medcan said:
No one seems to ask the question - Why was George Bush reading a story about a pet goat at the time of the WTC disaster? It could have been a story about a pet cat or pet dog. How many people actually have pet goats in America?! The simple reason behind this goat story is the fact that the world elite worship the goat headed deity called Baphomet. Most of the researchers know in detail about this goat god and still no one connected the goat in the goat story to this goat god.
After reading your post, I DO think it is interesting that Bush was reading a goat story at the time of WTC, and it is possible - though unlikely - that this was intentional. What is more likely is that the book was selected by the teacher(s) and was part of the ongoing classwork. That's not to say that the selection of the book could not have been "influenced" by certain psychological factors, even a certain subliminal awareness, or even hyperdimensional factors. Anything is possible.
What is really a shame is the absurdity of Baphomet being associated with the Goat God Mendes. That is actually a rather late development and not part of a true tradition. Eliphas Levi, who drew the full figured Goat of Mendes, translated "Baphomet" as a reversed composition of three abbreviations: Tem. Oph. Ab., standing for the Latin Templi omnium hominum pacis abhas (The God of) the Temple of Peace Among All Men." Levi felt this to be a reference to King Solomon's Temple, which he believed had the sole purpose of bringing peace to the world.
Eliphas Lévi, was also the first person to adapt the 2 points up pentagram as symbolic of evil. In the Middle Ages the one point up pentagram represented summer, while the two points up pentagram was a representation of winter.
Eliphas Levi himself was a nutzoid, probably schizoidal. As we now know, there was no "temple of Solomon" and
most of what is considered "occult lore" derived from Judaism, is a smokescreeen designed to hide the true, ancient tradition from the seeker.
Dr. Hugh Schonfield, (one of the scholars who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls) believed the Word Baphomet was "coded with the Knowledge of the Atbash Cipher." This is a Hebrew code which substitutes the first letter of the alphabet for the last and the second letter for the second last and so on. When Baphomet is decoded this way,
Greek word Sophia which is translated in English as Wisdom.
Now, notice that this is a Greek word that emerge from a Hebrew text.
Schonfield was interested in the charges of heresy leveled against the Knights Templars and the etymology of the word Baphomet which was why he was inspired to apply the Atbash cipher which he was convinced the Templars were aware of, to the word Baphomet. Applying the Atbash cipher, Schonfield revealed the following:
The word Baphomet: Bet Pe Vav Mem Taf BAPHOMET
With the Atbash Cipher: Shin Vav Pe Yud Alef SOPHIA
Although written in Hebrew it reads as the Greek word Sophia that translates into "Wisdom" in English. In other words, it seems that however you decode this word, what you get is Wisdom whether you use Sophia, Bahu Mid, or Baphemetis. What you do NOT get is the Goat god Mendes or any of the Eliphas Levi nonsense.
Looking at the Greek source: Baphe Metis is semi-Greek and a combination of words that is
suggested to mean: Initiation by water (baptismo) and Wisdom of Measurement as by math (metes - metric). "Baphe" is pseudo-Greek, and "Metis" is proper Greek. But here you come to a slightly different issue.
Baphe is not a Greek word, ancient or Biblical, that means Wisdom, Initiation, Holy Spirit, Cleansing, or anything normally related to Baptism in everyday speech. Baphe is a noun in Attic Greek that means "dye" as in coloring. Baptein is the verb "to dye" as in to color something by dipping it. Baphe, used in the sense of "Baptism" or Initiation" came only
after the word Baptismo, a word peculiar to those cults that practice ritual immersion. It is related to Bahu, but not linguistically as far as anyone knows.
One theory is that the Templars may have originated the use of the word Baphe and stuck it on Met by which they could encode Sophia with the Atbash Cipher. If you know that they meant Sophia, you can figure out how they came up with Baphomet by using what Schonfield used.
