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HINDUISM, SIKHISM AND ISLAM: ARE THESE GOD'S RELIGIONS
CHAPTER 5
How Ancient History was Mythologized
The purpose of mysteries is to hide something or deceive people. Satan is the master deceiver, who deceives the whole world (Revelation 12:9). Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis were being guided by Satan. That’s why the serpent was part of the god they had created and worshipped. The purpose of the project to mythologize history was to deceive mankind to not believe what had really happened before the Flood and just after the Flood.
True history before the Flood was handed down by Noah to his son Shem, who passed it on to his descendants through his son Arphaxad. But as already mentioned, descendants of Arphaxad had been seduced by Semiramis to become the priests of her false religion through massive financial incentives. However, Shem was able to pass on the knowledge of true history to Abraham, which was then maintained by Abraham’s descendants through the line of Isaac and Jacob.
Another version of history of pre-Flood and post-Flood events was provided by Naamah to her son Cush, grandson Nimrod and Semiramis. Satan used Semiramis to mythologize that version of events to make the true history handed down through Abraham to be unbelievable. This was done by confusing the chronology of events so that people would not be able to determine whether events occurred before the Flood or after the Flood. Since these versions of events would differ from the version of events in the Bible, the authenticity of the Bible would be questioned. That’s why most Egyptologists and other historians question the accuracy of the Bible.
Semiramis was a very beautiful woman and retained her incredible beauty even to her later years. She had a great hold over the people. That’s why she was so successful in having her lies so readily accepted by the people. Her beauty is said to have once quelled a rising rebellion among her subjects when she suddenly appeared among them (Valerius Maximus, Library ix, Chapter 3, p. 2).
Semiramis also had supernatural (demonic) help in enhancing her credibility. Nimrod was said to have been the first who invented the magic arts. He used magic tricks (Justinius Historia, Library I, Vol ii, p. 615) to impress the people as the high priest of the Sun-fire-serpent god. No one seems to have used magic arts before the Flood.
After Nimrod’s death, Semiramis used magic tricks to impress the converts to her Babylonian Mystery system. She claimed to be able to perform acts such as levitation with the power of the gods she had concocted (the pre-Flood characters who had deified themselves, and later deifying Nimrod and herself). The magic tricks were, of course, performed by demons to build-up her credibility.
Here is further proof that Nimrod was demon-possessed. Nimrod is listed as the second Chinese king in their ‘Canon of History.’ It states, “His eyes had double pupils, whence he was named “Double Brightness” [meaning his eyes shown with double brightness.] He had a large mouth...and a black body.” That is describing a demon-possessed black man. He is also described as a foreigner.
The Egyptian name for Nimrod was Osiris. Diodorus in his ‘Historical Library’ on p. 19 says: “Osiris in the Greek language signifies a thing with many eyes…viewing and surveying the whole land and sea. Osiris is also called Dionysius [another name attributed to Nimrod by Semiramis to give credit for the deeds of the pre-Flood Dionysius in the process of deifying Nimrod], and is described as “Dionysius darts his fiery eyes.” Again, this describes a demon possessed man.
Only a demon-possessed man and woman, Nimrod and Semiramis could have initiated human and infant sacrifices in their worship system. And only a demon-possessed man like Nimrod could make the boasts that Krishna makes in the Gita.
When Semiramis was in Egypt, she carried out three projects simultaneously. First, she engaged in propagating her Babylonian Mystery religion in which she had deified Nimrod, her also illegitimate son Horus, and herself. This worship was fused with the worship of the Sun-fire-serpent god in various ways by appropriating the symbols used for the Sun-fire-serpent god.
In the second project, she wrote down pre-Flood history as Naamah had transmitted to Cush, Nimrod and herself, which included the pre-Flood deeds of Cain as Cronos, Lamech as Zeus, Jabal as Hercules, Jubal as Apollo, Tubalcain as Vulcan/Dionysius/ Bacchus, Naamah as Athena and others in Lamech’s family. This history was written down as the deeds of the gods. Certainly, the record was embellished to some extent by attributing some supernatural deeds to them. The line of Cain did not keep records before the Flood. That’s why we do not have records in the Bible on how long the various patriarchs in his line lived, whereas the Bible preserves the number of years the patriarchs in the line of Seth lived. Therefore, the chronology of events attributed to these pre-Flood individuals as gods was not preserved.
Semiramis, third project was to write the history of post-Flood individuals who had deified themselves, such as Noah, Ham, Cush, Nimrod, Naamah, Horus, and of course, herself. The history had to be written in such a way that it portrayed them as gods. The device she used was to attribute the deeds of the pre-Flood individuals as the deeds of the post-Flood individuals by assigning their names to them. For example, Aphrodite was the wife of Tubalcain. Semiramis herself assumed the name of Aphrodite, who is the same as the Egyptian Isis. Tubalcain’s exploits before the Flood were written under the name of Dionysius. There was also a second Dionysius before the Flood who existed after Tubalcain was dead. Semiramis also gave the name Dionysius to Nimrod. Jabal was the Hercules before the Flood. However, after the Flood, many others assumed the name Hercules so that they could claim the deeds of the pre-Flood Hercules for themselves to get fame. Some of this history was written by Semiramis herself. But then after she left Egypt for Babylon, the priests in Egypt used this device to maintain post-Flood history. This confused the chronology of the deeds of these ‘gods’ as after centuries historians could no longer determine precisely when these ‘gods’ existed. Confusing pre-Flood and immediate post-Flood history began the process of ultimately mythologizing it.
