The lore of Joseph, the Beautiful unfolds in the 12th chapter of the Quran; and unlike other chapters, this one focuses exclusively on Joseph's life, chronicling his voyage as the central figure around whom revolves much of this anecdote of Quran. Furthermore, the hermetic symbolism associated with the characters of this story is truly remarkable in the depiction of astrological archetypes as the cause factors of diverse experiences for the manifestation of latent divine wisdom in human beings.

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In Genesis 29:16 there’s the episode of when Jacob went to work for Laban (his uncle) – who promised him he would marry Rachel (with whom Jacob was in love) only if he worked for him for some time. It is stated that Jacob lifted the veil when the bride was given to him, and he didn’t realize it immediately but soon understood that the daughter that had been brought to him in marriage was in fact Leah (Rachel’s sister) and not Rachel (Genesis 29:19).

This biblical episode finds its roots in pagan mythology where the Latin god Mars was tricked into marriage with another goddess – even though the god Mars was actually in love with Minerva instead. The goddess "Anna Perenna" was disguised as Minerva and given a veil that covered her face (just as in the case of Leah putting a veil to hide herself from Jacob) and Mars ended up marrying Anna Perenna instead of Minerva until he realized.

Now, every culture told the story in its own way so they might place it in different contexts such as Jacob going to do work for Laban because he had a strong desire to marry Rachel or Mars wanting to marry in general and seeking the help of the other gods who then prepare this ruse where Anna Perenna is disguised as Minerva; but the events are the same.

And the same story is told yet again in the Britonic cycle where Lancelot sleeps with lady Elaine who disguised herself as lady Guinevere. Now, the desire of Leah the daughter of Laban was to be loved so she also agreed to the marriage with Jacob because that would be a way for her to be able to marry a man and be happy – but Jacob still didn’t love her since he was actually in love with Rachel; and for that reason Leah will then bear Jacob many children to try to make him love her.

The same way lady Elaine agreed to disguise herself as Guinevere (Lancelot’s lover) because she wanted the love of a man.

According to the Byzantine book called "Suidas" – the god Baal was worshipped also as Mars (despite being addressed as "Jupiter" in the more mainstream versions of the cult); and this is apparent also for the myth of Ares’ fight against the diorite giant named "Diorphos"; where this myth actually has its origins in the Anatolic myth of the Hurrian/Hittite storm-god Teshub who fights against the diorite giant called "Ullikummi". Thus – as one can see; Teshub was addressed as "Ares" in the Greek version of the myth (because the Greeks inherited the myth form the Middle East and readapted it in Greek terms calling the diorite monster "Diorphos" instead of "Ullikummi" – and equating Teshub with "Ares"). The text of the Suidas claims that a pillar was erected in Assyria where they would worship Baal as Mars. The Hurro-Hittite "Teshub" corresponds to the Canaanite "Baal". Euseubius’ Preparation for the Gospel speaks of the cult of Zeus Enyalios at Babylon; where Enyalios corresponds to Mars – but he’s also equated with Jupiter hence "Zeus/Jupiter Enyalius". This deity mentioned as "Zeus Enyalius" by the Greek writers likely corresponds to the Babylonian main god "Marduk" – who’s in turn equivalent with the Canaanite Baal.

Now, Marduk technically corresponds to two gods at the same time; since Marduk has the same cultic roles and epithets as Enlil (even going as far as being called "Bel" which was the title with whom Enlil had previously been called) – but at the same time Marduk is also equated with the dying-and-rising god "Dumuzid" thus signifying how the Babylonians were actually worshipping two gods in the persona of Marduk; Enlil and Tammuz. Both gods went through the same death-and-resurrection cycles which is why their cults were unified and worshipped as one.

It was also addressed previously in another post how the biblical character called "Jacob" is none other than the Hebrew version of the pagan god "Baal" that wrestles with the river – and in the Bible this episode was reinterpreted as Jacob wrestling with the "messenger of god" – "near a river".

So Jacob married Leah unintentionally and then realized the ruse when he lifted the veil; just as Mars married Anna Perenna unintentionally and only realized the ruse when he lifted the veil.

For those who have attempted/achieved Astral Travel: How do you deal with bodily "disruptions" to the entry process? I have read several basic how-tos on getting started, and have found a calm, quiet place and positioned myself effectively, but before entering hypnagogia I often get an itch or a twitch or something that pulls me back. Any suggestions?

Some random things have happened which all become very significant if I look at them from this angle. I've been obsessed with acquiring obsidian and black onyx all of a sudden. I've bought them. It's new for me. I have extremely vivid lucid dreams where I'm dealing with some very traumatic memories. Also I'm planning to get a pomegranate tattoo as a homage to the Queen of the underworld. I feel connected to her. What's significant is this is happening when someone who has put me through an insane amount of trauma now has a new victim and I on one hand have feelings of guilt because I don't know how to warm that person and I also want the perpetrator to suffer and pay for what they did. I'm the sort of person who prefers to forgive but this time I can't help but want a fitting punishment for them. I can't make sense of why I feel like calling on Persephone. Can someone please shed some light on this? Maybe it's just my base fears and anger wanting an outlet or can it mean something deeper than that?

It was already explained in previous posts how the biblical patriarchs were in fact ancient deities who were considered by the Bible to be mere "human beings" and regular "men and women" – because these ancient deities were claimed to have lived and died on earth just like humans; so some traditions later envisioned them as the "first humans" themselves and as the patriarchs of humanity. The name of Abraham is derived from "Ab" which means: "father" and "Hamon" which means: "multitude, plenty" and it can refer to both a multitude of people as the Bible claims – or a "multitude" in terms of "plenty, richness" – which is also hinted at by the Bible itself when it claims that Abraham migrated to the land of Egypt with a lot of richness.

The term "Ab" – "father"; is replaceable in Semitic terms by the divine title "Baal" because the word "Baal" means: "Lord, master, owner (of the household), husband" and by extension – also "father". The word "Hamon" is found for a particular Semitic deity worshipped also at Carthage and renown by the name "Baal Hammon"; and who was then worshipped as the "African Saturn" in Libya and Egypt and they sacrificed children to him because in Semitic mythology he was claimed to have sacrificed his own son on an altar at the orders of the God of the Sky. In Carthage the word "Hamon" had assumed a new meaning due to local dialects equating the word which sounded more similar in their language to the term "Hamon"; and thus giving the same word a new meaning i.e. that of "brazier" (according to academics), since he was the god of child sacrifices practiced through braziers; but the original term "Hamon" initially held the meaning of "prosperity, fertility, multitude, richness" as addressed previously and as expressed also by the nature of this god as well – who was called "Baal Hammon" and was a fertility and vegetation god. Thus the name "Baal Hammon" is completely equivalent with "Ab-Hamon" (father of a multitude, father of plenty) which was then constructed into the compound "Abraham".

Sanchuniathon a Phoenician priest who wrote his work entitled: "Phoenician History" – wrote about the history of the Phoenician gods and the genealogy of the pantheon. He claims that Saturn called in Greek "Kronos" (because the fragments of Sanchuniathon’s "Phoenician History" were reported in the works of the Greek writer Philo of Byblos) arrayed his own beloved son in royal apparel (meaning he dressed him up with "sacred vests") and sacrificed him on an altar to mark his covenant made with the God of the Sky; because after having sacrificed his son on an altar Saturn/Kronos circumcised himself and urged his followers to do the same as a symbol of that covenant. The Bible claims that Abraham arranged an altar and on it sacrificed his own beloved son Isaac because the God of the Sky had ordered him to do so. Abraham then circumcised himself as a symbol of the covenant he had just made with "God" and urged his followers to do the same. Now – in Sanchuniathon’s Phoenician History the "God of the Sky" who ordered Saturn/Kronos to sacrifice his son is called "Uranus" or "Ouranos" in the Greek manner. According to some Rabbinical traditions (medieval Ashkenaz) – Isaac actually died during the Akedah (the sacrifice) but was later resurrected so the Bible skipped over that part and directly claimed that the son never actually died in the first place. But it doesn’t end here. The term utilized by the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon to describe the son who was sacrificed by Cronus on the altar is "yehud" or "yedud" – and sometimes even spelled "yedid/yadid"; meaning "beloved" – and according to Genesis 22:2 Isaac was called "yahid" (favored son/only son) or "yadid" (beloved) himself (the minimal difference due to dialectical differences); thus confirming even more the one and the same nature for both accounts.

Now, Cronus would correspond to "Adam" himself i.e. a "god" or "man" born from the earth itself. The fact that Cronus sacrificed his own son on an altar in the form of "Abraham" is also confirmed with the "Adam" connection by Greek mythology itself – because in the Greek version of the Akedah (the sacrifice of Isaac) the one who sacrificed his own son is called "Athamas" and Athamas in that version would have sacrificed his son if not for the intervention of a lamb who was then replaced for the boy. In the Bible this other version of the sacrifice ("other" version when compared to the one contained in Rabbinical writings where Isaac actually died) is also reported – because the Bible claims that a lamb was then sacrificed in place of Isaac. So Abraham sacrificed a ram that appeared out of nowhere in place of Isaac whilst the Greek myth claims that a miraculously-appeared golden ram saved the son of Athamas from the sacrifice but then the ram itself was sacrificed instead. (There is also some differentiation between something that "looked like a ram" that saved the son of Athamas from the sacrifice; and then an actual real lamb that was sacrificed to Ares later).

"Athamas" would just be a folk etymology of "Adam" because the Semitic name or title "Adam" (earth-born) didn’t mean anything in Greek so the Greeks gave it an etymology of their own and approximated it to the closest word that sounded more similar to them in Greek; since the original matrix for the word (Indo-European) was inherited by both the Greeks and Hebrews alike and the word then evolved into different dialectical versions of its own according to the language spoken by the people who inherited the term – and the word assumed different meanings in each language also.

In Arabic genealogy in some versions of the story of the patriarchs (cited by Alexander Polyhistor who in turn quotes Molon) – they would skip over Jacob entirely and only recognize Isaac as the son of Abraham; and this is because as previously stated – there were two gods called "Cronus" (this was also mentioned when talking about the version of the Theomachy written by Ennius where he differentiates between a "good Cronus" and an "evil Cronus" – and the evil Cronus is called "Titan" or "Titanus" in Ennius’s Theomachy and given as the brother of Saturn i.e. the brother of the good Cronus); and the two Saturns were very often confused with each other since to both of them was attributed the rite of child sacrifice (one had to do it because he was forced by other people – whether it be the God of the Sky who ordered him to do it or as stated by Ennius in his version of the Theomachy – by his own senior brother "Titanus" who didn’t want any male children to be born and thus forced him to sacrifice male offspring or else he would threaten him; whilst the other Cronus on the other hand sacrificed children out of his own will and nobody forced him to do anything so he corresponds to the evil "Titan/Titanus" himself, who’s the senior brother of the "good Cronus" and he also performed sacrifices because he wanted all the male children dead).

So this is why some versions omit the third offspring in the genealogy (if it’s only Abraham and Isaac who are acknowledged and the one missing is Jacob) – because there were two "Cronuses" or two "Saturns" and since Saturn corresponds to "Abraham"; there were thus naturally two Abrahams. So if the genealogy takes into account the senior brother of Cronus who is Titanus and Titanus corresponding to the "evil Cronus" himself – is equated with Abraham at the start of the genealogy; then the other two individuals fall in line as being identified with Isaac and Jacob respectively – because the genealogy then starts off with the "evil Cronus". When the genealogy starts off with the evil Cronus it means that then there is the "good Cronus" who is equated with Isaac, and then there’s the son that the good Cronus himself had to sacrifice on an altar against his own will (as was told in the myth of Athamas who was forced to sacrifice his son) – and this third person in the genealogy would thus correspond to Jacob instead.

