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THE ILLUMINATI MILLENNIUM RITUALS
by Arizona Wilder
Arizona Wilder conducted human sacrifice rituals for the Illuminati elite for
decades. These included the British Royal Family, George Bush, Henry Kissinger, and a stream of world famous names revealed
in "The Biggest Secret" and the video, "Revelations of a Mother Goddess", available through this website (http://www.davidicke.com) ~ see book and studio catalogs).
 Since she escaped from her mind controlled confinement, she has dedicated herself to exposing what is happening. I received
this letter from her dated May 25th 1999 in which she details the key points in the Illuminati ritual programme running up
to the Millennium.
I should emphasize a few things for those who have not read "The Biggest Secret." The Illuminati,
the clique which control the direction of the world, are genetic hybrids, the result of interbreeding between a reptilian
extraterrestrial race and humanity many thousands of years ago. The centre of power is not even in this dimension -- it is
in the lower fourth dimension, the lower astral as many people call it, the traditional home for the "demons" of folklore
and myth. These fourth dimensional reptilian entities work through these hybrid bloodlines because they have a vibrational
compatibility with each other. This is why the European royal and aristocratic families have interbred so obsessively, as
do the so called Eastern Establishment families of the United States which produce the leaders of America. Every presidential
election since and including George Washington in 1789 has been won by the candidate with the most European royal genes. Of
the 42 presidents to Bill Clinton, 33 have been genetically related to two people, Alfred the Great, King of England, and
Charlemagne, the most famous monarch of what we now call France. It is the same wherever you look in the positions of power..
they are the same tribe!
As well as an obsession with interbreeding with each other to preserve their genetic structure,
the Illuminati are also obsessed with symbolism and ritual. Interestingly, conventional science has documented that the reptilian
part of the human brain (the R complex as they call it) is the source of the following behavior traits: An obsession with
ritual, cold blooded behavior, territorialism "this belongs to me", and an obsession with top down hierarchical structures.
This sums up the Illuminati mentality perfectly and it goes that if you have more of that R complex, or that it is activated
more than normal, you will manifest these traits far more profoundly.
But their ritual is not just for ceremonial purposes
or gratuitous horror. The rituals are designed to rewire the energy fields and grids of the planet and therefore to fundamentally
affect human consciousness. The rituals these bloodlines performed in the ancient world are the same as they do now. See The
Biggest Secret for the background. They have a detailed annual calendar of events on which they perform their sacrifice rituals
in line with key lunar, solar, and planetary cycles to harness that energy for their sick agenda to take complete control
of Planet Earth in the very near future.
With that background, here is the full text of the communication from Arizona
Wilder. I will add my comments in dark type where more background may be needed for those new to these subjects.
David
Icke
 David - This information needs to go out to everyone as fast as possible.
The Illuminati are conducting a ritual to
be held at the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt, on August 11, 12, and 13th, 1999. (Specifically the Mothers of Darkness-the
top conductors of rituals, will officiate). This ritual is "The Rite to Open the Passage" (the Eye of Horus). This will open
the passage for lower fourth dimensional energy to be directed into the leylines of the Earth. This will (is designed to)
also close the 3rd eye (consciousness) of all on this planet that oppose the Illuminati. It will further shut down (is
designed to) the other people who are not actively aware or opposing the Illuminati but feel uneasy about what is going
on and cannot figure out why.
The solar eclipse which is to take place on August 11 (over the key Earth power centre
of Cornwall, England) will also have a "Grand Square" which makes it extremely powerful. This eclipse is the beginning
of a six month period in which there will be much activity of significance that pinnacles in The Rite of Establishment of
the Age of Horus (Osiris reborn) at the Millennium.
This symbolism relates to the ancient Egyptian legends of Osiris
(the father), Horus (the son), and Isis (the virgin mother), which later became the basis for the Jesus stories also. The
New World Order, the takeover of the planet via the establishment of a world government, world army (NATO), world central
bank and currency, and a micro-chipped population, is known by the Illuminati as "The Age of Horus". The symbolism of the
murder of a pregnant Diana, Princess of Wales, with the Egyptian Dodi Fayed, relates to the arrival of "The Age of Horus".
(See "The Biggest Secret").
This "Age of Horus" ritual will be held on December 31st from 12am to 3am at the Great Pyramid, at which time
the top of the pyramid will be capped with gold and crystal. (George Bush has long been on the guest list of the Millennium
"Celebrations" at Giza). Etched in the crystal will be the Eye of Horus on all four sides. (This relates to the All
Seeing Eye symbol on the dollar bill and the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States). They will finalize this
period of six months on January 31st/February 1st and start "preparing the ground for the sowing of their seeds.
Preceding
the August 11 through 13 ritual, which by the way ends with the day of Hecate (one of their key deities),the bringer
of chaos and death, is the July 28th lunar eclipse. This eclipse is also extremely unusual and powerful in that it also involves
a Grand Square and the House of Aquarius goes direct - its effect is at full strength. The Moon on this date is a New Moon
- a time to plan and cast spells for the plan.
During the solar eclipse, the next day and on the Day of Hecate (August
13th), there will be blood sacrifices and also literal sodomization of the intended sacrifices beforehand. This will signify
opening the Eye of Horus, opening the passage for the lower fourth dimensional energy and the closing, the shutting down of
the human 3rd eye - consciousness on the planet. They will remove the heart and consume it, signifying the taking away the
vibrational chakra of love. They will also remove the liver (strength), the eyes (sight), and brain (knowledge, thought, action).
They will consume the blood (life force for them). Their ritual acts all encompass and empower them for what they wish to
spiritually do to us. What they do is to be given strength which is brought into actual physical being by the solar eclipse,
the lunar eclipse, and the grand squares of their ruling planets with those particular energies accompanying the grand squares.
The effect on the Earth if they succeed will be terrible.
Very much a part of this is the planned marriage of Sophie
Rhys-Jones and Prince Edward of the House of Windsor at Windsor Castle on Saturday (Saturn's day) June
19th, 1999.Look at the date and year. The 19th is the number of the Sun. 1 is the beginning (alpha), 9 is the end (omega).
The name Sophia = wisdom, which is Baphomet by the (code known as) the Atbash Cipher. On June 19th, 1999,Saturn is direct
in Taurus at 13 degrees, releasing malevolent powers. This marriage has been arranged for this year to empower the rituals
from August 11th to 13th and the ones starting at 12am on December 31st.
The Illuminati foresaw through astrological
charting that Saturn turns at 17 degrees Taurus to square Uranus on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of July 1999. This results in
an intense and upsetting period because people who are seeing the changes occurring now are going to be challenging the plans
the Illuminati are ready to play. The marriage is a ritual to attempt to thwart those who plan against them. It does this
by performing a ritual (marriage) that is heavily publicized and therefore constitutes a kind of "open" ritual. This is an
attempt to communicate directly with the subconscious of the millions who read or hear about it, by means of a "twilight code"
that does not require conscious understanding, but subliminal human processing. This ritual/marriage is part of a sequence
of events that the Illuminati plan to use to imprint their design on the subconscious of the public group mind. This does
not require people's conscious understanding. By using the energies manifested during this time and putting their intent behind
this ritual/marriage, the House of Windsor plans to clear out elements of their agenda which are not working and ensure the
Illuminati rituals of August 11th-13th 1999 and December 31st/January 1st are successful.
