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Let him who has the eyes to see – see, and him who has ears to hear – hear

We, the writers of dyeus.org/, being in full accord with the great mission of the ages, and inspired by that which is divine within us and sharing in equal measure of the responsibility, though less than equal measure of the suffering of our forefathers, for which we are most grateful, and desirous of affirming and extending the true religion that is between us, hereby proclaim that the historical record must be set right if the soul of man, for whatever hope is still left for its redemption and the enjoyining in the common inheritance of all men to elevate the world to a godly destiny, must be channeled with new efforts reflective of the transfiguration of the moral character of most men in the past several centuries and fearful of the consequent reappearances of the aimless sojourneys tither and hither by an increasing number of men whose hearts are desirous of fellowship with that which we call divine.

Many men of history who considered themselves moral sought, as a last resort, to accomplish for the future generations that which they had been powerless to set into reality for their own age, and mindful of the righteousness of their action, and of generous spirit and eternal hope despite the severity of suffering, did author, from each according to his best efforts, all manner of scriptural works that our patriarchs collected together to uplift the spiritual value of our world.

Our work on this site, and in other venues, should by no man be taken to mean that we reject the pursuits of our fathers to seek a state of existence reflective of the true state of inspired divinity that is demanded of all moral men, but rather, that we seek to destroy that which has corrupted and rotted and denies us the proper moral destiny weighed down by the gilded chains of past ideas now known to be evil, and in so doing, we journey to New Jerusalem with our kinfolk of the past no less determined to found that golden city.

Signed this 11th of September, Anno Domini 2020, 22 Elul 5870.

Iannis Stamatakos

Phil Dodd

Mark Smythe

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Jesus, the Twin – Exegesis of Book of Thomas – Part I

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Based on a lecture from Yale Open courses RLST 152: Introduction to the New Testament, dyeus.org/ presents Exegesis of Book of Thomas: template for how to read the Torah and the New Testament by examples from the "Sayings of the Living Jesus" in the Book of Thomas, full text of which was discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi. I'm Phil Dodd. Learn the truth about the Abrahamic religions and how to see what is old anew. Millenia of false beliefs have been perpetuated by inability to see and understand the code that is hidden and written into the scriptures.
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Covering Religion Of Intersectionality: Nancy Friday and Matriarchal Puritanical Feminism

Sex has always been the primary instrument for population control, and the raison d’être of humans possessed with the bug of authoritarianism.  The primary reason why we cover intersectional feminism on a website called “Ancient History” is because it is an ideological movement that emerges from the failure of religion to sustain and provide meaning in people’s lives, and from commodification in this stage of capitalism, something predicted by Hegel a long time ago, which he called Entfremdung, or alienation from the self.  Bernard Munchin and the young Karl Marx expanded the concept of alienation toward a criticism of how an individual becomes alienated from the society also, and its primary culprit is not Marxism or collectivism, but it is in fact capitalism and classical liberalism in combination.

The result is a religion of the narcissist, by the narcissists and for the narcissists, which explains the cannibalization they frequently engage in, as in this clip from the “Socialists of America” conference:

What is important to understand is that this is a primal instinct that authoritarians instinctively tap into, which works something like this:  R-M-L-V-S (in the mnemonic “Romulus”)

  1. Find something everyone does that no amount of authoritarian control can ever get rid of (raison d’être)
  2. Declare it a moral sin (Morality)
  3. Make prohibitions against it (‘the Law’)
  4. Prepare a pathway “redemption” through embrace of “the Party” (The Victory)
  5. Blame all the ills of society on the scapegoated instinct (the Scapegoat)

 

It’s briliant, and it’s fascism to the T.  Let’s try a few examples.  Let us take the original sin.

  1. Eating (raison d’être)
  2. The Lord god is your maker, and his authority is final (Morality)
  3. If you eat from the Tree, on the very day, you will die (‘the Law’)
  4. But if you don’t eat from the tree, you will forever remain in the garden of “Eden” (The Victory)
  5. Because you have eaten from the tree, you and all your offspring will forever suffer, exiled from the Garden (the Scapegoat)

 

Let’s take Nazism:

  1. Wanting more, perpetual desire to have more (raison d’être)
  2. Jews: they rejected Christ, major moral failing, they have made us poor (Morality)
  3. Nuremberg Laws: prohibitions against Jews (‘the Law’)
  4. Once we get rid of Jews, it will all be perfect, the Party will be a “steel-hard instrument of the raising of generations of high priests.” (Adolf Hitler) (The Victory)
  5. Jews are to blame (The Scapegoat)

 

Let’s take communism:

  1. Being poor/lacking freedom under feudalism/wanting more (R)
  2. Being rich is a moral sin (M)
  3. Successful people are thieves, enact socialism to combat capitalism. Revolution. (L)
  4. Only the embrace of Communism and socialist principles brings equality and utopia (V)
  5. Rich and successful, capitalism is to blame (S)

 

Let’s take Intersectional Feminism:

  1. Not having rights, being oppressed (R)
  2. Being male is a moral sin, women are naturally virtuous (M)
  3. Men are the oppressors, but Intersectional Feminism is onto them.  Pronouns, gendered laws, state intervention, “pay gap.” Kangaroo courts, hysteria. (L)
  4. Only the embrace of Intersectional Feminism is acceptable. All those who don’t accept feminism are purged. (V)
  5. Men and Patriarchy are to blame. (S)

 

It began with sex.  Sex and sexuality have been a part of each authoritarian system since the beginning of humans.  If you think about it, it makes sense.  Procreation was controlled for a long period of our evolution. Only one or a few alpha males allowed themselves to procreate.  All others were banned and their sexuality was controlled.  Lower ranked males were sacrificed in war and in hunt, as soldiers and as peasants.  The recipients of all benefits were always women and children.  We know from DNA that only between 5-15% of all males passed on the genes.

That means that sexuality has from the earliest days been associated with fear and anxiety.  Church, synagogue and mosque are all very interested in your masturbating habits because they know that everyone does it.  And that means that everyone is always guilty.  Then they can run into the loving arms of religion and have their minds brainwashed.  This pattern follows RoMuLVS points to the T.

And so, we discover that a movement that began with a rejection of the pre-50’s puritanism toward sex, is now becoming one of its biggest advocates.  Intersectional puritanical feminism is completely regressive today.  It is becoming a tyranny of the same sort of authoritarian faux moralist that was behind all of the ideologies and religions of the past.  And much like all the religions, it has its culture of chanting, initiations, Nicene creeds (“I am a white, heterosexual, cis male and I…”), moral outrages, paranoid delusions, hysteria, us-vs-them, purges, black and white thinking, and imagined realities, not to mention God vs Satan (feminism vs patriarchy).  All delusions.  All imaginary.

