Between 5000 BC and 1600 BC, human sacrifice cults dominated the Earth, from Mesoamerica to China, India to Ireland, Babylon and Canaan. This view is supported by the Bible and archaeological data. The purpose of these rites was to humiliate, terrorize, and excite the audience. They were the first soap operas. Just as today, women and gays are obsessed with soap operas, in ancient times too, it was gay men (or transvestites) who led these cults, and women were their most devout adherents.
The depiction of Dionysus by Euripides as an androgynous leader of fanatical, cannibalistic, sado-masochistic women is not a literary device or Jungian metaphor, but a deep historical reference to Middle Eastern migration to Greece which brought these religions with them. This migration revolved around trade (transient) and slavery (permanent).
The depiction of the Bacchae by Euripides is negative and intrusive; Dionysus arrives, he intervenes, he changes the existing culture (represented by Pentheus). This is not an unusual device in Greek myth: Apollo arrives to change the religion of Delphi; Zeus arrives to change the religion of Olympus; Herakles, Orpheus, and Perseus all arrive to destroy old cults and erect new ones. When viewed through a historical frame, each of these arrivals coincides with actual migrations and cultural warfare, personified in the actions and adventures of a single man.
When we read the Bacchae, we are seeing the cult of Dionysus through the eyes of Pentheus and Euripides. The cult of Dionysus was a revolutionary cult which subverted the previous religious authority, from the perspective of the Greeks. But this is a narrow and myopic view. In the larger context, it was the Greek Gods which intruded upon an existing Dionysian system, which was older and well established. Greek myth itself attests to this. Zeus is not the original God, but a revolutionary.
Instead of viewing one religion as “original” and the other as “revolutionary” in a linear, binary chronology, it is more accurate to say that these two religions - - the pastoral and the agricultural - - existed in geographic tension with one another, each superseding, supplanting, and syncretizing over thousands of years. Although the material conditions which gave rise to these symbolic regimes has long eroded (the developed world no long practices traditional agriculture, nor traditional pastoralism), memetic competition between the two persists to this day, in the form of vampires and werewolves.
Religious Admixture
In order to understand these two separate systems, the agricultural and the pastoral, it is necessary to understand that all written evidence is syncretized. Trying to reconstruct a “pure” religion out of the existing evidence would be like trying to reconstruct a “pure” Neanderthal out of Europeans, who are only 5% Neanderthal. It is possible to compare “more admixed” populations with “less admixed” populations and, in this way, reconstruct a Neanderthal.
Similarly, we can judge that religions which emphasize hunting and pastoralism have some degree of memetic admixture, and by comparing these religions with agricultural ones, we can attempt to reconstruct the original pastoral religion. Even though the resulting picture can never be 100% accurate, it will be more accurate than if we are to take things like “Greek paganism” or “Norse paganism” as original forms, which they were not.
The Development of Pastoralism
Agricultural societies were based on totalitarian slavery and cruelty, a strict genealogical bureaucracy where status was determined by family relations. Internally, faith in the system was absolute, and revolt from within was impossible. But from the outside, a new civilization was forming.
Eurasian pastoralists were familiar with agriculture, but developed an alternative system with competitive features:
Selective breeding (genetic engineering) of horses, goats, and cattle
A highly competitive warrior hierarchy
Nomadic, mobile, raiding and hunting culture
While agricultural societies supported a much higher population than pastoral societies per acre, pastoralists were able to exploit the fragile “top-heavy” hierarchy of slave societies to quickly topple them. The best example we have of this in modern times is the Conquistador conquest of South America, which involved tens of thousands of slaves rising up, inspired by a few hundred brave knights, who were then followed by a stream of millions of European migrants.
Had Mesoamerica been governed by a Christian, Islamic, or Hindu empire, the Conquistadors would have been dead on arrival, since there would be no subjugated class of resentful peasants to ally with. Islam had slavery, but it was a more complicated and humane form of slavery. The slaves were given weapons and trusted as Janissaries; the slaves were kept in harems and gave birth to nobles. Hinduism with its caste system was a much more thorough system of indoctrination. The lower castes knew their role, and trusted in the Brahmin. In Mesoamerica, however, there was no humanity or trust. There was no universal God ruling over each soul with the veneer of justice. There was only the cruelty of subjugation and human sacrifice.
