Computers Used To Be Sexy, What the Hell Happened

Computers used to look good. And its about time we revolt. Computers had that 2001 high end keyboard (not junk today) with a slighly sloped back screen. This sexy design is epitomized by the glorious HP 87 which someday I will rebuild with modern guts. Hilarious they had big book size ROM plates for the back, four of them, just like a HP41cv's tinly little matchbook rom insertables.

But enough with the talking, on with the computer porn.

p.s. I love how they have to spell out 16 bit "word length" they never say that anymore. I bet most people when they get their 64bit cell phones have not a clue what that means.


And of course this Philco shows what people can accomplish when they try to make computers human again:

Use import static in Java to extend the language

One confusing new feature is the ability to import a class as static.

   so if you have a class Foo and it has a method p() and q()

   then if you do
      import static Foo;

   suddenly you can get access to these methods without having to specify the host static class if it were not a static import, e.g. you can just go     p(something);

   it should not be used when inheritance is tricky, but rather to extend with some "primitives" like a language extenstion

  of course, it can be a useful way to get your enums and consts without having to always de-reference them off the class name, and that is it's best application.

One way I use static imports is to handle logging. My logger class has static methods for info, debug, and severe.  Once they are statically imported all I have to do is put

     info ("this did something");

in the code. And I get it nicely integrated with logging. It's also good for math or lambda functions!

Giants in South America and the Grand Canyon, and Giant Heads in Egypt and Peru

Let me roll off some pictures first then let's get to the analysis:

OK so what is going on? 

I have two theories. First, is that earths oxygen levels are decreasing as our society builds and populates. 

The idea is that go back 4000 to even 400 years and there is much more oxygen to support larger scales of humans.  But somehow, I'm not quite sure that's it. 

Instead abiding by the precession cataclysm theory, It may be that small numbers of the prior-cycle survived in the pyramids but it wouldn't have been a great many. Perhaps 100 in egypt and 100 in Peru.  And they and their children would have the giant skulls of super intelligence. Now moderns are going to argue it is simply flat plates smashing the skull as children like the highland indians did, but a simple look confirms that they do not have this frontal face angle and flatness like the indians at all neither does that technique account for volume. No these people would have been very bright compared to modern humans. Able to remember everything and to learn at an astounding pace. One of their six year olds would best most of our adult population. 

The egyptian headdress evolved to hide the heads from the people. But the people still knew. And this has evolved into the pope's hat which yes resembles the Miter of Dogon the fish god but that goes back to a copy of the EGYPTIANS who did it first. The fact that Nefirtiri was a long skull and so well known and so perhaps too was Tut although to a lesser degree being several generations from the surviving pure genetic long skulls. 

OK now look at Nefirtiti, even MORE elongation

And finally, an original long skull for comparison which is even more pronounced

Well if this is true, then what about Akhenaten's skull? Yep it's elongated as well.

Madame Blavatsky leaves us with chilling words - "The giants of old are old are all buried under the ocean, and hundreds of thousands of years of constant friction by water would reduce to dust and pulverize a brazen, far more a human skeleton"

These descendents of descendents of the long skull race, the ruling race from the last precession cycle, Have at their origin an even that ocurred around 20,000 years ago. The time of the death of the Atlantean races and societies. Mankind would have to start again save for the secret knowlege from those who hid and sheltered in the pyramids, knowledge of immense secret and the biggest secret of all, how to survive the year long high radiation Shamash period when there are 2 suns in the sky. What does it all mean? What is the date of the end of our cycle? Perhaps in 5,000 years. But we have built so much attained so much this time, surely even the biggest cataclysm cannot erase all of our skyscrapers from the earth. And yet, perhaps its gods hand, crumbling all we thought was such a big deal such a tower of babel only to have the cataclysm sweep it all away like a pile of dust. One wonders if we dig deep enough, if we might just not uncover, the tip of the empire state building from the last civilization of man. A big guess as to why this has not occurred is that if the poles shifted or the exosphere rotated (a radical thought I know) then all of this civilization lies ten miles beneath the ice caps of antartica. We do not possess the technologies to explore there. Not easily.  But we should continue to do core analysis from deep drilling in that area and see if we discover traces of high order metals and alloys which indicate something down there of a tremendous advance. 

