Dragon Family Tree
FirstBorn Dragon Clan
Homelands of Co-terminus Dragon lines of Aquitaine and Khazaria; 5th - 11th Century
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MEROVINGIAN - AQUITAINE TIMELINE 410 Romans Leave Britain 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes landing in Britain 450-750 France, Merovingian Dynasty 466-511 Clovis, King of Franks 628-39 Dagobert is Merovingian King 638-656 Clovis II 732 Arabs defeated at Tours (Poitiers) by Charles Martel 771 Charlemagne unites the Frankish Empire Accounts on Aquitania during the Early Middle Ages are blurry, lacking precision, but there was much unrest. The Visigoths were called into Gaul as foederati, but eventually established themselves as the de-facto rulers in south-west Gaul as central Roman rule collapsed. The Visigoths established their capital in Toulouse, but their actual tenure on Aquitaine was feeble. Furthermore, in 507 they were expelled south to Hispania after their defeat in the Battle of Vouillé by the Franks, who became the new rulers in the area. Two regions come to be distinguished after the Frank expansion to the south, Vasconia/Gascony and Aquitaine, with the former comprising the previous Novempopulania and the latter the territory lying between the Loire and Garonne rivers. The Franks likewise had difficulty controlling their south-western marches, i.e. Vasconia, in turn setting up a Duchy as of 602 AC to hold a grip on the area, appointing a duke in charge. These dukes were quite detached from central Frank overlordship, sometimes governing as independent rulers with strong ties to their Vascon kinsmen south of the Pyrenees. As of 660, the duchies of Aquitaine and Vasconia were united under the rule of Felix of Aquitaine to form an independent polity. A united Vascon-Aquitanian realm reached its heyday under Odo the Great's rule. The independent status of the realm might have continued but for an attack by the Muslim troops who had just invaded the Visigoth Hispania. After successfully fending them off in Toulouse in 719 he was defeated close to Bordeaux, with the hosts under Abd-al-Raḥmân al-Ghafiqi command ransacking the lands south of the Garonne. Odo was required to pledge allegiance to the Frankish Charles Martel in exchange for help against the Muslim forces, and Vascon-Aquitanian self-rule first came to an end by 742, and definitely in 768 after the assassination of Waifer. In the period previous and after the Muslim thrust, the Basques are often cited in several accounts stirring against Frankish attempts to subdue Aquitaine (stretching up to Toulouse) and Vasconia, pointing to a not preponderant but clearly significant Basque presence in the former. 'Romans' are also cited as living in the cities of Aquitaine, as opposed to the Franks. Landscape in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Aquitaine See also: Duchy of Vasconia In 781, Charlemagne decided to proclaim his son Louis King of Aquitaine within the Carolingian Empire, ruling over a realm comprising the Duchy of Aquitaine and the Duchy of Vasconia (Et 3 Calend Augusti habuit concilium magnum in Aquis, et constituit duos filius sans reges Pippinum et Clotarium, Pippinum super Aquitaniam et Wasconiam). He suppressed various Vascon uprisings, even venturing into the lands of Pamplona past the Pyrenees after ravaging the Gascony, with a view to imposing his authority in the Vasconia south of Pyrenees too. |
ROYAL ASHINA - SILK ROAD TIMELINE Gok Turk Empire 476 Fall of western Roman Empire 602-1016 (K)Hazar Empire 618-62701. Ziebel, founded new Khazar dynasty, id. with Turkish Khan Tong Yabghu Khan issue: a. Harbis [I] 627-?02. Harbis [I] [Irbis] = Epiphania, dau of Heraclius, Byzantine Emperor issue: a. Anastasia (dau) = Khalge Kagan [Harbis II] (640)03. Kieyue Khan issue: a. Khalge Kagan b. Ashena Holo, father of Kaban Kagan, Khazar King (650)04. Khalge Kagan [Harbis II] = Anastasia, dau of Harbis [I], Khazar King (above) issue: a. Ibuzir Glavan b. Theodora (dau) = Justinian II, Byzantine Emperor (670)05. Kaban Kagan 690-71506. Ibuzir Glavan issue: a. Barjik 715-73107. Barjik issue: a. Bulan Sabriel b. Bihar [Bizar] (740)08. Bulan Sabriel issue: a. Bagatur (750)09. Bihar [Bizar] issue: a. Tzitzak [Chichak] [Irene], wife of Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (760)10. Bagatur issue: a. Obadiah b. Hanukkah c. Zebulun 786-80911. Obadiah issue: a. Hezekiah 809-?12. Hezekiah issue: a. Manasseh I XXX13. Manasseh I XXX14. Hanukkah issue: a. Yitzchak XXX15. Yitzchak issue: a. Manasseh II XXX16. Zebulun issue: a. son [name], father of Zachary, rival king XXX17. Manasseh II issue: a. Nisi (860)X. Zachary, rival king XXX18. Nisi issue: a. Aaron I (900)19. Aaron I issue: a. Menahem b. Benjamin (910)20. Menahem (925)21. Benjamin issue: a. Aaron II (940)22. Aaron II issue: a. Hakan Yusuf [Joseph] 945-96523. Hakan Yusuf [Joseph] issue: a. David 965-96924. David, dep by Russians, d in exile at Taman 986/8 issue: a. George Tzula (986/8)25. George Tzula, anti-king at Kerch, defeated in battle, captured, and taken prisoner by Russians 1016 [last one] Early Khazar history is intimately tied with that of the Göktürk Empire, founded when the Ashina clan overthrew the Juan Juan in 552 CE. It is known that in 515-516 Hunnic-Savirs attacked Armenia. The widow of the Hunnic-Savir prince Bolakh Boariks concluded a peace with Byzantine in 527. In 529, Prince Khosrau I of the Persian Empire fought the social movement led by the Zoroastrian priest Mazdak. Numerous Jewish families who supported the movement had to flee the country north of Caucasus Mountains. In 552, a western-Turkic khaganate is mentioned led by khagan Tumyn (or Tumen) out of the Ashina clan. There are some speculations that the Western portion of the Göktürk Empire in the West became known as Avars.[16] During that time, there is mention of Savirs' and Khazars' attacks on Caucasus Albania. The first significant appearance of the Khazars in history is their aid to the campaign of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius against the Sassanid Persians. The Khazar ruler Ziebel (sometimes identified as Tong Yabghu Khagan of the West Turks) aided the Byzantines in overrunning Georgia. A marriage was even contemplated between Ziebel's son and Heraclius' daughter, but never took place. During these campaigns, the Khazars may have been ruled by Bagha Shad and their forces may have been under the command of his son Buri-shad.[17] The Khazars were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the Northern Caucasus (Circassia, Dagestan), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and Northeastern Turkey.[3] A successor state of the Western Turks, Khazaria was a polyethnic state with a population of Turkic, Uralic, Slavic, and Palaeo-Caucasian peoples.[4] Khazaria was the first feudal state to be established in Eastern Europe.[5] During the 9th and 10th centuries, Khazaria was one of the major arteries of commerce between Northern Europe and southwestern Asia, as well as a connection to the Silk Road. The name "Khazar" is found in numerous languages[6] and seems to be tied to a Turkic verb form meaning "wandering" (Modern Turkish: Gezer)[7] Because of their jurisdiction over the area, the Caspian Sea was named the "Khazar Sea", and even today the Azeri, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic languages designate the Caspian by this term (in Turkish, "Hazar Denizi"; in Arabic, "Bahr-ul-Khazar"; in Persian, "Daryaye Khazar") Sabirs and Bulgars came under Khazar jurisdiction during the 7th century. The Khazars forced some of the Bulgars (led by Asparukh) to move to modern-day Bulgaria, while other Bulgars fled to the upper Volga River region where the independent state of Volga Bulgharia was founded. In addition to their role in indirectly bringing about the creation of the modern Balkan nation of Bulgaria, the Khazars played an even more significant role in European affairs. By acting as a buffer state between the Islamic world and the Christian world, Khazaria prevented Islam from significantly spreading north of the Caucasus Mountains. This was accomplished thru a series of wars known as the Khazar–Arab Wars, which took place in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. The wars established the Caucasus and the city of Derbent as the boundary between the Khazars and the Arabs. Khazaria had an ongoing entente with Byzantium. Serving their partner in wars against the Arabian Caliphate, Khazaria aided the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (reigned 610–641) by sending an army of 40,000 soldiers in his campaign against the Persians.[8] In 775, Leo IV was crowned as the sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. After fighting the Arabs to a standstill in the North Caucasus, Khazars became increasingly interested in replacing their Tengri shamanism with a state religion that would give them equal religious standing with their Abrahamic neighbors. According to the Khazar Correspondence, Khagan Bulan summoned three clerics representing the three religions and had them dispute their creeds before him. But, no cleric could convince the others, or the sovereign, that his religion was the best. So the ruler spoke to each of them separately. He asked the Christian priest: "If you had to give up Christianity, which one would you prefer - Islam or Judaism?" The priest said: "If I were to give up Christianity, I would become a Jew." Bulan then asked the follower of Islam the same question, "Christianity or Judaism?" and the Moslem also chose Judaism. This is how Bulan came to choose Judaism for himself and the people of Khazaria in the seventh century A.D., and thereafter the Khazars lived according to Judaic laws. During the 8th century, all the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to Judaism. Yitzhak ha-Sangari is the name of the rabbi who converted the Khazars to Judaism.[9] Between 965 and 969, Khazar sovereignty was broken by Sviatoslav I of Kiev. They became a subject people of Kievan Rus'. Gradually displaced by the Rus, the Kipchaks, and later the conquering Mongol Golden Horde, the Khazars largely disappeared as a culturally distinct people. |
The Ennead were the nine great Osirian gods: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb,
Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.
The term is also used to describe the great council of the gods as well as a collective term for all the gods.
The term is also used to describe the great council of the gods as well as a collective term for all the gods.
Fleur-de-lis is literally translated from French as "flower of the lily." The fleur-de-lis (also spelled fleur-de-lys; plural fleurs-de-lis or
-lys; an archaic spelling is fleur-de-luce) is used in heraldry, where
it is particularly associated with the French monarchy (see King of
France). The fleur-de-lis remains an unofficial symbol of France (along with the Bees and the napoleonic eagle), but has not been used as an official symbol by the various French republics.
It is also used by Various Scout organizations, worldwide as part of their logo.
The variant fleur-de-luce has been interpreted as meaning "flower of light" since lux (oblique stem luc-) is Latin for "light".
Origins
The name translates into English as "lily flower", and the symbol is in fact a stylized Iris Pseudacorus l.. It was adopted by King Philip I of France in the 11th century. His grandson Louis VII was the first to adopt the Azure semé-de-lys Or (a blue shield with a tight pattern of small golden fleur-de-lis) as his badge, and this came to be so closely associated with his country that it is now known as "France Ancient". Three gold flowers on a blue background ("France Modern") dates to 1376 and Charles V of France.
The fleur-de-lis' origins with French monarchs stems from the baptismal lily used in the crowning of King Clovis I. To further enhance its mystique, a legend eventually sprang up that a vial of oil descended from heaven to anoint and sanctify Clovis as King. The thus "anointed" Kings of France later maintained that their authority was directly from God, without the mediation of either the Emperor or the Pope. Other legends claim that even the lily itself appeared at the baptismal ceremony as a gift of blessing in an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church later endorsed the legend by associating Mary with the symbol. There are many legends, for instance that Clovis saw an angel.
The oldest legend tells that the lily sprung from the tears shed by Eve (Adam and Eve) as she left the Garden of Eden. (just as that unrelated flower, the lily of the valley, was said to have grown from the tears of the Virgin at the foot of the Cross). From early records (it was the flower of Hera, the Greek moon goddess) it has been the symbol of purity and was accordingly readily adopted by the Church to associate the Virgin Mary's sanctity with events of special significance. Some historians of heraldry have claimed that the fleur-de-lis actually originated as a stylized bee, or a stylized frog. Other explanations include the shape having been developed from the image of a dove descending, which is the symbol of the Holy Ghost.
It is not rare, until the end of the 12th century, to see Christ represented amidst more or less stylised lilies or fleurons, whose design also recall the Trinity of the Chrismon (Tree) (Christ's monogram).Then, slowly, on this Christic content is added a Marial symbolic, linked to the development of the Cult of Mary, and to which the next verse of the Song of Solomon is related (2:2): "sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter lilias" ("as the lily [stands out] among the thorns, thus my love [stands out] among the lilies"), as well as many parts of the Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church, where the lily is presented as symbol of purity, virginity and chastity. In iconography, the fleur-de-lis becomes the favorite attribute in the Assumption of Mary, the Black Madonna.
So contrary to popular belief, the fleur-de-lis did not originate in France. Its traces origins back to Ancient Egypt (or earlier) and the sacred lotus symbol for plant meaning Tree of Life explained. Here is room for speculations about Moses ("son of Egypt") and his Egyptian cultural heritage in the writing of the book of Genesis). In ancient Egypt and in India (as in Christianity etc) the fleur-de-lis was used as symbol meaning life and resurrection. In Egypt it was also the attribute of the god Horus, and a symbol for circumcision.
The fleur-de-lis was later adopted by the ruling class of the Roman Empire, probably due to religious influences. After the fall of Empire it was inherited to symbolize the sacred origin of the Merovingian dynasty and then became a symbol of the entire Christian French Kingdom. This is however speculative, modern unconfirmed theories about the Holy Grail see in the fleur-de-lys a symbol of the mythical holy origin of the French nation in the union of legendary King Meroveus with Mary Magdalene descendancy given to her by Jesus.
Polish Scouting Cross featuring the symbol of the Scouting MovementBy the 13th and 14th centuries, the three petals of the lily of France were being described by writers as symbols of faith, wisdom and chivalry. As in Ireland, they also came to be seen as symbols of the Holy Trinity. By the 14th century, the fleur-de-lis had become so closely associated with the rule of France that the English king Edward III quartered his coat of arms with France Ancient in order to emphasize his claim on the French crown. This quartering was changed to France Modern in the early 1400s. The fleur-de-lis was not removed until 1801, when George III gave up his formal claim to the French throne.
The treasured fleur-de-luce he claims
To wreathe his shield, since royal James
Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto Fourth, VIII
from The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 of 7, Conner and Cooke, New York, 1833
Fleurs-de-lis feature prominently in the Crown Jewels of both Scotland and England etc, and have been heraldic devices of those monarchs since very early on. The tressure flory-counterflory is a prominent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and flag since James I of Scotland. In English heraldry, the fleur-de-lis is the cadency mark of difference of the sixth son.
Modern usage
Fleurs-de-lis for the ruling Bourbons on the center of the current coat of the Kingdom of Spain France Modern remained the French royal standard, and with a white background was the French national flag until the French Revolution, when it was replaced by the tri-colour flag of modern-day France. The fleur-de-lis was restored to the French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against Charles X of France in 1830. In a very strange turn of events, where a flag actually influenced the course of history, after the end of the French Second Empire, Henri, Comte de Chambord, was offered the throne as king of France, but he would agree only on condition that the French give up the Tricolor and restore the royal standard with the fleur-de-lis; however, his condition was rejected and France became a republic.
In religious symbolism the fleur-de-lis is a symbol of the Holy Trinity. It is also a symbol of Assumption and Ressurection. The fleur-de-lis represent the Tree of Life/Garden of Eden. The Angel Gabriel is often pictured with the lily in his hand in the announcement of Christ's birth. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070317213041AAxNvVM
It is also used by Various Scout organizations, worldwide as part of their logo.
The variant fleur-de-luce has been interpreted as meaning "flower of light" since lux (oblique stem luc-) is Latin for "light".
Origins
The name translates into English as "lily flower", and the symbol is in fact a stylized Iris Pseudacorus l.. It was adopted by King Philip I of France in the 11th century. His grandson Louis VII was the first to adopt the Azure semé-de-lys Or (a blue shield with a tight pattern of small golden fleur-de-lis) as his badge, and this came to be so closely associated with his country that it is now known as "France Ancient". Three gold flowers on a blue background ("France Modern") dates to 1376 and Charles V of France.
The fleur-de-lis' origins with French monarchs stems from the baptismal lily used in the crowning of King Clovis I. To further enhance its mystique, a legend eventually sprang up that a vial of oil descended from heaven to anoint and sanctify Clovis as King. The thus "anointed" Kings of France later maintained that their authority was directly from God, without the mediation of either the Emperor or the Pope. Other legends claim that even the lily itself appeared at the baptismal ceremony as a gift of blessing in an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church later endorsed the legend by associating Mary with the symbol. There are many legends, for instance that Clovis saw an angel.
The oldest legend tells that the lily sprung from the tears shed by Eve (Adam and Eve) as she left the Garden of Eden. (just as that unrelated flower, the lily of the valley, was said to have grown from the tears of the Virgin at the foot of the Cross). From early records (it was the flower of Hera, the Greek moon goddess) it has been the symbol of purity and was accordingly readily adopted by the Church to associate the Virgin Mary's sanctity with events of special significance. Some historians of heraldry have claimed that the fleur-de-lis actually originated as a stylized bee, or a stylized frog. Other explanations include the shape having been developed from the image of a dove descending, which is the symbol of the Holy Ghost.
It is not rare, until the end of the 12th century, to see Christ represented amidst more or less stylised lilies or fleurons, whose design also recall the Trinity of the Chrismon (Tree) (Christ's monogram).Then, slowly, on this Christic content is added a Marial symbolic, linked to the development of the Cult of Mary, and to which the next verse of the Song of Solomon is related (2:2): "sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter lilias" ("as the lily [stands out] among the thorns, thus my love [stands out] among the lilies"), as well as many parts of the Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church, where the lily is presented as symbol of purity, virginity and chastity. In iconography, the fleur-de-lis becomes the favorite attribute in the Assumption of Mary, the Black Madonna.
