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The Goddess religion since ancient times.
My grandmother and greatgrandmother did tell me
many things about the Goddess religion.
My greatgrandmother saw the Goddess religion
still as a reality.
She had been involved herself in younger years
and told of experiences of her own.
My grandmother only knew from stories and hearsay
of neighbours in her youth.
The things they told me were remarkably in the
same line as the
scientific archaeological results of hundreds
of excavations
in Goddess centres of 9000 years ago.
The University of California has published the
book "The Goddesses and Gods
of Old Europe" with the results of
intensive research in many places of the
Goddess civilization, which they call "Old
Europe". In this book the Goddess religion
comes forward as the Goddess civilization
undisturbed and peaceful
from 7000BC until 3500BC, with later branches
into Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia.
The Minoan civilization of Crete was a direct
branch of the Goddess civilization.
Directly after the melting of the Ice Caps in Europe,
the Goddess religion emerges in Ukraine,
Moldavia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia,
Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Greece and
Bulgaria.
Cities arise with Goddess sanctuaries.
From 5300BC writings are known.
Recently these writings have been identified as
hieroglyphs, more ancient then the Egyptian
hieroglyphs.
See the special page upon this translation.
Writings have been found in:
Dikilitash near Philipi, Greece dating 4500BC
Gradesnica near Vraca, Bulgaria 5000BC
Vinca, Serbia, 6000BC
Tartaria, Romania, 5300BC
Sukoro Toradulo, Hungary, 5000BC
The climate from 7000BC until 3000BC was much
warmer then it is now.
So harvests and agriculture were enriching the
area.
Also life outside the house was more normal.
The Goddess was venerated in thousands of
places.
Little statues of sometimes 3cm have been found
by the thousands.
This means that every house and perhaps every
person was the owner of its own statue.
The Goddess with child on her lap is a known
statue from the most ancient times.
So here in Old Europe this statue is known
thousands of years earlier then
in ancient Egypt or Sumeria, Babylon.
The Goddess is visualized in several ways:
as a woman Goddess
as a pregnant woman Goddess
as a Goddess closely involved with Snakes
as a Goddess closely involved with Fish
as a Goddess involved with some bird.
The Snake was a holy animal of the Goddess.
This is also found in the Old Testament where
Moses brings the Holy Snake
among the people and for 600 years the Holy
Snake is placed
in the tent temple and later in the stone
temple.
The Goddess religion is also using the cross
symbol.
The meaning of the cross symbol is the fulfillment
of the universe,
the four corners of the universe are stretching
unto the edges.
The cross symbol is also used in combination
with the moon crescent
and the bull horns.
Also the head of a bull with the moon between
its horns.
Does this remind you of Hathor thousands of
years later?
The male counterparts of the Goddess are two:
1. the God with the stiff penis,
2. the God with sorrow and pain.
1. Although these ancient times are prehistoric
and without translated
writings, there are so many explicit images
that it is sure, that the God with the stiff penis
in later times
became the Dionysus figure.
The name Dionysos is much more ancient then the
Greek civilization.
There are also strong relations with the
Orpheus religion.
Orpheus is depicted as Christ by the ancient
Christians.
See
the special page about this subject.
There are two explanations for
the name Dionysos in the scientific literature:
Dio nysos: God of (the city)
Nysos
Nysos would be the name of
an unknown ancient city of the
Goddess civilization.
or
Dion ysos: Lord Jesous
This would mean that the Greek name
"Jesous"
for Jesus is an ancient title of
the Goddess religion.
2. The God of sorrow and pain is an explicit
series of images
from every age and place in the Goddess
civilization.
This emphasises the relationship with ancient
Egypt
and with ancient Christianity.
The suffering God is certainly a major element
of Christianity.
The priests and priestesses were masked.
Masks are depicted on many images and even the
holes for the ropes are visible.
There are animal masks and dramatic masks.
A priestess with an animal mask surely also
draws a line to the much later ancient Egypt,
where human figures with animal faces were many
times depicted.
Also the Hathor priestesses were masked with
cow horns and the moon.
In the much later Greek civilization masks
became theatrical elements.
In Thracian Bulgaria masks played an important
role,
also with the royal families and in battle.
Famous are the Thracian warriors with golden
masks in the Ilias of Homeros.
Holy animals were for thousands of years:
domesticated dog (7000BC!)
bear
some water bird
salmon
honey bee
bull (the goddess and the priestesses were
wearing bull horns)
butterfly (much later evolving into the double
axe)
with the butterfly there was also attention for
the caterpillar.
The Goddess religion was peaceful until the
invasions started of the
male god adherents from the East, probably from
the North of Persia.
Three times the Goddess religion was invaded by
Indo-European tribes
and the Goddess was more and more suppressed by
male war gods.
Much later this is repeated in the Old Testament
when the Goddess religion
of Moses, Aaron and Miriam is destroyed by the
people coming out of exile
around 630 BC.
The temples are burned, the Holy Snake is
destroyed,
the holy Bulls are burned, the so-called
Heights are taken away.
Again the same is repeated in the re-writing of
the New Testament
around the year 350AD when God the Mother is
written out of the scriptures
and every aspect of ancient Christianity is erased.
The line of history becomes clear like a golden
thread:
-the most ancient civilization in the world is
the Goddess civilization
in the South West area of Europe: 9000-3000BC
-the Goddess attacked by male war gods from
3500BC until 630BC
Gradually the Goddess civilization is retreating
into other ways of religion:
the Hathor
religion and Amon-Mut-Khontu
in ancient Egypt;
the Dionysos and Orpheus
religion in Bulgaria and Macedonia;
the religion of Jana and Janus in
Western Europe.
Through ancient Egypt the golden line of
history is kept unbroken into
the peaceful and loving Christian religion,
where the suffering God is dying for
redemption,
where God the Mother is caring for her
children.
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2007
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