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Season three crosses the Adriatic. For two seasons Ammon Hillman has worked in Greek sources, but this one begins in Latin, with a late fifth century North African lawyer named Blossius Aemilius Dracontius, whose name he says means dragon. Dracontius wrote an epyllion, a short epic, while Christianity and the old faith were at war around him. Hillman reads it as a record of the mystery that survived into Roman North Africa. The episode’s stated purpose is to assemble a portrait of Rome’s Lady Babylon.
The first detail is a line calling the founding ravisher the first rapist of the burning purple, with the word Iason used not as a man’s name but as a title within a cult. Medea then appears under the name Scytha, the Scythian, and Aurora combs her glowing red hair and pours out the dawn; Hillman notes the digamma behind the old word, reading a Pelasgian and Etruscan layer beneath the Latin. Later he quotes an invocation out of Medea’s own lips. She calls on Sol, the sun, and names Perseus and Mithras, on the moon of night and the Furies, on Proserpina and Pluto. The report here is that the Roman mystery was an underworld death cult with a female oracle at its center.
The snakes close the loop. Dracontius says the viper both kills and heals, a pair, and Hillman points to the Italian serpent goddess Angitia as the western form of Medea, attested by the temple built to her. He reads Pindar’s Fourth Pythian Ode as preserving the prophecy of Medea, and he ties the purple to the concha, the sea shell that gives the dye, calling it the source of the Phoenician power and of the priestess Jezebel. His final claim, reported rather than endorsed, is that she who has a thousand names has one name, “Mystery,” and that it was hers before it was ever a book.
Full Video Transcript
Welcome back to season three.
We have another crack at seven weeks.
Yes, yes. Beautiful. I love it. It’s great to be back. Had a great working vacation.
Was given my, was given our work and we have a great show for you tonight. All I’m going to do
is bring out in front of you the words from antiquity and we’re going back to Lady Babylon.
but this time it’s Lady Babylon, Rome. It’s fantastic. I’m going to bring up a series of
texts to you tonight. And what we’re doing is we’re setting our sights to the West. Okay. We’ve
been to the crime scene. We’ve seen Jesus arrested with the naked boy at 4 a.m. We know that he was
calling himself a sex trafficker. We know there are drugs involved. We’re looking for the cult.
we’re we’re trying to dive as deep into it as we can possibly get why not go to the founder of all
this mystery yes why not go to the founder herself and that’s what we’re going to do tonight so we’re
jumping out of the east and west to the dropping off of the sun and the arrival of night um this
is gorgeous this is gorgeous um who do we bring who do we summon tonight oh we’re bringing a north
african oh i’ve you know i forgot to make a let me just make an announcement for the chat people
people that jump on there yeah be cool be cool or get zapped yeah be cool or get zapped this is a
good place to come right okay so don’t bring any of that racism misogyny you know whatever your
values are we don’t care we don’t okay leave that stuff outside outside um or cersei will zap you
cersei please jump on jump on we need this right human sacrifice love it it’s delicious
so we’re going to the west and we’re going to north africa we’re going to dredge out of the soil
from late 5th century a very special lawyer this lawyer was was boy did he have the sources
well educated his was that latin yeah anyway um and what he did was he preserved for us
some of the most culty references possible this is the he has preserved the actual
functioning of the mystery many of you will say mystery mystery look it’s all on youtube and we’re
all figuring out the mystery mystery mystery right and where’s it from oh it’s from the secret and
right and okay we’re coming away we’re stepping away from that crowd that wants to take us in
the back right we’re remembering that it’s good technique this season right we’re going to practice
that we’re stepping out we’re going to say okay just let us look at the cult tonight i just want
you to see the cult through lady babylon right right scholars with their books and their selling
and their position trying to give you their theories that’s not for us we just were detectives
we want to know what was the reality going on and so in order to get there tonight we’re going to
start our jaunt into rome with dracontius dracontius don’t you love that it means a
draco right it means the the dragon um anyway uh he was preserved he preserved for us
these strains of cult in an epilion an epilion and what dare you ask is an epilion it’s a short epic
okay it’s a it’s a metrically an epic it’s short and um yeah he wrote one he wrote one he did some
time in prison too there were wars going on between christian and non-christian and it was
going against, it was a terrible, a disturbing time, disturbing times. I can smell it. Can you
smell it? Okay, let’s pull out some Dracontius. Let’s get serious. Pull out some Dracontius and
tonight I want you, as you’re sitting on that throne, as you are within Asterion, right? I want
you to go ahead and look at these images. We’re looking at images. We’re going to be working with
words but we’re looking at the images chewy number one text please i just want you to see
i’m gonna sit here as the voice and i’m gonna try not to yell here i don’t want to yell so
why don’t i do this yeah what we’ve got here is that golden artifact that’s protected
by a dragon yes and on that skin and what’s funny the word for parchment’s used so it is implied
there’s writing that that song that is being said water that that song is what
that guardian is is guarding it’s what that dragon is watching yes but look
what we get here and the third line honk propped up a laggy temerator primus
yes son isn’t that nice isn’t that nice look at this the first
iason was a rapist of the burning purple isn’t that nice isn’t that nice and so i want you to
see that we’re right there right from the beginning so he’s gotten us to the fleece
and he’s letting us know um and i want you to get prepared for all the snakes and for all the
um we want to see the right as it’s being performed we want to go there directly right so
Okay, we’re just settling in. Give us another one. Another. Yeah, ut sitha conspexit graem.
