St. Peter The First PTSD Victim of State Terror (19)

The Saw-Cross Saws Upwards!

© Eso A. B., 2012

The morning after Basil’s (aka Christ’s) liquidation by Emperor, Alexius I, the sun rose over the Bosphorus the color of blood. It rose to just above the horizon, more wide on its sides than it was tall. Once the sun had reached the hill top (on the right hand side of the Bosphorus), it remained there and moved no further, though if one looked carefully,  it wobbled from side to side a little.


I am, of course, using the description of the sunrise that followed Nanautzins’s self-immolation as described in David Carrasco’s book, City of Sacrifice, p. 80ff,


Such Basil’s disciples as had dared to stay the night beside the fire pit and witness their master’s charred remains, they spake no words among themselves and acted as if struck dumb.


Years later, when the event came to be rewritten and fitted to the story of Jesus by the monks (likely in the service of the King of France), there rewrite left little of what had actually transpired at the pit of fire at the Hippodrome.  As we read the story, now in the “NewTestament”,  Mark 14:66-72, we discover that:

66 “And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest: 67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth (Nanauatzin?)

68 “But he [Peter] denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. 69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.

70 “And he [Peter] denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto. 71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.

72 “And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.”

While the cremation pit was apparently soon filled and reduced to (probably) a bonfire outside Pilate’s palace, the horror struck disciples acted precisely as petrified people do; as Lot’s wife did; as refugees from war zones in our own day do. Indeed, who is to define what is a “war zone” in our day? Is ‘a war zone’ not also a slum? Is it not where people pick through rubbish piles?
The commentator (–Austin Cline) to the above text explains:

“In order to emphasize the faithlessness of Peter, the nature of his three denials increases in intensity each time. First he gives a simple denial to a single maid who claims that he was “with” Jesus. Second he denies to the maid and a group of bystanders that he was “one of them.” Finally, he speaks with a vehement oath to a group of bystanders that he was NOT “one of them.”

This exegesis fits the pattern used by those whom the French kings [later also German kings and others (the last auto-da-fe occurred in 1802 in Spain)] employed to drive out arch-Christianity with a story version that better served the secularist ends of the oligarchs, princes, lords, firsts, barons, and wealthy merchants of the day. Today the story also serves bankers. On the whole, the exegesis stays on track–if it records (even as it does not explain) Peter’s “faithlessness” as a consequence of “mind paralysis”. It is interesting that Alexeus I and Herod, both, are kings/ leaders, who presume for themselves religious authority. This writer remains horror struck by the video clip of a U.S. helicopter crew machine-gunning a group of Iraqi men, including two men working for a news service. While the attackers are not to be equated with religion, their action is justified by the rules of war, i.e., the law of the U.S. government is on their side and their subjective feelings can be disregarded as far as the law is concerned. In other words, in this case the law is criminal.


Strange as it may seem to some readers, butting together a leap into a fire pit at Teotihuacan and pushing a man into a fire pit dug on the Hippodrome in Constantinople, it is not pareidolia beyond possibility.


The internet has done much to break the story patterns created by academics, whose versions of a story are constrained by their piers, whether the established story tells true or not. The internet user, however, has access to much of the same data that an academic has, but has none of the pier pressure to contend with when it comes to finding and telling a story constructed according to a new pattern. Of course, now that a new story of the death of Jesus Basil has been discovered, the scholars are free to do further research and begin an argument for or against or confirm yet another version of the tale I tell.


Are Basil, Christ, Nanauatzin, and Jesus perhaps one and the same person then? Probably not. Nevertheless, just as there is a relationship in the slaying of a sheep by nomads in the Lake Baikal region today and the sacrifice on top of Temple Mayor centuries ago, that is, that it takes five men to better butcher and/ or sacrifice, for all we know, five friendly warriors to one enemy warrior may have served as a rule of thumb to generals in pre-modern days in the Near East and Mesoamerica. Just as the sun did not rise into the skies immediately after the sacrifices at either geographic location, Jesus, taking an example from the Moon Goddess, did not immediately rise from his grave to heaven either.

Was Jesus Basil-Christ Auto-da-fed? (18)

Behind the Distant Tree Line, the Chainsaws buzz from early morning until dusk.

 

© Eso A. B., 2012

The muting of speech and mind by petrifying the individual with fright is an ancient and primitive tactic, likely discovered by males of the human species. It is possible that the tradition of muting prisoners of war, women and youths, preceded community formation, thus facilitating a negative basis for creating communities through violence world wide. Thus, the positive creation a community is the opposite of victimization—heteronomy (self-sacrifice), which tends to be part of feminine nature.

