DATING THE SPHINX AND WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR A "BLACK CHRIST" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let us focus on the Sphinx for a second. The main features of the Sphinx are comprised of different geological conditions. The head of the Sphinx was made of a hard strata which is resistant to the effects of the natural elements. The present damage to the face was caused by soldiers who used the Sphinx as an artillery target in the 18th century. More on that in a second. The body of the Sphinx was made of a softer limestone strata which in turn consists of alternate harder and softer layers. These alternate layers are visible on site as weathered corrugation, which is about two feet deep into the bedrock and this give us the clues we need to date Ancient Egypt and this dating is problematic for modern "Christianized Egyptologists". The base of the Sphinx, as well as the bottom of the original quarry site are made of a harder limestone which is resistant to the effects of the natural elements. It appears that the water errosion on the Egyptian Sphinx betrays such a silly date as given by Bishop Usher. Most scholars have resigned themselves to the fact that the water caused the erosion to the body of the Sphinx. But not all agree. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: What caused the erosion of the Sphinx? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Possible weathering by wind and sand. Since the body of the Sphinx is located in a hollow, it takes less than twenty years to fill the hollow and cover the body totally. The Sphinx has been covered, for most of its time, by sand since the time it was created thousands of years ago. Therefore the Sphinx was not subject to weathering exposure to wind and sand, instead it was actually protected from such natural elements. Additionally, the concave shape of the corrugation cannot be the result of wind and sand storms. Possible water erosion. Most scholars have resigned themselves to the fact that the water caused the erosion to the body of the Sphinx. Geologists agree that Egypt was subject to severe flooding, at the end of the last Ice Age, c. 15,000-10,000 BCE. So, if the erosion was caused by water, the Sphinx must have been carved before Egypt was under water i.e. more than 12,000 years ago. |
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The jury is in today. The culprit here is "water erosion" for the damage to the Sphinx. Water erosion of the Sphinx along with its dating that destroys Christian interpretations, which in turn, is too radical for scholars to swallow, as they prefer not to change their theory that Khafra (Chephren) built the Sphinx. As a result, those unfamiliar with scientific principles, suggested that the ground water, and not direct flooding, caused such erosion. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geologists agree that Egypt was subject to severe flooding, at the end of the last Ice Age, c. 15,000-10,000 BCE. So, if the erosion was caused by water, the Sphinx must have been carved before Egypt was under water i.e. more than 12,000 years ago. Groved water marks on the Sphinx and especially in the rocks near the Sphinx undeniably points to antiquity dating further back to the time when the Sahara was not a desert but a rainy tropical paradise. The last time there was this much water in the part of Africa was over 10,000 years ago. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In order to uncover some of the mysteries that are shrouded in our mythological and religious symbols, including the Great Sphinx, we must look beyond our Earth year to a much longer cycle of our planet. We call this greater cycle, or one wobble of the Earth, the Platonic year in honor of the Greek philosopher Plato ? whose ideas concerning the realities of the physical and metaphysical planes are still cherished by many of us who are seeking the wisdom of the ages. A Great year (also known as a Platonic year or Equinoctial cycle) is the time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years. The great year is one of the longest cycles that are well known to astronomers. Given that as a fact well known by the Egytpians with a rock-steady gaze, Egypt's Great Sphinx has faced due east for over 12,000 years. If the Sphinx ever blinks, it must be in March and September, when the equinox Sun rises and shines straight in its eyes. This monumental sculpture, carved from a natural bedrock limestone outcrop on the doorstep of the Giza pyramids, is a crouched lion with a human head. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The greatest monumental sculpture in the ancient world, the Sphinx is carved out of a single ridge of stone 240 feet (73 meters) long and 66 feet (20 meters) high. The head, which has a markedly different texture from the body, and shows far less severe erosion, is a naturally occurring outcrop of harder stone. To form the lower body of the Sphinx, enormous blocks of stone were quarried from the base rock (and these blocks were then used in the core masonry of the temples directly in front and to the south of the Sphinx). While a few stubborn Egyptologists still maintain that the Sphnix was constructed in the 4th Dynasty by the Pharaoh Chephren (Khafre), an accumulating body of evidence, both archaeological and geological, indicates that the Sphinx is far older than the 4th Dynasty, and was only restored by Chephren during his reign. