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The season three finale turns to the Scythian women. Ammon Hillman reads a passage from the Hippocratic corpus describing the Sauromatae people around Lake Maeotis, the sea of Azov, in Ionian Greek. The women ride horses, shoot poisoned arrows, and throw javelins from horseback, and they fight in the wars. Hippocrates then gives the custom that changes everything: a woman may not marry until she has killed three enemies. Hillman reads the word parthenos (παρθένος) as a stage of life, of childbearing age but not yet a mother, rather than a mark of shame.
The second passage is from Valerius Flaccus, one of the fifteen keepers of the Sibylline books. He shows the Scythian queen called Scytha in prayer. She asks Hecate (Ἑκάτη) to send greater powers into her, because she is not content with the poisons anyone can know. What follows, Hillman reports through the Latin, is a medicine. She produces the flower of the Caucasus from her own body, from the blood of Prometheus, a substance that stays strong even to the end of the long aeon. He reads the word fibra, the fiber or tendon, and notes that the Latin tradition also names the male member, so that the passage describes the drug as a product of the body in the moment of the rite.
The close connects the women to the queen in heaven. Hillman names a trinity of women: Venus the morning star, the virgin, and Juno, and says the text reaches its peak when Venus arrives to lend power to speech and hand. In his reading, reported here as a claim, the strongest drug was the one the woman made herself, and the rite behind the Roman mystery was built by these priestesses.
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I never meant anything I said, just spittin’ it up and keepin’ it from eatin’ at me.
Never said anything I meant, I never sent a letter, said I should’ve said it, so it’s askin’ too much, well you oughta believe it, I say.
Nobody know what I say, it’s a cost for a long, never knew what I was lookin’ at anyway.
Welcome back to Lady Babylon, this is the season 3 finale.
and we’re going to have a Bible study tonight. I’m going to bring you two passages. These two
passages will be about Scythian women and their most potent drug. I want to bring you two passages
tonight, and the first one that we’re going to look at is from Hippocrates. The second is from
a guy named gaius valerius flaccus which you which you um are a little bit familiar with by
now because we’ve used him a couple of times but we want to show everyone we want to tell the
kitties and we want to show everyone the right right everybody’s looking for the right they want
to know the right so um tonight we’re at a place where we’re going to again set that ship for that
late bronze age right mystery religion right and we’re going to step out of that ship we’re going
to try to see through a couple of these ancient authors we’re going to see what the what’s
actually going on tonight’s theme is a woman that we have yet to see i’ve got a little subliminal
messaging here packaged that we need to show you first as usual just to kind of warm up
to get our juices flowing chewy light speed so we start tonight at a place that’s a little bit
behind where the historians like to start they like to start in the iron age for some reason
they think the city is just i don’t know maybe they were deposited here by someone
um they’re part of these tribes that are moving and mobile populations and they’ve got branches
throughout different parts of the mediterranean asia minor and the ionian coast yes oh god we’re
gonna love this stuff these are beautiful let’s go to them right away let’s run to our first source
our first source tonight and by the way for those of you who are following with the right just keep
your hands in the car at all times um let’s do this bring up hippocrates i summon hippocrates
yes come here you old fool um this is from the hippocratic corpus i’ve been working with my
students with this text this week my greek students because it is ionian greek it is ionian
greek and it’s good for them to get exposed to something it’s not quite attic you know what i
mean get some of that good homeric you know you can’t be talking about dialects with me unless
you’ve been there you know what i mean i love it this is ionian this is the scientific greek
This is what all the Hippocratic stuff is in. You love it. You’re going to get these Ionian philosophers along the coast. There was modern-day Turkey, right?
