Serpents, Fishes, and Moons

Empire has been referred to as being made up of “pigs, sheeps, and wolves”. The meaning is that there are predators, victims, and opportunists. The sacred masculine can be looked at by it's symbols, and the three major symbols that appear the most widespread, serpents, fishes, and moons.

When we look at classic, pre-fempire cultures, we see the sacred masculine everywhere. What I am discussing here is well beyond the normal, widespread depiction of a naked male body as seen in every culture globally. Many times, these naked bodies are stylized to show proportions considered sacred, as in the DaVinci drawing. This holds true of much Greek and Egyptian art. The nude male depictions many times have the non-human symbols attached or involved; many times a naked male will have a snake or solar or lunar crown, or be surrounded by sea creatures,; or he will be riding a stallion, or carrying a quiver of arrows and a bow. We in modern times are not good with subtlety, we would have him spayed-legged upon a sportscar, rocket, or tank, arms up, firing pistols. It seems all of Edward L. Bernays' subliminal propaganda techniques aren't so subtle or effective after all. Beating the viewer over the head with re-enforcement of the obvious is exclusive to empire.

In India, Greece, Italy, China, Korea, Japan, the Andes, the Caribbean, and Manahatouac, we see the obvious direct phalli themselves. Necklace pendants and architectural structures are the most common. The European pendants many times have wings, reminiscent of Hermes and his winged helmet. The structural phalli were built in for protection or as a blessing, in Europe people would scrape dust from the architectural phalli to obtain powdered stone or plaster, which was then used in ritual or for consumption. The Owasco phallus pendants are whistles, each one has a unique note. In the Caribbean and South America we see the phalli as the spouts of drinking gourds or pottery; one must drink from the masculine fountain. Many times these jars were specialized, and used only for partaking of a specific beverage in a specific ritual context, be it cacao, chicha, milpa, or coca. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is a manatee-bone cock-spoon of Puerto Rican origin. It is deliberately displayed glans down, so it appears to be an abstract figure, not an erect penis. In East Asia we see the phalli worshiped in realistic form as part of traditional ancestor veneration- the Shinto Go-Shintai (“Honorable God's Member”) is at the core of Japanese identity. The Go-Shintai are carried around on litters during ceremonies, and then proudly displayed in temples, people line up to touch them. In Japanese erotic Shunga scrolls, erections are always depicted as outsized and huge, to an almost comic effect.

 In India, the phalli are both part of religious statuary and in a highly stylized Shiva Lingam. The Lingams are frequent, and are highly venerated. Both harken back from the pre-feminized Shaivite days. In Papua New Guinea, the ancestor Bis poles feature males with prominent erections stacked on top of each other. The male at the top has both a smaller male figure hanging from his scrotum, who is also erect, and turned upside down. There is also a knot-work pattern radiating as a plate directly from the main figure. The entire pole itself is a giant phallus, indicated by the shape and veiny side decorations. As we have been discussing, there are multiple images in Maya books depicting erect penises and the energies associated with them, most notably the Porrua Codex and the Dresden Codex.

There are several other more subtle images and ideas that are in widespread use to depict the sacred masculine- serpents, fish, bulls, rainbows, the Sun, the Moon, comets, lions, rams, bucks (male deer or antelope with antlers), bull elephants, peacocks, roosters/cocks, and stallions are among the most used. Most are basic and obvious sympathetic comparisons- the male animal and it's secondary sex characteristics become symbols of the masculine power, such as a stag's head. Interestingly, you will notice how monotheism has created mythologies of destroying each of these symbols and animals at some point. Samson kills the lion, and makes a honey in it's head. The serpent is probably the most defamed creature ever- he is blamed for the proto-Ai'ib'iru's Adam and Eve's fall from grace, Moses attacks Pharaoh's magicians' staffs that had turned into serpents, and Patrick drives the serpents out of Ireland. We are also told of Moloch's fondness of sacrificial rams, never an ewe. Apparently, the sacred masculine poses a direct threat to monotheism, and it needs to be destroyed before it can keep people liberated from the feminizing (domesticating) control paradigm. These myths show exactly how and why monotheism destroys the sacred masculine; they can be clues as to how we can reclaim and recover ours.
It is fascinating to me how even after the driving the snakes out has occurred, symbols still remain. Jesus of Nazareth, an androgenic magi character (he is lanced, and bleeds like a woman; pre-1920, he is usually depicted as softer, feminine features, even when he has a beard, he is the subservient son of a larger daddy god) has a fish as one of his symbols, and of course there is the story of the loaves and fishes, where a miracle occurs, and he feeds a huge throng of male followers with fish multiplied from only a few. What exactly do the fish represent? Masculine knowledge? Or just a massive luncheon?
Jesus rides into Jerusalem on the back of an ass, much like his mother being carried on a donkey before his birth. Perhaps a stallion would have been too much of an over-reach, especially for a circumcised boy-god who is going to be offered up by and to his own father. It amazes me that for such a violent, war-mongering set of faiths, that monotheism would circumcise and castrate it's own main male role models, be it Jesus or Abraham or Moses. The trio (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) even goes after the bull, symbol of Moloch, their real core god. Apparently more therapy is needed.

So, let us look deeper at the other three major images of the sacred masculine, the serpent, the fish, and the Moon.

