Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins (Part 3 of 3)
My notes and commentary on roughly Books 6-10 of Volume 1 and final thoughts.
This is a continuation from Parts 1 and 2:
Ark, Argha, Argo, Tibet, Oceanus, Yoni, Linga, Mount Meru, Poles, Masts
At the end of every period the world was supposed to be destroyed . At this moment Brahme or Brahme-Maia, the Creator, was believed to be in a state of repose or inaction in the profundity of the great abyss or firmament : and the male and female generative powers of nature, in conjunction, were said to float or brood on the surface of the firmament or abyss, and in themselves to preserve the germ of animated nature,- of all plants and animated beings . This operation of the two powers is described by the Linga, in the shape of a mast, fixed in the Yoni, in the shape of a boat, floating in the firmament . After this operation has proceeded a certain time, the female generative power begins to act, by feeling the passion of love, the [eros] of the Greeks, which is described by the sending forth of a dove, and this is the beginning of a new age . Of this Col. Wilford says.
Satyavrata having built the ark, and the flood increasing, it was made fast to the peak of Naubandha with a long cable . The mystic Ocean in which the ship Argha floated, is the ethereal space or fluid, the rqio, called firmament in Gen . i. 7, in which the bodies of the planetary system revolve . The Ark or Argha, the ship, with its mount Meru in the centre by way of mast, may be seen in every temple of India, and requires no explanation . It is the Omphale of Delphi…
The Earth was often called the Arga : this was imitated by the mystic Meru. The north pole was the Linga, surrounded by seven dwips or zones rising one above another, and seven seas, or rivers, or waters, and an outward one called Oceanus. In this Oceanus the whole floated . Thus the earth, mother Eartha, became the Argha or Ione, and Meru the pole, the Linga .
This is the Flat Earth model of the Earth, with Mt. Meru as the North Pole mast in the center and Oceanus surrounding the main continents. Satya refers to Saturn, and vrata is equivalent to the Hebrew brat, or create.
Theba is another ship with a similar mythology. It is crescent shaped, like the Egyptian Solar Bark and Venetian gondola:
The Theba or Tibe… or Cow, with a crescent on her side, which founded Thebes, was not the moon- but it was that which the Ioni represented .
This Argha was also the cup in which Hercules sailed over the ocean .
Patera is cited as another similar ship, and so is the Mundus Cereris from Eleusis.
Argolis is Argo-polis . Argia, the other name of the same place, is Argo-ia ;… This was in Arcadia, which was called the cradle of the Greeks, where also was Delphi . Arcadia is Arca or Arga-dia, the Sacred Arga . The Greeks were called Argives .
The word ‘cradle’ above makes me think the crescent shape of a cradle is the inverse shape of arc, i.e., ‘cra’ instead of ‘arc’. Crescent is similar, but if we are thinking of sounds, then other languages, such as the French ‘croissant’ would fit. On the other hand, cradle is similar to an ark ship, and maybe they all connote roundness or some relationship to circles. Also, consider that the hammer and sickle symbology, like on the USSR flag, represents the masculine and feminine principles, and the sickle is crescent shaped, like the silver moon. The word hammer is close to Hama, the Hebrew word for the golden Sun.
In the earliest times of which we have any records, the Brahme-Maia, that is the male and female generative principles in union, or the Linga and the loni, were the objects of adoration . After some time the division, which I have just noticed, took place, and a terrible war arose between the followers of the Linga and those of the Ioni, and the latter were at last expelled, with great slaughter, to the West . This war was between the followers of Iswara the active generative principle, and the Yonijas the followers of the passive generative principle. It was probably the origin of the Greek fable of the war between the Gods and the Giants, or sons of the earth, which we know, from Nonnus, had its origin in India… This was the famous war of the Maha-barat, in which the Buddhists were expelled from South India. The Buddhists were particularly attached to the male principle .
In this manner the ancient religion became divided into two : the sect which adored the sacred Yoni or female generative principle alone, were called Yavanas, and were expelled from India, and are to be found almost all over the Western world . But we are informed that after some time a reconciliation took place, and the two parties united, and once more returned to the worship of the double principle . This is very important . We shall find traces of it in our researches almost every moment, which will enable us to account for many seemingly inconsistent circumstances . Although various sects went out from India, as one party or other prevailed, the natives of that country now make no distinction, but call them all Yavanas .
Mount Meru, the Moriah of India, is the primeval emblem of the Linga and the earth, Mother Eartha, is the mysterious Yoni expanded, and open like the Padma or Lotos, which is, as we have seen, with its seed in the centre, an emblem of the same thing . Iswara is called Argha-nat'h'a or the Lord of the broad-shaped vessel ; and Osiris or Ysiris, as Hellanicus calls him, was, according to Plutarch, the commander of the Argo, and was represented by the Egyptians, in their processions, in a boat carried on the shoulders of 72 men, and at Delphi in an umbilicus of white marble.
‘Padma’ makes me wonder if this is referring to either the lotus on a pad, like a lily pad, so pad mother, or maybe Mother Earth as a flat disc or pad. And later Higgins says: “The Hindoo religion states Mount Merou to be the Garden of Eden or Paradise, out of which went four rivers.” Is Arghanatha related to the Agartha plane? Maybe Agartha could be spelled Argatha? By the way, Higgins never mentions Shambalah.
This makes me think that the word plane, as in higher and lower planes of the Earth, is also akin to a ship plane, a very large air plane travelling through space, and thus ships like the Argha or Ark or for the Egyptians, the crescent shaped Solar Bark. I don’t know what 72 is referring to except maybe one degree of a precessional cycle, roughly (72X360 degrees = 25920 years). The words ark or argo, considering terms like archontes, archons, arcangels, angels/angles, and that there are 360 degree angles in a circle, make me think that if they are referring to the Earth, are referring to an ‘arc of 0 degrees’ or arg0/argo, i.e., the starting point, or maybe the complete arc. The starting point is the Earth, if you believe in the geocentric model. Everything is perspective, a duality- look at how still the Earth is on a non-windy day, and yet it is said to be spinning and orbiting, while the Sun itself is doing the same, as is the galaxy, etc. And what about the Argo ship’s leader, Jason? Is this Yah’s son? I think the July, August, September, October, November acronym of JASON is a coincidence since a couple of those months were added way after the myth.
When we think of Tibet on a vast elevated plateau, it is like the yoni or lily pad. This ‘tbe’ is also related to various cities named Thebes, like in Ancient Egypt. Maybe this root is related to words like table, tab, and stable, which implies an unchanging foundation (could vegetable be related?). And maybe ‘arn’ above is related to the arnica or aronia plants? And both ‘arun’ and ‘ani’ could be related to Uranus mentioned before as the husband of Gaia Earth, but might be a stretch.
Thebes… probably took its name from the word Theba, a Cow, the female of the Bull of the Zodiac . Cadmus or the oriental person who built Thebes was conducted by a heifer, a virgin of course : on her side was marked a lunar crescent, emblem of Isis, the virgin mother of all nature, whose veil no mortal ever removed . The meaning of this is, that a person came from the East, under the auspices of the female Taurus or Bos of the Zodiac . Thebes was also called the city of On, and Ammon, and No, and Diospolis, the same as Tibet was called Baaltistan.
Arca means box and not ship… From the profound secrecy observed respecting the Hebrew Arca, I suspect came the word arcanus . All the ancient nations appear to have had an ark or Argha, in which to conceal something sacred ; and in all of them (unless I except that of the Jews) the Yoni and Linga were inclosed .
I wonder if the Ark of the Covenant corollary in the brain includes the pineal and pituitary glands, which are considered electrical and magnetic, or masculine and feminine in their active and passive natures. Also, consider that the Holy Grail chalice is an inverted lingam and yoni, and that the Merkaba is sort of a merging of two chalices.
Mr. Bryant says, that Arca and Argus signified the Ark ; but as the Ark and Deluge were of the highest antiquity, and every thing was deduced from that period, Archaia hence came to signify any thing very ancient, and Archa, a beginning.
So archaeology, archaic, arcana, etc. But also, Acropolis, acrophobia- “the highest place of every town was called the Acra of the city.” This is because Higgins points out that just as the Bible starts out with ‘in the beginning’, which is Archa, this ‘rasit’ is also the head, the chief, like Hakim.
