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Fresh Batch #180: History Crushed by the Falsehood of Mythology (Strabo's Admission)
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Fresh Batch #180: History Crushed by the Falsehood of Mythology (Strabo's Admission)

The Mistake of Jerobaom, Amonian Radicals Beth, Gau, and Evidence that Camil, Cadmus, Jupiter, Zeus, Hermes, Mercury are the same.

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Sleep and Death Carrying off the Slain Sarpedon (cista handle), 400-380 BC, Etruscan, bronze - Cleveland Museum of Art
Sleep and Death Carrying off the Slain Sarpedon (cista handle), 400-380 BC, Etruscan, bronze - Cleveland Museum of Art

Notice the facial hair on the Etruscan bronzes. The following is a comparison of the only bust remaining that was made of Julius Caesar while he was alive, compared to the Don (Lord) of my family, Domenico Caesar, two millennia apart. It is significant given that Caesar is an Etruscan name, not a Roman one, and that Etruscan language has no affinity to Greek or Indo-European. As we’ve covered, there is evidence that prominent families, and those connected to the priesthoods, named themselves after titles of the Deity, the mediator of which was considered to be the sun. The ancient Etruscan system is found everywhere their navigators settled, called by the rest of the world Pelasgians, Tyrrhenians, and Phoenicians. Their languages, from the peninsula of Italy, are still unable to be translated because they are alien to the rest of the world, yet the rest of the world, from the Mediterranean to India, uses their alphabet and religious systems. As you can see, the Caesar phenotype was Celtic/Central-European, not oriental.

Julius & Domenico Cæsar

Sol, in Hetrusca etiam lingua Esar vocatus est.

The sun (Sol Invictus), in the Etruscan language is also called Esar. (El Schedius de Diis German. p. 108; Vall. Coll. Hib. Vol. V. p. 91.)

Æsar, id est, reliqua pars e cæsaris nomine Etrusca lingua Deus vocatur.

Aesar, which forms the remaining part of the name of Caesar, is in the Etruscan language the denomination of God. (Suetonius. Vita Aug. Cap. xcvii.)

“In the Gothic language, As, Aes, Aesus, is the name of Odin, or by way of distinction, that of God. In the plural, it is Asar and Aesir.” (Jameison’s Orig. of Greeks, p. 151.)

The Irish, whose language is observably descended from Punic (Sicilian Phoenician), also called God by the name of Aesar. Notice how aes signifies an age.

O’Reilly’s Irish Dictionary

As you read the accounts of Bryant, who supposes everything to have come from the Kingdom of Amon, keep in the back of your mind that I can demonstrate, through language and the archaeological record that this system comes from Europe, specifically Italy, and the phenotype of these cultures is largely what people refer to as Central European. It was not till the 6th century AD, long after the history of the Etrusco-Phoenician and Roman Empires, that the Ottomans invaded Europe & North Africa, changing the phenotypes around the Mediterranean and parts of Europe forever.


Beth.

Jacob Bryant wrote (Anal. Anc. Myth. pp. 96-7.), “Beth is a house or temple; as in Beth-El (Βαιθηλ, οικος Θεου. Baithel, house of God. Hesychius.), Beth-Dagon, Beth-Shemesh, Beth-Oron, or Beth-Or-On, &c. &c. It is sometimes subjoined, as in Phar-beth, and Elisa-beth; the latter of which is the house of Elisa, the same as Elusa of Idume, and Eleusa of Egypt. (Elisa, called Eliza, Elesa, Eleasa, Ελεασα. 1 Maccab. c. 9. v. 5. and c. 7. v. 40. often contracted Lesa, Lasa, &c.) Beth was in different countries, expressed Bat, Bad, Abad. (Would this make Abaddon, the angel of the abyss, the House of God?) Hence we meet at this day with Pharsabad, Astrabad, Amenabad, Moustafabad, Iahenabad in Persia, India, and other parts of the east. Balbec in Syria is supposed to be the same as Balbeth, the temple of Bal, or the Sun. There are, says Dr. Pocock (Pockock’s Travels. Vol. 2. p. 106.), many cities in Syria, that retain their ancient names. Of this Balbeck, or rather Balbeit, is an instance; which signifies the house or temple of Baal. Gulielmus Tyrius, so called from being bishop of Tyre, who wrote of the Holy war, alludes to Baalbec, under the name of Balbeth. (Iablonsky. Vol. 1. L. 1. c. 1. p. 4. de Gulielmo Tyrio, ex libro 21. c. 6.) He lived in the eleventh century, and died anno 1127. According to Iablonsky, Bec and Beth are of the same meaning. Atarbec in Egypt is the temple of Atar or Athar; called Athribites (Αθρειβιτης) by Strabo. (L. 17. p. 1167.) The inner recess of a temple is by Phavorinus and Hesychius called Βαιτης (Baites), Βετης (Betes), Βετις (Betis), similar to בית אש (bit as, or esh, meaning house of fire, or of the sun) among the Chaldeans. It was the crypta or sacred place, where of old the everlasting fire was preserved. Hesychius observes, Βετης, το αποκρυφον μερος του Ίερου. (Betes, prounced Vetis, the hidden part of the Sacred.) Bet-Is signifies the place of fire.”

I don’t have much to add, other than to remind the reader that when these scholars of old say Chaldean, they allegedly refer to what moderns call Aramaic. If the modern images and explanations can be depended on, it is clearly descended from the Etrusco-Phoenician system. This indicates an ancient Italian origin, not a Mesopotamian or Chaldean origin, save for the Europeans bringing this system of writing eastward when the Etrusco-Phoenicians possessed Asia, if Conon’s account can be depended on. Also, Eleusa is Elios, or a play on Helios, whether intentionally or not.

