- Angitia (Latin) - a deity venerated in ancient Italy, particularly by the Marsi people, who were associated with snake handling and healing. Angitia is recognized as a goddess of healing, magic, and serpents. She was believed to have the power to cure snakebites and diseases, as well as to control and charm snakes. Her cult was centered in central Italy, particularly in the region of Marsica (modern Abruzzo).
- Dodona (Δωδώνη), one of the most ancient and revered oracles in Ancient Greece. It is located in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The oracle of Dodona was dedicated to Zeus and Dione, and it is well-known for its sacred oak tree, where priests and priestesses interpreted the rustling of the leaves as messages from the gods.
- Theriac - the beast. A drug to convey mystery/enlightenment. Balanced against the toxic effects of individual components. Dipsas venom, Hemloc, Opium, Purple dye (sea snail), and others.
- Dragon/Drakon was a temple guardian who protects relics (or secrets), a human, with purple in their eyes.
Lecture - 2018 - Dr. David Ammon Hillman
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in 2003 when I retired here to Gloucester I became very interested in the Old West End theater under the direction of Linda Robinson. at that time Linda was putting together the production of the playwright Eve Enslers “The Vagina Monologues”, so she cast me as a co- narrator and one of the vaginas. To be more specific “The Angry Vagina” which I actually thought was quite intuitive of on her part. The Vagina Monologues originated in 1996 and basically they put Eve Ensler on the map. They have been performed in 40 countries, they're still current, they have inspired a phenomena called “v-day movement” which has raised 70 million dollars towards antiviolence programs. now, I learned a lot about the vagina in that experience and coupled with a clinical rotation in OBGYN when I was in nursing college in the early 60s. That followed by the publication “our bodies, our selves” put out by the Boston feminist Coalition. I figured I had a pretty firm grasp on what I needed to know about the vagina, until Dr Ammon Hillman arrived on the scene. I met Ammon last summer following having read one of his many books. The one I had finished was “original sin”. Ammon has married several disciplines including classical mythology, greek, latin, chemistry, pharmacology, bacteriology… And his research has inspired documentaries that are shown on the History Channel. And the London Times referenced Ammon's work as the “last wild, wild” happening in the classics. In this time of the “me too” movement which essentially my position is “that paints women as victims”. I suggest that Ammon would do a collaboration with Eve Ensler, and take the monologues to a new level. Bringing the vagina back to the classics. I'm happy to introduce, friend a veritable scholar, Ammon Hillman.
Thank you so much thank you so much I hope to be able to live up to, the standard that you've set down. I wanted to just start by saying, I don't want to waste anybody's time. I wanted to thank, and I did thank Mr Farini outside for rearranging his schedule so that he could be here. It's very important to me. In Polis is this, the poet he sees is invoked, as if the filmmaker was somehow a guardian of his tomb, and was there to watch and keep it, and perform some sort of necromantic rite to raise him from the dead. So I feel like I've come in the company of decent people, and I want to thank you for having me, and allowing me to address you. It's funny that you introduced me the way you did, Susan, because my notes follow yours. I was going to mention the last Wild Frontier of Classics, specifically because I want to bring you back an artifact from antiquity. And I want to bring back one of the natives for you to see and to observe. That's that's the mission that I have right now. My name is Ammon Hillman. David Charles Ammon Hillman. I went to special projects. A CIA and military recruiting school, that most of our students went to, one of the military academies with the CIA. I was recruited for West Point, was working with John McCain, volunteering that is, for the sake of an assistance, for the sake of a nomination. And I say the name John McCain with due reverence, because one of my ancestors was Harry Hansen in the fifth Cavalry, and this is the only thing personal I will say tonight, that maybe will show you something about why I'm approaching the research the way that I am. Again I don't want to waste your time, but Harry Hansen was with the fifth Cavalry and to make a long story short he guarded Geronimo on the prison train from Arizona to Florida. The only story that was passed on about this interaction to my family was that Geronimo was being treated like a dog and Harry didn't like it so he did the only thing he could do, and shared his tobacco with him. That small Act embodies The Passion of the research that I do, and I hope that that will come across, and you can see that. The reason I'm here, the real reason I'm here, you have to understand the path that I took, as Susan said so bear with me, please. I dug at Tel Megiddo