Gli Dei del cielo o figli del dio del cielo chi erano in realta'?

Oltre le fiabe/leggende/propagande religiose...oltre le illusioni si apre il velo che per millenni ha coperto la cruda verita' su come le spore di forme di vita di pianeti estinti, venissero protette e portate su altri mondi dove queste forme di vita primordiali, uova, spore, semi o come li vogliamo chiamare, parassitavano il dna ed il materiale genetico delle forme di vita trovare per utilizzarle per i loro scopi, metamorfosi, rinascite tramite interazione con gli altri regni e con le droghe, vitali supporti di questi Dei del cielo che non a caso, sono sempre persenti come annuciazioni di nuove divinita' che rimpiazzano quelle precedenti tanto che le tradizioni degli umani, continuarono anche con altri tipi di meteoriti, non fertili come le madonne nere, tori celesti, angeli annunciatori etc... che cadevano durante i grandi cicli del tempo, scrupolosamente controllati dai loro sacerdoti, adoratori di queste pietre nere, seme/sperma del dio celeste che conteneva la quintessenza/iside/ishtar/inanna o madonna nera/venere o come la vogliamo chiamare....la madre/sposa/figlia del Dio fatto uomo...

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Worship of Meteorites

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Among the Buddha legends is one of two merchants who offered food to the Buddha, which was accepted, and in consequence of their request for some memorial of him the Buddha gave them a hair and fragments of his nails, and told them that hereafter a stone should fall from heaven near the place where they lived, and that they should erect a pagoda and worship these relics as though they were Buddha himself.

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THE WORSHIP OF METEORITES.

by Professor Hubert A. Newton.

Here is a small fragment of iron that has a curious history. It is a portion of a mass of meteoric iron found upon a brick altar in one of the Ohio mounds. Along with it were various objects--a serpent cut out of mica--several terra-cotta figurines--two remarkable dishes carved from stone into the form of animals; pearls, shells, copper ornaments. and nearly three hundred ankle bones of deer and elk. There were but one or two fragments of other bones, and one animal furnished but two of these ankle bones; hence they must have been selected for some special, important reason. The figurines had been apparently broken for some purpose, and the whole collection had suffered in the fire not a little. In a like altar of another mound of the same group were found nearly two bushels of like objects.

It must have been in some ceremony of a religious, possibly one of a funereal, character that the mound builders collected here on the altar their ornaments and other valuables, and after burning them buried the charred debris in the huge earthen mound that was built over them and the altar.

What would we not give if this fragment could be endowed with the power of repeating to us its experience--chapters in the history of that people? But nearly all that we can say is that it was found among objects held by them in peculiar esteem, and used by them in some serious, probably religious ceremony.

There was formerly, and so far as I know there is still, in the collection of meteorites in Munich, a stone that weighs about a pound. It fell in 1853 in the region north of Zanzibar, on the East African coast, and was seen and picked up by some shepherd boys. The German missionaries tried to buy it, but the neighbouring Wanikas, because it fell from heaven, took it to be a god. They secured possession of it, anointed it with oil, clothed it with apparel, ornamented it with pearls, and built for it a kind of temple to give it proper divine honours. The agents of the missionaries were not allowed even to see the stone, far less could they purchase the Wanika's tutelar deity. Neither entreaties, nor arguments, nor offers of the missionaries, nor of the officials were of any avail. But when three years later the wild nomad tribes of the Masai came down upon the Wanikas, burned their village, and killed large numbers of them, the Wanikas thought very differently of the stone's protecting power. In fact they lost all respect for it. A famine having meanwhile arisen, the elders of the tribe were quite ready to exchange their palladium for the silver dollars of the missionaries.

Among the Buddha legends is one of two merchants who offered food to the Buddha, which was accepted, and in consequence of their request for some memorial of him the Buddha gave them a hair and fragments of his nails, and told them that hereafter a stone should fall from heaven near the place where they lived, and that they should erect a pagoda and worship these relics as though they were Buddha himself.

The nations of India have always been specially superstitious about stones fallen from the skies. In 1620 an aerolite fell near Jullunder, and the king sent for a man well known for the excellent sword blades that he made, and ordered him to work the lump into a sword, a dagger and a knife. The mass, however, would not stand the hammer, but crumbled in pieces. By mixture with iron of the earth the required weapons were made.

In 1867 a shower of stones fell, some forty in number, at Saonlod. The terrified inhabitants of the village, seeing in them the instruments of vengeance of an offended deity, set about gathering all they could find, and having pounded them into pieces they scattered them to the winds.

In 1870 a meteorite fell at Nidigullam, and the Hindoos at once carried it to their temple and worshipped it. The same has been repeated in India on the occasion of several other stonefalls in the present century. One native ruler refused to allow a stone to be carried across his territory for fear of the injury that might come to his people or his lands.

Two Japanese meteorites, formerly the property of a daimio family, were long kept and handed down as heirlooms, being in the care of the priests in one of the family temples. They were among the family offerings made to Skokujo on her festival days. They were connected with her worship by the, belief that they had fallen from the shores of the Silver River, Heavenly River, or Milky Way, after they had been used by her as weights with which to steady her loom. One of these stones was presented by its late owner to the British Museum, and it is in its collection of meteorites.

There is a curious institution among the Chinese that has existed, according to Biot, from a time more than one thousand years before Christ. The Chinese attributed to different groups of stars a direct influence upon different parts of the empire. Some of these groups correspond, for example, to the imperial palaces, to the rivers, the roads, and the mountains of China. By reason of this belief, regular observations are made by the imperial astronomers of all that passes in the heavens, especially of the groups of stars in which comets and meteors originate, or across which they travel. The interpretation of what is seen in the sky forms part of the duties of these very important officials. These observations have been carefully written out, and are preserved in the archives of the empire. Upon the ending of a dynasty, by change of name or otherwise, these comet and meteor records have been published as a special chapter of the chronicles of the dynasty. The existing dynasty began in 1647, since which date the records are, therefore, unpublished.

In 1492 a stone of 300 pounds weight fell at Ensisheim, in Alsace. The Emperor Maximilian, then at Basel, had the stone brought to the neighbouring castle, and a Council of State was held to consider what message from heaven the stonefall brought to them. As a result, the stone was hung up in the church with an appropriate legend, and with strictest command that it should ever remain there intact. It was held to be an omen of import in the contest then in progress with France and in the contest impending with the Turks. Nineteen years later a shower of stones fell near Crema, east of Milan. The Pope was at war with the French, and the stones fell into the French territory. Before the year had passed the French, after a long possession of Lombardy and serious threatening of the States of the Church, were forced to retire from Italy. At this time Raphael was painting for an altar-piece his magnificent Madonna di Foligno, now in the Vatican. Beneath the rainbow in the picture, indicating divine reconciliation, Raphael painted also this Crema fireball, apparently to set forth divine aid and deliverance.

I have thus rapidly gone over some selected facts, showing how the mound builders, the wild Africans, the Hindoos, the Japanese, the Chinese, the modern Europeans have been ready to revere these mysterious bodies that come from the skies. But it is in the Greek and Latin literature that we have reason to expect the more numerous and full accounts, both legendary and historic, of this reverence and worship.

It is now, I believe, admitted by the best scholars that both in Greece and in Italy, there was a period earlier than the age of images, when the objects worshipped were not wrought by hand. Men worshipped trees and caves, groves and mountains, and also unwrought stones. Even after men began to make their objects of worship, these were in many cases mere hewn stones, not images. The earlier Greek term acalma, an object of worship, stands apart from the later term eikzy, image.

What would be more natural in that age to the affrighted witnesses of the most magnificent of spectacles, the fall of a meteorite, than for them to regard the object which had come out of a clear sky, with terrific noise and fire and smoke, as something sent to them by the gods to be revered and worshipped? It was nobler to worship a stone fallen from the sky than one of earthly origin.

The worship of an unwrought stone once established has wonderful vitality. For example, the Greek writers speak of such a worship in their day among the Arabian tribes. When Mohammed, with his intense iconoclasm, came down upon Mecca and took the sacred city, he either for reasons of policy, or from feeling, spared the ancient worship of this black stone. Entering into the sacred enclosure, he approached and saluted it with his staff (where it was built into the corner of the Kaaba), made the sevenfold circuit of the temple court, returned and kissed the stone, and then entered the building and destroyed the 360 idols within it. To-day that stone is the most sacred jewel of Islam. Towards it each devout Moslem is bidden to look five times a day as he prays. It is called the Right Hand of God on Earth. It is reputed to have been a stone of Paradise, to have dropped from heaven together with Adam. Or, again, it was given by Gabriel to Abraham to attest his divinity.

Or, again, when Abraham was reconstructing the Kaaba that had been destroyed by the deluge, he sent his son Ishmael for a stone to put in its corner, and Gabriel met Ishmael and gave him this stone. It was originally transparent hyacinth, became black by reason of being kissed by a sinner. In the day of judgment it will witness in favour of all those who have touched it with sincere hearts, and will be endowed with sight and speech. The colour of this stone, according to Burckhardt is deep reddish brown, approaching to black; it is like basalt, and is supposed by some to be a meteorite.

It is not important for my purpose to separate the history from the myth. Eusebius quotes from an old Phoenician writer, Sanchouniathon, that the goddess Astarte found a stone that fell from the air, that she took it to Tyre, and that they worshipped it there in the sacred shrine. We have reason to question whether that Phoenician writer ever lived. What matters it? The existence of the story in Eusebius' time has to us a significance not greatly unlike that of the existence of the worship itself in the earlier years.

Virgil describes a detonating meteor in such terms that I feel reasonably sure that either he had seen and heard, or else he had had direct conversations with others who had seen and heard, a splendid example of these meteors. The passage is in the second book of the AEneid. The city of Troy was captured and was burning. All was in confusion. The family of AEneas was gathered ready for flight, but Anchises would not go. An omen, lambent flames on the head of his grandson, began on to shake his purpose to perish with his country. He prayed for more positive guidance. It is AEneas who describes the scene "Hardly had the old man spoken when across the darkness a star ran down from the sky carrying a brilliant light torch We saw it go sweeping along above the roof of the house. It lighted up the streets, and disappeared in the woods on Mount Ida. A long train, a line of light, remained across the sky, and all around the place was a sulphurous smell. A heavy sound of thunder came from the left. Overcome now, father raised his hands to heaven, addressed the gods and worshipped the sacred star. 'Now, now,' he cried, no longer delay.'"

This story is, of course, all legendary, but Virgil's description of the scene is true to life as conceived by pagan Rome in his day.

The images that fell down from Jupiter, or that fell from the skies, are often spoken of by Greek and by Latin writers I mention three or four cases only where this allusion points to a meteoric origin as possible or probable. The earliest representative of Venus at old Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, was one of these heaven-descended images. It was not the Venus of the Capitol, nor the Venus of Milo, but as described was a rude triangular stone.

Cicero, in the grand closing passage of his oration against Verres, calls upon Ceres, whose statue he says was not made by hands but was believed to have fallen from the skies. The earliest of the images of Pallas at Athens was said to have had a like origin. Pausanias saw at Delphi a stone of moderate size which they anointed every day, and covered during every festival with new shorn wool. They are of opinion, he adds respecting this stone, that it was the one given by Cybele to Saturn to swallow as a substitute for the infant Jupiter, which Saturn after swallowing vomited out on the earth.

There is a marvellous story of a peculiar stone in the poem Lithika by the apocryphal Orpheus. Phoebus Apollo gave the stone to the Trojan Helenus, and Helenus used it in sooth-saying. It was called Orites, and by some Siderites. It had the faculty of speech, and when Helenus wished to consult it he performed special ablutions and fasts for twenty-one days, then made various sacrifices, bathed the stone in a living fountain, dressed it and carried it in his bosom. The stone now became alive, and to make it speak he would take it in his arms and dandle it, when the stone would begin to cry like a child for the breast. Helenus would now question the stone, and receive its answers. By means of these he was able to foretell the ruin of the Trojan State. Whoever framed that story had, I believe, before him a real stone, and the description is very like that of a meteorite, saying nothing of its having come from Apollo. The Orphic writer says that it was rough, rounded, heavy, black, and close-grained. Fibres dike wrinkles were drawn in circular forms over the whole surface above and below. Here I show you a stone such as was described--rounded, black, heavy, close-grained, and having fibres like wrinkles in circular forms over the whole surface above and below. The name Siderites was at a later date applied to the loadstone, but by this writer the two stones are separately described, and are apparently distinct. If this name was of Greek origin it seems to be allied to sideros, iron, and this heavy stone, like nearly all meteorites, probably contained iron. If, however, this name came from a Latin source (for it is used both by Greek and by Latin writers) it has affinities with Sidus, a star, and its meteoric character is still more clearly indicated. One of the most interesting of the stories about images that have fallen from heaven, is the basis of that beautiful tragedy of Euripides. "Iphigeneia in Tauris." To many of you the story is familiar, but it .will bear repetition. The goddess Diana detained at Aulis the Grecian fleets by contrary winds, and required the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, before the Greeks could set sail. The father consented; and the daughter, apparently sacrificed, was really rescued by Diana, and borne to the Tauric, or Crimean peninsula on the north shore of the Black Sea. She was then made a priestess in the temple of the goddess. At this shrine the barbaric inhabitants used to sacrifice before an image of Diana, that fell from heaven, all strangers that were shipwrecked upon the coast. The unhappy Iphigeneia, forced to take a leading part in these human sacrifices, laments her sad lot:--

"But now a stranger on this strand,
'Gainst which the wild waves beat,
I hold my dreary, joyless seat,
Far distant from my native land;
Nor nuptial bed is mine, nor child, nor friend.
At Argos now no more I raise
The festal song in Juno's praise;
Nor o'er the loom sweet sounding bend,
As the creative shuttle flies,
Give forms of Titans fierce to rise,
And dreadful with her purple spear
Image Athenian Pallas there.
But on this barbarous shore

Th' unhappy stranger's fate I moan,
The ruthless altar stained with gore,

His deep and dying groan;
And for each tear that weeps his woes,
From me a tear of pity flows."

Orestes, the brother of Iphigeneia, had avenged upon his mother the murder of his father. For this he was driven by the Furies. While stretched before the shrine of Phoebus he heard the divine voice from the golden tripod, commanding him to speed his way to the wild coast of the Taurians, thence to take by fraud or by fortune the statue of Diana that fell from heaven, and carry it to Attica. Doing this he should have rest from the Furies.

He was captured, however, along with his friend Pylades, and brought to the altar to be sacrificed. The relationship of the brother and sister became here revealed, and they together fled, carrying with them the image. It was not without a struggle that they reached the shore, but finally,

"On his left arm sustained
Orestes bore his sister through the tide,
Mounted the bark's tall side and on the deck
Safe placed her and Diana's holy image
Which fell from heaven."

Neptune favoured the Greeks, Minerva forbade pursuit, and the image was borne to Halae (or as some said to Brauron) in Attica.

Cicero spoke of the Trojan Palladium as something that fell from the sky: quod de coelo delapsum. Other classical writers, notably Ovid, speak of it in similar terms. The story in its various forms points toward a stonefall as its basis. One form of it runs thus:- Pallas and her foster sister Athena were wrestling with each other, when Pallas was accidentally killed. In grief Athena made an image of Pallas and set it up on Olympus. When King Ilus was about building his city on the Trojan plain he prayed for a favourable omen. In response to his prayer Jupiter cast this image down at the feet of the suppliant king. In the new city it was set up in a temple specially erected to contain and protect it. So long as Troy could keep safely this image, the city, it was firmly believed, could not be taken by its foes.

According to one story, the Greeks stole the image before capturing the city. As many cities afterwards claimed to possess the treasure as claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. According to the Romans, AEneas carried the Palladium to Italy, and the image was regarded as the most sacred treasure of the Roman State. For centuries even in historic times it was so carefully kept by the Vestal Virgins that the Pontifex Maximus was not allowed to see it.

