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This is the central argument of this book.
I now invite you to join me in a hajj, a pilgrimage, from Sumer to Mecca. The "Haji" of pilgrim, will be Allah. We will follow two routes in this story, so, to avoid confusion, here is the mental picture.
Imagine you are standing in the city of Ur, central Mesopotamia, and facing north. Just northwest of Sumer is Mount Ararat where the ark landed. Allah's first route to Mecca is to your immediate left through Assyria which is named after Asshur who founded it. Going on west and south we come to the coast of the Mediterranean sea in Phoenicia. We cannot go directly south from there along the sea coast because Israel has claimed that territory, and they never allowed IL or LIL to pass through their land. So we tuck in a bit to the east and go through the Arab lands just east of the Jordan river, Petra, Jawf, and the area now known as Amman, Jordan. From there it is a direct shot through Moab and Edom to the lush oasis of Taima and finally to Mecca.
To see the map of Allah's migration, both the northern and southern routes, CLICK HERE
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The second route to Mecca, in the Hajj of Allah, is an about face from Sumer and right down the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf. We come down along the west side of the Gulf through Dilmun, Bahrain, and Oman to the southeast tip of the Arabian peninsula. We turn the corner westward, and we arrive in the south central trade centers of the Arabian peninsula in Saba, which is now known as the Hadhramaut.
>From there we move west along the Indian ocean to Yemen. Then we turn north along the trade route, and it is a quick direct shot to Mecca. These are the two routes that the ancient gods took as they migrated from Sumer to Mecca. The map is provided which will help you to avoid getting lost along the way. Don't take a wrong turn into the Empty Quarter-- you could die there.
You may ask, "How could Allah follow two routes to Mecca?" The answer is simple. Allah was not a real god. Rather; he was a myth, so he could come along the trade routes by any trader, fugitive, criminal, or conqueror who would perpetuate has legend. If it were not for the central deserts of Arabia, which are a great barrier to travel, the route from Sumer to Mecca might have been more direct. Even Allah was not up to seven hundred foot sand dunes and living for 21 straight days on a smelly camel. Only the Bedhoin are tough enough to cross the Empty Quarter of Arabia by camel. (FOOTNOTE 57 160 / shelf. Those crafty Bedhoin are now offering tourists overnight camel tours into the desert.)
This is why the Bedhoin are the least affected, of the Middle Eastern peoples, by the paganism of Babel and Sumer since their fierceness and independence kept them largely isolated to the desert. We will have no trouble following the two easier routes to Mecca if we simply follow the inscriptions on graffiti stones at the various oases, also; we will read the epigraphs carved on the walls of the tombs and temples of the Middle Eastern civilizations over the past 5000 years.
The first route to Mecca takes us to the west through Assyria. This is the most deadly route because we travel through the territory of the most vicious and war-crazed culture in the history of the Middle East. While the Sumerians and other Middle Eastern nations exalted their gods and built them towers and temples, the Assyrians built monuments and
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palaces to exalt their conquests at war. They had almost no culture outside of their war machines.
The gilded shields of Sumer, designed to cause the enemy to submit, gave way to weapons of iron in Assyria which were used to behead every man and spear every pregnant woman in the belly. Later cultures built monuments to fallen heroes, and we, in our day, seem to be pre-occupied with kicking ourselves in guilt by erecting retrospective wailing walls.
But the Assyrians built buildings where they recorded in stone their most disgusting tortures and mutilations, each king trying to maim and gore the vanquished more zealously than the last. King Sennacherib razed eighty-nine towns and 820 villages to the ground, carrying off 208,000 prisoners to be resettled elsewhere. When he defeated Babylon, he burned it to the foundations, then he killed every soul in the city. Tiglath-Pileser claimed, "I piled up their heads like heaps of grain outside the city gates." (FOOTNOTE 58 15 / 42-43 / 1675; 94 / 6 / 1304-5)
To see an Assyrian book of stone, an example of the evidence used in this book, CLICK HERE.
We can confirm this by the Bible accounts of the experiences of the Hebrew people. Without divine intervention by Jehovah, Israel would have been wiped off of the map by the Assyrians. In fact, Assyria carried the norther kingdom of Israel, into captivity (I Chronicles 5:26). Assyria had a clever device they used on the few captives they did not kill. They resettled them in the territory of some other nation they had defeated.
To see an Assyrian king deciding whether or not to kill an enemy, CLICK HERE.
The idea was to completely dilute national
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loyalties by thoroughly reshuffling the map. (FOOTNOTE 59: 136 / 3,34-41 / 820-25) It worked. But, the Assyrians had one great weakness, that is, they collected gods just like every other nation, so their resettlement program left them with dozens of gods and goddesses hanging around. This is why we must venture through their violent land because LIL, (in the form of Allah) came this way before us.
To see the military symbol of Assyria, CLICK HERE.
A typical record of the passage of LIL, or Allah, through Assyria is found in a royal inscription which may have been a bilingual effort-- only the Assyrian tablets survived. The translator is Sayce in The Hibbert Lectures, p. 511-12, and it is, of course, in cuneiform. The source is the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1932. In line 14 there is praise of the ruler, undoubtedly Assyrian, for his love for "the writings of the age before the flood." This dates the Assyrian text solidly to 2500 BC or earlier.
In praising the ruler in line 17, the author says he set up worship to Shamash and Rammam. This is the god Rimmon mentioned in the Bible, II King 5:18: Naaman, the Assyrian General, says, "In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand... I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing." Naaman had worshipped this god until he was converted to Jehovah through a healing experience in Israel. He was told by God's prophet to go in peace since his heart was right.
Rammam became Rimmon of later days, then he moved in two directions. In Persia and India he became Brahman, and survives in Vedantic theology to this day. In Mecca, Muhammed used Rahman as a name for Allah, and this is also Ramman.
Back to the clay tablets: On line 17 the whole name on Ramman is "Ramman ilani." Here you see the IL root in the "god" word. On line 18 of an opposite "page" we find the Assyrian ruler praised in the name of "Enlil ilani, the wise one." You will recall that Enlil was the primal earth god of Sumer. Here then we see that "ilani" is a basic god-word attached to the more specific god, Rammam.
Rahman was the Assyrian favorite and was the counterpart to Enlil, who, by this point in time, was quite ancient. Here then is clear proof that LIL / IL / Enlil moved to Assyria to become contemporary
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with Ramman.
Ninlil, the goddess and wife of Enlil, came along also, being addressed in prayer as the "wife of sovereignty." She had to share the goddess role with Beltis, wife of Baal, showing how the old is added to the new. (FOOTNOTE 60: 153 / 86-87 / 1011) There were around Shinar, and later around much of the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, mounds where Semiramis was said to have buried her lovers. They accompanied the belief that Tammuz, the later name of Nimrod, was the victim there. In allegory, a poem was written centered on Gilgamesh, another Nimrod re-name. The goddess is addressed and scolded for trying to kill Gilgamesh as follows:
Tammuz, the lover of thy youth,
Thou causest to weep every year.
The bright-colored Allallu bird thou didst love.
Thou didst crush him and break his pinions. (FOOTNOTE 61: 46 / 371 / 995)
Note Allallu in the above poem. This is clearly an Allah god-form from 2300 BC! Alasandair Livingstone did exhaustive work on the Babylonian and Assyrian scholars and their notions and lists of gods. These works seem to be instructions in whom to pray for and are similar to the long list of Saints in the Roman Catholic Church, each having his own particular interest in nationalities and life problems. All of the Sumerian pantheon is carefully exalted, and new gods are added.
To see an Assyrian royal chariot, CLICK HERE.
In one list, two gods come up-- Alla and Alala. This is at least dated from 2300 BC, and it shows that the name Allah had roots in the most literal sense from the Assyrian era. (FOOTNOTE 62: 93 / 198-201 / 984-985) In another liturgical prayer book of Assyria, the order of prayers was in descending order with most of the pantheon included so that none would be offended. Way down the list there was a request made to the "bird of heaven" to carry the prayers up for the worshipper. (FOOTNOTE 63: 142 / 86-87 / 1011) This
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is without any doubt Allallu, the god mentioned in the above examples.
So we see that the heritage of Allah, or LIL, was at work in the Semitic language forms of Assyria. Later Arab forms simply added the classic aspirated "h" on the end (ILAH). The bird notions were lost, but the names retained.
Why Allah survived is not possible to determine except that all Satan's deities multiply and multiply to give the pagans the idea that there could not possibly be One God in heaven. It is supremely ironic that Muhammed salvaged Allah, the product of much divine multiplication, to champion his monotheism.
Another explanation to the survival of IL / Enlil / Allah in Assyria is that the Assyrians retained the gods of the people they so brutally wasted. In fact, they were far more intimidated by their enemies' gods than by their enemies' armies. Hogarth shows how the Babylonian priests, with no military power, kept the Assyrians at bay by reading out edicts from the high gods to control Assyria. (FOOTNOTE 64: 67 / 61 / 1050)
To see the first war lord at work, CLICK HERE.
It is strange how some of history's bloodiest men run to the mosque and the church house to hear from the gods. The Mafia are very faithful to Mother Catholic Church, and Mother gives her blessing as the Lira roll into the deep pockets.
