Essays By Ekowa©

 

Feasts of the Hebrews

Wheat Fields

'The Lord gave Mos[es] the following regulations for the religious Festivals, when the people of Israel are to gather to worship.'

Leviticus 23:1-2

 'The Roots of the Hebrew Feasts'

I know this is a long essay and it may take you a bit of time to read it thoroughly, but it is worth it.  Hopefully, this essays will put into perspective the celebration of the times and seasons the Hebrews celebrated and shed some light on the origin of these solemn assemblies, consecrated feasts and holy-days to reveal their root in Astro-Theology by way of Egypt.

The One Creator of us all has always had a priesthood.  Unfortunately, have been told by ignorant historians that Africa/Egypt was not the parent of any ancient civilization [Babylonian, Persian,  Hebraic, Greek  Roman] and all other religious practices grew up without an African foundation.  We were told that all the nations of Africa had no connection with anyone's history, not even their own, and for those who are Bible believers, the foundation, culture religion and Feasts of the Hebrews grew up in a vacuum.

In the realm of Hebrewism, was a religious practice and not exclusively a people or race, not unlike the Baptists, Holiness and Methodists of Christianity of today.  In order for the modern Jews to explain their religious beliefs, myths and parables, it was necessary for them to ream the core of African-ness out of the heart of their beliefs and replace it with another paradigm that included Europe and a 6,000 year accounting as their apex.   Although, this cultural and religious reaming left a shell the threads of the original African culture and religion still woven through the new paradigm.  Those threads are the unanswered questions we see when studying our Bibles and the pile gets greater as the mumbo-jumbo of the new paradigm no longer fits. 

During the many captivities endured by the original Hebrews the 'scribes' and priests'  began to fill the void of with a mixture of myth, fact and Persian and Assyrian religions.  This was done as a tactic of divisiveness by the Babylonians and later Persians to distance the African Hebrews  from their parents. After the inception of Christianity and during the medieval times of European Jewry, the Egyptian mystery [knowledge hidden from the profane] threads were further disguised by the Egyptian Mystery knock off system called Kabala. It is important to look at the iconographic and pictographic images in these pictures. We see the shin/sin which is housed in a circle and then a pyramid, with each of is tips of the Shin which are the smaller letter Vav or Vaw topped with three circles.  I wonder if we can see Egypt in this Kabaalistic symbolism.

 

The Shin or Trinity of Unity within the Pyramid of our ancestors

The Shin

The Cohen Hebrew priests blessing of the hands

Same symbol in Ethiopia

Icon of woman's vagina on end

Masonic square and compass on end

Pyramid on end

Both hand signals are the divine Revelation of the African womb relation back to the Egyptian wisdom and the power of the eternal light and the creative and regenerative power that symbolizing the womb.  The microcosm mirroring the pattern of the microcosm. 

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness." Gen. 1:1-4.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 1:1-9."

That light was life. It was the light that transcends the sun, moon and stars it is the light that is the energy of the universe that is outside of us and in us.

The Egyptian Shen or Shenu. Remember both languages are consonatal.


Shen

The Shen representation in three ways


A loop of rope that has no beginning and no end, it symbolized eternity. The sun disk is often depicted in the center of it.  The shen also seems to be a symbol of protection. It is often seen being clutched by deities in bird form, Horus the falcon, Mut the vulture. Hovering over Pharaohs head with their wings outstretched in a gesture of protection. The word shen comes from the word "shenu" which means "encircle," and in its elongated form became the cartouche which surrounded the king's name.

 

In rhe Kabaalistic symbol that was taken form the Egyptian the Vav is in the tip of the three fingers of the shin. which may symbolize the female line, represented was the vav or vulva holding up the male rule, or being the base of the male rule within the greater encirclement of the sun or life or creator.

So this shin above represents the Kabaalistic version of the African Mystery, which is the fame of divine revelation is ensconced in the sun and then in the Pyro-mid with the tips of the shin are vav's a representing the vulva or womb of the African mother with the 3 stars on Orion's belt or the trinity that originated in Egypt with Osiris, Isis and Horus.  A picture speaks 1000 words and it says:  It's a Black Thang! You can take a man out of the country, but you can take the country of of the man!

Lets read it :

Kabala: "An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries.  It refers to the mystical interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures. It has two principal written sources.  The first is Sefer Yezira a third century work which purports to present a series of monologues given by the patriarch Abraham.

The second, Zohar is a mystical commentary on the Torah written by Moses de León in the 13th century. As a religious movement, it appears to have started in 11th century France, and then spread to Spain and elsewhere. The Hebrew word "Kabbalah" means in its literal sense "to receive" and this refers to the communication between God and Moses. It influenced the development of Hasidism in the 18th century, and continues to play a role in contemporary Judaism."

Where did it come from? 

The Jewish historian Fabre d'Olivet says that it came from Ancient Egypt. According to this writer, the roots of the Kabbalah stretch back to that time.  The Kabala is a tradition learned by some of the leaders of the Israelites in Ancient Egypt, and passed down as a tradition by word of mouth from generation to generation - Fabre d'Olivet, La Langue Hébraïque, 1815, p.28.

Hum...by some of the leaders? Which ones? How did they find out?

They could only learn this in the University systems of the Priesthood.  WOW!  I thought SLAVES were uneducated.  There is a hole in the story someone is trying to cover up.  I smell do-do!

Moses with the 10 commandment over the Pyramids

The Tablets

The Feather/Tablets

When the essence or the truth is removed from the cell structure of culture civilization, another substance has to replace it in order for it to keep its same visual shape., but the function is changed. hey have in essence changed a heart cell into a liver cell while making us believe it is still a heart cell.  but now history is having a heart attack!  The subsequent reproduction of the counterfeit is a cell that looks like the others but, is in actuality duping the others by having the same threads of the original DNA. 

As the social debate on the authenticity of the racial and cultural claims of medieval and modern European Jews still rages in European circles, we the knowing Africans of the Diaspora must tell the truth.  The truth must be proclaimed from the proven evidence that Africans were the original Egyptian priests and progenitors of religion throughout the whole earth. This is attested to by ancient and modern scholars to numerous to mention here.  

"Every time you kick over a rock in Africa, history has to be changed" 

Every thinking person armed with this crucial understanding must begin to see their religious education in a different light.  The True Light. 

"That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world."

John 1:9

Sun God of the Kabalistic Hebrews

The Sun walking on water

The Israelites,  sons and daughters of the original African Hebrews, were/are the children of the Black Egyptian who after many years were washed out, brainwashed and then forgot their parentage, through migration, subjugation, manipulation, wars, occupation, and intermarriage.  That still did not make them white and European.  The 1100 years ago there was a mass conversion to Judaism by the Eastern [Caucasian] Europeans [see Koestler's 13th Tribes] and they adopted the history and culture of the original Hebrews and in their quest for a root they did not have they co-opted and preserved the shadow of the Egyptian religion and culture thereby manifested in the feasts, commandments and other rituals.

This is nothing new.  We Africans living in the Diaspora have forgotten our traditions and co-opted a Euro-centric view of our culture, religion and ourselves. We celebrate a Europeanized 'White Christmas' filled with the trapping of a holiday that was originally celebrated [albeit differently] in Egypt/Africa, but, now we hail the winter's mistletoe, Yule logs, evergreen trees, eggnog, mulled apple cider, and Ole' St. Nick. We have gotten into chestnut roasting on a open fire and Jack Frost nipping at our nose [even though Nat King Cole rendition is the bomb] Africa dose not have that kind of winter. Africa is a tropical land. 

