Looking at the U.S.A.—or any other country for that matter—where human sacrifice and human suffering have become so normalized in each of their individual pursuits of power, preservation, and perceived freedom, what we are basically looking at are modern-day civilizations that are built on ritualized systems of blood magic—whether it is acknowledged as such or not.

And today, I learned a new word as I was researching more into what hemomancy was and trying to find a word that could accurately describe what those overzealous nationalistic folks who glorify war, sanctify violence, and romanticize sacrifice in the name of their country’s so-called freedom could be called—and the word that I landed on was hemopatriot (a term that’s more casually shortened to hemopat, or—satirically—hemo, in the same way some people say “homo” for homosexual in a mocking or derogatory tone. And as a homosexual myself, I’m well aware of how that kind of language has been used to diminish or other people like me—which is exactly why I find it fitting to flip the script and use hemo to name those who glorify war, bloodshed, and sacrifice as patriotic virtue. Because if they can sanctify systemic violence and call it freedom, I can call them hemos without apology—and carry on with my clarity, my conscience, and my refusal to pledge allegiance to the blood-drenched altars that they pretend are holy.)

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Hemopatriot (noun)

Definition:

An individual who expresses their patriotism through ideological or ritualistic support of bloodshed—whether through war, sacrifice, or systemic violence—in the name of national freedom, dominance, or divine destiny. The hemopatriot may not view themselves as practicing magic, but in effect, they participate in a nationalistic blood ritual, sanctifying the shedding of human life as a necessary offering to uphold their country’s myth of liberty and power.

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While there were many other words that came up in my research, hemopatriot was most akin to hemomancer, which is a term used to describe someone who engages in blood magic—whether literally or symbolically—by working with the energetic, ancestral, or sacrificial power of blood to influence outcomes, to shape institutions, or to manipulate collective structures of power. And while a hemomancer might be more aware of their ritualistic relationship with sacrifice and power, the hemopatriot operates under a veil of nationalistic pride, rarely acknowledging that the frameworks they uphold are rooted in the same psychospiritual mechanisms of sacrificial exchange as in hemomancy, where the life force and suffering of other human beings are offered—consciously acknowledged or not—to maintain the illusion of freedom, order, and a divinely sanctioned sense of righteous national destiny. So, it’s the same energetic principle of life-force-charged invocation—just masked by flags, national mythologies, institutional ceremony, and carefully crafted political narratives.


This means that the hemopatriot functions as a ritual enforcer of a national blood rite—sometimes unconsciously in their conditioned loyalty, and also sometimes with full awareness of their ideological devotion. But whether blindly indoctrinated or willfully invested in the preservation of their nation’s mythologized identity, they help to maintain and perpetuate the symbolic order of sacrifice that upholds their particular nation-state’s mythos. And although they may not recognize it as an occult working, psychic agreement, magickal ritual, or spiritual contract, what they’re participating in is essentially a collective magickal rite of blood and power—one that uses the energetic currency of human suffering to feed the spiritual architecture of the nation-state. And it is through their fervent allegiance, moral justification of violence, and emotional investment in patriotic spectacle that they become conduits of a larger, often unseen metaphysical system—one that requires the suffering of other human beings to survive.

This means as they rally behind wars, defend state violence, and celebrate symbolic acts of power, conquest, or ceremonial affirmations of supremacy—that all require some form of human suffering to uphold at the end of the day—believing it’s all necessary for the maintenance of their so-called “freedom”—they are actually participating in a deeply embedded underlying spiritual economy that feeds on human life force. So, with freedom demands the suffering or death of others to sustain itself, what we’re really dealing with is an occult machinery of sacrifice and rule—built on an altar of blood—no different than the ancient empires we now call barbaric. And just because we live in a modern world doesn’t mean we’ve outgrown the ancient spiritual architecture that once demanded blood or the energetic exchange of human suffering to sustain its power. We’ve simply just repackaged it.

And that’s what fascinates me: how many people across the world over are still entangled in systems that use blood and human suffering as energetic currency—whether through war, economic oppression, cultural erasure, institutionalized violence, systemic indoctrination, state-sanctioned exploitation, socially accepted dehumanization, or other deeply embedded hidden sacrificial technologies—all disguised as patriotism, glory, or moral duty according to their particular brand of national, religious, or ideological righteousness. And how much denial, repression, and mental hoops they have to jump through to avoid confronting the very real underlying reality of occult machinery at work—just to maintain a sense of identity, belonging, or superiority. And that no matter how good, righteous, virtuous, enlightened, or morally exceptional these individuals may believe themselves to be, they are participating in a spiritually inverted system—meaning a system where what is harmful is labeled as holy, what is violent is justified as virtuous, and what is exploitative is framed as necessary for the greater good. And it’s a system where darkness doesn’t just hide—it masquerades as light, drawing power from the ignorance and psychospiritual allegiance of those who refuse to question the true cost of their devotion.