To confirm the bridge between Sumer and Assyria, we go to "The Annals of Sennacherib." Luckenbill deciphered the chapter describing the improvements on the royal palace, from which we take excerpts. This is a very small part of the cuneiform material from the era, and in it we find the following:
Line 66- Assyrians are called "the subjects of Enlil" (note IL-god). Line 77-79- Both Enlil and Ninlil are appealed to, which shows the clear migration, from Sumer to Assyria, of the god and goddess concept in the IL model. Line 24- Enlil is called "Father," which shows the nonsense of Muhammed's claim that Allah is not a father.
Line 68- ILANI is attached to Assur showing the IL root in describing a god. Line 13 of the foundation stela (I-6) has ILANI covering all of the gods who might have been overlooked. Of thirty gods and goddesses listed, who went out before the king to battle, not one of the Sumerian pantheon is missing! Line 1-7 of broken inscription collection-- Assur (Asshur in the Bible) is the high god, having founded Assyria, which agrees with the Bible. (FOOTNOTE 65: 1297 / 51,78,88,94,112,136,139,140,142-3 / 1320-1329a)
Before we leave Assyria we must take up a side issue. It is here in 2500 BC that we can find the meaning of Akbar. The Muslim has a chant he shouts when he is spiritually excited or when he is angry with some heretic. It is, "Allah u Akbar," and it is supposed to mean,
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"Allah is Great." This is what Muhammed chanted as he defeated the Kouraish in Mecca and rode around the Kaaba on his camel.
Well, Akbar is a strange thing to call Allah. Hislop tells us that there was a legend in Babylon that Nimrod tried to destroy the light, and Shem rescued it. The story says that mice were the producers of light, and they produced the light for Shem. The word for mouse in Chaldean is "Aakbar." In Arabic and Turkish it is Gheber or Kheber. So, when Muhammed cried "Allah u Akbar" in Mecca, he was actually saying, "Allah is a mouse." This is not given to mock but to expose Islam for exactly what it is, a canonizing of fairy tales. (FOOTNOTE 66: 64 / 316-17 / 1455)
Our visit to Assyria has involved a lot of detail, but I assure you that it is only a fraction of what I have in my bibliography. It is very clear to all writers that Sumer's Enlil / LIL / IL / Ninlil / ILANI, and the heritage of Allah, were all absorbed into Assyria. To them were added Alla, or Alala, or Allallu which appear to be variations in the ongoing evolution of Allah. There is no doubt that Allah arrived in Assyria from Sumer, so this now brings us to the next destination in the Hajj of Allah.
As we accompany Allah on his Hajj to Mecca, we arrive in Phoenicia. We find that the people are Hamitic and known as the Canaanites in the Bible. They had an edible corn-bread god named Dagon (compare this to the eating of the god in the Roman Catholic Mass), and he was also the god to defeat when the Hebrews fought with the Philistines. Phoenicia also had a god named Dushara who was the sun god, and he died in the summer and came back to life on December 25th, just like Marduk of Babylon. Dushara's mother's name was Kaaba, from whom the stone
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temple in Mecca got its name. (FOOTNOTE 67: Barton in Hebraica, Vol. 10, as quoted in 203 / 123 / 609)
Did Allah really leave Assyria and make it to Phoenicia? The Phoenicians had gods from all directions, and they tried to include Elohim in their pantheon, even giving him a wife named Elat. The goddess was never found in Bible-believing Israel, so this Phoenician improvisation was an external pagan assault on Elohim's singularity or monotheism. (FOOTNOTE 68: 55 / 76 / 1578)
Also, king Sharru-kin of Babylon, better known as Sargon of Akkad, had conquered from the "Upper sea" (Phoenicia) to the "Lower sea" (Persian Gulf), and he gave the credit to Enlil, the primal earth deity. This predated the Phoenician empire by many years. (FOOTNOTE 69: 85 / 8 / 1377) So, Enlil, or the LIL / IL / ILAH / Allah deity, was in Phoenicia from about 1000 BC and onward.
About 1350 BC the Phoenician inscriptions at Ras Shamrah revealed the entry in full force of Ba'al. Ba'al was derived from Ba-ili, meaning "of the godhead." He arrived with the Phoenicians when they migrated from the Negev south of Israel into their historic home. His most obvious name in Phoenicia was Baal-Lebanon. We see the LIL root in Ba'al, but he also had a son name Aleyin. He was the god of springs and water for fertile crops. Here again may be an IL form. (FOOTNOTE 70: 55 / 75-76 / 1577-78)
How did all of this migrating happen? The camel may be an ugly rascal, but he made it possible for the merchants of the ancient world to move from South Arabia to Assyria and throughout the fertile crescent. That trade route, or main street, went right through Phoenicia because its sea coast cities of Tyre and Sidon were central to trade with Babylon and the eastern Mediterranean nations. (FOOTNOTE 71: 133 / 13 / 1955)
So, we can see how the caravans and merchants helped to spread the various gods and goddesses. As they left each oasis, they would often inscribe, in nearby stone outcroppings, their petitions to the gods for protection. If one of their friends had good results with Allah or Enlil, they would quickly abandon their homeland gods for the one who performed best, especially if they were moving through that god's home territory.
This principle of trade migration appears to me to have moved the gods around even more than the gleaning of gods from conquests of war. A merchant of Dilmun (on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf) might go north to Nineveh to trade and end up carrying his merchandise south to Oman and on to East Africa or Yemen by dhow-- the Arab sailing ship. (See map on page 127)
It is one of these dhows that the Apostle Paul sailed in when he took a ship "from Adramyttium" (Acts 27:2) which is the Greek version
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of the Hadhramaut in South Arabia. In order for that Arab ship to be in the Mediterranean, it would have been rolled on logs through a wadi (desert valley) between the Red sea and the Nile river, then floated down the Nile to the Mediterranean!
To see a Middle Eastern camel, CLICK HERE.
In fact, some historians believe the Arabs were the first to circumnavigate Africa. The Arab dhow is almost as romantic a symbol as the camel to the wandering Arab, but Hollywood missed that fact, so most Westerners don't even know that the dhow is one of the most sea worthy ships ever used. Arab merchants have always been fearless nomadic merchants of the seas, but, being superstitious and often at great risk, they had a weakness for collecting gods whom they imagined would protect them. Thus, the gods got a free ride, not the least of them, LIL or Allah.
There are several long bridges which link Mecca with the ancient past. Taken alone, they are enough to prove that Allah came from Nimrod's pagan Sumer, but we make the detailed hajj, or pilgrimage, to prove beyond any doubt the point of this chapter.
But, let us look at one long bridge as reported by Hitti. He shows that the Arabs of Saba in South Arabia inscribed HLH in some of their inscriptions for the high god. With the vowels supplied this becomes Hallah, and later, Allah. Hitti reports that this inscription was also found in the Lihyan inscriptions in North Arabia, and he says that its origin was Assyria. (FOOTNOTE 72: 65 / 100-101 / 21) This would certainly mean that Allah and Ba'al of ancient Assyria and Phoenicia carried the same divine heritage from ENLIL / IL and survived into recent Arabia, indeed to the Indian ocean and Zanzibar.
To see an Arab dhow, CLICK HERE.
Moving on south to Jawf, which is south of Phoenicia and near the Lihyan Arabs, in about 500 to 700 BC, we find the name Allah and his consort, Allat, beseeched for
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mercy in travel. Also, Zayd'il and Hamilat are god and goddess innovations which change the prefixed name but retain the masculine and feminine forms of deity. (FOOTNOTE 73: 172 / 79-78 / 243-245) These two migration points, on the great trade route, lie midway between Phoenicia and North Arabia and complete the Phoenician picture. So, we now have Allah all the way around the corner and into what is today the nation of Jordan. That takes us to our next destination.
We have already entered North Arabia in discussing the area of Jawf. Also included in North Arabia are such locations as Dumah, Dedan, Taima, Petra, Safa, and even Palmyra since the Arabs dominated it for most of its history. The language groups which figure in the inscription evidence are from the period circa 1000-500 BC and are, Taymanite, Jawfian, Nabataean, Dedanite, Lihyanite, Najdi, Hijazi, and Tabuki. These are all Semitic languages from which modern Arabic evolved. In discussing the inscriptions of this area and time, I will not give all of the details as to the dialect or location, but you may have my detailed data for the asking.
The Nabataeans are perhaps the most famous of the Northern Arabs. They carry the name of Ishmael's eldest son, Bible, Genesis 25:13, And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam... Nebajoth will also figure in the coming 1000 year kingdom of Messiah as Arabs come up to worship at the altar of Messiah Christ. Bible, Isaiah 60:7, All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
I feel sorry for some alleged scholars who think there is no physical Messianic kingdom coming. They must have quite a time with the above text since it has not yet happened. God is a liar if Messiah Christ never sets up His literal kingdom on earth, and let us have none of this rubbish about some faint concealed event in past history. God performs His mighty acts in plain view, especially in the case of Arabs bringing animals to sacrifice on the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem.
There is a recent PhD (piled higher and deeper) who claims that the Arabs of today are not the descendants of Ishmael. This is cheap academic racism, and it is especially ugly when it comes from a man who claims to honor the God of the Bible! Where will God get Ishmaelites in
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his coming kingdom (Isaiah 60)? Create more? Get used to it sir-- God has His hand on the Arab people just as He does with the Jews. Isaac (Israel) He preserves for the covenant, and Ishmael (the Arabs) will be restored to fellowship with his half brother, Isaac, in fulfillment of the promise God made to His friend Abraham.
