“To investigate the subject of the Divine Victim of the Witch-cult it is essential to put aside all preconceived ideas…The subject must be approached with the same unbiased mind as though the religion under investigation belonged to ancient Egypt or to modern savages. That the sacrifice was repeatedly consummated within…our own country…depends on evidence that would be accepted if it were offered in respect of an Oriental or African religion.”

Margaret Murray, ‘The God of the Witches’, 1960, Pg 166 [ Archived here ] [Added Emphasis]

“[W]hat simplistic researchers miss [is] the function of macabre arrogance thumbing its nose at us while we do nothing except [unwittingly] spread the tale of their immunity and invincibility further. That is the game plan operant here.”

Michael A. Hoffman II, ‘Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare’, Page 78 (1992 Edition) referring to the ‘Son of Sam’ murders [ Archived here ]

As articulated in the previous chapter, the ‘Killing of the Divine King’ is a ritual human ‘substitute’ sacrifice dating back to ancient prehistory, which continued throughout history into the classical era, and which apparently continues to the present day in the midst and at the highest echelons of our supposed ‘civilisation’.

We have seen that there are innumerable examples of this ritual through prehistory and history, and it is a ritual so important in sacred heathen rites that, as also already stated, it forms the entire premise of Sir J G Frazer’s mammoth textbook on Comparative Religion ‘The Golden Bough’.

While much of his work has been superseded by contemporary anthropologists, that which he postulates with regard to the ‘Divine King’ ritual appears to be borne out, not only by current investigation into antiquity, but by the apparent modern practise of the ritual as is described herein.

Frazer informs us that:

“The custom of killing a divine king…is very common in Africa: it was practised by the Jukun of Nigeria, the Fung of the Upper Nile, the Mbum of the Camerooiits, and many other tribes […and that..t]he custom has existed among some people of appointing a temporary or mock king, either annually or at the beginning of the real king’s reign. Examples [exist] from Uganda, Sudan, Nigeria, and Bastar in India.”

Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA, ‘Aftermath A Supplement to the Golden Bough’, 1936, Pgs XXIV, XXVI (Pg 10) [ Archived here ]

The point of these universal rituals is that, for sacrificial potential, the victim or victims must represent the power which was imbued in ancient times in kings. For, it was quite different from the power they have represented for centuries, in antiquity being magically synonymous with, the power and fertility of the area over which they ruled.

They and their people genuinely believed that they led through divine providence for kings were in ancient times not clinging on to power and enjoying undeserved privilege, but very often, it appears, the most intelligent, brave, shrewd, virile of the tribe, not to mention skilled fighters, talented tacticians, skilled orators, spiritual guides, shamanic holy-men and thus charismatic leaders; priest-kings who bravely led their people through archetypal journeys and led their armies in battle and then fought with tenacity.

Thus by the killing of such a king at the height of their powers, before they waned, and appointing a new and younger ruler supposedly guaranteed by magic the strength of the nation or land over which they ruled.

Thus kings in ancient antiquity, selflessly wanting the best for their people were often willing to give up their lives as their life force waned, fully believing that such energy was intimately connected to the future fertility of crops and the success of the land.

There apparently came a time however when kings, having grown accustomed to the privilege and accoutrements of rule, decided they did not want to be sacrificed as the vigour of youth faded, and while still believing in the need for a human sacrifice as they and their people did, so the practise evolved of electing a temporary king in their stead, awarding them the trappings, luxuries, dress and prerogatives of the real king for a short term, and then sacrificing them to appease the gods, after which, with the gods supposedly now happy with their offering, the old king could return and carry on with his rule, often well into old age, with the gods presumably ‘fooled’ by the gesture, and satiated by a blood sacrifice.

As covered in the previous chapter, this ritual seems to have gone on globally almost universally, among unrelated societies across far flung continents, indicating that rather than being passed through cultural meme, instead it qualifies as a product of the inner archetypal psychic mechanism of superstitious ‘magical thinking’ rooted in the collective unconscious.

