Chapter 11
Time

 


The Cult of the Head


Coming back to our Grail ensemble: We understand that the lance and the cup are two ark/grail symbols that “go together” in terms of being part of the ensemble of the Grail stories. As far back as we can track them, we find them as symbols of gender, penetration and planting the seed, and gestation followed by birth. Found in juxtaposition, the spear upright in the vase, their signification is admitted by all familiar with “life symbolism”.

 

They form part of a function that deals with the processes of life and vitality and, as we have said, we do not think that it is Tantra, but rather symbolic of a more basic reproductive concept, i.e. DNA. We also note the odd fact that the letters can be rearranged to form the name “DAN”. Green language and Time Loops?


Nevertheless, we wish to note that Perseus, who was the founder of the Perseid Dynasty, was said to have also founded and built the Citadel of Mycenae. For a very long time, the name of Mycenae puzzled me because it is translated to mean “Place of the Mushroom”. This, of course, has led to many expositions on the value of “magic mushrooms” in initiatory rites, and we do, indeed, realize that the use of drugs in many of the ancient rites can be documented.

 

But, when looking at the image of Melchizedek on Chartres cathedral, holding that funny cup with the cylindrical object inside, I couldn’t help but think of an upside down mushroom. And suddenly, it became clear what the connection might be: a mushroom is a natural symbol for sexual union with the female dominant. In other words, it may express the fecundity of Nature as the Goddess and giver of all gifts.

 

And in more specific terms, it may express the function of the mitochondrial DNA over of the paternal ancestry. In short, it may well be a symbol of DNA, not sex, and not drugs. In another sense, understanding the complex of “centers” as explicated by Mouravieff, another layer of explanation is the union of the lower centers of man with the higher centers, and thus gaining access to hyperdimensional states of being.

 

In other words, this little symbol expresses to us the Great Work of Alchemy which is often expressed in “sexual” terms which many “puffers” interpret as “Tantric”.


In the legends of the Grail, we discover by careful reading that there is a specific task that the hero must accomplish that is, somehow, not of a nature that would accrue benefits to himself, but it is rather a battle against evil forces to “free a ruler” and his land from disastrous consequences. The close relationship between the illness of the king and the condition of the wasteland is not a literary invention of the Middle Ages. It is, in fact, a deeply rooted element from immemorial antiquity. As we have seen, connected to the legends of the grail are a complex of “ceremonial practices” which hold to a certain form no matter what variation of the story one encounters.

 

But we also see that something happened to bring to an end the dances of Apollo and the lifestyle of the megalith people. Tied in to all of this is the ancient alchemical lore about the “philosopher’s stone”, the Holy Grail, the head of Bran the Blessed, the head called “Baphomet” of the disappearing Templars, and Noah’s Ark. All are connected to the idea of certain powers that have to do with the stopping or manipulating of time, a source of endless abundance (multiplying loaves and fishes), passage to a new life with a load of animals, eternal life or the “elixir of life”, and so forth.

 

And, most importantly, we perceive the idea of “cycles” and astronomical placements being necessary to the “work”. And it is not entirely out of the question that if such was the case, the megaliths could have just simply “translated” the Stone Movers into another Quantum Future at some point when astronomical alignments were right: the “Big Payoff of going home”, so to speak.


In general terms, it seems likely that they understood the utilization of cosmic energy - designated in the Bible as the “hosts of heaven” - and that these stone “machines” were designed to collect and focus this energy. Their careful record keeping in such funny ways (the 19 year moon cycle, for example; and the 19th day as a special day of rest for the Assyrians) had to do with the moments in space/time when certain activities were most easily accomplished. Maybe they weren’t a bunch of silly, superstitious savages hauling stones around and sweating like crazy just to dance around in the moonlight and discover when to plant the corn?


And this brings us to another kind of “stone”: The Cult of the Head.

 

Everywhere we look when we investigate these matters, we come across those ubiquitous talking heads, or heads of plenty, or heads that prophesy, or heads that turn people into stone. The most contemporary traces of the Cult of the Head are from the records of the trials of the Templars where they were accused of worshipping a head called “Baphomet”. We also find the interesting references to something called a “Merkaba”, or “celestial chariot”.


In ancient literature, something called a Merkaba is talked about, but the definition of this extremely mysterious thing has been lost down through the centuries. There have been many “explanations” from such sources as the Midrash - Jewish commentaries - but there is even argument there. It seems that, even then, nobody knew what it was. But now, we have all these New Age folks coming along who have decided that they know what it is, and it is described as “rotating double tetrahedrons”!


Well, it’s a curious word because it is composed of two words: mer kaba. Kaaba is Arabic for cube, and it is the square stone building in which the fabled Black Stone that fell from heaven is housed in Mecca. It was supposed to have been built by Ishmael and Abraham. So we have mer, which means sea and mother, combined with kaaba, which is stone, or cube, and we come to Soul stone? Mother stone? Magnetic center, indeed!


Baphomet has been variously identified as a “bisexual idol or talking head”. Several derivations of the name Baphomet have been suggested. Some say it was Arabic abu-fihamet, or “Father of Wisdom”. Some have said it is a corruption of the word Mohammed. There are several other ideas bruited about this Baphomet including that it was Pope Sylvester’s Armillary Sphere. Some say it is Baphe Meteos, or the baptism of Metis. Metis was a Gnostic Goddess of Wisdom. However, in thinking about it in terms of cabala, we come to a different idea.


Fulcanelli said it was a, “complete emblem of the secret traditions of the Order”. He then says that this is “fire enclosed in water”. That already refers us back to Merkaba, a “fiery stone in the sea”. Baphomet includes the syllable “pho”, which is derived from roots that mean “breath” or breathing, and from the movement of air, comes sound. In fact, a phoneme is a unit of distinctive sound in the description of any given language. In the end, we have a different idea of the “talking head” of Baphomet, and it doesn’t look like it is Pope Sylvester’s Armillary Sphere at all.


There is also the interesting connection of blood relationship of the Maruts. They were all of the “same parentage”, and this suggests that a certain genetic inheritance was necessary in order to be able to produce the necessary energies for this very important work on behalf of the tribe or civilization. But we would like to suggest that it is not necessarily a “family line” in terms of genetics (though we cannot exclude that), but rather that the reference points out to us that the Great Work is work on the DNA!

 

In this sense, the “Child of the King” was anyone who achieved the Alchemical Transformation!


So, we have a curious series of factors to contend with that all seem to point in the direction of DNA being far more interesting and mysterious than we might have supposed.

 

On the one hand we have such naturally transmitted “powers”, and on the other hand we have folks who can engage in some activity that either temporarily or permanently changes something in their physiology - and the apparent result is psi phenomena and/or “supernatural abilities” that may not be supernatural at all - they may be the accessing of hyperdimensional states of being via some change in the neurons of the brain as a result of turning on latent genes. After all, we note the similarity of the words “shaman” and “sarmoung” or “sarman”, and the latter has been traditionally translated as “those whose heads have been purified”.

 

A much later corruption of the idea of “purification of the head” may have come down as trephination. Once the real technology was lost, they attempted to do it by brute force.

 

 


Back to Atlantis


According to Plato’s story, Atlantis was the center of a country of extreme economic wealth and military power that sought to enslave all of Europe. The Atlanteans were quite successful in defeating many European countries; however, the great civilization of Athens repelled their attacks and eventually succeeded in driving them back out of Europe. Unfortunately, almost all records of this great achievement were lost due to a very powerful flood that wiped out most of Athens and the whole continent of Atlantis in one day and one night.

 

Let’s look at an even more interesting item from Frank Joseph’s book: The Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake.

While reading, keep in mind our dating problem that was identified since Joseph wrote his book, so we very likely will have to push the early dates way back.

Someone took an awful lot of raw copper from North America a very long time ago. Who was responsible for this and what they did with it represent an enigma of vast proportions that investigators have been puzzling over for more than a century, although most Americans are unaware of the story.


Beginning around 3,000 BC, in excess of 500,000 tons of copper were mined in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with most activity taking place at Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior on the Canadian border. The mines abruptly and inexplicably shut down in 1200 BC, reopening no less mysteriously 2,300 years later . Until 1320 AD, some additional 2,000 tons were removed, destination unknown. As before, operations were suddenly suspended for no apparent cause. Tools - mauls, picks, hammers, shovels and levers - were left by their owners in place.

 

Octave Du’Temple, a foremost authority on early Michigan, asks,

“Why did these miners leave their operations and implements as though planning on taking up their labors the next day, and yet mysteriously never returned.”

William P.F. Ferguson writes,

“The work is of a colossal nature,” and “amounted to the turning over of the whole formation to their depth and moving many cubic acres - it would NOT be extravagant to say cubic MILES - of rock.”

The prehistoric mines were NOT crude holes in the ground, but incredibly efficacious operations to extract staggering masses of raw material as quickly as possible. An average of 1,000 to 1,200 tons of ore were excavated per pit, yielding about 100,000 pounds of copper each. […]


The ancient enterprise was a mind-boggling affair, including about 5,000 mines mostly along the Keweenaw Peninsula and the eastern end of Lake Superior above the St. Mary’s river. On the northern shore, the diggings extended 150 miles, varying in width from four to seven miles... The pits ran in practically a contiguous line for 30 miles through the Rockland regions...


Estimates of 10,000 men working the mines for 1,000 years seem credible, as does the conclusion that they were not slaves, because the miners carried away their dead. No ancient graves nor evidence of cremations have been found in the Upper Peninsula. Indeed, virtually all they left behind were their tools, literally millions of them. As far back as the 1840s, 10 wagonloads of stone hammers were taken from a single location near Rockland. The mauls appeared to be mass produced in various sizes and types to serve different tasks.


W.H. Holmes succinctly writes,

“It is unlikely, however, that any considerable amount of the shaping work was conducted on the island. It seems to me more likely that the pieces of metal obtained were carried away to distant centers of population to be worked by skilled artisans and we may justly assume that a considerable trade existed in the raw material.”

Those “distant centers of population” were Rock Lake and Aztalan, which were connected to the Great Lakes mining areas by a belt of similar mounds. One upper Peninsula temple-mound was 10 feet tall, 15 feet long at the sides and virtually identical to Aztalan’s Pyramid of the Moon. As we shall see, the ancient copper miners and the inhabitants of Rock Lake-Aztalan were one and the same people.


America’s ancient copper mines represent the key to unlocking Rock Lake’s deepest secrets. The grandiose mining enterprise began suddenly around 3,000 BC and terminated just as abruptly 1,800 years later.

[...] When prehistoric America’s copper mining ceased all at once in 1200 BC, the Michigan pits were abandoned for the next 21 centuries. They were suddenly opened in 900 AD, an event that can only mean that, despite the virtual abandonment of the Rock Lake area for thousands of years... [somebody KNEW about it - and came back].

 

[...] Alliance with another mound building people at Spiro, Oklahoma, near the Arkansas River, provided portage to Mesoamerica Trade Centers.

 

[...] Roy Ward Drier writes, “That the copper from which tools, scattered over such a vast area of country, were manufactured, came from the ancient mines of Lake Superior, does not admit of doubt. Although large and numerous deposits of copper ore are scattered through Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico and Central and South America, there is no evidence that the aborigines had sufficient metallurgical knowledge or skill to reduce the ores to refined copper. The shores of Lake Superior have the only known workable deposits of native copper in the world. The term virgin copper is well used to denote its purity. In this latter day, it outranks all others in the markets of the world.” [...]


Archaeological excavations in the 1930s at Aztalan discovered the remains of a large rectangular building containing an abundance of unworked copper, establishing the site’s identity as a mining town. [...]

Frank Joseph found some very strange pyramidal type structures in Rock Lake, Wisconsin. They were different from other pyramidal structures - being conical - and he was astounded some years later to see identical, unusual, pyramidal structures in the Canary Islands.

The original inhabitants of the Canary Islanders referred to themselves as “Canari” long before the Romans arrived. The name appears to have had a similar meaning in both Latin and the native speech, which was a mixed Indo-European language with at least several Latin cognates.


Previous to the 1st century AD, the Atlantic group was known throughout the Mediterranean World as the Blessed Isles, the Fortunate Isles, the Hesperides, or the Isles of the Blessed. Forgotten for all of classical civilization, they were isolated from outside contact for almost 1,000 years until their rediscovery by Portuguese sailors in the 14th century.

 

The Canari more commonly referred to themselves as Guanches (men) a once civilized race that had slowly degenerated over millennia of interbreeding, while their level of society slid back, quite literally, into the caves... Before their virtual elimination, some studies were made of the Guanches, a white people, fair complected and with red, auburn, and occasionally blond hair.

 

Despite their genetically debased condition, they preserved traditions from long gone ages of civilized greatness and still gathered at the ruined stone monuments of their ancestors for special events. Some of these cyclopean walls, called tagora, survive as crumbling rectangular enclosures, circles, and even pyramids. At Santa Cruz, capital of Tenerife, largest of the islands, I was surprised to learn that regular, ancient contacts between the Canaries and North America were generally acknowledged by the academic community.

 

Talk of possible pre-Columbian visitors from Europe is taboo throughout professional circles in the United States, but Tenerife’s leading historical scholar, Professor Lopez Herrera, writes:

“One fact about which we may be certain is that there existed a relation in ancient times between the people of Canarian origin and the inhabitants of America.” [...]

 

From Tenerife I took a ferry to Lanzarote, which is 125 miles closer to North Africa than any of the rest of the seven islands. After docking at the capital port of Arrecefe and checking into my hotel, I walked through the ocean-front park, intent only on some casual sightseeing, when I was thunderstruck to confront the very object that had been sought in the depths of Rock Lake for more than 50 years: a 20 foot conical pyramid. It exactly matched the sunken structure seen in the lake in 1937. [...]

In all my travels throughout Europe and studies of classical and preclassical societies, I had never found so much as a reference to a conical stone pyramid such as this one, and, as far as I knew, nothing of the kind existed anywhere else except under the waters of Rock Lake, Wisconsin.350

350 Joseph, Frank, The Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake (Lakeville, MN: Galde Press, Inc. 1992).

Are Rock Lake and the copper mines remnants of the civilization known by Plato as Atlantis?

 

Adding 10,000 years to Joseph’s dates, as suggested by Firestone and Topping, would put these sites into the timeframe indicated by Plato.


The evidence that Firestone and Topping discovered is puzzling for a lot of reasons. But, the fact is, there are reports of similar evidence of possible Nuclear War from such widely spread regions as India, Ireland, Scotland, France, and Turkey; ancient cities whose brick and stone walls have literally been vitrified - fused together like glass. There is also evidence of vitrification of stone forts and cities. It seems that the only reasonable explanation for such anomalies - taken in conjunction with the rest of the evidence - is an atomic blast.

 

This fits with Plato’s story of a war between the Atlanteans and “Athens”.


If the Americas were “Atlantis”, and if there was a war going on prior to the cataclysm, it seems that - fitting the descriptions together - North America was the hardest hit. There is not only the evidence of the nuclear activity, but the massive bombardments of exploding cometary bodies which blasted away nearly all traces of civilization.

 

We recall that the animal carcasses found in the ice seem to have been swept northward, and this may have been the result of a sudden seven degree shift of the terrestrial axis - from 16.5 degrees to the current 23.5 - initiating tectonic shifts that not only raised the mountains of South America, but changed the face of North America, raising parts of it from under water, submerging other parts under water, and destroying nearly every living thing. The evidence of the Bimini megalithic structures under water, as well as the recently discovered underwater city near Cuba, testify to this inundation.

 

Prior to the cataclysm, according to the information from the Gateway of the Sun at Tiahuanaco, the earth revolved about the sun in a period of 290 days.


The question is, of course, who was who? Who was on first?


We have looked at the Americas as the possible ancient empire of Atlantis. It is now time to reiterate certain observations. We have noted earlier that the practice of human sacrifice seems to have originated and spread in the Southern Hemisphere. We have also noted that human sacrifice was most closely associated with Solar deities.

 

The further north you go, the less importance the Sun had, the more importance the Moon was given, and the incidence of human sacrifice diminished.

 

At certain points, where the two “types” mingled, it was not uncommon to find Moon worship associated with human sacrifice, or Sun worship divorced from Human Sacrifice. But what is evident from tracking the myths and folktales and artifacts, is that Human Sacrifice was primarily a Southern Hemisphere production. It would be almost impossible to track the ancient peoples with firm accuracy, but the point is that there is evidence that the religion of the Jews came from South America via India to the Middle East, bringing its bloodthirsty, flesh flaying, genital mutilating God along.


At the same time, we find megalithic structures on Malta that predate the deluge, and the conical pyramids of Rock Lake, Wisconsin, connected to similar structures on the Canary Islands. We have tracked our long-legged Cro-magnon types across Europe to Central Asia and back again. And we most certainly suspect that they were inhabitants of North America as well. We have found the shamanic Goddess worshipping peoples of Central Asia, shepherds and horsemen and husbandmen of the land.


What happened to the peoples of North and South America? Where was “Athens”? How did the “Athenians” defeat the evil empire of Atlantis?

 

When we contemplate these questions, what comes to mind is that amazing, ancient tale of the Ark, represented in a hundred tales down through the millennia as any number of things from five smooth stones picked up from a stream flung by a young lad at a giant, after which he cut off his head, to the head of a Gorgon held up as a weapon to turn the wicked into stone.

 

We find a reflection of the idea of being “turned to stone” in the story of Lot’s escape from the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah where, when his wife hesitated and looked back, she was turned to a pillar of salt. In the legend of Perseus, just looking at Medusa would turn one to stone.


