Horus and time

A dialog on comparative philology
from the ANE list
November 1997

At 04:13 PM 11/8/1997 -0500, Geoff Graham wrote:

Hello, Mr. Hubey,

You asked:

Does the Egyptian God Horus have anything to do with time passing, the sun rising, etc etc.

Yes, he certainly did. He was a solar and sky god. He had many forms among which were Harakhthes (Hrw-3x.t.y) "Horus of the Horizons" and Harmakhis (Hrw-m-3x.t) "Horus Residing in the Horizon". Both of these are manifestations of him as the sun-god passing from one world to the next on a daily basis. Very often he was also syncretized with Re as Re-Harakhthes. He was cyclical as a sun god, and also cyclical as the incarnation of kingship, since each king who died became Osiris, and each new king to succede became Horus as Harendotes (Hrw-nD-jt=f) "Horus Avenger of His Father".

 

I quietly observed the position Mr Hubey recently took in sci.lang (assuming it is the same Mr.Hubey) against the tendency of philologists who adhere to the Indo-European [IE] theory and the comparative method to explain away as coincidence any and all evidence that would tend to refute their theory and method. I was, thus, wondering if Mr. Hubey's question can be taken as an indication he suspects that the relationship between time and the sun 's movement that prehistoric Egyptian wordsmiths personified in the name of their solar deity [Hrw] should not logically be considered the ancestor of the same relationship that inheres in the ancient Greek words for (1) "season" [hora] and (2) the limit of a circle [horos] that yielded [horizon], in light of the fact that these Greek words were also clearly derived from a prehistoric consonantal root [HR].

But in either case, when the aforementioned relationships are taken together with ancient Greek reports and other evidence that a great deal of the Greek lexicon was imported from Egypt by Egyptians, Phoenicians fluent in Egyptian, and/or by the ancient Greeks themselves, (e.g., Bernal, Black Athena), there does seem to be more than adequate grounds for believing that prehistoric Greek wordsmiths probably did derive the aforementioned words by demythologizing and secularizing [Hrw] in the process of extracting a prototypal form of Greek natural philosophy from an older Egyptian mytho-poetic one. Accordingly, the process that transformed [Hrw] into [hora] is viewable as the same one that transformed, for example, the name [Okeanos] of the Greek god of the celestial waters into English "ocean" while allowing "Okeanos" to go on its merry way as such in Greek mythology. Of course, the preceding analysis differs with the prevailing opinion of Indo-Europeanists who have attributed Greek [hora] to a hypothetical PIE root [YER] and Greek [horos] to no root. However, in the absence of empirical proof that these Greek words were derived in one way rather than the other, that way must be inferred by using the principles of deductive reasoning to unite the available evidence.

One of the most powerful, time tested, and generally accepted of those principles is the Parsimony Principle, otherwise known as Occam's Razor, which holds essentially that when two or more theories can explain an effect, the theory that does so using the fewest hypothetical terms should be accepted unless it can be conclusively disproved. I was, thus, wondering what should prevent an objective observer from logically hypothesizing that the aforementioned Greek words are, in all likelihood, derivatives of a known Egyptian root [Hrw], rather than of two hypothetical Proto-Indo-European roots, given especially:

(1) The evidence that Egyptians and/or Egyptian-speaking Phoenicians were prehistorically in contact with the aboriginal peoples of what we now call Greece (Ibid.);

(2) The evidence that ancient Egyptians and Greeks both used strictly consonantal scripts, the latter being derived from the Sinaitic script used by the Phoenicians;

(3) The related evidence that much of the Greek lexicon was derived from an Egyptian one (Ibid.);

(4) The evidence presented above that inherent in Egyptian [Hrw] were the meanings of Greek [hora], [horas] and [horizon]; and (5) The Greeks' own reports that their earliest natural philosophers and mathematicians studied in Egypt.

Imho, an Egyptian etymology for the aforementioned Greek words certainly seems logically far sounder than a far less parsimonious one wherein Greek [hora] and [horos] were derived from two different, hypothetical PIE roots, consonantally identical to each other and Egyptian [Hrw] only by "coincidence". In fact, if the possibility that [hora] and [horos] were derived from Egyptian [Hrw] can be accepted, even tentatively, there are then even firmer grounds for hypothesizing that a great deal more of the Greek lexicon was derived when ancient Greek wordsmiths de-personified and secularized the names of other Egyptian deities. For example, [mathematics] can be resolved into the transliterated names (1) [Mat] of the Egyptian goddess of measures, plus (2) [Thema] of the god who lent his name to the Egyptian word "themes" for "writings", some types of which the Greeks called "themas." In such a case, the aorist Greek stem [math-] would have originally meant "measures"; [mathematikos] would have originally meant "writings on measures"; and, the Greek verb to learn [manthanein], which is usually considered the source of [mathematikos], would have originally been either (1) a nasalized derivative of mat(h) or (2) a verb formed from [mn} under the influence of [mat(h)]. I would be more than willing to abandon any or all of the above positions if I can be shown the error of my ways. I should, however, note that the presence of probable cognates of these Greek words in other branches of the Indo-European tree is not grounds for such an abandonment, since theories as to when, how, and where those cognates came into those branches rest on the Greek etymologies and are even more hypothetical than those etymologies. In contrast, if the Egyptian origins of portions of the Greek lexicon can be established, cognates of Greek words in other Indo-European lexicons would have to be considered derivatives of the Mycenaen Greek which was, of course, recorded in a Cretan script of hieroglyphics, many of which, it has already been pointed out, strikingly resemble Egyptian hieroglyphs. In such a case, a great deal of the LEXICONS of now so-called Indo-European languages would have to be renamed Egypto-Indo-European and, eventually, Semito-Egypto-Indo-European. But, in the prevailing paradigm, I guess that would be even more unthinkable than the possibility that just Greek was derived from Egyptian??

