GR Herero religion

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jbor wrote:
> 
> "The history of the old Hereros is one of lost messages. It began in
> mythical times, when the sly hare who nests in the Moon brought death among
> men, instead of the Moon's true message. The true message has never come."
> 
> Enzian is born into a situation where traditional Herero religion and
> culture has already been corrupted by contact with Europeans. The story of
> his parentage symbolises how his life is tainted from the get-go.

That's right. The Herero religion, prior to its contact with the white
christian world was organized and functioned. 

> 
> Isn't Enzian seeking "return" in the Rocket? Isn't his notion of "return"
> connected with self-sacrifice, obliteration? His survival on the great trek
> across the Kalahari is just luck (he fell asleep), isn't it? Same with his
> being "passed over" by the German soldiers. The text calls it "a Herod
> myth". (In fact, evading "the murderers in blue" probably has more to do
> with Weissmann's protection than anything else.)

Enzian, as you note, grows up in the white occupied world. The religion
of his ancestors has been infected with the christian sickness. That's
one of the reasons the people keep applying the christian hero legends
to him, Herod and so on, that is why they are SOS and so on. 

There is no Return. The Germans destroy their organized religion, their
traditions, murder them--Genocide. 

And what do you know, the same thing happened to the Anabaptists, they
were an organized religion too and they too were the victims of genocide
by white christians (catholics and Lutherans). 


> 
> I don't know what your point is (nor with Amy Sprue).

My point is that organized religions are not all denounced in GR. 

Amy was executed for being a witch, but she was in fact an antinomian,
as were the Anabaptists. 

Read Terry Reilly's essay, GR, The Anabaptist Rebellion?