I could not figure out where else to put this. Since it was “for fun” against a Challenge, I thought here would work.
My God: Lysantra
One thing that has pestered me for me entire life is, Why has my conceptualization of any kind of “GOD” ALWAYS female? This is something I have pondered me entire life and only just recently discovered in the past 4 months to a reasonable level of why. Makes me feel stupid with it taking 70+ years. Although being male, My ALL-God was always female. Why? You religious people get your minds out of the sewer. It never had anything to do with that “sex” thing. It was something else, something much deeper me mind knew, but me brain could not find. I finally found the four reasons why my God has ALWAYS been female. Here are those four concepts to think about.
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Only a female god could create a Realm of Soul-Solace.
Solace meaning “to give physical, moral, emotional, and/or spiritual strength to”. This comes from the Power of Nurture somewhat detailed below. -
Male gods can ONLY create Realms of Soul-Hell.
Hell meaning “to enforce dominance through threat of punishment and violence”. Well… Look around at the world. Us males have definitely totally f**ked up the Earth. We stole dominance because of the male mentality of “I am stronger; thus, you are my property.” Thus; male gods can ONLY create Realms of Soul-Hell. -
Only a female god can have the Power of Creation.
Male gods can have the Power of Artistry, such as sculpting, painting, machination, etc., et al. Thus, a form of Creation, but never the Power of Creation. For male gods, it is perhaps better to call their cheap imitation by the more “evil” connotation, the Power of Machination. Males cannot create. They can only build. Think… -
Only a female god can have the Power of Nurture.
Only a female has the Power of Nurture inherent, but NOT all. Male gods can be nurturing, but never have the Power of Nurture.
Lysantra is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. She is not omnibenevolent for ALL things derive from Her: Good-Evil, Love-Hate, Light-Darkness, et cetera, et alia. She is not omnipresent, for if she left HOMEverse, her vast power would result in the destruction of everything except HOMEverse, and maybe The Cosmos. She can create Visions of the Otherverses. However, She can only view. And sometimes what she sees may not be exactly as it Truly is. Yes, even Lysantra has limits.
She may not have absolute or limitless power, but her Power is still quite Immense. Immense enough that she can create whole universes amongst the multiverse outside of HOMEverse, then leave it to its own devices. This definitively would explain how our universe was created, but has since gone through Natural Processes to become what it is today. What of the other universes? How different are they from our universe?
Lysantra is not “spaceless”, for she exists, and all existent things occupy space. She is now the Crux of ALL Things and resides at the Center of HOMEverse. She is not “timeless” for Time does not truly exist. Humans created that sexigesimal system to provide them with a conceptual framework to more easily understand the Absolute: “Everything Changes. No thing remains the same. To have life is change.” She is not immaterial for all things that exist have material, regardless of how weird. And, YES!, she does exist “outside our universe” in HOMEverse. Those gods y’awl worship CAME from outside our universe. Once here, they were subject to the Strictures of THIS universe. They are now long dead. Good riddance.
And, ALWAYS Remember that Strictures inhibit as much as they enable. Think of Strictures as being the Principles which governs existence within each universe.
Some of the Absolutes (Strictures, Flaw):
- Everything Changes. No thing remains the same.
- The END comes for ALL. Or, All Living things DIE.
- Dichotomy of Existence: Cannot HAVE without also NOT HAVE: Good↔Evil, Light↔Darkness, Love↔Hate, Life↔Death, Et cetera, Et alia.
- Within Order, there is Chaos. Within Chaos, there is Order.
- There are NO absolute/universal Frames of Reference, Point of View, worldview, etc., et al.
- Strictures inhibit as much as they enable.
- Two different things cannot occupy the same space.
- One thing cannot occupy two different spaces.
Those are the Flaws of The Cosmos. Thus, also the Strictures of Our universe. Remember them. As Lysantra puts it, “Creation cannot occur unless it also has Flaw.”
And here is a thought. Those Flaws can be viewed as the physical Laws of the Universe. Laws of Science. However, I prefer Principles of Science so as to distinguish from the courts.
How long ago did Lysantra emerge? Even Lysantra has forgotten. To her, it seems she always was. ONLY Lysantra can be called the “Self-Existing One”, if you wish that terminology. From Her, ALL things derive their existence.