Here is an abstract from Nancy Friday’s famous “My Secret Garden,” from the introduction to the 25th anniversary edition.  Consider how much worse this form of tyranny has become.

Now, here at the beginning, let me set the record straight. I don’t want this to get lost halfway through these introductory pages: sexual freedom was never a part of modern feminism, never celebrated as such at Feminist Headquarters.

Because so many of us marched in both the Women’s Movement and the Sexual Revolution, and because they happened simultaneously, those events remain in memory as one glorious upheaval. Wouldn’t it seem irrational to exclude sexual free­dom from all the other rights-political, social, economic-for which we fought? Why separate sex and state?

I automatically assumed that those of us who marched and wrote in the late 1960s  and  early  1970s knew there would be no joy in the workplace without sexual freedom, by which I don’t mean fucking in the Ladies’ (Oops!, Women’s) Room. Simply put, I knew that we would never be equals staying in the traditional sexual straitjacket. Sex is energy and although it was a fundamental tenet of patriarchy that men held the key to eros, some of us knew in our bones that women, not men, were and remain the permission givers when it comes to sex. It is through other women’s voices that we hear our own. Without fear of their disapproval, all our sexual fuel can run into every facet of our lives­ political, personal, and economic.

Our mistake, however, was believing that every­ one on the march had the same agenda. When I sat down to write this book, I thought the feminists would embrace it. I didn't realize that it was unwel­come at Feminist Headquarters until a former friend turned https://dyeus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/My-project.png at Ms. magazine, gave me a rap on the knuckles, proclaiming that “Ms. will decide what women’s fantasies are.” Soon after, a review in that magazine followed with the opening line “… this woman is not a feminist.”

I was shocked, couldn’t believe that I had been called a bad girl for writing about something as joy­ous as women’s sexual liberation. I didn’t realize then, as I do now, that the Matriarchal Feminists were con­sciously determined to leave sex off the agenda. Not that they discussed it. But they knew they couldn’t control an army of women pursuing sex with  men. Sex between women? That was safe, and still is.

They knew intuitively that other women’s voices enable us to hear our own and that keeping men the enemy, up to, and especially, today, allows for a fer­tile dumping ground for everything that is wrong in women’s world.

My initial reaction to the nasty review in Ms. was to forget it. The millions of women who bought My Secret Garden reaffirmed my belief in the importance of understanding sex. Besides, upon completing this book, I had too many questions of my own to pursue.

Why, for example, did women, as many do today, feel so guilty about sexual fantasies? We were just thinking, after all, not acting on our thoughts. The answer hit me the day I put down the  manuscript for this book: Mother. So I sat down to write an out­ line, then entitled “The First Lie.” It subsequently became My Mother/My Self, my study of mothers and daughters. I went on to write five more books, two about women’s sexual fantasies, Forbidden Flowers and Women on Top; one on men’s sexual fantasies, Men in Love; and jealousy and The Power of Beauty.

But the Ms. review and all that it implied never went away, and writing my most recent book, on how our looks influence our lives, it returned with full force, an horrific belch from the unconscious.  I had come to understand that competition among women was the last taboo, something the Matriar­chal Feminists were unwilling to acknowledge or discuss. Better to opt for noncompetitive quilting, as Gloria Steinem proposed in her last book, than accept the reality of competition, for looks, in the workplace and, certainly, for men. No wonder these feminists were and remain so rigid about sex. It wasn’t just that they wanted to be taken seriously, as I do, and not as sex objects. It was just as important that they outlaw competition over sex and beauty among women.

That continuing need helps explain its opposite, the enduring popularity of this book’s erotic themes. These fantasies are perennials that speak to women today as they did twenty-five years ago. A woman masturbating wants to reach orgasm. To do so,  she has to win the competition against those who would deprive her of owning her own sex. Who are her competitors? Well, as I learned writing My Mother/ My Self, it begins with the Giantess of the Nursery, a loving Giantess as often as not, but one who would not tolerate sexual independence.

No man can cut me as another woman can. Femi­nism’s refusal to address issues of competition leaves us eternally vulnerable to the dangerous power that women hold over one another. All this comes to mind when I think about today’s Lesbian Chic, which is in part a celebration of the easy access women have always had to one-anothers’ bodies and in part a “natural” solution for women conditioned by the Ma­triarchal Feminists’ anti-male agenda. A woman lies down with another woman and the world shrugs.

Few women care to live with exclusion from women’s world. And so the garden of sexual desire and fulfillment becomes the “secret” garden, and the sentence I first heard from women twenty-five years ago continues today: “Thank God you wrote that book. I thought I was the only one.”

How could it be, you might ask, that  women today, at the turn of the century, would still  think they were the only Bad Girls with erotic thoughts? What kind of prison is this that women impose on themselves? It is, of course, an unconscious pres­sure, where we seemingly do things against our will. Some part of us chooses the pressure that perfectly fits our need to be taken, to be bad-yes, ultimately, to reach orgasm.

Need I add that we win in all of our fantasies? Yes, even those involving the so-called rapist, that deus ex machina we roll in to catapult us past a lifetime of women’s rules against sex. That fantasy is as popular today as ever. The women whom I have interviewed don’t really want to be hurt or humiliated. His male presence, that effective battering ram, neatly “makes” her relax sufficiently to enjoy orgasm and then allows her to return to earth, her Nice Girl, Good Daughter self intact. The rape fantasy fools them into thinking the loss of control isn’t their fault.

What tribute to the power of the unconscious that in the day of the internet, of  pornographic  videos, not to mention of the erotic assaults on television, that with all this seeming permission, there is still a nay-saying voice that requires answering before we can reach orgasm.

As I have said, Mother isn’t an ogress. She is merely human. Love isn’t without ambivalence. What we do when we lie down for sex is to reconcile the power of that most important person in our early lives with the power of our own sexual appetites.

Women’s lust has always been feared as that ex­traordinary force that, left unbridled, could bring down not only individuals but also society itself. The bridling comes so early, in mother’s milk-and, oh, my dears, how fixated the infant remains as she grows to girlhood, watching her, that source of love, warmth, food, life. We never take our eyes off her, and in these earliest preverbal lessons, we learn those lifelong feelings about our bodies.

