#Jesus as a hermaphrodite

[ahopefulbromantic]

Tysm for the reply, and such a detailed one with the links at that!!! It was fascinating to read!

I also have some thoughts:

Jesus combining Mary and thus becoming a hermaphrodite makes me think about Adam. The word for a male man ("ish") isn't used in the Bible until the creation of Eve, before that Adam is called just Adam - a human. This leads many to believe that he was created as intersex, either containing both sexes at once or none. And since the Church gives the title of The New Adam to Jesus and The New Eve to Mary, and since Jesus is to reverse Adam's sin and bring humanity back to its natural state from the original paradise, this image makes sense. If Adam was "split into" himself and Eve (he wasn't exactly and also it was God's idea not a result of sin but let's go with that for now) and lost the paradise afterwards, Jesus was "combined with" Mary, became the original perfect human, and regained the paradise.

The claim that 'wherever there's Jesus there's also Mary and vice versa' also seems in tune with the mariology of St Louis de Montfort (see: "True Devotion to Mary"), which is widely accepted by the Catholic Church even today - although to claim He's intersex because of that would be too far-fetched.

I have a whole argument and a half about how the crucifixion bears a lot of resemblance to the childbirth (like eg. the birth canal thing, frequently appearing phrase "of His wound the Church was born", John's Gospel using the Greek word kolpos when refering to both Jesus and His Father that could be translated either as a heart/breast or as a womb/female reproductive organs, Jesus kinda breastfeeding His children but with blood instead of milk, and because of it being very often likened to a pelican mother who medieval scholars believed to do the same, and so on).

A couple of images of female pelican being a symbol of Christ for anyone interested (fun fact! our parish priest has one garment adorned with the same image and it's my favorite piece of priestly clothing ever, I'm hyped whenever he wears it) :

Yay, St Wilgefortis mentioned! I love her and her legend, sometimes you ask Jesus for a way out and He gives you a beard. Although I only encountered versions of the story where she was female with a beard and some male features, not intersex, and her shoe falling off during the crucifixion, not some weird joke (also what's the joke cause I don't get it and you got me curious?).

As a side note, there are many other saints who defy our modern understanding of gender, the medieval times were very cool for that. Just to name my favorite few there are e.g. St Euphrosyne/Smaragd (a girl who wanted to stay virgin for Christ so she ran away from marriage to a male monastery where she did a Mulan on everyone for practically her whole life and the best things is, they found out eventually and they didn't kick her out cause "hey, you'll always be brother Smaragd for us, you're cool") and St Francis (yes that St Francis of Assisi, who when asking for a blessing to establish an order was said to tell the pope: "I am the Bride of Christ and this is the way He wants me to bear His children").

Those two below are both Euphrosyne!

And though it's interesting to see it done to His human form, depicting the Son as a woman isn't actually that recent. It dates back to the Old Testament and Lady Wisdom, a personification of God's wisdom from the Book of Proverbs, whom at least Catholic doctrine believes to be Word/the Son/Jesus, giving Jesus the title of Wisdom Incarnate. She was consistently depicted as a young, very beautiful woman.

While the understanding of concepts of sexual orientation and gender back then were very different to what we believe today so people most likely didn't identify as gay or trans, it's true that the Church was the most welcoming place (and still is apart from its highly conservative members, fight me) for everyone who was different, weird, or socially unacceptable. Yes you have to follow the morality and commandments of course, but the weirdness is never the issue. Heck, the Hebrew word for "saint" (kadosh) literally means "different/weird"! It seems they may have understood the assignment far better back then than we do today.

Hi! I saw a post where you mentioned intersex Jesus being a part of medieval European alchemy and I'd love to learn more about that. Could you elaborate or maybe provide links to some articles? I know some saint mystics talked about Jesus being our Mother, and the holy wound in His side was often likened to a birth canal, especially in medieval times. Is it connected to that in any way?

I'd love to elaborate! (This is going to be a long post so buckle up lol)

I will be using the word "hermaphrodite" instead of "intersex" because that is the word that primary sources from medieval Europe and contemporary medieval scholars use when talking about this subject

The best scholarly article I've found is "The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in Premodern Europe" by Leah DeVun. It talks about how the image of the hermaphrodite was used in a metaphorical way by alchemists to show the combining/transforming of two different metals. They believed that certain metals/elements were gendered, so combining male and female "traits" would make something of a completely new sex; similar to the way they perceived hermaphrodites as both but also neither sex.

The article then goes on to talk about two medieval texts: Aurora consurgens and the Book of the Holy Trinity. Aurora consurgens is an alchemic text and has the image below in it. The hermaphrodite is holding a rabbit and bat, both of which were thought to be hermaphroditic species where both males and females gave birth, to emphasize their dual sexuality as well as the conflicting male and female attributes of alchemy.

The Book of the Holy Trinity transitioned from the traditional alchemic hermaphrodite, like seen above, into the religious sphere by arguing that Jesus and Mary were two sides of the same coin. The author of the text says, "one can never see the mother of God without also seeing that God eternally hides and intermingles [his mother] within him. God was and is eternally his own mother and his own father, human and divine, his divinity and his humanity intermingled within. And he depends on that which he wishes to be hidden most of all within himself, the divine and the human, the feminine and the masculine." This makes Jesus/Mary a hermaphrodite.

As a bit of a fun side note to your ask, the author of the Book of the Holy Trinity gives a few more supporting points to his argument and then turns to say that as Christ contains Mary, He also contains the Antichrist which the Book illustrates like this:

The idea of the hermaphrodite Christ really took off after that and boosted the cult of Saint Wilgefortis, saint of monsters. Images of the hermaphrodite Wilgefortis were often indistinguishable from images of Christ because they were both depicted on a cross but where they both have beards, Wilgefortis only has one shoe on: a playful medieval illusion to female sex organs. Images of Saint Wilgefortis below (some images from the 1800s, some from the 1400s). You can read more about Wilegfortis in Bearded Woman, Female Christ: Gendered Transformations in the Legends and Cult of Saint Wilgefortis by Lewis Wallace.

