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Very High ! ;)
Posted by Andreas (Guest) - Wednesday, December 17 2003, 11:40:53 (EST)
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Very High !

Hi Jeff,

> We read this story in mythology class and I wondered if the ancients used
> mind-altering drugs. Why else would they name it "When On High?"

+++ Very High !

+++ No mocking intended. Would I ever do it if about's the Sumerians?

+++ In short:
The Sumerian and then later the Babylonion world-view was centered
about cosmological influences.

+++ Planets were seen and essentially experienced as the visible manifestations of gods and godesses which were/are de facto spiritual beings.

+++ To one of the most prominent of them, Ishtar (cf. --> "star", what hints to a common language root for all mankind) who was later known as Venus among the Romans, corresponded - well yes the planet "Venus".

And again, to that planet/manifestation of Ishtar corresponded here on earth, in the physical-material world the metal copper. (Like
iron to Mars etc, see for this today's science of homeopathy etc.)

How to get high on that?

Easy:
In the temples, copper - as substance not only symbolising but also directly being another manifestation of Ishtar and her spiritual-material forces - was diluted down to homeopathic concentrations which were then consumed to reach alter/enhance the mind/imaginations so that priests could reach the mystic union with Ishtar.

You will have noticed that this practice also constituted a physical internalisation of a God(dess), his/her forces and essences, as a precursor form of the eucharisty, and nobody with a sane mind would ever think of "cannibalising" Ishtar.

So, this only in shorthand and very, very simplified for now.

BTW:
The greatest mythology of this materialistic culture of today

- especially of the Anglo-cult (pun intended) which only believes in the physically existant world -

is that the "Enuma elish" and other works are ONLY a "mythology" aka fairy tale thus making this modern so-called "scientific" interpretation a myth itself.

They (those works) are not.

Rather they represent a total different stage of development of the human mind which perceived spiritual things more directly, even if to a degree and in a form which corresponded to that specific historic stage of human development.

Or in other words:
Ishtar and Marduk were no phantasies but real spiritual beings, named angels in Christianity.
Early Christians (before the Rom/Vatican onslaught on "heathen" wisdom) still knew that.

Sounds too weird to you?

Andreas



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