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The Priests ruled that a Jewish girl should not become a holy prostitute
like Tamar. We return to Tamar later in the chapter.
Yet, the Israelites could not escape their heritage of Mother Right
entirely. They sacrificed and consumed the scapegoat at the beginning of
the agricultural year. 290 This true He-goat or Oak-king equivalent is the
Assyrian counterpart of Azazel. The Israelites later consumed the Hegoat
as a Eucharist when Moses allowed the Israelites to substitute a kid
for the paschal lamb in the first law stipulated for Passover. 291
The Israelites were also highly suspicious of honey and bees
because of their place in the Afro-Asiatic mysteries of rebirth. In the
same way Jews prohibited seething a kid in milk, they deprecated the bee
as a filthy creature engendered in the rotting flesh of cattle. This was a
reference to Bull Mysteries. Ovid describes the same phenomena of bees
emerging from the rotting flesh of a prize bull, slain for sacrifice, in The
Doctrines of Pythagoras. 292
Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20BCE to 50CE) who was the
greatest Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher of his time wrote: 293
The Eucharistic bread must be without leavening and without
honey.
Yet, the Israelites drew a very fine line on bees and honey
because of its importance in early Indo-Hittite religion. In Israelite
mythology, Samson of Dan killed a lion and when passing later on found
a swarm of bees and some honey in the carcass. He scooped out the
honey and it gave him the idea for a riddle: 294
Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth
sweetness.
The legend does not say that the lion’s body was the womb of the
bees. Neither does it imply that the honey was impure since both Samson
and his parent consumed it. Ancient doctors who prepared alchemical
medicines would immediately recognize that the lion is gold and the
sweetness is the sweet, universal medicine of gold that cures all diseases.
On another level of meaning, Samson is predicting Dan’s
universal hermetic religion will be born from the carcass of the Lion of
Judah. The bees are Samson’s Tribe of Dan and the honey is a golden
new age. 295 We can detect an Israelite attempt to reconcile the different
Afro-Asiatic and Indo-Hittite mystical interpretations of honey. There is
also a deeper esoteric meaning, which we will look at in Chapter 16.
The Israelites had great difficulty in maintaining amity or
harmony of culture with their fellow Semite tribes because of their
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