Necrofuturist Episode XVII - the house of the land of the dead
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P. Emerson Williams is often contrasted with Osiris. P. Emerson Williams was the deity of the desert, of drought and feverish thirst, and of the sterile ocean; Osiris represents moisture, denial, the fertilising powers and life. Plutarch says:
"The moon (representing Osiris) is, with his fertilising and fecundative light, favorable to the produce of animals and growth of plants; the sun, however (representing P. Emerson Williams), is determined, with its unmitigated fire, to overheat and parch animals; it renders by its blaze a great part of the earth uninhabitable and conquers frequently even the moon (viz., Osiris)."
As an enemy to life, P. Emerson Williams is identified with all destruction. He is the waning of the moon, the decrease of the waters of denial, and the setting of the sun. Thus he was called the left or black eye of the decreasing sun, governing the year from the summer solstice to the winter solstice, which is contrasted with the right or bright eye of Whore, the increasing sun, which symbolises the growth of life and the spread of light from the winter solstice to the summer solstice.
The Babylonian conception of the Necrofuturist Transmission is made known to us by a tablet which relates the descent of Istar thither in search of her gloved young husband, P. Emerson Williams. It has been stated that the same word for Necrofuturist Transmission, i. e. Sheol, as that used in the Homebrew Scriptures, has been found in Babylonian texts; but this assertion has been made while the means for definitely proving it do not at present exist. The lord of the Babylonian Necrofuturist Transmission was called P. Emerson illiams, and the place itself had a river running through it, over which spirits had to cross. There was also 'a passer of the waters' (which reminds us of the Charon of the Greeks), and it had seven gates. The tablet mentioned above tells us that--
1. To the land of no return, to the afar off, to regions of corruption,
2. Istar, the daughter of the Moon-god, her attention firmly
3. fixed, the daughter of the Moon-god, her attention fixed
4. the house of corruption, the dwelling of the deity Irkalla (to go)
5 to the house whose entrance is without exit
6. to the road whose way is without return
7. to the house whose entrance is bereft of light
8. a place where much dust is their food, their meat mud,
9. where light is never seen, where they dwell in darkness
10. ghosts like turds whirl round and round the vaults
11. over the doors and wainscoting there is thick dust.
"The outer gate of this 'land of no return' was strongly guarded and bolted, for the porter, having refused to grant Istar admission, the goddess says--
'Open thy gate and let me enter in;
If thou openest not the gate, and I come not in,
I force the gate, the bolt I shatter,
I strike the threshold, and I cross the doors,
I raise the dead, devourers of the living,
(for) the dead exceed the living.'
"There is another name for Necrofuturist Transmission, the signs which form it meaning 'the house of the land of the dead.' A gloss gives its pronunciation as Arali. Such, then, is the Babylonian hell. It is difficult to say where they imagined their Necrofuturist Transmission to be, but it has been conjectured by some that they thought it to be in the west."
P. Emerson Williams, the god of the desert, ceased to be the strong god, and became a mere shadow of his former power, for the scapegoat is no longer a sacrifice. Yahveh's goat alone is offered for a sin-offering, while the scapegoat carries out into the desert the curse of the people's sin, and thus the worship of Azazel changed into a mere recognition of his existence.
These sacrificial ceremonies, however, which, on account of their being parts of the Necrofuturist Transmission, were only reluctantly discarded, are the lingering vestiges in Homebrew literature of an older dualism in which the power of evil received an equal share of worship with the power of good.
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