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Homeric Hymn to Demeter

[ Note : This Homeric Hymn , composed in approximately the seventh century BCE , served for centuries thereafter as the canonical hymn of the Eleusinian Mysteries .
The text below was translated from the Greek by Hugh G. Evelyn-White and first published by the Loeb Classical Library in 1914 .
This text has been scanned and proof-read by Edward A .
Beach , Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies , University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire . ]
I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter , awful goddess — of her and her trim-ankled daughter whom Aidoneus [ Hades ] rapt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zeus the loud-thunderer .
Apart from Demeter , lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits , she was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow , roses and crocuses and beautiful violets , irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the Host of Many , to be a snare for the bloom-like girl — a marvellous , radiant flower .
It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly , so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea ’ s salt swell laughed for joy .
And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy ; but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa , and the lord , Host of Many , with his immortal horses sprang out upon her — the Son of Cronos , He who has many names .
[ 1 ] He caught @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and bare her away lamenting .
Then she cried out shrilly with her voice , calling upon her father , the Son of Cronos , who is most high and excellent .
But no one , either of the deathless gods or of mortal men , heard her voice , nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit : only tenderhearted Hecate , bright-coiffed , the daughter of Persaeus , heard the girl from her cave , and the lord Helios , Hyperion ’ s bright son , as she cried to her father @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was sitting aloof , apart from the gods , in his temple where many pray , and receiving sweet offerings from mortal men .
So he , that Son of Cronos , of many names , who is Ruler of Many and Host of Many , was bearing her away by leave of Zeus on his immortal chariot — his own brother ’ s child and all unwilling .
[ Line 33 ] And so long as she , the goddess , yet beheld earth and starry heaven and the strong-flowing sea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the sun , and still hoped to see her dear mother and the tribes of the eternal gods , so long hope calmed her great heart for all her trouble .
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and the heights of the mountains and the depths of the sea rang with her immortal voice : and her queenly mother heard her .
Bitter pain seized her heart , and she rent the covering upon her divine hair with her dear hands : her dark cloak she cast down from both her shoulders and sped , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land and yielding sea , seeking her child .
But no one would tell her the truth , neither god nor mortal man ; and of the birds of omen none came with true news for her .
Then for nine days queenly Deo wandered over the earth with flaming torches in her hands , so grieved that she never tasted ambrosia and the sweet draught of nectar , nor sprinkled her body with water .
But when the tenth enlightening dawn had come , Hecate , with a torch in her hands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her and told her news : “ Queenly Demeter , bringer of seasons and giver of good gifts , what god of heaven or what mortal man has rapt away Persephone and pierced with sorrow your dear heart ?
For I heard her voice , yet saw not with my eyes who it was .
But I tell you truly and shortly all I know.
” [ Line 59 ] So , then , said Hecate .
And the daughter of rich-haired Rhea answered her not , but sped swiftly with her , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So they came to Helios , who is watchman of both gods and men , and stood in front of his horses : and the bright goddess enquired of him : “ Helios , do you at least regard me , goddess as I am , if ever by word or deed of mine I have cheered your heart and spirit .
Through the fruitless air I heard the thrilling cry of my daughter whom I bare , sweet scion of my body and lovely in form , as of one seized violently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing .
But you — for with your beams you look down from the bright upper air over all the earth and sea — tell me truly of my dear child if you have seen her anywhere , what god or mortal man has violently seized her against her will and mine , and so made off.
” So said she .
And the Son of Hyperion answered her : “ Queen Demeter , daughter of rich-haired Rhea , I will tell you the truth ; for I greatly reverence and pity you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
None other of the deathless gods is to blame , but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades , her father ’ s brother , to be called his buxom wife .
And Hades seized her and took her loudly crying in his chariot down to his realm of mist and gloom .
Yet , goddess , cease your loud lament and keep not vain anger unrelentingly : Aidoneus , the Ruler of Many , is no unfitting husband among the deathless gods for your child , being our own brother @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also , for honour , he has that third share which he received when division was made at the first and is appointed lord of those among whom he dwells.
” So he spake , and called to his horses : and at his chiding they quickly whirled the swift chariot along , like long-winged birds .
[ Line 90 ] But grief yet more terrible and savage came into the heart of Demeter , and thereafter she was so angered with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos that she avoided the gathering of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went to the towns and rich fields of men , disfiguring her form a long while .
And no one of men or deep-bosomed women knew her when they saw her , until she came to the house of wise Celeus who then was lord of fragrant Eleusis .
Vexed in her dear heart , she sat near the wayside by the Maiden Well , from which the women of the place were used to draw water , in a shady place over which grew an olive shrub .
And she was like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from childbearing and the gifts of garland-loving Aphrodite , like the nurses of king ’ s children who deal justice , or like the house-keepers in their echoing halls .
There the daughters of Celeus , son of Eleusis , saw her , as they coming for easy-drawn water , to carry it in pitchers of bronze to their dear father ’ s house : four were they and like goddesses in the flower of their girlhood , Callidice and Cleisidice and lovely Demo and Callithoe who was the eldest of them all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the gods are not easily discerned by mortals – , but startling near by her spoke winged words : “ Old mother , whence are you of folk born long ago ?
Why are you gone away from the city and do not draw near the houses ?
For there in the shady halls are women of just such age as you , and others younger ; and they would welcome you both by word and by deed.
” [ Line 118 ] Thus they said .
And she , that queen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hail , dear children , whosoever you are of woman-kind .
I will tell you my story ; for it is not unseemly that I should tell you truly what you ask .
Doso is my name , for my stately mother gave it me .
And now I am come from Crete over the sea ’ s wide back , — not willingly ; but pirates brought me thence by force of strength against my liking .
Afterwards they put in with their swift craft to Thoricus , and these the women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the men likewise , and they began to make ready a meal by the stern-cables of the ship .
But my heart craved not pleasant food , and I fled secretly across the dark country and escaped my masters , that they should not take me unpurchased across the sea , there to win a price for me .
And so I wandered and am come here : and I know not at all what land this is or what people are in it .
But may all those who dwell on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children as parents desire , so you take pity on me , maidens , and show me this clearly that I may learn , dear children , to the house of what man and woman I may go , to work for them cheerfully at such tasks as belong to a woman of my age .
Well could I nurse a new born child , holding him in my arms , or keep house , or spread my masters ’ bed in a recess of the well-built chamber , or teach the women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And straightway the unwed maiden Callidice , goodliest in form of the daughters of Celeus , answered her and said : [ Line 147 ] “ Mother , what the gods send us , we mortals bear perforce , although we suffer ; for they are much stronger than we .
But now I will teach you clearly , telling you the names of men who have great power and honour here and are chief among the people , guarding our city ’ s coif of towers by their wisdom and true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dioclus and Polyxeinus and blameless Eumolpus and Dolichus and our own brave father .
All these have wives who manage in the house , and no one of them , so soon as she had seen you , would dishonour you and turn you from the house , but they will welcome you ; for indeed you are godlike .
But if you will , stay here ; and we will go to our father ’ s house and tell Metaneira , our deep-bosomed mother , all this matter fully , that she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home than search after the houses of others .
She has an only son , late-born , who is being nursed in our well-built house , a child of many prayers and welcome : if you could bring him up until he reached the full measure of youth , any one of womankind who should see you would straightway envy you , such gifts would our mother give for his upbringing.
” So she spake : and the goddess bowed her head in assent .
And they filled their shining vessels with water @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they came to their father ’ s great house and straightway told their mother according as they had heard and seen .
Then she bade them go with all speed and invite the stranger to come for a measureless hire .
As hinds or heifers in spring time , when sated with pasture , bound about a meadow , so they , holding up the folds of their lovely garments , darted down the hollow path , and their hair like a crocus flower streamed about their shoulders .
And they found the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had left her before , and led her to the house of their dear father .
And she walked behind , distressed in her dear heart , with her head veiled and wearing a dark cloak which waved about the slender feet of the goddess .
[ Line 184 ] Soon they came to the house of heaven-nurtured Celeus and went through the portico to where their queenly mother sat by a pillar of the close-fitted roof , holding her son , a tender scion , in her bosom .
And the girls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walked to the threshold : and her head reached the roof and she filled the doorway with a heavenly radiance .
Then awe and reverence and pale fear took hold of Metaneira , and she rose up from her couch before Demeter , and bade her be seated .
But Demeter , bringer of seasons and giver of perfect gifts , would not sit upon the bright couch , but stayed silent with lovely eyes cast down until careful Iambe placed a jointed seat for her and threw over it a silvery fleece @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her veil in her hands before her face .
A long time she sat upon the stool [ 2 ] without speaking because of her sorrow , and greeted no one by word or by sign , but rested , never smiling , and tasting neither food nor drinks because she pined with longing for her deep-bosomed daughter , until careful Iambe — who pleased her moods in aftertime also — moved the holy lady with many a quip and jest to smile and laugh and cheer her heart .
Then Metaneira filled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it to her ; but she refused it , for she said it was not lawful for her to drink red wine , but bade them mix meal and water with soft mint and give her to drink .
And Metaneira mixed the draught and gave it to the goddess as she bade .
So the great queen Deo received it to observe the sacrament .
[ 3 ] [ Line 212 ] And of them all , well-girded Metaneira first began to speak : “ Hail , lady !
For I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; truly dignity and grace are conspicuous upon your eyes as in the eyes of kings that deal justice .
Yet we mortals bear per-force what the gods send us , though we be grieved ; for a yoke is set upon our necks .
But now , since you are come here , you shall have what I can bestow : and nurse me this child whom the gods gave me in my old age and beyond my hope , a son much prayed for .
If you should bring him up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ youth , any one of woman-kind that sees you will straightway envy you , so great reward would I give for his upbringing.
” Then rich-haired Demeter answered her : “ And to you , also , lady , all hail , and may the gods give you good !
Gladly will I take the boy to my breast , as you bid me , and will nurse him .
Never , I ween , through any heedlessness of his nurse shall witchcraft hurt him nor yet the Undercutter : for I know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and I know an excellent safeguard against woeful witchcraft.
” [ 4 ] When she had so spoken , she took the child in her fragrant bosom with her divine hands : and his mother was glad in her heart .
So the goddess nursed in the palace Demophoon , wise Celeus ’ goodly son whom well-girded Metaneira bare .
And the child grew like some immortal being , not fed with food nor nourished at the breast : for by day rich-crowned Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom .
But at night she would hide him like a brand in the heart of the fire , unknown to his dear parents .
And it wrought great wonder in these that he grew beyond his age ; for he was like the gods face to face .
And she would have made him deathless and unaging , had not well-girded Metaneira in her heedlessness kept watch by night from her sweet-smelling chamber and spied .
But she wailed and smote her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her son and was greatly distraught in her heart ; so she lamented and uttered winged words : [ Line 248 ] “ Demophoon , my son , the strange woman buries you deep in fire and works grief and bitter sorrow for me.
” Thus she spoke , mourning .
And the bright goddess , lovely-crowned Demeter , heard her , and was wroth with her .
So with her divine hands she snatched from the fire the dear son whom Metaneira had born unhoped-for in the palace , and cast him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she was terribly angry in her heart .
Forthwith she said to well-girded Metaneira : “ Witless are you mortals and dull to foresee your lot , whether of good or evil , that comes upon you .
For now in your heedlessness you have wrought folly past healing ; for — be witness the oath of the gods , the relentless water of Styx — I would have made your dear son deathless and unaging all his days and would have bestowed on him ever-lasting honour , but now he can in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yet shall unfailing honour always rest upon him , because he lay upon my knees and slept in my arms .
But , as the years move round and when he is in his prime , the sons of the Eleusinians shall ever wage war and dread strife with one another continually .
Lo !
I am that Demeter who has share of honour and is the greatest help and cause of joy to the undying gods and mortal men .
But now , let all the people build me a great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beneath the city and its sheer wall upon a rising hillock above Callichorus .
And I myself will teach my rites , that hereafter you may reverently perform them and so win the favour of my heart.
” [ Line 275 ] When she had so said , the goddess changed her stature and her looks , thrusting old age away from her : beauty spread round about her and a lovely fragrance was wafted from her sweet-smelling robes , and from the divine body of the goddess a light shone afar , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shoulders , so that the strong house was filled with brightness as with lightning .
And so she went out from the palace .
And straightway Metaneira ’ s knees were loosed and she remained speechless for a long while and did not remember to take up her late-born son from the ground .
But his sisters heard his pitiful wailing and sprang down from their well-spread beds : one of them took up the child in her arms and laid him in her bosom , while another revived the fire , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bring their mother from her fragrant chamber .
And they gathered about the struggling child and washed him , embracing him lovingly ; but he was not comforted , because nurses and handmaids much less skillful were holding him now .
All night long they sought to appease the glorious goddess , quaking with fear .
But , as soon as dawn began to show , they told powerful Celeus all things without fail , as the lovely-crowned goddess Demeter charged them .
So Celeus called the countless people to an assembly and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rich-haired Demeter and an altar upon the rising hillock .
And they obeyed him right speedily and harkened to his voice , doing as he commanded .
As for the child , he grew like an immortal being .
[ Line 301 ] Now when they had finished building and had drawn back from their toil , they went every man to his house .
But golden-haired Demeter sat there apart from all the blessed gods and stayed , wasting with yearning for her deep-bosomed daughter .
Then she caused a most dreadful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all-nourishing earth : the ground would not make the seed sprout , for rich-crowned Demeter kept it hid .
In the fields the oxen drew many a curved plough in vain , and much white barley was cast upon the land without avail .
So she would have destroyed the whole race of man with cruel famine and have robbed them who dwell on Olympus of their glorious right of gifts and sacrifices , had not Zeus perceived and marked this in his heart .
First he sent golden-winged Iris to call rich-haired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he commanded .
And she obeyed the dark-clouded Son of Cronos , and sped with swift feet across the space between .
She came to the stronghold of fragrant Eleusis , and there finding dark-cloaked Demeter in her temple , spake to her and uttered winged words : “ Demeter , father Zeus , whose wisdom is everlasting , calls you to come join the tribes of the eternal gods : come therefore , and let not the message I bring from Zeus pass unobeyed.
” Thus said Iris imploring her .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Then again the father sent forth all the blessed and eternal gods besides : and they came , one after the other , and kept calling her and offering many very beautiful gifts and whatever rights she might be pleased to choose among the deathless gods .
Yet no one was able to persuade her mind and will , so wroth was she in her heart ; but she stubbornly rejected all their words : for she vowed that she would never set foot on fragrant Olympus nor let fruit spring out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with her eyes her own fair-faced daughter .
[ Line 334 ] Now when all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer heard this , he sent the Slayer of Argus whose wand is of gold to Erebus , so that having won over Hades with soft words , he might lead forth chaste Persephone to the light from the misty gloom to join the gods , and that her mother might see her with her eyes and cease from her anger .
And Hermes obeyed , and leaving the house of Olympus , straightway sprang down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the earth .
And he found the lord Hades in his house seated upon a couch , and his shy mate with him , much reluctant , because she yearned for her mother .
But she was afar off , brooding on her fell design because of the deeds of the blessed gods .
And the strong Slayer of Argus drew near and said : “ Dark-haired Hades , ruler over the departed , father Zeus bids me bring noble Persephone forth from Erebus unto the gods , that her mother may see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her dread anger with the immortals ; for now she plans an awful deed , to destroy the weakly tribes of earthborn men by keeping seed hidden beneath the earth , and so she makes an end of the honours of the undying gods .
For she keeps fearful anger and does not consort with the gods , but sits aloof in her fragrant temple , dwelling in the rocky hold of Eleusis.
” So he said .
And Aidoneus , ruler over the dead , smiled grimly and obeyed the behest of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urged wise Persephone , saying : [ Line 360 ] “ Go now , Persephone , to your dark-robed mother , go , and feel kindly in your heart towards me : be not so exceedingly cast down ; for I shall be no unfitting husband for you among the deathless gods , that am own brother to father Zeus .
And while you are here , you shall rule all that lives and moves and shall have the greatest rights among the deathless gods : those who defraud you and do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ performing rites and paying fit gifts , shall be punished for evermore.
” When he said this , wise Persephone was filled with joy and hastily sprang up for gladness .
But he on his part secretly gave her sweet pomegranate seed to eat , taking care for himself that she might not remain continually with grave , dark-robed Demeter .
Then Aidoneus the Ruler of Many openly got ready his deathless horses beneath the golden chariots And she mounted on the chariot and the strong Slayer of Argus took reins and whip @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the hall , the horses speeding readily .
Swiftly they traversed their long course , and neither the sea nor river-waters nor grassy glens nor mountain-peaks checked the career of the immortal horses , but they clave the deep air above them as they went .
And Hermes brought them to the place where rich-crowned Demeter was staying and checked them before her fragrant temple .
[ Line 384 ] And when Demeter saw them , she rushed forth as does a Maenad down some thick-wooded mountain , while Persephone on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mother ’ s sweet eyes , left the chariot and horses , and leaped down to run to her , and falling upon her neck , embraced her .
But while Demeter was still holding her dear child in her arms , her heart suddenly misgave her for some snare , so that she feared greatly and ceased fondling her daughter and asked of her at once : “ My child , tell me , surely you have not tasted any food while you were below ?
Speak out and hide nothing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if you have not , you shall come back from loathly Hades and live with me and your father , the dark-clouded Son of Cronos and be honoured by all the deathless gods ; but if you have tasted food , you must go back again beneath the secret places of the earth , there to dwell a third part of the seasons every year : yet for the two parts you shall be with me and the other deathless gods .
But when the earth shall bloom with the fragrant flowers of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the realm of darkness and gloom thou shalt come up once more to be a wonder for gods and mortal men .
And now tell me how he rapt you away to the realm of darkness and gloom , and by what trick did the strong Host of Many beguile you ?
” [ Line 405 ] Then beautiful Persephone answered her thus : “ Mother , I will tell you all without error .
When luck-bringing Hermes came , swift messenger from my father the Son of Cronos and the other Sons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Erebus that you might see me with your eyes and so cease from your anger and fearful wrath against the gods , I sprang up at once for joy ; but he secretly put in my mouth sweet food , a pomegranate seed , and forced me to taste against my will .
Also I will tell how he rapt me away by the deep plan of my father the Son of Cronos and carried me off beneath the depths of the earth , and will relate the whole matter as you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lovely meadow , Leucippe and Phaeno and Electra and Ianthe , Melita also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe , fair as a flower , Chryseis , Ianeira , Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso ; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows .
[ 5 ] We were playing and gathering sweet flowers in our hands , soft crocuses mingled with irises and hyacinths , and rose-blooms and lilies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ narcissus which the wide earth caused to grow yellow as a crocus .
That I plucked in my joy ; but the earth parted beneath , and there the strong lord , the Host of Many , sprang forth and in his golden chariot he bore me away , all unwilling , beneath the earth : then I cried with a shrill cry .
All this is true , sore though it grieves me to tell the tale.
” [ Line 434 ] So did they then , with hearts at one , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soul and spirit with many an embrace : their hearts had relief from their griefs while each took and gave back joyousness .
Then bright-coiffed Hecate came near to them , and often did she embrace the daughter of holy Demeter : and from that time the lady Hecate was minister and companion to Persephone .
And all-seeing Zeus sent a messenger to them , rich-haired Rhea , to bring dark-cloaked Demeter to join the families of the gods : and he promised to give her what rights she should choose among the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should go down for the third part of the circling year to darkness and gloom , but for the two parts should live with her mother and the other deathless gods .
Thus he commanded .
And the goddess did not disobey the message of Zeus ; swiftly she rushed down from the peaks of Olympus and came to the plain of Rharus , rich , fertile corn-land once , but then in nowise fruitful , for it lay idle and utterly leafless , because the white grain was hidden by design of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spring-time waxed , it was soon to be waving with long ears of corn , and its rich furrows to be loaded with grain upon the ground , while others would already be bound in sheaves .
There first she landed from the fruitless upper air : and glad were the goddesses to see each other and cheered in heart .
Then bright-coiffed Rhea said to Demeter : [ Line 459 ] “ Come , my daughter ; for far-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer calls you to join the families of the gods , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights you please among the deathless gods , and has agreed that for a third part of the circling year your daughter shall go down to darkness and gloom , but for the two parts shall be with you and the other deathless gods : so has he declared it shall be and has bowed his head in token .
But come , my child , obey , and be not too angry unrelentingly with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos ; but rather increase forthwith for men the fruit that gives them life.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Demeter did not refuse but straightway made fruit to spring up from the rich lands , so that the whole wide earth was laden with leaves and flowers .
Then she went , and to the kings who deal justice , Triptolemus and Diocles , the horse-driver , and to doughty Eumolpus and Celeus , leader of the people , she showed the conduct of her rites and taught them all her mysteries , to Triptolemus and Polyxeinus and Diocles also , — awful mysteries which no one may in any way transgress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deep awe of the gods checks the voice .
Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries ; but he who is uninitiate and who has no part in them , never has lot of like good things once he is dead , down in the darkness and gloom .
[ Line 483 ] But when the bright goddess had taught them all , they went to Olympus to the gathering of the other gods .
And there they dwell beside Zeus who delights in thunder , awful and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among men on earth whom they freely love : soon they do send Plutus as guest to his great house , Plutus who gives wealth to mortal men .
And now , queen of the land of sweet Eleusis and sea-girt Paros and rocky Antron , lady , giver of good gifts , bringer of seasons , queen Deo , be gracious , you and your daughter all beauteous Persephone , and for my song grant me heart-cheering substance .
And now I will remember you and another song also .
[ 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supposedly as being more suitable to her assumed condition , but really because in her sorrow she refuses all comforts .
[ 3 ] An act of communion — the drinking of the potion ( kykeon ) here described — was one of the most important pieces of ritual in the Eleusinian mysteries , as commemorating the sorrows of the goddess .
[ 4 ] Undercutter and Woodcutter are probably popular names ( after the style of Hesiod ’ s “ Boneless One ” ) for the worm thought to be the cause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] The list of names is taken — with five additions — from Hesiod , Theogony 349 ff .

