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And flowers she seethes therein and bitter juices,
With gem-stones from the farthest Orient …
… And behold!
The old dry stick that stirred the bubbling brew
Grew green and suddenly burst into leaf,
And all at once was laden with fat olives;
And where the froth flowed over from the pot
And the hot drops spattered the ground beneath,
Fair springtime bloomed again, and everywhere
Flowers of the meadow sprang and pasture sweet.
And seeing this Medea drew her blade
And slit the old king’s throat and let the blood
Run out and filled his veins and arteries
With her elixir; and when Aeson drank;
Through wound and lips, at once his hair and beard,
White for long years, regained their raven hue;
His wizened pallor, vanquished, fled away
And firm new flesh his sunken wrinkles filled,
And all his limbs were sleek and proud and strong.
Then Aeson woke and marveled as he saw
His prime restored of forty years before.
As we have seen, the herding, protein-eating Indo-Hittites saw
little merit in the Mother Goddess’ analogy of male sacrifice. Under
pressure of change at Delphi, the king sacrifice became the sacrifice of
any male. Later a male child became a live sacrifice or sparagmos in the
Mysteries of Demeter. 1216
Euripides’ fifth century BCE play Medea tells of the return of
Goddess worship to Athens and the inception of child sacrifice in
response to desertion of the Mother Goddess religion by Jason: 1217
Men say that women cannot be good at anything, therefore I will
excel at wickedness .. A women gives life to her children, it is her
right to take it away.
Medea’s expulsion, from Corinth and then from Athens, refers to
the Hellenic suppression of her Triple Goddess cult. 1218
Philomela, the sister of Queen Procne, participated in a sacred
marriage with King Tereus. Queen Procne later learnt of the affair and
sought vengeance. As Hecate, she killed her son rather than the king: 1219
… As Procne spoke, her son
Itys, approached – she knew what she could do!
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