In Many myths the female deity is symbolizes as a serpent.
The male deity is champion of light
Hittite battle between the storm god and the dragon Illuyankas.
India between Indra, " Lord Of The Mountians" and the goddess Danu and her son Vrtra.
Canaan the storm god Baal and the Goddess Anath,
Babylon between Marduk and Tiamat,
Greece between Zues and typhon son of Gaia, and between Hercules and the serpent Ladon who guards the sacred fruit tree of the goddess Hera..
The finall assault was by the Hebrews and the Christians .
Indra," lord of the mountians,"
Sanskrit word for god means shining or bright,
Ahura Mazda lord of light and his abode is on a mountain top Mount Hara,
Gayo Mareta, Iran, means cow murderer,
Gayo amd Danu was symbolized as the cow goddess.
Goddess Anahita was in charge of the universe Ahura Mazda gave her the task of watching over all creation.
The religion of the Great Mother Goddess existed and flourished for many thousands of years in the Near and Middle East before the arrival of the patriarch Abraham, the first prophet of the dominator male deity, Yahweh. Archaeologists have traced the worship of the Goddess back to the neolithic communities of about 7000 B.C., some to the Upper Paleolithic cultures of about 25,000 B.C. From Neolithic times, at least, its existence has been repeatedly attested to well into Roman Times. Yet, Bible scholars agree that Abraham lived in Canaan as late as between 1800 and 1550 B.C., a veritable Johnny-come-lately!
Suddenly, at a certain point, 5000 years ago, serpents are associated with the goddess, where before, they were apparently not!
Goddess ruled alone in the beginning. At some point she acquired a son or brother who was also her lover and consort. He is generally assumed to have been part of the female religion in much earlier times.
It was this youth who was symbolized by the male role in the annual sexual union with the Goddess. He was known in various languages as Damuzi, Tammuz, Attis, Adonis, Osiris or Baal. This consort died in his youth causing an annual period of grief and lamentation among those who paid homage to the Goddess. Wherever we find symbolism and rituals of the young god, we can recognize the presence of the religion of the Goddess. The people of the early Neolithic cultures of the Near and Middle East may have come down from Europe, possibly the descendants of the Gravettian-Aurignacian cultures. Later, waves of more Northern people descended on both Europe and the Near East. There has been some conjecture that these were the descendants of the Mesolithic (15000 - 8000 B.C.) Maglemosian and Kunda cultures of Northern Europe. But, their arrival was NOT a gradual assimilation - it was wave after wave of aggressive invasion.
northern invaders, generally known as Indo-Europeans, brought their own religion with them: the worship of a young warrior god and a supreme father god. Their arrival in the Near East is attested to by 2400 B.C.,
After these invasions, the worship of the Mother Goddess fluctuated from city to city. As the invaders gained more and more territory over the next two thousand years, the male began to appear as the dominant husband or even the murderer of the Goddess!
Historical, mythological and archaeological evidence suggests that it was these northern people who brought with them the concepts of light as good and dark as evil and of a supreme male deity.
Strangely, it is in the accounts of the Aryans that we find the original religious ideas of the Hebrews. There is the mountain-top god who blazes with light; there is the duality between light and darkness symbolized as good and evil; there is the myth of the male deity defeating the serpent; and there is the supreme leadership of a ruling class: the priestly Levites. All of these are to be found in both the Indo-European and Hebrew religious concepts and politics! The Indo-European patterns were either adopted by the Hebrews, or the Hebrews were Indo-Europeans from the start. But, the end result was that the same ideas and attitudes were later adopted by Christianity.
Since the original sea-people believed that God lived deep inside the volcano, the people of many lands build pyramids to represent the volcano. This was an attempt to control nature. They elected one of their own people (the Pharaoh for example) to represent the volcano God and when he died the Pharaoh was put into the center of the volcano where the God would normally reside. Handcock notes that the pyramids in Egypt were designed to let the Pharoah into the company of Gods, and in Central America pyramids were known as the the place where men became Gods. The science of Alchemy (from the ram-headed god of Egypt, Khnum, and perhaps earlier from kemit, which means black soil, which probably came from the black volcanic soil of Java) developed which later became chemistry. The philosopher’s stone was said to be a stone that was not a stone. In other words like lava. It was said to exist among the most foul things. In other words, among the sulfurous gases escaping from volcanic vents, like those I smelled and gagged on in Hawaii. It was capable of being turned into gold. This is true as even today the rich copper-gold ore deposits in eastern Indonesia (which are igneous and therefore come from magma) are melted and then the gold and copper is skimmed off the top. These people developed a pictorial language and documented their proto-science of world creation as oral stories or stone tablets.
These stories were later carried from the Sunda Shelf to Burma, to India, and perhaps in hieroglyphic or alphabetic form to Sumner and Babylon and Egypt, and to Palestine,
Genesis of the Christian Bible, the Jewish Torah, and the scriptures of the Moslems were all derived from these early observations.
The Volcano God is the primary God of the Old Testament.
Seeing all the volcanic islands and the magma spewing forth, winding down the side of the volcano, the primitive sea people were reminded of the curving undulations of a snake.
Thus the persistent legend of the sea serpent or dragon was born.
The fire that the volcanoes occasionally belched forth became the fire-breath of the sea serpent. The seven-headed serpent of Southeast Asia, later called Naga, was probably the seven highest, or first-appearing volcanoes, as the sailors came around the curve of the earth into view of the islands.
The seven candles of the Jewish menorah stem from these same seven volcanoes. The sea-people developed an elaborate theology around the Volcano God.
The fiery embers and ash of the volcano were seen as messengers of the Volcano God.
This is the basis of angels. The supreme deity of Bali (the island next to Java and as early as 30,000 years ago a part of Java) is pictured there as a man with flames coming out of him, inside a burning ember, flying through the sky, to the earth.
The word angelos comes from a word meaning urn, so we see a possible connection with cinder urns.
In addition there is a folk legend in which children are given a cold cinder in their hand to protect them at night like an angel.
The Hebrew God YHVH (also tranliterated as YHWH, JHVH, JHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, Yahve, Jahveh, Jahve, Jahweh, and Jahwe) was the unpronounceable name of God. YHVH or later Yaveh or later Jehovah, is probably the same as the island Jawa which later became Java. YHWH was probably the sound that the volcano made as it outgassed carbon dioxide, water vapor, and sulfurous gasses.
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