So contrary to popular belief, the fleur-de-lis did not originate in France. Its traces origins back to Ancient Egypt (or earlier) and the sacred lotus symbol for plant meaning Tree of Life explained. Here is room for speculations about Moses ("son of Egypt") and his Egyptian cultural heritage in the writing of the book of Genesis). In ancient Egypt and in India (as in Christianity etc) the fleur-de-lis was used as symbol meaning life and resurrection. In Egypt it was also the attribute of the god Horus, and a symbol for circumcision.
The fleur-de-lis was later adopted by the ruling class of the Roman Empire, probably due to religious influences. After the fall of Empire it was inherited to symbolize the sacred origin of the Merovingian dynasty and then became a symbol of the entire Christian French Kingdom. This is however speculative, modern unconfirmed theories about the Holy Grail see in the fleur-de-lys a symbol of the mythical holy origin of the French nation in the union of legendary King Meroveus with Mary Magdalene descendancy given to her by Jesus.
Polish Scouting Cross featuring the symbol of the Scouting MovementBy the 13th and 14th centuries, the three petals of the lily of France were being described by writers as symbols of faith, wisdom and chivalry. As in Ireland, they also came to be seen as symbols of the Holy Trinity. By the 14th century, the fleur-de-lis had become so closely associated with the rule of France that the English king Edward III quartered his coat of arms with France Ancient in order to emphasize his claim on the French crown. This quartering was changed to France Modern in the early 1400s. The fleur-de-lis was not removed until 1801, when George III gave up his formal claim to the French throne.
The treasured fleur-de-luce he claims
To wreathe his shield, since royal James
Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto Fourth, VIII
from The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 of 7, Conner and Cooke, New York, 1833
Fleurs-de-lis feature prominently in the Crown Jewels of both Scotland and England etc, and have been heraldic devices of those monarchs since very early on. The tressure flory-counterflory is a prominent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and flag since James I of Scotland. In English heraldry, the fleur-de-lis is the cadency mark of difference of the sixth son.
Modern usage
Fleurs-de-lis for the ruling Bourbons on the center of the current coat of the Kingdom of Spain France Modern remained the French royal standard, and with a white background was the French national flag until the French Revolution, when it was replaced by the tri-colour flag of modern-day France. The fleur-de-lis was restored to the French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against Charles X of France in 1830. In a very strange turn of events, where a flag actually influenced the course of history, after the end of the French Second Empire, Henri, Comte de Chambord, was offered the throne as king of France, but he would agree only on condition that the French give up the Tricolor and restore the royal standard with the fleur-de-lis; however, his condition was rejected and France became a republic.
In religious symbolism the fleur-de-lis is a symbol of the Holy Trinity. It is also a symbol of Assumption and Ressurection. The fleur-de-lis represent the Tree of Life/Garden of Eden. The Angel Gabriel is often pictured with the lily in his hand in the announcement of Christ's birth. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070317213041AAxNvVM
The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical.
It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can
no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is
as good as dead. To know that what is
impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting
itself as the highest wisdom and the
most radiant beauty which our dull faculties
can comprehend only in their primitive
forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at
the center of true religiousness. --Albert Einstein
TREE OF LIFE
THE
DNA BRIDGE: Paternal & Mitochondrial Dragon DNA explains the
importance of the female decent. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only
through the female line. Mitochondria is a living sentient and separate
life form from ourselves. The mitochondria are dependent on us for
life; we live in a symbiotic relationship.
Mitochondrial DNA can live 15 generations. 15 generations of living mitochondria live inside you. Your 15 generation grandparents living cells are in you. A mutant mtDNA will drift to fixation in a human matriline in 15 generations. Recently an attempt was made to estimate the age of the human race using mitochondrial DNA.
This material is inherited always from mother to children only. By measuring the difference in mitochondrial DNA among many individuals, the age of the common maternal ancestor of humanity was estimated at about 200,000 years. It remains implausible to explain the known geographic distribution of mtDNA sequence variation by human migration that occurred only in the last ~6,500 years.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (by virtue of its maternal, nonrecombining mode of inheritance, rapid pace of evolution, and extensive intraspecific polymorphism) permits and even demands an extension of phylogenetic thinking to the microevolutionary level. Many species exhibit a deep and geographically structured mtDNA phylogenetic history. Study of the relationship between genealogy and geography constitutes a discipline that can be termed intraspecific phylogeography. ’alien genes’ in human DNA
The (Central Asian) Khazar name is derived from Turkic *qaz-, meaning "to wander." The Ashina was considered a sacred clan of quasi-divine status. Q1 actually refers to the subclade Q-P36.2. The Ashina clan, a noble caste, carry the 16q24.3 "red gene" inherited from the Sumerian Annunaki, the root of the Dragon seed that permeates royal lines: Merovingian, Carolingian, Tudor, Plantagenet, Stuart, Hapsburg, Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Guelph, Bowes-Lyon, Battenberg (Mountbatten), Guise, and Savoy families - and Transylvanian lineages. The Davidic House of Judah married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. They are connected by a shared bloodline. The dragon archetype rests within the Dragon blood, passed on through the genes.
According to Nicholas de Vere, "Briefly, the Dragon lineage starts in the Caucasus with the Annunaki, descending through migrating proto-Scythians to the Sumerians while branching off also into the early Egyptians, Phoenicians and Mittani. A marriage bridge back to Scythia infused the Elvin line of “Tuatha de Danaan” and the Fir Bolg, which branched into the Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely family to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the ring kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada, through the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today."
The Royal Court of the Dragon was founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC and was subsequently ratified by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru. This sovereign and priestly Order passed from Egypt to the Kings of Jerusalem; to the Black Sea Princes of Scythia (Princess Milouziana of the Scythians) and into the Balkans - notably to the Royal House of Hungary, whose King Sigismund reconstituted the Court just 600 years ago. Sigismund’s assumed descent from Melusine. Her ancestry actually can be traced back to the Scythian Dragon Princess Scota, Queen Sobekh Nefru and the Egyptian Cult of the Dragon. Vlad Dracul was a minion of Sigismund of Luxembourg, and was educated at the Emperor's court in Nuremberg. Dracul was invested into Societas Draconis.
The Byzantine Emperor Constantine was a Dragon King. The Byzantine emperor Leo III married his son Constantine (V) to the Khazar princess as part of the alliance between the two empires. Princess Tzitzak was baptized as Irene. Their son Leo (Leo IV) was known as "Leo the Khazar", emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 775 to 780.
The re-expansion of paternal group R1b and maternal group H from the Basque Ice Age refuge spread up the coasts of all the countries facing the Atlantic, after the ice melted. The British Isles retained higher rates than the other countries, for several reasons related specifically to early movements directly from the Basque country rather than from general diffusion from western Europe. First, as a result of lower sea levels, the British Isles, in particular Ireland, were connected and at the furthest edge of the extended Ice Age European continent, and thus received the bulk of early coastal migration. Then, as sea levels rose, first Ireland then Britain became islands, relatively insulated from further migration from elsewhere in Europe, thus preserving their high rates of R1b and similarity to the initial settlements. The means by which I could separate the R1b types in the British Isles from those on the other side of the channel is by the use of “Founder Analysis.” That is, looking at the detail of their gene types (so-called STR haplotypes). These revealed 21 founding clusters, which could only have arrived direct from the Basque country. Their descendant twigs are unique to the British Isles.
Rb1 - http://www.familytreedna.com/public/r1b1b2/default.aspx
Royal Red Dragons - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnYpMcaHCFI&feature=related
King Tut was a Celt - http://wn.com/King_Tut_was_a_Celt
Rh Negative
Where did the Rh-negatives come from? If they are not the descendants of prehistoric man, could they be the descendants of the ancient astronauts?
All animals and other living creatures known to man can breed with any other of their species. Relative size and color makes no difference. Why does infant's haemolytic disease occur in humans if all humans are the same species? Haemolytic disease is the allergic reaction that occurs when an Rh negative mother is carrying a Rh positive child. Her blood builds up antibodies to destroy an alien substance (the same way it would a virus), thereby destroying the infant. Why would a mother's body reject her own offspring? Nowhere else in nature does this occur naturally. This same problem does occur in mules - a cross between a horse and donkey. This fact alone points to the distinct possibility of a cross-breeding between two similar but genetically different species.
No one knows where the Rh-negative people came from. Rhesus negative blood simply means that the blood doesn't have any Rhesus antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. An "absence" of a protein does not necessarily have to originate from anywhere. The simplest explanation is that Rh-negative blood is caused by a mutation on the first chromosome which rendered individuals incapable of producing functional Rhesus proteins. As for why there are so few people with Rh-negative blood, Rh-negative is a recessive trait, so all an individual needs is one functional Rhesus gene to produce Rh-positive blood. Since Rh-negative blood does not hinder an individual's survivability or confer any evolutionary disadvantage other than the inability to receive Rh-positive blood (which is pretty much a non-factor during the time period when blood transfusions weren't available), people with non-functional Rhesus genes continued to thrive and reproduce which is why there are still individuals with Rh-negative blood.
Most, familiar with blood factors, admit that these people must at least be a mutation if not descendants of a different ancestor. If we are a mutation, what caused the mutation? Why does it continue with the exact characteristics? Why does it so violently reject the Rh factor, if it was in their own ancestry? Who was this ancestor? Difficulties in determining ethnology are largely overcome by the use of blood group data, for they are a single gene characteristic and not affected by the environment.
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene. The average among most people is only 157%-Rh negative, while some groups have very little. The Oriental Jews of Israel, also have a high percent Rh-negative, although most other Oriental people have only about 1% Rh negative. The Samaritans and the Black Cochin Jew also have a high percentage of Rh-negative blood, although again the Rh negative blood is rare among most black people.
The Rh-Negatives Factor is considered a "Mutation" of "Unknown Origin", which happened in Europe, about 25,000-35,000 years ago. Then this group spread heavily into the area of what is now Spain, England, Ireland, etc. 5% of the Earth's population are currently Rh-Negatives. But, they are 15% of the population of the England and the USA. The most distinctive members of the European branch of the human tree are the Basques of France and Spain. They show unusual patterns for several genes, including the highest rate of the Rh-negative blood type. Their language is of unknown origin and cannot be placed within any standard classification.
Consider Iceland, 1% of its population is Rh-negative. The population of Iceland is about two-third of Scandinavian and one-third of Irish descent. Scandinavia, Ireland, and the British Isles show from 16% to 25% and above Rh-negative. The other populations with a proportion of Rh-negative individuals similar to Iceland occupy the eastern half of Asia, Madagascar, Australia and New-Zealand. The people of the Basque region have a greater than 50 percent concentration of the RH negative gene,. The frequency decreases in relation to the distance from the Basque region into the rest of the world until there is very little evidence of this gene.
This genetic mapping helps to show that a mutation from RH positive to RH negative occurred somewhere in the Basque area of Europe maybe as much as 40,000 years ago. Science tells us that the red hair DNA did not originate with human beings but was Neanderthal DNA. "When we look at the Y-chromosomes in Wales and Ireland, we find a very close match with the Basques." Other genetic evidence, he says, strongly suggests that the Basques are the descendants of the Paleolithic inhabitants of Western Europe prior to the arrival of farmers between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago". During a period in history known as the Dark Ages, which happened around 1200 - 800 B.C. The "Tribe of Dan" was shipped into Western Europe with the aid of the Phoenicians from the Mediterranean Sea at about the same time in history. They came into Spain, France (Languedoc Area of France).
We also know that the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel known as the Hebrews migrated into Europe and became a blended group who would later become known as the Scythian, aka Aryan Races. They migrated into Europe from the Caucasus and Carpathian mountain ranges while the Tribe of Dan into Spain, France and the British Isles from the Mediterranean Sea. Phoenicians helped transport the Tribe of Dan into Spain, France, and the British Isles by way of the "Sea Route," from the Middle East. Phoenicians appear to be the Siberians of Russia, the Yakuts, Sakha and the Buryats. THEY ARE THE SAME RACE WITH THE SAME DNA. They have the same spiritual and historical traditions: the same names of landforms, rivers.
Rh-negative women and men have several "Unusual Traits" that Rh-positives don't:
* An EXTRA-Vertebra (a "Tail Bone")....some are born with a tail(called a "Cauda"). CAUDA EQUINA - The bundle of spinal nerve roots arising from the end of the spinal cord and filling the lower part of the spinal canal(from approximately the thoraco-lumbar junction down). Embryology : Caudally the tail region projects over the cloacal membrane.
* Lower than normal Body Temperature
* Lower than normal Blood Pressure
* Higher mental analytical abilities.
* Higher Negative-ion shielding (from positive "charged" virus/bacteria)around the body.
* High Sensitivity to EM and ELF Fields.
* Hyper Vision and other senses.
Another salient genetic feature is the the shape and sutures (bone joints) of cranial bones of Basques[The Reptilian skull ridge]. A third skeletal difference is the tendency to having a thicker breast bone.
Mitochondrial DNA can live 15 generations. 15 generations of living mitochondria live inside you. Your 15 generation grandparents living cells are in you. A mutant mtDNA will drift to fixation in a human matriline in 15 generations. Recently an attempt was made to estimate the age of the human race using mitochondrial DNA.
This material is inherited always from mother to children only. By measuring the difference in mitochondrial DNA among many individuals, the age of the common maternal ancestor of humanity was estimated at about 200,000 years. It remains implausible to explain the known geographic distribution of mtDNA sequence variation by human migration that occurred only in the last ~6,500 years.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (by virtue of its maternal, nonrecombining mode of inheritance, rapid pace of evolution, and extensive intraspecific polymorphism) permits and even demands an extension of phylogenetic thinking to the microevolutionary level. Many species exhibit a deep and geographically structured mtDNA phylogenetic history. Study of the relationship between genealogy and geography constitutes a discipline that can be termed intraspecific phylogeography. ’alien genes’ in human DNA
The (Central Asian) Khazar name is derived from Turkic *qaz-, meaning "to wander." The Ashina was considered a sacred clan of quasi-divine status. Q1 actually refers to the subclade Q-P36.2. The Ashina clan, a noble caste, carry the 16q24.3 "red gene" inherited from the Sumerian Annunaki, the root of the Dragon seed that permeates royal lines: Merovingian, Carolingian, Tudor, Plantagenet, Stuart, Hapsburg, Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Guelph, Bowes-Lyon, Battenberg (Mountbatten), Guise, and Savoy families - and Transylvanian lineages. The Davidic House of Judah married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. They are connected by a shared bloodline. The dragon archetype rests within the Dragon blood, passed on through the genes.
According to Nicholas de Vere, "Briefly, the Dragon lineage starts in the Caucasus with the Annunaki, descending through migrating proto-Scythians to the Sumerians while branching off also into the early Egyptians, Phoenicians and Mittani. A marriage bridge back to Scythia infused the Elvin line of “Tuatha de Danaan” and the Fir Bolg, which branched into the Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely family to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the ring kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada, through the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today."
The Royal Court of the Dragon was founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC and was subsequently ratified by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru. This sovereign and priestly Order passed from Egypt to the Kings of Jerusalem; to the Black Sea Princes of Scythia (Princess Milouziana of the Scythians) and into the Balkans - notably to the Royal House of Hungary, whose King Sigismund reconstituted the Court just 600 years ago. Sigismund’s assumed descent from Melusine. Her ancestry actually can be traced back to the Scythian Dragon Princess Scota, Queen Sobekh Nefru and the Egyptian Cult of the Dragon. Vlad Dracul was a minion of Sigismund of Luxembourg, and was educated at the Emperor's court in Nuremberg. Dracul was invested into Societas Draconis.
The Byzantine Emperor Constantine was a Dragon King. The Byzantine emperor Leo III married his son Constantine (V) to the Khazar princess as part of the alliance between the two empires. Princess Tzitzak was baptized as Irene. Their son Leo (Leo IV) was known as "Leo the Khazar", emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 775 to 780.
The re-expansion of paternal group R1b and maternal group H from the Basque Ice Age refuge spread up the coasts of all the countries facing the Atlantic, after the ice melted. The British Isles retained higher rates than the other countries, for several reasons related specifically to early movements directly from the Basque country rather than from general diffusion from western Europe. First, as a result of lower sea levels, the British Isles, in particular Ireland, were connected and at the furthest edge of the extended Ice Age European continent, and thus received the bulk of early coastal migration. Then, as sea levels rose, first Ireland then Britain became islands, relatively insulated from further migration from elsewhere in Europe, thus preserving their high rates of R1b and similarity to the initial settlements. The means by which I could separate the R1b types in the British Isles from those on the other side of the channel is by the use of “Founder Analysis.” That is, looking at the detail of their gene types (so-called STR haplotypes). These revealed 21 founding clusters, which could only have arrived direct from the Basque country. Their descendant twigs are unique to the British Isles.
Rb1 - http://www.familytreedna.com/public/r1b1b2/default.aspx
Royal Red Dragons - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnYpMcaHCFI&feature=related
King Tut was a Celt - http://wn.com/King_Tut_was_a_Celt
Rh Negative
Where did the Rh-negatives come from? If they are not the descendants of prehistoric man, could they be the descendants of the ancient astronauts?
All animals and other living creatures known to man can breed with any other of their species. Relative size and color makes no difference. Why does infant's haemolytic disease occur in humans if all humans are the same species? Haemolytic disease is the allergic reaction that occurs when an Rh negative mother is carrying a Rh positive child. Her blood builds up antibodies to destroy an alien substance (the same way it would a virus), thereby destroying the infant. Why would a mother's body reject her own offspring? Nowhere else in nature does this occur naturally. This same problem does occur in mules - a cross between a horse and donkey. This fact alone points to the distinct possibility of a cross-breeding between two similar but genetically different species.
