Als das Raumschiff 'Athena' die Erde kippte - Indus-, Borrows-Cave- und Glozel-Texte entziffert
ISBN 3-933817-15-3, pp. 106 + vi + 250 - CTT-Verlag, Stadelstrasse 16, D-98527 Suhl, Germany, September 1999
Background References:
HELENA P. BLAVATSKY, The Secret Doctrine (London: 1950 reprint of the 6-volumes 4th Adyar edition of 1938).
SUKIE COLEGROVE, Spirit of the Valley - Androgyny and Chinese Thought (London: Virago, 1979).
JERROLD S. COOPER, “Writing” in International Encyclopedia of Communications (Oxford University Press, 1989, vol. 4, pp.321-31).
MICHAEL A. CREMO & RICHARD THOMPSON, The Hidden History of the Human Race (ISBN 0-9635309-608; 1994).
GEORG FEUERSTEIN, SUBHASH KAK & DAVID FRAWLEY, In Search of the Cradle of Civilization - New Light on Ancient India (ISBN 0-8356-0720; 1995).
ROGER G. KENNEDY, Hidden Cities (1994).
PETER KOLOSIMO, Timeless Earth (1974).
M. MOREAU, La tradition celtique dans l'art roman (Paris: Le Courrier du Livre, 1975).
DENIS SAURAT, Gods of the People (London: John Westhouse, 1947).
KURT SCHILDMANN, Als das Raumschiff "Athena" die Erde kippte - Indus-, Burrows-Cave- und Glozel-Texte entziffert (ISBN 3-933817-15-3; 1999).
ROGER SCRUTON, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (London: Duckworth, 1998).
ASIA SHEPSUT, Journey of the Priestess - the priestess traditions of the ancient world, a journey of spiritual awakening and empowerment (London: Aquarian/Thorsons, 1993).
ZECHARIA SITCHIN, The Earth Chronicles series of books: The 12th Planet; The Stairway to Heaven; The Wars of Gods and Men; The Lost Realms; When Time Began and The Cosmic Code (all published as paperbacks by Avon Books, New York, 1976-1998, and the first five also in hardback by Bear & Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1976-1996). Also two companion books from the same publishers: Genesis Revisited (Bear & Co., 1991) and Divine Encounters (Avon Books, 1995).
LIVIO CATULLO STECCHINI, "Notes on the Relation of Ancient Measures to the Great Pyramid" (96 pages) in PETER TOMPKINS, Secrets of the Great Pyramid (1971).
ROBERT TEMPLE, The Sirius Mystery (Century 1998; Arrow Books 1999).
MARK VIDLER, The Star Mirror (Thorsons, 1998).
IMAN WILKENS, Where Troy Once Stood - The Mystery of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Revealed (ISBN 0-7126-5105-5, Rider 1991).
SERENITY YOUNG, An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about women (ISBN, 1993).
HELENA P. BLAVATSKY, The Secret Doctrine (London: 1950, vol. 1, pp. 91-3, from stanzas 1 & 3 of the Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan):
“The Seven Ways to Bliss were not. The Great Causes of Misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them. Darkness alone filled the Boundless All…
... The last Vibration of the Seventh Eternity thrills through Infinitude. The Mother swells, expanding from within without, like the Bud of the Lotus. The Vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift Wing the whole Universe and the Germ that dwelleth in Darkness: the Darkness that breathes over the slumbering Waters of Life… the Root that grows in the Depths of the Ocean of Life.”
SUKIE COLEGROVE, Spirit of the Valley - Androgyny and Chinese Thought (p.10):
“Words and definitions are only suitable for describing the differentiated world, since their function is to distinguish between things. They are unsuitable for communicating the unity which lies behind the differences.”
JERROLD S. COOPER, “Writing” in International Encyclopedia of Communications (Vol. 4, pp.321-31):
On the other hand: “Although there are many semiotic systems that can be used to communicate simple notions and even rather complex messages, true writing differs from these in that it provides graphic notation of all the lexical, grammatical, and syntactic features of language. Whatever can be represented by language can be put into writing… All early writing systems are complex and difficult to master. No society would allocate the resources necessary to adopt and propagate such systems unless the systems were meeting certain needs of the society, and meeting them well. In none of the instances examined, to the extent that evidence has survived, can it be shown that these needs included the representation of spoken language.”
MICHAEL A. CREMO & RICHARD THOMPSON, The Hidden History of the Human Race (p.40.):
Louis Leakey wrote in 1960: "It is more than likely that primitive humans were present in Europe during the Lower Pleistocene, just as they were in Africa, and certainly a proportion of the specimens from the sub-crag deposits appear to be humanly flaked and cannot be regarded merely as the result of natural forces. Implements from below the Crags would, however, be not Early (Lower) Pleistocene but at least Late Pliocene in age."
NOTE - This book is an overview of the same authors' much longer Forbidden Archaeology
GEORG FEUERSTEIN, SUBHASH KAK & DAVID FRAWLEY, In Search of the Cradle of Civilization - New Light on Ancient India (ISBN 0-8356-0720; 1995, 341 pages heavily illustrated with potos, maps & diagrams).
"The Cradle of Civilization is shown to be ancient India, rather than Sumeria in this scholarly work. Sifting through the latest archaeological, geological, and linguistic evidence, the authors call for a complete revision of ancient history. The authors show ancient India was far older than Sumeria with an advanced culture that influenced the Western world in decisive ways. Chapters on the Rig Veda, ancient Hindu voyages, the Great Catastrophe, Deciphering the Indus-Sarasvati Script, Vedic Poples in the Land of the Seven Rivers, the Spiritual Heritage, more. For anyone interested in the Rama Empire and the many advanced civilizations at the time of Atlantis."
PETER KOLOSIMO, Timeless Earth (1st edition: 1973; Sphere Books, 1974), pp. 54-55 -
"In 1868 Colonel Churchward was in India… The high priest of a Buddhist seminary… added that other tablets inscribed by these sages in the primal language of mankind were preserved as precious relics in the secret archives of the temple. Churchward… deciphered them, and found that they described in detail the creation of the earth and of mankind… After retiring from the army Churchward continued to study dead languages and travelled throughout the world… It was at Lhasa that he finally succeeded in discovering the missing portions of the record. Meanwhile, the jigshaw was unexpectedly completed by the U.S. mineralogist William Niven, who discovered some tablets in Mexico inscribed in characters very similar to those inspected by Churchward. Similar inscriptions afterwards came to light in Maya temples, pre-Columbian 'stone-calendars', the stone of Tizoc and the tablets, also of stone, at Azcopotzalco; while, several decades later, writing of the same type was found on Easter Island and on vessels dug up in 1925 at Glozel, not far from Vichy… Unfortunately Churchward afterwards embarked on arguments and hypotheses in which the dividing line between reality and fantasy was soon blurred."
This rather suggests that Kurt Schildmann may not be the absolute first reader of the texts he mentions?
DENIS SAURAT, Gods of the People (pp.) -
Denis Saurat, who is also the author of Literature and Occult Tradition, estimates that in 1946 there were about 10,000 Christadelphians in the world, with about 4,000 of them living in Birmingham, another 2,500 or so in London, and the majority of the others in the United States, from where their teachings had been brought to England by Dr. Thomas, an American ex-Baptist, in about 1850. Their chief prophet, Robert Roberts, wrote Christendom Astray, which was published in Birmingham in 1884. Although the Christadelphians acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Son of G-d who had manifested G-d to the world, and the Holy Spirit as the power by which G-d works His will, they deny that the Holy Spirit is a person, refuse to admit the idea of the Trinity, and hold that the one G-d is a Unity in essence and person, substantially identifiable as Light and as the central Sun in the physical universe (a Sun 19th-century Christadelphians seem to have identified with the centre of our own Solar System, but which their modern-day followers prefer to locate in or near the Southern Cross), who had made all things not out of nothing, but by elaborating all things as so many different irradiations and indwelling embodiments of himself. According to information confided in confidence to Saurat by one or more among his personal acquaintances:
"Behind the stars of the Plough, the first and the last, there is a sphere where are all the good wishes of the little children. They appear as stars that dance on that sphere. Yeats had just seen the entrance to it - There are no spirits of men there, or animals; just trees and the stars and the fairy people, who take those stars and use them - the fairy people are connected with trees, wherever there are good trees (some trees have gone beyond their purpose, and are not good).
During the sleep of the little ones, if there is an impulse for good, it registers on a tree leaf, down the vein of the leaf. The fairies see this, and take it, and make it into a coloured star, and take it to that planet in the Plough. Then these are made into a coloured light to help in the work of bringing up children. The fairies bring a star to a sleeping child to calm its fears.
The fairies are a part of creation, and are not imagination. This is their function. They deal with children's fears by using these lights, by showing them these lights. They are dressed in robes that look like dragon-flies' wings. They are good.
The spirits that come to Earth as small children are full of fears of the Earth and their fates; they have to be calmed. That is the work of the fairies. It is a mistake to call them fata; they are connected with fates, but in order to take away fear from them, not to make them. They are good; they are favourable." (DS, pp.30-1.)