As we review the myths and legends, we find that strange story of the Sumerians about the theft of the “tablet of destinies”, which connects us to the golden tablets of the Aesir of Snorri Sturlson, and the Emerald tablets of Hermes, from which we move on to the tablets of the law in the Ark. Then we come in a circle to the idea of the “law bearer” or Ark, as the Thesmophoria of the Eleusinian mysteries celebrated only by women - and the woman was represented as a doorway, a delta - a cross even - from which the hanged man, Odin, hung for nine days to receive the secrets of the Goddess, the runes, and for which he sacrificed his eye to drink from the spring of wisdom. What a tangled web.


Speaking of webs, when we consider the possibility that all of our dating methods might be useless if the earth has been repeatedly subjected to cataclysmic - including nuclear - events, we are then free to consider Tiahuanaco as possibly being a surviving Atlantean city. We have only Plato’s discussions upon which to speculate about the Atlanteans, and we will come to that soon enough. For the moment, we certainly wish we could query the silent stones about the past.

 

The only thing we know about Tiahuanaco in a more direct way, is from the myths and legends of the Inca.

Chavín is claimed to be the Mother Civilization of the Andes.

 

The term Chavín has been applied to a developmental stage of Andean history, to an archaeological period, to an art style and to a hypothetical empire. Chavín has been interpreted as a culture, a civilization and a religion. The Chavín culture was one of agriculture and fishing and seafaring. It’s earliest manifestation is in the Ica area, and we have already noted the Ica stone artifacts which suggest far greater antiquity for this culture than mainstream science even considers.


The Moche culture developed in the same area which had previously belonged to the Chavín culture, so we may assume that it was formed of survivors. Expert opinions suggest that one can easily see the influence of the oldest civilization of Peru, the Chavín, on the Moche. Chavín was a well-developed class society, which was divided into nobility, farmers and slaves. The Moche people were developed in agriculture, fishing, handicraft, trade, sea-faring and metallurgy. The anthropomorphic pottery of the Mochicans is thought to express the mythological and social themes which were the peak of this art genre in the whole civilisation of Peru.


This raises an interesting issue because the human-shaped pottery shows that the typology of the Mochicans includes Mongoloid as well as Negroid features. The earliest “God” image, the one carved on the Gate of the Sun, is a Godlike creature holding staves or sticks in both of its hands. It is thought that the deity with staves was a celestial supreme being, a God of the heavens, who in the course of time was attributed the characteristic features of a thunder-God.

 

The worship of the deity with staves spread from Chavín all over Peru, more particularly so in the Tiahuanaco culture on the Altiplano Plateau in South-Peru, where he was called Viracocha.351

 

351 Berezkin, Juri 1983. Mochica. Tsivilizatsia indeitsev Severnogo poberzhia Peru v I-VII vv. Leningrad.

 

Several versions of Andean Genesis at Tiahuanaco were recorded by Juan de Betanzos in 1551, and Cristobal de Molina in 1553. In the early version preserved by Betanzos, the world creator is named Contiti Viracocha, and he emerges from Lake Titicaca to create, “the sun and the day, and the moon and the stars”. Viracocha orders “the sun to move in its path” and so the time of mankind begins. After calling the people out from caves, rivers, and springs scattered through the mythical landscape of creation time, Contiti Viracocha furiously turns some of them into stone for sacrilegious behavior. Then, he starts creation all over again!

 

Only this time, he creates the people from stone instead of turning them into stone.

  • Of course we wonder about the “staves” in the hands of Viracocha?

  • Were these the “tools” he used to “turn people into stone” or call flesh forth from stone?

  • Are they the origins of the pillars Jachin and Boaz?

  • How do these staves relate to the staves Jacob drove into the ground in the story about the magical increase of his flocks?

These questions bring us to consider the Semites and Sargon.

 

 


Sargon the Great


According to “experts”, Sargon of Akkad reigned approximately 2,334-2,279 BC, and was one of the earliest of the world’s great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran). He established the region’s first Semitic dynasty and was considered the founder of the Mesopotamian military tradition.


Sargon is known almost entirely from the legends and tales that followed his reputation through 2000 years of cuneiform Mesopotamian history, and not from any documents that were written during his lifetime. The lack of contemporary record is explained by the fact that the capital city of Agade, (note the homophonic similarity to Arcadia) which he built, has never been located and excavated. It was destroyed at the end of the dynasty that Sargon founded and was never again inhabited, at least under the name of Agade.


According to a folktale, Sargon was a self-made man of humble origins; a gardener (think “gardens of the Hesperides”), having found him as a baby floating in a basket on the river, brought him up in his own calling. His father is unknown; his mother is said to have been a priestess in a town on the middle Euphrates.

(Note all the similarities to the story of Moses as well as Perseus.) Rising, therefore, without the help of influential relations, he attained the post of cupbearer to the ruler of the city of Kish, in the north of the ancient land of Sumer. (Notice the clue of the cup here.)


The event that brought him to supremacy was the defeat of Lugalzaggisi of Uruk (biblical Erech, in central Sumer). Lugalzaggisi had already united the city-states of Sumer by defeating each in turn and claimed to rule the lands not only of the Sumerian city-states but also those as far west as the Mediterranean. Sargon became king over all of southern Mesopotamia, the first great ruler for whom the Semitic tongue known as Akkadian, rather than Sumerian, was natural from birth.

 

Sargon wished to secure favorable trade with Agade throughout the known world and this, along with what was obviously a very energetic temperament, led Sargon to conquer cities along the middle Euphrates to northern Syria and the silver-mining mountains of southern Anatolia. He also took Susa, capital city of the Elamites, in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, where the only truly contemporary record of his reign has been uncovered.


As the result of Sargon’s military prowess and ability to organize, as well as of the legacy of the Sumerian city-states that he had inherited by conquest, and of previously existing trade of the old Sumerian city-states with other countries, commercial connections flourished with the Indus Valley, the coast of Oman, the islands and shores of the Persian Gulf, the lapis lazuli mines of Badakhshan, the cedars of Lebanon, the silver-rich Taurus Mountains, Cappadocia, Crete, and perhaps even Greece.


During Sargon’s rule, his Akkadian language became adapted to the script that previously had been used in the Sumerian language, and there arose new spirit of writing evident in the clay tablets and cylinder seals of this dynasty. There are beautifully arranged and executed scenes of mythology and festive life. It could be suggested that this new artistic feeling is attributable directly to the Semitic influence of Sargon and his compatriots upon the rather dull Sumerians. In contrast to the Sumerian civilization, in Sargon’s new capital, military and economic values were not the only things that were important.


The latter part of his reign was troubled with rebellions, which later literature ascribes, predictably enough, to sacrilegious acts that he - like Solomon - is supposed to have committed; but this can be discounted as the standard cause assigned to all disasters by Sumerians and Akkadians alike. The troubles, in fact, were probably caused by the inability of one man, however energetic, to control so vast an empire. There is no evidence to suggest that he was particularly harsh, nor that the Sumerians disliked him for being a Semite.

 

What’s more, the empire did not collapse totally, for Sargon’s successors were able to control their legacy, and later generations thought of him as being perhaps the greatest name in their history. What is most interesting is that Sargon attributed his success to the patronage of the Goddess Ishtar, in whose honor Agade was erected. Sargon’s story sounds a lot like a combination of the Biblical stories of Moses, David and Solomon and certainly, there is evidence of infusion of Semitic traditions into the culture of the Sumerians.

 

We also wish to consider the the fact that Sargon was the first “semite”. Nowadays “Semitic peoples” are generally understood to be, more or less, individuals of Middle Eastern origins: Jews and Arabs predominantly. That is to say, to be an Arab or a Jew is to be “Semitic”. In recent years the idea has taken hold that the Ashkenazi Jews are really Turkish and not Jews at all. Recent genetic studies place the Ashkenazi as closest in kinship to Roman Jews on one side, who are just a small step away from Lebanese non-Jews, and Syrian non-Jews on the other. The Syrian non-Jews are very close to the Kurdish Jews and the Palestinian non-Jews - i.e. the “Palestinians”.


What actually seems to have happened is that when the Khazar kingdom “converted” to Judaism, they invited Jewish rabbis to come and teach them how to be proper Jews. These rabbis, being “proper Jews”, took Khazar wives, mixing with the Khazar population in this way. Additionally, after the fall of the Khazar kingdom, Yiddish-speaking “Jewish” immigrants from the west (especially Germany, Bohemia, and other areas of Central Europe) - which would include Roman Jewish lines - began to flood into Eastern Europe, and it is believed that these newer immigrants intermarried with the Khazars.

 

Thus, Eastern European Jews have a mix of ancestors who came from Central Europe and from the Khazar kingdom. The two groups (eastern and western Jews) intermarried over the centuries.


In this sense, the Ashkenazi Jews are, indeed, descendants of the Israelites through the male line.352

 

352 Jews are represented by triangles: Ashkenazim = Ash, Roman Jews = Rom, North African Jews = Naf; Near Eastern Jews = Nea; Kurdish Jews = Kur, Yemenite Jews = Yem; Ethiopian Jews = EtJ; non-Jewish Middle Easterners = Pal, non-Jewish Syrians = Syr, non-Jewish Lebanes = Leb, Israeli Druze = Dru, non-Jewish Saudi Arabians = Sar; Non-Jewish Europeans: Rus = Russians, Bri = British, Ger = Germans, Aus = Austrians, Ita = Italians, Spa = Spanish, Gre = Greeks, Tun = North Africans and Tunisians; Egy = Egyptians, Eth = Ethiopians, Gam = Gambians, Bia = Giaka, Bag = Bagandans, San = San, Zul = Zulu. Tur = non Jewish Turks, Lem = Lemba from south Africa.

Analysis of the Y chromosome has already yielded interesting results. Dr. Ariella Oppenheim of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem said she had found considerable similarity between Jews and Israeli and Palestinian Arabs, as if the Y chromosomes of both groups had been drawn from a common population that began to expand 7,800 years ago.353

 

About two-thirds of Israeli Arabs and Arabs in the territories and a similar proportion of Israeli Jews are the descendents of at least three common prehistoric ancestors who lived in the Middle East in the Neolithic period, about 8,000 years ago. This is the finding of a new study conducted by an international team of scholars headed by Prof. Ariella Oppenheim, a senior geneticist in the Hebrew University’s hematology department and at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In the study, soon to be published in the scientific journal ‘Human Genetics,’ the researchers probed the history of Jewish and Arab men by analyzing the genetic changes in the Y chromosome.[…]


The results of the study, says Prof. Oppenheim, ‘support the historical documentation according to which the Arabs are descendents of an ancient population of the country and that a large proportion of them were Jews who converted to Islam after Islam reached Eretz Israel in the seventh century CE.’ […] They […] discovered that Jews and Arabs have common prehistoric ancestors who lived here until just the last few thousand years..[…] In view of the small geographical area of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the researchers were surprised to discover that some Palestinians on the West Bank have a unique genetic trait that is reflected in a relatively high frequency of certain genetic signs. This fact indicates that they are the descendents of people who have lived here for a few hundred years at least. […] Dr. Filon says that the unique genetic trait is characteristic of a population that has lived in the same place for many generations.” 354

 

353 Nicholas Wade. “Scientists Rough Out Humanity’s 50,000-Year-Old Story.” The New York Times (November 14, 2000)
354 Tamara Traubman. “A new study shows that the genetic makeup of Jews and Arabs is almost identical, and that both groups share common prehistoric ancestors.” Ha’aretz (2000). 355 Judy Siegel-Itzkovich. “Dad was out and about, while Mom stayed home.” Jerusalem Post (June 16, 2002).

Data on the Y chromosome indicates that the males originated in the Middle East, while the mothers’ mitochondrial DNA seems to indicate a local Diaspora origin in the female community founders.355 We have analyzed the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA from each of nine geographically separated Jewish groups, eight non-Jewish host populations, and an Israeli Arab/Palestinian population, and we have compared the differences found in Jews and non-Jews with those found using Y-chromosome data that were obtained, in most cases, from the same population samples.

 

The results suggest that most Jewish communities were founded by relatively few women, that the founding process was independent in different geographic areas, and that subsequent genetic input from surrounding populations was limited on the female side. In sharp contrast to this, the paternally inherited Y chromosome shows diversity similar to that of neighboring populations and shows no evidence of founder effects. These sex-specific differences demonstrate an important role for culture in shaping patterns of genetic variation and are likely to have significant epidemiological implications for studies involving these populations. We illustrate this by presenting data from a panel of X-chromosome microsatellites, which indicates that, in the case of the Georgian Jews, the female-specific founder event appears to have resulted in elevated levels of linkage disequilibrium.356

 

356 Mark G. Thomas, Michael E. Weale, Abigail L. Jones, Martin Richards, Alice Smith, Nicola Redhead, Antonio Torroni, Rosaria Scozzari, Fiona Gratrix, Ayele Tarekegn, James F. Wilson, Cristian Capelli, Neil Bradman, and David B. Goldstein. “Founding Mothers of Jewish Communities: Geographically Separated Jewish Groups Were Independently Founded by Very Few Female Ancestors.” The American Journal of Human Genetics 70:6 (June 2002): 1411-1420.

 

The emerging genetic picture is based largely on two studies, […] that together show that the men and women who founded the Jewish communities had surprisingly different genetic histories.[…]


A new study now shows that the women in nine Jewish communities from Georgia, the former Soviet republic, to Morocco have vastly different genetic histories from the men. […] The women’s identities, however, are a mystery, because, unlike the case with the men, their genetic signatures are not related to one another or to those of present-day Middle Eastern populations.[…]


The new study, by Dr. David Goldstein, Dr. Mark Thomas and Dr. Neil Bradman of University College in London and other colleagues, appears in The American Journal of Human Genetics this month.... His [Goldstein’s] own speculation, he said, is that most Jewish communities were formed by unions between Jewish men and local women, though he notes that the women’s origins cannot be genetically determined.[…]


Like the other Jewish communities in the study, the Ashkenazic community of Northern and Central Europe, from which most American Jews are descended, shows less diversity than expected in its mitochondrial DNA, perhaps reflecting the maternal definition of Jewishness. But unlike the other Jewish populations, it does not show signs of having had very few female founders. It is possible, Dr. Goldstein said, that the Ashkenazic community is a mosaic of separate populations formed the same way as the others.[…]


‘The authors are correct in saying the historical origins of most Jewish communities are unknown,’ Dr. [Shaye] Cohen [of Harvard University] said. ‘Not only the little ones like in India, but even the mainstream Ashkenazic culture from which most American Jews descend.’[…] If the founding mothers of most Jewish communities were local, that could explain why Jews in each country tend to resemble their host community physically while the origins of their Jewish founding fathers may explain the aspects the communities have in common, Dr. Cohen said.[…]

 

The Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA’s in today’s Jewish communities reflect the ancestry of their male and female founders but say little about the rest of the genome... Noting that the Y chromosome points to a Middle Eastern origin of Jewish communities and the mitochondrial DNA to a possibly local origin, Dr. Goldstein said that the composition of ordinary chromosomes, which carry most of the genes, was impossible to assess.357

357 Nicholas Wade. “DNA, New Clues to Jewish Roots.” The New York Times (May 14, 2002): F1 (col. 1)

 

These studies suggests the idea that some of the early ancestors of the ancient Levant and Mesopotamian civilizations originated in the region of Armenia and moved southwards - that they were “Semitic” the same way Sargon was. Further, the Tanach records extensive evidence of intermarriage between Jews and ancient peoples who originated in eastern Anatolia, such as the Hittites and Hurrians (including the Jebusites of Jerusalem). The Edomites who were of mixed Hebrew and Hurrian ancestry were also absorbed into the Jewish people.

 

The Armenians and Kurds are the descendants of people who remained in Eastern Anatolia, Armenia and Kurdistan, subsequently intermarrying with the Turks and neighboring peoples. So, we see the idea of the “Ten Lost Tribes”, or even the “Thirteenth Tribe” to be myths exploded by the science of genetics. The problem is, of course, that all existing studies fail to compare modern Jewish populations’ DNA to ancient Judean DNA.

 

The question remains: If Sargon was the “original Semitic ruler”, was he a Semite as we understand Semites today?

 

The next question that occurs to us is: Did Sargon, as a conqueror, impose a language and cultural expression on a genetically different people, the Sumerians, who had already imposed their own language and culture on the indigenous population of the Fertile Crescent?


What we notice most particularly is that Sargon was said to have come “from the North” and that he worshipped the Goddess Ishtar. Also, when we think of the word “Semitic” in terms of the Green language, we naturally wonder if it doesn’t imply something that was “half” of one thing and “half” of another? The question then becomes: Who were the Sumerians that absorbed and adopted the Semitic language and cultural expressions, adapting them to their own use?

 

The Sumerians were a non-Semitic people who, judging by archaeological remains, were generally short and stocky, with high, straight noses and downward sloping eyes. Many wore beards, but some were clean-shaven. These people apparently migrated to the Fertile Crescent - they suddenly appeared in the area - and immediately established what was, for a long time, considered to be the first real ‘Civilization’.

 

They built cities, step-pyramid-temples, large residences and economic facilities. They referred to themselves as the “black-headed people” as if to emphasize their difference from the indigenous population who, one might assume, were not black-headed.


The picture painted by the archaeological record of the Sumerian City-State civilization before Sargon is one of constant strife between these cities, especially the most prominent ones: Kish, Erech, Ur, Adab, and later Lagash and Umma.

 

Constant warring weakened the Sumerians until, “the kingship was carried away by foreigners”, such as the king of Awan, Sargon of Akkad, the Gutians, the Elamites, and eventually Hammurabi. Sargon of Akkad, the first Semite, was then, a “foreigner” to the Sumerians who had (as we will see) a rather “lengthy” history prior to the Semitic influence.


It is quite curious that despite their sense of nationalism and the sharing of a common identity, the “black-headed people” were unable to unite in order to resist the conquerors. What is even more ironic is the fact that, even though they were unable to resist being conquered and ruled - in fact - by foreigners, the Sumerian culture was, to a great extent, assimilated by the conquerors by the adoption of their customs, script, and literature, including many of their religious myths. The cultural “soul” of a people can be found in their stories, myths, and rituals.

