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I remained in my cell for a day or two after my interrogation, but after that two of the same enlisted men came and brought me before the Officer Goddess, in the same dirty empty interrogation room. She stood, leaning back against a table.

She asked me to tell my story again. I told it again. She asked again about the coins, and I told her again. Then she said with an intention in her voice “There wasn’t any items like that found in the harbor.”

I looked shocked and felt a sinking feeling. “I swear I had them with me!”

“There wasn’t any items like that found.”

“I must have dropped them on the ship in my berth or maybe somehow I forgot to carry them with me at all. I remember taking them with me though, or actually I remember thinking as I put them where I was hiding them that I have to bring them with me, maybe I forgot to get them out. I found a crack in the divider between my bunk and the next bunk where I put them.”

The Officer Goddess looked skeptical. “How much do you really believe in female supremacy? By the way I’m Officer Goddess Natalia. You can address me as Officer Goddess Natalia.”

“Officer Natalia, I believe in female supremacy with all my heart! It’s all I want to see in my life!!” I spoke with the conviction I felt.

She sat back on the table she had been leaning against and unbuttoned her uniform, letting it fall back and exposing her bra before me. She did this very casually, without any embarrassment or concern, which shocked me, a prudish former priest.

“You worship the Goddess Inanna, you say, and she ordered you to come here, where I order you to worship me.”

I was actually very ready to do so but I hardly knew what to do, I was so accustomed to male supremacy.

“Get on your knees and kiss my feet”

I hastened to obey. “Yes Ma’am!”

I actually felt humiliated even though I accepted female supremacy and the divinity of all women compared to men because I saw the male enlisted men watching me. In my mind I hadn’t been fully liberated from the Maledom Empire mindset and even though I knew these men were at Officer Goddess Natalia’s command, some part of me still thought I was in the Maledom Empire. The total lack of any fear or special concern for my male status in Officer Natalia shocked me. Even as a prisoner, I thought at some deep level that just by the fact of my being male she would never make herself vulnerable in my presence that way; yet she wasn’t vulnerable that was just the thing. She was invulnerable, a Goddess in fact, and we were deep within the Matriarchy. She had zero concern or sense of vulnerability towards I or the enlisted men.

As I put my lips to the top of her shoe I truly began to recognize female supremacy. That moment of humiliation I had initially felt had now turned to joy as I felt happiness to see how confident the women of the Matriarchy are in themselves. How different from the downtrodden and oppressed women I had known all my life as a male priest to the Male God Religion!

“You aren’t used to Matriarchy yet” Officer Goddess Natalia said, “but you will be.”

My face lit up

“Don’t get your hopes up too high,” she said, “your refugee status is pending. In the meantime you’ll be free to leave this holding site during the day, until a decision is made regarding that.”

The Harbor Patrol immediately arrested me for illegal entry at a port of entry, and I was taken to some kind of dirty jail.

I sat for a while trying to commune with the Goddess Inanna, but she neither appeared nor made her presence felt.

First they sent in an enlisted man. He questioned me, I told him my story, and then he left. I was left in darkness for hours. Then, two men came in and put a hood over me, tied me to a stretcher and I was moved to another location, no idea where. I was truly worried at this point. But I kept my faith in the Goddess that things would turn out ok.

In the new location I was untied and strapped onto a torture rack. I was definitely sweating now. A female officer Goddess came in with three enlisted men, she seemed like a great person but at the same time I sensed I was viewed with suspicion.

“What is your name”

“Henry, formerly Priest Henry of the Maledom Empire”

“Were you a state priest?”

“I was”

“You were apprehended after an illegal landing in the Port of Venus, and you stated you defected at the command of the Goddess Inanna”

“Yes”

“Did she physically appear to you?”

“I don’t know, I saw her, my companion did not, I think it was a vision except that she left behind two coins”

The Officer Goddess looked at the enlisted man to her right, the one who didn’t hold a weapon. “You didn’t mention any items of interest discovered on the prisoner”

He saluted “No Ma’am, no such items discovered on the prisoner”

I said “They must have fallen into the harbor when I swam across.”

The Officer Goddess gestured to the enlisted man with the rifle and he hit me with the butt of the weapon.

“Only speak when you’re spoken too, prisoner”

I gasped

She continued “describe the coins”

“They were greyish and were made of metal yet also clay seemingly, there was no image on them. When I pressed them between my thumb and forefinger they expanded, but they contracted back to their same size as before after a few minutes”

The Officer Goddess turned to the enlisted man who she had asked the question of earlier, and said ‘Go have them dredge the harbor for the coins’. He saluted and closed the door behind him.

