Wonder Woman Vs. Black Lightning

Most of you will remember this post where Wonder Woman flew a plane into the WTC. In this one she is defending it from Black Lightning. This is from the August-September issue of 1976, exactly 25 years before 9-11



Who sent the black lighting and why? Wonder Woman is calling on Hera for help, Possibly to beat up her little brother Zeus.Looks like I will be picking up a copy of WW #225 when I get a chance.

I remember watching the bulletins from Ground Zero, but at the time I didn't know there was a comic published in 1981 that went by the same name. This cover shows a couple of buildings falling in the background, while the tin woman obliviously sips tea and takes a drag from a cigarette while a gun is pointed to her head. Oh, and there is an invisible man in the background looking on. Bizarre.

Best use of a God in a Comic Book

Instead of breaking it up into different mythologies, this time I included them all to see where the cards fell. How I do these is kind of hard to explain, but the covers chosen are random, and from the randomness we get a pattern.



Here we have longtime Conan foe Thoth-Amon. The name is taken form Egyptian deities Thoth and Amon. Thoth was the voice of the main god Ra, and is credited with giving Isis the spell needed to resurrect Osiris. Amon, or Amun, was the god of fertility, often depicted as having ram horns, as shown in this guise. It is interesting that Conan started as a pulp story, long before comics were popular. Thoth Amon first appeared in the short story, "the Phoenix and the Sword", published in 1932. The title of this issue is "King Conan", so I guess this means Schwarzenegger will be president someday.



Here, Hercules backs up the Hulk in a world war, the Angel, and ... hell I don't know, Ninja Chick and Wing Footed Girl are also in tow. Hercules is the most used god in comics, and he has also been portrayed by the current Governor of California i the film "Hercules in New York."



Atlas is here hanging out with Hercules. Actually, he is helping Hercules with the eleventh of the twelve labors. Hercules was supposed to take some golden apples that was protected by a 100 headed dragon. Hercules tricked the dimwitted Atlas into getting the apples for him, in return Herc held up the world while Atlas performed this task. Atlas was going to leave Hercules holding the bag, but Herc was able to trick him again. Currently, you can see Atlas holding up the world in front of Rockefeller Center in New York.



Here, Cupid's arrow is aiming at the center of a well, signaling the coming of the Age of Aquarius, which will be ruled by love and harmony or something like that. I'm not good at astrology.



Zeus is the king of the god's. Here he is hurling thunderbolts at Diana because he is pissed off. I'm not sure, but I think she refused to go out with him or something.

Best Uses of a Greek/Roman God/Goddess in a Comic Book

Hermes/Mercury for whom this blog is partially inspired. He is the god of communication, the messenger of the gods. the Romans would say, if you find a sync in a movie it is coming from Mercury, as he is the god of stories. His staff is two snakes wrapped around a stick, which is a symbol still used by the medical profession today. It looks just like a strand of DNA, which was unknown to the ancient Greeks. He is a protector of the mischievous, and I hear lately he is moonlighting by delivering flowers and selling cars that bear his name.



Zeus is the king of the gods. He killed his dad in order to get the job. Whenever lightning struck the Earth, it was said that Zeus threw the bolt. In this pic he is annoying Captain Comet by giving him a static electricity shock and asking him to pull his finger. In front of the Captain's date even. Some ancient deities just don't have any cuth.



Calliope is Zeus's daughter and the original muse, blessed with an incredible singing voice. Even though she is modest, she sometimes poses naked for comic book covers.



Then don't go in the cave Superboy! Duh! Hercules is the son of Zeus and an earth woman. He is famous for performing the 12 labors. Here he is hanging out with Superboy and Samson from the Old Testament.



Hercules maintained a friendship with Superboy until he became Superman. However things went sour when Superman tricked Hercules and his friend Atlas into looking at Medusa, which turned them to stone. Atlas is believed to be the first king of Atlantis, and modern maps are named for him, which is ironic because Atlantis isn't on any of them.

The Elephant in the Living Room

Today I want to explore the old expression and the republican symbol to see what synchronicities pop up.

Wikipedia defines the expression is sometimes used to refer to a question or problem that is obvious, but which is ignored out of embarrassment or taboo. The idiom also implies a value judgment that the issue ought to be discussed openly.

When I think of the Elephant in the living room, this popular web image comes to mind.



It depicts a sheep watching the president on Fox news. It implies that Fox news watchers are easily led and herded, and they lack individuality. The reason it reminds me of the old saying is that the current presidents political party is republican, which has the animal sigul the Elephant. When Bush appears on the nightly news, he becomes "the elephant in the living room." So am I saying no one talks about the president? No, it's not my living room I am referring to, neither am I referring to the American public, or the president himself. The Sheep that is easily led and herded is the mainstream media. Their living room is television, newspapers, radio ect. The elephant in the living room is 911 truth.

I don't want anyone to think I am bashing and blaming republicans. I find that democrats and republicans are two sides of the same coin. One side of the coin depicts and elephant, the other a donkey. There are good people on both sides of the isle. But 911 happened when the republicans were in power, and their symbol is the elephant, so the event symbolically represents the elephant in the living room. The three towers falling at free fall speed, one of which was not even hit by a plane, the lack of debris in Pennsylvania, the hole at the Pentagon being to small for a 747to fit through, all these things cannot be explained by the official government account. Certain parts of the mainstream media have covered the conspiracy only in an effort to debunk it, and to date they have failed miserably. So for the most part they don't talk about it, despite the fact that one third of the public doesn't believe the official story. 911 truth is taboo in the mainstream media.

Time-Life's book Mystic Places expounds the theory that elephants were abundant in Atlantis.

Atlantis was a land where skilled agriculturists created sweet-scented orchards and where animals, including a very large stock of elephants flourished.