Santa Claus 'Jolly Ole Saint Nick'

We have followed traditions 'religiously' not knowing where they came from or we are making up new traditions, like Kwanzaa, as an alternative for our broken religious and cultural systems. Don't get me wrong. I understand the need for Kwanzaa and I appreciate the effort, but let us understand the root of it. We still do not understand that we are the authors of all religion and culture.  We have forgotten we were not always enslaved, and when we were transported all over the world ding Maafa, we hid yams and put kernels of rice in our hair so we could plant and harvest the crops from the motherland to continue to celebrate the bounty of our Creator in thanksgiving and praise, even in our despair.

The majority of Africans in the Diaspora laugh at the manufactured stereotypes of our brothers and sisters in Africa.  We suck our teeth when someone mentions moving back to our homeland. We have done what the original black Hebrew have done, forgotten our parents and hated the mention of their name. 

 

Kwanzaa

That may have been reason that Maulana [Ron] Karnaga instituted the festival season of Kwanzaa. He and others wanted something for us to hold on to, something to unite us in purpose.  All he need do was to looked to real African history.   If he had, he would have found our harvest festivals and messianic first-fruits celebration in honor of the Creator of the Universe have gone back for 20 thousand years. 

I can not fault him, but we as a people must go further and teach the whole truth. Kwanzaa must transform and take its next logical step in pointing the way to the greater truth. As a Marxist Ron Karenga dismisses the notion of  a God, although Marx was a Ashkenazi Jew.  We must reclaim our entire heritage and Africans have always understood our connection to the Creator, otherwise everything we do would be just another hollow ritual without life and more importantly, without History and a future. 

7 symbols of Kwanzaa

Seven Feasts on Menorah

The Romanish Menorah -7 candlesticks

In actuality the Biblical menorah was not candles but bowls or cups:

"You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work.. Its shafts, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece. And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side. Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower -- and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand. On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower. And there shall be a knob under the first two branches of the same, a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be of one hammered piece of pure gold. "You shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it.And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold. It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain" (Exodus 25:31-40, NKJV)

The Kwanzaa Kinara and the Romanesque Menorah above represent  7 stars in  Recently, modern Jewish rabbi's have added 2 more feast to the original 7 celebrated by the original Hebrews.

The Seven stars and Orion:

"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" -- Job 38:31

"Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name. -- Amos 5:8

Seven Stars of Orion

The seven stars represented the goddess/neteru Neith or the Divine Mother [Isis] to the ancient Egyptians. In her early form, as a goddess of war, she was said to make warriors' weapons, and guard their bodies when they died. A great festival, called the Feast of Lamps [Lights], was held annually on/around January 19th her honor, and according to Herodotus her devotees burned a multitude of lights in the open air all night during the celebration. There was also a feast of Neith on/around Dec. 26th. Egypt she was [connected] Isis and Hathor.  

The concepts have shifted from Egypt to Israel to Rome but the light represented by the Menorah were initially a reference to the celestial [stars].  To read more about that there is an essay I have written regarding the change from the Egyptian to Roman Vessel of light. [Menorah]

The Real African Feasts

We must remember that the modern Jewish feast has its walls erected  in Eastern Europe but, they ignore the root in Africa.  So hold on to your Yarmulke and throw those knishes, gefilta fish, matza balls and potato latkes away.  There will be goat, fufu, couscous, joluf rice, ingera, kitfo and yams in the Feast from now on.

This is a case of the strongman [European] entering our home and taking the heritage of the African and changing it to fit their heritage in order to place them at the foundation AND apex of history. 

The truth will make us free.

How did the Feasts of the Hebrews come to be?

The according to the Bible, the Lord put lights in the sky as a calendar. In this calendar mankind saw a connection with the universe and himself. The Feast days were a outgrowth of worship in a Theocratic society with God being the head and man being his voice on earth. The Feast were establish for fellowship, thanksgiving and bonding with the Creator, his creation and the family of God. The parents of the original Hebrews were the Egyptians, had long established Feasts days in celebration to seasons of abundance. To do all this you needed a calendar.

'Let the lights appear in the sky to separate day form night and show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin.' Gen. 1:14

Egypt or Kmt was not out of the loop when this edict came forth. The Bible is speaking of the synopsized report.  Egypt had the original thesis.

Nut [Sky] Geb [Earth] the Neteru

Nut [Shamayim] Geb[Adamah] with his penis [seed] pointing at her NAVEL.

Nut was the Egyptian name for the Sky and Geb the name for the Earth. Gebs' phallus is pointed toward Nut's NAVEL and not her vagina as some assume. This is not sexual iconography. This is noting the Nut is the mother of the sky - overshadowing Geb and not having  intercourse with her.  It is giving a picture of creation. 

To the ancient Egyptians Nut (Nuit) was the personification of the sky [originally she was an attribute of  the sky at day, where the clouds formed] and the heavens.'

Nut the Egyptian word for Sky is the Hebrew word for Shamayim.  How does that relate?

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”Genesis 1:26    

The Hebrew word for air is: Shamayim, aka Heaven. Shamayim (shaw-mah'-yim): dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):--air, X astrologer, heaven(-s)." - Strong's Hebrew Dictionary.

The word itself literally means: Sha ("of" or "from") the waters (mayim). Heaven means literally: "From the Waters"!  Houses of the star, sun and moon.

Hebrew version:

"And God called the firmament (raqiyah) Heaven (Shamayim)."

Egyptian version:

'And God called the firmament Nut.'

In Nut [the sky/heavens] dwelt the sun, moon and stars and these bodies became a way to develop a calendar in order to have seedtime and harvest.

While the earth remains seedtime and harvest, seedtime and harvest ...shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

How did the Egyptians develop and accurate Calendar to perform the Feasts?

'To develop a calendar, you need a regular event that is predictable. And what was more regular and important to the ancient Egyptians than the rise and fall of the River Nile?

The waters started rising around the end of June, and the flood period (achet) lasted until October, covering the land with rich black mud and preparing it for the sowing and growing period (peret). The harvest time (schemu) started at the end of February and ended with the new Nile flood This predictable, ongoing cycle defined the agricultural year. This became fraught with problems since the flood came within a range of 80 days with variable intensities.

Eventually, Sirius, or Sothis as it was called by the ancient Egyptians, the star who's heliacal rising was in early July 3000 years ago [but due to the wobble of the earth on its axis is now a few weeks later] turned out to be a very reliable predictor of the recurring flood and defined the exact length of the trip of the earth around the sun .

The discovery and plotting of the stars like Sirius or Sothis and Orion was very important. 

Velikovsky, on the authority of Pliny identifies the star of Isis as the planet Venus and explains that both Venus and Sirius had a role in the Egyptian calendar, the real purpose of the Decree being to make the calendar independent of Venus. Egyptologists generally consider both “star of Isis” and “Sothis” to refer to Sirius.

Immanuel Velikovsky [1895-1979] Earlier in his life, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a respected author, psychiatrist/psychoanalist. 

His books primarily used comparative mythology and ancient literary sources (not least the Bible) to propose that the Earth had suffered catastrophic close-contacts with other planets in the solar system (principally Venus and Mars), during and before recorded history. He argued that electromagnetic effects played an important role in celestial mechanics. He also proposed a  revised chronology  of Ancient Egypt, Greece and the Land of Israel and the Near East,  aiming to eliminate Dark Ages and reconcile Biblical history with both archeology and Egyptian Chronology.

Sirius was the star that began the accurate calendar for the Egyptian.  Naming Sirius after Isis is not idolatry. I would expect that they would not name it anything other than the name of the child of a neteru like Isis. Neteroo was misinterpreted god and goddess by the European translators, but they were just the ancient names for earth, sun, sky, air etc and how they formed the universe. So when you see Geb, Nut and the rest don't panic.

