Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins (Part 1 of 3)

My notes and commentary on roughly the Preliminary Observations section and Books 1 and 2 of Volume 1.

I started reading Anacalypsis a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve had so many a-ha moments and made so many connections, so I thought I might as well share my notes and comments for anyone who is interested in etymology, spirituality, mythology, religions, and history. Godfrey Higgins is attempting to detail evidence of a common ancestry of nations and religions, such as the trinity concept of gods or of words with common roots, such as aum/om. And this is a few decades before Blavatsky, who took inspiration from the book. Manly Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages cites Higgins at least 25 times, 9 more than Blavatsky. I’ve learned more from this book than others in a long time, and can’t understand why it’s not well-known, or actually, I think I know why. There’s a reason why things like etymonline.com or Mayo clinic or Wikipedia are the first listings that show up in search engines. Words are greater than swords, information is all there is, ultimately.

This unabridged PDF is the 1927 edition, “AND IT FOLLOWS EXACTLY THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE FIRST EDITION” from 1836.

This passage in Book 9 summarizes some major themes of his work:

my object is to prove, that an universal language and philosophy, in very remote times, pervaded the whole of the old world ; that it was a philosophy, beautiful and fundamentally true ; that it had for its basement the existence of one God, to whom were ascribed the attributes of creating, preserving, and destroying ; that its professors were black in colour, and PROBABLY negro in form ; that it was a race of Herbaceous beings, killing no harmless animal, perhaps no animal whatever . Whether it were as learned as [Monseigneur] Bailly supposed his antediluvian race to have been, may be matter of doubt, or whether it may not have been the original race itself. But the Neros [cycle of 600 or 608 years] must have been invented by some persons, and we can trace it no farther back than the race of which I now speak, and it is found in their possession . After a certain time we find historical accounts in India, of the followers of the first principle having become split into parties, or, in other words, of its professors having fallen into differences of opinion, succeeded by wars of great length and cruelty ; in the course of which, various tribes were driven out to the West : whence, by degrees, arose the number of variations of the mythos, with which the world has been tormented or amused . Though these were different mythoses in some respects, yet in the fundamental principle they were all the same, and bore, through all their different ramifications, one universal family character-viz . the Trinity, the metempsychosis, the renewal or regeneration of worlds, at the end of every cycle of 600 and 6000 years, the absence of idols, and, as I have just now said, the abstinence from animal food . These were the Cyclopaean Buddhists, the builders of Stonehenge, of Abury, and of Carnac. They were succeeded by the founders of Oxford, Cambridge, and Iona, upon the Cyclopaean ruins . They were the Atlantides or sons of the earth ; they were the sons of the ethereal fire or of Vulcan, whose Cyclopaean buildings yet serve to astonish our mechanists, and excite the wonder and despair of our antiquarians .

Lunar Mansions, The Number 28

When man advanced in astronomical science, and parcelled the path of the moon in the heavens into divisions, he did not choose for this purpose twenty-nine or twenty-seven, but twenty-eight ; and, accordingly, this was the number of mansions of the moon into which the Lunar Zodiac was divided by the astrologers of Egypt, of Arabia, of Chaldea, and of India. It was not, in my opinion, until a late date, comparatively speaking, that the mansions in India were more correctly divided into twenty-seven ; but I do not state this as a fact, because I think it is not clearly made out which of the two Indian divisions, twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with which we meet, was the most ancient.

The above quote is referring to the 27 nakshatra lunar mansions/sectors of the ecliptic in Jyotish/Vedic astrology, but that there is a hidden, lesser known, 28th nakshatra. Higgins does not mention ‘nakshatra’.

The number values for the 28 Arabic letters are listed, and the last letter, Ghain, has the value of 1000. 28 is a perfect number, where the number equals the sum of its divisors, the second after 6. In numerology, the orders of magnitude jump after each 10 letters, but I had never noticed that this perfect 28th value reaches a clean 1000. I wonder what corresponds with the next perfect number, 496.

Irish Alphabet and Trees

The first letter of the old Irish alphabet, Ailim, corresponds with aleph/alpha/A, and with the elm tree, but Wikipedia does not mention ‘elm’ and instead a generic ‘pine tree’. This ailim/elm I think corresponds with al/el/allah/The All/etc.

The birch tree corresponds with the second Irish letter, beith, which translates to house or beth in Hebrew:

The Beth or Beith of the Samaritan and Hebrew is the identical Beth or Beith, the Birch-tree of the Irish . Pliny calls Betulla the Birch, a Gaulish tree . In one of the dialects of Britain, the Welsh, it is called Bedw.

Betulah in Hebrew is the sign of Virgo and means maiden. Maybe Betelgeuse means house of Jawza, according to wiktionary.com, but is Jawza referring to Esau/Iu-su? Does ‘Bedouin’ refer to people without a house? ‘Samaritan’ (Jewish Assyrian) looks similar to ‘Sumerian’ but are from different eras and locales. I suppose this is where we get ‘good Samaritan’.

The Irish letter Jodha corresponds with Yod/Iod/Jod/Iodha/Iota/Ya(Arabic) and therefore, the Yew tree, which corresponds with Jesus/Iu-su/Ieu/Iao/Ea (the Akkadian version of Enki)/Yahweh/Jehovah/Jove/Iesous/Zeus/etc. Keep in mind, the letter J wasn’t invented until the 1500s, and reading Anacalypsis and other older texts, it is clear that there is a level of obfuscation dependent on what they really want to hide. Consider Jupiter/Jove and how it was Iu-pater/Iove, sounding a lot like Yahweh:

Varro, cited by St. Austin, says, Deum Judaeorum esse Jovem, that Jove was the God of the Jews ; and from יהוה [YHVH] the Etruscans seem plainly to have had their Juve or Jove, and the Romans their Jovis or Jovis-Pater, that is, Father Jove, afterwards corrupted into Jupiter .

This letter, Jodha/Iota/etc. sounds like the inspiration for the wise Jedi, Yoda, and these names: Jutta/Judah/Jude/Judy/Jodie. And of course, the Rasta Jah, yeah?

The Ash tree corresponds with Nun/Nu/Nuin/N, and I noticed that ash is sort of the opposite of water, since ash is what’s left after burning off all the excess (alchemical transmutation, the nigredo process). The Kemetic neter, Nu, represents the primordial waters where everything started anew/Anu. The hieroglyph for Nu is zig-zagged waves, but 'nen' means stillness. VishNU is the zeropoint between the creative/generative Brahma and the degenerative/regenerative Shiva, and Brahma came out of Vishnu's womb/navel. Nuh is the Arabic for Noah, during the iNUNdation. Noon time is represented by the water sign Cancer, in between the Aries Sun arising in the morning and Libra scales balancing, even-ing the Sun when it sets at the Horizon/Horus’s Zone(1st, 4th, and 7th signs of the Zodiac. And since Libra’s glyph is the Omega sign, the last Greek letter, and Nu is the middle letter, along with Mu, then Aries correlates with the first letter, Alpha, I believe).

