Now, based on the origin of the name "Hollywood", let's look at the article "theculturetrip.com": How Did Hollywood Get Its Name?:
"If you’ve ever wondered how the home of American cinema got its name, you’ve most likely come across a wide variety of explanations, all claiming to be the real story. We’re here to help you sort through the rumors and get down to the true story of how such a legendary name came to be. Once upon a time, H. J. Whitley arranged to buy 500 acres of the town we now know as Hollywood. Whitley was a prominent landowner already, having already started a number of towns in the west, and today he has become known as the ‘Father of Hollywood.’ Later on, in 1887, Harvey H. Wilcox officially established the name ‘Hollywood’ when he recorded it on the land’s deed."
"The time in between these two events is when things seem to get a bit hazy. One of the most common rumors thrown around today is that these founders chose the name to reflect the prominent presence of a beautiful, holly-like bush throughout the city. The plant was what is known today as Christmas holly, which grew rampantly throughout the Santa Monica Mountains and nearby areas. Legend claims that Whitley himself was inspired by the holly and proposed naming the town ‘Hollywood’ after it. He bought his 500 acres from E. C. Hurd, who was married to a woman who was friends with Daeida Wilcox, the wife of Harvey H. Wilcox, and the name supposedly traveled down the line to reach Wilcox himself."
"An alternate version of this story claims that Whitley himself had nothing to do with the name, and that Daeida Wilcox learned the name from her friend Ivar Weid, who lived in ‘Holly Canyon’ at the time, and she recommended it to her husband. Yet another version claims that Daeida happened to meet a stranger on a train who lived in an Illinois estate called ‘Hollywood,’ and that was where she got the idea for the name. However, there is little to no evidence suggesting that either of these stories contain the true origins of the name."
"The only evidence remaining today for the name’s true origins come from a page out of the diary of Whitley himself. According to an entry, one day in 1886 Whitley was standing at the peak of a hill when a man came by with a wagon carrying wood. The man stopped to say a few polite words, explaining to Whitley that he was ‘hauling wood.’ The man was a foreigner, and as such his thick accent caused the words to sound like ‘holly wood.’ Hearing these words, Whitley was inspired, deciding that ‘holly’ could represent England, while ‘wood’ could represent his Scottish origins, creating the perfect name for his new land. From there, this story reasons that the name was passed to Weid, who was a friend of Whitley’s, and Weid passed it on to Daeida Wilcox, who finally passed the name along to her husband. The rest, as they say, was history."
On the Wiki states this excerpt: ".....By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los Angeles. In the early 1900s, most motion picture patents were held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, and filmmakers were often sued to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving out west to Los Angeles, where attempts to enforce Edison's patents were easier to evade. Also, the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios."
"Hollywood movie studios, 1922 Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute short film In Old California (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot on October 26, 1911."
"The H. J. Whitley home was used as its set, and the unnamed movie was filmed in the middle of their groves at the corner of Whitley Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. The first studio in Hollywood, the Nestor Company, was established by the New Jersey–based Centaur Company in a roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard (the corner of Gower), in October 1911. Four major film companies – Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia – had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios."
"In the 1920s, Hollywood was the fifth-largest industry in the nation. By the 1930s, Hollywood studios became fully vertically integrated, as production, distribution and exhibition was controlled by these companies, enabling Hollywood to produce 600 films per year. Hollywood became known as Tinseltown and the "dream factory" because of the glittering image of the movie industry. Hollywood has since[when?] become a major center for film study in the United States."
Then based from "L.A. Times" states this on "The Founding Fathers of Hollywood : AN EMPIRE OF THEIR OWN : How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler" By CHARLES CHAMPLIN SEP. 25, 1988: "Years ago at the elaborate annual SHARE fund-raising party in Hollywood, Phil Silvers and Polly Bergen did a number called “The Rabbi and the Nun,” in which he and she, suitably costumed, argued over who had the most influence in the industry, the Jews or the Catholics. The nun offered the likes of Loretta Young, Irene Dunne, Bing Crosby and Leo McCarey, the director. The rabbi countered with Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Sam Goldwyn, the Brothers Warner, Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle and an inexhaustible list of producers, directors and actors. The contest was so one-sided that at last the nun said in exasperation, “The next thing you know, you’ll be telling me that our Dear Lord Himself was. . . .” Her voice trailed off. The fact is that Hollywood, a.k.a. the American film industry, was “founded and for more than thirty years operated by Eastern European Jews,” as Neal Gabler says in his lively and scholarly history of the phenomenon, “An Empire of Their Own.”
"He adds that the studio system was perfected by a second generation of Jews. Even now, in a Hollywood profoundly changed by the coming of television, the industry behind the cameras, from its top leadership through the ranks of producers, marketers, talent agents, business managers and legal counsel, is still preponderantly Jewish, although far from exclusively so and with far less sense of community than in prewar days."
"The extraordinary paradox, Gabler points out, is that through their movies, the Jewish patriarchs painted an idealized portrait of an American society to which they were denied access. For Jews, one of the lures of the industry was simply that it let them in. “There were no social barriers in a business as new and faintly disreputable as the movies were in the early years of this century,” Gabler says. “There were none of the impediments imposed by loftier professions and more firmly entrenched businesses to keep Jews and other undesirables out.” The mating of Jews and the film industry had indeed a kind of historical inevitability."
"The founding moguls shared what Gabler calls “a patrimony of failure.” They had come out of hard times and oppression in Eastern Europe, and most, remarkably, also shared a heritage of strong mothers and weak fathers. It became the common drive among these men to break with the past, to commit what Gabler calls “a kind of patricide” and to embrace the new country. They had a hunger for assimilation and, in the face of resistance and exclusion, “the Jews could simply create new a country--an empire of their own, so to speak . . . an America where fathers were strong, families stable, people attractive, resilient, resourceful, and decent.”
"The 20th-Century American Dream was to a considerable degree depicted and defined by Hollywood. The industry leaders became superpatriots, although for years, their patriotism was held slightly suspect and there was, Gabler notes, a strong taint of anti-Semitism throughout the rancorous investigations of Communist influence in Hollywood, culminating in the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. The same strain of anti-Semitism surfaced again this Summer in some of the far-right Christian protests against the release of “The Last Temptation of Christ” by Universal."
"Rebuffed by the larger society they were celebrating, the Hollywood Jews constructed a parallel society of their own, and much the most fascinating part of Gabler’s book is his detailing of the manners and mores of that society. If the Los Angeles Country Club was closed to them, they created Hillcrest. They created Hollywood Park and collected thoroughbreds. Louis B. Mayer did this very successfully indeed. (Gabler quotes Scott Fitzgerald’s Monroe Stahr: “the Jews had taken over the worship of horses as a symbol--for years it had been the Cossacks mounted and the Jews on foot.”)
"The Jews patronized the Hollywood Bowl, bought superb paintings and sculpture and supported all the arts. They built homes, each more palatial than the last. They became active Republicans, glad to be pals with Presidents, before and after F. D. R. They played polo. They demanded the best schools for their children. They created a social pecking order as ruthless as any in Boston or old New York. Faith itself was an uneasy matter. “Guilt ran too deep for them to disavow Judaism entirely,” Gabler says. But the founding generation tempered their faith so they could in fact assimilate without guilt, while later generations have been able “to be Jews again without guilt.” For all their similarities, notably their uncompromising and, if need be, ruthless drives to survive and succeed, the moguls were different one from another, and to a degree, their films reflected their differences."
"Harry Cohn’s defiant unpretentiousness found expression in the plain-speaking common sense of Frank Capra’s heroes. The well-lit optimism of the MGM movies, best symbolized in the Andy Hardy series, perfectly embodied Louis B. Mayer’s vision of the good American life. Mayer, Gabler writes, confronted the despairs of the Depression with “a vast, compelling national fantasy out of his dreams and out of the basic tenets of his own dogmatic faith--a belief in virtue, in the bulwark of the family, in the merits of loyalty, in the soundness of tradition, in America itself.”
"It was a besetting irony, of course, that Jews as Jews, as protagonists or as players, were all but invisible in the movies the Jews made. It was a long way from “The Jazz Singer” to “Gentlemen’s Agreement.” Names were changed to uphold a screen myth of ethnic anonymity, and Julius Garfinkle became John Garfield."
"At that, the moguls may have rightly understood that exclusion worked at the box office in the early days, too. The largest strength of the founding fathers--whatever their other strengths as managers, financiers, bargainers, entrepreneurs--was their closeness to the working-class audiences from which, in a real sense, they had emerged. If the chieftains prospered, it was because they knew what the crowds wanted or could be made to want, and what their aspirations, dreams and fantasies were."
"It has been harder for their successors to cope with audiences that are better educated, more widely traveled, satiated with and distracted by television and confronted by a wide diet of diversions of which the movies are only one. Everything changes. The studios, conglomerately owned, have managers instead of leaders. “The moguls’ names have faded,” Gabler says. “The estates are gone, and the power and the panache and the fear. But what the Hollywood Jews left behind is something powerful and mysterious. . . ."
"What remains is the America of our imaginations and theirs. Out of their desperation and their dreams they gave us this America. Out of their desperation and dreams, they lost themselves.” Gabler, a former co-host of Sneak Previews on PBS (one of the wisest and most articulate of the on-camera critics), did graduate work in film and American culture at Michigan."
"Fifty pages of finely printed reference notes confirm the extensive reading and interviewing that supports the book. The candor of his sources, Adolph Zukor’s son Eugene and Mayer’s grandson Danny Selznick among them, lends both vigor and conviction to the text. It is impossible to imagine a different history for Hollywood. But for all the criticisms of the vulgarity and superficiality of the escapist fare the movies offered in their Golden Age, it is also hard to see how the society and its mass audience could have been on balance more positively served than by the Hollywood the Jews invented."
However, based from another Article states this in the Website "www.thejc.com", Revealed: the truth about the ‘Jewish’ Hollywood: "Hollywood is the town of legends. And, unusually for anything to do with legends, they are mostly true. But not always. The almost-true one about the few square miles known as Tinseltown is that, like it or not, for the best part of three quarters of a century it was a place controlled by Jews."
"The studios, when there were such things, were Jewish-owned and, as that legend goes, they were not always the nicest people in the world, interested only in profits and not at all in art and good taste. Two things wrong about that. First, that the studios weren't all Jewish-owned; second, they were far from being ignorant men without artistic sense. Second point first: Harry Warner, the titular boss of Warner Brothers, may have said - if another legend is true, and it probably is - "I don't want that film good, I want it Tuesday", but Sam Goldwyn wanted every scene to look as though it had been designed by the finest artists around, and the stars' dresses created by men and women who could have been Paris couturiers (if the money had been good enough). But all Jewish-owned? United Artists, created by D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin (who was once "accused" of being Jewish, but answered to his everlasting credit "I am afraid I do not have that honour")."
"Then there was Walt Disney, famous for banning both trades unions and, supposedly, Jews from his workforce. Howard Hughes ran RKO without much Jewish help. Before he took over, however, Pandro S. Berman was the man behind the Astaire (half or perhaps quarter Jewish,though no one knew) and Rogers classics. Mack Sennett's brilliant musical show, Mack and Mabel, now playing in Chichester, puts it all into focus, to use an appropriate term."
