The Occult in Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" (The Death of Osiris)
The overwhelming occult theme of Lady Gaga's strange video for "Alejandro" is that of a queen in mourning and the sexual transformation that happens thereof. More specifically, it's the story of the death of Osiris with Lady Gaga primarily in the role of Isis.
The video begins by flashing both a pyramid and a Star of David, the two very important symbols of Freemasonry and the occult. Circles are also present among the performers, perhaps symbolizing the ouroboros.
Here is Lady Gaga with a crown representing that she is queen (Isis). The whole video is somber with snow falling--cold--and she's in black.
Here is the symbolic funeral procession for Osiris with his coffin with Lady Gaga as Isis leading it, his heart in her hands (for the video the heart is marked with an A to represent the "Alejandro" of the song, but having said that, some transliterations of the name Osiris start with the letter A i.e. Ausare).
There is a very brief glimpse of this man sitting on the edge of Lady Gaga's bed, as she is dressed in a red and white outfit resembling a nun or the Virgin (Isis also being considered such although she technically wasn't). It should be noted that he has a golden gun between his legs. There is a much clearer image of this at the end. In the myth sequence, Osiris was cut into pieces and the only thing which could not be recovered by Isis was his phallus. As a result, she made a phallus ("gun") out of gold in order to resurrect him and it resulted in her becoming pregnant with Horus.
More of the queen imagery and this time, she is holding a smoking pipe in her left hand, perhaps a reference to the Left Hand Path of Aleister Crowley which venerated Horus and considers us to be in the Aeon of Horus, the previous one being of Osiris and before that Isis.
Some of Lady Gaga's infamous one-eye imagery, used to represent the Eye of Horus, especially in this context. One dark for the moon, the other lit for the sun which is also seen in other videos such as "Poker Face."
Previous to this clip, Lady Gaga put her hands together in prayer, then made the Sign of the Cross. Blatant Christian gestures for the Christian theme of the video (which is supposedly done to criticize the Church), but it could subtly be representing the trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus, or even Osiris, Horus and Thoth.
Throughout the video there is a theme of violence and fascism. Some have said it's to get people comfortable with the thought of a police state. Possible, although it fits the standard and surface symbolism that it's about the "oppression" of homosexuals by the Church. However, relevant to the Osiris theme is the image of a world in chaos, an unbalanced world. The clip captured above is a little bit different. The dancers are separated into pairs and are fighting with one another as if good versus evil. And then, at 3:38, one dancer is slammed down to the ground violently and also homoerotically, twice. It's reminiscent of the conflict between Set and Horus in mythology in which Horus had to avoid Set's homosexual advances. The scene is even more evocative with Lady Gaga dressed as the red (life and magick) and white (purity etc.) Queen Virgin Isis saying, "Stop. Please. Just let me go." As if she wants them to stop fighting, and to be free without having to worry about Set. This is what she pleaded when Horus was going to kill Set during a fight, and instead Horus killed her, his mother.
Not the best screen capture, but in most of Lady Gaga's dance moves, there is a gesture where she covers or emphasizes one eye. This is one such move, which is repeated later on.
The overwhelming occult theme of Lady Gaga's strange video for "Alejandro" is that of a queen in mourning and the sexual transformation that happens thereof. More specifically, it's the story of the death of Osiris with Lady Gaga primarily in the role of Isis.
The video begins by flashing both a pyramid and a Star of David, the two very important symbols of Freemasonry and the occult. Circles are also present among the performers, perhaps symbolizing the ouroboros.
Here is Lady Gaga with a crown representing that she is queen (Isis). The whole video is somber with snow falling--cold--and she's in black.
Here is the symbolic funeral procession for Osiris with his coffin with Lady Gaga as Isis leading it, his heart in her hands (for the video the heart is marked with an A to represent the "Alejandro" of the song, but having said that, some transliterations of the name Osiris start with the letter A i.e. Ausare).
