ORIONISISOSIRIS

A

HISTORY OF GOD

Karen Armstrong

The God of the Mystics

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"(The Book of Creation). There is no attempt to describe the creative process realistically; the account is unashamedly symbolic and shows God creating the world by means of language as though he were writing a book. But language has been entirely transformed and the message of creation is no longer clear. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is given a numerical value; by combining the letters with the sacred numbers, rearranging them in endless configurations, the mystic weaned his mind away from the normal connotations of words."  

THE BOOK OF CREATION

THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY

THE ACCOUNT IS SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE

AS THOUGH WRITING A BOOK BUT LANGUAGE ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED

THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET

IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS

BY REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS

THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS

LIGHT AND LIFE

Lars Olof Bjorn 1976

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"BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE" 

THE

MAGIKALALPHABET

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ASTRONOMY

Ian Ridpath 1997

Ra-Shalom Asteroid 2100, the second-largest of the Aten group, diameter 2.4 km. It was discovered in 1978 by the American astronomer Eleanor Kay Helin, nee Francis. Its name comes from the Egyptian Sun-god Ra, and Shalom, the Hebrew greeting meaning 'peace'. It is of C class. Ra-Shalom's orbit has a semimajor axis of 0.832AU, period 0.76 years perihelion 0.47  AU, aphelion 1.20 AU, and inclination 15^o .8

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"Another and rather more mysterious piece of our jigsaw puzzle also surfaced in Britain - this time in Staffordshire, which had been a hotbed for Masonic activity in the early and mid-seventeenth century. When Charles Radclyffe, alleged Grand Master of Sion, escaped from Newgate Prison in 1714, he was aided by his cousin, the earl of Lichfield. Later in the century the earl of Lichfield's line became extinct and his title lapsed. It was bought in the early nineteenth century by descendants of the Anson family, who are the present earls of Lichfield.
The seat of the present earls of Lichfield is Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire. Formerly a bishop's residence, Shugborough was purchased by the Anson family in 1697. During the following century it was the residence of the brother of George Anson, the famous admiral who circum-navigated the globe. When George Anson died in 1762, an elegiac poem was read aloud in Parliament. One stanza of this poem reads:

This would seem to be an explicit allusion to Poussin's painting and the inscription 'Et in Arcadia Ego' - right down to the 'finger pointing at the tomb'. And in the grounds of Shugborough there is an imposing marble bas- relief, executed at the command of the Anson family between 1761 and 1767. This bas-relief comprises a reproduction - reversed, mirror-fashion - of Poussin's
'Les Bergers d' Arcadie'. And immediately below it, there is an enigmatic inscription, which no one has ever / Page 192 / satisfactorily deciphered:"

O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.

D . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M

13 + 49 = 62 6 + 2 = 8

GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS 

Andrew Collins 2000

Page 226

"So where might we start looking for this island homeland spoken of in so many creation myths of the Mesoamerican peoples? The Popol Vuh tells us that the 13 tribes crossed' over on some stones, stones piled up in the sand', which were subsequently named: 'Stone Courses, Sand Banks we are further told that: Where the waters divided, they crossed over.  ^74"

THE ATLANTIS BLUEPRINT

Rand Flem-Ath and Colin Wilson 2000

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"Bertrand became Pope Clement V in 1305, and the king immediately began to plan one of the most amazing coups in history. It was to arrest all the Templars - 15,000 of them - and accuse them of heresy. It could be compared to a modern king plotting to arrest all the officers in the army, navy and air force.

Incredibly, it succeeded. Sealed orders went out about four weeks before the swoop, and the Templars were arrested on Friday 13 October 1307.*"

*It has been stated that this is the reason that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, but there is no evidence for this - Friday was considered an unlucky day by Christians because Jesus was said to have been crucified on a Friday while the unlucky number 13 was the number present at the last supper."

CHAT MAGAZINE

FATE

May/June 2004

IT'S FATE TALKING NUMBERS

Page 60 /61 6+0+6+1=13

13

LUCKY FOR SOME

"The number 13

The number 13 fills many of us with fear - who enjoys working on Friday the 13th?..."