Sirius has been identified by some as the Biblical star Mazzaroth (the Book of Job, 38:32). The Semitic name for Sirius was Hasil, while the Hebrews also used the name Sihor.  The latter an Egyptian name, learned by the Hebrews prior to their Exodus.  But ancient Egypt provides the most regal history for Sirius.  Initially, it was Hathor, the ancient great mother goddess, who was identified with Sirius.  But Isis soon became the major archetype, sharing honors with the title of Sirius as the Nile Star. 

Remember, the times the Festivals are celebrate by vary depending on what area of the world you are in. just like Florida has a different type of winter that Minnesota so the variation in worship around the world. So in African [ including Palestine] the Festivals were at the same time as the Harvest months.

Star of David associated with Sirius and the Pyramids 

As Above, So Below

The calendar system of ancient Egypt is unique to both the cosmology of the Egyptians and their religion. Unlike the modern Julian calendar system, with it's 365 days to a year, the Egyptians followed a calendar system of 360 days, with three seasons, each made up of 4 months, with thirty days in each month.

The first new moon following the reappearance of Sirius [the dog star] after it disappeared under the horizon for 70 days was established as the first day of the New Year (Egypt: wepet senet) and of the achet (flood) period--even if the Nile had not yet started to rise.

The priests also observed there were four moon periods that fit into each of the three seasons , but it did not fit. The lunar month has 29 ½ days, resulting in "short" or "long" years of 12 or 13 new moons.

The appearance of Sirius and the next New Year put the calendar back to baseline.  Later they developed a ' leap year' to put the calendar back on schedule with the Sun Moon and Stars.

The Egyptian calendar clearly took into account the lunar cycles, as it, according to Herodotus, "consisted] of twelve divisions of the seasons." and they used forms of intercalculatis to keep the lunar calendar seasonally consistent. "the Egyptians, reckoning thirty days to each of the twelve months, add five days in every year over and above the total, and thus the completed circle of seasons is made to agree with the calendar."

They eventually had a system of 36 stars to mark out the year and in the end had three different calendars working concurrently for over 2000 years: a stellar calendar for agriculture, a solar year of 365 days (12 months x 30 + 5 extra) and a quasi-lunar calendar for festivals. The later Egyptian calendars developed sophisticated Zodiac systems, as in the stone calendar at right.

According to the famed Egyptologist J. H. Breasted, the earliest date known in the Egyptian calendar corresponds to 4236 B.C.E. in terms of the Gregorian calendar.

The seasons of the Egyptians corresponding with the cycles of the Nile, and were known as:

1. Inundation (pronounced akhet which lasted from June 21st to October 21st).

2. Emergence (pronounced proyet which lasted from October 21st to February 21st).

3. Summer (pronounced shomu which lasted from February 21st to June 21st).

Sirius: the 'Dog Star

Sirius the Dog Star in the configuration of the Star of David

The earliest Egyptian calendar was based on the moon's cycles, but the lunar calendar failed to predict a critical event in their lives: the annual flooding of the Nile river. The Egyptians soon noticed that the first day the "Dog Star," which we call Sirius, in Canis Major was visible right before sunrise was special.

The Egyptians were probably the first to adopt a mainly solar calendar. This so-called 'heliacal rising' always preceded the flood by a few days. Based on this knowledge, they devised a 365-day calendar that seems to have begun in 4236 B.C.E., the earliest recorded year in history.

Early Egyptians depended on the Nile's annual rising and flooding. Each year as that great river flooded it brought down mountain soil to the Egyptian plain. This enriched the fields and enabled creation of an agricultural system that supported a large civilization.

In the eighth century B.C.E., the Egyptian Pharaoh's primary advisor, the Vizier, was charged with reporting the first appearance of the bright star we call Sirius after it had been missing from the sky for (depending upon the observer's latitude) approximately two weeks.

This first appearance of Sirius in the pre-dawn sky was used to start the Egyptian calendar year, which was used for purposes of regulating religious affairs and everyday life.

Shortly after Sirius first reappeared in the east, the Nile would have its annual life-giving flood [same as a woman's menstruation]. Because of the Nile's flooding at this time, the fixing of the new year could well be said to have been based on a geophysical as well as an astronomical event. Although many other stars may be used to fix the beginning of a sidereal year, the Egyptians.

'Frequently, inscribed on the walls of such temples are detailed lists of feasts, all presented in a systematic manner. Such festival calendars were also copied and kept in the scrolls of the temple archives. From these, we can often determine whether a feast took place within the civil calendar or according to the moon.'

'Most of the festivals that we know of from ancient Egypt are cultic [see definition below], rather than civil. There were probably plenty of civil celebrations, but our sources are mostly religious.

NASA's obsession with Isis and Sirius

Egyptian New Year's Day (Wep-renpet)

The first celebration of the year was, the New Year's festival. For the ancient Egyptians, this was not only the first day of the year, but also the time when rejuvenation and rebirth ideally took place.

Theban citizens and their guests from afar celebrated the fruitful link between their pharaoh and the almighty god, Amun/Amen, who in the New Kingdom became a state god. During the celebration it was thought that the might and power of Amun were ritually bequeathed to his living son, the king. Therefore, the celebration belonged to the official royal ideology of the state and, not surprisingly, witnessed the personal involvement of the pharaoh. 

Because of the flooding, work was temporarily suspended in fields. The people joined in a dramatic procession honoring Amun that began at the temple of Amun in Karnak and ended at Luxor temple one and a half miles away at the south end of the city.

At Karnak the people watched the high priests disappear in the temple. Inside, the priests bathed the image of the god and dressed him in colorful linen and adorned him with jewelry from the temple treasury including magnificent necklaces, bracelets, scepters, amulets and trinkets of gold or silver encrusted with lapis lazuli, enamel, glass and semi-precious gems. The priests then enclosed the god in a shrine and then placed the shrine on top of a ceremonial barque or boat [Ark], often supported by poles for carrying.

In Graeco-Roman times, this festival was known as the Lychnapsia, or Festival of Lights [Hannauka and Christmas] and the Festival of Neith. It is found in the Latin Calendar of Philocalus, dated from the fourth century C.E. This calendar gives the date of the observance as August 12, according to the Roman calendar. 

The festival began the night before, at the rising of the moon. Aset's search for Wesir-Isis search for Osiris], as told by Plutarch, was reenacted during this festival, by people bearing torches, lamps, and candles, to light their way. Houses, temples, and boats were also illuminated, everything ablaze with light.

It is also to be noted that this festival has also been connected to the birthday of Aset/Isis and Neith

Parallel in Italian Catholicism

An interesting corollary to this festival is one that takes place in Italy, called the Ave Maria festival. Ave Maria is Latin for Hail Mary, the first two words of a Roman Catholic prayer to the Blessed Mary, mother of Jesus, and called by Catholics the Mother of God. Many scholars believe that Mary's worship evolved out of the devotion to Aset/Isis throughout the Roman Empire period and later into the Christian era.

A description of this Ave Maria festival can be found at Ave Maria Italy. Note the use of boats and candles in this festival as was  Festival of Neith. 

Excerpt: http://www.per-aset.org/aset_luminous_festival.htm

So, you caught it huh?

Remember Catholicism adopted [and erroneously taught] the shadow ways of the Egyptian Religious System and CHRISTIANITY is the daughter of Catholicism [yes you are!].  Just as Judaism is the daughter of the Egyptian Mystery System BUT, not by the way of ROME, b by the way of Persia and Babylon.  You, don't believe it?  Keep reading and you will know  like Donny Hathaway said: Everything is Everything

The Mazzaroth:  Nazareth is the Hebrew word for constellation. There is another related Hebrew word: mazzaloth.

