And he desired her as he hated her,
For he had forgotten the Dance.
To his lust for power, Play was sacrificed.
Pan no longer cavorted.
Dionysus lost his good looks.
Divine ecstasy but a dim memory
until now-
Her terrible beauty
Evoking his disease.
Thus duality begot the demon
and mother goddess became the patriarch's whore.
For the old god's wrath was boundless.
By vengeance and cruelty was he known.
Snake was banished,
The forest vanished,
The woman ravished,
repeatedly.
The product of their union,
the multitudes of humans,
Poured out upon the land.
Children of discord,
They worshiped the solemn greyfaced lord
With sacrifices torn and bloody.
Estranged from the source of all creation
They established the all powerful nation
To dominate and subjugate the world.
Like a horde of locusts
They moved over us
until all was consumed.
Then they fell upon each other
Brother slaying sister slaying brother
screaming his name with dying breath to gain paradise.
While the earth beneath their lifeless corpse
Took nourishment without remorse.
Blood flowed into the cracked dry dirt making it thick mud.
Which the ever dancing goddess churned
Until sprout and leaf and seed returned,
and all was as it was before.
But for snake
Whose loss did make
A rend in the fabric of the Void.
While the anguished father-god
Collapsed upon the child stained sod.
Sad creature.
Consumed by jealous love's hate
Doomed all creation to his fate,
Forgetting who and what he was.
Then she who was the world's heart opened
To the god whose heart was broken.
And she spoke to him in tones deep and mellifluous:
"Come rest in me my lonely one,
dear father, brother, lover, son.
shed your sadness as you would old skin."
And in an act of shining Grace
did sky god and earth goddess embrace.
Time did stop and all was profoundly still.
And with the loss of sin
Yahweh did shed his hoary skin
to reveal his splendid iridescent scales.
And round the Lady Gaia wound
His sinuous , sleek form around
Holding her clear green-blueness gently in his wings.
So as was will ever be
the rhapsodic, erotic, cosmology
which beckons each of us with a knowing glance.
To take each other, heart in hand
joining with this sacred land,
we step lightly, grateful in the dance.