WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.990 --> 00:00:03.490 align:middle line:84% Of the Origin of the Gods: A Catechism. 00:00:03.490 --> 00:00:06.310 align:middle line:90% 00:00:06.310 --> 00:00:11.620 align:middle line:84% I am that God who was already there in the scattered water 00:00:11.620 --> 00:00:14.740 align:middle line:90% at the back of time before now. 00:00:14.740 --> 00:00:17.800 align:middle line:90% I am the last one. 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.244 align:middle line:90% Who is this? 00:00:21.244 --> 00:00:24.580 align:middle line:84% This is the God who was not a child, 00:00:24.580 --> 00:00:28.390 align:middle line:84% the first one before you, the last one behind you, 00:00:28.390 --> 00:00:34.900 align:middle line:84% the God of no face and no flesh who nevertheless faces you. 00:00:34.900 --> 00:00:37.036 align:middle line:90% Explain this. 00:00:37.036 --> 00:00:42.400 align:middle line:84% This is that God who came to himself and knew his own name, 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:46.270 align:middle line:90% in that name naming. 00:00:46.270 --> 00:00:49.810 align:middle line:84% And the great train of gods was called out 00:00:49.810 --> 00:00:53.540 align:middle line:90% of the darkness of his mouth. 00:00:53.540 --> 00:00:57.410 align:middle line:84% I am that God who named his own parts 00:00:57.410 --> 00:01:01.730 align:middle line:84% and they rose up around me shining. 00:01:01.730 --> 00:01:02.810 align:middle line:90% Who is this? 00:01:02.810 --> 00:01:05.150 align:middle line:90% Explain it. 00:01:05.150 --> 00:01:09.050 align:middle line:84% Some say these are the millions of years in which 00:01:09.050 --> 00:01:12.380 align:middle line:90% all things come to pass. 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:23.360 align:middle line:84% Some say the name of this God is island, or pillar, or gate. 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:27.830 align:middle line:84% Others however say the god is a dead body sealed up 00:01:27.830 --> 00:01:31.610 align:middle line:84% in the ground, a piece of shit at the bottom of a lake. 00:01:31.610 --> 00:01:34.600 align:middle line:90% 00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:38.020 align:middle line:90% The name of the God is hidden. 00:01:38.020 --> 00:01:43.480 align:middle line:84% It has already disappeared into the darkness of shapes. 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:50.530 align:middle line:84% It watches, it devours, it wraps itself in the hair of animals, 00:01:50.530 --> 00:01:55.900 align:middle line:84% it hides its face in the flames of heaven. 00:01:55.900 --> 00:02:03.040 align:middle line:84% Its mouth is the dead wind in the heat of midday. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.010 align:middle line:90% Its two eyes roar with light. 00:02:06.010 --> 00:02:08.669 align:middle line:90% 00:02:08.669 --> 00:02:14.730 align:middle line:84% This is the God in whose body I walk, in whom I stand upright. 00:02:14.730 --> 00:02:20.010 align:middle line:84% The feet and legs of the god, the moving phallus, the womb, 00:02:20.010 --> 00:02:24.060 align:middle line:84% the hair shaken over the brow, the arms 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:27.772 align:middle line:90% outstretched from star to star. 00:02:27.772 --> 00:02:28.272 align:middle line:90%