Constelacin:

Nombre que reciben los campos perfectamente delimitados del espacio, ocupados por grupos de estrellas, que permiten la rpida localizacin de objetos particulares del firmamento.

Se distinguen tres constelaciones: la austral, que pertenece al cielo del hemisferio sur, la boreal, que pertenece al cielo del hemisferio norte, y la zodiacal, situada en la banda del cielo correspondiente al zodaco.

La agrupacin de las estrellas que forman una constelacin no es debida a que estn fsicamente relacionadas ni a que se encuentren a la misma distancia de la Tierra, sino al efecto de proyeccin sobre la bveda celeste de sus posiciones. En la actualidad se aceptan 88 constelaciones, de las cuales 12 pertenecen al zodaco. Las estrellas ms brillantes de cada constelacin se designan mediante una letra griega (a, , etc.), una latina o un nmero antepuestos a su nombre latino. Algunas de las constelaciones son muy extensas (Osa Mayor, Centauro), mientras que otras son extremadamente pequeas (Flecha).

constelaciones australes

Las pertenecientes al cielo del hemisferio sur.

Altar (ASTR.) En latn, Ara. Constelacin austral de pequeo tamao y cercana a la cola del Escorpin, formada por unas 30 estrellas dbiles visibles a simple vista; la ms luminosa, Ara, tiene una magnitud de 2,8.

Ave del Paraso (ASTR.) En latn, Apus. Constelacin austras, formada por muy pocas estrellas visibles a simple vista.

Brjula (ASTR.) En latn, Pyxis. Constelacin austral, formada por 65 estrellas, introducida en el s. XVIII por La Caille para cubrir los huecos existentes entre las grandes constelaciones vecinas.

Buril (ASTR.) En latn, Caelum. Constelacin austral, una de las de menor extensin del cielo, formada por una decena de estrellas observables a simple vista.

Camalen (ASTR.) En latn, Chamaeleon. Constelacin austral, situada entre el polo Sur y la constelacin del Barco. De pequeo tamao, cuenta con unas 40 estrellas visibles a simple vista.

Can Mayor (ASTR.) En latn, Canis Maior. Constelacin austral, formada por 80 estrellas visibles a simple vista y situada en el borde de la Va Lctea. Entre sus cuerpos ms destacados estn la estrella Sirio y el cmulo M41.

Centauro (ASTR.) En latn, Centaurus. Constelacin austral, una de las ms extensas del cielo, situada entre el polo y el ecuador. Est formada por unas 150 estrellas visibles a simple vista, entre las que destacan Rigi (magnitud 0,1), Agena (magnitud 0,9) y Proxima (la ms cercana a la Tierra, a pesar de encontrarse a 4,3 a.l.).

Comps (ASTR.) En latn, Circinus. Constelacin austral situada entre Ave del Paraso, Centauro, Lobo y Escuadra. Est formada por 34 estrellas, la ms brillante de las cuales es Circini (magnitud aparente 3,41).

Copa (ASTR.) Crter (ASTR.) En latn, Crater. Pequea constelacin del hemisferio austral, formada por estrellas poco brillantes.

Corona Austral (ASTR.) En latn, Corona Australis. Constelacin austral de poca importancia formada por 49 estrellas.

Cruz del Sur (ASTR.) En latn, Crux. Constelacin austral compuesta por 54 estrellas, cuatro de las cuales forman una cruz bordeada por una nube de materia oscura conocida como saco de carbn. Contiene tambin el cmulo del Joyero.

Cuervo (ASTR.) En latn, Corvus. Constelacin austral formada por 53 estrellas, de las cuales las ms importantes son Alchib, Glenah y Algorab.

Dorada (ASTR.) Pez Dorado (ASTR.) En latn, Dorado. Constelacin austral, situada cerca del pez Volador y la Hydra Austral, formada por 43 estrellas. Contiene la Gran Nube de Magallanes.

Erdano (ASTR.) En latn, Eridanus. Constelacin austral muy alargada en la que destacan su principio (Cursa, prxima a Rigel) y su final (Achernar). Contiene la galaxia espiral NGC 1300.

Escorpin (ASTR.) En latn, Scorpius. Constelacin austral formada por 185 estrellas, la principal de las cuales es Antares.

Escuadra (ASTR.) Regla (ASTR.) En latn, Norma. Constelacin austral formada por 64 estrellas.

Escultor (ASTR.) Taller de Escultor (ASTR.) En latn, Sculptor. Constelacin austral formada por 131 estrellas.

Fnix (ASTR.) En latn, Phoenix. Constelacin austral, prxima al polo Sur galctico, situada al sur de la Grulla. Est formada por 106 estrellas, la ms brillante de las cuales es de magnitud 2,44.

Grulla (ASTR.) En latn, Grus. Constelacin del hemisferio austral, que se halla situada al S de las de Acuario y Capricornio, formada por 106 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 2.

Hidra Hembra (ASTR.) En latn, Hydra. Constelacin austral formada por 393 estrellas (la ms extensa del cielo), la principal de las cuales tiene una magnitud de 2,2 (Alfard).

Hidra Macho (ASTR.) En latn, Hydrus. Constelacin austral, cercana al polo, formada por 64 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 2,9.

Horno (ASTR.) En latn, Fornax. Constelacin austral, situada junto a la de la Ballena, formada por 110 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 3.

Indio (ASTR.) En latn, Indus. Constelacin austral, formada por 84 estrellas que no destacan por su brillo.

Liebre (ASTR.) En latn, Lepus. Constelacin austral, situada debajo de la constelacin de Orin, formada por 103 estrellas cuya magnitud no supera el valor 2,7. Contiene el cmulo globular M79.

Mquina Neumtica (ASTR.) En latn, Antlia. Constelacin austral, situada entre las que forman el Navo de Argos, formada por 85 estrellas que no destacan por su brillo.

Mesa (ASTR.) En latn, Mensa. Constelacin austral, situada cerca del polo y formada por 44 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 4,5. Contiene, en su lmite con la constelacin de la Dorada, la Gran Nube de Magallanes.

Microscopio (ASTR.) En latn, Microscopium. Constelacin austral, situada al S de la de Capricornio, formada por 69 estrellas poco luminosas.

Mosca (ASTR.) En latn, Musca. Constelacin austral, situada entre el Camalen y la Cruz, formada por 75 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 4.

Octante (ASTR.) En latn, Octans. Constelacin austral, situada junto al Pavo Real y al Indio, formada por 88 estrellas. Alberga el polo Sur celeste.

Ofiuco (ASTR.) Serpentario (ASTR.) En latn, Ophiuchus. Constelacin austral, cercana al ecuador celeste y situada entre Hrcules, Sagitario y Escorpin, formada por 209 estrellas. Contiene los cmulos estelares M9, M10, M12 y M14 y la nebulosa planetaria NGC 6572.

Paloma (ASTR.) En latn, Columba. Constelacin austral, situada en las proximidades del Can Mayor, formada por 112 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 2,8.

Pavo Real (ASTR.) En latn, Pavo. Constelacin austral, situada en las proximidades del polo Sur celeste, formada por 129 estrellas de las cuales la ms brillante es de magnitud 2,12.

Pez Austral (ASTR.) En latn, Piscis Austrinus. Constelacin austral, situada debajo de Acuario, formada por 75 estrellas, entre las cuales destaca Fomalhaut.

Pez Volador (ASTR.) En latn, Volans. Constelacin austral, prxima al polo Sur, formada por 46 estrellas cuya magnitud no supera el valor 4.

Pintor (ASTR.) En latn, Pictor. Constelacin austral formada por 67 estrellas, de las cuales slo 30 son visibles a simple vista.

Popa (ASTR.) En latn, Puppis. Constelacin austral, una de las integrantes de la antigua constelacin del Navo Argos, formada por 313 estrellas. Est cruzada por la Va Lctea.

Quilla (ASTR.) Carena (ASTR.) En latn, Carina. Constelacin austral, una de las integrantes de la antigua constelacin del Navo Argos, formada por 268 estrellas entre las que destaca Canope.

Reloj (ASTR.) En latn, Horologium. Constelacin austral, situada entre las de Erdano y el Retculo, formada por 68 estrellas poco brillantes que no superan la magnitud 5.

Retculo (ASTR.) En latn, Reticulum. Constelacin austral, una de las ms pequeas del cielo, formada por 34 estrellas poco brillantes.

Sextante (ASTR.) En latn, Sextans. Constelacin ecuatorial, del cielo austral, situada debajo de la de Leo y formada por 75 estrellas cuyas magnitudes no superan el valor 4,5.

Telescopio (ASTR.) En latn, Telescopium. Constelacin austral, formada por 87 estrellas dbiles cuyo brillo no alcanza la magnitud 4.

Tringulo Austral (ASTR.) En latn, Triangulum Austral. Constelacin austral, situada cerca del polo Sur celeste, formada por 46 estrellas, tres de las cuales (las ms brillantes) forman un tringulo.

Tucn (ASTR.) En latn, Tucana. Constelacin austral, prxima al polo Sur celeste, formada por 81 estrellas cuya magnitud no supera el valor 2,9. Contiene la Pequea Nube de Magallanes.

