Mythology

The Opus Dei Prophecy

The Year of the Dragon 2020/2021

Welcome to the Dragon!

What, or who is the dragon and what is our fascination with this fire-breathing reptile?

In the 2020/21 Chinese Year of the Dragon we have been introduced to this mythological creature in new and spectacular ways – in particular through the rising power of hologram.

What would possess Canada to mint a gold coin with a holographic serpentine image, presumably in celebration of a Chinese Year of the Dragon? Why have we had holographic “reality” shows of the dragon, not only in China, but also in places such as South Korea? For what reason would advertisements agents use holographic dragon images to promote 5G networking? There is a sudden excess of dragons in computer games, and even in children’s movies[1]. Why on earth do we have this focus on dragons?

The Aztec images show the dragon as a devourer of humans and in the person of Quetzalcóatl, he was deeply revered as a god. This feathered serpent appeared in every aspect of Aztec culture; he appeared in the role of creator of the cosmos and figured in the creation of mankind. Worship of the dragon was related to the gods of wind and rain holding therefore a place of vital importance to a society dependent on agriculture. He was revered in the dawn of each new day but his wisdom reached far beyond those basic needs.

Aztec high priests included Quetzalcóatl in their titles to denote their elevated rank. He served as the patron of the arts and science, as inventor of the calendar and letters, the protector of goldsmiths and other craftsmen.

Quetzalcóatl left by boat as he came, with a solemn promise that he would return. So it was from the Aztecs that we gained the expectation of Quetzalcóatl’s reappearance and from the Mayans that we anticipated a date. Curious that it coincided with the Year of the Dragon 2012/13, but as we look to 2021 as the culmination of this Chinese celebration, is it possible that their dating system was just that little bit confused? Is the Dragon about to make his reappearance in the form of a new Quetzalcóatl?

The Dragon: Consumer and Devourer of Man

The Temple of the Feathered Serpent, also known as the Temple of Quetzalcóatl, is adorned with 260 carved dragon heads. This pre-Columbian site at Teotihuacan in central Mexico is also known for the skeletal remains of more than a hundred bodies, presumed to have been victims of sacrifice, buried beneath the structure. In fact, human sacrifice played an integral part in the of worship of the dragon. And it seems that human sacrifice is still required to appease him.

It could be said that the nature of the dragon is shown today through the Chinese hierarchy. Consider for example, the disappearance into re-education camps of many of the Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region of China – the persecution and “re-education” of this minority group has continued for decades without redress. China claims Xinjiang, the Uighur Autonomous region, as their own, and the Uighurs obviously stand in their way. This reign of terror may not directly involve human sacrifice, but it shows the nature of the Dragon – a fire-breathing persecutor – a god of terror.

Not only does the CCP persecute Muslims and other religious groups such as Tibetans and Buddhists, but there is persistent persecution of their own people. The Falun Gong, a meditative spiritual practice, also runs counter to the atheistic state policy and in July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party launched a compaign to eradicate the practice. Falun Gong adherents are heavily persecuted. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands – perhaps even millions – have been committed to labour camps for re-education, and they are said to receive the longest sentences and the worst treatment. Many Falun Gong practitioners have died under torture and, reportedly, many more have been killed for the harvesting of their organs. China’s organ transplant industry has grown exponentially over the years without any explanation as to the source of organs.[2]

Then there is the present flooding of the Yangste River, which twists and turns through many of China’s provinces much like the contortions of the dragon itself. In fact, the Yangste drainage basin, with all its many tributaries, maintains the shape of a well-fleshed dragon with its mouth in Shanghai and tail in the Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, Tibet! The Three Gorges Dam was built below the site of a temple dedicated to the god of the underworld, complete with a devilish idol and maimed and dying humans at its feet. This damming of the Yangste River was said to be the triumph of the Chinese Communist Party. Twenty-eight million cubic metres of concrete and 463,000 metric tons of steel were incorporated into its design: it spans 2,335 metres with a maximum height of 185 metres – it is indeed a great accomplishment. But was the damming of the Yangste a triumph or a potentially catastophic mistake?

The floodgates of the dam of were recently opened at night with no prior warning to inhabitants down-river. For some reason the Chinese Communist Party issued the flood warning the following day too late for those who drowned in their sleep, or were electrocuted in its wake!

After weeks of torrential rain, the Three Gorges Dam is reputedly unsound and has “shifted, cracked and moved”, under the excessive pressure of flood water. Should it collapse, the result would be nothing short of catastrophic for the low-lying areas of the basin and the millions of Chinese who live there.

The last paragraph of Part 1 of Opus Dei goes back to the Mayan prophecy of the return of a man in the image of Quetzalcóatl. Later in Opus Dei you read of his rise to power as head of world government. During this last decade something, rather like the Three Gorges Dam, has shifted, cracked and moved.