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are no inscriptions on the Sphinx, or on any of the temples connected to it that, that offer evidence of construction by Chepren, yet the so-called 'Inventory Stele' (uncovered on the Giza plateau in the 19th century) tells that the Pharaoh Cheops - Chephren's predecessor - ordered a temple built alongside the Sphinx, meaning of course that the Sphinx was already there, and thus could not have been constructed by Chephren. A much greater age for the Sphinx has been suggested by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, based upon geological considerations. Schwaller de Lubicz observed, and recent geologists (such as Robert Schoch, Professor of Geology at Boston University) have confirmed, that the extreme erosion on the body of the Sphinx could not be the result of wind and sand, as has been universally assumed, but rather was the result of water. Geologists agree that in the distant past Egypt was subjected to severe flooding. Wind erosion cannot take place when the body of the Sphinx is covered by sand, and the Sphinx has been in this condition for nearly all of the last five thousand years - since the alleged time of its 4th Dynasty construction. Furthermore, if wind-blown sand had indeed caused the deep erosion of the Sphinx, we would expect to find evidence of such erosion on other Egyptian monuments built of similar materials and exposed to the wind for a similar length of time. Yet the fact of the matter is, that even on structures that have had more exposure to the wind-blown sand, there are minimal effects of erosion, the sand having done little more than scour clean the surface of the dressed stones. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now pay close attention. Additional evidence for the great age of the Sphinx may perhaps be indicated by the astronomical significance of its shape, being that of a lion.Roughly every two thousand years (2160 to be exact), and because of the precession of the equinoxes, the sun on the vernal equinox rises against the stellar background of a different constellation. For the past two thousand years that constellation has been Pisces the Fish, symbol of the Christian age. Prior to the age of Pisces it was the age of Aries the Ram, and before that it was the age of Taurus the Bull. It is interesting to note that during the first and second millennia B.C.E., approximately the Age of Aries, ram-oriented iconography was common in Dynastic Egypt, while during the Age of Taurus the Bull-cult arose in Minoan Crete. The builders of the Sphinx likewise used astrological symbolism in designing their monumental sculpture. The geological findings discussed above indicate that the Sphinx seems to have been sculpted sometime before 10,000 BC, and this period coincides with the Age of Leo the Lion, which lasted from 10,970 to 8810 BC. Further support for this vast age of the sphinx comes from a surprising sky-ground correlation proven by sophisticated computer programs such as Skyglobe 3.6. These computer programs are able to generate precise pictures of any portion of the night sky as seen from different places on earth at any time in the distant past or future. Graham Hancock explains in Heaven?s Mirror that, ?computer simulations show that in 10,500 BC the constellation of Leo housed the sun on the spring equinox - i.e. an hour before dawn in that epoch Leo would have reclined due east along the horizon in the place where the sun would soon rise. This means that the lion-bodied Sphinx, with its due-east orientation, would have gazed directly on that morning at the one constellation in the sky that might reasonably be regarded as its own celestial counterpart.? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: And what was that age? The Age of Leo, the Lion. No wonder the Sphinx is part "lion" to match the constellation. This blows out of the water any possible date for creation given by Bishop Usher. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The foregoing discussion means that the monumental sculpture of the Sphinx may have existed at a time when (according to prevailing archaeological theory and Christian dating and literal interpretation of Genesis) there were no civilizations on earth and humans had not yet evolved beyond hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Of course this is impossible. This matter is so radical and the Egyptian truths of astronomy even more so that scholarly reticence in acknowledging it is understandable. Such an understanding turns all of religion upside down and makes a laughting stock out of Christianity and its dogmatism. If the Sphinx is indeed this old then contemporary assumptions regarding the development of civilization must be entirely reworked and the mystifying question of Plato's Atlantis should be given very serious consideration. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not only that but the Sphinx point "due East" at the Vernal Equinox which shows us that it was built for the Age of Leo in relationship to the Precession of the Equinox which was well know in Egypt and covers a time period of over 26,000 years. Wow. This Sphinx problem opens a can of worms affecting more than you can imagine. Let me show you. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Who is carved in the Sphinx? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Answer for yourself: Why destroy the lips and nose of the Sphinx? What are they trying to cover-up? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The largest sculpture in the world carved out of solid rock; a sculpture of a lioness with a human head. The head of this monument has been recarved, apparently. This would explain why the head is disproportionately small when compared with the rest of the body. The nose is missing because Europeans (Napoleon's soldiers), in an effort to obscure powerful, blatant, undeniable evidence of Black African achievement, blew off the broad Africoid nose and part of the generous lips with cannon fire! The Los Angeles Times (June 4, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990) actually reported that "When Napoleon visited the Sphinx in 1798, everything but the head was buried in sand...his soldiers reputedly used the Sphinx for target practice." While the Sphinx had already suffered nose damage prior to Napoleon, the greatest destruction took place during Napoleon's occupation of Egypt, as documented by Tony Browder, and testified by the collection of Sphinx portraits he has assembled on page 225 of his book Nile Valley Gontributions to Civilization. We have available to us today six hand-drawn portraits of the Sphinx that were drawn over a period of 100 years from 1698 to 1798. These are invaluable to us today because they are a living testimony and the only current evidence available which shows the progression of the nose destruction. Besides the Sphinx, a large percentage of Africoid Kamite (black) statues are missing their noses, whereas European-looking figures are intact. Faces of Africoid sculptures were also altered to appear Caucasoid (white) by Kamit's European conquerors. A Sphinx statue on display in the British Museum actually admits that the "face of the stature was reworked" during the Roman occupation of Egypt. Reporting on the "riddle" of the racial identity of the ancient Egyptians, Count C. Volney, a distinguished French scholar who visited Egypt in the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