Even if materialists feel somewhat uncomfortable when confronted with such ideas as these, Saurat, surely, is at least equally entitled to be uncomfortable with materialism:
"What efforts our imagination has to make in order to conceive… of the stars that exist millions of lights years distance away from us! The astronomers must wish they knew more of that mental travel that our poets [he is chiefly thinking of Spencer in the 1580s, John Milton in 1644, William Blake in 1802, and Victor Hugo half-a-century later] practise so easily.
Inanimate matter, whether on the infinitely grand scale or on the infinitely small, has become more incomprehensible than the world of living things - than the world of spirits. Let us quote Marcel Boll (Larousse 1934, La Science, vol.II, p.304): 'Should a proton be represented by a pin's head on the Place de Notre Dame, in Paris, the one electron of the hydrogen atom would be something like an immense soap-bubble, as large as a 60-gallon cask, yet 2,000 times lighter in weight than the pin's head, and travelling round the pin's head, in a circumference that would run through Orleans, Rheims and Rouen.'
Do not after this maintain that Angels, insects and Emanations are unbelievable because they do not make sense. Science no longer makes sense either. You will have to find another kind of argument against the angels, otherwise the poets will go on writing about them and the people will go on believing in them. The idea of law has disappeared from science as a practical proposition. Here is Louis-Gustave du Pasquier: 'In order to study completely the molecular movements that take place in a cubic centimetre of gas, at a temperature of zero, under the ordinary atmospheric pressure, we would have, under the scheme of classical mechanics, to write out a system of 30,000,000 equations (differential and simultaneous), each having 1,000,000,000 × 1,000,000,000 figures representing the mutual action of all the molecules on each other. Physicists have had recourse to probability.'
We cannot blame them. But, in turn, can they blame us? The idea of thing has disappeared. Werner Heisenberg pointed out in 1927 that all measurements in the intra-atomic world are unavoidably rendered false by the intervention of the measuring act, so Paul Langevin in 1930 suggested that 'we should give up the concept of object, or thing, in the atomic and intra-atomic world.'
Obviously that soap-bubble, travelling round the pin's head one hundred miles away from it, was too much for Langevin, and much too closely related to pure poetry." (DS, pp.189-90.)
… And closely related, too, to the beliefs of the Christadelphians, as we have seen. These may also, however, be read into St. Paul's First Letter to Timothy (6:13-16): "I appeal to you, in the sight of G-d who is the source of life of whatever there is, and in the sight of Christ Jesus who bore witness… who is the sole Sovereign, ever-blessed, who is King of kings and Lord of lords. To him alone immortality belongs; unapproachable light is his dwelling-place; and it is he whom no human eye has ever seen, nor can see."
How, then, does communication between human beings and the Central Sun take place? Listen to Spenser's answer, which John Milton appears to have approved - and which expresses a still widespread and popular, intuitive response:
Denis Saurat explains: "We are perpetually attacked by foul fiends… Angels take the brunt of the attack against us. They protect us against superhuman evil forces; yet they do not fight all our fights: they only aid us militant. Because the main battle is within our will. Our will is but of little strength, and of itself could do but badly: yet it is the centre on which all turns. [Notice, that - unless I am very much mistaken - without over-emphasising the point, Saurat here quite deliberately implies that the Unknown Centre of the Central Sun where Jesus presides in Light is, by identity, our will.] When we move our will towards G-d, then - but only then - the Angels can win our victory for us." (pp.23-4.)
Saurat also relates this teaching to the pantheism or panentheism that underlies it:
"Personalities exist in a wide range, from G-d, through many varieties of angels and lesser spirits, to man. Below and beyond man are forces, masquerading as spirits, yet no spirits; masquerading as men, yet no men; Victor Hugo calls them 'things', des choses…
G-d is a Person - or three if you like. Satan is not a Person; he is a force that will be dispersed - though to be gathered again. 'States that are not, but ah! seem to be,' William Blake wails… [And Shakespeare has Hamlet say], when the ghost beckons:
Here speaks the consciousness of man's value in the spiritual world: there is nothing to fear for man. 'I see an angel that sees them,' answers Hamlet rapidly when he is asked can he see the thoughts of his interlocutor…
During the night, while men sleep, the angels, by the power of their music, lift our thoughts to Heaven" according to Milton. (DS, pp.25-6, 29.)
José Argüelles, as you may recall, prefers to call it 'holonomic resonance', but 'music' will do; Milton is essentially correct:
A more prosaic statement of Milton's teaching may be read in his Treatise of Christian Doctrine (Bohn, vol.IV, pp.27, 30, 185): "So extensive is the prescience of G-d, that he knows beforehand the thoughts and actions of free agents as yet unborn, and many ages before those thoughts or actions have their origin… G-d's general decree is that whereby he has decreed from all eternity of his own most free and wise and holy purpose, whatever he himself willed or was about to do - according to his perfect foreknowledge of all things that were to be created… The foreknowledge of G-d is nothing but the wisdom of G-d, under another name, or that idea of everything which he had in his mind, to use the language of man, before he decreed anything… There is no time without motion."
Because, as Saurat explains (pp.53-4), no one of us, whether angel or man, woman or child, can reach G-d's speed, "therefore error comes into all our visions - yet also there is in us a shadow of truth."
"Every being has many personalities in the Cosmos (in G-d, he has only one), a tree, a dog, a sparrow, a worm, an insect, a man: in each case what we see on Earth is only one part of the being. Each has other parts, elsewhere in space, elsewhere in time. And often, the principal part is not the one we see here, now, on Earth… So each man is spread out in time and space, has parts of his being in the past, parts in the future, parts somewhere on Earth, parts in the stars and in spiritual worlds parallel to this physical world. All the while his real identity is in G-d alone; but of those many parts of a man, the most impotant is not necessarily, even at this moment, his physical life on earth."(DS, p.97.)
While admitting, more freely than the Christadelphians would appear to do, that all he has to offer us is, at best, a shadow of the Truth, Saurat's anonymous contemporary source discloses a few more valuable fragments of helpful information:
"The six primary qualities are beauty, knowledge, science, wisdom, harmony and light, and are connected with the colours, the sounds, the perfumes. In sound connection, gold is lower in the scale than silver. A strong low sound denotes avidity. An intermittent high sound denotes cruelty and is linked with an excess of red; oscillation on one tone denotes deceit. A half-tone variation is good. A high note plus yellow plus gold connects with a strong tropical perfume. A middle note plus brown (reason) connects with a weak lavender smell. A low note plus violet connects with a smell of strong sweet musk perfume. Shapes also connect…" (DS, pp.104-5.)
Als das Raumschiff 'Athena' die Erde kippte - Indus-, Borrows-Cave- und Glozel-Texte entziffert
ISBN 3-933817-15-3, pp. 106 + vi + 250 - CTT-Verlag, Stadelstrasse 16, D-98527 Suhl, Germany, September 1999
This author, who was 90 years old in March 1999 and is President of the Society of German Linguists, became at 8pm on 2 August 1994 (cf op. cit., p.166 for details) the first to decipher the Indus Valley texts, which are, as he now interpets them, mainly written in phonetic archaic or proto-Sanskrit, a feature he has since 1997 been consistently claiming they have in common with the perhaps even more fascinating Burrow Caves (Illinois, USA) texts, as well as with the texts from Cuenca (Peru) in the Crespi Collection.
I first wrote to Kurt in 2000 in connection with his at that time still unpublished decipherment of the Tal Qadi incised stone kept in Malta's National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, and which, along with some other ancient texts found at Alvao (Portugal), Fuenteventura (Canary Islands) and Glozel (France), appears to be in the same script.
He writes: "There is a huge difference between texts in authentic paleographic writing and those based on oral tradition. Here now Indus and Burrows Cave texts versus Vedic and Classical Sanskrit literature, the latter recorded after millennia of oral tradition. The former ones are written in their own original script (Indus deciphered 1994, Burrows Cave deciphered 1997), both composed in archaic Sanskrit, in telegram style, while the subsequent later ones reached recording in an already sectarian India, having suffered from mystification, adaptation, poetical manipulation...
It follows that the now accessible Indus and Burrows Cave (Illinois, USA) [together with the Cuenca, Glozel, Alvao, Fuerteventura and Tal Qadi] texts are [our] only authentic source for evaluating a decisive phase of humanity's history that preceded all other recorded phases such as in cuneiform Sumer or, hieroglyphically attested, in Egypt..." (Appendix, p.2.)
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Herr Schildmann's most enlightening book. "Table B provides a fair number of reliable syllabic phonetic signs - enough for getting ahead in deciphering almost all intact Indus Seals texts within two or three months, provided one knows how to handle Sanskrit and Vedic Dictionaries and is an expert in deciphering Sumerian and Maya (partly logographic) texts." (Appendix, p.208.)
He adds: "I have known for some decades that entire passages from the Pyramid Texts can be retranscribed into their source-language, viz., into Archaic South-West Iranian. Egyptology, Sumerology and Archaic Iranian Studies actually constitute only one discipline so that, unless those who are 'only Egyptologists' transmute, they will have to be dismissed. Today, when their 'learning' is in many respects and from many points of view - and especially because of their own ignorance and arrogance, so highly questionable, they are now, quite simply, in the way." (Appendix, p.238, my translation.)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O-P Q-R S T U V W X-Z
"A" before a number specifies a page in the Appendix.