During the Indo-European invasions of neolithic Europe, a few brave warriors instigated mass slave revolts across the continent. Once they seized control of the state in a Paleo-Bolshevik revolution, they invited in their cousins from the steppe. The invasion of Mesoamerica by conquistadors and the invasion of Europe by pastoralists followed the same template: a small band allies with disaffected slaves and stages a revolt.
The same thing occurred to the Hittite Empire in 1200 BC as a result of the invasions of the Sea Peoples. Pirates invaded, and as they landed, they recruited disaffected slaves who considered these pirates as their liberators. Judaism began in this way also, as a piratical religion of the disaffected.
In 2025, as the average person resembles more and more a helpless, depressed, narcissistic, anxious androgyne without functional genitalia, society will become more “top-heavy” and vulnerable to external threats. These threats will not come from established actors, like America or China, or even from the disaffected dissident masses, but from a small band of pirates, operating at the edges of civilization.
The Nomadic Revolution did not destroy civilization, but re-founded it under less totalitarian conditions. As pastoralists assumed the role of kings, they were “reverse assimilated” into the societies they conquered, which resulted in their continual re-conquest by “virgin” pastoralists.
The history of Greece is replete with waves of pastoralist invasions, one after the other, created a “sedimentary” culture with multiple layers and redundant myths. Rather than understanding myth as a view into the Jungian unconscious, Greek myth is (like the Bible) an exaggerated or personified history of real events.
Due to the “sedimentary” nature of Greek religion, the Greek religion as it was encoded in Homer and Hesiod was a “reverse assimilated” form of pastoralism. While the Greeks maintained a memory of their original Gods (the Gods of the storm and sun, the Gods of hunting and raiding) they “reverse assimilated” the older Gods of agriculture into a pantheon. In India, the same process occurred.
Reconstructionism
In order to determine the original form of the Graeco-Vedic religion, it is necessary to refer to Joseph Campbell and Georges Dumézil’s comparative mythology. In the same way that we reconstruct Indo-European language by comparing Greek and Sanskrit, we can also reconstruct Indo-European religion.
Previous attempts to reconstruct this religion have been flawed due to a refusal to consider the economy of human life -- the contrast between the pastoral and agricultural world. A modern translation of Indo-European religion into the modern world requires a recognition of technological change, rather than a worship of wooden icons. The pastoralists had no farming; farming Gods, therefore, we are a “reverse assimilation” from the societies they conquered.
Zeus and Odin are not original pastoral Gods, but syncretic Gods who were meant to unite disparate pantheons. As such, these Gods are depicted as shape-shifters, and often humiliated:
Zeus is humiliated by his wife, Hera, and attempts to disguise his adultery through bestiality.
Indra is humiliated by Vishnu, cursed with 1,000 vaginas (later eyes)
Odin is humiliated as a scribe, forced to endure Promethean crucifixion
These humiliations are the product of a conspiracy on the part of a agriculturist priest class, who wanted to reassert their power and control over the conquering military aristocracy.
In order to understand the character of the original pastoralist religion, which we will here call Graeco-Vedism, these humiliations must be removed, just as moss is removed from a statue or rust from a sword, to reveal its original character.
It is also important to recognize that pastoral religion was oral, while civilization was literate. Any written record we have of pastoral religion will necessarily be a “reverse assimilated” syncretized form, and cannot be taken as an original account of the invaders themselves.
The Hunter and the Sun
There are two principal Gods of Graeco-Vedism: the Hunter and the Sun. The Hunter is a werewolf, a man who transforms himself into a beast and back again; who hunts by the light of the moon and is stimulated by its energy; who is brave in the face of danger and eternally young; who is the leader of a gang; whose enemy is the human-sacrificing witch in the form of a dragon. The dragon, for the pastoralists, was not a mythological beast, but the personification of the agricultural religion they encountered.
The cult of the dragon appeared in its purest form as follows:
A middle aged man would dress himself in the skin of lizards and snakes and take on the female persona of “mother Earth.” She would prepare a young virgin girl for sacrifice on the altar of a burial mound (later, the pyramid). The girl would be tied down, drugged with hallucinatory snake venom, and the hallucinations of the girl would be interpreted as messages from the Gods, speaking through the victim.