Nothing plants the seeds of our private sexual guilt more deeply than her admonitions, threatening loss of love should we ever love our own body. Noth­ing need be said. Little eyes learn life’s lessons most efficiently when we are most dependent. Little girls copy her hatred of her own flesh, assuming it un­consciously though we may later deny that we are in any way like her. We may disobey her anti-sex rules in adolescence when our erotic muscle so demands, but it is temporary, this war with her.  Eventually, most women cave in to one or another’s anti-sex rules which demand that no woman get more sex or be more sexual than any other.

That is what the Matriarchal Feminists under­stand and why they have eliminated sexual fulfill­ment from their agenda. The Matriarchals would keep us all the same. You rarely hear them talk about birth control and the ravages of unwanted pregnancy. Few of them came to the defense of Sur­geon General Joycelyn Elders when she dared sug­gest that our schools teach the role and importance of masturbation.

My fury is only tempered by people like you, who share my interest in true feminism, striving for equality in matters sexual as well as everywhere else. When I first started this journey twenty-five years ago, it was so hard to find women who would even admit to having such sexual reveries.  It  took me years to find women in numbers who knew what I was talking about when I would ask if they had sexual fantasies. But as the years have passed, more and more women have been willing to talk about en­joyment of our sexual selves and to acknowledge its inextricable link to true liberation of women.

 

Nancy Friday

Key West, Florida January 1998

 

 

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The case of Jesus as Dionysus: the Canaan and Greek mythology in Judaism and Christianity

The first error in religious thinking for a modern audience is to accept the religious chronology.  Generally speaking, Judaism claims for itself a history of some 5700 years, placing its origins somewhere around 3700 BCE.

So as a result, the Greek mythology and other Mediterranean myths that influenced the development of Judaism around the 5th century BCE when the Torah is assembled seem anachronistic.  If you accept that Judaism is so old, then you naturally conclude that any similarities in the myths go the other way – Judaism and the “truth” of Jehovah and his heavenly mafia influenced the Greeks, not the other way around.

If the believer understands and recognizes that Judaism develops in the period after the Babylonian exile, some 5th century BCE-2nd c BCE, then they are more likely to recognize the religious fraud.  Concepts such as the “soul”, psyche, are largely crafted by Plato and those who came after him, and influence Judaism, with Plato’s notions about “one source of all,” “the light of origins,” the divine, and so on.

Given that Christianity is an amalgam of “the greatest hits” of mythology and religion before it, and a conscious or unconscious merger of Judaism with Hellenistic culture and traditions, with Neoplatonism, Dionysus has been correctly correlated with many of the aspects of the Jesus story.

The following is a translation by Prof. Nagy of Harvard University of the “Homeric Myth to Dionysus.”

Homeric Hymn to Dionysus

Translated by Gregory Nagy

1 About Dionysus son of most glorious Semele 2 my mind will connect, how it was that he made an appearance [phainesthai] by the shore of the barren sea 3 on a prominent headland, looking like a young man 4 at the beginning of adolescence. Beautiful were the locks of hair as they waved in the breeze surrounding him. [5] They were the color of deep blue.

And a cloak he wore over his strong shoulders, 6 color of purple.Then, all of a sudden, men seen from a ship with fine benches 7 —men who were pirates—came into view, as they were sailing over the wine-colored [oinops] sea [pontos]. 8 They were Etruscans. And they were being driven along by a destiny that was bad for them. The moment they saw him [= Dionysus], 9 they gave each other a knowing nod, and the very next thing, they were ashore, jumping out of the ship. Quickly they seized him and [10] sat him down inside their ship, happy in their hearts 11 because they thought that he was the son of a line of kings nurtured by the sky god. 12 That is what they thought he was. And they wanted to tie him up in harsh bondage, 13 but the ties of the bonds could not hold him, and the cords made of willow fell off him, all over the place, 14 falling right off his hands and feet.

And he just sat there, smiling, [15] looking on with his deep blue eyes.Meanwhile the steersman [kubernētēs] took note [noeîn], 16 right away, and he called out to his comrades [hetairoi] and said to them: 17 “What kind of superhuman force [daimōn] has possessed you all! What kind of god [theos] is this that you have seized and tried to tie up, 18 powerful as he is? Why, he is too much for the well-built ship to make room for. 19 You see, he must be either Zeus or Apollo, the one with the silver quiver, [20] or Poseidon. I tell you, he is not like mortal humans, 21 he is not like [eikelos] them at all. Rather, he is like the gods who have their dwellings in Olympus. 22 So come on, we should let him go, leaving him on the dark earth of the mainland. 23 Let us do it right away. Do not manhandle him. What if he gets angry 24 and stirs up winds that will make hardship, and a huge whirlwind?” [25]

That is how he [= the steersman] spoke.But the leader of the men reviled him [= the steersman], speaking with hateful words [mūthos]: 26 “No, [not we but] you are the one who is possessed by some kind of superhuman force [daimōn]. Just [do your work and] watch for the wind [to start blowing from behind, and, once it starts blowing], you start hoisting the sail of the ship 27 and hold on to all the ropes. As for this one [= the unrecognized Dionysus], he will be the concern [melein] of my men. 28 I expect he will arrive [with us] in Egypt or maybe in Cyprus 29 or maybe even in the land of the Hyperboreans or beyond. Wherever. In the end, [30] he will tell all: he will come around to saying who are his near and dear ones [philoi] and what are all the possessions he has 31 and he will tell about his siblings. And that is because a superhuman force [daimōn] has put him in our pathway.”32 Having said this, he [= the leader himself] started hoisting the sail of the ship. 33

Now a wind came and blew right into the middle of the sail, and the ropes that held it at both ends 34 got all stretched to the limit. Then, right away, there appeared [phainesthai] to them things that would make anyone marvel.[35] Wine. That is what happened first of all. It was all alongside the swift black ship. 36 Sweet to drink, it was splashing around [the ship as if it were inside a cup], smelling good, and the fragrance that rose up 37 was something immortalizing [ambrosiā]. The sailors were seized with amazement, all of them, at the sight. 38 And then, all of a sudden, next to the top of the sail on both sides, there reached out 39 a vine—here, and here too—and hanging from it were many [40] clusters of grapes. Around the mast, dark ivy was winding around, 41 teeming with blossoms. And—a thing of beauty and pleasure [kharieis]—the berry sprang forth [from the ivy]. 42

