(Previously published September 12, 2019)

(Quoted from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition, including Grant Showerman's 'The Great Mother of Gods' [Bulletin of the University of WISCONSIN, No. 43, Madison, 1901].) Here are some pithy excerpts from the Britannica, 1910:

"During the brief revival of paganism under [Caesar] Eugenius in A.D. 394, occurred the last appearance of the cult in history [the last open one at least].

"She was known as the All-begetter, the All-nourisher, the Mother of all the Blest. She was the great, fruitful, kindly EARTH itself. Especial emphasis was placed upon her maternity over WILD nature. Her universal POWER over the natural world finds beautiful expression in Apollonius Rhodius.

"Her especial affinity with wild nature was manifested by the orgiastic character of her worship. Her attendants, the Corybantes, were wild, half demonic beings. Her priests, the Galli, were eunuchs attired in female garb, with long hair fragrant with ointment. Together with priestesses, they celebrated her rites with flutes . . and tambourines, madly yelling and dancing until their frenzied excitement found its culmination in self-scourging, self-laceration or exhaustion. Self-emasculation sometimes accompanied this delirium of worship on the part of candidates for the priesthood."

(This sounds vaguely like "multicultural" lifestyles, including sado-masochism and nature-worship. Are we experiencing a stealth "brief revival of paganism" as in 394 A.D., or what?)

"At Rome the immediate direction of the cult of the Great Mother devolved upon the high priest, Archigallus, called Attis, a high priestess, Sacerdos Maxima . . . Besides other priests, priestesses and minor officials, such as musicians, curator, &c, there were certain colleges connected with the administration of the cult."

(Oh, that reminds me, the "art museum" at Harvard right now has an exhibit celebrating ActUp, pagan "eunuchs," and other strange things.)

Environmentalism in the extreme, or "Deep Ecology" by any other name, is a cult with "DEEP" ancient roots. The "green movement" is not a "secular" one, but is a religious one.

That this cult-movement now has near control over our nation (academe and the mainstream media) means that Christians are battling wicked spirits in "High" places (and I don't mean Mt. Ida). The Britannica concludes the Great Mother of the Gods article thusly:

"Together with Isis and Mithras, she was a great enemy, and yet a great aid to [professing] Christianity. The gorgeous rites of her worship, its mystic doctrine of communion with the divine through enthusiasm, its promise of regeneration through baptism of blood in the taurobolium, were features which attracted the masses of the people and made it a strong rival of Christianity; and its resemblance to the new religion, however superficial, made it, in spite of the scandalous practices which grew up around it, a stepping-stone to Christianity when the tide set in against paganism."

P.S. CONCLUSION

The modern nature-worshipers think they have power over the natural world – and its climate – not to mention your life. Graduates of their colleges have told us that we have only "50 days to save the planet." The apostle Paul warned the Romans that we would see days like this.