Thursday, May 12, 2005

Ancient "Bird-Men"

The modern day angel, human in appearance yet endowed with wings, is rather popular. It is commonly believed that this image originated with the Judeo-Christian-Muslim theologies. This is inaccurate. Firstly, only one Ju


http://www.anunnaki.org/img/pazuzu-web.jpg


http://www.ancienttreasures.com/images/M-2.jpg "Assyrian eagle headed man with wings"

http://www.florin.ms/Jameson006.jpg "Assyrian man with wings"

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/artmuseum/collections/ancient/big_images/cancient1_big.jpg "Assyrian man with wings" ASSYRIAN, 883-859 B.C.

http://www.ancienttreasures.com/images/M-3.jpg "2 Assyrian man with wings and the tree of life"


http://www.zyworld.com/Assyrian/Tree_of_peace2.JPG "2 Assyrian man with wings and the tree of life"

Saturday, May 07, 2005

The Forgotten Ones

The terms "devils" and "demons" are archaic terms introduced to us primarily from misunderstood biblical esoterica. Today, we use the terms "devils" and "demons" more pejoratively than literally. For example, in the movie The Devils Advocate, the devils and demons are all lawyers! LOL. On a more serious note, in the past tensions between rival groups, i.e. political or racial have cast the stigma of "devil" or "demon" upon their rivals. Could the same have been true for the ancient biblical scribes? Were they "demonizing" a rival faction, nation, etc.? After careful analysis, this is the conclusion that I have derived.

In the NT epistle, 1 John 3:12, we learn that "Cain...belonged to the evil one...". The words "evil one" in this sentence (as well as every time it appears in the NT is in my own opinion an obfuscation of the Greek word Poneros, from ponos, which simply means to labor, to travail, to toil. However, the blatant use of the words "evil one" in association with poneros/ponos or toil/labor is a revelation in disguise. How so? In order to appreciate the effort being made here to obscure the identity of "the evil one" one must already possess certain "keys" of knowledge. For example, in Genesis 2 we learn of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil". The Hebrew word, Tob, is rendered "good" in English, and the Hebrew word Re, is translated as "evil". The account is unlikely to have been originally couched in Hebrew, but rather in Egyptian (Moses native tongue, pun intended-if you know what I mean).

Moses was a prince of Egypt! All of the "Hebrews" who exodused from Egypt no doubt spoke and understood Egyptian language and were familiar with Egyptian customs and religion!

The biblical tradition has often connected the name Moses with the Hebrew verb mashah which means "to draw out." Actually, the name Moses is the Egyptian word mose (boy or son) written in Hebrew. The word can be seen in the names of several Egyptian Pharaohs (Thutmoses, Ahmose). Many scholars agree that the connection of the Egyptian name with a Hebrew word was a later development in the tradition, added to the story by a narrator unaware of the word's Egyptian origin. Read Luke 11:52.


It would not surprise me if the word "Re", translated as "evil" in association with the Tree of knowledge, is a blatant reference to the Egyptian god Amen-Re. The word "Amen" is an Egyptian epithet meaning, "He who is hidden" or "the hidden one". (Learn more about Amen-Re here)

Getting back to the point, Amen-Re (also rendered Amon/Ammon/Amun--Ra/Re) is later depicted as as a humanoid with horns on his head! The 33rd word in the Torah is the Hebrew word tov (Tob) meaning "good." It refers to the light that was God's first creation: God saw that the light was good (Genesis 1:4). If you have not figured it out by now, MASONS AND OTHER OCCULTISTS REVERE THE NUMBER '33' ABOVE ALL OTHER NUMBERS.

The tree of the knowledge of good/tov and evil/Re is another obfuscation of the name of Amen-Re

"Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." Romans 1:25

Could it be possible that the word Amen, spoken by Christians and Jews alike at the end of their prayers, has its roots in Egyptian prayers to Amen-Re? Click here to read 25 biblical references that support this idea. Or perhaps this is a direct reference to the ancient Egyptian/Vedic concept of the Om/Aum?

Note: In my opinion, the most important of them all is not listed on BibleGateway.com. It can be found in the book of "Revelation" (which means to make known--as if to say, Amen the "hidden one" is finally revealing himself!). Read for yourselves:

NIV Version:
To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation.

KJ Version:

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Click here and select any version of the Bible you want, it will say the same thing...that the Revelation are the words of "the Amen".

Egypt's first god was called Ptah, his firstborn son was Re (known as Marduk to the Babylonians and Zeus to the Greeks, Jupiter to the Romans!). He was considered the "beginning of the creation of God"...to the Egyptians! I cannot fail to mention that, no where is Jupiter ever referred to as the "beginning of the creation of God", but the same IS said of another planet in the Babylonian Enuma Elish--Marduk. Another red planet, which the Sumerians referred to as Nibiru. Learn more about Nibiru here. Image One, Image Two, Image Three, Image four, Image five, Image six,

Image Seven: Matthew 24:29, Isaiah 34:4

Image Eight, The idea of worlds colliding has sparked our imaginations. What happens when worlds collide? Science fiction has its own convictions. Here, Here, and Here.

I will discuss this in greater detail in another blog, for now, the reason for this digression is to emphasize the significance of the "humanoids with horns" protruding from their skulls...

The Egyptian god, Amen-Re was often depicted as having horns!


See for yourselves:

Image One: Here is Amen depicted in an Egyptian statue.

Image Two: Here is Amen/Ammun depicted on a Greek coin. The Greeks inherited their knowledge from the Egyptians! They, unlike the Hebrews, openly acknowledged this. Amen became famous amongst the Greeks because Alexander the Great claimed to be his son! Read more about this here. The Greeks from Cyrenaica "called the god Zeus Ammon", equating Zeus with the Egyptian Re!

Image Three


If Moses were Egyptian, who was the god that he followed? The conventional response is Yahweh/YHVH. But all scholars agree unanimously that the "name" Yahweh is not a proper name at all! There are variations, but it is commonly believed to translate "I AM WHO I AM". If I asked you, "who are you?" and you replied "I AM WHO I AM" would I be any the wiser as to who you were? The context within which this name is given sheds light on the cause for all of the obfuscation of this entities identity. He was "Amen", the "hidden" one. Read the dialogue between YHVH and Moses here.