December 21, 2012, also fell within the year of the Dragon and, although my writing may have been fanciful, darkness has entered the world. We are living in the Corona virus era, a time when life has become uncertain and strange: where an unnamed terror lurks out of sight and could lead to a horrible death. The power of the Dragon is on the loose!

2012

New Agers gathered expectantly in the ancient Mayan temples and worshipped around their sacred fires and, as the 21^st December coincided with the winter solstice, the curious mingled with self-styled Druids to watch the winter sun breach the gap in the stone circle at Britain’s Stonehenge. But the day dawned and went with none of the promised upheavals. Between the dimming of the Chanukah lights and the celebration of the arrival of the Light of the World, the Power of Darkness had slipped into the world unnoticed.

Look out for my next post – The Dragon of Revelation.

[1] Dragon Rider

[2] Ethan Guttman estimates that between 2000 and 2008, 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were killed for the harvesting of their organs.

Who is the New Osiris?

The Osiris myth is the most influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. Who was Osiris and does he have any relevance today? And who is the New Osiris?

Of all of Egypt’s gods and goddesses, Osiris, and his female consort, Isis, are the most readily remembered. In fact, it might be true to say that they have become the embodiment, in most minds, of all other Egyptian divinities. Were Osiris and Isis mythological deities, or did the myths arise from the deeds of some actual persons?

The most common source of the Osiris story arises from the Egyptian funerary texts and the Pyramid Texts found in the burial places of the pyramids in the 25th century BC at the end of the Fifth Dynasty. [Read more…] about Who is the New Osiris?

Cronus/Saturn Father of Time

The god Cronus/Saturn (Kronos) was known as the father of time and in a related post I demonstrated his relationship to Nimrod, the son of Cush and father of Ninus.

The word time is one of the most used words in our vocabulary. We are bound by time. The clock rules our existence and demarcates our days. From birth to death, we enter a world dominated by time and constrained by its merciless progress. Pre-schools, schools, buses, trains, business, offices, meetings, schedules, events, marriages and even funerals, to name but a few, are bound by time. Being late is considered a cardinal blunder and even a sin. We are like hamsters on a treadmill, unable to get off. It is interesting then to imagine for a moment what a world without slavery to time might be like. What would it have been like when night and day were man’s boundaries; when his stomach determined the moment to eat and when the seasons formed the rhythm of his existence? The god who divided the day into its hours and forced mankind to adhere to the patterns of time was a powerful god indeed.

New World Order Leader – Israel’s Messiah?

Is it possible that the leader of the imminent New World Order, first officially proclaimed by George Bush Snr twenty-two years ago, (exactly eleven years before the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon) will be Israel’s Messiah?

Almost without exception, every religion believes in a coming, or returning, “Messianic” leader. Christian and Judaic expectation culminates in the coming of Messiah to his temple. The New World Order under the auspices of the United Nations also intends to unite the world under a single world leader. At the same time, the doctrines of Freemasonry and other esoteric groups depend on the appearance of such a leader. According to Benjamin Creme, the Maitreya is the “Avatar for the Aquarian Age” and has been living in London since 19 July 1977.

In full page adverts printed in newspapers world-wide in 1982, Creme put it this way: “A modern man concerned with modern problems, political, economic and social. Since July 1977, the Christ has been emerging as a spokesman for a group or community in a well-known modern country. He is not a religious leader, but an educator in the broadest sense of the word – pointing the way out of our present crisis…’” [Read more…] about New World Order Leader – Israel’s Messiah?

Step Pyramid – Communing with the Gods

A step pyramid was built by Imhotep as part of a funerary complex during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser. It consisted of six mastabas of decreasing size; it was 63 meters tall and finished in polished white limestone. This pyramid is the central feature of a fascinating royal tomb known as the “Horizon of Eternity.” [Read more…] about Step Pyramid – Communing with the Gods

Boats of the Gods

David Rohl‘s book Legends, offers evidence that the Pharaohs of Egypt arose from a conquering nation. In the desert regions of near Wadi Abbad innumerable images of square boats adorn the rocks. This ancient graffiti is especially remarkable as the boats are not the typical Nilotic craft normally portrayed in Egyptian art , but the sun barques illustrated on the tombs of the Pharaohs. These were the ships that carried the gods into the underworld and rose with the dawn – flat-bottomed ships with high prows and sterns. The main sites of the desert inscriptions were on the routes between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea and those leading to the Eastern Desert gold mines. In many of these drawings, it is evident that the boats are being dragged across the sands by their crew. It seems that the invaders landed on the west coast of the Red Sea and journeyed overland to the Nile Valley, towing their craft with them – a journey of two hundred and thirty kilometers! [Read more…] about Boats of the Gods

Nimrod the Hunter

According to Justin, “Ninus (Nimrod) subdued all nations as far as Libya.” This would naturally have included Egypt. Diodorus Siculus agrees with this, saying that Ninus subjugated Egypt to himself.