Unicornio (ASTR.) En latn, Monoceros. Constelacin austral, situada entre los Canes Mayor y Menor, la Hidra y Orin, formada por 165 estrellas poco brillantes.

Vela (ASTR.) Velas (ASTR.) En latn, Vela. Constelacin austral, una de las tres que componen la antigua constelacin del Navo Argos, formada por 248 estrellas de las cuales slo 110 son visibles a simple vista.

Constelaciones boreales

Las constelaciones boreales son las que corresponden al cielo del hemisferio norte. Son las siguientes:

guila (ASTR.) En latn, Aquila. Constelacin boreal, formada por unas 70 estrellas visibles a simple vista, situada al O de Pegaso y al S de Cisne. Su nica estrella de primera magnitud es Altair (a Aquilae), que con Deneb (a Cygni) y Vega (a Lyrae) forma un tringulo perfectamente visible, conocido como Tringulo del Verano.

Andrmeda (ASTR.) En latn, Andromeda. Constelacin boreal situada al S de Casiopea. De su centenar de estrellas visibles a simple vista destacan Sirrah, Mirach y Almach, que en la antigedad se consideraban la cabeza, la cintura y el pie del personaje mitolgico. Contiene la galaxia de Andrmeda, perteneciente al llamado Grupo Local, situada a 2,2 millones de a.l. de la Tierra. Es una galaxia espiral con dos brazos, un radio de unos 200.000 a.l. y una masa equivalente a 300.000 soles. Su perodo de rotacin sobre s misma es de 200 millones de aos.

Ballena (ASTR.) En latn, Cetus. Constelacin en su mayor parte austral, situada al S de Aries y Piscis. Es la segunda ms grande y est formada por 321 estrellas, la ms brillante de las cuales es Deneb Kaitos (de magnitud 2,24). Contiene tambin la variable Mira.

Boyero (ASTR.) En latn, Bootes. Constelacin boreal situada en la prolongacin de la cola de la Osa Mayor. Entre sus 90 estrellas observables a simple vista destaca Arturo.

Caballo Menor (ASTR.) En latn, Equuleus. Constelacin boreal de pequeo tamao, que cuenta nicamente con 10 estrellas visibles a simple vista. Est situada a occidente de Pegaso.

Cabellera de Berenice (ASTR.) En latn, Coma Berenice. Constelacin boreal situada entre el Boyero y el Len. Formada por unas 50 estrellas apreciables a simple vista, cuenta tambin con las nebulosas M64 y M68 y con el cmulo M53.

Can Menor (ASTR.) En latn, Canis Minor. Constelacin boreal, formada por 20 estrellas visibles a simple vista y situada en el borde de la Va Lctea. Su estrella principal (de primera magnitud) es Procin.

Casiopea (ASTR.) En latn, Cassiopeia. Constelacin boreal, cercana al polo Norte del cielo y por la cual pasa la Va Lctea. Formada por 90 objetos visibles a simple vista, contiene el cmulo M103 y la estrella variable Shdir.

Cefeo (ASTR.) En latn, Cepheus. Constelacin boreal formada por 60 estrellas visibles a simple vista, la ms brillante de las cuales es Alderamn (magnitud 2,6). Situada entre las constelaciones de Casiopea, Cisne y Dragn, est atravesada por la Va Lctea. Constituye el ejemplo para la definicin de las estrellas cefeidas.

Cisne (ASTR.) En latn, Cignus. Constelacin boreal, situada en plena Va Lctea, cuya estrella principal es Deneb (en rabe, cola) y que contiene tambin la doble aparente Albireo (pico de ave).

Cochero (ASTR.) En latn, Auriga. Constelacin boreal que contiene tres cmulos abiertos (M36, M37 y M38), situados a distancias de unos 4.100 a 4.700 a.l., y la estrella Capella (alfa de la constelacin).

Corona Boreal (ASTR.) En latn, Corona Borealis. Constelacin boreal formada por 31 estrellas, la principal de las cuales es la doble Gema (La Perla), situada a 72 a.l. de la Tierra y con una compaera que describe una rbita alrededor de ella cada 17,4 das.

Delfn (ASTR.) En latn, Delphinus. Pequea constelacin boreal formada por 31 estrellas, entre las que destaca la doble g Delphini.

Dragn (ASTR.) En latn, Draco. Constelacin boreal, situada entre la Osa Menor, la Osa Mayor, el Cisne y la Lira, formada por 220 estrellas. Su estrella a era la estrella Polar en el 2700 a.J.C.

Escudo de Sobieski (ASTR.) En latn, Scutum Sobiescianum. Constelacin boreal formada por 33 estrellas.

Flecha (ASTR.) En latn, Sagitta. Constelacin boreal, situada entre el Cisne y el guila, formada por 18 estrellas, todas ellas de magnitud no superior a 4. Tambin recibe el nombre de Saeta.

Hrcules (ASTR.) En latn, Hercules. Constelacin boreal, situada entre la Lira y la Corona, formada por 227 estrellas (una de las ms extensas del cielo) cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 2. Contiene el cmulo M13 y la estrella HZ, una variable eclipsante. Alberga asimismo Hrcules X1, una de las fuentes ms intensas de rayos X del cielo.

Jirafa (ASTR.) En latn, Camelopardalis. Constelacin boreal, situada entre el Cochero y la Osa Menor, formada por 138 estrellas poco brillantes cuya magnitud no supera el valor 4,2, de las cuales slo 50 son visibles a simple vista.

Lagarto (ASTR.) En latn Lacerta. Constelacin boreal, situada entre las del Cisne y Andrmeda, formada por 48 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 4.

Lebreles (ASTR.) Perros de Caza (ASTR.) En latn, Canes Venatici. Constelacin boreal, situada entre el Boyero y la Osa Mayor, formada por 88 estrellas cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 3. Contiene el cmulo globular M3, la galaxia M51 y una gigante roja Superba.

Len Menor (ASTR.) En latn, Leo Minor. Constelacin boreal, situada al sur de la Osa Mayor, formada por 40 estrellas muy poco brillantes.

Lince (ASTR.) En latn, Lynx. Constelacin boreal formada por 87 estrellas dbiles, cuyo brillo no supera la magnitud 4.

Lira (ASTR.) En latn, Lyra. Constelacin boreal, poco extensa, formada por 69 estrellas. Contiene las estrellas Vega y o Lyrae, prototipo de la clase de las estrellas variables. Su estrella Lyrae es un ejemplo de estrella doble (sistema cudruple), mientras que RR Lyrae es una cefeida empleada como patrn de determinacin de distancias estelares. Contiene la nebulosa planetaria M57.

Orin (ASTR.) En latn, Orion. Constelacin ecuatorial, situada entre la de Tauro y las de los Canes Mayor y Menor, formada por 186 estrellas entre las cuales destacan Belatrix, Betelguese y Rigel. Tres de las estrellas de la constelacin estn alineadas formando el cinturn de Orin (las Tres Maras o los Tres Reyes). Otras tres, menos brillantes y dispuestas verticalmente debajo del cinturn, forman la llamada espada de Orin. Contiene la Nebulosa de Orin (M42), la Cabeza de Caballo (NGC 2024) y el radiante de las Orinidas.

Osa Mayor (ASTR.) En latn, Ursa Maior. Constelacin boreal, situada en la regin del polo Norte celeste, formada por 227 estrellas. Contiene, adems de la galaxia M81 y la nebulosa planetaria de Hibu (M97), siete estrellas principales de las cuales la ms importante es Mizar.

Osa Menor (ASTR.) En latn, Ursa Minor. Constelacin boreal, situada en el polo Norte celeste, formada por 54 estrellas, entre las que destaca la estrella Polar.

Pegaso (ASTR.) En latn, Pegasus. Constelacin boreal, de gran extensin, formada por 178 estrellas. Contiene numerosas galaxias y el cmulo M15.

Perseo (ASTR.) En latn, Perseus. Constelacin boreal, prxima a la de Andrmeda y cruzada por la Va Lctea, formada por 136 estrellas entre las que destacan Algol y Mirfak. Contiene el cmulo globular M 34.

Raposa (ASTR.) Zorra (ASTR.) En latn, Vulpecula. Constelacin boreal, situada entre las de Cisne, guila y Delfn, formada por 62 estrellas de las que slo 45 son visibles a simple vista.

Serpiente (ASTR.) En latn, Serpens. Constelacin ecuatorial del cielo boreal, separada en dos partes (cabeza y cola) por el Ofiuco y formada por 123 estrellas entre las que destaca Unuk (magnitud 2,75).

Tringulo (ASTR.) En latn, Triangulum. Constelacin boreal, situada entre las de Aries y Andrmeda, formada por 30 estrellas. Contiene la galaxia espiral M33 (o NGC 598), situada a 2.000.000 a.l. de la Tierra.

Constelaciones zodiacales

Las constelaciones zodiacales son aquellas que estn situadas en la banda del cielo correspondiente al zodaco. Son:

Acuario (ASTR.) En latn, Aquarius. Constelacin zodiacal que carece de estrellas luminosas, las tres primeras de las cuales son de tercera magnitud. Cerca de su estrella &tau. est la radiante del enjambre de las Acuridas.

