Godself Icon

[Sindy-S.R]

Last year I came across this information:
In 2014, Graham Hancock posted images from Richard Cassaro's book "Written in Stone" on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/459310413587304448

Pagan “God Self” Icon Found Worldwide Rewrites History, Reveals Lost Golden Age​

By Richard Cassaro October 15, 2013 Category: Featured Articles

A new discovery (that I made many years ago, and that’s been officially published in my 2011 book “Written In Stone”) challenges―if not rewrites―ancient history by showing how the world’s first cultures mysteriously shared the same religious icon. From the Egyptians to the Assyrians, the pre-Incas to the Europeans, the icon is ubiquitous. Is it the lost symbol of a forgotten Golden Age religion that flourished globally in the remote past? How can it not be?

I remember that in an old Cass session, they had referred to this "connection" in ancient civilizations. I tried to search the forum without results. If any forum member remembers what it is, it would be interesting to relate it to Richard Cassaro's research.
My question would be whether this symbol is religious because it is the archetypal spiritual representation of opposites, or the graphic "logo" representation, for example, of an ancient forgotten technology, or perhaps a hyperdimensional technology.
Well, the possibilities are endless to speculate on what these symbols represent.

In 2016, there is an article by R. Cassaro on G. Hancock's website.

The Missing Link—Evidence of a Lost Civilization?​

A major discovery set forth in my new book, The Missing Link, has the potential to upend everything we learned in school about ancient civilizations and ancient religions.
During the course of my research and travels to visit the ruins and artifacts of Antiquity, I repeatedly found variations of the same mysterious “icon” worldwide. The “GodSelf Icon”—the term I use to express my discovery—is a prominent feature in most ancient cultures, as the collage below shows:

Who is Richar Cassaro:

Richard Cassaro is a Madrid-based author, lecturer, filmmaker, and tour guide from New York City. His published books Written in Stone (2011), The Missing Link (2016), and Mayan Masonry (2018) offer rare insights into ancient megaliths, spirituality, mythology, magic, symbolism, secret societies, comparative religion and occult archaeology. Cassaro has discussed his work on the History Channel, and in documentary films like Magical Egypt 2. His articles have appeared in print journals and web media around the globe; and he has delivered well-received lectures about his findings in the UK, Italy, Peru, Egypt, Spain, Mexico, Cyprus, and the U.S. In his capacity as a field investigator, he hosts travel adventures to archaeological sites worldwide.

About Richard Cassaro - Graham Hancock Official Website

I've searched YouTube for videos in English that explain the Godself Icon, but what I found was mostly mixed with Freemasonry. Personally, I'd prefer to see it from an archaeological perspective.
This video explains the idea of the Godself Icon well (it's in Italian).

 

[Cassandra94]

Hey there, I watched a documentary on YouTube about this by Richard Cassaro a few years ago. I cant comment on what he talks about in detail because I dont remember unfortunately but from what I can remember, he does talk about the archeological aspect and also gives his interpretation. I do remember thinking it was very interesting regardless :) Hope you enjoy watching!

 

[Sindy-S.R]

Here is another research by R. Cassaro:

The Triptych Temples Of Atlantis

Unprecedented New Archaeological Evidence That A Highly Advanced “Lost Civilization” Flourished In A Remote Age Older Than Recorded Time

Did the world’s first cultures inherit the same high wisdom from the same more ancient but now-vanished Mother Culture?

The Triptych and the Pyramid ( G. Hancock's website )
Author: Robert Jameson

Date: April 14, 2019 12:37PM

I just watched a Youtube video by Richard Cassaro. This 53 minute recording was from his presentation at the 2018 Megalithomania Conference; An Advanced Civilization Existed Older Than Recorded Time, Stunning Archaeological Evidence. See Youtube link: [youplay.pk]

Please note the presentation by Richard Cassaro has multiple images of ancient building. I have not sought permission to use his images so I strongly suggest readers refer to his video presentations and books for more details of sites and images referred to below.

In his talk Cassaro notes numerous ancient buildings from around the world that have ‘triptych’ facades:

 

[Nienna]

Hi @Sindy-S.R since you said you couldn't find the session you were looking for here on the Forum, have you tried here where all the sessions are very searchable?

 

[Sindy-S.R]

Hi @Sindy-S.R since you said you couldn't find the session you were looking for here on the Forum, have you tried here where all the sessions are very searchable?

@Nienna I was able to get it!!!

Session 14 August 2016​

Q: (L) I see. Well, maybe we should begin with some of the questions that are from that abstract level since that's where we are. In the course of my recent research, I keep going deeper and deeper and further back following one thread after another. While I have touched on the topic of Zoroastrianism in the past, I had never gone into it as deeply as I recently decided to do. As a consequence, I ended up reading several scholarly tomes on the topic. It seems there are two schools. One school thinks that Zoroaster was a fairly late phenomenon, probably 7th century BC. The other school relies on the linguistics - the philology I guess they'd call it - and they claim that the language of Zoroaster must date back to the second millennium BC - that is, somewhere between 1600 and 1200 BC. That would put Zoroaster in the timeframe of, say, Akhenaten. In brief, Zoroaster claimed to have had a vision, or so the story goes, that revealed to him the One God, Ahura Mazda, and he promoted a religion of almost pure monotheism as well as being more or less the originator of the idea that human beings have the free will to choose good or evil. He also was the first to come up with ideas of messianism, eschatology. It was an apocalyptic religion in the sense of being revealed, but also that there were to be revelations about the end of time - time of course being a very important concept in his religion as it developed. So, I guess the first question I want to know is: Is there any possibility that Akhenaten was influenced by Zoroastrianism? Is that a possibility?

A: Not just a possibility, but a certainty.

Q: (L) If that's the case, how was that possible?

A: The ancient world was quite "well connected".

Q: (L) Okay... Can you get me any closer to a clue here?

A: Check the Hurrian connection.

Q: (L) I thought I had checked that pretty deeply. I guess I could read some more. Now, there are those who say that Zurvanism was an attempt to deal with some of the dangling problems that Zoroaster left in terms of his dualism. One of his hymns describes Ahura Mazda and Ahriman as twins, so, they came up with Zurvanism, the ultimate god of space/time as father to the twins to explain this. Is that in fact the case?

A: No. Zurvan was the ancient god of the steppes and the Indo-Aryan peoples.

Q: (L) Okay, I've got a paper here... It seems that Zurvan was perceived as the god of infinite time and space, and was described as, "One Alone, a transcendental neutral god, and without passion. One for whom there was no distinction between good and evil. So, Zurvan had a varied history... So, the problem I want to get to right now is the idea that Zurvan was represented as the lion-headed god. There was a lion man figure found in Hohlenstein-Stadel, which is a German cave. It's carved out of ivory, and it's THE oldest known zoomorphic animal sculpture in the world, and the oldest known uncontested example of figurative art. It has been determined to be about - ready? 40,000 years old!! That was by carbon dating the material which was in the same layer where the figure was found. It was associated with the Aurignacian culture and it was 29cm in height, carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife. Seven parallel, transverse, carved gouges are on the left arm. The figure of Zurvan is often represented with a serpent coiled around him seven times. It is said that the sculpture shares certain similarities with French cave wall paintings which also show hybrid creatures. The Lion man is several thousand years older. Anyhow, this artifact seems to resemble very closely the lion man figure that was described as being the representation of Zurvan. So, I guess my question is: Are we talking about the same religion or religious ideas or perceptions that were common to the cultures that produced the cave art in Western Europe?

A: Yes

Q: (L) And they came up with these ideas of infinite time and space that far back?

A: And so much more. They were "connected".