I. THE SUN-GOD AND MOTHER GODDESS VENERATION
Sun-veneration was accepted by all the advanced ancient civilizations. It was less a religion than a logical acceptance of the fact that without the earth and the sun there would be no humans on this earth, nor any other living creature or plant.
In the pagan culture of Wends, this religion taught respect for the environment, individual freedoms, religious tolerance, equality of men and women, pride in one's own traditions, respect for traditions of one's neighbours, love for one's own and respect for all other human races, as well as for all other living creatures.
Wendish speaking tribes seem to have played an important part in the introduction of the sun worship to various continents. They seem to have been the driving force behind the spread of themegalithic cultures and as chief builders of the megalithic lunar, solar and stelar temples in Europe, Asia Minor, India, Africa, Japan and the Americas. I adduce this not only from many Wendish-related names of deities but also from the fact that wherever these megalithic structures appear, there is also a larger or smaller remaining linguistic imprint of Wendish in languages spoken there today.
I will analyse some of the ancient religious terms and names mentioned in the text, to encourage further research, and to show that many of the Ice Age hunting and gathering, and most of the early farming societies, seem to have spoken Wendish dialects. [Note: Unless I explain the Wendish origin of a term in the text itself, I highlight, in square brackets, Wendish cognates and I add, in italics, their meaning in English.]
I will start with a list of some sun-worshipping cultures and the names of their sun-gods and goddesses:
1. Sun-worship of pagan Wends
Wends are the original Indo-Europeans, called today Continental Celts by European scholars and by all official institutions. Romans called them Gauls in Europe and Galati in Asia Minor.
Their sun-god was called by different names in different Wendish areas. In Western Europe, Asia Minor and Northern Africa, he was mostly known as Bel, Belin or Baal. Bel in Wendish meanswhite, the White God. In Central, Southern and Northern Europe, he was known as Sol, shortened from the Wendish term solnce, the sun. In Italian, sole still means sun. The name Bel appears also engraved on many North American megalithic solar temples.
The inversion of the original syllable sol to slo (in some Wendish dialects pronounced as swo), which probably occurred in Christian times, continues to turn up in many former sun-venerating Wendish areas in terms like Sweden, Swensk, Swiss, Sleswig, Swowints, Slowendt, Slowindt. It turns up also in some ancient pre-Roman and Roman era inscriptions, excavated in Southern France and elsewhere. In all these areas, as well as in Britain, the sun-venerating Wends were calling themselves “Children of the Sun-god”, “People of the Sun-God Sol”.
Their other chief deity was Mother Earth, in most Wendish areas called Baba, i.e., in Northern Germany, Russia, in Babylon, and it turns up in many toponyms in South America. For example, inVilka Ba(m)ba of Pachapoyas [boyi, warriors] and Incas in Peru. This term, Baba, is also known in modern Japanese. In Ancient Greece the great mother-goddess also had a Wendish name:Semele. In Wendish, Semla/Zemla means the earth. [More about Chachapoyas, see below under the heading “7. South America”.]
Bel's counterpart was the god of darkness, the god of the lower realm, called Chernin or Chrni Bog, from Wendish chrni, dark, black. As I have mentioned elsewhere, we know that this god continued to be venerated by some farming communities in the lower Rhine Valley, close to Holland, as late as the first half of the 19th century A.D. One can adduce from this fact that the sun-veneration had also survived there together with Chrni Bog. Ancient Britons had also known Chrni Bog, together with Belin.
I have discovered that the Wendish god of darkness, Chrni Bog, the black god, was venerated so recently – a fact which I have not seen mentioned in any history book, or anywhere else, before or since - in a collection of private correspondence and diaries of the most important 19th century German poetess, Annette Droste von Hülshoff, a niece of an Archbishop. She mentions that “her peasants” were so primitive that they still adhered to an “animalistic religion”. She writes that they were venerating a “he-goat” by the name of Tschrni Bock. She was writing just before serfs were freed in Germany.
She obviously knew no Wendish. Therefore, she did not realize that the Wendish pagan god of darkness, of the underworld, was called by Wends Chrni Bog, the Black God. In Wendish, chrni means black, and bogmeans god. In German, der Bock is a he-goat, a buck.
This fact, that some pagans had survived that long in the Rhine Valley, is particularly amazing because this area is next to the very centre of the Frankish Empire, with their later seat in Aachen, the very heart from which the conversion of European Wendish pagans had begun by Franks some 1500 years earlier. It is not surprising that no German secular or religious historian dares or wants to mention this fact.
From Northern Italy to Sweden and Poland, Wends at times combined their 3 main deities and venerated and presented them as a trinity, calling it Tromushkati or Tromoshie, the three gods. They found one of their statues, with 3 heads looking in 3 directions, high in the Austrian Alps, as well as on the Baltic. It seems that throughout the world people held mountain tops as sacred. [photo of the 3 headed sculpture found in the high Alps]
I very much admire the obvious humility of these pagans who freely admitted that our limited human intellect cannot fathom mysteries of our existence. This is reflected in the fact that some of them also venerated another god, whom they called the Unknown God, the god of the enigmatic endless universe. I would have called him the Unknowable God.
Pagans venerated also many other minor, purely local, deities, most of whom Christians later adopted into their own religion in the form of various saints.
2. Sun Veneration in Ancient Babylon
Shamash/Sharmosh/Jarmosh was the Babylonian sun-god who had a Wendish name. In Wendish, jar means glow, shine, something exuding light and warmth, and mosh means man. Therefore, the Babylonian sun-god was called The Shining Man.
The Babylonian term mosh, man, turns up also in the title of the Gilgamesh Epic [Gal(s)ki Mosh, the Gallic Man]. [Photo of the Babylonian sun-god] In this name, Gilgamesh, sounds g and kare interchangeable. This occurs frequently in many languages, as you will see in my List of Wendish in Migmaq and List of Wendish in Cree. These American natives use in their writing just one letter for both sounds. Because the sound s between two consonants is in Wendish hardly audible, the scribe had left it out. In the Babylonian kuneiform script there seems to also have been just one symbol used for the sibilants sh, ch and j. And, according to the Torah, they used double c, cc, for the h sound.
Similarly, when Romans were writing foreign words containing various sibilants, which did not exist in the Latin script, they used their letter x for some of them. For instance, the Gallic leaderVercingetorix, had a Wendish name, namely Vrshni Redarich, the chief magistrate/chief of police.
I suggest that Wendish scholars have a good look at the Jewish Talmud, to learn more about the culture and language of Babylonians. Jews namely claim that Talmud is based entirely on the knowledge acquired by their leaders while in the Babylonian exile.
3. Sun Veneration in India
Surya was the Hindu solar deity. This name also has a Wendish root. Zaria in Wendish is the aurora, the morning sun. The name for the Hindu sun-salutations is Surya Namaskara, still practised in Yoga as a way to worship the sun. In Wendish, namaskarit means to dress ceremoniously, possibly with masks; maska, mask.
Indian Sanskrit was based on Wendish, and their Vedic writings were composed in a Wendish dialect, therefore there are obviously numerous Wendish terms to be found in the present Hindu religion which I will not enumerate here.
4. Sun Veneration in Japan
The Shinto sun-goddess, Amaterasu, is described in Japanese myths as a typical woman. She was angered by her brother. Annoyed, she punished him by hiding in a cave, thus plunging the entire world into darkness. Eventually, to save the world, the other gods successfully tricked her into leaving the cave and restoring the light to the world. They lured her out of the cave by hanging a huge mirror in front of the cave's entrance. A typical woman, she could not resist coming out to admire herself in that mirror - and the world was saved. Her name, Amaterasu, also has Wendish roots: mater, mother, and Asu, Isa, the Wendish son-goddess, called Isis in the Middle East and in Ancient Egypt. Mater means mother also in Latin – which, like Sanskrit, is also based on Wendish.
The sun still appears on the Japanese flag. Their emperor, and other conservative Japanese, still venerate this sun deity in their Shinto religion. Her temples are still standing in sacred groves, as were her pre-Christian Wendish temples in Europe and elsewhere. During the trying times of WW2, the Emperor continued to resort to her chief temple in a grove on the Japanese east coast.
Sun-goddesses, like Isis, and Amaterasu, may or may not have pre-dated the sun-god. Sun
goddesses may have existed side by side with the sun god, because Amaterasu seems to have been introduced to Japan by a megalithic Wendish people already involved in agriculture and acquainted with megaliths, but also with the Iron Age tumuli.
On the other hand, Wendish vocabulary in the Japanese native Ainu language, seems to have arrived in Japan already during the last Ice Age. One can deduce that from the fact that the Ainu population had remained a hunting and gathering culture, without any agricultural activities, until their very end in the 20th century. The last pure Ainu people had died out in the first half of the 20thcentury [photo of an Ainu couple, she blond, he with a beard to his waist, taken in 1930s.] The irony and tragedy of the Ainu culture is that Japanese governments had tried their very best to annihilate it for some 500 years, but, as soon as their goals were accomplished, they have, in the last 2 years, decided to fund a revival of it.
