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"Bhakti Ananda Goswami" bhakti.eohn

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Fw: ONE FATHER GOD, ONE HOLY MOTHER, ONE HUMAN FAMILY

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Fw: ONE FATHER GOD, ONE HOLY MOTHER, ONE HUMAN FAMILY

BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI'S PAPER FOR THE WORLD COUNCIL OF ELDERS

 

Original Message -----

Bhakti Ananda Goswami

yash pathak

Saturday, November 30, 2002 5:36 AM

ONE FATHER GOD, ONE HOLY MOTHER, ONE HUMAN FAMILY

ONE FATHER GOD, ONE HOLY MOTHER , ONE HUMAN FAMILY

 

by H H Tridandi Sannyasi Bhakti Ananda Goswami Maharaja, of the Brahma-Gaudiya

Sampradaya of Vaishnavism

Interfaith Committee Coordinator for the World Vaishnava Association, Vrindavana India

 

HARE KRISHNA ! and MITAKUYE OYASIN !

 

Greetings to all my Relations !

 

May Great Spirit and Great Mystery bless these few words, which I offer in the

service of our communion in Their Divine Love.

 

Please accept my humble and affectionate obeisances.

 

ONE HUMAN FAMILY WITH ONE SAVING GOD

 

Over thirty years ago I began studying Deity and theophoric (god-bearing)

personal, place and city names in the Hebrew and Greek versions of the Bible.

I wanted to understand the relationship of the Judeo-Catholic (Apostolic

Christian) Deity to the other peoples and Deities of the Old and New Testament

stories. At that time I had not been prejudiced by any form of ethnocentrism

and had no preconceived notion about where to look for connections, or what I

would find. As a result, I was not inhibited to compare Hebrew, Israelite and

Judahite Deity names with those of the Deities of Africa, Europe or traditions

East of the Levant. I began by searching the scriptures and Biblical

concordances for every Deity and theophoric name I could find. There were

thousands of them ! Most commonly West Semitic theophoric names were

compounded with the Supreme Deity Name elements El (1), Yahu(2) and Baal. Yahu

had once been called Baal, Bel or Balu, as was evidenced in Iron Age IIB Israel

(3). In Semitic traditions, Baal or Yahu was variously considered the

alter-form, Brother or Son of the supreme Deity El. Yahu-Baal was the Form of

El who descended to save humanity, as in later Jewish Messianic lore. Semitic

Bal was also associated with agriculture / the plow, the club as His astra or

symbolic weapon, and the palm tree or palm frond as one of His important

symbols (4). He was also as the self-sacrificed POLIEUS (5) associated with

sacrificial systems and related sacramental social order civilizations. So, I

also searched for Bal related names. Other Important names associated with the

Biblical Deity in the Hebrew or Greek, such as ADON-YAHU, ELI-HABHA, ELI-AZAR,

ASAR-YAHU, PETHACH-YAHU, ZECHAR-YAHU, and THEOS, BASILEOS etc., required

special attention in my studies.

 

I was especially interested in how the Third Century BC Jewish translators of

the SEPTUAGINT (Alexandrian Egyptian Jewish Scriptures) translated the

religious Hebrew of their day into Greek, and why this was done at the great

Alexandrian Temple of SERAPIS (HERU-HAP / ELI-HABHA). Hebrew, Israelite,

Jewish and other West Semitic city names identified the YIR / IR / PER cities

of the ELI-YAHU / BAAL Deity. It became immediately apparent to me that these

theocentric cities and city-states of the Semites were related to the sacred

PER cities of the Afro-Egyptians and the POL cities of the Greeks. In fact it

appeared that the Semites' sacred IR cities and the Africans' PER and Greeks'

POL cities were often members of the same Monotheistic HELIOPOLITAN ASYLA

FEDERATIONS or TEMPLE ALLIANCES. This certainly implied that the Supreme

Deity HERU-ASU of the Egyptians, HELI-US of the Greeks and ELI-YAHU of the

Semites was all the same Deity ! Tracing these connections further West showed

connections to the Roman Deity SOLEUS, and to the East there were connections to

the Sumerian Supreme Deities ILU and Babylonian EA, and the Vedic, Vaishnava and

Shaivite Supreme Deities SURA / HARI (Krishna-Vishnu) and HARA (Shiva).

