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Looking at him with ruthless eyes, she said
“You’re so like your father!” and she planned
In silent rage a deed of tragedy.
… She struck him with a knife
Below his ribs, and never even looked
Away; one wound sufficed to seal his fate.
And Philomela slit his throat. Alive,
And breathing still, they carved and jointed him,
And cooked the parts; some bubbled in a pan,
Some hissed on spits; the closet swam with blood.
… In rushes Philomela,
Just as she is, that frantic butchery
Still spattered in her hair, and throws the head
Of Itys, bleeding, in his father’s face.
In child sacrifice, the priestesses castrated a boy, tore him apart
and consumed him in a Eucharist called the omophagia. Later, the
priestesses baked his blood in baked barley cakes and ate the cakes in
honour of the Barley Goddess. 1220 This is the esoteric meaning of barley
cakes.
Blood also anointed the Earth Priestess’ omphalos stone. This
was a navel shrine of the Earth Mother with the spiral python motif of
immortality. 1221 It symbolized both the umbilical tie to the earth and
resurrection for the sacrificial king. Rosettes, the ancient symbol of
sacred marriage and royal resurrection, decorated the omphalos. The
Priestesses constantly anointed it with blood and oil mixed with strands of
woven wool. 1222
Both the city of Delphi and the influence of the priestesses at the
Temple of Demeter declined after the Sacred Wars of 529BCE to
338BCE. The Gauls finally destroyed the Temple in 279BCE.
Yet, the practices of Triple Goddess worship were entrenched
elsewhere in Europe and horrifying myths continued to circulate. While
the Indo-Hittite invasions of Greece stopped the practice of male
sacrifice, the Goddess Demeter’s ensuing hostility to children demanded
constant, covert appeasement.
In the old myths of Europe, the male oak god Janus saved
children from the witch Demeter. 1223 He was the oaken door of strength
and security. Another name for Demeter was Cardea. If she penetrated
beyond the Oak-king, the door, she would steal the children to drink their
blood. 1224 This Hansel and Gretel factor, now presented as mere fairytale,
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