One of the more bizarre little
revelations or startling religio-cultural-historical discoveries I've
made in my inquiries into the religions of the world led me to the
conclusion told in the title, that there are significant reasons to
eschew the idea that we are God's children. I came to the above
seeming stark conclusion via an analysis of a particular and rather
peculiar cultural artifact.
The Hebrew right of circumcision,
attributed by the Judeo-Christian tradition to Abraham, is likely
derived from or somehow related to one Hindu myth that tells why
Brahma is not much worshiped in India. According to the myth,
Brahma, the Creator, was Himself created by Brahman, the Universal
Divine Self. The Creator was birthed from the bellybutton of Vishnu.
Early in the process of creation, Brahma the Creator got bored or
lonely or whatever and so created this hotty, all Weird Science
style, whose name was Shatarupa. So then he started to lust after
this beautiful woman He had created, and even grew a “fifth head”
to continue to gaze upon her when she sought to evade His lustful
gaze. Well, Shiva (The Destroyer), who is
Brahman/“God” (as is Vishnu the Maintainer, the Fellow who
birthed Brahma out of His belly button), showed up and said something
to the effect of:
“Yo Brahma!! Here's the skinny on
that: that sexy mama you did manifest . . . You directly created
her, so that girl's your daughter!! Therefore, my good Sir, you
cannot lust after nor fuck her, a'ight?!” said Shiva, if perhaps
phrased rather differently, and He then severed Brahma's fifth head
with the tip of His little fingernail.
Shiva normally severs heads that need
to be parted from bodies with a trishul (trident) with three big
blades, so why did He use His pinky fingernail? It must have been a
rather small head which Shiva did cut off of Brahma, perhaps a “fifth
head” that grew erect upon Brahma gazing upon Shatarupa that Shiva
did cut off with His pinky finger nail. The Hebrew Patriarch Abraham
has been noted as somehow and in some guise related to the Person of
the Creator Brahma, Abraham's wife Sarai to Saraswati and
handmaiden/co-wife Haggar to Ghaggar, a tributary to the Saraswati
River of Hindu myth.
What I am implying is that the Hebrew
rite of circumcision is essentially an incest taboo rite, as derived
from the mythology of Abraham's forefathers, whom the Bible does tell
“worshiped other gods”; and corollary to that, it is to be noted
that if you directly create someone, that person is thus your child,
and therefore not someone to be related to as an object of sexual
desire. This is one of many subtle clues to the apparent ties that
do abide between Abraham, and thus the Abrahamic religions, and the
religion of Abraham's ancestors (who were essentially what has come
to be known as Hindus—a term less than a thousand years old for a
religion much much older), hints of myth and meaning to be considered
from between the lines of a rather ancient genealogy of culture and
religion that tell of both God's Potency and Desire, and of how human
traditions are derived from and expressed in such ancient archetypal constructions and
perhaps even historical events, acts of the Gods.
Both Vishnu and Shiva (God the
Maintainer and God the Destroyer) are well enough known for their
respective sexual exploits, as Shiva is worshiped as the linga
(phallus) and is wellspring of
male virility, and Vishnu as Krishna is known to have made love to
ten-thousand women all at the same time exactly as each would wish to
be made love to, and is married to the Goddess of Beauty and Wealth
who is also Goddess Mother Earth. If those many women God Brahman
(and men who Goddess Brahman, Uma Himavati and other Avatars of Her)
had made love to were “God's children,” God would be an
incestuous creep!! Thus it might
be accurate to state, “We are the Creator's children,” but it is
definitively inaccurate to state, “We are all God's children.”
Part of the reason for the Creator being in some guise separate from
the Universal Divine Self is to allow the Divine and humankind to realize even the intimacy of transcendent lovemaking whilst
maintaining integrity in relationship and the bounds of Rta, Sanskrit root of the English word “right”
as in universally correct.
Namaste, kids!!!
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