The word 'Gentile' is commonly used for any non-Jew. In the Book of Malachi Israelites are said to have been living among Gentiles, or strangers, and the Gospel of John speaks of those dispersed among the Gentiles. In Genesis the word 'Gentile' refers to people who lived with descendants of Japheth. These were the 'strangers' whom Jesus instructed His apostles to convert, and whose 'scattered' population St. Peter addressed in his First Epistle. They were members of the Israelite tribes removed from their lands by the Assyrians. To understand who they were we need to know about the Japhethite nations with whom they have always been associated.
The Japhethites who lived with these Gentiles combined features of the first Mesopotamians with others that have been found in southeast Asia and the Americas. They worshipped the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna, and their priests were Semites. As far as I know, these priests lived with the Japhethites long before the time of Israel, but they were joined by Israelites at a later date.
The Semitic priests of the Japhethites were Chaldees. Among the Celts the word 'Chaldee' was understood to mean 'Cuil De' or 'servant of God'. The Book of Jubilees maintains that Chaldeans were Kesedeans, descendants of a Hebrew named Kesed, but this is doubtful because no such person is mentioned in the Bible genealogy. 'Kesed' or 'Khalid' means 'servant'. These priests had converted to the Inanna worship of the Japhethites. They were referred to as 'magi' or 'gift bearers', a title which is associated with Chaldees. The meaning of the title is no surprise to Christians, since it was as gift bearers that magi visited Jesus as a child, but the title existed long before that occasion and the gifts presented were traditional ritual gifts. The greatest gift which the magi bore was the gift of knowing when precessional ages began and ended. The Chaldees had a different appearance from the Japhethites, who were small and beardless with large ears. The two ethnic groups seem to have lived in symbiotic harmony. The Semites were executive rulers and wizards, but their medical knowledge and much of their wisdom came from the Japhethites whom they admired and served.
After Mesopotamia was flooded in the sixth millennium B.C., some of the Japhethites remained in the Middle East, living in Anatolia and along the east coast of the Mediterranean. Others journeyed to Caucasia, Cyprus and Greece. But in the fifth millennium many Japhethites travelled much farther.
Some of them moved westward along the north coast of Africa as far as Tunisia. Pursued by Hamites settling behind them, they continued along the shores of Italy. They were known as the Fa, and when many of their number expanded into what are now Spain and France they were called 'Faan', meaning 'of the Fa'. Various migrations of Faan created an arc spreading across Europe between the Baltic Sea and the Alps, and developed a colony in Britain.
Other Japhethites travelled even farther. In southern Greece they were invaded during the fifth millennium by a Hamite nation called the Philistines. The Philistines worshipped the Mesopotamian god Adad, the current Leader of the Ancient Ones from beyond the stars. The Japhethite king Theseus successfully prevented the Philistines' religion from leaving Crete, but after his time the Philistines spread northward to the mainland. There followed waves of Japhethite migration out of the area. The great seafarers journeyed to the Americas, where they established colonies. They also settled in Ireland, where records of their Japhethite descent have been preserved. They worshipped Adad's Half-Brother Ea and His Wife, often seen as a Goddess representing the fertility of the earth while Ea is seen as a God representing the fertility of its creatures. This was a rival religion to the wizards, who did their utmost to suppress it.
Now that you know a bit about the Japhethites, let us jump forward to the first millennium B.C., when Israelites were captured by the Assyrians. They were taken as spoils of war by Chaldees who had taken over Babylonia, and were reminded that their ancestor Abraham had been of Chaldee descent.
The Medes (a Caucasian people) stormed Babylon and incorporated these Israelites as 'the tribe of the magi'. Their priests embraced the religion of the Medes, which was Zoroastrianism, named after a second millennium Caucasian prophet blessed by a revelation from Heaven. This prophet had been given the title 'Zoroaster', derived from 'Ziusudra' ('of the golden light'), awarded to any human chosen by the Elders of the Ancient Ones for this privilege. Later dates for Zoroaster may apply to an Israelite prophet.
Some members of the 'tribe of the magi' developed their own versions of Zoroastrianism. Many became priests of the current precessional saviour-figure belonging to the age of Marduk, Son of Ea. Others looked forward to the arrival of another saviour-figure, a Jew who would usher in the age of Ea.
There were other priests who in the second millennium had been referred to both as 'Chaldees' and as 'magi'. It is probable that they also were Israelites. Some had joined a Caucasian people now known as the Celts. Priests of this order had journeyed with Celts east into Turkhestan and west into Europe. In Europe they had met others of their kind, the Chaldees who were priests of the Faan. The Celts knew that priests among the Faan were magi. Phoenicians had recorded that there were magi in Ireland, referred to as 'The Sacred Isle'.