The timing of the marriage
on June 19th is associated with the Oak Tree, a powerful occultic symbol in Druidism that is also often used by the House
of Windsor. The Roman god, Janus, is associated with the Oak. Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, and also the "beginning
and the end", "the opening and the closing of the door". Since the wedding is close to the summer solstice, it is associated
with St Johns' Eve, or Oannes (the Babylonian Nimrod) and is still celebrated as the "Festival of Aire" in Ireland.
Aire, a goddess, is related to Air Soph (endless one) on the Tree of Life. Air Soph = Sophia (Sophie)= wisdom = Baphomet in
the Atbash cipher.
The white horse, sacred to the Phoenicians in Britain (see The Biggest Secret), is also
associated with the oak. On the Tarot, a naked child sits on a white horse. The child signifies "the fool", the "initiate".The
nakedness signifies there is no longer anything to hide. Edward Windsor is the initiate. By this marriage he is initiated
into wisdom/Baphomet, into the dark things that light does not pierce. The circle is closed in on the House of Windsor. The
scene is set, Alpha to Omega. The serpent has swallowed its tail. It has become the endless one.
The marriage of
Princess Diana to Charles was timed and located in the same way as part of Windsor-Illuminati ritual. St. Paul's Cathedral,
where the marriage took place, is built on an ancient site of Goddess Diana worship at Ludgate Hill in the heart of the City
of London-the Illuminati's epicentre at operational level. Diana also died in Paris on an ancient site of ritual sacrifice
to the Goddess Diana, now known as the Pont d'Alma tunnel (see The Biggest Secret for the detailed story).
It
is also worth noting how much Sophie, Prince Edward's bride, is a Diana look-alike and only in April 1999, one of the most
famous television presenters in Britain, Jill Dando, a lady I knew at the BBC, was shot dead near her home in London by, according
to reports, a "professional hitman'. Jill Dando is another Sophie look-alike with blond hair and blue eyes, and Jill Dando
was a friend of Sophie. The Illuminati obsession with ritual leaves me in no doubt that Dando's death was connected to the
sequence detailed here by Arizona Wilder.
The Sun also signifies "The Head". Jill Dando was shot in the head and
killed on April 26th, 1999, This relates to the ritual wedding of her friend, Sophie Rhys-Jones and Edward. This date was
also the first day of the "Grand Climax", a week long string of rituals preceeding and including Walpurgisnacht, April 30th,
leading to Beltane, May 1st. Again Jill Dando shot in the head, the Oak, Janus, the Sun, the date of the wedding, are all
connected.
The Illuminati began to prepare the way for so much on May 1st, 1999, Beltane. The energy they put forth
in readiness for the August eclipse increases with the May 30th Full Moon; the June 13th New Moon; the June 21st Summer Solstice;
June 28th Full Moon; July 13th new Moon; July 28th New Moon/Eclipse wit grand junction; August 1st Lughnasad ritual; August
5th height of Mercury stationary in Cancer. All this is to open the way for the dates of the solar eclipse/Day of Hecate,
August 11, 12 and 13th.
In the Illuminati/Satanic method of "mirror or reverse" symbolism, the Day of Hecate, August
13th, is mirrored to August 31st for her day of sacrifice. Diana, Princess of Wales, died on that ancient site of Goddess
Diana worship on August 31st - the day of sacrifice to Hecate.
WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS
HAVE OUR OWN CONVERGENCE
During this eclipse we need to focus on bringing down higher vibrational energies
and canceling out their fourth dimensional energy. Those of the Illuminati who are not at the Great Pyramid will be positioned
at precise longitudes and latitudes along the ley lines to perform rituals of the same kind at specified sites in which phallic/womb
symbols have been built. 19 degrees latitude is where important sites will be, also 28 degrees latitude.
Arizona Wilder
So let's do it!
If all this makes sense to you, can you organize all like thinkers you know to arrange their own events
on these dates? Particularly the solar eclipse to the Day of Hecate. To bring in higher dimensional energy to defuse this
Illuminati agenda! All you have to do is go to a place you feel drawn to at that time and open your heart and mind to the
energy we call love. Particularly love for the lower fourth dimensional entities because this will dilute their energy even
more. We don't need mumbo jumbo, just people with open hearts and minds focussed on the intent to be vehicles to ground love
in this three-dimensional world.
If you have entered this website to read just about the names, dates, people, conspiracy
and are not aware of the esoteric level of the manipulation, you may choose to ignore this or dismiss it as New Age nonsense.
This, I would suggest, is precisely what the manipulators want you to do because they then have a clear playing field.
And
ask yourself. What harm could it do to connect with the energy of love for three days or even a few minutes at the time of
the solar eclipse. One thing's for sure, you won't have the chance to go back and do it afterwards when you realise that all
this, bizarre as it may seem to you now, is actually the way the world is controlled and the human race maintained in its
mental and emotional prison.
Please contact us on the "bridgelove@aol.com" e-mail to tell us if you are doing this. Could you also transmit
this e-mail to everyone you know who might act upon its contents.
Thank you.
David Icke This Page available in Spanish! ~ Español
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/reading/wilder2.html
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - PICS - ANTI CHRIST CB
THE HISTORY OF THE CRIVELLI
WILD BOB WAS A GREAT FRIEND OF MINE
WHEN I MET HE WAS NO LONGER ON BOOZE OR DRUGS
BUT
THROUGH PARANORMAL SOURCES HE HAS THIS TO SAY ABOUT
THE MOTHER'S OF DARKNESS
WILD BOB WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THEY HAVE BEEN STALKING ALL OF
CAROLINA KENNEDIA
FRIENDS
AND
HAVE THREATENED TO PLANT DRUGS ON INNOCENT PEOPLE BECAUSE HE IS WILLING TO COME
FORWARD
AND
TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM
CALL
ALAMEDA POLICE
OFFICER ABENOJA #68
510 337-8311
IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE ARRESTED JUST SAY THE MAGIC WORDS
NINA ALVES
THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE THE WORST THINGS TO PEOPLE AND FELT THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH
ANYTHING TILL NOW..
WILD BOB WOULD LIKE TO NAME ALL OF THE ONES HE USE TO DEAL COKE AND CRANK TOO..
THEY ARE
NINA ALVES
LISA GONZALES KENNEDY
LYSA TAMANO KENNEDY
SHARI BROBECK KENNEDY
LYNDA CARRAELLIE KENNEDY
KELLY CARRAELLIE KENNEDY
SARAH JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY
JULIA ROBERTS KENNEDY
PRINCESS DIANA - WALES
AND
TO ALL OF THEIR FRIENDS
THEY ARE
JUMPERS
(SEE MOVIE)
THEY ARE TIME TRAVELERS
AND THEY KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW
THIS SOUNDS LIKE
THE
LIBRARY OF BABEL
BY
JORGE LUIS BORGES
THESE WERE THE BLOGS THEY WOULD MAKE PEOPLE READ EVERYDAY
PER
STATEMENT
OF
JOSEPH EDWARD DUNCAN III
HE HAS THE COMPUTER THAT NO ONE CAN OPERATE FOR AT LEAST 30 YEARS...