No one knows where the Rh-negative people came from. Rhesus negative blood simply means that the blood doesn't have any Rhesus antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. An "absence" of a protein does not necessarily have to originate from anywhere. The simplest explanation is that Rh-negative blood is caused by a mutation on the first chromosome which rendered individuals incapable of producing functional Rhesus proteins. As for why there are so few people with Rh-negative blood, Rh-negative is a recessive trait, so all an individual needs is one functional Rhesus gene to produce Rh-positive blood. Since Rh-negative blood does not hinder an individual's survivability or confer any evolutionary disadvantage other than the inability to receive Rh-positive blood (which is pretty much a non-factor during the time period when blood transfusions weren't available), people with non-functional Rhesus genes continued to thrive and reproduce which is why there are still individuals with Rh-negative blood.
Most, familiar with blood factors, admit that these people must at least be a mutation if not descendants of a different ancestor. If we are a mutation, what caused the mutation? Why does it continue with the exact characteristics? Why does it so violently reject the Rh factor, if it was in their own ancestry? Who was this ancestor? Difficulties in determining ethnology are largely overcome by the use of blood group data, for they are a single gene characteristic and not affected by the environment.
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene. The average among most people is only 157%-Rh negative, while some groups have very little. The Oriental Jews of Israel, also have a high percent Rh-negative, although most other Oriental people have only about 1% Rh negative. The Samaritans and the Black Cochin Jew also have a high percentage of Rh-negative blood, although again the Rh negative blood is rare among most black people.
The Rh-Negatives Factor is considered a "Mutation" of "Unknown Origin", which happened in Europe, about 25,000-35,000 years ago. Then this group spread heavily into the area of what is now Spain, England, Ireland, etc. 5% of the Earth's population are currently Rh-Negatives. But, they are 15% of the population of the England and the USA. The most distinctive members of the European branch of the human tree are the Basques of France and Spain. They show unusual patterns for several genes, including the highest rate of the Rh-negative blood type. Their language is of unknown origin and cannot be placed within any standard classification.
Consider Iceland, 1% of its population is Rh-negative. The population of Iceland is about two-third of Scandinavian and one-third of Irish descent. Scandinavia, Ireland, and the British Isles show from 16% to 25% and above Rh-negative. The other populations with a proportion of Rh-negative individuals similar to Iceland occupy the eastern half of Asia, Madagascar, Australia and New-Zealand. The people of the Basque region have a greater than 50 percent concentration of the RH negative gene,. The frequency decreases in relation to the distance from the Basque region into the rest of the world until there is very little evidence of this gene.
This genetic mapping helps to show that a mutation from RH positive to RH negative occurred somewhere in the Basque area of Europe maybe as much as 40,000 years ago. Science tells us that the red hair DNA did not originate with human beings but was Neanderthal DNA. "When we look at the Y-chromosomes in Wales and Ireland, we find a very close match with the Basques." Other genetic evidence, he says, strongly suggests that the Basques are the descendants of the Paleolithic inhabitants of Western Europe prior to the arrival of farmers between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago". During a period in history known as the Dark Ages, which happened around 1200 - 800 B.C. The "Tribe of Dan" was shipped into Western Europe with the aid of the Phoenicians from the Mediterranean Sea at about the same time in history. They came into Spain, France (Languedoc Area of France).
We also know that the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel known as the Hebrews migrated into Europe and became a blended group who would later become known as the Scythian, aka Aryan Races. They migrated into Europe from the Caucasus and Carpathian mountain ranges while the Tribe of Dan into Spain, France and the British Isles from the Mediterranean Sea. Phoenicians helped transport the Tribe of Dan into Spain, France, and the British Isles by way of the "Sea Route," from the Middle East. Phoenicians appear to be the Siberians of Russia, the Yakuts, Sakha and the Buryats. THEY ARE THE SAME RACE WITH THE SAME DNA. They have the same spiritual and historical traditions: the same names of landforms, rivers.
Rh-negative women and men have several "Unusual Traits" that Rh-positives don't:
* An EXTRA-Vertebra (a "Tail Bone")....some are born with a tail(called a "Cauda"). CAUDA EQUINA - The bundle of spinal nerve roots arising from the end of the spinal cord and filling the lower part of the spinal canal(from approximately the thoraco-lumbar junction down). Embryology : Caudally the tail region projects over the cloacal membrane.
* Lower than normal Body Temperature
* Lower than normal Blood Pressure
* Higher mental analytical abilities.
* Higher Negative-ion shielding (from positive "charged" virus/bacteria)around the body.
* High Sensitivity to EM and ELF Fields.
* Hyper Vision and other senses.
Another salient genetic feature is the the shape and sutures (bone joints) of cranial bones of Basques[The Reptilian skull ridge]. A third skeletal difference is the tendency to having a thicker breast bone.
Dragon Tradition
"One of the
interesting items from the archives of the Dragon Court was the origin
of the word 'kingship'. It derives from the very earliest of
Sumerian culture wherein 'kingship' was identical with 'kinship' -
and 'kin' means 'blood relative'. In its original form, 'kinship'
was 'Kainship'. And the first King of the Messianic Dragon
succession was the biblical 'C(Kain)', head of the Sumerian House
of Kish. "On recognizing this, one can immediately see the
first anomaly in the tradition of the Genesis story, for the
historical line from David to Jesus was not from Adam and Eve's
son, Seth, at all. It was from Eve's son Cain, whose recorded
successors (although given little space in the Old Testament) were
the first great Kings (or Kains) of Mesopotamia and Egypt...
"According to the Dragon tradition, the importance of Cain was that he was directly produced by Enki [Satan] and Ava [Eve], so his blood was three quarters Anunnaki. His half brothers Hevel and Satanael (better known as Abel and Seth) were less than half Anunnaki, being the offspring of Ateba and Ava (Adam and Eve)...
"We can now progress our story by considering the oldest Grant of Arms in sovereign history - the Grant of Arms which denoted the Messianic Dragon Bloodline for all time. The Sumerians referred to this insignia as the Gra-al... From biblical history, we know it better as the 'Mark of Cain'." (Laurence Gardner) - 612 (Part I)
"In times of battle, when the armies of different kingdoms were conjoined, an overall leader was chosen and he was called the 'Great Dragon' (the 'King of Kings') - or, as we better know the name in its old Celtic form, the 'Pendragon'...
"In pictorial representation, the Messianic Dragon was, in essence, a large-jawed serpent with four legs, very much like a crocodile or a monitor. This was the Sacred Messeh whose name was 'Draco.' Draco was a divine emblem of the Egyptian pharaohs, a symbol of the Egyptian Therapeutate, of the Essenes of Qumran, and was the Bistea Neptunis (the sea serpent) of the descendant Merovingian Fisher-Kings in Europe." (Laurence Gardner) - 612 (Part I)
"...Cymbeline was the 'Pendragon' of mainland Britain during Jesus's lifetime. The Pendragon, or 'Head Dragon of the Island'...was the King-of-Kings and 'Guardian of the Celtic Isle'. The title was not dynastic; Pendragons were appointed from Celtic royal stock by a Druidic council of elders...
"The concept of the dragon in Celtic mythology emerged directly from the holy crocodile (the Messeh) of the ancient Egyptians. The Pharaohs were anointed with crocodile fat, and thereby attained the fortitude of the Messeh (Thus Messiah -- Anointed One). The image of the intrepid Messeh evolved to become the Dragon, which in turn became emblematic of mighty kingship.
"The Celtic Kings in Britain were called 'dragons' in the ancient Messeh tradition as intrepid guardians. But there were many separate kingdoms in those days before England gained an overall monarch in Saxon times. It was therefore necessary to appoint a King-of-Kings -- a High King to preside overall, and to lead combined armies from different tribal areas. The first Pendragon (Head Dragon/High King) was Cymbeline." - 29:183
"...Columba...in 574, had crowned and anointed King Aedan mac Gabran of Dalriada (Celtic Pendragon and father of King Arthur) - the first British monarch to be installed by priestly ordination - and this greatly upset the Church of Rome." - 92:30
"In 666, probably still in Ireland, Dagobert married Mathilde, a Celtic princess." - 31:247
"The Merovingian kings were noted sorcerers in the manner of the Samaritan Magi..." - 29:171
"There was a very great 'Jewish' component among the Sicambrian Franks/Merovingians and, because they practiced polygamy (another Merovingian peculiarity) they left a great number of offspring. These aristocratic Merovingian children married into almost all of the noble families of Europe during the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries. This has prompted more than one historian to suggest that the foundation of European nobility is Jewish!" - 261:180
"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today -- with numerous collateral branches -- who are of Merovingian lineage. These include the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine... Plantard, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesque, and various others. According to the 'Prieuré documents' the Sinclair family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline, as are various branches of the Stuarts... In many of its documents the Sion asserts that the new king, in accordance with Merovingian tradition, would 'rule but not govern'. In other words he would be a priest-king who functions primarily in a ritual and symbolic capacity; and the actual business of governing would be handled by someone else -- conceivably by the Prieuré de Sion." - 31:409-10
"According to the Dragon tradition, the importance of Cain was that he was directly produced by Enki [Satan] and Ava [Eve], so his blood was three quarters Anunnaki. His half brothers Hevel and Satanael (better known as Abel and Seth) were less than half Anunnaki, being the offspring of Ateba and Ava (Adam and Eve)...
"We can now progress our story by considering the oldest Grant of Arms in sovereign history - the Grant of Arms which denoted the Messianic Dragon Bloodline for all time. The Sumerians referred to this insignia as the Gra-al... From biblical history, we know it better as the 'Mark of Cain'." (Laurence Gardner) - 612 (Part I)
- The Dragon King was known as the King of Kings and his symbol, Draco, represented his succession through the Egyptian pharaohs, the Egyptian Therapeutae, the Qumran Essenes to the Merovingian kings of Europe.
"In times of battle, when the armies of different kingdoms were conjoined, an overall leader was chosen and he was called the 'Great Dragon' (the 'King of Kings') - or, as we better know the name in its old Celtic form, the 'Pendragon'...
"In pictorial representation, the Messianic Dragon was, in essence, a large-jawed serpent with four legs, very much like a crocodile or a monitor. This was the Sacred Messeh whose name was 'Draco.' Draco was a divine emblem of the Egyptian pharaohs, a symbol of the Egyptian Therapeutate, of the Essenes of Qumran, and was the Bistea Neptunis (the sea serpent) of the descendant Merovingian Fisher-Kings in Europe." (Laurence Gardner) - 612 (Part I)
- The Druidic Dragon King or Pendragon, also called the King of Kings, was chosen by a Council of Elders to rule over all the kingdoms.
"...Cymbeline was the 'Pendragon' of mainland Britain during Jesus's lifetime. The Pendragon, or 'Head Dragon of the Island'...was the King-of-Kings and 'Guardian of the Celtic Isle'. The title was not dynastic; Pendragons were appointed from Celtic royal stock by a Druidic council of elders...
"The concept of the dragon in Celtic mythology emerged directly from the holy crocodile (the Messeh) of the ancient Egyptians. The Pharaohs were anointed with crocodile fat, and thereby attained the fortitude of the Messeh (Thus Messiah -- Anointed One). The image of the intrepid Messeh evolved to become the Dragon, which in turn became emblematic of mighty kingship.
"The Celtic Kings in Britain were called 'dragons' in the ancient Messeh tradition as intrepid guardians. But there were many separate kingdoms in those days before England gained an overall monarch in Saxon times. It was therefore necessary to appoint a King-of-Kings -- a High King to preside overall, and to lead combined armies from different tribal areas. The first Pendragon (Head Dragon/High King) was Cymbeline." - 29:183
"...Columba...in 574, had crowned and anointed King Aedan mac Gabran of Dalriada (Celtic Pendragon and father of King Arthur) - the first British monarch to be installed by priestly ordination - and this greatly upset the Church of Rome." - 92:30
- The Druidic Pendragon was passed on to the Merovingian kings in 666 A.D.
"In 666, probably still in Ireland, Dagobert married Mathilde, a Celtic princess." - 31:247
"The Merovingian kings were noted sorcerers in the manner of the Samaritan Magi..." - 29:171
"There was a very great 'Jewish' component among the Sicambrian Franks/Merovingians and, because they practiced polygamy (another Merovingian peculiarity) they left a great number of offspring. These aristocratic Merovingian children married into almost all of the noble families of Europe during the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries. This has prompted more than one historian to suggest that the foundation of European nobility is Jewish!" - 261:180
"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today -- with numerous collateral branches -- who are of Merovingian lineage. These include the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine... Plantard, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesque, and various others. According to the 'Prieuré documents' the Sinclair family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline, as are various branches of the Stuarts... In many of its documents the Sion asserts that the new king, in accordance with Merovingian tradition, would 'rule but not govern'. In other words he would be a priest-king who functions primarily in a ritual and symbolic capacity; and the actual business of governing would be handled by someone else -- conceivably by the Prieuré de Sion." - 31:409-10
Melusine Descent
In 719 Charles Martel defeated Rainfroi de VER, Duke of Anjou and Mayor of the Palace of Neustrie.
This victory brought back together key houses of the Franks under one rule and is considered an important date in European history. Rainfroi de VER (also known as Raymond) was married to another legendary character, Melusine.
Melusine de VER has also been known as Melusina, Melouziana de Scythes, Maelasanu, and The Dragon Princess. She entered literary history in the book Roman de Melusine written in 1393 by Jean d'Arras. The story is a mix of fiction and fact, commissioned by the Duke de Berry, a French noble who was brother to King Charles V, and uncle of King Charles VI. It was meant to be a family history and to uphold the proprietary claims to Lusignan and Anjou.
In this story Melusine's mother was a Presine fairy who charmed Elinas, the king of Scotland. The result was their daughter Melusine. Half fairy and half princess, Melusine wandered over to the Continent and eventually met up with Rainfroi/Raymond in the forests Anjou. They met while he was out boar hunting. Overcome with her beauty, he took her hand in marriage, and many adventures ensued. As a result of this book, Melusine was subsequently featured in medieval tales across Europe, variously depicted as a mermaid, a water sprite, a fairy queen, a fairy princess, a dragon princess, and a forest nymph. She came to represent any magial creature who marries a mortal man. Most royal houses in Europe have claimed lineage to the real Melusine, so she has been the subject of great speculation. Legends about Melusine and Rainfroi (or Raymond) also often have a connection to boars and boar hunting.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne and Berta. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks, is the ancestor of every existing and former ruling house or dynasty in Europe. His sister Berta was joined in marriage to the son of Rainfroi de VER, Milo de VER in 800 AD, the same year her brother was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
Milo de Ver was the Duke of Anjou, Count of Angleria, and Duke Leader of Charlemagne's house. Milo and Berta had two sons, one being Roland (legendary Paladin for whom "Song of Roland" was written) and Milo de VER II. The de Ver line passed from Milo II through a succesion of Earls of Genney: Milo II 's son Nicasius de VER was father to Otho de VER, father to Amelius de VER, father to Gallus de VER, father to Mansses de VER, father to Alphonso de VERE (Alphonsus) . Alphonsus de VERE, Earl of Genney, was "Councilor to Edward the Confessor" King Edward III of England, who had both Norman and Flemish advisors. Alphonsus de VERE had a son Alberic de VERE, also known as Aubrey I. NOTE: Aubrey comes from the Teutonic name Alberic, or "elf-ruler."
Born sometime before 1040, Alberic de VERE (Aubrey I) came to England with William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066, was one of King William's most favoured knights, and after the battle of Hastings, Alberic held land and lordships in many counties, including Middlesex where he owned Kensington and Earls Court. His wife was Beatrix, daughter of Henry Castellan, of Baurbough (some accounts say she was William the Conqueror's sister) by whom he had a daughter and five sons, Alberci (Aubrey de VERE II), Geffery, Roger, Robert an William. He used the motto,"Albri Comes" which which has been interpreted "Albery of truth cometh." He was alternately known as Alberic (Latin), Aubrey, Aberica Senior, Albri, Albertic, Albery, Aubri, Albury, and Alphonsus (in Greek). This Aubrey I, took the habit of a monk; and was buried in the church of Colne priory, which he had founded.
Alberic de VERE the Second (Aubrey II), born in 1062 and also known as "Ablecricus, Junior," was successor to his father and became so much in favor with King Henry I. that he was not only made great "Chamberlain of England" but also "Justiciar of England" or Justice of All England. Aubrey II built a huge castle at Hedingham c.1140 using the Archbishop of Canterbury as his architect. On May 15 in 1141, he was killed in London in a riot and buried in Colne Priory.
Alberic de VERE the Third (Aubrey III), born circa 1110, succeeded his father. During this time there was much turmoil in England, including a conflict between the Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and King Stephen. It was really a fight between Normans and Flemings for the English throne. Since Stephen's wife was the Flemish Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, those Flemings already in England naturally flocked to her side. Aubrey III with ties to both the Flemings and the Normans, seemed to have played both sides. Empress Matilda (Maude) frequently came to Hedingham Castle as a visitor and guest of de Vere, and it was here that she was cornered by King Stephen, escaping out of the castle by a rope. The other Matilda, Queen and wife of King Stephen, and Flemish, was another regular visitor to Hedingham, and she died there on the 3rd May 1152, and was later buriedat Faversham Abbey, Kent.
