Julian Jaynes in his book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” demonstrates just when humanity stopped hearing the voices of the gods in their heads. He identifies the period between the Greek classics by Homer, “The Iliad” and the “Odyssey”. Considered to having been written sometime between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE. According to Jaynes the “Iliad” belongs to the time when what we call consciousness does not exist in humanity. The human hears the voice of the god or goddess speaking to them and simply does what they are told. The “Odyssey” in contrast demonstrates a certain kind of mentality that is capable of self reflection.
While Jaynes suggests this change in human consciousness is the result of the invention of reading and writing, it might also be the result of the mutual self destruction of the Anunnaki civilizations. In any case they seem to have lost their ability to communicate with their gods like Enlil and Enki.
In another way we see the “hive mind of humanity” at work here. As the ancient Egyptians lost the ability to hear the voices of the gods and goddesses in their heads, they turned instead to their rulers, the Pharaohs and made gods and goddesses of them! Those in the Order seemed to be the only ones able to communicate with the unseen and immortal Anunnaki Gods and Goddesses. We will see later on just how important this ability was to the ancient Egyptians and members of the Order.
We might also take a look at our modern society in which one portion of it seems to be gaining the ability to channel spiritually advanced entities and hear voices in their heads and the other portion that steadfastly refuses to even admit the possibility of a soul. Those who deny the existence of a soul demand obedience to external authorities! Is this the completion of one cycle and the beginning of another?
In any case the civilization that now developed in Egypt was based upon Spiritual Light and very mystical in nature. We see the members of the Order using all methods possible to find ways to reunite with their unseen companions, the immortal Anunnaki known as gods and goddesses.
In contrast, on the other side of the Mediterranean in Crete, we see a Goddess oriented civilization that openly celebrated both life and death. It was aligned with nature and the powers of life and rebirth. The writing that existed was for business and inventory needs and not for the keeping of sacred knowledge. Sacred knowledge was passed down in experiential ways, in shamanistic ways. This was not the life giving power of the sun, but the life bringing vital life force energy of the earth itself, Mother Gaia. It also celebrated these things in story and song. The Greeks produced dramatic plays to tell the sacred stories. In Crete we are able to see how the influence of Enki was much different than the influence of Enlil in Egypt.
Also deeply embedded within the ancient Minoan and Mycenaean mythologies were the stories of the underworld or other world, or Summerland, things that were missing in the Egyptian mysteries.
One wonders what our world would be like today if the Minoan civilization had not been destroyed through violent volcanic eruptions. Instead of a patriarchal world it might have been a matriarchal world or at least one more balanced between the sexes.
I needed to bring these things up because we will soon see that the ancient Greeks began coming to Egypt in “search of light”.
I am going to temporarily set aside my discussion of the Order in Egypt as we take a peak at what is happening on the other side of the Mediterranean. Same time period, around 3,000 BCE after the Anunnaki civilization has been wiped out and what was once lush tropical land has now turned into the Sahara desert.
Amazingly, as if out of nowhere, the Minoan civilization flourishes on the island of Crete just off Greece. It is an advanced civilization and the only known advanced civilization of antiquity known to be Goddess oriented. But genetically there has been no change. This advanced civilization emerged out of the native population of Crete itself. It appears to belong to haplogroup H. This civilization created the first form of writing in Europe! It originated from ancient peoples that lived in central Europe. These have been called West European Farmers.
Right next door in ancient Greece appears the Mycenaean civilization which is highly influenced by the Minoan civilization. The Mycenaean civilization extends outward to the east into western Anatolia (Turkey) and into the Pontic Steppe north of the Black Sea. It also pushes into the Aegean basin. Genetically it is influenced by the western European Farmers, but also the hunter gatherer tribes from the Pontic Steppe and to a certain extent from western Anatolia. The Mycenaean civilization has a much more diverse population than that found in Crete although they are very close.
Let’s take a step back and look at what is happening. Immediately after the mutual destruction of the Anunnaki civilizations we see haplogroup R1b coming down from the Caucasus regions to occupy Sumer and then to inhabit Egypt. There is a mad dash to write down all sacred knowledge before it is lost. Much of the ancient technology has been lost. The line of Pharaohs begins with the first dynasties and these Pharaohs are the keepers of a secret knowledge. They form what they call the Order. These are the followers of Enlil.
On the other side of the Mediterranean we have a similar thing happening in Crete with a totally different advanced civilization appearing with its own form of writing. What is really going on here?
Julian Jaynes in his book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” draws some pretty interesting conclusions and says in part that once people invented reading and writing they lost the ability to hear the voices of the gods and goddesses in their heads!
Suddenly there were no voices to be heard! What happened to all those non-physical Anunnaki souls? It seems they were somehow forced into physical human bodies. They became trapped in physicality. They frantically sought ways of retrieving their sacred knowledge and writing it down.
A couple thousand years later, around 1,100 BCE Crete was destroyed when a nearby volcano erupted both destroying the Minoan civilization and plunging Greece into the Dark Ages. This is most probably when the seeds were planted in central Europe for the shamanistic Druid civilization and for the sacred Goddess mysteries at Samothrace in the Aegean.
This brings up an interesting point about the Anunnaki. Did Enlil and Enki really have physical bodies or were they immortal gods and simply on occasion “take possession” of a physical body that was provided to them by the priesthood? Such possession would only be temporary like the Loa riding their worshipers in Voodoo or like many modern channelers that channel certain entities to transmit sacred knowledge. In any case the war of mutual destruction of the Anunnaki did seem to make it impossible for such channeling to take place and the Anunnaki souls became trapped in physical bodies and in the reincarnation cycles experienced by the native humans.
As we continue our journey into the past as revealed in the early issues of “American Rosae Crucis” by Imperator H. Spencer Lewis it becomes evident that he has access to records that give exact dates of historical conclaves, birth charts of former Masters of the Order, and other information, some of which he reveals to us. I have taken the liberty of editing some of this by cutting out portions that don’t seem important. In other words I may skip around a bit in the text but don’t add to it. (except for making BC-BCE)
Ahmose I was succeeded as Pharaoh by Amenhotep I, who reigned 10 years and became a teacher in the secret school for three years.
On January 12th, 1538 BCE Thutmose I was crowned succeeding Amenhotep I. He owed his postition to his wife, Ahmose, who was the first woman to become a member of the class on equal terms with the men. The discussion regarding her admittance (still preserved in the Rosaecrucian Archives) forms an interesting document and reveals the origin of some of the doctrines of the equality of the sexes.
