Okay, with some luck I’ll redeem another bit of my slackness trying to return to this asking in another post.
Meanwhile next I bring up that that painting indeed has another pointing, historically speaking. With relation to that, I even thought that it could have already been widely spoken in the forum but a quick search in the forum’s site didn’t exhibit old discussions on it. In fact, to my surprise, most of the results appeared into the “recent” ‘Alton Towers’ thread. Now, is somewhat difficult to me to go all over those elaborated posts because I’m at deep work in another projects, not to mention the deals of the day by day. Anyway sorry if the next was already talked here somehow.
Moreover, to date the search in specific didn’t bring anything on the Shugborough monument. So next we have some brief notices on it.
A close in of the
Sheperds of Shugborough
The well known
Shugborough monument, as can be seen, is a relief sculpted from the
Arcadian Shepherds of Poussin. Shaped by
Peter Scheemakers and paid by
Thomas Anson, it was built in the middles of the 18th century and stays in the
Shugborough House, England.
That property is also peculiar by itself since —2 centuries before that relief— there was a monastery, and later in the 19th century was built a big
tunnel under its lands. The eastern portal of the tunnel had certain Egyptian style, and its prominent portals even came to be known as the ‘
Gates of Jerusalem’.
Back to the relief there are some interesting details in it. For example could be mentioned the columns, an arch about it, stone heads —including one horned
Pan god like— and in particular the very notable and strange inscription under it.
The issue with this inscription is that to date
nobody delivered their decipherment. As we can see, there are the
8 letters 'OUOSVAVV', while under them come in opposite corners, the 2 letters 'D' and 'M'.
Just for fun, let’s try a carefree fortuitousness right now?!! It’s really my first shot on this. See, these letters
may be
not an answer but just a clue or
clues related to the theme of the relief. Anyway, they seem to beg for a split to make some sense of them. How about this:
“Ouo – Sva – VV”!!! Still weird? Anyway, when researching these bits, …guess what?!! “
Ouo” is told one of the
5 ministers of
Poseidon, god of the Sea who is correspondent to the Vedic
Varuna, also god of the Sea, who has a twin-set of 5 helpers
see also Vishnu Purana, look for “sons of Prachinabarhis”. And next?
Well, since we jumped to Hinduism… we could look into Sanskrit the word “
Sva”. Perhaps just coincidence, even so it looks like another happy guess because “
sva” means “
self”. Great, but and “
VV”? This one seems more complicated. It does not look a word, maybe Roman numbers like “V-V”, then “
5-5,” which implies “10”? Or could it be also a sculpture like the relief? If so, in English “VV” could be another fashion for depicting “
W” of Wave. So, done? Not really. Like it was said, this is just a first shot. Even if correct still would be necessary to research these mythological references and then connect the dots.
Right, but and the 2 letters in the other line? Oh boy… let’s think. Two letters at opposite sides. Hmmm. Let’s hold on a moment these ones, and see first what others have speculated. Now, since that monument is also a tomb, then the line with the “D” & “M,” some claim, could be like those in the Roman tombs where used to be carved ‘
Dis Manibus.’ Well, I can tell that the latter sentence is Latin for “
Shades of Pluto”, that is to say a memorial for the spirits that transited to the realm of Hades (Pluto), who is the god of the lands of the Hell.
Actually, your post here on the Shugborough Monument has beaten me to it, since I was intending to write a piece about this enigmatic sculpture on the Alton Towers thread soon. Perhaps it is providential that you have done so now.
The Shugborough Monument is clearly linked to the mystery that is contained within the Poussin painting. For one thing, it is a mirror or reversed image of Poussin's painting in the same way that the Shroud of Turin is essentially a photographic negative. However, the Shugborough carving displays a number of small alterations from the original painting, including the addition of an extra sarcophagus placed on top of the main tomb and we also have the fingers of two shepherds touching the letters 'N' and 'R' in the phrase ET IN ARCADIA EGO whereas in the original painting it is just one shepherd touching the letter R of… Arcadia… a word which contains the word "arc"… . Evidently these small changes are significant. It should be recalled that Poussin actually painted two versions of the subject, The second, better known version, is this one:
The original version is this one:
In this case, the subject differs in that there are only three shepherds shown together with a god like figure lying on the ground, who would appear to be the god
Alpheus, the river god and lord of underground streams (see my comments on this theme in my post
Session 24 June 2022) and there is a skull depicted on top of the tomb, which is absent in the second version.
