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Alan Butler and Janet Wolter Claim Baseball Diamonds Are Goddess Worship Cult Sites

2/26/2015

46 Comments

 
Are you as “excited” as I am for Alan Butler’s and Janet Wolter’s new book America: Nation of the Goddess? Destiny Books, the publisher, has put up a description of the forthcoming title on parent company Inner Traditions’ website, and it’s as chock full of crazy claims as you’d expect. The two authors posit that a “secret cabal” of related families are secretly running the United States on the twin principles of “sacred geometry” and “goddess worship.” It’s almost as though Robert Graves’s White Goddess and Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult in Western Europe had a ménage à trois with Holy Blood, Holy Grail. 
You have to love the four bullet points that the publisher considered the highlights of this soon to be classic text of crackpot conspiracies:

  • Exposes the esoteric influences behind the National Grange Order of Husbandry 
  • Examines the sacred design and hidden purpose of the Washington Monument 
  • Reveals how the three obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt 
  • Explains how every baseball diamond is actually a temple to the Goddess

I’ve dealt with the first three claims in my previous coverage of these researchers. My detailed discussion of the alleged pagan origins of the Grange is here; my discussion of the Washington Monument penis-vagina imagery is here; and my discussion of the New York Orion’s Belt claim, with a map showing why it’s wrong is here.

The baseball diamond claim is new to me. And to think, my uncle helped build and used to manage a local baseball stadium. Who knew that the devoted Catholic was secretly a goddess worshipper building a pagan temple! 
The authors conclude with the startling revelation that nearly every city in America has a temple to the Goddess hidden in plain sight--their baseball diamonds--exposing the extent to which the Venus families are still at work behind the scenes.
Does this also include softball diamonds? How was this affected by changes to the Knickerbocker Rules after 1845?

Of all the book’s nutty claims, this is the one I’d like to hear the argument for since I can’t conceive of how a baseball diamond and a goddess temple are alike. It must have something to do with “sacred geometry,” but to what end? Of course, anyone who believes, as Butler does, that the recently added paths around the Washington Monument are the fulfillment of a centuries-long quest to draw a vagina around the phallic obelisk probably has no issue with assuming that modern baseball diamonds are the fulfillment of an ancient baseball-Freemason conspiracy.

This concept of “Venus Families” has the whiff of the ridiculous. According to Butler and Wolter, the secret elite are goddess worshippers who venerate the planet Venus as symbolic of this goddess, and these families “trace their lineage back to the Eleusinian Mysteries.” This is especially obnoxious because the Eleusinian Mysteries were decidedly not meant to be restricted to an elite few. Now, granted, the ancients all conspired to honor the sacred rites of Eleusis by preserving the great secret revealed during initiation (believed to be a shaft of wheat, symbolizing rebirth), but pretty much anyone could participate in the Mysteries and be initiated into the cult of Demeter and Persephone, and thus the promise of eternal life—provided he or she had the money to pay the entrance fees. Each year hundreds or even thousands of people came from across the Greco-Roman world to be initiated. (Jan Bremmer gives the number as 3,000, though some were mystagogues rather than initiates.)

It smacks of the ridiculous to view this as something that was so esoteric that only an elite few families were privy to the Mysteries’ darkest secrets. This claim must derive from the historical fact that after 300 BCE, when the Athenian state took over the Mysteries, they were placed in the control of the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes families; however, the Eumolpidae, while goddess worshippers, claimed to be descended from Poseidon and/or Hermes, while the Kerykes claimed relations to Hermes and to Demeter. The Kerykes were the driving force behind expanding the Mysteries’ membership to anyone who spoke Greek and lacked blood guilt, even slaves.

But the planet Venus wasn’t associated with the goddesses of Eleusis, Demeter and Persephone. In Greek mythology, it was the planet of Aphrodite, the Roman Venus, as the name suggests. Aphrodite had a very different cult, one often identified with Ishtar and Astarte, the Eastern goddesses associated with Venus. If you were trying to make a case for “Venus” families, you might do better to look at Ishtar.

All of this is ridiculous, though, since the Greeks didn’t recognize that the morning and evening stars were the same, or identify them with Aphrodite, until the fourth century BCE, nearly 1,100 years after the Eleusinian Mysteries were established.

We can’t read too much into a book description, since they are usually written by PR flaks who don’t really understand the books they promote, but I found this interesting: In the description, the “Venus families” have “a lineage tracing back to the Eleusinian Mysteries” but also are active in the Grange, and the authors “trace its lineage back to the Cisterians.” So what were the “Venus families” doing between the time Theodosius I closed the Mysteries in 392 CE and when the Cistercians were established in 1098 CE? If they were privy to the secrets of the Holy Bloodline and the ancient mysteries, how did they manage to fall victim to Byzantine Christians and Gothic Arians, who under Alaric destroyed Eleusis and killed the last hierophant of the Mysteries, a usurper.

