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  by Goro Adachi
 November 24, 2002
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			Etemenanki Website
 
			  
			Another Cipher?
 On Oct. 22, I received an email message from 'Peter' who decided to 
			contact me after reading Endgame I and II. He had an insight into 
			the message encoded in the disk of the 2002 'alien crop glyph', 
			i.e.:
 
				
				Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN 
			but still time. EELRIJUE. There is GOOD out there. We OPpose 
			DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING (BELL SOUND) 
			 
			It was the 'damaged word', "EELRIJUE," that Peter found curious: 
				
				...if this was created by some group of people, why would they 
			encode the "damaged word"? I thought about discs and encoding and 
			suddenly realized that this was the same reason as for encoding 
			something defective on a CD-ROM or DVD: copy protection. You should 
			not be able to get the information contained if you don't copy the 
			"defective" parts.   
				Then I started looking at the frequency of the individual letters 
			contained in "EELRIJUE.". I realized by analyzing the frequency of 
			the individual characters and comparing that to the statistical 
			frequency of vocals in several languages that whatever was contained 
			(if it was clear text and not encoded) would be in English or (big 
			surprise) French [...]    
				I fired up my trusty anagram generator. The 
			English anagrams were not very promising, so I tried French and 
			promptly found the phrase "lieu" [meaning 'place']. Now take the 
			individual characters and look for their positions: L = 3, I = 5, E 
			= 1, U = 7. Sorted this gives us: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7. 
			In other words: 
				
					
						
						E E 
						L R I J 
						U E .1 2 3 4 
						5 6 7 8
 
			Peter continued: 
				
				Interestingly these are the first four prime numbers but more 
			interestingly this gives sense to the dot at the end: In 
			mathematical terminology the dot can be interpreted as a command to 
			continue the sequence which would lead us to 9 and 11. Remember 9/11 
			anyone? 
			Update (11/26): Actually this is not accurate. First, '1' is not 
			technically a prime number. Second, '9' is not a prime number 
			either. The numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11... are, instead, the first 
			sequence of odd numbers. And so in that sense, Peter's 
			interpretation is still potentially meaningful.
 Still, I must say I am not quite convinced that this is a valid 
			cipher. It doesn't seem quite elegant enough. For example, "EELRIJUE" 
			has three "E"s and thus it does not necessarily have to correspond 
			to the number 1. And, perhaps more importantly, it has been pointed 
			out that the damaged word may not be "EELRIJUE" as originally 
			presented by 'Richard Brain'. There has been a lot of speculations 
			as to what was actually written there, but so far we have no 
			definitive solution to this little puzzle.
 
 If Mr. 'Brain' is an 'insider', as I suspect he is, however, the 
			'mistake' he made in the original decoding may well be a clue in 
			itself - thus there could still be valuable information contained in 
			"EELRIJUE." And because of this, I felt Peter's secondary decoding 
			should not be dismissed quickly.
 
 What made me hesitate to brush aside Peter's insight, additionally, 
			was the fact that "EELRIJUE," or "lieu"/"place," comes right after 
			the word "time" in the 'alien' message; 'time' and 'place' are 
			obviously a coherent coupling. Also, there was a curious 
			'coincidence' produced by the allusion to prime numbers (and '1', a 
			quasi-prime number ) in the code (i.e. [1], 3, 5, 7...).
 
			  
			If we 
			recall, the alien glyph very coherently interacts with the book/film 
			Contact as explained in Endgame II, and it just happens that in 
			Contact the very first detection of an alien message is made through 
			the use of prime numbers encoded in radio waves. 
			 
			The '9-11' connection Peter pointed out was also curious; as, 
			obviously, the '9-11' event is a major theme in the 'endgame' 
			matrix. Notice, for instance, that the modern 'Tower of Babel' (i.e. 
			the WTC towers) in the modern 'Babylon' (i.e. NYC) nicely parallels 
			our 'stargate' theme (prominently featured in Contact also) for 
			'Babylon' means 'gate of the god'.
 Furthermore, seeing the relevance of France suggested by the French 
			word "lieu," Peter wondered if 
			
			Nostradamus - a French prophet - 
			could be somehow entangled in all this.
 
			  
			He wrote: 
				
				...when using 9 and 11 to index Nostradamus, this would give us 
			Century 9, Quatrain 11:
 
				Quatrain 9, 11 Le iuste mort a` tort a` mort l'on viendra mettre
 Publiquement du lieu esteint:
 Si grande peste en ce
				lieu viendra naistre,
 Que les iugeans fuyr seront contraints.
 
 Wrongly will they come to put the just one to death,
 In public and in the middle extinguished:
 So great a 
				pestilence will come to arise in this place,
 That the judges will be forced to flee.
   
				This quatrain contains the word "lieu"... [And also] here you have 
			some things also contained in "Endgame". The virus (pestilence, 
			bio-weapons) [...]. 
			The 'plague'/virus association has some deep and very disturbing 
			implications which will be discussed in Endgame IV. Here, I will 
			only point out that the devastating epidemic of the Black Death that 
			killed off a fourth of Europe's population was back in the 1300s,[1] 
			which may be correlated with '1357', the corresponding numbers for 
			"lieu" in Peter's cipher.
 The 1300s was also when the Knights Templar, the protectors of the 
			Holy Grail based in France, were outlawed and persecuted. This is 
			interesting in that the Grail - in conjunction with other sacred 
			'heavenly stones' - is a major theme we have going with the 
			'Endgame' and it was interpreted as a 'cosmic virus' in Endgame II.
 
