So, having definitively decoded the Locusts of Revelation 9 and their synchro-mystification with current events, I wanted to return to the issue of the Scarlet Woman. The reason being is that this Mysterious Babylonian woman also synchromystifies up in a big way with major stories in the news.
Mark your calendars, kids: this may be the day a two-thousand year-old cipher is finally solved.
DISCLAIMER: I'll just say again I'm not making religious or historical claims here. I don't know what specific meaning the stars had to the writer of Revelation, and I don't know why random clusters of dots in the sky would be identified with all these characters and stories in the first place. There are mysteries yet to explain here.
That said, let's get straight into it:
DISCLAIMER: I'll just say again I'm not making religious or historical claims here. I don't know what specific meaning the stars had to the writer of Revelation, and I don't know why random clusters of dots in the sky would be identified with all these characters and stories in the first place. There are mysteries yet to explain here.
That said, let's get straight into it:
Revelation 17 King James Version (KJV)
17: 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Here is the corner of the sky we'll start with.
• The Angel is Bootes
• The Wilderness is the void of space between Bootes and Leo
ยช The Scarlet Woman is Coma Berenices.
And we'll see next, Leo also represents the fornication with Kings of the Earth here, being a nearly universal symbol of kingship at the time.
THE WOMAN UPON THE BEAST
Coma Berenices was not a separate constellation in the ancient world. It was an asterism-- or star pattern-- of Leo, as was Leo Minor.
So the woman riding the Beast is clearly Coma, as we seen in this old Egyptian stele.
Coma Berenices was not a separate constellation in the ancient world. It was an asterism-- or star pattern-- of Leo, as was Leo Minor.
So the woman riding the Beast is clearly Coma, as we seen in this old Egyptian stele.
The image of the Woman Atop the Beast probably comes from our old friend Qedesh (or whatever), the Whore Goddess of Egypt via Canaan via Babylon.
Given that Min-- the god with the enviable endowment there-- was identified with July and the flooding of the Nile (don't ask how), we can see this as Cancer to Leo to whenever Osiris was representing at the time. I'd guess Bootes, since both are "good shepherds."
Given that Min-- the god with the enviable endowment there-- was identified with July and the flooding of the Nile (don't ask how), we can see this as Cancer to Leo to whenever Osiris was representing at the time. I'd guess Bootes, since both are "good shepherds."
Coma Bernenices was pictured as Isis on her throne in Egyptian astrology.
"Isis" means 'throne'.
"Isis" means 'throne'.
Coma Berenice was named for a real person, an Egyptian queen who sacrificed her locks to Aphrodite -- or Qadesh -- to ensure her husband victory in battle.
This would have been seen as a disgrace by early Christians since shaving a woman's head was a customary punishment for adultery. Or fornication, if you prefer.
The identification with Isis-- which any Egyptian queen was as a matter of course-- wouldn't endear her with them either.
THE CHIMERIC BEAST
Let's look at the Beast, because it's describing a conjunction of Leo, Cancer and the Head of Hydra.This would have been seen as a disgrace by early Christians since shaving a woman's head was a customary punishment for adultery. Or fornication, if you prefer.
The identification with Isis-- which any Egyptian queen was as a matter of course-- wouldn't endear her with them either.
THE CHIMERIC BEAST
Revelation 17 King James Version (KJV) 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
So we know that the image of a woman atop a lion would be well familiar in the ancient world as a symbolizing whores and fornication, the conjunction being described here leads me to believe there's a particular place in time we're being directed to pay special attention.
OK, let's break this down...
The Scarlet color coincides with the traditional color of crabs (note: they turn red when cooked) and the Ten Horns coincides with the ten limbs that Cancer was traditionally depicted as having.
Hydra would be well familiar to anyone at the time of writing as having a number of heads, so the presence of the seven heads would be a no-brainer...
...as would the seven major stars of Hydra's head.
Hence you have the common depiction of the Beast having Hydra heads.
CUP OF ABOMINATIONS
The hits keep coming. Let's look at the famous cup of filth and adulteries:
Revelation 17 King James Version (KJV)
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
You don't need to look far to suss this out. Just a bit south:
The Cup of Abominations is Crater the Cup and Corvus the Raven, since ravens represented vice and sin in the Jewish traditions that Christianity would have split off from.
And here we get the smoking gun of the Hydra-Cancer conjunction:
And here we get the smoking gun of the Hydra-Cancer conjunction:
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
So 17:15 is naming Hydra (waters), and following that are the ten horns of Cancer, which hate the whore, referring to the place of Coma riding Leo on the Ecliptic ahead of Cancer.
The Whore being driven into desolation lines up with the empty ancient sky from north of Cancer before we meet the next incarnation of the Whore, who is being burned with fire.
BABALON FALLEN
Rev 18:18 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
We'll get to the falling in a moment but the cage of the unclean birds aligns with the placement of Cygnus and Aquila across the Milky Way from Cassiopeia.
Aquila represented the rape of Ganymede by Zeus, who took eagle form and placed the young boy in the skies.
Similarly, Cygnus represents Apollo's rape of Leto.
So, yeah: they would definitely be seen as hateful and unclean birds.
Note that Cassiopeia and Coma are essentially identical in their depictions in the ancient world, which makes their connection in Revelation a natural fit.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.The vanity of the Whore of Babylon is identical to the vanity of Cassiopeia, who sits a queen.
Her 'double' and 'cup filled to her double' probably refers to her breasts (often exposed in depictions), signifying sex and lactation.
She is no widow, because she is not Isis, also commonly identified with thrones in the ancient world. Next is her judgement....
Rev 18: 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.God is Cepheus (literally "the Gardener") who stands above-- or in judgment-- the Whore in the pillar of smoke and fire of the Milky Way.
The Whore's sins have reached into Heaven because she is directly below Cepheus, God on His Throne in the North.
Note that Cassiopeia is depicted as falling forward in the night sky.
The Kings of the Earth are represented by Perseus-- a crown prince who became a king-- who keeps his distance as Cassiopea is burned in the pillar of smoke and fire (nebulae) of the Milky Way.
Next, the Merchants:
Rev 18: 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
The Merchants are represented by Auriga, who in turn represents Myrtilus, the Son of Hermes-Mercury.
Mercury is the root word of market and merchants.
Rev 18:18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!The smoke is her burning rising up the Milky Way and the dust is the ash falling upon the Merchants, represented by Auriga.
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
THE FINAL FALL
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
This is clearly Andromeda, who was chained to a giant rock by the sea as a sacrifice to Cetus (the Whale).
Instead of being rescued in the Biblical text, she is thrown, along with her millstone, into the sea.
Andromeda's millstone was often depicted on star maps.
Andromeda, like Cassiopea, is depicted on ancient star maps as falling away from the North Pole, or from Cepheus.
So she is literally falling away from God.
Note that Cassiopea and Andromeda were commonly depicted with their breasts exposed, which like Coma Berenice's sacrifice to Aphrodite, would have identified them with whores.
Given that all these figures were said to be royalty, it is clear now why they'd be identified with Semiramis, the legendary Queen of Babylon.
It was probably also common knowledge in the ancient world that all of this lore derived by Babylonian libraries, Babylon being conquered by Greece and the one-time conquerors of Israel.
We'll get into all this later, but we stay in same neighbor in Chapter 19 with the Lamb (Aries), the Bride of Christ (Pisces) and the White Horse (Pegasus) re-enter the fray.