after a bachelor's degree because I decided not to join the military, although I had the nomination. I decided that Latin for some reason, and Greek, were more important to me. Fortunately after digging at Tel Megiddo with the Chicago team, we were able to unearth a Canaanite floor. Which which was probably the most spectacular and awe-inspiring moment of my career. And the reason it's so awe inspiring is not because it was a an old object, but because it was a circular performance space for priestesses who wielded power, and form the basis of Western thought. I lived in the Jezreel Valley at the palace of Jezebel and Ahab and in the morning I would watch the sunrise over the vineyard of Naboth. Man who came to an awful end. After the time that I spent in Megiddo, I decided that my Latin and my Greek were growing strong and I could access the text, but what I really needed to do was to look at the science. Because the science called me like a muse, because of its structure and organization, and pure mathematics. So I joined an animal sciences lab, and I taught and worked in a neuroendocrinology research project where we were trying to isolate and identify AGD anti- gonadotropic decapeptide. We the applications of this were, it may have helped to stop if we could isolate it, find where it was and what Cascade of was happening between the hypothalamus and the pituitary, what chemical Cascades, neurochemical Cascades were happening, we might be able to stop premature puberty. My job was to assist in hypoxial portal canulation, process whereby you drill into a brain, into the third ventricle. Which is “The Well” of the brain. It literally is a well that holds the fluid that bathes everything that causes us to think. We would add chemicals to it, and then see what those chemicals did. I would collect the brains and slice them, microtome, use osmium tetroxide one of the most toxic substances known to man, to stain those cells. I had to take an entire class just to be certified to use the osmium. At this time Dr Frank Roemer from the classics Department approached me and said how's the brain cutting going? I said it's going well. He's a classicist, and he said look, Mr Hillman I know that you set yourself a foundation in Classics and now you're over here in the Sciences. There's a bridge between the two, and it's ancient medicine. He explained to me that we have hundreds and hundreds of pages of untranslated texts in both Greek and Latin. To me, that sounds incredible. And I asked him “why are these untranslated?”, well because it's Technical and it's difficult to understand, you may have a window into that area. So to make a long story short I followed that path and I went to the University of Wisconsin with Dr John Scarboro who was himself a medically trained professor. And what I found was a world, and that's why I say Frontier, that I had never seen. And a world that I hadn't seen published in secondary form, there were no secondary texts that talked about this world, this Frontier that I was seeing. So when I presented it at conferences, that's why The Times said that, because they were present, and realized that the frontier was being exposed. I'm very happy to do it, but in the process I wrote my dissertation on Roman Pharmacy, and was told that I wouldn't be passed if I did not remove - it was a an entire dissertation of Roman Pharmacy in general - and I was told to remove the chapter on recreational drugs and any references to recreational drugs throughout the text. In order to get my degree. After having read all this material, I was flabbergasted. So I went ahead and redacted the text. Published it with, took the material, and then published it with St Martin's. In the book The Chemical Muse. Of course this got me a black eye. And it was in the press, and the university didn't come out looking positively. But the reaction was for me to be somewhat blacklisted. The comment that I was given by the head of the Department of dissertation, was “they just wouldn't do such a thing”. I asked her about all of the texts and about all of the medicine that I had read and all the pharmaceutical texts, there are literally - Galen alone has more untranslated texts than Homer, Virgil, Aristotle, Plato, Ovid, Catalis combined; untranslated - so I asked myself if they “just wouldn't do such a thing”, what are these things that “they wouldn't do”? And this will bring you to the sources, The Fountains of the information. And stay with me, because I'm about to get to the vaginas. (laughter) I enjoy reading and researching the sources that aren't typically “acceptable sources”, due to the content. Because once I was told “you can't publish an idea because they just wouldn't do that”, I took it up as my quest to publish about those things, in order to force people to look at them. In order to create a picture of the ancient world that didn't have a lens between us and it. To see it through their eyes and the only way to do that is to take you back to the actual people themselves. And so that's what I'd like to attempt to do, and I'd like to start that with an artifact I'd like to introduce you to an artifact from antiquity.