5. Sun Veneration in North America
It seems that the sun goddess Isis was venerated also by Algonquian native tribes. The first French Jesuits in present Quebec reported that American natives were giving thanks to the sun each day, at the sun-rise and again at the sun-set, without the intervention of any formal religious ceremonies, temples, or priests. They mentioned that the name of their sun-deity sounded very much like Jesus. In my opinion, it was most likely a version of the sun-goddess's name Isis/Isus/Isa/Asu, who was also venerated by the most ancient Wends in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Europe, and Japan.
The Seneca Indians of Pennsylvania also celebrated their sun-god by burning oil, which they produced themselves in some 2000 wells/pits, most of which their Bronze Age predecessors had exported to Europe in the pre 1,200 B.C. era. Senecas, like Britons and Wends called themselves Children of the Sun.
Wends had contributed also to the formation of both languages of Japan, the aboriginal Ainu and the modern Japanese and to many languages in America. Wendish was not necessarily introduced to South America only via the Atlantic, but could have been brought to western coasts of North and Central America from Japan over the Bering Straights, or across the Pacific Ocean.
I have found some native languages on the western coast of America, which show clearly that they were influenced by Wendish-speaking people a very long time ago - most likely already during the last Ice Age. For example, a native tribe in California, venerates a goddess whom they call Tsagiglala, represented on their petroglyphs with enormous eyes and the shape of a panther-like creature. They say that her name means She who is watching. Considering that ta is often softened to tsa, and that the sound g and k are often interchangeable, we get the Wendish phrase Ta ki gleda, which means She who is watching. In Wendish, gledala is the past tense, she was watching. This indicates a very ancient contact, going back to times prior to the introduction of sun-worshipping religions.
Wendish contacts with native tribes along the eastern coasts of America seem to have occurred much later. The German scholar and film-maker, Giffhorn, believes that Pachachoyas had arrived with Phoenicians across the Atlantic, which is quite possible. Phoenicians did also venerate the Wendish god Bel, although they usually spelled his name as Baal. However, megalithic temples in North America frequently have the name Bel, not Baal, engraved above their entrances.
6. Sun Veneration in Central America
The Aztec sun-god was Tonatiuh. They believed that human sacrifice was necessary to keep him moving through the sky. In their art, he was shown painted with yellow hair and blue eyes, as were frequently also some of the victims sacrificed to him. We know that only the best men of the upper class were found worthy of being sacrificed to the Sun. This indicates a connection with Europe, the Middle East or Japan.
Ironically, many of these frescoes were deliberately destroyed, or the blond hair was painted over with black, before they were allowed to be exhibited to the public. This was done even quite recently, because governments and scholars refuse to admit that, prior to Vikings and Columbus, there could have been contacts between American natives and Europeans. The same policy was adhered to also in most countries of South America. The new masters are unwilling to diminish the fame of their own famous discoverer, Columbus.
I wish to mention in this context that the term atlatl - the gadget which sends a spear or an arrow with a much increased speed to a target at a far greater distance – known as such also in Central America, has also a Wendish origin. Considering that t and d are interchangeable, and the -tl endings in native languages are pronounced as -tö or -tü, the term adlatl is obviously the Wendish word odleti, it flies away, i.e., it makes (the arrow) fly away, faster and to a greater distance. Adlatl was known in ancient times on all continents. Who could have introduced it to Africa, Central and South America, and even to Australia, if not someone who spoke Wendish?
7. Sun Veneration in South America
It is well known that Incas were venerating the sun and building luxurious sun-temples. Also that they claimed to be descendants of the Sun-god. Inti was the sun-god of the Incas and the ancestor of their emperors. Their chief deity, Viracocha, had brought him from the depths of Lake Titicaca to bring light to this world. The original name of the Titicaca lake was Titi(s)kala[Wendish: skala, a rock, a reference to the fact that a rock on the island in the lake was, after this miraculous event, regarded as sacred.] The most important Inca ceremony was celebrated in June. June was the month of the festival of the sun, called Inti Raymi. Wendish cognates of Raymi are ray, dance, and rayanie, celebration with dancing.
I noticed recently an interesting article on petroglyphs of the Panamb'y Paraguayan native tribe, explaining their interpretation of the universe, the position of humans in it, and their connection to the sun-god. It indicates also that the Christian symbol, the cross, predates Christianity. It shows what its original meaning in this part of the world was: Its horizontal line was the line connecting the beginning of the word with the end of the world; its vertical line connected man with the sun-god. [Add the coloured photograph of this petroglyph]
However, only a few people are aware of the native Andean tribe called by the Incas Chachapoyas. We do not know what they called themselves. However, I suspect they called themselvesBoyi, pronounced Poya by the Incas. This is a Wendish term for warriors. Boyi had Wendish relations in Northern Italy, in Eastern Alps, in Bavaria, present Czechia and Slovakia who had also called themselves Boyi in Roman times. Wends still have a popular male name which derived from these Boyi, namely Boyan. Incas had been trying to subdue this Andean warlike tribe, and to incorporate it into their empire, for the last 50 years prior to the the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
Chachapoyas were a warlike, freedom-loving, Andean, blond and red-haired people, freckled and white-skinned, with chestnut brown eyes. They were the only native tribe in South America which treated their women as total equals in their social, economic, political and religious lives. This was typical also of all Wendish tribes in Europe. Chachapoyas too were sun-worshippers. They had no upper or priestly class – like the North American Eastern native tribes. They built enormous stone fortresses, the largest ever built in the Americas, but unlike the Incas, they did not build temples nor palaces, only round stone houses, which one can find also only in pre-Roman Northern Spain, Wales and Northern Italy - all formerly Wendish territories. Chachapoyas too were declared extinct some 400 years ago. Just as Wends/Continental Celts were declared to have become extinct after the collapse of the Roman Empire, although almost 2 million of them have survived in Central Europe until today, together with their ancient language.
Some descendants of the Chachapoya tribe who had fled into the most remote mountain valleys to escape the Spanish occupation and enslavement – after having helped the conquistadors with some 40,000 of their warriors to subdue their common enemy, the Incas - were recently found to be genetically related to the Wendish/Celtic population of Northern Spain. (Not surprisingly, their contribution to the Spanish success in colonizing South America is not much written about in Spanish history books.) This research was not completed by Peruvian authorities, but by European scientists.
Several Chachapoya toponyms have Wendish roots. They namely contain the ancient Wendish nasal form of their Mother Goddess, Baba, Ba(m)ba. Even the ubiquitous Wendish term kot, place, spot, corner, also turns up in their toponyms – which are, as far as we know, the only remainder of their upposedly extinct language.
I found this term, kot, also in other parts of America. It turns up even in places like Afghanistan, once ruled by Ancient Persians who also spoke a Wendish dialect. Wendish continues to form the basic vocabulary also of the Dari/Farsi language, evolved from ancient Persian.
If the Chachapoya language is now extinct, although no research has up until now been done on their language, we may never know how closely related their spoken language was to modern Wendish – unless a future Wendish researcher discovers a small Chachapoyan community in some remote Andean mountain valley. Such discoveries can occur.
To give an example: When I was a student in the 1950s, I was told by one of my tutors, a former member of the British secret service serving in Switzerland in WW2, that he had found in a remote Swiss mountain valley farmers who spoke a language which he could understand perfectly, because he knew Welsh. This Wendish dialect, which had, therefore, miraculously survived in Switzerland at least until WW2, is nowhere officially mentioned, as far as I know. In my opinion, it is a remnant of the Raeti/Helve(n)ti language, as is, I believe, also the Rezian dialect in the high Italian Alps, which Slovenes claim to be one of their own dialects. The nameRezi is, it seems to me, derived from the name Raeti, whose dialect is, in fact, closer to the Carinthian Wendish dialect than to any Wendish dialect spoken in Slovenia.
8. Sun-god Veneration in Ancient Greece
Helios, at times associated with the lyre-playing Apollo, was in Ancient Greece the personification of the sun, presented as a beautiful blond young man.
Sounds b and p being interchangeable, pol may be a cognate of the Wendish bel, white, and the related name of the Wendish sun-god Bel, the White God, and pollo from belo, whiteness. [In the accompanying photograph, Helios no longer has his original sun-rays forming a halo. Only holes in his hair remain, where the golden rods used to be inserted.]
As already mentioned, Ancient Greeks venerated also a Mother Earth Goddess, with the Wendish name of Semela. As in Japanese and Latin, Greeks also inserted vowels between groups of consonants, thus changing the Wendish goddess Semla/Zemla into Semela.
9. Sun Worship in Ancient Rome
Like pagan Wends, Romans also continued to build their temples in such a way that winter and summer solstices were observed by their priests and their public. The Emperor Constantine was a sun-worshipper who tried to unite his religiously divided empire, Christians and Pagans, by incorporating many Babylonian mysteries into the Christian religion to make it more acceptable to the pagans. He decided to make Christianity the official Roman religion.
