SATURN MEETS PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

With the New Moon in Sagittarius, the sign of great Zeus, and the need to get on the move, it is time to take stock of the world situation and our place in it; more so as Mars meets Neptune in Pisces. Can we rise to the call of the spirit of mother Earth and our greater environment of the solar system?

Everyone is talking of the great conjunction of Pluto and Saturn in the sign of Capricorn. These two planets will be joined by Jupiter at the end of 2019. This is a very unusual gathering of planets in the sign of the generous teacher and master or in the negative, of the selfish controller.

Pluto settled in Capricorn at the end of 2008. Saturn entered Capricorn at the end of 2017. Here is the commencement of the testing of how we use or have been using power in the past; from the simplest form of sharing knowledge willy-nilly over the internet, to the greater and more complex traditional concept of power as wielded by the rulers of countries and corporations. 

As we move through the next couple of years there is likely to be an increase in this ambition, desire for power and mastery – can it be done in a way that is beneficial to the whole of humanity, or will it be just for the few, who in control of the social and moral rules aim to forcibly direct everyone else? All depends on our general evolution, our willingness to take personal responsibility; it is dependent on the degree of understanding that has been developed through past experiences, and dare we say, how much true spiritual motivation has been achieved, over the past 6-7 years.

Kronos contemplating

Without altruistic thought, the strong and over bearing Capricorn influence that is now with us will most likely manifest in harsh and contradictory behaviour and attitudes that tolerate no opposition. As we try to bring the world and our lives back into some sort of balance, we are being presented with an opportunity to attain a greater degree of spirituality and humanitarian concern, or alternatively take the road that will plunged us further into the depths of materialism and selfishness, which attitude usually ends up in war, if past history is anything to go by.

How shall we proceed? Let us take a more serious, down-to-earth and conservative approach to life before life presents us with the ultimatum of ‘pull yourself into line or be destroyed’. Let us maintain dignity though, rather than take up a foolish attitude of cold austerity, or allow ourselves to wallow in gloom and melancholy at the difficulty of it all. However, a little melancholy and introspection may not go astray as it has the ability to assist our going inwards in order to contemplate the dilemma we have got ourselves into, and to ponder on where we have been and where we need to go. Sometimes we need as individuals to feel alone and isolated in order to face where we have gone wrong and then try to build self-sufficiency and a bridge between self-interest and willing service to others. How are you using your power over other people? Do you guard your thoughts and actions, or even realise how these affect other people’s lives?

Albrecht Durer ‘Melancholy'

Over the next couple of years, life could get a whole lot more of a serious business in dealing with necessity and daily struggle of routine to keep up a good standard of living. We must be very vigilant not to judge solely according to price or reputation or status, more so if this has been our guiding mantra of the past recent years. But whilst you are dealing with the boring repetitive side of life, don’t give up on humour, well placed humour acts as a good oil to keep the wheels of industry turning smoothly. We must move towards that point of not over valuing materialism and reputation, that point that some of our younger members of humanity have been shouting for recently. 

Work towards being more self-disciplined, conservative and practical, but not unscrupulous and callous on the one hand or rigid in attitude and belief on the other. Thrift without restriction is what we should be aiming for; high standards and practical common-sense of the good organizer needs to be nurtured. Let us capitalize on our strengths rather than over emphasise the weaknesses of others. Inner strength, persistence and a strong sense of responsibility are likely to be called for over the coming years. When you think about it, perhaps we have had it too easy for too long and in our untrammelled freedom from any conscience about what we go for, we have forgotten how to conserve, value, protect and respect. After all, Capricorn, the sign of the goat is also the sign of the master of self-discipline, of the initiate striving to reach the top of the mountain, both physically and metaphorically. Can we make a magnificent effort and conquer the mountain of our own misdoings or will we slip and fall into an even bigger hole? 

The year 2021, following the Great Conjunction of the chronocrators, Saturn and Jupiter, will reveal how well we have done and what the following thirty years will look like. 2021 is the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, a 20-year cycle of political construct and socio-economic attitudes.

