The Gods of the Earth

With Christianity’s start date beginning at year 1 AD, the Roman Catholic Church sets the date of the birth of Jesus Christ at the start of the age of Pisces, which was worked out and set in stone by Pope Gregory XIII, in what we know today as the year 1582. Gregorian reform was implemented as the Julian calendar assumes that the time between vernal equinoxes is 365.25 days, when in fact it is almost 11 minutes shorter. This discrepancy results in a drift of about three days every 400 years. At the time of Gregory’s reform there had already been a drift of 10 days since Roman times, resulting in the Spring Equinox falling on the 11th of March, instead of the ecclesiastically fixed date of the 21st of March. As Christian events such as Lent, Good Friday, Palm Sunday, Christmas, Pentecost and many others, are tied so heavily upon annual astrological events, such as the solstices and equinoxes, the liturgical year and its associated colours of the seasonal moods of Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church considered this steady movement in the date of the equinox undesirable.

Why start the religion at the beginning of the age of Pisces? Well, have you ever wondered why the Christian bible has both an Old and New Testament? Our political institutions, our bishops, clergy, scholars and theologians have known and kept hidden the true beginnings of the faith since its inception. These early beginnings if told to its loyal parishioners would tear the church apart, so two millennia of secrets enabled the stability of the faith.

There is one single answer to the reason why the vast majority of religions are the way they are, including the various creeds, the sermons, the parables, the teachings, the promises, the dates and the people, all derive from the adoration of one celestial object: The Sun.

Whether you are religious or not, if you did not already know this fact, this will most probably come as a bit of a shock.

Our Sun, the star at the centre of our solar system has been adored since the dawn of humanity as far back as 10,000 years ago.

The adoration attributed to the Sun was so because of the vision, warmth and security it created. The earliest cultures of civilisation understood that their crops would not grow and life on earth would not survive without it. Even up until the time of Columbus in the late 15th century, people still thought the Earth was flat. The Sun was always praised for its life giving warmth and light. It waxed and waned; people followed its passage with great intent, as they did with the seasons it created over the course of the year. Different civilisations would give offerings and sacrifices to the myriad of sun gods over many millennia, with such offerings usually being for longer, warmer days, rains or whichever growing conditions they needed at the time. The Sun is the number one adored object in humanity ever. Second, would go to the Moon. Again, its light giving properties and its affects upon tides would have been an object of many sacrificial offerings. Finally, the stars in the sky: Many religions are based upon, or have stories of the anthropomorphology of the various constellations of the ether.

The tracking of the stars across the night sky meant that ancient civilisations could prepare and anticipate coming events over long periods of time, such as the full moons and eclipses. The earliest of these civilisations catalogued celestial groups of stars in what we know today as constellations. The depiction of the central cross of the Zodiac is one of the oldest know conceptual images in human history. With the Sun being at its epicentre, as it figuratively moves about the 12 major constellations of the Zodiac over the course of a year, also depicts by its central quadrants formed by the crux, the 4 solstices; with the bisections of the crux itself depicting the equinoxes.

The term ‘equinox’ refers to the fact that constellations were anthropomorphised, or personified as figures or animals. In other words, the early civilisations did not just follow the sun and the stars, they actually personified them, involving elaborate myths to coincide with their movements and relationships to the other celestial bodies in the night sky. The Sun itself, with its radiant heat and life-giving qualities, was personified as the representative of the unseen, yet all-powerful creator or God. The light of the world, the saviour of mankind, God’s Sun. Likewise, the 12 constellations represent the places of travel for ‘God’s Sun’, and were represented by major events that happen during this period of time, for example Aquarius, the water bearer who brings the spring rains.

Many civilisations had sun gods such as the Sumerians, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Babylonian, Toltecs, Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Romans, Greeks, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Polynesians and Aborigines. From these early civilisations there are ubiquitous dualities that exist in every single religion: Day and night, the light and the dark, the good versus evil. The darkness was the cold, unknown, mystical death that was evil. The light is the divine, the giver of life; our saviour. The most astonishing thing, that for the most part mankind is blissfully unaware of, is the replete nature in which all religions have their roots as astrotheological allegories.

Horus is the sun god of Egypt, from around 3000 years BC. He is the personification of the Sun, anthropomorphised as an allegorical myth of the sun’s movement in the sky. Horus was the Falcon Son of Osiris, who was personified as the God of the Afterlife, with Horus being attributed the personification of the Sun’s rising. Ra was the God of the Midday Sun, and by the 5th Dynasty of around 2500BC, Horus and Ra merged as Re-Horakhty, meaning “Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons”; and by the 11th Dynasty, became merged again under the God, Amun, as the Sun God, Amun-Ra.