Eventually Aubrey III sided with the Norman Matilda/Maude and her son Henry II. Once Maude took control of the throne and became Empress, "in order to engage him to her interest" confirmed to Aubrey the office of great Chamberlain, all of his father's estates, along with other inheritances such as the earldom of Cambridge, Oxford, Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Doreseshire, which Maud's son, Henry II, confirmed this, constituting him Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford.
Here is where our story takes a twist.
Not everyone in the de VERE family supported the Normans. Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford had a son named Ralph de VERE (Ralph/Radulphus/Ralf/Baltredus) who defected to the Flemish side over succession in England and control of Brittany. He fled to Scotland in approximately 1165 and declared his allegiance to the Scottish Crown. Having opposed his father in these struggles, Ralph/Radulphus was disinherited. But he was subsequently rewarded with lands in Scotland.
Back in England, upon the death of Aubrey de VERE 1st Earl of Oxford in 1194, the title of 2nd Earl of Oxford passed to Ralph's older brother Aubrey IV. Having died childless, the title passed to Ralph's younger brother Robert de VERE, who now became the 3rd Earl of Oxford. As Ralph de VERE was the second son, the title of 3rd Earl of Oxford should have passed to him, but because of the disinheritance, the title passed to Robert, the 3rd son.
When Ralph fled to Scotland in approximately 1165, he went with his liege, Conan IV Duke of Brittany. Conan IV besides being Duke of Brittany, laid claim to the throne of England as a great-grandson of King Henry I and grandson of Empress Maude. Henry II of England gained control of Brittany, which resulted in Conan fleeing to Scotland. Conan IV married the sister of the King William I, The Lion of Scotland, and Ralph de Vere in return for his allegiance, was given lands in Lanarkshire. In the 12th century, a number of land grants in the lowlands were awarded to Flemish noble families by the Scottish throne.
Some confusion has arisen over the centuries about Ralph de VERE. His given name has been recorded as Ralph, Ralf, Radulph, Ralfredus, Radelphus, and Baltredus. His surname has been recorded as de Vere, de Veir, and de Weir.
Ralph was a witness to a charter of King William (born in 1143 and died 1214, reigned from 1165 to 1214.) Ralph was captured along with King William after beseiging the Castle of Alnwick in Northumbria in 1174. As Radulphus de Weir, he witnessed a Charter of King William, somewhere between 1174 and 1184, and as Radulph de Veir he gave a bovate of land in Sprowston, Roxburgh, to Kelso Abbey. As Radalphus de Vere he witnessed another Charter by King William to the Abbey of Lindores.
The Weirs of Blackwood in Lanarkshire, the principal WEIR family, claim descent from Ralph de Vere.
Ralph was succeeded by his eldest son Walter de VERE (born circa 1130) who was succeeded by Radulphus de VERE (also known as Ralph), born circa 1154. Radulphus died at end of Alexander II's reign (that being 1214 - 1249)
Thomas de VERE , son of Radulphus was born by 1246. In 1266 he was witness to a charter of a donation to Kelso Monastery by Hemicus St Clan. His son was Richardus de VERE (also recorded as Richard WERE) who was proprietor of the lands and the barony of Blackwood, circa 1296; the baron of Blackwood is often called the ancestor of all Weirs and Wiers of Scotland.
Thomas de VERE (also recorded as Wer/Were), son of Richardus, died in the reign of David Bruce, followed by Buan de VERE (also recorded as Were) born in the beginning of Robert III's reign. Buan's son was Rotaldus de VERE (also known as WERE of Blackwood) who had a charter for Blackwood 1398/1400 and was recorded as Bailie of Lesmahagow, followed by Thomas WERE (also recorded as Weir) of Blackwood, father of Robert VEYR (also recorded as Vere/Weir) of Blackwood who was born circa 1430 and died circa 1479.
His son was Thomas WEIR of Blackwood, (born circa 1460, died circa 1531), the first in this direct line at Blackwood to use the WEIR spelling consistently. From this time forward, all Scottish Veres would eventually come be known as Weirs. It is recorded that three of the maternal forebears of Thomas Weir included a Buchannan, a McFarlane, and a MacNaughton.
In 1532, Alan Lockhart, 9th Laird of Lee, was sentenced to the chopping block for the murder of a David WEIR and a Ralph WEIR, on separate occasions. His sentence was revoked, and he received 'remission' in 1541. The Weir family seems to have had a long running feud with the Lockharts, who were accused of many murders during this time but, never punished due to their rank. Alan's grandson, James Lockhart, 11th Laird of Lee was accused by Gideon WEIR, Notary of Lanark, of murdering a Lee estate tenant for stealing his sheep. James later married Isobel Weir of Stonebyres, which may have calmed the feud.
Weirs/Veres of Stonebyres and Archtyfardle and Mossmynemion were branches of the Weirs of Blackwood.� In the 1500s a century-old feud between the Weirs of Blackwood and their cousins the Veres of Stonebyres was supposedly ended when the Veres swore allegiance to Weir of Blackwood and acknowledged him as their chief. However contention continued, to a point where a James Weir of Stonebyres, changed the Stonebyres family name back to VERE in the 18th century.
Many with the name Weir may also have roots in the Highlands, where it derives from other sources, some being descendants of one of the several MacNair families who anglicised their name to Weir. The MacNairs of Lennox are considered septs of the MacFarlanes, but some MacNuyers (MacAndeoirs), who became septs of the Buchanans are known to have become Weirs. In Buchanan parish in Lennox, the name 'MacAmhaoir' was once known, but such has now been extinct for over 200 years - possibly superceded by Weir. Some Perthshire MacNairs, or MacAndeoirs, followed the MacNabs. The Argyllshire family of MacNuyer of Evan Glas ('Gray Hugh's race') settled on Lochgoilside, while of the MacNairs in Cowal, many are said to have become Weirs - these last allied with the MacNaughtons.
These Scottish Weirs traveled far and wide. Some went across to Ireland where they established roots, many in County Antrim. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries many Weirs emigrated from Scotland and Ireland to places like the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
There are Weirs with other roots, but most often they somehow tie back to the name VER.
Though having a long history in Scotland the Weirs, as we have seen, are not one of the original Highland Clans. But the family has close ties to 3 different clans. According to R. R. McIan's "The Clans of the Scottish Highlands" first published 1845, the Weirs were recognized then as a sept of both clan Buchannan and clan MacNaughton (Mac Nachtan) At some later date they were recognized as a sept of the MacFarlane clan. Since the Weirs had their own land, they became a sept by way of marriage and alliance.
Besides being septs of three different Highland clans, the Weirs are what is known as an Armigerous Family in Scotland, meaning they have the right to bear their own heraldic arms. Their heraldic arms have been registered by, and are recognized by the Lyon Court and the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. And the Weirs have their own tartan.
The Weir Tartan
The Scottish Weir motto remains the same as the English de VERE motto: "Vero nihil verius" also written as "Vero nil Verius." This can be translated as "Nothing truer than truth" or alternately "Truth nothing but the truth." And the Weir crest is based on the de VERE coat, with the blue boar. This may date all the way back to Rainfroi de VER.
Here is the listing on the Weirs from the "The Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia" in the section of The Armigerous Clans and Families of Scotland:
Weir of Blackwood
Arms : Argent, on a fess Azure, three mollets of the first
Crest: (As Oxford) Upon a chapeau Gules furred Ermine a boar standant Azure armed Or.
Motto: (As Oxford) 'Vero Nihil Verius'
There have been many other Weirs, Weir relatives, and references to Weirs in more recent history.
Robert Louis Stevenson was working on his book Weir of Hermiston when he died. It's a dramatic story about the strong-willed Scottish Lord of Hermiston, Adam Weir, and his son Archie, whom he sentences to death. The book is somewhat autobiographical for Stevenson, and a sort of history of Scotland. Many critics consider it Stevenson's masterpiece.
The most notorious member of the family was Major Thomas Weir (1599 - 1670) known as the "Bowheaded Saint". Born in Lanarkshire, he was a lieutenant in the army sent by the Covenanters to protect the Ulster colonies in 1641. Later he was a major in Lanark's Regiment and was appointed to command the City Guard of Edinburgh. Outwardly he portrayed himself as a religious man, but was secretly practitioner of witchcraft, and addicted to various crimes and deviations. He confessed at the age of 70 and was burned alive for witchcraft in 1670, while his siter was hanged.
The company Weir of Cathcart was born from a partnership between the Scottish brothers George WEIR and James WEIR in 1871. James was one of the foremost engineers of his day and some of his innovations are still fundamental to all modern steam plant practice. The company then grew from a small machine shop, foundry and smithy in what was then the country village of Cathcart,outside Glasgow into a company whose pumps became vital in the expanding shipbuilding market. In time the business moved into many new areas of engineering, including oil pipelines, system-built houses, autogyros and early helicopters, the first Brittish jet engine, racing cars, metal casting and other entreprises. The Weir Group is now a world-wide conglomerate and traded on the London Stock Exchange. In 2001 the Weir Group had net revenue of 728 Million Pounds.
James and George were also great-grandsons of the Scottish poet and hero Robert Burns, through their maternal grandmother.
William Douglas WEIR , son of James, rose to national prominence in Great Britain during World War I. He became head of the family engineering business some time between 1910 and 1912, but during the 'Great War' he attracted the attention of the government as a successful manager. He was appointed Controller of Aeronautical Supplies at the Ministry of Munitions in London. In 1918 he became Secretary of State for Air in Lloyd George�s cabinet and was responsible for combining the naval and army air services into the Royal Air Force. He was made a Knight in 1917, a Baron in 1918, and Viscount Weir of Eastwood in 1938.
In the United States, a distant cousin of mine, (he was my grandfather's second cousin) named Ernest WEIR became one of the greatest steel men in the world. The photo below is from the cover of Life magazine in 1937.
Ernest WEIR is a classic example of American enterprise. A son of immigrants with only an eighth- grade education, Ernest rose through the ranks of U.S. Steel Corporation, where he started as an office boy. In 1905, at age 28, he left his job as general manager of the Monessen tin plate mill near his hometown of Pittsburgh, and and bought a tin mill in Clarksburg, W.Va. with partner James Phillips. In 1909 in the name of Phillips Sheet and Tin Company, Ernest bought 105 acres in West Virginia on land that would become home to the steel company. By the end of the year, with ten mills operating on the site, a boomtown called Weirton began to grow up near the mills. By 1915, Weir was operating 50 hot mills in three locations and the second largest tin plate producer in the world. In 1919 Phillips Sheet and Tin changes its name to Weirton Steel Company. In 1929 Ernest merged Weirton Steel with Michigan Steel and M.A. Hanna Steel to form National Steel Corporation. National Steel was among the nation's largest steel producers. Ernest passed away in 1958, and later the company name reverted back to Weirton Steal. Now employee-owned it remains one of the largest steel companies in the United States.
painters Robert Walker Weir, and his sons John Ferguson Weir and Julian Alden Weir.
Robert Walker WEIR (1803-1889), American portrait and historical painter, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829, was teacher of drawing at the United States Military Academy at West Point 1834-1846, and professor of drawing at west Point 1846-1876. He died in New York City on the 1st of May 1889. Among his better-known works are: "The Embarkation of the Pilgrims" (in the rotunda of the United States Capitol at Washington, D.C.); "Landing of Hendrik Hudson", "Evening of the Crucifixion"; "Columbus before the Council of Salamanca "; "Our Lord on the Mount of Olives";" Virgil and Dante crossing the Styx," and several portraits, now at West Point, and "Peace and War" in the Chapel there. The painting above is "View From West Point" from 1863.
John Feruson WEIR (1841-1926) was a painter and sculptor, became a Member of the National Academy of Design in 1866, and was made director of the Yale University Art School in 1868. He was also an author, noted for his biography of John Trumbull. His paiting above is called "Japanese Iris - Six Varieties."
Julian Alden WEIR (1852-1919) was the youngest son out of sixteen children. Though a number of the siblings became painters, J. Alden is best known. He was one of the earliest American impressionist painters. Subtle gradations of light and tone characterize his work. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York before traveling to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1873. Returning to America he became a distinguished portrait, figure and landscape painter. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists in 1877, a member of the National Academy of Design, and a founder of the Ten American Painters group in New York. His works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Peabody Gallery of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The painting above is called "Alex Webb Weir."
J. Alden's country retreat, The Weir Farm in Wilton, Connecticut, is now National Historic site.
Some further notes on the name VERE:
The de Vere name has been recorded, with and without the use of "DE" or "de." This family has been recorded over the centuries with the following spellings: Ver, Vear, Veare, Veer, Vere, Veir, Vire, Weir, Wier, Wear, Were, Wyer, Spear, Speare, Spere, �vear, Fear, Fere and Revere.
Many famous Vere's can be found throughout English history. The owner of the Shakespearean Company and the Globe Theater, was the"Great" Lord Chamberlain of England, 17th Earl of Oxford, EO. Edward de Vere. There have been claims by academics that Edward was actually the author of the plays. One basis of this is that there are more than 300 references to "ver" in the plays, and the character of "Oberon" or "Auberon" in "Midsummer Night's Dream" is thought to be based on Aubrey de VERE - see above. Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) and Sir Horace Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury, known as "The Fighting Veres" who both distinguished themselves as military leaders and are buried at Westminster. And through their mother Diana Spencer (from the marriage in 1762 of Charles Spencer to Lady Mary Vere of St. Albans) the current heirs to the British throne, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis (born 1982) and Prince Henry Charles Albert David "Harry" (born 1984) are both descendants of the VERE line.
This victory brought back together key houses of the Franks under one rule and is considered an important date in European history. Rainfroi de VER (also known as Raymond) was married to another legendary character, Melusine.
Melusine de VER has also been known as Melusina, Melouziana de Scythes, Maelasanu, and The Dragon Princess. She entered literary history in the book Roman de Melusine written in 1393 by Jean d'Arras. The story is a mix of fiction and fact, commissioned by the Duke de Berry, a French noble who was brother to King Charles V, and uncle of King Charles VI. It was meant to be a family history and to uphold the proprietary claims to Lusignan and Anjou.
In this story Melusine's mother was a Presine fairy who charmed Elinas, the king of Scotland. The result was their daughter Melusine. Half fairy and half princess, Melusine wandered over to the Continent and eventually met up with Rainfroi/Raymond in the forests Anjou. They met while he was out boar hunting. Overcome with her beauty, he took her hand in marriage, and many adventures ensued. As a result of this book, Melusine was subsequently featured in medieval tales across Europe, variously depicted as a mermaid, a water sprite, a fairy queen, a fairy princess, a dragon princess, and a forest nymph. She came to represent any magial creature who marries a mortal man. Most royal houses in Europe have claimed lineage to the real Melusine, so she has been the subject of great speculation. Legends about Melusine and Rainfroi (or Raymond) also often have a connection to boars and boar hunting.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne and Berta. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks, is the ancestor of every existing and former ruling house or dynasty in Europe. His sister Berta was joined in marriage to the son of Rainfroi de VER, Milo de VER in 800 AD, the same year her brother was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
Milo de Ver was the Duke of Anjou, Count of Angleria, and Duke Leader of Charlemagne's house. Milo and Berta had two sons, one being Roland (legendary Paladin for whom "Song of Roland" was written) and Milo de VER II. The de Ver line passed from Milo II through a succesion of Earls of Genney: Milo II 's son Nicasius de VER was father to Otho de VER, father to Amelius de VER, father to Gallus de VER, father to Mansses de VER, father to Alphonso de VERE (Alphonsus) . Alphonsus de VERE, Earl of Genney, was "Councilor to Edward the Confessor" King Edward III of England, who had both Norman and Flemish advisors. Alphonsus de VERE had a son Alberic de VERE, also known as Aubrey I. NOTE: Aubrey comes from the Teutonic name Alberic, or "elf-ruler."
Born sometime before 1040, Alberic de VERE (Aubrey I) came to England with William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066, was one of King William's most favoured knights, and after the battle of Hastings, Alberic held land and lordships in many counties, including Middlesex where he owned Kensington and Earls Court. His wife was Beatrix, daughter of Henry Castellan, of Baurbough (some accounts say she was William the Conqueror's sister) by whom he had a daughter and five sons, Alberci (Aubrey de VERE II), Geffery, Roger, Robert an William. He used the motto,"Albri Comes" which which has been interpreted "Albery of truth cometh." He was alternately known as Alberic (Latin), Aubrey, Aberica Senior, Albri, Albertic, Albery, Aubri, Albury, and Alphonsus (in Greek). This Aubrey I, took the habit of a monk; and was buried in the church of Colne priory, which he had founded.
Alberic de VERE the Second (Aubrey II), born in 1062 and also known as "Ablecricus, Junior," was successor to his father and became so much in favor with King Henry I. that he was not only made great "Chamberlain of England" but also "Justiciar of England" or Justice of All England. Aubrey II built a huge castle at Hedingham c.1140 using the Archbishop of Canterbury as his architect. On May 15 in 1141, he was killed in London in a riot and buried in Colne Priory.
Alberic de VERE the Third (Aubrey III), born circa 1110, succeeded his father. During this time there was much turmoil in England, including a conflict between the Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and King Stephen. It was really a fight between Normans and Flemings for the English throne. Since Stephen's wife was the Flemish Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, those Flemings already in England naturally flocked to her side. Aubrey III with ties to both the Flemings and the Normans, seemed to have played both sides. Empress Matilda (Maude) frequently came to Hedingham Castle as a visitor and guest of de Vere, and it was here that she was cornered by King Stephen, escaping out of the castle by a rope. The other Matilda, Queen and wife of King Stephen, and Flemish, was another regular visitor to Hedingham, and she died there on the 3rd May 1152, and was later buriedat Faversham Abbey, Kent.
