Stargates Pt 3

Stargates, Ancient Rituals, And Those Invited Through The Portal (Pt. 3)

Metaphysical nonsense, or high-tech mechanisms built by "the gods"?

By Thomas Horn

In part two of this feature we ended by saying the next      step would be to start cataloging those who have come through stargates of      the past, the present, and the powerful ones perched to do so in the near      future.

This section of study requires two primary assumptions. The reader      will note that versions of these assumptions are accepted by general camps      of Ufology--both those from restrictively the Biblical worldview and those      outside that view.

The assumptions are:

That beings of myth were at least at times based on authentic interaction with super-intelligences of unknown origin.
That certain mythology as well as anomalous "historical records" were the efforts of men to interpret these eyewitness accounts and visitations.

Since the religion of Sumeria was the first      known organized mythology and greatly influenced the foundational beliefs of      the forthcoming nations of Assyria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and others, the      question of origin of Sumerian belief has interested scholars and historians      for more than a millennium.

Specifically, where does one find the beginning      of the gods of Sumeria? Were the Sumerian deities the product of human      imagination, or the distortion of an earlier prehistoric revelation?

Were      they the "mythologizing" of certain heroes, or as subscribers of the Ancient      Astronaut theory believe, the result of an extra-terrestrial "alien"      visitation whose appearance gave birth to legends and gods of mythology?      More importantly, did the gods of Sumeria reflect the emergence of a real,      perhaps spiritual influence operating through pagan dynamics, or were the      gods purely the creation of primitive imagination?

These questions are both fascinating and      difficult since the deities of ancient Sumeria/Mesopotamia continue to be      shrouded in a history of unknown origins.

It was as though from "out of      nowhere" the Sumerians sprang onto the scene over 5,500 years ago, bringing      with them the first written language and a corpus of progressive      knowledge—from complicated religious concepts, to an advanced understanding      of astrology, chemistry, and mathematics.

The three common theories regarding the      origin of Sumerian myth are: 1) The Euhemerus View; 2) The Ancient Astronaut      View; and 3) The Biblical View.

The Euhemerus View was based on the theories      of the Greek scholar Euhemerus, who claimed the pagan gods originated with      famous ancient kings who were later deified.

The more popular theories—the      Ancient Astronaut and the Biblical View—apply an "event" that is believed to      have occurred, where early humans were visited--perhaps even altered--by      super intelligent beings. To some, these visitors were "angels" and/or      "demons" while to others they were advanced humanoids.

The beginning

Evidence suggests that the earliest legends      of myth were preceded by a belief in "the God" as the creator of all things      and the "ruler of heaven."

A later struggle between the "ruler of the      heavens" versus the "power of the air" occurred in Sumerian mythology after      Enki, the god of wisdom and water, created the human race out of clay.

It      appears that Anu, who was at first the most powerful of the Sumerian gods      and the "ruler of the heavens," was superseded in power and popularity by      Enlil, the "god of the air." (To the Christian mind this could be perceived      as a record of Satan, the god of the air, continuing his pretence to the      throne of God, and his usurpation of Yahweh—"the Lord of the heavens.")

Correspondingly, in the Enuma elish (a      Babylonian epic), Marduk, the great god of the city of Babylon, was exalted      above the benevolent gods and extolled as the creator of the world.

Marduk      was symbolized as a dragon called the Muscrussu, and his legend also      appears to contain several similarities of the biblical account of creation.

The Adapa Epic likewise tells a Babylonian legend roughly equivalent      to the Genesis account of creation. In it, Adapa, like Adam, underwent a      test on food consumption, failed the test and forfeited his opportunity for      immortality. As a result of the failure, suffering and death were passed      along to humanity.

Finally, in the Epic of Gilgamesh we      find startling similarity of the Biblical record, deeply rooted in ancient      Assyrian and Babylonian mythology.

In      1872 George Smith discovered the Gilgamesh tablets while doing research on      the Assyrian library of Ashurbanipal at the British Museum.

As he      interpreted the text, a legend emerged: Gilgamesh, the king of the city of      Uruk, was told about a great flood from his immortal friend, Utnapishtim      (the Sumerian equivalent of Noah).

Utnapishtim described for Gilgamesh how      the great god Enlil had decided to destroy all of mankind because of its      sins. A plague was sent but failed to persuade mankind of better behavior.      Consequently, the gods determined to exterminate the human race.

