When the single sexed males first began to appear, they must have been considered aberrations and were castrated (turned into females). This could tie in with the myths of dying and rising gods like Osiris and their regeneration back into androgynous beings.
As more and more single sexed males began to appear, they would have formed a group apart. I wonder if this is really the root of the myth about Cain. As a group apart they would have become the “artificers of metals, the builders, inventors of technology and developers of all the “forbidden sciences” taught to them by the Watchers.
Perhaps this is how patriarchy began. They developed tools and weapons. As they became a larger more cohesive group, they may have staged a rebellion and overthrown the matriarchy.
The Master of Speech
http://themasterofspeech.com/nommo.html
ATTIS AND CYBELENot only did the killifish have the ability to live both in and out of water, like the Nummo, but they were also self-fertilizing like the Nummo, having both male and female reproductive organs. The Nummo were not only amphibians but also self-generating and androgynous. They were able to fertilize themselves, being dual and bisexual."
When talking about the killifish's sexual behaviour, Calamai reported, "While self-fertilization may seem like a survival advantage avoiding all that energy spent on seeking mates and courtship, it should be an evolutionary death sentence." He quoted Noakes, who said, "They should become completely inbred and very vulnerable." Instead of disappearing from the Earth, however, killifish appear to be strong survivors. The reason for this is said to be their unusual sexual behaviour.
Recent research has shown that 85 per cent of killifish develop ovaries about a month after birth. Then within another month they also develop testes. And for the next two to three years of their average lifespan, most remain typical killifish, reproducing through self-fertilization.
But that other 15 per cent develop only testes right at the start. And another 5 to 10 per cent of the bisexual killifish switch back to being only male. These primary and secondary males are more brightly coloured than the duller and dominant bisexual version.
The researchers predicted there would be typical courtship behaviour between the males and early stage females. "But Noakes and Richard Green, a mathematician from the University of Minnesota, calculated that killifish needed to reproduce by this old-fashioned method only one per cent of the time in order to maintain a protective level of genetic diversity in the species.
Ogotemmêli described the first biological experiment, which involved a union between the Nummo and Mother Earth, as resulting in the birth of two types of human/Nummo hybrids. One offspring was born "normal" like the Nummo, meaning it was an androgynous or a "twin" Nummo. The other offspring, however, was defective; it was a single-sexed male known as "the jackal."
In this first attempt at biological engineering, the androgynous aspect of the Nummo did not carry through to both of the offspring. The male was born completely severed from the Nummos' world and tied to Earth.
According to Orphic religion, the god Dionysus was killed and dismembered. He, like Persephone, receded into the dark depths of the earth and remained there as a seed. Women saved the seed or phallus, laid it in a winnowing fan, and performed the reawakening ritual of the god." Each god needed the other, for they represented the complementary aspects of darkness and light. This reunification brought bliss to the Earth.
Lébé's birth signified the "third word," which was perceived as the hope for humanity. Lébé was androgynous and all research seems to indicate that Dionysus may have also been androgynous.
But he was not properly equipped for his office until he had sustained Jacob's injury which would prevent him from ever again putting his sacred heel on the ground, even by mistake.... Originally the king died violently as soon as he had coupled with the queen; as the drone dies after coupling with the queen-bee. Later, emasculation and laming were substituted for death; later still, circumcision was substituted for emasculation and the wearing of buskins for laming.
In the Dogon religion, Lébé was an indirect regeneration of the Jackal, so essentially the Jackal dies when Lébé is created. Lébé, like the other ancestors, was androgynous, but five generations after her/him, humans became single-sexed and mortal beings. The loss of androgyny (and hence immortality) was represented in the Dogon religion through the ritual of circumcision.
http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms ... cybele.htm
Circumcision now, Castration thenThe worship of Attis in association with that of the Great Mother of All Things, Cybele, came from Phrygia in Asia Minor. Attis accompanied Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, who was brought to Rome from Phrygia in 204 B.C.E. Phrygia is an area that is often called "Thrace," a region of SE Europe comprising NE Greece, S Bulgaria, and European Turkey, bordered by the Black Sea in the northeast, and the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea in the south. Attis and Cybele were established in a temple on the Vatican hill, where they remained for six centuries.
