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Classic China: the Jiébài Xiōngdì

Sworn Brothers: A Study in Chinese Ritual Kinship (With an Appendix on Sworn Brotherhood and Folk Law) by David K. Jordan: anthro.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/scriptorium/jyebay.html

The Oath of the Peach Garden  was an oath by which the three fighters Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu became sworn brothers in a ceremony amid peach blossom trees. This historical act bound the three most crucial men of the future Shu-Han Kingdom of China and is often alluded to as a true symbol of fraternal loyalty. Liu Bei (161 - 223) was a powerful warlord and the founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms era in ancient China. ... In the Romance of Three Kingdoms, Zhāng Fēi (張飛)(168?-222 AD), courtesy name Yìdé (翼德), was first a butcher, than an officer of the Kingdom of Shu and the second member of the Five Tiger Generals. ... Guan Yu (160 - 219) was a chiangchun (general) under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. The Kingdom of Shu  (221 – 263) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty.
The oath, as it appears in Moss Roberts' translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms was this: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a Chinese historical novel about the turbulent period often referred to as the Three Kingdoms (220-280). :

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood here, combining strength and purpose, to relieve the present crisis. We will perform our duty to the Emperor and protect the common folk of the land. We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day. Let shining heaven above and the fruitful land below bear witness to our resolve. May heaven and man scourge whoever fails this vow."

However, the section dealing with "dying on the selfsame day" is considered the most vital part of this oath, and in many translations the rest is dropped. This section best represents the ideal of true fraternal loyalty.The Goal of the Peach Garden Oath was to protect the Shu-han dynasty form the secret society of the yellow scarves.

 

The Chinese Han Brotherhood | The 36 Oaths

1. After having entered the Han gates I must treat the parents and relatives of my sworn brothers as my own kin. I shall suffer death by five thunderbolts if I do not keep this oath.

2. I shall assist my sworn brothers to bury their parents and brothers by offering financial or physical assistance. I shall suffer death by five thunderbolts if I do not keep this oath.

3. When Han brothers visit my house, I shall provide them with board and lodging. I shall be killed by myriads of knives if I treat them as strangers.

4. I will always acknowledge my Han brothers when they identify themselves. If I ignore them I will be killed by myriads of swords.

5. I shall not disclose the secrets of the Han family, not even to my parents, brothers, or wife. I shall never disclose the secrets for money. I will be killed by myriads of swords if I do so.

6. I shall never betray my sworn brothers. If, through a misunderstanding, I have caused the arrest of one of my brothers I must release him immediately. If I break this oath I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

7. I will offer financial assistance to sworn brothers who are in trouble in order that they may pay their passage fee, etc. If I break this oath I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

8. I must never cause harm or bring trouble to my sworn brothers or Incense Master. If I do so I will be killed by myriads of swords.

9. I must never commit any indecent assaults on the wives, sisters, or daughters, of my sworn brothers. I shall be killed by five thunderbolts if I break this oath.

10. I shall never embezzle cash or property from my sworn brothers. If I break this oath I will be killed by myriads of swords.

11. I will take good care of the wives or children of sworn brothers entrusted to my keeping. If I do not I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

12. If I have supplied false particulars about myself for the purpose of joining the Han family I shall be killed by five thunderbolts.

13. If I should change my mind and deny my membership of the Han family I will be killed by myriads of swords.

14.. If I rob a sworn brother or assist an outsider to do so I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

15. If I should take advantage of a sworn brother or force unfair business deals upon him I will be killed by myriads of swords.

16. If I knowingly convert my sworn brother's cash or property to my own use I shall be killed by five thunderbolts.

17. If I have wrongly taken a sworn brother's cash or property during a robbery I must return them to him. If I do not I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

18. If I am arrested after committing an offence I must accept my punishment and not try to place blame on my sworn brothers. If I do so I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

19. If any of my sworn brothers are killed, or arrested, or have departed to some other place, I will assist their wives and children who may be in need. If I pretend to have no knowledge of their difficulties I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

20. When any of my sworn brothers have been assaulted or blamed by others, I must come forward and help him if he is in the right or advise him to desist if he is wrong. If he has been repeatedly insulted by others I shall inform our other brothers and arrange to help him physically or financially. If I do not keep this oath I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

21. If it comes to my knowledge that the Government is seeking any of my sworn brothers who has come from other provinces or from overseas, I shall immediately inform him in order that he may make his escape. If I break this oath I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

22. I must not conspire with outsiders to cheat my sworn brothers at gambling. If I do so I will be killed by myriads of swords.

