Graveyard Dirt: Two Worlds and In-between

Working for the Weekend

Notes for both work and self (THANK YOU, WIKI, THANK YOU!):

Cybele:
The most famous rite of Magna Mater introduced by the Romans was the taurobolium, the initiation ceremony in which a candidate took their place in a pit beneath a wooden floor. A bull was sacrificed on the wooden floor so that the blood would run through gaps in the slats and drench the initiate in a symbolic shower of blood. This act was thought to cleanse an initiate of sin as well as signify a 'rebirth' and re-energisation. A cheaper version, known as a criobolium, involved the sacrifice of a ram. The first recorded taurobolium took place at Puteoli in AD 134 in honour of Venus Caelestia. (LIKE IT / FEEL IT ENOUGH FOR WORK?)

Cybele:
The popularity of the Cybele cult in the city of Rome and throughout the empire is thought to have inspired the author of Book of Revelation to allude to her in his portrayal of the mother of harlots who rides the Beast. (I HAVE NAE HEARD THIS ONE!)

Inanna:
Inanna was also associated with rain and storms and with the planet Venus. (LULZ! OR THIS ONE, EITHER! BUT IT FITS -PERFECT-.)

Astarte:
Astarte was connected with fertility, sexuality, and war. Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus. (WASN'T AWARE OF HORSE OR SPHINX CONNECTION. (ATTRACTED TO HORSES; OFTEN HALLUCINATE BEING SEX/WAR SPHINX WHEN ON MDMA, WEED, & NITROUS.)