In the northeastern area of the Mediterranean Sea, just west of where the Ark of Noah alighted after the Great Flood in Turkey, lies a large, rocky and mountainous peninsula full of beautiful bays and red soil, with craggy shorelines and striking cliffs; the land of Greece. The Ionian people that initially inhabited this region were descendents of Noah’s son, Japheth. These early settlers were largely stonemasons, seafarers and farmers and from this region they spread out to colonize many of the Islands of the Mediterranean. Some time later, around 2,100 BC, the Indo-European people that had migrated from the area of Persia moving west through all of Europe, descended into Greece from the north. The two cultures merged and formed, perhaps one of the most remarkable civilizations of antiquity, known to us, as the Mycenaean civilization. The subsequent postdiluvian civilization that developed in this area grew to influence the rest of the civilized world like no other culture before it. Few nations can boast of the global impact, which the philosophers and thinkers of this relatively small nation have had worldwide, stretching even across the centuries into our own modern times. It is to the Greeks that we owe our modern concepts of the scientific process, a democratic form of government, many important mathematical theorems, the stately and clean forms of architecture, the emphasis on physical fitness and the Olympic games.

Around 490 – 480 BC, the Persian Empire had grown to become the most powerful nation in the world, covering the entire Middle East and even conquering the powerful and wealthy nation of Egypt. The Persians then set their eyes on conquering Europe and for this reason they needed to first subjugate Greece, since they were located right at the crossroads into Europe.  In an impressive engineering wonder, they built a bridge spanning the Bosporous Strait in order to march their army across the sea to invade Greece.

According to Herodotus, it took seven days and seven nights for the entire Persian army to cross the Hellespont, which he claimed numbered approximately 1,700,000 soldiers in his land army at this point. In addition the expedition consisted of some 3,000 ships from the various nations that they had already subjugated. Marching from the north the huge Persian army bivouacked in Therma. From this position “Xerxes could see the vast bulk of Mount Olympus and Mount Ossa in Thessaly. He found out that half-way between then there was a narrow ravine, with the River Peneius flowing through it, and was told that there was a way into Thessaly there.” (The Histories, Herodotus, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, pg.447)

The Greek city-states that had up to this point been fighting with one another decided to unite against the common enemy. They considered meeting the Persian army in the narrow ravine that allowed them entrance into Thessaly, but instead opted for the more defensible narrow pass at Thermopylae.

By the time that Xerxes army had reached this area, he had enlisted countless men along the way and the number of his troops swelled to 2,641,610 fighting men, not counting the number of people brought with them to take care of the logistics involved in caring for such a force. Herodotus estimates that the total number of people in the expeditionary force, including cooks, concubines, eunuchs etc. comes to 5,283,220 people.

But the vastness of this expeditionary force would not save it from its future doom and the Persians were in for a big surprise. First a horrendous storm kicked up from the northeast and played havoc on the enormous and susceptible navy, which had put in by Cape Sepias in Magnesia. A fleet of this size could not hope to find sufficient shelter in any natural harbor should nature choose to strike, and this is precisely what took place.

 “The sea became choppy and they were lashed by a violent storm coming from the north-east on a strong wind- the wind called Hellespointe by those living in the region. Some of the men noticed that the wind was rising and, if their mooring made it possible, they hauled their ships ashore before the storm struck; these were the crews and the ships that survived. All the ships which the storm found at sea, however, were either driven to the so called Ovens of Mount Pelium or the beach, or wrecked on Cape Sepias itself or at the town of Meliboea, or run aground at Casthanaea. It was monster of a storm, quite impossible to ride out… The most conservative estimates of how many ships were lost in this disaster is four hundred, along with innumerable personnel…” (The Histories, Herodotus, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, pg. 471, 472)

 The rest of the ships eventually reached Aphetae. Three days later, after having crossed through Thessaly, Xerxes reached the same destination and from there marched down the coast to Malis in Trachis.