"13 gets a bad press wherever it goes. It's even removed from hotels and street addresses all around the world.
It could have something to do with Judas being the 13th disciple at the Last Supper, or there being 13 Full Moons a year,
the time when witches venture out! But the bad-mouthing's relatively recent. Earlier societies sang the number's praises.
So it's time to hear it for 13. Here's why it's a remarkable number..."

Extra day!
"On average, the moon covers 13 degrees per day. Although there are 12 months in a year, based on the movements of the sun, there are 13 moons a year - one every 28 days, plus a day left over: Hence the expression 'a year and a day'.
When the 13th Full Moon occurs -two in one month - it's called a 'blue moon'..."
Many ancient cultures used a calendar based on these 13 lunar cycles. The first civilisation known to man (around 3000BC), was an advanced society of people known as the Sumerians, who possessed extraordinary Astronomical knowledge..."

They lived in Mesopotamia, an ancient land located where Iran and Iraq are today. They followed a solar-
lunar calendar alternating between 12 and 13 months.

These 13 moon cycles gave birth to the legends of the 13 Original Clan Mothers..." " who represented the talents and abilities that we all can develop during our lives - if we try! Traditionally, 13 was considered a powerful number with strong connections to women and fertility, as the female menstrual cycle follows the phases of the moon. We bleed approximately 13 times per year, roughly every 28 days (and don't we know it!)
Freya - the Norse goddess of love and fertility - was associated with the number 13 because of this, and she's specifically linked to Friday the 13th. Back then, it was a sacred day..."

Even the origin of our existence is related to the number 13. One sperm (13 chromosomes) + one ovum (13 chromosomes) = a human life..." 

Number crunch
"That brainy Greek philosopher Pythagoras said, 'The world is built upon the power of numbers,' and believed they possessed individual qualities. He created the system of divination - known now as numerology - where all words, names and numbers are reduced to single digits.
Using this system, the number 13 is the higher vibration of 4 (as 1 + 3 = 4), 4 being the root of all numbers associated with the
Earth and the four elements.
Also, 13 symbolises love for hte world and is associated with genius. People born on this date are said to be innovators and explorers, successful in scientific research..."  

Word up
The Gematria is an ancient Hebrew system for discovering the hidden meanings behind words, using numerical values for letters of the alphabet (a bit like an ancient Morse code, then!). It was used to search for the secret holy names of God, which were believed to carry incredible power.
The Greeks used Gematria to interpret dreams. Kabbalists - those studying Jewish mysticism - developed the system further. Thirteen is considered to be directly connected to God. It means 'love of unity'; as the Hebrew words for 'love' and 'one'
both total 13..."

"Unlike today, where only a brave sportsman will wear the number 13 on his shirt, many, many moons ago, anything consisting of 13 was considered very lucky!
Jesus had 12 disciples, and he said his group represented 'the13 veins of humanity'.
There were 13 knights of the Round Table, including King Arthur. (If it was an oblong table, some might have felt a bit left out!)
Robin Hood had12 merry  men to help him rob the rich!
Romulus, / Page 61/ god Osiris.
There are 12 Namshans (advisors) around the spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama.
A witches' coven tradi-tionally had 13 mem-bers.
The number 13 is said by some to be ded-icated to the Virgin Mary, as she's believed to have died on 13 August.
In Judaism, there are 13 examples of God's divine mercy. Maimonides - the 12th-century Jewish physician, rabbi and philosopher - had 13 principles of faith that he considered the minimum requirements of Jewish belief. The Hebrew bible has 39 books, which is 3 x 13...."

"In Indian temples, there are 13 Buddhas. There are said to be 13 stages a man must pass through to achieve Buddhahood...."
"In the Tibetan faith, 13 is the most favourable number of them all. It represents the Goddess Penden Lhamo - who's protector that's a tough task - most of them don't progress past infancy!) In the Tibetan faith, 13 is the most favourable number of them
all. It represents the Goddess Penden Lhamo - who's protector of the Dalai Llama and the Tibetan nation."

Double power 

"The ancient Aztec and Mayan, people of South America thought. the number 13 was so powerful, they used two calendars - one based on 365 days and another on cycles of 13..."