Who was Moses' god? In one event recorded in the bible the people begin to rebel against Moses and his god. As a result venomous/ or 'fiery' serpents are unleashed, afflicting many so that they died. Moses intercedes on behalf of the people, and here is the result--Moses is commanded to build a "venomous snake/ fiery serpent" of his own and put it on a "pole". (Read more here).

Here are some examples of religious art depicting this event.

Image One: Several images.

Image Two: Here we see how this event impressed the Flemish artist Frans Floris (1517-70).

Image Three: This image is more dramatic in its depiction of a serpent on a pole.

Image four: This image comes from the Bible of Lubeck, 1494. (Learn more about Lubeck here). If you look closely, you will see that the central figure (Moses) has horns on his head!

More on the serpent.

This image has evolved over time; revealing more of its original esoteric gnosis. The serpent on the pole is commonly known as the Caduceus. However, this wand of Asclepius, often confused with the Caduceus wand of Hermes (and for good reasons to be sure), is the true symbol of the medical profession. It dates to antiquity, and was a symbol of the Greek God of healing, Asclepius. (More on Asclepius in a later blog)


Image one: Could this have been more representative of Moses "bronze serpent on a pole"?

Image Two: Another modern artistic impression of the "Caduceus", recognized as a universal medical symbol, in this bronze representation by James N. Muir has become and Angel of Healing bringing love and peace upon the earth and all of its inhabitants."

Image Three: In her book, The Yahweh Encounters: Bible Astronauts, Ark Radiations, and Temple Electronics, author Anne Madden Jones analyzes descriptions of the Seraphim and Cherubim given in the bible, and interprets them as flying machines which became symbolized as a "creature named for its copper color" and a "poisonous serpent" (I will write a blog on this later); no doubt for their ability to inflict "a sickening sting which was slow in its lethality and could be cured if treated in time.." She then poses the following penetrating question:

"What kind of bite would the fiery serpents have unleashed, the effects of which could be ameliorated by standing in front of and looking at a copper device on a pole?"

She gives her theory: "A procedure called radiation therapy used today for the treatment of cancer, requires the patient essentially only to look at, or stand in front of an x-ray machine, many times of course, or in front of a cobalt radiation device." p. 167

She then reasons: "Could Moses have built a complex radiation treatment device in the wilderness? No, but he could have built the housing for one, and the machine or mechanism itself could have been supplied by Yahweh. The implication in the naming of the device, was that both the bite and the cure were similar, were related in some way. As in a radiation exposure the bite (over exposure to radiation) and the cure (radiation therapy) are similar. Ionizing radiations and microwave radiations are known to cause various kinds of cancer and malignant tumors. The treatment of disease (principally cancer) by ionizing radiation is called radiation therapy. X-rays, alpha, beta, and gamma rays, all produce ionizing radiations. Whether these radiations are produced in modern equipment or are emitted by natural radioactive elements such as uranium, radium, or plutonium, their energy form is the same and their destructive effects on living tissue are the same." p. 167

We are getting to the gist of the matter. Alien visitation. The following website has some interesting information regarding the Caduceus and its technological implications.

Image Four: This image depicts one of the many layered meanings the Rosicrucians attatch to the Caduceus. The Rosicrucians are a branch of the Masons. At the core of their belief is the serpent!

Now, let us juxtapose in our minds the image of the serpent on a pole with that of another savior on a cross--Jesus. In the same Bible, in the Old Testament you have Moses hanging a serpent on the cross, and in the New Testament Jesus (pronounced that in Spanish Hay-Zeus!)is hung on a stuaros (Greek for stake, or pole!); he is not hung on a crucifix (or cross) as the translation seeks to describe him on. (More on this in another blog).

Images of Jesus on a pole: Image One, Image Two, Image Three, Image Four

More Crucified Serpents
From the same artist who brought us the fantastic creature designs for the sci-fi movies Alien (w Sigourney Weaver) and Species, H.R. Giger, we have this dark image of a crucified serpent with the head of a man wearing a crown of thorns. H.R. Giger is an occultist, and more than likely adept in his knowledge of the esoteric teachings of the ancients. Click here to view.

Another image. Read more about Nicholas Flamel and "His exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures which he caused to be painted upon an Arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris. London, 1624." Here

On March 19, 2000, Pope John Paul II visited Mount Nebo during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Mount Nebo being one of the most important Christian sites in Jordan). During his visit he planted an olive tree beside the Byzantine chapel as a symbol of peace. Click here and here to view images of Pope John Paul II's visitation to a modern day "serpent on a pole" aka "wand of Asclepius" located on Mt Nebo (Nebo/Nebu, after whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was named, is none other than Amen-Re's firstborn son!)

When I look at the image of Pope John Paul the II kneeling and praying in the church on Mount Nebo, I can almost here Psalms 89:52

Praise be to the LORD forever!
Amen and Amen.

**The serpentine structure on Mt Nebo was allegedly raised by the Roman Catholic Church itself, but I have not discovered any independent evidence to corroborate this as of yet.

Over all, we have suggested that the serpent is a reference to "gods" of Egypt. That the god of Moses was none other that Amen-Re, who later was worshipped by the Greeks, and the Romans, as Amen. Amen was depicted as having horns protruding from his head! We have even seen images of Moses having horns coming from his head.


Michaelangelo Buonarotti's Moses at the tomb of Julius II. Circa 1513. Note the horns on Moses' head. One commentator explains the horns on Moses' head as symbolic of betrayal. In interesting argument. But, this does not explain why archaeologist have found skulls with actual horns protruding from otherwise human skulls. Please read his article and form your own opinion.

When an artist depicts a man with horns on his head he/she may be associating that person/s with the mythological creature known as the Satyr. Satyrs appear in myth and also play intergral roles in the bible. Of the most significance is their proximity to Moses in the accounts of the scriptures.

