Never Mind The Baalocks

Margaret Atwood famously said, "Women are afraid men will kill them. Men are afraid women will laugh at them." Grab your Tena pads ladies, this one's a doozy!

One of the first things that jumped out for me in the Epstein files was his bank account called 'Baal'. A few days later a statue of Baal, half-man half-bull adorned with stars of David was burned on the streets of Tehran. And we've all heard the stories of cannibalism, torture and child sacrifice on the island and ranch.

So who is this devil worshipped by the world's elites? To use island-hopper Deepak Chopra's own words — he's a construct. You probably know him best as Freddie Mercury's dad - Beelzebub. But a lord of the devil only came about in the Middle Ages, like most of the religious horror stories.

To understand what Baal really represents, we need to go back to the beginning.

And in the beginning there was Asherah. The supreme goddess of the Canaanites, The Queen of Heaven, Tree of Life, and Creatrix of the Gods, married to El the sky father. Together they had seventy children. Baal was one of them. Just one of seventy.

So how did he end up becoming a demon so powerful he can destroy nations? His whole existence was imagined to defeat the scariest thing imaginable to psychopaths. Wise women.

For millennia, women held the power. High priestesses in temples and sacred groves assessed kings through sacred marriage ceremonies. She interviewed him. Tested him. Watched how he treated servants, how he spoke to women, how he handled setbacks. Was he cruel? Arrogant? Would he rule justly or tyrannically?

If she found him wanting, she rejected him. Publicly. "The goddess does not accept you." No divine mandate. No legitimacy. No kingship. A man could conquer a city with bronze weapons. But he couldn't be king until a woman said he had the character for it.

Then around 1750 BCE, everything changed. King Hammurabi built the first successful empire — with bronze weapons of mass destruction and a new narrative: he claimed the sun god Shamash gave him kingship directly. No priestess intermediary. No character assessment. No woman who could say "no."

Conquest became legitimacy. Violence became divine right. Character became irrelevant. Empire came with bronze weapons and stolen authority.

Around the same time, Abram walked out of Ur and started talking to El — the local Canaanite sky god, Asherah's husband. El was old, ceremonial, the father of the gods. And it was El who promised the land to Abram.

Some people take this as gospel, but remember, every divine story you know was written by men. It would be a very different story if ancient Canaan hadn't traded balance for patriarchy. If women's strength had been celebrated instead of stolen and we all had autonomy over our own body. Because every time a woman had sex, she faced death. From 1 in 8 to 1 in 20 died in childbirth. The entire Bible mentions this leading cause of death exactly once: Rachel dying giving birth to Benoni — "son of my sorrow."

One mention. In thousands of pages. The holy books of patriarchy recorded every battle, every king's reign, every genealogy — but virtually silent on the leading cause of death for women of childbearing age. Because acknowledging women face death every time they conceive means acknowledging they need knowledge.

And who held that knowledge? The priestesses in the temples and sacred groves.

Menarche ceremonies. Midwifery training — how to turn a breech baby, stop hemorrhaging, save a mother when the baby's already dead. Birth attendance by experienced women. Postpartum care. Life-and-death information controlled by women. Which meant women could choose whether to risk death for a particular man, a particular pregnancy. Women controlled fertility, lineage, inheritance. The future itself.

But here's what they don't tell you about that "seed of Abraham" — the patriarchal line they use to justify divine right to land, to power, to dominance. It was built by women. Managed by women. Controlled by women.

Abraham, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob — they lived around 1800-1700 BCE, still during the El and Asherah period.

Rebecca heard Isaac planning to bless Esau, the firstborn. She decided: No. Jacob gets the blessing. She schemed, deceived, put goatskins on Jacob's smooth arms so blind Isaac would think he was hairy Esau. Jacob got the blessing, the birthright, the entire covenant. Then Rebecca sent Jacob to HER family. To her brother Laban's house. This is matrilocal marriage — the man goes to the woman's family.

Jacob worked fourteen years for his mother's brother to earn the right to marry his mother's brother's daughters — Leah and Rachel. His maternal first cousins.

The thirteen tribes of Israel — including Dinah — come from this matrilineal connection. From Rebecca's nieces. And what did Leah and Rachel do? They managed everything. Traded mandrakes for nights with Jacob. Gave him their handmaids when they couldn't conceive. They controlled reproduction, determined which sons got born, shaped the entire future of Israel.

Then the story changed. Between 1500-1200 BCE — centuries after Abraham — the young warrior storm god Baal rose to prominence. He claimed Asherah as his own consort. Not his mother anymore — his sexual partner. From mother goddess to sexual property.

Baal became the son who displaced the father. El remained nominal head, but by the 9th century BCE, Baal was the god people actually worshipped — the storm god, the fertility god. And under Baal, women shifted from co-rulers to property.