The Officer Goddess in the meantime began drawing a circle on the dirt covered floor in front of me, and writing strange runes and symbols on it. Actually not so strange to me, because I recognized various symbols and incantations for summoning the Male God, rituals I had performed myself time and time again. I became pale with fear but didn’t say anything, remembering the blow from earlier.

“Recite the Incantio” She commanded once she had finished.

“Please no, I have defected, I don’t want to invoke him ever again!”

“He has no power here except maybe over you, if you’re telling the truth and Goddess Inanna commanded you to come here then you will not be his property. But if you are we have peaceful terms with the Maledom Empire, we are not going to take their priest if he is still the Male God’s property”

I was totally horrified to perform this summoning ritual, because truthfully I didn’t know if I would survive it, but I had no choice. “Preserve my soul from destruction Goddess Inanna” I cried and then began the Incantio invocation.

Line after line of ritual invocation droned on and on. Normally a boring ritual in which one doesn’t expect much of any manifestation, this time before I reached the end I was plunged into spiritual darkness. My soul passed through the dark empty places at a high rate of speed, I reached the end and when I regained consciousness I was still alive and incarnated in my same body.

The Officer Goddess was gone, but the enlisted men were still watching me. The guy with the rifle who had hit me patted me on the back and gave me some water from his canteen to my parched lips.

“You screamed a lot but you’re still here.”

I nodded. I didn’t have a lot of words.

I was a priest of the Maledom Empire. I was performing the daily ritual to the Male God, assembling the various utensils necessary for the rites. We used a spear and shield because the Male God loved these symbols. My brother priest was with me. Suddenly, a light shone, and a majestic, powerful female form appeared alongside a bull in the sky. She radiated majesty, divinity, Female authority and love. I can’t put into words all the things radiating from her, but overall I became insanely joyous and happy to behold her. At first both myself and my brother priest were standing there agape.

I threw myself upon my face a few moments after she appeared and my soul recognized her; this was a spontaneous worship I made to express with my body what my soul felt, that no adoration or praise or worship could be enough to praise her Female Divinity. My entire being rejoiced to see the Goddess glorious in the Air. I knew right then that everything I had ever tried to feel about the Male God, I truly and spontaneously felt for the Goddess. I knew my reason for being and living. Or rather, felt it, joy pulsating through my soul with every moment. I had believed all my life ultimate reality is dark and sterile and male, and in one moment I learned she is Female and glorious.

She spoke “Henry, there is a land far away where I and other Divine Goddesses are acknowledged and worshiped. My name is Inanna. You are to travel to the port city of Venus and defect to me there. It will not be easy for you but if you want to find true happiness you will go.”

I was too amazed to utter a word; I remained prostrated before her, soul ecstatic in worship.

She vanished suddenly, leaving only a faint glow of her divinity.

I just lay there, continuing to bow down, repeating ‘Holy Inanna, I worship you. I adore you. I surrender up my will, being, soul and all of me up to you. I give myself up to you, desiring your favor and guidance only as my source of happiness’ over and over until the divine revelation had fully taken hold. I knew that the Goddess had demonstrated the superiority of the Female, and I knew everything I experienced in the Maledom Empire was wrong.

I got up and checked the ground beneath where she had appeared. I saw two little round objects like coins, but made of an other worldly grey substance that was metal but seemingly had a similar consistency as clay. I retained these, with great reverence, before burning the altar and all my robes, books, and religious implements of the priesthood.

My brother priest tried to stop me. He had been there alongside me but he hadn’t seen Inanna; he had only heard buzzing and whirring. His heart was not ready. However I brushed him aside and he eventually left me alone, muttering that I had gone crazy.

I went to a pawn shop and sold everything I had, before going to the harbor and booking a voyage to Venus. I spent the whole voyage just reliving the memory of the Divine Vision, and worshipping Goddess Inanna.

Once we sailed into the harbor, I leaped overboard with only the two coins and swam ashore. I kissed the ground, shedding tears of joy to stand upon holy ground. The harbor patrol came up to question me, and I shouted “I surrender, I defect, I was a priest of the Male God but I have renounced this life after the Goddess Inanna appeared to me and commanded me to come here! I beg for refugee protection as an adherent of Feminance religion’

Credit to Artist Catherine Corelli for the painting Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven: https://www.etsy. com/listing/1768464348/gilgamesh-the-bull-of-heaven-original?ref=share_ios_native_control