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Chapter 15 - 560 BCE  
     
273.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Six hundred and eighty years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (560 BCE)
4.
 The wisdom of Jeremiah
5.
 And the power of the most sacred treasures
6.
 Had awoken the most ancient Druids
7.
 From their forgetfulness
8.
 And dark rituals
9.
 Upon the uniting of Ireland
10.
 Now a fearsome band
11.
 of warrior tribes
12.
 The Holly did resolve
13.
 To regain power
14.
 No longer through other kings
15.
 But an Empire
16.
 Built not on politics
17.
 But culture and faith
18.
 With no centre that might be crushed
19.
 or corrupted
 
274.
    
1.
 Eochaid with his wife Queen Tea Tephi did order
2.
 New knowledge to be formed
3.
 The druids did devise new poems
4.
 Simple and clear
5.
 Laws and rules for tribal warriors
6.
 They did re-fashion long lost weapons
7.
 The return of the chariot
8.
 Yet with new science of the road
9.
 A respect for knowledge
10.
 And the wisdom of nature
11.
 They did imbue
12.
 So warriors were poets
13.
 And diviners of nature
14.
 that they could read the signs
15.
 Of the enemy
17.
 And not waste their lives
18.
 Upon the errors of generals
 
275.
    
1.
 In the faith of Jeremiah, Eochaid did reveal
2.
 Secret wisdom of his own blood ancestors
3.
 in the reincarnation of the soul
4.
 That an honorable death in battle
5.
 Would return a greater warrior
6.
 To respect the gods of nature
7.
 To respect a brave enemy
8.
 that the head of the enemy
9.
 bravely slain
10.
 Was to be revered
11.
 not cursed
 
276.
    
1.
 The druids did know
2.
 from ancient curse
3.
 when a king dies
4.
 The family pick like crows
5.
 The Druids did devise
6.
 A culture of local belief
7.
 In gods and heroes
8.
 And tribes were preserved
9.
 That one King might be vanquished
10.
 And ten more carry forth
 
277.
    
1.
 Yet in priests most strict the Holly be
2.
 For no one may be named a druid
3.
 A Brehom of the law
4.
 Other than those who did study
5.
 For such an honor
6.
 Thus for the first time
7.
 in all history
8.
 A druid no longer be blood
9.
 of the Cuilleain
10.
 But one who did show honor and truth
11.
 For the bonding of word
12.
 Remained most high
13.
 That any oath of a Celt
14.
 Be honor bound
15.
 In this life and the next
 
278.
    
1.
 But most of all
2.
 The Holly did honor the word
3.
 To Jeremiah
4.
 To the end of human sacrifice
5.
 For no children nor people
6.
 Were to suffer the fates
7.
 Of those unfortunate
8.
 To Meet the priests of the Greek Temples
9.
 or the Latins
10.
 or the Syrians or Sadducee Jews
11.
 A pledge honored
12.
 In spite of dishonorable scribes
13.
 from Greece and the Latins
14.
 Who sought to tarnish
15.
 Their own acts upon the Keltoi (Celts).
 
279.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Six hundred and eighty five years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (555 BCE)
4.
 Queen Tea Tephi
5.
 Daughter of King Zedekiah of Jerusalem
6.
 The last of the Messiah Kings of Judah
7.
 Did pass from sickness in the arms of her husband Eochaid.
8.
 The old King, distraught with grief refused all aid
9.
 And died soon after
10.
 So that their son and heir Lugaid mac Eochaid
11.
 Did witness his crowning upon the funeral of both his parents
12.
 Buried as one, in embrace.
13.
 A solemn oath upon their grand tomb to be a great king
14.
 High King Lugaid made both sons swear also an oath
15.
 To his son Congal and to Eochaid Uairches
16.
 That no blood be spilt between kin
 
280.
    