late 1700s, wrote with astonishment "...when I visited the Sphinx, its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. Beholding that head typically Negro in all its features...". He later added "...the Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans." The Sphinx's broad nose, full lips, and prognathism are evident in an early drawing of the Sphinx as it was found by the French in the late 1700s. Above is a drawin from the 1700s depicting the facial features of the Sphinx. I ask that you take notice of the enlarged lips and flat nose this is missing today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: What should this fact warn us about? There has been today, without a doubt, a willful and systematic destruction of Africoid art that has occurred in the Americas, Asia and India: Inscriptions and hieroglyphics are defaced or bleached, noses are shot off or chiseled down, confusing nomenclatures are pasted over the evidence, photos are taken from misleading angles or filters, and some evidence is outright destroyed. In temples and monuments of beauty and durability where destruction was less desirable than claiming the achievements as their own, Europeans replaced the African inscriptions with new ones which credited themselves for the achievement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: How big is this deception? Amazing as it might sound to the uninitiated and unlearned the facts teach beyond any doubt that Western (white) civilization is founded on a Black African civilization. You may recall being taught in school that Western (white) civilization is founded upon the ancient Greek civilization which seemed to suddenly appear. What European historians are trying to hide or deny is that the Greek civilization was primarily the offspring of the advanced Black African civilization of ancient Egypt which preceded it by thousands of years. Even Greek legends relate that Egyptian and Phoenician conquerors ruled all or parts of Greece until the 14th or 15th century B.C. Books about Western civilization's African origins include Cheikh Anta Diop: The African Origin of Civilization -- Myth or Reality and Martin Bernal: Black Athena Vol. 1, 2. You can find the truth there among other books we cite. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Greek plagiarism of Egyptian science, philosophy and religion is well documented by George James in Stolen Legacy. Egypt was the greatest educational center in the ancient world. Black Egyptians educated the Greeks. Black Egyptian priests taught the best minds of Europe; Plato, Thales, Aristotle, Democritus, Anaximander, Solon and others. A surviving sculpture of Socrates shows that he was an African, as was Aesop of Aesop's fables. And historians wrote that such great lawgivers as Lykourgos studied in Egypt and brought back the legal and political basis for the West's politics. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If you recall the Sphinx is half "netero" and "half-lion". Speaking of God and His Attributres or "Emanations" seen in the Sphinx one should not be surprised to find out that the earliest Greek and Roman gods were all Black, including the Trojan heroes! The early Greek-Roman gods and goddesses such as Apollo, Zeus, Hercules, Athena, Venus, were all Black, being renditions of the Black Egyptian gods and goddesses (neteru). The historian Herodotus himself wrote that "the names of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt." Not only that but it was the Africans that gave the world Math, Algebra, Geometry, Astronomy, advanced medicine and Trigonometry! -including the Arabic Numbers! Africans also originated the world's first known universities. The falsely credited Pythagoras and Euclid learned their knowledge from Egypt's "Sacred Mystery Schools," which were the first universities known to man (with branches in other parts of the world, including China!) Estimated by computer analysis to have approached a mile in length, the temple-university of Luxor housed an elite faculty of priest-professors and catered to some 80,000 students at all grade levels! Temples were at the center of religion, politics and education. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"This race of black men... is the very race to which we owe our arts, our sciences, and even the use of speech!" -- wrote the amazed, distinguished French scholar, Count C. Volney in 1787. Later he wrote Ruins of Empires, a book which so delighted scholars of the day that it was translated into English with a 'special edition' for the racist Americans, in which the following quotation was left out: "There are a people, now forgotten, discovered, while others were yet barbarians, the elements of the arts and sciences. A race of men rejected now for their black skin and woolly hair founded, on the study of the laws of Nature, those civil and religious systems which still govern the universe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now for a few more facts about the Sphinx. Most books discussing the "Sphinx" say or assume it is male. Judging from names given to it by different people, including non-Afrakans, the "Sphinx" has been regarded as both, male (as an image of Heru /Horus) and female. But when the vital fragments of evidence are recognized and linked, the "Sphinx's" true identity emerges as a female! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carved from solid rock, the Sphinx portrays an Afrikan neteru called Hathor. The Egptian Hathor is the The | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great Black Mamma of Creation in feline form. As the Sphinx (face of a woman and a lion) it has uncharastically had its nose and lips almost toally destroyed. Wallis Budge wrote: "She was, in fact, the great mother of the world, and the old, cosmic Hathor was the personification of the great power of nature which was perpetually conceiving, and creating, and bringing forth, and rearing, and maintaining all things, both great and small. She was the "mother of her father, and the daughter of her son," and heaven, earth and the Underworld were under her rule, and she was the mother of every god and every goddess." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Could it be that the true manificant accompishments of the Negro, as evidenced by the unbelieveable wisdom and intelligence of the Ancient Egptians are all but wipped out today by the conquering "white" races who stole this widsom and from the black race of Egypt and gave it to the world as the legacy of the "white race" of Greece? It is possible that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not the Greeks, but the people of North and Central Africa, commonly called the Egyptians? Has the praise fasely given the Greeks for centuries belong not to the "white race" but the "black race" of Africa? Could this theft of African legacy by the "white" Greeks led to the erroneous world opinion that the African continet has made no or little contribution to civilization and that its people are naturally backward when the opposite is the truth? This tragic story can be found today in summary fashion in a great book entitled Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James. It is a terrific read. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tired from the hard work of defacing inumerable African monuments, whites covered them with plaster which fell off centuries later...exposing the stone evidence and ironically the truth about "the Jesus Story". Solid stone endures, but plaster and stucco are impermanent and will crack off in time -to expose what they have been hiding and, to the chagrin of the guilty, perfectly preserving for future generations to witness. Their white plaster fell off centuries later, exposing the blacked-out truth by later caucasians (white Asians and Europeans). And I write this as a Caucasion myself who desires truth over lies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Africans of the Nile Valley had built their temples so well, even carving many out of solid rock, that it was often impossible to destroy them. Whites hadn't developed the use of dynamite yet, so they attempted destruction through manually chiseling away at the stone evidence in their campaigns of cultural destruction. The Sphinx is but one example of many. This work proved not only ineffective, but too hard and exhausting, particularly under the desert sun, so they resorted to other methods. On pages 165-166 of The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ, historian Gerald Massey reports the coverups perpetrated by European cultural criminals: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"In some of the ancient Egyptian temples the Christian iconoclasts, when tired with hacking and hewing at the symbolic figures incised in the chambers of imagery, and defacing the most prominent features OF THE MONUMENTS, FOUND THEY COULD NOT DIG OUT THE HIEROGLYPHICS, AND TOOK TO COVERING them over with plaster; and this plaster, intended to hide the meaning and stop the mouth of the stone word, has served to preserved the ancient writings as fresh in hue and sharp in outline as when they were first cut and colored." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Why was this done? What are they hidding? Besides the stealing of the intellectual accomplishments of Egypt could it be that they are trying to cover up the Africian/Egyptian roots to Christianity and Rome's radical "reinterpretation" of the Egyptian Karast/Christ that we have swallowed totally today? There are many reasons but the least of which is not that the earliest pictures of the "Christian Christ" ALL portray him as "BLACK SKINNED". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Does this mean that the Jesus of Christianity is "black" and had dreadlocks? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Is the Christian Christ but a reinterpretation of the black-skinned Horus of Egypt and Mary and the Christ child but the reworking of the "black-skinned Isis"? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: And who is Isis? Is Mary but a later "reinvention" of Isis? Is Jesus but a later "reinvention" of Horus, the Messiah of Egypt? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isis is the greatest of the African goddesses who was worshipped throughout the ancient world. Now remember what we have learned about the neteroo as principles and attributes of the One Invisible Uncreated God. It is correct to think of these "netero" as "Emanations" from the prime ONE. This "Isis" is but one of this God's many manifestations in the Cosmos. As Isis is but the "feminine" aspect of God thus is "Horus/Christ" but the "masculine" aspect of this ONE. If you have ever studied Gnosticism and the Jewish Kaballah then this grouping of "duality and energies" as "emanating" from the ONE should make sense. This God and His attributes (the ALL in the ONE) emanate from Him in paris until the "invisible" becomes "visible". Isis, one of God's emanations and "netero" was worshipped as a manifestation of this ONE God and this attribute named "Isis" was personified in human form for easier understanding as was done the Christ (Horus/Jesus); a personified Divine Principle of sorts as was done with as stated with the Egptian "the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christ/Karast". Isis is a in reality but a metaphor for the feminine aspect in all of us. Isis was worshipped thorugh the ancient world in Egypt, Greece, Rome, and beyond. Known under many names, She was the "Queen of Heaven" and the "Goddess from whom all beginng arose". The worship of Isis survives today, disguised as the worship of the Black Madonna (Mary) throughout Catholic Europe. Christ's Mother, "The Black Madonna" is worshiped throughout Europe. The most sacred icons of the Catholic Church in Europe are the Black Madonna and Christ child, which are found in Europe's most venerated shrines and cathedrals. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Historians recognize that the statue of the Egyptian Goddess Isis with her child Horus in her arms was the first Madonna and Child. Isis and Horus were "reinterpreted" and renamed Mary and Jesus when Europe was forcibly Christianized. The worship of Isis and Horus was especially popular in ancient Rome. "Roman legions carried this figure of Black Isis holding the Black infant Horus all over Europe where shrines were | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