ah okay throw up that greek there let’s look at this a little bit greek please in the day
there was this city in group the city and clan yeah in europe right which lives
listen to the the attic is okay the ionia is okay isn’t that nice it’s a nice little
dialectical difference uh they’re around lake meotis which is um the sea of azov right
right excellent excellent we showed that subliminally you should have it programmed
we got there to that place we found it we landed thanks chewy you can land now that’s fantastic
all right and um these people were different says hippocrates or the hippocratic corpus whoever it
was that wrote this right diaferon they differed right from the other nations yeah they’re called
sauromations the sauromatai the sauromatai they’re called yeah and the women of these people again a
little bit of ionian greek here not the attic two-tone but the ionian tuteon you like that
they throw in a little extra little extra valve they can get assimilated of that of these people
what do the women do he says the hipadzone they ride horses and they took celcii took celcii
they shoot arrows poison arrows okay and they are they throw javelins from horseback
opportunity upon as they’re writing wow these some tough people can mock one
time and they fight with these soldiers they fight in wars they fight in wars
isn’t that neat and then we get the line that throws us all the curveball okay
don’t take you take your medicine right thank you nausea pills guys right my
regulars will know this, right? Take your nausea pills. Until they become parthenic. Until they
become a parthenos. Wait, wait, wait. That’s the age of able to produce children, but not having
had any children yet. That’s what a parthenos is, right? You can also call her a heifer, right?
um yeah wow um this is fantastic wait a minute these girls were in the cavalry and using toxic
bows using the riding the horses yeah apparently they were so darn good they could they could kick
anybody’s butt right even the romans miss mr professional army right even they could you know
we’re no match for these tribes these horse cultures that are living around
the Black Sea some of what you call the Amazonia right the Amazon is the
Amazon’s the Amazon’s right what do we know the Amazon’s do we know that they
cauterize one breast why are the girls cauterize one breast Hippocrates says
down below. He says their mothers cauterize their breast, right? Their right breast. Why is that?
Because, you know, when you’re jumping around on a horse at gallop, which is, this is what these
girls can do. They can jump around, move around the horse as the horse is galloping and they can
sit and shoot you from your front while they’re running at a full speed away from you. They can
shoot you while running away that’s fantastic how can you get beyond that wow that’s that’s
incredible wait a minute what happens when they become virgins there’s right now you see how
terrible my students you should see how terrible is that translation for parthenos is virgin
no when they become of age that they’ll start having children right what do they do what do
they do? They have to kill three enemy. Once they get three enemy killed, then they can take a man.
It doesn’t say they can enter into marriage. It says they can take a man. They can take someone
after they’ve killed three people. Have to kill three. It’s a sacrifice, right? It’s part of the
sacrifices that must be made. You talk about human sacrifices, right? Sometimes in the performance of
the mystery, there has to be an understanding of the nature of the sacrifice, right? And if our
young women who are going to be producing the future generation, if they are not properly
sanctified, right, what are we doing? What are we doing? What kind of, you know, we don’t need any
of this right all of this is brought to us as we saw last week from lycophron by the bow by that
bow right with its poisons okay i wanted you to see in the um go ahead and put up yeah that’s
that’s pretty much um in the next i just want to see in the next paragraph of that work he talks
about the cauterizing of the breast and that process of doing it so what an amazing amazing
figure just stop for a minute say we stepped out of our ship we’re in the late bronze age and we
see one of these people from this tribe this special tribe that lives around you know the sea
of azov yeah lake meotis let’s see what one of these citizens you know for lack of a better word
um and that’s my word i’m not giving them that because they didn’t talk like that with each other
um one of their kind one of their ethnicity let’s see what she’s like let’s pull her out and see
what she’s like well we have a very nice example that is given to us is given to us by a fellow
who guarded the sibling books sibling books and everybody’s going to say right away oh yes the
heart of rome right the prophecies right all this stuff is is written and no it’s not even the right
language you’re looking at, right? Okay. Remember, follow the drugs. If you ever get lost, put your
hand out, grab that rope that’s on the side of a cave, and follow the drugs, right? Follow the
drugs. We’re going to go to she who is called by Dracontius. Isn’t that a nice name? Dracontius
means Mr. Dragon. She who is called by Mr. Dragon, Scytha. Scytha. It’s our word for the Scythians.
Wait a minute. You mean there was one woman who was called Scytha? Yeah. And Medea, who the Medean people call themselves after the Medes? Yes, my God. They called her Scytha. Isn’t that nice?