"It doesn't dwell on the fact that he was an Irish Catholic or that his mistress Mabel Normand wasn't exactly a product of the shtetl, but is a wonderful testament to the fact that not everyone in command in the film business was Jewish. But, as the show makes clear, even they had a pair of Jewish producers and financiers. Still, don't rejoice too much if you are still embarrassed by what certain people think every movie ever made had Jews at the helm. And don't be too sorry if you would like to think that in fact they were - and discover it is not so. Hollywood was invented in 1911 when Sam Goldfish (ne Shmuel Gelbfisz) teamed up with his brother-in-law Jesse L. Lasky to make the first feature film, The Squaw Man."
"What happened as a result of that decision would make a Hollywood movie of its own: a Jewish Mack and Mabel. They had bought a script, they had contracted a star called Dustin Farnham (later to be the inspiration of a family called Hoffman) and a couple of scouts, one of whom had the unlikely name of Cecil B. De Mille, who caught the train from Grand Central Station to Flagstaff, Arizona."
"All went well till the train stopped - in the midst of a snowstorm and to be greeted by seemingly a whole tribe of what were then called Red Indians. They got back on the train and sent a telegram the next day back to Manhattan: "We've found a place to make our film. It's called Hollywood." And, soon, the film industry moved with them. A few tiny one- and two-reel films had been made there before but this was how the movie industry packed up, lock, stock and cameras, from New York. Hollywood immediately seemed to businessmen to be a Jewish town, even if the only notable Jewish performer was the girl from Cincinnati who became known as "The Vamp", Theodosia Goodman."
"Cinemagoers got to know her as Theda Bara. Goldwyn was typical of the men who became known as "the Moguls". They had all come from poor families and started to make good. Shmuel Gelbfisz changed his name to Goldfish before settling on Goldwyn, which was a mix of his surname and that of a business partner named Selwyn (a wag said they chose the wrong syllables and should have called themselves Selfish). He was a glove salesman earning $1,000 a week before deciding he was bored with gloves. Louis B. Mayer, a cinema boss, had been a scrap dealer."
"The Warners worked for their father who had been a butcher, a bicycle salesman and a tailor (his sons had to lie down on a bolt of cloth and their dad would cut it around them.) They all married Jewish women and then threw them over for nice, seemingly perfect, ladylike gentile girls, who knew where the bagels their husbands still craved were buttered. As Jack Warner Jr, son of the most colourful of the Warner Brothers, told me: "My mother was a typical Yiddisher Mama, who made the best gefilte fish in the world. My stepmother was not." Food was in many ways the last refuge of their Judaism. Mayer ordered chicken soup, made to his mother's recipe, to be served in his private dining room every single day that he was in charge of his MGM studio - sometimes known as "Mayer's Gunzer Mishbocher" because of his nepotism."
"Warner Brothers boasted that it was the studio that believed in "Combining Good Entertainment with Good Citizenship", to which the Casablanca writer Louis Epstein added: "And the finest chopped liver". My favourite story about Sam Goldwyn was when he made a "recce" of Broadway where his studio was making Guys and Dolls. "Is there anywhere round here I can get a good Jewish meal," he asked the Jewish choreographer of the film, Michael Kidd. "I told him, yeh there was Lindys at the next corner - not exactly kosher, but Jewish. "All the way Sam was salivating, especially when he mentioned chicken soup and kneidlach. The waiter greeted him warmly and Goldwyn asked what was the speciality. "Irish stew" was the reply. "I'll have it," said Sam. The Moguls went to very Reform Temples, but generally only on Yom Kippur and mostly for Yiskor. This was an opportunity to talk shop and boast."
"And usually in Yiddish - and they still do. Just go into the deli Nate and Al's and see the business cards handed out just as Jackie Mason tells it. The non-Jewish gangster actor James Cagney told me how his bosses at Warner Bros were discussing in front of him what they considered to be his "chutzpahdik" demands - in Yiddish. Suddenly, Harry Warner realised that the New Yorker Cagney understood the language: "Shteigan," he broke in, "der Goy vershtate Yiddish". In those days, they made very few Jewish films - until Warners made the first talkie, Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer about the chazan's son who preferred the chance to sing on the stage than to do it in shul."
"Jewish- themed films are much more common today and so are TV shows like the infamous but hilarious Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Jewish entertainers like Jolson, Eddie Cantor, George Burns and Jack Benny set up their own club when the older establishments put up "Reserved" notices and kept them out. The club, called Hillcrest today, is as successful as ever. It has a few non-Jewish members, but all have to guarantee a six-figure gift to the United Jewish Appeal and put up with a box of matzahs on their tables. In the early days, there was a lot of envious chat about the club from its competitors - particularly when it struck oil near the tennis courts. For years, there was a showbiz synagogue in Hollywood - Walter Matthau was one of its wardens All has not always been good for Hollywood's Jews."
"When at the end of the 1940s, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee came to town to root out Communists, it was as antisemitic as it was anti-Red. All but three of the Hollywood Ten jailed for refusing to collaborate with the committee, were Jews. One by one, Jewish writers and composers were fired. In the House of Representatives , Congressman John Rankin made a speech consisting simply of listing the real names of Jewish actors, Daniel Kaminsky, alias Danny Kaye, Asa Yoelson, Al Jolson; Melvin Hesselberg, Melvin Douglas and so it went on. Hollywood and its Jews recovered from that. Today, the studios are mostly parts of international conglomerates, like Columbia,, once owned by the former music salesman Harry Cohn, which belongs to Sony. But there is always Steven Spielberg, the best known Mogul of this era. And go into any agent's office…"
"There are still Jewish stars - perhaps more than ever- ranging from Barbra Streisand to the newly self-recognising Michael Douglas and his dear old dad, Kirk. And Adam Sandler. As Melville Shavelson, the late writer-director- producer (of the movie about early Israel, Cast a Giant Shadow) and Bob Hope's chief writer, put it to me citing Hollywood's big sports teams: "We used to have Giants in this town, now all we have are the Dodgers." He would have liked Mack and Mabel. Michael Freedland is the author of 'The Men Who Made Hollywood'.
Now, it is rather interesting as the stories based on Hollywood being built by the Jews, to the racism involved, or who really built Hollywood etc. However, based from the last Article stating how Hollywood is not run by the dominated Jewish occupants, kind of contradicts the previous Article posted by the L.A Times.
Now, I know that the term "Jew" or "Jewish" has been used over time, and are not the real names given to the Aryans. One indicates that Jews are based on the tribe of Judah, whereas others state that it's based on "Ewe", meaning sheep.
Here is what the Etymology states on Ewe: "Old English eowu "female sheep," fem. of eow "sheep," from Proto-Germanic *awi, genitive *awjoz (source also of Old Saxon ewi, Old Frisian ei, Middle Dutch ooge, Dutch ooi, Old High German ouwi "sheep," Gothic aweþi "flock of sheep"), from PIE *owi- "sheep" (source also of Sanskrit avih, Greek ois, Latin ovis, Lithuanian avis "sheep," Old Church Slavonic ovica "ewe," Old Irish oi "sheep," Welsh ewig "hind")."
In "mythencyclopedia.com" states this excerpt: "Druids were priests of an ancient Celtic * religious order. Powerful figures in the Celtic world, they served not only as religious leaders but also as teachers, judges, advisers, soothsayers, healers, and poets. The Druids held both religious and political power, leading to some blurring of the line between the spiritual and historical worlds...."
"...The Druids' Teachings. The Druids believed in a supreme god, whom they called Be' al, meaning "the source of all beings." The symbol of this supreme being was fire. But the Druids also worshiped many lesser gods. Rituals and Practices. The early Druids regarded the oak tree as sacred and carried out their religious rituals in oak forests. In fact, the name Druid means "knowing the oak tree" in Celtic. The mistletoe, a plant that often grows on oak trees, also had an important role in the religion."
"According to the ancient Roman writer Pliny, Druids worshiped the mistletoe because they believed it had dropped from heaven and offered a sign that the oak tree upon which it grew had been selected by their god. Furthermore, the Druids associated the mistletoe with healing powers. Details of Druid ceremonies are few. However, Pliny did describe a fertility ritual in which a Druid clad in a white robe climbed an oak tree and used a golden sickle to slice off a mistletoe branch."
"The mistletoe fell onto a white cloak that had been placed below. Then the Druids sacrificed two white bulls, and a feast followed. The symbolism of this ceremony is not entirely understood, although the Druids seemed to associate white with purity. Reported in much greater detail was the practice of human sacrifice. The Druids believed that human sacrifices were necessary to win their god's favor. If illness, war, or some other crisis threatened, a number of people would be assembled, placed in wicker containers, and burned alive. Usually these individuals were criminals."
In the Article "linesofthedragon.com" states these excerpts: "....This is a brief list, offering only a brief description of the Gods. In the bibliography for this page there are many titles that can provide better descriptions of more deities:
Lugh Lamh-fada (Long Handed), Son of the Sun, father of Cu/Chullain. He is known by many names, such as Lleu in Wales, and Lugos in Gaul, and appears to be one of the few pan-Celtic deities. He bears the epithet "Samildanach", or "Master of Crafts" and on account of this Dagda stands down and allows him to command the armies of the Gods at the battle of Moytura. He is more commonly known as "Lamhfada", or "God with the Large Hand", and as such has numerous counterparts in other Indo-European cultures, including the Hindu culture.
Dagda the Good (good not because of his moral disposition but because of the diversity of his skills) He is King of the Tuatha de Dannans, most of the time, and is father to many of the Gods. He possesses a magical club that can heal the dead or slay the living, and also possesses a cauldron that can feed unlimited numbers of people.
Nuada Argat-lamh (Silver Hand) twice king of the Dannans. Nuada lost his hand in the Battle of Moytura, and had it replaced with a mechanical hand by Dian Cecht. He has a counterpart in the Norse God Tyr, who is also missing a hand, though for a different reason.
Morrigu, Babd, and Nemhain (a triple goddess of War, and also connected to sovereignty) A powerful Goddess. Morrigan is responsible for choosing who will die in battle. To the Iron-Age Celts, this means she chooses who will pass into the Otherworld. One of her more grisly omens is the Washer at the Ford, where she appears as a maiden wringing blood from the clothes of the hero who is destined to die that day. Her sisters are named Babd, "Frenzy", and Nemain, "Eater of the dead".
Brigid (a triple Goddess of Fire, Poetry, and the Forge). She is christianized as Saint Bridget. Perpetual fires were kept blazing for Her and never allowed to go out. Brigit's Crosses (a cross with three or four arms, woven from reeds) were hung over the hearth of the home, and Her blessing invoked in the preparation of forged items, food, and other commodities requiring fire. She is also a fertility deity, as she assists in childbirth of animals and of people; her Christian symbolism casts her as the midwife of Christ. The festival of Imbolc is sacred t o her, and the folk would often leave bits of cloth outside their back door for her to touch and bless as she traveled abroad through the night.