4216 Mazzarah, maz-zaw-raw'; appar. from 5144 in the sense of distinction; some noted constellation (only in the plur.), perh. collect. the zodiac:- Mazzaroth. Comp. 4208.  4208 mazzalah, maz-zaw-law'; appar. from 5140 in the sense of raining; a constellation, i.e. Zodiacal sign (perh. as affecting the weather):- planet. Comp. 4216.

Iyov (Job) 38:31-33 "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up [God's] dominion over the earth? The original 7 branch menorah was said to have been based upon the Pleiades.

In pre-patriarchal Jerusalem, the Menorah (the 7 branched candlestick) originally symbolized the Pleiades in their aspect of the sevenfold "Men-horac"/"Moon Priestesses, with links once again to the Goddess Hathor" which returns us once again to 7 ladies and the Pleiades. 

Hathor: Her name may have meant 'House of Horus', she was called was the Great Mother - The Queen of Heaven - The House or the Womb.

Hathor: Was worshipped in Israel in 1100BC at her own holy city of Hazor.  She was also identified by the name Lady of Byblos [Bible].  She was the patron of all Holy Midwives[ See Moses: Shifrah and Puah] associated with the 7 heavenly spheres. She was also Mother Goose in medieval fairytales.

Hathor

CONSTELLATION: For untold thousands of years men have traced the outlines of familiar things among the stars. These patterns in the night sky are called constellations, from Latin words meaning together and stars.

 'And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, To govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.'  Bereshit (Genesis) 1:14-19.

What is the breakdown of this scripture?

Seasons: 4150 mow`ed, mo-ade'; or mo`ed, mo-ade'; or (fem.) mow`adah (2 Chron. 8:13), mo-aw-daw'; from 3259; prop. an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; spec. a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting also a signal (as appointed beforehand):-appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed).

Govern: 4910 mashal, maw-shal'; a prim. root; to rule:-(have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reigh, (bear, cause to, have) rule (-ing, -r), have power.

Years: 8141 shaneh (in plur. only), shaw-neh'; or (fem.) shanah, shaw-naw'; from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time):-+ whole age, X long, + old, year (X -ly).

The heavens declare the glory of the Creator.

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the sons of Sheth.  Num 24:17

What did the Magi or Babylon have a history of this to?

The appearance of a new bright star in the head of Coma would have spoken loudly to the Magi. They had probably been growing in anticipation of further signs to be given since its appearance in about 125 BC.

About this constellation, an Arabian astronomer named Albumazar (eighth century AD) is quoted as saying; "There arises in the first Decan (which means: "part," or, "associated constellation" and also a order of Priest from where we derive the name Deacons] as the Persians, Chaldeans, and Egyptians, and the two Hermes and Ascalius teach, a young woman, whose Persian name denotes a pure virgin, sitting on a throne, nourishing an infant boy, having a Hebrew name, by some nations called IHESU, with the signification IEZA, which in Greek is called Christos. 

VIRGO is represented as a woman with a branch in her right hand, and some ears of corn in her left hand. Thus giving a two-fold testimony of the Coming One.

The name of this sign in the Hebrew is Bethulah, which means a virgin, and in the Arabic a branch. The two words are connected, as in Latin--Virgo, which means a virgin; and virga, which means a branch (Vulg. Isa 11:1). Another name is Sunbul, Arabic, an ear of corn.

" The boy in the virgin's lap is widely recognized as symbolic of Christos - the anointed, the Messiah

Originally, the Feast as told in the Torah were 7 main ones in number [Leviticus 23]. But Chanukah and Purim were added later. Nevertheless their correspondence with Egyptian Feast are also remarkable.

'Hanukkah, or the Feast of Lights, is an 8-day celebration which begins in late November or December. It falls on different dates each year as do other Jewish holidays because they run according to the Jewish calendar, which is more than 5750 years old. Although not a holiday from the Torah (therefore not having any Biblical requirements), Hanukkah has been differentiated from regular days of the week by special actions and special foods.'  Excerpt: http://www.umkc.edu/imc/hanukkah.htm.

Purim in honor of Queen Esther [Hadassah or  Myrtle] is the only book in the Old Testament that does not mention the name of Yahweh. 

Tree Neteru/goddess the sycamore and myrtle

Egypt the City of Refuge

Egypt was the place where the patriarchs of Israel would always run to in times of trouble. That was true for Abraham, Isaac, Joseph and Jacob [Israel] and even Jesus and his parents.

Abram brought Sarai into Egypt and he was taken for a time as a concubine or the unnamed Pharaoh.

The same story is told about Isaac and Rebecca.

Then Joseph the son of Israel [Jacob] and Rachel is transported to Egypt when he was kidnapped and sold into slavery by his brothers.

Who did he become in Egypt?

' Now you should choose a man with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country...the King and his officials approved this plan, and he said to them, ' We will never find a better man than Joseph, a man who has God's spirit in him.  the king said to Joseph, ' God has shown you all of this, so it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else... I put you in charge of my country, and all my people will obey your orders. Now I will appoint you governor [vizier] over all Egypt. Gen. 41:25-42

'So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.' Gen. 45:8

Why was this position important?

In the eighth century B.C.E., the Egyptian Pharaoh's primary advisor, the Vizier, was charged with reporting the first appearance of the bright star we call Sirius after it had been missing from the sky for (depending upon the observer's latitude) approximately two weeks. The term vizier was employed later in the Arabic-Islamic era.

Here is what Arab-Egyptian Ahmed Osman proposes:

'When Joseph revealed his identity to his kinsmen who had sold him into slavery, he told them that God had made him "a father to Pharaoh." Throughout the long history of ancient Egypt, only one man is known to have been given the title "a father to Pharaoh"-Yuya, a vizier of the 18th dynasty king Tuthmosis IV. Yuya has long intrigued Egyptologists because he was buried in the Valley of Kings even though he was not a member of the Royal House.'

The Vizier or Prime Minister was the main person that was over the Egyptian seed-time harvest was at the forefront of the priesthood they were also the Almanac observers for Egypt. 

Prime Minister or Vizier-was second to the pharaoh in the Egyptian government. He was the prime minister, the head priest, and the supreme judge.

'In the eighth century B.C.E., the Egyptian Pharaoh's primary advisor, the Vizier, was charged with reporting the first appearance of the bright star we call Sirius after it had been missing from the sky for (depending upon the observer's latitude) approximately two weeks.'

Did you see the another thing about the Vizier needing to understand Astronomy/Astrology?  Well who was said to be the Vizier of Pharaoh? Joseph the son of Jacob [ Israel]. Said to be ' A Father to Pharaoh' which is the Title of the vizier Yuya according to Ahmed Osman.

' I will put you in charge of my country, and all my people will obey you orders. Your authority will be only second to mine. I now appoint you governor over all Egypt. The King removed from his finger the engraved ring with the royal seal and put it on Joseph's finger.'  Gen 42:40-42

The Prime Minister was an Astronomist and Astrologist. Why was Astronomy and Astrology needed in agriculture and celebrating the Feasts? The Feast and agriculture was inextricably linked to the planets. That along with the realization that the female and male were also mirrors of the greater universe.

'Mary, Mary quite contrary...how does your garden grow?'

The Farmers Almanac is based in these astrological concepts. The same almanac your great-grandparents used to find out when to plant their collard greens and sweet peas. The almanac that Benjamin Franklin co-opted in making his 'Poor Richards Almanac' he method ancient Egyptian/Africans had employed for eons. The Almanac plotted the planets and stars to find out when to plant. Remember, they did not come to Africa and capture a bunch of people that were just used for manual labor.  They wanted to build a nation!  They needed people who understood the concept of planting and harvesting or they would starve. The needed nation builders...and we were it.