The benches for rowing now had garlands [stephanoi] all over them.Once they [= the sailors] saw all this, 43 they started shouting at the steersman [kubernētēs], urging him 44 to sail the ship back to land.Meanwhile, he [= Dionysus] turned into a lion for them, right there in the ship, [45] looking horrific [deinos], at the prow. It roared a mighty roar. Then, in the middle of the ship, 46 he [= Dionysus] made a bear, with a shaggy neck. Thus he [= Dionysus] made his signals [sēmata] appear [phainein]. 47 It [= the bear] reared up, raging, while the lion, at the top of the deck, 48 glared at them with its horrific looks. The men, terrified, were fleeing toward the stern of the ship, 49 crowding around the steersman [kubernētēs], the one who had a heart [thūmos] that is moderate [sōphrōn]. [50] They just stood there, astounded [ek-plag-entes].Then it [= the lion] all of a sudden leapt up 51 and took hold of the leader of the men, while they were trying to get out, rushing away from the bad destiny that was theirs. 52

They all together at the same time leapt out, once they saw what they saw, into the gleaming salt sea. 53 They became dolphins.As for the steersman [kubernētēs] —he [= Dionysus] took pity on him, 54 holding him back [from leaping overboard]. He [= Dionysus] caused it to happen that he [= the steersman] became the most blessed [olbios] of all men, and he [= Dionysus] spoke for the record this set of words [mūthos]: [55] “Have courage, you radiant man, reached by a force that works from far away. You have achieved beauty and pleasure [kharizesthai] for my heart [thūmos]. 56 I am Dionysus, the one with the great thundering sound. The mother who bore me 57 was Semele, daughter of Kadmos, and Zeus made love to her.”58 Hail and take pleasure [khaire], [O Dionysus,] child of Semele with the beautiful looks. There is no way 59 I could have my mind disconnect from you as I put together the beautiful cosmic order [kosmeîn] of my song.

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Astrotheology of the Iliad – Trojan War?

Any actual history drawn from the Iliad and even the existence of an actual Homer himself, is speculative at best, and almost certainly wrong.

Homer comes from the Greek word for “the thigh” – hemeiros – and we have the famous myth of Dionysus being born from Zeus’s thigh after his mother Semele (Cybele-Zemlaya-Earth) was killed by Hera.

The Iliad, like the Torah and the Gospels, is an allegory for astrological movements of the stars and constellations and attempts to weave an anthropomorphized story where the gods and man meet in a war of heaven and earth, on the ancient hermetic principle of “as above, so below.”

These were people trying their best to make sense of the world in which they knew so little.

Even the idea that the Trojan war as an actual war has not been validated. Schliemann’s so called discovery of Troy, the subsequent acceptance of the war as actual history is something like finding Noah on Mount Ararat.  With DNA studies, historical linguistics and comparative religion, many of these stories are turning out to be mythology, from Jesus to Moses (Ra-Messes) to his brother Aaron (Sharron = Sargon), to Noah=Gilgamesh and Job=the Poem of the Righteous Sufferer and even our Father Abraham=A-Brahmin.

On the Indo-European side, the Iliad is a story of various peoples from the Pontic Steppes in Central Asia and their settlement of disparate lands beyond the “Ebros=Evros=Europe” river and the lands around the Black Sea in ancient Iberian Albania, the region of today’s Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine. Another region they settled somewhat earlier is Anatolia – today Turkey, a land where the Indo Europeans and the Semitic people met, warred, and influenced one another, then much later is conquered by the Turkic people from Eastern Steppes who were etunically Mongol.

The fundamental premise of the story is, in my view, a war between two groups of people who drifted culturally in their identity – Hellen, representing ‘Ellenoi, or the Greeks, as in Hellas, is kidnapped by Paris/Parthian/Persian and what follows is the Argive war to revenge the dishonour this brought. You can see how this is a foundational myth meant to unify the Greek people into a common identity. Thus, much is made about how different or “Oriental” the Trojans are, but they appear to be communicating in the same language and don’t have difficulty understanding one another. Then again, they speak with Gods also, so anything is possible in fantasy.

We know that historically, war was commonplace between the Ancient Indo Europeans and the Mongols/Turkmen but also among one another. One branch goes East and rules India creating the Sanskrit Vedas, and the others settle around the black Sea. The Indian group is kicked out and moves to Persia. Their upper castes of Brahmin/Magi like Zarathustra create Zoroastrianism. DNA studies show that Iranians are mostly however not Caucasian but the language is.

In the Iliad, Helen launches “a thousand ships,” and Troy is described as a bit of a Hodge Podge of people and customs – so this is very possibly indeed Anatolia, where the Hittites and other Indo-European people migrated to and mixed with the Semitic cultures of Ashur, Phoenicia, and others.

These are all speculative impetuses for the creation of the story, which probably picks up on motifs and tales of many different wars, and reflects periods of migration in a culture of honor while weaving in a narrative of supernatural intervention and astrology.

Names, however, are useful, because to have any connection, they would have been real names. But what the story is doing here is socio-political: the author is mentioning different names for the different people in order to assert a unifying ideology against tribalism – “remember back when we were a single people and fought the Trojans.”

This is one of the most fundamental themes in all human cultures. To unite cross tribally, humans invent or make up or simply blame a third party. If aliens attacked the Earth, humans wouldn’t care what race or ethnic origin one human was vs another, we would feel a bond with all humans as another creature from another planet was attacking us.

This is called scapegoat mechanism. We unite individually or tribally by creating fear of someone else: such as for example, when Trump put the blame for all sorts of social problems on the Mexican illegals.

So the use of Danaan, or Danoi, or Achaeans, Argives, Panhellenes (they are Pan-Helenoi because they came together to rescue Hellen, see how this is a unifying myth), is the mention of different people with different identities who are united into a common identity through this, their foundational myth.

It is through stories and mythology that we create a narrative of who we are that allows us to have meaning in our lives. The importance of the Iliad is that in addition to the Jewish stories, they form the foundation of all of Western Culture. The synthesis of the two traditions is what we call Christianity – the Hellenic attempt to synthesize Neoplatonism and Greek culture with Judaism.

The fact that many of these stories aren’t objectively true doesn’t matter. They have an important part in teaching us what Yaakov Malkin has called “eternal truths” – that is, the characters may be made up and the context may be false, but there are eternal truths that are always a part of human life – love, hate, death, injustice and yearning for justice, war, pain, and joy too. From these we hopefully glean virtue, and become better and more enlightened people.

