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Chapter 16 - 420 BCE  
     
298.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Eight hundred and twenty years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (420 BCE)
4.
 Upon the destruction of Yeb (Elephantine)
5.
 The most sacred site
6.
 of all Judaism
7.
 By Governor Nehemiah
8.
 The High Priests of YAHU
9.
 Descendants of Akhenaten
10.
 Did send out small groups
11.
 Of priests to establish
12.
 New Settlements
13.
 Across the lands
14.
 Each being a small community
15.
 Dedicated to holiness
16.
 The first monasteries
 
299.
    
1.
 One such community
2.
 Of the sacred priests of YAHU
3.
 Was on the shore of Lake Mareotis
4.
 Another community
5.
 Was founded in central Greece
6.
 Near the town of Magnesia
7.
 It was On account
8.
 of their knowledge
9.
 And skill in medicine and science
10.
 Their respect for life
11.
 That the monastic community
12.
 Of the High Priests of YAHU
13.
 became known as the Therapeutae
14.
 the first doctors
15.
 of the ancient world
16.
 Later to be also known
17.
 As the Essenes
 
300.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Eight hundred and eighty four years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (356 BCE)
4.
 A mighty prince was born
5.
 to Philip the King of Macedon
6.
 His name was Alexander
7.
 Philip was tutored
8.
 by the nearby Therapeutae of Magnesia
9.
 Priests of Yahu
10.
 The King was powerful and wise
11.
 Uniting all the city-states of Greece
12.
 But for his son
13.
 He sought men who could unify tribes
14.
 And build empires
 
301.
    
1.
 Of all the students of Plato
2.
 No greater there was than Aristotle
3.
 As a student of Plato
4.
 And Plato of Socrates
5.
 They had developed
6.
 the art of reason
7.
 That man might know a thing
8.
 Through the reasoning of mind
9.
 Not the mysticism of druidry
10.
 While Plato used spiritual knowledge
11.
 And wisdom inherited from Socrates
12.
 In turn from the druids
13.
 Aristotle hated the druids
14.
 Almost as much
15.
 as he hated the ancient gods
16.
 of superstition
17.
 For Aristotle saw the age of Celtic tribes
18.
 As destroying and corrupting
19.
 Thoroughly wicked and barbaric
20.
 Whereas the plight of man
21.
 Was through civility
22.
 and written laws
23.
 and culture
24.
 In contrast, Aristotle saw
25.
 The hatred of the Holly druids
26.
 To written word
27.
 As supreme arrogance
28.
 That ultimately would be their doom
 
302.
    
1.
 It was Philip who appointed Aristotle
2.
 The brilliant and ambitious man
3.
 To be his sons tutor
4.
 In Alexander,
5.
 Aristotle foresaw the perfect prince
6.
 A boy whilst intelligent
7.
 Lusted for blood
8.
 And the clash of battle
9.
 Obsessed in success
10.
 It was a match
11.
 Made by the gods themselves
12.
 For upon the death of Philip
13.
 Aristotle built the Empire
14.
 While Alexander bathed in the blood
15.
 Of countless enemies
16.
 But one enemy
17.
 Alexander was sworn to avoid
18.
 A great battle with the Celts
 
303.
    
1.
 For every battle won
2.
 For every city conquered
3.
 Aristotle would bring his administrators
4.
 Scribes and craftsmen
5.
 To bring the land into an empire
6.
 Soldiers of conquered lands
7.
 Then did serve under Alexander
8.
 For further conquests
9.
 So that a massive army
10.
 Did he raise
11.
 Nine hundred and seventeen years
12.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (323 BCE)
13.
 Weary from endless battle
14.
 Kept away from his home
15.
 By Aristole
16.
 For most of his life
17.
 The Young God King
18.
 Gave up the ghost
 
304.
    
1.
 While Alexander
2.
 would be long rembered
3.
 The thousands of scribes
4.
 who slaved day and night
5.
 to serve their master
6.
 ensured Aristotle
7.
 would be the greatest
8.
 For what man
9.
 could but prosper in name
10.
 by claiming the ancient knowledge
11.
 of a hundred lands
12.
 as his own?
13.
 His crowning glory
14.
 The Great Library of Alexandria
 
305.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 Nine hundred and forty years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (300 BCE)
4.
 The height of the Keltoi
5.
 While such a system
6.
 As devised by the Holly
7.
 Did restore great power
8.
 It did bring an ultimate price
9.
 For the Keltoi tribes
10.
 Did not advance
11.
 Beyond their own world
12.
 They did not unite
13.
 In civilization as Alexander had
14.
 Only in war did Keltoi stand united
15.
 For nothing did they relish more
16.
 Than Battle
17.
 A monster then had it become
18.
 Uncontrolled and insatiable
18.
 Keltoi tribes
19.
 Continued to attack the Latins
20.
 And even the Greeks
21.
 in Ireland
22.
 While the rules of High King
23.
 Withstood bloody conflict
24.
 Amongst the lesser kings
25.
 Tribes were now
26.
 At constant war
27.
 Ireland no longer
28.
 the shining light
29.
 Of knowledge
30.
 Such honors to the East
31.
 Had travelled
32.
 The Island declined in stature
33.
 As the Holly Family
34.
 Immersed themselves
35.
 in wealth and status
36.
 Unconcerned of the legacy
37.
 Around them
 
