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The Benu Bird
The Benu, according to ancient Egyptian mythology, was
also believed to be... the ba of Re, and by Egypt's Late
Period, the hieroglyphic sign... depicting the bird... was
used
to write the
name... of this sun god. During the Middle
Kingdom, it was
said... that the Benu of Re... was the
means... by which Atum... came into being... in the Primeval
water.
Like the sun god, the Benu's own birth...
is attributed
to self
generation. A mythological papyri... of the 21st
Dynasty...
provides a vignette... of a heart-amulet and
scarab beetle...
near
to which... stand the Benu, which
is described... as
"the one...
who came into being... by
himself". It was believed...
to
constantly rise... renewed
just like the sun, and was
called the
"lord of jubilees".
The Benu Bird... was said... to
each morning... appear
under
the form of the rising sun,
and was supposed to
shine... upon
the world... from the
top... of the famous
persea tree... in
Heliopolis... wherein...
he renewed himself.
The bird... was primarily associated with Atum and Ra,
but inevitably, its connection with rebirth... came to
associate it...
also with Osiris. In quoting from the
Book of the Dead, Wallis Budge... quotes a passage...
that reads, "I go in like the Hawk,
and I come forth...
like the Bennu, the Morning Star ( the planet Venus...
or Sirius)...
of Ra; I am the Bennu... which is in
Heliopolis" and he
goes on to say... that the scholion... on this passage...
expressly informs us... that the Benu... is Osiris. In
essence,
the Benu... was considered... a manifestation
of the
resurrected Osiris.
The bird...
was frequently depicted... in the vignettes...
of the
netherworld books... as well as on heart amulets
and
other objects, particularly those of a funerary nature.
When carved on the back of a heart-scarab...
and
buried with the dead, it is a symbol of anticipated
rebirth... in the netherworld... and ensures... that the
heart
does not fail... in the examination...
of past deeds..
in the
Hall of the Two Truths (judgment of the
dead). In
the
Book of the Dead... there are formulae to transform
the
deceased... into the Great Benu.
Here, the deceased
says, "I am the Benu, the soul of Ra,
and the guide of
the gods in the Duat." In another verse,
he says, "I am
pure. My purity... is the purity of the Great
Benu... which is
in the city of Suten-henen."
However, it is highly probable... that it
formed the basis...
for
an important role... in the cults... near Heliopolis, where
the
cult ... was first established... and probably most
important.
Wallis Budge tells us... that "the sanctuary of
the Bennu...
was the sanctuary... of Ra and Osiris, and
was called
Het Benben, i.e., the 'House of the Obelisk'..."
Ra
Isis
As we
all know, legends are built... around
a kernel
of truth...
that eventually becomes distorted with time.
As
each generation... adds... to the story,
it becomes so
encrusted.... that little
is left...
of the former truth. In certain
cases, however, like that.... of the Phoenix
bird, sufficient
ancient sources.... are
available... to
enable us.... to trace
its origin...
back to prehistoric times, and
to discover ... the
core of truth....
which precipitated the legend.
The first available
Egyptian reference... to the "Benu"
bird...
is from the times... of the Old
Kingdom... when it is first
noted.... inscribed on the walls... of
the burial chamber ...
of the pyramid of Unas, the last
king... of the 5th Dynasty,
circa 2400 BC.
Called the Pyramid Texts, these
carved inscriptions... are a
collection of spells... and directions...
which gave the dead
king...
all the information he needed....
for the trip... to the
afterlife... and how to achieve it.
Most authorities agree...
that the Pyramid Texts... reflect the
belief... in a stellar
cult .... that would require the
deceased
king... to journey
to the stars.
Often he is
pictured... astride a serpent ... heading
for a
star constellation. His journey... is
an imitation... of the Sun
God himself, who was said... to be
able... to traverse the
sky... in his "boat of heaven."
Often.... around
these rocket monuments.... Magnificent and
Unusual Clouds and Fogs..... filled the
sky... in the image of
a great phoenix, dragon, or flying
serpent.
Phoenix Clouds
Phoenix Sunset
Phoenix Dragon Clouds
An inscription.... found on the
walls.... of the burial
chamber...
of this king, describes the Sun
God... as rising
from the Sun
Stone... or "Ben-Ben"
Stone. It states,
"O Atum, the Creator, you became high
in the sky, you
rose up from the Ben-Ben Stone,
in the Temple of the
Benu.... in the City of Annu."
