Astro-Maths: The core of all religions

            If we hypothesise that the 3 Abrahamic religions of today are just an evolution/adaptation of original ideas created from star gazing; ideas nurtured when man first formed civilisations in Sumer -modern day Iraq- followed closely by Egypt, Turkey and Greece, how would we set about finding evidence to support this hypothesis?

Moreover, if the hypothesis could be supported it would demonstrate that there is absolutely no substance at all behind Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  Please understand the significance of this assertion; if there is no substance in any of these scriptures, we would have spent the past 2000 plus years worshipping folly.  Moreover, the special status offered to these faiths today, politicall and financial, would be completely unwarranted and untenable.

            To assist in imparting the basis behind this theory and to illuminate how major theological ideas become entrenched into the psyche of society, consider the following two words and their meaning as given in the Penguin Concise English Dictionary;

            Gene: A unit of inheritance that is carried on a chromosome, controls transmission of hereditary characteristics and contains DNA or, in some viruses RNA.

            Meme: A behavioural or cultural trait that is passed on by other than genetic means. e.g. by imitation.

            So in short, religious theology is not a tangible thing, it is merely a highly efficient thought virus which is passed from parent to child and teacher to student.

To support the hypothesis above we can try to image the forming and evolution of such thoughts when man first starts to ponder; we could set ourselves the task of recreating such first thoughts on the heavens and then cross reference the ideas we surmise with the three Abrahamic faiths to see if any of the ideas are present in the current day versions.  We can also look at religious literature and art in existence today which is reliably date stamped, along with the absence, in some cases, of such literature and art to follow links and establish time frames of evolving ideas.  Finally, we can recall recorded history and make a decision on whether or not we feel the dominance of the three Abrahamic faiths of today is due to the presence of any real substance in their message or simply the chance outcome of past battles.

I believe I can supply the meat behind the above statements and leave any open minded reader with a view that the three Abrahamic faiths are based on stories plagiarised from earlier times which were themselves created from star gazing.  I am confident I can demonstrate by collating and presenting material recently discovered and published by a host of scholars, that Jesus Christ is a fictitious character plagiarised from earlier allegorical stories which simply depict astrological events, particularly the resurrection and the virgin birth.

After reading the assertions that follow, I invite the reader to research the Ancient Sumerian and Akkadian stories of King Gilgamesh; particularly the stories of the flood caused by Enlil, and of Mami creating men from clay on the 7^th day of each month.  These stories will reveal that the Torah, “Old Testament” is full of plagiarism.  Also please research the mythical characters of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, an Egyptian trinity consisting of the Father, Virgin Mother and Saviour Son.  Horus is not only the saviour son, he is also Osiris reborn (resurrected) and he fought an eternal fight with Set who embodied evil, giving a parallel with Jesus and Satan.  Please also research Mithra, Dionysus, Attis and Bacchus.  I will warn deeply devout Christians at this stage that you will need to research these mythical characters with an open mind.  You will uncover information that directly challenges the existence of a literal Christ and provides damming evidence that the concept of Jesus is a perennially regurgitated myth.  Please also research the I-kher-nefert Stele which has chiselled into it the passion play of Osiris and depicts his death and resurrection after 3 days, you will discover that he was born at the winter solstice, around Dec 25th, and his resurrection was in the autumn but was re-enacted every spring equinox, which equates to Easter.

For an appreciation of the astrology discussed in the assertions, if you are not already familiar with the concept, please read up on “the precession of the equinox” to gain an understanding of what an Astrological Age is and how it links visually with the horizon, 90⁰ East and 270⁰ West just before daylight on the spring equinox.

            Before embarking on the issues explored on this page I wish to paint a picture that needs to be in everyone’s mind while reading the page, a picture that will expand and enhance the main hypothesis.  You can agree or disagree with the picture about to be painted, that is largely up to each individual reader, but it is important that the page is read with an appreciation of the concept being put forward.

To tackle the issue of recreating mans first thoughts on the heavens I will condense the hypothetical events of a great many years in to a few years; while placing 3 constraints on the experiment.

1. I will assume that Man is realising these things for the first time.
2. They are the most obvious things that can be observed with the naked eye and in themselves worth wondering about.
3. Man tries to understand and communicate them by creating stories around them.