A great example of how mistranslations get incorporated into history, in this case, Mount Meru or a lingham/yoni as a ‘golden thigh’:
Diodorus Siculus in his second book says, that, after Bacchus had conquered India, his army becoming unhealthy, he retreated to a mount in the north, called Meros… where he refreshed them, and that this word meaning thigh in Greek, the Greeks feigned the story of his being nourished in a thigh… In addition to the above, Philostratus' says, "The inhabitants of India had a tradition that Bacchus was born at Nysa, and was brought up in a cave on Mount Meros." And Diodorus Siculus says, that "when Semiramis marched into India, `she stopped and formed fine gardens at a place in Media called Baghistan," that is, place of Bacchus. The story of Pythagoras shewing his golden thigh to the people in the public assembly in Greece, is well known… We have seen that Mount Meru was a type or symbol of the Linga and Ioni . Now I suspect that what Pythagoras shewed to the people was one of the models of Meru, or of the united Linga and Ioni, which we see in such a variety of ways in the museum at the India-house… Herodotus says that Jupiter carried Bacchus in his thigh to Nyssa.
The Nyssa above is where we get Dionysis, which is Bacchus, so I wonder if Nice in Italy is related. Later, Higgins mentions that the town of Nicaea is named after Bacchus, “or Nysus (Dionysus)” as in Council of Nicaea. And Media (Madaya) is Medis/Medes and could be related to Medea, and Baghistan is Pakistan.
Another example of a mistranslation, in this case the Hebrew ‘hnikiu’ meaning initiated and/or circumcised, unless Abraham indeed circumcised 318 family men of his house, not initiated them:
the Apostle, St . Barnabas, the companion of St . Paul, has the following passage " For the Scripture says, that Abraham circumcised three hundred and eighteen men of his house. But what, therefore, was the mystery that was made known to him ? Mark the eighteen and next the three hundred . For the numeral letters of ten and eight are I H, and these denote Jesus ; and because the cross was that by which we were to find grace, therefore he adds, Three hundred : the note of which is T (the figure of his cross) . Wherefore by two letters be signified Jesus, and by the third his cross . He who has put the engrafted gift of his doctrine within us knows that I never taught to any one a more certain truth : but I trust ye are worthy of it "- Epist. Barnabas, Sect. ix . ed. Wake.
This epistle of St. Barnabas was formerly read in the Romish churches ; but the Protestants do not allow it to be genuine . One reason why Jones contends that it is spurious is, because it says that Abraham circumcised 318 men of his family, which is not now in the text . But the Hebrew word which Jones renders circumcised hnikiu, in one sense means initiated, and this justifies Barnabas . In fact, this word hnikiu is our initiate . (Jones on Canon, Pt . III . ch. xli. p . 449 .) If what I suspect be true, viz . that circumcision was the mark or test of initiation, Barnabas the Apostle might not understand the full import of the Greek ;
Lotus plant
The double sex typified by the Argha and its contents is also by the Hindoos represented by the “Nymphaea or Lotus, floating like a boat on the boundless ocean, where the whole plant signifies both the earth and the two principles of its fecundation . The germ is both Meru and the Linga : the petals and filaments are the mountains which encircle Meru, and are also a type of the Yoni : the leaves of the Calyx are the four vast regions to the cardinal points of Meru and the leaves of the plant are the Dwipas or isles round the land of Jambu .” As this plant, or the lily, was probably the most celebrated of all the vegetable creation among the mystics of the ancient world…
Eight external leaves, placed two by two in the intervals, are eight subordinate dwipas or countries.
like other aquatic weeds, they take root wherever the current deposits them. This plant, therefore, being thus productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without being fostered in the earth, was naturally adopted as the symbol of the productive power of the waters, upon which the active spirit of the Creator operated in giving life and vegetation to matter.
Ionians
Among the Hindoos, the natives of the Western world are called Yavanas . The word Yavana is a regular participial form of the Sanscrit root Yu, from which root the word Yoni or the female nature is derived . Thus the Yavanas are the same as Yonijas or the Yoni-ans . And here we find the origin of the Ionians, as we might expect, in a religious principle- a principle which, though now almost lost and forgotten, I do not doubt formerly placed one half of mankind in arms against the other, the feuds of the two covering the world, for many generations, with carnage and blood : a feud about the most ridiculous and trifling of nonsense . " The Yavanas " were so named from their obstinate assertion of a superior influence in the Yoni or female, over the Linga or male nature, in producing perfect offspring.
Higgins does not mention it, but obviously yin is related to yoni, and I suppose yang is close to linga. And consider Dave Bartholomew/Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Ling” and the girl’s yo-yo. And of course, as Higgins suggests, ‘Ionian’ is referring to the divine feminine power, the yoni. And as already mentioned, Juno is really Iuno, before the J was invented. The Romans did a good job of eradicating the feminine aspects of culture, as did Cambyses in destroying most Egyptian temples, except the phallic obelisks. And maybe the word ‘divine’ means there is a division of male and feminine divine powers that must be in balance, like the yin and yang symbol. The curvy sine wave vine of the yin/yang symbol looks like an N, whereas Higgins suggests the Old Irish Muin or M was called vin or uin. But ‘uin’ sounds like ‘N’. I suspect ‘uin’ is related to the nadir of Winter/uin-ter as opposed to the summit of Summer, which correlates with the M and N minimum of the alphabet wheel, whereas the A and B are at the top, the father. This is from Alvin Boyd Kuhn: https://coppervortex.substack.com/p/the-first-letter-a-and-the-middle. As an aside, Carmel is mentioned meaning ‘vine of the Sun’.
On the derivation of the word Ionian, Dr . Lempriere says, " It is generally thought to come from the Hebrew Iavan, or (if pronounced with the quiescent vau) Ion ; and in like manner the Hellenes are thought to be the same with Elisa, in the sacred writings, more especially their country Hellas . Hence Bochart makes lavan, the son of Japhet, the ancestor of the Iones." He had just before observed that Greece was anciently divided between the Hellenes and the Ionians, and that Hellen has the same meaning as Ioni, and both that of the female generative power . They are said by Conon to have descended from a king called Hellen, the son of Deucalion, one of whose grandsons settled in the Peloponnesus, then called Apia. Thus we find them to descend from a man saved at the flood of Noah, Japeti ; and also from Deucalion, said by the Greeks to have been saved from the flood, whose son was called Hellen. They are also said to have built a town called Argos, and to have dwelt in a country called Apia, the name of the Egyptian Apis. In their city of Argos the goddess Juno was particularly worshiped ; and here Io, the daughter of Jasus… was born, with whom Jupiter or the God Iao fell in love ; to prevent whose intrigues the bull-eyed Juno set Argus, with a hundred eyes, to watch. Jupiter turned Io into a beautiful heifer ; she wandered into Egypt, and, as they say, became the goddess Isis, the wife of the bull-headed Osiris or Apis . Another story says, she was the daughter of Jordanus, a king in Phoenicia ; that Jupiter turned himself into a bull ; and after persuading her to mount him, swam over the sea with her to Crete, where she brought forth a most celebrated lawgiver, called Minos, who is the same as the lawgiver of India, called Menu, and as the first king and lawgiver of Egypt, Menes . Respecting king Jordanus, that is, the king named after the river Jordan, I shall say more hereafter . I think the reader will agree with me, that all this is sufficiently mystical .
The Hindoo books are full of accounts of the expulsion from India of a class of persons called Yavanas. Now who were these Yavanas ; and when expelled, what became of them? To this I think I can produce an unanswerable reply,- the evidence of, in this case, an unimpeachable witness . The person in the Pentateuch called Javan is thought to have planted Greece ; the LXX were of this opinion, and constantly translate the Hebrew word Javan into [Ellas], the country of Hellen, or Greece . When I consider the circumstance of the Yavanas being Greeks, and the fact, that many Greek towns, as I shall presently shew, were called after those in India, I cannot doubt that some at least of the Greek states were colonies from that country . Javan was called by Moses Iun. Between this name and that of Janus there is thought to be " a great similitude ."
The LXX are the 70 elder priests supposedly responsible for translating the Bible into the Septuagint Koine Greek.
Higgins cites Thomas Maurice, who shows that the Greeks could not have seen the star Canopus from their latitude, and therefore the Argo myth is from elsewhere:
“Now the mythological history of Canopus is, that he was the pilot of that sacred vessel, (meaning the ship Argo,) and was adored as the God of mariners among the Egyptians, who, therefore placed him on the rudder, calling him Canobus, from Cnoub, the Coptic term for gold- in reference to the singular colour and lustre of a star, one of the most brilliant in the southern hemisphere . The circumstance of this star not being visible in any of the celebrated cities of Greece has already been noticed from the same author, and Dr . Rutherford, in proof that the Greeks were not the original inventors of that asterism .”
