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The Force is Strong With This One
Here is a painting by German Albrecht Altdorfer.This is a very curious connection indeed. There is frequently a hidden meaning behind the name the C's use in a session so you could be on to something here with the connection to the Greek name Milos (from which I assume the name Milo may derive).
It has been mentioned before on this thread that there is definitely a correlation between the Norse gods and the gods of ancient Greece. However, in the Prose Edda the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city (an origin which parallels Virgil's Aeneid). Although there is no Greek equivalent to Idun as an apple goddess, the nearest comparison in Greek mythology is probably the night nymphs known as the Hesperides who guarded the tree bearing the golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus. The mythographer Apollodorus (2nd century BC) located them among the Hyperboreans. The golden apples were also guarded by the dragon Ladon, the offspring of Phorcys and Ceto. As Ladon is the name of an Arcadian river, Arcadia was possibly the original site of the garden. The golden apples figured in different accounts of Heracles’ (Hercules) 11th Labour. In one version Heracles slayed the dragon and took the apples to the consternation of the Hesperides. The golden apples (like blue grapes) may be a stand-in for the Grail just like the Golden Fleece is (see more below on this). This connection to the Grail is further strengthened by the myth of Eris's golden 'Apple of Discord', which precipitated the Trojan War. The apple sparked a vanity-fuelled dispute among the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite that led to the Judgement of Paris and ultimately the Trojan War. In common parlance, the "apple of discord" is the core, kernel, or crux of an argument, or a small matter that could lead to a bigger dispute. The reference to "core" here makes me think of the C's reference to Kore:Q: (L) So, he returned the ark to the so-called angel. And then, he gave something to someone else. Previously, when I asked about this, you said that what he gave to Esau was "trampled leaves of wrath, the blue apples incarnate," and remarked that I should inquire into the "core meaning."
A: And who was "Kore?"
Q: (L) Was this Abraham's daughter?
A: It was the last living member of the Perseid family.
Q: (L) Was it a male or female?
A: Female.
Q: (L) And how did Abraham come to be in possession of this female?
A: Search the text and you will see.
The link Apollodorus made to the Hyperboreans makes me wonder if the island of the Hesperides was one of the islands of the Scottish Hebrides group, the islands of Bride (the Irish Bridget) who I have linked to Princess Meritaten or Hagar the Egyptian in the Bible and to the C's Kore, who in turn may be linked to Helle of Greek mythology who fled with her brother on the Golden Ram that became the Golden Fleece (a metaphor for the Grail), which, like Heracles overcoming the dragon Ladon, the Argonaut Jason would seize and take away with him after subduing the dragon that had guarded it.
I have little doubt that some mythic figures were based on real persons who became deified as their mythic tales evolved over time. For me the Celtic goddess Bridget is one such character who in my view, as the daughter or wife of the Dagda, was based on the Egyptian Princess Meritaten, whose father Akhenaten had possessed the Grail until it was stolen by his wife Nefertiti in her guise as the biblical Rachel and given to the patriarch Jacob, a guise for Abraham/Moses. It is curious that in the biblical story of Rachel, Jacob's father Isaac wanted his son to marry from among his own people, so he sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to find a wife among the daughters of Laban, Jacob's uncle. Jacob would find Rachel, Laban's younger daughter, tending sheep at the well at Haran. Scripture says that Rachel was very beautiful, which also reflects the character of Queen Nefertiti whose name means "a beautiful woman has come". The name Rachel means "ewe" in Hebrew, which, given Rachel's role as a shepherdess, may indirectly link her with the shepherdess in Poussin's painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia. It is interesting that Jacob should meet Rachel at the well of Haran though since this name creates a link to the city of Harran (Haran in Hebrew), which was the home of Terah (Abraham's father), and was for a time Abraham's temporary home. Today Harran lies within the borders of Turkey but in Abraham/Moses's era it was part of the Hittite empire. This fact makes sense of the C's statement that both Abraham (Moses) and Nefertiti (Sarah) were Hittites. If, as the C's state, the biblical Rachel is really Nefertiti, then Abraham in his guise as Jacob did, in marrying Nefertiti, marry someone from his own race or people. In Hebrew, Haran can mean "parched," but is more likely to mean "road" or "crossroad," cognate to Old Babylonian ḫaranu. This reference to Haran being a "crossroad" makes me think of the C's statement concerning Arcadia (Akkadia):
A: Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent.