            Imagine beginning to wonder about existence for the first time and looking up into the sky during the day.  That large bright disk in the sky that gives light and heat, is it this that rules the heavens?  It is clearly the most prominent object in the sky and it has a life supporting role of supplying warmth and light.  Imagine deciding that this is God, the giver and supporter of life.  Then you ponder why, at night, this God disappears to be replaced by another bright prominent disk, the one we call the moon.  This disk is so prominent in the night sky, that perhaps there is a link.  Perhaps this is God’s right hand man, Gods companion, or maybe even the Son of God.  But in any event, it is certainly very important given its size and brightness.

As I began to study the large bright disk moving across the sky each day warming up the surface of the earth; I wonder why it appears at different locations on the horizon each morning and is present for different lengths of time each day.  I am so intrigued that I conduct an experiment to map and investigate these changes.

            I drive a large stake into the ground to act as an alignment post. Ten paces from this post, in a line with the post and where the bright disk appears on the horizon in the morning I place a smaller stake.

            A few mornings later I repeat the process and drive in another smaller stake. Before long I have a sizable arc of small stakes and I notice a pattern; I notice a link with the suns position in the arc and the length of the day.  After many days, in fact many years, I noticed that the starting position on the horizon moves continually from left to right and back again; but always stops and changes direction at the same two extremities.

            I also notice that when the disk rises exactly in the middle of these two extremities, the days and nights are equal in length.  (Today we now know this to be the Spring and Autumn Equinox and it is, by default, exactly due East, 90⁰).

            As I ponder further, I notice other patterns.  When the disk rises at the left extremity the day is the longest day, the night is the shortest night and the weather is fine.  When the disk rises at the right extremity the day is the shortest day, the night is the longest night and the weather is cold.  More interest is found by noticing that when when the disk passes through the mid point travelling toward the right extremity the leaves turn brown and fall, all plant life fails and the world seems to die.  However, when the disk passes through the mid point travelling toward the left extremity, the crops and flowers begin to grow and bloom and the calves and lambs appear; the world seems to come back to life.

            Although I am not aware of what it is my experiment has done, in today’s terms I have just discovered the winter and summer solstice, the spring and autumn equinox, identified the seasons, located East and created a calendar.  But to me it is just watching, recording movement and pondering.

            My thoughts turn to how long this process takes, I notice that the morning Sunrise seems to hang at each extremity as it moves into the point, stops and moves back out; and that this event takes about 2 ½ days at both ends of the arc, 5 days in total. This leaves a time span of movement across the arc and back of 360 days. As a man first pondering this phenomenon, I nurture the view that the number 360 is very significant; I have no idea that I have just made an estimate for the length of a year.

            My thoughts now turn to the bright disk which appears at night.  This holds many more mysteries in its behaviour, sometimes it is a full disk, sometimes half and sometimes it disappears completely. What can be determined is that it appears as a full disk 12 times per full sun cycle of 360 days.  As a man first pondering the influence of the heavens on existence I now view the Sun and Moon as very significant, along with the numbers 360 and 12.

The only logical astrological elements left to ponder are the stars. So many in number and seeming to be grouped in individual shapes, but all moving in unison across the sky each night in the same direction and at the same speed.  However, after many nights of observation a quirk in the patterns appears.  Five of the stars appear to have moved each night with regard to their position relative to all the other stars.  Although they still move across the sky each night with all the others stars and at the same speed, they appear to move position each night and some times disappear from view altogether. Moreover, these five stars can often still be seen at first light when all the other stars have faded out of view.  I refer them as the five wandering stars to distinguish them from the multitude of ordinary fixed stars (the Greek word for wanderer is Planet, these wandering stars are the 5 visible planets Mercury, Venus, Mars Saturn and Jupiter).

I think of these 5 wandering stars, along with the Sun and the Moon, as heavenly bodies that all have influence on life; this gives me 7 heavenly bodies.  I also extend the list of special numbers to 360, 12 and 7 (it is no coincidence that today we have 360 degrees in a circle, 12 months in a year and 7 days in week; also some of the earliest calendars only recorded a 360 day year).