3 x 6 x 5 = 90

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"It was thought to be the most astronomically precise calendar ever created and is still used for magical purposes by some remote Mayan tribes.
The Mayans believed the entire span of time would last for 13 Baktun cycles (one Baktun = 144,000 days). The cycle of time we're in now is said to have begun on 13 August 3114 BC, and is to end on 22 December 2012..." 
"The Aztec calendar also had a week consisting of 13 days, which was ruled by Tlazolteotl - she was associated with witchcraft and purification of sin. She was the power behind all forms of bad behaviour, and her special weapon was sex..."

"The 13th day was dedicated to Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of the night and material things (we're with him on that!) He carried a magic mirror which gave off smoke and killed enemies. Maybe that's why he was known as the Smoking Mirror...

Praise be!
Various faiths in years gone by made 13 a part of their religious ceremonies. In ancient Babylon, 13 people were chosen to represent the gods. For the Egyptians, 13 was associated with immortality, as they believed there were 12 rungs on the ladder to eternal life and knowledge. To take that all- important 13th step represented the transition through death into beyond..."
"The ancient Celtic Oghamalphabet, used by them as a secret language and when worshipping, was also known as the 'sacred tree alphabet' and was based on 13 trees native to Britain.

New zodiac
We all know our star sign, but did you know there have been 13 zodiac signs? The sun appears to pass through 13 constellations on the ecliptic (the path it takes through the stars).
The missing constellation, which lies between Libra and Sagittarius,
is called Ophiuchus - the Serpent Bearer: He's associated with Aesclepius, the Greek God of healing, whose symbol (snakes coiled around a staff or rod..." ), is used to represent places of healing and medicine.
The Greek philosopher Plato insisted it be included in the zodiac, but his cries for the case of Ophiuchus were ignored. This has divided astronomers and astrologers for thousands of years."

"Freeserve Members' Newsletter - Friday 13th August, 1999

Date16 August 1999 11:40

To all-freeserve members"

THE USBORNE BOOK OF

FACTS AND LISTS

Lynn Bressler (no date)

Page 

Did You Know

"China has the greatest number of frontiers. It rubs shoulders with 13 other countries

GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS

Andrew Collins 2000

PEOPLE OF THE SERPENT

Page 224

Annals of the Cakchiquels

"In the Popol Vuh the Cakchiquel are one of the 13 tribes, along with the Serpents and Quiche, that departed in the darkness from Tulan-Zuyua following the confusion of tongues in the Seven Caves.^62"

Page 225

"Furthermore, we learn from another sixteenth-century Cakchiquel text known as the Title of the Lords of Totonicapan that, along with the rest of the 7 tribes and 13 clans, the tribe's first ancestors departed 'from the other part of the sea, from the East^66"

Page 227

Crossing the Causeway

"The Popol Vuh tells us that the  13 Tribes crossed' over on some stones, stones piled up in the sand', which were subsequently named: 'Stone Courses, Sand Banks'.We are further told that: Where the waters were divided, they crossed over.⁷⁴ "

THE ODYSSEY OF VOTAN

Page338

"Votan is an enigma to Mesoamerican scholars, and most tend to ignore his legendary story. What is more, he was not simply a localised form of Itzamna, the great civiliser of the Yucatec Maya, even though both of them were considered to have founded the city of Mayapan. Neither was he a memory of Quetzalcoatl or Kukulcan, the Feathered Serpent so intimately connected with the emergence of the Nahua and Maya tribes. They seem to represent a quite separate wave of influence that finally usurped the power of the Votanides.
   Yet the common thread to all the early civilisers of Mesoamerica is always their connection with birds and snakes. Like Itzamna, Votan claimed to belong to the priestly line of Chanes, or 'Ser- pents' ,38 establishing 'his origin from Chivim' .39
   What did all this mean - establishing 'his origin from Chivim'? Only by retracing Votan's odyssey back to its starting point will we be able to determine any real answers