The bigger question is why do modern academics scoff at all of this. It's as if each is too concerned with being ridiculed and none are brave. Surely one academic must be excited to take this up formally. Why do we cover up evidence which throughout history our greatest writers and thinkers took up and declared to be true over and over. Blavatsky again reminds us:

Chi Ro as Anchor - New Plaque from San Sebastian Caves

So today we are going to take further our notion that when you go back BEFORE emperor Constantine when he took the stylized P-X chi-ro symbol as his standard (flag) for his armies, and go back to early christian graffitti for its origen, we see something different.

Here we see something amazing from the caves of San Sebastian.  It is a fish, and two of the anchors (or fish hooks !!!) that boats used.   The fish, and what hooks the fish.

Chi-Ro (pronounced Key-roh) has nothing to do with the first two letters in Greek for Christ. Why would the romans adopt from the Greek that makes no sense! Clearly they would use Latin!

For a long time I studied ancient anchors for the boats used on the sea of Gallilee where Christ was from and thought that these were early anchors. But maybe these are fish hooks. The fishhook on the left shows a thread going through it (or if you see an anchor, a rope for a boat). But the fishhook makes more sense really because you want to reel the fish in!

So here magically, FINALLY, we are seeing TWO views of the same fishhook which provides for and feeds so many. Oddly, the shape is a turned down tine x 4 at the end of the hook. We see it in profile on the left, the ends turning down in graceful curves, and on the right we see it again in a more 3D look, to show that there are 4 of these barbed hooks. This is the knowledge of how to catch a fish!

But I've never seen a fish hook with turned down ends. So maybe it must be an anchor. But certainly it is one of these two and NOT the first two letters of Christ in Greek as so commonly told.

Now we revisit the other coin. And we see the Chi-Ro as Shamash, the 3rd star in the sky that occurs at the end times every 26,000 years when the earth shakes itself apart. Amazing that they use the Chi-Ro symbol in place of the typical shamash (or shamash with RAYS of POWER coming out as it is typically drawn to stress more powerful than the sun).

The whole secret to the christian church is this precession cycle end times, tracked via the zodiac, and how to prepare for it (hide in great stone pyramids for a year until the cosmic radiation passes).

All of this is the basis for the Kingdom of Mei series.

We have the fish-hook/anchor becoming the shamash.  In fact on one constantine coin, a simplified shamash is used instead of the chi-ro.

So Why the fish?

Mark 1:17 "Come after Me, and I will make you become fishers of men." Matthew 12:40 "...Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Matthew 14:17 "And they said to Him, 'We have here only five loaves and two fish.'" Luke 5:6 "And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking." Luke 24:42 "So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb." John 21:6 "And He said to them, 'Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.' So they cast, and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish."

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A 'fishy' tale?

In the years following the ascension of the resurrected Jesus to heaven, the Christian church grew rapidly. Christians soon found themselves to be the subjects of persecution by both the Romans and the Jews. In many locales, it became dangerous to be known as a Christian. Thus, when two strangers met and thought maybe they were fellow believers, one of them would draw, on the ground, the upper half of the fish symbol.

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Recognizing the symbol, the stranger would add a second curved line and complete the drawing of a fish.

