Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [116]
Jesus, therefore, was not from Nazareth, which did not exist at the time of his purported advent. The real purpose for putting him there was to make of him a Nazarene or Nazarite, as he was the same as the most famous Nazarite, Samson, a solar myth. The title comes from the Egyptian word "natzr," which refers to "the plant, the shoot, the natzar. . . . the true vine," and Nazarite is an epithet for the sun, which gives life to the grape vine.31 Nazarite is also translated as "prince," as in "prince of peace." The Nazarites/Nazarenes were the ascetics who were not to shave their heads or beards unless for ritualistic purpose, because their hair was a symbol of holiness and strength, representing in fact the sun's "hair" or rays, which is why the solar hero becomes weak when the woman cuts his hair. When the hair was long, the Nazarite would have nothing to do with the grape, vine or wine, but when the Nazarite was shorn in a ritual, he would then drink wine. This story reflects the time of the year when the grapes ripen and wine is made, as the sun's rays weaken.
Thus, we see that Nazareth is not the birthplace of Jesus but represents yet another aspect of the mythos. As Massey states, "The actual birthplace of the carnalized Christ was NEITHER BETHLEHEM NOR NAZARETH, BUT ROME!"32
The Manger and Cave, Birthplace of Many Gods
In Christian tradition, Jesus was said to be born variously in a manger, stable and/or cave, like many other preceding gods. As stated, the divine babe Adonis/Tammuz was born in the very cave in Bethlehem now considered the birthplace of Jesus, long before the Christian era. Regarding the Adonis cave, Christian apologist Weigall admits:
The propriety of this appropriation was increased by the fact that the worship of a god in a cave was a commonplace in paganism: Apollo, Cybele, Demeter, Herakles, Hermes, Mithra and Poseidon were all adored in caves; Hermes, the Greek logos being born of Maia in a cave, and Mithra being rock-born.33
Like Jesus, the Greek god Hermes was also wrapped in swaddling clothing and placed in a manger, as was Dionysus. l;
The cave/manger motif is part of the mythos, representing both the winter and the setting of the sun, when it appears to go underground or into the underworld, which is the womb of both the heavens and earth. Walker says, "The cave was universally identified with the womb of Mother Earth, the logical place for symbolic birth and regeneration."
The confusing stories regarding the solar babe being born in a cave, manger and/or stable reflect the changing of the heavens, specifically the precession of the equinoxes. As Massey states:
Thus the cave and the stable are two types of the birthplace at the solstice. . . . No Messiah, however, whether called Mithras, Horus or Christ could have been born in the stable of Augias or the cave of Abba Udda on the 25th of December after the date of 255 B.C., because the solstice had passed out of that sign into the asterim of the Archer.35
Herod and the Slaughter of the Innocents
The "slaughter of the infants" is yet another part of the standard mythos, an element of the typical sacred-king tradition found in many mythologies, whereby the reigning monarch tries to prevent from being fulfilled a prophecy that a new king will be born who will overthrow him. As Walker says, "Innocents were slaughtered in the myths of Sargon, Nimrod, Moses, Jason, Krishna and Mordred as well as in that of Jesus."36 They are also slain in the stories of Oedipus, Perseus, Romulus and Remus, and Zeus. Doane states:
The flight of the virgin-mother with her babe . . . is simply the same old story, over and over again. Some one has predicted that a child born at a certain time shall be great, he is therefore a