I noticed that since “the Samaritan and Hebrew Resh is unquestionably the Irish Ruis, the Elder” tree, I thought this is fitting, since a rishi or rsi is a wise ‘elder’. Ruis connotes reddishness, like ruddy or rose or the Spanish name Ruiz. Notice also ‘el’ connotes godly elevation, as does ‘al’, so alder trees also, e.g., alderman. Keep in mind that these concepts encapsulated in root words subsume or underlie the words representing godhood or elevation or upliftment, etc. We have to use our intuition, feel the meanings, not get caught up in the names or labels. If we say that the word ‘element’ means the mind of god, that might be a certain facet of truth, the way nature expresses itself, but there are other facets as well. Anyways, I also see this ‘rish’ in ‘Irish’, although ‘ish’ connotes similarity to something, and the root is really ‘Ire’ land, i.e., Arya.

This quote might have something to do with the Tree of Knowledge:

In the old Irish, the words wood and alphabet are described by the same letters-Aos, which also signify both a tree and knowledge.

Some names for the Sun

Solis Liber - Bacchus is mentioned as another name for Liber (according to Virgil). I suppose this is where we get the word ‘libertine’, which describes Bacchanalias. The Cult of Dionysus is the Greek equivalent. Bacchus is also known as Orus, and his wife was Libera/Ariadne (see screenshot below). Many other renderings detailed later.

Sebadius - mentioned as from Thrace, but later Sabazius and Sabadius are mentioned as names for Iao, Jehovah, Sabaoth, etc. Sibelius sounds like a Scandinavian variant (7th and 5th are my favorites!). Sabazius is also mentioned as a name for Bacchus. ‘Saba’ can mean star, or a congregation of hosts/stars, like the Parthenon or Mount Meru. In Book 10 under a footnote, he asserts that ‘Na-ma-si-va-yah' “is the Roman Nama Sebadia, often found on the Mithraitic monuments in Italy .” This of course is referring to the mantra, Om Nama Shivayah. So Shiva, Yeshiva, Sheba, Sabah, Sabaoth, Sebadius, etc.

From Cleland I learn that in Celtic Sab means wise, whence Saba and Sabasius, no doubt wise in the stars . From this comes the Sab-bath or day dedicated to Wisdom, and the Sabbat, a species of French Masonry, an account of which may be seen in Dulaure's History of Paris .

But also, the Kemetic Sebau is related, as well as Beelzebub. From Gerald Massey’s Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World:

Beelzebub, God of flies, is the particular name assigned to Satan in the Gospels as the prince of devils. And as Sut was Prince of the Sebau, it seems probable that the “zebub”, or infernal flies, may have been identical with and therefore derived by name from that spawn of Satan the Sebau, the associates of Sut on the night of the great battle in the Ritual.

Cerces was the daughter of Helios, and both connote the circular Sun.

Strabo says, that close to Heliopolis was a city called Cercesura . This name and the Cercasorum of Herodotus…

Siris - sounds like Ceres, which is also mentioned as the Sun, Proserpine/Persephone, Sirius, Osiris, Isis, etc. Later, Cyrus the Persian ruler was said to be the Sun, and some say the name that Isaiah predicted as the Messiah. In Persian, Cyrus is more like Kura or Kora, akin to core and coeur/heart.

In the CELTIC DRUIDS, Chap. V. Sect. XV., I have shewn that the Irish Ceara, the wife of Ceares, was the Goddess of Nature, and the same as Ceres. She had a daughter called Porsaibhean, pronounced Porsaivean, the Persephone of the Greeks, and the Proserpine of the Romans . According to Schelling, Ceres is the Hebrew hrs or chrs, and Kersa the Chaldae hrsa or chrsa, from hrs, aravit, sata . The meaning of this name was praestigiatrix, mago, or fabrieatrix. The Maja of India was the same as the Maia of the Greeks, but she was the same as Persephone, and Persephone was Ceres, and Ceres was the mother of the Gods and Queen of heaven.

More relationships between Krishna, Ceres, Chrisha, etc., so keep all this in mind when we get to the discussion of Christ, Chrestus, Cyrus, etc.:

Osiris - Ousire, O-sir, Isiris, Ysiris, Surius, Ausur, Asar, so maybe the Aser family in the Bock Saga, as in Asgard, the garden of the Aser.

Serapis/Sarapis - This word reminds me of Seraph and the plural, Seraphim. The Ser could refer to Osiris and ‘apis’ is the Apis Bull, but also:

from Sor or Soros Apis, meaning the entombed Apis ; Soros being the name of a stone coffin .

Of course, Osiris/Aser was tricked into a coffin. Here is Brian Copenhaver’s take in his Hermetica:

devotees of Osiris-Apis or Sarapis worshipped their god in the bull cult of the great Serapeion, the temple that dominated the landscape of Ptolemaic Memphis.

Lazarus was also famous for his tomb- L’Osiris?

Jupiter - known as the ‘invincible Serapis’, Jupiter Ammon, Zeus, Jove/Iove, Iu-pater, etc.

Dionusos - Dionysis, Bacchus, and these variants:

He is found in the Old Testament under the name IEUE Nissi which, translated from the Greek, would be Dios Nyssos or Dionusos, a name of Bacchus . Indeed, being the Sun, he is naturally enough found every where … He was also Deo-Naush, or Deva-Nahusha, and Ram or Rama-Deva. He was three times born in India ;… Strabo says, " It is for this reason that they give to this God (Bacchus) the name of Merotraphes." This means One nourished in Meru…

Below are some similarities of Bacchus to Krishna, Jesus, etc. A bit about Hercules is also included at the end:

The Amphisbaena mentioned above is a mythological two-headed serpent.

Pluto - Hades (the shadowy realm of the Shades). I see ‘pleuroma’ is related, an overflowing or abundance, like plutocracy.

Pan - the root ‘pan’ means all, as in Pangaea, all of Gaia. And of course, The All in Hermetics is Allah, Hallelujah!

Hercules - Herakles, Heru/Horus, hero, Thor, Samson, etc.