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It is a very simple shape to draw - just two curved strokes. It could be drawn quickly, and erased just as quickly if there was no sign of recognition on the part of the stranger. The Battle of the Milvian Bridge took place between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius on 28 October 312. It takes its name from the Milvian Bridge, an important route over the Tiber. Constantine won the battle and started on the path that led him to end the Tetrarchy and become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire. Maxentius drowned in the Tiber during the battle. According to chroniclers such as Eusebius of Caesarea andLactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity. Eusebius of Caesarea recounts that Constantine and his soldiers had a vision of the Christian God promising victory if they daubed the sign of the Chi-Rho, the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek, on their shields. The Arch of Constantine, erected in celebration of the victory, certainly attributes Constantine's success to divine intervention; however, the monument does not display any overtly Christian symbolism. Some more pictures of the catacombs. Notice by the Mary statue at the entrace, the X with radiant power. The explosive Shamash star which I believe to be our sun's hidden binary star on a long elliptical orbit as one possible explanation of why it appears every 6k or 26k years. the 26k precession cycle seems too long to explain our dawn of history.  The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian Via Appia Antica, 136 00179 Roma +39 06 785 0350 catacombe.org Archaeological Site Today 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

A Modest Proposal: Let USA and Russia Unite to Guard Palmyra

    by Gianna Giavelli

Sometimes it's the simplest things that vex us. America's mad dog force Al-Quaeda, I mean Al-Nusra, I mean ISIL err wait I mean ISIS is now at the gates of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. 

Remember Indiana Jones Part III and the ancient city with the fountain of youth? That's what Palmyra looks like. Beautiful columns carved into the rockface from our ancient dawn of pre-history. And it's all about to be lost forever like the giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan. 

Now, while the Koran may say not to have any pictures of Muhammed, it says nothing about destroying everything of every other religion. But these fanatics are clear - they will tolerate nothing not even mans greatest historical legacies. If they could, they would destroy even the pyramids. 

So we are faced with a dillema. And I would like to submit a modest proposal. Clearly Assad does not have the forces to protect the most important historical city in his country. So what to do? 

And then it came to me. For so much time America and Russia have engaged in a synthetic war when really our people should be closer than ever. Russia has embraced capitalism in their own unique way, new freedom and prosperity, and while like us they don't have free elections or government and still have a security chekka state (just like us!) heck, its like America and Russia split the difference and merged in the middle. So why are we fighting? 

Instead, we should each send a battallion to Palmyra. 50 tanks, artillary, air support (maybe some of those AC-130s with rail guns they can take out 1000 men over lunch) and camp out there. Maybe our military will recognize that we aren't such different people. Maybe the friendships they form will work their way up the chain of command until finally this silly fake but all too dangerous war stance abides to peace and prosperity.  

We would show the russians our great new modern weapons that we have bankrupted and starved our country to produce, and they will show us their great new modern weapons that they have bankrupted and starved their country to produce. Heck, maybe our colonel can take a ride in a MIG-29 in exchange for some VTOL action. Let ISIS try a skirmish when suddenly the roar of Russia's newest 120mm tank blasts them to smitheens. "Ha ha ha foolish dogs" laughs the russian. "When McCain funded them, they seemed so much better groomed and polite" says the American launching another drone strike from a squadron of predators. "Dis drone stuff, is cool eh? But it lacks the human side. We still like to squish our opponents by hand" says Vlad. "You're being old fashioned!" says John the drone pilot, swigging back more vodka. 

I say give it a go. It's time for peace in the world and its time to show the ISIS pipsqueaks what happens if they dare attack a real army. 

UPDATE 3/21/16: Palymra is now reduced to tiny rubble. The great temples are forever gone, destroyed by the mad dog insantity of Islam. No one listened. sigh.

Falling in Love with activeWeb and activeJDBC Frameworks (or why I'll never J2E again)

CrossMyPath, the iGIS system, was originally developed using J2E technolgies, DAO layers of anotated POJOs following the repository pattern and EclipseLink hosted in TomEE. At the time it seemed like the sexy new stuff.  But three months in there were problems. Conflicts deep in EclipseLink and TomEE began to surface that were not resolvable and then a long slew of tech evaluations later I started getting worn out. I also was trying to find a solution for GUI designing and autogenning my entities like Linq for Entities on the Msquish side and again just wasn't quite getting there.