Diancecht, god of healing. His name translates roughly as Dia- "God", and Cecht- "of the plough". He crafted a magical well which would resurrect to life anyone thrown into it, although the Fomorians filled it with stones." His children were great healers in their own right; Miach, his son was a better surgeon (a slight for which Diancecht killed him) and his daughter Airmud was a master herbalist.
Manannan mac Lir, God of the sea and master of magic. His name survives in the Isle of Man. Manannan is also a pan-Celtic deity, at least among the British Isles. In His realm, the Sea, are found the many magical islands that populate the Celtic Otherworld. The Sea is the Sky to him. In this way his concern is not merely the sea but also of the passages to the Otherworld, of which he is the guardian. His many titles include "Lord of Mists", "Lord of the Land of Women", "Lord of the Land Beneath the Waves". In the Christian period, worship of Manannan was probably transferred to Saint Micheal."
".....Gaulish deities are the focus of Caesar's records. He drew analogies between six of his own Roman gods and those he "discovered" in Gaul. The archeological record in Gaul reveals 374 god-names, many of which were gods of individual tribes or locales, or the many names used to describe the same deity."
"Lugh (Roman= Mercury) Belinus (Roman= Apollo) Taranis (Roman= Mars) a thunder god Teutatis (Roman= Jupiter) Brigid (Roman= Minerva) Cernunnos (Roman= Dispater) the Animal Lord or Green Man, and probably the God depicted on a panel of the Gnudstrup Cauldron. (see Symbols) Esus, Hu'Hesu, the perpetually Dying God Epona, the Horse Goddess, with attributes of fertility for mares and women."
Then when you look up the God "Esus", it states this on the Wiki: "Esus, Hesus, or Aisus was a Gaulish god known from two monumental statues and a line in Lucan's Bellum civile. A well-known section in Lucan's Bellum civile (61–65 CE) refers to gory sacrifices offered to a triad of Celtic deities: Teutates, Hesus (an aspirated form of Esus), and Taranis. Variant spellings, or readings, of the name Esus in the manuscripts of Lucan include Hesus, Aesus, and Haesus. Among a pair of later commentators on Lucan's work, one identifies Teutates with Mercury and Esus with Mars. According to the Berne Commentary on Lucan, human victims were sacrificed to Esus by being tied to a tree and flogged to death....."
"John Arnott MacCulloch summarized the state of scholarly interpretations of Esus in 1911 as follows: M. Reinach applies one formula to the subjects of these altars—"The Divine Woodman hews the Tree of the Bull with Three Cranes." The whole represents some myth unknown to us, but M. D'Arbois finds in it some allusion to events in the Cúchulainn saga. In the imagery, the bull and tree are perhaps both divine, and if the animal, like the images of the divine bull, is three-horned, then the three cranes (garanus, "crane") may be a rebus for three-horned (trikeras), or more probably three-headed (trikarenos)."
"In this case, woodman, tree, and bull might all be representatives of a god of vegetation. In early ritual, human, animal, or arboreal representatives of the god were periodically destroyed to ensure fertility, but when the god became separated from these representatives, the destruction or slaying was regarded as a sacrifice to the god, and myths arose telling how he had once slain the animal. In this case, tree and bull, really identical, would be mythically regarded as destroyed by the god whom they had once represented. If Esus was a god of vegetation, once represented by a tree, this would explain why, as the scholiast on Lucan relates, human sacrifices to Esus were suspended from a tree. Esus was worshipped at Paris and at Trèves; a coin with the name Æsus was found in England; and personal names like Esugenos, "son of Esus," and Esunertus, "he who has the strength of Esus," occur in England, France, and Switzerland."
"Thus the cult of this god may have been comparatively widespread. But there is no evidence that he was a Celtic Jehovah or a member, with Teutates and Taranis, of a pan-Celtic triad, or that this triad, introduced by Gauls, was not accepted by the Druids. Had such a great triad existed, some instance of the occurrence of the three names on one inscription would certainly have been found. Lucan does not refer to the gods as a triad, nor as gods of all the Celts, or even of one tribe. He lays stress merely on the fact that they were worshipped with human sacrifice, and they were apparently more or less well-known local gods."
"James McKillop cautions that Arbois de Jublainville's identification of Esus with Cú Chulainn "now seems ill-founded". Jan de Vries finds grounds of comparison between Esus and Odin, both being patrons of sailors sometimes associated with Mercury to whom human victims were said to be sacrificed by hanging. Miranda Green suggests that the willow-tree that Esus hews may symbolize "the Tree of Life [...] with its associations of destruction and death in winter and rebirth in the spring". She further suggests that the cranes might represent "the flight of the soul (perhaps the soul of the tree)".
"The 18th century Druidic revivalist Iolo Morganwg identified Esus with Jesus on the strength of the similarity of their names. He also linked them both with Hu Gadarn, writing: Both Hu and HUON were no doubt originally identical with the HEUS of Lactantius, and the HESUS of Lucan, described as gods of the Gauls. The similarity of the last name to IESU [Welsh: Jesus] is obvious and striking. This identification is still made in certain Neo-Druidic circles. Modern scholars consider the resemblance between the names Esus and Jesus to be coincidental."
So, when learning about the topic on the Druids I would get different perspectives on what is a Druid to their concepts and rituals, to what people participate in modern form of Druidry. I have seen Michael Tsarion's perspective of Druidism and his accounts of the Egyptian connections and conflict between the Amun ra group and the Aten group (based from Akhenaten). Then based from Godfrey Higgins, he states that the Buddhas who are black people were the Druids and were able to reach Ireland with their cult. Then to Jordan maxwell's mixed account on the origin of Druidism he states that Druidry is the "White man's establishment" along with Rome, to being connected to the Jewish Priesthood and/or the Germanic people. He states that based on Hollywood this is based on the "Holly tree" as they are made into these magic wands. He also states that even though Druidism came out of Rome and yet was brought from "India". Most people's account on Druidism would be based on the records from what the Romans had stated about them, though there would be mixed accounts as to one version of them being Philosophical and into Astrology and Science, to them being bloody warriors who commit human sacrifice and yet the Druids was said to not have a written down language or books. So, what is the truth? Based on the real information from Jordan Maxwell states that this Druidism had come from "India" and based on accounts the Druids knowing about karma and reincarnation seems to support this as valid evidence, otherwise the other accounts just make it mysterious and vague.
An interesting documentary on Druidry is called "The Last Druid" Documentary on Ben Mcbrady of the old Gaelic order". Here he states some interesting things based on why the term Druid came to be, as one account states the Druids connection to the "Oak" tree, and the other account being that their name had something to do with the worship of the "Red God" (connecting to the Sunset). He also states that Jesus may have attained the knowledge of the Spirituality from the Druids (as he may have been accepted into this Order) and thus brought this secret to the Middle East. Perhaps this is why Jesus is shown holding a "magic wand" in some pictures. Then there is the Druids who converted to Christianity but still kept the Druidic practice under this guise. It is a rather interesting take on this topic, but I see that if the Druids would have the oak symbolism, then maybe there is a connection.
Here, let's see the term Druidism in the Wiki:
"A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. The druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lore keepers, medical professionals and political advisors. Druids left no written accounts. While they were reported to have been literate, they are believed to have been prevented by doctrine from recording their knowledge in written form. Their beliefs and practices are attested in some detail by their contemporaries from other cultures, such as the Romans and the Greeks."
"The earliest known references to the druids date to the 4th century BC. The oldest detailed description comes from Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico (50s BC). They were described by other Roman writers such as Cicero,[2]Tacitus,[3]and Pliny the Elder.[4]Following the Roman invasion of Gaul, the druid orders were suppressed by the Roman government under the 1st-century AD emperors Tiberius and Claudius, and had disappeared from the written record by the 2nd century.
In about 750 AD, the word druid appears in a poem by Blathmac, who wrote about Jesus, saying that he was "better than a prophet, more knowledgeable than every druid, a king who was a bishop and a complete sage."[5]The druids often appear in both the tales from Irish mythology first written down by monks and nuns of the Celtic Churchlike the "Táin Bó Cúailnge" (12th century), but also in later Christian legends where they are largely portrayed as sorcerers who opposed the introduction of Christianity by missionaries.[6]In the wake of the Celtic revival during the 18th and 19th centuries, fraternal and neopagan groups were founded based on ideas about the ancient druids, a movement known as Neo-Druidism. Many popular notions about druids, based on misconceptions of 18th-century scholars, have been largely superseded by more recent study"
The Greco-Roman and the vernacular Irish sources agree that the druids played an important part in pagan Celtic society. In his description, Julius Caesar wrote that they were one of the two most important social groups in the region (alongside thee quites, or nobles) and were responsible for organizing worship and sacrifices, divination, and judicial procedure in Gallic, British, and Irish societies. He wrote that they were exempt from military service and from paying taxes, and had the power to excommunicate people from religious festivals, making them social outcasts.[24]Two other classical writers, Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, wrote about the role of druids in Gallic society, stating that the druids were held in such respect that if they intervened between two armies they could stop the battle.[25]
Diodorus writes of the Druids that they were "philosophers" and "men learned in religious affairs" who are honored.[26]Strabo mentions that their domain was both natural philosophy an moral philosophy,[27]while Ammianus Marcellinus lists them as investigators of "obscure and profound subjects".[28]
Pomponius Melawas the first author to say that the druids' instruction was secret and took place in caves and forests.[29]Cicero said that he knew a Gaulish druid who "claimed to have that knowledge of nature which the Greeks call physiologia, and he used to make predictions, sometimes by means of augury and sometimes by means of conjecture".[30]
Druidic lore consisted of a large number of memorized verses, and Caesar remarked that it could take up to twenty years to complete the course of study. What was taught to druid novices anywhere is conjecture: of the druids' oral literature, not one certifiably ancient verse is known to have survived, even in translation. All instruction was communicated orally, but for ordinary purposes, Caesar reports,[31]the Gauls had a written language in which they used Greek letters. In this he probably draws on earlier writers; by the time of Caesar, Gaulish inscriptions had moved from Greek script to Latin script.
Caesar believed that this practice of oral transmission of knowledge and opposition to recording their ideas had dual motivations: wanting to keep druidic knowledge from becoming common, and improving the druids' faculties of memory.[32]Caesar writes that of the Druids "a large number of the young men resort for the purpose of instruction".[33]Due to the privileges afforded to the druids he tells us that "many embrace this profession of their own accord", whereas many others are sent to become druids by their families.
Greek and Roman writers frequently made reference to the druids as practitioners of human sacrifice.[35]Caesar says those who had been found guilty of theft or other criminal offences were considered preferable for use as sacrificial victims, but when criminals were in short supply, innocents would be acceptable. A form of sacrifice recorded by Caesar was the burning alive of victims in a large wooden effigy, now often known as a wicker man. A differing account came from the 10th-centuryCommenta Bernensia, which stated that sacrifices to the deities Teutates, Esus, and Taranis were by drowning, hanging, and burning, respectively (see threefold death).
