THE BRETHREN OF THE GIFT: LEGACY OF THE NEPHILIM

BOOK ONE:

THE LEGACY OF THE GIFT

"Thrill with lissome lust of the light.
Oh man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! IO Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress,
(Shepherdess and Pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy White thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!"
-- Aleister Crowley, Hymn to Pan.

"Shepherdess No Temptation. Poussin, Teniers hold the Key..." -- the Parchments of Berenger Sauniere.

"THE PRIESTESS. Should be actually virgo intacta, or specially dedicated to the service of the Great Order. She is clothed in white, blue, and gold. She bears the Sword from a red girdle, and the Paten and Hosts, or Cakes of Light." -- Crowley, Liber XV (The Gnostic Mass), In Appendix VI of Magick.

"The weeping virgin with disheveled hair, in the monument of the 3°, used in the American Rite, is interpreted as a symbol of grief for the unfinished state of the Temple. Jeremy Cross, who is said to have fabricated the monumental symbol, was not, we are satisfied, acquainted with Hermetic Science. Yet a woman thus portrayed, standing near a tomb, was a very appropriate symbol for the 3°, whose dogma is the resurrection. In Hermetic Science, according to Nicholas Flamel (Hieroglyphica, Cap. 32), a woman having her hair disheveled and standing near a tomb is a symbol of the soul." -- Mackey's Encyclopaedia, Vol. II, 842.

"1. The height of the main block is 42", the length is 100"...
"3. The width is 54"..." -- David Wood, Genisis, dimensions of the Poussin Tomb, abridged by us, on p. 234 of that work.

"In the East ... is a shrine or High Altar. Its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. It should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem." -- Crowley, Op. Cit.

"ET IN ARCADIA EGO..." -- Inscription on the Poussin Tomb in Les Bergers d'Arcadie.

THE Daughter of Hiram Abiff is a curious little work, with enough in it to warrant a separate essay. It was written by John J. Lanier, and published in 1922, by Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company. It is subtitled "a Story of Three Thousand Years Ago" and is dedicated to "Masons, their Wives, and Daughters."

Taken literally, this would be circa 1088 BCE. Probably it is a figurative 3,000 years, and fits the story we just related in the previous chapter.

The piece consists of Three Acts, 15 Scenes.

ACT I, Scene I, is a version of the 6° AASR Ritual, or that of Intimate Secretary. King Solomon, and Hiram, King of Tyre, are arguing over the payment for building the Temple, and Solomon's Intimate Secretary, the role played by the Candidate, is caught by the Palace Guards for eavesdropping. In the play, the name of the Intimate Secretary is Zabud. In the Ritual the name is Joabert. Zabud's name shows up in the Select Master's Degree (9° American Rite, Council Degrees), as an intimate, or friend of King Solomon. He is son of Nathan, the prophet-priest. The Select Master's degree contains several symbols worthy of further comment. In the AASR version, Joabert has some interesting connotations.

Turning to The Book of the Words, pages 95-6:

"Jo and Joh, which should be Yu and Yuh, are wy and hwy or why, all of which are names of the Deity of the Hebrews.

rb),

Aber, means 'struggled to risk, mount up, climb, ascend, did climb, that which is high, lofty, that transcends energy, strength, vigor.;' and so ryb) , ABIR, means 'strong, stout, potent, noble, a prince, hero,' etc.

And in Egyptian ABR means 'fat,' and 'a goat.'"

Now, what is this supposed to mean? Simply that it is a name of God for the Hebrews, compounded with a word that signifies to climb, or a stout, potent, noble, prince? Now we have a fat goat god who likes to climb? How about the name Aberamenthu, which is found in certain Gnostic rituals? Perhaps a strong, potent, heroic goat god that likes to climb, and then we have the Goat symbolism we see in other places. That is for another ritual, namely the 21° where the definition given by Pike to the name Ham, or Cham, or Kham, is applied to the Goat or Ram of Mendes. Ba-neb-tettu. [Which was corrupted in time to Mendes, through bad translation.]

