The people in power are continuing ancient religious/cult practices dating back to Biblical times, like worship of Baal, Moloch, and Remphan
And Inanna/Ishtar
Her cult continued to flourish until its gradual decline between the first and sixth centuries CE in the wake of Christianity.
Individuals who went against the traditional gender binary were heavily involved in the cult of Inanna.
During Sumerian times, a set of priests known as gala worked in Inanna's temples, where they performed elegies and lamentations.
Men who became gala sometimes adopted female names and their songs were composed in the Sumerian eme-sal dialect, which, in literary texts, is normally reserved for the speech of female characters. Some Sumerian proverbs seem to suggest that gala had a reputation for engaging in anal sex with men.
During the Akkadian Period, kurgarrū and assinnu were servants of Ishtar who dressed in female clothing and performed war dances in Ishtar's temples.
Several Akkadian proverbs seem to suggest that they may have also had homosexual proclivities.
In one Akkadian hymn, Ishtar is described as transforming men into women.
On related notes, if you don't mind the rambling, I've been finding a lot of interesting connections during my full watch through of the Kosmographia episodes on Randall Carlson's Youtube channel. He mostly talks about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, of comets impacting the North American ice sheets roughly 11-13 thousand years ago, causing catastrophic fires and floods. However, he also talks at length about various other connected subjects, like catastrophic wildfires possibly caused by comet gases, and how a lot of the stories and astronomical observations of ancient peoples were passed down through their religions. He mostly discusses Mithraism and the ancient origins of the Tarot cards, which is rather fascinating.
It's believed that the impacting comets originated from specific debris left by parent comets, left by gravitational stresses and getting too close to the sun, which cause particular meteor showers during specific times of the year, and appear to emanate from specific constellations in space. Sometimes the earth travels through denser and more dangerous parts of those comet debris trails, causing past catastrophes. As an example, this gives rise to the idea of fire breathing dragons, since there are Draconid meteor showers, which emanate from the mouth of the Draco constellation. Interestingly, the serpent mound in Ohio seems to have archeo-astronomical connotations in its orientation, which is discussed in Graham Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse.
Randall Carlson discusses these topics in Kosmographia episodes 57, 76, and 77, as well as the origination of Halloween here, if you're curious. I find them rather fascinating.
In any case, there are astronomical connections to Saturn and past catastrophes. The ancient Greek and Roman religions said that Saturn/Cronus ate his own children, which might explain the "elite" practice of ritual cannibalism. It appears as though the "elites" actually worship the planets/locations where past catastrophes took place, or emanated from, which killed untold number of people and animal species (the mega fauna were killed off by the Younger Dryas impacts). Kabbalistic Jews also prize the number 6, as it's the 6th planet of our solar system, and the day that humans were created in the Old Testament. This would help to explain the worship of Saturn, and the belief of their own mortal divinity, in contradiction to the edicts of God. Interestingly, there's also a hexagonal shaped storm on the poles of Saturn. It's weird/coincidental/prophetic, then, that the New Testament warns of the beast, with the number 666. This might be explained by the star of Remphan (the false star of David), which has a hexagon in the middle, 6 points, and 6 lines.
I don't have all the answers yet, but there's clearly connections here that bear examination.
And Inanna/Ishtar
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
On related notes, if you don't mind the rambling, I've been finding a lot of interesting connections during my full watch through of the Kosmographia episodes on Randall Carlson's Youtube channel. He mostly talks about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, of comets impacting the North American ice sheets roughly 11-13 thousand years ago, causing catastrophic fires and floods. However, he also talks at length about various other connected subjects, like catastrophic wildfires possibly caused by comet gases, and how a lot of the stories and astronomical observations of ancient peoples were passed down through their religions. He mostly discusses Mithraism and the ancient origins of the Tarot cards, which is rather fascinating.
It's believed that the impacting comets originated from specific debris left by parent comets, left by gravitational stresses and getting too close to the sun, which cause particular meteor showers during specific times of the year, and appear to emanate from specific constellations in space. Sometimes the earth travels through denser and more dangerous parts of those comet debris trails, causing past catastrophes. As an example, this gives rise to the idea of fire breathing dragons, since there are Draconid meteor showers, which emanate from the mouth of the Draco constellation. Interestingly, the serpent mound in Ohio seems to have archeo-astronomical connotations in its orientation, which is discussed in Graham Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse.
Randall Carlson discusses these topics in Kosmographia episodes 57, 76, and 77, as well as the origination of Halloween here, if you're curious. I find them rather fascinating.
In any case, there are astronomical connections to Saturn and past catastrophes. The ancient Greek and Roman religions said that Saturn/Cronus ate his own children, which might explain the "elite" practice of ritual cannibalism. It appears as though the "elites" actually worship the planets/locations where past catastrophes took place, or emanated from, which killed untold number of people and animal species (the mega fauna were killed off by the Younger Dryas impacts). Kabbalistic Jews also prize the number 6, as it's the 6th planet of our solar system, and the day that humans were created in the Old Testament. This would help to explain the worship of Saturn, and the belief of their own mortal divinity, in contradiction to the edicts of God. Interestingly, there's also a hexagonal shaped storm on the poles of Saturn. It's weird/coincidental/prophetic, then, that the New Testament warns of the beast, with the number 666. This might be explained by the star of Remphan (the false star of David), which has a hexagon in the middle, 6 points, and 6 lines.
I don't have all the answers yet, but there's clearly connections here that bear examination.