The majority of world religions come from the desert, and the founder was a shepherd or a trader who lived in the cutting edge of poverty or death. He had a divine experience and led his people to a revolution that reshaped his world annihilating all that stood before it. They all believe in the doctrine of scarcity and a masculine warrior deity and the concept of a heaven far away from the toils of the world. There is no love for the earth, an almost paranoid hatred of the material and a need to control wanton femininity.

In my life I have seen three deserts, the Sahara, Namib and the Arabian. There is something I noticed about the desert it is stark, lonely and not very giving. The loneliness is vast and depressing, the sun beats mercilessly and there is no cover. The evenings are frigid with only the occasional jackal and hyena cry heard far away in the night. With sand storms bearing down on old ruins of forgotten civilizations, the only blessings come from above in the form of rain that gives the precious commodity that is water. The sand drinks this water up and draws it in deep into the underground rivers and wells that once flowed up. This water is used to leach out salt another item of value.

There are people who live here whether they are the Bedouin with their camels, the Berbers, or the San. Then there are the shepherds who have to raise sheep or goats in these extreme times. You see the desert forces one to focus up to wards the heavens the earth gives nothing it is barren and hordes all its treasures. The heaven is punishing in its intensity yet gives the occasional blessing, of much needed water. Suddenly the world is divided into its polar opposites there is a force that personifies good and that which personifies evil and if anyone has half a brain would side with the forces that bring crops and flocks through rain and these are deemed good. The heavens become masculine and rain becomes the semen from a heavenly father who fertilizes the passive female earth on whose womb comes out all life.

Two brothers decide to start a living one ..ndomesticates a sheep and the other a goat. The shepherd would notice that the ..nsurvival tactics of his flocks would be to travel in herds and follow one designated leader trusting in them completely in the hope that they would lead me to the source of these scarce resources. You see sheep are naturally obedient creatures who would not survive well on their own in the wild, the goat by its very nature is disobedient. Goatherds would notice the individuality of each goat and how each goes out to search for food in those secluded spots. But goats look out mostly for themselves and a goatherd does not do much herding as they can find their way home quite easily. So the goat herd wakes up early and opens the gate for his animals to go and then closes it at night when they are back. This leaves him with enough time to mac on the village girls, ghoen the shepherd's wife and think of wealth making schemes.The poor shepherd and his dump sheep have nto stay out in the desert for months on end in the loneliness of the desert. Now na lonely mind does a lot of thinking and the shepherd, depends a lot on sympathetic magic and ritual to insure his safety from non forgiving nature,wild animals and the forever beating sun. He starts to depend on these rituals and does a lot of deep thinking about the scarcity of resources in the world. He then would think up ways in which to access these. His imagination would take him upwards to a magical plane where the lion lies with the lamb, the water flows endlessly, and there are fruit trees and large field where food grows abundantly. Because of his lack of game he might even imagine a bevy of virgins to feed his hunger and soothe his lust in a way that a sheep never would. In groups he would sit with his friends talking and building on this narrative and ..nthey would exchange ideas building the texture and dimensions of this magical place. Then the intensity mounts as a sense of urgency possibly triggered probably by drought, the shepherds seek out the cause looking up to the heavens to a source more powerful than the sun the very creator of everything. They imagine that the world was a heaven before this and something they must have done upset the balance and caused it to be this way.

Two brothers decide to start a living one domesticates a sheep and the other a goat. The shepherd would notice that the survival tactics of his flocks would be to travel in herds and follow one designated leader trusting in them completely in the hope that they would lead me to the source of these scarce resources. You see sheep are naturally obedient creatures who would not survive well on their own in the wild, the goat by its very nature is disobedient. Goatherds would notice the individuality of each goat and how each goes out to search for food in those secluded spots. But goats look out mostly for themselves and a goatherd does not do much herding as they can find their way home quite easily. So the goat herd wakes up early and opens the gate for his animals to go and then closes it at night when they are back. This leaves him with enough time to mac on the village girls, ghoen the shepherd's wife and think of wealth making schemes.

