The Pomegranate, the City
of Moctezuma
And the Seal of Solomon
Seal of Solomon?
The Pomegranate was used
as an icon and believed to be the Metaphorical fruit in which Eve partook
leading to the Mortality of Adam and Eve. Some even believe it was the literal
fruit and in this they are mistaken.
Moses sent scouts to the
Promised Land, for reasons unknown, perhaps his curiosity was just too much
knowing the Israelites would not go there at least in his time. However the
scouts brought back Pomegranate, Sources say to demonstrate the fertility of
the Promised Land, I say ridiculous, they brought Moses Pomegranate as evidence
to demonstrate that they had found the place of the Garden of Eden and the
Promised Land. Moses knew the Garden of
Eden was in the Promised Land and that Pomegranate was growing there. Today it
is believed Pomegranate originated in Iran, I hardly think you could get a sage
brush to grow in Iran, however in the time of Moses, Iran was a lush tropical
zone being situated smack dab in the middle of the equator of BC times, its
environment would have been very similar to that of Brazil, or Africa’s Congo.
I’m not saying that Pomegranate could not have grown there, but I am saying
look at where Pomegranate grows today and the environment it grows naturally.
The Garden of Eden was not a Tropical zone, however it was a Perfect
Environment where anything could have grown.
The Book of
Exodus describes the me’il (“robe of the ephod”) worn by
the Hebrew High Priest as having pomegranates embroidered on the
hem. According to the Books of Kings the capitals of the two pillars
(Jachin and Boaz) that stood in front of Solomon’s
Temple in Jerusalem were engraved with pomegranates. It is said
that Solomon designed his coronet based on the pomegranate’s “crown” (calyx). (All knowing Wiki)
Why would the pomegranate
be important in the case of the Lady medallion? It would seem that in some
examples of the use of the pomegranate it appears at times it was used in place
of the Lotus and at times combined. The Lotus carries the meaning of Purity or
Wisdom and the Pomegranate a representation of fertility or being fruitful. On
the Lady of Elche bust and the Medallion we see hanging around the neck is what
appears to be on the bottom row of the necklace the Lotus Petal, but the second
row above it appears to be something different and that is the Pomegranate
Calyx. On the bust rendition seeds are also show on what would be the petal of
the calyx.
Hanging from the Lady’s
head and coming from the area of the ears or from behind the Wheel of Dharma
like tassels are found the Pomegranate bud just before it flowers. In the
following images we get a better idea by comparison.
Pomegranate
Buds
Tassel
representation of Pomegranate Buds
Ivory
artifact representation of Pomegranate Buds
Song
Of Solomon 4:3
Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and
thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within
thy locks.
Song
Of Solomon 6:7
As
a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks.
Now in my book The
Treasures of Utah I spoke of the Roman Jewish Colonies and the maps that the
Spanish used who likely created the maps beings some of them are 14th and 15th
century creations made prior to the coming of the Spanish. One particular map
Granata Nova, (New Pomegranate) supposedly made in the 1500’s shows features
which the Spanish could not have known, it also shows one of the ancient cities
as being named Abacus Unc Granata, this was not an Indian Village, it was a
city of the former Roman Jewish Colonies and or could have been one of the
Seven Caves of the Aztec found and inhabited by the Roman Jewish Colonies and
or Nephites. My reasons for bringing this up are for the very names used. It is
said that the city of Granada Spain received its name in 1100 AD, where did
this place in Spain get its name in a place having nothing to do with
Pomegranate? Did it derive from the days when the people of Septimania were
traveling back and forth from the new world? Why would they name this place
that covers Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico Pomegranate? What did they
know that we apparently do not? King Solomon and Moses knew.
The remains of the City
of Abacus Unc Granada are still unknown. The following old map show it to be on
the North side of the Grand Canyon whereas the others show it on the South
side, I would lean more towards the North side due to the frequency it appears
on the North and because of the following Story which I believe may be the city
of Tignus (Latin, place of beams or building materials), located on the south
side of the Canyon. The Colorado River according to these people was called
Tigues Rio (Latin, Contiguous River)
Abacus
nuc Ganata
The City of Monteczuma
“In 1853, a 22-year-old
Iowan adventurer, James H. Teyis, who had done a year's hitch in Central
America with the filibuster William Walker, took charge of the Butterfield.
Overland Mail station at Apache Pass New Mexico. Captain Tevis had no love for
the Indians, but there was one, and old aged chief called Esconolea.
"With all my hatred for the Indians," said Tevis, "I had no
other feeling but that of affection for Esconolea, and never have I met a man
in all my life who deserved affection from me so fully as he."
Esconolea rarely left
Tevis by day except when on campaign in Sonora, determined to verse him in the
Apache tradition. Thus Tevis could record, and speaking of a time long before
the arrival of the Spanish:
The Apaches say that, at
one time, they were a Great War tribe, but that a great army invaded their
country with such terrible war implements that their people were killed before
their arrows could reach the enemy.
Those who did reach close
enough for hand-to-hand fighting could not match the invaders' broad-blade
hatchets and broke their lances on the invaders' shields.