Apollo - Is this related to Apollyon/Abaddon, the ‘destroyer’? I suppose Abaddon is Avalon? Is Avalon related to birds? Pollo means chicken, but is this a stretch? Abraxas has a rooster head, so could ‘abra’ be ‘avala’? Higgins reprints an extract from the Tamul poem THE KALIWAKIM OF AYVAR that mentions:

Begin thy learning in the name of the DIVINE SON . (Pulleyar.)

From this, Higgins mentions that Pillaiyar is another name for Ganesha. And ‘Kaliwakim’ is related to the Arabic Hakim, which is yet another word that means wisdom or wise men, as does the Hebrew Chacham. So the wisdom of Kali. He points out that hkme/Chokme/Chokmah- the second of the ten Sephiroth is wisdom, and Achamoth was a god of the Gnostics. So sounds like ‘acme’ is related, i.e., the zenith or highest point.

The Samaritan (Assyrian) version of Genesis begins with a similar word that also means wisdom, like B-rasit:

Omphis - sounds like Omphalos. Osiris is mentioned as equivalent:

Plutarch says, that Osiris means a benevolent and beneficent power, as does likewise his other name OMPHIS.

Harpocrates

also represented the Sun. It is true, he was also the God of Silence; he put his finger upon his mouth, because the Sun was worshiped with a reverential silence…

Strange that Harpo Marx was the mime. John Lamb Lash explains that this gesture was used in the initiation rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries, as well as in the Kekrops bas relief shown in his video below, so that the magic of the initiation, or of nature’s radiance, is not broken from speaking:

Ammon - many cities, such as in Jordan, the curvy Ammon’s horns in the brain, i.e., the Hippocampus, which means seahorse. So Ammon has to do with the Age of Aries (think Ram’s horns), and Jupiter Ammon. Amraphel is also mentioned as synonymous with Ammon, or the Sun in Aries, also called Agnus Mirabilis (The miraculous lamb? Or miraculous fire?). Later these words are shown to be related to Om/Aum, Amun Ra, amen, etc.

Diodorus Siculus also says, that the Libyans claim Bacchus, and say that he was the son of Ammon, a king of Libya, who reigned in a city called Ammon ;

Maybe this Numa is related to the Enuma Elish, or numen/noumena, which I discuss later.

Hama, Chamha, Ham, Ammon - “By the Syrians the Sun and Heat were called hme, Chamha; and by the Persians Hama. Thus the temple to which Alexander so madly marched in the desert, was called the temple of the Sun or of Ammon. Mr. Bryant shews that Ham was esteemed the Zeus of Greece, and the Jupiter of Latium.” Lingham/lingam has ‘ham’ or ‘am’ or ‘aum’ in the word. Hammah is Hebrew for the Sun.

Tammuz, the son of Nimrod and Semiramis of Sumerian/Babylonian mythology is related to Adonis/Adonai:

The God of the Jews is also often known by the name of Adonai. But this is nothing but the God of the Syrians, Adonis or the Sun, the worship of whom is reprobated under the name of Tammuz, in Ezekiel viii.

Adonai is also considered Bacchus, and his mother is Myrrha, related to the tree and resin Myrrh, and these other names: Mira/Miriam/Mary/Maris/Mariamne/Stella Maris/Regina Stellarum/etc., and Moera was considered Sirius:

So completing the circle and linking Ceres back to Adonis, we see how Ceres is the goddess of the harvest, of cereals, and how ‘don’ is in many rivers, like the Jordan and the Danube:

The earth is called the nursing mother of all creatures, the Ceres. This was because the earth, like all other things, was an emanation from the Creator… Thus the earth, in the sacred metaphorical language, was a Ceres ; and all rivers were Adonises or Dons, or Sirs or Surs- rivers of the sun. They were, in fact, Cereses, for they were the nurses of the creatures living on the lands fertilized by them…

All these Creuzer shews to have been identical with a God called AEon, or the eternal Creator or Demiurge … And further, he has shewn them all to be identical with Oannes, Anandatus, Derceto, the Patares of Lycia, and the Hom or Omanus, called also Comoeus ; and again with an Autochtone called Cresus, the builder of the temple of Ephesus, and he with Semiramis, and Chersiphron ; and again with Omphale, daughter of Jordanus, (this shews a river Don probably in Lydia,) who had a son called Croesus by Hercules, whose name was Here and clo; Here being Chore, Core, or Cere, or Ceres ; and again with Axiokersa, (another corruption of Ceres,) who was the same with De-meter ; but Demeter was Bacchus, the Saviour, as was also Ceres. Thus Bacchus was the androgynous Saviour, IHE- and IHE is Jesus ; and Jesus is the Logos and the Chres, an incarnation of divine wisdom, the Eros or Heros, or divine Love . Thus we see how, as Ammonius Saccas taught, all the vulgar plurality of the Gentiles, of the East and West, melt at last into precisely the same trinity of the Indians, the Jews, and the Christians . In the explanation of these identifications, no doubt, partly consisted the Eleusinian mysteries . In the above I am supported by the Scholiast of Apollonius Rhodius, who affirms, that Axierus was Ceres. I think there can be no doubt that from a corruption of the ‘hrs’ we have the Cyrus, the Messiah of Isaiah, whose history was copied from the history of Cristna, though the letters in the Hebrew do not exactly suit ; and I think, also, that we have here the androgynous or male Ceres of the Greeks, to whose temple at Bethlehem the Magi came at the time of the birth of the new incarnation of divine love . Parkhurst says, hrs, the solar fire. He also says, "hrs, Machinator. From this root the Greeks had the name of their God Eros or Heros, by which it is evident they meant the material light, considered as possessed of the plastic or formative power ."

The above quote states these ‘axis’ type words, ‘Axiokersa’ and ‘Axierus’, mean ‘Ceres’, and this is mentioned later: ‘Araxes’, which Higgins states is “Kor as sacred to the sun ; Chorasan the land of sun-worship…” ‘Abraxas’ is also mentioned because in his book, The Celtic Druids, he states that it means 365. I can’t figure out why Abraxas has the head of a rooster. Is this all mundane, in this Axis Mundi? Well did you know that Mundus was the pit dug around Rome to imitate the Mount Meru axis?

The element round Mount Meru was called Oceanus, and, in imitation of Meru, no one will doubt that all the Mount Olympuses were consecrated. In imitation of these Rome was built, and round it a fosse was dug answering to the Oceanus called Mundus and Orbis, and Urbs (all the same) but this Mundus is called by Plutarch, in Greek, Olympus. Here is the mount most clearly used for the oceanus . Thus it was with Mere . It was a mount and a maris or sea- as, Horn-seamere and Wittlesea-mere and Mount Meru, and Aj-mere, and Casi-mere or Cash-mere . It is a very curious natural phenomenon, that upon the top of almost every mountain a spring is found. This was the mere or meer : and from this the hill came to be called mere ; in like manner lakes on the tops of hills came to be called mounts . The mere or lake is the mother of the river ; the mere or mount is also the mother of the river .