Once the message was interpreted, the priest would cut open the chest of victim. The organs would be eaten by the priest. Afterward, the corpse of the girl would be totally burnt, so that the congregation could smell her burnt flesh. Her bones would be buried on top of the sacrificial burial mound, which would become larger and taller with each sacrifice.
As pastoralists invaded and conquered, they attempted to ban these practices. As in most cases of religious conflict, the result of these bans was not elimination, but reappropriation, substitution, and syncretism.
Pastoralists no longer used burial mounds for virgin girls, but instead reappropriated them for burying their kings. The most elaborate example of this practice was the burial of the Egyptian kings in pyramids. The purpose of the burial was to escape the destruction of the serpent goddess, which represents not a Jungian archetype, but an older religion which the Egyptians had attempted to suppress.
The Cetus
In the myth of Hesione, Herakles rescues the princess from the Cetus. The Cetus, as depicted here, appears to be a dark figure with a white skull. The sharp distinction between the black body of the Cetus and the white skull indicates that the skull was a mask. Eventually, the Cetus was mythologized as an actual beast; but originally, the Cetus was a death mask, or skull, worn by priests wearing black robes.
We have evidence of the use of these horrifying masks from African religion.
With regard to the masks of African religion, it is a common misconception that this religion is associated with hunter-gatherers, who throw spears at monkeys and eat fruit off trees. This is a mischaracterization and misunderstanding of the nature of Bantu cultures. The Bantu have practiced agriculture for 3,000 years, and these masks represent an agricultural religion, not a hunter-gatherer one. Since Bantu agriculture is derived from Middle Eastern agriculture, it is possible that Bantu masks are a preserved, fossilized version of the original agricultural religion.
As pastoralists encountered agriculturalists, they devised strategies for how to best use Blitzkrieg, lightning war, tactics of surprise and ambush. For example, in Homer’s Iliad, he describes how the Greeks used a religious icon, a wooden horse, in order to trick the Trojans and get past their defenses. For the pastoralists, understanding and timing their attacks to coincide with major religious rituals provided them with a strategic advantage.
During these ceremonies, the congregation gathered by the priest would be drunk or drugged. The congregants would be whipped up into a frenzy, the “Dionysian orgy.” Dionysus was a God of human sacrifice, and of wine, so the connection between the two indicates that the congregation would get drunk while watching the ritual of cannibalism. It is not so different from how modern soy-men get drunk as they watch football or MMA, or how the Roman masses would have been drunk as they watched human sacrifice in the colosseum. The entire community of slaves was summoned to a central ceremony in which all were bewitched and entranced.
It was at this moment that the pastoralist war-band would strike. Seeing the congregation gathered before the burial mound (or pyramid), the pastoralists would give the signal to strike at the peak of emotional hysteria. The congregation, being driven into religious ecstasy, would be too confused and panicked to respond effectively.
In Greece, these Dionysian rituals took place by the ocean. The priestess would emerge from the ocean as the “sea monster” to kill a virgin tied to the shore. As this ritual was in progress, a pastoralist war-band would ride in on horses, kill the priest, and rescue and marry the virgin girl intended as a sacrifice. The purpose of “marrying the princess” was meant to humiliate the agriculturalists, who believed that it was the greatest possible offense to the Gods.
This scene may have been re-enacted as its own ritual-play, as the war between the Hunter Cult and the Dragon Cult was waged over hundreds of years.
Within Judaism, the struggle against human sacrifice and the primacy of pastoral life (Abel, Abraham, Isaac, David), shows a clear parallel to the conflict going on within Greek society. But there are clearly cases where the agriculturalist gets the upper hand over the hunter, as in the case of Jacob tricking Esau.
Alongside the God of the Hunt, the other principal God was the Sun, Lucifer, bearer of light. Although Lucifer and the Hunter were distinct enough to be labeled as different Gods, they were united in the person of Apollo, who was both Lucifer and the Hunter.
Rather than understanding these two Gods as entirely separate beings, they should be understood as the dualistic aspects of a single being.