At this time,
the 25th Century BC, also known as
Atum-Ra,
Atum had become the dominant sun
god.... and had
supplemented Ra... who had dominated the
pantheon...
in the early days of Egypt.
This is a bit vague, as a
result.... of the spelling of the
word "Atum." In Egypt...
there were "Amon-Ra" and
"Aten-Ra." One assumes that Aten-Ra...
is meant here,
but the worship of Aten-Ra.... was
connected with.... the
much - later reign... of Akhnaton.... in the
New Kingdom.
The so-called Pyramid
Texts.... were later adopted... by the
commoners.... and painted on their wooden
coffins. They...
thus... came to be called... the
Coffin Texts, and eventually...
they were transcribed to papyrus....
becoming known... as the
Book of
the Dead.
Collectively, the three sets of
texts... are usually referred to...
as the Book of the Dead. You
might say that it was their
equivalent.... of a do-it-yourself manual...
on how to reach the
gods in heaven... and thereby achieve
immortality.
THE SUN TEMPLE
AND THE SACRED STONE
The Phoenix bird... has... since its
beginning.... been
associated... with the practice of sun
worship... in Egypt.
This is noted... in the coloring of
the Phoenix, its miraculous
birth, and its connection
with fire, all
symbolic... of the Sun
itself. These characteristics, however, lend
themselves.... to
a more interesting explanation,
as we
shall see.
The inner sanctum... of the Sun
Temple... at the City of
Annu... was the most sacred of all
places. It was the home
of the Sun Stone... which the
Egyptians called the "Ben-Ben."
Mounted on a
truncated pyramid, the "Ben-Ben" was a
square stone platform... upon which was
set... a
pyramid-shaped stone....
or pyramidion, giving
the appearance...
of a stubby obelisk. It was on
this stone... that the Phoenix
or Benu bird... alighted.
As far back.... as prehistoric times,
the Sun Stone... was
revered.... as the dwelling of the Sun
God. About 2000 BC,
a new version.... of the Sun Stone...
appeared in Egypt - the pyramidion.... was
placed... on a tall square column....
and it
became known as the obelisk.
Obelisks... were erected... by
all subsequent pharaohs.
The capstone... of the pyramids
themselves... were said to
be pyramidions, and venerated... as the
physical dwelling...
of the Sun God. The dead king...
buried inside the pyramid...
was believed....
to be under the
direct protection... of the god
himself. This pyramidion, which was
used... as the capstone...
on obelisks and pyramids, became the
most sacred fetish...
of the Egyptians.
The strange feature.... of the
Phoenix legend... is that it
originated elsewhere... and was assimilated...
into Egyptian
sun worship... by the priests.... of
Annu.... at Heliopolis.
The legends make it clear... that
the Phoenix bird... came
from
the direction of the East, some
say Arabia, others
Assyria, and
that it flies... to
the Sun Stone.... in Egypt....
to repeat its flaming performance.
Since the Egyptians...
were very parochial... in their view
of the world, the land
of Arabia... could very well be... any
place east... of the
delta region.
THE MIDDLE
EAST
HOME OF THE PHOENIX
In the lands of Palestine, Syria,
and Lebanon, the Sun
Stone.... was also revered... as the
swelling... of the Sun God.
It was not only.... pictured... as a
stubby obelisk... but quite
often... as an upright conical (rocket
shaped) stone.
At Byblos, the
oldest of the Phoenician cities... which
dates
to at least 3500 BC, the Egyptian
gods... were worshiped
side by side... with those... of the
Canaanite pantheon.
Some of these sanctuaries... contained a
sacred chapel,
an example... of which is shown...
on
a coin from Byblos...
of the Roman Emperor Macronus (AD 217)...
which evidently
represents... a shrine many centuries old.
It shows
a sacred
enclosure... containing a conical-shaped dwelling
of the
Sun God.
The Sun Stone... was called a "baetyl"
or "betyl" by the
Semitic peoples, and its functions... are
similar to the pyramid-
shaped stone... found in Egypt. "Betyl"
is a Semitic version...
of the Hebrew term "Beth-el"... meaning
the swelling or abode
of God. In Palestine, the worship of
the Sun Stone or Betyl...
goes as far back as the
8th
Millennium BC.