Eventually I traced these connections further, to the worship of Amida HRIH in

Japanese (and related) Pure Land Buddhism, and OLU and His Expansions in the

Yoruban Tradition. Thus there was obviously a single salvific emanational

and incarnational monotheism shared by the African, European and Eastern

branches of the human family. Why didn't everyone know about these

connections ?

 

THE SUPREME FATHER GOD

 

OLU Niger-Kordofanian Language Family

HERU Nilo-Saharan Language Family

HELI Greek

SOLE Roman

ELI West Semitic (ALI as in Allah is related)

URI ARI, ORI Semitic variants

HURRI SERRI Hurrian and Hittite variants

ILU Sumerian

ZER HVARE Persian variants

SURA same as HARI, compare SURIH, SUREH, HARIH, HAREH, SURYA, HARYA etc.

HARI HARA Vaishnava and Shaivite Sanskrit forms

HRIH Buddhist Sanskrit

 

So above we have the SAME FATHER GOD of the Yoruban religious family, the

Egyptian religious family, monotheistic (Platonic Heliopolitan related) 'pagan'

Europe, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Persian traditions including the

still extant Zoroastrianism or Parseeism, the earliest Sumero-Tamil / Dravidian

religion, and the Great Eastern Salvific Bhakti Traditions of Krishna-Vishnu

(and Rama etc.), Shiva and the Pure Land Buddhist Amitabha / Amida (Father

Heaven / Yang to Kuan Yin in China).

 

HIS SACRED CITIES WERE CALLED

 

PER Egyptian

POL Greek

BUR Northern European

YIR, PER Semitic (KUR is a variant)

UUR Sumerian

PUR Sanskrit

 

Greek POLIEUS = Egyptian PERASU / PHARAOH = PURUSHA

 

POLIEUS was always worshiped with His feminine TYCHE called SEKHET in Egypt,

SHEKINAH in Israel and SHAKTI in the East.

 

SOME SHEKINAH / SHAKTI NAMES

(Mediterranean Asyla Federation Name-Forms and related Sanskrit Name-Forms)

 

RHODA (Greek) / RADHA

ISIS (Egyptian), ISHISH (Hebrew) / ISHI, ISHVARI

MARINA (Roman), MARIAM (Hebrew) / NARAYANI

JUVENTAS (Roman) / YAUVANI

BASILEA (Greco-Roman) / VASUDEVI

ASTARIA (Greek) / ASTRAYA, TARA

NYMPHIA (Greek LOTUS) / PADME

KORE (Greek) / HARE

LUCRE (Roman FORTUNA MONETA) / LAKSHMI

BA (Egyptian), H'EVE (Hebrew) / JIVA

 

The antiquity of this unified monotheism can be traced as far back as the

Mediterranean Isle of Rhodes, at the dawn of the Historic Period. There,

according the earliest extant traditions, HELIOS KOUROS AND RHODA WERE

WORSHIPED BY AFRICANS, GREEKS AND SEMITES AS THE PRIMORDIAL DIVINE FATHER AND

MOTHER OF THE WHOLE HUMAN FAMILY. The Bridal Mysticism of this Rhoda-Kouros

worship

was at the core of the great Heliopolitan Civilization of Earliest Dynastic

Egypt. According to legend, the Egyptian Capital of Heliopolis was founded by

an actual son (Actis) or 'ray' of Rhoda and Helios Kouros. Tracing all of the

interdisciplinary connections to Rhoda and Kouros worship led me back to the

Biblical Bridal Mysticism Tradition in the Song of Songs, where the Divine

Lovers DODA are clearly related to RHODA and RHODOS, on their sacred LOTUS ISLE

of Rhodes. Thus the Bible calls the Rhodanim DODANIM. Of course RHODA and

RHODOS KOUROS are the East's RADHA and KRISHNA ! Their Hierophant and Master

of Mysteries is BAL-YAHU Dionysos, Who in the East is BALA-VASUDEVA (compare

VASUDEVA and Hebrew TOBA-YAHU). Baladeva in His Multi Form as DIONYSOS POLIEUS

is the Descending Savior of all worlds (MESSIAH / NYASA ), the DEVA NYASAS of

GOD (ELI/ HARI) WHO ANOINTS / INITIATES, AND WHO IS HIMSELF ANOINTED.