23. I shall not cause discord amongst my sworn brothers by spreading false reports about any of them. If I do so I will be killed by myriads of swords.

24. I shall not appoint myself as Incense Master without authority. After entering the Han gates for three years the loyal and faithful ones may be promoted by the Incense Master with the support of his sworn brothers. I shall be killed by five thunderbolts if I make any unauthorized promotions myself.

25. If my natural brothers are involved in a dispute or law suit with my sworn brothers I must not help either party against the other but must attempt to have the matter settled amicably. If I break this oath I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

26. After entering the Han gates I must forget any previous grudges I may have borne against my sworn brothers. If I do not do so I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

27. I must not trespass upon the territory occupied by my sworn brothers. I shall be killed by five thunderbolts if I pretend to have no knowledge of my brothers' rights in such matters.

28. I must not covet or seek to share any property or cash obtained by my sworn brothers. If I have such ideas I will be killed.

29. I must not disclose any address where my sworn brothers keep their wealth nor must I conspire to make wrong use of such knowledge. If I do so I will be killed by myriads of swords.

30. I must not give support to outsiders if so doing is against the interests of any of my sworn brothers. If I do not keep this oath I will be killed by myriads of swords.

31. I must not take advantage of the Han brotherhood in order to oppress or take violent or unreasonable advantage of others. I must be content and honest. If I break this oath I will be killed by five thunderbolts.

32. I shall be killed by five thunderbolts if I behave indecently towards small children of my sworn brothers' families.

33. If any of my sworn brothers has committed a big offense I must not inform upon them to the Government for the purposes of obtaining a reward. I shall be killed by five thunderbolts if I break this oath.

34. I must not take to myself the wives and concubines of my sworn brothers nor commit adultery with them. If I do so I will be killed by myriads of swords.
35. I must never reveal Han secrets or signs when speaking to outsiders. If I do so I will be killed by myriads of swords.

36. After entering the Han gates I shall be loyal and faithful and shall endeavour to overthrow Ch'ing and restore Ming by coordinating my efforts with those of my sworn brethren even though my brethren and I may not be in the same professions. Our common aim is to avenge our Five Ancestors (Kok Max, Mong Long, Gee Seng, Gee Heng and Bong Lai).

 

"Righteous Fraternities" And Honorable Men: Sworn Brotherhoods In Wartime Chongqin:
          historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.5/ah001641.html

The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900, Diana Preston. Berkley Books, 2001.

The Boxers, China, and the World, Robert A. Bickers. R. G. Tiedemann. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Classic Russia and Eastern Europe: the Vlamides
          qrd.org/qrd/religion/judeochristian/eastern_orthodox/Church.of.Greece.on.adelphopoiia
          tripatlas.com/Blood_brother
          english.gay.ru/life/religion/FraternizationfromaCanonicalPerspective.html

 

The following is from: http://www.syl.com/articles/theactofbloodbrother.html:

The Act Of Blood Brother

The act of blood brother was set in 1930s in Shanghai. Although the concept of becoming blood brother is quite common in some religions. A ceremony is held where to men take oath of becoming blood brothers for the rest of their lives, who will watch each others back like brothers do. Another kind of blood brotherhood is the common one i.e. brothers related by birth. This happens only if siblings are from same mother or same father.

Blood brother can be divided into two types: one is the common meaning, two guys who are brothers by birth having the same mother or father. Other than that the second type is a one where two men take oaths called the “Blood Oath” in a ceremony in front of people promising each other that they will always have each others back and they won’t turn their backs on each other no matter whatever the situation is.

Orvar-Odd's saga contains a notable account of blood brotherhood. The Norwegian warrior Orvar-Odd felt a desire to test his fighting skills with the renowned Swedish warrior Hjalmar. Orvar-Odd felt a desire to test his fighting skills with the renowned Swedish warrior Hjalmar. Therefore Orvar-Odd's saga sailed to Sweden with five ships to fight Hjalmar who was there all ready to fight with fifteen ships. Hjalmar thought the battle was uneven so he sent 10 ships back to fight evenly. Both the warriors fought for two continuous days while shedding lots of blood but they fight was a draw. At that moment both the rivalries realized that they were equally powerful. So both the warriors’ joined a pact of becoming blood brother. Swear to their lives that they will lookout for each other.