Thutmose I was succeeded by Hatshepsut, his daughter, who ruled as a “king” independently and as co-regent with her half-brother Thutmose III, a son of Thutmose I by his marriage to Isis.
It was Thutmose III who organized the present physical form of the Rosaecrucian Order and outlined many of its rules and regulations.
He became ruler upon the deposition of his father, Thutmose I, in 1500 BCE. He ruled until 1447 BCE and his reign is unimportant to us except for his establishment of the Order. When Thutmose proposed that the “class” which had been meeting in his chambers become a closed and secret order “there was no dissenting voice and articles of limitations were established ere the assembly dispersed in the early hours of the dawn.”
This grand “Council Meeting”,” for such it is considered in all official records, occurred during what would be the week of March 28th to April 4th of 1489 BCE according to our present calendar. The twelve brothers and sisters were present at this first “Supreme Council R. C. of the World”, the Sisters being the wife of Thutmose III, known in the Order as “MENE”; the wife of one of the Brothers, and another who was a descendant of one of the rulers of a preceding dynasty. Therefore, there were 9 Brothers and 3 Sisters at this Council, a combination of numbers very significant.
No name was decided upon for the Order, the records showing that the predominating thought was the maintenance of secrecy. The Order was to have no publicity, required no propaganda other than personal advice to those whose presence in the Order was desired, and as the one word, translated into ORDER, was sufficient name for all purposes, we do not find any other term.
The writer has noticed this especially in such documents are are given to a newly established Grand Lodge and which are translations of the documents prepared prior to 1326 BCE. In these the element, the idea, of secrecy is so strong and predominant that the Order is referred to indirectly and sometimes erroneously (or perhaps diplomatically) as IT, the SCHOOL, the BROTHERHOOD, and the COUNCIL. Furthermore many of these documents begin with the Announcement: “I, BROTHER OF THE ILLUMINATII, with the power decreed, do declare this Manifesto,” or with the salutation: “I, F. Illuminatii of the 12.”
This should certainly be food for thought! You may perhaps begin to understand why I have chosen to share this interesting information.
I’m going to share some information that comes from a magazine called “American Rosae Crucis” which was first published in 1916 by H. Spencer Lewis when he was starting up the Rosicrucian Order AMORC here in New York. This was a public magazine so I am not giving away any secrets so to speak. However, it seems that in a few issues of this magazine he spoke perhaps a bit too clearly about some things of interest, things that might be helpful to us.
But some of this might also trigger people and lead to an incorrect picture of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC as it exists today and of which I am still a member. The Rosicrucian Order AMORC is mystical and philosophical. It’s ultimate goal is to lead its members to that mystical state called Cosmic Consciousness or Christ Consciousness where you experience being one with all that exists. In my years of study and membership I believe that I have received a very thorough training in what I would call objectivism philosophy. Everything is based upon the importance of moving toward the Spiritual Light and the achievement of what others call the crossing of the Great Abyss.
My own path, which I call Organic Gnosticism, really has nothing in common with what I learned in the Rosicrucian Order. Organic Gnosticism is more concerned with the mechanical process of developing the soul through the development and permanent activation of all the astral bodies including the formation of a strong connection to both the Spiritual Light and the Womb of Creation. There is no conflict between Organic Gnosticism and AMORC, they simply teach different things.
In a similar manner there seems to be no connection between the mystical path of Rosicrucianism and that of Druidry. Druidry is based upon developing a solid connection with mother earth, the underworld or other world and nature while Rosicrucianism is based upon developing a solid connection the the Spiritual Light.
Having said this I have no reason to doubt what is said in these early issues of the “American Rosae Crucis”. Some was later repeated in advanced lessons and some was not.
The Order had its conception and birth in Egypt. The Egyptians had reached a high state of civilization that was comparable to the Renaissance in France. There was a great effort to preserve the knowledge so that it might be given to future generations. But the more profound secrets of nature, science and art were not to be entrusted to the masses and classes were formed by the most learned, and attended by the most select minds to teach these subjects. Over time the members of such assemblies became more and more select, the teachings became more profound and the discussions so dialectic that there arose a most autocratic and secret society of the truly great minds of the day.
The first Pharaoh who conducted this class in his private chambers was Ahmose I who reigned from 1580 BCE to 1557 BCE. He was known by some historians as the “deliverer of Egypt”.
Before we continue with this little history let’s take a step back and look at the big picture and what we know today. From DNA genealogy we know that the Egyptian Pharaohs, or at least some of them, belonged to haplogroup R1b which originated in mystery somewhere north of the Caucasus mountains and burst into what became ancient Sumer and Egypt.
So immediately after the war that destroyed the Anunnaki civilization around 3,000 BCE this group of primitive warriors arrived in Egypt and founded not only the first dynasty of Pharaohs but also founded the world’s first and greatest mystery school? Where did they get this secret knowledge? Did they have it before they arrived? Were they in contact with non-physical Anunnaki? Or did they rediscover where it had been hidden deep inside Egypt?
This seems to be evidence that haplogroup R1b, which is the most common haplogroup in modern Europe, is an Anunnaki-Human Hybrid! An Anunnaki soul in a human physical body.
I have absolutely no idea where this rabbit hole is going to go so buckle your seat belts! I’ve received some recent insights and began researching new material. Let me be straight about this, I have a lot of resources available to me that most people don’t have, but I’m also uncovering more all the time. No one is telling me these things. I need to come up with them myself.
But one thing remains constant. The most important thing is the development and permanent activation of all possible astral bodies including the etheric body. Once this happens things become magickal. And this is purely a mechanical process that unfolds naturally over a period of time as the result of hard work and personal effort.
First let’s kind of take an overview of what we’ve learned so far. The Anunnaki were an extraterrestial group of non-physical souls that came here a long time ago and gradually learned how to possess ancient humans and finally learned how to incarnate into the native physical human bodies.
The Anunnaki split into two groups, one, led by Enki, that wanted to not only explore life as physical humans but also do soul level explorations of the lower astral and etheric planes. The Anunnaki were primarily a mystical and highly evolved species that had their Ultimate Power Source as the Spiritual Light. They did not have access to the lower levels and therefore needed native humanity to manifest things for them. Native humanity had the required connection to the lower levels and believed in reincarnation and an underworld or other world or Summerland which was their terms for the etheric inclusive levels of soul development.
