fusion telexTelexexternal linkExternal Linkinternal linkInternal Linkatomjacked inventory cacheInventory Cache
Saturnalia
This nOde last updated April 15th, 2002 and is permanently morphing...
(1 Caban (Quake) / 10 Pop (Mat) - 157/260 - 12.19.9.2.17)

fusion telex

saturnalia

saturnalia (sàt´er-nâ´lê-e, -nâl´ye) plural noun
1. Saturnalia. The ancient Roman seven-day festival of Saturn, which began on December 17.
2.(used with a sing. verb). A celebration marked by unrestrained revelry and often licentiousness; an orgy.

[Latin Sâturnâlia, from neuter pl. of Sâturnâlis, Saturnian, from Sâturnus, Saturn.]

SATURNALIA

The prototypical Roman holiday in which all things were permitted, from December 17th to the 24th. Public banquets were held in which masters served their slaves and criminals were pardoned. A central place of honor to children and the aged was reserved. Gifts were exchanged and social games prevailed. Above all, it was the festival that honored internal linkTime and the Golden Age of the Past.


fusion telex

Festival of fools is an ancient Roman carnival which dates back to pre-internal linkBabylonian rites and the twelve days of internal linkchaosHail Eris! [in-between internal linktime], within the void, when all Rome went mad…


fusion telex

"The 'World' is 'one'"can be and has been used to justify a totality, a internal linkmetaphysical ordering of "internal linkreality" with a "center" or "apex": one god, one King, etc., etc. This is the monism of  orthodoxy, which naturally opposes Dualism and its other source of power ("evil") -- orthodoxy  also presupposes that the One occupies a higher ontological position than the Many, that  transcendence takes precedence over immanence. What I call radical (or heretical) monism  demands unity of one and Many on the level of immanence; hence it is seen by Orthodoxy as a turning-upside-down or saturnalia which proposes that every "one" is equally "divine".

Radical monism is "on the side of" the Many -which explains why it seems to lie at the heart of pagan internal linkpolytheism and internal linkshamanism, as well as extreme forms of monotheism such as  Ismailism or Ranterism, based on "inner internal linklight" teachings. "All is one", therefore can be spoken  by any kind of monist or anti-dualist and can mean many different things.
- internal linkPeter Lamborn Wilson - internal link_Info Wars_atomjacked inventory cache

fusion telex

Saturnalia (from the god Saturn) was the name the Romans gave to their holiday marking the Winter Solstice. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, the 17th through internal link23rd of December. It also degenerated from mostly tomfoolery, marked chiefly by having masters and servants switch places, to sometimes debauchery, so that the (lower case) word "saturnalia" came to mean "orgy."

The customary greeting for the occasion is, "Io, Saturnalia!" -- io (pronounced "oy") being a Latin interjection related to "ho" (as in "Ho, there").

Other Roman festivals and rites include the Ambarvalia and the Lupercalia.

It has been postulated that internal linkchristians in the fourth century assigned December 25th as christ's birthday (and thus christmas) because pagans already observed this day as a holiday. This would sidestep the problem of eliminating an already popular holiday while christianizing the population.


fusion telex
fusion telexTelexexternal linkExternal Linkinternal linkInternal Linkatomjacked inventory cacheInventory Cache
fUSION Anomaly. Realms
return to the source...fUSION Anomaly.
fUSION Anomaly.