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So a little more about Solomon's Temple, and this is from Brave Ai as well, and I checked the sources.

These are all credible sources that it came from.

It says the temple's overall design, situated on a hilltop, echoed the Babylonian ziggorot, which symbolized a mountain and was intended to bring the divine abode closer to the heavens.

The Molten Sea, a large bronze basin used for priestly ablutions, finds its parallel and the Babylonian temples, where a great basin called the apsu meaning deep, served a similar ritualistic purpose, symbolizing the primordial sea.

The temple's general form, with its surrounding courts, also resembled Egyptian sanctuaries, While the use of a large central chamber for the divine dwelling was a feature shared with Egyptian temples.

The concept of a sacred space with progressively restricted access culminating in the Holy of Holies reflects a broader Ancient Near Eastern pattern of sacred architecture.

The use of a bronze altar, which was a Phoenician innovation, further indicates cultural borrowing, as the earlier Israelite altar was traditionally of earth or unhewn stone.

Now I won't read the whole article, but it kind of is connected to what we've been talking about here.

This is from the Biblical Archaeology Society Jews and Arabs descended from Canaanites.

What.

After examining the DNA of ninety three bodies recovered from archaeological sites around the southern levant the land of Canaan in the Bible, researchers have concluded that modern populations of the region are descendants of the ancient Canaanites.

Most modern Jewish groups and the Arabic speaking groups from the region show at least half of their ancestry was Canaanite.

The study in cell not only establishes that the ancient Israelites were descended from the Canaanites, but also establishes that the Canaanite people across the separate city states of the southern levant And over a period of fifteen hundred years, were a genetically cohesive people.

And while we're talking about the these other cultures, the Akkadians, they did observe days that were sacred and associated with rest or prohibitions on certain activities, particularly within a lunar cycle.

The Babylonians, who were closely related to the Acadians, celebrated the seventh, fourteenth, twenty first, and twenty eighth days of the month as holy days and also referred to as evil days, meaning unsuitable for prohibited activities.

On these days, officials were restricted from various tasks and common people were forbidden from making wishes, with the twenty eighth day specifically known as a rest day.

You gotta admit that's pretty interesting.

The seventh, fourteenth, twenty first, and twenty eighth days.

Those are all the seventh days right.

The Sabbath and numbers have played an important role in other cultures far before the ancient Israelites came into the scene.

From some higher criticism and monuments, page seventy four.

This was published in eighteen ninety five, and this is from the Friends of Sabbath dot org.

The Sabbath rest was a Babylonian as well as a Hebrew institution.

Its origins went back to pre Semitic days, and the very name Sabbath, that's sabb eighty by which it was known in Hebrew, was of Babylonian origin.

In the cuneiform tablets of the Sabbatu, it is described as a day of rest for the soul, and in spite of the fact that the word was of genuinely Semitic origin, it was derived by the Assyrian scribes from two Sumerian or pre Semitic words sa and bat sabat, which meant respectively heart and seizing.

The Sabbath was also known at all events in Acadian times as a dies nephatis a day on which certain work was forbidden to be done and An old list of Babylonian festivals and fast days tells us that on the seventh, fourteenth, nineteenth, twenty first, and twenty eighth days each month of the Sabbath, rest had to be observed.

Isn't that interesting?

And from Isaac Meyer's book Kabbalah, he talks about this a little bit.

The Acadians and Chaldeans kept a Sabbath day of rest every seven days, and they also had Thanksgiving days and days for humiliation and prayer.

There were sacrifices of vegetables and animals, of meal and wine.

There were even vicarious sacrifices of human beings for sin by the Acadians.

The number seven was especially sacred.

There were sacred trees with seven branches and some of ten, like the decadic or dachotic tree of the Sepharroth.

They had clean and unclean animals and pigs and reptiles.

In the Temple of Bell.

The Babylonians had two altars.

Solomon also had two in his temple, one for the larger and one for the smaller offerings.

And I want to touch on something else.

We're going to talk about the possible origins of the Mazusa This is from the Jewish Almanac by Carl Rains and Richard Siegel.

The notion of the mazusa as an instrument of divine protection led to a conception of its use as an amulet.

In fact, it is probable that a door post amulet was a Near Eastern custom in pre biblical times, and that the biblical ordinance of the mezusa was a means of investing the pagan practice with higher religious significance.

In any case, medieval mazuza, especially in Gionic Babylonia, came to be adorned with magical signs such as divine names, angels names, pentagrams, hexagrams, the priestly blessing, runic and numerological symbols, acrosstics, and psalm verses.

In some communities, these adornments came to have legal status, although the objections of many legal authorities, especially mammonodes, eventually purified the massuza scroll of its newer encumbrances and returned it to its original specifications.

The mazusa worn't around the neck, though its scroll is an adorned by magical symbols, is a successor to the ambulant masusa of medieval times.

Now.

Last show, we talked about Ashirah and her connection to the ancient Israelites and the Kina, the queen of Heaven, the Matronate, etc.

