Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [115]
Regarding the Garden of Eden tale, Graham spells it out:
The world was not created by this God in six days or a million. There was no Garden of Eden or talking snake. There was no first man, Adam, or woman, Eve. They did not commit a moral sin and so we are not under condemnation for it. They did not fall from grace and so there is no need for redemption.24
Thus, Christianity's foundation is false, mythical and unoriginal, as is the gospel story itself.
The Virgin Mother of the Divine Redeemer
As demonstrated, the virgin mother and her divine child constitute a motif ubiquitous in the ancient world, long before the Christian era. In the solar myth, the "sun of God" was considered to be born of the new, or virgin, moon. The Virgin birth aspect also comes from the observation that during certain ages the constellation of Virgo rose with the sun:
At the moment of the Winter Solstice, the Virgin rose heliacally (with the Sun), having the Sun (Horns) in her bosom. . . . Virgo was Isis; and her representation, carrying a child (Horns) in her arms, exhibited in her temple, was accompanied by this inscription: "I AM ALL THAT IS, THAT WAS, AND THAT SHALL BE; and the fruit which I brought forth is the Sun."25
Bethlehem
As was admitted by the early Christian doctor Jerome, the "little town of Bethlehem" was a sacred grove devoted to the Syrian solar-fertility-savior god Adonis (Tammuz), who was born hundreds of years before the Christian era in the same cave later held to be that of the birthplace of Jesus. Like Jesus, Adonis was born on December 25th26 of the Virgin Myrrha, who was:
... a temple-woman or hierodule, identified with Mary by early Christians, who called Jesus's mother Myrrh of the Sea. . . . Syrian Adonis died at Easter time... Adonis died and rose again in periodic cycles, like all gods of vegetation and fertility. He was also identified with the sun that died and rose again in heaven.27
As noted, Adonis/Tammuz was a favorite Semitic and Hebrew god, and each year during his passion in Jerusalem, women "wailed for the dead savior Tammuz in the temple of Jerusalem, where Ishtar was worshipped as Mari, Queen of Heaven (Ezekiel 8:14)."28 At this time, Adonis/Tammuz wore a "crown of thorns" made of myrrh. Walker relates of Tammuz:
The Christos or sacred king annually sacrificed in the temple at Jerusalem . . . the Romans called Tammuz the chief god of the Jews. . . . A month of the Jewish calendar is still named after Tammuz ... Tammuz was imported from Babylon by the Jews, but he was even older than Babylon. He began as the Sumerian savior-god Dumuzi, or Damu, "only-begotten Son," or "Son of the Blood." He fertilized the earth with his blood at the time of his death, and was called Healer, Savior, Heavenly Shepherd. He tended the flocks of stars, which were considered souls of the dead in heaven. Each year on the Day of Atonement he was sacrificed in the form of a lamb . . . Though Tammuz occupied the central position in the sacred drama at Jerusalem, the New Testament transformed him into a mere apostle of the new dying god, under the Greek form of his name, Thomas.29
As a fertility god, Adonis/Tammuz was representative of "the spirit of the corn," and "Bethlehem" means, the "House of Bread," "House of Corn," or "house of bread-corn, grain or wheat."30 This motif is passed down in the Christian myth when Jesus, like his predecessor Horus, says, "I am the bread of life" (Jn. 6:48). Like so many other places in Israel, Bethlehem was first situated in the mythos and then given location on Earth.
Nazareth
The town of Nazareth did not appear on Earth until