In some cultures a ceremony is held to become a blood brother where the arms of the two men is cut with a sharp object and licking each others blood. The Scyths let their blood drop in a glass which is later on mixed with wine and drunken by both men.
In Asian cultures the act of blood brother is practiced to bring two tribes closer together and on good terms. It was practiced for this reason most notably among the Mongols and early Chinese. There are some facts that Native Americans also did it for this purpose.

Blood brothers among large groups were common in ancient Mediterranean Europe where two groups of soldiers used to become one whole family whole companies of. It was perhaps most prevalent in the Balkan Peninsula during the Ottoman era, as it helped the oppressed people to more effectively fight the enemy. The concept of becoming blood brother was also common in Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria.

The ceremony of blood brother and becoming one is still practiced in Greece.. The ceremony of wining together brought different cultures, races, cast and tries together.

Famous fictional blood brothers
•Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
•Mickey Johnstone and Eddie Lyons in the Willy Russell musical Blood Brothers, who, unbeknownst to them, are actually twin brothers and were born and died on the same day.
•The Lone Ranger and Tonto.
•The fictional characters of Little Bear and Boone from Lynne Reid Banks book Indian in the Cupboard as well as Omri and Little Bear; at the last moment during the ceremony Little Bear made Omri his blood brother as well.
•Odin and Loki in Norse mythology.
•In Mary Renault's rendition of the legend of Alexander the Great, Ptolemy Soter and Alexander became blood brothers.

The concept and the ritual to practice the ceremony of blood brother have completely faded since the world has become so self-interested. The promise kept by the blood brothers used to be a promise they would never broke. In these days you might still find people who would keep their promise but very rare.

 

On the Natives of Papua New Guinea:

The Baruya Marind-anim, Asmat, and Sambian tribes (all from Papua New Guinea), are intact, extant tribes that are each are characterized by a strong inequality between males and females in all of their organizations, institutions, and myths, which all present the male domination core to and prevalent in their societies.  They have a ritual in which boys give fellatio to young males and drink their semen in order to 're-engender themselves prior to marriage'. This intense masculine focus they share almost exactly with the NiTaino and "R" and "K" phoneme Atlantic Seastream Peoples:
          anthropology-online.de/Aga04/0011.html
          lrivera0327.tripod.com
          therai.org.uk/film/catalogue_2/72_baruya.html

On the Sambia of  Papua New Guinea, from the site: lrivera0327.tripod.com

The Sambia Tribe:
Introduction

        The primary focus of the initiation ritual is to transform “boys” who are considered feminine persons of women houses into fierce, strong, male warriors. This process of initiation from boy to man is also known as masculinization. In actuality men are “reborn” from men and are taught many important things such as that woman are dangerous and emasculating. Strangely enough the women are placed in a situation where they are isolated by their husbands, who are much older than them. The youths are now the targeted ones who the women want to use to fulfill their sexual desires. The men however, are not concerned about falling for these women. They have been taught well about how women can be dangerous to men, especially the younger adolescent men who can even die from heterosexual intercourse.

         The isolationism they encounter not only prevent the youth from having any sexual activities with women, but also from seducing, or being seduced by married women - which would later create chaos by enemies. This certainly teaches the boys that they can indeed live without their mothers and certainly without any females around them. What the boys need is semen in order to mature. In some cultures such as this one in Papa New Guinea a homosexuality ritual takes place. Ironically the homosexual practice is not a feminizing ritual, but rather the beginning of a fierce and brutal warrior. The Sambia initiatory cycle starts when the boy is between the ages of 6 and 10, and proceeds to 6 stages until he becomes the father of one child, some 10 to 15 years later. The following six initiations take place over time where the boys are isolated from women. They are killed as boys and reborn as men.