And we talked a little bit about what the Zohar said.

It was a.

Footnote that I had read and I want to read to you from Safaria dot org, which is a great resource if you want to look up the talmod various Jewish texts.

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It says the gods and goddesses of Kabbalah.

The Zohar does not choose to say that the goddess Ashkra is evil or false and that worshiping her is a theological mistake.

Rather, it says that the theological mistake would be to assume that Asherah the tree is separate from Chicaina the altar, when in fact they are one.

The Zohar seems to be saying that the object used to worship God, i e.

The altar must be single rather than multiple, just as all the faces of the feminine and the masculine divine are ultimately unified.

The Zohar concludes with a brief moment of pantheism.

The altar must be made of earth, the Torres says, the Zohar comments, the altar, that is the real Chikina is made of earth.

Therefore, Genesis says, dust from the earth.

Humans are made of the dust of the earth, that is Hikina.

Their physical substance as well as their spirit is made of Hikaina stuff.

That's a Mother Earth image if there ever was one.

Rabbi Jill Hammer an Altar of Earth, Reflections on Jews, Goddesses and the Zohar.

A couple of interesting books that you guys might want to check out if you want to further your research on the Canaanite influence in Judaism is bail worship in the ancient Israel.

That's from a book called Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan.

And there's also Yahweh and Bail Early History of God in Ancient Israel.

Now I want to talk to you about the Manora.

The Manora is the premiere symbol of Judaism, but is there an ancient even older connection to the Manora than the ancient Israelites This is an article by Doug Struck published in nineteen ninety four.

It says that what could be more Jewish than Israel's Manora?

Something less pagan?

Perhaps, according to some Jewish scholars, the seven branch candelabrum has been taking a beating lately for its use and alleged misuse in Israel.

The Manura, symbolized on Israel's shekel and printed on all official letterheads is a bit of a fraud, contends Professor Daniel Sperber, former dean of the Faculty of Basic Jewish Studies at Bar Lawn University in Tel Aviv.

It's a historical mistake, he said.

It seems the base of the manura used in Israel is copied from an arch in Rome built to millennium ago, which in turn was most likely copied from a temple in southern Turkey built from the worship of Zeus, the Greek god of the heavens.

The original source included dragons with twisted long necks mounted by beautiful naked nymphs.

On the modern manura, the dragons survive, but the nymphs have been banished in the name of religious modesty.

The solid base is nothing like that described in the Exodus book of the Bible, a three legged stand decorated with flowers and buttons, not monsters and beauties.

What we have here is something that is not really Jewish, the professor said.

It is really part forgery.

He argues that the Israel government shouldn't disinherit the flawed emblem it adopted in nineteen forty nine and gradually change over its official symbol to one that is historically accurate.

We really should have a symbol that is authentically Jewish and follows the biblical description.

He said, I think when you choose a state symbol, you should be a purist.

The trail of the mistake is an interesting one.

The modern manura was taken from a scene on the stone face of the Arch of Titus, built in Rome in the year eighty one.

The arch celebrates the Roman victory over the Jews eleven years earlier, and its scenes show Jews being led to captivity and their treasures, including a manora, being taken away from the ransacked Jewish temple.

But Professor Sperber theorizes that the fragile base of the candle obrum was broken off in an earlier ransacking the workmen hired by Herod to rebuild the Jewish Temple envisioned a new base and copied unusual dragon images they had likely seen on a structure called the Temple of Didiama in Turkey.

That design turned up on the Arch of Titus and through the years became incorporated in the symbol of Jewishness.

It is inlaid in mosaic floors, worked into walls, doors, and the lattice work of synagogues.

It decorates glasses and is a popular paper cut out in Jewish elementary schools.

Despite its popular acceptance, the present manora is an affront to Jews.

The people who are aware of it will see something that is symbolic of a society ignorant of its sources, divorced from its sources.

He said, I'm sure you won't hear much more about that.

Again, that was way back in nineteen ninety four, updated in twenty eighteen, and that was from the Baltimore Sun.

Now to another article from Reality Sandwich.

It's called the Manora another tree of life.

And since we've been talking about Asherah and the tree and the pole ash tree of life, I think this is great to talk about the manura, another tree of life.

It asks, over the eight day holiday of Hanukkah, Jews around the world light a manura to commemorate a miracle that occurred in the second century BCE, following the successful revolt of the Maccabees and the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem.

The temple remained illuminated for eight days.

Every Hanukkah, known as the Festival of Lights, the Jewish people reignite the eighth branched candle Obera with a ninth shamash candle.

This is a symbol of Jewish triumph in the face of religious oppression.

Strange then, that the origins of the manora are not textually secure.

Even its purported pagan beginnings aren't clearly defined.

Given that Hanukkah falls during the winter solstice, there could be a logical theoretical link between the Jewish and pagan holidays, weaving through the historical references.

Amazingly, the symbol may trace back to Judaism's own pagan history, a mother goddess named Astrara.