The revelation which defines the Zoroastrian religion was a vision of Ahura Mazda, the Knowing Lord who created all things in our world. Truth and lies are not things in our world, however. Truth is the proper representation of things in our world, and lies are their misrepresentation which obscures the Truth. Zoroaster foretold the coming of a saviour who would restore order to the world, and the magi who visited Jesus and John the Baptist as infants were Israelites who believed Zoroaster's prophesy was being fulfilled.
Some magi living with the Celts violently opposed the advent of Christianity, but those living with the Faan or with Faan/Celtic groups embraced the new religion at an early date. Long before Christianity reached northern Europe via the Roman empire, these magi converted en masse and associated themselves with the Israelite Zoroastrians, who were deeply involved in the new religion.
Some followers of the Ea-worshipping religion which had rivalled the wizards flatly refused to convert. They were reviled and were associated with witchcraft –incorrectly, since Ea worshippers were not witches, but the 'witch hunts' had nothing to do with religion. Christians from the northern wizard tradition did not participate in what was in fact a racial extermination targeting the Faan. These Christians had worked against Germanic rulers of the Church after the fall of the Roman Empire, and were themselves being preyed upon.
Before they became targets, a group of Israelites arrived in Europe. These people had been expelled from Persia by more orthodox Zoroastrians, some of whom were Israelites also. Those who had turned them out did not know that they themselves would soon flee eastward to escape the expansion of Islam. The exiles to Europe did not fare well: most were burned alive for heresy by the Germanic Church. Some escaped into the welcoming arms of the Celts. The Christians from the Faan wizard tradition were outraged at this horrible turn of events. Little did they know that they would be the next targets.
The Faan and their (now Christian) Semitic priests were virtually exterminated during the genocidal 'witch hunts'. But their traditions are still woven into the cultural fabric of western Europe. Virtuous Faan attitudes toward socialization and conservation are resurfacing today. The principle of trinity and reverence for Mary speak of a compromising influence on Christianity which hearkens back to the worship of Inanna. And the five pointed star can be seen everywhere. But this symbol is an imposition which contains its own antithesis, implying that no matter how hard one strives to do good one is unwittingly working for evil. Sadly, those who love Inanna mistakenly believe that they have been instructed to wear the five pointed star, that they may be recognized when the Ancient Ones return. The star associated with Inanna is an eight pointed star.
Inanna worship is often confused with the older worship of Ea the All Wise and His Wife, who in very ancient times were the En-ki and Nin-ki (Lord and Lady of the Earth). Inanna's son Pharaon (the translucent 'Grey Man' of the Faan) has been associated with a white stag, an image which is identified with Ea. All the Ancient Ones were white, and both Ea and Pharaon wore headdresses resembling antlers, indicating Their judiciary and medical function. Adad and His Son Nannar wore headdresses resembling bull's horns, indicating Their executive and military function. Ea has occasionally worn one of these also.
The maypole of the older religion has intertwining red and white ribbons celebrating the union of Ea and His Wife, and celebrating also the union of the rivalrous families of Ea and His Brother Adad. Ea's line of descent is associated with red, with serpents and with genetic science, while Adad's line is associated with white, with birds and with atomic science. Ea's Wife belongs to Adad's line, as does Inanna.
Among the Faan there is a myth of a red and a white dragon who battled in the time of Lludd Silverhand (see 'The United Kingdom') and who were buried beneath the earth. Since there was no quarrel between Ea and His Wife, the battle of the red and white dragons was probably between Ea and Inanna, who were Rivals, or between Marduk and Inanna, who were Arch Enemies. Perhaps on the ground there was also a battle between the newly introduced older religion and Lludd's Inanna worshipping wizards.
The worship of Ea and His Wife has often been mistaken for the 'Way of the Goddess', which is the worship of Inanna. Her worshippers dance naked by moonlight in honour of Her understanding that one can be embarrassed and humiliated without shame. For in very ancient times Inanna the Brave descended into Tiamat to negotiate with enemies of Her People, and there She was stripped naked, tortured and killed before Ea mercifully revived Her.
The Sacred Cauldron, representing the Womb of Inanna from which Pharaon was born, is similar to the vessel from which (it is claimed) descendants of Cain drank 'dragon blood' from women of their line to achieve quasi-immortality against the will of the arch-deity El. Although Cain was rumoured to have been the son of Ea, that claim is denied by the Bible, and Ea worshippers do not drink blood. Ea negotiated on our behalf to arrange that we be given a chance at immortality through the sacrifice of Jesus. He would not ruin our chances by advocating blood drinking. As for the worshippers of Inanna, they also do not drink blood, for Inanna is a high ranking Member among the Elohim, the People of El (literally 'On High'), and when Her son died She surely returned to Them. It is probable that during Her self-imposed exile Inanna's worshippers engaged in this ritual, but the practice is forbidden to them since Her return. Blood drinking is usually associated with the worship of Marduk.
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