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome) - A188/194
Achaemenid - see Persian
Acta et Studia, (AES) der Studiengemeinschaft Deutscher Linguisten (SDL) - 30 and passim
Aegean - 8, 22, 89, A162
Aeneas - 91
Aesthetics, see Beauty
Afghanistan - 26
Africa, North Africa - A22
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen - A188/194
Akhenaten - 92
Akkadian - 20, 70, 79, 81, 83-4, 89, 103, A136
Alexander the Great - 22, 70, 75, 79
Algeria - 46
Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste - 67
America, Ancient America - 19, 22, 26-7, 46, 73, A136, A150
America B.C. - Ancient Settlers in the New World - 17
American Indians in the Pacific - A162
Amon, Ammon, Amun, Ammonia - 70, 78 and see Jupiter
Anatolia, Anatolian - 85
Andersen, Hans J. - 30
Antalya (Southern Turkey) - A179
Antartic - 22, 81, 87, 103
Anu - 70
Arabic - 20, 46, 83, 85, 92, 102-3
Armenian - 90, A159
Aryan, proto-Aryan - 84, 89, 95, A157
Asia, Asiatic - 85
Assyria, Assyriology - 79-80, 83-4, 89, 102
Athena, Spaceship Athena, Owl [of Minerva] - 25, 31, 36, 48-50, 67, 85, 88-9, 99-101
Atlantic, Atlantic Islands - 102, Ai, A159
Atlantis - 67, A162
Atrion - 85
Australia - 67, 103
Avesta - A159
Aztec - 8
Babylonia, Babel, Babylon - 24, 28, 79, 100
Baghdad - 54
Balearic Islands - 8
Bali - A162
Balkans - 29, 57
Barthel, Thomas S. - 18, A154-6, A163-5, A169-72, A179
Basque - A169, A172
Baumgartner, John - 103
Bauval, Robert - 98
Bayerische Academie der Wissenschaften - A188, A194-5
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - A197
Beauty - 24-5, 32, 36, 38-40, 44, 54-5, 64-5, 68, 105, A191
Bedrohung - Die geheime Invasion der Aliens; Alien Encounters (1993); The Threat (1998) - 64-66
Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen - 21
Black Sea - 88-9, 99, 104
Bologna - A165
Bombay - A177
Bonn - 8, 30, A1, A150 and passim
Bosphorus - 88, 99
Brasil - 89
Buddha - 47
Budha, 33, 41, 44 and see Mercury
Bulgaria - 88
Bürgin, Luc - 17
Burma - 8
Burrows Cave - 7, 19, 23, 30, 34, 42-3, 46, 48, 50-52, 55, 65, 70-75, Ai, A4, A27, A54, A150 and passim
Burrows, Russell - A27
Cadiz - 67
Calcutta - A177
Calendar, see Time
Cape Horn - 87
Carthage - 80
Caspian Sea - 89
Castor & Pollux - 83
Cayce, Edgar - 65
Celtic, Celts - 99, A159
Chadwick, J. - A161
Chaldaea, Chaldees - 79 and see Ur
NOTE: "What is meant by 'Chaldees' has to be understood in very different ways [80 or more!] at different periods in time." (79)
Cheops, see Pyramid
Chichzen Itza - 35
China, Chinese - 8, 23, 43, 67, 73-4, 87, 90, 97, A157
Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History and Literature - 83-4
Coates, Austin - A162
Coca Cola - 43
Columbus (USA) - A1, A22
Copernicus - 28, 81
Coptic - A163
Corpus of translated Indus texts - A169-70, A172-3
Cortez - 27, 40
Coulmas, Florian - A180
Cremo, Michael A. - 22, 98
Crespi Collection - 19, A22, A150 and passim
Crete, Cretan - A161-2
Cromagnon - 18, A136
Cuenca - 7, 19, 30, 46, 65, A150 and passim
Cuzco - 81, 104
Cyprus - 8, 81, 104
Danube - 89
Dardanelles - 88, 99
Darius - 24, A176, A181
Darwins Irrtums - 22, 25, 32, 71
Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie - 80
Das Alter des Menschengeschlechts - 98
Das Erbe der Giganten - 67
Das erfundene Mittelalter - 28
David - 92
Day, see Time
Dayton, John - A162
Deciphering the Indus Script - A163, A165-6
Deimel, Anton - 41, 79, 91
Deimos - 88, 92
Delekat, Professor & Mrs. - 93, A169
Der Schlüssel zur Sphinx; Secret Chamber - The Quest for the Hall of Records - 98
Der Spiegel - 88
Der Turm von Babel, Ugemeinschaft der Sprachen - A162
Dictionnnaire étymologique de la langue latine - 89
Die geheime Botschaft des Gilgamesch - 24
Die große Aktion - 28
Die Sumerer gab es nicht
Die Wirklichkeit der Götter - Raumfahrt in alten Indien - 70, 75-8, 101
Documents in Mycenaean Greek - A161, A195
Dogon - 99
Dornseiff, Franz - 80
Dowson, John - 36, 83
Dravidian - 18, A150, A157, A159, A163
Dresden Codex - 82, A179, A242
Eanna - 80
Easter Island - 81, 104, A163
Efodon Synesis - 19, 28, 30-31, 98, A8-14, A151, A159, A170, A183, A206, A241
Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian-like - 24, 41-2, 70, 90, 92, 97, A54, A136, A153, A157, A160, A163, A175-6, A181, A241
Elam, Elamic - 89, 101-2
Eliade, Mircea - 17
Encyclopedia Britannica - 83, 90-91
England, English - 8, 46, 71, A188/194
Enkidu - 41, 100
Enlil - 83-4, 90, 102
Entzifferung verschollene Schriften und Sprachen - A162
Enzyklopädie edited by Ersch & Gruber (1818...) - 87
Ernst, Otto - A180, A193/196
Ersch, Ersch, J. S. - 67, 87
Etruscan - A136
Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Ai - 102
Evola, Julius - 13
Falkenstein, Adam - 83
Falklands Islands (Malvinas) - 87
FAZ / Frankfurter Allgemein - A180, A193/196
Fell, Barry - 17
Feuerstein, Georg - A185-6, A188/194, A236
Finland, Finnish - A150, A159, A163, A188/194
France - 30, Ai, A136, A188/194 and see Glozel
Frawley, David - A185-6
Freia, Freya - 104
Friedrich, Horst - 40, 44, 98, A150-51, A161-2
Friedrich, Johannes - A162
Furhmann, Horst - A195
Galileo - 92
Geheimakte Archäologie - 17
Gentes, Lutz - 70, 75-8, 101
German, Germanic, Germany - 79, 83, 89-90, 99, 101, Ai, A159, A188/194 and passim
Germanische Urzeit - A162
Gibraltar - 8, 89
Gilgamesh - 24, 41, 83, 90, 100
Glozel - 30, 46, 55-7, Ai, A136, A143-5, A147, A149
Gnostic Christian - A22
Goliath - 92
Gorbachev, Mikhail S. - A160
Göttingen - A188
Grahamsland - 87
Greece, Greek, Greek Islands - 8, 20, 22, 31, 49, 71, 80, 83-85, 88-90, 92, 99-101, 104, A136, A159, A163, A195
Grimm, Grimms Märchen - 33
Grönbold, Günter - A197
Grove City (Ohio) - A27
Gruber, Gruber, J. G. - 67, 87
Guanche(s) - A172
Gudeas of Lagash - 83
Guénon, René - 13
Haarmann, Harald - A183, A206
Hancock, Graham - 28, 98
Harappa - 76, A160, A177, A186-8, A194 and passim
Hausdorf, Hartwig - 23
Hebrew, Archaic Hebrew, Hebrews - 75, 92, A164
Heinrich, Walter - 13
Heinsohn Gunnar - 79, 98, A162, A175
Helen of Troy - 88, 99
Hermes Trismegistis - 41, 43 and see Mercury
Hesiod - 92
Heyerdahl, Thor - A162
Hidden Cities - A4
Himalayas - 81
Hinduism - 18, 95-8, A157, A175, A177, A188/194 and passim
Hiberia - A159, A172
Hiranyapura, Indrapura (Gold City, Indra's City) - 32, 49
Hitler, Adolf - 22, 54
Holland - 8
Homer - 88, 103
Horn - 85
Hourigan, Virginia - A22
Howard, Jason - 65
Hussein, Saddam - 53
Hyperborean - 99
Iliad - 92
Illig, Heribert - 27-9, A175
Illinois (Ohio) - 7, 30, 43, 65, A54 and passim
Ilium - 85
India - 7, 20, 23, 46, 73, 85, 90, 99, A150, A157, A174-5, A186
India Abroad - A150
Indian Ocean - 89
Indira Gandhi National Center of Arts - 96, A150, A168, A178, A182
Indo-China - 8
Indo-European - 33, 41, 43, 48, 71, 73, 81, 85, 90, 92, 101, A159
Indo-German - A162
Indo-Iranian - 84
Indo-Mexican - 18, A165, A169, A172
Indus, Indus Valley, Indus Script - 7-8, 20, 41, 50, 58, 74, 84, 95-8, Ai, A150, A157, A162, A177, A186 and passim
Indus-Script Deciphering Dictionary, English-Indus - 38-9
Ingenieur des Teufels - 92
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization - A185-6
International Center for Abduction Research (ICAR) - 64
Irak - 53-4
Iran, Irania, Archaic Iranian - 24, 84, 89, A162, A169, A172
Ireland - A159
Ishtar - 42
Islands of the South - A162
Israel, Israeli - 8, A160
Istanbul - 8
Italy - 18, 22, 28, 89, 92, 98, A188
Jacobs, David M. - 64-66
Jansen, Michael - 76, 78, A166
Japan, Japanese - 8, 43, 53, 102