Diodorus Siculus asserts that a sacrifice acceptable to the Celtic gods had to be attended by a druid, for they were the intermediaries between the people and the divinities. He remarked upon the importance of prophets in druidic ritual:
These men predict the future by observing the flight and calls of birds and by the sacrifice of holy animals: all orders of society are in their power ... and in very important matters they prepare a human victim, plunging a dagger into his chest; by observing the way his limbs convulse as he falls and the gushing of his blood, they are able to read the future.
Archaeological evidence from western Europe has been widely used to support the theory that Iron Age Celts practiced human sacrifice. Mass graves that were found in a ritual context, which date from this period, have been unearthed in Gaul, at both Gournay-sur-Aronde and Ribemont-sur-Ancre in the region of the Belgae chiefdom. Jean-Louis Brunaux, the excavator of these sites, interpreted them as areas of human sacrifice in devotion to a war god,[36][37]although this conclusion was criticized by archaeologist Martin Brown, who believed that the corpses might be those of honoured warriors who were buried in the sanctuary, rather than sacrifices.[38]Some historians have questioned whether the Greco-Roman writers were accurate in their claims. J. Rives remarked that it was "ambiguous" whether druids ever performed such sacrifices, for the Romans and Greeks were known to project what they saw as barbarian traits onto foreign peoples including not only druids but Jews and Christians as well, thereby confirming their own "cultural superiority" in their own minds.[39]
Nora Chadwick, an expert in medieval Welsh and Irish literature who believed the druids to be great philosophers, has also supported the idea that they had not been involved in human sacrifice, and that such accusations were imperialist Roman propaganda.
Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor referred to the druids as philosophers, and called their doctrine of the immortality of the soul and metempsychosis (reincarnation), "Pythagorean":
The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls' teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body
Caesar made similar observations:
With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed. Subsidiary to the teachings of this main principle, they hold various lectures and discussions on the stars and their movement, on the extent and geographical distribution of the earth, on the different branches of natural philosophy, and on many problems connected with religion.
— Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, VI, 14
Diodorus Siculus, writing in 36 BCE, described how the druids followed "the Pythagorean doctrine", that human souls "are immortal, and after a prescribed number of years they commence a new life in a new body".[41]In 1928, the folklorist Donald A. Mackenzie speculated that Buddhist missionaries had been sent by the Indian king Ashoka.[42]Caesar noted the druidic doctrine that the original ancestor of the tribe was the god that he referred to as "Dispater", which means "Father Dis".
Diogenes Laertius, in the 3rd century CE, wrote that "Druids make their pronouncements by means of riddles and dark sayings, teaching that the gods must be worshipped, and no evil done, and manly behavior maintained".
So, there is a connection to the Druids and the Aryans in the Bible. Here states this in "symbolsage.com"
The Timeless Oak: Symbolism and Significance Through the Ages:
1- The Druids of Ancient Celtic Society
The Druids were the intellectual and priestly class who served as philosophers, judges, and mediators in ancient Britain and France. The oak tree was worshipped in their faith.
In fact, so important was the oak to this group, that the very name Druid is derived from the Latin term druides and Greek word drus which mean soak. The suffix-ides meaning the son of. The Celts used the word Druit to refer to someone who possessed wisdom or oak knowledge. According toPliny the Elder, a Roman scholar and philosopher, the Druids regarded the oak tree as sacred, and considered them sent from heaven. They even performed religious rites and feasts under the oak trees, and climbed them to harvest mistletoe, which was also used in spells and medicines. The Celts even made magic wands from oak wood, which they believe to have healing powers.
2- In Greek and Roman Mythology
The oak is regarded the sacred tree of Zeus, and the centerpiece of Dodona, the oldest Hellenic oracle. In the 5th century B.C.E., worship and consultation were held under oak trees, where priests offered divine solutions and interpretations, as Zeus is believed to communicate through thunder or the oak itself. In Homer’s the Iliad and the Odyssey, the oracle was visited by notable Greek heroes, like Achilles during the Trojan War and Odysseus on his return to Ithaca. It was also under the oak’s branches where the music of Orpheus was played.
In ancient Rome, the oak tree was the symbol of Jupiter (the Roman version of Zeus), and Romans believed that Jupiter passed wisdom by means of the oak tree. The marriage of Jupiter and Juno was celebrated in an oak grove and worshippers wore crown of oak leaves.
3- In Germanic and Norse Mythology
Did you know that oaks are more likely to be struck by lightning than other trees? No wonder it is the symbol of Thor, the god of thunder and lightning, in Norse mythology. In Germanic mythology, he is also referred to as Thunar, which is associated with the Gothic term Fairguni that mean soak god. Oaks were not only spiritual but also practical things. The Vikings are believed to have used oaks to build their boats and ships.
4- In Slavic and Baltic Mythology
Slavs believed that gods live in oak trees, which they called the world tree. In fact, most of their holy places were deep in the forest, and most statues and figures were carved from oak trees. The oak is also associated with Perun, the Slavic god of thunder and sky. In Slavic mythology, the oak represents the world—its branches and trunk represent the heavens and the living world of mortals, while its roots represent the underworld. This is somewhat similar to the Yggdrasil of Norse mythology. In Baltic mythology, it is the sacred tree of Pērkons, the thunder god who directs his thunderbolts against evil spirits and disciplines the gods.
5- The Oak Tree in Different Cultures
For Native Americans, the indigenous people of America, the oak tree is sacred. Legend says that the great chief of a certain tribe went to the Sacred Oak and asked guidance from the Great Spirit living in it. Some beliefs about the oak tree were adopted in Christianity, such as the Abraham’s Oak or the Oak of Mamre, which marks the place where Abraham pitched his tent—and it was believed that anyone who defaced the tree would lose his or her firstborn son.
Based from "celtic.mythologyworldwide.com" states this:
The Sacred Oak: Druids and Their Symbolism in Celtic Beliefs I. Introduction to Celtic Mythology and the Role of Nature
Celtic mythology is a rich tapestry of stories, beliefs, and traditions that have been passed down through generations. Rooted in the ancient cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Brittany, Celtic mythology encompasses a diverse range of deities, heroes, and mythical creatures. Central to these beliefs is the profound connection between the Celts and the natural world, which they viewed as imbued with spiritual significance.
Nature played an integral role in Celtic beliefs, with various elements such as rivers, mountains, and trees being revered as sacred. Among these, the oak tree stands out as a central symbol, embodying strength, endurance, and wisdom. The sacred oak not only served as a physical representation of the divine in nature but also as a crucial element in Druidic practices.
II. The Sacred Oak: Physical Characteristics and Habitat
The oak tree, scientifically known as Quercus, is renowned for its impressive stature and longevity. With its broad canopy and sturdy trunk, the oak has long been a symbol of resilience and strength. In Celtic culture, the oak is often associated with the gods and is believed to possess protective qualities.
- Physical Characteristics: Oak trees can live for hundreds of years, with some specimens exceeding a thousand years. Their leaves are lobed, and they produce acorns, which are a vital food source for wildlife.
- Habitat: Sacred oaks were commonly found in ancient Celtic lands, particularly in areas that were considered sacred groves. These groves often served as places of worship and gathering.
- Longevity and Resilience: The oak’s ability to withstand harsh conditions and thrive in diverse environments made it a powerful symbol of endurance in Celtic beliefs.
III. The Druidic Tradition: Who Were the Druids?
The Druids were the priestly class in ancient Celtic society, serving as spiritual leaders, teachers, and mediators between the gods and the people. They held a vital role in maintaining the cultural and spiritual practices of the Celts.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Druids were responsible for conducting rituals, offering sacrifices, and providing counsel to leaders and the community. They were also keepers of oral tradition, preserving myths and histories.
- Druidic Education: Druidic training was rigorous and could last for up to twenty years. Students learned about the natural world, astronomy, poetry, and the art of divination.
- Connection to Nature: Druids were deeply attuned to the rhythms of nature and believed that all living things were interconnected. They often sought guidance from the natural world in their spiritual practices.
IV. Symbolism of the Oak in Druidic Practices
The oak tree holds profound symbolism in Druidic practices. It is often seen as a representation of strength, endurance, and the divine connection to nature.
- Symbol of Strength: The oak’s robust structure symbolizes stability and resilience, making it a fitting representation of the Druidic values of strength and endurance.
- Ritual Significance: Oak trees were central to many Druidic rituals, including ceremonies for fertility, protection, and healing. Druids often conducted their rites beneath the boughs of sacred oaks.
- Divination Practices: The oak was also associated with divination. Druids would interpret the falling acorns or the growth patterns of oak leaves as messages from the divine.
V. Myths and Legends Associated with the Sacred Oak
Celtic folklore is rich with myths and legends that highlight the significance of the sacred oak. These stories often feature gods and goddesses who are intimately connected to the oak tree.
- Notable Myths: One famous story involves the god Dagda, who is often depicted as a protector of the oak and its sacred groves. His magic cauldron is said to be located beneath an ancient oak.
- Gods and Goddesses: The goddess Danu, associated with fertility and the earth, is also linked to the oak tree, representing the nurturing aspects of nature.
- Symbolic Meanings: These tales often convey themes of growth, renewal, and the cyclical nature of life, reflecting the deep respect the Celts had for the oak’s role in the ecosystem.
VI. The Sacred Oak in Celtic Festivals and Celebrations
The sacred oak played a significant role in various Celtic festivals and celebrations, where it was honored through rituals and communal gatherings.
- Beltane: During Beltane, a festival marking the beginning of summer, the oak was celebrated as a symbol of fertility and growth. Fires were lit near oaks to invoke blessings for the coming season.
- Samhain: At Samhain, the oak was revered as a connection between the worlds of the living and the dead. Rituals performed around oak trees aimed to honor ancestors and seek guidance from the spirit realm.
- Seasonal Significance: The oak’s life cycle mirrored the natural rhythms celebrated in these festivals, reinforcing the Celts’ connection to the earth and its cycles.
VII. Modern Interpretations and Legacy of the Sacred Oak
In contemporary spirituality, the symbolism of the sacred oak has evolved, yet it retains its significance as a symbol of strength and connection to nature.
- Contemporary Spirituality: Many modern pagans and nature worshippers draw inspiration from Druidic beliefs, incorporating the oak into their rituals and celebrations.
- Preservation Efforts: The importance of preserving sacred oak groves has become a focus for environmentalists and spiritual seekers alike, recognizing the ecological and cultural value of these trees.
- Influence on Modern Practices: Druidic beliefs continue to influence various spiritual movements, emphasizing the reverence for nature and the interconnectedness of all living beings.
VIII. Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of the Sacred Oak in Celtic Beliefs
The sacred oak remains a powerful symbol within Celtic mythology and Druidic practice. Its significance as a representation of strength, wisdom, and connection to nature endures through time, echoing the values of the ancient Celts.
As we reflect on the legacy of the sacred oak, it is essential to honor and protect these natural sites, ensuring that future generations can experience the profound beauty and spiritual significance that the oak tree embodies in Celtic beliefs.
Now, let's see what the Bible states on the Oak symbolism:
Joshua 24:26
“And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.”
2 Samuel 18:9
“And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.”
Isaiah 1:30
“For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.”
Genesis 35:8
“But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.”
2 Samuel 18:10
“And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.”
2 Samuel 18:14
“Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.”
Isaiah 44:14
“He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengthened for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.”