Aries o Carnero (ASTR.) En latn, Aries. Constelacin zodiacal, situada al S de las constelaciones de Andrmeda y el Tringulo. Est constituida por unas 50 estrellas visibles a simple vista, la ms brillante de las cuales es Hamal, de magnitud 2,2.

Cncer (ASTR.) Cangrejo (ASTR.) En latn, Cancer. Constelacin zodiacal del hemisferio boreal formada por 60 estrellas visibles a simple vista. Contiene el cmulo M44 y una estrella mltiple (triple), la zeta de la constelacin.

Capricornio (ASTR.) En latn, Capricornius. Constelacin zodiacal del hemisferio austral situada entre Acuario y Sagitario. Formada por unas 50 estrellas visibles a simple vista, contiene el cmulo M30 y varias estrellas mltiples.

Gminis (ASTR.) Gemelos (ASTR.) En latn, Gemini. Constelacin zodiacal del hemisferio boreal formada por 106 estrellas, entre las que destacan Cstor (a) y Plux (b). Contiene el cmulo abierto M 35 y la nebulosa NGC 2392, y alberga el radiante del enjambre de las Gemnidas. Su estrella U (U Geminorum) es el prototipo de las variables eruptivas.

Leo (ASTR.) Len (ASTR.) En latn, Leo. Constelacin zodiacal del cielo boreal, situada entre Cncer y Virgo, formada por 161 estrellas, entre las que destacan Rgulo y Denbola.

Libra (ASTR.) Balanza (ASTR.) En latn, Libra. Constelacin zodiacal del cielo austral, situada entre las de Escorpio y Virgo, formada por 122 estrellas, de las cuales las ms brillantes no superan la magnitud 2,9.

Piscis (ASTR.) Peces (ASTR.) En latn, Pisces. Constelacin zodiacal, del cielo boreal, formada por 128 estrellas. Situada en su mayor parte al N del ecuador celeste, sus estrellas son de poco brillo y no superan la magnitud 4.

Sagitario (ASTR.) En latn, Sagittarius. Constelacin zodiacal, situada entre las de Capricornio y Escorpin, formada por 298 estrellas. Contiene las nebulosas M8, M17 y M20, los cmulos globulares M22 y M55 y los cmulos abiertos M23, M24 y M25.

Tauro (ASTR.) En latn, Taurus. Constelacin zodiacal, del cielo boreal, situada entre las de Aries y Gminis y formada por 188 estrellas, entre las que destaca Aldebarn. Contiene la Nebulosa del Cangrejo, las Hades y las Plyades. La estrella T de Tauro es un ejemplo tpico de variable eruptiva.

Virgo (ASTR.) Virgen (ASTR.) En latn, Virgo. Constelacin zodiacal, del cielo austral, formada por 271 estrellas (la segunda ms extensa). Contiene la estrella Espiga y la llamada masa de Virgo, que constituye el centro del Grupo Local.

Respuesta Mensaje 37 de 50 en el tema De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 14/06/2012 19:53 Star Map Of The Heavens. Part 3AugustThe Great Bear, Ursa Major, is now in the northwest, his paws near the horizon. The Dragon, Draco, curves round from between the Pointers and the Pole, above the Little Bear toward the east, then upward to near the point overhead, its head, with the bright stars and , being highest. The Herdsman, Bootes, occupies the midheavens in the west, the Crown, Corona Borealis, higher up, and due west Hercules, between the Crown and the point overhead. Low down, extending from the west to near the southwest, we find the Virgin, Virgo, the bright Spica near its setting place. In the southeast are the Scales, Libra, and, farther to the left, extending from the Scales to low down near the south, we find the Scorpion, Scorpio, one of the finest of the constellations, Antares, the rival of Mars (as the name means), marking its heart. Above the Scorpion and the Scales are the Serpent Holder, Serpentarius or Ophiuchus, and the Serpent, Serpens, extending right across him to near the Crown, after which the Serpent seems reaching. A little east of due south, low down, we find the Archer, Sagittarius: in the southeast, low down, the Sea Goat, Capricornus: and farther east, and lower down, the Water Bearer, Aquarius. Above the Sea Goat is the Eagle, Aquila, with the bright bluish-white star Altair; on its left, the pretty little Dolphin, Delphinus, and above the Dolphin, nearly overhead, the Lyre, Lyra, with the bluish-white star Vega (even brighter than Altair) nearly overhead. Below the Lyre we see the Swan, Cygnus, due east; and below the Swan the Winged Horse, Pegasus, upside down, as usual. In the northeast, Andromeda, the Chained Lady, is rising. Between the north and northeast is Cassiopeia, the Seated Lady, and above her, her husband, King Cepheus.

SeptemberThe Great Bear, Ursa Major, is low down, between northwest and north, the Pointers directed slantingly upward toward the Pole. Between the Great Bear and the Little Bear run the stars of the Dragon, Draco, round the Little Bear toward the north, thence toward the northwest, where we see the head of the Dragon high up, his two bright eyes, directed toward Hercules, which occupies the western mid-heaven. Above Hercules is the Lyre, Lyra, with the bright steel-blue star Vega high up toward the point overhead. Right overhead is the Swan, Cygnus. Near the west stands the Herdsman, rather slanting forward, however, with the Crown, Corona Borealis, on his left, almost due west. The long winding Serpent, Serpens, runs from near the Crown, where we see its head, due west to farther south than southwest, high up, on the western side of the Serpent Holder, Serpentarius or Ophiuchus, now standing upright in the southwest. Low down creeps the Scorpion, Scorpio, its heart Antares, rival of Mars, in the southwest, the end of its tail between south and southwest. Above, and south of the Scorpion's tail, we see the Archer, Sagittarius. Due south and high up is the Eagle, Aquila, the bright steel-blue Altair marking its body. On the left, or east, of the Eagle lies the neat little Dolphin, Delphinus. Midway between the Dolphin and the horizon is the tip of the tail of the Sea Goat, Capri-cornus, whose head lies nearly due south. On the southern horizon is the head of the Indian, Indus; and low down in the southeast lies Fomalhaut, the chief brilliant of the Southern Fish, Piscis Australis. Above lies the Water Bearer, Aquarius, in the southwestern midheaven. Due east, fairly high, is the "Square of Pegasus," the head of the Winged Horse, Pegasus, lying close by the Water Pitcher of Aquarius. The Fishes, Pisces, are low down in the east. On the left of Pisces we see the Ram, Aries, low down; above it, the Triangle; and above that, the Chained Lady, Andromeda. Low down in the northeast is the Rescuing Knight, Perseus; above whom is Cassiopeia; and on her left, higher up, the inconspicuous constellation Cepheus.

OctoberLow down between north and northwest we find the seven stars of the Dipper, the Pointers on the right nearly due north. They direct us to the Pole Star. Between the Pointers and the Pole Star we find the tip of the Dragon's tail, and sweep round the Little Bear with the Dragon's long train of third magnitude stars, till we come, after a bend, to the Dragon's head, with the' two bright eyes, and These two stars are almost exactly midway between the horizon and the point overhead, and nearly northwest. King Cepheus - not a very conspicuous constellation - lies between the point overhead and the Little Bear. Low down in the northwest we find the head of the Herdsman, Bootes. The Crown, Corona Borealis, which no one can mistake, lies on his left, and close by is the setting head of the Serpent. Above these three groups we see Hercules - the Kneeler. Above the head of Hercules we find the Lyre, with the bright star Vega; and above that the Swan. Passing southward, we see the Serpent Holder, Serpentarius or Ophiuchus, beyond whom lies the Serpent's tail, a most inconvenient arrangement, as the Serpent is divided into two parts. Almost exactly southeast, and low down, are the stars of the Archer, Sagittarius; while above, in the mid-sky. we see the Eagle, Aquila, with the bright Altair. Note the neat little constellation, the Dolphin, Delphinus, close by. Due south is the Crane,Grus; above it, the Southern Fish, with the bright star Fomalhaut; above that, the Sea Goat, Capricornus, and on the left of this the Water Bearer, Aquarius;. Toward the east, high up, is the Winged Horse, Pegasus; he is upside down just now. Below lies the Whale, Cetus, or, rather, the Sea Monster. The Fishes, Pisces, may be seen between the Whale and Pegasus. Few constellations have suffered more than Pisces by the breaking up of star groups. The fishes themselves are now lost in Andromeda and Pegasus. Note how, on the left of Pisces the Ram, Aries, "bears aloft" Andromeda, the Chained Lady, as Milton set Aries doing long since. The Triangle serves only as a saddle. Between Andromeda and her father, Cepheus, we find her mother, Cassiopeia, or, rather, Cassiopeia's Chair. Perseus, the Rescuer, lies below.