Going down further in the explanations, we get more definitions -- For Johaben, which is a word related to Joabert.

"The final t not being pronounced in French, the first named word would be, in Hebrew, rb)wy, and the second, Nb)why: the meaning of the former being 'Whom IHU makes strong, mighty, vigorous;' or 'Whose strength is IHU;' and the latter (as (#why, IHU-SAN, means 'the help or aid of Yahu' and (b'#why -- IHU-SABAN, 'the oath of IHU,' though the noun in regimen generally precedes the one which is in the genitive in Latin and preceded by of in English,) may mean 'THE STONE (or PILLAR) of IHU,' like the JOVIS LAPIDEUS of the Romans.

"The former word, according to that construction, means 'the Divine Energy, Vigor, Potency, or Greatness,' and the latter, 'the Divine Uprightness, Rectitude, or Impartiality.'" ...

"...Yu-Aber means the Energy or Uprising of Deity, and has a phallic signification, meaning the 'Generative Energy', and as UPRIGHT STONES were also phallic symbols, YU-ABEN would have a similar signification: One meaning, 'Strength,' and the other, 'Erection.'"

Could Joabert have some twisted, garbled reference to Dagobert? At any rate, these interpretations of the words will pay off as we get more into the stone symbolism.

The next part that has significance is the Festival of Melcarth. An interesting parallel in the AASR is to be found in the 10° or Master Elect of Fifteen. The Burning of Melcarth, by Aleister Crowley is a worthwhile story to read in connection with the account given by Fraser in The Golden Bough and other writings. And then, in connection with the rites of Freemasonry.

Next, what do we make of the mention of the Mother of the Shulammite and her sons? Did they go to Arcadia, with the girl and Cleonthes, the shepherd? Were these people Benjaminites? Did they stay in Arcadia? Who knows? Of course this is a story.

The First and Second Acts deal with the Solomonic theme. The Bride in the Song of Songs. This Bride, so often hideously misrepresented as Jesus' church (or at least the Catholic or Orthodox Church), may in fact be a human figure. Of course, the Bride in Kabbalistic symbolism has more significance than one human figure, no matter how auspicious that human figure might be. Also, we have the real Church, without the stigma of sectarianism attached to it, which is to say, that Tradition which is more Authentic than all the others. If the love song is to a Goddess, such as Asherah, the Hebrew Goddess, or Astarte, or Hathor, even, then so be it. It certainly augments the beauty of the literature.

At any rate, we have a story that tells of people during the time of Solomon, moving first, north, then west, to Arcadia. This is only a story. The author claims he got it from an old Rabbi, who swore him to secrecy as to his source. That is unfortunate, for it might have provided us with a clue as to which school of Judaism it might have come from. The Frankists, perhaps? The only search we got for the name of John J. Lanier, from the period in question netted us a Grocery Salesman who lived in New Jersey in the 1920s.

Returning, then, to the words discussed, we have more to quote from Words. In the 6°, one of the important words is STOLKIN. This word generally appears as a name of a character in eight of the AASR degrees: in the

• 5° as a Warden in the West, titled Grand Inspector.
• 6° as Lieutenant.
• 7° as one of the "Grand Words"
• 9° as the Warden, called Inspector. Gives the Oration and Lecture.
• 11° Password, also Inspector over the Tribe of Benjamin.
• 13° 5th Officer, Grand Inspector, and one of the Masters who searched Ruins in the Royal Arch Legend of the Degree.
• 14° The Officer, Grand Master of Ceremonies; prepares Candidate.
• 20° Answer to the first Password.

The Word itself is full of meaning. Let us quote:

"STOLKIN.

lt#, STL, means 'planted,' t#, ST, meaning 'the part of the body on which we sit, the foundation, FUNDAMENTUM, NATES.' (lwt#, ShThUL, 'planted' (as a tree). Ps. 1:3. Mylwt#, STULIM, 'Those who are planted' in the House of Jehovah). lwt#, STUL, a 'plant or shoot' of the olive, applied to the children. Ps. 128:3. For the meaning of Nk, Kin, 'pedestal,' or 'Mast, base,' etc., 'upright,' etc., see the word JA-CHIN. Nyk--lwt#, STOLKIN: 'a firm or stable foundation, an upright or erect plant or shoot, a mast or pedestal set upright.'"