Roman Virgo-Patitura was the Mother of God. Other Roman names for her were, as in Greek: Aphrodite/Venus; Artemis/Diana; Athena/Minerva; Demeter/Ceres; Geae/Terra (Mother Earth); Hera/Uno; Hestia/Vesta; Rhea/Ops. [Picture of Constantine]
10. Sun Worship in Scandinavia
Freyr was the Norse god associated with sunlight, fertility and prosperity, shown in paintings and petroglyphs accompanied by a wild boar. [Photo] Most of the other Norse gods had Wendish names. Thor and Loki were Wendish pagan deities. Both of them turn up also on North-American petroglyphs and in North American native religions.
Most “nordic gods” have Wendish origins: Odin is probably the Wendish Eden (Russian: odin, one), the One (and only); Thor's name survived in the Wendish name for Tuesday, Torek, and the name of trickster deity Loki is derived from the Wendish term lokawi/lokaw, tricky, cunning, which does not exist in any Germanic language. his trickster god appears under various names also in North American native cultures.
11. Sun Veneration in Ancient Egypt
Ra was the Egyptian sun-god, sailing his boat across the sky by day and dragging it back through the underworld by night. His picture is shown in many ancient Egyptian tombs, also in queen Nefertari's tomb. I suspect that the syllable tar in her name is the Wendish word dar, a present, a gift, frequently found in Wendish, as well as in many classical personal names. So is the Wendish word dat(i)/dot, given, and klet, offered (to a deity), which occur in the Greek historian's name Herodotus or the Roman Emperor's name, Diocletian. I suspect that the beautiful Nefertiti was called Neferdata, a gift from Nefer, who may have been some Mittani deity. She was supposedly a Mittani princess from present northern Iran, whose tribe, we know, used Wendish words when training Persian war horses, as reported by Herodotus. [photo of Nefertiti]
Ruins of megalithic solar temples are found not only throughout Northern Africa, but also in Eastern and Western Africa. For example, in Madagascar – the point of departure for ancient Egyptian sailors for Australia and South America, using the southern current - and Senegal, the point of departure for ancient European and North-African sailors travelling to Central and South America, using the equatorial current. One finds megalithic solar structures also in the Pacific Ocean Islands and Eastern Australia.
The Status of Pagan Women
As I mentioned, ancient pagans were a very tolerant and logical people, regarding themselves as just another small part of mother Earth's nature and a most minute part of the endless universe. They freely admitted that they had no monopoly on knowledge and admitted that their woman were equal to men. Their pantheon was also equally divided between male and female deities, as was their priesthood. Up to and including the Roman era, pagans respected their own gods because they had been passed down to them by their own ancestors, but respected, even venerated equally all the other gods they happened to encounter. They did so because, they said, nobody really knows what the mysteries of the creation really are.
We know that early Christians have destroyed, as works of the devil, millions of books containing wisdom and knowledge accumulated by our pagan forebears over many millennia. In their history books, Christians have crudely misrepresented and demonized most pagan social, scientific, cultural and religious accomplishments. For example, they have totally distorted the ancient Roman and Greek institutions of “slavery”, which I will explain in a separate article.
They have turned the Wendish Mother Earth Goddess, Baba, into a nasty old woman and as Baba Yaga, into a truly frightening apparition. They turned the sun-god himself into a devil. Both - Lucifer, Latin for the Carrier of Light, and Belzebub, are obviously related to the sun-god Bel - were thoroughly demonized. However, almost all other aspects of the sun veneration were taken over by Christianity. Only the benign sun-god was replaced by the authoritarian and militant Biblical god who tolerated no competition, to such an extent that he eventually even divorced himself from his own wife, Asharah. Even her symbol was by 300 B.C. thrown out of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and never mentioned again.
This opened the way to all future patriarchal and totalitarian governments, and put the formerly in every respect equal pagan Wendish women out of his way and into the nursery and the kitchen. Pagan Wendish women had enjoyed religious, social, political and economic equality with their male partners. The removal of a mother goddess resulted not only in a degradation of women but also strengthened the most ruthless militarism and intolerance of all kinds in all societies based on the 3 Biblical religions.
THE IMPACT OF SUN VENERATION ON THE 3 BIBLE-BASED RELIGIONS
Mezopotamian Influence
Much of the Biblical customs and religious tenets originate in the sun-god worshipping societies of Ancient Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, where Israelite tribes had lived as foreign labour for millennia.
The Bible and other sacred texts were written after part of the Jewish upper class had returned to Palestine from their Babylonian exile. What they had learned from Babylonians while in exile is particularly evident not only in the Biblical texts like the Flood, Genesis, and the Kings, but equally in their Torah and, above all, in the Talmud.
How closely Biblical customs resemble those of Babylonians is particularly evident when compared with those of Babylon during the time of the Assyrian Queen Semiramis (as spelled by Greeks), the wife of the Assyrian king Shamshi-Adad V, who ruled from 824 – 811 BC. Her real name was Shemuramat.
Considering that the Akkadian, Babylonian and Hittitic languages were related to Wendish, and taking into account that sh and s in the cuneiform script seem to have been used for most sibilantssh, ch and j, and that their mostly syllabic script knew no separate vowels, her name was probably in the Assyrian language, or in the language of Semiramis' origin, Za-mira-mat/mati [za, for;mira, of peace (genitive or acusative of mir, peace); mat/mati, mother]. From the name of Nebuccadnezzar, as explained in the Torah, we also know that they used letters zz for the sound ts, and the double cc for the sound h, and double ss for the z sound.
After her husband's death, Samiramis reigned for 4 years (810 – 806 BC) until her son came of age. There were several Assyrian queens with that name. The most recent was Semiramis II, for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built, also called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis - one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. The Babylonian emperor who built these gardens also had a Wendish name, Nebuccadnezzar. According to a passage in the Jewish Torah, his name was pronounced by Babylonians Nebohodni Tzar and meant In-the-sky-walking ruler.This phrase has the exactly same meaning in modern Wendish.
It was an appropriate nickname for him because he had built, like his father before him, who also had a Wendish name, sky-scrapers in Babylon and had his palace on top of them where he obviously went at times for a walk. His father's name, Nebopolassor, contains the Wendish word polazit, to walk slowly, to parade, instead of hodni, walking, as does his son's name. His general, who had destroyed the First Jewish Temple and the city of Jerusalem in 586 or 605 BC, also had a Wendish name. He was called Nebuzaradan [nebo, sky; zaria, sun-rise; dan, day; given (as a gift)]
As I mentioned, the sacred writings of the Israelites were written after most of the upper-class Jews had returned from their exile in Babylon. Obviously, they had by then total command of the spoken Babylonian language and knew what they were writing about. [I had no chance to read the Talmud yet. However it is general knowledge that it is based entirely on Babylonian knowledge and wisdom. Therefore, it obviously contains a true treasure of information related to the Babylonian culture and science, and should be studied carefully by future Wendish scholars to find other traces of Wendish in the Babylonian language.]
Semiramis was supposed to have been the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon, who had abandoned her as a baby and had then committed suicide. She was then supposed to have been fed by doves, raised by the royal shepherd and married a general of King Ninus. Ninus was so impressed by her bravery at the capture of Bactra, that he forced her husband to commit suicide and married her himself. After Ninus was killed in a war, she masqueraded as her son, led the army and conquered much of Asia, even added Ethiopia to her empire. She restored ancient Babylon and surrounded it with a brick wall. Her son Zoroaster supposedly killed her. This story may be derived from the legend of Ishtar [Izis dar, a gift/present of goddes Isis, in Wendish] and Gilgamesh [Galski mosh, the Gallic Man?].
An old name of the City of Van [Van lake, where Arians claimed to have originated] was Shamiramagerd [Za mir mat; mother for peace; grad, fortress, castle]. Armenians have legends about Semiramis' wars with Armenia and her falling in love with their king Ara, who died in battle and was resurrected by her, thus ending the war.
She was for 4 years in control of the vast Neo-Assyrian Empire which ruled Babylonia, western Iran (Persia and Meda), Israel, much of Asia Minor and Arabia, Phoenicia and Syria, and other countries.
It is said that she circulated the story of her virgin birth of her son Zoroaster, claiming that he was the son of the goddess Inaanna, seed of the woman. [Note to self: find Insular Celtic names for mother goddess which may be the origin of the name Lublana]. Thus she was the proto-type of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She also claimed that her son was Tammus [Ta mosh, The Man] an Akkadian god of vegetation, a life-death-rebirth deity. This being the fulfilment of the “seed” prophecy in Genesis 3:15.
It is interesting that the Zoroastrian religion regarded as mortal sins - there were more than 120 of them - any pollution of soil or water. It regarded as sin also any failure to cleanse oneself after having had contact with sickness and to remain for 20 days in isolation - a strict quarantine.
Other names for god Bel [the white god, i.e. Sun-god] was Nebo [nebo, sky], Kush/Janus or Hermes.
The first skyscraper (by Nimrod?) was completed in 2239 BC. The Bible claims that there was first one language only, and God punished Babylon by creating many languages. (Multiculturalism?)