About a hundred years later, “The Lamentation around the remains of Christ,” below, was made depicting Jesus with breasts and feminine curves. Not much is known about it and Christ's hermaphroditic traits weren't even discovered until it was restored in the 21st century. Because of how recent this discovery is, not much scholarly work has been published on it, but I did find this: "The androgyny of Christ" by H. Valdes‑Socin. It is now at the Museum of Notre-Dame à la Rose Hospital in Lessines, Belgium.

And you're absolutely right about Christ's stab wound being like a birth canal! I think the article Mysticism and queer readings of Christ’s Side Wound in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg by  Dr. Maeve K. Doyle does a good job of explaining it. Dr. Doyle says, "The image of the side wound, ... grants feminine bodily attributes to Christ, destabilizing assumptions about his gender. In mystical images and texts, Christ’s capacity to transcend the gender binary, like his capacity to transcend the binary of life and death, underscores his divinity." Dr. Doyle then goes on to talk about how images of the stab wound looking like a birth canal would also be comforting to medieval women, trans people, and homosexuals on both sides. Now I'm not Christian but I think it's really amazing that such a simple image can elicited so much comfort and joy in so many groups of people who were not able to fully be themselves in the era they lived in. It was a reminder that even Christ was like them, their feelings were valid (to an extent), and that Jesus loved them anyway. Medieval Jesus stab wounds below for people interested.

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Just for fun here are some more cool things!

A medieval wooden architectural relief with a person with a beard, phallus, and breasts

Potta di Modena Metope/The Hermaphrodite (left) and detail from the Southern Archivolt (right) of the Modena Cathedral Modena, Italy, c. 1099-1319, Marble reliefs

The Potta di Modena Metope (left) is damaged because people in the 1500s thought it was too sexual/offensive so they vandalized it

More journal articles:

Bearded Women in Early Modern England by Mark Albert Johnston

The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe by Cary J. Nederman

Transvestites in the Middle Ages by Vern L. Bullough

[themovementgeneration]

Yesterday - The Beatles

"Silent Night" Holy Night~...

The movie "Brain on Fire" is Garbage

Gepetto v.s Mary Shelley would be an insane movie though

Los Alamos was Crazy, I think im seeing colors again smh...mhmm spam. Roses are red violets are blue. I remember like it was Yaesterday...pop-pies. July frourth was the shiet. I can almost taste the fireworks. :P like some jolly ranchers spiked

Man I love School...

toemato tomato string theory is still string theory

SHOE me what you have Puppet of Andy cheeks :}

Honey Nut Cheerios was smacking back in the day. Honecombs a close matchup but as a collector I gotta go with Wheaties. NBA is still NBA

[sporesgalaxy]

Real curious about trigun but I got three questions:

1) what's up with the Christian vibes?

2)the blond guys (plants???) have trans vibes, actual coding or just an accident? (fine either way just curious)

3) what's the plot? Space cowboys?

Anyways Millie is cool, (I once mistook the girl typically next to her for that guy from genshin impact)

1) Christian vibes are why I want to lock myself in a room for a month and emerge with a 3 hour video essay about Trigun very very badly right now.

Trigun spends a lot of time exploring Forgiveness, Mercy, and Redemption, which are famously also the themes of Jesus' wacky adventures in the New Testament.

But. You know how in the old testament there was like a bunch of Divine Wrath and stuff? And it feels really incongruent with the forgiveness in the New Testament sometimes. And also for many centuries Christians have cited God's divine acts of wrath as justification for incredible acts of cruelty against their fellow man? You know how that history of cruelty and punishment is, at this point, just as synonymous with Christianity as the Jesus Forgiveness stuff?

Well Trigun is about how the Jesus Forgiveness stuff is better. Not because Jesus said so but because of the enormous OBSERVABLE positive impact that forgiveness and redemption can have. Positive impact that wrath and retribution rob all parties involved of the chance to witness.

Trigun tells a story which demonstrates this in largely secular situations but underscores both the forgiveness and the wrath with divine imagery. And since both the forgiveness and the wrath are equally visually tied to the divine, symbols of divinity cannot be considered synonymous with perfection, unerring judgement, nor inherent rightness or goodness. Divinity becomes simply a symbol of power, and power is a double-edged sword as well. The power to do good is also the power to cause massive harm, and in many cases people will treat power pessimistically out of an understandable will for self-preservation.

But power is neither inherently good nor bad-- power ultimately reflects the flawed and fallible person weilding it. I could go on but this is really long so I'll stop lol :)

WAIT. Divinity = Power, Angels are the symbol of Divinity, Angels are messengers of God, Communication and connecting with others is emphasized, Communication = Power = Divinity ok I'll stop for real tee hee

2) I don't know if the trans coding was intentional, but HOLY SHIT is it THERE.

Most blatantly, Vash and Knives are Plants, and every other Plant we see is referred to as a woman/has female secondary sex characteristics.

Also Plants visually resemble angels, and it's common belief angels do not have gender like humans do since they are pure and holy beings. I couldn't quickly find a source for that, but I know that Alchemy has some emphasis on hermaphroditism as, like, the holier form. So I guess by that logic you could also say they're intersex but I'm veering off topic.

Thirdly in the 1998 anime they gave the child versions of Vash and Knives long hair that ended up being cut off in ways that symbolized important developments in their identities. Knives example is what I have on hand lol. It just smacks of transgenderism.

3) DEEP SPACE PLANET FUTURE GUN ACTION!!!!

