Rintrah here I believe is parroting the simplistic Apollo/Dionysus binary that Nietzsche originally pulled out of his own backside more than 100 years ago. As we know, the actual source mythology is a lot more complicated than that. The rest of his essay seems to reflect a similar limited understanding of polytheistic mythologies. Whether he knows it or not, he's displaying the same old Monotheistic bias that assumes all goddess archetypes must somehow be representations of chaos and/or destruction. (Nevermind that Cosmic Order/Law was often portrayed a goddess, but I digress). Overall, I've developed a rather limited patience and interest for "spiritual" thinkers who consume psychedelics in lieu of actually doing any spiritual practices or studying serious philosophy. The end product always ends up being some sort of garbled subjectivism mixed in with current pop-culture thinking fads.
Your idea that the monotheistic gods are the gods of nomadic herding cultures makes a ton of sense and seems like a painfully obvious truth that has been hiding in plain sight all along. The ancient Egyptians associated their storm god Set with the desert and desert nomads. Originally he represented the parts of the natural environment that are hostile to sedentary human habitation, whereas his twin brother Osiris is the god of fecund/fertile lands very suitable for human civilization. The myth of Set dismembering and killing Osiris is quite fascinating. Isis (his wife) resurrects Osiris and their son Horus avenges his death by battling Set. Symbolically, the victory of Horus and Osiris is the yearly flooding of the Nile (and the restoration of fertility and life) and subsequently the harsh desert being pushed back to the margins of the Nile valley. Later on, after Egypt had been repeatedly invaded by foreigners from the desert, Set was demonized. Such demonization of an archetypal part of nature (not to mention deities themselves) seems to always result in some sort of blowback. Looks like Set got his sweet revenge and now we're left with a different type of archetypal imbalance that will correct itself sooner or later. I believe that early Christianity adopted a bastardized form of the Osiris/Isis/Horus/Set myth and the end result ended up as an unwieldly mythological chimera (something Set would love in his role as the adversary), whereby an amalgamation of Osiris and his son Horus is Jesus, and Set (Yahweh) is his father, and of course Isis is the holy mother who eventually becomes symbolized via the Virgin Mary in Catholicism/Orthodoxy. Weird stuff going on here, LOL.
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Date: 2023-03-20 05:59 pm (UTC)Your idea that the monotheistic gods are the gods of nomadic herding cultures makes a ton of sense and seems like a painfully obvious truth that has been hiding in plain sight all along. The ancient Egyptians associated their storm god Set with the desert and desert nomads. Originally he represented the parts of the natural environment that are hostile to sedentary human habitation, whereas his twin brother Osiris is the god of fecund/fertile lands very suitable for human civilization. The myth of Set dismembering and killing Osiris is quite fascinating. Isis (his wife) resurrects Osiris and their son Horus avenges his death by battling Set. Symbolically, the victory of Horus and Osiris is the yearly flooding of the Nile (and the restoration of fertility and life) and subsequently the harsh desert being pushed back to the margins of the Nile valley. Later on, after Egypt had been repeatedly invaded by foreigners from the desert, Set was demonized. Such demonization of an archetypal part of nature (not to mention deities themselves) seems to always result in some sort of blowback. Looks like Set got his sweet revenge and now we're left with a different type of archetypal imbalance that will correct itself sooner or later. I believe that early Christianity adopted a bastardized form of the Osiris/Isis/Horus/Set myth and the end result ended up as an unwieldly mythological chimera (something Set would love in his role as the adversary), whereby an amalgamation of Osiris and his son Horus is Jesus, and Set (Yahweh) is his father, and of course Isis is the holy mother who eventually becomes symbolized via the Virgin Mary in Catholicism/Orthodoxy. Weird stuff going on here, LOL.