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Fresh Batch #175: The Sacred Baths of the Sun & the Egyptian Name for Athens Used By Athenians Only
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Fresh Batch #175: The Sacred Baths of the Sun & the Egyptian Name for Athens Used By Athenians Only

Priests of Fire, the Origin of Praetors, Amonian Radicals Ain & Pthas, & the Divine Wisdom of Æon

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Jacob Bryant wrote (Ana. Anc. Myth. p. 51.), “Ain, An, En, for so it is at times expressed, signifies a fountain; and was prefixed to the names of many places, which were situated near fountains, and were denominated from them. In Canaan near the ford of Jordan were some celebrated waters; which from their name appear to have been of old sacred to the Sun. The name of the place was Ænon, or fountain of the Sun; the same, to which people resorted to be baptized by John: (Αινων εγγυς του Σαλειμ. Literally, this looks like Ainon, surety of Saleim. But figuratively, I suspect this is meant: The Fountain of the Sun, Guarantor of Peace. This would tie into Melchisedek being the King of Peace, the Pole Star, whose order, the cosmos, is an eternal priesthood, like to the son of God, the sun, but without mother, father, or genealogy. Bryant disagrees, but at no point has Bryant touched upon astrotheology other than the names of deity being derived from the sun and ascribed to everything else. Eusebius de locorum nominibus in sacrâ Script. Ain On, fons solis. Eusebius on the names of places in the Holy Scriptures. Ain On, the source of the sun. According to Bryant, Salem is not from Salem, peace, but from Sal, the Sun, the Sol of the Latines. Salim, Aquæ solis: Salim, the waters of the sun; also Aquæ salsæ, the salt waters, or waters of salvation. This may reference the Nile, or some other river, like the Tiber, where it empties into the sea.)

“But John baptized in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. (St. John. c. 3. v. 23.)”

Keep in mind that Ioannes, though written in Greek, is from a Latin mindset, thus signifying literally Io-annus, the year of the lord, which is Io, or God, Jupiter, or Janus, who holds the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is either derived from Oannes, or Oannes is derived from this. (I suspect the latter.) Recall that the bishops were called Pisciculi, meaning Little Fishes (the Latin SC functions like the modern English SH), and that piscis and bishop, formerly bisceop, have the same root, as well as Vishnu, who also takes the form of a fish.

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Painting of Matsya, the fish-incarnation of Viṣṇu. The upper body of Viṣṇu emerges from the body of the fish. A silk sash is draped over his elbows and has an intricate design. On laid and water-marked European paper, dated 1816.

People make the case of this originating in Babylon or India, but the system is much more intricate, expansive, and powerful in Italy, and so I suspect this is a coverup to support the Mosaic narrative.

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Bryant continued (Ib. pp. 51, 52.), “Many places were styled An-ait, An-abor, Anabouria, Anathon, Anopus, Anorus. Some of these were so called from their situation: others from the worship there established. The Egyptians had many subordinate Deities, which they esteemed so many emanations, απορροιαι (aporroiai), from their chief God; as we learn from Iamblichus, Psellus, and Porphyry. These derivatives they called fountains, and supposed them to be derived from the Sun; whom they looked upon as the source of all things. Hence they formed Ath-El, and Ath-Ain, the Athela, and Athena of the Greeks. (I disagree with the Athena etymology, as William Betham noted that Athena signifies From Tina, or A-Thina, in Celtic, (recall that the Greek eta, though literally transliterated as E, functions like a Latin I) because Athena is based on the Etruscan Menrva, who springs from the head of Tina, the Etrusco-Phoenician Jupiter, just like Athena springs from the head of Zeus.) These were two titles appropriated to the same personage, Divine Wisdom; who was supposed to spring from the head of her father. Wherever the Amonian religion was propagated, names of this sort will occur; being originally given from the mode of worship established.” (The Amonians dealt largely in fountain worship: that is in the adoration of subordinate dæmons, which they supposed to be emanations and derivatives from their chief Deity. They called them Zones, Intelligences, Fountains, &c. See Psellus and Stanley upon the Chaldaic Philosophy. p. 17. c. 3.)

It is frustrating that there is no mention of the Etruscans thus far in Bryant’s work. I’m not sure how he could not notice them, unless there is an agenda. But this is why I was motivated to do this work. This omission of the obvious pervaded status quo academia as far back as I can see, and continues till this day, and subsequently pervades the majority of content creators on streaming platforms and other video platforms such as YouTube and the like.

Bryant continued (Ib. pp. 52, 53.), “Hence so many places styled Anthedon, Anthemus, Ain-shemesh, and the like. The nymph Oenone (Οἰνώνη, Oinoni) was in reality a fountain, Ain-On, in Phrygia; and sacred to the same Deity: and agreeably to this she is said to have been the daughter of the river Cebrenus. (Edita de magno flumine Nympha fui. I was a Nymph from the great river. Ovid. Epist. 5. v. 10. Some make her the daughter of Cebrenus; others of the river Xanthus. Xanthus, is essentially Sanctus, or Saint, if looked at through the lens of a Latin mindset.) The island Ægina was named Oenone, and Oenopia, probably from its worship. As Divine Wisdom sometimes expressed Aith-Ain, or Αθηνα (Athena); so at other times the terms were reversed, and a Deity constituted called An-Ait. Temples to this Goddess occur at Ecbatana in Media: also in Mesopotamia, Persis, Armenia, and Cappadocia; where the rites of fire were particularly observed. She was not unknown among the ancient Canaanites; for a temple called Beth-Anath is mentioned in the book of Joshua. (Joshua. c. 19. v. 38.) Of these temples, and the Puratheia there established, accounts may be seen in many parts of Strabo.”

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Interesting to note that Anath is a poor transliteration, and pronunciation, given that it is claimed Hebrew took its letters from Phoenician. Anath, as you can see for yourself, is written ענת, which is ONT. The ayin is O (ע), which begets the Greek omicron. This might matter given that Bryant already conceded On was Helios, the sun.

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