ARMENIA: THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
T H E    F I N I T E   A N D   T H E   I N F I N I T E

 

...Gilgamesh came to the Mountains whose name is Mashu...
He approached the Twin Peaks which guard each day
the coming and going of Shamash [the Sun God]...

The One who saw All
I will declare to the world,
The one who knew all I will tell about...
He saw the great Mystery, he knew the Hidden...
He recovered the Knowledge of
all the times before the Flood...
He journeyed beyond the distant...
He journeyed into.. the Beyond.

— THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH


C  R  E  A  T  R  I  X      G  O  D  D  E  S  S.    M  O  T  H  E  R   O  F    A  L  L.




THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE OF --
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
LIGHT AND DARKNESS --
LIFE AND DEATH --

ORDER AND CHAOS --
WISDOM AND IGNORANCE.
SOLAR CRUX SERVING AS THE
GENERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN
COMMUNION WITH THE
SERPENTINE 'SEED'

PETROGLYPH [ROCK DRAWING] FROM
THE GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS
 




TWO SERPENT-RIVERS FLOWING
FROM THE OCEAN OF LIFE
OF THE ONE SOURCE

PETROGLYPH FROM
THE GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS

But the city of Aratta, in the snow-capped mountains that border Mesopotamia
is also under the protection of the Goddess, and ruled by an en devoted to Her as well.
In order to please the gods, Enmerkar plans to build a lavish temple in Uruk.
There was only one big problem:
Enmerkar had none of the precious stones and metals he needed to decorate the temple.
But Aratta, located in the mountains, was famous for its gold and precious stones,
 and it was to the lord of Aratta that Enmerkar turned to...

My sister, let Aratta fashion gold and silver skillfully on my behalf for Unug. Let them cut the flawless lapis lazuli from the blocks, let them ...... the translucence of the flawless lapis lazuli ....... ...... build a Holy Mountain... Let Aratta build a Temple brought down from heaven -- your place of worship, the Shrine E-Ana; let Aratta skillfully fashion the interior of the holy jipar, your abode; may I, the radiant youth, may I be embraced there by you... Let the people of Aratta bring down for me the mountain stones from their mountain...


ONE OF THE EARLIEST DEPICTIONS OF A WHEELED WAGON.
NOTE THE TWO DOTS! [EYES, BEGINNING-END-END-BEGINNING...
... INFINITI]
PICTOGRAPH FROM UGHTASAR.

...This Great Mountain range Aratta is a Tree grown high to the sky; its roots form a net, and its branches are a snare. It may be a sparrow but it has the talons of an Anzud bird or of an Eagle. The barrier of Inanna is perfectly made and is impenetrable. Those Eagle talons make the blood of the enemy run from the Bright Mountain...

—  ENMERKAR AND THE LORD OF ARATTA



THE AGRICULTURAL YEOMAN CULTIVATOR
PLOWING [FERTILIZING] THE LAND WITH THE OXEN/
BULLS. DIRECT AND INDIRECT SYMBOLISM.
THIRD MILLENNIUM BC. UGHTASAR.


CLOCKWISE AND COUNTERCLOCKWISE
POINTING SWASTIKAS. THE ONE ON THE RIGHT WITH RINGS.
GEGHAMA [TOTEMIC GEL...GAYL...WOLF] MOUNTAINS. THIRD MILLENNIUM BC.
SHAMANIC PRIESTS WERE VERY SPIRITUAL AND WERE ANIMISTS
IN TUNE WITH THE DIVINE UNIVERSAL ESSENTIAL LIFE FORCE...


BRONZE BELT OF A WARRIOR FROM LORIBERD. DEPICTING
TWO RIDERS ON A HORSE DRAWN CHARIOT.
TWO 7-SPOKE WHEELS WITH TRIANGULAR RAY PATTERN
IN-BETWEEN CHEVRONS BELOW.


THE RENOWNED MAYA [MAYA...VED. LIT. ILLUSION...
PHENOMENA/MANIFESTATION/REALITY OF THE
UNMANIFEST IDEAL/EIDOS/ESSENCE] CRYSTAL SKULLS ARRANGED AS
THE MIRROR OF THE SACRED ZODIAC [12 AROUND THE 1].

| Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford, 1998. |



A  R  A  R  A  T -- THE GATEWAY TO THE STARS

I AM THE ALPHA AND OMEGA 2220
THE FIERY SUN RISES [IS BORN], BURNS-GIVES ENERGY [SUFFERS] 
SETS [DIES] AND RISES AGAIN [RESURRECTS]...
FROM THE [QUANTUM] OCEAN OF LIFE [VIŠAP-MARY -- MAR LIT.
 COSMIC WATERS -- PRIMORDIAL CHAOS/DRAGON]


THE ANCIENT ASTRONOMICAL CENTER AT VARDENIS WITH THE SACRED
ASTRONOMICAL MARKINGS INCLUDING SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
THIRD-SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.



