[mythfolk] A Cave Fable

[Wm. Michael Mott]

A Cave Fable
Copyright 2005, Wm. Michael Mott

When one examines the possibility of mostly-unseen co-inhabitants of
our planet, it is often met with skeptical scoffing, coupled with a
complete disregard for the evidence which is in plain sight. The
evidence is multitudinous in example.

Is there evidence for a subterranean or subterrestrial influence on
human history, world events, and the fates of nations and human
beings? Of course. One case in particular has had tremendous
impact on human history, and probably on the eventual fate of our
species in terms of whether or not we even survive, or destroy
ourselves in a never-ending conflict.

Once upon a time there was a primitive desert tribesman of a bandit
tribe, living in a very inhospitable part of the world. This young
man was ostracized to some degree by his own people, who were an
animistic, multiple-god-worshipping lot, warring continually among
themselves for plunder and tribute.

One night this young man had a seemingly "mystical" experience.
Alone in a cave, seeking shelter and sleep, he was awakened by
a "luminous being" who began to proclaim to him pronouncements of a
grandiose and disturbing nature--so disturbing, in fact, that at
first the young tribesman believed that the being was "Shaitan" or
an ifrit (a form of underworld djinni). This being spoke in terms
of conquest and judgement, the end of the world, and the wrath of
the god of the young man's tribe, who was in fact at that time but
one among many pagan deities in the region, the god of the moon.
His symbol was the upturned crescent moon, making "him" a variant of
the Horned God (and this symbol is still in use to this day). The
entity declared that it was the messenger of this god, and called
for the utter destruction and abolition of all other gods, deities,
and belief-systems--including the 364 other pagan deities which were
worshipped by the tribesman's race at that time.

As a result of his encounter with the anomalous entity, the young
man at first believed that he had been contacted by a demon of the
underworld, out of the depths of the cave and the earth--but his
ambitious wife and relatives soon changed his mind, telling him that
he had been "chosen." As a result of this, the young man embarked
on a brutal and murderous military campaign of savage butchery,
theft, rape, and other atrocities, with bandits and outlaws as his
initial army recruits. Over the course of time his own cruel
personality traits were inserted into the supposed revelations he
had received in the cave, and his proclivities for beheading, lack
of mercy and tolerance, rapine, pillaging and theft, slave-taking,
and pedophilia were not only accepted by his subjects, but were
glorified within the tenets of the new "religion."

Now, over the centuries since this encounter with an unknown
humanoid being in a cave, the world has seen millions of innocent
Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Hindus, and others
invaded, enslaved, raped, robbed, forced into conversion at the
point of a sword, villified, degraded, and downtrodden by the
adherents of the CULT which was founded by a non-human entity and
its ambitious, credulous follower and high-priest. Millions of
Christians and Jews, having lived peacefully together in ALL Middle
Eastern countries for centuries, were invaded by waves of murderous
fanatics from the desert, their cultures destroyed, obliterated, and
looted. This plague spread to Asia, and at one time even well into
Europe, to hammer on the walls of Vienna.

Today this Cult of the Underworld, filled with inconsistencies, self-
delusion, circular reasoning, self-contradictions, and hatred for
all people of different belief systems, is still with us--and all
because of a naive and impressionable barbarian tribesman's
encounter with a deceptive and manipulative non-human being, in the
depths of a cave.

End of Fable? Probably not.





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