 The poor shepherd and his dumb sheep have to stay out in the desert for months on end in the loneliness of the desert. Now a lonely mind does a lot of thinking and the shepherd, depends a lot on sympathetic magic and ritual to insure his safety from non forgiving nature, wild animals and the forever beating sun. He starts to depend on these rituals and does a lot of deep thinking about the scarcity of resources in the world. He then would think up ways in which to access these. His imagination would take him upwards to a magical plane where the lion lies with the lamb, the water flows endlessly, and there are fruit trees and large field where food grows abundantly. Because of his lack of game he might even imagine a bevy of virgins to feed his hunger and soothe his lust in a way that a sheep never would. In groups he would sit with his friends talking and building on this narrative and they would exchange ideas building the texture and dimensions of this magical place. Then the intensity mounts as a sense of urgency possibly triggered probably by drought, the shepherds seek out the cause looking up to the heavens to a source more powerful than the sun the very creator of everything. They imagine that the world was a heaven before this and something they must have done upset the balance and caused it to be this way.

His flocks begin to weaken and die and he ventures further and further praying up hoping for this better place he can reach only through death. Then one day his nerve breaks, he sees a burning bush,a stairway to heaven, a whisper in a cave or a voice coming from above. The creator contacts him and orders him to spread the recipe for eternal life. He goes on home first to other shepherds and together they form a coalition and they all go back to their village to tell everyone the good news. He finds the goat heard has built a city hall and a palace and inside this he finds his wife locked in an embrace. In fury he goes home and notices for the first time how most of his children look like the goatherd. He becomes pissed off and raises the village to the ground women like the earth were wanton and evil and needed their sexuality controlled. He becomes a shepherd of man, he castrates and bans the goatherd way of life every man will be a sheep, obey, follow or lose the heavenly blessing. The reason why heaven was lost was the goatherd and all like him an the woman and her beautiful evil temptress self have to be controlled or destroyed in order to bring back the heavenly age.

Then there are wars and in the end the goatherd goes into hiding and femininity is denied by women and every ounce of energy is focused on manipulating the heavenly father in order that he releases his blessing. In the shepherds world blessing are scarce and abundance is evil. It bears down hot, dry and deadly like the desert. For years he rules supreme and the memory of the goatherd lies locked in the dreams of his children and no amount of self flagellation, confession, and fasting will dislodge it from the consciousness. Once in a while he is seen in glimpse among the shepherds. The when generations have stayed in waiting a fully fledged goatherd arises and asks what is it that we are waiting for again, hasn't it been almost two thousand years now, where the hell is the party. This is when all hell breaks loose.

His flocks begin to weaken and die and he ventures further and further praying up hoping for this better place he can reach only through death. Then one day his nerve breaks, he sees a burning bush, a stairway to heaven, a whisper in a cave or a voice coming from above. The creator contacts him and orders him to spread the recipe for eternal life. He goes on home first to other shepherds and together they form a coalition and they all go back to their village to tell everyone the good news. He finds the goat heard has built a city hall and a palace and inside this he finds his wife locked in an embrace. In fury he goes home and notices for the first time how most of his children look like the goatherd. He becomes pissed off and raises the village to the ground women like the earth were wanton and evil and needed their sexuality controlled. He becomes a shepherd of man, he castrates and bans the goatherd way of life every man will be a sheep, obey, follow or lose the heavenly blessing. The reason why heaven was lost was the goatherd and all like him an the woman and her beautiful evil temptress self have to be controlled or destroyed in order to bring back the heavenly age.

Then there are wars and in the end the goatherd goes into hiding and femininity is denied by women and every ounce of energy is focused on manipulating the heavenly father in order that he releases his blessing. In the shepherds world blessing are scarce and abundance is evil. It bears down hot, dry and deadly like the desert. For years he rules supreme and the memory of the goatherd lies locked in the dreams of his children and no amount of self flagellation, confession, and fasting will dislodge it from the consciousness. Once in a while he is seen in glimpse among the shepherds. The when generations have stayed in waiting a fully fledged goatherd arises and asks what is it that we are waiting for again, hasn't it been almost two thousand years now, where the hell is the party. This is when all hell breaks loose.