THE ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOLS OF TAURUS AND RAM [BEGINNING OF
THE CELESTIAL PRECESSION -- MIRRORED WITH TERRESTRIAL
HUMAN ENLIGHTENMENT HENCE THE CONCEPT OF THE RED BULL'S EYE
PREVALENT THROUGHOUT THE FIRST ASTRONOMICAL CENTERS
THROUGHOUT ARMENIAN HIGHLAND/DILMUN/ETEN [ET-ON]
 -- THE LAND OF FOUR RIVERS...
THE ARMENIAN ALCHEMISTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES [TOP LEFT FROM
ANCIENT ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPT PRESERVED
IN THE MATENADARAN] STILL KNEW THE VARIOUS
INFLUENCES OF THE HOUSES OF THE ZODIAC ON THE HUMAN SPIRITUAL
EVOLUTION
...THE CORONA/HEAD/SEAT/TEMPLE [WHENCE THE NAME
TEMPLAR CONNOTING THE HEAD] OF PSYCHIC VISION IS UNDER THE INFLUENCE
OF THE CONSTELLATION OF TAURUS AND RAM...CONNECTED
WITH ORION WHO KEEPS THE TAURUS AT BAY
[SLAYER OF THE BULL...MITHRAS... SLAYER OF HIS OWN LOWER SELF
AS REFLECTED IN THE CELESTIAL COSMIC ORDER]


MANY OF THE SACRED SYMBOLS GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE ARMENIC SETTLED
COMMUNITIES SAW THE RISE OF TOTEMIC CLAN SYMBOLS...
MANY OF WHOM CONTINUED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED AS THE
COAT OF ARMS OF THE ARMENIAN ROYAL HOUSES AND ARISTOCRACY.
IN FACT THE THE TRUE ESSENCE OF THE CURRENT COAT OF ARMS OF ARMENIA
[GEOMETRIC AND TOTEMIC SYMBOLISM]  IS NOTHING
MORE THAN THE SYNTHESIS OF THE COATS OF ARMS OF THE
HISTORIC ARMENIAN DYNASTIES GOING ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE TOTEMIC VULTURE/EAGLE/PHOENIX OF
THE FIRST SETTLED COMMUNITIES REPRESENTED
BY THE SHAMANIC HIGH PRIESTS DRESSED AS VULTURES
AND WEARING FISH 'MESH' CAPES [EA-HAYA]...THE LAND OF FIRE + WATER.


SYMBOLS OF THE PLANETS, HOUSES OF THE
ZODIAC AND LUNAR [CONNECTED WITH
FEMININE BLEEDING MENSTRUAL] CYCLES.
THE SYMBOL FOR MOTHER EARTH
[EQUAL ARM + CROSS ON TOP OF OPEN CIRCLE]
WAS NO OTHER THAN THE ROYAL ORB [FEM.
PRINCIPLE] ALONG WITH PHALLIC SCEPTER POLE/TREE OF LIFE
MASC. PRINCIPLE HELD IN TWO HANDS OF
THE REIGNING ENTHRONED MONARCH
[DUALITY QUEEN/KING IN ONE
THE WORD QUEEN AND KING
FROM ARMENIAN KIN ALSO KEANK
WOMAN AND LIFE...HENCE THE
ENGLISH KIN...RELATED BLOOD FOLK].

 BETWEEN THE TWIN MOUNTAIN [ONE IN TWO] FOR ALL OF HUMANITY

THE MOTHER GODDESS -- QUEEN OF COSMIC WATERS, STARS AND FATE.
HER WINGS ARE SYMBOLIC OF FLIGHT AND SURENESS.
HOLDING THE LION AND THE BULL [FACING EAST AND WEST RESPECTIVELY]
IN ARMENIAN MITHRAIC MYSTERIES ANAHIT WAS THE FEMALE CREATIVE PRINCIPLE


THE HOLY COW [OR THE CELESTIAL BULL] WITH THE SPINNING COSMIC WHEEL
FROM THE GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS. FIFTH MILLENNIUM BC.

...Proud Queen of the Earth Gods, Supreme Among the Heaven Gods,
Loud Thundering Storm, you pour your rain over all the lands and all the people.
You make the heavens tremble and the earth quake.
Great Priestess, who can soothe your troubled heart?


BLACK SUN. EVENT HORIZON.
EMANATING FROM THE CORE/CENTER
OF VOID/BLACK HOLE [EIDOS/IDEA/LOGOS/WORD/
THE BEGINNING AND THE END...INFINITI]

You flash like lightning over the highlands; you throw your firebrands across the earth.
Your deafening command, whistling like the South Wind, splits apart great mountains.
You trample the disobedient like a wild bull; heaven and earth tremble.
Holy Priestess, who can soothe your troubled heart?



ONE OF THE EARLIEST DEPICTIONS [TOP] OF THE
INFINITE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION...

...THE CONSTELLATION OF ORION [HAYK]...
...THE GOD-MAN WITH THE UPRAISED ARM
SLAYS THE VISHAP-DRAGON [LOWER SELF...]
GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS. THIRD MILLENNIUM BC.


CONSTELLATION OF CANIS MAJOR. GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS. THIRD MILLENNIUM BC.
NOTE THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF THE FISH TAILED MALTESE CROSS.
THE SACRED PETROGLYPHS CONTAIN THE SYMBOLS AND SIGNS OF ALL
THE KNOWN CONSTELLATIONS, SIGNS OF THE PLANETS, THE ZODIAC,
ELEMENTS ETC.