But the objective truth of a Troy or any of this as actual history is definitely not been validated and should not be understood as such.

The Danoi are mentioned together with Ehrani, or the Aryans, in a number of places, and in the Vedic scriptures. We find many ethnic names in the ancient myths that reflect the exciting history some of these tribes would have had before they finally settled the regions we are more familiar with. One of the most interesting is in the Vedic scriptures where it talks about a great war between those who served Ram, or Brahma, their chief deity, and those who served the devil, his enemy, called Serbinda. When Serbinda was defeated, his people fled the mighty Ram, and went elsewhere. Wonder where.

Achaeans sounds awful similar to the Royal Family of Persia, the Achmaeonidae.

DAN- probably comes from a variation in the ancient Proto Indo European meaning the same thing that Aryan meant, with various spelling Ehrian, Iranian, D-arya-vush (Darius), and even Slav-an: “Wealthy, noble, rich, famous, legendary” and influences various linguistic concepts such as “us” or “our people.” In the Gaelic you thus find dan or don to mean “us,” in the Spanish “don” retains an honorific titulary purpose as in “Don Juan”, and dan or don becomes in the Germanic and English “than” as in something is “higher” or “lower” *than* something else – again connoting a kind of comparing someone to a noble person and their rank.

However, remember than the Trojans worship the same gods. Chryses, which has a Greek name, or a PIE name at least, is a priestess of Apollo. Apollo is the sun god, and this isn’t often repeated, but the root word of Chryses is the same root as Christos – which does not mean “the Messiah” but comes from the Greek word for “yellow, bright yellow” as in “crystal” or “crystalline” or “golden” since Christos is of course an anthropomorphized Sun or Helios. Χρύσης Khrúsēs.

Given that they speak the same language and have the same religion, by most standards we would conclude they are the same people. Ethnicity isn’t exactly a science of purity. No single human population has only very related genes, even families have many different genes due to the way chromosomes combine.

Also, Homeric Greek is a form of Ionian Greek. From what we know of migrations today, the early people into Europe went from the Caucuses into Anatolia, thus we have the Cappadocian myth of St George and the Dragon (Georgia is in the PIE homeland) and so it is entirely possible that the earliest Greeks come from Anatolia into Europe, and that Argives sail from Anatolia to Troy where Troy was on the Greek homeland, rather than the other way around. Some theories say that Troy was actually on the Adriatic, in the Herzegovinian town of Gabele. Like Cybele. Semele.

We find other proof that this is astrotheology – Glaukos, famous Trojan fighter, means “shiny” in Greek. So, these are probably stars and planets in their celestial movements, and a fight between dark and light, constellations and gods. Glaukos is the son of Bellerophon, the hero who rides the winged horse Pegasus, you know, like Mohammed.

So the Danaans are an early tribe of the Caucasus and Homer is weaving a unifying underlay mythology here to suggest a common identity to the different Greeks. Keep in mind that Greek is from the Latin, Graecia, and we don’t really find it until Aristotle.

He writes that the Graikoi (Γραικοί), came from the area where Dodona and Achelous was inhabited by the Selli (Σελλοὶ) and a people formerly called Graeci and now Hellenes (Έλληνες). The word literally means “Grey-haired” which could stem from the encounter of the Semitic peoples with the Indo-European. Tacitus for example tells us that the German children looked horrifying, “their hair so fair, they look like old men, though they are children.”

Cue in the “Waves of the Dan-ube.”

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Easter: Celebration of Venus

“I am the bright and the evening and the morning star, I am upper and I am lower Egypt, I am Pharaoh.”

Common title of the Pharaoh on the Khartush

Etymology helps uncover all the mysteries.

Jesus never existed, he was not born to a virgin mother and God father, rather, that’s the prototype of a Greek hero like Herakles or Dionysus, all born to human mothers who had god of life Zeus, ie zwo, as in Zoology and Zeus means “life,” like the Living God of Israel.

In fact, Dionysus was born to Semele. Semele’s name derives from the ancient PIE word for Zemele, as in Slavic Zemlya, meaning “Earth.” So you have the typical myth pattern. The god of life and the Sky, El, Jupiter, Zeus, Thor, Perun, Brahma, Ram, impregnates the Earth, with his seed of holy spirit, “the spirit of God hovered over the earth and the waters.”

But before she can deliver Dionysus, “Dion+Iysus” “God+Jesus,” Hera, as in Phoenician As-Hera, Asherah, out of jealousy intervenes like Hera-od, Herod, and tries to kill the child before it’s born. Zeus saves Dionysus but can’t save Semele, so he implants Dionysus into his thigh to come to full term, thigh in the Greek is hemeiros, as in “Homer.”

Dionysus thus is born extra pure because he never exited his momma’s vajeje, and was half-man half-God but mostly god, just like Jesus, and was the physical avatar or the embodiment of Helios or Apollo, the Sun, as god of wine and fruits and celebration, since rays of sunshine make everything grow, ie this is my body, this is my blood, shed for you – the sun speaking allegorically, do this in remembrance of me because wine is drunk later, remembering the vintage of the grapes.

This vampiric cult that then drinks the wine as blood sacrifice remembers the year of the vintage, since Christ is the embodiment of the Father/God of Gods, Jupiter or Zeus, actual name Iovis the Pater, Jove the Father, which becomes Iovepater, Iuppiter, Jupiter, and Yahweh is simple Iao-hweh, since the Phoenician or Knn (Canaan) YHWH with proper vowels inserted is not Yahweh, but YoHWeh, Yove, or in the Latin Iovis, Jupiter.

And guess who the Greek Mysteries celebrated as the hidden god of everything the only true God? The God of Plato, Iao-chus, or Zagreus, IAO, Yahweh aka Jovis or Jupiter. Jesus’ name in the Greek is Ieisous, Iao+Zeus.

Apollo, ie Paul of Tarsus, you silly Christians, in his embodiment as messenger of the Chrestus (means bright yellow in Greek) or the Sun Heilios, is around for 9 months, his incarnate personhood of Dionysus (3 in one person!) is killed by a stroke of lighting from Zeus in his moment of anger, dies, is buried in the tomb (not at all how Christ died and the veil was torn and THUNDER and lightning came down) for 3 months (winter), just like Christ being in hell for 3 days, and the witching hour between 3am and 6am every night when the earth is furthest from the sun, then is resurrected on the 7th day of Bysios, Feb/March Equinox, 7th day being changed to Sun-Day, from Shabbat, Saturn-day, Saturday, celebrating the god of time and primal creator Chronos/Saturn, known in the Hebrew as Adonai Tzvaot, or Adonai Sabbaoth, Adonis+Saturn, translated in your Bible as Lord of Hosts but means God of Armies or war.