The country of Greece, the Peloponnesus where the Ionians dwelt, was called Apia or the country of Bees, and Archaia . The Athenians had a story, that when they sent out their pretended colony to Asia Minor, it was preceded by the nine Muses in the form of Melissae or Bees ; and the emblem of the generative principle in Egypt, the Bull, was called Apis . That this has some meaning connected with this subject cannot be doubted . Porphyry [in] de Abstinentia says, it was reported that Apis gave the first laws to the Greeks .
The name of the chief Grecian city of the Ionians, Athena, was the name of the female generative principle, as was also Helena, called by Lycophron the Dove, which is a translation of the word Pleias, and also of the word Semiramis and Ion or Ione. The Ionian Athenians claimed to be called Athenians from Athena, which was the name of Minerva, who was both the female generative principle and divine wisdom . The Greeks were called Hellenes, which has precisely the same meaning as Ionians . And they are called Argives from the ship Argo, which was invented by Minerva…
So the Pleiades Seven Sisters of Taurus are related to the word dove, as are the other words mentioned above. More on this in the section on Semiramis.
And again, I suspect ‘divine’ Minerva, or Isis, etc., means a balance of masculine and feminine:
Book of Enoch, Mount Meru
The following passage of the book of Enoch, ch. xxiv., is so clearly descriptive of Mount Meru, that it cannot be mistaken, and proves the author to have been intimately acquainted with the Hindoo doctrines .
I went thence to another place and saw a mountain of fire flashing both by day and night . I proceeded towards it : and perceived seven splendid mountains, which were all different from each other . Their stones were brilliant and beautiful ; all were brilliant and splendid to behold : and beautiful was their surface . Three mountains were towards the East, and strengthened by being placed one upon another ; and three were towards the South, strengthened in a similar manner. There were likewise deep valleys, which did not approach each other . And the seventh mountain was in the midst of them . In length they all resembled the seat of a throne, and odoriferous trees surrounded them … Its fruit resembled the cluster of the palm . I exclaimed, Behold this tree is goodly in aspect, pleasing in its leaf, and the sight of its fruit is delightful to the eye .
Higgins equates this ‘palm’ tree to be the Phoinix tree associated with Mount Meru.
And because a new heaven appears in the 10th week in the Book of Enoch, Higgins suggests this aligns with his ten 600 year Neros cycles:
Janus, Ganesha, etc.
C. Bassus says, he was represented (bifrons) double-faced, because he was the porter (janitor) of heaven and hell.
This makes me think that ‘janitor’ is related to Janus, maybe an opening in the torus field, the two vortices, like a black hole sink that cleans everything away.
Ganesha, if the G sound becomes J, for example, ‘Dhyana’ can be pronounced like ‘Guyana’, could be related to Janus, and the polis fortress sort of gatekeeps or keeps out the unclean:
Sir W. Jones has endeavoured to prove, that the Ganesa of the Hindoos is the Italian Janus . This seems not unlikely.
Ganesa is called Pollear : this is evidently the polis in the sense of gate. Ganesa has almost all the attributes of the Roman or Etruscan Janus . He opens the year ; he is the chief and preceptor of the heavenly host. He has often two heads . He is the leader of all enterprises, and his name is inscribed in the beginning of books and on the doors .
Noah’s grandson, Javan is equated to Janus:
…others refer the origination (both of name and person) of Janus to Javan the son of Japhet, the parent of Europeans… Bochart asserts, that from Japhet, mentioned Gen. x. 2, the Grecians refer their first genealogies to Japetus, whom they make to be the most ancient man . Thus from Javan, Japhet's son, the Grecians derived their Ionians. Also from… Alise, (Elishah,) Javan's son, Gen. x. 4, they had their Hellas.
By the way Higgins states that “Nimrod and Bala-Rama were both grandsons or sons of Menu, i.e. Nu.” This is Noah.
…Bacchus was called Broumios . This was the Bruma of the Etruscans . In Ovid's Fasti, Janus announces that he is the same with Bruma, and that the year began of old with Bruma, and not with the Spring, because Bruma had the first honour . Bruma meant also the winter or the north . All the ancients looked to the north for the seat of the Deity, and I believe in all nations the letters B. R. and P. R. conveyed the idea of Former or Creator… Here I beg my reader to observe that Bacchus is both Igni-genam and Bi-matrem. The ignigenam I suppose I need not explain . The poetical expression of Bi-matrem, which I suppose means twice born, alludes to Bacchus in his character of Menu or Noah, and to the mythological fact of his having lived in two worlds, or the life of Noah having continued into the fourth cycle . Noah or Menu lived in two cycles- in the third, and in part of the fourth . He lived also in two worlds-before the flood, and after the flood ; in two ages- in the Cali-yug, and in the age before it. He lived when the sun at the equinox was in two constellations- in Taurus and in Aries : so that on many accounts he might be called twice born, as Bacchus was, according to Ovid .
And of course, Janus has two faces, one facing the old year, the other facing the new year.
Solyma, Solomon, Soleiman, etc.
It is observed by Mercator, that, by the poets, Jerusalem was called Solyma or Solumae . From Josephus, it appears, that there was a Mount Solyma, near the lake Asphaltes, in Judea.
Not very far from the country where we find the Indian Tucte Soleyman, the country of Daud-poutri, the city and kingdom of Oude or Ioudi, &c ., there is a mountainous district called Afghanistan, or country of the Afghauns, who consist of many millions of people . Their traditions tell them that they are descended from the Jews ; that is, I should say, from the foudi of Oude ; for they know nothing of their descent, except that they came into their present country from a tribe of Oudi or Jews.
The Arabians call the Afghans Solimanee, by which name they are not commonly known in their own country .
Sol must be referring to the Sun. Many cities are named Salem, and is related to shalom. I bet Ceylon is related, where the m became n.
Adam, Swayambhuva, Prometheus
…the first man, or the race of man, is called by the name of adm. It is used as applied to the race, both in the masculine and feminine genders . It is usually derived or explained by the word adme earth, because earth is of a red colour . This serves to shew how easily lexicographers can be satisfied when an explanation makes for their prejudices or interest . The earth is no more red than black or brown ; nor is the man more red than black. The explanation is absurd, and the meaning is evidently unknown . In the Ethiopic or this old parent of the Sanscrit a more probable meaning may be found . In it, adamah means beautiful, elegant, pleasant- beauty resulting from order- the same meaning as the Kosmos of the Greeks. Upon this supposition, Adam would receive his name, not from a certain fictitious redness, but from the beauty and perfection of his nature-being, as it were, from superiority of mind, the master-piece of the creation . My observation is confirmed by Mr . Townsend : "Admah, the name of a city in that beautiful valley, resembling paradise, the garden of the Lord, chosen by Lot ; and Adam was the name given to our first parents .
The Arabic sea is called Suph and Edom. The first is sea of zup, sea of wisdom ; the second, Ad-om. Ad was di dis, and Om, the Holy Om.
Suph and zup sound like cognates with words like ‘Ain Soph’ , Sufi, etc., meaning wisdom.
“…in the Sanscrit books the two first persons are called Adin and Iva,” and later, citing Faber, Adin is Adima:
Brahma is said to have manifested himself in a human shape, when one half of his body sprang from the other, which yet experienced no diminution ; and out of the severed moiety he framed a woman, denominated Iva or Satarupa . After some time the other half of his body sprang from him and became Swayambhuva or Adima .
Swayambhuva is the first of the 14 Manus. I don’t see any other references to ‘Adima’ or ‘Adin’ except that adi means ‘the first’ in Sanskrit. But in that case, it would be the first Ma, mother. Here is Blavatsky’s take in The Secret Doctrine:
The Heavenly Man – Swayambhuva, who sprang from the Self Existent and Adam Kadmon of the Kabalist, and the Androgyne Man of Genesis Ch.1 are also identical. Manu-Swayambhuva is Brahma, or the Logos, and he is Adam Kadmon, who (Genesis iv.5) separates himself into two halves, male and female, thus becoming Jah-Hovah or Jehovah – Eve, as Manu Swayambhuva or Brahma separates himself to be one Brahma-Viraj and Vaach-Viraj male and female; Vaach is the daughter of Brahma and is named Satarupa, the hundred formed and Savitri, ‘generator’, the mother of the gods and of all living. She is identical with Eve, the mother of all gods and all living.