The other faction led by Enlil wanted to keep a strict separation between the native humans and their own species. This was true even when they modified human DNA and began to incarnate into physical human bodies themselves. They had no interest in developing an earth connection or exploring the lower levels. At one point this group wanted to totally eradicate human life from this planet and created a massive cosmic incident that killed off all humanity except for a small group in eastern Africa and another group in the Balkans and Aegean basin area.
Over a long period of time both groups expanded and mingled to create advanced technology alien Anunnaki based civilizations upon this planet. This took many thousands of years and these alien based civilizations spread all over the earth. Most of them enslaved the primitive native human populations and used them as a work force. Of course the bulk of primitive humanity lived in the wild on its own as hunter gatherers.
An increasing friction between the two Anunnaki factions over the fate of the native humans ultimately resulted in a final confrontation of mutual destruction around 3,000 BCE when the Anunnaki civilizations wiped each other out leaving only those remnants of Anunnaki who had incarnated in human physical bodies. The fabled civilization of Atlantis in western Africa was wiped out as was the fabled civilization that at one time existed in the Balkans. This was also the time when massive events occurred in human populations around the world and the tropical paradise of northern Africa became the Sahara desert of today.
This is also the time of the invention of reading and writing as the Anunnaki survivors scrambled to save sacred knowledge before it was lost forever. This was the time of the raising of the stone monoliths and circles like Stonehenge. I’ve written about these things before but I forgot a major piece of the puzzle.
In addition to the native primitive humans and the enhanced Anunnaki humans who existed in physical bodies there also existed Anunnaki and Reptilian souls or entities that existed without physical human bodies and these entities remained in contact with those souls in physical bodies! One of the most important things to all peoples became the ability to either communicate with the higher spiritual beings that existed in the Spiritual Light or the ability to communicate with the reptilian beings that existed at the lower levels and were able to physically manifest things through magick.
In our simplistic way we have called them collectively angels and demons! But as those extraterrestrial souls of both Anunnaki and Reptilian origin incarnate in physical bodies began to develop their own astral bodies things began to change. Those reptilians with a strong connection to mother earth, to Gaia gained the ability to inhabit the higher planes. The Anunnaki with a strong connection to the Spiritual Light gained the ability to inhabit the lower astral levels.
3,000 BCE when the Anunnaki civilization destroyed itself the existing human race needed to reset itself and those with advanced knowledge tried to find ways to ensure its continued existence. This was the beginning of the Order or the first mystery school. This is what we are now going to explore.
The last thirty years of my life have seen me gradually developing and permanently activating my astral bodies from the top down. I’ve written about this before. The etheric level is the lowest and the last or is it?
I’m going to share something I’ve never shared before about my soulmate cycles as I’ve called them. During each cycle there was a point reached where I had extremely strong visions of my partners DNA splitting away from her current partner and then merging with mine like a zipper links up. In other words these cycles were not just about chakra energies but somehow each cycle involved a complete splitting and resequencing of a DNA strand. There was a ladder like formation in the astral and the vision was very powerful!
This was always involved with some very violent astral battles with the person she was currently genetically linked to! As the cycle progressed she gradually split away from her current partner and began joining up with me link by link. That is why these cycles were so intense and many took so long as each lower electron ring had more awareness points that were involved.
Each cycle created its own DNA link between me and my partner in the astral planes! That link was permanent and still remains. But new links with new partners always appeared that seemed to follow the same unfolding pattern with a new type of energy that was deeper and closer to the earth. That’s all I can really say about it.
We have 23 chromosome pairs and the only conclusion that I can come to is that each of these soulmate cycles involved the splitting and resequencing of a different chromosome pair that in turn gave birth to a permanently activated new astral body for me.
Does that mean we have 23 possible astral bodies? I have no idea and that is why I have never brought this up before. Things are complicated enough at it is. But as time goes on and I travel my own path of soul growth I’m finding this study of DNA, especially ancient DNA which I carry within my body, to be of extreme interest to me.
Perhaps I can tap into the vital life force of my ancestors? Perhaps I can tap into the resources of past lives? All I know is that the deeper I go down this rabbit hole the deeper and more powerful my connection to Mother Earth becomes!
As I study DNA science I realize that this splitting of an entire ladder and recombining full spectrum with another person is only represented with the X and Y chromosomes themselves and not the other 22 so the mystery remains. I am inclined to believe that our X and Y chromosomes exist independently in all seven electron rings and that is what I have experienced in these cycles.
It is quite possible that while I am sharing a new bond of the X and Y chromosome with my partner all other chromosomes are being shared as well. Now that I think of it, I’m certain that is what happens! The sharing becomes complete and we are actually inside each others astral bodies and sharing them at different points in the cycle.
Learning about my ancient DNA and where is comes from and its history and evolution seems to be the next phase of integration for me right now. There are many mysteries and what I thought I knew at times does not match with what is now known or considered. For example haplogroup G which I belong to has its greatest existence in the modern world in North Osettia which is no the north side of the Caucasus mountains. Haplogroup R2b mysteriously arises out of the same area and doesn’t seem to share much with haplogroup G. But how can two groups of people live in the same area and not be connected in some way? Haplogroup G is the older group and still lives in that area today. Haplogroup R2b went out and conquered western Europe! Go figure!
Actually my descendants migrated from the Caucasus mountains back to the Aegean basin where they once emerged from haplogroup F peoples. The R2b haplogroup went south to form the Egyptian dynasties of the Pharaohs. But both groups originated around the Caucasus mountains!
This is just kind of a personal update to show how my dream visions affect my daily life. But first a few words on the permanent activation of the various astral bodies. I think most people have a few of their astral bodies permanently activated but very few have all of them activated. I think it was last spring when my permanent connection to Gaia really became established and I’m sixty-five! I’ve spent most of my life activating these non-physical bodies.
What I know today about the development of these astral bodies makes me think that a person could do it in twenty years if they were in an intense program such as a martial arts school that focused on the cultivation of both the physical and the spiritual. But we don’t live in such a society.
Looking back on life it would have been nice to grow up with saunas, yoga or the martial arts, proper diet and personal hygiene. But I didn’t and have paid the price for it. A simple example would be the ability to touch my toes by stretching my hamstrings. I was never able to touch my toes without bending my knees and it would have been quite easy if I had stretched those hamstrings! The only reason I mention this is that the Druids probably had just such a program in place for their students. The healing of the soul and the integration of the Higher Self and Shadow take time. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication.