Nimrod [Could the ending -rod, be the ubiquitous Wendish -rad? Imet rad, to be fond of?] was said to have been the great-son of Noah. He was supposedly the originator of the Sun-worship, born in 3275 BC, about 95 years after the flood. He claimed to have also all the knowledge from before the flood, learned from 2 fallen angels, Horus and Marduk. He was also a great astronomer and knew the Zodiac. He tortured dissenters of his religion and killed them if they refused to convert.
Gilgamesh [Galski Mosh] was the king of the kingdom of Uruk. Gilgamesh was another name for Nimrod. The first clay tablets naming him were found among the ruins of the temple library of the god Nabu, the biblical Nebo [nebo, the sky, heavens] and the palace library of Ashurbanipal in Niniveh. It was said he was 2/3rd god and 1/3rd man, as was later Jesus. They had a triangle of deities, a holy trinity: Nimrod was the sun, the quarter-moon was Semiramis, and the son was Tammuz [ta mosh, the man].
Semiramis married her own son, she was connected to Ishtar/Ister/Astarte through doves which had fed her as a baby and she claimed to have been immaculately conceived. She was also called Isis/Diana/Artemis/Astarte/Cybele, etc. Her son was Tammus, killed by a wild boar and then ascended to heaven to his father, as did Jesus after his crucifixion.
Baal, with the sacred flame, would always be with people as Father, Son and Spirit. The sign of the cross was the initial letter of the Babylonian god Tammus (or Bacchus, likely derived from Wendish boh/bog) or Nimrod. The cross was a very ancient symbol of sun-worshippers. It occurs even in the Paraguayan jungle.
The first Sunday after the first moon, after the spring equinox, a celebration was made, called Ishtar's Sunday, when, remembering Tammuz, pork had to be eaten. Babylonians believed Semiramis to be the Great Mother, the virgin who had given birth to a god and that Nimrod was their saviour, their god incarnate, and that it was through his death that they were all saved from the curse in the Garden of Eden - like later Jesus.
Biblical God and his Wife
The Biblical Hebrew God, Yhwh, had a wife, Asherah. Her name means (she) who walks behind. Like Anat, she is a well-documented goddess of the north-west Semitic pantheon. She was known also to Canaanites. According to the Bible itself, she was in the 9th century BC officially worshipped in Israel. Jezebel had supposedly imported her cult from her native Phoenicia. In the Bible, her worship as goddess is either angrily acknowledged (Kings 14,13) or else demoted from goddess to a sacred tree or pole, set up near an altar (2 Kings 13.6; 17.16; Deuteronomy 16.21, and elsewhere).
This hostility against her worship is evidence for its continued popularity. This is supported by archaeological evidence. Her statue or her symbol was removed, around 300 BC, from the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Asherah was also the Babylonian and Mesopotamian Goddess of Healing. She was still venerated by Moses and Aaron. However, king Josiah executed all Jews who continued to venerate her.
Surprisingly, sun-god's name Baal has survived until today in modern Hebrew. It is common for Jewish women to affectionately refer to their husbands as Baal.
Other Pagan Tradition Incorporated into Christianity
A halo or sun-disk about the head denoted sun-god worship. It continues to be used by Christian today, indicating holiness.
Mother and child worship is also not unique to Christianity. Prior to it, there was mother and son-god veneration in various solar religions. The following are some examples:
The Cross symbol is also of ancient origin: The sacred Egyptian Tau or Sign of Life was a cross with the sun-circle, derived from T in Tammus which became a world-wide symbol for Sun worship, a cross within a circle. Human sacrifices to the devil were made on crosses. In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great sacrificed to the sun-god 10,000 people on crosses, to celebrate his victory. Thus Jesus died on the symbol of the Sun-god. Jesus' tomb was sealed with the Roman seal Singlem solis, the seal of the sun.
Ezekiel 8:12:18 describes “abomination” of Jews worshipping the Sun towards the east and “putting the branch to their nose”, they “provoke one to anger ... therefore I will also deal in fury, mine eyes shall not spare, neither will I have pity and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.” Prophet Elija had people execute “the prophets of Baal/Sun” to assure the survival of the worship of Yahweh in Israel, and killed also those who burned incense to Baal, the Sun and the Moon and to Planets, and to all the host of heaven (2 Kings 23:5).
Return of Nimrod, the coming world leader, also called Antichrist, is supposed to originate in the area of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Genesis, the world was to be destroyed by a flood; in the Revelations, the World was to perish in fire.
Constantine was a sun-worshipper but tried to unite his empire, Christians and pagans, by incorporating Babylonian mysteries into the Christian religion.
Thus, Christianity is based on the ancient Babylonian mysteries. It copied also the pagan division of Sun-worship which divided the year into 8 parts. Therefore there are 8 Christian celebrations: Halloween, Christian Easter, Mayday, etc. And there is truth in Ecc. 1:9 “That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which had been done, is that which shall be done - and there is no new thing under the sun.”
The reason why our public holidays are evenly spaced out, segmented into 8 slices, is that the wheel of the Sun calendar was divided into 8 equal segments and still is by modern pagans and Satan-worshippers. Rabbit was a Symbol of Fertility for Semiramis, as well as eggs. Baal-worshippers observed the spring equinox, Christian Easter. The name Easter comes from theTeutonic/Wendish goddess Oestre, she came down from the moon in a giant moon-egg, falling into the Euthrates. She introduced also 40 days of “weeping for Tammuz”, when no meat was to be eaten, Lent. Herod was still celebrating the pagan festival, the Jewish Passover.
Our names for week-days are also from pagan times:
In the Bible, days of the week were identified with numbers, except the 7th which they called Sabbath, meaning Rest.
The celebration of the birth of the Sun took place on Dec. 21, when the sun is a its lowest point.This was the first observable day on which the sun was rising in the noon sky. It was also the time that the birth of god Tammus/Nimrod was celebrated, namely on Dec. 25. On December 25, Mithra, Osiris, Horus, Hercules, Bacchus, Adonis and Jupiter were also celebrating theirbirthdays, as does Christian Christ. Romans celebrated their Saturnalia in the last week of December. The Roman Sun-god, Sol, had his birthday also on December 25. They have calculated that Jesus must have been born in the autumn.
Many of the Halloween customs are derived from the ancient Baal festivals. The worship of Bel/Moloch and Astarte was very early introduced into Britain, along with the Druids, the priests of the groves. From Bel, the 1st of May is still called Beltane [bel, white; dein/den, day: the white day] The pagan vigil of the dead was replaced by the “All Saints Day”, introduced in 800 A.D., became All Hallow's Day of the evening before, was called Hallow's Eve, shortened to Halloween.
The origin of Valentine's day is in the pagan worship of Baal/Bel. Valentine was Lupercus, the wolf-hunter, in Rome. Greeks called him Pan, Semites called him Baal/Nimrod, the mighty hunter. Valens means strength in Latin. Venus was mother of Cupid, meaning desire. 40 days after Christmas is February 14. Semiramis was mother of Nimrod whom she desired and married, the origin of Valentine's Day.
Origins of the Term Druid and Slowendt
As I mentioned in my other articles, the term druid has a Wendish origin. It is not derived from the Sanskrit drew, a tree, as our scholars continue to insist, but from the Wendish term trowid, which Romans heard and spelled as druid, and the Wendish term troyitsa means a trinity. In Wendish, as in Sanskrit, which is based on Wendish, wid means a seer or a prophet. Tri and trostands in Wendish for three. In Lublana is a triple bridge, called Tro-mostowie, mostowie, bridges.
What Romans heard as druid, could also have been the other Wendish druidical branch, the troweds, weds, scholars, sages. The term ved and veda appear also in Sanskrit, and in the Nordic epic (V)Edda. The tro, three, in trowed, refers to the 3 fields of knowledge druids were studying and acquainted with. It symbolized various trinities: the God of the lower realm, Mother Earth goddess, the Sun-god above; the present, the past, the future; history, science, the arts; body, soul, mind; solids, water, air; evil, grace, indifference; man, woman, child; etc. The Christian trinity is a related phenomenon, copied from ancient pagan religions of Egypt and Babylon, as were many other aspects of Christianity.
I wish to stress that the name Slovene and Slowendt has nothing to do with the Slavic slovo, a word, as explained by all official scholars, even by Dr. Sauli et al. After all, this word does not even exist in Wendish with that meaning. The Wendish word slowo, has the stress on a different syllable and means good-by, not likely to have been chosen as the leading syllable in the name with which they referred to themselves. There is no doubt in my mind that Slo in Slowendt is an inversion of the original syllable Sol, sun-god, and that Wends were referring to themselves originally as Solwends, the Sun-god Sol's people, as Britons were calling themselves Sun's children. Some grey-eyed, white-skinned and freckled native American tribes, originally residing in Florida, also referred to themselves as Sun's children, as did many other native tribes.
(To be continued)
Sun-veneration was accepted by all the advanced ancient civilizations. It was less a religion than a logical acceptance of the fact that without the earth and the sun there would be no humans on this earth, nor any other living creature or plant.
In the pagan culture of Wends, this religion taught respect for the environment, individual freedoms, religious tolerance, equality of men and women, pride in one's own traditions, respect for traditions of one's neighbours, love for one's own and respect for all other human races, as well as for all other living creatures.
