The information in this essay comes from “The Woman’s Encycopedia of Myths and Secrets,” by Barbara Walker. Sacred alphabets of the ancient world signified birth and beginning by the letter A, the Beginning, or Aya, the Mother of all Things. The letter A, Alpha, is considered the Mother of all Wisdom, and Buddhas are said to have been produced by A. The Greeks had their own views about the letter Alpha, which signified the river of birth or creation. Styx was its opposite, the river of death. For the Greeks there was a cyclical system of birth and death. The Great Goddess had three faces: virgin, mother, crone and creatrix, preserver, destroyer.
King David in the Hebrew scriptures had lost his sex drive, and he was put to the test by forcing him to have sex with a young maiden named Abishag. He failed the test and his death mysteriously ensued (1 Kings 1). This little story shows that kings from “China to the Mediterranean derived their legitimacy from mating with the Goddess through her priestess-surrogate-She who decrees the fate of men and gods.” For thousands of years the Mother Goddess ruled over vast areas of the world
Abraham’s name means Father Brahm, a Semitic version of India’s patriarchal god, Brahma. He was also the Islamic Abrama, founder of Mecca. But Islamic legends say Abraham was a late intruder into the shrine of the Kaaba. He bought it from the priestesses of the original Goddess. Sarah, the Queen, was one of the Goddess’s titles, which became the name of Abraham’s biblical wife. Adah and Zillah, Brilliance and Shadow, were the biblical wives of Lamech, a transformation of the two-faced Goddess of birth and death, light and dark, Alpha and Omega, new moon and old moon, goddess pairs like Kore and Persiphone.
Adam means “man made of blood.” In pre-biblical myths Adam was formed by the Goddess of Earth from her own clay (adamah) and given life by her blood. The idea of Adam’s rib was taken from a Sumerian Goddess who formed infant bones from their mothers’ ribs. Her name carried the meaning of Lady of the Rib. According to Zecharia Sitchin, whose books I have read, The first man was created by crossing the genetic material of the Anunnaki (themselves) with the genetic material of a hominid such as homo erectus. The Anunnaki had come to Earth from their planet Nibiru, which was losing its atmosphere, which is why they were looking for gold and why they needed slaves to work in the gold mines. The Anunnaki invented adamu to be a slave species because the astronauts working in the mines rebelled and wouldn’t work. It wasn’t until thousands of years later that they upgraded the slaves and gave them the status of Homo Sapien Sapiens. That’s when the civilization in Mesopotamia bloomed. Scholars can’t figure out where it came from because there was no precursor, and they haven’t read the books of Z Sitchin. Scientists are dreadfully afraid of going out on a limb and separating themselves from the pack (fearing loss of grants and reputation); otherwise we would know a lot more about our past than we do. Enki and his half-sister Ninharsag created man, but they made a lot of mistakes before they got it right. That’s why there are mythological creatures that are half human and half something else.
Christians learned alchemy from the Arabs and thought it was invented by Thoth or the virgin Mary. Mary was thought to be the first great alchemist. She discovered distillation of alcohol and invented the double boiler. Alchemy was permeated by sexual symbols to disguise what was really going on, which nobody really knows. Alchemists sought the divine feminine power Sapiencia, or Sophia (Wisdom), the Gnostics’ Great Mother. Since alchemy had to be disguised to avoid persecution, the advance of the science of chemistry was very slow.
The God Allah is a late Islamic masculinization of the Arabian Goddess Al-lat. Allah was a male transformation of the primitive lunar deity of Arabia. Her symbol, the crescent moon, still appears on Islamic flags, but it’s not acknowledged as such.
The Altar is a feminine constellation (not visible in the northern hemisphere) because the earliest altars were modeled on the maternal hearth. So altars symbolized the Great Mother. The Earth’s regenerative womb was often represented as an altar, and Christians adopted this symbolism from the Virgin Mary. The Cumaean Sybil showed Augustus a vision of Mary, saying, “This woman is the Altar of Heaven.” A church was built on the spot and named Santa Maria in Ara Coeli. (Augustus must have been a Christianized emperor)
Amazons is the Greek name for Goddess worshipping tribes in North Africa, Anatolia (Turkey) and the Black Sea. It’s not true that they excised their right breast to draw a bow. The idea probably comes from the God/ Goddess coalescence of Artemis with her brother-consort Apollo. Amazon means “moon woman” and the ancients said Amazons were the first to tame horses and that “this may account for their armies’ legendary invincibility.” In Amazonian myths the Goddess was worshipped as a mare, like the mare-headed Demeter. Among Scythians priests were castrated and wore wemens’ dress. The moon-sickle used in mythical castrations of gods was a Scythian weapon. A long-handled form therefore came to be called a scythe, and was assigned to the Grim Reaper, who was originally Rhea Kronia in the guise of Mother Death, the Earth who devoured her own children. She is the Destroyer of the Trinity Creator, Preserver, Destroyer, and the Crone of the Trinity Virgin, Mother, Crone. The “Book of the Taking of Ireland” says that the first expedition of colonists to Ireland was led by a woman. Ireland had female soldiers up to the 7th Century AD, after which Christian reforms forbade women to bear arms.
Walker compares Jesus and his apostles to a very gruesome myth. Jesus is “a devoured Savior, watched by his ten or twelve guards, embodying the god Quetzalcoatl, who was born of a virgin, slain in atonement for a primal sin, and whose second coming was confidently expected.” In this myth the god is eviscerated by his apostles but Walker doesn’t give any other details, although it’s obvious that she’s comparing Jesus and his apostles to this ghastly myth. Quetzalcoatl was Thoth, one of the Anunnaki gods, who came to South America to play a god role to a tribe there. Most scholars think he was just another myth. Thoth was Enki’s son, he built the Great Pyramid at Giza and other structures. He was also known as Hermes by the Greeks. As gods go, he was profoundly superior. JP in Michael Salla’s books visited the Ant People and they were guarding Thoth while he slept. He was waking up, and it would be interesting to know what his plans are. Enki, his father, is hiding from Enlil, his half-brother. It’s very interesting that Quetzalcoatl is represented by three crosses, the one in the middle being higher than the two on each side. Walker likes to point out that Jesus was very reluctant to embrace his fate, like the god in the myth, one account having him sweating blood. And she takes words from the Gospel of John and pretends they say something they don’t: “I am the bread of life; the bread I will give is my flesh…who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life.” These words are meant to be a prophecy of the Eucharist. The young church caught on to this as soon as they started eating and sharing meals together. After a priest performs the rites over the bread and wine, it becomes the body and blood of Christ. I had an experience when I had the dry wafer in my mouth and suddenly it tasted like the most delicious buttered roll I had ever tasted. I know why I had that experience. It was because of the thoughts that were going through my mind at the time.
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