The Kemetic neter, Cneph/Kneph, represents supreme power. Later, Cnoub is mentioned as the Coptic word for gold when discussing the Argo pilot Canopus and the neter Canobis. I wonder if it relates with Nephthys or Nephilim.

Migdal-El Horem is ‘The Station of the Burning Sun’. This looks related to the amygdala in the brain, which they say is ‘almond’ shaped. And al-mond could be interpreted as Sun mound or God’s world or all the world, etc.

El-tolad signifies the Sun, or ‘The God of Generation’. Is this related to Toledo?

Some correlations with Chinese concepts:

Marco Paulo informs us, that in his time the Chinese paid their adoration to a tablet fixed against the wall in their houses, upon which was inscribed the name of the high, celestial, and supreme God; to whose honour they burnt incense, but of whom they had no image . The words, Mr. Marsden says, which were on the tablet were three, tien, heaven; hoang-tien, supreme heaven; and Shang-ti, sovereign Lord. De Guignes tells us, that the word tien stands indifferently for the visible heaven and the Supreme Deity. Marco Paulo tells us, that from the God whose name was on the tablet the Chinese only petition for two things, sound intellect and health of body, but that they had another God, of whom they had a statue or idol called Natigai, who was the God of all terrestrial things; in fact, God, the Creator of this world, (inferior or subordinate to the Supreme Being,) from whom they petition for fine weather, or whatever else they want- a sort of Mediator.

Shang-ti, the “sovereign Lord” sounds like shanti, meaning peace, as in “shanti, shanti, shanti.” And I assume shangri-la is related, and Shanghai.

Androgyny, Hermaphroditism, Genders

Herodotus informs us that the Persian Mithras was the same with the Assyrian Venus Mylitta or Urania, and the Arabian Alitta. Mr. Cudworth shews that this must have been the Aphrodita Urania, by which was meant the creating Deity. It is well known that the Venus Aphrodite was a Phoenician Deity, worshiped particularly at Citium, and was of both the male and female gender, -the Venus Genitrix.

Never knew Venus is also Urania, and is this related to Uranus/Ouranos, which represents the heavens? Venus Aphrodite is Phoenician, and Venus resembles Venice. If Venus Aphrodite is both male and female, then the term ‘hermaphrodite’ is fitting, since it has ‘aphrodite’ in it, and I suppose ‘herm’ is referring to Hermes/Mercury? Later, he states: “In Cyprus, Venus is represented with a beard, and called Aphrodite.” I wonder if the ‘her’ in Hermes is the feminine and ‘mes’ is the masculine? Maybe the ‘her’ is like ‘herr’ or Hari. And there’s ‘Mighty Aphrodite’.

The Priapus of the Etruscans was both male and female… He has the membrum virile, with the female breasts.

I see now where the word priapus came from!

Jupiter is a man; Jupiter is also an immortal maid… all things were contained… in the womb of Jupiter.

Brahma also came out of Vishnu’s womb and navel.

Manichaeus, according to Theodoret, said, in his allegorical language, “That a male-virgin gave light and life to Eve,” that is, created her. And the Pseudo-Mercurius Trismegistus in Paemander said, that God being male and female… because he is light and life, engendered by the word another intelligence, which was the Creator. The male-virgin, Theodoret says, was called Joel… which Beausobre thinks was “EL, God, and Joha, life-making, vivifying, life-giving, or the generating God.”…But which was probably merely the Ieu, al, or God Iao…

This is from The Divine Pymander. We see that names like Joel, Joe, Joao Gilberto, Johann, John, etc. relate to this Ieu and Iao, Yahweh. Gerald Massey’s The Light of the World has plenty of detail about this Iu-su and variants, represented by the ass or donkey. Maybe the names Ior, George and Jorge are related. ‘Eyeore’ is the sound that Eyeore the donkey makes. The Neter Su is represented by the goose, because of the hissing sound it makes (as the Neter Shu is represented by the lion because of its powerful roar/wind).

The male-virgin of the Orientals is, I know, considered the same by Plato as his… ‘Vesta’, whom he calls the soul of the body of the universe. This Hestia, by the way, is in my view a Sanscrit lady, whose name I take to have been EST, or she that is, or exists, having the same meaning as the great name of the Jewish Deity. Est is shewn in the Celtic Druids to be a Sanscrit word, and I do not doubt of this her derivation. The A terminal is added by the Greek idiom to denote a female, as they bated an indeclinable proper name, such as REST or EST would have been.

So for example, vestal virgin, and estrogen. Est in Latin means he/she/it is. So I suppose this means existing in this material world, this matrix womb, which is a feminine… concept-ion! Not ironic, but Ionic, full of electrical charge, from the yoni/yin! Later he mentions the German goddesses Ashtaroth, Astarte, and Eoster, which is related to Ishtar, Easter, Esther, star, and ash (in ASHtaroth) is dust, i.e., star dust. Or it could be something more subsuming, the fire related to both stars and ash:

Thus we find Bacchus called Vesta, as we have before found him called Ceres ; for the word Vesta, in Chaldaic, is asta : this word in Persian is At-esh, both having the same meaning- that of Fire . Here we have the Anagram.

More on stardust and Zeradust later.

The Orphic verses make the Moon both male and female.

The Moon is also of both sexes, and is called Isa and Isi.

So in one way, Isa/Isi is associated with Iswara, Isi, Isis, i.e., the Sun and the Moon, Gold and Silver, Aurum and Argentum. By the way, the establishment etymology sites say Argo derives from “swift, shiny and bright,” like the Moon, especially when it’s a crescent- a sliver of silver.

Later, when discussing the word al, which we now know as el, Higgins points out that the:

Arabians, from whose language the word al properly comes, have the word for the Sun, in the feminine, and that for the moon, in the masculine gender…

The language limitations of gender cause confusion about which gender ‘God’ is, and that this is the wrong question:

It appears that in these old books, God is called by names which are sometimes singular, sometimes plural, sometimes masculine, and sometimes feminine . But though he be occasionally of each gender, for he must be of the masculine or feminine gender, because the old language has no neuter ; he is not called by any name which conveys the idea of Goddess or a feminine nature, as separable from himself… He is, in fact, in every case Androgynous ; for in no case which I have produced is a term used exclusively belonging to one sex or the other . He is never called Baaltes, or Asteroth, or Queen of Heaven.

