Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus: She-Male Gods and the Roots of Christianity

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INTRODUCTION

Religion is a wormhole; it is a multidimensional, collapsible bridge in space that only a thirteen-year-old girl in the bloom of life can open…and only when she has entered a state of heightened sexual arousal. According to ancient Etruscan sibyls, the teenage priestesses who established the norms for much of Roman culture, religion is a method of cosmic tunneling; it’s a practice that creates a fluid structure through which dark-matter-breathing beings can travel in order to possess their maddened devotees. The ancient world believed religion was a resonant span across the fabric of space-time; and ancient clerics taught that its thermodynamic seal could be forcefully broken open with the songs of maidens.

The Bloom

The Romans spoke classical Latin. Their word religio, from which we derive our English word religion, means ligature or binding. Modern historians, overly influenced by their own Christian cultural lens, have interpreted this to mean religion is something that binds us to do and say certain things in celebration of divinity; in other words, religion is what we owe the gods. Nothing could be further from the historical actuality. In Rome, religio was simply the cosmic tie that bound the Earth-plane to the rest of the multiverse. It was a means to an end; it was a force of extra-dimensional attraction.

In the Greco-Roman way of thinking, gods are the cosmic bloom of existence.

The Importance of Demons

The ancient Mediterranean world taught that priestesses, witches, diviners and poets possessed the ability to open portals through which sentient powers or demons who inhabited extra-worldly planes could travel to the material universe. These beings, these powers-that-be, did not have a physical form; they were not composed of atoms, the indivisible elements of our world, and they did not have eyes, ears, mouths, voices, or, in fact, any human or biological attributes at all. And perhaps most importantly, these immortals were neither male nor female; they were neither, and yet they were both.

In the Greco-Roman way of thinking, gods are the cosmic bloom of existence. Greek and Latin culture, preserved in the amber of ancient literature, perpetuated the view that gods are the immortal elements of an ordered and living universe. For example, Aphrodite is the desire of sexual attraction; Dionysus is ecstasy; Athena is civic justice. Unlike humans, the gods aren’t born, they don’t age, and they don’t die. They are in perpetual bloom.

Myth was the medium in which the classical world expressed the efflorescence of the immortal forces of the universe. Greek and Roman myth had an extraordinary influence on ancient artists, statesmen, religious leaders and philosophers. It was a cultural cement that facilitated the construction of democracy, the establishment of education, and the creation of the scientific method. Ancient myth was a metaphor for expressing the individuality and actions of the immortal powers that govern the universe.

Geometry and Myth

For the Greeks, pioneers of the study of geometry, circles, squares and triangles were no different from myths. They did not exist in reality; you can’t touch a circle or hold one in the palm of your hand—shapes are just conceptual representations of mathematical realities. In the same way, the Greeks viewed stories of male and female gods who walked among mortals and interacted with them as nothing less than a means of expressing immaterial reality. The fact that you can’t see a circle unless you draw one does not make it any less real. The ancient world believed the same principle applied to gods and demons.

The gender of the gods was recognized in antiquity as a means of relating the confounding realities of non-physical cosmic forces.

Like circles and squares, the gods—the immortal visitors from other dimensions—had concrete shapes. They assumed certain personalities and characteristics. Hades, king of the dead, was unrelenting and unforgiving; Zeus, ruler of the ordered universe, was known for his foresight; Poseidon, master of the oceanic waters of change, was irritable and ready to cause great earthquakes at a moment’s notice. Mother Nature, goddess of generation, was characterized by her power to both nourish and destroy living things.

Pan

The he and she or gender of the gods was recognized in antiquity as a means of relating the confounding realities of non-physical cosmic forces. Contrary to modern feminism and classical scholarship, there was never an ancient religious war between matriarchy and patriarchy, because the Greeks and Romans taught that gods do not have actual genders—just as they don’t wear sandals, eat lunch, or braid their hair. Gender was an angle in the pictorial representation of the gods. Athena was feminine, because she was the nourishing force of civic justice. Pan, the divine shepherd of nymphs, was masculine because his fear-inducing sex-drive was responsible for maintaining the frenzied flight of nature’s procreative sprits; the word panic, taken from his name, expressed the fear of a young girl walking by herself in a forest.