COSMIC MARKINGS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS AND PLANETARY ALIGNMENT
DURING PRECESSION [EQUILATERAL CROSS WITHIN THE CIRCLE
MARKING THE FOUR SEASONS/EQUINOXES AND SOLSTICES]
. NOTE THE E-SYMBOL [LATER SACRED DELPHIC]
AND ALSO TWO CONNECTED Es FACING EAST AND WEST...
IN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT FORMING A DOUBLE-TRIDENT
[SAME IN THE HAND OF MARDUK SLAYING TIAMAT
OR ORDER EMERGING OUT OF PRIMORDIAL CHAOS/VOID]

Your frightful cry descending from the heavens devours its victims.
Your quivering hand causes the midday heat to hover over the sea.
Your nighttime stalking of the heavens chills the land with its dark breeze.
Holy Inanna [AYA the Great Creatrix Mother Goddess of Aratta -- later Anahit GN],
the riverbanks overflow with the flood-waves of your heart...

—  WOLKENSTEIN AND KRAMER 95


T  H  E    C  O  S  M  I  C    W  H  E  E  L.  S  P  I  R  A  L  I  N  G    E  T  E  R  N  I  T  Y.




THE SPINNING COSMIC WHEEL OF ETERNITY [SPIRAL LEADING TO THE CORE.
THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE STELLAR MATRIX [EQUILATERAL CROSS-
UNIVERSAL VERTICAL-HORIZONTAL AXIS]. THE TOTEMIC AYTS [MOUNTAIN GOAT]
O F A Y As. WITHIN ALL-ENCOMPASSING DARKNESS [FORMLESS PRE-CREATION CHAOS]
THE FLAMES OF THE LIFE FORCE [POST BIG BANG OUTWARD FLOW OF
ENERGY AND MATTER] BORDERING ON FOUR SIDES.


THE SIGN OF INFINITI ['LAZY 8']. THE COSMIC WHEEL.
THE SACRED SYMBOLS ON FOUR SIDES.



THE SIX-POINTED STAR [MACROCOSM]. THE MAN [MICROCOSM] IN A FORM OF AN 8
[ANCIENT ARMENIAN HIEROGLYPH FOR MAN -- A FINITE ...WHO IS INFINITE... SINCE
HE HAS W I T H I N THE BURNING FLAME OF THE DIVINE SPARK OF THE CREATOR]
THE COSMIC WHEEL IN THE FORM OF THE CROSS WITHIN A CIRCLE.


EARLY SYMBOLS OF THE ZODIAC. EVOLVED IN ARMENIAN HIGHLAND AND
MANY OF THE CHARACTERS WERE LATER INCORPORATED
 INTO THE SACRED M E H I A N LETTERS.


CEREMONIAL RITUAL MASK OF A TOTEMIC SHAMAN


VIŠAP [CHAOS] AND TOTEMIC AYTS [ORDER].


THE ETERNAL FEMALE PRINCIPLE. PRIMORDIAL COSMIC WATERS.

THE ABOVE SUPERB WORKS ARE RENDITIONS BY THE VERY
GIFTED ARTIST AND GOOD FRIEND OF OURS FROM DENMARK --
K A R E K I N   D I C K R A N  -- WHO IS DEDICATED
TO REVIVING THE BEAUTIFUL ANCIENT ANCESTRAL
 PICTOGRAPHIC CAVE ART, WHICH IN A WAY IS ALSO POST-MODERN.
THUS IT IS OLD A N D NEW. TO BE MORE PRECISE IT IS  T  I  M  E  L  E  S  S.
E-MAIL THE ARTIST KD@UNICA.DK TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIS AMAZING WORK...
SEE MORE OF HIS OUTSTANDING CREATIONS INSPIRED BY THE ANCIENT ARTISTS.


'MAP OF THE UNIVERSE' FROM THE BLACK MOUNTAIN
VARDENIS MOUNTAINS, SOUTH OF LAKE SEVAN.
THIRD MILLENNIUM BC.
SEE RENDITION BY K.D. ABOVE


THE ANCIENT ARMENIA HIEROGLYPH OF TWINS/GEMINI.
AA OF THE LATER LATIN [IN TURN FROM GREEK, WHICH IN TURN IS FROM
PHOENICIAN, WHICH IS IN TURN FROM EARLIEST PICTOGRAPHS IN ARMENIA]
ALPHABET PREVALENT TWO POINTS IN SINGLE
 'U' SHAPE WITH A HORIZONTAL LINE GOING ACROSS THE CENTER.

...From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below.
From the Great Above the goddess opened her ear to the Great Below.
From the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below.



S O M E   O F   T H E   A N C I E N T   S A C R E D   A R M E N I C  H I E R O G L Y P H S
THE SUN. THE SERPENT [EARTH-AYA -- RAM AND THE THE OX-EYED GODDESS AYA.].
 INFINITI. SPIRAL. UNION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. KASSITE ARMAN CROSS
TREE OF LIFE. EIGHT-SPOKE WHEEL
[8 CARDINAL POINTS FROM THE CORE] OF LIFE [WITHIN A CIRCLE]
DOUBLE AXE OF THE SHINAR[AR]S. THE COSMIC WHEEL OF EA-HAYA.
TRIPLE DECKER UNIVERSE 'FLOATING' ON THE OCEAN OF LIFE.
THE EQUILATERAL CROSS. SEA/COSMIC WATERS
 [SALT[IRE] -- SALARMENICUM]. THE SKY



THE ONE BECOMES TWO. BECOMES FOUR.
BECOMES EIGHT. RETURNS TO THE ONE.
T S Π     T W I N S   W I T H I N  E V O L V I N G  & 
R E V O L V I N G   C O S M O S [1 2 + 1]   B  Y    K
. D. D.