Bible, Genesis 17:18-20, And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
It amazes me when a so-called "scholar" can dismiss a prophetic truth, like the one above, by making a statement that boldly disagrees with our sovereign God's designs. What is "scholarship" anyway? Is one immune from submitting to God if he has earned a PhD? Must God and all of history say, "By your leave, sir?" I think not.
I feel much better now that I thumped the above "scholar," so let us return to North Arabia. The Nabataeans had open-air sanctuaries to worship Dushara whom, you will recall, was the god of Phoenicia, who migrated to North Arabia as well as to Crete and Greece. The temples to him had niches carved out of solid stone, furnished with lamps, into which the worshipper entered to pray. The parallel in more recent times would be the Ethiopian Coptic churches at Lallibela which are also carved from solid rock.
In Nabataea the consorts of Dushara were Manat and Allat, both of whom turn up later in the Satanic verses of Muhammed in the Koran, Sura 53 (the "Satanic Verses"). Thus, we see the LIL root in Allat (Al-ILAT) was present in that area. In nearby Dhu-Ghabat many gods and goddess were engraved in the stones, including Allah, Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza.
In passing, I want to tell you about a stone cylinder in Dedan that was twelve feet high and seven feet deep. Arab legend says it was the milking pail of the Arab prophet Salih. His miraculous camel could fill the stone pail when milked, but the sorrow came when the camel took a drink-- she drained all the springs and wells in the area. Life is never dull in the Arabian desert! Indeed, there is a moral to the story, but I shall leave that to you.
Copper coins, rubbed blue stone, slag from refineries, and alabaster fragments show that the northern Arabs were not backward. (FOOTNOTE 74: 172 / 39, 50, 71-72 / 234-238) These also show that they traded far and wide to get the raw materials of commerce of their day. Again, this suggests how Allah, the LIL namesake, got to North Arabia by caravan. A unique twist in their culture was the place of the queens who ruled them. (By contrast, Arab
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men today have completely subjected their women, especially in Islam.) Many of these ancient queens were named after Ishtar, and Atarsamain (Star of Satan), a Babylonian goddess who enjoyed the high ground with a temple exclusively dedicated to her.
Esarhaddon, circa 670 BC, tried to curry favor with North Arabia by having a red-gold star, decorated with precious stones, sent to their temple. This was the symbol of Al-Uzza who was the Arab equal of Venus. (FOOTNOTE 75: See footnote 74, author's p. 72 / 237) I point this out to show that, though Allah was very common in the names of men in the area, he was losing the high ground.
This explains why we find him a neglected generic god in the Kaaba by 600 AD, and it is why Muhammed chose him as the god of Islam. Allah was a general blessing, but nobody felt very strongly about him. It is interesting that this is just how the Muslim feels about Allah today-- he is mighty, all-knowing, but not very personal. In fact, Islam is much more sentimental and sensitive toward Muhammed or some recent mystic than with Allah. This was already the case by 500 BC in Northern Arabia.
Now, come with me to look at the rocks. It is in these inscriptions in stone near many of the oases that we find the name of Allah and Allat, the LIL heritage of the god and goddess of Sumer. Remember also that we are looking at inscriptions derived from the ancient god Enlil, but in north Arabia, they are 3000 years removed from the origin of Enlil.
Also, these inscriptions are only 700 years away from the appearing of Muhammed in Mecca, which is about 300 miles south of our present position. As we look for his name in the rocks of North Arabia, Allah is nearing the end of his Hajj! I intend to show you that he certainly did come this way, and I remind you that Elohim, the God of the Bible, never migrated outside of Israel after Abraham moved there from Haran. Only Allah went to Mecca from pagan Sumer.
In looking at the inscriptions in North Arabia, we must keep in mind that they were written over a period of about 1000 years, so the most recent inscriptions date as late as 50 AD. The earliest date from about 700 BC. Only the consonants will be given in the actual inscription since Semitic languages do not write the vowels. They are supplied by the reader.
The following list shows a handful of examples among many. Winnett claims to have over 60 examples of names with LIL or Allah in them. He suggests a complete list is found in Le Nabateen by Cantineau. Also, James Hastings reports that, in inscriptions at Safa, there were two uses of the LIL forms.
Here is our chart of the inscriptions from the rocks:
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INSCRIPTION TRANSLATION APPLICATION
l'kbl- "...by 'Akab'il..." This is the signature after a petition to the god.
dkrt'lt kll s(t)rt "May Allat remember every wish." Allat is the feminine of Allah and has the root LIL from Sumer.
l'g' bn (d)yrt "By 'Aga' bin Dayrat bin Hamilet" Note the god LIL in the bn hmlt name.
gwt bn (z)dl "Ghuwayth bin Zayd'il. This is a love note by a tswq 'l z'm bn He longed for Za'm man who missed Za'm. (t)'m t(l) yws. bin Ta'm Notice the LIL (root of __ Allah) used in his name.
lswql bn m..... "By Shawq'il bn M..." This incomplete signature again has the LIL god- root form.
mr'lh khl "Mar'allah of Kuhayl" Signature. Mar'allah appears many times in N. Arabia ___ May be a priestly title.
Please notice the ancient form which was used in the writer's name as we saw above. (FOOTNOTE 76: 172 / 241, 242, 245, 252, 253b / 221-267) To be used in the names of the people, a god had to be very well established and respected over a long period. A current example of this surname-god association is in the name Jésus (pronounced Hay'suus) in Mexico. It would be inconceivable to assume that Mexico was ever Budhist by looking at that name usage. Thus Allah was secure in the names of the gods of Arabia from 700 BC to 50 AD.
James Hastings also asserts that in times of great stress, or pleadings, the Northern Arabs used the god-form, FHLH, which meant, "so, O Allah." The goddess form used just as often was FHLT which meant, "so, O Allat." This shows that Allah was well established in North Arabia and that he had a consort, or lady friend of high esteem, named Allat. Hastings also reports that ILAHA was used for the sun god. This shows that Allah was the sun god figure and Allat was the moon
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goddess, which again debunks the recent notion that Allah was a seventh-century solar deity in Mecca. (FOOTNOTE 77: 60 / 248 / 484)
In his Semitic Mythology, Langdon indicates that Allat was the high goddess of choice, even more than Allah. In Safatic inscriptions of Hauran, she was referred to as Alilat, Alitta, Hallat, or by her Babylonian title, Allitu. In South Arabia, which we will treat later, she was ILAT. This shows the linguistic variation caused by migration along the trade routes from Phoenicia, Assyria, Babylon, and Sumer. The Nabataeans claimed that Allat was the goddess-consort of Dusares, which duplicated the North Arabian marriage of Tammuz and Ishtar, the Babylonian godhead.
"What does this have to do with Allah?" you ask. Simply this, Allah was the exact unquestionable linguistic male gender compliment of Allat, with suffix gender distinctions on the LIL root. The fact that Allat was the consort of Dusares (rather than Allah) in Phoenicia and North Arabia simply shows how weak Allah had become in the pantheon. Let us just say, "Allat was visiting around," and Allah had to wait to get her back until they moved on to Mecca. (FOOTNOTE 78: 89 / 14-17 / 355-356; 60 / 664 / 464) It wouldn't be the first time a man moved to get his wife to come back to him.
Was Allah the moon god of Mecca, as some allege? Answer: Wadd was the only moon god to the Arabs, and he never made it to Mecca. In our zeal to expose Islam, we need not invent exciting notions to hold our reader's attention when the truth is carved in stone in North Arabia and all over the Middle East! Some books are thrown together in a hurry to coincide with the latest ravings of the wild man of Baghdad. It sells books, but the truth is easily butchered. If some Middle Eastern event happens to coincide with the release of this book I hope the massive bibliography will convince you that it couldn't have been thrown together in a few days.
The Islamic notion of monotheism attached to Allah is not present in North Arabian inscriptions. Winnett, in an article for The Moslem World, gives a number of inscription quotes, including Allah, Allat, Dhu-Ghabat, Nahy, with Manat and LIL, coming up frequently in names of the writers. In one inscription Allah is asked to send the Jinn (devils) to aid the writer. Vengeance is called for from Allah on other men competing for the lover of the writer. Please don't think lightly of these writers. They were carving their zeal in stone with metal instruments, and that takes a serious mind and some time. It is a vastly greater undertaking than carving ones initials in tree bark.
Winnett shows that common to Allah in the inscriptions is the attribute, "abtar" or "childless." The revelation that Allah had no offspring, which Muhammed claimed in Koran, Sura 108 and 112, was
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used by Muhammed as a correction of the Christian doctrine regarding the Sonship of Jesus Christ.
I say, "Sorry Muhammed, old man, but Arab monotheism had its roots in North Arabia 500 years before the birth of Christ, or 1100 years before you climbed into the caves near Mecca to get your alleged revelations." (FOOTNOTE 79: 194 / 242-49 / 719-22) Though Allah was childless, it is clear that Allah had a consort named Allat. The reason they never produced a son is because the doctrine of pagan Babylon, from which Allah evolved, said that the goddess could produce a son without being sired by the god in residence.
Muhammed's monotheism is a myth. Allah and Allat, along with devils (Jinn) and a whole community of deities, were happily making their way to Mecca in North Arabia circa 500 BC. This Hajj of Allah might better be called "the migration of the gods to Mecca."