Wendish speaking tribes seem to have played an important part in the introduction of the sun worship to various continents. They seem to have been the driving force behind the spread of themegalithic cultures and as chief builders of the megalithic lunar, solar and stelar temples in Europe, Asia Minor, India, Africa, Japan and the Americas. I adduce this not only from many Wendish-related names of deities but also from the fact that wherever these megalithic structures appear, there is also a larger or smaller remaining linguistic imprint of Wendish in languages spoken there today.
I will analyse some of the ancient religious terms and names mentioned in the text, to encourage further research, and to show that many of the Ice Age hunting and gathering, and most of the early farming societies, seem to have spoken Wendish dialects. [Note: Unless I explain the Wendish origin of a term in the text itself, I highlight, in square brackets, Wendish cognates and I add, in italics, their meaning in English.]
I will start with a list of some sun-worshipping cultures and the names of their sun-gods and goddesses:
1. Sun-worship of pagan Wends
Wends are the original Indo-Europeans, called today Continental Celts by European scholars and by all official institutions. Romans called them Gauls in Europe and Galati in Asia Minor.
Their sun-god was called by different names in different Wendish areas. In Western Europe, Asia Minor and Northern Africa, he was mostly known as Bel, Belin or Baal. Bel in Wendish meanswhite, the White God. In Central, Southern and Northern Europe, he was known as Sol, shortened from the Wendish term solnce, the sun. In Italian, sole still means sun. The name Bel appears also engraved on many North American megalithic solar temples.
The inversion of the original syllable sol to slo (in some Wendish dialects pronounced as swo), which probably occurred in Christian times, continues to turn up in many former sun-venerating Wendish areas in terms like Sweden, Swensk, Swiss, Sleswig, Swowints, Slowendt, Slowindt. It turns up also in some ancient pre-Roman and Roman era inscriptions, excavated in Southern France and elsewhere. In all these areas, as well as in Britain, the sun-venerating Wends were calling themselves “Children of the Sun-god”, “People of the Sun-God Sol”.
Their other chief deity was Mother Earth, in most Wendish areas called Baba, i.e., in Northern Germany, Russia, in Babylon, and it turns up in many toponyms in South America. For example, inVilka Ba(m)ba of Pachapoyas [boyi, warriors] and Incas in Peru. This term, Baba, is also known in modern Japanese. In Ancient Greece the great mother-goddess also had a Wendish name:Semele. In Wendish, Semla/Zemla means the earth. [More about Chachapoyas, see below under the heading “7. South America”.]
Bel's counterpart was the god of darkness, the god of the lower realm, called Chernin or Chrni Bog, from Wendish chrni, dark, black. As I have mentioned elsewhere, we know that this god continued to be venerated by some farming communities in the lower Rhine Valley, close to Holland, as late as the first half of the 19th century A.D. One can adduce from this fact that the sun-veneration had also survived there together with Chrni Bog. Ancient Britons had also known Chrni Bog, together with Belin.
I have discovered that the Wendish god of darkness, Chrni Bog, the black god, was venerated so recently – a fact which I have not seen mentioned in any history book, or anywhere else, before or since - in a collection of private correspondence and diaries of the most important 19th century German poetess, Annette Droste von Hülshoff, a niece of an Archbishop. She mentions that “her peasants” were so primitive that they still adhered to an “animalistic religion”. She writes that they were venerating a “he-goat” by the name of Tschrni Bock. She was writing just before serfs were freed in Germany.
She obviously knew no Wendish. Therefore, she did not realize that the Wendish pagan god of darkness, of the underworld, was called by Wends Chrni Bog, the Black God. In Wendish, chrni means black, and bogmeans god. In German, der Bock is a he-goat, a buck.
This fact, that some pagans had survived that long in the Rhine Valley, is particularly amazing because this area is next to the very centre of the Frankish Empire, with their later seat in Aachen, the very heart from which the conversion of European Wendish pagans had begun by Franks some 1500 years earlier. It is not surprising that no German secular or religious historian dares or wants to mention this fact.
From Northern Italy to Sweden and Poland, Wends at times combined their 3 main deities and venerated and presented them as a trinity, calling it Tromushkati or Tromoshie, the three gods. They found one of their statues, with 3 heads looking in 3 directions, high in the Austrian Alps, as well as on the Baltic. It seems that throughout the world people held mountain tops as sacred. [photo of the 3 headed sculpture found in the high Alps]
I very much admire the obvious humility of these pagans who freely admitted that our limited human intellect cannot fathom mysteries of our existence. This is reflected in the fact that some of them also venerated another god, whom they called the Unknown God, the god of the enigmatic endless universe. I would have called him the Unknowable God.
Pagans venerated also many other minor, purely local, deities, most of whom Christians later adopted into their own religion in the form of various saints.
2. Sun Veneration in Ancient Babylon
Shamash/Sharmosh/Jarmosh was the Babylonian sun-god who had a Wendish name. In Wendish, jar means glow, shine, something exuding light and warmth, and mosh means man. Therefore, the Babylonian sun-god was called The Shining Man.
The Babylonian term mosh, man, turns up also in the title of the Gilgamesh Epic [Gal(s)ki Mosh, the Gallic Man]. [Photo of the Babylonian sun-god] In this name, Gilgamesh, sounds g and kare interchangeable. This occurs frequently in many languages, as you will see in my List of Wendish in Migmaq and List of Wendish in Cree. These American natives use in their writing just one letter for both sounds. Because the sound s between two consonants is in Wendish hardly audible, the scribe had left it out. In the Babylonian kuneiform script there seems to also have been just one symbol used for the sibilants sh, ch and j. And, according to the Torah, they used double c, cc, for the h sound.
Similarly, when Romans were writing foreign words containing various sibilants, which did not exist in the Latin script, they used their letter x for some of them. For instance, the Gallic leaderVercingetorix, had a Wendish name, namely Vrshni Redarich, the chief magistrate/chief of police.
I suggest that Wendish scholars have a good look at the Jewish Talmud, to learn more about the culture and language of Babylonians. Jews namely claim that Talmud is based entirely on the knowledge acquired by their leaders while in the Babylonian exile.
3. Sun Veneration in India
Surya was the Hindu solar deity. This name also has a Wendish root. Zaria in Wendish is the aurora, the morning sun. The name for the Hindu sun-salutations is Surya Namaskara, still practised in Yoga as a way to worship the sun. In Wendish, namaskarit means to dress ceremoniously, possibly with masks; maska, mask.
Indian Sanskrit was based on Wendish, and their Vedic writings were composed in a Wendish dialect, therefore there are obviously numerous Wendish terms to be found in the present Hindu religion which I will not enumerate here.
4. Sun Veneration in Japan
The Shinto sun-goddess, Amaterasu, is described in Japanese myths as a typical woman. She was angered by her brother. Annoyed, she punished him by hiding in a cave, thus plunging the entire world into darkness. Eventually, to save the world, the other gods successfully tricked her into leaving the cave and restoring the light to the world. They lured her out of the cave by hanging a huge mirror in front of the cave's entrance. A typical woman, she could not resist coming out to admire herself in that mirror - and the world was saved. Her name, Amaterasu, also has Wendish roots: mater, mother, and Asu, Isa, the Wendish son-goddess, called Isis in the Middle East and in Ancient Egypt. Mater means mother also in Latin – which, like Sanskrit, is also based on Wendish.
The sun still appears on the Japanese flag. Their emperor, and other conservative Japanese, still venerate this sun deity in their Shinto religion. Her temples are still standing in sacred groves, as were her pre-Christian Wendish temples in Europe and elsewhere. During the trying times of WW2, the Emperor continued to resort to her chief temple in a grove on the Japanese east coast.
Sun-goddesses, like Isis, and Amaterasu, may or may not have pre-dated the sun-god. Sun
goddesses may have existed side by side with the sun god, because Amaterasu seems to have been introduced to Japan by a megalithic Wendish people already involved in agriculture and acquainted with megaliths, but also with the Iron Age tumuli.
On the other hand, Wendish vocabulary in the Japanese native Ainu language, seems to have arrived in Japan already during the last Ice Age. One can deduce that from the fact that the Ainu population had remained a hunting and gathering culture, without any agricultural activities, until their very end in the 20th century. The last pure Ainu people had died out in the first half of the 20thcentury [photo of an Ainu couple, she blond, he with a beard to his waist, taken in 1930s.] The irony and tragedy of the Ainu culture is that Japanese governments had tried their very best to annihilate it for some 500 years, but, as soon as their goals were accomplished, they have, in the last 2 years, decided to fund a revival of it.
5. Sun Veneration in North America
It seems that the sun goddess Isis was venerated also by Algonquian native tribes. The first French Jesuits in present Quebec reported that American natives were giving thanks to the sun each day, at the sun-rise and again at the sun-set, without the intervention of any formal religious ceremonies, temples, or priests. They mentioned that the name of their sun-deity sounded very much like Jesus. In my opinion, it was most likely a version of the sun-goddess's name Isis/Isus/Isa/Asu, who was also venerated by the most ancient Wends in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Europe, and Japan.