VISHAPAKAR DRAGON STONE
FROM THIRD MILLENNIUM BC.
NOTE THE EYES IN THE FORM OF
TWO '6's POINTING OR SPINNING
INTO OTHER DIRECTIONS.
THE AQUATIC DRAGON STONES
WERE PLACED NEAR WATER SOURCES
ON THE 'PATHS OF THE DRAGON' DEDICATED
TO EA-AYA-ENKI...



THE SPREAD OF CARPET [RUG] MAKING FROM ARMENIAN HIGHLAND TO ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD. FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW WORLD. MAP FROM
VOLKMAR GANTZHORN'S ORIENTAL CARPETS: THEIR ICONOLOGY AND
ICONOGRAPHY FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE 18TH CENTURY THE BEAUTIFUL SACRED
CARPET PATTERNS OF MAYANS, INCANS AND COUNTLESS NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES
ARE IDENTICAL COPIES OF CARPET PATTERNS THAT WERE PLACED ON THE WALLS
OF ARMAN PRIMORDIAL CITY CENTERS IN SITES LIKE CAYONU AND CATAL HUYUK
NEARLY 10,000 YEARS AGO. THE WORD CARPET IS TAKEN DIRECTLY OUT OF ARMENIAN.
OLDEST WOVEN CLOTH [LIKE SO MANY FIRST DISCOVERIES IN THE
CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION] HAS BEEN FOUND FROM CAYONU IN ARMENIA
CARBON DATED TO CA. 8,000 BC...


ODZACARPET VISHAP [DRAGON] RUG. NOTE THE
S-ESQUE [SPIRAL/SNAKE/SERPENT[INE] OF WISDOM] LETTER T...
WHICH ALSO RESEMBLES THE NUMBER
2 AND 5 [REVERSED]...UNITE THEM AND
YOU GET AN 8-SHAPE [MOBIUS...INFINITY OF DURATION NOT DIRECTION,
BOUNDED INFINITY...HERMETICALLY CLOSED LOOP]...NOTE THE INTERLOCKING
HEAVEN+EARTH ALIGNMENT [3 WHITE/LIGHT AND 3 RED/DARK TONES]

ONE OF NUMEROUS SACRED PATTERNS THAT ARE REPEATED IN
SUPPOSEDLY 'ISOLATED' MAYAN CIVILIZATION.
CONTRARY TO THIS FALSE PREMISE THE MAYANS THEMSELVES
KNEW THAT THEIR CAUCASIAN ANCESTORS LED BY THE
HIGH PRIESTS SCIENTISTS [DEVOTEES OF THE EAGLE AND THE SERPENT
KNOWN AS 'FEATHERED SERPENTS']... CALLED AMONG OTHER NAMES
AMARU [AMAR IN ARMAN LIT. SUMMER...AMARNA...] TO AMERICA...
ERECTING GOLDEN CITIES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE
THAT ARE NOW AT THE BOTTOM OF LAKE TITICACA...
MANY OF THE STEP PYRAMIDS ARE STILL HIDDEN DEEP IN THE
JUNGLES OF THE AMAZON [FROM ARMENIAN HIGHLAND/CAUCASUS]
BROUGHT HIGH CIVILIZATION 'EMERGING FROM THE OCEAN]
OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIS.



ONE OF THE ANCIENT RUGS FROM ARTSAKH WITH THE SACRED
ARMANI EIGHT POINTED SPLIT CROSS ALONG WITH BORDERING
DELTOID TRIANGLES AND OCTAGONS ALL WITHIN A RECTANGULAR
ALIGNMENT OF HARMONIOUS GOLDEN MEAN...
NOTE THE ARROWS POINTING TO FOUR [AND EIGHT] DIRECTIONS
FROM THE SQUARE...

My Lady abandoned Heaven and Earth to descend to the underworld.
Inanna abandoned Heaven and Earth to descend to the underworld.
She abandoned her office of Holy Priestess to descend to the underworld....

If I do not return,
Set up a lament for me by the ruins.
Beat the drum for me in the assembly places.
Circle the houses of the gods.
Tear at your eyes, at your mouth, at your thighs. ...

Go to Eridu, to the Temple of Enki [EA].
Weep before Father Enki.
Father Enki, the God of Wisdom, knows the food of life,
He knows the water of life; He knows the secrets.
Surely he will not let me die...



LEFT AND RIGHT SPINNING COSMIC WHEELS
FROM THE ONE SPIRALING SOURCE. MOUNT ARAGATS.

When Inanna arrived at the outer gates of the underworld, She knocked loudly.
She cried out in a fierce voice: Open the door, gatekeeper! Open the door, Neti!
I alone would enter!

When she entered the First Gate,
the shugurra, the crown of the steppe was removed.
When she entered the Second Gate,
From her neck the small lapis beads were removed.
When she entered the Third Gate,
From her breast the double strand of beads was removed.
When she entered the Fourth Gate,
From her chest the breastplate called Come, man, come! was removed.
When she entered the Fifth Gate,
From her wrist the gold ring was removed.
When she entered the Sixth Gate,
From her hand the lapis measuring rod and line was removed.
When she entered the Seventh Gate,
From her body the royal robe was removed
...

