by
Andy Lloyd
July 2001
Stunning physical proof has recently emerged to indicate that the
Christ
figure is not only intimately connected to Paganism, but also to the
Winged
Planet. The Pagan roots of early Christianity are coming ever more obvious
to scholars, and the material that supports this viewpoint is creating
plenty of ammunition for popular books.
Two researchers, Freke and
Gandy, have written a well-documented text
describing the extensive similarities between the Christian ‘mythology’ and
earlier Pagan versions, in particular the ‘godman’ Osiris or
Dionysus. Their
focus in “The Jesus Mysteries” is the mystical root of Gnostic Christianity,
and its evident links with many secret mystery schools prevalent in Egypt, Judaea and Greece
(1). They are not pursuing an astronomical connection in
their own research, but have inadvertently uncovered a piece of evidence
that could prove pivotal to the case for the Dark Star, and its connection
to the advent of Christianity.
The object in question is a third-century amulet (left image), a picture of which they
found “tucked away in the appendices of an old academic book.” The dating of
the amulet is important, because it pre-dates the Council of Nicaea,
which
saw the establishment of modern Christian doctrine under the auspices of the
Emperor Constantine. The amulet itself is now lost, having disappeared from
the Museum of Berlin in the Second World War. However, a plaster cast still
exists, showing a figure undergoing crucifixion, with accompanying Greek
words. Freke and Gandy explain the implications of their find:
“It shows a crucified figure which most people would immediately
recognize
as Jesus. Yet the Greek words name the figure ‘Orpheus Bacchus’, one of the
pseudonyms of Osiris-Dionysus. To the author of the book in which we found
the picture, this amulet was an anomaly. Who could it possibly have belonged
to? Was it a crucified Pagan deity or some sort of Gnostic synthesis of
Paganism and Christianity?”
(1)
This seems to confirm much of what has been said about the original
interface between the Messianic tradition of Judea and its earlier version
in Egypt and elsewhere, but this is not the reason why I was knocked out by
this amulet! Above the crucifix is a crescent ‘moon’ facing downwards,
surrounded by a semi-circle of 7 stars. The appearance of this extremely odd
celestial arrangement goes without mention in “The Jesus Mysteries”,
presumably because the inclusion of these stars and crescent on this amulet
has, in turn, dumbfounded its two authors.
Let us be clear; there is no constellation with a perfect semi-circle of 7
stars. This is not the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus. The
7 ‘stars’ are
arranged perfectly around the crescent, unlike the famous ‘seven sisters’.
Even if one were to assume that it was the Moon in conjunction with the
Seven Sisters, with a tremendous amount of artistic license, what on Earth
is this motif doing on a 3rd Century amulet of the crucified Christ-Osiris-Dionysus?
Nor could it be the constellation known as the Northern Crown. Sitting high
up in the Northern sky between Hercules and Bootes, this constellation could
in no way be placed adjacent to the Moon.
Another possibility immediately sprang to my mind. You may recall my earlier
discussion of the appearance of the Nibiruan system at perihelion. Not only
would Nibiru be visible as a small red disc, but its moons would also be
sufficiently illuminated by the Sun and the dim light of the
dark star to be
naked-eye objects. The number of moons in the Nibiru system is not
established with absolute certainty, but the depictions of the Winged Disc
on Sumerian cylinder seals generally show seven small circles in the motif.
Sometimes these 7 circles are to be found in the wings, sometimes in the
‘tail’ of the cross-like Winged Disc. How would Sumerian observers on Earth
have seen the moons of a brown dwarf that approached no closer than the
orbit of Mars?
The Visible Moons
Jupiter’s four Galilean moons are visible with a pair of binoculars, and
tend to appear in a line extended through the equator of their giant parent
world. Jupiter is more distant than Nibiru at perihelion, and gives out no
light of its own. One would expect that its satellites would be less well
lit than Nibiru’s as it swings around the Sun. Nibiru’s moons are likely to
be bigger than Jupiter’s (if for no other reason than the
dark star is a
more massive planet). At least one of the moons must be of planetary
proportions. The Nefilim were known to be giants, so a larger humanoid
body-frame would tend to indicate a smaller gravity on their own world,
making it smaller than Earth. But it must clearly be much larger than the
largest of the moons of Jupiter, Ganymede.
So we have larger satellites likely, for a larger parent ‘planet’, which are
seen closer to us than Jupiter during the brown dwarf’s perihelion, and are
lit by two separate light sources. It is not unreasonable to suppose that we
would see the moons as a celestial neck-lace around Nibiru with the naked
eye.
Nibiru enters the planetary solar system in a plane deviating 30 degrees
from the ecliptic, and then moves around the Sun in a parabolic arc. If the
halo of the dark star is created by its corona being swept back, away from
the Sun, by the action of the solar wind, then the ‘wings’ will be
perpendicular to the direction from the Sun to the brown dwarf. As the dark
star arcs across the sky, its wings will rotate with respect to the Sun’s
direction, in a similar way that the tail of a comet will always be swept
back from the Sun.
However, the position of the moons will depend more on their relative
orbital planes around the brown dwarf, of which we know next to nothing.
Potentially, then, there will be a variation in the 12th Planet’s appearance
as it moves through its perihelion passage. The position of the moons will
vary, and this might explain why they are sometimes depicted in the wings,
sometimes in the tail. The Nibiruan moons would not necessarily appear in
Nibiru’s equatorial plane, but at an angle.
The Fiery Crescent
So this might account for the
anomalous 7 stars on the amulet, but what of
the crescent? I suggest this is the arc of the Winged Disc’s halo,
or wings.
