Yes and this concept may be reflected in Poussin's painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia too. The female shepherdess figure, who may represent the goddess Persephone (an archetype of the mother goddess) who in a reflection of nature would spend six months of the year above ground and six months of the year below ground in Hades after eating six pomegranate seeds, is standing in front of a bifurcating tree, where a branch is seen jutting out to her left, a point which Laura has picked up on. However, is it possible that the pregnant shepherdess also denotes Princess Meritaten, who as Kore was the last living member of the Perseid line and the daughter of the large-skulled hybrid Queen Nefertiti. Through her son Ishmael, sired by Abraham, Meritaten would start another Abrahamic branch from which today's Arabs claim descent. However, in my view her descendants are more likely to be found in Britain where I believe Mertiten ultimately found refuge in the guise of the mythic Greek Helle and as Princess Scotia of Scottish and Irish folklore.
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This connection also ties in with what the C's said about Kore and the Autumn Equinox:
Session 16 August 1997:
Q: I noticed in Genesis Chapter 33, verse 11, it says that Jacob, who wrestled with the angel the previous night and was on his way to see his brother Esau, who he had tricked into giving up his blessing years before, “gave Esau the blessing”. What was this? The birthright from his father or the blessing Jacob received from the angel?
A: Trampled leaves of wrath.
Q: This is what Jacob gave to Esau?
A: Yes, and what is the "core" meaning there?
Q: I don't know. What is the core meaning?
A: Leaves are of the Tree of Apples, from whence we get the proverbial "grapes of wrath," the Blue Apples incarnate!
Q: Why are these leaves 'trampled?'
A: Removes chlorophyll.
Q: What is the significance of the chlorophyll?
A: When the chlorophyll dies, the autumnal equinox is at hand.
Q: Did this signify something about the autumnal equinox?
A: Discover what the significance is, my Dear!
I have mentioned before that Poussin used pentagonal projection geometry in this painting, which we know from the C's suggestion to view a mirror image of the painting (see below) enabled Poussin to create hidden imagery including a skull, chalice and inverted pyramid that could be a pointer to the Grail (perhaps Baphomet, the pure crystal skull possessed by the Knights Templar).
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You will note that the shepherdess disappears altogether from this version. Curiously, there is also a chalice-like figure made from tree foliage appearing over the split mountain top. However, what I didn't know before was that according to researcher
Lionel Fanthorpe this pentagonal projection stems from the shepherdess's head, making her perhaps the key figure in the painting. Quoting Fanthorpe:
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The whole geometry of the painting is governed by the geometry of the pentagon which extends to a considerable distance outside the frame and is centred on the head of the shepherdess."
And we know from the decoded parchment that "Poussin holds the key". Hence, there can be little doubt that there is significant symbolism attached to the figure of the shepherdess in Poussin's painting, which may be linked to something else mentioned in the parchment and that is "Blue Apples" or what the C's said were the "Blue Apples incarnate", which suggests a link to living beings who may be descendants of a particular blue-blooded lineage. Could that lineage be the Perseid line as carried on by Kore or Princess Meritaten?
But what of Autumn? Can there be a link between this season and blue apples? Well yes there is and the link can be found in another painting by Poussin called "L'Autumne, ou la grappe de la terre promise", i.e., Autumn or under its alternative title "the grapes of the promised land". This alternative title immediately makes me think of the C's reference to the trampled "grapes of wrath" and may constitute a link between Meritaten in her figure as the biblical Hagar the Egyptian bondswoman and mother of Ishmael and Sarah, Abraham's wife, who out of envy and anger (wrath) got Abraham to abandon Hagar and Ishmael in the desert. Given that the C's have confirmed that Abraham was also Moses, this meant that Meritaten would never reach the promised land of Israel, the land of milk and honey, having been trampled on by her mother and her lover, Abraham.
Although there is no exact biblical reference to the "grapes of wrath" the closest you can get is to a quotation in the Apocalypse or Book of Revelations:
Revelation 14:17-20 (King James Version, KJV):
These verses speak of the final judgment of the wicked (unbelievers), and the complete destruction of the Earth in the Apocalypse or end of days.