Judges 6:11
“And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.”
Isaiah 6:13
“But yet in it shall bea tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.”
1 Chronicles 10:12
“They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.”
1 Kings 13:14
“And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.”
Genesis 35:4
“And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.”
Ezekiel 6:13
“Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.”
So, based on this list of Biblical verses details the Oak tree having a great connection to the Israelites. However, I couldn't understand as to why God state would to destroy the groves and yet the other verses states that he is known for the grove. So, here let's see Judges Chapter 6 11:
23And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
Now, it states that Gideon meets an Angel who sits under the Oak tree and when Gideon had supplied meats, broth and unleavened flour, then the Angel takes his "staff", and the food offering is burnt towards Heaven. Why would an angel carry a staff? The Nommo were said to have staffs based from Credo Mutwa's story. It's shown that Baron Samedi who is Hermes would carry this wand or staff with a serpent intertwined and is where these "Wizards" would use to cast spells. However, this is what I don't get about the Druid situation as they were the apparent "Serpents" that was cast out of Ireland by Saint Patrick, and yet those Popish people worship Dagon who is known for the Pagan Cross that was brought by the Black nations and their God is Thoth. The Prophets of Dagon would carry staffs and worship the Dragon God, so why would this be any different than the Druids were said to have the serpent symbolism? If Druidism has a connection going back to India, then they wouldn't be based from the European perspective of what the Druid is then. It would mean that based from Jordan Maxwell, which the cult of Druidism is then renamed from the cult of Hinduism or Buddhism, and that would make sense because Rome is considered the heart of Babylon which is based on the Serpent worship of Shiva and Kali all coming from India.
Based from The Secret Doctrine: The origin of the Satanic Myth pg379 (The secret of the dragon):
....We find (a) the priests assuming the name of the gods they served; (b) the "Dragons" held throughout all antiquity as the symbols of Immortality and Wisdom, of secret Knowledge and of Eternity; and (c) the hierophants of Egypt, of Babylon, and India, styling themselves generally the "Sons of the Dragon" and "Serpents"; thus the teachings of the Secret Doctrine are thereby corroborated. There were numerous catacombs in Egypt and Chaldea, some of them of a very vast extent. The most renowned of them were the subterranean crypts of Thebes and Memphis. The former, beginning on the western side of the Nile, extended towards the Lybian desert, and were known as the Serpent's catacombs, or passages. It was there that were performed the sacred mysteries of the kuklos anagkes, the "Unavoidable Cycle," more generally known as "the circle of necessity"; the inexorable doom imposed upon every soul after the bodily death, and when it has been judged in the Amenthian region.
In de Bourbourg's book, Votan, the Mexican demi-god, in narrating his expedition, describes a subterranean passage which ran underground, and terminated at the root of the heavens, adding that this passage was a snake's hole, "un agujero de colubra"; and that he was admitted to it because he was himself "a son of the snakes," or a serpent. ("Die Phoinizier," 70.) This is, indeed, very suggestive; for his description of the snake'shole is that of the ancient Egyptian crypt, as above mentioned. The hierophants, moreover, of Egypt, as of Babylon, generally styled themselves the "Sons of the Serpent-god," or "Sons of the Dragon," during the mysteries.
"The Assyrian priest bore always the name of his god," says Movers. The Druids of the Celto-Britannic regions also called themselves snakes. "I am a Serpent, I am a Druid," they exclaimed. The Egyptian Karnak is twin brother to the Carnac of Bretagne, the latter Carnac meaning the serpent's mount. The Dracontia once covered the surface of the globe, and these temples were sacred to the Dragon, only because it was the symbol of the sun, which, in its turn, was the symbol of the highest god -- the Phoenician Elon or Elion, whom Abraham recognised as El Elion.* Besides the surname of serpents, they were called the "builders," the "architects"; for the immense grandeur of their temples and monuments was such that even now the pulverized remains of them "frighten the mathematical calculations of our modern engineers," says Taliesin.**
De Bourbourg hints that the chiefs of the name of Votan, the Quetzo-Cohuatl, or Serpent deity of the Mexicans, are the descendants of Ham and Canaan. "I am Hivim," they say. "Being a Hivim, I am of the great race of the Dragon (snake). I am a snake myself, for I am a Hivim."
Based on the Druidic people wearing hoods connects to Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes wide shut" as this connects to Hollywood and the Elites. Here, the Leader holds the staff just as the Druids would carry. The monks from Catholicism wear the same type of outfit all stemming from the cult of Dagon as Thoth. Hence, Druidism is the Dagon cult which is Roman Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism. The grove that they keep talking about they claim to have cut down is still based on the Christmas tree, which is why the mistle toe symbolism is still based around the wintertime. The Oak symbolism still pertains to the same God who is Thoth. It just didn't make sense if the Romans knew about the Oak symbolism, then they would share the same ideals as the Druids, but since the Druidic symbol is the serpent, then that couldn't be based on Bird God Garuda as Zeus but the Dragon god Thoth. The grove of Bacchus who is Saturn is still Saturnalias to which the Christians still practice to this day (Holly tree). I was wondering why Jordan Maxwell was being cryptic about who the Druids are and their connections to controlling the whole world, and that is because of Rome's religion going back to India. The hoods or cloaks that they wear represents the Cobra which is the Naga that protects the Buddha. Then that apparent Jewish high priest dress that they depict is really based on Christianity, which is Druidism, still goes back to Dagon. The serpent has always been the symbol of the Druids who are the Christians, thus Christians are the Druids, and it's based on Thoth and the angels who landed in India....
Now, I already had discussed what Hecate is all about in "The Lord of Sirius: The Queen of Heaven" Chapter. It's basically the same as what Sir Godfrey Higgins had stated of these deities being Black in complexion. Based from Book 1 page 136 states this:
"....The ancient name, as we have said, was Sir, or Siri, the same as O-sir, or Osiris, who was al- ways black ; after whom it was called, and by whom was meant the sun. Thus it was called the river of the sun, or the river sun, or the river of Osiris — as we say, the river of the Amazons, or the river Amazon." (Sirius)
"And this river flowed from the land of the sun and moon. It arose in the mountains of the moon, and flowed through the land of Sir, perhaps the land of Siriad, where Josephus was told that columns had been placed which were built before the flood — xoltol ttjv yyv Sjugio&a. Manetho, 300 years before Josephus, says, these columns stood sv ry yy\ Xvgiafiixy, and from them Josephus took his history, which was inscribed on them in the sacred language and in hieroglyphical characters, a language and character evidently both unknown to him."
"These columns were probably the Egyptian monuments — Pyramids, or Obelisks, which had escaped the destruction of Cambyses, perhaps because they were only historical and not religious, or perhaps because they were linghams, to which the Persians might not object — but the knowledge of whose characters was at that time lost amidst the universal destruction of priests and temples, and which has never been really known since, though the new priests would not be willing to confess their ignorance...."
"The modern words Sir, Mon-sieur, Mon-seignor, are all derived from the Hebrew word -)ty Sr, or Lord, as we translate it, which was an epithet of the sun in all the eastern countries. This is the same as the Iswara of India, which means Lord. 2 The Bull of the Zodiac, or the sun, also had a name very similar to this, whence probably it came to be applied to the animal j or at least they had the same names. See Parkhurst in voce *0iy sur."
"Mr. Maurice says,.... Deum vocant. Surya is the name of the solar divinity of India. It is also the name of Osiris. Mr. Bryant says... As the God of the Egyptians went by several names, as Apis, Serapis, Cneph, Osiris, &c, so did the God of the Hindoos. The word sable or black was one of their epithets. Thus Christ is, in like manner, an epithet of Jesus. He is called Jesus the Christ, the Anointed."
"As the reader has seen above, and also in my Celtic Druids, I have derived Osiris from the word Sr, and the Greek emphatic article O. This derivation is justified by Porphyry. But Hel- lanicus informs us, that it was sometimes written Tcripig. Now, as Isis was the wife of Osiris, may it not have come from the Hebrew word y^> iso, to save, and itp sr, or -jittf sur f Osiris was the Sun, so was Surya in India and Persia : for, as we have seen, Persse Sure Deum vocant."
"Syria was the land of the Sun. The Sun was called Lord and Saviour ; so was Mithra. The Bull was the emblem of the Sun— of Mithra, called Lord, and of the God in the land where Surya or the Sun, with seven heads, was adored, and in Japan, where he breaks the mundane egg with his horn. The Bull was the body into which Osiris transmigrated after his death ; and, lastly, the Hebrew name for bull is "nay sur. Orpheus has a hymn to the Lord Bull. Iswara of India or Osiris, is the husband of Isi or of Isis ; and Surya is Buddha. Can all these coincidences be the effect of accident ?"
"The adoration of a black stone is a very singular superstition. Like many other superstitions this also came from India. Buddha was adored as a square black stone ; so was Mercury ; so was the Roman Terminus. The famous Pessinuntian stone, brought to Rome, was square and black."
"The sacred black stone at Mecca many of my readers are acquainted with, and George the Fourth did very wisely to be crowned on the square stone, nearer black than any other colour, of Scotia and Ireland. In Montfaucon, a black Isis and Orus are described in the printing, but not in the plate. I sus- pect many of Montfaucon's figures ought to be black, which are not so described. 7 Pausanias states the Thespians to have had a temple and statue to Jupiter the Saviour, and a statue to Love, consisting only of a rude stone j and a temple to Venus Melainis, or the black."
"8 Ammon was founded by Black doves, At§s-Io)V££. One of them flew from Ammon to Dodona and founded it. 9 At Corinth there was a black. Venus. 10 In my search into the origin of ancient Druids, I continually found, at last, that my labours ter- minated with something black. Thus the oracles at Dodona, and of Apollo at Delphi, were founded by black doves. Doves are not often, I believe never really, black."
"VOLUME I - BOOK V - CHAPTER I BUDDHA THE SUN IN TAURUS, AS CRISTNA WAS THE SUN IN ARIES—NAMES OF BUDDHA—MEANING OF THE WORD BUDDHA, THE SAME AS THAT OF THE FIRST WORD IN GENESIS—THE TEN INCARNATIONS—DESCENT OF BUDDHA THE SAME AS CRISTNA'S—BUDDHA AND CRISTNA THE SAME—SIMPLICITY OF BUDDHISM—EXPLANATION OF PLATE—BUDDHA A NEGRO—HIERARCHY—MAIN—SAMANEANS OF CLEMENS—INCARNATION—CABUL—BUDDHISM EXTENDS OVER MANY CENTURIES—BUDDHA BEFORE CRISTNA":
"Page 152 The time has now arrived when it becomes proper to enter upon an examination of the doctrines of the celebrated Buddha of India, which were the foundations of all the mythoses of the Western nations, as well as of those which we have seen of Cristna; and from these two were supplied most of the superstitions which became engrafted into the religion of Jesus Christ. I shall shew, that Buddha and Cristna were only renewed incarnations of the same Being, and that Being the Solar power, or a principle symbolized by the Sun—a principle made by the sun visible to the eyes of mortals : and particularly exhibiting himself in his glory at the vernal equinox, in the heavenly constellation known by the name of Taurus, as BUDDHA, and subsequently in that of Aries, as CRISTNA."