Jesus Christ - 29, 79-80, A22, A27
Joshi, M. C. - A178
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society - A166, A206
Jupiter - 25, 30-31, 34, 40-41, 44, 49, 69-71, 81, 85-7, 105 and passim
Kak, Subhash - A185-6, A236-7
Kanjilal, Dileep Kumar - A177
Kant, Immanuel - 44
Karrer, Otto - 13
Kennedy, Roger G. - A4
Ketu - 80
Knorozow, Yuri - 48, A163, A170
Korea - 8
Kraatz, Martin - A193
Kramer, Samuel Noah - 45
Kreisle, Bill & Marilyn - A54
Kungl. Vitterhets-Historie-ooh Activitets-Akademien - A188/194
Latin, Old Latin - 73, 84-5, 92, 99, 101, A159, A207
Lawrence of Arabia - 7
Lexikon der Antike in fünf Bänden - 79-80
Linear B - 92, A161, A163, A195
L'Institut de France - A188/194
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company - 13
Macdonnell, A. A. - A54, A173, A241 and passim
Macedonia - 22, 89
Malta - A165
Manchuria - 8
Marburg - A193/196
Marocco - 20, 98
Mars - 25, 31, 36-7, 40-41, 69, 85-8, 91-2, 99, 105 and passim
Martin, Pam - 65
Mary of Nazareth, Rosary - 42
Maya - 8, 24-5, 29-31, 34-6, 53, 68, 75, 80, 82-4, 95, 97, 102, A4, A163, A169, A172, A179, A242-4 and passim
Maya Transition Epigraphic Dictionary - 36-7, 83, A242
Maydar - A234
Mayrhofer, Manfred - 102
Mecca - 75
Mediterranean - 8, 22
Mehner, Thomas - 7-8
Mehta, Manik - A150
Meillet, A. - 89
Mercury - 25, 30, 33-4, 36, 40-44, 69, 86, 104-5 and passim
Merget, Rudolf - 13
Mesopotamia - 24, 26, 76, 79, 81-4, 91
Mexico - 67
Mexikon - 37
Midwestern Epigraphic Society - 51, A1, A22, A27, A54
Minerals, Metals, Glazing & Man - A162
Minoan - A161
Mississippi, Mississippi Basin - 7, 67, A4, A54 and passim
Mitanni - A175, A181
Mohenjo Daro - 48, 75-8, A136, A153, A160, A177, A186-8, A194 and passim
Moseley, Beverely H. - 40, A1, A27, A50-51, A64-5
Moses - 92
Mycenaean - 99, A161
Myth - 13, 30, 44, 46-47, 64, 79, 83, 90
Napoleon Bonaparte - 22, 65, A176, A181, A187
NASA - 13
National Museum, Delhi - A192
Nature - 103
Neandertal - 71
New Delhi - A150, A168, A177, A182
Newsweek - 66, 103
Newton, Izaak - 28
New Zealand - 67
Nietsche, Friedrich - 65
Nobel Prize - 42
Nordic - A136
Oberth, Hermann - 92
Odin - 104
Olmec - 67
Pacific - 104, A162
Pakistan, Pakistani - A150, A160, A175, A186, A188/194
Palestine - 71 and see Israel
Panama - 22, A162
Paphos - 81
Papke, Werner - 24-8, 30, 34, 42, 82, A174
Parpola, Asko - 18, 48, 52, 80, A163, A165-6, A170, A175, A181, A188/194, A206, A215, A236-7
Persia, Persian, Old Persian, Persian Gulf - 8, 20, 24, 67, 70, 79, 81, 83, 85, 89, 102-3, A159, A162-3, A176, A181
Persisches Etymologie - 85
Peru - 7, 19, 30, 81, A150
Phobos - 88, 92
Phoenicia, Phoenicians - 24, 70, 89
Pisani, Vittore - 18, 71
Pitman ['Pittmann'], Walter - 88
Pizarro - 27, 40
Plato - 91
Polsprung, Prophezeiungen und wissenschaftliche Analysen - 30
Polynesia - A162
Popol Vuh - 30-31, 34
Portugal, Portuguese - 8, 46
Precession - 25, 27-9, 98, 105
Prussian, Old Prussian - 102
Pyramids, The Great Pyramid - 28, 70, 98, A241
Pythagoras, Pythagorean, Neo-Pythagorean, 'pytho-/putho-' - 24-5, 28, 33
Rahu - 80
Rama - 25, 40, 58, 64, 83, 101-3 and passim
Rana, K. K. S. - A150, A157-8, A168
Rao, S. R. - A160
Reagan, Ronald - 26
Reallexikon der Assyriologie - 84, 89
Red Sea - 89
Rhodes - 104
Rice University, Houston - 13
Roman, mid-Roman - A22, A136
Rosetta Stone - A176, A187
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland - A188/194
Russia, Russian - 46, 66, 89, A150, A159, A163, A170
Ryan, William - 88
Rydholm, Fred - A27
Sagan, Carl - 86, 92
Saint Petersburg - A170
Sanskrit, Archaic Sanskirt, proto-Sanskrit - 20, 31, 44, 46, 56, 70-75, 80-81, 84, 89, 92, 95, Ai, A22, A150, A157, A159, A177, A183-4, A193 and passim
Sanskrit-English Dictionary - A54 and passim
Santorini - 88
Satan, Satanism - 25-6, 65
Saturn - 40-41, 80, 91, 93, 105 and passim
Scandinavia - A162
Schellenberg, Pit - 31
Schelling, F. W. J. - 13
Schildmann, Kurt (& Heinrich) - 8, 22, 67, 72, 87, 90, 92, 98, Ai, A150 and passim
Scholl-Latour, Peter - 53
Shaw, Debnath - A168
Siberia - 46
Sicily - 89
Sirius - 98
Sitchin, Zecharia - 24, 41, 79
Slav, Slavic - 99, A159
South Africa - 46, 89
South America - 89
Spain, Spanish - 8, 27, 46, 67, 83
Spann, Othmar - 17
Sphinx, Great Sphinx - 28, 98
Spudis, Paul - 13
Stalin, Joseph - 53, 65
Stonehenge - 35
Stonewatch Newsletter (Connecticut) - A150
Sudan - 90, 100
Suez Canal - 89
Sumer, Sumerian - 8, 24, 41-2, 70, 79, 81-4, 89, 97, 102, 104, A136, A157, A160, A162, A169, A172, A174 and passim
Sun - 72, 86, 100, 105 and passim
Susa - 89
Svensen, Bo - A198
Svenska Akademien, Swedish Academy, Sweden - A188/194, A198
Symbol - 67, 81, 85, A241
Taiwan - 53
Tangiers - 8
Tasmania - 67
Tertullian - 80
Thackeray, Bal - A177
Thailand - 8
The Ancient American - A54
The Chinese Rothwell - UFO Encounters in the Far East - 23
The Mystery Cave of Many Faces
Thompson, Richard L. - 21-2, 98
Thoth, 33, 92, 105 and see Mercury
Thüringer Allgemeine - 13
Tiamat - 91
Tibet, Tibetan - 29, 44
Tiera del Fuego - 87
Time, Chronology, Day, Calendar, Platonic Year, Zodiac - 22, 24-5, 27-31, 33-34, 65, 72, 75, 82-7, 91, 93, 105, A3, A11-12, A20-21, A24-6, A50, A212, A219 A238-40, A242-4 and passim
Topper, Uwe - 28-9, 98
Tribus - A155
Trojan War, Troy - 25, 31, 85-6, 88-91, 99-100, 104-5 and passim
Trombetti, Alfredo - 67
Tübingen - 18, A154-6, A164-5, A169-72, A179
Turin, Turin Shroud - 28
Turkey, Turkish - 103, A179 & see Istanbul
UFO-Begegnungen der TÖDLICHEN Art - 23
Ukraine - 88, 104
UN, United Nations - 50, 66
UNESCO - 76, A188/194
Universalgeschichte der Schrift - A183, A206
Ur "of the Chaldees" - A160
Urban, Günter - 76, 78
USA - 7, 43-45, 51, 53, 89-90, 102, Ai, A1, and see America
Valletta (Malta) - A165
Vatsyayan, Kapila - A168, A177
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari - A177
Vedas, Vedic - 46, A159, A177, A188/194
Velikowsky, Immanuel - 24
Ventris, N. - A161, A195
Venus - 24, 30, 32, 34, 36-7, 40-42, 64, 69, 72, 80-81, 85-6, 105 and passim
Vogl, Dieter - 98
von Braun, Wernher - 92
von Däniken, Erich - 17, 19
Waddell - A164
Wadi Ranya - 75
Wadler, Arnold - A162
Wer herrschte im Industal? - A162
White, John J. - A1, A22, A54
Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen - 53, A187, A200-01
Woman in the Indus Culture - 58-63
Worldwide, global extent of Indus Culture - 64-5
Ymir - 81, 105
Zarathustra - 92
Zeichen der Finsternis - 24-5
Zeitensprünge - Interdisziplinäres Bulletin - 28, A175
Zeus, see Jupiter
Ziegler, Leopold - 13
Zillmer - 22, 25, 32, 71
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"With the decipherment of the Indus Valley Script almost completed (cf my Corpus of Translated Indus Texts, [currently] 214 pages covering more than 2000 texts) it appears that the literary legacy of this proto-Sanskrit civilization presents itself aesthetically in three dimensions:
"The language is archaic Sanskrit; their contents: proto-Hindu religion, praise of the hero Rama, topics of Astronomy, Social Structures, Philosophy, Proverbs, Warfare, Seafaring, etc., using mostly phonetic(-syllabic) signs systematically structured, and some transparent pictograms. The clue for reading Indus-Script texts [was provided by 100 pictorial bi-linguals]. As any intelligent youngster, or assistant or secretary of yours will confirm after a few minutes' study [of these] - The Sanskrit animal names are correctly written by phonetic signs in the Indus script." (A177, very slightly shortened and recast.)