Enki, the      lord of the waters, was not happy with the other gods for this decision and      warned Utnapishtim of the coming deluge, instructing him to tear down his      house and to build a great boat. Utnapishtim obeyed Enki, built the vessel,      and sealed it with pitch and bitumen. The family of Utnapishtim loaded onto      the boat together with various beasts and fowl. When the rains came, the      doors were closed and the vessel rose up above the waters.

Sound      familiar? For over a hundred years the story of Gilgamesh was considered by      many to be nothing more than myth.

Then, in April of 2003, Archaeologists in      Iraq announced the discovery of what they believed to be the lost tomb of      King Gilgamesh - the subject of the oldest "book" in history.

Scholars began to wonder: If      Gilgamesh actually lived, should anything be made of stories about his      superhuman status as a demi-god?

He was said to be two-thirds god and      one-third human, like the Biblical accounts of Nephilim--part-human      part-angel beings, which descended through gateways in heaven, and became      "mighty men which were  of old, men of renown" (Gen. 6:4).

Were other records of myth potentially the accounts of      actual interaction between Heroes and men? Hybrids!? Biblical and      extra-biblical records seem to indicate there might be more to mythology      than myth.

In my second book, The Gods Who Walk Among Us, I began:

In what the Greeks would later call        "Mesopotamia" (between the rivers), the world’s first great trade        center and civilization had developed. The opulent Sumerian cities of        Ur—the home of Abram—Uruk, and Lagash, had become the economic machines of        the ancient Middle East, and industries from as far away as Jericho near        the Mediterranean Sea, and Catal Huyuk in Asia Minor, competed for the        trade opportunities they provided. Laborers from the biblical city of        Jericho exported salt into Sumer, and miners from Catal Huyuk prepared        obsidian, used in making mirrors, for shipment into the ancient        metropolis.

Yet while the prehistoric people of the East      looked to the Sumerians for their supply of daily bread, the Sumerians      themselves gazed heavenward to the early rising of Utu (Shamash), the      all-providing sun god, as he prepared once again to ride across the sky in      his mule-drawn chariot.

Utu was not alone among the gods. By now the      Sumerian pantheon provided the earliest known description of organized      mythology, consisting of a complex system of more than 3,000 deities and      covering nearly every detail of nature and human enterprise. There were gods      of sunshine and rain. There were vegetation gods, fertility gods, river      gods, animal gods, and gods of the afterlife.

There were the great gods—Enlil      (prince of the air), Anu (ruler of the heavens), Enki, (the god of water),      and more. Under these existed a second level of deities, including Nannar      the moon god, Utu the sun god, and Inanna, the "Queen of Heaven".

These      religious concepts derived according to some scholars following earth      visitation by super-intelligent beings, about whom the mythology of the gods      were based.

As the centuries passed, the god and goddess      worshipping cities of the Sumerians began to fade away. The flourishing      fields of agriculture that provided the underpinnings of the great Sumerian      economy were depleted of fertility through over-irrigation, and residues of      salt build-up appeared to chaff the surface of the land.

The city-states of      Sumeria; Kish, Ur, Lagash, and Umma, damaged by a millennium of ruthless      infighting among the Sumerians, finally succumbed to militant external      forces.

The barbarian armies of the Elamites (Persians) invaded and      destroyed the city of Ur, and Amorites from the west overran the northern      province of Sumer and subsequently established the hitherto little-known      town of Babylon as their capital.

By B.C.1840, Hammurabi, the sixth king of      Babylon, conquered the remaining cities of Sumeria and forged northern      Mesopotamia and Sumeria into a single nation.

Yet the ultimate demise of the Sumerian people did not vanquish their ideas. Sumerian art, language, literature, and especially religion, was forever absorbed into the cultures and

social academics of the nations surrounding Mesopotamia, including the Hittite nation, the Babylonians, and the ancient Assyrians... and something else: the story of flying disks, the gods who flew in them, and gateways through which the evil and benevolent influences sought entry.

Such gateways (stargates) were represented on earth in      Assyrian archways built through elaborate construction ceremonies and      blessed by names of good omens.

Colossal transgenic creatures stood guard at      the gates and palace entries to keep undesirable forces from coming through      the portals--important imitative magic thought to represent heavenly      ideas--guardians that were often accompanied by winged spirits holding magic      devices and magic statuettes concealed beneath the floors.

Sumerian      engravings on clay cylinders speak of these flying disks. Very similar      winged disks are found throughout Assyrian mythology in association with      Ashur, the flying god of war.

