Ancestral Gateways
Ancestral Matrix & Gateway Ancestors

Not in my livery, but "naked and bare I must go down to the grave," fully aware of the outrage my nakedness will provoke.  ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 32-35.

Sumerian triad with the god Anu. Urartu, 860 BC-590 BC

The Elysian Fields, Dragon Fields, is the zero point field of the Ancestral Matrix, the pre-spacetime of the Eternal. It can be likened to the Askashic Records or deep memory of all mankind.

Sumerian Holy Grail of King Gudea
First-born Families
Mesopotamian Holy Grail, the ritual Libation Cup of King Gudea of Lagash (2100 BC.) portrays the ancient Sumerian lion-serpent-dragon Tiamat. It stands guard over the terrestrial Tree Of Life, which is entwined with a serpent, one of the oldest known images of the snake and the caduceus.

Adán y Eva: Lucas Cranach el Viejo; pintor de Lutero y de la Reforma.

FLIGHT OF CAIN

Janus Lacinius, Pretiosa Margarita
Novella, 1577 -1583

J Karl Bogartte: Scattered Fires of the Mother-Tongue. 2012

These droplines are from halexandria.org
and gaps and errors are presumed, so take that into account,
as many lines are flawed, but an overview of ancient descent.

The Fifth Element
The Mystical Rose.

http://minos-minal-omfalos.blogspot.com/2012/10/rosarium-philosophorum-czyli-rozaniec.html

The Disposition of the Vessel fit for our work According to the tradition of one Ferrarius by name:

Make a round glass vessel and let the bottom be of a small quantity in the manner of a little dish, and in the middle thereof, let there be a brim with an earthen girdle or ring encompassing it about, and let a round wall be built upon that girdle equally distant from the wall of the shell, of the thickness of the cover of that shell, so that in this distance the wall of the cover may fall largely without any thrusting down, but let the height of this wall be according to the height of the wall of the shell, or somewhat more or less. Let there be two covers made according to the measure of this hollowness and let the length be equal and the breadth of two great hands, and the shape of one of them like a pyramid. And in the heads of them let there be two equal holes, that the one may be in the one and the other in the other into both which a hen's feather may fall, but the whole intention of the vessel is that the cover thereof may be removed according to the will of the workman. The special intention concerning this is that the lower hollow place with its brims, enter into its cover even to the middle. 

Hermes: The Dragon dieth not unless he be killed with his Brother and Sister, not by one only, but by both together, that is by Sol and Luna. 

The Philosopher: Mercury never dieth unless he be killed by his Brother and Sister, that is, we must congeal it with Sol and Luna. 

Note that, the Dragon is Argent vive, extracted out of bodies, having a body in himself, a soul and a spirit. Whereupon he saith, "The Dragon dieth not but with his Brother and Sister", that is with Sol and Luna, which is extracted Sulphur, having in itself the nature of moisture and coldness by reason of Luna. The Dragon dies with them - that is, Argent vive extracted from those bodies in the beginning, which is the Permanent Water of the Philosophers, which is made after the putrefaction and separation of the elements, and the water otherwise is called Stinking Water. 

Bonellus: The Copper which before I spoke of is neither copper nor common tin, but it is our true work, because it must be mingled with the body of Magnesia that it may be decocted and grinded with aqua vitae, until it be destroyed. But you Sons of Learning, you must have much water, and that continually, until you have put it by parts and that the greatest part of the earth be dissolved. 

Avicenna: That which is spiritual, ascendeth upwards in the vessel, but that which is thick and gross, remaineth downwards in the vessel, and unless you deal with the body in this sort, until the water will not be mingled with it, or be received of the earth, you shall but lose your labour. Therefore, unless you turn all into spiritual powder, you have not yet contrived it, i.e. grinded it, and that which you do in the white body do likewise in the red, because this medicine is.

Of the Salt of the Philosophers: There are three Stones and three Salts, of which the whole magistery consists, that is to say Mineral, Plant and Animal, and there are three waters, that is of Sol, of Luna, and of Mercury. Mercury is an Mineral, Luna a plant, because it receiveth in itself two Colours, Whiteness and Redness, and Sol is an Animal because it receiveth three things, that is, Constriction, Whiteness, and Redness. And Sol is called the Great Animal, and Salt Armoniac is made of it; and Luna is called a Plant and Salt Alkali is made of it, but Mercury is called the mineral Stone and common Salt is made of it. Likewise when the Philosophers saw the substance of this Art dissolved, they called it Salt Armoniac, and when it was putrefied they said our Stone was base, and is found on a dunghill, and many have dug and laboured in the dunghill and have found nothing. And when it is converted into water, then both poor and rich have it, and it is found in every place, at any time, and in every thing, although the searching aggravates the searcher. And when it was white, they called it Arsenic, and by the name of every white thing, and also Virgin's MiIk, and when it was red they called it Sulphur, Jacinth and Blood, and by the name of every red thing. 

Gratianus: Ashes may be made of every thing, and of those Ashes, Salt may be made, and of that Salt may water be made, and of that water is Mercury made, and of that Mercury by divers operations is Sol made. 

Arnoldus: Truly this ash wants to melt, which moreover it enters favourably in order that it may tinct, melting or liquefaction is added to it, or else sweat by some means is delivered of the Philosophers. Therefore, what means is that? Is it in dissolving the waters? Surely not, because the Philosophers respect not the waters and other moistures sticking to that which is touched. 

The Philosopher: Whosoever will alter and change bodies and spirits from their nature, must first reduce them to the natures of Salts and Alums, otherwise it will not be done and then it dissolveth them. 

The Philosopher: Salts and Alums are those which are made in our work. 

Arnold: He that hath fusible salt and incombustible oil, let him praise God. 

Avicenna: If thou wilt be rich, prepare Salts until they be pure water, because Salts are converted into Spirit by fire. Salts are the root of our work. 

Hermes: All Salts of what kind so ever, are contrary to our Art, except the Salt of our Lunaria. 

The Philosopher: The Salt of metal dissolves Mercury in pure water, under dung and that mixture being coagulated will be a perfect medicine. 

Note that, all Salts well prepared return to the nature of Salt Armoniac, and the whole secret is in common salt well prepared. Note that the Roman Vitriol hath the nature of the Stone of Metals, and it is hot and dry. Likewise, Alum seems to be coagulated Mercury, but it goeth from his accomplishment, hot and moist and it is called the like of one that is Mercury. Therefore, he that knoweth Salt and the Solution thereof, knoweth likewise the hidden secret of the Ancient wise men. Therefore, set thy mind on Salt and cogitate on nothing else, for in that only the science and greatest secret of all the Ancient Philosophers is hidden. 

 Conjunction or Coupling


"O Luna, by means of my embracing and sweet kisses,
Thou art made beautiful, strong and mighty like as I am.
O Sol, thou art to be preferred before all light, But yet thou needest me, as the cock does the hen".

Arisleus in a Vision: Join therefore thy son Gabrick, best beloved of thee among all thy sons, with his sister Beya, who is a fair, sweet and tender damsel. Gabrick is the man and Beya the woman, who gives him all that is hers. 

0 blessed Nature, and blessed is thy operation, because out of an imperfect thing thou makest a perfect thing. Therefore, thou must not take that nature unless pure, clean, raw, pleasant, earthy and right and if thou do otherwise it will not bring forth anything, so that no contrary thing enter in with our Stone and put nothing but that only. Join therefore our ferment with his sweet sister and they will beget a son between them, who shall not be like his parents. And although Gabrick is made more dear to Beya, yet there is no generation made without Gabrick, for the coupling of Gabrick with Beya is presently dead. For Beya ascendeth above Gabrick and includes him in her womb because nothing at all can be seen of him. And she embraceth Gabrick with so great a love that she hath conceived him wholly in his nature and divided him into inseperable parts. 

Masculinus:
  Conception changeth the blood, which before was as it were milk. The pale things wax black, the red diffused things shine.  The white woman, if she be married to the red man,  presently they embrace, and embracing are coupled.  By themselves they are dissolved and by themselves they are brought together,  that they which were two, may be made as it were one body. 

Mary the sister of Moses: Join Gum with Gum in true matrimony and make them like running water. 

Astanus: Spirits are not joined unto bodies until they be perfectly purified, and great miracles appear in the hour of conjunction, for then the imperfect body is coloured with a firm colour with the help of the ferment. This ferment is the soul of the imperfect body, and the spirit by the help of the soul, is conjoined and knit to the body and is turned together with it into the colour of ferment, and is made one with them. 

Basius: In a perfect magistery, stones do not receive themselves by course, unless either of them be first purified. For the body does not receive the spirit, nor the spirit the body, so that spiritual may be made corporeal, or corporeal spiritual, unless they be first perfectly purged from all filthiness. 
0 Sol, thou hast need of me, as the hen hath need of the cock, and I have need of thy work.

Alexander in the Secrets of Nature: Know that no son is born but of man and woman. 

Hermes in his Second Treatise: Know this, my Son, that unless a man know how to marry and to make pregnant and to engender forms, there can be nothing done. But if he shall do this, he shall be of great dignity. 

Rosinus: The secret of the art of gold consists of the man and woman, because the woman receiving the strength of the man rejoiceth because the woman is strengthened by the man. 

Alphidius: Son, by the faith of the glorious God, complexion is of Complexion, between two lights, male and female, and then they embrace themselves and couple together, and a perfect light is begotten between them, which there is no light like through the whole world. 

Senior: Of two waters make one water, if you understand these two words, all the Regimen will be under your feet. 

Rosarius: It behoveth thee to have two waters, the one is white but the other is red. This is that water in which the powers of the whiteness and redness are gathered together. 