Christian people who planted by the signs in the sky and the almanac did not think it was pagan. They continued to farm using this 'tried and true' method just like their parents before them. They had a guarantee, based on a lifetime's experience in the fields, that if they planting by the signs they would reap in due season if they fainted not.'  In following the directives that God has given us to wait upon Him in every matter  they reaped a mighty harvest.

If you tell these people that this is a practice of witchcraft, you'll horrify them (or make them burst out laughing). After all, God made the signs in the heavens, and the Bible says He put them there to tell us the appropriate times to do things on earth.

When a farmer waits for the next waxing of the moon right before fullness after the Worm moon has passed, he's not making any revelatory predictions as he prepares to plant his crop. He is not adding to Scripture. But, he is using the Signs in the Heavens.

In our time we use the Old Farmers Almanac.

Excerpt from the Almanac

'WE DERIVE OUR weather forecasts from a secret formula that was devised by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792. Thomas believed that weather on Earth was influenced by sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the surface of the Sun.

We employ three scientific disciplines to make our long-range predictions: solar science, the study of sunspots and other solar activity; climatology, the study of prevailing weather patterns; and meteorology, the study of the atmosphere. We predict weather trends and events by comparing solar patterns and historical weather conditions with current solar activity,"

Who was Benjamin Banneker? The African who wrote the another almanac that was widely used in the time of Thomas Jefferson. Look what else he did

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker[ African] had worked on his Almanac for several years and publish his in 1795. He forwarded it to Thomas Jefferson. Banneker was also one of the surveyors and architects of the capital city of Washington.

'French artist-architect Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant took his plans for D.C. with him to France, but renowned mathematician, astronomer and publisher Benjamin Bannered, who was assisting commissioner Andrew Ellicott in the survey of the site, saved the project by reproducing the plans in their entirety from memory, according to The African American Almanac.

Astrological layout of D.C.

"In two days after the architect was fired...[Banneker reproduced] a complete layout of the streets, parks and major buildings," according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web site that highlights an inventor each week. "Thus Washington, D.C., itself can be considered a monument to the genius of this great man [Banneker]."  Washington DC was designed astronomically aligned to the pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

What does this all mean?

This is another example of Africans understanding the stars, sun, moon and their effect on life, and as a sign from the Creator and of the nativity of mankind in the mother land of Africa.

From this understanding the men and women of Africa adhered to a set of  'Feasts' as markers and a code to seed-time harvest and worship was to be handed down correctly to their children as communication with Creator of the universes.

Celebrations

Let's look at the 7orignal Hebrew feast briefly.

They have three first-fruits presentations?  Lets, linger on Sukkoth for awhile because it relates to the Messiah.

During Sukkoth branches cut from palm, willow and other trees were to be waved in celebration to the Lord during the first seven days of the feast. (Lev 23:40).Considered by Jewish custom to be the final day of judgment. A ritual of beating willow branches on the ground is practiced, which is thought to symbolize the casting away of sin.

Now, remember the willow reference please we will tie it in later.

Note: This ritual differed in the New Testament account, when YahShua rode in on a donkey and the people shouted Hosanna, Hosanna. It was attributed to the time of Passover, but this response from the people usually came on Sukkoth.  Some have noted the error, others over look it, and still others feel it was supernaturally inspired on Passover.  My question is, wouldn't it be odd if the whole of Jerusalem would yell Hosanna when it was not the correct time? Did the didactors and revisionist get it mixed up?  There are two first-fruits one in the Spring and one in the Fall.

Occams Razor: This rule is interpreted to mean that the simplest of two or more competing theories is preferable and that an explanation for unknown phenomena should first be attempted in terms of what is already known.

When the people called out Hossana it was in the Fall - celebrating the Fall Feats of Tabernacles [Day of the Willows] the time of the first fruits of the harvest.  To yell out Hosanna [Save us now] at any other time would be like Christmas in July.

"Blessed art thou O Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who has sanctified us with His mitzvot , and instructed us to sit in the Sukkah."  

(Sukkot - Tabernacles( or Booths )is found in  Deuteronomy 16 starting at v13,  Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. Deut. 16:13

The Feast of Tabernacles or Day of the Willows:

'As usual, we are met at the outset by a controversy between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The law had it (Lev 23:40): 'Ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook,' which the Sadducees understood (as do the modern Karaite Jews) to refer to the materials whence the booths were to be constructed, while the Pharisees applied it to what the worshippers were to carry in their hands.

As soon as the wine and the water were being poured out, the Temple music began, and the 'Hallel' (Psa 113-118) was sung in the manner previously prescribed, and to the accompaniment of flutes, except on the Sabbath and on the first day of the feast, when flute-playing was not allowed, on account of the sanctity of the days. When the choir came to these words (Psa 118:1), 'O give thanks to the Lord,' and again when they sang (Psa 118:25), 'O work then now salvation, Jehovah'; and once more at the close (Psa 118:29), 'O give thanks unto the Lord,' all the worshippers shook their lulavs towards the altar.'

The Festival of Booths -

The time for the Feast of Booth[ Tabernacles/Shelters] was near...You go on to the Festival, because I am not going you to the festival, because the right time has not come for me.  John 7:2

'It was the last day, that great day of the feast.' It obtained this name, although it was not one of 'holy convocation,' partly because it closed the feast, and partly from the circumstances which procured it in Rabbinical writings the designations of 'Day of the Great Hosanna,' on account of the sevenfold circuit of the altar with 'Hosanna'; and 'Day of Willows,' and 'Day of Beating the Branches,' because all the leaves were shaken off the willow boughs, and the palm branches beaten in pieces by the side of the altar.

What does this have to do with anything? Well you see that there are 2 feast of First Fruits right? the latter Holiday is called the Day of the Willows because the booths in the wilderness was made out of willows and palms and goodly trees and also the Lulav shaker was made from this also. But, there is an Egyptian explanation to the Feast of Booths and the day of the Willows and it is attributed to Dionysus who was the Greek equivalent to Osiris. Since the Greeks stole almost everything from the Egyptians you can bet that the Festival of Booths was an original Egyptian concept. 

'Water and Willows represent the Goddess Helice [Heli meaning Sun]. The Dionysian thyrsus was a willow. As Dionysus was one a major God in Jerusalem, the willow figured prominently in municipal ceremonies.  A Great Day' of the Feast of Tabernacles was known as the Day of the Willows, the rites honoring water and fire. Dionysus was the Greek form of Osiris the husband of Isis.'

Remember, the man carrying water?  Some scholars try to say that this was a slave carrying water for a master.  But the water duty was always a woman's job - unless it had another meaning. I think by the translators and revisionists saying this person the disciples were to mean was just a man was a clue. I believe this was a ceremony of the priest class.  He may have been of the priesthood.

'On the first day of the Festival of unleavened Bread, the day the lambs were killed...Jesus' disciples asked him.  Where do you want to eat the Passover meal? ' Then Jesus sent two of them with these instructions: 'Go into the City, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters, and say to the owner of the house :'The Teacher says, where is the room where my disciples will eat the Passover meal?' Mark 14:12-14

Ritual for the Day of the Willows or Feast of Tabernacles

 

"It was on that day, after the priest had returned from Siloam with his golden pitcher, and for the last time poured its contents to the base of the altar; after the 'Hallel' had been sung to the sound of the flute, the people responding and worshipping as the priests three times drew the threefold blasts from their silver trumpets— when the interest of the people had been raised to its highest pitch, that, from amidst the mass of worshippers, who were waving towards the altar quite a forest of leafy branches as the last words of Psalm 118 were chanted— voice was raised which resounded through the temple, startled the multitude, and carried fear and hatred to the hearts of their leaders.

During Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) a priest would draw water in a golden pitcher from the pool of Siloam and pour it onto the altar. Another priest met him, bearing a golden pitcher of wine for the "drink offering," also prescribed in the Torah. (Leviticus 23:13)  Together they mounted the ramp to the altar of burnt offering. Simultaneously, they poured the water and the wine down the silver funnels, emptying at the base of the altar.

When Jesus told the disciples about the man with the pitcher [golden] he meant the priest.

It was Jesus, who 'stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.' Then by faith in Him should each one truly become like the Pool of Siloam, and from his inmost being 'rivers of living waters flow...'John 7:38.

This was the process of Sukkoth and the Last Great Day/Eight day.

The final day of Tabernacles was also a Sabbath, a day of solemn assembly. At this time of year the former or early rains fell (late October / November) when the fields were plowed and sown.

I think the translators got the Feasts confused trying to make everything fit into the Savior paradigm but, God in his mercy has left us clues on what went on during the Feast and how the Messiah really fit into that scheme.

Ausar and Aset

Now, let us look at the Egyptian roots of this Hebrew Feasts starting with Osiris and Isis.

How greatly the story of Osiris and Isis influenced the ancient world outside of Egypt can be understood from the speculation which Plutarch commits himself to:

'This thing that our priests today, with prayer for mercy and in dim revelation, most reverently do hint, even that Osiris is King and Lord among the dead, bewilders the minds of most men who know not how the truth of this thing is.

For they fancy that Osiris, in whom most surely is all holiness of God and nature, is thus said to be in the earth and beneath the earth, where are hidden the bodies of those who seem to have had their end. But Osiris' self is far indeed from the earth, untouched, undefiled, immaculate of all substance that admits of corruption and death.'

The Greco-Roman version of the Osiris story is Dionysus or Orpheus so when you see either name it relates back to Egypt. the Hebrews were influenced in their latter years by the Hellenists [Greeks], who stole their system of worship, philosophy and religion form the Egyptians, and the Hebrews in the time of Jesus was also influenced by the Essenes who were called the Children of the Sun -who got their religious understanding from Anu or On [the Greek Heliopolis].

'Although historians differ in details, they generally agree upon the major facts concerning the Essenes. For example they agree that this pioneer group of mystics was of "dateless antiquity", as Pliny declares. The Talmud speaks of the brotherhood as the "Holy community in Jerusalem", while Strabo mentions "the Essenes in Heliopolis with whom Plato and Eudoxus consulted".

Josephus, a member of the organization for a time, writes of Jesus as a member, and considers the Essenes to be the oldest of ascetics, tells us the resurrection or continuity of life after so-called death, in communication with angels and declared that it was from Egypt that their doctrines spread abroad. Philo calls the mystic group "Champions of Virtue", a people by themselves more remarkable than any other in the wide world".'

The Hebrews were highly influenced by the Egyptians because they were their children and they continued to interact with them over a course of thousands of years.  Even with the Biblical Exodus, their captivity in Babylon, Persia and later with Greek and finally Roman influences their connection with Egypt still lay beneath their worship, Feast days, traditions, writings, poetry, and iconography. Their pictures of death, burial and resurrection were the same. 

' Joseph threw himself on his father, crying and kissing his face.  then he gave orders to embalm his fathers body.  It took 40 days, the normal time for embalming.  And the Egyptians mourned for him 70 days...when they came to the Threshing place, at Atad east of Jordan they mourned for along time, and Joseph performed the mourning ceremonies for 70 days.

When the Canaanites saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, 'What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding! That place is called Abel-Mizraim or Meadow of Egypt or mourning of Egypt. Gen. 50:4-11.

So much for that 3 day burial ritual that came about after the Exile. In this ceremony Israel was buried in the manner of the Egyptians. What does that mean?

Let me not reinvent the wheel - click here for that:

http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egcr06e.html

Just as the Hebrew Feast to celebrate the Creator were the same as the Egyptian with a few modifications, other cultures like the Canaanite, owed its understanding of the significance of salvation, resurrection and fellowship with the Creator to Egyptian culture also.

Throughout nay given summer, the nations reaped a harvest and in the fall there was the Greater Harvest.  The spring and Fall months became important in the cycle of celebrations.

The greater Harvest came at the end of summer. they stored food for the winter and depending upon the fertility of the land, the wisdom of the master farmer, who understood the 'moedim' and how they aligned themselves and the blessing from the Creator, they would survive to see another prosperous year.  ['Moedim']

In the more fertile areas along the African Nile, Zambezi, Tigris and Euphrates rivers and many other lakes and fresh water areas, the people grew and flourished, and their dependence on the overflow or flooding of these areas was essential to the 'good soil' for growth of their foodstuffs.

Zera is the Hebrew word for seedtime - from the root zara to sow or disseminate, plant, seeds of life whether farming or producing children. 

"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).

Man began to see that the forces of nature created by God has a control on his life.  When it rained crops grew, when it did not crops died.  He also realized that the fertility of his mate depended on the times and seasons.

The Hebrew word for overflowing [ water] is zerem to flood or overflow, from the root word zaram: to gush, to carry away with a flood, or pour out.  As in a flood or in a woman's menstrual cycle. 

Pliny the Elder was a natural historian who described the fineness of the balance of the flooding on the Nile.  He says that there is a specific amount of flooding that will produce the best fertility along the Nile, stating that too little flooding means that not enough irrigation is produced for all areas, and that too much slows up agriculture because it retires too slowly and the sowing time is delayed because of the moister levels of the soil.'

Both  observances are cited in the preparing the land/Womb for seed. Mankind came to the conclusion that the world and universe mirrored themselves and vice versa, which produced the axiom:

 "As above, so below,"

'As in Heaven, so on Earth'

This term was later represented by the Seal of Solomon or Star of David or the Star of Bethlehem and the precept is:

 "Man, Know Thyself."

The body is the house of God. That is why it is said, "Man know thyself."

'In ancient Kemet (Egypt), on the portals of several temples and in their proverbs and it aid:  "Know Thyself." The Greeks attributed this statement to the philosopher Socrates, without ever mentioning that Socrates was trained in Africa, in the same temples previously mentioned. [ excerpted from Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn]

'The significance of these phrases is that it is believed to hold the key to all mysteries. All systems of the hidden are claimed to function by this formula. "'That which is above is the same as that which is below'...Macrocosmos is the same as microcosms.'

The Greeks after  seeing it written on the halls and temples of the universities [called mystery] schools in Kemet took it for their own.  In recent years the modern Cabbalists [ medieval mystic Jews] have co-opted this expression and concepts.

The symbol of above below pyramid otherwise known as the Star of David or Seal of Solomon, Some say it is the double D piercing the sky and land.  The origin of the Star of Bethlehem was said to be brought to the world (Egypt) in ancient times by the Gods as a gift to the human race. It is the symbol for understanding ' as it in heaven so may it be on earth.' Some cultures have used it as the symbol for sexual union resulting in Pro-creation, other viewed it as the reflectiveness of the pyramid and the capstone that beam out to the universe.

'The Star of David was to be a symbol of the linkage between heaven and earth, male and female'

Egyptian tombs and sepulchers heaven is indicated by five-pointed Stars. It is interesting to note that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for the "morning star" has the literal meaning "Divine knowledge". The morning star, usually identified with Venus.

Catholic Encyclopedia:

"The name Lucifer originally denotes the planet Venus, emphasizing its brilliance. The Latin Vulgate employs the word also for "the light of the morning" Job 11:17 and then as the zodiac signs in Job 38:32. Where in Hebrew it is helel, Septuagint heosphoros, and the Vulgate lucifer.

