Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The PutrakameshTi Asvamedha Dasarajna Ya
The PutrakameshTi Asvamedha Dasarajna Ya
The PutrakameshTi Asvamedha Dasarajna Ya
Time(Sun) As The Body Of God, Son Of God , Voice Of God, King Of Man, Son Of Man
And Food of Man In Vedic/ Christian Sacrifices
Vijayabhaarati
The PutrakameshTi(Dasarajna/Kurukshetra) Yaaga
And The Deciphered Bharata Varsha(Indus) Script
The Secrets Of The Vedic/Christian Fire Worship Rituals
Time(Sun) As The Body Of God, Son Of God , Voice Of God, King Of Man, Son Of Man
And Food of Man In Vedic/ Christian Sacrifices
Abstract
The decipherment of the Indus Script shows the Vedic
PutrakameshTi Yaaga as the basis for the sacrificial rituals of
major world religions like Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism,
Christianity etc.There is only one god,the sun,but the sages
call him by different names RV.1.164.46
Malchus/raksha/rakta/soNa. He is
, VishTarasrava/mangalapatra , ,
, ,
, mangala puujita-
honoured with an offering or sacrificial fee ,Hari Srii,Srii
hari)+nu(weapon,praise; spear,arrow,club, cakra, vajra etc.
are weapons to make vis+nu> Vishnu/Kausika/GokarNa/
KRshNa(ka-rusha/Kausika/trisanku ,
,
Garuda/Herod , , ,
Narayana-budha-suta-putra-Vidura , , , ,
, , ,
, , , cf.akshadyuta-chess>surya
ahas-solar
day/ahas-caturaha beginning on Thursday/ ahas-tetrarch/
Vishnu, beginning avatara /va-rsha /vaa-sra /vaara
from Matsa/rusha/arusha/Arjuna/Phalguna.
Samaya>tanaya>yajna.Sebaastian with astra-arrow-sarat-
arrow of time- indicate Vishnu/Visva/varsha/patra/svar-
, , , it becomes bhaanu-sun/sthaNu-
god/praise of agni/saashTaanga namaskaara-prostrating
before the deity/king. Pa/va-raising is nu/praise.When
, )/Buddha/Baudhayana/
Jina/sura/ Putra(sutra; praja;varsha;bharata;cf.rajputra,
aryaputra,patrician,pater,Peter etc.)/ Soter/Ezra(traa-to
save)/Xaviour of the temple and the nation.The year (varsha>
svar-word,sun,sky>sa-god,rava-sun> sava(sacrifice,
agni,ashTa,pu,ru)-ara(alt-ar;asta, dasa, astya, satya,tara,athar
cf.Satya bhaama;Pu-tra/Rudra is agni-shToma>Hari/maanava/
maapana/pavamaana/Rg/gira-schandra(soma/bull/
>bha(va/ra/sa/aga/aja/hari/agni) -rasa(srii,
Caesar/amRta/Dharma/marta/mRta ,
>srava-ear >ka(kha)-rNa(nR)/king of kings
/marga(dharma-religion)/mRga>gari(hari)ma(srii)-gravity,
weight, venerableness/ Samraaja/ Agni-Ra/KRshNa/king’s year
cf. usha-sava-saka-aksha-ahas-sabha(sa-bha)-savana-samaya-
Savana>varsha>panca>aksha>saka>sava>sabha(palace,Church/B
eth-melech/Bethlehem).Being rasa/rasana/ratna/racana/raajan ,
Muruka worshippers spear their rasana ,and Caesar was killed by
Brutus(putra),Jesus was pierced with the spear,being
budha/jina/sura/ soma/putra/ budhna/Vishnu. The two deified
emperors of Rome were Julius and Octavian/Augustus ,
though emperors from Tiberus were Augustus.By
spearing/crossing they become deified as Kausika/Indra/
Visvamitra/Bha(unicorn/suurya/ suura/suula)-rasa(soma/lata)>
varsha/putra/karsha as voice of god/king.
cf.Equinox/Agni/samaya/tanaya/yajna/medha/mesha/aja with
Aries and Libra.Maanava(man) and maapana(scale) indicate
pavamaana(purification).Second glyph shows spearing the Christ.
yaja,rajya,rasi,jati)/Garuda/KRshNa/Kaala/Raama/Bharata/bha-rasa /bha-arata>paayasa
>madhura>biija/bhaasa/vaaja>sukla,-rajata-dasra cf.30 silver pieces of Judas,Raising of
Lazarus,riding on dasra/donkey,”satya” of Christ before Pilate to denote Nasatya or
matsya/pisces>sukra-palm , , -panca-aksha-ahas-savana-samaya-tanaya-vaasra-varsha-
completion, the Lord of Fire, Agnideva appeared and gave a bowl of sweet(paayasa -
sweet>bhaasa-light-tejas>biija-retas-sukla-sukra-surata-putra-varsha) to the King of Ayodhya, which
was provided to his three queens in order to promulgate his sons Sri Rama(raja cf.Jupiter,Thursday,
Visakha), Lakshmana(daksha-dasa year), Bharata(Bhadra/Sukra) and Satrughna(sa-drughaNa-
Brahma-Saturday) forming tetrarchs or caturaha or garta or harta or Garuda/Herod/
/Vishnu Satra/mitra/putra/varsha/vaasra(bull,day,
house , Visva mitra savana -suurya
udaya/savana/vansa/varsha/Duryodhana>Rex Iudaerum;
Bharata/bhadra/Indra/Rudra/Putra/Mitra/Vivamitra -suurya/suuryodaya/
> >
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Sacrifices_Yield_Boon
_Giving_Pudding.jpg/220px-Sacrifices_Yield_Boon_Giving_Pudding.jpg
Putrakameshti/Asvamedha performed by King Dhasharatha-
RsyasRnga performed the holy sacrifice and the final day of the event, a dark skinned
deity(kaama-kaala-KRshNa-syaama-samaya-tanaya-yajna) appeared from the
sacrificial altar and handed over a vessel of paayasam to Dasaratha.
It was the great sage Sanat Kumara(matsa putra/pavamaana) who first came to
know about it from Lord Vishnu.
The great sage passed on the knowledge of the Homam to sage Baudhayana.
Performing the yagna in accordance with Yajurveda guidelines results in the attainment
of a child.
The yaaga helps the couple to have a healthy progeny with Narayana’s blessings.
King Dasaratha of Ayodhya performed the yagna for the attainment of his four kids.
Moreover, it was King Dasaratha of Ayodhya who first undertook the yagna that Sage
VasishTa recommended him.
RsyasRnga Muni, an Yajurveda expert was the supervisor of this holy yagna that King
Dashrata undertook.
Yajurveda is a holy Hindu text that contains the guidelines for the prayers of the yagna.
Forth the successful completion of the yagna, the Lord of Fire, Agnideva gave a bowl of
sweet to the King(kaala.agni>kamaagni;Yaja-sacrifice-satra-cross-crossing-surata- is
saya-sex)
On Lord Agnideva’s advise the King gave the sweet to the three(strii>srii>3) of his
queens.”Behold Woman ,this is your son”is Biblical statement for this.
And this resulted in the birth of his sons, Sri Rama, Lakshman, Bharata and
Shatrughna(sa-drughana/caturaha/Tetr-arch/cross/dasa/altar /pu-tra>4
, , , ,
simultaneously, ).
The verses call Lord Vishnu(Narayana) as the origin of the human’s race(nara).
Since Lord Vishnu is the centre of this holy ritual, the couple gets his blessings by
performing it.
Lord Vishnu’s blessings come in the form of a healthy child for the couple.
The positivity that arises from the chantings results in the activation of the fourth
Anahatha is the chakra of love where Vishnu resides. Its activation ensures a strong
bond between couples.The Christ was speared on the side of his chest to make “srii
vatsa”.The Full moon of month of Mesha/Aries falls in Visaakha/Raadha-lover of
KRshNa(sunrise)/raaka-Full Moon/dhaana-palace.PutrakameshTi is
asvamedha/Asvatthama as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrakameshti
https://myoksha.com/putrakameshti-homam/
The significance of tithis(lunar dates,sthiti-
position/place- of soma-moon from agni-sun
in the ecliptic) in sacrificial calendar
The lunisolar calendar was used to determine sacrificial
(savana>sa-vana>sava-ma>madhava>madhu> soma>
sura>rasa>dasa>kaala) dates and festival(ut-sava) dates.
Maasa(moon,month) denote medha(sacrifice).The month was
made projecting the day/agni/ahas into the phase of the
moon.Arka/diva-dasa/vaasra/sun being dvadasa-12,there are 12
maasa/months in the varsha/samaa/samaya/ yajna(samaapa)/
tanaya(soma/suta/stu/ishTi/satra/sarat/darsa-New Moon)
which is also the dvadasa hora(twelve hour) period of saavana
(sunrise to sunset day.This is also the ministry period of the
Christ).
1.Prathama/Eka/aga/aja/aha>sa-1,arka,agna-fire
sun,pramada,rava-tama,rava-dama,varddhana as in Govarddhana
parvata/prabhaata.Prathama is prabhaata in the northeast.This is
dasra/Asvini/Asvins-Nasatya and Dasra/sarat.Its octave
repetition is aksha/ashTa/ashTami/agni.
2.Dvitiiya>ubhaya>dva>dvi>rava/ravi/sava>Yama>BharaNi/nRp
a/V-aruNa with Yama as deity.It is Arunodaya/Arimathea/
dawning/Akkaldaama/Ahalya/kalya/kanya/Arkadhaana/agrasth
aana of the month/year.
3.Tritiiya/tri/traya/trayii/srii/Gayatri/SavitR/KRttika/Kausika/
Visakha/Subramaya/Kartikeya/divasa/David/raaja/Raama/king.
The three headed bulls/ trident head denote pu-tra/mitra/
Indra/ Visvamitra/ Narayana/ Asvatthama/ Suryodaya/
Duryodhana.Sunrise is savana/sa-avana/salvation.Savana is also
navami as in Rama Navami.The raa(trident)+ma(marta/
dharma/mitra/Indra)>raama>raja>jaara(Indra) etc.
4.Caturti/catvara/turiiya/suurya/paada/vaara/veda/deva.
Vinayaga(Vi-naayaka;ina-aga;ina-aya-aga;Vighnesavara;
agnesavara) is allocated to caturthi.It is RohiNi/ sobhini/R-agni. It
denotes the sun bearing its sobha/soma/shine/ray as kara
(ray,trunk of elephant;karabha>bharga>varaha>arka>hara) .
Hence Soma/su-ma/su-na/veda is allocated to this star.KiraNa is
grain/karNa/srava.Hence the month of SravaNa ruled by Soma is
allocated for vedic learning.
5.Panca/aksha/ahas/agna/pa-aasana/savana/ vansa(cf.Kuru,
Israel). Pancagni,Panca Paandava,Pancaala,Naaga Pancami etc.are
other examples. The fifth lunar date is allocated to the hotter sun
of the day entering the sign of Sukra>sukla-white,the hot sun is
the white sun>Su-kara/ hara>Durga> Pushkara>putra(being
second to Mesha,the first).The fifth sign belongs to
Leo/Deo/Augustus and the day of the lord of the sign Leo, as Son
of god ,is Sunday! It was emperor Constantine,who made this
arrangement in 321 AD.
6.Shad/shadka , , ,
/shadaha/salka/kalasa/ cakra/ratha/ tara/athar/ asta/ashTa/
dasa/sata/sat.The dharma cakra/Visva mitra has six kara/ tara/
arka/aksha/ahas/spokes to denote shadanga(veda, ritual)/
kings>raajarshi>suryodaya , , )
paaNi(kara/aksha/akshara/ raksha/ daksha/asva) >
Vishnu,money,barter,house,praise>vana-tree,house,water ,
, >siras>Caesar>masta>matsa/
jayasrii/aparaajita-Invictus/ Sol Invictus.Dawning or
appearance of light in the northeast everyday makes it the
angle of perpetual victory of the Devas.The Solar month in
the seventh is called Caitra hence.Kalya(dawn) and sandhya
(dusk) make it kanya(Virgo,ka-ayana,ma-ayana>na-ayana>
m-atsya).
aajna(head).Shadabhijna(cf.abhijna>naama>maana>miina is
chaaga(Ram,Saka,Visakha,Mesha,saakha) ,
mukha(face).The fish with 4(suurya,turiiya,ayana,caturaha) fins is
Duryodhana(suuryodaya-sunrise-savana/ Iudaerum)/
Narayana(matsya- avataara-savana-adhvara-varsha-panca-
vansa-Pancaala;The weight is stoma>stu-ma>suta-ma>suta-
dharma>Dharma putra>amRta putra-kaala-varsha-samaa>
Thus the day is projected into the bright half of the lunar month.
vaasra/vaasara/vaara/bhaara , , is paatra,paartha
and mangala/Rg –soma/stoma pavamaana(maapa-na/maana-
va/agni is soma.Man-ra+ jar/spear-ka >raaka>raaja> srii>Rca>
Rg.In M-1186 the body and Jara are shown separately to make
Rg/Saka.Netra>aksha> saka>sava> satra> putra.Fish is
ayana/asta/antya/passage/passover.With na/ ma it becomes
nayana/yamuna/kaala/haayana). Hasta/bhuja is aksha,ashTa and
subha making ashTa mangala, pushkara or putra/kali
varsha/Hari varsha >karaNa/ patra/veda>sruu-veda> drava-
varsha agra-haa-ayana>agnishtoma>Rg-soma-pavamaana-
ayana-ishTi/bha-rasa , /pu-rasa/bha-
rasana/ka-rajan>KRshNa>bha-racana/ svar/veda/Peter and
dasa>spear >cross(suurya>caturaha-dasa-dasra-ara-
varsha/Varddha naama/maana/stoma/satra/netra)
>amRta(sun,soma)> marut>dharma> dharma cakra(cf.Asoka
cakra) > Rg/Hari/dig-ambara/soma> suveda/sveta-
/vishTara(tree) , /ushTra(bull
agnishToma/nakshatra , ,
RshTi/spear denote ra-ishTi/agnishToma/spearing the
Christ with the Holy Lance/ayudha/udaya>kshetra>traa-
aksha>Draksha(sura-aksha>sura-saka>soma-saka>rakta-
soma>akshara-Vishnu/veda-Aksha paada-Gopaala/KRshNa)
>raja-dhaana>yaaga- saala>Asvatthama
ayana(kanya/kalya/ahalya/Beth-lehem/k-aala)>sava , ,
, , >kanya>kaala>kesa>kesa-va(Rshabha)>Dasa-
- , Rg/Raghu/Raaja/Raama/Daksha/Suurya
Varsha/Suurya vansa/Naaga/ashTa/ishTi/veda/Dig ambara;
veda is raja/srii/iisa/ ambara/go/soma(chandra/
sky/nabha/ bha; stoma-praise, house, palace,phallus,var-
sha) raja(rasa/ratha/tara/athar/dhara/viira/sura) vansa/
va(bha)-rsha/rusha/Rca/stoma, >suurya
vansa/varsha> king’s year>surya ratha>soma sacrifice as
depicted in the design of the KoNa-ark temple.
Arka(body,fish,Rg)/agna/cakra/Sakra yaaga/haya/
kaaya/gaatra/kaasara/asva is agra
haayana(varsha/samaa/samaya/syena
/yajna>paartha/Bharata>paatra-jar/praasa-spear,praasa in uras
of INRI on dasa-cross-kratu>partha varsha)/ varsha/
abda/asva/samvatsara-agnishToma-caturaha-caturanga-
aksha-saka-kaala-kesa-temple , or stoma-
7+hasta/aksha/satra/darbha/bhadra/panca/varsha-5 or
8>Saka/Kali-55557 or 88887>Saka-154 or Saka-246 on division
by 360 as vatsara is 360.Vatsara is vatsa(son) of
Ra(Bull/uksha/Taurus/aksha/ahas).Gayatri(yaga/haya-
srii/agni)/
satra(sama/yama-vastra satra(sarat>saras> sa-rasa
Vaasara(ahna/aha/aga/eka/week,weekday , , ,
,
cf.bracket>vaara>vaasra>stoma>agnishToma)/
varsha(year,adhvara,place, svar)/ vaasra(bull,house)/
vetra(rod)/Vaara/bhaara/ maaDa/meTa/medha/
varsha/praasa/paatra/aga/aha/eka stoma/svar is seven cf.
, , , , , , , , , ,
, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
, cf.nu/nava/rava/paNa/baaNa/paana/stoma
cf.panca>pa-asana>vansa>pancagni as aksha-
Rca>varsha>svar>srava>sruu>sruti-veda), Rshabha,Vishnu(vis
; vi/bird,horse-soma/rasa/sara/raaja ;
Vishnu , (vi-soma>ravi-soma>aksha-ra>
ahas-ra>Sakra>Cakra >Sagara>sa-arka/agna/ahna>
vatsara/vastra , varsha-
vatsara-putra-Dharma Putra/samraja/viraaja/Yama
raaja/samaya/kaala/raaga/naaga-ashTa-agna-bhadra-
cf.saptaha/saptasva/agnishToma/saptaha satra.
Sapta is sa-pada and sarva/visva.Ka(king)-tra/rasa-
ma>ka(raaja)-dharma>Dharma raaja>Dharma putra>
KRshNa>Kaala(varsha/samaya/yama).The Jews too suppose
a conjuction of the sun and Moon/New Moon there to begin
the sacrificial year” of god.Hence the crucifix/body of
sun/body of Christ/Soter on the cross-dasa-sabha-savana-
yajna-samaya-tanaya/putra/ bharata/varsha/ kaala/Beth-
melech/ Bethlehem/ma-dasa/Matsa/ masta/dasma/dasam/
miina/Sinai mountain/kaala cakra/ Kaala-kuuTa/Gol-
gotha/udayagiri/dasa ratha/samaya ratha/soma
rasa/savana dina/yajna dina/raajadhaana/ yaaga
saala/Pancaala/Somaka/sava-saka-sadas-sabha-sasta-sasti-
shashTi-Rg-raaja-ara-altar , , , , , , ,
, , , , (marriage of Cana;
vismaya/atbhuta>vi-samaya>su-samaya>sat-kaala>
satkaara> good time; ayana> asta>
dasa>ashTa>ishTi;sara>panca> aksha>ahas>
saka>savana>Panca>Ayana os aksha/ ahas> Pancaala
/Somaka.The day was divided into five parts to make it
vaasra/ahna/ahas/aksha)/ mangala vaarta (annunciation)/
mangala varsha(good time or year cf.Mal.Mangala
vaartta)/sal-lekhana/Saka dina sankhya/kalidina sankhya
etc.These were used to create bali/levies/gifts to the
temples/kings like the dasamsa, shadamsa, ashTamsa etc.by
the priests in return for the bali/sacrifice the king performs
for the nation or his body/sariira.Sariira raksha is protection
of th body/nation done by the
Putra/raaja/Bharata/Indra/Dharma putra/ Dharma raaja.
Sariira/body is nara/nR/srii/sa/ ra/ka/ kshetra/ gaatra/
bera/viira/aala/sena/deha/anna/ tanu/soma/ sun. Raksha/
protection is pa/va/ bha/tra/tara/
rasa/sara/panca/aksha/ahas/ahna/aha.Ra-tra is ga-
tra/satra/ rakta/soma/soNa/blood.Sariiraraksha(food) was
made sariira(anna/vaaja-food,sacrifice,water,war,arrow)
and rakta(blood,soNa/soma/peya;medha-juice of meat as
kaalakuuTa(Golgotha) cf. , , , , ,
, - k
(gira/dhara/rasa/tra cf.cross is 1+ 3>4> caturaha/
raaja/Rg/ra) -aala ( ayana-marga/Mark-Passover-agra
haayana-“it is finished” with Nisan 14 and 15 to make the Full
Moon of Vaisakha “the first month” of the sacrificial or
ecclesiastical calendar with Soma or Moon or John in the
asterism of Visakha in Libra/maapana/maanava/pava-pu-ra-
maana>purification/Soma Pavamaana , ,
or janana/jnaana/snaana/sa-naama/ Ramayana/ Narayana/
purification/baptism on “15th Year of Tiberius”/ aasa/
asta/dasa/varsha-sarpa/ snake-patra-leaf,writ,bird cf.INRI
or Visvamitra Rajarshi/ putra/darbha/vaasra/ varsha/
kaala) kuuTa/ Atharva/varsha/putra/pu-ra/su-ra/so-ma/
adhvara as kaala> varsha> patra> sarpa>cakra and aala is
kuuTa/ kakud(hump of bull-royal symbol) and KuuTastha/
Kakudstha/Golgotha/Gagultha is god(Indra).Abel and Cain are
the first Putra in the Bible.Then we have Jacob and Esau,Aaron
and Moses,David and Solomon,John and Jesus,Jesus(Augustus)
and John(Tiberius) etc.In vedic texts we have Mitra and
VaruNa,Vishnu and Sesha,Rama and Bharata/ Lakshmana,KRshNa
and Balabhadra Raama etc. to denote yajna,samaya,sa-yama and
tanaya(putra/ varsha/kaala/ kesa/desa/dasra/satra).Vaisakha
satra/ sarat/ varsha/putra marks the beginning of the king’s
year,temple year,ecclesiastical year,sacrificial year in the vedic
and biblical traditions.
cf. ).
We have seals with setu/bridge and also crest over the dasa-
ten,time/ X/Roman numeral 10/cross/Suurya/Varsha to
indicate varsha/Visva , , , , , ,
, , cf.Vinayaka Caturthi,
Sarasvati, Sarat,Dasra,Asvina,adhvara,
varsha,svar,sabda,sapta, Sabbath.The ahas/day is covered by
aksha/panca/savana/Pancaala/David.The remaining two parts
of the savana/seven gives two/dvi/Yama/kaala/Sani/Nisa-
night,the flood of Noah,Manu etc.The boat landed on the
seventh day of the senth month to denote svar/moksha/soma.
In the Mahabharata, it is Drupada bandhana.In the Bible it is
Guru-teacher-paada-feet,veda-vandana-worship where Jesus
washes the feet of his disciples,especially of Peter to wash his
head also as he is Caesar-Siirsha-Head-Emperor-
Cakravartin-Bharata-Indra-Visvamitra-Peter-Pope-
Pontifex Maximus of the Roman empire,savana-is
bathing also as already noted) denote Thursday.Next is Venus-
Friday-where death occurs-death of the first borns of
Egypt,death of Christ,Nisan-14.Next is Saturday,but it is the
Vernal Equinoctial Sunrise/date of Salvation,it is Krittika,it is
tritiiya(third lunar day) and it is dRsya(sight,it is birth,it is
Nisan-15-Full Moon) ruled by the sun,lord of Sinha/Leo/
Deo/Divus/King/ August/ Augustus/ most high.It is Saturday
or SavitR(sun/ son) day. This is the High Sabbath for the Jews
and John.Harappan seals also indicate this by a man sitting on
a tree by the side of a sinha(tiger,also called Raaja/Leya
cf.Biblical Nicodemus or Zacchaeus) .The Next asterism is ruled
by Soma/ Sun/Sunday.There are 27 lunar asterisms(sidereal
month) and 30 lunar dates(synodic month),the gap of 3
(srii/Kusika/ Indra/Visvamitra) has to be filled by the time the
son of god(kaala/samaya/ sa+yama> 1+2>3>tri> raatri>strii>
nisa>Sani>taraNa>savitR>setu-the bridge to cross from sunset
to sunrise) takes to resurrect.The New Moon/ Amavasya/
Emmaus sight of the Christ , fills the gap on the asterism
RohiNi-Sobhini -ruled by Soma/sun, sky,moon-where sun of
the day appears bright with soma/sobha/sushine. This is the
gap from dawning/ Asvina/Nasatya/ Dasra/ Lazarus/
donkey,palm to the bright sun of Morning,the light(Ketu) of the
world in the asterisms. The bible (Genesis.6.3) says the life
term for man is 120 years.The same can be seen in the
Vimsottari(120;120*3>3-6-0>va-tsa-ra>vastra-cloth)
dasa(year) paddhati(scheme) of sage Parasara in the Hora
Sastra treatise by his name. He divides the 27 asterisms into 3
groups of nine(120 degrees/120 days;savana was year of 360
days or day from sunrise to sunset) and the first asterism is
Krittika(Plaeides),and it is the Vernal Equinox according to
him. Astronomically we can see that the period of Parasara
agrees with the period of the seal H09 from Harappa.The
Ramayana(Narayana-Vishnu;raaja-ayana> sacrifice of the
king,passage of the king to Lanka/ Naaka/
Canaan/Kalam/Kamsa/hansa-sun) begins with the
PutrakmeshTi Yaaga /putra(son/sun)-mahaa(great)-ishTi
(satra-sacrifice) which also is the crucifixion of the son of God!
The passover is retold in the story of Haroshet
Haggoyim(Hebrew: חרושת הגויים, lit. Smithy of the Nations) a
fortress described in the Book of Judges as the fortress or cavalry
base of Sisera(Satra/Dasra/Tishri/Libra/Tiberius), commander
of the army of "Jabin(savana/samaya/yajna), King of Canaan
(Naka-sky)".His chariot(ratha) is the ratha of Dasa/kaala/
Dasaratha.Varsha(year/abda/asva) is svar(sabda/ vac/
sapta/divasa/tvisha/dvija) of Rg/raaja/god. The word “dabar”
(Hebrew: )דָּ בָּ רmeans "word", "talk" or "thing" in Hebrew.