Hali: Take a whelp dog, and a whelp bitch of Armenia, join them both together, and both these will bring forth to thee a dog whelp of an heavenly colour, and that son will preserve thee in thy house from the beginning in this world, and in another world. 

Senior: The red ferment hath married a white wife, and in their conjunction the wife being great with child, hath brought forth a son which in all things hath preserved his Parents, and is more bright and glorious. 

Rosinus: This Stone is a Key, for without it nothing is done. Our Stone is a most strong spirit to which bodies are not mingled, until it be dissolved, and if I should call it by its true name, the ignorant would not believe it were so. 

Arnoldus: Thou that desireth to search out the secret of this Art, must of necessity know the first matter of metals, for otherwise thou shalt but spend thy labour in vain. 

Rosinus: We use true nature because nature does not amend nature, unless it be into his own nature. There are three principal Stones of Philosophers. That is mineral, animal, and vegetable. A mineral Stone, a vegetable Stone, and an animal Stone, three in name but one in essence. 
 The Spirit is double, that is tincturing and preparing. 

Albertus: The spirit preparing, dissolveth copper and extracteth it out of the body of Magnesia, and reduceth it again to its body. 

Senior: It is the preparer and extractor of the Soul from its body, and bringeth it again to its body. The tincting spirit is called the Fifth Essence, which is strength and a soul standing and penetrating. 

Liber Trium Verborum: It behoveth thee to extract the fifth essence, otherwise thou labourest in vain, and this without doubt cannot be done without water. 

But the second Spirit is without the body and it is of a watery nature and it is a tincturing body in Elixir. 

Turba: But this man is the body and this woman is the spirit. 

Arnoldus: The spirit is not altered of the body so that it may lose its spiritual virtue, but every body is altered and tinctured of the spirits. 

Aristotle: Note therefore the words and mark the mysteries, because the spirit which dissolves the white foliated earth, doth not hold any of them fixed, unless you possess it with that body of which it was prepared in the beginning. Permanent or Perpetual Water, or the spirit of Wine, is called the water of the body, that is when the body is reduced into Mercury. Likewise without permanent water nothing is done. It is also called Water of Life. 

The Philosopher: I protest by the God of Heaven, that the Art is nothing else than to dissolve a Stone, and always to coagulate it, and again with the spirit of wine only, you may make perfect Elixir. 

Ancestor Worship

Ancestor worship has become a popular topic in the Pagan community, but it is worth noting that it is not universal, or necessarily normative. It can also lead to some problems. . .
http://witchesandpagans.com/Pagan-Studies-Blogs/ancestor-worship-dealing-with-the-dead.html

Ancestor Worship is a developing form within our community and when we compare it with contemporary modes in Asia and Africa, for example, we can see that it has some maturing to do. It has many forms, only some of which are biological. In Japan, for instance, practitioners of the Tea ceremony know who founded their lineage and exactly where he is buried. The schools that come off of him take turns offering tea at their primary facilities. Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, particularly ordained ones, can give the names of who taught who from the founder to their own teacher. This is a degree of specificity we have yet to achieve, although there are some traditions like the Gardnerians, where this kind of detail can be known. For most of us, our ancestors have been Christian for many generations and so our connections to them are mostly biological. Blessings upon those who also received good spirituality from their families.

Not everyone deals with the Dead. The Golden Dawn tradition developed during the great age of Spiritualism and rejected the idea of passive mediumship in favor of volitional skrying. It also discouraged any contact with the shades of the dead as mere shells of the formerly living, echos of their passions and bad habits. What we speak to would not be the blessed and intelligent soul, usually thought by those Victorians to be reincarnating or possibly passed on to their reward, and so not available for conversation.

My own situation is peculiar. GD trained, I generally give no thought to ancestors or even lineage (although some GD folk think that is important). However, as a priest of Hermes and Hekate, Themselves funerary deities, I deal with the Dead, but I am in service to them and do not ask anything of the Dead. My role is to make wide the Gate and make It easier to find for the Dead, so that they do not wander lost in the World of the Living. I’m trying to help them go where they need to go, and not delay them with questions or requests. Frankly, to do so would not occur to me.

However, those Dead whom folks are invoking and making offering to might better be considered the Honored Dead or Mighty Dead, not just whoever has recently crossed over (just because they are dead, doesn’t mean they are wise). Like the Heros worshiped in ancient Greece, these Dead are remembered and worshiped because for their superlative excellence. They are considered powerful and so are worth asking for help.

‘Ancestors’ generally implies a sort of biological connection. Last December at Between the Worlds, I attended a Christopher Penczak workshop on connecting with the Ancestors. He used a solid guided visualization technique to lead us back to our biological ancestry but also widened it out to include all those who inspire or empower us. It was powerful and effective but again, thinking of them as ancestors is not something that would occur to me.

For me, those who empower or inspire from the past are just that, the past. At the beginning of every ritual I ‘Take Refuge’ as the Buddhists call it, invoking the causal influence and beneficent intent of all those who have gone before me to bless and empower the work to come. It is a very powerful way to start a ritual and at times I even consciously include my ancestors as ‘those from whom I have learned’. But, most of the time, they are just part of the Divine Host that I call upon for aid and support. Likewise, when working a spell or blessing, I attune to the causal stream of everything that has lead to the moment of the working, essentially all of the Past, feel it as a wavefront building up ‘behind’ me and then bring it to bear on the intent being worked. I guess my ancestors are part of all that but I’m usually just concentrating on the time-stream and using my lived-moment like a lens to focus the past into the present to make an effective now and thereby change the future. Why wouldn’t I focus all the the past, animate and inanimate, material and immaterial, not just that part that is my ancestors? You might say that I’m working with my ancestors, but from within the frame of a much larger set of ‘resources’.

One last concern I have regards something I’ve heard rumored with respect to practice: that folks are performing practices such as seasonal rituals ‘because their ancestors did them’. Seriously? How is that in this day and age meaningful motivation? Leaving out the more egregious items like slaughtering slaves at the burial of a prominent leader (not hearing too many calls for these), doing something just because those in the past did it can hardly be a good enough reason to do that thing. Our ancestors performed their rites and practices, not simply because the Past did them, important though that was, rather the Past did them because they saw them as effective. When we do what was done simply because it was so done, we are just a copy. We then degenerate our rituals to mere performances, set pieces for the tourists to watch and then go buy our trinkets. They would have no inner or spiritual value. Our focus should not be on exactly reproducing the rites of our forebears (as though we could) but on reproducing their effect.

Our rites should be powerful. They should challenge and change us and all who participate in them. Our critical focus when we review our rites should be did we move people? Did they see/feel in a new way? Was our ritual effective? Without this we are just a repeating meme, of no more value than a needle skipping in a groove. We then give the past no respect and dishonor our Ancestors. We can do better.