The worst part of J2E and it's always been the worst part was the long click to clunk cycle to update code on the server (forgetting JRebel and other such) and moreover the horrific exception swallowing that was going on. Instead, it was just piles of gibberish exceptions with nothing you could use to resolve the problem. That violated some deep rule of coding for me and I wondered just WHO were the programmers that allowed such things to happen. J2E took the right path with J2E 5 and simplified annotations based get up quickly approach. But the deployment  model and inter-vendor issues were still rife and annoying. Sure you could go whole Oracle and do a bit better but you'd miss a lot of the exciting new stuff.

So I scrounged around. People were using Ruby on Rails EVERYWHERE I mean almost as much as PHP (CRAP!). OK PHP just isn't object oriented and while you CAN make web sites with it, I've never seen anything BIG that was maintainable for this very reason.  I looked at Ruby. But it's RUBY for chrissakes! ICK! It wasn't that I couldn't learn Ruby. But non compiled non typed languages give me the willies. And there has to be a performance hit. So then there's Grails. The java Rails for the rest of us. But when I looked at it all and the docs somehow it just seemed big and unfriendly. Not the lean MVC framework. What about Sails? Its great, but wheres the ORM tooling? and on it went.

Then at 5am one night I ran into Igor. Yes thats his name. "Here is ActiveWeb. Watch the 5 min video"  and ... there was no video.  5 minute quick tutorial to Active Web. I clicked. Nope nothing there either. grrr. So then I said OKOK I'll just look at the docs. Let's see. And the docs were ...  amazing. Amazing in that it was so simple, so brief you've never seen anything quite like it. About 12 pages on ActiveJDBC (the db orm to java stuff) and another 12 on the web framework. Each page might have another 4 to ten sections.

It wasn't the framework per se that was so inviting, but the GOALS of the framework. Igor was saying HEY why doesn't this stuff just WORK for chrissakes. Why do I have to specify out a POJO or DAO if my DB already has all that.  Granted, having every datamember to annotate with validations is useful, but you can do that in activeweb if you wish. but if you don't wish, its so much faster.

In fact, it's a strict MVC approach, but creating a Model for a new table is as simple as copying the six lines of code from another model file and then just changing the class and table name. Poof done. What? How can this be done? What if you have One to Manies?  If you want the child "many" tables included, simply refer to them using a column named Child_id and poof its included. For a many to many you do have to specify the endpoints but its just 2 lines.

The secret is that ActiveWeb has an inspection process so that each time it saves it embeds class information about the database tables directly into your models class files. Brilliant. Now yes, everyone grumbles a bit on the config of this but after an hour or two and reading you get it solved.

Now you can fly with the click to clunk being 6 seconds for code compile and inspection on a fairly large project, 5 seconds for Tomcat to recognize that theres a code change and 2 seconds for Tomcat to reload. Magic. I'll take 12 seconds over 120 seconds any time. And that was it. I could never again easily go forward on J2E.

Wait what about entities and caching that J2E supports? It's available by adding a cache annotation to your model and poof it uses Memcache. What about complex transactions? OK, here its not as robust and flexible as J2E but I wasn't building a banking application so it really wasn't necessary. And like Hibernate you can specify how agressively to load (with default being lazy loading).

One gotcha is freemarker ('so you can automate your tests of the frontend' says Igor). And really all you need to know is how to do an ifdef, how to load a partial page, and how to bring in and reference a variable. If you want to go deep into freemarker it's your business but I just use the basics. The rest is tooled around JQuery (and if need be a more robust beast like Angular or KnockoutJs).

And some of the best is the REST support and how easy it is to link up AJAX calls with all default routes.  The MVC calls follow simple naming so that by default the controllers index() method is called (you can specify/direct to others) and then that calls the template with the same name as controllermethod.

The framework supports translation and also specifying different data for dev and production and test setups.

They have support for managing links to controllers with their LinkTo keyword which also support inserting returned HTML or JSON into your page. Building a full REST controller with CRUD is fairly simple with all CRUD paths being by convention of the framework and mapping to your controller. So follow the convention, and all your REST functions just work without having to code paths anywhere. Cool!