 

The stories of Sumer, as inscribed on its clay tablets, allow us to reconstruct, at least partially, a process of dynamic development that took place over many centuries. Some experts propose that Sumerian storytelling was indebted to the wandering Semitic tribes, who, being allegedly “illiterate”, had the narrative memory capacity of “illiterate peoples”. It is suggested by such experts that these Semites often entertained their more “civilized” Sumerian hosts by “telling tales around the campfire” or in the market place. It is then suggested that these stories were then written down by Sumerian scribes, who attempted to categorize the material into orderly groups of continuous narrative.

 

Obviously, the “wandering, illiterate Semites” weren’t quite so backward since they conquered the Sumerians and their influence actually gave the Sumerian civilization a cultural boost. What is more likely is that the writing of the Sumerians was developed for economic and military purposes, which was the purview of the “God” and his priests. It was only after the incursions of the Semites that a literary tradition began, and the development of writing proceeded in such a way that it could be utilized for literature.


The experts tell us that the Sumerians themselves had no real “sense of history”, even though they had invented writing. This opinion is arrived at due to the fact that the Sumerians had recorded a sort of “history”, in the form of a King list that was, to understate the matter, astonishing.


The Sumerians’ relationship with their Gods was the driving force in the rise of their civilization. The very reason for the existence of Sumer and her people seemed to lie with these strange and mortal ‘deities. The very reason for being was to serve the appropriate deity.


The Sumerian religion was more like a feudal covenantal relationship with an overlord than the mystical worship of a God as we would understand religion today. For the Sumerian, worship of the Gods meant complete servitude - the very purpose for which mankind was, (according to the Sumerians), created by the Sumerian Gods.


According to the Sumerians, the city-states had been founded by the Gods far back in time and it was the Gods who had given the Sumerians, “the black-headed people”, all the tools and weapons and marvelous inventions of their culture. For the Sumerians, everything that they had - cities, fields, herds, tools, institutions - had always existed because the Gods had created all of it before they had created the black headed people to run things as their slaves.

 

This immediately makes one think of the only people who claim an origin as slaves: the Jews.

 

This “slave-master” Religion was the central organizing principle of the city-states, each city belonging to a different deity who was worshipped in a large temple. According to the Sumerians, even if the Gods might prefer to be just and merciful, they had also created evil and misfortune and there was nothing that the black-headed people could do about it. Judging from the Sumerian Lamentation texts, the best one could do in times of trouble would be to, “plead, lament and wail, tearfully confessing his sins and failings”.

 

Their family God or city God might intervene on their behalf, but that would not necessarily happen even if the rules were carefully followed. After all, man was created as a broken, labor saving, tool for the use of the Gods and at the end of everyone’s life, lay the underworld, a dreary place like the Sheol of the early Hebrews.


According to the Sumerians, their Gods were very intelligent, extremely long-lived and yet, very mortal beings. This is evident in their king lists. According to the Sumerians, the time before the flood was said to be a period of 432,000 years. Two kings from after the flood that are listed were Gilgamesh and Tammuz. The legends of Tammuz were so well-liked that they were assimilated to the pantheon of Babylon and later became the model for Adonis to the Greeks. Gilgamesh became the hero of the Babylonian epic poem which bears his name, and which also contains an account of the flood.


Until recently, these king lists and the names in them were thought to be purely mythic, but in the 1930’s, Sir Leonard Woolley, while excavating a building at Ur on the Ubaid level, found an inscription indicating that the structure had been erected by the son of the founder of the First Dynasty of Ur, a person up till that time regarded as fiction. Gilgamesh, too, has inscriptions telling of the buildings he built.


The “King-List is divided into dynastic periods that are city-state oriented as apparently regards the seat of central power. The most startling of these sections is the list dealing with the pre-deluge Kings . Eight Anunnaki Kings are listed, as are five city-states where centralized rule apparently was seated. Length of rule is given in what is known as a “sar”.

 

All of the remaining King-List sections have the length of rule measured by years. The “sar” was equivalent in length to 3,600 years.

 

 

And here ends the Kingship of the Anunnaki.


Now it is important to note that during this astonishing length of time recorded as “history” by the Sumerians, only two Anunnaki held overall reign. First was Enki (later known as Ea) and the second was Enlil, a half-brother of Enki. The event that ended this first list was the legendary deluge. It was also during the latter part of this first period of the King-List that human beings appeared.

 

Calculating the length of time back to the arrival of these “Anunnaki”, brings us to about 450,000 years ago. That puts it well before the accepted date of the appearance of modern man.


The numbering system of the Sumerians is actually quite fascinating. The Sumerian civilization can be more or less divided into three periods of cultural manifestation. The first included the development of glyptics where cylinder seals were engraved with parades of animals or scenes of a religious nature. This was followed by the development of sculpture, and finally, the emergence of writing. During the first period of cultural manifestation, archaeology indicates that there were no palaces for such as what we would consider a real king. The “king” was actually a priest who lived in the temple.

 

The priest-king was titled “EN”, or “Lord”. It was only later, in the second cultural period that the title of king, or Lugal, came into use. At the same time, palaces became evident, witnessing a separation of the State - and its military forces - and the priesthood. At the beginning of the second millennium BC, the Sumerians came back to dominance for a period, but after Hammurabi, Sumer disappeared entirely as a political entity. Nevertheless, the Sumerian language remained a language of priests.


Around 3,200 BC, the Sumerians devised their numerical notation system, giving special graphical symbols to the units 1, 10, 60, 600, 3,600. That is to say, we find that the Sumerians did not count in tens, hundreds and thousands, but rather adopted base 60, grouping things into sixties, and multiplying by powers of sixty.


Our own civilization utilizes vestiges of base 60 in the ways we count time in hours, minutes and seconds, and in the degrees of the circle.


Sixty is a large number to use as a base for a numbering system. It is taxing to the memory because it necessitates knowing sixty different signs (words) that stand for the numbers from 1 to 60. The Sumerians handled this by using 10 as an intermediary between the different sexagesimal orders of magnitude: 1, 60, 602, 603, etc. The word for 60, ge#, is the same as the word for unity. The number 60 represented a certain level, above which, multiples of 60 up to 600 were expressed by using 60 as a new unit. When they reached 600, the next level was treated as still another unit, with multiples up to 3,000. The number 3,600, or sixty sixties, was given a new name: #àr, and this, in turn, became yet another new unit.

The Sumerian numbering system often required excessive repetitions of identical marks, placing symbols side by side to represent addition of their values. The number 3,599 required a total of twenty-six symbols. For this reason, the Sumerians would often use a “subtractive convention” with a little symbol that meant “take this number away from that number to get the number that is being indicated”.


In the pre-Sargon era, certain irregularities started to appear in the cuneiform representations of numbers. In addition to the subtractive convention, entirely new symbols were being created for multiples of 36,000. This means that instead of repeating 36,000 however many times it was to be indicated, the numbers 72,000, 108,000, 144,000, 180,000 and 216,000 had their own symbols assigned to them. In all of human history, the Sumerians are the only ones we know of who invented and used a sexagesimal system. This can be seen as a “triumph” of their civilization, and a great mystery as well.

 

Many people have tried to understand why they did this and numerous hypotheses were offered from Theon of Alexandria to Otto Neugebauer.

 

These hypotheses range from “It was the easiest to use” and the “lowest of numbers that had the greatest number of divisors”, to “it was natural” because the number of days in a Solar year rounded down to 360, and so on. Daniel Boorstin suggested that the Sumerians used base 60 because they multiplied the number of planets known to them (5) times the number of months in the year. It was pointed out by the Assyriologist, G. Kewitsch in 1904 that neither astronomy nor geometry can really explain the origin of a number system, presupposing that abstract considerations preceded concrete applications.

 

Kewitsch speculated that the sexagesimal system actually resulted from the fusion of two civilisations, one of which used a decimal number-system, and the other used base 6 derived from a special form of finger-counting. This was not easily accepted since there is no historical record of a base 6 numbering system anywhere in the world.


However, duodecimal systems, or base 12 numbering systems ARE widely attested, especially in Western Europe. It is still used for counting eggs and oysters. We regularly use the words “dozen” and “gross” and measurements based on 12 were used in France right up to the Revolution, and are still used in Britain and the U.S.


The Romans had a unit of weight, money and arithmetic called the as, divided into 12 ounces. One of the monetary units of pre-Revolutionary France was the sol, divided into 12 deniers. The Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians used base 12 and its multiples and divisors vary widely as well. The Mesopotamian day was divided into twelve equal parts, and they divided the circle, the ecliptic, and the zodiac into twelve equal sectors of 30 degrees.

 

This means that base 12 could very well have played a major part in shaping the Sumerian number system. The major role of 10 in the base 60 system is well attested as well, since it was used as an auxiliary unit to circumvent the main difficulty of the sexagesimal system. This leads us to an important clue: the Sumerian word for “ten” also means “fingers” suggesting an earlier counting system.


Taking this back to a variation on Kewitsch’s hypothesis, Georges Ifrah proposes that base 60 was a “learned solution” to the union between two peoples, one of which used a decimal system derived from a vigesimal system and the other a system using base 12. As it happens, 60 is the lowest common multiple of 10 and 12 as well as the lowest number of which all the first six integers are divisors and, 5 X 12 is 60.


What is interesting to note is that the French words for 80 and 90 (quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix) carry the traces of a vanished vigesimal arithemetic in Ancient Europe.


Ifrah’s hypothesis is that the Sumerian society had both decimal and duodecimal number systems, and its mathematicians subsequently devised a system that combined the two bases.


Of course, this hypothesis fails on the ground that it presupposes way too much intellectual sophistication. Unless, of course, we consider the disjecta membra of a vanished high civilization.


It is evident that the Mesopotamian basin had one or more indigenous populations prior to the arrival of the Sumerians. The Sumerians were “immigrants” who came from somewhere else about which we know nothing since they seem to have broken all ties with their previous environment.

 

Coming back to the question: “Who were the Semites?”, we understand that the term itself derives from the Old Testament where the tribes of Eber (the Hebrews), Elam, Asshur, Aram, Arphasad, and Lud are said to be the descendants of Shem, one of Noah’s three sons.

 

However, this claim makes the Elamites, who spoke an Asianic language, first cousins to the Hebrews, Assyrians, and Aramaeans, whose languages belong to the Semitic group.


“Asianic” is the term used for the earlier inhabitants of the Asian mainland whose languages, mostly of the agglutinative-kind, were neither Indo-European nor Semitic. It is generally believed that Mesopotamia was originally inhabited by Asianic peoples prior to the arrival of the Sumerians. It is thought that the Semiticspeaking population came in a later wave and that Sargon was the first Semitic king of a “Semitic nation”.

 

Of course, that still doesn’t explain the Sumerians and their language.


Significant Semitic elements are to be found in the cultures of Mari and Kis at the beginning of the third millennium BC, and it has even been proposed that the El Obeid peoples were the original Semites, though they were absorbed and assimilated by the Sumerians. The discovery of the Ebla tablets reveal the existence of a Semitic language in the mid-third millennium BC. When Sargon founded the first Semitic state by defeating the Sumerians, Akkadian became the language of Mesopotamia and pushed aside the unrelated language of Sumer. When the Sumerian cuneiform writing was adapted by the Akkadians, the writing system was already several centuries old.

 

The Akkadians found an ideographic writing system that was already drifting toward a phonetic system and accelerated this drift while still retaining some of the ideographic meanings. The Akkadian and Sumerian cultural heritages merged, creating a true literary tradition. When Akkadian speech and writing finally supplanted their Sumerian counterparts in Mesopotamia, a strictly decimal numbering became the norm in daily use. The ancient signs for 60, 600, 3,600 and so on, progressively disappeared. In the hands of the Semites, cuneiform numerals and Mesopotamian arithmetic were gradually adapted into a system with a different base working on different principles.

 

Nevertheless, base 60 did not disappear entirely, as we have already mentioned.


We should note, however, that it was with the sudden appearance of the Sumerian civilization - as early as the 5th millennium BC - that the long era of the tribal, egalitarian society of the Neolithic came to an end between 4,000 and 3,000 B.C. Archaeologists and anthropologists have documented that the early society of Mesopotamia had been guided by women and had a Goddess as deity.

 

The end of female leadership can be deducted from the following quote in “In the Wake of the Goddesses” by Frymer-Kenski:

The dynasty of Kish was founded by Enmebaragesi, a contemporary of Gilgamesh. The name breaks down as follows: enetik - eme - ebakin - aragikor - ageriko - ezi which can be transliterated to “from that time on - female - harvest - lustful - notorious - to domesticate” or “From that time on the lustful, notorious harvest female was domesticated.”

This “name” tells us in no uncertain terms that the time of the Goddess was on the decline, because male domination had arrived with the Sumerians. Sargon, conversely, attributed all of his successes to the Goddess.


Now, let’s come back to the clues that the French words for 80 and 90 (quatrevingts, quatre-vingt-dix) carry the traces of a vanished ancient European vigesimal arithmetic, put together with the fact that the first Semitic king came from the “North” and that the “Semitic influence” of the Goddess worshipping Sargon accelerated the development of the Sumerian culture toward something more than being economic slaves to the Gods. Considering these factors, we might wish to reconsider the term “Semitic”.


Indeed, the religion of the ancient Sumerians has left its mark on the entire Middle East. Not only are its temples and ziggurats scattered about the region, but the literature, cosmogony and rituals influenced their neighbors to such an extent that we can see echoes of Sumer in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition today. In other words, most of what we consider to be Semitic is actually Sumerian written in the Semitic Akkadian language. Undoubtedly, those peoples who today are called Semitic by virtue of having had a name assigned to them from the Bible, are actually descendants of the Sumerians, and their “Semitic language” was imposed on them by Sargon of Akkad who was clearly not one of the “black-headed people”.


The linguistic affinity of Sumerian has not yet been successfully established.


Ural-Altaic (which includes Turkish), Dravidian, Brahui, Bantu, and many other groups of languages have been compared with Sumerian, but no theory has gained
common acceptance. 358


358 Arno Poebel, Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik (1923), partly out of date, but still the only full grammar of Sumerian in all its stages; Adam Falkenstein, Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von Lagas, 2 vol. (1949-50), a very thorough grammar of the New Sumerian dialect, and Das Sumerische (1959), a very brief but comprehensive survey of the Sumerian language; Cyril J. Gadd, Sumerian Reading Book (1924), outdated but the only grammatical tool in English; Samuel N. Kramer, The Sumerians (1963), provides a general introduction to Sumerian civilization.

 


Sargon Reprise


Sargon became king over all of southern Mesopotamia, the first great ruler for whom the Semitic tongue - not Sumerian - known as Akkadian was natural from birth. This suggests to us that Sargon was not Sumerian, but that he was the bringer of a new language to Mesopotamia, imposing it on the peoples there in the same way that Spanish was imposed on South and Central America, and English has been adopted all over the world as a result of American domination of trade.

 

The language issue is our clue as to who relates to whom. The Afro-Asiatic language phylum has six distinct branches including Ancient Egyptian, which was known in its last years as Coptic, and which became extinct in the seventeenth century. The other five branches are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic. The Semitic language group is subdivided into an extinct Eastern branch, Akkadian, spoken by Sargon, and a Western branch with two sub-branches, Central and South. The Central group consists of Aramaic, Canaanite, and Arabic.

 

The Southern group consists of South Arabian and Ethiopic. And here is the curiosity:

one of the other branches of the Afro-Asiatic language tree is Berber, with sub-branches of Guanche - spoken by the original Canary Islanders; East Numidian, which is Old Libyan, and Berber proper.

Now, you ask, what is the oddity?

 

 


The Guanche language


Some experts tell us that the Guanches must have come from the neighboring African coast long ages before the Black and Arab “invaders” overran it. We are sagely informed that Mauritania was formerly inhabited by the,

“same ancient Iberian race which once covered all Western Europe: a people tall, fair and strong”.

Spain invaded, and most of the Guanches were wiped out by diseases to which they had no resistance due to their long isolation. It was over a hundred years before anyone attempted to record their language, customs, and what could be remembered of their history.

 

Friar Alonso de Espinosa of the Augustine Order of Preachers, writing in 1580, tells us:

…It is generally believed that these are the Elysian Fields of which Homer sings. The poet Virgil, in the 4th book of the Aeneid, mentions the great peak of this island, when he makes Mercury, sent by Jupiter, go to Carthage to undeceive Aeneas, and to encourage him so that he might not abandon the voyage to Italy which he had undertaken.

 

It has not been possible to ascertain the origin of the Guanches, or whence they came, for as the natives had no letters, they had no account of their origin or descent, although some tradition may have come down from father to son. […] The old Guanches say that they have an immemorial tradition that sixty people came to this island, but they know not whence they came. They gave their settlement the name, “The place of union of the son of the great one”.

 

Although they knew of God, and called Him by various names, they had no rites nor ceremonies nor words with which they might venerate Him. […] When the rains failed, they got together the sheep in certain places, where it was the custom to invoke the guardian of the sheep. Here they stuck a wand or lance in the ground, then they separated the lambs from the sheep, and placed the mothers round the lance, where they bleated. They believed that God was appeased by this ceremony, that he heard the bleating of the sheep and would send down the rain. …They knew that there was a hell, and they held that it was in the peak of Teyde [the volcanic mountain], and the devil was Guayota.


