One of thousands of such beautiful Isis-nursing-Horus image that remain to us
One of thousands of such beautiful Isis-nursing-Horus images that remain to us

You may recall that, to the ancient Egyptians, bodily fluids could be a way of moving magic or heka. Written spells could be licked from the papyrus in order to be taken into the human body. Magic could be eaten or swallowed. And we human beings know deep in our bones the magic and life power of both blood and semen.

Multiply the power of these magic-containing fluids to the nth degree when it comes to the Deities. Atum created His children, Shu and Tefnut, by spitting. The tears of Re created human beings. The Tiet, the Knot or Blood of Isis, protects the dead in the otherworld.

Isis Lactans, Isis the Milk-Giver
Isis Lactans, Isis the Milk-Giver

Yet of all these magical bodily fluids, it may be that milk, especially divine milk, is the queen of them all. To us at least, milk is the most pleasant—and palatable—of the magical body fluids. It is, after all, our first food. In fact, it is the perfect food and it gives us an intimate connection with our mothers. A child nursing at the breast of her mother is drinking Life Itself. No death has ever touched this pure milk. It comes from the mother alive. It is drunken alive. It becomes part of a living being.

Milk is indeed magic.

As Great Divine Mother and a Cow Goddess, Isis is the Egyptian Milk Goddess from a very early period. The Pyramid Texts say to the deceased, “Take the breast of your sister Isis the milk-provider.” Throughout Egyptian history, Isis is the mother and nurse of kings. A scholar who as studied the images of Isis Lactans (“Milk-Giving Isis”) observed that the idea that milk from the breast of the Goddess (Isis as well as other Goddesses) not only gives life, but also longevity, salvation, and even divinity is one that exists “in the mentality of the populations of the Delta from the earliest antiquity, and manifests itself in the official imagery of the Pharaohs.” (Tran Tam Tinh, Isis lactans: Corpus des monuments greco-romains d’lsis allaitant Harpocrate, Leiden: Brill, 1971.)

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The Mother gives Her breast to the Horus Child

Egyptian art shows the king drinking this holy milk of the Goddess three important times: at birth, at his coronation, and at his rebirth. The symbolism is clear. Goddess milk provides life to the babe, royal power—and perhaps wisdom and a touch of divinity—to the new king, and renewal after death for the deceased king.

A daily ritual conducted in the temples at Thebes, Memphis, and Abydos was designed to confirm the power of the king. Pharaoh (or more likely, his representative) received the sa en ankh, life-energy, from his Divine Father, Amun-Re, by means of magical gestures. Then he received the power of the Goddess from his Divine Mother, Amunet, by means of drinking Her milk. Carved on temple walls, the Goddess invites the king to suckle the milk from both Her breasts. In Hatshepsut’s temple, Hathor’s milk gives the young Pharaoh “life, strength, health.” The Pyramid Texts have Isis bring Her milk to the deceased Pharaoh to assist in his rebirth: “Isis comes, she has her breasts prepared for her son Horus, the victorious.”

A charming vessel in which to store "the milk of a woman who has borne a son"
A charming vessel in which to store “the milk of a woman who has borne a son.” Photo by Rob Koopman; wikicommons

But the king wasn’t the only one to benefit from the divine life magic of milk. Milk was also used for healing. The “milk of a woman who has borne a son” was a fairly common ingredient in Egyptian medicines.

Archeologists have recovered a number of small vessels in the shape of a woman pressing her breast to give milk or, as in the case of the vessel on the left, a woman nursing. They were designed to hold human milk, perhaps for making medicine, perhaps for later feeding of a child. The milk of the Divine Mother was also directly invoked for healing. In a formula for the relief of a burn, Isis says that She will extinguish the fire of the burn with Her milk. By applying Goddess-milk to the body of the sufferer, he will be healed and the fire will leave his body. In a New Kingdom myth, the Goddess Hathor uses gazelle’s milk to heal the eyes of Horus that had been torn out during one of His battles with Set. A spell from the Berlin Magical Papyrus instructs that if one takes milk with honey at sunrise, it “will become something divine in your heart.” Isn’t that just beautiful?

With all its magical properties, milk was common among the supplies buried with the dead and it served as a valuable offering to the Deities. At Isis’ Philae temple, wall carvings attest that milk was offered to all the Deities worshipped there. To help renew Osiris, milk was poured upon His tomb at Biggeh, a small, holy island visible from Philae. Every ten days, Isis Herself made these libations.