Digression on Satanism
When Christianity was attempting to suppress the cult of Apollo, it targeted the light-bearing God as evil, and invented a story as follows:
Apollo (Lucifer) was the greatest and most beautiful of all angels, but grew too proud, and was humiliated by being told to serve humanity. He refused, and was cast down into hell.
This story appears nowhere in the Bible, but evolved as a folk legend among early Christians to explain the reality of Apollo as a persistent spiritual archetype among Europeans.
Today, the name Lucifer is associated with black clothing, tattoos, piercings, pale skin, makeup, candlelight, BDSM, potions in cauldrons, animal bones, speaking to the dead, black cats, spiderwebs, rats, snakes, cemeteries, and Halloween. For Christians, the name Lucifer is associated with torture, sadism, hellfire, sexual orgies, whips, drugs, slavery, chains, and human sacrifice.
The irony of this depiction is that these motifs refer to the memory of an actual ancient religion: the Dragon Cult. In the Dragon Cult, the transvestite priestess wore black, was covered in tattoos and piercings, shielded herself from the sun, conducted her sacrifice at night, chained her victims to an altar, tortured her victim and induced hallucinations with animal poisons, sexually molested and raped the victim, and finally burnt the victim alive and buried their corpse underground.
Apollo, the true Lucifer, has no affiliation with these practices, and instead, fights against them. Whereas the Dragon is the origin of poison and sickness, Apollo-Lucifer is the medicine. In the cult of the sun, torture and human sacrifice are the greatest evils, and even animals are afforded rights against torture. The warmth of the sun and its healing effects are embraced. The priests of Apollo-Lucifer wear robes of white, not robes of black.
Makeup as a deceptive agent (used for gender transformation) is profane. The animals associated with Apollo-Lucifer are the Eagle, the Lion, the Horse, and the Bull, all wild animals who cannot be tamed. Depictions of “Satan,” including a man with a goat’s head, are opposite to this. Apollo’s animals are well-bred, masculine, and powerful, while the goat represents a domesticated creature.
Satanism, taken to its logical conclusion, is a total rejection of the Solar Cult, and a return to human sacrifice. While modern Satanists are too cowardly to follow through on this, the greatest worship of human sacrifice today comes in the form of the ritualized re-presentation of the Holocaust. In the Holocaust, Jews were subjugated, passive, feminine (lacking weapons, complying with orders), pale, emaciated, and weak. They were chained, filled with toxic poisons (Zyklon B) and then burnt alive, and finally buried in pits. The priests who oversaw this process wore black robes and worshipped a black sun, rather than the golden one depicted in Buddhism.
Whether the Nazis were consciously aware of these elements, or whether these elements only coincidentally bear resemblance to the Dragon Cult, the fear, terror, and humiliation inspired by Nazism represents a resurrection of the Dragon Cult in the modern day, with Hitler serving as the high priest.
Everything is justified as an attempt to avoid the re-occurrence of another Holocaust -- another Dragon sacrifice. Similarly, in the Neolithic, the priests would strike fear into slaves by spreading rumors of a coming sacrifice; in Christianity, the fear of the sacrifice was transformed into the fear of hell.
While the sacrifice was a fearful event, it was also imbued with sexual fetishization, making it an event of terrifying erotic power. In the same way, Nazism has been imbued with erotic power, as can be seen in the Israeli genre of porn known as “stalag.”
Spengler
Rather than seeing pastoralism as primary or original, and agriculture as secondary and new, it would be better to dispense with this “chronological teleology” and view these two modes of humanity as separate cults which compete with one another over thousands of years.
As each competes with the other, they syncretize and mix together. When the balance between the two tilts too far, a civilization becomes “overdeveloped.” In Spenglerian terms, the barbarian (pastoralist) produces “culture,” while the agriculturalist produces “civilization.”
Spengler described the transition from barbaric culture into civilization as a process of degeneration, in which society became feeble, fragile, infertile, and pacifistic. By contrast, he saw the barbaric stage of culture as vital, vigorous, and strong. Spengler’s diagnosis was that Faustian civilization had lost its barbaric spirit, and was descending into degeneration.
Spengler’s prediction was that as Faustian civilization lost its vigor, Russian civilization would eventually overtake it, as a more primitive culture. In 1918, when Spengler was writing, this was a reasonable guess, since Russian fertility remained one of the highest rates in the world until 1925.