The Seneca Indians of Pennsylvania also celebrated their sun-god by burning oil, which they produced themselves in some 2000 wells/pits, most of which their Bronze Age predecessors had exported to Europe in the pre 1,200 B.C. era. Senecas, like Britons and Wends called themselves Children of the Sun.
Wends had contributed also to the formation of both languages of Japan, the aboriginal Ainu and the modern Japanese and to many languages in America. Wendish was not necessarily introduced to South America only via the Atlantic, but could have been brought to western coasts of North and Central America from Japan over the Bering Straights, or across the Pacific Ocean.
I have found some native languages on the western coast of America, which show clearly that they were influenced by Wendish-speaking people a very long time ago - most likely already during the last Ice Age. For example, a native tribe in California, venerates a goddess whom they call Tsagiglala, represented on their petroglyphs with enormous eyes and the shape of a panther-like creature. They say that her name means She who is watching. Considering that ta is often softened to tsa, and that the sound g and k are often interchangeable, we get the Wendish phrase Ta ki gleda, which means She who is watching. In Wendish, gledala is the past tense, she was watching. This indicates a very ancient contact, going back to times prior to the introduction of sun-worshipping religions.
Wendish contacts with native tribes along the eastern coasts of America seem to have occurred much later. The German scholar and film-maker, Giffhorn, believes that Pachachoyas had arrived with Phoenicians across the Atlantic, which is quite possible. Phoenicians did also venerate the Wendish god Bel, although they usually spelled his name as Baal. However, megalithic temples in North America frequently have the name Bel, not Baal, engraved above their entrances.
6. Sun Veneration in Central America
The Aztec sun-god was Tonatiuh. They believed that human sacrifice was necessary to keep him moving through the sky. In their art, he was shown painted with yellow hair and blue eyes, as were frequently also some of the victims sacrificed to him. We know that only the best men of the upper class were found worthy of being sacrificed to the Sun. This indicates a connection with Europe, the Middle East or Japan.
Ironically, many of these frescoes were deliberately destroyed, or the blond hair was painted over with black, before they were allowed to be exhibited to the public. This was done even quite recently, because governments and scholars refuse to admit that, prior to Vikings and Columbus, there could have been contacts between American natives and Europeans. The same policy was adhered to also in most countries of South America. The new masters are unwilling to diminish the fame of their own famous discoverer, Columbus.
I wish to mention in this context that the term atlatl - the gadget which sends a spear or an arrow with a much increased speed to a target at a far greater distance – known as such also in Central America, has also a Wendish origin. Considering that t and d are interchangeable, and the -tl endings in native languages are pronounced as -tö or -tü, the term adlatl is obviously the Wendish word odleti, it flies away, i.e., it makes (the arrow) fly away, faster and to a greater distance. Adlatl was known in ancient times on all continents. Who could have introduced it to Africa, Central and South America, and even to Australia, if not someone who spoke Wendish?
7. Sun Veneration in South America
It is well known that Incas were venerating the sun and building luxurious sun-temples. Also that they claimed to be descendants of the Sun-god. Inti was the sun-god of the Incas and the ancestor of their emperors. Their chief deity, Viracocha, had brought him from the depths of Lake Titicaca to bring light to this world. The original name of the Titicaca lake was Titi(s)kala[Wendish: skala, a rock, a reference to the fact that a rock on the island in the lake was, after this miraculous event, regarded as sacred.] The most important Inca ceremony was celebrated in June. June was the month of the festival of the sun, called Inti Raymi. Wendish cognates of Raymi are ray, dance, and rayanie, celebration with dancing.
I noticed recently an interesting article on petroglyphs of the Panamb'y Paraguayan native tribe, explaining their interpretation of the universe, the position of humans in it, and their connection to the sun-god. It indicates also that the Christian symbol, the cross, predates Christianity. It shows what its original meaning in this part of the world was: Its horizontal line was the line connecting the beginning of the word with the end of the world; its vertical line connected man with the sun-god. [Add the coloured photograph of this petroglyph]
However, only a few people are aware of the native Andean tribe called by the Incas Chachapoyas. We do not know what they called themselves. However, I suspect they called themselvesBoyi, pronounced Poya by the Incas. This is a Wendish term for warriors. Boyi had Wendish relations in Northern Italy, in Eastern Alps, in Bavaria, present Czechia and Slovakia who had also called themselves Boyi in Roman times. Wends still have a popular male name which derived from these Boyi, namely Boyan. Incas had been trying to subdue this Andean warlike tribe, and to incorporate it into their empire, for the last 50 years prior to the the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
Chachapoyas were a warlike, freedom-loving, Andean, blond and red-haired people, freckled and white-skinned, with chestnut brown eyes. They were the only native tribe in South America which treated their women as total equals in their social, economic, political and religious lives. This was typical also of all Wendish tribes in Europe. Chachapoyas too were sun-worshippers. They had no upper or priestly class – like the North American Eastern native tribes. They built enormous stone fortresses, the largest ever built in the Americas, but unlike the Incas, they did not build temples nor palaces, only round stone houses, which one can find also only in pre-Roman Northern Spain, Wales and Northern Italy - all formerly Wendish territories. Chachapoyas too were declared extinct some 400 years ago. Just as Wends/Continental Celts were declared to have become extinct after the collapse of the Roman Empire, although almost 2 million of them have survived in Central Europe until today, together with their ancient language.
Some descendants of the Chachapoya tribe who had fled into the most remote mountain valleys to escape the Spanish occupation and enslavement – after having helped the conquistadors with some 40,000 of their warriors to subdue their common enemy, the Incas - were recently found to be genetically related to the Wendish/Celtic population of Northern Spain. (Not surprisingly, their contribution to the Spanish success in colonizing South America is not much written about in Spanish history books.) This research was not completed by Peruvian authorities, but by European scientists.
Several Chachapoya toponyms have Wendish roots. They namely contain the ancient Wendish nasal form of their Mother Goddess, Baba, Ba(m)ba. Even the ubiquitous Wendish term kot, place, spot, corner, also turns up in their toponyms – which are, as far as we know, the only remainder of their upposedly extinct language.
I found this term, kot, also in other parts of America. It turns up even in places like Afghanistan, once ruled by Ancient Persians who also spoke a Wendish dialect. Wendish continues to form the basic vocabulary also of the Dari/Farsi language, evolved from ancient Persian.
If the Chachapoya language is now extinct, although no research has up until now been done on their language, we may never know how closely related their spoken language was to modern Wendish – unless a future Wendish researcher discovers a small Chachapoyan community in some remote Andean mountain valley. Such discoveries can occur.
To give an example: When I was a student in the 1950s, I was told by one of my tutors, a former member of the British secret service serving in Switzerland in WW2, that he had found in a remote Swiss mountain valley farmers who spoke a language which he could understand perfectly, because he knew Welsh. This Wendish dialect, which had, therefore, miraculously survived in Switzerland at least until WW2, is nowhere officially mentioned, as far as I know. In my opinion, it is a remnant of the Raeti/Helve(n)ti language, as is, I believe, also the Rezian dialect in the high Italian Alps, which Slovenes claim to be one of their own dialects. The nameRezi is, it seems to me, derived from the name Raeti, whose dialect is, in fact, closer to the Carinthian Wendish dialect than to any Wendish dialect spoken in Slovenia.
8. Sun-god Veneration in Ancient Greece
Helios, at times associated with the lyre-playing Apollo, was in Ancient Greece the personification of the sun, presented as a beautiful blond young man.
Sounds b and p being interchangeable, pol may be a cognate of the Wendish bel, white, and the related name of the Wendish sun-god Bel, the White God, and pollo from belo, whiteness. [In the accompanying photograph, Helios no longer has his original sun-rays forming a halo. Only holes in his hair remain, where the golden rods used to be inserted.]
As already mentioned, Ancient Greeks venerated also a Mother Earth Goddess, with the Wendish name of Semela. As in Japanese and Latin, Greeks also inserted vowels between groups of consonants, thus changing the Wendish goddess Semla/Zemla into Semela.
9. Sun Worship in Ancient Rome
Like pagan Wends, Romans also continued to build their temples in such a way that winter and summer solstices were observed by their priests and their public. The Emperor Constantine was a sun-worshipper who tried to unite his religiously divided empire, Christians and Pagans, by incorporating many Babylonian mysteries into the Christian religion to make it more acceptable to the pagans. He decided to make Christianity the official Roman religion.
Roman Virgo-Patitura was the Mother of God. Other Roman names for her were, as in Greek: Aphrodite/Venus; Artemis/Diana; Athena/Minerva; Demeter/Ceres; Geae/Terra (Mother Earth); Hera/Uno; Hestia/Vesta; Rhea/Ops. [Picture of Constantine]
10. Sun Worship in Scandinavia
Freyr was the Norse god associated with sunlight, fertility and prosperity, shown in paintings and petroglyphs accompanied by a wild boar. [Photo] Most of the other Norse gods had Wendish names. Thor and Loki were Wendish pagan deities. Both of them turn up also on North-American petroglyphs and in North American native religions.
