canecorso
Citizen of Zooville
Surprised that nobody on ZV has bothered opening up this can of worms yet.
I'm led to believe that zoophilia/bestiality carries a huge amount of symbolic value that double-dips into two already strongly revered aspects in various pagan and/or occult theologies: namely sex and animal spirituality/symbology. I don't think I need to search very deep for examples of the countless "sex magick" and animal worship rituals to illustrate this point. That's why it comes as a surprise to me that, considering how likely it is to be practiced given the above, how little I've seen written on zoophilia as a magical practice within these circles. And that's why I make this thread, hoping that someone could lend me a hand with this.
Now the main reasons for the info blackout could be hardly different from those of being secretive elsewhere, given how getting your secret cult exposed as a goatfucker club is tantamount to PR apocalypse (and that's before delving into all the legality/morality/consent issues), but there might be other reasons more specific to this topic that'd be harder to grasp for the uninitiated laymen.
More or less all concrete info I know on this topic (not mentioned yet in the history thread, that is) is the stereotype of satanists copulating with goats, which is practically a cartoon gag by this point, and I think at least Crowley supposedly mentioned ritualistic bestiality in a book or two which I haven't read. Hell, let's go one step further and inquire secret societies if you will (David Cameron with the pig head, what do you think that was about?). Now I don't have many hopes that much of what comes up will be consensual (what are the odds that those sacrificially slitting animal throats will bother being nice and humane to the animals carnally?), but I still think it's a relevant topic to cover for similar reasons as ZV's coverage of history of zoophilia past the antiquity.
I'm led to believe that zoophilia/bestiality carries a huge amount of symbolic value that double-dips into two already strongly revered aspects in various pagan and/or occult theologies: namely sex and animal spirituality/symbology. I don't think I need to search very deep for examples of the countless "sex magick" and animal worship rituals to illustrate this point. That's why it comes as a surprise to me that, considering how likely it is to be practiced given the above, how little I've seen written on zoophilia as a magical practice within these circles. And that's why I make this thread, hoping that someone could lend me a hand with this.
Now the main reasons for the info blackout could be hardly different from those of being secretive elsewhere, given how getting your secret cult exposed as a goatfucker club is tantamount to PR apocalypse (and that's before delving into all the legality/morality/consent issues), but there might be other reasons more specific to this topic that'd be harder to grasp for the uninitiated laymen.
More or less all concrete info I know on this topic (not mentioned yet in the history thread, that is) is the stereotype of satanists copulating with goats, which is practically a cartoon gag by this point, and I think at least Crowley supposedly mentioned ritualistic bestiality in a book or two which I haven't read. Hell, let's go one step further and inquire secret societies if you will (David Cameron with the pig head, what do you think that was about?). Now I don't have many hopes that much of what comes up will be consensual (what are the odds that those sacrificially slitting animal throats will bother being nice and humane to the animals carnally?), but I still think it's a relevant topic to cover for similar reasons as ZV's coverage of history of zoophilia past the antiquity.