Russian fertility did decline during WWI, but it immediately shot back up to 7 children per woman. Since the population of Russia was 145 million in 1918, Spengler expected it to continue to increase at this rate, reaching 500 million in the next generation, and 1.7 billion in the generation after. Therefore, over the century, Spengler expected Russia to eclipse the population of China and India, and to become the greatest world power.
We now know the effect of communism was to systematically suppress the birth rate by forcefully civilizing primitive populations. Russia and China, which both had some of the highest birth rates in the world in 1918, now have some of the lowest.
Spengler failed to understand the true nature of communism as a civilizing force, rather than as a wild steppe religion. Spengler falsely envisioned the communist as a kind of “return to savagery,” which would return humanity to an animal state.
This was also a mistake shared by the Nazis, who believed that Bolshevism would mean the destruction of law and order - - nothing could be further from the truth. The victory of communism was the victory of managerial bureaucracy over feudal society.
Nietzsche
The best respond to Spengler’s failure, which relied upon an overly optimistic (or pessimistic) evaluation of third-world resistance to civilization, is Nietzsche. Nietzsche does not point to Russia or China or any foreign civilization as a legitimate competitor to the Faustian. Rather, Nietzsche believes that future developments can only come about from within this system, in opposition to it.
Spengler has a nationalist, biological model of civilization, in which each civilization represents a cohesive body of the Volk. Nietzsche, by contrast, regards nationalism as a priestly fiction. There is no “Germanness” uniting the street sweeper with the prince. For Nietzsche, the street sweeper is an entirely different race from the nobility, and this view of Nietzsche was the traditional view.
It is self-evident why nationalists reject this view: they are street sweepers, and they resent being excluded by their betters. They invent myths of child-raping globalists to justify their moralistic sadism. It is the desire of the masses to kill Bill Gates so they can pilfer his wealth, and squander it, not understanding that his administration of the world is far nobler than their “based” alternative.
But Nietzsche was also critical of Gates and the managerial elite, because he saw that liberal democracy legitimizes itself by the myth of “uplifting the masses.” For Nietzsche, this is an impossible task, since material wealth cannot ennoble the spirit. In fact, the addition of wealth only further exaggerates the pettiness of the peasant. Give a peasant a phone, and he watches TikTok. It would be less disgusting to let him play in the mud.
For Nietzsche, the TikTokification of humanity leads to the last man, a pitiful creature without agency, following trends, gossiping, passively consuming the news. This creature will be so weak and so incapable of fucking that it will be bred out of existence. The result is that a new spirit, inoculated against slavery, will emerge out of the sheer quantity of billions of doomscrollers, and He will take His place as master over the world.
Although this prophecy sounds like wishful thinking or mysticism, its potential lies in genetic engineering. Although humanity is currently degenerating into ever more extreme performances of self-subjugation, the potential for unlocking the secrets of blood is greater than ever. Never before in human history has heredity been as exposed to the potential of self-mastery.
But this potential has not yet been fully unlocked. It is like Pandora’s Box being slowly opened, not yet revealing its secrets. As we peer inside the box, we perceive only a faint darkness, beckoning us to discover more.
This is the salvation of humanity and the coming of the Ubermensch. There is no “political solution” in nationalism, classical eugenics, populism, or monarchism. It is only by Faustian exploration into the unknown that the pastoral man will once again begin his raid, unleash Pandora’s Box, and ride again against the Dragon.
I really wish you would start backing up these claims with something. I'm with you for most of it, but then you'll make some offhand comment about cannibalistic transvestites worshipping Dionysis or the religious slave dynamics of pre-Columbian America and categorically refuse to elaborate or cite any kind of source. You treat them as such obvious common knowledge that they need no support. Given your propensity for dry sarcasm, convoluted metaphor, and just openly fucking with your audience it makes the whole work suspect. Since I can't clearly differentiate between new real facts that I'm just learning about and bullshit for comedic or poetic effect I have to treat the whole thing as entertaining fiction.
The cult of Inti, the Inca god of Sun, apparently included human sacrifices. If that was the case, here you have the case of a Dragon cult associated with the Sun.
Fun fact: that's the sun represented in Argentinian and Uruguayan flags.