In mystery cult and related literature we often come across the adoption of the sexual act of ejaculation of semen or "sperm" into the cervical mouth of the female uterus in symbolic reference to the "dark descent" rite of initiation into the mother-goddess cult. The "dark descent," in this symbolism, is often referred to as the "drop" or more specifically as the "semen drop."
The philologist, Modupe Oduyoye, in his "Afro -Asiatic Interpretation of Genesis 1-11" notes the association of the root of the name "Sango," the Yoruba sky deity of thunder and "white" lightning which "drops" from the sky, with the cluster of meanings "white," "snow," "pure," "holy," "sun," "rain" and "semen," in African and Afro-Asiatic languages: Hebrew: Seleg (snow/white); Aramaic: teleg (snow/white); Duala:Sang (pure/holy); Acholi:Ceng (sunshine); Dinka: Deng (rain/divinity).
Sango, in the mythology of the Candomble(and the Yoruba) is associated with the chthonic goddess Yewa(note the incidence of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, and the representation of the root Y-W, common in West African languages as generic term for "divine spirits," in the Celtic "Gwen," meaning, as in the name, "Sango," "pure," "holy," and "white."
Schultz, in "Dokument der Gnosis," refers to a Gnostic document in which the pre-natal life of the child, under the surveillance of angels, begins with the "adventure of the drop"(that is, the descent of the semen through the vaginal tract). The child is infused with a "soul" soon after. An angel leads the "soul" to preview its earthly life-to-come. The child lies in its mother's womb for nine months: The first three months in the lowest chamber; the second three in the middle chamber; and the last three in the upper chamber being fed richly from its mother's diet. When, at last, it is birth time, the child is unwilling to come, preferring to remain indefinitely in its comfortable uterine abode. But its angel-guardians insist and the child comes against his will. The child weeps, unwilling to be born. (Yet another admission of the "birth trauma" in religious-mystical tradition.)
The idea of a "snowwhite" or white flash of light (semen drop symbolism) representing divine heavenly essence "dropping" from the skies has led to the speculation that the tradition might be related to comet sightings in the past. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, Lucifer ("the brilliant one") "drops" or falls to the earth from the heavens (Luke 10:17; Isaiah 14: 12). The spirit of God falls like a white dove (semen drop symbolism) from the heaven on his begotten son Jesus at the baptism (a form of the rite of "dark descent"). In Islamic tradition, God created the first man Adam from a "drop" of semen. The "bini ha l'oyim" (Hebrew: sons of God), in cross-cultural mythological traditions, are the "seed of heaven" fallen to the earth, as white semen falls to fecundate a woman. And according to St. Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians, what is sown does not come to life unless it dies first in the "dark descent"(I Corinthians 15: 36), and so it is with the seminal seed of the skyey gods. But the seed of the gods fallen to the earth is received back to them in the abundant harvest of the resurrection. Thus, the Paleolithic shaman-sorcerer, as the "seed of the realm of light," who makes the "dark descent" into the earth looks forward to be received back, in resurrection, into the abode of light, not as seed-potential but in the fullbloom of divine exultation (in the "dark descent" rites of the Asiatic Mystery cult the initiate was buried as mortal but returned from the depths of initiation an immortal).
In religious and mythological traditions, the dark underworld is the world of the dead. In the common mythology of Ancient Near East, the underworld was identified with the place of setting of the sun, the West ("Erebos"). Thus, the necropolis of the Ancient Egyptians was to the west, as land of the dead, the underworld region of darkness and gloom. The place of the sun's rising in the east was the land of the living. Thus, Ancients tended always to locate their ancestral origins in the east (Genesis 11:2: "And men began migrating from the east..."; that is, from the ancestral homeland of "Eden" located somewhere in mythical eastern land).
The shaman-sorcerer yields himself to the "dark descent" of initiation only in hope of return. In analogy of the "semen drop," as the "dark descent" of death, does the Brahman pupil whose semen drops to the earth admonish it (as his life essence) to return to him. In the analogy of the "semen drop," also, does the yogi discipline himself in seminal retention to prevent his life essence from "dropping" from him, and in the event that it falls, he strives to return it to himself, for the fallen semen is taken to represent death and its return the restoration of life.
Similarly, among the Gnostic sect of the Phibionite is reported the practice of "returning" the sperm "drop" by eating it.
The writer JohnThomas Didymus is author of the book "Confessions of God: The Gospel According to St. JohnThomas Didymus."( http://www.resurrectionconspiracy.com/ ). If you have found this article interesting you are invited to read the article THE MOTHER GODDESS FERTILITY CULT OF PALEOLITHIC CAVE ARTISTS on his blog: http://johnthomasdidymus.blogspot.com/2010/08/mother-goddess-fertility-cult-of.html
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