established to her. So holy and venerate were these shrines that when Christianity invaded Europe, these figures of the Black Isis holding the Black Horus were not destroyed but turned into figures of the Black Madonna and Child. Today these are still the holiest shrines in Catholic Europe." Titles such as Our Lady, The Great Mother, are the same titles attributed to Isis! The word "Madonna" itself is from mater domina, a title used for Isis! The month of May, which was dedicated to the heathen Virgin Mothers, is also the month Mary, the Christian Virgin. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now listen to what an early Church Father has to say about Isis: "...Cyril, the Bishop of Alexandria, had openly embraced the cause of Isis, the Egyptian goddess, and had anthropomorphized her into Mary, the mother of God..." - H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Immaculate is our Lady Isis...the very terms applied afterwards to that personage (the Virgin Mary) who succeeded to her form, titles, symbols, rites, and ceremonies....Thus, her devotees carried into the new priesthood the former badges of their profession, the obligation to celibacy, the tonsure, and the surplice, omitting, unfortunately, the frequent ablutions prescribed by the ancient creed." "The 'Black Virgins' , so highly reverenced in certain French cathedrals...proved, when at last critically examined, basalt figures of Isis!'" - King, The Gnostics and their Remains. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"'I AM, has sent you.' Who is 'I AM?' In the scrolls found at the Nag Hammadi Library in Egypt in 1945, there is an entire chapter given by a Goddess. This Goddess uses the words 'I AM' when talking to the people....She identifies herself as 'I AM,' and the Goddess Thunder." - Way #10: The Messiah Projects: Jesus, Son of Mary. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: If the feminine aspect of God addresses herself as the "I AM" then should we not expect to find the masculine Christ doing the same? And we do in the Gospel of John: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John 14:6 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (KJV) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It is reported that the Black Madonna was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist; and it was while painting the picture, tradition has it that Mary told him about the life of Jesus, which he later incorporated into his gospel. Of course this is more "Christian traditon" and we have seen the value of that too many time. The next time we hear of the painting, however, is in 326 A.D. when St. Helen found it in Jerusalem and gave it to her son and had a shrine built for it in Constantinople. Each year, hundreds of thousands of European pilgrims ritually humble | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
themselves before the image of Black Mary and her black child Jesus at Black Madonna sites throughout France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and other Catholic countries. Many Black Madonna statues have the black paint literally kissed off of their hands and feet. In Poland, the Church encourages believers to pray to the Black Madonna of Czestochowka every morning before rising. It is reported that Pope John Paul followed this ritual. Time Magazine (June 11, 1979) reported on Pope Plaul II's visit to Czestochowka's holiest shrine, which prominently displays "The Lady" known for centuries as the Black Madonna. At Our Lady of Koden (Poland), there are statues of white saints carrying pictures of Black Madonnas. Pilgrims throughout the ages have visited Black Madonna sites and left inspired, confident, relieved, or healed of their afflictions. Today, there are over 300 documented Black Madonna sites in France alone! Sometimes they are hidden away in vaults, while the public is shown Madonnas with European features. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Why black? Not only were the first humans "black-skinned" as in "hue-mans" (get it..hue as in "color"?) but unknown to most today the color Black represented holiness and the image of God throughout the Ancient World. Historian Godfrey Higgens wrote " the originals of all the Gods have been of the black race" (Higgins, Anacalypsis Vol 2, p. 363). And "wooly hair" was a sign of divinity and was called the "the hair of the gods". First some New Testament references. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rev 1:14-15 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace (burned brass---dark brown); and his voice as the sound of many waters. (KJV) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rev 4:3 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone (brownish and brownish-red stones): and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. (KJV) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Could this be because it was Egypt, the black land (innudation of the Nile) of black-skinned people, who gave the whole world their later concepts of God from which all of today's relgions have evolved? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Do these "gods" of the Ancients have "kinky and nappy hair"? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let us begin with the Bible and its own description of God. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now some Old Testament references. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Like Christ, "His son" and all the founders of world religions, God Himself has kinky, nappy hair according to the Bible, where God, "the Ancient of Days" is described as having hair "like pure wool" (Daniel 7:9). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dan 7:9 9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. (KJV) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The apocryphal Book of Enoch (46:1) states the same: "There I beheld the Ancient of days, whose "head was like white wool..." (Lawrence, The Book of Enoch, p. 31). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Does it not appear that the concepts of this God as to appearance agree between the Old and New Testaments? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that it is this sampe Power of God that was described as being "wooly hair" or "kinky hair" or "spiraling hair" is the same Power or Energy that causes galaxies to "spiral", stars, planets to spin and atoms to spin; that causes the double helix "spiral" of the DNA molecule; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
this same spiraling power and energy causes spiraling hair otherwise known as "nappy, kinky, curley, crinkley, bush, frizzy, wavy, wooley hair" of the black race? Now pay attention closely. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that the words "spin, spiral, and SPIRITUAL" have common roots! The Supreme Power spings; spirals; it is spir-itual. This Supreme Cosmic Energy and Consciousness we call God moves or "spirals" the universe and cosmos! The entire universe ever steps in spirals and rotations; everything in it reflects "SPIR-aling" and a "SPIR-itual" essence out of which it is made. Everything is alive with "SPIR-it", the vital principle or animating lifeforce with all living beings. In many langugages, the word for Spirit, Breath, or Air are identical: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sanskrit-prana Hebrew-ruach (breath/spirit) Greek-pneuma Latin-spiritus |
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Breath (spirit) and life are One, ie., ...God. Latin "spirare" means to "breathe"; Latin "spir" and Greek "speira" mean to coil. Now you can better see that the Spiral Principle of the Universe which is this God is what makes "nappy" hair "nappy" or "spiraling" and we find this in the African people like those first beings in Egypt and before. You might think this a coincidence but I assure you that there is more to this than meets the eye. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: We are not there yet but let me ask you if you are now aware that the Jews of the first century were also black-skinned with "nappy" and "kinky" hair? We will get to this later. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now you are beginning to see the importance of our Egyptian roots that leads later to our Jewish Roots which is so important for the proper understanding of Christianity today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: And if you are not aware then what is this great importance once again? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The worlds' religions, mythologies, gods, goddesses, attributes of God, etc., are derived from the ancient spiritual teachings of Africa and Egypt, a system founded upon and expressing the cosmos, universal principles of life emanated from the One Uncreated God. Essentially, the world's religions are all corruptions or distortians of African and Egyptian Ancient religion. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: What should this mean to us? That if we are to understand correctly the Christianity into which we were born and see through the later "reinterpretation" of its entirety by Rome then we must be familiar with Judaism and its inherited legacy from Egypt as well as Babylon as mentioned in earlier articles. But by far of primary importance as I see it is the proper understanding of Egypt religion if we are ever to understand correctly as they did this God of the Cosmos and our Father Creator because as best we received "blurred" shadows of the real in Christianity today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
white, is himself perfectly black. If the reader doubt my word, he may go to the cathedral at Moulins -to the famous chapel of the Virgin at Loretto ...the whiteness of the eyes and teeth, and the studied redness of the lips, are very observable... There is scarcely an old church in Italy where some remains of the worship of the BLACK VIRGIN and BLACK CHILD are not to be met with. Very often the black figures have given way to white ones, and in these cases the black ones, as being held sacred, were put into retired places in the churches, but were not destroyed...(Higgins, Anacalypsis Vol 1, p. 138). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"There is scarcely an old church in Italy where some remains of the worship of the black virgin and black child are not to be met with. Very often the black figures have given way to white ones and in these cases the black ones, as being held sacred, were put into retired places in the churches, but were not destroyed, and are yet to be found there? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"When the circumstance has been named to the Romish priests they have endeavored to disguise the fact by | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
