Super Torch Ritual

Getting around to address the significance of the Boston Marathon taking place on the same day as the Notre Dame Cathedral fire (April 15)…

First, it is an annual Patriots’ Day event (not always on April 15) thus automatically resonating with this year’s Super Bowl featuring the New England Patriots, chillingly foreshadowing the Notre Dame inferno.

The Super Bowl was in Atlanta which again points to April 15/Patriots’ Day since a virgin huntress named “Atalanta” in Greek mythology is best known for her… footraces. (“Virgin” as in the Virgin Mary, Our Lady, or “Notre Dame”.)

After the Calydonian boar hunt, Atalanta was rediscovered by her father. He wanted her to be married, but Atalanta, uninterested in marriage, agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. Those who lost would be killed. King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Hippomenes came along. Hippomenes asked the goddess Aphrodite for help, and she gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Hippomenes, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it. In this way, Hippomenes won the footrace and came to marry Atalanta.

The golden apples in the story underscore the connection as it was the combination of the “Golden Apple of Discord” and the “Judgment of Paris” that led to the start of the Trojan War…

It is recounted that Zeus held a banquet in celebration of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (parents of Achilles). However, Eris, goddess of discord was not invited, for it was believed she would have made the party unpleasant for everyone. Angered by this snub, Eris arrived at the celebration with a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, which she threw into the proceedings as a prize of beauty…

Three goddesses claimed the apple: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favor any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases…

Paris did a terrible job as a judge as he ended up abducting Helen, the most beautiful woman and wife of the Greek king Menelaus, which triggered the Trojan War, fulfilling the prophetic dream his mother had right before his birth, a dream in which she gave birth to a flaming torch interpreted as a foretelling of the downfall of Troy.

Paris as a “flaming torch”… Notre Dame fire in Paris.

This resonates with the imminent birth of Meghan Markle’s baby, potentially implying great destruction coming via the baby in some way, analogous to the fall of Troy. Shades of Atlantis?