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nejackdaw · 3 months

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Okay I haven't talked about Judas OR the Judas album in a while so I'm going to share this analysis I finally placed and I'm losing my mind about

In the song Field of Blood (song 5,) the chorus ends with a line I've never quite been able to find a suitable conclusion about. Right. (Putting my rambling under a read more, the screenshots make this long)

Oh, okay, "what is my god," he's having a crisis of faith. Why is God so cruel as to order Jesus be killed (reminder that the album is a mix of biblical and Gnostic canon, where Jesus asked Judas to be the one to betray him.)

WRONG

If we move two tracks ahead in the album to Death is Just a Kiss Away, right before the last chorus we have these lines:

Which is insane! Because this part is actually saying "you have two gods, God and Jesus" (sun and moon, as I'll get to) "and no matter which you choose" (obeying the kill command or refusing to kill Jesus) "you're going to piss everyone off"! Okay now I know, "but where did you get sun and moon/God and Jesus" and HERE I TELL YOU:

Jesus is CONSTANTLY referred to with constellation imagery! (There's a whole song about it!) The Gospel of Judas includes the quotes (from Jesus) "Judas, your star has led you astray" and "the star that leads the way is your star." The album takes this and RUNS with it. Makes Jesus Judas's guiding star. There is SO MUCH night/star symbolism going on here, mostly in Constellation, but also from A World Where we Belong:

SO BASICALLY: considering that Jesus is heavily referred to with night sky imagery and they're literally both referred to as "two moons aligned," it isn't unreasonable to conclude that the line from Just a Kiss Away is in fact talking about God/Jesus. WHICH MEANS

When Judas is about to hang himself and he pleadingly asks "what is my god?"

HE DOESN'T KNOW IF IT'S GOD OR JESUS BECAUSE HE'S FUCKING IN LOVE WITH HIM APNDOANSOANS HE OBEYED GOD BECAUSE HE'S GOD BUT HE'S KILLING HIMSELF OVER JESUS. I HAVE MANY OTHER LINES ABOUT THIS (DEVOTION TO JESUS, NOT GOD) BUT THAT'S A DIFFERENT TOPIC

#AGGGGGHHHHHHH #yeah hey long time no judas #in case you guys thought i was over it #i am not fucking tagging this anything searchable no one needs to go in the judas iscariot tag and see me being insane #however much the english major roomie says im doing insane level analysis #i think im just insane actually #like. im CORRECT. but im still insane #also @ the 'what is my god' like. cruelty pondering #i would have accepted that as a face answer IF there wasnt biblical canon mixed in #since heaven and hell are mentioned this is very much not referring to the gnostic figure #nebro/yaldabaoth or saklas #the gnostic and terrible little shits ruling over earth #okay now that this is back from rhode island (the void)#@ the last attached image from a world but also ig the whole post #reminder that judas kills himself after betraying jesus (the whole point of field of blood)#and that its so incredibly interesting that presumably as hes dying judas is asking to be brought to jesus (the stars)#instead of heaven which is honestly also its own thing considering the prior acknowledgement of heaven and hell #because the stars is both jesus and the divine realm (not heaven)#i think im gonna run out of tags i need to stop #im not rereading this again OR adding insane rambling tags again i am hitting post #woe. be subjected to my post boy #okay people have Found this post so clarification this is about the lord of the lost judas album #if anyone else finds this thing i specifically did not tag

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