Oh, isn’t this wonderful? Look at this second word, sitha. That’s her, right? He’s describing
what Medea is doing, and he says she is sitha, right? Those of you who are lovers of that
history and i know those are those of you here just notice just sit back those of you who said
scythians scythians somebody said scythians please don’t scythians what about these people
yeah well her name is scytha gorgeous um same text again please chewy um she’s amazed right
right? She’s amazed at this process that’s going on. Next one, please. Yeah, Aurora. Notice the
name Aurora Rutilans. She’s combing her red or glistening red. Rutilans is like, I don’t know,
it’s a description of the glowing that you have. Oh, yes, here, we’ll do this. A description of
glowing that you have um when aurora appears it’s a sheen from her hair and it is rutilans
oh isn’t that nice her hair is puny chaos puny chaos gorgeous gorgeous could you uh could you
give us back that text should we thank you yeah and what is she doing as she combs her hair ante
diem quai mox perfundet aum yeah she’s flowing out she is pouring out dawn eos look at that last
word aom yeah there’s a digamma in that yeah we’re going to see this that digamma most people
go ahead and bring me up most people think that the digamma from the mycenaean greek that’s going
back to about 1600 BC. Yeah, that Mycenaean Greek is carrying that digamma. But people refer to that
as the origin and that the Romans crossed the Adriatic. They really picked up through the
Etruscans this association with the digamma. But there’s a Pulaskian note in this. In the
pelasgian culture we’re talking about older older do we have that map there you can show some people
with references we’ll get there we’ll get there in the sources yeah all right here we go look
oh this is trippy what’s going on look right here that’s fine look here i am above the world and
look at all of the places that they have gone look at the pelasgian culture these are all references
right so you got them heavy we also have them here we also have them right here oh that’s nice
lesbos you know they call the island of lesbos um pulaskia isn’t that nice the land of the
pulaskians and this is the same thing we’re getting in northern italy through the etruscans
um the tiranoi right the etruscans didn’t call themselves etruscans man that’s never how it works
out historically right that’s what somebody else called them right the tiranoi or the tirsinoi um
have a pelasgian um root so this is an older culture that’s bronze age bronze age when you’re
thinking mycenaean you’re thinking getting into late middle late bronze age getting into late
bronze age boom you got this explosion of the of this right this mystery right so this is really
going back to the origin um yeah even the sea remember the the sea we’re gonna see the sea in
a minute and we’re gonna see it through the purple this is oh my this stuff is okay buckle your seat
bouncer go outside and talk to the wind for a minute but yeah buckle in this is gonna be good
okay let’s get let’s get another uh reference up fantastic yeah oh this this is um um juno
yes asking cyprus right um for help right and she says send that boy love right what is he he’s
carrying a quiver right it’s my cypress yeah and um let that we are ago see that last word on the
second line that we’re ago is a that’s eve that we saw before that’s how we translate eve in the
oldest of the um latin versions right and so yes the only one that works that means um led from man
right like the text says it’s the only one but that weirago is that uh old etruscan minerva
it’s that some people would translate it virgin but um what is she she’s furibunda
she that’s a special word used in cult and that means she who carries the daimon
that’s the inspired one okay so we’re talking about a weirago which is a
a a typically described as a manly girl as a manly girl yeah um as a girl who is not yet developed
yeah sexually but is developed muscular wise yeah and you know a gymnast you know kind of
a weirago is somebody that you know you go into battle with or that you hunt with that’s what a
weirago is right a lion huntress sirene is that weirago okay um i think it’s a beautiful uh um
portrait because what we’re doing is we’re assembling a portrait of lady babylon
