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In Chaldea, the Sed or Alaph, a bull with a man's face, was sacred to Nebo. Nebo is a prophet who makes known or proclaims the desire of Merodach the merciful. Merodach is identified with Marduk of Assyria. Merodach is a raiser of the dead. Akkadian races conceived the heavens and earth as primordial powers or Zi which maintained an external struggle with Chaos.
Moses died or disappeared on the mount sacred to Nebo.
The Hurrian-Hittite first king of heaven was Alalu (cf Greek section on ololu cry of Athenians worshiping Athena). He was deposed by the sky god Anu and Anu was deposed by Kumarbi (Kronos). Kumarbi bites off his penis (circumcision). This could easily refer to cultural take over, not literal circumcision. This is how they'd write of such a thing.
In this story of the Eridu, a Babylonian myth in the beginning all land was sea; then Marduk built a raft on the surface of the water and on the raft a reed hut which became the earth.
HINDU
The Hindu equivalents of Isis and Osiris are Isi and Iswara or Ishwara. Isha is Sanskrit and means arrow, but also means ray of light. The Ishustrikanda is a constellation the "three fold arrow." Also note, Ishwa is Jesus's name, Yishua. Ishwara, earlier on came to mean the "male alone without the female" or a "castrated male" referring to solar phallic sun cult people or pretarupa whose coming heralds the Kali Yuga. The girdle of Orion has three linearly placed stars, also called Orion's belt.
In Sanskrit, Arkam means "as far as the sun, even to the sun inclusively." The name Arjuna to Krishna's companion in the Baghavadgita is a related word. Note Arkam contains arc. The cycle of Vrihaspati is 60 years. Vishnu has a Matsya (fish) avatar, a man fish recorded in the Zodiac as Pisces. Arksha means stellar. (Cf CM section, Arkham is a key city in the CM.)
In India, the sages or Rishis of the Prachetasas race are shown coming forth from the deep. In the Vishnu Purana they passed 10,000 years of austerity in the vast ocean. Water is the symbol of wisdom and occult learning. Water is the production of Nara the spirit of God. Narayana means "he who abides in the deep" or plunged in the waters of wisdom, water being the body of Nara. Vayu is the mover on the waters. Idaspati is the master of the waters.
The Prachetasas worship Narayana who, like Poseidon, moved or dwelt over not under the waters. There are ten exoteric Prachetasas and five esoteric ones. Prachetas in Sanskrit is the name of Varuna who is like Nereus, a water god (this is in much later myth). The mother of the Prachetasas was Savarna, the daughter of the ocean.
In the Hari-Purana and the Baghavadgita, as well as several other books, the god Vishnu is shown as having assumed the form or avatar of a fish with a human head in order to reclaim the Vedas lost during the deluge. He enabled the Indian Noah, Visvamitra, to escape with all his tribe in the ark. He then remained with pitiable humanity to teach them building, cultivation and give thanks to the unknown deity he represented by teaching them to build temples and to worship. He remained half fish, half man all the time and at sunset returned to the ocean to pass the night. One day he returned no more, when the earth was covered with fruit, vegetation and cattle. The Haripurana says "he had taught the Brahmin the secret of all things.."
Jacolliot says the Sanskrit word Oan or Oannes has the O in Sanskrit as an interjection expressing an invocation as in "O God." The "an" signifies in Sanskrit a spirit of being even a semi-god. In other words, Vishnu disguised as a fish gave the sacred books to the Hindus or more specifically to the Brahmins, the Vedas and Manu reckon more than 25 thousand years of existence implying great antiquity.
The second person of the Brahmanic trinity is the future savior or redeemer of humanity. This is Vishnu who had a fish avatar. Vishnu in his fish form shown in the temple of Rama holding the lost Veda which he restores and leads on the blessed with. He is also shown in the same temple reclining on the seven headed serpent of eternity, Ananta, and moving like the Hebrew Elohim on the face of the primeval waters.
