Dying, Rising

I don't agree with Acharya S on any number of topics you can name, but I do appreciate her astounding research skills. She's revealed the complexity and diversity of indigenous European mythology, a topic that's usually dumbed down to the point of tedium. But for me the point is not to bash Judeo-Christianity as it is to unveil the rich heritage of indigenous European mythology and religious traditions, which has been hidden away from us by the collusion of the corporate, religious and academic power structures.

You can't truly control a people until you steal their gods and Europe's native gods were stolen almost 1700 years ago. But such is their power that they eventually colonized the colonizers and created a rich and dynamic culture throughout the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. And even today this process continues to evolve, as I wrote about in Our Gods Wear Spandex and in my upcoming book.

And now we see the old gods entertaining millions in movies, comic books, TV shows and video games in both their old guises and in new, which is as it should be. Bloodthirsty tyrants like Theodosius and Justinian didn't realize it at the time, but by relieving the gods of their cults and their priests and all of the whining supplicants they set them free, and allowed them to fight and fuck and fly across the imagination of billions of people across space and time.

The old gods were tired and worn out by the time of Caesar- the Church rendered them truly immortal.