The fly Jesus
I've had a long-running joke to myself about each species having it's own Jesus, such as an ant-Jesus, or a mosquito-Jesus, or even a Panda-Jesus. I figure if we are to believe in humans as evolutionarily designed members of the animal kingdom, with a knack for building things and recording collective knowledge to make us smart and special, then we should also consider any God of being and nature to be a Lord of the flies as well as a Lord of wo/mankind.
Flies have been associated with death. Death is the ultimate power over us. God is all-powerful. You might, therefore, think God is death, or God can kill you. Maybe I can. I choose not to. I have a consistent life ethic, and I am pro-life.
Maybe you deserve to die. Maybe you want to die. Nope, not gonna do it. Time kills all. You can consider me time, if you like. That Is ME. All good things to those who wait. All in good time.
Anyway, here's a bit about flies:
They comprise an estimated 240k species, although only roughly half that have been described. They have massive ecological, medical, and economic importance. They often feed on dung, or decayed matter, aka death, or even blood. They pollinate and disperse spores. Their young are called maggots. Their compound eyes, which they rely on heavily for survival, are composed of thousands of individual lenses and are very sensitive to movement. Some flies have very accurate 3D vision. A few, have very advanced hearing organs.
My wife has a placard that reads, "Angels are just bulldogs with wings". I would like to amend this to say "Humans become angels after they are eaten by maggots, and take flight upon the breath of the living"....or something like that. Anyway,
Maggots and flies give forensic scientists useful information, and maggots have been used in medicine to clean out necrotic wounds, and in food production, particularly of cheeses (casu marzu).
Big Fly is an important spirit being in the Navajo religion. They were in the bible as the 4th plague of Egypt.
Mosquitoes are a type of fly. They are vectors for malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, yellow fever, encephalitis and other infectious diseases.
I have swatted many of them, and seen fly ghosts.
the Hebrew name Beelzebub (בעל זבוב, Ba'al-zvuv, "god of the fly", "host of the fly" or literally "Lord of Flies"), is a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan.
I've had a long-running joke to myself about each species having it's own Jesus, such as an ant-Jesus, or a mosquito-Jesus, or even a Panda-Jesus. I figure if we are to believe in humans as evolutionarily designed members of the animal kingdom, with a knack for building things and recording collective knowledge to make us smart and special, then we should also consider any God of being and nature to be a Lord of the flies as well as a Lord of wo/mankind.
Flies have been associated with death. Death is the ultimate power over us. God is all-powerful. You might, therefore, think God is death, or God can kill you. Maybe I can. I choose not to. I have a consistent life ethic, and I am pro-life.
Maybe you deserve to die. Maybe you want to die. Nope, not gonna do it. Time kills all. You can consider me time, if you like. That Is ME. All good things to those who wait. All in good time.
Anyway, here's a bit about flies:
They comprise an estimated 240k species, although only roughly half that have been described. They have massive ecological, medical, and economic importance. They often feed on dung, or decayed matter, aka death, or even blood. They pollinate and disperse spores. Their young are called maggots. Their compound eyes, which they rely on heavily for survival, are composed of thousands of individual lenses and are very sensitive to movement. Some flies have very accurate 3D vision. A few, have very advanced hearing organs.
My wife has a placard that reads, "Angels are just bulldogs with wings". I would like to amend this to say "Humans become angels after they are eaten by maggots, and take flight upon the breath of the living"....or something like that. Anyway,
Maggots and flies give forensic scientists useful information, and maggots have been used in medicine to clean out necrotic wounds, and in food production, particularly of cheeses (casu marzu).
Big Fly is an important spirit being in the Navajo religion. They were in the bible as the 4th plague of Egypt.
Mosquitoes are a type of fly. They are vectors for malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, yellow fever, encephalitis and other infectious diseases.
I have swatted many of them, and seen fly ghosts.
the Hebrew name Beelzebub (בעל זבוב, Ba'al-zvuv, "god of the fly", "host of the fly" or literally "Lord of Flies"), is a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan.
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