Serpents are probably the most common symbol of the sacred masculine. Serpents look phallic, and twist and turn as a penis playing does (I think a turtle sticking it's neck out of it's shell looks like a growing erection, too.). Serpents are almost entirely muscle, they are quite flexible and adaptive, and were found everywhere except Antarctica. Serpents shed their skins and renew themselves, they can stretch to eat things much larger than they are, and many contain potent venom, which can be quickly delivered with a strike. The model of the Chic'chan serpent provides us with another insight- human males have a built-in serpent, which runs from his penis (the head) under his torso, and up his spine to the pineal gland (the “rattle”). The serpent sleeps until the male is aroused, and then at orgasm, the serpent “strikes”, spits it's “venom” (semen), and rattles it's tail (the male's head pops back in ecstasy). In the Sumerian The Epic of Gilgasmesh (which curiously, is one of the roots of monotheist culture, Abraham came from Uruk and Ur, the twin cities in the Epic), Gilgamesh loses his guatiao Enkidu, and goes in search of a way to become immortal. He is told about a flower, which he acquires, but then while swimming in deep water, a serpent comes and takes the flower, sheds it's skin, and is renewed. Gilgamesh is left to age and die. In Egypt, the Uraeus was a symbol of royal power and office, and serpents both venomous and harmless were looked upon as magical and blessings. In Greece and Rome, the caduceus was provided, two serpents entwined on a staff in a double-helix. For Hermes, another androgenic god, the caduceus provided a powerful symbol of masculine authority. It is also amazingly the modern symbol for allopathic medicine. In modern-day Cocullo, Italy, during the local San Domenico Abate festival, images of the saint are carried out of the church, and covered with live serpents. Men come forward to touch the statue, and allow the colubrids to slither all over them. It is considered deeply beneficial and masculine to stroke a snake.

Many cultures refer to the sacred masculine in terms of fish as well. In Ancient Egypt, we have important life cycles divided between serpents and fish, representing life, death, resurrection, and rebirth. In the Great Zimbabwe, we have fish depicted as carrying boys off to masculate and in initiate them, and empower them with semen. Similarly, in Papua New Guinea, the fellatio that inseminates the younger xi'paals is referred to as “eating the fishes”, the semen swimming like tadpoles. (This shows knowledge of the microscopic world as well for a “primitive” people. Until Anton Van Leewounhooke, Eurasians had no knowledge that sperm existed, much less what they looked like or how they moved.) In Polynesia, the Maori and Hawaiians have stories of the great Maui, who went fishing with a magic pole to bring up the islands of the Pacific. He also goes fishing to bring the virility to men, and his own penis is many times depicted as a giant fish between his legs. Maui also transforms himself into a fish several times to escape persecution. The Amazonian Natives speak of their Boto (a river-dolphin, but quite fish-like in it's looks and ways) as a great yet dangerous enchanter, he can come out of the water in a form of a seductive lothario, and can easily entice young men and women to go and be erotic with him.
Once the young person does this, they are hypnotized, and they greatly desire to go live in the underwater kingdom as a boto themselves. Botos are quite shy, but very affectionate and erotic. In 1982 I had the opportunity to meet Buster, one of a handful of Botos in North American aquariums at the time, at the Niagara Falls Aquarium. Buster's caretaker would get into a wetsuit, and go into Buster's exhibit tank, and play with him a few times a day. Buster would do his greeting ballet, the keeper would feed him, and then Buster would get an erection, his long, prehensile tube would appear, and wrap around the keeper's torso or leg. Botos also have been known to do oral and blowhole sex as well. Given these observations, the story of a seducing Boto is quite understandable.
Among Pacific Northwest Natives and the Ainu, fish, particularly the migrating salmon, represent the ultimate in masculine power and traits- be fertile, be strong and flexible, never give up, and travel widely.

The last symbol I want to discuss in this essay is the Moon. The solar orb is almost universally considered masculine, and kilometers of words have been written on that. The Moon, however, is also considered masculine in the vast majority of cultures, and yet we are programmed to believe it is feminine. This unfortunate fantasy has been put forward entirely from medieval European alchemy, which wrongly divided everything observable into two categories- male or female. The Sun is referred to as “the Sky King”, the Moon as “the Sky Queen”. European alchemy is limited to blowing up and destroying things for wish fulfillment, usually for riches or power (ie, lead into gold). The Catholics and Khazars latch onto that, and modern “science” has never come beyond that. The Moon and it's cart driver in Norse mythology are both male. Among Mayas and Tainos (and all the R&K Americanos cultures) the Moon is Xbalanque, Little Jaguar Warrior, and brother to Hunahpu. Later Jesuit incursion creates Ix Chel to match the Eurotrash dreamtime. In China, the Moon is male, but a Princess escapes persecution on Earth to live there. Sweet bean and egg Mooncakes are still made in celebration of her successful escape (and they are quite delicious). In India, the horns of a waxing or waning moon represent a silver cup (and the Moon, NASA found out recently, is water, silver, and mercury) that is filled with semen from Shiva and his sons and their sacred bull, which then fills up, glows, and then drains out. When the cup is empty, they fill it again in sacrifice. One must be careful to use only Shaivite original Indian culture, the later (and modern Hindu) is quite poisoned with feminization.

We will continue with more on this same subject soon.

-JoaquinRaymundo in Sewaornock, Mnanahatouac.