Gender in myth was a means of expressing immortal, cosmic reality; no Greeks or Romans ever believed their gods had actual vaginas or penises. Sometimes a god is male; other times she is female; and sometimes the same god is a he-she, a being of both a masculine and a feminine nature. Again, this is difficult for a modern audience to comprehend when it has traditionally divided ancient deities into gods and goddesses. However, the ancient reality is far different. There were no gods and goddesses in antiquity; there were just cosmic, ageless beings with masculine, feminine and sometimes bi-gendered traits.

Gynomorphs formed a bridge between the sexes.

The Bi-Gendered God

The gynomorph was a bi-gendered god with both masculine and feminine attributes. The word itself is just a pairing of gyno- woman with morph- shape. Literally, a gynomorph is a god with female-like shape. Traditionally, the gynomorph was a developed or evolved state of a feminine divinity or daimon (demon in English). Gynomorphs were portrayed as effeminate young males, like Dionysus, a masculine god who possessed distinctly feminine features. Gynomorphs retained the creative capacity of female divinities—they had cosmic wombs—but they also possessed the inseminating abilities attributed to more-masculine gods.

Gynomorphs were special because they stood in the gender-gap between male and female gods. Gynomorphs formed a bridge between the sexes. They were a combination, or the sum, of both genders. In this way, gynomorphs were hermaphroditic, and could appear sometimes as predominantly masculine, and other times as predominantly feminine.

The gynomorph was an important figure in ancient culture because the Greco-Roman world possessed no word for gender. They viewed sex not as a binary proposition, but as a natural sum of two cooperative potentials; that is, masculinity and femininity were measurements of a sexual scale. In their view, sexual attributes were a combination of both zmasculine and feminine qualities. There were no absolutes; sexual characteristics were combinations of gender. For this reason, their closest word to English gender was kind.

The early Church adapted and intentionally borrowed elements of pagan mystery cults.

Purification

Early Church fathers, bishops and priests were very concerned with issues of divine sexuality and gender.

Ancient mystery religions were deeply concerned with the ideas of masculinity, femininity and hermaphroditism. Greek and Roman cults focused on a process of ritual initiation, during which newcomers were put through a rigorous purification. This cleansing enabled new acolytes to learn the secrets of the particular mystery cults into which they were being initiated, while preparing them for the reception of the special mystic knowledge embodied in the cult myth.

The mystery religions that celebrated the gods Cybele, Isis and Dionysus were particularly prominent in Roman society, especially during the rise of Christianity. As the early Church developed, it absorbed, adapted and intentionally borrowed elements of pagan mystery cults while simultaneously struggling to achieve its own independent status. Early Christians did not want to be mistaken for pagan mystery worshippers, but much of Christianity arose from the practices held in common with these prominent pagan cults. As a result, early Church fathers, bishops and priests were very concerned with issues of divine sexuality and gender.

The classical world was very much concerned with the mystic union of the sexes and even promoted the west’s first same-sex marriages. Ancient authors reveal much about the sexual practices surrounding marriage and the marriage celebration; for example, it was customary for virgins intimidated by the proposition of vaginal intercourse to offer anal intercourse on the night of their nuptials as a substitute. This was not considered odd by the ancient world, but was in fact a mainstream sexual practice due to the fact that anal intercourse did not hold the rigorous taboo perpetuated by the Christian world. In fact, many ancient medicines were administered anally after being rubbed onto dildos, and some priestesses even practiced a form of sacred sodomy on their devotees.

Raising the dead was a well-established ritual by the time Jesus entered the stage of western history.

Anal and vaginal intercourse were valued in antiquity as additional or supplemental means of accessing the divine. Ancient witches and priestesses of Priapus—the god with the constant erection—performed necromantic rituals involving the use of dildos and drugs that were meant to open portals to Erebus, the dimensional plane known as the underworld. This form of ancient religio, or religion, was perhaps the earliest type of western worship; its roots can be found in the very oldest Roman religious practices, particularly in the cult activities of the Etruscans, the Italic tribe living north of the city of Rome that laid the foundations for all of Roman religion. The figure of the gynomorph was central to the myths and practices of Etruscan and Roman necromancers.

Origins of Necromancy

The earliest origins of western necromancy are found in the practices of Etruscan priestesses and prophets. These vates, or seers, were able to divine the future based on their reading of natural signs. They believed cosmic intelligences freely communicated with mortals, and they taught that the proper interpretation of signs—like lightning strikes and the flight of birds—was the provenance of specialized