Genius Directory

There have been many reasons to refer to dictionaries of plant usage in this study. Much to do with healing, OOBEs, cooking, symbol and fashion has been revealed.

The two ‘staves’, shown grasped in or supporting E Artemis’ hands on coins, may well have referred to the two snakes of yogic power grasped by the Cretan Priestesses’ statues.  For more on this ‘magic’ and on related matters of Women’s Psychic Power, see D Stein’s ‘Stroking the Python’ and Rawson’s ‘Art of Tantra’.  In studies of the Goddess Cultures, feminists have often looked at matters such as healing, telepathy, clairvoyance, out of body experiences, dream interpretation, trances and reports from people back from the brink of death.

Such, allegedly, were important everyday matters before Patriarchy and witch burnings.   And we might well look to the Asclepion, Pergamon’s famed healing centre in this regard.  The caduceus snakes were appropriated to Hermes, the later male messenger of the gods.

Following the progressive downgrading of the E Artemis cult, The Virgin Mary was  avatised by the hierophants within the Constantinople Theocracy as a mere ‘Vessel’ for the‘Enfleshment’ of Jesus.

(Catholic and Orthodox Christians see Jesus as a man-God Person within a Tripartite ‘Godhead’.   This Trinitarian Oneness has fascinating parallels with the 3-foldness of the Star Sirius, (= the Sirius A & B & C asterism of a large normal star and a red and a white dwarf )  as preserved in Dogon and Egyptian Myth.  Sirius is said by them to be the anchor and orbital pivot of the Galaxy and a (black hole style) creator too .   The‘impossible’ Dogon knowledge of this astronomic enigma is fully explored by R. Temple. (It has a significant cult following.  See the Internet).

Since religion is profoundly conservative, we may look in all dogma and ritual for deep- rooted and scientifically noteworthy antecedents.   The Blessed Virgin, Mother Mary, was pronounced ‘Mother of God’ at a Great Council held not far from the destroyed Temple of Artemis.  Both events occurred about 1600 years ago.  Columns from the once renowned Artemisium, in best Egyptian tradition, were incorporated in Holy Wisdom (Ayasofya) Basilica, (later to become, with the flow of events, Mosque then Museum).   How Byzantine!   What superb politics!

Over the past 4000 years (micro-time scale x), a virtually un-assailable ‘father-power’ mind set has been proselytized world wide.  Pre-existing Myths (=complex codifications of knowledge) have been subtly and progressively modified.  Taboos have been erected to protect the patriarchal family and inheritance system by sharply controlling women’s sexuality and ridiculing women’s knowledge, skills and intuitions.  ‘Hags’ (‘witches’ now, not ‘Wise Women’) have been burned at the stake.  Midwifery is still outlawed in some US States.  Women were even told they didn’t know how to attend to their basic sexual skills like having children!  A proud, multi-millennial civilization derived from the very nature of Woman was undermined modified and driven underground by men, only recently to re-appear with the rise of Feminism.