From ancient hieroglyphs we understand many of the details of this solar messiah. For instance, Horus, being the light, had an enemy known as ‘Set’, with Set being the personification of the darkness, or night. Metaphorically speaking, every morning, Horus would win the battle against Set, whilst in the evening; Set would overpower Horus, sending him into the underworld.

These ubiquitous dualities are replete throughout every single religion in the world today, whether good versus evil, or Ying and Yang; the balance of life addressed in this way forms the very backbone of religious institutions and archaic Man’s thinking of the era.

Horus was born around 3000 BC to the virgin, Isis Meri. Isis meaning ‘throne’ and Meri, not in fact a name, but an adjective meaning ‘beloved’; however, the way in which the root system works in early Egyptian hieroglyphs, the name Isis-Meri together, literally translates as “All loving mother”. With Horus’ conception being of divine love, Isis was known by her many adorers as just Meri. This correlation in both sobriquet and persona of the Virgin Mary, has for many years, led the Christian church in going to great lengths to debunk this fact, so damaging it is to their faith. In fact, as of writing there are over 760,000 pro-Christian websites, with pages dedicated to the debunking of this very topic. The Pashcal Chronicle, a Christian source, compiled in the 3rd century AD states, ‘The Chronicle of Alexandria has preserved the traditions of the practice of exhibiting the sun on the supposed day of his birth as a new-born infant being held sacred in the mysteries of Egypt’, quoting the Paschal Chronicle; ‘Up to the present time Egypt has held sacred the delivery of a virgin and the birth of her son, who is exposed in a cradle to the adoration of the people. King Ptolemy having asked the reason for this practice, the Egyptians told him that it was a mystery taught to their ancestors by a venerable prophet’. The original Greek is also provided from another later rendition; the word translated as virgin, is ‘parthenos’, thus verifying the rendition. The mention of Ptolemy is also of importance as it indicates that such a custom dates back to at least the time of the Ptolemies, which is centuries prior to the supposed birth of Jesus Christ. This custom being indicated as a ‘mystery’ also highlights that it wasn’t necessarily stressed to the masses; hence a less abundant record demonstrates such things.

Many debunkers have since written that it was Osiris who was sent to the underworld, not Horus. It seems that many deniers, who have much face to lose, warranting risking their own respectability by bandying about such inaccuracies, do not understand the differences of the transliteration of ‘underworld’ and ‘afterlife’. These many degrees of separation are akin to the prevalence of the Catholic flavour of Christianity, in its depictions of Purgatory and Limbo.

I have named these phenomena of religious self-reinforced delusionism as ‘The Stupification Paradox’. This is the documented syndrome of attributing to God all things not understood or quantifiable by the beholder. Thus, “I cannot compute this information in my brain”, or, “This goes against my belief, therefore God is the answer”. As a belief system it is implicitly inconceivable that anyone can comprehend the divine intervention of the mysterious ways of God, that all attempts to quantify his existence are futile. To science and logic, this is the very essence of self reinforced delusion. Therefore, as a warning for all of those suffering from The Stupification Paradox, or those who say that they simply wouldn’t want to live in a world where God doesn’t exist, showing deliberate acts of wantonism; I suggest you put this book down now.

Behold!

Horus, whose birth was accompanied by a star in the east, who upon his birth was adored by 3 kings, and at the age of 12 he was a prodigal child teacher. At the age of 30 he was baptised by a figure known as Anup and thus, began his ministry. Horus travelled about with 12 disciples, performing miracles such as walking on water and healing the sick. Horus was known by many gestural names such as ‘The Truth’, ‘The Light’, ‘God’s Anointed Son’, ‘The Good Shepherd’, ‘The Lamb of God’ and many others. After being betrayed by Typhon, Horus was crucified, was buried for 3 days and thus, resurrected.

These familiar attributes of Horus, whether original or not, seem to permeate throughout many cultures of the world, as many of these gods which are spread apart, over many thousands of years have been found to share the same general mythological structure.

According to Zoroastrian Avesta scriptures, Mithra of Persia was born on 25th December around 1200BC of a virgin birth. He had 12 disciples and performed miracles. Upon his death he was buried for 3 days and thus, resurrected. He was also named ‘The Truth’, ‘The Light’, ‘The Life’, ‘The Word’, ‘The Good Shepherd’, and many others. The sacred day of worship was named, Sunday.

Attis of Phrygia, also from around 1200BC, was born of Immaculate Conception to a virgin named Nana, on December 25th. He was crucified, placed in a tomb, and after 3 days was resurrected.

Krishna of India from around 900BC was born without sexual union of a parthenogenetic creatrix goddess named Divaki, under the guidance of a star in the east which signalled his coming. He performed miracles with the 12 disciples that he chose to aid him in propagating his doctrines. Upon his death, he was resurrected.