But if the first Cronus (the evil Cronus) is not taken into account and the genealogy starts directly from the "good Cronus" himself; then only Abraham and and Isaac are taken into account because in that case the "good Cronus" corresponds to Abraham and the son whom he sacrificed corresponds to Isaac instead; and the genealogy ends there because the "evil Cronus" is excluded from the genealogy altogether. (In that case the evil Cronus is excluded from the genealogy because being there "two Cronuses" / "two Saturns"; they were sometimes confused and believed to be the same person so they counted only one Saturn/Cronus).

The reason why the good Cronus is considered equivalent with "Isaac" when the "evil Cronus" (Titanus) starts off the genealogy – is because the "good Cronus" was the one who didn’t want to sacrifice children but was forced to do it – and in Greek mythology the one who didn’t want to sacrifice his son is Athamas as mentioned previously, so the two are equivalent; but Greek mythology then also claims that Athamas himself was sacrificed as well on an altar by someone else – and as such when the "evil Cronus" is taken into account; Athamas/the good Cronus slides back to the position of "Isaac" who is sacrificed by the evil Cronus (Titanus/Abraham) and then the other offspring (the one who was brought on an altar to be sacrificed by Athamas himself) is identified with Jacob instead. The reason why the Bible doesn’t mention a sacrifice for Jacob is because as observed even in the case of the Greek version – there was extensive confusion and syncretism between the three members of the genealogy so they became largely interchangeable and the myths of one were later attributed to the other and viceversa.

The story of the temptation of the woman by "the serpent" refers to when Gaia left Uranus, and married Cronus in the form of Rhea. Eggs were smeared with Cronus’s semen and Typhon was born, so Typhon is Cain as the offspring of Cronus/Satan. Anu is called "the living one" in Sumerian mythology because he was the first of the Anunnaki and he created a clan of his own thus creating the "Anunnaki" as they are ("Anunnaki" meaning "offspring" or "descendants of Anu", so he created that clan and he was the first of the Anunnaki himself). Thus based on this interpretation he was the "first living one" and the "first living being created" who was created by the "God" also mentioned in the Bible who "shapes living beings out of clay"; and this "God" who shapes beings into existence is divided into a female principle and a male principle and they are called "Apsu" and "Tiamat" (or Nammu) in Sumerian mythology. They are the ones that through the "mingling" of the waters (and that water is then also called the "clay" i.e. the "clay of the Abzu", the Abzu being the location of the waters of Apsu and Tiamat) they mold and shape beings into existence. So when the goddess of the earth (Gaia/Rhea) left the god of the Sky (Anu/Uranus) and joined Cronus/Saturn – this refers to when the woman leaves Adam and is tempted by the Serpent joining him and having a son with him who will be the "evil Cain" (Typhon in Greek mythology).

Typhon will then kill his brother Zeus out of jealousy – and Zeus is swallowed up by the earth until he can resurrect because his body is restored (Zeus had lost his "sinews" and was thus dismembered according to the myth – until his sinews were restored). In that case the one "Zeus" who did the battle against Typhon is not the same Zeus as the God of the Sky Anu/Uranus but another Zeus who had been chosen by the God of the Sky to rule on earth just like Abel had been chosen by "God" and predilected by him over Cain; and this aroused Cain’s jealousy who then prompted him to attack his brother. Zeus will then elect a "successor" to replace him on the throne because Zeus is officially "dead" and can’t get back on the throne until he has recovered his strength – and this is where the birth of Dionysus Zagreus (the one Zeus called "Sabazios") comes into place. In Biblical terms this refers to the birth of "Seth" the son of Adam who is born to be a replacement to Abel. Just as a side note – Typhon is renown for the redness of his hair in Greek mythology just like Cain also is in the Bible (and naturally Set in Egyptian mythology as well).

The reason why these individuals were called by many different names throughout the centuries (for example Cronus/Saturn being called "Adam" in the Bible and later "Abraham" after the Flood) was because these ancient deities were able to live a very long time and keep prolonging their lifespan indefinitely – so this allowed them to live for centuries or even millennia in some cases and when different ages on earth started and ended; the humans who lived in those eras would always mistakenly believe these ancient deities to be brand new people every time – and to always be different people from the ones who had lived before; so they called them by many different names according to the era and age in which they were living at the time. This is also why they are claimed to have died and been born many times over – because before having their lifespan renewed they would actually appear old to the people who saw them and then they would disappear for a period of time and when they were seen again and came back into the public – they would appear young in appearance once again. So this made people think that the previous "old person" who had disappeared had died; and the "young one" who was now visible was instead a new person who had been born – when in fact it was actually still the same person throughout.

This is described in Rabbinical writings where it’s explained how Abraham conceived Isaac at such an old age (Abraham was 100 when he had Isaac but the years "100" are calculated according to the god’s perspective – meaning that to him he had lived the same as what a human being would perceive to be 100 years; but since the metric systems for counting the ages of the gods were different for every civilization – when they converted the numbers in different measuring systems, some ridiculously long ages could be reduced to being "only" 120 years or 800 or even 900 years because the metric systems were different; and thus the numbers contained in the Bible are such because that’s how the Hebrews counted in their very own metric system. But for example in the Sumerian metric system the same number that corresponds to 100 years in the Bible could correspond to 1000 years in the Sumerian counting system instead; which is why there are Sumerian kings and deities who are claimed to have lived up to 30 thousand years in Mesopotamian mythology. So the ages are not to be taken at face value 100% because according to the different conversions and metric systems the years could be greatly reduced or increased according to whomever made the calculations – but what needs to be taken into account is that the gods were able to live for centuries and even millennia in some cases). In Rabbinical writings it’s explained that both Sarah and Abraham had grown old and had white hair and appeared like two old persons would in physical appearance and body capability – but God decided to intervene and restore the youth of both Abraham and Sarah. (This is claimed by Rav Hisda i.e. Rabbi Hisda who states: "the flesh was rejuvenated and the wrinkles were straightened, and beauty was restored as it has once been" – Talmud, Bava Metzia 87a). Rabbinical writings furthermore claim that when the youthfulness of Abraham was restored – people couldn’t distinguish between the father and the son because they looked the same; so this posed a problem as to whom they should pay their respects first when they enter a tent, if they can’t recognize the father from the son. Such is still stated in the Baba Metzia, 87a where it concludes with this passage:

"Until Abraham, there was no old age. Whoever wanted to speak to Abraham, would speak to Isaac; whoever wanted to speak to Isaac, would speak to Abraham. Abraham then came and asked for mercy, as it was said, And Abraham was old, advanced in years."

This means that they couldn’t distinguish father from son and they would address Abraham as "Isaac" or Isaac as "Abraham" interchangeably because they couldn’t distinguish them (this is also what led to what was mentioned previously in the genealogy; where the three members of the genealogy itself i.e. the three male patriarchs became largely interchangeable and confused with each other).

This passage is explained even further in another version taken from the "Sanhedrin" which is a tractate contained in the Talmud in the section called: "Seder Nezikin" – "the order of damages"; meaning civil and criminal proceedings dealing with damages:

"Whoever would see Abraham, would say 'here is Isaac', and whoever would see Isaac would say, 'here is Abraham'" adding at the end: "and people would greet Isaac before Abraham" (MSS Florence II-I-9 and Jerusalem-Yad Harav Herzog 1).

The same genealogy of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as being: Cronus 1 (the evil Cronus), Cronus 2 (the good Cronus), and then the son of the good Cronus (corresponding to Jacob) – refers also to the genealogy where in the Norse myth there’s Ymir; the primordial giant who would kill children (the children or "creations" of Burí) because he didn’t want another creation to be born and potentially threaten his rule; so he killed the beings who were brought into existence by "Burí" – the father of the gods. Then from Burí will be born Borr who will challenge Ymir by creating his own lineage where Odin, Vili and Vé dismember Ymir. The "dismemberment" of Ymir doesn’t actually refer to the killing of the "giant" per se; but to the destruction of a giant structure that contained life and "life-giving water" inside it – and it was then interpreted as being the "body of Ymir" because Ymir was in charge of it. (The "structure" with which Ymir is sometimes identified could have been a dam since after Ymir is "dismembered" a flood is claimed to have run over the Northern hemisphere of the world). So Ymir is sometimes interpreted as a living being while other times as a lifeless structure who didn’t really move and was destroyed by the sons of Borr (Odin, Vili and Vé) even though Odin took most of the credit. As such the genealogy slides back to the identification of Burí himself as being the "living Ymir" i.e. the actual primordial giant who was a being made of flesh and blood (and not coincidentally Burí is claimed to have given birth to children the same way Ymir did, through an "unknown" and possibly hermaphroditic process) – and then Borr who subsequently has a son – Odin, will give birth to the "supplanter" Odin who destroys Ymir by wrestling with him. The same genealogy is given in Germanic myths where "Tuisto" (a primordial deity who was claimed to have been born from the earth) has a son Mannus; and Mannus has three children of whom – only one of them is the strongest and he distinguishes himself in battle.

In the Scythian myth there is Papaios; the father-god – who has a son Dargatavah; who has three children and the strongest one of them is named "Skuda" or "Scythes", the ancestor of all Scythians. He’s a "supplanter" because he rid all his other brothers of their glory; since he was the best and supplanted all of them taking all the inheritance for himself because the others weren’t up to the task. The reason why the Bible only mentions one brother for Jacob and not two – is because Jacob and Esau were confused with the primordial figures of the "good Cronus" and the "evil Cronus" mentioned previously; where Cronus will then give birth to the Olympians and create all the "tribes" of Olympian gods – the tribes being 12 due to the symbology of sun-worship (which is why then in the Bible 12 sons are attributed to Jacob). So Jacob and Esau were then considered equivalent once again with the "good Cronus" and "evil Cronus" themselves – and as such claimed to be only two. The story of the "good Cronus" (Saturn) and "evil Cronus" (Titanus) as being brothers (one senior, the other junior; even though in some versions they were also envisioned as father and son) – is once again reinstated in other Greek equivalents of the two brothers who constantly fight for power – and one is considered a "good king" while the other is considered an "evil king" instead. Such is the case for the myth of Panopeus and his brother Crisus who were already fighting in their mother’s womb according to the myth; and also of Proteus and Acrisius who were also claimed to have fought in their mother’s womb as well. (Acrisius not coincidentally was the one who had ordered the killing of the firstborn Perseus because he’d received a prophecy that he would be dethroned so he ordered for Perseus to be thrown into the sea; thus confirming the identity of Acrisius as being the "evil brother" and "evil Cronus" who murdered the children that posed a threat to his throne). As a further confirmation the battle of the two brothers who were then considered equivalent with Jacob and Esau in the Bible due to confusion – is also depicted in Egypt with the struggle between Osiris and Set; and Horus then is born as a replacement for Osiris just as Seth in the Bible is born as a replacement for the dead Abel. The definitive connection between Horus and the biblical Seth is found in the biography of both children where – Seth was claimed to have been bitten by a wild beast (sent by Satan) when he was outside the Garden of Eden and was wandering off with his mother Eve; and the same way the child Horus was claimed to have been attacked by a wild beast when traversing through the desert with his mother Isis – and in both cases just as Eve saves Seth by appealing to God; Isis will heal Horus of the bite from the wild beast (the beast having been sent by Set).

When Achilles was fatally wounded in the Temple of Apollo while he was offering a libation; Greek writers that spoke of the assassination in greater detail explained how Paris and Deiphobus (his brother) had amassed a small contingent of soldiers which stood outside the temple and they were to either arrest Achilles or kill him.

When Deiphobus approached Achilles he hugged him in order to identify him to the guards so that they knew who their target was and he then gave him a kiss. Paris then shot the arrow that fatally wounded Achilles while Achilles was being held firm by Deiphobus. The guards didn’t need to intervene, since Achilles lived shortly after that and perished from his fatal wound according to the Greek version of the death of this figure.