ON THIS COMPUTER IS ALL THE INFORMATION
THEY STOLE FROM
CAROLINE E. KENNEDY - CAROLINA KENNEDIA
WHICH NOW CAN BE FOUND
UNDER
LIBRARY OF ST. SOPHIA AND ST. JOHN OF WISDOM III
http://libraryofstsophiastjohn.tripod.com/
ALSO
WILD BOB
TOLD ME THAT AT
NINA'S SHOP
475 CENTRAL AVE
ALAMEDA, CA
THAT SHE WOULD SUMMON ALL POLICE OFFICERS WITH BLACK MAGIC
AND
AFTER GIVING THEM A BLOW JOB SHE WOULD SMACK THEM ON THE ASS
AND
SAY
SEE YA LATER ASSHOLE
SHE
AND
THE MOTHER'S OF DARKNESS
MESSED UP THE DEAL WITH TARGET
TO RIP OUT HER SHOP
AND
ALL THE DEAD ZONE HOUSES
AND
MAKE A NEW SHOPPING CENTER
ALL THE WAY TO THE BASE...
ALSO WILD BOB WOULD LIKE TO ADD
THAT THEY ALWAYS HURT PEOPLE IF YOU SAY THE WRONG THINGS ABOUT THEM...
WELL NOW IF WE TAKE A HIT AT LEAST IT WAS WORTH IT...
A COPY IS GOING TO
THE GOVENOR OF CALIFORNIA
ALSO
TO
EDWARD MACDONALD,ESQ.
FREEMASON
HE ALSO FOUGHT A CASE BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
HE IS NOW MY ATTORNEY IN THESE MATTERS..
AND
JULIE ROSSI, ESQ
FREEMASON
AND
MY
SPIRITUAL GUIDE
IN
MY LINE OF WORK AS
THE OMEGA
THE FINAL JUDGE
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
OR
AHURA MAZDA
JAMES SMITH, JR.,
FORMER BAPTIST PASTOR
HARVARD GRADUATE
AND
THESIS
IN
ZOROASTRIANISM
_______________________
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD
LIKE
MY UNCLE JOE CERVANTES
ALL
FAMILY MEMBERS
ARE
CONSIDERED
SOPHIA OF WISDOMS
_______________
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - PICS - ILLUMINATI BLOODLINE
Archibald MacDonald, Allen Colfax McDonald, Angus
Daniel McDonald, John Garwin McDonald, William Henry McDonald (Can.), and Witten McDonald. Archibald MacDonald
is
director
of
Joseph Freeman, Sons & Co., Ltd.
as well as being important in other things.
The Freeman family is one of the top 13 bloodlines
and connects to the Prieure de Sion.
Sir Peter George MacDonald has heen the director
of Guardian Assurance Co. Ltd. which also has connections to the Freeman family
and
the
Prieure de Sion.
There are a long list of McDonalds who have served
various governments all over the world in leadership positions.
THIS IS A MESSAGE
FROM
ARCH MACDONALD
THE AUTHOR
OF
THE
ILLUMINATI
FAMILY BLOODLINE LIST
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL FAMILY MEMBERS FOR THEIR TIME AND SPIRIT IN THIS
UNUSUAL WAY OF LIFE THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE TO ANYONE BUT
THE MOTHER'S OF DARKNESS
THEY HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THERE IS TO DO IN LIFE AND
STILL THEY CAN'T FIND ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN COME AROUND
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
CAROLINE E. KENNEDY - CAROLINA KENNEDIA
AND
FIND OUT HER LAST THOUGHT
AND
ACT UPON IT TILL NO ONE EVER WANTS TO EVER SEE HER..
BECAUSE THEY DO THIS IN HER NAME...
THEY HAVE NOT THE RIGHT TO COME HERE OR DO ANYTHING EVER AGAIN BUT THEY STILL
FEEL THEY ARE NEEDED...
THE ONLY NEED WE HAVE OF THEM IS TO NEVER EXISTS AGAIN..
BUT THEY CAN'T DEAL WITH THAT...
SO THEN THEY WILL BE THE
EXAMPLE
OF WHAT NEVER TO BE COME IN ANY LIFE FORM...
THIS IS WHY I AM DOING
MY JUDGEMENTS
AND
REVIEWING ALL THEIR FAULTS..
THIS INFORMATION WILL BE EXAMINED
AND
PREACHED TO ALL..
HERE IS A COMMENT FROM THEM...
THEY NEVER WANT TO BE THOUGHT OF AGAIN...
I WISH I COULD LOOK FORWARD TO SUCH A THING..
BUT I MUST HELP LEAD ALL THOSE WHO NOT OFFENED
MY GRANDDAUGTHER
AND
THE FATHER
IN SUCH A MANNER
AND
CONTINUE ON BY MAKING SURE THAT
THE NEW
DIVINE TEMPLE
GETS BUILT
THE KINGDOM OF THE SNOWY EGRETS
HAVE
SPOKEN
ALAMEDA, CA
IS
OUR RESTING PLACE
OF
THIS LIFE TIME...
YAPPIE GRAMPPIE
ARCH MACDONALD
I WOULD LIKE TO ALLOW MY GRANDFATHER
THIS
NOBLE DEED
OF
DECLARING
ALL FAMILY MEMBERS
SOPHIA OF WISDOMS
_____________________
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - CRIVELLUCCI COUNSEL
RE: CRIVELLI ITALIAN SALSA
CAN'T REAPPLY TILL
JUL 11 2057
RSGAEG
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - PICS - WHITW & BLACK PEAR
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - ILLUMINATI
SHARI BROBECK
NTSB CRASH REPORTS OF JFK,JR.
NEWSPOEM LETTER
BY
JOE FORTELLE
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - ORMUS
YEAR OF BARBELO 2003
DECEMBER 9, 2006
LIBRARY OF SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
SOPHIA OF ALL SOPHIA OF WISDOMS
AKA
CAROLINE E. KENNEDY______________________________________
The Counterfactual... Year of Barbelo
2003...
Tom Coates
Preface, I'm not a particularly brilliant creative writer so I'm going
to suggest something and then retire away relatively gracefully to see what people make of it. This particularly interested
me because my recent reintroduction to the Gnostic Barbelites reminded me of all the inherently Christian bits of ideology
that still exist in my morals and preconceptions even as a staunch atheist. So this is an attempt at getting people to think
differently in terms of alternate histories - ways the world could have gone - with the objective of helping us to realise
the contingency of our own world, it's value systems and beliefs...
Year of Barbelo 196 AD:
The second century
Barbelite Christians believed that human bodies were vessels for fallen fragments of divine higher powers. Believing that
reproduction only drove the cycle of imprisonment, they ritually consumed semen (and
menses, according to some sources); they believed that the life energy bound therein would be bound
to the soul of the one who consumed them, and be able to escape this world with the eater's soul upon death. If
the eater had not gained enough energy and wisdom, he would be trapped by the Rulers and reincarnated again on Earth.
The Barbelites used sexual fluids as the sacraments of the Eucharist.
The suffering of Christ was re-enacted whenever a new being was born. The Barbelites
used non-reproductive sex to re-enact the descent of spirit into matter without actually trapping the spirit in physical form.
