- "What is the basis of your beliefs?"
- The veneration of the Goddess who is Life, the Earth that supports our Life, and the Universe that gave
birth to All, is the basis of the Danaan Religion: it is a new, transcendent form of the oldest human
religion. Danaans revel in the fact that the Female is the original and true form of Life, that the
Male is a modified form of the Female.[1] The Divine is indeed the Eternal Female,
the Great Goddess.
- All Danaan beliefs must engender a healthy, adult, independent psychology, and each belief must ultimately
be based on fact: it must conform to the Prime Imperative[2] and abide by the 13 Freedoms of
The Danaans[3].
If a belief or tenet arises that doesn't meet these tests, we do not accept it.[4]
- "Are you a wacko cult?"
- Actually, the Danaans are far less 'wacko' than "main stream" religions. We don't believe in anything that does not
have a staunch scientific background, nor are we dependent on subverting scientific fact. For example,
miracles are right out: there has never been a verified 'miraculous' cure of an incurable disease, nor of a
currently incurable injury, such as spinal chord injury.[5]
- "Wacko" cults are situations in which a group of essentially childish people form an unnatural dependence on an
individual, or group of individuals, to whom they surrender control of their minds, their lives, their fortunes.
This situation appears not only in small, fringe groups but is also the primary mode of operation
of the "evangelical", "ultra-orthodox" and "fundamentalist" branches and denominations that infect and infest
all father-god religions.
- Because of the Danaan emphasis on personal independence and personal responsibility, the Danaans are adults, not
children: "I'm not a 'Child of God'; I'm an Adult of the Goddess".
- {To use the word 'cult' with greater exactness, check
out all its present meanings, listed on the website of
the
Ontario Consultants on Relgious Tolerance.}
- "Why the emphasis on Athena? Haven't the Greek and Roman myths been 'disproved'?"
- As Athenadorus shows in one of his soon-to-be-published works, the source of all the legends
of the "Old Testament" that form the basis of the creed of those who claim to have disproved all other
religions is in fact one of the same religions they claim to have discredited: the Roman 'Iove' [yo-weh,
yo-veh], the Greek 'Zeus' [intermediate form *sdye-weh], and the Vedic Hindu 'Dyava' [dya-vah] are exactly the same Indo-european,
Indo-aryan god as the chief god of the pantheon of the Abrahamic religions, 'Yawa' or 'Yava'
[ya-wah, ya-vah] (also called 'Yaweh' or 'Yaveh' [ya-weh, yaveh]).[6]
- If the adherents of that religion have "disproved" the tenets of Classical religion, then they have also
disproved their own.
- Athena is the name used most in the writings of Athenadorus because it is the oldest name of the
Goddess known from Western sources. It appears in the Linear B tablets from Crete: atana potniya.
Some hold that
its appearance in those tablets means the 'Lady [i.e., female Lord] of Athens'. But because this
interpretation does not make sense morphologically[7], and because the same deity was worshipped at
the same time in cities other than Athens (and there is no corroborating evidence showing that 'atana' means 'Athens'
in this phrase), it is far more likely that the name means '(the) Immortal Lady'.
{'potniya' is cognate
with the Latin potis: able, capable, powerful; and the related verb
potior: become master of. 'atana' is the word that appears in later Greek as aJanatoV, meaning deathless, immortal.}
- The myth most widely known of the birth of Athena is a remnant of the period in which the communities that
had been centers of Goddess-devotion were infiltrated by warriors that weaseled (or forced) the veneration of
their male deities into the original religion of those communities. Of all the forms and names by which the
Goddess was worshipped, only Athena survived untouched. She alone was so powerful that She remained as the
Great Goddess had been: without a father, without a husband, without a son. The only attempt at subversion
was the creation of the absurd myth of Her springing, full-grown from the split-open skull of Zeus.
The true message of the classical, birth-of-Athena myth is that only by destroying the oppressive, tyrant
father-god will the Goddess of Wisdom and Liberty be made manifest in the lives of those who have been subjected to his
abuse.