1.
 Lugaid did reorganize the Kingdom.
2.
 He appointed Congal to help him administrater the North.
3.
 He appointed Eochaid Uairches to help him administer the South.
4.
 Ireland was then divided into five
5.
 The Kingdom of Ulaid (Ulster) in the north
6.
 The Kingdom of Cóiced (Connacht) in the west
7.
 The Kingdom of Mumha (Munster) in the south
8.
 The Kingdom of Laighin (Leinster) in the east
9.
 All four surrounding
10.
 The kingdom of Míde (Meath)
11.
 The Kingdom of the High King Lugaid Of Ireland and Celts
12.
 That Kingdom of the last bloodline of Messiah Kings
13.
 The last bloodline of the Hyksos Pharaohs
14.
 The last bloodline of the kings of Ebla
15.
 The bloodline of the first priests
16.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
17.
 Six hundred and ninety five years
18.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (545 BCE)
19.
 The fame and influence of Lugaid
20.
 Of Keltoi had spread
21.
 So far and wide
22.
 That Ireland became
23.
 The centre of learning
24.
 And wisdom for the whole world
25.
 Only the best students
26.
 Were chosen to come
27.
 Ones like
28.
 Pythagorus of Samos
29.
 Did come to Ireland
30.
 Unto the school of Jeremiah
31.
 On the banks of the River Shannon
32.
 To read and learn
33.
 The most ancient scrolls of the Egyptians
34.
 And cultures
35.
 Upon their knowledge and secrets long lost
36.
 To return and open
37.
 The age of the modern man
38.
 Where ancient knowledge was claimed
39.
 As one’s own
40.
 And the culture of the self
41.
 Became supreme
42.
 A belief system perfected
43.
 And worshipped by the Greeks
44.
 Who hated the druids
45.
 And their ancient heritage
46.
 On account of their own
47.
 So dedicated in years to come
48.
 To robbing all ancient knowledge
49.
 And claiming it as theirs
50.
 Whether it be Egyptian
51.
 Or Akkadian, or Babylonian
52.
 Or Phoenician, or Druid
53.
 All of it was claimed as Greek
 
281.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Six hundred and ninety seven years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (543 BCE)
4.
 The Great King Lugaid did give up the ghost.
5.
 The Kingship did then rightfully fall to his son Eochaid Uairches
6.
 But Congal had been the King of the North
7.
 He had built a great army and conquered lands into Europe.
8.
 Congal refused to give up his title of the North
9.
 And so Eochaid Uairches mac Lugaid became
10.
 King of Southern Ireland and Celts
11.
 and Congal mac Lugaid
12.
 King of North Ireland and Celts
13.
 A strange truce amongst brothers ensued.
14.
 But each devoting their hatred of the other into war and conquest
15.
 Both seeking to outdo the other in land and influence
16.
 And repaired ancient highways
17.
 Long abandoned
18.
 They re-built temples and cities
19.
 Returning skills and crafts
20.
 Long forgotten
21.
 So that within just fifty years
22.
 From the launch of the Keltoi Philosophy
23.
 It had spread as far East as Turkey
24.
 And as far north as the lands of ice
 
282.
    
1.
 Congal mac Lugaid, the Holly King of the North
2.
 Took his Keltoi armies across the Sea
3.
 To Scotland and then to the Marsh Lands and Germany.
4.
 Eochaid Uairches mac Lugaid, the Holly King of the South
5.
 Took his armies across Spain and into the Inland Sea (Mediterranean).
6.
 In all the ports of the Phoenicians did the sea travelling Celts land.
7.
 Exchange of Gold and Natural Bronze increased their wealth.
8.
 But greater than Gold, their new found faith set ablaze
9.
 And Celtish Civilizations abounded across the world.
10.

Congal mac Lugaid had one son and several daughters.

