the same entity.

Some of these sects were inspired by the African Sybils; I first came across the Sybilline priestesses in Alvin Boyd Kuhn’s book “Who is this King of Glory? A Critical Study of the Christus/Messiah Tradition”. African people, especially women, have been very much involved in the early history of the Church – there were even three African popes. Again, much of this was written out of history.

I plan to add this new book to my reading list, but if what she says is true, I believe I know why the Sybils were written out of religious history. In gathering research material I learned that the very first concepts of divinity were all female, not necessarily human, but definitely female. Women and the concept of the Divine Feminine were venerated because of their maternal ability – ie, to create life. Then I realised something else; in a LOT of these ancient matricentric pre-Christian belief systems what we call “women’s intuition” and menstruation and menstrual blood were given special place in one form or another. It appears that the intuitive abilities of women made them able to perceive and reason out things clearer than men could (yes, even now, lol) and so could “predict” how certain things or events would evolve. This ability seems to have been heightened at certain stages in their menstrual cycle. Patriarchal cultures, on the other hand, possess a maniacal fear of menstrual blood and a deep suspicion of intuitive power which could not be observed and rationalised (so as to be controlled), hence the many myths, beliefs, phobias and jokes attached to them. Given that the Sybil oracles – like the Delphinic and Dodonna oracles – would have incorporated menstrual blood and most likely sex as part of the spiritual rituals, they would have been stamped out

Ay I sending that reading list we spoke about to yuh Inbox

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