Dionysus of Greece, born of a virgin around 1500BC on December 25th. He was a teacher who performed miracles such as turning water into wine. He was referred to as the ‘King of Kings’, ‘God’s only begotten son’, ‘The Alpha and Omega’, and many, many more. Upon his death, he too was resurrected.

This same mythological structure with the virginal birth on the 25th December, death for 3 days and inevitable resurrection sequence are in fact replete throughout countless ancient civilisations predating Christianity, such as Indra of Tibet, Zhule of Egypt, Beddru of Japan, Cadmus of Greece, Thor, son of Odin of the Gauls, Adonis, son of Io of Greece, Prometheus of Caucasus, Jao of Nepal, Buddha Sakia of India, Crite of Chaldea, Chrishna of Hindostan, Bali of Afghanistan, Alcides of Thebes, Universal Monarch of the Sibyls, Devine Teacher of Plato, Baal & Taut of Phoenicia, Salivahana of Bermuda, Zalmoxis of Thrace, Adad of Assyria, Zoar of the Bonzes, Hesus and Bremrillah of Siam, Mikado of the Sintoos, Hil & Feta of the Mandaites, Holy One of Xaca, Fohi & Tien of China, Ixion & Quirinius of Rome, Ischy of the Island of Formosa, Wittoba of the Bilingonese, Odin of Scandinavia, Deva Tat & Sammonocadam of Siam, Gentaut & Quexalcote of Mexico, and finally Thammuz of Syria.

Why? Why are there so many of the same traits appearing in various religions, time after time, after time, over many thousands of years? Before we discover why, let’s take a quick look at the most recent of the solar messiahs. Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary on December 25th in Bethlehem. His birth was announced by a star in the east, followed by 3 Kings, or ‘Magi’, namely Balthazar, Caspar, & Melchior, who located and adored the child saviour with gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. Jesus of Nazareth was a child teacher at age 12 and at the age of 30 he was baptised by John the Baptist, thus beginning his ministry. Jesus had 12 disciples which he travelled about with, performing miracles such as turning water into wine, healing the sick, walking on water and raising the dead. He is also known as The King of Kings, The Son of God, The Light of the World, The Alpha & Omega, The Lamb of God and many others. After being betrayed by his disciple Judas for 30 pieces of silver, he was crucified, placed in a tomb, and after 3 days was resurrected and ascended into heaven.

The many stories of countless religions throughout the ages are so very similar, sharing the same structure, which to some will be a shocking revelation. Firstly, the reason for the repleteness of the birth sequence is completely astrological.

The star in the east is ‘Sirius’, the brightest star in the night sky, which on December 24th, aligns with the 3 brightest stars of Orion’s belt. The 3 stars of Orion’s belt are called the same today as they were in ancient times; The 3 Kings, which, with the brightest star Sirius, points to the place of the sunrise on the morning of December 25th, the birth of God’s Sun at the time of the winter solstice. That is why the 3 Kings follow the brightest star in the east, to find the birth of the Sun.

The Virgin Mary is the constellation of Virgo. Virgo in Latin literally means Virgin. Virgo is known as ‘The House of Bread’, and the representation of Virgo is a virgin holding a sheaf of wheat. This house of bread and its depiction and symbolisation of wheat represents August and September, the time of Harvest. In turn, Bethlehem literally translates to ‘House of Bread’. Bethlehem is not a reference to a place on Earth, but in the sky. The city of Bethlehem today with over 22,000 people, in biblical times was a small village of less than 1000 people. The biblical depiction and narrative of King Herod the Great of Judea in the Massacre of the Innocents, the story of the infanticide and gendercide and the historicity of accounts do not corroborate. There are no documented accounts of anything of this sort of depiction of Herod at this time. In fact, King Herod died in 4BC. Titus Flavius Josephus, a Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer, documented Herod’s time upon the throne in exquisite detail, sparing no shame and pulling no punches when meticulously describing the diaries of Herod during his rein. He was indeed a brutal man, who killed his own wife and two of his own sons. However, in all likelihood, the number of male firstborn infants residing anywhere near the vicinity of the village of Bethlehem, would in all probability have totalled no more than 5 or 6 infant firstborn boys, if there was any element of truth in this fable.

Before the naming of this small village in the modern day central West Bank state of Palestine, Bethlehem existed for more than 1000 years prior to this small settlement, as the personification of the constellation of Virgo in the night sky.

The Magi, as mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, translates from ‘Magician’, in the sense of Illusionist or fortune-teller. Magi were also predicted to find the King of the Jews, a statement that allegedly enraged Herod to initiate the Massacre of the Innocents. These Magi were Gnostics, the earliest mystics of Christianity, centuries before the Roman state saw fit to hand pick and rewrite scriptures to support their own idealist goals of power and corruption, and for a tighter grip upon a nation in rebellion to the polytheistic state religions and cults of the emperors. This story unfortunately belongs to the Apocrypha, spurious esoteric texts of Christian non-canonical origin, neatly slotted between the Old & New Testaments. These are intertestimental accounts written by early Christian Gnostics and Jewish Christians, whereby the canon was not formally accepted by the formation of the state church of the Nicene Creed of Christianity, the very first derivative of liturgy used to form the official canon of the first ecumenical council, during its formation in the early part of the 4th century, and the formative template for over 41,000 flavours of Christian worship today.