Cushites, Cuthites, Caledonia, Chaldeans, Indian Origins

Higgins states that the Cushites can also be called Cuthites, as well as Midian/Madian (Medes, near ancient Persia), Cushan, and the Celtae or Celts. So this made me wonder if the Chaldeans/Culdees are also these Celtic Aryans/Indians. And consider that Scythians/Schuthae is similar to both Scots and Cuthites. Also, consider that Cush was the eldest son of Ham, which relates back to Hammah (Sun), as does Abraham (father Sun or Brahma). Comyns Beaumont points out that Caledonia in Scotland is related to Chaldea. Discussing the struggles between the priestly and warrior classes, here is an excerpt from Rene Guenon’s “The Wild Boar and the Bear”:

In Greece the revolt of the Kshatriyas was represented by the hunting of the Boar of Calydon, a transparently Kshatriya version of the struggle according to which they claim for themselves a decisive victory, since the boar is killed by them. Athenaeus, following earlier authors, declares that the Boar of Calydon was white,[12] which clearly identifies it with Shwêta-varāha of Hindu tradition.[13] Equally significant, in the present context, is the fact that the first blow was struck by Atalanta, who, it is said, had been suckled by a she-bear, and the use of the name Atalanta might indicate that the revolt began either in Atlantis itself, or at least amongst the inheritors of its tradition.[14]Then again, the name Calydon is reproduced exactly in the name Caledonia, the old name for Scotland. Apart from any question of "localisation," it is, properly speaking, the country of the "Kalds" or Celts;[15] and the forest of Calydon is no different, in fact, from that of Bracelonde, the name of which, although in a somewhat modified form, is the same, and is preceded by the word bra or bor,that is, by the name of the boar itself.

Bracielonde is the forest in the King Arthur legends and is cognate with Barcelona.

Back to Anacalypsis:

Country of Ur of the Chaldees is Cali or Cali-deva or dei ; Ur-ia is country of Ur or Urns or the Beeve, of the holy or Goddess Cali, or the benignant or beautiful Goddess Cali.

Higgins says the Septuagint Bible translates ‘cus’ to mean ‘black’, and:

that it was a common thing for the Chaldeans to substitute the Tau for the Shin, thus cut, for cus

He also shows that there must be a confusion or mistranslation of the Ethiopian Cush and some other peoples East of Ethiopia:

That they cannot have been the Ethiopians of Africa is evident from a single passage, where they are said to have invaded Judah in the days of Asa, under Zerah, their king or leader. But the Lord smote the Cushim; and Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar; and the Ethiopians were overthrown, and they (i. e. Asa and his people) smote all the cities round about Gerar, &c. Whence it plainly follows, that the Cushim here mentioned, were such as inhabited the parts adjoining to Gerar, and consequently not any part of the African Ethiopia, but Arabia.

This Zerah sounds close to Zoroaster, and Zeradust is mentioned as another name for Zoroaster, which below states was considered the founder of the Chaldeans:

Mr . Bryant has noticed a country of Colida . Here we have the original Chaldea, where was the Ur- Ur of the Chaldees . Almost all writers respecting the Chaldeans have laboured under the mistaken idea, that they were identical with the Assyrians; hence they have used the words Assyrian and Chaldean as convertible terms. The error of this I have shewn in THE CELTIC DRUIDS, and I need not repeat it. There can be no doubt that many Assyrians might be Chaldeans, and vice versa . But the Chaldeans, most assuredly, were a sect or order of some kind, totally independent of the Assyrian or Babylonian empire . They were no doubt numerous in Babylon, as they were afterward in Rome, but who would say that the Romans were Chaldeans, or the Chaldeans Romans ? Ancient history shews traces of them in many places besides Babylon . Zoroaster was always said to have been their founder : but who was Zoroaster ? I shall not discuss this question at present, but content myself with saying, I suspect that he was merely the supposed genius of a cycle. Seven Zoroasters are recorded by different historians .

In the Colida or Colchida of Arrian, noticed by Mr. Bryant, I think we have the origin of the Culdees or Chaldees. They are in the district of Ur-ii or Ur-iana, where Abraham or the Brahmin came from. He came from Ur of the Cullidei, or Chaldees, or Culdees, or from Colida. This completes the proof of my system. The country of Calida or Colida in North India, between the Burrampooter and the Indus, is the country of the holy Cali- Cali-di, i . e. dis or divus and Cali. Cali is the Greek [kalos] beautiful. It is remarkable that, in the Celtic, the word Cal means wise : whence comes a calling or vocation . When a person was called, he was deemed wise for the purpose for which he was called . The Roman meeting for the election of priests was called Calata Comitia. From this comes our Gala-day, Whit-Sunday, when the Druids granted the orders or functions to priests . I believe myself that the Ariana, said by Col . Van Kennedy to be bounded by the Indus, was Uriana, which extended thus far ; that all the Doab between the Ganges and Indus was Ariana and Ur-iana, and perhaps Ara-bia also. The word UR in the Indian language signifies also country or town - Era of Greece. Then, when it is said that Abraham came from “Ur of the Chaldees,” it may mean, that he came from the country of the Chaldees or from Colida, not from the fire of the Chaldees.

So Ariana/Uriana and Ur are related to Aryan, Ireland, maybe Arabia, Erythraea, etc. And Colida/Culdee is related to Kali, Gala, calla lilies, maybe caliph/khalifa, California, etc.

Back to Ethiopia:

Philostratus says, that the Gymnosophists of Ethiopia, who settled near the sources of the Nile, descended from the Bramins of India, having been driven thence for the murder of their king. This, Philostratus says, he learnt from an ancient Brahmin, called Jarchas.

…the ancient Susiana is the modern Chuzestan or Elam, of which Susa was the capital. The famous Memnon, probably the Sun, was said to be the son of Aurora. But Eschylus informs us, that Cissiene was the mother of Memnon, and to him the foundation of Susa is attributed ; and its citadel was called Memnonium, and itself the city of Memnon . This is the Memnon who was said to have been sent to the siege of Troy, and to have been slain by Achilles ; and who was also said, by the ancient authors, to be an Ethiopian or a Black . It seems the Egyptians suppose that this Memnon was their king Amenophis.

Shepherd ‘Captives’ were the Israelites:

Josephus says that the copies of Manetho differed, that in one the Shepherds were called ‘Captives’, not kings, and that he thinks this is more agreeable to ancient history ; that Manetho also says, the nation called Shepherds were likewise called Captives in their sacred books ; and that after they were driven out of Egypt, they journied through the wilderness of Syria, and built a city in Judea, which they called Jerusalem .