It comes from, they had a verb, scutizzo, meaning to shave your head.
They had to take your scalp, right?
It was proof.
If you’re going to want to enter into marriage, you have to have some kind of, you know.
You got three, are you sure?
It’s a big battle, a lot of confusion, right?
You got to show what your worth is.
Who is this person?
Let’s see her.
Let’s see who the Medea is. Now, from Valerius Flaccus, I want to go to our second text.
But before we do, I just want to tell you, this is a place for the education. So remember that
we always have to go to the sea for that education. Remember who we are. We are farmers.
We are fisher people. We are people who range and migrate and found cities, colonize.
and we are people who who live on horseback right we’re people who become one with that horse
right and that horse is something something very very important that that horse is so important
that you see that horse right into the parthenon right you’re thinking oh my god what class is
your thing what does it have to do this is too eastern right well it has everything to do with
you morons look at the parthenon why is she who she is why is there the association of the horse
why do we have this divine virgin you guys realize we worship this divine virgin right
i’m gonna show you that divine virgin’s most potent drug her most potent drug and um but we
have to start in the sea right where everything starts bring us to see um the little yeah bring
us to a teaching about the sea today. Go ahead. This F-I-S-H word spells fish. Fish right under
the sea. There’s the fish swimming under the sea. Now you can read the word fish. As you can tell,
the Mycenaean Greeks were getting their drugs from under the sea. Yes, they’re getting their
They’re getting their purple from under the sea. Oh
We gotta love this we gotta love this
Okay, let’s bring up. I want to bring up Gaius Valerius flaccus and as we’re going there
I want you guys to look at this your text has a couple of different
Differences than mine does I’m using what I consider to be a better text
But there’s a couple of minor changes, but this is a good
Yeah, here’s a good breakdown of you of a short passage that comes to us from Gaius Valerius Flaccus
And I want you to remember now he has access to those sibling books
Okay, so he’s you could say a the last pair of eyes that was on our subject
right those
mysteries
embodied in that
dactylic hexameter
Yes, those mysteries are buried within the prophecies of the Sybils.
Yeah, you thought it was Latin, didn’t you?
No.
Love it.
Bring it up.
Bring it up.
So remember, he’s got access to this material.
That’s the past and the future in the present.
That’s how that oracle works.
And the last eyes to have this, that we have something surviving from,
are Gaius Valerius Flaccus, who was one of the Quindecum.
Quindecum Weary. He was one of the 15 people who guarded these books. One of the 15. Now,
you know, some later they disappeared, right? Destroyed, possibly, possibly spirited off
and possibly hidden somewhere up the backside of some Templar. Did you know, really quick,
the devil won’t mind this, really quick. Did you know those Templars in the trials,
they talk about they’re interviewing some of the some of the yeah thanks chewie chewie’s cheer me
on chewie loves the templars um yeah did you or did you not say the documents the inquisition
documents did you or did you not lick the tip of the male member or the anus of your superior
come on people how many of us how many of us have been in that situation how many of us have been
there yeah um it was purple because it had that drug on it right the templars had that purple
cross in their shorts right because stop it’s not that a purple cross in your shorts
right why would you have a cross in your short because they’re using that burning purple
which we’ll see referred to here in this passage you’re gonna love this okay so remember we’re in
the cult environment we just stepped out of our ship we’re watching it we’re sitting you have a
front seat right now to ancient cult what’s going on okay let’s see it let’s do it i’m gonna read
from my good copy here okay love it and we begin yes yes give me a second here where the
Rosh Hashanah, Mahon, Solomon, Proverbs, Galadins, Matins, Simei, Mori, Korah, Melech, Maiorah, there we are, Maiorah, Prakatur, Karmina, she prays these greater prayers, Maiorah, Hekatin, Imiterah, Vires, she prays that Hekati send into her greater Vires, what are Vires?