The elements of this story were then slightly rearranged in the Christian version where the fatal blow is instead made to coincide with the same blow that the "son of god" had received on the cross. What actually happened is that the figure of the "son of god" was wounded (impaled) twice by a projectile weapon – once by an arrow as the Greek myth pertains; and later when he was affixed on a tree he was impaled once again with a spear. Christianity unified both of these accounts and turned both impalements into only one single impalement which happened on the cross – probably because if they kept the original story as it was and people would have then seen that Jesus was in fact impaled twice; people would start doubting Jesus’ nature as a human being because humans aren’t so resilient to the point that they can withstand two impalements back to back. (Because the objective of the Christian church was to present Jesus as a regular man in order to make him more pathetic and turn him into someone with whom humans could sympathize more easily).

But the nature of these two impalements was kept as is in the pagan version of the crucifixion where the young Odin is hanging from the tree (because there were two Odins according to Scandinavian folklore – a young Odin and an old Odin) and he is speared in the abdomen by "Odin" himself; and the fact that the myth claims that "Odin impaled Odin" refers to what’s been stated just now; that there were in fact two Odins.

Now the young Odin when he was not worshipped as the main god of the pantheon and was instead worshipped as the "beloved son" of the "father" (the father being the old Odin and the chief of the pantheon); this "young Odin" was instead addressed with the title "Baldr" or "Baldur" in those cases (Baldr meaning "lord, prince") – and in those cases Baldr is also impaled by a spear made with a handle of mistletoe and the one who spears him is the "blind god" Hödr. The same way the one who speared Jesus was the "blind soldier" Longinus.

Conclusions drawn by comparison and study of many mythologies and by taking information from each and every one of them in order to draw final comparisons and common conclusions between them.

The Serpent i.e. "Satan" (which is simply a title because in Semitic languages it means: "adversary, enemy" and that’s literally just it – nothing mystical about it) rebelled against the Sky-god and castrated him (figuratively, meaning that he took away the control of earth from the Sky-god’s dominion). After that Satan little by little established his own dominion on earth but he had to defeat the sons of the Sky-god first; who were ruling all over the earth at that time on behalf of their Sky-father.

Satan and his faction were called "Titans" in Greek mythology (whose leader was Saturn/Cronus) and considered "demons" in Mesopotamian mythology as well as later Judeo-Christian culture; and they were weaker compared to the children of the Sky-god – the children of the Sky-god being instead called "Anunnaki" in Sumerian ("offspring of Anu"; where Anu was the Sky-god) or the "sons" of Ahura Mazda (Ohrmazd) in Persian (where Ahura Mazda is the Sky-god and god of Light) or called the "Olympians" in Greek mythology as children of Uranus, the Sky-god and Gaia of course. (Usually the offspring of Cronus are considered to be "Titans" in the widespread version of the Theogony; but in another more detailed version of said Theogony where Saturn is actually cast as a "good guy" – he is given as the sibling of a certain "Titan/Titanus" who’s the evil brother of Cronus/Saturn; and in that case it is Titan/Titanus who’s the leader of the "Titans" and Cronus/Saturn is instead addressed as the ancestor of the Olympians, because he was the father of the progenitors of the Olympian gods i.e. Rhea, Hyperion, Oceanus etc. who then gave birth to Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite etc.). Now, because the Titans and Satan (Titanus, their leader) were weaker compared to the children of the sky-god (Cronus and the progenitors of the Olympians, who were sons of Uranus and Gaia) – they thus refused to do an all-out war against the children of the Sky-god since they knew they’d be defeated in a face to face confrontation. So Satan and his faction started conspiring behind everyone’s backs and they made it so that the society of the children of the Sky-god would become more and more corrupted little by little; to the point where the children of the Sky-god themselves would basically self-destruct without knowing it.

Satan first of all wanted the next heir to the throne to be a member of the faction of the Titans and not an Olympian anymore. This version of the Theogony is contained in Ennius’s "Sacra historia" where as stated previously – the leader of the Titans is called "Titan" himself or "Titanus" and he’s given as the brother of Saturn who’s instead envisioned as a good guy in this version of the Theogony. So Cronus is given as the leader of the Olympians whilst Titanus or "Titan" is given as the leader of the opposing faction i.e. the Titans. On the other hand the more widely spread version of the Theogony lists Zeus as the leader of the Olympians and Cronus as the leader of the Titans. This is because there were two gods called "Cronus" simultaneously – a "good" Cronus who was the leader of the Olympians and an "evil" Cronus who was the leader of the Titans. The "evil" Cronus/Saturn in this version of the Theogony is instead addressed with the name of "Titan" or "Titanus" himself; and he goes up against the "good Cronus" who’s the leader of the progenitors of the Olympians (the pre-Olympians). Zeus in this version of the Theogony only comes into play later – after the war between Cronus and Titanus is over. Now, Titanus or "Titan" as the leader of the homonymous faction (the Titans) corresponds to "Satan" himself. So Titanus/Satan allowed Cronus to rule over the earth on one condition; that the next heir to the throne would be a member of the Titans and that Cronus himself would raise no male children whatsoever nor allow for any male offspring to be born, which is why Cronus then had to kill all of his children (especially the male ones) by swallowing them according to the myth – because he wanted to prevent a war between Titans and Olympians. But in the meantime Satan/Titanus was conspiring behind everyone’s back to gather his strength and bring Cronus’s rule down as soon as possible.

Although when a male child actually ended up being born (Zeus) there was an all out war and the Titans were eventually defeated as predicted (even though they had some temporary victories) and the Titans were imprisoned because they were still weaker compared to the other faction (the children of the Sky-god). But Satan/Titanus was still conspiring behind everyone’s backs and he pretended to be dead and went into hiding. So little by little he started spreading homosexuality throughout the earth to make it so that the earth’s population didn’t grow in number anymore (thus preventing the growth of the population of the children of the Sky-god i.e. the "Olympians and pre-Olympians" who were inhabiting the earth at that time – so by converting everyone or at least a large part into homosexuals; he made sure that his enemies wouldn’t multiply anymore in numbers as much as they did before. This is why in a lot of cultures there’s the stupid notion that homosexuality is somewhat "demonic" and bullshit like that – because for example according to Persian tradition it was Ahriman i.e. the Persian "Devil" who spread homosexuality throughout the earth as a means to keep the earth’s population down and destroy the children of Ahura Mazda (the Sky-god). So he was also seen as the "inventor" of homosexuality for that very reason. Ahriman of course corresponds once again to "Satan" (the adversary) and to the figure of "Titan" or "Titanus" mentioned previously, the enemy of the Olympians and pre-Olympians.

Now, after the rule of Cronus was over when the war against Titanus ended; the one "Zeus" who was ruling over the earth at that time was the so-called "Cretan Zeus" or the "Latin/Roman Jupiter" variously called "Picus" or "Jupiter Picus"; who was claimed to have been born in Crete (because they equated him with the Cretan Zeus and in Latin legends he even claims that he wants to be buried in Crete when he dies). This particular Zeus was the son of the Mother-Goddess. He was worshipped with the names "Velchanos" (Zeus Velchanos) in Crete, "Zagreus" by the Orphic and "Sabazios" by the Phrygians (who equated him with Zagreus) and he was considered equivalent with both Zeus and Dionysus at the same time. The reason why "official" Greek mythology doesn’t speak of Zeus ever being dethroned is because there were multiple gods called "Zeus" who succeeded each other as kings of Olympus one after the other – so according to a more "general view" and a "generalistic mentality"; Zeus technically was never gone because there was always another Zeus/Jupiter to succeed the previous one. (Cicero in his "De Natura Deorum" speaks of "three Jupiters" in total). Now, the Titans conspired against this particular Zeus who was ruling at the time (called Zagreus, Sabazios) and they killed him (ripped him apart). The myth of Zagreus also mentions how Zagreus himself had become a "Zeus" – because he’d been chosen by the "previous Zeus" who left the kingdom in charge of the boy and gave him his thunderbolts; so once again reinforcing the idea that there were more than a single Zeus, and Zagreus was the one "Zeus" ruling at the time.

After this particular Zeus was dead murdered by the Titans – the Sky-father came to earth and killed all the Titans in revenge for the death of his son and for the chaos and destruction that the Titans themselves had spread throughout the earth with their conspiracies. The rest of the Titans he tortured and imprisoned them. So the few Titans left that survived and managed to escape – started playing the role of victims and they stated that they’d been the victim of an "unfair genocide" because the Sky-god had slaughtered them all; so they started to create places of worship and cults where they would ask people for money and for charity because the Titans apparently were the victims of a genocide that needed charity-money to "save these poor souls". They also started to claim that Zagreus/Sabazios who had been murdered by the Titans actually killed himself with his own hands and nobody hurt him – which is why in some versions of the death of the god (whether he’s called "Attis" in Phrygia or even "Shiva" in India; the god is instead claimed to have "killed himself" or "castrated himself" because he was "mad" and thus he did it all to himself "out of madness"). So this made it seem as though the Titans had been mercilessly slaughtered without a reason and that the Titans were innocent.

With the money and funds that they’d gained out of charity and out of all the places of worship which they’d set up – they began to build the Tower of Babel. The Titans by that point were called "Giants" because after the Sky-god slaughtered them all they had multiplied once again on the earth and the new generation was redubbed as "Giants". This was technically the second Tower they would build because the first one had been built at the time when Zagreus ruled. After Zagreus was dead the Sky-god killed the Titans, destroyed the First Tower and sent a Flood over the earth. After said Flood the Giants/Titans regrouped establishing themselves in Babylon and they created another Tower. The Sky-god had gone into hiding into the skies and never showed himself; because after the death of his son he didn’t want anything to do with earth anymore.

The Titans elected a ruler of their own who would become the "Antichrist" of Revelation. The Devil/Satan at this point still pretended to be dead so he inhabited the inside of the Tower not showing his face outside; and he would tell the Antichrist what to do (which paves the way for the imagery where the Devil whispers into the ears of the Antichrist and tells him what to do and what to say). The Antichrist spread homosexuality and all the affiliated cultures that come with it once again throughout the earth; in order to keep the earth’s population down and prevent the children of the Sky-god to grow in numbers again and potentially rebel. The Antichrist also swore to completely eradicate women and make them obsolete – not by killing them but by making it so that they wouldn’t conceive children any longer and that they would abandon everything that identified them as being women. (This is where the mentality of Saint Peter comes into play; because Peter says in the Gospel of Thomas that women have to become men in order to "achieve salvation").

The original Jesus corresponds to Zagreus and the Titans ate his flesh so this is what it means when Jesus says: "eat, this is my body offered for you" – because Zagreus decided to die to save mankind and the earth as a whole after the Titans had conspired against him and attacked him since they wanted his power; so he gave it to them because he didn’t care about power even when he had it – and he gave them the power they sought on the condition that they would let humans live and be free and there wouldn’t be any war between the two factions (the children of the Sky-god and the Titans). Zagreus was represented by the pomegranate which is why Jesus is also represented by the pomegranate and depicted while holding it or having it next to him. The Titans wanted immortality which according to ancient mentality doesn’t actually refer to "living forever" but it instead refers to the capacity to be able to live for a very long time (to prolong one’s own lifespan). The blood and flesh of the "son of God" i.e. Zagreus – contained a liquid or a nectar that granted immortality/long-lasting life so the Titans dismembered him, ate his flesh and drank his blood to obtain long-lasting life. Zagreus/the son of God willingly sacrificed himself after the Titans had brought him down conspiring against him. On the other hand the second Messiah who’s the Antichrist – after the death of Zagreus/the first Messiah – the Antichrist had instead a completely different mentality. He was power hungry, he created proselytism and spread the notion that war and slaughtering as well as division between people are all just and pure, but he pretended that war and division were only "necessary steps" in order to achieve "true unity". (So he convinced everyone that the world was full of corrupt people – and that they needed to fight "some wars" in order to rid the world of "tyrants" and "dictators" who were preventing "true world peace"; when in reality they themselves were the tyrants and the dictators who were spreading nothing but chaos and violence on the earth. This is also why in the Bible every war that the Old Testament God does and encourages or he participates in is called a "Holy War" – because they are the "righteous ones" and every war that they do is "justified and holy". The wars of others are on the other hand "wrong" and "not justifiable"). In the Gospels when Jesus says: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household." – Matthew 10:34 – this is the Antichrist talking; but since after the death of the original Messiah (Zagreus/Jesus) the Antichrist took the name of the original Messiah and pretended to be him – later on the two cults were fused together and reinterpreted because the real Messiah and the fake Messiah were believed to be the same person, so they were confused with each other. This is why in the Gospels Jesus acts in a much contradictory manner a lot of times – first stating that he wants peace and love, and then denying all of that by saying that he came to bring the sword instead. They were actually two Messiahs preaching at the same time, but the evil one ended up winning over the good one and prevailing because the good one was killed.