Regards,
Stephen R. Berlant

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 berlant@ptd.net wrote:

I quietly observed the position Mr Hubey recently took in sci.lang (assuming it is the same Mr.Hubey} against the tendency of philologists who adhere to the Indo-European [IE] theory and the comparative method to explain away as coincidence any and all evidence that would tend to refute their theory and method. I was, thus, wondering if Mr. Hubey's question can be taken as an

Yes, I am the same person. I have known and have discussed this particular attitude of historical linguists with many of them and on many lists over many years. During 1992-93, in fact, I got so upset, that I took a year off and wrote my own book. I sent copies to some people, and put up the rest of it on my web site for free. As a result of the fact that I made it available for free, I could not get a US publisher interested in it. Soon I will put it for sale at 1stBooks and make it available.

indication he suspects that the relationship between time and the sun 's movement that prehistoric Egyptian wordsmiths personified in the name of their solar deity [Hrw] should not logically be considered the ancestor of the same relationship that inheres in the ancient Greek words for (1) "season" [hora] and (2) the limit of a circle [horos] that yielded [horizon], in light of the fact that these Greek words were also clearly derived from a prehistoric consonantal root [HR].

Even more than this. I was wondering if Turkish horoz, Azeri khoruz, Kazakh qoraz, Kyrgyz koroz, Uyghur khoraz, and Uzbek khoroz could be related to Horus. The rooster has been and still is the natural alarm clock that announces the arrival of the sun everyday and it would be natural to connect the two. While looking around I also noticed that Turkic /o"t/ has to do with th passing or passing of time, as in Sumerian /ut/. In Anatolian it has come to mean the crowing of the rooster, instead of "passing" as in other Turkic languages.

The simple question to ask is how these words got so far as beyond the Altay mountains.

If the probability of occurrence of something due to chance or accident is too small, then it probably did not happen due to accident or chance and there is some reason for it. This is the most basic concept behind all of science. But historical linguists, especially the IE chauvinists, have over the years developed a kind of logic/science which is especially suited only for themselves and for no other science in the universe. They apparently have some kind of a superior methodology they are born with and which they do not and cannot explain to the rest of us mere mortals in the universe. They are against almost every kind of an idea that would make their beloved Aryan peoples related to anyone else or have them borrow anything from anyone in the universe except God himself. There is a proto-world movement and it is being most strenuously opposed by the same IE chauvinists that led the Great Aryan Charge of this century.

If some of what they have done could be looked at objectively it would be scandalous..It's very unfortunate that historians have come to rely more and more on such methods that lack and defy all common sense, scientific methods, probabilistic reasoning and even a classification method that is used in biology and other fields. They stand alone in historical linguistics against all of science, common sense and reason.

They have taught the most improbable things to their students as God-given truths.