 More remarkably, '1357' was the exact year when the 'Shroud of 
			Turin' was publicly displayed for the first time on record - and, 
			again, this was in France (Lirey). The significance of this 
			additionally is that the Shroud and the Grail are sometimes 
			considered one and the same. Even on the surface, both relics are 
			directly associated with the death of Jesus. And, like the Grail, 
			the Shroud was once possessed by the Templars.
 
			  
			As I wrote in my 
			
			Rex Deux article: 
				
				Indeed, the Shroud first surfaced soon after the suppression of the 
			medieval warrior-monks, the Knights Templar, who were accused, among 
			other things, of worshipping a strange head - which may well have 
			been the head portion of the Shroud. The first known owner of the 
			relic, Geoffrey de Charney, is in fact thought to be the nephew of 
			Geoffroi de Charney, the Templar preceptor of Normandy who was 
			burned to death with Jacques de Molay, the last Templar Grand 
			Master.    
				And some have theorized, with good reason, that the Shroud 
			was actually created by Leonardo Da Vinci who has been claimed to 
			have been Grand Master of the 
				
				Priory of Sion, supposedly the parent 
			organization behind the Templar order...  
				  
				[T]he Templar knights in 
			the Grail lore are depicted as the guardians of the Holy Grail/Blood 
			Royal which, in theory (based on "heretical" traditions), stemmed 
			from the dynastic 'Sacred Marriage' between Jesus and Mary 
			Magdalene, it may be inferred that the Shroud is in a sense a form 
			of the Grail which in turn represents the hidden messianic 
			succession. 
			 
			(The head portion of the 'Shroud of Turin') 
			
 
 Shrouded Wisdom
 
 The Turin Shroud is one of the most important and controversial 
			Christian relics associated with Jesus. It is claimed to be the 
			linen cloth in which Jesus was supposedly wrapped after the 
			crucifixion, and imprinted on it is a seemingly photographic image 
			of "Jesus." Many Christians believe that the image was produced by a 
			miracle of some kind - Jesus was, after all, is their miracle-making 
			Messiah.
 
 The Church, however, is not so crazy about the Shroud. Why?
 
			  
			For 
			starters, the relic has historically been associated more closely 
			with the 'underground' Gnostic tradition championed by the Templars 
			and the like. The Church and Gnosticism are - while both stemming 
			from messianic tradition - bitter enemies and indeed it is not an 
			exaggeration to state that 
			the Church
			tried to exterminate all 
			'heretic' Gnostics just as the Nazis tried to eradicate all Jews. 
			The Shroud, as well as the Grail, revered by the Gnostic 
			'underground stream' may therefore represent something of a relic 
			infected with a "virus" for the oppressor, the Church.
 There is also the popular theory, supported by carbon-dating, that 
			the Shroud was actually created around the 1300s, the very period 
			when the Shroud first surfaced officially. What's more, some have 
			postulated (see, for in stance, Turin Shroud by Lynn Picknett & 
			Clive Prince) that it was Leonardo Da Vinci who made the Shroud, and 
			that the imprinted image is none other than Leonardo himself. And 
			Leonardo, one of the greatest geniuses in history, was likely more 
			than a little affiliated with the "heretical" tradition (claimed to 
			be Grand Master of the Priory of Sion).
 
 It almost seems as if the Shroud, as well as the Grail, is a form of 
			the 'Trojan Horse' sent into Catholic Christendom, waiting for its 
			time to shake up the institution from inside by revealing the 
			explosive truth.
 
 The notions of a virus, hoax/Trojan Horse, the Grail, the fall of 
			the Church, are all key themes attached to the 'alien' crop glyphs 
			as discussed in my previous Endgame articles. The implication being 
			that the Shroud is indeed emerging more and more relevant to the 
			'endgame' matrix, thus corroborating - accidentally or by design - 
			Peter's decoding of the 'alien' message.
 
 The next discovery finally solidifies the Shroud's place in all 
			this.
 
 The design of the 2002 alien glyph, as we recall from 
			
			Endgame II, 
			was most likely borrowed from 
			
			the 'Watcher' website, as the 
			comparison below demonstrates.
 
			 
			It turns out that there is another (original or updated) version of 
			the graphic in which the 'disk' is replaced by a rotating 
			tetrahedron. And since the tetrahedron is 
			 central to the hyperdimensional 'message' of Cydonia/Mars, this has the function of 
			nicely reinforcing my contention that the alien crop glyph has a lot 
			to do with Cydonia and hyperdimensional physics. 
 But more importantly, the 'Watcher' website has this 
			'alien-tetrahedron' graphic hyperlinked to 
			
			a web page that 
			advertises an encryption program called "InterCypher" (created by 
			the same guy behind "Ultra-Tech").
 
			  
			And on the page is prominently 
			featured a screenshot of the 'InterCypher' encryption program, shown 
			below. 
			 
			In the two windows are shown the plaintext (i.e. before encryption) 
			and ciphertext (i.e. after encryption). When I read the plaintext in 
			the upper window, I was shocked... because it was clearly discussing 
			the SHROUD OF TURIN!
 Consider the implication: this InterCypher program was directly 
			linked to the alien-tetrahedron logo, a slightly altered version of 
			the 'Ultra-Tech' graphic which in turn was closely copied by the 
			2002 alien crop glyph; just as the alien glyph was an encrypted 
			message, InterCypher produces encrypted messages; and InterCypher's 
			demonstration image yields the notion that the original message 
			before encryption deals with the Turin Shroud, or in other words, 
			that the alien crop glyph, when decoded, would have something to do 
			with the Shroud!
 
 This is ingenious stuff (whoever is really responsible). And it 
			doesn't stop here, of course.
 