So the Antichrist advocated for the masculinization of women – and this refers as mentioned to the doctrine of Saint Peter who in the Gospel of Thomas says that women have to become men. In the apocrypha Saint Peter is claimed to have feigned his affection towards Jesus and to have been fake all along – so after he became a member of Jesus’s Apostles; he learned what he could from the Messiah and what was beneficial/useful to him, and then after the Messiah was dead; he migrated and created a church of his own with the knowledge he’d learned from Christ (the church he created was the Roman Church) – but this new Church preached almost exactly the opposite of what Jesus had taught. Peter himself is to be identified with the Antichrist because "Toledot Yeshu" i.e. "Life of Jesus" – claims that after the death of Jesus Peter migrated with some others of the disciples of Jesus that had betrayed him – and he separated them by giving them laws of their own that were different from the ones that Jesus imparted. The Toledot Yeshu furthermore adds that Peter had a Tower built for him and he went and lived in that tower by himself, preaching his "philosophy" and his new doctrines (who were opposite to those of Jesus). This is of course once again a reference to the Antichrist and his preaching of "new ways of living" from his dwelling which was the Tower of Babel (other times interpreted as a "temple" as well). In the "Pistis Sophia" Mary Magdalene claims that: "I am afraid of Peter, because he threatens me and hates our gender." The terming "our gender" is rendered in other translations as "our sex" – thus referring to Peter’s hatred of women and the female gender, the female sex to which Magdalene belonged.

The Antichrist alongside the Titans also made it so that they would start mixing their DNA with the one of the children of the Sky-god because Satan wanted the children of the Sky-god to go extinct; so he would have them genetically intermixing until there were none of them left because the DNA of the Titans was predominant and it would have eventually prevailed over the one of the children of the Sky-god – if they kept mixing continuously generation after generation. The story of the Exodus in the Bible is the one of the Titans that were invading foreign countries and dislodging the original inhabitants of those countries i.e. the children of the Sky-god who were living in those territories. (The patriarchs were all primordial deities originally, but were later interpreted as mere "men and women" who were the "children of the Sky-god" because they were affiliated with him; and they were remembered as mere "humans" because they were claimed to have lived and died on earth). The Bible claims that Moses and the Israelites went up against Edomites, Amalekites, Madianites (Midianites), Ammonites etc. The orders were always: "exterminate them all". But the Edomites were descended from "Edom" i.e. Esau; Jacob’s twin brother. The Amalekites were descended from Amalek, descendant of Esau. The Midianites were descendants of Midian, the son of Abraham. The Ammonites were descendants of Lot’s son Ben-Ammi, and Lot was the nephew of Abraham. As you can see they were killing each other amongst relatives but most importantly – they were killing the same ones that "God" in the Old Testament had placed inside of those territories himself – because the Bible claims that "Elyon" – which is the Hebrew word that is rendered as "God Most High"; made the divisions at the beginning of times dividing the earth according to the numbers of the children of Israel; and he gave them all an assigned territory. So the people that Moses and the Israelites were exterminating were living in those territories because God himself had placed them inside those territories to live there. And yet – we are supposed to believe that God was actually the one who was on Moses’s side so he’s the same person that’s ordering all of those executions to free up space and make those territories inhabitable for Moses and his followers to settle in. Now this begs the question – if it was the same God who had placed those people in those territories at the beginning of times… couldn’t he have just asked them to move to another territory or to go away in order for Moses and his followers to settle in? And also, if he’s God – couldn’t he just order it or demand it of them because the same people that lived inside those territories were doing so thanks to God; so God could have also given them orders to go all away to make room for Moses and they would have obeyed because they needed to respect God’s authority?. No. Apparently "God" sees it fit to waste all this time and effort to go around exterminating the same ones he himself had supposedly ordered to settle inside those territories. According to Plutarch the god "Typhon" who corresponds to the Egyptian "Set" – had two sons who were called "Hierosolymos" and "Iudaios". According to Tacitus Hierosolymos and Iudaios led a multitude of people out of Egypt, so there were two leaders of the people out of Egypt, not just one. This explains why Moses is regarded as a positive figure yet he acts in such heinous ways in the Old Testament; because there were two of them. A "good" Moses and an "evil" Moses. The "good" Moses received the laws from God the Father, and he led a population out of Egypt and when he settled in those territories he cohabited with the natives of that country. The "other" Moses instead received the laws from Satan/The Devil and with those laws that were opposite to those of "God the Father"; he led a population to those same territories but everywhere he went he exterminated everybody. Now in some traditions the "good brother" is instead envisioned as the son of the Sky-god/God the Father instead of Typhon/The Devil like the Greek narrative holds, but it matters little. What matters is that there was "a good leader of the people" and an "evil leader of the people"; but they were confused with each other and believed to be the same person all over again.

According to the writer Epiphanius, who talks about the teachings of a certain "Simon Magus" – who corresponds to Jesus although envisioned as a "magician" because he performed miracles; Simon Magus/Jesus says that the laws contained in the Old Testament are the product of a "sinister power" and are not the laws of the true God; which means that Satan pretended to be God and gave his own prophet (the Antichrist) different laws, who were later passed as being laws that came "from God".

Now the Titans were presented as refugees who needed shelter and help because the Titans claimed to be the victims of a genocide so they needed help and support; but once they would get access to those territories that would shelter them; they would completely try to eradicate the local population that was inhabiting there by starting to do violence against them, in order to take advantage of their hospitality and gradually replace them.

Titanus/Satan and his faction (the Titans) also aimed to feminize the man so that there wouldn’t be anybody who could challenge the Antichrist (because back in the day the power of the throne was split in two; there was the throne of the queen who could only be inherited by a woman and the throne of the male who could only be inherited by a man). Since the Antichrist was a male and he’d been elected to the position of absolute monarch (although the Antichrist never admitted it since he preferred to stay in the shadows and play the victim so that no one would suspect him) – naturally all potential competitors and threats to his throne would have been males, but if all the males were feminized and degraded/brought down as much as possible, there were none left. As far as the females go – the Antichrist and Satan bought the women off by giving them privileges over the male and extra rights that allowed them a variety of disarray without repercussions; as well as giving them money, well-being, power, overall wealth etc. over the male.

To reference this there’s mention of how Cronus in Sanchuniathon’s History (Sanchuniathon is a Phoenician Priest who wrote down the History of the Gods according to the Phoenicians) and he claims that after the "evil Kronos" had rebelled against the Sky-god, he managed to convert all the women to his side because the Sky-god had sent many of his daughters to try to kill Kronos, but he bought them all off with power and riches. So the women were given extra privileges over the males.

The reason is because the Antichrist also wanted to turn women against men; so he told women that they were slaves to the male and that they needed to rebel, and later women became a protected class with money and privileges because they had been told they were victims of men. When the Antichrist who’s presented as "Jesus" – says to Salome (an Apostle of the original Jesus) in the "Greek Gospel of the Egyptians"; that death will hold sway over the world: "So long as women bring forth (give birth), for I (the Antichrist presented as "Jesus") come to end the works of the female" – Salome is manipulated by those words into believing that not giving birth is a good thing so she responds with: "Then I have done well in not bringing forth (giving birth)" to children. This way they kept the earth’s population down even more by turning the two sexes one against the other. Women not giving birth to children was seen as yet another revolutionary thing that women would do to rebel against the men.

In reality the Antichrist and the Titans were misogynists who saw women as inferior and stupid which is why they bought them all off with money and privileges – as well as power and riches; because they thought less of them. Peter says it himself in the Gospel of Thomas: "women aren’t worthy of life" – and yet the Antichrist and his doctrine pretended to be feminist and "for women" because he wanted to eradicate both men and women as they are and spread hatred between the genders. So in the most "inner circles" of their religion and cult they wouldn’t allow women, but on the "outside" they would pretend to be "for women" and to champion the feminist cause. The same way the Titans also didn’t mix themselves genetically with others amongst the élite families – but they wanted everyone else to intermix genetically instead so they championed it pretending to be all supportive of mixed marriages. And yet their misogyny for example was still apparent in the fact that they wanted to masculinize women and to have women become men – which pretty much shows their hatred for women because they won’t let women be women. And their racism was still apparent since by acting as "perpetual victims" they would still present themselves as somewhat of a "superior race" because being "victims"; nobody could criticize them nor do anything against them. The Antichrist referred to himself and his followers always as "the poor" (for example when "Jesus" who’s actually the Antichrist in this case – says in the Gospels that in order to follow him one must sell everything he has and give it to "the poor" – "the poor" in this case actually refers to their brotherhood/sect; so that they can put their hands on the riches of others through acts of charity); and thus they called themselves "the poor" because they still pretended to be poor and victimized even when they’d achieved absolute power.

Immortality most likely doesn’t exist in the sense in which fantasy and human fiction has taught its audiences.

Ancient myths speak of "deities" that were able to prolong their lifespans but to them the idea of "immortality" meant "keep living indefinitely"; as in – "for as long as the body could keep going". There’s examples of this in the myth of Medea rejuvenating Aeson the father of Jason (her lover) in Greek mythology; by replacing his blood entirely, and also in the Baba Metzia (a Jewish book) where Abraham and Sarah are granted youth again by quote on quote "God" – who submits them to a treatment that straightens out their wrinkles and brings back color to their hair. They also reacquired the body capabilities of young people again, so essentially their bodies were completely rejuvenated and renovated.

The Hebrew word indicating "immortality" or "eternity" in the Christian sense is "olam"; but "olam" means "unknown" and not "eternity" (even though it is always falsely translated as "eternity" in Christian Bibles) – because by having one’s youth restored the body would thus be able to keep living for some time again, but one can never know exactly when the process of keeping-on rejuvenating oneself will stop working, because eventually it will. The treatment would thus eventually reach a limit and the effects would not work anymore on the body because the body essentially reaches its natural limits.

The “Toledot Yeshu” (Life of Jesus) mentions a “cabbage” field or a “vegetable garden” as the site for the crucifixion of Jesus as well as his final resting place. The word “cabbage” has been linked with the imagery of the cross since Jesus was claimed in the Toledot Yeshu to have been crucified on the stalk of a giant cabbage that grew in the garden of one named Yehudah “the gardener” (a look-alike of the Messiah that made it so that Mary Magdalene herself later mistook the resurrected Jesus for this same gardener, when she was found mourning the death of her lover in the very same field where he’d been killed). Wild cabbage may reach even three meters in height, and when it blossoms, it is covered with cross-shaped flowers which is suggested by the name of its vegetable family – cruciferae (cross-shaped); belonging to the brassicaceae group.