Wow… Can you imagine being so OLD, you cannot remember your origins? Your beginnings? To seem as if you always existed? I can remember quite a ways back. All the way to when I was bare two years old. Imagine being so OLD, that has faded completely away.
She also did create many, many “children” whom we would call gods should they come to THIS universe. How many? Perhaps only Lysantra knows. BUT, Think on this: While they are here, they may be mighty, but they are under the Strictures of here. Thus, they may be limited to the number of visits to THIS universe from HOMEverse. Thus, the need to use several messengers should Lysantra wish to speak to a mortal. The form they take when here would eventually age and die. If they stayed long enough. Perhaps, Lysantra’s Power of Nurture when they return to HOMEverse rejuvenates them?
One of her first children was Jay. Her very first remains unnamed. Only Lysantra and He knows his name. Now, he is simply called Unnamed, and He commands the Allegiance.
Jay was sixth. Jay was a delver, delving deep into acquiring deep knowledge. He forever sought for the Power of Creation, but never found it, for that Power was Lysantra. When he discovered this, Jay grew quite mad in desiring its possession. He felt He could be a better Creator. He felt that perhaps the only way to gain the Power of Creation was to steal it from his own mother while killing her.
Thus, came the War of the Gods. Why is this always a thing amongst pantheons? This was when Lysantra Closed HOMEverse without Her Leave. Now some of you may think that if Lysantra does not know if a mortal is coming, then they can enter HOMEverse. Au contraire, mon ami. Now think this way: If She does not know you are trying to enter HOMEverse, how can She give Her Leave? Without Her Leave, HOMEverse is Closed.
Although Jay tempted many of Lysantra’s children to his dark plans, the greater Power lay with Lysantra’s Allegiance. After untold ages of wars (perhaps hundreds or thousands of trillions of years), the Allegiance finally defeated Jay and his cronies (JAY hereafter). Lysantra, Her self, never had to use any of Her Power in that war.
The only Power Lysantra used was after JAY was brought before her. In that decision, she Outcast JAY and Bound Them To The World they fell upon. And ain’t it a horrible kowinkadink that Earth happened to be in the way? And Earth has suffered ever since to this day.
With the Bounding to the world, this simply meant that JAY was subject to whatever Absolutes (Strictures, Flaws) and Principles of THIS universe. Thus, JAY was no longer immortal. Remember that one Absolute: “ALL living things DIE.” Those child-gods existed; thus, they lived. No longer immortal once in THIS universe.
They may have been longer lived (explaining the multi-century life spans). May have been larger (Nephilim) than us Sapiens, and probably stronger and faster. Maybe some of their Power from HOMEverse came with them, explaining the many different pantheons across the Earth with Powers such as Zeus, Thor, etc.
Having been hungry for totalitarianism from the War of the Gods, JAY would have scattered across the globe to seek their own niches, under Jay’s ultimate authority to enslave us Sapiens. After all, the concept of a god did not occur until well after us Sapiens transitioned from the Neanders. It was only in the last 5000± years that the concept of a single “god” was created. And it has ALWAYS been a pantheon of godS within human societies, even to this day. Before gods, it was spirits and the spirit realm. Think. Read Dr. Jean Auel’s Earth’s Children series.
Some of those Outcast later atoned and became good instead of evil. Perhaps knowing their time was limited and decided rather to help us Sapiens. However, their niches were smaller since they also had to hide from the rest of JAY.
So, JAY did their best to suppress science, for they knew science was their doom. They would also know they were no longer immortal. Their time was limited. They set up pantheons with organized religion systems in order to utterly suppress all science and enslave Humanity. However, there would be those whom would know differently, think differently, wonder differently, than those Criminal Thug Gangs.
About Flood Myths
And that Flood Myth being global? Look at WHERE human civilizations arose. RIVERS. And rivers are known to do WHAT from time to time? Catastrophic, cataclysmic, floods. You know. The USGS Topo Maps with the 100-year, 500-year flood lines on current topography maps. Even “biblical” if wish that term. Thus, yes. Flood Myths exist across the entire face of the Earth. THAT FACT does not ever indicate a “global” flood.