http://www.alchemykey.com/Alchemy_Key.pdf

Chapter 5 Anatolian Commagene & Israelites
The Commagene is a region of intense historical intrigue in
today’s Turkey. It lies on the upper Euphrates, in the centre of a
prosperous Bronze Age area famous for metalworking. It is here that
wool and flax production began ten thousand years ago and copper
smelting a thousand years later.166 In 5400BCE, inhabitants of the nearby
Zagros Mountains of Northern Iran first produced wine.
Mt Ararat and Kurdistan border the Commagene in the east.
Colchis, sorceress Medea's country and the land of initiation, bounds the
Commagene in the north. Her rivers ran with gold. Her hero, Jason,
captured the mythical Golden Fleece.
Four great rivers flow from the flat alluvial plateau of the
Commagene. These are the Tigris, Euphrates, Murat and Araks. The
Tigris and Euphrates flow south to the Persian Gulf, the Murat River
flows into the Euphrates and the Araks River flows to the Caspian Sea.
The Biblical Eden has four similar rivers, the Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel
and Euphrates.167
Commagene temple worship dates back to very ancient times. In
1996, a Heidelberg University team discovered a temple and village
dating from one thousand BCE in the Sanli-Urfa region of the Harran
Plain. It is perhaps the richest of all similar villages noted in world
archaeological literature.
The people of the Harran Plain used to go to this temple every
spring for religious ceremonies. The excavations have so far revealed a
sculptured lion, seven steles, three statues of people and flooring
consisting of four layers of mosaics. Excavation of the site will take two
decades.
The Commagene became known as Kutmuhi in Assyrian times
from 1300BCE to 612BCE. After this, the Commagene passed into
Persian control. It later became an important part of the Silk Road
because of its natural access to Asia Minor, Uzbekistan, Bukhara and the
Steppes of Russia.
The region effectively remained outside the Roman Empire until
67CE and this allowed it to retain a number of Indo-Hittite star cults
involving Magi. The most well know of these was the Royal Cult of the
Kings of Commagene.168
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Moving back in time by two thousand years, to early Bronze Age
Anatolia, we find the Egyptians taking a great interest in the metallurgy
and wealth of the area. In about 1950BCE the twelfth dynasty Pharaoh
Sesôstris I, Senwostre I in Greek, campaigned by land and sea as far as
the outer perimeter of the Black Sea.
Sesôstris I’s father, Amenemhe I, was the first Pharaoh of the
twelfth dynasty. At times father and son ruled as co-regents. Their
predecessor, Montjuhotep II, had reunited Egypt through a series of
Thebian wars just before two thousand BCE. The post-war economic
revival of a united Upper and Lower Egypt led to immense wealth and
power.
Sesôstris I consolidated the economic power of Egypt through a
series of aggressive military campaigns in both Lower Egypt and abroad.
He secured the richly fertile region of Wawat in Nubia, south of
Elephantine. Sesôstris’ military forts controlled all the desert and river
caravan routes up to the second cataract.169
Together Amenemhe I and his son Sesôstris I reestablished the
old system of Pharaonic divinity in Egypt. They introduced law reforms
and a new and progressive administrative system based on state religion.
The Crata Repoa may describe their system of qualification for office
(see Appendix 7).
The seven liberal arts blossomed in Egypt. It was a time of
unusual literature such as the philosophical journey A Man’s Dispute with
His Own Soul and the popular Story of Sinuhe.170
Monumental, ashlar architecture flourished. Amenemhe I
established a greenfields royal capital at Itjtawy, 20km south of Sakkara
and Memphis. Adjacent to it he built one of the most beautiful funerary
pyramid complexes in all Pharaonic history.
The wealth and grandeur of the twelfth dynasty came from
mineral resources. Amenemhe I mined amethyst in the Wadi el-Hudi,
which is east of Elephantine.171 Sesôstris I entered the Wadi Hammamat
in the Coptos region to mine materials such as galena, the mineral of lead,
and dark colored sandstone called greywacke.172 His expedition was
nineteen thousand men strong. Many other twelfth dynasty expeditions
exploited the turquoise and copper mines at Serabit el-Khadim, Timna
and Wadi Maghara in southern Sinai.
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Campaigns of Sesôstris I to Buhen in the Nubian Wawat,
Thrace, Colchis, and the Commagene,
and into the Wadi Hammamat
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Sir Flinders Petrie excavated Serabit el-Khadim’s temple of
Hathor-Baalat in 1905.173 It dates from the time of Sesôstris I in
1800BCE and is one of the oldest rock-cut temples in Egyptian
architecture. These hard-rock underground turquoise mines at Serabit el-
Khadim were active as early as three thousand four hundred BCE. They
produced beautiful stones, some of which were set in the bracelets of
Egypt’s Queen Zer. These bracelets are amongst the oldest jewelry in the
world.
Serabit el-Khadim’s temple of Hathor-Baalat consisted of a
long series of courts leading to an underground sanctuary.174 Bas-reliefs
and inscriptions show the kings of the Old and Middle Kingdoms as gods.
However, the front building of the temple is oddly un-Egyptian, being
asymmetrical and elongated.
Sir Flinders Petrie mentions fifty tons of mysterious white
powder that he discovered beneath the floor of the Temple. He thought it
was most likely wood ash from the burning of sacrifices but he was
unable to provide any reason why this odd white powder was apparently
stored under the floor slabs. The nearby Wadi Nasb produced evidence of
copper smelting works but different ash.175
Sesôstris I’s remarkable 1950BCE expedition across the
Mediterranean Sea ventured into Thrace in Eastern Greece, Scythia and
Colchis in Georgia. He was most likely seeking, smelting technology for
the manufacture of tin and bronze, and possibly the source of Baltic
Amber.
Sesôstris was to leave a permanent reminder of his visit to
Colchis. In the words of Herodotus:176
... For the fact is, as I first came to realize myself, and then heard
from others later, that the Colchians are obviously Egyptian. When the
notion occurred to me, I asked both the Colchians and the Egyptians
about it, and found that the Colchians had better recall of the Egyptians
than the Egyptians did of them. Some Egyptians said they thought the
Colchians originated with Sesôstris' army, but I myself guessed their
Egyptian origin not only because the Colchians are dark-skinned and
curly-haired (which does not count for much by itself, because these
features are common to others too), but more importantly because
Colchians, Egyptians, and Ethiopians are the only peoples of the world
who practice circumcision and have always done so. ... The obvious
antiquity of the custom in Egypt and Ethiopia prevents me from saying
whether the Egyptians learnt it from the Ethiopians or vice versa, but
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what convinces me that the other peoples learnt it as a result of their
contact with Egypt is that any Phoenicians who have come into contact
with Greece have stopped copying the Egyptians with respect to their
genitalia, and do not cut off their children's foreskin. And let me mention
one more way the Colchians resemble the Egyptians: these two peoples
alone work linen, and they do so in the same way. In fact, their lifestyles
in general and their languages are similar. The Greeks call Colchian
linen Sardonian, while the linen that comes from Egypt is called
Egyptian.
Powerful Sesôstris I destroyed many cities on his expedition. He
sent back to Egypt prisoners as well as metal such as lead and silver.177
He also relocated Caucasian metalworkers to cities in the Levant and the
Sinai under Egyptian influence.178
The famous Story of Sinuhe illustrates the extent of Egyptian
subjugation of the Levant and Syria. The story has always been highly
regarded.179 Sinuhe was a courtier who unwittingly overheard state
secrets at the death of Amenemhe I, father of Sesôstris I. Fearing for his
life Sinuhe escaped into Canaan and traveled to Byblos (in the Lebanon).
There he turned homewards and traveled to Upper Rtnw, thought to be a
town in Southern Syria, and became an adviser to the local king.
Afterwards he became a rich man. In Rtnw, Sinuhe saw many messengers
arrive from Pharaoh Sesôstris I and the Syrian princes offer humble
deference to Egypt. He saw the resolve of the Pharaoh to smite the
Bedouin and Asiatics, such as the Hurrians, infringing upon his
suzerainty. Pharaoh Sesôstris I finally forgave Sinuhe. After many years,
the Pharaoh invited him back to Egypt and there saw out his days.
The proto-Israelites lived in the Anatolian Commagene after their
priestly tribe, a cult of Brahm called the Calani, migrated from Bactria, on
the border of Iran and Afghanistan.180 Their godhead Yahweh was to
begin with the metalworking god Q're Adonai.181 Q're means furnace or
metalwork.
We need to understand a little more of Q're Adonai’s widespread
importance. Qera (or Ktr w hss) was the Western Semitic Ugaritic god of
metalwork and artisanship. At the time of Pharaoh Tuthmose III, the
Syrians worshipped him as the great god Kir.
Curetes are young men who shaved their hair at the feast of
Comyria and sacrifice these hair-trimmings to the God Q're.182 Initially,
they were the sacrificial king’s armed companions who attended the
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Triple Goddess Q're’s holocaust and in later times sacrificed a child to the
god Cronos.183
Qouros was a god of Thera, today’s Island of Santorini.184 After
the eruption of the volcano, the island was renamed Qera after this god.185
Qouros and Qera have the same meaning of cauldron, melting pot or
furnace as the Canaanite kûr.
The Sumerian word KUR describes a cone-shape.186 Baetylos are
similar omphali, or cone-shaped pillars that the Greeks worshipped by
anointing with oil, wine and blood.187
KUR also represents an iron furnace, a round temple to Sabazios
with a hole at the top and a beehive. The same word KUR also means
mountain and the House that is like a mountain.188 For example, the
Mesopotamian Inanna descended to the KUR, or symbolic chamber of the
underworld, risking all:189
Inanna set out for the underworld. Ninshubur her faithful servant
went with her. Inanna spoke to her saying: ….I am descending to the
KUR, to the underworld. If I do not return set up a lament for me by the
ruins … Go to Nippur, to the temple of Enlil. When you enter his holy
shrine cry out 'O father Enlil, do not let your daughter be put to death in
the underworld … If Enlil will not help you, go to Ur, to the temple of
Nanna. Weep before Father Nanna. If Nanna will not help you go to
Eridu, to the temple of Enki. Weep before Father Enki. Father Enki, the
God of Wisdom, knows the food of life, he knows the water of life, he
knows the secrets. Surely he will not let me die.'
The symbol of the mountain KUR is three small hillocks in an
equilateral triangular pattern.190 KUR-KUR also means holy plant, which
is the common lily of the field or bright lilac crocus flower.191 As
protection from the fiery breath of the Minoan bull, Medea gave Jason the
blood-red juice of the two-stalked, saffron-colored Causican crocus, the
potent flower that first sprang from the blood of Prometheus.192 The
ancients used this poisonous colchium or meadow saffron as a remedy for
gout.193
The Indo-Hittite root KUR occurs in the name of the Kirgis
people who lived in Kirgiz Steppes of Turkic and the alternative name for
the Indo-Hittites, the Kurgan people. The root Kûr is also the same as
Car. It occurs in many place names, such as the ancient name for Harran
in the Commagene, Carrhae. The Caraïte sect was similar to the Essenes.
Ancient Caraïte is the language of the Damascus Document, an
excommunication text of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The Quirites of Rome came from the Sabine town of Qures.194
Sabian practices provide a unique insight into the unusual religion of the
Commagene but we defer this discussion of the Sabians until Chapter 8.
Both Indo-Hittite and Afro-Asiatic roots to Q're, or Quera, imply
that the same image of furnace is equally relevant to both cultural
groups.195 The abundance of evidence leaves little doubt as to the
importance of this furnace-god or smithy-god to the Indo-Hittites and
more particularly to the Israelites.
Another of Yahweh's names confirms this. He was Elath-Iahu,