We naturally have doubts about the nature, or even the existence, of an object so kept out of sight. What it was that the Vestals thus guarded, or whether they had anything to represent the image of Pallas, will probably never be known. But it is far otherwise with another famous object of Roman worship. To the east of the Trojan plain on which the Palladium fell, rise the mountains of Phrygia and Galatia. In Pessinus, near the border line of these two countries, and in the caves and woods near Pessinus, the goddess Cybele, the mother of the great gods, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, was specially worshipped. This worship may not have been more degrading than the worship of many other Asiatic divinities. But it was wretched and unmanly almost beyond our possible conception. It furnished to Catullus the theme for the most celebrated of his poems, one of the strongest pictures in all literature. The Grecian athlete entered her service with joyful music and dancing. Too late he looks back from the Asiatic shore, out of his hopeless degradation, on the nobleness of his former Grecian life. The lion of Cybele drives him in craven fear again into the wild woods, to spend his days in the menial servitude. The Roman poet exclaims, "O goddess, great goddess Cybele, goddess queen of Dindymus; far from my house be all thy frenzies; others, others, drive thou frantic."

At some unknown early time a meteoric stone fell near to Pessinus. It was taken to the shrine of Cybele, and there set up and worshipped as her image. This image and its worship very early attained a wide celebrity. About two hundred years before Christ, in the time of the second Punic war, the stone was transported to Rome. The detailed history of the transfer is given by several writers in varied terms. It forms one of Livy's charming stories, it is told in poetic terms by Ovid, it is given as a tradition by Herodian. For every detail of the history I do not ask confiding belief, but the principal event is, I suppose, historically true.

In the year 205 before Christ, Hannibal had, since crossing the Alps, been holding his place in Italy for more than a dozen years, threatening the existence of the Roman State. The fortunes of war were now somewhat adverse to the Carthagenian general. A shower of stones alarmed the Romans. The decemvirs consulted the Sybilline books, and there found certain verses which imported that whensoever a foreign enemy shall have carried war into the land of Italy he may be expelled and conquered if the Idaean mother be brought from Pessinus to Rome. These words were reported to the Senate. Encouraging responses came at the same time from the Pythian oracle at Delphi.

The Senate set about considering how the goddess might be transported to Rome. There was then no alliance with the States of Asia. But King Attalus was on friendly terms with the Romans because they had a common enemy in Philip II of Macedon. The Senate, therefore, selected an imposing embassy from the noblest Romans. A convoy of five quinqueremes was ordered for them, that they might make an appearance suited to the grandeur of the Roman people. The embassy landed on their way and made inquiry of the oracle at Delphi, and were informed "that they would attain what they were in search of by means of King Attalus, and that when they should have carried the goddess to Rome they were to take care that whoever was the best man in the city should perform the rite of hospitality to her." The king received them kindly, but refused their request; whereupon an earthquake tremor shook the place, and the goddess herself spoke from her shrine, "It is my will, Rome is a worthy place for any god; delay not." The king yielded; a thousand axes hewed down the sacred pines, and a thousand hands built the vessel. The completed and painted ship received the stone, and bore it to the mouth of the Tiber.

It was the spring of the following year before the ship arrived. Meanwhile new prodigies frightened the people. A brilliant meteor had crossed Italy from east to west, a little south of Rome, and a heavy detonation followed. From this, or from some other meteor, another shower of stones had fallen. In expiation, according to the custom of the country in case of stonefalls, religious exercises during nine days were ordered. The Senate after careful deliberation selected one of the Scipios, deciding that he of all the good men in the city was the best, and they deputed him to receive the stone. The whole city went out to meet the goddess. Matrons and daughters, senators and knights, the vestals and the common people all joined the throng. But a drought had reduced the water of the Tiber so that the vessel grounded upon the bar. All the efforts of the men pulling upon the ropes failed to move it. A noble matron who had been slandered stepped forward into the water. Dipping her hands three times into the waves and raising them three times to heaven, she besought the goddess to vindicate her good name if she had been unjustly slandered. She laid hold of the rope and the vessel followed her slightest movement, amid the plaudits of the multitude.

Scipio, as he had been ordered by the Senate, waded out into the water, received the stone from the priests, carried it to the land, and delivered it to the principal matrons of the city, a band of whom were in waiting to receive it. They, relieving each other in succession and handing it from one set to another, carried it to the gates of the city, and thence through the streets to the temple of Victory on the Palatine Hill. Censers were placed at the doors of the houses wherever the procession passed, and incense was burned in them, all praying that the goddess would enter the city with good will add a favourable disposition. The people in crowds carried presents to the temple. A religious feast and an eight days' festival with games were established to be celebrated thereafter each year in the early part of April.

Before another year had passed Hannibal, after having maintained his army in Italy for fifteen years, was forced to withdraw again to Africa. From the liberal offerings of the people, in gratitude for deliverance, a temple was erected to Cybele, long known as the Temple of the Great Mother of the Gods, so that twelve years after its arrival at Rome the stone was taken from the Temple of Victory and set up in its new home. A silver statue of the goddess was constructed, to which the stone was made to serve in place of a head. Here, in public view, for at least five hundred years that stone was a prominent object of Roman worship. Its physical appearance is described by several writers. It was conical in shape, ending in a point, this shape giving occasion to the name Needle of Cybele. It was brown in colour, and looked like a piece of lava. Arnobius, a Christian writer just before the accession of Constantine, and over five hundred years from the date of its arrival at Rome, says of the stone:

"If historians speak the truth and insert no false accounts into their records, there was brought from Phrygia, sent by King Attalus, nothing else in fact than a kind of stone, not a large one, one that could be carried in a man's hand without strain, in colour tawny and black, having prominent, irregular, angular points, a stone which we all see to-day, having a rough irregular place as the sign of a mouth, and having no prominence corresponding to the face of an image." Arnobius goes on to ask whether it was possible that this stone drove the strong enemy Hannibal out of Italy--made him who shook the Roman State, unlike himself, a craven and a coward.

Just when this stone disappeared from public view I do not know. In directing the recent excavations on the Palatine Hill, Prof. Lanciani was at first in great hopes of finding it; because it had no intrinsic value to the many spoliators of Rome, nor to the former excavators of Roman temples. But the place in which he expected to find it was absolutely empty. At a later date, however, he found in a rare volume an account of excavations made on the Palatine Hill in 1730, in which the private chapel of the Empress was found and explored. In this we perhaps have an account, and, it is to be feared, the last account of a sight of the Cybele stone. The writer says: "I am sorry that no fragment of a statue, or bas-relief, or inscription has been found in the chapel, because this absence of any positive indication prevents us from ascertaining the name of the divinity to whom the place was principally dedicated. The only object which I discovered in it was a stone nearly three feet high, conical in shape, of a deep brown colour, looking very much like a piece of lava, and ending in a sharp point. No attention was paid to it, and I know not what became of it." This description is almost identical with that given by Arnobius, and others, of the stone from Pessinus.

Another stone of meteoric origin was brought to Rome, and there for a brief period was most fantastically worshipped. This was as near the beginning of the third century after Christ. It came, like the other stones off which I have spoken, from Asia. In the city of Emesa, on the banks of the Orontes, about midway between Damascus and Antioch, there was in those days a magnificent temple of the Sun. A gorgeous worship was maintained before a stone that fell from heaven, that served as the image of the Sun-god. The description of the stone is not very un-like that of the Cybele meteorite. Herodian, who probably saw it, says: "It is a large stone, rounded on the base, and gradually tapering upwards to a sharp point; it is shaped like a cone. Its colour is black, and there is a sacred tradition that it fell from heaven. They show certain small prominences and depressions in the stone, and those who see them persuade their eyes that they are seeing an image of the Sun not made by hands."

This Sun-god was named Heliogabalus, and before the altar a boy of nine years of age began to serve as priest. Such a Syrian service did not make the boy grow manly nor virtuous, and when at the age of fifteen he became emperor through the money and intrigues of his grandmother, and the murder of the Emperor Macrinus, we have for three years at Rome the view of the sorriest scrapegrace that ever sat on a throne. He assumed with the name of Antoninus also the name of his god Heliogabalus. To the great disgust of the Roman Senate and people, he brought with him from Syria the image of his god, the sacred stone, and himself continued before it his priestly service with all its fantastic forms and gesticulations. He built within the city walls a grand and beautiful temple, with a great number of altars around it; he repaired thither every morning, and sacrificed hecatombs of bulls and an infinite number of sheep, loading the altars with aromatics, and pouring out firkins of the oldest and richest wines. He himself led the choruses, and women of his own country danced with him in circles around the altars, while the whole senatorian and equestrian orders stood in a ring like the audience of a theatre.

But now he must have a wife for his god. So he broke into the apartments guarded by the vestals and carried to the palace the Trojan Palladium, or what he supposed was that object, and was intending to celebrate the nuptials of the two images. His god, however, he concluded, would not be pleased with a warlike wife like Pallas; therefore, he ordered to be brought from Carthage an ancient image of Urania, or the Moon, which had been set up by Dido when she first built old Carthage. With this image he demanded the immense treasures in her temple, and he also collected from every direction immense sums of money to furnish to the Moon a suitable marriage portion when married to the Sun.

He built another temple in the suburbs of Rome, to which the Emesa stone, the god (?) was carried in procession every year, while the populace were entertained with games, and shows, and feastings and carousings. Herodian thus describes this performance:--

"The god was brought from the city to this place in a chariot glittering with gold and precious stones, and drawn by six large white horses without the least spot, superbly harnessed with gold, and other curious trappings, reflecting a variety of colours. Antoninus himself held the reins--nor was any mortal permitted to be in the chariot; but all kept attendant around him as charioteer to the deity, while he ran backward, leading the horses, with his face to the chariot, that he might have a constant view of his god. In this manner he performed the whole procession, running backwards with the reins in his hands, and always keeping his eyes on the god, and that he might not stumble or slip (as he could not see where he went), the whole way was strewn with golden sand, and his guards ran with him and supported him on either side. The people attended the solemnity, running on each side of the way with tapers and flambeaux, and throwing down garlands and flowers as they passed. All the effigies of the other gods, the most costly ornaments and gifts of the temples, and the brilliant arms and ensigns of the imperial dignity, with all the rich furniture of the palace, helped to grace the procession. The horse and all the rest of the army marched in pomp before and after the chariot."

The reign of a foolish boy at this period of Rome's history was necessarily a short one, and at the age of eighteen the soldiers killed him and let the Roman populace have the body to drag through the city streets. The worship of the Sun-god at once ceased, and, no doubt, the stone also was thrown away. The Cybele stone, however, remained an object of public worship, since the quotation from Arnobius, which I have given, was written nearly a century later than the reign Heliogabalus. I propose to speak briefly of one more meteorite whose worship has had a world-wide fame: the image of the Ephesian Artemis. This worship had its centre at Ephesus, but was widely extended along the shores of the Mediterranean. Temple after temple was built on the same site at Ephesus, each superior to the preceding, until the structure was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world. As a temple, it became the theatre of a most elaborate religious ceremonial. As an asylum, it protected from pursuit and arrest all kinds of fugitives from justice or vengeance. As a museum, it possessed some of the finest products of Greek art, notably works of Phidias and

Apelles. As a bank, it received and guarded the treasures which merchants and princes from all lands brought for safe keeping. In its own right it possessed extensive lands and large revenues. The great city of Ephesus assumed as her leading title that of vewkopos, or temple-warden of Artemis, putting his name on her coins, and in her monumental inscriptions. The image, which was the central object in this temple, was said to have fallen from heaven. Copies of it in all sizes and forms were made of gold, of silver, of bronze, of stone and of wood, by Ephesian artificers, and were supplied by them to markets in all lands. What a lifelike picture is given us in the 19th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, of the excited crowd of Ephesians, urged on by the silversmiths, who made for sale the silver shrines of the goddess, and who saw that their craft was in danger if men learned to regard Artemis as no real divinity, and to despise the image that fell down from the sky.

We cannot suppose that the Ephesian Artemis image of the first century was a meteorite, though we have the distinct appellation, Diipetes, fallen from the sky. But I believe that there was a meteoric stone that was the original of the Ephesian images, and it seems not at all improbable that in some one of the destructions of the temple it disappeared. Or, in the progress of time, there may have been a desire to represent the goddess in a more artistic form than the shapeless stone afforded.

Many forms of the Ephesian Artemis are still preserved, and they have, amid all their variations, a certain peculiar character in common. That common character seems to me to confirm the statement that the original image fell from heaven. This goddess is regarded, let me say, as different from the Grecian Artemis, the beautiful huntress so well known in Greek art, and I am speaking only of the images of the Ephesian Artemis.

There is one peculiarity in the outward forms of the meteorites that at is characteristic of nearly all of them. I mean the moulded forms, and the depressions all over the surfaces. They are better appreciated by being seen, than by any description I can give you. They are common to meteorites of all kinds, from the most friable stone to the most compact iron. (I show you one, a stone from Iowa--also the plaster cast of another, a stone from some fall, I know not which one.) Those who have lately visited the collection in the Peabody Museum may recollect the model of an iron that fell two or three years ago in Arkansas, which displays most beautifully these depressions.

Let now an artist attempt to idealise any one of these moulded forms, and to make something like a human shape out of one of them. He must necessarily get it upright, and he must give it a head. You have then a head surmounting one of these moulded forms. Let now the convenience and the taste of the artificers of the images have some liberty to act--and we know that they did act, for we have considerable variety in these images--and a development in the conventional representation of the image is sure to follow.

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what is this passage really hiding? Very ancient rituals with meteorites, considered holy
by humans, performing similar rituals and similar actions becaue under the power of those
parasitic form of lives brouth by the falling stones...

in Genesis 28,[5] when Jacob, fleeing from the wrath of his brother Esau, falls asleep on a stone and dreams of a ladder stretching between Heaven and Earth and thronged with angels; God stands at the top of the ladder, and promises Jacob the land of Canaan; when Jacob awakes he anoints the stone (baetylus) with oil and names the place Bethel. Another account, from Genesis 35[6] repeats the covenant with God and the naming of the place (as El-Bethel), and makes this the site of Jacob's own change of name to Israel. Both versions state that the original name of the place was Luz, a Canaanite name.

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Throughout the ages, meteorites were venerated as sacred objects by different cultures and ancient civilizations.



The spectacular fall of a meteorite, accompanied by light and sound phenomena, such as falling stars, smoke, thunder, and sonic booms, has always kindled the human imagination, evoking fear and awe in everyone who witnesses such an event.



For obvious reasons, the remnants of these incidents, the actual meteorites, were often kept as sacred stones or objects of power.



They were worshiped, and used in their respective religious ceremonies.



The Winona Meteorite Find Site






From Prehistoric Times to Ancient Egypt

Actually, several Native American tribes venerated pieces and fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite (image below), a giant iron meteorite that excavated Arizona's famous Meteor Crater upon its impact about 50,000 years ago.



Archaeological finds throughout the United States and Mexico, proved that Canyon Diablo fragments had been traded briskly centuries before Columbus reached the shores of the New World.





The Winona meteorite was found in a stone cist in the prehistoric Elden pueblo, Arizona, in 1928.



The circumstances of the find suggest that the builders of the pueblo had kept the meteorite as a sacred object after actually witnessing its fall. The tribes of the Clackamas in Oregon claim that they once worshiped the Willamette meteorite, one of the largest irons known, weighing about 15 tons.



Prior to their hunting trips, the Clackamas dipped the heads of their arrows and lances into the water that had gathered in the large cavities of the iron - they were convinced that this ritual would harden their weapons and grant them success in their hunt.

Native tribes throughout the world venerated meteorites, and similar stories have been told from Greenland, Tibet, India, Mongolia, and Australia. Pure iron has always been rare and so there is little wonder that iron meteorites were especially coveted by ancient civilizations as raw material for cultic knives and weapons in times prior to the Iron Age.



Such knives and daggers have been recovered from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, from Mesopotamian sanctuaries, and from the graves of the leaders of the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca, in both Americas.



Winona - A Sacred Meteorite? The Willamette Iron Meteorite







From Ancient Greece to Mecca

The ancient civilizations of the occident are no exception, and there are several examples of the worship of meteorites in Greco-Roman tradition.



