Cremation of Care is the name of a ritual performed by the Bohemian Grove Club which has been meeting in Northern California since 1872 AD.
The ritual takes place before a stone owl of some forty feet tall. Before the owl, a fire blazes and a sacrifice is made of what is said to be an effigy of a child or, otherwise, a human.
The entrance to one area has a fancy gray sign atop which is a sign and which says either “Je Suis LaFitte” meaning “I am LaFitte” (LaFitte was a French pirate) or “Je Suis LaFille” meaning “I am the girl.”
The Bohemian Club’s official explanation (see video here) of what the cremation of care means is:
The cremation of care is a musical and verse pageant heralding a two week midsummer escape from business cares and celebrating nature and good fellowship.
As grand scale stage drama it may be a bit overdrawn, but it’s about as innocent as anything could be.
Note that celebrating nature is a way of saying Paganism.
The ritual is high church, as it where, meaning pageantry involving costumes. It is performed in the manner of a play with a microphones narrator and various personages playing parts.
Much speculation has been applied to the identity of the owl idol some of which range from it being:
The Roman goddess Minerva, who is associated with the owl, as, for some odd reason, symbolizing wisdom. Keep in mind that in occult satanism or more accurately luciferianism wisdom, enlightenment, etc. pertains to, refers to that knowledge, that revelation given to humanity, starting with Eve, by the serpent, the snake or heylel aka lucifer.
A Babylonian demoness called Lilith.
A Phoenician bloodthirsty god known as Moloch or Molech to whom humans, including children were sacrificed.
The ritual’s narrator appears to offer some hints, “As vanished Babylon and goodly Tyre [an ancient seaport of Phoenicia]… And moss rends the stones of Babylon.”
However, the best candidate may be Lilith a reference to which dates back to the 2,000 BC Sumerian epic Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree wherein she is referred to as “the demoness Lilith.” The Burney Relief, a terracotta plaque dating to circa the same time, either represents Lilith or Inanna. The figure is nude, has wings, talons for feet, various horns, is standing on two lions and between two owls. Now, Inanna is a Sumerians goddess and was known to the Akkadians as Ishtar.
Clearly, part of the issue, the confusion, is that one figure was known to various cultures by various names, etc.
Keeping in mind that this is all supposedly about blowing off steam note that during the ritual it is stated:
The Owl is in His leafy temple. Let all within the grove be reverent before Him…And holy are the pillars of this house…For behold, here is Bohemia’s shrine. And holy are the pillars of his house…let them [gallant friends] join us in this ritual!…It is a dream. And yet, not all a dream…
This is a call to worship. Also, the reference to pillars is clearly Masonic.
For lasting happiness we turn our eyes to one alone, and she surrounds you now. Great nature, refuge of the weary heart…She is ever faithful…seek ye her in any quiet place…she will rise and give to you her kiss. So must ye come as children…
The only true happiness, so it is being stated, is nature worship: Paganism.
Bohemians and priests!…By the power of your fellowship, Dull Care is slain. His body has been brought yonder to our funeral pyre…O thou, thus ferried across the shadowy tide. In all the ancient majesty of death…
Dull Care, ardent enemy of beauty. Not for thee the forgiveness or the restful grave.
The ritual takes place before a stream and so there is an actual ferry which brings the corpse of Dull Care. This is reminiscent of the traversing of the river Styx with the Greek daemon Charon who is the ferryman.
Dull Care states:
Fools! Fools! Fools! When will ye learn. That me ye cannot slay? Year after year ye burn me in this grove. Lifting your puny shouts of triumph to the stars. When again you turn your faces to the marketplace. Do you not find me waiting as of old? Fools! Fools! Fools to dream you conquer care…
Ye shall burn me once again! Not with these flames! Which hither ye have brought. From regions where I reign. Ye fools and priests. I spit upon your fire!
Clearly, Dull Care is a Phoenix like figure who is not burned never to return but is burnt, raises from the ashes, as it were, is burnt, raises again, etc.
Say thou mocking spirit! It is not all a dream. We know thou waiting for us…But this too we know. Year after year within this happy grove. Our fellowship bans thee for a space. Thine malevolence which would pursue us here. Has lost its power under these friendly trees. So shall we burn thee once again this night.
Again, this is all supposed to be pageantry representing forgetting the cares of the world. Why then the ritualistic, mythological, religious terminology and imagery?
O Owl! Prince of all mortal wisdom. Owl of Bohemia, we beseech thee. Grant us thy council.
This is nothing but a prayer which petitions the wise owl for council: sounds like a petition to the revealer of the knowledge of good and evil.
Next, in referring to fire, the following is stated:
Let it be in the world. Where care is nourished. On the hates of men. And drive Him from this grove. One flame alone must light this fire. One flame alone must light this fire. A pure eternal flame. At last, within the lamp of Fellowship. Upon the altar of Bohemia.
The ritual ends with:
O Great Owl of Bohemia! We thank thee for thy adjuration. Begone detested care! Begone! Once more, we banish thee! Begone Dull Care! Fire should have its will of thee! Begone Dull Care! And all the winds make merry with thy dust. Hail, fellowship’s eternal flame! Once again Midsummer sets us free!
References to eternal flames can certainly be reference to the light bringer, the enlightenment giver, the illuminated one; lucifer.
Well, all and in all it may be some time before anyone gets new information about Bohemian Grove. Since the days, some decades ago, when Alex Jones and Mike Hanson snuck in and got footage of the ritual.
The last people to attempt to infiltrate the area got eleven years in prison. Security and surveillance have gone high tech.
Yet, overall, if the Bohemian Club is merely about escaping business cares why is it that reportedly top business and political leaders meet there in order to discuss business?
…discuss business and whatever made Richard Nixon say—beyond that it is the Club which gave impetus to him becoming president:
The Bohemian Grove, that I attend from time to time—the Easterners and the others come there—but it is the most faggy Goddamn thing you could ever imagine, that San Francisco crowd that goes in there; it’s just terrible!
—President Richard M. Nixon on the Watergate Tapes