Another celestial fact which has been very important in virtually all civilisations since the dawn of humanity was the documentation, celebration and sacrifice of the times of the solstices. From the summer solstice to the winter solstice, the days become shorter and colder. From the perspective of the northern hemisphere, the Sun appears to move south, becoming scarcer as the Sun tracks shallower against the horizon. The shortening of the days and the withering of the crops when approaching the winter solstice, to the ancients, symbolised the process of death. To those people who spent their days in the fields tending and nurturing their crops, it was of extreme importance. It was seen as the death of the Sun. Every year by the 22nd December, the Sun’s demise is fully realised. The Sun having continually moved south to its lowest point in the sky, perceivably stops moving south on the 22nd December for a period of 3 days. During these 3 days, the Sun resides in the region of the Southern Cross, or “Crux Constellation”, where on 25th December the Sun moves 1° north, foreshadowing longer days, warmth and spring.

So, it was said, the Sun died on the cross, was dead for 3 days, only to be resurrected, or born again. This is the reason why Jesus and many other religion’s sun gods, share this crucifixion, 3 day death, resurrection concept. It is the perception of the salvation of Spring that follows the winter solstice. However, Christians do not celebrate the resurrection of the Sun until the Spring Equinox, or ‘Easter’. This is because the Sun officially overpowers the evil darkness, where the Sun, is longer in the sky than the duration of night, marking the emergence of spring.

Both New and Old Testaments are full of astrological references and personifications, none more so than the number 12. The number 12 is replete throughout The Bible, with perhaps the best example coming from the 12 disciples. These 12 disciples are the representation of the 12 constellations that Jesus, the Sun, travels about with. Many other references to the magical dozen, including the 12 Kings of Israel, the 12 Princes of Israel, the 12 Judges of Israel, the 12 Tribes of Israel, the 12 Sons of Jacob, the 12 Great Patriarchs, the 12 Prophets of The Old Testament, and many, many more, including various references of the number 12 which also exist in the Apocrypha.

The iconoclasm in the earliest depictions of the cross of The Crucifixion, were always depictions of the shorthand symbol of the Cross of the Zodiac. This symbol is seen atop of 1 in 5 churches in the UK and 1 in 3 churches in the US, which can be described today as a Roman Catholic Cross, Muiredach’s Cross, Monasterboice Cross, Catholic Cross, Celtic Cross, or Irish Cross. This cross is set apart by The Ring of the Zodiac at its centre, which shows the 4 solstices in its quadrants, intersected by the cross itself which form the equinoxes.

The iconoclastic act of having an icon of crucifixion was frowned upon by pre-Constantine Christians and the Gnostic and Jewish Christians of the early faith. Acheiropoitos, from the Greek αχειροποίητα, which means ‘without hand’ are images depicting the crucifixion of Jesus, functioning as powerful relics as well as icons, with their images being naturally seen as especially authoritative as to the true appearance of the subject. These icons were believed to have been painted from the live subject; they therefore acted as important references for other images in the tradition. They were therefore copied on an enormous scale and used as the templates in murals, stained glass windows, and other biblical references to the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth. These acheiropoieta were apparently produced on an industrious scale in the circle of the Patriarch of Constantinople, which purports to be the record of a fictitious Church council of 836 AD, a list of acheiropoieta and icons which were to be miraculously protected, is given as evidence for the divine approval of icons. These early depictions always show the head of Jesus set against the cross of the Zodiac. This is a Pagan spiritual symbol, the shorthand of which is now famously attributed as an Irish Monasterboice Cross, which is not a symbol of Christianity, but is a Pagan adaptation of the cross of the Zodiac. In nearly all early cult artwork, Jesus, The Sun of God is always depicted with his head in the centre of the cross, for Jesus is the Sun., the Sun of God. “When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (John 9:5). “Let light shine out of darkness, may his light shine in our hearts…” (2 Cor 4:6) “…The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of light.” (Rom 13:11–12)

There are many overlooked and mistranslated texts in the Bible in testaments old and new. With the exception of the books of Ezra and Daniel which were written in an Eastern Semitic language called Aramaic, the remainder of the Old Testament was almost completely written in Hebrew. Aramaic became very popular in the ancient world and actually displaced many other languages. Aramaic even became the common language spoken in Israel in Jesus’ time and it was likely the language He spoke day by day. There is also evidence of some Aramaic words were even used by the Gospel writers of the New Testament.