According to the Book of Numbers, “Ta-berah(dabar/svar)” is one
of the locations, the Israelites passed through during their Exodus
journey. The biblical narrative states that the place received its
name, which means burning, because the fire of the LORD had
multiplication number,times,savana,Mal.tavaNa
/bhaara- cakravarti , ,
samaya/Dasa-raaja/Dasa-ratha , .He is
Indraavaraja- being avaraja-brother>avatara-
incarnation(vishnu avatara/ vatsara/adhvara begins in
agnishToma/Pancaala AshTamangala
paNa/vishnu/sun) ,
sayana>yajna>Raama >raaja>srii>iisa, ,
Sakra/Sukra/patra/bhadra/bharata/veda -
/Ka-rNa/Vi-raja/Vi-shnu(soma)/Rajarshi
cf.
Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florence, showing the lance piercing the
side of Jesus on the cross (c. 1440)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Fra_Angelico_027.jpg/260px-
Fra_Angelico_027.jpg
cf.
Image credits:https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp6835616.jpg
There is a famous shrine of St.Thomas near Malayattur ,near the
site of Pattanam, in Kerala,even now.St.Thomas is portrayed with
a spear,which is the same spear(ka-king,time/praasa-
raaja/kunta-spear,agni kuNTha-place of sacrificial fire/pareta-
dead-sava-corpse,sava-sun,sacrifice,sacrificial altar;kunda-
Vishnu;nu/ha-weapon, praise;ayudha-weapon,udaya-
sunrise;vis/man-nu>Vishnu;ka-nR/man>KarNa>ka-
>ayana>nayana>ma-ayana>ma-dasa>ma-sta>sat-ra>shad-ra
Sumerian Anzu-d(soma-da/ra>suuna-da>agni/ra-shToma/
soma/stoma/tomra>varsha>vaasra>vaara>bhaara>stoma>sapta
>svar) with ashTamangala
symbol.
Kaala/VaruNa/KaruNa cf.Divya-nal-karuNa>Holy Eucharist/
karNa/srava/varsha/nRpa has a paasa(rope;pa-aasa/ka-aala/ma-
asta/ma-dasa/ra-saya/ra-stara/va-asta/vatsa)/
vaaja(sacrifice,food,arrow,war>yajna>samaya>tanaya-son-sun)>
Bharadvaaja(Rg)>saaba>k-satra>kshetra>
go-il(Mal.koil/kovil-temple).The emperor/soma is the
sky/noon/moon/time.Soma-raaja/Soma-pa/Go-pa/Go-
paala/Horus/Garga/Karka/kaTaka/ Kaala/Varsha/
Dasaratha-agrahaayana , )/samraaja/raaja
raaja/KarNa(Ka-nR>ka-rajan>KRshNa>king of kings/king as time
or sun)/Dhar-ma-raaja/Dharma putra/Marta
putra(Christ/INRI)/Bharata(bha-rasa) /Vi-shnu
Nisan
Nisan (or Nissan; Hebrew: נִ יסָ ן, Standard Nīsan, Tiberian Nīsāncf.
Mesha>medha>maasa>samaa>samaya>yajna-satra-dasra-sarat-
Sarasvati cf.kaalapravaaha/kaalacakra/kaalakuuTa-kalpa-
kapaala-bharga-varsha/Dasaratha/Golgotha>syena
-mahaa-samaa-samaya-tanaya-syaama-syena-yajna /
, , samaapa/KRshNa-garjana-
karsana.Sinha is panca-vansa-varsha-praja-putra.Two tigers
make 5+5>10>dasa>ara>altar>ashTamangala>ten
commandments.The ratha/sira/dharma/kaala/cakra-wheel
on the head-sira make Dasaraaja >Dasaratha>
Dasasira>dasa-jina>dasa-dina>Dani-el in the
den/ten/dina/ahna/time of lions also/ Hari-Rg-Kali cf.veda
patra is dvi-pa whence Moses-Soma-Veda gave Mosaic law on
two stone-sila-jina-tablets-patra.Karsana/garjana/
proclamation.Elephant and water buffaloes are krishNa-
syaama-kaala-gaana-naaga-mahaa-ashTa-asta-dasa-
ten,time,meat.In the Ramayana-raja ayana-passover-yajna
Rama son of Dasa-ratha/sira , , , ,
miina>matsya) cf.Narayana , ,
/n(ma/deva/veda/king)-ayana(aasa,aasya,astya, asta,
house,sacrifice cf.masta,matsya, miina,nayana)/Kaanya as in >Ra
Caesar(siirsha /tiirtha/snaana/jnaana/janana/siras/
Bharata/bhadra/cakra/ dharma/ marta/amRta/ putra/
Iesus(Visva/Vaasava cf. , , , )-
Nazarenus(Mitra/Indra/dharma )-Rex(Daksha/
, , >kaala>
gaana> giita> palm>psalm>Rca> varsha>va-Rca>bha-Rca> bha-
rata> bha-tara>bha-rasa>amRta>dharma> mRta>pareta-killing
the first born-agra haayana>praasa-spear>marta-
man>taraNa>Indra> patra>putra>veda>Visvamitra>Vishnu
mudra>Vishnu dharma> Vishnu Mitra>Vishnu
Indra>Raajarshi>Kausika>Vishnu >
Vis/agni/na/ra/nara/nR/srii/hari/Rex-nu/ha/ka/praise/
weapon/stoma/ayudha/udaya-Judea-Iudaerum/
king>Vishnu>Pancagni>Mi(ma)-tra(3)>netra>Indra(go-
tra/pu-tra)>dharma>potR>agni hotR>pu-tra>
Viira>Ra-vi>Rabi>Nabi>Guru>Kuru>Puru>Rg>pu-
ra>purusha>praja>na-ra>nR>mR>dharma>varsha>su-ra>svar
Ramayana/marga/Mark)/ka -ayana(kanya/kalya/
Kaanya/raajya/varsha-desa-dasra-satra-year,place/
patra/varsha/praja/putra /tanaya/samaya/yajna–
Saka>aksha>Daksha/Panca/savana/samaya/yajna/aksha/saka .Sarva/varsha/sarpa/visva-iisa-
satra/ashTa/ishTi .Visvamitra-Daksha -
Sava/suuya/suurya/suta/Judas/Putra/stu/savana/
panca/vansa/varsha/svar/suurya/aksha/ahas/saka/gaja/kesa-Satra(IshTi) >Putra-
ashTa/ishTi/satra/sarat/agna/ asta/dasa/bhadra/
bhadraasna/putra/patra/ dharma/veda cf .Ark of the
Parasu>pRthu-king,agni,varsha>kratu-
sacrifice,Vishnu,Christ/ agrahaayana-New
Year/satra/ara/alt-ar) Nisānu, the "month of beginning".
14 Nisan – Fast of the Firstborn – on 12 Nisan when the 14th falls on Sabbath.Moving
from Aries,it will take 14/15 days to reach Libra to make the full moon aspect to
fall on the Vernal equinox and the Sun in Aries.Hence this day for the Passover of
kalasa>sa-agna/hari/Rg/kaala/gaana as in ashTa-ka>kaala>raaga>
Birkat Hachama (ברכת החמה, "Blessing of the Sun" cf.Easter blessing of the son) refers to
a rare Jewish blessing that is recited to the Creator, thanking Him for creating the
sun(son). The blessing is recited when the sun completes its cycle every 28 years(cf.28
lunar asterisms given one year each) on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says
that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world
was created. Because the blessing needs to be said when the sun is visible, the blessing
is postponed to the following day, on Wednesday morning.
According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28-year solar cycle known as machzor gadol ( מחזור
גדול, "the great cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the
Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is thus recited every 10,227 (28 times
365.25) days. The last time that it was recited was on April 8, 2009 (14 Nisan 5769 on
the Hebrew calendar.
From an astronomic point of view, there is nothing special to these dates; e.g. the sun,
moon, planets and stars will not be aligned in any specific pattern. The text of the
blessing itself is as follows:
ברוך אתה ה' אלהינו מלך העולם עושה מעשה בראשיתBlessed are You, LORD, our God, King
of the Universe maker of the works of Creation.
14 Nisan - Passover seder meal and Haggadah on the going out of the 14th and eve of
the 15th
15–21 Nisan (22 Nisan outside of Israel) – Feast of Matzot - Passover week
1 Nisan The day the floodwaters(night,the the six month southern motion of the sun)
receded from the earth, after the dove was sent out by Noah(Soma/nava-aha>new
day) and returned with an olive(udaya-sunrise) branch, according to Genesis 8:10-13
10 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) – The first Shabbat HaGadol was celebrated by the Israelites in
Egypt five days before The Exodus.
10 Nisan (c. 1417 BCE) – Yahrzeit of Miriam the prophetess, 39 years after the Exodus.
14 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) - On the going out thereof, the eve of the 15th, was the
first Passover meal, and the 10th plague on Egypt, the slaying of the firstborn.
15 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) – The Exodus from Egypt, with a strong hand and an
outstretched arm(the rising sun on the vernal equinox)
15 Nisan (c. 1713 BCE) – Birth of Isaac(cf.Janana being jnaana and snaana,the baptism
of Jesus)
16 Nisan (c. 1273 BCE) – The Israelites stop eating m-anna(cf.anna or bhaga-asana) six
days after entering the Holy Land.
16 Nisan (c. 474 BCE) – Esther's second feast, during which she accuses Haman
regarding his plot to annihilate her nation. Ahasuerus orders his servants to hang
Haman.
17 Nisan (c. 474 BCE) – Haman hanged(cf.hanging of Judas/ushas) after Esther's second
drinking party.
21 Nisan (c. 1456 BCE) – The sea splits(day break,year break cf.breaking of veil of
Jerusalem Temple), allowing Israel to escape the Egyptian army.
(credits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisan)
The basic assumption of the beginning of the New year is that
there was a saptagrahasandhi(conjunction of seven planets at
the vernal equinox;sapta>sabda>svar/tapasa-sun,which means
the sun’s annual transit of the Vernal Equinox every year!) in the
vedic tradition which means the New Moon on the Vernal
equinox.Hence the New Moon of Mesha is used to begin the year
of Medha(sacrifice,ecclesiastical year).Medha being
Maasa(month,moon),the subsequent New Moons mark the
beginnings of subsequent months and 12 months complete the
year.
We have already noted that Nisan(Vedic Mesha/Aries) is the
month meant to mark the Vernal Equinox where the annual sun
coincides with the day sun to make saavana/raksha/
sunrise/salvation. Tishrei(ved.Dasra) is the month meant to
denote the Autumnal Equinox. It was postulated that the Kali yuga
began with a saptagraha sandhi(seven planet combination) on the
vernal equinox.The sapta graha is the divasa(day) graha ,by the
seven day week planets.Similarly the Hebrew creation year was
said to begin with a lunation on the Vernal Equinox.Thus basically
both Hindu and Hebrew calendars assume the same thing to
begin their sacrificial year,the New Moon at the Vernal
Equinox.Now count 14/15 days from the New Moon at the Vernal
Equinox and you are at the Autumnal Equinox,denoted as the first
point of Libra.Libra is Tiberus.In vedic, vaasra(diva,day) is
exhangeable with varsha(abda-year).So 15 days gives you the
Fifteenth year of Tiberius.This Full Moon is called soma
pavamaana in vedic. It is purification of soma/moon/kaala by pu-
tra/agni/rising sun born at the Vernal Equinox,called
RsyasRnga,Garuda,Syena etc.This is also the baptism of
Christ(agni/Augustus; Caesar.siirsha-head,tiirtha-holy water) by
John(Soma),The Full Moon shine.Hence we have the Passover and
the Feast of Unleavened Bread on Nisan 14 and 15. AgnishToma
involves both agni(sun) and soma(moon,son) as kaala was said to
be the son of the sun and kaala was counted by the kala/part of
soma,the Moon.John alone was the disciple present at the
crucifixion as he is the new son,new time,new year ,new
emperor,handed over to Mary,the mother of the Christ.In the four
day scheme of caturaha we see,the first day is Thursday,belonging
to Jupiter-Roman god,second is day of Venus,their goddess,third
is day of Saturn ,day of Sabbath and fourth is Sunday,day of the
emperor.But by the asterisms of moon,these are asterisms of
Asvina/Dasra,Bharani,Krittika and Rohini.The asterisms are ruled
by ketu,venus,sun and moon. So the sun is flanked between the
virgin Venus/king's wife or vestal virgins and on the right is the
moon as mother of the dead son and new born sun.So John/Full
Moon is handed over as the son to Mary.In the real history also
this is true as Tiberius/ Libra was the real son of Livia/ Mary.
Augustus' wife is simultaneously his mother as he was the “son”
of god!Janana is birth,jnaana-knowledge and snaana/savana is
bathing.Saavana-sunrise is janana,jnaana and snaana-salvation
and bathing at the end of yajna/samaya/tanaya.As already noted
the arrangement is permanent.That is why Leviticus and John
refer to events of the same sacrificial year and not to separate
years. This was well known to Constantine and that is why he
fixed Sunday following the Full Moon in Libra(15th year of
Tiberius) after the Vernal Equinox,as the Easter day.Haayana as
Kaanya-virgins and the Venus and Moon asterisms justifies the
women centric crucifixion as pu-tra/agni-Augustus Caesar -Soter-
Xaviour-the deliverer can come through women only.He had
Tiberius also present to make the New Augustus.Visvamitra
hailed from Kaanya Kubja(haayana-hu pada-gopada-Gopala)
denoted by seven women on the sacrificial scene in a vedic seal as
at the crucifixion also. The basis of the crucifixion is the
putrakameshTi yaaga of Visvamitra/Ramayana as already
noted.Raama (kaala-year/raaja-king) was born to
Dasaratha(cycle of time)/ kaalakuuTa/Golgotha by the
putrakameshTi sacrifice. In the sacrifice Dasaratha's wives drink a
sweet potion,which is also drunk by the Christ on the cross.At the
end of the sacrifice,putra/Raama was born.The writing on the
cross is just another form of Visva(Iesus)-mitra(Nazarenus)-
Raajarshi(Daksha/Rex)-saavana(suuryodaya/
sunrise/Iudaerun).The Mithraic cult formed to praise the Roman
emperors had its root in Rg vedic Visvamitra/emperor cult.So it is
not possible to fix any particular year for the crucifixion, not fully
understanding the concept in vedic/biblical texts.The only option
is to take the Vernal Equinox of 8 BCE as the year,when the
emperor was made the year,by making him August,to make him
god. Also please note that,the popular notion of a 30 year period
for Jesus to begin his ministry comes from the 30 day(29.5 days
aproximated to 30) duration of the synodical month,taking a day
for a year.Luke use the "about" in Luke 3:23 when he states that
Jesus was "about 30 years of age".
History is said to repeat itself like the solar return to the cardinal
points every year.There is no history without time.We project the
cardinals and forget the less visible "rest" of the time in the hi-
stories. So there are many cycles /patterns of times and kings for
us.Patterns of 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,24,30,40,60 etc. were created by
the priest kings who wrote the hi-stories whether Jew/Roman for
the sacrifices/yajna/ samaya/tanaya/ putra/Buddha/
Varddhamaana/ varsha/history.The priests/kings were gods of
the time.Gods can create patterns.Augustus was son of god when
alive and became god on death. The resurrection on the third day
is also aligned with raa-tra(raa-night)-tra(three) /satra (sacrifice)
merging ratrikaala(night time) and sani(nisa-night,kaala-saturn-
sani), into one to make ashTamangala/agnishToma (praise of
agni-fire sacrifice-worship of the king.) adding agni(1) and
stoma(soma-7;svar-7 day) so as to make the cycle repeat to rise
on the eighth day,the day of Augustus/Sol Invictus,Sunday
morning,the eighth being day of agni/sun/matsa/masta/
dasma/ma-dasa/asta/ashTa/anta(end).This is the fundamental
ritual cycle (time/yajna-sacrifice/samaya-time,sun/tanaya-
son/hi-story) beginning on Maundi Thursday and closing on
Easter Sunday, observed by the Full Moon of Aries,the Moon being
in Tula/Libra-the month with the date of birth of Augustus on
September 23 and his incarnation/ avatara/adhvara/varsha as
Vishnu(vis-man,dvi/ravi-sun,nu-spear on the chest)/ time/
sun/Sol Invictus on the Vernal equinox.His date of death falls in
August,in AD 14 ,when the son of god became Divus/god
himself,in the house of the sun! Since rashTra/desa is ra(agni)-
satra(stoma/sacrifice),the sacrifice of Augustus/Chrest/ crest/
Christ was used to replace the sacrificial rituals of the Jews
foisting Rome on Jerusalem as the “New Jerusalem”.
While fixing historical dates with ritualistic biblical year numbers
please note that they are often linguistic terms and can be
misleading.Fifteen is the equivalent of pancadasa (fifteen;pa-
asana>throne>Roma) in vedic.Panca dasa/sinha dasa is simply
the king's year.Tiberius is another term for Libra,the birth month
of Augustus Caesar.Tiberius reigned as Augustus himself.The
term Herod/Horus/Garuda/garta is also equivalent to
aksha/abda/ kaala/saka/varsha/ panca(cf.Leo-fifth sign-sinha)/
varsha/dasa/raaja/agni (cf.pancagni>saka>aksha>ashTa-8-
agnishToma) denoting the year.Sakabda/kali varsha denote
simple year. This panca-dasa is seen in the crucifixion also as the
cross is dasa and the body is nR/panca/pa-
asana/garta/kshetra/temple. The number 46>10>dasa>ara is
also year/altar/cross/temple(body of Christ/king/man).The
Romans tried to rename September as Tiberius since Libra is
Tiberius. Janana(birth) is both jnaana(knowledge) and
snaana(bathing).The baptism of the Christ is simply the birth of
the son of god/kaala/dasa/king's year/solar year/birth of
Augustus.Hence the statement "this is my dear son/dear sun" as
vatsa(dear son) is varsha(year)/emperor.Yama(sa-yama>
samaya) is raaja(emperor).Augustus and Tiberius are exchanged
in use in the bible as Tiberius reigned as Augustus and Tiberius is
Libra.
Janus/shamas/James-brother of Christ-year-ear , /
samaya/yajna/tanaya/time".Note the ornate roof decoration,
latticed(vastra/vatsara/varsha/vaasra) window (left), and
garland hung across the closed double doors (right cf.sam-
vatsara;the torn split veil of Jerusalem Temple in Matthew.27.51;
Mark.15.38;Luke.23.45).
Adhvara(sacrifice)>Asvina(Dasra/darsa/satra/Lazarus)
dvara>varsha> vatsara> samvatsara(year).
The latticed window/door indicate vastra/netra
as vatsa/varsha/
vatsara/samvatsara.Note the dasa between the two heads of
Janus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Janus_(Roman_Forum)
vasra/varsha/svar/ka/kha/ha , , , , , cf.adhvara>
satra>mitra>svar>varsha-saka-aksha-gaja-Daksha-
prajaapati-vatsara-samvatsara-haayana-abda-ravi/dvi/dva
garta-Garuda-Horus-Cakravarti-harta-garja-gaja-Saka- -Hari-
Tiger-elephant , ,
>sava>savana>panca(five Pandavas)>varsha>va-
raaga/raaja /varaha(Vishnu)
/Rca/Rg/Kuru>praasa>praja>aksha; ; , ,
sarat-stoma-raashtra-bhavana-sa+vana/paNa/nabha/soma ,
varsha/putra/sabda/sapta/Gupta)
thaama(medha/stoma/soma/druma/
DroNa/SroNa/sravaNa/Hari/Rg.Fire in tree.Sun in sky.King
,combinations;Horus/putra/purusha/Naara/satra
adhvara/masta/mastaka..Adhvara>satra/sart cf.Catur/turiiya
/Suurya -ahas/aksha/panca/savana/vansa/varsha
satra/ishTi/R-shTi/sarat of Visvamitra
>dasra> sarat> varsha> abda>asva > asva-ra.The suurya dasa/
rasa/ ara/altar in the Vimsottari dasa is
six(shad/sat/dasa/dharma) years!
The Vulture Stele of king Eannatum which shows vultures feeding on the enemy dead.
Credits:http://sumerianshakespeare.com/mediac/450_0/media/c8
6860ffc8069cc7ffff8139ffffe41e.jpg
Garuda/Horus/Herod/syena/samaya/Sak-ra/Suk-ra/aksha-ra/
panca/savana/sa-vana(tree)/paNa(praise) .
In the distant past,when books like the vedas and the bible were
written,time was considered as the god denoted by the sun .Hence
it was said god could not be seen. Hence the gods have often a
brother(bh-ratR)/son(putra/Rudra/Buddha) like
Shamas/James.Daniel was put in the den of the lions(Book of
Daniel.6.22) to indicate his own house,Leo,the house of the sun
god.He is saved from there by god-time. Similarly the feast of
unleavened bread (Heb.matzah cf.manna>anna-
sun,food,king>ahna-day) indicate the sun in matsa(Pisces).The
passover(Pascah/Visakha) of Isra-el(usra/varsha-el/Ra) is the
tansit of the sun into Aries (ram) at the vernal equinox.Aries is
mesha(ram).Hence the passover lamb/Eucharist is also
eaten!Abraham(Brahma) sacrificed a lamb on mount
Moriah(surya-sun) for the same reason.Sunrise is said to take
place on a hill called udayagiri(hill of sunrise; Golgotha>kaala-
kuuTa as KuuTa is hill also like AgastyakuuTa-a mountain),which
is the rising sun(udaya-srii/suurya) itself.To denote va-tsa-
ra(year>360) 360 days were used as the length of the year in
vedic times.
8 BCE is a very critical year(samaa>medha>stoma>Rca>rasa-
praise of the emperor as sun god) in Christian chronology.This is
the year when Octavian,the son of God(Divi Filius) ,was
placed on the right hand of the Father god(Julius/Divus Iulius
in 42 BCE),in the Julian/Roman calendar as taught in the
Apostle's creed.As already noted yajna(sacrifice) is
samaya(kaala-varsha-adhvara-time,sacrifice) and tanaya(son,son
of god) whence ka-ala (sa-yama>god-time) is called the son of the
sun/king.Thus we have the king's(god's denoted by Christ –
nR/king-INRI) year(dasa-cross-varsha-vaasra-day-srava-ear)
which is shown by the Christ/king on the cross/ dasa/ samaya/
kaala/varsha with a
spear(praasa>paatra>paartha>cakravarti/emperor ,
praasa/RshTi(ra-ishTi>raashTra>
desa>varsha>dasra>sarat>ha-ayana)/
ka+vRsha/uksha/ukta/varsha/vaaja/vaaca/purusha/putra/
surata/ suutra/ mudra/mitra/bhadra/Rudra/Bharata/
Peter/nR>king’s year) on the chest(uras/ usra/ varsha cf.usra-
el>Israel),making srii vatsa(raja varsha indicated by spear on
Christ’s chest ,
)/vatsa naabha(bhaama/
suurya/solar varsha/year) who has the dasavatara(dasa-
varsha),beginning with matsa(ma-dasa>king's year;masta-
of Melech),samvatsara(year as sama-vastra/netra/net , ,
cf. >two clothe shown by the two torn parts of the temple
veil (vastra) or the eucharist bread(circular white wafer-the sun)
split into two halves to make sa-yama/dasa/kaala/samaya/
tanaya/ yajna and then it is dipped in soma(draksha>rakta>soNa)
to denote the tanaya-son of god-sun god in the sky,and then
folding one half of a half,to make 3/4 or tri-pada to indicate
tripat/ vishnu/vatsara/srii vatsa/vatsanaabha(the year denoted
by the cross and sp-ear). So every year ,the Christ is born at the
Winter Solstice/Christmas and the crucifixion takes place at the
Vernal Equinox/Vishu/Visakha/ Pascah/Mesha/ medha/
Easter.The date of the crucifixion is the date of the Vernal
equinox. Hence we fix Easter by the Full Moon after the Vernal
Equinox. There is no point in fixing any other date of a particular
year to denote the crucifixion of the Christ,who is the year
itself.This is said in the Bible itself when a heavenly voice(svar/
varsha/vatsa/adhvara) is heard announcing Augustus/Christ as
the “son of god with whom He is well pleased” (vatsa>year,son,
pleased) to indicate srii vatsa/vatsanaabha/Vishnu/king's
year/solar year. Yajna/sacrifice/son of god is
time/samaya/yajna/aha/dina/ history/hi-story itself. Augustus
became samaya/tanaya/son of god when he was made the
month(Holy Mass>maasa-month>ma-aasa>medha) of August
towards the rightside of July/soma/ Vishnu/vi-soma/ravi-soma,
in the sign of Leo/Deo. The vedic year was begun at midnight to
point to the direction of South/kaala/samaya/tanaya/yajna by
the sun in M-akara/Beth-lehem at the Winter Solstice.Hence
Christ and KRshNa were born at midnight .KRshNa by itself is
kaala(black,syaama-samaya-tanaya-yajna).
Hindu(Vishnu)/Egyptian gods(cf.Ra,Horus, Anubis/Vishnu) were
painted blue/ black(kaala/syaama) to indicate ra-
vi(bird/sun)/kaala/ samaya(time)/ tanaya(son)/
yajna(sacrifice).Hence when we eat the body of Christ as the
eucharist(sariiraraksha-food-god;sariira-body,draksha-
rakta/akshara-INRI/sakra-soNa-soma-red wine-red
blood;bhakshaNa-food,bhaga-sun,asana-food),we are eating the
sun/ king/time as the body of the son of god.This is the secret
that converts the eucharist wafer into the body of god.
