brooms | "texts of terror" is about right

i haven't even reached the story of the dismembered lady yet and i'm already dying.

With a disturbing twist, the words of Sarah anticipate vocabulary and themes from the Exodus narrative. When plagues threatened the life of his firstborn son, Pharaoh cast out the Hebrew slaves. Like that monarch, Sarah the matriarch wants to protect the life of her own son by casting out Hagar the slave. Having once fled from affliction, Hagar continues to prefigure Israel's story even as Sarah foreshadows Egypt's role. (...) Supporting Sarah, God orders Abraham to obey. Though these instructions foreshadow themes and vocabulary of the Exodus, the difference is again terrifying. When Pharaoh cast out the Hebrew slaves to save the life of his firstborn, God was on their side to bring salvation from expulsion. By contrast, the deity identifies here not with the suffering slave, but with her oppressors. Hagar knows banishment rather than liberation.

thnx mom, for being a new age parent. the whole esoteric hindu buddhist earth goddess ascended master teachings mish mash was WEIRD, but didn't scar me for life.