More Indian origins asserted by William Jones:

" We are told that the Phenicians, like the Hindus, adored the Sun, and asserted water to be the first of created things ; nor can we doubt that Syria, Samaria, and Phenice, or the long strip of land on the shore of the Mediterranean, were anciently peopled by a branch of the Indian stock, but were afterwards inhabited by that race which, for the present we call Arabian ." Here we see he admits that the ancient Phoenicians were Hindoos…

The spelling of Phenice, or Phoenicia, shows how it evolves to Venice/Venetian, and of course the Black Venetians. However, in Celtic:

Wen is acknowledged to belong to the Celtic terms for a woman, from which the Latin Venus is derived. Then Alma Venus might mean the mother, the mother Venus.

Specific examples of cross-continental influences:

…the Brahmins in India calculate eclipses, &c ., by means of little shells used as calculi, called cauris. And this they continue notwithstanding their skill in Arabian arithmetic and letters . Most of my readers, I suspect, will here instantly recollect the Cowries of the Africans, by which they count, and which they use as money. Here is the Indian practice in Africa, and the Indian name also .

‘Sophees’/’Sapae’ of course would be the Sufis.

More on Thrace and Tammuz/Thomas below. Notice the relationship between ‘Hebrew’ and ‘Iberia’, but also ‘Hebrides’ near Scotland (Scuthae/Scythians/Saca/etc.)

Al, Elohim, Adonis, Saddai

Higgins details the importance of astrology found in the Bible, which in later translations and interpretations is purposely misdirecting:

In the first verse of the first book, the ALEIM, which will be proved to be the Trinity, being in the plural number, are said by Wisdom to have formed, from matter previously existing, the smim, or planetary bodies, which were believed by the Magi to be the rulers or directors of the affairs of men .

This ‘Aleim’ is an older way of saying Elohim, but seems more correct since this term begins with the letter aleph. The singular of course is Al or El. Think Nephilim, Cherubim, Seraphim. And think, ‘The All’ in Hermetics, or Allah or Hallelujah. Later Higgins mentions other variants:

Aaron says, ale aleik, these are thy Aleim who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

The Greek Bible translation he is referring to above is of course the Septuagint- from the 70 wise men, the LXX. Higgins states, “but the story is, that the translation was made by seventy-two men, six out of each tribe, though it is called the Seventy; that to these men seventy-two questions were put, and they finished their work in seventy-two days.” I doubt it took 72 days or 72 priests. Adonis is related to the Kemetic Sun neter Aton/Aten, and the city Aden, the Greek god Adonis, Adonai/Adni/Adun, etc. The ‘ton’ in Aton I think has to do with the vibrational radiance of Sunlight, the tone frequencies. Atone, as in ‘atone for our sins’, in one sense means towards a tone, or merge into one tone frequency, we attune to a frequency, like a radio station. Tone, as in a tonic or tonifying herb, stretches out something, like blood vessels. If we think of tone as t-one, then ‘one’ could be seen as a one dimensional point crossing (the ‘t’) into the second dimension by dividing itself into two, making a line. Planet or plane-t is a realm crossing into a three dimensional ‘plane’ of reality, as depicted in the astrological glyph for the Earth (a cross inside a circle). But if we go the ‘d’ route, like Adonis, then a don lords over you, or you don a hat over you, or it’s like a domicile or dome. Then there’s Adam, atom, Atum, etc.

Adonis, as I have shewn, has the meaning of Wisdom. It is [Hebrew] a-dun THE wisdom. From this come the title of the Dons of Spain and Portugal, of the Welsh Adon for Lord, and the title of O Conner Don of Ireland. The Rossi, or Rosy-crucians, with their emblematic red cross and red rose, probably came from the fable of Adonis (who was the Sun, whom we have seen so often crucified) being changed into a red rose by Venus. Rus in Irish signifies a tree, knowledge, science: this is the Hebrew Ras. Hence the Persian Rustan.

Genesis xlix 25… By the God (Al) of thy father also he will help thee, and the Saddai (Sdi) also shall bless thee with blessings, &c… It is worthy of observation, that there is a marked distinction between the Al of his father who will help him, and the Saddi who will bless him .

Sdi/Saddai probably relates with the Siddhi superhuman powers that you could attain if you keep up with your sadhanas. I also thought, Saudi Arabia, Saddam Hussein, Sado-Masochism, Satan, Set, Sidon/Sayda in Lebanon, shadow, the Shades of Hades. Later, more related words are shown: Saddi, Saddim, Sadi, Shaddai:

Now, at last, what does this word Sadi, Saddim, or Shaddai, Sdi, really mean ? Mr. Parkhurst tells us, it means all-bountiful-the pourer forth of blessings ; among the Heathen, the Dea Multimammia ; in fact, the Diana of Ephesus, the Urania of Persia, the Jove of Greece, called by Orpheus the mother of the Gods, each male as well as female-the Venus Aphrodite ; in short, the genial powers of nature.

The multi-mammaried Artemis of Epheseus

Parkhurst says, that " the word Al means God, the Heavens, Leaders, Assistance, Defence, and Interposition ; or, to interpose for protection ." He adds, " that All, with the l doubled, has the meaning, in an excessive degree, of vile, the denouncing of a curse : nought, nothing, res nihili." Mr. Whiter says, that it has the same meaning in Arabic . and that AL AL, also means Deus optimus maximus. Thus we have the idea of creating, preserving, and destroying.

Higgins mentions that in Genesis Chapter 28, the name Beth-el is used, instead of The House of the Sun. The word Beth means House, and El refers to the Sun. There was also Bith-Avon, which also refers to another name for the Sun, On, sometimes called Bith-on. So this makes me think that Beethoven’s name derives from Bith-Avon. Similarly, Beth-Aven is mentioned later. And Bethany looks like a variant of Bith-on, and Bath in England means house, and Countess Bathory looks like ‘house of gold’, although it should be House of Blood. Later, Bit Al is mentioned as House of the Sun, which in Greek translates to Heliopolis, also known as On. Again, sounds like Betelgeuse is related.

In the Beginning

Now we come to the discussion of the first two words of Genesis, ‘b-rasit’ (bereshit), and this section is very… illuminating.

…B-RASIT ; (for they are properly two not one word ;) and great difference of opinion has arisen, among learned men, respecting the meaning of them . Grotius renders them, when first ; Simeon, before ; Tertullian, in power ; Rabbi Bechai and Castalio, in order before all ; Onkelos, the Septuagint, Jonathan ben Uzziel, and the modern translators, in the beginning.

But the official or accredited and admitted authority of the Jewish religion, the JERUSALEM TARGUM, renders them BY WISDOM.