The New Testament, however, was written in Greek. This might seem strange, as one may think it would be either Hebrew or Aramaic. However, Greek was the language of scholarship during the years of the composition of the earliest books which eventually appeared in the New Testament from 50 to 100 AD. The fact is that many Jews couldn’t even read Hebrew anymore, and this disturbed many Jewish leaders. In around 300 BC a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek was undertaken, and it was completed around 200 BC. Gradually this Greek translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, was widely accepted and was even used in many synagogues. The Septuagint also became a wonderful missionary tool for the early Christians, for now the Greeks could read God’s Word in their own tongue. The scribes used for many of the early scriptures of the New Testament didn’t use really high-class or classical Greek, but a very common and everyday type of Greek known as Koine Greek. For many years some scholars ridiculed the Greek of the New Testament because many of its words were strange to those who read the writings of the great Greek classical authors such as Plato, or Aristotle. Since this time, there have been many transliterations of both Old and New Testaments, in recursive attempts at redefining the scriptures by bringing them up-to-date semantically, syntactically and philosophically, by using a familiar and comforting prose of the time, much like I am redefining the relatively new and very modern prose of Creative Rhetorical Non-Fiction Journalism.

In the transliterations, there are many interpretations that have lost its intended meaning, especially from Hebrew, which not only lacks vowels but has a small root of words that all other words in the language derive from. Over the centuries, the additions to the accepted books has metamorphosed into something completely different to the Gospels of the Jewish and Gnostic believers of the cult, which predate the later editions of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, as were many of the Epistles, Acts and book of Revelation.

To put this in perspective, the book of Daniel written in Galilean Aramaic is rooted upon an Eastern Semitic language base, a direct descendant of the Akkadian family of languages which is written in a late Cuneiform script; unlike its Hebrew counterpart which is of a North-Western Semitic language which has a long history of Assyrian lineage. This version of Aramaic had only about 600 words and syllable signs in total. It had 20 consonants, 8 vowels (both long and short versions of A, I, E and U), nouns had 3 cases (singular, dual and plural), masculine and feminine, and 2 tenses (past and present-future). Comparably, Biblical Hebrew had around 5000 root words, which could be extended by prefixes and suffixes to create as many as 8700 words. Sadly, Biblical Hebrew is so loose weave and far away from today’s languages of the world, the depictions of this ancient literature, means that only around 2050 of the Biblical Hebrew words exist with any distinct meaning today. Much of this is attributed to the fact that more than 99.99975% of the population was completely illiterate, so hired profession scribes who would write on their behalf. That is less than one person in every 40,000 people could read and write. Only the very rich and powerful could afford to command the pen of a scribe, so the fact that laymen of the day could pontificate in written word is highly improbable. The root system problem is compounded today with the Semitic derivative of modern Arabic, which seems upon face value to be a very rich language. However, due to the nature of the root system used in Arabic, there are huge amounts of colloquialisms. In today’s Arabic there are over 100 words to say ‘lion’, more than 200 words for ‘dog’, and over 1000 ways to say ‘camel’. This does sound like one of those awful racial slurs, however the rich history and love of poetry over millennia has thrown up these vast Arabic variations, of which the vast majority are not used in day to day grammar.

Numerically, French is a very poor language by modern standards, which interestingly only contains around 40,000 words. The big difference being that the French language uses a large proportion of this in everyday usage. English, being the richest of all the languages has a vast base of over half a million words in its arsenal.

This book you are reading now is written in a very modern prose and it will be regarded as also being quite heavy going for many people as it draws across many subjects, from religious history, lexicography, theology, geology, astrology, genetics, computer science, anthropomorphology, and particle physics. Even so, this book serves you exactly 100,000 words (engineered that way) of which there are 13,524 unique words contained within these pages. This prolixity of unique words is very high, even by today’s standards. The Protestant Old Testament contains a staggering collection of 39 books, containing 929 chapters, 23,145 versus, totalling 609,245 words. Of this vast amount of verbiage there are 10,867 unique words, some five times more words than scholars, theologians and syntagmatic lexicographers can decipher or accurately attribute to any kind of epistemological paradigm. Most scholars agree that as much as 91% of the text in the King James edition of the Old Testament retains little or no resemblance to the pre-Greek transliterations of the early Hebrew texts. Strangely, there is only a 2% syntactical variance of all post-King James editions of the Old Testament in comparison to its Greek counterpart which was finalised in the second century BC. It seems that the Roman scribes performed heretic amounts of artistic licence when converting the ancient texts of ancient Israel. In addition, the Catholic Old Testament contains another 7 books, totalling 46. The Eastern Orthodox Old Testament contains even more with 51 books. Fortunately, for The New Testament it seems that God has created a kind of annex in heaven. Luckily for the rest of us, the kingdom of heaven is no longer reserved just for the chosen people of Israel. Phew!

