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What do you think it means

Please take a look through the pictures above and note the similarities:

1. Liliya

2. Attis, a Greek god of harvests and rebirth

3. The Statue of Liberty

You should hopefully know about Liliya and the Statue of Liberty, but what about Attis?

Attis was a Greek god of harvests, fertility, and rebirth. He was slated to be the consort of the mother goddess, Cybele. He chose to marry a princess instead. When Cybele found out, she interrupted the wedding by singing a song that made Attis go crazy and castrate himself. He ties into our story for a few reasons:

1. He was virgin-born and was eventually resurrected. As such, scholars conflate his origin story with Jesus'.

2. His dominion was harvests and fertility. It's rare to find male deities of fertility, but this puts him in line with Osiris and Uranus. All three figures have origin stories where their penises go missing.

3. He was highly sought after for his 'long-haired beauty', thus he combines traits of masculine and feminine.

Keep this mind, we'll come back to it later.

Liliya, Attis, and the Statue of Liberty possess a crown or headdress resembling a sunburst. From what I can tell, this is no accident.

Easterman references the sun in numerous documents. He talks about the Solar Phallus case where one of Carl Jung's patients believed he saw the sun having an enormous penis. Historically, the sun was considered masculine, especially in contrast with the feminine moon. When we look at Liliya and Attis, neither of them necessarily represent the sun, rather, the sun is a symbol of the masculine they utilize. It recalls something they each have lost but found a replacement for: Attis, his means of fertility; Liliya, her right hand.

Hands are a prominent symbol in the Outlast games. In Outlast 1, Miles loses his right index finger and his left ring finger, symbolic of him having his career (as a journalist or writer) and prospects of marriage destroyed by investigating Murkoff. Blake, in Outlast 2, gets crucified and bleeds through his hands throughout the game. Stigmata is a supernatural condition where a person will bleed from wounds in their palms similar to the way Jesus is said to be crucified. Throughout the Resort map, there are 'Hamsas' used as decoration (the hand looking symbols with the eye in the palm). Also in Outlast Trials, none of the female prime assets have right hands. Both Liliya and Gooseberry have prosthetics that function as symbols of masculinity. For Gooseberry, it's a puppet of her father, and for Liliya, it's a knife. If we remember what Easterman says in the 'penisneid' document, "A knife is the phallus that kills."

Liliya was 'emasculated' by having her right hand removed, but she got a replacement. Now she embodies the traits of masculine and feminine. She has big dick energy that dwarfs the other primes. Even Easterman is overwhelmed by her presence, stating he needs to injure himself to get her voice out of his head.

In a previous post, I discussed Liliya's connection to Gnosticism and Gnostic themes in the trials. The Gnostic cross is displayed prominently in the Resort map. One could note its similarity to the ancient Egyptian 'Ankh', symbolizing eternal life. In the bible, John 3:16 states, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Carl Jung not only wrote of his patient's dreams of the solar phallus but also of universal archetypes (or egregores). He also referred to Gnostics as 'the world's first psychiatrists', so we have yet another Gnostic connection!

All well and good, but what does this have to do with the Statue of Liberty?

The Statue of Liberty is officially modeled after Libertas, the Roman goddess of Liberty. I simply ask you to look at pictures of Libertas and compare her to Lady Liberty. You will find they are hardly anything alike. However, compare her face and crown to that of Attis', and we find the statue's inspiration.

In the latest MK, Liliya's writings can be found where she references the purge of the Golden Calf. This is an Old Testament story where Moses returned from Mount Sinai to find the Israelites rejecting God and worshipping a calf made of gold. He asked who would join the side of the Lord and who would remain a heathen. The Levites mentioned in Liliya's journal joined Moses and slaughtered the unbelievers. We are already starting to see divisions among reagents. There are those who wish to break free along with our own Ladies of Liberty, Amelia and Liliya. Then there are those who wish to remain loyal to the sinful old city of Babylon, Sinyala.

Emma Lazarus (Lazarus was the biblical figure Jesus raised from the dead!) wrote a poem called The New Colossus. It's at the entrance of the Statue of Liberty. I believe it also predicts the ending to Trials and is a fitting end to this post:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

P.S. Liliya also sports black roses in her headdress. In the occult, black roses have been associated with magic, the supernatural, and rebirth. In politics, they are associated with anarchy. So we have a connection to Amelia as well!