 As discussed by Ian Wilson in The Shroud of Turin, for example, 
			there is an suspected alter ego of the Shroud called the 
			"Mandylion." This relic looks similar to the Shroud and nicely fills 
			the chronological gap left by the Shroud. And the discovery of the 
			Mandylion in the 6th century happens to coincide with the emergence 
			in art of the typical image of Jesus as reflected in the Shroud. 
			Even if not literally the same relic, it is apparent that the Shroud 
			and Mandylion are to be associated with each other.
 
			
			 
			The Mandylion of 
			Edessa  
			  
			Interestingly, it is recorded that the Mandylion arrived in 
			Constantinople on August 15 (944), and August 16 became the relic's 
			official feast day. This is amazing - if we recall, it was around 
			August 15 that the 2001/2002 alien glyphs suddenly appeared in a 
			crop field in England!
 At this point, then, the 'signal' has become very strong, insisting 
			that the 'alien' message somehow has to involve the Turin Shroud. 
			Indeed, it is no longer important whether or not Peter's decoding of 
			"EELRIJUE" is valid, as the case for the relevance of the Shroud can 
			be effectively made independent of it.
 
 
 
 
			Shadow of Baphomet
 The new revelations above inevitably imply that the Shroud of Turin 
			and the issue of Cydonia, prominently emanating from the 'alien 
			message', are to be integrated.
 
			  
			Some readers may be having a deja vu 
			right now, because this connection was already alluded to in my 
			
			Rex Deux article, written back in March 2002: 
				
				...the head imprinted on the Shroud might relate to the more or less 
			similar-looking 'Face on Mars'. This is clearly a silly notion -- 
			except there are various clues that are supportive of it. This leads 
			into an area that overlaps my 'other' research that I do not want to 
			discuss yet. But I'll just mention two curious coincidences: the 
			Shroud is called sydoine/sindone/sindon in other languages 
			('Cydonia' anyone?) [...]    
				This is only a small hint. I don't 
				want to open Pandora's Box yet...  But I will say that Mars/Cydonia 
			anomalies and the Grail-Ark-Shroud-Fisher King theme are to merge in 
			a startlingly direct and elegant way. 
			So I did actually anticipate this new 
			development facilitated by the alien glyph.  
			  
			The idea was already 
			being processed in my "black project," and as stated in the above 
			excerpt, I was not planning to discuss it in any depth any time 
			soon. Now, however, the context is such that, as someone who 
			advocates the importance of truth and the advancement of human 
			knowledge, I more or less feel obligated to "declassify" some 
			pertinent findings in this article. (Why use military terminology 
			like this? Well, it's just fun)
 But before getting into that, let us look at the humorous 'Face on 
			Mars'/'llama on Mars' picture discussed in the first Endgame 
			article.
 
			 
			We recall that this picture was implicated in the apparent Odyssey 
			'conspiracy'/'game' surrounding the Cydonia situation at the present 
			time.  
			  
			What I did not bring up previously was the doctored picture's 
			potential allusion to something called 'Baphomet'. 
			 
			The first time I saw the picture - after I stopped laughing - I 
			detected a curious, subtly embedded shape. It seemed to me that the 
			llama's ears and the shadow of the animal's head were together 
			forming a symmetric and somewhat sinister configuration.  
			  
			After 
			wondering for a minute, I came to the realization that the source of 
			the aura of malevolence was generated by the fact that the shape was 
			closely resembling that of Baphomet, a "demonic" creature, with a 
			goat-like head, associated with wisdom.  
			  
			Baphomet is often envisioned 
			as the embodiment of the pentagram, and so, naturally, people 
			usually associated it with 'Satanism'. 
			 
			There was a little clue here that suggested to me that this was not 
			wholly a product of mere coincidence. For instance, the pentagram is 
			geometrically inseparable from a 'sacred' mathematical value called 
			phi, also known as the 'Golden Ratio' (1:1.618...), which has also 
			been found encoded in the 'geometric message' of Cydonia (the 
			"Rosetta Stone" of which is the 'D&M Pyramid' model, a pentagonal 
			structure). Finding an allusion to the pentagram in a picture 
			associated with Cydonia, therefore, made a rather coherent sense.
 I did not bring this issue up previously as I felt the correlation 
			was a little too obscure. Now, however, the Baphomet association 
			emerges as a more meaningful piece of the puzzle in the evolving 
			context - because Baphomet is often considered analogous to none 
			other than the Shroud of Turin!
 
 Like the Shroud, the head of Baphomet is said to have been revered 
			by the 
			
			Knights Templar, as written in Holy Blood, Holy Grail:
 
				
				Subjected to interrogation by the Inquisition, for example, a number 
			of knights referred to something called "Baphomet" - too many, and 
			in too many different places, for Baphomet to be the invention of a 
			single individual or even a single preceptory... It would appear 
			that Baphomet was regarded with reverence, a reverence perhaps 
			tantamount to idolatry... In any case, we found indisputable 
			evidence for the charge of secret ceremonies involving a head of 
			some kind.    
				Indeed, the existence of such a head proved to be one of 
			the dominant themes running through the Inquisition records... The 
			head may also be connected with the famous Turin shroud, which seems 
			to have been in the possession of the Templars between 1204 and 
			1307, and which, if folded, would have appeared as nothing more than 
			a head...    
				[R]ecent speculation has linked the head, at least 
			tentatively, with the severed head of John the Baptist; and certain 
			writers have suggested that the Templars were "infected" with the 
			Johannite or Mandaean heresy, which denounced Jesus as a false 
			prophet and acknowledged John as the true Messiah.[2] 
			Note that Baphomet, as well as the 
			Shroud, seems to exert its 
			significance specifically as a 'head'. And this reinforces the 
			coherent 'message' of the 'llama on Mars' picture, since it is the 
			head of the animal that produces the allusion to Baphomet; and its 
			position near the 'Face on Mars', also a head, seems to be a subtle 
			way of telling us that this Martian 'head' is to be regarded as a 
			form of Baphomet/Shroud as well!
 It is worth noting that researchers have noticed a 'severed head' 
			effect of the Shroud, making the head seemingly detached from the 
			rest of the body.[3] And it has also been pointed out that the head 
			of the Shroud is proportionally too small for the body.[4] This 
			brings to mind the Great Sphinx at Giza, which too has a head too 
			small for its body, as noted by various researchers.
 