This is reminiscent of the etymology one gets in the name "Plant-ard". Could this be the special blessing of Jacob to his son Benjamin or of Moses to the descendants of Benjamin?

ZABUD is the son of Nathan the Prophet who secured the Davidic Line. Nathan not only secured the Davidic Line, but pronounced a curse upon it for David's assassination of Uriah the Hittite. For this, the Kingdom would again divide, and the Kingdom would fall, and Israel would be in the hands of foreign rulers. Abraham's promise, then, seems to noy be as magnanimous as it was intended to be by the authors of scripture. In the Light of History, this is what we see.

Zabud is of the line of Judah. Stolkin, on the other hand, is of the line of Benjamin. What does this suggest? Is it perhaps alluding to the hierarchy of Masons in these rituals as being derived from, or part of, the Tribe of Benjamin? (In a symbolic manner, of course.)

We may never know, and there are many who will exclaim, perhaps -- "What does it matter anyway, for these are modern times, and the stories of the past have little or no relation to current events!"

Oh? Let us mention again our point -- These ancient events have everything to do with the present state of affairs. This is Karma. Everything -- from the Blessing of Moses, to the war against the Tribe of Benjamin, to the coronation of David as King of Israel, on to the period of the Gospels, the contrived New Testament Canon, the Church -- the Orthodox Church -- the contrived Donations of Constantine and Pepin -- the contrived absolute rule of Christendom over everybody else -- down to the contrivances of the Puritans, Calvinists, witch-finders, and all the rest. It is all contrived. And the contrived Keys and Swords of Peter which the Popes held over the Emperors -- the only valid position to take is: Secular Society. Keep religion at the individual, personal level. After all, that is the real lesson to be derived from Masonry and similar Schools. Uprightness can be cultivated in the individual without removing life, culture, ribaldry, color, and so on. Quit preaching at people to get back to God and Jesus. God is where IT has always been. Inside each and every one of us: male, female, hermaphrodite; adult, child, senior; hetero, gay, lesbian, bisexual; as well as all races, all cultures, all nations, all creeds, sects, ideologies, ad infinitum.

OANNES -- DAGON.

Let us suppose that the Benjaminites of the Kingdom of Mari, were a nuisance to the more civilized rulers because of their ancestry -- a genetic link to the Nephilim, perhaps. Among the temples unearthed in Mari, was a Temple of Oannes, or Dagon, the Fish-God who the Philistines worshipped. Some say the Philistines originated in Crete, and in relation to the Israelites, they were considered with the same amount of loathing as the Benjaminites of Mari were to the officials. Indeed, today, to be called a Philistine (if that term is even used anymore, that is) is to be called a savage brute.

The R'lyeh Text has some interesting things to say about Dagon. In the Introductory Essay by Colin Wilson:

"...Berossus... claims in his history, that Babylonian civilisation was founded by alien amphibians, the chief of whom is called Oannes -- whom the Philistines knew as Dagon (surely there must be some connection between the words Dogon and Dagon?), and whom Lovecraft borrowed for his own Cthuhlu mythology. The Greek grammarian Apollodorus (about 140 BC) had apparently read more of Berossus, for he criticises another Greek writer, Abydenus, for failing to mention that Oannes was only one of the 'fish people,' he calls these aliens 'Annedoti' ('repulsive ones'), and says they are 'semi-demons' from the sea. All this begins to sound more and more like Lovecraft." -- p. 52.

[Of course, we still hold to our interpretation of the word Annedotus.]

