Gods / Theos (θεός)

• Introduction
• From Gynomorphs - Dr DCA Hillman
• Diodorus
• Herodotus - Origin of gods from Scythian purple born
• In a nutshell / tldr
• Eastern wisdom
• Ancient Greek Literature
• Vocabulary
• Read More

Introduction

In early Greek, θεός is a role-word before it is a metaphysical definition, a guiding agent, a power operating at a higher level, an ordering intelligence

Thus, Theos is a title given to an enlightened mind, like a Buddha.

• Theos (θεός) - an agent, a role, a functional title. A description for higher mental state, which Ancient Greeks called Theos or divine.
• One who gives the guidance in the rite, or, the god-mind / unity-mind - one who guides, had better have that mind.

Anyone who exhibits the higher mental state, regularly, either in the physical world, or in the mental world (entities, gods or goddesses), can be called a Theos or divinity. Similar to the title of Buddha. And their higher mental state can be described as Theos (divine)

The gods were humans with a divine mind, and exceptional knowledge of the pharmaka that practiced death and resurrection rites. The gods to those original sorcerers go back to the beings/forces they interacted with "in the underworld" (inside the Aion while in the rite and under the influence) who they believed they could communicate with (bring into our side of reality) via "necromancy" (rites of symbolic self-death and self-resurrection) to become enlightened and life life as new and unconflicted (dissolve fears, attachments, inner opposing forces). Much like modern psychedelic-therapy aims to do, but with a much more dangerous mechanism that invokes a catharsis/unity mindset imparted through a pharmakon and guidance ritual - AND - permanently alters the human. - DONT TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS, VERY DANGEROUS

From Gynomorphs - Dr DCA Hillman

Gods are human beings born in the purple. And the earlier gods they're descended from are gods they see inside the Aion - or - their parents who were also gods / born in the purple.

God / Theos, is a pharmakon title, just like "Orphic Vox Glossary royal".
Refers to those who have been enlightened, and thus, are fit to rule.

Byzantine emperors were born in the purple.
Pharmacologically genetically modified babies, 2/3s die, and 1/3rd are described as / given the title "gods". Often the result is hermaphradism. Which means - that a god is a full human, as opposed to being only a single gender which is only 1/2 human. Gynomorphs are revered as fully human

• god / goddess / Theos (θεός) - a mortal human "born in the purple"
  • the purple born being Gods. That’s how it’s used in Ancient Greek text and Islam with the Imams, and Christianity with the Western catholic church with the Pope as the Vicar of God. The Imam as the living embodiment of God as well. The one sitting in what they call “occultation” and that you may only get to the Kingdom of God if you meet the LIVING Imam at the time. Notice you have to meet the LIVING Imam, because he is the Alpha to Omega. That’s why it’s funny when Christians think Jesus is coming back, the same with Muslims thinking their Imam is coming back, when in reality, you have to be with the Christ at the time, in order to be properly put into the death state to be resurrected. Literally no Christians or Muslims understand this.
  • Where did the gods/goddesses come from? "The Real" Possibilities:
    • Pharmaka induced soul/psyche based reality alone. these beings exist as having been exerienced by the minds after experiencing them in pharmaka induced liminal states... Later written about by mythicists.,
    • Gods and Kurious are humans, just like Royals, born in the purple (ammon even says Kurios is a lord of the realm in Genesis, and sure seems to be in human form). And later were also "seen" inside of pharmaka-eidolon-induced experiences - AND/OR - puffed up and written about by the mythicists.,
    • Children of Gods were just born in the purple, and labeled as having parents from one of the two above... and like catholic saints, later given the "title" of "god" (theos/θεός), even though there's a real human in the timeline there... Like Heracles later, after his death, he was elevated to the ranks of the gods, here's god is a title given.
  • see also royal, purple born

Diodorus

There is at least one author (Herodotus) who thought the Gods were royalty, some from Libya. Diodorus is who recounted the stories. The text is Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheca Historica, Book I, where Diodorus records Egyptian tradition that “gods and heroes” ruled in the earliest times.

Specifically: in I.44.1–2 he writes that in Egypt the gods and heroes ruled for about eighteen thousand years, last of the gods being Horus, son of Isis.