Regards,
Mark

14:1 Habló Jehová a Moisés, diciendo: 
14:2 Di a los hijos de Israel que den la vuelta y acampen delante de Pi-hahirot, entre Migdol y el mar hacia Baal-zefón; delante de él acamparéis junto al mar. 
14:3 Porque Faraón dirá de los hijos de Israel: Encerrados están en la tierra, el desierto los ha encerrado. 
14:4 Y yo endureceré el corazón de Faraón para que los siga; y seré glorificado en Faraón y en todo su ejército, y sabrán los egipcios que yo soy Jehová. Y ellos lo hicieron así. 
14:5 Y fue dado aviso al rey de Egipto, que el pueblo huía; y el corazón de Faraón y de sus siervos se volvió contra el pueblo, y dijeron: ¿Cómo hemos hecho esto de haber dejado ir a Israel, para que no nos sirva? 
14:6 Y unció su carro, y tomó consigo su pueblo; 
14:7 y tomó seiscientos carros escogidos, y todos los carros de Egipto, y los capitanes sobre ellos. 
14:8 Y endureció Jehová el corazón de Faraón rey de Egipto, y él siguió a los hijos de Israel; pero los hijos de Israel habían salido con mano poderosa. 
14:9 Siguiéndolos, pues, los egipcios, con toda la caballería y carros de Faraón, su gente de a caballo, y todo su ejército, los alcanzaron acampados junto al mar, al lado de Pi-hahirot, delante de Baal-zefón. 
14:10 Y cuando Faraón se hubo acercado, los hijos de Israel alzaron sus ojos, y he aquí que los egipcios venían tras ellos; por lo que los hijos de Israel temieron en gran manera, y clamaron a Jehová. 
14:11 Y dijeron a Moisés: ¿No había sepulcros en Egipto, que nos has sacado para que muramos en el desierto? ¿Por qué has hecho así con nosotros, que nos has sacado de Egipto? 
14:12 ¿No es esto lo que te hablamos en Egipto, diciendo: Déjanos servir a los egipcios? Porque mejor nos fuera servir a los egipcios, que morir nosotros en el desierto. 
14:13 Y Moisés dijo al pueblo: No temáis; estad firmes, y ved la salvación que Jehová hará hoy con vosotros; porque los egipcios que hoy habéis visto, nunca más para siempre los veréis. 
14:14 Jehová peleará por vosotros, y vosotros estaréis tranquilos. 
14:15 Entonces Jehová dijo a Moisés: ¿Por qué clamas a mí? Di a los hijos de Israel que marchen. 
14:16 Y tú alza tu vara, y extiende tu mano sobre el mar, y divídelo, y entren los hijos de Israel por en medio del mar, en seco. 
14:17 Y he aquí, yo endureceré el corazón de los egipcios para que los sigan; y yo me glorificaré en Faraón y en todo su ejército, en sus carros y en su caballería; 
14:18 y sabrán los egipcios que yo soy Jehová, cuando me glorifique en Faraón, en sus carros y en su gente de a caballo. 
14:19 Y el ángel de Dios que iba delante del campamento de Israel, se apartó e iba en pos de ellos; y asimismo la columna de nube que iba delante de ellos se apartó y se puso a sus espaldas, 
14:20 e iba entre el campamento de los egipcios y el campamento de Israel; y era nube y tinieblas para aquéllos, y alumbraba a Israel de noche, y en toda aquella noche nunca se acercaron los unos a los otros. 
14:21 Y extendió Moisés su mano sobre el mar, e hizo Jehová que el mar se retirase por recio viento oriental toda aquella noche; y volvió el mar en seco, y las aguas quedaron divididas. 
14:22 Entonces los hijos de Israel entraron por en medio del mar,  en seco, teniendo las aguas como muro a su derecha y a su izquierda. 
14:23 Y siguiéndolos los egipcios, entraron tras ellos hasta la mitad del mar, toda la caballería de Faraón, sus carros y su gente de a caballo. 
14:24 Aconteció a la vigilia de la mañana, que Jehová miró el campamento de los egipcios desde la columna de fuego y nube, y trastornó el campamento de los egipcios, 
14:25 y quitó las ruedas de sus carros, y los trastornó gravemente. Entonces los egipcios dijeron: Huyamos de delante de Israel, porque Jehová pelea por ellos contra los egipcios. 
14:26 Y Jehová dijo a Moisés: Extiende tu mano sobre el mar, para que las aguas vuelvan sobre los egipcios, sobre sus carros, y sobre su caballería. 
14:27 Entonces Moisés extendió su mano sobre el mar, y cuando amanecía, el mar se volvió en toda su fuerza, y los egipcios al huir se encontraban con el mar; y Jehová derribó a los egipcios en medio del mar. (La resurreccion de Cristo fue al amanecer segun JUAN 20:1. ¿CASUALIDAD QUE APARECE CON EL MARIA MAGDALENA?)
14:28 Y volvieron las aguas, y cubrieron los carros y la caballería, y todo el ejército de Faraón que había entrado tras ellos en el mar; no quedó de ellos ni uno. 
14:29 Y los hijos de Israel fueron por en medio del mar, en seco, teniendo las aguas por muro a su derecha y a su izquierda. 
14:30 Así salvó Jehová aquel día a Israel de mano de los egipcios; e Israel vio a los egipcios muertos a la orilla del mar. 
14:31 Y vio Israel aquel grande hecho que Jehová ejecutó contra los egipcios; y el pueblo temió a Jehová, y creyeron a Jehová y a Moisés su siervo. 

15:1 Entonces cantó Moisés y los hijos de Israel este cántico  a Jehová, y dijeron: 
Cantaré yo a Jehová, porque se ha magnificado grandemente; 
Ha echado en el mar al caballo y al jinete. 
15:2 Jehová es mi fortaleza y mi cántico, 
Y ha sido mi salvación. 
Este es mi Dios, y lo alabaré; 
Dios de mi padre, y lo enalteceré.
15:3 Jehová es varón de guerra; 
Jehová es su nombre. (MARTE/GUERRA)

15:19 Porque Faraón entró cabalgando con sus carros y su gente de a caballo en el mar, y Jehová hizo volver las aguas del mar sobre ellos; mas los hijos de Israel pasaron en seco por en medio del mar. 
15:20 Y María la profetisa, hermana de Aarón, tomó un pandero en su mano, y todas las mujeres salieron en pos de ella con panderos y danzas. 
15:21 Y María les respondía: 
Cantad a Jehová, porque en extremo se ha engrandecido; 
Ha echado en el mar al caballo y al jinete. 

