ASTRAL WORSHIP THROUGH MODERN DEVICES OF HUMAN DECADENCE::::ॐ
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty.
This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe.
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
[From an undated, handwritten piece of text from the early 1950s which Sagan wrote when he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago]”
Astrotheology, astral mysticism, astral religion, astral or stellar theology (also referred to as astral or star worship) is the worship of the stars (individually or together as the night sky), the planets, and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies. In anthropological literature these systems of practice may be referred to as astral cults.
The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Also notable is the association of the planets with deities in Babylonian, and hence in Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Gods, goddesses, and demons may also be considered personifications of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses, planetary alignments, and apparent interactions of planetary bodies with stars. The Sabaeans were known for their astrotheology ('the astral cult'), for which reason the practice is also known as Sabaism or Sabaeanism.
The term astro-theology was first used in the context of 18th- to 19th-century scholarship aiming at the discovery of the original religion, particularly primitive monotheism. Astro-theology is any "religious system founded upon the observation of the heavens," and in particular may be monotheistic. More recently, the term astrotheology is used by Jan Irvin, Jordan Maxwell and Andrew Rutajit (2006) in reference to "the earliest known forms of religion and nature worship advocating the entheogen theory of the origin of religion."
The related term astrolatry usually implies polytheism. Some Abrahamic religions prohibit astrolatry as idolatrous. Pole star worship was also banned by imperial decree in Heian period Japan.
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Polymelia is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Stanley Christiaensen, also active in (Suicidal Astronaut), (Heavy Heads), (Boy Minos), (The Immortal Samsara Travelers) Fascinated by the space and abstraction of time through mind warping, deep drone music inspired by Alvin Lucier, Eliane Radigue and Charlemagne Palestine, Polymelia seeks to reach a state of frequential meditation where dissonance, ear piercing highs and subconcious lows make the listener settle in a sonic trance like being where the mind is able to shut off in peace and let the senses do the work "(JOUISSANCE)" is always the goal. If its analog kosmische musik (A Study on Drone And Synthesis), new age Neopsychedelia (Huh?) or astral doom drones (Saturn & Neptune)
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released May 22, 2022
Music produced by Stanley Christiaensen (Polymelia)