She is often represented with a tree of life or as one.

On the one hand, the minora is an emblem of religious freedom.

And on the other it may be if its matriarchal roots are true symbolized by the suppression of the divine feminine by patriarchal values.

And I don't want to get all woke on you, but if you look back at the tallmoon, it is pretty horrible towards women.

Pretty awful.

Now, I'll go on the Maccabeans.

In the sixth century BCE, the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, the one that they are comparing Trump to constantly people like Lance Walnut.

He let the Jews return to their homeland after spending decades in exile in Babylon.

The Persians allowed the Jews to govern Judea as a semi autonomous theocracy run by elite religious families in Jerusalem.

Their religious freedom would remain intact under the jurisdiction of Alexander the Great, the Ptolemac Kingdom Egyptian and the Seleucid Empire in the north.

However, once Antiochus the fourth Epiphanes became emperor of the Seleucid Empire in one seventy five bcee that changed.

Antichus might have had daddy issues or wanted to take his father's legacy to the next level.

Who knows, but he had his vision set on conquering Egypt.

In doing so, he would have achieved a feat.

His father did not unite the Egyptian and Selucid empires, but he needed money.

Where else would you go other than the priestssts As the notorious Big said, Mo money, mo problems.

This exchange for money and power between governmental and religious leaders ended up causing much discord between the Jewish people and the Hellenistic and Jewish faiths.

Antiochus elected the highest bidder, Minnellus, I think that's how you say it, who then attempted to Hellenize the Jews.

Next section, ding dong antioch is dead, just kidding.

First, Antiochus invaded Egypt, which was a catastrophic move.

Rumors spread throughout the kingdom that he died in battle.

Far from it, the Romans merely humiliated him and kicked him out of Egypt.

Meanwhile, the news of his death led to a civil revolt in Jerusalem.

This news disturbed Antiochus.

As a result, he put Menelas back in power, who then raised all hell for the Jews.

Some Jews fled, others revolted.

The most famous rebels were led by Mattathius of Modine and his five sons.

Out of all of them, Judas Maccabeus would be the one responsible for leading the rebel forces to victory.

They went guerrilla style after the Hellenis Jews, which cured Manellas to send in the Greek troops.

The situation escalated and the plight of the rebel Jews reached dire straits.

In one sixty eight BCE, Antioch's troops descended upon Jerusalem.

They massacred thousands and desecrated the city's Second Holy Temple by erecting an altar for Zeus and sacrificing pigs within its walls as a festively offensive act.

The rebel Jews, however, were eventually victorious in driving the Greek Syrians out of Jerusalem.

Afterward, the Jewish people rededicated the Second Temple, and while doing so witnessed a miracle.

There was only enough oil in the lamps to last a day.

It kept on burning bright for eight days, and the commemoration of this event became known as Honicah.

The earliest textual reference to Honicah appears in one Maccabees No mention of a minora no particular guidance on how to celebrate the holiday either.

In five hundred CE, during the Talmutic times, the practice of lighting manoras was firmly established.

The actual origin of the manora itself are then somewhat mysterious.

One theory purports that Jewish households derived this symbol from pagan winter solstice rituals, specifically the Zoroastrians of Persia.

At this time of year, they celebrated with a festival of fire Honkah date wise surrounds the winter solstice.

The minora could be a solar symbol, with the lighting of the candles corresponding to the days growing longer.

However, startling archaeological evidence exists that may link the manora to a pre Judaeo Christian deity, the Semitic mother goddess Asherah, a Canaanite goddess.

As you guys know, if anyone knows anything about the Judeo Christians, Canaanites are evil pagans.

Judaeo Christian is not a correct term, but we'll go on.

Ashra the Tree of Life.

Jewish scholar l Yardin claims that the minora developed from the ancient Near Eastern symbolic tree of life that traces back to twenty three to twenty five hundred BCE.

The image consisted of Mesopotamian trees with seven branches that included decorative motifs of a snake in two figures.

In its personified form, the tree of Life is Asherah, a nurturing mother goddess.

In her book Reinstating the divine feminine into Judaism, I don't think she's ever left if you look at Kabala, Jenny Klein presents Asherah.

She is a Semitic mother goddess that represents the divine feminine.

Ashra's own iconography included images of trees.

Further, there is evidence that Astra may have even been the female consort of Hebrew god Yahweh.

In early history of Judaism, however, the chief gods Yahweh and bal Shemm were fighting for supreme power.

Judaism around this time diverged from the other ancient Near East religions.

At that time, they eradicated the feminine from the divine equation the Minorit today is a symbol of the State of Israel, appearing on its coat of arms.

It is of utmost importance to the Jewish people.

However, symbols don't appear out of anywhere.

The historical context surrounding this powerful image is blurry.

There are limits of winter Solstice ideas surrounding the ritual of Honuka itself.

Far from being offensive, this triumphant moment in Jewish history happens to coincide with the time associated with the rebirth of the sun.

