Well I would not put too much credence in anything Ms Acharya has to
dissect - her own fantasies are so riddled with inaccuracies they cross the
reality border into absurdity.
In particular -I recall having read her spin on the "Origins of
Christianity".
You only need to examine her website for glimpse of the outdated works that
are relied on for her dis-information.
Some of the sceptical authors she carelessly cites embarrass even today's
sceptics themselves. She is not interested in facts or truth, but simply to
superimpose her own miasmic version of history upon her devotees and
readers.
Primary sources are rarely cited, and her spin is taken form second and
third hand interpretations of other secondary works.
Her attempt at linking Christ with pagan so-called "saviours" is
particularly telling - as most of the pagan myths were not even documented
until after the time of Christ.
If I were to make an analogy - perhaps - a bit like the Vatican, say, taking
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, affix a glass frame around the artwork with a
golden halo painted on the glass to surround the "Mona Lisa" head and then
call it the "Madonna." Pretty shonky in my opinion.
Furthermore, these swamis of self-ordained Gnosis have the most bizarre and
credulous interpretations of the Bible.
Particularly in the manner by which they perform their quixotic word
jumbles - using plays on words as "proof" for their silly conspiracy
theories and tales.
In like manner - we could take say the passage from the bibles book called
"Acts" where it sates that the apostles were "of one accord" and conclude
that early Christianity possessed motor cars and were riding around in Honda
cars!
Or, perhaps we could suggest that because Joseph "SERVED in Pharaohs COURT"
that the ancient Egyptians were the world's first Tennis players!!!
It seems the axiom wisdom of the dictum "a text without the context is a
pretext" is entirely lost on these just-make-it-fit Scrabblites.
If you want to genuinely and seriously study history, in the case below
Sumerian, I suggest you read it from a reputable HISTORIAN, not a journalist
guru with an axe to grind, or wishing to super-impose a particular
world-view upon the facts.
Always check PRIMARY sources, and do NOT rely on just their mere hearsay -
if it twaddles with phrases like "new" "secret" "hidden" "conspiracy"
"revelations" "mysteries" "amazing" - most likely it will be loaded with
doggy-do. It's a clever sales technique that every good ad man, but also
con-artist employ to influence clients, and in the latter case - the
gullible.
Ms Acharya's entertainment value 2/10 - scholarship . Zero!
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> Subject: Re: What About the Anunnaki? by Acharya S
>
> In my talks and writings about the Christian myth and mythology in
general,
> I am often asked, 'What about Sitchin?' In the first place, I read a
number
> of Sitchin's books before I came across the information concerning the
> Christian myth. Obviously, I was not convinced enough by Sitchin's
> speculations that I overlooked the research that subsequently came my way.
> Before I address the world of Sitchin, an economist by education and
> profession, let me say something about myself. I am a classically trained
> archaeologist, historian, mythologist and linguist, which is to say that I
> went to excellent schools that applied rigorous scientific methodology. In
> such an education, if one discovers factual information that is
> contradictory to what one already believes or perceives, one is compelled
by
> honesty to abandon the earlier, erroneous model and accept the new. These
> are the methods by which I have continuously honed in on the history of
the
> planet and its creatures. While it is true that some people (fewer than
the
> masses would like to believe) needn't be specialists in a given field
> through standard scholastic training, it is of greater validity that
someone
> who has spent years upon years studying an issue, subjected to criticism
and
> feedback by way of 'tests' and 'grades,' is in the end going to be more
> knowledgeable in that field. For example, if you need a heart transplant,
> you must go to a specialist and doctor, not a plumber. On the other hand,
> those who are classically educated but do not display acute critical
> thinking will mindlessly go along with the party line, no matter how wrong
> it may be.
> Zecharia Sitchin appeals to those who have seen the flaws in the orthodox
> paradigm concerning human origins and the planet's history. Because of
> bizarre anomalies and mysteries, neither evolution nor creationism are
> completely adequate in themselves. In an attempt to explain these
anomalies,
> which include weird stories or 'myths' and enormous, astonishing ruins
> worldwide, Zecharia Sitchin has written several best-selling books based
on
> the 'alien astronaut theory,' which dictates that alien visitors have been
> influencing human life for thousands if not millions of years, even to the
> point of genetic manipulation. Supporters claim that Sitchin is one of the
> few people who read the Sumerian language, and he has made a 'pet theory'
> from what he has interpreted from his readings. Some supporters also claim
> that because he can read Sumerian, he must be interpreting the data
> properly. In the first place, the assertion that he is one of the few
> scholars of Sumerian is not true. In the second, the idea that someone may
> be able to read a language and therefore can interpret the data is a
> specious argument, because the one certainly does not guarantee the other.