There is a very brief glimpse of this man sitting on the edge of Lady Gaga's bed, as she is dressed in a red and white outfit resembling a nun or the Virgin (Isis also being considered such although she technically wasn't). It should be noted that he has a golden gun between his legs. There is a much clearer image of this at the end. In the myth sequence, Osiris was cut into pieces and the only thing which could not be recovered by Isis was his phallus. As a result, she made a phallus ("gun") out of gold in order to resurrect him and it resulted in her becoming pregnant with Horus.
More of the queen imagery and this time, she is holding a smoking pipe in her left hand, perhaps a reference to the Left Hand Path of Aleister Crowley which venerated Horus and considers us to be in the Aeon of Horus, the previous one being of Osiris and before that Isis.
Some of Lady Gaga's infamous one-eye imagery, used to represent the Eye of Horus, especially in this context. One dark for the moon, the other lit for the sun which is also seen in other videos such as "Poker Face."
Previous to this clip, Lady Gaga put her hands together in prayer, then made the Sign of the Cross. Blatant Christian gestures for the Christian theme of the video (which is supposedly done to criticize the Church), but it could subtly be representing the trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus, or even Osiris, Horus and Thoth.
Throughout the video there is a theme of violence and fascism. Some have said it's to get people comfortable with the thought of a police state. Possible, although it fits the standard and surface symbolism that it's about the "oppression" of homosexuals by the Church. However, relevant to the Osiris theme is the image of a world in chaos, an unbalanced world. The clip captured above is a little bit different. The dancers are separated into pairs and are fighting with one another as if good versus evil. And then, at 3:38, one dancer is slammed down to the ground violently and also homoerotically, twice. It's reminiscent of the conflict between Set and Horus in mythology in which Horus had to avoid Set's homosexual advances. The scene is even more evocative with Lady Gaga dressed as the red (life and magick) and white (purity etc.) Queen Virgin Isis saying, "Stop. Please. Just let me go." As if she wants them to stop fighting, and to be free without having to worry about Set. This is what she pleaded when Horus was going to kill Set during a fight, and instead Horus killed her, his mother.
Not the best screen capture, but in most of Lady Gaga's dance moves, there is a gesture where she covers or emphasizes one eye. This is one such move, which is repeated later on.
In what looks like an internment camp, Gaga has
the gay men bound to a bed as she rapes them, in what looks like a
reenactment of ritual abuse.
Here is Lady Gaga as Queen Virgin Isis standing amidst chaos. She's wearing a red inverted cross, which can mean a number of things in the context of the video (cast out, more Left Hand Path symbolism, the Church is Satanic etc.).
In the following scene, however, the symbolism is undeniable. She's concealing her eye to represent Horus (Dajjal) particularly with the two inverted crosses and the fire, which in this instance symbolize the Satanism of Crowley, which is consistent with her past fashion references to Baphomet. In the frame, it's almost as if he (Horus) will be savior.
In this scene, Lady Gaga abandons the role of Isis and in turn seems to take on the limp restored body of Osiris with the red inverted cross representing the missing phallus. Another interpretation, however, can be that the red inverted cross symbolizes Isis' red life-giving (menstrual) blood.
Pyramid capstone with rays of light hand gesture with arms as the body of the pyramid being done by Lady Gaga. Also, the black and white in this sequence symbolizing good and evil in typical Masonic fashion.
Better picture of the dance move that emphasizes one eye. Other moves in different videos and performances (not to mention interviews, snapshots and posed shots) have similar variations.
During this dance sequence, Lady Gaga as Isis is straddling another dancer and essentially riding him sexually while dressed in her robes (unlike in the other sex-heavy scenes) in order to create Horus using her magick.
And here is the final scene which shows the golden "gun" between his legs and the Virgin life-giving and magickal Isis (represented by the color red) together, posed. While the strings look like puppet strings, they are more reminiscent of the kind of lines found in paintings that come from a divine source and represent God's intervention such as with stigmata.
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