The kings of old would undergo Sovereignty rites similar to the horse sacrifice of the Celts on their coronation day. That evening, they would lie with a cuen, which is the Anglo Saxon source of our word “queen”.
The cuen would be a shaman skilled in evoking and awakening the two energetic serpents which, during sexual intercourse, would rise up the body and interweave, just as they do on a caduceus, to create the Marriage of the Sun and the Moon within the human being.
This, I hasten to add, is a real physiological experience in which the Other Worlds break through into this one. Once the serpents reach the cup-shaped hypothalamus, which resembles a chalice or grael, they look over the rim to excrete red and white drops of elixir that, upon reaching the base of the grael, swirl together to create the catalyst which causes the explosion of the light of a thousand suns.
This beautiful gilded chalice was commissioned by Abbot Suger of St Denis, France, in the twelfth century, while its sardonyx cup was made in Alexandria in the second century BCE.
The Holy Grail
This is the real meaning behind the legend of the red and white liquids carried to Avalon by Joseph of Arimathea. It was the final Mystery teaching of Eleusis; the holy grail of the knights of Arthur Pendragon and many a serpent-grappling hero of yore from Hercules to Michael and so on.
Initiates were forbidden from revealing this inner alchemical process, upon pain of death, because it was strictly reserved for kings and pharaohs, tsars and emperors, those who held the Sovereignty of the cuentry, the country.
The cuen would rarely sit on a throne and share political power with the king, although there are exceptions to every rule; the beautiful Kiya became Pharaoh Akhenaten’s wife after he apparently – and euphemistically – fell in love with the aroma of her hair on his coronation night. But usually the cuen was the power behind the throne.
The ruler often married the daughter of another king for diplomatic purposes, but the cuen was the source of his claim to the Sovereignty of cuentry. She was the bridge between him and the nature spirits. It is what is behind the expression “the king marries the land.” The king married the spirits of the land through the auspices of the cuen in what was not mere empty ritual but a real, tangible experience of divinity.
If you’d like to know more about shamanic sex – when, where and how it was practised – it’s all in my book, The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar.
Get THE SACRED SEX RITES OF ISHTAR here on Amazon.co.uk and here on Amazon.com.
Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 
Yes, I am… and I hope you are too! Most people who write on alchemy, gnosticism, tarot and astronomy, not to mention mythology, astrology and sacred geometry, don’t realise these are not just random methods of divination but comes from one common blueprint which has a structure, formerly known the Mystery Teachings. Once you get that ‘scaffolding’, as I lay out in Stories in the Stars, understanding comes quicker and easier.
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I think I understand. Which is why I try to do that whole silly old “do unto others bit.” What else do folks think writers write for? My hat is off to your dedication, I used to try doing podcasts but there’s a lot of prepwork followed by minimal impact – barring butterfly effects. Anyway. I’m halfway through Stories now, and that’s been quite helpful. (Should go quicker now that yours is the only book in my current queue.) You have a nice touch for making ideas that might not pass through the old membrane easily digestible. I can’t tell you how many books I’ve read that touch on Alchemy, Gnosticism, Tarot, Astronomy, or what I sometimes think of as Open Market Spirituality that make me feel less competent with a subject outside my milieux. Which is meant as a compliment. I usually don’t get much spiritual JuJu from things which fall outside the Futhorc without considerable syncretic adjustment. Right. Be stepping down from my soapbox now. Thanks again. Hopefully you’re having a good Sūnnandæg.
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Hahaha! You never come off as “a crude businessman with no compliments or well-wishes”. At least you usually click Like. You probably don’t realise it but hundreds read this blog most days and I’m lucky if a couple of them click Like. Such is the age we live in. People think anything they read on the internet is theirs by right … they have no understanding of the effort it takes to create a blog or a video. So I’m grateful to you for your appreciation. On your question, I took Reclaiming Sovereignty off the market for a variety of reasons and repackaged it as The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar, so that’s the one you need. I do hope you enjoy it… after that, you could read The Grail Mysteries which takes that teaching to a deeper level.
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You’ll forgive me I hope, for asking what might be a tad of a dumb question. But. Do I want to buy “Sacred Sex Rites…” Or “Reclaiming Sovereignty?” Thought I might ask before I close my budget book for the week. Hopefully all is well with you over there in Old England.
I do enjoy your articles, by the way, lest I come off as a crude businessman with no compliments or well-wishes.
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