Now, going in a more esoteric direction, a word that means Dye = color is related to truly ancient Orphic Doctrines about Demiurge and colors. Scholars debate the origin of a word that
sounds like Baptism but which means "dye" connected to a religious rite that predates Greece by thousands of years. This takes us back to Neolithic times and it is suggested that the Greeks got the idea/word from some other culture. I should note that the Picts were known to dye themselves blue, so a Northern origin is most likely.
It is very possible that the Knights Templar used the image of Baphemetis to indicate this origin.
Sophia is the Goddess of Wisdom from the Hellenic and Pythagorean tradition associated with Gnosis. To some Gnostic traditions, Sophia is also considered to be the Bride of God, i.e. Mary. Note also that Mary, Mar, Mer, is associated with Water.
This suggests that the Templars were followers of a Gnostic Christianity and that they were instrumental in reestablishing the feminine aspect of divinity that had been excised by the church. It should be remembered that their patron, St. Bernard of Clairvaux had an absolute obsession with Mary and was responsible for her being named the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. Mary is today considered the Mother of God in Catholicism. Whether the Templars were devoted to the Goddess or simply respectful of Wisdom, it cannot be disputed that Schonfield's Atbash cipher theory is among the most plausible explanations of the etymology of Baphomet.
Now, as to the northern custom of dyeing and immersion in water, we come to a most interesting bit of information that I discuss at some length in my book The Secret History of The World from which I will quote here, beginning with a quote from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain:
In Geoffrey’s story, Merlin suggests to Aurelius that he ought to send an expedition to Ireland to fetch the Giant’s Ring from Mount Killaraus. The King begins to laugh and asks:
“How can such large stones be moved from so far-distant a country?” he asked. “It is hardly as if Britain itself is lacking in stones big enough for the job!”
“Try not to laugh in a foolish way, your Majesty,” answered Merlin. “What I am suggesting has nothing ludicrous about it. These stones are connected with certain secret religious rites and they have various properties that are medicinally important. Many years ago the Giants transported them from the remotest confines of Africa and set them up in Ireland at a time when they inhabited that country. Their plan was that, whenever they felt ill, baths should be prepared at the foot of the stones; for they used to pour water over them and to run this water into baths in which their sick were cured. What is more, they mixed the water with herbal concoctions and so healed their wounds. There is not a single stone among them which hasn’t some medicinal value.” [...]
Cummins remarks astutely that Geoffrey was eight and a half centuries closer to the event than we are, so maybe his account is correspondingly closer? In these few remarks by Geoffrey of Monmouth, referring to the Cloisters of Ambrius, and “baths” at the “foot of the stones”, we find a possible hidden connection between the Cauldron of rebirth, the Holy Grail, and Stonehenge. Merlin’s explanation of the importance of the stones as reported in Geoffrey’s history, is that they were connected to “secret religious rites” that he further explains have to do with “magical healing properties,” an interesting juxtaposition of “stones” and a sort of “elixir of life.”
There is a very ancient Celtic tradition about cauldrons of rebirth, into which wounded, dead or dying soldiers were plunged, and came out healed, whole and reborn. The Holy Grail also bestowed health, healing of battle wounds, and curing of disease upon its bearers. The Celtic cauldrons were also sources of abundance, prophecy, inspiration, and knowledge. Cerridwen, the Welsh Moon Goddess, had a magic cauldron of inspiration. Welsh Bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen). The Bard Taliesin, founder of their craft, was said to be born of Cerridwen and to have tasted her potion known as “greal,” made from six plants for inspiration and knowledge. Branwen, the sister of Bran the Blessed, was the “Lady of the Cauldron,” as well as the Lady of the Lake. In short, the “Lake” from which the famous Sword emerged, and to which it was returned, was a Cauldron, or the Holy Grail.