Mircea Eliade, an expert in religious history, claims that the Palladion of Troy, the Artemis of Ephesos, as well as the Cone of Elagabalus in Emesa, were actually meteorites - stones that had fallen from the sky, objects from heaven, believed to contain supernatural powers.



Richard Norton mentions the sacred stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, a rock that was said to have been thrown to Earth by the Supreme Being, Kronos, marking the "omphalos", the navel of the world.



The Roman historian, Titus Livius, tells the story of the meteorite of Pessinunt, Phrygia, a conical object known as the Needle of Cybele, the goddess of fertility. After the Romans had conquered Phrygia, the meteorite was conveyed in a gigantic procession to Rome, where it was worshiped for another 500 years.

Even in the monotheistic religions of Judaeo-Christian tradition we find traces of an ancient meteorite cult.



In the Hebrew language, meteorites were called "betyls", an equivalent to the Greek "baitylia", meaning "the residence of God". In the Bible, we find a story where Jacob, the ancestor of the Israelites, beds his head on such a betyl-stone in the desert. In his sleep, he has an impressive vision of a stairway to heaven leading directly to the throne of God.



The story says that Jacob was full of awe when he awoke, and that he built a temple around that stone.



However, nothing of this temple has been preserved up to this day.



Emperor Trajan stone of Aphrodite in the temple of Paphos




There is another famous example from the Middle East, but there is some dispute about whether the object of veneration is actually a meteorite or not.



We are referring to the "Hadschar al Aswad", the sacred "black stone", to which all Moslems pay homage on their "Hadsch", their pilgrimage to Mecca and the most important sanctuary of the Islam, the Kaaba.



Each Moslem has the duty to make this pilgrimage once in his lifetime, to visit Mecca, and to walk around the Kaaba - a cubic building - seven times.



Then, he has to pause at the southeast corner of the Kaaba to complete the ritual, touching or kissing the Hadschar, also known as "Yamin Allah", meaning "the right hand of God".



Tradition says that this stone is a betyl, a meteorite that was given to Abraham by the archangel Gabriel. That stone also played a most important role in the life of Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, who immured it into the wall at the southeast corner of the Kaaba.

The Hadsch is a rather strange ritual since Islam prohibits the worship and veneration of objects, but it seems that this tradition is much older than Islam itself. The Hadschar might be a true betyl, a real meteorite, since it is said to have a black crust and a light-gray interior.



However, it might also represent a rather large Wabar pearl, a meteorite related impact glass that is found in central Saudi Arabia, not that far from Mecca. It's a pity that scientists haven't solved the mystery surrounding this sacred stone, but for normal religious reasons it has not been allowed.



Wouldn't it be great to know that there is at least one ancient betyl left, and that it is still venerated after more than perhaps 2,000 years?



The Famous Kaaba in Mecca The "Hadschar al Aswad"








From the Middle Ages to Ensisheim

There is little evidence of any cultic veneration or worship of meteorites in Europe during the last 1,500 years.



The guiding influence of Christianity condemned all pagan rituals and beliefs during the Middle Ages, leaving only traces of preceding religions and customs. However, even today meteors are regarded as omens in some rural regions in Germany, France, and Italy.



Some people believe that seeing a shooting star is a good omen.



They will literally wish upon a star, convinced that their wish will come true if they don't tell anyone what they have wished for. Others regard meteors as bad omens, and they make a cross, saying "Amen", "God guide it", or something similar to avert bad luck.



If we take into account the fact that these habits reflect older traditions, we can say with certainty that meteors and meteorites were poorly understood in the Middle Ages, and treated the same as other supernatural phenomena.





The Ensisheim Meteorite Fall Historic Fall of Ensisheim, 1492 The Thunderstone of Ensisheim





This ambiguity is well documented for one of the most famous European falls.



On November 7, 1492 - the very year when Columbus discovered the New World - a huge triangular stone landed with much noise in a wheat field outside the small town of Ensisheim, Alsace, at that time still belonging to Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.

A young boy who had witnessed the fall led a crowd of curious people to the place where a black stone lay in a meter-deep hole. After they had pulled it out, people began chipping off pieces of the rock as good-luck talismans, until they were stopped by the town magistrate.



Immediately, he had the unusual stone transported to his residence in an effort to protect it and his careless citizens.



The whole affair attracted much public attention, causing Emperor Maximilian to visit Ensisheim 15 days after the fall to hold court over the "Thunderstone of Ensisheim" and to determine the meaning of the occurrence. After some consideration, he decided to take the fall as a good omen in his ongoing wars with France and the Turks.



However, he ordered that the stone had to be preserved in the local church - fixed to the wall with iron chains to prevent it from either wandering around at night or departing in the same violent manner by which it had arrived.



Today, the main mass of this famous meteorite can still be seen in the Regency Palace of Ensisheim as the centerpiece of a most remarkable meteorite collection.

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Baetylus
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The Emesa temple to the sun god Elagabalus with baetyl at center

Baetylus (also Bethel, or Betyl, from Semitic bet el "house of god") is a word denoting sacred stones that were supposedly endowed with life. According to ancient sources, these objects of worship were meteorites, which were dedicated to the gods or revered as symbols of the gods themselves.[1] A baetyl is also mentioned in the Bible at Bethel in the Book of Genesis in the story of Jacob's Ladder.[2]

In the Phoenician mythology related by Sanchuniathon, one of the sons of Uranus was named Baetylus.[3] The worship of baetyls was widespread in the Phoenician colonies, including Carthage, even after the adoption of Christianity, and was denounced by Augustine of Hippo.

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the term was specially applied to the Omphalos,[4] the stone supposed to have been swallowed by Cronus (who feared misfortune from his own children) in mistake for his infant son Zeus, for whom it had been substituted by Gaea.[5] This stone was carefully preserved at Delphi, anointed with oil every day and on festive occasions covered with raw wool.[6]

In Rome, there was the stone effigy of Cybele, called Mater Idaea Deum, that had been ceremoniously brought from Pessinus in Asia Minor in 204 BC.[3] Another conical meteorite was enshrined in the Elagabalium to personify the Syrian deity Elagabalus.

In some cases an attempt was made to give a more regular form to the original shapeless stone: thus Apollo Agyieus was represented by a conical pillar with a pointed end, Zeus Meilichius in the form of a pyramid. Other famous baetylic idols were those in the temples of Zeus Casius at Seleucia Pieria, and of Zeus Teleios at Tegea. Even in the declining years of paganism, these idols still retained their significance, as is shown by the attacks upon them by ecclesiastical writers.[3]

Among monotheists, a similar practice survives today with Islam's Black Stone.
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when Jacob awakes he anoints the stone (baetylus) with oil and names the place Bethel.
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Benben Stone Fact File


Name: The 'Benben Stone' is also referred to as the Ben-Ben stone, a sun stone and as a pyramidion. Others have referred to it as the Stone of Destiny

Location of the Benben Stone: The Benben Stone was located on the top of an obelisk in the Sun Temple of Atum Ra at Heliopolis.

Significance: The sacred Benben Stone is connected with the creation myth, and the sun god Atum (known as Atum-Ra and then Ra, the Supreme Solar God) and the nine gods of the Ennead of Heliopolis

Symbol: The Benben was one of the most potent symbols of ancient Egypt symbolizing the Primeval mound and housed the spirit of the sun god Ra

Symbolic Connections: The Benben is strongly associated with ancient mythology and legends relating to the Bennu Bird and the Tree of Life.

The Pyramids: The first pyramids were believed to have been built emulating the shape of the Benben Stone, the residence of the sun god Ra. The capstone on the pyramids were venerated as the dwelling of the sun god. The dead pharaoh, buried deep inside the pyramid was therefore under the direct protection of the solar deity

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Le Orionidi non sono stelle comete ma uno sciame meteorico generato dal passaggio della Terra nella scia della cometa di Halley; questo sciame è visibile tra 2 ottobre e il 7 novembre, con la massima attività intorno al 20-23 di ottobre e quest’anno il punto massimo di visibilità sarà proprio stasera, il 21 ottore 2016 quando sarà possibile osservare fino a 25/30 meteore l’ora.

Il nome Orionidi deriva dal fatto che il punto dal quale sembrano partire le meteore si trova in una zona intorno alla costellazione di Orione; la prima volta che fu visto lo sciame fu nel 1839, da E.C. Herrick del Connecticut,ma solo il 18 ottobre 1864 venne condotta un’osservazione attenta dello sciame da Alexander Stewart Herschel il quale stabilì che la pioggia di meteore si originasse a est della costellazione di Orione, non lontano dalla stella Betelgeuse.

Per la precisione, il radiante delle Orionidi si trova a Ascensione Retta 06h 20m e Declinazione +16°, in una zona di cielo corrispondente al punto indicato nella mappa.

Mappa Orionidi

Questo sciame di meteore che si può osservare solo in autunno illuminerà il cielo come fanno le Perseidi in estate, peccato che questa serata magica sarà disturbata dalla presenza di una bella una piena, come sapete le le “stelle cadenti” si osservano bene quando il cielo è completamente buio, ma Paolo Volpini, dell’Unione Astrofili Italiani (UAI), spiega che con un po’ di pazienza sarà possibile oservarle aspettando il culmine della notte, intorno all’una, quando le costellazioni si trovano nel punto più alto del cielo e la Terra incontra la parte più consistente del flusso di polveri lasciate dalle comete.

Questo autunno il cielo sarà comunque ricco di passaggi stellari sono infatti previste anche le piogge di meteore del delta Aurigidi, uno sciame di velocissime meteore ma di debole luminosità, e delle Tauridi, provenienti dalla regione a Nord della Balena.


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Orionidi le Stelle Cadenti D’autunno e la Leggenda Di Orione

Le Orionidi non sono stelle comete ma uno sciame meteorico generato dal passaggio della Terra nella scia della cometa di Halley; questo sciame è visibile tra 2 ottobre e il 7 novembre, con la massima attività intorno al 20-23 di ottobre e quest’anno il punto massimo di visibilità sarà proprio stasera, il 21 ottore 2016 quando sarà possibile osservare fino a 25/30 meteore l’ora.

Il nome Orionidi deriva dal fatto che il punto dal quale sembrano partire le meteore si trova in una zona intorno alla costellazione di Orione; la prima volta che fu visto lo sciame fu nel 1839, da E.C. Herrick del Connecticut,ma solo il 18 ottobre 1864 venne condotta un’osservazione attenta dello sciame da Alexander Stewart Herschel il quale stabilì che la pioggia di meteore si originasse a est della costellazione di Orione, non lontano dalla stella Betelgeuse.

Per la precisione, il radiante delle Orionidi si trova a Ascensione Retta 06h 20m e Declinazione +16°, in una zona di cielo corrispondente al punto indicato nella mappa.

Mappa Orionidi

Questo sciame di meteore che si può osservare solo in autunno illuminerà il cielo come fanno le Perseidi in estate, peccato che questa serata magica sarà disturbata dalla presenza di una bella una piena, come sapete le le “stelle cadenti” si osservano bene quando il cielo è completamente buio, ma Paolo Volpini, dell’Unione Astrofili Italiani (UAI), spiega che con un po’ di pazienza sarà possibile oservarle aspettando il culmine della notte, intorno all’una, quando le costellazioni si trovano nel punto più alto del cielo e la Terra incontra la parte più consistente del flusso di polveri lasciate dalle comete.

Questo autunno il cielo sarà comunque ricco di passaggi stellari sono infatti previste anche le piogge di meteore del delta Aurigidi, uno sciame di velocissime meteore ma di debole luminosità, e delle Tauridi, provenienti dalla regione a Nord della Balena.
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Orionidi

Il passaggio delle Orionidi sotto della Via Lattea (fonte: TheBrockenInaGlory)

Le comete non sono altro che “avanzi della creazione del Sistema Solare” che si disgregano dando origine a questi sciami di piccole particelle che rimangono nella scia della cometa e sono distribuiti più o meno uniformemente lungo tutta la sua orbita ed entrando in collisione con la Terra, l’attrito con l’atmosfera da origine a queste scie luminose che amiamo chiamare stelle cadenti.

Quindi mentre aspettiamo la vera Cometa di Halley che passerà vicino a noi solo il 29 luglio del 2061 (il suo ultimo passaggio fu nel 1986), possiamo goderci lo spettacolo di questo sciame che passerà ad una velocità media di circa 238mila Km orari (Fonte NASA) sulle nostre teste!
La leggenda di Orione

Visto che vedremo qualche scia luminosa partire da Orione è giusto capire chi fosse questo personaggio che da vita ad una delle costellazioni più belle.

La leggenda narra che Giove, Nettuno e Marte, giunti a Tanagra (vicino a Tebe in Beozia), furono ospitati e rifocillati da un povero contadino, Ireo, il quale si accorse della loro presenza divina e volle onorarli con il suo bene più grande, un bue. Gli Dei riconoscenti decisero di esaudire un suo desiderio, il quale non avendo più moglie avrebbe però desiderato un figlio; gli Dei si fecero portare la pelle del bue, lo irrorarono della loro “divina” urina e la seppellirono accuratamente, assicurando che, dopo 9 mesi ne sarebbe scaturito un bimbo, Orione.

Orione, in pochissimo tempo, divenne un gigante di straordinaria bellezza, tanto alto che, mentre scendeva da una montagna appoggiato ad un olmo, la sua testa era nascosta tra le nubi; Diana si innamorò di lui e lo prese al suo servizio facendolo ministro del suo culto e con lui andava a caccia.

Fino che un giorno Apollo, contrariato dall’amore che sua sorella Diana provava per il mortale Orione, decise di fare in modo che Diana stessa uccidesse con l’inganno Orione; ma visto il dolore della sorella a quella perdita decise di accogliere Orione e Sirio, il suo fedele cane, in cielo.

Dopo la sua morte, Orione ebbe a brillare in cielo formando la Costellazione di Orione, la più luminosa dell’Emisfero boreale. Una linea immaginaria, passante per le stelle della Cintura di Orione e prolungata verso sud-est, incontra la stella Sirio della costellazione del Cane Maggiore, il fido compagno di Orione.

Anche i sumeri avevano una loro versione della leggenda di Orione, il quale veniva individuato nel dio Uru-anna (luce del cielo) che, ogni anno, affrontava il toro celeste, Gud-anna, nell’allegorico scontro tra divinità da cui originava l’alternarsi delle stagioni.

Ora che sapete tutto non vi resta che aspettare col naso in su le “stelle cadenti” ovvero le Orionidi ed esprimere i vostri desideri!

Valeria Bonora
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www.invasionealiena.com/misteri/articoli-misteri/871-quale-il-misterioso-legame-tra-sirio-e-la-storia-um...

Allineamento piramide:
Orione = re
sirio = regina
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Thoth-Ermete Trismegisto, è l’equivalente dei Nommo Dogon, i quali si ritiene provenissero da Sirio? I testi antichi riguardanti Hermes lo descrivono come un maestro dei misteri “porveniente dalle stelle”. Inoltre, Thoth-Hermes era direttamente collegato con Sirio nella mitologia egizia....

grifo-ne.blogspot.com/2011/08/piramidi.html

www.google.com/search?q=mayan+homosexuality&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf3uPa6MfVAhWJ5oMKHQ5vBF8Q_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=736#imgrc=-f1udw3...

Cannibalism, sex drive, sodomy, homosexuality etc..all connected to the use of drugs
controlling human's mind since the beginning of time and used by many of our previous
gods/leaders...

Isabella of Portugal, wife of Charles V, possibly driven by these accounts, banned in 1529 the planting or use of maguey for the fermentation of pulque. The queen thought that it caused "drunkenness and drove the Indians to carry out" human sacrifices and unspeakable sin.[18]

...love between men, is noticeable since Gilgamesh epic, so the new heroe, abandons
rapes of young vergins, to begin to love ankidu or a man, like a woman after those
offering to their gods guiding them into those new paths replacing previous ones and
again replaced by new form of parassitic gods feeding on the old ones as UNAS explains
in his pyramid with the cannibal hymn and similar practices of similar gods or humans
under the influence/control of those gods taking human form and control of our genetic
code/dna...and sex, was a vital tool to transmit power, so were urine and sperm where
the spores of those gods, were travelling live fish in the 2 rivers or enki's 2 waters
connected to phallic cults, ritual cannibalism, human/animal sacrifices and similar
practices present all over the planet by humans receiving similar orders because under
the control of similar gods/parissites/terminators taking human's form, using drugs,
phallic cults and similar rituals..and enki, is our common forgotten god, creator of all
human religions divided into many groups and fighting for resources, territories and
human slaves with holy wars since the beginning of time...have we changed at all?

