Sabazios, the Great God on Horseback of the Phrygians, first appeared to me in a dream about a week ago.
In the dream, I was in a desert, the wind was howling. I was all alone, and I was scared. Ereshkigal appeared, her cloak whipping in the wind. She raised her hands to the sky, and I hear hoofbeats in the distance.
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A man who looked almost exactly like Khal Drogo, appeared, riding a HUGE black horse, with a white diamond on its third eye. He stopped ahead of me, and laughed, a huge booming laugh like thunder. "What a fine body you have chosen for me! So large and so dark and so famous!" [At this point, I knew he was Sabazios, although, honestly, I'm not sure where I'd even heard that name.]
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Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones |
In the way of dreams, next thing I know, I am riding on a giant pig, next to Sabazios on horseback. We gallop through the desert, over dunes, over mountains, onto a broad grassland plain.
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In the steppes, I am standing next to Sabazios, who is still on horseback. He sweeps me up onto the horse's back. I haven't ridden a horse since I was little, but I used to love it. Ereshkigal takes the pig, and slits its throat while Sabazios and I are "occupied". The hot blood sprays over us. I wake up.
I wake up in my yurt, and rush to the Temple of Sabazios to tell them my dream, and to demand a blessing. At first, they don't want to let me in (I think because I am a virgin?), but I tell them that my uncle Haran (*) is the high priest. They admit me into the Temple courtyard. It is made of tan brick. There is a large rectangular reflecting pool. Around the edges are arches and columns. I wake up again, for real this time.
(*) Haran is a brother of Abram and Sarai in the Bible. He is the uncle of both Isaac and Rebekkah.
Fun fact: Wild boar was my late father's totem.
ReplyDeleteEreshkigal has this to say on the topic of the boar: "It's called a 'patronus' because it's your father's totem."
ReplyDeletePowerful and interesting dream.
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