Translated by Hugh G.Evelyn-White
published 1914
[Note: This Homeric Hymn, composed in approximately the seventh century BCE, served for centuries thereafter as the canonical hymn of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The text below was translated from the Greek by Hugh G. Evelyn-White and first published by the Loeb Classical Library in 1914. This text has been scanned and proof-read by Edward A. Beach, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.]
I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter, awful goddess — of her and her trim-ankled daughter whom Aidoneus [Hades] rapt away, given to him by all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer. Apart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, she was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the Host of Many, to be a snare for the bloom-like girl — a marvellous, radiant flower. It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea’s salt swell laughed for joy. And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy; but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the lord, Host of Many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her — the Son of Cronos, He who has many names.[1]
He caught her up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. Then she cried out shrilly with her voice, calling upon her father, the Son of Cronos, who is most high and excellent. But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave, and the lord Helios, Hyperion’s bright son, as she cried to her father, the Son of Cronos. But he was sitting aloof, apart from the gods, in his temple where many pray, and receiving sweet offerings from mortal men. So he, that Son of Cronos, of many names, who is Ruler of Many and Host of Many, was bearing her away by leave of Zeus on his immortal chariot — his own brother’s child and all unwilling.
[Line 33] And so long as she, the goddess, yet beheld earth and starry heaven and the strong-flowing sea where fishes shoal, and the rays of the sun, and still hoped to see her dear mother and the tribes of the eternal gods, so long hope calmed her great heart for all her trouble. . . . and the heights of the mountains and the depths of the sea rang with her immortal voice: and her queenly mother heard her.
Bitter pain seized her heart, and she rent the covering upon her divine hair with her dear hands: her dark cloak she cast down from both her shoulders and sped, like a wild-bird, over the firm land and yielding sea, seeking her child. But no one would tell her the truth, neither god nor mortal man; and of the birds of omen none came with true news for her. Then for nine days queenly Deo wandered over the earth with flaming torches in her hands, so grieved that she never tasted ambrosia and the sweet draught of nectar, nor sprinkled her body with water. But when the tenth enlightening dawn had come, Hecate, with a torch in her hands, met her, and spoke to her and told her news:
“Queenly Demeter, bringer of seasons and giver of good gifts, what god of heaven or what mortal man has rapt away Persephone and pierced with sorrow your dear heart? For I heard her voice, yet saw not with my eyes who it was. But I tell you truly and shortly all I know.”
[Line 59] So, then, said Hecate. And the daughter of rich-haired Rhea answered her not, but sped swiftly with her, holding flaming torches in her hands. So they came to Helios, who is watchman of both gods and men, and stood in front of his horses: and the bright goddess enquired of him: “Helios, do you at least regard me, goddess as I am, if ever by word or deed of mine I have cheered your heart and spirit. Through the fruitless air I heard the thrilling cry of my daughter whom I bare, sweet scion of my body and lovely in form, as of one seized violently; though with my eyes I saw nothing. But you — for with your beams you look down from the bright upper air over all the earth and sea — tell me truly of my dear child if you have seen her anywhere, what god or mortal man has violently seized her against her will and mine, and so made off.”
So said she. And the Son of Hyperion answered her: “Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rhea, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades, her father’s brother, to be called his buxom wife. And Hades seized her and took her loudly crying in his chariot down to his realm of mist and gloom. Yet, goddess, cease your loud lament and keep not vain anger unrelentingly: Aidoneus, the Ruler of Many, is no unfitting husband among the deathless gods for your child, being our own brother and born of the same stock: also, for honour, he has that third share which he received when division was made at the first and is appointed lord of those among whom he dwells.”
So he spake, and called to his horses: and at his chiding they quickly whirled the swift chariot along, like long-winged birds.
[Line 90] But grief yet more terrible and savage came into the heart of Demeter, and thereafter she was so angered with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos that she avoided the gathering of the gods and high Olympus, and went to the towns and rich fields of men, disfiguring her form a long while. And no one of men or deep-bosomed women knew her when they saw her, until she came to the house of wise Celeus who then was lord of fragrant Eleusis. Vexed in her dear heart, she sat near the wayside by the Maiden Well, from which the women of the place were used to draw water, in a shady place over which grew an olive shrub. And she was like an ancient woman who is cut off from childbearing and the gifts of garland-loving Aphrodite, like the nurses of king’s children who deal justice, or like the house-keepers in their echoing halls. There the daughters of Celeus, son of Eleusis, saw her, as they coming for easy-drawn water, to carry it in pitchers of bronze to their dear father’s house: four were they and like goddesses in the flower of their girlhood, Callidice and Cleisidice and lovely Demo and Callithoe who was the eldest of them all. They knew her not, — for the gods are not easily discerned by mortals –, but startling near by her spoke winged words:
“Old mother, whence are you of folk born long ago? Why are you gone away from the city and do not draw near the houses? For there in the shady halls are women of just such age as you, and others younger; and they would welcome you both by word and by deed.”
[Line 118] Thus they said. And she, that queen among goddesses answered them saying: “Hail, dear children, whosoever you are of woman-kind. I will tell you my story; for it is not unseemly that I should tell you truly what you ask. Doso is my name, for my stately mother gave it me. And now I am come from Crete over the sea’s wide back, — not willingly; but pirates brought me thence by force of strength against my liking. Afterwards they put in with their swift craft to Thoricus, and these the women landed on the shore in full throng and the men likewise, and they began to make ready a meal by the stern-cables of the ship. But my heart craved not pleasant food, and I fled secretly across the dark country and escaped my masters, that they should not take me unpurchased across the sea, there to win a price for me. And so I wandered and am come here: and I know not at all what land this is or what people are in it. But may all those who dwell on Olympus give you husbands and birth of children as parents desire, so you take pity on me, maidens, and show me this clearly that I may learn, dear children, to the house of what man and woman I may go, to work for them cheerfully at such tasks as belong to a woman of my age. Well could I nurse a new born child, holding him in my arms, or keep house, or spread my masters’ bed in a recess of the well-built chamber, or teach the women their work.”
So said the goddess. And straightway the unwed maiden Callidice, goodliest in form of the daughters of Celeus, answered her and said:
[Line 147] “Mother, what the gods send us, we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you the names of men who have great power and honour here and are chief among the people, guarding our city’s coif of towers by their wisdom and true judgements: there is wise Triptolemus and Dioclus and Polyxeinus and blameless Eumolpus and Dolichus and our own brave father. All these have wives who manage in the house, and no one of them, so soon as she had seen you, would dishonour you and turn you from the house, but they will welcome you; for indeed you are godlike. But if you will, stay here; and we will go to our father’s house and tell Metaneira, our deep-bosomed mother, all this matter fully, that she may bid you rather come to our home than search after the houses of others. She has an only son, late-born, who is being nursed in our well-built house, a child of many prayers and welcome: if you could bring him up until he reached the full measure of youth, any one of womankind who should see you would straightway envy you, such gifts would our mother give for his upbringing.”
So she spake: and the goddess bowed her head in assent. And they filled their shining vessels with water and carried them off rejoicing. Quickly they came to their father’s great house and straightway told their mother according as they had heard and seen. Then she bade them go with all speed and invite the stranger to come for a measureless hire. As hinds or heifers in spring time, when sated with pasture, bound about a meadow, so they, holding up the folds of their lovely garments, darted down the hollow path, and their hair like a crocus flower streamed about their shoulders. And they found the good goddess near the wayside where they had left her before, and led her to the house of their dear father. And she walked behind, distressed in her dear heart, with her head veiled and wearing a dark cloak which waved about the slender feet of the goddess.
[Line 184] Soon they came to the house of heaven-nurtured Celeus and went through the portico to where their queenly mother sat by a pillar of the close-fitted roof, holding her son, a tender scion, in her bosom. And the girls ran to her. But the goddess walked to the threshold: and her head reached the roof and she filled the doorway with a heavenly radiance. Then awe and reverence and pale fear took hold of Metaneira, and she rose up from her couch before Demeter, and bade her be seated. But Demeter, bringer of seasons and giver of perfect gifts, would not sit upon the bright couch, but stayed silent with lovely eyes cast down until careful Iambe placed a jointed seat for her and threw over it a silvery fleece. Then she sat down and held her veil in her hands before her face. A long time she sat upon the stool[2] without speaking because of her sorrow, and greeted no one by word or by sign, but rested, never smiling, and tasting neither food nor drinks because she pined with longing for her deep-bosomed daughter, until careful Iambe — who pleased her moods in aftertime also — moved the holy lady with many a quip and jest to smile and laugh and cheer her heart. Then Metaneira filled a cup with sweet wine and offered it to her; but she refused it, for she said it was not lawful for her to drink red wine, but bade them mix meal and water with soft mint and give her to drink. And Metaneira mixed the draught and gave it to the goddess as she bade. So the great queen Deo received it to observe the sacrament.[3]
[Line 212] And of them all, well-girded Metaneira first began to speak: “Hail, lady! For I think you are not meanly but nobly born; truly dignity and grace are conspicuous upon your eyes as in the eyes of kings that deal justice. Yet we mortals bear per-force what the gods send us, though we be grieved; for a yoke is set upon our necks. But now, since you are come here, you shall have what I can bestow: and nurse me this child whom the gods gave me in my old age and beyond my hope, a son much prayed for. If you should bring him up until he reach the full measure of youth, any one of woman-kind that sees you will straightway envy you, so great reward would I give for his upbringing.”
Then rich-haired Demeter answered her: “And to you, also, lady, all hail, and may the gods give you good! Gladly will I take the boy to my breast, as you bid me, and will nurse him. Never, I ween, through any heedlessness of his nurse shall witchcraft hurt him nor yet the Undercutter: for I know a charm far stronger than the Woodcutter, and I know an excellent safeguard against woeful witchcraft.”[4]
When she had so spoken, she took the child in her fragrant bosom with her divine hands: and his mother was glad in her heart. So the goddess nursed in the palace Demophoon, wise Celeus’ goodly son whom well-girded Metaneira bare. And the child grew like some immortal being, not fed with food nor nourished at the breast: for by day rich-crowned Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he were the offspring of a god and breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom. But at night she would hide him like a brand in the heart of the fire, unknown to his dear parents. And it wrought great wonder in these that he grew beyond his age; for he was like the gods face to face. And she would have made him deathless and unaging, had not well-girded Metaneira in her heedlessness kept watch by night from her sweet-smelling chamber and spied. But she wailed and smote her two hips, because she feared for her son and was greatly distraught in her heart; so she lamented and uttered winged words:
[Line 248] “Demophoon, my son, the strange woman buries you deep in fire and works grief and bitter sorrow for me.”
Thus she spoke, mourning. And the bright goddess, lovely-crowned Demeter, heard her, and was wroth with her. So with her divine hands she snatched from the fire the dear son whom Metaneira had born unhoped-for in the palace, and cast him from her to the ground; for she was terribly angry in her heart. Forthwith she said to well-girded Metaneira:
“Witless are you mortals and dull to foresee your lot, whether of good or evil, that comes upon you. For now in your heedlessness you have wrought folly past healing; for — be witness the oath of the gods, the relentless water of Styx — I would have made your dear son deathless and unaging all his days and would have bestowed on him ever-lasting honour, but now he can in no way escape death and the fates. Yet shall unfailing honour always rest upon him, because he lay upon my knees and slept in my arms. But, as the years move round and when he is in his prime, the sons of the Eleusinians shall ever wage war and dread strife with one another continually. Lo! I am that Demeter who has share of honour and is the greatest help and cause of joy to the undying gods and mortal men. But now, let all the people build me a great temple and an altar below it and beneath the city and its sheer wall upon a rising hillock above Callichorus. And I myself will teach my rites, that hereafter you may reverently perform them and so win the favour of my heart.”
[Line 275] When she had so said, the goddess changed her stature and her looks, thrusting old age away from her: beauty spread round about her and a lovely fragrance was wafted from her sweet-smelling robes, and from the divine body of the goddess a light shone afar, while golden tresses spread down over her shoulders, so that the strong house was filled with brightness as with lightning. And so she went out from the palace.
And straightway Metaneira’s knees were loosed and she remained speechless for a long while and did not remember to take up her late-born son from the ground. But his sisters heard his pitiful wailing and sprang down from their well-spread beds: one of them took up the child in her arms and laid him in her bosom, while another revived the fire, and a third rushed with soft feet to bring their mother from her fragrant chamber. And they gathered about the struggling child and washed him, embracing him lovingly; but he was not comforted, because nurses and handmaids much less skillful were holding him now.
All night long they sought to appease the glorious goddess, quaking with fear. But, as soon as dawn began to show, they told powerful Celeus all things without fail, as the lovely-crowned goddess Demeter charged them. So Celeus called the countless people to an assembly and bade them make a goodly temple for rich-haired Demeter and an altar upon the rising hillock. And they obeyed him right speedily and harkened to his voice, doing as he commanded. As for the child, he grew like an immortal being.
[Line 301] Now when they had finished building and had drawn back from their toil, they went every man to his house. But golden-haired Demeter sat there apart from all the blessed gods and stayed, wasting with yearning for her deep-bosomed daughter. Then she caused a most dreadful and cruel year for mankind over the all-nourishing earth: the ground would not make the seed sprout, for rich-crowned Demeter kept it hid. In the fields the oxen drew many a curved plough in vain, and much white barley was cast upon the land without avail. So she would have destroyed the whole race of man with cruel famine and have robbed them who dwell on Olympus of their glorious right of gifts and sacrifices, had not Zeus perceived and marked this in his heart. First he sent golden-winged Iris to call rich-haired Demeter, lovely in form. So he commanded. And she obeyed the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, and sped with swift feet across the space between. She came to the stronghold of fragrant Eleusis, and there finding dark-cloaked Demeter in her temple, spake to her and uttered winged words:
“Demeter, father Zeus, whose wisdom is everlasting, calls you to come join the tribes of the eternal gods: come therefore, and let not the message I bring from Zeus pass unobeyed.”
Thus said Iris imploring her. But Demeter’s heart was not moved. Then again the father sent forth all the blessed and eternal gods besides: and they came, one after the other, and kept calling her and offering many very beautiful gifts and whatever rights she might be pleased to choose among the deathless gods. Yet no one was able to persuade her mind and will, so wroth was she in her heart; but she stubbornly rejected all their words: for she vowed that she would never set foot on fragrant Olympus nor let fruit spring out of the ground, until she beheld with her eyes her own fair-faced daughter.
[Line 334] Now when all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer heard this, he sent the Slayer of Argus whose wand is of gold to Erebus, so that having won over Hades with soft words, he might lead forth chaste Persephone to the light from the misty gloom to join the gods, and that her mother might see her with her eyes and cease from her anger. And Hermes obeyed, and leaving the house of Olympus, straightway sprang down with speed to the hidden places of the earth. And he found the lord Hades in his house seated upon a couch, and his shy mate with him, much reluctant, because she yearned for her mother. But she was afar off, brooding on her fell design because of the deeds of the blessed gods. And the strong Slayer of Argus drew near and said:
“Dark-haired Hades, ruler over the departed, father Zeus bids me bring noble Persephone forth from Erebus unto the gods, that her mother may see her with her eyes and cease from her dread anger with the immortals; for now she plans an awful deed, to destroy the weakly tribes of earthborn men by keeping seed hidden beneath the earth, and so she makes an end of the honours of the undying gods. For she keeps fearful anger and does not consort with the gods, but sits aloof in her fragrant temple, dwelling in the rocky hold of Eleusis.”
So he said. And Aidoneus, ruler over the dead, smiled grimly and obeyed the behest of Zeus the king. For he straightway urged wise Persephone, saying:
[Line 360] “Go now, Persephone, to your dark-robed mother, go, and feel kindly in your heart towards me: be not so exceedingly cast down; for I shall be no unfitting husband for you among the deathless gods, that am own brother to father Zeus. And while you are here, you shall rule all that lives and moves and shall have the greatest rights among the deathless gods: those who defraud you and do not appease your power with offerings, reverently performing rites and paying fit gifts, shall be punished for evermore.”
When he said this, wise Persephone was filled with joy and hastily sprang up for gladness. But he on his part secretly gave her sweet pomegranate seed to eat, taking care for himself that she might not remain continually with grave, dark-robed Demeter. Then Aidoneus the Ruler of Many openly got ready his deathless horses beneath the golden chariots And she mounted on the chariot and the strong Slayer of Argus took reins and whip in his dear hands and drove forth from the hall, the horses speeding readily. Swiftly they traversed their long course, and neither the sea nor river-waters nor grassy glens nor mountain-peaks checked the career of the immortal horses, but they clave the deep air above them as they went. And Hermes brought them to the place where rich-crowned Demeter was staying and checked them before her fragrant temple.
[Line 384] And when Demeter saw them, she rushed forth as does a Maenad down some thick-wooded mountain, while Persephone on the other side, when she saw her mother’s sweet eyes, left the chariot and horses, and leaped down to run to her, and falling upon her neck, embraced her. But while Demeter was still holding her dear child in her arms, her heart suddenly misgave her for some snare, so that she feared greatly and ceased fondling her daughter and asked of her at once: “My child, tell me, surely you have not tasted any food while you were below? Speak out and hide nothing, but let us both know. For if you have not, you shall come back from loathly Hades and live with me and your father, the dark-clouded Son of Cronos and be honoured by all the deathless gods; but if you have tasted food, you must go back again beneath the secret places of the earth, there to dwell a third part of the seasons every year: yet for the two parts you shall be with me and the other deathless gods. But when the earth shall bloom with the fragrant flowers of spring in every kind, then from the realm of darkness and gloom thou shalt come up once more to be a wonder for gods and mortal men. And now tell me how he rapt you away to the realm of darkness and gloom, and by what trick did the strong Host of Many beguile you?”
[Line 405] Then beautiful Persephone answered her thus: “Mother, I will tell you all without error. When luck-bringing Hermes came, swift messenger from my father the Son of Cronos and the other Sons of Heaven, bidding me come back from Erebus that you might see me with your eyes and so cease from your anger and fearful wrath against the gods, I sprang up at once for joy; but he secretly put in my mouth sweet food, a pomegranate seed, and forced me to taste against my will. Also I will tell how he rapt me away by the deep plan of my father the Son of Cronos and carried me off beneath the depths of the earth, and will relate the whole matter as you ask. All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leucippe and Phaeno and Electra and Ianthe, Melita also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe, fair as a flower, Chryseis, Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows.[5] We were playing and gathering sweet flowers in our hands, soft crocuses mingled with irises and hyacinths, and rose-blooms and lilies, marvellous to see, and the narcissus which the wide earth caused to grow yellow as a crocus. That I plucked in my joy; but the earth parted beneath, and there the strong lord, the Host of Many, sprang forth and in his golden chariot he bore me away, all unwilling, beneath the earth: then I cried with a shrill cry. All this is true, sore though it grieves me to tell the tale.”
[Line 434] So did they then, with hearts at one, greatly cheer each the other’s soul and spirit with many an embrace: their hearts had relief from their griefs while each took and gave back joyousness.
Then bright-coiffed Hecate came near to them, and often did she embrace the daughter of holy Demeter: and from that time the lady Hecate was minister and companion to Persephone.
And all-seeing Zeus sent a messenger to them, rich-haired Rhea, to bring dark-cloaked Demeter to join the families of the gods: and he promised to give her what rights she should choose among the deathless gods and agreed that her daughter should go down for the third part of the circling year to darkness and gloom, but for the two parts should live with her mother and the other deathless gods. Thus he commanded. And the goddess did not disobey the message of Zeus; swiftly she rushed down from the peaks of Olympus and came to the plain of Rharus, rich, fertile corn-land once, but then in nowise fruitful, for it lay idle and utterly leafless, because the white grain was hidden by design of trim-ankled Demeter. But afterwards, as spring-time waxed, it was soon to be waving with long ears of corn, and its rich furrows to be loaded with grain upon the ground, while others would already be bound in sheaves. There first she landed from the fruitless upper air: and glad were the goddesses to see each other and cheered in heart. Then bright-coiffed Rhea said to Demeter:
[Line 459] “Come, my daughter; for far-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer calls you to join the families of the gods, and has promised to give you what rights you please among the deathless gods, and has agreed that for a third part of the circling year your daughter shall go down to darkness and gloom, but for the two parts shall be with you and the other deathless gods: so has he declared it shall be and has bowed his head in token. But come, my child, obey, and be not too angry unrelentingly with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos; but rather increase forthwith for men the fruit that gives them life.”
So spake Rhea. And rich-crowned Demeter did not refuse but straightway made fruit to spring up from the rich lands, so that the whole wide earth was laden with leaves and flowers. Then she went, and to the kings who deal justice, Triptolemus and Diocles, the horse-driver, and to doughty Eumolpus and Celeus, leader of the people, she showed the conduct of her rites and taught them all her mysteries, to Triptolemus and Polyxeinus and Diocles also, — awful mysteries which no one may in any way transgress or pry into or utter, for deep awe of the gods checks the voice. Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries; but he who is uninitiate and who has no part in them, never has lot of like good things once he is dead, down in the darkness and gloom.
[Line 483] But when the bright goddess had taught them all, they went to Olympus to the gathering of the other gods. And there they dwell beside Zeus who delights in thunder, awful and reverend goddesses. Right blessed is he among men on earth whom they freely love: soon they do send Plutus as guest to his great house, Plutus who gives wealth to mortal men.
And now, queen of the land of sweet Eleusis and sea-girt Paros and rocky Antron, lady, giver of good gifts, bringer of seasons, queen Deo, be gracious, you and your daughter all beauteous Persephone, and for my song grant me heart-cheering substance. And now I will remember you and another song also.
Notes
[1] The Greeks feared to name Pluto directly and mentioned him by one of many descriptive titles, such as “Host of Many”: compare the Christian use ofor our “Evil One.”
[2] Demeter chooses the lowlier seat, supposedly as being more suitable to her assumed condition, but really because in her sorrow she refuses all comforts.
[3] An act of communion — the drinking of the potion (kykeon) here described — was one of the most important pieces of ritual in the Eleusinian mysteries, as commemorating the sorrows of the goddess.
[4] Undercutter and Woodcutter are probably popular names (after the style of Hesiod’s “Boneless One”) for the worm thought to be the cause of teething and toothache.
[5] The list of names is taken — with five additions — from Hesiod, Theogony 349 ff.
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renegadetribune--2020-09-05--Joe Biden’s Claim That “A Black Man Invented the Light Bulb” Is Patently False