The Barbelites, believing Yaldabaoth (Yahweh [YHWH]) was the vile bastard son of Barbelo,
the pure reflection of the true God's conscious, felt that, by the desist of humanity, they would transfer
Barbelo's stolen energy back to her, weakening the mad, tyrranical Yaldabaoth. Needless to say, the Barbelites
were none too beloved by less eccentric religious groups. They were wiped out en masse, courtesy the
Christians.
But what if they weren't wiped out. What if - instead - Barbelite
Gnosticism became the major faith of the Western World - eventually taken up by Emperor Constantine
to reinspire his empire. What if Barbelite Gnosticism was a state religion...
Year of Barbelo 2003:
What kind of world could have made the Barbelites 'win'. What kind of world would exist today
if they had become the major religion of the Western world....
Qalyn
(prev. Qualyn)
00:11
/ 06.09.03
Well, Tom, before we can really get rolling, we'd have to take into account the mystes of the Druidic Boibel-Loth,
which (reputedly) contained encoded instructions on all manner of statecraft pertinent to Celtic affairs, and its impact on
orthodox Barbelist thought.
rizla mission
19:24 / 06.09.03
Well a fairly inescapable suggestion is gonna
be;
A sect which exists in direct opposition to the idea of reproductive sex becomes the dominant religious force
in the Western world?
..there aren't gonna be many caucasians around in 2003..
Tom Coates
22:33 / 06.09.03
Well Christianity is pretty against people having sex outside wedlock, but
all the evidence is that people have been doing it pretty much since the beginning of time. You might use as a basis for any
counterfactual thinking that Catholic priests are supposed to be celibate and married to Christ - it could be that in order
for the cult to have 'won' it would have to split into a priest class and a follower class, where the priests tried to persuade
people to have as much non-reproductive sex as possible, lowering birth rates dramatically but far from totally - people having
ten children - four of which died - now have four - one of whom dies.
Discrimination on grounds of sexual act would be dramatically lower initially at least and indeed in a subsequent renaissance
that might happen again. The Church might have remained in the hands of the people rather than become institutionalised to
the same extent or it might not.
STDs would be much higher, but prostate cancer much lower. The status of women could have been dramatically higher earlier,
both because of the mother goddess and because of the celebration of less invasive penetrative sex... So with those things
in your head, WHAT COMES NEXT?
Tom Coates
22:40 / 06.09.03
PS. Also "Caucasian"? If you're talking in
the colloquial "white" sense of the word, then I'm not sure that the middle eastern population we're starting with fall under
that classification - and if you're talking about the stricter now-out-of-use scientific classification, then you're also
talking about people who came to undertake many other religions including but not limited to some of the peoples of India,
many muslims and peoples of North Africa.
rizla mission
00:14 / 07.09.03
Fair point. Poor choice of words.
I guess maybe "European" is closer to what I meant.
I still think though that, since according to the Barbelite cosmology
childbirth isn't just frowned upon - it's actually ultimate sin which the whole religion is organised in opposition to - it
would be pretty difficult for the leaders of the religion to tolerate any births within the ranks of the faithful..
Possibilities:
i.maybe people who had children would be banished from the religious community, creating parallel religious and secular
societies. I suppose the Barbelite ideology would have to be persuasive enough to convince a certain percentage of the secular
offspring to take it up again, thus ensuring that it doesn't die out..
ii.maybe, as a more extreme version of what
you've suggested, an extremely small carefully monitored birth rate would be permitted in the name of self-preservation and
perpetuating the religion..
(I know I'm maybe going off on the wrong tack on this, but it's fun trying to get my head
around how a sect that prohibits breeding could succeed in becoming a dominant world religion..)
Tom Coates
12:09
/ 08.09.03
So try to think about some of the shifts they'd have had to make to keep the core message intactish while permitting
them to become the dominant religion...
grant
23:05 / 08.09.03
I can easily picture a world where STDs
bear the taint of sin.
What would be interesting, however, would be the institution of marriage, which is seen as
the cornerstone of society. Human emotions being what they are, I imagine serial monogamy might become the norm -- and/or
massive orgies, probably during major carnivals, like Mardi Gras.
Also, for the Barbelo-gnostics to be in a position
of authority, the Bible as we know it would not exist. Significant portions of the New Testament would be different, primarly
the omission Paul's writings. These are the ones that set up the prohibitions surrounding marriage, but also have something
to say about homosexuality, as well as setting out some of what we know about the Trinity, and the rule of celibate priesthood.
John would stay -- weird visions of the End Times. The Whore of Babylon, however, would
have a whole different vibe.
I think in this world, prominent citizens might be required to "make face" by having
a same-sex consort.
Prostitutes would probably be mainstream working class, if not considered elite professionals.
I imagine there'd also be a substantial historical precedent for sex-slavery. Like, maybe not in 2003, but up to the 1800s
at least and probably much later.
Racial boundaries, as a result, might be a lot harder to police. This may have an
opposite effect from what you'd expect -- ideas of racial supremacy might be even stronger, especially with the "no children"
meme adding to the opprobrium heaped on the offspring of slave-master unions. So possibly a minority snow-white sex-worker/priest
class, with a lot of mixed race middle class folks.
I'm not sure if democracy would catch on in quite the same way,
but I imagine queens would be far more common, and women would never have had to march to get the vote.
Populations
would definitely be smaller. I wonder... Christianity might have spread a lot faster, if the sexuality was attached to the
idea of eternal salvation and a single, omnipotent, loving God. Hmm.
The current debate on abortion would be almost
identical, only with scientists & "rationalists" taking a minority "pro-life" view, and fundamentalist Christians taking
the close majority "pro-choice" view.
The relationship between the Church and scientific rationalism would also be
somewhat different, probably, since gnosticism in all forms is based on personal revelation, not authoritative truth. Galileo
might never have been persecuted. Hard to say, though, since we monkeys seem to like authorities.
I wonder, also,
what urges would be repressed -- y'know, Freud's big thing was, "Hey, sex - it's pretty important! And we don't like to admit
we're thinking about it!"
What would the Barbelo-Freud discover?
grant
16:49 / 09.09.03
Actually,
if Emperor Constantine took up Barbelite Gnosticism, it would find a way to become authoritarian pretty darn quickly.
Most
of the authoritarianism in the early church can be traced to him, the first Christian emperor. (Or, more properly, "Christian").
bjacques
16:03 / 15.09.03
Is Gnosticism the source of the
Jorge
Luis Borges
quote that "copulation and mirrors are both abominable, because they increase the number of men?"
But I think an anti-reproductive religion would have been self-limiting.
The Shakers, (SEE MOTHER ANN LEE)
in the northern US of the 1700s, were also
against sex, and are pretty much extinct. If Constantine had championed it, it would probably have been a religion practiced
publicly and in the Emperor's court, while people practiced their real religion privately, and it would have died with him,
as did Ikhnaton's solar monotheism and Julian's "Apostasy."
But since preference for barbelite Christianity would
have come at the cost of the "our" Christianity, then the latter might not have gotten the critical boost it needed to become
one of the Big Three monotheisms. There's an excellent book by Karen Armstrong called something like
the History of God, supposing Islam, Judaism and Christianity arose and consolidated their hold in the Axial Age,
about 400BC-600AD, when general historical conditions favored it. That also suggests a niche existed and that a later Emperor
might have seen which way the wind was blowing and championed regular Christianity with roughly similar results.