According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, a Satyr is a:

hairy one. Mentioned in Greek mythology as a creature composed of a man and a goat, supposed to inhabit wild and desolate regions. The Hebrew word is rendered also "goat" (Leviticus 4:24) and "devil", i.e., an idol in the form of a goat (17:7; 2Chr. 11:15). When it is said (Isaiah 13:21; comp 34:14) "the satyrs shall dance there," the meaning is that the place referred to shall become a desolate waste. Some render the Hebrew word "baboon," a species of which is found in Babylonia.

Note: On my blogs on the Cynocephalia, we learned that they too were often mistaken as references to "baboons". Is it the most 'logical' conclusion, that these ancient texts were refering to baboons when they spoke of Cynocephalia or Satyrs? No, this is simply more obfuscation.

Nave's Topical Bible Dictionary has this to say of Satyrs:

A mythological creature, represented as half-man and half-goat
Leviticus 17:7

RSV, margin)
2 Chronicles 11:15


Finally, Smith's Bible dictionary gives the following details:

(sa’tyr or sat’yr ), a sylvan deity or demigod of Greek mythology, represented as a monster, part man and part goat. (Isaiah 13:21; 34:14) The Hebrew word signifies "hairy" or "rough," and is frequently applied to "he-goats." In the passages cited it probably refers to demons of woods and desert places. Comp. (Leviticus 17:7; 2 Chronicles 11:15)

The Satyrs, like the Cynocephali, were no doubt persecuted and 'demonized' for their appearance and stature. What is of import for now is that these beings, were flesh and blood, and were considered to be "demigods" by the peoples, and nations! There is biblical confirmation to this idea:

Leviticus 4:24, mentions how the Satyrs were to be executed--decapitation. This is the same fate that John the Baptist faced. John the Baptist was the cousin of Jesus. Later, the royal bloodlines of Europe would be sent to the guillotine to suffer the same prescription of execution. Is there a correlation? (A topic for another blog)

Psalm 106:35-39:

35 but they mingled with the nations
and adopted their customs.

36 They worshiped their idols,
which became a snare to them.

37 They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons.

38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was desecrated by their blood.

39 They defiled themselves by what they did;
by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

*The word translated as "idol" here is the Hebrew word Asab, it means to carve, shape, an image. Related words are Asab (spelled same, Hebrew Has no vowels) meaning, to worry, grieve, or afflict, cause pain.

Eseb: to grieve, toil, work, trouble.
Oseb: pain, labor, affliction, sorrow. Used only four times.

And the last related word is Assab, and it appears only once in the entire OT, in Isaiah 58:3, where it means worker.

The idea that there may have existed beings of the image and likeness of Satyrs and goats is just as perplexing today, as it was to many medieval scholars. Likewise, the notion of alien visitation, and past colonization of our planet by various species of life unlike our own is just as hard to swallow. Yet, slowly we are learning. We now know that the Austropilithicus once roamed the earth. We now know that large reptiles (dragons) once roamed the earth. So why is it so difficult to comprehend that Satyr's and Cynocephali once roamed the earth. One possibility that we must face is summed up by Katherine Anne Porter when she states that "one of the most disturbing habits of the human mind is its willful and destructive forgetting of whatever in its past does not flatter or confirm its present point of view..." Could the reason that we have forgotten these beings is because they walked the earth side by side with humanity for thousands of years? Could it be that we have forgotten these beings because we systematically slaughtered them for centuries to near extinction? Again I ask, Could it be that the reason for our willful and destructive forgetting of these lost races is due to our own hand in the designs of genocide committed against these sentient races? Perhaps, or as the religious scholars and scribes would have us believe, "they were merely idols", "figments of the imagination", "they were not real"....

Had the Nazis been successful in annihilating the Jews from the face of the earth would we today be led to believe that those who still held on to the tenets of a religion called Judaism were worshipping pagan idols when they spoke of the law of Moses? Most certainly this would be the case, and we would be reading psalms and prayers that end in the phrase "Hail Hitler" rather than "Amens". This radical example, is aimed at your imagination...we know that this might have been the case had the Nazis won WWII. Anything of any notable intellectual value remotely Jewish in origin would have been whitewashed over to appear as if it were authored by Aryan minds. This is what Porter means when she speaks of the "willful and destructive forgetting of whatever in its past does not flatter or confirm its present point of view". Do not be so quick to mock and scoff at these ideas because you simply have never heard of them. (This is often the case that I am faced with). Peter rebuke to scoffers who disbelieved the return of Jesus can be applied just as easily here:

"First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires...They will say, "Where are these Satyrs, these Cynocephali, these "reptile alien gods" (LOL-inside joke between myself and a few of my co-workers)", they will say [in their minds/their rationale will be] "Ever since our fathers died everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation. But they deliberately forget that long ago...." [2 Peter 3:3-7]

That long ago....

they [the Israelites, Canaanites, etc] offered "their sacrifices to the goat idols [Satyr in Hebrew] to whom they prostitute themselves.." [Leviticus 17:7]

...and that they dwelt and repopulated mostly in the abandoned cities [slums] of conquered lands...

But desert creatures will lie there,
jackals will fill her houses;
there the owls will dwell,
and there the wild goats will leap about. [Isaiah 13:21]

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Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures will also repose
and find for themselves places of rest. [Isaiah 34:14]

And that they also intermarried with human women...and produced offspring...

1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God [The Bena ha Elohim are "demi-gods", depicted as hybrids throughout mythic and religious texts worldwide!] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with [a] man forever, for he is mortal [b] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown [The various species of demi-gods/ represented as hybrids in mythological and religious iconography all over the world!]. [Genesis 6:1-4]

And last of all, Moses was descended from them!