go ahead that same yeah yeah right um so let her fall by that by fire that fire of yours that
burns. You know, let the Fuhrer teach us to love, right? Because that’s what she has. Medea has that
Fuhrer, right? And then a little bit he talks about, let her just, you know, walk away from the
shrines of the goddess. What goddess? The goddess Diana, who carries the quiver, right? She’s trying
to take control of this what is she well so far we know she she is an oracle all right remember
she’s one of the captives one of the we just read the first yason so right you think the name jason
is a dude’s name no it’s a title within a cult right the first one of these abducted her the
burning purple isn’t that cool isn’t that cool that’s amazing yeah through a series of kings we
go right loving it loving okay give us more text man what’s there about medea please oh okay now
this is i’m just gonna go through i’m gonna fly through this and i just want to set a picture for
you yeah so i’m going to start translating now it pains my soul to tell you of the abominations
of the black virgin it pains my soul to show gods taken captive to show the manipulation of elements
to show nature given to serve a girl the word there is puella that he’s using right remember
she is in this state of not yet having finished puberty yeah very tall yeah very tall but with
the appearance with the gynomorphic appearance right the the androgenic appearance of approximately
a 12 year old thanks to the babylonians they were the ones who figured that out um and there she is
in that year preserved with those serpents yeah oh it’s this is um this is good stuff this is
this is cult right here i mean we just is it is it me or did we just land in a giant i mean we just
showed up and here everybody’s got the robes and every you know here they come this is gorgeous
bring us up another one the same text please same text yeah so um what does she say what does she
say she says um um i am able right this is what she says but he um the poet is saying it it really
shouldn’t be done i shouldn’t be saying this anyway so um i hate to show you the naphos the
the terrible things that she does turning you know god’s captive and controlling nature itself right
what else does she do she brings the stars of the pole that is the pole stars and for those of you
who are reading the pgm the papyri magikai um tune up and uh okay here are your poll lords
and the course of phoebus and the stars of the kyleum of the heaven right what does she do she
moves these by her own arbitrio by her own will right the will mulieris the will of the wife
which dracontius is real real real strict about saying look in your trinity you have hera
aphrodite and minerva and don’t forget it right so you’re going to see each of these three
coming out in this okay and this is all framed of course within the the oracular cult right
that’s why we’ve got the curses foibi okay good okay because line six because what she orders
right that nephos that she orders right that’s what happens when she commands the ether to send
out the flames oh isn’t that gorgeous you’ve heard this convention from antiquity you’ve heard about
this convention it’s called drawing down the fire yeah or the fire of uranos yes and it’s a special
thing it’s a special production that the only a maga would understand how to do only someone with
the purple would understand how to do it’s the breathing of the fire they um they would say
the breathing of the fire and people wanted to see her gorgeous bring that up one more time that big
text one more time please thank you yeah um her voice cuts through the air and makes the living
and the dead when she herself turns back fate to a course that she would want. She is the one who
is given the sacrifice of the stranger. She runs through the temples of Scythian Diana. We are
steadfastly in the Crimea. Yes, gorgeous. Look at line 11.
She possesses the star-bearing heaven in her abominable breast, and she presses the gods
with her prayers, this virago, to do what is unwilling that she wants. Love it. She sings
songs in different languages and burns in appearance. She says names, the names,
and these things, it is indecent for a poet to learn. We will sing like Paul Hymnia, the mother
of Orpheus, right? So this is the work of Paul Hymnia, the mother of Orpheus. Yes. Nice. Nice.