Eventually Aubrey III sided with the Norman Matilda/Maude and her son Henry II. Once Maude took control of the throne and became Empress, "in order to engage him to her interest" confirmed to Aubrey the office of great Chamberlain, all of his father's estates, along with other inheritances such as the earldom of Cambridge, Oxford, Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Doreseshire, which Maud's son, Henry II, confirmed this, constituting him Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford.
Here is where our story takes a twist.
Not everyone in the de VERE family supported the Normans. Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford had a son named Ralph de VERE (Ralph/Radulphus/Ralf/Baltredus) who defected to the Flemish side over succession in England and control of Brittany. He fled to Scotland in approximately 1165 and declared his allegiance to the Scottish Crown. Having opposed his father in these struggles, Ralph/Radulphus was disinherited. But he was subsequently rewarded with lands in Scotland.
Back in England, upon the death of Aubrey de VERE 1st Earl of Oxford in 1194, the title of 2nd Earl of Oxford passed to Ralph's older brother Aubrey IV. Having died childless, the title passed to Ralph's younger brother Robert de VERE, who now became the 3rd Earl of Oxford. As Ralph de VERE was the second son, the title of 3rd Earl of Oxford should have passed to him, but because of the disinheritance, the title passed to Robert, the 3rd son.
When Ralph fled to Scotland in approximately 1165, he went with his liege, Conan IV Duke of Brittany. Conan IV besides being Duke of Brittany, laid claim to the throne of England as a great-grandson of King Henry I and grandson of Empress Maude. Henry II of England gained control of Brittany, which resulted in Conan fleeing to Scotland. Conan IV married the sister of the King William I, The Lion of Scotland, and Ralph de Vere in return for his allegiance, was given lands in Lanarkshire. In the 12th century, a number of land grants in the lowlands were awarded to Flemish noble families by the Scottish throne.
Some confusion has arisen over the centuries about Ralph de VERE. His given name has been recorded as Ralph, Ralf, Radulph, Ralfredus, Radelphus, and Baltredus. His surname has been recorded as de Vere, de Veir, and de Weir.
Ralph was a witness to a charter of King William (born in 1143 and died 1214, reigned from 1165 to 1214.) Ralph was captured along with King William after beseiging the Castle of Alnwick in Northumbria in 1174. As Radulphus de Weir, he witnessed a Charter of King William, somewhere between 1174 and 1184, and as Radulph de Veir he gave a bovate of land in Sprowston, Roxburgh, to Kelso Abbey. As Radalphus de Vere he witnessed another Charter by King William to the Abbey of Lindores.
The Weirs of Blackwood in Lanarkshire, the principal WEIR family, claim descent from Ralph de Vere.
Ralph was succeeded by his eldest son Walter de VERE (born circa 1130) who was succeeded by Radulphus de VERE (also known as Ralph), born circa 1154. Radulphus died at end of Alexander II's reign (that being 1214 - 1249)
Thomas de VERE , son of Radulphus was born by 1246. In 1266 he was witness to a charter of a donation to Kelso Monastery by Hemicus St Clan. His son was Richardus de VERE (also recorded as Richard WERE) who was proprietor of the lands and the barony of Blackwood, circa 1296; the baron of Blackwood is often called the ancestor of all Weirs and Wiers of Scotland.
Thomas de VERE (also recorded as Wer/Were), son of Richardus, died in the reign of David Bruce, followed by Buan de VERE (also recorded as Were) born in the beginning of Robert III's reign. Buan's son was Rotaldus de VERE (also known as WERE of Blackwood) who had a charter for Blackwood 1398/1400 and was recorded as Bailie of Lesmahagow, followed by Thomas WERE (also recorded as Weir) of Blackwood, father of Robert VEYR (also recorded as Vere/Weir) of Blackwood who was born circa 1430 and died circa 1479.
His son was Thomas WEIR of Blackwood, (born circa 1460, died circa 1531), the first in this direct line at Blackwood to use the WEIR spelling consistently. From this time forward, all Scottish Veres would eventually come be known as Weirs. It is recorded that three of the maternal forebears of Thomas Weir included a Buchannan, a McFarlane, and a MacNaughton.
In 1532, Alan Lockhart, 9th Laird of Lee, was sentenced to the chopping block for the murder of a David WEIR and a Ralph WEIR, on separate occasions. His sentence was revoked, and he received 'remission' in 1541. The Weir family seems to have had a long running feud with the Lockharts, who were accused of many murders during this time but, never punished due to their rank. Alan's grandson, James Lockhart, 11th Laird of Lee was accused by Gideon WEIR, Notary of Lanark, of murdering a Lee estate tenant for stealing his sheep. James later married Isobel Weir of Stonebyres, which may have calmed the feud.
Weirs/Veres of Stonebyres and Archtyfardle and Mossmynemion were branches of the Weirs of Blackwood.� In the 1500s a century-old feud between the Weirs of Blackwood and their cousins the Veres of Stonebyres was supposedly ended when the Veres swore allegiance to Weir of Blackwood and acknowledged him as their chief. However contention continued, to a point where a James Weir of Stonebyres, changed the Stonebyres family name back to VERE in the 18th century.
Many with the name Weir may also have roots in the Highlands, where it derives from other sources, some being descendants of one of the several MacNair families who anglicised their name to Weir. The MacNairs of Lennox are considered septs of the MacFarlanes, but some MacNuyers (MacAndeoirs), who became septs of the Buchanans are known to have become Weirs. In Buchanan parish in Lennox, the name 'MacAmhaoir' was once known, but such has now been extinct for over 200 years - possibly superceded by Weir. Some Perthshire MacNairs, or MacAndeoirs, followed the MacNabs. The Argyllshire family of MacNuyer of Evan Glas ('Gray Hugh's race') settled on Lochgoilside, while of the MacNairs in Cowal, many are said to have become Weirs - these last allied with the MacNaughtons.
These Scottish Weirs traveled far and wide. Some went across to Ireland where they established roots, many in County Antrim. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries many Weirs emigrated from Scotland and Ireland to places like the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
There are Weirs with other roots, but most often they somehow tie back to the name VER.
Though having a long history in Scotland the Weirs, as we have seen, are not one of the original Highland Clans. But the family has close ties to 3 different clans. According to R. R. McIan's "The Clans of the Scottish Highlands" first published 1845, the Weirs were recognized then as a sept of both clan Buchannan and clan MacNaughton (Mac Nachtan) At some later date they were recognized as a sept of the MacFarlane clan. Since the Weirs had their own land, they became a sept by way of marriage and alliance.
Besides being septs of three different Highland clans, the Weirs are what is known as an Armigerous Family in Scotland, meaning they have the right to bear their own heraldic arms. Their heraldic arms have been registered by, and are recognized by the Lyon Court and the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. And the Weirs have their own tartan.
The Weir Tartan
The Scottish Weir motto remains the same as the English de VERE motto: "Vero nihil verius" also written as "Vero nil Verius." This can be translated as "Nothing truer than truth" or alternately "Truth nothing but the truth." And the Weir crest is based on the de VERE coat, with the blue boar. This may date all the way back to Rainfroi de VER.
Here is the listing on the Weirs from the "The Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia" in the section of The Armigerous Clans and Families of Scotland:
Weir of Blackwood
Arms : Argent, on a fess Azure, three mollets of the first
Crest: (As Oxford) Upon a chapeau Gules furred Ermine a boar standant Azure armed Or.
Motto: (As Oxford) 'Vero Nihil Verius'
There have been many other Weirs, Weir relatives, and references to Weirs in more recent history.
Robert Louis Stevenson was working on his book Weir of Hermiston when he died. It's a dramatic story about the strong-willed Scottish Lord of Hermiston, Adam Weir, and his son Archie, whom he sentences to death. The book is somewhat autobiographical for Stevenson, and a sort of history of Scotland. Many critics consider it Stevenson's masterpiece.
The most notorious member of the family was Major Thomas Weir (1599 - 1670) known as the "Bowheaded Saint". Born in Lanarkshire, he was a lieutenant in the army sent by the Covenanters to protect the Ulster colonies in 1641. Later he was a major in Lanark's Regiment and was appointed to command the City Guard of Edinburgh. Outwardly he portrayed himself as a religious man, but was secretly practitioner of witchcraft, and addicted to various crimes and deviations. He confessed at the age of 70 and was burned alive for witchcraft in 1670, while his siter was hanged.
The company Weir of Cathcart was born from a partnership between the Scottish brothers George WEIR and James WEIR in 1871. James was one of the foremost engineers of his day and some of his innovations are still fundamental to all modern steam plant practice. The company then grew from a small machine shop, foundry and smithy in what was then the country village of Cathcart,outside Glasgow into a company whose pumps became vital in the expanding shipbuilding market. In time the business moved into many new areas of engineering, including oil pipelines, system-built houses, autogyros and early helicopters, the first Brittish jet engine, racing cars, metal casting and other entreprises. The Weir Group is now a world-wide conglomerate and traded on the London Stock Exchange. In 2001 the Weir Group had net revenue of 728 Million Pounds.
James and George were also great-grandsons of the Scottish poet and hero Robert Burns, through their maternal grandmother.
William Douglas WEIR , son of James, rose to national prominence in Great Britain during World War I. He became head of the family engineering business some time between 1910 and 1912, but during the 'Great War' he attracted the attention of the government as a successful manager. He was appointed Controller of Aeronautical Supplies at the Ministry of Munitions in London. In 1918 he became Secretary of State for Air in Lloyd George�s cabinet and was responsible for combining the naval and army air services into the Royal Air Force. He was made a Knight in 1917, a Baron in 1918, and Viscount Weir of Eastwood in 1938.
In the United States, a distant cousin of mine, (he was my grandfather's second cousin) named Ernest WEIR became one of the greatest steel men in the world. The photo below is from the cover of Life magazine in 1937.
Ernest WEIR is a classic example of American enterprise. A son of immigrants with only an eighth- grade education, Ernest rose through the ranks of U.S. Steel Corporation, where he started as an office boy. In 1905, at age 28, he left his job as general manager of the Monessen tin plate mill near his hometown of Pittsburgh, and and bought a tin mill in Clarksburg, W.Va. with partner James Phillips. In 1909 in the name of Phillips Sheet and Tin Company, Ernest bought 105 acres in West Virginia on land that would become home to the steel company. By the end of the year, with ten mills operating on the site, a boomtown called Weirton began to grow up near the mills. By 1915, Weir was operating 50 hot mills in three locations and the second largest tin plate producer in the world. In 1919 Phillips Sheet and Tin changes its name to Weirton Steel Company. In 1929 Ernest merged Weirton Steel with Michigan Steel and M.A. Hanna Steel to form National Steel Corporation. National Steel was among the nation's largest steel producers. Ernest passed away in 1958, and later the company name reverted back to Weirton Steal. Now employee-owned it remains one of the largest steel companies in the United States.
painters Robert Walker Weir, and his sons John Ferguson Weir and Julian Alden Weir.
Robert Walker WEIR (1803-1889), American portrait and historical painter, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829, was teacher of drawing at the United States Military Academy at West Point 1834-1846, and professor of drawing at west Point 1846-1876. He died in New York City on the 1st of May 1889. Among his better-known works are: "The Embarkation of the Pilgrims" (in the rotunda of the United States Capitol at Washington, D.C.); "Landing of Hendrik Hudson", "Evening of the Crucifixion"; "Columbus before the Council of Salamanca "; "Our Lord on the Mount of Olives";" Virgil and Dante crossing the Styx," and several portraits, now at West Point, and "Peace and War" in the Chapel there. The painting above is "View From West Point" from 1863.
John Feruson WEIR (1841-1926) was a painter and sculptor, became a Member of the National Academy of Design in 1866, and was made director of the Yale University Art School in 1868. He was also an author, noted for his biography of John Trumbull. His paiting above is called "Japanese Iris - Six Varieties."
Julian Alden WEIR (1852-1919) was the youngest son out of sixteen children. Though a number of the siblings became painters, J. Alden is best known. He was one of the earliest American impressionist painters. Subtle gradations of light and tone characterize his work. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York before traveling to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1873. Returning to America he became a distinguished portrait, figure and landscape painter. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists in 1877, a member of the National Academy of Design, and a founder of the Ten American Painters group in New York. His works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Peabody Gallery of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The painting above is called "Alex Webb Weir."
J. Alden's country retreat, The Weir Farm in Wilton, Connecticut, is now National Historic site.
Some further notes on the name VERE:
The de Vere name has been recorded, with and without the use of "DE" or "de." This family has been recorded over the centuries with the following spellings: Ver, Vear, Veare, Veer, Vere, Veir, Vire, Weir, Wier, Wear, Were, Wyer, Spear, Speare, Spere, �vear, Fear, Fere and Revere.
Many famous Vere's can be found throughout English history. The owner of the Shakespearean Company and the Globe Theater, was the"Great" Lord Chamberlain of England, 17th Earl of Oxford, EO. Edward de Vere. There have been claims by academics that Edward was actually the author of the plays. One basis of this is that there are more than 300 references to "ver" in the plays, and the character of "Oberon" or "Auberon" in "Midsummer Night's Dream" is thought to be based on Aubrey de VERE - see above. Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) and Sir Horace Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury, known as "The Fighting Veres" who both distinguished themselves as military leaders and are buried at Westminster. And through their mother Diana Spencer (from the marriage in 1762 of Charles Spencer to Lady Mary Vere of St. Albans) the current heirs to the British throne, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis (born 1982) and Prince Henry Charles Albert David "Harry" (born 1984) are both descendants of the VERE line.
Note: The character of "Oberon" or "Auberon" in "Midsummer Night's Dream" is thought to be based on Aubrey de Vere is completely wrong. Oberon/Auberon is based on Albéric "l'Enchanteur"/"The Enchanter" of Moselle, who was the son of Clodion le Chevelu, of Tournai and Queen Basina of the Thuringians, thus making him the brother of Mérovech. Albéric was married to Argotta of the Ostrogoths and they had children whose descendants are still going strong to this day. There is a family legend that some type treasure was bequeathed by Chlodio and Basina to Albéric, which might well have possessed some very mysterious and intriguing properties and thus made Albéric a target for the Church's henchmen. Much of this is oral tradition passed down, but there are several surviving documents. I hope this helps clear up some of the confusion. Kind Regards, --Charles Adrien Léolin von Limburg Stirum
Merovingian Mythos by Tracy Twyman
Thee Merovingian Mythos: And Its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantis
Oct 20, 2004
Author: Tracy R. Twyman
The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came, have been romantically mythologized in the annals of both local legend and modern mystical pseudo-history, but few have understood the true meaning and origins of their alluring mystery. The mystique that surrounds them includes attributions of saintliness, magical powers (derived from their long hair), and even divine origin, because of their supposed descent from the one and only Jesus Christ. However, the importance of the divine ancestry of the Merovingians, and the antiquity from whence it comes, has never to this author’s knowledge been fully explored by any writer or historian. However, I have uncovered mountains of evidence which indicates that the origins of the Merovingian race, and the mystery that surrounds them, lies ultimately with a race of beings, “Nephilim” or fallen angels, who created mankind as we know it today. It also originated with a civilization, far more ancient than recorded history, from which came all of the major arts and sciences that are basic to civilizations everywhere. As I intend to show, all of the myths and symbolism that are associated with this dynasty can, in fact, be traced back to this earlier civilization. It is known, in some cultures, as Atlantis, although there are many names for it, and it is the birthplace of agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, navigation, architecture, language, writing, and religion. It was also the source of the first government on Earth - monarchy. And the first kings on Earth were the gods.
Their race was known by various names. In Assyria, the Annodoti. In Sumeria, the Annunaki. In Druidic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. In Judeo-Christian scriptures, they are called the Nephilim, “the Sons of God”, or the Watchers. They are described as having attachments such as wings, horns, and even fish scales, but from the depictions it is clear that these are costumes worn for their symbolic value, for these symbols indicated divine power and royal blood. The gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws of succession similar to our own, and they built a global empire upon the Earth, with great cities, temples, monuments, and mighty nations established on several continents. Man was separate from the gods, like a domesticated animal, and there was a great cultural taboo amongst the gods against sharing any of their sacred information with humanity, even things such as writing and mathematics. These gods ruled directly over Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, and their rule is recorded in the histories of all three civilizations.
This global monarchy was the crowning glory of the ages, and the period of their rule came to be called “the Golden Age”, or as the Egyptians called it, “the First Time”, when the gods watched over man directly, like a shepherd does his flock. In fact, they were often called “the Shepherd Kings.” One of the symbols of this world monarchy was an eye hovering over a throne, and this eye now adorns our American dollar bill, presented as the missing capstone of the Great Pyramid of Giza, underneath which are written the words “New World Order.” Clearly this New World Order is the global monarchy that or Founding Fathers (not a Democrat among them) intended for this nation to participate in all along, symbolized by a pyramid as a representation of the ideal and perfectly ordered authoritarian empire. During the Golden Age of the gods, a new king’s ascendance to the global throne would be celebrated by the sacrifice of a horse, an animal sacred to Poseidon, one of the Atlantean god-kings and Lord of the Seas.(1) In fact there is an amusing story about how King Sargon’s rebellious son Sagara tried to prevent his father’s assumption to the world throne from being solidified by stealing his sacrificial horse. The horse was not recovered until years later, and Sagara, along with the “sons of Sagara”, i.e., those members of his family who had assisted him, were forced to dig their own mass grave. This grave was oddly called “the Ocean.”
