The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris

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Relive the stunning opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics

A total of 6,800 athletes and 2,000 artists marched on the Seine in 85 boats for a grandiose show among the capital’s most beautiful monuments.

On video:

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/ceremonies-d-ouverture-et-de-cloture/videos-celine-dion-fait-son-retour-aya-nakamura-fait-le-show-revivez-l-epoustouflante-ceremonie-d-ouverture-des-jeux-olympiques-de-paris-2024_6686274.html

Images from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday evening, July 26, 2024

Source: France TV Info

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/ceremonies-d-ouverture-et-de-cloture/en-images-jo-de-paris-2024-des-prestations-d-aya-nakamura-et-celine-dion-a-l-allumage-de-la-vasque-olympique-les-moments-les-plus-marquants-de-la-ceremonie-d-ouverture_6688500.html

Source: EBRA Group and DNA

https://c.dna.fr/jeux-olympiques/2024/07/27/la-ceremonie-d-ouverture-des-jo-de-paris-en-30-images-inoubliables

source : Paris-Match

https://www.parismatch.com/actu/sport/jo-paris-2024-la-ceremonie-douverture-en-direct-et-en-images-239999#68

We will complete this page in the coming days.

When will our next Federation Day, certainly not Olympic but simply citizen and finally democratic, without power systems. Poets, artists, athletes, citizens are already present in Paris this Friday evening, July 26, 2024 !

Our reaction to the painting on Bacchus and the orgy.

Paris has been known around the world for its places of debauchery for millennia like other cities in other countries. This aspect was approached by borrowing from the rites of the festivals of Dionysus (among the Greeks) or Bacchus (among the Romans). Would a painting by the painters who described these Parisian orgiac festivals have been enough? Or to show Nana, the Great Horizontal, the prostitutes of Pigalle, the courtesans of Thermidor or the Belle Epoque or so many others?

The notion of orgy belongs to all eras and to all human cultures (and animal or living) on all continents. It is a stage of the spiritual initiatory personal journey that uses the way of fleshly and loving ecstasy, in clear our sexual energy.

Most of the “witches” were first condemned and burned alive to go to the Sabbath and animate orgies because indeed the orgies were always led by women according to their matriarchal power. This was described in particular by Malinowski and his study of the sexual life of the natives of the Trobriand Islands in Melanesia and his friend Freud from 1936 said he was convinced of the beneficial aspects of the matriarchate to minimize the violence of human beings to the point of denying his previous writings on the patriarchate.

In our puritanical Western societies ruled by the Anglo-Saxon sect of puritans who claim to pretend to govern the world and to punish the reprobate who do not follow their “divine” directives, the condemnation of sex is based on the prohibition of our source of spiritual initiatory personal knowledge. The theocracies, including Catholic, Protestant and Puritan theocracies, have never ceased to condemn this use of our initiatory source, the most visible and social manifestation of which is precisely this way of fleshly ecstasy and in love with sexual energy and other energies of Life.

Bacchus is also very appropriate in France since we are the first country to consume alcohol according to the average alcohol consumed per capita. Just open your eyes around us.

Reaction from the director:

“Our intention was to include,” defended Thomas Jolly, the director of the ceremony, on Saturday. “When you want to include everyone, you don’t exclude anyone. Our intention was never to be impertinent, subversive. Our idea is that in this great diversity we wanted to include everyone together.’

document :

Norman Thomas Jolly reacts to criticism of his opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Director Thomas Jolly, originally from Rouen, is the artistic director of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which was held on July 26. This Sunday, July 28, he reacted to the criticism that was addressed to his show, suspected in particular of having made fun of Christian iconography.

Other selected comments on FB

comment 1:

The reference is not at all Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. It is the Feast of the Gods of Jan Harmensz van Biljert, painted around 1635 and preserved at the Magnin Museum in Dijon. The gods of Olympus celebrate the marriage of Thetis and Pelee; at the center of the table, it is not Christ, but Apollo crowned. Bacchus-Dionysus lies in the foreground. Blessed asses and other false devotees who criticize have no classical culture…

https://musee-magnin.fr/collection/objet/le-festin-des-dieux

comment 2 by E F:

Was it the Last Supper? It was “not my inspiration,” Jolly said. “I think it was pretty clear, Dionysus is coming to this table. He is there, why, because he is god of the festival […], of wine, and father of Sequana, goddess connected to the river”. “The idea was rather to have a big pagan feast connected to the gods of Olympus… Olympus.. Olympism,” he continued.