Additionally, Diodorus in Book III mentions a myth that in Libya the first king was Uranus who gathered humans into a walled city and introduced civilization—and that his daughters lay with gods and heroes, producing those later called gods and heroes.

• The specific text is Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book III (esp. chap. 60-61) — the “Atlantian/Libyan gods = former kings” myth.,
• Herodotus discusses the Libyans ethnographically — their customs, gods, geography. E.g., in Book 4 he says the Libyans sacrificed to Sun and Moon, counted themselves Libyans, etc.,
• He does not appear (in surviving work) to provide a detailed myth in which gods are formerly kings of Libya or heirs of royal offices in the same way Diodorus does.
• Herodotus’s relevant material is more descriptive of Libyan peoples and generic gods-worship rather than the mythic scenario you described.,

Herodotus - Origin of gods from Scythian purple born

Herodotus gives one of the earliest (and most elaborate) accounts of a people claiming direct descent from a god — the Scythians, descended from Heracles and a serpent-woman (drakaina).

• Herodotus is the earliest major author to record this claim,
• Herodotus, Histories Book 4.8–10, recounts the Scythian origin myth:
  • book 4.5–10, especially 4.8–10, the Scythian origin myth claiming descent from Heracles (or Zeus) and a serpent-woman, establishing kingship through divine blood.,,Heracles, while traveling, encounters a woman who is half-serpent (ἡμίσειαν ἔχουσα γυναικός, ἡμίσειαν δὲ ὄφεως).
• He mates with her.,
• She bears three sons.,
• She says that whichever son can string Heracles’ bow will become king … and the ancestor of the Scythians.,
• The successful son Targitaos becomes the first Scythian king.,
• Thus the Scythians claim direct descent from a god (Heracles).,Greek (key phrase)
• Herodotus 4.10:,
• “οὕτω δὴ ἀπὸ Ἡρακλέος καὶ τῆς ἡμίσειαν οὖσαν γυναικός, ἡμίσειαν δὲ ὄφεως, τὴν Σκυθικὴν γενεὴν ἄρξαι λέγουσι.”,
• “Thus they say the Scythian race began from Heracles and a woman who was half-woman and half-serpent.”

Herodotus 4.5–7 also gives a second Scythian origin myth involving Targitaos, son of Zeus and a daughter of the river Borysthenes — again a divine-royal ancestry.

In a nutshell / tldr

God/divinity is a mental construct. The spiritual realm is mental. It's social reality. It's our inner mind. And our social mind. (You can argue about what is "mind"... we don't need to define it deeply for here)

It's been taken out of context and used to control and indoctrinate, and misunderstood and accepted by fools.

It's consciousness, enlightenment, being above the line (opposite of villain / victim). It's raising yourself, and by doing that, raising others - over your own lifetime, and by leaving your mark on the world as to raise others beyond your lifetime - this is immortality.

The governmental control structure of religion gets it wrong. And their motivations are for greed, power, stability at the least. And it's our job to ignore and delete those parts that do not serve us, and put power back to the people. And that's why i tell you this...

And then there are the mysteries of life, to experience, which are ineffable to explain, which rise above to the top of this divine mind.

Eastern wisdom

As the great RJ Mical said:

All major world religions are divided into sects, split by disputes over authority, theology, and ritual. Each Western religion claims its belief system is the One Truth, and the other sects and religions are wrong. Even within a given sect, the members disagree about the details. Ultimately, it is unlikely you could find two individuals who share the exact same set of beliefs. Each person has a unique interpretation of God.

What, then, is God? Even if a divine entity objectively exists, the "God" in your head is entirely a human creation. It is shaped by your own desires, biases, and fears -- nothing less, and nothing more.

In this way, when a believer prays to an external God for validation, this is merely talking to a mirror, worshiping a psychological delusion built from personal beliefs.

But, interestingly and ironically, this realization brings us right to the doorstep of Eastern spirituality. Where Western traditions recoil at the thought that "God is only inside your mind," systems like Hinduism and Buddhism view this not as a delusion, but as Ultimate Truth. By stripping away the ego-driven illusion of a personal God, you don't destroy the divine; you finally realize that you and the divine are the exact same thing.