The term "the grapes of wrath" would provide the inspiration for a novel by noted American author
John Steinbeck. Curiously, just like me, the first book Steinbeck ever read was Morte d'Arthur (the death of King Arthur) by Mallory, which provides us with another indirect link to the Grail. However, it is the biblical Ark of the Covenant that is alluded to in his depression era tale of a farming family who abandon their Oklahoma farmstead because of the dust bowl to seek a new life in California. Quoting from an article on the book by
Esther Lombardi:
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Then, with their world torn apart, the Joads packed up all their worldly possessions (like Noah and his family, in their infamous Ark: "Noah stood on the ground looking up at the great load of them sitting on top of the truck."), and were forced to set off on a cross-country trek to their Promised Land, California. They were searching for a land of "milk and honey," a place where they could work hard and ultimately fulfil the American Dream. They were also following a dream (Grandpa Joad dreamed that he'd have as many grapes as he could eat when he reached California). They had very little choice in the situation. They were escaping from their own very-certain destruction (like Lot and his family)."
Whether Steinbeck's character Grandpa Joad and his dream of eating grapes in the promised land of California was inspired by Poussin's painting of
L'Autumne (see below) I do not know.
The painting was one of a series of four on the four seasons of the year. In an earlier post, we looked at the esoteric imagery contained in his painting of Winter (which I will return to in a subsequent post), which depicted the biblical flood. As you can see, the painting above depicts two men of biblical times carrying an enormous bunch of dark blue grapes, which are literally the size of apples. This immediately makes me think of the reference to "Blue Apples" in the decoded parchment Abbe Sauniere allegedly found and the C's own reference to "Blue Apples incarnate" and "the proverbial "grapes of wrath" as well as the blue orbs of light to be seen in Sauniere's church at Rennes-le-Chateau at the time of the Winter Solstice. I don't think this is a mere coincidence either.
However, as Fanthorpe notes, you can also see a mountain peak in the background that looks suspiciously like Mount Cardou, as discussed in my earlier series of articles on the Mountain of God, where it is possible the Grail could have been hidden during Poussin's era. Indeed, as Fanthorpe notes, this Arcadian like scenery could easily pass for the Aude district in southern France where Rennes-le-Chateau is to be found. One can also see a man up a ladder picking apples from am apple tree, which could be a reference to Jacob's Ladder, which is an important device in Masonic lore and symbolism. This symbolism also takes us back to the blessing Jacob received from the angel (who represents the Elohim) and the C's reference to the "trampled leaves of wrath", which appears to be Kore or Princess Meritaten.
Fanthorpe thinks the painting depicting men carrying grapes could instead refer to another biblical incident found in Numbers 13. In this story, Moses is commanded by God to send spies into Canaan to bring back reports of the land and its inhabitants. Moses selects a representative prince from each of the twelve traditional tribes of Israel to undertake the reconnaissance. They reach Eschcol (the name, interestingly, meaning "a bunch" or "cluster") where they cut down one branch laden with grapes so large and heavy that it needs two men to carry it. The spies then return with this and other samples and make their report to Moses. Only Caleb, Prince of Judah, is in favour of attacking. The other princes counselled caution because of the great number and vast size of the indigenous population, some of whom they called Nephilim or giants. This reference to the Nephilim links us back to Queen Nefertiti with her elongated head (marking her out as a Nephilim hybrid) and her daughter Meritaten who also had an enlarged skull, a feature that was subsequently connected with the Merovingian kings of France (were they descendants of Meritaten I wonder?). Moreover, the C's said Kore was handed over to the "Dragon Slayers" who I believe were the legendary red-haired giants known in Irish folklore as the Tuatha de Danann, who may well have been the biblical Tribe of Dan, and were Canaanites just like the giants seen by Moses's spies. Hence, the connections involved here seem to keep on growing and widening.
Fanthorpe also thinks that the grapes could provide another connection to the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau and this one brings in Sir Francis Bacon, the Rosicrucians, and by extension the enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees, Sir Phillip Sydney (author of Arcadia) and even the 18th century British Admiral Sir William Anson who in turn is linked with the Oak Island mystery, with more and more evidence being found connecting him to the island and its mysterious treasure. This connection involves special watermark codes used by Sir Francis Bacon and his circle who were all involved in spying for Queen Elizabeth I and were adept at codes and cyphers.
All of this makes me think of what the C's once said about the Rosicrucians:
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A: What a tangled web we spin, when we must not let you in."
Even this quote may have an indirect link with Poussin's painting of the Shepherds of Arcadia since the figure of the female shepherdess could also also be that of
Arachne. She was the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid. In Book Six of his epic poem
Metamorphoses, Ovid recounts how the talented mortal Arachne challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest. When Athena could find no flaws in the tapestry Arachne had woven for the contest, the goddess became enraged and beat the girl with her shuttle. After Arachne hanged herself out of shame, she was transformed into a spider. The myth both provided an etiology of spiders' web-spinning abilities and was a cautionary tale about human hubris.
I will pick up on these themes in my next post.