Now that we have separated the thread of Baphomet from the Goat of Mendes, let's look at that issue. again from The Secret History of the World:
The peoples of the Andes had no known form of indigenous writing, so the evidence for their activities must come from other sources. The early Spanish chroniclers recorded what had been described to them about life in Inca times; their accounts include frequent references to “sacrifice” and “offering.” Some doubt has been expressed about these accounts, however, accusing the Europeans of a negative, Catholic point of view, suggesting that the chroniclers did not ask the right questions. However, pictorial evidence for sacrifice has long been known. The Incas made little in the way of figurative art, but existing pre-Inca depictions give visual evidence for sacrifice. Examples of archaeological evidence are now accumulating in the data from recent excavations in a number of places. Most of the archaeological evidence for human sacrifice in the Andes - most clearly among the Inca and the Moche - has been discovered only recently.
For many people in the modern Western world, making a sacrifice means either giving without receiving or giving up something valuable for a cause that may benefit others. What seems to be evident about the process of sacrifice in primitive belief systems is that sacrifices of animals and humans were done for the greater good of the group - to appease the anger of the god and prevent disaster. Blood was the symbol of life, of animation, of nourishment, the most important offering that could be given to the natural and supernatural beings. It was thought that the sacrificial nourishing of the “sacred beings” made life possible. It was also thought that the cosmos “ran” on this “nourishment.” It has been suggested that the number and violence of the sacrifices increased as the desperate Moche priests tried to appease the Gods. Unfortunately, such speculations do not fully answer the question as to why any human being ever thought that the death of another human being would satisfy the gods in some way.
In artistic depictions, the Moche are seen to cut the throats of prisoners of war and then drink their blood. Afterwards, the bodies were dismembered. It’s hard to say what the purpose of these endless sacrifices might be. Perhaps the priests thought that they obtained power from drinking the blood. We are reminded of the Biblical injunction that “the blood is the life,” and the Hebrews were forbidden to drink it or to eat meat that had not been thoroughly bled. Perhaps this was because the blood - and the life in it - was supposed to be reserved for the god exclusively. Child sacrifice is a recurrent theme not only in the Andes but also in much of the world.
Returning now to our problem: Yahweh. It seems that, like the Moche and the Aztecs, the Jewish priesthood began with terrifying cannibalistic rituals and sacrifices. Just picture the priest - kohane - standing before the worshippers spattered with dripping, stringy clots of blood, throwing basins of blood on the congregation to “cleanse” them, all the while the subliminal message being conveyed that “if you don’t obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to you!” This may have been what was taking place in the great Temple of Solomon which was very likely a displaced memory of a place so hated, the Temple of Hephaestus - the labyrinth - in Memphis, and was later transferred to the “labyrinth” at Crete. It was then brought to Palestine by the refugees from the eruption of Thera, and combined later with other tales of the cataclysm to produce some of the Old Testament and the rites of Judaism. We begin to understand why the labyrinth of Egypt was, according to Pliny, regarded with “extraordinary hatred” and why so many myths of a human eating Minotaur at the center circulated in the ancient world.
The idea of the ritual sacrifice of the king instead of thousands of virgins, children, or warriors, seems to be the result of the mingling of the Southern Sun god worship with the influence of the Northern Moon worshippers. This seems to be a distortion of the idea that the king was ruler by virtue of his “marriage” to the goddess, or her representative, and that this “marriage” involved a shamanic death in order to be able to transduce the cosmic energies of benevolence and prosperity to the tribe or to defend the tribe against evil spirits.
The northern custom of a king who had lost his vigor voluntarily abdicating and being replaced by the “right heir” who could “marry the goddess” was mixed with the sacrifice customs, and the result was that the priesthood had a weapon to wield over the monarch to keep him in line. Thus arose the idea of the “scape goat” king who was sacrificed in the labyrinth instead of maidens and warriors.
Herodotus tells us what seems to be an already garbled version of this mixing of the two ideas:
Being set free after the reign of the priest of Hephaistos, the Egyptians, since they could not live any time without a king, set up over them twelve kings, having divided all Egypt into twelve parts.
This may be the original story of Jacob and Esau and the 12 tribes.
This shift was also recorded in the myth of Theseus.