Of the brassicaceae one in particular resembles a perfectly shaped cross-sign; which would later go on to influence also the interpretation for the flowers present at the grave of Jesus as being Stars of Bethlehem (later connected with the birth of the Messiah as well), due to their somewhat similar design and color; and the name of this particular member of the brassicaceae family is the “Eruca” also known as “Rocket” (Roquette). Thus the imagery of Jesus being crucified on the stalk of a cabbage literally means Jesus being crucified on a “cross” – judging by the flowers of roquette brassicaceae that were present in the garden. The word “cabbage” has been used generically speaking by writers such as Theophrastus when describing more than one type of field vegetable such as the wild cabbage itself or wild white mustard. In the Greek myth likewise – Adonis dies in a vegetable field but this time of lettuces, so the versions varied. Despite being able to grow tall – the supposed “cabbage” on which Jesus had received the crucifixion could also refer to the massive trunk of a tree that resembled a cabbage plant once it has grown and has reached notable altitudes – but on a much larger scale. Given that the episodes belonging to the life of Christ didn’t actually take place at the time of the Roman Empire and neither did they happen in relatively recent times either – but were only later on readapted to fit a modern timeline because there was a strict desire to create a brand new religion; so it had to be based and grounded on a more recent historical and cultural background otherwise nobody would care since the more ancient religions (such as Mithraism, the cult of Sol Invictus etc.) had all failed in keeping people invested because they became too antiquated and the general public in Rome and the West simply lost interest – because of this – the plant on which the crucifixion of Jesus had taken place could also refer to a prehistoric plant or a kind of plant now extinct in modern times.

This would arch back once again to the mythology and themes of the so-called “tree of life”; where in Norse mythology it was called “Yggdrasil” and not coincidentally it resembled either a tall trunk with a cabbage and cabbage-like leaves on top of it (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Yggdrasil_AM_738_4to.jpg) – or a giant broccoli-shaped plant. Naturally this heavily hints at the pagan origins of the cult of Christ where Odin was claimed to have hanged from the tree Yggdrasil himself and to have been speared in the abdomen just like Baldr who was stabbed with mistletoe by the blind Hödr – the same way Jesus had been speared by the blind Longinus.

Just a quick curiosity – the name of god in the Bible as having derived from the formula ’ehye ’ăšer ’ehye – "I am that I am" or "I am what I am"; even translated more clearly in other terms as "I am the being"; "I am the existing one" and as such "I exist", or "I am the living one" thus "I live" – isn’t actually anything new with regards to the Bible because the same exact etymology was proposed much before by Greek writers such as Plato himself in his "Cratylus" or by Aeschylus in his "Suppliants" for the etymology of the name "Zeus".

The name "Zeus" is made to derive from the verb "ζάω" meaning "to exist", "to live" and that it was intended by Zeus to be in the first person; so when he uttered those words and said "Zao" he meant "I exist" according to the writers mentioned (Plato, Aeschylus, but even others), "I live" or "I am the existing one" / "I am the living one".

Now where did he utter those words according to Greek mythology? Well – when Minos; the famous king of Crete, ascended Mount Dicta to receive the laws from Zeus, Zeus presented himself to him on the mountain and gave him the laws which Minos then brought back from the mountain to his people. Zeus was claimed to have met him in a set of caves or crests (Greek: "antron") on the top of Mount Dicta, and there he dictated the laws to Minos himself.

When Moses in the Old Testament is claimed to have met "god" in a "bush"; the word "bush" is unfortunately one of the many inventions that Christianity has perpetrated through the centuries – because the word "seneh" in Hebrew (which is the word that gets translated as "bush" in the English Bibles) actually means "thorn" or "pointy" in Hebrew – and other times in which it is mentioned in the Bible it always means "mountain/cliff" (1 Samuel 14:4, 1 Samuel 14:5) i.e. something which is "pointy", "thorny". So when Moses claims to have seen Yahweh in the "burning seneh" i.e. the "burning bush"; he’s actually saying that he saw Yahweh in the "burning mountain" – "burning crest"; and that’s what Moses saw in the Book of Exodus, a mountain-top that burned with fire but wasn’t consumed by it (now there are scientific explanations as for how something like this could happen so it was no miracle; an explanation provided is for example when a surface is covered in certain oils or substances like bitumen that make it so that the surface itself doesn’t burn but the substance that covers the surface burns instead).

So when Moses says: "Yahweh that lives in the seneh" i.e. "Yahweh who lives in the bush" – he’s actually saying: "Yahweh who lives in the mountain", inside of it (i.e. in the caves or the crest).

Now Minos the Cretan mythological character who was claimed to have had the laws dictated to him directly by Zeus – is connected etymologically to the root of the name of the moon-god "Mēn" or "Min"; and not coincidentally Minos’ wife Pasiphae was worshiped as "Selene" and addressed as the moon-goddess herself. Now the moon deity is usually depicted with the crescent on its shoulders symbolizing two horn-like shapes – but this symbology also evolved into the proper "horns" placed on top of the head. So the "horned" lawgiver of the Cretans obtained the laws on a mountain meeting a god on a crest and having these laws dictated to him by a god whose name means "I am, I exist".

It would thus make logical sense that Zeus uttered those words (among other occasions) also when he presented himself to Minos on the Mountain – and this seems to be confirmed by the fact that Minos himself called Zeus "the living one" according to the poet Epimenides, who attributed to Minos such words:

"They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one. The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! But thou art not dead; thou livest and abidest forever, For in thee we live and move and have our being." (Epimenides; Cretica)

The last line a common wordplay between the name Zeus and the verb "Ζάω".

In the Old Testament despite how the version of the name was passed on due to tradition – the name of YHWH is vocalized more often than not as "Yehowah" rather than "Yahweh". Now naturally Yehowah is nothing but a Semitic way of pronouncing the letters JEOVE – i.e. JOVE/Jupiter, since the letters are aspired and elongated.

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I am a PhD student, also a folk-singer/musician endeavoring to transform philosophy into music. Novalis’s unfinished masterwork Heinrich von Ofterdingen, steeped in alchemy and esoteric philosophy, was originally envisioned by Novalis as a musical—so I had to turn it into music! The song I present to you is a folk-style rendition on a ukulele that draws from some of my favorite parts in the novel. It opens with Fable singing a celebration of the founding of the kingdom of eternity, Sophia as priestess of hearts. It also portrays Fable's encounter with the Sphinx in a scene that was inspired by Goethe's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. In the final section of the song, the son of the naturalist finds the mysterious red carbuncle of the Princess in the forest; it is sparkling red with mysterious ciphers on the converse side-- the stone of the heart. Novalis’s poetry is filled with alchemical, mythic and esoteric references to the trained eye; this song is a homage to Novalis's genius—in my own personal estimation, Heinrich von Ofterdingen is the greatest poetic work ever penned. You have to experience it to understand! Hope you enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO2HSbK7BSE

Mason = Ma-son = Mother-Son . You can see this archetype in many cultures: Mary-Jesus, Nammu-An, Isis-Horus, Heru-Auset, and more. The word "mother" in English comes from "mater" in Latin, representing the "matter" or "material" that creates human beings.

The mother-son principle indicates the Creator of the Earth is a feminine force. We are not talking about an actual sex (male vs. female), but a feminine principle. This is why we say “Mother Earth” and not “Father Earth.” This is also why Hiram Abiff (or Mason) is called “a Widow’s son” because the widow has no husband. It means our mother Earth doesn’t need a husband to give birth to us.

The word "women" means "womb-men" - the womb from which men come. No matter what beliefs and religions say, the truth is men are born from women, and Adam comes from Eve. This is natural, not artificial. Without women or "the womb of men", no man can be born!

Your mother or woman is the tree of life because without her, there will be no fruit on this planet. Women are divine because without them, there are no children of God. The Bible does not mention "Daughter of God" because women are Mothers of God.

If you want to see God, you have to treat your mother and woman right. If you mistreat any female on this planet, you will be met with divine retribution. This is an immutable law of the universe.

Source: Esoteric Astrology

The Mesopotamians worshipped at least three Ishtars: the Ishtar of Nineveh, the Ishtar of Babylon and the Ishtar of Uruk (there was also the "Ishtar of Arbela" and some others although they might still refer to the same three female deities just addressed as patronesses of different cities). The name or title "Ishtar" was also applied in god-lists and hymns to many different female deities who exhibited warrior traits as well as associations with love and lust and generally speaking; either the sexual sphere or "fertility" more in general. They also held prophetic functions. The three Ishtars were precisely: Inanna, Ninhursag and Ereshkigal. Some of the myths of Inanna in Mesopotamian folklore actually refer to the Mother-goddess Ninhursag; who was though addressed with the title "Inanna" (queen of heaven) in those myths and thus indistinguishable from the other Inanna. The regular Inanna was instead a "vizier" or "helper" and "counselor" to the Mother-goddess and she was worshipped with the name "Nanaya" as well as being also associated with the astral characteristics of Ishtar herself. The third Ishtar is the sister of Inanna – Ereshkigal; the queen of the underworld – who exhibited traits of love/lust/seduction as well as warrior traits herself.

Throughout history this "trinity" of women has been passed on through different vestiges and with many different names: Lot’s wife with his two daughters whom he would regularly sell into prostitution (which is why he offered them up like nothing to a mob of Sodomites who were standing in front of his door; because Lot had already done it before so he had the habit of doing this); the three women that Saint Nicholas saves from prostitution by buying their freedom and thus permanently freeing them; the three Marys present at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; the three queens that kidnap Lancelot and hold him hostage in their castle (the Queen of Eastland, Morgan Le Fay and the Queen of Northgalis – in some versions the kidnappers are four but that’s because one queen was addressed with two different titles so they believed them to be two distinct queens due to confusion and thus counted four – when in fact they were only three); the three daughters of Baal: Tallay, Pidray, Arsay – where one of them actually corresponds to the Mother-goddess herself and to the wife of Baal but she was "downgraded" to being one of his daughters instead – when the male-god rose to prominence (just as it happened viceversa when the female goddess had risen to power and thus the male-god was usually envisioned as the "son" and "consort" of the Mother-goddess in those specific cases). When the Mother-goddess was presented as inferior in rank to the male-god and thus regarded as his "daughter"; the goddess was presented as being unmarried in those cases.

Of these three only two of them were really important; with the third one being instead mentioned sporadically or sometimes not at all in myths. The important ones were the Mother-goddess Ninhursag (Phrygian: Cybele, Greek: Rhea, Egyptian: Isis) and Ereshkigal.

For Ereshkigal; she was also worshipped – among many different vestiges – as a female leader of the people who led a multitude of people out of slavery and founded a mythical city (the city of Carthage) where the remnants of the enslaved people would settle and start anew. The legend claims that the location where to found the city was indicated to her by her dead husband who had come back from the dead "through artificial means"; and would come visit her frequently while she slept and influenced her dreams putting thoughts into her head that manifested in her mind as dreams. This naturally refers to the myth of Queen Dido of Carthage (the second Dido; because the original Dido had a sister called "Anna Perenna" but later due to confusion Anna Perenna herself came to be worshipped as a "Dido" – and she’s the one who led a multitude of people out of slavery); and in the writings of the Greek writer Alexander Polyhistor – this refers to when he claimed that he had heard a story according to which Moses was a female called "Moso".

The name "Anna Perenna" is also connected to the one of the goddess "Anat" (thus later evolved into "Anna"); who was the faithful lover of the god Baal (not officially married because their marriage/relationship was not accepted by the other deities who didn’t like them being together; also because they were brother and sister out of many other reasons – although that was only an excuse to disapprove of their marriage; since other deities were also married to their sisters and half-sisters as well; thus this was just a pretext not to consider their marriage official) – and who drowned herself in sorrow after the death of Baal whereas the two other women i.e. Asherah the Mother-goddess and Astarte the goddess of love; were able to move on from the loss more easily (especially in the case of Astarte who remarried). Asherah on the other hand was still sad and appointed in vain a substitute for her son; in order to cope with the loss.

