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Lady Babylon: teaching the language of Ancient Greek and what’s lost in translation…making visible what is invisible the lies that shape religion, culture, and mankind. Fake history leads us on a path of destruction. It’s time to stop telling tales, bring back the muse, reestablish nature and our humanity. Dr. Hillman uncovers a world that not only explains yours, but it makes sense.

• Writeups - Random topic deep dive articles
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Writeups - Random topic deep dive articles

• How Did We Get Here - an attempt at a wide summary
• Death Cults - it's not worship of actual death, it's about some type of ego death via visionary ecstatic experience; Induced near death experience + guided symbolic descent and return...
• Pagan what exactly is a pagan, should we even use that word??
• Witchcraft, the Amazonians, Medusae, Pharmakon Sorcery and Female power
• Jesus is Satan - what do Jesus and Venus have in common? they're both the "morning star", that dawn bringer.
• The Purple - rare purple dye from the murex sea snail, harvested in antiquity by the Phoenicians and sea pirates
• Greed Stains Your Soul with the Stench of Ruin - a favorite saying
• Sortes (Σορταί) – Ancient Divination by Lots - opening a portal
• Christing - A christer (Greek Christos), is someone who christs themselves or others, using chrism (salves or unguents).
  • In the context of Jesus (the christed one):
    • Christing means to apply a pharmakon salve to the surface of the skin
    • Christos is a title for someone who applies the salve to themselves or others, a pharmakon sorcerer (or magi)
    • Chrism is the pharmakon salve.
• The Christs - there has been many, who were they?
• Vaticanus
• Lestes - not a revolutionary, these are pirates (peirates) and crossers of the limits of boundaries (perates), plunderers of souls, traffickers.
• Monism - people often wonder what ammon means by monism, or disagree with it's use, take a look at what he means.
• The Secret Name Of Rome
• Christianity's Incompatibility with Nature - Classical Warnings
• Alabastron - all about the medical applicator used in rites (related: Caduceus )
• Profaning the Mystery:
  • Breakdown of the Mystery - Transcriptions and the easier to read Breakdown of the Mystery - Summary built from the video transcripts + sources that Dr Hillman has shown us.
  • Initiation
• The Sibyl - OG Sibyls vs the propaganda Sibyls
• Parthenos - what was the obsession with virgins in antiquity? Life in bloom, not Hymen. Parthenos dont track the state of their hymen. There is no supernatural virgin birth (those parthenos all knew how they got pregnant).
• Grace and Faith
• Pharmakon didn't just collect itself..., there were Root Cutters, Compounders, Sellers, and Markets for the stuff, Pharmakeia and many many consumers.
  • Kollourion - apply the eye salve "so that you may see the invisible". Lemnian Earth
  • Throne - when you're "on a throne", you're high.
  • Theriac - also known as "the beast", it's a visionary drug used in christing traditions, but also by Marcus Aurelius and Nero, known well by the physician Galen and written about extensively in medical texts. See also, On Theriac to Piso
  • Thanasimon - the death inducer required a Galene antidote
  • Snake Medicine
  • Consciousness State Modulators
  • Drawing Down the Moon
• Greek Music - there was good music, and there was bad music, and music was vital to the rite
• Adam and Eve are Greek Names - Adam and Eve are not Hebrew
• Eve was not from Adam's Rib - a common mistranslation
• Medea
  • Valerius Flaccus's Medea
  • Queen of Babylon
• Temple Engineering
• Characters:
  • Medea, Medusa, Angitia, Kore, Satyr and Baccants, Gorgons, Eunuchs, Egeria, Witches, Satan, Jesus, Jesus Apostles, Adam, Eve, Muse, John the Baptist, Lucifer, Hades, Soul, Gods, Doves, Centaur, Giants, Savior, Melchizedek, Triptolemus, Dragons, Wolves, Sphinxes, and Furies (Dragon, Wolf, Sphinx, Furies), Theos and Daimones, Angels, Sophia, Gaia, Bacchic Satanic Chorus, neaniskos, Incubus, Saturn, Dionysus, Yahweh, Meatman - who were these characters?
• Consciousness
  • Mind: Psyche, Soul, Nous/Noetic, Pneuma, Zoe
  • Practice: Thelima, Theurgy, Goetia, Magic
• Locations:
  • Georgia, Cave, Delphi, Asclepius - what are these locations, and their importance to the mystery?
• Things:
  • Golden Fleece, Initiatory Fire, Wandering, Dark Star, Son of Man, 7 Stars Transfiguration, Hyma, Cross, Kosmos, Linear A, Kosmetics, Rod of Asclepius, Dark Harbor, Apple, Iunx, Caduceus - what are these things?
• Jesus was following earlier traditions - not the only savior in history
• Iam is a phrase that attributes YHWH / θεός (theos) to a bush, to Jesus, and... to Eve?
• Practice:
  • Magic, Pharmakeia, Sorcery, Enchanter - what were these terms? Magic wasn't supernatural, but pharmacological and sometimes with initiatory guidance using variations on Orphic Cosmology for knowledge and refinement of self. A form of Cosmic Egg and Catharsis
  • Aion - the place your mind goes when the perception of time slows or stops. (The Bible describes Aionic Life - Not Eternal Life)
  • Necromancy
• Leadership:
  • Royal - Only those who have passed through ordeal are permitted to speak with weight
• Priesthood:
  • Echidnaic Priesthood and the Magi and Snakes
  • Valerius Flaccus was a poet and prophetes trusted with interpreting the Sybiline oracles.
• The Watchers
• Trinity - There were many ancient trinities that came before the early Christian cult defined theirs, following the older tradition.
• Primacy of Text:
  • Old Testament Greek Origins - Septuagint in the Greek language was very likely the original body of work, sometimes including older mythos. But without a doubt, the Greek Septuagint was the main source referenced by Greek New Testament authors.
  • Greek is the Original Language of Christianity - The apostles wrote in Greek and exclusively referenced the Greek Septuagint. If you're not reading Greek, you're not reading the Bible!
• Why was Jesus Crucified
  • Crucifixion
  • Julius Caesar Crucified Traffickers
• Moral Codes are actually The Mystery - you thought the bible was filled with moral codes, but in most cases these 'codes' are giving guidance for within the mystery rite.
• Pagan Testimony Against the Christians
• Terms:
  • Alchemical Symbol Lexicon
  • Orphic Vox Glossary - terms!
  • Feet as Euphemism for Genitals
  • STR
• FAQ - frequent questions

Experimental

Half in the trash but maybe some spark will bring it back

• The Mystery Testament - reimagined biblical stories as if their mystery was fully revealed.