Cuban Staging Post?
Votan is said to have begun the final stage of his odyssey from Valum- Votan, the 'land of Votan', identified by Ordonez as Cuba, and in particular Havana.⁴⁰ As we have already noted, in 1857 Brasseur de Bourbourg asserted that: 'Modern travellers assure that they have seen sculpted rocks and ruined buildings around Havana indicating the presence of ancient civilised populations on this Island.'41 I have argued that Cuba was most probably the ancient homeland of the ruling elite and earliest ancestors of the various Mesoamerican tribal cultures. It can also be identified as Antilia, / Page 339 /the Island of the Seven Cities, one of the Hesperides and, most important of all, the flagship of~the Atlantean island empire. So to find that Votan might also have established some kind of settlement or colony on Cuba before moving on to the American mainland did not surprise me. Unfortunately, we have no idea how Ordonez might have come to this conclusion, although it is just possible that it was knowledge preserved among the Tzendales or Yucatec Maya.
Yet Ordonez's account of Votan's odyssey reveals that Cuba was in fact merely a staging post for the foreigners, and that he and his companions had come from much further afield, plausibly from the other side of the Atlantic. We are informed, for instance, that after leaving Valum- Votan on voyages back to his homeland he would first pass the 'Dwelling Place of the Thirteen Snakes'.⁴² From here he would continue on to Valum-Chivim, identified by Ordonez with the kingdom of Israel in the reign of King Solomon, c. 970 BC.⁴³
Assuming that Votan did indeed arrive in Cuba and Mexico from some distant land in the east, where might we locate the 'Dwelling Place of the Thirteen Snakes'? Some writers have assumed it to be the 13 islands of the Canary Isles.⁴⁴ Although it is possible that Votan might have made transatlantic crossings via the Canary Isles, the name evokes a vision not of 13 islands, but of a single location inhabited by 13 'Snakes', connected perhaps with Votan's own serpentine ancestry. Moreover, there are in fact seven principal islands in the Canaries group and of these only six were known to ancient geographers (see Chapter Five).

 In Search of Valum-Chivim
Our only clue as to the whereabouts of Votan's original homeland is the name by which it was known - Valum-Chivim, the 'land of Chivim'. Since Votan also claimed 'his origin from Chivim', it would appear to be either an ancestral line or a race of people. Brasseur de Bourbourg tried unsuccessfully to find a root for this name in one of the Mesoamerican languages.⁴⁵ Ordonez on the other hand felt that Chivim denoted the pre-Israelite peoples known as the Hivites.46 They occupied northern Canaan and Jordan and are often confused with the Hittites, an Anatolian people that occupied parts of Canaan.⁴⁷ The Hivites are thought to have been connected with another Canaanite race known as the Horites,⁴⁸ who may well have been the Hurrites. They inhabited Canaan in the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries BC, at a time when Egypt referred to this land as Hurru.⁴⁹"
 

DEALING IN DRUGS

Page 115 (ChapterVIII)

"ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1976, UNDER the full gaze of the international media, the body of the Egyptian king Rameses II, styled 'the Great', was shipped from the Cairo Museum to Paris for a seven-month' state visit'. Its purpose was to determine why deterioration had been noticed in the skin and around the neck of the dead pharaoh. Some 20 of France's leading scientists had offered their services in an attempt to find out what might have occurred (the problem was found to be beetle invasion).
One of these scientists was Dr Michelle Lescot of the National History Museum in Paris. She used an electron microscope to determine whether any form of bacteria or virus was present in the wrappings, and was stunned to find herself staring through the lens at tiny samples of the tobacco plant. Confident of her findings, Dr Lescot went public and was immediately attacked and ridiculed
by her fellow academics. In their opinion, there was absolutely no way that tobacco could be present in the wrappings, unless through contamination. It was suggested that the Egyptologists who in 1881 had found the mummy among the so-called 'royal cache' in a tomb at Deir el-Bahri, in southern Egypt, must have been smoking pipes at the time. If so, they could have inadvert-ently dropped some tobacco which managed somehow to find its way into the wrappings.
In an attempt to counter these claims, Dr Lescot was allowed to conduct further tests using samples taken from deep inside the body. Once again the microscopic examinations produced exactly the same results. Tiny traces of tobacco were found to be present in these samples, completely dispelling the initial belief that its pres- ence was due to tobacco falling from a pipe.
These new results made it even more likely that tobacco had been introduced to the wrappings during the funerary procedures that followed the death of the king, who ruled for an incredible / Page 116 / 66 years, c. 1290-1224 BC. Even more tests revealed that where the internal organs of the body had been removed for placement in canopic jars, there was a stuffing of vegetable matter that, aside from plantain, stinging nettles, flax, black pepper seeds, camomile and wheat, included chopped tobacco leaves. Since this mixture was introduced into the mummy in order to help preserve its body tissue, it has been speculated that the tobacco was used in the embalming process as both an insecticide and to prevent putre-faction.^l
The presence of tobacco in Rameses' mummy wrappings and body interior came as a complete surprise to Egyptologists and botanists alike for one basic reason - the plant was not known in the ancient world. It made no sense whatsoever, and although the chance find has been mentioned in a few popular books on strange mysteries of the past, no mainstream Egyptologist has been willing to embrace or explain this intrusion into an otherwise well-attested Egyptian history. The much greater problem that the tobacco plant is considered to be indigenous only to the Americas has been quietly swept aside by all.