Coincidence Beyond the foreign pagan rituals that might have influenced this holiday, it appears there's more promising to look at the pagan origins of their own lineage.

Within the three monotheistic religions, the dominance of the patriarch is evident, whereas fertility goddesses of your tended to populate more ancient belief systems.

The first image that may come up in a history of Western art class was the venus of Willendorf.

We're a little too far from college to know if that remains the case, but it does not.

But it does reflect a definitive shift away from the feminine, or even an acknowledgment that the feminine is there to a male dominated narrative.

The tree of life seems to be at the root of many belief systems, in this case in the Near Eastern faiths, including Judaism.

The almond tree was the tree of life that Ashra embodies.

For Honkah this year we light a candle for the victory of the Jewish people and as a symbol of the enduring spirit of the feminine.

If you've ever studied other religions, you know that that part is true for sure, that goddesses play a huge one and a lot of these other cultures and their religions connected to that article we just read.

This is from Rabbi three sixty dot com.

The Talmud describes an eight day festival around the time of the winter solstice.

And so while much is made about the pagan roots of Christmas trees, we should not neglect to notice the pagan roots of Honkah.

And by pagan I mean a recognition of and ritual acknowledgment of the natural cycles of the world.

Judaism is rooted in earth based spirituality.

Now, not to contradict what we just read, but I couldn't resist in reading this again from Israel Dresen, Rabbi Israel Dresen, and this is mysteries of Judaism, Part one, Misconceptions about Honicah.

Many people have wrong ideas about the Jewish holiday Honkah.

The following are a few examples.

Honka does not celebrate a victory over the Greeks.

The Greeks ruled many kingdoms as a result of Alexander's conquests, such as Egypt and Greece.

Judea, the name Israel had at the time, was persecuted by the Syrians, who were Syrian Greeks, who for political reasons, tried to force Judeans to worship Syrian gods.

The miracle of Honkah was not, as currently taught, that the Judeans let the temple candle aubrum with the oil that could only last one day, but lasted eight days.

The miracle was that a small Judean army was able to beat the Syrians.

The book Maccabees, written about the time the events occurred, states that the Judeans celebrated their victory for eight days because they were unable to observe the eight day holiday of Sukkot and Schimini Atsuret during the war, so they did so when they were victorious.

Centuries later, during the mid First millennium, the Rabbis didn't want to celebrate a military victory, so they invented the story of the miracle of the lights.

The Dradol has nothing to do with honika the Yiddish name Dradol or sevivaon in Hebrew.

The design and the way people play with it are copies of gambling with such a toy in many ancient cultures.

The several attempts to give the dradl a Jewish significance were inventions long after the Jews first played with the Dradel.

The earliest mention of the ancient toy is in the early fifteen hundreds, when it was called a totem or a teetotem meaning all, referring to the chance that players could win everything during the game, and by eighteen hundred the totem had four letters T equals the spinner takes everything in the pot, h the player only gets half p the spinner needs to put money in the pot and in the spinning player gains nothing from the spin.

In Germany, where the Jews apparently copied the toy its design and method of play, the toy was called torrel or trundle spinning which the Jews translated into Yiddish as Dradel.

Thus, while Hanuka celebrates the victory over assimilation, one of the items many Jews used during the holiday is an example of assimilation the ancient Jews were trying to avoid.

Now we go to Safaria dot Org and this is the source I told you has a lot of the Jewish writings that you don't see, like non biblical writings, the Talmood and all these various texts.

And here this one is called Honuku's pegan origins.

And it says Avoda zara Gamara revhun and bar riv means rabbi.

It says Avoda zara eight a six gamara.

Rabbi says when are these festivals celebrated?

Klinda is celebrated during the eight days after the winter solstice, and Saturnalia is celebrated during the eight days before the winter solstice.

And your menomic to remember which festival is that.

The one occurs after solstice is mentioned first in the Mishnah, and the festival that takes place before the solstice is mentioned after.

As in the verse you have hemmed me in behind and before and laid your hand upon me Psalm one thirty nine five, where the word before appears after the term behind.

Yeah, I know it's hard to understand.

It's hard to understand a lot other bull crap, and it says there underneath.

Kelinda, from which the English word calendar derives, refers to the first day of the month, and especially to the first day of the year.

Saturnlia was a popular Roman holiday on the seventeenth of December dedicated to the god Saturn.

Critsis, which was on the first of August, commemorated the day that Augustus conquered Alexandria in Egypt.

Note that I have used the names of these holidays, as Albek states that they should be read.

Medieval scribes often did not know what these holidays were or what their names were in.

Different forms of the words can be found in other versions of the Mishnah.

The anniversary of the accession of the king to the throne is also considered to be a day of celebration full of idolatrous practices.

The final two days of idolatrous celebration are personal one's birthday and the anniversary of the death of a close relative.

On these days, non Jews would make idolatrous celebrations.

Interestingly, Jews did not traditionally celebrate birthdays because it was seen as to be non Jewish customs.