"The interrelations of signs, values and language involved are overwhelming. The Copper Tablets' legends provide much more information. But the numerous seals with their legends are of equal importance. Also in the vocabulary I hope that everything will be done to make the reader acquainted with [the] graphic, semantic and etymological interrelations of the material studied up to now. A grid of identified graphs/values will be forwarded. Two Copper Tablets pages will give the readings of animal legends so far established." (A184.)
"A cultural-historical sensation of our century: the operating of real intelligence is decodable, be it in the field of protobiological creation by gene-technology, be it the most archaic known introduction of script by humans..." (A200.)
"The three sides of the prisma, showing (a) a ship with a rectangular cabin with direction-crows, (b) an alligator and (c) text... form a narrative unit revealing the importance, and the risks, of sea-faring and/or river-navigation. The final statement ('A man who has lost his ships is no longer lord of the world') makes us think of almost trans-oceanic exploits. I assume that the Indus-captains could speak the closely related Iranian tongues (including Sumerian, which I have proved to be a South-West Iranian dialect), so that it [was] the Indus sailors who introduced into [the] Egyptian of the Pyramid Texts the large amount of Sumero-Iranian lexemes and morps [they contain. Racially] mixed crews contributed accordingly." (A216.)
"And so, for example, Alexander [the Great] would have undertaken [his pilgrimage to] the Oasis of Jupiter-Amon [at Siwa] in Egypt as a theatrical representation of [the then current] hope for the return of a world-saviour, a Son of Jupiter, the highest of the Gods. Many such plays have been staged, and the sum-total of it all is our so called world history, a comedy of errors, misinterpretations, mistranslations, licentious living taken to the extremes of madness. If some children who are only just 10 years old have to be abducted for further genetic-engineering experiments in a ['special'] environment in Space, then this is still a great honour for their parents - like being selected for a cloistered life in the middle-ages..." (76.)
"In the Sudan the sky is blue and the night-sky wonderfully clear..." (90.)
ROGER SCRUTON, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (London: Duckworth, 1998, p.2):
"I agree with Matthew Arnold. It is my view that the high culture of our civilization contains knowledge which is far more significant than anything that can be absorbed from the channels of popular communication. This is a hard belief to justify, and a harder one to live with; indeed, it has nothing to recommend it apart from its truth."
ASIA SHEPSUT, Journey of the Priestess - the priestess traditions of the ancient world, a journey of spiritual awakening and empowerment (London: Aquarian/Thorsons, 1993, p.62):
“Sexual union as a religious rite is quite opposite to the rôle of the priestess who is worshipped as the incarnation of the Goddess Power or Shakti within the inner sanctum. She remains forever identified with the Absolute Shakti and is therefore virginal. This type of shaktic priestess, then, was a naked girl of perfect form and health to whom offerings were made.”
ZECHARIA SITCHIN, The Earth Chronicles series of books: The 12th Planet; The Stairway to Heaven; The Wars of Gods and Men; The Lost Realms; When Time Began and The Cosmic Code (all published as paperbacks by Avon Books, New York, 1976-1998, and the first five also in hardback by Bear & Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1976-1996). Companion books from the same publishers: Genesis Revisited and Divine Encounters.
“The god of scribes has bestowed on me the gift of the knowledge of his art. I have been initiated into the secrets of writing. I can even read the intricate tablets in Shumerian; I understand the enigmatic words in the stone carvings from the days before the Flood.” (Ashurbanipal of Nineveh quoted in The 12th Planet, p.31.)
Fig. 18 Fig. 20 Fig. 23 Plus fig. ...
Several insufficiently studied archaic Sumerian depictions of the pyramids of Egypt survive (figure 20a,b,c), and Pharaoh Khufu's inscription of c. 2600 B.C. (figure 21) describes the adjacent small temple he erected as being dedicated to Isis as Mistress of the Great Pyramid only in succession to its earlier Mistress - The Old Cow/Hathor/Ninharsag (co-creator of The Adam 300,000 years ago - “Live Horus Mezdau. To king of Upper & Lower Egypt, Khufu, Life is given! He founded the House of Isis, Mistress of the Pyramid, beside the House of the Sphinx… For his divine mother Isis, Mistress of the Western Mountain of Hathor, he made writing on a stela”.
The Pyramid is also portrayed as already existing on one side of the victory-tablet of Pharaoh Menes-NarMer whose forceful unification of Upper & Lower Egypt established the First Dynasty (figure 22 with the relevant detail also enlarged), and the Sphinx is similarly included as a feature in First Dynasty depictions of the king's investiture by Ancient Ones arriving from elsewhere by boat and of his own eventual journey into Afterlife (figure 23a,b). A Mesopotamian cylinder seal emphasises the post-Flood space-port-related function of the Great Pyramid (figure 24):
A Sumerian cylinder seal (figure 25) portrays Inanna/Ishtar c. 8670 B.C. challenging Marduk/Ra to combat as he defies her from somewhere inside the E-Bih/Great Pyramid, from which Ninurta had not yet removed its capstone nor any of the twenty-seven important crystals and other scientific devices it had been designed to house:
The Babylonian Section of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania has published a fragmentary text recording Marduk's subsequent trial and sentencing after this Second (300 years after the First) Pyramid War. The important rôles then played, as so often previously, by both Hathor & Ishtar make Fr Balasuriya's ideologically tainted accusations of ancient patriarchal anti-feminine bias utterly incredible. I suspect that what Noam Chomsky wrote on 5 March 1977 (in a personal letter to J. D. Solomon) is also relevant here.:
Ninni, Innin, Inanna, Imini, Ishtar, Eshdar, Astarte, Ast, Ashtoreth, Anat, Isis, Venus, Aphrodite, Athena and Calypso may all be names for the same individual great-grand-daughter of Anu.
Zecharia Sitchin reports that Inanna commuted in time past between her initial distant official domain in Aratta and her coveted abode in Uruk. “She called upon Enki in Eridu and Enlil in Nippur, and visited her brother Utu at his headquarters in Sippar. But her most celebrated journey was to the Lower World, the domain of her sister Ereshkigal. The journey was the subject not only of epic tales but also of artistic depictions on cylinder seals - the latter showing the goddess with wings, to stress the fact that she flew over from Sumer to the Lower World.
The texts dealing with this hazardous journey describe how Inanna very meticulously put on herself seven objects prior to the start of the voyage, and how she had to give them up as she passed through the seven gates leading to her sister's abode. Seven such objects are also mentioned in other texts dealing with Inanna's skyborne travels: (1) the SHU.GAR.RA she put on her head. (2) ‘Measuring pendants,’ on her ears. (3) Chains of small blue stones, around her neck. (4) Twin ‘stones,’ on her shoulders. (5) A golden cyclinder, in her hands. (6) Straps, clasping her breast. (7) The PALA garment, clothed around her body.