El agua amarga de Mara 

15:22 E hizo Moisés que partiese Israel del Mar Rojo, y salieron al desierto de Shur; y anduvieron tres días por el desierto sin hallar agua. 
15:23 Y llegaron a Mara, y no pudieron beber las aguas de Mara, porque eran amargas; por eso le pusieron el nombre de Mara. 
15:24 Entonces el pueblo murmuró contra Moisés, y dijo: ¿Qué hemos de beber? 
15:25 Y Moisés clamó a Jehová, y Jehová le mostró un árbol; y lo echó en las aguas, y las aguas se endulzaron. Allí les dio estatutos y ordenanzas, y allí los probó; 
15:26 y dijo: Si oyeres atentamente la voz de Jehová tu Dios, e hicieres lo recto delante de sus ojos, y dieres oído a sus mandamientos, y guardares todos sus estatutos, ninguna enfermedad de las que envié a los egipcios te enviaré a ti; porque yo soy Jehová tu sanador. 
15:27 Y llegaron a Elim, donde había doce fuentes de aguas, y setenta palmeras; y acamparon allí junto a las aguas. 

SISARA ES SIMILAR A CESAREA-NEXO CON JAEL CUANDO LE CLAVA EL MARTILLO/MARTE/MARCOS/ROJO-SISARA/C-SAR/LUNA CRECIENTE EN CONTEXTO AL PRINCIPE-¿PORQUE CRISTO VIENE COMO LADRON A MEDIA NOCHE?-EL MARTILLO DE JAEL SIMBOLIZA AL NUEVO MARTILLO/MARTE/ROJO/MARCOS (MARCOS DERIVA DE MARTE) EN CONTEXTO A MARIA MAGDALENA YA QUE OBVIAMENTE HAY UN NUEVO MESIAS DESCENDIENTE DE CRISTO Y DE MARCOS/MARTILLO-ESTO EXPLICA LA CAUSA DEL PORQUE LA REVOLUSION BOLCHEVIQUE FUE EN CONTEXTO A FATIMA E INCLUSO DEL PORQUE LA CAIDA DE LOS MUROS DE BERLIN FUERON UN 9/11.

 

Pero Jael, mujer de Jéber, cogió una clavija de la tienda, tomó el martillo en la mano,

abril 17th, 2012 admin

 Pero Jael, mujer de Jéber, cogió una clavija de la tienda, tomó el martillo en la mano, se le acercó silenciosamente y le hincó la clavija en la sien hasta clavarla en tierra. Y Sísara que, agotado de cansancio, estaba profundamente dormido, murió. Judg.4.21 Fuente: La Biblia

Jueces
4:1 Después de la muerte de Aod, los hijos de Israel volvieron a hacer lo malo ante los ojos de Jehová.
4:2 Y Jehová los vendió en mano de Jabín rey de Canaán, el cual reinó en Hazor; y el capitán de su ejército se llamaba Sísara, el cual habitaba en Haroset-goim.
4:3 Entonces los hijos de Israel clamaron a Jehová, porque aquél tenía novecientos carros herrados, y había oprimido con crueldad a los hijos de Israel por veinte años.
4:4 Gobernaba en aquel tiempo a Israel una mujer, Débora, profetisa, mujer de Lapidot;
4:5 y acostumbraba sentarse bajo la palmera de Débora, entre Ramá y Bet-el, en el monte de Efraín; y los hijos de Israel subían a ella a juicio. (Deborah es descendiente de Jose en contexto a Genesis 49)
4:6 Y ella envió a llamar a Barac hijo de Abinoam, de Cedes de Neftalí, y le dijo: ¿No te ha mandado Jehová Dios de Israel, diciendo: Ve, junta a tu gente en el monte de Tabor, y toma contigo diez mil hombres de la tribu de Neftalí y de la tribu de Zabulón;
4:7 y yo atraeré hacia ti al arroyo de Cisón a Sísara, capitán del ejército de Jabín, con sus carros y su ejército, y lo entregaré en tus manos? (SISARA TIENE UN NEXO CON C-SAR O C-SARA/REINA/PRINCESA. ES OBVIO EL NEXO CON LA LUNA CRECIENTE Y EL MARTILLO) 
4:8 Barac le respondió: Si tú fueres conmigo, yo iré; pero si no fueres conmigo, no iré.
4:9 Ella dijo: Iré contigo; mas no será tuya la gloria de la jornada que emprendes, porque en mano de mujer venderá Jehová a Sísara. Y levantándose Débora, fue con Barac a Cedes.
4:10 Y juntó Barac a Zabulón y a Neftalí en Cedes, y subió con diez mil hombres a su mando; y Débora subió con él.
4:11 Y Heber ceneo, de los hijos de Hobab suegro de Moisés, se había apartado de los ceneos, y había plantado sus tiendas en el valle de Zaanaim, que está junto a Cedes. (Las tiendas es una referencia a la FIESTA DE LOS TABERNACULOS, con un fuerte nexo con la OZ Y EL MARTILLO. LA LUNA CRECIENTE SE LA VE AL OESTE A LA PUESTA DEL SOL, LA MISMA POSICION HACIA ADONDE ESTABA UBICADO EL LUGAR SANTISIMO DEL TABERNACULO. EL VATICANO ESTA DISEÑADO EN FUNCION A LAS PLEYADES/TAURO/LUNA CRECIENTE Y EL ROJO EN CONTEXTO A PETRA/EDOM COMO SE VE EN LA PELICULA DE INDIANA JONES "LA ULTIMA CRUZADA". EN PETRA/EDOM/ROJO ESTA UBICADO EL CAÑON DE LA LUNA CRECIENTE. CRISTO, EN CESAREA, JUSTAMENTE EN MATEO 16:18 EN CONTEXTO A LA PIEDRA OBVIAMENTE HACE REFERENCIA, INSISTO, A PETRA EDOM.)