‘The Thinker at the Gate of Hell’ by Rodin for Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 34.

c1795 BCE           HAMMURABI (c1795-1750) the Great, is a Semitic Amorite king of Assyria who unites the individual city states of Mesopotamian under one code of Law. This Law is reminiscent of that of Moses because Hammurabi also received his Law from a god, the god being the sun god Shamash. The code is inscribed on a black basalt stele which is capped by a relief sculpture of the king receiving the inspiration for it from the flame-shouldered sun god. The event takes place on a mountain, (097)as it does in turn for the later Moses. Hammurabi is also written Hammurapi, which probably refers to the western Semitic healing god, Hammu. (231)

Hammurabi stele of Laws. Louvre

                                   The laws of Hammurabi and the future Moses (1362 BCE) may have a common origin in those of the Sumerian King Lipit-Ishtar (1865 BCE) or the even to be descended from the early King Urukagnia of Lagash [c2340].

                                   Hammurabi was the sixth of eleven kings in the Old Babylonian (Amorite) Dynasty. New data puts his reign from 1728 to 1686 and he enacted the law of the land in his second year. An Elamite raider, Shutruk-Nahhunte, carried off the stela to the old Elamite capital Susa, between 1207-1171 BCE. (192)

1765                       In about 1765 BCE, the Semites will conquer Sumeria and establish the New Babylonian Empire, covering the whole of Mesopotamia and centred on the ancient city of Babylon sited on the River Euphrates (modern Iraq). (13)In the time of this ruler the supreme triad will be composed of the gods of Heaven, Earth and Water; Sin, Shamash and Ishtar.  Sin the Moon, was regarded as the most powerful of the three. (15) 

Symbols of Venus Moon & Sun

Star of Ishtar, Crescent of Sin, disk of Shamash

                                   SIN was the original Moon-god of Mount Sinai, “Mountain of the Moon”. He was born of the Virgin Queen of Heaven, Nanna or Inanna and ruled the Land of Sinim (Isaiah 49:12) an older form of Zion. The Chaldean name for Sin was Kingu. As Sin, he was the god who received the Tablets of Law from the primal Mother Goddess of Creation, Tiamat. Sin will also be the god of Moses in the future; the Jehovah of the Hebrews was simply another transformation of the primitive lunar deity of Arabia. [13]

The dragon/serpent Tiamat

                         From around this time, military society starts to grow and women’s status gradually declines as a result. (9)

1738                This is the Greek Manentho’s date for the beginning of the New Kingdom of Egypt covering Dynasties XVII-XX.

c1700 BCE    A section of the wandering Indo European tribes known as the Hittites settle in Anatolia (Turkey) and establish a capital at Hattusha. (76)

                        This is thought to be the estimated time of the creation of the Ecliptic Zodiac comprised 

                        of  stellar groupings.

Babylonian Stele depicting astronomical symbols c1120 BCE 

[British Museum]

Mars Retrograde

Mars looking glum!!

The planet Mars has been experiencing a dust storm. Maybe that is why he has been appearing so red in the past few days; so fiery and angry. 

If you are having trouble getting anything done in the usual way or even experiencing a terrible go slow, it may be because Mars is in his retrograde phase - that phase in his orbit where he appears to us on Earth to be moving backwards! What happens when you try to walk backwards? Yep, you have to go much slower and even try to intuit what lies behind you or in your path because you cannot see it with your physical eyes! Try not to trip and fall as you retrace old ground.

There is always a purpose to everything and the purpose of this period of moving more slowly may be needed so that we can get a better perspective on the bigger picture of life and your actions.

Mars is retrograde in the sign Aquarius until mid August and then retrograde in the sign of Capricorn until the end of August before changing to his regular and direct motion so that he can move back through Capricorn and return to Aquarius in his forward motion.

Whilst Mars is going backwards in Aquarius try to become more detached about your humanitarian ideas and pursuits rather than staying myopic, awkward and difficult in the pursuit of what you think is right.

Whilst Mars is going backwards in Capricorn try to be more respectful of authority, the elderly and not too caught up in your own importance.

Then reverse the process through September and throw out all the old stuff and ways of thinking and look to the future and a better way of doing things. But be very careful not to 'throw the baby out with the bath water', hang on to what has proved too valuable to lose.

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 33.