greater powers greater powers yes what are these powers um on a very practical side we’re talking
about the capacities of drugs and this language is used on the medical side you’re about to get
hit with half a dozen medical terms right we’re talking about the powers of drugs whether or not
drugs have been adulterated oh my god you classes out there but you guys you gotta get this together
man this is our chance our chance whose chance is this this is the muses chance get your act
together um look what we’re doing um she prayed that hecate would send these powers now into
herself yes and that she could stand there she stood there you know contenta neck content not
not happy right not satisfied not not satisfied with what noughties when anus
with the poisons that are known the known poisons right these are the
poisons that you and I would have access to that we would know about and she’s
not satisfied with those she wants those ones that are in development she wants
those ones that are deep that you can’t get to unless you’ve been initiated do
remember what we read about medea that she is that priestess who initiates oh now we get to see her
now we get to see sita in action the scythian queen we get to see her in action right right
you say wait a minute no her ethnicity she’s part greek right what whatever right whatever dude
right can you see her let’s see what she does right i think she’s libyan yeah i think she
probably has some greek relations because she’s got family she’s got royal ties so yeah a lot
of stuff but she’s prophesying from sarah everybody remember all you classes remember
that she’s prophesying from sarah pindar saved that that her her own prophecy she is the first
historical people. Wow. Before it all blew up. That’s gorgeous. Gorgeous. Anyway, let’s keep
going. So what does she do? In a very unusual line. Yeah. Wait a minute. Where’s the main
verb here, right? Where’s the main verb here? Jump down a couple of lines, right? Look at
promet. She brings out from. What do you do when you promet something? You produce it from one
place to another right and that can be include a process these are all words that are used in
conjunction with the making of medicines so it doesn’t surprise us that she promised she produces
from her sinus wait what she produces from her sinus yeah yeah after it is abrasively rubbed
round you know she produces what the caucasian flower the flower of the caucasus isn’t that nice
what is that she produces it it’s a flower that she produces from the sanguinis from the blood
of prometheus yeah from the blood of from the promethean what not just prometheus himself
from the blood of the promethean fibra fibra do we have a fibra up here what is it where’s a fibra
here we go oh look at this people what is a fibra a fiber or a filament that’s nice look at number
two the entrails the entrails now for those of you who want to take the extra step the philologist
look at the very top where in that second set of lines it says a fiber filament and a plant and
part of an animal’s body etc and it says cf nervus cf nervus see the nervus what is the
it is also a fiber or a sinew or a tendon right and he tells us it’s that thing that is stretched
out it’s that straight thing that is stretched out that tendon or nerve right yeah yeah um what do we
stop what do we have here what do we have here hit that there we go thanks um look at b here people
right look at b here do you see that little latin expression membrum virile yeah what is a fiber
what is a nerve it is that tension that is stretched when we are going into the orgasmos
yes it is the membrum virile that just means the male member in latin which is their
fancy avoidance way of saying penis. Yeah, that’s a penis. Right. So what does she do? She collects
from her sinus that flower, that flower that is produced by what? It’s produced by the stretching
penis. The Promethean origin, that vulture stands over. It says she’s the vulture. Medea is the
vulture that sits over prometheus yeah yeah where is that parthenos where’s that parthenos okay
buckle up because it gets even dirtier and it gets we’re going to talk about fetuses we’re going to
talk about fetuses this is fantastic material yeah so she produces this drug along with the
gramina those grasses that are nourished by the wind those erba those drugs that are nourished
by the winds remember medea what writes is an author of the first hymns to the wind to the
wind isn’t that nice why is she doing that because that’s for those with those who have ears to hear
right we know exactly what those winds are that’s what she works with fantastic love it yeah anyway
This kruor, this kruor, this substance, it’s sacred, and it endures, right, and grows, you know, on these frozen slopes, in this frozen mass of storm, right, grows this thing, this substance, and it is what?