Earlier, Wilson states:

"Berosus (also spelt Berossus) was a Chaldean priest who lived in Babylon around 300 BC, and who wrote a work in Greek on the culture and history of Babylonia. Babylon was, of course, the cradle of civilisation, a city just south of the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates, in the area where writing was invented, and where King Hammurabi (c. 1800 BC), gave to the world his impressive system of laws. Later, there was another great revival under Nebuchadnezzar (c. 600 BC). But by the time of Berosus, the city was in decline. Berosus, who was a friend of Aristotle, was writing for the widespread Greek culture created by the conquests of Alexander the Great. And, according to Berosus, the origin of Babylonian civilisation was the fish God called Oannes. In fact, Berosus declared that the civilisation had been founded by amphibians. Under the Philistines, the god Oannes became Dagon -- whom we have met in Lovecraft." -- pp. 49 - 50.

Wilson also speaks of R. K. G. Temple's The Sirius Mystery, in reference to the Dogon people of Mali, who have a complex system of theology and astronomy, revolving around Sirius. More sophisticated than anyone else, since their diagrams, stories, legends, lore, and rituals included elements that weren't discovered until the late 20th Century CE, when radio telescopy was able to make observations of Sirius. Sirius plays an important part in our ancient mysteries. The Rite of Memphis has an Order attached to itself known as the Star of Sirius, like the Scottish Rite has the Knight Commander of the Court of Honor attached to the 33°. The Dogon people say their lore all came from a race of beings called Nommo, who came from Sirius. These Nommo are equated with the race of fish-men of which Oannes was one.

These Nommo, then, were none other than a the Nephilim, or a branch of same.

Kenneth Mackenzie reports the following interesting data pertaining to Oannes, in his Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia:

"OANNES. -- According to Berosus, there appeared in the Erythraean Sea -- the modern Persian Gulf -- bordering on Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, whose name was Oannes or John, perhaps the Anu of the Assyrian inscriptions. By various writers, this creature was differently represented; but the usual appearance in which it was visible was in that of a fish, having beneath its fish's head a human head, and feet beneath like those of a man -- strongly reminding archaologists of the Mexican priests, who covered themselves with skins of wild beasts, and wore masks representing hideous forms. Alexander Polyhistor, from whom we derive a knowledge of this mysterious personage, on the prior authority of Berosus, says, that he used in the day time to converse with man, but never ate in common with them; that he communicated a knowledge of letters, sciences, and arts. He taught the art of building, the principles of architecture and geometry; he was also the first instructor in botany and agriculture. In fact, he was the universal teacher of all human learning; and at sunset, this being again plunged into the sea, and remained concealed from the eyes of men, until light again dawned on the world. Apollodorus identifies OANNES with the Greek OINAS, and the IONAS or JONAH of the Babylonians or Chaldees. He was also called ODACON, a corruption of ö Dagon, the God DAGON or the Sun-Fish. It has been supposed, also, that OANNES was the same as the Welsh Guoydion -- the son of Don or God. ANNEDOTUS (given by ANNA) was a name assigned to an early mystical benefactor -- in allusion to his descent from the celestial NUN or Fish -- (see NUN). ANA or DIANA signified Heaven, from the radical )n), I pray. Jonah the prophet, swallowed by the fish, likewise appeared at Nineveh; and traces continue at the present time in ancient Accadian mythology concerning this monster. At Kouyun Jik there was a colossal statue of the fish-god Oannes. Without expressing any opinion, the following may be quoted here from the Book of ENOCH (Vol. II, p. 154): 'The Masons hold their grand festival on the day of St. John, not knowing that therein they merely signify the fish-god Oannes, the first Hermes, and the first founder of the Mysteries; the first messenger to whom the Apocalypse was given, and whom they ignorantly confound with the fabulous author of the common Apocalypse. The sun is then (mid-summer day) in its greatest altitude; in this the NAROS is commemorated.' ..." -- Mackenzie, pp. 517-518.