In the Puranas, Marisha, the daughter of Kandu the sage, becomes the wife of the Prachetasas and the mother of Daksha who is the father of the first human like progenitors. (This is a later retelling of the events. See Serpents versus Adamites sold by us - shortly summarized - the Chandravansa lived in the land from earliest time. The Suryavansa came. The two got along and intermarried in some areas - other Chandravansa left for the north. The Prachetasas were sea faring folk. A war broke out, a huge war that burned everything up, between the Prachetasas and the Suryavansa. It was agreed to swap daughters of the Suryavansa with men of the Prachetasas and this was done. The offspring were considered pretas due to their character and behavior and referred to as Ishwara, which at that time, meant "male alone with no female." Their birth heralds the Kali Yuga. Much later when the Aryans invaded, they turned everything into gods and goddesses and dumbed down everything that went before. They are regarded as part of the Kali Yuga - also known as the Aryan Age!).
HEBREW OR JEWISH
The original center of Jewish worship was not Jerusalem, but Gerizion, exactly 4 degrees east of the prime meridian or axis of Egypt. It was moved to Jerusalem after 980 BC. Hebron was the eastern oracle octave equivalent to western Behdet, being on the same exact line of latitude. David moved his capital from Hebron and to this day the people of Hebron have not forgiven him for it. Jerusalem means Holy Salem, which they call New Salem, as though Hebron was the older, authentic one. An heretical sect of Jews called the Melchizedekians frequented Hebron to worship or consult the spirit of Adam. They may also have adhered to an older, purer, undistorted form of worship.
Saul was the first King of Israel, his father was Kish. They were Benjamites. The second King was David, a Judean. Saul persecuted David and drove him out, but David had victory in the end. When the Philistines defeated Saul, they deposited his captured armor in the temple of Ashtaroth as a token of gratitude. The Benjamites attempted to seize the oracle center or shrine of Hebron from the Calebites. This was a guardian tribe whose name means "dog men," implying dogs as guardians as the dog-guarding preserve and protect the secrets of the Dog Star Sirius. A confederacy of mercantile tribes called by the Egyptians "People of the Sea" invaded Syria and Canaan among them Philistines who captured the shrine of Hebron from this clan of Calebites, who were Edomites. But the Calebites, allies of the tribe of Judah, recovered the shrine around the same time. Temple suggests the identification of Edom with Adam, both mean "red or redman." Esau, ancestor of the Edomites, was buried at Hebron, as the Talmud reports Joseph buried Esau's head at Hebron also.
Adam was the original oracular hero of Machpelah, his burial cave, but Caleb conveyed the holy spirit to Hebron ousting the Anakim from the shrine of Machpelah. Caleb supposedly went there to consult Abraham's shade or ghost but Temple suggests perhaps it was Adam's ghost he went to consult. Elias Levita, a 15th C Hebrew commentator, records how the teraphim Rachel stole from her father Laban were mummified oracular heads, among them that of Adam. If this is so, the Genesis narrative refers to the seizure of the oracular shrine of Hebron by Saul's Benjamites from the Calebites.
Blavatsky regards David as a perverter, sensualizer and debaser of religion. Note that St. Paul was a Benjamite, some of the Benjamites survived efforts by the other tribes including the Judeans to exterminate them. Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin. St. Paul wrote that Melchizedek was superior to Abraham (Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 7, vs 1-10). Jacob supposedly felt Benjamin was dearest to him.
The Jews had an eight letter version of the sacred name: JEHUOVAO. "H" is an aspirate, not a letter. Also, some think that when you read that the "Holy Spirit" or "Holy of Holies" was transported or conveyed to a place, it refers to the Ark of the Convenant.
The tribe of Isaac had devotees of the goddess Sarah, and had allies among the devotees of the goddess Heth who owned a shrine or oracular cave said to be the grave of Abraham, in which his ghost or shade could be consulted. Sarah was forced out of Beer-Lahai-Roi by another tribe who came for asylum at nearby Hebron. Robert Graves says Abraham was a tribe, not an individual. (Likewise, Abrahm means Not Brahm). The oral tradition agrees, Abrahm, later called Abraham is a group of people, a tribe.
The original hero of Hebron could have been the Danaan Adamos or Adamastos, the unconquerable or the inexorable, a Homeric epithet of Hades, borrowed from the death goddess his mother.
Hebron is the center of the earth near the junction of 2 seas and 3 ancient continents, akin to Delphi, the navel of the world. There is a tradition that Adam was created at Hebron and it is the site of the Garden of Eden.
Temple believes, contra Velikovsky, that Moses commanded the Hebrews to observe the fifty year jubilee because this is the orbital period of Sirius B: Moses was raised in an Egyptian Pharaoh's court and would therefore have known various secrets. Thut Moshe was Akhnaton's priest and there is little doubt now that this was Moshe (Moses).