All mergers of Semitic + Indo European myths since that’s who the Israelites and Phoenicians were, based on dying and rising myths of Attis of Phrygia, as an allegory for the seasons. Attis’ mother was? Cybele. Semele. Zemlya.

Now watch this: Hera, Zeus’s wife, tries to kill or prevent from being born Dion+Jesus, Dionysus. As-Hera, Asherah, Jehovah’s wife, much as we read someone else tried to prevent Jesus from overthrowing him and kills all the toddlers, one named Hera-od, Herod, because Jesus was a Greek her-o.

Who is Asherah? Astarte, Ishtar, Isis, Asheroth, Aphrodite, AshHera, Venus, the bright and the morning star, Helel. Easter. Ashera’s main animal since she is the fertility goddess? Rabbits. Semele is mother of Dionysus, the Earth, while Mary is mother of Jesus, Mare, Maris, the “seas,” since the golden disc “emerges out of the bosom of the ocean” from Hell every day.

Why Virgin? Because the Sirius or Sotor star, the Star of Bethlehem, is prominent in June, Virgin the Virgo constellation in the December, ie opposite side, so she gives “birth” to the Sirius, even though she is the “Virgin.” She holds a stalk of wheat or grain, which is what Bethlehem means – house of bread. Attis and Cybele, Dionysus and Semele, Jesus and the Seas or Maria. Why the change from Earth to water?

Because he is the way, the truth and the life – way because main way of travel is by the seas or water, truth because water shows you your reflection and life because the sun is “born” from water and spirit every day, it is describing water and what they thought was the physical distance to Helios, the Sun, our Father, who are in the sky, Ouranos, Helios is your name, Hallowed and Halo are the same word, what does the icons of Christ show behind his head? Halo. Helios, Hallowed, Holy, Hellenes, Hell, Halogen, Helical, Helicarnassus, Holy Cow!

No one comes to the father but through way truth and the life which is water, since he is Aquarius, the water pitcher, followed by Pisces, the fishes, I shall make you fishers of men, I leave you a comforter which is the holy Spirit, ie pours his water over the earth. So Babylon has the last laugh. Fallen is Babylon the Great, not so much.

Asherah with her bunny bun buns. Came out of her oven!
Professor Yaakov Malkin, a giant of Secular Humanistic Judaism. Rest in peace.
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Was Jesus Ethical?

by R. Hewitt of Unspoken Bible

None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free
-Johan Goethe

The word “Beatitude” comes from a Latin word meaning “happy” or “blessed.” In the Beatitudes, Jesus heaps blessings on the type of people he is looking for to send to heaven. They serve as a case study as to what religion is all about: human indoctrination.

If we take the view that Jesus is at one with the creator of the universe. Many apologists argue that the universe is awesomely complex and yet beautifully harmonious; it could not have happened by chance. There had some form of intelligence who put it together, namely the God of the Bible.

From that perspective, the god of the Bible is too stupid to have anything to do with the formation of existence. Everything about religion is in conflict with human nature. He gave man pain sensors. Yet he expects man to endure suffering for his sake. He gave man intelligence, yet he demands man to hold belief as a higher priority over knowledge. The eye is a remarkable instrument. Yet he demands us to accept what we cannot see. We would like to be free to live in peace. Yet he is constantly at war to enslave us through guilt and fear.

The gifts we have were meant to be used, not denied. For these reasons, religion cannot be anything else but a human invention. It doesn’t take much insight to see that some people crave power and authority for its own sake. They cannot tolerate peaceful activity unless it conforms to their ends. The cheapest weapon at their disposable is language designed to break down individual defenses. Brute force is expensive.

So when we study the Beatitudes, keep these thoughts in mind. Whoever wrote in the voice of Jesus, said it best when he described the kingdom of God as a place inhabited by children.

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” (Mark 10:15)

Children are vulnerable. They have limited perception. They are dependent. They have no knowledge, so they are molded by the information fed to them. Children don’t question authority. For many, by the time they reach adulthood, it is too late to grow up. For those who get the feeling they are being bamboozled, it is not too late.

It first appears that Jesus was showing sympathy for the downtrodden who came to unfortunate circumstances through no fault of their own. It is just the opposite. They are qualities to be desired through belief in sin.

Biblical Dissection – Matthew 5:3-12

A term more familiar than “poor in spirit” is “broken spirit.” Such a person has no self confidence; he is pained by guilt, defeated and maybe depressed. In particular, Jesus wants the broken people because they believe they are sinners. Jesus prefers this state of mind because it makes them susceptible to accepting false promises-his false promises.

3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

On of the worst stresses a person can endure is the loss of a loved one. Such mourning can’t be helped. The type of mourning Jesus had in mind is more enduring. It comes from a loss in self confidence. More pointedly, it comes through a loss of self love.

4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Meekness ranges from unassuming and mild, to submissive, docile, resigned, ashamed, lowly and spineless. The kind of meekness Jesus advocates comes from a feeling of weakness. By definition, the meek can never inherit the earth. It is a false hope like the type politicians promise when running for office.

5“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Generally, to be righteous is equivalent to being virtuous, fair and just. There is no objective standard for what is virtuous, fair and just. So it is fair to assume that to be righteous in the religious sense means to live an impossibly sinless life. A person who hungers for righteousness is already righteous in his own mind. He feels a sense of injury in the wrongs he sees and wants revenge. It makes him feel better to call it righteousness.

6“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Charity towards the less fortunate is certainly a positive act of mercy. But how far do we carry mercy? Do we allow robbers, rapists and murderers to go free? Many years ago, Pope John Paul was shot by a would-be assassin. If I remember correctly, the pope made a public demonstration of his forgiveness, but the man still went to jail. That suggests that the pope didn’t forgive the shooter enough to waive charges against him. In practice, Christian mercy is highly selective. It is unmerciful against those who don’t fit the mold. As Jesus said in Matthew 12:30: “He who is not with me is against me.”

7“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

To be pure in heart is the ultimate state of holiness. To live within theological strictures requires a lot of self denial. But is it worth the trouble? No one has ever come back from the dead, so there are no witnesses to say they saw God in their afterlife.