Even though the Apaches
numbered twenty to one, the enemy was successful in every engagement, and kept
driving them north. Behind this vast army came a great number of people in
charge of priests. They settled along all the water-courses, building forts and
churches. In the mountains they also built furnaces and melted the rocks like
water. Finally, the Apaches had to succumb to the tyranny of the invaders, and
they were no better than slaves, for warriors, squaws, and children worked for
them.
Esconolea said that about
ten days' journey north-west of Apache Pass lay an abundantly timbered valley
somewhat like a tableland, many miles long and very wide, with a fine stream.
Here a large city was
founded. Pack trains of hundreds of animals would come and go every few days.
This went on for years, and the Apaches became more burdened, until secretly
they began planning their release.
At last they attacked and
massacred every one of the foreigners caught outside the city, halted their
farming, drove their livestock away, and starved the sur-rounded stronghold into
submission in about a year. Those then still alive were easily captured and,
from that time to Esconolea's narration, the Apaches had resumed sole occupancy
of the former foreign empire. Esconolea did not call its capital Rhoda but
Montezuma City. Tevis assumed that the invaders had entered Arizona from the
Pacific coast of Mexico and inquired if the vicinity of Guaymas, halfway up the
Gulf of California, might have been the landfall. No, a great many miles
farther west, Esconolea replied, through what was known at the time he was
speaking as Yaqui country. The Rio Yaqui in fact stretches perpendicular to
Guaymas east of that port and flows into Guaymas Bay southeast of it. If
Esconolea, who was not ignorant of Sonora, did not mean east, he had in mind a
point near the mouth of the Colorado.
I told Esconolea I did
not think such an account was to be found in history, and he asked me what
history was, and how old my country was. He laughed.
Tevis said there were
churches still standing in Old and New Mexico that were over 300 years old, so
some-thing must be left of the city Esconolea described. Esconolea consented to
lead him to it.
They took horses a few
days afterward for about ten days northwest. Late the ninth day they camped at
the foot of a large mountain near a magnificent spring which spilled into a
little valley where an old acequia ran which had once carried spring water out
over the valley. If this had been Montezuma Well on Wet Beaver Creek southeast
of Cottonwood, Tevis would have mentioned the numerous ruins still visible atop
the well, and the cliff-type dwellings between the water and the rim of the
deep cenote. Esconolea said at the spring campsite that the mountain ahead was
the last they would have to climb; just over the top lay Montezuma City.
It was very hard the
first three hours of the early morning, Tevis said, but through a thick growth
of pines they ascended to an old trail that rose more gradually. They reached
the summit about 2 p.m. overlooking a wooded tableland valley with a fair
stream running through it, just as Esconolea had described; and there, just a
short distance into the valley, lay Montezuma City."
Paraphrased
from Calalus By Cyclone Covey A Roman Jewish Colony in America
From
the time of Charlemagne Through Alfred the Great, Pages 124-130.
Reproduced
with permission.
Calalus,
Calicuas, Calicis (Chalice or cup) or Calix
and
the 7 cities of Cevola around lake Copala
In Memory of Cyclone
Covey
Last July of 2013 I
contacted Professor Covey, to ask him of the possibilities of reproducing his
book, we had a short conversation regarding the book in which he told me I was
more than welcome to reproduce any part or all of his book. I really admired
this man simply because he did not succumb to his peers. Cyclone Covey passed
away on November 1st 2013 at age 91.
In an interview with his
daughter, Julie Miller, it is said by her;
Covey was not afraid to
espouse unpopular or unconventional ideas if that’s where his research led him.
Such was the case with his 1975 book, “Calalus.” Covey proposed a theory that a
group of Roman Jews discovered America centuries before Christopher Columbus
and established a colony in Tucson, Ariz. The theory, based off an
archaeological find, is a controversial one with many scholars discrediting the
validity of the artifacts.
“He encountered barriers
because of the historians who were his peers that didn’t like the conclusions
he came up,” Miller said. It didn’t stop him, and he taught his children the
same lesson. “He went ahead and published,” Miller said. “That’s what you do.
That’s what he taught us. You go with the evidence. You make sure the evidence
is clear, you make conclusions. Then you stand by the truth.”
I have a great deal of
respect for this man and his family; I hope to follow in his footsteps.