Vultures are also called Vautours and can propagate without a male. And although an eagle plucked Prometheus’s liver (Vultures plucked Tityos’s liver, which makes more sense, since they are scavengers.), there is parthenogenesis mentioned here:
Prometheus formed the first woman, for the formation of whom he stole fire from heaven, &c., &c. The word Prometheus is the Sanscrit word PRAMIATHAH or PRAMATHAS, which comes from PRA-MAT'HA-ISA, which coalescing, according to the rules of Sanscrit grammar, form PRAMATHESA. Now, Pra is the Siamese Bra, creator or former ; Matha is Mati, in the Bali language Mother, and esa is Isa or Iscah or Eve or Isis- the whole meaning, maker of mother Eve or Isis . It is no small confirmation of what I have said, that Prometheus, the name of the Greek God, is Sanscrit ; as is also Deucalion, his son . The latter is Deo-cala-yun or Deo-Cala-Yavana . There is an account of his contest with Cristna, who was driven from Mathura by him, but by whom he was at last, with his Ya-vanas, finally expelled from India .
Semiramis, Helen, Phoenix bird, palm tree
Below are two Greek spellings of Helen, which is associated with Semiramis, wife of Nimrod of Babylon and mother of Tammuz, according to some. And again, the dove is associated, which is associated with ruh/ruach, the Holy Ghost, the animated wind. But in this case, Higgins ties ‘nh the anima’ to ELENH, the latter spelling. This ‘nuh’ shows up everywhere!
Semiramis, whose Persian name is Hom-ai or the bird of Paradise . Now Phoinix was the bird of the morning and also of Paradise ; his dwelling was in the very East, at the gate of heaven
Phoinix is also a palm tree, according to a citation of Jacob Bryant:
it was the name of a tree which was always held in the highest honour, and was thought to be immortal, as, if it died, it obtained a second life by renewal. Hence it was an emblem of immortality among all nations . It is probably to its renovating property that the Psalmist alludes when he says, the righteous shall flourish like the Palm tree. Its name in Hebrew is tmr.
At Hierapolis the female statue with the dove upon its head was called Sema . This was the Semi-ramis of the Assyrians converted into a Dove, and the Rama-Sema or Sema-Rama of India. In a future page we shall find that the Zamorin of the promontory of India- of Cape Comorin- where, in a very particular manner, the Cama, or, as it is spelt in Java, Como, was adored, was a Semiramis ; on this account I am induced strongly to suspect that the Sema above was a corruption of Cama ; but I shall return to this . The Goddess of Dodona had a dove on her head, and was called Dione. This Dione was evidently Di-ioni or Di-iune, that is, the holy lune- diva Iune . Noah, or Nh, or MNH, or Menu, or Mind, sent out a raven- the emblem of darkness- which made no return, produced nothing ; he then sent out the dove, the emblem of Love, which brought back the olive, the emblem of wisdom, of Minerva . Eros, Divine Love, was the Protogonos, the same as wisdom .
I cannot find this Sema-Rama of India, only a Sammu-Ramat of Assyria. I noticed olive is an anagram of ‘I love’, which seems fitting, since it can represent peace. Higgins mentions that the Peleaides were doves (different spelling from the Pleiades). Wikipedia says: Peleiades (Greek: Πελειάδες, "doves") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona.
Thammuz/Thomas/Tamas
As previously mentioned, many peoples worshipped Tammuz, and Higgins describes its relationship with Thomas/Tomas and the lower Guna, Tamas, since in Sanskrit, it means darkness (as opposed to the Sattva and Rajas Gunas). And since Thomas/Tammuz is related to twins (the disciple, Doubting Thomas, is said to be Jesus’s twin) , Higgins details its relationship to Gemini, the age preceding Taurus (the month of Tammuz falls in June during parts of Gemini season):
The Indians say that their God Narayana, (which means moving on the waters,) in the beginning, was wholly surrounded by Tamas, which means darkness : Col. Wilford says, perhaps the Thamas or Thaumaz of the ancient Egyptians . Parkhurst gives one of the meanings of tam dark.' ... He also gives the meaning of twin, or Dydimus to the word Tam. In the Hebrew tam or tum means twins.
Plato tells us, l that Thammuz was king of Egypt… Here are the twins preceding Buddha or Mercury or the Bull . And the inhabitants of Egypt are said to have descended from Thammuz . Eutychius says, that the first city was built by Noah, who called it Thamanim. Indeed, in every part of the world, the remains of the worship of Tam may be found . Tahmuras taught letters to the Persians . The Egyptians had certain secret books, called those of Ammon . The author of the Concordia says, Quicquid vero sit de Ammoneorum libris, illud certum, Platonem in Phaedro commemorare libros, artes quasdam continentes, quos ipse Tautus Regi THAMO obtulit, Egyptiis distribuendos aut describendos ." Here we have Taut or Buddha receiving his learning from Thamo… Here we have the Apocrypha of Ammon and Thebes … Stanley has observed, that the Sabaeans, as well as the Jews, had the custom of weeping for Tammuz. This took place in June, the month called by them Tammuz, and of which, in the Zodiac, the Twins are the sign . Narayanas moving on the waters, the first male or principle of all things, was wholly surrounded by what they call Tamas or Thamas, by which they mean darkness. This is correctly one of the-meanings of this word in Hebrew. The system was not established till the sun got into Aries ; their knowledge extended no farther back than the beginning of Taurus, when the Mythos was made to commence. Before that there were Tamas the twins ; but here all was darkness. Hence Tam came to mean darkness . In Arabia was a nation called Thamydeni or Thamuditae, followers of Taurus . The Chinese equally adore Tamo or Thomas, from whom Buddha is said to have descended .
We find the Comarin in Italy, in the plain of Camera, in Calabria-and Camerinum in Umbriaand Camarina in both Italy and Sicily . Mr. Bentley says, The constellation Gemini, may, “I think, have arisen from the story of the Aswini Kumaras .” The close connexion between the Twins and Comari or Kumari is important. The name of Comarin, in Sanscrit is Canya- Muri, Cape Virgin, said to be contracted into Comari . But the Kumari was the Virgin, and her images were the Kumarim . It is said that Josiah put away the comarim which the kings of Judah had set up ; that is, the images of the female generative power, in opposition to the male . Cama was the name of the priestess of Diana, and as the priestesses bore the names of their Deities, of course Di-ana or Di-Jana, was Cama . This is the Cama-deva of India. Eusebius says, that the Uria or Ur of the Chaldees is called by Eupolemus [Kamarini], and the priests of that country kmrim. Here we have my theory of the Ur of the Chaldees confirmed . This Kmrim is evidently Comarin .
No mention of Kama Sutra! And according to Ralph Ellis, Kama is referring to Egypt, i.e., Kemet/Kamite:
Amazons, Cyclops
The word Amazon is composed of two very ancient words . The first is Ama or Ma, which, in old languages, means Mother . Its ubiquity proves its extreme antiquity . The second is an ancient name of the Sun, which was called Zon, Zan, Zaon, and Zoan. The Suanes and Soanes, of Colchis, were sometimes called Zani, Zainai, Zanitie, and also Sanitee .
‘Zainai’ looks like Sinai, which is related to the Moon.
it is said that Cadmus had an Amazonian wife, when he went to Thebes, and that her name was Sphinx… He went first to Attica. The reader will not forget that the Sphinx was half Lion, (not Lioness,) and half woman. There were also Amazonian Colchians, who were noticed as being peculiarly black . The Iberians, the Cimmerians, the Maeotie, the Atlantians of Mauritania, and all the Ionians, were Amazonians-and were called Azones, Amazones, and Alazones .
The assumption that the Atlanteans were from Mauritania aligns with findings from Jimmy Corsetti about the Richat Structure in Mauritania.
Homer states the Amazons to have come from India . There is an Amazon with only one breast in the cave of Elephanta, in India .
Winkleman, in his Monumenta Antiqua inedita, observes, that in the earliest periods the Cyclops were represented with two natural eyes, and a third in the middle of the forehead . This seems to connect them with Jupiter, who, before the Trojan war, was called Trioptolemos-Trilochan : and this again with the Hindoo Gods, some of whom are described in pictures in the cabinet of the Asiatic Society, with three eyes.
This aligns with Jyotish, where the planet Jupiter is called Guru, which translates to banish darkness, i.e., enlighten your third eye crystals.