Yama/samaya/kaala is also kesa-temple.Hence the year is
considered as the temple/temple year also. AgnishToma/Soma
being svar/ sabda/ sapta/Sabbath/ seven/ heaven the book of
Daniel employed the symbolism of the seventh heaven/noon by
the seven and seventy symbols to forecast the crucifixion. Paul
being svar was also raised to the third heaven!
The historical father god and son of god on the ground in the
Roman empire was Julius Caesar and Octavius Caesar.The Julian
calendar was finalised with Octavian being ascended as
Augustus,the son of god /sun god/Sol Invictus/Deo in the house
of the sun god Leo.This happened in 8 BCE.We can see images of
Augustus as son of god on Roman coins of the time.Christianity is
said to have reached India,throuh Thomas,a disciple of Christ.This
Thomas is Roma(soma/Roman throne) itself.Roman coins have
been located in south India,especially that of Augustus as Divi
Filius(son of god). The biblical son of god and his crucifixion were
created to praise the Caesars.As already noted we cannot use
Daniel's prophecy to arrive at any conclusion regarding the
crucifixion as Dani-el is dina-el/day and seven is svar/varsha/
vaasra/vaara/day.Vaara is the day and seven day week also. The
mid week can be Wednesday(Gemini end)/noon itself.At noon the
sun of the day will be with svar/soma/sky.Hence the statement,
sacrifice will stop there,since from there it is the fall of the sun
and his energy denoting profilement and consequent destruction
of the temple/city(the sun itself cf.Heliopolis/ Dvaraka) in the
end,which is sunset.From sunrise at the 9th hour(Matthew:27.45
sixth hour to ninth hour is noon time ) the sun is in Leo in his own
asta-house. So he is crucified then as asta-house is
dasa/cross.This is the house of Augustus/the sun god/son of
god.The statements by some authors that Jesus was crucified at 9
am is incorrect.
We should not take Daniel as the seven day week as he has to
enter the den of lions,which is Leo,the place of crucifixion of
Augustus also from where Dani-el is saved by god(Deo/Leo) and
the son of god prays to Deo(Leo),to take away the
"cup(paana/paala cf.Gopaala>hu-paana>sacrificial
cup/paatra/paartha" denoting the emperor as sun/son.The fifth
house is the house of the son in astrology.Hence the historical
crucifixion(the anointment of Augustus as the living son of god,it
is not crucifixion punishment of a criminal,it is entry of the
son of god and son of man into the house of god –Leo-as
August) was at 3.0 p .m on the vernal equinox, 8BCE/7BCE. Peter
and Paul denote the Julian year/ear of Malchus itself.Hence they
occupy the month of July along with Julius. The Romans/Roman
church deified men after death as gods/saints as one become the
sun/time at death and go to svarga-heaven as
sava(corpse,sun)/sva(own,sun)-arka(sun)/agra(end) and
samaadhi(death) is samaa(year,time)-dhi(seat) and samaa(year)-
aadi(beginning). In Malayalam death is called kaalam(time)-
ceyyal(doing).The Kali yuga was begun after the death of
Hari(KRshNa/sun).Kollam era was begun after the death of
Sankaracarya.Augustus was the only person to be deified during
his own life time.Hence he was made the son of god as
raja/emperor is ra(sun)-ja(son)!
Close up on the sculpted detail of the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace cf.Christ’s announcement of peace in the
New Testament;Vedas have Aum santi), 13 BC to 9 BC.
Residences
The official residence(Beth-melech/Bethlehem/kaala/varsha/svar) of
Augustus was the Domus Augusti(cf.agni-shToma/raashTra/raajya/
ashTamangala) on the Palatine which he made into a palace after buying it in
41/40 BC. He had other residences such as the horti maecenati in Rome where Augustus
preferred to stay whenever he became ill and which Maecenas left to him in his will in 8
BC. The great villa of Vedius Pollio at Posilipo near Naples was beqeathed (probably
forced) to him in 15 BC.
KRshNa>Garuda>Horus>Sargon>Christ.
Yajna(savana-sacrifice,panca-five,samaya-time, atma-tanaya-
Adam-putra-son of god cf.Kratu/Horus) is of vedic origin. Bible
old testment has Panca(five,savana-sacrifice;pa-aasana) granthas
(books) and the New Testament go(word,sun;hu-sacrifice)-
spels(svar/varsha/adhvara) are four as veda is paada(foot,four)
namely Rg(Ma-rk>arka>agni),Yajur(John,surya/yajna),
Saama(Mathew,medha/savana) and Atharva(Luke cf.Luke-
mukha-svar-varsha-adhvara-atharva ;srii mukha is king's
writ/speech,word of god!).Interestingly enough
mukha(face,word)>nauka(ark)>Noah(soma-
agnishToma)>nu(praise)-ka(sun,king,time)>Luke!
Satra>sarat>varsha>patra(writ,wing,leaf;bharata/bhadra)>
tri(three)/khaga/savitR as in , , ,
, , , , , , vishTara(tree) ,
Shad+ra , , >fish+ra>netra(Indra,king,sacrifice,cloth)>ra-
medha>satra>Dvadasa(Divodasa)-aha(vaasara)-satra is soma
yaga.Matsa>ma-dasa>ma-shad>shad-ra>sadana>satra> sarat>
samaya>dasra>yajna.Fish being ashTa/agni/yajna the symbol of
AgnishToma >yaj-na>ahna>aga(agni,sun,year)-
na(ma-
moon/soma/maasa/viira/rasa/dasa/kaala/vaara/paada/pada)>
varsha (svar/adhvara/srava/sruu/sruti/sura/Torah)-
vaara/ kaala/ dina/ah-na/a(Vishnu/light)-
ha(moon/night)/day.Unicorn denote agni/atma/Adam/Horus
and droNa/druma indicate dharma/amRta/veda/ Rca/ rasa/
svar/soma/sura/veda/Torah/ Tam.kural cf.Tirukkural by
Tiruvalluvar/Ar.Koran/Quran by Nabi(rabbi/ravi/vaNi-svar-
word).
satra (ashTa/ishTi/svar/sapta/abda)-ha -
bhadra varsha>Jakha/sava-sun,sacrifice -
ashTa/ishTi/yashTi/vasati/divasa ,
bhuja(subha/siva/mangala/devi/ravi/suurya/Durga )
cf.Jain ashTamangala/ ashTakarNa/ ashTa karaNa stoma/Rca
/Rg-varsha-garuda-suparNa-suvarNa-sunRpa-
aksha(garuda)-ra(agni)-kesa-giita-Rca-Rshabha-veda-deva-
cakravarti-Sakrapatri-samraja-viraja/purusha/ putra/surata/
sutra/ sukta/ Kutsa(Rshi>Rca/rasa/dasa/ara/alt-ar) .Catur aha
(aha/ahna/agna/stoma)>caturanga(aksha/ahas) is
satra/das-ra/sa/ka/saka/satra/sarat/sakti ,
, , , , , , , , , , ,
, , , -aksha-ashTa-agna-yajna-savana-
ishTi-yashTi.Signs of mangala/ sankara/siva/ subha or aya
make it akshaya/Yaksha/ashTamangala/narayana/kshetra
or mangala ishTi/ mangalya /sangama ishTi/surata/ putra/
suutra/ suukta/ ahas/ akshara/ panca/ savana/
samaya/sayana/sa-yama/ha-yama/hayana/yajna/vaaja of
the kings. Yajna/ samaya/tanaya/putra is yudha/ udaya
denoted by dawning and sunrise of the day.
Varsha(va-rasa/bha-rasa ) is
pura/prastha/raashTra.Hence we have , ,
.Ayana-paasage/Passover/sacrifice being Yama
He is the deity for the asterism of bharaNi/nRpa indicating
yama raja and the sacrifice of the king/sun.
Akshara being Daksha(ka/prajapati/ra/raja/rex/emperor)
the writing on the crucifix is INRI.
This seal clearly shows the Mahabharata alludes to stories in
the Rg veda of Harappan times.
The seal simply is the seal of king Duryodhana of
Hastinapura(ashTamangala)/Rama of Ayodhya with which
the priests probably performed a putra/caturaha satra
retelling the story of Bharata/Rshabha/ KRshNa/ Rama/
kaala/varsha.Rama Navami is the celebration of the Vernal
equinox(Ayodhya) and KrishnashTami,that of the Summer
Solstice(Hastinapura).
It can also indicate the Saka dina/Karsha PaNa as
varsha/svar/paNa/vaNa/nava/nu/stoma is
garta/Garuda/Horus/aksha/panca/savana/vasana/vacana.
Thus gaja/saka/Hastina/Dvaraka/aksha/garja/
garta/ garuda/ Horus/ varsha/harta/ashTa/ishTi/8 +
bhadra/8-varsha/10+
turiiya/suurya/suunya/4(cf.Mal-naalu-4,naaLu-day)+
svar/dvar/7+aksha/ashTa/5/8>there are 5 words to denote
aksha/saka/ahas.The akshara number is usually taken in the
reverse.Vishnu rests on the aksha/sa/saka/naaga called
Sesha/Adisesha/ aksha/aakaasa/ahas/ahna.This gives a
value of 8+10+4+7+5>57408 sakadina>159 Saka year on
division by vatsara(360).If we divide 80475 by 360 we have
Saka 223.It can also indicate Saka ( KRshNa/
VRshNi/kaala/gaana/naaga/Rg/ sava/ sabha/
asva/sacrificial year/king’s year)-4 .
Asva/haya/yaga/yajna/samaya/syena/tanaya was
, /bharata , , -raatra-
satra-sarat-varsha-vaaja-Bharadvaaja/ putra/ soma/
Christ/Thoma/Muru(nR/agni)-ka(king,agni,
kaala,samaya,soma,son,sun;pa-king;Muruka-NRpa-
king,agni,sun)/+spear also denote agnishToma(temple,praise of
king/sun;srii mukha)/patra(writ)/ Bharata/veda.
Bharadvaaja>bhadra(ka-melech-ka-kha-ha-king)/patra(writ)-
vaasa(beth-house,vaaca-speech, asva/hari/Rg/Kuru)>
bhadrasva>kaala/aha/ahna/vaara/samaya(saya-ma/pa>
sayana>syena , ,>yaja-ma>
yajna>kshaya-pa>kasyapa>kasyapa-tanaya>garta-throne,palace>
garuda>syena>tanaya,whence garuda is kasyapa putra
also!Hence Angirasa(agni-dasa/king’s
year/rashTra)>karka/Garga , , ,
>Bharadvaja> Kasyapa>Gautama> BhRgu>yajna>samaya>
varsha>Horus> veda)/tanaya/atma/ Adam/Bethlehem.
Vatsa(varsha/vatsa/matsa)naabha , is varsha-
cakra>kaala-cakra> Dasaraaja/Sak-
ra(Indra/Aja/KarNa/srava/sruu/varsha/king’s year/king as
year/year as king cf.Christ on the
cross/dasa/saka/ksha/kaala/varsha/svar/vishnu) , ,
, , , , , , , , , >
Dasaratha/Sak-ra(Aja-Indra,king,father of Dasaratha)>sacrifictial
cross
>arka/agna/cakra/Sakra/Sagara/Hari/asva/vaaja/Bharata/
Bharadvaaja/viirabhadra/Horus/putra/ garuda/kRshNa>
kratu(Vishnu,yajna,christ)>Sarasvati/Gayatri/SavitR/Surya/
Durga> dasra/desa/satra/ sarat/samaya/tanaya/syena/yajna
also.cf. “According to the later writers Censorinus and Macrobius, the ideal intercalary cycle
consisted of ordinary years of 355 days alternating with intercalary years, alternately 377 and
378 days long. In this system, the average Roman year would have had 366+1⁄4 days over four
years, giving it an average drift of one day per year relative to any solstice or equinox. Macrobius
) within a 24-year cycle, there were only three intercalary years, each of 377 days (thus 11
intercalary years out of 24). This refinement averages the length of the year to 365.25 days over
24 years.This is the vedic gayatri/yagagni/24 horas/24 years/ashTa mangala/ashTa
Gautama>suta(putra/Rudra/mudra/mitra/Indra/Arju-na/usra-
na/varsha-ma/Bha-rata/Varddhamaana/Jina/Buddha/king’s
year/king’s speech)-ma>ma-ukta>makuTa>go/ka-
vacana/vasana(king’s house,king’s speech)>Bharata/
Putra/Buddha>aksha-paada>veda/deva/hu(sacrifice)-
aksha(akshara/ saka/kesa/giita)/king’s speech.
Kaala>gaana(mangala)>giita>taala>raga>naaga>kanaa>ashTa>
disa>dik>Rg
Mahaa(water bufflaoe; asva/avasa/abda/ agni;
asva/agni/hari/Rg+soma/stoma/dhaana/ sthaana>
Asvattama/agnishToma.AshTa>naaga>raaga>Hari>Rg>dik,dvay
a/Yadu/udaya/vijaya/vishnu Yadu-Hari>Rg-
trough,jar , ,
/Soma/Thoma/DroNa/druuNa/ Agastya/ Roma/ Saka Varsha).
Asvathama(avasa-dhaana/medha> raja dhaana-throne-altar-ara-
dasa-asta-ashTa-agni) is droNa/ druma(naga)/
druuNa(scorpion)/ soma/rasa/tara in the jar/ trough placed
before the sacrificial animals/bha/va/sun/ king. Asva/avasa/
abda/kaala/raaja with dhaana/druma/soma is asvamedha/abda
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d
/Re-Horakhty.svg/220px-Re-Horakhty.svg.png
In one of his many forms, Ra, god of the sun, has the head of a
falcon and the sun-disk inside a cobra resting on his head.Clearly
ra>ravi>khaga>garuda>gayatri>savitR etc.
Cf. , Sakra-patri(Cakravarti),vRsha(bull,Indra)>varsha,
Name in hieroglyphs
or
or
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Egyptian_-
_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg/220px-Egyptian_-
_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg
=asta/ashTa/agna/ishTi/mangala/ra , , , , ,
siva/sakti.AshTamangala is
kaala/raajadhaana/kshetra.
Composite image of Isis's most distinctive Egyptian iconography, based partly on images from
the tomb of Nefertari.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Isis.svg/220px-Isis.svg.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/ThebanTomb335.png
Name in hieroglyphs
ashTa/dik/Rg/Rca/stoma/soma(number)
nayana/netra/ miina/matsya/Sinai/
netra(beard,god,cakravarti,sacrifice) indicate
Indra/mitra/dharma etc.Indra is also phalgu(BhRgu/
Gupta)-na/Ar(ra/agni)-juna(soma/stoma)/
Horus/KRshNa/Garuda/harta/agnishToma/ashTamangala
etc.
ḥr “Horus”
gods/Horus>khaga >sa>samaya>sa-yama(NarayaNa) , ,
>dasa>ara>kaala>alt-ar.
vastra/sriivatsa/vatsa naabha
.Note the “cup”/bharaNi/nRpa/VaruNa/aga/aha/rasa
veda>sruti >kRti>karaNa-INRI>KarNa/KRshNa>Rshi.
Hence veda is heard/seen by Rshis as sRshTi(Sa-RshTi>sruti-
Patra>Bharata>veda>putra(pu-rasa )
>bhadra>raaja.Thus Dharma putra is veda patra/veda
karaNa/Deva nagara(pura/sura/akra-Hastina pura>Gaja
pura>saka pura>ksha pura>kesa pura>Rg pura/ sura/Rca)/
Dharma raja/dharma naada/amRta naada/amRta
mathana/amRta medha/deva vaaNi etc.
AshTa/ra is agni/yajna/ishTi/ashTasrii(yupa).
The cross , , , , , , is
agni/ra/ara/alt-ar/dasa/asta/varsha/svar/ashTa
mangala/kaala/Beth-melech/Bethlehem.
Kaala/varsha/hari varsha/kali/surya/Julius varsha was born at
midnight,every year,when the sun is at the Winter Solstice against
Soma,sky, noon, Moon,Vishnu/Vatsara, KRshNa,Yama, Yamuna,
king’s seat etc.
This is the birth of kratu(sacrifice,samaya,Vishnu)/Horus/Christ.
Makara/Capricorn/Ka-rNa/ka-nR , , /ka-rajan/
KRshNa/ka-yama/kanya-Durga-Bhadra/sa-yama/ha-
yama/haayana> Kaala/nisa/Sani(Saturn,nisa,jani-janana) is the
1. AshTamangala(gokula/go-pura/bha-rasa/naTya saastra
Go-spel(svar/sabda/soma) is uni/agni-corn/kiraNa/
karNa(srava-Uccaisravas )/karaNa/karabha/
tra>Indra>Dvaraka/raga/Digvijaya .Ka-
satra>kshtra>Dharma kshetra>Kuru Kshetra>Bharata varsha(jar-
hayana-varsha-svar,bhadra-Bhaarata)>Bharata
vansa>Bharadvaaja.
Karabha/gaja/saka/kesa/Hastin>bhRgu>guru>karaNa>
KarNa>Mark>srava>sruu>varaha>varaka>kuru>Rg>
Vaaca/vaaja/vaaha/havana>ahavana>vaahana>va-agna>bha-
agna>bha-rasa>bha-sara>bha-tara>bha-tra> bhadra> Bharata>
Putra>varsha>praja.
Catura/caturbhuja >satra>sa+tra>sarat>dasra>
desa>tasara> pada>asta>sat>ashTa>deva>veda>
Kara>hara>agna>arka>akra(fort)>va.Va-satra>vastra>
vatsara>varsha>Bharata>Bharata varsha> veda svara>deva
svara>deva vaaNi.
Hari/asva/arka/ra-sura/jina/rasa/tara/sira/siira/srii>
KRshNa>Ar-juna>go-varsha(svar/shower)>go-vardhana>go-
spel/speech>king’s speech as rasa/rusha is
agni/speech/svar/spel.Go/hu-spel is veda.Thus the unicorn seals
denote vedic speech/temple/ Rg/Rca/giita/
gaaya/gaana/naaga/gaaya-srii/gayatri.
Uksha>ukta(sukta/sutra)>kusa>darbha>bhadra>bha-
tra;trii>srii>bha>druu>sruu>srava>varsha>kaala>
desa>dasa(10,kaala,meat)>rasa/sura/jina/rusha/arusha.
Bha-rasa>bha-tara>bharata>veda>Rshabha>sura-ma>Arjuna/
raja/srii/gira/gaja/Rg-sruu/sura/ rusha/Rca/jina/
arusha/rava.The unicorn denote veda/deva sukta.
Go-rasa>go-sura>go-svar>go-spel>go/pu-pada/rava>Pu-
ru(Kuru).
Pu(spear)/bha/ra/ma+rasa/tra/sura/rusha>putra/bhadra/bhar
ata/patra/raaja/mitra/indra>purusha/praja/varsha/ surata/
svar/svarga/veda/ medha/mesha(aja+esha>mesha>Indra>netra-
king,sacrifice>medha>makha-sacrifice).Indra/king/sun is the
personified sacrifice/yajna/samaya.He is invoked to drink
soma/sa-aum/stoma(stu-ma)/homa/havana/rasa/sura/ jina/
rusha/arusha/ aruNa/ Aaron/Arjuna(son of
Indra)/Moses/miina/Sinai.
Spear>satra/praasa/pa/raja/agni/pu/nu/ca/sa>va-
raaja/praja/varsha/svar/turiiya/suurya>bha/ma+rusha>
Mathura(Meluhha)/marut(vaayu)/ amRta/
dharma/Rshabha/Bharata/Jina/hari-jina/Rg-jina/arka-
jina/KRshNa.Man/vis/panca/aksha/saka/agni+spear ,
/trident/stoma/nu/ha/kha>vis-nu/havis>agnishToma>Dharma
raaja>Soma-raaja>soma-naada>veda-naada. Bull/vRsha/
purusha/varsha/svar/veda+spear/praasa/nu/ stoma/
satra>Vishnu/havis>praise the lord!
Satra>darsa>rajata>sukra>kharjura>arjuna>Arjuna.
Ra-rasa-raaja-srii.Netra>Indra>arusha-na>Arjuna.
Srii/Hari/aja/raja/Vishnu/Visva /naaga+
Indra/netra/satra >Srii-Rajendra/Mahendra-
BhaTTa(satra/ka-satra/kshetra;rajendra>K-endra.
Salabha-butterfly>patra-fly/sarabha/patra cf.unicorn-Putra>
patra>Garuda-syena/bharata/sarva/visva.Raja/nri/hari/srii-
rajendra/samraaja as in k-50/M-1161.
Va(bulls)-tra(tra-three,agni)/ vaasra/rasa/panca/ savana/
saka/sava/aksha/ kesa/karsha/ garta/ Garuda/varsha.
Ma-sura/rusha >Mathura>ma-dhura>dharma>
amRta> aatma>tanaya>putra>sayana>samaya>yajna.
Rusha+ra/bha/dot>Rudra >mitra>putra>
Rshabha>netra/nayana>Indra.
kanya>Kaanya Kubja, ,
woman/bhadra/durga/bhadra varsha/bhadra
vaaja/Bharadvaaja/Rg veda cf.women at the crucifixion to
facilitate birth of putra varsha through
kanya/samaya/yajna/PutrakameshTi/handing over of Tiberius-
John-Soma as the new putra-varsha-Daksha to Mary/Livia).
Rshabha-KRshNa-Raama-Daksha-Saka-raaja-kaala ,
Arusha(dawn>suura> putra>
soma>tanaya>samaya>yajna)> AruNa> dvara>svar>
sabda>sapta.Hence Dvara(fish-ka/ra.Spear-satra/sabha/dasa/
saka/ varsha/adhvara/ yama/ma. Ra+Ka>Saka> Somaka>
Pancaala>Suura sena>sruu naada> gaja>garja> tiger>hari>
Raaja>naada>Rg. Rg netra(Indra/ sacrifice)>Rg king>Rg sacrifice!
Bhadra/raaja+saya/haya/gaya>raajasuya/vaajapeya/asvamedha
/Holy Mass etc.Dva/rava/veda/svar denote Bharata/
Peter/Paul.Hence they are placed in Karka/Garga/svar-ga/sura-
go/veda/dva/ rava/svar -
diva/rava/ka/kha/ra/bha/ha/sabda/sapta/
yama/dvaya/Yadu/udaya.Bharata>bha(bull/go/vaaja/vaaca)-
rasa(medha/sura/meat juice/speech/ tongue)/viira/
mina/niira/rasa/mina.
Ka/ha+sadana/satra>Hastina/raashTra.Bha+aga>Bhaga.Kha+aga
>Khaga. Svar/ka/a +aga/ashTa/naaga/ saya/sa/a>catvara/
satvara/prastha , , , cf.agnishToma-ashTa
mangala/praasaada-bungalow/adhvara(sacrifice).
Sankha/sinha/sa/that/he-makha/medha>holy mass>soma.
Go/pu/bhu-rusha/sura/rasa/jina>Purusha> VRshNi>
KRshNa>Arjuna.Fish/agni/rusha/sura/soma+sp-ear/RshTi/ra-
ishTi> ma/agni/ soma+kha/turiiya> makha/soma/
Somaka/Pancaala/Suurasena/suura dhaana/
Arkadhaana/Akkaldaama/kshe-tra/go-il/Mal.Kovil.
raja/Somanaatha/Somapa/Gopa/Gopaala -Digambara
Bharata(priest,Peter)/Pu-tra/ra-aja/dasa is the
tara(agni,traaNa)/rasa(tongue) of pu/ra/bha/
god(emperor).Hence the Holy ghost descended on him in the
form of tongues of fire(pu-rasa) in Acts of the
Apostles.2.3 !
Gaya-tri >gaana-srii>naaga-srii>naka-srii>3*8>24>3-
Kshetra(gaja/saka+rasa/dina) >Hastina>
vastra>vatsara>varsha>Angirasa>Garga>Bharata>
Rshabha>KRshNa>agni(ashTa/naaga/agna/BhRgu/varaha/
varaka/vRka/kuru)-shToma/rasa(cf.angirasa-bhudeva-
bhuusura,rasa-earth,agni-sura)>mantra>mandira >sal-
lekhana>sat-pada(Veda)>Sat-vaTa(Ficus/veda/deva)>
catvara>adhvara>saka(year,kesa-hair,temple,house,keta)-
varsha>Jakha-bhadra>ma-astya> matsya> Narayana>
Satyabhaama>matsya>Nasatya> mandira
>kshetra>ambara>Dasra>darsa>desa>raaja>rajya>
rashTra/ashTamangala , .
AshTa(naaga/matsa/dasma/gaja/saka/varsha/sarpa/sarabha/
Sarva/visva)>asta>dasa>kaala>desa>pada>varsha>mangala>har
sha>harta> agni> ra/ma/na>ravi. Hasta>
bhuja>subha>siva>rudra>bhadra>varsha>Indra>netra.
samaya/sayana/tanaya/putra/yajna/agnishToma
sat)-mangala(devi/ravi/ra) >ra-asta-ra>rashTra
cf.unicorn>gaja-Airavata-suurya-/kesa
/garta/Garuda/harta/Horus/Herod>kara-bha>Cakra>
aksha(garuda,5,karsha)>
ashTa(naaga/raaga)>Kuru>guru>hari>Rg>kalabha-bindu-
Vindu-Jina-Vishnu-Vipra/Sa-kara>Sakra-
Somapa>Gopa>Gopaala> naaga/bhRgu/bha/
ashTa/hari/haya/ asva/ avasa/vaaja/
kuru+soma/rasa/tara/ mangala/ jina>kshetra>
ashTamangala>rasa+bha>Rshabha>Bharata>Jina>KRshNa.