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LGBT history in Mexico
Connected to: Homosexuality Mexico City Two-Spirit
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The study of homosexuality in Mexico can be divided into three separate periods, coinciding with the three main periods of Mexican history: pre-Columbian, colonial, and post-independence, in spite of the fact that the rejection of homosexuality forms a connecting thread that crosses the three periods.

The data on the pre-Columbian people and those of the period of colonization is scarce and obscure. Historians often described the indigenous customs that surprised them or that they disapproved of, but tended to take a position of accusation or apology, which makes it impossible to distinguish between reality and propaganda. In general, it seems that the Mexica were as homophobic as the Spanish, and that other indigenous peoples tended to be much more tolerant,[1] to the point of honoring Two-Spirit people as shamans.

The history of homosexuality in the colonial period and after independence is still in great part yet to be studied. Above all, the 1658 executions of sodomites and the 1901 Dance of the Forty-One, two great scandals in Mexican public life, dominate the scene.

The situation is changing in the 21st century, in part thanks to the discovery of the LGBT community as potential consumers, the so-called pink peso, and tourists. Laws have been created to combat discrimination (2003), and two federal entities, the Federal District and Coahuila, have legalized civil unions for same-sex couples (2007). On December 21, 2009, despite opposition from the Church, the Government of Mexico City approved same-sex marriage, with 39 votes in favor, 20 against and 5 abstaining. It was the first city in Latin America to do so.[2] However, in 2007 Mexico was still one of the countries in which the most crimes are committed against the LGBT community, with a person being murdered in a homophobic crime every two days.[3]
Precolumbian era

The majority of information on the pre-Columbian peoples comes from the reports of the Spanish conquest. These accounts must be taken with caution, given that the accusation of sodomy was used to justify the conquest, along with other accusations real or invented, such as human sacrifice, cannibalism, or idolatry.[4] Given that the defenders of the natives manipulated information as much as those who opposed them, some trying to minimise the incidence of sodomy and others exaggerating the stories, it is impossible to get an accurate picture of homosexual behavior in pre-Columbian Mexico. The historian Antonio de Herrera arrived at that conclusion as early as 1601.[5]

Among the indigenous peoples of the Americas the institution of the two-spirit people was widespread. The two-spirits, originally considered hermaphrodites and called "berdache" by the Spanish conquistadors, were men who took feminine duties and behaviors. They were considered neither men nor women by their societies, but were considered like a third sex and often held spiritual functions. The conquistadors often thought of them as passive homosexuals, and they were treated with contempt and cruelty.[6]
Homoerotic Mayan paint in the natural cave of Naj Tunich in Petén, Guatemala.
Homoerotic Mayan paint in the natural cave of Naj Tunich in Petén, Guatemala.

Among Mayans, there was a strong association between ritual and homosexual behavior. Some shamans engaged in homosexual acts with their patients, and priests engaged in ritualized homosexual acts with their gods.[7] According to a 17th-century Franciscan friar, Fray Juan de Torquemada, teen-aged males were given pubescent boys to serve as partners until marriage, at which time the younger partner was given a pubescent boy of his own.[8] When the Toltecs arrived to conquer the region, they brought more sodomy and public sex of all kinds. Then when Itzá conquered the area, they brought more sodomy, more eroticism and extensive sexual ceremonies.[7] However, the Maya, as a people with a hybrid culture, had differing views on homosexual sodomy. The Maya Chilam Balam books, for example, regularly contained sexual insults directed toward the Itzá. According to mythology contained in the book, sodomites were responsible for destroying the order of Maya society by producing illegitimate children through their anuses who were unable to run society.

The Zapotecs of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico did not develop a culture of conquest, which may explain their relaxed attitude toward masculinity.[9] Homosexual behavior was common among males of all ages. Boys began having sex with other males during puberty and would continue having sex with other men through their twenties. By the time they were thirty most males were married and had children, but as with the Mayans, homosexual relations continued even after marriage. In fact, it was not uncommon for a Zapotec man to leave a marriage after his children were grown and move in with another male lover.[10] The Zapotecs developed the concept of a third gender, which they referred to as muxe, as an intermediate between male and female who played both gender roles in everyday life.[9] It is important to note that “two-spirit” (and similar native terms) refer to gender, not sexual orientation. “Two-spirit” individuals may be heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual. To date, muxes still exist among Zapotec people and play a crucial role within the community.

In the Valley of Mexico, the Aztecs lived in urban centers such as Texcoco, Tlatelolco, and Tenochitlan. From there, they politically dominated most of Mesoamerica and extracted a heavy tribute of raw materials, finished products, slaves, and sacrificial victims.[11] The Aztecs exhibited a profound duality in their approach to sexual behavior. On one hand, they held public rituals which were at times very erotic, but on the other, they were extremely prudish in everyday life. In their pantheon, the Aztecs worshiped a deity, Xochiquetzal, who was the goddess of non-procreative sexuality and love, and both female and male at the same time. In her male aspect, called Xochipilli, was worshiped as the deity of male homosexuality and male prostitution.[12] The mythical history of the Aztec people was divided into four "worlds", of which the previous had been "an easy, weak life, of sodomy, perversion, of the dance of the flowers and of adoration to Xochiquétzal", in which the "masculine virtues of war, management and wisdom" were forgotten.[13] It is possible that this story made reference to the Toltecs.[4] In the majority of cases, they allowed the people they conquered to maintain their own customs. Nonetheless, Aztecs placed a high premium on "manly", "assertive" behavior, and a corresponding stigma on "submissive" behavior. When conquered people were not sacrificed on temple altars, the males of conquered nations were often demoted to the status of women.[14][15] The penalties for male homosexual intercourse were severe. Mexica law punished sodomy with the gallows, impalement for the active homosexual, extraction of the entrails through the anal orifice for the passive homosexual, and death by garrote for the lesbians.[16] In Tenochtitlan, they hanged homosexuals. In nearby Texcoco, the active partner was "bound to a stake, completely covered with ashes and so left to die; the entrails of the passive agent were drawn out through his anus, he was then covered with ashes, and wood being added, the pile was ignited."[14]

Some authors state that these strict laws were not used in practice and that homosexuals were relatively free. For example, they cite Spanish chronicles that speak of widespread sodomy that included children of up to 6 years or of children dressed like women to practice prostitution. The chronicles also speak of religious acts in which sodomy was practiced.[17]

The existence of lesbianism is testified to by the Nahuatl word "patlacheh", which designates a woman who carries out masculine activities, including the penetration of other women, as revealed in the General history of the matters of New Spain by Bernardino de Sahagún.[13]

In spite of the puritanism of the Mexica, the sexual customs of the people conquered by the Aztec Empire varied to a great extent. For example, Bernal Díaz del Castillo speaks of homosexuality among the ruling classes, prostitution of young people, and cross-dressing in the area of Veracruz.[13] The yauyos had prostitution houses full of men with painted faces and women's clothing.

The Toltecs, elsewhere, were extremely tolerant of homosexuality.[4]
The conquest
Engraving by Theodor de Bry that represents the scene in which Balboa sets his dogs on some two-spirits (1594); Public library of New York.
Engraving by Theodor de Bry that represents the scene in which Balboa sets his dogs on some two-spirits (1594); Public library of New York.

Since the first contacts of the Spanish with the indigenous people there was established the equivalence of Indian, cannibal, and sodomite. It was a doctor accompanying Columbus, Diego Alvarez Chanca, in a letter from 1494, who first gave news of that. He spoke of the Carib custom of capturing young men to those who removed all the masculine organs. These developed "feminine characteristics and the Caribbeans employed them for the practice of sodomy in a manner similar to that which the Arabs enjoy their young people like eunuchs and two-spirits. ... A time grown men, the Caribs kill them and eat them."[18]

In 1511, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera published his De orbe novo decades, with the information that he was able to get about the first explorers thanks to his friendship with Isabella I of Castile. D'Anghiera told how Vasco Núñez de Balboa, during his exploration of Quarequa, in the Isthmus of Panama, in 1513, upset with "a brother of the king and other young men, obliging men, [who] dressed effeminately with women's clothing [... of those which the brother of the king] went too far with unnatural" temerity, threw forty of them as food to the dogs. D'Anghiera continues his story saying that the indigenous people's "natural hate for unnatural sin" drove them so that, "spontaneously and violently, they searched for all the rest that they would know who were infected". After all, D'Anghiera mentions that "only the nobles and the gentlemen practiced that kind of desire. [... The] indigenous people knew that sodomy gravely offended God. [... And that these acts provoked] the tempests that with thunder and lightning so frequently afflicted them, or the floods that drowned their fruits that had caused hunger and sickness."[18]

In an account on the indigenous people realized in 1519 for the council of the town of Veracruz to report to Charles I, attributed to Hernán Cortés, it is mentioned that they had "managed to know for certain that they are all sodomites and practice that abominable sin".[18] In another account from an anonymous Italian conquistador, it is said that the men and women of Pánuco worship a masculine member and have erect phalluses in their temples and public plazas to worship them: "the multitude of methods used by the men to satisfy their abominable vice [is] almost too unbelievable to be sure. [...] the devil contained in their idols has possessed them. It has given them instructions to sacrifice their fellow men, to extract their hearts and to offer the hearts, as well as the blood taken from the tongue, the ears, the legs and the arms, all to the idols". Finally, he comments that "all the inhabitants of New Spain and those of other adjacent provinces ate human flesh, all commonly practiced sodomy and drank to excess", comparing some of the customs of the indigenous people with those of the ungodly saracens.[18]

In the middle of the 16th century the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the explorer Fernández de Oviedo, and the soldier Juan de Grijalva write about scenes of sodomy carved into the architecture, in gold jewelry, in terracota and in statues. The event was confirmed in 1526 by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, manager of gold smelting for American mines.[18] Around the same time, Núñez Cabeza de Vaca writes:

diabolical practices [...] a man married to another man, amarionados or effeminate, impotent men that dressed like women and performed women's duties, nevertheless, they fired the bow and the arrow and could carry heavy loads on their persons. We saw many amarionados, although taller and sturdier than the other men. Many of these men practiced the sin against nature.
— Núñez Cabeza de Vaca[18]

Isabella of Portugal, wife of Charles V, possibly driven by these accounts, banned in 1529 the planting or use of maguey for the fermentation of pulque. The queen thought that it caused "drunkenness and drove the Indians to carry out" human sacrifices and unspeakable sin.[18]

These and other accounts were converted into an authentic literary genre, circulated to the whole Peninsula, and were used to justify the idea of Empire; it was another "just cause" for the domination and occupation of the West Indies. Francisco de Vitoria, despite knowing that the indigenous people were right and that as such the emperor did not have law over them, thought that "the heathens that committed sins against nature, such as idolatry, pederasty or fornication, all those offenses to God, could have been stopped by force". Among those sins against nature was naturally sodomy, the sin against nature par excellence. The legislation was based on the different culture and its customs, among the most notable: cannibalism, human sacrifice, and sodomy, in this case the conquest of Mexico could have represented simply an extension of the Spanish reconquest of the infidels, represented then by the Moors. Thus the circle was closed with the relationship of Moor, sodomite, Indian.[18]
Viceroyalty of New Spain

The Spaniards were shocked to observe homosexual behavior elsewhere in the New World. They had encountered a cultural tradition unknown to Europe but common to many indigenous tribes in North and South America: publicly recognized gender role reversal. As described by Fernandez de Oviedo on his 1526 "Natural History of the Indies":

"Very common among the indians in many parts is the nefarious sin against the nature, even in public the indians are headmen [...] have youths with whom they use this accursed sin, and those consenting youths as soon as they fall into this guilt wear naguas (skirts) like women [...] and they wear strings of beads and bracelets and the other things used by women as adornment; and they do not exercise in the use of weapons, nor do anything proper to men, but they occupy themselves in the usual chores of the house such as to sweep and wash and other things customary for women."
— Fernandez de Oviedo.[19]

As conquerors, the Spanish sought to justify the subordination of native peoples. When they encountered cultures that sanctioned male-male sexual relations, they immediately labeled such behavior "sodomy," after the biblical city of Sodom, which was said to have been destroyed by God for the sinful behavior of its inhabitants.[20] That the biblical sin in question was the failure to show hospitality to strangers was irrelevant in the light of subsequent ecclesiastical interpretation, which ascribed it to homosexuality.[20] Thus homosexual behavior among many of the native peoples became one of several theological justifications for the destruction of their culture, subjugation of their societies, and conversion to Roman Catholicism.[21]

As of the middle of the 16th century, there appeared the first historians who really lived and worked in New Spain. Fray Toribio de Benavente, later called Motolínia, one of the most important historians of this era, writes that the indigenous people "drank a certain wine called pulque, to the point of drunkenness, followed by sacrifices and vices of the flesh, especially [...] the unspeakable sin". Again all the indigenous people are demonized as crazy drunks. Worst were the official historians, like Francisco López de Gómara, who filled America with fantastic beings despite never having set foot on American soil, or Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, who thought that the indigenous people had been predetermined by nature for servitude. Also, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún dedicated the chapter "Of the depraved people such as ruffians and sodomites" of his General history of the things of New Spain (1558–1565) to the subject. Bernal Díaz del Castillo also write about sodomy as of 1568. Again, he connects the Indian religions and their priests with cannibalism, human sacrifice, and sodomy. In 1569 Tomás López Mendel also blames the indigenous priests for spreading sodomy among the people.[18]

In reaction to these writings, as of 1542, Bartolomé de las Casas, along with other indigenous and missionary writers, launched a literary counteroffensive. De las Casas considered the "beastly vice of sodomy as the worst, the most detestable of any human wickedness". He denied with passion the reports passed on by the conquistadors and explorers, who had "defamed the Indians, having accused them of being infected with sodomy, a great and wicked falsehood" and thought that they observed "abstinence towards the sensual, vile and dirty affections", although he admitted that in a country so big there could be isolated cases of particular people in particular cases, attributed to "a natural corruption, depravity, a kind of innate sickness or fear of witchcraft and other magic spells", but in no case among the converts to Christianity. De las Cases gives for example the mixe who cruelly set fire to the sodomites discovered in the temple. According to the statements of Fray Augustín de Vetancurt, those men who dressed as women (and vice versa) were hanged if they committed unspeakable sin and the priests were burned, a report that Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta confirms. Fray Gregorio García, in his Origin of the Indians of the new world (sic, 1607), assured that before the arrival of the Spanish "the men of New Spain committed huge sins, especially those against nature, although repeatedly they burned for those and were consumed in the fire sent from the heavens [... the indigenous people] punished the sodomites with death, executed them with great vigor. [...] They strangled or drowned the women who lay with other women since those also considered it against nature". Garcia attributed the cases of sodomy to the fact that the "miserable Indians act like that because the Devil has tricked them, making them believe that the gods they worship also practice sodomy and therefore they consider it a good and lawful custom".[18]

Nevertheless, De las Casas could not stop giving news about homosexual acts in contemporary Indian societies, as the custom of the fathers buying young boys for their children "to be used for the pleasure of sodomy", the existence of "infamous public places known as efebías where lewd and shameless young men practiced the abominable sin with all those who came into the house" or the two-spirits, "impotent, effeminate men dressed as women and carrying out their work". Also Fray Gregoria García gave news of that kind, such as "some men dressed as women and some father had five sons [... the younger] dressed him as a woman, and instructed him in his work and married him as a girl, although even in New Spain they scorned the effeminate and womanly Indians". The mentions of sodomy continued for a long time, even in 1666, in Cristóbal de Agüero and in 1697, in Fray Ángel Serra.[18]