The third person in the trinity of primeval Egypt was Khons (also known as Khonso) and the name Khons in the Egyptian comes from a source meaning “chase”. He was the son of Maut, the goddess mother who is identified with Rhea of the Chaldeans. Khons was therefore god of the chase, or the huntsman.

Similarly in the pantheon of the Roman gods, one finds the name Consus. While he was identified with Neptune, he was also known as the “god of hidden counsels” or the “concealer of secrets”. Consus was said to have discovered the horse and was known as the patron of horsemanship. [Read more…] about Nimrod the Hunter

Nimrod and the Winged Sun Disc

Nimrod, the powerful horned bull was also symbolised bearing wings. This designation arose from a synonym for Gheber, ‘Abir’, Mighty One. A similar word, Aber, meant wing and, as head of his troops, Nimrod became known not only as Baal-aberin, Lord of the mighty ones, but as Baal-abirin, The Winged One.

Successive Babylonian and Assyrian kings adopted this symbolism, and when the prophet Isaiah speaks of the coming Assyrian attack, he says that the “stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel,” (Isa 8:8)

The poet Aristophanes declared that in the beginning of the world, the birds were created first, and then the “blessed immortal gods”. Alexander Hislop, in The Two Babylons, suggests that if one bears in mind that the “winged ones” symbolised the “Lords of the mighty ones” then the meaning is clarified. Men first began to be mighty upon the earth, then they were deified. [Read more…] about Nimrod and the Winged Sun Disc

Horned God and the New World Order

Cronus the Horned God

In Genesis, Nimrod was called Gheber, or the Mighty-One (Genesis 10:8). The deification of the son, Nimrod, resulted in deification of both his father and his wife making Cush, Nimrod/Ninus and Semiramis, the first of the gods. All mythology hearkens back in some way to this human trinity.

Among her multiple titles, the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus was known as the Mother of the gods, and in our previous post it was shown that she represented Semiramis, wife of Nimrod. As the tower-crowned goddess, Diana was just another expression of the goddesses Rhea and Cybele. Rhea was wife to Saturn or Kronos, (Cronus) the horned deity. [Read more…] about Cronus the Horned God

Mother Goddess – God of Forces

In the book of Daniel an unknown god is mentioned – the god of fortifications or forces, Ala Mahozim. None of the ancient gods naturally assume this title, but there is a goddess who does.

Cybele is represented wearing a fortress in place of a crown, and Ovid says it is because she first erected fortifications in cities. Babylon was the first city to erect fortified and turreted walls and Ovid claims it was Semiramis who built them. Semiramis then, was the first queen of fortifications, and others assumed her title. [Read more…] about Mother Goddess – God of Forces

Strasbourg’s Tower of Babel

Tower of Babel

We have established that Nimrod was the founder and first king of Babylon and that his deeds were attributed to Ninus his son. We also know that Cush, the son of Ham, was the father of Nimrod.

The German orientalist and Biblical critic Gesenius identifies Cush with Nebo, the prophetic god, one who was ringleader in bringing about the division of tongues.

Hyginus wrote: “For many ages men lived under the government of Jove, without cities and without laws, and all speaking one language. But after that Mercury interpreted the speeches of men (whence an interpreter is called Hermeneutes), the same individual distributed the nations. Then discord began.” (The Jove spoken of by Hyginus was not the Roman god, but rather Jehovah, God of the Hebrews.) [Read more…] about Tower of Babel

Nimrod: Father of the Gods

There are many named Father of the Gods, but all point back to Nimrod. He was the first deified individual, and it was through him that the deification of mortals began.

Once the mighty son of Cush attained godhood, his father also gained immortality with the gods. We have spoken of Semiramis in our previous post: she too gained deification through her son. And here, as we have discussed, lies the confusion. Ninus, the son, is at the same time Nimrod, the husband. The deeds of Nimrod are attributed to Ninus, while the deeds of Ninus, the son, elevate the mother. [Read more…] about Nimrod: Father of the Gods

Nimrod – Who was he?

Almost without exception, the myths and legends point back to one couple, Nimrod and Semiramis, and their son Ninus. Were they just part of a body of mythology, or were they real people? If real, what made them of such absorbing interest to mankind? And is there any remaining relevance today?

I maintain that Nimrod will soon be revealed to a waiting world. He will be eagerly accepted, partly because of a resonance with the past but, more importantly, because of a suppressed desire in today’s society – the thirst for worship! [Read more…] about Nimrod – Who was he?