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"Mother of God: Background to Sounding Brass and Clanging Cymbals: For all agree in regarding the women as the chief founders of religion, and it is the women who provoke the men to the more attentive worship of the gods, to festivals, and to supplications. He found it significant that, on the whole,

only women and effeminate men fell into this folly." Paul speaks to ritual women in First Corinthians 13-14 and forbids it. A dominate theme of this article is the power of sounding brass and clanging cymbals or musical worship in general as a sign of the restoration of the worship of the Mother of the gods

The "speaking" connected with tongues outlaws instruments: when you speak the LOGOS it is opposite to music.
Ephesians 4 Unity in Diversity
Ephesians 5 Singing amd Making Melody
Clangs and Gongs in the Classics
Ephesians 6 We Wrestle not with Musical Instruments.

See the Twanging and "music" connection which speaks of warfare: not worship. THIS CONNECTS ABADDON OR APOLLYON WITH THE MUSES OR LOCUSTS AND THE END-TIME HOLY WHORE. DON'T MISS IT.

One of the "original" Mother of heaven was Inanna or Ishtar. She got Enki or Ea drunk and stole the powers for her own shrine. Inanna says: "I, the Queen of Heaven, shall visit the God of Wisdom." In the process

My father has given me the me:

He gave me the high priesthood.

He gave me godship.

He gave me the noble, enduring crown.

He gave me the throne of kingship.

Added verse 3 on the burning body.

Some of these links have beein changed and I have not corrected them. the dash - in front means that the link now works.

Inanna was the mother of Marduk who was the national god of Babylonia. Therefore, she is the first Mother of the God.

Paul speaks to ritual women in First Corinthians 13-14 and forbids it. A dominate theme of this article is the power of sounding brass and clanging cymbals or musical worship in general as a sign of the restoration of the worship of the Mother of gods. Music is closely identified as the weapon and mark of Satan used to call out (beyond redemption) people to worship Satan or Lucifer who is defined much like Sophia (Wisdom) and Zoe (Life).

Image of Sophia-Zoe much as Mary is pictured. "Extreme as this statement may sound, it contains a powerful and often overlooked truth. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have fixated their spiritual imaginations upon the image of God as a unitary supreme reality - an image which excludes diversity and plurality.

The rising feminist consciousness of our era has identified one result of this view of God as "Patriarchy" and taken exception to it.

The remedy suggested for this is the replacement of the solitary male God with a Goddess, or, as she is frequently called, "the Goddess." Stephan A. Hoeller

Sophia from The Book of Wonders by David Jors, 16th century. Goddeses and Today's Culture. To revive gods and goddesses is no small task. Above all, it is not a task that reason or personal motives can accomplish or even assist in. One cannot construct archetypes on the basis of recognitions reached by the personal complex of mind and emotions.

American Spectator Thursday 18 February 1999 Victoria Combe: Methodist and The Mother of God
"THE Methodist Church broke with centuries of Christian tradition yesterday and included the first prayer to "God the Mother" in its worship book for the Millennium. The prayer, which initially was removed from the book because of protests from traditionalists, appears in one of nine services for Holy Communion. It reads: It reads:

"God our Father and our Mother , we give you thanks and praise for all that you have made, for the stars in their splendour and the world in its wonder and for the glorious gift of human life. With the saints and angels in heaven, we praise your holy name.

"It is the first time in Britain that a mainstream Church has referred to God as a woman in an official service book, although feminists and liberals have been pressing for it for decades. The 600-page Methodist Worship Book, which has taken nine years to complete, replaces the 1975 text and will be used for the first time in Methodist churches on Easter Sunday.

"Among all the women who have ever lived, the Mother of Jesus Christ is the most celebrated, the most venerated...Among Roman Catholics, the Madonna is recognized not only as the Mother of God, but also, according to modern Popes, as the Queen of the Universe, Queen of Heaven, Seat of Wisdom, and even the Spouse of the Holy Spirit." (Time Magazine, "Handmaid or Feminist?", December 30, 1991, p. 62-66).

See the Methodists Feminist and Lesbian Re-Imaging and Rubel Shelly's Re-Visioning where the EUCHARIST becomes the Agapae.