While speaking in Kenosha , Wisconsin , masked candidate Joe Biden tried to appeal to his base by trying to knock Whitey down a peg or two .
I love how “ facts ” about history are constantly changing in our Orwellian world , but even the “ leftist ” ( jewish cultural Marxist ) news outlets still have to admit that Biden was wrong about this one .
Whoa , is CNN promoting White supremacy here and suppressing the real “ woke ” history about how Blacks actually created our entire modern world ?
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No , actually it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that a White man did not invent the light bulb , since the facts are pretty cut and dry with this one .
I am not even a big Thomas Edison fan , but I will give the man his due .
There were some earlier attempts at electric lighting , but the modern light bulb was the creation of Edison and also Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , who both patented their bulbs in 1880 , then following much litigation , formed a joint company in 1883 .
Edison had worked for years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thousands of experiments to try to perfect his design , which pretty much looked like the classic glass bulb with a filament on the inside .
Lewish Latimer , who Biden was likely referencing , was an inventor who came up with a design for a carbon filament for Edison ’ s light bulbs , which he sold to the US Electric Co. in 1881 , and then patented his process for manufacturing the filament a year later .
Again , I will give the man his due , it appears he may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he sure as hell did not invent it .
Also , does not this successful Black inventor show us that American history was not actually as “ racist ” as we are led to believe ?
Latimer was actually rather successful .
Edison not only invented the light bulb , but created the electrical power distribution system to bring light bulbs into the homes of many Americans .
Nikola Tesla would later invent alternating current , which would pave the way for our modern electrified world .