Most interpreters take the skull to be an emblem of death being present even in the idyllic pastoral setting of Arcadia. However, could it represent more than this? The fact that the Shugborough Monument depicts two tombs could be significant in this context. It is my conjecture that one tomb may represent the hiding place of the Holy Grail and the other sarcophagus may represent the hiding place or tomb of the TDARM buried on Oak Island, since both artefacts would seem to have similar capabilities as remolecularisation and, therefore, teleportation devices. This point might even make sense of the C's statement in the
Session 12 July 1997:
A: Have you researched the power of Stonehenge, and how it relates... where it fits in?
Q: Yes, we are bit by bit collecting things...
A: Well? And crop circles? Amazing connections... And what of "The Rosy Cross?"
Q: Well, this is what we are looking at! I have even discovered that Sir Francis Bacon's name is even derived from "beech," and that his Latin signature has the gematria number of 17 - and January 17 is the feast day of St. Anthony, who replaced St. Augustine in this affair somewhat... and I have connected the Rosicrucians all over the blasted planet, for crying out loud! And, who is who here? Just who are the good guys?
A: Airports are used by both.
Q: Well, what is THAT supposed to mean?
A: Transdimensional Atomic Remolecularizer.
Q: You mean there is a TDARM at the Denver Airport?
A: Not that simple... and much, much deeper meaning. Did you catch the latest report about Neanderthals and DNA and how it relates to you?
Airports are means of transiting from one place to another, as are teleportation (involving remolecularisation or transmaterialisation) devices such as TDARMs. Remember that we were told by the C's that the Holy Grail was used to transport a group of Kentakkians to Earth prior to the destruction of their planet. We also know from the C's that the Celts were able to teleport artefacts such as the statue of the Virgin of Candelaria, which was teleported to Tenerife. Perhaps it was teleported from Stonehenge?
These references to airports and a much deeper meaning was picked-up again by Laura in the
session dated 12 September 1998:
A: If utilized as such.
Q: (C) So it would have to be intentional. Is anyone utilizing them as such?
A: Maybe...
However, the other major point to take away from the C's comments in the above extract is their reference to the "
Rosy Cross" or the Rosicrucians. We know Sir Francis Bacon was most likely a Rosicrucian Grand Master. As a Rosicrucian and an alchemist, he may well have had dealings with the mysterious enclave of alchemists on the Pyrenees (which seems to have included the 15th Century French alchemist Nicolas Flamel amongst its number - see more below) and the (re)burying of the Lizards' TDARM on Oak Island (I have written about this connection recently on the Alton Towers thread, which seems to be hinted at in Bacon's last work that was published posthumously soon after his death).
This brings us to
Admiral George Anson (one of England's foremost naval heroes of the 18th Century who circumnavigated the globe) and the Shugborough Monument, which his family commissioned. I have reason to suspect that Anson could have been an 18th Century Rosicrucian who may have known about the TDARM on Oak Island. There is a growing body of evidence accruing from the current Oak Island exploration (see the ongoing TV show '
The Curse of Oak Island') to indicate the involvement of the British Royal Navy on Oak Island during the 18th century, including the construction of an extensive roadway from a wooden wharf and slipway to allow ox-drawn carts to haul things to and from the Money Pit area. This large scale construction may in part be explained by British military rivalry with France in that part of North East America and Canada (Nova Scotia) during that period but it may also betray an awareness of what was buried on Oak Island on the part of people like George Anson. If not, how do you explain the Anson family's (the current earls of Lichfield) commission of the Shugborough Monument? Why commission an expensive mirror image of Poussin's painting? A clue may be found in a an elegiac poem read out in Parliament after Anson's death in 1762. One stanza reads:
"
Upon that storied marble cast thine eye.
The scene commands a moralising sigh.
E'en in Arcadia's bless'd Elysian plains,
Amidst the laughing nymphs and sportive swains,
See festive joy subside, with melting grace,
And pity visit the half-smiling face;
Where now the dance, the lute, the nuptial feast,
The passion throbbing in the love's breast,
Life's emblem here, in youth and vernal bloom,
But reason's finger pointing at the tomb!
