To Serve A Darker Purpose

9/10/2025

By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 2019, a top cardinal from the Roman Catholic Church disagreed with Pope Francis' support for displaying the Pan-Amazonian "Pachamama" idols on an altar at the Vatican. Why would a pagan fertility goddess find a place in the Vatican?

Pachamama effigies brought to the Vatican in 2019

Four, 2-foot statues of Pachamama a fertility goddess which "presides over planting and harvesting" were brought on the eve of the Amazonian Synod conference, and set up where mostly Latin-American bishops would worship. In October, 2019 the statues were taken from St. Maria in Traspontina, a church close to the Vatican, where the statues formed part of a display. They were thrown into the Tiber River, but the local police recovered and returned them, so the statues could be displayed at the end of the synod.

Pope Francis (1936-2025) clarified they were displayed "without idolatrous intentions". According to Vatican transcripts he had referred to the statues as "Pachamama" the name of an Andean fertility goddess.

Six cardinals and bishops condemned the pagan Pachamama rituals at the Vatican.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said: "The abomination of idolatrous rites has entered the sanctuary of God and has given rise to a new form of apostasy whose seeds, which have been active for a long time, are growing with renewed vigor and effectiveness." He urged to have St. Peter's Basilica re-consecrated.

Father Taraborelli a Vatican exorcist works in a windowless room at the back of Santa Maria in Traspontina, a church built in 1474, on the Via della Conciliazione, that was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The church is situated on the site of an ancient Roman pyramid known as the Meta Romuli. It was believed to be the tomb of Romulus. The pyramid was demolished by Pope Alexander VI, and the materials used to build it came from the Colosseum. Hadrian built the original structure but it was destroyed by cannon fire during the Sack of Rome in 1527. The existing church was erected in 1566.

Was it a coincidence that images of a deity that is offered animal and human sacrifices, were kept at the "center of Rome's exorcism and deliverance ministry?"

Etruscan sarcophagus usually depicted the person in their prime

There are those that claim the Vatican's connection to a goddess goes back to ancient times. The name Vatican, which is not based in Latin nor Greek, is linked to the Etruscan goddess Vatika.

The Vatican City State was founded in 1929, by the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy, which spoke of it as a new creation, not as a vestige of the much larger Papal States (756–1870). It is composed of approximately 108 acres. The Pope's residence is the Vatican Palace, north of St. Peter's Basilica. The Vatican Library was founded in 1451, and contains over 80,000 manuscripts, illustration and incunabula which are books printed prior to 1500 A.D. from authors of different faiths.

About 1000 B.C., before Rome was founded the Etruscans settled in Central Italy in an area known as Etruria. Outside of their city they created a cemetery Mons Vaticanus, on a hillside that later became the city of Rome. The guardian of the necropolis was the Etruscan goddess Vatika. As goddess of the underworld she acted as a sentinel to keep watch over those who had passed away. The Etruscan's belief in the afterlife were similar to those of the Egyptians, and treatment of a corpse was important for its journey to the afterlife.

The cult image of the goddess Cybele enthroned on a cart drawn by two lions (c.250 A.D.)

The Carthaginian general Hannibal was plundering Italy, and strange omens were seen. The superstitious Romans sent a delegation to Greece to visit the Delphi, and to get an interpretation of the prophecy that if a foreign invader attacked Rome, they could only be defeated if the Mother of Mount Ida was brought to Rome. This was a title the Romans used to refer to the goddess Cybele, who was known by different names, and was recognized throughout the ancient world.

In 204 B.C., what would become Vatican Hill, housed a 200 foot long temple that took 13 years to build. Inside this temple to Cybele, a 16-foot-tall conical, iron meteorite, which weighed several tons and personified the goddess, known as the "Simulacrum of Cybele" dominated the interior. Cybele proved her power when the Roman General Scipio Africanus forced Hannibal from Italy.

Bronze statuette of Vanth demon. Etruscan, c.425-400 BC Found near Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy (Source - Hamiton Collection)

Vanth was an Etruscan death daemon who served Charun (Greek Cheiron) who was lord of the underworld. Urns holding the ashes of cremated bodies were decorated with images of Vanth, who had wings and bearded snakes encircling her arms. She attended the dead until they entered the underworld.

Various interpretation for the origin of Vatican is vates (Latin) meaning seer, or Vaticanus from the Etruscan language meaning dragon or serpent. An older word vatica is Hindi for a religious center. How it came to Italy (pre-Roman) from India is unknown.

The different origins all have something to do with special sight or prophecy, and present day the Vatican is referred to as the Holy See. According to Pliny, the Roman historian, he claimed that snakes grew so large in the future Vatican area that one ate a child. He wrote that long before Romans moved to the area of the Vatican, it was a sacred grove of the seer-serpent.