Kara>va>bha>arka>agra>agna>anka. Ra(ashTa)-va(kara)-
mangala(sa)>Revata>dhvaja>dvija.AshTa-bhuja-
agna(Mangala/devi).Agni+rasa/Rta>Angirasa>Bharata>Rsha
bha>BhRgu>Kshetra>Dharma kshetra>Kuru kshetra
>Rajaraja>Rajarshi>Visva(Vishnu/bhadra/Bharata)-
Mitra(mudra/vaca).
Sanskrit dictionary
mangala.Karabha >kalabha/mangala>Hastina>saka-
dina>ashTa mangala.Karabha>sa-kara>cakra/ra/mangala.Hence
elephant/ashTa with cakra/Sakra-Somapa-Gopa-Gopaala-
/naryana , , , /ashTadasa-
18/24 >3*8>mangalatraya>gayatri>savitR
/ardhanarayana /
Hasta-ratha/arka/akra/ina/yama>Dasaratha>
Hastina>cakravartin>samraaja>yamaraaja>kaalacakra , ,
,
Harappan script was used to denote ashTamangala.
Panca/aksha/saka/yuupa/soma/sam -
ashTa/ishTi/satra/asta/aala/naama/narayana -
veda/writ) , >haya-
tri>haya-srii>yaga-srii>yagagni> ashTamangala>bhadra>
darbha> bharata>varsha>dasra>desa>sesha etc.Raja/srii-
raja/srii-indra/netra/mitra-bharata-va-aasa> bhadrapada
(bharadvaja).Raja-rajendra-Bharat-va-aaja
.Ra(mangala)-aasa(asta/ashTa) indicate
ashTamangala>raja> Baselius>palli>kshetra>ambara/svar
cf.sapta-7(stoma/soma) with fish/ashTa/ishTi/ agni/raaja-
soma raja-agnishToma-saptaha/ahna as in .
svar>ambara>ra>mangala.Fish>ashTa/Ra/astra/satra/
sarat. Digambara> ashTa(ashTadik/ashTanaaga/gaja)-
mangala.
The branched bull indicate saakhi-veda-
Kusika-Indra and Kausika(Visvamitra/Indra.In M-305
satra and
udaya/yadu/dvi/ravi/suurya/svar/Judea/soma/Rg/visva/Vi
shnu symbol.).Suurya vansa>Yadu Vansa.Rama and KRshNa
are avataara/varsha/adhvara of Vishnu/emperor.
Rajarshi-Kausika-va/pu-sava(visva/Vishnu/
varsha/praja/putra)-indra(mitra) satra(ishTi) is another
Visvamitra /annual equinoctial sacrifice seal.
asa(vaca/vaasa/varsha/vesha/vaaja-sacrifice) .
, , ,
>ashTamangala>Digambara>ashTasrii>sthaNu>bhaanu>ashta
-athar>AshTarte(Bhadra/Durga)>astra>kshetra(with ka or
ra,astra as ra,soma make Somaka)>
rashTra/rajya(asya/saya/jaya/saaya/kshaya/kshetra;ka-
satra/astra/stara/asta).
Hence 4 ra>ashTa mangala/raja as in
Mangalatraya>bha-dra>bharata>bhaTTa>srotriya ,
.
Tripat/savitR/patri/khaga/saka/vatsa/ vatsara/
vatsanaabha/asva/avasa/abda is Vishnu. Svar>varsha>vatsa>
sabda>sapta>stava>stu>suta> “my beloved son,with whom I am
well pleased”.Vasanta(madhu>madhava>spring Rtu)/Phalguna
began in Matsa Stava/vatsa being apadaana>avataara>
adhvara>asvina>varsha>sarpa>dasra>desa>sarat(Autumn,year).
https://imgeng.jagran.com/images/2021/apr/durga%20(3)1618
279842566.jpg
Maa Durga with catur/shad/ashTa/dasa bhadra/bhuja/
subha/siva denoting ashTa(dasa/shAd/pada/sat)
mangala(raja/Srii/Iisa/esha/bhadra/durga/kanya/kRshNa/
Pancali/virgo/virgin/kalya/sarat/dasra/Asvina).Eight bhuja/
anga denote ashTanga/ashTa agna/ ashTamangala/ ashTasrii .
Many symbols of the Indus Script indicate ashTa.The trident is
ashTa/bhadra.The fish is ashTa.The tree,elephant,snake,house
symbols indicate ashTa.
, , , ,
ashTa>asta>dasa>desa.Siira /srii/suura/hasta/aksha on
head of Durga indicate srii/siira/ suura/ sinha.Similarly ra-
aga>raja/srii/sinha/king>tiger,is ridden by Durga in ashTa
mangala form nowadays.
Unicorn>agnishToma>ashTa mangala>ra/raja-soma/ amRta/
dharma/putra>Dharma raja>dharma putra> dharma
naada>veda> ashTamangala> 18> palli> ambala>
pallikkuuTam> vidyalaya> veda> Sarasvati>sarat-pati>satra-
pati/pa>kesa-va/pa>kalpa>kaala>Beth-melech>Beth-
ania>Golgotha.Go>gopaala> Paala> baala (cf.unnikRshNa/
uNNiyesu-Infant KRshNa,Infant Jesus)>baaNa> paana>
paaNa> bhaama> Bhiima(bha-ayana/yama/ina).
Visvamitra/Kausika/Srii mukha(Luke),
patra,bhadra> Peter,king,three bull/three head,wing,
leaf,circle,hill,elephant , girl,bull,turmeric,gold,etc.Devi is
kingdom/earth,deva is king/sky/Vishnu/Visva/
Varsha/Yama/samaya/soma/sun.
va/pa/bha/ma/ra/ka/panca/Ku/go/g/5 -sara/rasa/dasa/
Kshetra/Kuru Pancaala/Rg(Dharma/amRta ).
ashTa/agni/ra/pu/mi
(darbha/bhadra-bed of agni is
darbha>virgin>raajya>raashTra>nation)- mangala(3/
srii/sruu/trayii-veda-Atreya> Aitareya>Visvamitra> Maitreya>
srotriiya-brahmana)>ashTa(asta/kusa/house;dasa/saka-year)
-mangala(number -stoma-temple)>agni(ashTa) -
shToma(number)> vaasra(bull)> varsha/karsha/
vaasra/vaara/ahna/agna/aha- 3(soma sacrifice)/
sarat/satra/samaya/yajna/dasra/sarasvati.This became
>saka/ahna-3/srii/ jina/
dina/stoma> Srotriiya>ashTa mangala>kshetra>Saka-
dina>Hastina. Pura/varsha/putra/dasa/kaala/praja is indicated
by the dasa+three people/praja/purusha(cf.crucifixion of Jesus on
the cross ,with spearing/stoma the Christ/agni/ahna-in the
middle,with an aga/aha formed by the hands of the
bhaTa-soldiers) .
The Mithraic(netra/Indra/Mitra/putra/nayana/niyama-
commandment-Testament/Narayana/Gadhiputra/ Visvamitra)
priests were called Rajarshis/emperors by the Hindus and they
worshipped the sun as pitR/ putra/ savitR/Gaayatri/
bharga(Gbri-el in the bible who announces the coming of the
putra).Gayatri is a mantra and metre in the Rg veda with 24
letters(24 hours/24 pkshas of moon) split into 8
(ashTa/ayana/agni/yajna/ samaya/tanaya/ putra/ishTi-
sacrifice) 3 lines or three paada/vaara making
Narayana/tripat/Vishnu/vatsara(360). The sacrificial year had
360 days hence.Tri-dasa is 30.Tripaat(3*4;caturaha-4>dasa-
10>daksha-year,king) is 12.30*12=3-6-0(va-shad-ra>vatsara).In
the Holy Eucharist also one can see this splitting of the sacrificial
bread to make it the yajna of samaya/dhaanya(first fruits)/
karana(grain,word of king,veda)/ kirana(ray of sun)/
tanaya/putra.Gavamayana is ayana(sacrifice,passage,passover) of
go-the bull,sacrifice of the word(Rg/go-spel),sacrifice of
putra/Xaviour/time,sacrifice of the sun/emperor.
Moses and Augustus were Mithraic priests of their time.
Moses(Heb.moza-sunrise,Ved.Manu-law-smRti-dharma) tried to
install the Mosaic Law/dasa niyama/ten commandments on
Mount Sinai and Augustus(the most high/deva/veda/raja),tried
to install the New Law/New Testament on Mount Golgotha as
Rg/gira/word/ayana/marga/dharma/mitra/putra is
giri(gira/srii/3/srii mukha/Luke)-mountain.Suryodaya is called
udayagiri(hill of sunrise;Miina>Sinai>Golgotha). Miina/nayana/
niyama is called matsa.Miina>ma-ayana(king’s sacrifice, sunrise,
Passover;king’s house,Basilica).The daily Passover is from
northeast(miina/rusha/ arusha/aruNa) to the east(Mesha) at
dawn/sunrise.The annual passover is from the sign of Pisces to
the sign of Aries at the vernal equinox.Ma-ayana/Miina/ Sinai is
Bethania/king’s sacrifice/passage/passover.In the Ramayana of
the Surya(sun,udaya,Judea,soma cf.Mosa/moza) vansa(varsha)
kings , the passage is from Ayodhya(udaya) to Lanka(kalam-time,
cf.samaadhi/smasaana ,Gagana/Ganga/naakam-sky,biblical
Canaan).The Mithraic/rajarshi/suurya vansa kings are kings of
Judea(udaya/soma) as well.To denote ra(agni,king, sun,time)/
dasa/ara-altar,the caturaha(cross/kratu/Sukra(fire,Venus
cf.Friday is fire day,hence Christ’s death in the asterism/day of
Sukra-to denote the death of the day sun in the West in Libra,the
sign of Sukra/Durga/Venus opposite the sign of Aries/Mesha/
Lamb/Mars)/putra/dharma/ Dharma putra/marta putra-son of
man/amRta putra-son of sun-son of god-tanaya-samaya-varsha-
praja-putra-kaala-son of sun) sa-tra was installed by Mosa on
Sinai(Miina/ jina/dina/samaya/ yajna/ tanaya) Mountain.The
Ark of the covenant was held behind a vastra(veil) to denote
vatsara/varsha/putra/ samvatsara satra/prajaapati
satra/Daksha(prajaapti/INRI) on the cross as ara/alt-
ar/Ark/Rg/dasa is Daksha/raksha/putra/ Soter/ salvation.
Caesar and his Mithraic Paters were well aware of these yajna
principle when they installed the sacrifice of the
crest/chrest/Christ . In fact Augustus maintained his birth date on
September 23 to agree with the asterism of Visakha/Pascah ruled
by Jupiter(BRhaspati/Guru/Puru/Kuru-priest king) who is the
significator of putra(son),lord of Matsa/northeast, who is also
exalted in the sign of Soma(4th day of the caturaha, Moon,
Cancer,Julius,Divus Iulius,father of Augustus,Roma;Thoma as
father for early Roman Christians of India) and also the
significator of the shashTi(60) year BRhaspati varsha
(putra;Jupiter cycle;ma-ayana;matsya). Matsya is shown in the
New Testament several times.But there is an allusion to it in the
question of Pilate to Jesus “what is truth(John.18.37)”.Truth is
satya.Ma(king,agni)-satya(truth,Ficus tree ,cf.Ficus tree with two
unicorns in Vedic seals) denote Nasatya one of the
Asvins(samaya>sa-yama;ina-yama;ravi-dvi),the other being
Dasra(Lazarus,donkey;rajata-silver-30 shekels).Matsya is
ma(king,veda)-satya(truth)/astya(house)/ ayana(house,
sacrifice)/ishTi(sacrifice).Samaadhi/smasaana being samaa-
aadi/aasana confirmed by the caturaha(cross/spear/4) the last
words of the Christ are also “it is finished(John.19.30” as the year
is also called varsha/savana/arka haayana/agra
haayana.Agra(arka/agna-cf.cremation,sacrificial fire,time) being
antya(end), smasaana(samaadhaana) being RIP,
Narayana(Vishnu/ Anubis/Kaala) being niryaana(death), dharma
being mRta/pareta(dead,praasa-spear),and svarga(soma) being
sava-agra/arka the final words are justified! Upon his death the
veil (vastra) of the temple of Jerusalem(installed by Moses-moza -
sunrise!) split into two parts (Matthew.27.51) to make the
varsha/vatsara/vastra of Moses as the sam(yama/soma)-
vatsara(year,saka>sava) and samaya(sa-yama/Asvins) as
tanaya(putra/soter) of the sun god with the day having two parts
of day and night.The eucharist(body of sun) is split into two parts
to make it samaya/tanaya/son of god. The mark of the spear on
the chest is the mark of Vishnu(vatsanaabha/kaalacakra/
Dasaratha/ Golgotha) on his chest and it is called srii(sun)
vatsa(dear son,varsha-year).The nara-man/nR-king with INRI
label on the cross/ayana/ara/dasa/asta/altar- becomes
Narayana/ niryaana/smasaana/samaadhi/samaa-
aadi/agrahaayana/New Year at the vernal equinox.His death at
the sixth hour to ninth hour places him in the signs of his father-
July and the most high/Leo/Deo/Augustus/August where in fact
the death date of Augustus is placed!
The Temple of Divus Augustus in Rome was meant to replace the
temple of Jerusalem and it was inaugurated by Caligula,who
claimed the legacy of Augustus and Tiberius.Caligula also tried to
install his image in the Jerusalem temple,which act the Jews
opposed .But the Romans were relentless in their pursuit of
religious propaganda and military conquests through successive
rulers ,which finally led to the destruction of the Temple of
Jerusalem in AD 70 , resulting in the status of the Temple of
Augustus,symbol of Roman Christianity, in Rome as the Temple of
the Only Son of God,Soter,the X-aviour of mankind forever!
In vedic concept,agni/tara/pu-tra/ra is denoted by the number 3.
This trident/3 mark is the “naama” on the forehead of
Vaishnavite/ Visvamitra Hindus.Naa-ma>nar-ayana>samaa-
janana-jnaana-snaana-baptism cf.baptism by John>
samaya>sa(1)-yama(dva/rava/sava/2)> tanaya>putra>bhadra>
bharata>darbha> mitra.Samaya is Daksha/rakta(daksha/ raja-
king,year,king’s year)/soNa/soma/ rakta(daksha/ raaja).The 1+V
>trident>caturaha/satra/dasa/ara when the bent arm is
straightened to make the cross.Thus the trident /cross denote the
king/daksha/INRI and it is marked as three lines with a central
rakta/red line on the phaala/vaara/forehead/roof of the
head.Phaala>vaara-roof,door,spear,jar,weekday.So we have vedic
seals with trident,jar,spear etc.on the head of human figures to
denote Vishnu/Visvamitra.In the Mosaic story of the
Passover/Vernal Equinox we can see the door posts(which more
likely is the forehead) of the houses of the sons of Israel being
marked with blood (rakta/raksha/Soter/Daksha) of the Lamb
before the Passover.The Christians baptise with the cross.In the
story of the Daksha Yaaga,Rudra(putra) beheaded
Daksha(cf.John,father) and replaced with the head of a
Ram.Similarly Peter cut of the ear(year/Daksha/Putra) of
Malchus(melech) to denote the termination of the sacrificial year
at the Vernal equinox with the passover of Isra(usra-
sun,bull>varsha-year>praja-son>srava-ear>svar-veda)-el(La-
indra)/ra(agni).
The crucifixion involves three men to denote agni/satra/
samaya/tanaya/trikaala(dawn,noon,dusk;past,present,future).
Dasa/asta/satra/sarat/saka/Rg/ara/altar/saala/taala/dhaana/a
alaya/aala-Soma/svar/veda/deva-satra-sankaha-aum-
sinha.SankarshaNa-ka-dasa.SankarshaNa-Devalaya/Dig
vijaya(dasami)/
Digambara/Putra(temple)/Purusha/Vatsara.Aum(sankha/sveta/
sukla)-Rshabha> SankarshaNa.Svetambara is
SankarshaNa.KRshNambara is Digambara.
Bharata/agni/ma/ra is subha/siva/bhadra/rudra/putra.Hence
we have the birth of Rama(agni,nR) and Bharatain the
putrakameshTi/putra-mahaa-ishTi/asvamedha/Gavamayana/
samvatsara satra.
from
this image it is clear the ashTa/asta/dasa/ishTi of bhadra/ashTa
mangala/mangala(bhadra/agni/ra) ishTi/surata/suutra is
indicated.
Srii>3>agni/nR/varsha/Daksha/ raksha/raatra/netra/
Indra/mitra/ satra/bhadra/taraNa/saraNa/dharma.Aja/Indra is
Pa/Va/bha.
Ka/Va/bha/ha/Sa/srii/raaja/ mangala/agni/vi-soma/
Puloma/ Vishnu/ Aga/Aja/varsha/adhvara/ yajna/yaaga/
samaya/haayana/tanaya/dhaanya/pu/putra/Ja/sha/sa+ dasa
mitra-Indra-netra-jhasha-raajan -bharata-darbha-kusa-sukha-
+dasa/rasa/lata (cf.Kalasa/Salka/Cakra/shadaha>kalabha>
kalpa)+ra/ma/ Na> Vatsara(Vishnu/year/Vi-sva- mitra)>Va-
ra-sa>Va+Ra+tra/tara>VRtra(Indra).Varsha
Unicorn -agni/ka/Garuda/Syena/sa-yama /
yajna/dasa/rasa/samaya/ tanaya/putra/pu> varsha>praasa>
Mathura/kratu(Vishnu,sacrifice;caturaha>cross
>Christ).Mathura+Rshabha/Bharata/Jina.
AshTamangala/Kshetra/praasaada/prastha.Gaja/bull/saka/ma+r
asa/dasa/varsha/sura/rusha/pura>prastha.Hence Indra(Sakra)-
sukla/rajata/dasra/darsa/satra/sarat cup,offered to
Christ on the cross) creed and the Christian calendar
year.Bethlehem as beth-melech denote the palace itself where the
emperor(INRI) was born.Varsha(year) was considered as the
son(tanaya-son,samaya-time) of the sun god(ra>raja>solar
year>king's year>king's ear cf.Peter's chopping of the ear of
Malchus/year of Melech and the descent of holy spirit/bha on him
as rasa/tongue of bha/king/sun as he became the
tongue/patra/bharata/veda to speak to the
masses.Peter(bharata/bha-rasa>tongue of god>go-
word,king,god>gopan>co-hen) and Paul(Saul/svar/spel/
speech/varsha/year) denote king's speech/king's
year/sruu/srava/veda(dva-two)/go-spel.Four vedas became four
gospels.Peter and Paul were hence placed in the month of the sky
with Julius(July).The Holy Mass is just a suryamedha/
vajapeya/soma sacrifice as seen by the white circular wafer/body
of the sun.Peter and Paul were the personified symbol of roman
priesthood/go-spel as the emperor/pontifex maximus spoke to
the masses through his priests in the basilica/palace to the parish
church(palace of the village).The epistles of Paul were the
founding stones of Roman Christianity and these were the letters
of the Roman emperor(pontifex maximus) himself. The vedic
culture can be traced back to ancient Natufian/Anatolian
times(Gobekli Tepe) and the vedic Bharadvajas,Egyptian
Pharaohs, Hebrew Levites and Roman clergy had deep linguistic
and even genetic connections which enabled them to generate
new religions at their will to control and rule the masses using
religion.
Samaya(time) being yajna(sacrifice) different religions have
different years like kali,saka,julian,hijri etc. Samaya is also
syena(Garuda/garta-throne/harta-sun-symbol of vedic yajna)
and tanaya(son of sun/son of god).Sa(god,1)-yama(two,god of
time,kaala-time,raja-king) or dasa(Roman ten,kaala,cross) is the
kalacakra(cycle of time), cross of the Christ.With INRI it is
definitely dasaraja(Rg veda)/Dasaratha(Ramayana) etc. making
him the king as time was called the king(yama raaja). When the
sun aspect Julius-the father god in the sky,we have the birth of the
son of god as Christ in December/New Year beginning in
January.The Julian Year/ear of Malchus is the Year of the
Lord/Caesar instituted to perptualise Roman religion and Roman
empire.
Several lunisolar phenomena were personified in the Biblical
sacrificial year.Thus Lazarus is the asterism of
dasra(asvini,donkey) in Pisces.Hence Christ mounted the
donkey.Pascah denote the month of Visakha(Aries).Akkal dama is
Pisces.Arimathea is arunodaya-dawning in Pisces.Joseph is
ushus(dawn).Emmaus is Amavasya(New Moon).The
marriage(kalyana/mangala) of Cana(naga/ashTa/eight) was
introduced to denote ashTamangala/temple.Beth-lehem is
kshetra(ka-satra>temple). The star (tara) of Bethlehem(palace)
denotes raja(emperor) in the palace/on the cross.Hence
taala(palm) is used on palm-sunday also.
Feast of unleavened bread is matsa(Pisces) as Heb.matzah!
Miina>ma-ayana>beth melech>Sinai> niyama>nayana>
aksha>ashTa>asta>desa>sat>maana>naama>samaa>janana >
jnaana>snaana(bath>beth -satra/sarat/mitra/putra/Ark-
akra-agra-agna>veda>sveta>sukla>sukra-agni>suukara-varaaha-
boar-Vishnu).
The Jewish feast of unleavened bread was founded to praise
sunrise,which was projected as liberation of Isra(srii/sun)-el
from Egypt(Ijya-pada>Ithasi>Italia).The angle/sign of sunrise is
northeast/Pisces which is called miina/matsa/Ijya-pada in
vedic.Sinai denote miina.Unleavened bread is matzah in Hebrew.
To denote the transit of srii-el/sun-god in matsa/miina/sinai ,
people were asked to eat matzah for a month.The transit into
Mesha/Visakha/Aries is the Pascah/liberation from Egypt.This is
celebrated as Passover/Pascah/ Easter with the fullmoon after
the vernal equinox.The role of Maundy Thursday is also in here as
Thurday is the day of Guru/Jupiter/lord/master/teacher as said
by Christ at the last supper.
As per the Mahabharata the soul of man is his son/daughter who
lives after his death.There is no other soul.
The bible identifies food/bread with god as vedic annam(Bible-
manna) denote sun,food and king(Mal.mannan).The Roman dole
system made the emperor -the food giver of the masses-the god
as is seen in the lord's prayer.Hence we have beth-melech (house
of emperor/ashTamangala/kshetra-temple,palace) become beth-
lehem(house of bread;also gopa/bhuupa-king is apoopa-bread in
bharata/veda),the demand to convert stone(asma-stone/ajna-
command,word of god as said by Jesus) into bread(asana-
food).Bhadraasana(throne)/bhadra-ajna(royal command) was
made bhadra(king,stone cf.Petra/Peter)-asana(food).The
kalyana(marriage/mangala) of Cana(ashTa/asta making
ashTamangala),the five loaves (aksha/ashTa) +two fish(mangala)
etc. and finally the eucharist/sarii-ra/agni /body/sun and the
rakta/soNa/soma-blood of raksha/salvation as sariiraraksha is
food/god indicate the use of Peter(Bharata/ veda/go)&
Paul(svar/spel)/veda-svara/deva-svara/deva-vaNi /king's
speech by the Roman priests to create the New Testament.
Rg(Mark-marga-path,ma-Rg,kara-Na /Luke-mukha-
speech-sriimukha/Paul-svar-varsha-adhvara/John-soma-son-
putra -sun-tanaya-samaya cf. “Woman,behold,your
, , (veda/writ;pa-leaf,king,wing,patra) is putra
on gira(hill,speech,Rg) of dharma.
Moses. Manu(Law,muni/mozhi/Rca/smRti/dharma;ma-nu ,
dhura/bhaara/stoma) , , , ,
AshTa mangala>kshetra>s-asta>Beth-any/ania(ayana)>
Betlehem>Beth-melech>ka-kuda/kuuTa>kakutstha>Golgotha.
Vardhamaana>Bharata/darbha/kusa/sa-naama/janaana/
janana/snaana>varsha-naama>svar-naama,mahaviira>
mahaveda/ mahadeva/ maharaaja>jnaana> janana>
jina>jna>sma>sava(corpse,sun, sacrifice).
Saakya(Muni/Mal.mozhi-word-gira-Rg cf.kasya/kasyapa
>marga>ma-Rg >Mark-Evangelist-Luke-Paul)>
saakhi/druu/srii/sruu/ srava/karNa/ashTakarNa/
naama/naarayana/niryaana , , , /srauta>
sa-akhya>sa-naama>jnaana>snaana with Caesar as tiirtha-holy
water.Hence John’s Baptism in the New Testament,indicate
Baudhayana rituals and or Buddhism influence.
Each svar/veda/varsha indicate an empire of Bharata/
vardhamana/Saka/Aksha/Asoka/uksha/uktha/soma/Roma/
DroNa/throne etc.Ur-namma>rava/deva-
manu/aagama/agna/jna/jina/naga.
Adam>atma(sun,son)>tanaya>samaya>yajna.