The Persian influence on the Scriptures:

The word "devil" comes from the Sanskrit/Hindi word "deva," which refers to the good angels of the Hindu pantheon. The root of both "devil" and "deva" means "divine."  "The Devas of the [Hindu] Veda are the bright gods who fight on the side of Indra; in the [Zoroastrian] Avesta the word has come to mean an evil spirit, and the Zoroastrian was bound to declare that he ceased to be a worshipper of the daevas...It was only after Zoroaster and the Persians conquered Hindu territory that they felt compelled to make the Hindu gods into devils! Thus, the Hindu devas became the Persians devils. [Rev. George Cox -  Mythology of the Aryan Nations (Longmans, 1870, pp. 355, 363)]

"...the word devil passed into an immense number of forms, the Gothic tieval, diuval, diufal, the Icelandic djofull, Swedish djevful, all of them, together with the Italian, French, and Spanish forms carrying back the word diabolos [diabolos] to the same root which furnished the Latin Divus, Djovis, and the Sanskrit deva."

Knowing this, about the origins of divine knowledge and the term morning star, why would these terms be attributed to Jesus in the Revelation of John?

'...I AM THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR.'

REV. 22:16

Now, don't get you panties in a knot...when the Bible was written the people understood a certain concept.  Judaism like Christianity had a root - it did not grow up in a vacuum and neither did you!

Were you influenced by you peers? Do you use the same words and concepts as this or any other generation? Do you watch TV or listen to the news or rent any videos?  Were you educated in the good ole USA or anywhere they have the corporate learning system? Well, if you say yes...then you understand how the growth of Judaism and Christianity worked!

When Jesus or the Apostles spoke, their concepts was understood in a certain historical way.  NOT the way we understand today.

Example: 

When we say bad today it means good - in our parents time it meant terrible or naughty. Just as when the children of generations under use the word DOPE,  they meant good or on the cutting edge, then in the 70's to us it meant drugs. BUT to our parents it meant STUPID or a Dunce. 

In only two generation one word had made three changes!

So, when the term Bright and Morning star or Day Star is used you need to go back to the ancient meaning that was acceptable to the time. The ancient meaning ALWAYS pointed to the STARS.

We see that the Bible deals in agriculture and cosmology and in other places husbandry. This is important to understand when looking at the types and shadows of Egyptian culture woven into the Hebrew Feasts.

Birth of a Star

Two extra holidays were added to the Biblical Feasts:

Purim- We will talk about the Egyptian roots of Purim later in this essay.  But the word Purim is derived from PURU an Assyrian word meaning 'lots'.  The story in the book of Esther has Haman, a Persian persuaded Ahasuerus (Xerxes), king of Persia, to have all the Jews in the king's realm destroyed. 

'In Babylon, the New year had long been the time when fate was determined for the coming year. It was determined by drawing lots. "Purim" is the plural of "Pur," which is neither a Semitic nor a Persian word.

The Assyrians, however, did have a word "Puru" meaning a stone that could be used like a dice for casting lots, and its use in such a sense has been found on Assyrian tablets.

Purim is a curiosity in Judaism because it does not appear in the law of Moses. Jews and Christians are surprised that a scriptural book has no mention of Yehouah/Yahweh, or God in any form, prayer, worship or the law of Moses, though the Jews are spoken of as having their own law.'

In Sanskrit: Esther, "fullness," A God in the Assyrian triad, his colleagues being the Sun and Moon. His name may be read Eva, Iva, Air, Aer, Aur, Er, Ar, also Vul. ][see Vulva]

Where does Purim come from? Let's piece together the name Esther, what does it sound like to you?

Esther - The book is named after the character "Esther/Istar/Estarte" In Hebrew the title is rtsa which may be derived from the Persian word for star, stara. This relates back to the Egyptian root of Isis being representative of the star Sirius.

Sirius

Wow here's Sirius again now related to Esther and Purim.  Remember Sirius is the Dog Star related to Isis and Osiris.  Well lets look at another African connection.

The Dogon people of West African have known about - Sirius A and its Twin the invisible star Sirius B, for the past 5,000 years. They are have also been aware of the planets circle the sun in elliptical orbits, the four moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. 

The Dogon people have described perfectly the DNA pattern made by this elliptical orbit created by the two stars as they rotate make around each other. They believe Sirius to be the axis of the universe, and from it all matter and all souls are produced in a great spiral motion.

DNA?  DNA?  The stuff of life is seen in the heavens and then relates to the female and male on earth.

The circuit of Sirius DNA:

More about the Dogons

In the Egyptian Creation story has Isis and Osiris as the son and daughter of Geb and Nut.  Isis was pictured with a throne on her head and in Rome here name became Stella Maris, or "star of the sea" [ sea being the heavens]. the Dogon people understood that Sirius and it's orbit appeared to be the picture of DNA long before Watson and Crick were born.  The Dogon and Egyptian have similar thoughts about the Dog Star. [ maybe because they were cousins?]

'As it turns out, Dogon descriptions and drawings run parallel to the actual scientific structure of matter, starting with the atom and continuing all the way down to the vibrating strings of string theory, and include descriptions of esoteric behavior of matter at the most fundamental levels. Key elements of this same structure are found in ancient Egypt, often times in greater detail than the Dogon. The Egyptian hieroglyphic words which describe how matter is formed are written with glyphs which precisely match scientific diagrams from string theory. The many similarities between Dogon and Egyptian cosmological references all but preclude suggestions by Belgian anthropologist Walter Van Beek that they could have been the product of Dogon priestly invention.'

'Whatever knowledgeable authority composed the Dogon myths was exceedingly thoughtful of future researchers.  Carefully chosen words were used to define each concept – words with double and sometimes triple meanings.  When it came time to trace these concepts to Egyptian mythology (the original intention of the research), the Egyptian hieroglyphic language provided clear counterparts to the Dogon words – pronounced the same way, carrying the same multiple meanings, and written using glyphs which replicated the Dogon symbols – the very definition of an identity between concepts. 

When we see the same word turn up with the same meanings in another culture – like the concept of the PO in the Maori culture (which for the Dogon and Egyptians represents the atom) or the concept of a Mother Goddess associated with spiders we know from the earliest reference that we have tapped into the same tradition.

'In Ancient Egypt Sirius was the brightest, and most important star in the night sky. Sirius was astronomically the foundation of their entire religious system. It was the embodiment of Isis, sister and consort of the god Osiris, who appeared in the sky as Orion.'

In the story of the Dogon they say that those of a Reptile nature gave them this information THAT IS CRAZY!  - I believe this is iconographic and zoomorphic language. They were the Egyptian priests or the Pharaoh who represented the reptile [snake] or amphibian, as seen on the head of Tutankamun the Lord of the Two lands."

Tut - Example of the Two lands represented by two snakes.

Could the Dogon have received this information about Sirius[ Osiris] through the Egyptian Priesthood? 

I think so.  Remember the farther away form the source the wilder the myth. I believe that in this day and age and with the current European administration the need for mechanical technology is used because the spiritual technology the original Africans has master can not be mastered by the counterfeiter.  If we could swim without aid of oxygen tanks, if we could travel to the outer reaches of our universe without a spaceship or the apparatus designed to put a man in space.  If we could travel without the aid of an automobile, what would be the use of technology? If we understood the rudiments of how the world really worked and the affect of the sun, moon and other planets on our existence, we would not need machines and the pollution they caused to live and throve and multiply. If we understood out inward bodies, minds and spirits as well as the greater body, mind and sprit of the whole Creation when where would we be?  I believe that is what was know in the ancient past and what we have been forced to forget in our present.

Iconography: The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients. [See Below]

On every line of research we discover that the representation of nature was pre-anthropomorphic at first, as we see on going back far enough, and on every line of descent the zoomorphic passes ultimately into the human representation. Modern metaphysicians have so developed the faculty of abstraction and the disease of Subjectivity that their own mental operations offer no true guidance for generalizations concerning primitive or early man, who thought in things and almost apprehended with the physical sense-alone."