- Of all the names and images of the Great Goddess, Athena is the most accessible to people today. She has
continued to exert her influence in such images as those of the Goddess of Liberty, the Virgin Mary, Mother Russia, the
portrayal of French democracy as La France: Marianne, and many other such portrayals of the Immortal Female, the Spirit
of Liberty, Civilization, and the deity that gets things done.
- "Wherever difficulties disappear and the impossible becomes possible, Athena is at hand, but her presence
does not detract from the achievement of the other: 'In league with Athena set your own hand to work,' says
the proverb."[8]
- "Danann, the Tuatha dè Danann, did you get Danann [sic] from that? I saw that you
worship Athena, yet you call yourself Danann? Athena is Greek, and Dana, the mother of the Tuatha dè
Danann is Celtic."
- Your question about the Tuatha dè Danann is right on the money. The
name "Athena" is one of the oldest names of the Goddess that we have
record of. It appears in the linear Greek texts from Crete as "atana potnia". Some scholars have taken its meaning in those to be "Lady [ie, female master] of Athens", but because the name is associated with
other cities, it is more likely that She gave her name to Athens, not
the other way around. [See above (#3)]
- Names cognate with "Athena" appear not only in the Greek-speaking areas,
but in almost all areas of the ancient Mediterranean world. In
Palestine this same Goddess appears with the names Anatha, Anat, Athanah
and Dinah. From Asia Minor she enters the Roman world as Diana. And in
the Greek-speaking communities She appears again as Danae, the mother of
the Danaans.
- In northern Europe the name appears again in "Denmark", the
"mark" (i.e., border) of Danu['s realm]. And of course it appears in
the Tuatha dè Danann.
- The phoneme under consideration would then be {a}[d/th]{a/e}n{a/e} (or
with the consonants ([d/th] and n) metathesized [like how the Anglo-Saxon 'brid' became
the modern English 'bird']). All of these disparate yet related
occurrences point to some form of this phoneme having been Her original
name, and, because "Athena" is the earliest attested, it is the one
we usually use. Yet this by no means limits us to that one name. As the
second verse of the first section of the Ta Men Tao states it:
The Nameless is the beginning of the Universe.
The All-name is the Mother of the heavens and the Earth.
The Naming is the fulfillment of all destiny.
[this first section is given
here.]
- This multitude of names, linguistically or psycho-socially
related, is also
the principal reason the third section of The Danaa is simply a list
of all the known names used to address the Goddess, a list that
continues to grow as more names and references are discovered.
[a selection from that section can be found
here.
- "What do you teach about 'sin'?"
- "Do The Danaans believe in an afterlife, heaven, or hell?"
- Because we hold that life doesn't stop at death--"birth, life and death, the three that are the One"--the
concept of an afterlife doesn't make sense: how can something be 'after' something that has no end? We hold
that the concepts of heaven and hell are the end products of devotion to gods that are essentially criminal
in action, if not intent.
- When one believes that an all-knowing deity gives you life, then he punishes you if you don't pay him honor and behave the
way he says you have to--even though, as an all-knowing god he had to have known what your actions would be--you
have put yourself in a no-win situation. Such a relationship is what most legal systems call 'extortion'. It
is no different from a situation in which someone gives you the wherewithal to set up a business, then they show
up and demand that you pay protection money, lest they trash your business. This is exactly the nature of christianism.
- One of the quotes on the Danaan website that has attracted
attention is
"Any
religion or philosophy which
is based on the fear of being tortured for eternity because of some
godling's displeasure is psychologically
diseased."
- "Is the 'Trinity' your equivalent to the Father, Son & the Holy Ghost?"
- The concept of a trinity in the father-god religions was borrowed from the Religion of the
Goddess, a religion that predates these father-god religions by many tens of thousands of years. So
your question actually has it backwards: the christian trinity is their quasi-equivalent of the Trinity
of the Goddess.
- "Do you pray?"
