The Three Cults of the West

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THE THREE CULTS (PILLARS) OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
by Simon Ström
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I like to conceive of the essential ideology of the West, from which myths, tales, rituals and institutions emanate, as consisting of three basic interdependent sacraments, "sub-cults" or "pillars", fashioned almost like a constitution for our civilization.

Dumezil noted that the Indo-European gods mainly represented three societal functions.

Duchesne successfully argued that Western Civilization fundamentally derives from Indo-European cultural impulses, stressing the Faustian spirit of transcendence.

Doolittle has shown that truth-telling emanates from martial epistemology and that natural law (reciprocity) is empirically discovered by a militia of sovereigns pursuing markets in everything.

So I think that we may craft an "articles of association" of Western Civilization, similar perhaps to the one above, to serve as a positiva-and-negativa framework for stories, rituals, etc. and perhaps also polity and law.

1) The cult of transcendence, represented by an archetypical Sky Father ('Odin'), the supreme sovereign and the god of wisdom and law. (truth, of which natural law is a subset)

2) The cult of non-submission, and the virtues of sovereign militiamen, represented by the archetypical striker/thunderer ('Thor') entangled in a heroic cosmogonic duel against a serpent (chaoskampf).

3) The cult of family and kindred, the complementary obligations of monogamous marriage and the virtues of community and commons, represented by a plethora of gods, demigods and apical ancestors honored in ancestral cult, ensuring continuity of any extant kinship organization whether tribe, nation state, house, clan, etc.