NovemberThe Dipper lies low, the Pointers a little east of north. Between the Pointers and Pole Star lies the tip of the Dragon's tail. Low down in the northwest, Hercules is setting. Above is the Lyre, with the bright steel-blue Vega; and above that the stars of the Swan, Cygnus, which has sometimes been called the Northern Cross. Nearly due west we find the Eagle, Aquila. Above the Eagle is the pretty little constellation the Dolphin, Delphinus. In the southwest, rather low, is the Sea Goat, Capricornus; above, and to the south of him, the Water Bearer, Aquarius. The head of the Winged Horse, Pegasus, now upside down (in fact, he is seldom otherwise), is just above this group. Much attention need not be directed to the lowly Phoenix, low in the southern horizon. The River, Eridanus, is coming well into view; and the great Sea Monster, Cetus, now shows finely. The Fishes, Pisces, are above; the Ram, Aries, above them, and eastward, lying toward the southeast; then the Triangle, Triangula (or the Triangles, according to modern maps), and the Chained Lady, Andromeda, too nearly overhead to be very pleasantly observed. The grand giant, Orion, is rising in the east; above him, the Bull, Taurus, with the Pleiades. Low down in the northeast the Twins, Gemini, are rising; above is the Charioteer, Auriga, and above him the Rescuing Knight, Perseus, "of fair-haired Danae born."

DecemberThe Great Bear, Ursa Mafor, is beginning to rise above the northeast by north horizon. The end of the Dipper's handle is hidden. The stars of the Dragon wind round below the Little Bear toward the west, the head of the Dragon with the gleaming eyes ("oblique retorted that askant cast gleaming fire") being low down, a little north of northwest. Above is King Cepheus, and above him his queen, the Seated Lady, Cassiopeia, their daughter, the Chained Lady, Andromeda, being nearly overhead. Low down in the northwest we see the Lyre, Lyra, with the bright Vega, and close by toward the west the Swan, Cygnus, or Northern Cross. The Eagle is setting in the west, and the little Dolphin nears the western horizon. Toward the southwest by west we see the Water Bearer, Aquarius, with his Pitcher, close by which is the head of the Winged Horse, Pegasus. In the south, low down, is the absurd Phoenix; above, the Sea Monster, or Whale, Cetus; above him, the Fishes, Pisces; above them, the Ram, Aries; while nearly overhead lies the Triangle. The River Eridanus. occupies the southeasterly sky, the Dove and Great Dog, Columba and Canis Major, rising in the southeast. The glorious Orion has now come well into position, though not yet so upright as we could wish a knightly hunter to be. He treads on the Hare, Lepus, and faces the Bull, Taurus, above. Due east we find the Crab, Cancer, and Little Dog, Canis Minor, low down; the Twins, Gemini, higher; above them the Charioteer, Auriga, with the bright Capella, and Perseus, the Rescuer, nearing the point overhead. - R. A. Procter's Star Maps. Copyright, 1903, by Munn & Co.

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Respuesta Mensaje 38 de 50 en el tema De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 02/07/2012 02:50 The Stars of DavidWhen man believed that happiness was dependent upon God, he killed for religious reasons. When man believed that happiness was dependant upon the form of government, he killed for political reasons.-Adolfo Bioy Casares

IntroductionIt is commonly understood by historians that history is written by the victors. The history books are dominated with names like Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Napoleon, Peter the Great, Churchill, George Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt. These were people with giant size egos.

Nation building is something like a business. Business leaders count success by market share, profits and growth. National leaders count success by popular support, revenue and dominance. This same model applies to religion and sports as well. It reflects on the celebrity level because we support it on a personal level. We want to be liked and we want to be rich and influential, if not personally then vicariously.

There is mostly a positive side to our competitive nature, but that is another topic. The subject at hand is the negative side.

I have come to see human nature as something like piranha fish. Individually, piranhas are harmless. But in schools, their collective needs are dangerous to other species. Individually, we are moral creatures. But applied to aliens, personal morals turn indifferent and sometimes hostile to those different from us, even when they are not opposing us.

In sum, there is something in the human psyche that has a need to dominate, if not to dominate personally, at least to be associated with the winning side. We are at our worst, when we unite behind the most powerful god and the strongest nation. Even if it means living a lie, this need for gratification is stronger than the desire for truth and respect for moral principles.

For these reasons, to Jews, David is second to Moses as the greatest among Jewish leaders. He was renowned as the man who conquered the rest of the Promised Land and established a glorious empire that had been promised to Abraham.

I'm not writing to condemn Jews per se. This is a case example that applies to the United States, German, France, Spain, Japan and other empires whose rise can be traced to their military conquests. And whose fall was inevitable because their leaders were corrupt and the masses didn't care as long as they were winning.

HistoricityAs much as Israel is one of the most archeologically researched nations in the world, very little of what is in the Bible can be confirmed. The only evidence of the existence of David comes by way of two separate inscriptions of a Davidic dynasty; nothing can be found about David personally. There is much to doubt.

I'm quoting the findings of "The Bible Unearthed" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.

"For all their reported wealth and power, neither David nor Solomon is mentioned in a single known Egyptian or Mesopotamian text. And the archaeological evidence in Jerusalem for the famous building projects of Solomon is nonexistent.

"The most optimistic assessment of this negative evidence is that tenth century Jerusalem was rather limited in extent, perhaps not more than a typical hill country village.

"In fact, it is highly unlikely that this sparsely inhabited region of Judah and the small village of Jerusalem could have become the center of a great empire stretching from the Red Sea in the south to Syria in the north.

"There is absolutely no archaeological indication of the wealth, manpower, and level of organization that is required to support large armies-even for brief periods-in the field.

"There is hardly a reason to doubt the historicity of David and Solomon. Yet there are plenty of reasons to question the extent and splendor of their realm.

"Archeologically we can say no more about David and Solomon except that they existed-and that their legend endured.

"There is no compelling archaeological evidence for the historical evidence of a vast united monarchy, centered in the land of Jerusalem that encompassed the entire land of Israel.

The LegendSo what are we left with? There is nothing outside the Bible that tells us about David. There is no evidence of a united Jewish kingdom. No evidence that Jews dominated anybody outside their borders. Even so, the Jewish people continue to believe that theirs was a great kingdom, because of David. The proof can be found in the turmoil in Israel today, where Zionist supporters are at war to restore the glory days that never existed.

The legend of David starts when this shepherd boy was chosen by the prophet Samuel to become the next king of Israel to succeed Saul. David's notoriety began when he killed the giant Goliath with a slingshot. When Saul gave him command of an army, David's overwhelming victories made Saul jealous. Saul's jealousy grew to such a rage, that David had to flee for his life.

When Saul died in battle he was replaced by two kings, David over Judah and Ishbosheth over Israel. David started a civil war and eventually became king over both kingdoms until his death forty years later.

His people glorified him because of his military conquests. Some of his victims were castrated, sawed in half, chopped with axes and burned in ovens. He was a traitor against his own people, a bandit, a homosexual, an adulterer, liar, extortionist, betrayer, exhibitionist and murderer. When he broke God's law, even God didn't care.

AstrologyTypical of other biblical legendary heroes, the life of David was written according to the motifs of the Zodiac. As said before, there is only indirect evidence of an historical David. His exploits reflect more on the character of those who wrote about him and of those who believe in him, than of his personal character.

For some reason, he doesn't get the full twelve zodiac house treatment of a sun god like Moses and Jesus. It could be because there was such a human.

Aries the Ram/LambAries starts with the spring or vernal equinox, when days and nights are equal. It is the time of year when lambs are born. As the days get longer, the sun is seen as conquering darkness.

Our tale picks up when God and the prophet Samuel decide that Saul is not fit to be king of the Hebrews. God tells Samuel to go to Jesse to find a successor. Of Jesse's seven sons, Samuel decides on David and anoints him to succeed Saul as king. All that is left is for Saul to die. (1 Sam. 15:35-16:13)

David the shepherderWhat could be more fitting to start in the house of Aries than for our hero to be a sheepherder?

11And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here." (1 Sam. 16:11)

David and GoliathIn the house of Aries is the constellation Perseus which shows the image of a man with a sword in one hand and a decapitated head in the other. The popular telling of David's triumph leaves out a gory detail. (1 Sam. 17:1-54)

The Philistine Goliath was said to be about ten feet tall. He had a bronze helmet, a coat of mail that weighed almost a hundred pounds. He had armor on his legs and a shield. His spear weighed eleven pounds.

When the Philistines and the Israelites were first assembled at their lines ready for battle, Goliath went to the front and challenged the Israelites to choose one to fight him in battle. The winning side will be the master, and the losing side the servant.

For forty days the giant came forth and issued his challenge, but none of the Israelites had the nerve to take him on.

Because of his youth, David was not a soldier. On the fortieth day, when David was bringing some food to his brothers and the soldiers, he heard Goliath's challenge. When David went to Saul to volunteer, Saul was understandably skeptical. But David convinced him that his experience at killing lions when they invade his flock, qualified him; Goliath is no different. Saul was persuaded.

On the day of battle, Saul wanted to put his armor on David, but he refused; he wasn't used to it. All he needed was his pouch with five smooth stones and his slingshot. As he and Goliath drew closer, David took out a stone and slung it, striking the Philistine in the head. The giant fell flat face on the ground and died.

Afterward, David took out Goliath's sword and cut his head off. Afterwards, the Hebrews chased the Philistines, killing many and plundered their camp. David took Goliath's head back to Jerusalem and put his armor on his tent.

51Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. (1 Sam. 17:51)

Taurus the BullBulls are needed for plowing and tilling the fields. Bulls pull, so in the same sense, it is a time of pulling away.