- Why would you have to pray, to ask things of or to tell things to an all-knowing deity? Sounds rather stupid,
rather inefficient, doesn't it? How tired would such an omniscient deity get of hearing this litany of
things--true, untrue, or a perpetual list of 'things I want for xmas".
- How much more fickle, petty and cruel does it make a deity
if it knows what you want or need yet withholds
it until you beg for it?
- The act of prayer also establishes that this deity is somewhere "out there"--in "heaven"? hiding
behind a comet? The Danaans hold that the divine permeates all things--the Goddess is at all times
present: the Goddess Universal, the Goddess Personal, the Goddess Transcendent.
- The Goddess withholds nothing. But neither does She change
the path of the Becomingness of
the Universe just because you want a pony. Because the Danaans are
adults, we realize that if we
want or need anything it is our responsibility, our opportunity, to
effect it our selves--only
children have to beg their "Father" for things.
- The only thing that She bestows is Wisdom, for in Wisdom is
the fulfillment of all your needs, all
your desires, all possibilities.
- So, yes, I do "pray". But it is not the childish grovelling
before a "jealous" (such a mature emotion!) god;
it is not a theurgical attempt to force a deity to bend the path of
the universe. Closer in essence to that
commonly called 'meditation', such prayer is an act that
puts me in touch with the divinity that I, as a living creature,
carry within--the Goddess Within, a
living vibrant inner core of the Immortal that gladly bestows the
wisdom and strength to perform as I need, to
be attuned to the Prime Imperative and its Universe.
- "... about the Prime Imperative. Would it not imply
that all inferior humans (those outside ideal ranges of
height, weight, intelligence, ability) be exterminated in
order to maximize the survival chances of the species?"
- The principle problem with this 'implication' is that it assumes
that
someone possesses the knowledge, the skills, the foresight and the
authority to determine what is "ideal". This is the very mistake
made by the religious "prophets", and the Social
Darwinians and their disciples, the Nazis.
- No one can determine what the 'ideal' ranges of height, weight,
etc.,
are because no one can forecast what the individual, the group, or
the species will have need of. Nor can they determine what particular
travails a society
or individual may face in the future.
- A program of extermination along the lines of the proposed implication would
violate the Prime Imperative in several ways. It violates each of the
Constituent Imperatives.
- In terms of the Personal Imperative, you would not want to impose this
extermination because you never know whose help you as an individual might
need, nor when you might need it. The Social Imperative amplifies this, for you cannot
forecast when any group with which you might identify, or will be
involved with, would need the physical or mental abilities of anyone
else.
- The Natural Imperative establishes that such an implication would be a
violation because such extermination could decrease the genetic
diversity of the species in a way that could undermine the ability of the
species to adapt to change, thus decreasing the survival chances of the
species as a whole.
- Such a use of the term "the ideal" is an example of human arrogance, of
hubris. For it is the 'becomingness of the Universe' that determines
what is ideal at each point in space and time. Everything that exists
at each moment is 'ideal' for that moment: everything at that point is
'perfect' for that point. The Universe gives no consideration to human
philosophies and prejudices.
- Don't fall into the same logical trap that holds the old religions and
philosophies captive. Many human concepts and conceits exist nowhere
but in the human mind. Nature has no concept of "the Ideal", of
"perfection", nor of 'morality' or 'sin', 'good' or 'evil', or
'suffering'. To build a philosophy or religion on these is therefore
wholly unnatural.
- Because these concepts are naught but self-deception, they are in
themselves violations of the Prime Imperative, for failure to realize
your true situation decreases your mastery of that situation. This in turn
diminishes your ability to act in your own benefit, as
well as to the benefit of your community, your species, and of Life
itself.
- "In your prime imperative you say that this is something all
NITROGEN BASED LIFE must obey. Since all Earth life is carbon based, who
does this apply to?"
- To answer a question with a question--what is the chemical compound that
astrophysicists and astrobiologists look for in the atmosphere of satellites,
to be able to determine quickly if it could harbor
life? --Ammonia. Ammonia is the simplest compound of nitrogen--one
nitrogen atom bonded to two hydrogen atoms--and very often has its
origin from living things.