 

First-Stage Initiation

The first stage is when the boys are removed from their mothers and are then inducted into the men’s cult. This ceremony last for seven days, 18 rituals, or ordeals, to which these young boys are subjected. They are being harden, tested, and united into a group of leaders as well as being started on their way to becoming fierce warriors soon after they reach puberty. On the first day they are taken from their mothers, they are then walked for several hours to the dance grounds of the last friendly hamlet, also known as a "small village." These boys are about to go through arduous and painful rituals. 
"A crowd of men hem the boys in beside a pool in the brook. A war leader picks out a sharp stick of cane and sticks it deep inside the boys nostrils until he bleeds profusely into the stream of a pool, an act greeted by loud war cries." (Herdt, p. 85) The men repeat the war chant for each boy. Here if the initiate tries to escape he will be treated worst then the others - this brutality is certainly overwhelming and astonishing. Older men now tell the boys that the bachelors are going to copulate with them orally in order to make them grow. The whole purpose of this is because several elders testify that boys are unable to mature into men unless they ingest semen and that all men have, “eaten the penis”. After formal ceremonies end, the bachelors make erotic advances to the boys and homosexual activity takes place outside on the darkened dance ground. "Not all initiates will participate in this ceremonial homosexual activity, but in about five days later several will have perform fellatio several times." (Herdt, pp. 87-91) It is quite astonishing to see the men who are known to be so prudish to participate in homosexual activity so openly and welcoming. Boys would even seek out their favorite bachelors by openly stimulating their genitalia. There is no doubt that the first and second stage initiates have developed an erotic attraction toward their inseminators.

Second Stage Initiation

The second stage does not change the boy’s status at all. It is in a way a continuation of the first stage. The boys continue to take in as much semen as possible which will later make them strong, fierce warriors and leaders. All of the foods that the initiates were now supposed to eat are not severed in a wonderful feast, which the boys gather around and eat. This is a time to reward the boys of their efforts to of becoming men while still not being able to be around women because they are considered emasculating in several ways. The second stage has no great significant difference from the first initiation other than the reward that is given to the boys from the food taboo. "They are certainly beginning to get the hang of what is going to happen to them in the future and hopefully they will be able to continue the process and hold on for this crazy ride from boy to man." (Herdt, p. 96)

Third Stage Initiation

The third stage, in contrast, brings about a very important change in the youth’s status and activities. It is a puberty rite that marks adolescences. The boys become bachelors and shift from being inseminated to becoming inseminators. The adolescents are severely beaten and nose bled. They are taken to certain trees where they are whipped and purified from any female contamination that could have possible taken place between the times that they left. "After the boys are thrashed with quill bones and are violently and unexpectedly subjected to another nose bleed, another step in this initiation is to capture a women foe in the hamlet and kill an enemy warrior. After the warrior must ingest his semen, the semen in essence of the masculine spirit, would transfer to the enemy and slower and strengthen the dying enemy." (Herdt, pp. 97-98)

Fourth Stage of Initiation

The forth stage occurs when he is married, usually to a bride obtained by his father or older brothers. A youth will not start living with this bride until short before or after her menarche, the first menstrual period, occurring during puberty. However, he is now told how to protect himself from women’s genital odor. While having intercourse he must not penetrate too deeply because if it enters her urethra it might make him ill. "A ceremony now links the youth’s growth, strength, as that of a specific tree. This is where the youth is now exposed to the women after he has been forewarned about every dangerous thing that a women can posses against a man." (Herdt, p. 98)

The Fifth Stage of Initiation

The fifth stage of initiation now takes about at the time of his wife’s menarche. His nose is now bled once more by himself and he learns in great detail how to protect himself from his wife’s pollution in greater detail. In certain cases he must place mint leaves in his nostrils and chew a certain branch while having intercourse will this wife so he will not smell his wife’s genital odor. After this, he must bathe in a bath of mud and bleed his nose each time his wife menstruates. He begins to be hostile with his wife because he is upset that he has to nose bleed each time she menstruates because she pollutes him and endangers his life. "The initiate is now a man who has been isolated from women for a 12 years; he has practiced homosexual fellatio, and has even had the dangers of vaginal intercourse readily. His young wife has been taught to practice fellatio before they even attempt to vaginal intercourse. She must ingest the semen given to her by her husband to later be able to provide from her child while producing breast milk and strong bones. It is believe that breast milk is transformed semen and therefore it is the men who indirectly nourish the baby." (Herdt, pp. 98-99)

The Sixth Stage of Initiation

The sixth stage of initiation bestows the full rights of manhood and takes place after the man has proven that he has achieved masculinity by having a child, and preferable two. "The man is instructed to refrain from any intercourse with the new mother and keep away from the child until it is weaned, a matter of several years. He does not need to bleed his nose anymore unless he has another wife to attend to." (Herdt, p. 100) He must keep all his secrets of the male cult and be sure never to tell anyone about it, not even his wife because if that was to happen he will be castrated and killed.