Aryan of Persia. [Barbier]

1800 BCE        Height of Old Babylonian Empire. About this time, the Aryans of the Eran/Iranian plateau become three distinct groups. One group moves on the Indus Valley and one group migrates to the Zargros Mountains. Those that remain on the plateau are the tribes of Medes and Persians. The latter eventually come to dominate and follow the great prophet Zoroaster. [176]

                       ZOROASTER as the first in a line of succession, this Zoroaster establishes a religion named after him and based on ‘Fire Worship’. Zoroaster created the writings known as the Gathas, which will become the only surviving literature of the ancient Persians. Eventually the Gathas will be incorporated in the Zend Avesta or Persian Holy Scripture. The writings nominate good and bad as the two primal spirits or cosmic forces, who reveal themselves in vision as the Twins. The Zend Avesta that has come down to us is thought to be only a breviary of the original work of prayers and litanies of the Parsees [Persians] The work contains fragments of the original wisdom of Zeradosht, the original Zoroaster probably dating from 6000 BCE. The primitive Avesta was divided into 21 parts called ‘Nosk’ recording the details of nature, much like the Vedas of the Hindus. Part of the Avesta treats of the origin of Beings and the birth of the Universe. The origins of the Zend wisdom are thought to be Chaldean. The undeciphered inscriptions of Persepolis [Isthakr] are of the same tongue as the original sacred books of the Zend. Zend in turn is a dialect of Sanskrit. (300)

Double headed column capital from Persepolis. [Barbier]

The branch of the Aryans moving to settle in the Punjub (upper valley of the Indus River of India) met with the resident occupants who are dark-skinned people known as the Dravidians. The Dravidians have an advanced culture and are possibly related to the Chaldeans of Mesopotamia. Also present in the Punjub area are wilder tribes speaking Munda idioms and having affinity with the Negroids of Indo-China and Australia. These three groups of people, the Aryans, Dravidians and Munda, eventually will become intermixed, with the addition at some point of the Mongolian ethnic group. 

The original inhabitants of India were matriarchal (as for most earlier races). The Aryan/Iranian impose their male dominated caste system on the other inhabitants as Sun worship over comes Moon worship. History and mythology of the Aryans is known through the Vedic and Brahmanic philosophical literature of ancient India. (40)

Zurvan, god of time gives birth to Light and Dark. [Larousse]

c1800             This time is also the start of the Second Intermediate Period in the land of Egypt. Dynasties 13-17 between the ‘Middle Kingdom’ and the ‘New Kingdom’, is a period when decadence and disorganization reign as the invasion of the Hyksos, Semitic nomads, takes place. However, these nomads will adopt Egyptian customs and artistic-religious ideas.

                       The Middle Minoan Period of Crete civilization also gets underway as well as the early Mycenaean period on the Greek mainland. This is the Heroic age of Troy and the Mystery Religions of Greece where at Eleusis (west of Athens) the Pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Demeter and Kore/Persephone is established for the performance of the Eleusinian mysteries. The Temple of initiation, the Telesterion, could seat 3,000. From 6^thcentury BCE Eleusis will be dominated by Athens and the ‘Sacred Way’ connect Athens to Eleusis.

Gods and Heroes of Asia Minor

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 32.

Star Sirius

1878                SESOTRIS III [Senusret III] his reign is according to heliacal rising of Sothis. Gimmel estimates his reign to be 1878-1842 BCE.  Coffin texts written in hieratic script of this time, show the addition of new spells to the originals of the ‘Book of the Coming Forth by Day’.  These texts are the direct predecessors of the papyri texts of the future. The Osiris myth now takes over from that of the sun-god (Falcon Horus) in the ‘After-Life’ of Egyptian mythos.

                        IKHERNOFRET is an officer at the court of Sesostris III. He is responsible for organizing the yearly festival of the mystery ceremony of the ‘Osirian Cycle’. This is recorded on a stela, giving an outline only of the several steps or acts of this mystery play in which the god Osiris is led to the west before being resurrected. [293]

Egyptian god of the Dwat Osiris

c1865              LIPIT-ISHTARSumerian King of Isin, has a law code which resembles the Covenant Code of the Bible (Ex.chs.21-23) upon which the ‘Code of Hammurabi’, and that of Israel, will be based in the future. (173) 

c1840             AMENEMHET III (Amonemhat/Ammenemes) son of Senuset/Sesostris III, builds a pyramid at Hawara in the Faiyuim/Fayum area of Egypt. He also builds the ‘Labyrinth’, a large mortuary temple south of that pyramid. Amenemhet also built the ‘House of Sebek of Shedet’ and he places statues on pedestals in the lake, which were the sepulchers of King Moeris and his wife. (49)Amenemhet III also built a temple complex to the serpent goddess Renenutet (Termuthyis) at Medinet Madi (Narmouthis) in the Faiyium. This complex will continue to grow under the reign of Amenemhet IV. At the south side of the entrance to the Faiyuim, near el Lahun a Temple of Tuthmosis III will be built in the future. This area will again flourish in 18-19^thDynasties. 