But we can easily have two or three astral bodies permanently activated and that is a good start! It is more than enough to give us some advantages over others. This includes the ability to work with dreams.
Several weeks ago I wrote about a dream in which the spot on my back which I believed to be skin cancer crumbled away. This growth or scab like area on my back was about the size of a half dollar and would not go away. I probably had it for perhaps seven years! As the dream foretold it is almost gone with only a small pencil lead sized bit remaining. The rest is fresh pink healthy skin. This is an example of a dream vision of the future that has come true. I had consciously been sending energy to that area and treating it with a salve.
But I would like to share a different type of dream vision that is almost even more interesting. This type of dream has happened several times but is uncommon. I dreamed of using a big spinning machine that revved up like a motorcycle engine and spun around. I had no idea of what it meant. Later during the day I got more involved in DNA geneology as I sought for the origins of the Druids and because of the dream and what I was reading decided to upgrade my DNA test from a 67 Y STR test to a Big Y test.
When I awoke that morning I had no intention or thought of upgrading my DNA test. But the dream was a powerful vision and believing in that vision I made my decision. The distinction being that this dream/vision did not predict the future but guided me to that future if that makes any sense. It is only because of that dream that I decided to do the upgrade.
This is the type of dream/vision in which I seek in my daily life for tangible clues that would explain it and guide me in the proper direction. This also is an example of how I allow my dreaming self to come forward as a guide to assist me through the day. I actively try to be guided by my inner guidance and my heart instead of being objective and rational about things and trying to force things with my own will.
Right now there seems to be two distinct areas of importance in my life, genetic research and Druid studies. They both seem to be tied together in an organic way. I don’t seem to have the energy or inclination for much else other than these posts!
Proposed History of the Proto-Druid Culture to the destruction of the Druid Culture. This compiles previous material with recently researched material to give a broad overview of the Druid culture as I understand it.
Genetic research has offered some tantalizing clues as to humanities origins. I will link the source here: It is a research paper. International Journal of Social Science Studies Vol. 6, No. 1; January 2018 ISSN 2324-8033 E-ISSN 2324-8041 Published by Redfame Publishing
Other resources include “The Sarmatians 600 BC- AD 450” by R. Brzezinski and M Mielczarek and numerous online articles. I also rely heavily on “The Horse, The Wheel and Language” by David w. Anthony who promotes the Pontic Steppe as the origin of the Proto-Indo-European language.
What follows is only my small attempt to make sense of all the data I have waded through this past year. This includes what to me seems self evident, the destruction of the ancient advanced civilizations which built the ancient pyramids and other amazing creations which I consider to have been built with advanced technology which we cannot even duplicate today.
In any case it appears that about 68,000 years ago a cosmic event happened where a meteor struck the middle of the Pacific ocean causing tidal waves several kilometers high. Two centers of human Haplogroups survived. There was a center in mid eastern Africa of Haplogroups A00,A0,A1B1 and B. The other center of human survivors was in the Balkans where Haplogroups BT and CT have been found. This includes the females with mtDNA of Haplogroup U. It has not yet been determined if there were human survivors in the Caucasus mountains or in Tibet.
If we consider the story of the Anunnaki as true this would have been the time when Enlil determined to destroy the human race and Enki helped Noah to escape the flood by finding safety in the Balkans or Aegean Islands as told in the ancient Samothrace mysteries. What is of interest is that the Balkans include ancient Greece and the surrounding areas as the early centers of human civilization as given by Haplogroups. This includes the Aegean basin.
Around 65,200 years ago Haplogroup D migrated to Tibet and Japan while Haplogroup E migrated back to northern Africa and south eastern Africa to join those survivors. Haplogroup D and E genetically evolved out of Haplogroup CT which was in the Balkans and central Asia. Again if we consider the story of the Anunnaki as true, Haplogroup E was probably the group that the Enlil group began to possess and incarnate into. They enslaved the older African Haplogroups.
When we consider that Voodoo had its origins in central and western Africa where the populations were easily “possessed” we have further interesting clues as to the development of human civilization and Anunnaki dominion. The joining of Haplogroup E with the older Haplogroups in Africa could well have been when the Anunnaki led by Enlil began to “possess human bodies” and began to incarnate into them for the first time. This took place in eastern and central Africa.
This also places the Anunnaki group led by Enki to be those humans in the Balkans that were being genetically tampered with.
In any case further genetic advancements in the Balkans led to Haplogroup F from which most of the world’s modern populations arose. It seems that Haplogroup F in the Balkans and Aegean basin were the original ancestors of modern Europeans! This took place 65, 900 years ago.
Haplogroup C appears to have spread all over the world to include the Americas, the Mongols and Australian Aborigins. Because of this spread it seems they were the Haplogroup most likely to have been used by Enki’s group or Enlil’s group of Anunnaki to take possession of and to incarnate into. They had ways available to them to travel to all parts of the world.
So you now have the Anunnaki souls in Haplogroup E human bodies in Africa gradually developing an advanced civilization at Atlantis in what is now the western Sahara’s Eye of Africa with a colony in Egypt that built the great pyramids; and Annunaki souls in Haplogroup C human bodies that have spread over the rest of the world developing a different advanced civilization that was supportive of the rest of humanity. Or at least they formed great civilizations in other parts of the world. So Haplogroups C, D and E seem to have been the descendants of the “sky people”. It’s worth noting that the entire north Africa area was a lush tropical paradise and not the barren Sahara desert of today!
Haplogroup F seems to have settled into the Balkans and not gone anywhere. But this group is also the group from which the majority of the current human race seems to have developed out of. We can probably think of this group of early humans as having the best influences of the ancient reptilian humanoids as well as the Anunnaki. It also seems that it was this group that was much later completely obliterated and destroyed in the mutual destruction of the Anunnaki civilizations. Ancient lore speaks of a great civilization that once existed in the Balkans but was completely destroyed to where no stone stood upon another.