SpearsDavid's victory over Goliath won favor with Saul, and an army to command. As David kept winning battle after battle, he soon became more popular than Saul. When it got to the point where David was credited with killing tens of thousands of Philistines, while Saul got credit for killing thousands, an evil spirit came over him. One day, David had to elude two spears that Saul threw at him.

11and Saul cast the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice. (1 Sam. 18:11)

In the house of Taurus, David is symbolized by Auriga, the Charioteer which lies above the horns of the bull. Auriga has a whip in one arm and a goat in the other. The two bull horns symbolize the two spears Saul threw at David.

MichalSaul tried to get David killed in battle by demoting him to march out in front of a command of a thousand men, but David continued to rack up successes. Saul tried to get David to take more risks by offering his daughter, Merab in marriage. When David continued to be successful, Saul married off his daughter to someone else. Saul teased David again with his second daughter, Michal. This time he wanted a hundred Philistine foreskins as a marriage present. David complied by bringing back two hundred foreskins. David got his wife and Saul was more afraid of David than ever before. (1 Sam. 18:12-30)

Gemini the TwinsGemini begins a time of increasing or doubling as the sun reaches its zenith. It ends on the Summer solstice when days are the longest and nights the shortest. The sun is at the peak of its strength. Allegorically, the sun is at the top of the mountain.

We turn our attention now to the Gemini twins that represents David and Jonathan and their homosexual love affair. The Bible is not explicit with the details, but there if enough to tell the tale.

For Jonathan, it was love at first sight.

1When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. (1 Sam. 18:1)

When they first met in private, Jonathan stripped himself naked in front of David.

3Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. 4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his girdle. (1 Sam. 18:3-4)

Jonathan's father, Saul, was angry at his son for shaming his mother's nakedness.

30Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? (1 Sam. 20:30)

Next to a stone heap, they were lying on the ground kissing. In biblespeak, stone heaps are usually phallic symbols.

41And as soon as the lad had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed [prostrate] three times; and they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David recovered himself. (1 Sam. 20:41-42)

At a later time, David was distressed at Jonathan's death. His love was wonderful, better than the love of a woman.

26I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. (2 Sam. 1:26)

Respuesta Mensaje 39 de 50 en el tema De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 02/07/2012 02:51 Cancer the CrabThe sun has crossed a major divide; darkness starts to increase. Crabs walk in a zigzag path, sideways and backwards in a kind of a backsliding movement. This is a time for assessment and division.

Saul's threats on David's life grew so intense that David had to flee. As the sun descends from the height of its solstice, so does David's character.

Jeopardy1. When David came upon Ahimelech the priest at Nob, he told the priest that he was on a mission from Saul to meet some holy men. His lie convinced the priest to give David some holy bread and Goliath's sword. (1 Sam. 21:1-10)

When Saul heard about the favor Ahimelech did for David, he saw it as conspiracy. Ahimelech said he didn't know David was an outlaw and that he was still a loyal servant. Saul was unmoved; so he had Ahimelech and eighty-four killed. Among them were men, women, infants, children and livestock. (1 Sam. 22:9-19)

One of Ahimelech's sons escaped. To which David admitted he knew he was putting everybody at risk, because he saw one of Saul's confederates, Doeg the Edomite, watching him.

22And David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house. (1 Sam. 22:22)

ExtortionThere was a rich man named Nabal who had a wife, Abigail. She was as beautiful as he was mean. When David heard of him, he sent ten men to plead for food; Nabal refused. David wanted to kill Nabal, but his wife intervened by offering the needed provisions without her husband's knowledge. David promised to spare Nabal, but God killed him ten days later.

37And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38And about ten days later the LORD smote Nabal; and he died. (1 Sam. 25:37)

David was grateful for Nabal's death because he was insulted. He took the beautiful Abigail for his wife.

39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; the LORD has returned the evil-doing of Nabal upon his own head." Then David sent and wooed Abigail, to make her his wife. (2 Sam. 25:37)

It is likely this was the Bible's way of saying David killed Nabal for his wife?

BetrayalDavid tried to hide in the Philistine kingdom of Gath. When King Achish learned David was his enemy, David acted crazy, like he had lost his mind. The king let him go. (1 Sam. 21:10-15)

At a later time, David returned to the Philistines in Gath, with 600 men and two wives. This time King Achish took a liking to David and gave him the town of Ziklag to live in. David returned the favor by killing and plundering the kings friends and relatives. When Achish asked him who he was raiding, David would give the names of towns in southern Palestine. Achish got to trust David to the point where he appointed David as his personal bodyguard. (1 Sam. 27)

9And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to Achish. (1 Sam. 27:9)

TraitorDavid was ready to join Achish with the Philistines in battle against the Israelites until the other commanders rejected him, despite Ashish's voucher. (1 Sam. 29)

PaybackWhen David returned to Ziklag, his home in the Philistines, he found it burned down and all his people taken captive by the Amalekites; no one was killed. David retaliated by killing all the Amalekites, except for four hundred escapees. (1 Sam. 30)

17And David smote them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled. 18David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives. 19Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David brought back all. 20David also captured all the flocks and herds; and the people drove those cattle before him, and said, "This is David's spoil." (1 Sam. 30:17-20)

Saul diesThe house of Cancer ends with Saul's death. In a battle with the Philistines, Saul was mortality wounded by an arrow. To avoid the disgrace of being finished off by the Philistines, Saul fell on his sword. (1 Sam. 31)

4Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make sport of me." But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it. (2 Sam. 31:4)

Leo the LionThe sun is still hot; this is a time of strength when the sun goes to the end of the growing season. At the end of the growing season, food is plentiful, and seeds have to be stored for the next season. The lion is king of beasts.

Kill the messengerExpecting favorable treatment, an Amalekite came to David to report on Saul and Jonathan's death. Instead, David accused him of killing Saul and had him killed.

15Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, fall upon him." And he smote him so that he died. 16And David said to him, "Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'" (2 Sam. 1:15-16)

Civil WarDavid was anointed king over the tribe of Judah, and Saul's son, Ishbosheth was made king of Israel. Out of self defense, Ishbosheth's commander, Abner, killed Asahel, one of David's men. David used the incident to start a war against the people of Israel. (2 Sam. 2:1-3:1)

23But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner smote him in the belly with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he fell there, and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still. (2 Sam. 2:23)

Over an argument with king Ishbosheth, Abner defected to David's side where Asahel's avenged his brother's death by killing Abner. (2 Sam. 3:2-4:2)

27And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. (2 Sam. 3:27)

Two of Israel's captains killed their king Ishbosheth in his bed and cut his head off.

7When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night, (2 Sam. 4:7)

They expected David to be grateful, but instead David had them killed and had their hands and feet put on display.

12And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. (2. Sam. 4:12)

With the death of Ishbosheth, the kingdom of Israel decided to accept David as their king.

1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. (2 Sam. 5:1)

Losing badly and without a king, Israel had no choice but to accept defeat and unite behind David.

1There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker. (2 Sam. 3:1)

Dancing in the StreetDavid had the ark of God, the one that Moses had constructed to contain the Ten Commandments, to be brought to Jerusalem. When the ark began to slide off of its cart and Uzzah reached out to prevent its fall, God struck him dead. (2 Sam. 6:1-7)

6And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God. (2 Sam. 6:6)

From that incident, David was afraid to take the Ark home with him, so he left it at the home of Obededom for three months. When David noticed that Obededom was blessed and prospered for having the Ark at his home, he decided to bring it back home with much celebration. (2 Sam. 6:8-19)

When David returned home, his wife, Michal, scolded him for dancing shamelessly nude in front of other women.

20And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" (2 Sam. 6:20)

From this single incident, David cut her off sexually for the rest of her life.

22I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor." 23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. (2 Sam. 6:22-23)

WarGod gave his lion king victory wherever he went. David's forces subdued the Philistines in the west and the Moabites in the east. In the north, he took Zobah and Damascus. The death toll was over 60,000 enemies. (2 Sam. 8)

Mosaic Law was clearly against taking slaves.

2and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them. (Deut. 7:2)

Despite this, David made slaves out of his enemies.

2And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute. (2 Sam. 8:2)

RevisionismOften times I find differences in Bible versions that are too corrupt to ignore. The older versions are more honest than the contemporary versions. Case in point: The old versions report that David had these people sawed up, driven over by chariots, cut up with knives and made to pass through brick ovens. The newer versions say he put them in slavery.

The 1899 Douay-Rheims is the most explicit. Its lineage comes directly from the Catholic Latin Vulgate Bible.

31And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and made them pass through brick kilns; so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem. (2 Kings/Samuel 12:31) Douay-Rheims Version)

The 1611 King James and the 1897 American Standard is less explicit, but they make the point.

31And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. (2 Sam. 12:31 KJV)

Every modern version says David put them at labor with saws, axes and made them work in brick kilns. This is not scholarship, this is whitewashing.

31And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them [to labor] with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil [pass] at the brick kilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. (2 Sam. 12:31)

As a check, Strong's dictionary and concordance is useful. What the revisionists did was to add "labor" and change "pass" to "toil". David's crimes were so horrendous that the revisionists felt compelled to cover it up.