Though no one has as yet been able to explain the nature and significance of these seven objects,” Zecharia Sitchin feels “that the answer has long been available. Excavating the Assyrian capital Assur from 1903 to 1914, Walter Andræ and his colleagues found in the Temple of Ishtar a battered statue of the goddess showing her with various ‘contraptions’ attached to her chest and back. In 1934 archæologists excavating at Mari came upon a similar but intact statue buried in the ground. It was a life-size likeness of a beautiful woman. Her unusual headdress was adorned with a pair of horns, indicating that she was a goddess. Standing around the 4,000-year-old statue, the archæologists were thrilled by her lifelike appearance (in a snapshot, one can hardly distinguish between the statue and the living men). They named her The Goddess with a Vase because she was holding a cylindrical object. Unlike the flat carvings or bas-reliefs, this life-size, three-dimensional representation of the goddess reveals interesting features about her attire. On her head she wears not a milliner's chapeau but a special helmet; protruding from it on both sides and fitted over the ears are objects that remind one of a pilot's headphones. On her neck and upper chest the goddess wears a necklace.of many small (and probably precious) stones; in her hands she holds a cylindrical object which appears too thick and heavy to be a vase for holding water. Over a blouse of see-through material, two parallel straps run across her chest, leading back to and holding in place an unusual box of rectangular shape. The box is held tight against the back of the goddess's neck and is firmly attached to the helmet with a horizontal strap. Whatever the box held inside must have been heavy, for the contraption is further supported by two large shoulder pads. The weight of the box is increased by a hose that is connected to its base by a circular clasp. The complete package of instruments - for this is what they undoubtedly were - is held in place with the aid of the two sets of straps that crisscross the goddess's back and chest.
The parallel between the seven objects required by Inanna for her aerial journeys and the dress and objects worn by the statue from Mari (and probably also the mutilated one found at Ishtar's temple in Ashur) is easily proved. We see the ‘measuring pendants’ - the earphones - on her ears; the rows or ‘chains’ of small stones around her neck; the ‘twin stones’ - the two shoulder pads - on her shoulders; the ‘golden cylinder’ in her hands, and the clasping straps that crisscross her breast. She is indeed clothed in a ‘PALA garment’ (‘ruler's garment’), and on her head she wears the SHU.GAR.RA helmet - a term that literally means ‘that which makes go far into universe.’ All this suggests to us that the attire of Inanna was that of an æronaut or an astronaut…
The team headed by Andræ found yet another unusual depiction of Ishtar at her temple in Ashtur. More a wall sculpture than the usual relief, it showed the goddess with a tight-fitting decorated helmet with the ‘earphones’ extended as though they had their own flat antennas, and wearing very distinct goggles that were part of the helmet”. (The 12th Planet, pp.124-7.)
Although Anu and Enlil had over-ruled Enki and Ninki in 2,024 B.C., when they “determined the consensus” that permitted Ninurta and Nergal with Inanna's full support to use the seven atom bombs Anu had had made some time previously - but to detonate them neither in Mesopotamia nor in the sea but only in the Sinai peninsula and in Canaan, none of the Elohim had sufficiently realised how terrible would be the resulting explosion, the results of which are very clearly described in surviving Sumerian and Akkadian texts:
The resulting huge scar in the Sinai peninsula has been recently photographed by NASA satellites, and in the central plain immediately North-North-East of this the soil remains unnaturally blackened by millions of fragments of rock fragments. The Dead Sea extends further South than it previously did, and remains entirely without marine life. Levels of radioactivity are even today unhealthily high in the locality.
Seventy years had to pass before anything like normality could be restored:
As numerous texts indicate, Enki and Marduk gradually cured the afflicted, purified the waters, and made the soil grow edible vegetation once more. In 1953 B.C. Sumer and Akkad were officially declared habitable again, but it was Marduk's Babylon that Anu and Enlil then made “supreme in the world” - until Assyria displaced it…
LIVIO CATULLO STECCHINI, "Notes on the Relation of Ancient Measures to the Great Pyramid" (96 pages) in PETER TOMPKINS, Secrets of the Great Pyramid (1971).
ROBERT TEMPLE, The Sirius Mystery (Arrow Books 1999, pp.134-5):
Wallis Budge is quoted as reporting that, according to Plutarch, it wasn't only believed that Anubis was born of Nephthys, although Isis was his reputed mother, but that "by Anubis they understand the horizontal circle, which divides the invisible part of the world, which they call Nephthys, from the visible, to which they give the name of Isis; and as this circle equally touches on the confines of both light and darkness, it may be looked upon as common to them both - and from this circumstance arose that resemblance, which they imagine between Anubis and the Dog, it being observed of this animal, that he is equally watchful as well by day as night." Robert Temple comments: "This description could be taken to be one of the Sirius system."
MARK VIDLER, The Star Mirror (Thorsons, 1998, p.2):
"Nut and Geb gave birth to the great star god Osiris and his sister Isis. In the mythology of ancient Egypt Isis and Osiris were the first gods to walk the Earth in mortal form, but destiny would return the couple to their true home in the stars. Osiris was symbolized by the Orion constellation, the brightest group of stars in the sky, 'with the greatest number of stars above the 2nd magnitude', and Isis by the brightest single night-time star, Sirius. The voyage of Isis and Osiris across the sky can still be seen on clear winter nights.
The idea that a god is moving around 'in Heaven' has been prevalent for a long time, but the 'Heaven' and the 'God' discussed in modern theology cannot be identified or measured. Exactly the opposite was true in ancient Egypt. The god Osiris was a physical manifestation, untouchable, but visible each year in the night sky. Thus, in ancient Egypt, 'God' was actually on view in the sky, a concept now lost to us when we look at the stars..."
Back cover: "As above, so below. The millennium is approaching and two incredible events are about to occur for the first time in history: A mirror image is appearing between the most brilliant stars in the sky and the highest mountains on Earth. A duplicate mirror image is appearing between the most brilliant stars in the sky and the largest ancient monuments on Earth. The star mirror is now shining over the Earth. Ancient Wisdom."
p.143: "As the Sun passes vertically over Nazca, the brightest star in the night-time sky [Sirius] passes vertically over Tiahuanaco, the brightest star in the Dragon passes over Avebury, the brightest star in Scorpius passes over Easter Island, the Alpha star in Triangulum passes over Giza and Polaris passes over the pole, all in one day, today."
IMAN WILKENS, Where Troy Once Stood - The Mystery of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Revealed (Rider 1991):
The Greek word histor (= 'one who holds knowledge') is related to another Greek word histos, meaning 'loom' or 'cloth', and Homer (floruit c. 1200 B.C.) frequently praises the wisdom of Penelope, who is, however, not the only famous woman weaver he mentions; Circe has "a great imperishable web, such as is the handiwork of goddesses, finely-woven and beautiful, and glorious." (p.227.)
"In Celtic art, human, animal and plant forms are often mixed [or, more precisely, intricately interlaced], because people believed in very close links between all life in the universe. Although Homer does not mention it, the Druids had a name for the invisible force that governed both life and the material universe, Nwywre, symbolized by the serpent, which is a universal symbol already familiar to us from the statues of the Pharaohs, who were believed to represent the divinity on Earth.
According to M. MOREAU (La tradition celtique dans l'art roman, Paris: Le Courrier du Livre, 1975, p.55): Nwywre 'was the creative power of the physical world. Nothing happened without it. It was the cosmic fluid, the ether, the light and the great creative and divine Principle that linked Heaven and Earth. Its union with the other elements created life, movement and the spirit. A Gallic bard sang that it is smaller than the smallest and bigger than worlds because it is subtleness and power itself'…Writing of the supreme god, known to the Romans as Jupiter, Maximus Tyrius (VIII, 8) relates that, 'the Celts worshipped Zeus, whose effigy was the oak.' The effigy of this god had thus remained unchanged from the Bronze Age - Homer's time - to the beginning of our own era. Homer never mentions statues of divinities, only altars, while his temples were sanctuaries in the open air." (IW, pp.46-7.) Clearly, this is not pantheism, but panentheism.
"Plato [c.430-350 B.C.] had very good reasons for his doubts about the Greek origins of Homer's works because not only do the physical descriptions in his poems not correspond to the Greek world, but also the Homeric philosophy is very different from the mainstream Greek. The latter is based on the dualism of two opposing elements (thesis/antithesis, good/bad, body/soul, life/death, form/content) while Homer's philosophy contains a third element that links the two extremes while incorporating certain of their characteristics. Between the body and the soul there is the spirit…, between life and death there is the transformation…, between father and mother there is the child…, and between good and bad there is the specific situation that determines what is to be done at a given moment. Homer's philosophy is thus based on three simultaneous determinants, which make it typically Celtic…" (IW, p.50.)
"The real reason why Zeus does not want to choose the winner of the Golden Apple among Here, Athene and Aphrodite is not that he is afraid of hurting the losers, but because he knows that they really form a Trinity, three aspects of the same divinity, he himself being part of the [essentially identical] Trinity: Zeus/Poseidon/Hades.
In this context it is interesting to recall the biblical story in which the Lord appears before Abraham in the form of three identical men (Gn 18). Although the text is not explicit on this subject, the generally accepted interpretation is that of the Trinity.