the Kenite Smith god. As foreshadowed in Chapter 3, the latter part of
the name, Iahu, had a very ancient provenance. It dates from about
2630BCE as a title of the god Set. Horus, the divine son of Osiris who
overcame Osiris' brother Set, was the Calf Iahu. The Hyksos Israelites
may well have heard this name for Yahweh in Egypt where he was
analogous to Set. We know Iahu is a divine name of Yahweh because
Solomon is specifically aware of it:196
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding
much … and he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even
unto the hyssop that is upon the wall.
The hyssop is the tree of the winter solstice, IA, and the cedar
was the tree of the summer solstice, HU. Together they make the divine
name Iahu.
We see the metalworking influence continued with the subset
names of Tubal-cain and Hiram Abiff. In the Bible, Magog is a son of
Japhet and a brother of Gomer, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and
Tiras.197
The ninth century Welsh monk Nennius summarized the sixth
century Alanic genealogies of the French noble houses:198
Japheth had seven sons; from the first named Gomer, descended
the Galli; from the second, Magog, the Scythi and Gothi; from the third,
Madian, the Medi; from the fourth, Juuan, the Greeks; from the fifth,
Tubal, arose the Hebrei, Hispani, and Itali; from the sixth, Mosoch,
sprung the Cappadoces; and from the seventh, named Tiras, descended
the Thraces: these are the sons of Japheth, the son of Noah, the son of
Lamech.
Magog stands for Armenia and the brothers respectively to be the
Cimmerians, Medians, Ionians, Tibarenians, Moschians and Tyrrhenians.
The Tyrrhenians became the Etruscan civilization in parts of Italy.199
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The Moschians and the iron-working Tibarenians of Tubal were
tribes of the southeast Black Sea and the Commagene.200 Ezekiel
mentions King Gog of Meshech and Tubal, who is most likely Mithridates
VI of Pontus.201
Traditional histories hold that the Moschians became the Picts
and the Cimmerians became the Cymry and moved to the Artic cold
where they enjoy the midnight sun in June but is dark at midday in
winter.202 The Indo-Hittite invasions dispersed both those peoples and
they eventually invaded Britain as we shall see in Chapter 12.203
Turning now to Tubal, we find that Assyrian texts confirm
Tabalu or Tubalin in central Anatolia was famous for its metalworking.204
Tubal-ki of the Hittite texts, somewhere in the Caucasus region, is the
Tabal of the Assyrian sources located in East Lycaonia, near Kayseri.
This is where Tûbal Qayîn or Tubal-Cain comes from. He is the
archetypal artificer in metals described in the Book of Genesis and known
as the master of all coppersmiths and blacksmiths.
The last surviving remnants of these ancient northern Iranian
peoples are the Ossetians in the Caucasus Mountains, who are
descendants of the Sarmatian-Alans.205 Their lands are now divided
between the Russian Republic and the new state of Georgia. The
Ossetians are the famous blacksmith tribe previously called Kalybs. Its
name, Kalybs, became Latin for steel. Though threatened politically,
militarily, and culturally from many directions over a thousand years, the
Ossetians still speak their ancestral Iranian language with an archaic
dialect, called Iron, meaning “noble”. They maintain an oral narrative
referred to as the Nart sagas. These Nart sagas contain parallels with
Arthurian legend so numerous and so uncannily close that it is impossible
they are unrelated.
There is an Ossetain basis for most of the prominent elements of
the Arthurian cycle, including:
• all the characters Arthur, Lancelot, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, Kay,
Tristan, Bedivere, Bors, Caradoc, King Ban de Benoich, the Maimed
King, St. George, Elaine (Helaine), the Lady in the Lake, Merlin and
others;
• sacred swords, the ‘sword in the stone’ episode, King Arthur’s sword
(Cali-burn) that bears a similar name to the tribe Kalybs, and
throwing of the sword into a lake, which causes it to seethe, and the
sword-rising-out-of-the-roiling-water;
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• heads taken in battle and carried to the King for reward then scalped
and made into cloaks of human hair;
• sculls sliced, gilded and used as magical drinking cups; cauldrons of
heavenly splendor that never run dry and appear at feasts before the
bravest of the heroes;
• Scythian griffins and Sarmatians dragons as magical beasts. The very
name Sarmatian means lizard people;
• the Sarmatians dragon used as a as military standard. The Sarmatians
used a very particular battle standard, consisting of a silken windsock
sewn into the shape of a serpentine dragon, which hissed when it
filled with air as its bearer charged into battle;
• women as warriors. Greek and Chinese described the Amazon women
who were Scythian female warriors that fought alongside their men.
Adam of Bremen wrote that these women lived along the Baltic
Coast.206 Saxo Grammaticus described the same women in
Denmark.207 He said: their eagerness for military glory was so strong
that you would have thought they were no longer women; and
• women's chivalric role. An Iranian gold plaque from the Peter the
Great’s Siberian collection dated around 300 BC shows a woman
seated under a tree, holding a sleeping man’s head in her lap. Nearby
a groom holds a pair of horses. His weapons hang in the branches of
the tree. It is not difficult to recognize the scene of Arthur’s death.
Tubal-Cain is another Bronze Age forerunner of Freemasonry’s
Hiram Abiff, the archetypal architect of King Solomon’s Temple.208 In
fact, the name Hiram Abiff may simply be a refinement of Tubal-cain in
the early Anatolian Iron Age because it derives from Abiff ‘Aram where
‘Aram means a metal ore from ayir or ayiram in Sanskrit and Dravidian
(iron is ayil). Abiff is the metalworker or artificer. The blow Hiram Abiff
receives imparts nobility. It is symbolically equivalent to achieving
perfection by the Colaphum, or Box of the Ear.209 The Romans and later
the Germans and French conferred knighthood by the Colaphum as a sign
of sustaining future hardships.
Charles Gounod’s La Reine de Saba (The Queen of Sheba) a
creation in the Opera, on 28 February 1862 builds on an alternative
history that directly connects Tubal-Cain with the legend of Hiram Abiff.
It is based on a Rosicrucian legend reported by Gerard de Nerval.210
Three jealous workers disrupt Hiram casting his masterpiece, the
monumental bowl called the Molten or Brazen Sea. Tubal-Cain visits
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Hiram and declares that Hiram is his descendant. He initiates Hiram into
the Mystery of Fire and the secret of bronze casting. Tubal-Cain gives
Hiram his great hammer and a Golden Triangle to wear as a pendant
round his neck. Hiram then successfully recasts the brazen sea. Hiram
and Balkis, the Queen of Sheba, fall in love. A jealous Solomon
instigates the murder of Hiram and the widow Balkis leaves, pregnant
with Hiram’s son. He is the son of the widow, whose many descendants
will complete the building of the Temple.
The knowledge of metals and explosive force has always gone
hand-in-hand with religion. The Shahnameh or Book of the Legendary
Kings of Persia demonstrates this relationship. The Arabian poet
Firdowsi wrote the Shahnameh in 1010CE. He describes the early Indo-
Iranian kings of the Persians Kiyumars and Jemshid. Chosen by Ahura
Mazda, their faces shone brilliantly with the Glory of God called the
khvarnah or farr-i izadi. It adorned Ahura Mazda as a large ring or
diadem. This Kingly Fortune gave the prince Jemshid an intimate
knowledge of God and the ability to carve hard substances without the use
of conventional tools.211 In blacksmithing weapons, he was able to:212
…mold iron into such equipment as helmets, chain mail,
laminated armour as well as missile-proof vests, to swords and horsearmour.
Sadly, Jemshid became a tyrannical ruler. He delighted in the
words of falsehood and untruth and the Glory was seen to flee away from
him in the shape of a bird.213 The next Iranian hero to possess the Kingly
Fortune was Feridun.
Mircea Eliade summarizes the connection between religion and
the smithy in the age of metals as follows:214
There would appear to have existed therefore, at several different
cultural levels (which is the mark of great antiquity), a close connection
between the art of the smith, the occult sciences (shamanism, magic,
healing etc) and the art of song, dance and poetry … One element
nevertheless is constant - that is the sacredness of metal and … all mining
and metallurgical operations …It is in any case significant that in
contrast to pre-agricultural and pre-metallurgical mythologies, where, as
a natural prerogative, God is the possessor of the thunderbolt … in the
myths of historic peoples, on the other hand (Egypt, the Near East and the
Indo-Europeans), the God of the hurricane receives these weapons -
lightning and thunder - from a divine smith.
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In Kenite lore, the divine smith Tubal-cain is also Baal Gad, the
goat-god who is the eponymous ancestor of the tribe of Gad. He
epitomizes the ancient association of smiths with goat and horned gods.
A grotto sacred to Baal Gad exists at the source of the Jordan River.215 It
is situated at the base of a high limestone cliff, over which perches the
city of Caesarea Philippi.216
Kenite itself means welding or possessions in addition to
belonging to Kain. The Kenites were a tribe of Midianite copper miners
who lived amongst the warlike Amalekites, descended from Haggar.217
On leaving Egypt, the Israelites met the Amalekites in flight to their
native lands.
The minor tribe of the Midianites was an Asiatic people of the
Arab/Palestinian Kush, called Kush Magan. In early times, Magan
extended over both sides of the Persian Gulf.218 Later in 1100BCE, at
about the time of Israelite conflicts with the Midianites, Assyrian sources
note that Kush Magan was a region on the South side of the Euphrates,
not far from Karkemish. The Massorets regarded this Kush Magan as the
Babylonian Kish.219
We digress for a moment to mention the Kushites because of their
importance in the Hyksos story. The Meluhha Kushites were a second
Kushite or Amalekite group. They were mercenaries and traders in
metals and weapons. Their mercenary activities continued long after the
Hyksos invasion. The Amarna letters show that Palestinian kinglets hired
them. Indeed, later Meluhha and Arab became interchangeable words.220
The Mlecha in Vedic literary sources are the Meluhha Kushites
that derive from India or Pakistan.221 Eusebius notes that the Ethiopian
Kushites came from India. The Musri in Egypt and in early Akkadian
literature are also Meluhha Kushites. The Hyksos title hekaw khasout is
an almost literal loan from the Akkadian sar kissati, the supreme royal
title of king from the hill country.
These Meluhha are the same as the maritime Kaphtorim who
maintained ports in the Mediterranean.222 Kaphtorim or Caphtorim is one
of the two Biblical tribes of Mizraim that inhabited the region between the
Nile River of Egypt and Sile.223 The other Mizraim tribe is Lehabim.
Mizraim led colonies into Egypt to lay the foundation of the Kingdom of
Egypt.
The Meluhha, Arabs and Hiskija or Hyksos formed an alliance
about the time of Bochoris (720-715BCE). Late antique sources report
that they returned to rebuild Avaris in alliance with the king of Jerusalem.
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Texts speak either about the city of the Shepherds or about Rhinocorura
which is El Arish. Complicating the understanding of this event, the site
of Avaris is still in doubt despite the discovery of Tell ed Daba. Avaris, a
Greek rendition, derives phonetically from Mansion of the Desert Tract.
Now back to the Kenites. In surprising contrast to the poor
relations between the Israelites and Amalekites, so strong were Israelite
relations with the Kenites that the Israelites freely intermarried with them.
Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, was a Midianite and priest of Yaho or
Iahu.224 Yaho was the Midianites' god of storms and war who dwelt on
Mt Horeb in Sinai. Yaho was also the god of the Chaldeans and the
Babylonians.225 His symbol was a Tau cross worn on the forehead that
later became known as the Yahweh Mark.226
Until quite recently, and perhaps still today, a group of itinerant
Bedouin smiths and carpenters in Syria continued the tradition of marking
their foreheads with the Tau-cross of Yahweh.227
At Hebron, Shiloh, Tabor and elsewhere until the time of Judges,