What seems to be so is that there was some sort of “object of power” at the center of the myth of the Sons of Aegyptus and the daughters of Danaus. It was a descendant of this “union” - Perseus - who “cleansed the temple” and restored the Goddess to her rightful place as depicted in the story of the slaying of Medusa, the freeing of Pegasus, and the rescue of Andromeda. But again, this is merely the assimilation of later events to the primal myth of Atlantis.
When we examine the evidence, we find many clues, but with the passage of time, the movements of people in migration and/or conquest, it is impossible to say with certainty just “who is on first.” There is, of course, much more to this than the little bit I am able to include here. This will be dealt with in a future volume.
In the Bible the “wise king Solomon” is portrayed as “whoring after” the Tyrian fire and sun god Moloch/Molech. One has to wonder what this means considering the fact that there is no difference between Moloch and Yahweh when one digs beneath the surface. Some “experts” suggest that the priest Melchizedek - who was the purported teacher of Abraham - was a priest of “Moloch,” and that the name means “Righteous Moloch.” However, that is a cross-conceptualization, and a somewhat sly way to trick the reader. If you are going to translate one word into English, you ought to translate the other. Malkiy, or Malak, means simply “king.” Tsedeq means “right” or “just” or benevolent. It carries the abstract suggestion of “prosperity.”
What seems to have happened, once again, is that a possible revelation of truth about our reality was co-opted and diverted by the denizens of hyperdimensional realities who do not wish their nature and agenda to be discerned. In the standard method of disinformation, truth was mixed with lies in order to mislead and divert. Those who wish that everything was either clearly black or clearly white, do not take the time to patiently pick through the threads and separate them so as to discern the truth. My suggestion on this point is that the ancient Priesthood of Melchizedek was designated thus for the express purpose of distinguishing it from the worship of Moloch, the Fire god. [...]
What Herodotus had to say about it is rather fascinating:
Being set free after the reign of the priest of Hephaistos, the Egyptians, since they could not live any time without a king, set up over them twelve kings, having divided all Egypt into twelve parts. These made intermarriages with one another and reigned, making agreement that they would not put down one another by force, nor seek to get an advantage over one another, but would live in perfect friendship: and the reason why they made these agreements, guarding them very strongly from violation, was this, namely that an oracle had been given to them at first when they began to exercise their rule, that he of them who should pour a libation with a bronze cup in the temple of Hephaistos, should be king of all Egypt (for they used to assemble together in all the temples).
Moreover they resolved to join all together and leave a memorial of themselves; and having so resolved they caused to be made a labyrinth situated a little above the lake of Moeris and nearly opposite to that which is called the City of Crocodiles. This I saw myself, and I found it greater than words can say. For if one should put together and reckon up all the buildings and all the great works produced by the Hellenes, they would prove to be inferior in labour and expense to this labyrinth, though it is true that both the temple at Ephesos and that at Samos are works worthy of note. [...]
What was Herodotus describing? He declared all the great architectural works of the Greeks and Egyptians, including the pyramids, to be “inferior in labour and expense to this labyrinth.” We would also like to note that there were no references to bulls hidden in the Egyptian labyrinth; rather, in the hidden underground chambers were the “sepulchres of the kings who had first built this labyrinth and of the sacred crocodiles.”
Diodorus has a slightly different story about who built this famous labyrinth:
When the king died the government was recovered by Egyptians and they appointed a native king Mendes, whom some call Mares. Although he was responsible for no military achievements whatsoever, he did build himself what is called the Labyrinth as a tomb, an edifice which is wonderful not so much for its size as for the inimitable skill with which it was built; for once in, it is impossible to find one’s way out again without difficulty, unless one lights upon a guide who is perfectly acquainted with it. [...]
The upper set of chambers we ourselves saw, going through them, and we tell of them having looked upon them with our own eyes; but the chambers under ground we heard about only; for the Egyptians who had charge of them were not willing on any account to show them, saying that here were the sepulchres of the kings who had first built this labyrinth and of the sacred crocodiles.