In a peculiar sentence in the Bible we learn the following about Moses:

(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) [Numbers 12:3]


On the surface, this seems quite kosher, but beneath the veil, we discover that the word used here for man is 408/132 is Iys, meaning man, or husband. In fact, this is the same word used in Genesis to refer to the Cain, whom the NT established was "of the evil one"--"the serpent" "Amen-Re"! [Genesis 4:1]

[To be continued]

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Satyr: image one image two
Jordaens, Jacob, Satyr and Peasant, c. 1620-21,Oil on canvas
174 x 205 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

image three Here you see a satyr secretly meeting with a human woman, no doubt she is the wife of the man on the right who is desparately seeking her. The satyr was heavily associated with sexual promiscuity. Perhaps, if your race was being hunted to extinction you too would seduce your adversaries’ wife in order to ensure the propagation of your blood line, your species even. Just a thought. Here is some info about the artist:
Altdorfer, Albrecht (b. c.1480, Regensburg, d. 1538, Regensburg). German painter, engraver, architect and graphic artist working in Regensburg, of which town he was a citizen from 1505 onwards, the leading artist of the so-called Danube School of German painting. His most outstanding works are biblical and historical subjects set against highly imaginative and atmospheric landscape backgrounds.
Image four: MONTORSOLI, Giovanni Angelo Italian sculptor, Florentine school (1507-1563). Yes those are grapes, which if you have read any of my blogs, you already know indicate a particular bloodline, also often referred to as The Vine. The flute in his hand also bears significance. See Genesis 4:21
Image five: In this image Satan, is depicted as a Satyr, however, if you look closely, you will see his left foot protruding from beneath his robe, it is actually not a foot at all but a fish’s fin! This is a cryptic way of depicting the transition between the age of Aries (the Ram/goat) and Pisces (the fish); the Satyr holds in his hand a stone/ or rock. No doubt a cryptic reference to “the stone the builders rejected.” This phrase is often misunderstood to be a reference to Jesus, but in actuality it is a reference to a persecuted royal bloodline. Jesus later makes the cryptic comment, “if a child asks for bread, will the father give him a stone or a serpent?” This is essentially then the same question as “If the Hebrews ask for a king will you give them a false messiah?”

How to Contact an alien and avoid long distance charges

From: Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
Notes for Chapter 12: The Principle of Computational Equivalence
Section: Intelligence in the Universe
Page 1189

Messages to send. The idea of trying to send messages to extraterrestrials has existed since at least the early 1800s. The proposed content and medium of the messages has however steadily changed, usually reflecting what seemed to be the most significant human achievements of the time - yet often seeming quaint within just a few decades.

Starting in the 1820s various scientists (notably Carl Friedrich Gauss) suggested signalling the Moon by using such schemes as cutting clearings in a forest to illustrate the Pythagorean theorem or reflecting sunlight from mirrors in different countries placed so as to mimic an observed constellation of stars. In the 1860s, with the rise of telegraphy, schemes for sending flashes of light to Mars were discussed, and the idea developed that mathematics should somehow be the basic language used. In the 1890s radio signals were considered, and were tried by Nikola Tesla in 1899. Discussion in the 1920s led to the idea of sending radio pulses that could be assembled into a bitmap image, and some messages intended for extraterrestrials were probably sent by radio enthusiasts.

There is a long history of attempts to formulate universal languages (see page 1188). The Lincos language of Hans Freudenthal from 1960 was specifically designed for extraterrestrial communication. It was based on predicate logic, and attempted to use this to build up first mathematics, then science, then a general presentation of human affairs.

When the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched in 1972 it carried a physical plaque designed by Carl Sagan and others. The plaque is surprisingly full of implicit assumptions based on details of human intellectual development. For example, it has line drawings of humans - whose interpretation inevitably seems very specific to our visual system and artistic culture. It also has a polar plot of the positions of 14 pulsars relative to the Sun, with the pulsars specified by giving their periods as base 2 integers - but with trailing zeros inserted to cover inadequate precision. Perhaps the most peculiar element, however, is a diagram indicating the 21 cm transition in hydrogen - by showing two abstract quantum mechanical spin configurations represented in a way that seems completely specific to the particular details of human mathematics and physics. In 1977 the Voyager spacecraft carried phonograph records that included bitmap images and samples of spoken languages and music.

In 1974 the bitmap image below was sent as a radio signal from the Arecibo radio telescope. At the left-hand end is a version of the pattern of digits from page 117 - but distorted so it has no obvious nested structure. There follow atomic numbers for various elements, and bitvectors for components of DNA. Next are idealized pictures of a DNA molecule, a human, and the telescope. All these parts seem to depend almost completely on detailed common conventions - and I suspect that without all sorts of human context their meaning would be essentially impossible to recognize.

In all, remarkably few messages have been sent - perhaps in part because of concerns that they might reveal us to extraterrestrial predators (see page 1198). There has also been a strong tendency to make messages hard even for humans to understand - perhaps on the belief that they must then be more scientific and more universal.

The main text argues that it will be essentially impossible to give definitive evidence of intelligence. Schemes that might however get at least some distance include sending:

waveforms made of simple underlying elements;

long complicated sequences that repeat precisely;

a diversity of kinds of sequences;

something complicated that satisfies simple constraints.

Examples of the latter include pattern-avoiding sequences (see page 946), magic squares and other combinatorial designs, specifications of large finite groups, and maximal length linear feedback shift register sequences (see page 1089). Notably, the last of these are already being transmitted by GPS satellites and CDMA communications systems. (If cases could be found where the sequences as a whole were forced not to have any obvious regularities, then pattern-avoiding sequences might perhaps be good since they have constraints that are locally fairly easy to recognize.)

Extrapolation of trends in human technology suggest that it will become ever easier to detect weak signals that might be assumed distorted beyond recognition or swamped by noise.

What can Mitochondrial DNA reveal about the Americas first inhbitants?

Source: Unknown

Genetic variations among Native Americans provide further clues to who first populated the Americas and when they arrived.