In the Zohar, two Rabbis meet a man carrying a heavy load. They ask him "Who caused thee thus to walk and carry such a heavy load?" He answered by stating the letter "nun" in Hebrew that is the essential germ of the Holy name of YHVH. They said to him: "If thou wilt tell us the name of thy father, we will kiss the dust of thy feet." He replied: "As to my father, he had his dwelling in the Great Sea and was a fish therein and he was mighty and Ancient of Days." One of the Rabbis answers him, "Thou art the Son of the Holy Flame, thou art the Son of Rab Ham-nun-ah Sabah." The latter means the old and "nun" in Aramaic or Chaldee is "fish." The rabbis were R. E. 'aZar, son of R. Shim-om b-Io'hai and Rabbi Abbah. Note that the man with the burden also says of his father, that he destroys the Great Sea from one end to the other and he was great and mighty and Ancient of Days until he swallowed all the other fishes in the Great Sea and after that, he produced forms, the living and existing beings from all the best in the world and in his might he swims through the Great Sea and one moment he brought me forth and then returned to his place and hid himself in the sea.
Joshua is called Son of the Fish (nun)," as is Jesus (Dag). Note that O Nommo, the redeemer in Dogon section is the son or offspring of Amma, the Father.
Jonah fled to Jaffa where Dagon, the man-fish was worshiped and dared not go to the Ninevah where the dove was revered. The Kaballists say the story of Jonah being swallowed by a fish is really an allegory or code for the fact that when he was thrown overboard at sea, he was picked up by a vessel having a keto or big fish on its prow. Keto is Dagon or Poseidon. The Kaballists say he was a runaway priest from the temple where the dove was worshiped and desired to abolish idolatry and institute monotheistic worship. Note that the legitimate Jewish Kaballists are adepts in reading this mytho-jargon. Then, caught near Jaffa, he was held prisoner by devotees of Dagon and his cell or prison was fish-shaped. A Portuguese Kaballist, Mose de Garcia, had a collection showing the interior of a temple to Dagon. There was an immense idol there, the upper portion man and lower portion fish. Between the belly and tail was a closet like compartment in which transgressors against the local deity were disposed of. The inscription in this drawing shows Phoenician characters. Note that Jonah is the Greek Iona, containing Io. Also Iona means dove sacred to Venus or Astarte. Thus Jonah appears to have been a monotheistic Astarte devotee and enemy of the worshipers of Dagon. We see here an animosity between fish worship (Dagon) and bird worship, Astarte. Fish or sea versus birds of the air (cf Derleth in CM section: Hastur versus Cthulhu). See also note on Dogon section on Sod Ihoh.
In the 14th century BC, Ugaritic mythology of Canaan, tablets written in a language quite close to Biblical Hebrew show Asherah as the wife of El, the chief god. Her full name is "Lady Asherah of the Sea." She was progenitress of the gods: all other 70 gods were her children, including Baal. Qadesh wa-Amrur called fisherman of Lady Asherah of the Sea was one of her servants, fishing at her bidding. (Cf Sumerian section on Ashratum). In the 14th century BC, letter written by Canaanite petty chieftains to their overlords of Egypt use the names Asherah and Astarte interchangeably.
The goddess Astarte is mentioned 9 times in the Bible, Asherah 40 times.
The Canaanite's Astarte is shown with two long spiral ringlets identical to those of the Egyptian god Hathor (see Egyptian section).
The Canaanite myth of Anath is that she is the daughter of El, god of heaven and of his wife Asherah of the Sea. She has many features in common with the Akkadian Ishtar. In a 13th century BC Egyptian text, she and Astarte are called the goddesses who conceive but do not bear. Philo Bylus, early 2nd century AD identifies Anath with Athena the virgin Greek goddess. Her foremost lover and brother was Baal. This union produced a wild bull. In Egypt, Anath came to be regarded as the wife of the god Seth and an Egyptian magical text of the 13th century BC describes how Seth deflowers Anath on the seashore in surprisingly sadistic terms.
Hugo Grossman, in a study of the Ark of the Covenant, expressed the view that originally there were two images in it, that of Yahweh and that of his wife Anathyahu, or Astarte.