Love it. Okay. So let’s look at her and see what kind of person Lady Babylon is. I’m going to go
little bit over so um just hang in there it’s a little bit long i’m sorry and i thank you for
your time chewy hit the next quote please yes um this is now venus right we’re all here gathered
waiting for the morning star right so this is venus and she says my child is here he’s sprinkling
the air with many types of flowers he breathes out an ambrosial order right odor that’s what happens
when arrow shows up right when amor shows up he suddenly can smell the ambrosia you know that
spring ambrosia okay and while um while she was talking lascivious venus was talking uh her son
came and um hovered over her over her grimium um what’s that it’s a lap it’s a lap angelons
do you know what love does love sits over the lap of aphrodite breathing the vapor breathing
that vapor i’m talking to you about a deep deep mystery yeah let’s keep keep hunting here love it
keep going we’ve got a few more uh next please um yes yes yes yes yes yes yes who is this eros
oh yes that just means the flaming one right the flaming one right what is he
he is that men’s ignea mundi that burning mind of the cosmos right yes atque wapor he is that vapor
poly of the pole what kind of vapor that one that produces that second vapor he is the continuance
of things, the succession, right? He is the affection. He is nature. He is type. He is the
source, the fountain, the author, the beginning. You, you, great Amor, are the generative health.
yes you are that woluptas you are that pleasant thing to be desired you are the princeps and for
those of you who don’t recognize him he is the princeps pietatus the prince of religious piety
yes yes another one please yep so here we are who is this medea look at line 136
and look at the last two words yeah medea sacerdos uh first word on the next line
medea is the sacrilegious priest think about that for a minute she is the one who brings the
abomination, the anti-religious religion. That is the oracular. It is the base of the oracular.
Tonight’s subtitle was, Why Must Christians Lie? They must lie because they must find a way out
of themselves. Yes. Yes. Bring it up. We’ve been all talking about the truth and who is lying to
us? Lies, lies, lies. Yes. Yes. Right. Bring us the Oracle. She won’t lie to us. She has no reason
to. Okay. The dude, I’m sorry, but your dude was arrested in a public park at 4am with a naked boy
yelling about child predating okay another source let’s do this yeah so this is who juno is seeking
right this unim pelasgum this unim pelasgum right she wants there to be some choice and some loving
and some helping and some desiring right some breathing in and out with this unim pelasgum
this youth, this young man, this Pulaskian prince, right? And that’s why she needs the
medwa. That’s why she needs her. Next one, please. I just want you to see that the pirates are
showing up. I want you to see the pirates coming to this, but when I say pirates, forgive me,
uh grandmaster depp um but uh when the pirates show up we’re talking about child traffickers
is what we’re talking about we’re not we’re in a we’re in a different place so when jesus is
yelling about himself being a buccaneer he’s not talking about the swashbuckling type that you
might want to have dinner with he’s talking about the type that are stealing children for the sake
of the sex trade which is not funny but when you think of jesus in that context it kind of gives
you like an ew like an icky feeling like look we have to be honest we cannot cover anything up we
have to get it all out give us another another roman source give us give us dracontius speak
dragon speak yeah bacchus bacchus right shows up right bacchus why you need to know that when
When you’re dealing with Medea, you’re dealing with the Bacchic cult.
Yes, yes.
During her existence, as she walked around, she was called Diana, right?
It wasn’t her being named after the god.
It was her.
She was the source.
She was the source of Dianic worship, right?
She has the right to kill the stranger.
It’s gorgeous.
absolutely gorgeous we’re going to get into the death and stuff i’m telling you the drugs don’t
worry the drugs will ground us that’s our salvation these drugs will ground us because
they’re going to show up here in the text in a minute you’re going to be like oh yeah a lot of
people tell me that all the time they’re like i didn’t think you actually meant or i didn’t think
that there was actually support for this or i didn’t think that there was you were actually
right right it’s not about theories and it’s not about writing books and keeping your position
and establishing a hoo-ha brouhaha it’s about those texts and about our integrity
all right the translation of those texts that’s really what matters here so let’s go back let’s
let’s keep jumping in see if we can go a little bit deeper thanks for your patience tonight
Next quote. Yes. Okay. On the second line down, Cognosco. How do you like that? It sounds like
a little more Barry White in there maybe. Cognosco. I recognize Secreta Polorum. That’s
Medea talking. She understands the secrets or the hidden things of the Poles. Do you know who she is?
Do you know those poll lords?
Si morbus eret.
If there will be disease.
If war is undertaken.
If it rains and floods everything out.
Or if the sky is blazoned with the horns of the red flames.