Sirius was the main star used for the basis of the Calendar used for planting, harvest, and Festivals.

'Then God commanded, 'Let the lights appear in the sky to separate the night form the day, and let them show when the days, years and religious festivals [moedim].' Gen. 1:14

Sirius also relates to the image of the Star of David. Now bear with us because I know this is a lot of information but, hopefully you can see that Sirius and Isis are on in the same and Esther is related to the Star.

The Seal of Solomon or Star of David is an icon brought form Egypt - traveling to India and returning to Palestine and adopted [by legend] by Solomon.

Isis' in the Middle Eastern is Astarte or Ishtar, which is the name Esther. So we can see that Ester and Isis are the same. Let's look at some more interesting rituals that happen during Purim.  This is also were Easter is derived.  Remember, it's all about Egypt it is either from the Catholic side or the Jewish side.  But all things came form Egypt and there is nothing new under the SUN.

Sirius the barker

As Above, so Below

What does this have to do with Purim and its mirror Easter?

Purim is a re-constructed play about the ancient Egyptian neteroo with Middle Eastern overtones due to the Hebrew exile.

One of the treats that are made during the time of Purim is the Hamantashen - called the ears of Haman, but that ain't what it is...are you ready?

Haman cookies for Purim

The symbol of the [female] Vulva of Isis.

 The Cowrie shell symbol of the vulva.

Cowrie shells are obtained from Islands in the Indian Ocean. In ancient times, the cowrie was currency much like our dollar is today - in fact they were still in use in some parts of the world (such as Nigeria) within living memory.

Though it has become one of the symbols of the African continent, it is fact that the cowrie played such an important role as money in ancient China that its pictograph was adopted in their written language for money. Thus it is not surprising that among the earliest countable metallic money or coins were cowries made of bronze or copper, in China.

The Cowrie Speaks...through divination, patakies (sacred stories of the Yoruba) in which the Orisa relate proper moral, spiritual as well as everyday methods to solve conflicts, through Ebo's (sacrifice), the cowrie speaks! The cowrie is the mouth of the Orisas since it is used in divination. There are related stories about the cowrie that teach about being humble and respectful to your elders, that help the cowrie to have the attributes it has historically as well as today.

If you are attracted to cowries it could mean that you are a son/daughter of Yemaya, a Yoruba ocean spirit associated with wealth and mother earth.

It is a powerful symbol about Africa, that people generally associate with Africans in America or Africans on the Continent wearing it. But since the late seventies when cowries began appearing on the vending tables of African American and African vendors around the country, the small white shells have become an easy multicultural fashion statement.  http://www.ifama.com/page7.html

Purim, the Feast of Lots, is observed on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew month of Adar (February-March). This is a celebration of the deliverance of the Persian Jews over one of the most dastardly plots in history to exterminate the Jewish people. The book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of how the beautiful Jewish woman Esther (Hadassah) and her cousin Mordecai thwart the evil Haman. [see Ichthus]

Purim falls more or less during the same time each year as the former Roman celebrations and the more modern Christian celebration of Mardi Gras, and that each of these holidays involves costumes, theatrical productions, dancing, singing and the generous consumption of wine may be merely coincidence.

The figures of Vashti and Esther, clearly in origin full-moon pre-spring relatives of the ancient mythological lifecycle goddesses, come down to us, in the Book of Esther and in rabbinic midrash, so disfigured and devalued that it is hard to know how to begin resurrecting them.

Purim's origins, scholars generally agree, derive from an ancient full-moon pre-spring Persian holiday; Esther is descended from the Babylonian Ishtar (who derives from Inanna/Isis) and Mordechai from the Babylonian Marduk.

(These gods are allied against the Elamite goddess, Vashti, and the god Humman, that is, Haman.) Ishtar, a universal lifecycle goddess, also rules the morning star and evening star, so Esther's Hebrew name, Hadassah, means "myrtle," In Assyrian it also means Star. 

Why did the Biblical Esther need 2 names?

The Myrtle tree has star-shaped flowers, and leaves which are vulvate or boat-shaped, again that fertility symbol that goes back over 30,000 years to engravings on cave walls. Esther, like Isis, overcomes fate, because the King, against the odds, stretches out to her his golden scepter, thereby allowing her to live. For many women, this part of the Megillah tells a deeply moving Jewish[?] story about female courage. 'If I perish, I perish.'

Myrtle Tree

Vashti and Esther, of course, are in coalition, not opposition. The journeys of females-Isis, Demeter, Inanna-are not journeys to find answers, they are journeys to gather something together, to make things whole. Even the Shekhina, the female aspect of the Jewish God, gathers up lost souls.

As Isis gathers up the parts of Osiris. Demeter searches for her daughter. Our themes, as contemporary women, are the same: to restore something that has been separated, to reconnect body and soul, to reunite Vashti and Esther, to integrate and reclaim the feminine that has been lost or abandoned in human history.

Esther must circle back to carry Vashti across the threshold into telling her story. And it is not just the girl's story that must be retold and reheard, it is also our mothers' stories-Vashti, Esther, and their mothers' stories, Ishtar, Isis, Demeter, and all the rest.  [excerpt from internet article]

On Purim the hats of Haman are made into the shape of cookies [Vulvas]. These are the same cookies [ sweet bread] that were made in Egypt in the ritual of Isis and Osiris and on the feast days. The bread is eaten at the Osirian communion.

Egyptian Triangle Bread

Is the Egyptian triangle bread a symbol of the female vulva? Is it again the symbol of the female principle, the life Chavvah or Zoë that represents the Pyramid and one half of the Star of David? These were left at the feet of the mummy and at the head was the Book of Coming forth by day. 

Question: 

Since Jacob and Joseph were buried in the way of the Egyptians did they have the bread at their feet and the book at their heads....YES!

'Everything is Everything!

In Hebrew, the "Star of David", the double-triangle pattern, is known as the "Mogan David", which is usually translated to mean "star" or "shield" of David.

But we can analyze the meaning of the Hebrew words to obtain a more precise meaning. The word translated as "star" or "shield" actually consists of two parts. "MoG" and "-aN".

In Hebrew the root MoG is the root that means magician, as in Magus/magi, and it indicates "manifestation." The letter "M" means "source of" (M=Mem="sea/expanse") and the letter "G" (G=Gimel="camel") means "action" or "carrying." The final "N" means "to go on forever" (as in the English, "go on to the Nth degree".)

David, spelled Dalet ("D"), Vov ("F"), Dalet ("D") in Hebrew, means to repeatedly do (Vov, "F") what happens at a "delta", the English and Greek meaning of the Hebrew word "dalet." David represents dispensing and giving out. (A line-like river fans out into a two-dimensional plane as it dispenses itself into the sea at a delta.)

Thus, in Hebrew, the double-triangle, known as the Mogan David represents the "dispensation of ongoing manifestation." In other words, the double-triangle represents the way one dimension pours itself out into the next dimension just like the way a seed pours itself out until it becomes a fruit.

The Double D or Dalet, the Haman cookies, the Egyptian communion bread, and the Pyramid are all saying the same thing... Egypt and the Neteru says.... look up for your redemption draws near!

Lets look at Chanukah - The festival of light or Feast of Dedication of the Temple.

'Chanukah is an eight day holiday which begins on the 25th day of the month of Kislev. It marks the miraculous victory of the Jews, led by the Maccabees [ the Hammer], against Greek persecution and religious oppression. In addition to being victorious in war, another miracle occurred: When the Maccabees came to rededicate the Temple, they found only one flask of oil with which to light the Menorah.

This small flask lasted for eight