Once again; the myth of Baal is archetypal and generational – meaning that there was a "previous Baal" and a "later Baal" who went through the same exact death-and-resurrection process; thus naturally there were also two Anats – Anat the Mother-goddess who was also a warrior goddess; and Anat the daughter who was a warrior-goddess herself but she was the faithful and overly-attached (sentimentally) companion who protected Baal at all costs and desired for nothing more than to bring down all of his enemies. This is why Anat may act ambivalently in myths sometimes – because two generations of "Baals" were crammed into one single story in order to turn it into one single archetypal mythology; since both Baals ended up being dethroned and sent to the underworld – to then come back in the end – and even though they might have done it in different ways; since each of them had their very own specific case – but the overall arching archetype of the story was the same for both (death and resurrection; exile in the underworld and return from the land of the dead).

The connection between Anna – Anat – Ereshkigal is explained as follows: Anna Perenna was claimed in the myth to have drowned in a river (the river Numicus) when trying to cross it while fleeing from the jealousy of Aeneas’s wife Lavinia. The goddess of the underworld Ereshkigal/Persephone was worshipped in Slavic countries with the names "Marzanna" and/or "Morana" ("Morana" equated with the Latin "Morta" – from "mors/mortis" – which literally means "death", "the dead one"). She was claimed to have drowned in a river in Slavic mythology. The same tradition is found in Irish mythology with the figure of "Cethlenn" also known as "Caitlin" – who was a member of the "Fomorians" i.e. the race of "evil" and "monstrous" giants that were the enemies of the Tuatha de Danaan (the race of Irish gods); and after a battle while fleeing the battlefield wounded she was claimed to have tried to cross a river to reach an island and to have drowned there. Her relationship with Balor of the Evil Eye (the Irish equivalent of "Satan") is ambivalent; with her sometimes being treated as his wife/companion even though she’s never officially branded as such. By comparing the Irish myth to other equivalents of the same story (where the characters are addressed with different names of course but still correspond to the same mythological characters) – it would seem that the figure corresponding to the Irish "Cethlenn" was actually Balor’s daughter and Balor is the same figure who was claimed to have made his own daughter prostitute herself in order to procure him money, so their disturbing relationship was ambivalent based on this factor. (Or it at least testifies the existence of two Cethlenns – one who was the daughter of Balor and the other who was the wife of Balor; and they were treated as though they were one and the same individual). To equate Balor with Satan look at the Bible’s prophecy in Revelation 12 where the Serpent/Satan hunts down the "birthing woman" trying to prevent the birth of the Messiah because the Messiah threatens the rule of the serpent.

Balor kills children just like Cronus in Greek mythology; since Balor had received a prophecy according to which he would be dethroned by a son born under his rule. The same exact story is told in Greek mythology for the birth of Zeus under Cronus’s rule. Now – Cronus was renown for his insatiable hunger since he was claimed in some versions of the story to have murdered children in a wide variety of ways; among which there was the one of dismembering them and devouring them. There is a figure in Greek mythology called "Erysichthon of Thessaly" who’s nothing more than a "mortal" version of Cronus where Saturn himself was remembered as a mythological king of Greece instead of a "god". He was claimed to have been cursed with an insatiable hunger and in order to placate his needs he would regularly send his only daughter "Mestra" to prostitute herself in order to procure money for food and to satiate her hungry father. Naturally the notion of "insatiable hunger" also refers to "greed" for money and materiality.

The poor daughter was claimed to always dress herself up in different animal skins out of shame because she didn’t want people to recognize her – but this made it seem as though she could "shapeshift" at will and morph into whatever animal she wanted. Prostitutes in ancient Rome were addressed with the title "Lupa" i.e. "She-wolf" because they wore animal skins to cover themselves but also because they had an apparently "insatiable hunger for lust" just like a hungry she-wolf. This naturally crosses over to the mythology of Romulus and Remus where the "lupa" (i.e. she-wolf) who rescued the children corresponds to the same female figure mentioned thus far – and she also had a name in Roman mythology and was worshipped as a goddess; her name being "Acca Larentia".

Since in a previous post it was made apparent how the birth of the Irish god "Lugh" under the rule of the evil "Balor" refers to the same story as that told in the Old Testament where Moses is born under the rule of the cruel "Pharaoh" of Egypt; naturally the figure of the young woman who saved Romulus and Remus out of the waters also refers to "Pharaoh’s daughter" who rescued Moses out of the waters of the Nile (Moses also had a brother – called "Aaron").

The final nail in the coffin for all of these identifications is the fact that the pagan goddess "Marzanna" was claimed to have been burned alive as well – and going back to Hebrew culture and rabbinical teachings; Lot who would sell his daughters into prostitution was claimed in the "Book of Jasher" (a midrash) to have had one of these daughters who was called "Paltith" – burned alive by the Sodomites because she gave bread to the poor (a metaphor for giving charity to foreigners who weren’t part of the family).

One of the names of Jesus was "Nicholas" – and he was the one that rescued her out of prostitution alongside two other women (the three women that Saint Nicholas rescues from prostitution); and this pagan figure of the "holy prostitute" also refers to none other than Mary Magdalene herself; who was Jesus’s wife and lover – even though their marriage was never recognized or accepted by the vast majority of people and even denied because of this.

This "holy prostitute" figure was worshipped as mentioned – as a goddess of fertility; and one of the "forms" or "names" in which she was worshipped was also that of "Flora".

One day all of a sudden – the myth claims – Acca Larentia (the rescuer of Romulus and Remus and fertility goddess) disappeared never to be seen again; although her generosity and goodness of heart was such, that she left as her will for the entirety of her wealth and richness (which she’d accumulated throughout her life) to be given entirely to the poor. In his "Genealogia Deorum Gentilium" Boccaccio speaks of "three Venuses" i.e. three different Aphrodites (as mentioned also in another post where Cicero also claimed himself that there were more than one Jupiter, more than one Minerva etc.). Boccaccio identified this last Venus as the patroness of prostitution and equated her with Flora.

The reason why this goddess was also identified sometimes with Demeter and/or Ceres and other roles more typically associated with the Mother-goddess "Cybele" instead; is because she rose to such prominence and became so important that she ended up replacing the older Cybele thus becoming a new Mother-goddess in her own right and the new Cybele so-to-speak; inheriting all the identifications and titles/epithets that came with the original Cybele/Demeter herself. The original Cybele practiced the prostitution cults which she herself would administer and champion because the original Cybele had established a matriarchy on earth and wanted to keep men subjugated by giving them pleasure and sex – since she believed that men are stupid and as long as you satisfy their sexual needs they will be slaves to the female. But this original Mother-goddess was particularly ruthless and even made her own daughters partake into these prostitution cults; which later led to one of these daughters escaping/being sent away in order to escape the clutches of her oppressive and overly domineering mother. But this side of the story will be left for another time.

The second Cybele on the other hand who corresponds to the figure of the "holy prostitute" (i.e. the one who rescued Romulus and Remus) mentioned thus far – was only the patroness of prostitutes who do this work out of necessity; i.e. in order to sustain themselves – so there was no perversion in her cults as there were instead in the cults of the other Cybele. But sooner or later the two Mother-goddesses were fused into one since their cults were so similar in the mentality of people (both being patronesses of prostitution) – so the differences between the cults subsided.

The fact that there were two Cybeles is also mentioned in the myth of Attis; where there is one Cybele who is the daughter of king Maeon of Phrygia – and she’s the one who will be married to Attis before Attis was raped by the hermaphroditic Agdistis (raped multiple times; with the last time culminating in his castration after he was drugged or made drunk on wine beneath a pine tree) and he was driven mad because of it, so their marriage was ruined. But the myth also mentions another Cybele who was instead the mother of Attis and she was the mother – not the consort of Attis; and the myth even claims that she’d been born before Attis and the other Cybele herself (the other Cybele being the daughter of the king and called alternatively with the name "Sangaris" and addressed as a nymph due to be betrothed to Attis).

Though the burning of the female goddess was a voluntary sacrifice and not an accident; because she herself had given permission to sacrifice her through fire since she wanted to die after the death of her lover and for the guilt that she felt after she’d betrayed him. There is actually another iteration of the same myth of the goddess who drowned in a river (or generally speaking a mass of water) while trying to cross it – that was held off up until this opportune moment in order to insert it into the discussion. The figure of "Salome" the daughter of Herod (and mind you – Herod plays in the story the same role as that of the "evil king" who orders the killing of all firstborn children in order to prevent the birth of the child prophesied to take him down/dethrone him i.e. the Messiah; because when they wanted to readapt the very ancient and pagan myth of the "son of god" – and they wanted to readapt it to fit a more modern timeline; they chose characters that existed historically in their time period of course – but remodeled them after the ancient myth giving them each a role in the story just as the ancient and original myth itself claimed; and thus Herod played the role of this generic "evil king" who massacred innocent children because they saw him as being more similar to the personality of the mythological character that he was to portray in the myth; the same way he was also portrayed as having a sick and disturbing relationship with his daughter because the "evil king" in the original myth – i.e. Balor of The Evil Eye/Satan as mentioned – was claimed to have had an ambivalent and disturbing relationship with his own daughter. The same thing happened for Emperor Titus; who was claimed in the Babylonian Talmud to have died the same way Nimrod died i.e. by having a fly enter his brain and drive him mad – and this is because the Hebrews saw him as a modern-day "Nimrod" and thus readapted the ancient myth of Nimrod to fit a more modern timeline and claimed that Emperor Titus died that way i.e. by having a fly enter his brain – because Nimrod himself was claimed to have died that way; while instead in reality Emperor Titus didn’t really die like that at all and was only claimed as such because he was considered and seen as a modern-day Nimrod when they readapted the story/myth to fit a modern timeline). Thus Salome herself was claimed to have drowned in a river when trying to cross it while swimming; and the writer who reported this tradition (Nicephorus) further adds even more details claiming that the river had frozen and when she fell it had decapitated Salome since the broken ice reached to her neck.

The image of the goddess of death being headless or decapitated is also found in other pagan imagery such as the one of the goddess "Chhinnamasta" in Hindu mythology; who not coincidentally is called a "self-sacrificing" goddess and is also associated with cremation grounds i.e. charred grounds because someone and more precisely – a body; has been cremated, that is – has been burned (either alive as a sacrifice or dead as a ritual to all dead people) – on top of it.

Furthermore the same figure of the self-sacrificing goddess is also found more commonly in Greek mythology where the goddess in this case was not envisioned as a "goddess" herself – but instead envisioned as a mythological daughter of mythical kings; or even as a sacred priestess herself. Such is the case for Iphigenia the daughter of Agamemnon and also for Polyxena the Trojan princess daughter of Priam. They correspond to the same figure though in one version envisioned as the daughter of the enemy (Agamemnon) while in the other case envisioned as the daughter of the allies (Priam). Polyxena volunteered to die by having her throat cut (hence why the Hindu goddess is also depicted as "decapitated" or "half decapitated") and lying on a funeral pyre because she’d betrayed Achilles in a moment of anger since her lover had betrayed her. Her brothers quickly used her emotionally distraught state to manipulate her into revealing Achilles’s weakness to them; and they then killed Achilles because they learned of his weakness through Polyxena. Polyxena when she learned what had happened wished to die alongside her lover. (Another version claims that she revealed Achilles’s weakness because Achilles had killed her brother Troilus – but in this case it refers to another Achilles with whom she was involved but not romantically invested).