—  WOLKENSTEIN AND KRAMER 52
 



THE CEREMONIAL DANCE OF THE TWINS [SYMB. DUALITY]
[IN LATER COSMIC EPIC OF THE DAREDEVILS OF SASUN
BORN FROM TSOVINAR -- SYMBOLIC OF THE COSMIC
OCEAN OF LIFE. ONE'S ARMS ARE SPINNING CLOCKWISE AND
THE OTHERS COUNTERCLOCKWISE
[EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION]
PETROGLYPH FROM FIFTH MILLENNIUM BC.
 UGHTASAR MOUNTAIN, SYUNIK [SIWNIK‛].



THE SACRED ARMENIAN MARKINGS FOUND THROUGHOUT
NUMEROUS CAVES THAT SERVED AS HOLY GROTTOS AND TEMPLES
FOR SHAMANIC RITES AND INITIATIONS. NOTE NUMEROUS SACRED
SYMBOLS INCLUDING THE SIGN OF INFINITI, CONSTELLATION OF VIRGO,
VISHAP 'S's, Ts, MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM, 'X' [HEAVEN + EARTH],
O [PRIMORDIAL VOID], 'A' [BEGINNING OF CREATION] TAURUS-BULL,
'V' [DUALITY, RAM, SUN], AND THE SYMBOL OF
THE SUN AND LIFE THE SACRED SOLAR CROSS OF ANKH
AS YOU SEE THE GREAT PHARAOH QUEEN HATSHEPSUT
HOLDS IN HER HANDS WITH ARMS CROSSED ON CHEST.

THE OLDEST PICTOGRAPHS IN THE WORLD DATING TO CA. 10,000 BC
ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTLESS CAVES OF THE SACRED ARMENIAN
HIGHLAND. THESE SACRED SYMBOLS THAT INCLUDED THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC,
THE PLANETS AND VARIOUS ELEMENTS, WOULD EVENTUALLY EVOLVE
INTO THE NUMEROUS ALPHABETS OF THE WORLD.

TONY BEAVERS IN AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT WORLD CULTURES,
INCLUDES A GREAT SUMMARY OF THE EPIC:


 

From the Near East comes the Old Babylonian account of the life and death of GILGAMESH. There was a real Gilgamesh, a king who ruled some 2700 years before Christ lived and the Romans consolidated their vast empire. The character and the exploits of this king were preserved in the form of stories that circulated for many years after the king's death. Some of these tales -- more than 600 years after Gilgamesh's rule -- were collected by a story teller and were put down in the form of an epic poem. This poem is what we know today as The Epic of Gilgamesh.


ARMENIC DEPICTION FROM SHINAR-SUMER-SUBER OF
THE SPINNING WHEEL OF LIFE DIVIDED
 INTO FOUR CARDINAL POINTS [AS WINDS/WOMEN]
EMANATING FROM OCTAVE [EIGHT CARDINAL DIRECTIONS] VOID


ARMENIC [SHIN[E]- AR -- SUMER] SPINNING COSMIC WHEEL [IN BOTH DIRECTIONS]
FROM THIRD MILLENNIUM BC. THE CORE IS SURROUNDED  BY
A PERIPHERY OF 12 FISHES AND 4 [TWO-FOLD PARALLEL LINES]
WINDS OF CHANGE/MOTION IN ONE CIRCLE.


SAME CHARACTERS IN CHINESE AND JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY.
NOTE THE TWO VERTICALLY UNITED Es FACING OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS...
THE SACRED SYMBOL WAS ALSO PLACED ON THE COINS OF KING LEVON THE MAGNIFICENT.


VAIŚRAVANA MUDRA

Who knows how many versions The Epic of Gilgamesh went through before consolidation in its written form? Who knows how many translations the stories underwent before their reworking in the Babylonian language? Who knows how many parts of the story might have offended or misrepresented the eponymous king? Who knows how many story-tellers made more (or less) of Mashu, the mountainous gateway to the other world, as they kept their audiences spellbound with fantastical details of this greatest of human adventures -- the struggle to find (and retain) eternal life?


 

What is known is no less intriguing. How curious is the parallel between the story of Utnapishtim and the Hebrew account of Noah. How symbolic is the description of Enkidu, the prototypical natural man, as he sheds his animalistic behaviors in preference for the pleasures of human society. How extraordinary is the description of the snake, whose stealing of the Essence of Immortality from Gilgamesh results in the snake's rebirth each time it sheds its skin.

THE MICROCOSM AND THE MACROCOSM

Of course the Hebrew iteration of the Flood story is not coincidence. For a time, the Hebrews  lived in Sumer, home to Abraham's people. Nomadic people, they left the fertile river valleys and headed for Canaan and later Egypt, taking with them ancient accounts of floods and righteous people whose obedience and wisdom helped them to survive the consuming waters.


HIGH PRIESTS AND GOD-MEN IN FISH-LIKE CAPES [PRIESTLY ROBE].
NOTE THE FOUR RIVERS OF PARTEZ [PARADISE] -- GARDEN OF EDEN --
EMANATING FROM VAN IN THE HEART OF THE HOLY HIGHLAND.
 

Nor is the function of the snake coincidental either. The Hebrews find the powerful, mysterious serpent in their creation story and the Garden of Eden, which surely was located in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley, not the dry vistas of Canaan or the arid Sinai peninsula. But while, for the Sumerians, the snake is merely deceitful and clever, the snake becomes the symbol of creeping evil for the Hebrews.
 