On back to the Avoda Zara eight a seven, with regard to the dates of these festivals, the sages taught that when Adam the first man saw that the day was progressively diminishing as the days become shorter from the autumnal equinox until the winter solstice, he did not yet know that this is a normal phenomenon, and therefore he said, woe is me, perhaps because I send the world is becoming dark around me and will ultimately return to the primordial state of chaos and disorder.

And this is the death that was sentenced upon me from heaven, as it is written.

And to dust shall you return Genesis three nineteen.

He arose and spent eight days in fasting and prayer.

Once he saw that the season of tibet Ie the winter solstice, had arrived, and saw that the day was progressively lengthening.

After the solstice, he said, clearly, the days become shorter and then longer, and this is the order of the world.

You went and observed a festival for eight days.

Upon the next year, he observed both these eight days on which he had fasted on the previous year, and these eight days of his celebration as days of festivities.

He Adam established these festivals for the sake of heaven, but they the gentiles of later generations, established them for the sake of idle worship.

And then it has an explanation there.

This is an etymological story of the origins of the calendar and saturnalia.

Some scholars also point to this story as the origin of why we light candles on Honukkah.

Holidays around the winter solstice are often associated with fire as a way of noting the beginning of the days getting longer, or to at least bring light to the darkest days of the year in the Northern hemisphere.

There is also a sense here of cultural expropriation.

Your holidays were originally our holiday in a sense, and you corrupted them.

While there is of course a negative side to this phenomenon the supremacist ideology it espouses, it also seems to be quite natural.

So when I read that, I had never heard that they allegedly claim that Adams started these holidays before the other cultures, and I was very skeptical, so I looked it up.

It's funny because I used to brave Ai first time and it tried to say actually that he did.

But I looked it up on Google Ai and this is what I found, which is much more credible.

Surprisingly, well, Adam did not historically establish winter holidays before pagan cultures.

A Jewish tradition or midas Rash, remember the mid Rash has just made up stuff, tells a story where he created a solstice based holiday that was later corrupted by paganism.

However, scientific and historical evidence indicates that solstice celebrations originated long before the Abrahamic religions.

The Jewish tradition of Adam's First Winter, the account of Adam establishing a winter festival, is found in post biblical Jewish literature Jewish fables.

It explains the origin of Roman winter festivals like Saturnalia and the Callans, suggesting that they were corruptions of Adam's original observance.

Adam's fear.

According to tradition, as the first winter approached, Adam observed the days getting shorter, fearing that the world was ending because of his sin, and he prayed and fasted for eight days.

We read that the holiday established when the winter solstice passed and the days began to Lengthen again, Adam understood that this was part of the natural order of God's creation.

Relieved, he established an eight day five festival to celebrate the return of the sun.

Who read that too basically pagan corruption.

This tradition says that Adam's festival was eventually corrupted into pagan holidays such as the Roman Saturnalia and Calenda, which were celebrated around the same time of the year.

See this is just another instance of them making up stuff.

They've done that for so long, and people actually believe this stuff.

Historical and scientific consensus, the mid Rash is considered a theological teaching, not a historical fact.

The scientific and historical evidence for winter solstice celebrations points to traditions that pre date the story of Adam found in the Hebrew Bible by thousands of years.

Ancient origins.

Archaeological evidence such as the Neolithic monuments at the Ukrange in Ireland and Stonehenge in England, indicates that humans have observed and built structures aligned with the winter solstice for millennia.

Widespread pagan observance Many ancient cultures, including the Romans with Saturnalia and the Norse with Yule, developed winter solstice celebrations independently and integrated them into their own unique religious practice.

Early church adaptation.

In some cases, early Christians adapted these existing pagan traditions as a way to convert people more easily.

Many modern Christmas customs, for instance, have roots in pagan Solstice festivities.

So there you have it.

And you know, back in the day, I might have believed those kinds of things, but it doesn't do any of us any good to spread lies, and I'm not into that.

So I heard the Bible answer man and cantographs say once that Christians don't celebrate these holidays that are around the same times as those pagan holidays because they were pagan holidays.

We celebrate them in spite of pagan holidays.

But you know, thinking about it outside of that, obviously, the change in the weather, the change in the sun, it's going to affect people, and everybody kind of handles that differently, and people are going to celebrate different things, and every culture is going to borrow from other cultures, but at least in the Christian scheme of things, We're not trying to make up things and say that we invented these holidays before these other cultures.

So little something to think on there.

All Right, We're going to talk about something that is going to also be controversial, like some of these other subjects.

But I went to the Jewish Almanac for this and a couple of other sources.

You've probably heard some interesting stuff on the Star of David, or what they call the Magan David, and I just want to add my own thing here.

I mean, not my information, but information I've come across.

The term Magan David, on the other hand, originally had no connection with the hexagram.

God himself is called Shield of David in the Synagogue the Haftara blessing recited after readings from the Prophets, on the model of the term shield of Abra used in the standing prayer the Amitah.