- Fats, sugars, and carbohydrates are all structurally carbon-based,
and the basic frame-work of proteins is indeed also carbon. But it is
proteins that distinguish the living from the non-living, and it is the
presence of nitrogen that separates proteins from these other
carbon-based compounds. While it is true that carbon forms the
back-bone, the structural scaffolding, of all these compounds, it is
in fact the presence of nitrogen that characterizes and sets apart
all compounds capable of life.
- In The Danaa I go into the fact that several diseases are now
known to be caused by proteins.[9] These compounds
are capable of the two things
that distinguish the living from the non-living: the ability to gather
nourishment from their surroundings, and the ability to cause
reproduction of themselves. These proteins, termed "prions", are
capable of both these, although these activities appear in their
original form, that of a single
function. (In gathering amino acids for reproduction they are also
in fact 'feeding'.)
- Many do not realize that DNA and RNA are polymers whose information
units are nitrogen-based building blocks (Thymine and uracil have 2, cytosine has 3,
guanine and adenine each have 5 nitrogens). [DNA is composed of thymine, cytosine,
guanine and adenine; RNA has uracil instead of thymine.] However, DNA and RNA are not the
"building blocks of life", as they are so often termed. DNA and
RNA are biologically inert without the proteins that manipulate them.
DNA would remain
locked in its own embrace if DNA-polymerase (a complex protein) did
not come along and 'unzip' it. Neither DNA nor RNA could be read or
copied without the actions of the enzymes (all enzyumes are also proteins)
that crawl along the single strands
of these molecules (or of the enzymes that pull these strands through
themselves), reading and matching base-pair unit by base-pair unit.
- Yet another question is "For what substances (and nothing else)
do DNA and RNA hold the codes?" The answer is--proteins.
- Here are some relevant sections from The Alpha-Phaedrana:
-
... Because all terrestrial life is proteins within and enclosing an
aqueous saline solution, and as those constituents are characterized
by the presence of the element nitrogen, we refer to terrestrial life
as nitrogen-based life. We thereby recognize the fact that our
life-form depends on proteins for its very existence. The presence
of proteins and their precursor amino acids is the absolute singular
prerequisite for the origin and continuance of Life: Life exists in
the very form and nature of protein molecules.
- Nitrogen-based Life is (1) proteins
manipulating [RNA-/DNA-]
memory systems for replication and synthesis (2) in processes
energized by elemental chemical reactions (3) all occurring within
an aqueous saline solution."
(Please note that this statement includes no speculation on the
possibility of other forms
of life, or bases for things that may be considered alive.)
- "Do you receive much hate mail?"
No, so far this has been an occasional, but no real problem. (Although
as The Danaans continue to grow we can only expect that more of this
will occur.)
- There are, of course, certain reasons why we've been spared so far.
Firstly, we aren't yet big enough to have attracted the attention of
the common nut-case. Secondly, because we don't proselytize, the most
neurotic of christian sects have not identified us as 'muscling
in on their territory'. (This will not happen until christian ministers
start feeling a personal economic loss.) And thirdly, most of those who
would disagree with the facts and opinions stated here and in the books
are either overwhelmed by the shear number of things they would have to
dispute, or they recognize that they are just too ill-read to begin.
- An example of the kind of hate mail that does come in is this message,
removed from the guestbook:
I was looking for information on philosophy and business ethics and i
came across this webpage somehow. I think that all this is a crock of shit and
is something that a woman came up with to deal with her own inferiority complex caused by
the overpowering sheer genius of the male species.
If you danaanananas are right, why are there so many christians in the world and so little
of your pathetic, meaningless, mindless followers?
paul <dobrman21@aol.com>
starkville, ms usa
If we take a minute to analyze this message, we can discern certain things about the sender,
things that are common to almost to almost all those who feel they must indulge in hate mail.