Olmstead draws the divine couple together by reporting an inscription at Dedan which said, "Naamil (note the IL root), son of Hafraz. Allah is exalted." >From Tema comes another voice blasting the inferior god, "Salm is a mean god" and, "A foul god is Salm." Olmstead then associates Allah with the gods reported by Herodotus-- Dionysus, Alilat, and Orotalt. Alilat is Allat, the consort of Allah. It is interesting to note that a Dedanite inscription makes reference to Geshmu the Arab, Nehemiah's opponent. This is the kind of historic cross reference which is glaringly missing in the Koran. (FOOTNOTE 80: 115 / 295 / 182)
Muhammed was terrified of the Allah / Allat connection. He allowed the family to exist momentarily, by way of the "Satanic verses" in Sura 53, but he saw at once that he could not counterfeit Christianity and win the Jews with an earthly physical family for the Islamic godhead. The doctrine of the eternal Sonship of The Lord Jesus Christ is not based upon physical activity since, as Jesus said in the Bible, Matthew 22:30, "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
Muhammed refused to live by faith, so he could not understand how Elohim could have a Son who was eternally OF God but not physically sired BY God. In this, Muhammed and Joseph Smith of the Mormons, are alike. They both believed that all sons are produced in the physical marriage bed. This is the result of reducing the divine to our small human imaginations.
So, we have now determined that Allah made the journey in good health all the way from Sumer to Northern Arabia. It is clear that Allah's Hajj has been a great success, because the rest of the journey to Mecca, and Allah's role in the advent of Islam in 625 AD, is written history. Muhammed claimed he found Allah in the Kaaba after he threw out all of the other pagan gods. Let's take his word for it.
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Haji Allah is the pagan god who survived best and who deserves the distinction. After all, he migrated over a period of 3500 years and 2000 miles from Nimrod's Babel to Mecca. It is now clear that Muhammed's claim to a heritage in Elohim is the most exquisite of blasphemies. Elohim, who never had a wife, could not possibly be the Allah of North Arabia, the god who was frequently abandoned when the goddesses looked for a new divine consort.
(FOOTNOTE 81: Credit where credit is due. From now on we will frequently refer to Allah as "Haji Allah." This is in recognition of his making the first Hajj, or pilgrimage, from Babylon to Mecca. Any Muslim today, who makes the required pilgrimage to Mecca, will add the title "Haji" to his name.)
Allah is the god of Islam. Allat was its goddess, if only for a few weeks and by courtesy of Satan, until Muhammed dropped her from godhead (Sura 53, "Satanic Verses"). I have just given you a fraction of the bibliographical material (mine alone consists of 4000 pages from nearly 300 authors) to support this historic picture, which is available upon request at cost.
You will remember that I said that Allah came by another route to Mecca. Since he was a legend rather than a real god he traveled the trade routes in all directions. Come, let us start over and follow Haji Allah as he traveled to Mecca by the southern route. Many Iranian and Indian Muslims follow this route today.
ALLAH'S HAJJ:
THE SOUTHERN ROUTE
Haji Allah went south at the same time he was going to Assyria, Phoenicia, and then to Mecca via North Arabia. Perhaps you noticed that we missed discussing the LIL evolutions in ancient and modern Babylon. That is because I was saving it to show that Babylon is very much the foundation of both the South Arabian and Meccan pantheon. Of course Babylon sent its filthy religion in all directions, so it was part of the Assyrian pantheon as well.
Most pagans are too superstitious to pitch out old gods, so Babylon's gods turn up regularly in the strangest places. It comes up in Ezekiel 8 where the backslidden Jewish women are weeping for Tammuz, who died in the summer, and the men stood, in blasphemy, with their backs to the temple, watching for the sun to stay up longer after the winter solstice.
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This is the origin of our Christmas holiday, December 25th, and the Roman Catholic Church kindly replaced the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and her baby, Marduk, with Mary and baby Jesus. This pagan origin explains why Christmas is so well received by ignorant Christians and pagans around the world-- it IS rooted in 5000 year old paganism. Feel free to send for my free booklet on Christmas.
To see a picture of Baal, the high god of early Babylon, CLICK HERE.
Another interesting place to find the Babylonian goddess, Allat, is in the Vatican. In Phoenicia and Greece, Allat, the primal goddess form derived from the LIL root, became Lat, and then Lato. From Greece she traveled to Rome to be the founding lady of Rome's affairs as Lato. Thus ancient Italy was named Latinia or Latium in honor of the naughty lady of Babylon, and Rome's language became Latin.
This is the language which the old Holy (?) Roman Catholic Empire used to conceal the Bible, and it is the language they used to cloak their worship in mystical ritual until the 1960's. Allat, you've come a long way, baby. When the Pope does the Christmas Mass in honor of the goddess and child cult of Babylon, he appropriately uses the language which honors Allat-- Latin.
The above detour has a real purpose. There is a claim by some that Islam was invented by the Roman Catholic church at the time of Muhammed, through his first wife, Khadijah. It is claimed that she was "planted" in Muhammed's life by the Pope. The Roman Catholic Church has done much evil, but Allah and Allat, along with Arabian monotheism, were in Mecca long before the Lord Jesus Christ was even born.
Long before Muhammed was born, pagan Christians were all over Arabia, to which they fled FROM the Roman Catholic Church, because they were worse heretics than Rome itself! These heretic "Christians," along with paganized Jews in Arabia, gave Muhammed his doctrinal foundations. Again, it makes a graphic story to claim all of the world's paganism originated from the Vatican, but Satan is quite capable of promoting some of his wickedness without using Cardinals and Popes,
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helpful as they may be at times.
Christian-- Beware! Stop using any literature, in witnessing to Muslims, that claims the above "plot" by Rome. It also makes fools of Muslims by implying they were ignorant patsies of the white race who foisted their religion on them. It is quite enough stress for a Muslim to see the truth by looking at Islam in its historic Middle Eastern context. Leave the Pope out of it, and beware of the claims of alleged "converted" Jesuits who cannot be verified by other converted Jesuits. For more on this, see Appendix No. 2.
Vatican II called for a healing between Islam and the Vatican, and Pope John Paul II has worked hard for that goal. (FOOTNOTE 82: Keys of this Blood, Malachi Martin, Pub. Simon and Schuster, NY) That may very well be what will happen soon. As I write, I have received a report that a mosque is to be built in Vatican City, so the plot thickens.
Dear Muslim reader, do you now believe me when I say that I care about your soul? It would have been very colorful, anti-Islam and anti-Catholic, to twist the history of Allah to sustain the above nonsense. But, it would be a lie, and I want you to have a chance to get the truth. Allah is a devil from Sumer, a pagan god from Babylon. That is enough to deal with and enough to suggest that a Muslim consider Elohim and Jesus Christ of the Bible. But, we must have a better look at Babylon.
Babylon, even more than Sumer before it, exported its spiritual garbage in all directions, such as to India in the notions of the Isa Upanishads and Brahman, alias Ramman, Rahman, Rimmon. The goddess and baby son cult are also rooted in Babylon. This shows how Satan counterfeited the promise which God gave to Eve in the Bible, Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it (Christ) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (in the Crucifixion and resurrection of Christ)."
Here is the promise of a Son to be born of the woman (later, this was Mary) who would defeat Satan. What higher priority could Satan have then to destroy or obscure this hope? That is why goddess and son cults abound in all the earth, and they all date back to Babylon, Nimrod's Babel. Satan understands the Word of God and prophecy well enough to set counterfeits in motion long before God fulfills the prophecies.
Before we embark with Haji Allah on his Hajj down the Euphrates River, through the Persian Gulf, and via South Arabia, to Mecca, let's take a stroll through the streets of ancient Babylon. Some of the sights will put you in awe of their glory and inventiveness, but others may leave you with some nausea. Some of the most revolting discoveries in Babylon actually made several archaeologists vomit in revulsion as they unearthed the scene. I shall not tell you the worst so that this book doesn't slide into ancient pornography.
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As we enter the city of Babylon, we first see a two hundred foot seven story pyramid towering above the city. The glazed bricks that face it glow in the sun. It is not a tomb as in the Egyptian pyramids or Persian tombs. It is a temple, and right under the pinnacle is a chamber where a young girl sleeps every night on a golden bed in a sumptuous bed chamber. (See illustration on page 117) She is the nightly consort of the god, Marduk. He is the baby god born, every December 25th, to the virgin goddess, and he grows to manhood in a few months. Of course, there is no real Marduk, as there is no real Santa Clause, but the ancients, like demented modern men, loved the original Christmas cult.
The reigning god-king stood in for Marduk every night by visiting the young lady in the divine bed-chamber. This would be the likes of Hammurabi or any lust-filled priest he designated. Such pomp and glory, yet such gross depravity! (FOOTNOTE 83: 46 / 399 / 996; 52 / 130-133 / 915-916; 136 / 374-379 / 850-852; 35 / 240-241 / 1540-41; 55 / 81 / 1583. Write me for a large file on Christmas in Babylon and Sumer in 1000 to 2000 BC.)
As we move through the city of Babylon, we hear that we have arrived on the day of the auction of brides. Hammurabi has arranged a very curious and unique method of seeing to it that the ugliest girl could get a husband. Herodotus, the Greek historian, tells of this. On the day of the auction all marriageable girls are gathered at the auction location. The loveliest girl is auctioned off first, and she brings a very high price. Then the second loveliest is auctioned off, and so on, until no one will bid for a girl because she is not very pretty.
