Fraud Gods
How Lies Lead Civilization
Religion tries to answer open-ended linear questions with wisdom that transcends space and time.
Ideas in religion, or even literature, poetry — the different arts — hold a type of personal perspective that’s capable of being meaningful to anyone, anywhere, at anytime.
In my corner of the world, and many others, the religious substrata would be considered to be Christianity.
Christ is not a name, nor religious word, but an ancient Greek title meaning “anointed one”:
χρῑστός = chrīstós = “the anointed one”
Christ originally meant “covered in oil”, in reference to the tradition of athletes, who believed that oil warmed their muscles:
χρίω = chrīō= “anoint with oil”
χρῖσμα = chrisma = “smearing”
There were a few more comparable words used at that time in Greece:
χράομαι = khráomai= “desire/yearn for”
κρῑ́νω = krīnō = “to condemn/judge”
κάρα= kárā = “head/top/brain/skull”
Greeks later formed the word “chrīstós” (christ) to replace the Latin word “Messiah”:
χρῑστός = chrīstós = “the anointed one”
A christ was considered an ultimate archetype, an embodiment of some interpretation of absolute good, someone whom led their people to salvation.
Jesus wasn’t the first and only christ — there were many.
Serapis Khrīstós was a ‘composite god’ created by the first Greek pharaoh of Egypt (Ptolemy I Soter, 304–305 BCE) to unite the Greek and Egyptian pantheons.
In order for both Greek and Egyptian religious cultures to follow the same god, Ptolemy I Soter fabricated Serapis with the attributes of already-worshipped figures within each culture.
Around that time (c. 305 BCE) in Greece, several gods were worshipped: Hades (god of the underworld), Helios (god of the Sun), Zeus (god of the sky), and Dionysus (god of Earthy abundance).
In Egypt (c. 305 BCE), Osiris, Isis, and their son Harpocrates were worshipped:
Osiris was the lord of death and rebirth — associated with the cycles of nature and fertility of the grains — who’s essence can be absorbed by eating cornbread.
Isis was the “Lady of Bread and Beer”, the god of agricultural abundance, and a divine personification of the invariability of nature’s mysteries.
Harpocrates, sometimes known as “Horus the Young”, was the son of Osiris and Isis, and the god of secrets and silence.
To serve their gods, Egyptians were anointed with oil and baptized in the Nile river….
Serapis Khrīstós was a combination of themes from many divine figures of the time (c. 305 BCE)↑
The worship of Serapis — the “fraud god” — set forth centuries of rule, ending with Cleopatra VII’s (7th’s) suicide in the fall of 30 BCE.
Every god that’s “risen and died” was likely created to exploit our personal connection to nature through death and rebirth.