 “So King Xerxes took up a position at Malis in Trachis and the Greeks were encamped in the pass at the place whose usual name is Thermopylae… The Greeks were busy trying to decide what to do when Xerxes sent a scout on horseback to see how many men he was up against and what they were doing. While still in Thessaly he had received a report that a small force, led by the Lacedaemonians and the Heraclid Leonidas, had assembled at the pass.” (The Histories, Herodotus, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, pg.475, 477)

 For four days Xerxes held his troops back, fully expecting that at any moment the Greeks would turn and run, but on the fifth day his anger arose at their impudence and he sent in his Median army to conquer them ordering them to bring back some live prisoners. The battle lasted all day and the Median troops were forced to withdraw badly mauled. Xerxes then sent in his elite Persian forces commanded by Hydarnes, but they also returned with no different result. Time and time again, the Persians sent in regiment after regiment, but each time they met with the same failure and the Greeks were able to defeat the superior forces in the narrow pass, where their superior numbers could not be used to overrun them. The second day the Persians tried once again to rush the pass but each time were met with failure from the superior Greek soldiers. Xerxes was amazed at the skill and fierceness of the Greek soldiers and began to despair of ever being able to conquer them, until someone advised the King of a secret pass around the mountain, which allowed them to outflank the Greeks from behind. It was only then that he was able to finally defeat them. The Spartans stood their ground and died everyone to the last man, but not before setting into history one of the most heroic stands of any battle by just a few hundred men against such overwhelming opposition.

The Persians went on to defeat the city of Athens from that point, but the Greek navy had remained intact and the commanders of Xerxes advised him to take the battle to the sea. Once news of Thermopylae had reached all of Greece the men from the surrounding city-states rushed to the Peloponnesian isthmus and undertook the task of building a defensive wall, to meet the coming army of Xerxes, but the battle was to be decided at sea. The Greeks, with a grand total of only 380 ships soundly defeated the huge Persian navy. Xerxes after seeing the devastation feared that the Greek ships would sail to the Hellespont and destroy the bridge, leaving him stranded in Europe with the supply lines cut and hence becoming easy prey for the fierce Greek soldiers. Disillusioned and overwhelmed by the success of such few numbers against his overwhelming forces, he then wisely decided to turn and run. And so, with the valiant efforts of their soldiers and marines, the Greeks were established as a world power to contend with and the Greek civilization that spawned after this time brought forth many notable accomplishments.

Some time after that marvelous victory, things in Greece began to deteriorate and in 431 BC the Peloponnesian War ravaged the land for some 27 years leaving the city-states in a much-weakened condition. It was during this time that King Philip II of Macedonia came to power and filled that void.

When Philip of Macedonia was assassinated by one of his previous bodyguards in 336BC, the young Alexander was left as King of greater Macedonia. Tutored by Aristotle, this young warrior proved to be more than a match for all his enemies. Alexander set his eyes on conquering Persia and removing the constant threat that the Greeks had to endure for so long.

After having defeated the Persian army that held their fellow Greeks on the other side of the Hellespont in Turkey, he continued down the shore of the Mediterranean and conquered Egypt. The King of Persia seeing that the young General was quite intent on conquering the entire Persian Empire, wisely offered Alexander a truce to avoid war: He promised him his daughter in marriage and all of the land west of the Tigris Euphrates River. When the young Alexander consulted with his generals, they pointed out to him that this would allow them to return home rich without having to fight further. One of the Generals exclaimed, “if I were you I would accept this treaty”. And the young Alexander responded, “Yes, I too would accept this treaty, if I were you, but I am not”. With a force of 50,000 soldiers, Alexander fought an army six times his size, of 300, 000 armed men, equipped with many charioteers, which the Greeks had not; and yet Alexander out maneuvered the Persians and soundly defeated them.

As the young Alexander (356-323BC) routed all the known military powers of that time, the enlightened Greek concepts of civilization were imported worldwide. This of course, took place rather late in the development of the Greek culture and the impact of their influence was felt deeply in all the subjugated kingdoms he subdued.

The young warrior had a vision to reunite the world and bring all its inhabitants under one rule, centered in Babylon, but it was not to be so. In June of 323 BC he succumbed to the effects of poisoned wine after fighting it for almost two weeks. It may have been his own generals that poisoned him, for they no longer shared his vision to conquer the rest of the world, content to bask in their attainments at that point.

It does not escape my notice that he was thought to be the son of Zeus and there is no doubt in my mind that Satan thought to reunite the world that God had divided with the judgment of the tower of Babel. But, his plans have always been foiled by God, and every kingdom that attempts to do so shall meet the same fate, until the end times, when sin has run its course and the Antichrist shall be revealed, the son of Satan.