It may be observed that the Targum of Jerusalem is, or was formerly, the received orthodox authority of the Jews … I shall now shew, to conceal this that Christians have suppressed its true meaning . To the celebrated and learned Beausobre I am indebted for the most important discovery of the secret doctrine contained in this word . He says, " The Jews, instead of translating Berasit by the words in the beginning, translate it by the Principle (par le Principe) active and immediate of all things, God " made, &c., that is to say, according to the Targum of Jerusalem, BY WISDOM, (PAR LA SAGESSE,) God made, &c .

…Beausobre gives us as the expression of Clemens, "This is what St. Peter says, who has very well understood this word: `God has made the heaven and the earth by the Principle. (Dieu a fait le Ciel et la Terre dans le Principe.) This principle is that which is called Wisdom by all the prophets ." I Here is evidently the doctrine of the Magi or of Emanations .

…WISDOM is one of the three first of the Eight Emanations which formed the eternal and everhappy Octoade of the oriental philosophers, and of the ten Sephiroth of the Jewish Cabala . See Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon, p . 668 … where the reader will find that ras means wisdom.

… Picus, of Mirandula, confirms my rendering, and says, "This Wisdom is the Son." Whether the Son or not, this is evidently the first emanation, MINERVA-the Goddess of Wisdom emanating or issuing from the head of Jove, (or Iao or Jehovah,) as described on an Etruscan brass plate in the Cabinet of Antiquities at Bologna . This is known to be Etruscan, from the names being on the arms of the Gods in Etruscan letters, which proves it older than the Romans... M. Basnage says, " Moses Nachmanides advanced three Sephiroths above all the rest… That first eternal number is the Father : the WISDOM by which God created the heavens is the Son and Prudence or Understanding, which makes the third number of the Cabalists, is the Christian Holy Ghost."

The word Rasit, as we might expect, is found in the Arabic language, and means… head, chief-and is used as a term of honour applied to great persons : for instance, Aaron-al-raschid . Al is the emphatic article. Abd-al-raschid, i . e. Abdallah-al-raschid, &c .

So Rashita/Rasheed/Rashad are variants of chief, principle, wisdom, etc (also consider Raja, royal, rex, etc. The Sephiroth considers the first emanation to be the corona.). And Higgins points out that the Abyssinian leader is called Ras, thus Rastafarians (btw, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) refers to the Abyss although Ancient Egypt considered southern Egypt as the north). I find Phil Langdon’s understanding of the first letter, B, in the Torah to be profound: https://youtu.be/gu8xncvmD04 . He says that since B represents a house/beth, we come into the world, into the house of this material reality. This is sort of what the word ‘be’ means.

We also see some connections regarding Jupiter/Jove/Jehovah and his daughter, Minerva, representing wisdom. And if wisdom is the son and principle, the son of God is the ‘Prince of Peace’. And what about Zeus/Iesous, Rhea’s son, i.e., reason? Doesn’t reason lead to wisdom? The planet Jupiter in Jyotish is Guru, which translates to banish darkness, and rules Sagittarius, the sage. The Roman equivalent to Zeus is Iu Pater, and this father’s son, or pattern’s consequence, is Logos- or rationality and golden ratios, and from patterns we get matter (for example, Erwin Schrodinger’s theme in What is Life that the stochastic Brownian motion of particles creates the phenomena we detect with our senses), so pater and mater, father and mother. Remember, the New Testament begins with talk of ‘the word’, but really logos, this underlying structure of rea-lity that cannot occur any other way, the way the Fibonacci sequence snowballs onto itself can only accumulate that one way, regardless of what numeric system we use, hexadecimal, binary, etc., forever fine-tuning to the golden ratio proportion- 3/2, 5/3, 8/5, 13/8, etc. We need to connect the dots, connect more points, delineate, triangulate (extra-pole-ate), see these patterns, see the reality, see our domain, visualize our domain, vis-dom, wisdom.

Wisdom was the first emanation from the Divine power, the protogonos, the beginning of all things, the Rasit of Genesis, the Buddha of India, the Logos of Plato and St. John, as I shall prove. Wisdom was the beginning of creation .

The Buddha mentioned above is really buddhi, not specifically Gautama Buddha. The buddhi yoga concept of balanced and detached intellect is a central theme in the Bhagavad Gita and other Vedic teachings.

The Persians have a sacred book, called Sohfi Ibrahim, or the book of Abraham, but which ought to be called the book of the WISDOM of Abraham . The Jews also have a sacred book, called the book of Moses, and the first of which, known to us under the name of Genesis, is called by them Rasit, or the book of wisdom. Now, supposing them to have been the same in the time of Abraham, we may reasonably suppose considerable changes and additions would be made,' to both religions in the space of five or six hundred years, merely from the natural effects of time

Sophia is the Aeon emanation of wisdom in Gnostic Christianity. This is of course related to other words with this root- philosophy, sophistry, sophisticated, maybe Sufi? It’s interesting when Higgins points out that sacred books of peoples, like Sagas, are related to sagacity/wisdom, but he goes a little overboard at the end, I think:

The sacred books of most nations seem to have been called the books of wisdom. The Persians called their sacred book the Sophi Ibrahim, that is, the book of the Wisdom of Abraham. The Jews call their book, not as we do Genesis, but the rasit, that is, the book of Wisdom. The Scandinavians called their sacred book the Saga, (Saga is the same as the Latin Sagax, sagacious, wise,) that is, again, the book of Wisdom ; and the Brahmins and Buddhists call their sacred book the Veda, the word Veda being only a corruption of the word Buddha, and, like all the others, it means Wisdom, and I have little doubt that the Edda of the Northern nations is the same, being V-edda,, and the Kali-ol-ukham of the Tamuls the same .

Suph/Soph is the root in the Greek words for both seraph and wise. This could be related to the notion that serpents are sometimes considered the wisest animals.

And note how Logos and Linga are considered the same, which makes sense when we think of linguistics and words. And both are the masculine principle, as opposed to yoni or ruh, the Holy Spirit/Ghost (spirit connotes respiration, air).

Effusive Emanations

the Hebrew word asdt, which the Septuagint translates angels, means effusions, that is, emanations, from the Divine substance

They say the Sun undergoes fusion reactions, but the light emanating from it is effusive, the opposite of fusion. The light radiation from the Sun Ras/rays emanate out from all angles/angels into all Rhea’s c-rea-tion, area, i.e., space. Of course, Kronos/Cronus is her consort and brother, so time and emit (radiation), or space and paces.