Wacky space cowboy Vash the Stampede roams the space desert planet where humans are barely hanging onto survival using the tech of their spacefaring ancestors! He can shoot with perfect accuracy, and is wanted for DESTROYING AN ENTIRE CITY, but is a staunch pacifist?! How odd!

What's Vash's deal? What happened that made humans unable to go back to space? Why'd they land on this desert planet that sucks to live on? Learn this and much more in TRIGUN!

[dailydemonspotlight]

Attis - Day 57

Race: Kishin

Arcana: Hanged Man

Alignment: Light-Neutral

June 18th, 2024

It's odd that this is the first figure from Greek Mythology I'm covering, given how widespread it is throughout the series, honestly, but I'm not complaining. Something that I have to give SMT a lot of props for is how it goes into far more obscure things from mythology- sure, you've got your Thoth's, your Odin's, your Shiva's, and your Baphomets, but something this series does a lot that I adore is that it creates demons for some of the most obscure figures out there. Sure, it makes researching them difficult (a la Porewit) but the spotlights (heh) that this series shines on otherwise obscure figures is fantastic. Case in point, today's Demon of the Day, Attis.

While everyone knows the Greek pantheon, there are so many lesser gods in the sprawling labyrinth of Greek mythology, gods worshipped by obscure cults or left in the tradewinds of history. Attis, of course, was one of these gods, but he also had another reason- he was from a completely different mythological origin. In Phrygian myth, the archetypical 'Mother Nature' was a character named 'Cybele,' who has her own tonnes of myths to tell. However, when the Greeks began to subsume into the rest of the Phrygian people, she was met with a mixed response. Some took her to become a new form of Gaia, the Greek goddess of nature, while others took off and painted her as an exotic goddess whose meaning couldn't be known. Now, what does this have to do with Attis? He was her consort.

The tales surrounding Attis are, and I cannot stress this enough, insane. Everything happens in them from weird amounts of hatred towards an intersex prophetic child, to a cycle of life and rebirth, and I'm a bit scared of going into it, but... okay. Let's do this. Recanted in Catullus 63, the first recorded tale of Attis begins with, and I'm not kidding, him castrating himself. Right off the bat. Yup, this is one of those stories. And I quote,

Over the vast main borne by swift-sailing ship, Attis, as with hasty hurried foot he reached the Phrygian wood and gained the tree-girt gloomy sanctuary of the Goddess, there roused by rabid rage and mind astray, with sharp-edged flint downwards dashed his burden of virility. Then as he felt his limbs were left without their manhood, and the fresh-spilt blood staining the soil, [text]

We just got here! Okay, okay, I'll continue. The story goes on to describe the aftereffects, and the motivation for this sudden castration, that being a fanatical obsession with the nature goddess, Cybele. After he awakens in likely the world's first (and worst) hangover, he looks out and bemoans his fate, having been left behind by his companions who had already run to pursue the goddess. However, from what I can tell of this story, given the confusing wording, the goddess grants the man permission to drive one of her nuns to 'his allegiance.' I can assume this means someone in his home kingdom, but I'm not very sure? It might be referring to the goddess herself. My lack of knowledge in ye olden terms has made this a headache and a half. Later in the story, after his self-mutilation led to his death, he would later be revived by Cybele, becoming her consort.

A later addition expands on this, giving light to Attis' birth- in the story regarding it, it begins with, as always, Zeus being Zeus. In the tale, he fell in love with Cybele, who didn't return his advances, but... of course, with him being himself, he forced himself on her. Her child would later be reared, a deity called Agdistis who was notable for being a hermaphrodite, essentially 'male and female.' For whatever reason, the gods got terrified of how particularly powerful they were, and proceeded to... castrate Agdistis. What the fuck is with the castration?! Jesus Christ! From the blood left behind, an almond tree spurted forth, and a nearby woman named Nana would decide to take an almond and put it in her bosom. Okay. This led to her getting pregnant. Okay. Later on, she would give birth to the newborn Attis, before promptly throwing the kid out into the nature, to which he was soon raised by a goat. Oh kay.

A lot of stuff relating to Attis has been lost to time, especially given that he was only really worshipped in, you guessed it, cults. Originally, separated from the Greek mythology he would later be co-opted into, a cult formed surrounding him in 1250 BCE, in-and-around an area of modern-day Turkey called, and I kid you not, Dindymon. Originally worshipped as a semi-deity in the area, he would later become slowly integrated into Greek mythology as several Greek cults began to form surrounding Attis around the fourth century BCE. In Phrygian culture, later adapted into Greek, Attis was a deity who represented vegetation and the cycle of fruits- particularly, the castration story (yes, again) represented the idea of fruits dying in the winter then coming back in the spring; the date of Attis's revival, that being the spring equinox, is no coincidence. Frankly, though, as pretty as this concept is, the absurd amount of castration in his stories is just... Why? Why are you like this, Greek Mythology?

Okay, now with all of that over with, how is he portrayed in the series? I honestly really like his design. The bandages and the blade make him look rather unique, and I really do enjoy just how bizarre he looks. Wait, but is the reason why his legs are separated from his body...

No.

You have got to be fucking KIDDING ME.

IT'S CASTRATION AGAI

[tundrafloe]

In 1999, Noel described his early stand-up career to HermAphrodite Zine

Noel: “I used to dress up as Jesus. That’s what I first did onstage…And I used to have a water-pistol as well. So if anyone heckled I’d just squirt ‘em until they were soaked. “Don’t Fuck With The Lord”.

[sunnypaganblog]

Helllooooo!! I am Sunny, and this is a blog for my experiences with Paganism, my deities, and my experiences with attempting to learn Witchcraft since I've always been very drawn to it. Keep in mind, I'm still kinda new into this, so if I make any mistakes, please be gentle with me. I have my own set of beliefs regarding Paganism—which I will list along with other info here.