My own ancestors, Haplogroup G, migrated from the Balkans and Aegean basin north of the Black Sea to the Caucasus mountains 48,500 years ago By crossing the Pontic Steppe. These primitive humans were hunters and gatherers. They managed to end up in what is now North Ossetia where over 70% of the current population belongs to Haplogroup G. This is the highest concentration of Haplogroup G peoples in the world and occurs in North Ossetia, not South Ossetia which is on the south side of the Caucasus mountains. There are only two roads that go over the Caucasus mountains from North Osettia into South Ossetia. There is also the fertile soil of the Pontic Steppe in central North Ossetia. To me these factors are strong indications that Haplogroup G, a group of hunter gatherers, migrated across the Pontic Steppe to end up in North Osettia where they stayed. The Caucasus mountain range was a natural barrier very few crossed.
This is the group of peoples who later became the Sarmatians of whom we will talk about later. They were a nomad society that lived in wagons and were the first peoples to domesticate the horse.
Haplogroup H migrated to India and Haplogroup J migrated to the near east 42,900 years ago. According to genetic evidence all of these groups and others originated from the Balkans and Aegean basin! They were genetic changes from Haplogroup F.
Around 45,400 years ago we also find Haplogroup K widely spread around the world which was probably also a Haplogroup descended from the “sky people” and creators of advanced civilizations. Haplogroup I was found in some ancient skeletons in Europe. Other Haplogroups developed as well, but this article is mainly about what happened in the Balkans and the Aegean basin.
While I have identified Haplogroup G as being red haired and warrior like and having taken control of the Pontic Steppe as nomadic hunter gatherers that lived in wagons and domesticated the horse, it seems that ancient Proto Druidry must have originated in the Balkans or Aegean basin!
What is interesting is that we also find representations of a dragon or serpent and strong female roles within Haplogroup G on the Pontic Steppe and among the Sarmatians and Sythians. They have been described as red haired warrior tribes which included women warriors like the legendary Amazons of the Aegean basin who established a colony at ancient Samothrace.
At this point I think it is likely that the Orion group of reptilian extra terrestrials have joined in the game that the Anunnaki were playing. We begin to see various peoples around the earth revere the serpent and dragon symbols. The stakes for planet earth suddenly became much bigger and more dangerous.
Some 21,000 years ago Haplogroup G became Haplogroup G2a which began spreading outward south of the Caucasus mountains and then westward introducing agriculture into central Europe.
Meanwhile, some 31,900 years ago Haplogroup R was formed in central Asia and around 28,200 years ago Haplogroup R1a and R1b were formed. The Haplogroup R1b migrated west and settled in the Middle Volga river region about 13,000 years ago. Gradually they expanded southward as the Pre-Kurga and Kurga culture. They pretty much exterminated the Haplogroup G2a as they took over the area.
6,000 years ago those of Haplogroup R1b remaining north of the Caucasus mountains later formed the Yamna culture and others advanced south into Mesopotamia where they formed Sumeria. From there some of them migrated west into Egypt where they founded the Pharaoh system. They continued west across northern Africa and about 4,900 years ago crossed the Iberian penninsula and from there upward conquering western Europe reaching into Ireland and Scandinavia while also intruding into central Europe and the Balkans.
This is where we need to take a break and regroup a bit. This places us around 3,000-4,000 BCE and there is too much going on! According to recent data this is when the entire region of northern Africa turned from a lush tropical paradise into the Sahara Desert. This is when the invention of reading and writing took place in ancient Sumeria. This is the extinction of the advanced Anunnaki civilizations world wide in what appears to be a war of mutually assured destruction that included the final destruction of Atlantis in western Africa and the decimation of any advanced civilization that may have existed in the Balkans.
From this point onward there appears to be a desperate attempt to save as much sacred knowledge as possible. Cuneiform tablets were written by survivors of the great Anunnaki war that had destroyed the known world. Stone circles and monoliths were raised around Europe, Britain and Ireland and around the world. But these were crude stone monoliths. The sacred knowledge was disappearing. Apparently the sacred knowledge was being passed down to the humans and they were doing the best they could to salvage it. It seemed that Haplogroup R1b was the group that was in control of it. In Egypt the line of Pharaohs were considered gods and goddesses. As Haplogroup R1b moved up into Ireland they brought horses with them. These were horse that originally came from the Pontic Steppe and had earlier been domesticated by Haplogroup G which was still living north of the Caucasus mountains and doing a fine trade in horse flesh. Along with the destruction of the advanced Anunnaki civilizations the domestication of the horse revolutionized the ancient world. Horses became sacred in Ireland.
This was undoubtedly the beginning of Proto-Druidism and what remained of the sacred knowledge gradually spread from the Aegean basin and Ireland into the rest of western Europe as a form of shamanism. History shows that the Druids evolved in support of a ruling class and were not considered the ruling class. They were not nobility although members of the nobility could be and often were Druids. We do know that the oldest skeletons found in Ireland were genetic matches to the people of the Pontic Steppe in what is today the Ukraine. Since Haplogroup G2a had been pretty much exterminated its likely that the early invaders of Ireland were Haplogroup R1b and considered as gods and goddesses, later to be called the Tuatha de Danann. It was these peoples that most likely erected the stone monoliths and circles such as at Stonehenge. It is likely that these were the ancient Proto-Druids that retained a certain amount of the sacred knowledge.
It was only 5,000 years ago that the skeletal remains of the first peoples in Ireland have been dated at. It was only 5,000 years ago that monoliths like Stonehenge mysteriously appeared over Europe and the British Isles.
Around 2,000 BCE or 4,000 years ago Crete and the Minoan civilization were destroyed by earthquakes. This seems to have been the remains of what had once been the civilization that existed in the middle of the Balkans and the Aegean basin. There still remains the question of who developed agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Right now it seems to have been members of Haplogroup I whose remains have been found in Anatolia about 8,000 years ago. While some believe that primitive Anatolian farmers brought agriculture into the Aegean basin and Balkans, recent DNA evidence shows that Haplogroup G-M406 lived in the Aegean basin and Balkans and had no genetic trace of the Anatolians.
Once more Haplogroup G-M406 emerges on the scene as they expand outward from their secure and fortified homeland in the Caucasus mountains in what is now North Osettia. Around 2,600 years ago or 700 BCE they emerge as the Sythians, a savage warlike race that fought on horseback. Later, from the same Caucasus mountains the Sythians were beat back by the Sarmatians who held the Pontic Steppe against the Romans until 450 CE. The Sarmatians were a nomadic warrior people that lived in wagons and traveled on horseback with large herds of cattle across the Pontic Steppe. Sarmatian women fought as equals alongside the males and the graves of warrior women have been found with them dressed in full battle gear.