Higgins mentions that the ‘dt’ in asdt, or asdut, is related to the Median word, Dat, which signifies law or commandment (Medes was a region of Persia). Later, the variants Eschdot and Esch-Dot are mentioned. This root is probably related to the Da’at in the middle pillar of the Sephiroth, and Da’at means, roughly, knowledge. Keeping with the theme of wisdom/intellect/knowledge, this term for angels/emanations/effusions sounds like ‘astute’. Remember, nothing really exists except in our minds, and every ‘material’ thing that we create or manifest or reify, starts with ideas and wisdom and other concepts that don’t exist outside of the mind, but even institutional physicists are now saying that all we have in the universe is information, the data bits that form reality, the information in formation, informing our perception of reality, the I’s and O’s that cross into reality (the t in ratio would be the cross). Life is a dream, how will you row your boat?

The ancient Persians believed, that the Supreme Being was surrounded with angels, or what they called Aeons or Emanations, from the divine substance . This was also the opinion of the Manicheans, and of almost all the Gnostic sects of Christians.

A point or Monad doesn’t exist in the sense that it has a measurable number- it’s an idea, just as light doesn’t have mass or timeframe. Then from this point comes a line, when you have a separation or division of this singularity into a duality. And you need a third point to have enough relationships to create a plane of reality, outside of the line. This trinity, or triangle, has three angles emanating from it, three angels/angles or ‘emanations’ of light, which doesn’t exist in the material realm until light illuminates something. The term, ‘tertiary’ has the root ‘ter’ as in terrestrial (as opposed to ETs, which are extra-dimensional, and thus angels can see everything in our 3D world, if you know how 4D hypercubes work) or Terra Firma (as opposed to the Firmament- a firm mind), maybe even ‘terms’, i.e., words and names in our minds, the way we cut everything into categories with language terms when everything is really the same one thing, The All, the point source. We cut it in half, saw it in half, and it goes into the past, it was, the backwards of saw, instead of it is/esse, the backwards of si/see, being in the present, timeless, like light, from trinity, e-ternity (think ternary or Italian terno- this makes me think that the word turn and the concept of turning can only occur when you have three or more points, since two points only creates a line. And likewise, maybe the Sun is associated with ‘helio’ as in helix because it is constantly spiralling in addition to cycling, relative to our galaxy’s movement, so get spiritual, start spiraling upward. Later Higgins states that Elias/Elijah/al-Ieu is Helios: “the Baptist was Elias, that is, in plain Greek, the sun.” Pelias and Neleus are mentioned as being born after a ten month pregnancy, a messianic sign, so this makes me think that these ‘elias’ or ‘elio’ roots have to do with the Sun or helical cycles.). That’s why ‘term’ also means a time period, like terminal. Likewise, temporary and other ‘temp’ words relate to time as well as materiality, like temper or temperature. It’s also interesting that the Greek for Nun (primordial waters) is Noun, i.e., the words and names we give to everything.

Astrotheology

The two words called in the first chapter of Genesis e-samim, the heavens, ought to be translated the planets . In that work the sun, and moon, and the earth, are said to be formed, and also separately from them the samim or planets ; and afterward the stars also . Dr. Parkhurst has very properly explained the word to mean disposers. They are described in the Chaldean Oracles as a septenary of living beings . By the ancients they were thought to have, under their special care, the affairs of men . Philo was of this opinion, and even Maimonides declares, that they are endued with life, knowledge, and understanding ; that they acknowledge and praise their Creator . On this opinion of the nature of the planets, all judicial astrology, magic, was founded - a science, I believe, almost as generally held by the ancients, as the being of a God is by the moderns .'

Phornutus says, “For the ancients took those for Gods whom they found to move in a certain regular manner, thinking them to be the causers of the changes of the air and the conservation of the universe. These, then, are Gods which are the disposers and formers of all things ."

The word itsmia is used by the Targum of Jerusalem for the word at smim of Genesis, and I think fully justifies my rendering of that word by planets instead of the word heavens. It comes from the root sm, which signifies to fix, to enact, pono, sancior -and means placers, fixers, enactors .

I thought the Arabic ‘zmm’ seems related:

The bible, the Masoretic texts, are steeped in astrology, the Mazzaroth, trying to show for those with eyes to see that the planets and stars influence our lives, that they are beings, fractal levels above humans. Our dispositions, prakriti are set by the disposers, the fixers, wherever placement these placers are at the moment of our birth when the observer is able to receive these energies in their new reality. Remember, we are talking about light, frequencies, energies affecting us, illuminating us from all angles, conjunctions, oppositions, right angle T-squares, etc.

Higgins states that the Chaldei were not a people, but an order of priests dispersed throughout the world and this:

is confirmed by Diodorus Siculus, who says, that the Chaldeans held the same rank in Babylon, that the Egyptian priests did in Egypt ; that they transmitted their learning from father to son ; that they were exempt from all public offices and burdens ; that by their constant study of the stars, they learnt to foretell future events ; and that they called the planets counselling Gods or Interpreters. Here we come back to my explanation of the first verse of Genesis, of the smim, or the disposers or placers in order of Parkhurst.

Vallancey shews, from Strabo and other authorities, that the Chaldeans were the first astrologers .

The word rqio [rakiya] means the firmament or ethereal space ; the word ccb [kochab] means a star.

The Milky Way was known as ‘the strawey way’, referring to corn:

But the original oriental name was the strawey way- via straminis seu palem- and was thus called from an astronomical allegory of the celestial virgin, who, fleeing from the evil principle Typhon, let fall some of the ears of corn, or corn in the straw; which she carried in one of her hands. This celestial virgin was feigned to be a mother : she is represented in the Indian Zodiac of Sir William Jones with ears of corn in one hand, and the lotus in the other : in Kircher's Zodiac of Hermes, she has corn in both hands .

This makes me wonder if the word Capricorn has to do with the cap of corn or some kind of limit of the Sun’s traversal at that longitude in reference to this ‘strawey way’. But how this would relate to a goat fish, I don’t know. My understanding of the opposite sign, Cancer, is that the crab is very hard-shelled, like the Greek word karkinos, where we get the term, carcinogen. And Karka is Cancer in Jyotish/Vedic astrology. Also the Egyptian ‘scarab’ beetle is similar to ‘crab’. But other than this, I don’t know why a crab would depict the Summer Solstice month, except that the Sun at its peak is traversing sideways like a crab, but this isn’t satisfactory for me.

Jyotish names for planets are completely different from the above Sanskrit names from the ‘Madras Transactions’. Venus and Jupiter don’t seem similar to me. Arah for Mars appears to be similar to Aries/Ares. Konah for Saturn is similar to Kronos, but if it relates with time/chronology, I don’t know how this is referring to time.

Thanks for reading.

Continued in Part 2:

Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins (Part 2)