Astral-Myth | paradoxa's Blog

Looking up at the stars and ‘fast-forwarding’ the movements, we would see spiralling circles. There is really no north pole; any star close to that point revolves in a small circle. To-day the star we use as being closest is Polaris. The ancients used Alpha Draconis in the constellation Draco for their north star. The small circle created by the north star and its constellation companions looks like a serpent.

The high priests of ancient times invented fabulous stories to cover their science. “After all,” they said, “If the people understand science, they’ll be JUST LIKE US, knowing the difference between good(daylight) and evil(night-darkness), then they won’t think we are so special after all.” “Why, we might even have to get real jobs.”

The people were told that the sky was another ocean. During the day, the Sun-god sailed across the sky in his boat. You can see the stelas of ancient Egypt depicting this.

Every spring the priests of Osiris carried his boat(ark) around the city in celebration of his victory over winter. The promise Osiris made to the people was that he would make the journey across the sky every day, as long as the people followed his laws and worshiped him. This was the Ark (arc is a portion of a circle) of the Covenant. The king would be his representative in the physical form and the priests would be his advisors. The sun being golden in colour meant the king and the advisors would need the physical equivalent and lots of it too.

It is interesting to note that the ‘Hebrew’ version of the same scam depicts Aron and his brothers as being the carriers of the Ark. Aron comes from the same root word for ‘Arena’ which is a circle.

The international priesthood adapted variations of the same theme, adjusting the story for variations in temperament of different peoples. The Greeks needed emotion and drama so the priests had their top scriptwriters working overtime. For instance, a plain story of Satan being a serpent simply wasn’t enough. For them the special effects crew went to work-----enter the Hesperides, nymphs who guarded the golden apples in a secret garden. This garden was somewhere in the west and since the nymphs were daughters of Evening, that is where you would expect them to be. The apples had been given to Gea(mother earth) to Hera as a wedding present and Hera had asked the nymphs to keep them for her. The nymphs planted them near a river at the northern part of the garden to keep them safe. The immortal snake with a hundred heads, Ladon, offspring of Typhon and Echidna kept watch over the apple trees. (The descendents of these writers are now writing afternoon soaps).

The apples were stolen by Hercules who killed the ‘immortal’ Ladon in the process. Eventually Hera played the sleuth, found the apples and returned them to the garden. They were sacred and could not be allowed to exist elsewhere for long.

Ladon of course is the constellation Draco. He was ‘killed’ by Hercules (a type of the sun) because Draco/Ladon ‘dies’ when the sun comes up. ‘He’ is back again the following night because he is immortal. This is the short version of the story. Hercules had twelve labours to complete. This story of the golden apples is said to be his 11th. while other ancient priests say it was his 12th. task. Although his father was technically Zeus (Jupiter of the Romans, from Dius-pater, heavenly father, more properly, father of heaven), Hercules is emulating the sun’s progression through the zodiac. For the Greeks, the sun had elaborate ‘adventures with the other ‘heavenly deities.’ The ‘hundred heads’ are the stars of the north. This story has been chosen for a very important reason.

To briefly return to the Egyptian idea of the heaven consisting of a sea through which the sun sailed by day and the moon, stars and planets by night, we can find the origins of all major religions and the esoteric meaning behind them.

When the light of the world shone on the lands of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Babylon and the Aryan areas of India, people felt happy, safe, vision was good, plants were green and it seemed the sun gave its life everyday so that all below might have life. It died every night, having given its life for the world. Yet, as the priests of the sun cried out every dawn, “He is risen, He is new, Great is his faithfulness.” At night, people could not see far, night predators prowled, human mischief occurred, revenge was undertaken, in other words the absence of light allowed ‘evil’ to ravage like a lion. Predatory priests understood the psychology of the ignorant and exploited the people. In all of the above countries, plus areas of Central America, sun-priests were kept in a state of power over the people by their ‘power to call up the sun.’ should their demands be unmet by the people, they would refuse to call the sun and the people would perish for their sins in darkness.

Augmenting obedience to the various deities always involved sacrifice. Children brought up witnessing bloody deeds carried out in the name of salvation gave more credence to priestly explanations and demands. Naturally, not every year gave abundant crops. This was explained away as the wrath of one god or another, massive propitiation, often of human was required. Priests, royalty and nobility lived well, supplied by international merchant/bankers with fine clothes and jewellery, Arabian horses, slaves and all the costly items which were often buried with their owners. In return for such products the merchant-bankers brought away crops of food, locally produced items and always, a very hansom profit. Bankers in Sumer expected 100% profit on their loans to traders. Bankers encouraged huge building projects in ‘honour’ to the kings. He would weigh out buckets of gold, knowing he would retrieve mountains.

Human sacrifice at the top of the pyramid, a priest slashes open a captive’s chest to tear out his living heart. Every night, the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli was believed to do battle against the powers of darkness. To give him strength, and to ensure that the sun would be reborn every morning, the priests offered mankinds most precious gift—human hearts and blood. This scene is from the Codex Magliabechiano (16th century A.D.).

Many people know about the bloody sacrifices of the Aztecs and their predecessors. It can not be stressed enough that sun-priests had a long history of similar cultural mind control techniques across the ancient world. Much has been done over thousands of years to ‘clean’ the historical records. We know the Egyptians used to sacrifice red-haired captives to the sun on certain high holy days. Over time, red cows were substituted. The saying “Giving your heart to the Sun of God” goes back a long way.