Page 153: "Buddha is variously pronounced and expressed Boudh, Bod, Bot, But, Bad, Budd, Buddou, Boutta, Bota, Budso, Pot, Pout, Pota, Poti, and Pouti. The Siamese make the final T or D quiescent, and sound the word Po; whence the Chinese still further vary it to Pho or Fo. In the Talmudic dialect the name is pronounced Poden or Pooden; whence the city, which one contained the temple of Sumnaut or Suman-nath, is called Patten-Sumnaut."
"The braod sound of the U or Ou or Oo, passes in the variation Patten into A, pronounced Ah or Au; and in a similar manner, when the P is sounded B, we meet with Bad, Bat, and Bhat. All these are in fact no more than a ringing of changes on the cognate letters B and P, T and D. Another of his names is Saman, which is varied into Somon, Somono, Samana, Suman-Nath, and Sarmana. From this was borrowed the sectarian appellation of Samaneans, or Sarmaneans."
"A third is Gautama, which is indifferently expressed Gautameh, Godama, Godam, Codam, Cadan, Cardam, and Cardana. A fourth is Saca, Sacya, Siaka, Shaka, Xaca, Xaca-Muni or Xaca-Menu and Kia, which is the uncompounded form of Sa-Kia. A fifth is Dherma, or Dharma, or Dherma-rajah. A sixth is Hermias, Her-Moye, or Heri-Maya. A seventh is Datta, Dat-Alreya, That-Dalna, Date, Tat or Tot, Deva-Tut or Deva-Twasta. An eighth is Jain, Jina, Chin, Jain-Deo, Chin-Deo, or Jain-Eswar. A ninth is Ahran. A tenth is Mahi-Man, Mai-Man, or (if Om is added) Mai-Man-Om."
"An eleventh is Min-Eswara, formed by the same title Min or Man or Menu joined to Eswara. A twelfth is Gomat or Gomat-Eswara. A thiteenth, when he is considered as Eswara or Siva, is Ma-Esa or Har-Esa; that is to say, the great Esa or the Lord Esa. A fourteenth is Dagon or Dagun, or Dak-Po. A fifteenth is Tara-Nath. And a sixteenth is Arca-Bandhu or Kinsman of the Sun."* * Faber, Pag. Idol. B. iv. Chap. v. p. 351. "Wod or Vod is a mere variation of Bod; and Woden is simply the Talmudic mode of pronouncing Buddha : for in that mode of enunciation, Buddha is expressed Pooden or Poden; and Poden is undoubtedly the same word as Voden or Woden."*
"This etymology is assented to by Sir W. Jones, if it were not, as I believe it was, originally proposed by him. Woden was the God of the Scuths and Scandinavians, and said to be the inventor of their letters; as Hermes was the supposed inventor of the letters of the Egyptians. This, among other circumstances, tends to prove that the religion of the Celts and Scuths of the West was Buddhism. The Celtic Teutates is the Gothic Teut or Tuisto, Buddha's titles of Tat, Datta, or Twashta. Taranis is Tara-Nath. Hesus of Gaul is, Esa, Ma-Hesa, and Har-Esa. But those are by the Latin writers called Mercury."
"Page 154 My reader will observe that I have given from Mr. Faber sixteen different names of Buddha, by which he undertakes to prove that he was known at different times and in different places. Mr. Faber enters at great length into the discussion of each, and proves his case, in almost every instance, in a way which cannot reasonably be disputed. ... In my Celtic Druids I have shewn that the worship of Buddha is everywhere to be found—in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Hu, the great God of the Welsh, is called Buddwas; and they call their God Budd, the God of victory, the king who rises in light and ascends the sky. In Scotland, the country people frighten their children by telling them, that old Bud or the old man will take them. In India, one of the meanings of the word Buddha is old man. In this inquiry it seems of the first consequence to ascertain the meaning of the word Buddha."
"From the examination of the accounts of the different authors, this celebrated word appears to have the same meaning as to the first word of Genesis, that is, Wisdom, or extremely wise, or wise in a high degree. M. Creuzer gives it savant, sage, intelligence, excellente, et supérieure. He says, it allies itself or is closely allied to the understanding, mind, intelligence unique, and supreme of God. This is confirmed by Mr. Ward, the missionary, who tells us that Buddha is the Deity of WISDOM, as was the Minerva of Greece. When devotees pray for wisdom to their king, they say, may Buddha give thee wisdom.* * Ward's Hist. of Hind."
p.452. "… In the Pali, of Ceylon, it means universal knowledge or holiness.* * Asiat. Res. Vol. XVII. p.33. In Sanscrit we have, Sanskrit Root, Budh, to know, to be aware; Budhyati, he knows, is aware; Bodhay~mi, I inform, I teach. Buddhi, wisdom; Buddha, sage, wise; Bodha, WISDOM. Two facts seem to be universally agreed upon by all persons who have written respecting Buddha. The first is, that at last he is always found to resolve himself into the sun, either as the sun, or as the higher principle of which the sun is the image or emblem, or of which the sun is the residence. The second is, that the word Buddha means WISDOM."
"Now, we cannot believe that this WISDOM would be called by so singular a name as Buddha, without a cause. Page 155 It has been observed by several philologers that the letters B D, B T, universally convey the idea either of former or of creator. But Genesis says the world was formed by WISDOM. Wisdom was the Buddha or former of the world : thus WISDOM, I conceive, became called Bud. Wisdom was the first emanation, so was Buddha. Wisdom was the Logos by which the world was formed; but Buddha was the Creator : thus the Logos and Budd are identical, the same person of the Trinity."
"… I shall shew that Logos, Bud, and Rasit, were only names in different languages for the same idea. Mr. Whiter says, "Through the whole compass of language the element B D denotes Being : hence we have the great Deity worshipped all over the East—Budda."* Then Buddha will mean the existent or self-existent wisdom, self existent as an integral part of the Trinity. He then informs us that, in Persian, Bud-en Bud, signifies to be. The same as Is, est, existo. Bud is clearly the I am that I am of our Bible; or, in the original, which has no present tense, the I shall be, or the I have been; or what, perhaps, this celebrated text may mean, THAT WHICH I HAVE BEEN, I SHALL BE—Eternity, past and future. * Etymol. Univ. Vol. I. p.310. "… The following is the speech of Arjoon respecting Vishnu as Cristna—Thou art all in all."
"… O supreme Bhagavat, thou art the Buddha Avatar who shall tranquilize and give ease to Devaties, human creatures, and Ditytes."* * Camp. Key, Vol. II. p.294. I think I could scarcely have wished for a more complete proof of the truth of my doctrine of the renewal of the Avatars, than the above. It shews, in fact, that both Buddha and Cristna are nothing but renewed incarnations in each cycle. The ancient identity of the worship of Buddha and of Cristna, receives a strong confirmation from the fact, that the Buddhists have TEN incarnations of Buddha, the same as the followers of Cristna, and, what is remarkable, called by the same names.* * Ward's India, p.387.
Page 156: "… The only fact worthy of notice here is, that Buddha was universally allowed to be the first of the incarnations; that Cristna was of later date; and that, at the æra of the birth of Christ, eight of them had appeared on the earth, and that the other two were expected to follow before the end of the Cali-Yug, or of the present age. … Between the Brahmins and the Buddhists there exists the greatest conceivable enmity … The ancient histories of the Hindoos are full of accounts of terrible wars between the different sectaries, which probably lasted, with the intermissions usual in such cases, for many generations, and extended their influence over the whole world; and we shall see in the course of this work, that, in their results, they continue to exercise an influence over the destinies of mankind. Buddha is allowed by his enemies, the Brahmins, to have been an avatar."
"Then here is divine wisdom incarnate, of whom the Bull of the Zodiac was the emblem. Here he is the Protogonos or first-begotten, the God or Goddess Mhtij of the Greeks, being, perhaps, both male and female. He is at once described as divine wisdom, the Sun, and Taurus. This is the first Buddha or incarnation of wisdom, by many of the Brahmins often confounded with a person of the same name, supposed to have lived at a later day. In fact, Buddha or the wise, if the word were not merely the name of a doctrine, seems to have been an appellation taken by several persons, or one person incarnate at several periods, and from this circumstance much confusion has arisen."
"The mother of Buddha was MAIA, who was also the mother of Mercury, a fact of the first importance. Of this Maia or Maja the mother of Mercury, Mr. Davies* says, "The universal genius of nature, which discriminated all things, according to their various kinds or species—the same, perhaps, as the Meth of the Ægyptians, and the Mhtij of the Orphic bards, which was of all kinds, and the author of all things.—Kai Mhtij pfwtoj genetwr. Orph. Frag." To this, Mr. Whiter adds, "to these terms belong the well-known deities Budda and Amida. The Fo of the Chinese is acknowledged to be the Fod or Budda of the Eastern world, and the Mercury of the Greeks." He then gives the following passage from Barrow's Travels : "The Budha of the Hindus was the son of Maya, and one of his epithets in Amita. The Fo of China was the son of Mo-ya, and one of his epithets is Om-e-to; and in Japan, whose natives are of Chinese origin, the same God Fo is worshipped under the name of Amida. …"
So, one Article on Druidism states that the Druids were worshipers of "Be-al" as the Supreme God, and then there is Esus and the Storm deity Lugh. You should know by now how these names are merely epithets pertaining to the same God. The Christian God is Mercury, the Buddha, Baal, Dagon, Moloch, Vishnu, Agni, he is basically Hermes, Thoth, Odin/Woden, to which his day is Wednesday. And the Spanish name for Wednesday is "Miercoles" and how this connects to the "Holly tree".
In the etymology of Holly states this: "holly (n.) evergreen shrub especially used for decoration at Christmas, mid-15c., earlier holin (mid-12c.), shortening of Old English holegn, holen "holly," from Proto-Germanic *hulin- (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German hulis, Old Norse hulfr, Middle Dutch huls, Dutch, German hulst "holly"), cognate with Middle Irish cuilenn, Welsh celyn, Gaelic cuilionn "holly," probably all from PIE root *kel- (5) "to prick" (source also of Old Church Slavonic kolja "to prick," Russian kolos "ear of corn"), in reference to its leaves. French houx "holly" is from Frankish *huls or some other Germanic source."
There is Wood: "wood (n.) Old English wudu, earlier widu "tree, trees collectively, forest, grove; the substance of which trees are made," from Proto-Germanic *widu- (source also of Old Norse viðr, Danish and Swedish ved "tree, wood," Old High German witu "wood"), from PIE *widhu- "tree, wood" (source also of Welsh gwydd "trees," Gaelic fiodh- "wood, timber," Old Irish fid "tree, wood"). Out of the woods "safe" is from 1792."
And then there is Wood: "wood (adj.) "violently insane" (now obsolete), from Old English wod "mad, frenzied," from Proto-Germanic *woda- (source also of Gothic woþs "possessed, mad," Old High German wuot "mad, madness," German wut "rage, fury"), from PIE *wet- (1) "to blow; inspire, spiritually arouse;" source of Latin vates "seer, poet," Old Irish faith "poet;" "with a common element of mental excitement" [Buck]. Compare Old English woþ "sound, melody, song," Old Norse oðr "poetry," and the god-name Odin."