Livia(cf.divya/devi/Mariya/Mary-goddess)
Livia Drusilla
Julia Augusta
Roman empress
Tenure 16 January 27 BC – 19 August AD 14
Born 30 January 59 BC
Rome, Italy
Emperor Augustus
Dynasty Julio-Claudian
Mother Alfidia
A cult statue of Livia represented as Ops, with sheaf of wheat and cornucopia, 1st century
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Chronology
Augustus
27 BC – AD 14
Tiberius
AD 14–37
Caligula
AD 37–41
Claudius
AD 41–54
Nero
AD 54–68
Livia and her son Tiberius, AD 14–19, from Paestum, National Archaeological Museum of Spain,
Madrid
, (caturaha of Visvamitra/
yajna/samaya/tanaya/putra) of the Christ from Jerusalem as
the Inscription on the cross/crossing/passover is IN(Visva
mitra /Iesus Nazarenum)-RI(Rajarshi,Rex Iudaerum-
(Daksha/prajapati/anno/year udaya-rakta surya-soma of
RohiNi-the rising red sun-portrayed as the blood stained
body of the christ- at the vernal equinox in the
East/Aries/Easter. Constantine the Great was a very clever
successor of the Christ(Augustus) and he was anointed a
saint like his mother like Ave Maria(Livia). He issued the Edict
of Milan in 313 AD, whereby Christianity became the legal(royal)
religion in the Roman Empire; and Constantine and his successors
continued to use the title "pontifex maximus(Pope)' as guardian
of the Roman cults worshipping the emperor as Sol Invictus/
Augustus/ Chrest.He introduced the Nicene creed in
Christianity in the ecumenical council of bishops he(the
Pontifex Maximus) organised in 325 AD.
The council not only fixed the beginning of the sacrificial year
at the vernal equinox as the passover day/crossing
day/crucifixion and spearing day on Friday following the
feast of unleavened bread on Thursday, followed by Saturday
Sabbath and Easter Sunday but also decided that the
son(August-31 days) is equal to the father (July-31 days) , the
son was not created but eternal like the father without
beginning and end as putra/ tanaya/ samaya/yajna was
thought to have no beginning and no end,since Einstein was
born nearly 2000 years after the birth of the Christ to
contradict him!Bishop Arius tried to contradict him on
this,but was mercilessly suppressed and exiled as was done
by Augustus to the son of Cleopatra,Titus to the temple of
Jerusalem etc.
Helena
Augusta
Seated statue of Helena in Musei
Capitolini, Rome
Names
Flavia Julia Helena
Regnal name
Flavia Julia Helena
Augusta
Dynasty Constantinian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena,_mother_of_Constantine_I
).
Stoma
AgnishToma has two terms agni and soma both of which indicate
agni itself agni/ravi being dvi/yama/samaya/sa-yama.Soma is
shtoma.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index
Stoma (स्तोम).—Svara variety of a sāma; saptadaśa, another
variety; pañcadaśa, another variety; pañcadaśa, from the
south(soma-sky) face of Brahmā.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Stoma (स्तोम) denotes ‘song of praise’ in the Rigveda. Later the
term has the technical sense of the typical forms in which the
Stotras are chanted.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Stoma in Marathi glossary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary
sun/time/8/ishTi,soma is ahna/day/sabda/sapta-7 /
Sanskrit dictionary
Stoma in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary
Stoma (स्तोम).—[stu-man Uṇ.1.137] cf.stu is suta/tanaya
/putra/samaya/yajna.Ma(king,agni)-
stu(suta)>mushTi(used in sacrifice).
1) Praise, eulogium, hymn.
2) Riches, wealth.
Kannada-English dictionary
Stoma in Kannada glossary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus
Stōma (ಸ್ತೋಮ):—
1) [noun] a hymn in praise of.
2) [noun] an elaborate, religious sacrifice.
3) [noun] a gathering of people, animals, etc.; a multitude.
4) [noun] the condition of anything being in great quantity,
number, intensity, etc.; plentifulness.
5) [noun] that part of the body which is joined to the main body
with the neck in human or the corresponding part in other
animals; the head.
6) [noun] riches; wealth.
7) [noun] grain or corn.
8) [noun] a shaft, stick having a metal pointed end fixed to it
.
context information
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-
European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern
region of India.
Terms related with stoma:
Stomabhaga, Stomabhagika, Stomaciti, Stomakshara, Stomamaya,
Stomaprishtha, Stomapurogava, Stomatashta, Stomavahas, Stoma
vardhana, Stomavriddhi, Stomay, Stomaya, Stomayana, Stomayati,
Stomayoga.
Ends with
(+39): Agnishtoma, Ahahstoma, Aptastoma, Atyagnishtoma, Ayuh
stoma, Ayushtoma, Bhumistoma, Brihahpatistoma, Brihaspatisto
ma, Catuhshtoma, Caturuttarastoma, Caturvimshastoma, Catushto
ma, Chandorutstoma, Dasharatrastoma, Dvaparastoma, Ekastoma,
Ekavimshastoma, Goshtoma, Gotamastoma.
Full-text
(+147): Kritastoma, Ekastoma, Vratyastoma, Stomamaya, Kalisto
ma, Mahastoma, Dvaparastoma, Ekavimshastoma, Tretastoma, Ur
dhvastoma, Trishtoma, Catushcatvarimsha, Shatshodashin, Caturv
imshastoma, Trayastrimshastoma, Aptastoma, Pancin, Marutstom
a, Triparyaya, Sahastoma.
Relevant texts
Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kāṇḍa XII, adhyāya 3, brāhmaṇa 1 < [Twelfth Kāṇḍa]
Kāṇḍa XIII, adhyāya 3, brāhmaṇa 3 < [Thirteenth Kāṇḍa]
Kāṇḍa VIII, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 4 < [Eight Kāṇḍa]
+ 57 more chapters / show preview
Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Rig Veda 1.8.10 < [Sukta 8]
Rig Veda 1.5.1 < [Sukta 5]
Rig Veda 10.27.2 < [Sukta 27]
+ 15 more chapters / show preview
Sri Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Verse 4.4.9 < [Part 4 - Compassion (karuṇa-rasa)]
show preview
The Brahmanda Purana (by G.V. Tagare)
Chapter 8 - God Brahmā’s mental creation < [Section 2 -
Anuṣaṅga-pāda]
show preview
The Shiva Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 12 - The description of creation (sṛṣṭi) (3) < [Section 7.1 -
Vāyavīya-saṃhitā (1)]
show preview
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by
Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 11.191 < [Section XXI - Expiation for the Neglect of ‘Sāvitrī’]
show preview
https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/stoma
Medha >maaDa/bhaara>meTa(tower)/saya/suuya/yaja.
Da-aksha/rakta/soma>dr-aksha(grape/wine)> soma>soNa>
wine> miina>nayana>vara/rava/dva-aksha/aga/sa>vRksha
, >prakaasa(light)>Rg-vaca.
The unicorn is like the Holy Eucharist.
Syena/samaya/tanaya/putra/raja/suuya/yajna/ka+cross/da
sa/sa-tra/sarat/dasra/darsa/desa .
Asvamedha/avasa medha> abdamedha>Asvatthama>
ka-dasa>saka>kesa>kshatra>kshetra.
Go(arrow,eye,star,astra,baaNa)-pa(jar,king,ka)-
aala(kuTa/pura/house) , , , , , ,
/bhupaala/hu-paana/Cup of Christ , , >
KRshNa> Kubera> copper(cf.Karsha paNa>garta stuti>Garuda
Jar>haayana>kalya>kanya>Kaanya>varsha>srava>sruu>karNa>k
a-nR/hari/ srii/ rajan>sarva.sarpa>darbha>bhadra>k.Ka-
rasana/racana>karsana>bha-rasa>Rshabha>bull+Rca-bha.
Sura>rusha>arusha>soma> Rca>srii>ra> sariira>
tanu>bera>viira>sena(bera-body,vaara-spear,bhaara-
weight,maana-measure,mina-matsya-Pisces, naama-saka-sava-
aksha)> dhaana(palce)> medha(sacrifice)/maasa(month).
Varsha/savana/sava/su/nu/mu/snaana/jnaana/janana-
death/corpse/birth/baptism of Christ by Soma/John/Full Moon is
on Nisan 14/15.
M-1186- >
Arka/agra/agna/nR/nara/srii/hari/sa-haayana/kaanya/ka-
ayana/ka+rajan/rushabha/bhadra/bharata/netra/Indra/mitra/
Rama>Saka-Rajan (King’s year,ear of Malchus,gaja rajan,
“nirayana”/niryaana/narayana year!
Body>sariira/srii/ra/agna/arka/saka/kara>karaNa>linga>
, , Esha+karNa/karaNa/ka/
ra/ma>ka-esa/aasa>medha> Mesha>Medha>
yajana>tanaya>samaya>kaala> haayana> narayana>
niryaana>kesa-temple>kiisa(sun)>ka-sadana/
satra>Hastina>kshetra>ma-sta>matsa>Heb.matzah?
AshTa/ashTasrii/asta/ishTi>ayana+ ra/ha/dvi/kha/
sa>Hastina>haayana>Kaanya>Ahalya>aha-ayana>ayana-
aha>Daksha(Varsha/Soma/Samaya/Simon/John/First born of
equinox/dawn/sacrificial year , ,
bhadra , ,
Savana>(sacrifice)>sa(aksha/panca/karsha/varsha/saka/man,sn
ake,bird,hari,sahari,sabari,)+paana(cup,paatra/paartha/varsha/s
rava/sruu)/baaNa(astra/praaasa/spear)/vana(tee,house,water)/
paNa(house)/nabha/nava>saka>sava>japa>Mal.tavaNa-times!
Spear/pu/agni/ra/Hari+ palm/siira/srii/rasa/rasana(spearing
the tongue,spearing the putra,spearing the bull>spearing the
Christ,Muruka with spear,St.Thomas with spear)/Rca/srii/
Rusha>turiiya-4>suurya> dasa> sarat>satra> sarpa>patra> sa/
ca+kara/ va> Sakra/Sukra/Durga/ Bhadra/ surata/putra/
cakra/varsha-haayana-Kaanya-Narayana-Ramayana-Raajayana
, , , ,
Bharata/ashTamangala/agnishToma ,
Netra/Vasra/vatsara/Nayana/Miina/Phalguna/Indra/Mitra/
NarayaNa/Ka/Kha , Indratuurya, , , ,
varsha, , , , , , , , , ,
, , ,
, ,
>Indra
Va -shadra/satra/dasra/sarat cf.-ra/savana
>Rajan>arpaNa>araadhana-worship/ stoma /
agnishToma .
Arka/agna/kara/hara/Rg +haayana>
agrahaayana/Visvamitra
ayana/satra/varsha/dasa/varsha satra +
maada/medha/mesha/stoma>agrahaayana-stoma.
The purpose of biblical stories was to install sacrifice(yajna/
samaya-time/varsha-year/adhvara-sacrifice cf.sacrifice of Isaac
or Christ).Adam(atma/samaya/yajna-son,sun,time) is day-the
first/light/life half of yajna/ahna/day,time,when people live.
Soma (Noah,moon,night) denote the second /night half of
sacrifical day,at the onset of which living beings sleep/die.In the
flood of darkness ,light/life is maintained by the ark/crescent of
Soma/Moon/Noah.Hence the story of the flood is universal in
multiple religions .All religious sacrifices involve time phenomena
narrated with poetic imagination.The real ark/arka/sun/
time/nauka/taraNa is mukha/ face of man since he was created in
the image of god /samaya as he is born from sayana/surata-sex-
the ark of Noah/soma/ samaya/yajna/tanaya/putra/time !Nasta-
nose and masta-head form the mast/ma-asta!
Vedic sacrifices are called agnishToma.Agni/Bharata is Adam and
soma is Noah.They are not the same.Agni gives the day. Soma
gives the night.Thus aha/ahna-sacrificial day is completed.Which
the Bible also does by the story of Adam and Noah.
Kaala>Ka-aasana(throne)>rashTra>Kamsa>sinha.Hence KRshNa
killed Kamsa and is shown with tigers(sinha)/on trees to indicate
sinhaasana/bhadraasana/nakshatra/droNa(throne)/kaala/
samaya.Nakshatra is called njattuvela(njaru-sun,vela-interval) in
Malayalam and it indicates the position of the sun in the ecliptic
beginning with the vernal equinox as the first point.Samaya is sa-
yama/ dasa/varsha/va-rasa/rasa/soma/suuna/vatsara/va-
satra/va-dasra/va-dasa/va-asta/vastra/va-ashTa(ishTi) and it is
shown as the soma cup placed before the animal(bha-
animal/star/sun/sukra; mRga-muruka-marga-veda-deva-rava)/
mRga/ma-Rg/na-Rg/karaNa/karabha/marga.Hence veda is also
called “marga” in Malayalam.Christians were called
“margavaasi”(cf.Bharad-vaaja) also.Vishnu marga is denoted by
marga with Vishnu as in
Hari >Suura>suurya>turiiya>tuurya>
dhuurya>srii>Soma>amRta>madira>madhu> ushNa>
sura>jina>rasa>niira>miina>nayana>Rca>raaja> Rg> gira(go-
word was god ,John.1.1!)>arka(sun).
Dvi(ravi)-pa (elephant/KRshNa/BhRgu)-ayana
(ratha/tara/wheel)>KRshNa-
(bhadra/veda/deva/raja/srii/hari/kaala)-Dvi pa/ha-ayana which
is also confirmed by KRshNa with dvi-pa(two tigers)-
ayana/aasana/yama.Two fish>agra hayana>Hari Srii>two
men>agra-hayana>two tigers>agra-ha/trident/spear/sinha/jina-
kha-yama.Ka-year-rajan(tiger>va/bha/pa) >
KRshNa(kaala/syaama/samaya/tanaya/pu-tra
/soma/sthoma/stu/suta!Kaalacakra , ,
/Dasaratha/son of Aja/Mesha/Indra/Sakra-sukra-surata-
putra/arka/saka/ agrahaayana/ arka-ha-yama/arka tanaya/son
of god/KRshNa Putra/Dharma Putra/Dharma Raaja/Dharma
Cakra/Asoka Cakra(with four lions to make ayana/aasana/
aajna/bhadraasana/ sinhaasana/ Asvathaama/ DroNa/
Soma.Sinha/Leo/Deo the throne of Asoka/Agustus.
Yama/sa-maya(water buffaloe,asva,gaura
mRga)/svar/moksha/aakaasa/aksha/naaka/naaga/soma
>ayana(cf.uttaraayana,dakshinaayana) , , , , ,
arka(fish)>Garga/Karka>soma>aum>Rg , , (paada>
veda>padma>soma).
Fish(arka/suura/srii/arusha/medha/netra/ashTa/agni)+jar(hay
ana/paana/papal/svar/varsha/sabda/sapta/abda/asva)>agra
kaam-eshTi , , , , as
ashTa>agni>yajna>ayana>satra>sarat-dasra-ishTi-sacrifice.
Saka> Sa+Ka>aksha/ksha/garuddhvaja/vishTarasrava/ govinda/
mukunda/sa-kra/gaja/kara/arka/gira/ Rg/kesa/Kesava
(Vishnu,KRshNa,Vatsara,kaala).
Garuda>Horus>Varsha/praja/Putra/Purusha>go-
rasa>gotra(Indra,Kausika,Visvamitra,cow pen ,
cf.druu/sruu/sriismasru is srii mukha/Hari Srii)>go-
il(aalaya/ayana;tra-sikha-3)>kaala>kesa> Kesava>
Mal.kovil>putra>potR>hotR.
Dasa/ashTa + rava/diva/dva>prastha- ,ashTanaaga,ashTa
mangala. .
libation
sacrifice
votum
temples
festivals
funerals
imperial cult
mystery religions
Priesthoods
Pontifices(cf.Julius,Augustus,Tiberius,Constantine etc.were
pontifices.
Augures
Vestales
Flamines
Fetiales
Epulones
Fratres Arvales
Deities
Capitoline Triad
Aventine Triad
underworld gods
indigitamenta
Deified emperors:
Divus Julius
Divus Augustus
The Roman imperial cult identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely
sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State. Its framework was based on Roman and
Greek precedents, and was formulated during the early Principate of Augustus(cf.the son of god). It
was rapidly established throughout the Empire and its provinces, with marked local variations in its
reception and expression.
The Maison Carrée in Nîmes, one of the best-preserved Roman temples. It is a mid-
sized Augustan provincial temple of the imperial cult(cf.INRI).
A deceased emperor held worthy of the honor could be voted a state divinity (divus, plural divi) by
the Senate and elevated as such in an act of apotheosis(cf.apostles of Christ). The granting of
apotheosis served religious, political and moral judgment on Imperial rulers and allowed living
Emperors to associate themselves with a well-regarded lineage of Imperial divi from which
unpopular or unworthy predecessors were excluded. This proved a useful instrument to Vespasian in
his establishment of the Flavian Imperial Dynasty following the death of Nero and civil war, and
to Septimius in his consolidation of the Severan dynasty after the assassination of Commodus.
The imperial cult was inseparable from that of Rome's official deities, whose cult was essential to
Rome's survival and whose neglect was therefore treasonous. Traditional cult was a focus of Imperial
revivalist legislation under Decius and Diocletian. It therefore became a focus of theological and
political debate during the ascendancy of Christianity under Constantine I. The
emperor Julian failed to reverse the declining support for Rome's official religious
practices: Theodosius I adopted Christianity as Rome's state religion. Rome's traditional gods and
imperial cult were officially abandoned. However, many of the rites, practices and status
distinctions that characterized the cult to emperors were perpetuated in the theology and politics
of the Christianized Empire.
Venus and Mars sculpture group reworked to portray an Imperial couple (created 120–140 AD,
reworked 170–175)
For several centuries, the Roman Republic worshiped, its divine and semi-divine monarchies by
their mythological gods.Rome's legendary kings had been its masters; with their removal,
Republican Romans could identify Romulus, the founder of the city, with the god Quirinus and still
retain Republican liberty. Similarly, Rome's ancestor-hero Aeneas was worshipped as Jupiter
Indiges. The Romans worshipped several gods and demi-gods who had been human, and knew the
theory that all the gods had originated as human beings(created by men), yet Republican
traditions (mos maiorum) were presented as staunchly conservative and anti-monarchic. The
aristocrats who held almost all Roman magistracies, and thereby occupied almost all of the Senate,
acknowledged no human as their inherent superior. No citizen, living or dead, was officially regarded
as divine, but the honors awarded by the state — crowns, garlands, statues, thrones, processions —
were also suitable to the gods, and tinged with divinity; indeed, when the emperors were given
state worship(cf.confering saint hood in Roman Christianity), it was done by a decree of the
Senate, phrased like any other honor.
Among the highest of honors was the triumph(cf.the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem).
When a general was acclaimed imperator by his troops, the Senate would then choose whether to
award him a triumph, a parade to the Capitol in which the triumphator displayed his captives and
spoils of war in the company of his troops; by law, all were unarmed. The triumphator rode in a
chariot, bearing divine emblems, in a manner supposed to be inherited from the ancient kings of
Rome(c.INRI), and ended by dedicating his victory to Jupiter Capitolinus. Some scholars have viewed
the triumphator as impersonating or even becoming a king or a god (or both) for the day but the
circumstances of triumphal award and subsequent rites also functioned to limit his status. Whatever
his personal ambitions, his victory and his triumph alike served the Roman Senate, people, and gods
and were recognised only through their consent.
In private life, however, tradition required that some human beings be treated as more or less
divine; cult was due from familial inferiors to their superiors. Every head of household embodied
the genius – the generative principle and guardian spirit – of his ancestors, which others might
worship and by which his family and slaves took oaths; his wife had a juno. A client could call his
patron "Jupiter on earth". The dead, collectively and individually, were gods of the underworld or
afterlife (dii manes). A letter has survived from Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, expecting that
when she was dead, her sons would venerate her as deus parens, a parental (or a nurturing) divinity;
such piety was expected from any dutiful son.
A prominent clan might claim divine influence and quasi-divine honors for its leader. Death
masks (imagines) were made for all notable Romans and were displayed in the atria of their houses;
they were used to represent their ghostly presence at family funerals. The mask of Scipio Africanus,
Cornelia's father and victor over Hannibal, was stored in the temple of Jupiter; his epitaph
(by Ennius) said that he had ascended to Heaven. A tradition arose in the centuries after his death
that Africanus had been inspired by prophetic dreams, and was himself the son of Jupiter.
There are several cases of unofficial cult directed at men viewed as saviors(cf.Augustus as
Christ,the X-aviour), military or political. In Further Spain in the 70s BC, loyalist Romans greeted the
proconsul Metellus Pius as a savior, burning incense "as if to a god" for his efforts to quash
the Lusitanian rebellion led by the Roman Sertorius, a member of the faction which called itself
"men of the People" (populares cf.Christ as “son of Man”). This celebration, in Spain, featured a
lavish banquet with local and imported delicacies, and a mechanical statue of Victory to crown
Metellus, who wore (extralegally) a triumphator's toga picta for the occasion. These festivities were
organized by the quaestor Gaius Urbinus, but were not acts of the state. Metellus liked all this, but
his older and pious (veteres et sanctos) contemporaries thought it arrogant and intolerable. After
the land reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were both murdered by their opponents, their
supporters "fell down" and offered daily sacrifice at the statues of the Gracchi "as though they were
visiting the shrines of the gods". After Gaius Marius defeated the Teutones, private citizens would
offer food and drink to him alongside their household gods; he was called the third founder of
Rome after Romulus and Camillus. In 86 BC, offerings of incense and wine were made at crossroad
shrines(cf.cross/marga/dharma) to statues of the still-living Marius Gratidianus, the nephew of the
elder Marius, who was wildly popular in his own right, in large part for monetary reforms that eased
an economic crisis in Rome during his praetorship.
Greek
Repoussé pendant of Alexander the Great, horned and diademed like Zeus Ammon: images of
Alexander were worn as magic charms (4th-century Roman).
When the Romans began to dominate large parts of the Greek world, Rome's senior representatives
there were given the same divine honours as were Hellenistic rulers. This was a well-established
method for Greek city-states to declare their allegiance to an outside power; such a cult committed
the city to obey and respect the king as they obeyed and respected Apollo or any of the other gods.
The cities of Ionia worshipped the Spartan general Lysander, when he personally dominated Greece,
immediately following the Peloponnesian War; according to Plutarch, this was the first instance
of ruler cult in Greek history. There were similar instances of divine cult to humans in the same
century, although some rulers, like Agesilaus, declined it. Clearchus, tyrant of Heraclea, dressed up
like Zeus and claimed godhood; this did not stop the Heracleots from assassinating
him. Isocrates said of Philip II of Macedon that after he conquered the Persian Empire, there
would be nothing for him to attain but to become a god; the city of Amphipolis, and a private
society at Athens, worshiped him even without this conquest; he himself set out his statue, dressed
as a god, as the thirteenth of the Twelve Olympians.
But it was Philip's son Alexander the Great who made the divinity of kings standard practice among
the Greeks. The Egyptians accepted him as Pharaoh, and therefore divine, after he drove the
Persians out of Egypt; other nations received him as their traditional divine or quasi-divine ruler as
he acquired them. In 324 BC, he sent word to the Greek cities that they should also make him a
god; they did so, with marked indifference – which did not stop them from rebelling when they
heard of his death next year.
His immediate successors, the Diadochi, offered sacrifices to Alexander, and made themselves gods
even before they claimed to be kings; they put their own portraits on the coinage, whereas the
Greeks had always reserved this for a god or for an emblem of the city. When the Athenians allied
with Demetrius Poliorcetes, eighteen years after the deification of Alexander, they lodged him in
the Parthenon with Athena, and sang a hymn extolling him as a present god, who heard them, as the
other gods did not.
Euhemerus, a contemporary of Alexander, wrote a fictitious history of the world, which showed
Zeus and the other established gods of Greece as mortal men, who had made themselves into
gods in the same way; Ennius appears to have translated this into Latin some two centuries later,
in Scipio Africanus' time.
The Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids claimed godhood as long as they lasted; they may have
been influenced in this by the Persian and Egyptian traditions of divine kings – although the
Ptolemies had separate cults in Egyptian polytheism, as Pharaoh, and in the Greek. Not all Greek
dynasties made the same claims; the descendants of Demetrius, who were kings of Macedon and
dominated the mainland of Greece, did not claim godhead or worship Alexander (cf. Ptolemaic cult
of Alexander the Great).
The Roman magistrates who conquered the Greek world were fitted into this tradition; games were
set up in honor of M. Claudius Marcellus, when he conquered Sicily at the end of the Second Punic
War, as the Olympian games were for Zeus; they were kept up for a century and a half until another
Roman governor abolished them, to make way for his own honors. When T. Quinctius
Flamininus extended Roman influence to Greece proper, temples were built for him and cities
placed his portrait on their coinage; he called himself godlike (isotheos) in an inscription
at Delphi – but not in Latin, or at Rome. The Greeks also devised a goddess Roma
(cf.Thomas;Bhadra,Durga,Sarasvati), not worshipped at Rome, who was worshipped with
Flamininus (their joint cult is attested in 195 BC); she would become a symbol of
idealised romanitas in the later Roman provinces, and a continuing link, whereas a Marcellus or
Flamininus might only hold power for a couple years.
When King Prusias I of Bithynia was granted an interview by the Roman Senate, he prostrated
himself and addressed them as "Saviour Gods", which would have been etiquette at his own
court; Livy was shocked by Polybius' account of this, and insists that there is no Roman source it ever
happened.
Worship and temples appear to have been routinely offered by Greeks to their Roman governors,
with varied reactions. Cicero declined a temple proposed by the city officials of Roman Asia to his
brother and himself, while the latter was proconsul, to avoid jealousy from other Romans; when
Cicero himself was Governor of Cilicia, he claimed to have accepted no statues, shrines, or chariots.