Considering that there isn’t a whit of evidence that anyone has seen God- except to those children who believe the Bible-it takes a high degree of irrationality to live a life of self-denial on the supposition that purity is the pathway to seeing God. Not to mention that there is no material evidence of an afterlife and a God. Even if there was such a God, there is no assurance of grace because God’s grace is arbitrary.

8“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Peace is certainly a desirable state of mind. Who wouldn’t want to be at peace with himself and the world? But to make peace with someone who imposes on you results in a false peace. True peace requires that two parties are at peace with each other.

To make peace with Jesus means to submit to his demands. Only in this way would he consider you worthy of being called a son of God. If you believe in Jesus and try to live up to his expectations, you will, in essence, be making peace with your taskmaster. To make peace out of fear is to yield to extortion. For example, you make peace with the IRS by paying your taxes without protest. Otherwise you will not know peace.

9“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

To desire to be persecuted goes against human instincts to avoid suffering. It takes a huge degree of fanaticism to purposely suffer. Most of us suffer for reasons beyond our control. If you believe in Jesus, you can’t avoid suffering. You either suffer in this life or worry he will make you suffer in the next life.

10“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

To endure hatred and persecution could be justified on account of Jesus, if it weren’t for the fact that if you don’t believe in him, he will hate you and persecute you. If you think Jesus would leave you alone, think again. If that were true, he wouldn’t be threatening to send you to hell.

11“Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

So rejoice and be glad. You have one life to live. If you decide to spend it on self sacrifice and suffering, Jesus promises to make it up to you in heaven. But if there is no such place as heaven except in your fantasies, you will have squandered it for nothing. Do you want to take that chance?

There is a similar case when Russia was ruled by the Communists. Their system was unworkable, so the leaders had to reassure their people that someday their hardships would pay off. That day never came until the people revolted.

12Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 6:20-31

Luke’s interpretation of the Beatitudes is not as comprehensive Matthew’s but they have the same appeal to self deprecation. The weaker you are, the better Jesus likes it.

20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
21“Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.
22“Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man!
23Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. (Luke 6:20-23)

After offering his conditional blessings, Jesus follows up with a few threatening woes.

Woe to you if you have money. With money you are not dependant on Jesus’ impoverishing words.

24“But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Woe to you if you are happy and full. Jesus likes it better when you mourn and weep.

25“Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. “Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Woe to you if you are liked by your fellow man. Jesus likes it better when you are hated and abused.

26“Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
27“But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Cooperate with your attackers and give willingly to beggars and thieves. This would prove to Jesus that your will is broken.

29To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.
30Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again.

If you wish to be as miserable as Jesus wants you to be, then are likely to be envious towards others who are not so miserable. Jesus give you permission to spread your misery.

31And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Psalms 119:1-5

Blessed are the blameless. But according to Christian theology, it is impossible to be blameless.

1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!

Blessed are those who obey the law, despite the fact that the law is confusing and over demanding.

2Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
3who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!
4Thou hast commanded thy precepts to be kept diligently.
5O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!

Final Thought

Let us dispense with any thoughts that Jesus was kind, forgiving and loving. He had an oppressive personality that feeds on human misery.

Editorial Note by Iannis Stamatakos, Editor:

The word translated in the English Bibles as “meek” comes from the Greek word praus,  as in Matthew 5:5 is πραεῖς, which itself derives from a Proto-Indo-European word used to mean “broken horse” – i.e. wild horse which has been domesticated for servitude.

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Astrotheology: A Primer – Start Here

We at dyeus.org/ are committed to the preservation and the discovery by all people of the truth of the Torah, what Moses Maimonides, the Rambam, referred to in his "The Guide to the Perplexed" from the 13th century as something that must be kept in the greatest secret.

We believe that man has come far enough to where human suffering and the difficulty of life can no longer be said to be sufficient reasons for carrying on with Plato's benevolent lie.

“We must not understand or take in a literal sense, what is written in the book on the
creation [Genesis], nor form of it the same ideas, which are participated by the generality of
mankind, otherwise our ancient sages would not have so much recommended to us, to hide
the real meaning of it, and not to lift the allegorical veil, which covers the truth contained
therein. When taken in its literal sense, that work gives the most absurd and most
extravagant ideas of the Deity. Whosoever should divine its true meaning, ought to take
great care in not divulging it.”

Rabbi Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (2.29)

The Bible that you hold in your hands is not what it looks.  It is a giant allegory for the movement of the stars.  Watch this video to understand how the Bible uses allegory and anthropomorphication to explain movements of the sky in order to create a story that can be passed down the generations so that we never forget time, and place.  It is only through the use of the constellation movements that we can remember the Pesach (passover, or the Spring Equinox), the giving of the Torah (Summer Solstice), Rosh Hashanah (Fall Equinox), and Channukah (Winter Solstice/Birth of Christ/Saturnalia/Sol Invictus/Solstice).

https://youtu.be/nZetCv-hTIQ

One of the best resources on astrotheology on the internet was the website USBIBLE.COM, written and run by Mr. R. Hewitt.  The website has been off-line since about the February of 2020.

UPDATE: usbible.com is back, so we will stop reposing articles by Mr. Hewitt.  Please visit https://usbible.com

In the first post, Mr. Hewitt introduces us to a critical framework for interpreting the passages in both the Torah and the Gospels, as well as the Tanakh and the New Testaments.  Courtesy of the Unspoken Bible, I give you, “Bible Astrology.”

Biblical Astrology

The language of the Bible has a way of leading unsuspecting readers into thinking it was recording human historical events when, in reality, it was referring to the patterns of the stars. A general overview serves to explain how the Bible’s allegorical language reflects a superstitious fear of darkness. This page serves as an introduction to a series of articles on bible astrology.

Circle

We go back to the ancient world when it was believed that earth was enclosed by a metallic dome called the firmament. Because of sky’s blue color, they believed the firmament shrouded them from the water above.

6And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
7And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. (Gen. 1:6-7)

They believed that earth was stationary and that the stars moved in a circular fashion around earth.

10He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. (Job 26:10)

Isaiah describes God sitting above the circle, and the dome as a curtain and a tent. Apologists who say that the word “circle” implies that they knew earth was spherical don’t know what they are talking about.

22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; (Isaiah 40:22)

This circle (Figure 1) was divided into twelve sectors we know today as the Zodiac. The primary development of the Zodiac goes back to ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece. The names we are familiar with today came from the Greeks, but other cultures in the ancient world had their own names and myths associated with the Zodiac. The task before us is to decipher how the Bible’s language relates to the constellations.