If we believe Butler and his friends Scott Wolter and Steve St. Clair, they waited in their secret lairs for three centuries before becoming the Merovingian kings in France and failing at that job, too. Two centuries of hiding later they became Knights Templar and failed at that. Then four centuries later they became Freemasons and once again failed to take over the world… unless they are ruling it right now. How is it that the “Venus families” manage to be so bad at ruling the world? For all the imagined esoteric power of their Mysteries, this mysticism seems to be no match for the temporal power of arms.

Finally: I didn’t know that Janet Wolter is a paid research assistant for Committee Films, the producers of America Unearthed, the show hosted by her husband. Nothing like keeping it all in the family! And what a lovely coincidence that her book is scheduled to be published at the end of November, just in time for the next season of America Unearthed (should it be renewed), which will undoubtedly serve as a promotional platform for the book. 
46 Comments
EP
2/26/2015 06:03:40 am

Let's not jump to conclusions about Committee Films *paying* Janet Wolter for her research! :)

Also - and I cannot stress it enough! - it's not just that some baseball diamonds are Goddess temples, it's that

EVERY. BASEBALL. DIAMOND.

is a Goddess temple!

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Code 55
2/26/2015 06:08:16 am

It suggests that Scott Wolter cannot find a publisher, and that Alan Butler is a bigger "brand name"

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EP
2/26/2015 06:13:53 am

Not really. Scott Wolter wrote a preface for this book, and his name is prominently featured on the cover. Besides, Wolter's always said that it was Janet who introduced him to sacred geometry.

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Matt Mc
2/26/2015 06:19:53 am

So EP are you saying that Wolters wife, Janet, introduced him to the sacred vagina?

I think it is fair to say that a lot of husbands feel that way

EP
2/26/2015 09:16:45 am

You could even say that she got him... :drumroll:

...hooked.

YEAH!!! :D

Only Me
2/26/2015 09:30:10 am

I just hope he didn't need that phone app to achieve proper alignment. :)

EP
2/26/2015 06:24:27 am

By the way, in case anyone doubts that the Wolters are incapable of having even terrible original ideas, baseball has a long, distinguished history of Masonic and numerological tinfoil-hattery:

http://www.remnantradio.org/Archives/articles/Baseball/baseball.htm

(I had no idea until googling it just now, but I can't say I'm surprised.)

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Jason Colavito link
2/26/2015 06:43:44 am

Wow. That makes me wonder (a) if Butler copies everything from other people and (b) if there is anything so stupid that he and the Wolters won't believe it.

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EP
2/26/2015 07:06:18 am

(a) Yes

(b) No

(c) check your mailbox

V
2/26/2015 04:48:02 pm

My brother and I have taken to using the phrase "That's so Wolter!" to describe anything so stupid it is literally incomprehensible to us. It seems to be...fitting.

Also, why are people jumping over the obvious, and more or less actual, "sacred geometry" going on? The bases form a square. During the Renaissance, various artists wrote that the perfect square and the perfect circle are both sacred because they are "perfect" and represent "the perfection of God." I don't remember a lot of my references at the moment; it's been a decade or so since my Art History courses, but my professor wrote her doctoral thesis about Renaissance art, so she was really big on giving us that stuff. There's a lot of churches from the time planned on circles and squares, in combinations and alone. So if you want to argue "sacred geometry" in baseball diamonds, talk about the actual square, not some imaginary compass and builder's square! I would totally give some kudos to any fringe historian who actually did THAT.

Crash55
2/26/2015 10:39:28 am

That was soooo bad that I couldn't finish it. They talk about the 3 strikes but conveniently forget to mention 4 balls as it doesn't fit their numerology

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anonymous
2/26/2015 06:41:26 am

I have a new interpretation of the hooked X. Wolter and his wife with the hook being Butler coming in through the back door.

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JLH
2/26/2015 10:07:10 am

Classy.

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anonymous
2/26/2015 01:15:17 pm

A threesome is Masonic, you know.

EP
2/26/2015 07:23:38 am

From "Baseball as an Esoteric Ritual" by Hannah M.G.Shapero:

http://southerncrossreview.org/53/diamond2.htm

"Far more than other sports, baseball shows an esoteric structure. The game is played on a geomantically perfect square. Each base stands at what would be the quarters in Western esoteric ritual. These four bases also stand for the four elements, though attributions are variable: Home plate, with its coating of dust, seems to be Earth, while third base is traditionally referred to as the "hot corner," signifying Fire. In the center is the pitcher's mound, a circle in the middle of the square mandala, which speaks to us of the fifth element of Spirit, or the center point of wholeness."