The Christian Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is, of course, well-known, but the concept is found in other religions, even though it has different significance and scope. Examples are:
Wilkens' reference to 'mystery' in the context of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey indicates, therefore, that, like the esoteric teachings of Plato and the acroamatic lessons of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), these great Celtic epic poems are secret books "written in an obscure manner and couched in such terms as to be intelligible only to initiates" (IW, p.56) and hermits, whose "preferred food" was that of the fig-tree (IW, p.233. Cf. Jn 1:48 & 51 - " 'How is it that you know me?' Nathanæl asked him. 'Before Philip came to you with his summons,' was Jesus' reply, 'I saw you when you were underneath the fig-tree… You shall see heaven opening wide, with the angels of G-d ascending and descending over the Son of Man.' ")
Another fruit mentioned by Homer is the lotus. In the Odyssey (IX, 82-86) we find this cryptic reference: "Thence for nine days' space I was borne by direful winds over the teeming deep; but on the tenth we set foot on the land of the Lotus-eaters, who eat a flowery food. There we went on shore and drew water, and straightaway my comrades took their meal by the swift ships."
According to Wilkens, the sailors had disembarked "on the beach north of Dakar, probably in the fertile region of the river Senegal… They are well received by the natives of this place, who give them the lotus to eat. This cannot be the Egyptian lotus, which is a water-lily, but a variant of the Provençal micocoulier. In English the three variants of this tree are named the nettle tree, hackberry and lotus tree, this last clearly being the one Homer is talking about. The fruit of the lotus tree resembles the black olive in looks, but not in taste. As the fruit has an intoxicating effect, Odysseus, who wisely abstains from eating it, has great difficulty in getting his euphoric companions back on board." (p.173.)
In Book X of the Odyssey (210-15) Circe is mentioned as having bewitched some mountain wolves and lions with evil drugs, so that, instead of rushing wildly upon her visitors, "they prance about them fawningly, wagging their long tails."
However, as Wilkens notes: "If the wild animals are not dangerous, Circe is. She drugs the men's food and drink and turns them into swine and puts them in a pig-pen… The only one to escape this fate is Eurylochus, who suspects a trap and remains at a safe distance. When he sees what has happened, he returns to the ship to tell Odysseus, who sets off to see what he can do. On his way to Circe's house the god Hermes comes to him in the guise of a young man and offers to help him by giving him an antidote to Circe's potions…
'At the root it was black, but its flower was like milk. Moly the gods call it, and it is hard for mortal men to dig'… This plant, for which both Greeks and translators have always retained the original (probably Celtic) name, moly, is none other than madder, found in temperate climes. It has whitish-yellow flowers and very long roots making it indeed very hard to dig up. It was formerly cultivated in Zeeland in order to produce alizarine, a red dye, whence the botanical name of this plant, Rubia tinctorum. It has become a rare species since the advent of synthetic dyes…
Armed with the 'moly', Odysseus is able to resist the drug that Circe had used to turn his men into pigs. Although the poet does not specify which drug it was, we can assume that it was the indigenous plant that still bears Circe's name in botanical parlance, Circæa lutetiana. This plant has been associated with witches and is therefore more commonly know as 'enchanter's nightshade'. To heighten the effect of her potion, the goddess may well have added the very toxic Colchicum automnalis, better known as meadow saffron or autumn crocus, which French peasants call tue-porceau, 'pig-killer'. With its white, pink or violet flowers, it must have grown in abundance in the damp meadows of Circe's island, as no doubt also small scabious (Scabiosa columbaria), which gave its name to the adjacent island, Duiveland, 'Land of the Dove(weed)', this plant having a symbolic meaning in the ancient Mysteries. This potion, then, was one of the arms of the 'dread goddess, Circe of the many drugs', whose name was also related to the word circos, not only meaning sparrowhawk… but also hawk-week (Hieracium asteraceæ), no doubt another plant in her collection." (IW, pp.188-90. The accompanying illustration on p.191 also shows the Achillea or milfoil, and the Scilla or wild hyacinth.)
Homer himself was not a Greek but a Celt. He "was born and died a stone's throw from Middelburg town-hall… in the centre of Hades' island" (o.c., facing p.161) - now Walcheren in Zeeland. In Homer's day the Druid's chief centre for initiation into the supreme Gnostic mysteries of Circe-Nehalennia, and the Trojan war Homer described as only an eye-witness could, was a war fought between Celts in the Bronze Age, probably about 1200 B.C., ostensibly in order to liberate Helen from captivity in Troy, nowadays known as Wandlebury Ring on the Gog Magog hills near Cambridge in England, but fundamentally in order to establish which grouping of Celtic tribes and their allies would enjoy control of the English Channel, naval supremacy, and priority of access to the tin-mines of Cornwall.
The tin, gold, iron and amber trades were all of great importance during the Bronze Age, "when tin was found virtually only in England, gold in Ireland and amber in the Baltic. In order to make bronze, an alloy of roughly 90% copper and 10% tin, it was necessary to go to Cornwall for tin and then alloy it with copper that the Mediterranean peoples had in Cyprus, the Gauls in France and the Scandinavians in the centre of Sweden. There was thus fierce competition from all sides on the sea-routes leading to Cornwall. Phœnicians, Etruscans, Scandinavians, and others all met in the ports of Europe where, as Homer says, 'all tongues are spoken'." (IW, p.163).
However, while the Iliad in its Greek written translation dating from about the eighth century B.C. reliably conveys to us Homer's originally exclusively oral account of a ten-year trade-motivated war, and his Odyssey, although ostensibly about a great mariner's personal adventures, is basically the ancient Druids' equivalent of a modern textbook of nautical maps and related maritime lore, both epics are, nevertheless, also meant to be understood at a deeper level as guidance offered to initiates, as they grow and find their own individual way around Circe's serpentine labyrinth of self-understanding, self-acceptance, and self-conquest.
Whether she or he accepts this vocation or not, everyone is invited to become an initiate. "According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology the word 'church' comes from Old English cirice or circe, a word that clearly seems to be cognate with Circe. We also know that the dialectal form of Circe (also found in Greek) was Kirke and etymologists are agreed that the Dutch word for 'church', kerk, the German Kirche, and the Scots kirk all come from the Old Saxon kirika, another word cognate with Kirke or Circe" (IW, p.187) and so equally evocative of the universal mystery which encompasses and surrounds us.
According to Wilkens, Delphi was originally located where Delft stands today, north-west of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Also: "It was generally believed that Syrus was the inventor of arithmetic. If Syria was the name of Ireland before designating ancient Aram in the Near East, we would have an indication that mathematics was developed in western Europe before it was transmitted by the Druids to Pythagoras…
[A lot of confusion has resulted from the fact that] a number of countries in the eastern Mediterranean changed names in the Bronze Age or shortly thereafter to be thenceforth called Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Lybia, Crete, Lesbos and Cyprus, due to conquests by peoples from the Atlantic seaboard, just as the descendants of these Sea Peoples gave new names during the colonial era, only a few centuries ago, to a number of countries all around the world as distant as New Zealand." (p.154.)
When Homer mentions Athens, he means not the relatively recent Greek city of that name, but Octeville, near Cherbourg on the coast of France. Similarly, Thebes is Dieppe, an important port in the part of France Homer knew as Egypt. Helice is Paris. The Seine is the river Nile. Arcadia is the Vosges region. Mount Blanc is Olympus. The modern city of Troyes is on the site of ancient Mycenæ. Pieria is the Pyrenees. Crete is, in a general sense, the whole of Scandinavia, but also and more particularly south-west Norway. Antron is Antwerp. Ithaca is Cadiz. Salamis is Salamanca. The land of the Læstrygonians is Cuba - Columbus did no more than re-discover America in 1492; like the Phœnician mariners of Venice, Celtic sailors were on familiar terms with the waters of the Atlantic, which they knew as the Ocean, or simply the Great River.
The North Sea, the English Channel, and the Atlantic are also referred to by Homer as the Hellespont. Gereste and Psyria are the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. Thrinacia, the Land of the [sacred] Triangle, is Land's End (in Homer's day an island separated from mainland Cornwall by the river Hayle); St. Michæl's Mount is Scylla, and Carbis Bay Charybdis. Amydon is Exeter, and the river Exe is "the wide-flowing Axius - Axius whose waters flow the fairest over the face of the Earth." (Iliad, Bk II, 849-50). The river Meander is the Severn. Lesbos is the Isle of Wight. Hermus is Chichester harbour. The Temese is the river Thames, Ely stands on the site of ancient Ilium. Adrasteia is Ardrossan, Arisbe is Arbroath, and, as already mentioned, Homer's 'Isle of Syria' is Ireland.
"We have been so conditioned by the classical tradition in Western education that we have difficulty in believing that there was any civilization or culture worthy of the name in western Europe before the Romans came. The reason for this is, of course, that there are so few traces of this earlier civilization (though each year now brings new archæological finds). And the fault lies very much with the Druids' religious taboo on writing. The conquerors of Celtic territories only had to get rid of a few leaders who held all the knowledge in order easily to hold the annexed lands…
Militarism and foreign culture have never got on well together, and the occupiers had a very destructive influence from one end of the Empire to the other. For example, in the extreme northwest, the Romans destroyed the Druids' school on Anglesey (off North Wales, where the Gallic Druids also used to complete their studies), and in the east they destroyed the temple of Jerusalem. They were also responsible for the destruction of Carthage and the decline of the universities of Marseille and Alexandria.