But why FreeMarker templates. Ugh Freemarker! Igor points out that it was hard to write regression tests with JSPs and that FreeMarker made that much simpler. I'm not sure I followed WHY but ok I'll just nod and someday I'll figure out more details. Still the amount you have to use freemarker other than if then else and loading partials (of html) and iterations doesn't take very long, and if you want to go deeper that's up to you.

There is always a learning curve, but you really can wing it and just search around the groups or docs for the next piece you need. Oh and that intro video is now there along with the 5 minute getting started. It's coming along. Apparently Igor has been using this framework on many large projects so it's really a work of love and to make for him what the other frameworks should be. And I support that.

ActiveWeb and ActiveJDBC can be found at http://www.javalite.org

The Chalice Well At Glastonberry Tor - The Isle of Avalon and Jesus as Arthur

For those who have read my book The Rings of Ophion, the third book in the MEI series, you will be struck at how the cover resembles something from the Isle of Avalon, known as Glastonbury Tor to us moderns.

Glastonbury Tor - The Mount.

Notice the seven levels. For the seven known planets - Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn the Sun and the Moon

Glastonbury Tor - The Well

notice the seven known planets, err cups leading to the well

the cover, with the piscis vessica formation

Now suppose you were a 20 something Jesus and some mad king on an island was TRYING to teach you about the every 26,000 year destruction cycle of the planet which we learned from the egyptians. A cycle so intense, that NOTHING remains from it. Except dinosaur bones. It will be interesting if our civilization is wiped out if our skyscrapers will survive enough so that some day people will dig deep into the earth and discover us. Can you imagine the shock, simple desert people thinking their advanced camel and flint civilization just beginning to modernize with simple engines and iron age technologies digs deep (or perhaps from an earthquake) finds a shaft and they go down deep and find the inside of the chicago sears tower? Can you imagine their disbelief?  We have ONE such item on our planet and only one that may be from prior apocolypse and that is the sphinx which is dated to 10-25,000 years ago. 

Now imagine Jesus on the island getting his year long tuteledge like the old leaders did at Heliopolis and learning all about the precession cycle, the astrological zodiac and the piscis vessica (the pattern which appears as an interference pattern of 2 stars aligning - see Rings of Ophion).  When he went back to explain it, perhaps he drew it as something others could relate to, perhaps he drew a boat anchor!

That may be the secret link between the TRUE knowledge - the Piscis Vessica - and the corrupted knowledge - the Chi Ro.  And at our most important sites (was Jesus Arthur? Did he and the 12 reunite at Glastonbury and unify England against Rome? Leading to the font of all of our current civilization? Did he retire to the celtic civilization? Speculation? Maybe.). 

Now look carefully at the well cap cover. we see two stars. The shamash. The same symbol we have from the accadians and sumerians. THE SAME! The same critical archaeology which is all around us EVEN IN VATICAN SQUARE. IT IS CRITICAL. Naw cant be. just mad ramblings right?

So what is left from our past cycle? Perhaps this - Adams Calendar, dated to 70,000 years ago. A ancient stonehenge astronomical calendar. 

OK now lets dive DEEP. Ready? First we look to ancient Sepphoris and find this mosaic. (Hamat Tiberius, Galilee (4th century c.e.))

To the dumb average person, its a Helios symbol, and a chariot. No it isnt. It's a picture of the end destruction of our planet which occurs every 26,000 years. The big secret of Egyptology and now of Christianity our modern secret religion.  On the bottom near the hooves, we see the 2 Shamash symbols. Or two stars. We hypothesize that we have some kind of binary star effect when this happens that triggers our collapse.  Up in the sky, we see our sun shining TOOO bright. Earth is swung too close to the sun? then the moon. Then the Shamash or our binary star swinging in from an elliptical orbit but normally far away, causing the wobble in our precession cycle. When these two stars get close and strong, we see the piscis vessica pattern, the interferance pattern of two STARS. The third eye concept, is because in between them seems to appear a third object. This is what is on the well at glastonbury Tor. This is what is being depicted and they even put in 2 shamash stars as if we can't understand it.  And in the early Chi Ro, they add the alpha and omega.  end times. But Christ, taking all this in, tries to explain it to his followers as Fish, and Anchors. Terms that simple fishing folk could understand. This is why we get the odd confusion in the symbol of the Chi Ro. 