            Here then, are the core ingredients for all future religious theology and mythology.  They are all in one place, in the minds of one group, at one particular time in history.  This place and time is the area of the world’s first civilisation, Sumer in Mesopotamia pre 3500 BCE.

            With my fellow Sumerians I take these core religious ingredients and make up stories for them, creating characters to represent the objects and the elements as Gods.  We also create characters for most of the natural things we do not quite understand which results in a plethora of demi-gods. We give form and names to the groups of stars in the sky and relate these images to the demi-gods we have created.  The stories we create are parables and allegories; they all contain constant references to the magical numbers, particularly 7 and 12, representing the 7 heavenly bodies and the 12 Moon phases per year.  3 and 4 also feature heavily in the stories either as themselves or as multiples of themselves; 3 being the two extremities and the mid point in the experiment with the steaks (Winter solstice, summer solstice and mid point marker for the 2 equinox) and 4 being both the 4 seasons and the 4 elements of earth, wind, fire and water.

            With civilisation forming in Sumer, people begin to move and new civilisations spring up; but, our core religious ingredients move with them.  Over centuries, civilisations start to appear in Egypt followed by Greece and Turkey.  These civilisations also create their own parables and allegories using the core religious ingredients as the start point; their stories are also laden with reference to the magical numbers, again with lashings of 7 and 12.  Because these stories evolve in isolation to each other in each civilisation, we see today a host of different ancient beliefs which all have the core elements at their heart.

            Skipping forward in history; people move, trade is born and wars take place; slaves are taken and whole communities are upended and displaced/relocated.  This causes the stories to merge, morph and evolve into many overlapping, recurring and divergent mythological beliefs. The end result is; we now have different versions of the same stories appearing in different regions on the planet.  But these stories still all contain constant references to the numbers 7 and 12.

            The constant use of the number 7 in the stories of King Gilgamesh and the flood pre date the Torah by some 1000 years.  In the Torah we find that God made the world in 6 days and on the 7th he did rest; Joshua conquered Canaan in 7 years with 12 tribes and there were 30 battles (and 12 * 30 is 360); add another 600 years and the New Testament tells us someone called Jesus is splitting up 5 loaves (wandering stars) and two fishes (Sun & Moon) to feed 4,000 men (multiple of 4, the 4 elements or the 4 seasons) and when the feast is over there are 12 bowls of scraps (12 full moons).  This man then repeats the feat to feed 5000 men and this time there are 7 bowls of scraps.  I believe he had 12 disciples and the Jews had 12 tribes and there are 7 hills of ancient Rome, etc, etc, etc. Is this all coincidence?  Not likely; its just pure fantasy fiction written around Astro-Maths.  The numbers 7 and 12 appear with monotonous regularity in Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythology, Greek and Roman Pagan beliefs, the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran, along with other Islamic literature.

            During these early stages of upheaval, the concept of the God child makes its first appearance in Egypt as Osiris and the theme is an instant hit.  Each civilisation likes the “new must have religious fashion fad” so much, that over time they all create their own mystery God Child and Osiris becomes: Horus, Dionysus, Bacchus, Attis, Mithra etc, etc and eventually Jesus.  The most common base concept is a man born to a God and a virgin; this man dies and comes back to life 3 days later.  God Childs appear all over the Mediterranean and the Middle East, all with different names and slightly different takes on the same basic story.  They are woven into a new religious concept of “The Mysteries” and Gnostic faith is born.  These Pagan mystery cults had inner and outer mysteries, the inner mysteries were revealed to a person via initiations; they became very popular.

            Plato records in his book “The Republic” that these initiations were conducted by priests ordained by the Gods themselves and the process of initiation was used to give divine absolution for all sins committed in life by the initiate.  This ensured the Gods would allow the soul access to the heavens and thereby avoid the agony of eternity with the Gods of the underworld.   Notice the plurals of gods and heavens.  Also notice the identical concept to Judaism, Christianity and Islam of being given divine forgiveness of sins and only being admitted to heaven on that basis, the alternative being eternity in the underworld (Hell).  Plato was from Greece and not in any way Jewish, he died in 347 BCE long before the New Testament ideas on God, sin and entrance to heaven.  This is a clear and specific example of plagiarism on the part of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

            Everyone wanted to be initiated; everyone wanted to find the enlightenment that came hand in hand with full initiation.  The outer mysteries were revealed to the population by way of a play.  These were called passion plays and they enacted the death and resurrection scenes of the allegorical God Child.