Beliefs

- Magic and Witchcraft

- Basically every God out there

- Soul Parents

- Astral Projection

- The Multiverse

- Clairaudience

- Messages through dreams

- Past Lives

Deities I worship: Aphrodite, Hermes, Hecate, Apollo, Ares, Lillith, Lady Isis, (and Hades?? I think?? He is my mentor guide apparently, so—).

Relationships with my deities!

Mentors: Hades, Hecate (according to her, she knew me in a past life and was my mentor before and is still my mentor now), Ares.

Soul parents: Hermes, Aphrodite, Lady Isis, Thor.

(EDITED: Lord Zeus and Lady Hera may also be my soul parents??? Unsure)

Sibling figures or other familial figures of mine: Odysseus (like a dad to me), Apollo (like a brother and uncle to me), Zeus (like a very respected dad to me but also a mentor).

Deities I've spoken to but am not sure what the word for my relationship with them is yet lmao: Lord Konshu, Lord Loki, Jesus Christ (apparently according to a reading I did one time), The Morrigan (who is one of my guides), Lady Nyx, Lady Eos, Lady Thalassa, Lady Hera, etc.

Dionysus, Apollo and Aphrodite have also had a presence in my life since childhood! But I've recently gotten back into contact with Dionysus cuz I unironically missed him and decided to reach out 😭😭

I also see every deity who's related to my soul parents as related to me as well, so I see deities like Eros and Hermaphrodite as my siblings even if I haven't spoken to them yet lol. I know they aren't technically, but I can't help but see em that way./lh

(This also goes for other people who have my soul parents? I see one person who has a certain blog on here as my sibling cuz they're related to one of my soul parents for example even if they aren't technically and I haven't talked much to them lmao)

I will say this here and now—again, I am using alternative means of communication for stuff like Tarot right now, and I happen to own a Pendulum and can do coin readings. But I am in no way reliable for private or public readings right now jdhdj. Least I don't think I am. I also communicate with my deities through things I sense or through my gut feelings too??? But I'm not sure how reliable that would be for a tarot reading.

Either way, I don't wanna start shit, and I want this to be a fairly peaceful blog about my Pagan Journey, so please don't try fighting me! Other than that, I have no problems with whoever interacts as long as they don't act stupid or creepy or weird./gen

With that being said, let's get things started!

[flyingseacow]

So we all agree Ishmael so very very autistic, and in my personal view chapter 86 is the absolute pinnacle of it.

Also, well. All this:

And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.

Ishmael: Jesus is such a twink!

In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority

Care to elaborate Ishmael? No?

Though all comparison in the way of general bulk between the whale and the elephant is preposterous, inasmuch as in that particular the elephant stands in much the same respect to the whale that a dog does to the elephant.

Ishmael: I know I just talked a lot about elephants, but never ever mistake this for awe, whales are a billion times more cool than elephants! So write that down!

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

Interview of a Lost Soul

(The Chaya Raichik interview)

Stephen Jay Morris

2/27/2024

©Scientific Morality

How do you know when someone is a liar? When they call other people liars. Meet Chaya Raichik, brainchild of Libs of Tik Tok. She has this obsession with attacking hermaphrodites, transgender, and other human oddities; just like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, who believe that public schools are indoctrinating innocent children into sexual perversion. Do they have proof?  Why should they provide proof when 30% of Americans are gullible suckers!?

Teachers brainwashing young kids? There is no evidence of this. If there was, and it was on some phone camera, groups like Project Veritas would creatively edit it and make it look like an actual crime was committed. There are no photos, audio recordings, or witnesses. Jesus! The John Birch Society accused public schools of indoctrinating kids into becoming communists. Now, in the 21st Century, we have a circus of conspiratorial delusions. At least left-wing conspiracy theories had a modicum of arguments and plausible theories. But QAnon? They just make shit up, like someone who has been smoking weed all night.

One of the many imbecilic conspiracy theories concerns transgender people. The primary job of the authoritarian right is to scare people. They succeeded minutely with this one, but the rest of the public thinks they are nuts.

Libs of Tik Tok have posts on social media that depict trans people like characters of 1950’s, drive-in theater, monster movies. Instead of giving compassion to the emotionally vulnerable, they mock these underage transpeople the same way Jesus was mocked when he was carrying the cross and bleeding from his wounds on the way to his crucifixion. Too much? You can see Israeli soldiers on Tik Tok mocking the dead children of Gaza. In so doing, they spew more Anti-Semitic ammunition about evil Jews.

I have said in previous post that Jews are like everybody else. I do know this: in a nation that is predominately white, there are some Jews who sorely want to be accepted by that society. How do they try to accomplish this? By attacking their own people. Just like Candence Owens, who attacks her fellow black people. If you want to make money and get attention, attack your own people and The Daily Wire will give you a podcast.

So, who is this Chaya Raichik Zoomer anyway? I’ve heard rumors about her. One, that she comes from an Orthodox Jewish family. Two, she is from Brooklyn, New York. And three, she is Putin’s personal secretary. NOT true! I can make shit up, too! She is not articulate; she talks like someone who is on barbiturates. She doesn’t have an accent. She projects a paranoid personality, and she wears a 1969 hippie hair style. During her recent interview with Taylor Lorenz, she kept looking around the local area like she was expecting an assassination attempt upon her.