Cruscat in Latin is a great verb.
It actually does.
it it’s the image of horns driving through something love that and yeah look at the last
this is a really cute i mean this is the most hilarious thing i’ve seen this bottom line here
right so she’s addressing that first that first um you could say rapist um and not be wrong
because he’s a dude on a boat who sails in a town, abducts a woman, and sails away.
So look at what the medwa has to do, right? And he’s just the first. He’s just the first.
The dude comes in and he takes for the sake of sexual purposes. Yeah, he abducts for the
nymphizing of the virgin yeah yeah now it happened to be and we’re going to get into that with the
dragons that um remember that medea is involved at a very high level of late bronze age society
she’s a queen and eventually she ends up um with what you could call as the the origins of the
Medo-Persian power. Yeah. Yeah. As a matter of fact, we call them Medes because of her name.
Yeah. Medea, right? The Medewa, the Dewanasa, or the Dewana. Yeah. Nice. It’s gorgeous. A lot more
of it’s coming through the Latin than you think, right? Everybody’s been emphasizing, and I have,
for the first two seasons i’ve been giving you all greek sources well as any philologist and
this is what separates when you’re out there shopping around and somebody’s telling you this
is the mysteries blah blah blah right ask and they say greek blah blah blah you can test them
if they can’t do ancient latin sources good ancient latin sources then uh don’t believe
because their greek wasn’t gained through the avenue of classical philology yeah right and
every classical philologist takes for granted that these two cultures produced languages
that interacted with each other and that hide the the real goodies the real goodies right like
what’s the difference between a greek co-ace right and somebody a magus uh and from the latin
tradition yeah what’s the difference this kind of thing is important anyway more text somebody bring
the text jewish another text please yeah right right right i just want you to see that magum
look at that last word magum right that’s her she is a maga she is a maga so she is a queen
right she is royalty yeah and um we’re building temples to her we’re building temples to her
um on our side of the fence on the western side of the fence we call her anguitia isn’t that nice
we’re going to see that in a second it means serpent means serpent yeah gorgeous love it
lady babylon good another source oh look at this here’s our on grace here’s our on grace
what are these serpents what do they do they we brunt they bring about vocally sibilations
whisperings under their viper teeth under their viper teeth these anguished you know a lot of
greeks bring it back up because now i’m gonna look this is inevitable you’re gonna get this
there’s conflicts in antiquity right linguistically there’s conflicts and people will argue
they’ll tell you no no this is a greek word greek origin and the other stuff romans would be like
no no there’s a latin word latin origin here but most of the time you can tell pretty easily
but sometimes they fight over the concepts and um that’s what you’re going to see here but bring up
that text again same one please dude there we go so that last word uh sorry the last word anguis
they’re your serpents so angitia or anguitia we have a temple to her and we know from our ancient
authorities that that’s what they called media in italy okay okay and there’s temples to her anyway
look at the first word sibila yeah you want to say are civilizations the same thing that the civil
gives off and the greeks say no no it’s not it’s c civil is from c plus bule c plus bule the greek
bule which means council and c is the tyrrhenian or etruscan for those gods thank you john so
is there an etruscan connection there with c bule perhaps sibila though these whisperings
these civilizations are associated with oracular cult the sibyl who is that serpent i mean they’re
calling her for frick’s sake Pythia Medea is the one that started this if you don’t believe me ask
Pindar who provides her in a fourth Pythian ode he provides her prophecy that came from her mouth
when she was on the island of Thera it was preserved by the Pythian priestess that was
in wrapped up in what uh pindar was describing so anyway um good stuff no let’s get come on more
more we’re almost we’re almost through yeah i just want to see it lucifer’s there fantastic
right fantastic there we are lucifer right very important aurora that’s why you saw aurora before
because you know that what family are we in we’re in the family of the dawn bringers right these are
are the dawn bringers okay oh look at this okay now for those of you who think you’re so smarty
smart here is something out of her lips right so we’re within the cult we’re looking at an
imprecation right that’s coming from her it’s coming from the source of the burning purple
She says, sol testis avus. Grandfather, son, witness. Yeah, son is an S-U-N, right? Soul.
And for those of you who don’t smell Rome yet, you should start to now because the worship of soul
is very important. This is her avus, her grandfather. Sol persiche mitra. Oh, do you like
that? Do you like that? Perseus and Mithras. If you don’t love that, you’re in a bad place.