Ashur is believed to be a later version of      Ahura-Mazda, the good god of Zoroastrianism who is opposed by Ahriman.

In      each case these very ancient beings are depicted coming through or      descending from the sky on flying disks. Similar stories are repeated in      Egyptian hieroglyphs as well as in the literature of Greece and other      cultures around the world.

A principal benefactor of these ideas, and a      people who would ultimately make their own contributions to the ancient      mythologies, was an old and flourishing population of agrarians known as the     Egyptians.

By the year B.C. 1350, Egyptian dominance had      spread from Syria and Palestine into the farthest corners of the Fertile      Crescent.

From northern Mesopotamia to the Baltic Sea, the pharaohs of Egypt      had established themselves as the social and economic leaders of the      civilized world, ruling an area more than 2,000 miles in length.

Yet in the final analysis, it was the influence of      the gods of Egypt—their magic, myths, and rituals—that provided the      Egyptians with a lasting place in history and brought following generations      into an immense, "enlightening" description of ancient mythology, including      a wealth of information regarding the dynamics and supernatural      possibilities of pyramids, paganism, and portals.

Facts About Atum (RA), Osiris and Isis

Prehistoric Egyptians held the premise that      the oceans preceded and in some way contributed to the creation of the      living cosmos.

From the Fifth Dynasty Pyramid Texts, the Heliopolitan theory      of creation states that Atum (the sun god Ra) independently created himself      from a singular expression of self will—an act visualized by the Egyptians      as a divine egg that appeared upon the primordial waters of the all-filling      ocean called Nun, out of which Atum (meaning He who created himself),      emerged.

Egyptians described Ra as navigating the heavens in a      flying "boat." Horus was a descendant of Ra and flew through the heavens on      a winged disk as well, which "shined with many colors."

A hieroglyphic in the temple at Edfu describes one such event:

"So Horus, the Winged Measurer, flew up toward the horizon in the Winged Disk of Ra; it is therefore that he has been called from that day on Great God, Lord of the Skies....Then Horus, the Winged Measurer, reappeared in the Winged Disk, which shined in many colors; and he came back to the boat of Ra, the Falcon of the Horizon.... And Thoth said: 'O Lord of the gods! The Winged Measurer has returned in the great Winged Disk, shining with many colors.'

Second act of creation and a flying eye

According to myth, a second act of creation developed around a divine masturbation when Atum, the great "He-She", orally copulated himself and afterward regurgitated his children—Shu and Tefnut—who assumed the positions of god and goddess of air and moisture. Later, when Shu and Tefnut became lost in the universal ocean of Nun, Atum exhibited his paternal care by sending out his Eye, which had

the curious habit of detaching itself from Atum and of thinking independent thoughts, to look for them. The flying Eye of Atum found the child gods and eventually returned to discover that Atum had grown impatient during the wait and had created a second eye. In order to placate the hostility that developed between the two divine eyes, Atum affixed the first eye upon his forehead where it was to oversee and rule the world of creation. Thus the Eye of Atum became the jealous, destructive aspect of the sun god Ra.

To avoid getting lost again in the      all-filling waters of Nun, Shu and Tefnut procreated Geb (the earth), and      Nut (the sky), and thus provided the more stable elements of earth, nature,      and the seasons.

Later, Geb was conceptualized as cohabiting with Nut and      producing four children of his own: Seth, Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys.

Of      these, Osiris and Isis grew into such important cult deities that the      mythology of the Egyptian religion was modified to support the claim that      Osiris, with the help of his sister-wife Isis, had nearly overthrown and      replaced Ra as the most powerful of the gods—an action that so enraged his      brother Seth that the hateful and jealous sibling killed him.

Seth's murderous act was followed by the      jackal-headed god, Anubis, assisting Isis with the embalming of her slain      husband-brother Osiris, an act through which Anubis secured his position as      "the god of embalming."

Then, while still in mourning, Isis summoned the      wisdom of Thoth which she combined with her own proficient magical skills      and produced a resurrected Osiris, who, in turn, impregnated her with Horus,      the god of daylight. Horus promptly avenged his fathers death by killing the      evil brother Seth.

Another version of the myth claims that Horus      was born to Isis only after she impregnated herself with semen which she      took from the corpse of Osiris--evidence of advanced DNA cloning. The god      Seth was angry and sought to destroy Horus.