it is a an immortality it is immortal it doesn’t languish it see that verb languish it it doesn’t
diminish in strength and west it doesn’t diminish in strength not even up to the ends of the of the
long ion right you like that you like that and at the same time okay wait a minute you’re starting
to get lost go ahead and take it down in latin and i’ll just translate it here um you’re starting to
get lost a little bit right because you’re right within the celebration of the mystery
what happens to this flower this flower start it stands salvus safe contra fulmina against
the lightning it stands safe against the lightning and in the middle of the flames
wait wait wait wait is it on fire yes on fire in the middle of the flames those powers open up
they fluoresce you have to have that heat remember those venoms provide that heat we were just
looking at philuminous last week and he says those venoms are powerful because they contain
the seeds of fire seeds of fire those of you who bought into the evangelical fairy tale
that is the bible yeah you were ripped off a little bit this there’s actual practical history
behind here right shame on you harvard get your legion up and go take back the take back the new
testament brah right take back the new testament don’t you have some scholars out there who can
do that don’t you have some people you know these archaeologists wouldn’t be having so many
questions if we were on our stuff you know what i mean if we were doing we should be doing but
that’d mean classicists right because i have a phd in classics right and if those of us who
have been professors right didn’t and our professors didn’t preserve and guard those
texts then we’re not doing our job okay we’re not doing our job and you know what’s going to happen
it’s tartarus baby it’s tartarus you know what happens to those you know who fail the muse right
you come in and you prostitute the muse where do you end up in tartarus check it out you classes
know you know where you end up the devil’s waiting man and this stuff just turns him on people like
that just turn him on he’s just waiting to show you in a chaldean hoop skirt exactly what you
should be doing you know what i mean let’s see what happens here um who was it first right who
was it first who found this oh it was hecate right she’s the one who first made the harpin or the
falx right the the harpy she’s the worst one to make the harpy yeah she is do you know what a
harpy does a harpy has a scythe and a harpy cuts off your testicles like that how would you like
that do you know what hermes says what does hermes say to the to the idiot odysseus who’s looking
everywhere for drugs everywhere you find him he’s he’s out hunting for drugs right and he’s not
looking for drugs and he’s and he stumbles across a woman who is going hermes has to tell he says
be careful because she may cut off your manhood yeah he said huh he says yeah first she’s going
going to drug you and she’s going to use her wand to do it now i don’t know maybe that appeals to
some people but odysseus he didn’t want to go that route you know he saw what it did to his men
he didn’t want to go that route yeah so he made her swear you know i mean he made her swear he’s
like don’t cut off my hoo-hoo and she’s like well then sleep with me he’s like okay but no funny
business right so she kept him prisoner for a while you know eventually let him go because he
cries all the time odyssey you thought the honesty was about odyssey this is not right it’s about
cersei and it’s about medea yeah and it’s about their influence an amazing influence these are
amazing women amazing women i just want to say a word to cambridge a shout out to cambridge
and you guys know i’m going to do it mary beard shout out to you mary beard for being so
to for being such a poop throwing primate that you would that you would devour the riches of
the muse and spit out something like well athenian women stayed at home all the time
they didn’t do anything which first of all is not a scientific statement right that’s not an
academic statement that’s just a theory right that you’re trying to propagate right it has nothing to
do with the actual history and you know um uh i hope in tartarus that you’re able to find some
sort of penance you know at under the heel of the medua yeah the people who are developing these
drugs and these civilizations yeah this is shame on shame on people shame on us classics shame on us
right i wouldn’t wish anything but the highest standard on classicist i wouldn’t wish that
anything but the highest standard you people knew what you were doing right you didn’t you
weren’t doing this for careers i don’t know maybe you were but most of you there’s some kind of
kernel i know classes there’s some kind of kernel we want to preserve these tags you know helen
comes out and has a party and put drugs the drugs the wine so people are so blitzed they wouldn’t
care if you killed their parent in front of them. Yeah. And women didn’t do anything, right? They
didn’t do anything. No, they just developed a giant science. You know, it’s the antikythera
of pharmacology. Anywho, Medea is using her own body, in case you didn’t notice, she’s using her
own body to produce this drug that becomes the linchpin of everything. Nothing can happen without