This would seem to be an explicit reference to Poussin's painting and the inscription '
Et in Arcadia Ego' including even the 'finger pointing at the tomb'. It certainly seems a strange choice of memorial verse to read out in a political chamber.
The Monument, commissioned by Thomas Anson, George's brother, was built sometime between 1748 and 1756. a stone plaque displaying a ten-letter inscription. The ten letter inscription is broken into two lines. There are eight letters on the first line, and two below on the second line, placed at either end of the letters on the first line. The letters on the second line, D M, were commonly used on Roman tombs to stand for
Dis Manibus, meaning "dedicated to the
shades".
There have been many theories proposing a solution to the inscription code. Here are some quoted from Wikipedia:
Latin Initialism Theories
- One suggestion is that the eight letters are a coded dedication by George Anson to his deceased wife. In 1951 Oliver Stonor speculated that the letters might be an initialism for the Latin phrase Optimae Uxoris Optimae Sororis Viduus Amantissimus Vovit Virtutibus ("Best of wives, Best of sisters, a most devoted Widower dedicates (this) to your virtues"). This was the solution favoured by former Bletchley Park employee Shiela Lawn. It has been pointed out, however, that the grammar of this sentence is incorrect, and that abbreviations following Latin rules cannot be expanded arbitrarily.
- Steve Regimbal interprets the letters as standing for a new Latin translation of the phrase "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity." (Ecclesiastes 12:8), namely Orator Ut Omnia Sunt Vanitas Ait Vanitas Vanitatum. He has speculated that the phrase may be the source of the earlier inscription "OMNIA VANITAS" which may have been carved on an alcove at the estate of one of Thomas Anson's associates, George Lyttelton.
- Former NSA linguist Keith Massey interprets the letters as an initialism for the Latin phrase Oro Ut Omnes Sequantur Viam Ad Veram Vitam ("I pray that all may follow the Way to True Life") in reference to the Biblical verse John 14:6, Ego sum Via et Veritas et Vita ("I am the Way, the Truth and the Life").
Cypher Theories
- Dave Ramsden (2014) suggests that the monument be understood as a funerary altar, dedicated to a syncretic female figure known as the "Shepherdess". He interprets the eight-letter inscription as a polyalphabetic cipher used to encrypt the name "Magdalen".
- George Edmunds in his book Anson's Gold (2016) proposed a cypher encoding the latitude and longitude of an island where Admiral George Anson, Thomas Anson's brother, had buried Spanish treasure. Anson mounted a secret expedition to recover this treasure, which was located but due to unforeseen circumstances remains in place. According to Edmunds, Anson received letters in code sent by the expedition leader which include part of the cipher.
English Initialism Theories
Margaret, Countess of Lichfield (1899–1988) suggested that the monument was built by Admiral Anson as a memorial to his wife. She thought that the inscription referred to a poem that related a story of a Shepherdess, Alicia, who lived on one of the hills of Rome and helped convert pagans to Christianity. In this theory, the initialism referring to the lines
Out Your Own Sweet Vale, Alicia, Vanishes Vanity. Twixt Deity and Man Thou, Shepherdess, The Way, but no source for these words has ever been traced.
Of all these theories, the one about Admiral Anson mounting a secret expedition to recover buried Spanish treasure, which was located but then, due to unforeseen circumstances, remained in place seems to be the one for me that may provide a possible connection to the Oak Island mystery.
Referring to it as 'Spanish treasure' may provide a possible link to a story broken in 2008 by the researcher
Andrew Gough, which involved a man who claimed have been a part of a secret Rosicrucian led expedition to Oak Island, which supposedly resulted in an incredible find (N.B. some years after Laura had discussed the matter with the C's). being made. See OAK ISLAND TREASURE TALES by Andrew Gough at the link:
OAK ISLAND TREASURE TALES Here are the relevant extracts for our purposes:
Further still, it has been reported that members of the research team who have come in contact with the capsule have encountered peculiar near death experiences, only to have inexplicably survived.”
“Solomon’s name was brought up several times, but I am not sure in what context.”
When the capsule was removed t was just a large, hunking piece of tar (literally). Imagine the capsule that Spock was placed in and shot into space in Star Trek III(?). Identical, yet more hideous. It was just a lump of “something.” Not a body. Not bones. No proof of nothing.
