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Originally posted by muzzleflash
Over the last few weeks I have been researching a ton of things, but one particular issue was brought up to me that I found rather mysterious and compelling. My wife asked me "Who or what is Columbia (originally)?"
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Over the last few weeks I have been researching a ton of things, but one particular issue was brought up to me that I found rather mysterious and compelling. My wife asked me "Who or what is Columbia (originally)?"
This is a great question as it goes back to the founders once again trying to emulate Roman and Greek society by using the personification of an abstract ideal. One of the names being argued for our fledgling country was Columbia and the imagery used to depict her was than modified to become America as seen, among other places, the Capitol Rotunda. To the Founders, Columbia and America were interchangeable personas and concepts.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Thank you very much for this little tidbit, you really blew my mind this morning! I didn't expect to find this gem awaiting me. I feel like you opened a new door for me to explore.
According to one legend,[11] the war deity and patron of the Mexica Huitzilopochtli possessed Mexitl or Mexi as a secret name. Mexico would then mean "Place of Mexi" or "Land of the War God."
Another hypothesis[12] suggests that Mēxihco derives from a portmanteau of the Nahuatl words for "moon" (mētztli) and navel (xīctli). This meaning ("Place at the Center of the Moon") might then refer to Tenochtitlan's position in the middle of Lake Texcoco. The system of interconnected lakes, of which Texcoco formed the center, had the form of a rabbit, which the Mesoamericans pareidolically associated with the moon.
Still another hypothesis[12] offers that it is derived from Mectli, the goddess of maguey.
The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies (see semelparity); they are commonly known as the century plant.
These last two suggestions are depreciated by linguist Frances Karttunen,[13] since the final form "Mēxihco" differs in vowel length from both proposed elements. Nahua toponymy is full of mysticism, however, as it was pointed out by the Spanish missionary Bernardino de Sahagún. In his mystic interpretation, Mexico could mean "Center of the World," and, in fact, it was represented as such in various codices, as a place where all water currents that cross the Anahuac ("world" or "land surrounded by seas") converge (see image on the Mendoza codex). It is thus possible that the other meanings (or even the "secret name" Mexi) were then popular pseudoetymologies.
Columbia, also known as Nuna and Hudsonland, was one of Earth's oldest supercontinents.
The Snowball Earth hypothesis posits that the Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, some time earlier than 650 Ma (million years ago).
She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate north-west Semitic goddess Astarte.
Originally the deified evening star,
Besides the lions on her gate, her symbol is an eight pointed star.
In the Babylonian pantheon, she "was the divine personification of the planet Venus".
Zu, also known as Anzu and Imdugud, in Persian and Sumerian, (from An "heaven" and Zu "to know", in the Sumerian language) is a lesser divinity of Akkadian mythology, and the son of the bird goddess Siris.
The Anzu was a servant of the chief sky god Enlil, guard of the throne in Enlil's sanctuary, (possibly previously a symbol of Anu), from whom Anzu stole the Tablet of Destinies, so hoping to determine the fate of all things. In one version of the legend, the gods sent Lugalbanda to retrieve the tablets, who in turn, killed Anzu. In another, Ea and Belet-Ili conceived Ninurta for the purpose of retrieving the tablets. In a third legend, found in The Hymn of Ashurbanipal, Marduk is said to have killed Anzu.
In another legend, Ninurta battles a birdlike monster called Imdugud (Akkadian: Anzû); a Babylonian version relates how the monster Anzû steals the Tablets of Destiny which Enlil requires to maintain his rule. Ninurta slays each of the monsters later known as the "Slain Heroes" (the Warrior Dragon, the Palm Tree King, Lord Saman-ana, the Bison-beast, the Mermaid, the Seven-headed Snake, the Six-headed Wild Ram), and despoils them of valuable items (Gypsum, Strong Copper, the Magilum boat [1]), and finally Anzû is killed by Ninurta who delivers the Tablet to his father, Enlil.
In the astral-theological system Ninurta was associated with the planet Saturn, or perhaps as offspring or an aspect of Saturn. In his capacity as a farmer-god, there are similarities between Ninurta and the Greek harvest-god Kronos, whom the Romans in turn identified with their fertility-god Saturn.
Also known as Ninshubar, Nincubura or Ninšubur, Ninshubur was the sukkal or second-in-command of the goddess Inanna in Sumerian mythology. A goddess in her own right, her name can be translated as 'Queen of the East', and she was said to be a messenger and traveller for the other gods. As Inanna was associated with the planet Venus, Ninshubur was said to be associated with Mercury, as Venus and Mercury appear together in the sky.
Ninshubur accompanied Inanna as a vassal and friend throughout Inanna's many exploits. She helped Inanna fight Enki's demons after Inanna's theft of the sacred me. Later, when Inanna became trapped in the Underworld, it was Ninshubur who pleaded with Enki for her mistress's release. Though described as an unmarried virgin, in a few accounts Ninshubur is said to be one of Inanna's lovers.
one of the decrees of the gods foundational to those social institutions, religious practices, technologies, behaviors, mores, and human conditions that make civilization, as the Sumerians understood it, possible. They are fundamental to the Sumerian understanding of the relationship between humanity and the gods.
In Ancient Rome, a collegium (plural collegia, "joined by law") was any association with a legal personality. Such associations had various functions.
There were four great religious corporations (quattuor amplissima collegia) of Roman priests. They were, in descending order of importance:
Pontifices (also known as College of Pontiffs), headed by the Pontifex Maximus,
Augures
Quindecemviri
Epulones.