Interesting as the name "Wood" is also referenced to Odin. Here is "Nemus": "Nemean (adj.) 1580s, "pertaining to Nemea," a wooded valley in the northern Argolis, from Greek nemos "grove, forest," from PIE *nemos (source also of Latin nemus "forest, (holy) wood" and the Celtic word for "(holy) wood, sanctuary" preserved in Gaulish nemeton, Old Irish nemed). Especially in reference to the lion there, which was said to have been killed by Herakles as one of his 12 labors. The Nemean Games were one of the four great national festivals of the ancient Greeks. The victor's garland was made of parsley."
"nemus n (genitive nemoris); third declension A grove or a glade. a pasture (poetic) wood (poetic) a tree".
This is where the "grove" worship comes in like the Oak tree (as this represents Osiris/Odin's "King of the Trees"), and the Holly Tree like "thepresenttree.com" states: "The Holly tree is one of the most beloved, respected trees in Celtic mythology and is the evergreen twin of the Oak. It is said, that whilst the Oak was the controller of the light half of the year, the Holly tree controlled the dark, winter months. Traditionally, the Holly tree is highly sacred in Celtic mythology and symbolises peace and goodwill. Due to its resistance to lightning, it is associated with the Celtic and Norse gods of thunder, Taranis and Thor, and so was planted near dwellings to protect people from lightning strikes."
In the Wiki states this: ".....Ilex in Latin means the holm-oak or evergreen oak (Quercus ilex). Despite the Linnaean classification of Ilex as holly, as late as the 19th century in Britain, the term Ilex was still being applied to the oak as well as the holly – possibly due to the superficial similarity of the leaves. The name "holly" in common speech refers to Ilex aquifolium, specifically stems with berries used in Christmas decoration. By extension, "holly" is also applied to the whole genus. The origin of the word "holly" is considered a reduced form of Old English hole(ġ)n, Middle English Holin, later Hollen."
"The French word for holly, houx, derives from the Old Low Franconian *hulis (Middle Dutch huls). Both are related to Old High German hulis, huls, as are Low German/Low Franconian terms like Hülse or hulst. These Germanic words appear to be related to words for holly in Celtic languages, such as Welsh celyn, Breton kelen(n) and Irish cuileann. Several Romance languages use the Latin word acrifolium, literally "sharp leaf" (turned into aquifolium in modern time), so Italian agrifoglio, Occitan grefuèlh, etc."
"Holly – more specifically the European holly, Ilex aquifolium – is commonly referenced at Christmas time, and is often referred to by the name Christ's thorn. In many Western Christian cultures, holly is a traditional Christmas decoration, used especially in wreaths and illustrations, for instance on Christmas cards. Since medieval times the plant has carried a Christian symbolism, as expressed in the traditional Christmas carol "The Holly and the Ivy", in which the holly represents Jesus and the ivy represents the Virgin Mary."
"Angie Mostellar discusses the Christian use of holly at Christmas, stating that: Christians have identified a wealth of symbolism in its form. The sharpness of the leaves help to recall the crown of thorns worn by Jesus; the red berries serve as a reminder of the drops of blood that were shed for salvation; and the shape of the leaves, which resemble flames, can serve to reveal God's burning love for His people. Combined with the fact that holly maintains its bright colors during the Christmas season, it naturally came to be associated with the Christian holiday."
"In heraldry, holly is used to symbolize truth. The Norwegian municipality of Stord has a yellow twig of holly in its Coat-of-arms. The Druids held that "leaves of holly offered protection against evil spirits" and thus "wore holly in their hair". In the Harry Potter novels, holly is used as the wood in Harry's wand. In some traditions of Wicca, the Holly King is one of the faces of the Sun God. He is born at midsummer and rules from Mabon to Ostara."
It's rather interesting how the connections of the supposed Paganistic religions, is still based on the cult of Dagon.
Godfrey Higgins knew who the "Druids" were, and how their worship of the Gods (as Baal Worship) was spread throughout the whole world. Abraham made a grove to honor the God he made a covenant to in Genesis 21:33 “And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.” And of course, you should know that the other God hates groves, because it's a symbol towards Baal and Ashtoreth, who is the modern day Jesus Christ and Mary, Tammuz and Semiramis, Shiva and Kali to Osiris and Isis.
So, now we know (or already know) the term "Hollywood", and how it's based on the Black God Esus (Jesus) and Diana of the Ephesians (Queen of Heaven). Based on the Video by "RISE" on "The Secret origin of Hollywood will shock you", shows him walking in the Hollywood hills of Rome, Italy. There he details the Nemus connection to Groves, and a lake called "Diana's mirror", to which the Emperors of Rome would initiate themselves as "Stars".
Then of course Hollywood is an Industry of not just Movies, Televisions and Music, but also Pornography. Los Angelos is teeming with smuts, sex etc. The term "XXX" can be esoterical for "666" the number of the beast/man (as "man" is the Mind to which connects to the Goddess "Minerva").
In the Etymology states this: "pornography (n.) 1842, "ancient obscene painting, especially in temples of Bacchus," from French pornographie, from Greek pornographos "(one) depicting prostitutes," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy) + pornē "prostitute," originally "bought, purchased" (with an original notion, probably of "female slave sold for prostitution"), related to pernanai "to sell" (from PIE *perə-, variant of root *per- (5) "to traffic in, to sell")."
"A brothel in ancient Greek was a porneion. In reference to modern works by 1859 (originally French novels), later as a charge against native literature; the sense of "obscene pictures" in modern times is from 1906. Also sometimes used late 19c. for "description of prostitutes" as a matter of public hygiene. Pornography, or obscene painting, which in the time of the Romans was practiced with the grossest license, prevailed especially at no particular period in Greece, but was apparently tolerated to a considerable extent at all times."
"Parrhasius, Aristides, Pausanias, Nicophanes, Chaerephanes, Arellius, and a few other [pornographoi] are mentioned as having made themselves notorious for this species of license. [Charles Anthon, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," New York, 1843] I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion, "Jacobellis v. Ohio," 1964] E. Bray in The Medical Archives [December 1872] proposed porniatria for "the lengthy and really meaningless expression 'social evil hospital' ...."
"In ancient contexts, often paired with rhypography, "genre painting of low, sordid, or unsuitable subjects." Pornocracy (1860) is "the dominating influence of harlots," used specifically of the control of the government of Rome and the election to the Papacy during the first half of the 10th century by the noble but profligate Theodora and her daughters. Pornotopia (1966) was coined to describe the ideal erotic-world of pornographic movies. "
Bacchus was known for "SEX", and is known as "Esus" who is Jesus. In the Chapter Genesis 28 details this:
"18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first."
"20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee."
Genesis 31:13 “I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.”
Genesis 35:14 “And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.”
Thus, the Phallic worship would have to be based from the Black God Bacchus/Dionysus, as one of the Gods that Abraham and Jacob made a covenant to.......
In the Wiki based on "Sexuality in Rome" states this: Hermaphroditism and androgyny: "In his chapter on anthropology and human physiology in the encyclopedic Natural History, Pliny notes that "there are even those who are born of both sexes, whom we call hermaphrodites, at one time androgyni" (andr-, "man", and gyn-, "woman", from the Greek). The Sicilian historian Diodorus (1st century BC) wrote that "there are some who declare that the coming into being of creatures of a kind such as these are marvels (terata), and being born rarely, they announce the future, sometimes for evil and sometimes for good".
"Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) described a hermaphrodite fancifully as those who "have the right breast of a man and the left of a woman, and after coitus in turn can both sire and bear children". In contemporary English, "hermaphrodite" is used in biology but has acquired pejorative connotations in referring to people born with physical characteristics of both sexes (see intersex); in antiquity, however, the figure of the so-called hermaphrodite was a primary focus of questions pertaining to gender identity."
"The hermaphrodite represented a "violation of social boundaries, especially those as fundamental to daily life as male and female". In traditional Roman religion, a hermaphroditic birth was a kind of prodigium, an occurrence that signalled a disturbance of the pax deorum, Rome's treaty with the gods, as Diodorus indicated. Livy records an incident during the Second Punic War when the discovery of a four-year-old hermaphrodite prompted an elaborate series of expiations: on the advice of the haruspices, the child was enclosed in a chest, carried out to sea, and allowed to drown. Other rituals followed. A hermaphrodite found in 133 BC was drowned in the local river; committing the hermaphroditic person to the element of water seems to have been the prescribed way to repair the perceived violation of the natural order."
"Pliny observed that while hermaphrodites were once considered portents (prodigia), in his day they had become objects of delight (deliciae); they were among the human curiosities of the sort that the wealthy might acquire at the "monsters' market" at Rome described by Plutarch. Under Roman law, a hermaphrodite had to be classed as either male or female; no third gender existed as a legal category. In the mythological tradition, Hermaphroditus was a beautiful youth who was the son of Hermes (Roman Mercury) and Aphrodite (Venus). Like many other divinities and heroes, he had been nursed by nymphs, but the evidence that he himself received cult devotion among the Greeks is sparse."
"Ovid wrote the most influential narrative of how Hermaphroditus became androgynous, emphasizing that although the handsome youth was on the cusp of sexual adulthood, he rejected love as Narcissus had, and likewise at the site of a reflective pool. There the water nymph Salmacis saw and desired him. He spurned her, and she pretended to withdraw until, thinking himself alone, he undressed to bathe in her waters. She then flung herself upon him, and prayed that they might never be parted. The gods granted this request, and thereafter the body of Hermaphroditus contained both male and female."
"As a result, men who drank from the waters of the spring Salmacis supposedly "grew soft with the vice of impudicitia", according to the lexicographer Festus. The myth of Hylas, the young companion of Hercules who was abducted by water nymphs, shares with Hermaphroditus and Narcissus the theme of the dangers that face the beautiful adolescent male as he transitions to adult masculinity, with varying outcomes for each. Depictions of Hermaphroditus were very popular among the Romans. The dramatic situation in paintings often elicits a "double take" on the part of the viewer, or expresses the theme of sexual frustration."
"Hermaphroditus is often in the company of a satyr, a figure of bestial sexuality known for subjecting an unsuspecting or often sleeping victim to non-consensual sex; the satyr in scenes with Hermaphroditus is usually shown to be surprised or repulsed, to humorous effect. In a few works, Hermaphroditus is strong enough to ward off his would-be attacker, but in others he shows his willingness to engage in sex, even if the satyr seems no longer inclined: Artistic representations of Hermaphroditus bring to the fore the ambiguities in sexual differences between women and men as well as the ambiguities in all sexual acts."
"... Hermaphroditus gives an eternally ambiguous answer to a man's curiosity about a woman's sexual experience—and vice versa. ... (A)rtists always treat Hermaphroditus in terms of the viewer finding out his/her actual sexual identity. ... Hermaphroditus stands for both the physical and, more important, the psychological impossibility of ever understanding the feelings of the beloved. Hermaphroditus is a highly sophisticated representation, invading the boundaries between the sexes that seem so clear in classical thought and representation."