A cloud of rain extinguished the pyre on which she was burning and the goddess survived her injuries, though being left permanently scarred. (This detail is added in a version of the story told as part of Indian folklore; where an unnamed mythological king only addressed as a "Brahman"; had two daughters called "Tungaveluku" and "Kuthuveluku" and he made them marry at a very young age – which is once again analogous to the story of Lot who sells his two daughters at a young age or to the Greek myth of Erysichthon of Thessaly who would sell his daughter Mestra to suitors so that they would marry her and later make her divorce them in order to obtain the money for the bridal gifts. In this Indian myth it is claimed that one of the daughters of this king and precisely Kuthuveluku – was burned alive on a funeral pyre but a cloud of rain miraculously extinguished the flames and later the daughter was found to have been completely healed or even to have been left totally unharmed by the fire – since it appeared that way because the daughter was later healed). The burning of the goddess made it so that this goddess of death (whether she’s called "Lilith", "Ereshkigal", "Lamia" etc.) was seen as a "creature" of the night who would snap children away since she had none of her own and was also frightening in appearance, and this led to her demonization together with the fact that she had the task of taking care of the deathly rituals – which associated her with the macabre. The goddess though had been nothing but pure and good of heart till the very end. The only purpose for her existence after her martyrdom through flames was that of revenge – revenge for her dead husband and revenge for what had happened to her. (In Mesopotamian mythology Ereshkigal the Queen of the Underworld and her consort Nergal are both depicted as disfigured i.e. "bald and lame"; whilst the goddess of the underworld Persephone is described as beautiful one moment – and horribly disfigured the other; to the point that the Greeks attributed it to some kind of birth defect that the goddess might have had which is why her mother Demeter abandoned her according to an Orphic hymn – although by having compared the many different versions of the story it becomes apparent why the goddess was described as beautiful one moment and disfigured the other; because she’d suffered injuries). The traits of disfigurement that the goddess possessed were kept intact in the persona of "Hecate"; who was described as the "rotting goddess" whose flesh was permanently "rotting" and she had to wear a mask when approaching others, in order not to show her visage (mentioned in Lucan’s "Pharsalia").

As was expressed previously in other posts as well; this figure corresponding also to the Helen of Troy who married Achilles in the afterlife (the paradise of the gods called "Elysium" or "The islands of the Blessed") and to the Pharaoh’s daughter who was marked by Hebrew tradition as one of the people who "entered heaven without dying" i.e. who were chosen to be taken to heaven (Enoch for example being one of them) – the goddess was also claimed to have had her beauty returned and her original appearance fully restored – as is the case also for the story of the righteous "Esther" in the Bible; who was a pious and humble woman that didn’t wish for power nor for wealth and let alone for the throne through marriage with a king (to whom she’d been promised); but she became disfigured during her lifetime because of a "curse" – although her beauty was later completely restored. Queen Dido died on a funeral pyre when Aeneas left her so she felt betrayed; just as queen Semiramis of Babylon who after the death of her husband, burned herself alive on a funeral pyre in grief.

The first couple of mortal beings were according to Hindu mythology – the god Yama and the goddess Yami; and they were twin brother and sister. (Effectively the gods of death. The underworld in Sumerian mythology was called "Bet Dumuzi" i.e. the "House of Dumuzi" because when he died and was forever joined with Ereshkigal, he became the ruler of it. The same concept is told for the marriage of Nergal and Ereshkigal where the god is instead addressed with the title "Nergal" in that myth; meaning: "Lord of the Underworld"). They were also called Mashya and Mashyana in Zoroastrian culture. The word later took on a different meaning in other languages as it was exported through the globe (the concept of assuming a new meaning is called a "folk etymology"; meaning that as civilizations came into contact they would inherit words and terms from each other but when a foreign word was inherited – the foreign word didn’t mean anything in the native language of the people who inherited it so they would approximate it to whatever native word sounded more similar in their language; and give the foreign word a new meaning that made sense in their native language thus assimilating it). As such the concept of "Mashya" in Avestan Persian which means "mortal" evolved into the Hebrew "Mashiach" which took on the meaning of "the anointed one" i.e. the chosen one in Hebrew language. And also – since they were both called "Messiah" (both the male and the female) she was effectively the female Messiah who accompanied the male Messiah and was his consort and lover for life. The fact that the goddess (mentioned as "Magdalene" in the Gospels) left all her inheritance to the poor is because she was the only one who truly understood the will of Christ after his death; because the real Christ never asked to be worshipped by anybody nor did he want people to view him as a "son of god" or as a "divinity" and he dedicated his entire life to the poor and to healing the ill; as well as instructing humanity and generally speaking – ignorant people who unfortunately didn’t have access to information due to their social status or barbaric culture – in healthy ways of life. The apocrypha mention that Magdalene was the one who understood Jesus’s message better than anyone else – which is why the other Apostles envied her and the time she spent with the Messiah learning. It was the ones who later created religion as a form of control and to gain power and wealth that took the figure of Jesus and made him an object of worship after his death in order to gain from him.

Hello, How the size should the lamen/sigil of the angels and planets be!? In what material do you draw or inscribe them? tks you

Early synagogues in Israel depict Christ as Helios (or Apollo) and Mary Magdalene as Selene (or Artemis). Both Jesus and Magdalene didn’t live at the time of the Roman Empire; this was only a modern reinterpretation of an ancient myth that was readapted to fit a more recent time period (the Roman Empire) because they wanted to create a religion out of it. The original and very ancient myth that was passed on through different vestiges and by giving it many different names that changed according to the centuries; claimed that "demons" seized the "son of god" and sacrificed him (in Greek mythology these demons are called for example "Titans") – and because at the time of the Roman Empire the enemy of the early Christians and of Judeo-Christian culture in general was the Roman Empire itself; they were cast as the "demons" that sacrifice the son of god by crucifying him in the modern retelling of the story. Also the names of "Jesus" and "Magdalene" are merely modern reinterpretations and camouflages of much more ancient figures, and the fact that they were Jews is also a modern reinterpretation of it – because every culture envisioned these ancient figures as having been born in their country since they visited every country in the world – so they were claimed to be Jews, Arabs, Scandinavians, Native Americans, Indians etc. by each country that retold the same story by giving it their own personal reinterpretation. The reason why the latest version of this myth claims that they were Jews is because the Roman Church used Judean culture (which was one of the newer ones in the Roman Empire since it had more appeal being a mostly unknown culture at the time) and thus Jesus and Magdalene remained as "Jews" in the mentality of people living under the influence of Judeo-Christianity; but if one goes back and looks at these ancient pagan figures and how they’ve changed names and vestiges throughout the centuries – one will clearly see that they were claimed to be pretty much everything throughout the centuries because every country envisioned them as being one of their own and as having been born in their own country.

The Lady Mary Monastery at Beit She'an for example (officially branded as a monastery) depicts Jesus as Helios (or Apollo according to different interpretations; and also because Apollo and Helios became largely interchangeable as generic gods of light and the sun) and Magdalene as Selene or even interpretable as Persephone/Artemis due to the crescent on top of her head – and also based on the fact that according to both Greek and Roman writers who better spoke of the origins of the gods of the pantheon (writers such as Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Apollodorus or even Cicero himself in his famous work "De Natura Deorum") – Persephone and Artemis are claimed to be the same goddess by them; only worshipped under different aspects – Persephone being her underworld aspect and Artemis being her hunting and animal-taming aspect. The reason why goddesses such as Persephone and Artemis or even Selene are then seen interacting with each other in myths as though they were different and distinct individuals; is because there was more than one Artemis and more than one Persephone, and the same goes for Selene as well – as claimed by Cicero himself in his "De Natura Deorum" who for example claims that there was a total of "three Jupiters", "four Minervas", "four or five Apollos" etc. and thus depending on the "rank" or on how powerful a god or a goddess had become by "climbing up the ranks" – they would be worshipped with the titles: "Persephone", "Artemis" or even ultimately "Selene" – according to the time period and point in time in which the goddess had rose to prominence and become more important/more powerful.

The identification of such figures with Jesus and Magdalene is also testified by documents found which mention Jesus and his wife – as well as the Joseph and Aseneth manuscript in which Jesus and Magdalene are apparently addressed with code-names as "Joseph" and "Aseneth" and are described while flying through the sky in a chariot; being specifically identified with Helios and Artemis in those documents. The earliest sects that practiced the cult of Christ and Magdalene willingly adopted Greco-Roman imagery for the typical representations of Helios and Artemis – in order to depict both Jesus and Mary Magdalene; because they truly believed that the figures which they were worshipping (Jesus and Magdalene) were equivalent with Helios and Artemis or Apollo and Diana. (Jesus was also depicted with the rod of Asclepius and the caduceus in other pagan imagery; thus identifying him with both Mercury/Hermes and Asclepius as well). This is because as mentioned – the different deities went through different "phases" where they would initially start off being identified with "lower-ranking gods" such as Hermes and Diana or Apollo/Helios and Selene at one point in time – but later as they rose to prominence and "climbed the ranks" so-to-speak – they would even get to the point of being identified as "Zeus" and "Hera" or "Zeus" and "Minerva" – as testified by the identifications of "Simon Magus" for example (which is another pagan name for Jesus who was envisioned as a "magician" in this case – that performed miracles) with his consort "Helen" (identified with the same Helen of Troy who had become "reincarnated" into Helen the wife of Simon Magus) – and they eventually came to be addressed by their followers with the names/titles "Zeus" and "Minerva" at some point in time.

This means that when the pagan figure who corresponds to Jesus occupied the position of "Mercury" within the pantheon – naturally there was another "Apollo" and another "Zeus" who occupied the positions of both Apollo and Zeus respectively in that particular moment; but then when the pagan figure identified with Jesus and Mercury/Hermes rose to prominence and came to occupy the position of "Apollo" himself – the previous Apollo assumed another role and was identified as something else and thus the ranks kept moving and shifting – just as then when the same pagan figure mentioned both as "Jesus", "Apollo/Helios" and "Hermes"; when he became the next heir to the throne and rose even more to prominence/to power – he came to eventually be identified with "Zeus" himself thus replacing the previous Zeus who left the kingdom in his charge. (The same concept was addressed in another post where the myth of Zagreus was explained and it was stated that the "previous Zeus/Jupiter" in charge of the kingdom left the kingdom to his son Zagreus/Dionysus – and thus Zagreus/Dionysus himself became "the new Zeus" replacing the older Zeus. This "new Zeus" who corresponds to Zagreus was called "Sabazios" and worshipped as "Jupiter Sabazios" or "Zeus Sabazios". Once again to reinstate this idea – Cicero speaks of "three" official Jupiters in total; who succeeded each other one after the other – and then there was technically also a fourth Jupiter who was though only a usurper that made himself be worshipped with the name/title "Zeus/Jupiter" illegally and illegitimately – so he actually wasn’t one of the Zeus/Jupiters himself but he ended up being worshipped as such nonetheless).

The reason why Helen the wife of Simon Magus was claimed to be the "reincarnated" Helen of Troy and "Sophia" of Gnosticism etc. – is because the ancient deities worshipped throughout the planet were claimed to be able to keep themselves always young in appearance (for example in Greek mythology by drinking "ichor" and eating "ambrosia" – which were two liquid substances that resembled some kind of nectar that allowed for the gods to always keep themselves young in appearance – and the gods placed those ingredients in every food that they ate or every drink that they drank). So because of this – the ancient deities were able to live for the span of centuries or even millennia in some cases; and thus since during the centuries many eras started and concluded themselves as chapters of human history; the gods though were always there throughout the whole of history and they were always alive and healthy as well as always looking young in appearance – so as the human eras succeeded one another and centuries as well as millennia were passing – each time a new era of history would always begin after the previous one ended; and the gods would then be called by different names every time a new civilization started or a new era began on earth. Because of this – the many different names and "identities" that the gods assumed through the centuries were believed by some primitive humans to have been "incarnations" of the god – where the god would basically become "reincarnated" every time a new era started; but that’s only because humans struggled to understand the idea that a single individual (a "god" so-to-speak) could be able to live for such a long time and have such longevity of lifespan.

