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Long-hair holds fire, holds the drug, holds sky and earth. Long hair reveals everything, so that everyone can see the sun. Long-hair declares the light... These ascetics, swathed in wind, put dirty red rags on. When gods enter them, they ride with the rush of the wind...Crazy with asceticism, we have mounted the wind. Our bodies are all you mere mortals can see...He sails through the air, looking down on all shapes below. The ascetic is friend to this god and that god, devoted to what is well done...51
As already mentioned, the “drug” being referenced within the caption of Figure 5b has been called Soma juice, Amrita, Bodhicitta drops, ambrosia, snow, anointing, a true Baptism of the Spirit, etc., depending on the cultural context. It is the Divine Elixir that is metaphorically drunk, but it is actually an inherent component of the meditation process. After years of “flaming and dripping,” a practitioner’s sacred practice progresses, and ultimately, the “Fire” ascends and the “Water” descends until the soul liberates “on the Winds.” This should provide some insight into the Rig Veda’s expression of “riding on the Wind.” The soul’s liberation on the subtle “Winds of spirit” create out-of-body experiences that result from either death, near-death, or Moksha. “Beyond death” experiences are as old as civilization itself.
The founders of civilization discovered the common mathematics of the universe that linked the microcosm to the macrocosm. In Chapter 5, we will see how the 12 divisions of Heaven’s clock was understood to be marking time on a spiritual clock as a mirror reflection of the 12 divisions of Earth’s material clock. The world of man and the world of immortal souls were “tied” together at the navel by man’s umbilical cord. The clock, as a measure of astronomical cycles, is our oldest and most significant sexagesimal artifact. Archeologists and mathematical historians may eventually discover even earlier references to the Quadrivium and the clock within pictographic and ideographic script that preceded phonetic cuneiform.
After the pre-Sumerian Aryans founded Eridu (ca. 5400 BCE), Sumer lasted about 3000 years. We have stressed the significance of cross-fertilization that occurred between the Iranian (Aryan) founders and the first wave of invading Semitic tribes (4000 - 2300 BCE). By 2300 BCE, invading Semitic Akkadians soon replaced the powerful priests overseeing Sumerian city-states. These tribes were led by Sargon of Akkad, who founded the kingdom of Babylon circa 2300 BCE.52 Akkadian rule would soon be followed by Gutian and Amorite kingdoms. But, before we discuss Babylon, it is important to discuss the fate of this superior Aryan race after the collapse of the Irano-Semitic civilization at Eridu. Some may have intermarried with the invading Semitic tribes, but, the evidence suggests that a good number of them migrated in river boats by 4000 BCE, to become the founding fathers of Egypt.
Rediscovering the Aryan Fathers
The first archeologist to journey eastward from the Nile Valley was the Russian scholar Vladimir Golenischeff in 1887. He traveled through the Wadi Hammamat. Before the Mediterranean rain belt moved south, circa 3500 BCE, this wadi was once a great river connecting the Nile to the Red Sea. Golenischeff was also the first to discover abundant hieroglyphic inscriptions at the siltstone quarries along the wadi.53 In 1908, Englishman Arthur Weigall traveled along the nearby Wadi Barramiya to discover prehistoric images inscribed along the cliffs of the wadi. He was the first Egyptologist to publish large numbers of boat drawings discovered along these cliffs. In 1936-37, German scholar Hans Alexander Winkler searched through the Wadi Hammamat, studying its ancient rock art for clues about Egypt’s earliest inhabitants. He noticed a resemblance between the high-prows and sterns of boats inscribed on the Eastern desert walls, with similar vessels depicted on Mesopotamian cylinder seals that were in his possession. Winkler theorized that Egypt was invaded from the East by a “master race” who brought civilization with them in river boats.54 Winkler also found numerous swastikas inscribed on these cliffs. He knew the swastika to be the Axis Mundi symbol of the Aryan tribes in the Armenian Highlands (see Figure 24c).
Nazi Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler’s aide-de-camp, convinced Hitler to adopt the swastika based on Winkler’s theories regarding an Aryan master race. Rosenberg’s racial ideas were reinforced by the work of another German scientist, a “craniologist” named Johann Blumenbach, the acknowledged father of racial classification.55 Blumenbach categorized five different races by studying and measuring human skulls:
• The Caucasian or white race
• The Mongolian or yellow race
• The Malayan or brown race
• The Negroid or black race
• The American or red race.
Based on these distinctions, he also applied a now defunct pseudo-science called phrenology, in which personality traits were determined by “reading” the skull. He theorized, for example, that the high brows of Caucasians were physical expressions of a loftier mentality. He also found great similarities between a German skull in his collection and what he considered to be the most perfect and beautiful human skull, taken from the Caucasus Mountain region:
I have taken the name of this variety from Mount Caucasus, both because its neighborhood, and especially its southern slope, produces the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgian.
Blumenbach’s work was followed by decades of debate among early 20th century anthropologists that had less to do with science, and more to do with ideology. Among the ideas that surfaced was an observation that blond, blue-eyed, beautiful Caucasians appeared to be best exemplified by the Nordic people. This appealed to Rosenberg and Hitler, who then declared that a Nordic-Aryan master race was the ancient ancestor of the German people. In Hitler’s twisted mind, a contrived German link to an idealized master race was transformed into Hitler’s distorted version of “Aryan supremacy,” which became his justification for genocide.
Historian Nell Painter remarks that Blumenbach used the word “beautiful” compulsively to describe the Georgian skull, suggesting that his conclusions were something less than scientific. In an article that questions the very identity of white people as Caucasians, Ms. Painter suggests that Blumenbach’s theory depicting the Caucasian race as the “primeval race,” “the oldest race of man,” and the “first variety of humankind,” was based on the very unscientific Biblical notion that Noah’s Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat in the Caucasus Mountains, and further, that the great dispersion of people after Noah’s Ark landed, began their migration from the Caucasus Mountains.56
From the perspective of Ms. Painter’s “American black experience,” the term “master race” brings to mind the trauma of slavery and oppression. Obviously, it has similar overtones within the Jewish psyche. It is easy to get caught up in exaggerated notions of Hell and mortal sin, just long enough to dole out Semitic justice to the likes of a Hitler. Indo-Aryan karmic justice does not seem severe enough to satisfy Western sensibilities, and as a result, there has been a strong desire to discredit the work of Winkler, Blumenbach, and the Aryan founders of civilization. They have been unjustly slandered, primarily because Hitler took an interest in them. Today, the very mention of an Aryan master race elicits a visceral reaction from descent people the world over.
Since the time of Hitler’s distortions, major strides have made in biology resulting from the discovery of DNA, revealing that far too much has been made of racial differences. It is now well established that skin color readily adapts to changing climate, since dark skin is a way to filter ultra-violet rays. EMH originated in Africa some 200,000 years ago, where people were very dark. During the earliest migrations out of Africa, those who traveled to the Middle East and Asia, circa 50,000 - 60,000 BCE, became moderately dark. By the time Cro-Magnon skeletons were discovered in French caves, they were believed to have the size and coloration of the robust