Note how Isis escapes in a flying craft--the Boat of the Celestial Disk, as recorded in the Metternich Stella:

"Then Isis sent forth a cry to heaven and addressed her appeal to the Boat of Millions of Years. And the Celestial Disk stood still, and moved not from the place where it was. And Thoth came down, and he was provided with magical powers, and possessed the great power.... And he said: 'O Isis, thou goddess, thou glorious one...I have come this day in the Boat of the Celestial Disk from the place where it was yesterday...I have come from the skies to save the child for his mother.'"

Yet another story claims that Seth persuaded      his brother Osiris to climb into a box, which he quickly shut and threw into      the Nile. Osiris drowned and his body floated down the Nile river where it      snagged on the limbs of a tamarisk tree. In Byblos, Isis recovered the body      from the river bank and took it into her care.

In her absence, Seth stole      the body again and chopped it into fourteen pieces, which he threw into the      Nile. Isis searched the river bank until she recovered every piece, except      for the genitals, which had been swallowed by a fish (Plutarch says a      crocodile). But Isis simply replaced the missing organ with a facsimile and      somehow was able to reconstruct Osiris and impregnate herself with the      ithyphallic corpse.

This portion of the Isis/Osiris myth may have      been developed over time to provide the legend necessary to sanction the      kind of temple prostitution practiced during the rituals of Isis.

Temple      prostitutes represented the human manifestation of the goddess and were      available for ritual sex as a form of imitative magic.

Much of the details      are no longer available, but it appears these prostitutes usually began      their services to the goddess as a child and were deflowered at a very young      age by a priest, or, as Isis was, by a carved phallus of the god Osiris.      Sometimes prostitutes were chosen, on the basis of their beauty, as the      mates of sacred temple bulls. Such bulls were considered the incarnation of      Osiris, whereas in other places, such as at Mendes, temple prostitutes were      offered in coitus to divine goats.

Regardless, from this      time forward Osiris was considered the chief god of the deceased and the      judge of the netherworld—the dark and dreary underworld region of the      dead.

In human form Osiris was perceived as a mummy and, paradoxically,      while he was loved as the guarantor of life after death, he was feared as      the demonic presence that decayed the bodies of the dead.

Such necromantic      worship of Osiris and Isis grew to become an important part of several      Mediterranean religions, with the most famous cult center of Osiris at      Abydos in Upper Egypt where an annual festival reenacted his death and      resurrection.

In Abydos, Osiris was called the god of the setting sun—the mysterious "force" that ruled the region of the dead just

beneath the western horizon. He was venerated in this way primarily because death, and specifically the fear of one’s estate after death, grew to constitute so much of Egyptian concern.

In the funerary texts known as the Book of      the Dead, the most elaborate magical steps were developed around the      Osiris myth to assist the Egyptians with their journey into the afterlife.

It was believed that every person had a Ka—a spiritual and invisible      duplicate—and that such Ka accompanied them throughout eternity.

Since the      Ka provided each person with a resurrected body in the kingdom of the dead,      but could not exist without the maintenance of the earthly body, every      effort was made to preserve the human corpse.

The body was therefore      mummified according to the elaborate magic rituals passed down from Isis,      who, according to legend, singularly perfected the rituals of mummification      through her work on Osiris.

At death the Egyptian Ka departed from the      human body and, accompanied by the hymns and prayers of the living, used the      formulas memorized from the funerary texts to outsmart the horrible demons      seeking to impede the Ka's progress into the kingdom (or hall) of Osiris.

Arriving at the judgment hall, the heart of the Ka was "weighed in the      balance" by Osiris and his 42 demons. If the deceased was found lacking in      virtue, he was condemned to an eternity of hunger and thirst. If the Ka was      determined to have belonged to an outright "sinner", it was cut to pieces      and fed to Ammit—the miserable little goddess and "eater of souls."

But if      the deceased was judged to have lived a virtuous life, the Ka was granted      admittance into the heavenly fields of Yaru, where foods were abundant and      pleasures unending. The only toil in this heaven was to serve in the grain      fields of Osiris, and even this could be obviated by placing substitutionary      statues, called shawabty, into the tomb.

There is some evidence that the 42 demons        or "judges" of Osiris were in some way related to the prehistoric legend        of the Watchers—the mysterious angelic beings who first appeared in        the early cultures of the Middle East.

The Egyptian people originally        migrated from the biblical land of Shin'ar, which some say means        the Land of the Watchers.