> Also, years befor Sitchin, biblical and Dead Sea scrolls scholar John
> Allegro studied Sumerian intimately and came to very different
conclusions,
> to wit that many of the words revolved around sex and drugs.
>
> While Sitchin is a good researcher and provides much interesting knowledge
> concerning the lost global civilization that has left its vast mark in
both
> story and stone, there are several problems with his pet theory that I
> believe are explainable at least in part not because of his scientific
> training but because of his cultural and religious conditioning. In the
> first place, it should be noted that he is building on the work of von
> Daniken and the German School without giving von Daniken much credit. von
> Daniken, it should be recalled, was one of the first moderns to put forth
> the ancient astronaut theory and was widely ridiculed and vilified for his
> observations. Because of Sitchin's apparent scholastic training, he
becomes
> more credible for many.
> Sitchin starts out on the right foot when he looks to the heavens to
> determine what the myths of the ancients really mean. He is right on the
> money when he sees celestial bodies in some of the characters in these
> myths.
>
> However, he seriously blunders when he attempts to make them into human
> beings or aliens. For example, his entire thesis is built upon the
> speculation that there is a '12th planet' from which a group of
> extraterrestrials called the Anunnaki - a term in Sumerian mythology -
> descended upon earth every 3,500 years or so.
>
> First of all, the speculation is not needed, as the Sumero-Babylonians
> themselves said that the gods were the planets, not people, and that their
> stories were myths representing personifications of these bodies. It is
> believed that by 'dismissing' the myths of the ancients as myths, we are
> somehow robbing them of their 'history.' This claim is ludicrous, as it is
> those who insist that there are NO myths who are actually defaming the
> ancients. Has everyone already forgotten the learned and esteemed
> mythologist Joseph Campbell? Campbell knew that major biblical tales, such
> as that of Moses and the Exodus, were mythical. In his book Occidental
> Mythology, following a discussion of the Bible, Campbell turns to the
'Gods
> and Heroes of the European West,' and says, with apparent resentment:
> 'Fortunately, it will not be necessary to argue that Greek, Celtic or
> Germanic myths were mythological. The peoples themselves knew they were
> myths, and the European scholars discussing them have not been overborne
by
> the idea of something uniquely holy about their topic.'
>
> There ARE mythologists - do they have no science whatsoever to study?
> Perhaps mythology is just not as exciting as the UFOlogical paradigm,
> whereby ancient astronauts were buzzing all over the place, being
worshipped
> for their extraordinary capacities. However, the desire to see such a
> 'history' often seems to be coming from exposure as a youth to comic books
> and sci-fi movies.
>
> The Ancients Knew What They were Creating
>
> Also, the ancients were not the dark and dumb rabble commonly portrayed.
> They were, in fact, highly advanced. As such, they developed over a period
> of many thousands of years a complex astronomical/astrological system that
> incorporated the movements and qualities of numerous celestial bodies. I
> call this the 'celestial mythos.' The celestial mythos is found around the
> globe in astonishing uniformity. In fact, it served as the manner by which
> life on Earth was ordered, as it contained information crucial to life,
such
> as the movements and interrelationship of the sun and moon. Without the
> mythos, no people would have been able to become sea-faring, and planting
> and harvesting would have been difficult. And the mythos needed no alien
> intervention to be developed by humans, nor did it need moderns to come
> along and reinterpret it contrary to what its creators intended.
>
> For example, the Anunnaki play a part in the mythos, but they are not
> 'people,' human or otherwise. The Anunnaki, in reality, represent the
seven
> 'nether spheres' and guardians of the seven 'gates' through which the 'sun
> of God' passes into the netherworld or darkness. So, immediately we
> encounter a problem which reveals that what Sitchin is putting forth is
not
> what the ancients themselves said of the traditions they themselves
> developed. Like so many before him, Sitchin also wants to make the main
> character of the celestial mythos, the sun, into a person. Actually, he
> wants to make it into several extraterrestrials. These various 'gods'
found
> around the globe, such as Osiris, Horus, Krishna, Hercules, Jesus and
> Quetzalcoatl, are not people or aliens but personifications of the solar
> hero, as was stated by the peoples who created them. The ancients were not
> so dumb that they mistook planets for people, even though they personified
> those planets and, where the knowledge or gnosis of the mythos was lost,
> they hoped for 'the incarnation,' or the carnalization or appearance of a
> 'god.' There is no need to recreate the wheel here by speculating upon
what
> the ancients 'really' meant.