This is a statement of Gnosticism. Sophia or Wisdom is the feminist (effeminate) superior of Jesus and even of Jehovah. She is known as the SEREPNT. Her daughter, Zoe or Eve, is the female instructing principle, mediator and know as THE BEAST. Click for the details.

Then the female spiritual principle came in the snake, the instructor; and it taught them, saying, "What did he say to you? Was it, 'From every tree in the garden shall you eat; yet - from the tree of recognizing good and evil do not eat'?"

The carnal woman said, "Not only did he say 'Do not eat', but even 'Do not touch it; for the day you eat from it, with death you are going to die.'"

And the snake, the instructor, said, "With death you shall not die; for it was out of jealousy that he said this to you. Rather your eyes shall open and you shall come to be like gods, recognizing evil and good."

And the female instructing principle was taken away from the snake, and she left it behind, merely a thing of the earth.

However, the prophets warn:

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Jer 7:18

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. Je.44:17

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. Je.44:18

And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? Je.44:19

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. Je.44:25

Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liveth. Jer 44:26

Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Jer 44:27

Hislop in The Mother and Child notes that: "In connection with this, it may be observed, that the name of Juno, the classical "Queen of Heaven," [mother of god] which, in Greek, was Hera, also signified "The Lady"; and that the peculiar title of Cybele or Rhea at Rome, was Domina or "The Lady." (OVID, Fasti) (See the worship of the air goddess Juno in Corinth)

See Miriam and the connection with the Egyptian Mother of God

Paul's warning: of the gods, of the gods, of the gods,

After warning the Corinthians that they were all performing signs but not all of them had the gift, Paul warned them about music and the mysteries:

THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2

Paul was speaking directly about the wine- and beer-gods and goddesses who could be attracted by "getting drunk even without wine." The Mother of the god in all pagan religions took top billing.

-Pseudo-Apollodorus Library e.7.14 of the gods, of the gods,

The word church derives from Circe who seduced with drugs and music.

[E.7.14] With one ship he put in to the Aeaean isle. It was inhabited by Circe, a daughter of the Sun and of Perse, and a sister of Aeetes;
skilled in all enchantments was she.(Note 1) of the gods,

Having divided his comrades, Ulysses himself abode by the ship, in accordance with the lot, but Eurylochus with two and twenty comrades repaired to Circe.

Note 1: As to the adventures of Ulysses and his comrades with the enchantress Circe, see Hom. Od. 10.133-574; Hyginus, Fab. 125; Ov. Met. 14.246-440. The word (pharmaka) here translated " enchantments" means primarily drugs; but in the early stages of medicine drugs were supposed to be endowed with magical potency,

partly in virtue of the spells, that is, the form of words, with which the medical practitioner administered them to the patient.

Hence druggist and enchanter were nearly synonymous terms. As Circe used her knowledge of drugs purely for magical purposes, without any regard to the medical side of the profession, it seems better to translate her pharmaka by " enchantments" or "charms" rather than "drugs," and to call her an enchantress instead of a druggist.

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Re.18:23

Pharmakeia (g5331) far-mak-i'-ah; from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extens.) magic (lit. or fig.): - sorcery, witchcraft.

Pharmakeus (g5332) far-mak-yoos'; from pharmakoån , (a drug, i.e. spell- giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extens.) a magician: - sorcerer

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Re.21:8

Josephus notes that: "Lamech was also the father of a daughter, whose name was Naamah. And because he was so skillful in matters of divine revelation, that he knew he was to be punished for Cain's murder of his brother, he made that known to his wives. Nay, even while Adam was alive, it came to pass that the posterity of Cain became exceeding wicked, every one successively dying, one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable in war, and vehement in robberies; and if any one were slow to murder people, yet was he bold in his profligate behavior, in acting unjustly, and doing injuries for gain.

This was speaking in tongues in Corinth by the women in the belief that what came out of their own spirit or mind was their old gods or goddesses prophesying through them. Paul said that they were speaking to god (generic) and therefore "just speaking into the air." The use of tongues throughout the Bible is a form of musical magic, is just soothsaying and is outlawed.