 This potential connection with the Sphinx becomes more meaningful 
			when we consider the strangely insistent link between the monument 
			and Mars:
 
				
				
				The name 'Cairo', the Egyptian capital situated adjacent to Giza, 
			derives its name from Al Qahira denoting Mars (though more literally 
			meaning 'the victorious').
				
				The ancient Egyptians called Mars 'Horus of the Horizon' 
			(Horakhti) which was the very same name given to the Great Sphinx. 
			Mars was also called 'Horus the Red' (Hor Dshr), and for a long time 
			the Sphinx was painted red.
				
				Just as the Great Sphinx is the hybrid of man and a lion, Mars is 
				Nr-Simha, the 'Man-Lion', in ancient Hindu myths.
				
				The term 'pyramid' derives from the Greek 
				pyr meaning 'fire' 
			(Mars, the 'fire planet' is often referred to as pyroeis in Greek).
				 
			More startlingly, there is the recent discovery/confirmation made by 
			Richard Hoagland, that the 'Face on Mars' has a Sphinx-like dual 
			nature - one side representing the head of a lion, and the other 
			side representing a hominid head. 
			 
			By inference, then, the head of Cydonia may well be a head of 
			Sydoine, i.e. 'head of the Shroud'.  
			  
			By extension, it may also be 
			inferred that the head of Cydonia/Sydoine is a form of the Holy 
			Grail.
 
 
			
			Sangraal, the Holy Blood?
 
 The Grail, an alter ego of the Shroud (and vice versa), contains 
			numerous layers of symbolism that are not visible on the surface. 
			The lore of the existence of the sacred relic associated with the 
			death of Jesus - applicable to both the Grail and the Shroud - 
			intimates some form of continuation of the Jewish king.
 
			  
			The nature 
			of the continuation is actually encoded in the original term for the 
			'Holy Grail', Sangraal, as it can also be translated as 'Blood 
			Royal'. In other words, as first popularized by Holy Blood Holy 
			Grail, the Grail/Shroud may actually represent a messianic bloodline 
			stemming from 'Jesus' (though Jesus himself may well be a 
			representation of something else).
 The bloodline of Jesus?
 
			  
			But he wasn't even married, you might argue. 
			Of course, Jesus was not sexually active - that is, according to 
			the 
			counterfeit messianic tradition promoted by the Church. True, the 
			Bible does not say anything about Jesus having a son or a wife, but 
			it is also true that the Bible says nothing to preclude the 
			possibility either. The subject of Jesus' marital status is 
			something nonexistent in the Gospels, and this is not necessarily 
			indicative of Jesus' celibacy.
 Granted the cultural background as witnessed… it is highly 
			improbable that Jesus was not married well before the beginning of 
			his public ministry. If he had insisted upon celibacy, it would have 
			created a stir, a reaction which would have left some trace. So, the 
			lack of mention of Jesus’ marriage in the Gospels is a strong 
			argument not against but for the hypothesis of marriage, because any 
			practice or advocacy of voluntary celibacy would in the Jewish 
			context of the time have been so unnatural as to have attracted much 
			attention and comment.[5]
 
 But who could possibly have been Jesus' wife?
 
			  
			The likely answer here 
			is Mary Magdalene – the enigmatic woman who is portrayed in biblical 
			writings as a close companion of Jesus. She is also the only woman 
			named in all four Gospels besides the Virgin Mary. One could at 
			least safely say that if Jesus were indeed married, Mary Magdalene 
			would most naturally fill the role of his wife. (It has been 
			suggested that the wedding feast at Cana described in the New 
			Testament may well be the wedding of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.)  
			  
			In 
			fact, unbeknownst to most Christians today, the idea of Jesus having 
			an intimate relationship with Mary Magdalene is really nothing new 
			but an idea that was already quite prevalent in the early days of 
			Christianity.
 Obviously, this is not something most Christians want to hear. It is 
			like telling your child for the first time that Santa Claus is not 
			real (actually it's exactly that...). After all, the mainstream, 
			exoteric view of Mary Magdalene promoted by the Church is that she 
			was a prostitute saved by Jesus. This is largely a misconception, 
			however.
 
			  
			Even though this portrayal is accepted virtually as a 
			'fact' today, it is in reality merely an "official" interpretation; 
			the New Testament actually never states that she was a prostitute. 
			Besides, the term 'prostitute', as hierodulae, would refer to the 
			'sacred women' of the temple of the Goddess who performed a ritual 
			practice resembling the anointing of Jesus by Mary of Bethany (often 
			equated with Mary Magdalene) described in the Gospels.[6] And 
			tellingly, in ancient times, anointing of the king was a ritual – 
			called the 'Sacred Marriage' in Greek – performed by a royal 
			bride.[7] 
 What's more, the strong parallel often noted between Jesus and
			Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead, reinforces this idea 
			of Jesus and the Magdalene being in a intimate relationship, because Osiris' wife, Isis, is considered identifiable with Mary Magdalene.
 