Guess where this is coming from? Guess where Mithra or Mitra is coming from? It’s coming
from the Dawnbringers, right? Lunadecus Noctis, moon, that beauty of night. Furiae, Furia,
The Furies, wait a minute. Yes, Medea, who is the priestess of the right, the right to murder the
stranger. She’s that priestess and she is invoking her grandfather, Mithras. Beautiful. And we have
the Furies, right? Because this is the abominable, right? We thought it was over, but when you stand
before those gates it turns out the universe strains you proserpina and pluton oh this is
a death cult this is an underworld death cult yeah you’re right that’s why it’s wrong for the poet to
know this it’s wrong for the poet to profane but how is medea described as the profaning priestess
are you beginning to see lady babylon akipe so radians animas yeah receive the souls radiating sun
you the bodies luna the nutriment of the soul
lovely um at the very last the line look at the last word this is a gorgeous word
umbras umbras umbras it means shades shades those shades of those who came before us right the
leader of night will bring those forward death the dead shall rise again can we get a little less of
the background I hope that backgrounds that’s not creeping in let me know in the chat if you’re
picking up background um fantastic um one more let’s get another let’s get another one please
um i just want to see moses is here moses right but here he is right we dug up moses tonight
and he don’t be surprised you saw the snake thing you saw the fact that he made a little tent
where you could walk into it and if you didn’t pass out you could hear the voice
of jehovah you heard that right he’s the muse baby right this is uh by the way this is pretty
contemporary stuff you know what i mean so um moses it turns out was one of the earliest
corruptions of medea’s mystery yes moses isn’t that neat jesus came later and added another
corruption of the right and for those of you who need it more directly judaism and christianity
are both the offspring of pagan mystery thousand years before either of them had anybody on the
scene in diapers yes this is wonderful let’s go another one yes um she she has a chariot right
she has a chariot which is a fearful thing and um these dragons right they offer up to her right
they they give her their necks yes these dragons who carry her song it was dragons that showed up
the night that she burned let’s turn the we’re gonna we only have like two quotes left so we’ll
get to those but i want you to know the night i’m going along i’m sorry the night that she burned
right so get this in your head she is a queen in exile and she is um she one night she burns
the princess and um her father to death in a wedding that was with the yason primus first
first jason and for those of you who haven’t made the connection yet to jesus it’s the same name
It’s not Hebrew.
It’s the same name in Greek.
Yason is a title within mystery cult.
Just like Christos.
Yeah, that’s interesting.
So this guy that got arrested in a public park called Gethsemane
at 4 a.m. with a naked boy
and was calling himself a child trafficker.
He was using a title within a mystery cult
that had to do with the transmission within the blood um of the new life yeah yeah the mystery
is not a question it’s an operation it’s a performance yeah and we know that’s why that
naked kid was with him right there were snakes and stuff get the bring up the snakes let’s get
to this last for those of you who doubt who doubt that our snakes are so important here
even after we dredged up old moses and forced him to lift up his staff with a snake on it
he could turn this thing into a snake you know what i mean gorgeous um even after that if you
don’t believe me i’m telling you um they’re they’re working on this medically with dotes
and antidotes and let’s look at some why the snakes why the snakes people are gonna you watch
within a within a period of time people will catch on to this in classics and history and they’ll
say what about the venoms used as drugs right it’s just the way i started spouting this um
years ago trying to get people’s attention but nobody reads these tags dracontius there who reads
dracontius nobody like bring him back up come here buddy get up here bring him another uh another
dracontius yeah hospice hobbit mortis hobbit it’s medicamina serpens weepera sipe you what
weepera sipe knock it you hear a little bit of the this is a couplet right uh elegiac couplet
it’s got a line of hexameter and line of pentameter it loses a foot somewhere in the middle
anyway um you can hear a little bit of it there kind of uh no rhymes because we don’t rhyme
it’s more sophisticated right it’s meter anyway um let’s translate this right so you your ass can
kill you right but your your snakes also are medicines right they also have medicines this
says right your vipers you know often time help right and often time they kill they kill it look
at this here is the here is the um here oh yeah i can feel that glow can you feel that look warm
it’s like around his midsection it’s like a bottom glow we’ll call it yes right no offense mithras
sorry about that um yeah now i forgot where i was look what happened i’m lost um here we are the
vipers can help and they can kill right so this whole idea of this balance between the dote and
the antidote don’t think that it’s not there it’s it’s the central heart of the mystery
um is there one more give me one more quote here i’m sorry oh this is gonna wrap it all you guys
are gonna love this i’ll try to talk again kind of more mysteriously delicias mortes
Esqueparat mare fructibus altum et generat pelagi concula divitias.