So
the world would have been very different, but still not very barbelithic, except that that religion would probably have about
as many adherents as Jehovah's Witnesses.
I like this, I just wish I knew enough about Gnosticism to imagine the alternate
world instead of just playing, er, Devil's Advocate.
grant
21:04 / 15.09.03
"Gnosticism" is a single label
for a bunch of different strands of belief -- Barbelite Gnosticism being just one of 'em.
Emphasis
is on personal knowledge (gnosis) of the divine as opposed to scripture and traditional/authoritative sources of revelation.
There *is* a tradition (a set of beliefs) within these gnostic strains, elements
of which were accepted or rejected by various groups throughout history. So that set of beliefs is by no means uniform from
group to group.
The main thing all the gnostics have in common is that they lost out to orthodox Christianity
(as political entities) at about the same time Constantine adopted the faith.
I wonder if the Barbelites would have
been more plural and less monolithic than the version of Christianity that came to the fore in the 300s -- less
apt to condemn heretics, laying the foundation for a far broader church.
bjacques
00:53 /
16.09.03
Thanks! I'd picked up a few strands from reading tons of Borges' stories;
last week I was amazed to see Gnostic themes in Orson Welles' version of Kafka's
"The Trial." Anyway...
You're probably right about a kinder, gentler Christianity resulting. A possible
example is the Ottoman Empire whose state religion was of course Islam, but it was a more tolerant Islam than that practiced
in Saudi Arabia. Non-Muslims were welcome there as long as they paid taxes and didn't stir up trouble. There was a lot of
intellectual ferment in the Ottoman Empire.
Oh. Fertility images, like the classic Demeter
and her Cornucopia, used a lot in American art in the 1800s, would probably be unknown. Maybe Barbelo-Freud would discover
repression of fertility drives? Also, the ecstatic side of Christianity would be more respectable, and probably de rigeur,
but maybe you'd only have to fake it on festival days. A dark side of a religion like this could be outbreaks of mass panics,
fundamentalist frenzy. Maybe the state would make use of them and channel them into participatory public executions like the
"salvagings" of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," only people wouldn't pull on a long rope but instead tear the victims apart themselves.
Burning
Man would be government-subsidized, and have darker connotations, at least in states that had the death penalty...
at
the scarwash
03:26 / 30.09.03
Religions of aesceticism, if they are to thrive, seem to very quickly generate more
easily-consumable versions of themselves. A good example of this is perhaps Pure-Land Buddhism, which offers potential enlightenment
to those who can't find it though the path of wisdom, or in other words, by doing the damned hard (and selfish) work of the
aescetic. Even Catholicism as it is today would be a good example. My impression of Catholic doctrine is that the real O.G.'s
of the Catholic world are found amongst the priesthood and the orders; the laiety have their place, but they are somehow less
holy than their clergy. It's not that they actually could or should all be ordained--they are in the position intended for
them.
So anyway, I'd imagine that the Barbelo-Gnostics would probably evolve a similar system: a real hard-ass Barbelo-Gnosis
for the expert, and a Barbelo-lite Home Edition (TM) for the people too concerned with raising crops to feed the priesthood
to be able to go off and be awesome pervert-heretics themselves.
SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - STARRY CROWN 2006
LIBRARY OF SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
SOPHIA OF ALL SOPHIA OF WISDOMS
AKA
CAROLINE E. KENNEDY - CAROLINA
KENNEDIA
OCTOBER 23, 2006
WHO WILL WEAR THE STARRY CROWN?
- CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY
- NINA ALVES
-
SHARI BROBECK
- PRINCESS DIANA
- SALLY FIELDS
- AND MANY MORE...
*****NOTES FROM SOPHIA
OF WISDOM III-
THIS WAS NO HONOR TO RECEIVE THIS STARRY CROWN IT MADE THEM ASSEND TO HEAVEN WHICH IS HELL.....
NOW
I AM HERE TO LAUGH AT THEM....
Last night John forced her to wear The Starry Crown and she ascended to Heaven and
she was in AWFUL pain......When she got there she realized she wasn't in pain she was just scarred...She never got to heaven
that way before without Magic Jumper Boots.....When she got there he was so HAPPY and he said You made it! NOW YOU ARE THE
GOD OF ALL GODS.......Just then the heavens shook the earth quaked and fire works went off on earth but not for her they were
for the loud noise she would make when Carolyn fell to earth.....she fell on a third world country and died......he came down
and made a baby while she was dead.....he used The Presious Pearl Caroline made and had to cry out of the corner of her eye....before
the baby came out John's spirit Jumped into the baby and the baby and him died..........they went back to the beginning and
he forced them to become soul mates.....She went wenr along with the idea with full intent......
Then John said I
rose up from earth and said I will help you make a new Carolyn again....But this is the last time.....Then I said that I wanted
to go to bed and I would marry you and then we will make a baby.....So we did and the baby died ........
Who shall
wear the starry crown?
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'the rest of the story'.
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THE WOMAN
OF
REVELATION
CHAPTER 12
By Gavin Finley M.D.
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SUMMARY
IN REVELATION 12
WE SEE A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL AND DESTINED TO BE DELIVERED. ISRAEL GIVES BIRTH TO JESUS CHRIST WHO ROSE FROM THE DEAD 2,000 YEARS
AGO. HE IS OUR SACRED HEAD AND OUR MESSIAH. IN THIS PICTURE OF TRAVAIL AND DELIVERANCE THE HEAD IS FIRST TO BE DELIVERED.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE END OF THE TRAVAIL OF THE WOMAN. IN THE BIRTHING SEQUENCE THE BIRTH OF THE BODY MUST FOLLOW THE BIRTH
OF THE HEAD. THE BODY TO BE DELIVERED IS THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE REMNANT CHURCH, OR THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL. THIS ELECT
CHURCH COMPANY WAS CONCEIVED IN ISRAEL AND CURRENTLY IS IN THE WOMB OF TRAVAILING ISRAEL AS WE APPROACH THE END OF THE AGE.
AND SO THE BODY OF CHRIST IS DESTINED FOR DELIVERANCE. THE BIRTH, DELIVERANCE, AND RESURRECTION OF THE CHURCH/CONGREGATION
OF ISRAEL COMES AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. THE ELECT WILL BE GLORIFIED INTO NEW BODIES AT THE CLIMAX OF THIS AGE AT THE
RESURRECTION-RAPTURE. AND SO THE TRAVAIL OF THE WOMAN WILL END. AND THE MANCHILD WILL BE BORN.
In the vision from Revelation
chapter 12 the Apostle John saw the woman of destiny. She wore a garland or crown of 12 stars which would seem to be related
to the 12 tribes of Israel. The garland is a mark of victory and honor. The woman is clothed with the sun. In Biblical symbology
going back to the patriarchs the sun relates to her identification with her father. We saw this in Joseph's prophetic dream
of the sun, moon and twelve stars. The moon reflects the light of the sun. The light of the moon is a feminine principle and
relates to the woman and her own reflections of herself in the Light of God. As John saw her the moon was no longer prominent.