Indigenous writers did not delay in joining De las Casas to defend American culture. Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, governor of Texcoco, wrote in 1605 that among the Chichimecs, the one who "assumed the function of the woman had his internal parts extracted by the backside while he stayed tied up to a stake, after which some boys poured ashes on the body until it was buried under them [...] they covered all the pile with many pieces of firewood and set it on fire. [... also] covered that which had functioned as man with ashes while he was alive, until he died".[18] Alva Ixtlilxochitl's account is, according to Crompton, too detailed to be invented, but according to Garza the story shows clear signs of Mediterranean influence in the fact of the differentiation between active and passive homosexuals.[5]

The colonial administration imposed the Spanish laws and customs on the indigenous peoples, which, in the case of sodomy, was facilitated by the existence of similar laws in the Aztec Empire.[6] During the Spanish Golden Age, the crime of sodomy was handled and punished in equivalent manner to that of treason or heresy, the two most serious crimes against the State.[22] Initially the Inquisition was controlled by the local bishops, such as the archbishop Juan de Zumárraga (1536–1543), of whom a study of the cases judged shows that homosexuality was one of the main preoccupations of the court. The punishments for sexual sings tended to be fines, penance, public humiliation, and lashing in the most serious cases. In 1569 Felipe II officially creates the tribunal of Mexico City,[5] but in the Viceroyalty of New Spain only civil law took charge of judging the unspeakable sin.[23]

In 1569, official inquisitorial tribunals had been created in Mexico City by Philip II. Homosexuality was a prime concern of the [episcopal] Inquisition, which inflicted stiff fines, spiritual penances, public humiliations, and floggings for sexual sins.[24] In 1662, the Mexican Inquisition complained that homosexuality was common, especially among the clergy, and asked for jurisdiction on the grounds that the secular courts were not sufficiently vigilant. The request was denied. In fact, the civil authorities, under the 8th Duke of Albuquerque, had recently been extremely active, indicting a hundred men for sodomy and executing a substantial number. People accused of homosexuality were publicly executed by mass burnings in San Lázaro, Mexico City.[24]

The first known burning of sodomites in Mexico was in 1530, when they burned on the Caltzontzin pyre for idolatry, sacrifice, and sodomy.[18] Pedro Cieza de León also tells that Juan of Olmos, principal judge of Puerto Viejo, had burned "great quantities of those depraved and demonic Indians".[5] In 1596, the viceroy Gaspar de Zúñiga, Count of Monterrey reported, in a letter sent to Philip II to justify the increase of the salary of the royal officials, that those had seized and burned some delinquents for the unspeakable sin and other types of sodomy, although he does not give the number of victims or the circumstances of the event.[18]

In 1658 the Viceroy of New Spain, the Duke of Albuquerque, wrote to Charles II about a case of unspeakable sin in Mexico City in which he had "nineteen prisoners, fourteen of which [were] sentenced to burn". Lucas Matheo, a young man of 15 years, was saved from the bonfire thanks to his youth, but suffered 200 lashes and six years of forced labor by cannon. Among the documents sent to the king is a letter from the judge of the Supreme Court of His Majesty, Juan Manuel Sotomayor, who describes sodomy as an "endemic cancer" that had "infested and spread among the captive prisoners of the Inquisition in their individual cells and the ecclesiastical officials have also begun their own investigations". The letter from Sotomayor reports that between 1657 and 1658 they have investigated and sentenced 125 individuals, whose names, ethnicities, and occupations he lists next. The Viceroy as much as the Magistrate bases his rejection of sodomy on the Bible and religion, although they use stories sui generis, like Sotomayor, who writes "as some saints have professed, that all the sodomites have died with the birth of Our Lord Jesus".[18]

The previous case allows us to catch a glimpse of the subculture of homosexuals in Mexico City in the first half of the 17th century, since many of the accused were more than 60 years old and took that life for more than twenty. All those involved came from the lower classes: blacks, indigenous people, mulattos, and deformed Europeans. There are signs that the wealthier classes were also implicated, but were not deemed affected thanks to their influence. Many of the accused had nicknames, like Juan de la Vega, who was called "la Cotita", Juan de Correa, "la Estanpa", or Miguel Gerónimo, "la Cangarriana", the nickname of a prostitute from the city who was known for her promiscuity. The group met periodically in private houses, often on the days of religious festivities with the excuse of praying and giving tribute to the Virgin and the saints, but in reality they had cross-dressing dances and orgies. The next meeting places and dates were mentioned in the previous parties or were disseminated by mail and messengers who belonged to the group.[18]
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was an icon for modern lesbian culture.[25][26]
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was an icon for modern lesbian culture.[25][26]

Colonial culture was similar to that of Spain and had prominent intellectuals among those born in America. Perhaps one of the most important was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, of whom it has also been said that she was a lesbian,[27][28] based on the intense friendships that she had with various women, the beauty of whom she praises in her poetry.[27]
Independent Mexico

Mexican independence from Spain in 1821 brought an end to the Inquisition and the colonial homosexual oppression. The intellectual influence of the French Revolution and the brief French occupation of Mexico (1862–67) resulted in the adoption of the Napoleonic Penal Code. This meant that sexual conduct in private between adults, whatever their gender, ceased to be a criminal matter.[29] In matters concerning homosexuality, the Mexican government held that law should not invade the terrain of the individual moral conscience, in order to protect the precious concerns of sexual freedom and security; and that the law should limit itself "to the minimum ethics indispensable to maintaining society."[29] It should be noted, however, that it did not grant people the right to be overtly homosexual; for included in the "minimum ethics indispensable to maintaining society" are laws against solicitation and any public behavior which is considered socially deviant or contrary to the folkways and customs of the time. Public homosexual behavior being one of them.[29]

In 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain and began a new phase. Some researchers have emphasized that cultural practices, such as friendship and homosociality of some groups of leaders, and clergy, the army, and lawyers, among others, facilitated the development of homoerotic practices. President Anastasio Bustamante, for example, used to have "young gentlemen" or "favorites" as hostesses, private secretaries, who lived and traveled with him for long periods.[citation needed]

In 1863 French troops took Mexico City and established Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Fernando Bruquetas de Castro, in his book "Kings who loved like queens", states that Maximilian I was gay. It seems that the rumours of his homosexuality began in the court of Brussels, where his wife, the princess Carlota Amalia, came from. The conclusive breakup between Maximilian and Carlota was during a stopover in Madeira, where the future emperor made a famous escape for the homosexual underworld of the island. In Mexico, Carlota became pregnant, possibly by the baron Alfred Van der Smissen, who formed part of the queen's guard, while the emperor was surrounded by his male friends, like the prince Félix Salm-Salm or the colonel López, who were loyal to the end.[30]

The French invasion introduced the Napoleonic code in Mexico. The code does not mention sodomy, for it had ceased to be a crime. Nevertheless, in 1871 the new Penal Code introduced "attack on morality and proper customs", a relatively vague concept whose interpretation was left to the police and the judges, and which was used against homosexuals.[4] Thus, in the late 19th century a homosexual subculture had already formed in Mexico City, similar to that existing in other large American cities such as Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Havana, New York City, and Toronto.[6] The work of historians like Victor M . Macías-González, Pablo Picatto, and Robert Buffington, among others, has identified areas such as gay bathhouses, prisons, and some squares and avenues of the capital. The work of criminologist Roumagnac, for example, gives details of homosexual practices in the country's prisons.

In the spring of 1918, Manuel Palafox, secretary general of Emiliano Zapata, was accused by political enemies within the Zapatista camp of having leaked information through his homosexual relationships. Put under the watch of Gildardo Magaña, he escaped and sought to bring together the Zapatista leaders around him, in which he failed. Palafox died in 1959 without revealing his homosexuality.[4]

In the 1930s there already existed some bars and baths for homosexuals in Mexico City, in the areas around Alameda, Zócalo, Paseo de Reforma and Calle Madero. In the next decade, during World War II, the city had ten to fifteen bars, and dancing was permitted in El África and El Triumfo. This relative permissivity ended in 1959, when the mayor Uruchurtu closed all the city's gay bars after a triple crime.[13]
Dance of the forty-one


Main article: Dance of the Forty-One
Publication of newspaper Hoja Suelta in 1901. Illustration by famous Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada, representing the Dance of the 41 Maricones.
Publication of newspaper Hoja Suelta in 1901. Illustration by famous Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada, representing the Dance of the 41 Maricones.

On the night of 20 November 1901, Mexico City police raided an affluent drag ball, arresting 42 men, half of them dressed as women, and dragging them off to Belón Prison.[29] The resulting scandal, known as the Dance of the 41 Maricones, received massive press coverage and prompted a series of widely circulated prints by José Guadalupe Posada that depicted the dance.[31] The cross-dressers were publicly humiliated, forced to sweep the streets under police guard, inducted into the 24th Battalion of the Mexican Army and sent to the southeastern state of Yucatán, where the Caste War was still being fought.[31] Rumors that then-President Porfirio Díaz's nephew, Ignacio de la Torre, had attended the dance but was permitted to escape further added to the scandal's notoriety.[31] Although the official account was that she was a "real woman."[29] Historians, including well-known cultural commentator Carlos Monsiváis, argue that male homosexuality in the modern sense was "invented" in Mexico when the 1901 raid occurred.[31] Since that time, the number 41 has come to symbolize male homosexuality in Mexican popular culture, figuring frequently in jokes and in casual teasing.[31] Although the raid on the Dance of the 41 was followed by a less-publicized raid of a lesbian bar on 4 December 1901 in Santa Maria, the regime was soon worried by more serious threats such as the political and civil unrest that eventually led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910.[29]
Society in the twentieth century

Despite the international depression of the 1930s and along with the social revolution overseen by President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–40), the growth of Mexico City was accompanied by the opening of gay bars and gay bathhouses supplementing the traditional cruising locales of the Alameda, the Zócalo, Paseo de la Reforma, and Calle Madero (formerly Plateros).[29] Those involved in homosexual activity continued to live with their families, and there were no homophobic publications.

The lower classes of Mexican society tend to preserve the Mediterranean model, in which homosexuals are divided into active and passive, the active ones being "masculine" and the passive ones being "effeminate" and "contemptible": "I'm a man; if I fuck you, you're not a man". There exists fear among active homosexuals of being penetrated, because they fear the possibility that they will like it and cease to be "men".[13] For their part, the homosexuals of the higher, more cosmopolitan classes took the European model of the dandy in the late 19th century.[29] This model is being replaced by another more similar to the Anglo-Saxon one, in which the homosexual is not defined by the active/passive dichotomy, but by the fact that he has sexual relations with other men. Those who refuse to define themselves as active or passive are called "internationals".[13]

During the Second World War, ten to fifteen gay bars operated in Mexico City, with dancing permitted in at least two, El África and El Triunfo. Relative freedom from official harassment continued until 1959 when Mayor Ernesto Uruchurtu closed every gay bar following a grisly triple murder. Motivated by moralistic pressure to "clean up vice," or at least to keep it invisible from the top, and by the lucrativeness of bribes from patrons threatened with arrests and from establishments seeking to operate in comparative safety, Mexico City's policemen had a reputation for zeal in persecution of homosexuals.[29] By the late 1960s several Mexican cities had gay bars and, later, U.S.-style dance clubs. These places, however, were sometimes clandestine but tolerated by local authorities often meant that they were allowed to exist so long as the owners paid bribes. A fairly visible presence was developed in large cities such as Guadalajara, Acapulco, Veracruz and Mexico City.[32]

Among many Mexican homosexuals there exists the so-called "phallic dream", which consists of seeing the U.S. as a sexual utopia, in which they can be free and openly gay. Acting accordingly, they try to make contact with foreign tourists as a springboard to the dream destination. However, many end up disillusioned in the dream destination when they have to face up to prevailing homophobia and racism.[33]

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E' vero, il nostro comune Dio e' un parassita alieno

caduto dal cielo e preannuciato dalle comparse di particolari stelle/meteoriti che preannunciavano la venuta/nascita di queste ipotetiche divinita'/profeti o nuovi figli del dio del cielo o del padre celeste....



copia di un commento lasciato altrove ed il dio della vecchia bibbia, e' lo stesso dei cristiani/musulmani/ebrei e degli altri popoli, anche se presentato con leggende/propagande politico/religiose riadattate a tempi/luoghi/intelligenze degli umani...



u il creatore di questo tipo di mentalita' razzista, dittatoriale, spietata e schiavista, che per i suoi sacrifici umani e nei suoi centri divinatori, voleva solo gente pura, senza nessun difetto fisico da usare come offerte insieme a tutte le migliori risorse/ricchezze degli umani, come praticato da tutti i nostri avi controllati/illusi/strumentalizzati/sfruttati da queste ipotetiche divinita' educatrici/sfruttatrici di umani presenti alle radici di tutte le nostre culture/religioni dimentiche delle loro comuni sorgenti celesti...od aliene alla terra da loro posseduta come un nuovo utero per creare nuove vite da divorare per le loro rinascite era dopo era sotto nuove spoglie/pelli/religioni/politiche etc...