> (Even a Christian idiot like Jack Chick knows that these ancient gods were
> SOLAR HEROES, not people or aliens.)
>
> Is Everything Born of Religious Madness?
>
> I am reminded of an incident during my archaeological sojourn on the
island
> of Crete. As we stood inside the covered remains of the ancient town near
> the sacred site of Mallia, dating to around 2500 BCE, our attention was
> directed to the stone bowls that appeared outside of the doors of
virtually
> every house in this fascinating village, and we were asked to speculate
upon
> what those bowls could be used for. Now, it may be noted that I have a pet
> peeve with archaeologists, because they blast into other people's
countries,
> with little direct experience of the culture, and attempt to interpret how
> those people lived. They often barely even pay attention to the traditions
> of the people, especially those who are still living in the area and
> frequently in the manner of the ancients. Some of these archaeologists do
> not even learn the language of the country they are in, such that they
> cannot communicate with the natives, whose insights would no doubt help
them
> in their quest and reduce the need for endless and groundless speculation.
> My professor at the time of this bowl incident was not one of these
> archaeologists, as he was married to a Greek woman and spoke the language
> extremely well. He thus had respect for the indigenous people and did not
> discount their opinions.
>
> When the professor asked the students - the vast majority of whom either
> held PhDs or were PhD candidates from respected colleges and
universities -
> to put forth their interpretations of these bowls, a number of them fell
> into the typical archaeological trap by making grandiose pronouncements
that
> these bowls were for some religious ritual such as the 'offering of the
> first fruits to the gods.' The professor then turned to the old Greek man
> who had been the caretaker at this site for decades and asked him what the
> bowls were for. As he had lived in the area all his life, it made sense
that
> he would know what these accoutrements were for and, indeed, his answer
> nearly made me laugh out loud because it showed how silly were the
> archaeologists in their grandiose explanations. The other archaeologists,
> not knowing Greek, were not privy to the joke until the caretaker's words
> were translated by the professor. 'Well,' said the old man in regard to
the
> ubiquitous bowls, 'they are for the dogs, for water.' This is a typical
> habit with archaeologists. What they cannot explain, they attribute to
some
> bizarre religious madness.
>
> I am also reminded of another incident that made me appreciate some of
> Sitchin's work. Some years ago there was a PBS special about the
mysterious
> Bolivian site of Tiahuanaco, in which an archaeologist, encountering the
> fabulous building with water sluices, pronounced it a 'temple to the water
> god.' Sitchin, of course, sees a much more practical silver-working
> operation, an opinion with which I can concur, as I do indeed also profess
> that there have been at least two global civilizations of high degree tens
> of thousands of years ago. I am also not adverse to the notion of 'alien'
> visitation, especially because of the legends of the ancients who claimed
> that their ancestors came from the Pleiades or Orion or Sirius. I am
> likewise not closed to the idea of genetic manipulation eons ago,
> particularly because the origin of the races is still not satisfactorily
> explained, nor is the evolutionary theory, nor are the bizarre anomalies
> found around the world, including the alleged skulls and skeletons of
weird
> humanoids, giants, elves, etc.
>
> The Sky People
>
> In any serious investigation of this subject, we must be able to discern
> between the 'gods' and the 'sky people' mentioned by the ancients. As
noted,
> the enlightened ancients knew the 'gods' were the planets. The sky people
> were a different matter altogether. Some of them may have been 'aliens' in
> the offworld sense, but other legends hold that at least some of these sky
> people were the remnants of one of the advanced global civilizations
> destroyed by cataclysm, and that some of them were coming from inside the
> earth. The legends further say that such advanced people appeared around
the
> world to reestablish civilization after the various cataclysms. In doing
so,
> they also reintroduced the mythos, which was subsequently developed by the
> 'natives' to produce their own 'flavor.' When these advanced teachers
> appeared and began to speak of the gods in the mythos, they were often
> called priests of those gods, i.e., 'priest of Apollo.' These titles were
at
> times reduced, first to 'priest Apollo,' and then just 'Apollo.' As time
> went on, the teacher became associated with the god, such that the mythos
> became entwined with the 'history' of the teacher. In other words,
although
> a legend may hold that the god Apollo appeared in the flesh to teach the
> natives, it was in fact merely a representative of the god.