Attis was a son of the Goddess' earthly incarnation, the virgin Nana, who miraculously conceived him by eating an almond or a pomegranate, yonic symbols both. Thus Attis was a typical "god without a father," the Virgin's son. He grew up to become a sacrificial victim and Savior, slain to bring salvation to mankind. His body was eaten by his worshippers in the form of bread [the Eucharist of Attis]. He was resurrected as "The Most High God, who holds the universe together." Like his priests he was castrated, then crucified on a pine tree, where his blood poured down to redeem the earth. (Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, p. 77).
Cybele was worshipped for over 500 years. She was the Mater Deum Magna—Great Mother of the Gods, and of men, animals and plants. She was a mother of nature and a Mountain Mother—her shrines were often on mountains and in caves. She was identified with several other mother goddesses including Demeter and Gaia. She was, in her loving and comforting aspect, the equivalent of Isis, Hera, Juno and the Christians' Mary. But she also had a destructive aspect in which she signified the unknown, the unconscious and mysterious, the magical and intuitive qualities women in particular are considered to have. She is then Astarte, Luna, Hecate, Kali. Cybele was represented by a black meteorite set in the face of a silver statue.
Worship of Cybele arose in the prehistoric Phrygian Empire. The main centre of the cult came to be Pessinus in Galatia. In 204 BC the Sibylline Oracle prophesied that enemies of Rome would be defeated if the Great Mother were taken from Pessinus to Rome. The cult and her symbol, the small black meteorite, were duly moved to Rome and established in 191 BC on the Palatine Hill in the heart of the city. Later the cult incorporated that of Attis who probably never had any following independent of her. The High Priest or Archigallus of Cybele was identified with Attis.
Her priests, the Galli, were eunuchs with hair perfumed and dressed with oils. Priests, priestesses, acolytes and initiates celebrated her rites with fast music and wild dancing until in a frenzy the participants exhausted and finally mutilated themselves by castration becoming candidates for the priesthood. Even the phlegmatic Romans were shocked at first by these rites and at first Roman citizens were banned from participating in them. The ban was not lifted until the beginning of the Empire but then Attis and Cybele worship became one of the three main religions along with those of Isis and Mithras. It made its last appearance under the pagan revival of Eugenius in AD 394.
There are associated with the Attis myth horrific rites as will quickly come to learn. Attis was a handsome Phrygian shepherd, the "Good Shepherd", the son of Cybele. Cybele loved her son intensely but Attis fell in love with a nymph and jealousy overcame the mother. In a rage she cast a spell of madness on Attis and he castrated himself at the foot of a pine tree. As his life blood dripped to the earth violets sprang up. Thus it was that death and sadness entered the world. Cybele, full of remorse took the body to a cave and wept. She first buried Attis at Pessinus but then used her power to restore him to life and they were reunited, thus bringing nature back to life and hope and salvation into the world. She founded the cult making Attis the priest and the pine tree sacred (remember the significance of trees from the other gods?).
http://www.circumstitions.com/Castrati.html
Like circumcision, castration was practised from ancient times. It was probably first performed on enemy captives to prevent them reproducing. It was then used as a punishment for sexual crimes, and as an extreme form of austerity for priestly castes. Persians, Indians, Chinese and Arabs have used it. In China and India it has served as a crude kind of sex-reassignment surgery. The hijra of India are commonly called "eunuchs" though many may be born intersexed. It is still practised today among certain Ethiopian ethnic groups.
Certain pagan cults adopted castration, especially the cult of Cybele which required emasculation for its priests. From the start of the Christian era the Church severely condemned it, and openly attacked figures such as Leonce of Antioch and Origen who had chosen to castrate themselves.