Pharmaceutical Mass Sacrifice Ritual
pharmakós (Greek: φαρμακός) in Ancient Greek #religion was the RITUALISTIC #SACRIFICE OR EXILE OF A HUMAN SCAPEGOAT OR VICTIM.
"A slave, a cripple or a #criminal was chosen and expelled from the community at times of disaster (#famine, invasion or #plague) or at times of calendrical #crisis. It was believed that this would bring about purification.
On the first day of the Thargelia, a festival of Apollo at Athens, two men, the Pharmakoi, were led out as if to be #sacrificed as an expiation.
Walter Burkert and René Girard have written influential modern interpretations of the pharmakos rite.
Burkert shows that humans were sacrificed or expelled after being fed well, and, according to some sources, their ashes were scattered to the ocean. This was a purification #ritual, a form of societal catharsis."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmakos
according to Encyclopedia Britannica:
"Pharmākos, in Greek religion, a human scapegoat used in certain state rituals.
In Athens, for example, a man and a woman who were considered ugly were selected as scapegoats each year. At the festival of the Thargelia in May or June, they were feasted, led round the town, beaten with green twigs, and driven out or killed with stones. The practice in Colophon, on the coast of Asia Minor (the part of modern Turkey that lies in Asia) was described by the 6th-century-bc poet Hipponax (fragments 5–11).
An especially ugly man was honoured by the community with a feast of figs, barley soup, and cheese. Then he was whipped with fig branches, with care that he was hit seven times on his phallus, before being driven out of town. (Medieval sources said that the Colophonian pharmākos was burned and his ashes scattered in the sea.) The custom was meant to rid the place annually of ill luck.
The 5th-century Athenian practice of ostracism has been described as a rationalized and democratic form of the custom. The biblical practice of driving the scapegoat from the community, described in Leviticus 16, gave a name to this widespread custom, which was said by the French intellectual René Girard to explain the basis of all human societies." https://www.britannica.com/topic/pharmakos
What's interesting is that this the exact origin of what later became known as the Burning Man or Wicker Man ritual, beginning by lauding the village fool or idiot known as the King for the day or Lord of Misrule, in a ritual festival known as Feast of the Fools, which gives us the modern revival of this ancient sacrificial feast of EL where everyone indulges in the cultic use of pharmakeia, a plethora of drugs and psychedelics followed and culminating in the ritual holocaust offering of the wicker man... See my full Burning Man Holocaust presentation for so much more on that. https://www.patreon.com/posts/3240825
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