By the time Alexander was born the true religion had almost disappeared from Greece and the polytheistic and occult religion of the Impostor had come to dominate Greece. The Indo-European culture, which had overrun Europe and mingled with the initial inhabitants of Greece some 1,700 years earlier, had brought with it the concept of Dyeus Pater, as the Omnipotent and singular Creator of the Universe. The name Dyeus, eventually evolved into Zeus, and as Satan corrupted the true religion, an entire regiment of quarreling gods sprung into existence in Mt. Olympus.

Not unlike any other civilization, the worship of the One True God became distorted and corrupted in Greece also.  As the Ancient Hellenes succumbed to the same deceptive power of Satan that had corrupted the truth in all the other nations, occult divination gained prominence throughout the region and they began to worship many gods in the place of Zeus. The Celtic practice of the druids of eviscerating sacrificial victims and divining, through the resulting position of their intestines became part of Greek tradition as well.

 Probably one of the most popular deities worshipped by the deceived Greeks was the same goddess that was known to the Celts as Diana. This female goddess was worshipped throughout the Near East, as well and was known variably as the Mother or Great Mother, stemming from the fact that her original identity was the Great Mother of humanity, Eve.

As previously stated, most mythologies contain the concept of the Great Mother, whether called Isis or Ishtar- Inana or Diana, or Cybele they are simply a corrupted memory of Eve, which Satan has promoted as a goddess of sexuality and fertility and in some cases even of war. The curious fact is that in all these renditions, it was held in common that a young son or consort, would be killed and then miraculously brought back to life. This is of course nothing less than the story of the prophecy of Genesis 3:15 which we have mentioned in reference to Horus and Isis, and which is repeated in the different cultures, such as the story of Dumuzi or Taumnus or Adonis or Horus. It is the prophecy of a man being born of Eve, a woman, which would be killed, but which would subsequently resurrect and defeat the Serpent.

This is the ancient story of the constellations as depicted in Virgo and Coma in the Zodiac. The Christ is destined to deal a mortal wound to Satan (to the head) while Satan would deal a lesser wound (in the heel) that although grave, would be overcome through the resurrection. Ancient man through the zodiac knew this Hebrew prophecy and it is one and the same concept as the story of Achilles heel in the corrupted Greek mythology.

The Hellenes corrupted the concept of the Great Mother, which was initially known as a reference to Eve, and incorrectly adapted her as the wife of God. This confusion is a natural one, owing to the fact that they knew that from this Eve symbolically a son would be born from God himself. This son would then be the hero of humanity, the Hercules that would be the son of man and the Son of God all at once. Therefore, Zeus was given a consort called Valkyrie, which became a shadowy figure later known as Dione and Pallas. These attributes became intertwined with Cybele and thusly Aphrodite was created.

Later on Zeus was pushed out to sea and became a lesser god suffering the same fate of Ptah, Zamna, Tonatiuh and Teiwaz as the usurpers religion corrupted the original truth. Zeus then, became known as Poseidon and the last vestiges of the monotheistic religion of Noah were buried in the multitude of gods, which Satan brought forth in his endless tirade of rebellion against the Almighty Zeus, Creator of the heavens and the Earth, the One True God.

The very early Greeks had recognized Zeus as the One True God of Righteousness. The Greeks titled him the Savior, the Protector of Humanity, and this was exactly the same connotation that the Celts gave Teiwaz and the Egyptians gave Ptah and that the Olmec gave Zamna and the Mayans gave Tonatiuh and the Chinese gave Shang Ti and the Koreans gave Hananim and the Babylonians gave to El.

As Satan’s influence garnered momentum, Zeus was relegated to the stature of a sort of referee of the gods, and in some way, He was pictured as sadly impotent to control them. The Homeric poems served to entrench this in the minds of the populace. This pitiful picture of anthropomorphic gods vying for power and senselessly quarreling with one another made gods an amplified reflection of humanity and completely desecrated the truth of the one True God, Zeus.

Most of the Greek mythological stories in the Homeric poems are simply corrupted versions of the story of the Zodiac. The Greeks, as well as all other ancient cultures, knew that the constellations held the prophetic story of humanity as a whole and that the eternal and cosmic battle between good and evil was contained within it. It was not until 600BC however, that Satan in Greece invented the concept of modern astrology, as a medium of personal divination. Through this new clever twist the Zodiac was interpreted, as having the ability to tell the future of the individual and not of mankind in general. But the Zodiac was, prior to that, understood by all humanity as the future of mankind. The great Greek philosopher Plato declared that these constellations seemed somehow to be endowed with a soul.