men marked with the Tau cross died as Sacrificial Kings. In all
Mediterranean countries and in Britain, the Mother Goddess received her
sacrifice each year. This took place on a terebinth-tree or kerm-oak.228
The gory method of death for the Sacrificial King was crucifixion on the
lopped oak in the shape of a Tau. Castrated and torn apart, the raw body
of the sacrificial male became a Eucharist. The crow or raven was
believed to be Athene’s oracular bird that housed the soul of the sacrificed
king.229 In Asia Minor, the kadosh or sacred men and women followers
of Astarte, released an eagle from the sacred king’s funeral pyre to
symbolize the ascent of the divine soul to heaven.230
Orpheus for example, was torn apart by delirious women called
the Bassarids:231
… a frenzied band
Of Thracian women, wearing skins of beasts,
From some high ridge of ground caught sight of him.
“Look,” shouted one of them, tossing her hair
That floated in the breeze …
The reckless onslaught swelled; their fury knew
No bounds; stark madness reigned. And still his singing
Would have charmed every weapon, but the huge
Clamor, the drums, the curving Phrygian fifes,
Hand-clapping, Bacchus screaming drowned the lyre.
And then at last, his song unheard, his blood
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Reddened the stones.
Medea set out the same way to execute King Aeson, before restoring him
to youth. When the moon shone in fullest radiance:232
Medea, barefoot, her long robe unfastened,
Her hair on her shoulders falling loose,
Went forth alone on her roaming way,
In the deep stillness of the midnight hour.
Procne set out to find Philomela in the same way:233
It was the time of Bacchus’ festival,
Kept by the Thracian women each three years.
Night knows their sacraments; at night the peaks
Of Rhodope resound with ringing bronze;
At night the queen, arrayed to celebrate
The rites, went forth with frenzy’s weaponry.
Vines wreathed her head, a light spear lay upon
Her shoulder and a deerskin draped her side.
Wild with her troop of women through the woods
She rushed, a sight of terror, frenzied by
The grief that maddened her, the image of
A real Bacchanal …
Moses’ sister Miriam similarly led a band of women in a ceremonial rite
after Pharaoh’s troops drowned:234
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in
her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with
dances.
Josephus tactfully ignored this sacrificial rite in his Antiquities of
the Jews because the Romans would have recognized it.235 The rite was a
key sign of the sacred marriage through which the Israelites needed to
pass in order to receive the new land of Israel. It is an allegorical
initiation. The Israelites had passed the test of water. They were to face
the bitter cup of Marah. Moses was Miriam’s sacrificial king. He bore all
the guilt for past actions and died so the new king, Joshua, could emerge
into Canaan as an Israelite Tabula Rasa.
One of the familiar symbolic codes for the sacrificial king is
Orphruoeis, which means growing on the riverbank.236 An ear of wheat
growing near a stream of water is still the familiar depiction of the initiate
in a Fellowcraft Lodge. It refers to the ritual stew of the sacrificial king in
a cauldron on a tripod.237 In Wales, the cauldron contained both the
sacrificial king and the Triple Goddess, represented by a white horse.
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In response to the inhumanity of a male Eucharist, the first
Israelite dynasty of King Saul (1050BCE) outlawed cannibalism. Later,
Good King Josiah (640-609BCE) prohibited sacrificial crucifixion. He
statutorily converted the act from a magical means of immortality to a
felonious punishment involving the extinction of the soul. However, the
Jews were not to escape the tarnished background of sacrificial
crucifixion for many centuries. In Ptolemaic times, a majority of
Alexandrians still believed Jews annually sacrificed a Greek.238
Picking-up again on the theme of goats, we find the Kenite Goatgod,
Tubal-cain, is the archetypal Freemason’s goat. Some say he is also
a prime candidate for the mysterious Baphomet of the Knights Templar.
There are however, two distinct but intertwined traditions associated with
the goat that make this unlikely.
The Afro-Asiatic tradition of the goat relates to the ancient annual
festivals of the sacrificial king. These were usually orgiastic and
celebrated in the Lesser Mysteries of Eleusis, English witch ceremonies
and the Swedish May-eve play Bukkerwise.239 In these rituals, the
sexually mature he-goat, representing Lust, mates with the Goddess. His
sacrifice is a prelude to crowning the new king for the new year. Pallas
Athene similarly received her name from Pallas, the maiden she killed in
armed combat to win the right to join with the goat-king in ritual
marriage.240
The lustful he-goat occurs in various guises all over Europe.241
For example, the well known British legend of Lady Godiva carved in the
miserere-seat of Coventry Cathedral shows the goddess riding to the
ceremony on a goat’s back denoting her dominion over him. Often these
same stories show the naked Goddess Goda (the Good) with long hair,
wrapped in a net, riding sideways on a goat, preceded by a hare signifying
bold copulation and accompanied by a raven.242 The Goddess used the
hunting or fishing net used in her murderous chase of the sacrificial
king.243 Agamemnon, for example, died with a net over his head in the
peculiar manner of the midsummer sacrificial king. Stepping from his
bath, he was:244
…neither clothed nor unclothed, neither in water nor on dry land,
neither in his palace nor outside…
The Libyo-Thracians gave the name of their Goat-goddess, Aegis,
to the Aegean Sea.245 In the Egyptian Delta city of Mendes, the goat was
originally a well-endowed ram.246 Herodotus later describes the Mendes
animal alternately as a goat and a ram. Herodotus tells us that he
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witnessed a surprising incident in Mendes: a goat had intercourse with a
woman, in full view of everybody.247 Perhaps Herodotus is really telling
us that he attended an initiation ceremony where the initiate was the goat.
This may explain the much clichéd Freemason’s joke about the goat at an
initiation ceremony.
In Assyrian, Persian, Dionysian, Pythagorean and Orphist
initiation rites, the initiate bathes in the milk of the hidden doctrine. The
initiate discovers that Love is the luminous principle of Light, while Light
is the radiance of Love or Goodness, Charity and Truth.248
When the Initiate reaches Hades, the guardians of the dead
challenge him to give the pass-phrase:249
Like a kid, I have fallen into milk.
At the end of an initiation, the candidate is one with the god,
Dionysus for example. He drinks a cup of goats' milk and honey. New
York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art displays many of the two handled
cups used in the Greek ceremonies. Some of these cups bear golden sun
images.
In the seventh and final degree of all ancient Mysteries, which is
the fourth degree of the Greater Mysteries, adepts partook of the
ambrosial beverage Oimellas as a sign they had arrived at the final
threshold of all mysteries (see Appendix 7).250
Zoroaster achieved his immortality through the Mysteries where
he drank something that resembled honey, after answering thirty-three
questions over a period of three days.
Plato drinks of the Oimellas before the last phase of his initiation
in the play Initiation of Plato:251
It is the beverage of the lotus; drink and forget all sentiments of
hatred, envy, and intolerance; and put on this robe in sign of devotion to
science and virtue. Thou goest to be initiated into the last mysteries.
Honey was one important component of the heavenly soma
believed to intoxicate the divine beings. The Odyssey gives the Vedic
recipe: Circe blended cheese, meal and honey with Pramnian wine to
make a kind of brown beer.252 Herodotus tells us that burial ceremonies
of the nobles often included embalming in honey.253 Its sweetness relates
to the human hope of another life that would be eternally happy.
The bee was universally revered. In Egypt, the Pharaoh’s title of
Beekeeper was one of his main designations. The double image of the
bee and the reed symbolized the Lord of Upper and Lower Egypt. The
Egyptians believed that when the Pharaoh died, his soul joined Osiris in
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the constellation of Orion. There he became one of the bee stars in the
Beehive or Prasepe, a group of stars in the constellation of Cancer
adjacent to Leo the Lion.
The bee has continued through the millennia as a symbol of the
soul’s survival after death and limitless existence in the harmony of
Golden Age of the world.254 However, the bee also had a very dark side.
It remained a primary symbol of the Afro-Asiatic Triple Goddesses such
as Demeter, Hecate, Persephone, Aphrodite and the pre-Indo-European
aspect of Artemis.255 Arcadians worshipped both Artemis and Persephone
under the name Despoina, which means mistress.
Aphrodite, the nymph-goddess of midsummer, would destroy the
sacred king by tearing out his sexual organs just as the queen-bee destroys
the drone.256 Her Priestesses displayed a golden honeycomb at her shrine
on Mount Eryx.
Butes is the most famous beekeeper of antiquity.257 He was a
priest to Athene on Mount Eryx who represented the love-god Phanes,
son of the Triple Goddess. The Greeks often depicted Phanes as a loudly
buzzing bee called Ericepaius.258
Incongruous with Aphrodite’s beauty, the Greeks also knew her
as the Eldest of the Fates, Melaenis or black one, Scotia or dark one,
Androphonor or manslayer and Epitymbria, which means of the tombs.259
Artemis was an orgiastic Nymph like Aphrodite. She was the
Maiden of the Silver Bow, which symbolized the new moon.260 Her male
consort received the arrows of death. Besides the bow and bee, her other
emblems were the date-palm signifying birth and the stag symbolizing her
control of wild things. Artemis’ bees were the melissae priestesses who
daubed their faces with gypsum or white clay in honour of the White
Goddess. Artemis chief priest was, as we may imagine, the king bee.261
A Treasury was a metaphor for a beehive or hive of melissae beepriestesses,
as at Marmaria near Delphi.262 The veiled Tholos trompe
l’oeil in Bedroom M of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at
Boscoreale, near Pompeii, shows the melissae priestesses as a swarm of
bees on a pedestal in the foreground.263 Nearby is the dour goddess
Hecate between two columns. The frescos are now in New York’s
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We saw earlier in this chapter how maenads were women who
practiced wild Mother Goddess orgies in the mountains and woods. As
late as the first century CE the Arcadian fertility or witch cult on Mount
Lycaeum held drunken maenad orgies after which they chased and killed
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their lover, whom they had clad in a stag’s skin.264 The women wore red
war paint boiled from ivy gum and urine, painted on like the stripes of a
Spartan Penelope duck.265 The woof and warp pattern on their limbs
suggested a ladder. In Thrace, the Maenads tattooed themselves with
spider web designs. One Greek vase shows each maenad has a stag
tattooed on her forearm.266
The maenads’ ferocious behavior involved strong
hallucinogens.267 This included spruce-beer laced with ivy, sweetened
with mead, and the mild panaeolus papilionaceus mushroom. More
effective were the Priestesses’ laurel leaves containing potassium cyanide,
hippomanes, which was perhaps the slimy vaginal tissue of a mare in
heat, and juice from the mistletoe of the Eastern European Oak, called
ixias or loranthus.268
One of their most powerful hallucinogenic substances was the
raw mushroom amanita muscaria. A. muscariae grows on conifers and
oaks. It has wide effects inducing berserker rage and feats of
extraordinary muscular strength. Following this physical ecstasy comes a
period of peace where the person touches the divine and believes that the
drug has opened a spiritual, or third eye.269
In the fifth century BCE, Euripides wrote in The Bacchantes of
the frantic ceremonies of the Bacchanals or maenads. He described that
from every ivy-wreathed staff sweet rills of honey trickled. To crown their
revelries, the Bacchante raised loud his voice and cried:
On, on, ye Bacchanals, pride of Tmolus with its rills of gold.
Euripides was referring to the even more potent substance that the
melissae priestesses chose for their sacrificial king ritual, green or unripe
