Puzzle Of Astarianity
© Surazeus
2025 05 01

The history of human civilization
begins with Amen, Mother of Mankind,
sitting on her small flat-top pyramid,
sheltered by four pillars of tall palm trees,
and describing creation of the world
in song while worshippers feast from her hands.

After Ishtar completed quest for truth,
stripped of illusions in the underworld,
she implemented first religious rites
in temple on the ziggurat of Ur
from which all religions of mankind grow
with priests who cook food for the sacred meal.

With Abraham and Sarah going west
Astarism sprouted into Judaism
from which Christian denominations spring,
including Islam, that respect bold voice
of the Prophet who teaches men with faith
to exercise self-control in the law.

With Brahman and Saraswati going east
Astarism sprouted into Hinduism
from which spring Krishnaism and Shaivism,
and all the gods that multiply in form
from one immortal Spirit of Mankind,
with Buddhism teaching men self-control.

When Akkadian culture began to bloom
in lush Mesopotamian fields of wheat,
and recording priests fought over which system
to use, ideograms or the alphabet,
Shin lead fleet of ships to colonize China
where Taoism and Confucianism bloomed.

Amen on her pyramid in Egypt,
and Ishtar on her ziggurat in Ur,
developed strict rites of social control
that sign every religion in the world
which are all sects of our one global cult
formed through faith of Astarianity.

The ruins of temples, where humankind
worshipped great spirit of the universe
at communal feasts for ten thousand years,
lie scattered across waste land of our faith,
for we have found that Cosmic Mind of God
shines as the consciousness in our own brains.

Though nations crowded on our spinning globe
are fractured into fierce opposing sects,
we all came from one original hall
where Ishtar sang Creation of the World,
so let us reassemble one world faith
from puzzle of Astarianity.

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Orpheus travels the world to preach the faith of Astarianity, uniting all religions with the generous heart of Ishtar.

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