But, in spite of Satan’s attempt to completely obliterate the truth, vestiges of the religion of Noah remained in the religion of the Greeks.

There is a universal curiosity that has always intrigued me, it seems that most of the ancient temples faced east and Greece is no exception, curiously most of their ancient temples also face east and are designed with an inner sanctum in the same manner that Moses was directed by God to construct the Tabernacle. This concept of the inner sanctum, according to scripture, is a picture of the real Temple, which exists in Heaven. The fact that God specifically required the Tabernacle as well as the Temple of Israel to face east is also not a coincidence. This could be explained if perhaps all worshipped the sun, but such is not the case. Although, as stated before, there is a link between the sun and the Almighty God, in that the Ancients recognized as part of the story of the Zodiac, that God was represented by the foremost luminary in the heavens; the sun.

As the sun rises from the east and the sunrays reach the earth each morning it repeats symbolically the event prophesied from ancient times on the day in which the Son of God will from the east come from the heavens to earth and establish His Millennial Kingdom. Similarly, the moon, as previously stated, having only the power to reflect the light of the sun, is the symbol of humanity and specifically Eve, through which the sun ray of the Messiah was to come to earth in its darkest hour. By extension, then, Israel and the Virgin Mary may also be symbolized by this moon, since each of them was a vehicle from which the sunray (the Messiah) reached the earth. Thus, we find that Diana and Isis are often pictured in similar form to the Virgin Mary and are all associated with the moon.

This is also the reason why Zeus is pictured, with a lightning bolt in His right hand, since to the ancients; a lightning bolt represented a ray from the sun. Thus, the God Teiwaz of the Celts, as well as Jupiter of the Romans and Huracan of the Mayans and Zeus of the Greeks all containing this same lightning bolt on the right hand, symbolized the Messiah, which is presently, at the right hand of God, but will soon return to Earth.

It is no strange thing therefore, that humanity has lost sight of the original symbolism and worshipped the symbol instead, for the ministry of Satan is to destroy the truth and to deceive humanity into accepting his satanic counterfeit religion. Throughout the Scriptures the sun has been the symbol of the Father and the moon the symbol of motherhood. In the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation a prophecy concerning the coming of the Messiah is recorded:

 “And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she was with child; and she cried out being in labor and in pain to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven and behold a great red dragon… and the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with the rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His Throne.” (Revelation 12:1-5)

 The child is of course, the Messiah who sits on the Throne of God. The woman is Israel clothed with the sun (the light of the Father) and is standing on the moon, which is again symbolic of humanity and specifically motherhood. The twelve stars are her children, the twelve tribes of Israel.

This arrangement is not exclusive of the New Testament, almost 2000 years prior to the prophecy of Revelation, Joseph the son of Israel had two dreams that his elder brothers would some day be under his rule. As you can well imagine, this went over like a lead balloon with his siblings.

“Then Joseph had a dream and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more” (Genesis 37:5)

 After telling him the first dream he then recounted the second dream:

 “Now he had still another dream and related it to his brothers, and said;’ Lo I have had still another dream; and behold the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.’ And he related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, ‘What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?’” (Genesis 37:9-10)

 Israel understood the allegory of the sun as a symbol for fatherhood and the moon as motherhood with the eleven stars representing children, or sons. Joseph, of course, was the twelfth star.

God the Father designed the sun and the moon, to be a witness in the sky of our relationship to Him:

 “Once I have sworn by My Holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful.” (Psalms 89:35-37) (Emphasis mine)

 The unfortunate fact of the matter is, that while the witness in the sky is faithful, we are not faithful to the witness and turn the truth into a lie by worshipping the symbol, rather than the Creator. Moses warned us of this unfortunate propensity in man:

 “And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the hosts of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.” (Deuteronomy 4:15-19)

 Those evolutionists, which in order to avoid facing the reality of the existence of a Creator, which holds them morally accountable and insist that monotheism has evolved from polytheism, are completely blind to the human nature and to the historical record of the devolution of truth. It is instead, man’s repetitive tendency to degenerate into polytheism from monotheism, that is amply substantiated in every culture of the world, including the Jews, and which has resulted in our alienation from the truth and from God.  Monotheism is in fact the proto- truth and not an evolutionary refinement of civilization.

