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WORSHIP OF SEMIRAMIS
Semiramis, who was both Nimrod's wife and mother, was worshiped as the "mother of god"83 and a "fertility goddess" because she had to be extremely fertile to give birth to all the pagan incarnate gods that represented Nimrod. She was worshiped throughout the world by each the titles associated with Nimrod's worship, in addition to many titles unique to herself (Table 2, page 15). For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Semiramis include: Aphrodite and Venus, the goddess of love84; Artemis and Diana, the goddess of hunting and childbirth85; Athena and Minerva, the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom86; Demeter and Ceres, the goddess of growing things87; Gaea and Terra, symbol of the fertile earth88; Hera and Juno, the protector of marriage and women, who was the sister and wife of Zeus in Greek mythology, and the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology89; Hestia and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth90; plus Rhea or Ops, who was wife and sister of the Greek horned-god Kronos.91
MOTHER AND SON WORSHIP
Semiramis was initially included in the pagan Babylonian trinity as the holy spirit or seed of the divine son in his mother's womb. Within time, however, the father Nimrod was practically overlooked and worshiped only as the god-incarnate son in his mother's arms. In other words, the father became invisible and was no longer worshiped, whereas, the mother with the god-incarnate son in her arms became the grand object of worship.92 Numerous Babylonian monuments show the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms (Figure 2, pages 16, 17). This worship of mother and child spread throughout the known world, and given different names in the various languages of the world. Ancient Germans worshipped the virgin Hertha with child in arms. Scandinavians called her Disa pictured with child. The Egyptian mother and child were worshiped as Isis with the infant Osiris or Horus seated on his mother's lap. In India, the mother and child were called Devaki and Krishna, and also Isi and Iswara as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as Cybele and Deoius; in pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms.
The image of mother with child in her arms was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that by the time Christianity appeared on the scene in 30 A.D., these statues and paintings were merely renamed and worshiped as the virgin Mary with her god-incarnate son Jesus. Thus, the pagan mother and child entered Christianity as the Roman Catholic worship of Mary with the infant Jesus. In fact, in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of the madonna and child as devoutly worshiped as they were in Rome. Shing Moo, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her, exactly as if she had been fashioned by Roman Catholic artisans.
MOTHER WORSHIP
The pagan mother initially derived her deification from the divine nature attributed to her child.93 She was raised far above the level of all creatures, and worshiped as a partaker of the trinitarian godhead. The mother eventually became the preferred object of worship. The son was exhibited merely as a child in his mother's arms without any particular attraction, whereas the mother's image was displayed in magnificent artistic array and invested with the exquisite beauty attributed to Semiramis during her life.
To justify worship of the mother, she was elevated to a divine station just like her god-incarnate son. The deified queen mother was adored as the incarnation of the holy spirit of peace and love. The highest titles were accordingly bestowed on her (Table 3, page 18). In Egypt, the mother was styled Athor, the "habitation of god" to signify that all the "fulness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.94 She was named Hestia in Greece and Vesta, which is just a Roman variation of the same name, meaning the "dwelling-place of deity."95
Under her title, "mother of the gods," the goddess queen of Babylon became an object of universal worship. The mother of the gods was worshiped by the Persians, the Syrians, and with the most profound religious veneration by all the kings of Europe and Asia. When Caesar invaded Britain, he discovered the Druid priests worshiping the "mother of god" as Virgo-Patitura.96
In Egypt, as the "queen of heaven" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities.97 During Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true invisible God and worshiped the pagan mother. When the Israelites fell into apostasy under King Solomon, they worshiped this mother goddess as Ashtaroth, a name by which the pagan Babylonian goddess was known to the Israelites:
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals [various lord gods depicting Nimrod] and the Ashtaroth [Semiramis], the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the [one true] LORD, and did not serve him.
- Judges 98
Later, during the time of the prophet Jeremiah, the Jews worshiped the queen of heaven so devoutly that they could not be convinced to give up this paganism even after Jerusalem had been burnt and the land desolated due to this very pagan worship:
Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: "As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven [Semiramis] and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil. But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine." And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?