We can see that in this article are things that aren't entirely accurate. For example, The Book of Enoch. This is neither the Ethiopic nor the Slavonic. Nor is it the revelation given to John Dee. Perhaps the Hebrew? We cannot verify the source. Also, we have the mixing of the Johns in this account again. And, the syncretization with ANU is not entirely accurate. Sitchin places DAGON in the same category as EA / ENKI. The characterization of OANNES bringing the knowledge to humankind is more in line with the stories pertaining to EnKi. We shall cover the Oannes theme in more detail in The Code of the Eternal.

Sitchin, in The 12th Planet, tells us:

"In ancient texts and pictures, the craft of the Nefilim were initially termed 'celestial boats.' The landing of such 'maritime' astronauts, one can imagine, might have been described in ancient epic tales as the appearance of some kind of submarine from the heavens in the sea, from which 'fish men' emerged and came ashore.

"The texts do, in fact, mention that some of the AB.GAL. who navigated the spaceships were dressed as fish. One text dealing with Istar's divine journeys quotes her as seeking to reach the 'Great GALLU' (Chief Navigator) who had gone away, 'in a sunken boat.' Berossus transmitted legends regarding Oannes, the 'Being Endowed with Reason,' a god who made his appearance from 'the Erythraean sea which bordered on Babylonia,' in the first year of the descent of Kingship from Heaven. Berossus reported that though Oannes looked like a fish, he had a human head under the fish's head, and had feet like a man under the fish's tail. 'His voice too and language were articulate and human.'

"The three Greek historians through whom we know what Berossus wrote, reported that such divine fish-men appeared periodically, coming ashore from the 'Erythraean sea' -- the body of water we now call the Arabian Sea (the western part of the Indian Ocean)."

We dwell on these themes because they pertain to our enquiry. OANNES is one of the Initiators of Humankind. OANNES is equated with Dagon, who was the chief god of MARI, worshipped by Zimri-Lim, and consulted by him in matters of state. In Divine Encounters, Sitchin informs us that --

"Whatever his true identity, this god featured in several omen-dreams reported in the state-archives of the Kingdom of Mari, a city-state that flourished at the beginning of the second millennium BC until its destruction by the Babylonian King Hammurabi in 1759 BC.[1]

[1.] Our note: Hammurabi was, according to the research reported on by W. F. Albright, a member of the tribe known as the Banu-Yamina, or Benjaminites.

"One report from Mari pertains to a dream whose contents were deemed so significant that it was at once brought by messenger to the attention of Zimri-Lim, the last king of Mari. In the dream the man saw himself journeying with others. Arriving at a place called Terqa, he entered the temple to Dagan and prostrated himself. At that moment the god 'opened his mouth' and asked the traveler whether a truce had been declared between the forces of Zimri-Lim and those of the Yaminites. [2] When the traveler answered in the negative, the god complained why he had not been kept abreast of developments and instructed the dreamer to take a message to the King, demanding that he send messengers to update the God on the situation." - pp. 231-232.

[2.] I.e., the Benjaminites, which we wrote of in Chapter 8, The Wolf Tribe.

Sitchin's account goes on to speak of oracle priestesses, the Goddess Inanna, who held MARI as one of her cult centres, and how oracle priests and priestesses operated in ancient times. What we have here, though, is a picture of these "Yaminites" who, it seems, were instrumental in the downfall of the Kingdom of Mari.

LOVE FESTIVALS.

We have strayed away from the subject of this section in order to introduce a Deity / Initiator / Instructor who assumes a great deal of importance in our story.

All in all, the play, The Daughter of Hiram Abif gives us much material to study, though the play is not a large one. We have more about the failure of the Davidic Monarchy, practically before it happened, more about Solomon and Hiram, more about migration patterns from Palestine to Greece. Robert Graves would undoubtedly have found this play worthy of notice had he known about it. We have the Festival of Melcarth, which is partially symbolized in the 10° AASR [if one knows what to look for, that is]. We have the orgies of Pan in Arcadia. And, too, oddly enough, we have in those orgies, a representation of the type of mating ritual that was assigned to the Benjaminites, after they had been cursed and their numbers decimated.