Okay, so the party wall is down, and now everyone is invited. Great news! There is the small matter of choosing which flavour to choose from, as the choice for the type of worship and books that should be included is seemingly endless. To even think about starting to draw upon these differences will ensure that this book would attain a size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, so I shall refrain from doing so. What I can draw upon however, are the erroneous texts which have been mistranslated from the earliest manuscripts that we do have.

The Hebrew word for “day” is the word “Yom.” Young Earth Creationists will always argue that the word used for the days of creation can only mean a 24 hour day. Yom, can mean a wide variety of time periods. Now that we understand that the Hebrew language is not nearly as diverse as the English language, or the Koine Greek which it was first translated into, scholars understand that any of the Biblical Hebrew words could be considered duplicates with only slight differences as the infliction of words which contain multiple meanings are common. Such is the case with the word Yom.

According to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Yom means: “…from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), [often used adv.]: — age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, end, evening, (for)ever(lasting), ever(more), full, life, as long as (…live), even now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, required, season, since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), whole (age), (full) year (-ly), younger.”

Evidently, Hebrew dictionaries attest to the fact that the word Yom is used for anywhere from 12 hours, up to a year, and even a vague “time period” of unspecified length. As an example there are listed various examples that eloquently highlights this phenomena.

Time: By far the most common translation of Yom is attested to 67 verses in the Old Testament; the word Yom is translated into English as “time.” For example: (Gen 4:3), it says “And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.” This can be attested to a growing season, probably several months. (Deut 10:10), refers to a “time” equal to forty days. Another example would be (I Kings 11:42), stating “And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.” In this case, Yom translated as the word “time” is equivalent to a 40 year period. (Isaiah 30:8), says “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.” In this case, Yom is equal to “forever.”

Year: Four times in the Old Testament Yom is translated “year” (Kings 1:1). “David was old and stricken in years…”. (Chron 21:19) “after the end of two years” and in the very next verse “Thirty and two years old.” (Amos 4:4) “…and your tithes after three years.” In each case, Yom represents years, not days.

Age: Eight times in the Old Testament, Yom is translated “age.” These ranges from sentences like “stricken in age,” meaning old age (Genesis 18:11 and 24:1; Joshua 23:1 and 23:2), and other times it says “old age” (Gen 21:2 and 21:7). (Gen 47:28) refers to “the whole age of Jacob,” therefore Yom here refers to an entire lifetime. (Zech 8:4), says old men and women will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, “each with cane in hand because of his age.”

Ago: Yom is translated once as, “ago.” (1 Sam 9:20) says “As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, …”

Always: Four times Yom, is translated as “always,” in (Deut 5:29, 6:24, 14:23, and 2 Chron 18:7). Always here can be interpreted as a lifetime; for instance, “we are to keep the commandments of the Lord always.” (Deut. 5:29).

Season: Three times Yom, is translated “season.” In (Gen40:4), “…and they continued a season in ward.” Again, in (Josh 24:7), “dwelt in the wilderness a long season,” and in (2 Chron 15:3), “…a long season Israel hath been…” In each case Yom represents a multi-month period.

Chronicles: When used in conjunction with the word dâbâr, Yom is translated “chronicles” (27 times).

Continually: When used in conjunction with kôwl, Yom is translated as “continually” (11 times). Once, in (Psalm 139:16), it is translated continuance (without the kôwl).

Ever: Ever, is used to represent a long period of time, such as in (Deut 19:9), “to walk ever in his ways.” Nineteen times Yom is translated “ever.” The Old Testament uses “for ever”, instead of the word forever: In sixteen cases of use of the word ever, for is placed before it, indicating a infinite period of time. I will not list them all (consult Strong’s Concordance for a full listing) but here is an example. In (Psalm 23:6), it says “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.” Here Yom is translated as the final word of this verse, ever. Thus, Yom in this verse, and 16 others, represents eternity.

Evermore: In one instance, when yom is used in conjunction with kôwl, Yom is translated “evermore.” (Deut 28:29), “…and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore;” thus representing either a lifetime or eternity.

The word Yom can be attested to many variations of meanings and is used in a wide variety of situations related to the concept of time. Yom is not just a day or days; it is for time in general. How it is translated depends upon the context of its use with various prefixes and suffixes that gives inference of meaning.

The intellectual retardation of more than 2,000,000,000 children is so, by the insistence of instilling fear, by fables depicting the end times and the end of the world from the book of Revelation and the ensuing events of the apocalypse of Armageddon. The main source of this derives from the book of Matthew, when talking about the “…the end of the world.” This is how it appears in the King James version of Bible, or to give it its full name: “THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old Testament, AND THE NEW: Newly Translated out of the Original tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special Commandment”. The title page carries the words ‘Appointed to be read in Churches’, which was probably authorized by an order of council; however, no record of the authorization survives as the Privy Council registers from 1600 to 1613 were destroyed by fire in January 1619.