Thus we have the ruins of the sacred, and most ancient, Cyclopean city, called Mund-ore, in India, and Munda in Spain, and Mundus having the same mystical meaning as Kosmos . We have Virgil's city of Saturnia, and the Palli at the mouth of the Eridanus, or Padus, or Buddha, of Italy . In India we have the mount of Satrun-ja, in or near to Pali-thana, the same as the Roman mount Palatine, at the mouth of the Ner, or river Buddha, the same as Padus in Sura or Syra-strene, whence the sacred temple was carried : which Syra-strene was also called by the ancients. Larice, that is, Larissa, which I beg may not be forgotten, as I shall have to make an observation upon it and its meaning hereafter. Not far from the Satrun-ja Palithana is a place called by Ptolemy Byzantium . The old name of Constantinople was Byzantium, but this was changed by Constantine to Constantinople, and it is now called by the Turks Estambul, or Stambul, which has been thought a corruption of Constantinople ; but this opinion Mr. Bryant has refuted. When I find several places in India called Stambul, I then come to the conclusion that Stambul has been the first name corrupted by the Greeks into Byzantium . Stambul in India is not far from the river Chumbul, called by D'Anville Sanbal, and I believe they have both had the same name. There was a second place called Stambul, close to the Balkan mountain, not far from Chumla, in Europe : was this also a corruption of Constantinople ? The city of Roma, is the city of Rama, equally found in India, Western Syria, Italy, and by its other synonym Valencia, in Spain and Ireland . Not far from Rome is the Indian town of Viturba, now Viterbo . There is also Palaestrina, now Praeneste Sacrum.
Eridanus, Jordan, Danube, Tanis, Selene, Soan, Sinai
Apuleius calls Isis QUEEN, the Greek word for which is Basilea. Diodorus Siculus informs us that Uranus and Titea had two daughters, one called Basilea . He says, Basilea being the eldest, brought up her brothers with the care and affection of a mother, whence she was called the GREAT MOTHER." She married Hyperion, one of her brothers, by whom she had Helio and Selene . Her other brothers assassinated Hyperion, and drowned Helio, then a tender infant, in Eridanus.
Helio and Selene would be the Sun and the Moon. Eridanus is then mentioned later as a constellation (close to Taurus and Orion) and as ‘the river of Orion’. Remember, the J was invented much later, so Jordan and the Jordan River were originally called something closer to ‘e-irdn’:
There’s of course the Tribe of Dan, Denmark, etc. This makes me wonder if Eridanus and Jordan are related to Eridu of Sumerian mythology. And Parkhurst’s definition of ‘dn’ as ‘to judge or rule’ confirms what I had suspected when I wrote earlier about Adonis.
The celebrated river called by the ancients Ister, is now called Danube. It was also called Don-eau, as appears from old local authorities. Dan-ube and Don-eau, both mean water of the Don. The Danube or Ister was known also by the name of Danusius or Tanais…
‘Tanais’ makes me think the Egyptian capital, Tanis is related. And later, it indeed looks to be related, since another name of Tanis is Zoan, and Soan is the Danube River (Soan sounds similar to The Seine River also, in France):
In India will be found Dana-poor, (poor means city or town,) whence the names of all our towns which end in bury. The burghs come from the Saxon, and Dana-poor probably from the same source . This city is on the Soan, which name we have seen, is the same as the river Rhone, the Danube, the Po, &c. In the same neighbourhood will be found also Cawn-poor, or the city of Caon, and Bet-ourah, (or in Hebrew, the house or temple of Aur,) and near Agra, on the Jumna, a Betaisor, house or temple of AEsar.
Bet-ourah sounds similar to Betulla, the birch tree, mentioned previously.
Kanya
In the country of Larice or Palli-thana, the adoration of the mother of God seems much to have prevailed. The river near Pallithana is named Mahie, that is, Maia or Maria, and, by Ptolemy, called Mais. This is the country whose shores are washed by the Erythraean Sea, and it is therefore probably an Erythraean country . In this country is the city of Aje-mere, not far from which is a temple of Mama-Deva, the holy mother. The peculiar object of adoration in this part of India now, is Kanyia, the son of Maia, otherwise called Cristna : but Maia herself is often called Kanya. At no great distance, in this country, is the Jessulmer, formerly, noticed, or Jerusalem, anagrammatically written : as Cupid, the Greek God of Love, read Hebraice, in this country, ;is the same name as their God of Love, Dipuc .
Is Kanya related to Cain or Canada/Kanneda? Kanya is Virgo in Jyotish.
Kun-ya or Kunieya is the Apollo Cunnius, the IE on the temple of Delphi ; the word Cun having the same meaning as Rhadha -jointly an androgynous Deity. Col. Broughton says, Kan is one of the numerous appellations of Krishna . Again, Kunue, ee, or Kunya “the beloved.”
Radha is Krishna’s beloved consort. Radhey, radhey, radhey, radhey! Regarding the milkmaid Gopis, Higgins states below there are 9, but is really 108, and not all called Radha. Nevertheless, the other similarities between Apollo, Orpheus, and Krishna/Kanya are numerous:
Orpheus charmed the beasts with his music, and the trees of Pieria came down to listen to him . He was accompanied by the nine Muses. Kanya of India or Cristna, or Crishna, or Creeshna… charmed the beasts with his music, as Orpheus had done. He was accompanied by nine Gopys, each called Radha . All the same things are told of Apollo in the neighbouring Temple of Delphi or Kanya, or of the Grecian Apollo Cunnius-Kan-ia . The last syllable is the IE on the Delphic temple, ie or Jah of the Jews, the Jah of the Sanscrit, and of Apollo or A-pol, or… e-bol - the God Bol or Bal or Pal, of whom the shepherd kings of India, that is, the shepherds of Rajah-stan or Royal shepherds, Pallestini, were followers. Apollo had his nine muses ; he was the God of Music, like Kanya, and he performed on the Lyre as Orpheus did, and as Kanya did on the same instrument, called Vina.
Chreistos, Chrestus
Regarding Erythrea, the Erythraean Sibyl predicted a saviour called ‘CHREISTOS’, and Higgins suggests this was the earlier form of ‘christos’. But Higgins does not discuss the Kemetic karst or krst mummification process of annointing for the afterlife.
More discussion of Chrestus vs Christos, etc. below. Regardless of which is the first or appropriate attribution, this information is occluded in the mainstream narrative:
Higgins states that Messiah means ‘annointed’, as does Christos.
Jonas, Oannes, John the Baptist
In the history of Jonas, we have a second notice of the Gentile Hercules, probably in a second incarnation . The story of Jonas swallowed up by a whale, near Joppa, is nothing but part of the fiction of Hercules, of the sun in its passage through the signs of the Zodiac, described in the Heracleid or the Labours of Hercules, of whom the same story was told, and who was swallowed up at the very same place, Joppa, and for the same period of time, three days. Lycophron says that Hercules was three nights in the belly of a fish . The sun was called Jona, as appears from Gruter's inscriptions. The Syrian God is called Dag-on. Now, the fish in which Jonah was preserved, was called in the Hebrew, sometimes in the masculine dg, sometimes in the feminine, according to the Rabbies, dge. Calmet has observed that this word Dag means preserver, which I suppose is the same as Saviour, a word which Calmet or his translator did not like to use. Here is Jonas buried three days in the ocean, and cast up again by this preserver- raised again to-day . Jonas means Dove, the emblem of one of the persons of the Trinity, and the same as Oannes and as John.
And remember, the fish-like Oannes taught mankind wisdom.
The great Patriarch who preached righteousness to the Antediluvians, is, by Berosus and Abydenus, styled OAN and OANNES, which is the same as Jonah.
Now John the Baptist or the Prophet, Regenerator by means of water, who was also a revived Elias, was the immediate forerunner of Jesus- in almost every respect an exact copy of Bala-rama, the forerunner of Cristna . And John the Baptist, or Saviour of men by means of water, was the Oannes or Avatar of Pisces, as Buddha was of Taurus, and Cristna of Aries ; or, according to Mr . Parkhurst's doctrine, Oannes was the type of the Baptist…
Peter, aka Simon, was a fisherman:
Peter is also called Cephas, which, in Hebrew, means a stone . In the oriental languages, without vowels, Petor, Petra, Patera, are all the same . In the Western languages Peter has three significations : Paoter, a pastor ; Peter (Be-tir), a fisherman of a Peter boat ; and Petra, a Rock. Saxa vocant Itali mediis quae in fluctibus Aras ' The French Peter or Pierre is Pi-ara, and our Pier-glass comes from this . Ar in Celtic means stone ; this is the Hebrew er or Har, stone mount, rock, as Har-gerizim . This stone was the emblem of wisdom or the generative power," and I suspect from this, a stone came to be called Sax-um. Why sax I shall explain hereafter . Mithra or the sun copulated with a stone, whence came a son called Di-orphos or Light . This is the Holy Orpheus.