NEXO DEL TABERNACULO CON EL SEXO FEMENINO/VESCICA

EL SANTO GRIAL ESTA CODIFICADO EN EL DISEÑO DEL VATICANO

Sukot/Tabernaculos/Cabañas

VIRGEN DE FATIMA (ANALISIS CIENTIFICO Y ESPIRITUAL)

¿Porque Washington D.C, Roma, Jerusalem, etc tienen 7 colinas?-

FENICIOS=ROJO/PHOENIX/VINO/PARALELO 33/SANTO GRIAL

 

4:12 Vinieron, pues, a Sísara las nuevas de que Barac hijo de Abinoam había subido al monte de Tabor.
4:13 Y reunió Sísara todos sus carros, novecientos carros herrados, con todo el pueblo que con él estaba, desde Haroset- goim hasta el arroyo de Cisón.
4:14 Entonces Débora dijo a Barac: Levántate, porque este es el día en que Jehová ha entregado a Sísara en tus manos. ¿No ha salido Jehová delante de ti? Y Barac descendió del monte de Tabor, y diez mil hombres en pos de él.
4:15 Y Jehová quebrantó a Sísara, a todos sus carros y a todo su ejército, a filo de espada delante de Barac; y Sísara descendió del carro, y huyó a pie.
4:16 Mas Barac siguió los carros y el ejército hasta Haroset- goim, y todo el ejército de Sísara cayó a filo de espada, hasta no quedar ni uno.
4:17 Y Sísara huyó a pie a la tienda de Jael mujer de Heber ceneo; porque había paz entre Jabín rey de Hazor y la casa de Heber ceneo.
4:18 Y saliendo Jael a recibir a Sísara, le dijo: Ven, señor mío, ven a mí, no tengas temor. Y él vino a ella a la tienda, y ella le cubrió con una manta.
4:19 Y él le dijo: Te ruego me des de beber un poco de agua, pues tengo sed. Y ella abrió un odre de leche y le dio de beber, y le volvió a cubrir.
4:20 Y él le dijo: Estate a la puerta de la tienda; y si alguien viniere, y te preguntare, diciendo: ¿Hay aquí alguno? tú responderás que no.
4:21 Pero Jael mujer de Heber tomó una estaca de la tienda, y poniendo un mazo en su mano, se le acercó calladamente y le metió la estaca por las sienes, y la enclavó en la tierra, pues él estaba cargado de sueño y cansado; y así murió.
4:22 Y siguiendo Barac a Sísara, Jael salió a recibirlo, y le dijo: Ven, y te mostraré al varón que tú buscas. Y él entró donde ella estaba, y he aquí Sísara yacía muerto con la estaca por la sien.
4:23 Así abatió Dios aquel día a Jabín, rey de Canaán, delante de los hijos de Israel.
4:24 Y la mano de los hijos de Israel fue endureciéndose más y más contra Jabín rey de Canaán, hasta que lo destruyeron.

BET EMET MINISTRIES

Hebrew For "The House Of Truth"

Craig M. Lyons Ms.D., D.D., M.Div.