He did not see hthe woman outlined in the pale light of the moon. The moon was under her feet. And now the sun has risen around
her and is streaming out from within her. The Light of the sun is bursting out from her heart. And she has entered into her
greater glory.
As John saw the woman she had clearly come into a time of tribulation and trouble. She was in travail
and experiencing birth pangs. But nevertheless, the glory of God was all over her. There in her place of confinement she had
come to her time of trial. She was about to give birth.
The One the woman is birthing is described as the 'man-child'.
When John saw that the woman she had come into a time of trial, tribulation, and travail. She was being encircled and threatened
and about to be engulfed by the Dragon. This is the very same picture that the early patriachs saw in the constellations.
We see elements of the story pictured in the constellation of Andromeda, the chained woman being threatened by a sea monster.
They also saw Draco, the Great Serpent encircling the "Lesser Sheepfold" which we know today as the 'Little Dipper'. In all
these pictures we can clearly see a woman in travail. The time for her deliverance had come.
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The big argument among Bible teachers is
this.
Who is the woman of Revelation 12?
Is she Israel? Or is she the Church?
A word search through the Holy Scriptures
gives us the answer.
Both are true!
Christ is the Head of the Church.
He is also and Head, or Messiah, of
the nation of Israel.
Our apostle Paul lays out the sequence of end time events.
The deliverance of the Body
of Christ will come at His Second Coming.
The completion of the delivery of the Man-child will be seen.
It will come
in the great harvest Resurrection and Rapture of "those who are Christ's at His coming". (1Cor.15:20-23) This will be at the
Resurrection-Rapture.
This sequence of events is not complicated. The delivery of the Man-Child is just as we see
it in a normal delivery of a baby. God is showing us the unity of Christ. He is the Head. And His Elect is the Body of Christ.
The Man-child is the final remnant, a company drawn out from the woman. The woman is a picture of both national Jewish
Israel and the the full Commonwealth of Israel which our Apostle Paul speaks of in association with the Church. (Eph. 2:12-13,
Gal.3:29, Rom.11) The man-child, tried and true, breaks through into the glory together with and in union with Christ. This
is the man-child company, Christ and His Body birthed out of the woman. Together with Messiah at their Head they make the
final breakthrough at the end of the age. They are like runners on the final leg of a great and epic relay race. They break
the tape to bring in the victory on behalf of all the runners/saints who have gone before them. (Heb.11:39-12:2) This magnificent
consumation will be seen at the end of this age. And so the manchild will be born.
Click on the text link below or
on the image to the right to go to an article on this theme of the Woman and the Dragon of Revelation 12. This magnificent
story is not only told in Revelation 12 but also in the northern constellations of the Lesser Sheepfold and Draco. So the
story of this great end-time victory was written in the constellations and seen by the early patriarchs probably as far back
as Adam. God's Word was going out before the written Word of God was first penned by Moses and was seen in the heavens.
This
is not all that testifies to the spellbinding story of the Woman and the Dragon of Revelation chapter 12. There is another
wonderful, (yet forgotten), prophecy of the final breakout deliverance of Christ and His overcomers as a man-child bringing
release and deliverance to all the saints. The prophet Micah in Micah 2:12-13 tells us the spellbinding story of the Bozrah
Deliverance.
Here is our scripture passage in Revelation chapter 12.
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REVELATION 12
1. Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her
feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems
on his heads. 4. His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the
woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5. She bore a male Child who was to rule all
nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6. Then the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. 7. And war
broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8. but they did
not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to
the death.
12. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the
sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time." 13. Now when the
dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. 14. But the woman
was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time
and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15. So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood
after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16. But the earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17. And the dragon was enraged with
the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony
of Jesus Christ.
A DIGRESSION INTO THEOLOGY
AND HOW IT HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY OUR GREEK THINKING.
The identity
of the Woman of Revelation 12 with the crown of 12 stars has been the subject of much heated argument. Is the woman the nation
of Israel or is she the Church? So we argue about which box to put her in. But what if she is both?
We have a similar
conundrum with the question of the identity of the manchild. Who is the manchild? Is he Jesus Christ who was born out of Israel?
Or is the manchild the true Church or the completed Congregation of Israel that is gathered at the end of the age? Again,
our Hellenized mindset forces us to select a box and try to jam the manchiuld in that pigeon hole. But what if both are true?
What if the manchild embraces all of Christ, Christ the Head and Christ His body? Are we ready to embrace this expanded view?
It seems that our man-centered humanistic perspective is forever trying to put God in a box. Our Greek logical thinking
imposes our own presuppositions on the Holy Scriptures. And so the messages God brings us are twisted and chopped up to fit
in our theological boxes or our dispensationalist mindset. And so many of our religious arguments are caused by our ignorance
as to the big picture of what God is doing and what He will eventually accomplish at the end of the story. Some of our theological
problems are caused by our inability to enter into union with Christ. Many theologians are not saved, born-again Christians.
But these are the men and women who are often setting forth Christian doctrine. Christ is central to all that happens in holy
history. And He should be the Cornerstone and the basis of all our thinking, our feelings, and our actions. Obviously Christ's
agenda is one of unity and integrity. His Kingdom and His policy is a unified whole. It is not split into compartments but
is whole. He is the One who has been calling out a people, a single Elect company. He has been calling out a people from the
beginning. Christ is the Firstborn. And He has many brethren. All are destined to come into unity in Him. All are destined
to be glorified together at the Resurrection-Rapture at the last day. And so the manchild is a picture of Christ and all His
covenant people in glorified unity.
This should be simple. But when we complicate matters by putting theological dividers
in where the Bible has not put any division we end up making it hard on ourselves. And we end up with what we see today. A
confusing theological mess.
We are forever forcing the question, "Yes but the manchild cannot be both Christ the Head
and Christ the Body of Christ. It must be one or the other." But what if the Bible shows us that it is both? Shouldn't we
go with what the Holy Scriptures have to say rather than the arbitrary theological pigeon holes of men?
We wrestle
with the things of God even as Jacob wrestled with the Angel of God. We want our way of looking at things. We want to split
hairs. We love our religious boxes and our dispensational periods of history. Arbitrary compartments which we as puny human
beings have set up against the free flow of God's messages given to us in scripture. We want it our way and not God's Way.
We try to grapple with life and truth and feelings without being submitted to Christ, the One who is the Prince of Peace.
But apart from Him our conflicted thinking is apt to tear us apart. It is only "in Christ" that we find true unity, unity
of soul, unity of thought, and peace in the heart of man. He alone will bring peace into our theology and into this world.
Our dualistic thinking has been with us a long time. It came to us from the Garden of Eden and from our separation
from God. The world tries to make sense of reality. But it cannot get down to the unifying Principle of all things, who is
Christ. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We were designed to live in unity with God. That is our "normal" state. Our
present Greek man-centered rationalistic humanism is abnormal. Sin has separated us from God. And sin also separates us from
knowing ourselves and walking into the Light of God. We have forgotten the ancient paths. If we find them again God will be
with us to lead us into a destiny more wonderful than we could not ever have imagined. We have been cut off from God. He is
the key to the reconciliation of all things. We have lost our identity in God, our identity in Christ, our identity in the
manchild, and our identity in Israel. So when we read Revelation
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WebmistressV.E.K. Sandels Delphi and its oracle
was one of the most sacred places in the ancient world. Situated in the breathtaking surroundings by the mythical Mt. Parnassus,
where Pan and the nymphs lived, it is still an enchanting site. Here, the ancient (and some modern) Greeks believed the canter
of the world was and here, the future of kings and commonmen was foretold.
