THE PAGAN WORLD.

On Monday, January 13, 2014, Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com> wrote:

While i am for the moment without a functioning computer, or camera, both having succumbed to a technological glitch, my friend suggested writing about "how does that feel?"

Well, considering i went for more than sixty years without ever having such things as, for example, a car, a television, a phone. Never have had or ever will have the first two of those.

Through many situations i lived quite well without a toilet or even a bathroom or a fridge. Never owned a washing machine, or dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, and last wore a wristwatch around 1962, (instead of round my wrist.) So all things considered i'm doing fine.

In the meantime, taking what must be a natural and necessary break from minimal gadgetry, ( i threw the radio/CD player in the bin long ago), that particular article being a unique combination of unenlightened and disfunctional.

I continue smoothly, painting, writing, singing and playing guitar and piano. Reading, non-fiction, and refining a pearlescent and gold painted female nude, which spontaneously emerged while carving a gnarled chunk of driftwood from the tideline, with a penknife.

Which subsequently having evolved considerably, i suitably titled, Sophianic Seed.

(One guess how many letters).

The resulting figure may well be a subject of photographic studies when i get a new camera any day now. Perhaps along with my friend's shots of repair in progress on the computer and camera. All of which will fit with this present writing and morph into a new blog post. "Fingers crossed" as they say, but not while creating as that could be hazardous.

BACK TO THE PAGAN WORLD, (now there's a loaded statement).

I am presently delving, imaginatively, intuitively, inspirationally, into the Pagan world.

For those who attach arbitrary meanings to common words, what does the word,'Pagan' conjour up i wonder.

It's a question to ask yourself, but i'm curious.

I wonder, do you have vague mental images of, let's say, scantilly clad heathens, orgiastically disporting and cavorting on the heath?

Or even Wiccans sacrificing slaves in a blaze of gigantic man-shaped wicker baskets?

What else? Immoral, unkempt, and uncivilized Godless semi-savages doing battle for a bit of roast pork? Or even, covens of screaming tattooed velvet-cloaked Gothic witches, circle dancing in a firelit clearing deep in spooky primeval 'Keltic' forests?

Well, if so my friend, YOU'VE BEEN HAD, AND BAD.

 

Maybe you should stop overconsuming sensational movies as being in any way a reliable source of information. Take a long break from 'Heavy Metal', 'Goth', and 'Techno' etc. Chill out and do a bit of non-academic study and get deprogrammed.

Listen. To start with, the word PAGAN simply means 'country dweller.' From the Latin, 'Paganus,' and Greek, 'Paiganos'.

By contrast with 'civitas' which relates to 'city' and 'civilization', civil servants et-cetera.

Though if cities are what you call civilized you'd be a lot saner and healthier being a Pagan. In direct contact with all of nature instead of cut off at your roots, and insulated with concrete and rubber.

TACK THIS ON YOUR FRIDGE DOOR...

Of major importance, and contrary to possibly two thousand and more years of false propaganda, and for the record: 'The Pagan tribes of Europa and The Celtic Isles, DID NOT PRACTICE HUMAN SACRIFICE.' They had better things to do with wicker baskets.

But their accusers on the other hand obviously did practice, well, genocide is a more accurate word. Unrelentingly, and without an inkling that to utterly decimate the diverse and longstanding tribal cultures of Europa and beyond, would be the loss of the rich cultural heritage of the whole continent and our continued evolution. We call that culture 'The Celts', from 'celtae' and 'Keltoi', (the word itself meaning approximately,'strangers').

Well, they obviously didn't call themselves that, but had a multitude of bioregional tribal names, in the same way as the 555 tribes of what we currently call 'America'. Or is it US ?

The all too common assumption that Europan Celtic Pagans practiced human sacrifice, stems directly from an unfounded and casually disparaging remark made by Pliny the Elder.

While it's essential to be aware of that fact, and a good thing to know and share, it more than serves to illustrate how hugely deviating error can be when uncorrected and exacerbated by power politics.

Reverse side of 'unfinished figure'- SOPHIANIC SEED

On the other hand, earth based cultures (Pagans), are universally noted for decorum within their social interactions. The 'native american' cultures for example had a very integrated code of etiquette as a wisdom tradition. Manners might be the word. Such as when it is appropriate to speak or not speak, silence being a mark of mutual respect. A young boy, rather than look his mother in the eye and demand a new pair of mocassins, would let his sister deliver the request, and you don't walk between two people in conversation or block the warmth of the fire.

I am not a historian, i am an artist. However i do thank John Lamb Lash for that clarification about 'sacrifice' and Pliny the Elder.

Also for his lifelong, current and ongoing most thorough research.

If you wish to verify that and much more, then i highly recommend his most recent (?) book,

'Not In HIS Image.' My quote is from the chapter 'The Conquest of Europa', on page 49 where he elaborates further.

SO WHAT EMERGES FROM ALL THIS ?

In plain language then, we have been cruelly and deceitfully led to believe, that the globally widespread and long evolving earth-based cultures preceding Christianity were inferior in wisdom, truth , and integrity. The truth is quite the reverse. Ignorance of that revealed fact goes with the absence of unbiased study and hence self-evident violent prejudice. I mean, you only have to watch 'the news'. Though i don't recommend it, there's nothing 'new' about it.

The Library of Alexandria housing the full flowering of thousands of years of our evolved and mature Nature Wisdom Heritage, was burned many times on separate occasions

and even today the world is full of smoke.

The Gnostic Wisdom, the Sophianic Mystery Tradition, the culmination of enlightened reverence for Mother Earth, was hacked off at the stem by repeated waves of misguided sociopaths.

Sociopaths called Caesars, Emperors, and Pontiffs, self-glorifying tyrants continuously genocided the indigenous tribes of Europa in the name of an off-planet God they never knew on Earth or elsewhere but only claimed to fear, and sharing that fear, pretended to quote, in the mode of 'My Dad is bigger than your mother.' The glory that was Rome, 'gory' would be an equally applicable word.

The traumatised descendants of victims went on to export "the European Dissociation" (to quote Alan Watts) to 'the Americas'. Same blind psychopathic wound (the urge to share must run deep) proliferating fractally.

It's not 'history'. It's real, living children, women, and men in their 'now', just like you and me in our own minimal diversities which don't divide us. We all have difference in common.

Along with animals, trees, gardens, communities, trust, love, honesty, honour, mutual aid, harmony with nature her generous habitat, the Earth, giver of life, unified continuum of consciousness.

I'm delving, as i say, artistically, inspirationally, in the imaginative realm, for creatable catalysts. To see what morphs out of the stream of imagining. 'Her' imagining. Open to promptings, whispers, discerning, selective.

Evolving by subtle increment.

Amazing what you can do with nothing. Or just a pencil. Marks made in the soil. Fingertip on steamy window glass.

When these gadgets are sorted we'll be well on our way.~

Makes Rainbows~

(A 13 letter version of my name.

Closer in spirit to the Lakotah verb,

'wah-KAH-gah-pe'= making).

Artwork:

'unfinished figure'- SOPHIANIC SEED

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Computer Photos: Mootech doing his thing

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