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| − | :From the [[Book]] entitled: "The [[Cosmic]] [[Serpent]]" ({{Wiki|DNA}} and the Origins of [[Knowledge]] ) by Jeremy Narby we learn the following:
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| − | :" Since the very Beginning OF TIME..ON EVERY CONTINENT of the [[Earth]] where [[humanity]] has worshiped DIVINITY THE SERPENT/DRAGON/
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| − | :NAGA has been [[Recognized]] and ACCEPTED AS GOD.
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| − | :According to the great educator Eugene Adams, from his film entitled: "Africans In {{Wiki|Asia}}" we learn the following:
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| − | :"There was a tribe in {{Wiki|Asia}} called the NAGAS or the [[Divine]] [[people]] [[symbolized]] throughout {{Wiki|Asia}} by the [[symbol]] of the the [[serpent]] or the dragon".
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| − | :"That is their [[symbol]]. The NAGA means [[serpent]] or dragon-the [[snake]]. The NAGA was the [[symbol]] of the Asiatic black man. The tribe called the NAGAS-the [[Divine]] people.
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| − | :From the Nile Valley to the {{Wiki|Indus}} Valley on tombstones a [[symbol]] of [[immortality]] because of the serpents ability to [[change]] his {{Wiki|skin}} is a sign of never dying, and is used throughout the planet [[earth]]". He said.
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| − | :He continues: {{Wiki|North}} and {{Wiki|South}} {{Wiki|America}}, {{Wiki|Egypt}}, {{Wiki|Asia}}, {{Wiki|Africa}} and throughout the [[world]] its [[symbol]] of [[life]] after death.
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| − | :The NAGA-The Serpent.In all ancient cultures. In all ancient [[religions]] the [[serpent]] is the symbol.
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| − | :The NAGA-the [[symbol]] of divinity-God!
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| − | :The original inhabitants of {{Wiki|Southeast Asia}} were called the Mons who were an AFRICAN tribe.
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| − | :The serpents of the [[Nagas]] represent [[cosmic]] forces". He said.
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| − | :And according to other sources:
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| − | :[[Nagarjuna]] of [[India]], for example is shown with an [[aura]] or [[halo]] of Seven Serpents, which is an indication of a very high degree of Initiation.
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| − | :The [[symbolism]] of the Seven Serpents, usually Cobras, are also on the Masonic aprons. In the [[Buddhistic]] ruins of [[Cambodia]] ([[Angkor]]) and Ceylon.
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| − | :The great temple-builders of the famous [[Angkor Wat]] ("The [[God]] Horus [[Lives]]"), were considered to be the semi-divine Khmers.
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| − | :They , included in the [[Temples]] is lined with the seven headed , Nara. The avenue leading to the [[temple]] is lined with Seven -headed Naga.
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| − | :And even in {{Wiki|Mexico}}, there are the [[Naga]] which are known as the Isquo. Nagal..
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| − | :In [[China]], the [[Naga]] is given the [[form]] of the [[Dragon]] and has a direct association with the [[Emperor]] and is known as "Son of Heaven".
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| − | :The first Dynasty- the "Chang Dynasty", were Black [[people]] from the Sudan and Egypt.
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| − | :The {{Wiki|Chinese}} are even said to have originated with the [[Serpent]] demi-god and even to speak their [[language]] Naga-Krita.
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| − | :For a pace that has no serpents [[Tibet]], they are still known in [[symbolic]] [[sense]] and are called; "Lu" ([[Naga]]). Nariland called in [[Tibetan]], Lu-trul.
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| − | :While in {{Wiki|Egypt}} the same association is termed "[[King]] Initiate". He said.
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| − | :He continues: In the Western [[traditions]] we find the same {{Wiki|ubiquity}}, for the [[Naga]], or [[Serpent]]. In Genesis, the [[Serpent]] is a [[Naga]] who instructs the new infant ([[humanity]]) in what is called the [[Knowledge]] of Good and Evil.
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| − | :The {{Wiki|Christian}} churches has unfortunately [[transformed]] the Iniate-Teacher into a tempting and negative [[demon]] character.
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| − | :Naga is one of a handful of rare words surviving the loss of the first [[universal]] languages (Naacal).
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| − | :In [[Buddhism]], [[Wisdom]] has always been tied [[symbolically]] to the figure of the Serpent.