- Prophet Jeremiah 99
Table 2
COMMON NAMES APPLIED TO THE
PAGAN GODDESS SEMIRAMIS
TITLE OF SEMIRAMIS
GREEK ROMAN
Goddess of Love APHRODITE VENUS
Goddess of Hunting & Childbirth ARTEMIS DIANA
Goddess of Crafts, War & Wisdom ATHENA MINERVA
Goddess of Growing Things DEMETER CERES
Symbol of the Fertile Earth GAEA TERRA
Protector of Marriage & Women, the Sister & Wife of Zeus in Greece, the Wife of Jupiter in Rome HERA JUNO
Goddess of the Hearth HESTIA VESTA
Wife and Sister of Kronos RHEA OPS
Figure 2.
Pagan Worship of Mary and Jesus
The worship of Mary and the god-incarnate Jesus originated with the pagan worship of Semiramis and her god-incarnate son. Numerous Babylonian monuments depict the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms. The image of the mother and child was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that when Christianity appeared on the scene these pagan statues and paintings were merely renamed and worshiped as the virgin Mary and her god-incarnate son Jesus.
Worship of mother and child spread from Babylon to the ends of the earth, but were called different names in the languages of the various counties where their worship appeared. The ancient Germans worshipped the virgin HERTHA with the child in the arms of his mother. The Scandinavians called her DISA pictured with her child. In Egypt, the mother and her child were worshiped as ISIS with the infant OSIRIS or HORUS seated on his mother's lap. In India, the mother and child were called DEVAKI and KRISHNA, and also ISI and ISWARA as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as CYBELE and DEOIUS; in pagan Rome, as FORTUNA and JUPITER-PUER, or the boy JUPITER; in Greece, as CERES, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as IRENE, the goddess of peace, with the boy PLUTUS in her arms. Even in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the Roman counterpart of MADONNA and child. SHING MOO, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her.
Semiramis was worshiped in Ephesus as the pagan fertility goddess DIANA who represented the generative powers of nature. She was referred to as a fertility goddess because she mothered all the numerous pagan gods representing the god-incarnate Nimrod. Diana was pictured with numerous teats so that she could nurse all the pagan gods, and she wore a tower-shaped crown symbolizing the Babylonian tower of Babel.
Table 3
TITLES OF SEMIRAMIS APPLIED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSHIP OF MARY
HABITATION OF GOD
In Egypt, the mother was called Athor, the "HABITATION OF GOD" to signify that the "fullness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.
DWELLING-PLACE OF DEITY
In Greece she bore the name Hestia, and among the Romans, Vesta, which is a modification of the same name meaning the "DWELLING-PLACE OF DEITY."
MOTHER OF GOD, MOTHER OF GODS
Under the name, "MOTHER OF THE GODS," the goddess queen of Babylon became an object of universal worship. The mother of the gods was worshiped by the Persians, the Syrians and by all the kings of Europe and Asia. In Britain, the Druid priests worshiped the Virgo-Patitura as the "MOTHER OF GOD."
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
In Egypt, as the "QUEEN OF HEAVEN" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities. During and after Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true God and worshiped this pagan mother.
MADONNA, MY LADY, MEA DOMINA
Nimrod was known as Baal or Lord, and Semiramis was the female equivalent Baalti, meaning "MY LADY" in English, "MEA DOMINA" in Latin, and corrupted as "MADONNA" in Italian.
LADY OF THE SEA
Among the Phoenicians, the mother goddess was known as the "LADY OF THE SEA," which is a title applied to Mary although there is no connection between the sea and Jesus' Mother Mary.
MEDIATOR, MYLITTA, MEDIATRIX
Roman Catholics teach that Mary is a "MEDIATOR." Prayers to her are an intricate part of Roman Catholic worship. There is no biblical basis for this idea, yet this concept was not foreign to the ideas linked with the mother goddess of pagan Babylon. She bore as one of her titles "MYLITTA," that is, the "MEDIATRIX" meaning "MEDIATOR."
Notes
83 ibid., p. 5.
84 ibid., p. 75.
85 ibid., p. 30.
86 ibid., pp. 20, 21.
87 ibid., pp. 85, 160, 161.
88 ibid., p. 76.
89 ibid., pp. 20, 110, 307.
90 ibid., p. 77.
91 ibid., p. 303.
92 Babylon Mystery Religion, pp. 13-15; The Two Babylons, pp. 19, 20.
93 The Two Babylons, pp. 74-90.
94 ibid., p. 77.
95 ibid., pp. 77, 78.
96 ibid., p. 81.
97 ibid., p. 77.