This is an interesting and important subject. One could write volumes about it. The significance here is in the analogy between the mating rites for the Benjaminites -- that pertaining to the groves where the daughters of Shiloh went. We append an extract from T. H. Gaster's Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Section 119, pages 444-445:

"119. The rape of the women of Shiloh. 21:16-24.

"In vengeance for the outrage perpetrated by the men of Gibeah, the Israelites vowed never to give their daughters in marriage to any member of the tribe of Benjamin. Subsequently, however, after a reconciliation had been effected, it occurred to them that maintenance of this ban would result eventually in the extinction of a tribe of Israel. They therefore devised a way of circumventing the vow. The Benjaminites were informed that an annual festival was about to be celebrated at Shiloh, at which maidens would come out to dance. They were advised to lay in ambush in the vineyards and then pounce on the girls, taking whomever they desired. This they did. [3]

[3.] Our note: This is reminiscent of the story which inspired the screenplay for The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. See Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological Study of the German Film, pages 61ff.

"On the face of it, the story here related is perfectly natural and intelligible. A country carnival is an obvious place for sex-starved males to go stalking mates. Indeed, throughout the centuries young men have been known to eye girls in church, and E. W. Lane, in his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, paints a vivid picture of the similar enterprise of the Arabs in the mosque at Cairo.

"A close parallel to the incident here related is afforded, however, by the familiar Roman legend of the rape of the Sabine women in the agricultural festival of Consualia (in August). [4] 'In the early days of Rome,' runs the story, 'the population consisted chiefly of broken men who had taken refuge in the asylum opened for them by Romulus. As the neighboring peoples refused to give their daughters in marriage to these ruffians, Romulus was obliged to resort to stratagem to procure wives for his subjects. So he issued a proclamation that he was about to celebrate the solemn games in honor of the equestrian Neptune. Many people flocked from the neighborhood of Rome to witness the spectacle; in particular the Sabines came in great force with their wives and children. When the games were about to begin, and the spectators were on the tiptoe of expectation, the young Roman men rushed upon them, and singled out the likeliest young women, and carried them off. After some ado they succeeded in pacifying the damsels and so won brides for themselves.'" [5]

[4.] Gaster footnote: Livy, i. 9; Plutarch, Romulus 14; Ovid, Fasti ii. 139 ff.

[5.] Gaster footnote: This account is taken from J. G. Frazer, The Fasti of Ovid (1929), ii. 311.

We leave the extract at this point and return to our story. We can also find material on this subject in The Assyrian "Grove" and Other Emblems, by John Newton.

Also, in the Feast of the Tabernacles or Booths, Sukkot, we find an analogy. Not only was there a goddess referred to by the name of Succoth Benoth, which syncretizes with the Asherah / Hathor goddesses, but the festival involved the Qadeshim / Qadeshah priests / priestesses. The Hebrew Goddess, by Raphael Patai, is filled with references to the actual religious practices of the Jews of the "Biblical Period" as opposed to that which we are supposed to believe.

Not only that, in Richard Payne Knight's excellent A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, we find (then) current practices discovered in Naples, and in other places. Later, this was joined to Thomas Wright's The Worship of the Generative Powers. We might also add the works of Margaret A. Murray.

Baigent and Leigh, in The Temple and the Lodge, speaking of Rosslyn, the Sinclairs and their protection of the Gypsies, state for the record that the Sinclairs protected the Gypsies. Not only that, but the Sinclairs hosted mystery plays, like those utilizing the Robin Hood legend, which was not only deemed heretical by the Ecclesiastic authorities, but was antithetical to the Secular authorities as well. These legends also included much that can be regarded as Celtic survival legends, like that of the Green Man of Spring. Barry Fell, in America B.C., shows a Celtic inscription that refers to the Green Man as Mabon. Richard Rowney Connell, in Masonic Stones, a wonderful little essay, claims that Mabo Mabona was a name of a Celtic Goddess, and the true Lost Word. In this manner some of the old rites survived. There are perhaps many who would condemn such practices, preferring instead legalized wife- and/or husband-slavery and the mass production of offspring conditioned with the approved form of brainwashing geared to make them productive for the benefit of the state system they endorse -- if not the Secular state, then the Church state. Funny, the real objection to Stalinist slave-state Communism is that it was competition, rather than the gross aberration that history proves it to be.