Glossolalie and its interpretation are mentionned in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 18:10) as part of pagan religious practices (deu 18:9). The words used in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament are:

- "mantevomenos" (manteuomenoV): "he who practices glossolalia" (unfortunately translated by "he who practices divination"in the French translation by Louis Segond);

- "mantian klidonizomenos" (manteian klhdonizomenoV): "he who interprets glossolalia (unfortunately translated by "he who looks for omens" by L.Segond)

It is noteworthy that in this verse (Deut. 18:10) glossolalia is listed along with practices such as divination and witchcraft (oiwnizomenoV et farmakoV) and is strictly prohibited.

oiwnizomenoV et fa rmakoV is oiwnizomeno et farmako and carries a similar meaning in the book of Revelation. The sorcerers was the: pha rmakeåus

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8

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And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Revelation 18:22

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Revelation 18:23

Pharmakeia (g5331) far-mak-i'-ah; from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extens.) magic (lit. or fig.): - sorcery, witchcraft.

The female or bisexual Lucifer is represented by the agents of the king (queen) of Babylon and the king of Tyre. Tyre is especially condemned for seducing her commercial partners and music represents all of this power of seduction. We have the story of Wen Amun the Egyptian merchant being seduced in an "eat, drink and be merry" musical performance while Lucifer's agent plotted the thief of what he had just bought and the murder of Wen Amun. Tyre also sold Israelites into slavery. The king of Babylon enslaved Judah and tried to force them to fall down in front of "her" huge phallic pillar during the playing of music.

-Apollodorus

[1.9.7] Salmoneus at first dwelt in Thessaly, but afterwards he came to Elis and there founded a city. And being arrogant and wishful to put himself on an equality with Zeus, he was punished for his impiety; for he said that he was himself Zeus, and

he took away the sacrifices of the god and

        ordered them to be offered to himself;

and by dragging dried hides, with bronze kettles, at his chariot,

        he said that he thundered,

and by flinging lighted torches at the sky

        he said that he lightened.

But Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt, and wiped out the city he had founded with all its inhabitants.

Note: In the traditions concerning Salmoneus we may perhaps trace the reminiscence of a line of kings who personated the Skygod Zeus and attempted to make rain, thunder and lightning by means of imitative magic. See The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i.310, ii.177, 180ff. Sophocles composed a Satyric play on the subject (The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp. 177ff. ). 19) Pseudo-Apollodorus Library 1.9.7 (Loeb

(Salmōneus), a son of Aeolus by Enarete, and a brother of Sisyphus. (Apollod. 1.7.3; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 4.252.) He was first married to Alcidice and afterwards to Sidero; by the former wife he was the father of Tyro. (Hom. Od. 11.235; Apollod. 1.9.8 ; Diod. 4.68.) He originally lived in Thessaly, but emigrated to Elis, where he built the town of Salmone. (Strab. viii. p.356.) He there went so far in his presumption and arrogance, that he deemed himself equal to Zeus, and ordered sacrifices to be offered to himself; nay, he even imitated the thunder and lightning of Zeus, but the father of the gods killed the presumptuous man with his thunderbolt, destroyed his town, and punished him in the lower world. (Apollod. 1.9.7; Lucian, Tim. 2; Verg. A. 6.585, &c. ; Hyg. Fab. 60, 61, 250; Claudian, in Rufin. 514.)

Verg. A. 6.585ff. This is the Greek version of Lucifer cast as profane out of heaven and as the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden.

In Revelation the people are on Mount Zion, perhaps the church as New Jerusalem. They hear sounds from heaven or "in the air." When you hear these IMITATED sounds they are all which create fear or anxiety.

And I heard a voice from heaven
..........like the sound of many waters and
..........like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was
..........like the sound of harpers playing on their harps Revelation 14:2RSV

Keladeo sound as flowing water 2. of persons, shout aloud, atar keladēsan Akhaioi, in applause. keladeonti amphi Kinuran phamai” Pi.P.2.15: c. acc. cogn., “k. humnous” lSound of the grasshopper, ring bells, of the flute, sing of, celebrate loudly.

Rev. 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
        having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
        and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Rev. 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him;
        for the hour of his judgment is come:
        and worship him that MADE heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Rev. 14:8 And there followed another angel,
        saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
        because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

In Revelation 17 John warned about the Babylon mother of harlots: in Revelation 18 she uses lusted after "fruits" as speakers, singers and instrument players. John called them sorcerers and consigns them to the lake of fire.