it, yes, and it’s connected with the purple, it’s connected with the purple, for those of you, I’ve
got to rush, I can hear the, I can hear the dogs beginning to bark, yes, but anyway, Hecate showed
this, right, to her assistant, to her assistant, she showed it to her assistant, and yeah, and
after, what happened, right, who’s her assistant, right, her assistant is Medea, right, and what
did she do? What did Medea do after 10 cycles in the 10th cycle of the moon? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is
it Phoebe here? Is it Phoebe? Let’s see. It’s the lightener, right? Yeah. When she’s ready to give
birth, what happens? She met it. Feta. Feta met it. Look at it. Feta met it. Feta met it. Feta met
it what does she do what does she do she harvests the fetal stuff oh oh my god she harvests the
fetus oh this is seriously yeah no this this stuff they’re doing is quite you know it’s again
considered a sacrifice it’s considered a sacrifice and where are you doing this all you’re doing this
in the place this one’s going to throw you even the classes to your classes you’re going to get
thrown where is she doing all of this you know where is all this practice this mystery where
is it coming from it’s coming from that weirdness it’s coming from that essence that is so strong
within her and what is the roman name for that essence juno you know she now do you understand
who the wife of God is? The wife of God? Yes, she is that power, right? And you suddenly say to
yourself, oh my God, these are all women. We have a trinity of women that we’re working for. Venus,
the morning star, Artemis, excuse me, Venus, the morning star, the virgin, and Juno. Wait,
aren’t these the three wait a minute these are the three that the hesperides apple heracles
daughters the poisons the mystery of the dragon yes yeah welcome back okay now as you wake up
as you wake up realize the right that’s going on she the text continues flaccus continues on
to talk about how he stretches out in rigor he has he has his moment of release his pain
it’s described as unmitigated pain as she sits over him and she bedews the earth she bedews the
earth and that’s literally what it says it says she makes do d-e-w d-e-w from the gore from that
cool that holy thing that sits in the apocalypse in the sacred cup that golden cup she produces
is the foam afrodite she who comes from the foam yeah are you seeing it that’s why i told you we
had to go to the ocean right and in the very next lines venus arrives to both power her speech
and her hand her speech in her hand yeah which if you knew the magic you’d know oh okay that’s
this area in that area yeah this is gorgeous people this is gorgeous and we have so much of
preserve we have so much of these rights preserved if classicists would get up and start doing their
jobs right with these tags come on people ryan come on take it back take back the territory
right keep the museum open boo to princeton for cutting off its own head philologically
no more greek they say boo on you princeton princeton i’m sure you have plenty of ideas
and plenty of notions plenty of theories and you know what they’re worth zilch give me some text
yeah let’s roast them let’s get those let’s get those people from princeton
chewie and let’s build that barbecue that we found in the codex wadawani
you know what i mean a metaphorical barbecue let’s barbecue them i got a princeton guy right now
metaphorically on a barbecue and i’m gonna do to him he’s we’ll call him joe princeton
oh god i’m just gonna start to like this this is the season finale right for season three season
four we’re gonna bring you some upgrades gotta give you some upgrades and um i’m going to
construct a torture chamber i didn’t want to give that away early but it’s somewhere that we can
pack young and now we’re going to have joe princeton come here yes i’m going to introduce
i already want to call him up i want to call him up you know what i mean he has the soul of some
dead sophist you know it’s disgusting it’s disgusting the furies joe the furies say
your greed stains your soul with the stench of ruin right long time before long time before that
was ever you know um um popularized we’re talking old we’re talking to old joe princeton i’m gonna
give you a theriac and i’m gonna i’m gonna administer it where they administered theriacs
i am and i’m gonna i’m gonna show the world joe what you caused us to miss we need to see this
guys um i wanted you to see the strongest drug was the one that she made herself yeah i look
forward to next season i look forward to seeing everybody i’m going to officially go on a week’s
vacation um where i will have one week to enter in to cross the space-time continuum to be able
to enter into a place where i can associate with the dead this will be my one week nequion so it’s
starting now it’s starting now i will see you guys back um uh friday after this one yeah for one week
right we’re just doing one week right sorry chewy plans i just do okay i’ll see you guys and
uh i promise to bring you back fresh fresh material right out of the jaws of those demons
right right out of those right crawling right up out of the creek oh just love it hail satan
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