"Pope Pontifex M. Victor" cybele worship

With the advent of Christianity the mother-goddess religion was literally forced underground. Human sacrifice rituals and initiations were conducted in the catacombs under the Vatican. It wasn't until 81-92 A.D. that human sacrifice was judged a capital crime. Tunnels were used, and allowed secret ceremonies to Cybele to continue, including child sacrifice.

In the second century the tunnels were closed, and Roman families found to continue in these practices were exiled to Libya. One of these was the family of Gaius Fulvius Victor, who would eventually become the third pope after Paul (193- 199 A.D.). The Gnostic Antonius Pius sought to execute any nobles who worshiped Cybele. One of these was Victor's father who had to flee Rome back to his native land, which was the old Phoenician city of Neapolis in North Africa.

Church St. Maria in Traspontina

In 193, the Emperor Severus allowed the reopening of the Great Temple of Cybele on Vatican Hill, and granted the temple to Victor, who appointed himself Bishop of Rome. As pope he was guilty of many crimes, but his worse offense was to re-institute the practice of child sacrifice at the Vatican. Not satisfied to perform these rituals once a year, he wanted every Mass to include a sacrifice. He claimed the celebration of the last supper and Jesus' death, demanded the human sacrifice of an innocent. He also called for ritual incest.

In 2012, Pope Pontifex M. Victor was declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger). He resigned in February, 2013, making him the first pope to step away from the papacy since Gregory XII was forced to resign in 1415. Pope Francis was elected in Ratzinger's place.

Bas relief from Magna Mater (aka Cybele) depicting sacrificial ox

It wasn't until the 4th century, that Christians transformed the temple of Cybele to the Basilica of St. Peter, where it stands today. The Axis Mundi of Catholicism is an obelisk in the center of the Vatican. It is surrounded by 16 windrose markers, a system created by the Etruscans.

The markers all refer to important places in the Christian faith, they are: Hagia Sophia, Fatima Portugal, The Dome of the Rock, Lalibela Ethiopia, Chartres Cathedral, Aachen Cathedral, and the Shonbrunn Palace/Hofburg Palace (Spear of Desitny).

Vatika is also associated with a bitter tasting grape used to produce cheap wine. There was also a weed with the same name, which grew in the same slope as the grapes. Ingesting it produced hallucinations.

According to a Vatican curator, the Vatican Hill took its name from the Latin word Vaticanus. Vaticinis ferendis alludes to the oracle, who in ancient times delivered messages at this place.

It was Victor who issued a new "official liturgy of the Mother Church", and he established the date of Christ's crucifixion with moon cycles, and the ancient "Day of Blood" celebrated by satanic and pagan cult for Eostre, the Norse name for Cybele.

Victor died in 199 A.D. when he was 73, and Pope Zephyriuns, his son succeeded him. He was pope for 17 years.

"The Grand Master of the Prieure 1981-4, Pierre Plantard, is reported as saying that the Sicambrians, ancestors of the Frankish Merovingians, worshipped Cybele as Diana of the Nine Fires, or as Arduina, the eponymous goddess of the Ardennes. The huge idol to Daiana/Arduina which was towered over Carignan, in north-east France, between the Black Virgin sites of Orval, Avioth and Mezieres, near to Stenay, where the Merovingian king and saint, Dagobert II, was murdered in 679, points circumstantially to a link between the two cults. In this connection Plantard mentions that one of the most important acts of Dagobert, when he acceded to the throne after his Irish exile, was to continue the ancient tradition of Gaul, the worship of the Black Virgin. The Black Virgin, he insists, is Isis and her name is Notre-Dame de Lumiere.

Etruscan couples sarcophagus

The Vatican Necropolis was discovered in the 1930s, and explored between 1940 and 1949 under Pope Pius XII. It's located about 35 feet beneath the Basilica.

The primary emphasis of the excavation was to locate St. Peter's tomb. Archaeologists found ancient graffiti that translated to "Peter is here." Also found were bones, fragments of cloth and other artifacts connected to the apostle.

In the book, Cult of the Black Virgin (1985) the author wrote that Frankish Merovingians worshipped Cybele as Diana, and erected monuments to her in France. In modern times she survives as Mary Magdalene or St. Mary of Egypt. Lyons, France was a center of worship for her, and in Paris she was identified as Isis until St. Genevieve, who is the patroness saint of Paris, took her place.

Over 500 images of the Madonna depicted with black or dark features is a mysterious phenomenon. They are known as Vierge Noires in France. These images of the "other Mary" are associated with pagan goddesses with ties to fertility and death or the underworld. This is in contrast to the traditional view of the Madonna which represents tender motherhood.

A hypothesis that explains the large number of Black Madonnas brought to Europe, mostly into France from the Middle East is that they were brought by Knight Templars. All of the Black Madonnas predate the 13th century, and have similar characteristics. They are all about 28 inches in height and are sitting upright with their large eyes fixed in the distance. Their fingers and hands are very long, and they hold a child on their knee. The child holds a ball in one hand or is making the gesture of a blessing.