Investigating these astounding connections further, I found interdisciplinary

evidence of the entire salvific tradition of Radha, Krishna and Baladeva-Vishnu

in the Mediterranean thousands of years before the Christian Era. This tradition

was clearly related to Pure Land Buddhism, and thus confirmed it as the earliest

and most authentic form of Buddhism. When the evidence was so clear, why were

these connections not commonly known ? Had people for some reason not been

looking at, or able to see this evidence ?

 

THE TRUTH OUR OUR UNITY WAS OBSCURRED BY RACIST ARYANISM, WHICH DOMINATED WESTERN ACADEMIA

 

As I began my research, I could find no other studies with the scope that I

intended to explore. Why was this ? As I encountered academic resistance to my

enquiries, it soon became evident to me that my non-ethnocentric search was

violating some unwritten law forbidding the comparison of so-called

Indo-European words to Semitic and Afro-Egyptian words. Soon I learned about

the influence of 'white' racist Aryanism in the European Humanities. The

Aryanists had made it an unforgivable scholastic sin to compare their 'Aryan'

race related Indo-European words to Semitic and African words. In all the

humanities, not just linguistics, Aryanist racism dominated Euro-centric

scholarship. Thus I encountered impediments to my work at every step. When I

tried to interest other scholars in my work, I was ridiculed and my discoveries

were suppressed. This was not done by 'white' Aryanist racists alone. I also

was opposed by fanatical religionists who did not want me showing evidence that

their Supreme God also belonged historically to peoples that they had long hated

and opposed. Perhaps surprisingly, some of the worst opposition to my

connecting the Biblical Deity to Krishna-Vishnu and Shiva has come from Hindus

who hate the Judeo-Christian or so-called 'Abrahamic' Traditions. However,

much has changed in the last thirty years, and the whole fields of

Helleno-Semitica (see Cyrus Gordon) , Black Studies (see Martin Bernal's "Black

Athena"), Superlinguistics ( see Nostratic and Austric etc. Superfamilies) and

DNA tracing (see mitochondria) have opened up, providing vast amounts of new

data that completely supports my findings.

 

Along with the global diffusion of humanity as evidenced by DNA, new

archaeological evidence, computer-assisted Superlinguistics and other

disciplines, the worship of the aboriginal Divine Father and Mother and their

Hero-Savior spread. Thus this worship can be found at the core, in the oldest

strata of beliefs in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Thus it is my

joy as a Vaishnava and a Catholic to salute you all as my dear sisters and

brothers and others in THE ONE FAITH OF SAVING GRACE, with the lovely Lakota

Tribal Address MITAKUYE OYASIN !

 

ALL MY RELATIONS !

 

Praying for the reconciliation and unity of all persons of good-will, your

brother and aspiring servant, Bhakti Ananda Goswami

 

(1)-(3) Keel, Othmar and Christoph Uehlinger, 1998 Gods, Goddesses and Images of

God in Ancient Israel. Translated by Thomas H. Trapp. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Hardback, xiii + 466 pp. ISBN 0-8006-2789-X.

 

(4) All of these are familiar symbols and associations with BALADEVA, Who is

also called by various BAL names, such as BALA BHADRA, BALA RAMA, SUKLA BALA.

The very ancient city of Jericho was Bal's City and its symbol, which later also

represented Jerusalem and Israel, was Bal-Yahu's Palm. In Vaishnavism, BALADEVA

IS THE SECOND PERSON OF THE GODHEAD AND SOURCE OF VISHNU AND ALL VISHNU AND

SHIVA MANIFESTATIONS.

 

(5) Bal-Dionysos was associated with Yahu and in Egypt with ASU in the North and

WASU in the South. Yahu means the same as VASU is Sanskrit, and is the root of

the Vedic Name of Vishnu as PURUSHA or ASURA the Supreme BEING WHO IS. Here

are some of the related Deity Names and words associated with His

all-pervasivness and Multi-Form as POLIEUS or PURUSHA.

 

ELI-AZAR Hebrew

ASAR-YAHU Hebrew

ASAR Egyptian

OSIRIS Greek

ASSHUR Assyrian

AHURA Persian

ASURA Vedic Sanskrit (NOT A-SURA)

ASARU Name of Marduk at Babylon

 

>From the ASU OR AHU root TO BE, EXIST, DWELL some Names and words are PUR-USHA,

VASU-DEVA, YAHU, YESHI-YAHU, VISHNU, YISHMA (Hebrew), WASU, ASAR etc., OUSIOS

Greek, ESSE Latin, IS English.