>
> One such 'modern' case of this mistaken identity has occurred in Japan, in
> the village of Shingo, where, inhabitants insist, the remains of 'Jesus'
and
> his 'brother' are buried. The story holds that Jesus's 'brother' was
> crucified in his place and that Jesus and his followers fled with the
> brother's remains to Shingo, where he lived to be 100 years old and to
> father children with a Japanese woman. The legend also holds that Jesus
had
> been educated by Buddhist masters during his 'lost years.' Unfortunately
for
> all this mythmaking, the alleged graves of Jesus and his brother actually
> belong to two Christian missionaries who arrived in the 16th century. (See
> also the Fortean Times article.) Thus, we can see that things are a
little
> more complicated than they appear and that discernment of the highest
order
> is required to determine what has actually happened on this planet. In a
> serious scientific search, one needs to be more cautious in jumping to
> conclusions based on speculation and to produce a recital of facts, with
as
> little speculation as possible. These facts come from 'the horse's mouth,'
> i.e., the archaeological and historical/legendary records of the ancients
> themselves, without embellishment or interpretation.
>
> In reality, the ancients also had myths that had nothing to do with
> extraterrestrials but which revolved around what was known, i.e., what
they
> could see and detect around them. Nothing was quite as awesome to the
> ancients as the earth, sky, planetary bodies and natural forces. No alien
> could have compared to the power contained on earth and in the heavens. In
> fact, if anything, the ancients used the priestcraft developed around the
> reverence for natural forces to fend off 'aliens.' The ancients, then, did
> not mistake the sun and is varied personifications for the real people,
> except where the gnosis was lost and the civilization had degraded, or
where
> it was deliberately obfuscated in order to defraud, as is the case with
> Christianity. Also, to suggest that all these solar heroes such as
Krishna,
> Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, Horus and Jesus, with their identical 'lives,' were
> aliens, is just a bit absurd, since it supposes that they all were born of
> virgins, had tyrants trying to kill them at their birth, were presented
with
> the same gifts, did and said the same things and then were all crucified.
In
> shoring up such a ridiculous premise, we are asked to believe that
> 'superior' aliens kept 'coming down' and kindly obliging the barbaric
> humans, who kept insisting upon crucifying them (between two thieves, no
> less). Quite a bizzaro-world, that. (See my dissertation, The Origins of
> Christianity and the Quest for this Historical Jesus.)
>
> The Anunnaki and Assorted Other Characters
>
> Contrary to popular belief, the Sumerian culture has been known for
> centuries and did not appear suddenly out of nowhere when Sitchin got his
> hands on the various tablets. If anything, the tablets verified what we
> already knew about Sumeria from its inheritors, the Akkadians and
> Assyro-Babylonians. The Sumerians were not a lost civilization, except
that
> their older remains such as at Ur had not been preserved. Their mythology
> and culture were fairly well preserved in the succeeding civilizations.
> Indeed, some 300,000 tablets of the Babylonians have been found thus far,
> which include much commentary on their gods.
>
> Some of the main characters in the Sumero-Babylonian religion/mythology
are
> Enlil, Shamash, Marduk, Gilgamesh, Sin, Ishtar and Tammuz. Enlil is the
same
> as the later Bel or Baal, the Canaanite sun god/solar hero. Hence, he is
not
> a real person/alien; nor are the rest. Although there were many Baalim,
the
> singular Baal came to represent the sun in the age of Taurus (@4500-2400
> BCE), whence comes the word 'bull.' Shamash is also a Babylonian sun god
who
> was called Chemosh in Moabite and worshipped by the Israelites. Indeed,
> 'sun' in Hebrew is 'shamash.' Shamash was called the 'sublime judge of the
> Anunnaki.' Marduk, or Merodach, who is the Mordecai of the biblical book
of
> Esther, was the 'commander of the Anunnaki' and often represented Jupiter,
> although as 'Bel-Marduk' he incorporated aspects of the sun god as well
and
> was considered as such at a late period in his worship. The hero Gilgamesh
> is represented as wrestling the 'celestial bull,' which is the sign of the
> age of Taurus. Gilgamesh has also been associated with the Egyptian sun
god
> Osiris, as has the biblical 'Nimrod' or 'Nemrod.' The Catholic
Encyclopedia
> (CE) states: 'Gilgamesh, whom mythology transformed into a Babylonian
> Hercules [the Greek solar hero], whose fortunes are described in the
> Gilgamesh-epos, would then be the person designated by the Biblical
Nemrod.