These practices still had their limits though; because they were able to restore their youthful appearance indefinitely – meaning so long as the body could keep going; but the body would still eventually reach its natural limits and they would still die just like everybody else eventually – although this still allowed them to live across the span of centuries and even millennia. The fact that the gods died is made very apparent in myths also – for example with the mythology of "Jupiter Picus" in Latin legends i.e. the "Cretan Jupiter" who claimed that when he dies he wants to be buried in Crete.

But regardless; Jesus and Magdalene are depicted in a mosaic at the Beit Shean monastery which portrays Jesus and Magdalene as the Sun and the Moon:

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Hey, I've been trying to wrap my head around the idea of exorcism and demons. I am a Christian. I understand things from a duopolistic point of view. Good vs Evil. I've been reading more literature on esoteric beliefs and they throw me for a loop. I understand parts but not others. The thing I'm trying to figure out is the nature of demons and corruption. Can someone help me to understand? I know I didn't word this properly

"The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, by Karl Eckartshausen, [1909], at sacred-texts.com"

I don't think this belongs here but I really wanted to share it with someone who likes this kind of stuff and who has an open mind. It really rang true to me and even in today's world. It's a subject that I have been thinking on alot lately about who we are and why does it seem we the human and our soul/spirit as a whole gets nowhere even through all these supposed upgrades in science and technology. We just keep going back and forth with depression and happiness. Fighting and loving. Waring and peace. Anyway I find this very interesting and I really hope someone would take the time to get into a friendly critical thinking mode lol.

Caranus is given as the first king of Macedon – and although he’s mentioned as the descendant of a previous Hercules; Caranus corresponds to a version of Hercules himself because in Italy there was a tradition where Hercules defeats Cacus (an evil giant stationed in Italy according to the myth) and the Italian Hercules who defeats Cacus is called “Caranus” according to the native tradition and not Hercules. They claim “Hercules” was his surname; “surname” merely meaning a second name or a nickname. It is said that he was called Hercules because he was a shepherd of outstanding physical bearing and power so nobody was stronger than him at the time when he existed – and thus they called him Hercules because of his strength; while later on “Hercules” became his main name so they just ended up calling him “Hercules” as his final name and the other name “Caranus” was simply forgotten.

Now Caranus is also the first king of the Macedonians, and he is claimed to have led a colony of people to Macedonia where Macedonia was the “promised land” that the Oracle of Apollo (of Delphi) prophesied to him about and promised him. Apollo said to him to “follow the herds and the sheep” and where the sheep would stop, that would be his promised land for his people. Now Moses is also claimed to be shepherding the flocks of his father-in-law Jetro and he moves from spring to spring bringing water to the sheep and cattle and moving along with the pastures. But it doesn’t end there. The name “Caranus” is derived from the root CRN; when vowels were inserted into it it became the modern words: “Corona” which means “Crown” in Latin and Italian (“CRowN” – CRN) and with vowels inserted into it it also creates the word “CORNUS” or “CORNI” which in Latin means “horn” and “horns” respectively – once again CRN (“CoRN-us” where “-us” is the Latin termination and “CoRNi” – “-i” being the plural. In Italian the singular is "Corno" and the plural is "Corna"). The English “Horn” (H-orn) is a substitution of “C-orn(us)” where the H substitutes for the C because the sound receives aspiration in the English language and thus the word becomes aspired – “CORN(-us)” – “HORN”. But the original Latin is CORNUS and CORNI. Thus “Caranus” means “the horned one” and not out of coincidence; Moses the Israelite leader is depicted with horns. As such Caranus is Moses not only because he leads an entire people to the promised land, the land promised to him by the oracle of Apollo (and the promised land is Macedonia); but Caranus is also Moses because Caranus means “the horned one” and Moses has horns so they are the same person.

Although – in the case of the Bible Apollo is called Yahweh, the one who promised that land to him. The land was granted to Caranus because he needed to go away – since his evil brother Pheidon had tricked all of his brothers and defeated them by cheating them out of the throne, and as such he alone inherited the kingdom and forced his brother Caranus out. But it doesn’t end here. In Scandinavian mythology the Swedes say that Odin led the Goths from Asia to Sweden/Scandinavia; and the story goes that Odin was persecuted by a rival empire who was looking for him so he had to relocate and escape, and they even wrote a poem about this – so renown was the folkloristic story; and the poem claims that when he was about to be defeated because the numbers of the enemy were too great – he was preparing to burn himself alive rather than give himself up to the enemy and surrender. But a goddess appeared to him and told him to migrate to a land (Sweden) that would be promised to him and his people who were escaping with him. As such to recap: Caranus is promised the land of Macedonia by the Oracle of Delphi (the Oracle of Delphi is the Pythia, a goddess who gives prophecies on behalf of Apollo, a god); Odin is promised the land of Sweden by the goddess called Gondula who appears to him; the common denominator being – that this character whichever name he is given (Moses, Caranus, Odin) – had to escape far away: Caranus had to escape from Greece (Argos, where he dwelt before being forced to migrate) and since Macedonia is pretty much far remote Greek land, he escaped there according to that myth; the Scandinavian version claims instead that Odin resided in Asia and since close to Asia/the Caucasus region there is Scandinavia, he escaped there. So the common factor between all the versions is that he had to escape far away from a previous dwelling (Argos in the Greek version, Asia in the Scandinavian version, Egypt in the case of Moses and the Bible). The folkloristic tales and native traditions then claim that Odin defeated all the primitive giants living in those regions and to have boasted that he had driven them away; just like in the Bible the Israelites exterminate the remaining ones of the "Rephaim" and the other races of Giants to which Goliath also belonged. But it still doesn’t end here.

Moses was found in the waters of the river Nile by the daughter of the Pharaoh who took him to be raised by foster parents (the Pharaoh had ordered the drowning of all Hebrew children). In Irish mythology “Lugh” or “Lugus” was thrown in water (in a river) and found by the daughter of the evil king (who is given as “the Pharaoh” in the Bible’s version – but the word “Pharaoh” is a generic template for the idea of a generic “evil and tyrannical king” that changes according to every version of the story and according to the political perceptions of different cultures who call their leaders by different names – so for example in the version that was passed on by the Hebrews they named this tyrannical king as "Pharaoh" because being neighbors with the Egyptians – that’s the idea that they had of an evil tyrannical king that kept people as slaves). So the daughter of the evil king takes Lugh to a blacksmith that raises him as his foster father. Balor had ordered the drowning in a river of all newborn children who posed a threat to his throne (just like Pharaoh does in the Bible). When he grows up Lugh defeats the evil Balor and frees his people (the Tuatha de Danaan) from slavery – who had been enslaved by Balor of the Evil Eye (who plays the role that the “Pharaoh” plays in the Bible). When Moses grows up he defeats the Pharaoh (by killing the Pharaoh’s slaver who was mistreating a Jew and showing off his power at the court of the Pharaoh – just as Lugh in the Irish version defeats "Bres" who was the slaver of Balor and Bres was renown for mistreating his subjects just like the pharaoh’s slaver was for mistreating Hebrews). Lugh thus frees his people (the Tuath Dé) from the slavery imposed upon them by Balor of the Evil Eye and the Fomorians (Fomoire).

Lugh is depicted as carrying a magical staff which is also a spear that has so-called “magical” properties and can change shape; much like the rod of Moses. During their final battle Balor even mocks Lugh that he has carried a simple “stick” to face him in battle. After he frees his people Lugh allows them to return to the “promised land” which is Ireland where they lived before being enslaved – and not only did that land legitimately belong to the Tuatha de Danaan (the race of Irish gods) but it was also literally called that way; since a mythological name for the land of the Irish gods is that of "Tír Tairngire" literally: "Promised Land" or "Land of Promise". Another name for it is Tír na nÓg (meaning: 'Land of the Young' or "Land of Youth" because its inhabitants the Tuatha de Danaan are claimed to be able to always keep themselves young in appearance while living there) and it’s depicted as an island paradise and supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy. Its inhabitants are – as mentioned – the Tuatha Dé Danann (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha\_D%C3%A9\_Danann) alternatively called the warriors of the Tuatha Dé; who were the gods of pre-Christian Ireland and who engaged in poetry, music, entertainment etc.

The same description is claimed in the Bible for the Promised Land of Moses as being "a good and spacious land"… "overflowing with honey and milk" – where honey and milk are metaphors for the golden nectar (Greek: ambrosia) that the gods ate and drank in order to keep themselves always young in appearance. Since the Irish gods were claimed to have dwelled in Ireland – according to Irish mythology – this paradise-like land corresponds to the island of Ireland itself. According to the Macedonian epic on the other hand – it corresponded instead to Macedonia when Caranus led the multitude of people out of Argos; and according to the Nordic myth where the leader of the people is instead recognized as Odin – the promised land was Scandinavia. Every culture recognized their own land as the Promised Land because the ancient gods were claimed to have been there according to the mythology and folklore of ancient people – and just as the Irish named Ireland as the Promised Land, the Macedonians claimed Macedonia to be the Promised Land and the Scandinavians instead identified Scandinavia itself as being the legendary Promised Land; the Hebrews naturally also envisioned their own land as being "the" Promised Land but the reality is that neither of these interpretations is the correct one because the "ancient gods" migrated throughout the planet exporting civilization everywhere they went – so technically every land in which they settled could be called a "promised land" because the gods were forced to do a diaspora after an evil tyrant was elected as ruler and persecuted them forcing them to flee.

In the Greek version for example this evil tyrant is the god Cronus who murdered children because they represented a threat to his throne just like Pharaoh in the Bible and Balor of the Evil Eye in the Irish version. It wasn’t until the miraculous birth of Zeus that the Olympian gods were able to free themselves from the tyrannical rule that Cronus had imposed upon them and Zeus led them to freedom (Zeus later being held as the source of everything for this very reason – the source of laws, justice etc.). A similar story is told by Apollodorus when he claims that the Olympian gods were forced to flee to Egypt and hide themselves (in his version disguised as animals – although the metaphor of being "animals" could also refer to the fact that the gods had lost all human dignity and were living literally "like animals" since they were slaves) when Typhon (the Egyptian Set) had established his own tyrannical rule and had forced the gods to flee because he was persecuting them, basically forcing them to do a diaspora. Not coincidentally in Christian translations of the Irish myths and legends – the name "Tuatha de Danaan" was translated into "Christian terms" as "Israelites"; so whenever the word "Tuatha de Danaan" was found they would replace it with "Israelites" – because they are literally one and the same; "Israelites" simply being the name that the Hebrews gave to that mythological group of people inside of their own traditions and culture; whilst "Tuath Dé" is the name on the other hand that the Irish people gave to the same mythological group of individuals – inside of their very own mythology and traditions/folklore.

At the end of my Conjunction Tarot deck process I drew the Magus again. One represents the beginning of the journey, one the end

which one do you like better and why?

I love this scripture and the readers I know won't even give it a go. I would like to hear any comments about it thank you.

'Geometree - Ceremonial Magick'

oil and metallic ink on canvas

6ocm × 50cm

This artwork is inspired ceremonial magick and the tree of life. The practice of the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram being a foundation of magick and the journey of the sepherot and paths up the tree.

(Excuse me for my bad english im latin ametican) I been meditating for some months, i think im going trough some spiritual process, i just want information about the spiritual realm, i been learning by myself all type of stuff, law of atracction, vibration, manifestation, masonic stuff that i found in the Internet, i only have one friend who meditates too but he is not into learn more about this stuff, he just want to use it to make money (me too) but i want to learn more, i read a book called "the secret history of the world" and since that i been looking for more. If you can Share some experience or books it really help

Im trying to find some esoteric / Hermetic websites on the normal internet and the deep web. Can anyone send me some links?

The only one i have found is this one which has been pasted on different domains https://www.alchemywebsite.com/

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