11.
 Whose name was Conaing Bececlach mac Congal
12.
 Eochaid Uairches mac Lugaid had but one son
13.
 Whose name was Lugaid Lámderg mac Eochaid.
14.
 Conaing Bececlach mac Congal, the great grandson of King Zedekiah
15.
 hated his cousins with vengance.
16.
 And several times did seek to end their lives and the truce.
17.
 For this his father did banish him
18.
 as General of the Celtic Armies of the Lands (Europe).
19.
 There, midst the blood, the severed heads did Conaing Bececlach mac Congal swim
19.
 until his father's death.
 
283.
    
1.
 As the philosophy of Keltoi spread
2.
 And the wisest came to Ireland to study
3.
 And trade with Ireland increased
4.
 So did the wealth
5.
 of the Holly family
6.
 The High Druids
7.
 They did take their wealth
8.
 and Build the first private estates
9.
 Across the ancient world
10.
 Beginning with Ireland and Britain
11.
 then Spain
12.
 the Ha Rama Theo
13.
 The bloodline of the House of Judah
14.
 In exile.
 
284.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and three years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (537 BCE)
4.
 The Persian King Cyrus the Great
5.
 Did commission the rebuilding
6.
 Of a new temple for the Jews
7.
 In Jerusalem
8.
 In which the Ark never sat
9.
 Which was finished twenty years later
10.
 During the reign
11.
 of Darius the Great.
 
285.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and fifteen years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (525 BCE)
4.
 The Persian King Cambyses II
5.
 Did defeat Pharaoh Psamtik III
6.
 Near the East mouth
7.
 of the River Nile
8.
 The Persian King
9.
 Upon capture of the Pharaoh
10.
 Had him executed
11.
 Declaring himself Pharaoh
12.
 Upon the word of the Persian victory
13.
 The High Priests of Yahu
14.
 Upon the Isle of Yeb (Elephantine Island)
15.
 Did send a mission
16.
 With the Ark of the Covenant
17.
 South to the city
18.
 And Kingdom of Axum
19.
 Where it stayed for a time
20.
 Returning to Yeb
21.
 And back to Axum
22.
 When the most holy of holy shrines
23.
 of all Judaism
24.
 Upon Yeb (Elephantine)
25.
 was destroyed
26.
 for the last time
 
286.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and twenty six years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (514 BCE)
4.
 When King Eochaid Uairches mac Lugaid was lord of the South
5.
 His brother Congal mac Lugaid
6.
 Holly High King of the North and the Celts
7.
 Great Grandson of King Zedekiah, Messiah King of Jerusalem
8.
 Grandson of King Eochaid the Great and Queen Tea Tephi, the Lioness of Judah
9.
 Did give up the ghost.
10.
 His son, Conaing Bececlach mac Congal
11.
 Recalled from duty
12.
 Took up his father's vacant throne
13.
 The rift between them never resolved.
14.
 Now Holly King Conaing Bececlach mac Congal of the North
15.
 Did first seek the revise the treaty with his uncle
16.
 Holly King Eochaid Uairches mac Lugaid lord of the South
17.
 But secretly to end him and become King of all Celts.
18.
 It was the brave son of King Eochaid
19.
 Whose name was Lugaid Lámderg mac Eochaid
20.
 That discovered the plot and saved his father.
21.
 And Seven hundred and thirty five years
22.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (505 BCE)
23.
 Assumed the throne of the South.
24.
 Holly King Conaing Bececlach mac Congal of the North
25.
 Send his army to the South to seize Holly King Lugaid Lámderg mac Eochaid
26.
 But brave King Lugaid Lámderg held his ground
27.
 When all was but spent, he retreated to the hills of South Munster
28.
 There, his cousin spent his army and time
29.
 Seeking to end the life of his cousin
30.
 To no avail, for twenty years.
31.
 And as Holly King Conaing Bececlach mac Congal of the North
32.
 Failed to see the day he would be anointed
33.
 King of all of Ireland and the Celts
34.
 It was to the son of his adversary
35.
 Art mac Lugaid Lámderg
36.
 Who Seven hundred and fifty eight years
37.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (482 BCE)
38.
 who as High King, united all of Ireland
39.
 And ended the feud of the Holly
 