So, who is Taylor Lorenz? She is a reporter from the Washington Post. She has the composure of a Tupperware representative. She could sell Tupperware to Boomer women, but interviewing a right-wing mental case? Forget about it. First, when interviewing subjects, you do not let them ask questions of you. YOU are interviewing THEM; they are not interviewing you. Now, Chaya is a hard nut to crack. She is secretive, condescending, humorless, and stoic. It appears she is symptomatic of a sociopath. She also has a persecution complex. She refuses to answer questions because they are “personal.” I’m surprised she didn’t evoke the Fifth Amendment. Taylor asked her how she got into politics. She answered, “Oh, it was the Covid thing. You know? The government telling you what to do! When to shop or forcing you to wear a mask!” That is solid proof right there that she is dumb! The CDC recommended wearing facemasks in public, it did not mandate it. It was private businesses and heath institutions that were requiring patrons to wear masks. It was NOT Uncle Sam.

So, the whole interview was a waste of time. I wish she had been cross-examined by a rough Jewish lawyer in a court room. Interviewing her was like interviewing a tortoise shell.

This is fair warning:  if you want to be famous and rich, avoid being a conservative activist. You remember Wally George? Of course you don’t.

Lorenz asked Raichik how much money she makes. She answered, “That is a personal question.” Whenever someone refuses to answer that question, that means their piggy bank is empty. Now, if asked whether she has a boyfriend, she would likely say, “None of your business!” And that would mean—like are most Millennials and Zoomers—she’s probably a female Incel.

What a sorry world we live in!

[ceruleanwhore]

Last week, I ended up going down an internet rabbit hole about where tf the concept of the Easter Bunny came from, and I think it’s interesting and would like to share some thoughts, and also of course bring RotG into this at the end. First off, I’m sure a bunch of you have heard stuff about Easter being a bastardization/theft of Ostare, a pagan festival celebrating a fertility goddess who was represented with rabbits, and that did come up, as well as a different potential origin point in a German folkloric figure called the Osterhare that showed up between the 15 and 1700s. That’s all well and good but I definitely needed more information than just that because neither of those explain the current tie to Christianity and specifically how either of those things ever got associated with the death and resurrection of Jesus.

So the main thing I saw when I went looking into that part was that, back in ye olde days, people thought that hares (not rabbits) were intersex and could reproduce individually, making it so they all were essentially these ‘divine hermaphrodites’ that then were compared to the Virgin Mary. Well, seeing that, I was like “Hey! I know where else I’ve seen stuff about a ‘divine hermaphrodite’ - alchemy!” and I went into looking up stuff about the rebis and the philosopher’s stone in alchemy, specifically searching for connections to Christianity. What I ended up finding was stuff saying that like, you know how everything in alchemy is all recorded and talked about in metaphors and nothing is actually whatever it’s being referred to or described as? Well that’s what’s up with this stuff because some sources were claiming that the rebis is just another metaphorical way of talking about the chemical processes of combining opposite energies to create the philosopher’s stone and then how the stone works or whatever.

Simply put, there’s just one magnum opus in alchemy and that is the stone, which is also sometimes referred to in that metaphor of a divine hermaphrodite. More importantly, though, Jesus Christ has been compared to this because, just as the rebis represents the combining of opposite energies, Jesus is the perfect combination of opposites - man and divinity in one body, born of a virgin. So I look at this and see that as the connection between Jesus and the Easter Bunny, that Jesus is a ‘divine hermaphrodite’ the same way that a hare was also thought to be back then. 

So where RotG comes in is that I just feel like it would’ve been so much cooler to have Bunnymund be a normal hare who ended up being transformed by an alchemist, and then chosen by Manny to be a spirit and a guardian. That could’ve been a really interesting and compelling background for his character and since the movie has like fuck all to do with the books anyway, they could’ve done that with the movie. It could’ve been interesting to see Jack struggling with not understanding why he was brought back or feeling like he shouldn’t have been and then having Bunny come in and talk through how he went through all the same doubt because of what he was and then being able to give real, meaningful reassurance from his own experience with that.

[little-cereal-draws]

Does anyone know if there were any ancient connections between Hermes/Mercury and Jesus?

I know when Christianity was gaining popularity in ancient Rome, conflating Zeus/Jupiter and Jesus was popular because they’re both kings of Heaven and it was easy to explain this new god to people who had only known the Roman pantheon. And there were lots of sculptures and drawings of Jesus and other Christian religious figures modeled after Roman Emperor equestrian portraits because it showed power and leadership.

But to me it would make sense to combine Hermes/Mercury and Jesus.

Both are messengers for their heavenly, king of Heaven dad. Both spend a lot of time with mortals and assist in daily life. Both assure souls to the afterlife (although in different ways). Both have connections/epithets about shepherding (tho Hermes’ is more literal). This was more in the Middle Ages rather than Christian Rome, but they both have ties with intersex bodies. (A part of European alchemy was intersex Jesus and Hermes’ kid was Hermaphrodite.) I’m sure there are other things I can’t think of at the moment.

Does anyone know if there was a connection either visually or culturally between them?

[rauthschild]

It's the Sunday before Christmas, when millions of Christians worldwide are thoughtlessly accepting and condoning and practicing their traditions --- happily enough --- without a second glance. 

There is a need for that second glance. 

Here's the story that the Bible tells us, that we are trying so hard to ignore. 

The Bible uses the word "Elohim" meaning "gods" --- not "a" God, not "the" God.  It literally and actually refers to multiple gods throughout its pages, but we are so stuck on the later concepts of monotheism and the idea of a Holy Trinity, that we don't stop and read what it actually says.  We just gloss over the Bible.  So we don't grasp the cautionary tale it tells us. 

The Bible tells us that there are multiple gods, and Jesus tells us in parable, that when a man cleans his (mental, emotional, spiritual) house and throws out demons (addictions, evil beliefs, bad habits) if he doesn't fill his clean and now empty house with righteousness and love and the presence of the True God, even worse demons will come and take over his house.  

Not only do we have to change (clean our house), we have to choose (the gods we invite to stay with us). 