They were accustomed when a child was born, to call a woman whose duty it was, and she poured water over its head; and this woman thus contracted a relationship with the child’s parents, so that it was not lawful to marry her, or to treat her dishonestly. They know not whence they derived this custom or ceremony, only that it existed. It could not be a sacrament, for it was not performed as one, nor had the evangelic law been preached to them.[…]


The inviolable law was that if a warrior meeting a woman by chance in the road, or in any solitary place, who spoke to her or looked at her, unless she spoke first and asked for something, or who, in an inhabited place, used any dishonest words which could be proved, he should suffer death for it without appeal. Such was their discipline. […]


This people had very good and perfect features, and well-shaped bodies. They were of tall stature, with proportionate limbs. There were giants among them of incredible size… They only possessed and sowed barley and beans. … If they once had wheat, the seed had been lost… They also ate the flesh of sheep, goats, and pigs, and they fed on it by itself, without any other relish whatever… The flesh had to be half roasted because, as they said, it contained more substance in that way than if it was well roasted.


They counted the year by lunations… The lord did not marry with anyone of the lower orders, and if there was no one he could marry without staining the lineage, brothers were married to sisters.


They were wonderfully clever with counting. Although a flock was very numerous and came out of the yard or fold at a rush, they counted the sheep without opening their mouths or noting with their hands, and never made a mistake. 359

359 De Espinosa, Alonso, The Guanches of Tenerife, trans. by Sir Clements Markham (Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Repring 1972).

 

I’m sure that the reader can see that even though we have very little to go on, there are a couple of suggestive indicators recorded by the good friar. The first thing we note is the custom of driving a lance into the ground for the sheep to “call the God”. A memory of ante-diluvian technology, perhaps?


But more than this, the clues seem to indicate that what we call the “Semitic language” may actually have been a northern tongue, an Aryan language, adopted by peoples we think of as ethnically “Semitic” in modern terms but who, in ancient terms, were not Semitic at all.

 

 


The Rise of Sacrifice


Returning to Viracocha, what we learn about him was that he was a carver and shaper of humanity. He was a God of action, a creator and destroyer of worlds: the Shiva of the Andes. Before successfully creating the world of humans, Viracocha had annihilated previous worlds; first by fire and then again by flood. In short, for the Andeans, humanity emerged not from a utopian Garden of Eden - which is a Northern concept - but from the hard, living rock and water of the natural world: clay.

 

Viracocha had two faithful servants who he sent in opposite directions to generate a new race of humans.


In Cristobal de Molina’s version of the same myth, these two culture heroes are the Andean Adam and Eve: the primeval male-female pair who were the children of Viracocha. Unlike the theme of a prior Golden Age, the events of the myth begin only after a universal flood. The Spanish cleric Bernabe Cobo informs us that the original name for Tiahuanaco was Taypi Kala.

 

Taypi Kala meant “the stone in the center”; the natives ascribed this name to the site because they considered the city to be in,

“the center of the world, and that from there the world was repopulated after the flood”.

The peoples of the Andes had no known form of indigenous writing, so the evidence for their activities must come from other sources. The early Spanish chroniclers recorded what had been described to them about life in Inca times; their accounts include frequent references to “sacrifice” and “offering”. Some doubt has been expressed about these accounts, however, accusing the Europeans of a negative, Catholic point of view, suggesting that the chroniclers did not ask the right questions. However, pictorial evidence for sacrifice has long been known.

 

The Incas made little in the way of figurative art, but existing pre-Inca depictions give visual evidence for sacrifice. Examples of archaeological evidence are now accumulating in the data from recent excavations in a number of places. Most of the archaeological evidence for human sacrifice in the Andes - most clearly among the Inca and the Moche - has been discovered only recently.


For many people in the modern Western world, making a sacrifice means either giving without receiving or giving up something valuable for a cause that may benefit others. What seems to be evident about the process of sacrifice in primitive belief systems is that sacrifices of animals and humans were done for the greater good of the group - to appease the anger of the God and prevent disaster.

 

Blood was the symbol of life, of animation, of nourishment, the most important offering that could be given to the natural and supernatural beings. It was thought that the sacrificial nourishing of the “sacred beings” made life possible. It was also thought that the cosmos “ran” on this “nourishment”. It has been suggested that the number and violence of the sacrifices increased as the desperate Moche priests tried to appease the Gods. Unfortunately, such speculations do not fully answer the question as to why any human being ever thought that the death of another human being would satisfy the Gods in some way.


In artistic depictions, the Moche are seen to cut the throats of prisoners of war and then drink their blood. Afterwards, the bodies were dismembered. It’s hard to say what the purpose of these endless sacrifices might be. Perhaps the priests thought that they obtained power from drinking the blood. We are reminded of the Biblical injunction that “the blood is the life”, and the Hebrews were forbidden to drink it or to eat meat that had not been thoroughly bled. Perhaps this was because the blood - and the life in it - was supposed to be reserved for the God exclusively. Child sacrifice is a recurrent theme not only in the Andes but also in much of the world.


Returning now to our problem: Yahweh.

 

It seems that, like the Moche and the Aztecs, the Jewish priesthood began with terrifying cannibalistic rituals and sacrifices. Just picture the priest - kohane - standing before the worshippers spattered with dripping, stringy clots of blood, throwing basins of blood on the congregation to “cleanse” them, all the while the subliminal message being conveyed that, “if you don’t obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to you”!

 

This may have been what was taking place in the great Temple of Solomon which was very likely a displaced memory of a place so hated, the Temple of Hephaestus - the labyrinth - in Memphis, and was later transferred to the “labyrinth” at Crete. It was then brought to Palestine by the refugees from the eruption of Thera, and combined later with other tales of the cataclysm to produce some of the Old Testament and the rites of Judaism. We begin to understand why the labyrinth of Egypt was, according to Pliny, regarded with “extraordinary hatred” and why so many myths of a human eating Minotaur at the center circulated in the ancient world.


The idea of the ritual sacrifice of the king instead of thousands of virgins, children, or warriors, seems to be the result of the mingling of the Southern Sun God worship with the influence of the Northern Moon worshippers. This seems to be a distortion of the idea that the king was ruler by virtue of his “marriage” to the Goddess, or her representative, and that this “marriage” involved a shamanic death in order to be able to transduce the cosmic energies of benevolence and prosperity to the tribe or to defend the tribe against evil spirits.


The northern custom of a king who had lost his vigor voluntarily abdicating and being replaced by the “right heir” who could “marry the Goddess” was mixed with the sacrifice customs, and the result was that the priesthood had a weapon to wield over the monarch to keep him in line. Thus arose the idea of the “scape goat” king who was sacrificed in the labyrinth instead of maidens and warriors.

 

Herodotus tells us what seems to be an already garbled version of this mixing of the two ideas:

Being set free after the reign of the priest of Hephaistos, the Egyptians, since they could not live any time without a king, set up over them twelve kings, having divided all Egypt into twelve parts.

This may be the original story of Jacob and Esau and the 12 tribes.


This shift was also recorded in the myth of Theseus.


What seems to be so is that there was some sort of “object of power” at the center of the myth of the Sons of Aegyptus and the daughters of Danaus. It was a descendant of this “union” - Perseus - who “cleansed the temple” and restored the Goddess to her rightful place as depicted in the story of the slaying of Medusa, the freeing of Pegasus, and the rescue of Andromeda. But again, this is merely the assimilation of later events to the primal myth of Atlantis.
When we examine the evidence, we find many clues, but with the passage of time, the movements of people in migration and/or conquest, it is impossible to say with certainty just “who is on first”.

 

There is, of course, much more to this than the little bit I am able to include here. This will be dealt with in a future volume.


In the Bible the “wise king Solomon” is portrayed as “whoring after” the Tyrian fire and sun God Moloch/Molech. One has to wonder what this means considering the fact that there is no difference between Moloch and Yahweh when one digs beneath the surface.

 

Some “experts” suggest that the priest Melchizedek - who was the purported teacher of Abraham - was a priest of “Moloch”, and that the name means, “Righteous Moloch”.

 

However, that is a cross-conceptualization, and a somewhat sly way to trick the reader. If you are going to translate one word into English, you ought to translate the other. Malkiy, or Malak, means simply “king”. Tsedeq means “right” or “just” or benevolent. It carries the abstract suggestion of “prosperity”.


What seems to have happened, once again, is that a possible revelation of truth about our reality was co-opted and diverted by the denizens of hyperdimensional realities who do not wish their nature and agenda to be discerned.

 

In the standard method of disinformation, truth was mixed with lies in order to mislead and divert. Those who wish that everything was either clearly black or clearly white, do not take the time to patiently pick through the threads and separate them so as to discern the truth. My suggestion on this point is that the ancient Priesthood of Melchizedek was designated thus for the express purpose of distinguishing it from the worship of Moloch, the Fire God.


The apparent co-opting of names and terms and symbolism throughout the ages continues. In the present day, there are many who claim to be “of the Order of Melchizedek” who are in fact, not.


Some experts quote Paul’s remark from Hebrews 9:22 where it says:

“under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.”

What such experts fail to mention - again a sly twisting - is what follows in that particular passage, which is an argument against such practices.


The religion of the Great Mother Goddess existed and flourished for many thousands of years in the Near and Middle East before the arrival of the patriarch Abraham who is depicted as the first prophet of the dominator male deity, Yahweh. Archaeologists have traced the worship of the Goddess back to the Neolithic communities of about 7000 BC, some to the Upper Paleolithic cultures of about 25,000 BC. From Neolithic times, at least, its existence has been repeatedly attested to well into Roman Times.

 

Yet, Bible scholars tell us that Abraham lived in Canaan as late as between 1800 and 1550 BC, a veritable Johnny-come-lately!

 

How in the world has such a recent appearance on the world scene managed to push itself into such prominence and domination? Over and over again in the studies of the ancient religions it is noted that, in place after place, the Goddess was debased and replaced by a male deity - the worship of a young warrior God and a supreme father God. It has been assumed that this was the Indo-European invasion from the north.

 

But when the cultural connections are considered, it is clear that this ideation moved northward from the South. Perhaps we ought to call it the “Indo-Incan” invasion since we have suggested a connection to the cultures of South America. Archaeology reveals that, after these incursions, the worship of the Mother Goddess fluctuated from city to city. As the invaders gained more and more territory over the next two thousand years, the male began to appear as the dominant husband or even the murderer of the Goddess!

 

The transition was accomplished by brutally violent massacres and territorial acquisition throughout the Near and Middle East. The same is true regarding the conversion of the western world to Christianity. Something is definitely strange about this picture.


This corruption drifted north, as Eliade has noted, changing the shamanic cultures from Goddess worshippers to male dominated societies. In studying the legends about the Golden Age, the Antediluvian world, we realize over and over again that these stories talk about a garden where woman and man lived in harmony with each other and nature. That is, until a dominator male God decided that woman had been a very bad girl and must now and forever be subservient to man.


The Chinese Tao Te Ching describes a time when the yin, or feminine principle, was not yet ruled by yang, the male principle, a time when the wisdom of the mother was still honored and followed above all. To many people, references to these times are no more than mere fantasy.


It seems that there were ancient societies organized very differently from ours, and chief among the finds in such digs are the many images of the Deity as female. Thus we are better able to interpret the references to the Great Goddess in ancient art, myth, and even historical writings.


The chief idea of these people was that the Universe was an all-giving mother. Indeed, this idea has survived into our time. In China, the female deities Ma Tsu and Kuan Yin are still widely worshipped as beneficent and compassionate Goddesses. Similarly, the veneration of Mary, the Mother of God, is widespread.

Even if in Catholic theology she is demoted to non-divine status, her divinity is implicitly recognized by her appellation “Mother of God”, as well as by the prayers of millions who daily seek her compassionate protection and solace. In fact, the story of Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection seems to be little more than a reworking of those of earlier ‘mystery cults’ revolving around a Divine Mother and her son or, as in the worship of Demeter and Kore, her daughter. It is, of course, reasonable that the deepest understanding of divine power in human form should be female rather than male.

 

After all, life emerges from the body of a woman, and if we are to understand the macrocosm by means of the microcosm, it is only natural to think of the universe as an all-giving Mother from whose womb all life emerges and to which, like the cycles of vegetation, it returns after death to be again reborn.


What is more important to us here is the idea that societies that view the universe as a Mother would also have very different social structures from our own. We might also conjecture that women in such a society would not be seen as subservient. Caring, nurturing, growth and creation would have been valued. At the same time, it does not make sense to think that such societies were “matriarchal” in the sense that women dominated men. They were, instead, by all the evidence, societies in which differences were valued and not equated as evidence of either superiority or inferiority.


What we do know is that “Venus” figurines have been found by the thousands, all over Eurasia, from the Balkans to Lake Baikal in Siberia, across to Willendorf in Austria, and the Grotte du Pappe in France. Some scholars (clearly with their minds where they ought not to be) have described them as “erotic art” of the stoneage and have proposed that they were used in obscene fertility rites!


But is that really so?


Can these ubiquitous female images found from Britain to Malta even be described accurately as erotic “Venus” figures? Most of them are broad-hipped, sometimes pregnant, stylized and frequently faceless. They look like pithoi and are clearly symbolic, just as the cross with the crucified man is a symbol. Future archaeologists who might dig in the remains of our civilization would find equally ubiquitous and symbolic crosses!


The worship of a female creator Goddess appears, literally, in every area of the world. What is significant is that the most tangible line of evidence is drawn from the numerous sculptures of women found in the Gravettian-Aurignacian cultures of the Upper Paleolithic Age. Some of these date back to 25,000 BC, as noted above, and are frequently made of bone or clay. They were often found lying close to the remains of the sunken walls of what are probably the earliest known human-made dwellings on earth. Researchers say that niches or depressions were made in the walls to hold the figures. Such finds have been noted in Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Russia. These sites span a period of at least ten thousand years!


It appears highly probable that the female figurines were idols of a “great mother” cult, practiced by the nomadic Aurignacian mammoth hunters who inhabited the immense Eurasian territories that extended from southern France to Lake Baikal in Siberia.

In the oldest archaeological finds, the Goddess was represented by birds and wavy symbols that indicated water and/or energy. These same wavy lines are retained as the symbol of the Astrological sign of Aquarius which may be the oldest extant symbol of the Great Mother Goddess.


But suddenly, at a certain point, around 5000 years ago, serpents became associated with the Goddess, and the wavy lines of water/energy were transmogrified to snakes. What happened to bring about this association? By 4000 BC, Goddess figures appeared at Ur and Uruk, both on the southern end of the Euphrates river, not far from the Persian Gulf. At about this same period, the Neolithic Badarian and Amaratian cultures of Egypt first appeared. It is at these sites that agriculture first emerged in Egypt.


From that point on, with the invention of writing, history as we know it, emerged in both Sumer and Egypt - about 3000 BC. (5000 years ago!)

 

In every area of the Near and Middle East, the Goddess was known in historic times. It seems clear that many changes must have taken place in both the forms and modes of worship, but, in various ways, the worship of the Goddess survived into classical Greece and Rome. It was not totally suppressed until the time of the Christian emperors of Rome and Byzantium, who closed the last Goddess Temples about 500 AD.


It appears that the Goddess ruled alone in the beginning, though she was “married” to the king via a human female representative. Thus, the son or brother who was also her lover and consort was part of the Goddess religion in much earlier times. This individual was also truly “Semitic” in the sense of being half human and half divine.


Later, as the corruption crept in - seemingly after some dramatic, cataclysmic event - it was this youth - known in various languages as Damuzi, Tammuz, Attis, Adonis, Osiris or Baal - who died in his youth causing an annual period of grief and lamentation among those who paid homage to the Goddess.


For a very long time, this myth was annually enacted representing the fact that time was cyclical the same way the seasons were. It was the passing down of the knowledge of cyclical catastrophes connected to cyclical time. The world might end, but if it did, it was only because it had “run down” and needed to be “wound up” again.


But something changed all that.

 

Somehow, the perception of the End of the World became a terrible punishment that might be prevented by savage sacrifices. And the sub-text of this idea was that time was linear and would end, finally and completely. This idea was brought with the invaders from the South, the murderers of the Goddess, the rappers of the Maidens of the Wells: the dominator religion that drove the sword into the stone.


Part of the cover-up seems to involve blaming this corruption on “northern invaders” or Aryan Indo-Europeans. The invasions of the Aryans took place in waves over a period of up to three thousand years according to standard teachings.

 

They are called invasions because it seems that the arrival of masses of new people was always related, in some way, to evidence of destruction which may or may not have been related to wars of conquest.

It may just as well have been related to atmospheric or geologic disruption.

 

Those incursions of prehistoric times are suggested by speculative etymological connections. I propose that there  were also invasions from the South, and these invasions brought the corruption that spread like a disease all over the globe, corrupting even the Northern worshippers of the Moon and the Goddess.


What is most significant is that the coming of the “Northern invaders” revolutionized not only war, but also art and culture. They introduced the horse-drawn chariot, and the charioteer became a new aristocracy. Since the ancient steppe peoples used carts for traveling and carrying their goods, it seems logical to suggest that it was only after the mixing with the war-like Southern peoples that such vehicles were converted to the use of war and destruction.


Many “experts” tell us that it was these northern people who brought with them the concepts of light as good and dark as evil and of a supreme male deity. However, the archaeological and mythographic record suggests otherwise. If, indeed, they later assimilated the supreme male deity to their pantheon, it is clear that these ideas came from the mixing of cultures in Mesopotamia.

 

The interweaving of the two theologies are recorded mythologically in the cultures of this region, and for too long, the blame has been cast in the wrong direction. But most of these ideas were formed before the knowledge of the Southern, American cultures was available. It is in the myths of South America that we discover the origins of the attitude that led to the destruction of the Goddess. It is also in these stories that we find the beginning of the concept of time as linear, with a beginning and an end for human beings, at least.


When we were in Mexico in 1997, I noticed an odd sculpture from one of the ancient temples that had been placed in the museum of anthropology. It was of a man whose skull, elbow joint, and thigh had been flayed, while the rest of his flesh was intact. This was a clear representation of not only the components of the skull and crossed thigh bones, but also the ubiquitous “joint” symbol of certain occult secret societies - societies that worship the flaying, blood drinking, male God. I photographed the carving, and you will note that it also includes a rattlesnake entwined around the body of the flayed man.