 According to mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth, and 
			was then miraculously brought back to life by Isis (still childless 
			at the time) so that she could receive Osiris' seed and give birth 
			to Horus. Applying this element to Jesus' death and resurrection, it 
			becomes very natural to have Mary Magdalene playing the role of 
			Isis. Indeed, the Magdalene is not only a prominent figure in the 
			episodes of the Crucifixion and the subsequent resurrection, she is 
			even recorded as the very first one to witness the resurrected 
			Jesus![8] This, therefore, strongly suggests that 
			
			Mary Magdalene, 
			following in the footsteps of Isis, was impregnated by 
			Jesus around 
			the time of the Crucifixion.
 
 We see here a potential motivation behind the Church's paranoid 
			hostility towards the Gnostics and the Magdalene (or womankind in 
			general). It may well be linked to the threat the 'Blood Royal', 
			i.e. descendants of Jesus, would pose for the authority of the 
			Church.
 
			  
			This is because for the Church to wield power over the 
			masses, Jesus needs to be as divine as possible and gone from the 
			earthly realm so that it can position itself between the people and 
			the divine whereby it becomes possible for the Church to pretend to 
			speak for the heavenly authority. The mere existence of Jesus' 
			descendants would greatly undermine this illusory ecclesiastical 
			power.  
			  
			The Church, as its history clearly shows, wants power more 
			than it does the truth. And so it has apparently done its best to 
			keep the existence of the 'Blood Royal' secret from the general 
			public through, for example, the notorious Inquisition. (How ironic 
			is it that those claiming to be the worshippers of Jesus probably 
			are in reality Jesus' worst nightmare?)
 Now, I must qualify the above discussion by stating that it is 
			likely only one level of meaning encoded in the biblical tradition. 
			It may still be a coded story itself. And, quite frankly, we should 
			not even presume the literal existence of an messianic individual 
			called Jesus as described in the Bible. Chances are, 'Jesus' himself 
			is a composite character containing aspects of various historical 
			figures.
 
			  
			(Ancient Egyptian kingship is actually a big piece of 
			puzzle in this, but we won't go into that here.)
 
 
			
			Beauty and the Beast
 
 Here is where I need to disclose some of my "black project" findings 
			- meaning there will be some profound implications. This will reveal 
			what I meant when I wrote,
 
				
				Mars/Cydonia anomalies and the 
			Grail-Ark-Shroud-Fisher King theme are to merge in a startlingly 
			direct and elegant way," back in March. 
			
			First, note that both Jesus and Mars are associated with Horus, the 
			son of Osiris and Isis. (The Red Planet was called 'Horus the Red' 
			in ancient Egypt.) Horus being the embodiment of the 'Blood Royal' 
			(stemming from the union of Osiris/Jesus and Isis/Magdalene), this 
			lets Mars analogous to the Grail. The Jesus-Horus equation, on the 
			other hand, seems paradoxical since Jesus has already been compared 
			to Osiris, Horus' father.  
			  
			However, this is not necessarily 
			incongruent if we view 'Jesus' as representing the bloodline itself. 
			Even in ancient Egypt, the distinction between Horus and Osiris was 
			not so clear-cut - and so the pharaoh, the living Horus, was 
			considered to become Osiris upon death, and such. Indeed, according 
			to the foregoing scenario, the birth of Jesus' child coincides with 
			the death of Jesus as if to paint a more resurrection/rebirth type 
			transition.
 The same kind of overlap is observed for Mary Magdalene and the 
			Virgin Mary (Jesus' mother) also. Both, for instance, are considered 
			analogous to Isis. The perceived prostitute and the virgin, while 
			seemingly at the opposite ends of the spectrum, are actually two 
			sides of the same coin. As writer Ean Begg has expressed, 'the 
			Ark/Grail is the symbol of the virgin, whore, wisdom…',[9] and Isis 
			was correspondingly a harlot and a virgin at the same time. 
			Apparently, the Virgin Mary was also sometimes used as a 'coded' 
			reference to Mary Magdalene, the latter being a controversial figure 
			for the Church.[10]
 
 The basic implication pertinent here is that Mars-Horus is connected 
			with the Grail tradition involving Jesus and Mary. What solidifies 
			this notion is the fact that, according to Greek tradition, the 
			sphinx - an alter ego of Horus/Mars - was a mixture of Leo's body 
			and Virgo's head;[11] or to use another terminology, the Sphinx is a 
			combination of Horus and Isis, or Jesus and the Virgin!
 
			  
			Complementarily, it just happens that Leo and Sirius/Venus, the star 
			of Isis-Mary, were both associated with Virgo in ancient tradition, 
			and the early Arabs even visualized a huge lion in the constellation 
			of Virgo.[12]  
			  
			Note that Jesus himself, like Horus, is clearly a 
			leonine figure in that he was a direct royal descendant of King 
			David, the 'lion king' (the Davidic tribal symbol was the lion).
 The Sphinx and Mars, therefore, represent the sacred union of Jesus 
			and Mary, or Osiris and Isis. In other words, the Sphinx/Mars is the 
			Grail, the Blood Royal, and the Shroud. Furthermore, in light of our 
			foregoing discussion, the Martian counterpart of the Shroud, i.e. 
			the 'Face on Mars', would become a monumental embodiment of the 
			Jesus-Mary union.
 
 The leonine element found in the Face is already in accordance with 
			the 'lion king' aspect (i.e. Jesus-Horus) of the Grail union; and 
			the pentagram/Baphomet already associated with the Face resonates 
			with the Mary aspect as the pentagram is traditionally associated 
			with the Isis-Magdalene-Venus complex. But here is a new discovery 
			revealed for the first time anywhere. This will begin the process of 
			bringing the whole field of Cydonia investigation into a new 
			dimension, and I think a lot of the researchers will not be able to 
			keep up with the shift and will soon find themselves 'out of the 
			game'.
 
 It turns out that in the 'Face on Mars' is clearly encoded the 
			sacred unification of Sangraal - even more directly than the Sphinx!
 
