Paris – Sardis

Drawing a path from Sardis to I.M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid we see that the axis bisects the Louvre and is aligned perfectly with the entrance to the world’s most visited museum.

The Louvre Museum has 555,000 sq ft in the palace complex devoted to public exhibition. –Source

This is especially amazing because the Louvre Palace you see today was started in the 16th century and added to by almost every subsequent French monarch. The alignment goes right over the center of the Sun King’s Cour Carrée (Square Court) addition he created before moving to Versailles.

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The path from Sardis to the Louvre Pyramid passes directly over the tip of the July Column in the Place de la Bastille. The golden boy atop the July Column is the Greek Hermes, author of the motto “As Above, So Below” in his earlier incarnation as the Egyptian Thoth.

The path from Sardis goes to Paris along the direction of Virgo as identified by John Michell and Christine Rhone in Twelve Tribe Nations. The first sign of the zodiac (Aries) is aligned toward the rising sun in the east.

Paris

It is interesting that the path is in the Virgo (Isis) direction because of what Paris is all about (see my Paris episodes). Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval show in their book Talisman how the word Pariscomes from Pharia-Isis. Pharia or Pharos in Greek is the location of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, a center of Isis worship in the the ancient Mediterranean.

The Notre Dame (English: Our Lady) cathedral was very likely built over a Druidic Temple of Isis.

The historical axis is offset 6 degrees from the axis running through Pei’s pyramids (both upward and downward pointing) through the July Column all the way to the ancient omphalos at Sardis.

If you watched my Paris videos you’ll recall that this 6 degree bend matches the Temple of Luxor’s bend whose very obelisk is at the center of the 86,400 square meter Place de la Concorde.

Also consider the fact that the Champs-Élysées (the historical axis of Paris) is aligned to the heliacal rising of Sirius, the phenomenon the ancient Egyptians based their calendar on.

The Champs-Élysées or “La plus belle avenue du monde” as it is known in French is one of the most beautiful streets in the world with rents as high as US$1.2 million a year for 1,000 square feet of space. –Source

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The name Champs-Élysées is French for Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. The Elysian Fields are related to the Eleusinian Mysteries which, of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, were held to be the ones of greatest importance.

The participants in these mysteries drank a mixture called Kykeon made mainly of water, barley and “naturally occurring substances” that some scholars believe were entheogens.

Dimethyltryptamine, see my Snowflake and the Flower post

For almost 3000 years people “consistently experienced revelatory states during the culminating ceremony of the Eleusinian Mysteries.” –Source

Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis by Siemiradzki

But where does this naturally occurring substance come from?

The most likely candidate for the DMT containing plant, of which there are many in nature, would be a species of Acacia. –Metzner, Ralph. “The Reunification of the Sacred and the natural”. Eleusis Volume VIII, 1997. pp. 3-13

That’s a hell of a secret in plain sight I’d say (pardon the pun, the mysteries are about helping Demeter find her daughter Persephone in Hades).

According to Diodorus Siculus, the Cretans professed that they received the ‘mysteries’ from the Egyptians, and that they passed them on to the Greeks. Eleusia (Eleusis) was the home of the earth-mother Demeter, but she has older origins that can be seen in the Egyptian mythologies…the mysteries of Isis were the same as those of Demeter and that the mysteries of Osiris were the same as Dionysus. –Source

Acacia in the Osiris Myth

Osiris was tricked by his jealous brother Set, cut into 14 pieces, sealed in a chest and sent down the Nile. The sea carried the chest to Byblos where it lodged in an acacia tree. The tree grew around the chest encasing it and the remains of the god Osiris were preserved inside.

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The King of Byblos cut down the tree and turned it into a column in his palace. When Isis learned of the fate of her brother-husband she set out in search of his body. When Isis identified where Osiris was she worked in the king’s court nursing his children. After a time she received the column as her pay. In the tree trunk was the body of Osiris which she magically reassembled and sang back to life with a song.

Resurrection is at the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries and perhaps is the hope of those who find themselves in the Elysian Fields.

What really went on in the mysteries was kept a secret for almost 3000 years and is now lost to the sands of time. The mysteries were suppressed and the pagan shrines desecrated when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century AD.

Perhaps it is high time we bring them back?

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