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The Christian form of the Eucharist is highly similar to the ritual practiced as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries, in detail, as was unhappily admitted by Christians from the beginning. The Eleusinian Eucharist honored both Ceres, goddess of wheat, and Bacchus/Dionysus, god of the vine.

In Tibet, the Dalai Lama was also known to celebrate a eucharist with bread and wine.62 The Tibetan religious hierarchy is very similar to that of the Catholics, a fact that has disturbed Catholic proponents, as has the fact that the Eucharist was also found among the Mexican natives, long before the Christians arrived in the Americas. As Higgins relates:

Father Grebillion observes also with astonishment that the Lamas have the use of holy water, singing in the church service, prayers for the dead, mitres worn by the bishops; and that the Dalai Lama holds the same rank among his Lamas that the Pope does in the Church of Rome: and Father Grueger goes farther; he says, that their religion agrees, in every essential point, with the Roman religion, without ever having had any connection with Europeans: for, says he, they celebrate a sacrifice with bread and wine; they give extreme unction; they bless marriages; pray for the sick; make processions; honour the relics of their saints, or rather their idols; they have monasteries and convents of young women; they sing in their temples like Christian Monks; they observe several fasts, in the course of the year, and mortify their bodies, particularly with the discipline, or whips: they consecrate their bishops, and send missionaries, who live in extreme poverty, travelling even barefoot to China.63

The Thirty Pieces of Silver & Potter's Field

According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, he is wracked with guilt and hangs himself, after which the priests who originally paid him off buy with his blood-money the "Field of Blood," or the potter's field. However, in Acts Judas is represented as having his guts explode in the field, thus its bloody name. Obviously, these accounts are not history; indeed, they are found in older mythologies. Walker relates an earlier version from which the biblical tale was molded:

The Sumero-Babylonian Goddess Aruru the Great was the original Potter who created human begins out of clay. . . . The Goddess was worshipped as a Potter in the Jewish temple, where she received "thirty pieces of silver" as the price of a sacrificial victim (Zechariah 11:13). She owned the Field of Blood, Alcedema, where clay was moistened with the blood of victims so bought. Judas, who allegedly sold Jesus for this same price, was himself another victim of the Potter. In the Potter's Field he was either hanged (Matthew 27:5) or disemboweled (Acts 1:18), suggesting that the Potter was none other than the Goddess who both created and destroyed.64

In the luni-solar mythos, the 30 pieces of silver represent the 30 days of lunation.

Peter's Denial and the Cock Crowing

While discussing his betrayal, Christ claims that Peter, his "rock," will deny him three times before the cock crows. This element is found in other myths and earlier traditions. As Walker states:

It is said in the Zohar that a cock crowing three times is an omen of death. . . . The Gospel story of Peter's denial of Christ, three times before cockcrow, was related to older legends associating the crowing with the death and resurrection of the solar Savior.65

"St. Peter," despite his denial, is considered the gatekeeper of heaven. The story is not historical but astronomical in origin, with Peter and the cock being one and representing the announcement of the morning sun, whom Peter "the gatekeeper/ cock" finally allows to pass after denying him. As Walker relates:

The resurrected god couldn't enter into his kingdom until dawn. The angel of annunciation appeared as a cock, "to announce the coming of the Sun," as Pausanias said. At cockcrow, the Savior arose as Light of the World to