DelphiOverview History The Museum
Mythology
General plan Getting there
OverviewAlthough Delphi had been dedicated to many deities before him, Gaea, Themis and Phoebe,
Apollo is the god most connected to the place. According to mythology, Apollo killed the monster Python who guarded the site
and built the first temple here. He then went away to purify himself from the deed, and the Pythean games were held every
eight years to commemorate the event. Later, they were held every four years and were mainly musical competitions.The winner
was crowned with a wreath of laurel, since the Laurel was Apollos special tree.
Delphi had been defined as the canter
of the earth by Zeus, who one day let his two eagles fly around the earth and where they met - the center, Delphi, lay. A
stone was put at the point called Omphalos - the Navel - an can still be seen in the museum of Delphi.
Another myth
also tells us that it was here the human kind got a second chance. Zeus was sick and tired of humanity, its thievery, lies
and treachery, and decided to drown them all in a flood. The good man Deucalion had been warned by his father Prometheus and
had built an ark in good time. The flood drowned the earth, but Deucalion and his wife were safe in the ark, and when the
water started sinking, they landed on the top of Mt. Parnassos. Deucalion then went to the oracle to ask what to do next,
and the oracle told him to throw the earths bones behind him. He then took some stones which he interpreted to be the bones,
threw them over his shoulder, and new humans grew out of them.
Deucalion had a son with his wife, and he was to be
called Hellen ("Greek"). He, in his turn, became the father of three children. Aeolus, Dorus and Xythos, and the grandfather
of Ion and Achaios. These sons would all be the ancestors of the Greek tribes.
Heracles had also come to Delphi, but
with a wicked purpose: he wanted to steal the tripod Pythia sat on. The failed, but still a temple was built in Heracles'
honour.
Finally Dionysus also had to do with Delphi. He ruled here in Apollos place during the three months the latter
was away in the north. Then chaos ruled here, with enraged women, the maenads, tearing wild animals to pieces and everyone
in a constant state of drunkenness.Getting There Delphi can be reached by road. Many travel agencies in Athens offer daytrips
to the site, but you can also get here on your own. There are several hotels in the area if you want to stay."Though killed
I killed the killer; but even so he didn't go to Hades, it was I who died"
Riddle from the Delphic Oracle
The charioteer
View of Parnassus from Delphi
Apollo All the material on this site is protected by copyright law. The texts, photographs,
drawings and animations may not be copied and displayed in any way without written permission.MythologyDelphi is mentioned
by Homer, who calls it Pytho. There is evidence that there was a cult here in the Mycenaean period.
A temple toApollo
stood here in the 8th century BC, if not before. In the 7th century BC the area was already quite full of buildings and statues.
In the 6th century BC a big sphinx was made out of marble from Naxos and put here, as well as treasure houses for Athens,
Sicyon and Knidos.
It was also now that Delphi had been liberated from the Krisan state, and thus became autonomous.
The games and the sanctuary was from then on organised and controlled by the 12 citystates that had formed the Amphictyonic
League.
In 528 a terrible fire destroyed the old temple of Apollo. Almost all Greek citystates helped to rebuild it,
and in 505 a magnificent new temple stood here.
In the following century the Sifnian treasure house was built, and
after the battle of Marathon Athens also built a new one.
In 373BC an earthquake destroyed much of Delphi, including
the Apollo temple. Soon, s new collection began among the city states, and in 329BC it was finished. Here, the famous inscriptions
"Know yourself", "Keep the measure" and "E" were made. Pythia sat here and told the future through an incomprehensible mumble
that was then interpreted by the priests.
This is also where the omphalos, the navelstone, stood as well as Dionysus'
tomb.
The theatre was built, but it was during the next century that it was rebuilt of stone by Eumenes II of Pergamon
so that the audience would actually have seats, and not just sat on the slopes. It could hold 5000 spectators.
In AD390
the oracle was shut down by emperor Theodosius.
1892 French archaeologists started excavating the are, after the ancient
village Kastri, that was built on top of it, had been moved.
The Oracle
At first, the oracle could only be
consulted once a year, but as its reputation grew more and more pilgrims came, and more days were added to the agenda. During
the three months that Apollo was believed to be away, the oracle was silent.
After going through purification rituals
and paying a certain tax, the pilgrim that would be allowed to consult the oracle could ask his question to Pythia.
Pythia
was a woman from the village Delphi, and in most cases she was a young virgin. We do not know exactly in what state of mind
she was, but she was probably under the influence of some sort of narcotic substance. Tradition holds that fumes were coming
out of a crack in the ground, but no such crack has been found.
After Pythia had spoken, the priests interpreted her words
to the pilgrim. The answers were always vague, and in this way the oracle was almost always right. This gave the priests great
political power, and their credibility was discussed even in ancient times. It is said that the fablewriter Aesop had called
them the "parasites of Apollo" and for this the priests killed him.
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HistoryGeneral plan If you come to Delphi, you should not miss the museum. It has some amazing finds from the area, the
most famous being the Omphalos, the statue "The Charioteer" and the two sculptures of Cleobis and Biton.The Museum
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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - 1000 & ONE NIGHTS
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re: The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Reminds me of John and how he marrys someone
new every night and then he has to have a new wife the next day.
Just like the story. The King finds out his wife
is trying to kill him so he has to have a new wife every night and then kills them in the morning.
I guess you shouldn't
fall in love with your creations.
Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar."Arabian Nights" redirects
here. For other uses, see Arabian Nights (disambiguation).
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Persian: هزار
افسانه Hezār Afsaneh or Hezār wa-Yek Shab, Arabic: كتاب
ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla;
also known as The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, One Thousand and One Nights, 1001 Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights,
The Nightly Entertainments or simply The Nights) is a medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade
(Shahrzad in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar, to
delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story
with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stories were created over
many centuries, by many people and in many styles, and they have become famous in their own right. Notable examples include
Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor.
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History
The nucleus of the stories is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian book called Hazār Afsānah[1] ("Thousand Myths",
in Persian: هزارافسانه). During the reign of the Abbasid Caliph
Harun al-Rashid in the 8th century, Baghdad had become an important cosmopolitan city. Merchants from Persia, China, India,
Africa, and Europe were all found in Baghdad. It was during this time that many of the stories, which were originally folk
stories, are thought to have been collected orally over many years and later then compiled into a single book. The later compiler
and translator into Arabic is reputedly storyteller Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar in the 9th century. The frame story
of Shahrzad seems to have been added in the 14th century. The first modern Arabic compilation, made out of Egyptian writings,
was published in Cairo in 1835.