Anthropologists have long speculated on the origins of the native populations in the Americas. One of the more recent theories holds that three distinct waves of immigrants--corresponding to three proposed linguistic groups among Native Americans (Amerind, Na-Dene and Eskaleut)--crossed the Bering strait from Asia no earlier than 13,000 years ago. Molecular anthropologist Theodore Schurr’s research on genetic variation in the mitochondrial DNA of native populations in Asia and the Americas casts some doubt on this view. His research suggests that the first Americans may have come to the New World more than 30,000 years ago. Although there is concordance between the linguistic and genetic affinities of Na-Dene Indians and Eskimo-Aleuts, this type of linkage is less robust for the so-called Amerinds. According to Schurr the genetic evidence is, instead, more consistent with a complex migration pattern involving at least two ancient expansions of ancestral populations who may have come from widely separated parts of the Asian continent, as well as the re-expansion of Beringian populations into the New World following the last period of glaciation.

Figure 4. Distribution of haplogroup frequencies (pie charts) among Amerindian populations does not correspond in any simple way to language-group affiliations, suggesting that a tripartite model of migration to the New World (based on three hypothesized language groups) may be too simple. However, virtually all of the northern Na-Dene mtDNAs belong to haplogroup A, whereas those of the southern Na-Dene also include some from haplogroups B, C and D, indicating that the southern populations have mixed with the neighboring Amerindian populations since their arrival in the American Southwest some 500-to-1, 000 years ago. Certain other trends are also evident: Haplogroup A declines in frequency from north to south, whereas haplogroups C and D increase in frequency. By contrast, there is no obvious clinal distribution for haplogroup B (aside from its absence in northern North America). Whether these distributions reflect the original pattern of settlement in the Americas or subsequent genetic differentiation is not entirely clear.

Exploring the Evolution of Reptiles into Mammals

Evolution: From Reptiles to Mammals
By D. Jon Scott

The most obvious distinctions between mammals and reptiles are the fact that mammals have hair or fur, and mammary glands which they use to nourish their young. These features do not fossilize, and no known mammals have left hair or fur impressions in the rock surrounding their fossils. Fortunately, however, there are also a number of skeletal differences between reptiles and mammals. For one, reptiles have a mouth filled with several teeth which are more or less uniform in size and shape; they vary slightly in size, but they all have the same basic cone-shaped form. By contrast, mammals tend to have teeth which vary greatly in size and shape; everything from flat, multi-cusped molar teeth to the sharp cone-shaped canines. In reptiles, the lower jaw is comprised of several different bones, which hinge on the quadrate bone of the skull and the angular bone of the jaw. In mammals, however, the lower jaw is comprised of only one bone - the dentary, which hinges at the quadrate of the skull. In mammals, there are three bones in the middle ear, the malleus, incus and stapes (also known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup). In reptiles, there is only one bone - the stapes. The reptilian skull is attached to the spine by a single point of contact, the occipital condyle. In mammals, the occipital condyle is "double-faced". The classic reptilian skull also has a small hole, or "third eye" through which the pineal body extends - a trait not found in any known mammal.
This brings us to the synapsid reptiles. Like mammals, they have a single, lower temporal fenestra. Already this makes them more akin to mammals than other reptiles, albeit with a very reptilian body; legs sprawled out, long whip-like tail, basically conical-uniformed teeth, etc.. One group of synapsid reptiles in particular, the therapsids, seem to break these rules and are adorned with very mammalian characteristics; in the more advanced forms, many of the bones absent in mammals were already being reduced to near extinction, and the "third eye" so small it might as well have been absent. [Romer, 1967, p. 226]


Dimetrodon
(Synapsid "Reptile")
Late Permian
Tetraceratops
(Synapsid "Reptile" - Therapsid)
Early Triassic

Likewise, in many of these forms, there was a sharp contrast between the different types of teeth; incisors, broadly crowned cheek teeth, teeth with accessory cusps; the occipital condyle also became "double-faced" in many of these reptiles. [Colbert and Morales, 1991, p. 118]
Colbert and Morales (1991, p. 127) describe the transitional nature of the tritylodonts in particular:

"In many respect[s], the tritylodont skull was very mammalian in its features. Certainly, because of the advanced nature of the zygomatic arches, the secondary palate and the specialized teeth, these animals had feeding habits that were close to those of some mammals . . . . Yet, in spite of these advances, the tritylodonts still retained the reptilian joint between the quadrate bone of the skull and the articular bone of the lower jaw. It is true that these bones were very much reduced, so that the squamosal bone of the skull and the dentary bone of the lower jaw (the two bones involved in the mammalian jaw articulation) were on the point of touching each other."

Creationists, however, are quick to try and discredit the fossil evidence for mammalian evolution from reptiles. Gish (1978, p. 80) claims that:

"The two most distinguishable osteological differences between reptiles and mammals, however, have never been bridged by a transitional series. All mammals, living or fossil, have a single bone, the dentary, on each side of the lower jaw, and all mammals, living or fossil, have three auditory ossicles or ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes. In some fossil reptiles the number and size of the lower jaw bones are reduced compared to living reptiles. Every reptile, living or fossil, however, has at least four bones in the lower jaw and only one auditory ossicle, the stapes. . . There are no transitional fossil forms showing, for instance, three or two jawbones, or two ear bones. No one has explained yet, for that matter, how the transitional form would have managed to chew while his jaw was being unhinged and rearticulated, or how he would hear while dragging two of his jaw bones up into his ear."