pretending that the child had become black by the smoke of candles; but it was black where the smoke of a candle never came and, besides, how came the candles not to blacken the white of the eyes, the teeth and the shirt, and to redden the lips? Their real blackness is not to be questioned. "? A black virgin and child among the white Germans, Swiss, French and Italians" (The Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book IV, Chap.I). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now let us resume our study for a second. And if that is not enought in the hard-to-find classic, Anacalypsis, historian Godfrey Higgens writes, "...in all the Romish countries of Europe, in France, Italy, Germany, etc., the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures and statues to be black. The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It is reported tha many well-known travelers and journalists, have seen quite a large number of these black images of the Madonna and infant in their European travels and have discovered that some of the images possess African features. It ist their concensus that evidently early Christians must have thought that Jesus Christ was a member of the Ethiopian race or they would not have so stressed the dark hue of the skin of the Savior and his mother in their pictures and statues. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The facts of the matter is that all the Black Madonnas originally all had Africoid features before most of them were destroyed by those who wished to conceal these negroid characteristics of Mary and baby Jesus. When they were replaced, the artists retained the dark skin color but, not being familiar with real Africans, gave European features to the paintings. In cases where originals have survived, you may witness Africoid | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
features on Mary and her child Jesus, such as the Black Madonna of Nuria, Spain - called "the Queen of the Pyrenees." Russia's remarkable legacy of Black Madonnas and other Christian icons of dark skin is evidenced in the book, Russian Icons by Vladimir Ivanov, including the feature story of the Spring 1994 issue of Russian Life magazine, graced with a Black Madonna on its cover. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that the worship of the virgin, Black "Mother of God" with her God-begotten child, far predates Christianity and prevailed throughout the ancient world long before Roman Christianity? The original Black Madonna and Christ child is found to be the Goddess Isis suckling Her Holy Child Heru (Horus). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Historians recognize that the statue of the Egyptian Goddess Isis with her child Horus in her arms was the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
first Madonna and Child. They were renamed Mary and Jesus when Europe was forcibly Christianized. The worship of Isis and Horus was especially popular in ancient Rome. "Roman legions carried this figure of Black Isis holding the Black infant Horus all over Europe where shrines were established to her. So holy and venerate were these shrines that when Christianity invaded Europe, these figures of the Black Isis holding the Black Horus were not destroyed but turned into figures of the Black Madonna and Child. Today these are still the holiest shrines in Catholic Europe." Titles such as Our Lady, The Great Mother, are the same titles attributed to Isis! The word "Madonna" itself is from mater domina, a title used for Isis! The month of May, which was dedicated to the heathen Virgin Mothers, is also the month Mary, the Christian Virgin (T. W. Doane, Bible Myths and Parallels In Other Religions, p. 337). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Incredulously, many contemporary white authors seem not to link or acknowledge the Black Madonna's color with her Afrikan origin, although their ancestors did without hesitation. Some flatly deny any racial connection. Instead, they come up with various reasons and sophisticated explanations (the "dark" phase of the moon, fertility of the earth, etc.); any excuse except Melanin in order to explain why the Lady is portrayed black. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is evident in a number of books by white authors discussing Black Madonnas. Perhaps whites have become so enmeshed in the webs of false history woven by their predecessors that many are blind to the truth, unable to see or discern even glaring evidence of Afrikan historical presence. If white writers of today | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
are indeed this ignorant, or pretending ignorance, of the Black Madonna's Afrikan origin, let them read the works of a few rare honest white scholars which preceded them, such as Gerald Massey, T.W. Doane, Godfrey Higgins and Kersey Graves. These writers knew and wrote the truth. This is amazing given the exceedingly overtly racist times in which they lived. Yet today, official white establishment does not and will not acknowledge the Afrikan genesis of their "whitened" religions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Bible Myths And Parallels In World Religions, T.W. Doane devotes a chapter to "The Worship of the Virgin Mother", where he candidly states, "The whole secret of the fact of these early representations of the Virgin Mary and Jesus - so called-being black, crowned, and covered with jewels, is that they are of pre-Christian origin; they are Isis and Horus... baptized anew" (p. 337). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: What are we to learn from these facts? Simply, that we have not been told the truth and there exists in mour midst a "cover-up" of immense proportions and we are only beginning to look at the tip of the iceburg. Behind our Christianity and out current understanding of "the Christ" lies a whole other understanding of "the Christ" than we have been told by Rome. Honestly, there is a "whole other" understanding of God and Creation much nearer the truth behind the Egyptian religion than what we have been told by Roman Christanity and their "reinterpretation" of Egyptian religion which goes by the name of tradtional Christianity today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let us continue. In the catacombs under Rome where images of Jesus appear for the FIRST time, black paintings and statues of Christ, the Madonna, and biblical characters still survive from early Christian worship. In the hard-to-find | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