It’s called the Alabastrum - and it’s a medical applicator, shaped like a penis, and was used by priestesses to apply compound drug prescriptions that they had researched in the course of women’s health. These priestesses developed a system of pharmacology can be described as Polyvalent. Take a drug or group of drugs, derived from plants (or animal sources) and mix these drugs inside the human body. The human body then processes these drugs, to derive a secondary set of drugs that can be administered to patients or to initiates. Let me remind you that, there is no clear distinction in antiquity between medicine and religion and science (what we call science). There is no distinction. Medicine, Religion, Cult performance, Pharmacology, these are all a single entity in the ancient world. And the alabastrum (or as Sir Richard Burton called it - the leathern prick) that was anointed with medicines and then was applied not only to elicit and improve health, but also to create enlightenment. Now, there’s one problem, there’s only one type of body that can take this process, that has the capacity to do this, to transform. The other one has some capacities, and I found it in the physicians. But the female body is very peculiar, to the ancients. There was a genius woman that created antidotes for snake venoms, by injecting (using cuts in the body, during ritual operations, covering the wounds with the drugs), and more effective was the alabastrum, the medical dildo. The female body is unique. Neuroendocrinology, the brain’s way of regulating the body - causes neurons to act or unact, these chemicals create your person. But in the female body, they create. Viper venom was used by the Echidnae priesthood (Echidna - greek word for viper), the Echidna priesthood would vaginally apply Ios venom in order to create the Ios mystery, as priestesses. Priestesses developed immunity to the viper venom, and the capacity to administer breast milk as an antidote to the viper venom. As a bio-chemist, that was sheer genius… That was developed by the feminine mind and feminine body. That is what is being hidden from you. (perhaps out of ignorance or willful ignorance)
One of the pioneers that pushed the process of creating chemicals that would respond to the human body (or to the female body) in a way that would facilitate religious activity. Because remember, you don’t just go to a hospital and sit in a bed, you go to a temple where you're treated by professionals, who grow their own, and harvest their own, Venoms toxins poisons - and they're using everything. The stories I could tell you - from Scorpion and Spider Venom to every snake known to them to beaver peri-anal glands. They would harvest the perianal gland of European beavers, process it, and create a treatment for headache - it turns out the Beavers were eating willow bark and basically the Roman Greek and Roman Physicians were creating aspirin.
That pool of knowledge comes from a feminine source that is tagged with the fingerprint of the feminine body. None of this can be done without the uterus, none of this can be done without the ovaries, and the funny thing is when you get down to these texts, and you pull out what these authors are doing, and what the poets are talking about, that the priestesses are are doing in their rituals.
When you pull out these chemicals you can see the fingerprint of the feminine reproductive system both in the cult, and in the medicine that's functioning within the cult. What's the time period that we're talking about? Late Bronze Age. You all think that Hippocrates was the father of medicine right? Hippocrates was born 600 years after the true founder of Western medicine whose name was Medea.
Immediately most of you poets will think Media is a fictional character - no, Medea was an historical Queen who was so popular that an entire ethnic group (Aryans) changed their identity to be called “Medes” in order to honor her. She was the inventor of a weapon called Naptha. The Greeks used it in their military in their Navy to burn ships. She used it in medicine to perform what they called “breathing the fire”, which apparently nobody could do but her, because the medicine was specific to the specific body. Not anybody can do this, it requires a unique individual. Alexander the Great used Medea's fire on an actor just to see if it worked. They took the fire and they put it all over his face and shoulders and unfortunately he got too close to a flame and he was burned very badly. Because it produces its own fumes, you don't have to have the flame directly on the medicine, you just have to have it near it. And the process of bringing the flame is called “calling down the flame from uranos”, from Heaven, which is a terrible translation, but “from the Vault”. And you may have heard this expression in a slightly different way if you've looked at what we call the Old Testament, because another famous woman “Jezebel” was involved in a contest with the prophets of Jehovah. Jehovah's prophets managed to call down the fire, and Jezebel's prophets were all murdered. What we think is miraculous, what we have historically, is genius. What else did Medea do, and why should she be given the ability to rise here? I think perhaps the most important act that she performed for the sake of the flow of History, was to create a form of religion in which the woman's voice was put side by side with the woman's body. Yes, she colonized places all over the place. She's in Italy, they worshiped her in Italy, as Angitia (Latin).
They built a Temple to her - that's a fancy way of saying they set up a hospital - because when she arrived one of the locals had been bitten by one of the marsh snakes he was a “Martian” (haha) and she gave him an antidote and healed him whereas up until that time apparently most of the people had been dying from these Marsh snakes so they created a kingdom for her. They put her on a pedestal. She did this throughout the ancient world. She was in Corinth! You think she killed her children, there are ancient sources that say no no no the Corinthians killed her sons, and then suffered a plague, sent an ambassador to the Oracle at Dodona (Δωδώνη) (i think was the place), and asked “what do we do” and they said “build us some sort of Monument to media's Sons and set the record straight and the plague will go away”. You can track her movements all over the Mediterranean.
I think what I'll do is I'll save her additional accomplishments (and there are many) for questions afterwards and I'll proceed. How are we doing on time we are we good okay does anybody have any pressing questions at this point I just want to make sure that we're all following the same train, is it clear what I'm studying and how I'm doing that - the tools that I'm using to do that - the language and the science is that clear?