This transitional series is not as mythical as Gish is trying to purport. Indeed, the transition can clearly be seen in triassic therapsids - though obviously occurring differently than Gish describes! Flank (1995) writes:

"The reptiles, as we have noted, have one bone in the middle ear and several bones in the lower jaw, and mammals have three bones in the middle ear and only one bone in the lower jaw. On the other hand, the jaw joints in the reptile are formed from different bones than they are in the mammalian skull. Thus, it is apparent that, during the evolutionary transition from reptile to mammal, the jaw joints must have shifted from one bone to another, freeing up the rest of these bones to form the auditory ossicles in the mammalian middle ear. (In fact, in most modern reptiles, the jawbones in question actually function in transmitting sound waves to the inner ear, so the transformation postulated above is not a functional change, merely an improvement in a f[u]nction that these bones already had). As Arthur N. Strahler puts it, "A transitional form must have had two joints in operation simultaneously (as in the modern rattlesnake), and this phase was followed by a fusion of the lower joint." (Strahler 1987, p. 414) ... Not only is this explanation not 'merely wishful conjecture', but it can be clearly seen in a remarkable series of fossils from the Triassic therapsids. The earliest therapsids show the typical reptilian type of jaw joint, with the articular bone in the jaw firmly attached to the quadrate bone in the skull. In later fossils from the same group, however, the quadrate-articular bones have become smaller, and the dentary and squamosal bones have become larger and moved closer together. This trend reaches its apex in a group of therapsids known as cynodonts, of which the genus Probainognathus is a representative. Probainognathus possessed characteristics of both reptile and mammal, and this transitional aspect was shown most clearly by the fact that it had TWO jaw joints--one reptilian, one mammalian."
-Emphasis added

"Probainognathus, a small cynodont reptile from the Triassic sediments of Argentina, shows characters in the skull and jaws far advanced toward the mammalian condition. Thus it had teeth differentiated into incisors, a canine and postcanines, a double occipital condyle and a well-developed secondary palate, all features typical of the mammals, but most significantly the articulation between the skull and the lower jaw was on the very threshhold between the reptilian and mammalian condition. The two bones forming the articulation between skull and mandible in the reptiles, the quadrate and articular respectively, were still present but were very small, and loosely joined to the bones that constituted the mammalian joint . . . Therefore in Probainognathus there was a double articulation between skull and jaw, and of particular interest, the quadrate bone, so small and so loosely joined to the squamosal, was intimately articulated with the stapes bone of the middle ear. It quite obviously was well on its way towards being the incus bone of the three-bone complex that characterizes the mammalian middle ear." [Colbert and Morales, 1991, pp. 228-229]


Next in the reptile-to-mammal transitional sequence are the cynodonts. Pictured here is Cynognathus, a classic example of the cynodont reptiles. Of course, when faced with a specimen such as this, one is forced to wonder if it can truly be called a "reptile". The skull appears basically mammalian, the hip structure seems basically mammalian as well, but with very distinct similarities to reptiles as well. Also notice that the grastral ribs and vertebrae seem to be forming a primitive breast-bone (sternum) - and strikingly resembles the gastral ribs/vertebrae of the earliest mammals from several orders. The gastral "floating" ribs have been reduced to almost nothing, and they are completely absent in mammals, yet very large in reptiles. This animal isn't quite a mammal, but it isn't quite a reptile either. This animal truly appears to be ½ reptile and ½ mammal. It is a perfectly intermediate form.



(1) Diapsid, Archosaur - True Reptile
Euparkeria
Late Permain
(2) Synapsid, Therapsid - "Reptile"?
Cynognathus
Early Triassic
(3) Synapsid, Therapsid - True Mammal
Canis (specifically a Grey Wolf)
Mid Territary/Late Quaternary

Shortly after the time of the Cynodonts, we find a gap in the mid-late triassic (239-208 million years ago). Until recently, there were no known therapsid fossils occupying this area of geological time. However, Adelobasileus cromptoni, a fairly "new" species, has been discovered; its age is 225, putting it squarely in the middle of the triassic gap. Though only a skull was found, "[s]ome cranial features of Adelobasileus, such as the incipient promontorium housing the cochlea, represent an intermediate stage of the character transformation from non-mammalian cynodonts to [Tr]iassic mammals".
[Lucas and Luo, 1993, pp 309-334]

The proto-mammal Adelobasileus is thought to be either (1) the common ancestor of all mammals, or (2) a very close relative of that common ancestor [Hunt, 1997].
The next proto-mammal (Sinoconodon) appears 208 million years ago. Its cheek-teeth are now permanent, as in modern mammals, however the other teeth are still replaced several times (as in reptiles). The mammalian-joint of the jaw is "stronger, with large dentary condyle fitting into a distinct fossa on the squamosal...[t]his final refinement of the joint automatically makes this animal a true 'mammal'...[r]eptilian jaw joint still present, though tiny." [Hunt, 1997] The rear of the braincase has also expanded and the eye socket is fully mammalian.
Hunt (1997) describes a group of proto-mammals appear roughly 3 million years after Sinoconodon:

"Eozostrodon, Morganucodon, Haldanodon (early Jurassic, ~205 Ma) -- A group of early proto-mammals called "morganucodonts". The restructuring of the secondary palate and the floor of the braincase had continued, and was now very mammalian. Truly mammalian teeth: the cheek teeth were finally differentiated into simple premolars and more complex molars, and teeth were replaced only once. Triangular- cusped molars. Reversal of the previous trend toward reduced incisors, with lower incisors increasing to four. Tiny remnant of the reptilian jaw joint. Once thought to be ancestral to monotremes only, but now thought to be ancestral to all three groups of modern mammals -- monotremes, marsupials, and placentals."

The mammals continued to evolve and several other links are known from the mesozoic era, and "by the late-Cretaceous the three groups of modern mammals were in place: monotremes, marsupials, and placentals." [Hunt 1997]

References

Alfred S. Romer, The Vertebrate Story, University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, 1967 in The Therapsid-Mammal Transitional Series [Online] L. Flank (1995). Available: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/therapsd.htm
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Duane Gish, Evolution? The Fossils Say No! Creation-Life Publishers, San Diego CA, 1972, re-printed 1978 in The Therapsid-Mammal Transitional Series [Online] L. Flank (1995). Available: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/therapsd.htm
[2000, July 10]

Edwin Colbert and Michael Morales, Evolution of the Vertebrates; A History of Backboned Animals Through Time, Wiley-Liss, New York NY, 1991 in The Therapsid-Mammal Transitional Series [Online] L. Flank (1995). Available: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/therapsd.htm
[2000, July 10]

S.G. Lucas and Z. Lou, Adelobasileus from the upper Triassic of west Texas: the oldest mammal, J. Vert. Paleont, 1993 in Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ [Online] K. Hunt (1997) Available:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html
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The Therapsid-Mammal Transitional Series [Online] L. Flank (1995). Available: www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/therapsd.htm
[2000, July 10]

Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ [Online] K. Hunt (1997) Available:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html
[2000, July 11]

What the??? UFOs in ancient and medeval art?