Digging in the
ancient ruins... of Jericho, archaeologists
found
at its lowest level, carbon dated... to
neolithic times... of about
7000 BC, a temple... where at its
center... an oval stone...
stood upright... on a stone pedestal.
These "betyl" stones...
were found... all over the lands...
of
Palestine and Syria. At Beth-Shean, an
altar and betyl...
were found... and dated... to the
mid-14th Century BC. Most
of these "pagan" shrines... were
destroyed... by the Hebrews...
after the division.... of the Kingdom
of Solomon, but many still
remain... in
the more isolated areas,
such as in southeast
Palestine... near Arabia, in the land
of the Nabateans.
Found at high places, these altars
appear... as stone
blocks or stubby obelisks... and were
believed... by the
natives... to be inhabited... by their
chief deity... Dushara.
At Mada'im Salih, in northwest
Arabia, the Nabateans... left
a necropolis of family tombs, many of
whom... have betyls...
or sacred stones.
In fact, the
Black Stone at Mecca... called
the "Kaaba," the
most sacred... of
Islamic shrines, is believed
to have fallen
from the
skies.
It is also referred to... as a betyl.
There are several... peculiar legends...
circulating about the
origin
of the Kaaba
stone.
The Kaab
is in the Ku...
THE HELIOPOLIS
IN LEBANON
Besides the one in Egypt, there
is another famous
Heliopolis... nearby, in Lebanon... at a
place... now called
Baalbeck. Since antiquity, it has been
a city... sacred to
the Sun God. The Old
Testament... calls it Beth-Shemesh...
or the "Abode of the Sun
God," Shemesh or Shamash...
being the Semitic name... for the
Sumerian Sun God... Utu.
The land of
Lebanon, in particular,
was lush and munificent. To
this new garden of Eden… the space
facilities… were moved…
and a city built… to serve… as the
headquarters… of the new
launch platform… and support facilities. It
became the Biblical
garden of Eden… and the Sumerian "land
of pleasant living."
The old space platform…
at Sippar… was now under
the
waters... of the Persian Gulf.
So was Larak, the control and
communications center. It was moved....
to Ur-Salem, later... to
become known… as Jerusalem.
An alternate launch site...
and control center...
was established...
at Jebel or Mount Halal... in the
northern Sinai… or what is
known Biblically… as Mount Horeb… or
Mount Sinai.
A fortified support complex…
was located at the group
of oasis… near Kadesh-Barnea… to protect the
eastern approaches… to the space complex.
The Chief Astronaut ... Utu, who
previously had
ruled Sippar, the space city, now
reappeared... in the land of Lebanon…
under his Semitic name… of Shamash.
References… to the three
main sites... of the
space complex…
are found… in the Book of Jubilees…
although, they are couched… in religious
terms. According to this source, there
were three places… on Earth… sacred to the
Lord. These all fell… into the allotment ….
of lands… assigned to Shem… after the
Deluge. Perhaps, this explains… why Shem… was
favored… above all the other sons… of Noah.
Jubilee lists these sites as:
The Garden of Eden, also
called… the Holy of Holies; Mount
Sinai… in the midst… of the wilderness;
and Mount Zion… in the midst of the
navel… of the Earth.
The three sites…
were all fairly close… to
each other… and were
not spread out… over the vast expanse…
of the Middle East.
Jubilees says… that they were "created
as holy places… one
facing the other."
With theological verbiage aside,
the reference… to the garden
of Eden… is Lebanon, whose capital city...
of Baalbeck… was
"the dwelling of the Lord."
Mount Sinai… is on the border
of
the wilderness… of the Sinai and served…
as the alternate space complex. Mount
Zion… is one of the three peaks…
that make
up… the city of Jerusalem.
The land of
Lebanon, known to the Sumerians... as
"the
cedar land"... was under the aegis... of
the Mesopotamian
Sun God.
At Baalbeck, the Greeks... erected a
splendid temple... to
their
Sun God... Apollo or Helios.
It is also here... that the
Romans...
built a magnificent temple... to
their Sun God...
Jupiter. This temple... was the
largest ... they erected...
anywhere in the world, including Rome,
indicating the
importance... they attached... to this
location.
Even today,
six.... of its mighty columns... still
stand, each 62
feet high...
and eight feet... in diameter.