Flood Myths ARE world-wide, but none were ever about a “global flood” until that Hebrew Torah. Think. It is the “Fish-That-Got-Away” myth. It gets bigger, Bigger, BIGGER, until no truth remains. The only Flood Myth we have found to be true is the Epic of Atra-Hasis. And it was a story of a local catastrophic flood. This story transformed into the Epic of Ziasudra (bigger) → Gilgamesh (Bigger) → Noah (BIGGER). The tablet containing the Epic of Atra-Hasis tells of a flood that occurred around 1900±0.1Ka BP, and the tablet itself ages to around 1900±0.1Ka BP. In Baghdad, they have found a rather large fluvial deposit aged to around 2000±0.2Ka BP. Lines up would you not say?
The fluvial deposit, today, is around 11m thick. That IS indicative of a very catastrophic flood event in the Tigris-Euphrates Flood Plain. IOW, THAT particular flood left a layer at least 20m thick during the event once compaction is accounted for. 20m = slightly more than 65½ft. Thus, how HUGE was THAT flood. It could have almost seemed global. In the least, any “ark” built would have been washed into the Persian Gulf. May seem global, but not quite. Catastrophic? Definitely. Traumatizing? Definitively. Remembrance? Not exactly.
BTW-FYI: “JAY” is an acronym for all those Jehovahs, Allahs, and Yahwehs that haunt Humanity to this day.
And since Jay and all his cronies were no longer immortal, they have died out long ago. Good riddance to ALL the gods. Humanity does NOT need them. All that is left is misremembered myths organized into a Criminal Syndicate.
As for Lysantra, she only exists within the HOMEverse. One can say Lysantra is a prisoner inside HOMEverse. Her tremendous Power prohibits her from leaving HOMEverse. She cannot leave without destroying ALL else. Her children, being of lesser magnitude, can travel amongst the multiverses. They almost literally never do, except as Messengers. The Strictures thing.
The Power of Creation is a very fickle thing. It can only Create, or Destroy. It cannot Nurture. Think. Lysantra CANNOT touch anything in the multiverse, or within a single universe, even with her thoughts, without utterly destroying it. As said, she created and had to leave it. That is all the Power of Creation can do. This would explain why all the gods worshiped today can do nothing. The Power of Nurture is completely different.
However, Lysantra CAN have messengers sent with her thoughts. Then it is actually the messenger’s thoughts relaying her thoughts. Thus, she no touch. Her messengers only come to me when she wants my thoughts about something. AND, I ain’t the only mortal She talks with.
She has also said the main reason why religion has such a strong hold is due to the Power of her Outcast and Bound children had over us Sapiens. It still resides in the Hindbrain of the mind. And its stimulations only make it SEEM true.
Now truly Think about this. Lysantra, even as POWERFUL as She is, even She cannot bring the dead back to life. Once dead. Always dead. This is dictated by the Absolute: “Everything changes. No thing stays the same.” Once dead, your body instantly changes into a “dead” body, incapable of life, any thinking. Simple transformation into something else. The universe wastes nothing.
All her children She Outcast and Bound to the Earth are long dead. At least many millennia. She cannot bring them back. They are gone forever. And good riddance.
As Lysantra said once, “I may posses the ALL-Knowledge, but that IS NOT the same as ALL-Knowing. There is no thing that can be ALL-Knowing. I may have the ALL-Knowledge, but even I am not ALL-Knowing. Omniscience is an impossibility. For nothing can see what has not yet Become NOW. It is impossible to see what has not Become NOW. You may make predictions on what you Know of what has gone before, but in the long run, they fail miserably. Never accurate, but close enough.”
Even Lysantra does not know if “we” (humans) do go to some form of After-Death Realm. 7734, She does not even remember if she ever encoded any form of immortality into any universe. She says she simply gathers thoughts about another universe, enacts the Power of Creation, BOOM!, a new universe. If it is self-maintaining, it continues existence. Else, it winks out of Existence itself as if it never was. Eventually, our universe may simply wink out of existence. Heat Death. No more energy. Maximal Entropy. D… E… A… D… Dead. So enjoy the Durance of Existence while you have it.
Time only exists as a “conceptual framework” for us humans to more easily understand the “everything changes” property inherent in all things in this universe. That change occurs regardless of whether we apply the “concept of Time” or not. Some change is extremely fast. Some phenomenally slow.