Respuesta Mensaje 40 de 50 en el tema De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 02/07/2012 02:51 Virgo the VirginVirgo is depicted as a woman with grain stalks in her hand. This is when the harvest is milled into flour. As the sun descends to the equator, troubles start to emerge. The subject changes to female problems.

Adultery and murderOne afternoon from his rooftop in Jerusalem, David saw a beautiful woman bathing. He learned that her name was Batsheba, the wife of Uriah, a Hittite soldier in his army. Unable to contain his lust, David had her brought to him. (2 Sam. 11:1-5

4So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (2 Sam. 11:4)

To mask his lechery and her pregnancy, David had Uriah assigned to the forefront of the battle lines where he was be sure to be killed. After her mourning, David married her. The son she bore was to be named Solomon. (2 Sam. 11:6-27)

Mosaic Law forbade taking aliens as wives.

3You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons. (Deut. 7:3)

What this means for Christians who believe Jesus was a descendant of David through Solomon (Matt. 1:6), is that Jesus was not a full blooded Jew. More so, Jesus' ancestry was born out of an illegal and adulterous affair.

RapeThis story did not involve David directly, but it shows his callous attitude. It is stories like this that would upset Christian censors if it was told in a different setting.

David's son Amnon fell in love with his sister Tamar. To get his sister alone in private, Amnon pretended to be sick. When she came to nurse him, he raped her. When she told David and her brother Absalom, David was angry but did nothing; Absalom vowed revenge. Two years later, Absalom invited Amnon to a festivity. When he got drunk, Absalom had him killed. Either out of anger or fearing retaliation, Absalom exiled himself for three years. David was more upset by Absalom's self enforced exile than he was by the loss of Amnon. (2 Sam. 13)

38So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 39And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Absalom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead. (2 Sam. 13:38-39)

Libra the BalanceThe balance symbolizes the fall equinox when days and nights are equal. It is a time for settling debts, getting organized and weighing the good against the bad.

Absalom's CoupAfter two years, Absalom arranged a meeting with David and offered himself for punishment. Instead, David kissed him affectionately. They settled their differences, or so David had thought. (2 Sam.14:24-33)

For four years hence, Absalom turned politician, shaking hands and making promises to get popular. At Hebron where David was crowned, he had himself declared king of Hebron. The plan worked. His following grew to such strength that David fled Jerusalem to avoid disaster, leaving ten concubines behind. To embarrass his father, Absalom had his way with the concubine. (2 Sam. 15:1-16:22)

22So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. (2 Sam. 16:22)

Finally, their forces met in battle. Absalom lost 20,000 men in the field and many more in the countryside. Absalom was found hanging from a tree by his hair. David's commander, Joab, impaled him with three spears. (2 Sam. 17:24-18:33)

David put his ten concubines under house guard for the rest of their lives, and had nothing to do with them.

3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood. (2 Sam. 20:3)

Sheba's SchismA Benjaminite named Sheba lead the people of Israel away from David; the people of Judah stayed loyal to David. To break the rebellion, David sent his soldiers, led by Joab, to capture the city where Sheba and his followers were hiding. To get at them, Joab's forces were about to break down the city wall.

Then a woman came to Joab with a plan. If he would not break down the wall, she would have his head delivered. When she went back to the people to tell them her plan, they cut off Sheba's head and threw it over the wall. The rebellion came to an end. (2 Sam. 20)

22Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. (2 Sam. 20:22)

Human SacrificeThere was a famine in the land that lasted three years. When David inquired, God told him there was bloodguilt on Saul and his house for killing Gibeonites. (They were supposed to be under protection since the days of Joshua, but Saul tried to wipe them out.) So David went to the king of the Gibeonites to ask how to make amends. The king suggested that David give them seven of Saul's sons for retribution. David turned them over and they were impaled on the mountain of God, at the beginning of barley harvest. This sacrifice was supposed to end the famine. (2 Sam. 21:1-14)

Scorpio the ScorpionThe sun is getting weaker and the air is cold, remindful of a scorpion's sting. Scorpions are seen as crawling creatures who frequent cracks, holes and other secluded spots, so they are associated with acts of secrecy and evil. This is a time of argument and conflict.

David's plagueGod was angry at the people of Israel for some unspecified reason. So he told David to take a census. After nine months, Joab reported 800,000 soldiers from Israel and 500,000 soldiers fro Judah. To put this outrageous number in perspective, estimates of the size of the Roman Empire's army at the height of power, exceed 600,000 solders.

9And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand. (2 Sam. 24:9)

For reasons we will never know, after the census, David realized he sinned by ordering the census. The word of God came to the prophet Gad. David had three choices: three months of famine; three months of being pursued by foes; or three days of pestilence throughout the land.

Now David had a strong sense of self preservation. It was better for the people to die for his mistake, than for him to be chased by foes. So God sent a pestilence that killed 70,000 people. When the angel of pestilence was about to enter Jerusalem, God stopped him. (2 Sam. 24)

Sagittarius the ArcherAt the Winter solstice on December 21, the sun enters the lowest point on the horizon. The next three days are the darkest days of the year. The scorpion's stings turn into the archer's arrows. The weakened sun is going to die on the solstice.

Bitter to the endDavid had gotten so old that not even blankets could keep him warm. So his servants sent him a young maid to lie next to him; there was no sex. He named Solomon as his successor and died after ruling for forty years. (1 Kings 1:1-4, 10)

Even in his death bed, he had strong animosity in him to advice Solomon to assassinate his enemies within the kingdom. (2 Kings 2:5-9)

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Respuesta Mensaje 42 de 50 en el tema De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 31/08/2012 05:16 BET EMET MINISTRIESHebrew For "The House Of Truth"Craig M. Lyons Ms.D., D.D., M.Div.bennoah1@verizon.net

4 AREAS OF STUDY NECESSARY TO FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT "THE JESUS CHRIST" & "THE CHRIST"We ended the last article by stating that in order to recover the truths regarding the question "Whom is Jesus Christ" then 4 areas of study will be necessary. It is to these areas of study we now turn in order to determine whom this "Jesus Christ" of the New Testament really is and how he was understood by the Ancients and writers of the New Testament. These 4 areas of study are:

The Analysis Of the Search for a Historical Jesus If He Actually Ever Existed, Which Is Very Doubtful In Our Post-Enlightenment Age The Analysis Of Gnosticism And The Early Gnostic Christains Which Was The Earliest Expression Of Christianity Before The Rise Or Orthodox Roman Christianity And Its Literalism The Analysis Of Comparative Religions And The Many Parallels And Correspondences That Exist To The "Jesus Story" The Analysis Of Solar Mythology And The Personification Of The Sun As It Travels Through The Visible Sky In A Solar Year And Through The Zodica Which Provides The Myths That Comprise Rome's Later "Jesus Story" I will deal with these "areas" of study in more detail later but this is but a short introduction for what lies ahead. This article will help begin to open our eyes to what lies behind the "Jesus Story" but mind you this is but a short introduction to the more in-depth studies that come later. You might say we are just getting "or feet wet".

THE ANALYSIS OF HISTORY IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE "HISTORICAL JESUS"We begin with the recorded history surrounding Jesus Christ in the first century, or should I say the "lack of it" along with examination of the text of the New Testament.

Troubling most for me during my years of study was the fact that there isn't a single "unforged" reference to Jesus Christ anywhere in recorded history for the time he supposedly lived. The few references which some say allude to him are, according to modern scholarship, forged or manufactured long after the original writing in question in order to bolster support for the existence of a "historical Jesus" in the face of accusations to the contrary by Christian detractors. What should be inconceivable to a "thinking believer" is that during the alleged time of Jesus not one writer, either Jewish or Gentile, bothered to write down anything about this most extraordinary person and presumed Messiah. Many people alive at that time wrote extensively about everything that happened for it was a very troublesome time in the Middle East, and yet there is not a single reference to Jesus anywhere in all this wealth of first hand accounts. This strange silence on Jesus Christ which pervades almost a century of Christian correspondence cries out for explanation. Modern scholarship to day will tell us that all references to Jesus Christ outside of this "one" book given to the world by Rome are either forged, fabricated, or purely invented in order to place this "Jesus Christ" into a historical time-line of Rome's choosing. Of course they chose the Messianic time-line of the Jews but ironically the Jews tell us today that their expected Messiah never appeared and never fulfilled the expected Jewish and Hebrew prophecies in their Hebrew Scriptures.

If one does some serious study and examines when the New Testament of Rome was truly written they discover that the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; the four books detailing the life of Jesus) are not referenced in any writings by any Christian writer or Church Father until the later half of the second century, a full 140 years after the "Christ Event" supposedly happened. You need to let that register. Not one reference to any of these 4 Gospels by name can be found in any Christian writer until after 180 A.D.

Answer for yourself: Would you stop for a second and ask yourself how that can be since harsh debates with the Jews and the emerging Roman Christianity were ongoing during these years.