Is the ‘stone’ the Earth? ‘Orphos’ seems to mean golden light (think phosphene or phosphorous), and di means two and divine.
Jesus, ben Panther, Iao, Jai, Jah, etc.
Stukeley observes, that the patronymic of Jesus Christ was Panther ; and that Panthers were the nurses and bringers up of Bacchus ; and adds, "'Tis remarkable that Panther was the sirname of Joseph's family, our Lord's ‘foster-father.’ Thus the Midrashkoheleth, or gloss, upon Ecclesiastes : 'It happened that a serpent bit R . Eleasar ben Damah, and James, a man of the village Secania, came to heal him in the name of Jesus ben Panther.' This is likewise in the book called Abodazara, where the comment upon it says, This James was a disciple of Jesus the Nazarene."
And as the persons who brought up Jesus were called Panthers, the name of an animal, so Bacchus was brought up by the same kind of animal, a panther… The circumstance of Joseph's family name being supposed to be Panther, is remarkably confirmed by Epiphanius,' who says, that Joseph was the brother of Cleophas, the son of James, sirnamed Panther.
The Jews say in their Talmud, that the name of Jesus was Bar Panther, but that it was changed into Jesus .
Higgins does not mention the Toledot Yeshu, but this Jewish book also claims that Jesus had a similar surname, but as an illegitimate child of a soldier named Tiberius Pantera. Pantera in one sense means all of earth. And of course panthers are black, but the accounts of a black Jesus or any other deity mentioned so far is too ubiquitous to make this connection.
Jesus seems to have more names and variations than anyone in history, well except maybe Buddha:
Interesting how the above Greek spelling of Iesous is related to IHS. And consider IHS for the Jesuits when turned upside down is referring to the Black Sun, i.e., what comes out of the anus lower chakra. Many meanings for this abbreviation, but one is Isis, Horus, Set.
Aesar below is similar to Asar, which is Osiris.
Vallancey has proved that the Indian Eeswar is the Irish Aosfhear, pronounced Eesvear and the Etruscan Esar : and that “the Bramanick Kreeshna, an incarnation of the Deity, is the Irish Crisean, holy, pure ;” whence Crisean a priest . Here I think we have the origin of Caesar, and Hesus of Gaul ;
In the Arabic language of the Koran Jesus Christ is called Ischa. From this has come the word Larice or Larissa. The word Lar is in fact Lord- a word I shall explain hereafter . The whole name has arisen from the regimine style of the Hebrew, to which in fact the names of almost all cities and proper names are to be attributed . Larissa was the country of the Lar-ischa the Lord Ischa, or the Saviour Lord, from the Hebrew iso, to save.
Maybe other names such as Odessa is referring to a saviour figure, and Issa/Esau/Ischa (per Ralph Ellis’s King of Edessa theory). And Abraham’s wife is Ischa, Osiris’s consort is Isis, Aisha was the third wife of Mohammad:
This is some of the best esoteric knowledge yet in the book:
Cedrenus says that the Chaldeans adored the light : that they called it intellectual light, and that they described it, or symbolized it, by the two letters [alpha] and [omega]… by which he meant the extreme terms of the diffusion of matter in the seven planetary bodies, of which the first or the moon, answered to the vowel [alpha], and the last, or Saturn, to the vowel [omega] ; and that the letter [Iota] described the Sun ; and this altogether formed the word [Iao]--the Panaugria of the Gnostics, otherwise the universal light distributed in the planets .
Iota is the 9th Greek letter, so that seems fitting for the Sun, but a circular letter seems more appropriate. And since iota means small or trivial, this also seems unfitting. Have you ever noticed that Omega, the last letter, is the mega O whereas omicron is the micro O?
The ‘Jeye! Jeye!’ mentioned above is spelled Jai Jai nowadays. As an aside, the root ‘ai’ can mean Earth, among other meanings, so for example, Gaia or Aia-Aia or Aiaia, a place in the Odyssey (In Mandarin, ai means love, and now A.I. wants to take over the narrative). So Higgins states that the Aeolians get their name from ‘the whole earth’, ai and ol. The D’Ore or D’Aour are the Dorians. These are also musical scales.
The word Hallelujah has Allah, El, and Jah within it. Elle, Ellen, Allen, etc., are related. And more details of Ie in honor of Apollo:
The first legislator of China is said to be Yao. This is different from the many other ‘first lawmakers’ mentioned before: Menes, Minos, Manu, etc.
Julius Caesar, Kazar, July, Yule, Huli, etc.
I cannot help suspecting that this cire was closely connected with the Cris and Ceres. qzir hg means solemnitas messis . One of the Apocryphal Gospels states, that when Jesus celebrated the last supper- his last solemnitas messis- he and his apostles sang a hymn, and performed a circular dance : and hg has this meaning . I suspect also, that this qzir has a near relation to the word Caesar. This key was what unlocked or opened the door of eternal and of human life. It was a polis or pole and a tri-pole. Ceres was often written for wheat or bread… The Solemnitas Messis is the offering of bread of the Romists . This is the meaning of the mass . In the Eleusinian mysteries, the day when they were completed was said to be, to the initiated, the day of regeneration and new birth . See our baptismal service. The day when the initiation was finished was the day, to the initiated, of the Baphe-Metis - Bafomet…
So we see Metis again in Baphomet, which according to the above quote is related to the Eleusinian Mysteries. And the ‘qzir’/Caesar looks like it’s related to the Kazarians of the Ukraine region, and of course, kaiser, Czar, etc. Aesar was already mentioned as meaning God and related to Osiris/Asar. And this passage is brilliant, tying ‘wizard’ with Mars, wild boars, etc.:
Later, Higgins mentions that the Chaldee word for Jupiter is ‘aisra’ and suggests the Hindu Isvara is related, which it surely appears to be.
The Pagan Irish worshiped him under the same name, and made no image to him : the word Esar or Esar, is undoubtedly Phoenician. izr, iasar form avit. "The God Esus is the Celtic Mars, where we have the sense of destroyer ; "
The above quote is from Suetonius in his Life of Augustus.
A town of Cilicia was called Caesar-Augustini, but was anciently occupied by the Anazarbenes ; these were evidently the Beni-azar, the sons of ,Esar or Caesar.
And concerning Rome and its first legislator, similar to other ‘first legislators’ mentioned already, Minos, Menes, etc.:
Among others we are told, that it was called Eros or Love, because its name, of Roma, spelt anagramatically, made Amor. In the same way, probably, its legislator, Numa, was called from Menu or Amun .
The word July came before Julius Caesar:
It has been observed that Caesar was an astrological name . It was in fact the Celtic AEsar, or God of war, taken, as the Hindoo princes take their names, from a favourite God- the God of the country which Caesar conquered . Gen. Vallancey has observed, that Caesar did not give the name to the solstitial month, but that he took his name from it . In the old Irish, half June and half July was called Mi-Jul : thence Caesar's name of Julius .
Yuule was the Celtic feast around the Winter Solstice when the Sun would rise again to greater strength. Heoul is a related word, the Sun, as is Helios, and the French Noel. The Huli Festival in India of throwing red powder to indicate pollen:
is the festival of the vernal equinox ; it is the Yule ; it is the origin of our word holy ; it is Julius, Yulius .
The word Julius is the same as the ancient Yule, who was Saturn . The Quintile month, the month in which the great Julius is said to have been born, was sacred to Yule .
‘The Quintile month’ is interesting, since the astrological glyph for Saturn looks like a 5. Of course, it also has a cross and half of a heart, among other symbolisms (they never get the proportions of crosses right, as if they’ve never flattened a cubic box!). Remember, I always say things are related, not one thing is the cause or consequence for another. 5 and the Saturn glyph might be emanations of something deeper, not one or the other causing the other.
Temples, Templum, Knights Templar, time cycles
All temples were surrounded with pillars recording the numbers of the constellations, the signs of the zodiac, or the cycles of the planets, and each templum was supposed in some way to be a microcosm or symbol of the temple of the universe, or of the starry vault called Templum. It was this Templum of the universe from which the Knights Templars took their name, and not from the individual temple at Jerusalem…
All the temples were imitative- were microcosms of the celestial Templum- and on this account they were surrounded with pillars recording astronomical subjects, and intended both to do honour to these subjects, and to keep them in perpetual remembrance . We have records of every cycle except of that of the beast 666 . We have in Abury the cycles of 650-608-600- 60-40-30-19-12, &c . We have the forty pillars around the temple of Chilminar, in Persia ; the temple at Balbec, with forty pillars ; the Tucte Solomon, on the frontiers of China, in Tartary, called also the Temple of the forty pillars. There is the same number in each, and probably for the same reason . In the Temples at Paestum, on each side of the Temple fourteen pillars record the Egyptian cycle of the dark and light sides of the moon, as described by Plutarch, and the whole thirty-eight, which surround them, record the two Metonic cycles so often found in the Druidical Temples . All temples were originally open at the top ; so that twelve pillars curiously described the belt of the zodiac, and the vault of heaven the roof.