Ancient Greek Literature

Ancient Greek literature contains numerous accounts of mortals becoming θεοί (theoi), gods or goddesses. This is not merely a later philosophical concept: it appears already in Homer, Hesiod, and the early Greek poetic tradition.

The Greek distinguishes several related possibilities:

• θεὸς γενέσθαι - to become a god.
• ἀθάνατος γενέσθαι - to become immortal.
• ἰσόθεος - equal to a god, godlike.

A mortal can receive immortality, become divine, or receive honors equivalent to those of gods.

Semele, the mortal mother of Dionysus, is subsequently counted among the θεοί.

Ariadne, daughter of Minos, becomes Dionysus's wife. Zeus transforms her condition from mortal to immortal and ageless.

Homer describes Heracles' eidolon (εἴδωλον) (image) in Hades, while Heracles himself enjoys existence among the immortal theos.

Hesiod, Theogony 950–955, independently describes Heracles dwelling on Olympus, ageless, married to Hebe.

Demeter treats the mortal child Demophon with ambrosia and places him in fire at night. Demeter would have accomplished this transformation, but his mother interrupts the process.

This is particularly interesting because the narrative describes a procedure for changing a mortal's condition, rather than simply a divine declaration. The procedure combines ambrosia, divine breath, and fire.

Ganymede, born mortal, is taken by Zeus to live among the immortals as cupbearer. The hymn describes Zeus giving compensation to Ganymede's father, Tros, while Ganymede himself acquires an immortal existence.

Thetis attempts to make her mortal son Achilles immortal. Apollodorus explains the purpose of the fire: to destroy the mortal element inherited from Achilles' father, Peleus. The treatment was interrupted when Peleus discovered the child in the fire.

This account predates Apollodorus and is particularly valuable because it explicitly describes the treatment of Achilles' mortal flesh.

The narrative specifies that Thetis surrounded his mortal body with fire at night and christed his skin with ambrosia during the day, intending to make him immortal and prevent aging.

Peleus interrupts the process, just as Metaneira interrupts Demeter.

Heracles receives an oracle from Apollo, ascends a constructed pyre, the pyre is ignited, lightning descends, and afterward no bones remain.

Here εἰς θεούς is particularly important. It describes movement into the company or condition of the gods, rather than merely acquiring immortality.

Diodorus 4.39.1 then distinguishes sacrifices to Heracles as a hero from sacrifices to him as a god.

The following section, 4.39.2, explicitly calls the event ἀποθέωσις - apotheosis, becoming divine.

Unlike Demophon and Achilles, Heracles completes the transformation, at least according to the interpretation of the witnesses within the narrative.

This is extraordinary because the speaker does not describe a future reward.

He declares his divine condition in the present tense:

Empedocles also describes people approaching him for prophecy and healing. After becoming divine, people seek his service, much like a buddha, or a prophet, or an oracle.

the distinction between the perceived goddess and a divinely influenced human woman could become ambiguous to observers.

Herodotus contrasts the woman's human identity with the divine identity attributed to her. Herodotus presents the episode as a political deception. An example of people taking a human as a theos, historically.

Many accounts involve purification by fire (πῦρ), consecration (τελετή), and becoming divine (θεὸς γενέσθαι). Many are christed with pharmakon, often the ambrosia.

Vocabulary

• θεός ἐστιν - “He/she is a god.”
• θεῖός ἐστιν - “He is divine.”
• ἔνθεός ἐστιν - “He is god-filled.”
• θεῖα - divine things.
• θεῶν - belonging to gods.
• ἑρμηνῆς τῶν θεῶν - interpreters of gods.
• κατεχόμενοι - being possessed or held under an influence.
• θεῖος - divine in quality or origin.
• ἔνθεος - god-filled, inspired, or under divine influence.
• θεός - a god or goddess, including a human explicitly described as having acquired that status.

A human, of course, can produce something divine or have divine qualities (θεῖον) or emulate divinity (ἔνθεος) without personally being a divinity (θεός).

Read More

• see Theos and Daimones
• see Royal
• see Initiatory Fire
• see Aion
• see Pharmakon, such as The Purple, Theriac, Thanasimon
• see godmind