When Moses died, the Shekina, a female reflex or aspect of God, took him on her wings and carried him from Mt. Nebo off to an unknown burial place four miles away. The Levites, originally a priestly class (called Sodales at one time) among the early Jews, were connected to Nebo. Nebo oversaw the 7 gods as their messenger. The Kaballa connects Nebo with the city and the 5th race of occult theosophy by the followers of Moses feared the knowledge of the Sod. This knowledge existed before the Zohar and the Kaballa and passed into it.
Old Testament Amos 5:8 enjoins one to seek him who maketh the seven stars and Orion who calleth for the waters of the sea and powereth them out upon the face of the earth. The Lord is his name. The seven stars are the well known Pleiades cluster in Taurus, one of which is Caeleno (See CM section). Sir John Herschel, famous astronomer, Royal Society of England, ascertained in 1840 that only in the 22nd century BC did the north or Pole Star shine from a position where it would have been visible from deep inside the bore in the north face of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt: This deep tunnel is known as the descending passage since it leads underground from the north face. Sir John also found that at the very same time, the Pleiades were in direct alignment with the scored lines of the pyramid's descending passage. These are lines cut into the walls of the passage at regular intervals. The Pleiades appears in the constellation Taurus. The exact date for the positions of these stars was the vernal equinox of 2141 BC. They are ancient traditions, that the pyramid builders were from a land east of Egypt and were related to Almodad, a Hebrew rendition of Jonathan, both of whose names mean "God is a friend." He was the reputed inventor of geometry, earth measurements, astronomy, etc. Almodad came from Arabis, somewhere east of Egypt. Job was Almodad's youngest brother. Job 38 has the almighty speaking to Job as if he laid the measures of the pyramid.
In the 1st century AD, Jewish historian Josephus says the descendents of Seth were the inventors of the peculiar sort of wisdom needed to build the pyramid and incorporated into it, and that they did in fact, he says, leave two pillars on the earth with their discoveries inscribed in them. He says that one was made of stone, remains in the land of Siriad to this day. Siriad indicates Siriadic or the Sirius worshipers land of Egypt where Sirius was venerated as the star of Isis. This is Josephus trying to claim that the Jews (descendents of Seth) built the pyramids. In fact, in order for Solomon to have his grand temple built, the one with the two pillars (Yakob and Boaz as some call them) they had to hire out help. Hiram Abiff built it for them with the guilds.
There are many passages in the Bible alluding to some sort of monument or pyramid of a unique and significant type that clearly points to the Great Pyramid of Giza, such as Jer. 32:18-29, Job 38, as well as Amos 5:8. This seems to indicate a common substratum of lore from Chaldea and Egypt conveyed to us through Jewish texts, especially Hebrew - a lore that is embodied in the Pyramid by an uncanny and ingenious system of proportions and structures, marks, angles and dimensions known universally in the ancient world, today known as pyramidology in the sense of the study of the proportions and structures of the Great Pyramid. Many of the marks have a prophetic value that can be harmonized with the well known 70 weeks of Daniel, interpretation of the Old Testament prophecies and their fulfillment or culmination in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Like the Dogons, the Jewish Kaballists have four species of interpretation:
1. Remez, indication, hint, known meaning, where in the deeply veiled meaning is indicated by gentle hints, spiritual and moral hints and discussions. .
2. D'rash, allegorical exposition, wherein the still thickly veiled meaning hardly penetrable is indicated by a few words.
3. Haggadah, enigmatical language wherein the meaning is covered by a thinner veil involving full length conversation.
4. Sod Mysteries or secret learning, Wisdom wherein the meaning is revealed face to face, all innermost secrets shown.
There is also a purely exoteric layer of interpretation for the layman or non initiate called Pashut, the ordinary and usual meaning or literal meaning or intelligence of the words. When one has reached the Sod and has wisdom, one can see how even the plain meaning or Pashut level of scriptures such as the Torah, contains the deepest meanings of the Sod with "not a single Yod to be taken or added." (Zohar).