By the time of the sixth century Beit Alpha zodiac, things are stylized. The horses are hard to make out.  Notice the stylized 2 stars at the bottom of christ as shamash images. Some say that these are the four seasons. But no, they are horses in despair. Something bad has happened.

This is also depicted under the Vatican in the ancient tombs. Some wonder, why is Helios there? No it isn't Helios and it isn't Christ. It is a depiction of CATYCLYSM with the horses and the charioteers gaze all of HORROR.  This is what the horses going every which way depict. 

Dionysis at the Crucifiction, and the Mismanaged Fish Hookhttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b4/67/b6/b467b6dc76f02d7ed1ae9a82d31436a4.jpg

Troubling. Very troubling. Has Paul snuck the dionysian myth (or the BUDDHIST MYTH) of the crucifiction into the bible? As part of his re-working of the story?

I present some facts.

One: Dionysus is preset at the crucifiction. 

How very odd indeed. From Acts (attributed to Luke):

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” 33 At that, Paul left the Council. 34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

What is Areopagus? "Areopagus. The hill of Mars, the seat of the ancient and venerable supreme court of Athens, called the Areopagites" - Topical Bible

Damaris is granted a sainthood and is prominent in the greek orthodox church as a follower of Paul. So what we have in Acts is a speech by Paul most likely TO the Areopagus or supreme court of Athens. 


Two: Crucifiction From Buddha
The first telling of crucifiction is of the Buddha, 500 years earlier. 

"Buddha’s mission and death. In his teaching, the Buddha is opposed traditional rigid laws, rebukes intolerance, dogmatism, ritualism, and priestly hypocrisy. He censors the unquestioning adherence to the Vedas and criticizes the bloody sacrifices of the Brahmins.[206]

Voluntarily he leads a life of utmost simplicity as a beggar – a life of renunciation – and mixes mostly with the lowly in society.[207] He accepts an invitation to eat in the house of a prostitute, for which he is criticized by the prominent people of the town.[208] He is called the Seer (prophet), the Master, the Blessed One, the Enlightened One, the Lord and “the Awakened One”[209] and he calls himself Tathâgata (Sanskrit and Pali: “The One thus-come [to Truth]”. Peter’s threefold denial of his Master Jesus, has its equivalent in Buddha’s favourite disciple Ânanda’s threefold failure to ask the Buddha to stay on for the rest of the aeon.[210] The Buddha also has an enemy, his wicked cousin and once his disciple, a traitor by the name of Devadatta. He makes three attempts at the Buddha’s life but fails every time. Just like Judas Iscariot, he meets a deplorable end, as he is swallowed by the earth and goes to hell, boiling for an eon.[211] Jesus converted a robber on the cross. The Buddha turns a robber (Angulimâla) from his evil ways and makes him his devotee.[212]

The Buddha eats a last meal,[213] dies, and attains (pari)nirvâna. His death is presaged by a solar eclipse,[214] a great earthquake and a thunderstorm:

And when the Blessed One had passed away, simultaneously with his Parinibbana there came a tremendous earthquake, dreadful and astounding, and the thunders rolled across the heavens. (Suttapitaka, Dîghanikâya[Mahâparinibbânasutta], 16:6:12; also 16:3:10)

Buddha is said, in a probably post-Christian scripture, to have risen after his death, and opened the coffin and spoken to his mother who came to visit him from “heaven”.[215]

The crucified Buddha. A probably pre-Christian and rather unnoticed text in Sanskrit is “The Story of Gautama, the Progenitor of Ikshvâku”, which is found in Sanghabhedavastu.[216] Here we find a remarkable parallel to the crucifixion scene of the Gospels.

