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Jahve was certainly a volcano-god…One of these [volcanic] mountains must have been the Sinai-Horeb which was believed to be Jahve’s abode. In spite of all the transformations the Biblical text has suffered, we are able to reconstruct – according to E Meyer – the original character of the god: he is an uncanny, bloodthirsty demon who walks by night and shuns the light of day.
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The god Jahve, to whom the Midianite Moses led a new people, was probably in no way a remarkable being. A rude, narrow-minded local god, violent and blood-thirsty, he had promised his adherents to give them " a land flowing with milk and honey " and he encouraged them to rid the country of its present inhabitants " with the edge of the sword. "
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During the centuries since then the Levites had become one with the people or with the priesthood and it had become the main task of the priests to develop and supervise the ritual, besides caring for the holy texts and revising them in accordance with their purposes.
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But was not all this sacrifice and ceremonial at bottom only magic and black art, such as the old doctrine of Moses had unconditionally condemned ?
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Freud was a Vulcan, and not nearly as smart as popularly believed. He did however had a connection to the ancients.
Nikokaro
Nikokaro
What do you mean by calling him Vulcan? A connection to the ancients is definitely there, and to the Romans in particular. Just remember his numerous quotations from myths (e.g. the Oedipus complex, Electra complex).
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By that I mean that he identifies Vulcan as Jahve: 'Jahve was certainly a volcano-god'
So from a roman perspective Freud was a Vulcan. I do believe Jahve is a blend of greco/roman gods (Saturn, Vulcan, Bacchus, Mercury). Jesus being Adonis (the dying and rising god).
Nikokaro
Nikokaro
I fully agree about the similarity of these gods: all patriarchal, tyrannical, often angry, ruthless and without compassion, even more often misogynistic and phallocentric. 🧐
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Friedrich Nietzsche identifies two sides of the esoteric greek(/roman) discourse. He analyses the relation between Dionysos and Apollo. It appears to be that there are the celestial gods (Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Apollo etc.) and the underworld gods that are in a competing relation. Apollo and Dionysos switch power according to seasons. In the Matrix movie the sun is completly blocked out, an eternal night.
Nikokaro
Nikokaro
Sure. This was the young Nietzsche philologist, before his critical and philosophical turn. This dichotomy between heavenly gods (reason, consciousness, light) and subterranean gods (impulse, unconscious, darkness ) was taken up by many thinkers after him, including in psychoanalysis: e.g. C.G.Jung.