The ancients knew about the coming of the Messiah and this is the reason why practically all the ancient Temples are facing the rising of the sun. This eastward orientation of the Temples of the Ancients is no accident, surely this is so not only because the sun rises from the east, but because they were aware of the fact that the Messiah would come from the Heavens, and from the East.

The Tractate Erubin of the Jerusalem Talmud reveals a fact that corroborates this truth as common knowledge. On both the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes the first rays of the sun shone directly through the Eastern Gate and into the very heart of the Temple, that is the Holy of Holies where the Shekinah Glory, or the Spirit of God dwelt.  These were kept close year round and were only opened two days out of the year, for that very purpose, to symbolize the coming of the Messiah. (Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Erubin V, 22c)

Surely no one can accuse the Talmud of sun worship. This is simply one of the life pictures, which God designed to keep us on track with the truth. God has used symbols from the first man and Jesus used them also to convey specific messages to humanity. For example, Jesus entered through the Eastern Gate when riding on a donkey, the symbol of the beast of burden, since in His First Coming He bore our sins. But, Zechariah previously prophesied this:

 “Rejoice greatly oh daughter of Zion. Shout in triumph oh daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you; He is Just and endowed with salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, even a colt, the foal of a donkey.” (Zechariah 9:9) (Emphasis mine)

 The prophet Zechariah (began ministry about 520 BC) moved by the Spirit of God to write his book during the time that the Jews were given permission by the King of Persia (Cyrus) to return to the land and rebuild the city and the Temple. Zechariah was one of the last prophets of Israel before the coming of the Messiah. His incredible prophecies, uttered 500 years before the birth of Christ, speak of both His comings. The fulfillment of this prophecy is recorded in the New Testament in Matthew 21:6-16 and known to Christians as the Triumphal Entry of Palm Sunday.

But, the door of the Temple in Jerusalem was opened twice a year, once in the spring equinox, and once in the fall equinox. One corresponds to the Passover Feast in the spring, and the other to the Yom Kippur Festival in the Fall. He came the first time riding on a donkey, the beast of burden for Passover, for He was Literally our Passover Lamb.  But, He will come again, a second time, to enter through the Eastern Gate of the new Temple, which shall shortly be built, but this time He will come, not in a donkey, but in a white war steed, to conquer the armies of the antichrist as the fulfillment of Yom Kippur.

The prophet Malachi writing after Zechariah, the Temple having been rebuilt (520-432 BC), tells us that the prophet Elijah will return to usher in the Messiah (the Lord) which will then enter the Temple.

“Behold I am going to send my messenger and he will clear the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek, will suddenly come to His Temple” (Malachi 3:1)

 Jesus did enter the Temple after His triumphal entry through the Eastern Gate, but since then the Temple was destroyed after His death. A new Temple will soon be rebuilt which He will enter again, when Elijah comes as one of the two witnesses of the Tribulation period prophesied by the book of Revelation. This will be covered in more detail in “The Coming Prince of Peace”, for now, suffice it to say that the return of the Messiah from the East to enter the Temple is a key point in prophecy which was known by Noah and passed down to his descendants. All men of antiquity had a common sort of reverence toward the east, this is simply because there was a memory of the prophecy of the coming of the Son of God. Thus, the orientations of the Temples were in the anticipation of this momentous event.

In the Greek mythology, there is also the concept of the Temple in heaven; this they then thought erroneously to be in Mt. Olympus, the highest point in Greece.

“The Temples we admire were not places of public worship in the modern sense; some might be entered only once a year, or only by priests, or only by a veiled priestess (the Temple of Sosipolis at Elis); the inner shrine was called the adyton (not to be entered)…” (World Religions, From Ancient History to the Present, edited by Geoffrey Parrinder, Barnes and Noble, NY, 1999, pg150)

The Greek adyton (not to be entered), or concept of the inner sanctum of these Temples, is exactly the same concept of the Holy of Holies of the Temple of God. Entrance into this inner sanctum represented being in the presence of God Himself and was to be accomplished by the High Priest only after comprehensive ritual cleansing.

