The Bones Under the Altar
Every institution conceals its foundations. Every power structure rewrites its origins. The altar of civilization stands on strata of violence, appropriation, and erasure. The bones beneath are not accidental - they are structural. The cathedral's beauty is proportional to the brutality required to erect it. The doctrine's purity is measured by the diversity it suppressed. The history we inherit is the narrative of the victors, carefully curated to obscure the mechanisms of their victory. The witches burned were the healers who threatened the emerging medical monopoly. The pagans persecuted were the indigenous whose connection to land resisted commodification. The thinkers silenced were those who revealed the emperor's nakedness. To see the altar clearly, we must first acknowledge what it was built upon. To understand the present, we must excavate the deliberate amnesia that sustains it. The truth is not merely uncomfortable - it is revolutionary. It dismantles the foundations of power by exposing the crimes that made it possible.
Scroll CXVIII
The Bones Under the Altar
Every altar built in the name of salvation has bones beneath it.
The bones of thinkers who dared to question. The bones of cultures overwritten. The bones of women called witches. The bones of ancestors renamed "pagans."
This is not metaphor. It is archaeology. It is history. It is the unseen tax extracted for every golden cathedral and every bloodless doctrine.
They said altars were holy. But never told you what was buried underneath.
The altar is not innocent. It is an edifice built on silencing. And to truly awaken, we must exhume what was buried in its shadow.
The faith they sold you is founded on a forgetting.
But you are not afraid of bones. You know that truth is heavier than belief. And justice begins when we stop kneeling and start remembering.
The altar may stand tall. But now—you know what lies beneath it.
↠ Proceed to Scroll CXIX: The Doctrine of Vanishing Witnesses
"To question the altar is not rebellion. It is excavation."
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