When a Chaldean (iraqi) named Abram standing firmly in the Age of Aries left the City of Ur in Babylon in the middle of the night, he had to choose.  When Moses, also standing in the Age of Aries, found the Children of Israel turning backward to the worship of the Age of Taurus (cow worship), he threw down the tablets of the new law in frustration.  He became the first lawbreaker, but in the end, he had to choose -- and trudge back up the mountain. 

We all have to clean our house, but when we do, we have to choose. 

This season, rightly or wrongly, in the modern world, is the season of new beginnings.  We desperately need a new beginning this year. 

There are many reasons why this is true, not the least of which is that the Age of Aquarius has dawned.  New energies are pouring down on the Earth, not only from the Sun, but from new alignments in the Cosmos.  The wishy-washy, dim, and illusory world of the Age of Pisces, together with its sensitivities and superstitions, is fading away.  

The celestial "house" is being cleaned and cleared.  We have to choose. Again. 

Just as the Children of Israel needed to stop worshiping cows, we have to re-evaluate what we are worshiping and how.  

Among the other ignored (maybe unpopular or scary) things the Bible teaches us is that the "other" gods that creep into a clean unoccupied house, represent a predictable Unholy Trinity, coming one after another, like a conga line of demons.  

The first such "god" is Baal, the Possessor.  He comes in and takes over and "possesses" your house.  Whatever you had in your house before, he clears it out for his own use and settles down, causing you to forget your beliefs and standards of behavior, anything goes, everything is "relative", there is no right or wrong.  This is Baal. 

Next, comes his weird goddess friend, who has as many names as any confidence artist could wish for: Isis, Astate, Semiramis, Cybele, Ashtoreth, even Columbia, like the District of Columbia.  She is a Hermaphrodite, embodying sex, sex, and more sex of all kinds.  Typically, she appears in the female form but with combined characteristics -- Athena, Minerva, and Semiramis are all portrayed as women with minds like men.  Her specialty in the demonic realm is to make sex a commodity for sale, or a sacrament for sale, or both; she is also famous as the inventor of all forms of idolatry, including the use of graven images (printed bills) and money (coinage).   

Finally, we have the "son" of Baal and Ashtoreth, whose name is Mammon.  Mammon is insatiable, always hungry, always greedy for more, more, more.  Enough is never enough with Mammon, and so, he requires sacrifice. What he typically demands first is your time (income tax on labor) and next, your money (Federal Reserve Notes are substituted for the real thing), and finally, he wants your children (whether they are thrown into fiery furnaces, harvested for adrenochrome, or simply aborted).  

This is what people in the Ancient World dealt with and knew very well, but centuries have intervened between us and the days when the temples of these gods were in full operation at Baalbek and Tyre and Sidon, at Delphi and Carthage, throughout the Mediterranean world, and as far west as Spain and Ireland and Cornwall. 

The Romans suppressed these "gods" for a time after their conquest of Carthage, but they made the mistake of importing the conquered population as slaves and the priests of Cybele (Ashtoreth, Isis...) became the tax collectors for Caesar in the Second Century BCE. 

From then on, the use of money became standardized and greatly expanded, and the Caesars were soon deeply in debt and dependent on the Moneychangers. 

They also became increasingly sex-crazed and insane.  Witness Nero, Caligula, and their brethren.  

As for the Moneychangers, the priests of Cybele, called the Galli, they wore black robes and white wigs and often castrated themselves in honor of their goddess; on Feast Days of the Goddess, they wore women's clothing and danced in the streets and put on theater pageants like Punch and Judy shows using live actors.  They are traditionally transvestites in honor of their hermaphrodite goddess. 

They still wear black robes and white wigs in England.  In various Lodges of Secret Societies they still dress up as women and "fill the boot" --- a reference to a particularly nasty and apparently satisfying sexual act that releases semen and urine at the same time. 

Their first and long occupation of the western British Isles came by sea and resulted in the mixture of their odd religion with the native nature worship of the Isles and resulted in Druidism; much later, during the reign of Elizabeth the First, they came through the front door as a migrant theater company, The Merrie Men.  

Today, we call them members of the Bar Association, Devils (in Scotland), Lawyers (Liars), and Attorneys (Overturners (of the Law)). 

This is not hate-speech, as the vast majority of modern practitioners have no idea that they are the remnants of an ancient priesthood and only vaguely understand the showmanship and idolatry they employ and champion for a living. 

We all, however, have to choose. 

The Gospel of Relativism has been preached ever since the Civil War Mercenary Conflict (Baal entered) and has gradually eroded all standards of behavior.  Coming right behind this collapse of conscience and honesty, we have seen the arrival of Ashtoreth ("The Statue of Liberty") on our shores, and in less than a hundred years, we have seen both sexual liberation and millions of babies sacrificed via legalized abortion --- and now, they are to be prevented entirely via genetic meddling. 

In Babylon, Ashtoreth started the idea of temple prostitution, and this created a huge population boom (as well as vast wealth for the kingdom coffers), making babies both too plentiful and a burden on the economy, so then, the Perps had to find a way to get rid of all the unwanted babies via legalized murder as "religious" sacrifices. This is what was going on in the Valley of Hinnom.

These acolytes are so seduced, so myopic, so clueless that they continue on with this mentally disturbed meme to this very day, even though they have birth control.  Only those at the very tip top of their ridiculous pyramid scheme know the historical context; however, by the time they get to the top of this particular pyramid, their leaders are so diseased, so insane, that they see no reason to stop it.  

This, to them, is the only way the world works: sex, death, and idolatry.  They are completely unprepared and unwilling to see things any other way.  

We still have to choose. 