The auctioneer then offers to pay a "dowry" to whomever will marry the girl. The "dowry" is paid out of the proceeds of the auction funds just collected. This continues until the ugliest and last girl is married off. Her "dowry" is undoubtedly about as high as the price paid for the loveliest girl.
Now, after living for fifty years at the mercy of modern bureaucracy, that appeals to me. The state conducted a bureaucratic administrative device where everyone was happy with the results, and it didn't cost the tax payers a cent, or shekel. This was the way of Hammurabi. In the morning he could come up with some of the fairest laws ever know in the history of the world. He made laws to protect widows, orphans, the poor, and even slaves had some civil rights in Hammurabi's Babylon. Then, that evening, he would go up to the pagan temple and rape a young girl on behalf of Marduk. Man's devices always "fall short of the glory of God," right?
Now we come to the house of astronomy. Here we find the scientists of Babylon not nearly so taken up with the mystic meanings of the stars as were Nimrod's people. The Babylonian astronomers had catalogued all of the stars they could see in 1200 BC, and there system
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was the one used all the way into the Mediterranean area. By 800 BC they had given positions and helical settings to the stars, thus enhancing the navigational use of the heavens.
In mathematics, they adopted 60 as a unit of measure, the basic unit of time in the universe to this day. Their cuneiform writing was taken to the whole world where writing was largely unknown. It is astounding that scientists today boast of how we have surpassed the Babylonians, yet our students today graduate from school frequently unable to read an employment application, let alone a navigational chart.
Next, we come to a big ceremonial green or commons. Here dozens of women sit in long lines of chairs, waiting. What are they waiting for? Once in the life of every cultured woman in Babylon, she must go to the temple and be sired by a random gentleman other than her husband. The men, often local losers or derelicts, come along the rows, pick a woman, and enter the temple to render his services to the lady. He gives her a silver coin, which is then given to the temple priests, who keep a record of every woman's "devotions," and she is then in a right relationship with the gods.
As we come along, a gold-gilded four-wheeled carriage draws up. Out steps a lavishly dressed member of the royal family, disgust all over her face, and she finds a seat along with the common housewives of Babylon. One very ugly lady has been sitting here day after day for weeks because she has no appeal to the men who come along. Ah, but here is an inebriate who has made it to the royal lady first. He flips his silver coin into her lap, and they are off to the temple chambers to do their "devotions." (FOOTNOTE 84: All of the above discussion of Babylon: 15 / 25-47 / 1665-1677) Modern feminists, who delight in exalting ancient goddess cults, need to look a little deeper into the "good old days" of Ishtar.
Does this help you to understand why Jehovah, in Jeremiah 50-51, says he will one day wipe Babylon off of the map? Even today, Saddam Hussein claims he will get back all of the "glory" of Babylon, and much of Babylon is restored at this time. But Jehovah will soon blast Babylon off of the earth.
We must move on, but I hope you have a new appreciation for the Hebrew men, Daniel, Nehemiah, Shadrack, Meshech, and Abed Nego, indeed all of those who were "faithful to their God" after seventy years of resisting Satan in beautiful downtown Babylon. I wonder how many of today's Laodicean Christians could stand up to that Babylon in loyalty to Christ? (FOOTNOTE 85: Bible, Revelation 3:14-22) Also, how is Babylon so unlike the sodomite presidencies and royal brothels we see today in the USA and Europe? Food for thought, right?
As evening settles over the city the lamp lighters go along
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lighting street lamps. They are fueled by petroleum gathered where it oozes out of the ground. We stand on one of the bridges over the Euphrates River so that we can get a larger view of the hanging gardens of Nebuchadnezzar. The whole area is intensely green, which is a the result of a massive irritation system. Babylon-- such beauty, and such gross paganism all mixed up together.
Is it not a lot like the great religious centers today? ...the Taj Mahal, shining pure white in the Indian sun, while in its shadow the low caste beggars wait to die in hope that when the twelve thousandth reincarnation is reached, they too will arrive in the Brahman, ...how Babylon reminds us of the ashrams of India, Switzerland, and Oregon where the faithful feed on the most healthy diets, do aerobics, then men and women alike go service the libido of the great garlic-breathing guru, ...or, consider the Vatican plaza with its pomp and circumstance par excellence, while right in front of the whole scene stands the great obelisk, complete with ball on top-- the universal phallic symbol, and nearby, in 855 AD, Joan of Anglia, who concealed her sex to become Pope John VIII, gave birth to a bastard son, on the pavement, while on her way to celebrate Mass at the Lateran. (FOOTNOTE 86: Write for a bibliography on The Woman who was a Pope. Also see Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd Edition, 1778-83)
And, as the Pope elevates the host at the Christmas Mass, he stands in St. Peter's Basilica, Named for Basilisk, the phallic serpent god of Greece. False religion always has a veneer of beauty, while noxious filth lurks just beneath the surface. That is why it is highly significant that Haji Allah, alias ENLIL of Sumer, should go to Mecca by way of Babylon rather than Jerusalem!
But, we may not linger any longer in Babylon. Haji Allah is about to continue his Hajj to Mecca, and we must not keep him waiting. I need to re-introduce you to Allah as he would be known in Babylon. The high god of Babylon was Ba'al. This is derived from LIL / IL of Sumer, whom you met earlier. The break down of the name is Ba'ILAH, and the goddess is Ba'ILAT. Langdon reports that Astarte was also Ba'alat or Beltis, the wife consort of Gebal, another LIL derived god of Babylon. (FOOTNOTE 87: 89 / 66-67 / 383; 55 / 80 / 1582) This is simply a linguistic twist caused by moving from Sumer to Babylon. The Bible gives us understanding of the name Ba'al in discussing the priests of Ba'al.
Psalms 53:4, Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Isaiah 6:12-13, And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it
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shall be a tenth (of the people), and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah 66:3, He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; (I.E. for food) he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; ... Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Revelation 17:12-16, And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore (modern ecumenical church) sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast (New World Order and the United Nations), these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
The Bible makes it clear that violent people ate those they hated in the past, and they will eat the people of the Whore of Revelation in the future. This is why our hearts go out to those caught up in the Roman Catholic Church and world religion. They will ride high for a while in the near future, but they will literally be the lunch, Roman Catholic shish-kabab, for the New World Order system in the coming Great Tribulation. Now, what does this have to do with Ba'al? Simply this: "Priest of Ba'al," as it appears in ancient Semitic epigraphs, and in the Hebrew Old Testament is, CANA BA'AL. This is the derivation of the word, cannibal, which has survived into the English language!
The priests of Ba'al in Babylon ate human flesh ceremonially, a custom observed from Babylon to Greece to modern witchcraft, and this is the second headquarters of the god LIL or Haji Allah. It is not a small matter that Allah should be at home in Babylon in 1000 BC.
In other words, if the Babylonian priests said, "Ba'al would like to have you for lunch," you didn't go if you could help it. Allah was not far behind either. (FOOTNOTE 88: The Golden Bough, Sir James G. Frazer, Macmillan, NY, p. 339-341 / shelf.)
Do the inscriptions show that Allah was in Babylon? First, let me remind you that we already looked at the Sumerian use of Allallu, Alla, and Alala in the Epics of Gilgamesh and Inanna. (FOOTNOTE 89: 173 / 371 / 995; 93 / 199 / 984) These variations on the Allah name were in place long before Hammurabi's
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Babylon, and we note that the Babylonians took in all of the Sumerian pantheon in tact.
A Babylonian document found in Nineveh gave the names of the gods and their Assyrian equivalents. Enlil was still at the top of the list! He survived 1500 years to still be honored in Babylon. That is a very long time by modern standards. Sayce makes it clear that the flow was from Sumer to Babylon, and then to Assyria.
This means that our previous study of the flow of LIL through Assyria, Phoenicia, and North Arabia was, in part, the product of Babylon in its origins. (FOOTNOTE 90: 93 / 200 985; 142 / 82 / 1009) To add their own trade mark to the pantheon, the Babylonians simply raised goddess and son, Ishtar and Marduk, to the prime position in place of Inanna and Gilgamesh, alias Semiramis and Nimrod, of Sumer. Allat and Allah were not replaced in this process, so they went on down the road eagerly seeking their future.
To see Ishtar and Marduk, CLICK HERE.
Since Allat was busy in the Babylonian inscription and cuneiform accounts, we know very well that Allah was on hand at least as a grammatical "other." Muller reports, in 400 BC, in nearby Persian writings, that they wrote, "Allah is exalted" among other gods. This was found across the river from Babylon, but it shows how Allah had moved his influence well beyond Babylon. (FOOTNOTE 91: 107 / 264 / 79) Also, after Alexander the Great conquered Persia, circa 300 BC, Allat, who was well established there, became replaced by Athena. That was the same goddess, only the name was changed to appease the conqueror. (FOOTNOTE 92: 177 / 532 / 217)
It is also interesting to find that Rammanu, who was Rimmon of Assyria, Brahman of India, and Rahman of Islam, was also known in Babylon as IL-hallabu. (FOOTNOTE 93: 89 / 39 / 368) The IL and Allah root are very obvious. This shows that Allah and Allat were well entrenched in Babylon as were all of the cults of the Middle East.