But Rome will have their own dates to authenticate their "tradition". Even the Catholic Church admits a date of 70 A.D. for the earliest Gospel, a full 40 years after the alleged event. Some Bible Scholars accept this tradition but other more trustworthy Modern Scholars who possess the knowledge claim the Gospels were written in 170 A.D. mainly because there is no reference to them by anyone, Christian or non-Christian, prior to that time, especially by certain people who definitely would have included references to them had they existed. Justin Martyr, the first "Apologist" mentions no Gospel in his prolific writings in 150 A.D. in his debates with the Jews. This is where our inquiry has to begin and this will be addressed as we make our way through this website.

Next we must look into comparative religion. We already have addressed this in detail on prior websites by this ministry. But a few comments are necessary.

THE ANALYSIS OF GNOSTICISMGnosticism flourished in Egypt and Western Asia between 250 B.C. and AD. 400. It was a Theosophic movement made up of elements of Egyptian mythology, Indian metaphysics, Judaism, and Greek philosophy. Gnosticism was overwhelmed by Christianity in the fourth century, AD., but some of the lost Gnostic literature has been recovered, and I shall briefly consider it. The ancient Gnostics were those who "knew", just as the modern Agnostics are those who "do not know". Gnostics believed in a Supreme God who was both unknown and unknowable. This unknown god was not the creator of the world; this task was delegated to lesser gods, who were emanations of this Supreme God. Egypt called this the "many in the One". These subordinate gods or emanations (attributes) from the One true God, who created and governed the world, were called "Aeons". Among the Aeons were:

The Logos (The Word, Christ [masculine]) Sophia (Wisdom [feminine]) Nous (Mind) Phronesis (Judgment) Dynamis (Power) What I uncovered in my studies is that all of the above are but attributes of the One Supreme God, yet they exist separately but yet are interrelated. The Supreme God and the Aeons altogether formed the Pleroma (Fullness of the Godhead).

Col 1:19 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell; (KJV)

Col 2:8-9 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (KJV)

In the Gospel of St. John, the Logos, or Word, is identified with "the Christ" which to these earliest writers was not a "historical fleshly person" but a manifestation of God existing in the metaphysical realm. The Gnostic influence among the primitive Christians was very strong. St. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, was Gnostic. As Rhys has observed: It will be noticed that generally speaking the earlier Epistles show signs of Gnostic influence, while the later show signs of anti-Gnostic bias. In the earlier epistles long before Rome's later forgery of the First New Testament, "the Christ" is spoken of as a spiritual being who has always existed. . . . This Christ spirit was in Paul himself, just as it had been in Jesus: "Christ liveth in me." (Galatians 2:20) (Rhys, Shaken Creeds, p. 39.) A later Christian Gnostic, Manes (216-275), formed a sect known as the Manichaeans. The Manichaeans according to Rhys, "believed that Jesus descended from heaven in the form of a man about thirty years of age. His body was illusory, as he was in reality a purely spiritual being; and in the same way the dove (Holy Spirit) which descended upon him, or rather into him, at his baptism was also an illusion." This explains why Paul never concerns himself with a "fleshly Jesus" or mentions hardly any teachings associated with the later traditions of "Jesus of Nazareth". Paul's Christ was not a human being; that is until Rome makes it look that way by later forgeries of anti-Gnostic writings to which they attach Paul's name thereby giving these anti-Gnostic forgeries immediate "authority".

Manes, the founder of this sect called Manichaeans, described the Virgin Birth story as a fable which had grown up around the imaginary figure of this pre-existing spirit Jesus, and drew attention to the fact that no first-hand witness gave evidence to its occurrence. (Rhys, Shaken Creeds, p. 173.) A later form of Manichaean Gnosticism was established in the late sixth century of Mazdak, who combined his religious doctrine with socialism: Mazdakism is mentioned in Chapter XLI of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Professor J. B. Bury appended the following note on this esoteric cult: Its religious character distinguished Mazdakism from all modern socialistic theories. His doctrines were embraced by the ancient Gnostics and Mazdak was enrolled by them with Thoth, Saturn, Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Epicurus, John and Christ as teachers of the true Gnostic doctrines (Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. by Oliphant Smeaton, Vol. II, Modern Library Two-Volume Edition, pp. 255-256).

If you wish to do your own study into this most important area of study of the earliest understandings of "the allegorical or Gnostic Christ" then I recommend to the readers that you consider:

Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity by Birger Pearson Fragments of a Faith Forgotten by G. R. S. Mead Pistis Sophia, A Gnostic Gospel by G. R. S. Mead Did Jesus Live 100 B. C.?, by G. R. S. Mead, Thrice Greatest Hermes by G. R. S. Mead, Shadow of the Third Century, Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Early Christian Heresies by Joan O'Grady The True Origins of Christianity and the Bible by Andrew Benson The Beginning Of Christianity by Andrew Welburn The Historical Jesus And The Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey Jung And The Lost Gospels by Stephan Hoeller Gnosticism: New Light On The Ancient Tradition by Stephan Hoeller Gnosis: The Nature & History Of Gnosticism by Kurt Rudolph The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Paul by Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Scriptures by Bentley Layton I discovered in all of my studies over these years that after the Roman Emperor Constantine made the Christian religion the State religion of the empire the remaining Gnostics were persecuted out of existence and their literature was destroyed. How and why Gnosticism was destroyed by organized Christianity is, as a rule, glossed over in history textbooks. One American scholar has penned an accurate and colorful account of these episodes. I ask the reader to read the following slowly and gleam the truths from it that I have found reiterated consistently throughout my studies by many infallible proofs:

"Preceding Christianity there was a school of science and philosophy which had accumulated practically all the wisdom and knowledge understandable to mankind. The object was to broadly educate the masses of the people by a unit system which would give to humanity a wisdom in common. This was the most potential period in human intellectual advancement the world has known. This school was called Gnosticism. Gnosis means to know - knowledge. Christianity means to believe - ignorance. These are the two schools; the one advocating the universal education of men, the other the universal ignorance of men. The one desired to develop the unit man, the other desired to suppress the unit and level all mankind to a common plastic mass. To accomplish this necessitated the suppressing of all extant knowledge; the closing of all the avenues through which people might acquire independent learning, education and intellectual training, and the debasement of humanity in abject ignorance The school which pitted itself against Gnosticism assumed the name Ecclesia. This name at once identified the purpose for which the organization was created to seize control of government, that it might exploit mankind for profit, and for its own glorification. Temporal power was the church goal. The name Ecclesia was derived from the Greek, and signified the legislative body which governed ancient Athens long before Christianity was invented. The first essential act of the Ecciesiasts was to suppress Gnosticism, and confiscate its vast accumulation of wisdom and knowledge, in order to control the education of future generations in a manner to adjust mankind to its purposes. Therefore the Gnostic wisdom was not wholly lost to the world but its great, universal educational system was supplanted and displaced. It is a well-established historical fact, not denied by the church that it required about 500 years to accomplish this submersion of Gnosticism, and to degrade the new generations in ignorance equal to the state of imbecility. History again points its accusing finger at the living evidence. The horrible results of such a crime against nature and mankind are pictured in the Dark Ages .. . Not even priests or prelates were permitted to learn to read or write. Even bishops could barely spell out their Latin. During this period of mental darkness, the ignorant masses were trained in intolerance, bigotry, fanaticism, and superstitious fear of an invisible power secretly controlled by the church; all of which begat a state of hysteria and imbecility. Through this terrorism popes seized control of the temporal power, retaining this control for nearly 500 years. They appointed and deposed kings at will, hence they dictated legislation to their ends and purposes - the very essence of government . . . This process of legislating evil into mankind is to vindicate that damnable doctrine of original sin, which slanders nature and insults all mankind . . . Originally the motive was to confiscate the intellects of man, but the modern policy is much more concerned in confiscating their personal rights and property. Here is the other aspect of the suppression of Gnosticism. Its method of teaching was an understandable symbolism. It specifically recognized nature as the great teacher, and visible things as the traditional records of past events, in progressive evolution from the lowest state to the highest, with thinking, reasoning man as the highest evoluted being. Man did not fall, he was raised up by a natural promotion. Hence every man was a Gnostic to the extent of his accumulated knowledge and understanding. Thus each unit man became a teacher, and all men were given equal rights in the acquirement of knowledge. It was wholly an educational system, and a natural consequence in evolution. The Ecciesiasts, the Roman church, being thoroughly familiar with the Gnostic wisdom concerning astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics, as demonstrated by the splendid systems of Babylon, Egypt and Assyria, conceived the idea of developing a religio-political form of universal government, to control and exploit the future generations of people upon the earth through living, personified agents of the imaginary heavenly powers. . . to monopolize such a divine power as that contemplated it was necessary to personify nature, using the Gnostic system of symbolisms, and to give to these wholly imaginary beings names and functions. The Gnostic system had to be confiscated, and Gnosticism suppressed, to prevent exposure. This is why Christianity is so viciously antagonistic towards science and philosophy (Thomas Sawyer Spivey, . The Last of The Gnostic Masters, Beverly Hills, California: Published by the author, 1926, pp. 544-551.)