I am believing more and more that the bones rumoured to be inside the capsule is not of Christ, but that of KING DAVID – but his remains lead to Christ.
I personally saw the seals (about 4 ft away). I personally saw the Templar’s crest (which looks NOTHING like that crappy Da Vinci Code movie or any junk you see in books; revisionists love creating their own fantasy), the emblazoned / branded wax inset into the wood that said KING DAVID in a language that could only be translated by the highest-ranked Mason I have ever met (the billionaire, himself). I believe he was a Rosicrucian of the highest order. I mean TOP of the chart, or one level into the next step up from Grand Master. He donned rings with symbols I have never seen. He wore inter-twining bracelets with key codes, metallic latches that revealed other symbols, etc etc etc. Too much to describe here.
I discussed this article in a post on the Alton Towers thread (see:
Alton Towers, Sir Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucians) because, even though it sounds quite fantastic and incredulous, there may a grain of truth to it, especially given the reference to a buried 'capsule', which reminds me of the capsule the C's spoke about that is still buried under the Sphinx:
Q: Has this buried capsule been found?
A: Not uncovered, but the evidence exists.
There may, of course, be no link between the two capsules but the fact that Solomon's name was mentioned in the account may possibly be a clue here, since although the Bible claims that Solomon was King David's son, the C's have suggested that Solomon was in reality the Egyptian Pharaoh Narmer, thus pre-dating the era of King David by as much as 2,000 years.
Q: Was Solomon a king of Egypt?
A: Yes.
Q: Which king of Egypt was the equivalent of Solomon?
A: Narmer.
King Narmer (c. 3273 – 2987 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period. Many scholars consider him the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, and in turn the first king of a unified Egypt. A majority of Egyptologists believe that Narmer was the same person as Menes (c. 3200–3000 BC) .
Of course, King Solomon was associated in legend and Biblical lore with a fabulous magic ring, lots of wives, immense wealth, the heavily esoteric canticle 'Song of Solomon' (or 'Song of Songs') and, of course, his celebrated temple, which may well have been the Great Pyramid of Giza or possibly the Sphinx (which is supposed to have a hidden temple within it). Solomon would therefore have been a far more important figure to the hermetically minded Rosicrucians than King David. Sir Francis Bacon even wrote of Solomon's Temple as part of his great project ‘The Great Instauration’, and those that took part in it he referred to as forming a 'House of Solomon' or College of the Six Days Work. The ‘House of Solomon’ as used here is a biblical term referring to the Temple of Solomon. Moreover, Bacon likened this temple directly to Solomon’s Temple, and also to a Pyramid — the Pyramid of Philosophy. This Pyramid has three sides, equating to what Bacon specifies as the three primary areas of study—Divine, Natural and Human. The three sides thus represent Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy and Human Philosophy. Just what did Bacon know? Moreover, the C's seemed to imply that Bacon was connected directly to the Oak Island mystery:
Q: Seeing the unseen. You mentioned once before that the "Rosicrucians act as a thief in the night." You also mentioned that I ought to dig into the Rosicrucians, and I went to the University library, and it was essentially missing...
A: Connect the Rosicrucians to your favourite island by the "beech." Horticulturally, please, and family. [MJF: Laura subsequently discovered that Sir Francis Bacon's name was derived from the old Norman French for "beech"]
Q: Oak Island?
A: Yup! Then, connect the Pyrenees to the Canaries.
Q: Okay, a "thief in the night." The destruction of the Templars...
According to one researcher, Charles Kos, author of "In Search of the Origin of Pyramids and the Lost Gods of Giza', "Solomon was a Grand Master of prehistoric Freemasonry — a very ancient fraternity earlier known as the Cabiri gods — its origin often attributed to him, and some of the mystic ceremonies used in the Masonic cult are probably derived from his epoch".
As I have mentioned before, the Egyptian Cabiri may have been the ancestors of the Jewish Essenes and the Egyptian Therapeutae with a further possible link to the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians.