-Apollodorus, Library [3.5.2] Having traversed Thrace and the whole of India and set up pillars there,1 he came to Thebes, and forced the women to abandon their houses and rave in Bacchic frenzy on Cithaeron.
But Pentheus, whom Agave bore to Echion, had succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom, and he attempted to put a stop to these proceedings. And coming to Cithaeron to spy on the Bacchanals,

he was torn limb from limb by his Mother Agave in a fit of madness; for she thought he was a wild beast.

And having shown the Thebans that he was a god, Dionysus came to Argos, and there again,

because they did not honor him,
he drove the women mad,
and they on the mountains devoured the flesh of the infants whom they carried at their breasts.

-[3.5.3] And wishing to be ferried across from Icaria to Naxos he hired a pirate ship of Tyrrhenians. But when they had put him on board, they sailed past Naxos and made for Asia, intending to sell him.

Howbeit, he turned the mast and oars into snakes,
and filled the vessel with ivy and the sound of flutes.
And the pirates went mad, and leaped into the sea, and were turned into dolphins.

Thus men perceived that he was a god and honored him; and

having brought up his Mother from Hades
and named her Thyone (Semele), he ascended up with her to heaven.

At Mount Sinai Israel rejected God's Covenant of Grace and turned back to the worship of Osiris of Egypt. "Sending across the sea" was to bring a "god" back from the dead to give them a message. This was a total repudiation of Yahweh. Paul warned the Corinthians (10:20) and the Romans about this pagan ritual always conducted with music:

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. Romans 10:5

But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Romans 10:6

Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Romans 10:7

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; Romans 10:8

Paul, of course was speaking of Mount Sinai where they rose up to play in musical idolatry. God turned them over to worship the starry host. This was the worship of Chiun (Saturn = 666) and Lucifer who was the musical enchanter (Nachash) in the garden of Eden. Isaiah 14 describes him as trying to USURP the rule of God:

All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you. Is.14:11

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Is.14:12

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: Is.14:13

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Is.14:14

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Is.14:15

-Apollod. 3.5.3 "Dionysus is said to have gone down to hell to fetch up his Mother Semele at Lerna, where he plunged into the Alcyonian Lake, a pool which was supposed to be bottomless and therefore to afford an easy access to the nether world.

Never having been in hell before, Dionysus did not know how to go there, and he was reduced to the necessity of asking the way. A certain Prosymnus pointed it out to the deity on condition of receiving a certain reward.

When Dionysus returned from the lower world, he found that his guide had died in the meantime; but he punctually paid the promised reward to the dead man at his grave with the help of a branch of fig wood, which he whittled into an appropriate shape.

This story was told to explain the similar implements which figured prominently in the processions of Dionysus

Every year the descent of the god through the deep water was celebrated with nocturnal rites on the reedy margin of the pool. The pious Pausanias shrank from divulging the nature of the rites; but from Plutarch we learn that a lamb was thrown into the lake

as an offering to the warder of hell,
while on trumpets hidden in the god's leafy emblems the buglers blew blasts which,

startling the stillness and darkness of night, were believed to summon up the lost Dionysus from the watery depths.

Perhaps in answer to this bugle call

an actor, dressed in the vine-god's garb, may have emerged dripping from the pool to
receive the congratulations of the worshippers on his rising from the dead.

-[3.13.8] When Achilles was nine years old, Calchas declared that Troy could not be taken without him; so Thetis, foreseeing that it was fated he should perish if he went to the war, disguised him in female garb and entrusted him as a maiden to Lycomedes. his court, Achilles had an intrigue with Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes, and a son Pyrrhus was born to him, who was afterwards called Neoptolemus.

But the secret of Achilles was betrayed, and Ulysses, seeking him at the court of Lycomedes,
discovered him by the blast of a trumpet. (Note 2)
And in that way Achilles went to Troy. He was accompanied by Phoenix, son of Amyntor. This Phoenix had been blinded by his father on the strength of a false accusation of seduction preferred against him by his father's concubine Phthia. But Peleus brought him to Chiron, who restored his sight, and thereupon Peleus made him king of the Dolopians.