classic, Anacalvpsis, historian Godfrey Higgens writes on page 138, "the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures and statues to be black. The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black..the whiteness of the eyes and teeth, and the studied redness of the lips, are very observable." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Often provoking the establishment with his pencant for flaunting heretical truth, the lectures and books by the uncompromising scholar, Kersey Graves, were frequently suppressed and sometimes banned. First published in 1875, one such book, The World?s Sixteen Crucified Saviors, continued to be a clandestine best seller for nearly a century, despite vigorous suppression. On page 56, Kersey declares: "There is as much evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man, or at least a dark man, as there is of his being the son of the Virgin Mary, or that he once lived and moved upon the earth. And that evidence is the testimony of his disciples, who had nearly as good an opportunity of knowing what his complexion was as the evangelists who omit to say anything about it. In pictures and portraits of Christ by the early Christians he is uniformly represented as being black. To make this more certain a red tinge is given to the lips; and the only test in the Christian bible quoted by orthodox Christians as describing his complexion represents it as being black. Solomon's declaration, I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem' (Sol, I, 5), is often cited as referring to Christ. According to the bible itself, then, Jesus Christ was a black man. Let us suppose that at some future time he makes his second advent to the earth, as some Christians anticipate he will do, and that he comes in the character of a sable messiah, how would he be received by our Negro hating Christians of sensitive olfactory nerves. Would they worship a Negro God? " | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What would happen if Christ made his second advent to earth as expected by Christians, "and that he comes in the character of a sable Messiah, how would he be received by our negro-hating Christians...? Would they worship a negro God? Let us imagine he enters one of our fashionable churches...what would be the results? Would the sexton show him to a seat? Would he not rather point to the door, and exclaim, ?Get out of here; no place here for "negros"' (my term italicize)?? |
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So we see that the Black Madonnas originally all had Africoid features before most of them were destroyed by white-skinned European Christians wishing to conceal the fact that the original Egyptian Christ was "black". When they were replaced, the artists retained the dark skin color but, not being familiar with real Afrikans, gave European features to the paintings. In cases where originals have survived, you may witness Africoid features on Mary and her child Jesus, such as the Black Madonna of Nuria, Spain - called "the Queen of the Pyrenees." Russia's remarkable legacy of Black Madonnas and other Christian icons of dark skin is evidenced in the book, Russian Icons by Vladimir Ivanov, including the feature story of the Spring 1994 issue of Russian Life magazine, graced with a Black Madonna on its cover. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Similarly, Massey continues, the temples of Egypt were invaded and taken over "by connivance of Roman power." But these temples were enduring, "not built but quarried out the solid rock." The Europeans covered the front of these temples with white stucco and later reopened them as Christian churches. 'And all the time each nook and corner was darkly alive with the presence and proofs of the earlier gods, even though the hieroglyphics remained unread. But stucco is not for lasting wear; it cracks and crumbles, sloughs off, and slinks away into its natal insignificance; the rock is the sole true foundation, the rock is the record in which we reach reality at last." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The stone indeed was the truth, and like the truth, it endured; but the plaster was a lie, and lies never have permanence. All the lies and layers of lies perpetrated and refined by successive generations of dishonest Europeans are fated for the same destiny as the stucco plaster. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Answer for yourself: So what are we seeing with these facts as we begin to look at Egypt and their Creation accounts and their "Karst/Christ"? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We find upon serious study that like the original Christ/Karast, the earliest messiahs and gods and godesses on all continents were black and wooly haired and that the first humans were black-skinned peoples. It is these peoples who gave the world their first and best understanding of the God of the Cosmos. Buddah, Fu-Hsi, Zaha, Kar, Moses, Apollo, Venus, Krishna, Tyr, Athena, Isia, Lao-tse, Caillech, Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, Mohammed, Zeus, Circe, Kali, etc., were all depicted as "black" because black represented holiness and was a sign of divinity. Kam was the strongest Egyptian term for "blackness". The Africans of the Nile Valley called themselves "Kam-Au" (Black God People), and their country Kamit (Kmt), which means both, Land of the Blacks and the Black Land. Egypt means "black". The Bible identifes Egypt as a Black African nation by calling it Ham and Egypt synonymously. The science of Atrology or the Zodiac originated in Africa, reaching its zenith in ancient Egypt. This science is at least 52,000 years old by virtue of the Precession of the Equinox. It takes 26, 000 years for one "turn" of the Zodiac. The Africans determined this by "DIRCT OBSERSERVATION". The Kamite prest/historian Manetho gave a historical list of Egypt's dynasties stretching back some 25,000 years (Richard King, African Origin of Biological Psychiatry, 1990, p. 53). This, in turn, is too radical for "tunneled visioned" Christian scholars to swallow but scientific fact is undisputeable. So as we can see traditional Biblical interpretation of these stories and Science conflicts. It is time for the truth. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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