While speaking in Kenosha, Wisconsin, masked candidate Joe Biden tried to appeal to his base by trying to knock Whitey down a peg or two.
Why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison. OK?”
We gotta give people facts. Teach them what’s out there.”
I love how “facts” about history are constantly changing in our Orwellian world, but even the “leftist” (jewish cultural Marxist) news outlets still have to admit that Biden was wrong about this one.
Whoa, is CNN promoting White supremacy here and suppressing the real “woke” history about how Blacks actually created our entire modern world?! No, actually it is pretty hard for anyone to claim that a White man did not invent the light bulb, since the facts are pretty cut and dry with this one. I am not even a big Thomas Edison fan, but I will give the man his due.
There were some earlier attempts at electric lighting, but the modern light bulb was the creation of Edison and also Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who both patented their bulbs in 1880, then following much litigation, formed a joint company in 1883.
Edison had worked for years on perfecting his light bulb, conducting thousands of experiments to try to perfect his design, which pretty much looked like the classic glass bulb with a filament on the inside.
Lewis Latimer, who Biden was likely referencing, was an inventor who came up with a design for a carbon filament for Edison’s light bulbs, which he sold to the US Electric Co. in 1881, and then patented his process for manufacturing the filament a year later. Again, I will give the man his due, it appears he may have improved the light bulb, but he sure as hell did not invent it. Also, does not this successful Black inventor show us that American history was not actually as “racist” as we are led to believe? Latimer was actually rather successful.
Edison not only invented the light bulb, but created the electrical power distribution system to bring light bulbs into the homes of many Americans. Nikola Tesla would later invent alternating current, which would pave the way for our modern electrified world.
Tesla, being a brilliant man, once remarked:
Never trust a jew!”
Also, never trust a politician.
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renegadetribune--2020-09-05--BLM Terrorizes White Diners in Rochester, NY – Breaking Glass Tables, Throwing Chairs