France is where most of these dark-skinned virgins are found, especially in central France.

Schwarze Madonna Pettendorf, Germany ca. 1683

There is a theory that from these pagan origins the heretical Gnostic-Christian flowed into the western world with the cult of Mary Magdalene, which resurfaced in Catharism during the Crusades, especially with the Knights Templar.

The Black Virgin is linked to Cybele, Diana, Isis, Venus, Kali, Inanna and Lilith.

The role of the stars and their place in the heavens, has affected the design of cities from Rome to Washington D.C., especially in regards to the importance of the goddess in both places. In Rome, Christians hid goddess worship by reverence to the Virgin Mary. George Washington, though not Catholic, placed half of the capital district in Virginia and the other half in Maryland. Perhaps this explains better Pope Francis' acquiescence in allowing pagan idols to be placed in altars at the Vatican.

Chateau des Amerois

In Belgium surrounded by the Ardennes Forest is the Chateau des Amerois, which is also known as the Mothers of Darkness Castle. The forest extends into Luxembourg and northern France.

The place is believed to be tied to the Illuminati, where elites are said to perform occult rituals. More disturbing are rumors that it is here they have "hunting parties" where trafficked children are hunted on the estate grounds.

In pre-Christian times the Ardennes Forest was considered sacred for cults. Portals and strange beings such as witches, werewolves and vampires were said to roam the wood. Travelers and locals spoke of the goddess Arduinna, said to ride through the forest on a wild boar. It became a place to avoid in order for fear of the supernatural beings that existed there.

The Romans did not like it because it could afford cover for their enemies, and they also said it was full of omens. They feared curses or falling prey to an unearthly enemy.

After the advent of Christianity, hermits and mystics would go to the forest to live and pray, however pagans still worshipped in the area.

Battles were fought in the Ardennes throughout hundreds of years, but during WWI and WWII fierce combat occurred just miles from the Chateau. The Battle of the Bulge cost 19,000 lives. Undoubtedly the land there has been tainted by this bloodshed and suffering.

The Chateau replaced an earlier structure destroyed by fire, and was completed in 1877. It was built for Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, the brother of King Leopold II. The prince's children sold the chateau to Robert Colette, and before 1910 it had been sold once more to Alice Solvay. Present day the estate belongs to her descendants. They are billionaires who've made money from pharmaceuticals, among other things.

Some of the few photographs of the Chateau de Amerois c.1905

Access to the castle has been blocked to the public, and for news media and documentary filmmakers as well. There are only 3 existing photographs of the interior of the castle and no known floor plan. Present day though unoccupied, the security around the chateau and on the grounds is thorough.

The family who built the castle were Catholic, and one of the key features of the Chateau is its chapel where it's alleged a Black Madonna is ensconced.

There are some individuals who claimed they were trafficked and witnessed satanic rites inside the chapel of the Black Madonna in the Chateau des Amerois, and the figure was placed at the center of the non-Christian rituals. They were blood sacrifices and the madonna represented a pagan goddess. The participants were hooded much like the movie Eyes Wide Shut.

The Mothers of Darkness are supposed to be a coven of witches, which gather at the chateau to perform their dark rituals. This is done to gain power and foretell the future.

Marc Dutroux convicted in 2004 claimed he was part of an occult, pedophile network

In 1969, it was noted that the spread of cults had the French and other Europeans concerned. Most disturbing were satanic sects that had recently desecrated cemeteries in four French cites. Remains were pulled from graves in Dunkirk and Toulon. Two other cemeteries were defaced with anti-Christian graffiti, and crosses adorning tombs were broken or turned upside down.

Authorities suspected that behind the religious façade some groups were laundering money, and extorting funds from their members. They were also engaged in other unlawful business practices.

In May, 1996 the French Parliament organized a police intelligence branch that included cult specialists.

German officials were in an ongoing battle with the Church of Scientology, claiming they did not merit tax exemption. A French court had closed a Scientology center due to tax debts.

On December 16, 1968 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in a remote mountain area. The dead were a mixture of suicide and murders, and the event was an extension of rituals in which 53 members of the cult died in 1994 in Canada and Switzerland.

A pedophile investigation started four months before, and precipitated a midnight raid on the headquarters of the Institut Abrasax in Forchies-La-Marche (aka Belgian Church of Satan and the Luciferian Initiation Order), near Charleroi. Police took bags of papers, video cassettes and a refrigerator (inside were found containers with blood and human bones). Also taken were human skulls and black magic ritual tools. Supposedly the raid had been prompted by the discovery of an undated letter addressed to someone named Bernard, making reference to a "special ceremony" and a "special gift". It was signed by "Anubis" the assumed name of the high priest of the Abrasax sect.