                       JOSEPH One of the 12 sons of Biblical Jacob, is sold into ‘slavery’ in Egypt. He is later appointed overseer, at the age of 30 years, under the reigning Pharaoh Amenemhat III of Egypt, and therefore is postulated as the overseer of the Faiyium works. (60)

                       Gn. 41:39-43. ‘And Pharaoh said unto Joseph…Thou shalt be over my house and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou…and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.’ Subsequently Joseph’s father Jacob/Israel and 70 family members followed him into Egypt to escape the famine in Canaan. 

                        An alternative view to this timing is that Joseph went to Egypt in the time of Tuthmosis IV. (131) 

Egyptian Sun god of the West

NEW MOON in TAURUS

A good time to start on that exercise program and avoid being a lazy couch potato. Ease back on the sweet cookies and all that delicious luxury goods. Show your love of nature and the natural beauty that surrounds you. Demonstrate all the affection and generosity that you can muster. Thus, your month can be one of bliss in the garden of Eden.

HATHOR goddess of Taurus; guardian of the eastern gate.

HYMN TO HATHOR

All hail, Jubilation to you, O Golden One,

Sole ruler, Uraeus of the Supreme Lord himself! 

Mysterious one who gives birth to the divine entities,

forms the animals, models them as she pleases, fashions men.

O Mother!...Luminous One who thrusts back the

darkness, who illuminates every human creature with her rays,

Hail, Great One of many names.

You from whom the divine entities come forth in this your name of Mut-Isis!

You-who-cause the throat to breathe, daughter of 

Re, whom he spat forth from his mouth in this your name of Tefnut!

O Neith who appeared in your barque in this your

                                                          name of Mut!

O Venerable Mother, you who subdue your

                                                          adversaries in this your name of Nekhebet!

O You-who-know-how-to-make-right-use-of-the-

                                                          heart, you who triumph over your enemies in

                                                          this your name of Sekhmet!

It is the Golden One...the lady of drunkenness of

                                                          music, of dance, of frankincense, of the crown,

                                                          of young women, whom men acclaim because they love her!

It is the Gold of the divine entities who comes forth at 

                                                          her season, in the month of Epiphi, the day of the 

                                                          new moon, at the festival of 'She is Delivered'....

Heaven makes merry, the earth is full of gladness,

                                                          the Castle of Horus rejoices.

(Translation after M. Alliot, Le Culte d'Horus a Edfou. Lamy)

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 31.

2^nd MILLENIUM BCE (1999-1000)

2^nd mil BCE     Indo-European nomadic warriors of patriarchal organisation invade the Aegean. The indigenous pre-Hellenic societies were of matriarchal organisation that is, the Minoan goddess-worship of Crete. The male and female deities united to constitute the Olympian pantheon and the pluralism is reflected in social dichotomy of A.-rituals of the Olympian deities, the sky god Zeus and his pantheon. B.- Followers of the Mystery religions, such as Orphic, Dionysian and Eleusian, which drew on pre-Greek and oriental traditions of death-rebirth initiation, fertility cults and worship of the Great Mother Goddess. (19)The associated ‘Thesmophoria’ is a Greek woman’s annual three-day festival dedicated to the wheat goddess Demeter. (9)

                       Orphic Hymns of the 2^ndmillennium BCE indicate that the Greeks of this early period had advanced astronomical knowledge, knowing that the seasons were the result of earth’s orbit around the sun. As the sun moved along the ecliptic, the four markers of the Equinoxes and Solstices where identified along with earth’s axial rotation oriented to the north celestial pole. This knowledge the Orphics passed on to their initiates. (68)Not because it was particularly secret but because the general populace was uninterested.