In (Matt 28:20), for Jesus says, “I will be with you even until the end of the world.” This is yet another mistranslation among many mistranslations, which commonly appear in every single book of the New Testament. The actual word being used in Greek is ‘Aeon’, which means ‘Age’. The correct translation should be: “I will be with you even until the end of the age.” which allegorically, is completely correct, as Jesus’ Piscean solar personification will end, when The Sun enters the Age of Aquarius. This whole concept of end times and the end of the world is a misinterpreted astrological allegory; one designed to instil fear and obedience to an unruly Roman crowd.

There are many occasions where ‘Aeon’ has been attributed the correct transliteration of ‘age’. Of the many astrological and astronomical metaphors in The Bible, the ‘Ages’ were among the most important references. In many of the scriptures there are numerous references to the age: “…I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matt 28:20) “…either in this age or in the age to come.” (Matt 12:32) “… end of the age…” (Matt 13:39) “As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” (Matt 24:3) “…in this age, and in the age to come…” (Luke 18:20) “…wise by the standards of this age…” (1 Cor 3:18) “… the culmination of the ages has come…” (1 Cor 10:11) “…not only in the present age but also in the one to come.” (Eph 1:21) “…and the powers of the coming age.” (Heb 6:5) “…he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages…” (Heb 9:26) “…king of the ages.” (Rev 15:3) “…the former age…” (Job 8:8).

In order to understand this, we need to understand the notion of the phenomenon named ‘The Precession of the Equinoxes’. The late Sumerians and the Ancient Egyptians along with various other Mesopotamian civilisations understood that approximately every 2150 years, the sunrise on the morning of the Spring Equinox would occur in a different sign of the Zodiac. This is because of the very slow angular wobble that Earth maintains as it spins upon its axis. It is called a precession as the constellations go backwards, instead of the usual forward yearly cycle. Each 2150 year cycle is known as an ‘age’. From 4300 BC, to 2150 BC it was the age of ‘Taurus’, The Bull. From 2150 BC to 1 AD it was the age of ‘Aries’, The Ram. From 1 AD to 2150 AD, the age we are in now, is the age of ‘Pisces’, The 2 Fish. From 2150 AD to 4300 AD will be the age of ‘Aquarius’, The Water Bearer.

The Bible seems to have many references to the symbolic movement of three Ages, past and present, with a set of predictions for a forth, the next age in the sequence. In the Old Testament, when Moses descends Mt Sinai with the 10 Commandments, he is enraged with the people who were worshipping a false idol. This false idol was a Golden Bull Calf. After smashing the stone tablet, Moses instructed his people to kill one another in order to purify themselves. The Golden Bull was Taurus the Bull. The people were still worshipping the age of Taurus, whereas Moses represented the new age of ‘Aries’, The Ram. This is why Jews, even today still blow a Ram’s horn named a ‘Shofar’, which was used to announce celestial holidays such as Passover, Pentecost, Yom Kippur and Selichot. Upon every new age, everyone must shed the icons of the old age. Other deities mark these events in the same way, such as Mithra, a pre-Christian god who kills the bull. Jesus is the age that follows Aries, the age of Pisces, the Fish. This symbolism of fish is featured throughout the scriptures, such as the feeding of the 5000, where Jesus, (The Sun) of Virgo (The Virgin), from Bethlehem (“House of Bread”) rules under the Kingdom of Pisces (The 2 Fish). The following story is a quick précis of the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000.

People were gathering to see Jesus after he had retreated to Bethsaida upon learning of John the Baptist’s death. When Jesus landed, he had compassion on them and was compelled to heal the sick. As evening approached, his disciples turned to him and ushered him to return home, as it was getting late. When Jesus said for the people to stay, his disciples mentioned that they only had 5 loaves of bread and two fish. Jesus directed the people to sit on the grass as he broke the bread and passed it to his disciples to pass around to the crowds. The number of those who ate was five thousand men, besides women and children. All of these are astrological metaphors, including The Son of God, The Sun, Virgo the Virgin, Bethlehem, The House of Bread and Pisces, The 2 Fish. When the disciples picked up the remainder of the bread, they still had enough left over to fill 12 bread baskets. The 12 baskets of bread are the 12 disciples, the 12 signs of the Zodiac that travel about with God’s Sun. Why the disciples were each carrying an empty bread basket, however, is not known!

The Gospels of Mark and Matthew speak of another similar story, known as the feeding of the 4000. This time it is with 7 loaves and 2 fish that Jesus feeds the people with and in the same manner, the crowds were satisfied. This time there are 7 baskets of broken bread left over. This could be attributed to breaking bread on the 7th day, the Sabbath day: Sunday; the day of our Sun.

