UNDERSTANDING THE PRECESSIONOF THE EQUINOXES AND ITSINFLUENCE UPON THE "JESUSSTORY"
At a time in the Middle Paleolithic period, 50,000-40,000 B.C., humanity wasapparently well on its way to developing the methods for systematic stellarobservation that would eventually lead to scientific astronomy. Gerald , one of thefirst Egyptologists in modern times to realize that with the final eclipse of theincredibly old Land of Kam (ancient Egypt), that the world lost the "gnosis" andhidden deeper truths of the Divine, believed that such systematic stargazing was noyounger than 52,000 years and may have been as old as 75,000 years. Certainly, thepriests of Old Kam, Ancient Egypt, as represented by the historian Manetho (c. 250B.C.), allowed for 36,725 years of continuous history tied to the celestial cycle knownas the Great Year or Precession of the Equinoxes. In the second volume of AncientEgypt
,
Massey devotes an entire chapter to this phenomenon and with good reason.Only by understanding the Great Year is it possible to fathom Nile Valley historyfrom remote times. Let me go on record that the same thing can be said about the"Jesus Story" as you will see beyond any doubt if you have the courage to study thefollowing articles.The Precession of the Equinoxes,
i.e.,
the Great Year, is determined by the earth'saxial tilt of 23 1/2 degrees which causes the magnetic north pole to "wobble" in aslow circle around the north pole of the ecliptic True or Vertical North as the earthspins and revolves around the sun. This means the position of the equinoxes movesslightly every year against the background of stars located in the band of skydefined on earth by the Tropic of Cancer at 23 1/2 degrees north (of the equator)and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23 1/2 degrees south (of the equator). Because of thismotion, the equinoxes slip backward twenty minutes each year in a circular fashion,taking 25,920 years to come back to their original position.This phenomenon may have been detected as far back as 40,000 years ago, (possiblymore), certainly no later than 13,000 years ago. The ancient stargazers of innerAfrica divided this imaginary celestial circle into twelve arcs. Within each arc, theyinstalled a constellation designed out of certain star patterns, and imbued eachconstellation with a name, story and symbol. Each of these twelve constellationsbecame the Sign that thematically defined the span of 2,160 years, marking the timeit took the equinoxes to transit backward through each arc. The 2,160-yearsubperiod is, therefore, the time span of an "age", of which there are twelve, in eachGreat Year, determined by this precession of the equinoxes. Since most of these signswere given animal forms, the later Greeks called this celestial band the"Zodiac," from the word
zoion,
meaning "animal." These signs were, (tracing backward from
the opening of the Kamite year), the Lion (Atum), the Scarab (Khepera), the Twins(Set and Horus), the Bull (Ptah/Osiris), the Ram (Amen), the Fishes (In-tiu), theWater-Bringer (Menat the Nurse, then Hapi the Nile), the Goat (Mendes), theArcher (Set or Shu), the Scorpion (Serqet), the Scales (Maat) and the Virgin Mother(Neith or Isis).
As the spring equinox passed through a zodiacal sign, an age wasinaugurated that was seen to symbolically, mythically and psychicallydominate life on earth during a period of 2,160 years.
Egyptian dynastichistory began in the Age of the Bull (c. 4200 B.C.), making bull symbolism and thebull deities, Ptah and Osiris, the overriding symbols of that age. With the movementof the spring equinox into the Sign of the Ram (c. 2200 B.C.), the Ram-deity, Amen,and his city, Wast (Thebes), came to dominate the cultural life of Kemit.
This wasthe age when the Hebrew people emerged on the stage of history and, asthe Old Testament shows us, "ram," "lamb," and "shepherd" imagerypermeated their symbolic life.