His predecessor, Appius Claudius Pulcher, was so pleased, however, when the Cilicians built a
temple to him that, when it was not finished at the end of Claudius' year in office, Claudius wrote
Cicero to make sure it was done, and complaining that Cicero was not active enough in the matter.
Intermediate forms
The Romans and the Greeks gave religious reverence to and for human beings in ways that did not
make the recipients gods; these made the first Greek apotheoses easier. Similar middle forms
appeared as Augustus approached official divinity.
The Greeks did not consider the dead to be gods, but they did pay them homage, and give them
sacrifices – using different rituals than those for the gods of Olympus. The Greeks called the
extraordinary dead – founders of cities and the like – heroes; in the simplest form, hero cult was the
burial and the memorials which any respectable Greek family gave their dead, but paid for by their
City in perpetuity. Most heroes were the figures of ancient legend, but some were historical: the
Athenians revered Harmodius and Aristogeiton as heroes, as saviours of Athens from tyranny; also,
collectively, those who fell at the Battle of Marathon. Statesmen did not generally become heroes,
but Sophocles was the hero Dexion ("the Receiver") – not as a playwright, nor a general, but because
when the Athenians took Asclepius' cult during the Peloponnesian War, Sophocles housed an image
of Asclepius until a shrine could be built. The Athenian leader Hagnon founded Amphipolis shortly
before the Peloponnesian War; thirteen years later, while Hagnon was still alive, the Spartan
general Brasidas liberated it from the Athenian empire, and was fatally wounded in the process. The
Amphipolitans buried him as a hero, declaring him the second founder of the city,
and erased Hagnon's honors as much as they could.
The Greeks also honored founders of cities while they were still alive, like Hagnon. This could also be
extended to men who did equally important things; during the period when Dion ruled in Syracuse,
the Syracusans gave him "heroic honors" for suppressing the tyrants, and repeated this
for Timoleon; these could also be described as worshipping his good spirit (agathos
daimon, agathodaemon; every Greek had an agathodaemon, and the Greek equivalent of a toast
was offered to one's agathodaemon). Timoleon was called savior; he set up a shrine to Fortune
(Automatia) in his house; and his birthday, the festival of his daimon, became a public holiday.
Other men might claim divine favor by having a patron(cf.Christian saints) among the gods;
so Alcibiades may have had both Eros and Cybele as patrons; and Clearchus of Heraclea claimed to
be "son of Zeus". Alexander claimed the patronage of Dionysus and other gods and heroes; he held
a banquet at Bactra which combined the toast to his agathos daimon and libations to Dionysus, who
was present within Alexander (and therefore the celebrants saluted Alexander rather than the
hearth and altar, as they would have done for a toast).
It was not always easy to distinguish between heroic honors, veneration for a man's good spirit,
worship of his patron deity, worship of the Fortune of a city he founded, and worship of the man
himself. One might slide into another: In Egypt, there was a cult of Alexander as god and as founder
of Alexandria; Ptolemy I Soter had a separate cult as founder of Ptolemais, which presumably
worshipped his daimon and then gave him heroic honors, but in his son's reign, the priests of
Alexander also worshipped Ptolemy and Berenice as the Savior Gods (theoi soteres).
Finally, a man might, like Philip II, assume some prerogatives of godhood and not others. The
first Attalid kings of Pergamum, were not gods, and supported a cult of Dionysus Cathegemon, as
their ancestor; they put the picture of Philetaerus, the first prince, on the coins, rather than their
own. Eventually, like the Seleucids, they acquired an eponymous priest, and put themselves on the
coinage; but they still were not called gods before their deaths. Pergamum was usually allied with
Rome, and this may have influenced the eventual Roman practice.
In the last decades of the Roman Republic, its leaders regularly assumed extra-constitutional
powers. The mos majorum had required that magistrates hold office collectively, and for short
periods; there were two consuls; even colonies were founded by boards of three men; but these
new leaders held power by themselves, and often for years.
The same men were often given extraordinary honors. Triumphs grew ever more
splendid; Marius and Sulla, the rival leaders in Rome's first civil war, each founded cities, which they
named after themselves; Sulla had annual games in his honor, at Rome itself, bearing his name; the
unofficial worship of Marius is above. In the next generation, Pompey was allowed to wear his
triumphal ornaments whenever he went to the Games at the Circus. Such men also claimed a
special relationship to the gods: Sulla's patron was Venus Felix, and at the height of his power, he
added Felix to his own name; his opponent Marius believed he had a destiny, and that no ordinary
man might kill him. Pompey also claimed Venus' personal favour, and built her a temple. But the
first Roman to become a god, as part of aiming at monarchy, was Julius Caesar.
Divus Julius
Caesar could claim personal ties to the gods, both by descent and by office. He was from the gens
Julia, whose members contended to be descended from Aeneas and his mother Venus. In his eulogy
for his aunt Julia, Caesar also indirectly claimed to be descended from Ancus Marcius and the kings
of Rome, and so from Mars. Moreover, when he was a teenager, Marius had named him flamen
Dialis, the special priest of Jupiter. Sulla had cancelled this appointment; however, relatively early
in his career, Caesar had become pontifex maximus, the chief priest of Rome, who fulfilled most of
the religious duties of the ancient kings. He had spent his twenties in the divine monarchies of the
eastern Mediterranean, and was intimately familiar with Bithynia.
Caesar made use of these connections in his rise to power, but not more than his rivals would have,
or more than his other advantages. When he spoke at the funeral of his aunt Julia in 69 BC, Julius
Caesar spoke of her descent from the Roman kings, and implied his own; but he also reminded his
audience she had been Marius' wife, and (by implication) that he was one of the few surviving
Marians.
When, however, he defeated his rivals, in 45 BC, and assumed full personal control of the Roman
state, he asserted more. During the Roman Civil War, since 49 BC, he had returned to the Eastern
Mediterranean, where he had been called god and savior, and been familiar with the Ptolemaic
Egyptian monarchy of Cleopatra, called Cleopatra Thea because of the weight she placed on her
own divinity. Also, he had a new Senate to deal with. Most of the more resolute defenders of the
Senate had joined with Pompey, and – one way or another – they were not sitting in the Senate.
Caesar had replaced them with his own partisans, few of whom were committed to the old Roman
methods; some of them were not even from Italy. It was rumoured that Caesar intended a despotic
removal of power and wealth from Rome eastwards, perhaps to Alexandria or Ilium (Troy).
During the Civil War, he had declared Venus his patron goddess: he vowed to erect a temple
for Venus Victrix if she granted him the battle of Pharsalia, but he had built it, in 46 BC, to Venus
Genetrix, which epithet combined her aspects as his ancestress, the mother of the Roman people,
and the goddess invoked in the philosophical poem De rerum natura. The new Senate had also put
up a statue of Caesar, with an inscription declaring him a demi-god, but he had it effaced, as not
the claim he wished to make. Granted the same extension of rights to triumphal dress as Pompey
had been given, Caesar took to wearing his triumphal head-wreath "wherever and whenever",
excusing this as a cover for his baldness. He may also have publicly worn the red boots and the toga
picta ("painted", purple toga) usually reserved to a triumphing general for the day of his triumph; a
costume also associated with the rex sacrorum (the priestly "king of the sacred rites" of Rome's
monarchic era, later the pontifex maximus), the Monte Albano kings, and possibly the statue
of Jupiter Capitolinus.
When the news of his final victory, at the battle of Munda, reached Rome, the Parilia, the games
commemorating the founding of the city, were to be held the next day; they were rededicated to
Caesar, as if he were founder. Statues were set up to "Caesar's Liberty", and to Caesar himself, as
"unconquered god." He was accorded a house at public expense which was built like a temple; his
image was paraded with those of the gods; his portrait was put on the coins (the first time a living
man had appeared on Roman coinage). Early in 44 BC, he was called parens patriae (father of the
fatherland); legal oaths were taken by his Genius; his birthday was made a public festival; the
month Quinctilis was renamed July, in his honor (as June was named for Juno). At last a special
priest, a flamen, was ordained for him; the first was to be Mark Antony, Caesar's adjutant, then
consul. To be served by a flamen would rank Caesar not only as divine, but as an equal of Quirinus,
Jupiter, and Mars. In Cicero's hostile account, the living Caesar's honours in Rome were already
and unambiguously those of a full-blown god (deus).
Caesar's name as a living divinity – not as yet ratified by senatorial vote – was Divus Julius (or
perhaps Jupiter Julius); divus, at that time, was a slightly archaic form of deus, suitable for poetry,
implying some association with the bright heavens. A statue of him was erected next to the statues
of Rome's ancient kings: with this, he seemed set to make himself King of Rome, in the Hellenistic
style, as soon as he came back from the expedition to Parthia he was planning; but he was betrayed
and killed in the Senate on 15 March 44 BC.Brutus as putra,the father is killed by the son. Tanaya is
samaya.The Sun’s son is kaala/time.But the father is killed by his own son,time ,at sunset.
An angry, grief-stricken crowd gathered in the Roman Forum to see his corpse and hear Mark
Antony's funeral oration. Antony appealed to Caesar's divinity and vowed vengeance on his killers. A
fervent popular cult to divus Julius followed. It was forcefully suppressed but the Senate soon
succumbed to Caesarian pressure and confirmed Caesar as a divus of the Roman state. A comet
interpreted as Caesar's soul in heaven was named the "Julian star" (sidus Iulium) and in 42 BC,
with the "full consent of the Senate and people of Rome", Caesar's young heir, his great-
nephew Octavian, held ceremonial apotheosis for his adoptive father. In 40 BC Antony took up his
appointment as flamen of the divus Julius. Provincial cult centres (caesarea) to the divus Julius were
founded in Caesarian colonies such as Corinth(cf.Paul’s letter to Corinth-is Octavian’s svar,laying the
foundation for Christianity). Antony's loyalty to his late patron did not extend to Caesar's heir: but in
the last significant act of the long-drawn civil war, on 1 August 31 BC, Octavian defeated Antony
at Actium.
Caesar's heir
cf. , , ,
Augustus as Jove, holding scepter and orb (first half of 1st century AD)
In 30/29 BC, the koina of Asia and Bithynia (cf.Bethania) requested permission to worship Octavian
as their "deliverer" or "saviour"(cf.the Christ). This was by no means a novel request but it placed
Octavian in a difficult position. He must satisfy popularist and traditionalist expectations and these
could be notoriously incompatible. Marius Gratidianus's popular support and cult had ended in his
public and spectacular death in 82 BC, at the hands of his enemies in the Senate; likewise Caesar's
murder now marked an hubristic connection between living divinity and death. Octavian had to
respect the overtures of his Eastern allies, acknowledge the nature and intent of Hellenic honours
and formalise his own pre-eminence among any possible rivals: he must also avoid a potentially fatal
identification in Rome as a monarchic-deistic aspirant. It was decided that cult honours to him could
be jointly offered to dea Roma, at cult centres to be built at Pergamum and Nicomedia. Provincials
who were also Roman citizens were not to worship the living emperor, but might worship dea
Roma and the divus Julius at precincts in Ephesus and Nicaea.
In 29 BC Octavian dedicated the temple of the divus Julius at the site of Caesar's cremation. Not
only had he dutifully, legally and officially honoured his adoptive father as a divus of the Roman
state. He "had come into being" through the Julian star and was therefore the divi filius (son of the
divinity). But where Caesar had failed, Octavian had succeeded: he had restored the pax
deorum (divinely ordained peace) and re-founded Rome through "August augury". In 27 BC he was
voted – and accepted – the elevated title of Augustus.
Augustus appeared to claim nothing for himself, and innovate nothing: even the cult to
the divus Julius had a respectable antecedent in the traditional cult to di parentes. His unique –
and still traditional – position within the Senate(vedic samiti/sabha) as princeps or primus inter
pares (first among equals) offered a curb to the ambitions and rivalries that had led to the recent
civil wars. As censor and pontifex maximus he was morally obliged to renew the mos maiores by
the will of the gods and the "Senate and People of Rome" (senatus populusque romanus).
As tribune he encouraged generous public spending, and as princeps of the Senate he
discouraged ambitious extravagance. He disbanded the remnants of the civil war armies to form
new legions and a personal imperial guard (the Praetorian Guard): the patricians who still clung to
the upper echelons of political, military and priestly power were gradually replaced from a vast,
Empire-wide reserve of ambitious and talented equestrians. For the first time, senatorial status
became heritable.
Ordinary citizens could circumvent the complex, hierarchic bureaucracy of the State, and appeal
directly to the emperor, as if to a private citizen. The emperor's name and image were ubiquitous –
on state coinage and on the streets, within and upon the temples of the gods, and particularly in
the courts and offices of the civil and military administration. Oaths were sworn in his name, with
his image as witness. His official res gestae (achievements) included his repair of 82 temples in 28
BC alone, the founding or repair of 14 others in Rome during his lifetime and the overhauling or
foundation of civic amenities including a new road, water supplies, Senate house and
theatres. Above all, his military pre-eminence had brought an enduring and sacred peace(peace of
the Christ), which earned him the permanent title of imperator and made the triumph an Imperial
privilege(triumphal entry into Rome/Jerusalem. In Matthew 21:1–11, Mark 11:1–11, Luke
19:28–44, and John 12:12–19, Jesus descends from the Mount of Olives towards
Jerusalem, and the crowds lay their clothes on the ground to welcome Him as He
triumphantly enters Jerusalem. The triumphal entry is traditionally commemorated on
Palm Sundaycf. The tiger is Raaja/suura/sun/Visva
mitra/Kausika/Visakha, making Sunday.With Palm it is Palm Sunday.Palm Sunday mounting of Dasra
is the crossing of Asvina-asterism,the first of the caturaha asterisms forming paada/veda.The leg
shows paada/veda/ayana-Ramayana-PutrkameshTi-Passover). He seems to have managed all this
within due process of law through a combination of personal brio, cheerfully veiled threats and self-
deprecation as "just another senator".
In Rome, it was enough that the office, munificence, auctoritas and gens of Augustus were identified
with every possible legal, religious and social institution of the city. Should "foreigners" or private
citizens wish to honour him as something more, that was their prerogative, within moderation; his
acknowledgment of their loyalty demonstrated his own moral responsibility and generosity; "his"
Imperial revenue funded temples, amphitheatres, theatres, baths, festivals and government. This
unitary principle laid the foundations for what is now known as "imperial cult", which would be
expressed in many different forms and emphases throughout the multicultural Empire.
Eastern provinces
The Eastern provinces offer some of the clearest material evidence for the
imperial domus and familia as official models of divine virtue and moral propriety. Centres including
Pergamum, Lesbos and Cyprus offered cult honours to Augustus and the Empress Livia: the Cypriot
Calendar honoured the entire Augustan familia by dedicating a month each (and presumably cult
practise) to imperial family members, their ancestral deities and some of the major gods of the
Romano-Greek pantheon. Coin evidence links Thea Livia with Hera(cf.Mariya) and Demeter,
and Julia the Elder with Venus Genetrix (Aphrodite). In Athens, Livia and Julia shared cult honour
with Hestia (equivalent to Vesta), and the name of Gaius was linked to Ares (Mars). These Eastern
connections were made within Augustus' lifetime – Livia was not officially consecrated in Rome
until some time after her death. Eastern imperial cult had a life of its own. Around 280, in the reign
of the emperor Probus and just before the outbreak of the Diocletianic persecution(cf.piiDhana-
persecution,pathana-study,veda pathana>veda piiDhana!), part of the Luxor Temple was converted
to an imperial cult chapel.
Western provinces
The Western provinces were only recently "Latinised" following Caesar's Gallic Wars and most fell
outside the Graeco-Roman cultural ambit. There were exceptions: Polybius mentions a past
benefactor of New Carthage in Republican Iberia "said to have been offered divine honours". In 74
BC, Roman citizens in Iberia burned incense to Metellus Pius as "more than mortal" in hope of his
victory against Sertorius. Otherwise, the West offered no native traditions of monarchic divinity or
political parallels to the Greek koina to absorb the imperial cult as a romanising agency. The Western
provincial concilia emerged as direct creations of the imperial cult, which recruited existing local
military, political and religious traditions to a Roman model. This required only the willingness of
barbarian elites to "Romanise" themselves and their communities.
Temple of Augustus and Livia, Vienne (modern France). Originally dedicated to Augustus and Roma.
Augustus was deified on his death in 14 AD: his widow Livia was deified in 42 AD by Claudius.
The first known Western regional cults to Augustus were established with his permission around 19
BC in north-western ("Celtic") Spain and named arae sestianae after their military founder, L.
Sestius Quirinalis Albinianus. Soon after, in either 12 BC or 10 BC, the first provincial imperial cult
centre in the West was founded at Lugdunum by Drusus, as a focus for his new tripartite
administrative division of Gallia Comata. Lugdunum set the type for official Western cult as a form of
Roman-provincial identity, parceled into the establishment of military-administrative centres. These
were strategically located within the unstable, "barbarian" Western provinces of the new Principate
and inaugurated by military commanders who were – in all but one instance – members of the
imperial family.
The first priest of the Ara (altar,the cross is ara/arka/dasa/sun,time) at Lugdunum's great imperial
cult complex was Caius Julius Vercondaridubnus, a Gaul of the provincial elite, given Roman
citizenship and entitled by his priestly office to participate in the local government of his
provincial concilium. Though not leading to senatorial status, and almost certainly an annually
elected office (unlike the traditional lifetime priesthoods of Roman flamines), priesthood in imperial
provinces thus offered a provincial equivalent to the traditional Roman cursus honorum. The
rejection of cult spurned romanitas, priesthood and citizenship; in 9 AD Segimundus, imperial cult
priest of what would later be known as Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (sited at
modern Cologne in Germany) cast off or destroyed his priestly regalia to join the rebellion of his
kinsman Arminius.
In the early Principate, an altar inscribed Marazgu Aug(usto) Sac(rum cf.dharm cakram
) ("Dedicated to Marazgu Augustus"), identifies a local Ancient Libyan (Berber) deity
with the supreme power of Augustus. In the senatorial province of Africa Proconsularis, altars to
the Dii Magifie Augusti attest (according to Potter) a deity who was simultaneously local and
universal, rather than one whose local identity was subsumed or absorbed by an Imperial divus or
deity. Two temples are attested to Roma and the divus Augustus – one dedicated under Tiberius
at Leptis Magna, and another (Julio-Claudian) at Mactar. A third at Carthage was dedicated to
the Gens Augusta in the very early empire.
Julio-Claudian
Even as he prepared his adopted son Tiberius for the role of princeps and recommended him to
the Senate as a worthy successor, Augustus seems to have doubted the propriety of
dynastic imperium; this, however, was probably his only feasible course. When Augustus died, he
was voted a divus by the Senate, and his body was cremated in a sumptuous funeral; his soul was
said to have ascended to the heavens, to join his adoptive father among the Olympians; his ashes
were deposited in the Imperial Mausoleum, which tactfully identified him (and later, his
descendants) by his Imperial names, rather than as divus. After Augustus, the only new cults to
Roman officials are those connected to the Imperial household. On his death, the senate debated
and passed a lex de imperio which voted Tiberius princeps through his "proven merit in office", and
awarded him the honorific "Augustus" as name and title.
Tiberius accepted his position and title as emperor with apparent reluctance. Though he proved a
capable and efficient administrator, he could not match his predecessor's extraordinary energy and
charisma. Roman historians described him as morose and mistrustful. With a self-deprecation that
may have been entirely genuine, he encouraged the cult to his father, and discouraged his own.
Tiberius allowed his own worship as a divinity (divus) in only one temple, in Rome's eastern
provinces, while he promoted the cult to the deceased Augustus throughout the empire(spread
of Chrestianity). After much wrangling, he allowed a single temple in Smyrna to himself and
the genius of the Senate in 26 AD; eleven cities had competed – with some vehemence and even
violence – for the honour.. His lack of personal auctoritas allowed increasing praetorian influence
over the Imperial house, the senate and through it, the state. In 31 AD, his praetorian
prefect Sejanus – by now a virtual co-ruler – was implicated in the death of Tiberius' son and heir
apparent Drusus, and was executed as a public enemy. In Umbria, the imperial cult priest (sevir
Augustalis) memorialised "the providence of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, born for the eternity of the
Roman name, upon the removal of that most pernicious enemy of the Roman people". In Crete,
thanks were given to "the numen and foresight of Tiberius Caesar Augustus and the Senate" in
foiling the conspiracy – but at his death, the senate and his heir Caligula chose not to officially deify
him.
Caligula's rule exposed the legal and moral contradictions of the Augustan "Republic". To legalise his
succession, the Senate was compelled to constitutionally define his role, but the rites and sacrifices
to the living genius of the emperor already acknowledged his constitutionally unlimited powers.
The princeps played the role of "primus inter pares" only through personal self-restraint and
decorum. It became evident that Caligula had little of either. He seems to have taken the cult of his
own genius very seriously, and is said to have enjoyed acting the god – or rather, several of them.
However, his infamous and oft-cited impersonations of major deities may represent no more than
his priesthood of their cults, a desire to shock and a penchant for triumphal dress or simply mental
illness. Whatever his plans, there is no evidence for his official cult as a living divus in Rome or his
replacement of state gods, and none for major deviations or innovations in his provincial cult. His
reported sexual relations with his sister Drusilla and her deification after death aroused scorn from
later historians; after Caligula's death, her cult was simply allowed to fade. His reported extortion of
priesthood fees from unwilling senators are marks of private cult and personal humiliations among
the elite. Caligula's fatal offense was to willfully "insult or offend everyone who mattered", including
the senior military officers who assassinated him. The histories of his reign highlight his wayward
impiety. Perhaps not only his: in 40 AD the Senate decreed that the "emperor should sit on a high
platform even in the very senate house". Claudius (his successor and uncle) intervened to limit the
damage to the imperial house and those who had conspired against it, and had Caligula's public
statues discreetly removed.
Claudius was chosen emperor by Caligula's praetorians and consolidated his position with cash
payments (donativa) to the military. The senate were forced to ratify the choice and accept the
affront. Claudius adopted the cognomen Caesar, deified Augustus' wife, Livia, 13 years after her
death and in 42 AD was granted the title pater patriae (father of the fatherland) but relations
between emperor and Senate seem to have been irreparable. Claudius showed none of Caligula's
excesses. He seems to have entirely refused a cult to his own genius: but the offer of cult
simultaneously acknowledged the high status of those empowered to grant it and the extraordinary
status of the princeps – Claudius' repeated refusals may have been interpreted as offensive to
Senate, provincials and the imperial office itself. He further offended the traditional hierarchy by
promoting his own trusted freedmen as imperial procurators: those closest to the Emperor held high
status through their proximity.
It has been assumed that he allowed a single temple for his cult in Britain, following his conquest
there. The temple is certain – it was sited at Camulodunum (modern Colchester), the main colonia in
the province, and was a focus of British wrath during the Boudiccan revolt of 60 AD. But cult to the
living Claudius there is very unlikely: he had already refused Alexandrine cult honours as "vulgar"
and impious and cult to living emperors was associated with arae (altars), not temples. The British
worship offered him as a living divus is probably no more than a cruel literary judgment on his worth
as emperor. Despite his evident respect for Republican norms he was not taken seriously by his own
class, and in Seneca's fawning Neronian fiction, the Roman gods cannot take him seriously as
a divus – the wild British might be more gullible. In reality, they proved resentful enough to rebel,
though probably less against the Claudian divus than against brutal abuses and the financial burden
represented by its temple.
Claudius died in 54 AD and was deified by his adopted son and successor Nero. After an apparently
magnificent funeral, the divus Claudius was given a temple on Rome's disreputable Mons
Caelius. Fishwick remarks that "the malicious humour of the site can hardly have been lost by those
in the know... the location of Claudius' temple in Britain (the occasion for his "pathetic triumph")
may be more of the same".
Once in power, Nero allowed Claudius' cult to lapse, built his Domus Aurea over the unfinished
temple, indulged his sybaritic and artistic inclinations and allowed the cult of his
own genius as paterfamilias of the Roman people. Senatorial attitudes to him appear to have been
largely negative. He was overthrown in a military coup, and his institutions of cult to his dead wife
Poppaea and infant daughter Claudia Augusta were abandoned. Otherwise, he seems to have been a
popular emperor, particularly in the Eastern provinces. Tacitus reports a senatorial proposal to
dedicate a temple to Nero as a living divus, taken as ominous because "divine honours are not
paid to an emperor till he has ceased to live among men".
Flavian
The Genius of Domitian, with aegis and cornucopia, found near the Via Labicana, Esquiline
Nero's death saw the end of imperial tenure as a privilege of ancient Roman (patrician and
senatorial) families. In a single chaotic year, power passed violently from one to another of four
emperors. The first three promoted their own genius cult: the last two of these attempted Nero's
restitution and promotion to divus. The fourth, Vespasian – son of an equestrian from Reate –
secured his Flavian dynasty through reversion to an Augustan form of principate and renewed the
imperial cult of divus Julius. Vespasian was respected for his "restoration" of Roman tradition and
the Augustan modesty of his reign. He dedicated state cult to genio populi Romani (the genius of
the Roman people), respected senatorial "Republican" values and repudiated Neronian practice by
removing various festivals from the public calendars, which had (in Tacitus' unsparing assessment)
become "foully sullied by the flattery of the times". He may have had the head of Nero's Colossus
replaced or recut for its dedication (or rededication) to the sun god , , in 75
AD(Cf.severing the head of Daksha/John,is a mithraic ritual as seen in M-1186.Caesar is siras-head
and tiirtha/tiirtha snaana-holy dip-washing the feet of the disciples!). Following the first Jewish
Revolt and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, he imposed the didrachmon,
formerly paid by Jews for their Temple's upkeep but now re-routed to Jupiter Capitolinus as victor
over them "and their God". Jews who paid the tax were exempt from the cult to imperial state
deities. Those who offered it however were ostracised from their own communities. Vespasian
appears to have approached his own impending cult with dry humour – according to Suetonius, his
last words were puto deus fio ("I think I'm turning into a god"). Vespasian's son Titus reigned for
two successful years then died of natural causes. He was deified and replaced by his younger
brother, Domitian.
