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Mademoiselle,
The dedication of the odalisque to serving male (phallic) pleasure is presented in Code d’ Odalisque as “cockworship.” This is because the slave must be devoted to cock. She is a cock slave. Her vocation is to serve cock. And the devotion required is religious in depth and dimension. By disposition, by training and by command, an odalisque has a devotion to cock. She loves cock. She is obsessed with cock. It is the focus of her slavery. She “worships” cock.
All the same, this “cockworship” is not a “religion” as such. It is only religious-like. Religions inspire devotion, passion, blind dedication, obedience, obsession – all qualities that happen to be desirable in a cock slave. A slave needs to be a cock fanatic. Slavery, in fact, is a metaphor in many of the major religions. The title given to God in those religions, “Lord”, signifies the believer’s submission. It is a strong theme in the Moslem religion. The prefix “Abdu” in common names means “slave”. Example, “Abdullah” = slave of Allah. Slave, in this sense, is a religious state requiring a religious degree of obedience. Devotion makes slaves.
But there is no theology involved. An odalisque is free to understand this religious metaphor any way she likes. What is important is how she serves, not what she believes. She can understand the idea of “cock god” any way she likes. And she squares it with her other religious beliefs – if any – any way she can.
Phallic worship is very ancient. It persists in some religions, such as Hinduism (lingham worship). It is included in some schools of tantra. This dimension of Code d’ Ode is “tantric” in a loose sense. But it need not be understood literally. “Worship” is just a way of describing the level of intensity of an odalisque’s service to cock. To say that cock is a “god” merely means that it is the focus of devotion of a religious intensity.
The level of intensity required in a cock slave goes far beyond average every-day lust. Again: she is a fanatic. The lifestyle and the training of an odalisque make her exceptionally cock focused. By nature she loves cock. Her training develops this, strengthens it, amplifies it until the love becomes adoration. J’ adore le phallus! = “I ADORE cock!” Odalisque slavery is all about the exploration of such amplified levels of desire. A woman becomes an odalisque because she is smitten with a lust that goes beyond the normal range. Her training develops this into a monomania.
You mention paganism and the Mother Goddess. Even in paganism and the wiccan religion the Goddess has a male Consort. The celebration of the masculine principle is not missing from paganism. It should be possible to appreciate the phallus as a male principle, complementary to the female, in this context. But how you construct this is up to you. There are no theological dictates in Code d’ Ode. Every odalisque can attach whatever beliefs she likes to cockworship.
It so happens that we know of at least two women in the odalisque lifestyle who have Christian beliefs. How do they think about the “cock god”? Not as God with an upper case G. Instead, for them, they must think of the phallus as an expression of their God, or as God’s creation, or as a power, or the embodiment of a life-force, or whatever. How they reconcile this with their Christian beliefs is up to them. The point though is that this "cock god" need not be one's High God - it is merely one's particular god.
There is one theological distinction to be made. Historically, there are two types of phallic worship. The phallus has been revered as both an object of fertility and as an object of ecstasy. In odalisque slavery, it is only phallus as agent of ecstasy that is involved. The phallus isn’t revered as bringer of fertility. An odalisque isn’t enrapt in cock worship because the phallus can impregnate her – she adores cock because it rocks her world; the phallus is the agent of delight, ecstasy, transformation. There is nothing else in the world that moves her in that way and to that depth – that is what she reveres about cock. That is its power. Ecstatic power, not procreative power.
The Mother Goddess of paganism is a fertility goddess – goddess of fertile nature. So cockworship under Code d’ Ode has a very different focus than that type of paganism because it is not concerned with fertility. Code d’ Ode is closer to the spirit of Dionysus than to the spirit of Demeter.
In any case, “cockworship” is not about beliefs. It is about serving cock with passion and dedication, love and lust. It is called “worship” because it is passionate and intense, transcending, all-absorbing. For the odalisque, it is not necessary to believe in anything. All that is necessary is that she applies herself – body, heart, soul – to her task, namely serving cock.
In answer to your dilemma, Mademoiselle, it is probably best if you do not “believe” anything. Think less about it. Instead, devote yourself to, absorb yourself in, your duties. When you are fully, completely, involved in your duties and have given of yourself totally you will suddenly realize that you are “worshipping” and that the object of your worship is this “cock god.”
Just for fun, the Code does attribute a formal quality to this cock god: a name. It is presented as a secret. But it is no secret that the name of the “cock god” is unintelligible. When, through orgasm and anguish, an odalisque is so absorbed in cockworship that she is mumbling incoherently, those sounds are the cock god’s name. That tells you something about the nature of this ancient “god” and how he is to be worshipped.
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