Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [104]
Judas walked about in this world a sad example of impiety; for his body having swollen to such an extent that he could not pass where a chariot could pass easily, he was crushed by the chariot, so that his bowels gushed out.
This tale is not historical but allegorical, representing the "bloated" Judah/Judea being crushed by the "chariot" of Rome, which dispelled its inhabitants outward. Furthermore, the gospel accounts of Judas's death are contradictory and allegorical, explainable only in terms of him being an ancient character within the mythos.
Judas has also been identified with the moon, which demonstrates once again the complexity of the mythos. At one point, the stellar cult was dominant, then the lunar cult, then the solar cult, and so on. The lunar cult was generally matriarchal, and the solar patriarchal. Thus, we have a battle between not only the sun and the moon but also the male and the female. As to Judas's lunar nature, Massey says:
The French retain a tradition that the man in the moon is Judas Iscariot, who was transported there for his treason to the Light of the World. But that story is pre-Christian, and was told at least some 6,000 years ago of Osiris and the Egyptian Judas, Sut, who was born twin with him of one mother, and who betrayed him, at the Last Supper, into the hands of the 72 Sami, or conspirators, who put him to death. Although the Mythos became solar, it was originally lunar, Osiris and Sut having been twin brothers in the moon."'
Matthew the Scribe
Regarding the apostle Matthew, to whom was attributed the recordation of the "Oracles of the Lord," Massey describes his counterpart within the Egyptian version of the mythos concerning the Lord Horus:
Taht-Matiu was the scribe of the gods, and in Christian art Matthew is depicted as the scribe of the gods, with an angel standing near him, to dictate the gospel. . . . The lion is Matthew's symbol, and that is the zodiacal sign of the month of Taht-Matiu (Thoth), in the fixed year. Tradition makes Matthew to have been the eighth of the apostles; and the eighth (Esmen) is a title of Taht-Matiu. Moreover, it is Matthias, upon whom the lot fell, who was chosen to fill the place of the Typhonian traitor Judas. So was it in the mythos when Matiu (Taht) succeeded Sut )Set], and occupied his place after the betrayal of Osiris.... It is to the Gnostics that we must turn for the missing link between the oral and the written word; between the Egyptian Ritual and the canonical gospels; between the Matthew who wrote the Hebrew or Aramaic gospel of the sayings, and Taht-Matiu, who wrote the Ritual, the Hermetic, which means inspired writings, that are said to have been inscribed in hieroglyphics by the very finger of Mati himself.l°
Thomas the Twin
The disciple Thomas appears very infrequently in the canonical gospels, mostly in John, but he is a highly influential character, in that it was he who was chosen to verify Christ's resurrection by touching him. Of this incident, Walker states:
. . . Later, an unknown Gospel writer inserted the story of doubting Thomas, who insisted on touching Jesus. This was to combat the heretical idea that there was no resurrection in the flesh, and also to subordinate Jerusalem's municipal god Tammuz (Thomas) to the new savior. Actually, the most likely source of primary Christian mythology was the Tammuz cult in Jerusalem. Like Tammuz, Jesus was the Bridegroom of the Daughter of Zion ...21
The Syrian and Jerusalemite god Thomas/Tammuz was given the role in the mythos of the "genius" of the time when the sun is at its weakest, during the winter solstice. As Carpenter states, ".. . the Church dedicates the very day of the winter solstice (when any one may very naturally doubt the rebirth of the Sun) to St. Thomas, who