It was a rebellion such as this that led to the downfall of the entire glorious empire. At some point, it is told, some of the gods broke rank. This is again recorded in just about every culture on Earth that has a written history or oral tradition. Some of the gods, finding human females most appealing, intermarried with them, breaking a major taboo within their own culture, and creating a race of human/god hybrids. Some of these offspring are described as taking the form of giants, dragons, and sea monsters, while others are said to have borne a normal human countenance, with the exception of their shimmering white skin and their extremely long life spans. This is the bloodline that brought us Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David, Jesus Christ, and many others - in other words, the “Grail bloodline.” Legend has it that these beings taught mankind their secrets, including the above-mentioned arts of civilization, as well as a secret spiritual doctrine that only certain elect humans (their blood descendants) would be allowed to possess. They created ritualistic mystery schools and secret societies to pass this doctrine down through the generations.
However, these actions (the interbreeding with and sharing of secrets with humans) incurred the wrath of the Most High God, and a number of other gods who were disgusted by this interracial breeding. This sparked the massive and devastating battle of the gods that has come down to us in the legend of the “war in Heaven.” Then, in order to cleanse the Earth’s surface of the curse of humanity, they covered it with a flood. Interestingly, this flood is mentioned in the legends of almost every ancient culture on Earth, and the cause is always the same. Often the waters are described as having come from inside the Earth. “The Fountains of the deep were opened”, it is said. “Suddenly enormous volumes of water issued from the Earth.” Water was “projected from the mountain like a water spout.” The Earth began to rumble, and Atlantis, fair nation of the gods, sunk beneath the salty green waves. As we shall see, this is analogous to part of the “war in Heaven” story when the “rebellious” angels or gods were punished by being cast down “into the bowels of the Earth” - a very significant location.
To be certain, some of the Atlanteans managed to survive, and many books have been written about the Atlantean origin of the Egyptian, Sumerian, Indo-Aryan, and native South American civilizations (bringing into question the validity of the term “Native American”). Little, however, has been written about those who escaped into Western Europe, except for a passing reference in Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, in which we writes:
“The Gauls [meaning the French] possessed traditions upon the subject of Atlantis which were collected by the Roman historian Timagenes, who lived in the first century before Christ. He represents that three distinct people dwelt in Gaul: 1. The indigenous population, which I suppose to be Mongoloids, who had long dwelt in Europe; 2. the invaders from a distant land, which I understand to be Atlantis; 3. The Aryan Gaul.”
That the Merovingian bloodline came from elsewhere is clear because of the legend that surrounds their founder, King Meroveus, who is said to have been the spawn of a “Quinotaur” (a sea monster), who raped his mother when she went out to swim in the ocean. Now it becomes obvious why he is called “Meroveus”, because in French, the word “mer” means sea. And in some traditions, Atlantis was called Meru, or Maru.(2) For these gods, navigation above all was important to them, for it was their sea power that maintained their military might and their successful mercantile trade.(3) The Atlanteans were associated with the sea and were often depicted as mermen, or sea monsters, with scales, fins, and horns. They were variously associated with a number of important animals, whose symbolism they held sacred: horses, bulls, goats, rams, lions, fish, serpents, dragons, even cats and dogs. All of these things relate back to the sea imagery with which these gods were associated.
Now lets go back to the Quinotaur, which some have named as being synonymous with Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea and, according to Plato, one of the famous kings of Atlantis. Others have seen it as being emblematic of the fish symbol that Christ is associated with, thus indicating that he was in fact the origin of the Merovingian bloodline. However, the roots of this Quinotaur myth are far more ancient. The word itself can be broken down etymologically to reveal its meaning. The last syllable, “taur”, means “bull.” The first syllable “Quin”, or “Kin”, comes from the same root as “king”, as well as the Biblical name of Cain, whom many have named as the primordial father of the Grail family.(4) The idea of the “King of the World” taking the form of a sea-bull was a recurring them in many ancient cultures, most notably in ancient Mesopotamia. In fact it originated with that dynasty of kings who reigned over the antediluvian world and who were all associated with the sea, as well as this divine animal imagery. These kings included Sargon, Menes, and Narmar. Their historical reality morphed into the legends we have in many cultures of gods said to have come out of the sea at various times and to teach mankind the basic arts of civilization. They were known by various names, such as Enki, Dagon, Oannes, or Marduk (Merodach). They were depicted as half-man and half-fish, half-goat and half-fish, or half-bull and half-fish, but as I have said, in many of these depictions it is clear that this affect was achieved merely by the wearing of costumes, and that these god-kings were using this archetypal imagery to deify themselves in the minds of their subjects.
Dagon was depicted with a fish on his head, the lips protruding upward, making what were referred to as “horns.” This may be the origin for the custom (common in the ancient world) of affixing horns to the crown of a king. It has also been historically acknowledged as the origin of the miter worn by the Catholic Pope.(5) The Christian Church has always been associated with fish. Christ himself took on that imagery, as did John the Baptist, and the early Christians used the fish sign of the “Ichthys” to designate themselves. From the name “Oannes” we get the words “Uranus” and “Ouranos”, but also supposedly “Jonah”, “Janus”, and “John.” Perhaps we finally now understand why the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion assume the symbolic name of “John” upon taking office.
The syllable “dag” merely means “fish”, which makes it interesting to note that the Dogon tribe of Africa, who have long baffled astronomers with their advanced knowledge of the faraway star-system from which they say their gods came, claim that these gods were “fish-men.” We may wonder if the words “dag” and “dog” are not etymologically related, especially since the star from whence these fish-men supposedly came is named Sirius, “the Dog Star.” From Dagon comes our word “dragon”, as well as the biblical figure of Leviathan, “the Lord of the Deep”, a title also applied to Dagon. In fact, many of these Atlantean god-kings received the titles “the Lord of the Waters”, “The Lord of the Deep”, or “the Lord of the Abyss”, which appear to have been passed down from father to son, along with the throne of the global kingdom. These kings were specifically associated with the Flood of Noah, which, as I have mentioned, destroyed their global kingdom, and was somehow linked to their disastrous breeding experiment with the human race that lead to the “Grail bloodline.” For this they were consigned to the “Abyss” or the underworld, which is why these gods were known as the lords of both.
In addition, Enki was known as the “Lord of the Earth”, and it is because of this “amphibious” nature of their progenitor, who reigned over both land and sea, that the Merovingians are associated with frogs. But this “Lord of the Earth” title is significant, for this is a title also given to Satan. It has been acknowledged elsewhere that Enki, as the “fish-goat man”, is the prototype for the Zodiac sign of Capricorn, which is itself recognized as the prototype for the modern conception of Satan or Lucifer. Furthermore, a well-known and pivotal episode in Enki’s career was his fight against his brother Enlil over the succession of the global throne. Enki eventually slew Enlil, something that is recorded in the Egyptian myth of Set murdering Osiris, and perhaps in the Biblical story of Cain murdering Abel. The connection between Enki and Enlil and Cain and Abel can be further proven by the fact that Enki and Enlil were the son of Anu (in some Sumerian legends, the first god-king on Earth), whereas Cain and Abel were the sons of the first man, called “Adamu” in Sumerian legends. “Adamu” and “Anu” appear to be etymologically related.
This family feud erupted into a long and overdrawn battle between the gods, who were split into two factions over the issue. These appear to be the same two factions who were at odds over the mating of gods and men to create the Grail bloodline. Those who supported Enki/Satan and Cain were clearly the ones who were inclined to breed with mankind, perhaps in an attempt to create a hybrid race that could assist them in retaining the throne for Cain. But they were overpowered. After they lost the “war in Heaven”, they were cast into the Abyss (according to legend, now the realm of Satan), and the Earth was flooded so as to rid it of their offspring.
Yet according to the legends, those gods who had created the hybrid race contacted one of their most favored descendants (called Uta-Napishtim in the Sumerian legends, or Noah in the Jewish), helping him to rescue himself and his family, preserving the seed of hybrid humanity.(6) We see remnants of this in the Vedic legends of the Flood, in which the Noah figure, here called “Manu”, is warned about the Flood by a horned fish (who turns out to be the Hindu god Vishnu in disguise). The fish tells Manu to build a ship, and then tie its tip to his horn. He then proceeds to tow Manu’s ship to safety upon a high mountain. So clearly Vishnu is connected to Enki, Dagon, and Oannes, and clearly he is the same one who saved Noah from the Flood. Yet this very deed became attributed, in the Old Testament, to the same god, Jehovah, who had purportedly caused the Flood to begin with. In fact the word Jehovah, or “Jah” is said to have evolved from the name of another Sumerian sea god-king, Ea, “the Lord of the Flood.” Likewise, Leviathan is responsible, according to some references, for “vomiting out the waters of the Flood.” This occurs at the Apocalypse in the Revelation of St. John the Divine as well. Leviathan, like many of these sea gods, was the Lord of the Abyss, and these waters were believed to be holding the Earth up from underneath, in the regions of Hell. Yet “Leviathan” is almost surely etymologically related to the Jewish name “Levi”, and therefore to the “tribe of Levi”, the priestly caste of the Jews that formed part of Christ’s lineage.
This dual current, being associated with both the heavenly and the infernal, with both Jesus and Jehovah, as well as Satan and Lucifer, is something that is consistently found throughout the history of the Merovingian dynasty, as well as all of the other Grail families, and the entire Grail story itself. It is at the heart of the secret spiritual doctrine symbolized by the Grail. This symbolism hits you immediately when you walk through the door of the church at Rennes-le-Chateau, France, and see those opposing statues of the demon Asmodeus and Jesus Christ staring at the same black and white chequered floor, which itself symbolizes the balance of good and evil. This principle is further elucidated by the words placed over the doorway, “This place is terrible, but it is the House of God and the Gateway to Heaven.” This phrase turns up in two significant places. One is in the Bible, when Jacob has his vision of the ladder leading to Heaven, with angels ascending and descending. The other is in The Book of Enoch, when Enoch is taken for a tour of Hell. The existence of this phrase at the entrance to the church, coupled with the images that meet you immediately therein, render the meaning obvious. For Berenger Sauniere, who arranged these strange decorations, this Church represented some kind of metaphysical gateway between Heaven and Hell.
For this reason, the double-barred Cross of Lorraine, symbolizing this duality, has come to be associated with the Merovingians. In a now famous poem by Charles Peguy, is it stated:
“The arms of Jesus are the Cross of Lorraine,
Both the blood in the artery and the blood in the vein,
Both the source of grace and the clear fountaine;
The arms of Satan are the Cross of Lorraine,
And the same artery and the same vein,
And the same blood and the troubled fountaine.”
The reference to Satan and Jesus sharing the same blood is very important. A tradition exists, one which finds support among The Book of Enoch and many others, that Jesus and Satan are brothers, both sons of the Most High God, and they both sat next to his throne in Heaven, on the right and left sides, respectively, prior to Satan’s rebellion and the War in Heaven. This may be just another version of the persistent and primordial “Cain and Abel” story. It makes sense that Satan should be a direct son of God, since he is described as God’s “most beloved angel” and “the brightest star in Heaven.”(7)
However, this symbol is far older than the modern conceptions of Christ and Satan, or Lucifer. This symbol can be traced back to the hieroglyphs of ancient Sumer, where it was pronounced “Khat”, “Kad”, and sometimes even “Kod.” This was another title for the kings who were known as gods of the sea, and the word “Khatti” became associated with this entire race. Their region’s capitol was called “Amarru” - “the Land to the West” (like Meru, the alternate term for Atlantis). This land was symbolized by a lion, which may explain the origin of the word “cat”, as well as why the lion is now a symbol of royalty. Furthermore, the word “cad” or “cod” has also become associated with fish and sea creatures in the Indo-European language system.(8) I would argue that this was at the root of the word “Cathari” (the heretics associated with the Holy Grail who occupied the Languedoc region of France that the Merovingians ruled over), as well as Adam Kadmon, the Primordial Man of alchemy, and “Caduceus”, the winged staff of Mercury. It is also the root for the name of the Mesopotamian kingdom of “Akkadia”, which itself has morphed into “Arcadia”, the Greek concept of Paradise. This further morphs into “acacia”, the traditional Masonic “sprig of hope” and symbol of resurrection after death.
Perhaps this sheds further light on the phrase “Et in Arcadia Ego”, which pops up more than once in association with the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Merovingians. This phrase was illustrated by Nicolas Poussin with the scene of a tomb, a human skull, and three shepherds. The tomb and skull clearly represent death, while the Sprig of Acacia implied by the word “Arcadia” translates to “resurrection from death.” The shepherds, furthermore, represent the divine kingship of the Atlantean gods and the Grail bloodline, for these god-monarchs were also known as the “Shepherd Kings” (a title, notably, taken up by Jesus as well). This indicates that it is the global monarchy of these Atlantean gods that shall rise again from the tomb, perhaps through the Merovingian bloodline.
This archetype of the fallen king who shall one day return, or the kingdom that disappears, only to rise again in a new, golden age, is a very common one, and one that I have shown in another article to be integral to the Grail legend. It was also one used quite effectively by the last of the Merovingian kings who effectively held the throne of the Austrasian Empire - this magazine’s mascot, Dagobert II. Dagobert’s entire life, as historically recorded, is mythological and archetypal. His name betrays the divine origins of his bloodline. “Dagobert” comes, of course, from Dagon. Now the word “bert”, as the author L.A. Waddell has shown, has its roots in the word “bara”, or “para“, or Anglicized, “pharaoh”, a “priest-king of the temple (or house).” So Dagobert’s name literally means “Priest-King of the House of Dagon.” Interestingly, a rarely-found but nonetheless authentic variation on Dagobert’s name was “Dragobert”, emphasizing his lineage from the beast of the deep waters, the dragon Leviathan.
Dagobert made use of the myth of the returning king early on in life. His father had been assassinated when he was five years old, and young Dagobert was kidnapped by then Palace Mayor Grimoald, who tried to put his own son on the throne. He was saved from death, but an elaborate ruse was laid out to make people think otherwise. Even his own mother believed he was dead, and allowed his father’s assassins to take over, placing Grimoald’s son on the throne. Dagobert was exiled to Ireland, where he lay in wait for the opportunity to reclaim his father’s throne. This opportunity showed itself in the year 671, when he married Giselle de Razes, daughter of the count of Razes and niece of the king of the Visigoths, allying the Merovingian house with the Visigothic royal house. This had the potential for creating a united empire that would have covered most of what is now modern France. This marriage was celebrated at the Church of St. Madeleine in Rhedae, the same spot where Sauniere’s Church of St. Madeleine at Rennes-le-Chateau now rests. There is an existing rumor that Dagobert found something there, a clue which lead him to a treasure buried in the nearby Montsegur, and this treasure financed what was about to come. This was the re-conquest of the Aquitaine and the throne of the Frankish kingdom. As Baigent, et. al write in Holy Blood, Holy Grail, “At once he set about asserting and consolidating his authority, taming the anarchy that prevailed throughout Austrasia and reestablishing order.” The fallen king had risen from his ashes, born anew as Dagobert II, and had come to once more establish firm rule and equilibrium in his country. The similarities to the Parzival/Grail story don’t even need to be repeated.
Sadly, Dagobert II would himself play the role of the fallen king just a few years later, in 679, and the circumstances were decidedly strange. You see, since the time of King Clovis I, the Merovingian kings had been under a pact with the Vatican, in which they had pledged their allegiance to the Mother Church in exchange for Papal backing of the their united empire of Austrasia. They would forever hold the title of “New Constantine”, a title that would later morph into “Holy Roman Emperor.” But that “allegiance” on the part of the Merovingians towards the Church began to wear thin after a while. Obviously, given their infernal and divine origin, their spiritual bent was slightly different from that of organized Christianity. In addition, as direct descendants of the historical Christ himself, they would have possessed access to the secret teachings of Christ, no doubt shockingly different from the ones promoted by the Church, and reflecting more of the “secret doctrine” of the rebellious gods that I have talked about in this article. Any public knowledge of this or the blood relationship between Christ and the Merovingians would have been disastrous for the Church. Christ would therefore be a man, with antecedents and descendants, instead of the “son of God, born of a virgin” concept promoted by the Church. Seeing in Dagobert a potential threat, the Roman church entered into a conspiracy with Palace Mayor Pepin the Fat.
On December 23, while on a hunting trip, Dagobert was lanced through the left eye by his own godson, supposedly on Pepin’s orders. There are many aspects to this event that appear to be mythologically significant. For one thing, it took place in the “Forest of Woevres”, long held sacred, and host to annual sacrificial bear hunts for the Goddess Diana. Indeed, the murder may have taken place on such a hunt. This was near the royal Merovingian residence at Stenay, a town that used to be called “Satanicum.” We must also consider the date itself, which was almost precisely at the beginning of the astrological period of Capricorn. As I have mentioned, Capricorn is based on Enki, and is thus connected to the Quinotaur that spawned the Merovingian bloodline. It is also close to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day in the year, when the Sun was said to “die”, mythologically, and turn black, descending into the underworld. This “black” period of the Sun is associated with the god Kronos or Saturn, another horned sea-god, ruler of the underworld, and king of Atlantis who figures repeatedly in this Grail/Rennes-le-Chateau mystery.(9) Secondly, the murder is said to take place at midday, which, as I have mentioned in another article, is an extremely significant moment in time for mystery schools of the secret doctrine, like Freemasonry. The parchments found by Berenger Sauniere and the related poem, Le Serpent Rouge makes a special mention of it. This is when the Sun is highest in the sky. The fact that Dagobert’s murder was committed by a family member is significant too. This is similar to the “Dolorous Stroke” that wounds the Fisher King in the Grail story, something which also took place at midday and was inflicted by the king’s own brother. In this story, the brother who wounds the Fisher King is known as the “Dark Lord”, and during the fight he is wounded in the left eye, precisely as Dagobert was wounded. The same thing happened to Horus in Egyptian mythology, fighting his uncle, Set. The “Left Eye of Horus” came to symbolize the hidden knowledge of the gods, just as the “left hand path” does today. Dagobert’s death appears to follow the same patterns as many other fallen kings or murdered gods whose death must be avenged. It is meant to symbolize the concept of the lost or fallen kingdom the same way the Dolorous Stroke does in the Grail story.