            Looking through the Old Testament, New Testament and the Sumerian epics of Gilgamesh etc, the use of the numbers 7 and 12 are far too many to list, or to ignore.  Also, a search of the Pagan Mysteries reveals many resurrecting God Childs, all of which predate the New Testament version of Jesus by centuries; in the case of Osiris, circa 2400 BCE, millennia.

            And so; now to the crunch point of this long introduction:  Jesus is a perennial myth figure who appears time and time again throughout history all over Asia and Europe.  He was, at his conception, a Gnostic figure, a dying and resurrecting God Child born of a God and a Virgin.  He dies and comes back to life 3 days later.  His parables and allegories are also laden with the core ingredients from Astro-Maths and the numbers 7 and 12 occur constantly in his stories and deeds.

            Now, let us delve much deeper into these mystery resurrecting God Childs with many different names in so many stories and relate their common elements back to the Sumerian concepts of Astro-Maths.  In nearly all cases he is born on the Winter solstice and dies and is reborn at the spring equinox, coming back to life after 3 days.  This is reasonable; he is the salvation allegory for our life.  He is therefore born when the year starts at the winter solstice, about the 25th Dec, which is the right hand stake in the experiment (the precise dates of the solstice and the equinox have shifted by a few days over the last 2000 years due to the fact that the earth slowly wobbles as it spins and many different calendars have been used to record the passage of time).

            He is killed and comes back to life at the spring equinox around March 25th; just when the planet seems to be reborn with flowers appearing and calves and lambs being born: This is the mid point stake in the experiment, due east (So I wonder why we call it Easter? The word Easter has no religious connotation; it is a name for the pagan festivals that celebrated the spring equinox. The Scandinavians called it Oster; and they were probably as Pagan as you can get).

            The allegory is that: the figure is our salvation. Just as the planet dies and is reborn so is he.  Just as we shall die, like him we will be reborn.

            With regard to the Sun, he looks after us during the day, he is God; but God always watches over us, so at night his son, the Moon, takes over.  The Moon, “Sun of God”, appears at night and looks after us until day break.  So given that the stories in the theological books all make constant use of the numbers 7 and 12, for the 7 visible planets and 12 Moon phases each year, why do all the dying and resurrecting God Childs come back to life after 2 nights (3 days) “the day after the ‘morrow”? Where in Astro-maths does the 2 come from?

Look at the Moon and think outside the box! 

            There are 12 full moons each full Sun cycle from Left to Right and back again; but there are also 12 dark moons.  Each month, without fail, for about 2 nights the Moon literally and visibly dies and then comes back to life 3 nights later.  The Moon is the symbolic mystery god child that dies and comes back to life after 3 days.

You might say, “We have just found Jesus”, the son of God. 

            Also, how about the concept of being born to a virgin, this is common to many of the God Child myths. 

            An astrological age is roughly 2150 years.  This is the time it takes the Vernal equinox (Latin for spring) to travel through one of the zodiac signs.  Since it takes about 2150 years, moving into a new star sign is a big event, the dawning of a new age.  The current age, Pisces, began about 100 BCE to 10 BCE when the vernal equinox moved into Pisces, the sign of the fish.  Visually, this means that Pisces is rising on the horizon exactly due East just before daybreak on the vernal equinox, the mid point stake in the experiment.  The Sun also rises exactly due east on this day and therefore rises into Pisces, hence the ‘Age of Pisces’.

            At the same time, Virgo (the virgin) is setting on the horizon due West, exactly in line with the stakes viewed in the opposite direction.  Is this a coincidence? No, it is where the idea for the story of a God born of a Virgin comes from.  So, all the new resurrecting God Child characters, created after 100 BCE, not only died and came back to life after 3 days at the spring equinox, they were also born of a virgin; the emerging idea of a virgin birth could then easily have been overlaid onto previous God child myths by the Greeks and Egyptians of the day.  One of these emerging God child myths I believe is called “a fisher of men” and his first 2 of 12 disciples were 2 fisherman, or fish (Vernal equinox, eastern horizon Pisces) and his mother was a virgin (Vernal equinox, western horizon Virgo)? Go figure!  This visual astrological event can still be viewed today just before daybreak on the spring equinox and will continue until we move into the ‘Age of Aquarius’ sometime around 2100 CE.