Most “nordic gods” have Wendish origins: Odin is probably the Wendish Eden (Russian: odin, one), the One (and only); Thor's name survived in the Wendish name for Tuesday, Torek, and the name of trickster deity Loki is derived from the Wendish term lokawi/lokaw, tricky, cunning, which does not exist in any Germanic language. his trickster god appears under various names also in North American native cultures.
11. Sun Veneration in Ancient Egypt
Ra was the Egyptian sun-god, sailing his boat across the sky by day and dragging it back through the underworld by night. His picture is shown in many ancient Egyptian tombs, also in queen Nefertari's tomb. I suspect that the syllable tar in her name is the Wendish word dar, a present, a gift, frequently found in Wendish, as well as in many classical personal names. So is the Wendish word dat(i)/dot, given, and klet, offered (to a deity), which occur in the Greek historian's name Herodotus or the Roman Emperor's name, Diocletian. I suspect that the beautiful Nefertiti was called Neferdata, a gift from Nefer, who may have been some Mittani deity. She was supposedly a Mittani princess from present northern Iran, whose tribe, we know, used Wendish words when training Persian war horses, as reported by Herodotus. [photo of Nefertiti]
Ruins of megalithic solar temples are found not only throughout Northern Africa, but also in Eastern and Western Africa. For example, in Madagascar – the point of departure for ancient Egyptian sailors for Australia and South America, using the southern current - and Senegal, the point of departure for ancient European and North-African sailors travelling to Central and South America, using the equatorial current. One finds megalithic solar structures also in the Pacific Ocean Islands and Eastern Australia.
The Status of Pagan Women
As I mentioned, ancient pagans were a very tolerant and logical people, regarding themselves as just another small part of mother Earth's nature and a most minute part of the endless universe. They freely admitted that they had no monopoly on knowledge and admitted that their woman were equal to men. Their pantheon was also equally divided between male and female deities, as was their priesthood. Up to and including the Roman era, pagans respected their own gods because they had been passed down to them by their own ancestors, but respected, even venerated equally all the other gods they happened to encounter. They did so because, they said, nobody really knows what the mysteries of the creation really are.
We know that early Christians have destroyed, as works of the devil, millions of books containing wisdom and knowledge accumulated by our pagan forebears over many millennia. In their history books, Christians have crudely misrepresented and demonized most pagan social, scientific, cultural and religious accomplishments. For example, they have totally distorted the ancient Roman and Greek institutions of “slavery”, which I will explain in a separate article.
They have turned the Wendish Mother Earth Goddess, Baba, into a nasty old woman and as Baba Yaga, into a truly frightening apparition. They turned the sun-god himself into a devil. Both - Lucifer, Latin for the Carrier of Light, and Belzebub, are obviously related to the sun-god Bel - were thoroughly demonized. However, almost all other aspects of the sun veneration were taken over by Christianity. Only the benign sun-god was replaced by the authoritarian and militant Biblical god who tolerated no competition, to such an extent that he eventually even divorced himself from his own wife, Asharah. Even her symbol was by 300 B.C. thrown out of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and never mentioned again.
This opened the way to all future patriarchal and totalitarian governments, and put the formerly in every respect equal pagan Wendish women out of his way and into the nursery and the kitchen. Pagan Wendish women had enjoyed religious, social, political and economic equality with their male partners. The removal of a mother goddess resulted not only in a degradation of women but also strengthened the most ruthless militarism and intolerance of all kinds in all societies based on the 3 Biblical religions.
THE IMPACT OF SUN VENERATION ON THE 3 BIBLE-BASED RELIGIONS
Mezopotamian Influence
Much of the Biblical customs and religious tenets originate in the sun-god worshipping societies of Ancient Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, where Israelite tribes had lived as foreign labour for millennia.
The Bible and other sacred texts were written after part of the Jewish upper class had returned to Palestine from their Babylonian exile. What they had learned from Babylonians while in exile is particularly evident not only in the Biblical texts like the Flood, Genesis, and the Kings, but equally in their Torah and, above all, in the Talmud.
How closely Biblical customs resemble those of Babylonians is particularly evident when compared with those of Babylon during the time of the Assyrian Queen Semiramis (as spelled by Greeks), the wife of the Assyrian king Shamshi-Adad V, who ruled from 824 – 811 BC. Her real name was Shemuramat.
Considering that the Akkadian, Babylonian and Hittitic languages were related to Wendish, and taking into account that sh and s in the cuneiform script seem to have been used for most sibilantssh, ch and j, and that their mostly syllabic script knew no separate vowels, her name was probably in the Assyrian language, or in the language of Semiramis' origin, Za-mira-mat/mati [za, for;mira, of peace (genitive or acusative of mir, peace); mat/mati, mother]. From the name of Nebuccadnezzar, as explained in the Torah, we also know that they used letters zz for the sound ts, and the double cc for the sound h, and double ss for the z sound.
After her husband's death, Samiramis reigned for 4 years (810 – 806 BC) until her son came of age. There were several Assyrian queens with that name. The most recent was Semiramis II, for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built, also called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis - one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. The Babylonian emperor who built these gardens also had a Wendish name, Nebuccadnezzar. According to a passage in the Jewish Torah, his name was pronounced by Babylonians Nebohodni Tzar and meant In-the-sky-walking ruler.This phrase has the exactly same meaning in modern Wendish.
It was an appropriate nickname for him because he had built, like his father before him, who also had a Wendish name, sky-scrapers in Babylon and had his palace on top of them where he obviously went at times for a walk. His father's name, Nebopolassor, contains the Wendish word polazit, to walk slowly, to parade, instead of hodni, walking, as does his son's name. His general, who had destroyed the First Jewish Temple and the city of Jerusalem in 586 or 605 BC, also had a Wendish name. He was called Nebuzaradan [nebo, sky; zaria, sun-rise; dan, day; given (as a gift)]
As I mentioned, the sacred writings of the Israelites were written after most of the upper-class Jews had returned from their exile in Babylon. Obviously, they had by then total command of the spoken Babylonian language and knew what they were writing about. [I had no chance to read the Talmud yet. However it is general knowledge that it is based entirely on Babylonian knowledge and wisdom. Therefore, it obviously contains a true treasure of information related to the Babylonian culture and science, and should be studied carefully by future Wendish scholars to find other traces of Wendish in the Babylonian language.]
Semiramis was supposed to have been the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon, who had abandoned her as a baby and had then committed suicide. She was then supposed to have been fed by doves, raised by the royal shepherd and married a general of King Ninus. Ninus was so impressed by her bravery at the capture of Bactra, that he forced her husband to commit suicide and married her himself. After Ninus was killed in a war, she masqueraded as her son, led the army and conquered much of Asia, even added Ethiopia to her empire. She restored ancient Babylon and surrounded it with a brick wall. Her son Zoroaster supposedly killed her. This story may be derived from the legend of Ishtar [Izis dar, a gift/present of goddes Isis, in Wendish] and Gilgamesh [Galski mosh, the Gallic Man?].
An old name of the City of Van [Van lake, where Arians claimed to have originated] was Shamiramagerd [Za mir mat; mother for peace; grad, fortress, castle]. Armenians have legends about Semiramis' wars with Armenia and her falling in love with their king Ara, who died in battle and was resurrected by her, thus ending the war.
She was for 4 years in control of the vast Neo-Assyrian Empire which ruled Babylonia, western Iran (Persia and Meda), Israel, much of Asia Minor and Arabia, Phoenicia and Syria, and other countries.
It is said that she circulated the story of her virgin birth of her son Zoroaster, claiming that he was the son of the goddess Inaanna, seed of the woman. [Note to self: find Insular Celtic names for mother goddess which may be the origin of the name Lublana]. Thus she was the proto-type of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She also claimed that her son was Tammus [Ta mosh, The Man] an Akkadian god of vegetation, a life-death-rebirth deity. This being the fulfilment of the “seed” prophecy in Genesis 3:15.
It is interesting that the Zoroastrian religion regarded as mortal sins - there were more than 120 of them - any pollution of soil or water. It regarded as sin also any failure to cleanse oneself after having had contact with sickness and to remain for 20 days in isolation - a strict quarantine.
Other names for god Bel [the white god, i.e. Sun-god] was Nebo [nebo, sky], Kush/Janus or Hermes.
The first skyscraper (by Nimrod?) was completed in 2239 BC. The Bible claims that there was first one language only, and God punished Babylon by creating many languages. (Multiculturalism?)
Nimrod [Could the ending -rod, be the ubiquitous Wendish -rad? Imet rad, to be fond of?] was said to have been the great-son of Noah. He was supposedly the originator of the Sun-worship, born in 3275 BC, about 95 years after the flood. He claimed to have also all the knowledge from before the flood, learned from 2 fallen angels, Horus and Marduk. He was also a great astronomer and knew the Zodiac. He tortured dissenters of his religion and killed them if they refused to convert.