There can be no better summing up of the Roman occupation than the words of the Roman historian Tacitus, who would today be called a 'dissident'. In his memoirs, written in secret in his country house outside Rome, he has this to say about the activities of the Roman army in western Europe: 'They pillage, massacre and rape, and they call that "governing"; they create a desert, and they call that "peace"'…
A thriving Celtic culture was destroyed first by the Roman army, then by the churchmen, who did all they could to eliminate anything that recalled the Gnositic past. In these circumstances it is an irony of history that a Celt, Lleyn, son of a British king, succeeded St. Peter [as Pope in 67, and] under the Latinized [form of his] name of Linus" presided over the universal Church until 76 as - to employ a more recent terminology - the second of the 264 'bishops' of Rome who have also been 'Popes' to date. (IW,pp.265-6.) There are also grounds for supposing that Peter, the first Pope, is more properly identified as the second bishop of Rome, Linus being both the first and the third.
SERENITY YOUNG, An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about women (ISBN, 1993).
Serenity Young's purpose in compiling this Anthology was “to make accessible some of the primary texts of world religion that deal specifically with women” - always, however, in the light of her own conviction that “the terms female and male are essentially symbols and as such are completely void of meaning until they are invested with meaning by society” (pp.x-xi).
“I praise the Golden, I worship her majesty, I extol the Lady of Heaven; I give adoration to Hathor, laudations to my Mistress! I called to her, she heard my plea, she sent my mistress to me; she came by herself to see me, O great wonder that happened to me! I was joyful, exulting, elated, when they said: ‘See, she is here!’ As they came, the young men bowed, out of great love for her. I make devotions to my goddess, that she grant me my sister as gift; three days now that I pray to her name, five days since she went from me!” (Ancient Egyptian poem composed during the New Kingdom period, 1567-1085 B.C., quoted from SY, p.131.)
Serenity Young explicitly acknowledges Sumeria's cultural superiority to the later Babylonian civilization: “The earliest evidence from Sumeria shows a number of rich graves of women and a reverence for goddesses, especially the goddess Inanna. Women had equivalent rights with men and could inherit and sell property, act as witnesses, do business, etc. The temple was the centre of city life and its economic centre; often temples acted as banks and extended loans. Here priestesses and priests served the deities in daily public rituals. Initially leaders were temporarily elected in times of crisis but permanent kingship was eventually established, though a few women also ruled, such as Ku-baba (c.1450 B.C.), ruler of Kish, the first known woman ruler in history. Armies were also organized on a temporary basis but in time a standing army became the main support of the permanent kingship. As the culture continued to urbanize and militarize this tightening up of society led to increasing restrictions on the activities of women and the loss of prestige for female deities. In the earliest records it is the goddess Nammu who created all the gods and the universe but over time she and other female deities are demoted.
Shortly after the city of Akkad came under the rule of Sargon (c. 2350 B.C.) he conquered Sumeria and made his daughter Enheduanna chief priestess. His empire was short lived, it was conquered by Semitic people, but the custom of a royal woman serving as chief priestess endured for over five hundred years. Other priestesses came from various classes, could be married or unmarried, lived a cloistered life or moved about freely in the society. Records from the Old Babylonian Period (1894-1595 B.C.) list various types of priestesses but say little about their duties or functions in religious life. During this period one type of priestess, the naditu, was a cloistered community of celibate women. The majority of these women came from upper class families and received dowries, which enabled them to set up independent households within the cloistered community.
The semitic people who conquered and eventually controlled all of ancient Sumer and Akkad were a more pessimistic people used to living a harsh desert life. While their famous law codes of Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.) preserved the rights of women, these rights diminished with the social status of individual women and gave more control to the husband in sexual and economic matters.
Another Semitic people, the Assyrians, were aggressive traders; they often went to war to open up or protect trade routes. Since their extended empire was vulnerable to invasion they were a vigorously military society, which placed little value on women: Women could neither inherit nor trade property and were essentially themselves property that was traded between patriarchal families. Veiling and seclusion were the means of distinguishing between respectable and public women (such as prostitutes)…” (pp.133-4.)
“The goddess they called, […], [the mot ]her, the most helpful of the gods, the wise Mami: ‘Thou art the mother-womb, the one who creates mankind…” (Extracted and translated from surviving fragments of Babylonian and Assyrian accounts of the creation of man cited in SY, p.135.)
“With all her eyes the goddess Night looks forth approaching many a spot: she hath put all her glories on. Immortal, she hath filled the waste, the goddess hath filled height and depth: she conquers darkness with her light… So favour us this night, O thou whose pathways we have visited as birds their nest upon the tree… Keep off the she-wolf and the wolf; O Night, keep the thief away: easy be thou for us to pass.” (From an ancient Vedic Hymn.)
“Then Gangleri asked: ‘Who are the gods men ought to believe in?’ High One replied: ‘The divine gods are twelve in number.’ Just-as-High added: ‘The goddesses are no less sacred and no less powerful’… Freyja is the most renowned of the goddesses. She owns that homestead in heaven known as Fòlkvangar… Her hall Sessrùmnir is large and beautiful. When she goes on a journey she sits in a chariot drawn by two cats. She is most readily invoked… She enjoys love poetry, and it is good to call on her for help in love affairs…
Freyja is distinguished as Frigg… She is so lovely that whatever is beautiful and valuable is called ‘treasure’ from her name… Freyja has many names, and the reason for this is that she gave herself several… She is called Mardöll and Hörn, Gefn and Syr… She is also called the divinity of the Vanir.” (Extracted from a guide to Norse myth known as the Gyfaginning, which is the opening section of The Younger Edda or The Prose Edda composed from earlier sources by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson, 1179-1241, and cited from SY, p.195.)
“The singing begins softly to a slow, solemn measure; then, as pipes and zithers join in, the singing grows shriller. Now the priestesses come, splendid in their gorgeous apparel, and all the hall is filled with a penetrating fragrance…
Open wide the door of heaven! On a black cloud I ride in splendour, bidding the whirlwind drive before me, causing the rainstorm to lay the dust…
There seems to be someone in the fold of the mountain in a coat of fig-leaves with a rabbit-floss girdle, with eyes that hold laughter and a smile of pearly brightness… driving tawny leopards, leading the striped lynxes; a car of lily-magnolia with banner of woven cassia; her cloak of stone-orchids, her belt of ararum: she gathers sweet scents to give to one she loves…
Solitary she stands, upon the mountain's summit… When the east wind blows up, the goddess sends down her showers… The lady of the mountains is fragrant with pollia; she drinks from the rocky spring and shelters beneath the pine trees.” (From English translations of Chinese poems dating in part from the 4th century B.C. and all of them included in Fang I's 2nd-century A.D. anthology, the Ch'u Tz'û; quoted in SY, pp.217-8.)
“Spider Woman took some earth, mixed with it some tùchvala (liquid from mouth: saliva), and molded it into two beings. Then she covered them with a cape made of white substance which was the creative wisdom itself, and sang the Creation Song over them. When she uncovered them, the two beings, twins, sat up and asked, ‘who are we? Why are we here?’
To the one on the right Spider Woman said, ‘You are Palöngawhoya and you are to help keep this world in order when life is put upon it. This is your duty now: go about all the world and send out sound so that it may be heard throughout all the land. When this is heard you will also be known as Echo, for all sound echoes the creator.’ She then created from the earth trees, bushes, plants, flowers, all kinds of seed-bearers and nut-bearers to clothe the earth, giving to each a life and name. In the same manner she created all kinds of birds and animals - molding them out of earth, covering them with her white-substance cape, and singing over them. Some she placed to her right, some to her left, others before and behind her, indicating how they should spread to all four corners of the earth to live.” (From an authentic record of the history and religious beliefs of the Hopi included in Frank Waters's Book of the Hopi, as quoted in SY, pp.225-6.)
Who is she? Not apparently Diana or Echo or Palöngawhoya or Juno, but perhaps by identity Neith-Mami-Mary of Nazareth-Minerva-Ninharsag-Ninti-Rose-Selene-Spider Woman-Sud-Isis-Heket-Hecate-Hathor-Athena-Artemis… Names always had a meaning throughout the ancient Near East and not only in Old Testament Hebrew. Athena-Isis, therefore, needs perhaps more properly to be distinguished both from Neith-Ninti and from Enki's wife, Ninki, and identified instead with Anat-Aphrodite-Ashtoreth-Astarte-Calypso-Eshdar-Inanna-Innin-Irnin-Ishtar-Ninni-Venus.
End Note: Before Alexandria was founded, the principal point of entry into the Nile Delta from the Mediterranean was a now submerged city called Hercleion. In May 2000 a still complete, one and a half tons in weight, black granite stele, dating from c. 370 B.C., was successfully brought to the surface again. The Pharaoh Nectanebo is represented on it in the act of presenting a great gold necklace and also a plate of food to the goddess Neith, seated. The text on the stele includes the Pharaoh's decree that all Greek traders be taxed in order to increase the wealth of Neith's treasury in her local temple. This decree is identical in its wording to an earlier one made in her favour elsewhere by another Pharaoh some 150 years earlier. The Greeks' name for Neith was Athena, and Athena's image appears on some of the local coinage.
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