> Others again see in Nemrod an intentional corruption of Amarudu, the
> Akkadian for Marduk, whom the Babylonians worshiped as the great God . . .
'
> ('Babylonia')
> Sin, of course, is the moon god encamped at Mt. Sinai. Ishtar was the
> goddess, alternately Venus, the moon, the constellation of Virgo, the
earth,
> etc. Ishtar was 'Astarte' in Phoenicia, and, as Frazer says in The Worship
> of Nature, 'Her Phoenician worshippers identified her with the Moon . . .
'
>
> Tammuz, or Dumuzi in the Sumerian, was the solar-fertility god worshipped
> also in Jerusalem, per the book of Ezekiel. As the Babylonia records state
> concerning their 'garden of Eden' or 'Edina,' of Eridu: 'a dark vine grew;
> it was made a glorious place, planted beside the abyss. In the glorious
> house, which is like a forest, its shadow extends; no man enters its
midst.
> In its interior is the Sun-god Tammuz. Between the mouths of the rivers,
> which are on both sides.' (CE 'Babylonia')
>
> None of these characters is a historical person, as, again, the
> Sumero-Babylonians correctly identified their own gods as being the
> 'planets,' which, of course, included the sun and the moon. Says the
> Catholic Encyclopedia regarding Babylon:
> 'The storied tower of Birs Nimrud counts seven of these quadrangular
> platforms painted in seven colors, black, white, yellow, blue, scarlet,
> silver, and gold, and in the same order sacred to the stellar gods, Adar
> (Saturn), Ishtar (Venus), Merodach (Jupiter), Nebo (Mercury), Nergal
(Mars),
> Sin (the Moon), Shamash (the Sun).'
> In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Anunnaki appear thus:
> 'The Flood: Nergal pull down the dams of the nether waters, Ninurta the
war
> lord threw down the dykes, and the SEVEN judges of hell, THE ANUNNAKI,
> raised their torches lighting the landwith their vivid fire.' The 'nether
> waters' represent the heavens, and the Anunnaki were called 'the fates'
and
> light-bearers of the night sky. They were the 'seven judges of hell' and
> 'seven nether spheres,' as Barbara Walker relates in her entry on Mary
> Magdalene (The Woman's Encyclopedia, 614):
> 'The seven 'devils' exorcised from Mary Magdalene seem to have been the
> seven Maskim, or Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian spirits of the seven nether
> spheres, born of the goddess Mari. Their multiple birth was represented in
> her sacred dramas, which may account for their alleged emergence from Mary
> Magdalene. An Akkadian tablet said of them, 'They are seven! In the depths
> of the ocean, they are seven! In the brilliance of the heavens, they are
> seven! They proceed from the ocean depths [Maria] from the hidden
retreat!'
>
> Walker also relates, in The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred
> Objects, 13:
> 'A generally accepted view of the universe in antiquity was the doctrine
of
> the planetary spheres, conceived as great crystal domes or inverted bowls
> nested inside one another over the earth, turning independently of one
> another at various rates, and emitting the 'music of the spheres' with
their
> motions. The theory was evolved to explain the apparently erratic movement
> of planets against the background of the fixed stars. Reading from the
> innermost sphere outward, arranging them according to the days of the
week,
> they were the spheres of the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn,
> and the sun. Outermost was the eight sphere, the Empyrean, the home of
fixed
> spheres and the ultimate God: the highest heaven.
>
> 'As a corollary to this theory, it was also assumed that there were seven
> nether spheres descending under the earth: the 'seven hells' to which
Dumuzi
> and Inanna (or Tammuz and Ishtar) journeyed; whose seven gates were
guarded
> by the seven Anunnaki or Maskim, the nether counterparts of the planetary
> spirits. According to an Akkadian magic tablet, 'They proceed from the
ocean
> depths, from the hidden retreat.' From the ancient idea of the seven
nether
> spheres, Dante took his vision of the descending circles of hell.'