Oh, isn’t that nice?
Concula.
Yeah, that shell, that little creature brings us the delights and the death from that deep, deep wave.
yeah she brings forth the true riches of the burning purple pelagie in that second line of
the couplet pelagie is a word that you can use to represent the sea or specifically the sea mollusk
that gives us the purple. That is our phoenix, our Phoenician power. Yes, you should see it.
And that’s why that Phoenician princess, what is her name? What is her name? She’s royalty.
She’s the priestess of a start, right? I think you call her Jezebel. Jezebel.
love it love it lady babylon what does she have on her forehead she has one name she of a thousand
names has one name mystery it was hers historically she started it it was only uh it was only
accessible through her is that is that our final that’s a final quote right good um i also there’s
lot um from dracontius over the next uh six weeks we are going to focus on the roman side
we’re going to focus on yep on the this being the first week for the next six times that we meet
we’re going to focus on that burning purple and upon finding it and looking at the
the right, as the exercise of regenerating the oracle. So Lady Babylon can be made visible,
that’s what they call it, making the invisible visible. Yes, it’s gorgeous. And I will be
bringing out little bits of Dracontius here and there that are at the point that I think that
be most appropriate um but i do have a game plan for this third season and we will be jumping into
some rich rich waters that you’re not going to get if you want to sit around listen to people’s
theories right we don’t need theories right we don’t need to sell books we’re not selling books
brother right all right um i think what i’m going to do is is invite uh quick here for the last
10 minutes to invite snappy and uh rob do we have rob here as well um why don’t we start
with snappy and snappy tell me uh your reflections tonight on what on dracontius
i’m i’m completely blown away it’s it’s absolutely uh amazing um it just it connects all the dots
and it shows that this tradition had survived well into the roman times and like it’s everything
you’ve been talking about it’s i i’m still processing i need some time awesome awesome
rob what are you what’s your uh by the way snappy you’re gonna have to defend your title right
because you and thonius are kind of co-champs next friday we’ll have a fight night a fight club
um and uh i’m looking forward to it looking forward to it so we’re going to do it anyway
next friday um rob what are you what’s your impression any impression or uh thoughts on
on jacob are you kidding are you kidding me any anything yeah i feel sick that was a
that was a big meal a lot of courses that was and it’s everything i want to hear it’s it’s beyond um
it’s just i i just wrote all this in poetry is this all in poetry i mean i’m tying up so many
ends here i mean you got jezebel jezebel for me is uh her name is like where’s the prince
isabelle where’s the prince and then you bring in the prince princeps and that’s caesar and i’m
connecting just i i can’t i can’t get over it be honest with you this is one source who’s bought us
it’s just unbelievable it is where can you get this material i want to read all this where can
you get it it’s just amazing yeah you know that’s a good question that’s a good question rob where
can you get this and how is he writing it how is he writing this is it is it poetry is it verse
yes yeah it’s verse yep and it’s in the verse that is used by the um oracular cults it is the
dactylic hexameter and um so when of course when nonus who’s writing his great epic of dionysus
he’s going to use the same way of poetry the same melody right the same marching order that
the priestesses who are performing these rights that they’re using right so there’s a level of
authenticity to what dracontius is doing and honestly some of the vocabulary that he uses
is just it’s incredible it’s it’s um um you can see the influence of the etruscan right it’s right
right there out in the open and um the richness of this bronze this early bronze age cult you know
which if you can get just a glimpse of it you’re in good you know you’re in good shape but that’s
what the language does it brings us that um uh let me ask snappy snappy how is your um project
of interviewing going i mean i’ve i noticed that you’re getting you’re kind of getting more focused
what are your interviews going to start kind of what do you want to focus on um well right now i’m
i’m focusing on interviewing people who have been connected to this and i’ve been enjoying
the conversations here uh tomorrow i’m going to be talking with uh on nick cathonius who uh
is the joint fight club winner that should be good tomorrow night but really what i focus on
is is magical practice and how we actually utilize these this these mysteries and what you’ve been
showing us and what we’ve been doing here like there’s been so much discussion about things like
the sorties and necromancy i really want to explore those topics in depth and i want to have