Gilgamesh [Galski Mosh] was the king of the kingdom of Uruk. Gilgamesh was another name for Nimrod. The first clay tablets naming him were found among the ruins of the temple library of the god Nabu, the biblical Nebo [nebo, the sky, heavens] and the palace library of Ashurbanipal in Niniveh. It was said he was 2/3rd god and 1/3rd man, as was later Jesus. They had a triangle of deities, a holy trinity: Nimrod was the sun, the quarter-moon was Semiramis, and the son was Tammuz [ta mosh, the man].
Semiramis married her own son, she was connected to Ishtar/Ister/Astarte through doves which had fed her as a baby and she claimed to have been immaculately conceived. She was also called Isis/Diana/Artemis/Astarte/Cybele, etc. Her son was Tammus, killed by a wild boar and then ascended to heaven to his father, as did Jesus after his crucifixion.
Baal, with the sacred flame, would always be with people as Father, Son and Spirit. The sign of the cross was the initial letter of the Babylonian god Tammus (or Bacchus, likely derived from Wendish boh/bog) or Nimrod. The cross was a very ancient symbol of sun-worshippers. It occurs even in the Paraguayan jungle.
The first Sunday after the first moon, after the spring equinox, a celebration was made, called Ishtar's Sunday, when, remembering Tammuz, pork had to be eaten. Babylonians believed Semiramis to be the Great Mother, the virgin who had given birth to a god and that Nimrod was their saviour, their god incarnate, and that it was through his death that they were all saved from the curse in the Garden of Eden - like later Jesus.
Biblical God and his Wife
The Biblical Hebrew God, Yhwh, had a wife, Asherah. Her name means (she) who walks behind. Like Anat, she is a well-documented goddess of the north-west Semitic pantheon. She was known also to Canaanites. According to the Bible itself, she was in the 9th century BC officially worshipped in Israel. Jezebel had supposedly imported her cult from her native Phoenicia. In the Bible, her worship as goddess is either angrily acknowledged (Kings 14,13) or else demoted from goddess to a sacred tree or pole, set up near an altar (2 Kings 13.6; 17.16; Deuteronomy 16.21, and elsewhere).
This hostility against her worship is evidence for its continued popularity. This is supported by archaeological evidence. Her statue or her symbol was removed, around 300 BC, from the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Asherah was also the Babylonian and Mesopotamian Goddess of Healing. She was still venerated by Moses and Aaron. However, king Josiah executed all Jews who continued to venerate her.
Surprisingly, sun-god's name Baal has survived until today in modern Hebrew. It is common for Jewish women to affectionately refer to their husbands as Baal.
Other Pagan Tradition Incorporated into Christianity
A halo or sun-disk about the head denoted sun-god worship. It continues to be used by Christian today, indicating holiness.
Mother and child worship is also not unique to Christianity. Prior to it, there was mother and son-god veneration in various solar religions. The following are some examples:
- Babylonian goddess Semiramis and her god-incarnate son
- Indian goddess Devka [Wendish: deva, devka, young girl, virgin] and infant Krishna
- Indian goddess Isi and infant Iswara
- Egyptian goddess Isis and her son Horus
- Roman-Catholic Mary and her god-incarnate son Jesus
- In Asia: Cybele and Deoius; Astarte and Astoreth
- Rome: Fortuna and Jupiter-puer
- Greece: Ceres, the Great Mother, and babe at her breast
- Greece: Irene, the goddess of peace and her boy Plutus
- In Tibet, China and Japan: Shing Moo and child
The Cross symbol is also of ancient origin: The sacred Egyptian Tau or Sign of Life was a cross with the sun-circle, derived from T in Tammus which became a world-wide symbol for Sun worship, a cross within a circle. Human sacrifices to the devil were made on crosses. In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great sacrificed to the sun-god 10,000 people on crosses, to celebrate his victory. Thus Jesus died on the symbol of the Sun-god. Jesus' tomb was sealed with the Roman seal Singlem solis, the seal of the sun.
Ezekiel 8:12:18 describes “abomination” of Jews worshipping the Sun towards the east and “putting the branch to their nose”, they “provoke one to anger ... therefore I will also deal in fury, mine eyes shall not spare, neither will I have pity and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.” Prophet Elija had people execute “the prophets of Baal/Sun” to assure the survival of the worship of Yahweh in Israel, and killed also those who burned incense to Baal, the Sun and the Moon and to Planets, and to all the host of heaven (2 Kings 23:5).
Return of Nimrod, the coming world leader, also called Antichrist, is supposed to originate in the area of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Genesis, the world was to be destroyed by a flood; in the Revelations, the World was to perish in fire.
Constantine was a sun-worshipper but tried to unite his empire, Christians and pagans, by incorporating Babylonian mysteries into the Christian religion.
Thus, Christianity is based on the ancient Babylonian mysteries. It copied also the pagan division of Sun-worship which divided the year into 8 parts. Therefore there are 8 Christian celebrations: Halloween, Christian Easter, Mayday, etc. And there is truth in Ecc. 1:9 “That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which had been done, is that which shall be done - and there is no new thing under the sun.”
The reason why our public holidays are evenly spaced out, segmented into 8 slices, is that the wheel of the Sun calendar was divided into 8 equal segments and still is by modern pagans and Satan-worshippers. Rabbit was a Symbol of Fertility for Semiramis, as well as eggs. Baal-worshippers observed the spring equinox, Christian Easter. The name Easter comes from theTeutonic/Wendish goddess Oestre, she came down from the moon in a giant moon-egg, falling into the Euthrates. She introduced also 40 days of “weeping for Tammuz”, when no meat was to be eaten, Lent. Herod was still celebrating the pagan festival, the Jewish Passover.
Our names for week-days are also from pagan times:
- Sunday – Sun's day – Baal
- Monday – Moon's day – Allah
- Tuesday – Tew's day – Norse god
- Wednesday – Woden's day – Norse Odin
- Thursday – Thur's day – Norse Thor
- Friday – Frey's day – Norse Freya
- Saturday – Saturn's day – Roman god of agriculture
In the Bible, days of the week were identified with numbers, except the 7th which they called Sabbath, meaning Rest.
The celebration of the birth of the Sun took place on Dec. 21, when the sun is a its lowest point.This was the first observable day on which the sun was rising in the noon sky. It was also the time that the birth of god Tammus/Nimrod was celebrated, namely on Dec. 25. On December 25, Mithra, Osiris, Horus, Hercules, Bacchus, Adonis and Jupiter were also celebrating theirbirthdays, as does Christian Christ. Romans celebrated their Saturnalia in the last week of December. The Roman Sun-god, Sol, had his birthday also on December 25. They have calculated that Jesus must have been born in the autumn.
Many of the Halloween customs are derived from the ancient Baal festivals. The worship of Bel/Moloch and Astarte was very early introduced into Britain, along with the Druids, the priests of the groves. From Bel, the 1st of May is still called Beltane [bel, white; dein/den, day: the white day] The pagan vigil of the dead was replaced by the “All Saints Day”, introduced in 800 A.D., became All Hallow's Day of the evening before, was called Hallow's Eve, shortened to Halloween.
The origin of Valentine's day is in the pagan worship of Baal/Bel. Valentine was Lupercus, the wolf-hunter, in Rome. Greeks called him Pan, Semites called him Baal/Nimrod, the mighty hunter. Valens means strength in Latin. Venus was mother of Cupid, meaning desire. 40 days after Christmas is February 14. Semiramis was mother of Nimrod whom she desired and married, the origin of Valentine's Day.
Origins of the Term Druid and Slowendt
As I mentioned in my other articles, the term druid has a Wendish origin. It is not derived from the Sanskrit drew, a tree, as our scholars continue to insist, but from the Wendish term trowid, which Romans heard and spelled as druid, and the Wendish term troyitsa means a trinity. In Wendish, as in Sanskrit, which is based on Wendish, wid means a seer or a prophet. Tri and trostands in Wendish for three. In Lublana is a triple bridge, called Tro-mostowie, mostowie, bridges.
What Romans heard as druid, could also have been the other Wendish druidical branch, the troweds, weds, scholars, sages. The term ved and veda appear also in Sanskrit, and in the Nordic epic (V)Edda. The tro, three, in trowed, refers to the 3 fields of knowledge druids were studying and acquainted with. It symbolized various trinities: the God of the lower realm, Mother Earth goddess, the Sun-god above; the present, the past, the future; history, science, the arts; body, soul, mind; solids, water, air; evil, grace, indifference; man, woman, child; etc. The Christian trinity is a related phenomenon, copied from ancient pagan religions of Egypt and Babylon, as were many other aspects of Christianity.
I wish to stress that the name Slovene and Slowendt has nothing to do with the Slavic slovo, a word, as explained by all official scholars, even by Dr. Sauli et al. After all, this word does not even exist in Wendish with that meaning. The Wendish word slowo, has the stress on a different syllable and means good-by, not likely to have been chosen as the leading syllable in the name with which they referred to themselves. There is no doubt in my mind that Slo in Slowendt is an inversion of the original syllable Sol, sun-god, and that Wends were referring to themselves originally as Solwends, the Sun-god Sol's people, as Britons were calling themselves Sun's children. Some grey-eyed, white-skinned and freckled native American tribes, originally residing in Florida, also referred to themselves as Sun's children, as did many other native tribes.
(To be continued)