All the esoteric traditions had this level of encoding, therefore it is amusing for one who knows these all to see modern people making "planets" or "aliens" out of all of this, doing so by ignoring everything else pertinent to events involving people! In these modern times, you can TELL someone the esoteric meaning breaking a traditional code of silence - and they don't listen! Heh. Prophecy is true: they CAN NOT hear it! It's like trying to teach a tone deaf person how to sing in harmony. Not possible. And that is the essence of ALL esoteric schools. (I [Tani] wrote this all down in the Kaballa and Tantra articles I now sell. Still, some people really get it and it seems to raise their level of clarity, they say reading it is as if they read something they already knew but were unable to put to words; some can't get it, their minds are too filled with clutter and extraneous things; others get it and flip out - the actual written words seem to hurt them - just as esoteric tradition states - though esoteric traditionalists would NEVER speak it to such a person!)
The legit Kaballists (Isaac Myer) call the 2nd Sephira Binah the Great Sea who brooded over the face of the waters at the creation. The Great Fish in the Zohar story of the man with the burden is said to be Leviathan in the Kaballa. The fish is the astrological symbol of Judea. That is, the Great Fish, Leviathan, is the symbol.
The Book of Enoch tells the story of a certain B'nai ha Elohim or "Sons of Elohim" who forsook their proper habitation and taught men the arts of war, lapidary (jewelry) , astronomy, metallurgy and mated with men. Among them were the leaders Uzza and Azael. Their teachings and matings with man led men to err, war with one another, kill beasts wantonly and even practice cannibalism. They were punished by the Eli Raphael (Eli is singular of Elohim) who bound them in chains in the mountains of darkness where spirits of Light and Darkness must dive into the great sea to see them. There they await final judgement. This is the same as the Prachetasas story where, defeated in war, they return to the bottom of the ocean.
Josephus says the name YHVH was written in vowels.
EARLY CHRISTIAN
Lady Ellenborough had a talisman in her possession, presented to her by a Druse from Mount Lebanon. It belonged to a certain class of gems known in Palestine as a Messianic amulet of the 2nd or 3rd century BC. It is a green stone of pentagonal form. At the bottom is engraved a fish; higher is Solomon's Seal (6 pointed star); still higher is engraved the four Hebrew letters Jod He Vau He or IAHO which form the name of the Deity. these letters are arranged in an unusual way running from below upward, in reversed order and forming an Egyptian Tau. The Tau is considered a representation of the Tree of Life by many occultists. This is a grand synthesis of the DT and the FT.
The earliest Christian emblems of Jesus were the Lamb, Good Shepherd, and the Fish, as well as the dove. He is very often called Dag which means fish. Jesus was considered a revealer of mysteries like the Oannes, a revealer of knowledge extraneously, not known or discovered inwardly. The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces was considered the sign of Jesus's coming. Clement of Alexandria, when debating on an emblem for Jesus said, "Let the engraving upon the gem of your ring be either a dove or a ship running before the wind." During the middle ages, a very common figure of a Christian symbol was there fishes interlaced into a triangle and having the 5 letters in Greek spelling Icthys engraved o it. This is another synthesis of 3 fish instead of the 3 fates in a triangle instead of a triangle being chaos, dark mother and the born light/logos and the five, by it's using letters of a word, Icthys (5 letters spell this in Greek). The number five was sacred to the Pythagoreans and related to Kaballistic computations.
St. Paul referred to Satanas as the prince of the power of the air about us (Ephesians 2:2). (In the CM the air deity Hastur fights with Cthulhu). Note that the Greek word in the New Testament repeatedly used and translated "saved" or "salvation" is Sothis and Sothesetai, as in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, (Cf Dogon view of Nommo who shall return as a savior and redeemer of mankind.). Keep in mind that the Ogo story is about flesh (and the matter of the planet itself) being impure, not spirit. St. Paul (Rom 7:17-23) states that it is his flesh (sarchi means meat) that does evil against his wishes, a law of his members, making him prisoner to the law of sin. Christ stated that unless someone be "born or generated physically out of water - and also spirit" he may not enter the kingdom of God (John: 3:5). The emphasis is on the water.
Some of the earliest Christians worshiped seven archangels and their abodes wrongly identified with seven stars and even later deliberately coded as the names of 7 planets. They were a sect almost identical to the Nazarenes and Sabeans who had more reverence for John the Baptist than for Jesus. Maimonides identifies them with the astrologers citing proof from the book The agriculture of the Nabatheans. They were called Nabathean Christians from Nebo, god of secret wisdom. Jesus's mother's name, the Latin word Mare, means the sea. According to a hymn of the 10th century AD sung at the Annunciation she is "star of the sea, gracious mother of god and always Virgo, Happy Gate of Heaven." Early Christian syncretists in Egypt identified John the Baptist, who preceded Jesus, with the Chaldean Oannes.
