Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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| In the time of Gregory of Tours in the 6th century AD, at a time when the authorities were attempting their best to wipe out the heretical worshipers of the goddess and mushroom, a man accompanied by a woman named Mary, went about the town, prophesying, claiming to be Christ with a band of followers who helped him rob the locals and redistribute wealth to the needy. His followers would dance about nude and disheveled. After the bunch were arrested and executed, Gregory stated: “Furthermore, at that time there appeared in all the Gauls, a number of men who, by similar magic spells, attached to themselves young women who claimed in their orgies [debacchants] that these men were saints.” (96) Among the 45 canons that were enacted by the Council of Auxerre in 578 was the prohibition for deacons to wear a pall or veil (velum) over their shoulders, “…to dress up as a calf or a stag on the months of January,” “…to make offerings or keep vigils on saints’ festivals in private houses, or to discharge vows among woods or at sacred trees or at springs, but, whoever has a vow, let him keep vigil in the church and fulfill his vow by giving to the servants of the church or the poor. Nor let anyone dare to make feet or images of men out of wood.” (97) Nike, the Angel of Victory Philo, in his work, The Creative World, writes on the virgin Nike: “It is the nature of seven alone… neither to beget nor to be begotten…other philosophers liken this number to the mother-less virgin Nike, who is said to have appeared out of the head of Zeus, while the Pythagoreans liken it to the Sovereign of the Universe: for that which neither begets nor is begotten remains motionless…[and] there is only one thing that neither causes motion nor experiences it, the original Ruler and Sovereign. Of Him, seven may be fitly said to be a symbol…” (98) We see the goddess Nike or “Angel of Victory” prominently displayed on Roman coins and usually dispensing a halo to a true believer, or one who is supposed to be “holy.” This becomes a central image and she is depicted in some very remarkable and unusual poses. One need only look at her skirt and the fact that she has only “one leg.” Did you know angels only had one leg? This was news to me. Some Greek coins from the era of Mithradates VI, c. 85-65 BC, depict Nike with a skirt and one leg, creating an almost perfect mushroom image (49i, j). We also see this in later Roman issues, c. 175-296 AD (53a, c), and continuing up to 337 AD (50i, j). |
  R: (49j) Sinope in Paphlagonia Mithradates VI Obverse: Nike striding right, holding long palm branch over shoulder c. 120-63 BC L: (53a) Victory advancing right holding trophy with both hands c. 175-190 AD   R: (53c) Spes holding flower and raising skirt c. 271-274 AD L: (50i) Nike Victory holding shield c. 307-337 AD   R: (50j) Caracalla, Rome. Nike Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm c. 201 AD (96) Cults of the Roman Empire, p. 326; History of the Franks, X, 25 (97) Cult of the Mother Goddess, p. 254; https://eklogai.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/the-diocesan-council-of-auxerre/) – (https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/A/auxerre-council-of.html (98) Hebrew Goddess, p. 257; Philo, De Opif. Mundi (The Creative World) 100 (Loeb i. p. 79) |
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