"Macrobius describes a masculine form of "Venus" (Aphrodite) who received cult on Cyprus; she had a beard and male genitals, but wore women's clothing. The deity's worshippers cross-dressed, men wearing women's clothes, and women men's. The Latin poet Laevius wrote of worshipping "nurturing Venus" whether female or male (sive femina sive mas). The figure was sometimes called Aphroditos. In several surviving examples of Greek and Roman sculpture, she is found in the attitude anasyrmene, from the Greek verb anasyromai, "to pull up one's clothes". The love goddess lifts her garments to reveal her masculine attribute, male genitalia, a gesture that traditionally held apotropaic or magical power."
There is a difference between a person coming out as a homosexual (as their own business), and then there is the considered "ritual" being brought about to bring the "future is female" aspect, which is basically the worship of Aphrodite. I have met people that are homosexuals, but are modest, smart and sophisticated, which is different than the lewd aspects based on the ritualistic ceremony (Depending on the Individual).
For example, the Wachowski Sisters were originally brothers, and they were the ones who directed the Matrix movies, Jupiter Ascending and others. Among some statistics based on the Pornography Industry, the Transexual imagery is rampantly watched (even by straight men), but that is what "sex magic" is based on. Witchcraft or "energy manipulation", can be used to change the person's energy and mind to think in a certain manner, and to act in a certain way. The seed or semen that in the Male and Female body becomes fueled like electricity, and thus when it's released, the "energy" is released towards that person or image. This is what changes the person's thinking and countenance, as the energy is now changed around you. Sex is not bad as it's natural, it's just the considered ritual being done, to which the energy (based from the semen) is released as a form of worship. This is why orgies were based on the worship towards Bacchus. Hence, going back to "Eyes wide shut"....
Then in the usage of Astral Projection, Mind control, or any form of Sex magic, are just some of the ways people would use against another person's will. This is why the real God hates Witchcraft, as it destroys the person's mind and spirit. A person would think this energy is their own desire but is really from someone else's (hence the person's familiar spirit).
But as the use of groves comes into play, this is where the "Bohemian Grove" is based on. I already the huge Owl statue (dubbed Moloch) is based on the familiar of the Goddess Athena (Aphrodite). The Owl would represent "wisdom" and insight as some source's states:
"Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, United States, belonging to a private San Francisco–based gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world. The Bohemian Club's all-male membership includes artists and musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders, government officials, former U.S. presidents, senior media executives, and people of power."
"Members may invite guests to the Grove. Guests may be invited to the Grove for either the "Spring Jinks" in June or the main July encampment. Bohemian Club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is not being used for Club-wide purposes, and they are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family, and friends, although female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 pm."
"After 40 years of membership, the men earn "Old Guard" status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove's daily talks, as well as other perquisites. Former U.S. president Herbert Hoover was inducted into the Old Guard on March 19, 1953; he had joined the club exactly 40 years previously. Redwood branches from the Grove were flown to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where they were used to decorate a banquet room for the celebration. In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor of the "Old Guard" status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to later presidents."
"The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here," which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, although discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members. Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove."
"The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting included Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the S-1 Executive Committee heads, such as the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, along with representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric as well as various military officials."
"At the time, Oppenheimer was not an S-1 member, although Lawrence and Oppenheimer hosted the meeting. Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees. Other behavior at the campground has led to numerous claims and even some parody in popular culture. One example was former president Richard Nixon's comments from a May 13, 1971 recording that: "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time—it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine."
So, if Ronald Reagan had stated of these people, as being the most "faggy" people that attended to these events, then I'm seeing these practices to be done among the white Americans. Now, in that time period there were no Black people attending these events, and yet, this Black Goddess was worshiped by apparent white racist people?
In the Article on "Truth about 'Jewish' Hollywood", details that the Jews were confiscated and demoted from their productions, due to rumors of them supporting Communism (based on the Bolshevik Revolution). If that is the case, then Hollywood isn't fully run by Jews that had dominated the industry, but also by Americans (or generally the white American people). Though I can't state that a Jew can't be racist (as this is based on the individual of all races and nations), but of course Hollywood has a tendency to implicate racist stereotypes in Movies, or tend to put the white characters as the foremost leader.
Though there is too much information based on those situations, the current "Cancel Culture" is shown to attack the white (and others) people in the Political world for expressing their opinion. The media is shown gathering attacks against the white Americans, and mostly the considered "straight white males" as an agenda to call them "Nazis" or Homophobes. There are even some white people calling other white people "straight white males" which clearly is mind control and gatherings for an agenda. Clearly this is intended by Government.
But from what the late Malcolm X had stated about the white conservatives, and the white liberals (as the ideologies based on race and class), he is correct as one group are like wolves, and the other are like foxes (Just one is very straight forward and the other is sly). I know that every white person is not like this, but there are those that will have people side with them in the political sense to complete an agenda. Interesting enough, not all Europeans were considered "white" in America until the 50s and 60s. stemming from the Irish, Italians, Polish, Swedish etc.
Then for black people to say that they can't be racist is nonsense. There are lots of black people who are racist against the Spanish, white, Asian etc. There are American Blacks that don't even like African people and vice versa, but as you can see it's the different ideologies and mentalities that makes everyone different.
Then there are the groups like "Antifa", "Black Lives Matter", and the "LGBTQ" which has become mere "Communist fronts", set up by certain people (like George Soros of course) to which have nothing to do with the actual political protesters who really want change. This is something that even the Media as always been used to cover up and deny and also call "Conspiracy Theories" as a considered dangerous ideology, but is used to wipe out the actual truth of what really occurred (As "Operation Mockingbird" states). The Vaccination process fully fledged by Bill Gates (who is not a "Doctor" and is a funded puppet) and Fauci are just some of things that people should start to think for themselves of what's really going on. But as you know, people should know how much power the Jesuits have over America at this point and are behind this Communistic takeover. Jordan Maxwell said it best that the Vatican and the Jesuits are behind such things.
I have also seen the white Jews use the "white card" to value something, and yet, when there is racism towards the Jews, it's considered "antisemite". The term "Semite" is based on the people who are from the clan of Shem (that means Arabs and Middle Easterners in general) However, the person called Noah and his family weren't the only survivors of Atlantis, thus those sons like Shem, Ham and Japheth, did not "repopulate" the world again. The flood was only a portion of land that is deemed "Atlantis", but it did not affect the whole world as stated by Preachers (as the Bible been changed many times). So of course, history has been changed and thus has fooled everyone to this day of who the people are and where these religions and Gods came from.
Then when learning about the people in the Republican and Democratic parties, and how they are a part of the agenda (along with the Media) to call white people "Nazis", are not telling the truth behind who the real Nazis are. We are told that the nomenclature of the term "Nazi" is "National Socialist German Workers' Party" for which is supposed to be a Socialist group, thus leading to the Fascist left and yes, the right wing as well. The term "Socialism" is apparent within any political group and religion.
The white people are not "Nazis", even if there are certain groups like the "skin heads", "Neo Nazis", "Aryan Brotherhood" or the "KKK" existing with their ideologies but are not the real Nazis. Those groups applied the race ideology but doesn't mean they'll hate another race, just against race mixing or mongrelization sort of speak. However, based on race mixing, it is shown that God didn't want his people to intermingle with certain nations, and they did.... Now, the KKK had existed way before the Nazis came into the picture and is based on one's race either being supreme over the other and from race mixing. However, when you read J.A. Roger's books, it's shown that race mixing has been going on in the Ancient Roman times and elsewhere and is why this cult of Dagon has spread everywhere.
Now, I detail how the "Nazis" and their symbolism consisted of the people in Germany, Italy, and Japan (and even Muslims, Mongolians and Africans, to which they wiped that out of the Internet), and based on Hollywood making many movies and shows (and Video games) based on World War 2, the Holocaust, and killing Adolf Hitler, is only a means of propaganda of hiding the truth of what occurred. If people really want to cancel the Nazis, then go after NASA....
The Zionist organization are basically a criminal gang and stating the land of Palestine to be the real "Jewish" homeland, is a lie. There are Jews that spoke the truth about what really occurred in the supposed Holocaust, and they even got banned from telling the truth. They knew that there were films being conducted there, they played soccer with the Germans, had an Orchestra band in those "supposed" concentration death camps, and these were stated by the Jews that were in those camps. It was the Jews who created the "SS" (Schutzstaffel) as one Jew states (and also supported Hitler as well). The Zionist organization is part of the practical control of America, however, the Vatican controls Israel and America overall...
As for Adolf Hitler's infamous book "Mein Kampf", it's made up and he never wrote this book for he knew that the Israelites in the Bible are the Japanese, the Persians, the Tibetans etc. This is the reason why the Nazis had expeditions towards Tibet and other places and I even heard that the German women would go to some of those countries to be impregnated and have a baby that is of Aryan descent. Now, knowing Hollywood's apparent racism, they know who the real Aryans are, even with the irony of the Japanese people being put into "concentration camps" in America.
I have seen Corey Gil Shuster's "The Ask Project", which details different questions based on viewers to the Israelis and Palestinians. There are no holds bar for these questions as it can be quite controversial, but some of things I have observed is that the people think those lands are in the Bible, and yet don't know that the locations in the Bible has been changed to hide the real locations. Again, the real lands of the so called "Israel" or "Canaan" are merely the lands of Central Asia to China and not Palestine.
However, I can't state that all of those people who are called "Jews" to have any connection to the real Aryans, considering the Propaganda used to hide who the real Aryans are. Many of the Jews are said to be European descent and have no connection to the Middle East at all. Then there are the considered "evil figs" compared to the good figs that was cast out into the different parts of the world. But based on the people abusing the term "antisemite" to further the Zionist agenda, also shows "why" some of these Aryans were cast out of the land. They are worshipers of Saturn who is Dagon the God of this world, as Amos 5:25 and 26 states how they went after Moloch the God of the six-pointed star.
Now, with all of this said, let's see the notorious group called the "Ku Klux Klan".....
Now, I have heard that the letter K is considered the "11th" number in the Alphabet, and results to "33" (KKK is 11+11+11=33), but you do notice that the KKK members would ordain themselves with Crosses? And the irony is that the symbol of the "Cross" really belongs to the symbol relating to the Black God Dagon.
So, with the state of ignorance out of the way, why would the KKK, (a group that is racist against another) have the Cross and Christianity ideologies as a part of their attire? It becomes clear that no matter how racist a person is, or what kind of symbol that person attains to, these symbols go back to the Black Gods of Rome. Then seeing the "Christian Nationalist" and the "Christian Zionist" ideologies tends to view the considered "Judeo-Christian" values, when these religions are based on the worship of the cult of Dagon.
The Patriotic movements tend to put forward the flag and America first, along with Jesus and the Christian values, and yet, the real God has nothing to do with the current Christian Judaic ideologies and politics as it's one of the heads of the beast. Again, people still don't know that they have been worshiping Dagon while having the image of the cross and symbol, but just like what Jordan Maxwell said "Knowledge is power"....
Below, you can see images of the members of the Catholic Church, also wearing a similar attire with the Cross etched on themselves. All are under the cult of Dagon......