98 Judges 10:6 (also, Judges 2:13; 1 Samuel 7:3,4; 12:10; 1 Kings 11:5; 2 Kings 23:13).
99 Jeremiah 44:17-19,25.
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Semiramis, who was both Nimrod's wife and mother, was worshiped as the "mother of god"83 and a "fertility goddess" because she had to be extremely fertile to give birth to all the pagan incarnate gods that represented Nimrod. She was worshiped throughout the world by each the titles associated with Nimrod's worship, in addition to many titles unique to herself (Table 2, page 15). For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Semiramis include: Aphrodite and Venus, the goddess of love84; Artemis and Diana, the goddess of hunting and childbirth85; Athena and Minerva, the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom86; Demeter and Ceres, the goddess of growing things87; Gaea and Terra, symbol of the fertile earth88; Hera and Juno, the protector of marriage and women, who was the sister and wife of Zeus in Greek mythology, and the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology89; Hestia and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth90; plus Rhea or Ops, who was wife and sister of the Greek horned-god Kronos.91
MOTHER AND SON WORSHIP
Semiramis was initially included in the pagan Babylonian trinity as the holy spirit or seed of the divine son in his mother's womb. Within time, however, the father Nimrod was practically overlooked and worshiped only as the god-incarnate son in his mother's arms. In other words, the father became invisible and was no longer worshiped, whereas, the mother with the god-incarnate son in her arms became the grand object of worship.92 Numerous Babylonian monuments show the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms (Figure 2, pages 16, 17). This worship of mother and child spread throughout the known world, and given different names in the various languages of the world. Ancient Germans worshipped the virgin Hertha with child in arms. Scandinavians called her Disa pictured with child. The Egyptian mother and child were worshiped as Isis with the infant Osiris or Horus seated on his mother's lap. In India, the mother and child were called Devaki and Krishna, and also Isi and Iswara as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as Cybele and Deoius; in pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms.
The image of mother with child in her arms was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that by the time Christianity appeared on the scene in 30 A.D., these statues and paintings were merely renamed and worshiped as the virgin Mary with her god-incarnate son Jesus. Thus, the pagan mother and child entered Christianity as the Roman Catholic worship of Mary with the infant Jesus. In fact, in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of the madonna and child as devoutly worshiped as they were in Rome. Shing Moo, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her, exactly as if she had been fashioned by Roman Catholic artisans.
MOTHER WORSHIP
The pagan mother initially derived her deification from the divine nature attributed to her child.93 She was raised far above the level of all creatures, and worshiped as a partaker of the trinitarian godhead. The mother eventually became the preferred object of worship. The son was exhibited merely as a child in his mother's arms without any particular attraction, whereas the mother's image was displayed in magnificent artistic array and invested with the exquisite beauty attributed to Semiramis during her life.
To justify worship of the mother, she was elevated to a divine station just like her god-incarnate son. The deified queen mother was adored as the incarnation of the holy spirit of peace and love. The highest titles were accordingly bestowed on her (Table 3, page 18). In Egypt, the mother was styled Athor, the "habitation of god" to signify that all the "fulness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.94 She was named Hestia in Greece and Vesta, which is just a Roman variation of the same name, meaning the "dwelling-place of deity."95
Under her title, "mother of the gods," the goddess queen of Babylon became an object of universal worship. The mother of the gods was worshiped by the Persians, the Syrians, and with the most profound religious veneration by all the kings of Europe and Asia. When Caesar invaded Britain, he discovered the Druid priests worshiping the "mother of god" as Virgo-Patitura.96
In Egypt, as the "queen of heaven" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities.97 During Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true invisible God and worshiped the pagan mother. When the Israelites fell into apostasy under King Solomon, they worshiped this mother goddess as Ashtaroth, a name by which the pagan Babylonian goddess was known to the Israelites:
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals [various lord gods depicting Nimrod] and the Ashtaroth [Semiramis], the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the [one true] LORD, and did not serve him.
- Judges 98
Later, during the time of the prophet Jeremiah, the Jews worshiped the queen of heaven so devoutly that they could not be convinced to give up this paganism even after Jerusalem had been burnt and the land desolated due to this very pagan worship:
Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: "As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven [Semiramis] and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil. But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine." And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?