                       Hebrew patriarchs of this time migrate from Mesopotamia to Palestine as part of the migration of Amorites who were northwest Semitic peoples. (173)

                       Semitic people inhabiting Syria-Palestine develop an alphabet; called “North Semitic” it consists of 22 characters each representing a consonant; written right to left. From here the alphabet was eventually to diffuse east as Hebrew=Aramaic=Arabic; Indian=Sanskrit. To the west as Phoenician=Greek (where it accumulated vowel characters) and lead to Etruscan = Roman =classic Latin = modern western alphabet. The alphabet will continue to spread through the church scholars; through the Roman Catholics using the Latin alphabet; through the Greek Orthodox church using the Cyrillic script. (114)

c2000 BCE       NETWER AMUN[Amonet or Amunet] symbolized in the Ram, supplants Mentu the Bull as the highest deity of Egypt. This event corresponds with the Precession of the Vernal Point from Taurus to Aries in its backward slide around the constellations. [067]

Avenue of Ram headed sphinx in Karnack.

                        In a general way, the second millennium is regarded as the ‘Age of the Patriarchs’ (c2000-1600BC), the Biblical fathers, or the 10 purported ancestors of the human race possibly the same as the 10 mythical kings of Akkad prior to the Flood of Genesis. Most commonly thought of as Abraham (c2000BC), Isaac (c1900BC), Jacob (c1800BC) and Jacob’s sons. However, some authors push Abraham back to 2081. Centered on Israel, these characters mark the origin of Judaism and its worship of Yahweh. Their sacred book being the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, of which the first five books are called the ‘Torah’ or the ‘Five Books of Moses’ (c1350 BCE) and contain God’s laws, ritual prescriptions and the early Jewish history of migration into Egypt, the Exodus back to Canaan and the establishment of the Israelite monarchy. (9)

1963 BCE        An alternate date for the Vernal Point entering sidereal Aries. 

1950                IBBI-SINis the last king of Ur, archaeological period III of Mesopotamia. Around this time, Elamites invade a weakened Sumer and destroy the city of Ur. Semitic Amorites, nomads from the west and of the same stock as Israel’s ancestors, (173)join those in Sumer, rise up and take power. They establish a capital at Babylon and a new dynasty of kings. Sixth in this line of kings will be Hammurabi who will build the great Babylonian Empire of the future by absorbing the Sumerian city states and uniting them with North Mesopotamia. The resultant culture will reflect the mixed law and culture of the Amorites and Sumerians. 

c1900 BCE       ISAACson of the first Patriarch of the Hebrews; Abraham and his wife Sarah.

                        At this time, from Egyptian Hieroglyphic symbols developed a more cursive form for easier writing on papyrus, known as hieratic. (114)Does the Hebrew script originates here? The Hebrews are the successors of the ancient knowledge that came through the Egyptians. The Hebrew letters are the secret hieroglyphs from Egypt, given to them by an heretic Egyptian leader called Moses. (161. 300)

1894                OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD (1894-1595 BCE). Royal women serve as chief priestesses. One type of priestess called the ‘naditu’, live as cloistered celibates in isolated communities. They are of independent means and set up independent households within such a community. (9)

c1890 BCE       JACOB, a patriarch of the Hebrews and son of Isaac, will be renamed Israel, Is-Ra-El ‘striver with God’ or the light of God. He has 12 sons from whom descend the Biblical 12 tribes of Israel (Jacob) symbolized in the 12 constellations. They worship the One God by the name of Yahweh. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in linear descent, received divine revelation of this one true God who promised that man should be free through their descendants. Jacob’s sons sold their brother Joseph into slavery in Egypt. When famine broke out in Canaan (Palestine), Joseph, who had previously found favour in Egypt, received his father and his brothers there and they prospered for many years.  Much later, their descendants will be enslaved, possibly during the reign of Seti I (r.c1309-1291). These descendants will eventually emerge from captivity under the leadership of Moses c1250 BCE. (114)

                        From Jacob’s progeny, there will arise a new race, that of the mighty Greeks. The Anglo-Saxons will eventually carry forward the evolution of the house of Jacob and Israel. (160)

                        

                        BENJAMINheads one of the tribes of Israel/Jacob. He is called ‘Son of My Right Hand’, ‘Ruler of the South’ and the summer sun. December 23^rd[solstice] is the sacred day of this tribe. (36)