If one takes into account the experience of soldiers, who survive the killing fields, and subsequent to their participation in war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the extreme consequences of the experience are shown by the suicide rate among combat veterans (37% per 100,000 = 37,000). This figure provides evidence of the incredible degree of mental suffering, and leads to the conclusion that the suicide rate only scratches the surface of it. The survivors of PTSD may have decided to forego suicide, but may pay the dues to their pain in many other ways. One of the ways may be to become a failing parent  (father) or a war-mongering community leader. do not necessarily the emotional turmoil and pain facing and dealing in death offers to the survivors of the ordeal in retrospect.

No wonder that at the beginning of modern history, a man called John,  Apostle John, or John of Patmos had a “Revelation” that presented itself as an Apocalypse. Even so, the muted and silent mind of the public in our day is as unaware that assumptions lead to conclusions, and that what awaits it is the same as when unsuspecting unwanted puppies or kittens are put by a farmer into a sack filled with stones.

Yet—given the unstable chronology of Western history—John of Patmos [exiled to the island of Patmos by the Romans (likely those of Byzantium)] may have been a witness to the death (by incineration) of Jesus, at the time he was still known by the name of Basil.

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Briefly, the following is the story of Jesus-Basil-Christ as told by Anna Comnena, the daughter of the Byzantine (Roman) emperor Alexius I (? 1081-1118). The unusual dating, while likely to cause some readers great doubt as to its accuracy, is justified if we remember that the chronology of history as taught in the West was nonexistent until nearly five hundred years later, until after the Council of Trident (1545-1563), which took place during the Reformation.

Writes Anna Comnena (date uncertain):

“Later, in the… year of Alexius reign there arsose an extraordinary ‘cloud of heretics’, a new hostile group, hitherto unknown to the Church. For two doctrines, each known to antiquity and representative of what was most evil, most worthless, now coalesced…, and… were united in the Bogomils, for the dogma of the latter was an amalgam of Manichaean and Massalian teaching.

“Apparently, it was in existence before my father’s time, but was unperceived (for the Bogomil sect is most adebt at feigning virtue)….

“The fame of the Bogomils had by now spread to all parts, for the impious sect was controlled with great cunning by a certain monk called Basil. He had twelve followers, whom he called ‘apostles’ and also dragged along with him certain women disciples, women of bad character, utterly depraved….and when the evil, like some consuming fire devoured many souls, the emperor could no longer bear it.

“Basil, Archisatrap of Satanael, was brought to light dressed in monkish garb, austere of face, with a thin beard, very tall. At once the emperor, wishing to discover from him the man’s innermost thoughts, tried compulsion, but with a show of persuasion: he invited him to the palace on some righteous pretext. He even rose from his seat when Basil came in, made him sit with him and share his own table…. 

“At first Basil was coy; he wrapped close around him the lion skin—he who was in reality an ass—and at the emperor’s words shied away…. He looked askance at our doctrine [most likely the written or rewritten secularized version—Auth.]  of the Divine Nature of Christ and wholly misinterpreted His human nature. He even went so far as to call the holy churches the temples of demons and treated as of little importance what among us is believed to be the consecrated Body and Blood of our First High Priest and Sacrifice.”

When Alexius does not prevail on Basil to change his mind to the emperor’s way of thinking:

“….A huge fire was kindled in the Hippodrome (in Constantinople today). An enormous trench had been dug and a mass of logs, everyone a tall tree,  had piled up to a mountainous hight. Then the pyre was lit….

“There he stood (Basil), despicable, helpless before every threat, every terror, gaping now at the pyre, now at the spectators. Everyone thought he was quite mad, for he neither rushed rushed to the flames, nor did he altogether turn back, but stayed rooted to the spot where he had first entered the arena, motionless.

“So they decided to put him to the test. While he was talking marvels and boasting that he would be seen unharmed in the midst of the flames, they took his woolen cloak and said, ‘Let us see if the fire will catch your clothes! And straighway they hurled it into the center of the pyre.

“So confident was Basil in the Demon that was deluding him that he cried ‘Look! My cloak flies up to the sky! They saw that this was the decisive moment, liften him up and thrust him, clothes, shoes and all, into the fire. The flames, as if in rage against him, so thoroughly devoured the wretch, that there was no odour and nothing unusual in the smoke except one thin smoky line in the centre of the flame.”

As neo-Christians well know, Basil-Christ did not rise as the Aztec God Nanauatzin did, but he rose as Nanauatzin never dreamt of rising—as utter fiction.