- Prophet Jeremiah 99
Table 2
COMMON NAMES APPLIED TO THE
PAGAN GODDESS SEMIRAMIS
TITLE OF SEMIRAMIS
GREEK ROMAN
Goddess of Love APHRODITE VENUS
Goddess of Hunting & Childbirth ARTEMIS DIANA
Goddess of Crafts, War & Wisdom ATHENA MINERVA
Goddess of Growing Things DEMETER CERES
Symbol of the Fertile Earth GAEA TERRA
Protector of Marriage & Women, the Sister & Wife of Zeus in Greece, the Wife of Jupiter in Rome HERA JUNO
Goddess of the Hearth HESTIA VESTA
Wife and Sister of Kronos RHEA OPS
Figure 2.
Pagan Worship of Mary and Jesus
The worship of Mary and the god-incarnate Jesus originated with the pagan worship of Semiramis and her god-incarnate son. Numerous Babylonian monuments depict the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms. The image of the mother and child was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that when Christianity appeared on the scene these pagan statues and paintings were merely renamed and worshiped as the virgin Mary and her god-incarnate son Jesus.
Worship of mother and child spread from Babylon to the ends of the earth, but were called different names in the languages of the various counties where their worship appeared. The ancient Germans worshipped the virgin HERTHA with the child in the arms of his mother. The Scandinavians called her DISA pictured with her child. In Egypt, the mother and her child were worshiped as ISIS with the infant OSIRIS or HORUS seated on his mother's lap. In India, the mother and child were called DEVAKI and KRISHNA, and also ISI and ISWARA as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as CYBELE and DEOIUS; in pagan Rome, as FORTUNA and JUPITER-PUER, or the boy JUPITER; in Greece, as CERES, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as IRENE, the goddess of peace, with the boy PLUTUS in her arms. Even in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the Roman counterpart of MADONNA and child. SHING MOO, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her.
Semiramis was worshiped in Ephesus as the pagan fertility goddess DIANA who represented the generative powers of nature. She was referred to as a fertility goddess because she mothered all the numerous pagan gods representing the god-incarnate Nimrod. Diana was pictured with numerous teats so that she could nurse all the pagan gods, and she wore a tower-shaped crown symbolizing the Babylonian tower of Babel.
Table 3
TITLES OF SEMIRAMIS APPLIED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSHIP OF MARY
HABITATION OF GOD
In Egypt, the mother was called Athor, the "HABITATION OF GOD" to signify that the "fullness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.
DWELLING-PLACE OF DEITY
In Greece she bore the name Hestia, and among the Romans, Vesta, which is a modification of the same name meaning the "DWELLING-PLACE OF DEITY."
MOTHER OF GOD, MOTHER OF GODS
Under the name, "MOTHER OF THE GODS," the goddess queen of Babylon became an object of universal worship. The mother of the gods was worshiped by the Persians, the Syrians and by all the kings of Europe and Asia. In Britain, the Druid priests worshiped the Virgo-Patitura as the "MOTHER OF GOD."
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
In Egypt, as the "QUEEN OF HEAVEN" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities. During and after Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true God and worshiped this pagan mother.
MADONNA, MY LADY, MEA DOMINA
Nimrod was known as Baal or Lord, and Semiramis was the female equivalent Baalti, meaning "MY LADY" in English, "MEA DOMINA" in Latin, and corrupted as "MADONNA" in Italian.
LADY OF THE SEA
Among the Phoenicians, the mother goddess was known as the "LADY OF THE SEA," which is a title applied to Mary although there is no connection between the sea and Jesus' Mother Mary.
MEDIATOR, MYLITTA, MEDIATRIX
Roman Catholics teach that Mary is a "MEDIATOR." Prayers to her are an intricate part of Roman Catholic worship. There is no biblical basis for this idea, yet this concept was not foreign to the ideas linked with the mother goddess of pagan Babylon. She bore as one of her titles "MYLITTA," that is, the "MEDIATRIX" meaning "MEDIATOR."
Notes
83 ibid., p. 5.
84 ibid., p. 75.
85 ibid., p. 30.
86 ibid., pp. 20, 21.
87 ibid., pp. 85, 160, 161.
88 ibid., p. 76.
89 ibid., pp. 20, 110, 307.
90 ibid., p. 77.
91 ibid., p. 303.
92 Babylon Mystery Religion, pp. 13-15; The Two Babylons, pp. 19, 20.
93 The Two Babylons, pp. 74-90.
94 ibid., p. 77.
95 ibid., pp. 77, 78.
96 ibid., p. 81.
97 ibid., p. 77.
98 Judges 10:6 (also, Judges 2:13; 1 Samuel 7:3,4; 12:10; 1 Kings 11:5; 2 Kings 23:13).
99 Jeremiah 44:17-19,25.
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