Within two weeks of accession, Domitian had restored the cult of the ruling emperor's genius. He
remains a controversial figure, described as one of the very few emperors to scandalously style
himself a living divus, as evidenced by the use of "master and god" (dominus et deus cf.washing
the feet of the disciples as Caesar is tiirtha-holy water. cf.Jesus answered, "A person who
has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are
clean, though not every one of you. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed
your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that
you should do as I have done for you”.John.13.10-14) in imperial documents. However,
there are no records of Domitian's personal use of the title, its use in official address or cult to him,
its presence on his coinage or in the Arval Acts relating to his state cult. It occurs only in his later
reign and was almost certainly initiated and used by his own procurators (who in the Claudian
tradition were also his freedmen). Like any other paterfamilias (cf.Christ’s visit to the house/family
of Peter. In the Gospels of Mark and Luke, this episode takes place after Jesus had been
preaching at the synagogue of Capernaum. Jesus goes to Peter's house, where he sees
the mother of Peter's wife lying in bed with a high fever. Jesus touches her hand and the
fever leaves her, and she gets up and begins to wait on him.) and patron, Domitian was
"master and god" to his extended familia, including his slaves, freedmen and clients. Pliny's
descriptions of sacrifice to Domitian on the Capitol are consistent with the entirely unremarkable
"private and informal" rites accorded to living emperors. Domitian was a traditionalist, severe and
repressive but respected by the military and the general populace. He admired Augustus and may
have sought to emulate him, but made the same tactless error as Caligula in treating the Senate as
clients and inferiors, rather than as the fictive equals required by Augustan ideology. His
assassination was planned and implemented from within his court, and his name officially but rather
unsystematically erased from inscriptions.
Nervan-Antonine
The Senate chose the elderly, childless and apparently reluctant Nerva as emperor. Nerva had long-
standing family and consular connections with the Julio-Claudian and Flavian families, but proved a
dangerously mild and indecisive princeps: he was persuaded to abdicate in favour of Trajan. Pliny
the Younger's panegyric of 100 AD claims the visible restoration of senatorial authority and dignity
throughout the empire under Trajan, but while he praises the emperor's modesty, Pliny does not
disguise the precarious nature of this autocratic gift. Under Trajan 's very capable civil and
military leadership, the office of emperor was increasingly interpreted as an earthly viceregency of
the divine order. He would prove an enduring model for Roman imperial virtues.
The Emperor Hadrian's Hispano-Roman origins and marked pro-Hellenism changed the focus of
imperial cult. His standard coinage still identifies with the genius populi Romani, but other issues
stress his identification with Hercules Gaditanus (Hercules of Gades), and Rome's imperial protection
of Greek civilisation. Commemorative coinage shows him "raising up" provincial deities (thus
elevating and "restoring" the provinces); he promoted Sagalassos in Greek Pisidia as the Empire's
leading imperial cult centre and in 131–2 AD he sponsored the exclusively Greek Panhellenion. He
was said to have "wept like a woman" at the death of his young lover Antinous, and arranged his
apotheosis. Dio claims that Hadrian was held to ridicule for this emotional indulgence, particularly as
he had delayed the apotheosis of his own sister Paulina after her death.
Antinous portrayed as Dionysus in a relief from the area between Anzio et Lanuvium
The cult of Antinous would prove one of remarkable longevity and devotion, particularly in the
Eastern provinces. Bithynia, as his birthplace, featured his image on coinage as late as the reign
of Caracalla (r. 211–217). His popular cult appears to have thrived well into the 4th century, when he
became the "whipping boy of pagan worship" in Christian polemic. Vout (2007) remarks his humble
origins, untimely death and "resurrection" as theos, and his identification – and sometimes
misidentification by later scholarship – with the images and religious functions of Apollo,
Dionysius/Bacchus, and later, Osiris. In Rome itself he was also theos on two of three surviving
inscriptions but was more closely associated with hero-cult, which allowed direct appeals for his
intercession with "higher gods". Hadrian imposed the imperial cult to himself and Jupiter on
Judaea following the Bar Kokhba revolt. He was predeceased by his wife Vibia Sabina. Both were
deified but Hadrian's case had to be pleaded by his successor Antoninus Pius.
Marcus Aurelius' tutor Fronto offers the best evidence of imperial portraiture as a near-ubiquitous
feature of private and public life. Though evidence for private emperor worship is as sparse in this
era as in all others, Fronto's letters imply the genius cult of the living emperor as an official, domestic
and personal practice, probably more common than cult to the divi in this and other periods.
Marcus' son Commodus succumbed to the lures of self-indulgence, easy populism and rule by
favourites. He described his reign as a "golden age", and himself as a new Romulus and "re-founder"
of Rome, but was deeply antagonistic toward the Senate – he reversed the standard "Republican"
imperial formula to populus senatusque romanus (the people and senate of Rome). He increasingly
identified himself with the demigod Hercules in statuary, temples and in the arena, where he liked
to entertain as a bestiarius in the morning and a gladiator in the afternoon. In the last year of his
life he was voted the official title Romanus Hercules; the state cult to Hercules acknowledged him as
heroic, a divinity or semi-divinity (but not a divus) who had once been mortal. Commodus may have
intended declaring himself as a living god some time before his murder on the last day of 192 AD.
The Nervan-Antonine dynasty ended in chaos. The senate declared damnatio memoriae on
Commodus, whose urban prefect Pertinax was declared Emperor by the Praetorian Guard in return
for the promise of very large donatives. Pertinax had risen through equestrian ranks by military
talent and administrative efficiency to become senator, consul and finally and briefly Emperor; he
was murdered by his Praetorians for attempting to cap their pay. Pertinax was replaced by Didius
Julianus, who had promised cash to the Praetorians and restoration of power to the Senate. Julianus
began his reign with an ill-judged appeal to the memory of Commodus, a much resented attempt to
bribe the populace en masse and the use of Praetorian force against them. In protest, a defiant
urban crowd occupied the senatorial seats at the Circus Maximus. Against a background of civil war
Severan
"Sit divus dum non sit vivus" (let him be a divus as long as he is not alive). Attributed to Caracalla,
before murdering his co-emperor and brother Geta.
A denarius of Geta.
The Severan Tondo shows Septimius Severus, his wife Julia Domna, their younger son Caracalla
(lower right of picture) and the obliterated image of his murdered co-heir, Geta. Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin.
In 193 AD, Septimius Severus triumphally entered Rome and gave apotheosis to Pertinax. He
cancelled the Senate's damnatio memoriae of Commodus, deified him as a frater (brother) and
thereby adopted Marcus Aurelius as his own ancestor through an act of filial piety. Severan coin
images further re-enforced Septimius' association with prestigious Antonine dynasts and the genius
populi Romani.
Septimius' reign represents a watershed in relations between Senate, Emperors, and the
military. Senatorial consent defined divine imperium as a Republican permission for the benefit of
the Roman people, and apotheosis was a statement of senatorial powers. Where Vespasian had
secured his position with appeals to the genius of the Senate and Augustan tradition, Septimius
overrode the customary preferment of senators to senior military office. He increased plebeian
privilege in Rome, stationed a loyal garrison there and selected his own commanders. He paid
personal attention to the provinces, as sources of revenue, military manpower and unrest. Following
his defeat of his rival Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum, he re-founded and reformed its imperial cult
centre: dea Roma was removed from the altar and confined to the temple along with the deified
Augusti. Fishwick interprets the obligatory new rites as those due any paterfamilias from his
inferiors. Septimius' own patron deities, Melqart/Hercules and Liber/Bacchus, took pride of place
with himself and his two sons at the Saecular Games of 204 AD. Septimius died of natural causes in
211 AD at Eboracum (modern York) while on campaign in Britannia, after leaving the Empire equally
to Caracalla and his older brother Geta, along with advice to "be harmonious, enrich the soldiers,
and scorn all other men."
By 212 AD, Caracalla had murdered Geta, pronounced his damnatio memoriae and issued
the Constitutio Antoniniana: this gave full Roman citizenship(cf.the biblical debate on the church
membership to gentiles .Peter and Paul denote the decree/bulla of the emperors) to all free
inhabitants of the Empire and was couched as a generous invitation to celebrate the "victory of
the Roman people" in foiling Geta's "conspiracy". In reality, Caracalla was faced by an endemic
shortfall of cash and recruits. His "gift" was a far from popular move, as most of its recipients
were humiliores of peasant status and occupation – approximately 90% of the total
population. Humiliores they remained, but now liable to pay taxes, serve in the legions and adopt
the name of their "liberator". Where other emperors had employed the mos maiorum of family
obligation at the largely symbolic level of genius cult, Caracalla literally identified his personal
survival with the state and "his" citizens. Caracalla inherited the devotion of his father's soldiery but
his new citizens were not inclined to celebrate and his attempts to court popularity in Commodan
style seem to have misfired. In Philostratus' estimation, his embrace of Empire foundered on his
grudging, parochial mindset. He was assassinated in 217 AD, with the possible collusion of his
praetorian prefect Macrinus.
The military hailed Macrinus as imperator, and he arranged for the apotheosis of Caracalla. Aware
of the impropriety of his unprecedented leap through the traditional cursus honorum from
equestrian to Emperor, he respectfully sought senatorial approval for his "self-nomination". It was
granted – the new emperor had a lawyer's approach to imperium but his foreign policy proved too
cautious and placatory for the military. After little more than a year, he was murdered in a coup and
replaced with an emperor of Syrian background and Severan descent, Varius Avitus Bassianus,
more usually known by the Latinised name of his god and his priesthood, Elagabalus.
The 14-year-old emperor brought his solar-mountain deity from his native Emesa
(cf.Mesha/medha/Messiah) to Rome and into official imperial cult. In Syria, the cult of Elagabalus
was popular and well established. In Rome, it was a foreign and (according to some ancient sources)
disgusting Eastern novelty. In 220 AD, the priest Elagabalus replaced Jupiter with the god
Elagabalus as Sol Invictus (the unconquered Sun) and thereafter neglected his Imperial role
as pontifex maximus. According to Marius Maximus, he ruled from his degenerate domus through
prefects who included among others a charioteer, a locksmith, a barber, and a cook. At the very
least, he appears to have been regarded as an unacceptably effete eccentric by the Senate and
military alike. He was assassinated by the Praetorians at the age of 18, subjected to the fullest
indignities of damnatio memoriae and replaced with his young cousin Alexander Severus, the last of
his dynasty, who reigned for 13 years until killed in a mutiny.
The end of the Severan dynasty marked the breakdown of central imperium. Against a background
of economic hyperinflation and latterly, endemic plague, rival provincial claimants fought for
supremacy and failing this, set up their own provincial Empires. Most Emperors seldom even saw
Rome, and had only notional relationships with their senates. In the absence of coordinated Imperial
military response, foreign peoples seized the opportunity for invasion and plunder.
Maximinus Thrax (reigned 235–8 AD) sequestered the resources of state temples in Rome to pay
his armies. The temples of the divi were first in line. It was an unwise move for his own posterity, as
the grant or withholding of apotheosis remained an official judgment of Imperial worthiness, but the
stripping of the temples of state gods caused far greater offense. Maximinus's actions more likely
show need in extreme crisis than impiety, as he had his wife deified on her death but in a rare
display of defiance the senate deified his murdered predecessor, then openly rebelled. His
replacement, Gordiand I, reigned briefly but successfully and was made a divus on his death. A
succession of short-lived soldier-emperors followed. Further development in imperial cult appears to
have stalled until Philip the Arab, who dedicated a statue to his father as divine in his home town
of Philippopolis and brought the body of his young predecessor Gordian III to Rome for apotheosis.
Coins of Philip show him in the radiate solar crown (suggestive of solar cult or a hellenised form of
imperial monarchy), with Rome's temple to Venus and dea Roma on the reverse.
In 249 AD, Philip was succeeded (or murdered and usurped) by his praetorian prefect Decius, a
traditionalist ex-consul and governor. After an accession of doubtful validity, Decius justified
himself as rightful "restorer and saviour" of Empire and its religio: early in his reign he issued a
coin series of imperial divi in radiate (solar) crowns. Philip, the three Gordians, Pertinax and
Claudius were omitted, presumably because Decius thought them unworthy of the honour. In the
wake of religious riots in Egypt, he decreed that all subjects of the Empire must actively seek to
benefit the state through witnessed (cf. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is
not true. John.5.13; “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I
know where I came from and where I am going.John.8.14; one of the soldiers pierced
Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water:John.19.34; "The
man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells
the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.John.19.35; “They will look on the
one they have pierced.” cf.Hari srii/srii vatsa) and certified sacrifice to "ancestral
gods(cf.Augustus/ Christ/Putra/varsha/Satra/sarat;Constantine later did the same)" or suffer a
penalty: sacrifice on Rome's behalf by loyal subjects would define them and their gods as
Roman. Only Jews were exempt from this obligation. The Decian edict required that refusal of
sacrifice be tried and punished at proconsular level. Apostasy was sought, rather than capital
punishment. A year after its due deadline, the edict was allowed to expire and shortly after this,
Decius himself died.
Valerian (253–60) identified Christianity as the largest, most stubbornly self-interested of non-
Roman cults, outlawed Christian assembly and urged Christians to sacrifice to Rome's traditional
gods(!!). His son and co-Augustus Gallienus, an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries, identified
himself with traditional Roman gods and the virtue of military loyalty (270–75) appealed for
harmony among his soldiers (concordia militum), stabilised the Empire and its borders and
established an official, Hellenic form of unitary cult to the Palmyrene Sol Invictus in Rome's Campus
Martius. The senate hailed him as restitutor orbis (restorer of the world) and deus et dominus
natus (god and born ruler); he was murdered by his Praetorians. His immediate successors
consolidated his achievements: coinage of Probus (276–82) shows him in radiate solar
crown(cf.crown of Christ/Visvamitra/pu-tra>4 , ,
, , , ,
cf.caturaha/tetrarchy/satra-arka/arka sarat/agra haayana;hence Garuda/Garta/varsha/ harta/
Horus/Herod/ syena/ samaya/tanaya/yajna. Herod Antipas, was a 1st-century ruler of
Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch and is referred to as both "Herod the
Tetrarch" and "King Herod" in the New Testament, although he never held the title of
king,whence the reference is to the sacrificial king.Herods were kings of Judea-
suurya-udaya.Augustus was made son of god/kaala/varsha during the reign of the
first Herod/harta/Horus/Garuda.His son Archelaus also gets his name from Arka-
savana ), and his prolific variety of coin types include issues showing the temple of Venus and Dea
Roma in Rome.
These policies and preoccupations culminated in Diocletian's Tetrarchy: the empire was divided into
Western and Eastern administrative blocs, each with an Augustus (senior emperor), helped by a
Caesar (junior emperor) as Augustus-in-waiting. Provinces were divided and subdivided: their
imperial bureaucracy became extraordinary in size, scope and attention to detail. Diocletian was a
religious conservative. On his accession in AD 284, he held games in honour of
the divus Antinous. Where his predecessors had attempted the persuasion and coercion of
recalcitrant sects, Diocletian launched a series of ferocious reactions known in Church history as
the Great Persecution(veda paaTha/paThana-teaching,learning/piiDhana-persecution;
cf.Numedia-Place of St.Sebastian’s persecution>nu-vidya>technique to praise.The crucifix is also
the same). According to Lactantius, this began with a report of ominous haruspicy in
Diocletian's domus(cf.AgnishToma) and a subsequent (but undated) dictat of placatory sacrifice by
the entire military. A date of 302(v-dasa-ra>vatsara>varsha>savana>panca>5) is regarded as likely
and Eusebius also says the persecutions of Christians began in the army. However Maximilian's
martyrdom (295) came from his refusal of military service, and Marcellus' (298) for renouncing his
military oath. Legally, these were military insurrections and Diocletian's edict may have followed
these and similar acts of conscience and faith. An unknown number of Christians appear to have
suffered the extreme and exemplary punishments traditionally reserved for rebels and traitors.
Under Diocletian's expanded imperial collegia, imperial honours distinguished both Augusti from
their Caesares, and Diocletian (as senior Augustus) from his colleague Maximian. While the division
of empire and imperium seemed to offer the possibility of a peaceful and well-prepared succession,
its unity required the highest investiture of power and status in one man. An elaborate
choreography of etiquette surrounded the approach to the imperial person and imperial
progressions. The senior Augustus in particular was made a separate and unique being, accessible
only through those closest to him.
The near identical official images of the collegial Imperial Tetrarchs conceal Diocletian's seniority
and the internal stresses of his empire.
Diocletian's avowed conservatism almost certainly precludes a systematic design toward personal
elevation as a "divine monarch". Rather, he formally elaborated imperial ceremony as a
manifestation of the divine order of empire and elevated emperorship as the supreme instrument
of the divine will. The idea was Augustan, or earlier, expressed most clearly in Stoic philosophy
and the solar cult, especially under Aurelian. At the very beginning of his reign, before his
Tetrarchy, Diocletian had adopted the signum of Jovius(cf.Jove>putra); his co-Augustus adopted the
title Herculius. During the Tetrarchy, such titles were multiplied, but with no clear reflection of
implicit divine seniority: in one case, the divine signum of the Augustus is inferior to that of his
Caesar. These divine associations may have followed a military precedent of emperors as comes to
divinities (or divinities as comes to emperors). Moreover, the divine signum appears in the fairly
narrow context of court panegyric and civil etiquette. It makes no appearance on the general
coinage or stauary of the Tetrarchs, who are presented as impersonal, near-homogenous
abstractions of imperial might and unity.
The Augustan settlement was promoted by its contemporary apologists as restorative and
conservative rather than revolutionary. Official cult to the genius of the living princeps as "first
among equals" recognised his exceptional powers, his capacity for self-restraint, and his pious
respect for Republican traditions. "Good" emperors rejected offers of official cult as a living deity,
and accepted the more modest honour of genius cult. Claims that later emperors sought and
obtained divine honours in Rome reflect their bad relationship with their senates: in Tertullian's day,
it was still "a curse to name the emperor a god before his death". On the other hand, to judge from
the domestic ubiquity of the emperor's image, private cults to living emperors are as likely in Rome
as elsewhere. As Gradel observes, no Roman was ever prosecuted for sacrificing to his emperor.
Divus, deus and the numen
Dedicatory inscription (CIL 14.04319) to the "numen of the House of the Augustus", from Ostia
Antica.
The divi had some form of precedent in the di parentes, divine ancestors who received ancestral
rites as manes (gods of the underworld) during the Parentalia and other important domestic
festivals. Their powers were limited; deceased mortals not normally possess the divine power
(numen cf.soma,naama) of the higher gods. Deceased emperors did not automatically become divi;
they must be nominated for the privilege. Their case was discussed by the senate, then put to the
vote. As long as the correct rituals and sacrifice were offered, the divus would be received by the
heavenly gods as a coelicola (a dweller in heaven), a lesser being than themselves. Popular belief
held that the divus Augustus would be personally welcomed by Jupiter(cf.Visakha,asterism of
Jupiter;Miina,sign of Jupiter;the Maundy Thursday rituals marking beginning of caturaha/
tetrarchy). In Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, on the other hand, the unexpected arrival of the divinised
Claudius creates a problem for the Olympians, who have no idea who or what he is; and when they
find out, they cannot think what to do with him. Seneca's sarcastic wit, an unacceptable impiety
towards a deus, freely portrays the divus Claudius as just a dead, ridiculous and possibly quite bad
emperor. Though their images were sacrosanct and their rites definitively divine divi could be
created, unmade, reinstated or simply forgotten. Augustus and Trajan appear to have remained
the ideals for longer than any, and cult to "good" divi appears to have lasted well into the late
Imperial dominate.
The immense power of living emperors, on the other hand, was mediated through the encompassing
agency of the state. Once acknowledged as paterfamilias to an Empire, a princeps was naturally
entitled to genius cult from Imperial subjects of all classes. Cult to a living emperor's numen was
quite another matter and might be interpreted as no less than a statement of divine monarchy.
Imperial responses to the first overtures of cult to the August numen were therefore extremely
cautious. Only much later, probably in consequence of the hyperinflation of honours to living
Emperors, could a living emperor be openly, formally addressed as numen praesens (the numinous
presence).
The obscure relationship between deus, divus and numen in imperial cult might simply reflect its
origins as a pragmatic, respectful and somewhat evasive Imperial solution using broad
terminology whose meanings varied according to context. For Beard et al., a practicable and
universal Roman cult of deified emperors and others of the Imperial house must have hinged on
the paradox that a mortal might, like the semi-divine "heroic" figures of Hercules, Aeneas and
Romulus, possess or acquire sufficient measure of numen to rise above their mortal condition and
be in the company of the gods, yet remain mortal in the eyes of Roman traditionalists.
Sacrificium
cf. M-1186-
Marcus Aurelius as pontifex offers sacrifice to Jupiter Capitolinus in gratitude for victory. Once part
of the Arch of Marcus Aurelius. Capitoline Museum, Rome.
"Sacred offerings" (sacrificium) formed the contract of public and private religio, from oaths of
office, treaty and loyalty to business contracts and marriage. Participation
in sacrificium acknowledged personal commitment to the broader community and its values, which
under Decius became a compulsory observance. Livy believed that military and civil disasters were
the consequence of error (vitium) in augury, neglect of due and proper sacrifice and the impious
proliferation of "foreign" cults and superstitio. Religious law focused on the sacrificial
requirements of particular deities on specific occasions.
In Julio-Claudian Rome, the Arval priesthood sacrificed to Roman state gods at various temples for
the continued welfare of the Imperial family on their birthdays, accession anniversaries and to
mark extraordinary events such as the quashing of conspiracy or revolt. On 3 January they
consecrated the annual vows: sacrifice promised in the previous year was paid, as long as the gods
had kept the Imperial family safe for the contracted time. If not, it could be withheld, as it was in
the annual vow following the death of Trajan. In Pompeii, the genius of the living emperor was
offered a bull: presumably a standard practice in imperial cult at this time, though lesser offerings
of wine, cakes and incense were also given, especially in the later Imperial era.
The divi and genii were offered the same kind of sacrifice as the state gods, but cult officials seem to
have offered Christians the possibility of sacrifice to emperors as the lesser act.
By ancient tradition, presiding magistrates sought divine opinion of proposed actions through an
augur, who read the divine will through the observation of natural signs in the sacred space
(templum) of sacrifice. Magistrates could use their right of augury (ius augurum) to adjourn and
overturn the process of law, but were obliged to base their decision on the augur's observations
and advice. For Cicero, this made the augur the most powerful authority in the Late Republic.
In the later Republic, augury came under the supervision of the college of pontifices, a priestly-
magistral office whose powers were increasingly woven into the cursus honorum. The office
of pontifex maximus eventually became a de facto consular office. When the consul Lepidus died,
his office as pontifex maximus passed to Augustus, who took priestly control over the State
oracles (including the Sibylline books), and used his powers as censor to suppress unapproved
oracles. Octavian's honorific title of Augustus indicated his achievements as expressions of divine
will: where the impiety of the Late Republic had provoked heavenly disorder and wrath (ira deorum),
his obedience to divine ordinance brought divine peace (pax deorum).
A winged genius(cf.mention of angels related to the Christ from his conception story to his
The Roman paterfamilias offered daily cult to his lares and penates, and to his di parentes/divi
parentes, in domestic shrines and in the fires of the household hearth. As goddess of all hearths,
including the ritual hearth of the State, Vesta(cf.soma/bhadra/varsha/svar-sabda-sapta-divasa-
seven-women/stu/stava/
Rome's citizen legionaries appear to have maintained their Marian traditions. They gave cult to
Jupiter for the emperor's well-being and regular cult to State, local and personal divinities. Cult to
the Imperial person and familia was generally offered on Imperial accessions, anniversaries and
renewal of annual vows: a bust of the ruling emperor was kept in the legionary insignia shrine for
the purpose, attended by a designated military imaginifer. By the time of the early Severans, the
legions offered cult to the state gods, the Imperial divi, the current
emperor's numen, genius and domus (or familia), and special cult to the Empress as "mother of
the camp." At around this time, Mithraic cults became very popular with the military, and provided
a basis for syncretic imperial cult which absorbed Mithras into Solar and Stoic Monism as a focus
of military concordia and loyalty.
An imperial cult temple was known as a caesareum (Latin) or sebasteion (Greek cf.St.Sebastian ;
vedic devalaya,vasati,vihaara,ambara,ashTa mangala,agnishToma etc.). In Fishwick's analysis, cult
to Roman state divi was associated with temples, and the genius cult to the living
emperor with his altar. The emperor's image, and its siting within the temple complex, focused
attention on his person and attributes, and his position in the divine and human hierarchies.
Expenditure on the physical expression of imperial cult was vast, and was only curbed by the
Imperial crisis of the 3rd century. As far as is known, no new temples to state divi were built after
the reign of Marcus Aurelius.