The stories of men empowered and demonised the god in charge of rain. Nevertheless the goddess persisted. Hebrew women kept returning to Asherah's sacred groves, weaving sacred textiles for her in the Jerusalem temple itself. In 622 BCE, King Josiah threw the weaver-priestesses out. These weren't temple prostitutes, as male biblical scholars claimed — they were the last ritual specialists who could validate or reject kings.

The Biblical texts? Mostly written 8th-6th centuries BCE — AFTER Baal had overshadowed El, AFTER the priestesses were expelled, AFTER women lost their power. The monsters arrived when the divine feminine was driven underground.

With only male stories and male gods, fiction became fact. Archeologists have proved that child sacrifice did happen — the tophet at Carthage (modern day Tunisia) contains 20,000 urns with cremated infant remains sacrificed to Baal Hammon. The Carthaginians were sold a story that when the lord FAILED to protect his people, he demanded blood tribute. The father devouring his children.

But biblical propaganda conflated ALL Canaanite worship with child sacrifice, which justified genocide. Meanwhile, their infant burial grounds? Stillbirths. Miscarriages. Babies who died in childbirth. Women buried them where midwives attended births. But patriarchal archaeology assumed: sacrifice. So: "They're sacrificing babies to Baal." Burn the groves. Expel the priestesses. Eliminate the knowledge. Make ALL of them monsters.

But who are the monsters today? We've been watching man's inhumanity to man in the 'Holy Land' for too long. The leader of this atrocity keeps invoking "Remember Amalek" — the biblical command to completely annihilate an entire people. Men, women, children, livestock. The story goes: they worshipped Baal, their bloodlines carried contamination, total destruction was the only answer. Turn a whole people into irredeemable evil, and suddenly any atrocity becomes righteous. It worked for the men who wrote those stories. It's working now.

We're on the verge of WWIII and it's the same story on all sides. The Iranian regime treats women exactly how Baal did (as property, not partners), then burns Baal wrapped in Israeli flags as if he represents their enemy, when he actually represents their entire governing philosophy.

And then there's the evangelical christians who are waiting for the old testament messiah which makes Jesus redundant.

And then there's millions of pages of evidence tying the men who stole the world to Baal worship, torture, rape and sacrifice.

If it wasn't so tragic it would be fucking hilarious. We're watching the patriarchy strangling itself with a gaussian knot caused by 4,000 years of male supremacist propaganda.

And ghost stories so terrifying you'd have to be a psychopath to act upon them.

Jeffrey Epstein. His mentor Les Wexner, who built an empire selling women's underwear and handed Epstein his Manhattan townhouse, his private jet, power of attorney over his fortune. Wexner once said in an interview he'd been "possessed by a demon" — and when asked how Epstein got control of his billion-dollar empire claimed "I don't know how it happened."

Steve Bannon watching the Golden Globes, women in black declaring "Time's up," and suddenly shaking in his boots knowing he was witnessing the beginning of the end: "This is going to undo ten thousand years (sic) of recorded history." Deepak Chopra wrapping misogyny in spiritual platitudes. Prince Andrew — reported by palace staff to have tortured animals as a child. Classic psychopathy, progressing from animals to humans.

These aren't devil worshippers. They're damaged little boys who've convinced themselves that dominating women and children makes them gods. Victoria's Secret wasn't selling lingerie. It was selling the same lie Baal represented: that women exist as property, that female sexuality belongs to men, that women's bodies are commodities to be controlled, marketed, consumed.

But here's the thing about secret societies. The Freemasons, with their degrees and rituals and mysteries. The 33rd degree initiates who've climbed the entire ladder, learned all the secrets. You know what the ultimate secret is?

Isis.

After all those degrees, all those exclusively male lodges and rituals and hierarchies — the secret at the centre is female divine power. Isis, who resurrects Osiris. Isis, who births Horus. Isis, who holds the knowledge of life and death.

They built their whole fraternity to keep women out, and the cosmic joke is that the secret they're protecting is OURS. They stole her, renamed her, buried her in the 33rd degree where most members never reach, surrounded her with masculine ritual so they could pretend they'd tamed her.

The queen of heaven was never theirs.

Isis. Inanna. Asherah. Nammu. The Creatrix. Equal to the creator. Just like real life.

The weaver-priestesses were expelled in 622 BCE. The sacred groves were burned. The midwives were hanged as witches. Victoria's Secret sold us our own sexuality as a commodity. Epstein built his empire on our children. Baal became Beelzebub.

But at the top of their most exclusive secret society, in their highest degree, in the inner sanctum where only the most initiated men can go—

There she is.

Waiting.

Laughing.