 The process of this particular discovery began in the spring of 2001 
			when NASA released a new picture of the 'Face on Mars' taken by 
			Mars 
			Global Surveyor. The first reaction, for the most part, was one of 
			disappointment – the image of the 'Face', the clearest one to date, 
			showed a rock formation only slightly resembling a hominid head.
 
			  
			After reading Richard Hoagland's analysis on on the image, however, 
			I was compelled to agree with his view that the monument is half-man 
			and half-lion. I found this exciting, and decided to show the 
			mirrored images to my brother, expecting him to see the same 
			depictions. Instead, he saw something quite different.
 Let me quote from my second book (a work in progress):
 
				
				[E]ven to him the lion head was clearly visible. But when I showed 
			him the mirrored hominid face, his response was certainly not what I 
			had expected. To him, it was a depiction of, not a head, but a human 
			torso.    
				"You see what?" I reacted with puzzlement. "It is a body," he 
			repeated, "of a human with arms, and it's missing its head and 
			legs."    
				In confusion, I took another look at the image – and indeed, 
			there it was, a human torso. It was rendered with apparent nipples, 
			a navel, and hands clasped at the genital area. What caught my 
			attention next were the seemingly accentuated breasts and the 
			swollen belly.    
				I inevitably wondered:  
				"Is this a depiction of a 
			pregnant woman?" 
				
				Then it hit me. This was the body of Virgo, the Virgin, and it was 
			pregnant with Horus-Jesus! Indeed, just as is the torso image, Virgo 
			traditionally "is a headless constellation, the stars marking the 
			head being very faint."[13] [...] 
			 
			In other words, the 'Face on Mars' produces a lion head and the 
			pregnant body of Virgo - i.e. the mirror image of the Sphinx, which 
			traditionally has Virgo's head 
			 and Leo's body! (It must also be 
			recalled that the cosine of the Giza latitude equals the tangent of 
			the Cydonia structures' latitude – both equaling e/pi.) 
 
  The fact that 
			Baphomet - i.e. the Shroud, and by extension the Face 
			- is said to be androgynous also meshes perfectly with this 
			Leo-Virgo fusion. 
 And this brings up another issue: the Virgin element for the Shroud. 
			The Grail, Face, Sphinx, and Baphomet are all expressions of the 
			fusion of Jesus-Osiris and Mary-Isis, or God and Goddess. The Shroud 
			clearly being another manifestation of the same concept, as we have 
			seen, it has to be inferred that the imprinted image of 'Jesus' 
			should include a reference to the female counterpart as well.
 
 Surprisingly, it appears that this is indeed the case.
 
 First, we see that the hand position of the Shroud person, covering 
			the genital area, echoes the apparent configuration of the 'Virgin' 
			depiction in Cydonia. And aside from this sex-hiding act, we notice 
			that the body of the Shroud person is actually quite feminine.
 
			  
			No 
			one seems to have caught this before, but without the awkwardly 
			placed head, the first impression people would get is that this 
			might be a woman's body - with delicate hands, a seemingly wide hip, 
			and accentuated breasts! 
			  
			The startling implication here is that the Shroud image seems to be 
			a composite of a female body and a male head - just like the Martian 
			Face/Shroud! As if this weren't enough, we also have the theory 
			presented in Picknett and Prince's Turin Shroud that the Shroud head 
			is actually that of Leonardo Da Vinci.  
			  
			Note that with the name 
			"Leo-nardo," it may be said that the Shroud person has "Leo's head" 
			- just as does the Martian Shroud. 
			 
			Adding more support to the idea is the fact that Leonardo, sometimes 
			viewed as the 'Keeper of the Grail', has a special connection with 
			John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus, who was decapitated (thus 
			the 'detached head' link).  
			  
			The Leonardo-John association is 
			addressed by Picknett/Prince: 
				
				The only surviving sculpture that involved Leonardo in its making is 
			the statue of John the Baptist in the Baptistry in Florence... And 
			Leonardo's last painting was 'John the Baptist', showing him with 
			the same half-smile as 'The Mona Lisa' [by Leonardo], and pointing 
			straight upwards with the index finger of his right hand. 
				   
				This in 
			Leonardo's work is a sign always associated with John: in the 
			'Adoration of the Magi' a person stands by the elevated roots of a 
			carob tree - John's tree, symbol of sacred blood - while making this 
			gesture. In his famous cartoon of St Anne the subject also does 
			this, warning an oblivious Virgin.    
				Make of it what you will that the 
			disciple whose face is perhaps accusingly close to Jesus' in 'The 
			Last Supper' [also by Leonardo] is also making this gesture. All 
			these gestures are saying 'remember John'.[14] 
			'Coincidentally', the Shroud is today kept at Turin's Cathedral of 
			St. John the Baptist.
 
			
			
 Enter the Antichrist
 
 So, why John the Baptist? What's so special about him?
 
 As it turns out, John, along with Mary Magdalene, was revered by 
			most Gnostics, sometimes as the 'true' Messiah who was usurped by 
			Jesus. Conversely, the Church has done its best to marginalize both 
			John and the Magdalene all through its history. Picknett/Prince, in 
			
			The Templar Revelation, even point out that Jesus and John were 
			likely bitter enemies/rivals.
 
 John the Baptist, then, can be perceived as anti-Jesus... err... the 
			'Anti-Christ'?
 
 Frankly, I have this tradition on this website of not discussing the 
			'Antichrist' per se - as the whole concept is too 'Christianized' 
			for me - but I guess it is now unavoidable to include it in our 
			discussion. It is worth noting that the 'Watcher' website, a key 
			piece of the 'endgame puzzle' initiated by the 'alien' crop glyph, 
			is all about Cydonia/Mars and how it relates to the coming 
			Antichrist.
 