THE SEAL OF SCRIBE ADDA THE HUNTER [ORION] GOD WITH THE BOW...
GODDESS INANNA/ISHTAR. THE SUN GOD SHAMASH [UTU] RISES IN THE EAST
BETWEEN MAŠU-ARATTA -- THE LAND OF THE TWIN PEAK MOUNTAIN.
THE GOD OF PRIMORDIAL COSMIC OCEAN/WATERS EA-HAYA WITH THE BULL.
ZU BIRD WITH THE STOLEN TABLETS OF DESTINY WITH THE TWO-FACED
ATTENDANT USIMU [DETAILED DESCRIPTION BELOW].

THE HOLY TRINITY -- EA-HAYA [EYE]-- ENKI -- ISHTAR [INANNA] AND SHAMASH [UTU] AT THE GATES OF THE TWIN PEAKS OF MOUNT MASHU [MASHU LIT. MEANS = TWIN]. THE COSMIC TWIN MOUNTAIN IS COVERED WITH TREES [SYMBOLIC OF FERTILITY AND THE TREE OF LIFE]. THE TWO-FACED ARCHETYPICAL GOD-MAN ATTAINS IMMORTALITY. THE WINGED GODDESS ISHTAR STANDS TO THE LEFT OF THE FOUR-BRANCHED TREE OF LIFE -- TO THE RIGHT STANDS EA-HAYA -- THE GOD OF COSMIC WATERS AND DIVINE WISDOM -- SURROUNDED BY A BIRD, A GOAT AND THE FISH -- SYMBOLIC OF THE TRIPLE DECKER UNIVERSE -- THE SACRED RIVERS TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES SPRING FROM HIS SHOULDERS - SYMBOLIC OF ARMENIAN HIGHLAND -- THE LIFE SOURCE OF THE RIVERS. THE SUN GOD UTU-SHAMASH SETS IN BETWEEN THE TWIN PEAKS OF HOLY MASHU -- THIS MOTIF OF SUN RISING AND SETTING FROM BETWEEN THE TWIN PEAKS OF MASIS WOULD BE -- THE HOLY SYMBOL OF ARMENIA -- FOR MILLENNIA...PAST...PRESENT...AND...FUTURE.

M A S. M A S. T W I N  P E A K  C O S M I C   M O U N T A I N.
 


 

The Sun God Utu -- Rising from the East of the Twin Peaks of Mashu -- The Land of the Gods and Immortality -- The Rivers Tigris and Euphrates -- to the right and left -- and the Tree of Life [the Garden of Eden] on the Eastern side [associated with the Sunrise] spring from the Armenian Highland -- nourishing and giving Life to all of Mesopotamia.

View of the Holy Mount Ararat [Azatn [Free] Masis--Masios--Mashu--Masion] -- THE SACRED SYMBOL OF ARMENIA AND PRESENT HUMAN CIVILIZATION --with its Eternally enchanting beauty.


ENTHRONED SUMERIAN KING WITH THE ROYAL SYMBOLS.
ROSETTE [VARDYAK...SYMB. OF ROSE] EQUAL ARMED CROSS,
 BEE AND VULVA/WOMB/EYE. TWO BULLS LOCK THEIR HORNS...
FLANKING THE TRIDENT-LIKE FORK [SEE NEXT PAGE...]

ANCIENT ARMENIAN HIEROGLYPH OF

THE COSMIC HIERARCHY-MOUNTAIN

To the Mountain Mashu Gilgamesh came.
Mountain Mashu with two heads
One greets Shamash arriving in the East
One watches Shamash departing in the West.
Mountain Mashu most large.
It's heads into heaven do they sit,
While it's breasts into earth do they hang.
To enter Mountain Mashu must Gilgamesh pass
Two scorpions whose look is death.
Two scorpions who guard the pass deathly bright do they sit.


MOUNT MERU [COSMIC MOUNTAIN]...THE WORLD MOUNTAIN...
RISING FROM THE SEA...SURMOUNTED
BY HOLY RADIATION, WITH SUN AND MOON CIRCLING AROUND IT, AS DEPICTED
IN OLD BUDDHIST CAVE SANCTUARY...NOTE THE ARK/ARC/ARGO SHAPE
TRIPLE-DECKER PAGODA [PRIMORDIAL ARATTAN ARCHETYPE OF THE
ARK/ARCH ON TOP OF THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN...]


[COSMIC] GATES OF SANCHI STUPA IN CENTRAL INDIA. BUILT
OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES STARTING BEFORE THE COMING OF BUDDHA...
TWO PILLARS UPHOLD THE 4 + 4 [8] DWARFS [PARALLEL OF ATLAS] HOLD THE
TRIPLE DECKER UNIVERSE REPRESENTED BY THREE HORIZONTAL
LINES [CONTAINING WITHIN  3 + 3 VERTICAL]
AST[VATS]...GOD...AŠTA [VED. LIT. EIGHT...UT..OCT-A..ACT [WHEEL/EYE]
...EAST-OST...ACT-IVE...AND WE CAN GO ON ENDLESSLY. IT IS ALL
INTERWOVEN AND TIED TOGETHER.



PURE ĒNERGY/CONSCIOUSNESS...ĒMPTINESS [VOID] OF THE HOLY TAO.
THE PRONOUNCIATION OF THE FIRST LETTER OF THE WORD ENERGY
IS THE KEY OF TRUTH [ARMAN PAYLIKIAN GNOSTICS AND SURVIVORS OF EARLIER
AR[EV]ORDIS AND BEFORE THAT MITHRAIC WISDOM PRIESTS].
AST[VATS]...ISTINA [SLAV. LIT TRUTH] IM-AST [MEANING] IMASTUN [WISE]
SU-AST-IKA...M-AS-TER..MAZDA...MAŠTOC'...MAŠU-MASIS-MASION.