Galen (personal body physician of emperor marcus aurelius 185CE (2nd century CE), discovered nerves - pig vocal chords example). Galen is a huge source, as a matter of fact he wrote a book called “on antidotes” it's page after page of the most interesting material known to humanity that explains to us concepts like the small pills that were used and made and stamped, that carried the Ios mystery or that carried the combination drugs that had to be employed by these Physicians, and these drugs are absolutely crazy, they're absolutely wonderful, but let me Galen is a big one, the other ones are Nicander, a lot of these people are unread Dioscoredes. Scribonius Largus, another physician - he says “you can get fresh liver at the arena” for ingredients, that's the best place to get human liver is at the arena.
Okay so Galen is the personal body physician of the emperor Marcus Aelius so we're talking 2nd century CE roughly 185 CE, he's really active and Galen made a mark for himself by performing a dissection on a pig, a living dissection in which he cut (ligated) the recurrent laryngeal nerve which gives you the ability to vocalize, he ligated this in the pig in front of everyone, the Pig stopped squealing, and then he undid the ligature and the pig started squealing. And Humanity discovered what nerves do. This is the world that they're living in, this is what we have in the text, and this is what we don't focus on, and that's what I want to get to now.
Why is it that this art that was created by women for women that put women on a platform, a Power Platform, where they could give orders to communities that would follow them. Oracles who would give you, we have an emperor, a tyrant, who is concentrating all the wealth in the hands of a few, and what do we do? The oracular response is he's got to die. And so they would kill them, based on the order of the Oracle, who has a religious Authority that stems back to the operation of women's Health. It's a very strange pairing that government and Women's Health can work in unison. But they do.
Now I wanted to make sure that I didn't leave you with any misconception about the difficulty of the research. Not because it's difficult to look up, but because it's difficult to publish, because these topics are Taboo. It's very difficult to talk about sexual activity in Humanities / Classics environments. It's difficult to talk about erections. It's difficult to talk about orgasms. It's difficult to talk about administering drugs via the anus in rituals in which men are tied down, drugged. And the reason they're tied is because they're given psychotics, drugs that induce Psychosis, in order to achieve enlightenment via the communion with the goddess's fluid.
In order to get to this place you have to have some Advanced chemistry. The women of antiquity were not oppressed. They were not shut out of society. They were the Builders of society. Feminism should have recognized that the problem is not women who were held down, but an attempt to destroy the very wisdom that had been produced through the feminine body.
And that's where we get to the mystery. I promised Richard and Carl that I would not scare you tonight. How can this be applied to us today. How is this relevant to us today? Mary Magdalene had her own alabastron. She used it on Jesus, according to the New Testament. And according to Nonas, a source you've never heard of, but is out there, Mary Magdalene wiped Jesus's semen from his body with her hair, after applying the alabastron to him. I am curious as to the textual problems we have in translating the Bible, in any Greek or Latin. And why it is that we have difficulty answering basic questions of Language. Basic questions of language! I'll give you one question: why does the text of Mark chapter 14: 51- 52 why does it tell us that Jesus was arrested in a public park at 2: a.m. with a n4k3d b0y? When I read that, I wanted to find out why. I'm going to say that one more time: Jesus was arrested in a public park 2 a.m. with a n4k3d b0y. You should start to be offended at some Point, unless I've misjudged you and that you have some special defense of the Poetry that you consult and the dead spirits of the poets that you resurrect, which is your duty to do, and somehow you have an immunity to this. Is anybody offended in the least, that I just said Jesus was arrested in the public park at 2 a.m. with a n4k3d b0y? It's Mark 1451 and 52 and if you're curious about it, it says twice in the Greek that he was n4k3d and it identifies the boy's age. He's a nániskos (νᾱνίσκος - young man or a youth), so I would put him at the younger end of 11 12 13. You could argue that he was a little bit older, however, in all the ritual texts they talk about the nániskē (νᾱνίσκη), she's usually a palis (πάλις - denotes a "maiden" or "girl" who has reached puberty but is still unmarried), and we know that “the palis” (or Latin “pilex”) we know that that age group is prepubertal, and we know that they were using these prepubertal priestesses to produce antivenom (everybody understands the genius of what she did, right?). When she takes the Venom internally she gets it into her bloodstream, she develops antibodies, which are then excreted in her br34st milk. But the problem is, how do you get a prepubertal girl who's never been pregnant, can't be pregnant, to br34stfeed? It's chemically, physically, genetically, …. well, it's not impossible, no, it actually turns out it's not. How did they do it? Because the Viper Venoms act on the same receptors as the hormones, specifically prolactin. They were inducing nursing of virgins. That's genius!