In the same way that the central disc of a comet is lost within its
extensive tail, the wings of the dark star’s halo will be a more prominent
feature than the disc of the brown dwarf itself. The disc is always depicted
within the wings in the Egyptian motifs, and is sometimes left out
altogether in the Mesopotamian motifs. The 12th Planet is sometimes drawn as
a cross rather than a disc, and this might reflect the juxtaposition of the
winged halo and the plane of the orbiting planets. Within this halo is the
red light source of the dark star.
The
Talisman of Orpheus represents this cross-like depiction of the
12th
Planet, but upside-down. The crescent is the winged halo, the seven stars
the seven moons in the tail. There is a clear example of this complex form
of the Winged Disc motif in Sitchin’s “The 12th Planet”
(2). Rotate the
symbol 180 degrees and the astronomical symbolism of the Talisman of Orpheus
becomes apparent.
There are some very ancient Egyptian motifs from the pre-dynastic era, that
show a falcon perched on a crescent Moon
(3).
I suggest that this signifies a similar symbol. The falcon signified the god
Horus, and may be equated with the fire-bird, and we have seen how this god
is significant to the Messianic tradition. Nibiru’s appearance as a
fiery
crescent would surely indicate its equivalence to the Phoenix of Egyptian
mythology, as I have already described. The ‘Winged Disc’ might truly take
on the appearance of a fiery celestial bird or dragon as it approached the
mighty Sun. I believe that the ‘Talisman of Orpheus’ is a more modern
representation of this same ancient symbolism. The Egyptian symbol for
Horus
has simply been replaced by the equivalent Hebrew symbolism of a
semi-ellipse of seven stars. But the meaning is the same: The Dark Star
and
its moons in the form of the Winged Disc.
This amulet, now lost to us, visually captured the essence of ‘Jesus
Mysteries Thesis’ so well for Freke and Gandy that they put its image on the
front cover of their book. But its significance goes beyond drawing
conclusions about the mystical Pagan roots of Christianity. It
simultaneously combines this important insight with an anomalous
astronomical phenomenon that appears to indicate the Winged Disc’s role in
the mystery of the ‘dying and rising god’. This small amulet survived the
thorough purge of Gnostic Christian heritage by the Church Fathers.
Is it
possible that it was once one of many, many such items, all testifying to
the celestial phenomenon that became equated with the appearance of the
Messiah? Was this the secret central to the early Christian mysteries, a
message so repugnant to later Christians that they were driven to eradicate
it completely? If so, it is fortunate for us that this one seemingly
insignificant item of 3rd Century jewellery survived. It seems ironic to me
that such a small amulet should bear such a profound message: Nibiru, the
Messianic Star, had returned, signifying a new era in the history of
Mankind.
The Roman Coin
There are many accounts in the Roman texts of anomalous celestial phenomena.
Whether these should be taken as indicative of unusual astronomical events,
the appearance of UFOs or misunderstood natural phenomena is the prerogative
of the reader. Of interest is this account by Cicero from ‘De Divinitate’
who speaks of “the time in which two suns were seen…and when the sun of the
night was seen, when noises were heard in the sky and the sky seemed to
split and strange spheres appeared in it”
(4).
Plutarch tells us that the
murder of Julius Caesar (44BC) was accompanied by the appearance of a comet,
and of ‘extraordinary celestial fires’
(4). Perhaps the later extraordinary
spectacle of the appearance of Nibiru was posthumously linked with the death
of this most famous of Roman leaders.
The Italian author Peter Kolosimo describes coins issued by the Romans of
the 2nd Century AD that depict a strange ‘star’, or sometimes seven such
‘stars’
(4). The period of time alluded to by the coins is unknown. One such
coin, minted by the emperor Pertinace, minted in 193 AD, clearly shows a
rather odd celestial globe. A woman, or goddess, is the central figure on
the coin, and she is lifting her hands towards the bizarre ‘star’. Does she
represent Sirius, in keeping with other female deities? The globe has an
asymmetry about its four rays that preclude its representation as normal
celestial bodies:
“Many experts, after careful examination of the money,
agreed that the object represented neither the Sun, the
Moon nor any of the
heavenly bodies.
This certainty stems from the fact that the sphere’s rays were arranged in a
manner quite different from that usually used for the stars. Besides, the
term ‘Providentia deorum’ leaves no doubt, since the faces of the coins
clearly express an exaltation of the gods’ providence”.
(4)
The Winged Disc is often depicted with a cross whose vertical aspect
increases in width. Take the images of the Assyrian god Assur and the Median
god Ahura Mazda. What is common to these images of major deities is that the
god takes centre-stage on a celestial cross. The dynastic Egyptians placed a
solar disc in the place of Horus, while the Christians present us with the
same format, but this time with the crucified Christ. The Roman coin shown
here has the same shape, albeit upside-down, as these celestial crosses, but
the Romans don't seem quite sure about what it all means. Many in Rome
invoked the Persian god
Mithras, and eventually Christ. But I suggest the
interrupted appearance of the celestial 'fire-bird' during Roman times, in
the form of the dark star Nibiru, was the original precursor to this
historic deification.
1) T. Freke & P. Gandy “The Jesus Mysteries” pp15-16,
64 Harper Collins 1999
2) Z. Sitchin “The 12th Planet” p262 Avon 1976
3) D. Rohl “Legend: The Genesis of
Civilization” pp339,
332, 346-7, 316, 419, Arrow 1998
4) P. Kolosimo “Not of this World” pp66-73 Sphere 1970
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