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DeeDee D's avatar

What an utterly delightful read this morning! Long live the Fungi! ❤️🍄 Wishing everyone Merriness all around, and a magnificent 2023 for our beleaguered planet. Thanks again Thom!

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William Farrar's avatar

My two cents.

About 10,000 years ago agricultural communities developed, some believe in the fertile crescent

Farming requires the warmth of the sun, but to the eyes of the ancients the sun was a god (Egyptians called it Ra), and this life giving god had a tendency to wax and wane, to rise and fall, and tease the farmer each year that it was going to disappear forever, because after the Autumnal Equinox, the sun started to rise later and setsooner each day, until on Dec 21st (at the solsitice), it stopped its descent into the grave of the underworld, and for three days it hung motionless in it’s grave, and finally on the third day it arose from the grave, and on Dec 25th assembled crowd would gather, and you could hear ringing out alleluia (praise ye Ia), or Hallelujah. The Greek world celeberated this arsing from the grave as the Dionysia, the Romans as the Bacchanaliua (Greek Dionysos which means son of god, Roman Bachus)

Given that the Bacchanalia celeberated the resureection of the son, logically the church of Romeshould have chosen it as the passion, but they were ignorant and allergic to science, and needed something to supplant the Bacchanalia so chose the nativity of their IHSus.

IHSus, iota eta sigma in Greek, the eta (H) is both a consonant and a vowel,depending on it’s placement.

At the beginning of a word it is harsh, much like the Franco English “J”, in the middle of a word it is soft, like an “E” hence Iulius is pronounced Julius. Transliterated into Latin, the signet of Dionysos (son of god or son Zeus) IHS became Ies, to which the masculine "us" was added hence Iesus or Jesus And that is how the Hebrew Yahooshua or Joshua9which means savior)became Jesus, and the son of Zeus became the son of god, and how Christians celebrate the birth of the son of Zeus on Dec 25h.

Edit added: The Chi Rho (papal seal) was actually the signet of Astarte (aka Asherah, Istar, Astar) the fierce warrior and fertility goddess. This is the symbol that Constantine had painted on the shields of his army at the battle of the Milivian bridge, where he defeated the Eastern Roman Emperor

An employment of psychological warfare that terrified the opposing army. It does not represent the CH in Christ, as we are told. Why would they incorporate the CH into the Papal signet?

The Greeks had no word for messiah, which is what Christ is suppose to mean, but they had a word for rubbing with oil, christos, which was close enough for the purpose of "anointing with oil" which is what a Jewish messiah or holy man would be.. anointed with oil. See also Crisco.

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