306.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 One thousand and thirty two years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (208 BCE)
4.
 A terrible sign appeared in the heavens
5.
 Upon the approach of the comet Encke
6.
 As tradition since ancient times
7.
 a comet signaled
8.
 Bad omens
9.
 So Encke did bring hardship
10.
 To many cultures
11.
 And spared others
12.
 The meteorite swarm did come
13.
 Yet not as destructive
14.
 To all mankind
15.
 As in ancient times
16.
 Some hundreds fell
17.
 Across the Levant
18.
 And cultures of the Mediterranean
19.
 Yet many did smash
20.
 The lands of the Celts
21.
 Of Northern and Central Europe
 
307.
    
1.
 Upon such signs from heaven
2.
 Rationale men forgot their reason
3.
 Superstitions arose again
4.
 In the lands of the Romans and the Greeks
5.
 Spared from any destruction
6.
 Their good fortune
7.
 Brought great devotion
8.
 To the ancient gods
9.
 that spared them
 
308.
    
1.
 At the time
2.
 The old Temple of Cybele
3.
 Magna Mater
4.
 the Great Mother
5.
 to the Romans
6.
 long since replaced
7.
 under the Forum Romanum
8.
 Only a small shrine
9.
 remained to the goddess
10.
 In the Farnese Gardens
11.
 Upon the Palatine Hill
 
309.
    
1.
 Upon the signs of meteorites
2.
 A tradition associated with Cybele
3.
 A new Temple was hastily commissioned
4.
 Upon the Mons Vatis Canus
5.
 Known as Vatican Hill
6.
 The Roman Senate
7.
 Did order a troop
8.
 To raid the lands
9.
 of the Galatians (Turkey)
10.
 the Celts of the Anatolians
11.
 And take the most sacred
12.
 Black meteorite
13.
 Known as the Stele of Cybele
14.
 And the Black Stone of Cybele
15.
 From its ancient temple
16.
 In the city of Pessinus
17.
 To Rome
 
310.
    
1.
 There in Rome
2.
 A great temple to Cybele
3.
 The largest in all of Rome Was built
4.
 Upon Vatican Hill
5.
 which means
6.
 The hill
7.
 of the white haired soothsayer
8.
 And the Stele of Cybele
9.
 The Great Black meteorite
10.
 was placed In front
11.
 of the great and mighty Temple
12.
 In honor of the goddess
13.
 Queen of Heaven
14.
 To protect the city
15.
 To honor the goddess
16.
 Doves were released
17.
 And cakes were baked
18.
 Hundreds of children
19.
 And babies Were slain
20.
 Their blood and flesh eaten
21.
 By the eunuch priests
22.
 As they cut themselves
23.
 In frenzied orgies to honor the goddess
24.
 With the temple prostitutes
25.
 consorting with novices
26.
 not yet castrated
27.
 A practice that continued
28.
 Upon this Hill
29.
 Longer than evil
30.
 should ever reign
 
311.
    
1.
 The the lands of the Araba tribes
2.
 Such signs did return
3.
 devotion to the goddess
4.
 and the black meteorites
5.
 With a shrine erected
6.
 in the Village of Mecca
7.
 For which a black meteorite
8.
 was placed as the cornerstone
9.
 In honor of the goddess
10.
 Known as Kyba (Kybele/Cybele)
11.
 Here they named the shrine
12.
 the Ka'aba
13.
 a site that soon became
14.
 most sacred to all the Araba tribes
15.
 In a land destroyed
16.
 by such rocks
17.
 from the gods of the heavens
 
312.
    
1.
 Within one year
2.
 of the comet
3.
 and meteorite swarm
4.
 the weather cooled
5.
 In the lands of Egypt
6.
 Of the Carthaginians
7.
 Of Asia
8.
 And Palestine
9.
 rains did not come
10.
 crops began to fail
11.
 Famine swept
12.
 Throughout the land
13.
 Causing revolt and angst
14.
 The High Priests of Yab
15.
 For the first time
16.
 Did abandon their settlement
17.
 With High Priest Simon
18.
 And travel north
19.
 Unto Jerusalem
20.
 To become the new High Priests
21.
 Of the Temple
 
313.
    
1.
 To the tribes of the Celts
2.
 Such signs of fire
3.
 then cold with failing crops
4.
 were signs of the return of ancient gods
5.
 Druids in European villages
6.
 Did break their vows
7.
 Drowning victims in bogs
8.
 To appease the gods
9.
 The strength of the Celts left them
10.
 And great armies and cultures
11.
 did collapse
12.
 Only the cultures along
13.
 The Northern shores
14.
 of the Mediterranean
15.
 Were spared the wrath
16.
 of the ancient gods
17.
 of men
 
314.
    
