Egyptian-Symbolism-at-Avebury, England-and-Portsmouth, Ohio

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  This-sun symbol was-prevalent-in-the- Ancient Near East.-It-symbolizes-the-rejuvenation-of-the-Sun-God . More Egyptian symbolism is found at the Rentchler Forest earthwork in Butler County, Ohio www.nephilimgiants.net : Ancient Egyptian Uraeus Symbol at the Rentschler Serpent Mound in Butler County, Ohio

The similarities of these two works deny the supposition that they were built independently. 

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Ancient Symbolism of the Virgin Mary

Ancient Symbolism of the Virgin Mary

     From the time when the two religious elements began to separate in the minds of the people, the prophets, seers, and priestesses of the old religion, those who continued to worship the Virgin and Child, had prophesied that a mortal woman, a virgin, would, independently of the male principle, bring forth a child, the fulfilment of which prophecy would vindicate the ancient faith and forever settle the dispute relative to the superiority of the female in the office of reproduction. Thus would the woman “bruise the serpent’s head.” In process of time not only Yonigas, but Lingajas as well, came to accept the doctrine of the incarnation of the sun in the bodies of earthly virgins. By Lingaites, however, it was the seed of the woman and not the woman herself who was to conquer evil. Finally, with the increasing importance of the male in human society, it is observed that a reconciliation has been effected between the female worshippers and those of the male. Athene herself has acquiesced in the doctrine of male superiority.

Thalat, the great Chaldean Deity, who presided over Chaos prior to the existence of organized matter, is finally transformed into a male God. The Hindoo Vishnu, who as she slept on the bottom of the sea brought forth all creation, has changed her sex. Brahm, the Creator, is male, and appears as a triplicated Deity in the form of three sons within whom is contained the essence of a Great Father, the female creative principle being closely veiled.

Hence we see that the God of the ancients, the universal dual force which resides in the sun and which creates all things, is no longer worshipped under the figure of a mother and her child. Although the female principle is still a necessary factor in the creative processes, and although it is capable of producing gods, the mother element possesses none of the essentials which constitute a Deity. In other words, woman is not a Creator. From the father is derived the soul of the child, while from the mother, or from matter, the body is formed. Hence the prevalence at a certain stage of human history of divine fathers and earthly mothers; for instance, Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar, and later the mythical Christ who superseded Jesus, the Judean philosopher and teacher of mankind.

The Sacred Symbolism of the Egyptian Pyramids

      

    

     Certainly the magnitude of these monuments and the ingenuity displayed in their construction indicate the intelligence of their builders and the exalted character of the Deity adored. The Great Pyramid is in the form of a square, each side of whose base is seven hundred and fifty-five feet, and covers an area of nearly fourteen acres. An able writer in describing the pyramids says that the first thing which impresses one is the uniform precision and systematic design apparent in their architecture. They all have their sides accurately adapted to the four cardinal points.

“In six of them which have been opened, the principal passage preserves the same inclination of 26 degrees to the horizon, being directed toward the polar star. . . . Their obliquity being so adjusted as to make the north side coincide with the obliquity of the sun’s rays at the summer’s solstice, has, combined with the former particulars, led some to suppose they were solely intended for astronomical uses; and certainly, if not altogether true, it bespeaks, at all events, an intimate acquaintance with astronomical rules, as well as a due regard to the principles of geometry. Others have fancied them intended for sepulchres; and as the Egyptians, taught by their ancient Chaldean victors, connected astronomy with their funereal and religious ceremonies, they seem in this to be not far astray, if we but extend the application to their sacred bulls and other animals, and not merely to their kings, as Herodotus would have us suppose.

      According to the testimony of Inman, the pyramid is an emblem of the Trinity–three in one. The triangle typifies the flame of sacred fire emerging from the holy lamp. With its base upwards it typifies the Delta, or the door through which all come into the world. With its apex uppermost, it is an emblem of the phallic triad. The union of these triangles typifies the male and female principles uniting with each other, thus producing a new figure, a star, while each retains its own identity.  

      Thus the primary significance of the pyramid was religious, and in its peculiar architectural construction was manifested the prevailing conception of the Deity worshipped; namely, the fructifying energies in the sun. We are informed that “all nations have at one time or another passed through violent stages of pyrolatry, a word which reminds us that fire and phallic cult flourished around the pyramids. . . . Every town in Greece had a Pyrtano."

       As not alone the sun but the stars also had come to be venerated as agencies in reproduction, the worship of these objects was, as we have seen, closely interwoven with that of the generative processes throughout Nature. The attempt to solve the great problem of the origin of life on the earth led these people to contemplate with the profoundest reverence all the visible objects which were believed to affect human destiny. Hence both the pyramid and the tower served a double purpose, first, as emblems of the Deity worshipped, and, second, as monuments for the study of the heavenly bodies with which their religious ideas were so intimately connected.

While comparing the early emblems which prefigure the primitive elements in the god-idea, Hargrave Jennings observes:

“In the conveyance of certain ideas to those who contemplate it, the pyramid boasts of prouder significance, and impresses with a hint of still more impenetrable mystery. We seem to gather dim supernatural ideas of the mighty Mother of Nature . . . that almost two-sexed entity, without a name–She of the Veil which is never to be lifted, perhaps not even by the angels, for their knowledge is limited. In short, this tremendous abstraction, Cybele, Ideae, Mater, Isiac controller of the Zodiacs, whatever she may be, has her representative in the half-buried Sphinx even to our own day, watching the stars although nearly swallowed up in the engulphing sands."

Earth Mother Symbolism at Mounds State Park, Anderson Indiana

Earth Mother Symbolism at Mounds State Park, Anderson Indiana

Genesis 1:14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the 

heaven to divide the  day from the night; and let them be for signs, and

 for seasons, and for days and years.

The alignments








It is evident that the most effort was expended in the construction of the








 henge complex for the alignment of the winter solstice sunrise that








 occurs generally on December 22; that is the longest night of the year








 and the shortest day. The sun sets at this furthest point in the 








southwestern sky for two consecutive days, but on the third day








 December 25, the sun begins its path back to the north and with








 this it becomes higher and higher in the daytime sky and the days








 become longer each day. As the days become longer the time when 








night and day are equal is marked by the equinox that occurs generally








 on March 22.  The days continue to lengthen and the  sun rises higher in








 the sky until June 22, which is the Summer Solstice and the longest day 








and when the sun rises at the furthest point  the north.

Henge complex at Mounds State Park was unique in that the largest

 henge's gateway was    aligned to a the setting of  the bright star 

Fomalhaut and the rising of Capella.  

For more on Mounds State Park and burial mounds and earthworks in Indiana, go here

Fish were originally worshiped as a symbol of Nimrod, the sungod, who after being killed, was reborn in his wife Semiramus' womb. Her womb was represented as "the waters of the great deep". Nimrod then became the fish-god being reborn in these "waters." 

The shapes of the earthworks

There is evidence of female icons within the earthwork complex, whether this represents an “Earth Mother” or that of a Celestial Virgin is unknown. An ancient “Earth Mother” symbol is the vesica pisca, or the vessel of the fish. This icon is achieved when two circles intersect at the midpoint

Mary is often depicted within the vesica pisca. The depiction of the

 vesica as symbolic of an Earth Mother icon  

Another vesica shaped earthwork is located north of the group of 8 henges.  Its alignment to the May 1 sunrise (May is "Ma" or "Mother") is an easy clue that this shape represented the Earth Mother

This henge is called the "Lost Henge" that is unmarked within Mounds      State Park but   still visible   The gateway is aligned to the winter solstice sunrise that is associated with   the "Birth" of the  Sun.