Three wombs at the Tomb; Initiation Rites in Mythology
Initiation- The three wombs at the tomb...
Most of us come to our initiation through our dreams.
Unfortunately many of us just write them off as nightmares and
try to forget about them soon as they wake. Others of us sign
divorce papers or four year contracts in our new professions.
For a few others it is the new zest for life that is the
beginning of the climb off our cities streets. The initiation
comes many years too late. For that man on the street, the
initiation could of been seeing his best friend die from a
Heroine over dose.
Initiations is our wake up calls to our adult lives. It is the
psychological break from the mother. Youths in Aboriginal tribes
of Australia are ripped away from the false security of their
mothers as the bull roarers are whirling in the air and the men
of the tribe come disguised as monsters with feathers glued to
their naked bodies. These men initiated fear that is the
beginning of the break from the old world of these children into
the next. Robin Hood plays throughout the middle ages served
this role as well. Traveling gypsies played the part of Friar
Tuck to preside over the ritual with a may queen picked to play
Maid Marriane. The youth of age in the spring would all play
Robin to consummate their adulthood with the May Queen,
Marriane. Then they had to overcome the pubescent egos
represented by another gypsy playing Prince John. Once the
immature ego is conquered the Lion King Richard arrives in the
breast of each youth as he becomes an adult. The Surname Robins
and Robinson predominate Britain, these are the children
conceived from Robin Hood rituals. Here the youths leave behind
the Oedipal lives of their now past and enter that of their
father's to search out women of their own.
In ancient Cave Bear Cultures, the Men of the tribe would push
the initiates through a dark slimy tunnel that opened onto a
large expanse where all the secrets of the hunt and adult male
life were related to the youths. Then the men passed the youths
back out birth canal into society as adults. The shock and
response is to be the same as a squirrel cornered by a bear, the
courage to turn and strike to save its life. The courage in the
face of fear to become an adult. No Bishop slap or degree will
equal the right response.
"The Problem is not new, for all ages before us have
believed in gods in some form or another. Only an unparalled
impoverishment of symbolism could enable us to rediscover gods
as psychic factors, that is, as archetypes of the
unconcious....Heaven has become has become for us the cosmic
space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory
of things that once were. But the heart glows, and a secret
unrest gnaws at the roots of our being." Carl Jung,
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
In Tropical tribes initiations act much like the British, with
one exception.
The copulating of the male youths with the male queen happens on
a platform with four beams holding a roof of others. The last
youth who copulates with the may queen is killed with the queen
as they knock out the beams and the roof collapses on them.
Merging male and female in the life and death cycle. You won't
have to die in such a fashion but you must die now. You think
Dorothy was ever the same after the tornado? Are you prepared to
die, the kingdom of god is laid before you. Have you crossed
that bridge over the moat through the skull to the castle of
your mind? Do you fear the anxiety of Pan as you enter the
forest alone. You have to die alone as well as be born again.
Will you allow me to kill you? Then read on.....
In life we suffer through many little deaths, the ego deaths.
The death that happens to our lives when we move away from home
for the first time, the death to the title of husband as we sign
the papers, the death of our student personas as we accept that
degree, and the like. Death happen in many forms and guises.
This is represented with the monthly death of the moon and the
snake that sheds its skin. Also it is the goddess who can bleed
for a week and live. The shedding of the monthly egg, the symbol
of the new soul. Women, eggs, moon, and snake are ancient
revered symbols before mans fall when the Garden of Eden was
written. Man had found the power of sperm! In Cambodia during
the Vietnam War, many Cambodians died from loose bullets falling
upon the village as men shot machine guns into the night sky to
stop the sky snake from eating the moon. For the phases of the
moon at that time of year look like a giant black snake is
eclipsing the moon as it passes its jaws into its gullet.
>From all of these little ego deaths of the moon, women, and
snake comes the death of the soul. The Phoenix rises out of the
egg to be burned by fire to rise again from the calcination
through another egg. This symbol is the eagle and the lion. To
be born again as the eagle is to leave this existance for
another, like Guatama. The Lion is to be born again of the earth
as a Bodhisattva The one who can travel between both is the
Griffin, the symbol of Christ in his Mercury role as guardian of
secrets. The Lion and the Griffin perform the return. So will
you allow me to kill you. Will you enter the tomb in the fashion
of Lazarus. Will you allow Christ to free you from your tomb.
How long have you been lying in there already?
Now who watches over you as you lie in the tomb. Well of course
the women.
Mary of Bethany and Magdalean wait in the house adjacent from
the tomb they laid their brother in. It is Spider Women who
gives the Living eagle feather the alien god and warning about
the rocks that crush, the reeds that cut him to pieces, the cane
cactus that tear him to pieces, and the boiling sands that
overcome. Who is the spider women? She is the mother who has
prepared us for good or bad to cross over into adulthood. She is
the one that provided us with the knowledge and the ability to
use it up to this point. But it is for us alone to cross over
and be atoned with the father as the twin War Gods of the Navaho.