 

            Now, let’s go back to the roots of religion in Sumer pre 3500 BCE.   Ancient man looks up and sees this dark Moon event each month, he looks at the land and sees it die and come back to life each year. This heavenly body is speaking to ancient man; he is sending him an allegorical message that needs interpreting.

            “As the planet is reborn each year, just like me, when you die you will be reborn”.

            Man no longer fears death; he has conveniently convinced himself that his soul will live on even after his body dies.  It is written in the heavens, in an allegorical message.

            The Sumerians from the Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia actually were the first civilisation on the planet and archaeology has revealed one of their most venerated gods was the Moon; it had three names: Nanna, Sin and Asimbabbar, the three names they gave the Moon as: Full, Crescent and New. This God had large step pyramid temples built for it, called Ziggurats.  The best example of a Ziggurat temple can be found in Ur, modern day Iraq.  Scholars of the Old Testament will recognise Ur as the place of origin for Abraham Genesis 11:27.           

            Now the Christian apologists will say “where is the proof that Jesus is a regurgitation of previous mythical characters?”  Well the proof is literally written in stone; the I-kher-nefert stele, which is currently housed in a German museum, has chiselled into it, “The Passion play of Osiris”.  The passion play lasts for several days in which Osiris is laid to rest in his tomb, then he is mourned, and after three days he comes back to life.  The play was enacted to people each spring equinox, modern day Easter.  This stone stele comes from Egypt and its origin is around 1900 BCE.  Now with regard to the resurrection scene of Jesus, you can not get much closer to “breach of copy right” than that; but to be fair, and put over all of the arguments, the Church still maintains the position that: “the devil went back in time and placed the story there to try and discredit the existence of Jesus in the future” (Justin Martyr & Tertullian). 

            To expand the above further, I wish to include two concepts currently being circulated on the internet of unknown authorship which put forward two other ideas that demonstrate the same hypothesis of Astro-maths; that is: the theological ideas of a God Child are purely conceived from simple astrological observation.           

            A: “The 3 Kings follow the Star of the East which points to where the Sun is born on the 25th December”.

            B: “The Sun dies on the cross and after 3 days the Sun rises again”.

            To explain (A): The work of Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval has made us aware of the relationship between the three bright stars of Orion’s belt and the three pyramids at Giza. These three stars were the model for the layout of the three pyramids and confirms that the three stars of Orin's belt were highly venerated by the ancient Egyptians. These three stars could be imagined as “The three Kings”  (Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure).  We know the pyramids mimic the three stars because the third pyramid is slightly smaller in size and slightly offset, as is the third star of Orion’s belt.  Also, the alignment of the three pyramids with respect to the Nile imitates the alignment of the three stars of Orion’s belt with respect to the Milky Way. In building these three particular pyramids the Egyptians were literally creating their heaven on earth. 

            The brightest star in the sky bar the Sun is called Sirius, and was also venerated by the Egyptians because they used its reappearance after 70 days absence (its heliacal rising) to mark the start of the Nile floods.  For the Egyptians it was literally “The Star in the East”.

            On the winter solstice, the sunrise has moved as far south along the horizon as it is ever going to get (the right hand stake in the experiment).  After the solstice, the sunrise starts to move back to the north. This marks the start of the return to longer warmer days and a move towards spring.  The Ancient Egyptians did celebrate this astrological event;  it was for them “the birth of the Sun”.

            The three stars of Orion’s belt line up and point in the general direction of Sirius.  Every night, the 3 stars of Orion’s belt break the eastern sky line about one hour before Sirius.  Once Sirius is in view all four then (generally) line up, and at the moment that Sirius rises, they align with a particular point on the eastern horizon.  This particular point also happens to be where the Sun rises on the Winter solstice, give or take a few degrees; this is December 21^st today, but in antiquity, when the allegorical stories were created, it was December 25^th.  The commonality regardless of time line is that the point on the horizon identified by the alignment of the 4 stars is always the sunrise point on the Winter Solstice; the farthest south the sunrise ever gets; the day the Egyptians celebrated the “birth of the Sun”.