It is interesting that the Babylonian "Halla" shows up in South Arabia later as HLH in the inscriptions. We will discuss this shortly. Allah was not personally very prominent in Babylon because Allah had become a generic universal god by the time he reached Babylon, and he would stay that
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way until 625 AD when Muhammed would raise him to monotheistic singularity for the first time ever. J J M Roberts, in his list of god / goddess names, has shown very clearly that the IL and ILUM roots are the foundation of nearly all god names in Mesopotamia before UR III. (FOOTNOTE 94: 132 / all / 932-945)
Another obvious reason why Allah became the generic god is that the pagan gods do age. The LIL of ancient Sumer was a kind and benevolent god who loved his people. They prayed to him because they believed that he would help in conception and child birth. (FOOTNOTE 95: 132 / 34 / 937) This changed as others took LIL's place, and by the time LIL had become Enlil, then Be'IL, then ILAH, then Al ILAH, IL-hallabu, and finally Allah, senility had taken the tenderness from him. This is the god of Muhammed and the Koran-- "Allah, the unknowable."
Frederick P. Noble quotes Palgrave, "Allah, Islam's absentee landlord... wound the clock of the universe and went away forever." (FOOTNOTE 96: 110 / 75 / 1611) Islam received a generic geriatric deity who was already old and decrepit, 1000 years before Muhammed's birth.
So, we have established a point in time when Allah was a resident of Babylon. Let us follow him next as he travels down the Euphrates river to its mouth. This is the area of Basra, just north of that novel British invention called Kuwait. We move on down the west bank of the Persian Gulf to present day Bahrain where the ancient city of Dilmun was located. The history of Dilmun and vicinity starts back in Sumer. We mentioned in Chapter Twelve that the god of heaven in Sumer was Anu (his wife was Antu), who was the sun god, and his off-spring included Merodach. He was originally the redeemer of mankind and associated with resurrection from the dead. Before the Tower of Babel, Anu would have been El, or Elohim. Anu was basicially lost along the way as centuries went by, and Enlil, earth god, took charge. This left El of the Hebrews unique and the God of Adam and Shem as Jehovah wanted it. So Enlil prevailed in the pagan world.
In Babylon the high god was Bel, Ba'al (Ba' IL), and eventually, In the stellar pantheon, he was the god, Jupiter. This heritage crossed over to be absorbed into the person of Enlil (heaven springs from the earth) as time went by, because the Babylonians got things all turned around, and Enlil was prevailing. Ecumenism knows no bounds when religious polity is human in nature. Enlil, who started as earth god, evolved to become the high god of the Middle East.
Bel's wife was Zarpanit who may be implied in the Bible in II Kings 17:30 as Succoth-benoth.
The children of this divine couple were Nebo (male) and Tasmit (female), who immediately married each other. To the god Nebo, the Babylonians later erected a temple-- "The temple of the Seven Lights of Heaven and Earth" in the suburb of Borsippa. The Arabs call this Birs-i-Nimrud today. It is curious that Nimrod is still in the thinking of Arabs today as they rename ancient holy cities which were the direct result of Nimrod's blasphemies.
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This Nebo left his mark over in Canaan, or Israel, as a city and mountain name. (Bible, Ezra 2:29 and Deut. 32:49) Here is the interesting point. Nebo was known in Sumer as Dismar, and a temple was erected to him at Dilmun, present day Bahrain, where Allah is headed on his Hajj. Dismar was known as Enzak to the Arabs there.
To show how these gods migrated around, Merodach, the god of Babylon, and father of Bahrain's or Dilmun's god, was also called Rimmon, the god of choice in Syria. Rimmon is Rahman of the Koran. Also, Sin, the moon-god of Sinai, was known in North Arabia, and in Yemen, and was the patron god of UR in later days. So Allah's arrival in Dilmun was just a visit of an old friend who had changed his name. It was quite a family reunion at Dilmun. And, Allah bore the hereditary lineage of the gods from primal times, a la Anu, Ea, and Enki melded into one high later day god.
All of this makes it clear that the whole pantheon in the Babylon, UR, and Dilmun area was directly the heritage of Enlil or LIL, the ancestor of Allah. The temple to Dismar in Dilmun, built around 2000 BC, was a tribute to the heritage of Allah as he arrived in the Bahrain area.
In more recent times, we see this melding together of pagan deities in the Mother and Child evolutions within the Roman Catholic Church circa 300 AD. The average Roman Catholic today has no idea how the Greek, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Roman goddesses and their deified sons converged and melded to become the foundation of the Marion cult. This also should be a red light caution to all Bible believers to carefully filter ALL forms and creeds through the Bible rather than through tradition. Tradition and diplomacy is what brought Allah out of Sumer to Mecca.
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We note in passing, that Allah was not related to the moon-god cult as some have claimed. He was, if anything, the sun god deity, while Allat was most certainly the moon goddess. Thousands of epigraphs attest to Allat's moon goddess role. To complete the stellar pantheon of Islam, Al-Uzza filled the place of Venus. The two ladies, Allat and Al Uzza, are the origin of the star and crescent of Islam. So, we see by this larger picture that Allah was actually present in the Dilmun area as early as 2000 BC. (FOOTNOTE 97: 153 / 74-77 / 1005-6)
Those two or three historians who saw Allah as sun god simply did their research too early, or they had some axe to grind. The more recent apologetic for Allah as moon god totally ignores the air-tight evidence that Allat was the moon deity, and Allah loses his counterfeit role as the supplanter of Elohim. Satan is NOT as stupid as some of these historians. Satan knows his counterfeits must resemble Jehovah, who is likened to the sun, not the moon, in Scripture. Even Messiah Christ is referred to in Malachi as the "Sun of righteousness." Malachi 4:2 "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. "
Satan has followed this lead in making himself and angel of light, and the moon is left to Mary in Romanism. Islam was manufactured by Satan in the same mold, thus Allah MUST hold the office of sun god. The lady, Allat holds the office of moon goddess. As a powerful argument here, it will be remembered that the primal gods after the language confusion of the Tower of Babel were ALL non-lunar dieties-- they were of heaven, sky, and earth. The moon was left to the ladies or other kin.
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Next, let us wander around Dilmun and the Bahrain / Qatar peninsula as it would have appeared in the days when Allah came through on his Hajj to Mecca. While Dilmun was not as advanced as Sumer in 2000 BC, it was far ahead of the steppes of Europe, where my Dutch ancestors, in 2000 BC, were lopping off each other's heads for fun and eating raw boar for esthetic thrills.
The whole area consists of several towns such as Barbar, Diraz, Sar, as well as Dilmun. In about 2000 BC the Sumerians gave to this area their gods, Enki as well as Ea and Enlil. This is startling since the people of this area were Semitic, and later, totally Arab, as they are today.
Outside of Barbar are 15,000 burial mounds showing that this was a well established city. Excavations showed these people had sheep, goats, cattle, and of course camels. They drank from fired clay goblets, and used copperware on their tables. A bronze handle to a drill pump showed that they were either manufacturers or clever traders, and their looms, pottery kilns, and fishing equipment indicate they were very diversified.
Since fresh water is reached at only six feet, they must have had exceptional crops. In recent years a very high yield in cereal grains has
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been reached. They would have raised wheat, barley, dates, melons, carrots, radishes, and probably cucumbers. Along with the fishing potential in the Gulf, their menu must have been very interesting.
This is the environment to which Haji Allah came as he traveled south along the western shore of the Persian Gulf. The rulers of Dilmun and environs were on intimate terms with the Sumerian rulers of Nippur and Ur III.
Sumer found such distant cities easier to trade with peaceably than to conquer outright, so this assured the Arabs and Ishmaelites a peaceful and prosperous tenure over the centuries. Allah was easy to get along with since he demanded very little from those along his Hajj route, and the Arabs of Dilmun and the surrounding area had plenty of time, from about 2000 to 1000 BC, to get to know Allah very well. (FOOTNOTE 98: 128 / 168-172 / 402-408) It is no wonder that today one out of every three petro-dollars from the United Arab Emirates goes to promote Islam. (FOOTNOTE 99: Gleaned from Arab friends.)
To see how Allah traveled southward along the Persian gulf we need to look at the Persian connection. As I write, Iran, modern day Persia, is a leading player in the affairs of Islam. It should be no surprise that Allah gathered some Persian notions as he passed through. In 1938, the expedition of the Royal Central Asian Society found a temple to the Moon god in the Hadhramaut (South Arabia) out of the town of Mukalla. The find was dated from circa 350 BC. In the excavations, Persian coins were found showing that this currency was in use in the area. Add to this a record of Persian taxation of Yemen, and this is powerful proof that Persian influence had traveled to the back door of Mecca. (FOOTNOTE 100: 195 / 209-210 / 726-727)
What would the Persian and Arab traders have brought with them, first to Dilmun, then on to the Hadhramaut? Answer: Other than giving Allah a free ride, they brought the Kaaba. We already noted that Kaaba was the goddess of Phoenicia who gave birth on December 25th to a son named Dusares. (FOOTNOTE 101: 89 / 16-17 / 356)
We also find that the word "Ka'bah" comes by way of Persia. In the Sixth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology at Oxford, David Stronach presented a paper on the remains of the tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae which dated from 525 BC. It had a massive stone foundation with a shrine-house on top. Inside the shrine was a gold coffin containing Cyrus' remains, a couch, and a table with some drinking cups on it. For all his pomp during his lifetime, he seemed to have a very
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abbreviated expectation for the afterlife. Above the shrine-house was a chamber for the magi who would look after Cyrus' interests in the next life.
