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Seb is the god of earth, god the father on earth, therefore the especial father of the sun-god in the earth. . . . Thus Seb is the father of Osiris or Horus on earth. "My father is Seb . . . my bread on earth (is) that of Seb." In the same way, house and food for the Christ are found by Joseph. . . . Seb and Meri (Nu) for earth and heaven would afford two mythic originals for Joseph and Mary as parents of the divine child... Aseb is the name of a typical seat or throne of rule, in accordance with the Hebrew losheb, to sit, to be enthroned ... 59
Joseph is called "son of Heli," Heli or Helios meaning the sun. The name Joseph was also a title of a Hebrew priest. As Walker states:
The priestly name of Joseph may have been bestowed upon Jewish counterparts of the priests known in Egypt as "fathers of the god." The function of such holy men was to beget, on the temple maidens [almahs], children who would be sacer. firstborn "sons of God" dedicated to the service of the deity. . . . The mythic proliferation of Marys and Josephs indicates that these were not personal names but characters in the drama: The chosen husband who was yet not a husband; the father-of-God who was yet not a father; the virgin-mother-Goddess-priestessqueen who was also a kadesha or "Bride of God." . . . It can be shown that Joseph was indeed a divine name in Israel. The Egyptian form was Djoser or Tcheser...P0
Hazelrigg further demonstrates the antiquity of "Joseph," its existence in other cultures and its deep astrological meaning:
And what of this espousal to Joseph, who was the Ioseppe of the Phoenicians, and Ananda of the Hindus, the Zeus-husband of Leto and the parent of Apollo-of the cosmogonic apologue? According to the Gospels: "Joseph went up to Nazareth, which is in Galilee, and came into the City of David, called Bethlehem, because he was of that tribe, to be inscribed with Mary his wife, who was with child." And here, in the City of David, or the celestial expanse, called Bethlehem, the sixth constellation, Virgo, the harvest mansion, do we discover Joseph (the constellation of Bootes, loseppe) and his wife Mary with the child. Here is personified a constellation whose very name (Ioseppe, the manger of lo, or the Moon) typifies the humble place of accouchement of all the Virgin Mothers, and, as related to Virgo, the genesis of all Messianic tradition.""
In fact, the Greek name for the constellation of Bootes, or Adam, is Ioae~ or Joseph.62
Mary, Mother of Jesus
As noted, the Virgin Mother motif is found around the globe, long before the Christian era, as was the name of the Goddess as "Meri," "Mari" or "Mary," representing the sea (Mer/Mar), which was governed by the Queen of Heaven, the moon. The Egyptian goddess Isis, for instance, was also called "Mata-Meri" ("Mother Mary") or just "Mari." As Walker says, "Mari" was the "basic name of the Goddess known to the Chaldeans as Marratu, to the Jews as Marah, to the Persians as Mariham, to the Christians as Mary . . . Semites worshipped an androgynous combination of Goddess and God called Mari-El (Mary-God), corresponding to the Egyptian Meri-Ra, which combined the feminine principle of water with the masculine principle of the sun."63 Walker also relates that "Mari" was a name for the sun goddess in Buddhism.64
Like Mary, Isis was called "Queen of Heaven," "Our Lady," "Star of the Sea" and "Mother of God." The worship of Isis was spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, from Egypt to Britain, and was very popular in Rome during the first centuries before and after the beginning of the Christian era. In addition, Isis was the same as Ishtar, who was also called Mari and was worshipped in the Hebrew temple:
Ishtar's priestesses apparently performed some version of the rite each year in the temple of Jerusalem, where the virgin form of the Goddess was called Mari, Mari-Anna, or Miriam, and her holy women annually wailed for the sacrificial death of Tammuz.65
It should also be noted that "the Savior"