The theme of flaying is also present in India in the dance of Shiva on the elephant God. After the elephant is flayed, Shiva dons the skin as a symbol of acquiring the power of the God. The same flaying and donning of the skin of the sacrificial victims was practiced by the South American sun worshippers, by the Egyptians, and also - so it seems - by the early Jewish priesthood. Viracocha was the supreme Inca God, a synthesis of sun God and storm God. One version of the story says that the Creator God Viracocha, “rose from Lake Titicaca during the time of darkness to bring forth light”.

 

Viracocha was represented as wearing the sun for a crown, with thunderbolts in his hands, and tears descending from his eyes as rain. Viracocha made the earth, the stars, the sky and mankind, but his first creation displeased him, so he destroyed it with a flood and made a new, better one, taking to his wanderings - disappearing across the ocean, walking on water - as the Christianized version goes - as a beggar, teaching his new creations the rudiments of civilization, as well as working numerous miracles.

 

Another version of the story tells us that the Viracocha were so hated that the people rose up against them and massacred them, but that a couple of them escaped across the ocean.

 

This is the most likely scenario considering all of the evidence. It also reminds us of the hatred of the Egyptian labyrinth. We should note that there are significant artistic representations in both South America and Egypt of “black headed” peoples sacrificing blond or red-headed men. The term “viracocha” also refers to a group of men named the suncasapa or bearded ones - they were the mythic soldiers of Viracocha, also called the “angelic warriors of Viracocha”.

 

Later one of the Inca Kings (the eighth Inca ruler) took the name of Viracocha.

 

But in all cases, we see the “hint” that they were Aryans was provided by the Spanish friars, and is not supported by the archaeological evidence.


On the Gateway of the Sun, the famous carved figure on the decorated archway in the ancient (pre-Incan) city of Tiahuanaco most likely represents Viracocha, flanked by 48 winged effigies, 32 with human faces and 16 with condor’s heads. What seems to be evident is that there were people who rose to power in South America known as the Viracocha.

 

After the Spaniards destroyed all of the records of the natives of the Americas, they wrote their own versions, which included stories of the Viracocha being blond, Aryan types. This was due to the fact that the Spaniards noted a certain similarity between the myths of the Incan civilizing Gods and their own religious beliefs.

 

This was later taken up by Thor Heyerdahl, but a careful examination of the records gives no firm evidence that these individuals were Aryans. The evidence of Aryan types on Easter Island has been convincingly explained as the result of the survivors of a shipwreck taking up residence and has nothing to do with the “travels of the Incas”.

 

However, the links between certain scripts found on Easter Island, and the script of the Indus Valley, and certain mythical motifs, strongly suggest a connection between South America, Easter Island, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the religion of the Jews.

 

Of course, it is possible that such civilizing influence was transmitted by “big, blond, sailor” types who rose to power in South America and were destroyed in revolutions by the enslaved, native masses. Images of red headed men being sacrificed are known in South America, so perhaps they were viewed as “Gods” and the indigenous population sought to acquire their powers by “flaying” them and donning their skins.

 

We realize that skin color has been an issue throughout human history, so it would be reasonable to think that the primitive mind might see the white skin as a transmitter of power. Of course, that doesn’t even address the question as to why light skinned individuals were perceived as “higher caste” and worthy of emulation to begin with, but that’s another issue.


So we suggest “Viracocha” left the lands of the Inca and traveled across the Pacific.

 

In India, we find the most interesting Indus Valley civilization which - upon visual inspection of the ruins - presents a striking resemblance to the ruins of the ancient cities of South America. The only difference was that the ability to shape megaliths seems to have been lost, and the Indus valley cities, while stylistically similar, are built of brick. As mentioned, we can note the similarity of certain writings found on Easter Island to the Indus Valley script. At a later point in time, the movement was north to Mesopotamia where again, certain sigils found on cylinder seals are similar to the Indus Valley script. The rigid caste system of the Incas is found also in India.


Another item of considerable interest that connects Egypt to South America is the Ica skulls compared to the representations of elongated skulls among the Egyptian royalty. This is a subject I will cover more thoroughly in another volume.


The point at the moment is to make clear the obvious connection between some very strange things in South America, and other strange things in Egypt and the Middle East, all connected in mysterious ways to the creation of three monotheistic religions, and the present day struggle among the three.


And so we find the Viracocha types from across the Pacific, making their way up the Indian peninsula, to meet with a group of big blond nomadic herdsmen from the Altai Mountains, probably in Mesopotamia. And so, the Southern male God was adopted by the Altai Aryans in their mingling with the Southerners that invaded India from across the Sea.360

“And the sons of God looked upon the daughters of men and saw that they were fair and took wives…”

360 See Gods of the Cataclysm for the evidence of this route of transfer of ideas.

 

This new “Aryan” God was frequently depicted as a storm God, high on a mountain, blazing with the light of fire or lightning from the thunderbolts he held in his hand. In many of these transposed myths, the Goddess is depicted as a serpent or dragon, associated with darkness and evil. Sometimes the dragon is neuter or even male, but in such cases, is closely associated with the Goddess, usually as her son.


The Goddess religion seems to have assimilated the male deities into the older forms of worship, and survived as the popular religion of the people for thousands of years after the initial Southern Sumerian invasions. But her position had been greatly lowered and continued to decline. In the form of Judaism and eventually Christianity, the male sun God finally suppressed the religion of the Goddess. And here we come to the most interesting thing of all: it is in the accounts of these mixed Aryans that we find the original religious ideas of the Hebrews.

 

It is also from this mixing - the region from which Zarathustra emerged - that we get the original ideas of the End of the World. In the mixing of the two ideologies,

  • there is the mountain-top God who blazes with light

  • there is the duality between light and darkness symbolized as good and evil

  • there is the myth of the male deity defeating the serpent

  • there is the supreme leadership of a ruling class: the priestly Levites

All of these are to be found in both the Indo-Incan and Hebrew religious concepts and politics!


In India, we suggest that there is another way to interpret the evidence. We propose a “Southern Sumerian” invasion from across the sea, meeting and mingling with the Aryan invasion from the North which resulted in the assimilation of the Goddess worshippers and the emerging dominance of the Southern male God. The books known as the Vedas were a record of the Aryans in India. They were written between 1500 and 1200 B.C. in Sanskrit using scripts possibly borrowed from the Akkadians.


The “Southern” attitude toward women is made clear in two sentences attributed to Indra in the Rg Veda:

“The mind of woman brooks not discipline. Her intellect has little weight.”

And orthodox Jewish males daily thank God that they were not born women!

 

This leads us to the obvious idea: The Indo-Incan patterns were either adopted by the Jews, or the Sumerian/Jewish priests were Indo-Incans from the start.


The Indo-Aryan Rg Veda says that “in the very beginning there was only ‘asura’, or ‘living power’.” The asura broke down into two cosmic groups. One was the enemies of the Danavas, or Dityas, whose mother was the Goddess Danu or Diti; the other group, were known as the A-Dityas.

 

Aside from the fact that this clearly depicts exactly what we are discussing here, the title betrays the fact that this mythical structure was created in reaction to the presence of the worshippers of Diti, since A-Ditya literally means “not Dityas”, or “not people of Diti”.

[M]many sociologists believe that some kind of a hierarchical social order, in terms of an individual’s occupation and duties, was in place perhaps ahead of the arrival of the Aryans. Its evolution into the caste or the varna system as we know today - with the four distinct castes of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra in the order of social standing - probably occurred with the settling of the Aryans who sanctified and legitimised the social order in their own terms which had a distinct religious underpinning. Some sociologists hold that the societal stratification in terms of rights and duties of the individual was a creation of the Aryans in their bid to exercise power over the indigenous proto-Asian populations of North India. […]

 

In recent times, with the rise of strident nationalism in the form of “Hindutva” ideology, which rejects the premise that Aryans were outsiders and views them as part of the continuum from the Indus valley civilization, an unequivocal answer to this may have political implications. While material evidence of ancient history has not been able to resolve this issue, modern population genetics, based on analyses of the variations in the DNA in population sets, has tools to provide a more authoritative answer. Certain inherited genes carry the imprint of this information through the ages. […]


An international study led by Michale J. Bamshad of the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics of the University of Utah of caste origins has found (the findings have been reported in a recent issue of the journal Genome Research) that members of the upper castes are genetically more similar to Europeans, Western Eurasians to be specific, whereas the lower castes are more similar to Asians. This finding is in tune with the expectations based on historical reasoning and the prevalent views of many social historians. In exercising their superiority over native proto-Asian populations, the Aryans would have appointed themselves to higher rank castes.
[…]


Interestingly, an analysis of the genetic variations in the markers associated with the maternally inherited mtDNA and paternally inherited Y-chromosome show strikingly different trends. Maternally inherited DNA was overall found to be more similar to Asians than to Europeans, though the similarity to Europeans increases as we go up the caste ladder. Paternally inherited DNA, on the other hand, was overall more similar to Europeans than to Asians but, unlike in the case of maternal inheritance, with no significant variation in affinity across the castes.

 

This is intriguing, but there is a plausible explanation. Migrating Eurasian populations are likely to have been mostly males who integrated into the upper castes and took native women. Inter-caste marriage practices, while generally taboo, are occasionally allowed, in which women can marry into an upper caste and move up in the social hierarchy. However, such upward mobility is not permissible for men. The caste labels of men are thus permanent, while women, by means of their limited mobility, cause a gene flow across caste barriers.

 

This is the reason, according to the researchers, for the differing affinities of gender-specific genes among castes to continental populations. 361

361 Ramachandran, R., The Genetics of Caste, Frontline, Volume 18 - Issue 12, Jun. 09 - 22, 2001; India’s National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU.

One of the major Indo-Aryan Gods was known as Indra, Lord of the Mountains, “he who overthrows cities”. Upon obtaining the promise of supremacy if he succeeded in killing Danu and Her son Vrtra, he does accomplish the act, thus achieving kingship among the A-Dityas.

 

This reminds us of the early Sumerian text reported above:

The was founded by Enmebaragesi, a contemporary of Gilgamesh. The name breaks down as follows: enetik - eme - ebakin - aragikor - ageriko - ezi which can be transliterated to, “rom that time on - female - harvest - lustful - notorious - to domesticate” or “From that time on the lustful, notorious harvest female was domesticated”.

This “name” tells us in no uncertain terms that the time of the Goddess was on the decline, because male domination had arrived with the Sumerians. In a hymn to Indra in the Rg Veda which describes the event, Danu and Her son are first described as serpent demons; later, as they lie dead, they are symbolized as cow and calf. After the murders, “the cosmic waters flowed and were pregnant”. They in turn gave birth to the sun.

 

This concept of the sun God emerging from the primeval waters appears in other Indo-Sumerian-Incan myths and also occurs in connection with two of the prehistoric invasions. We suggest that all of this connects such events to times of cataclysm wherein the sun is “darkened” or concealed by dust and clouds.

The Rg Veda also refers to an ancestral father God known both as Prajapati and Dyaus Pitar. Dyaus Pitar is known as the “supreme father of all”. The spread of the Indo-Sumerian culture mixed with the Aryan incursions brought with it the origins of the Hindu religion and the concept of light-colored skin being perceived as better or more “pure” than darker skins. (The Sanskrit word for caste, “varna” actually means color.)


The Indo-Sumerian-Aryan beliefs are found in Iran, though the records are very late - dating back only as far as 600 B.C. What the experts suggest is that the Indians and early Iranians - prior to the arrival of the Sumerians - were derived from the same ethnic group and had been established on the Iranian plateau from about 4000 BC speaking a Vedic Sanskrit dialect.


Though there is a considerable change from the Rg Veda to the Iranian Avesta, we still find the great father who represents light, with a new name: Ahura Mazda. He is the Lord of Light and his abode is on a mountaintop glowing with golden light. The duality of light and dark is inherent in Iranian religious thought. Ahura Mazda is on high in goodness, and the devil figure, Ahriman is “deep down in darkness”. We note in this the mixing of the Shamanic concepts with the Inca-Sumerian idea of a anthropomorphized God.


In the Iranian texts of 200 AD known as Manichean, we again find good and evil equated with light and dark. However, we are told in these writings that the problems of humanity are caused by a mixture of the two.

 

And here, Mithra appears as the one who defeats the “demons of darkness”.


There is another clue that deserves note: the name of the Guanche Devil, Guayota. In the Iranian texts there is a character named Gayo Mareta who is the “first man”. He seems to relate to Indra in the Indian versions. Gauee or gavee in Sanskrit means cow. Mrityu in Sanskrit means death or murder, surviving in the Indo-Aryan German language as mord, meaning murder, and in the Indo-European English language as the word murder itself. Thus Gavo Mareta appears to be named “Cow Murderer”. Danu was symbolized as the cow Goddess, whose worship is best known from Egypt before Narmer. Gayo Mareta may once have held a similar position in Iran to Indra, the murderer of Danu, the cow Goddess.

 

In the Pahlavi Books of about 400 BC. it was written,

“From Gayo Mareta, Ahura fashioned the family of the Aryan lands, the seed of the Aryan lands”.

We notice right away that this is an inversion. It is pretty clear that in the most ancient times, the Goddess was worshipped, and Gayo Mareta - Guayota, the Devil, murdered her.


In any event, we are certainly entitled to speculate on the fact that the Guanches, Aryans, a group isolated for possibly thousands of years, spoke a near cousin to the language of Sargon, a worshipper of the Goddess, and that the name of the “evil” in their language, was almost identical to the name of the hero in the Pahlavi books. Due to the fact that the Guanches were isolated for a very long, unknown period of time, one begins to suspect that they retained their original language from very ancient times.

 

Perhaps there was a global, antediluvian language. And perhaps this gives us a clue as to who was really “on first”? When we consider the “ancient Egyptian language”, we realize that it developed after the conquest of Narmer, and there is a very strong suggestion that Narmer had close ties with Sumeria.

 

The famous Narmer Palette has distinctive Sumerian motifs, and also includes a row of men - sacrificial victims - with their heads cut off and placed between their thighs.

 

Skull and Crossbones?

 

 


The Shell Game


As early as the fourth millennium BC, a group entered the Tigris-Euphrates area. They were described as “newcomers from the east”. The statement derives a certain support from tradition; “as they journeyed from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar [ Babylon] and they dwelt there” [Genesis XI, 2]; but it is based on the material evidence of the pottery of al Ubaid and of Susa respectively, and on that evidence it is generally agreed that these people were related, culturally and presumably ethnically, to the early inhabitants of Elam. Some scholars suggest that the Ubaid people brought the Sumerian language, which is neither Semitic nor Indo-European.

 

Aratta is a place name often mentioned in Sumerian texts.


The Ubaid people established a major settlement in the place later known as Eridu. They broke up the Halaf culture, and wreaked devastation upon them. These Ubaids spread as far north as Lake Urmia and Lake Van, close to the Iranian-Russian border. This section was later known as Ararat or Urartu which could be corruptions of Aratta. The name “Eridu” could also be a corruption of Aratta, suggesting the original homeland.


In about 4000 BC, the Ubaid people built a temple at Eridu which appears to be the first built on a high platform. At this temple, not a single Goddess figurine was found. Interestingly, a statue found in graves of the Ubaid people depicted a mother and baby with lizard-like features.


It is noteworthy that the Sumerians and present day “Semites” only differ in language, not religion, culture or politics.


The deity worshipped at Eridu in historic times was the God Enki. Before this, the God of the shrine seems to have been a fish or water God who rose up out of the water exactly like Viracocha, had scales, and was a civilizer-teacher of language and culture. Enki was thought of later as the God of the waters and was described as riding around in his boat. He was also described as “he who rides”.

 

This concept of the fish or water God is similar to one found in a fragment of an Indo-Aryan Hittite tablet which tells of a sun God who rose from the water with fish on his head. It is also similar to the idea of the sun God who was born from the cosmic waters released by Indra by the deaths of Danu and Vrtra. Though Enki is not generally designated as a sun God, in the myth of Marduk he is named as Marduk’s father and Marduk is called the “son of the sun”.


The Ubaid people are credited with developing irrigation canals in Eridu which could hint at their origin in places that were along rivers and streams and where fish were common. Another clue to the identity of these people is the institution of kingship, and the mention of the name Alalu as the very first king of Sumer in the king lists of the earliest part of the second millennium. According to these tablets which refer to a prehistoric period, it was in Eridu that, “kingship was first lowered from heaven”. Sounds rather like the Inca myth of Viracocha.

 

Now, let’s think about this for a moment. We have a God with a fish on his head, thereby associated with scales, and who is described as “he who rides”. This scaly God not only rides, he rose from the water like the sun! Also, he was born from the deaths of the Mother Goddess and her son. Mountains of fire are involved, gold, and kingship being “lowered from heaven”. It rather sounds like UFOs coming up out of the water as they have so often been reported to do in more modern times, or descending on mountain tops.


A third male deity - An or Anu - comes onto the Sumerian stage sometime after the beginning of the second millennium - the same period that the Hurrians are known to have entered the area, so they may well have brought this Anu with them.


In the early Sumerian period the name Anu is relatively obscure, and his name does not appear on any of the eighteen lists belonging to this period. Anu appears as the successor to Alalu in the Hurrian and Hittite Kumarbi myth. But most interesting is his appearance in the later myth of Marduk, “the son of the sun”. Here we learn that Enki was first asked to subdue the Creatress-Goddess, whom they call Tiamat, and was not able, though he did manage to kill her husband Apsu, thus becoming Lord of the Abzu (primeval waters) himself. Anu was then asked to subdue Tiamat, but according to the legend when he confronted Her, he cringed in fear and refused to complete his mission.