honey. This deadly honey came from plants of the heath such as
oleanders, azaleas, rhododendrons and laurel.270
The dangerous element in green honey is acetylandromedol,
which is a grayanotoxin that acts on the central nervous system. Just two
tablespoons of this honey induces acute breathing impairment, perilously
low heart rate and hypnotics.271 The green honey from Trebizond,
Colchis and the Black Sea region is particularly toxic. In 401BCE,
Xenophon’s Greek army behaved like lunatics after eating Colchian
honey. Seized with vomiting, they collapsed by the thousands. In
67BCE, Mithridates, the king of Pontus, won a battle against Pompey the
Great after the Romans ate toxic honey.272
Pliny called toxic Black Sea honey meli maenomenon. European
taverns later used it as miel fou to intensify the intoxicating effect of
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alcoholic beverages. This miel fou was probably the mandrake of the
witches and used along with opium and plants containing skin-penetrating
atropine such as hemlock, nightshade, hellebore, henbane and
belladonna.273 Henbane is also called Jupiter Beans or apollinaris for its
god-like trance-inducing properties.274 Pliny recorded that the people of
Gaul used the sacred plant veravain to prepare an ointment that was used
in fortune telling and uttering prophesies..275
As with their Mediterranean counterparts, European witches
applied a green Oyl to induce states of ecstasy. They applied the Oyl to
their foreheads, forearms and underarms. They also used a broomstick
handle to apply the Oyl to their vulva and this is probably the source of
the flying broomstick myth.
In the sixteenth century, the physician Andrés Laguna
investigated the discovery of a jar of witch’s Oyl.276 The jar still had
some of the green unguent used by the witches. He experimented with
the Oyl by smearing it all over a woman. She promptly fell into a deep
coma that lasted for thirty-six hours. Afterwards she described her erotic
coma with considerable delight.
A Homeric Hymn to Hermes describes how the melissae beepriestesses
of Mount Parnassus consumed the honeycomb of the gods,
meli chloron, to attain a state of ecstasy:277
Divinely maddened, they are inspired to speak the truth
But if they are deprived of the divine honeycomb
they cannot prophesy.
Toxic honey causes vertigo, delirium, nausea, vomiting, blue
skin, muscle paralysis and unconsciousness. Severe ventricular
tachycardia leads to death. This is an over-contraction of the lower
ventricles of the heart. The contractions fall out of phase with the heart’s
own pacemaker in its sinus node. In the second century CE, Plutarch
noted that the melissae priestesses often collapsed and died after frantic
disorientation and shrieking. In 19 BCE, Virgil described the effects on
the Cumaean Sibyl priestess as she foretold of grim war in Lavinium to
the legendary Trojan leader Aeneas at Euboea:278
The threshold was barely gained when the maiden cried ‘It is the
hour to enquire your fates! The god – behold the god.’ And as she stood
by the doors and spoke, suddenly her countenance and hue changed, and
her tresses fell disordered: her bosom panted, her wild heart swelled with
fury, and she grew taller to the view, and her voice rang not of mortality,
now that the god breathed on her in nigher presence … in her cavern the
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prophetess, intolerant of Phoebus’ will, raved in limitless frenzy, straining
to exorcise the mighty god from her soul: but all the more he curbed her
foaming lips to weariness, subdued her fierce heart, and molded her to his
constraint … the madness ceased and her raving lips were hushed.
The Indo-Hittite traditions of both the goat and bee are quite
different from those of the Afro-Asiatics. The goat, above all the young
kid, is the pure symbol of the initiate rather than the sexually craven hegoat.
Sexual proclivity could not be further from contemplation in Indo-
Hittite, hermetic and Zoroastrian rituals:279
Sex is a thing of bodies, not of souls.
The Pauline Church, notwithstanding its embracing of the Afro-
Asiatic sacrificial king ritual, also adopted the goat or kid as a symbol of
purity. It is the Agnus Dei and signifies Christ.280
When it came to masculine deities, Indo-Hittite religion was more
straightforward than the Afro-Asiatics. As herders, they did not see the
need to sacrifice their masculine gods or clan leaders for the agricultural
fertility of the land. While there were female gods, in their overtly male
dominated society there was no reason for dominant gods of the maleprincipal
to be subservient to a female. Such male-principle gods were
the Sumerian Gilgamesh and Ninurta, Persian Ohrmazd, Akkadian
Marduk and Vedic Indra.
The typical Indo-Hittite hero kills the Serpent of the Abyss to
disenfranchise the matriarch’s sacrificial ceremony. He then marries the
Serpent’s mother or sister, the Triple Goddess, and begets divine children
through her that are all manifestations of him.281 For example, the Persian
Ohrmazd marries the Afro-Asiatic Triple Goddess and immediately
dispossesses her.282 He then goes about clothed in her three colors of
white, red and dark blue. These colors symbolize creation and recreation,
the eternal combat with evil and bringing forth fecundity.
Over time, the matriarchal sacrifice ceremony of the Afro-
Asiatics became less violent. Although it was still a sacred marriage and
rebirth ceremony, the Goddess did not kill the consort. Instead, she
rescued him from death in chaos. The Vedic Usas shows us the strong
Indo-Hittite side of the paradigm. She does not give birth but bravely
rescues her man.
In Mesopotamia, the new paradigm begins tentatively with
Inanna who brings Dumuzi back to life semi-annually. However, the
actions of the great Inanna are rather incipit. She acts like a fairy
godmother instead of her powerful former character of the Female or
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Triple Goddess in decisive action. The paradigm of male rights later
gained more strength with Ishtar who demanded the release of her consort
Tammuz from the underworld.
Plato described the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice where the
male and female swap roles to assert the male paradigm.283 Orpheus now
enters the underworld to seek the return of his bride. The symbol of the
ability to descend into Hecate ’s underworld is a single bronze sandal,
which later came to signify the Mother Goddess’ imprimatur to a contract.
Orpheus’s bride is the lovely nymph Eurydice, killed by a snake.
He wins back her life for the asking but his enthusiasm causes him to look
back into Hades, whereupon Eurydice vanishes. The act of looking back
is the traditional sign that the initiate lacks the courage so essential in the
further pursuit of Wisdom:284
It is the way thou must take without looking back.
Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice tells the beautiful story of
Orpheus and Eurydice.285 The acclaimed aria Che faro senza Euridice of
Orfeo ed Euridice became pivotal in the development of modern opera.
The metamorphosis of the festival of Lenaea, the Festival of the
Wild Women, in Athens demonstrates the attack of the Indo-Hittites on
the Triple Goddess.286 At first, Hera tore apart an adult male. After the
Indo-Hittite revision, a male child substituted for the mature male
victim.287 A kid then replaced the male child. Finally, orgiastic moonpriestesses
cut into nine pieces and sacrificed a bull representing
Dionysus.288
The respective traditions of the Afro-Asiatics and Indo-Hittites
compress and merge in a peculiar fashion at the interface region of
Anatolia. A unique group emerged from this compression, the proto-
Israelites. They appear to be Semitic Levant Asiatics with Indo-Hittite
traditions of God.
For example, they abhorred the mystery religions of their Afro-
Asiatic clans and often repeated the analogy Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
its mother’s milk meaning that the initiate should not bathe in the milk of
the hidden Afro-Asiatic doctrine.289 Notably, they did not have any
similar prohibition for cooking the young of other animals in their
mother's milk.
Even though ingrained, the Israelites and later the Jews deplored
the sacred marriage ceremony of the Afro-Asiatics. This is the reason
why Judaism regards the sacred son concept of Christianity as a great lie.
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The Priests ruled that a Jewish girl should not become a holy prostitute
like Tamar. We return to Tamar later in the chapter.
Yet, the Israelites could not escape their heritage of Mother Right
entirely. They sacrificed and consumed the scapegoat at the beginning of
the agricultural year.290 This true He-goat or Oak-king equivalent is the
Assyrian counterpart of Azazel. The Israelites later consumed the Hegoat
as a Eucharist when Moses allowed the Israelites to substitute a kid
for the paschal lamb in the first law stipulated for Passover.291
The Israelites were also highly suspicious of honey and bees
because of their place in the Afro-Asiatic mysteries of rebirth. In the
same way Jews prohibited seething a kid in milk, they deprecated the bee
as a filthy creature engendered in the rotting flesh of cattle. This was a
reference to Bull Mysteries. Ovid describes the same phenomena of bees
emerging from the rotting flesh of a prize bull, slain for sacrifice, in The
Doctrines of Pythagoras.292
Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20BCE to 50CE) who was the
greatest Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher of his time wrote:293
The Eucharistic bread must be without leavening and without
honey.
Yet, the Israelites drew a very fine line on bees and honey
because of its importance in early Indo-Hittite religion. In Israelite
mythology, Samson of Dan killed a lion and when passing later on found
a swarm of bees and some honey in the carcass. He scooped out the
honey and it gave him the idea for a riddle:294
Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth
sweetness.
The legend does not say that the lion’s body was the womb of the
bees. Neither does it imply that the honey was impure since both Samson
and his parent consumed it. Ancient doctors who prepared alchemical
medicines would immediately recognize that the lion is gold and the
sweetness is the sweet, universal medicine of gold that cures all diseases.
On another level of meaning, Samson is predicting Dan’s
universal hermetic religion will be born from the carcass of the Lion of
Judah. The bees are Samson’s Tribe of Dan and the honey is a golden
new age.295 We can detect an Israelite attempt to reconcile the different
Afro-Asiatic and Indo-Hittite mystical interpretations of honey. There is
also a deeper esoteric meaning, which we will look at in Chapter 16.
The Israelites had great difficulty in maintaining amity or
harmony of culture with their fellow Semite tribes because of their
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acquired Indo-Hittite influences, particularly patriarchal monotheism.
They had similar problems with Indo-Hittite attitudes to women's status,
agricultural castration and rebirth celebrations, sacrificial rituals and
ethnic cleansing.
Concerning the status of women, after Deuteronomy an Israelite
woman generally belonged to either her husband or father. The revised
testaments de-emphaised the heroines Miriam, Hannah and Debroah.
Miriam was the prophetess, who lead the congregation in prayer. Hannah
was a famed warrior leader. Perhaps the most famous woman leader was
the judge, Debroah. She was the daughter of Jasher and “the Mother of
Israel”.
Post Deuteronomy, the law permitted her only one husband, even
though her husband could have many wives. Women were to be chaste,
subservient and sexually ploughed or wrought by their husbands.
All of these were Indo-Hittite traits. The woman was a pure
chattel in the strict Indo-Hittite sense. Yet, the Israelites also regarded
women as ancient respected instruments of rebirth, revered for their
biological role. For example, although conviction for adultery required
stoning of the adulterous couple, the usual Pharisaic practice was for the
woman to plead ignorance of the law whereupon the Court set the couple
free.296 Even today, Israel’s Rabbinical Court actively seeks to resolve
the objectively disadvantaged position of women in marital separation.
This requires it to track-down husbands who have deserted or separated
from their wife while continuing to penalize her by harshly refusing to
grant a divorce.
More importantly, land ownership continued through the