>
> 'Early Christians taught that each human soul descends from heaven,
picking
> up one of the seven deadly sins from each planetary sphere along the way:
> lust from Venus, anger from Mars, and so on. After death, the soul
returned
> to the highest heaven, shedding the same sins one by one, while passing
the
> 'innkeeper' of the spheres - providing, of course, that the soul was
> Christianized and therefore properly enlightened.'
> When we study what the ancients said about them, we discover that the
> Anunnaki, et al., are part of the celestial mythos, not 'aliens.' These
> Anunnaki are, in fact, the 'seven nether spheres' or mirror images of the
> seven 'planets.' These seven judges are a common mythical motif, also
found
> in Slavic/Serbian mythology, for example, where they are clearly
identified
> as the planets. As we can see, the reality of this issue is much more
> colorful and luminous than a group of bizarre aliens terrorizing cavemen.
> This information is what the ancients themselves wrote. They did not
write,
> 'And so the Anunnaki were sky people from another planet who landed here
and
> mated with humans, etc.' In fact, 'Anunnaki' is a generic term for gods,
> especially secondary gods, and means 'gods of heaven and earth,' not
'those
> who from heaven to earth came.'
> The Anunnaki were numbered not only seven but 50, representing the gods in
> general. The 50 were apparently also the stars, as recorded in the Epic of
> Gilgamesh:
> 'At the break of dawn in the morning there arose from the foundation of
> heaven a dark cloud. The Storm god thundered within it and Nebo [Mercury]
> and Marduk [Jupiter-Sun] went before it. Then went the heralds over
mountain
> and plain. Uragala dragged the anchors loose, the Annunak raised their
> torches, with their flashing they lighted the earth. The roar of the Storm
> god reached to the heavens and everything bright turned into darkness.'
>
> The Annunaki, in fact, were numbered 900 as well, again representing the
> stars or 'heavenly hosts,' as worshipped by the Canaanites and Hebrews.
> Benson writes in The History of God From Abraham to Moses:
> 'The Anunnaki were analogous to the 'host of heaven' of the Hebrews.
Marduk
> allotted portions to the Anunnaki: 'To the Anunnaki of heaven and earth
> [Marduk] had allotted their portions.' Likewise, the Canaanite-Hebrew god
El
> Elyon allotted portions to his sons: 'When the Most High [Heb. Elyon] gave
> to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he
> fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of
God.
> For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob [Israel] his allotted
heritage.'
> (Deuteronomy 32:8-9 RSV) These 'sons of God' in the following verse are
also
> called the 'host of heaven,' to whom God divided to all the nations: 'And
> lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see ... all the host of
> heaven ... which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the
> whole heaven.' (Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV) These gods were secondary gods: 'For
> the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords ...' (Deuteronomy
10:17
> KJV) 'O give thanks to the God of gods ...' (Psalm 136:2 KJV)
>
> Yahweh
>
> Also, the biblical god Yahweh is NOT a person, alien or otherwise. 'He'
too
> is in large part a solar myth. Regarding Yahweh, the Catholic Encyclopedia
> says:
> 'It seems likely that the name of Ea, or Ya, or Aa, the oldest god of the
> Babylonian Pantheon, is connected with the name Jahve, Jahu, or Ja, of the
> Old Testament.' The Babylonian 'Ea' is equivalent to Enlil, whom, as we
have
> seen, is a sun god. The following is an excerpt from my book The Christ
> Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold:
>
> Prior to being labeled Yahweh, the Israelite god was called 'Baal,'
> signifying the sun in the Age of Taurus. When the sun passed into Aries,
> 'the Lord's' name was changed to the Egyptian Iao, which became YHWH,
IEUE,
> Yahweh, Jahweh, Jehovah and Jah. This ancient name 'IAO/Iao' represents
the
> totality of 'God,' as the 'I' symbolizes unity, the 'a' is the 'alpha' or
> beginning, while the 'o' is the 'omega' or end. In fact, the name Yahweh,
> Iao, or any number of variants thereof can be found in several cultures:
> 'In Phoenicia the Sun was known as Adonis . . . identical with Iao, or,
> according to the Chinese faith, Yao (Jehovah), the Sun, who makes his
> appearance in the world 'at midnight of the twenty-fourth day of the
twelfth
> month.''
