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wine to symbolise the blood which naturally flowed when the human
male organ was cut off, as in the case of the Priests of Cybele.
In order to make themselves one with the God, the worshippers
ate the bread and drank some of the wine. Similar rites were performed all
over the world to the Goddess of Fertility, and here we have clear
evidence of their survival among the Jews up to B.C. 587.
We learn further that naturally these offerings of cakes were made
only by the women and at the shrine of Astarte at the north gate. No doubt
it was at this time that the women wept for Tammuz slain, whose sad fate
they thus commemorated while hoping thereby to gain an abundant
harvest.
We also see why fire played an important part in these old rites.
The children gathered the sticks; at one time they formed the fuel for the
sacrifice of burning! The men lighted the fire; they had begotten the
children, and hence the symbolism of the act! It was the women, however,
who made the cakes, for from them come forth men, as does corn from
the Earth.
But what were the men doing while the women were busy at the
north gate? We shall find that some of them were at the centre in a hidden
vault, namely the tomb itself, while others stood watching the east so that
they might proclaim the resurrection of the slain God; that the corn would
come forth from the womb of Mother Earth; that a new son of the
Goddess would be born, destined like his father to wed the Goddess and
thereby lose his life. Thus Astarte was every year a widow, and her son
posthumous.
But though the women had their duties outside the closely barred
door of the hidden mysteries, they were evidently not admitted therein.
This was the men’s house and therefore we will return to Ezekiel and see
what he says on the subject, having thus decided whom the “Figure of
Jealousy” represented and what was taking place before it.
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