The shield carried by King David on the battlefield was traditionally believed to be engraved either with the name of God or the Manorah or Psalm sixty seven.

The words of this psalm are a prayer of a general kind, but since it stresses the God of Israel's power over the nations.

Its presence on the battlefield shield of David is appropriate.

The first connection of the hexagram with the name David appears on a tombstone of someone named David in the sixth century CE in Italy, where a connection with King David may not have been intended.

The uses of the hexagram changed from decorative to magical in the Middle Ages.

That's what a lot of people don't realize.

The oldest magical texts did not make use of the symbol, but it began to appear in Jewish magical texts and on talismans and messuzas in the tenth through the fourteenth century.

Simultaneously, the shield of David came to be associated magically with divine or angelic names in texts and ambulants from Gionic, Babylonia and medieval Germany, especially with the names Metatron in Taftifia and the so called seventy two letter divine name based on the seventy two letters of Exodus fourteen nineteen through twenty one.

Because the most popular of these ambulants bore a hexagram, the hexagram was identified as Mogen David in mystical and magical literature.

With increasing frequency.

The first such uses is in the mystical work of the sepher Ha Gaoul, the Book of the Boundary, written about thirteen hundred by the grandson of the Spanish Jewish mystic Nomonodes.

So it's common today to think of the Mogen David or the shield of David, the six pointed star made of two interlocking equilateral triangles, as the symbol of Judaism that it may surprise the reader to learn that it has been used explicitly in this way only for a few centuries.

For most of Jewish history, the six pointed star has gone by other names or no name, and the term Mogan David has had other connotations.

The six pointed star or hexagram is of course a product of human geometric imagination, particularly to no culture.

It is a decorative symbol found throughout the ancient world.

It appeared for centuries in Jewish art and architecture without symbolic or iconographic meaning.

Its earliest attested Jewish use is a seventh century BCE seal of one Joshua ben Asaiahu of Sidon.

It is found on a frieze in a second century CE Galilean synagogue alongside a pentagram a radial star in a swastika.

This is also confirmed by Gersham Sholom in his book about kabbala I believe.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the motif appears mostly in Christian and Muslim settings, on royal seals, notarial signs in Spain, France, Denmark and Germany, in Byzantine and Spanish church architecture, on church furnishings and sacred objects, and Bible manuscripts produced in Muslim and Christian countries.

Sorry, this is not written very well.

Some of the letters are missing.

Jewish use of this symbol most likely arose in imitation of its uses in other societies.

The name of the symbol underwent a separate evolution.

The Muslims called it the Seal of Solomon, with possible reference to the alleged magical powers of King Solomon's sign it ring alluded to in the Huttarut magical texts such as the Testament of Solomon and in the Talmood Gitten sixty nine b.

This ring reportedly gave Solomon power over demons, one among many occult sigils traditionally attributed to the most widely of Jewish kings.

Jewish legend generally regarded Solomon's ring as engraved with the four letter divine name Jave.

The term Mungan David, on the other hand, originally had no connection with the hexagram.

God himself is called Shield of David in the Synagogue of the Hatarah blessing recited after readings from the Prophets on the model of the term Shield of Abraham.

Professor Sholam went on to say in his book The Messianic Idea of Judaism, or in Judaism rather, page two sixty.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, no scholar or kabbalist got the idea of trying to detect in the star anything like the secret of its Jewish meaning.

It does not appear at all in books on the religious life, nor in the entire literature of Hasidism.

And this was the case not because such meaning was assumed and not considered problematical, but rather because no one even dreamt of such meaning.

We could probably do a whole show on just the Star of David or the hexagram.

It's really interesting because it does go back way far way before probably the Hebrews, and a lot of people equate it with the Star of Rim Fan, where the Bible says that the Hebrews they took up the star of rim Fan, the star god that they were worshiping at the time.

So it is interesting that it became their symbol.

I mean, I'm not saying it's the exact same star, because I don't believe that there's any proof of how many points or what exact shape the Star of Rimfan had, just like there's not any proof that there was a star of David that had six points.

But the six pointed star absolutely for sure goes back very far into history and it is connected deeply with magic, and I'm not sure how long that has been the case.

I feel like I do need to go into it a little bit deeper while we're on the subject, and I'm not exactly sure where i want to go, because I've got a lot of information on this that I've been holding onto for a while.

We'll look here at the Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, pages four oh one and four o two.

Just a little blurb here.

The real history of the hexagram began with the tantric Hinduism, where it represented the union of the sexes.

We think about that and we think about Kabbala and how that's basically one of the big themes as reuniting God with his Hikhina bride, and it talks repeatedly about basically like a lot of occult religions, uniting the opposites, the union of the opposites.

But we'll go on.

The downward pointing triangle was the female primordial image of Yoni Yantra, existing before the un In the course of infinite time, the goddess conceived a spark of life within her triangle, the Bindu, which was eventually born and developed into a male symbolized by the upward pointing triangle.

He united with the Mother to form the primal androgen.

The sign of this union was the hexagram.