If we want to live in peace, if we want the planet to survive, we have to throw the money changers out of our house, and see the idolatry for what it is.  We have to see the perversions of the sexual impulse for what they are.  We have to see the "priests" still collecting taxes and putting on theater skits in courtrooms.  We have to tear down the Statue of Liberty (an idol of the Perverse Goddess and emblem her "religion" of Libertinism) and stop clinging to our chains. We have to expose the Secret Societies for what they are and have always been --- together with their "Worshipful Masters".  

We have to realize what these men have been worshiping. 

A new Age has dawned.  What is old and ugly and false must pass away.  We have to kick idolatry out of our temples. We have to dislodge the priests of The Father of All Lies from our courts. We have to dethrone sex as a public issue. And stop the sacrifice of our time, our money, and our babies. 

Whether one defines the True God as an "ever-expanding morphogenic information field" or can only think of an old white-haired gentleman vaguely resembling someone's grandfather, we have to choose a new way of being and better things to believe in. 

This is Due Notice of what has predictably happened and is happening as a result of letting a handful of deviants and power-mongers mold our beliefs and make our choices for us. 

For ourselves and for our country, we object to all presumptions stemming from these deceitful men and their misrepresentations of us.  We are not devotees of  Baal, Ashtoreth and Mammon.  They are.  

The so-called Statue of Liberty was a "gift" from the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons in Paris, akin to the Trojan Horse.  It isn't our symbol and she, with her oddly masculine face, is not our goddess; whatever light her torch offers is cast against a darkness that our own ignorance creates, and its dim, unsteady "light" is no match for courage, logic, and inspiration. 

Let it stand upon these records and in the minds of men, that Americans cherish freedom, but liberty in the sense of the Libertines is not our aim.  

We do not cherish immorality and cruelty and falsehood in the name of freedom, just as we do not tolerate the use of foreign "persons" as a fraudulent means to misaddress us and unlawfully convert our political identity and standing. 

Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals; Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents. 

[todaywestartle]

Who are you silias beastly?

Silias beastly is my persona of bring a talking cat do to a hex by the Sanderson sisters I agree to as Salem literally in the real world a talking cat with wifi for a few centuries thst are condensed by time travel for my wifi, where I see myself as human, I present myself as human, but I'm a talking cat who faked my own death. As adam snowflake. Silias beastly just has a delusion these things are true you should let it go. Sabrina the teenage witch familiar things. And yes I am a male. Under that alias I write and do fun things..and no I'm not sileinious the otherkinnie who's deaf weird as a pride symbol I used to allow him to go by name, but ig gets me in trouble when I do things like, FAKE MY FUCKING DEATH. I just have an obligation to religions from time and time and this is something sometimes required for them, and my aainthood to the church. I know I know I performed an oligarchy and beasitary for the church. That's giving jesus your likeness. And that's agreeing to be an animal forever or a short period of time for christ thus he gifts you speech if he's hypothetically real. My friend moonin is about to perform this for Odin to whom she's wed so she's a raven forever and I'm like cool take hoonin with you you little dweeb. So yeah. I love be I no historical figures it crazy. Crazy. So who are you as silias beastly an anti otherkin anti nonbinary gender social activist. I believe otherkin is only a spiritual concept and thst it is shorthand to address coping links by this. So you would call it that but it's a different category and an honour's you have to sometimes snap put of. I believe that if your nonbinary it's a colorblind thing as areil, where you feel like it's the options of the feminine gender or lack of it. And the history of it is that it's valid and real but you would also claim intersex or hermaphrodite if it wasn't a shame thing offered to you. And if you can't claim intersex desire as a label you can't claim nonbinary. Cus I invented the word and half of the culture around it. And it's meant to be a ferish word that never ages out of thet as a space safe for beyond binary people. Demigirl is the real big person word for transwomen another fetish word and club I created but genuine. So if your a girl moon godess cats weapon not fully male not fully female but gjr girl options in general dsmigirl is the word as Ariel I coined for you. Not transwomen which I'd a get off fetish word. I coined for kinksters from to rocky horror in stonewall. What is intersex? Intersex is a gender identity or sex biologiy status. Where you idneitfy as a mixed feeling of both male or lacking more then one gender but are usually colorblind towards one of it. What is colorblind? I know how people feel like red should be. But it's the color on bumblebees and only I think this. Becuase you literally see the colors wrong or reversed. Or it's a mental thing even sometimes from living somewhere or speaking a language. Where things feel off in the same mistake but feels so unique and total to you no one gets it. And you mix up how you present it, and how it feels. Outside of social cues like autism that it would pick up on. If you could say intersex you would, that's the only criteria to what nonbinary is outside of a fetish. You can just use the fetish term, I mean it's fine it's just so heavy in gay history your mislabeling your identy alot and your probably, identifying with the fetish to hard. I'm someone on the side named Ariel grace. The historical figure that was the little mermaid I wrote about as Hans Christian Anderson. All transgender people can be traced as to having something called resides of me. Rjendiehdjdhdodndkdsl. So I can even kick it out of girls. And I don't alot. I do when it's a danger to the person sometimes on international level of school shooter mentality and I can tell. But bitch I ain't sharing a brain with you. But yeah. I am the common ancestor brought back on whirlpools to humanity. I am very very imortal and its very hot being a true one on thst list. Djdndidndid

So yeah I fake my death as acrians locket and get bound into the body of a cat sometimes this happens to me. Its fine it agreed and I use earworms for blogging so its like 6 months. But yeah I'm pro enby and otherkinnie weird. Just controversial as july July Jr to say what I think about it. I'm still around I just dont have those identities anymore unless it's the civil rights movement. I'm weird as Jake Calloway. And yeah so many people fell for an adorment people placed on me thet was fear strider hates adam snowflake or todaywetwckle. I am todaywetwckle in this way I was heavily hacked on my blog. Wjdndisjdidnso. So yeah I plan to write under my leukemia alias again as toby fox and make more games under it. Hello itch.io crowd. And I plan to make more writings under silias beastly. I'm also charles mansen and the leader of this new thing called the sufereoget movement. They call me sufferoget. And I'm milky of thr feminist movement of bullying hrassers and France revolution gamergate. Fjdndudjdjdjdidjdi