Il razzismo/fascismo/dittatura dei popoli eletti o super razze o razze predilette
dal dio nero della vecchia bibbia che ha radici comuni con ebrei/cristiani/musulmani,
fu invantato dai poteri religiosi e dalle comuni radici del vecchio Dio massacratore
di umani, invasore di terre altrui che prometteva ai suoi fedeli ciechi, incitati
a fare stragi di uomini/donne/bambini/lattanti/vecchi/animali dei culti opposti
senza nessuna pieta' ma nera/cieca obbedienza al dio nero che riprogrammava gli umani
per scannarsi a vicenda in suo nome, derubandosi reciprocamente, terre, risorse e
schiavi umani con distruzioni cicliche che a rotazione annientavano le popolazioni che
si innalzavano e ribellavano alla schiavitu'/dittatura nera, dei leaders spirituali,
che si diramavano in sottogruppi tutti in cerca dello stesso potere proprio come
fanno attualmente i politicanti che infatti imitano quelle ancestrali divinita' nere
che perndevano il controllo del dna umano e del nostro materiale genetico, collegate
tutte con i moti celesti vitali alle loro nuove manifestazioni o nuove comparse di
nuovi profeti/figli di questo o quel dio, salvatori etc..tutti collegati con particolari
meteoriti chiamata figli di Dio, tori celesti, seme del dio del cielo che facevano cadere
il nuovo Adamo/lucifero sulla terra etc..ora studiosi stanno infatti scoprendo che alcune
meteoriti contengono piccole forme di vita protette in quelle rocce nere e stanno ipotizzando
che diverse forme di vita, furono infatti portate sulla terra da queste pioggie di stelle
morte, di sistemi solari morti che divenivano seme celeste o figli di dio o tori celesti con
i quali la terra veniva colpita durante le grandi stagioni etc...forme di vita parassita
che usavano il dna e materiale genetico delle altre forme di vita facendole proprie, incluse
le piane sacre e frutti proibiti tutti collegati ai rituali di queste ipotetiche divinita'
aliene venute dalle rocce nere come documentato anche nella piramide del faraone cannibale
UNAS, che cade sulla terra portato dalla roccia nera e divora/assimila tutte le essenze
degli dei precedenti e degli umani di cui si ciba come storicamente documentato in questi
tanti centri occulti della loro oscura presenza sulla terra, (piramidi/ziggurats/tempi/chiese)
che da sempre controllavano le politiche del mondo facendo/programmanod uomini a loro
immagine e somiglianza che li imitavano nelle guerre di rivalita', distruzione, sterminio,
e nella loro caduta, creando distruzioni cicliche di tutte le popolazioni umane indotte
da queste ipotetiche guerre sante da loro stessi inventate come descritto anche sulla
vecchia bibbia e ripetuto nei versetti della spada che venivano eseguiti alla lettera e che
ancora alcuni seguono ciecamente alla lettera senza voler sapere/capire andare oltre le
apparenze che nascondono tutti i poteri religiosi creati da queste ipotetiche divinita'
aliene divoratrici/educatrici/sterminatrici di umani da sempre insieme alle droghe/draghi
loro alleati nei rituali di sacrifici umani di ebbrezze/uccisioni degli immolati/sacrificati,
derubati dei loro poteri o sette ME assorbiti dai nuovi aspiranti capi in vari modo barbari
che si sono riadattati a tempi, luoghi, intelligenze degli umani abolendo le comuni pratche
infernali che tutti loro adottavano perche' sotto il controllo/dominio/guida di queste
ipotetiche divinita' invisibili che mai nessuno ha visto e mai nessuno vedra' ma che
ancora si possono scorgere nelle loro prime apparizioni con nominativi/culti diversi, che
si riscontrano nel piu' antico reperto della descrizione della grande alluvione, che e'
infatti scritta in lingua cuneiforme e quel dio massacratore di umani, che li usa
sfrutta illude schiavizza per costruire i suoi tanti imperi sbarazzandosi di loro alla
fine e salvando solo i pochi eletti delle super razze di potenti e delle loro famiglie e
nuclei di potere necessari per ricorstuire i nuovi imperi, era stranamente lo stesso dio
biblico che pero' si chiamava ENKI, ed era lui ad avvisare il suo popolo eletto, per
permettergli di mettersi in salvo mentre quasi tutto il resto della popolazione umana
periva e continuava a perire nelle ere successive con le guerre sante dei super eletti,
come descritto anche nella vecchia bibbia che riporta le storie della grande alluvione e
rinomina enki, con nuovi appellativi inserendolo in nuove storie riadattate ai tempi,
luoghi, necessita' dei capi religiosi che da sempre controllano quelli politici e mi
chiedo quanto sia cambiato e quanto sitamo imitando i nostri capi neri anche nella loro
caduta/estinzione dato che ci hanno creati ipocriti, sfruttatori, menzogneri, falsi,
opportunisti, parassiti, strumentalizzatori di folle e di schiavi umani come loro
che oltre gli schiavi umani, usavano le potentissime armi dei fedeli ciechi,
sterminatori di intelligenza umana e distuttori di tutte le culture avanzate
degli umani che ciclicamente annientavano e da cui ciclicamente venivano anche
loro annientati come una sorta di implosione/autodistruzione attivata dalle religioni
create da questi ipotetici dei/divinita' occulte che gli umani imitavano per avere
anche loro grande potere/controllo sulle folle seguendo i cattivi/pessimi esempi del
dio nero delle ere precedenti, nascosto, nascosto nei nuovi formati e presentato sotto
mentite spoglie di nuovi profeti suoi figli che il padre e' un demonio cannibale
distruttore/divoratore di umani come documentato nelle diverse origini delle religioni,
non puo' certo dare alla luce un figlio/profeta salvatore che salva l'umanita' tramite
il proprio sacrificio promosso sempre da enki, nelle sue nuove direttive di nuove
caste sacertodali ed immolazione del leader, per poterne assorbire i poteri e
trasferirli nel gruppo dei nuovi leaders con vari sistemi riadattati a luoghi/tempi ed
intelligenze degli umani sotto il loro controll/dominio da sempre e basta osservare
come si coportano gli umani riporgrammati con i loro culti...come i drogati non hanno
la capacita' di liberarsi dalla potente assuefazione che creano e che controlla la
loro mente sfruttata dai leader religiosi per le loro necessita' e poteri occulti tramite
nuovi sistemi di falsi predicatori di ipocrisie che i politicanti imitano in scale
piu' piccole, compresi i tanti piccoli nessuno perche' il cambiar di natura e' un
impresa troppo dura per l'animale uomo, riprogrammato ad immagine e somiglianza delle
sue divinita' secondo i copioni delle sue religioni/culture da esse create e che lo
hanno immiserito nella sua superiore intelligenza contaminata da queste spore aliene
parassite che gli umani percepivano come divinita' educatrici/illuminatrici ma in realta'
erano come le droghe/draghi da esse usate come aiutanti divini o complici/divinita'
che li accompagnavano nei loro rituali di sacrifici umani di animali e di altre forme
di vita compiuti nei loro siti sacri ed infatti tutti gli umani si comportavano in modi
simili perche' sotto il dominio/comando/controllo di divinita' simili che presero
a rivaleggiare tra loro ed a creare sottogruppi ciclicamente distrutti...chi e perche'
ha creato per primo il razzismo/fascismo/dittatura delle super razze sfruttatrici di
spiritualita' e sterminatrici di intelligenza umana che gli uomini hanno imitato?

Basta usare le giuste chiavi di lettura per decodificare il nostro comune passato,
scritto ancora sull'intero pianeta perche' non sono riusciti a distruggere tutto e basta
mettere insieme tutti i comuni denominatori di tutti i popoli antichi e delle loro comuni
pratiche divinatorie precedenti, per capire chi erano e da dove provenivano le nostre
ipotetiche divinita' educatrici/sfruttatrici/divoratrici di umani connesse con i moti
celesti e non a caso anche Giordano Bruno, che non era dipendente dal potere nero che
opprimeva, sfruttava, schiavizzava l'intelligenza umana e la innata spritualita'
dell'uomo, per ampliare il proprio potere occulto sotto nuovi formati, anche Giordano, il
cui libro di astronomia chiave di lettura di molti miti antichi divenne completamente
introvabile, ci ricordo' che (nel futuro l'uomo apprendera' dallo studio delle stelle,
il giorno della sua fine....) e non a caso ci ricordo' che solo gli Dei che sanno tutto,
e gli IGNORANTI CHE PENSANO DI SAPERE TUTTO, non cercano ed i religiosi sono riprogrammati
non per cercare la verita', ma come i politicanti, per promuovere le loro religioni...

copio il materiale che e' nel link da mettere a confronto con atre documentazioni parallele
che hanno gli stessi comuni denominatori anche se presentati sotto altri formati/storie/leggende...

ED IO HO NOTATO OSSERVANDO LE GUERRE SANTE O GUERRE DI RIVLAITA' DEI POTERI
RELIGIOSI DEI NOSTRI AVI CHE USAVANO FEDELI CHIECHI DROGATI CON DROGHE/CULTI,
CHE I PIU' GRANDI RAZZISTI E MASSACRATORI DI UMANI E DI INTELLIGENZA UMANA,
SONO STATI I FEDELI CIECHI, DA SEMPRE LE ARMI OCCULTE DEI POTERI RELIGIOSI CHE
FIN DAI TEMPI DI ENKI, CONTROLLAVANO/SFRUTTAVANO QUELLI POLITICI E MI CHIEDO
QUANTO LA COSA SIA CAMBIATA O MAGARI SOLO RIADATTATA AI TEMPI MODERNI..NON LO SO...

Vi invito a leggere la piu' antica tavoletta della grande alluvione o diluvio universale che risiede negli scantinati del museo di Philadelphia per avvicinarci al nome impronuciabile del nostro comune dio e divinta' varie che lo accompagnavano durante il suo dominio tra gli uomini da lui addotti/usati/sfruttati per il suo potere occulto e le sue rinascite attraverso le ere tramite interazione umana come si verifica anche in natura nel mondo degli insetti, parassitati da diversi tipi di parassiti e fughi, che prendono il controllo del loro dna e patrimonio genetico impartendo ordini superiori alla vittima che alla fine, viene divorata dopo essere stata usata/sfruttata per i bisogni dei parassita che ne prende il comando/controllo cibandosi alla fine del suo sacrificio/immolazione per dare nuova vita al dio parassita/terminator reale osservabile nel mondo vero su piccole scale che replicano quelle superiori...mondi di forme di vita che si usano/parassitano/divorano a vicenda ad ogni livello da sempre..questa e' la vera faccia del nostro comune Dio o della spietata natura che ci invita a conoscerci oltre le droghe religiose e di altri tipi incitandoci ad usare quel che ne rimane dell'intelligenza umana incontaminata da questi due fattori e dalla propria fame di protagonismo/fama/gloria che sono come le droghe ed incitano l'uomo a dire/fare di tutto per arrivare ai suoi scopi, imitando le nostre divinita' buggiarde/sfruttatrici/ipocrite/menzognere che lo fecero per prime ma su grandi e spettacolari/terrificanti livelli imitati dagli umani che imitano anche la loro caduta/estinzione ed autodistruzione se non imparano ad usare un cervello pulito ed incontaminato da questi comuni fattori che da sempre lo hanno controllato/immiserito/dominato/illuso...



THE WORSHIP OF METEORITES.

by Professor Hubert A. Newton.

Here is a small fragment of iron that has a curious history. It is a portion of a mass of meteoric iron found upon a brick altar in one of the Ohio mounds. Along with it were various objects--a serpent cut out of mica--several terra-cotta figurines--two remarkable dishes carved from stone into the form of animals; pearls, shells, copper ornaments. and nearly three hundred ankle bones of deer and elk. There were but one or two fragments of other bones, and one animal furnished but two of these ankle bones; hence they must have been selected for some special, important reason. The figurines had been apparently broken for some purpose, and the whole collection had suffered in the fire not a little. In a like altar of another mound of the same group were found nearly two bushels of like objects.

It must have been in some ceremony of a religious, possibly one of a funereal, character that the mound builders collected here on the altar their ornaments and other valuables, and after burning them buried the charred debris in the huge earthen mound that was built over them and the altar.

What would we not give if this fragment could be endowed with the power of repeating to us its experience--chapters in the history of that people? But nearly all that we can say is that it was found among objects held by them in peculiar esteem, and used by them in some serious, probably religious ceremony.

There was formerly, and so far as I know there is still, in the collection of meteorites in Munich, a stone that weighs about a pound. It fell in 1853 in the region north of Zanzibar, on the East African coast, and was seen and picked up by some shepherd boys. The German missionaries tried to buy it, but the neighbouring Wanikas, because it fell from heaven, took it to be a god. They secured possession of it, anointed it with oil, clothed it with apparel, ornamented it with pearls, and built for it a kind of temple to give it proper divine honours. The agents of the missionaries were not allowed even to see the stone, far less could they purchase the Wanika's tutelar deity. Neither entreaties, nor arguments, nor offers of the missionaries, nor of the officials were of any avail. But when three years later the wild nomad tribes of the Masai came down upon the Wanikas, burned their village, and killed large numbers of them, the Wanikas thought very differently of the stone's protecting power. In fact they lost all respect for it. A famine having meanwhile arisen, the elders of the tribe were quite ready to exchange their palladium for the silver dollars of the missionaries.

Among the Buddha legends is one of two merchants who offered food to the Buddha, which was accepted, and in consequence of their request for some memorial of him the Buddha gave them a hair and fragments of his nails, and told them that hereafter a stone should fall from heaven near the place where they lived, and that they should erect a pagoda and worship these relics as though they were Buddha himself.

The nations of India have always been specially superstitious about stones fallen from the skies. In 1620 an aerolite fell near Jullunder, and the king sent for a man well known for the excellent sword blades that he made, and ordered him to work the lump into a sword, a dagger and a knife. The mass, however, would not stand the hammer, but crumbled in pieces. By mixture with iron of the earth the required weapons were made.

In 1867 a shower of stones fell, some forty in number, at Saonlod. The terrified inhabitants of the village, seeing in them the instruments of vengeance of an offended deity, set about gathering all they could find, and having pounded them into pieces they scattered them to the winds.

In 1870 a meteorite fell at Nidigullam, and the Hindoos at once carried it to their temple and worshipped it. The same has been repeated in India on the occasion of several other stonefalls in the present century. One native ruler refused to allow a stone to be carried across his territory for fear of the injury that might come to his people or his lands.

Two Japanese meteorites, formerly the property of a daimio family, were long kept and handed down as heirlooms, being in the care of the priests in one of the family temples. They were among the family offerings made to Skokujo on her festival days. They were connected with her worship by the, belief that they had fallen from the shores of the Silver River, Heavenly River, or Milky Way, after they had been used by her as weights with which to steady her loom. One of these stones was presented by its late owner to the British Museum, and it is in its collection of meteorites.

There is a curious institution among the Chinese that has existed, according to Biot, from a time more than one thousand years before Christ. The Chinese attributed to different groups of stars a direct influence upon different parts of the empire. Some of these groups correspond, for example, to the imperial palaces, to the rivers, the roads, and the mountains of China. By reason of this belief, regular observations are made by the imperial astronomers of all that passes in the heavens, especially of the groups of stars in which comets and meteors originate, or across which they travel. The interpretation of what is seen in the sky forms part of the duties of these very important officials. These observations have been carefully written out, and are preserved in the archives of the empire. Upon the ending of a dynasty, by change of name or otherwise, these comet and meteor records have been published as a special chapter of the chronicles of the dynasty. The existing dynasty began in 1647, since which date the records are, therefore, unpublished.

In 1492 a stone of 300 pounds weight fell at Ensisheim, in Alsace. The Emperor Maximilian, then at Basel, had the stone brought to the neighbouring castle, and a Council of State was held to consider what message from heaven the stonefall brought to them. As a result, the stone was hung up in the church with an appropriate legend, and with strictest command that it should ever remain there intact. It was held to be an omen of import in the contest then in progress with France and in the contest impending with the Turks. Nineteen years later a shower of stones fell near Crema, east of Milan. The Pope was at war with the French, and the stones fell into the French territory. Before the year had passed the French, after a long possession of Lombardy and serious threatening of the States of the Church, were forced to retire from Italy. At this time Raphael was painting for an altar-piece his magnificent Madonna di Foligno, now in the Vatican. Beneath the rainbow in the picture, indicating divine reconciliation, Raphael painted also this Crema fireball, apparently to set forth divine aid and deliverance.

I have thus rapidly gone over some selected facts, showing how the mound builders, the wild Africans, the Hindoos, the Japanese, the Chinese, the modern Europeans have been ready to revere these mysterious bodies that come from the skies. But it is in the Greek and Latin literature that we have reason to expect the more numerous and full accounts, both legendary and historic, of this reverence and worship.

It is now, I believe, admitted by the best scholars that both in Greece and in Italy, there was a period earlier than the age of images, when the objects worshipped were not wrought by hand. Men worshipped trees and caves, groves and mountains, and also unwrought stones. Even after men began to make their objects of worship, these were in many cases mere hewn stones, not images. The earlier Greek term acalma, an object of worship, stands apart from the later term eikzy, image.

What would be more natural in that age to the affrighted witnesses of the most magnificent of spectacles, the fall of a meteorite, than for them to regard the object which had come out of a clear sky, with terrific noise and fire and smoke, as something sent to them by the gods to be revered and worshipped? It was nobler to worship a stone fallen from the sky than one of earthly origin.

The worship of an unwrought stone once established has wonderful vitality. For example, the Greek writers speak of such a worship in their day among the Arabian tribes. When Mohammed, with his intense iconoclasm, came down upon Mecca and took the sacred city, he either for reasons of policy, or from feeling, spared the ancient worship of this black stone. Entering into the sacred enclosure, he approached and saluted it with his staff (where it was built into the corner of the Kaaba), made the sevenfold circuit of the temple court, returned and kissed the stone, and then entered the building and destroyed the 360 idols within it. To-day that stone is the most sacred jewel of Islam. Towards it each devout Moslem is bidden to look five times a day as he prays. It is called the Right Hand of God on Earth. It is reputed to have been a stone of Paradise, to have dropped from heaven together with Adam. Or, again, it was given by Gabriel to Abraham to attest his divinity.

Or, again, when Abraham was reconstructing the Kaaba that had been destroyed by the deluge, he sent his son Ishmael for a stone to put in its corner, and Gabriel met Ishmael and gave him this stone. It was originally transparent hyacinth, became black by reason of being kissed by a sinner. In the day of judgment it will witness in favour of all those who have touched it with sincere hearts, and will be endowed with sight and speech. The colour of this stone, according to Burckhardt is deep reddish brown, approaching to black; it is like basalt, and is supposed by some to be a meteorite.

It is not important for my purpose to separate the history from the myth. Eusebius quotes from an old Phoenician writer, Sanchouniathon, that the goddess Astarte found a stone that fell from the air, that she took it to Tyre, and that they worshipped it there in the sacred shrine. We have reason to question whether that Phoenician writer ever lived. What matters it? The existence of the story in Eusebius' time has to us a significance not greatly unlike that of the existence of the worship itself in the earlier years.

