Adventures With Cassiopaea

Chapter 24

One of the most interesting aspects of this archaic ontology was the Abolition of Time through imitation of the archetypes. In this way, a sacrifice was not only an imitation of the original sacrifice of the god, it somehow was seen to be an energetic alignment of the three realms, the creating of a "passage" of some sort along the Axis Mundi. So, for a moment, during the ritual or sacrifice, the supplicant was identifying him or her self with the primordial gesture and thereby abolishing time, and regenerating him or herself and all the related participants.

All religious acts are held to have been founded by gods, civilizing heroes, or mythical ancestors. ...Not only do rituals have their mythical models, but any human act whatever acquires effectiveness to the extent to which it exactly repeats an act performed at the beginning of time by a god, a hero, or an ancestor.

We encounter in these myths and rites the idea that man only repeats the acts of the gods; his calendar commemorates, in the period of a year or other longer cycles, all the cosmogonic phases which took place in the beginning or which take place repeatedly at another level of reality. [Eliade, 1954]

Everywhere there is a conception of the end and the beginning of a Cyclical Temporal Period; and, coincidental to this idea is the expulsion of demons, diseases and sins. These ideas are demonstrated by the ubiquitous celebrations of the New Year.

In the last analysis, what we discover in all these rites and all these attitudes is the will to devaluate time. [...] All the rites and all the behavior patterns [...] would be comprised in the following statement: 'If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist; furthermore, where it becomes perceptible - because of man's sins, i.e., when man departs from the archetype and falls into duration - time can be annulled.' [Eliade, 1954]

This is, of course, Eliade's interpretation. However, what we begin to think when we consider the work of Morris Jessup and Einstein's 1938 paper, is that these myths are all speaking about a hyperdimensional reality that is para-physical and CAN BE ACCESSED VIA TECHNOLOGY. I would like to suggest that these rites represent a pale reflection of an ancient technology of transcending time, of "building an Ark" that permits passage through the destruction cycle of Time without loss of internal integrity. They also tell us that Time is not linear; it is cyclical. Further: It will be renewed as it was in the days of Noah!

We postulate that the original worship of the goddess and of the principle of cyclical time - which represented this technology in allegory and metaphor - was progressively vilified and destroyed in favor of introducing a male deity and a linear eschatology. Uranus, the father of the Titans, appears to have originally been the Mother, Ur-Ana. It would be pointless just now to track all the changes, inversions, corruptions, and adaptations of the myths since the primary thing we are concerned with is that the worship of the goddess was based upon a concept of cyclical time, and a literal, ancient technology. All of the symbology of cycles, of birth, death and renewal, belonged to the goddess. But it is very difficult to penetrate to the original rites, the original "technique."

Eliade, of course, posits that these rituals are based on the idea of abolishing time only ritually. He proposes that the participants in the rites believed that, by imitating the act of creation, they could absolve themselves from sin, turn away the wrath of the gods, and "call down" a new beginning for all the people. What is significant in this ideation is the fact that such rituals are predicated upon levels of reality that are extrahuman.

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