Gautama abandons his life as heir to the kingdom and turns to the ascetic hermit Krishnadvaipâyana who like John the Baptist subsists only on what wild nature produces, in this case fruits, roots and water. Just as Jesus, Gautama thinks that his teacher’s life is too ascetic, and he seeks a less ascetic life, a sort of middle course.

A harlot is murdered and Gautama is innocently accused of the murder. He is brought before the king who is persuaded by the crowd of his guilt and sentences Gautama to death by crucifixion (literally: to be put “on a stake”). In the Gospels, Governor Pilate is persuaded by the crowd and crucifies (stauroo) the wrongfully convicted Jesus.

They announce Gautama’s crime and sentence, a parallel to the inscription at Jesus’ cross.[217] Then they put a garland of oleanders around Gautama’s neck, just as they put a crown of thorns on Jesus’ head. Gautama is driven out of the city through the southern city-gate and he is fixed “on a stake while still alive”. We are told that Gautama “has been pierced”, so that his “joints have been loosened” and that he is suffering from “severe pains” but that his mind is not injured.

Gautama’s ascetic teacher Krishnadvaipâyana is worried about Gautama who has not had time to engender any offspring, a fact that probably will give him bad karma. He therefore persuades Gautama, while still hanging on the stake, to produce two drops of semen which mixed with blood falls to the ground and are transformed into two eggs. These eggs crack in the sun and two princes are born. Gautama dies as the sun rises, but resurrects indirectly in his offspring. His teacher sees the eggshells near the stake and realizes that the two boys (princes) must be the sons of Gautama. Each of the princes in succession is made an “anointed king”. To be anointed king is the exact meaning of the Hebrew word Messiah (the anointed).

Moreover, in the place where they crucified Gautama lie the crushed eggshells. These eggshells are called kapâlâni in Sanskrit, the word kapâla (kapâlâni in the plural) meaning eggshell as well as skull or cranium. Jesus was executed on Golgotha (In English Calvary; in Aramaic Gulgolta) which means “the skull”. The place is also referred to as “place of a skull” and possibly the hill resembled a cranium." - The Jesus Parallels (1st edition, 2007) by Roger Viklund Umeå, Sweden

Also we see the prominence of Dionysis as the first "Re-Birth" and acension to heaven:

"Diodorus speaks accordingly of “a new birth” and he says furthermore that this can be traced “back to certain causes found in nature.” Dionysus is presented as “the twice-born” (Dimetor) since he is a god of vegetation. The first birth is “when the plant [the vine] is set in the ground and begins to grow” and the second “when it becomes laden with fruit and ripens its clusters”. Dionysus therefore is “considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine”.[132]

And like Jesus, who was consumed as wine and bread, also Dionysus and the goddess of growing plants, Ceres, was thought of as the divine substance of wine and bread which was consumed when eaten.[133]

Dionysus’ resurrection. Dionysus was believed to have risen after his death. On the island of Thasos, in north-eastern Greece, an old inscription speaks of Dionysus as a god who each year renews himself and returns rejuvenated.[134] After doing this he was thought to have ascended to heaven." - Viklund Ibid.

Let's look to the first image of the crucifiction we have. Its from a third century coin. It was in a museum in Berlin but lost after the war. We still have its casting:

We also have a drawing of what is a more technically accurate crucifiction. Arms bound not pierced, pulled back to assist in the asphyxiation, and legs pierced through the ankles to the SIDES of the cross. 

But when I look at the coin (who is to be Dionysis based on the inscription, not Jesus) I see the fish-hook, the huge ship anchors  from the sea of Galilee, the northern lands of Bethany. And I wonder, was there some need or meaning or ceremony to someone to climb aboard these giant anchors to steady them or perhaps some initiation ceremony to be fishermen. Were they even submerged, to rise again from the waters (a baptism?) all as rites of fishermen. Speculation? Perhaps. But remember this. Galilee is the largest and only freshwater lake of significance in or near Israeal so it's of tremendous importance, and also the town of Nazareth is just 10 miles away. 

so is it a cross or an anchor, that someone knowing of dionysis took to be a cross? 

an ancient anchor with 3 tines. The Chi-Ro symbol is 4 tines. 