 

Finally Marduk, son of Enki, was willing, though only upon the promise of the supreme position among all other deities if he succeeded. This previously secured promise brings to mind the one Indra requested before murdering Danu and Her son Vrtra; both of these myths were probably written down at about the same period (1600-1400 BC) though they are undoubtedly far older. In passing, I would like to note that the name Tiamat is similar to some of the earliest known names of male deities including Tiu, Tyr, Thor, etc, plus Mat which reminds us of Egyptian Maat, which was a Goddess who represented truth, law and universal order.


This legend, known as the Enuma Elish, which explains the supremacy of Marduk, has long been designated as Babylonian and therefore Akkadian and Semitic. But more recent research suggests that, though Marduk was known in the Hammurabi period, the myth claiming his supremacy did not actually appear until after the Kassites, another tribe, had conquered Babylon.

 

Saggs points out that,

“none of the extant texts belonging to it is earlier than the first millennium”, and that “it has been suggested that in fact this work arose only in the Kassite period, a time now known to have been one of intense literary activity”.

Gurney tells us that,

“The names of Indian deities are found to form an element in the names of the Kassite rulers of Babylonia”.362

362 Gurney, O.R., The Hittites (London, New York: Penguin revised edition 1991).

 

In about 2100 BC a Sumerian king named Ur Nammu declared that he would establish justice in the land. He did away with the heavy duties and taxes that were burdening the people at that time and, “rid the land of the big sailors who seized oxen, sheep and donkeys”. 363

 

One suspects that they were Aryan types corrupted by the worship of the male storm God. Now, after all this invading, conquering and demolishing of the Goddess Worship over in the Tigris-Euphrates area, the same thing happened later on in Egypt with Narmer-Menes!


There is considerable evidence for contact between Egypt and Sumer.

“Abundant evidence of Mesopotamian cultural influence is found at this time in Egypt.”

Significant is the fact that cylinder seals (a specifically Mesopotamian invention) occur there, together with methods of building in brick foreign to Egypt but typical of the Jemdet Nasr culture of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization. Mesopotamian motifs and objects also begin to be represented in Egyptian art, such as boats of Mesopotamian type.

 

The idea of writing, though it was expressed quite differently in Egypt, seems to have developed more or less coevally with Mesopotamia. Paintings in early dynastic tombs portray a conical basket type of fish trap, nearly identical to those of the Ertebolle people of northern Europe who were descended from the Maglemosians, a European Mesolithic culture, which links us back to the Akkadians as being from the North. The male deity of Egypt arrived with the invaders, and was portrayed as the sun riding in a boat!


Professor Walter Emery spent some forty-five years excavating the ancient tombs and pyramids of Egypt. Discussing the arrival of these people, he writes:

Whether this incursion took the form of gradual infiltration or horde invasion is uncertain but the balance of evidence... strongly suggests the latter. ...we see a style of art which some think may be Mesopotamian, or even Syrian in origin, and a scene which may represent a battle at sea against invaders... [in these] representations we have typical native ships of Egypt and strange vessels with high prow and stem of unmistakable Mesopotamian origin...

At any rate, towards the close of the fourth millennium BC we find the people known traditionally as the “Followers of Horus” apparently forming an aristocracy or master race ruling over the whole of Egypt.

 

The theory of the existence of this master race is supported by the discovery that graves of the late pre-dynastic period in the northern part of Upper Egypt were found to contain the anatomical remains of a people whose skulls are of greater size and whose bodies were larger than those of the natives, the difference being so marked that any suggestion that these people derived from the earlier stock is impossible. 364

 

363 Hawkes, Jacquetta, The first great civilizations; life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt (New York: Knopf 1973).

364 Quoted by Stone, op. cit.

 

These invaders were known to the Egyptians as the “Shemsu Hor”, or people of Hor. And, of course, they brought with them their male God, Hor-Wer or Great Hor. By 2900 BC, pictures of this sun God show him riding in his “boat of heaven”.


It certainly makes one wonder if a brilliant UFO rising up out of the water would cause the ancient peoples to connect a boat (that goes on water) with flying through the air while looking like the sun! And, over and over again we are finding this image or juxtaposition of images.


According to Emery, the name of the first king of the First Dynasty, known as Narmer or Menes in Manetho’s history of 270 BC, was actually Hor-Aha. Later, the name of Hor appears to have been incorporated into the more ancient Goddess religion as the “son who dies”. This has led to a lot of confusion between the two “Hors”, Horus the Elder, God of light of the invaders, and Horus the Younger, the son of the Goddess Isis.


Hor later was transmogrified into Horus by the Greeks, and is depicted as fighting a ritual combat with another male deity known as Set. Set is supposed to be his uncle, the brother of his mother Isis and father Osiris. The combat was supposed to symbolize the overcoming of darkness or Set, by light, symbolized by Hor.


In Sanskrit the word ‘sat’ means to destroy by hewing into pieces. In the myth of Osiris, it was Set who killed Osiris and cut his body into fourteen pieces which naturally reminds us of the sacrifices of the Moche. However, the word “set” is also defined as “queen” or “princess” in Egyptian! “Au Set”, known as Isis by the Greeks, means, “exceeding queen”!


In the myth of this ritual combat, Set tried to mate sexually with Horus; this is usually interpreted to have been an extreme insult. But the most primitive identity of the figure Set, before the wavy lines of water or energy became serpents, may be found in the Goddess religion, and this combat, just as with the combat of Marduk with Tiamat, may have represented the suppression and destruction of the Goddess religion. Of course, the conquering invaders presented themselves as “saviors” and their conquest as a triumph of light over darkness! So it has always been.


Nevertheless, the followers of Hor established the institution of kingship in Egypt. And, again, marrying the representative of the Goddess in order to “steal her power” was an important part of the assumption of kingship as was recorded in the story of Solomon - he married an Egyptian Princess. We may justifiably compare the name of “Hor” to the Hurrians or Horites who came from India to Sumer.


Around the time of the Second Dynasty, the town of Heliopolis (known to the Egyptians as Annu!) became the home of a school of scribal priests who also worshipped a sun God who rode in a boat. In this town they used the name Ra. In Sanskrit, Ra means royal or exalted on high. This prefix is found in the Sanskrit word for king, raja and queen, rani. It survives in the German word ragen, to reach up, in French as roi, meaning king, as well as in the English words royal, reign and regal.


In the pyramid texts of the Fifth Dynasty, Horus was equated with Ra. Both Horus and Ra were closely connected, at times competitively, with the right to kingship. As Ra-Harakhty, Ra is identical with Horus of the Horizon, both meaning the sun at rising. Ra too is portrayed as the sun who rides across the heavens sitting in his sacred boat. Again, why a boat in the heavens? Ra’s boat was said to emerge out of the primeval waters, much as Enki was said to ride his boat in the deep waters of the Abzu of Eridu, or as the Indo-Aryan sun God was said to have emerged from the cosmic waters, as in the myth of the sun God in the water who rises from the sea with fish on his head, so too Ra rose from the waters each morning.


As the name of Horus was assimilated into the Goddess religion, as the son of Isis, the priests of Memphis proposed another concept of the great father God. This time his name was Ptah, curiously like the Sanskrit Pitar. The texts concerning him describe the creation of all existence, suggesting that Ptah was there first. This time we are told that it was through an act of masturbation that Ptah caused all the other Gods to come into being, thus totally eliminating the need for a divine Mother!


This idea of the masturbating God is not new. One of the Sumerian Gods, Enki, was supposed to have masturbated and thereby caused the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to flow!


Even though these conquering Indo-Incans came in wave after wave, bringing their Gods who ride in shining boats in the sky, the Goddess religion still survived. This very fact may indicate the presence of another group who worked quietly to preserve the ancient truths in the face of almost overwhelming opposition. The new male Gods were assimilated and synthesized, creating an almost impossible to sort mish-mash of Gods and Goddesses.


With the knowledge that the worship of the Goddess was violently overturned by invading Indo-Incans who were descendants of the Incan Sun worshippers, whose objective was to forestall another “end of the world” with the sacrifice of enormous numbers of human beings, we may better understand the transitions and inversions that have occurred in our myths and legends as well as our concepts of time. With this understanding, we are free to pursue a more open and reasonable series of speculations as to what the End of the World, and all the prophecies related to it, might be about.


Just as there was a Dark Age surrounding the period of time in which the Old Testament came into being, during which time Monotheistic Judaism - the parent of Christianity and Islam whose validity is established only by the Old Testament - was imposed forcibly on the Canaanites, there was also a similar period of Dark Ages enveloping the development and codification of the New Testament and the imposition of Monotheistic Christianity on the Western World, and Islam on those who were susceptible to neither of the former two.


Don’t you find that curious?

 

 


The End of Time


The God of the Jews is a personality who purportedly ceaselessly intervenes in history and who reveals his will through events. Historical facts thus acquired a religious value in the fact that they were specific situations between man and God, transforming history into the epiphany of God. This conception was continued and magnified by Christianity. We can see the seeds of the original myths here, but we can also see the major distortions.


In monotheism, every event is definitely situated in time - a given time and no other - and is not reversible; it is a historical event with weight and value in and of itself, and that weight is upon the shoulders of mankind, individually and collectively.


In Judaism’s daughter, Christianity, the Messianic hope, the victory over the forces of darkness, is projected indefinitely into the future and will only happen once in terms of linear time. Further, there is only one who can accomplish this conquest of darkness, and man’s only hope is to give up his will to this one who has been crucified and resurrected to symbolize his verity, despite having really done nothing to change the state of the world in real time. When the Messiah comes again, (never mind that he was supposed to have already been here and global conditions did not improve), the world will be saved once and for all, and history will cease to exist - and most of humanity along with it, not to mention a “third of the angels”, and so on.


This idea of irreversible, linear time, was imposed upon mankind through violence and exclusion, serving as the basis for the philosophy of history that Christianity, from St. Augustine on, has labored to construct.


In case you didn’t notice what just happened here, let me make it a little clearer.


The concept of linear time gives value to the “future” as an end to everything. That’s it; there is nothing more. Further, the arbiter of that future is one God, who, I might add, is his own surety because he has helpfully announced at the beginning that he is the one God. This one God has a select group of servants who will be preserved to the exclusion of all others in some way if they obey him, and destroyed if they disobey him.

 

But, of course, it is “free will choice” as to whether to believe this or not. It doesn’t sound like a choice; it sounds like an ultimatum! We begin to smell a rat here, a hint that the introduction of the concept of linear time was the raison d’être for the introduction of monotheism. In this way, all of humanity can be trapped in a condition of believing lies instead of truth, and “binding” spiritual drugs, preventing any possibility of “ascension”. For the most part, our modern world is predicated upon linear time.

 

Thus, the reason for the raison d’être can be dimly seen by those who have been tracking with me here: it is that linear time is a supreme weapon to use against the mind of man in terms of control and domination! Monotheism is a myth that establishes a particular identity as an antithesis, against another - actually, just about all Others! The ultimate club of elitists!


We come back to the fact that most of the Old Testament is a chronicle of genocide and horrendous practices of human and animal sacrifice. In the New Testament, we find that the work of a remarkable man who lived two thousand years ago in the Middle East, whose teachings gave birth to Christianity, has been replaced by a “story” based a human sacrifice ritual which was an already ages old corruption - the ubiquitous solar/fertility cult.

 

At about the same time this was done, Judaism was revived, the Cathars were destroyed, and the Crusades were begun to discover some mysterious object in the “Holy Land”.


Curious, eh?

In any event, the concept of the barbaric custom of blood sacrifice passed into Christianity. It is, in fact, the heart of Christianity as it is understood by Christians today. However, making Christ the “once for all atonement” for everyone had curious consequences. With such an event as an “example”, it became quite easy to manipulate the populace to willingly emulate this self-sacrifice, and thus, the motivation for the Crusades, and endless wars and genocide by “civilized” peoples was made “normal”.


Fiendishly clever, I say.


There appears to be a group that has existed from the time of the Dark Ages, and this group is, effectively, the “new vehicle” for the Machiavellian machinations of these beings who may also be the Elohim who originally “fenced in” the Semitic peoples, in order to utilize them in various ways including the creation of an “army” for hyperdimensional manipulations with the seeming objective of dividing and conquering humanity.


Considering a “group” that may be behind the machinations of history, we must consider the term “fifth column”, defined as,

“A clandestine subversive organization working within a given country to further an invading enemy’s military and political aims”

(American Heritage Dictionary, 1976).

There are certain self-proclaimed “experts” who tell us that Jews and Germans collaborated against the Catholic Church in the 9th century, forming a group of elitists that engaged in “sickening sacrificial rituals”.

 

When I first read this claim, my immediate reaction was to snort in disgust and declare it to be nonsense.

 

I am very sensitive to anything Anti-Semitic. However, after reviewing the history of the creation of the Bible, and putting it all together, I have come to the idea that such a claim is not too far off - except that it probably wasn’t Jews, but rather “occultists” behind such activity. When I say “occult”, I don’t necessarily mean “black magic” or similar such nonsense, though such things are certainly not excluded. Generally, however, when such things as “occultism” are brought into the mixture, after careful investigation, one usually discovers the presence and activity of hyperdimensional beings masquerading as “angels” or “demons” as well as about anything in between.


Nearly all experts of “esoterica”, after years and years of searching and studying, eventually come to the idea that there is some sort of major conspiracy that has been running the show on planet earth for a very long time. The problem is, there are any number of conclusions as to “who is on first” in this transmillennial, multi-national, global ballgame. The thing that raises red flags, however, is that just about any of the many conclusions can be supported by reams of “evidence”. At the same time, there is a concerted effort on the part of the official culture to persuade everyone that “conspiracy” theories are a sign of mental instability.

There is a little known fact about hypnosis that is illustrated by the following story:

A subject was told under hypnosis that when he was awakened he would be unable to see a third man in the room who, it was suggested to him, would have become invisible. All the “proper” suggestions to make this “true” were given, such as “you will not see so - and-so”, etc... When the subject was awakened, lo and behold!, the suggestions did not work.

 

Why? Because they went against his belief system. He did not believe that a person could become invisible.


So, another trial was made. The subject was hypnotized again and was told that the third man was leaving the room... that he had been called away on urgent business, and the scene of him getting on his coat and hat was described in great detail with sound effects: the door was opened and shut, etc., and then the subject was brought out of the trance.


Guess what happened?


He was unable to see the Third Man.


Why? Because his perceptions were modified according to his beliefs. Certain “censors” in his brain were “activated” in a manner that was “acceptable” to his “ego survival”365 instincts.

365 The survival of the ego is established pretty early in life by our parental and societal programming as to what is or is not possible; what we are “allowed” to believe in order to be accepted. We learn this first by learning what pleases our parents and then later we modify our belief based on what pleases our society - our peers - to believe.

The Third Man went about the room picking things up and setting them down and doing all sorts of things to test the subject’s awareness of his presence, and the subject became utterly hysterical at this “anomalous” activity! He could see objects moving through the air, doors opening and closing, but he could not see the source of these movements because he did not believe that there was another man in the room.


So, what are the implications of this factor of human consciousness? (By the way, this is also the reason why most therapy to stop bad habits does not work - they attempt to operate against a “belief system” that is imprinted in the subconscious that this or that habit is essential to survival.)


One of the first things we might observe is that everyone has a different set of beliefs based upon their social and familial conditioning, and that these beliefs determine how much of the objective reality anyone is able to access. Again, considering the issue of ligands, we notice how belief can act as a drug to blind the individual to objective reality.


Realities, objective, subjective, or otherwise, are a touchy subject to scientists, especially physicists, so I don’t want to get bogged down there just now. Suffice it to say that years of work inside the minds of all kinds of people has taught me that human beings almost never perceive reality as it truly is. Let me just say that, in the above story, the objective reality is what it is, whether it is truly objective, or only a consensus reality. Yet, in this story, there is clearly a big part of that reality that is inaccessible to the “subject” due to a perception censor which was activated by the suggestions of the hypnotist.

 

That is to say, the subject has a strong belief, based upon his choice as to who or what to believe. In this case, he has chosen to believe the hypnotist and not what he might be able to observe if he dispensed with the perception censor put in place by the hypnotist. Again, we draw a relation between synthetic and natural ligands.


And so it is with nearly all human beings: we believe the hypnotist - the “official culture” - and we are able, with preternatural cunning, to deny what is often right in front of our faces. In the case of the hypnosis subject, he is entirely at the mercy of the “Invisible Man” because he chooses not to see him. The same is true in our reality regarding hyperdimensional realities.


Let’s face it: we are all taught to avoid uncomfortable realities. Human beings - faced with unpleasant truths about themselves or their reality - react like alcoholics who refuse to admit their condition, or the cuckolded husband who is the “last to know”, or the wife who does not notice that her husband is abusing her daughter. In States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering, 366 Stanley Cohen discusses the subject of denial which may shed some light on the context in which I have speculated about hyperdimensional realities.

 

366 Cambridge: Polity Press; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001

 

I am not surprised at the state of denial of scientists and those who might be best able to figure out what is really going on in our world. It is the cultural norm. I am also not surprised at the projection of this discomfort onto “conspiracy theorists”.


Denial is a complex “unconscious defense mechanism for coping with guilt, anxiety and other disturbing emotions aroused by reality”. Denial can be both deliberate and intentional, as well as completely subconscious. An individual who is deliberately and intentionally denying something is lying. I don’t think that we are dealing with this in the denial of “conspiracy theories”. What we are dealing with is denial that is subconscious and therefore organized and “institutional”. This implies propaganda, misinformation, whitewash, manipulation, spin, disinformation, etc.


Believing anything that comes down the pike is not the opposite of denial. Acknowledgement of the probability of a high level of Truth about a given matter is what should happen when people are actively aroused by certain information.