The Cocaine Mummies

There the matter rested until 1992 when a German doctor of toxicology named Svetlana Balabanova, working with the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Ulm, began conducting a series of unique tests on samples taken from Egyptian mummified remains pre-served at the Munich Museum. They came from one complete body, one incomplete body and seven detached heads of unknown provenance.² The preserved body was that of Henuttawy, a priest-ess and singer in the temple of Amun at Thebes, c.1000 BC. Her tomb had been uncovered in a necropolis set aside for those of priestly rank at Deir el-Bahri, close to modem Luxor, in southern Egypt. The early history of her mummy remains uncertain. Records show.that in 1845 an English traveller named Dodwell sold Henut-tawy's mummy to Ludwig I, the king of Bavaria. He and his family built up a large collection of antiquities, and these subsequently formed the basis of the museum's own collection, housed today in the old royal palace.³
From the mummified remains examined at the Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics at Munich University, Dr Bala-banova took bone and skin tissue, as well as samples of head and abdominal muscle. The results she produced were extraordinary - so extraordinary that she felt it necessary to send similar samples to three other laboratories, which quickly confirmed her original findings. What all the tests appeared to show was that the mummi- fied remains contained large quantities of drugs.In all nine cases / Page 117 / hashish was present, although this was not so much of a surprise since scholars accept that it was freely available to the pharaonic Egyptians in the form of hemp. Adding still further to the mystery was the presence in eight of the nine bodies of nicotine, the narcotic ingredient of the tobacco plant. What really stunned the scientists, however, was the presence, in each and every one of the bodies, of cocaine, a psychoactive alkaloid present in the leaf of the coca plant.^4"

"Dr Balabanova knew instantly the implications of her findings. Tobacco was difficult enough to explain, but cocaine was quite another matter for it was produced for the first time only in 1859 and did not circulate among the high society circles of Europe until the late nineteenth century. Its origins are exclusively South Ameri- can. In the years following the conquest of Peru by Pizarro in 1532, Spanish travellers in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia recorded that the native population seemed to be constantly chewing dried leaves called' coca'.5 This they rolled into a ball and placed in their mouth with a little ash or lime (caustic earth), a process that unlocked the cocaine content. It apparently relieved hunger, thirst and fatigue, and was also used as a mild stimulant, which induced euphoria and anaesthesia, factors that eventually led to its use and abuse in the Western world. During the American Civil War cocaine was taken by injured soldiers to relieve pain.
Partially digested remains of coca leaves have been retrieved from rubbish tips of ancient Peruvian cultures that go back as far as 2B00 BC, while th~ extended cheeks of the coca chewer appear on stone idols from Colombia that date to c. 1500 BC.6 Indeed, much evidence of this habit has recently come to light during the excava- tion in Peru of a number of graves that contain the bodies of mummified individuals dating to between 200 BC and AD 1500.7 When subjected to tests similar to those conducted by Balabanova and her colleagues on the Munich mummies, these, too, proved positive for cocaine.8 Furthermore, many of these Peruvian bodies were found buried with bunches of coca leaves still in their cheeks, presumably in the belief that the deceased would benefit from their effects in the afterlife.9"