bennoah1@verizon.net

TRACING THE SUN THROUGH THE ZODIAC & GEMINI...COULD THIS BE THE ORIGIN FOR THE "JESUS STORY" #7

GEMINI & JESUS: MAY 21-JUNE 21

We ended the last article looking at the correlations between the "Jesus Story" in the New Testament and the path of the Sun through the Zodiac, in particular the constellation Taurus as it parallels the depiction of the "Jesus Story" taken chronologically throughout the New Testaments' depiction of Jesus Christ. We have traced the "Jesus Story" not only through the Heavens as it parallels the path of the Sun through the Zodiac when "personified" and "allegorized" but have seen the genius of the Creator to inscribe upon the Heavens above His will for mankind and their "Spiritual Evolution". We have traced the Sun through the previous Houses of the Zodiac and when "personified" and with the aid of "anthropomorphic" language we have seen how the "Evolution of the Soul in matter" has been told through the "myths" and "legends" of sungods. The irony of this whole thing is that the "Jesus Story" is the story of the birth, life, growth, and death of the Soul in this physical realm we call "life". This "Jesus Story" is a "plan-o-gram" for mankind to follow and emulate as were many of the prior "sungod" stories as well. We have seen beginning with Capricorn that man was born into this physical world with the necessity of a "2nd birth" which is symbolized as we move to the House of Aquarius where we find the symbolic immersion into a "watery womb" or a "watery tomb" in baptism where as Judaism teaches man receives the "Soul that comes down from Heaven" and is "born again". We saw that this imagery of being "born again in water" is accompanied with "repentance" as seen in the immersion of John the Baptist and his "baptism of repentance". We saw that the language of John is very important as he lays out the desired growth of man's Soul; for it must increase as the power of his flesh decreases. We immediately move from this even in our spiritual growth to a full-blown war with our soul as we must fight the "darkness" within seen in the allegory of "Jesus' Temptation" with the Devil. This is but a picture of the Sun and its eternal battle with "darkness" again symbolized in the "Jesus Story" in Jesus' temptation where the "spirit" and "flesh" battle continuously. The Soul is intended to increase in strength over our flesh as we live out our lives and continually reflect more of the light of God daily as does the Sun in it new ascending path in the Heavens. We saw as we moved to Pisces that as we grow "spiritually" we must feed ourselves "the bread that comes down from Heaven" before we can feed others and become "fishers of men". Thus the symbolism of Pisces which stresses again the need for this bread due to the "intersection" in Heaven of these "two fish" or "2 natures in man; spiritual and fleshly". As we live a life of repentance unto good works we accomplish such a goal when fed the true "manna" of God. We then followed God's Sun into the Constellation of Aries where we first met up with the idea of "sacrifice" in relationship to the Lamb of God. We learned from this that God was teaching us that we are to become "living sacrifices", holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service while at the same time we are not conformed to this world continue to be transformed by the renewing of our minds in order that we might prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Romans 12:1-2...KJV). We next found ourselves at the Spring Equinox were we learned that this is a special time with God and man which speaks God's Harmony and peace to all Creation. We also learned that this is the Harvest time when the Earth brings forth her fruit. We made note of the need for our fruit in our lives that comes through good works and obedience to the Commandments of God were according to Judaism we find and receive our atonement. As living sacrifices according to the Hebrew Scriptures we accomplish our own atonement. As we moved with the Sun into the Constellation of Taurus we saw the repeated emphasis upon "sacrifice" and continued fruitfulness on a large scale; a scale large enough to reach the world with this true message of maturation of man's Soul. We camped a little while here as we contrasted the Houses of Aries and Taurus for parallels between them and the unbelievable similarities between the "personified Sun" as "Mithra" and as "Jesus" in the New Testament. We move must move on with the Sun as it never sleeps and move with it into the House of Gemini and learn the next "Spiritual Lesson" that God has for us as we learn of the maturation of the Divine within matter; ie., our Souls.

Now we continue to go more deeply as we trace the Sun in its path through the Zodiac as it leaves Taurus and enters the constellation of Gemini. We by now are familiar with the astronomical concept that the Sun goes on a journey through the Zodiac during the 12 months of the year. We have been following this journey of the Sun and we have seen how uncannily the path of the Sun through the Zodiac matches up with the chronological depiction of "Jesus" and the journey that Jesus takes during his life and ministry as depicted by the writers of the New Testament. We have seen that according to the writers of the Synoptic Gospels that Jesus' ministry is said to last a year. We have also seen that the Sun completes its circuit of the Zodiac in a year. This is not a coincidence. We now look at the constellation Gemini to see the continuing struggle of the Sun against the darkness and note the parallels to the depiction of Jesus and his ministry as recorded in the New Testament.

The constellation of Gemini has been seen as twin figures by cultures throughout the world, back into prehistory. The 'Two Stars', referring to its very bright suns, which the Greeks recognized as Castor and Polydeuces, were named for the younger and elder forms of the god Horus by the Egyptians. To the Romans they were Hercules and Apollo. Often perceived as twin boys, the lore sustains that they were placed in the night sky by Jove to honor and exemplify the fidelity of their brotherly love. In other instances they were seen as a sister and brother or two angels, then within later Christian traditions, as Adam and Eve.

Stories of hero twins are also related throughout the world. For the Greeks their was Castor and Polydeuces, also known as the Dioscuri, or Heavenly Twins. They were the children of Zeus and Leda, queen of Sparta (yes...you may call them: 'sons of the swan.'), thus also the brothers to the infamous Helen, late of Troy. The exploits of these twins are many, and all heroic. In their youth they sailed with Jason to retrieve the Golden Fleece. To the Romans, who knew them as Castor and Pollux, the twins were invoked on the field of battle to assure victory. For centuries beyond they were held as guardians to sailors on extended or risky voyages.