What better way to win people over to your cause than by acting like a mob of mad marauding monkeys @ @ @ @ @ giant corporations and hailed as heroes by the media .
# HappeningNow the protesters in @ @ @ @ @ down restaurants '' , tables are broken , people running off scared # rochesterprotests pic.twitter.com/oxmlZp526w

What better way to win people over to your cause than by acting like a mob of mad marauding monkeys? BLM is funded by giant corporations and hailed as heroes by the media.
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#HappeningNow the protesters in Rochester NY are "shutting down restaurants", tables are broken, people running off scared #rochesterprotests pic.twitter.com/oxmlZp526w — Oliya Scootercaster 🛴🌻 (@ScooterCasterNY) September 5, 2020
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renegadetribune--2020-09-05--Rabbi: ‘Being Chosen’ Has Been More of a Burden

Rabbi Marc Schneier ’ s Shabbat Message from Hampton Synagogue delves into the topic of choseness and how persecuted jews @ @ @ @ @ special role ordained by God .

Rabbi Marc Schneier's Shabbat Message from Hampton Synagogue delves into the topic of choseness and how persecuted jews have been because of their special role ordained by God.


renegadetribune--2020-09-05--BLM Terrorizes White Diners in Rochester, NY – Smashing Glass, Throwing Chairs


renegadetribune--2020-09-06--German Artwork Collection – Mythology and Religion

The National Socialists promoted artwork that celebrated the cultural and physical beauty of the European people .

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renegadetribune--2020-09-06--Beginner’s Guide to Edible Mushrooms as Medicine