The Roman Empire was founded in the 8th century BCE and endured until its collapse in the 5th century CE. As first the Sythian and then the Sarmatian armies expanded westward they were responsible for the creation of what became the feudal system where a class of nobility as warriors protected the farmer populace in exchange for a tribute of goods and servants. These fierce warriors on horseback were more than a match for any foot soldiers and they revolutionized modern warfare. This nobility became the elite nobles who ruled the common masses and demanded the sacred act of hospitality so they could travel in safety throughout their lands.
After many repeated failed attempts to conquer the Sarmatians, the Roman Empire decided to form their own legions of horse warriors and hired them as mercenaries in the late 3rd century CE. A grave has been found in Rome of a Haplogroup G-PF3293>PF3316 which was most likely a Sarmatian horse warrior that dates to around 300 CE. Some 5,500 Sarmatians were posted to Britain in 175 CE by Marcus Aurelius. More than a century later 500 Sarmatian horsemen were still posted near Lancaster and some remained until at least 400 CE. These horsemen flew a dragon standard and there is speculation that these horsemen were responsible for the King Arthur legend as they were the only mounted warriors with heavy armor in Britain at the time and the feudal system was already in place.
The Druids adapted to the feudal system in support of the nobility and strengthened their own influence throughout Europe, especially Britain, Scotland and Ireland.
Eidol, knight of the Round Table
The Romans invaded Gaul in the 1st century CE and the Roman Emperors Tiberius and Claudius actively suppressed the Druid culture. By the 2nd century it had disappeared from Gaul. Supposedly the Druids fled to Britain and other places of refuge. By 400 CE the Samothrace mysteries of a warrior Goddess which had been founded by Amazon Sarmatian women were replaced by the Eleusinian mysteries of a Goddess of fertility and love. It is possible that they went to Britain with the Druids or later. There is no way to know for certain. What we can say is that the Samothrace mysteries were conducted in Gaul for almost a thousand years and suddenly they disappeared. This was the mystery religion of theAegean basin reaching into the Balkans as well.
The Romans had several brushes with the Sarmatians, a horse riding nomadic people of the Pontic Steppe. These skirmishes were so troublesome that by the late 2nd and 3rd centuries Rome found it necessary to develop its own mounted warriors and even used some of the Sarmatian horsemen as mercenaries.
In 175 CE some 5,500 Sarmatian horsemen were posted in Britain where they served in the Roman army. More than a century later a unit of 500 were still stationed at what is now modern Ribchester near Lancaster. These horsemen flew a dragon standard as was customary for Sarmatian warriors who held the dragon symbol as sacred. Traces of these Sarmatians remain in Britain until 400CE. These Sarmatians also worshiped a sword that was plunged into an earthen mound possibly giving rise to the legend of King Arthur. [The Sarmatians 600 BC- AD 450 by R Brzezinski & M Mielczarek published 2002]
It is likely that the legendary Uther Pendragon was associated with this remaining remnant of highly trained Sarmatian horse warriors. I can’t find a direct link between Eidol, the Earl of Gloucester, and Uther Pendragon but one author spoke of Eidol as having a troublesome lineage that made him be considered a foreigner compared to the other nobility. I think it likely that he belonged to this lineage as well.
In 472 CE Hengist, the Saxon King of Kent,brought his army onto the British coast, after the death of Vortimer, they found that the inhabitants, under the command of Vortigern, were fully determined to oppose their landing. The Saxon chief Hengist made it clear to Vortigern that he had no intention of invading the country and that his fight was with Vortimer, son of Vortigern. Pretending as if he thought Vortimer was still alive.
Hengist suggested that they should both meet in May at Stonehenge on Salisbury plain with their highest officers and nobility and he also suggested that in a show of good faith everyone should come unarmed.
Eidol, the Earl of Gloucester, is described as High Priest, President of the Circle and Knight of the Inclosure. His job was to act as host distributing the liquor at the feast. He was probably the only one at the feast that was sober.
Meanwhile Hengist had his people secretly wear long knives in their sleeves and arranged the seating so that at each table friend and foe sat side by side alternating. At a given signal they were to take their long knives and kill the person sitting next to them sparing only King Vortigern. In the middle of the feasting when all were drunk the signal was given and 360 of Vortigern’s nobles and chieftains were savagely murdered.
King Vortigern was captured and surrendered his own properties as well as Norfolk and Sussex to Hengist and his army.
Eidol was the only one who survived and escaped after killing seventy men. He returned to the place of the massacre to bury his dead countrymen and women. He later helped capture Hengist and beheaded him.
We know him not as High Priest, President of the Circle or Knight of the Inclosure, but as King Arthur, Knight of the Round Table which was the feast at Stonehenge where 360 unarmed people were treacherously murdered. I will be taking a more detailed look at this piece of treachery in my next post as it was chronicled in the Gododin and translated by Edward Davies.
The Massacre of Stonehenge Part 1
The Gododin is thought to be an ancient song that is so fragmented that it has baffled many that have tried to translate it. As a translator of difficult text myself I have a deep appreciation and insight into the labor involved in such a task. Edward Davies spent an enormous amount of time and energy in translating both the Gododin and other Druid songs that told the story of the Feast of the Long Knives. This was not an easy task because the true names of individuals and place locations is not openly given. This is most probably due to the fact that the author of the Gododin was a Saxon prisoner when he wrote most of it. He had to be very careful what he said and how he said it. The author of this manuscript is supposedly the Druid Aneirin who witnessed and survived the massacre.
Edward Davies determined that the Gododin was not one single song but a compilation of many short songs. He compared all known translations and made a vocabulary list of all difficult words and researched them. When he discovered that the events of the massacre described in the Gododin happened at Stonehenge he combed through the available sources to find out more to give context to the verses. Then he gave his translation along with notes that helped the reader understand the context of the full story. Today we know even more and I’ve tried to retell this story giving my own notes as appropriate.
This story sings of the death blow of the Druid religion that took place at Stonehenge in 472 CE. May it send shivers down your spine as it has sent down mine and may we always remember!
The Britain’s were strongly beset on all sides by the Picts, Scotts and Saxons. The Chieftains of the Clans elected Vortigern as High King of all Britain. When Hengist, the Saxon, and his brother Horsa arrived with their armies Vortigern sought peaceful negotiations. As sacred custom each side would talk before beginning open hostilities. Hengist and his brother agreed to help Vortigern fight the Picts and Scots in exchange for permission to live with their people on the small island of Thanet.