However, what possible link could this strange account Gough has supplied us with have anything to do with Admiral George Anson and his alleged quest for Spanish treasure. Well, Gough's informant went on to mention a strange episode that seems to have occurred some time in the late 16th Century. Quoting from his article:
I will soon have copied documents from the Royalty of Spain and Portugal circa 1590 that demands at least 16 decoys and obstructions to be set in multiple areas up and down the coast all the way to Bermuda, before the ‘beloved is carried to his place of rest.’ Those that carried this ‘beloved’ across the Atlantic in a boat (named either ‘Pura Vida’ OR ‘Pura Viesta’) numbered 12. Is this Representative of apostles? Who knows… It is absolute truth that 10 of these 12 willingly took their own lives before a Royal Court in Portugal or Morocco (not sure) in 1598 on behalf of eternal silence. The fate of the other 2 is unknown entirely. They are believed to become priests or apart of the same Royal Court in some manner. It’s not known but simply a best guess.
As I pointed out in my article, this was the century in which the mysterious enclave of alchemists from the Pyrenees (perhaps led by Nicolas Flamel) were, according to the C's, supposed to have buried the TDARM on Oak Island or at least dug the pit in readiness:
Session dated 10 December 1994:
(L) When was the pit itself dug?
A: 1500s. Nationality is not issue.
And then in the
session dated 16 September 1995:
Q: (L) That's interesting... Okay, change of subject. Back when we were talking about the pit on Oak Island, and you asked me to do some research on it, the answers I came up with were that the responsible group were alchemists. Is this correct?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Was one of the alchemists involved Nicholas Flamel?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Is it true that there is an enclave of alchemists that live somewhere in the Pyrenees...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Is this the group that you referred to as "The Quorum" in a previous session?
A: Partly.
Q: (L) Do these alchemists use this power as talked about by David Hudson to enhance their longevity and their physical health?
A: And to control.
Q: (L) Are there people in this enclave who live for literally hundreds, if not thousands, of years?
A: Open.
As I pointed out on the Alton Towers Thread in my article 'The Curse of Oak Island', the Curse of Oak Island archaeological team unearthed last year evidence of a 16th Century tarpit kiln, which means that timber was being treated with tar on the island in order to make it waterproof. This could have been in relation to ship timbers but is more likely to have been intended for timber being used in the construction of the famed “Money Pit”. However, it also makes me think of that "large, hunking piece of tar". Is their a connection I wonder? Quoting from my article about recent discoveries on Oak Island:
"Other evidence to have emerged in Season 9 includes broken pieces of ox shoes dating back to the 17th and 18th Centuries, parts of firearms (muskets and pistols), a button belonging to a British naval officer, medieval wooden lids for caskets or barrels, pieces of old parchment and large metal rings for mooring boats. Predictions of an ancient Portuguese presence on the island made by Fred Nolan, an earlier treasure hunter, were also proven true in Season 9. Moreover, the team have also uncovered more evidence of a [wooden] ship that seems to have been buried in the swamp centuries ago. However, it is the wide stone road that was uncovered late in the season that was the major surprise. It runs for several hundred feet from the sea and seems to be heading towards the Money Pit. Its building would have been a largescale endeavour involving a lot of men and the presence of ox shoes would indicate that the road was being using to ferry heavy items in ox drawn carts."
So could those 12 men who took 'the Beloved' across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 16th Century in a boat called either the 'Pura Vida’ or ‘Pura Viesta' ('pure life' being evocative of the Cathar 'perfecti' perhaps), who seemed to have a connection either to the Royal court of Portugal (a land controlled at that time by the Knights Templar's successors 'The Knights of Christ' or that of Morocco, have been members of the enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees - who in turn seemed to have had a connection to the Rosicrucians of Sir Francis Bacon? Remember also that Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665), the 'keeper of secrets' and a suspected Rosicrucian adept, was born just a few years after this time and might have inherited knowledge of these events.
So what was Admiral Sir George Anson doing on his Spanish treasure hunt - a man who appears to have been memorialised by a sculpture mirroring Poussin's famous painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia? Was he trying to find the TDARM buried on Oak Island or search for 'the Beloved'. Indeed, could they be one and the same thing? If so, was it really been found in the early 21st Century and, if so, does it mean that the bad guys now have access to their very own airport?
, and that the only way it is going to work is if he will be only a "talking head", and that Putin's people will be controlling him and running things from behind. Sounds right to me.
But I can get over it.
