Further dig on potential "P" connect
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Sar (Occult King) Peladan
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Researchers are like doctors. You study gross stuff. How else did anyone sniff the air and figure out few things? Not by closing the eyes and clutching pearls.
Another chapter in the saga of Peladan
For sixty years the "Sar" King Occultist was known by the pseudonym "P." from 1859 - 1918
Here's part of a famous passage describing a Ritual involving a chimera-type deity (Moloch resonant):
"THE WINGED BULL
(Full translation of Livre Deuxième, chapter V)
The prince Nergal-Šar-Uṣur advanced into the shadow of the ruined temple, where the moon cast pallid glimmers over the debris of broken columns. The winged bull raised its colossal bulk at the threshold of the nave, eyes of lapis-lazuli fixed upon infinity, its curled beard cascading like a waterfall upon its granite breast. It was the guardian idol, the Assyrian sphinx, symbol of divine strength and fatal fecundity"
original Assyrian prototype — of sphinx and other deities; bearded, male, hyper-masculine, terrifyingly powerful.
The supposed Greek Sphinx is the later, feminised, seductive, riddle-giving descendant that wandered west.
Lamassu (plural: lamassu or lamassū) is the exact ancient Mesopotamian term for the creature Péladan calls “le taureau ailé”
Bull with Wings. Chimera.
(“the winged bull”) in the ritual scene.What it actually is:A colossal protective spirit/statue from Assyrian and Babylonian palaces and temples (roughly 3000–600 BC).
Standard form: Body of a bull or lion
Enormous wings of an eagle
Human head (always bearded, wearing the horned crown of divinity)
Five legs (so it looks like it’s standing still from the front, walking from the side – a brilliant artistic trick)
Height: often 4–5 metres tall, carved from a single block of alabaster or limestone.
Function: guardian figure placed at gateways and throne rooms to ward off evil and protect the king. They were believed to be living supernatural beings, not just statues.
Famous surviving examples:The giant lamassu in the British Museum (from Sargon II’s palace at Khorsabad)
The pair at the Louvre (from Dur-Sharrukin)
The ones still in situ at the Nergal Gate in Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq)
Péladan uses the creature as the ancients did: as a living, terrifying, erotic-divine guardian that channels cosmic force.
In his scene the lamassu is no longer mere stone; under the moon and the rite it becomes a conduit for Ishtar’s power, its eyes glow, it breathes, and it “blesses” the sexual-theurgic union on the altar. That’s why the priestess lies between its forelegs and Nergal touches its forehead – the human couple are consummating the rite inside the body of the lamassu, symbolically reuniting the cosmic male/female principles under the monster’s protection.
That is the lamassu, and that is what is watching (and participating) while Nergal and the priestess become the restored Androgyne.
Peladan claimed the knowledge of these rituals came from the past; ancient Mesopotamia , Assyria , Babylon
In ancient Mesopotamian religion:Nergal (Sumerian: Nerigal / Erra) is the god of war, plague, destruction, the burning summer sun, the underworld, and violent death.
He rules the city of Kutha (the Mesopotamian necropolis) and is married to Ereshkigal, queen of the dead.
He’s Babylonian equivalent of Hades + Ares + Apollo.
In later Jewish and Christian demonology (via the Septuagint and medieval grimoires), Nergal gets demoted into a high-ranking demon, sometimes even identified with Satan or one of the chiefs of hell.
Some of the scenes take place in Ethiopia - remember the pic we were given here showing the QE doing a deep curtsy to Ethiopian royals? picrel