um additional speakers who know about that kind of history come on as well ah see how see how that
sounds good yeah no that’s a see that’s alluring that makes me want oh yeah fantastic rob what are
you what are you doing for the world rob learning greek at the menace that’s where that’s where my
focus has been but um we need somewhere where we can go and meet and we’re kind of restricted at
the many so i’m not going to go into details but coming wednesday i think we might have us well
we will have a solution there’ll be another discord going live on wednesday and i’ll give
the address out and and i’ll be prepared and ready for it but it’s rather focusing on these episodes
this episode is like the epitome of what this discord will be about the sources and discussing
much what’s in them and what’s in the episodes strictly the episodes that’s all i’m really here
for and that kind of knowledge let me ask you this question let me interrupt and ask you this
question i’m trying not to interrupt i’m trying not to scream into my mic anymore these are these
are things that we notice as we’re watching the former season so i’m going to try to try to be
more professional this way um rob you’re just tell the group you’re you were not a classicist
you didn’t you didn’t study this when you were young you’re coming at this new and yet you’re
diving into the language and i’m going to make you dive into the latin now
right which is great because i get to spank everyone i love it but um tell tell the group
you know what that means to you like because you know it’s something to come back you know in the
middle of your life to come back to something that’s totally new like this but you see that
there’s there’s a reason for it um tell us like you know what motivates you it’s it’s compiled
i’m compelled every day each and every day to but by by like this morning i woke up and i’ve
down i’ve made sure i can remember all the declensions for the nouns and i want to write
it all out but what where that comes from is um it’s just a fascination where where i’m coming
from and i’m going into something through you that is it’s it’s just compelling fascinating
and drives every each and every day at the minute and um it’s only increasing because you’re saying
no latin is going to come to the front and then it keeping up with everything is is hard work
it’s hard work but i can’t come away from it there’s no coming away from it that episode
has just shown so many ends up for i knew it’d be good i knew that episode would be good and
i i hope people go back and watch it again because there’s so much in it and draw out what we
what what is in it because it’s pretty damn conclusive what the the path you’ve the arc
you’ve just took us on has taken us to and it covers all the research i’ve been doing
for the past two years and it’s coming from a latin a latin source and he’s giving you the
diagram which is the indication and it’s it’s that it is showing you where this is originating
through the language and that to me is is magic well we’ve got to get sweaty and in the pit with
the uh with the romans yeah we got to get naked in the pit with those mythraic um officers yeah
we’ve got to get in there i love this and um there is there is so much that i want to share with you
that it is uh you know that allows us to build that scene better so that we can just see what’s
the freaking reality right none of us we’re not here to start cult somebody was asking me
um about uh what kind of people do you want listening you know do you want participating
I want all kinds of people.
I don’t care what you are.
You know, I don’t care what your religion is.
I don’t care what group you’re in.
I don’t care where you go hang out and, you know, wear jackets.
I don’t care about that stuff.
None of that stuff is important.
In here, we preserve the integrity of the muse.
We go right to those texts and we work with those texts.
if that can help you to break into the reality that, look, Jesus Christ was a dude who got
arrested by the legitimate authorities in a public park with a naked kid, okay, calling himself a
sex pirate, right? Okay, what happened in that picture, right? There’s a reason to this, right?
it’s not the fairy tale world that’s what i want is uh and i’ll end with this by asking snappy
snappy are we breaking through to um to the reality uh is this productive or you know what
you i’m giving you the last word yeah i mean it it’s beyond productive like i don’t understand
how people can’t see these things we have these titles we have these positions like it’s explicit
now when we when we see what eosin is doing right and then you look at all of these other characters
it’s almost like laid bare and why this is so important is because there’s been a cover-up
there’s been an orchestrated effort to remove this kind of magical connotation and to whitewash and
sanitize jesus and everything he’s about and it’s no we can’t allow that you know i could not i
I could not say that better.
Hail Satan.
Hail Satan.
Hail Satan.
Source: Lady Babylon