Hengist persuaded Vortigern that he needed more Saxons to help fight and Hengist was authorized to send back to his homeland for more Saxons. As more Saxons came they included Hengist’s beautiful daughter Rowena. Vortigern asked to marry Rowen and Hengist agreed on condition that he be made a noble and given some land to rule. Vortigern replied that he couldn’t make Hengist a noble but he could give him the kingdom of Kent and it was agreed without consulting the current owner of the kingdom of Kent.
The Saxons were strong warriors and easily defeated Vortigern’s enemies. But more and more Saxons continued to come to Britain and the Britons became alarmed and told Vortigern that the Saxons had to go back home because they were becoming more numerous than the Britions! Because of his love for Rowena Vortigern refused to do this and in anger the Chieftains elected Vortimer, Vortigern’s son, as the new High King of Britain because he vowed to drive the Saxons out of Britain.
Vortimer and his champion warriors succeeded in driving the Saxons back to their island. But soon after that Vortimer was poisoned by Rowena who had put a fatal poison in his wine. Vortigern was reelected as High King of Britain against the complaints of the champions and loyal followers of Vortimer who had driven the Saxons out of Britain. Hengist returned with an army of 300,000 men.
Vortigern met Hengist under a flag of truce and Hengist stated his fight was with Vortimer and not Vortigern, pretending that he didn’t know of the death of Vortimer at his daughter’s hand. According to sacred custom Hengist suggested they meet to talk about it at the great feast of Beltaine that would take place at Stonehenge on the 1st of May. Both would bring their nobles and greatest warriors and both would come unarmed and in peace. Both agreed to bring 360 of their finest warriors and leaders to discuss what to do.
But secretly Vortigern colluded with Hengist to betray his own people. Hengist would secretly bring weapons to the feast and kill the loyal champions of the dead Vortimer that were giving Vortigern so much trouble. These champions and heroes were to wear purple robes so they could be more easily identified. The other nobles would be ransomed back by their families and Vortigern and Hengist would divide the spoils. This was the unholy plan that was agreed upon.
Stonehenge was not just the circle of standing stones that we see today. It was a fortified enclosure of wooden walls and an entire community lived inside it. While the temple itself was open to the sky the living quarters were not. Within this community lived Bards, Ovates and Druids and this Beltaine celebration was the most important observance of the entire year! The Druids, Ovates and Bards came from all over to celebrate this most holy festival. In addition the local population joined the festivities as well. In all there were several thousand people that would be at this festival which would take place during several days.
The rest of Hengist’s army of 300,000 would remain near the river Avon. The meeting itself would take place on the curcus, a long raised area about a half mile from the temple itself. As an honor and perhaps to keep him away from the negotiations Eidol was nominated to be in charge of the feast keeping the entire company supplied with food and drink. He was the Knight of the Enclosure or President of the Circle. Apparently he was also a Druid High Priest.
This sets the stage for what was to follow. There was a long protected avenue leading to the temple that went through the living quarters of the Bards. The Bards were to be entertainers at the feast.
The Massacre at Stonehenge Part 2
There was only one entrance to the Stonehenge temple and that was through the avenue that went through the permanent community that lived there. The living quarters of the Bards were at the outermost section of this small town. A broad avenue almost 2 miles long led to the river and another avenue connected it to the curcus where Vortigern and Hengis were to have their meeting. According to the Gododin this meeting took place in a temporary building or enclosure that had been built for that purpose.
When you consider the 360 Briton nobles that were to meet with 360 Saxons, the staff of the entire temple complex staff plus Druid visitors and the general population that were there for the massive celebration I’m pretty certain that several thousand people were there crowded around the great temple living in tents and camping out.
On Monday they celebrated the festival of May praising the holy ones in the presence of the purifying fire, which was made to ascend on high. On Tuesday they wore their dark garments. On Wednesday they purified themselves. On Thursday truly performed their sacred rites. On Friday the Briton nobles were conducted within the circle. On Saturday there was a huge performance, but without the customary circle dance. On Sunday the Saxon nobles were conducted around the circle. On Monday there was a deluge of gore up to the waist.
The Bards were regarded as the heralds of peace. The Chief Bard was the first to be ruthlessly killed at the assembly of the nobles on the curcus.
After it was all over only one Briton man survived, Eidol.
Here is how it went down:
They agreed to meet at dawn on the curcus.
Hengis, wearing a wreath and amber stones around his temples in the presence of the Maid [Goddess or High Priestess] offers mead for all to drink and celebrate. He does not wish to fight but if it must be he will fight to the death and show no mercy. Vortgern responds by saying they will all drink wine mixed with mead. This feasting went on into the night and by the light of torches. Everyone is thoroughly drunk. Vortigern prepares to give a final toast to Hengis so that he can secretly make his escape. But Hengis betrays him as well and suddenly kills the chief Bard who is entertaining them giving the signal for his men to attack. The enclosure erupts into chaos. Each Saxon plunges his blade into his Briton companion sitting next to him. Then the Champions dressed in purple robes are singled out to be certain they are killed. Vortigern is taken prisoner.
They prepared to rush the temple and take its massive treasure. Eidol, Knight of the Circle, sounded the alarm and the Bards drew their swords in defense of the temple. He started a mighty fire in the avenue blocking the way so the intruders cannot enter the temple. Then he reached the storage area where the arms have been kept and taking his lance plunged into the battle killing over seventy drunken Saxons.
Meanwhile those who had not been invited to the meeting notice what is going on and join the battle. Tudvwich, the noble whose lands had been taken by Vortigern and given to Hengis made great account of himself before he perished. The intruders were not able to enter the temple and Hengis was forced to flee with his men after slaughtering the Bards.
Hengis came back immediately with his massive troops that were waiting by the river and the massacre began in truth. Of all the Britons there only Eidol, the author of the Godidin, and Vortigern survived. The temple was plundered and its treasures were lost. All the Druids, Ovates and Bards were slaughtered and the most sacred place of the Druid religion was destroyed forever. Both the most important nobles of Britain and the most important religious leaders, the Druids, died in the massacre.
The Massacre at Stonehenge Part 3
In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle the final entry of 473 AD mentions Hengist as having taken “immense booty” and the Britons as having “fled from them like fire”. To me this once in a lifetime “Immense booty” or treasure must have been the sacred treasures of the great Druid Temple at Stonehenge.