                        Benjamin’s tribe is apportioned territory in the ‘Promised Land’ that will become the site of the sacred city Jerusalem, the Holy City, and capital of Judea in the future. The Benjamites worship Belial, a variation of the Sumerian Mother Goddess (Babylonian Ishtar; Phoenician Astarte). From the Tribe of Benjamin is to come the first Israelite king, Saul who will be elected by the people rather than selected by God. A war between the tribes, over the activities of the worshippers of Belial, ended with many Benjamites going into exile to Arcadia (Greece).(7)

                        ARCADIA comes from Arkades ‘People of the Bear’ whose totem is the sacred bear. They are said to be descended from the deity Arkas, patron of Arcadia and son of Kallisto, the nymph of Artemis the Huntress. Kallisto is associated with the constellation Ursa Major. (7)

            DANAUS, son of King Belus (Belial), and his daughters, as colonists from Palestine (Canaan), bring to the Peloponnesus (Greece) the cult of the Mother Goddess. (33)

FULL MOON in Scorpio

FULL MOON in Scorpio on the 30th April was aligned with the giant planet Jupiter. Therefore, everything of Scorpio interest gets expanded for the rest of this lunar cycle. Watch out if you have no personal control.

Deep passion, sensuous overflow, chasing down pleasure and going beyond. Danger of over indulgence and brooding wants.

For those in control of these tumultuous passions, there is much work to do in research and exploration, applying a focused mind and will.

For those on the path of light this is a time of seeking deep truths, a time of developing psychic abilities further, of tuning in to the cosmos.

SERQET goddess of Scorpio; guardian of the western gate.

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 30.

2080 BCE       ALDERBARAN the star known as the ‘Eye of Taurus’ crosses from Southern to Northern declination of the celestial equator around the time of Abram and Melchisedek. This could also be the dating of the Dashour pyramid texts. Around this time there is also the adoption of the suffix ‘Ra’ in the royal names of Egypt so that for example Kharf became Kharf-ra; Sahu became Sahu-ra. (54) This may indicate the replacing of the rule of ancient hawk-headed god Heru or Horus the Elder by that of the sun god ‘Ra’, although the two are often blended.

                       MELCHISEDEKis priest-king of Salem (Jeru-salem) and high priest of Elohim (God) at the time of Abram. Abram received communion from Melchisedek in the form of bread and wine, a form of initiation used in ancient Egypt. (160. 166 p.77)

                     HERU ‘he who is above’, or the ancient Egyptian god of the sky. As the ‘Face of Heaven he represented the unknown and invisible god of the universe. The ‘hair’ of this face harbored the four children of Horus who represented the supports of the four corners of the universe, formerly the four pillars of the god Shu. Ra or the Sun became the right ‘Eye of Horus’, whilst the Moon became the left ‘Eye of Horus’. By late dynastic times this elder Horus will blend with Horus the younger, son of the goddess Isis. [302vol1p.466]

c2060       IBBI-SIN the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in Mesopotamia (c2060-1950) which marked the last glorious revival of Sumerian culture. Within 50 years it will have ended and there is to be no successor. A period of weakness and instability will ensue following the end of this dynasty in 1950 BCE. (173)

c2000 BCE     Babylonians demonstrate familiarity with the rules for the area of rectangles, right-angled triangles and isosceles triangles. These form the foundations of geometry, a branch of mathematics which studies the properties of shapes and space, originally of the Earth and known as geomancy. Ancient Egyptians have a similar body of knowledge.  Much of this knowledge will be later collected by the Greek scholar Euclid, in his book the ‘Elements’ (12) for which John Dee will write a preface in the distant future.

                 SILBURY HILL, Wiltshire, England. A man-made earth structure covering 5 acres was built around this time at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire in England. Its purpose was for measuring time via the utilization of a Maypole, which set on the hill’s truncated top cast a shadow onto the plain below. (68)

                       By 2000 BCE the wanderers of the northern grasslands of Europe, known as the Great White Race, had settled on the Iranian Plateaux, which was called at the time, Eran or the land of the Aryans and from which come the names Iran and Iranian. Aryan is from the Sanskrit Arya, meaning noble. This Eranian group will eventually divide into the Medes and the Persians. The language of the Eranians is similar to Vedic India and may be from the same parent language as that of the Slavonic Teutonic, Celtic, Greek and Latin (Roman) races. (40)

                    Seers of India between now and 1500 BCE roam the forests and record their Hindu wisdom     in writings known as the Upanishads which are among the oldest works of mysticism recorded in the world. (123) However, the Vedic period is dated earlier.