Clearly, Dagobert’s death meant the end for the Merovingian kingdom. All subsequent Merovingian kings were essentially powerless, and they were officially thought to have died out with Dagobert’s grandson, Childeric III. 49 years later, Charles Martel’s grandson, Charlemagne was anointed Holy Roman Emperor. But in 872, almost 200 years after his death, Dagobert was canonized as a Saint, and the date of his death, December 23, became “St. Dagobert’s Day.” Write Baigent, et. al.:
“The reason for Dagobert’s canonization remains unclear. According to one source it was because his relics were believed to have preserved the vicinity of Stenay against Viking raids - though this explanation begs the question, for it is not clear why the relics should have possessed such powers is the first place. Ecclesiastical authorities seem embarrassingly ignorant on the matter. They admit that Dagobert, for some reason, became the object of a fully fledged cult... But they seem utterly at a loss as to why he should have been so exalted. It is possible, of course that the Church felt guilty about its role in the king’s death.”
Guilty, or afraid? For surely they knew that this “Priest-King of the House of Dagon”, with his divine lineage, so beloved by his people that they worship him like a god 200 years later, would of course be avenged for his treacherous murder. Surely they knew, as most Dagobert’s Revenge readers know, that the Merovingian bloodline didn’t die out, surviving through his son Sigisbert, and continues to jockey for the throne of France to this very day through the actions of various royal bloodlines throughout Europe. Surely they knew that this kingdom would rise again, and that the lost king would return someday. The seeds of his return have already been planted. France is united into the political mass that Dagobert had envisioned it to be when he united Austrasia, and the “Holy Roman Empire”, which the Merovingian kings were clearly attempting to form with the help of the Vatican, has now become a reality in the form of the European Union. During WWII and immediately afterwards, the Priory of Sion, that secret order dedicated to the Merovingian agenda, openly campaigned for a United States of Europe. They even proposed a flag, consisting of stars in a circle, which is identical to the flag used by the European Union today.(10) Furthermore, the world empire of the Atlantean kings who spawned the Merovingians is more complete now than it has ever been since the gods left the earth during the Deluge. The United Nations, a feeble example, will surely give way at some point to a united world government strong enough and glorious enough to be called an empire. The fallen kingdom of the gods is clearly returning, and the new Golden Age is upon us. If this author’s hunch is correct, this is, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.
Endnotes:
(1) Recall that Merovingian King Clovis was buried with a severed horse’s head.
(2) It is also the name of the famous “world mountain” of Eastern tradition.
(3) Note that “mer” is also the origin of the word “mercantile.”
(4) Cain’s name has been said to be the origin of the word “king”
(5) Now we understand why, in the post-mortem photo of Berenger Sauniere lying on his death bed, this small parish priest is seen next to a bishop’s miter.
(6) Uta-Napishtim contains the Sumerian and Egyptian word for fish, “pish”, and perhaps we can see why some authors have claimed that the character of Noah is in fact based on Oannes, Dagon, or Enki as well.
(7) The Book of Enoch refers to the Watchers, or Nephilim, as “stars”, with various “watchtowers” in the houses of the Zodiac. Bear in mind that the ancients saw the sky above as a giant “sea”, the waters of which were kept at bay by the “Firmament of Heaven” - that is, until the Flood.
(8) At this writing, a large sea serpent 20 meters long has just been discovered off the coast of Canada named “Cadborosaurus Willsi”, nicknamed “Caddy.”
(9) Kronos or Saturn is the inspiration for the figures of Capricorn and the Judeo-Christian Satan.
(10) This flag was shown carried by a divine white horse, a symbol of Poseidon and world monarchy.
http://www.dragonkeypress.com/articles/article_2004_10_20_0547.html
Both Laurence Gardner and Nicholas de Vere talk at length about the origin of Watchers, Nephilim, Elves, the Anunnaki, all the ancient gods, etc, originating from the "Dragon Kings", a race of god-kings that flourished in the regions of Scythia.Despite the attempts of Laurence Gardiner and others to connect the Quinotaur and its Merovingian descendants to Scythia, Sumer and Egypt (see my post on the Merovingian Mythos, http://forums.atlantisrising.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=13;t=000064;p=1#000015 ), the Quinotaur is one of a whole group of horned or feathered serpent deities that figure in the mythology of most of the people bordering the Atlantic Ocean, from the European Atlantic Facade to the Native American and Mesoamerican peoples. Almost all of these serpent deities are associated with rain and thunder, or waterways.
The whole of Scotland, from Loch Ness to the river Tweed, contains tales of noble women impregnated by horned serpents while swimming in the waters. These tales are also told in Gaul of the lineage of the Merovingian kings, whose founder, Merovee, was born from his mother's encounter with a Quinotaur, a "Four Horned" water serpent. Indeed, some version of the horned serpent, whose origin and meaning are never satisfactorily explained, can be found throughout world mythology.
Despite the beliefs put forth by "Dragon King" adherents like Gardiner, who suggest the Sumerian Ningiszida, a horned serpent who guarded the tree of life and the gateway to the underworld, was the forerunner of the Biblical serpent and the prototype of the rest, recent discoveries and the theories proposed by Marija Gimbutas of UCLA in her monumental work on European pre-history,The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe, suggest the Brythonic ram-horned serpent of Cernunnos and the Lithuanian Zilvine, the King of Serpents who made the mortal Egle his queen, may be much the older - may in fact go back to the end of the last ice age.
The Horned Serpent is a persona of the god Cernunnos, the Brythonic Horned God who was associated with the hunt and fertility. As I said in that other post, it was probably his worship at Loch Ness that was reported in Columba's famous meeting with the Loch Ness Monster. The pagan ancestors of the Merovingians were also most likely worshipers of Cernunnos. The tale that he had two fathers, one a Quinotaur, probably indicates that Merovee was conceived during the fertility rites associated with Cernunnos and has no connection with Christ nor Mary Magdalene. Cernunnos was the lord of life, death and the underworld. He was also the Sun God and the ritual of the Sacred Hunt, where the mortal king was the sacrifice, sheds more light on the Merovingians' pagan roots. The last Merovingian king, Dagobert, was slain in just such a manner at the winter solstice.
In the Americas, the horned serpent, like the the Choktaw deity Sint holo, was the giver of inspiration, a promethian spirit who introduced agriculture, language, and other gifts of knowledge to mankind. The Tewa deity Avanyu was the feathered sky serpent of the Pueblos (Zuni, Kolowisi, and Hopi, Paluluka), a rain and lightning deity who was believed to have given birth to the waterways, and whose voice was thunder. Algonquin pictographs commonly depict a horned, feathered serpent known as Mishipizheu and similar icons are scattered across North America.
The best known feathered serpent of the Americas is, of course, the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, (Mayan Kukulkan, Incan Urcaguey) who was exiled by the gods for his gifts of knowledge to the Aztec people. Quetzalcoatl was described as a bearded white man and legends persist that he was a prince of the Brythonic people, though, like the Merovingian Quinotaur, there have been attempts to also connect Quetzalcoatl with Christ.
Author: Tracy R. Twyman
The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came, have been romantically mythologized in the annals of both local legend and modern mystical pseudo-history, but few have understood the true meaning and origins of their alluring mystery. The mystique that surrounds them includes attributions of saintliness, magical powers (derived from their long hair), and even divine origin, because of their supposed descent from the one and only Jesus Christ. However, the importance of the divine ancestry of the Merovingians, and the antiquity from whence it comes, has never to this author’s knowledge been fully explored by any writer or historian. However, I have uncovered mountains of evidence which indicates that the origins of the Merovingian race, and the mystery that surrounds them, lies ultimately with a race of beings, “Nephilim” or fallen angels, who created mankind as we know it today. It also originated with a civilization, far more ancient than recorded history, from which came all of the major arts and sciences that are basic to civilizations everywhere. As I intend to show, all of the myths and symbolism that are associated with this dynasty can, in fact, be traced back to this earlier civilization. It is known, in some cultures, as Atlantis, although there are many names for it, and it is the birthplace of agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, navigation, architecture, language, writing, and religion. It was also the source of the first government on Earth - monarchy. And the first kings on Earth were the gods.
Their race was known by various names. In Assyria, the Annodoti. In Sumeria, the Annunaki. In Druidic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. In Judeo-Christian scriptures, they are called the Nephilim, “the Sons of God”, or the Watchers. They are described as having attachments such as wings, horns, and even fish scales, but from the depictions it is clear that these are costumes worn for their symbolic value, for these symbols indicated divine power and royal blood. The gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws of succession similar to our own, and they built a global empire upon the Earth, with great cities, temples, monuments, and mighty nations established on several continents. Man was separate from the gods, like a domesticated animal, and there was a great cultural taboo amongst the gods against sharing any of their sacred information with humanity, even things such as writing and mathematics. These gods ruled directly over Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, and their rule is recorded in the histories of all three civilizations.
This global monarchy was the crowning glory of the ages, and the period of their rule came to be called “the Golden Age”, or as the Egyptians called it, “the First Time”, when the gods watched over man directly, like a shepherd does his flock. In fact, they were often called “the Shepherd Kings.” One of the symbols of this world monarchy was an eye hovering over a throne, and this eye now adorns our American dollar bill, presented as the missing capstone of the Great Pyramid of Giza, underneath which are written the words “New World Order.” Clearly this New World Order is the global monarchy that or Founding Fathers (not a Democrat among them) intended for this nation to participate in all along, symbolized by a pyramid as a representation of the ideal and perfectly ordered authoritarian empire. During the Golden Age of the gods, a new king’s ascendance to the global throne would be celebrated by the sacrifice of a horse, an animal sacred to Poseidon, one of the Atlantean god-kings and Lord of the Seas.(1) In fact there is an amusing story about how King Sargon’s rebellious son Sagara tried to prevent his father’s assumption to the world throne from being solidified by stealing his sacrificial horse. The horse was not recovered until years later, and Sagara, along with the “sons of Sagara”, i.e., those members of his family who had assisted him, were forced to dig their own mass grave. This grave was oddly called “the Ocean.”
It was a rebellion such as this that led to the downfall of the entire glorious empire. At some point, it is told, some of the gods broke rank. This is again recorded in just about every culture on Earth that has a written history or oral tradition. Some of the gods, finding human females most appealing, intermarried with them, breaking a major taboo within their own culture, and creating a race of human/god hybrids. Some of these offspring are described as taking the form of giants, dragons, and sea monsters, while others are said to have borne a normal human countenance, with the exception of their shimmering white skin and their extremely long life spans. This is the bloodline that brought us Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David, Jesus Christ, and many others - in other words, the “Grail bloodline.” Legend has it that these beings taught mankind their secrets, including the above-mentioned arts of civilization, as well as a secret spiritual doctrine that only certain elect humans (their blood descendants) would be allowed to possess. They created ritualistic mystery schools and secret societies to pass this doctrine down through the generations.
However, these actions (the interbreeding with and sharing of secrets with humans) incurred the wrath of the Most High God, and a number of other gods who were disgusted by this interracial breeding. This sparked the massive and devastating battle of the gods that has come down to us in the legend of the “war in Heaven.” Then, in order to cleanse the Earth’s surface of the curse of humanity, they covered it with a flood. Interestingly, this flood is mentioned in the legends of almost every ancient culture on Earth, and the cause is always the same. Often the waters are described as having come from inside the Earth. “The Fountains of the deep were opened”, it is said. “Suddenly enormous volumes of water issued from the Earth.” Water was “projected from the mountain like a water spout.” The Earth began to rumble, and Atlantis, fair nation of the gods, sunk beneath the salty green waves. As we shall see, this is analogous to part of the “war in Heaven” story when the “rebellious” angels or gods were punished by being cast down “into the bowels of the Earth” - a very significant location.
To be certain, some of the Atlanteans managed to survive, and many books have been written about the Atlantean origin of the Egyptian, Sumerian, Indo-Aryan, and native South American civilizations (bringing into question the validity of the term “Native American”). Little, however, has been written about those who escaped into Western Europe, except for a passing reference in Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, in which we writes:
“The Gauls [meaning the French] possessed traditions upon the subject of Atlantis which were collected by the Roman historian Timagenes, who lived in the first century before Christ. He represents that three distinct people dwelt in Gaul: 1. The indigenous population, which I suppose to be Mongoloids, who had long dwelt in Europe; 2. the invaders from a distant land, which I understand to be Atlantis; 3. The Aryan Gaul.”
That the Merovingian bloodline came from elsewhere is clear because of the legend that surrounds their founder, King Meroveus, who is said to have been the spawn of a “Quinotaur” (a sea monster), who raped his mother when she went out to swim in the ocean. Now it becomes obvious why he is called “Meroveus”, because in French, the word “mer” means sea. And in some traditions, Atlantis was called Meru, or Maru.(2) For these gods, navigation above all was important to them, for it was their sea power that maintained their military might and their successful mercantile trade.(3) The Atlanteans were associated with the sea and were often depicted as mermen, or sea monsters, with scales, fins, and horns. They were variously associated with a number of important animals, whose symbolism they held sacred: horses, bulls, goats, rams, lions, fish, serpents, dragons, even cats and dogs. All of these things relate back to the sea imagery with which these gods were associated.
Now lets go back to the Quinotaur, which some have named as being synonymous with Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea and, according to Plato, one of the famous kings of Atlantis. Others have seen it as being emblematic of the fish symbol that Christ is associated with, thus indicating that he was in fact the origin of the Merovingian bloodline. However, the roots of this Quinotaur myth are far more ancient. The word itself can be broken down etymologically to reveal its meaning. The last syllable, “taur”, means “bull.” The first syllable “Quin”, or “Kin”, comes from the same root as “king”, as well as the Biblical name of Cain, whom many have named as the primordial father of the Grail family.(4) The idea of the “King of the World” taking the form of a sea-bull was a recurring them in many ancient cultures, most notably in ancient Mesopotamia. In fact it originated with that dynasty of kings who reigned over the antediluvian world and who were all associated with the sea, as well as this divine animal imagery. These kings included Sargon, Menes, and Narmar. Their historical reality morphed into the legends we have in many cultures of gods said to have come out of the sea at various times and to teach mankind the basic arts of civilization. They were known by various names, such as Enki, Dagon, Oannes, or Marduk (Merodach). They were depicted as half-man and half-fish, half-goat and half-fish, or half-bull and half-fish, but as I have said, in many of these depictions it is clear that this affect was achieved merely by the wearing of costumes, and that these god-kings were using this archetypal imagery to deify themselves in the minds of their subjects.
Dagon was depicted with a fish on his head, the lips protruding upward, making what were referred to as “horns.” This may be the origin for the custom (common in the ancient world) of affixing horns to the crown of a king. It has also been historically acknowledged as the origin of the miter worn by the Catholic Pope.(5) The Christian Church has always been associated with fish. Christ himself took on that imagery, as did John the Baptist, and the early Christians used the fish sign of the “Ichthys” to designate themselves. From the name “Oannes” we get the words “Uranus” and “Ouranos”, but also supposedly “Jonah”, “Janus”, and “John.” Perhaps we finally now understand why the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion assume the symbolic name of “John” upon taking office.
The syllable “dag” merely means “fish”, which makes it interesting to note that the Dogon tribe of Africa, who have long baffled astronomers with their advanced knowledge of the faraway star-system from which they say their gods came, claim that these gods were “fish-men.” We may wonder if the words “dag” and “dog” are not etymologically related, especially since the star from whence these fish-men supposedly came is named Sirius, “the Dog Star.” From Dagon comes our word “dragon”, as well as the biblical figure of Leviathan, “the Lord of the Deep”, a title also applied to Dagon. In fact, many of these Atlantean god-kings received the titles “the Lord of the Waters”, “The Lord of the Deep”, or “the Lord of the Abyss”, which appear to have been passed down from father to son, along with the throne of the global kingdom. These kings were specifically associated with the Flood of Noah, which, as I have mentioned, destroyed their global kingdom, and was somehow linked to their disastrous breeding experiment with the human race that lead to the “Grail bloodline.” For this they were consigned to the “Abyss” or the underworld, which is why these gods were known as the lords of both.
In addition, Enki was known as the “Lord of the Earth”, and it is because of this “amphibious” nature of their progenitor, who reigned over both land and sea, that the Merovingians are associated with frogs. But this “Lord of the Earth” title is significant, for this is a title also given to Satan. It has been acknowledged elsewhere that Enki, as the “fish-goat man”, is the prototype for the Zodiac sign of Capricorn, which is itself recognized as the prototype for the modern conception of Satan or Lucifer. Furthermore, a well-known and pivotal episode in Enki’s career was his fight against his brother Enlil over the succession of the global throne. Enki eventually slew Enlil, something that is recorded in the Egyptian myth of Set murdering Osiris, and perhaps in the Biblical story of Cain murdering Abel. The connection between Enki and Enlil and Cain and Abel can be further proven by the fact that Enki and Enlil were the son of Anu (in some Sumerian legends, the first god-king on Earth), whereas Cain and Abel were the sons of the first man, called “Adamu” in Sumerian legends. “Adamu” and “Anu” appear to be etymologically related.
This family feud erupted into a long and overdrawn battle between the gods, who were split into two factions over the issue. These appear to be the same two factions who were at odds over the mating of gods and men to create the Grail bloodline. Those who supported Enki/Satan and Cain were clearly the ones who were inclined to breed with mankind, perhaps in an attempt to create a hybrid race that could assist them in retaining the throne for Cain. But they were overpowered. After they lost the “war in Heaven”, they were cast into the Abyss (according to legend, now the realm of Satan), and the Earth was flooded so as to rid it of their offspring.