But what is remarkable... about this
temple... is that it is
built...
on a massive three-tier stone
base... that must have
been here.... long before... the Greeks
and Romans. It is
raised 30 feet...
above the ground, and
is paved... with
perfectly hewn... and fitted stones... ranging
from 10 to 30
feet long... and 6 to 9 feet
wide.
The base...
for this platform... was constructed of
cyclopean
blocks... of stone... 32 feet long, 13
feet wide, and 12 feet thick.
Each slab... of stone... is estimated to
weigh 500 tons...
(for comparison, the largest stone... in
the Great Pyramid...
is 200
tons).
A fourth stone... lies in the quarry
nearby, readily shaped
and
cut... except for a portion of
its base. It is 72 feet long
with a
cross-section... of 16 by 16
feet, estimated to weigh
over 1200 tons. The stone... was
apparently intended... to
extend the size
of the platform... but
operations... seem to
have suddenly ceased... and the work...
was never completed.
Such a massive stone platform... was
obviously designed...
either to hold an immense weight, or
for some operation... that
must have applied... tremendous pressure...
on the ground, such
as that... exerted by a large rocket
motor. The Lebanese Sun
God.... Shamash... who made his home
base... at Baalbeck...
was in many ways similar to the
Egyptian Sun God.
Like the Egyptian
Ra... who appears.... with the sun
disc...
over
his head, Shamash... is always
shown with a sun disc, containing
a
four-pointed star... and four radiating
spokes.
And just like Ra,
he is often
depicted... with the head of
an eagle. Some scenes... also show
him... holding the
symbols of immortality.
When Utu or
Shamash.... left Baalbeck, one of his
destinations... was ostensibly... the City
of Annu... in Egypt...
where his bright arrival... and departure...
in flames...
became
the core... of the legend... of
the golden and red
Phoenix bird.
Space Ports in
Machu Pichu, Nazca,
China... and India
When Baalbeck was destroyed...
another space port was erected.... at Machu Pichu....
and Nazca.
And others as
well... in Mexico, China, Cambodia... and India... where great
pyramids and (Rocket - Shaped) obelisks and
thousands... of temples... abound.
In India... the
Phoenix Bird
is Represented as the Peacock!
Here in India... You have
many Flying Vehicles...
Flying Serpents and Chariots... and something that looks
like a satellite... while the sun gods fight over power.
Also a "sleeping or
deceased god" surrounded by
Rosettes... one of the most prominent symbols... of the
Anunnaki.
China Monument.....
Resembling (Shem) Rocket
Mayan Phoenix.... is
Represented
by the Feathered Serpent...
and the Quetzal Bird
In the Mayan and
Aztec Legends.... you will find
Quetzalcoatyl... the great winged
serpent.... and the beautiful
Quetzal bird... takes
the place... of the
phoenix.
Fantastic Machu Pichu
Mayan Phoenix
Aztec Sunbird Phoenix
Ancient Astronaut
Nazca Lines
Sun Stone
For thousands of years... throughout
the whole Middle East,
the betyl or Sun Stone... became a
sacred fetish... revered
as
the physical dwelling... of the sun
god. Its conical or pyramidion shape... was their attempt... to
represent... the
dwelling of the sun god, that is,
the command or personal
capsule... of the first
stage... of a
composite rocket.
In Egypt, the origin of the Sun
Stone... is partially
remembered...
in the ancient hieroglyphic
sign... used to
represent... the City of
Annu or
Heliopolis. It is shown... as
a bolt.... aimed at the sky.
At Persepolis...... in
Iran... the Persian god... Ahura Mazda,
the Zoroastrian religion's supreme god...
whose name means
"Lord of Wisdom", is repeatedly depicted...
on stone reliefs...
as a human type figure... standing
within the "ring with wings
symbol" in a manner... that is
virtually identical... to the earlier depictions
of the Assyrian supreme deity, Ashur.
A silver plaque from Luristan... dating
from... the seventh or
eighth century BCE... depicts a central
winged anthropomorphic
being.... which is commonly interpreted...
as the Persian god...
and which seems to synthesize...
the characteristics...
of the winged solar disk... with
those... that are usually
attributed
to angels.
To the right...
of the primordial Sun God... is a
small
cross-like rosette... which is almost
certainly... a form... of the
solar cross... which was inspired... by
the total eclipse of the
sun.
All
of these figures, which can be
shown... to have been inspired
by the
total solar eclipse, may be considered
to be prototypical "angels".