Bryant continued (Ib. p. 97.), “It is said of Horapollo by Suidas, that he was a native of Phainubuth in Egypt, belonging to the nome of Panopolis: Ώραπολλων Φαινυβυθεως κωμης του Πανοπολιτου Νομου. (A nome is one of 36 territorial divisions of Egypt.) Phainubuth is only Phainabeth varied, and signifies the place sacred to Phanes (the shining one); which was one of the most ancient titles of the Deity in Egypt. So Pharbeth was an abbreviation of Pharabeth, or the house of Pharaoh.”

Gau, expressed Cau, Ca, and Co.

Bryant wrote (Ib. pp. 97, 98.), “Gau likewise is a term which signifies a house; as we learn from Plutarch. The great and decisive battle between Alexander and Darius is generally said to have been fought at Arbela. But we are assured by this writer, that it was decided at Gaugamela. (Ταυτα μεν ουν Ερατοθενης ίστορηκεν την δε μεγαλην μαχην προς Δαρειον ουκ εν Αρβηλοις–αλλα εν Γαυγαμηλοις γενεσθαι συνεπεσεν σημαινειν δε φασιν οικον Καμηλου την διαλεκτον. While Eratothenes told the story of the great battle against Darius (Dareion), not in Arvilos—but in Gaugamelos, which meant House of Kamelos in that dialect. (Gau-gamelos; recall the historical philological interchange between the C/K and G.) Plutarch. vita Alexand. Vol. 1. p. 683. Strabo says the same. L. 16. p. 1072.) He says, that Gau signified in the language of the country a house: and that the purport of the word Gaugamela was the house of the camel. (Καμηλου, which is kamelou, signifies camel in Greek.) This name, it seems, was given to the town on account of a tribute exacted for the maintenance of a camel, which had saved the life of some king, when he fled from battle: and the reason why the victory of Alexander was adjudged to Arbela, arose from its being more famous than the other place: for Gaugamela was not of sufficient repute: therefore the honour of this victory was given to Arbela, though it was according to some five hundred, according to others six hundred stadia from the field of battle. (Arrian. Expedit. Alex. L. 6. p. 247.) I have not now time, nor is it to my purpose, to enter into a thorough discussion of this point: I will only mention it as my opinion, that Arbela and Gaugamela were the same place. The king alluded to is said by Strabo to have been Darius the son of Hystaspes. (Strabo. L. 16. p. 1072.) But is it credible, that so great a prince, who had horses of the famous breed of Nysa, as well as those of Persia and Arabia, the most fleet of their kind, should be so circumstanced in battle, as to be forced to mount a camel, that could scarce move six miles in an hour: and this at a time when the greatest dispatch was necessary? This author gives a different reason for the place being thus denominated. He says, that it was allotted for the maintenance of a camel, which used to bring the king’s provisions from Scythia, but was tired and failed upon the road. I know not which of the two circumstances in this short detail is most exceptionable; a king of Persia’s provisions being brought to Babylon, or Sushan from Scythia; or a tired camel having such a pension. The truth is this: the Grecians misinterpreted the name, and then forged these legendary stories to support their mistake. (Strabo acknowledges the failure of his countrymen in this respect.—Πολλα μεν ουν και μη οντα λεγουσιν όι Αρχαιοι Συγγραφεις, συντεθραμμενοι τω ψευδει δια της μυθολογιας. —The Ancient Writings say many things that are and are not, but they are crushed by the falsehood of mythology. Strabo. L. 8. p. 524.)

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“Had they understood the term, they would have been consistent in their history. Gau, and, as it was at times expressed, Cau, certainly signifies a house, or temple: also a cave, or hollow; near which the temple of the Deity was founded. For the Amonians erected most of their sacred edifices near caverns, and deep openings of the earth. Gaugamela was not the house of a camel, as Plutarch and Strabo would persuade us, notwithstanding the stories alleged in support of the notion: but it was the house and temple of Cam-El (God Cham or Ham), the Deity of the country. Arbela was a place sacred to Bel, called Arbel, אור בל (aur bl) of the Chaldeans. It was the same as Beth Arbel of Hosea: and Gaugamela is of the same purport, relating to the same God under different titles.” (Hosea. c. 10. v. 14. Ar in this place does not signify a city; but , אור (Aur) the title of the Deity: from whence was derived ίερος (hieros; sacred, holy) of the Greeks. The seventy, according to some of their best copies, have rendered Beth Arbel οικον Ιερο-Βααλ (house of Holy Baal), which is no improper version of Beth-Aur-Bel. In some copies we find it altered to the house of Jeroboam; but this is a mistake for Jero-Baal. Arbelus is by some represented as the first deified mortal. Cyril contra Julian. L. 1. p. 10. and L. 3. p. 110. There was an Arbela in Sicily. Stephanus, and Suidas. Also in Galilee; situated upon a vast cavern. Josephus seized and fortified it. Josephi Vit. p. 29.)

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An interesting but anecdotal side note to this is the question of whether Gaul is related to this radical, as in Gau-El, the House or Land of the Strong, or of God. To learn more about the mistakes or forgeries of the priesthood, in converting fabulous mythoses into chronological historical accounts, and the implications it has on the system of government you experience today, invest in the Spirit Whirled series. To learn about the culture that has all but been unaccounted for during this farrago of history, read The Real Universal Empire.

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