It was believed the "Bernard" mentioned in the letter was Bernard Weinstein, a Frenchman who was an accomplice of a gang led by convicted rapist Marc Dutroux, who admitted to killing Weinstein and burying him in the yard of one of his properties.

The investigation followed accusations of incompetence in the police's efforts to solve the cases concerning the disappearance of several children.

Marc Dutroux lived in Charleroi and four children were found buried in his gardens. Two of the bodies were 8-year-old girls missing for more than a year. He starved them to death while he held them in a cell in the basement of one of his homes. The police had dug through flooded mine shafts near Jumet, a suburb of Charleroi for evidence of other human remains. The area was full of abandoned workings dating back 300 years, and they received leads that remains could be there.

Dutroux and his accomplices went to trial in 2004, and he was convicted of four murders, along with the abduction and sexual abuse of six girls. He was convicted to life imprisonment and he is presently serving his sentence.

Throughout the trial he claimed he was on the bottom rung of a powerful pedophile network. Focus was placed on the fact that Dutroux owned ten houses and he was worth 6 million Belgian francs ($130,000), while at the same time receiving public assistance of $1,200 a month. Documents released by Wikileaks reflect that large amounts of money in different currencies were deposited into Michelle Martin's bank account, on dates that coincided with the disappearance of the girls.

The following was reported in 2002:

Journalist Olenka Frenkiel claims that more than 20 potential witnesses in the case (Dutroux) have died in mysterious circumstances. Frenkiel cites Bruno Tagliaferro as an example, who was found dead after claiming to have knowledge of the abduction vehicle used by Dutroux. Though Tagliaferro's cause of death was ruled as a heart attack, American analysts later determined that he had been poisoned.

Frenkiel's article alleges that Tagliaferro's wife, Fabienne Jaupart, who was determined to find her husband's killer, was reportedly found dead as well after her mattress had been set on fire.

In June, 1997 while Dutroux was awaiting trial, the Belgian town of Mons was beset by a serial killer that was known as "The Butcher of Mons".

He murdered five women between January 1996 and July, 1997. The victims' bodies were dismembered with highly precise cuts, and then placed in plastic bags. These were left in conspicuous places such as roadside areas and channel embankments. The first major discovery was in March, 1997 when a police officer found nine garbage bags with human remain beneath Rue Emilie Vandervelde, a tenth bag was found two days later. On April 12, 1997 two bags which contained a head, foot, leg and other body parts were found. In total 38 bags were found with the women's body parts inside.

All the victims were from the medieval town of Mons, who were known to frequent the railway station. They were strangled to death, and analysis of DNA and questioning of several suspects failed to produce the identity of the killer. The case is open, however the statute of limitations is set to expire in 2027.

In a strange twist, the garbage bags were discovered in places with morbid names as such: Rue de Depot (Dump Street), Chemin de l’Inquietude (the Path of Worry), and the rivers Haine (Hate) and Trouille (Jitters).

Martine Bohn was the only victim to have the breasts cut off. It's theorized this could have been prompted when the murderer discovered this individual to be male and not female.

The Belgian authorities had not ruled out that the killer was a member of a satanic sect. It was observed: "The treatment of the bodies is very methodical, which is often the case with satanics involved in ritualistic killings."

Was it coincidence that only miles away several individuals with ties to a satanic group had committed heinous crimes during the same time period?

Author Ursula Bielski described her experience when asking ChatGPT about Dutroux and the pedophile network. These were her findings:

When I was reading about Dutroux and the connections of the occult to law enforcement in Belgium and elsewhere, I thought I’d ask GPT some questions that I couldn't seem to find answers to online. So I thought maybe Chat GPT combing the internet could find them for me.

Well, the results were very interesting, because Chat GPT told me there is no evidence supporting the idea of a larger occult network involved in the abuse of children. And yet I had found many articles in very legitimate news sources that I found that talked about members of a specific demonic cult—the cult of the demon Abraxas—that were involved with the same circles as Mark Dutroux, including even some police officers and other law enforcement officials.

But Chat GPT told me that isn’t true. And then the Chat Box also immediately deleted my question.

The truth is that these other sources have flatly said that members of the police and other agencies were also members of the Abraxas cult in Belgium.

And so, I pointed out these articles to Chat GPT, showing that reliable journalists had discovered that there actually was a connection between law enforcement and this demonic cult. Once again, Chat GPT told me that it wasn't true, and then ChatGPT deleted that question, too.

I have never had a question deleted by ChatGPT—ever. Never. But ChatGPT deleted my two questions about Mark Dutroux and the Cult of Abraxas.

Where does the truth lie? Is it possible that a sinister cult that's existed since pre-Christian times has persisted through the ages by disguising itself with different identities and religions, but always serving the same dark lord?