With the movement of the spring equinox into theAge of the Fishes or Pisces (c. 68 B.C.), we find the people of the lower Nile Valleyconverting to the religion of the Piscean Age, Christianity, within the next twocenturies.There was yet another Great Year, tied to the first by the same movement of themagnetic pole,
e.g.,
the polar Great Year with its consequent precession of the polestars. This was also a (retrograde) circle around True North of 26,000 yearsencompassing seven circumpolar constellations. In this instance, we find that thepolar star itself changes every 3,700 years, as the circumpolar constellations maketheir slow, circular, retrograde movement around True North. A little before 5300B.C., the pole star, Aipha-Draconis, was in the constellation Draco the Dragon fromwhence derives the myth of the dragon that surrounds the tree carrying the goldenapples or the golden fleece.Around 1600 B.C., Aipha-Draconis moved from the (magnetic) polar position to bereplaced by Ursa Minor, and the current north star, Polaris, is in that constellation.But in the ancient Egyptian planisphere, Ursa Minor was called the "Jackal," or"Dog," so that the current north pole star is really in the constellation of the Jackal.This is why Anubis became so important in the Kamite funerary ritual, why thecoyote became so important in Native American cosmo-mythology, why the Pale Foxis so central to the Dogon world-system, indeed, why the dog proverbially became"man's best friend."The last half of the second volume of Ancient Egypt
was devoted to the Kamitesources of Christianity.
Massey demonstrated the manner in which NewTestament Christianity evolved directly out of the Osirian mysteries.
Indeed,in its formative phases, Christianity was essentially Egyptian, and the people of Egypt were the first to convert
en masse
to Christianity because they saw it as thecontinuation of their own 10,000-year religious tradition. Osiris, in his resurrectedform, was the mummified
karast
,
sometimes
keres, (i.e.
he who was "anointed"
and swathed in linen to be preserved and restored.) The term,
kristos
,
is Greek and appears in Alexandria around 280 B.C.,
apparently derived from
karast.
As we know,
kristos
is the root of Christ the anointed son of God, as Osiriswas the anointed divine man, both being the avatars of resurrection.Even the birth of Christ on December 25th identifies him with the Egyptiandeity, Horus, who is Osiris reborn, and is cosmically the sun beginning itsecliptic ascent toward its zenith at the summer solstice, June 23rd. Thus, itcan be said that the sun was "born" from the depths or the "cave" of thewinter solstice at 1:30 a.m. on the morning of December 25th. Theresurrection of the Christ at the equinox,
i.e.
Easter, after the crucifixionderives from the intersecting or "crossification" of the ecliptic path of thesun with the celestial equator that defines the moment of the springequinox. After this "crossification," the duration and power of the sunincreases, so it is "reborn."
Answer for yourself:Was there ever a historical Jesus Christ? It is not easy to say.There is not a shred of legitimate historical evidence anywhere that the Jesus Storyoriginated as the biography of a man named Jesus, and quite a lot of evidence that itdid not. The basic plot of the Jesus Story, including the motif of a crucified savior,already existed in many other religions long prior to the alleged time of Jesus. Whatwe do find if we study into these areas is that the "Jesus Story" is actually anallegory for what would naturally be the oldest and most important story humanswould notice and write down, that of the annual passage of the seasons of the year asthe Sun travels through the 12 Houses of the Zodiac.This is a hard thing to hear let alone read; that is until you do the study to see thetruth.There are those who do find a "historical Jesus" however but not the one in the timeframe depicted by the New Testament. To them this "Jesus" seems to have been atrained Essene initiate, who lived most of his life in Egypt's western desert, and wasmarkedly influenced by the Egyptian mystery tradition. According to Talmudicsources, his surname was
Pandera,
meaning "panther," so that he was known asJoshua, son of the Panther. This may be a clue to his association with the Egyptianpriesthood. In Egypt, as throughout Africa, the badge of priesthood was the pantherskin. Esoterically, the priests were all panthers, the panther representing the sun-by-night; thus, Jesus by being, "the son of the Panther," according to the Talmudists,may well have been a "son" of the Egyptian priesthood (Massey, Ancient Egypt:The Light of the World).
Only serious study into these areas will reveal the "keys"necessary to find the ultimate truth behind the "Jesus Story".
Blessings...Craig Lyons M.Div.
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