-Caveat Lector- from: prioryofsion digest 483 http://www.onelist.com The mailing list resource page can be found at the following address http://www.albino.com/circle/pos/ ---- Message: 14 Date: 14 Mar 99 14:13:44 EST From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [priory-of sion] Review of Genesis of the Grail Kings Dear Listmates, Below is a review of Gardner's new book that was posted to the newsgroup sci. archealogy recently. The reviewer is a regular on this newsgroup. JoAnn Review of Genesis of the Grail Kings. A book by Laurence Gardener Review by ADR This week the author of the international bestseller, Blood line of the Holy Grail, released his latest book, Genesis of the Grail Kings. Gardener follows up on his previous work, attempting to trace the 'saang real' or noble bloodline of Jesus and King David, even further back. So far back in fact, that he even concludes the book with a family tree tracing the bloodlines back through the Israelites, Unified Monarchy (David and Solomon), the 18th Dynasty/New Kingdom of Egypt and then further back up the Israelite line all the way to Adam and then to the gods themselves! This is where Gardener's work completely falls apart. Apparently, and I might even say tragically, Laurence Gardener is the Jacobite Historiographer Royal, an internationally known sovereign and chivalric genealogist, Chevalier Labhran de St Germain, President Attache to the European Council of Princes and formally attached to the Noble Household Guard of the Royal House of Stewart, and is the Chancellor of the Imperial and Royal Court of the Dragon Sovereignty which embodies the Knights Templar of St Anthony. But all these titles can't stop his work from lacking in true history, incorrect Egyptian genealogies borrowed from Ahmed Osman's incredibly erroneous works and a complete misunderstanding of biblical theology and ancient mythology. He uses Sitchin's works and thus falls into the trap of thinking the gods such Anu, Ea, Ellil and so on, to be real people. I mostly specialise in Indology and Indo-European history, and because of the contact the Mitanni, an Indo-Aryan ruling class, made with the Egyptians during the New Kingdom, I have also had to study the 18th Dynasty in considerable detail. There is no doubt that that era had a considerable influence of some of the religious movements that occured after it, but researchers such as Ahmed Osman, blow the whole of dynasties personalities out of proportion and even insult their memories by using them to back up Biblical and Quranic stories. Yes, Tuthmosis IV is most probably the real character upon which King David is based, and so is Amonhotep III for Solomon, but after that you can hardly find a single thing to link Akhenaten with Moses, or Smenkhare with Aaron, or, can you believe this one, Tutankhamun with Jesus. There's very little to nothing in parallel between their lives. Gardener makes an Osman of himself, he might be a genealogist, but he is not an archaeologist nor a very well educated historian. An example of the errors he makes regarding the New Kingdom and the Mitanni (who he says decend from Hamites and ruled a large portion of Palestine, total nonsense!) is the genealogies of the families. A quick look at the family tree shows that he makes Nefertiti the daughter of Sitamun, if that were so then Nefetiti would only have been a few years old when Akhenaten married her, but thats not the case. It has been proven by Joyce Tyldesley and accepted by all Egyptologists, that Nefertiti is the daughter of Aye and Tey. Yet another mistake is making Kiya, a secondary wife of Akhenaten, a daughter of Gilukhepa (a Mitanni wife of Amonhotep III). Kiya is actually Tadhukhepa and was the daughter of Tushratta and the niece of Gilukhepa. He borrows from Osmans work in stating that Yuya is the biblical Joseph/Yusef. Maybe there is some borrowing by the writers of Genesis, but Joseph was a minister to the Pharaoh placed in charge of all of Egypt, Yuya was a priest but his job was in the army where he was also in charge of all the horse trainers and horses. He also makes Smenkhare into Aaron, simply by changing his name to Smenkhare-on. A deliberate forgery, the same way Osman tried to say that Nefertiti was also called Meri-Amun, therefore she had to be Miriam. She did not have this name, it was General Horemheb who had the name Mery-Amun. Did he give birth to Jesus by immaculate conception? Are the Essenes named after Esa/Yeshua? No. And enough of this history twisting. The most upto date and accurate genealogy of the period as compiled myself and the works of Joyce Tyldesley show itself like this: Egyptian Geneaology: Artatama I (of Mitanni). Father of Mutemwia, wife of Tuthmosis IV. Mutemwia, sister of Yuya and mother of Amonhotep III. Yuya, son of Artatama, husband of Thuyu and father of Ay, Anen and Tiy. Tiy, wife of Amonhotep III, sister of Aye and Anen(who dies early) and mother of Amonhotep IV, aka Akhenaten. Akhenaten, King of Egypt, husband of Nefertiti and Tadhukhepa/Kiya. Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten, daughter of Ay and Tey, sister of Mutnodjmet and mother of Meritaten, Meketaten, Neferneferuaten, Neferneferure, Setepenre and Ankhsenpaaten/Ankhsenpaamun. Tadhukhepa/Kiya, (dies early) mother of Meritaten the younger, Ankhsenpaaten the younger, Tutankhaten/Tutankhamun and possibly Smenkhare. Tutankhamun, son of Akhenaten and Kiya, husband of Ankhesenpaaten. Ankhesenpaaten, daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Aye, father of Nefertiti, grandfather of Ankhesenpaaten. Uncle of Gilukhepa and brother of Tiye. Horemheb, husband of Mutnodjmet sister of Nefertiti. Mitanni Geneaology Artatama, father of Mutemwia and Shuttarna. Shuttarna, father of Gilukhepa. Gilukhepa, niece of Aye, niece of Mutemwia and Yuya. Tushratta, father of Tadhukhepa/Kiya. Tadhukhepa/Kiya, niece of Gilukhepa and mother of Tutankhamun. Osman wanted to prove that Aye was the historical Joseph of Arimethea and was the uncle of Tutankhamun, but the above proves he was not. Gardener makes mistakes regarding ancient folklore of the Indians when he tries his hand at Yogic and mystical knowledge. He states that 'soma' is a hormone excreted by the pineal gland. It is not. Soma was a combination of ephedra and harmel, crushed and mixed with water and then drunk. The Persians called it 'haoma' and it was used also by the Zoroastrians during their fire worshipping ceremonies derived from Rig Vedic practise, also illustrated in the story of Moses and the talking burning bush. Though I admire Gardener for showing clear cross cultural links, he goes too far in believing that Annunaki came down and created the human race using cloning techniques. Surely, they could have done better if that were true. But most ridiculously, in effect he is actually saying that since kingship was given by the gods and the kings were the blood descendants of the gods, this means that all monarchs, nobles and modern day blue bloods have the right to rule over the people of the earth! This slaps itself in the face because the very craftsmen that were meant to protect this knowledge were also the creators of modern day democracy and liberty. More crazy ideas include the pyramids being built by a spiritual, alchemy based anti-gravity technology. Gardener says, '... the pyramids were doubtless constructed with the technology of the superconducting highward firestone - the sacred anti-gravitational shem-an-na produced at the Mount Serabit temple of Hathor.' So, we have Mark Lehner and Zawi Hawass who have shown people the remains of the ramps used to transport the stones and some of the burial tombs of the craftsmen complete with details about them, but hey, lets forget about that and go with the magic powder that produces anti-gravity! Gardener continues, 'The once sealed King's Chamber was, in fact, contrived as a super conducter, capable of transporting the pharaoh into another dimension of spacetime through the Meissner Field.' The old kingdom pharaohs have, according to Gardener, left this dimension. I just hope wherever they turn up, they were wearing more than a simple loin cloth that they are normally depicted wearing. Imagine they turned up in a Siberia or even worse, a Soho men's bar. Gardener is saying the same thing as if we were to stick Sitchin and Osman together. Quite sad really, but I'm sure he will sell a few books to people who do not know any better, and thus pocket a fair dinkums worth. My feelings are Michael Rohls, Laurence Gardener and Ahmed Osman might only be doing favours for the Jewish, Christian and Islamic establishments and that there is no doubt they might even be getting a nice wage from it aswell. They deliberately avoid historical facts in order to back up religious texts which have no historical basis. Because of that I have to give Gardeners book an absolute zero out of ten. xxxxx ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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