Theatres were originally Temples, where the mythos was scenically represented ; and, until they were abused, they were intended for nothing else : but it is evident that for this purpose a peculiar construction of the temple was necessary . When Scaurus built a Theatre in Greece he surrounded it with 360 pillars. The Temple at Mecca was surrounded with 360 stones, and in like manner with the same number the Templum at Iona in Scotland was surrounded . The Templars were nothing but one branch of Masons ; perhaps a branch to which the care of some peculiar part of Temples was entrusted, and, I think, that the name of Templars was only another name for Casideans .
The Templars were accused of worshiping a being called Bahumid, and Bafomet, or Kharuf . Mr. Hammer says that this word written in Arabic has the meaning of Calf, and is what Kircher calls Anima Mundi… Bahumid must be Pi the Egyptian emphatic article, and amid the desire of all nations, that is Mohamed.
Mohammad
Interesting speculation about Mohammed:
I have often wondered why the word Mo was prefixed to the Ahmed, but here we have the reason . The reason is the same as that which causes the mysterious, inexplicable M- 600- to be prefixed to so many mystic words, such as M-Omptha, M-uin, &c ., &c .
Since Mohammed was born in the 6th Century A.D., Higgins speculates that he was the 10th avatar/sage/saviour figure after Jesus Christ for these 600 year cycles:
…Simon Magus, Montanus, Marcion, Manes, were all so considered, and in consequence have been grievously abused by the Romish writers for the unparalleled wickedness of giving themselves out as being the Holy Ghost- these writers never attempting, perhaps not being able, to explain the nature of the case . The most remarkable of these Teachers was the person called Simon Magus, called by the Romists Magus, probably as a term of reproach . From the immense mass of lies and nonsense which have been written respecting him, I think we may select enough to skew the probability of his followers having believed him to be the person foretold by Jesus ; and the Helene or Selene, by whom he was said to be accompanied, and with whom he was enamoured, was what Mons. Beausobre calls La Sagesse, gendratrix de toutes choses… and this brings us to a tenth and last Avatar, the celebrated prophet of Arabia- Mohamed.
Speculation that Moksha and Buddhism is related to Mecca and Mohamed:
The fact is, Mohamedism was no new religion ; it was only a continuation of Buddhism. Mecca, the sacred city of Mohamed, was well known to the ancients by a name which had the meaning of the name of Mohamed. It was called Maco or Moca Raba by Ptolemy, or Moca the great or illustrious, or in other words, the city of Mo-hamed. Guy Patin mentions a medal of Antoninus Pius with this legend MOK. IEP. AXY. AYTO. which he very properly translates Moca, sacra, inviolabilis, suis utens legibus : Moca the holy, the inviolable, and using her own laws. This, Wilford says, can only be applicable to the place now called by us Mecca, and in the Brahmin books Mocsha-st'han, and considered a most holy place, to which the Indians formerly made pilgrimages, and not to the little place called Mocha . The medal of Antoninus serves to shew the universal nature of the Gentile religion . Col. Wilford informs us, that the Arabian writers unanimously support the doctrine, that the present Mecca is the Moca of Ptolemy . The sea-port of this Moca is the town or port of Bad-deo, regia, or the city of the holy and royal Buddha.
Mocsha means eternal bliss ; then the name will be place of eternal happiness. The indubitable fact that Mecca was a place sacred to the Amed or desire of all nations before Mohamed, the camel-driver, was born, opens to our view a new aenigma…
And could ‘mogh’ and the Almug wood be related?
These Masons were the builders of Solomon's temple, and they procured the wood Almug from India, whence they and their art came .
I noticed ‘amo’ sort of uses alpha, omega, and mu, except it’s Latin, not Greek. And I suppose ‘aum’ could be written ‘aom’.
Hassan Saba, Assassins
Another figure assumed to be the 10th avatar or Sage was Hassan Saba, who founded the Assassins. Saba is yet another word meaning wisdom:
Thus we have here a tenth avatar descending, like the Lama of Tibet, from the East, and a tenth avatar in like manner in Egypt, in Hassan, from whom the Illuminati are descended.
And then he ties together Assassins, Chaldeans, Druids, etc.:
Other mysteries
No doubt every division of the universal religion had its secret and sacred writings as well as the Jews, only they were never made public, and thus were lost . To the peculiar circumstance which caused Alexandria to be almost filled with Jews and Samaritans, and to the necessity which Ptolemy found of causing their books to be translated in order that he might know how to decide between them in their squabbles, and to a wish, perhaps, to govern them by their own laws, we are, probably, indebted for our knowledge of the books of the Old Testament . After they were once translated into Greek, there could be no longer any object in concealing the originals .
In Book 10, Higgins states that ‘Christian fathers’ wrote that the Gnostics ‘ate children in the sacrament’. He seems surprised and perplexed by this:
All we know of them we have from the Christian fathers, whose accounts are evidently intended to depreciate them in every way ; and these fathers thought it meritorious either to defame them, or to propagate falsities respecting them. Besides, if the fathers had been sincere, their hatred to the Gnostics and their bigotry were such, that it is very unlikely even that they could have understood the refined and abstruse doctrines of such philosophers, as we may collect from circumstances and the admissions of enemies, that Basilides was . What can we believe on the testimony of those who asserted that all these philosophers ate children in the sacrament ? It is most surprising to me that such men as Lardner and Beausobre should receive, as credible, the histories of the fathers
In the below screenshot, Higgins thinks Erythrea is either Ceylon or Diu, and cites Dionysius as describing “the first great founders in the world” to be the Phoenicians who descended from the Erythreans, who are the Scythians/Celts/Scuthae/Sacae/Tartarians/Syrians:
Bactria is the same as Bucharia, and Bochara, which Abulghazi Khan says, means country of learned men
This must be related to Bucharest.
The country through which the Indus runs has been called by the moderns Panjab or Panjaub . The word Panj means five, and the word Aub means river, i. e. the country of the five rivers.
I’m assuming this is Punjab, our current spelling. So ‘panj’ is like ‘pent’.
Another name for Minerva is given as Ongar, then and island of Ongkar is mentioned. So Ankara, Turkey could be related.
Virgil declares that Rome was built on the ruins of two successive cities, which had both gone to destruction ; one called Janiculum, the other Saturnia, i . e. Satrun ja
Moriscoes are the Moors, according to Higgins. This may be related to the names Morris, Moore, Mauritania, Morocco, and the mysterious Moriah? Higgins speculates that Moriah is equivalent to Mount Meru.
Sephora/Sephor, cipher, and maybe Babylon are related (and probably other sep words such as Sephiroth, sapphire, etc.):
…the city of Sephora, that is, the city of letters ; Sephor, in Hebrew, meaning a letter, or a cipher or figure of notation . No person has ever pretended to find this city, but it has been thought to be Babylon .