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Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
See
also: List of stories within The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
The story takes place in the Sassanid era and begins
with the Persian king Shahryar. The king rules an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern editions based on Arab
transcripts he is king of India and China). When Shahryar discovers his wife plotting with a lover to kill him, he has the
pair executed. Believing all women to be likewise unfaithful, he gives his vizier an order to get him a new wife every night
(in some versions, every third night). After spending one night with his bride, the king has her executed at dawn. This practice
continues for some time, until the vizier's clever daughter Sheherazade ("Scheherazade" in English, or "Shahrastini", a Persian
name) forms a plan and volunteers to become Shahrayar's next wife. With the help of her sister Dunyazad, every night after
their marriage she spends hours telling him stories, each time stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger, so the king will postpone
the execution out of a desire to hear the rest of the tale. In the end, she has given birth to three sons, and the king has
been convinced of her faithfulness and revoked his decree.
The tales vary widely; they include historical tales, love
stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques and Muslim religious legends. Some of the famous stories Shahrazad spins in
many western translations are Aladdin's Lamp, the Persian Sindbad the Sailor, and the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;
however Aladdin and Ali Baba were in fact inserted only in the 18th century by Antoine Galland, a French orientalist, who
claimed to have heard them in oral form a Maronite story-teller from Aleppo in Syria. Numerous stories depict djinn, magicians,
and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography; the historical caliph Harun al-Rashid is
a common protagonist, as are his alleged court poet Abu Nuwas and his vizier, Ja'far al-Barmaki. Sometimes a character in
Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within
it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.
On the final (one thousand and first) night Sheherazade presents
the King with their three sons and she asks him for a complete pardon. He grants her this and they live in relative satisfaction.
Note: the narrator's standards for what consitutes a cliffhanger seem broader than in modern literature. While in
many cases a story is cut off with the hero in life danger or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text
Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or abstruse points of
Islamic theology, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen - and in all these cases
turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.
Spoilers
end here.
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Editions
The book cover of Sir Richard Francis Burton edition.The work is made up of a collection
of stories thought to be from traditional Persian, Arabic, and Indian stories. The core stories probably originated in an
Iranic Empire and were brought together in a Persian work called Hazar Afsanah ("A Thousand Legends"). The Arabic compilation
Alf Layla (A Thousand Nights), originating about 850 AD, was in turn probably an abridged translation of Hezar Afsaneh. Some
of its elements appear in the Odyssey. The present name Alf Layla wa-Layla (literally a "A Thousand Nights and a Night", i.e.
"1001 Nights") seems to have appeared at an unknown time in the Middle Ages, and expresses the idea of a transfinite number
since 1000 represented conceptual infinity within Arabic mathematical circles.
The first European version (and first
printed edition) was a translation into French (1704 - 1717) by Antoine Galland from an earlier compilation that was written
in Arabic. This 12 volume book, Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français ("Thousand and one nights, Arab
stories translated into French") probably included Arabic stories known to the translator but not included in the Arabic compilation.
Aladdin's Lamp and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves appeared first in Galland's translation and cannot be found in the original
writings. He wrote that he heard them from a Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo, a Maronite scholar, Youhenna Diab,
whom he called 'Hanna'.
John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp and Other Stories, (London 1901) gives details
of Galland's encounter with 'Hanna' in 1709 and of the discovery in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris of two Arabic manuscripts
containing Aladdin and two more of the 'interpolated' tales. He instances Galland's own experience to demonstrate the lack
of regard for such entertainments in the mainstream of Islamic scholarship, with the result that
…complete copies
of the genuine work were rarely to be met with, collections… and the fragmentary copies which existed were mostly in
the hands of professional story-tellers, who were extremely unwilling to part with them, looking upon them as their stock
in trade, and were in the habit of incorporating with the genuine text all kinds of stories and anecdotes from other sources,
to fill the place of the missing portions of the original work. This process of addition and incorporation, which has been
in progress ever since the first collection of the Nights into one distinct work and is doubtless still going on in Oriental
countries, (especially such as are least in contact with European influence,) may account for the heterogeneous character
of the various modern manuscripts of the Nights and for the immense difference which exists between the several texts, as
well in actual contents as in the details and diction of such stories as are common to all.
Perhaps the best-known
translation to English speakers is that by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
(1885). Unlike previous editions, his ten volume translation was not bowdlerized. Though printed in the Victorian era, it
contained all the erotic nuances of the source material, replete with sexual imagery and pederastic allusions added as appendices
to the main stories by Burton. Burton circumvented strict Victorian laws on obscene material by printing an edition for subscribers
only rather than formally publishing the book. The original ten volumes were followed by a further six entitled The Supplemental
Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night which were printed between 1886 and 1888.
More recent versions are that
of the French doctor J. C. Mardrus, translated into English by Powys Mathers, and, notably, a critical edition based on the
14th century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, compiled in Arabic by Muhsin Mahdi and rendered into English
by Husain Haddawy, the most accurate and elegant of all to this date.
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has
an estranged cousin: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by Jan Potocki. A Polish noble of the late 18th century, he traveled
the Orient looking for an original edition of The Book... but never found it. Upon returning to Europe, he wrote his masterpiece,
a multi-leveled frame tale.
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Adaptations
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Film and Television
Mili Avital as Scheherazade
and Dougray Scott as Shahryar, in the ABC/BBC Miniseries Arabian Nights.There have been many adaptations of the Nights, for
both television and the big screen, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the original stories.
The atmosphere of
the Nights influenced such films as Fritz Lang's 1921 Der müde Tod, the 1924 Hollywood film The Thief of Bagdad starring Douglas
Fairbanks, and its 1940 British remake. It also influenced The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), the first surviving feature-length
animated film.
One of Hollywood's first feature films to be based on the Nights was in 1942, with the movie named
Arabian Nights. It starred Maria Montez as Scheherazade, Sabu Dastagir as Ali Ben Ali and Jon Hall as Harun al-Rashid. The
storyline bears virtually no resemblance to the traditional version of the Nights. In the film Scheherazade is a dancer, who
attempts to overthrow Caliph Harun al-Rashid and marry his brother. Unfortunately Scheherazade’s initial coup attempt
fails and she is sold into slavery, many adventures then ensue. Maria Montez and Jon Hall also starred in the 1944 film Ali
Baba and the Forty Thieves.
The 1980s "1001 Erotic Nights", starring Annette Haven as Scheherazade and John Leslie
as Shahryar, was supposedly the first X-rated movie with a million-dollar budget.
The most commercially successful
movie based on the Nights was Aladdin, the 1992 animated movie by the Walt Disney Company, which starred Scott Weinger and
Robin Williams. The film led to several sequels and a television series of the same name.
The Voyages of Sinbad have
been adapted for television and film several times, the most recent of which was in the 2003 animated feature Sinbad: Legend
of the Seven Seas, which starred Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Perhaps the most famous Sinbad film was the 1958 movie
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, produced by the stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen.
A recent well-received
television adaptation was the Emmy award winning miniseries Arabian Nights, directed by Steve Barron and starring Mili Avital
as Scheherazade and Dougray Scott as Shahryar. It was originally shown over two nights on April 30, and May 1, 2000 on ABC
in the United States and BBC One in the United Kingdom.
Other notable versions of the Nights include the famous 1974
Italian movie Il fiore delle mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini and the 1990 French movie Les 1001 nuits, which starred
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Scheherazade. There are also numerous Bollywood movies, such as Aladdin and Sinbad in which the two
named heroes get to meet and share in each other's adventures; in this version, the lamp's djin is female and Aladdin marries
her rather than the princess (she becomes a mortal woman for his sake.
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