Milk being offered to a sacred image of a Goddess in India
Milk being offered to a sacred image of a Goddess in India

The whiteness of milk also added to its sanctity in the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, for white was a color they associated with purity and joy. In tomb paintings and funerary papyri, Egyptians are usually shown wearing pure, white clothing. This also carried over into the later Isis cult where the wearing of white marked one as an Isiac initiate. Ritual implements were often made of white alabaster. Sacred animals were described as being white; and actual white animals—like the White Buffalo Calf of modern Native Americans—were exceptionally sacred.

The magic of milk was also understood in the wider Mediterranean world. The Greek Kourotrophoi, (“Child-Carrying” and Nurturing Goddesses), could confer hero status on a mortal by feeding him on Their milk. Mysteries, such as the Orphic-Dionysian Mysteries, envisioned a kind of baptism in milk.

It is widely understood that the Isis Lactans images of late Paganism became the models for the mother-and-child images of the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus. Possibly as a result, early Christianity also had the concept of the blessings bestowed by divine milk. Eventually, it is Christianity’s male God Who becomes the Divine Nurse of worshippers, however. The 19th Ode of Solomon says,

Magical, beautiful milk
Magical, beautiful milk

“The Son is the cup; the Father is he who was milked; and the Holy Spirit is she who milked him; because his breasts were full and it was undesirable that his milk should be released without purpose.”

Sigh. Yet this adoption of a Goddess power by a God of monotheism simply points, once more, to the potency of the symbol of milk—for all of us.

Milk IS magic. It is life, health, healing, resurrection, renewal, and salvation. For me, this holy, holy milk is always the milk of Isis, the Milk Provider, the Great of Magic and the Great of Milk.

 It's not Isis, but wow
It’s not Isis, but wow

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Satanists conduct ritual, draw praying protests at state Capitol

WNPA News Service

OLYMPIA — Congregants from the Seattle-based Satanic Temple of Washington drew a crowd of prayerful onlookers Friday as they hoisted their pentagram and conducted a satanic ritual at the state Capitol.

Christian groups showed up to sing and pray in the name of Jesus. Some held a sign that read “Satan has no rights.”

Satanic Temple affiliates, such as Justin Harvey-John Ashby, said their event was about promoting religious plurality. He said he believes satanic beliefs have been misunderstood and viewed as “grossly perverse,” and that their primary values are empathy, reason, bodily autonomy and justice.

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Because no legislator would allow Satanists to deliver an invocation inside the Capitol to open a session, members of the Washington state chapter of The Satanic Temple held an “infernal ritual” just outside the building on Friday.

 

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    May 1, 2019
Are they evil or just misunderstood? The documentary “Hail Satan?” explores those questions while following the rise of the Satanic Temple. Director Penny Lane says the creation of the film took her on a spiritual and educational journey. A goal of her film was to debunk myths and misconceptions about this religion. “Modern Satanism is an atheistic religion,” Lane says. “There’s no sort of belief in supernatural deities at the core.” InsideEdition.com’s Mara Montalbano has more.

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Sep 24, 2016
The Satanic Temple, which proclaims itself to be the world’s largest satanic organisation, opened its new international headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts on Friday. Artists Mark Porter and Chris P. Andres showcased some of their works at the Satanic Temple headquarters. An exhibition of satanic sculptures and art was set up for the occasion, including a monument of Baphomet – which the organisation describes as “part man, part animal, points above, points below, the legs are crossed, upright pentagram on head, inverse pentagram behind the head, and the Caduceus on the lap representing balance and reconciliation.” Video ID: 20160924 006 Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: cd@ruptly.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly
 
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Nov 21, 2021
Join us as we visit The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts. For more information on The Satanic Temple, please visit…https://thesatanictemple.com

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Inside Colombia’s Temple of Lucifer

Mar 9, 2017
Víctor Damián Rozo claims to be the very son of the devil and has built a temple in Colombia dedicated to worshiping Satan. More than ten years ago, Rozo renounced his Catholic religion to give his life to Lucifer, who he considers to be the only true god. Since then, his mission has been to recruit Luciferian parishioners, congregate them in his temple, and link their souls with the devil. On this episode of ‘VICE INTL,’ we traveled to Rozo’s temple to be initiated in a bombastic ceremony of satanist purification. Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE

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 · 8/18/2018
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Catholics pray while satanic statue unveiled at State Capitol

Ten Commandments monument on grounds opposed by rally

PUBLISHED: AUGUST 23, 2018      

Catholics and other Christians attended a rally at the State Capitol Aug. 16 to protest the presence of a satanic statue and its organization’s wishes to have it permanently installed on the Capitol grounds.