So, the initial corruption and mythologizing of history was done by Semiramis over about a 180-year period. She lived a total of about 300 years. After her the Brahmins of India and priests in Egypt and Europe carried on the task.
The hold of the priests on the population depends on attributing supernatural powers to the gods they ask the people to worship. Therefore, they have always had this additional incentive to embellish the deeds of the gods with supernatural powers. Over the centuries, priests of all pagan religions continued to add details to the deeds of their gods in their scriptures, thus continuing to mythologize their religion.
Further corruption and mythologizing of ancient history was done by demon possessed Greek poets. They added fantastic tales to the deeds of the gods, such as those already mentioned for Zeus and Vulcan. Here is proof that they were demon-possessed. Cicero wrote, “Democritus denies that anyone can be a great poet, unless he is mad” (Cicero, “Divinatione”, I, 80).
Plato described the unusual madness that gripped the minds of Greece’s great poets. In the “Phaedrus” he characterizes “poetic inspiration” as the “state of being possessed by the Muses” – a kind of “madness, which on entering a delicate and virgin soul, arouses and excites it to frenzy in odes and other kinds of poetry…But he that is without the Muses’ madness when he knocks at the doors of Poesy [a poem or body of poems], fancying that art alone will make him a competent poet, - he and his poetry, the poetry of sober sense, will never attain perfection, but will be eclipsed by the poetry of inspired madmen” (245 A). In the “Laws” Plato mentioned that “whenever a poet is enthroned on the tripod of the Muse, he is not in his right mind” (719 C).
The Greek theory of inspirations best described in “Ion”: “It is not by art, but by being inspired and possessed, that all good epic poets produce their beautiful poems…even so the melic poets are not in their right mind when they are composing their beautiful strains. On the contrary, when they have fallen under the spell of melody and metre, they are like inspired revelers, and on becoming possessed, - even as the Maenads are possessed and not in their right senses…the soul of the melic poets acts in like manner, as they themselves admit…And what they say is true; for the poet…cannot compose until he becomes inspired and out of his senses, with his mind no longer in him; but, so long as he is in possession of his senses, not one of them is capable of composing, or of uttering his oracular sayings” (733E – 534D).
This is proof that Homer, Hesiod and all the famous Greek poet-historians were demon-possessed. Only demented people could mythologize history the way Homer and other Greek poets did by attributing fantastic powers to the gods in helping combatants of both sides in the Greek and Trojan war accounts. Hesiod in his Theogony added many more utterly ridiculous, vulgar tales as the activities of the gods.
Thus, when Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and sane historians like Herodotus came on the scene in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, some of them already wondered whether the stories were true, because so much myth had been added. They wondered whether these poems should be taught to “thoughtless young persons” because they were such fairy tales, and in some cases very vulgar. They thought that the young people would not be able to distinguish between what is allegory and what is not. Ciceo accused the poets of filling man’s life with all sorts of superstitions with their legends.
W.T.S. Thachara write in his paper published in Sunrise magazine, December 1988/January 1989, read at the Mythology Conference held on February 14-15, 1987:
“Ever since the rise of Greek rationalism, and probably long before that, myths have had bad reviews. In the early 5th century B.C., Xenophanes openly challenged Olympian orthodoxy by criticizing Homer and Hesiod for having “ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceivings of one another.” (John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy, 4th Ed, 1948, p. 119). Herodotus accused “Homer or some older poet” of invention (History 2.23); while Socrates, although he held that myths are not entirely destitute of truth, would censor the “mythmakers” in his ideal State, including Homer and Hesiod. Their stories of the gods’ “unholy quarrellings,” murders, and mayhem do not faithfully portray reality and should, if possible, be “buried” in silence. (Republic 377-8).”
Indian myths in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana is worse than Greek myths. Therefore, there can be no doubt that Vyasa the compiler of the Mahabharata and Valmiki, the writer of the Ramayana were demented writers. They are not the infallible word of God. This means that nothing in them can be relied upon. There is no proof that the many worlds and the various kinds of gods and demi-gods do not exist. Certainly, we don’t see any of the various types of demonic people such as the Assuras, Rakshashas, and the monkey gods and a monkey kingdom that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata talk about do not exist on earth. We can also conclude that the Trinity of the gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva do not exist, because there is no evidence, and they have not given us proof that they are Almighty by foretelling numerous future events. We have also shown how some of the gods that the two scriptures talk about were really pre-Flood and immediate post-Flood flesh and blood human beings who had deified themselves.
With this understanding that Krishna in real life was the greatest rebel against the true God and so was Rama, Hindus need to give up the foolishness written in the Mahabharata, Gita and the Ramayana and turn to the true God. Both Krishna and Rama were charlatans and deceivers. They have given us no proof that they were gods and have made unverifiable tall claims. The salvation offered in the Hindu scriptures is a lie. The God of the Bible has given us plenty of proofs that He is the true God. You can find all those proofs in my book “Which Religion is True?” available free of charge at my website www.ChurchofGodMessage.com. To learn more about ancient history, and the origins of various peoples of India, please read my free booklet “India in Bible Prophecy.”
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