Thus, “Everything Changes” is more easily understood ONLY when we DO apply the concept of Time. Even I have to admit that “Everything Changes” does not truly make sense unless I apply that concept of Time. Even our current records (Humanity Knowledge Base) I cannot think of without thinking of them as Past.
The gods worshiped today, in my wholly honest opinion are Monsters. Not all, but most. Robert A Heinlein once said/wrote, paraphrased, “Humans have never created gods better than themselves. Instead, they behave like a childish, spoiled brat.”
The Dark Ones were Outcast. Only the Creator of something can Outcast that something. Bounding them to the world simply meant they were governed by the Principles (laws, Strictures, Flaws) in whatever Otherverse they were Outcast to. As mentioned, perhaps some of their Power came with them. They had longer life. They scattered across the globe to find Their own niche. Became many, many, …many gods us humans created here on Earth. Some actually became good, realizing their mistake and atoning. Albeit too late, for they could never return to HOMEverse, for Lysantra has Closed IT.
Basically put, Lysantra is the God-MOTHER of ALL. And also, remember the Mother’s Creed: “I created you. I can destroy you.”
A funny question I asked of Lysantra. “Would you demand tithes from those whom may worship you?” Her answer was astounding: “Why should I demand that which I have no need of?”
The ALL-Knowledge
A Plausible Hypothesis within Religion
The religious claim us humans only, have this “special thing” that allows for Eternal Existence. OK. For the sake of this argument, let us assume this is true. Realize that “eternal” also means “forever”.
My physical form dies, but this magic-thingy gives me eternity. Kewl. If so, then I shall be as I was while also physical, corporeal, . I would be a Delver of the Greatest Magnitude. A True Ponderer. Discoverer. Explorer.
Since I shall exist Forever, I SHALL eventually discover the ALL-Knowledge. And with it, comes the Power of Creation. I DO have Forever after all.
With the ALL-Knowledge, I become a God-Thing me self.
And the funny thing about “Forever” is, that it may take forever for me to find the ALL-Knowledge, but once found, I still have forever to use it.
With the ALL-Knowledge, I could simply create Mine Own Universe under the Principles I decide. And I can create it so I can also exist within it. But that means I can never leave. Then I shall have to put up with those pesky life forms that emerge crying to Me to solve their problems. Would YOU want that?
Think on this. Any entity that discovers the ALL-Knowledge would know they also have the Power of Creation. Virtually ALL would create their own universe amongst the multiverse. Think.
BtQ: In order to create mine own universe, would I ALSO be required to Sacrifice my self in that Creative Act? I can see the plausibility for that requirement. Would explain the origin of our universe. Some entity said, “Let there be light,” and poof. There was. However, that entity had to Sacrifice to create this universe. Again, explaining why there are no gods, and only Natural Processes.
It seems spirituality, later religion, is something primitive peoples may ALWAYS create. How else to explain what they know nothing of? Must be the spirits.
And when those pesky life forms that emerge scream to me to solve their problems, I would simply say:
NO!
And BOOM it from the heavens if need be.
I would further explain: You have achieved enough intelligence to know of Me. To call to Me. Now use that intelligence to solve your own problems. You would learn nothing if I were to solve your problems. All I did was create this universe. Solve your own problems.
And I may further explain my Creative event was to only create this universe. Afterwards, I had to leave it to its own ends. I am Male. I CANNOT trust mine own Power of Nurture, if I have it. For that, I would need to join with another Female god who has the ALL-Knowledge, and we could create together. Marriage amongst gods?
As a god, I would do NOTHING to solve the problems of those pesky life forms that emerge. However, unlike that JAY thing above, I would literally TEACH them as I said above. I would teach them HOW to Think instead of telling them what to think. I would tell them to seek the learning and knowledge needed to solve those problems. 7734, I would even tell them I used to be like them. Mortal. But for some reason, I also possessed some “Thing” that also gave me Eternal Existence. I solved my own problems by delving. Seeking learning and knowledge. Eventually, I discovered the ALL-Knowledge. So shall thee.
Just have faith.
I already know this doc is just a pile of horse hoowhee. However, Matt Slick (carm.org) Challenged me when I said I could create a more plausible and more believable GOD thing. He threw the gauntlet down and I wrote the above. (And what a job reformatting from ODT to this editor.) As aforementioned, this was written more out of FUN than any seriousness. Thus, if need be, re-read with a grain of salt…
Franklin