>
> YHWH/IEUE was additionally the Egyptian sun god Ra:
> 'Ra was the father in heaven, who has the title of 'Huhi' the eternal,
from
> which the Hebrews derived the name 'Ihuh.'' Thus, the tetragrammaton or
> sacred name of God IAO/IEUE/YHWH is very old, pre-Israelite, and can be
> etymologically linked to numerous gods, even to 'Jesus,' or 'Yahushua,'
> whose name means 'salvation' or 'Iao/YHWH saves.' As Higgins says:
> 'The pious Dr. Parkhurst . . . proves, from the authority of Diodorus
> Siculus, Varro, St. Augustin, etc., that the Iao, Jehovah, or ieue, or ie
of
> the Jews, was the Jove of the Latins and Etruscans. . . . he allows that
> this ie was the name of Apollo . . . He then admits that this ieue Jehovah
> is Jesus Christ in the following sentences: 'It would be almost endless to
> quote all the passages of scripture wherein the name . . . (ieue) is
applied
> to Christ . . . they cannot miss of a scriptural demonstration that Jesus
is
> Jehovah.' But we have seen it is admitted that Jehovah is Jove, Apollo,
Sol,
> whence it follows that Jesus is Jove, etc.'
>
> Yahweh had yet another aspect to 'his' persona, as at some early stage the
> 'sacred tetragrammaton' of 'God' was bi-gendered. As Walker states:
> 'Jewish mystical tradition viewed the original Jehovah as an androgyne,
> his/her name compounded as Jah (jod) and the pre-Hebraic name of Eve,
Havah
> or Hawah, rendered he-vau-he- in Hebrew letters. The four letters together
> made the sacred tetragrammaton, YHWH, the secret name of God. . . . The
> Bible contains many plagiarized excerpts from earlier hymns and prayers to
> Ishtar and other Goddess figures, with the name of Yahweh substituted for
> that of the female deity.'
>
> Thus, even Yahweh was at one time plural, but 'he' eventually became an
> all-male, sky god. This singular Yahweh was a warrior god, representing
the
> sun in Aries, which is ruled by the warlike Mars and symbolized by the
Ram -
> the same symbolic ram 'caught in a thicket' near Abraham and used by him
as
> a replacement sacrifice for his son Isaac. This warrior god Yahweh was not
> only Jealous but Zealous, as his name is rendered in Young's Literal
> Translation:
> ' . . . for ye do not bow yourselves to another god - for Jehovah, whose
> name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.' (Exodus 34:14) In fact, the same
word
> in Hebrew is used for both jealous and zealous, although is transliterated
> differently, 'qanna' being jealous and 'qana,' zealous. As El Elyon was
but
> one of the Canaanite Elohim, the Most High God, so was 'Yahweh,' as 'El
> Qanna,' the Jealous/Zealous God, which is why in the Old Testament he
keeps
> sticking his nose in and shouting at everyone. The title 'Jealous/Zealous'
> is also appropriate for a god represented by a volcano, as was Yahweh by
the
> smoky and fiery Mt. Sinai. Hence, Yahweh's followers themselves were
> intolerant and hotheaded zealots.
>
> Conclusion
>
> There was in reality never any need for absurd sci-fi explanation or
> speculation as to these various characters and their stories. Nor was
there
> a need to take the Bible as a literal, historical document. Indeed, the
> behind-the-scenes elite have known the allegorical, mythical and
> astrological nature of the Bible and its characters from the beginning.
>
> It is evident that the ancients recording these myths were in fact often
> smarter than the average 'useless eater,' to use a CIA phrase. They knew
the
> difference between planets and people/aliens. The architecture, writings
and
> traditions of these various ancient cultures, including Sumero-Babylon,
> India, Egypt, Chaldea, Phoenicia/Canaan, etc., show an advanced degree of
> civilization surpassing that which followed it. Such later degradation is
> particularly true when it comes to biblical peoples. The Bible, in fact,
> represents a dumbed-down version of the mythology of the aforementioned
> cultures. In reality, in terms of cosmic knowledge, in many important ways
> modern man has devolved. One of the major problems is the compulsive and
> irrational personification and vulgarization of the planetary bodies and
of
> the celestial mythos and ritual, a body of knowledge and wisdom concerning
> the cosmos and specifically the solar system, which filled the ancients
with
> awe and reverence. This mythos and ritual is found worldwide, reflecting a
> global culture in ancient times. This body of knowledge is traceable
through
> legends to 70,000 years ago, but, according to Albert Churchward, for
> example, extends back much further. It is found in stone and story all
over
> the world, reflected in the mysterious megalithic ruins.