"The men on the field hold to their positions as reverently as any Masonic or Hermetic ritualist. In the outfield stand the attendants in the outer courts. On each of the quarters stands a baseman, guarding his sacred trust. The shortstop moves between inner and outer, like swift Hermes, who moves between the worlds. The catcher, at his Earth station, also serves as Guardian of the Threshold; he challenges those who would enter or leave the quadrant as base runners. In the center is the pitcher, or Hierophant, upon whose offerings the course of the ritual depends. Completing the scene are the priests in blue, the umpires, who know the Law and keep the ritual correct."

https://i.imgur.com/a4uo7WFh.jpg

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Shane Sullivan
2/26/2015 10:22:46 am

If the bases represent the four elements, and the pitcher's mound the fifth, then shouldn't baseball be played on a pentagram? I mean, according to the Wiccans, at least.

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EP
2/26/2015 11:18:47 am

I think I should defer to proper authorities on that one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b3gJZw6X-LA#t=1340

Sky Matters
2/26/2015 03:33:11 pm

That made me think of an old book (Coyote Silk) by the poet Gino Sky which culminates in the gods and goddesses playing a cosmic baseball game. I don't remember that much about it, Gino got carried away with himself in that one. But maybe he was on to something! In any event I decided to track it down.

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Dan
2/26/2015 04:41:26 pm

Too bad the pitcher's mound is not in the center of the field, its significantly closer to home than to second base. The mound is 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate and its 127 feet and 3 3/4 inches from home to second base. That means its about 67 feet from the mound to second base.
When you start to talk about "geometrically perfect" structures, it helps to know what the hell you're talking about.

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EP
2/26/2015 05:02:41 pm

When you start talking about *anything*, it helps to know what the hell you're talking about :D

tm
2/26/2015 05:15:18 pm

He probably lost count when he was measuring with his megalithic yardstick. :)

Mark L
2/26/2015 08:18:07 pm

The positions aren't set, and the vastly increased use of the shift in recent years indicates that baseball teams are trying to break free of their Masonic coding. Or something.

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bkd69
2/26/2015 07:57:46 am

Dull, dull, dull.

Why is it always Orion's Belt? Surely, after all the repeated debunking, they should certainly be able to come up with Occult Mystery constellations, maybe from the Voynich manuscript, that would deliberately match their sacred geometries.

And what of cricket pitches?

By the way, Jason, I dearly want to play in one of your campaigns.

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Clete
2/26/2015 08:17:03 am

Gee, if I had known I was playing on a temple of Goddess worship I would have gotten down on my knees and prayed for help to hit a curve ball.

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Only Me
2/26/2015 08:17:53 am

Now we know why baseball is called "America's pastime"...*if* you believe America is the promised land Wolter's Templars were looking for.

I don't know who's more pathetic, the Wolters or the people that will believe this steaming pile of crap.

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titus pullo
2/26/2015 12:52:54 pm

America's pasttime is boring. I can't get through watching a Yankee game anymore. 4 hours plus for a ball game? Football has replaced Baseball....so the Templars and Venus cult has lost to the Sunday NFL festivals. then again there are Vikings on Sunday....is there some meaning there?

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Only Me
2/27/2015 08:06:40 am

You might be on to something, Titus.

Let's see, we have the Buccaneers, obviously representative of those adventurous, sea-faring Templar "privateers". Then we have the Saints with their sacred bees...I mean, fleurs-de-lis. Of course, the Templars bequeathed America to the Freemasons, so naturally, there's the Patriots. Oh! We mustn't also forget the Rams.

Come to think of it, the ol' Sinclair DNA was supposedly thrown around with gusto, so we have to include the Chiefs and Redskins.

Damn! I guess the NFL is in cahoots with the Venus families!

EP
2/27/2015 08:10:37 am

Sigh... When will we all learn that our jokes are always already conspiracies? :)

http://harddawn.com/is-the-nfl-controlled-by-the-lesbian-wing-of-the-illuminati/

Only Me
2/27/2015 08:21:04 am

EP, YOU POMPOUS BULLSHITTER!

Why did you have to share a link to a website with such staggering examples of brain damage?

[Are Militant Atheists Using Chemtrails to Poison the Angels in Heaven?]

[Is the Gay “Bear” Scene Opening the Door to Homosexual Male Pregnancy?]

[Many Atheists Believe That Eating Puppy Fetuses Will Cure Their Sexual Impotency. Here’s Why They’re Wrong]

EP
2/27/2015 08:28:40 am

It's a parody website. But they link to ostensibly serious claims.