Zodiac Motifs

The pie chart (Figure 2) shows the twelve “houses” with their dates. It’s the same chart used by astrologers today. Ancients were correct in seeing the sun and its light as indispensable to life, but to the point where they worried that as daylight hours got shorter, the sun was endangered of dying a permanent death. When sunlight hours began to increase again, they were relieved. Thus darkness was personified as evil, because to them, it was the sun’s enemy. This tension between good and evil ebbed and escalated every year.

The chart has four quadrants that represent the four seasons of the year. Starting at the bottom of the chart, in their mindset, the sun was dead for three days from December 22 to 24. It came back to life, or it was resurrected on December 25 when daylight hours start to increase. Evil was in power during the dark winter months, but it was also a time, as daylight hours were increasing, when the sun was winning its way back to glory.

At the spring equinox, when daylight and nighttime hours are equal, the sun has nullified the dark forces. As the days get progressively longer, the sun is on its righteous path back to full strength. It is the only season of the year when there is no dissension and there is peace on earth.

At the summer solstice, when the sun is at its zenith, it is on its throne at full power. As the sun starts to descend, the dark forces are starting to edge their way back. As the days get progressively shorter, the sun is still strong, but its strength is being sapped by all this constant tribulation.

At the fall equinox, things begin to look bleak. There is not much more that can be accomplished before the sun is betrayed and killed.

The zodiac year has twelve sectors because the moon makes approximately twelve cycles in a year. By most accounts, the ancient Egyptians developed the themes used today.

They had their creation myths which began from a primeval sea. Thus Capricorn the sea goat represents that transition. In fact, the entire winter quadrant has to do with water. We see parallels in the first chapter of the Bible.

1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. (Gen. 1:1-2)

When the sun emerges from darkness, God said “Let there be light”.

3And God said, “Let there be light; and there was light. (Gen. 1:2)

Then God separated the waters.

6And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” (Gen. 1:6)

In early spring, Aries the lamb symbolizes the time when lambs come out of their mother’s womb. Taurus the bull represents the time when bulls were used for plowing. Gemini has the strength of two men. In the beginning of summer, Cancer the crab symbolizes a time of concern about which way the sun was going to go, because crabs move irregularly. When the summer months were the hottest, Leo the lion was the king of beasts. Virgo is at the end of innocence. Libra the scale weighs between good and evil. In the late fall months, Scorpio the scorpion and Sagittarius the archer were hurling their stings and arrows.

Puns

Puns are words that have double meanings. Here is where the Bible trips up unsuspecting readers. The Bible’s story motifs follow the course of the sun through the four seasons.

In the Old Testament there are several books like Psalms and Proverbs, called the wisdom literature. Wisdom, in biblespeak, comes from knowledge of astrology. God’s plan is written in the stars. He reveals his plan by the way he moves the stars and planets, not by mental telepathy. Angels bring their messages by the angles of the stars.

When stars are said to fall from heaven, it means they are descending. Dissension grows until it crosses the fall equinox, and then the sun is said to be betrayed. Then dissension grows to all out war. The fall equinox also symbolizes the gates to hell. Satan rules during the lower half of the sun cycle in fall and winter. The sun dies in the pits of hell at the winter solstice. At night the sun was believed to go under the world, so we have the term “underworld”.

When the sun, or son of God, starts to ascend again (Jesus’ ascension), the dark forces are trying to thwart him. It enters the gates to heaven at the spring equinox. In the spring, the sun brings righteousness and glory. It is in power during the light months of spring and summer, and on its throne at the summer solstice. This is where the kingdom of God is, when he has the power to send the righteous to heaven. The good side is on the right and the bad side is on the left of his throne.

The sun if crucified at the cross of the solstices and equinoxes. Sirius, the brightest star next to the sun, was called the star of Bethlehem. The stars of Orion the hunter was called the Son of Man. Orion has three stars that form its narrow waistline. The same three stars were the wise men from the east because they align with Sirius, the star of Bethlehem on December 25. Virgo was Virgin Mary and Bootes was Joseph. John the Baptist was Aquarius the water bearer.

The Great Year

Another one of Christianity’s insanities has to do with the end of the world and Jesus’ second coming. For 2,000 years they have been waiting without satisfaction. The King James Version of Matthew 28:20 reflects that view.

20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. (Matt. 28:20 KJV)

It was a misinterpretation. According to the authoritative Strong’s Dictionary, “world” was mistranslated from the Greek, aion, meaning “an age”. Ignorant of astrology, Strong’s goes on to say aion implies “world”. There are some powerful differences between world and age.

A fundamentalist favorite, the New International Version gets it right with “age”.

20teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matt. 28:20 NIV)

The “end of the world” implies some kind of ca lamity like a giant meteor or a nuclear war. If something like that happens, one’s faith is not going to make a difference. The end of the age refers to an astrological age within the Great Year.

The Earth’s rotation axis is not uniform. Like a rotating toy top, the direction of the rotation axis has a slow wobble or precession with a period of 25,920 years.

Since the rotation axis is precessing in space, the orientation of the Celestial Equator (Figure 3) also precesses with the same period. This means that the position of the equinoxes is changing slowly with respect to the background stars.

Thus, Polaris will not always be the Pole Star or North Star. The Earth’s rotation axis happens to be pointing almost exactly at Polaris now, but in 12,960 years the precession of the rotation axis will mean that the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra will be approximately at the North Celestial Pole, while in 25,920 more years Polaris will once again be the Pole Star.

Astrologers call the 25,920 year cycle a Great Year and divide it into twelve Ages according to the constellations. When the sun enters the spring equinox, the constellation in the background determines the zodiacal Age. Figure 5 shows the sun entering the Age of Pisces at 6 BCE. 2160 years before, the sun was in the Age of Aries. 2160 years after Pisces, about 2012 CE, Aquarius will be in the background and it will be the Age of Aquarius. Because of the direction of precession, the Great Year cycle progresses in the reverse direction of the solar cycle.

To summarize, the Age of Aries was marked in the Old Testament by the Passover lamb.

21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. (Ex. 12:21)

The Age of Pisces began when the sun entered Pisces at the spring equinox (Figure 5).

18As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
19And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matt. 4:18-19)

So when Jesus told his disciples he will be with them until the age, he meant the Age of Pisces. His time is almost over. There will be no end of the world, only the end of an Age.

20teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matt. 28:20 NIV)

End