The Egyptians called it Ta Neter—The        Land of the Watchers "from which the gods came into Egypt."

As mentioned        earlier, it's possible that a historical event occurred giving birth to        the legend of the Watchers, and references to a race of "watcher/gods"        that cohabited with women and sought to control the human race is attested        to by numerous ancient texts.

The Sumerian scribes          referred to the watchers as Anunnaki, which, they said, "came          from Nibiru" to judge/rule the inhabitants of the earth. Some          interpret Nibiru as "a distant planet" while others say the actual          translation is, "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came."

In the Bible references are made to the        Anakim and to the Nephilm, also meaning those who came from        Heaven to Earth.

In the Book of the Dead there are        prayers for deliverance from these Watchers (Tchatcha, the princes        of Osiris), who came from Ta-Ur, the "Far Away Land," and in the        Book of Jubilees—also known as the Apocalypse of Moses—the Watchers        are compared to the "supernatural beings" mentioned in the sixth chapter        of Genesis as having come down from heaven to cohabit with women—a union        ultimately leading to the birth of the giants. The Apocryphal Book of        Enoch also associates the creatures of Genesis 6 with the Watchers, as        previously noted in this series.

In either case it appears the early        Egyptian scribes believed the leaders from among these fallen Watchers had        become the underworld demons of Osiris, whose "terrible knives" exacted        judgment upon the Ka of the wicked.

The Egyptians were desperately afraid        of these netherworld "watchers," and a significant amount of time was        spent determining how to placate the judgment of Osiris and his 42 demons.

The worship of Isis—the sister-wife of Osiris—thus became integral. As one        of the most important goddesses of ancient mythology, Isis was venerated        by the Egyptians, Greeks, and the Romans, as the "goddess of a thousand        names" and as the undisputed queen of magical skills.

Such magic words (of Isis) were considered        by the Egyptians to be of the highest importance for the preparation and        navigation of this world and the afterlife.

This was because Isis not only        possessed secret words, but she instructed her followers as to how, when,        and with what vocal tones they were to be uttered. If the proper words        were pronounced perfectly—at the right time of the day and with the proper        ceremony—they would have the effect of altering reality, manipulating the        laws of physics, and of forcing the being or object to which they were        directed into compliance, including evil spirits.

An example of this form of magic is found        in the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead and depicts Isis as        providing a spell for controlling the 42 demons of Osiris.

The formula        consisted of an amulet made of carnelian that had been soaked in the water        of ankhami flowers. It was supposed to be placed around the neck of the        dead person in combination with the spoken words of magic.

If performed        properly, it would empower the Ka of the individual to enter into the        region of the dead under the protection of Isis, where the Ka would        thereafter move about wheresoever it wanted without fear of the 42 demons        of Osiris.

The only Egyptian who did not benefit from        this particular spell was Pharaoh, and for a very good reason. Although        Pharaoh was considered the "son of the sun god" (Ra) and the incarnation        of the falcon god Horus during life, in death he became Osiris—judge of        the netherworld.

On earth, Pharaoh's son and predecessor would take his        place as the newly anointed manifestation of Horus—the divine son of Ra        and earthly representative of the supreme god of cosmic deities; in short,        god on earth. Thus each new generation of pharaohs provided the "gods"        with a spokesman for the present world and for the afterlife.

An interesting question

While conducting a recent tour of Egypt and        the Holy Land, my good friend and recipient of the DAR "Historian of the        Year" award, Dr. Donald C. Jones, stood outside the Great Pyramid in Giza        and pondered such knowledge and where it had been derived. Who among the        ancients would have been capable of building a single structure over        thirty times larger than the Empire State Building?

By the most        conservative figures the Great Pyramid was built over 4,500 years ago        (many believe 12,000 years or longer) and out of more than 2,000,000        blocks of stone weighing between 2 and 60 tons each by builders whose        knowledge of the earth and of planetary systems was so advanced that the        Great Pyramid faces true North, South, East, and West while also standing        at the exact center of the Earth's land mass and at a height exactly that        of the earth's mean sea level.

One would hypothecate that the leader of        such a people would have easily been perceived by the ancients as a god on        earth.

Whereas many scholars believe the Great Pyramid—the last standing        monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—was built around the        year BC 2560, by Khufu (Cheops), the Pharaoh of the Fourth Egyptian        Dynasty, others disagree. We will discuss their mysterious reasons in the        next section of this series as we will look at the        gods of Greece.

Stargates Pt 3

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