			  
			It therefore seems the issue is indeed pertinent here. 
			But, of course, my position on this will not be the typical, 
			Christian approach of blaming everything evil on the Antichrist.
 John the Baptist, as well as the Magdalene, essentially represents 
			the oppressed truth. When the societal system is dependent on the 
			suppression of some truth, this creates a building pressure in the 
			'matrix' of reality, which increasingly becomes a "threat" to the 
			oblivious world. The longer the truth is suppressed and the more 
			dependent the society becomes on the negligence, the more dangerous 
			the situation gets - as the truth becomes a ticking 'time-bomb' 
			waiting for the time of Revelation. The 'side-effect' of this will 
			be the 'Apocalypse'.
 
 This 'suppressed truth', in the context of our Endgame discussion, 
			would be Cydonia (extraterrestrial intelligence), hyperdimensional 
			reality/technology, and Gnosticism (personified by John the Baptist 
			and Mary Magdalene).
 
			  
			It is easy to see how the revelations about Cydonia artificiality and 
			
			hyperdimensional reality (i.e. the 'other 
			side') would severely upset the world economy and religious 
			theology. But what is represented by the Gnostic 
			John-Mary-Shroud-Grail complex is more shadowy and harder to 
			penetrate - because the history of its suppression is so extensive 
			and convoluted.
 The western Christian world is so ignorant of the true nature and 
			origin of their religion that it would be funny if it weren't so 
			tragic. A case in point: just recently there was a major news story 
			about the discovery of what may be a burial box of James the Just, 
			Jesus' brother, in Israel. Of course, for many Christians the 
			reaction was, "you mean, Jesus had a brother?"
 
			  
			Then, in response to 
			the report that this finding, if valid, would be the first 
			historical evidence for the existence of Jesus outside of the Bible, 
			many Christians must have found themselves struggling to fathom the 
			implication that the mere existence of their object of worship had 
			been uncertain at best. In other words, most Christians (though 
			probably also applicable to other religions) don't know, or care 
			about, the very basics of what they claim to worship.  
			  
			And this stems 
			from the doctrine and of the Church, which is really about promoting 
			its version of the messianic tradition reconstructed and twisted 
			around to suit its political agenda. It's simply not in the interest 
			of the Church to teach its followers the history of the religion in 
			any depth, otherwise the worshippers might get curious and find out 
			all the manipulations on which the authority of the religious 
			institution is based.
 In any case, it is certainly coherent that the fall of the Church, 
			an aspect of the larger theme of 'Babylon falling', is an integral 
			part of the 'endgame' as discussed in my previous articles. When the 
			'truth time-bomb' ticks down to zero, the Gnostic/suppressed side of 
			religious history embodied by John/Mary comes out of the ground to 
			cause great havoc. And this may be viewed as the apocalyptic time of 
			the "Antichrist" who is prophesied to come just before the return of 
			Christ. And most fittingly, the Gospels tell us that it was John the 
			Baptist who came right before Jesus to pave the way.
 
 As all the 'signs' are now suggesting, it is time for truth to rise 
			up. And truth often hurts. Denial or truth - which will mankind 
			choose?
 
 
 
			
			Golden Message
 
 Going back to the 'alien sign', I detected another potential message 
			subtly encoded in its deceivingly superficial design. It was the 
			notion of pentagram now attached to the crop glyph that enabled me 
			to see an allusion to phi (the 'Golden Ratio'), a value inseparable 
			from pentagonal and Cydonia geometry.
 
 In mathematics, phi is represented by a symbol, a circle bisected by 
			a vertical line.
 
			 
			As it turns out, this is exactly what we see in the glyph - a circle 
			(the disk) bisected by a vertical line of the rectangular frame!
 That this is no coincidence is effectively demonstrated by the fact 
			that one of the phi numbers, 0.618, multiplied by the number of days 
			in a year (365), gives us 225 (days). This is the precise duration 
			of Venus' orbit around the sun (225 days), and Venus is 
			traditionally denoted by the pentagram. What's more, counting 225 
			days from January 1st brings us to around August 15, i.e. the very 
			date of the appearance of the 'alien' crop glyphs!
 
			  
			August 15 also 
			happens to be the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 
			followed a day later by the feast day of the Mandylion, an alter ego 
			of the Shroud!
 What enhances the significance of the involvement of phi in the 
			'alien message' even more is phi's connection with a geometric 
			configuration known as vesica piscis, which is composed of two 
			overlapping equal circles (the centers of each positioned on the 
			circumference of the other circle).
 
			  
			This formation is revered since 
			ancient times and belongs to the realm of 'sacred geometry' - due at 
			least in part to its ability to generate phi. 
			 
			Traditionally, vesica piscis signifies, as does the 
			pentagram/Baphomet in some respect, the unification of heaven and 
			earth. It is, to use different terminology, a 'stargate' symbol. 
			Needless to say, this is directly relatable to the same theme 
			derived previously from the 'alien' glyph, i.e. hyperdimensional 
			physics, which is also theorized to be the ultimate 'message of 
			Cydonia'.
 Remarkably, we find that vesica piscis is also long considered to 
			represent Jesus Christ - just as we found the 'alien' crop message 
			to contain a coded reference to the messianic tradition (i.e. the 
			Grail/Shroud).
 
 At this point, I became quite convinced that geometry was a big part 
			of the 'alien' message, and so I went on to examine the design of 
			the glyph for any further allusions to sacred geometry. Naturally, 
			my first instinct was to check the ratio of the length and width of 
			the rectangular frame encasing the 'alien'.
 
