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Topic: The Baphomet and Its Origins | |
Jaq White Replies: 66 Views: 60971 |
Forum: History Posted: 10:00 pm Subject: The Baphomet and Its Origins |
You might know I'd pop up if you start discussing pubs (and their names).. .
Has the idea of 'Baphomet' being a rather convoluted version of the word 'Sophia' been discussed? A Dead Sea Scrolls sc ... |
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Topic: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? | |
Jaq White Replies: 186 Views: 139392 |
Forum: British History Posted: 5:03 pm Subject: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? |
The decidedly pagan Irish traced their origins back to the biblical patriarch, Magog, the son of Japheth. This is in direct contrast to the claims of the Britons and other European nations, whose gene ... | |
Topic: Who Built The Stones? | |
Jaq White Replies: 201 Views: 118191 |
Forum: Megalithic Posted: 11:55 am Subject: Who Built The Stones? |
Plato was writing of bygone times, not bygone places. If you are looking for the "place" as being some ancient, lost world submerged beneath the waters, then you will find dozens of them bec ... | |
Topic: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? | |
Jaq White Replies: 186 Views: 139392 |
Forum: British History Posted: 9:14 pm Subject: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? |
I agree, Dan, that the connection with "Scot" and Scythian" is more plausible.
With regard to the often stated Phoenician element of Irish descent, we should note that the ancient G ... |
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Topic: Holy Smoke | |
Jaq White Replies: 61 Views: 67790 |
Forum: History Posted: 9:22 pm Subject: Holy Smoke |
Ishmael wrote:
Now...I believe it was Mick who recently pointed out that the "a" ending is a feminization of a masculine root word. This suggests that the two lights of the sky were origin ... |
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Topic: Holy Smoke | |
Jaq White Replies: 61 Views: 67790 |
Forum: History Posted: 10:20 pm Subject: Holy Smoke |
Salt and healing
Further to Hal = salt; e.g. Haling, Pwllheli. according to http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Misc/Etymology.html So if the a and e is so easily interchangeable, why can't we have them ... |
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Topic: Cathar Kether | |
Jaq White Replies: 39 Views: 51891 |
Forum: History Posted: 10:34 pm Subject: Cathar Kether |
some answers....hopefully!
As far as I know, it seems most likely that the word Cathar comes from the Greek katharos, meaning white/pure. They were also known as Albiguensians; their "capital& ... |
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Topic: What About Them Apples? | |
Jaq White Replies: 145 Views: 539491 |
Forum: History Posted: 10:12 pm Subject: What About Them Apples? |
Apples
(First of all, Avalon is said to mean Isle of Apples, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, whom I know we mistrust greatly but who also undoubtedly had access to material that was genuinely a ... |
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Topic: What About Them Apples? | |
Jaq White Replies: 145 Views: 539491 |
Forum: History Posted: 9:56 pm Subject: What About Them Apples? |
Pentangle and Venus and apples
The Pentangle is linked to Venus because of the movements of the Planet Venus as viewed from Earth, which basically is that the planet will appear at five separate p ... |
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Topic: Way Out West | |
Jaq White Replies: 193 Views: 124535 |
Forum: Pre-History Posted: 11:18 am Subject: Way Out West |
Continuing with the Lugdunensis idea, the town of Luguvalium (Carlisle) was named after the God Loucetios meaning 'Bright' or 'Shining-One' and the name may be the original form of Lleu and Lugh, the ... | |
Topic: Way Out West | |
Jaq White Replies: 193 Views: 124535 |
Forum: Pre-History Posted: 11:02 am Subject: Way Out West |
I have read of connections with Ys (Ker-Is) and other sunken cities, especially connected with the Grail story, such as Tristan and Iseult (.....or should that be Yseult? )
Tristan was said to come ... |
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Topic: Way Out West | |
Jaq White Replies: 193 Views: 124535 |
Forum: Pre-History Posted: 2:51 pm Subject: Way Out West |
LYONESSE: THE VANISHED DOMAIN
Medieval tradition describes a former land beyond southwest England. Is there any factual truth in this? What connection does Lyonesse have with King Arthur or the Ce ... |
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Topic: What About Them Apples? | |
Jaq White Replies: 145 Views: 539491 |
Forum: History Posted: 1:16 am Subject: What About Them Apples? |
Oakey, it's interesting that you say the tree = male and the stone = female. I had my own theory on Stone Henge and Wood Henge, partly due to thinking that the wood was feminine (growing) and the ston ... | |
Topic: The Baphomet and Its Origins | |
Jaq White Replies: 66 Views: 60971 |
Forum: History Posted: 6:49 pm Subject: The Baphomet and Its Origins |
I can answer some questions on Kabbalah; I've studied it for a few years but it's a huge area and the modern popular version is more about money and feel-good soundbites than anything else.
As I w ... |
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Topic: The Baphomet and Its Origins | |
Jaq White Replies: 66 Views: 60971 |
Forum: History Posted: 6:38 pm Subject: The Baphomet and Its Origins |
Oakey wrote
Let's start by examining the difference and branching of the two distinct groups within all lodges and ask why such a closed club meant to be the preserve of stone workers (a union of ... |
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