ArchTale 3. The Sacrifice of Creation

In love, The-Man sent his seed forth

into The Boundless Spirit

And then he gave up his life

The-Tree was cut down to create the heavens and the earth.

To himself

The-Man had sacrificed himself.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth - Genesis 1:1

Here are the meanings of the Hebrew word which we translate as “created” in the Bible:

CreatedH1254 - bârâ’ - baw-raw’: A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make(fat).

- Hebrew dictionary. The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.

The-Tree was cut down to create the heavens and the earth.

Here is an excerpt showing The-Sacrifice of The-Man to Himself...Norse

"I know that I hung on the windswept tree all nine nights

With spear I was wounded and given to Odin

Myself to me

On that tree which no one knows from which roots it grows."

- The saying of the high One

To himself, The-Man had sacrificed himself

Vedic/Hindu

The sacrifice that is spread out with threads on all sides...The Man stretches the warp and draws the weft; the Man has spread it out upon this dome of the sky...when all the gods sacrificed the god

Thus they set the worlds in order. There were seven enclosing sticks for him, and thrice seven fuel sticks, when the gods spreading the sacrifice bound the Man as the sacrificial beast.

With the sacrifice the gods sacrificed to the sacrifice.

These were the first ritual laws. These very powers reached the dome of the sky where dwell those who are yet to be fulfilled, the ancient gods. 19

O All-Maker help your friend recognize them in oblation. You who follow your own laws, sacrifice your body yourself, making it grow great. All-Maker grown great through the oblation, sacrifice the earth and sky, yourself. 20

Ancient Scandinavia

I know that I hung on the windswept tree all nine nights

With spear I was wounded and given to Odin

Myself to me

On that tree which no one knows from which roots it grows 21

19 Purusa-Sukta (the hymn of Man) Rig Veda

20 Rig Veda 10.81:5-6

21 The saying of the high One

Creation resulted from the sacrifice of The-Man

Judaism/Christianity

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 22

Look again at the meanings of the Hebrew word which we translate as “created” in the Bible:

Created H1254 - bârâ’ - baw-raw’ A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). 23

‘Dispatch’ means put to death.

Vedic/Hindu

When the gods spread the sacrifice with The Man [Purusha] as the offering, spring was the clarified butter, summer the fuel, autumn the oblation. They anointed The Man the sacrifice born at the beginning, upon the sacred grass. With him the gods, sages and those who are yet to be fulfilled sacrificed 24

From that sacrifice in which everything was offered, the melted fat was collected, and he made it into those beasts who live in the air, in the forest and in the villages. From that sacrifice in which everything was offered the verses and chants were born, the meters were born from it, and from it the formulas were born. Horses were born from it and those other animals that have two rows of teeth; cows were born from it and from it goats and sheep were born. When they divided The Man, into how many parts did they apportion him? What do they call his mouth, his two arms and thighs and feet? His mouth became the Brahmin; his arms were made into the warrior, his thighs the people, and from his feet the servants were born. 25

The moon was born from his mind; from his eye the sun was born. Indra and Agni came from his mouth and from his vital breath the Wind was born. From his navel the middle realm of space arose; from his head the sky. From his two feet came the earth and the quarters of the sky from his ear. 26

Shinto

‘The names of the Deities that came into existence without being procreated in the plain of high heaven

when the heaven and earth began were:

Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven,

High-August-Producing-Wondrous-Deity,

Divine-Producing-Wondrous-Deity.

These three deities came into being alone and hid their souls (died). A thing like unto a reed shoot sprouted up and from it came two more deities. The earth was young and like unto floating oil drifting about medusa like when they were born.” 27

Celts

Mother Earth and her children took counsel together against Father Heaven, and one of his sons, who was bolder than the others, undertook shamefully to mutilate Heaven; nay, he and his brothers stayed not their hands till they had cut the world-giant their father into many pieces. Out of his skull they made the firmament, and the spilling of the blood of his body caused a great flood, which, as it settled in the hollows of the earth, made up the sea. 28

Chinese

The emperor Hundun who was at the centre of the universe suffered because he had no eyes ears nose or mouth. The emperors Shu and Hu wanted to make him a gift of holes in his head for breathing seeing hearing and eating. They set to work drilling one hole per day in Hundun’s head. For the first six days all went well but on the seventh day Hundun died with the drilling of the seventh hole. In that very moment, the universe was born. 31

Pan-Gu (often depicted covered with leaves like a plant) died after having worked so hard creating the universe. His breath became the winds, his voice the thunder, his eyes the sun and moon, his hair the stars, his sweat the rain, his hands and feet the four corners of the earth and his body the mountains. His blood became the rivers and streams his flesh the fields, his body hair the grass and trees, his teeth and bones rocks and minerals, his semen and marrow pearls and jade. 32

The Tahitians

Ta’aroa (Unique) was the great Supreme Being who existed alone. He used his own body to create the universe. 33

Taaroa is the great god. He simply existed in space at the beginning of time before there was earth, sky, or humankind. In fact, he became the universe the sands, rocks, and light. Taaroa is the germ of life. He is within, under, above. The universe is his shell. It is said that Taaroa lived in his egg like shell for a long time, but that finally he broke out of it and held it up to make the dome-sky, Rumia. Out of himself he made the world. His spine he used to make a mountain range, his ribs became hillsides, his fingernails became shells and scales, and his feathers became trees and plants. 34

Gilbert Islands

Nareau made Na-Atibu and Nei-Teukez from sand. Nei-Teukez had many offspring including Nareau the Second who killed Na-Atibu and used his body to build the world. His eyes became the sun and moon and his brain, the stars. His flesh became islands and his bones became trees. 35

Ancient Scandinavia

Odin and his brothers killed the giant Ymir. From his blood they made the sea and the lakes. The earth was fashioned from his flesh and the mountain cliffs from the bones. They made stones and gravel from the teeth, the molars and the broken bits of bone. 36

“This was before the earth was created”, Third added 37

They also took his skull and from it made the sky and his brain they threw up into the air and from it they made clouds.38

From Ymir’s flesh was the earth created, from bloody sweat, the sea, cliffs from bones, trees from hair and from the head, the heavens.39

So it is that all things are made from The-Man. But after The-Man died and before anything was created there were the deep waters of Chaos...

33 Coleman. J. A. p. 251.

34 Sproul. pp 349–352.

35 Coleman. J. A. p. 251.

36 The Prose Edda - SnorriSturluson

37 The Prose Edda - SnorriSturluson

38 The Prose Edda - SnorriSturluson

39 The Lay of Grimnir 40-41

28 Rhys. J. pp 669-671.

29 EnumaElish and Heidel. A. pp. 53-54.

30 Gavin White. BABYLONIAN STAR-LORE

31 Littleton. C. S. ed. p.p. 395.

32 Littleton. C.S p.p. 393-395

22 Genesis 1:1

23 Hebrew dictionary.The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.

24 Purusa-Sukta (the hymn of Man) Rig Veda

25 Purusa-Sukta (the hymn of Man) Rig Veda

26 Purusa-Sukta (the hymn of Man) Rig Veda

27 The Kojiki-sect 1