THE SYNTHESIS LEADING TO CATHARSIS [CATHAR/KATAREAL]
THE Ē [SEVEN WHICH IS FIVE] IS THE SACRED MANTRA CHANT...
OUT OF THE PRIMORDIAL VOID [COSMIC WATERS] EMERGES
THE MOUNTAIN [COSMIC HIERARCHY] ORDER OUT OF CHAOS.
THE WOMB/VULVA/EYE IS THE BLACK HOLE OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE.


ONE OF COUNTLESS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES WITH DEEP ALLEGORICAL SYMBOLISM.
THREE PILLARS SUPPORT THE GATE TO ETERNITY. UP AND DOWN STEP
[SIRIUS] PYRAMIDS LEADING TO THE TRUNCATED PYRAMIDAL TRIANGLE
[COSMIC MOUNTAIN/AXIS MUNDE/CENTER OF THE WORLD] THAT WITHIN IN
THE INNER CORE CONTAINS THE CIRCLE/
SPINNING BLACK SUN WITH THE SLEEPING GOD INSIDE.
Ss-ESQUE [SERPENTINE SPIRAL] PERIPHERAL BORDER PATTERN WHICH IS ARM. T
TWO SWANS FLANK THE ILLUMINED TRIANGLE. NOTE THE SWASTIKAS TO THE
RIGHT AND LEFT OF THE PI SHAPED GATE...TREES OF LIFE WITH CRESCENT/BOAT
CELESTIAL PRECESSION AND MOON PHASES.
 



ARTIST'S RENDITION OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE [UNMANIFEST]
MANIFESTING ORDER FROM THE VOID -- HORIZONTALLY ALIGNED
TWO UNITED
Ēs -- FACING UP AND DOWN. THE SUN 'FLOATS' ON COSMIC
[QUANTUM] OCEAN [PRIMORDIAL WATERS]. TRIPLE DECKER HIERARCHY
WITH THE CHECKERED STEPLADDER HIERARCHY LEADING TO THE ASTRAL HEAVEN.


DIVINITY E-ESQUE [SEVENTH SACRED LETTER] METSAMORIAN FORM
WITH UPRAISED ARMS ON TOP OF AYTS [CAPRICORN]...
THAT IS THE DIVINE SPARK WITHIN THE ANIMAL...
[K-AYTS...LIT. SPARK...ALSO KEANK...LIFE
KA...THE FIERY PHARAOHNIC SPIRIT IN MITRANI-MR [EGYPTIAN]
IN ARMENIAN KA...LIT. THERE IS...EXISTS...LIVES].
PETROGLYPH FROM GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS.
FIFTH MILLENNIUM BC.


[K]HALDI [EA-HAY[A]K] THE SUPREME GOD OF THE HOLY TRIAD ON
TOP OF THE LION WITH UPRAISED RIGHT ARM AND THE HAMMER OF DESTINY IN THE
LEFT HAND. SKY/SOLAR GOD REIGNS SUPREME ON TERRESTRIAL EARTH.
PALACE FRESCO FROM ARYN BERD-EREBUNI. FIRST MILLENNIUM BC.


RISEN CHRIST WITH UPRAISED ARMS ON TOP OF THE LION THE EAST
AND WEST WINGS FORMING THE INITIAL LETTER S...FOR SKIZBN-AVE
THE BEGINNING...THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE MARGINAL AND THE Π GATE
WITH TWO BIRDS [DUALITY] FACING THE HOLY CHALICE
THAT CONTAINS THE COSMIC EGG...MILLENNIA OF UNBROKEN
ARMAN TRADITION. MALATIAN GOSPEL [1267-68] TITLE PAGE 103a.
 


THE COSMIC HOLY MOUNTAIN [AXIS MUNDI] POINTING TO ETERNITY [MOUNTAIN ABOVE...
ONE TRIANGLE MOUNTAIN WITHIN ONE THAT IS LIKE AN OPEN COMPASS]
TWO AQUATIC FEMININE BIRD HEADS [DOUBLE HEADS] EMANATE FROM
THE SACRED TRIANGLE AND POINT TOWARDS RIGHT AND LEFT. THE STEM HAS FOUR
LINES THAT SOME LOOK LIKE 11.11. ARMENIAN POTTERY FROM THIRD MILLENNIUM BC.

COMPARE THE ABOVE SYMBOL WITH THE ARMANI CROWNS
WORN BY ALL THE GODS [LIKE ENKI], KINGS AND HEROES [LIKE GILGAMESH]
THE TRIANGULAR CROWN HAS THE SAME DOUBLE-HEADED BIRD[S]
ON ONE SINGLE HORIZ. LINE FACING EAST AND WEST...
THE EYE OF THE KING WATCHES OVER THE NATION
AND AS SUCH IS WITHIN THE TRIANGLE SOLAR CORONA.
THE GREAT GODDESS AYA/INANNA/NINHURSAG IS THE
SACRED FEMININE HALF OF EA-HAYA-ENKI.
NOTE THE FOUR SACRED RIVERS [THAT IN THEIR TURN NOURISH
THE SIX BRANCHING STREAM RIVERS OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT] OF
ARATTA/DILMUN/EDEN SYMBOLICALLY REPRESENTED BY TWO SACRED VESSELS IN
BOTH HANDS OF ENKI. THE TREE OF LIFE STANDS FOR ARATTA --
LAND OF THE GODS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS.