Virgil describes a detonating meteor in such terms that I feel reasonably sure that either he had seen and heard, or else he had had direct conversations with others who had seen and heard, a splendid example of these meteors. The passage is in the second book of the AEneid. The city of Troy was captured and was burning. All was in confusion. The family of AEneas was gathered ready for flight, but Anchises would not go. An omen, lambent flames on the head of his grandson, began on to shake his purpose to perish with his country. He prayed for more positive guidance. It is AEneas who describes the scene "Hardly had the old man spoken when across the darkness a star ran down from the sky carrying a brilliant light torch We saw it go sweeping along above the roof of the house. It lighted up the streets, and disappeared in the woods on Mount Ida. A long train, a line of light, remained across the sky, and all around the place was a sulphurous smell. A heavy sound of thunder came from the left. Overcome now, father raised his hands to heaven, addressed the gods and worshipped the sacred star. 'Now, now,' he cried, no longer delay.'"

This story is, of course, all legendary, but Virgil's description of the scene is true to life as conceived by pagan Rome in his day.

The images that fell down from Jupiter, or that fell from the skies, are often spoken of by Greek and by Latin writers I mention three or four cases only where this allusion points to a meteoric origin as possible or probable. The earliest representative of Venus at old Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, was one of these heaven-descended images. It was not the Venus of the Capitol, nor the Venus of Milo, but as described was a rude triangular stone.

Cicero, in the grand closing passage of his oration against Verres, calls upon Ceres, whose statue he says was not made by hands but was believed to have fallen from the skies. The earliest of the images of Pallas at Athens was said to have had a like origin. Pausanias saw at Delphi a stone of moderate size which they anointed every day, and covered during every festival with new shorn wool. They are of opinion, he adds respecting this stone, that it was the one given by Cybele to Saturn to swallow as a substitute for the infant Jupiter, which Saturn after swallowing vomited out on the earth.

There is a marvellous story of a peculiar stone in the poem Lithika by the apocryphal Orpheus. Phoebus Apollo gave the stone to the Trojan Helenus, and Helenus used it in sooth-saying. It was called Orites, and by some Siderites. It had the faculty of speech, and when Helenus wished to consult it he performed special ablutions and fasts for twenty-one days, then made various sacrifices, bathed the stone in a living fountain, dressed it and carried it in his bosom. The stone now became alive, and to make it speak he would take it in his arms and dandle it, when the stone would begin to cry like a child for the breast. Helenus would now question the stone, and receive its answers. By means of these he was able to foretell the ruin of the Trojan State. Whoever framed that story had, I believe, before him a real stone, and the description is very like that of a meteorite, saying nothing of its having come from Apollo. The Orphic writer says that it was rough, rounded, heavy, black, and close-grained. Fibres dike wrinkles were drawn in circular forms over the whole surface above and below. Here I show you a stone such as was described--rounded, black, heavy, close-grained, and having fibres like wrinkles in circular forms over the whole surface above and below. The name Siderites was at a later date applied to the loadstone, but by this writer the two stones are separately described, and are apparently distinct. If this name was of Greek origin it seems to be allied to sideros, iron, and this heavy stone, like nearly all meteorites, probably contained iron. If, however, this name came from a Latin source (for it is used both by Greek and by Latin writers) it has affinities with Sidus, a star, and its meteoric character is still more clearly indicated. One of the most interesting of the stories about images that have fallen from heaven, is the basis of that beautiful tragedy of Euripides. "Iphigeneia in Tauris." To many of you the story is familiar, but it .will bear repetition. The goddess Diana detained at Aulis the Grecian fleets by contrary winds, and required the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, before the Greeks could set sail. The father consented; and the daughter, apparently sacrificed, was really rescued by Diana, and borne to the Tauric, or Crimean peninsula on the north shore of the Black Sea. She was then made a priestess in the temple of the goddess. At this shrine the barbaric inhabitants used to sacrifice before an image of Diana, that fell from heaven, all strangers that were shipwrecked upon the coast. The unhappy Iphigeneia, forced to take a leading part in these human sacrifices, laments her sad lot:--

"But now a stranger on this strand,
'Gainst which the wild waves beat,
I hold my dreary, joyless seat,
Far distant from my native land;
Nor nuptial bed is mine, nor child, nor friend.
At Argos now no more I raise
The festal song in Juno's praise;
Nor o'er the loom sweet sounding bend,
As the creative shuttle flies,
Give forms of Titans fierce to rise,
And dreadful with her purple spear
Image Athenian Pallas there.
But on this barbarous shore

Th' unhappy stranger's fate I moan,
The ruthless altar stained with gore,

His deep and dying groan;
And for each tear that weeps his woes,
From me a tear of pity flows."

Orestes, the brother of Iphigeneia, had avenged upon his mother the murder of his father. For this he was driven by the Furies. While stretched before the shrine of Phoebus he heard the divine voice from the golden tripod, commanding him to speed his way to the wild coast of the Taurians, thence to take by fraud or by fortune the statue of Diana that fell from heaven, and carry it to Attica. Doing this he should have rest from the Furies.

He was captured, however, along with his friend Pylades, and brought to the altar to be sacrificed. The relationship of the brother and sister became here revealed, and they together fled, carrying with them the image. It was not without a struggle that they reached the shore, but finally,

"On his left arm sustained
Orestes bore his sister through the tide,
Mounted the bark's tall side and on the deck
Safe placed her and Diana's holy image
Which fell from heaven."

Neptune favoured the Greeks, Minerva forbade pursuit, and the image was borne to Halae (or as some said to Brauron) in Attica.

Cicero spoke of the Trojan Palladium as something that fell from the sky: quod de coelo delapsum. Other classical writers, notably Ovid, speak of it in similar terms. The story in its various forms points toward a stonefall as its basis. One form of it runs thus:- Pallas and her foster sister Athena were wrestling with each other, when Pallas was accidentally killed. In grief Athena made an image of Pallas and set it up on Olympus. When King Ilus was about building his city on the Trojan plain he prayed for a favourable omen. In response to his prayer Jupiter cast this image down at the feet of the suppliant king. In the new city it was set up in a temple specially erected to contain and protect it. So long as Troy could keep safely this image, the city, it was firmly believed, could not be taken by its foes.

According to one story, the Greeks stole the image before capturing the city. As many cities afterwards claimed to possess the treasure as claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. According to the Romans, AEneas carried the Palladium to Italy, and the image was regarded as the most sacred treasure of the Roman State. For centuries even in historic times it was so carefully kept by the Vestal Virgins that the Pontifex Maximus was not allowed to see it.

We naturally have doubts about the nature, or even the existence, of an object so kept out of sight. What it was that the Vestals thus guarded, or whether they had anything to represent the image of Pallas, will probably never be known. But it is far otherwise with another famous object of Roman worship. To the east of the Trojan plain on which the Palladium fell, rise the mountains of Phrygia and Galatia. In Pessinus, near the border line of these two countries, and in the caves and woods near Pessinus, the goddess Cybele, the mother of the great gods, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, was specially worshipped. This worship may not have been more degrading than the worship of many other Asiatic divinities. But it was wretched and unmanly almost beyond our possible conception. It furnished to Catullus the theme for the most celebrated of his poems, one of the strongest pictures in all literature. The Grecian athlete entered her service with joyful music and dancing. Too late he looks back from the Asiatic shore, out of his hopeless degradation, on the nobleness of his former Grecian life. The lion of Cybele drives him in craven fear again into the wild woods, to spend his days in the menial servitude. The Roman poet exclaims, "O goddess, great goddess Cybele, goddess queen of Dindymus; far from my house be all thy frenzies; others, others, drive thou frantic."

At some unknown early time a meteoric stone fell near to Pessinus. It was taken to the shrine of Cybele, and there set up and worshipped as her image. This image and its worship very early attained a wide celebrity. About two hundred years before Christ, in the time of the second Punic war, the stone was transported to Rome. The detailed history of the transfer is given by several writers in varied terms. It forms one of Livy's charming stories, it is told in poetic terms by Ovid, it is given as a tradition by Herodian. For every detail of the history I do not ask confiding belief, but the principal event is, I suppose, historically true.

In the year 205 before Christ, Hannibal had, since crossing the Alps, been holding his place in Italy for more than a dozen years, threatening the existence of the Roman State. The fortunes of war were now somewhat adverse to the Carthagenian general. A shower of stones alarmed the Romans. The decemvirs consulted the Sybilline books, and there found certain verses which imported that whensoever a foreign enemy shall have carried war into the land of Italy he may be expelled and conquered if the Idaean mother be brought from Pessinus to Rome. These words were reported to the Senate. Encouraging responses came at the same time from the Pythian oracle at Delphi.

The Senate set about considering how the goddess might be transported to Rome. There was then no alliance with the States of Asia. But King Attalus was on friendly terms with the Romans because they had a common enemy in Philip II of Macedon. The Senate, therefore, selected an imposing embassy from the noblest Romans. A convoy of five quinqueremes was ordered for them, that they might make an appearance suited to the grandeur of the Roman people. The embassy landed on their way and made inquiry of the oracle at Delphi, and were informed "that they would attain what they were in search of by means of King Attalus, and that when they should have carried the goddess to Rome they were to take care that whoever was the best man in the city should perform the rite of hospitality to her." The king received them kindly, but refused their request; whereupon an earthquake tremor shook the place, and the goddess herself spoke from her shrine, "It is my will, Rome is a worthy place for any god; delay not." The king yielded; a thousand axes hewed down the sacred pines, and a thousand hands built the vessel. The completed and painted ship received the stone, and bore it to the mouth of the Tiber.

It was the spring of the following year before the ship arrived. Meanwhile new prodigies frightened the people. A brilliant meteor had crossed Italy from east to west, a little south of Rome, and a heavy detonation followed. From this, or from some other meteor, another shower of stones had fallen. In expiation, according to the custom of the country in case of stonefalls, religious exercises during nine days were ordered. The Senate after careful deliberation selected one of the Scipios, deciding that he of all the good men in the city was the best, and they deputed him to receive the stone. The whole city went out to meet the goddess. Matrons and daughters, senators and knights, the vestals and the common people all joined the throng. But a drought had reduced the water of the Tiber so that the vessel grounded upon the bar. All the efforts of the men pulling upon the ropes failed to move it. A noble matron who had been slandered stepped forward into the water. Dipping her hands three times into the waves and raising them three times to heaven, she besought the goddess to vindicate her good name if she had been unjustly slandered. She laid hold of the rope and the vessel followed her slightest movement, amid the plaudits of the multitude.

Scipio, as he had been ordered by the Senate, waded out into the water, received the stone from the priests, carried it to the land, and delivered it to the principal matrons of the city, a band of whom were in waiting to receive it. They, relieving each other in succession and handing it from one set to another, carried it to the gates of the city, and thence through the streets to the temple of Victory on the Palatine Hill. Censers were placed at the doors of the houses wherever the procession passed, and incense was burned in them, all praying that the goddess would enter the city with good will add a favourable disposition. The people in crowds carried presents to the temple. A religious feast and an eight days' festival with games were established to be celebrated thereafter each year in the early part of April.

Before another year had passed Hannibal, after having maintained his army in Italy for fifteen years, was forced to withdraw again to Africa. From the liberal offerings of the people, in gratitude for deliverance, a temple was erected to Cybele, long known as the Temple of the Great Mother of the Gods, so that twelve years after its arrival at Rome the stone was taken from the Temple of Victory and set up in its new home. A silver statue of the goddess was constructed, to which the stone was made to serve in place of a head. Here, in public view, for at least five hundred years that stone was a prominent object of Roman worship. Its physical appearance is described by several writers. It was conical in shape, ending in a point, this shape giving occasion to the name Needle of Cybele. It was brown in colour, and looked like a piece of lava. Arnobius, a Christian writer just before the accession of Constantine, and over five hundred years from the date of its arrival at Rome, says of the stone:

"If historians speak the truth and insert no false accounts into their records, there was brought from Phrygia, sent by King Attalus, nothing else in fact than a kind of stone, not a large one, one that could be carried in a man's hand without strain, in colour tawny and black, having prominent, irregular, angular points, a stone which we all see to-day, having a rough irregular place as the sign of a mouth, and having no prominence corresponding to the face of an image." Arnobius goes on to ask whether it was possible that this stone drove the strong enemy Hannibal out of Italy--made him who shook the Roman State, unlike himself, a craven and a coward.

Just when this stone disappeared from public view I do not know. In directing the recent excavations on the Palatine Hill, Prof. Lanciani was at first in great hopes of finding it; because it had no intrinsic value to the many spoliators of Rome, nor to the former excavators of Roman temples. But the place in which he expected to find it was absolutely empty. At a later date, however, he found in a rare volume an account of excavations made on the Palatine Hill in 1730, in which the private chapel of the Empress was found and explored. In this we perhaps have an account, and, it is to be feared, the last account of a sight of the Cybele stone. The writer says: "I am sorry that no fragment of a statue, or bas-relief, or inscription has been found in the chapel, because this absence of any positive indication prevents us from ascertaining the name of the divinity to whom the place was principally dedicated. The only object which I discovered in it was a stone nearly three feet high, conical in shape, of a deep brown colour, looking very much like a piece of lava, and ending in a sharp point. No attention was paid to it, and I know not what became of it." This description is almost identical with that given by Arnobius, and others, of the stone from Pessinus.

Another stone of meteoric origin was brought to Rome, and there for a brief period was most fantastically worshipped. This was as near the beginning of the third century after Christ. It came, like the other stones off which I have spoken, from Asia. In the city of Emesa, on the banks of the Orontes, about midway between Damascus and Antioch, there was in those days a magnificent temple of the Sun. A gorgeous worship was maintained before a stone that fell from heaven, that served as the image of the Sun-god. The description of the stone is not very un-like that of the Cybele meteorite. Herodian, who probably saw it, says: "It is a large stone, rounded on the base, and gradually tapering upwards to a sharp point; it is shaped like a cone. Its colour is black, and there is a sacred tradition that it fell from heaven. They show certain small prominences and depressions in the stone, and those who see them persuade their eyes that they are seeing an image of the Sun not made by hands."

This Sun-god was named Heliogabalus, and before the altar a boy of nine years of age began to serve as priest. Such a Syrian service did not make the boy grow manly nor virtuous, and when at the age of fifteen he became emperor through the money and intrigues of his grandmother, and the murder of the Emperor Macrinus, we have for three years at Rome the view of the sorriest scrapegrace that ever sat on a throne. He assumed with the name of Antoninus also the name of his god Heliogabalus. To the great disgust of the Roman Senate and people, he brought with him from Syria the image of his god, the sacred stone, and himself continued before it his priestly service with all its fantastic forms and gesticulations. He built within the city walls a grand and beautiful temple, with a great number of altars around it; he repaired thither every morning, and sacrificed hecatombs of bulls and an infinite number of sheep, loading the altars with aromatics, and pouring out firkins of the oldest and richest wines. He himself led the choruses, and women of his own country danced with him in circles around the altars, while the whole senatorian and equestrian orders stood in a ring like the audience of a theatre.

But now he must have a wife for his god. So he broke into the apartments guarded by the vestals and carried to the palace the Trojan Palladium, or what he supposed was that object, and was intending to celebrate the nuptials of the two images. His god, however, he concluded, would not be pleased with a warlike wife like Pallas; therefore, he ordered to be brought from Carthage an ancient image of Urania, or the Moon, which had been set up by Dido when she first built old Carthage. With this image he demanded the immense treasures in her temple, and he also collected from every direction immense sums of money to furnish to the Moon a suitable marriage portion when married to the Sun.

