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— CELEBRATING —

The Aeon of The Conquering Child

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THIS UPDATE: 1. March 2010

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I’m an effigy, a parody

of who I appear to be,

place your blazing torches under me...

Effigy on OPHELIA

Natalie Merchant

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

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REVIEW: FANTASTIC REALITY

REVIEW: THE NEANDERTHAL LEGACY

REVIEW: REFORMISM or REVOLUTION?

REVIEW: THE GOD WHO WASN’T THERE

MARK FIORE FLASH ANIMATION/SFgate:

State of the Union

we’d all like to see

Flying perfectly Love for sale with Gay or Straight? Haiti aid quake.

safe airlines. Dogboy, Mr. San A Quiz

Newly-Frugal Duy Obama’s Bipartisam The Clapper—Turn

Tackles the deficit Brawlathon capitalism on, off

What went wrong in

2009.

Sites of Inspiration, the Very Strange & Way Far-Out

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Intriguing, prophetic, or just plain nutty?

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PROLOGUE

Serpentningishzida

The Midgard Serpent

Serpent Handlers

NOTE: This section is not meant to demean or ridicule its

human subjects in any way.

The Jolo Serpent Handlers

A Karen Kramer Film

Man In Prison For Trying To Kill Wife With Snake
AP, Feb. 25, 2003

CHILDERSBURG, Ala. — A former snakehandling preacher serving a 99-year sentence for trying to kill his wife with a rattlesnake escaped briefly from a work detail.

Prison officials said Glenn Summerford, who has served about 11 years of his sentence, slipped away from the work detail for about 45 minutes Friday before being returned to custody. He then was moved from the work center at Childersburg to the state prison in St. Clair County.

Summerford, 58, was convicted of attempted murder in 1992 after his wife, Darlene, testified that he grabbed her by the hair and forced her to put her hand in a cage of rattlesnakes after hitting it with a pipe to make the snakes mad. She was bitten twice but survived. Summerford at the time handled snakes as pastor of the Church of Jesus With Signs Following near Scottsboro.

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NOTE: This incident was included in a TV program—Investigative Reports, I believe. The highlight of the trial was when wife Darlene was on the stand. When asked if the congregation kept snakes, she replied “Yes, sir.” Then asked if they fed the snakes Darlene replied “Yes, sir.” Then when asked if they bred the snakes Darlene—without a pause—replied, “Oh no, sir…they do that all by themselves.” The court broke into hysterics. Darlene was a hit (her husband was convicted). Unfortunately many people in the congregation blamed her for the “disgrace” of the trial & being held up to ridicule in the voracious & viperous (pun intended) national media coverage. Within a few months Darlene’s home was burnt to the ground in an act of arson. —JEF

“Shorty Takes Up Serpents” “The Annoiting of Miss Hopi”

DRAWINGS OF RELIGIOUS SERPENT HANDLERS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA

by Gary Monroe

Snake handling at the Pentecostal Church of God, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky September 15, 1946 (National Archives and Records Administration).

Photo by Russell Lee.

Minoan Snake Goddess

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EPILOGUE

SerpentsCoinPlot

Lucifer Part 1

Satan & The Testament of Job

Samael Aum Weor

Gnosis Cultus Interruptis?

Philosopher's Stone

Evil and Urizen:

William Blake's Visions

of a Demiurge

The Hand of Glory

Roman Catholic Rite of Exorcism

Demons A-Z

The Cathars

Don’t be

Scammed!

2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist

2012: End of the world or just hype?

Depiction of 2012?

YouTube - Denver Airport Mural

Denver Airport Conspiracy Theory: A Documentary (part 1)

YouTube - Denver Airport Conspiracy Theory: A Documentary (part 2)

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Denver Airport

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POPUL VUH

Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

The courage to change the things that I can;

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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2 Non-Muslim Religious Sects in the Middle East

The Yazidi are a Kurdish ethnicity with ancient Indo-European roots. They are primarily Kurdish speaking, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. There are traditional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria, but these have declined since the 1990s, their members emigrating to Europe, especially to Germany.^[8]The term Dasni or Dasny is often misunderstood. A large Yezidi-clan/tribe is called Dasni. There are many Yazidis who belong to the tribe, and the two terms are sometimes seen as interchangeable. The Yazidis do not use it for self-designation.

Tawûsê Melek, the peacock angel

The Chermera or “40 Men” Temple on the highest peak of the Sinjar mountains in northern Iraq. The temple is so old that no one remembers how it came to have that name, but it is believed to derive from the burial of 40 men on the mountaintop site.