GNOSTIC
Gnostic means "those who know" believing salvation comes through knowledge, not merely faith. The Peratae Gnostics had five ministers of Chozzar who was like Poseidon. These were Aot, Aoai, Oto, Otoab and the fifth was a triple name making seven (5 in 7) and is lost, no longer known. Iao or Abraxas of the Gnostic sects also was the same as the Egyptian Horus. There is a collection of Christian and Gnostic gems. One of his them showed Horus seated on the lotus inscribed "Abraxis Iao."
The Jewish Gnostics, (Ophites) honored Wisdom or a female Binah creative reflex of Chaos who sent seven prophets from Moses to Ezra corresponding to the 7 planets to help mankind after the flood.
The rest of Gnosticism is all LT and dualism, nothing related to the Sirius Mystery.
PERUVIAN
The Peruvian god Viracocha, the Supreme Being of the ancient Incas, literally means "foam of the sea." Note that in Derleth's Trail of Cthulhu, Andrew Phelan discovers a detailed map of Peru where the Salapunko fortress is located. Another paper in the CM book mentions an old Inca representation, possibly of Illa Tici Viracocha.
CHINESE
The Chinese call the star system containing Sirius "Hoo She," the bow and arrow. The Egyptians associated bow and arrow motifs with the Sirius system. The constellation Orion holds a bow and arrow (the hunter) (see Greek section).
POLYNESIAN
A primeval octopus god of Polynesian natives called Tangaroa or Tangaloa or Kanaloa or Taroa was an oceanic deity who quarreled with his brother, the storm deity Tawhirima-tea, which led Tangaroa to take refuge in the sea (see CM section). In Hawaii, Kanaloa makes an abortive effort to create man, revolts against the other gods, and was cast into the lower regions.
The waters follow Tangaroa's ordinance. He is called the god and father of fish and reptiles. He is considered the biological ancestor of the highest chiefly families. He is sometimes considered a sun god also (see Egyptian section and note importance and rise of the solar cults which took the place of earlier cults).
Tangaroa had an incarnation as a bird. In some accounts, he flew to and from the earth on a bird. Tangaroa has numerous forms (like the Dogon Nommo). Tangaroa-eiki (celestial chief), Tangaroa-tufu (celestial artisan), Tangaloa-atu-logo-logo (celestial messenger).
In one myth, Tangaroa rescued two humans, Seve and Pouniu, from a universal flood by raising up Samoa (cf Hindu, Jewish, Babylonian and Sumerian sections on universal flood, e.g., Enki warns Utnupishtim to build an ark in Sumeria).
The Maori chief primal creative deity is called Io. The first created woman was Io-wahine.
PERSIAN
In Persian Zoroastrianism, Mithras mediates between darkness (Ahriman) and light (Ahura Mazda). The Persians say Ahura Mazda also called Oromazes or Ormuzd, enlarged himself and removed himself from sun and earth, creating stars in the heavens. Oromazes was born of the purest light. He set the Dog Star in the heavens as guardian and watchman. He had created six gods and Ahriman (or Angra Manyu) countered with six others. Then after the Dog Star, Oromazes created 24 other gods and placed them in an egg, combining evil with good. 24 good plus 24 evil plus 1 Oromazes equals 50.
The egg is an ellipse like the orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A. Temple says this corresponds to light and dark Sirius A and B, respectively, in a garbled form, wavering between 49 and 50 years as an orbital period. Note this is later Persia, after they "castrated" the singular idea of a Boundless Darkness called Azvran and made dualism of light and dark.
AMERIND
The Olmecs taught the Toltecs. The Olmec busts remains look like frog-men to some who see them (they look like some W. African people to me...). The Toltecs had a famous king Ce-Acatl Topiltziu, a manifestation of their god of knowledge. He had sea origins and constantly reincarnates in various times as a teacher of men. Quetzalcoatyl is an avatar of him. Quetzalcoatyl is portrayed even in later incarnations as wearing a turtle shell on his torso. Recently the Chinese have identified this culture and their writing as originating from Tang Dynasty China.