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More on the Cynocephali and other Beings

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By Jamie Hall


The Cynocephali exist in the mythology of Europe, India and China. The legends of all three of these cultures originally said that the Cynocephali resided somewhere in the wild lands west of Tibet and north of Persia (modern-day Iran). The European legends later began placing Cynocephali in all unexplored regions. In Europe, they were described as dog-headed people, sometimes as dog-headed hairy giants that have something in common with hairy humanoids. In the legends from India and China, the Cynocephali were described as shapeshifters who could change from human to dog, but who always retained some animal features when they became human again.

If real Cynocephali exist, it is hard to decide what sort of animal they might be. Some of these legends might be garbled accounts of baboons, monkeys with dog-like snouts. Today, this explanation has been mostly dropped. Further studies have suggested that the Cynocephali tales are actually based on dog ancestor origin myths from tribes who were considered filthy barbarians by more "civilized" writers in India and China. According to these writers, whole races of people were deliberately killed because they weren't human, they were "really" monsters. When these myths were imported to Europe, they became even further changed from the originals. The European cynocephali is often quite different than the creature of the original legends.

Since there do not seem to be sightings of these creatures today, most cryptozoologists ignore them. To the few who do pay attention to them, the Cynocephali are viewed as either just one more kind of hairy humanoid or as a cryptid canine of some sort.

You can find out more about the Cynocephali from the following sources:

Shuker, Karl. The Beasts That Hide From Man: Seeking the World's Last Undiscovered Animals. New York: Paraview Press, 2003. Pages 224-228

White, David Gordon. Myths of the Dog-Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Saint Christopher: Portrait of the Cynocephali

archived 11-22-99
Archive file# o112299a
donated by James Vandale

The following is an interesting post I found on the net. Enjoy.

Quite often the antagonist of the werewolf belief (and of werewolves themselves), is the Catholic church and its larger outgrowth of christianity in general. Through the church's inquisitions, tortures, and writings, the church has taught western culture of the "inherent" evil of werewolves. The werewolf was commonly believed to be the descendant of Cain or a monstrocity created by selling one's soul to the devil. Even today, the church in it's many forms views werewolves as the incarnate of evil, but there is one whom they've forgot. The greatest werewolf sercret of them all.

One must understand that in the medieval mappaemundi that lurking at the edges of the world were the monstorous races. At the times, authors like Pliny with his book "Natural History" who inculded illustrations and descriptions of these races culled from descriptions and classical writings ("Natural History" was said to have been created with about 20,000 facts extracted from 2000 classical volumes).

These races were eclectic in appearence, and some are even familiar today, while others seem outrageous. The Giants, the Pygmies, the Panotii (had giant ears), the Astomi (no mouths), the Anthropophagi (cannibals), the Amazons, etc etc etc. But, most improtantly, the Cynocephali. The Cynocephali, or Dog-heads, were one of the best known monstrous races.

They had the body of a man and the head of a dog. According to Pliny, they lived in the mountains of India and barked to communicate. They lived in caves and wore animal skins. They hunted very succesfully and used javelins, bows and swords. Other sources that circulated in the middle ages, such as the account of Alexander the Greats adventures in India picture the Cynocephali much more frightening, -- with enormous teeth and breathing fire. Severa sources make them cannibals. All sources emphasize that they combine the natures of man and beast.

The Cynocephali retained an interesting position in christian writings and teachings. Jesus words in John (10:16) implied that there were many non christian flock around the world that need to be shepherded. This idea was reinforced by the story of the Pentecost. As it was told in the Acts of the Apostles, tongues like flames and fire descended upon the apostles and they were given the gift to talk in strange languages. "Men of every nation under heaven" who lived in Jerusalem were amazed to hear the apostles speak their native languages.

Depections of the nations present at the Pentecost was a popular theme in early christian art. The idea of "every nation under heaven" was taken seriously. Consequently, the Cynocephali appear frequently, such as in the "Theodore" Psalter that is in the British Library.

It depicts Christ preaching to dog-headed men. (Click here for more details)

A far from uncommon illustration.

From the depiction to dog-heads being preached to at the pentecost, follows the logical stories of dog-heads being converted to christianity. The stories of the missionary activities of the apostles are recorded in the New Testament. But these were to few to satisfy the faithful, so a number of non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, came into circulation. One such, the "Contendings of the Apostles" has an extremely interesting section.

The book describes the Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew among the Parthinians. The two apostles meet a giant cannibal named Abominable. As the name would suggest, he was a terrifying sight:

- four cubits in height, and his face was like unto the face of a great dog, and his eyes were like unto lamps of fire which burnt brightly, and his teeth were like unto the tusks of a wild boar, or the teeth of a lion, and the nails of his hands were like unto curved reaping hooks, and the nails of his toes were like unto the claws of a lion, and the hair of his head came down over his arms like unto the mane of a lion, and his whole appearance was awful and terrifying.

See Numbers 13:28-33

"...the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there....and the Canaanites (i.e. Canine, dog-headed cynocephali) live near the sea along the Jordan...We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are...The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them..."
***The Hebrew word Nephilim (See Genesis 6:1-4) comes from napal, "to fall". Translated literally the word means "the people who fell" or "the fallen ones".

Luckily for the apostles, that when they chance upon Abmoinable after he has been visited with a vision, where he was promised a human form if he accepts the apostles' teachings. He does so, and become their guide through the heathen land.

Other conversions of dogheads include a saint or two. Saint Mercurius (not well known in western tradition, mostly in greek and egyptian accounts) used converted Cynocephali as soldiers. They are very savage warriors.

Where, like Abominable, the teachings rendered the Dog-heads gentle, their savegry (and cannibalism) can be revived for christianity at a saint's command. The greatest werewolf secret of all is not that the christian church, knew of, converted, and even used werewolves. The secret is much deeper in the church than mere converts and warriors. The secret is in the single name of Christopher.

Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travelers and seafarers. He is fairly well known in western tradition. My own father (a sailor) wears a pendant of him. He is a saint that receives thousands of prayers a day from the faithful, and has always been a powerful figure.

But the greatest secret of all is that Saint Cristopher is a Cynocephali, a dog-head, a werewolf.

["That was St. Christopher himself, carrying a tiny Christ Child on his shoulder. Of all the pieces that had stood in the church, only the image of that saint might have had artistic merit. The artist had plainly been trying to portray something not entirely human, however, so it was hard to tell whether he had succeeded. The saint's face was covered with hair, and the hands had claws, like a bear. Only the ragged clothing, and the fact he leaned on a staff, showed that he was not simply a fantastic animal....."

"...A new statue? Father, for as long as I can remember, every priest who served here made that statue the touchstone of the spiritual life. When we were little, we were told that Top Dog would get us if we were bad. When we were older, were told that if even a dog-headed man can turn to Christ, then we can do no less. Not 'we should do no less.' It was always an order."

Father Bob was taken aback. “Dog-headed man? Did the priests actually use that expression?”

“Well, not in church, but it's common knowledge. You know the story, I'm sure.”
Then something clicked in Father Bob's memory. There was more than one version of the origin of Saint Christopher. There may actually have been a martyred Roman soldier of the third century behind the legends, but in the Latin Church, Saint Christopher was often depicted as a monstrous, half-human creature, from beyond the pale of civilization. Sometimes he was said to have been a giant. He was also said to have been one of the “dog-headed men.” Father Bob could just barely remember the Greek word: cynocephali. Saint Christopher was supposed to have been one of the cynocephali. That's why the horrible statue had such a hairy head.

The thought that such a monstrosity had been central to the lives of the people of Neubedburg for a century and a half stunned him to silence for a moment. Then he began to try to make a tactful apology.


...Well, in the old days, I suppose, it made sense for people to think like that, but today..." Source: Click here for whole story]

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The fact that Saint Christopher is a Cynocephali was silently removed from most of western literature. Some of the best literature of the Saints life is located in Ireland and Celtic culture of Britian. It is probable that it has survived there due to the facts that the Irish Monks knew Greek and that the Irish Celtic culture was not romanized nearly as much as most of the rest of Europe.

The popular story of Christopher is very much like Abominable's. Christopher is born a pagan Dog-head called Reprobus. He regrets his beastial nature and is overjoyed when his conversion to Christianity allows him to lose his Cynocephalic nature.

An eighth-century list of Saints explained that Christopher "was one of the Dog-heads, a race that had the heads of dogs and ate human flesh. He meditated much on God, but at that time could only speak the language of the Dog-heads."

As time passed, the writings mentioned less and less of Christopher's Cynocephalic nature. Walter of Speyer wrote, in the tenth century, stated that Christopher "took his origins from the Cynocephali, a people in speech and countanence dissimilar to others."

Sait Christopher was more popularly pictured as a giant carrying the christ child. This still satisfied that Christopher was a convert from a monstrous race. But it was probably more due to the fact that Christopher literally means Christ carrier.

Sait Christopher was eventually ousted from the ranks of the saintly. And the belief of the Cynocephali remained in circulation for several hundred more years. It eventually mutated, through retellings and trials, to the great werewolf scares in the 1600s.

So there you have it. One of the best kept secrets of the werewolf world. Not only were werewolves employed and welcomed to the christian world, there is actually a werewolf saint. A great secret indeed.

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Cryptic Keys of the Sacred Bloodlines

The following quotes taken from the scripture, when placed together paint a peculiar picture. What are your thoughts and impressions?


"For the Elohim know that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like the Elohim, knowing good and evil." ~ Genesis 3:5 (See Genesis 3:22 for the Elohim's reaction)
[See the Elohim according to the Catholic Encyclopedia]

"Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head and you will strike his heal." ~ Genesis 3:14-15

"Cursed is the ground because of you, through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." ~ Genesis 3:17-19

"When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." ~ Genesis 4:12


"You are a lion's cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness--who dares rouse him?" ~ Genesis 39:9

"Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him..." ~1 Peter 5:8-9

"As they approached the vineyard of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring towards him. The Spirit of the Lord came upon him in power so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father or mother what he had done. Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her. Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion's carcass. In it was a swarm of bees and some honey, which he scooped out with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and the too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken it from the lion's carcass." ~Judges 14:5-9

You will find an article here written from a Christian perspective. He is attempting to reconcile from the scripture the cryptic meaning behind all of this talk of drinking and eating wine and honey, etc. My position is that it is refering to the universal and ancient customs of blood-drinking, wherein, powerful allies to royal bloodline families were initiated into the rites of passage, literally drinking their blood and intermarrying with their offspring. The author here seems to believe that all of this elaborate symbolism refers to grape juice as a way of expressing some spiritual truth about the kingdom of heaven. Decide for yourself, here. Although I disagree, his references are valuable for further study and are legitimate.


"Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human." ~Thomas chapter 7

Once again, the idea was to strategically intermarry with the royal bloodlines and usurp their authority, not the other way around, and still remain subject to their dominion and tyranny.

"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures [eagles] will gather..." ~Matthew 24:26-28

"The 72 returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." He replied, " I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy..." ~ Luke 10:17-20

It is my opinion that this is a reference to the descendants of the great Egyptian pharonic bloodlines of"scorpion" kings. Also here. The "serpent reference is no doubt a reference to descendants from the blood-line of the tribe of Dan who had influence in Ethiopia, where their kings were known as "serpent" kings. Both bloodlines would have contended and petitioned to the Romans for the role of stewardship of the Jews during the Roman occupation.


"Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals; Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls--all of them fattened animals from Bashan. At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind', declares the Sovereign Lord. ~ Ezekiel 39:17-20

"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him...the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever....On hearing it, many of his disciples said, 'This is a hard saying. Who can accept it?'" ~ John 6:53-60

"Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries." ~ Revelation 17:1-2


"I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful." ~ John 15:1-2