Today, if you’re Christian or Muslim, it’s Holy Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Easter Eve or Black Saturday, take your pick.  The day (the only full day) that Yešu of Nazareth purportedly spent visiting the nether regions deep in the bowels of somewhere. 

People seem to think he spent three days there communing with the damned, or perhaps, the not-yet-saved might be a better term, but it only lasted, at most (if it lasted at all) from approximately three in the afternoon, Jerusalem time, on Friday until sometime before dawn on the following Sunday, so it was primarily a Sabbath sojourn among some of the most entertaining and merry people who had ever purportedly lived, although perhaps not as merry as they’d once been. 

If the myth has any validity which, who knows, it might, I wonder what Yešu did that day and the parts of Friday afternoon and evening and Sunday between midnight and dawn.  He did seem to love sinners and there may well have been many in that metaphorical Limbo.  Limbo because, according to Christians and Muslims, no one had yet been saved so everyone was there.  Not even the Catholic purgatory had yet come into being although, given that the Great Sacrifice had just come to pass, it must have been a chaos of sorting going on between the good, the evil and the somewhere-in-between.  Perhaps Yešu helped with that. 

It’s a strange “feast” day Christians live today.  And Muslims as well.  Muslims are big Yešu fans.  For Jews on the other hand, it’s business as usual, except that one cannot conduct business on the Sabbath.
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Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.