Suddenly it seemed there were no more Druids to be found in Britain, only Ovates and Bards. During this same time period St. Patrick in Ireland burned over 300 sacred manuscripts of the Druids. This was effectively the death blow of the Druid religion.
As it says in the Gododin “Morien [a title of the God and thus his priest Eidol, is a Welsh word meaning born of the sea ] defended the blessed sanctuary- the basis, and chief place of distribution of the source of energy, of the most powerful, and the most ancient. – She is transpierced!”
The magickal power of the Druids was broken! The Saxons and Christianity were both the victors even though the Saxons were not Christians.
The remaining Britons were outraged and regrouped electing new leaders. A new High King of Britain was elected named Ambrosius. The author Edward Davies suggests that Ambrosius and Eidol, the Earl of Gloucester were one and the same and the he was the true King Arthur of legend, but I doubt it.
Call me a skeptic, but if Eidol was really descended from the Sarmatian Roman mercenaries as I believe, he would be considered a foreigner or of foreign lineage and not accepted by the other clan chiefs as their supreme leader. History says that Eidol fought alongside Ambrosius taking Hengis prisoner and then beheading him. A few years later he too was poisoned.
In the tradition of the Celts and Druids to make fantastical stories, I believe they made Eidol the immortal King Arthur, the knights of the round table were those champions wearing purple robes that were unarmed and slaughtered at the feast of the long knives during the sacred Beltaine celebration at the great circular temple or round table of Stonehenge! Part of the missing temple treasure was the Holy Grail, the most sacred object of the Druid religion. They believed that King Arthur would one day return and that the Holy Grail would be found.
This is the beginning of the mysteries of the Holy Grail!
This is actually a clarification of my earlier Gaia Ascension Update called Solar Flash in which I had a dream about my cell phone being broken. I went back and reread that as I searched for clues of what my latest dream meant. This is also a demonstration of how physical events happen in the astral planes before they manifest in the physical. The events project themselves ahead into the future.
But before I get into all that I want to share that this is how I am able to function on the lower astral and etheric planes and why it is so important to permanently activate those astral and etheric bodies. This is the true ability to manipulate these levels before they manifest as physical events. I have no doubt at all that my activity at these levels helps to alter or minimize the damage and hardship that might otherwise affect me personally and my environment and that is what magick is all about!
Seeking to understand this dream I went back to my earlier post and reread it. In that post I described myself changing levels in some unorthodox way like going down a garbage chute. In retrospect I live in an apartment complex of 12 stories and we do have a garbage chute that ends in a container at the ground floor. So my earlier dream was location specific in identifying the building where I live as opposed to something larger like state wide or more major.
In last night’s dream there was no changing of levels because I was already at the level where things were happening. I seemed to be trapped in an area or neighborhood where I wandered around trying to find a way out. But there was no way out. I tried talking with someone to see if I could help. He was looking to replace some electrical component that had burned out and was trying to search for a replacement part in lots of old machines or equipment and I tried to help but found myself in a common bathroom type area where people were crowding and trying to use the limited facilities. There were long lines and it was quite complicated because some type of contraption was required and I didn’t have one. Someone offered to get me one and help me but I ended up wandering away. I was horrified at being in a place where there was no escape and woke up from my dream rather shaken. What did it mean?
My current understanding of the dream so far is that the problem was a neighborhood one or a local one and the large room with people in it represented the building complex where I live and the contraptions that people had was the astral vaccine shot or how the vaccine appeared in the astral planes and in the individual aura for those that had taken it.
As I said I was really shaken by the dream and especially by the fact I had been trapped in some area of the astral from which there was no escape. I even got the silly idea that perhaps I had entered the lower hell planes and my soul might be doomed to wander there trapped and unable to find any way out. Further reflection made me realize how foolish that was because I was not dead. My physical body was still very much alive and my soul was still able to connect to the light of SOURCE.
Anyway I took the dog out and then went back to sleep and the dream continued. This time I wandered around trying to understand what was going on. I found a piece of equipment that I took apart. There was a burnt out fuse in it. It was a piece of heavy electrical equipment like a power line fuse. While that person had been looking for a replacement chip of some kind I had discovered the real problem was that a large fuse needed to be replaced. I wandered around trying to tell someone about my discovery and also trying to find a replacement fuse. I never found anyone and never found a replacement fuse but I had resolved the problem. I had found the solution and it was the end of the dream. I felt very good about the ending.
The important things that these dreams showed me were that the problem was still going to happen and I would be affected as would people in my neighborhood but it was not going to mean any undue hardship for me. I had found a solution! It also very clearly showed me that those people who had taken the vaccine appeared much differently in the astral planes than those who hadn’t taken it. Lastly, these dreams were elaborations or expansions upon the dream I had written about in my earlier post. They were true prophetic dreams.
These dreams reflect my normal ability to function on the lower planes and I can project there in full consciousness as well.
I had a powerful dream last night in which I was trying to get people mad enough at me that they would want to fight and win their way to freedom. As they came after me I opened something like a large garage door so that we all could enter into a free and new world. For me the dream signified that I had done my job as a teacher and my students had graduated. I recognized these warriors as adepts!
Any course of study has a beginning and an end. The end is marked by some kind of recognition of hard won ability. Organic Gnosticism is no different. I have brutally assaulted people with my posts that were designed and calculated to startle, shock, challenge and provoke people into fighting back.
The concepts that I have written about are very specific in what they do. Almost everything is rooted in personal experience or science. Exposure to these concepts is an ordeal whether you accept them or not. It is not about whether someone believes me or what I write about; it is whether they develop their own beliefs as a consequence.
Anyone that can hold their own beliefs against such a barrage as Organic Gnosticism can be considered an adept in the truest meaning of the word as far as I’m concerned.
I salute those that have fought back in spirited debate and I salute those who have held their own council and kept silent. Both require the self discipline of an adept! In this world you need to stand for something or you will fall for anything. I’ve made it pretty clear to others what I stand for and that is all a teacher can do. The student needs to stand up for their own beliefs.
At this point I formally recognize anyone truly familiar with my work as an adept whether they have found value in what I have shared or not. In the sharing we have stood up to each other and taken the measure of each other. You have withstood my brutal assault and remain standing. Well done! You deserve to be recognized!