Today Haran is usually identified with Harran, now a village of Şanlıurfa, Turkey close to Göbekli Tepe, which more and more appears to have been the cradle of western civilisation post the Deluge and is a site associated with the Anunnaki, who may be the biblical Nephilim of Genesis. Was this area the original Arcadia post the Deluge?
I have recently been watching the re-runs of a British TV series Atlantis, which features a very loose retelling of some of the Greek mythic tales including that of the Minotaur, Medusa and Jason. The hero of these stories is Jason who is in love with the Princess Ariadne. His friends in these tales are Hercules and a young Pythagoras. The whole thing is jumbled up but is still quite entertaining to watch. In one story, for example. Medusa, who is Hercules's great love interest, is turned into the gorgon by looking into Pandora's box, which Jason and his friends have brought back with them from Hades.
According to Hesiod, when Prometheus stole fire (knowledge?) from heaven, Zeus, the king of the gods, took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. Pandora opened a jar (which would became a box over time) left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world. From this story has grown the idiom "to open a Pandora's box", meaning to do or start something that will cause many unforeseen problems. In some ways this tale ties in with the biblical story of Adam and Eve where their eating of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge brought around the Fall of Mankind, resulting in sickness, death and all manner of other evils befalling man as a result of the sin of pride.
In Greek mythology, Pandora's box was a gift from the gods to Pandora, the first woman on Earth (who having been made from clay can also be likened to the biblical Eve). It supposedly contained all the evils of the world, which were released when Pandora opened the box. However, it also contained hope, which remained inside the box. Symbolically, the box represents the curiosity and desire for knowledge that can lead to both negative consequences and positive outcomes. As we all know, knowledge can be a double-edged sword, its use leading to both good and evil consequences. This idea is depicted in Marco Angelo del Moro (who was active 1565–1586), work titled "Pandora's Box, or The Sciences that Illuminate the Human Spirit", which portrays a woman (see below) in an antique dress opening an ornate coffer from which spills books, manuscripts, snakes and bats. The snakes crawling from the chest may be viewed as ancient symbols of wisdom but they also remind me of the snakes that writhed from the head of the gorgon Medusa.
Q: (Galahad) Is it a significant fact that this girl's name [Helle] was similar to Helen of Troy?
Given that the head of the Medusa may be a metaphor for the Grail, which I believe may be the pure crystal skull called Baphomet by the Knights Templar, is there a possible link to Pandora's Box, which represents man's curiosity and desire for knowledge. Well there is another famous, historical box that I believe once housed the Grail and that box or coffer is the Ark of the Covenant (MJF: which may also have been the basis of the legend of the Dagda's Cauldron of Irish mythology). So, could the Ark containing the Grail (the Head of Medusa or Baphomet) have been Pandora's Box, which, once opened, presented opportunities for good or evil depending on how the Grail was used. This idea of the Grail being confined within the Ark makes me think of what the C's said here:
A: Could be a clue. All those stories of escape from confinement and flying and cataclysm...? Who was imprisoned? Why? Good night.
Q: (Galahad) Stories of escape - there's the story of Daedalus and Icarus... We have Colchis, Jason, the Argonauts. We have [Kore] the last living member of the Perseid family... all mixed up with Abraham and Sarah otherwise known as Paris and Helen who was also Nefertiti. (L) And Abraham wanted to save this individual from the fury of Helen. (S) And why was Helen furious? What happened when Helen got furious? (Galahad) A thousand ships got launched... (L) And a lot of people died and have been dying ever since from this whole monotheistic rant. And it looks like Helen/Nefertiti/Sarah is the main source of the whole deal. A Hittite hybrid with a big skull like those heads of the Ica in Peru. And the C's have said that there were hybrids in Peru that were supposed to have been attempts to create a 3rd density body for direct STS incarnation. And it looks like Sarah/Helen/Nefertiti was one of them. No wonder women have been given a bad name. We have our work cut out for us.