1.
 In Ireland
2.
 The calamity
3.
 Did bring again
4.
 The chaos of blood
5.
 And ancient worship
6.
 But Did shake
7.
 The ancient druids
8.
 To awaken
9.
 From their hording of treasure
10.
 And selfish arrogance
11.
 To take control
12.
 And prevent anarchy
13.
 Upon the sacred Isle
 
315.
    
1.
 Throughout the world
2.
 great battles fought
3.
 over great distances
4.
 as civilizations sought to survive
5.
 While the Romans and Greeks
6.
 prospered
7.
 with the blessing
8.
 of their new found devotion
9.
 New festivals were arranged
10.
 In honor Of the Queen of Heaven
11.
 Known as Eostre
12.
 to the Celts
13.
 An annual festival
14.
 At the end of March
15.
 In which a pine tree Was cut
16.
 And brought to her shrine
17.
 The tree then adorned
18.
 With violets
19.
 In honor of Attis
20.
 Then a day of the festival
21.
 Being the Day of Blood
22.
 At which the High Priest
23.
 In his Mitre hat
24.
 in honor of Attis and Cybele
25.
 Would cut himself
26.
 As would all devotees
27.
 Spraying the altar
28.
 And tree with blood
29.
 A celebration
30.
 Then in three days
31.
 The Goddess Was paraded
32.
 with her crown
33.
 Through the streets
34.
 In honor of her power
 
316.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 One thousand and sixty five years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (175 BCE)
4.
 The Essene Jewish priests under Onias
5.
 First from Yeb
6.
 forced to flee Jerusalem
7.
 To Egypt
8.
 Upon the war of the Sadducee Jews
9.
 Where Ptolemy VI
10.
 Did grant them
11.
 The right to build a new temple
12.
 at Leontopolis.
13.
 In these times
14.
 Many of the Jews
15.
 had come to believe
16.
 Without question
17.
 The writings of Ezra
18.
 To be true
19.
 That while greater age
20.
 And right could be shown
21.
 To the High Priest of Yeb
22.
 And while the history of Ireland
23.
 And Judaism
24.
 Was without question
25.
 In the bloodlines of Judah
26.
 Their absence in the Bible
27.
 Was not an act of man
28.
 But God
29.
 Anomolies that history
30.
 Would one day erase
31.
 These men and women
32.
 Who believed without question
33.
 In the truth
34.
 of Ezra and Nehemiah
35.
 Became known as the Pharisees
36.
 While ignorant of fact
37.
 And devoted to fable
38.
 Were good of heart
39.
 And considered human sacrifice
40.
 An act of abomination
41.
 Something the Sadducee Priests
42.
 Who lived to burn people
43.
 In sacrifice
44.
 Saw as mere ancient custom
 
317.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 One thousand and eighty one years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (159 BCE)
4.
 The son of Onias
5.
 High Priest Moreh Zedek
6.
 The teacher of righteousness
7.
 Returned from Leontopolis
8.
 To rid the Temple of Jerusalem
9.
 Of evil
10.
 With within six years
11.
 Came the rise of the Sadducee dynasty
12.
 Of the Hasmoneans
13.
 and Jonathan Apphus
14.
 Unable to return to Egypt
15.
 Moreh Zedek did form
16.
 The community of Qumran
17.
 Upon the shores of the Dead Sea
18.
 There he did establish a scriptorium
19.
 And settlement
20.
 for the exiled Essene priests
21.
 The ancient priests of Yeb
21.
 There, Moreh Zedek (Zadok)
22.
 Had a son named Barachiah
23.
 Who in turn became High Priest of YAHU
24.
 While in time a small band
25.
 Made the great journey
26.
 Back to Yeb itself
27.
 And started a very small community
28.
 Amongst the abandoned settlement
 
318.
    
1.
 In the Great Age of the Ram,
2.
 One thousand one hundred and thirty seven years
3.
 Since the dawn of the Great Age (103 BCE)
4.
 The son of John Hyrcanus
5.
 whose name was Alexander Yannai
6.
 did inherit the throne
7.
 He did extend the Kingdom of Judea
8.
 in defeating rivals
9.
 and increasing wealth of trade
10.
 smashing the last of the Sabeans
11.
 And making the port city of the South of Arabia
12.
 named Aden a Jewish centre of trade
13.
 He did force many of the arav (arabs)
14.
 which means desert people
15.
 who lived south of the River Jordan
16.
 and the Sinai and the north of Arabia
17.
 also known as the Nabatu (Nabateans)
18.
 to convert to Judaism
19.
 For these people, the nomads
20.
 Held the key to the desert springs
21.
 and the priceless trade up from Africa
 

 
 
 

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