So we see a very early association with the name "Mendes" and "sacred crocodiles, or "reptilian" creatures that were "gods." So when, where, and how did the name Mendes become associated with a goat?
Well, again, it's a tricky and convoluted path of what can only be called "cosmic cointelpro."
In Egypt, since Osiris was dead, he was considered to be lord of the dead. Osiris' soul, or rather his Ba, was occasionally worshipped in its own right, almost as if it were a distinct god, especially so in the Delta city of
Mendes. .
Ba does not mean soul in the western sense since it has a lot to do with power, reputation, force of character, especially in the case of a god.
This aspect of Osiris was referred to as Banebdjed (also spelt Banebded or Banebdjedet, which is technically feminine) which literally means The ba of the lord of the djed, which roughly means The soul of the lord of the pillar of stability. The djed, a type of pillar, was usually understood as the backbone of Osiris, since the Egyptians had associated death, and the dead, as symbolic of stability. As Banebdjed, Osiris was given epithets such as Lord of the Sky and Life of the (sun god) Ra, since Ra, when he had become identified with Atum, was considered Osiris' ancestor, from whom his regal authority was inherited.
Since the ba was associated with power, and ba also happened to be a word for ram in Egyptian, Banebdjed was depicted as a ram, or as Ram-headed. A living, sacred ram, was even kept at Mendes and worshipped as the incarnation of the god, and upon death, the rams were mummified and buried in a ram-specific necropolis.
In Mendes, they had considered Hatmehit, a local fish-goddess, as the most important god/goddess, and so when the cult of Osiris became more significant, Banebdjed was identified in Mendes as deriving his authority from being married to Hatmehit. ...
In contemporary occult fiction, Banebdjed is often called the goat of Mendes, and identifed with Baphomet; the fact that Banebdjed was a ram (sheep), not a goat, is apparently overlooked.
http://www.theegyptiangods.com/Osiris.htm
Where did the fish goddess come from? Probably from Mesopotamian influences. From The Secret History of the World:
The deity worshipped at Eridu in historic times was the god Enki. Before this, the god of the shrine seems to have been a fish or water god who rose up out of the water exactly like Viracocha, had scales, and was a civilizer-teacher of language and culture. Enki was thought of later as the god of the waters and was described as riding around in his boat. He was also described as “he who rides.” This concept of the fish or water god is similar to one found in a fragment of an Indo-Aryan Hittite tablet which tells of a sun god who rose from the water with fish on his head. [...]
Now, let’s think about this for a moment. We have a god with a fish on his head, thereby associated with scales, and who is described as “he who rides.” This scaly god not only rides, he rose from the water like the sun! Also, he was born from the deaths of the Mother goddess and her son. Mountains of fire are involved, gold, and kingship being “lowered from heaven.” It rather sounds like UFOs coming up out of the water as they have so often been reported to do in more modern times, or descending on mountain tops. [...]
Anu appears as the successor to Alalu in the Hurrian and Hittite Kumarbi myth. But most interesting is his appearance in the later myth of Marduk, “the son of the sun.” Here we learn that Enki was first asked to subdue the Creatress-Goddess, whom they call Tiamat, and was not able, though he did manage to kill her husband Apsu, thus becoming Lord of the Abzu (primeval waters) himself. Anu was then asked to subdue Tiamat, but according to the legend when he confronted Her, he cringed in fear and refused to complete his mission. Finally Marduk, son of Enki, was willing, though only upon the promise of the supreme position among all other deities if he succeeded. This previously secured promise brings to mind the one Indra requested before murdering Danu and Her son Vrtra; both of these myths were probably written down at about the same period (1600-1400 B.C) though they are undoubtedly far older. In passing, I would like to note that the name Tiamat is similar to some of the earliest known names of male deities including Tiu, Tyr, Thor, etc, plus Mat which reminds us of Egyptian Maat, which was a goddess who represented truth, law and universal order. [...]
