The Bull-god Rises

Symbols embedded in the US Capitol

[Zeus] the son of Kronos, king of the immortals, fell in love with Ganymede, seized him, carried him off to Olympus, and made him divine, keeping the lovely bloom of boyhood.

— Theognis of Megara, Book 1.1345

The Roman poet Virgil wrote in Eclogue IV that the return of “old Saturn” was accompanied by the return of Justice. The poet wasn’t using allegory to depict the return to an age of law and order; Justice was a goddess, Justitia, equivalent to the Greek goddess Dike.

Justitia was believed to be the daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Themis, the goddess of divine law and order, the rules of conduct established by the gods. Justice is the punisher of those who transgress the statutes of the gods. In that sense, she’s like the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Inanna, who tricked her uncle Enki, the god who’d sent the apkallu (Watchers) to humanity with the gifts of civilization, into giving her the mes (pronounced “mezz”), which were the concepts that established the divine order of life. Inanna, better known as the Akkadian goddess Ishtar (and Astarte of the Bible), was the goddess associated with sex, war, justice, and political power.^[1] Derek discussed this entity in depth in his book Bad Moon Rising:

An Old Babylonian text first translated and published in 1997 seems to confirm at least some of the Bible’s negative characterizations of Inanna’s Canaanite counterpart, Astarte, including cult prostitution, “cross-gender activities…and the performance of sexual acts.” […]

With all due respect to the learned scholars who have described this entity as “a complex, multifaceted goddess,” the character of Inanna/Ishtar isn’t as complicated as she’s made out to be. Frankly, she’s a bad screenwriter’s idea of a fifteen-year-old boy’s fantasy, interested mainly in sex and fighting and better than men at both. She was selfish and violent, ruled by her passions, and incredibly destructive when she didn’t get her way.^[2]

This is consistent with what we’ve seen of the riots for social justice that spread around the world in the summer of 2020. We shouldn’t be surprised; myths of the pagan gods are propaganda to persuade humanity that they, not God, are the rightful rulers of earth. The divine order that “Justice” defends is opposed to the order decreed by God. The focus on “social justice” by activists around the world is a case in point. What rational person would conclude that civil disorder leading to the costliest insurance claims since 1950, the first year those figures were tracked, from “arson, vandalism, and looting”^[3] is in any sense justified? It’s not justice by any normal definition of the word.

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The term “social justice” has been deployed to rebrand hatred, bigotry, and discrimination. “Anti-racism” in the form of Critical Race Theory is just old-fashioned racism that’s been weaponized to tear apart the fabric of Western civilization. As far back as 1934, Henry Wallace, later Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president during World War II, decried a failure to “bring the kingdom of heaven to earth in terms of social justice” that he blamed on racism, capitalism, and nationalism.^[4] These are the very sins laid at the feet of Donald Trump and his supporters, typically identified by progressives in the media as white conservative Christians. As Sharon wrote in Zeitgeist 2025:

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius, my friends, when the gods of harmony and understanding define us all as bigots and haters. Social justice is being poured out like water from the NEW GODS of Capitol Hill, Saturn and Justitia, and we’re expected to enjoy owning nothing.^[5]

This and the draconian response to COVID-19 comprise the chaos that occult adepts believe will produce a New World Order, the manifestation of Ordo ab Chao—Order Out of Chaos. This is the return of Justice, who heralds the imminent arrival of old Saturn and his Golden Age. The Great Reset initiative of the World Economic Forum is one of the physical manifestations of the spiritual sea change that occult adepts are working to bring about. Let’s go back to the J6 riot at the Capitol.

January 6 is the date celebrated each year by Western Christians as Epiphany, and Theophany by Christians in the Eastern churches. It’s sometimes called Three Kings Day; the twelfth day of Christmas, when the three wise men from the East visited the Christ child. It marks the revelation of God incarnate in the form of Jesus. And what happened on Epiphany in 2021? America’s temple was invaded by, as Sharon colorfully described them, the “‘Q-Anon Shaman’ in his crazy buffalo hat along with his selfie-taking hooligan buddies.”^[6]

Bull imagery has long been associated with Saturn—the horned helmets of ancient Sumer that indicated divine status, the name Kronos, derived from Semitic qeren^[7] (“horned one”?), and the epithet of the god who held court on Mount Hermon, “Bull El.” Isn’t it odd that a man wearing a symbol of this old god should burst into the Capitol, and the national consciousness, on the day Christians celebrate the revelation of the One True God?

Whether he knew it or not, the Q-Anon Shaman announced the return of the old horned god Saturn/Kronos/Bull El—i.e., the fallen Watcher known as Shemihazah two thousand years ago, but as Abaddon/Apollyon when he emerges from the Abyss—in America’s temple on the day marking the revelation of Christ’s divinity.

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^[1] Sjur Cappelen Papazian, “Lady Justice (mother) and Lady Liberty (maiden).” Cradle of Civilization, Sept. 25, 2018. https://aratta.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/lady-justice-and-lady-liberty/, re-trieved 5/1/21.

^[2] Derek P. Gilbert, Bad Moon Rising (Crane, MO: Defender, 2018), pp. 116–120.

^[3] Jennifer A. Kingson, “Exclusive: $1 Billion-plus Riot Damage Is Most Expensive in Insurance History.” Axios, Sept. 16, 2020. https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html, retrieved 5/1/21.

^[4] Henry A. Wallace, Statesmanship and Religion (New York: Round Table Press, 1934), pp. 78–83.

^[5] S. Gilbert (2021), op. cit.

^[6] Ibid.

^[7] Wyatt (2010), “A la Recherche des Perdus,” op. cit., p. 55.