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A century before the common era, the writer Diodorus Siculus set down what this lecture calls the oldest recorded mystery: the story of a royal family on the Black Sea who called themselves children of Helios (Ἥλιος), the sun. The episode follows the line through Hecate (Ἑκάτη), the huntress said to have discovered the poison aconite (ἀκόνιτον), and Circe (Κίρκη), who turns strangers into animals in the old tale, down to their sister Medea (Μήδεια). The claim is that Medea learned the same drug craft but used it to heal and rescue strangers rather than kill them.
The center of the lecture is what Ammon Hillman says Diodorus preserved: Medea made a hollow image of Artemis (Ἄρτεμις), filled it with drugs, anointed herself until she looked old, and carried it into the city until the crowd fell into what the text calls mania (μανία). In the wording the video uses, she is the first Christ and the first Sōtēra (Σώτειρα), the savior, and her performance is the beginning of the Bacchic mystery that moved from the Black Sea into both east and west. The argument is that later rites, including the ones named after Moses and Jesus, are corruptions of this earlier one begun by a woman.
The description closes with the history woven into the names. The people once called Arians are said to have renamed themselves Medes after her, and the region is treated as the home of a drug-centered culture whose arrows and medicine carried the same poison knowledge. The episode does not ask the viewer to believe every detail; it asks the viewer to read Diodorus and see whether the text really says what the traditional story left out.
Full Video Transcript
A century before the first year of our Lord, a man named Diodorus from Sicily recorded for posterity the beginnings of the greatest empire in human history.
He started with the royal family who lived on the shores of the Black Sea and called themselves the descendants of Helios.
Diodorus tells us of the royal family whose magic created an empire of the mind.
tells us of the first queen to be the Christ indeed he tells us of the oldest
gospel the oldest mystery and she who developed it he tells us of her power
stretching from east to west he tells us of the buildings and the monuments
marked by her name he tells us of the engineering feats she accomplished he
tells us of the medicine she created and the hospitals that were built he tells us of the
people who worshipped her he tells us of her divine mouth from which came the future he tells
us of medea everything starts with an expedition of greeks thessaly diodorus tells us this
expedition, left Thrace after equipping itself with supplies, and sailed into the Pontus,
the Black Sea. There it came, Taurian Chersonese, the peninsula we now call
Crimea. Diodorus tells us those Greeks were unaware of the extreme behavior of the locals.
The barbarians that live in that land have a law.
They sacrifice to Artemis Tauropoulos, anyone who happens to wash ashore.
This is the place Iphigenia was later taken in order to be the priestess of this goddess,
to sacrifice to her those who were captured.
Tauropolis was the goddess’ cult title. She was cult leader of the Taurians.
Diodorus tells us Helios, two sons, Aetes and Perseus. He said Aetes was the ruler of Caulcus
and Perseus the ruler of the Taurians. Both of them were known for their cruelty.
Children of Helios were marked by specific features, including hair, color of the sun’s burning rays, skin that glowed, and eyes that bore the shining mark of Helios.
Their culture was driven by drugs and the drug trade
Their arrows were their defense
Tipped with poisons that gave the Taurians and the Kalkians
A distinct military advantage
Descendants of horse cultures
These people ultimately dominated the Black Sea as pirates
one need only to sail by the great tower of medea when one entered into the black sea to know
that the region was theirs the region belonged to the daughters of helios diodorus tells us that
perseus had a daughter named hecate she excelled her father and courage in a disdain for custom
she was a huntress who worked with black hounds and when she was not hunting wild beasts she
hunted men instead she was a lover of the skill of crafting death bringing drugs she discovered
aconite and she tested out its powers upon people captured people who were administered the drug
Hecate eventually used these drugs to kill her own father and to assume power
over the kingdom. When she rose to power she established this practice of killing
strangers who happened to be washed ashore and for this she garnered a great
reputation of cruelty sometime later Hecate cohabited with Aetes and produced two daughters
Circe and Medea they also had a son Circe had an innate propensity for pharmacological
experimentation and she discovered the powers of many drugs unbelievable powers she learned a lot
from her mother hecate but what’s more she learned even more through her own skill diodorus tells us
that circe was given to marriage to a king of the sauromations some people he says call these people
civians we know that medea had her own bodyguard 12 of these scythian women skilled in drug
knowledge. But Circe killed off the king of the Sarumatians with drugs, assumed control of the
kingdom, and did many bad and cruel things for which she was exiled from the kingdom. According
to the mythographers, she fled to the ocean, to a deserted island, and took with her to that place
all the women who followed her. Some people say she came to Italy, to the very place we call today
Kyrkaion. It was there on that island that she met Odysseus. She poisoned him and his men. He was
given an antidote against her drugs by the god Hermes, disguised as a young boy. Diodorus tells
us that medea learned the art of drugs from both her mother hecate and her sister cersei but he
adds that medea did not have the same intent as they did she was not cruel instead she tried to
rescue strangers who’d been taken captive sometimes she asked her father directly to be merciful
to the ones who were about to be put to death to give them salvation sometimes she arranged to have
them released herself it may be that her father aetes was the source of cruelty but it also may
be that her mother was the one who had established the right to kill strangers and therefore
influenced eets regardless of what the mythographers or historians argue it’s well
known that medea went on to be the healer of the family to be the one to spread the healing rights
that she herself would develop based upon the pharmacological cures that she had studied with her
mother and sister Medea used the wisdom that had been stored in the activities of the family of
the son for generations she used that wisdom in order to create a mystery right that would rule
the world this princess who would become queen of a people in history this princess was the origin
of the bacchic right the very maddening mystery that would sweep from east to west in the bronze
age the very mystery whose decline would bring darkness to the world medea discovered the right
and an entire group of people once called arians would change their name to match the power of hers
they called themselves the medes diodorus the sicilian preserved for us that very right in the
first recorded mystery medea is the christ and diodorus brings us to that place where we can see
the performance. It was this late Bronze Age rite that would be corrupted as early as its first
generation by a man named Heracles. Many others would develop corrupted forms of this
right such as Moses and Jesus but this right began with a woman this right began in a place
that was administered by a woman this right came the basis of all of civilizations religious
inclinations. She is the first Christ. This is Diodorus’ description of her initiation.
This rite begins with the creation of an image. It is true idolatry. And about this queen who
invented fumigation, Diodorus says. Medea made an empty image of the goddess Artemis. She then
filled it with drugs of all capacities. Next, she Christed herself, making her hair gray and her skin
wrinkled her appearance was such that anyone who saw her would think that she was an old woman
and then picking up this mystery initiation image and she carried it into the city where the people
were put into divine fear from it just as Medea was in a state of enthusiastic mania so did the
people come under the control of the idol and as they did as they entered ecstasy Medea spoke
the news of the arrival of a goddess who should be embraced. She said this goddess had come
to bring the people to a place of fortune to protect their king. All in a state of mania
worshipped the goddess with sacrifice. All of the city was ecstatic along with Medea.
From these origins sprang the Bacchic mystery that would sweep both east and west. From the Black Sea, from the Taurian and Colchian kingdoms, a royal line produced the first Sotera, the first savior. And she, as divine physician, was Christ.
Source: Lady Babylon