The Imperial divi and living genii appear to have been served by separate ceremonies and
priesthoods. Emperors themselves could be priests of state gods, the divi and their own genius cult
images. The latter practice illustrates the Imperial genius as innate to its holder but separable from
him as a focus of respect and cult, formally consistent with cult to the personification of ideas and
ideals such as Fortune (Fortuna), peace (Pax) or victory (Victoria) et al. in conjunction with
the genius of the Emperor, Senate or Roman people; Julius Caesar had showed his affinity with the
virtue of clemency (Clementia), a personal quality associated with his divine ancestor and patron
goddess Venus. Priests typically and respectfully identified their function by manifesting the
appearance and other properties of their deus. The duties of Imperial priests were both religious
and magistral: they included the provision of approved Imperial portraits, statues and sacrifice,
the institution of regular calendrical cult and the inauguration of public works, Imperial games
(state ludi) and munera to authorised models. In effect, priests throughout the empire were
responsible for re-creating, expounding and celebrating the extraordinary gifts, powers and
charisma of emperors.
As part of his religious reforms, Augustus revived, subsidised and expanded the Compitalia games
and priesthoods, dedicated to the Lares of the vici (neighbourhoods), to include cult to his own Lares
(or to his genius as a popular benefactor). Thereafter, the Lares Compitales were known as Lares
Augusti. Tiberius created a specialised priesthood, the Sodales Augustales, dedicated to the cult of
the deceased, deified Augustus. This priestly office, and the connections between the Compitalia
cults and the Imperial household, appear to have lasted for as long as the imperial cult itself.
Greek philosophies had significant influence in the development of imperial cult. Stoic cosmologists
saw history as an endless cycle of destruction and renewal, driven by fortuna(luck or
fortune), fatum (fate) and logos (the universal divine principle). The same forces inevitably produced
a sōtēr (saviour,pu-tra-son) who would transform the destructive and "unnatural disorder" of chaos
and strife to pax, fortuna and salus (peace, good fortune and well-being) and is thus identified with
solar cults such as Apollo and Sol Invictus. Livy (in the early to mid 1st century BC), and Lucan (in the
1st century AD) interpreted the crisis of the late Republic as a destructive phase which led to
religious and constitutional renewal by Augustus and his restoration of peace, good fortune and
well-being to the Roman people. Augustus was a messianic figure who personally and rationally
instigated a "golden age" – the pax Augusta – and was patron, priest and protege to a range of
solar deities. The Imperial order was therefore not merely justified by appeals to the divine; it was
an innately natural, benevolent and divine institution.
The imperial cult tolerated and later included specific forms of pluralistic monism. For imperial cult
apologists, monotheists had no rational grounds for refusal, but imposition of cult was counter-
productive. Jews presented a special case. Long before the civil war, Judaism had been tolerated in
Rome by diplomatic treaty with Graeco-Judaean rulers. It was brought to prominence and scrutiny
after Judaea's enrollment as a client kingdom in 63 BC. The following Jewish diaspora helped
disperse early "Judaic" Christianity. Early Christians appear to have been regarded as a sub-sect of
Judaism and as such were sporadically tolerated.
Jewish sources on Emperors, polytheistic cult and the meaning of Empire are fraught with
interpretive difficulties. In Caligula's reign, Jews resisted the placing of Caligula's statue in their
Temple, and pleaded that their offerings and prayers to Yahweh on his behalf amounted to
compliance with his request for worship. According to Philo, Caligula was unimpressed because
the offering was not made directly to him (whether to his genius or his numen is never made
clear) but the statue was never installed. Philo does not challenge the imperial cult itself: he
commends the god-like honours given Augustus as "the first and the greatest and the common
benefactor" but Caligula shames the Imperial tradition by acting "like an Egyptian". However, Philo is
clearly pro-Roman: a major feature of the First Jewish Revolt (AD 66) was the ending of Jewish
sacrifices to Rome and the Emperor and the defacement of imperial images.
The imperial cult and Christianity
To pagan Romans a simple act of sacrifice, whether to ancestral gods under Decius or state gods
under Diocletian, represented adherence to Roman tradition and loyalty to the pluralistic unity of
the Empire. Refusal to adhere to the cult was treason. Christians, however, identified "Hellenistic
honours" as parodies of true worship. Under the reign of Nero or Domitian, according
to Momigliano, the author of the Book of Revelation represented Rome as the "Beast from the sea",
Judaeo-Roman elites as the "Beast from the land" and the charagma (official Roman stamp) as a
sign of the Beast(cf.mRga>ma-Rg>marga>dharma>amRta). Some Christian thinkers perceived
divine providence in the timing of Christ's birth(cf.birth of Augustus), at the very beginning of the
Empire that brought peace and laid paths for the spread of the Gospels; Rome's destruction of
Jerusalem and its Temple was interpreted as divine punishment of the Jews for their refusal of the
Christ. With the abatement of persecution Jerome could acknowledge Empire as a bulwark against
evil but insist that "imperial honours" were contrary to Christian teaching.
[John saw it "rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his
horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." (Revelation 13:1). It was
like a leopard , with feet like the feet of a bear(kusika), and had a mouth like a lion
.The beast from the sea and the beast from the land are descriptions of the
, , , , , , , , , ]
The Lion-headed figure of Mithraism is the year as denoted
by John in theBook Of Revelations
found at a mithraeum in Ostia Antica, Mithraeum (500 CE; CIMRM 78 & 79; Louvre)
cf. , , ,
, ,
cf.Compare glyphs
on M295 and M-1186 as both are Kausika/Visvamitra seals.Three headed bulls or three
Mitra/va(vis)-dasa(va)-ra(mitra) , >putra-varsha-vatsara--satra-sarat-
dasra-Visvamitra-Christ-Julius-Augustus-Constantine etc.
Lion-headed figure from the Sidon Mithraeum (500 CE; CIMRM 78 & 79; Louvre)
One of the most characteristic and poorly-understood features of the Mysteries is the
naked lion-headed figure often found in Mithraic temples, named by the modern
scholars with descriptive terms such as leontocephaline (lion-headed)
or leontocephalus (lion-head>Hari Srii>Leo>Deo>Visvamitra>Julius Caesar>Augustus
Caesar ).
His body is a naked man's, entwined by a serpent (or two serpents, like a caduceus;Hari
Varsha>Kali varsha>Hari Srii), with the snake's head often resting on the lion's head.
The lion's mouth is often open(garja>garta>harta>gaja>saka>varsha>svar.Open mouth
indicate roar/svar/varsha/king’s year/veda). He is usually represented as having four
wings, two keys (sometimes a single key), and a sceptre in his hand. Sometimes the
figure is standing on a globe inscribed with a diagonal cross(Christ/dasa/ara/alt-ar).
On the figure from the Ostia Antica Mithraeum (left, CIMRM 312), the four wings carry
the symbols of the four seasons, and a thunderbolt is engraved on his chest(srii
vatsa/varsha/vajra). At the base of the statue are the hammer and tongs
of Vulcan and Mercury's cock(crow>svar>varsha) and wand (caduceus). A rare
variation of the same figure is also found with a human head and a lion's head emerging
from its chest.
Based on dedicatory inscriptions for altars, the name of the figure is conjectured to
be Arimanius, a Latinized form of the name Ahriman – a demonic figure in the
Zoroastrian pantheon. Arimanius is known from inscriptions to have been a god in the
Mithraic cult as seen, for example, in images from the Corpus Inscriptionum et
Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (CIMRM) such as CIMRM 222 from
Ostia, CIMRM 369 from Rome, and CIMRM 1773 and 1775 from Pannonia.
Some scholars identify the lion-man as Aion, or Zurvan, or Cronus, or Chronos, while
others assert that it is a version of the Zoroastrian Ahriman or Vedic Aryaman. Although
the exact identity of the lion-headed figure is debated by scholars, it is largely agreed
that the god is associated with time and seasonal change.(credits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism).
The Mithraic cult was introduced to worship the Roman Caesars as Divus/Sol
Invictus/gods and it was formalised as Christianity by the Roman Caesars of the third
and fourth centuries to suppress schisms in the cult,like Arianism.
As pontifex maximus Constantine I favoured the "Catholic Church of the Christians" against
the Donatists because:
it is contrary to the divine law... that we should overlook such quarrels and contentions, whereby
the Highest Divinity(cf.Augustus-the most high) may perhaps be roused not only against the human
race but also against myself, to whose care he has by his celestial will committed the government of
all earthly things. Official letter from Constantine, dated AD 314.
In this change of Imperial formula Constantine acknowledged his responsibility to an earthly realm
whose discord and conflict might arouse the ira deorum; he also recognised the power of the new
Christian priestly hierarchy in determining what was auspicious or orthodox. Though unbaptised,
Constantine had triumphed under the signum of the Christ (probably some form of Labarum as an
adapted or re-interpreted legionary standard). He may have officially ended – or attempted to end
– blood sacrifices to the genius of living emperors but his Imperial iconography and court
ceremonial elevated him to superhuman status. Constantine's permission for a new cult temple to
himself and his family in Umbria is extant: the cult "should not be polluted by the deception of any
contagious superstition". At the First Council of Nicaea Constantine united and re-founded the
empire under an absolute head of state by divine dispensation and was honoured as the first
Christian Imperial divus. On his death he was venerated and was held to have ascended to
heaven. Philostorgius later criticised Christians who offered sacrifice at statues of
the divus Constantine. His three sons re-divided their Imperial inheritance: Constantius II was
an Arian – his brothers were Nicene.
Constantine's nephew Julian, Rome's last non-Christian emperor, rejected the "Galilean madness" of
his upbringing for a synthesis of neo-Platonism, Stoic asceticism and universal solar cult and actively
fostered religious and cultural pluralism. His restored Augustan form of principate, with himself
as primus inter pares, ended with his death in 363, after which his reforms were reversed or
abandoned. The Western emperor Gratian refused the office of pontifex maximus and, against the
protests of the Senate, removed the altar of Victoria (Victory) from the Senate House and began the
disestablishment of the Vestals. Theodosius I briefly re-united the Western and Eastern halves of
the Empire, officially adopted Nicene Christianity as the Imperial religion and ended official
support for all other creeds and cults. He refused to restore Victoria to the Senate House,
extinguished Vesta's sacred fire and vacated her temple. Even so, he accepted address as a living
divinity, comparable to Hercules and Jupiter, by his overwhelmingly pagan Senate. After his death
the sundered Eastern and Western halves of Empire followed increasingly divergent paths:
nevertheless both were Roman and both had emperors. Imperial ceremonial – notably the
Imperial adventus or ceremony of arrival, which derived in greater part from the Triumph – was
embedded within Roman culture, Church ceremony and the Gospels themselves.
The last Western divus was probably Libius Severus, who died in 465 AD. Very little is known about
him. His Imperium was not recognised by his Eastern counterpart and he may have been a puppet-
emperor of the Germanic general Ricimer. In the west, imperial authority was partly replaced by
the spiritual supremacy and political influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
In the Eastern Empire, sworn adherence to Christian orthodoxy became a prerequisite of Imperial
accession – Anastasius I signed a document attesting his obedience to orthodox doctrine and
practice. He is the last emperor known to be consecrated as divus on his death (AD 518). The title
appears to have been abandoned on grounds of its spiritual impropriety but the consecration of
Eastern emperors continued: they held power through divine ordinance and their rule was the
manifestation of sacred power on earth. The adventus and the veneration of the Imperial image
continued to provide analogies for devotional representations (Icons) of the heavenly hierarchy
and the rituals of the Orthodox Church.
Historical evaluations
The Roman imperial cult is sometimes considered a deviation from Rome's traditional Republican
values, a religiously insincere cult of personality which served Imperial propaganda. It drew its power
and effect, however, from both religious traditions deeply engrained in Roman culture, such as the
veneration of the genius of each individual and of the ancestral dead, and on forms of the
Hellenistic ruler cult developed in the eastern provinces of the Empire.
The nature and function of imperial cult remain contentious, not least because its Roman historians
employed it equally as a topos for Imperial worth and Imperial hubris. It has been interpreted as an
essentially foreign, Graeco-Eastern institution, imposed cautiously and with some difficulty upon a
Latin-Western Roman culture in which the deification of rulers was constitutionally alien, if not
obnoxious. In this viewpoint, the essentially servile and "un-Roman" imperial cult was established at
the expense of the traditional Roman ethics which had sustained the Republic. For Christians and
secularists alike, the identification of mortal emperors with godhead represented the spiritual
and moral bankruptcy of paganism which led to the triumph of Christianity as Rome's state
religion.
Very few modern historians would now support this point of view. Some – among them Beard et
al. – find no distinct category of imperial cult within the religio-political life of Empire: the Romans
themselves used no such enveloping term. Cult to living or dead emperors was inseparable from
Imperial state religion, which was inextricably interwoven with Roman identity and whose beliefs
and practices were founded within the ancient commonality of Rome's social and domestic mos
maiorum. Descriptions of cult to emperors as a tool of "Imperial propaganda" or the less pejorative
"civil religion" emerge from modern political thought and are of doubtful value: in Republican
Rome, cult could be given to state gods, personal gods, triumphal generals, magnates,
benefactors, patrons and the ordinary paterfamilias – living or dead. Cult to mortals was not an
alien practise: it acknowledged their power, status and their bestowal of benefits. The Augustan
settlement appealed directly to the Republican mos maiorum and under the principate, cult to
emperors defined them as emperors.
With rare exceptions, the earliest institution of cult to emperors succeeded in providing a common
focus of identity for Empire. It celebrated the charisma of Roman Imperial power and the meaning of
Empire according to local interpretations of romanitas, firstly an agency of transformation, then of
stability. Cult to Imperial deities was associated with commonplace public ceremonies, celebrations
of extraordinary splendour and unnumbered acts of private and personal devotion. The political
usefulness of such an institution implies neither mechanical insincerity nor lack of questioning about
its meaning and propriety: an Empire-wide, unifying cult would necessarily be open to a multitude of
personal interpretations but its significance to ordinary Romans is almost entirely lost in the critical
interpretations of a small number of philosophically literate, skeptical or antagonistic Romans and
Greeks, whether Christian or Hellene. The decline of prosperity, security and unity of Empire was
clearly accompanied by loss of faith in Rome's traditional gods and – at least in the West – in Roman
emperors. For some Romans, this was caused by the neglect of traditional religious practices. For
others – equally Roman – breakdown of empire was God's judgment on faithless or heretical
Christians and hardened pagans alike.
As Roman society evolved, so did cult to emperors: both proved remarkably resilient and adaptable.
Until its confrontation by fully developed Christian orthodoxy, "imperial cult" needed no systematic
or coherent theology. Its part in Rome's continued success was probably sufficient to justify, sanctify
and "explain" it to most Romans. Confronted with crisis in Empire, Constantine matched the
Augustan achievement by absorbing Christian monotheism into the Imperial hierarchy. Cult to
emperors was not so much abolished or abandoned as transformed out of recognition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult
August is the eighth month in the Gregorian calendar and has 31 days. In the northern half of the
world, August is the last month of summer. In the southern half, it is the last month of winter.
The meaning of August comes from ancient Rome: Augustus is Latin and means “the venerable one”
or “the great one(Christ).” It was the title given to the first Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar. The
Roman senate decided in 8 BCE to name a month in honor of the emperor. They chose the old
Roman month of Sextilius and renamed it Augustus.
Augustus
Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BC until his
death in AD 14. His status as the founder of the Roman Principate has consolidated a legacy as one
of the most effective leaders in human history.
Died: 19 August 14 AD, Nola, Italy. His death on 19-August-14 AD made him Divus /year
automatically as divasa-day –David /diva/samaa-aadi/ samaadhi(santi/saint/sandhya).For Jews Sol-
Amun (Solomon) was son of David. Mithraic Christians presented Divus Augustus as Son of God/Son
of David or Sol-Invictus .
Spouse: Claudia (m. 42 BC–40 BC), Scribonia (m. 40 BC–38 BC), Livia (m. 38 BC–14 AD)
Perseid Meteors: The Perseid meteor shower is known to be one of the most active and brightest
meteor showers of the year. They are usually active between July 17 and August 24. They tend to be
most visible between August 9 and August 13.
Sturgeon Moon: August’s Full Moon is known as the Sturgeon Moon, named after a huge
freshwater fish that can be found in great numbers in August. Because August is harvesting
season in the Northern Hemisphere, August’s Full Moon is also called Grain Moon, Fruit Moon,
and Barley Moon.
The Perseids are most visible in August.
Credits:©bigstockphoto.com/JohnDorton
History of August
In the ancient Roman calendar, August was initially called mens sextilius, the sixth month, because
the Roman calendar started in March. Sextilis had 31 days. Around the year 700 BCE, the Roman
king Numa Pompilius expanded the calendar from ten to twelve months by
introducing January and February. Sextilis was reduced to 29 days.
In 154 BCE, a rebellion forced the Roman senate to change the beginning of the civil year from
March to January 1st. With this reform, Sextilis officially became the eighth month.
In the year 46 BCE, Julius Caesar introduced a new calendar system—the Julian calendar. He added
ten days to the year and introduced the leap day. In the new Julian calendar, Sextilis was expanded
to 31 days.
In the year 8 BCE, the Roman senate then renamed Sextilis to honor the first Roman
emperor, Augustus Caesar. Augustus was not the emperor’s name but his title. It means “the
great” or “the venerable.” The Roman senate gave this title to the emperor Gaius Caesar Octavius in
the year 27 BCE because of his military and political victories that founded the Roman empire.
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/months/august.html
amRta,dharma , , , )
/traaNa/raksha/putra/Soter.The unicorn shows
putrakameshTi(birth of Raama/raja/kaala/ Daksha/
Rex/INRI).
Nisroch>KRshNa>Garuda>Kaala>Raaja>Raama.
>va(bha)-rsha(tra/rasa , , rusha-
fish/sura/arusha/asura )>putra>mitra>varsha>
adhvara> Asvina.Water buffaloe/mahisha-anointed
king/sinha-king is gauramRga/ syaama mRga/ samaya
mRga/tanaya/syena/ asva/avasa/abda/ yajna.With the
KRshNa/Sugriiva(KRshNa)/Garuda/Kaala
images,this seal indicate a putrakameshTi yaaga.The asvins-
Nasatya &
Dasra/sarpa/sarva/visva/Visvamitra/sarat/varsha ,
2.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Scale_of_justice%2
C_canon_law.svg/800px-Scale_of_justice%2C_canon_law.svg.png
3.http://sumerianshakespeare.com/106901.html
4.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisan
5.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Janus_(Roman_Forum)
6.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus
7.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
8.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys
9.http://wisdomlimb.org/definition/mangala
10.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Divus_Augustus
11.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia
12.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena,_mother_of_Constantine_I
13.https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/stoma
14.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult
15.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism).
16.https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/months/august.html
17.https://www.academia.edu/42966673/The_Harappan_Cross_Symbols
18.https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/25900/31309wells.pdf?sequenc
e=1
20.https://www.academia.edu/55615789/The_Influence_Of_The_Roman_Dole_System_
On_The_Lord_s_Prayer_In_The_Bible
21.https://www.academia.edu/55272381/Who_Is_The_Vedic_Deva_And_Asura
22.https://www.academia.edu/55127681/You_Can_Never_Decipher_The_Indus_Script_
Without_Recourse_To_Vedic_AshTamangala
23.https://www.academia.edu/49589231/Did_The_Bible_Create_St_John_The_Baptist_
From_Vedic_Sources
24.https://www.academia.edu/45364308/The_Conceptual_Relation_Of_The_Dholavira_
Sign_Board_To_The_Shravana_Bela_Gola_Jain_Temple_The_Ashoka_Stambha_Of_Saranat
h_And_The_St_Peters_Basilica
25.https://www.academia.edu/45149527/_The_Indus_Script_Vedic_Religion_And_Worl
d_History_
26.https://www.academia.edu/44921958/Vedic_Kali_Yuga_And_The_Origin_Of_The_Jul
ian_Christian_Calendar
27.https://www.academia.edu/44686229/The_Deciphered_Bharata_Varsha_IVC_Script
_VIII_The_Indus_Valley_Civilisation_Inscriptions_Are_Vedic_AgnishToma_AshTamangala
_Sal_lekhana_Auspicious_Proclamations
28.https://www.academia.edu/43314268/Vatsa_Naabha_SriiVatsa_This_Is_My_Beloved
_Son_Listen_To_Him_
29.https://www.academia.edu/42946627/The_Evolution_Of_Jina_And_Buddha_Dharm
as_From_The_Harappan_Vedic_Culture
30.https://www.academia.edu/42903660/IVC_The_Life_And_Administration_Of_The_H
arappans
31.https://www.academia.edu/42821425/The_Veda_As_The_Eternal_Soma
32.https://www.academia.edu/40831045/The_BhaTTa_Marks_And_The_Origin_Of_The
_Indus_Script
33.https://www.academia.edu/39119851/Riding_On_A_Unicorn_From_Meluhha_To_Su
mer
34.https://www.academia.edu/37965571/Linquistic_Evidences_Of_Textile_Trade_Of_I
ndus_Valley_Civilisation_With_Sumeria_And_Egypt
35.https://www.academia.edu/37788731/Vedic_Sacrificial_Terms_In_The_Indus_Script
36.https://www.academia.edu/36242490/The_Birth_Of_Kharoshti_And_Brahmi_From_
The_Mouth_Of_Uccaisravas_The_Harappan_Horse
37.https://www.academia.edu/31745609/Vedic_Rajasuya_The_Harappan_Ritual_Of_In
augurating_Kings_As_Gods
38.https://www.academia.edu/30504185/The_Identity_Of_The_RigVedic_Rivers
39.https://www.academia.edu/31149547/SuvarNa_Gold_Is_Not_The_Vedic_Sacrificial_
Soma
40.https://www.academia.edu/32908958/Rigvedic_And_Mahabharata_Textual_Eviden
ces_For_Vedic_Script_In_The_Harappan_seals
41.https://www.academia.edu/28058446/A_Solution_To_The_Mystery_Of_The_Gundes
trup_Cauldron
42.https://www.academia.edu/28506800/A_Veiled_Visvamitra_Soma_Sacrifice_In_The
_New_Testament
43.https://www.academia.edu/29049305/Harappan_Vedic_Sacrificial_Feasts_In_Meso
potamian_Art_And_In_The_Bible
44.https://www.academia.edu/24901304/How_the_warrior_god_of_the_Jews_became_
a_meek_sacrificial_lamb_of_the_Christians
45.https://www.academia.edu/29989819/The_Script_Of_Indus_Valley_Civilisation_12_
D%C4%81%C5%9Bar%C4%81j%C3%B1%C3%A1_And_Dasaratha_In_The_Indus_Scrip
t
46.https://www.academia.edu/30273998/The_Script_Of_Indus_Valley_Civilisation_15_
The_Shift_Of_The_Capital_Of_The_Vrishnis_From_Mathura_Kalibangan_To_Dvaraka_Moh
enjodaro_
47.https://www.academia.edu/31267891/Govinda_Garudadhvaja_VishTarasrava_The_
Supreme_God_Of_The_Harappans
48.https://www.academia.edu/31401804/The_Continuity_Of_Vedic_Bharata_Varsha_Ci
vilisation_From_Harappa_To_The_Present
49.https://www.academia.edu/32186725/The_Legacy_Of_The_Bharatas_In_Harappa_H
attusa_Mitanni_Egypt
50.https://www.academia.edu/32596989/Narayanastra_Of_Asvatthama_Confirms_The
_Indus_Script_Readings
51.https://www.academia.edu/32745609/The_Raising_Of_Lazarus_Confirms_The_Indu
s_Script_Readings
52.https://www.academia.edu/33955550/Gilgamesh_TamraparNi_And_The_Age_Of_Th
e_Rigveda
53.https://www.academia.edu/28153606/Bharata_The_Language_Of_The_Indus_Valley
_Civilisation
54.https://www.academia.edu/17544059/Sage_Visvamitra_In_The_Indus_Script
55.https://www.academia.edu/17203145/The_Dasa_And_Dasyu_Of_The_Vedas
56.https://www.academia.edu/17119277/Indus_Script_In_The_Bible
57.https://www.academia.edu/16901669/The_Vedic_Anatolians
58.https://www.academia.edu/16405227/The_Kausika_Symbols_Of_The_Ancient_Near
east
59.https://www.academia.edu/15717318/Harosheth_Haggoyim_And_The_Indus_Script
60.https://www.academia.edu/15551103/Rosh_Hashanah_And_The_Dholavira_Sign_B
oard
61.https://www.academia.edu/14743052/Kausika_Visvamitra_The_Harappan_Priest_K
ing
62.https://www.academia.edu/36126608/The_Decoded_Indus_Script_8_The_Mounds_
Of_The_Dead_That_Changed_The_Destiny_And_History_Of_Mankind
63.https://www.academia.edu/43003085/The_Dasaraaja_SatvaTa_Sthavira_Kaala_Angi
rasa_Bharadvaaja_Garga_Suurasena_Gautama_Buddha_Putra_Kings_Of_The_Ancient_Wo
rld_NaTufia_Anatolia_Egypt_Yamnaya_IVC_
64.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrakameshti
65.https://myoksha.com/putrakameshti-homam/
Acknowledgements
I am extremely indebted to hundreds of authors whose works
form the basis for this paper.Special mention may be made of a
few names : Dr.Asko Parpola, Dr.I.Mhadevan,
Dr.J.M.Kenoyer,Dr.Bryan K.Wells,Dr.M.Vidale among others.
The sites of Harappa.com, Wikipedia.com ,Sumerian
Shakespeare.com have provided most of the images used in this
work.
Once again I am acknowledging with a grateful heart these
authors and their publishers,for making this paper possible.
Vijayabhaarati