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| − | :GODDESS RELIGION-SERPENT
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| − | :According to E.A Budge we learn the following:
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| − | :"In the ancient practice of the [[Goddess]] worship:
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| − | :The [[Serpent]] was the [[symbol]], perhaps even the instrument, of [[Divine]] Consciousness.
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| − | :It was surely intended in the [[Paradise]] [[myth]], as in the {{Wiki|Indo-European}} [[Serpent]] and [[Dragon]] [[myths]], that, the [[Serpent]], as the familiar counselor of Women, be seen as a source of [[evil]] .
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| − | :And be placed in such a menacing and villainous role that to listen to the prophetesses of the {{Wiki|female}} [[deity]], would be to violate the [[religion]] of the {{Wiki|male}} [[deity]] in a most [[dangerous]] manner.
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| − | :The relationship between the woman and the [[Serpent]] is shown to be an important factor. Because the Old Testament related that the {{Wiki|male}} [[deity]] spoke directly to the [[Serpent]], saying, "I will put [[enmity]] between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed".
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| − | :In this way the oracular {{Wiki|priestesses}} who advised and counseled had been identified with the [[symbolism]] and use of the [[serpent]] for several millennia, were now to be regarded as the downfall of the whole [[human]] species.
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| − | :Women, as sagacious adviser or [[wise]] counselor, [[human]] interpreter of the [[divine]] will of the [[Goddess]], was no longer to be respected, but to be hated, feared or at best doubted or ignored.
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| − | :This demand for [[Silence]] on the part of women especially in the churches, is later reflected in the passages of Paul in the New Testament.
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| − | :According to the Judaic and {{Wiki|Christian}} {{Wiki|theology}}, woman's judgment had led to {{Wiki|disaster}} for the whole [[human]] species.
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| − | :We are told that by eating the [[fruit]] first, woman possessed {{Wiki|Sexual}} [[consciousness]] before man, and in turn, tempted man to partake of the forbidden [[fruit]], that is, to join her sinfully in {{Wiki|Sexual}} pleasure.
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| − | :This {{Wiki|image}} of Eve as the sexually tempting but [[God]] defying seductress was surely intended as a warning to all Hebrew men to stay away from the [[sacred]] women of the temples,
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| − | :For if they succumbed to the temptations of these women, they simultaneously accepted the {{Wiki|female}} deity-Her [[fruit]], Her sexuality,
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| − | :It most also, perhaps even more pointedly, have been directed at Hebrew women.
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| − | :And cautioning them not to take part in the ancient [[religion]] and it's {{Wiki|sexual}} customs, as they appear to have continued to do, despite the warnings and punishments meted out by the Levite priests.
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| − | :Not only was the blame for having eaten the [[fruit]] of {{Wiki|Sexuality}}, and for tempting Adam to do the same, laid heavily upon women, but the proof of admission of her [[guilt]] was supposedly made evident in the [[pain]] of {{Wiki|childbirth}}, which women were assured was their [[eternal]] chastisement for [[teaching]] man such habits.
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| − | :Eve was to be severely punished as the {{Wiki|male}} [[deity]] decreed: "I will greatly multiply your [[pain]] in childbearing, in [[pain]] you shall bring forth children, yet your [[desire]] shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you".
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| − | :Women who resided in the [[sacred]] precincts of the [[Divine]] Ancestress took their loves from among the men of the community, making [[love]] to those who came to the [[temple]] to pay {{Wiki|honor}} to the Goddess.
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| − | :Among these [[people]] the act of sex was considered to be [[sacred]], so holy and [[precious]] that it was enacted within the house of the Creatress of [[heaven]], [[earth]] and all life.
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| − | :As one of Her many aspects THE GODDESS WAS REVERED AS THE PATRON DEITY OF SEXUAL LOVE.
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| − | :Some {{Wiki|archaeologists}} assume that the {{Wiki|Sexual}} customs of the [[Temples]], so repeatedly attested to in the [[religion]] of the {{Wiki|female}} [[deity]] throughout the early historic periods of the Near and {{Wiki|Middle East}}, musty have been viewed as a type of primitive [[symbolic]] [[Magic]] to invoke {{Wiki|fertility}} in cattle and vegetation as well as in humans.
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| − | :People today, raised and programmed on the "[[morality]]" of the contemporary {{Wiki|male}} [[religions]] may find the ancient {{Wiki|Sexual}} attitudes and customs disturbing, shocking or even sacrilegious .