Professor
Cyclone Covey 1922 – 2013
The Seal of Solomon
What is a seal? A seal in
general is a device made with a logo and or motto with icons which identifies
the entity in which it represents, to stamp any document, correspondence or
label that which belongs to the representative such as the Seal of the State of
Utah, the seal is used on all official documents, it is displayed on all their
vehicles etc… The seal tells you about the entity it represents, for example in
the Seal of Utah we find,
Corporate
STATE OF UTAH Seal
the Eagle above but
within the ropes, which represents the Nation in which that state belongs or
better said, the Union, the eagle being the National Bird. We find in the
center of the shield (defense) the word Industry which is the state’s strength,
the beehive being our state logo is also part of that strength. The combined
arrows, “United we stand divided we fall” The flags of the nation on spears and
displayed on poles and not as a banner represents that we are at war (Title 4
USC 1) the crossed spears saying the same or conflict. And the date first
established as a people being 1847. Most of what is in the center tells you
somewhat of the people. Around it all is the condition of the people with
respect to the land it exists upon. The first yellow rope which represents
enclosed/held or captured and or created under Maritime Rule (inner yellow
rope) of which Utah was, this occurring prior to 1896 which is the date the
state was accepted as such but already under corporate Federal Rule, and by
incorporation becoming a corporate state. Note the all caps Nom de gere
(Fiction) name of the seal. Reinforcement of the same Maritime Rule is
strengthened, this because the state of Utah was not created prior to the war
of 1862 in common law or otherwise under the Free Republic, hence the larger yellow
rope of Maritime Rule, and all those born or Naturalized within its
jurisdictional boundaries, are in Bondage…. Huh?
So you see, the seal
reveals things you did not know but each and every portion of the seal tells
you about the entity in which the seal belongs and that which belongs to the
entity, all is plain to see but often not seen.
We are told the seal of
Solomon is likely a ring with a 5 point star or Pentagram which he would use to
seal things such as letter using hot wax and sealing the letter accordingly,
and this may be so where in a device was needed. Some say a six point star but
this is in error as the six point star or hexagon was part of his father’s
seal, King David. But what about those who served Solomon, Did they drop some
hot wax on their forehead or chest and stamp it with his seal? Of course not,
this is why we have a badge another form of a seal, (Such as Police or Sheriff
might have) to represent the figure in which one derives authority to act in
the name of who the badge represents. I assure you Solomon’s Clergyman most
certainly had a badge of sort. So what is this seal or badge? Has anyone ever
seen one? How about supposed accurate renditions of Solomon, does anyone know
what he looked like? I fail to find any except one in which I believe the
artist ether got lucky or had personal knowledge, as it is similar.
From
the 19th century engraving, Judgment of Solomon by Gustave Doré
I think the reason why we
are left to our imaginations to determine an individual’s likeness of the past
is not only the fact that it has been so long but because of the imagination of
the many since who had nothing to go on but their imagination. Do you recognize
the following image? And this may be a poor example but it will suffice.
Fat
Buddha
Of course you do and why
is that? Because this is what society has made of it publicized out side of
Buddhism and I personally would not be happy with it if I happen to be
Buddhist. But you would also recognize the following image and it isn’t even
really similar.
Traditional
Buddha
Yet each and every
rendition of Buddha will have distinguishable different facial features but we
recognize it by those things we know are reoccurring signs of Buddha Just like
the Lady of Elche. Incidentally, as for the placement of the Wheel of Dharma on
the sides of the head of the Lady Bust and Medallions, as I have said, the
wheel represents Wisdom, and Compassion, the reason they appear at the sides of
the head in place of or the position of the ears is because of the following
which is likely a tradition that started after the times of the rendition of
the wheel of Dharma on the so called Lady. I find many narrow minded views as
to why Buddha has large earlobes due to what was called ear plugs and the
removal of it such as a status symbol or symbol of wealth which I cannot
believe, why would Buddha who was full of wisdom do this?
According to Zen Master
Dae Kwang,
…in
the Orient large ears are looked upon as auspicious because they indicate wisdom and compassion. So, the Buddha
is depicted as having big ears because he is the compassionate one. He hears
the sound of the world – hears the cries of suffering beings – and responds.
The important thing for us is not how large our ears are, but how open are our
“mind ears.”
Although this is likely
more close to the truth, the practice of ear plugs likely came long after the
existence of Buddha. Did the actual Buddha have these large earlobes as a
result of wearing large earplugs? I have my doubts. I think it is a practice that
came many years after.
Buddha?
No Doubt, Solomon? In all likelihood.
If you will take notice
there is one thing we have yet to mention that tells you something about the
above image and that is the five sided background which is the foundation of
the Medallion. Vishnu is the Hindu Supreme God. The five-pointed star or
pentagon is the signet of Vishnu, in India as well as for King Solomon. As for
the Buckle found in Richfield, I believe it was made here in the Americas,
along with the artifacts that were taken from here so long ago, one of which
has become a Spanish Goddess. If the medallion were made in the 1940’s as a
commemorative or for the celebration of France returning the Lady to Spain, why
were they not distributed? Why would the maker not put their required by law
hallmark on it? Even for today’s standards it is an incredible manufacture. Why
it is no one in Spain or France seems to know what it is or where it came from
nor taken credit for it? Why is it of the few medallions known, found in France
and not Spain?
So you tell me? Is it the
Lady of Elche, An unknown supposed goddess of the unknown Iberian culture,
Buddha or one of his successors, who was this Buddha, King Solomon? I think I
will leave it up to you to decide. Is this medallion and Buckle, the Seal of
Solomon? Is the Lady of Elche Bust, the Medallion and the Ajanta Cave image
among the earliest and most accurate renditions of Buddha and/or, that of King
Solomon?