This is certainly a very tough and long initiation process that takes place in Papa New Guinea. Unfortunately many boys have gone through this and have not been able to survive this tedious initiation. Those who have, are considered great warrior and are then the initiators of the next generation of initiates. The Sambia tribe is a very strict tribe when it comes to male masculinization. Most of the time the male’s life is spent in his ritual of initiation where he dies as a boy and is reborn as a man in a society where feminization is a degradable characteristic.

 

Modern Papuans Complaining About Eurotrash:
          youtube.com/watch?v=xRRmnrtueVg

 

PIRATES: CARIBEAN

Caribbean, Eastern Seaboard, and Indian Ocean Pirates and Privateers were intergrated, democratic, all-male worlds, and being such, posed a tremendous threat to the imperial order, especially the harsh cruelties of the British Imperial Navy.

Codes Of Conduct, Articles of Confederation:
          elizabethan-era.org.uk/pirate-code-conduct.htm
          thepiratesrealm.com/pirate%20code.html
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code_of_the_Brethren

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, by Barry Richard Burg. NYU Press, NYC. 1995.

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, by David Cordingly. Harvest Books, London. 1997.

 

KOSHER TRUTHS

A study of the roots of Judeo-Xtian-Islamic origins is in order, since they are the faiths at the core of the empire, and cause so very much trouble, what with their focus on non-males and their convert-or-die policies. To be freed from these traps, one must understand where the traps came from, and then how not to become like those who have tried so hard to change us, and to reclaim our indigenous masculine heritages.
The current Jews are of two lineages, Ashkenazim and Sephardi. The main controllers of Empire are the Ashkenazim. These people, however, have nothing to do with the original Aramaic people of Southwestern Asia. They are from the Crimean and Ural areas, of what is now Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia. They were forcibly converted to Judaism by their leaders, who were trying to find a magical system that worked. (Hence the Khazar origin of the Talmud and Kabbala.) Their traditions, insanities and legal codes give us not only Zionists and Hasids, but the child-molesting cult of the little girl as well.

The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage, by Arthur Koestler. Random House, NY, 1976.

          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_Shem_Tov
          routledge.com/textbooks/0415236614/resources/maps/map49.jpg

note the "Baal" part of the Baal Shem Tov... it comes from the original Hebraic twin god Ba'al, who was Ahim Badam (Aramaic Guatiao) with El'Al, aka Big Judeo-Xtian-Islamic Mega God. The evidence for this is throughout Egypt, Siani, "Israel", and Jordan, left by the followers of the original Palestine Paganism. These people were polytheist, and at the core of their pantheon, worshipped four brother dieties, El'Al and his Ahim Badam Ba'Al, and Amun Ra and his Ahim Badam Osiris. These people originated in Egypt, and moved into the Siani Penninsula, where they encountered the volcano goddess Yaweh, and began the long, mean road to monotheism, the peak of which is the First Commandment, and then subsequent denials of Ba'al in Torah. Also, the "I am a vain and jealous god" sounds much like a non-male would respond, and this diety gives it's name as Yaweh, the volcano goddess.
El'Al and his Ahim Badam Ba'al were carried by the Essenes, who left carvings and writings of their gods throughout the region, particularly with their library at Qumran, referred to as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader From Biblical Archaeology Review, ed. by Hershel Shanks. Vintage Books, 1993.

          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls
          keralaarticles.blogspot.com/2007/07/essenes-part-ii.html
          jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=478&letter=E&search=Essenes
          newadvent.org/cathen/05546a.htm
          1911encyclopedia.org/Essenes

of course, an insane Zionist-feminist nutcase is trotted out to debate this by muddling reality with broad generalized accusations that have no foundation:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070797.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Elior

indeed, if it is all so fake, then why have the scrolls been kept hidden and not shared openly with scholars? Seems like someone in empire is trying to hold onto power:

Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, Michael Baigent. Simon and Schuster, NYC. 1993.