The downward pointing triangle is a female symbol corresponding to the Yoni.

It is called the shock t The upward pointing triangle is the male the lingam and is called the fire.

From the tantric image of the sexual hexagram arose a Jewish system of sex worship connected with medieval Kabbalah and a rabbinical tradition that a picture is supposed to be placed in the arc of the covenant alongside of the Tables of the Laws, which shows a man and a woman in intimate embrace in the form of a hexagram.

In the Holo Coust dogma of Judaism, it says here, let doctor O.

J.

Graham, a Jewish convert to Christianity and author of the Six Pointed Star, give a summary of the hexagram.

The six pointed Star made its way from Egyptian pagan rituals of worship to the goddess Astaroth and Moloch, to King Solomon when he went into idolatry.

Then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft and astrology, in which it was no new thing, through the Kabbalah, to Isaac Luria, a cabalist in the sixteenth century, to Mayor Amshell Bauer or Rothschild, who changed the name of this symbol to Zionism, to the Kanesset of the New State of Israel, to the flag of Israel and its medical organization equivalent to the Red Cross.

Now they've made all kinds of connections now since they made that star their symbol, you know, And so the cabalists they can make connections to anything.

All these occultists do.

And that's one of the things you know I talk about all the time is there's basically endless connections people can make.

And one of the things I try to point out is if you can find the origins of when these connections were made, then you can kind of understand a lot more because a lot of people they don't know anything about the occult, and they just assume that all this stuff dates back to ancient, ancient history, or even before we knew about these things and documented them.

And a lot of times you can pinpoint kind of around the time that these things came about or got popular, and so many times, a lot of this stuff came out in medieval times.

You know, that's when we got the popularization of the Kabbalah and all kinds of crazy magical ideas, a lot of coming together of various religions and folklore and just all kinds of stuff.

And I may have read this on one of the Freemason episodes, but Albert Mackie, the famous Masonic historian, he said that the interlacing triangles or deltas symbolized the union of the two principles of forces, the active in the passive male and female pervading the universe.

The two triangles, one white and the other black.

Interlacing typified the mingling of apparent opposites in nature, darkness and light, error and truth, ignorance and wisdom, evil and good throughout human life.

I wonder you know too, It's kind of like the yin yang.

It stands for good and evil as above so below, these different ideas of duality.

I don't believe that they actually thought it was the Star of David.

There's just too many cabalysts in that culture for it not to have a connection to Kabbalah.

I really do believe that in my heart of hearts.

I failed to blurb here from the website called the Jewish Museum dot org, and it says the hexagram was adapted in medieval Jewish mysticism as a protection against evil forces, called the Mogan David or Shield of David, and accompanied by divine aims, incantations, and biblical verses.

It appears often on Jewish amulets.

Little something here, I want to get into the significance of the number six in Judaism, going way back to Old Testament times and even before, because I think that they also got that from other religions, other cultures but here in the Jewish Almanac, in a passage titled Magan David.

Does the symbol mean anything?

One cannot overlook its congruence with the sixfold numerical system in Judaism.

Six days of Creation, six pairs of tribes, six hundred thousand Israelites at Mount Sinai, reception of the Torah on the sixth Sevan, six orders of the Mishnah, six hundred and thirteen commandments, six million Jews martyred in the Holocaust, allegedly Base six numeral reckoning, together with its derived Base twelve system, was widespread in cultures of the ancient Near East because of its con performance to the cycles of the lunar motion.

Its persistence today can be seen in the modern calendar, the recently defunct British monetary system, the clock, and the egg crate.

If the six pointed star is taken as a simplified model of the astrological cycle, an ancient artistic motif in synagogues, its validity as a national symbol is strengthened since the twelve tribe system, according to some historians, may have been founded at least in theory on the lunar calendar and we get back into the hexagram.

The hexagram, prior to its association with the Star of David, was a widely used geometric symbol across various ancient cultures, primarily serving as a decorative motif or a symbol of cosmic and spiritual concepts, rather than a specifically Jewish emblem.

Its earliest known appearances date back to the Bronze Age, and it was found on artifacts from Mesopotamia to Britain, often representing the union of opposing forces such as the masculine and feminine principles or the sacred marriage in ancient traditions.

In Hinduism, it is known as the Shaktna and symbolizes the union of the Perusha, the supreme Being, and the Prakridi, mother Nature, while in Buddhism it is used as a meditation aid.

The symbol also appeared in early Byzantine and medieval Christian churches and in ancient Jewish contexts.

It was used decoratively in synagogues like those of the Kurbet Shura and Capernaum, as well as on coins from the bar Katchbah revolt.

The hexagram was used in ancient Mesopotamia and other religions as common geometric designs, predating its Jewish association.

In Hindu tradition, the hexagram or shatkona I probably pronounced that wrong earlier, symbolizes the union of the divine, masculine and feminine.

This is just going over what we just talked about.

It was used in early Christian churches and Byzantine art, indicating its non Jewish cross cultural significance in Jewish contexts.

