THE CASTRATION MYTHS

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In many myths of different cultures one of the common themes is castration of dieties originated, as far as I could determine, in ancient Summer and I would speculate that it was originally Olmec story of Mesoamerica.

"Voluntary castration has existed as a religious practice up to the present day, openly in India and secretively in other parts of the world. Gods in a number of different cultures were castrated, a mutilation that paradoxically tended to increase rather than diminish their powers. This cross-cultural examination of the eunuch gods examines the meaning associated with divine emasculation in Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, the Roman Empire, India, and northern Europe to the degree that these meanings can be read from the wording of myths, early accounts, and the castration cults for some of these gods. Three distinct patterns of godly castration emerge: divine dynastic conflicts involving castration; a powerful goddess paired with a weaker male devotee castrated because of his relationship with her; and magus gods whose castration demonstrates their superiority. Castration cults associated with some of these gods—and other gods whose sexuality was ambiguous, such as Jesus—some of them existing up to the present day, illuminate the spiritual powers associated with castration for gods and mortals."*¹

ATTIS

"His priests were eunuchs, the Galli, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. His self-mutilation, death, and resurrection represents the fruits of the earth, which die in winter only to rise again in the spring. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Attis transformed himself into a pine tree."*²

THE BIBLE: CURSE OF HAM

"According to Rashi, Ham castrated Noah and prevented him from having a fourth son; therefore, Noah cursed Ham's own fourth son, Canaan. In halakhic legal texts, the term "Canaanite slave" is used for generically for any non-Jew (gentile) held in bondage by an Israelite."*²

HURRIAN-SUMERIAN MYTH

"In the Hurrian myths about Kumarbi, known chiefly from their Hittite translations, Anu is a former ruler of the gods, who was overthrown by Kumarbi, who bit off his genitals and gave birth to the weather god Teshub. It is possible that this narrative was later the inspiration for the castration of Ouranos in Hesiod's Theogony."*²

ANCIENT GREEK MYTH

The protogenoi god of the sky Ouranos was castrated by his own son titan Cronos who was later deposed by his own son Zeus from dominion over the dieties and cosmos who then imprisoned Cronos into the Tartarus.

"In yet another account referred to by Robert Graves, (who claims to be following the account of the Byzantine mythographer Tzetzes) it is said that Cronus was castrated by his son Zeus just as Uranus had earlier been castrated by his son Cronus."*²

AUSET / OSIRIS KHEMETIC MYTH

"Plutarch states that Set steals and dismembers the corpse of Osiris only after Isis has retrieved it. Isis then finds and buries each piece of her husband's body, with the exception of the penis, which she has to reconstruct with magic, because the original was eaten by fish in the river. According to Plutarch, this is the reason the Egyptians had a taboo against eating fish. In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in "The Tale of Two Brothers", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth."*²

TALE OF TWO BROTHERS

"The "Tale of Two Brothers" is an ancient Egyptian story that dates from the reign of Seti II, who ruled from 1200 to 1194 BC during the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. The story is preserved on the Papyrus D'Orbiney, which is currently held in the British Museum.

The story centers around two brothers: Anpu (Anubis), who is married, and the younger Bata. The brothers work together, farming land and raising cattle. One day, Anpu's wife attempts to seduce Bata. When he strongly rejects her advances, the wife tells her husband that his brother attempted to seduce her and beat her when she refused. In response to this, Anpu attempts to kill Bata, who flees and prays to Re-Harakhti to save him. The god creates a crocodile-infested lake between the two brothers, across which Bata is finally able to appeal to his brother and share his side of the events. To emphasize his sincerity, Bata severs his genitalia and throws them into the water, where a catfish eats them."*²

NERO'S CASTRATED WIFE

"In 67 AD, Nero castrated and married a young freedman named Sporus. According to Cassius Dio, Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Poppaea, and Nero even called him by his dead wife's name."*²

REFERENCES:

*¹ The Castrated Gods and their Castration Cults: Revenge, Punishment, and Spiritual Supremacy

Jenny Wade, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California, USA
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol38/iss1/4/

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation
Wade, J. (2019). The castrated gods and their castration cults: Revenge, punishment, and spiritual supremacy. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 38 (1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2019.38.1.31

*² Wikipedia

Images: Castration of Uranus, engraving (c.1530); Statue of a reclining Attis at the Shrine of Attis in Ostia Antica near Rome. (Wikipedia).

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SUPPLEMENTARY

ZIRCON DATING

Zircon crystal, a silicate mineral, is used to date the age of earth, which is estimated to be approximately 4.5 billion years. Since Zircon has Uranium and no Lead at a time of its formation and because Uranium decays into Lead over time it can be thus used to determine the approximate age of a sample containingthe Zircon mineral. Now, important to notice the alchemical symbolism of Uranium with Uranus and Lead with Saturn.

HURRIAN ANU & KUMARBI

According to many ancient myths the chief sky diety is castrated by his son, such as Hurrian Anu & Kumarbi, where Kumarbi, a son of Alalu an older and original name of Anu, gets into a fight with his father during which he bits off his genitals. These are the giants we are talking about so one can only imagine the gory details.

THE NOAH'S CURSE

Then we have biblical Noah being castrated by Hem after he has cursed Hem's son Canaan. However what has caused the situation? Well, we read that Hem saw the nakedness of his father in Genesis 9:22 "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside." Now, what does it mean in those days of old to see the nakedness of one's father? The answer is found in Leviticus 20:11 "The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them." So this means that Hem did not sodomized his father whilst Noah has passed out drunk as is suggested by many biblical scholars but in fact slept with his mother with Canaan being the child of that unholy union hence why Noah has cursed Canaan. Fascinating as it is the family drama of humanity's patriarchs however the point of this article is to show the connection between ancient divine castration myths with the modern day nuclear physics.

CULT OF ATTIS

Then there is the cult of Attis whose "priests were eunuchs, the Galli, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. His self-mutilation, death, and resurrection represents the fruits of the earth, which die in winter only to rise again in the spring." Wikipedia, Attis

The ancient Greek myths, originally from Alkebulan/Africa specifically from Ethiopia, tell a story of sky diety Ouranos, associated with planet Uranus and element Uranium (U⁹²), who was castrated by his son Cronus, associated with planet Saturn and element Lead (Pb⁸²), who in turn gets castrated by his son Zeus, associated with planet Jupiter and element Tin (Sn⁵⁰). This incidentally or intentionally coincides / correlates with the radioactive transmutation of Uranium to Lead in Zircon crystals which is used by modern day scientists to determine the approximate age of earth.

"Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldest and most refined of the radiometric dating schemes. It can be used to date rocks that formed and crystallised from about 1 million years to over 4.5 billion years ago with routine precisions in the 0.1–1 percent range.

The method is usually applied to zircon. This mineral incorporates uranium and thorium atoms into its crystal structure, but strongly rejects lead when forming. As a result, newly-formed zircon crystals will contain no lead, meaning that any lead found in the mineral is radiogenic. Since the exact rate at which uranium decays into lead is known, the current ratio of lead to uranium in a sample of the mineral can be used to reliably determine its age.

The method relies on two separate decay chains, the uranium series from 238U to 206Pb, with a half-life of 4.47 billion years and the actinium series from 235U to 207Pb, with a half-life of 710 million years." Wikipedia, Uranium-lead dating

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