Daedalus and Icarus were not the only example in Greek mythology of confinement and escape since Perseus, the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty, who was the demigod (hybrid) son of Zeus, was cast adrift in a wooden chest with his mother Danae in the sea by his grandfather Acrisius. Mother and child would eventually be washed ashore on the island of Seriphos. And it was Perseus, of course, who was destined to kill the gorgon Medusa and cut off her head as a trophy he would subsequently present to the goddess Athena (Sir Francis Bacon's muse in her guise as Pallas Athena).Q: Is the story of David a gloss of the Perseus legend?
So was the Medusa's head, Pandora's Box and Eris's Apple of Discord all really metaphors for the Grail, which had been confined in the Ark of the Covenant? Where the C's ask "Who was imprisoned?" should that have really been "What was imprisoned?"
If Helle was Princess Meritaten/Hagar and Kore all wrapped up in one person, was Helen's (Nefertiti's) fury in reality connected to the Grail, with which Meritaten and her five sisters may have been linked to as the Hesperidesof Greek mythology? Did Akhenaten's daughters have some special connection to the Grail when it was in their father's possession? Had Meritaten, as a princess of Egypt and priestess of the Temple of the Aten in Amarna, been dedicated to serving the Grail and acting as its protectress. If so, is it possible that Meritaten in her guise as Helle fled with the Grail to the British Isles with the assistance of the Tuatha de Danaan, the biblical Tribe of Dan, who mysteriously disappeared from the Bible without explanation, which event may be recalled in the Bible through the strange story of the rape of the Levite's (Abraham/Moses's) concubine (Hagar) and the resulting Battle of Gibeah, which saw the Tribe of Benjamin almost annihilated (for the Tribe of Benjamin we should read here the Tribe of Dan?). Was Helle's possession of the Grail (the Golden Fleece or Apple of Discord) and its arrival in Britain the eventual spark for the Trojan War, which saw the Grail being recaptured and returned to the Middle East?
As Bridget, Meritaten would have been long dead by the time the Trojan War took place in Cambridge (Illum) in England, given that the C's have said recently that the siege of Troy occurred around 1100 BC* (La era de Meritaten normalmente se cita como de mediados del siglo XIV a. C., pero podría haber sido mucho antes, tal vez el siglo XVII a. C. si nos guiamos por los cálculos de la C). Sin embargo, los troyanos bien podrían haber sido descendientes del séquito de princesas que había llegado de Egipto en barcos como los barcos egipcios descubiertos en Ferriby, Yorkshire, en el estuario de Humber, en el que desemboca el río Trento. Si había traído consigo el Grial, ¿se guardaría posteriormente en la ciudad de Troya? Curiosamente, el año 1100 a. C. sitúa la Guerra de Troya dentro del estadio de béisbol de la época del rey David de Israel. ¿Podrían David o sus seguidores haber estado involucrados en el asedio y, de ser así, podrían haber traído el Grial de regreso a Israel, donde terminó siendo devuelto al Arca de la Alianza? Esto es pura especulación y conjetura de mi parte. Sin embargo, los C dijeron una vez que la historia del rey David era una glosa de la leyenda de Perseo, que implicaba el asesinato de Medusa siendo su cabeza una metáfora del Grial, que, como se analizó anteriormente, puede tener el poder de abrir un portal a la cuarta densidad:
A: Yes. More than that though.
Q: Okay, can you tell me what it is more than that?
A: A Tale of 4th Density.
Q: So it's interactive in the sense of groups, not individuals?
A: Yes.
So, who knows? However, it is interesting that the Norse gods should be linked to the human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city. Were these Trojan refugees, who may subsequently have taken up residence in Scandinavia, the descendants of the god-like Tuatha de Danann who may have inspired the stories of Odin, Thor etc?
*I have tried to track this confirmation down in the transcripts but without success yet.
St. George and the dragon is sure to have a greater significance.
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ToBe sure, there is much Pulling The Wool Over One's Eyes in history.