Our true ancestral traditions included licentious, "unabashedly pagan" practices, and rather than being ashamed of it or deny it, we should embrace it, so long as it, too, does not become another damnable orthodoxy. It must be reclaimed, perhaps every 50 years, revived, cultivated, preserved and transmitted to the next generations.

BY WAY OF CONCLUSION.

Sitchin, in When Time Began, pp. 77-78, writes regarding the builders of Stonehenge:

"An interesting clue emerges as one reads the legends concerning the tumulus of Newgrange. According to Michael J. O'Kelly, a leading architect and explorer of the site and its surroundings (Newgrange: Archaeology, Art, and Legend), the site was known in early Irish lore by various names that all designated it as BRUG OENGUSA, the 'House of Oengus,' son of the chief god of the pre-Celtic pantheon who had come to Ireland from 'the Otherworld.' That chief god was known as AN DAGDA, 'An, the good god.' ...

"It is indeed amazing to find the name of the principle deity of the ancient world in all these diverse places -- in Sumer, and his E. ANNA ziggurat of URUK, in the Egyptian Heliopolis, whose true name was ANNU; and in far-removed Ireland.

"That this might be an important clue and not just an insignificant coincidence becomes possible when we examine the name of the son of this 'chief god', Oengus. When the Babylonian priest Berosus wrote, circa 290 B.C., the history and prehistory of Mesopotamia and Mankind according to the Sumerian and Babylonian records, he (or the Greek savants who copied from his works) spelled the name of ENKI 'OANNES'. ENKI was the leader of the first group of Anunnaki to splash down to Earth, in the Persian Gulf; he was the chief scientist of the Anunnaki and the one who inscribed all knowledge on the ME's, enigmatic objects that, with our present knowledge, one could compare to computer memory discs. He was indeed a son of ANU; was he then the god who in pre-Celtic myth became Oengus, the son of An-Dagda?"

So, then, we have ENKI, as OANNES, the Divinity that is associated with IOANNES, or JOHN. We have Babylonian Priests speaking of these things. We have the preservation of Knowledge in Ancient Rites. Se have secret and "unabashedly Pagan" fertility rites, from the most ancient times to the times of the Gypsies at Rosslyn, to today. And these rites were indeed sanctioned by our creators and original programmers. the chief among them being EnKi. We have a tradition of these things handed down to us from antiquity, and we have a parallel tradition of a bloodline of families that are descended from these "Gods" and "Goddesses." In this Bloodline, this Sang Real, are several lines of Kings and Nobles, Artists and Scholars, Peasants and Shepherds. Is it any coincidence that the genesis of the Merovingian line is ascribed to a dual paternity?

Merovee, Merovius, Merovech, is said to be descended from a) a human father, and b) a sea monster or 'a neptunian quinotaur' that seduced his mother while she was bathing. Legendary symbols aside, we have mentioned Oannes, Dagon, EnKi / EA being associated with the sea, with water, with Pisces.

Indeed, the Piscine Age, along with the Aquarian Age that follows it, is ruled by EnKi in his various forms. That of Pisces is Oannes. The Fishes. The Goat-Fish Capricorn could also be Oannes - Dagon.

ANU-ENKI-MARDUK, or EA-BEL-ANU, (YAH-BUL-ON), being the Phallus and the testicles, forming the Holy Trinity, these would indeed manifest in descending order through a medium capable of impregnating a human mother. We will abandon such notions as alien abduction scenarios!

At any rate, we have described the story of the Benjaminites, the Wolf Tribe, as it has been understood by us, and the associations to the Ancient Gods. We shall return to EnKi, the DurAnKi, Oannes, and so forth, at another time. We shall return again, too, to the "unabashedly pagan" rites of OUR ancestors.

But first, we shall dwell on a very interesting find we came across in The Book of the Words.