 

This information can be,

  1. factual or forensic truth; that is to say, legal or scientific information which is factual, accurate and objective; it is obtained by impartial procedures

  2. personal and narrative truth including “witness testimonies”

I should add here that skepticism and solipsistic arguments - including epistemological relativism - about the existence of objective truth, are generally a social construction and might be considered in the terms of the hypnotized man who has been programmed to think that there “is no truth”.


Denial occurs for a variety of reasons. There are truths that are “clearly known”, but for many reasons - personal or political, justifiable or unjustifiable - are concealed, or it is agreed that they will not be acknowledged “out loud”. There are “unpleasant truths” and there are truths that make us tired because if we acknowledge them - if we do more than give them a tacit nod - we may find it necessary to make changes in our lives.


Cohen points out that,

“All counter-claims about the denied reality are themselves only maneuvers in endless truth-games. And truth, as we know, is inseparable from power”.

Denial of truth is taking synthetic spiritual drugs and is, effectively, giving away your power.


There are different kinds of denial. First, there is literal denial which is the type that fits the dictionary definition, the assertion that something did not happen or does not exist. This most often occurs in very painful situations where there are conflicts of love: the wife would say that the husband could not have molested his daughter, therefore the child must be making it up, or something equally traumatic and threatening to safety.

 

This also seems to apply to denial of the state of our manipulated reality. Our love for our parents, our need for their approval, is often transferred to our peers, our employers, and the State. To think about stepping outside of the belief system that makes us “belong” is just too frightening. It assaults our deepest sense of security.


The second kind of denial is “interpretative”.

 

In this kind of denial, the raw facts that something actually happened are not really denied - they are just “interpreted”. If a person is reasonably intelligent, and is faced with evidence of phenomena that do not fit into the belief system of one’s family, culture, or peer group, there is nothing to do but to interpret - to rationalize it away. “Swamp gas” and the Planet Venus given as an explanation for UFOs are good examples. Another is Bill Clinton’s “But I didn’t inhale” interpretation of his marijuana use, as well as the famous, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” interpretation.


The third kind of denial is termed by Cohen as implicatory denial where there is no attempt to deny either the facts or their conventional interpretation; what is ultimately denied are the psychological, political and moral implications that follow from deep acknowledgement.

 

For example, the idea that America is being run by a madman with designs on the entire planet, or that Zionists are obviously behind this activity is recognized as a fact, but it is not seen as psychologically disturbing or as carrying any moral imperative to act.


The deeper implication of the denial of conspiracy theories is more unsettling: that true progress in science is being hampered by a “system” that may serve to exclude innovative thinking - and real science - by a far-reaching network where:

Too much research is in “safe” areas - producing nothing but “papers”. The truth is that, Physicists, to make their living, must produce papers, must be “quoted”; and so they quote each other; colleagues quote colleagues and produce graduate students who quote their masters, after which they become masters, quoting each other, and producing graduate students who quote them, in an endless cycle of life in the ivory towers.

 

And this is not something unique in physics. Not at all! It is true in other fields of study, too. But in physics the results are really bad: there has been no apparent progress in our understanding of Nature for seventy long years.... And nature really needs to be understood, because things are getting a little out of hand out there in the “real” world.


Don’t misunderstand me: there are many very good physicists - real experts - but they generally don’t get prime-time play in either books or journals because they are so busy working on trying to really understand what is going on, that they have little time to play the political games that get them the cushy jobs in the “stables” of physics, run by “big bosses” who are the interface with the government “approvers” of funding.

 

And it seems that getting to the Truth of our reality is the last thing the funding sources wish to see happen in the hallowed halls of academia. 367

367 Jadczyk, Arkadiusz, Physic and the Mysterious, 1997, www.cassiopaea.org

 

Science operates on funding just like everything else. We personally know many excellent scientists who are toiling away in hot little cubicles, underpaid and overworked, never using their potential - for what? Just to be able to live, to hope that one day they will have a little time to breathe, to work on their own ideas, to make real progress in science. There are also gifted amateurs - those who work in science for the sheer love of it - and who are excluded from the “good ole boy network” because they don’t happen to love the politics and aren’t willing to sell their souls.


And finally, there are those who are masters quoting masters - just because they can - because they admire themselves and their “master status”. And many of them discover which masters must be quoted and how to quote them in order to get the most money for the least amount of work, all the while being considered the “highest master”.


So it is in any profession; physics is no different.


But that is the “official culture” explanation. We can go back to sleep and get some rest with this explanation.


The fact is, science is controlled by money. Scientists, for the most part, have to work on those things that get funding. There is nothing terribly unusual about that since that is a general rule for everyone. If you don’t get money for your work, you starve and then you don’t do any work at all. Yes, that’s somewhat simplistic, but still relevant to the subject here.


The question is: what gets funded? Who decides? What is the context in which all science is being done?


Bear with me a moment here and let’s apply a little logic to the problem. The first thing we want to think about is the fact that the word “conspiracy” evokes such a strong reaction in all of us: nobody wants to be branded as a “conspiracy theorist”. It just isn’t “acceptable”. It’s “un-scientific” or it’s evidence of mental instability. Right?


In fact, I bet that even the very reading of the word produces certain physiological reactions: a slight acceleration of the heartbeat, and perhaps a quick glance around to make sure that no one was watching while you simply read the word silently.


Have you ever asked yourself why the word evokes such an instantaneous emotional reaction? Have you ever wondered why it stimulates such a strong “recoil”? After all, it is only a word. It only describes the idea of people in “high places” thinking about things and doing things that manipulate other people to produce benefits for themselves which is generally accepted as the way things work, right?


Richard Dolan has written about “conspiracy” in the following way:

Some will dismiss this as one of the many conspiracy theories dotting America’s landscape. The very label serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue. The United States comprises large organizations - corporations, bureaucracies, “interest groups”, and the like - which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decisionmakers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. “Conspiracy”, in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe.

 

Within the world’s military and intelligence apparatuses, this tendency is magnified to the greatest extreme. During the 1940s, [...] the military and its scientists developed the world’s most awesome weapons in complete secrecy... [...] Anyone who has lived in a repressive society knows that official manipulation of the truth occurs daily. But societies have their many and their few. In all times and all places, it is the few who rule, and the few who exert dominant influence over what we may call official culture. -

 

All elites take care to manipulate public information to maintain existing structures of power. It’s an old game. America is nominally a republic and free society, but in reality an empire and oligarchy, vaguely aware of its own oppression, within and without. I have used the term “national security state” to describe its structures of power. It is a convenient way to express the military and intelligence communities, as well as the worlds that feed upon them, such as defense contractors and other underground, nebulous entities. Its fundamental traits are secrecy, wealth, independence, power, and duplicity.


Nearly everything of significance undertaken by America’s military and intelligence community in the past half-century has occurred in secrecy. The undertaking to build an atomic weapon, better known as the Manhattan Project, remains the great model for all subsequent activities. For more than two years, not a single member of Congress even knew about it although its final cost exceeded two billion dollars.


During and after the Second World War, other important projects, such as the development of biological weapons, the importation of Nazi scientists, terminal mind-control experiments, nationwide interception of mail and cable transmissions of an unwitting populace, infiltration of the media and universities, secret coups, secret wars, and assassinations all took place far removed not only from the American public, but from most members of Congress and a few presidents. Indeed, several of the most powerful intelligence agencies were themselves established in secrecy, unknown by the public or Congress for many years.

Since the 1940s, the US Defense and Intelligence establishment has had more money at its disposal than most nations. In addition to official dollars, much of the money is undocumented. From its beginning, the CIA was engaged in a variety of off-the-record “business” activities that generated large sums of cash.

 

The connections of the CIA with global organized crime (and thus de facto with the international narcotics trade) has been well established and documented for many years. Much of the original money to run the American intelligence community came from very wealthy and established American families, who have long maintained an interest in funding national security operations important to their interests.


In theory, civilian oversight exists over the US national security establishment. The president is the military commander-in-chief. Congress has official oversight over the CIA. The FBI must answer to the Justice Department. In practice, little of this applies. One reason has to do with secrecy. [...]


A chilling example of such independence occurred during the 1950s, when President Eisenhower effectively lost control of the US nuclear arsenal. The situation deteriorated so much that during his final two years in office, Eisenhower asked repeatedly for an audience with the head of Strategic Air Command to learn what America’s nuclear retaliatory plan was. What he finally learned in 1960, his final year in office, horrified him: half of the Northern Hemisphere would be obliterated.


If a revered military hero such as Eisenhower could not control America’s nuclear arsenal, nor get a straight answer from the Pentagon, how on earth could Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon regarding comparable matters?

 

Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power.

 

Through the years, the national security state has gained access to the world's most sophisticated technology sealed off millions of acres of land from public access or scrutiny, acquired unlimited snooping ability within US borders and beyond, conducted overt or clandestine actions against other nations, and prosecuted wars without serious media scrutiny. Domestically, it maintains influence over elected officials and communities hoping for some of the billions of defense dollars. [including scientists, universities, etc.]


Deception is the key element of warfare, and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. When taken together, the examples of official duplicity form a nearly single totality. They include such choice morsels as the phony war crisis of 1948, the fabricated missile gap claimed by the air force during the 1950s, the carefully managed events leading to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution... [...]


The secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo.


[S]keptics often ask, “Do you really think the government could hide [anything] for so long”? The question itself reflects ignorance of the reality that secrecy is a way of life in the National Security State. Actually though, the answer is yes, and no. Yes, in that cover-ups are standard operating procedure, frequently unknown to the public for decades, becoming public knowledge by a mere roll of the dice. But also no, in that ... information has leaked out from the very beginning. It is impossible to shut the lid completely. The key lies in neutralizing and discrediting unwelcomed information, sometimes through official denial, other times through proxies in the media.


[E]vidence [of conspiracy] derived from a grass roots level is unlikely to survive its inevitable conflict with official culture. And acknowledgement about the reality of [conspiracies] will only occur when the official culture deems it worthwhile or necessary to make it. [Don’t hold your breath.]
 

This is a widespread phenomenon affecting many people, generating high levels of interest, taking place in near-complete secrecy, for purposes unknown, by agencies unknown, with access to incredible resources and technology.

 

A sobering thought and cause for reflection.368

368 Dolan, op. cit.

Consider this: even if Dolan is writing specifically about America, in a world dominated by the United States, it must be considered that pressures are applied elsewhere from within this “national security state” to comply with the demands of the US.


In an earlier chapter, I pointed out that part of the nature of COINTELPRO is to create bogus organizations and to promote bogus ideas. In the scientific community, this can work in any number of ways, the most common being “proprietary organizations” that fund research that leads nowhere in order to keep someone with promising ideas busy. It is not stretching things to consider that “exciting new ideas” or areas of research might be promoted for the express purpose of vectoring scientists into following false and time-wasting research so as to prevent them making significant breakthroughs.

 

What we do not know is how far and wide the practice extends, though we can certainly guess. There exists in our world today a powerful and dangerous secret cult. So wrote Victor Marchetti, a former high-ranking CIA official, in his book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. This is the first book the U.S. Government ever went to court to censor before publication. In this book, Marchetti tells us that there IS a “Cabal” that rules the world and that its holy men are the clandestine professionals of the Central Intelligence Agency.

 

In our opinion, the CIA is but one “arm” of the cult, just as Benedictines were but one order of the Catholic Church.

 

To borrow from, and paraphrasing, Marchetti:

This cult is patronized and protected by the highest level government officials in the world. It’s membership is composed of those in the power centers of government, industry, commerce, finance, and labor. It manipulates individuals in areas of important public influence - including the academic world and the mass media. The Secret Cult is a global fraternity of a political aristocracy whose purpose is to further the political policies of persons or agencies unknown. It acts covertly and illegally.

And we see it happen before our very eyes and most people refuse to acknowledge it! What is more frightening is the fact that Woodrow Wilson, a president of the United States wrote in The New Freedom (1913):

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. Remember: those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo, and maintaining the “status quo” in science has to be one of the main objectives of the Power Elite.

And how do they do that?

 

By “official culture”. And official culture, understood this way, from the perspective of elite groups wishing to maintain the status quo of their power, means COINTELPRO.


The most effective weapon of COINTELPRO is Ridicule and Debunking. Notice that Marchetti points out that this is done via manipulation of individuals in areas of important public influence - including the academic world and the mass media. This is how the official culture is maintained, most particularly in the Scientific Community.


Bottom line is: if you have bought into the emotionally manipulated consensus of “official culture”, that there are no conspiracies, that there is no “Third Man”, it is very likely that you are being manipulated by fear of ridicule. You are in denial. You have been hypnotized by the suggestions of the holy men of the Secret Cult and you have chosen to believe them over your own possible observations and senses.


Now, think about the word “conspiracy” one more time and allow me to emphasize the key points of Dolan’s remarks: From a historical point of view, the only reality is that of conspiracy. Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. ...Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool of power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo. If we consider the attack on the World Trade Center in this context, we have a much better chance of figuring out “whodunit”?


When I first began my own research in a serious and dedicated way, I was quite distressed by the confusion factor. The only thing that I did different from most researchers was to take this confusion as a “given” fact that was intended. There were two things that had been burned into my mind very early on, and I found both of them to be very useful when applied to the present problem.

 

The first was a remark attributed to Franklin Roosevelt369:

“Nothing in politics happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned.”

369 I’ve never been able to confirm this attribution, but the idea, as a hypothesis, seems to be quite useful in predicting.

 

The other idea was a remark made to me by a friend who had been trained in Army Intelligence.

He said that the first rule of Intelligence is to just observe what IS and understand that it is very likely the way it is for a reason.

 

Once you have settled that firmly in your mind, you can then begin to form hypotheses about who might benefit the most from a given situation, and once such hypotheses are formed, you can then begin to test them. You may have to discard any number of ideas when you find some flaw, but unless you begin with this process, you will be duped over and over again.

In considering the problem before us, we can see that there exist “tracks” throughout history of some pretty mysterious goings on that do, indeed, suggest a “conspiracy”.

 

If we take that as an observation of what IS, we immediately face the second big question: is it a conspiracy? If we decide that the evidence supports a conspiracy, then we have to move to the next question: is it a conspiracy of “good guys” or “bad guys”? It is at this point that all the various conspiracy experts begin to diverge into their assorted rants about Zionists or Masons, and all the many variations thereof.


But what if, instead of asking that question and beginning to argue, we just settle back and observe what is and try to find the answer based on observation? The single biggest argument against historical conspiracy is the relatively short lifespan of human beings, combined with the observable psychological make-up of man. A corollary objection is the fact that, very often, the domino effect of events that “change history” are of such a nature that it would be impossible for ordinary human beings to engineer them.

 

In other words, Time and Space are barriers to the idea of human beings being engaged in a global conspiracy.


Well, of course the diligent researcher has by now tried every other way to make the puzzle pieces fit ending in repeated failures to account for everything, including the numerous views that oppose and contradict one another. So, when we stop for a moment to think about this initial, observable fact of the barrier of Time and Space, we then think of an idea: what if the conspirators are not constrained by Time or Space?

 

Our initial reaction to this thought is to dismiss it out of hand. But as we pursue our researches, as we come across repeated “anomalies” and “glitches” and “tracks” throughout space and time - what we call “history” - we begin to get the uneasy feeling that we ought to take another look at this idea.


As it happens, once the possibility of manipulation of space and time has been added to our hypothesis, things finally begin to “fall into place”. When we begin to look at history from this trans-millennial, trans-spatial perspective, the character of the “conspiracy” begins to emerge, and only the most gullible - or negative intentioned - occultist could hold onto, or continue to promote, any idea that this conspiracy is benevolent.

 

In fact, it becomes abundantly clear that many, if not most, religions and systems of philosophy, have been created and introduced by the conspirators in order to conceal the conspiracy itself.

 

When you are considering hyperdimensional realities and beings with mastery over space and time, the thousands of years needed to develop any given aspect of the overall plan is negligible; human beings, no matter how important they believe themselves to be, are merely useful idiots who have been manipulated. In consideration of such beings, we come again to the idea of hyperdimensional space - known as “4th density” - and its denizens.


As it happens, precisely at the time I was struggling to understand the bizarre nature of the 10th-12th centuries, the C’s - myself in the future - used the opportunity to give me a “lesson in history”.


Q: Next question: is there any relationship between the fact that Roger de Mortimer, the carrier of the last of the line of the Welsh kings, was the lover of Isabella of France, who was the daughter of Philip the Fair, the destroyer of the Templars, and the murder of Edward II, the first of the English Prince of Wales?
A: Templars are a setup, insofar as persecution is concerned. Remember your “historical records” can be distorted, in order to throw off future inquiries, such as your own.
Q: I know that. I have already figured that one out! But, it seems that no one else has made this connection. I mean, the bloodlines that converge in the Percys and the Mortimers are incredible!
A: You should know that these bloodlines become parasitically infected, harassed and tinkered with whenever a quantum leap of awareness is imminent. Such as “now”.

Here is something for you to digest: Why is it that your scientists have overlooked the obvious when they insist that alien beings cannot travel to earth from a distant system??? Even if speed of light travel, or “faster”, were not possible, and it is, of course, there is no reason why an alien race could not construct a space “ark”, living for many generations on it.

They could travel great distances through time and space, looking for a suitable world for conquest. Upon finding such, they could then install this ark in a distant orbit, build bases upon various solid planes in that solar system, and proceed to patiently manipulate the chosen civilizations to develop a suitable technological infrastructure.

And then, after the instituting of a long, slow, and grand mind programming project, simply step in and take it over once the situation was suitable.