So exactly what is the root psychic mechanism for such strange phenomenon? Frazer:

“If we analyse the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

[…] From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it.”

Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA, ‘The Golden Bough’, 1922, Chapter 3: Sympathetic Magic, Section 1: The Principles of Magic [ Archived here ]

Accordingly in keeping with the above, the idea that like produces like…namely the ‘Law of Similarity’, enables the phenomenon of the temporary Divine king who:

“…for [a short time] enjoys the royal prerogatives…”

Sir James George Frazer, ‘The Golden Bough’ [1922], Chapter 25: Temporary Kings [ Archived here ] [Added Emphasis]

The Miami Showband could in this sense be seen as temporary and symbolic ‘Divine kings’ in the contemporary sense as they genuinely held many of the attributes of a popular king, such as luxury, renown, praise, adulation, even mass hysteria at their presence, hero worship and idolatry:

“The Miami Showband was Ireland’s most glamorous band. Quite often we couldn’t even hear ourselves playing; it was just all the screaming.”

Stephen Travers, ‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre-Netflix Documentary’, 2m:06s – 2m:24s [ Archived here ]

In fact, much like the more popular kings of old they certainly:

“…enjoy[ed] the royal prerogatives…”

Sir James George Frazer, ‘The Golden Bough’ [1922], Chapter 25: Temporary Kings [ Archived here ]

…as they were assailed by hysterical mobs wanting to catch a glimpse of them:

“You just squashed in, you didn’t care what pain you suffered, who stood on your foot, once you were there.”

Unknown Fan, ‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre-Netflix Documentary’, 2m:26s – 2m:30s

“They were our superstars.”

Unknown Fan, ‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre-Netflix Documentary’, 2m:32s – 2m:34s

The bands composer, who survived the massacre states:

“I was absolutely over the moon; here am I, band leader of one of the best bands in the world; the Irish Beatles.”

Des McAlea, ‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre-Netflix Documentary’, 2m:37s – 2m:44s

Photograph of the 3 Miami Showband massacre victims pictured in London. Source: Fair Use. Available from: Belfast Telegraph [ Archived here ]

“We were classified as the Irish Beatles…we had the glamour and the flying here there and everywhere to appear at the top venues in the country”

Des McAlea, ‘The Day The Music Died BBC Documentary’, 0m.41s- 0m.46s

…and the bassist who survived states:

“It was like a holiday you went off and stayed in hotels and had a good laugh, you became a pop star.”

Stephen Travers, ‘The Day The Music Died BBC Documentary’, 0m.50s – 0m.55s

…and in keeping with the ‘Royal Prerogative’ of the ‘Divine King’:

“…the Miami…were bright and arrogant…”

Fr Brian D’Arcy, ‘The Day The Music Died BBC Documentary’, 3m.24s – 3m.26s

Thus they were, in their temporary adulation, adoration, reverence, and arrogance, highly ‘suitable’ from the twisted and outdated perspective of a symbolic occult viewpoint of sympathetic magic, for human sacrifice as ‘Divine Kings’.

An example:

“The substitute was accordingly crowned, and for three days, if we may trust the Persian historians, he enjoyed not only the name and the state but the power of the king. At the end of his brief reign he was put to death: the decree of the stars was fulfilled by this sacrifice; and Abbas, who re-ascended his throne in a most propitious hour, was promised by his astrologers a long and glorious reign.”

Sir James George Frazer, ‘The Golden Bough’, 1922, Chapter 25: Temporary Kings

So they were apparently put to death by the Masonic ‘witch cult’, following the band’s rightfully earned enjoyment of what Frazer describes in The Golden Bough as the “royal prerogatives”.

However these had been ‘granted’ them, not for the purpose of preparing them for sacrifice, but for providing much needed elation to the people of a deliberately deprived and impoverished British colony, in an era in which the idea of both colonialism and monarchy are viewed by many globally as ludicrous and outdated relics.

THE MATHEMATICAL ODDS OF THESE ANOMALIES BEING COINCIDENTAL LESSEN WITH EACH CHAPTER…

READ ON THEN YOU DECIDE.