After this, Jesus returned home to Magadan. Magadan is now called Magdala in English. The small village of Magdala on the shallow western flank of the Sea of Galilee is so named, as it was the home of Mary Magdalene. Although of course it cannot be proven, it seems that Jesus could have been returning home to Mary Magdalene. In fact, Gnostic Gospels predating the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the only Gospels deemed fit for the state of Rome, state that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ companion and loved her more that the other disciples.

A recently uncovered fragment of ancient papyrus makes the explosive suggestion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were husband and wife. The 8cm by 4cm fragment of ancient papyri, also predating the canonical Gospels, supports an undercurrent in Christian thought that undermines centuries of religious dogma by suggesting the Christian Messiah was not celibate.

The centre of the fragment contains the bombshell phrase where Jesus, speaking to his disciples, says ‘my wife’, which researchers believe refers to Mary Magdalene. In the text, Jesus appears to be defending her against some criticism, saying ‘she will be my disciple’. Two lines later he then tells the disciples: ‘I dwell with her.’ This document which has proven its authenticity as very early Gnostic Christian, deriving from the very beginning of the faith, casts doubt on a centuries old official representation of Magdalene as a repentant prostitute, overturns the Christian ideal of sexual abstinence.

The papyrus elaborates an ancient and quite persistent undercurrent in Christian thought, that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were in fact a couple. The incomplete manuscript, written in an ancient Egyptian Coptic language, has been studied by the Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard University, the oldest endowed academic seat in the US. The paper presented on the discovery at the international conference on Coptic studies in Rome, after conducting extensive tests and exhaustive research to establish the document’s authenticity. It said that the fragment casts doubt “on the whole Catholic claim of a celibate priesthood based on Jesus’ celibacy.” It was added, “What this shows is that there were early Christians for whom; sexual union in marriage could be an imitation of God’s creativity and generativity and it could be spiritually proper and appropriate.” The Harvard theological review speculates that the ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’, may have been tossed on the garbage “because the ideas it contained flowed so strongly against the ascetic currents of the tides in which Christian practices and understandings of marriage and sexual intercourse were surging.”

The significance lies in the possibility that an early Christian sect drew spiritual succour from portraying their prophet as having a wife. All representations of Jesus as a man with earthly passions and needs have not survived in the doctrines of the established churches, which emphasise celibacy and asceticism as a spiritual ideal. In fact, every Gnostic manuscript of the early Christian church has been replaced with much later Roman text of the Greek language, none of them being original in print or having a single, complete document presented prior to the 4th century AD.

To authenticate the papyrus, it was sent to an authority on Coptic papyri and sacred scriptures at Princeton University. This was also shared with a renowned Papyrologist at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, known for conservative assessments of the authenticity and date of ancient papyri, it was nevertheless confirmed the belief that the document was indeed genuine. The scribe’s dialect and style of handwriting, and the colour and texture of the papyrus, helped them to date it to the second half of the fourth century AD and place its probable origin in Upper Egypt.

The details of the fragment support another view of the life of Jesus that has begun to gain traction since the discovery of a cache of ancient manuscripts in Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt, in 1945.

These manuscripts, including the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Philip and the Secret Revelation of John, outline the Gnostic version of Christianity which differs sharply from the official Church line. Persecuted and often segregated from each other, ancient Christian communities had very different opinions on fundamental doctrines regarding Jesus’ birth, life and death. It was only with the establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire, that Emperor Constantine summoned practising clergy to issue a definitive statement of Christian doctrine, based upon Constantine’s rules for a stable set of ideals that would control the unruly and polytheist state of Rome where its own people were perceived to be destroying the Empire.

This Nicene Creed affirmed a model of Christian belief that is to this day taken as Orthodoxy. The ancient Coptic writings of this original document contain phrases within the text which echo passages in Luke, Matthew and the Gnostic gospels about the role of the family. These parallels have convinced historians that this account of the life of Jesus was originally composed in the 2nd century AD and most probably in Greek, when such questions were a subject of intense theological debate. Those who disagreed with the official line as established by the Council of Nicaea were in time branded by the Roman Church as heretics and their teachings suppressed.

With over 50 known gospels of the early Christian faith, it is thought that there could have been as many as 300 original gospels, most of which were destroyed by the church as they were so detrimental to the stability of the state faith; yet beloved for hundreds of years as the brotherhood of the travelling Gnostic monks were indeed the earliest and truest champions of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, who’s only quest, was to share these beautiful stories of peace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that are purported to be the original quotations and teachings of Jesus Christ. History, has dealt a cruel blow to these forgotten children of Christ, who continued to spread their original message of salvation, until brutally silenced by the Roman State.