LETS LEARN SOME ASTRONOMY BEFORE WE LOOK AT THE THEOLOGY

We have not up to this time spent a lot of time with the Summer Solstice but our time has come as we find the Sun struggling to rise to the zenith of its path across the Heavens where it will eventually reach the apex of its path which is the Summer Solstice. Let us not forget the Sun, since raised from the dead at the Winter solstice has been ascending in the Sky on its way to its zenith. Associated with this path of the Sun across the Sky is the constellation Gemini. The constellation Gemini is traditionally depicted as two men (the twins). The two brightest stars in Gemini, Castor and Pollux (north of the bright star Procyon in Canis Minor), are two of the brightest stars in the sky and were identified by the Greeks with two children, in most accounts the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. As indicated by the "twins of Gemini" this is a time of increasing or doubling as the Sun reaches onward to its zenith. This path of the Sun to its zenith in the Sky ends on the Summer solstice when days are the longest and nights the shortest. It is at this time that the Sun is at the peak of its strength. In the northern hemisphere the Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year (near June 22) when the Sun is farthest north. The Summer solstice is the longest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a maximum for the year. It is the time of the greatest light. The dates of maximum tilt of the Earth's equator correspond to the Summer solstice and Winter solstice, and the dates of zero tilt to the Vernal equinox and Autumnal equinox. People around the world have observed spiritual and religious seasonal days of celebration during the month of June. Most have been religious holy days which are linked in some way to the Summer solstice. On this day, typically Jun 21, the daytime hours are at a maximum in the Northern hemisphere, and night time is at a minimum. It is officially the first day of summer.

Let us not forget that the seasons of the year are caused by the 23.5º tilt of the earth's axis. Because the earth is rotating like a top or gyroscope, the North Pole points in a fixed direction continuously -- towards a point in space near the North Star. But the earth is also revolving around the Sun. During half of the year, the southern hemisphere is more exposed to the Sun than is the northern hemisphere. During the rest of the year, the reverse is true. At noontime in the Northern Hemisphere the Sun appears high in the sky during summertime, and low during winter. As mentioned above the time of the year when the Sun reaches its maximum elevation occurs on the Summer solstice -- the day with the greatest number of daylight hours. On the Summer Solstice, which occurs on June 21, the Sun is at its highest path through the sky and the day is the longest. Because the day is so long the Sun does not rise exactly in the east, but rises to the north of east and sets to the north of west allowing it to be in the sky for a longer period of time. After the Summer solstice the Sun follows a lower and lower path through the sky each day until it reaches the point where it is in the sky for exactly 12 hours again. This is the Fall or Autumn Equinox. Just like the Spring Equinox, the Sun will rise exactly east and set exactly west on this day and everyone in the world will experience a 12 hour day. After the Fall Equinox the Sun will continue to follow a lower and lower path through the sky and the days will grow shorter and shorter until it reaches its lowest path and then we are back at the Winter Solstice where we started.

The Summer solstice typically occurs on, or within a day or two of, Jun. 21 which is the first day of summer. The lowest elevation occurs about Dec. 21 and is the Winter solstice which is the first day of winter, when the night time hours reach their maximum. We get the word "Solstice", from the Latin for "Sun stands still", in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). For several days before and after each solstice the Sun appears to stand still in the sky, i.e., its noontime elevation does not seem to change from day to day. At the solstices the sun's apparent position on the celestial sphere reaches its greatest distance above or below the celestial equator, about 23 1/2° of arc. At the time of Summer solstice, about June 22, the Sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer.

Now that the technical information is out of the way we now focus on the fact that in pre-historic times, Summer was a joyous time of the year for those Ancient people who lived in the northern latitudes. The snow had disappeared; the ground had thawed out; warm temperatures had returned; flowers were blooming; leaves had returned to the deciduous trees. Some herbs could be harvested, for medicinal and other uses. Food was easier to find. This is the time of the first harvest, which usually consisted of the herbs planted during the Vernal Equinox. Other crops had already been planted and would be harvested in the months to come. Although many months of warm/hot weather remained before the fall, they noticed that the days were beginning to shorten, so that the return of the cold season was inevitable. Midsummer has been one of the important solar events throughout the evolution of humankind. It was an indicator that the year was about to begin waning, thus winter would be again returning. Although not all the ancients were as precise in the calculations from an astronomical point, you can be sure that they were keenly aware of the Sun's progression, and did most assuredly know when Solstice was upon them, as the Sun appeared to stand still in its northern progression.

The ancients knew that life came from the Sun, it was life giving, life supporting, without it life would be lost. The Sun was viewed as the Ancient's "Savior" of sorts. The journey of the Sun impacted life at every level in the course of time, only relatively recently with the advances of electricity, greenhouses, transportation networks, has human reliance on the passage of the Sun been lessened. Even with this dependence lessening, in this technological age, necessity of the Sun and its path is crucial to our existence, however it is not as apparent today to many. Midsummer is the time when the Sun reaches the peak of its power, the earth is green and holds the promise of a bountiful harvest.

NOW SOME THEOLOGY

We say in the previous article that Jesus, in the form of the personified Sun, passed through Taurus and in so doing likewise passed across the Milky Way which is that starry band of millions of stars that lies like a lake across the sky. We saw that at this point in the "Jesus Story" Jesus crosses "the lake" and we as expected found the allegorical story of Jesus walking on water.