youngest of the royal female line.297 This is ultimogeniture rather than
primogeniture. In royal succession, it was not to the son of the King that
the Kingdom passed, but to the son of either his youngest daughter or his
youngest sister.298 For this reason, Egyptian Pharaohs would marry their
half-sisters in order to propagate the bloodline of the dynasty.
Even today, the mother’s bloodline incorporates the Jewish
heritage. This is a continuation of the Afro-Asiatic matriarchal religion,
with the womb as the over-riding regenerative principle. Judaism
considers all children of Jewish mothers as Jews and children of Jewish
fathers and non-Jewish mothers as Gentiles. This is little different than in
Isaac's time (c1750BCE) when an Israelite man who married a woman of
another tribe was considered to have transferred to that other tribe and no
longer be an Israelite. This is why Isaac returned to his tribe in Harran.
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Isaac’s bride is Rebecca the water-carrier.299 As with all water goddesses,
she is an analogy of the Mother Goddess procreative aspect. Isis is
likewise.
The Roman Catholic Church adopted the principals of female
beauty and procreation, incorporating them into the great Lady cathedrals
of Europe. The East lancet window is typically high and narrow
corresponding to the male principle of Spirit while the rose window of the
West is circular and primeval, symbolizing the womb.300
The North entrance of Chartres Cathedral, beneath the rose
window, is the Gate of the Initiates. Melchizedek, Aaron, Anna the
Mother of Mary, David and Solomon welcome the Initiates there
(c1235).301 Statues in stone of Melchizedek, Abraham and Isaac, and
Moses also welcome visitors through the Central Portal of the North
Transept (c1215).
The cathedral itself is a chamber or womb of spiritual rebirth, as
in the ancient Mysteries. After embracing the Church, the congregation is
reborn in the womb of the Church. This occurs in a set program
throughout the year. In Rome, on special days in a Holy Year, cleansing
of sin is even more efficient. It simply requires passage through the doors
of one of Rome's four great churches.
Rose logic explains this ancient cleansing process, which we look
at in Chapter 17. Most of the congregation would be unable to appreciate
the full significance of this cycle since only priests are educated in the
Church Mysteries at their Ordination.
St Bernard was an enthusiast of the cult of the Virgin embodied in
the cathedral. He declared of Chartres:302
Leave your temporal bodies at the door, only the spirit may enter
here … The Son will answer the prayers of the Mother and the Father will
answer the prayers of the Son.
Another blending of the Afro-Asiatic rebirth mysteries with Indo-
Hittite masculinity occurs in the castration myths. Removing the fertility
of the old king disenfranchised him thus allowing the young king to rule.
In Egypt Set castrated his brother Osiris, in Sumer, Kumarbi castrated
Anu. In Greece, Zeus castrated his father Cronos and Homer writes of
Cronos castrating his father Uranus. In Israelite myth Canaan, the son of
Ham, castrated his grandfather Noah.
The continuation of the Israelites' castration myth as a halfway
position between the agricultural sacrifice myths and the Indo-Hittite
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rescue myths shows their difficulty in completely breaking away from
their Semitic agricultural background.
The importance of castration is a sign that covenants were cut, not
made.303 The contracting parties severed an animal in two and walked
between the pieces that this may happen to me when I break this
covenant.304 This is why circumcision is reserved for a special promise.
The separation of the foreskin cuts the covenant that appeases the Mother
Goddess’ demand for the sacred marriage with its ritual castration, death
and rebirth. The Goddess demands every man’s phallus.305 Jewish
women offered the foreskin as a substitute for their husband’s phallus.
For example, the substitute sacrifice of circumcision even saved Moses:306
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him
[Moses], and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and
cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, surely a
bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, a bloody
husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
It is a custom observed by the British Royal Family who called
upon the Rabbi Jacob Snowman, the respected Mohel of the London
Jewish community, to perform the religious rite of Brit Milah with Prince
Charles at Buckingham Palace. This is also the Covenant of
Circumcision.
Israelite priests would sprinkle the blood of the covenant on oathtakers
to make a promise binding.307 This blood came from an animal
sacrificed on the altar. The Male and Baka tribes of southwestern
Ethiopia still slaughter a beast to mark a contract. Blood from the
sacrificial animal smears the man who cuts the covenant. In emulation of
the combined importance of cutting a promise and involving the male
genitals, an Arab promise becomes a serious contract of honour by the
oath-taker placing his hand on the bare inner thigh of the person to whom
he is making the pledge. Some older Masonic rituals mirrored this form
of oath with the initiate placing his hand between the hands of person
receiving the obligation.
The Bible provides other grand stories of the sacrifice myth.
Moses died before Joshua received the fertile land of Israel. King David
similarly died before Solomon brought prosperity to the land with the
building of the Temple. In the same way, the wounded and impotent
Fisher King of the Holy Grail finally passes to his rest before prosperity
returns to his wasting land.
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In contrast are the Indo-Hittite male-principle gods Gilgamesh
and Ninurta, Akkadian Marduk and Vedic Indra. Indra is the most
important god of the invaders of the Indus Valley.308 He is eternally
young, strong, stormy and a cunning fighter. He has boundless energy
and bestows fertility on women and on fields. One of his names is he
with a thousand testicles. Indra neither ages nor is castrated so a younger
king can bring fertility to the land.
The Sumerian god Marduk was similarly fertile. Yet, he is even
more important to us because he graphically highlights the switch from
the matriarchal religion of the Afro-Asiatic Mother Goddess religion to
the patriarchal religion of the Indo-Hittites. Marduk is the only god with
both an old and a new paradigm legend. In the old legend, he is a
sacrificial king killed by the dragon Tiamat, while in the new legend
Marduk kills her with a sword.
King Solomon also possesses the Indo-Hittite character. His
fecundity was as legendary as that of his father, King David:309
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites; Of the nations concerning which the Lord said
unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they
come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their
gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. And he had seven hundred wives,
princesses, and three hundred concubines …
David’s death was a precondition to building the Temple. His
passing allowed the younger and more fertile hero king, Solomon, to
ascend to the throne. In stark contrast, Solomon’s own death is an
anticlimax. He simply fades away at the conclusion of building the
Temple and his grand palace.310 His son Rehoboam promptly forfeits the
glory of Israel. This ultimately has the effect of disenfranchising the
proto-Israelites’ forlorn claim to the Egyptian Delta. We will look further
into this claim in the next chapter.
The displacement of matriarchal rights in the mysteries of the
Great Goddess had the most marked effect on the roles of women. The
patriarchal religion of Yahweh decisively rejected the Mother Goddess.
As a result, women lost all control over religious celebration. They could
not participate; only view the ceremonies from the women’s gallery.
An often given rationalization for the ousting of women is that
females have an unsettling effect on men, who then tend to confuse
mystical ecstasy with erotic ecstasy.311
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The three main festivals of Judaism Pesach, Shovous and Sukkos
demonstrate the Israelites' difficulty in breaking free of the agricultural
cycles. These three festivals have themes of harvest and planting, as well
as the Exodus. The Israelites purged Afro-Asiatic sexual content from the
rituals. For example, in Jerusalem the celibate Feast of the Tabernacles
replaced the orgiastic Day of Willows where Salma celebrated his sacred
marriage with the Flower Queen Moon Goddess, as we saw in Chapter 3.
The purging of the agricultural festivals left a ragged edge,
evidenced by Yahweh's shifting demand for the sacrifice of the first male
from the womb. In Exodus:312
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto me all the
firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel,
both of man and of beast: it is mine.
And in Micah:313
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten
thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
And Judges showed that it was a common practice to sacrifice a
royal prince in return for a successful campaign:314
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt
without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Then it shall
be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me,
when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the
Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
There are awful stories of sacrifices and the words of the scribe
show Yahweh lamenting for not having been clearer in his sacrifice
requirements:315
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point
of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the
horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their
groves [Asherah poles] by the green trees upon the high hills.316
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the
fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be
called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of
slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.317
These verses provide vivid images of Levite priests carrying out
the gruesome task of butchering the flowering youth of Israel. No
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payment could substitute.318 When they carried out ritual sacrifice, the
Levites always turned the victim's head to the north.319
Yet, the practice of human sacrifice seems to have developed into
lamb substitution as favored by the Indo-Hittites.320 What had originated
as a form of ritual sacrifice to renew the agreement with God for ensuring
the harvest, was already becoming less barbarous by two thousand
BCE:321
All that openeth the matrix [the first borne] is mine; and every
firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. But the
firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him
not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt
redeem. And none shall appear before me empty [handed].
God spared Isaac. This was an important change. God had
decided to waive his craving for human flesh and accept a ram in lieu:
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a
burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.322
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the
dead; from whence also he received him in a figure [he received Isaac
back from death].323
By the time of the return from Exile, Zoroastrianism and respect
of life heavily influenced the Jewish leaders. They distanced their
religion from human sacrifice. This corresponded to Yahweh completing
his transformation from a devoted son of the Great Goddess, through a
supernal trinity with two attributes of the great Goddess' Anatha of the
Lions and Ashima of the Doves, to become the sole ruler of the
universe.324 The post-exilic Jews, in their zeal for the one God, persuaded
themselves that they had never accepted the Great Triple Mother
Goddess, although their stories of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and
Moses might demonstrate otherwise.325
After the return from Exile, the practices that prevailed at the time
of King Solomon and King Hiram of Tyre, who was a priest of Melkarth
where child sacrifice was common, were no longer relevant. The new
Jewish approach recognized the absurdity and cruelty of murdering ablebodied
men. Annual male sacrifice became redundant with the cut of
ritual circumcision of the male phallus. It was sufficient evidence