287.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and eighty one years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (459 BCE)
4.
 When King Artaxerxes I was lord of Judea
5.
 And much of the Eastern world
6.
 He did send his Head scribe named Ezra
7.
 To Jerusalem with senior priests
8.
 In order to establish order
9.
 To the faith of Judaism
10.
 Expanding upon the work
11.
 of Jeremiah and Baruch
12.
 Four years after
13.
 the arrival of Ezra
14.
 The new Governor of Judea
15.
 Appointed by the Persians
16.
 Whose name was Nehemiah
17.
 Did arrive with strict orders
18.
 To eliminate any person
19.
 Found practicing the ancient dark arts
20.
 For the first twelve years of his rule
21.
 Nehemiah did devote his time
22.
 As administrator and builder
23.
 Sparing little attention
24.
 to the calls of Ezra
25.
 But before his return to Persia
26.
 To report on his work
27.
 Ezra did speak
28.
 Noble Governor
29.
 While you have rebuilt
30.
 the exterior of the city
31.
 Its rooms remained filled
32.
 With wickedness and malice
33.
 Which will seep through
34.
 and crack the foundations
35.
 For while the priests
36.
 of the new temple
37.
 And noble families
38.
 pretend outward piety
39.
 Ezra did explain that
40.
 Secret sacrifices and demonic worship
41.
 Were being practiced
42.
 throughout Jerusalem
43.
 Nehemiah asked him
44.
 How then do we stop a people
45.
 Who outwardly wear white robes
46.
 And speak like the greatest magi
47.
 Yet hide the darkest of hearts?
48.
 Ezra replied
49.
 Even after the Babylonians
50.
 Had executed all the nobles And priests
51.
 less than one hundred and fifty years before
52.
 Jews throughout the region
53.
 did resist
54.
 ending their secret evil ways
 
288.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and ninety seven years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (443 BCE)
4.
 King Artaxerxes I did give permission
5.
 To Nehemiah to write a complete
6.
 Scripture for the Jews
7.
 For the task
8.
 he did send with him
9.
 Upon his return
10.
 the finest scholars and scribes of Persia
11.
 Nehemiah did then commission Ezra
12.
 To edit the scriptures of Jeremiah
13.
 And introduce reforms
14.
 so that All Jews might consider
15.
 the sacrifice of human beings
16.
 as abhorrent
17.
 as any true Zoroastrian
18.
 For eighteen years
19.
 the best scribes worked day and night
20.
 To complete a master work
21.
 They edited the scriptures of Jeremiah
22.
 They edited the scriptures of Isaiah
23.
 They edited the scriptures of Ezekiel
24.
 Including copying large volumes
25.
 of Zoroastrian scripture
26.
 of Psalms and songs
27.
 and Kings that never were
28.
 So what was true
29.
 and what was false
30.
 ceased to be clear
31.
 so finely threaded the stories
32.
 Until their work was complete
33.
 The greatest single volume
34.
 ever conceived
35.
 Nehemiah did name it the Mikra
36.
 Which means reading
37.
 The Bible of the Jews
 
289.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and ninety seven years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (439 BCE)
4.
 Art mac Lugaid Lámderg
5.
 Holly High King of all Ireland and the Celts
6.
 Great Great Great Grandson of King Zedekiah, Messiah King of Jerusalem
7.
 Great Great Grandson of King Eochaid the Great and Queen Tea Tephi
8.
 Great Grandson of Lugaid mac Eochaid
  Grandson of Eochaid Uairches mac Lugaid
9.
 Son of Lugaid Lámderg mac Eochaid
10.
 Did give up the ghost
11.
 The Holly Kingship did then fall to his son
12.
 Ailill mac Art
13.
 Who reigned for forty one years.
 