So what does that have to do with this? I'm going to open this for the final scare of the evening. But what does that have to do with the Bible? And what does it have to do with the New Testament? And what does it have to do with Jesus arrested in a public park?
And what does it have to do with the Christians of the late 1st, 2nd, 3rd centuries CE who were being prosecuted by Roman officials for rounding up orphan boys and Performing rituals in which they stripped them n4k3d, oiled them up, offered them the temptation of Lucifer, to which the boys would scream out “no … away!”, and then had to be counseled, following the process by the priests (because it was very difficult on them emotionally). We have this in the text, they talk about this, these sexual practices are not separable from the cult. From the mystery Cults. And Christianity (at this time) is a mystery cult. The first person who tried to stop this was Paul the Apostle, who said “stop taking the poisons”. Re-baptizing people who have been baptized by John the Baptist himself. Because, they were drinking the cup of idolatry. Was Jesus right when he said you'll be able to drink the Venoms, and not suffer ill? What was in the cup that was offered to him? Why was Nonus (in Greek) in the paraphrase of the Gospel of John tells us that the cup contained an antidote to the dipsas (that's a name for a Viper that lives in North Africa, specifically in Libya) the priestesses in sirene, used the Venom in their Ios mystery rights, and sold it in the Roman marketplace, actually shipped it to Rome, and you could buy it in Rome. Lukan tells us that. You can buy this stuff in Rome. Paul is trying to stop it. So let's get to the big surprise.
The book of the Apocalypse by St John is a book about a war between the forces of God (and his lamb) and the forces of Lady mystery. And what was the charge against Lady Mystery? Why was she held in such contempt by God and His lamb? Because she had offered the cup of her own sexual juice. She had offered the cup of her idolatries, or the cup of her fornication. Lady mystery is brought forth by the Beast. Remember she's carried by the Beast. The Greek word there is Therion.
It happens to be the very same word that the Physicians use us to describe their Beast, the Beast that brings The Vision, of the Lady of Mystery. They called this the Theriac, a drug specifically meant to convey mystery. To convey Enlightenment. And “the Beast”, the drug, would carry Lady Mystery against the forces of God and his lamb, and would be beaten because they would be thrown into the Lake of Fire, along with the dragon (drakon).
The dragons and the wolves are groups of priests who protect oracles, the Romans used priestesses called the Lupi, it's also the word for prostitute, the wolf that breastfeeds the prince (did you see? They recognized it!). They knew, the power lay behind her. It lay behind her milk, her nourishment, they wove it into their myth, and what's the pill that I should have given you at the beginning of the talk, that I didn't? It's the words of John Littus, all you need to know is he was a Roman writing in Greek, and he wrote about the Etruscan religion that preceded the Roman religion. And he said the Etruscan priestesses (the Wates who practice their art on the Vatican Hill worshiping waticanus / wah-tee-kah-noos ( Vaticanus ) a thousand years before Christianity) that these priestesses said “we must convey to you transdimensional ideas that can only exist in metaphor and allegory” that's what myth is, the priestesses say “don't get confused”. The stories are not stories. They are ritual. They are formulae. They are the mystery.
You can see both in Italy and in Greece and in the Black Sea, the things that they're creating. The theriac is the foundation for the very battle in the history of the western world's religions. It's a battle between a feminine genius, and a .. masculine .. something?
John the Baptist was known to dress in his girdle, if you read the Pagan sources they're very clear that the Baptists were very big on dressing in women's clothing, carrying penis shaped cups that were made of glass, they called it the witriou priapeou (Βιτρίῳ Πριάπῳ - To/for/by/with the glass Priapus). That was a dative case, but I should have put it in the nominative (Βιτρίον Πρίαπος - the glass Priapus). They would carry the glass penis, they would wear women's clothing, and they would take the boys - and not just any clothing - they wore the clothing that was sexual (the girdle!) they wore the thing that was supposed to attract the attention to the pudenda (Pudenda (Latin)): the girdle of Aphrodite. John is wearing it, and he's taking boys out into the wilderness. It didn't even enter my mind that this would have a reason or a purpose, that he would initiate them in the wilderness, baptize them, and that this would have some purpose. But, they discovered there's one more source of antidote for the Venoms that they were using, and it only comes from a prepubertal boy through his s3m3n. I'm sure it has something to do with the hormones, and with the fact that his testosterone level is down, and that he's more feminine (perhaps). So John lost his head because he converted the rite from the girls to the boy.
Why was Jesus arrested in public park at 2 a.m. with an n4k3d boy? Because he was performing The Mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Thank you for having me and I'll give you questions. Thank You