He built another temple in the suburbs of Rome, to which the Emesa stone, the god (?) was carried in procession every year, while the populace were entertained with games, and shows, and feastings and carousings. Herodian thus describes this performance:--

"The god was brought from the city to this place in a chariot glittering with gold and precious stones, and drawn by six large white horses without the least spot, superbly harnessed with gold, and other curious trappings, reflecting a variety of colours. Antoninus himself held the reins--nor was any mortal permitted to be in the chariot; but all kept attendant around him as charioteer to the deity, while he ran backward, leading the horses, with his face to the chariot, that he might have a constant view of his god. In this manner he performed the whole procession, running backwards with the reins in his hands, and always keeping his eyes on the god, and that he might not stumble or slip (as he could not see where he went), the whole way was strewn with golden sand, and his guards ran with him and supported him on either side. The people attended the solemnity, running on each side of the way with tapers and flambeaux, and throwing down garlands and flowers as they passed. All the effigies of the other gods, the most costly ornaments and gifts of the temples, and the brilliant arms and ensigns of the imperial dignity, with all the rich furniture of the palace, helped to grace the procession. The horse and all the rest of the army marched in pomp before and after the chariot."

The reign of a foolish boy at this period of Rome's history was necessarily a short one, and at the age of eighteen the soldiers killed him and let the Roman populace have the body to drag through the city streets. The worship of the Sun-god at once ceased, and, no doubt, the stone also was thrown away. The Cybele stone, however, remained an object of public worship, since the quotation from Arnobius, which I have given, was written nearly a century later than the reign Heliogabalus. I propose to speak briefly of one more meteorite whose worship has had a world-wide fame: the image of the Ephesian Artemis. This worship had its centre at Ephesus, but was widely extended along the shores of the Mediterranean. Temple after temple was built on the same site at Ephesus, each superior to the preceding, until the structure was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world. As a temple, it became the theatre of a most elaborate religious ceremonial. As an asylum, it protected from pursuit and arrest all kinds of fugitives from justice or vengeance. As a museum, it possessed some of the finest products of Greek art, notably works of Phidias and

Apelles. As a bank, it received and guarded the treasures which merchants and princes from all lands brought for safe keeping. In its own right it possessed extensive lands and large revenues. The great city of Ephesus assumed as her leading title that of vewkopos, or temple-warden of Artemis, putting his name on her coins, and in her monumental inscriptions. The image, which was the central object in this temple, was said to have fallen from heaven. Copies of it in all sizes and forms were made of gold, of silver, of bronze, of stone and of wood, by Ephesian artificers, and were supplied by them to markets in all lands. What a lifelike picture is given us in the 19th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, of the excited crowd of Ephesians, urged on by the silversmiths, who made for sale the silver shrines of the goddess, and who saw that their craft was in danger if men learned to regard Artemis as no real divinity, and to despise the image that fell down from the sky.

We cannot suppose that the Ephesian Artemis image of the first century was a meteorite, though we have the distinct appellation, Diipetes, fallen from the sky. But I believe that there was a meteoric stone that was the original of the Ephesian images, and it seems not at all improbable that in some one of the destructions of the temple it disappeared. Or, in the progress of time, there may have been a desire to represent the goddess in a more artistic form than the shapeless stone afforded.

Many forms of the Ephesian Artemis are still preserved, and they have, amid all their variations, a certain peculiar character in common. That common character seems to me to confirm the statement that the original image fell from heaven. This goddess is regarded, let me say, as different from the Grecian Artemis, the beautiful huntress so well known in Greek art, and I am speaking only of the images of the Ephesian Artemis.

There is one peculiarity in the outward forms of the meteorites that at is characteristic of nearly all of them. I mean the moulded forms, and the depressions all over the surfaces. They are better appreciated by being seen, than by any description I can give you. They are common to meteorites of all kinds, from the most friable stone to the most compact iron. (I show you one, a stone from Iowa--also the plaster cast of another, a stone from some fall, I know not which one.) Those who have lately visited the collection in the Peabody Museum may recollect the model of an iron that fell two or three years ago in Arkansas, which displays most beautifully these depressions.

Let now an artist attempt to idealise any one of these moulded forms, and to make something like a human shape out of one of them. He must necessarily get it upright, and he must give it a head. You have then a head surmounting one of these moulded forms. Let now the convenience and the taste of the artificers of the images have some liberty to act--and we know that they did act, for we have considerable variety in these images--and a development in the conventional representation of the image is sure to follow.





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Il dio nero razzista/ariano degli ebrei/cristiani/muslumani?

fu il creatore di questo tipo di mentalita' razzista, dittatoriale, spietata e schiavista, che per i suoi sacrifici umani e nei suoi centri divinatori, voleva solo gente pura, senza nessun difetto fisico da usare come offerte insieme a tutte le migliori risorse/ricchezze degli umani, come praticato da tutti i nostri avi controllati/illusi/strumentalizzati/sfruttati da queste ipotetiche divinita' educatrici/sfruttatrici di umani presenti alle radici di tutte le nostre culture/religioni dimentiche delle loro comuni sorgenti celesti...od aliene alla terra da loro posseduta come un nuovo utero per creare nuove vite da divorare per le loro rinascite era dopo era sotto nuove spoglie/pelli/religioni/politiche etc...

Il razzismo/fascismo/dittatura dei popoli eletti o super razze o razze predilette
dal dio nero della vecchia bibbia che ha radici comuni con ebrei/cristiani/musulmani,
fu invantato dai poteri religiosi e dalle comuni radici del vecchio Dio massacratore
di umani, invasore di terre altrui che prometteva ai suoi fedeli ciechi, incitati
a fare stragi di uomini/donne/bambini/lattanti/vecchi/animali dei culti opposti
senza nessuna pieta' ma nera/cieca obbedienza al dio nero che riprogrammava gli umani
per scannarsi a vicenda in suo nome, derubandosi reciprocamente, terre, risorse e
schiavi umani con distruzioni cicliche che a rotazione annientavano le popolazioni che
si innalzavano e ribellavano alla schiavitu'/dittatura nera, dei leaders spirituali,
che si diramavano in sottogruppi tutti in cerca dello stesso potere proprio come
fanno attualmente i politicanti che infatti imitano quelle ancestrali divinita' nere
che perndevano il controllo del dna umano e del nostro materiale genetico, collegate
tutte con i moti celesti vitali alle loro nuove manifestazioni o nuove comparse di
nuovi profeti/figli di questo o quel dio, salvatori etc..tutti collegati con particolari
meteoriti chiamata figli di Dio, tori celesti, seme del dio del cielo che facevano cadere
il nuovo Adamo/lucifero sulla terra etc..ora studiosi stanno infatti scoprendo che alcune
meteoriti contengono piccole forme di vita protette in quelle rocce nere e stanno ipotizzando
che diverse forme di vita, furono infatti portate sulla terra da queste pioggie di stelle
morte, di sistemi solari morti che divenivano seme celeste o figli di dio o tori celesti con
i quali la terra veniva colpita durante le grandi stagioni etc...forme di vita parassita
che usavano il dna e materiale genetico delle altre forme di vita facendole proprie, incluse
le piane sacre e frutti proibiti tutti collegati ai rituali di queste ipotetiche divinita'
aliene venute dalle rocce nere come documentato anche nella piramide del faraone cannibale
UNAS, che cade sulla terra portato dalla roccia nera e divora/assimila tutte le essenze
degli dei precedenti e degli umani di cui si ciba come storicamente documentato in questi
tanti centri occulti della loro oscura presenza sulla terra, (piramidi/ziggurats/tempi/chiese)
che da sempre controllavano le politiche del mondo facendo/programmanod uomini a loro
immagine e somiglianza che li imitavano nelle guerre di rivalita', distruzione, sterminio,
e nella loro caduta, creando distruzioni cicliche di tutte le popolazioni umane indotte
da queste ipotetiche guerre sante da loro stessi inventate come descritto anche sulla
vecchia bibbia e ripetuto nei versetti della spada che venivano eseguiti alla lettera e che
ancora alcuni seguono ciecamente alla lettera senza voler sapere/capire andare oltre le
apparenze che nascondono tutti i poteri religiosi creati da queste ipotetiche divinita'
aliene divoratrici/educatrici/sterminatrici di umani da sempre insieme alle droghe/draghi
loro alleati nei rituali di sacrifici umani di ebbrezze/uccisioni degli immolati/sacrificati,
derubati dei loro poteri o sette ME assorbiti dai nuovi aspiranti capi in vari modo barbari
che si sono riadattati a tempi, luoghi, intelligenze degli umani abolendo le comuni pratche
infernali che tutti loro adottavano perche' sotto il controllo/dominio/guida di queste
ipotetiche divinita' invisibili che mai nessuno ha visto e mai nessuno vedra' ma che
ancora si possono scorgere nelle loro prime apparizioni con nominativi/culti diversi, che
si riscontrano nel piu' antico reperto della descrizione della grande alluvione, che e'
infatti scritta in lingua cuneiforme e quel dio massacratore di umani, che li usa
sfrutta illude schiavizza per costruire i suoi tanti imperi sbarazzandosi di loro alla
fine e salvando solo i pochi eletti delle super razze di potenti e delle loro famiglie e
nuclei di potere necessari per ricorstuire i nuovi imperi, era stranamente lo stesso dio
biblico che pero' si chiamava ENKI, ed era lui ad avvisare il suo popolo eletto, per
permettergli di mettersi in salvo mentre quasi tutto il resto della popolazione umana
periva e continuava a perire nelle ere successive con le guerre sante dei super eletti,
come descritto anche nella vecchia bibbia che riporta le storie della grande alluvione e
rinomina enki, con nuovi appellativi inserendolo in nuove storie riadattate ai tempi,
luoghi, necessita' dei capi religiosi che da sempre controllano quelli politici e mi
chiedo quanto sia cambiato e quanto sitamo imitando i nostri capi neri anche nella loro
caduta/estinzione dato che ci hanno creati ipocriti, sfruttatori, menzogneri, falsi,
opportunisti, parassiti, strumentalizzatori di folle e di schiavi umani come loro
che oltre gli schiavi umani, usavano le potentissime armi dei fedeli ciechi,
sterminatori di intelligenza umana e distuttori di tutte le culture avanzate
degli umani che ciclicamente annientavano e da cui ciclicamente venivano anche
loro annientati come una sorta di implosione/autodistruzione attivata dalle religioni
create da questi ipotetici dei/divinita' occulte che gli umani imitavano per avere
anche loro grande potere/controllo sulle folle seguendo i cattivi/pessimi esempi del
dio nero delle ere precedenti, nascosto, nascosto nei nuovi formati e presentato sotto
mentite spoglie di nuovi profeti suoi figli che il padre e' un demonio cannibale
distruttore/divoratore di umani come documentato nelle diverse origini delle religioni,
non puo' certo dare alla luce un figlio/profeta salvatore che salva l'umanita' tramite
il proprio sacrificio promosso sempre da enki, nelle sue nuove direttive di nuove
caste sacertodali ed immolazione del leader, per poterne assorbire i poteri e
trasferirli nel gruppo dei nuovi leaders con vari sistemi riadattati a luoghi/tempi ed
intelligenze degli umani sotto il loro controll/dominio da sempre e basta osservare
come si coportano gli umani riporgrammati con i loro culti...come i drogati non hanno
la capacita' di liberarsi dalla potente assuefazione che creano e che controlla la
loro mente sfruttata dai leader religiosi per le loro necessita' e poteri occulti tramite
nuovi sistemi di falsi predicatori di ipocrisie che i politicanti imitano in scale
piu' piccole, compresi i tanti piccoli nessuno perche' il cambiar di natura e' un
impresa troppo dura per l'animale uomo, riprogrammato ad immagine e somiglianza delle
sue divinita' secondo i copioni delle sue religioni/culture da esse create e che lo
hanno immiserito nella sua superiore intelligenza contaminata da queste spore aliene
parassite che gli umani percepivano come divinita' educatrici/illuminatrici ma in realta'
erano come le droghe/draghi da esse usate come aiutanti divini o complici/divinita'
che li accompagnavano nei loro rituali di sacrifici umani di animali e di altre forme
di vita compiuti nei loro siti sacri ed infatti tutti gli umani si comportavano in modi
simili perche' sotto il dominio/comando/controllo di divinita' simili che presero
a rivaleggiare tra loro ed a creare sottogruppi ciclicamente distrutti...chi e perche'
ha creato per primo il razzismo/fascismo/dittatura delle super razze sfruttatrici di
spiritualita' e sterminatrici di intelligenza umana che gli uomini hanno imitato?

Basta usare le giuste chiavi di lettura per decodificare il nostro comune passato,
scritto ancora sull'intero pianeta perche' non sono riusciti a distruggere tutto e basta
mettere insieme tutti i comuni denominatori di tutti i popoli antichi e delle loro comuni
pratiche divinatorie precedenti, per capire chi erano e da dove provenivano le nostre
ipotetiche divinita' educatrici/sfruttatrici/divoratrici di umani connesse con i moti
celesti e non a caso anche Giordano Bruno, che non era dipendente dal potere nero che
opprimeva, sfruttava, schiavizzava l'intelligenza umana e la innata spritualita'
dell'uomo, per ampliare il proprio potere occulto sotto nuovi formati, anche Giordano, il
cui libro di astronomia chiave di lettura di molti miti antichi divenne completamente
introvabile, ci ricordo' che (nel futuro l'uomo apprendera' dallo studio delle stelle,
il giorno della sua fine....) e non a caso ci ricordo' che solo gli Dei che sanno tutto,
e gli IGNORANTI CHE PENSANO DI SAPERE TUTTO, non cercano ed i religiosi sono riprogrammati
non per cercare la verita', ma come i politicanti, per promuovere le loro religioni...

copio il materiale che e' nel link da mettere a confronto con atre documentazioni parallele
che hanno gli stessi comuni denominatori anche se presentati sotto altri formati/storie/leggende...

ED IO HO NOTATO OSSERVANDO LE GUERRE SANTE O GUERRE DI RIVLAITA' DEI POTERI
RELIGIOSI DEI NOSTRI AVI CHE USAVANO FEDELI CHIECHI DROGATI CON DROGHE/CULTI,
CHE I PIU' GRANDI RAZZISTI E MASSACRATORI DI UMANI E DI INTELLIGENZA UMANA,
SONO STATI I FEDELI CIECHI, DA SEMPRE LE ARMI OCCULTE DEI POTERI RELIGIOSI CHE
FIN DAI TEMPI DI ENKI, CONTROLLAVANO/SFRUTTAVANO QUELLI POLITICI E MI CHIEDO
QUANTO LA COSA SIA CAMBIATA O MAGARI SOLO RIADATTATA AI TEMPI MODERNI..NON LO SO...

Vi invito a leggere la piu' antica tavoletta della grande alluvione o diluvio universale che risiede negli scantinati del museo di Philadelphia per avvicinarci al nome impronuciabile del nostro comune dio e divinta' varie che lo accompagnavano durante il suo dominio tra gli uomini da lui addotti/usati/sfruttati per il suo potere occulto e le sue rinascite attraverso le ere tramite interazione umana come si verifica anche in natura nel mondo degli insetti, parassitati da diversi tipi di parassiti e fughi, che prendono il controllo del loro dna e patrimonio genetico impartendo ordini superiori alla vittima che alla fine, viene divorata dopo essere stata usata/sfruttata per i bisogni dei parassita che ne prende il comando/controllo cibandosi alla fine del suo sacrificio/immolazione per dare nuova vita al dio parassita/terminator reale osservabile nel mondo vero su piccole scale che replicano quelle superiori...mondi di forme di vita che si usano/parassitano/divorano a vicenda ad ogni livello da sempre..questa e' la vera faccia del nostro comune Dio o della spietata natura che ci invita a conoscerci oltre le droghe religiose e di altri tipi incitandoci ad usare quel che ne rimane dell'intelligenza umana incontaminata da questi due fattori e dalla propria fame di protagonismo/fama/gloria che sono come le droghe ed incitano l'uomo a dire/fare di tutto per arrivare ai suoi scopi, imitando le nostre divinita' buggiarde/sfruttatrici/ipocrite/menzognere che lo fecero per prime ma su grandi e spettacolari/terrificanti livelli imitati dagli umani che imitano anche la loro caduta/estinzione ed autodistruzione se non imparano ad usare un cervello pulito ed incontaminato da questi comuni fattori che da sempre lo hanno controllato/immiserito/dominato/illuso...



THE WORSHIP OF METEORITES.

by Professor Hubert A. Newton.