Yet according to the legends, those gods who had created the hybrid race contacted one of their most favored descendants (called Uta-Napishtim in the Sumerian legends, or Noah in the Jewish), helping him to rescue himself and his family, preserving the seed of hybrid humanity.(6) We see remnants of this in the Vedic legends of the Flood, in which the Noah figure, here called “Manu”, is warned about the Flood by a horned fish (who turns out to be the Hindu god Vishnu in disguise). The fish tells Manu to build a ship, and then tie its tip to his horn. He then proceeds to tow Manu’s ship to safety upon a high mountain. So clearly Vishnu is connected to Enki, Dagon, and Oannes, and clearly he is the same one who saved Noah from the Flood. Yet this very deed became attributed, in the Old Testament, to the same god, Jehovah, who had purportedly caused the Flood to begin with. In fact the word Jehovah, or “Jah” is said to have evolved from the name of another Sumerian sea god-king, Ea, “the Lord of the Flood.” Likewise, Leviathan is responsible, according to some references, for “vomiting out the waters of the Flood.” This occurs at the Apocalypse in the Revelation of St. John the Divine as well. Leviathan, like many of these sea gods, was the Lord of the Abyss, and these waters were believed to be holding the Earth up from underneath, in the regions of Hell. Yet “Leviathan” is almost surely etymologically related to the Jewish name “Levi”, and therefore to the “tribe of Levi”, the priestly caste of the Jews that formed part of Christ’s lineage.
This dual current, being associated with both the heavenly and the infernal, with both Jesus and Jehovah, as well as Satan and Lucifer, is something that is consistently found throughout the history of the Merovingian dynasty, as well as all of the other Grail families, and the entire Grail story itself. It is at the heart of the secret spiritual doctrine symbolized by the Grail. This symbolism hits you immediately when you walk through the door of the church at Rennes-le-Chateau, France, and see those opposing statues of the demon Asmodeus and Jesus Christ staring at the same black and white chequered floor, which itself symbolizes the balance of good and evil. This principle is further elucidated by the words placed over the doorway, “This place is terrible, but it is the House of God and the Gateway to Heaven.” This phrase turns up in two significant places. One is in the Bible, when Jacob has his vision of the ladder leading to Heaven, with angels ascending and descending. The other is in The Book of Enoch, when Enoch is taken for a tour of Hell. The existence of this phrase at the entrance to the church, coupled with the images that meet you immediately therein, render the meaning obvious. For Berenger Sauniere, who arranged these strange decorations, this Church represented some kind of metaphysical gateway between Heaven and Hell.
For this reason, the double-barred Cross of Lorraine, symbolizing this duality, has come to be associated with the Merovingians. In a now famous poem by Charles Peguy, is it stated:
“The arms of Jesus are the Cross of Lorraine,
Both the blood in the artery and the blood in the vein,
Both the source of grace and the clear fountaine;
The arms of Satan are the Cross of Lorraine,
And the same artery and the same vein,
And the same blood and the troubled fountaine.”
The reference to Satan and Jesus sharing the same blood is very important. A tradition exists, one which finds support among The Book of Enoch and many others, that Jesus and Satan are brothers, both sons of the Most High God, and they both sat next to his throne in Heaven, on the right and left sides, respectively, prior to Satan’s rebellion and the War in Heaven. This may be just another version of the persistent and primordial “Cain and Abel” story. It makes sense that Satan should be a direct son of God, since he is described as God’s “most beloved angel” and “the brightest star in Heaven.”(7)
However, this symbol is far older than the modern conceptions of Christ and Satan, or Lucifer. This symbol can be traced back to the hieroglyphs of ancient Sumer, where it was pronounced “Khat”, “Kad”, and sometimes even “Kod.” This was another title for the kings who were known as gods of the sea, and the word “Khatti” became associated with this entire race. Their region’s capitol was called “Amarru” - “the Land to the West” (like Meru, the alternate term for Atlantis). This land was symbolized by a lion, which may explain the origin of the word “cat”, as well as why the lion is now a symbol of royalty. Furthermore, the word “cad” or “cod” has also become associated with fish and sea creatures in the Indo-European language system.(8) I would argue that this was at the root of the word “Cathari” (the heretics associated with the Holy Grail who occupied the Languedoc region of France that the Merovingians ruled over), as well as Adam Kadmon, the Primordial Man of alchemy, and “Caduceus”, the winged staff of Mercury. It is also the root for the name of the Mesopotamian kingdom of “Akkadia”, which itself has morphed into “Arcadia”, the Greek concept of Paradise. This further morphs into “acacia”, the traditional Masonic “sprig of hope” and symbol of resurrection after death.
Perhaps this sheds further light on the phrase “Et in Arcadia Ego”, which pops up more than once in association with the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Merovingians. This phrase was illustrated by Nicolas Poussin with the scene of a tomb, a human skull, and three shepherds. The tomb and skull clearly represent death, while the Sprig of Acacia implied by the word “Arcadia” translates to “resurrection from death.” The shepherds, furthermore, represent the divine kingship of the Atlantean gods and the Grail bloodline, for these god-monarchs were also known as the “Shepherd Kings” (a title, notably, taken up by Jesus as well). This indicates that it is the global monarchy of these Atlantean gods that shall rise again from the tomb, perhaps through the Merovingian bloodline.
This archetype of the fallen king who shall one day return, or the kingdom that disappears, only to rise again in a new, golden age, is a very common one, and one that I have shown in another article to be integral to the Grail legend. It was also one used quite effectively by the last of the Merovingian kings who effectively held the throne of the Austrasian Empire - this magazine’s mascot, Dagobert II. Dagobert’s entire life, as historically recorded, is mythological and archetypal. His name betrays the divine origins of his bloodline. “Dagobert” comes, of course, from Dagon. Now the word “bert”, as the author L.A. Waddell has shown, has its roots in the word “bara”, or “para“, or Anglicized, “pharaoh”, a “priest-king of the temple (or house).” So Dagobert’s name literally means “Priest-King of the House of Dagon.” Interestingly, a rarely-found but nonetheless authentic variation on Dagobert’s name was “Dragobert”, emphasizing his lineage from the beast of the deep waters, the dragon Leviathan.
Dagobert made use of the myth of the returning king early on in life. His father had been assassinated when he was five years old, and young Dagobert was kidnapped by then Palace Mayor Grimoald, who tried to put his own son on the throne. He was saved from death, but an elaborate ruse was laid out to make people think otherwise. Even his own mother believed he was dead, and allowed his father’s assassins to take over, placing Grimoald’s son on the throne. Dagobert was exiled to Ireland, where he lay in wait for the opportunity to reclaim his father’s throne. This opportunity showed itself in the year 671, when he married Giselle de Razes, daughter of the count of Razes and niece of the king of the Visigoths, allying the Merovingian house with the Visigothic royal house. This had the potential for creating a united empire that would have covered most of what is now modern France. This marriage was celebrated at the Church of St. Madeleine in Rhedae, the same spot where Sauniere’s Church of St. Madeleine at Rennes-le-Chateau now rests. There is an existing rumor that Dagobert found something there, a clue which lead him to a treasure buried in the nearby Montsegur, and this treasure financed what was about to come. This was the re-conquest of the Aquitaine and the throne of the Frankish kingdom. As Baigent, et. al write in Holy Blood, Holy Grail, “At once he set about asserting and consolidating his authority, taming the anarchy that prevailed throughout Austrasia and reestablishing order.” The fallen king had risen from his ashes, born anew as Dagobert II, and had come to once more establish firm rule and equilibrium in his country. The similarities to the Parzival/Grail story don’t even need to be repeated.
Sadly, Dagobert II would himself play the role of the fallen king just a few years later, in 679, and the circumstances were decidedly strange. You see, since the time of King Clovis I, the Merovingian kings had been under a pact with the Vatican, in which they had pledged their allegiance to the Mother Church in exchange for Papal backing of the their united empire of Austrasia. They would forever hold the title of “New Constantine”, a title that would later morph into “Holy Roman Emperor.” But that “allegiance” on the part of the Merovingians towards the Church began to wear thin after a while. Obviously, given their infernal and divine origin, their spiritual bent was slightly different from that of organized Christianity. In addition, as direct descendants of the historical Christ himself, they would have possessed access to the secret teachings of Christ, no doubt shockingly different from the ones promoted by the Church, and reflecting more of the “secret doctrine” of the rebellious gods that I have talked about in this article. Any public knowledge of this or the blood relationship between Christ and the Merovingians would have been disastrous for the Church. Christ would therefore be a man, with antecedents and descendants, instead of the “son of God, born of a virgin” concept promoted by the Church. Seeing in Dagobert a potential threat, the Roman church entered into a conspiracy with Palace Mayor Pepin the Fat.
On December 23, while on a hunting trip, Dagobert was lanced through the left eye by his own godson, supposedly on Pepin’s orders. There are many aspects to this event that appear to be mythologically significant. For one thing, it took place in the “Forest of Woevres”, long held sacred, and host to annual sacrificial bear hunts for the Goddess Diana. Indeed, the murder may have taken place on such a hunt. This was near the royal Merovingian residence at Stenay, a town that used to be called “Satanicum.” We must also consider the date itself, which was almost precisely at the beginning of the astrological period of Capricorn. As I have mentioned, Capricorn is based on Enki, and is thus connected to the Quinotaur that spawned the Merovingian bloodline. It is also close to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day in the year, when the Sun was said to “die”, mythologically, and turn black, descending into the underworld. This “black” period of the Sun is associated with the god Kronos or Saturn, another horned sea-god, ruler of the underworld, and king of Atlantis who figures repeatedly in this Grail/Rennes-le-Chateau mystery.(9) Secondly, the murder is said to take place at midday, which, as I have mentioned in another article, is an extremely significant moment in time for mystery schools of the secret doctrine, like Freemasonry. The parchments found by Berenger Sauniere and the related poem, Le Serpent Rouge makes a special mention of it. This is when the Sun is highest in the sky. The fact that Dagobert’s murder was committed by a family member is significant too. This is similar to the “Dolorous Stroke” that wounds the Fisher King in the Grail story, something which also took place at midday and was inflicted by the king’s own brother. In this story, the brother who wounds the Fisher King is known as the “Dark Lord”, and during the fight he is wounded in the left eye, precisely as Dagobert was wounded. The same thing happened to Horus in Egyptian mythology, fighting his uncle, Set. The “Left Eye of Horus” came to symbolize the hidden knowledge of the gods, just as the “left hand path” does today. Dagobert’s death appears to follow the same patterns as many other fallen kings or murdered gods whose death must be avenged. It is meant to symbolize the concept of the lost or fallen kingdom the same way the Dolorous Stroke does in the Grail story.
Clearly, Dagobert’s death meant the end for the Merovingian kingdom. All subsequent Merovingian kings were essentially powerless, and they were officially thought to have died out with Dagobert’s grandson, Childeric III. 49 years later, Charles Martel’s grandson, Charlemagne was anointed Holy Roman Emperor. But in 872, almost 200 years after his death, Dagobert was canonized as a Saint, and the date of his death, December 23, became “St. Dagobert’s Day.” Write Baigent, et. al.:
“The reason for Dagobert’s canonization remains unclear. According to one source it was because his relics were believed to have preserved the vicinity of Stenay against Viking raids - though this explanation begs the question, for it is not clear why the relics should have possessed such powers is the first place. Ecclesiastical authorities seem embarrassingly ignorant on the matter. They admit that Dagobert, for some reason, became the object of a fully fledged cult... But they seem utterly at a loss as to why he should have been so exalted. It is possible, of course that the Church felt guilty about its role in the king’s death.”
Guilty, or afraid? For surely they knew that this “Priest-King of the House of Dagon”, with his divine lineage, so beloved by his people that they worship him like a god 200 years later, would of course be avenged for his treacherous murder. Surely they knew, as most Dagobert’s Revenge readers know, that the Merovingian bloodline didn’t die out, surviving through his son Sigisbert, and continues to jockey for the throne of France to this very day through the actions of various royal bloodlines throughout Europe. Surely they knew that this kingdom would rise again, and that the lost king would return someday. The seeds of his return have already been planted. France is united into the political mass that Dagobert had envisioned it to be when he united Austrasia, and the “Holy Roman Empire”, which the Merovingian kings were clearly attempting to form with the help of the Vatican, has now become a reality in the form of the European Union. During WWII and immediately afterwards, the Priory of Sion, that secret order dedicated to the Merovingian agenda, openly campaigned for a United States of Europe. They even proposed a flag, consisting of stars in a circle, which is identical to the flag used by the European Union today.(10) Furthermore, the world empire of the Atlantean kings who spawned the Merovingians is more complete now than it has ever been since the gods left the earth during the Deluge. The United Nations, a feeble example, will surely give way at some point to a united world government strong enough and glorious enough to be called an empire. The fallen kingdom of the gods is clearly returning, and the new Golden Age is upon us. If this author’s hunch is correct, this is, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.
Endnotes:
(1) Recall that Merovingian King Clovis was buried with a severed horse’s head.
(2) It is also the name of the famous “world mountain” of Eastern tradition.
(3) Note that “mer” is also the origin of the word “mercantile.”
(4) Cain’s name has been said to be the origin of the word “king”
(5) Now we understand why, in the post-mortem photo of Berenger Sauniere lying on his death bed, this small parish priest is seen next to a bishop’s miter.
(6) Uta-Napishtim contains the Sumerian and Egyptian word for fish, “pish”, and perhaps we can see why some authors have claimed that the character of Noah is in fact based on Oannes, Dagon, or Enki as well.
(7) The Book of Enoch refers to the Watchers, or Nephilim, as “stars”, with various “watchtowers” in the houses of the Zodiac. Bear in mind that the ancients saw the sky above as a giant “sea”, the waters of which were kept at bay by the “Firmament of Heaven” - that is, until the Flood.
(8) At this writing, a large sea serpent 20 meters long has just been discovered off the coast of Canada named “Cadborosaurus Willsi”, nicknamed “Caddy.”
(9) Kronos or Saturn is the inspiration for the figures of Capricorn and the Judeo-Christian Satan.
(10) This flag was shown carried by a divine white horse, a symbol of Poseidon and world monarchy.
http://www.dragonkeypress.com/articles/article_2004_10_20_0547.html
Both Laurence Gardner and Nicholas de Vere talk at length about the origin of Watchers, Nephilim, Elves, the Anunnaki, all the ancient gods, etc, originating from the "Dragon Kings", a race of god-kings that flourished in the regions of Scythia.Despite the attempts of Laurence Gardiner and others to connect the Quinotaur and its Merovingian descendants to Scythia, Sumer and Egypt (see my post on the Merovingian Mythos, http://forums.atlantisrising.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=13;t=000064;p=1#000015 ), the Quinotaur is one of a whole group of horned or feathered serpent deities that figure in the mythology of most of the people bordering the Atlantic Ocean, from the European Atlantic Facade to the Native American and Mesoamerican peoples. Almost all of these serpent deities are associated with rain and thunder, or waterways.
The whole of Scotland, from Loch Ness to the river Tweed, contains tales of noble women impregnated by horned serpents while swimming in the waters. These tales are also told in Gaul of the lineage of the Merovingian kings, whose founder, Merovee, was born from his mother's encounter with a Quinotaur, a "Four Horned" water serpent. Indeed, some version of the horned serpent, whose origin and meaning are never satisfactorily explained, can be found throughout world mythology.
Despite the beliefs put forth by "Dragon King" adherents like Gardiner, who suggest the Sumerian Ningiszida, a horned serpent who guarded the tree of life and the gateway to the underworld, was the forerunner of the Biblical serpent and the prototype of the rest, recent discoveries and the theories proposed by Marija Gimbutas of UCLA in her monumental work on European pre-history,The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe, suggest the Brythonic ram-horned serpent of Cernunnos and the Lithuanian Zilvine, the King of Serpents who made the mortal Egle his queen, may be much the older - may in fact go back to the end of the last ice age.
The Horned Serpent is a persona of the god Cernunnos, the Brythonic Horned God who was associated with the hunt and fertility. As I said in that other post, it was probably his worship at Loch Ness that was reported in Columba's famous meeting with the Loch Ness Monster. The pagan ancestors of the Merovingians were also most likely worshipers of Cernunnos. The tale that he had two fathers, one a Quinotaur, probably indicates that Merovee was conceived during the fertility rites associated with Cernunnos and has no connection with Christ nor Mary Magdalene. Cernunnos was the lord of life, death and the underworld. He was also the Sun God and the ritual of the Sacred Hunt, where the mortal king was the sacrifice, sheds more light on the Merovingians' pagan roots. The last Merovingian king, Dagobert, was slain in just such a manner at the winter solstice.
In the Americas, the horned serpent, like the the Choktaw deity Sint holo, was the giver of inspiration, a promethian spirit who introduced agriculture, language, and other gifts of knowledge to mankind. The Tewa deity Avanyu was the feathered sky serpent of the Pueblos (Zuni, Kolowisi, and Hopi, Paluluka), a rain and lightning deity who was believed to have given birth to the waterways, and whose voice was thunder. Algonquin pictographs commonly depict a horned, feathered serpent known as Mishipizheu and similar icons are scattered across North America.
The best known feathered serpent of the Americas is, of course, the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, (Mayan Kukulkan, Incan Urcaguey) who was exiled by the gods for his gifts of knowledge to the Aztec people. Quetzalcoatl was described as a bearded white man and legends persist that he was a prince of the Brythonic people, though, like the Merovingian Quinotaur, there have been attempts to also connect Quetzalcoatl with Christ.