- It was written by a juvenile, obviously a male. [Adults--or
those with adult mentalities
--as a rule do not feel threatened by the mere statement of alternative points of view. (And because
almost all females mature physically and emotionally faster than males, one would hardly expect this
invective to have come from a woman.)]
- It was written by someone who is probably clinically depressed, expressed in a palpably very
low self-esteem. [Non-depressed, self-actualized individuals express anger when appropriate yet
find hatred and its expression foreign to their natures and un-usable because of its self-destructive
effects.]
- It was written by someone who has been emotionally or sexually rejected or belittled by women,
and whose reaction to his lack of social acceptance has made him a loner and an introvert. [Rejection
of a male by a female (especially if chronic, scarring or ill-timed) will sometimes push a borderline
misogynist into a sociopathic state: in this email we may discern both tendencies of abnormal psychology.]
- It was written by someone who is very unsophisticated, who has a very limited knowledge of
the world, and of the Science that describes this world; someone who has no knowledge of Biology, of Psychology or
of Statistics.[Everthing he asserts is false, starting with his absurd labelling of the male as a "species".]
- It was written by someone so unsophisticated that he believes that the number of
believers will make a belief into truth. [The fact that most people sincerely believed that the world was
flat before the few proved them wrong did not make the world actually flat.]
- See "The Female: First
Form & Source of Life" at
http://www.danaanpress.com/alib/dpres_1.htm.
- Available at
http://www.danaanpress.com/alib/primei.htm.
- Available at
http://www.danaanpress.com/alib/13frdoms.htm.
- This isn't going
to make God 's ministers at all happy: healthy psychology and a reliance on
fact are things that cannot be tolerated by father-god religion. The Rescripts give examples of how Science
disproves certain of their basic contentions, and the first Enodation, "Why the Christians Rage", will explain
in detail certain problems confronting their beliefs, and how they are now reacting to those dilemmas with
denial, anger and attempts at enforced ignorance.
- The claims of miracles
listed in the christian scriptures are merely that: claims. No proof has ever
been offered, nor, indeed, will there ever be, for those myths.
- This is far from being
the only name or legend in the "Old Testament" (nor indeed, in the "New Testament")
that has an Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, "pagan" source. [The spelling
of this name with an 'e', i.e. 'Yaveh' or 'Yaweh', is an
anachronism: (non-pointed) Hebrew orthography was fixed while Hebrew
still had
only the three vowels of Proto-Semitic, 'a', 'i', and
'u'.]
The Islamic "Allah" is merely an Arabic-language pseudonym for the original Hebraeo-Christian deity: Islam
is a tertiary religion entirely dependent on the prior existence of the primary and secondary Abrahamic religions
(Judaism and Christianity) for the development of its beliefs. [The name "Allah" is a re-masculinization of the
word for (and name of the) Arabic goddess "Allat". It is not an original Semitic word: the real Semitic word for
'god' is "el", appearing in the oldest documented Semitic language, Akkadian, with the Nominative case form of "elum".
The feminine form of "elum" is "elatum", which, after dropping the -um of the masculine nominative singular, appears
as the Arabic word of the same meaning: "allat". The change from "Allat" to "Allah" in the Arabic script involves only
the dropping of the two dots over the character for the final 't' to make it an 'h'--it does not involve a radical change
in spelling.]
- 'atana' does not appear
to be in the Genitive case, as it would have to be for this translation to be
accurate.
- Walter Burkert, Greek
Religion, Harvard University Press ©1985, ISBN 0-674-36281-0: p. 141.
- We know this because the
injection of a single copy of one of these prions is enough to start the disease.
One of these diseases has been that scourge of modern Britain--scrapie, 'mad cow disease' Kreutzfeld-Jakob
disease--a single disease that affects, respectively, sheep, cows and humans. This prion in particular
withstands industrial processing that kills all bacteria and viruses, so that the products of infected
animals, such as bone meal, remain infective.
Unlike all viruses and bacteria, prions are not host-specific: they and their reproductive scheme
are not complicated enough to be susceptible to that limitation.
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