BRONZE BELT WITH LEFT AND RIGHT TURNING SPIRALS.  MEN PLOWING NOTE THE
SIX-SPOKE WHEELS WITHIN THE CIRCLE. NOTE THE PRONOUNCED PHALLI OF
THE WORKERS. LCHASHEN, SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.

The male scorpion to his sister says
"Only a god would dare approach us."
The female scorpion to her brother says
"One part mortal, two parts divine."
One part of Gilgamesh stood paralyzed.
Two parts of Gilgamesh moved towards the pair.
The male scorpion to Gilgamesh says:
"Who dares our death?

BRONZE BELT WITH UP + DOWN RAYS. SANAHIN, SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.

SPIRALS, UP AND DOWN TRIANGLES WITH THE CIRCLE OF INFINITI ON TOP.
HORSES AND OXEN, HAŁPAT, SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.

 




FIVE FINGERS OF THE HAND
 FROM THE PETROGLYPH
CAVE DRAWINGS OF GEGHAMA MOUNTAINS

Why come through wilderness to get our death?
Why come this way of no mortal before?"
Though body paralyzed those parts divine made words:
"I come for divinely made immortal Utnapishtim.
I come to ask about life and about death."

— THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH


SEAL DEPICTING MARDUK SLAYING TIAMAT. NOTE THE TRIPLE-HEADED
TRIDENT E-ESQUE ARROW LIKE THAT OF THE GREAT HERO HUNTER-
ARCHER HAYK-ORION WHO SLAYS BEL [BAAL] ALLEGORICAL
OF SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH OVER BASE MATTER.


THE SAME MOTIF ON THE STELLA. NOTE THE THUNDERBOLT.


APOLLO SLAYS TYPHON. GREEK VASE FROM
FIRST MILLENNIUM BC.
THE SAME DOUBLE TRIDENT [FLEUR-DE-LYS-ESQUE
TWO Es FACING RIGHT AND LEFT]. NOTE THE BODY
OF WINGED TYPHON IN THE FORM OF TWO INTERWOVEN
SERPENTS FORMING A VERTICAL STANDING
8...
AS WE SAW EARLIER ANCIENT CIVILIZATION SPREAD FROM ARMENIAN
CENTERS LIKE METSAMOR TO THE DELPHIC
ORACLES IN GREECE AND THE WISDOM TEMPLES IN EGYPT AND
BEYOND...BUILT IN UNISOM COORDINATION BY THE SAME SCIENTIST ASTRONOMERS
BASED ON THE SAME DIVINE PLAN AND PURPOSE...HENCE
THE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL ASTROTHEOLOGICAL SYMBOLISM
WITH MINOR VARIATIONS DUE TO THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TIME AND SPACE.



THE SAME THUNDERBOLT SYMBOL ON THE COINS OF
THE THIRD CENTURY BC ARMENIAN KING ZARIADRES.


ODIN [LIT. IN SLAV. ONE OR THE ONE...] RIDING SLEIPNIR...
SAME ARMANEN SYMBOLISM NOTE THE DOUBLE
TRIDENT [TWO Es FACING EAST AND WEST] IN
HIS LEFT HAND. NOTE THE DOWNWARD POINTING
E-TRIDENT...THE OTHER TIP WITH THREE POINTS UPWARD...
EIGHT POINTED STAR OF INANNA [DAWN...SIRIUS]
NOTE THE TRIDENT OF HALDI AND TEYŠEBA ON THE
GODHEAD...WITH 2+2 OFFSHOOTS BRINGING THE
TOTAL TO SEVEN JUST LIKE THE SACRED METSAMOR
ALTAR MADE UP OF SEVEN UNITED VESSELS.
THE FLEUR-DE-LYS/TREE OF LIFE EMERGING FROM
THE 'BACK' OF CELESTIAL HORSE.
 

LUNAR CALENDAR FROM VARDENIS MOUNTAINS




GEGHAMA PETROGLYPH
SYMBOLIC OF MALE-FEMALE
POSITIVE-NEGATIVE
GENERATIVE FUSION
--- SYNTHESIS ---
HOLY TRINITY
20 DOTS -- ONE IN THE CENTER
THE ORDER OF ALL
WITHIN THE WHOLE
OF SERPENTINE COIL



THE EMBOSSED GOLD AND WHITE-GRAY-SILVER IMPRESSION UPON
THE BLUE CLOTH OF THE MONUMENTAL MAGNUM OPUS --
GENESIS AYA BY ALEXANDER VARBEDIAN. THE GREAT MAN
REPRESENTED THE COSMIC EGG [ETERNAL FEMALE PRINCIPLE] OUT OF
THE INITIAL CHAOS EMERGES ORDER AS THE TREE OF LIFE/KNOWLEDGE
WITH THE FIERY DIVINE SPARK. THE ROOTS OF THE TREE ARE IN A
FORM OF A LIGHTNING ROD WHICH ALSO STAND FOR THE GODLY
SPARK AND CARRY WITHIN THE DIVINE ESSENCE. THE TREE OF LIFE
WITH WHITE-GOLDEN FLOWER CLUSTERS IS -- THE BREAD OF LIGHT --
THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF DIVINE WISDOM AND IMMORTALITY.