Try to picture that in your head. 

an ancient chi-ro mosaic. Cross or Anchor?

A 4th century Chi Ro. 

Remember that it is easy to tell the age of your "chi ro" if it shows doves or Alpha / Omega, it is modern.  If you look at the 4th century chi ro, try to picture an achor with 4 "hooks" as two bars crossed, and then in three dimentions, the central lifting bar rising from above, with the loop to attach the line. This is what really we are seeing with the chi ro. And what may be pomegranates on each side (later badly mi-interpreted as alpha and omega) may in fact be stylized anchors. All of this iconography telling us it is Christ the FISHERMAN and what better symbols than the fish and the sea. So try to see it in three dimensions. This image really helps us to see that the chi ro really, is an anchor in 3 dimensions

So did people see the old images of dionysis?

Here finally, we have the sixth century mosaic of Jesus carrying the anchor. NOT A CROSS! and smiting both lions (the state) and vipers. 

ancient christian graffiti - fishhook

tombstone of the second or third century: Museo Cristiano, Vatican Rome

Hagakol, Son of the Crucified One

A shocking discovery. The body of a crucified man and son. From Roman times. Sitting in a museum in Israel.

The man - has no name. He is simply "Hagakol" - The crucified one.

Amazingly his young son is dead beside him. His son is called Hezkil - Ezekiel.


After the flesh had decomposed a year or so later, leaving only the skeleton, his bones were gathered in a simple stone box, an ossuary, in keeping with the Jewish practice of that time. Today, the box is displayed in a gallery at the Israel Museum alongside other artifacts from the period of Roman rule in Judea.

Inside the box, archaeologists found a heel bone with an iron stake driven through it, indicating that the occupant of the ossuary had been nailed to a cross.

The position of the stake was evidence of a crucifixion technique that had not previously been known, according to museum curator David Mevorah. In the image of crucifixion made famous by Christian iconography, Jesus is pictured with both feet nailed to the front of the vertical beam of the cross. But this man’s feet had been affixed to the sides of the beam with nails hammered separately through each heel.

His hands showed no sign of wounds, indicating that they had been tied, rather than nailed, to the horizontal bar.

You can begin to understand the suffering when you imagine, lifted on the cross thusly, the first instinct is to lift your body with your slightly bent legs. But the Romans would take a large hammer and break the thigh bones, forcing all the weight onto the arms - slow suffocation over a few days. 

The ossuary was found to contain a second skeleton, that of a young child. (photo credit: Courtesy the Israel Museum, photographer: Ilan Shtulman)

The surprising lack of similar physical evidence for crucifixion elsewhere, Mevorah said, may be due to beliefs that crucifixion nails had magic properties. People in the ancient world, he said, “might have collected the nails as amulets.”   But in this case the nails were driven in with such force that they could not be removed.

Yehohanan was not alone in his ossuary: Inside, archaeologists found a second skeleton, this one belonging to a child aged three or four. They also noticed that the side of the ossuary bore a second, fainter inscription near the first. Curiously, this one also read “Yehohanan.”

After the discovery of the ossuary in the 1970s, the famous Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin suggested that the faint inscription referred to the crucified man and the second inscription — Yehohanan, son of Hagakol — to his son.

“Hagakol” is not a name familiar to scholars, and this theory suggested it was not a name at all. Instead, Yadin thought, having looked at similar words in use at the time, it might have meant “crucified.” The inscription thus read: Yehohanan, son of the Crucified One.

The child Yehohanan, in this version of events, died not long after the elder Yehohanan’s execution, and his bones were added to those of his father in the unadorned stone ossuary kept in the family’s burial cave north of the walled cit