As was the case with most well-planned tombs of ancient kings, Cyrus wrote the inscription ahead of time taking credit for every great thing that he expected to do. As it turned out, he did pretty well at living up to his own prophecies for himself. Our kings, dictators, and presidents today wouldn't dare do such things since they so often die of over-spiced soup or lead poisoning to the brain before they even get the palace rooms aired out. In any case, Cyrus called his tomb in the Persian language, "Ka'bah."
To see a tomb of the Kabah type in Persia, CLICK HERE.
His son, Cambyses II, had his own smaller tomb built near papa's, and it was also called a Ka'bah. There may have been some connection to fire worship in these tombs, but it is clear that the word, Ka'bah, in ancient Persia, was associated with tombs. (FOOTNOTE 102: 239 / 313-317 / 1155-1159)
Now here is the problem for Islamic Muslims. The word Kaaba is used for the stone temple in Mecca which is circled seven times by the pilgrims during their Hajj ritual. "Kaaba" is NOT an Arab word. It is said by Muslim apologists to be derived from several things, one being that it is the word for "cube" in Arabic.
But the definition which seems to cling to the Arab imagination best is that the "kab," or heel of Muhammed, left the earth last. Some dear follower of Muhammed grabbed his heel, and so the Kaaba sanctifies some aspect of this fable. Nonsense! We have seen in our study of the northern route of Allah's Hajj that "Kaaba" is the goddess of Phoenicia, and we now see that "Ka'bah" is the word for "tomb" in Persia where Allah passed on his southern route to Mecca.
It is very clear that these two heritages were carried in Allah's saddle bags along both of the routes to Arabia, and they met in Mecca to become the shrine of Islam. A tomb of death, in honor of the goddess, was delivered to Mecca by Haji Allah.
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Do you think this is presumptuous? Well, consider another twist in the Persian connection. In 520 BC, soon after Cyrus was laid to rest in his Ka'bah, Darius had built his citadel in a city called Allanush (derived from "Allah"). This was just north of Dilmun, present day Bahrain.
The citadel of Darius was very elaborate, and had much of the grandeur of Nebuchadnezzar's palaces. The empire had faltered since Cyrus' days, and Darius pulled it back together, so a grand headquarters was in order, and naming it Allanush, in honor of Allah, was a clear indication that Allah was well thought of by the pagan Persians. This coinciding of Allah's name in Darius' days with the Ka'bah-tomb of Cyrus shows that Haji Allah migrated, in grand style, to Mecca by way of South Arabia. (FOOTNOTE 103: 115 / 166-167 / 179-180) This shows the heritage of Allah was tied to Persian traders and rulers long before Muhammed, and those Persian traders certainly didn't get Allah from Abraham or Moses.
Later, the Persians, upon embracing Islam, did not abandon their pagan system of worship. Their Ahriman (Alias Rimmon, Rahman, and Brahman) became Sheitan, or Satan. This was a divine mess since Muhammed also used Rahman as a name of the god of Islam. Much later, the Persian's high god, Ormazd, became Allah. This was in about 670 AD when Islam formally took hold in Persia. Persians are Aryan white race people who demand an emotional kick out of their religion (something like the New Age mystics of today).
Such was Abdel-Kedar Jilani. He practiced yoga, levitation, hypnotism, and could listen in on far away conversations long before the CIA was doing it. Please notice his last name-- Jilani. There is IL in a Muslim's name in Persia long after Muhammed had died. IL certainly persisted in the minds of the Middle Eastern pagans, and he definitely made it to Mecca as Allah. (FOOTNOTE 104: 55 / 337-338 / 1590-1591a)
Chosroes II of Persia was the only king outside of Arabia to ever set up any authority in Arabia, and his conquest of Yemen in 620 AD was in the form of tax collecting. His presence in South Arabia near the time of Muhammed's birth is clear proof that the highway to Mecca was paved smooth by Persian paganism on behalf of Haji Allah. (FOOTNOTE 105: 169 / 476 / 40)
You may be convinced by now, but it is important to have a look at the inscriptions that Allah's friends left along the way to Mecca. The south of Arabia is a very fertile and healthy land. It is almost totally neglected by the historians since they don't have much use for the Arabs.
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My theory is that Western historians and their students are mostly interested in technology, war, and sex. South Arabia, for thousands of years, minded its own business, never conquered anyone, and, since then, has changed very little.
The southern Arabs never got into a great war, and they don't have borders like the ones modern map makers try to draw on the sand. Look at a map of Arabia. You will see in the lower part of the peninsula a vast desert called Rub' al Khali, or Empty Quarter. You will also notice that all of the coastal countries that fringe southern Arabia have borders that just run off into dotted lines in the desert. Historians have no respect for people who don't kill a million people to move a line on the map, so they have had very little interest in southern Arabia..
The great desert, The Empty Quarter, is a barrier worse than any sea. It has seven hundred foot high sand dunes which stretch for miles. It has salt flats which have a lake of hot salt soup under a thick top crust through which the traveler and his camel will fall and never escape. The Empty Quarter is very cold at night and fiercely hot during the daytime.
It gets only occasional rains, and when the Bedhoin see a rare thunder storm far away, they race to that location, knowing that when they get there, the shrubs will have greened up just enough to sustain their beloved camels. The few watering springs are far apart, and the water is usually so bad that it is best to let the camels drink, then the Bedhoin later drink the camels' milk. The few oases are not nearly as romantic as those of Western Arabia or Egypt. The only thing a Bedhoin Arab holds dear in the Empty Quarter is his rifle and his camel. (FOOTNOTE 106: 160 / all / 1762; This book is very satisfying reading, though secular.) Islam is not nearly as demanding on him as on his city friends.
Even today, with modern transportation, it is common to see a Southern Arab driving a Datsun pick-up truck with a camel in the back. The camel may be reduced to the role of spare tire, but his future seems to be integrally knit with the Arab's future. A U.S. Air Force friend of mine returned from Desert Storm and told me that he lived in beautiful apartments while he was stationed in Riyadh. They had been built by the Arabian government for the desert Bedhoin to induce them to come to town and become civilized. There was even a camel stable added to the usual car park. The Bedhoin flatly refused to move to town. They are a people of the desert, and cannot be supervised by anyone, and they are not very impressed with "civilization."
Now I told you about the Empty Quarter for this reason. Only the most hardy Bedhoin and a few mad explorers have made it across the empty quarter on foot. And, as you might guess, most of the explorers were Englishmen. They DO "go out in the noonday sun," but in Arabia even the dogs know better! What we have learned from these fearless
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explorers is that all trade, travel, migration, and attempts at conquest, for all of history, have come either down the Jordan valley via North Arabia, or they have come along the west coast of the Persian Gulf and along the southern shore of Arabia where the Indian Ocean moderates the climate. NO conqueror ever crossed the Empty Quarter.
This nomadic spirit of the Bedhoin even spilled over into the outside world. In fact, the Sultan of Oman once ruled his Arabian empire from Zanzibar, or Zinj, as the East African coast was known in 500 AD. This Arab rule in Zanzibar lasted well into the 20th century under the rule of the Sultans of Zanzibar. (FOOTNOTE 107: The Lunatic Express, Chalres Miller, Ballantine, NY; Chap 1; Heroes of The dark Continent, J.W. Buel, Hunt and Eaton, NY, p. 107-110, Chap. 25.) This independent spirit is why there is very little evidence of Allah in the Empty Quarter, and it explains why the Bedhoin were the last to accept Muhammed's cult. Nomadic people are seldom evangelized by "civilized" deities.
To see a photo op (well, a steel block etching) of the Sultan of Zanzibar, CLICK HERE.
I hope you can see how the more settled Arabs of South Arabia, known as the Sabaeans, came to be very isolated from the rest of the world, but especially from nations to the immediate north. All of their commerce had to come around the great Empty Quarter.
So the inscriptions in the stones along the way, and in the temples of their various cults, were the result of some very zealous migration by far away gods. In reality, this migration was by those who traveled into Southern Arabia to trade or plunder.
I am sorry we don't have time to take the usual walk-about in the Hadhramaut, but that might be a nice thing for you to do in person. The Yemen is no longer saddled with Marxism and is now trying to create a tourist trade. It has a beautiful high altitude climate, ancient history, and the best coffee in the world.
Taken together, The Yemen, and Ethiopia just across the Red Sea, are perhaps the most neglected, yet the most intriguing, of the Semitic nations. The Roman Church, and the commercial vultures of the tourist industry, have not yet deformed some of these hidden treasures.
To see the ancient capital of Ethiopia, Gondar, CLICK HERE.
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Having set forth this picture, I now list in a somewhat technical way the various inscriptions found in South Arabia that relate to Allah and show he came this way on his Hajj. As I said, inscriptions cap off the claims of history, so this is needed, even if we consider only a fraction of those available. The land of southern Arabian inscriptions is Saba.
The Kingdom of Saba, the Sabaeans, was a Semitic empire established as early as 1000 BC, and it survived until about 300 AD. That is startling compared to the world's recent empires. The Soviet Socialist empire recently collapsed after only 70 years. The United States "empire" is just over 200 years old, and all of the classic signs of collapse are now present. Again I note how the historians take little notice of the strong unless they are strong in puerile western terms.