I'm sometimes reaired as a political figure and I do reair my Tumblr. So that's scheduled old posts on my blog now pronounced. And yeah time to speak gsleic and have fun. Please be nice to the crippled former identity their and otherkinnie sileiNous. He's my friend as dion and I like him alot. I did give up being the puppy dion which was an honour's title as dion elric so the persona and archins case is dead that he was is passed. So me being him and ann frank as archins disorder was sad and ended there. In that story of conversion therapy cencered to be a holocaust camp in neos 2cd branch media about judaism for those people which I wanted alot as him. I have mpd, so that's multiple personality disorder so I just won't be those personalities anymore which is kind of tragic. I'm also the creator of shrodigers cat theory. And the philosophy of thr trolly problem all under silias beastly. Sometimes if I post under adam people will know im alive. But its kind of cool being little cat whimsy and magick paw as the creator of the warrior cats books I'm usually a baby, and sometimes cencerists get their names on the covers of those books I made same with anamorphic and its rewrites like ka a Applegate. I ask you be nice as webcomic session grim guy, cus its like, my choice as the author of star wars not to be drenched in it. I'm in conversion therapy right now serving as a doc and prison guard, at salvation army. And I notice it's not evil so I'm a big believer in it as optional if you you know. Choose to go. To teach you genders. But I mean I came out of it knowing I'm heterosexual which terrifies me as a pan romantic ace but whatever. I just like being different boys as ivy lane. My narratives are many. But oh god to imagine most people sent here against their will. Most will never be. Most people actually choose it. And I think its ignorance to the mind. But in general I don't hate it I just wish I knew what they were looking for as a traveling salesmen of medicine called a reverse jsden. So yeah. I'm converting my gender to that lovely lovey skiso pop. See you.

I look like Elvis cus i am Elvis. Yeah. Ij black and white anyways. My hair is always as short as I think it is in black and white. This is before I leave to be cat bound ugh. Love everyone equally.

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[imonabitchparade]

Are there hermaphrodites in the omegaverse? Is that even possible? Is Jesus the beta fish of the omegaverse?

i wanted to double check on that revelations quote bc it’s been a hot minute since i read the bible and found this gem i cannot open on the work computer but did make me ugly laugh

[elfborne]

BEASTS

Cassie

Nina

Port(Portia)

Tracey

Jeanie

Alison

Lola

Cassie's not stupid. She wants you to believe she's stupid, so when you end up taking advantage of her, she can cut you down and sneer in your fucking face.

Maybe if you stopped puking up everything you fucking ate, Port, your hair would actually grow.

You need to stab her 33 times! you need to COUNT

why 33 though?

how do i fucking know nina, just do it

jesus was 33 when he died. its a perversion of the last miracle

burgundy yellow number vest

white tennis skirt

trans girl as a baphomet hermaphrodite caricature

baby beast

Cassie's soul and demon Cassie stuck together fighting in a red room

Main girls clique a la Mean girls - Cassie, Port, Nina

The story starts with Jeanie. Starstruck by Cassie, she tries out for the cheerleading team. They sacrifice her to Satan, in the guise of cheer practice. But she comes back, with her body as a vessel for Satan. Jeanie starts to murder girls from the cheer team, but she's always had a thing for Cassie, so Cassie lures her and then proceeds to kill her for good.

group possession scene

cassie travels to hell to get jeanies body back

A short slasher book about a Satanic killer cheerleader cult, they all do hard drugs, have sex with each other, capture boys and torture them and wipe their minds, and tap into inhuman sources of beauty and power, and sacrifice their new clueless addition to the team. For some darned reason, the girl comes back and they deal w it idk

Lots of blood, gore and satirical fuck up airhead comedy, drug sex abuse ed

Cassie, you stupid fucking bitch, she's not dead yet, stick the dagger IN her jugular! Jesus fucking Christ.

Nina, when was the last time we had a recital?

Your hair isn't falling out because we didn't offer Satan anything, Port. Maybe if you stopped puking up everything you ate, your hair would actualy grow

jawbreaker 1999 reference bathroom

someone crying hitting their head in the mirror talking to the reflection

someone left to die in the forest by bleeding

someone chews off their fingers

someone has sex while possessed

someone does facial massage while breaking down in a bathtub

the devil in a cheerleader costume

[bills-bible-basics]

TRANSGENDERISM???

Sequential hermaphroditism — the ability to change/morph from one sex to the opposite sex when the situation requires it — is common in some plant and animal species. As a longtime tropical fish aquarist, I am fully aware of this amazing ability.

However, it needs to be recognized that certain species can do this, because that is the way that GOD designed those species to be from the beginning of creation.

In contrast, GOD did NOT design human beings to be that way. He made us PERMANENTLY male or female. This He did for the purpose of procreation, as is clearly demonstrated by these two Bible verses:

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth . . .”

Genesis 1:27-28, KJV

Transgenderism is NOT a natural process. It is a forced, artificial process which goes against the natural design created by GOD for human beings.

Gender reassignment surgery does NOT change one’s chromosomes. Thus, regardless of how some sexually-confused people physically mutilate their bodies in order to pretend to be the opposite sex, in reality, transgenders still have their birth gender, and nothing will ever change that.

According to God’s Word — the Bible — God views transgenderism as an abomination.

Even Jesus only advocated male-female relationships in the New Testament, as did the Apostles. Lastly, God’s Word takes precedence over any defiant laws which may be passed by foolish human beings.

[princesskuragina]

genuinely cannot stop thinking about her (the book that rewired my brain)