Whether or not Atlantis actually existed is not as important as the story itself, because the symbolic meanings behind stories have power. Plato writes

"They appeared to be superlatively fair and blessed, yet they were filled with lawless ambition and power."

The story goes on to tell of an invasion of Athens, and the god Zeus in his anger destroyed Atlantis. It is interesting that Atlantis, the land of the elephants, was destroyed by Zeus, who is linked to the monument of the first republican president.

So how did the republican party adopt the elephant as it's symbol? In 1874 cartoonist Thomas Nast, who is responsible for the depiction of Uncle Sam, drew a cartoon that showed the democratic symbol the donkey dressed in lion's skin with animals fleeing from it. One of the animals was an elephant that had "republican vote" on its side. From then on republicans were associated with the elephant.



If it were not for this simple cartoon, republicans would not be symbolized by the elephant and thus the course of human history would have been different. Written on the donkey are the words "NY Herald" and "Ceaser".

Here is the current republican symbol.



Notice the three stars on the back of the elephant are inverted. an inverted 5 pointed star is a pentagram, an occult symbol known as the Sigil of Baphomet, associated with the Knights Templar.

http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa030103a.htm

The Baphomet is still an enigma, and there is of course some debate whether or not it was a real item or the product of torture. Several knights recalled that Baphomet was variously a severed head, or an idol possessing two or four heads, or sometimes, as a goat or goat's head. The name is highly unusual, and many suggestions about the origin of the word have been put forward. Idries Shah has proposed that the name is a corruption of a name of Mohammed. Abufihamat, pronounced "Bufihimat," a word very similar to Baphomet, is Moorish-Spanish for "father of wisdom," an epithet used to describe the Prophet. This seems unlikely, although there seems to be a concerted effort to link the Templars with Islam. The Templars certainly had contact with Muslim ideas, and even incorporated symbols of Islam into their emblems, but Islam forbade Idol worship just as strenuously then as now- creating an image of the prophet in order to worship it would have been a tremendous blasphemy.

It is interesting that Baphomet may have been a torture induced confession, and a perversion of the name of Mohammad, and his sigil is now part of the republican logo, when the neocons who have taken over the republican party advocate torture.

Again, I want to say that I believe both parties are two sides of the same coin. I don't think my mother, who is a lifelong republican is a closet satanist, or that she is hiding the truth about 911. I was just trying to see where research of the symbol would take me, and it has been an interesting ride.

Abraham Lincoln and the Temple of Zeus

If someone were to force me to answer the question "who is your favorite president?", I would have to answer Abraham Lincoln. Through his efforts he was able to preserve the union at a time when it was most threatened. He holds the the distinction of being the first republican president.
The Lincoln monument is an awe inspiring site, and it is one of our national treasures. If Lincoln were able to see the monument to him, I think he would......I don't think he would like it very much at all.
Abraham Lincoln was a devout Christian, so why did they design his monument in the Greek Doric temple style? What would Lincoln say about the building which houses his statue having Paganistic overtures? Here is the Lincoln Memorial pictured below.

Here is a pic of what the Temple of Zeus looked like.

Ok, so Lincoln's monument looks like the Temple of Zeus. So what?

Let's take a look inside. The massive statue of Lincoln is sitting on a throne, and above his head are the words "In this Temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever."

It is a breathtaking and awe inspiring sight, but there are a couple of things that grabbed my attention. The first line of the Epithet reads "in this temple." Columbia Encyclopedia defines temple as follows.

"Temple, edifice or sometimes merely an enclosed area dedicated to the worship of a deity and the enshrinement of holy objects connected with such worship. The temple has been employed in most of the world's religions. Although remains of Egyptian temples of c.2000 B.C. show well-defined architectural forms, it seems likely that temples were hewed in living rock at a still earlier age: the cave temples of Egypt, India, China, and the Mediterranean basin may be viewed as later developments of such primitive shrines."

Since the monument was designed in the Greek Doric style, let's take a look at what the encyclopedia says about this style.

"The Dorian immigration (before 1000 B.C.) was a prelude to the building of Greek temples, at first made of timber and sun-dried brick. The superb stone and marble buildings on a defined floor plan were achieved in the middle of the 6th cent. B.C., although the most perfect examples, like the Parthenon (5th cent. B.C.), came later. The Greek temple customarily stood in a temenos, or sacred enclosure, along with accessory shrines, colonnades, and buildings housing the temple treasures. It was built not as a place for assembled worship but as the dwelling for the deity, whose colossal sculptured representation was placed in the naos, and illuminated by the daylight entering through the tall entrance portal. In larger temples, to support the roof lintels, two interior rows of columns divided the naos into nave and side aisles."

So this would lead you to believe Lincoln is represented as a deity. This can't be, because even though Lincoln was a great man, he was still just a man. But I wonder if there is something else going on here.
I also noticed that Lincoln is sitting on a throne. U.S. Presidents living or dead are not monarchs, they are elected public servants, so I am perplexed as to why one would be represented as a king. To portray one as a king sitting on his throne goes against the ideas this country was founded on, namely that it is a government by and for the people. Our government was created to serve the people, not the other way around.
The ancient Statue of Zeus is listed as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It sat inside the Temple of Zeus, and here is what it may have looked like.

As you can see, Zeus is also sitting on a throne in his temple, and the belief was that he resided in his temple in some form.

So they just copied the Temple of Zeus to construct the Lincoln Memorial right? Probably so, but it is also possible that the likeness of Lincoln on the throne is also a stand-in for Zeus.

If you want to visit the Lincoln Memorial, I encourage you to do so. It is a magnificent tribute to one of the great figures in American history. But as you look around just remember sometimes things have two meanings.