The Passover Sacrifice and Ancient Greek Theology

The initial founders of Greece, like all other ancient nations, carried with them the true religion passed down by Noah to his descendants. The need for redemption was a common element in all the initial cultures that developed after the Great Flood. The practice of sacrificing a lamb or goat for the remission of sins, symbolized by the Hebrew Passover Festival, was not unique to Israel; neither was the practice of baptism. The Greeks also habitually sacrificed animals for the remission of their sins. Unfortunately, by the time of Alexander the sacrifice of the pig, dog or cock had become an occult corruption of the original sacrifice of the lamb, which their ancient ancestors, the Indo-European people, had initially imported to Greece as well as India at the beginning of their nation. But, this should not surprise us, for throughout the world, the symbol of the pig and the cock has always been associated with the usurper, Satan.

“Scapegoats were a form of purification. At Athens and other Ionian cities, at the Thargelia a festival of Apollo, the sins of the community were loaded on an individual called Pharmakos (the Remedy), who was then driven out. There were many simpler purifications- the sacrifice of a pig, dog or cock or the bathing in the sea” (World Religions, From Ancient History to the Present, edited by Geoffrey Parrinder, Barnes and Noble, NY, 1999, pg150)

The ancient Celts in Europe worshipped the god Moccus, who was associated with the swine and the corn spirit phenomenon that required human sacrifice for the assurance of plenty in the coming harvest. The Egyptians regarded the pig as associated with the evil god Set and considered it as evil.  “The pig was generally regarded as evil by the ancient Egyptians and was associated with the evil god Set.” (Who’s Who In Egyptian Mythology, by Anthony S. Mercante, Metro Books, NY, 1995, pg.122)

The dietary prohibition within the Hebrew law, which had outlawed the eating of pork, had been partially made in order to separate the believers from the ancient occult practice of sacrificing pigs to the usurper.  It was therefore, for this very same reason that the defiling of the Temple by the sacrifice of a pig during the time of Maccabbee was considered the highest form of disrespect to the Hebrew faith and of the utmost blasphemy.

The fact that the ancient Greeks applied this in the festival of Apollo, should also not surprise us, since Apollo is a symbol of the sun, which, as we now well know, in ancient times, the symbol for God. In the latter quote from Revelation, the angel who announced the Day of The Lord was “standing in the sun”. I don’t believe that he was literally within the ball of fire we call our sun, some 93 million miles away from our planet; this is simply an allegorical statement that confirms his authority comes from God, whose symbol is the sun.

The sacrificial religion of the Indo-European peoples that populated Europe had initially brought the truth of the remission of sins through the substitutionary death of the Son of God to Greece. In time this was inevitably corrupted by the same individual that corrupted every other culture and turned the symbol of the eagle into the raven or the cock, the lion into the pig or a dog or a wolf and the lamb or ram into the satanic goat.

Remember that the rune Uruz was represented with horns pointing down, that is from heaven toward earth, as God symbolized His judgment pointed toward earth. The goat, in the satanic counterfeit, on the other hand, is the symbol of Satan pointing his horns heavenward from earth, a symbol of rebellion toward the Almighty.

The Coming of Apollo

According to Greek mythology a monstrous serpent named Python guarded the Temple of Delphi. The Temple of Delphi was considered by the Greeks to be the center of the world. According to their tradition, Zeus had released two eagles from the opposite end of the world and it was upon the site where the Temple of Delphi resided that they came together. Located about 2,000 feet above sea level in a beautiful and picturesque mountainside, this was the most renowned of the Temples of Greece. According to their mythology, Apollo, the son of Zeus came and slew the monster serpent called Python in order to deliver mankind from this evil monster; it is for this reason that Ophiuchus, in the Zodiac, who is the vanquisher of the serpent is associated with Apollo.

 The Temple of Delphi unfortunately, had in fact become a place of divination in the Greek religion that had by now become so corrupted from its initial monotheistic concepts. Three virgin priestesses would sit on a three-legged bowl (here again is reflected the importance relegated universally to the number three of the Messiah) that was held over a crack in the earth, from which noxious fumes were emitted inducing the Pythia to enter into a trance and utter a stream of frenzied and incoherent sounds that were then interpreted by a priest. There is no doubt that the symbolism of the answers coming from Hades (the fissure under the Pythia) is here established and the Pythia were in fact speaking for Python and not Apollo.

The story of the deliverer, Son of God that would defeat the Serpent is universally found and is irrefutable evidence of its universality at the beginning of the Post Deluge civilizations. Equally, the corruption of all of these civilizations by the common factor of the Serpent also points to the universality of the acceptance of his existence in the past by the Post Deluge civilizations emerging.