The Nymph Sequana, Bacchus and the birth of the Seine:

This legend, which tells the birth of the Seine and its tributaries, originates in Mythology.

Ceres, the Greek harvest goddess, had to leave his country to find his daughter Proserpine, kidnapped by Pluto, god of hell, who had fallen in love with her. She crossed Italy and arrived at the borders of Gaul, where a group of Nymphs welcomed her. One of them, named Sequana, daughter of Bacchus, god of wine, offered her help, and after searching under the gods’ benevolent eye, Proserpine was found in Normandy.

In the joy of the reunion, Ceres gave his daughter’s hand to Pluto. As a thank you for the Gallic nymphs, she gave them a gift from the country where Proserpine had been found.

As Sequana walked with the other nymphs, discovering the shores of their new domain, she met Neptune, god of the sea, who seduced by its beauty, decided in turn to remove it. Sequana started running to escape her, and crossing many lands, she arrived in the heart of Burgundy.

There, just before Neptune managed to take her, she called for her help from her father Bacchus and her friend Ceres. Then the metamorphosis took place: Sequana took the form of a river that became colored with the color of its emerald eyes. The Seine was born and with it the Dawn, the Yonne, the Marne, the Oise, the Eure, thus symbolizing the unity of the Gallic nymphs.

comment 3:

To do this, it is necessary to be factual by denouncing a few specific facts, including:

▪️ you don’t make a show using the body of a woman, Marie-Antoinette, decapitated, whose child was murdered just because he was a threat to the new regime,

▪️ the state has an obligation to be neutral and to respect people’s beliefs and religions, so it had to remove its agreement to Last Supper blasphemy,

▪️ the reminder that artistic or creative freedom is not a license, a blank check, given to insult others, their beliefs and their religions because the freedom of some stops at the freedom of others who should not be attacked in their faith,

▪️ the reminder that the sexualization of the ceremony was unacceptable as it is a celebration for all and therefore also addressed to children who do not have to undergo images of bacchanale and orgies wokes.

Of course, there is much more to be said about the unacceptable blasphemies and abuses imposed yesterday with everyone’s money.

Bacchus advocating nakedness in front of drag queens singing the Last Supper, delusions wokes of all kinds, degenerate therefore, a golden calf etc.

I would like those who are arrogantly mocking and judging critics from France this morning to have the courage to condemn, in the same tone, critics from certain countries in the Maghreb or other countries in the world who have stopped, for example, the spread of this racist propaganda.

But that won’t happen. What would be the reactions of the “progressives” today if a painting yesterday had offended the faith of Muslims or Jews!? They would yell at the scandal and see in this the proof that the far right took power in France in a double standard of which they are the great specialists. It would be a global outcry and they would follow suit.

The opening ceremony of the Olympics will, I hope, be a welcome shock. Two worldviews now clash openly.

The first is woke, progressive in vilenia, satanism, and decadence. Bestial, it is based on the sexualization of any concept in a fierce opposition to any intellectual or spiritual transcendence.

The second resists and believes that man, whether he is a believer or not, must try to rise above the mud. It’s up to everyone to make their choice.

comment 4 by J D:

They (Christian fundamentalists) said everything to demolish Thomas JOLY’s creativity. They even said, through false messages, that the director claimed to have mocked Leonardo da Vinci’s Christian scene.

This forces Thomas JOLY to make a clarification at Le Figaro:

– “You never find in my work any desire to denigrate anyone. The idea was to make a big pagan feast connected to the gods of Olympus.”

All these desires to denigrate the pagan culture is not without recalling the emperor “pontiff” Theodosius who, by his edict of 392 will prohibit all pagan cults to impose the christic cult. Like the Taliban today, even theater actors (as in Orange) were forbidden to perform…

We stop these comments by FB, we have no premium to give to the obscurantism that has spread in our societies.

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