So: “The three Kings follow the Eastern Star which leads them to where the SUN is born”; ( on the 25^th December), FACT!  

            The nativity therefore, was not a factual event; it is a fictional allegorical interpretation of the movement of some specific, highly venerated, stars and the sun. The allegorical interpretation was turned into a (supposed) factual interpretation circa post 70 CE by the Monks of the Roman Empire.

            To explain (B): The star constellation “Crux”, (Latin “Cross”) was also known as the Southern Cross because its stem points to celestial south in the same way the Great bear points towards celestial north.  It was therefore also highly venerated due to its usefulness in navigation.  Its historic veneration is demonstrated by the fact that the constellation has been used in the design of many national flags.  It is too far south today for us to see in Northern Europe.  However, from the Middle East it can be seen each night very low on the southern horizon and post 400 CE it was much higher.  It is extremely bright and forms a perfect cross.  That is: A perfect Roman Catholic style cross.  It is not: almost a cross, or any old cross, but a perfect Roman Catholic depiction of a cross.

            When we arrive at the Winter solstice, the sunrise and sunset have both moved as far south as they are going to get and the sun’s arc across the day time sky is the lowest it is ever going to be.  After the Winter Solstice the sunrise and sunset start to move north again and the sun’s arc across the day time sky starts to rise again, i.e. the sun gets higher in the sky at midday.  During the winter solstice (the sun's lowest midday point) , in the area of the Middle East pre 400 CE, the arc the sun takes across the daytime sky is in the same area as the arc the constellation Crux takes across the night sky.

 

 

So: “The SUN dies on the cross and then the SUN rises again”;  FACT!

 

            If this happens at the winter solstice why is the resurrection celebrated at the spring equinox?  The answer to this conundrum is quite simple; the first 3 day resurrection idea originally came from the 12 instances per year of the 2 night “dark moon” analogy and the apparent rebirth of the planet around the spring equinox.  The spring equinox is also the time when the light symbolically finally defeats the dark, i.e. a return to the days being longer than the nights.  The Crux constellation analogy is realised centuries later; long after the birth of the Sun had been associated with the winter solstice and the 3 day resurrection with the spring equinox, dates that had by then been celebrated for centuries.  This can be verified by the fact that: all the God child’s existing before the Jesus character simple died and resurrected 3 days later, whereas the Jesus version died on the cross and resurrected 3 days later.

            It has to be plainly clear that ‘A’ and ‘B’ above have not been “recently discovered” purely to fit the scenario of theology and discredit it; they have been rediscovered as the ancient start point of an idea that evolved over centuries in to its current forms, with the origin of the stories being completely forgotten over time.  Remember, everything evolves from simple beginnings, even great mythical stories.  It hardly needs stating that the motion of these stars pre date the Earth, never mind the stories, but what has become clear from archaeology is that these particular stars were highly venerated by civilisations in the Middle East centuries before the concept of Jesus; that is, they are not just any old stars selected at random and used to try and discredit theology, they are the most venerated stars from Egyptian and Roman antiquity, and they just happen the explain theology. They happen to explain theology extremely well! Every allegorical God child from 1900 BCE onwards from the area of the Middle East: Osiris & Horus, Attis, Dionysus, Mithra etc etc, was born on the winter solstice (circa 25th December) and died and resurrected 3 days latter at the spring equinox, including the latest allegorical solar God child, Jesus.  This, as previously stated, is written in stone on the I-kher-nefert stele with the passion play of Osiris circa 1900 BCE.

            So in short, Jesus simply did not exist, there was no virgin birth, or miracle studded missionary and no crucifixion or resurrection.  He is an astrological invention, his stories are all allegorical and pure regurgitated mythical fantasy.

            The ideas presented in Astro-Maths above, as the beginnings of religious thought, hopefully portrays a strong possibility to the secular and religious people of today, that the core concepts of the three main faiths are all based on nothing more than star gazing and story creation.  A concept that has evolved down different lines and has been successfully passed on throughout history as a meme: “a thought virus”.