Spider Women asks, "Who are you, and whence do you come?" Upon
hearing this the youths shrug. The first importance of the runes
is to seek your past. Then she asks what they are doing."
Whither do the two of you go walking?". Next the runes ask what
you are doing now and how does that have to apply from where you
came from. Youths reply they are going no where in Particular.
Neil Young in the movie Made in Heaven, when the youth Elmo is
crossing over the threshold asks him the same question.
Niel Young replies" When you do not know which way you are
going, any way is good." They only climbed down her ladder
because they had nowhere else to go. Their intuition had led
them. Like Erik, in Erik the Viking, searches out Freya. She
asks him if he had ever seen the sun? He replies it was in a
distant far removed memory. The Navaho youths were in search of
their father the sun as well. Freya asks Erik what he is looking
for, as does the Twin Gods. The Spider Woman after the youths
reply in ignorance of what they are doing four times, does she
ask if they are seeking the father. But Erik will be looking for
the woman he had killed and his father god, Odin. Erik killed
his anima and is looking for his mate. Both of these women
describe the challenges the youths must face and where to find
their father. Also they explain that the father might threaten
their lives when they find him.
The conflicts between father and son abounds through lore and
myth. It is Luke confronting Darth Vader; Arthur facing Mordred
on the flip side; Twin War Gods facing their father; and
Hercules challenging Zeus. This when the youth no longer needs
the father for survival but guidance. This could be blocked by
the father who is vacant, the father who is scared of being
replaced in his occupation, the father who is afraid of death,
the father who is in the power of a higher grip, or the father
who has not crossed the threshold himself. Dart Vader was the
distant father who was in power of the Emperor who lived in fear
and destruction for anyone who would push his threshold. He was
always choking people who had questioned or failed him. The
throat is the home of orders and directions. It is where power
is manifested into matter. He stole peoples voices. As his was
supported by machinery with someone else at the keyboard. If the
son crosses the threshold, the father is forced to soon cross
over. This is the power of the black dragon and the senex.
The Spider Woman teaches the youths to be pollen.
"Put your feat down with pollen. Put your hands down with
pollen. Put your head down with pollen. Then your feet are
pollen, your hands are pollen, your body is pollen, your mind is
pollen, your voice is pollen. The trail is beautiful. Be
still."
Here the mother teaches the youth to follow their instincts .
Your journey will be of chance, the actions of your hands will
be Zen, your mind will be receptive, and your voice reactionary.
This is guidance from Obi Wan Kenobi, use the force. It is
Parzival releasing the reigns of the horse.
The trail is beautiful is a reminder to overcome the fear and
desire trap and be still. To put yourself in the hands of the
god or goddess. To trust your fate or river that is the current
of your own individual life. Be still is a calling to leave
behind all goals and just do. Just do it and be still.
To be pollen is to drift in the wind. In the runes Ansur is the
power of breath. It's feminine counterpart is Laguz, the power
of water. Once you leave the water, you must first cross into
the air. Satan crossed through the ocean between heaven and
earth to enter the air of the sky before he landed in our world.
To be of pollen is to follow the force, of our life.
Women teach us to listen to our own voice. They give us joy,
comfort, justification, and reassurance. Men do this in reverse
and add personal justice and retribution.But with the coming of
the suffrage movement, women began sitting on a fence. More and
more women became borderline mothers represented by the
dichotomy of the good witch and bad witch. The Bad witch is
always trying to conqueror kingdoms or blocking their children
from their fathers. As the bad witch is trying to wrestle with
coming to the father, they prevent their children from getting
there before them. Also the women become concerned with social
status and goal orientation of wealth. They leave behind faith,
hope, and instinct for their children to find on their own.
Raising children is left to others. This is what Mary Popins is
about. This happens in between two World Wars that leave men
reeling with their emotions that come on like a flood. Most
repress them in work, drink, and family. These men became
indoctrinated by the armies concepts of making anyone in
opposition to you non human and the concept of no I in team.
These men returned to a society full of entrenpenaurs who
pursued individual dreams. To advance against these minds they
formed conservative groups to reflect their lives in the
military. Only now is the army debriefing soldiers to return to
the society of the individual. These men come in two types, the
victim and the aggressor.
Those who lived through the battle field at all cost who left
morality or scruples behind and the ones that came home
emotionally and physically injured.
The victims often feels that he never left behind anyone on the
battlefield and wonders why he has been left behind in society.
The aggressor helps no one but himself and makes allegiances
that only buffer his survival interest.
Both are in the grip of strong desires and fears. So men of the
GI generation and their wives sit on the fence at odds with both
sides. Can any of them learn to walk the fence instead. To cross
the razors edge?
In many cases we can not look toward our parents to bring us
across the threshold because they never crossed it on their own.
Finding Nemo is about a father who is crossing that boundary to
catch up to his child. But most parents of this type only cross
over with much resistance and conflict.
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