Coincidance - Principia Discordia

46 COINCIDANCE
totally concerned with the great mother goddess, variously known as Nuit,
Isis, Nu-Isis, etc. Set, the snake god, representing the phallus, was the only
male god in those days to achieve a rank roughly equal to the goddess, and
only because he was necessary to her divine function as mother of all. (The
phallic snake god, which the Egyptians acquired from the Congo region, still
survives as an important figure in African and Haitian voodoo. Some cults
derived therefrom survive in New Orleans and other parts of the American
South.) The Nuit-Isis cults summarized their teaching in the aphorism,
revived in our time by Aleister Crowley, "The Khabs is in the Khu." (Khabs is
the divine or eternal part of humanity; Khu is the female genital, origin of
our word cunt.) It is not "licentiousness" or lack of religion, but the sexual basis
of their religion, that led the Egyptians to portray their gods in manners
shocking to Christian observers: Atum depicted as masturbating, Isis as
performing fellatio on her brother-husband Osiris, etc. Another biological
depiction of Egyptian origin, Isis nursing the infant Horus, was, however,
acceptable to the Christians and some of these statues later found their way
into Christian temples, with Isis renamed Mary and Horus changed to
Jesus. But by then the meaning had been lost and, as Kenneth Grant says in
The Revival of Magic, the physical basis of Egyptian religion had become the
metaphysics of the Christian and Hellenistic philosophers. That is, insofar as
sex was admitted into religion at all, a la the Song of Solomon, it was
interpreted as a symbol of spiritual relationship.
Homer's favorite adjective for well-stacked females was bathykolpos, which
means having ample breasts. Considering that the poet was, according to all
ancient sources, blind, he must have learned to appreciate this feature by
the braille system, and he evidently enjoyed the experience. Interestingly
enough, Homer's values are largely matrist. Some have even suggested that
Homeric works are older than usually assumed and actually trace back to a
quasi or totally matriarchal period; Samuel Butler, Robert Graves and
Elizabeth Gould Davis have all argued that Homer was a woman. Certainly,
he regarded Achilles and the other military heroes in his poems as
somewhat crazy and saved his real affection for Odysseus, who started out
as a draft-dodger, went to the war reluctantly and always exercised his
celebrated craftiness in trying to find a way to get home to his beloved wife
and away from all that pointless bloodshed. It has also been observed that
Homer has a special fondness for the old goddesses and tends to treat Zeus
as something of a comic character, much like the old crank of later farcical
writers. Nevertheless, one modem women's lib writer, Nancy R. McWilliams,
has denounced Homer as male chauvinist because Odysseus had all the fun
of the Trojan War to himself and didn't invite Penelope to come along and
share the butchery.