The Pontifex Maximus (Latin, literally: "greatest pontiff") was the high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. A distinctly religious office under the early Roman Republic, it gradually became politicized until, beginning with Augustus, it was subsumed into the Imperial office. Its last use with reference to the emperors is in inscriptions of Gratian[1] (reigned 375–383) who, however, then decided to omit the words "pontifex maximus" from his title
Originally posted by Tachyeon
Who cares there is no such thing as royal blood, IF the England had sense they would call royalty what it is welfare. Make those bastards get a job and stop living off the hard working tax payer for free.
" It can be taken in fact, to represent any of the major harmonious dichotomies of the cosmos. It first appeared in 11th and 12th century Latin and Provençal as a corruption of "Mahomet", the Latinisation of "Muhammad"".
luna late 14c. as an alchemical name for "silver;" 1520s as "moon," from L. luna "moon," from *leuksna- (cf. O.C.S. luna "moon," O.Pruss. lauxnos "stars," M.Ir. luan "light, moon"), from the same source as lux, lumen "light," lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)). The luna moth (1884) so called for the crescent-shaped markings on its wings.
Sol "the sun," mid-15c., from L. sol "the sun," from PIE *s(e)wol-, from base *saewel- "to shine, the sun" (cf. Skt. suryah, Avestan hvar "sun, light, heavens;" Gk. helios; Lith. saule; O.C.S. slunice; Goth. sauil, O.E. sol "sun," swegl "sky, heavens, the sun;" Welsh haul, O.Cornish heuul, Breton heol "sun;" O.Ir. suil "eye"). The PIE element -*el- in the root originally was a suffix and had an alternative form -*en-, yielding *s(u)wen-, source of Eng. sun (q.v.).
The ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the human body (called the ha, occasionally a plural haw, meaning approximately sum of bodily parts).
The Ka (k3) was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body.
It was said (in the Shabaka Stone) that it was Ptah who called the world into being, having dreamt creation in his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning opener, in the sense of opener of the mouth. Indeed the opening of the mouth ceremony, performed by priests at funerals to release souls from their corpses, was said to have been created by Ptah. Atum was said to have been created by Ptah to rule over the creation, sitting upon the primordial mound.
In Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ptah (Egyptian ptḥ, probably vocalized as Pitaḥ in ancient Egyptian [1]) was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen (also spelled Tathenen, Tatjenen, etc.), meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land, though Tatenen was a god in his own right, before being assimilated with Ptah. Ptah also is referred to as the noble Djed.
The djed symbol is one of the more ancient and commonly found symbols in Egyptian mythology. It is a pillar-like symbol in hieroglyphics representing stability. It is associated with Osiris the Egyptian god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. It is commonly understood to represent his spine.
Originally posted by ajmusicmedia
The problem is that lineage can be fixed when putting it on paper. Of course royalty, etc will want to trace their bloodline through ages and aeons, that's nothing new.
The Julian family (of which Julius Caesar was a member) traced their lineage to the goddess Venus. Most Roman nobles liked to trace their lineage to Aeneas who probably existed, but then again...
Cleopatra was not married to Caesar; she wished she was, but Caesar already had a wife; Cleopatra was his mistress. Her son "Caesarion" was not Caesar's son either, this was just a ploy on her part to try to get Caesar to marry her (she wanted to become queen of Rome and thought, somehow, that this mysoginistic society would just stand by and let her do it... Julius Caesar had only one child, a daughter; Julia. She died giving child birth (first kid). The child also died. This is really disapointing for all nobility, because it would be their wet dream to show descendence from Caesar himself.
Muzzleflash, you did an enormous amount of work, for which you deserve to be commended. The work itself stands, the conclusion is erroneous though. These people are probably not descended from Roman emperors or nobility... But they sure would like to be and feel that it is of importance to show that they are (old money, old blood, same type of deal). If you were able to do your own family tree that far, you would probably come up with a couple of people of nobility, maybe even a few kings and queens, If not, you could always invent some like they do. Linking to Charlemagne is a perfect example; he never even existed.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
This reminds me, I have been working towards creating a thread about the "Tower of Babel", and essentially the gist of it all is that everything has been "Lost in Translation", that we all have been somehow "stupified" and our original language and original 'religion' if you will, have been split into many different 'tongues' per se.
Although it may be difficult to believe, the facts of reality after close examination will reveal that the "Tower of Babel" actually somehow existed in some form. There was an ancient and advanced civilization here at Earth that was global in scope and technologically advanced, perhaps even beyond our current contemporary standards, but this is all difficult to ascertain.
There are many solid facts that exist within our linguistics, archaeology, cultures, etc, that reveal this original synonymous origin.
That's what I have discovered the Occult is actually all about. They are trying to either keep this tradition alive, or are trying to piece it together and make sense of it all. My personal theory is that the rulers of our current civilization are privy to much more information about this than we realize and that they have ultimate solid proof of it somewhere hidden perhaps.
This explains why Nimrod and Semiramus are so important to the Occult. However this may be some sort of mistake because they may have been the ones who led us down the path of foolish mistakes that created our current predicament (although we could argue all humans are to blame to some extent).
Some of the information I want to reveal in my future thread will be about what possible size the Tower really was, the connections between languages globally (from all continents) that are mirror images and are impossible to explain without a Tower scenario being the culprit for their origin. There are stories in cultures in all lands that refer back to this and the "great flood", and there is proof of it within the syntax of all of our contemporary languages.
From the Akkadian name Sharru-kinu meaning "true king".