>
> To reduce this glory to a band of aliens and/or humans is silly and
> deplorable, as it robs the ancients of intelligence and wisdom, among
other
> things, including the quality of humanity itself. Furthermore, part of the
> brainwashing to get people to accept the story of Jesus Christ, for
> example - which is the story of the sun - was to make 'myths' appear to be
> foolish stories with no basis in reality. This mental programming or
'meme'
> has been displayed abundantly, but the fact is that myths are not silly
> fantasies and hallucinations. They are stories designed to pass along
vital
> information from generation to generation. It is easier to remember the
> 'exploits' of the sun, moon and stars, for example, when they are
> personified and told in a fun story than when presented in a dry
> dissertation. It is only when the knowledge, or gnosis, has been lost that
> humans start believing these entities to be real people - and the gnosis
was
> very effectively driven underground by organized religion, such that it
was
> lost to the masses, who now must piece it together, often coming up with
> erroneous and inaccurate interpretations with occasional hits now and
then.
>
> � 1999 Acharya S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> REPLY POSTED:
> http://www.paradise-web.com/plus_le/plus.mirage?who=k2&id=311.208226456773
>
> My research into the possiblility of alien visitation has spanned over 25
> years. I am offering only a few of my conclusions here, for the evidence
is
> extensive. The Annunkai were also known as the Nephilim, as Sitchin
attests.
> The huge structures found around the world were built by giants, who were
> the progeny of the fallen angels (Nephilim/Annunaki and earth women. Not
> only the Bible, but numerous texts assembled out of the Qumran (dead sea
> scroll) fragments support this contention.
> The Sumerians/Babylonians developed a religion based on not only the
worship
> of these beings, but also a solar religion, as you attest in your post
here.
>
> The Egyptians, and later the Hellenists, embellished the earlier
> Sumerian/Babylonian tales, and the Nephilim/Annunaki were called the 'sons
> of Horus/Osiris.' By the way, the term Annunaki is found in Numbers 13:33
> and supports the fact that the Nephilim (the King James Bible called the
> Nephilim 'the sons of God' in Genesis 6) were the fathers of the giants:
> 'And there we saw the giants, the sons of anak (annunaki) which come of
the
> giants'...
>
> The Jewish historian Josephus mentioned in his writings that the ancient
> bones of the giants were put on display in his time, ca. 70 A.D.
>
> Yes, I admit that Sitchin makes stretches in order to prove his points, as
> did Eric von Daniken did in his time, with his book Chariots of the Gods.
>
> However, there is truth behind all this, and it goes a bit deeper than
> ancient religions that deified planetary objects.
>
> As for your claims about the theology of the ancient Hebrews and
Israelites,
> in regard to Baal worship: on some points you are correct, but on some
> points you are way off the charts as far as demonstrating your knowledge
of
> the scriptures and the history of the ancient peoples. There is more
> coherency in today's theology than you may realize; the fact that it is
not
> readily recognized by many is the fact that so many are not only
Biblically
> illiterate, but denominationalism, and its foundation built on tradition
> rather than knowledge, obfuscates a concise picture of the plan of YHVH.
>
> Consider this: the difference between the polytheism of the cultures that
> were opposed to the hebrews, who were warned by YAHWEH (not the sun)
Himself
> on Mt. Sinai to 'have no other Gods before me' was that the polytheists
like
> the Sumerians Babylonians, Egyptians, et al., worshipped the fallen
angels,
> and the Hebrews listened to YHVH.
>
> Incidentally, I just posted a link to the Biblcial Archaeology website.
> The true Mt. Sinai is scorched at the top. which offers physical proof of
> the Biblical account of the Theophany on Jebel al Lawz, the true Mt.
Sinai.
> Ex. 19:18
> <<<
>
> eagle 1
>
> for other reference material:
> http://www.crossfields.com/~watcher/hoag2.html
> http://www.mt.net/~watcher/noah.html
> http://www.mt.net/~watcher/judgment.html
> http://www.mt.net/~watcher/antimars.html
> http://www.lambsheart.com/fourwinds/naphal2.html
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