of
God’s Covenant with man:326
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, As
for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of
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many nations. … And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto
Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore … Every man child
among you shall be circumcised … and it shall be a token of the covenant
betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised
among you, every man child in your generations...
A final ill-fitting characteristic of the Israelites explained by the
Anatolian compression is that their Semitic background was one of
accommodation rather than subjugation. While the Indo-Hittites and
particularly the Indo-Iranians were at their best wading knee-deep through
blood in their campaigns, ethnic cleansing was unusual amongst the Afro-
Asiatics and Semites. For example, the Semites of King Sargon I merged
with subject populations in Sumer rather than eliminating them.
Much later King David chose not to eliminate Semitic
populations in and around Jerusalem but to merge with them. In doing
this, he countermanded Yahweh's specific order. Yahweh had ruthlessly
rattled the sabers of the Israelites as they departed Egypt for Canaan. He
directed them to mercilessly murder the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the elite
Hurrian Jebusites, and those of nearby cities:
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before
you, … And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell
therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.327
But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give
thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But
thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord
thy God hath commanded thee …328
The Hivites (Hebrew chry) are the Horites (Hebrew chwy) and
more generally Achaeans or Hurrians.329 In other cities on the fringe of
the new state, Yahweh directed the Israelites to exact tribute or kill the
men and take the women and children as slaves:
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the
women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even
all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself.330
David acted to the contrary and with impunity from Yahweh. In
fact, there is little archeological evidence to support the conquest of
Canaan by Joshua and the Israelites. All destruction in Palestine accrues
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directly to recorded Egyptian campaigns in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries BCE.331 Furthermore, Joshua supposedly destroyed Jericho:332
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the
sword … And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only
the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into
the treasury of the house of the Lord.
When David ignored Yahweh’s genocidal commands, Yahweh
said nothing. Nor did Yahweh say ought when Joshua flagrantly ignored
two of the Moses’ Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not kill” and “Thou
shalt not steal.”
Yet, it was not the Israelites but one of their tribal enemies, the
Amorites, who raised Jericho in 1480BCE and continued to harass
Thutmose III from their new base there.
CJ Jung cannot dismiss the absence of human morality in
Yahweh's commands to the Israelites.333 He says that Yahweh
demonstrates a gross deficiency of reason and morality, the two
characteristics of a mature human mind. It provides an image of unethical
brutal force.
What Jung has perhaps overlooked is that these commands are
not of the personal god of the Israelites, Yahweh, but of storytellers
coming to grips with the Indo-Hittite god of war and trying to paint
Yahweh into the extremes. Exodus provides evidence for Yahweh
converting from a tribal deity to a nationalist one. In Exodus 3 Yahweh is
simply the god of the fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Exodus 6(3)
identifies him as the great El Shaddai. The power of the archetype is
destabilizing to the paradigm if pushed to extremes.
As we have noted, the Indo-Hittites favored oral communication
of myths and legends over written records. They developed verbal rituals
for transmission of their myths and Israelite emulation of this has resulted
in a profusion of Biblical archetypes later set down by Israelite and
Jewish authors. This has always been a particular trait of the illusive
Rosicrucians. Even today, it is usual in organizations such as the Scottish
Rite.
We have seen that the unique compression of Indo-Hittite and
Afro-Asiatic Semitic cultures produced the very unusual phenomenon of
the proto-Israelites. The Israelites and Indo-Hittites were then to join in a
cooperative commercial venture to secure the Commagene region of
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Anatolia from the Egyptians. This was to have the most far reaching of
effects, as we shall see in the next chapter.
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Chapter 6 Hyksos Invasion of Egypt
‘Tutimaeus. In his reign, for what cause I know not, a blast of
god smote us; and unexpectedly, from the regions of the East, invaders of
an obscure race marched in confidence against our land. By main force
that easily overpowered the rulers of the land, they then burned our cities
ruthlessly, razed to the ground the temples of the gods, and treated all the
natives with a cruel hostility, massacring some and leading into slavery
the wives and children of others.’
So said the Egyptian priest Manetho in 330BCE about the Hyksos
invasion that took place some one thousand five hundred years before his
own time.334 Savage evidence of severed limbs in grave pits seems to
support his claim.335
Manetho also wrote that the Hyksos escaped to Syria where they
built Jerusalem.336 Hekataios of Abdera similarly wrote in 300BCE that
Jewish tradition of the Exodus came from the expulsion of the Hyksos.337
He maintained the Israelites were the Hyksos. Although the Exodus is an
article of faith, modern archeologists are still unable to confirm or deny
the Biblical traditions. We still do not know whether the Exodus was
mythical or it actually occurred as described in the Bible. If it did occur,
it could be the Hyksos expulsion (as Hekataios maintains) or a later event.
It is, however, well recognized that the Hyksos conquerors of
Egypt were overwhelmingly Semitic speaking Levant Asiatics, because
most of the Hyksos names are Semitic. For example, Jacob exists as both
a Hyksos Prince (Mr wsr Rr/Yrkb hr, Yaqob) and the Biblical Palestine
identity.338 Yet the Semites of Western Palestine never otherwise
displayed the military might and war-technology necessary to mount a
sole invasion of Egypt.
The main war force of the Hyksos was Indo-Hittite and more
particularly Indo-Iranian Hurrian. These were the Haxa from Eastern
Iran. We know less about this military force because of their peculiar
characteristic of discouraging written records.
Because of their aversion to the written word, the Hurrians
seemed to leave non-military administration to the Semitic Levant
Asiatics, the proto-Israelites. This may well be the reason Joseph was a
vizier to the Pharaoh rather than a General.
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