Q: Is this, in fact, what has happened, or is happening?
A: It could well be, and maybe now it is the time for you to learn about the details.
Q: Well, would such a race be 3rd or 4th density in orientation?
A: Why not elements of both?
Q: What is the most likely place that such a race would have originated from?
A: Oh, maybe Orion, for example?
Q: Okay. If such a race did, in fact, travel to this location in space/time, how many generations have come and gone on their space ark during this period of travel, assuming, of course, that such a thing has happened?
A: Maybe 12.
Q: Okay, that implies that they have rather extended life spans...
A: Yes...
Q: Assuming this to be the case, what are their life-spans?
A: 2,000 of your years. When in space, that is...
Q: And what is the span when on terra firma?
A: 800 years.
Q: Well, has it not occurred to them that staying in space might not be better?
A: No. Planets are much more “comfortable”.
Q: Okay... imagining that such a group has traveled here...
A: We told you of upcoming conflicts... Maybe we meant the same as your Bible, and other references. Speak of... The “final” battle between “good and evil...” Sounds a bit cosmic, when you think of it, does it not?
Q: Does this mean that there is more than one group that has traveled here in their space arks?
A: Could well be another approaching, as well as “reinforcements” for either/or, as well as non-involved, but interested observers of various types who appreciate history from the sidelines.
Q: Well, SWELL! There goes my peaceful life!
A: You never had one! You chose to be incarnated now, with some foreknowledge of what was to come. Reference your dreams of space attack.
Q: Okay, what racial types are we talking about relating to these hypothetical aliens?
A: Three basic constructs. Nordic, Reptilian, and Greys. Many variations of type 3, and 3 variations of type 1 and 2.
Q: Well, what racial types are the ‘good guys’?
A: Nordics, in affiliation with 6th density “guides”.
Q: And that’s the only good guys?
A: That’s all you need.
Q: Wonderful! So, if it is a Grey or Lizzie, you know they aren’t the nice guys. But, if it is tall and blond, you need to ask questions!
A: All is subjective when it comes to nice and not nice. Some on 2nd density would think of you as “not nice”, to say the least!!!
Q: That’s for sure! Especially the roaches! Maybe we ought to get in touch with some of these good guys...
A: When the “time” is right. Just pay attention to the signs, please!
Q: There is a lot being said about the [UFO] sightings out in the Southwest area. They are saying that this is the “new” imminent invasion or mass landing. Can you comment on this activity?
A: Prelude to the biggest “flap” ever.
Q: And where will this flap be located?
A: Earth. Invasion happens when programming is complete...
Q: What programming?
A: See Bible, “Lucid” book, Matrix Material, “Bringers of the Dawn”, and many other sources, then cross reference...
Q: Well, we better get moving! We don’t have time to mess around!
A: You will proceed as needed, you cannot force these events or alter the Grand Destiny.
Q: I do NOT like the sound of that! I want to go home!
A: The alternative is less appetizing. Reincarnation on a 3rd density earth as a “cave person” amidst rubble and a glowing red sky, as the perpetual cold wind whistles...
Q: Why is the sky glowing red?
A: Contemplate.
Q: Of course! Comet dust!

[…]
Q: (L) I read the new book by Dr. David Jacobs, professor of History at Temple University, concerning his extensive research into the alien abduction phenomenon. [Dr. Jacobs wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the history of the UFOs.] Dr. Jacobs says that now, after all of these years of somewhat rigorous research, that he KNOWS what the aliens are here for and he is afraid. David Jacobs says that producing offspring is the primary objective behind the abduction phenomenon. Is this, in fact, the case?
A: Part, but not “the whole thing”.
Q: (L) Is there another dominant reason?
A: Replacement.
Q: (L) Replacement of what?
A: You.
Q: (L) How do you mean? Creating a race to replace human beings, or abducting specific humans to replace them with a clone or whatever?
A: Mainly the former. You see, if one desires to create a new race, what better way than to mass hybridize, then mass reincarnate. Especially when the host species is so forever ignorant, controlled, and anthropocentric. What a lovely environment for total destruction and conquest and replacement... see?
Q: (L) Well, that answered my other question about the objective. Well, here in the book, Dr. Jacobs says that there is ongoing abductions through particular families.

I quote:
“Beyond protecting the fetus, there are other reasons for secrecy. If abductions are, as all the evidence clearly indicates, an intergenerational phenomenon in which the children of abductees are themselves abductees, then one of the aliens’ goals is the generation of more abductees. […]
To protect the intergenerational nature of the breeding program, it must be kept secret from the abductees so that they will continue to have children. If the abductees KNEW that the program was intergenerational, they might elect not to have children. This would bring a critical part of the program to a halt, which the aliens cannot allow. The final reason for secrecy is to expand the breeding program, to integrate laterally in society, the aliens must make sure that abductees mate with non-abductees and produce abductee children.” 370

Now, this seems to suggest that there is a particular bloodline that is susceptible to...
A: We have told you before: the Nazi experience was a “trial run”, and by now you see the similarities, do you not? Now, we have also told you that the experience of the “Native Americans” vis a vis the Europeans may be a precursor in microcosm. Also, what Earthian 3rd density does to Terran 2nd density should offer “food for thought”. In other words, thou art not so special, despite thy perspective, eh? And we have also warned that after conversion of Earth humans to 4th density, the Orion 4th density and their allies hope to control you “there”. Now put this all together and what have you? At least you should by now know that it is the soul that matters, not the body. Others have genetically, spiritually and psychically manipulated/engineered you to be body-centric. Interesting, as despite all efforts by 4th through 6th density STO, this “veil” remains unbroken.

370 From David Jacobs book, The Threat; 1999

 

There are many items in the above excerpts of extreme interest considering current events. One thing is the issue of “mind programming”. Contrary to what many conspiracy theorists claim, the main “mind programming” project on Earth has been - and continues to be - religious and cultural.


The second most predominant method of mind control is via the media and controlling the flow of information. It might even be possible that beings with mastery of space/time could travel back in to the past and destroy documents and plant their own “version of history”.

 

The C’s commented on this as well:

Q: Who burned the library at Alexandria, since I have heard two stories: one that the Christians did it and the other that the Arabs did it. Which?
A: Neither.
Q: Who DID burn it?
A: Sword keepers of “the lock”.
Q: Who are the Sword Keepers of the Lock?
A: Has to do with Illuminati.
Q: What was their purpose in burning this library?
A: What is the purpose in burning ANY library?
Q: To destroy knowledge. Prevent other people from having access to it. Again we find a “track” that suggests to us that somebody wanted to keep human beings in the dark. We can, of course, ascribe this to just ordinary human activities of greed and ignorance as many materialist interpreters do. If that is the approach one chooses, the approach of religion, then, when one begins to add up all of the similar types of events throughout history, the indictment against man cries to heaven for an end to his existence. And yet, as a hypnotherapist, I have never found this assessment to be satisfactory. On the many occasions when I have peered into the inner recesses of the human mind, what I have found most often is that most human beings just want to have a better life for themselves and for their children. Human beings are not intrinsically evil and there is no such thing as “original sin” unless one considers the first individual who wanted to put one over on someone else (Cain vs. Abel is the mythical representation of this idea) as being the “original sin”. Clearly, in order to have the idea structure that there might be some reward for deception and murder, such an idea must exist in the idea content continuum of that individual. And that is how hyperdimensional realities interface with our own: via ideas and the emotion required to bring them to fruition. Let’s now look again at the issue of the Jews. At the point in time that I was really struggling to come to some understanding of this terrible event in our history wherein 60 million or more people lost their lives, of which one tenth of them were Jewish. I initiated a dialogue with “myself in the future”.

Q: (L) Is there some karmic element that was fulfilled by the Holocaust?
A: Of course.
Q: (L) Could you tell us what karma was being expunged in that activity, and what group the Jews represented?
A: This is not germane, but it was Atlantean overseers “expunging” guilt from that life experience.
Q: (L) Now, you have said that the Jews were Atlantean descendants, and that Noah was an Atlantean...
A: Most of them.
Q: (L) What is the significance of this relating to their religion and their experiences and the current state of the Jews?
A: No special karmic significance to being “Jewish”, special significance is experiencing holocaust for purpose of purging extraordinary karmic debt.

The answer that “most” of the Jews were Atlantean descendants was not really noticed by me at the time it was given. It was only much later that I realized that this was a significant clue. I continued to research the history and myths and archaeology that led off in endless trails from the central issue, and again and again I kept coming up against what I called “The Scottish Question” in terms of so-called conspiracies.

 

What this term was intended to designate was the fact that whenever I tracked a series of clues, I always hit a closed door that was connected in some way to Scotland - including Scottish Rite Masonry.

Q: (L) I would like to know what is the origin of the Freemasons?
A: Osirians.
Q: (L) Can you tell us when the original Freemasons formed as a society?
A: 5633 BC.
Q: (L) Is Freemasonry as it is practiced today the same?
A: 33rd degree, yes.
Q: (L) So, there is a continuing tradition for over seven thousand years?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Is this organization with a plan to take over and rule the world?
A: Not exactly.
Q: (L) What is their focus?
A: Overseers.
Q: (L) Of what?
A: The status of Quorum.
Q: (L) What is the Quorum?
A: Deeper knowledge organization. Totally secret to your kind as of yet. Very important with regard to your future.
Q: (L) In what way?
A: Changes.
Q: (L) Can you get more specific? Is that changes to us personally?
A: Partly.
Q: (L) Earth changes?
A: Also.
Q: (L) What is the relationship between this Quorum and the Cassiopaeans [myself in the future?]
A: They communicate with us regularly.
Q: (L) Do they do this knowing you are Cassiopaeans or do they do it thinking...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Has there been an ongoing relationship between the Cassiopaeans and this Quorum for these thousands of years?
A: For some time as you measure it.
Q: (L) Who was Hermes Trismegistus?
A: Traitor to court of Pharoah Rana.
Q: (L) Who was Pharoah Rana? [Notice that the word “pharoah” simply means “house of” and Rana is the feminine of Raja, Ra, etc. So the term would mean the “house of the Queen”.]
A: Egyptian leader of spiritual covenant.
Q: (L) In what way was Hermes a traitor?
A: Broke covenant of spiritual unity of all peoples in area now known as Middle East.
Q: (L) Who did Hermes betray?
A: Himself; was power hungry.
Q: (L) What acts did he do?
A: Broke covenant; he inspired divisions within ranks of Egyptians, Essenes, Aryans, and Persians et cetera.
Q: (L) What was his purpose in doing this?
A: Divide and conquer as inspired by those referred to as The Brotherhood in the Bramley book you have read. [The Gods of Eden.]
Q: (L) Is this the Brotherhood of the snake Hermes formed in rejection of unity?
A: Hermes did not form it; it was long since in existence.
Q: (L) Who was the originator of the Brotherhood of the Serpent as described in the Bramley book?
A: Lizard Beings.
Q: (L) I would like to know the approximate year of the life of Hermes Trismegistus.
A: 5211 approx.

If this date for the formation of the society later to become the Freemasons - 5633 BC - is correct, it means that it was in existence for about 2,400 years before the Hermes rebellion, which took place 5211 years ago.

 

The C’s said that Hermes was a “Traitor to court of Pharaoh Rana” who was the Egyptian leader of a spiritual covenant of spiritual unity of all the peoples in area now known as Middle East.


What we find to be most interesting is the use of the dates as clues here - the 33 representing the Osirians - the early Freemasonic society - and the 11 representing Hermes and the Brotherhood of the Serpent. We notice also that the story about Jacob wrestling with the angel is in chapter 33 of Genesis, and the verse that tells us that Jacob passed something to Esau is verse 11.

 

Esau was, of course, the legendary father of the Arabs.

Q: One thing I do want to understand, since it is involved in all of this, is the idea of the ‘Shepherd’. All of the ancient legends and stories and myths lead, ultimately, to something about the ‘shepherd’, or the ‘Shepherd King’.
A: Shepherd is most likely to be struck by lightning, due to staff, and thus “enlightened”, or “illumened”!!
Q: Funny spelling! But, what is the contrast between the concept of the shepherd and the agriculturalist? This goes back to the very roots of everything? There is Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael...
A: Are not you “abel” to figure this out?
Q: I noticed in Genesis Chapter 33, verse 11, it says that Jacob, who wrestled with the angel the previous night and was on his way to see his brother Esau, who he had tricked into giving up his blessing years before, gave Esau the blessing. What was this? The birthright from his father or the blessing Jacob received from the angel?
A: Trampled leaves of wrath.
Q: This is what Jacob gave to Esau?
A: Yes, and what is the “core” meaning there?
Q: I don’t know. What is the core meaning?
A: Leaves are of the Tree of Apples, from whence we get the proverbial “grapes of wrath”, the Blue Apples incarnate!
Q: Why are these leaves ‘trampled’?
A: Removes chlorophyll.
Q: What is the significance of the chlorophyll?
A: When the chlorophyll dies, the autumnal equinox is at hand.
Q: Did this signify something about the autumnal equinox?
A: Discover what the significance is, my Dear!
Q: Why did Jacob then deceive his brother again? He was to travel and meet him in Edom, but then went in the other direction as soon as Esau was on his way.
A: Refer to last answer, and cross reference.
Q: After wrestling with the ‘angel’, Jacob was renamed ‘Israel’, which means ‘he will rule as a God’. This tends to make me think that this angel whom Jacob seems to have conjured, did something. What was this being that Jacob wrestled with?
A: Elohim provides the conventional response.
Q: (L) Well, okay. Who were the Elohim of the Bible?
A: Transdefinitive. And variable entities.
Q: (L) Were the Elohim ‘good guys’?
A: First manifestation was human, then non-human.
Q: (L) Well, what brought about their transformation from human to non-human?
A: Pact or covenant.
Q: (L) They made a pact or covenant with each other?
A: No, with 4th density STS. [Overlords of Entropy]
Q: (L) Well, that is not good! Are you saying that the Elohim are STS? Who were these STS beings they made a pact with?
A: Rosteem, now manifests as Rosicrucians.
Q: (L) We have the brother issue to deal with. We have Abraham and his nephew, Lot. Then we have Moses and Aaron, Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael. Were all of these sets of brothers just different aspects or views on the same stories, a set of singular individuals, whether brothers or not?
A: Pretty much though with added elements from other stories blended in.
Q: (L) Was it a brother/brother relationship as in actual brothers?
A: No. The “brother” relationship was created to legitimize a “false” line of transmission.
Q: (L) So there wasn’t a brother, or Aaronic relationship present, assuming any part of that story was true. Is that it?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) One aspect of the variation on the story was that Jacob gave his brother, Esau, the ‘blessing’ and some ‘gift’. Does this reflect an accurate part of the story that Abraham/Moses, in his “mythical incarnation” as Jacob , passed something on to someone elses - something that was important?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Was it Moses/Abraham who was doing this?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Who did he pass it on to?
A: It was finally understood by “Moses” that the danger of the object was greater than the ability of descendants to resist corruption. He handed it over to those who had created it.
Q: (H) Was it STS or STO forces that created it?
A: STS.
Q: (H) So, the Ark was an object created by STS. Did this amount to some sort of realization on Moses’ part? Did he start to wake up?
A: Yes. The story of the “contending with the angel” was the significant turning point as well as the moment of return.
Q: (L) What was the blessing he gave to quote Esau, if giving the object to the “angel” was the event of returning the ark? What was the story there?
A: Two separate events.
Q: (L) So, he returned the ark to the so-called angel. And then, he gave something to someone else. Previously, when I asked about this, you said that what he gave to Esau was “trampled leaves of wrath, the blue apples incarnate”, and remarked that I should inquire into the “core meaning”,
A: And who was “Kore”?
Q: (L) Was this Abraham’s daughter?
A: It was the last living member of the Perseid family.
Q: (L) Was it a male or female?
A: Female.
Q: (L) And how did Abraham come to be in possession of this female?
A: Search the text and you will see.

The C’s described this item - the “blessing” - as “trampled leaves of wrath”, and mentioned cycles and the ends of cycles.371 At a later point in time, the C’s connected the number 11 to “Medusa”, and we have recently seen this element in action on 9-11.


371 As we pick up the clues, again and again we are disturbed by the niggling thought that the Bible was assembled by individuals who had “foreknowledge,” and that this information was not favorable to the Jews. It is almost as though someone traveled into the past to “plant” the Bible for nefarious purposes intended to come to fruition in the present time.

But let’s look a little bit closer at the Hermes affair.

 

The generally accepted sequence of Egyptian historical events tell us that a king from “upper Egypt” - that is, the arid highlands - named Narmer, Menes, or Aha, defeated the King of Northern, or Lower Egypt, and thereby unified the two lands. This unification is commemorated in the famous Narmer Palette, which shows a “head smiting” scene, a euphemism for conquest.

 

The “expert” estimates for the date of this event is in the vicinity of 3100 BC which is in the same ballpark as the date given by the C’s. In other words, the great “unifier” of Egypt may have been this Hermes, and this may have been an act of rebellion against a covenant of peace that existed up to that time.


Here we discover a most interesting item in history. Prior to this point, the pharaohs from the time of Narmer/Menes, were affiliated with Horus - the “son of Osiris”.

 

This means that apparently Horus - the Shemsu Hor - were the Hermes rebellion gang.

Q: (L) Who were the “Followers of Horus”?
A: Those who held the 3rd “insight”.
Q: (L) What was the third insight?
A: There are 10. The 3rd involves transcendental existence.

That certainly sounds very positive, but we have to be careful about our assumptions considering that similar terms were used to describe the mysterious Elohim who cut the deal with Jacob prior to the passage of the Ark to the East - and we realize that everything is not always as it appears:

“Rosteem now manifests as Rosicrucians”.

What begins to glimmer through the darkness is that the Sons of Horus and the Elohim must have been one and the same: the Hermes gang that rebelled against the spiritual covenant of the Osirians. The myth of Isis and Osiris and Set and Horus takes on a whole new meaning - and we see how it has been given a slight twist to obscure the truth.

 

We also begin to suspect a strange link between this group - with their Mesopotamian connections - and the “creation” of Judaism via a conglomeration of Egyptian elements, as well as the conversion of Christianity to a similar Egyptian myth.

 

Egypt, Egypt, everywhere!

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