Let me say in closing this part of the article that once I obtained a through understanding of Ancient Gnosticism I could see the terrible and horrific transformation of their earlier and simpler Ancient truths as presented through the hands of Rome today that line the pages of our New Testaments. Not only would Rome burn the libraries of the world for hundreds of years to eradicate this prior knowledge of the Divine as understood since the beginning of time on this planet but would be responsible for the tragic reinterpretation of all things "Gnostic" and in so doing present the world with a counterfeit religion in the name of a "historical Jesus" which up to that time has been treasured and believed by the Ancient Egyptians on down through every successive nation as the "Christ Within" which was of a Mystical Nature and not possessing "flesh" of any sort. Paul and his authentic 7 epistles taught it correctly:

Col 1:27 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (KJV)

Gal 4:19 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, (KJV)

Respuesta Mensaje 43 de 50 en el tema De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 31/08/2012 05:17 Paul and the earliest Christians, which I found upon my intense studies and the reading of the best of the books on these issues that exist today, knew no "Historical Jesus" and had no belief in a "fleshly Jesus of Nazareth". I discovered that only later with Rome's falsification and forgery of the earlier existing Gnostic New Testament presented by Marcion will the "Mystical Christ Within" and the "Gnostic Christ" be given "flesh" and in so doing be able now to be fit into a historical time-line of Rome's choosing. Our websites deal with this issue in detail. The more I studied the more my "Historical Jesus" began to vanish into the background of Rome's lies and deceptions and alterations of "the faith once given to the Saints which was definitely as I was finding more "Mystical" than "literal-historical". I have studied these areas and allied areas of study in detail along with Egyptian studies as they are related for over the last 6 years and the more that I study the more I see that this view of the Ancients Egyptian "Karast/Christ" is accurate to the earliest wisdom of the Ancients. My turmoil at discovering uneasy things concerning my Jesus finally turned into harmony and peace the more I found these Ancient Truths for myself and saw God as the earliest Ancients understood Him and these earliest Ancient Divine Truths which were captured for all Eternity through the medium of allegory and myths. Finally I found the peace and truth behind the "Jesus Story" but there were other problems that yet needed my attention if I were to cover all my bases in getting to the bottom of the "Jesus Story". I had yet to deal with the realm of Comparative Religion to the degree necessary as well as Mythology. That was next on the agenda.

THE ANALYSIS OF COMPARATIVE RELIGIONFollowing graduation from Seminary more study into the "Jewish Jesus" and "the Christ" only disconcerted me more. It was in such studies that I found myself up to my neck in reasons why the Jewish rabbis did not believe in my "Christian Jesus". Well at that time I was not going to "accept" their denial as "the ultimate truth" for I had been conditioned to believe the "Jews were blinded" to "the Christ". But in being an "apologist" myself as a Christian Pastor in a mega church in Dallas and trying to disprove these "Jewish" arguments against my "Jesus" I encountered book after book that began to open my eyes to what had happened over the Dark Ages by Rome and how they had altered the earliest understandings of "the Christ".In fact I found over time that the concept of "Jesus Christ" originated in Egypt no less. It was when reading many books on Comparative Religion that I uncovered and saw for myself the hard fact that the "Jesus Story", from beginning to end, had existed thousands of years prior to the alleged time of Jesus; in fact it began in Ancient Egypt thousands and thousands of years ago. If one looks into such study he finds that many other religions have identical stories of a crucified savior who was resurrected and ascended 3 days following their deaths; and it only begins there. I was to find over time as I studied Astronomy and Egyptian religion that the whole of the "Jesus Story" from beginning to end in the Gospel was "written in the stars".

The fruit of my studies in comparative religion as I contrasted it with the "Jesus Story" in the New Testament showed plainly that the exact same story and the various accounts and events in the "Jesus Story" already existed in numerous religions prior to the alleged time of Jesus dating thousands of years earlier. This I came to understand because other nations, not only being influenced by Egypt, but seeing these same events in the Sky and Heavens, used similar allegory to express what they saw and understood was God "speaking to them". I was overwhelmed when I discovered that the accounts of Chrishna, Horus, Orpheus, Bacchus, Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, Apollo, Hercules, Adonis, Ormuzd, Mithras, Indra, dipus, Quetzalcoatle, etc., all read like the "Jesus Story" in the New Testament. But my fear upon seeing such things in my studies would turn to "joy" as I continued to study and see for myself how these Ancient Spiritual Masters expressed what they saw in the Sky and the Heavens in "allegories" which were to be understood not in a "literal" sense but in a way that revealed deeper truths about God and His message to all mankind. It is these "allegories" and deeper truths which are lost to us today because Rome would later discount and reinterpret these Ancient "truths" as if "literal" and in so doing mankind lost the truth about the "Mystical Christ" and the "Mythical Christ" which mankind had understood since the beginning of time.

My studies would show me that other than the names being changed in each nation's recital of this "Mystical and Mythical Christ" the ancient story read the same from nation to nation. The motif of a Crucified Savior was already existent thousands of years prior to the alleged time of a "Historical Jesus". When reading comparative religions I found that they basically all had virgin births, were visited by wise men and shepherds, were given the same 3 gifts, had to flee a king which desired to kill the new born infant, was tempted by a devil, turned water into wine, raised the dead, walked on water, had transfigurations and shinned brightly, had 12 dedicated disciples, were betrayed by 30 pieces of silver, were pieced, had a twin for a disciple, were wounded in the house of their friends, were crucified between two thieves, had darkness at their deaths, was dead for 3 days, raised from the dead after 3 days and ascended, was expected to return, etc. The story was the same. Even a blind man could see that there is a common story here or a common mythology that ties all these stories of these sungods together with the Christian's "Jesus Story". The more I read about the "Jesus Story" and saw its origin as far back as Egypt then I seriously had to doubt the "Jesus Story" of the New Testament being a divine and unique revelation as presented by Rome as they cast it in a "literal" motif. The more I studied it appeared as if my "Jesus Story" was a historical fraud. I began to wonder where I could find any truth concerning this supposed "Jesus Christ" of history the more I studied comparative religions as well as the texts of the New Testament which are replete with forgeries when compared with the Hebrew Scriptures. What is even more startling is that Early Christian apologists admitted this themselves in their writings when confronted by those by Celsus and many others who exposed such Christian plagiarism in the first and early centuries and believe it or not Christianity's only answer is that they tried to explain this all away by saying that this plagiarism and "replay of the lives of the Solar gods in their Jesus Story" was the work of the Devil. This is laughable and their detractors thought the same as well.

Now hold on. The Bishop of Carthage, Tertullian, says that Christians were considered as sun worshippers because they prayed towards the east just like their pagan counterparts who also worshipped the sun. Tertullian goes on to say, You say we worship the sun; so do you. (Catholic Encyclopedia, xiv, 525; Ad. Nationes, xiii; Ante-Nicene Father. iii, 123). Here we have the testimony of a highly esteemed Christian Early Church Father who admits to this plagiarism.

Answer for yourself: How much do you know about Tertullian?

Tertullian went on to renounce Christianity and admitted that he was in error in accepting the "Christian interpretation of 'the Christ'".

When challenged by their opponents the Christian's general argument was, "What better way to for the Devil to combat our True Religion than for the Devil to have previously created a whole bunch of false religions identical to our True Religion." I don't know how gullible you have to be to believe such a thing but they had not another course of action when called out; they were exposed as copy cats and they knew it! It is we who don't today!

THE ANALYSIS OF SOLAR MYTHOLOGYI had to know how this "Jesus Story" had begun in the beginning and where it had come from. Desiring to know how the "Jesus Story" began I began to trace the "Jesus Story" backwards down through history. Over time I would find that all roads led to Egypt. Chronologically other nations down through history inherited the Egyptian wisdom where they adopted these "doctrines" and that explains why the events were the same but only the names of the characters were different in the various "Jesus Stories" down through history. In such study I ran into the revelation that the whole "Jesus Story", as well as the stories of all the other crucified saviors and godmen prior to Jesus, were nothing more than an allegory of the Sun's annual journey through the Zodiac and the transit of the Sun and stars through the 4 seasons of the year (the Spring equinox, the Summer solstice, the Autumn equinox, and the Winter solstice). I quickly realized that this one solar event, the path of the Sun through the Heavens, repeated and observed by mankind year after year, for thousands of years, recorded and chronicled by all nations for thousands and thousands of years, explains why all these stories of the sungods and Jesus are essentially the same. The allegory of the personified Sun in its path through the sky was the original precursor to the "Jesus Story" in my New Testament.

I quickly came to realize that the parallels of the Ancient legends and myths (as told by the Ancients of the personified Sun in it annual path as it travels through the Zodiac) with the "Jesus Story" are so numerous that it is impossible to explain them away as just a coincidence. During the course of such study I was so overwhelmed by what I saw at first I could not believe what I was encountering; in fact I began a simultaneous study of Astronomy and Astrology in order to see for myself the "Jesus Story" in the sky. The fruit of such study was the personal accumulation of mounds of data that showed without a doubt that the "Jesus Story" in the New Testament is nothing more than Rome's plagiarism of the personification of Sun and its path through the sky. Never had I dreamed when in Seminary that my studies would ever lead into such areas as Comparative Religions and Solar Mythology but pursuing such studies in these areas proved beyond any doubt that the "Jesus Story" is just an allegory for the sun passing through the Zodiac and the passage of the seasons of the year. This common origin, the personification of the