It appeared as a decorative element in synagogues from the third to fourth centuries CE, such as the Quebet, Shura and Capernaum, but not as a religious symbol.

The symbol was also linked to mystical traditions, including the Seal of Solomon, a legendary ring attributed to King Solomon in medieval Jewish and Islamic mysticism, which was often depicted as a hexagram.

Its use in capitalistic texts and amulets began in the early Middle Ages, though it was not yet called the Shield of David.

In my estimation, again, I think it stands for the unifying of opposites, which is really the thing that all these occult religions teach, and Kabbala is no different it mentioned the sacred marriage, and that is also something that you see in other cultures that predates Judaism as well.

But that's what the Kabbala also teaches as that God is going to be reunited with his bride, the Chicaina, and we talk about the church in Christianity being the bride of Christ, so you see that connection as well, just to be clear.

So I'm sure that we'll get probably deeper into the Star of David at some point, because it's pretty interesting its history and its significance in all these other cultures predating Judaism and whatnot, and also its connection to the occult.

You know, a few years ago, I heard an episode of the Tenfoil Hat podcast and they had some guy on there talking about the Black Cube, and I thought it was one of the most fascinating episodes I'd ever heard, and I just assumed that everything in there was legit.

But as I look into this stuff deeper, it seems like that is yet another kind of medieval idea that came about with the connection to Saturn, the planet Saturn and the hexagram.

There does appear to be a hexagram light shape on the planet Saturn, but you could not see that without obviously a telescope, and so the ancients would have no way of knowing that, although I will admit all this talk about black cubes and black stones and the foundation stone and black rock is very interesting, especially when you connect that to saptized V or sabatize V, which means seventh the Sabbath.

So you have to just wonder because Sabtai was this really wild event in history, especially in Judaic history, where half the world's Jews followed this guy who taught to forget the laws and to sin redemption through sin.

And there is a connection also to the Jews with the planet Saturn, and it gets into this idea of melancholy and kind of the darker side of things and the sad side of things and those kinds of things.

I think that most Idell, the author, actually wrote a book about the Jews and Saturn, and I've read most of the book and there's really nothing like solid in there, like they worshiped Saturn or those kinds of things.

I mean, there was little things here and there, but I've never seen anything solid to say that they actually worship the planet Saturn or the god Saturn.

But certainly there's connections and symbolism in there that are questionable and interesting.

So hopefully, yeah, we'll get into that more and maybe find out some more stuff later on down the road.

All right, guys, that wraps up this episode of the odd Man Out Podcast.

I've talked enough, and I hope that you've listened enough.

You may want to go back and listen to some of this stuff again.

I know, man, it is pretty heavy and there's no break from it, really, but I'm doing this because I want to pass on this information to you guys, and I want you guys to talk about it, think about it, share it with others, and especially i'd like for you to research it if you want to search it for yourselves, and you may find out things that I don't know and they haven't come across because it seems to be endless.

So that's what I'm doing.

And the main reason I'm doing it is, like I said on these previous episodes that connect to this one, I'm doing this to show you, guys that you don't have to hold this group, this religion, this country if you will, or nation if you want to call it that, this belief system.

You don't have to hold it up on a pedestal.

It's not sacred, it's not something that you cannot critique.

It's not something that you cannot go back and look at and find out what they actually believe in, what they actually teach, because they tell you mostly what they think and what they do and what they believe themselves.

And that is a benefit to us.

As I've said before, They're arrogance is great for us because they can't really hide it.

There's never been such an arrogant group that I've ever come across in my life.

Not everyone believes all of this stuff.

You know, they have their people who do not believe, they're heretics and whatnot, and they are quickly rooted out.

They're quickly called self hating and all kinds of other things.

Apostates and apostates, well, that calls for capital punishment in the telmood.

We can get into that at another time.

But again, we want to know the truth and we want to help others to understand the truth as well.

And you can't really understand truth unless you understand the history, the past, the culture.

What made this particular group believe what they believe today, What made them like they are today and those kinds of things.

So we can bicker about politics and Zionism and how they're controlling the US government and all that, and that's clear, everybody knows that, but you can't really understand the whys and the hows unless you understand some of this stuff, and really the Tall Mood and the Kabbalah and all that has really influenced them so much that if you don't go back and look at the different movements within Judiah, you can't really understand that either.

And we haven't even talked about Sabataeanism or Hasidism.

We haven't talked about Jacob Frank.

There's so many things that we haven't covered yet.

We haven't really delved into Kabbala or Lerian in Kabbala, or Mercaba mysticism, which came before popular Kabbala, you know, so Gobbo lah.

So anyway, we got a long wayte to go, and gonna do probably another episode or two on the Taall Mood, and then we're going to get into Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah.

Finally, Finally, I've got so much information on this stuff.

I only touched on it in the past, and I think that you will find it quite fascinating.

And we'll also get into kind of in some of those episodes how they kind of adapted a lot of that stuff as well from other religions and other cultures.

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