Although mushrooms get good press as a low-calorie , high fiber , low-cholesterol , low-sodium decoration for your pizza , there is much more to the mushroom story than that .
Mushrooms have been valued for their culinary and medicinal properties for thousands of years and the Egyptians reserved them by law for the pharaoh .
Hieroglyphics dating back 4,600 years depict their royal ancestry as well as their association with immortality .
In ancient times , mushrooms were not cultivated but grew wild , and always carried the risk that the wrong ( i.e.
, poisonous ) variety had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Roman Emperor Claudius found when his mushroom dinner became his last meal .
Ancient Asian civilizations believed that mushrooms , especially the shiitake and maitake varieties , support health generally and the immune system in particular .
Today there is a wealth of scientific research attesting to the health benefits of mushrooms .
Often lumped together with vegetables , mushrooms are actually a type of fungus with no roots or leaves or seeds .
Despite their lack of the vibrant colors that we have been trained to associate with antioxidants , mushrooms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which is necessary for the functioning of the entire antioxidant system .
Selenium is also the chemical element that the body needs to efficiently use oxygen , detoxify the body , promote heart health and maintain healthy skin .
Crimini mushrooms , the brown mushrooms that are sometimes called “ baby bellas , ” provide over 52 % of the daily recommended value of selenium .
They also provide almost 30 % of the daily value of niacin ( vitamin B3 ) which forms enzymes needed to convert sugars into energy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and preventing osteoarthritis .
Because they are grown in the dark , it is a little odd that mushrooms are a good source of vitamin D , the sunshine vitamin .
In fact , mushrooms are one of the few “ vegetarian ” sources of vitamin D , which is otherwise available naturally in cod liver oil , fatty fish like mackerel , salmon , sardines and tuna , or eggs and liver .
It is estimated that 10 mushrooms provide 10 % of the daily value of vitamin D. In the future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ source of vitamin D since , like humans , they produce vitamin D when exposed to sunshine .
Recent research suggests that exposing mushrooms to ultraviolet rays for just 5 minutes could increase their vitamin D content to 100 % or more of the recommended daily value .
For many of us this is a more palatable choice than cod liver oil .
• the highest levels of a potent antioxidant called L-ergothioneine that activates the immune system and acts as a free radical scavenger ; • high levels of the trace mineral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of which are needed for hemoglobin synthesis ; an • more potassium per serving than a small banana , aiding in the maintenance of proper blood pressure as well as proper functioning of nerves and muscles .
Although the Japanese have been cultivating shiitake mushrooms for the past 2,000 years , other varieties have been cultivated only in the past 200 years .
The French began to cultivate mushrooms commercially in the late 19th century and American immigrants cultivated the first mushrooms in Kennett Square , Pennsylvania in 1896 .
The most common @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the button mushroom which was for many years believed to have no nutritional or medicinal value .
Recent studies , however , have established that the lowly button , as well as crimini and portobello , contain as much anti-oxidant power as their Asian counterparts that have been prized for centuries for their disease prevention and healing properties .
In Asian medicine , shiitake and maitake mushrooms , now widely available in U.S. markets , have proven so successful in boosting the immune system and fighting cancer , that they are now being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also a staple of Chinese medicine .
Although they are not edible , they are available in teas , extract and capsules and are used to improve immunity and reduce inflammation .
Edible mushrooms are versatile and easy to incorporate into your daily diet .
All it takes is a one-half cup serving to start to get the benefits .
Add them to soups , stews , grains and greens or toss them into your salad .
Here are some varieties to try .
White Button These white mushrooms are far and away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and constitute 87 % of sales .
They have a mild flavor , can be cooked or eaten raw and come in a wide range of sizes from tiny to large stuffing caps .
Crimini These brown mushrooms resemble the button except that they are darker , ranging from light tan to dark brown .
They have a more intense flavor but are still relatively mild and can be prepared and used interchangeably with the button variety .
Portabello These large mushrooms are the mature version of crimini and in fact , until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considered a waste product because they had grown too big to maintain the uniformly domed shape of the crimini .
When Phillips Mushroom Farm in Chester County , Pennsylvania began giving portabellas away to chefs along the East Coast , consumers started to demand them and today they are available in most supermarkets .
They are much more robust than the button or crimini and their meaty texture allows them to stand up to grilling , broiling and roasting .
Shiitake These dark brown mushrooms have a distinctive umbrella shape , earthy flavor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these mushrooms should be removed before cooking because they are too tough for eating .
Shiitake have been studied extensively for their cancer prevention abilities .
Enoki These delicate white clustered filaments with tiny caps are very mild and crunchy and serve as garnishes for soups and salads .
Enoki also have proven immune system benefits .
Maitake Also known as “ hen of the woods ” these dark brown wavy clusters can be simmered or grilled and have a much more woodsy flavor than other varieties .
Maitake are also known for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eastern cultures .
Oyster Shaped like soft oyster shells , these light gray colored mushrooms need to be cooked only briefly .
Studies suggest they may have therapeutic value in the treatment of diabetes .
Pom-Poms These soft white balls have a mild taste and no stem .
They are prepared without washing by slicing and sautéing , and have been compared to lobster or veal in taste .
They have been claimed in eastern medicine to help with digestive and nervous system problems as well as many other conditions .
No longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consume almost one billion pounds of mushrooms annually , or 4 pounds per capita each year .
Are you are eating your annual 4 pounds of mushrooms ?
What ’ s your favorite way to get mushrooms into your menu ?

Although mushrooms get good press as a low-calorie, high fiber, low-cholesterol, low-sodium decoration for your pizza, there is much more to the mushroom story than that.
Mushrooms have been valued for their culinary and medicinal properties for thousands of years and the Egyptians reserved them by law for the pharaoh. Hieroglyphics dating back 4,600 years depict their royal ancestry as well as their association with immortality.
In ancient times, mushrooms were not cultivated but grew wild, and always carried the risk that the wrong (i.e., poisonous) variety had been gathered intentionally or unintentionally, as the Roman Emperor Claudius found when his mushroom dinner became his last meal.
Ancient Asian civilizations believed that mushrooms, especially the shiitake and maitake varieties, support health generally and the immune system in particular. Today there is a wealth of scientific research attesting to the health benefits of mushrooms.
Selenium-Rich Mushrooms
Often lumped together with vegetables, mushrooms are actually a type of fungus with no roots or leaves or seeds. Despite their lack of the vibrant colors that we have been trained to associate with antioxidants, mushrooms are actually a good source of selenium, which is necessary for the functioning of the entire antioxidant system.
Selenium is also the chemical element that the body needs to efficiently use oxygen, detoxify the body, promote heart health and maintain healthy skin.
Crimini mushrooms, the brown mushrooms that are sometimes called “baby bellas,” provide over 52% of the daily recommended value of selenium. They also provide almost 30% of the daily value of niacin (vitamin B3) which forms enzymes needed to convert sugars into energy. Niacin is also helpful in lowering cholesterol and preventing osteoarthritis.
Mushrooms and Vitamin D
Because they are grown in the dark, it is a little odd that mushrooms are a good source of vitamin D,the sunshine vitamin. In fact, mushrooms are one of the few “vegetarian” sources of vitamin D, which is otherwise available naturally in cod liver oil, fatty fish like mackerel, salmon, sardines and tuna, or eggs and liver. It is estimated that 10 mushrooms provide 10% of the daily value of vitamin D.
In the future, mushrooms may become an even richer source of vitamin D since, like humans, they produce vitamin D when exposed to sunshine. Recent research suggests that exposing mushrooms to ultraviolet rays for just 5 minutes could increase their vitamin D content to 100% or more of the recommended daily value. For many of us this is a more palatable choice than cod liver oil.
Other nutritional benefits of mushrooms include:
the highest levels of a potent antioxidant called L-ergothioneine that activates the immune system and acts as a free radical scavenger;
high levels of the trace mineral copper as well as iron, both of which are needed for hemoglobin synthesis; an
more potassium per serving than a small banana, aiding in the maintenance of proper blood pressure as well as proper functioning of nerves and muscles.
Varieties of Mushrooms
Although the Japanese have been cultivating shiitake mushrooms for the past 2,000 years, other varieties have been cultivated only in the past 200 years. The French began to cultivate mushrooms commercially in the late 19th century and American immigrants cultivated the first mushrooms in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania in 1896.
The most common cultivated edible mushroom in the world is the button mushroom which was for many years believed to have no nutritional or medicinal value. Recent studies, however, have established that the lowly button, as well as crimini and portobello, contain as much anti-oxidant power as their Asian counterparts that have been prized for centuries for their disease prevention and healing properties.
In Asian medicine, shiitake and maitake mushrooms, now widely available in U.S. markets, have proven so successful in boosting the immune system and fighting cancer, that they are now being tested against HIV.
Reishi mushrooms are also a staple of Chinese medicine. Although they are not edible, they are available in teas, extract and capsules and are used to improve immunity and reduce inflammation.
Edible mushrooms are versatile and easy to incorporate into your daily diet. All it takes is a one-half cup serving to start to get the benefits. Add them to soups, stews, grains and greens or toss them into your salad.
Here are some varieties to try.
White Button These white mushrooms are far and away the most popular variety in the U.S. and constitute 87% of sales. They have a mild flavor, can be cooked or eaten raw and come in a wide range of sizes from tiny to large stuffing caps.
Crimini These brown mushrooms resemble the button except that they are darker, ranging from light tan to dark brown. They have a more intense flavor but are still relatively mild and can be prepared and used interchangeably with the button variety.
Portabello These large mushrooms are the mature version of crimini and in fact, until the mid 1980’s, were considered a waste product because they had grown too big to maintain the uniformly domed shape of the crimini. When Phillips Mushroom Farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania began giving portabellas away to chefs along the East Coast, consumers started to demand them and today they are available in most supermarkets. They are much more robust than the button or crimini and their meaty texture allows them to stand up to grilling, broiling and roasting.
Shiitake These dark brown mushrooms have a distinctive umbrella shape, earthy flavor and chewy texture. The stems of these mushrooms should be removed before cooking because they are too tough for eating. Shiitake have been studied extensively for their cancer prevention abilities.
Enoki These delicate white clustered filaments with tiny caps are very mild and crunchy and serve as garnishes for soups and salads. Enoki also have proven immune system benefits.
Maitake Also known as “hen of the woods” these dark brown wavy clusters can be simmered or grilled and have a much more woodsy flavor than other varieties. Maitake are also known for their healing properties and immunity protection in eastern cultures.
Oyster Shaped like soft oyster shells, these light gray colored mushrooms need to be cooked only briefly. Studies suggest they may have therapeutic value in the treatment of diabetes.
Pom-Poms These soft white balls have a mild taste and no stem. They are prepared without washing by slicing and sautéing, and have been compared to lobster or veal in taste. They have been claimed in eastern medicine to help with digestive and nervous system problems as well as many other conditions.
No longer reserved for pharaohs and emperors, Americans consume almost one billion pounds of mushrooms annually, or 4 pounds per capita each year.
Are you are eating your annual 4 pounds of mushrooms? What’s your favorite way to get mushrooms into your menu?


renegadetribune--2020-09-06--MP Geoffrey Dickens Speaking About Child Murder

Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens was a campaigner against child abuse who exposed high up paedophiles and satanists in the British @ @ @ @ @ threats and his house was burgled twice by people searching for documents .

Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens was a campaigner against child abuse who exposed high up paedophiles and satanists in the British establishment. He received death threats and his house was burgled twice by people searching for documents.
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renegadetribune--2020-09-06--Trump Throws His Base a Bone by Banning Critical Race Theory Being Taught at Federal Level

This past week journalist Chris Rufo was on Tucker Carlson talking about how the federal government is using federal funds @ @ @ @ @ Race Theory ( anti-Whiteness ) .
He called on Trump to ban this insanity and @ @ @ @ @ With an election coming up , it would look really bad if Trump did not @ @ @ @ @ that Critical Race Theory was being pushed by the federal government , but do we @ @ @ @ @ unaware of this before watching Tucker ?
Of course I am 100 % against Critical @ @ @ @ @ even did a whole show about it in 2016 , but I do not think @ @ @ @ @ right now out of the goodness of his heart and a sense of fairness .
@ @ @ @ @ base believing that Trump actually represents the average White American , especially after the whole @ @ @ @ @ caring about dead soldiers came out .
It is very dangerous for us to believe @ @ @ @ @ is anything other than complicit in jew-orchestrated White genocide .

This past week journalist Chris Rufo was on Tucker Carlson talking about how the federal government is using federal funds to indoctrinate employees with Critical Race Theory (anti-Whiteness). He called on Trump to ban this insanity and Trump actually did it.
With an election coming up, it would look really bad if Trump did not respond after it was exposed that Critical Race Theory was being pushed by the federal government, but do we really believe that he was unaware of this before watching Tucker?
The memo says:
It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda.
Here’s the full document:
“Based” Beck is on board:
Yet another very important difference between @realDonaldTrump and #BeijingBiden. Thank you mr president for understanding the destructive power of Critical Race Theory. It is another poison ☠ from
the demonic mind of Karl Marx. Schools next? https://t.co/1jx7kA0PzP — Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) September 5, 2020
A bunch of Trumptards are super excited.
https://twitter.com/HalleyBorderCol/status/1302061620261249024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1302061620261249024%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D61703
The President and his Administration are fully committed to the fair and equal treatment of all individuals in the United States!https://t.co/iHguUaS3zm — David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) September 5, 2020
Bravo! Trump Bans Federal Money From Funding Far-Left Anti-American ‘Critical Race Theory’ https://t.co/Q5YQ5pELnR — Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 5, 2020
Of course I am 100% against Critical Race Theory, and I even did a whole show about it in 2016, but I do not think Trump is actually doing this right now out of the goodness of his heart and a sense of fairness. This is to get his base believing that Trump actually represents the average White American, especially after the whole scandal about him supposedly not caring about dead soldiers came out. It is very dangerous for us to believe that the the federal government is anything other than complicit in jew-orchestrated White genocide.
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renegadetribune--2020-09-06--The Big Picture Of Child Trafficking – Pizzagate and Beyond

This is a compilation of all of the child trafficking exposes we have done to date .
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This is a compilation of all of the child trafficking exposes we have done to date. Please share!


renegadetribune--2020-09-07--Honest Abe Impersonator Arrested For Child Pornography

Sadly , here is another example of a true pandemic , the jewish influenced and controlled rot of child exploitation .
There is no place this scourge doesn ’ t reach , causing untold human suffering and destruction .
A 63-year-old Freeport , Illinois resident , George Buss , was arrested on Friday , August 28th on charges related to producing a child pornography video , according to officials .
Authorities also charged Buss with patronizing a prostitute following a six-month investigation that began in February , according to a police news release .
Buss is somewhat of a celebrity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lincoln impersonator for decades .
His arrest came one day prior to his annual Freeport Lincoln-Douglas debate reenactment ( virtual this time due to the “ plandemic ” of course ) .
Buss was ordered held on $ 200,000 bond in the Stephenson County Jail and was set to appear in court Sept. 10th , according to court records .
A 22-year-old , Tyler Dotson , was also charged in the same investigation with two separate counts of disseminating a child pornography video and prostitution , according to police .
Here is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Buss has traveled around the country impersonating Lincoln [ since 1986 ] , including reenactments of the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania .
In 1994 , a series of reenactments including Buss , who started impersonating Lincoln about 30 years ago , was televised on C-SPAN.
” “ The crimes George Buss stands accused of are heinous , ” state Rep. Andrew Chesney , R-Freeport , said in a statement.
“ I denounce him in the strongest of terms .
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be heard and may justice be quickly served.
” As with similar stories , the public is provided little detail of who the victims or their families are .
And , looking at his short bio , Buss has had the opportunity to exploit children for a long time .
Here is a quote from a New York Post article : “ Prior to taking his Lincoln-lookalike act on the road , Buss was a teacher at Freeport High School , and once was a member of the district ’ s Board of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He ’ d often visit schools for his performances… ” Here is a quote from a Newsweek article : “ Buss reportedly worked at the Freeport School District as the Audio/Visual Installation and Design ( AVID ) District Director for ten years .
He also served on the local teachers ’ union as Vice President for Equity , a job that generally deals with diversity and inclusion initiatives , according to WIFR.
” It looks like Buss took his Audio/Visual skills in a whole different direction and those terms diversity and inclusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a one of those “ conspiracy nuts ” I find it interesting the timing of someone reenacting one of the icons of the United States has now had his reputation dragged through the mud .
This is especially so , since the president he has been playing for over thirty years is held up as one of the greatest White leaders in American history , having supposedly freed the slaves .
With a lot of the MSM picking up on this story and their support of radical groups like BLM and antifa , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than what the surface story is telling us ?
Could Buss be a jewish sacrificial lamb for the greater narrative ?

Sadly, here is another example of a true pandemic, the jewish influenced and controlled rot of child exploitation. There is no place this scourge doesn’t reach, causing untold human suffering and destruction.
A 63-year-old Freeport, Illinois resident, George Buss, was arrested on Friday, August 28th on charges related to producing a child pornography video, according to officials. Authorities also charged Buss with patronizing a prostitute following a six-month investigation that began in February, according to a police news release.
Buss is somewhat of a celebrity since he has been a president Abraham Lincoln impersonator for decades. His arrest came one day prior to his annual Freeport Lincoln-Douglas debate reenactment (virtual this time due to the “plandemic” of course). Buss was ordered held on $200,000 bond in the Stephenson County Jail and was set to appear in court Sept. 10th, according to court records.
A 22-year-old, Tyler Dotson, was also charged in the same investigation with two separate counts of disseminating a child pornography video and prostitution, according to police.
Here is a quote from a Chicago Tribune article:
“Buss has traveled around the country impersonating Lincoln [since 1986], including reenactments of the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. In 1994, a series of reenactments including Buss, who started impersonating Lincoln about 30 years ago, was televised on C-SPAN.”
“The crimes George Buss stands accused of are heinous,” state Rep. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, said in a statement.“I denounce him in the strongest of terms. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. May their voices be heard and may justice be quickly served.”
As with similar stories, the public is provided little detail of who the victims or their families are. And, looking at his short bio, Buss has had the opportunity to exploit children for a long time.
Here is a quote from a New York Post article:
“Prior to taking his Lincoln-lookalike act on the road, Buss was a teacher at Freeport High School, and once was a member of the district’s Board of Education, according to WIFR in Illinois. He’d often visit schools for his performances…”
Here is a quote from a Newsweek article:
“Buss reportedly worked at the Freeport School District as the Audio/Visual Installation and Design (AVID) District Director for ten years. He also served on the local teachers’ union as Vice President for Equity, a job that generally deals with diversity and inclusion initiatives, according to WIFR.”
It looks like Buss took his Audio/Visual skills in a whole different direction and those terms diversity and inclusion initiatives are triggering as well.
As a one of those “conspiracy nuts” I find it interesting the timing of someone reenacting one of the icons of the United States has now had his reputation dragged through the mud. This is especially so, since the president he has been playing for over thirty years is held up as one of the greatest White leaders in American history, having supposedly freed the slaves. With a lot of the MSM picking up on this story and their support of radical groups like BLM and antifa, is there more of an agenda here than what the surface story is telling us? Could Buss be a jewish sacrificial lamb for the greater narrative?
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