Note 2:. The usual story was that the crafty Ulysses spread out baskets and women's gear, mingled with arms, before the disguised Achilles and his girlish companions in Scyros; and that while the real girls pounced eagerly on the feminine gauds, Achilles betrayed his sex by snatching at the arms. See Philostratus Junior, Im. i; Scholiast on Hom. Il. xix.326; Ov. Met. 13.162ff. Apollodorus tells us that Achilles was detected by the sound of a trumpet. This is explained by Hyginus, Fab. 96, who says that while Achilles was surveying the mingled trumpery and weapons, Ulysses caused a bugle to sound and a clash of arms to be heard, whereupon Achilles, imagining that an enemy was at hand, tore off his maidenly attire and seized spear and shield. Statius gives a similar account of the detection (Statius, Achill. ii.167ff.).

-Aristotle Poetics 1456a he gods, of the gods,

Musical performance was always a competition and sometimes deadly. The applause was not so much to honor the victor as to mock or ridicule the looser and the Jewish clergy mocked Jesus "piping to make Him dance." Modern spectacles usually dominate over the paying "audience" and because the music is self-composed it is a triumph over God Himself.

The fourth element is spectacle, like the Phorcides and Prometheus, and all scenes laid in Hades. One should ideally try to include all these elements or, failing that, the most important and as many as possible, especially since it is the modern fashion to carp at poets,

and, because there have been good poets in each style,
to demand that a single author should surpass the peculiar merits of each.

Note: The text is obscure, and our ignorance of the play or rhapsody adds to the darkness, but the reference may be to the ruse, common in detective stories,

of misleading the audience by false clues in order to make the final revelation more effective.

-Arnobius of the gods, of the gods, of the gods,

As music can be an attempt to win out over God it can also be an insult. For instance, modern Musical Worship Facilitators and worship teams claime to "lead the worshipers into the presence of God." Some claim to be "the platform upon which God lands." In all it is an attempt to "connect" with God Whom they arrogantly believe is "far off beyond the seas" and needs to be called into their temples:

"Are the gods moved by garlands also, wreaths and flowers, by the jingling of brass also, and the shaking of cymbals, by timbrels also, and also by symphonious pipes? What effect has the clattering of castanets,

that when the deities have heard them, they think that honor has been shown to them and lay aside their fiery spirit of resentment in forgetfulness?
Or, as little boys are frightened by giving over their silly wailings by hearing the sound of rattles,
are the almighty deities also soothed in the same way by the whistling of pipes?
And do they become mild, is their indignation softened at the musical sound of cymbals?

'What is the meaning of those calls which you sing in the morning, joining your voice to the music of the pipe.

Do the gods of heaven fall asleep, so that they should return to their posts?

What is the meaning of those slumbers to which you commend them with auspicious salutations that they may be in good health?

Are they awakened from sleep; and that they may be able to overcome by it, must soothing lullabies be heard?" (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene Fathers, VI, p. 531).

"You are persuaded that, by the crash of cymbals and the sound of pipes, by horse-races and theatrical plays,

the gods are both delighted and affected and
that their resentful feelings conceived before are mollified by these... we judge it incredible that...
they should be pleased and delighted with those things which a wise man laughs at, and which do not seem to have any charm except to little children." (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene Fathers, VI, p. 533).

Augustine helps clarify Paul's message to the Greek World:

"Again, if you prefer to test the presence of God by the agreeable effects on the hearingid. ib. 9, 618: “tibia non ut nunc orichalco vincta tubaeque Aemula, sed tenuis simplexque,” Hor. A. P. 202: “Phrygio curva sono,” Tib. 2, 1, 86: “sub cantu querulae tibiae,” Hor. C. 3, 7, 30: “acris,” id. ib. 1, 12, 1: “You yield to her or she emasculates you - or both!

Catullus - Poem 63

Carried in a fast ship over profound seas
Attis, eager and hurried, reached the Phrygian grove,
The goddess's dark places, crowned with woodland.
And there, exalted by amorous rage, his mind gone,
He cut off his testicles with a sharp flint.
While the ground was still spotted with fresh blood
Such as serves your initiates, Cybele, instead of a trumpet,
And shaking the hollow calf-hide with delicate fingers,
Quivering, she began to sing to the troop this:

Mother of God - Emasculating Music