At Chichen-Itza, there are stone faces of the rain god Chac. He has a coiling proboscis suggestive of a tentacle with suction discs or pads.
The pre-Aztec site of Teotihuacan shows a stylized face of the rain god called Tlaloc having a scaly, squidlike flavor with great, round expressionless eyes and jutting proboscis covered with suction pads. The ancient name of the temple here was "Temple of the Frog."
The Aztecs called the star Aldebaren "Yohualtecutlii" or Lord of the Night, and associated it with the destruction of the world, which would take place every 52 years unless the appropriate rituals were enacted.
Note that later representations of Quetzalcoatyl show him more as a feathered serpent or bird like being, feathers replacing scales.
CTHULHU MYTHOS
This is not an attempt to summarize the entire Cthulhu Mythos, but only those features that bear directly or indirectly on the Sirius Mystery lore. Many of these are merely curious details that have a profound effect on the imagination and echo or parallel the myth-patterns already summarized with remarkable faithfulness. I will mention that most of the original CM authors knew the mythologies and did this deliberately. Later we include similarities in the CM with Hermetic knowledge - again, mostly put there deliberately by the writers.
In the Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth, Andrew Phelan dreams he and his new employer, Dr. Laban Shrewsbury, fly through space on monstrous black winged bat-like creatures with the speed of light. Phelan notices great Canopus as he flies. Phelan discovered, in Shrewsbury's house, a detailed map of Peru where the Salapunko fortress is located. A letter to Professor Andros from Claiborne Boyd quotes from Andrada's paper referring to a picture possibly being Illa Tici Viracocha of old Inca belief. The center of the paper says it is really a representation of Cthulhu. Derleth refers to the Humboldt current, which flows past the Western coast of S. America as flowing past R'lyeh, the sunken citadel prison of Cthulhu. Boyd discovered many S. Pacific pieces in the collection of his Uncle Asaph. Shrewsbury asks Horvath Blayne if the Polynesian sea god Tangaroa has the same origin as Neptune. Blayne guesses Hindu or Indo-Chinese. Shrewsbury then states he is interested in the conceit or notion which gave rise to Polynesian sea gods in the first place, and its relation to so many batrachian or icthyic figures and motifs which occur and recur in the art work, ancient and modern, to be found in the S. Pacific Islands and notes that the S. Pacific primitives emphasize the avian. Derleth has a passage from Shrewsbury's "Cthulhu in the Necronomicon" which stresses the need to increase the tension between such followers of Cthulhu as those batrachian Deep Ones who inhabit Y'ha-nthlei deep in the Atlantic as well as sunken R'lyeh and the bat-winged interplanetary travelers who serve Hastur the Unspeakable. The openings for Cthulhu may be stopped by the aid of these air beings serving Hastur. Hastur is served by strange bat-winged creatures who can travel in time and space, the Byakhee. The Lords of the Air serve Hastur, Him Who is Not to be Named, the ancient rival of Cthulhu (cf Dogon, Ogo vs. Nommo). The Byakhee birds fly to a domain of Hastur and they are summoned by invoking Hastur and by blowing a stone whistle. Robert Chambers in the "King in Yellow" refers to a succession of Hastur Kings that even Emperors serve. Asti, in Egyptian, refers to the sequentiality of thrones.
Shrewsbury mentions an astronomical panel of Semnut's time in Egypt showing the Orion-Taurus group held to be the seat of the Elder Gods who are believed to exist at or near Betelgeuse and at least one of the Ancient Ones, Hastur; and were presumably home to all the Ancient Ones. Derleth states Hastur the Unspeakable shall return from the dark star which is in the Hyades near Aldebaren, the red eye of the bull (Taurus). In Chambers "The Yellow Sign" it is stated when from Carcosa the Hyades, Hastur and Aldebaren.
In The Festival, HPL (Lovecraft) identifies a festival kept once every century, a festival commanded to be kept by certain kinsmen in memory of primal secrets older than Bethlehem, Babylon, Memphis and mankind. The narrator states the festival has to do with the spells of the eastern sea (Atlantic). He says his people came from the sea in the elder time. He refers to the passing of Orion and Aldebaren near the horizon. Aldebaren actually passes where the narrator states twice a year at the two solstices. (See Dogon sigui practiced every 60 years or half century, also Amerind section on appeasement of Aldebaren every 52 years to prevent world destruction.) |