 First, I had to get the measurements of the rectangle, and the most 
			specific numbers I managed to find on the net were 250 ft and 360 ft 
			(likely still approximate). From these, I calculated that the 
			width-length ratio would be about 1:1.4. This was intriguing because 
			~1.4 was probably a reference to sqrt 2 (= 1.4142...), another 
			'sacred' numerical value associated with vesica piscis.
 
 This then led to the next important revelation.
 
 
			
			
 ET IN ARCADIA EGO...
 
 It was one of those flashes of intuitive insight. I just had this 
			urge to check if the alien-glyph rectangle could correspond to the 
			dimensions of a certain painting in terms of proportion.
 
			  
			The 
			painting I had in mind was The Shepherds of Arcadia II (Les Bergers 
			d'Arcadie II), also known as Et in Arcadia Ego II, by the celebrated 
			neo-classical painter from the 17th century, Nicholas Poussin. 
			
			 
			As those familiar with the 
			
			Rennes-le-Chateau mystery in southern 
			France (yes, France again) - popularized by Holy Blood, Holy Grail 
			in the 1980s - would undoubtedly know, The Shepherds of Arcadia is a 
			major piece of the 'Grail puzzle'.  
			  
			There is strong evidence that Poussin encoded hidden messages in the painting that concern secret 
			Gnostic knowledge - knowledge about the great mystery embodied by 
			the 'Grail' or 'Ark' (essentially interchangeable). This is already 
			hinted at by the enigmatic phrase (carved on the tomb in the 
			painting), 'ET IN ARCADIA EGO', literally meaning 'And in Arcadia 
			I'.  
			  
			Viewed as an anagram for Arca Dei, the term 'Arcadia' would mean 
			'Ark of God', i.e. the Ark of the Covenant,[15] and so by extension 
			the Grail.
 The pertinence of the painting to our discussion is also strongly 
			suggested by the fact that the underlying geometry of this 
			masterpiece of Poussin is pentagonal. As Professor Christopher Cornford of the 
			Royal College of Art told Henry Lincoln:
 
				
				"If Poussin 
			is saying anything… he seems to be saying that pentagons and 
			pentagrams and their constituent angles are very much involved."[16] 
			 
			Furthermore, notice that the mysterious shepherdess in the painting 
			looks as if she could be pregnant (which would make the number of 
			persons in the painting five, the very number emphasized by the 
			pentagonal geometry).  
			  
			Assuming that the tomb is that of Jesus (and 
			there is much to support this idea, though I won't going into it 
			here), it could be easily inferred that the woman is none other than 
			Mary Magdalene pregnant with dead Jesus' child, just as Isis's 
			pregnancy took place in conjunction with the death of her husband, Osiris. The fact that the center of the embedded pentagram pinpoints 
			the head of the shepherdess reinforces this interpretation - as 
			pentagram traditionally symbolizes the Magdalene-Venus-Isis complex. 
			 
			  
			And it is important to point out that, according to legend, Mary 
			Magdalene did go to southern France sometime after Jesus' 
			crucifixion; the scene depicted in the painting is thought to be 
			southern France, near Rennes-le-Chateau.
 Indications, then, are clearly that there is a good chance the 
			painting does interact with the 'alien' crop glyph.
 
 As I checked the dimensions of The Shepherds of Arcadia, I was both 
			surprised and not surprised. My intuition was valid. The 
			height-width ratio of the painting was practically identical 
			(1:~1.4)to that of the box enclosing the 'alien'!
 
 There is actually much more here - we have only scratched the 
			surface - but I feel I should stop at this point... for now. All 
			this is quite a lot to digest - I'm sure this is the first time that 
			all the different subject matters, especially Cydonia and the 
			underground Gnostic tradition, have been put together and viewed as 
			aspects of the same 'game'. Strange stuff, yes, but this is where 
			the 'game' is going, so people should get used to it.
 
 I'll leave you with another 'sign' I found in The Shepherds of 
			Arcadia.
 
			 
			This foreshadows what will be revealed in Endgame IV... Very dark 
			things.
 Large black clouds are looming ahead of us.
 
 
			Wrongly will they come to put the just one to death,In public and in the middle extinguished:
 So great a pestilence will come to arise in this place,
 That the judges will be forced to flee.
 
			  
			 References
 
				
				[1] Lyn Picknett and Clive Prince, Turin Shroud (New York: 
			HarperCollins, 1994), p.23[2] Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, 
			Holy Grail, pp.82-3
 [3] Picknett and Prince, Turin Shroud, pp.132-5; Ian Wilson, The 
			Shroud of Turin (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 
			1978), p.9
 [4] Turin Shroud, pp.66, 138.
 [5] Charles Davis, in The Observer (London: March28, 1971), cited in 
			Holy Blood, Holy Grail, p.331, see also Geza Vermes, Jesus the Jew 
			(Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973), p.99ff.
 [6] Margaret Starbird, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar (Santa Fe, 
			New Mexico: Bear & Company, 1993), p.29.
 [7] ibid. pp30, 36.
 [8] John 20:11-18.
 [9] Ean Begg, The Cult of the Black Virgin (New York: Arkana, 1985), 
			p.52
 [10] Picknett and Prince, 
				
				The Templar Revelation, p.113.
 [11] Allen, Richard Hinckley, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning 
			(New York: Dover Publications, 1963), p.465.
 [12] Ibid., pp.462-5.
 [13] Ibid., p.462.
 [14] Turin Shroud, p.180.
 [15] Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger, The Tomb of God (New 
			York: Little, Brown & Company, 1996), p.107.
 [16] Lincoln, Henry, The Holy Place (New York: Arcade Publishing, 
			1991), pp.63-4; Lincoln, Henry, Key to the Sacred Pattern (New York: 
			St. Martin’s Press, 1998), pp.109-10.
 
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