Final Thoughts
I am grateful that Godfrey Higgins spent 20 years researching, he says, around 10 hours a day, with a vast reference section to connect these dots. Some of the connections are a stretch, and no one can bat a thousand, but many of his assertions cannot be denied if you are open-minded. Godfrey (the God Freyr) Higgins (Gaelic Uiginn means Viking) conveys book knowledge, but you sense he is missing a lot of the practical spirituality that would have complemented this type of pedantic knowledge. It’s like a historian of art or food, not an artist or chef. Higgins never mentions many terms that I thought should be mentioned in a work about deities, the Logos, and history, for example the Dao, Wu Wei, Natura Naturans, Kalki, the Kemetic krst or krs, the ankh (only variations like the crux ansata), Paracelsus, hardly any mention of Sirius, the pineal gland - he mentions that some Hindu art portrays deities with a third eye in the middle of the forehead and ties this with the third eye portrayed at times by ‘Cyclopes’. He mentions “the mystic triangle within a triangle”, but never by its name, ‘Merkaba’, and at the same time mentions that he is a Freemason. He does not mention anything about the vesica piscis when discussing fish symbology related to Jesus Christ, speculating that the two fishes “probably alluded to the male and female, or androgynous, Deity”. He also never mentions Quetzlcoatl and all of his similarities with Jesus and other mythologies, no mention of Marduk, Enki or Enlil. Of course we have to understand that during his time in the early 19th Century England, there was a dearth of trans-cultural interactions and translations from the original Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Sumerian, etc. languages. I mean the first sushi restaurant in America was only established in the late 60’s. So we’ve come a long way. However, if you think about it, we hardly know anything about anything still- where our food comes from, how it’s made, what consciousness is, what an atom is, what the ether is, what DNA is, no one has ever isolated a virus, and no virologist ever films their methods - because everything is in silico (silicon computer program extrapolations from 37 or so ‘samples’), physicists are missing 95% mass in their calculations, so they have a fudge factor to make up for this missing matter, which they say is called ‘dark matter’, and there’s ‘dark energy’, on and on. And no one knows if any of these historical figures actually existed: Homer, Virgil, Buddha, Hermes Trismegistus, Pythagoras, Jesus. Sure it’s easy to scoff that Hercules never existed, or Krishna, The Yellow Emperor of China, Noah, Methuselah, etc., so then where is the hard evidence versus myths for Homer, etc.?
A quirk of Anacalypsis is that Higgins in general does not translate the original Greek and Latin quotes into English and assumes that the reader is able to translate these themselves. I don’t know if this was a common practice in the 1800s, but translations would have helped. Here is one of hundreds of examples, regarding Colchis, the place where the 52 Argonauts went in search of the golden fleece:
Another tendency of Higgins is to repeat the same idea in multiple places. This could be a style choice, such as is done in the endlessly repetitive Egyptian Pyramid Texts, which was done to ingrain and memorize the words. For example, the only point he makes for all of the 17 occurrences of ‘Ammonius’ or ‘Ammonius Saccas’ in Volume 1, is to point out that he was a great early Christian sage that claimed that Christianity and other religions were basically the same. However, he does think highly of Ammonius Saccas, although there are no written works by him left to posterity, saying he was a “very celebrated, and probably, all things considered, the most learned of all the Christian fathers.” If he had kept the repetition to a minimum, the book would have been reduced to a more manageable reading, not 1400 plus pages over two volumes, so it did drag towards the end. Here is an example passage tying the religions of the world together in his style of connecting words together that occurs ad nauseum throughout the tome:
The truth is, that the religion of the Ras, of Buddha, of Metis, of Sophia, of Bafomet, of Acamoth or the Intelligence Universelle, extended over the whole world, and was the universal esoteric, ancient and modern religion ; - the religion of Tibet, of Sion or Siam, of the Monks of the lake of Paremboli, (Embolima of India,) of Dodona or Bodona, of Eleusis, of Ephesus, of Delphi, of Virgil, of the Gnostics, of the Manichaeans, and of the Pope- for which reason he very properly calls himself a CATHOLIC, and his religion Catholic or Pantheistic, and his followers Catholics or Pandees, or Saints of Pan-ism or Catholicism .
Along these lines, Higgins also tends to divulge information in a piecemeal fashion, adding new information to a topic that gets addressed repeatedly, for example, the definition of Saba, which means many things, but each new definition is revealed in different sections of the book.
Another quirk of Higgins is to disperse frequently his personal opinions and astonishment of views he finds absurd, for example when referring to the ‘Word’ in the beginning of the New Testament:
Hence the anxiety shewn in their creeds to seek for terms sufficiently clear to express this idea. Hence they have run into the nonsense of begotten before all worlds . What jargon ! WORD BEGOTTEN !
The authors more contemporary to Higgins’ era that he cites frequently, in my opinion are:
Jacob Bryant
John Parkhurst
Charles Vallancey
George Stanley Faber
Thomas Maurice
Francis Wilford
Richard Bentley
And the more classic or ancient authors include:
Athanasius Kircher
Nimrod (I can’t find any information on this person, which I assume is different from the mythological Nimrods)
Beausobre
Diodorus Siculus
Berosus
Epiphanius
Eusebius
Clemens Alexandrinus
Origen
Plutarch
Herodotus
Virgil
Getting to some central themes, Higgins expounds on the point that mythology should not be taken literally, and that there are deeper meanings behind the stories- the esoteric meanings, as opposed to the exoteric, literal translations:
Every people descended from unfortunate Troy. It was a mythos, a sacred history . It was like the ancient history of all nations, a mythos-tons of fable mixed up with some grains of truth . All nations were alike . There were two Moriahs, two Sions, two Ararats, an African and an European Thebes ; an Asiatic and Egyptian Babylon ; multitudes of Memnoniums, seven cities of Athena, the name of the Goddess, the Magna Mater, the female principle in her warlike form . The Titans fought the Gods ten years ; the Sabeaus besieged Babylon ten years ; Rome besieged Veii, the site of which nobody can find, ten years ; Eira in Messenia, and Eiran in AEolia had ten years' wars ; and Thebes was besieged by the Epigons for ten years . And all this, grave and wise men call history and believe it true . How can any one consider these striking circumstances and not see that almost all ancient history and epic poetry are mythological,- the secret doctrines of the priests, disguised in parables, in a thousand forms ?
The lower orders of our priests are as much the dupes as their votaries . The high-priests are wiser. Our priests will be very angry and deny all this . In all nations, in all times, there has been a secret religion : in all nations and in all times, the fact has been denied . " There is nothing new under the sun," said the wise Solomon, who never uttered a wiser speech ; and in its utterance proved that he understood the doctrines of the eternal renewal of worlds ; that new Troys, new Argonauts, would arise, as the Sibyl of Virgil subsequently foretold.
Another realization you’ll sense from this massive tome is the way words have evolved or were puposely changed to hide the knowledge. This of course is called occultation. They purposefully confuse you with spellings that get further removed from the original, such as Ahura Mazda from Ormasd/Hormuzd and similar so that you’re less likely to discern the connotations of gold, etc., or Laxmi/Lakshmi from Lacsmi to discern her relationship with milk, or ‘Rameses Thothmosis’, spelled this way in Anacalypsis, whereas Wikipedia separates ‘Thutmose’ from ‘Ramesses’. The current spelling of Thutmose obscures the combining of Thoth and Moses, at least in English. Higgins goes further and conjectures that Rameses is a combining of Rama and Isi/Isis, which could be an example of an overreach I mentioned, but you never know these days. Regardless, the continual changes to the spellings and pronunciations removes words farther and farther from the original spellings in order to prevent most from connecting the dots. This is the value of older books, to see a closer relationship to the original spellings of words so that you can more easily discern these kinds of connections. But besides the words, most of history is a lie.
A couple of ideas concerning this- a database could be created of words and their variants. The more variants that occur, the more likely that there is something to hide. For example, words about tea won’t have as many variations as Jupiter and related words, since there isn’t much vested interests in tea. The other idea is to create a database of words and their numerological values for each letter and what letters would allow that word to reach certain values such as 600 or 608 that Higgins profusely details.
Another central theme of Anacalypsis is the clear sense that most of these deities are interchangeable or are connected in one aspect or another to each other, whether Bacchus and Brahma inhabit Mount Meru, or Osiris and Bacchus were depicted as Bulls, or Hercules and Dionysus, i.e., Bacchus, among others, resurrected after three days, on and on. This rings true, since there is only one thing, a power or force, nameless, formless, The All. However, this mish-mash sometimes muddles the picture. For example, if the Holy Spirit/Ghost is associated with the Hebrew ruach or breath/wind/spirit, then this part of the Trinity is associated with the air element, and the dove is associated with the Holy Spirit as well as John the Baptist, which is associated with the water element, like Oannes, Jonah, etc. This and a lot of other mind-blowing food for thought.
I would like to thank the inspirational heros of the golden age of YouTube- I would say 2017-2020, that helped me gain more understanding of metaphysics and spirituality. Here are the etymology-related ones that helped me, along with non-YouTube authors, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Gerald Massey, and Laurence Lyons. Thank you:
Ryan McMahon
Stovilla Elohim Ra
Santos Bonacci
Chiron Last
Jimmy Johnson, Aquarius Rising
Ken Wheeler
Epiphany Lectures
Jordan Maxwell
Cullen Smith, Lifting the Veil
Doreen Dotan
Claudio Silvaggi
Pierre Sabak
Jim Chesnar
Udaya Shreyas, The Sanskrit Channel
R. Wayne Steiger
Michael Tsarion
Laurel Airica
Thanks for reading.