About two dozen Christians carried signs, prayed and sang during the afternoon “Rally for the First Amendment,” where an 8-1/2-foot bronze statue of Baphomet was displayed on a flatbed truck.

The reason for the rally was to oppose the state’s Ten Commandment monument that is located behind the Capitol. The Satanic Temple believes that the state should allow other religious statues placed on the lawn if they are allowing a Judeo-Christian symbol. The Ten Commandments were installed in 2017 by the state but destroyed by a protester only a few days later. In April the monument was reinstalled, but during the rally it was fenced off and blocked from view with black mesh fencing.

The Satanic Temple of Salem, Mass., which hosted the rally, also asked for a statue of a winged, goat-headed creature being adored by children to be installed at the Oklahoma State Capitol, but its Ten Commandments monument was removed following a state Supreme Court ruling.

The Satanic Temple calls itself “a non-theistic religious organization dedicated to Satanic practice and the promotion of Satanic rights.”

Drew Clarke of Memphis attended the rally at the urging of America Needs Fatima, a national Catholic group promoting a campaign to end Satanism in the U.S.

“I grew up in Arkansas and I’m not going to stand for it,” Clarke said.

America Needs Fatima organized its own “rally of reparation” Aug. 15 at the State Capitol.

Jack Burnham, media director for America Needs Fatima, said about 275 people attended the rally on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

“We say the rosary, we sing hymns, asking our Lady to make reparation to God for this thing we couldn’t stop,” Burnham said.

America Needs Fatima also delivered 25,000 signatures to Gov. Asa Hutchinson to protest the satanic statue.

Holding his wooden rosary and a sign reading “Pray the rosary daily,” Jim Bourne of St. John the Baptist Church in Cabot watched silently and prayed during the rally.

“I think every Catholic should be out here today,” he said.

“I just wanted to be there because sometimes presence can touch a heart … You can just tell in their voices that they were hurting,” he said of the Satanic Temple speakers.

Lisa Hayes, a member of Immaculate Conception Church in North Little Rock, said, “I just felt the need to pray over people who worship Satan and give support where needed for our faith.”

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“Cold day in hell”: Arkansas lawmaker irked by Satanic Temple statue display at rally

“If you’re going to have one religious monument up then it should be open to others, and if you don’t agree with that then let’s just not have any at all,” said Satanic Arkansas cofounder Ivy Forrester, a rally organizer.The monument arrived on a flatbed truck and was unveiled at the bottom of the capitol steps, CBS affiliate KTHV reports. Meanwhile, the Ten Commandments stood behind a screened fence surrounded by caution tape.

Sen. Rapert says ‘very cold day in hell’ before Baphomet statue allowed on capitol grounds by THV11 on YouTube

The statue of Baphomet can’t be installed under a 2017 state law that requires legislative sponsorship for consideration of any monument. The Satanist group removed the statue later Thursday.

The Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol was sponsored by Republican Sen. Jason Rapert and installed quietly in 2017. Less than 24 hours after its installation, a man drove his car into the monument, smashing it to pieces . The same man also destroyed a Ten Commandments monument outside Oklahoma’s state Capitol.

The Satanic Temple ended its campaign to install Baphomet there, after Oklahoma’s Supreme Court ruled the Ten Commandments monument was unconstitutional and it was taken down.

Rapert said in an online statement that he respects the protesters’ First Amendment rights, but also called them “extremists” and said “it will be a very cold day in hell before an offensive statue will be forced upon us to be permanently erected on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol.”

There was a significant police presence at the peaceful rally. A small group of counter-protesters holding signs with Bible verses stood quietly nearby, occasionally singing Christian songs.

One speaker – a Christian minister – was interrupted by a yelling counter-protester, but police escorted the man who was holding a large wooden stick away from the stage.

The Satanic Temple wants to join a religious discrimination lawsuit against Arkansas brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. A judge has to yet rule on whether the Satanists can join the case.

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