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| − | :Yet we should consider the likelihood that such judgment or reactions are the result of the [[teaching]] and {{Wiki|conditioning}} of [[religious]] attitudes present in our society.
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| − | :Those which are themselves based on the ideologies fo those who initially and repeatedly condemned the {{Wiki|Sexual}} customs of the Goddess.
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| − | :Ashtureth, the despised "{{Wiki|pagan}}" [[deity]] of the Old Testament was actually, Astarte-The Great [[Goddess]], as She was known in Canaan, the Near Eastern "{{Wiki|Queen}} of Heaven".
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| − | :Elsewhere known as Innin, Inanna, [[Nana]], Nut, Anat, Anghota, Istar, Isis, Auset, Ishara, Asherah, Astart, Aitoret, Attar, and Hathor-the many named [[Divine]] Ancestress.
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| − | :Archaeologists have traced the worship of the [[Goddess]] back to {{Wiki|Neolithic}} communities of about 7000 BC, some to the Upper {{Wiki|Paleolithic}} cultures of about 25,000 B.C.
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| − | :Who was the [[Goddess]]? Why had a {{Wiki|female}}, rather than a {{Wiki|male}}, been designated as the [[Supreme]] deity?
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| − | :All [[female deities]] of the Near and {{Wiki|Middle East}} were titled "{{Wiki|Queen}} of [[Heaven]]", and in {{Wiki|Egypt}}, not only was the ancient [[Goddess]] Nut known as the [[heavens]], but her brother-husband Geb [[symbolized]] as the earth.
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| − | :If, as gadisvtu, [[sacred]] women of the [[Goddess]], women made [[love]] to various men rather than [[being]] faithful to one husband.
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| − | :One inscription from western Anatolia, carved there as late as AD 200 by a woman named Aurelia Aemilies, proudly announced that she had served in the [[temple]] by taking part in the {{Wiki|Sexual}} customs as had her mother and all their {{Wiki|female}} ancestors before them".
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| − | :The [[sacred]] {{Wiki|sexual}} customs of the {{Wiki|female}} [[religion]] was another of the apparent ties between the worship of the [[Divine]] Ancestress as it was known in {{Wiki|Sumer}}, Babylon, Anatolia, {{Wiki|Greece}}, Carthage, Sicily, Cyprus and Canaan.
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| − | :Women who made [[love]] in the [[temple]] were known in their own [[language]] as "[[Sacred]] Women", "The Undefiled".
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| − | :Yet the {{Wiki|sexual}} customs in even the most {{Wiki|academic}} studies of the past two centuries described them as "{{Wiki|prostitutes}}'. .
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| − | :The [[sacred]] women were repeatedly referred to as "[[temple]] {{Wiki|prostitutes}}" as a translation for qadishtu". He said.
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| − | :The legend of Inanna and Enk listed the [[sacred]] {{Wiki|sexual}} customs as another of the great gifts that Inanna brought to civilize the [[people]] of Erech.
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| − | :The {{Wiki|Queen}} of [[heaven]] was most reverently esteemed by the [[sacred]] women, who in turn, were especially protected by Her.
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| − | :At Erech, the women of the [[temple]] were known as "nu-gig, the [[pure]] and spotless". A Sumerian fragment recorded the [[name]] of Lilith, described as a young maiden as the "hand of Inanna".
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| − | :The same [[name]], Lilith, later appeared in Hebrew [[mythology]] as the first wife of Adam who refused to be sexually submissive to him, and lter as the [[name]] of the [[demon]] who hovered about, waiting to find spilled sperm, of which to make her "illegitimate [[demon]] children.".
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| − | :Both of these tales were developed in {{Wiki|reaction}} to the original Lilith, so closely associated with the {{Wiki|sexual}} customs of the worship of the Goddess.
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| − | :Priestesses who made [[love]] to strangers, claiming that they were [[incarnations]] of the holy spirit.
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| − | :The women of Istar were also known by the Akkadean [[word]], qadistu while at their important [[temple]] in Babylon, there were known as ishtaritu which meant "women of Ishtar".
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| − | :In the [[religion]] of Ashtoreth, just as in the worship of the [[Goddess]] elsewhere in the Near and {{Wiki|Middle East}} Women continued to follow the [[Sacred]] {{Wiki|Sexual}} customs.
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