Saba was the empire from which the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon. Saba was also the origin of the Habasha who crossed the Red Sea to become the Ethiopians. Maryab was the capitol of Saba, and their caravans reached to Nineveh and, by sea, to India and Zanzibar. In fact, there is some possibility they circumnavigated Africa since their ships sailed the Mediterranean Sea.
The capital city, Maryab, is now a great mound of debris with modern Marib nearby. In 1951, Dr. Albert Jamme did a great work in the area by collecting and deciphering many inscriptions. He was finally run out of town by local government officials who distrusted his motives.
My inscription evidence is largely from Jamme's book, Sabaean Inscriptions >From Mahram Bilqis, which he presented to the American Foundation for the Study of Man in 1962. I begin by noting that LIL / IL is in the name of the town or area of his searching, Bilqis that is. I shall use his numberings which are in common use as far as I know. If you want the actual inscriptions in Arabic or the English translation, please send for them or check a university library. (Prefix "Ja" before each index number for further folio studies):
559- Inscription in yellow sand stone. The inscription is a record of how the Rulers erected a bronze statue to ILumquh, the deity of choice. `ILumquh should be pronounced, `ILU-mquh, ILU being translated, "the god." Who "mquh" is, or if it is simply an attribute, is uncertain. On line 7, 11, 13, 18, and 20 ILumquh is mentioned. This is a god name based on the IL root which we have shown is also the root of Allah. Attar is also mentioned, and this is a deity based upon Ishtar, which became Ashtart, and finally Athtar in the Oman region.
In Saba, Attar is the survivor, and she is hermaphroditic, that is,
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in Saba she became masculine. Perhaps this hermaphroditic rarity accounts for the error by some writers who imagine Allah was a moon god. Some Arab rock carver might have transposed Allah and Allat in this way, and their isolated inscription would lead the less cautious historian astray. On line 18 the word used for "the gods" is `Lyhmw. The root of the god name is IL, Allah's ancestor.
568- Again, the rulers erected a statue to ILumquh, and they wanted to get the official credit. In this inscription ILumquh is named seven times, and again Attar gets used once. It is also of note that the king's name was ILsarah. This sounds like a Semitic transliteration of Iswara which is found in Persia and India. The IL in the king's name shows the commonness of IL in Saba.
The ILsarah connection to Iswara of Persia and India points to the name Isa, which Islam erroneously claims is the Arabic name of Jesus. In fact, Isa is the name given to the second group of Upanishads who transported Aryan pagan notions from Persia to India in about 700 BC. This will be discussed later as it relates to the name of Jesus in Arabic.
569- Here, ILsarah, the same king as above, dedicated a female statue to ILumquh, the male god. It would seem that this was an effort to please the god's libido. IL had his needs met, and this shows how the Arab has always thought of the gods as needing a consort. Allah was no exception since we find him in the company of a lady, or goddess, all the way from Enlil and Ninlil in Sumer to Allah's and Allat's divine household in Mecca. Muhammed's "Satanic Verse" blunder shows how even he had a hard time giving up this bed-chamber theology.
605- Another statue is dedicated to `ILumquh to protect the son of an influential family. Again, the name `ILumquh is used several times and ILsarah, king of Saba, is referred to with respect. It seems that ILsarah was on very good terms with `ILumquh, and winning the favor of both was propitious.
606- Another pair of statues is dedicated to `ILumquh, this time at the orders of an oracle. This shows that the statue dedications were a sort of purchase of indulgence, as found in the Roman Catholic Church, where certain acts gain exemptions from future evil. This, of course, is sub-christian paganism, whether in South Arabia or in Rome. The pleadings by king Watarum Yuha`min, the son of king ILsarah, sound very humble and sincere. A second stone with an identical inscription was found. It had a couple of typographical errors, so it was either a rejected copy, or it may be the first archaeological evidence for, "get it in duplicate."
631- Two bronze statues are dedicated again to `ILumquh. We wonder, with a former single female statue being seen, if the 631 statues
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were not male and female. This would fit the ongoing Babylonian theology of the day. The statues were a thanks-offering to `ILumquh for helping the kings, Sumharum Yuhawlid and Qatban `Awkam, in "killing, eradicating, destroying, beheading, cutting, crushing, humbling, repelling, seizing, capturing, plundering, and rejoicing with war" in the defeat of the Habasites of Aksuman.
This was an attack on the Ethiopian descendants of Arabia, who had set up an empire across the Red Sea in ancient Aksum and had returned in an effort to enlarge their empire back into southern Arabia. The inscription refers to their "Negus," whom the Sabaean kings defeated.
Heilie Sallassie I, killed in 1975 by the Kissinger-Ford financed Communists, was Emperor of Ethiopia and descended from these Aksumites. King Qatban has descendants today in Arabia who are known as the Bani Qatab, which shows that the Arabs know how to keep the "bounds of their habitation" (Acts 17:26) for as long as 3000 years. This, contrary to the exaltation of mixture found in the white race, is exactly what God desires, and it refutes the notion that the ancient Ishmaelites could not persist through the ages and into the present.
The Bible says they have, and South Arabia shows how easily the purity of Arab blood has been retained. It is common for mixed-blood Aryans, who have been mongrelized for thousands of years, to assume that no group could retain its racial purity. I, a mongrel Dutch, Cherokee, English, German, Irishman, say that charitably, of course.
643- There seems to be no statue involved, but Karib`IL is thanking `ILumquh for helping him defeat Yada`IL, king of Hadhramaut, who attacked Karib`IL. Along with the usual `ILumquh usages, it is important to note the use of IL in the name of both the conqueror and the vanquished. Again, IL, the Allah root name, is found in common use.
644- Another statue is dedicated to `ILumquh for saving the son of Sara`atat `Aswa from dying of disease. The writer asks also that `ILumquh will cause the rulers of the area to be kind to him. Was the writer a bit tired of war? He includes the king of Yamnat, which is Yemen. This shows that the IL consciousness was well rooted in Yemen, just south of Mecca. See the map on page 127.
671- Tar`an Yuhan`im and As`ar, his son, are thanking `ILumquh for helping them in a military expedition. The two kings who ruled Saba, the Hadhramaut, Raydan, and Yamnat (Yemen) asked Tar`an and As`ar to "take command of the army of the Arabs" to restore a dam that burst and was threatening some artistic structure. This seems to be the first case of the Army Corps of Engineers coming to the rescue of flood victims.
Albert Jamme had many more inscriptions, as you can see from the high numbers, but these will give you enough evidence to show that
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the whole of southern Arabia was saturated with the consciousness of the high god who was a LIL / IL derived deity. (FOOTNOTE 108: 75 / ix, x, 28, 52-54, 105-106, 132-133, 144-145, 176-177 / 1206-21)
Thus, we now know that the concept of Allah was not new to South Arabia. Rather; the high god of all Arabs, north and south, was Allah from ancient pagan Sumer and Babylon. In South Arabia we found that Allah was not the Moon god, as some have claimed. The Moon god in South Arabia was Wadd, and he was found nowhere else.
The Moon deity of Mecca was Allat, who came to town from the north, while she was nearly lost along the way in the south. By the time Haji Allah arrived in Mecca from South Arabia, Wadd had the Moon all to himself in south Arabia.
We have seen Haji Allah's migration pattern from Babylon to Dilmun, and from Dilmun to South Arabia. It is interesting also that place names all over South Arabia are prefixed with Ba`al just as they were in Canaan and Phoenicia. (FOOTNOTE 109: 154 / 94-95 / 885) We can now see from the map (page 115) that we have arrived with Haji Allah, and the LIL / IL cult of Sumer and Babylon, just 400 kilometers, or 250 miles, south of Mecca.
It is an easy stroll northward, up the well-worn frankincense road, to Mecca, where the Kouraish are custodians to a legendary temple. Haji Allah has a new name for that temple in his saddle bags, that is, Kaaba. This last section of the trade routes is the path which was most likely used to haul the gold of Ophar from Africa to Solomon's treasury.
As we look at Haji Allah in Mecca, knowing he came to town from Babylon, and traveling from both north and south, it is with the realization that he would have been here as early as 1000 BC. This is because Mecca was on the earliest of both the northern and southern trade routes.
So, how did the Meccans think of Allah before Muhammed took out a patent on him? Actually, Allah was a bit of a generic god. He had come from the ancient past, and the Meccans were far more interested in Allat, Al-Uzza, and Manat, and the stone that fell from heaven, the one now embedded in the corner of the Kaaba. As we have discussed before, Mecca itself was a filthy, dry, dust hole along the trade route.
To see Mecca of many years past, CLICK HERE.
The Kouraish tribe had forced their will upon the Arabs nearby, and they convinced thousands from Arabia and beyond that they ought to come to the Kaaba to worship. Satan and 360 pagan gods were all present to receive them, and a pre-Islamic haji pilgrim could be sure to find one of his gods there to receive his devotions. This is a classic case of pagan
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ecumenism on the order of the present day World Council of Churches.
I trust you are not too exhausted by the double Hajj we have just taken. While we have proved that Haji Allah was derived from the ancient pagan gods of Shinar, we have neglected his consort, Allat. In the next chapter I shall introduce you to her.
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