Answer for yourself: What happens as the Sun moves past Taurus and the Milky Way?

On the star map provided I want the reader to look to the bottom right and locate the "Hyades" which is part of the Constellation of Taurus. If you draw a diagonal line ascending from bottom right to upper left you come to another Constellation named Gemini. This path between the "Hyades" in Taurus and ascending to Gemini is called the "Ecliptic" and this is the path of the Sun as it moves through the Zodiac in the Heavens. In our study it is important to note as seen in the reference above Sun crossing the "water" or "milky way" in the Heavens which is later retold in the "personified Jesus Story" as Jesus crossing the Sea of Galilee and walking on water. After the Sun crosses the Milky Way it moves into the constellation Gemini called "the twins" Castor and Pollox (the two bright stars in Gemini are named Castor and Pollux).

Answer for yourself: What do we find Jesus doing in the gospels right after crossing the lake? We find an account of Jesus healing the sick but how many? How many people is Jesus healing? He is only healing "two".

If our premise holds we should expect to find Jesus associated with "two" (Castor and Pollox) people and that is exactly what we find. In the "Jesus Story", after crossing the lake (which we saw was Jesus as the personified Sun crossing the Milky Way), Jesus heals two demon possessed men.

Matt 8:28-34 28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. 31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. 32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. 33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. 34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Does the New Testament mention Castor and Pollux? It sure does

Answer for yourself: Is this just a coincidence that Jesus meets two men that need to be healed or is this again symbolic for the constellation Gemini as the Sun moves through the Zodiac?

Acts 28:11 11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. (KJV)

We made mention earlier of the connection of the Harvest with this time of the year around Summer when the Sun enters Gemini. This is a time of increase or doubling as the Sun continually rises in the Sky to its Zenith and its peak of strength. This is especially so noting the connection of Shavuot, or Pentecost, with the sign of Gemini. In Matt. 12:1 we find Jesus and his disciples going through the fields full of grain plucking the heads of grain to eat. As you can see the seasons are advancing.

Matt 12:1 1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. (KJV)

We find in the "Jesus Story" the masterful strength portrayed by Jesus in his teachings where he pronounces that like the Sun his strength is without limit and beyond contest:

Matt 12:8 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. (KJV)

No one can challenge Jesus and win or try to usurp his power for none can win for we find Jesus in all his glory and majesty in his ministry portrayed at this time which is keeping in symbolism of the Sun moving to its Zenith where its light is at its greatest. This great power of the "personified Sun" in the allegory of the "Jesus Story" is seen in Jesus ability to control the "darkness of the physical realm" as witnessed in the many accounts of the miracles of Jesus over "demons" in the New Testament. Let us not forget what we previously learned about the "Devil" being "personified darkness".

Matt 12:22 22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

Matt 12:23-24 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Is Jesus being challenged by these evil Pharisees accurate to Jewish theology and Jewish history? No not really as we show in other articles where Jesus was likewise supposedly challenged by the Pharisees for healing on the Sabbath and eating of the Sabbath. Jewish law allows for both healing on the Sabbath as well as plucking and eating grain on the Sabbath when one's life is endangered and we find Jesus in the text fleeing from Herod Antipas. This action would be perfectly permissible by Jewish Law but the writers of the New Testament had to show the opposition to Jesus and did so by misrepresenting the Pharisees. This dualism between light and darkness and it constant and eternal struggle is pictured in these false representations of the Pharisees.

We mentioned previously that at the Solstices, both the Winter and the Summer Solstices, the earth's tilt reaches it maximum and begins to retrograde and along with this it appear that the Earth has remained motionless or "dead" once again in 3 years. In keeping with the parallel of the personification of the Sun and the life and evolution of the life and ministry of Jesus in the New Testament we should expect to find at this particular time in the ministry of Jesus some reference to "death for 3 days".

Answer for yourself: Do we find such a reference in sequence to the events in the life of this Jesus as found in the Gospel account of a death for 3 days? We sure do!

Matt 12:38-40 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (KJV)

Here we find, in sequential order in the Gospels mind you, Jesus' reference to the Summer Solstice and the 3 days of death of Jonas where he is in the belly of the big fish. This teaching of Jesus occurs when the Sun is in Gemini which is the time of the Summer Soltice. This death of Jonas is likened by Jesus to his own coming death at the next Solstice which is 6 months away, the Winter Solstice, were like Jonas he will remain dead for 3 days like the Sun is dead for 3 days before being resurrected again.

Answer for yourself: Is this just a lucky coincidence that when the Sun remains "dead" in the Heavens and Sky for 3 days, at the Summer and Winter Solstice, we find Jonas dead for 3 days and later Jesus dead 3 days?

We find associated with this event the challenge of those bad Pharisees that seem to be constantly challenging Jesus in the "Jesus Story" just like the Sun is constantly challenged by the darkness continually in its rise to its zenith of strength at the Summer solstice in Gemini.

John 3:19-21 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (KJV)