There is considerable evidence for contact between Egypt and Sumer. “Abundant evidence of Mesopotamian cultural influence is found at this time in Egypt.” Significant is the fact that cylinder seals (a specifically Mesopotamian invention) occur there, together with methods of building in brick foreign to Egypt but typical of the Jemdet Nasr culture of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization. Mesopotamian motifs and objects also begin to be represented in Egyptian art, such as boats of Mesopotamian type. The idea of writing, though it was expressed quite differently in Egypt, seems to have developed more or less coevally with Mesopotamia. Paintings in early dynastic tombs portray a conical basket type of fish trap, nearly identical to those of the Ertebolle people of northern Europe who were descended from the Maglemosians, a European Mesolithic culture, which links us back to the Akkadians as being from the North. The male deity of Egypt arrived with the invaders, and was portrayed as the sun riding in a boat!
Professor Walter Emery spent some forty-five years excavating the ancient tombs and pyramids of Egypt. Discussing the arrival of these people, he writes:
Whether this incursion took the form of gradual infiltration or horde invasion is uncertain but the balance of evidence... strongly suggests the latter. ...we see a style of art which some think may be Mesopotamian, or even Syrian in origin, and a scene which may represent a battle at sea against invaders... [in these] representations we have typical native ships of Egypt and strange vessels with high prow and stem of unmistakable Mesopotamian origin...
At any rate, towards the close of the fourth millennium BC we find the people known traditionally as the “Followers of Horus” apparently forming an aristocracy or master race ruling over the whole of Egypt. The theory of the existence of this master race is supported by the discovery that graves of the late pre-dynastic period in the northern part of Upper Egypt were found to contain the anatomical remains of a people whose skulls are of greater size and whose bodies were larger than those of the natives, the difference being so marked that any suggestion that these people derived from the earlier stock is impossible.
These invaders were known to the Egyptians as the “Shemsu Hor“, or people of Hor. And, of course, they brought with them their male god, Hor-Wer or Great Hor. By 2900 BC pictures of this sun god show him riding in his “boat of heaven.”
It certainly makes one wonder if a brilliant UFO rising up out of the water would cause the ancient peoples to connect a boat (that goes on water) with flying through the air while looking like the sun! And, over and over again we are finding this image or juxtaposition of images.
According to Emery, the name of the first king of the First Dynasty, known as Narmer or Menes in Manetho’s history of 270 BC, was actually Hor-Aha. Later, the name of Hor appears to have been incorporated into the more ancient goddess religion as the “son who dies.” This has led to a lot of confusion between the two “Hors,” Horus the Elder, god of light of the invaders, and Horus the Younger, the son of the goddess Isis.
Hor later was transmogrified into Horus by the Greeks, and is depicted as fighting a ritual combat with another male deity known as Set. Set is supposed to be his uncle, the brother of his mother Isis and father Osiris. The combat was supposed to symbolize the overcoming of darkness or Set, by light, symbolized by Hor.
In Sanskrit the word ‘sat’ means to destroy by hewing into pieces. In the myth of Osiris, it was Set who killed Osiris and cut his body into fourteen pieces which naturally reminds us of the sacrifices of the Moche. However, the word “set” is also defined as “queen” or “princess” in Egyptian! “Au Set,” known as Isis by the Greeks, means, “exceeding queen!”
In the myth of this ritual combat, Set tried to mate sexually with Horus; this is usually interpreted to have been an extreme insult. But the most primitive identity of the figure Set, before the wavy lines of water or energy became serpents, may be found in the goddess religion, and this combat, just as with the combat of Marduk with Tiamat, may have represented the suppression and destruction of the Goddess religion. Of course, the conquering invaders presented themselves as “saviors” and their conquest as a triumph of light over darkness!
So it has always been.
Nevertheless, the followers of Hor established the institution of kingship in Egypt. And, again, marrying the representative of the goddess in order to “steal her power” was an important part of the assumption of kingship as was recorded in the story of Solomon - he married an Egyptian Princess. We may justifiably compare the name of “Hor” to the Hurrians or Horites who came from India to Sumer.
I think this post is getting long, so I'll continue in the next.