THE GREEK OMPHALOS
AS A BETYL AND GEODETIC MARKER
Even the Greeks... who came much
later ... adopted the
conical-shaped stone... as a sacred
dwelling... of their Sun
God... Apollo. Called an "omphalos," it
was the most
sacred object... at every oracular site.
The Sun God Apollo, who later.... became...
one of the
most important gods... of the Greek
Pantheon, originally came
from Asia Minor, from Ionia. His
cult... first appeared... on
the Island of Delos... from where it
leap-frogged... to Dodona...
on mainland Greece.
In fact, the
Island of Delos... was
considered... so sacred...
that
it was
inviolate... in all the
Greek wars. Even the
Persians...
respected its sanctity...
and bypassed it.
In his Histories, Herodotus called Dodona... the oldest of
Greek oracles... and archaeologists... have
traced it back... to
about 2000 BC. It was the first
cult center... to Apollo... on
the mainland. As Dodona... declined in
importance, Delphi
replaced it... as a cult center.
Like Dodona, it
also had a half-egg stone... called an
omphalos. Herodotus said... that the
omphalos... here...
was wrapped with
cord, one end... of
which... was held by
the Pythia or Snake Priestess.... as
she queried the Sun
God... in the stone.
According to the
Greek mythologist... Robert Graves, the
sacred stone... at Delphi... was also
called "baetylos" by
the
Greeks. He refers to it...
as a cone-shaped pillar,
periodically... anointed with
oil, and
wrapped in raw
wool... on special
occasions. It was
the residence of a
god, and was said... to
have fallen
from heaven.
(In Greek
mythology, Baetylus... was
a son... of
the Sky
God Uranus.)
While the term "omphalos"... means...
the human navel...
in
Greek, its use here... seems to
be... that of "the navel
of the
Earth." Besides being the
residence... of the Sun God,
the omphalos...
was also a geodetic
marker.
It is interesting to note... and
pertinent... to this subject,
that if
a line is drawn through
the oracular sites of Dodona,
Delphi, and Delos, and continued......
towards the mainland...
it runs right
through Jerusalem.
Like the Greek sites, Jerusalem...
has often been referred to...
in ancient documents as "the navel of
the Earth," such as in
Jubilees 8... as well as Ezekiel.
It seems... that there was some
sort of geodetic grid... connecting sacred
places... in ancient
times.
Shamash... was also known... as the
god... of justice... and measurements. He
is shown... in one instance... with
two gods
overhead... holding cords... connected to an
altar... which bears
his sacred symbol.
Therefore, it seems that the term
"omphalos" ... was applied...
to the conical stone for its geodetic
meaning, that is, as the
geodetic point... of a master grid.
On the other hand, the term "baetylos"
was used to mean... the residence of
a god...
and referred to... in use... as an
oracular device.
In summary, the Phoenix bird...
rising in flames... became
symbolic... of the lift-off... of the
rocket craft... of the ancient astronauts.
Originally shown... in conical configuration,
an
imitation... of the command capsule, it
later became ...
angular-shaped...
under the Egyptians... who
used it ... as a
capstone... on
pyramids and obelisks.
Baalbeck... in
Lebanon... appears to be... the original
home...
of the Phoenix bird... where a
gigantic stone platform... is all
that remains... of what was probably...
the main base... for the chariots of
the gods.
According to the
"calendar in stone", of the Great
Pyramid… which describes.... the so-called
"Phoenix Cycle" of our galactic
orbit, the present time period ends....
converted to our present
calendar), in the year 2012 AD.
This date corresponds... directly
with the Mayan "End Time" calendar.
The Greek word Phoenix... derived
from the Egyptian word
PA-HANOK, meaning... " The House of Enoch",
suggests these
regular cataclysmic changes... act as an
evolutionary agent... provocateur... to
quicken.... the resident life forms... to
the next evolutionary phase... prior to
exodus... from the womb planet.
The discoveries
emerging... describe the existence... of
a world
wide temple system.... in prehistory,
mounted like antennae... on
the key energy
meridians, which were employed... by ancient
priest-scientists... as a musical "sound"
system... to stabilize...
the tectonic
plates... of the planet, cataclysmic geology...
at
its finest.
From the mother
tongue word... Jedaiah, meaning "the
way
of
the Word" or "the power of the
Word", the ancient Jedai
priests...
used the Language of Light ... to
tune the planet...
like a giant
harmonic bell.
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