290.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and eighty one years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (425 BCE)
4.
 Nehemiah returned to Persia
5.
 To show the King the great work
6.
 But the King was gravely ill
7.
 And gave up the ghost
8.
 Then followed a period
9.
 Of great upheaval
10.
 Until Darius II was crowned King
11.
 Nehemiah was given an audience
12.
 With the new King
13.
 Where he was tasked with reciting
14.
 New scripture to the King
15.
 Before he would approve it
16.
 One year later
17.
 The King was happy with the Mikra
 
291.
    
1.
 Within the new text
2.
 Ezra had created an important ceremony
3.
 Called Passover
4.
 This ceremony was to be performed
5.
 by every Jew every year
6.
 Where animals, not humans are sacrificed
7.
 Darius sent out an order
8.
 To all Jewish settlements
9.
 throughout the Persian Empire
10.
 That the new texts
11.
 and the ceremony of Passover
12.
 Was to be observed.
 
292.
    
1.
 Eight hundred and twenty years
2.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (420BCE)
3.
 High Priest Yedaniah
4.
 Descended from Jeremiah
5.
 Descended from Isaiah
6.
 Descended from Ezekiel
7.
 And the most sacred of all Jewish priests
8.
 Were instructed to undertake
9.
 A new ceremony created by a Persian scribe
10.
 In honor of a story created
11.
 To stop Sadducee Jews
12.
 From sacrificing children
13.
 High Priest Yedaniah
14.
 Politely declined
15.
 But Governor Nehemiah asked again
16.
 And upon the second rejection
17.
 Nehemiah Ordered the destruction
18.
 Of the most sacred site in all Judaism
19.
 Using a garrison of Persian troops
20.
 Without permission of the King
21.
 Thereupon Nehemiah
22.
 Refused to answer the requests
23.
 Of the High Priests of Yeb
24.
 Unaware it was Nehemiah
25.
 who destroyed the most sacred of all places
26.
 for Jews
27.
 For seven years they asked
28.
 Until King Darius of Persia
29.
 Finally heard what he had done
30.
 Nehemiah was stripped of his authority
31.
 And sent in exile back to Persia
32.
 Darius then ordered the rebuilding of Yeb
33.
 And a decree that no garrison
34.
 nor living city
35.
 be stationed near the Island
36.
 Nehemiah in disgrace
37.
 Then gave up the ghost
 
293.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Seven hundred and eighty five years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (455 BCE)
4.
 As was custom up until the Celtic Wars
5.
 First of the Latins
6.
 and then the Greeks
7.
 Wealthy and powerful families
8.
 And priests
9.
 Did send their sons
10.
 To Ireland
11.
 To the great schools
12.
 Of the druids
13.
 One such boy
14.
 The son of a wealthy
15.
 and powerful family of Athens
16.
 did come
17.
 His name was Socrates
 
294.
    
1.
 As was custom
2.
 All teaching was oral
3.
 By rote and lesson
4.
 Whereby students would
5.
 Need to recite long poems
6.
 Of law and history
7.
 Of science and mathematics
8.
 Without changing a word
9.
 Such was the exacting standards
10.
 Of the ancient druids
11.
 of the Holly
12.
 But to Socrates
13.
 While such learning
14.
 Filled his mind with facts
15.
 It did not satisfy his thirst
16.
 for knowledge
17.
 That comes from dialogue
18.
 And question
19.
 Within seven years
20.
 he rebelled against his schooling
21.
 And left to travel the trading ports
22.
 Of the Mediterranean Sea
23.
 There he found men
24.
 who would recite
25.
 Druidic poems to passer-bys
26.
 Who in turn
27.
 would give them coinage
28.
 For exchange to food
29.
 Socrates soon found his calling
30.
 Reciting the poems he had learnt
31.
 And creating his own
32.
 While debating other orators
33.
 On whether they understood
34.
 what they had spoken
35.
 Or were mere parrots
 
295.
    
1.
 Thus the genesis