Calm down, nerd. :P

Only Me
2/27/2015 09:02:23 am

I'll have you know, good sir, that I'm a Geekus Americanus. :)

tm
2/26/2015 08:25:32 am

In a follow up note to his sheep posting on Wolter's blog, Butler also explores the astronomical signicance of pool tables and notes his fascination with the different colored balls. Uh...

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EP
2/26/2015 09:06:10 am

Ahahahahaha!!! OMG

http://knightstemplarvault.com/origins-of-baseball-and-the-knights-templar/

"Undoubtedly, the Masons envisioned immense opportunities for baseball in the Americas. It is possible however, that Masonic baseball upon its arrival to the colonies simply merged with the version of the game that was first brought to the New World by Henry St. Clair and his followers (see Templars in America: From the Crusades to the New World by Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins). One way or another, the United States of America, the country largely founded on Masonic principles, was the place where baseball truly flourished, as we all know. By the 21st century, baseball became an international sport."

(And yes, "This arcticle is found in: Templar jokes")

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Alaric
2/26/2015 11:25:44 am

And, right at the top, "Originally posted on April 1st". :)

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mhe
2/26/2015 02:37:03 pm

Thanks EP, that made my day. Templar baseball cards, got to love it.

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Titus pullo
2/26/2015 10:22:53 am

Maybe it's all just about money. What else does butler do for a living? And wolters a small businessman, maybe he saw the opportunity when he did the first krs study.

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Uncle Ron
2/26/2015 02:35:56 pm

A while ago, when I had just discovered this blog, I asked Jason if he thought these people actually believed the nonsense they preach. I don't recall his exact answer but it was along the lines of Some do, some don't. At this point I refuse to believe that any of them actually believe any of it, except that perhaps a few have a genuine mental illness. It has to be about money & ego; it's all just too f'n ridiculous.

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Joe Scales
2/27/2015 03:16:19 am

From what I've read online, Butler was an engineer of some sort who then became an expert in ancient cosmology and astronomy. Without any more specifics, my guess would be that he may have been a sanitation engineer and that any claimed expertise in cosmology/astronomy did not come with a degree from any reputable source, as most folks with legitimate credentials don't tend to be so vague.

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tm
2/27/2015 04:40:12 am

His Amazon bibliography lists two pieces of historical fiction that sound pretty dreadful. I wonder if he is a frustrated novelist who has found more profit and acceptance in writing "creative" psuedo-history than in writing lousy fiction. There is nothing more dangerous than a glib moron.

Eleanor Aquitaine
2/26/2015 10:33:55 am

Jason, if I could have easily found a private email address for you I would have sent this there since I realize this is OT here. I'm finally catching up with some reading post holiday madness, and I'm curious about where you sit with this Lovecraft squabble between a recent review in the NY Review of Books and the response from one of Lovecraft's biographers. It's fine to respond privately via my unpublished email if you prefer. Two links follow: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/18/hideous-unknown-hp-lovecraft/?insrc=whc
and
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/feb/19/judgment-lovecraft/

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Shane Sullivan
2/26/2015 11:08:39 am

While you're waiting for his response, here are a couple of blog posts where he touches on it:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/charles-baxter-h-p-lovecraft-trapped-in-perpetual-adolescence-appeals-to-the-angry-and-antisocial

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/s-t-joshi-blasts-critics-over-lovecraft-and-race-again

The first deals with Baxter's critique, and the second is about Joshi's reaction.

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EP
2/27/2015 04:54:20 am

Mr. and Mrs. Wolter, you have failed the Alex Jones Test:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_lavello_051403_occult.html

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kal
2/27/2015 05:02:03 am

Baseball has always been associated with sex, since the earliest sandlots, but it is not any more ancient than the American civil war in the 1800s and is not masonic or some kind of goddess thing. It has a lot of sexual connotations, thus the confusion. Scoring, striking out, home run, getting on base, the ball, the strike, the bat, all of that. So it's no wonder SW's megalithic yardstick is up, and there is some kind of hooked ex opening inferred in going to home base.

How can it be ancient if it was just invented only about 150 years ago?

The alleged holy bloodline is crazy train territory.

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EP
2/27/2015 05:08:21 am

I've always thought that it's the other way round, that baseball terms got attached to sexual stuff by being used as euphemisms...

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CHV
2/27/2015 05:17:36 am

So I guess this all explains why there's a statue of Athena in front of Wrigley Field. Amazing. Thank you, Scott and Janet.

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Matt Mc
2/27/2015 12:28:27 pm

Now you got me thinking, from the right spot in Capitol Heights MD one could see the Washington Monument penetrate Nationals Stadium. How has this gone unnoticed for the whole 10 years the stadium has been there

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