The Yazidic folk similarly call Melek Taus the first emanation of God, and among other epithets, the ruler of the world, of man, of sky and sea and the firmament and the earth, and so on; and while my UPG is that he is distinctly a solar deity, would that aspect (as a demiurge) make him Saturnian?
That then begs the question, while purely mythological, of the first day of the weekā¦ Iāve always had it my personal petty hill to die on that the first day is Sunday, the day of creation, let there be light and so on, and the Saturday is the Sabbath. Could it have been that Saturnian gods (etc) were the most influential and therefore the first created, acting in the role of Demiurge, and the day of rest was Sunday, as seen in many modern JCI practices?
I have also heard the name or term Saturnia (presumably āof Saturnā) attributed to Hera/Juno in Greek/Roman mythology respectively, which intrigued meā¦ Since my current task/next extremely fun post is going to be me trying to draw parallels or at least plausible links between pavolatry in the east migrating via the Persian Empire to Greek and therefore Roman culture.
This would make sense in my paradigm which is largely based on Neville Goddard style Law of Consciousness, in which each human is a spark of The One, and so each could have, I suppose, their own Demiurge. The same way each drop of water from the ocean could contain its own unique microbiome, but still come from the same sourceā¦ If that makes any sense.
I ask all this because the last contact I had with Melek Taus was simply him giving me the name āMithrasā. Nothing else. I donāt know if he meant āgo work with Mithrasā or it was intended as something deeper, but Iāve been rabbit-hole diving and gathering information and have enough āacademicā information (in quotes because some sources are a bit dubious/questionable) to trace pavolatry through to the Roman Empire via the Persian Empire from India, which has practised pavolatry (peacock worship) for a whileā¦ Although if you ask the Yazidic folk, they state their religion is far older than Greek/Roman mythos, but then, what religion doesnāt think theirs is the The One True Religion?
ā¦Which led me to the Mithraic cult, where Mithras seems to be equated or conflated to a bunch of different Greek or Roman gods: Bacchus/Dionysus, Phanes, a son of Apollo/Helios, and so onā¦ And then the famous Mithraic tauroctony (bull-slaying scene) which seems to be a representation of the end of the Age of Taurus, including the representation of constellations visible at that age (Serpens, Corvax, Sirius[?], Scorpius ā which borders Ara, also the name of a genus of bird, which borders Pavos, the peacock constellation, although Pavos is supposed to be a uniquely southern hemispheric constellation) but also I canāt help but be reminded of the myth of Io (transformed into a white heifer by Zeus/Jove-Jupiter to protect her from Hera/Saturnia), and Hera/Saturniaās favoured animal being the peacock, who set Argus of the hundred eyes to watch over Io, and when Argus was slain, Hera, mythologically speaking, created the peacock constellation Pavos out of his many eyesā¦
And of course there are links back to Mesopotamia and Zoroastrianism of peacock worship.
Not meaning to imply that all gods or entities are one singular god or entity renamed and bastardised, but rather that they can be adopted and changed over time.
As you can tell Iām driving myself slightly mental
And I appreciate your input my friend, as always x