Octo-Mom and other oddities

I was listening to Todd Campbell from Through the Looking Glass blog's interview on Red Ice Creations radio, link here
and the mention of the Octo-Mom alerted my brain to a couple of things I will mention here.

First thing that came to my attention is the name of 33 year-old Octo-Mom, Nadya Suleman aka Natalie Suleman aka Natalie Doud. Natalie made my ears prick up as it's meaning from Italian is Birth of Christ and Natal from the latin means birth. Nadya/Nadia means Hope in Russian and in Arabic, announcer or caller. With all the recent messiah-talk recently, I thought we might being sent some kind of message.



Suleman also made me take notice due to the location of the previous Temples of Solomon and where Zionazis wish to build the third one. Temple Mount in Jerusalem. At the moment however it is currently occupied by the Dome of the Rock which is an octagonal building.



This 8-sided building thus resonates with Octo-Mom's babies who have all been given biblical names plus the middle-name of....Angel. The Dome of the Rock is where Muhammed was taken up to heaven by an Angel.

And speaking of Angels, Octo-Mom herself has been accused of being obsessed with Angelina Jolie. Angelina is also the the mother of twins which also synchs in with Octo-Mom's 2-year old twins. Octo-Mom also gave birth at the Kaiser Permanente hospital which has also been in the news recently.



Kaiser Permanente was the employers of the ill-fated 8 member family which included two sets of twins. The note that the Father sent to a TV station after killing his family and before he killed himself contained the Masonic distress signal 'Oh Lord, my God, is there no hope for this widow's son.
This is a reference to Hiram Abiff the Master Mason who built the original Solomons Temple. The story is here

The location of the Temple/Dome of the Rock was where Jesus (the Permanent King? aka Kaiser Permanente?) cleared the Moneychangers from the Temple. At the moment we are certainly seeing our Moneychangers/Bankers in some sort of upheaval. And wasn't it the Temple of Solomon that the architects of modern-day banking, the Templars made their home?

PS. Did I forget to mention the name of the father of the Octuplets. It's David Solomon!

PPS. And Octo-Mom's grandmother is called Angela, her grandfather is Edward Doud (David?) Suleman

Shiva beheads Ganesh

How did the God Shiva and his wife Goddess Parvati end up with a son with the head of an elephant? I have often wondered at the deeper meaning of this story and I recently came across an explanation in the book entitled 'Ganapati' by R.L. Kashyap.

First, the basics of the story.

While Shiva is lost in meditation on Mount Kailash, Parvati wishes to bathe and so she creates from the rubbings of her skin, a son. He serves his Mother Parvati as a doorkeeper with strict instructions to allow no one to enter.

When Parvati is taking her bath her husband Shiva comes home. Ganesh refuses to allow Shiva to enter and Shiva cuts off his head. Parvati on discovering the death of her son is very upset and so Shiva sends out one of his attendants (Ganas) to bring back a head of the first being that they find. They bring back the head of an elephant and it is attached to the beheaded son and thus Ganesh/Ganapati is born.

So why did Shiva not just reattach the head he had sliced off before?

Kashyap in his book reminds us that Parvati the Mother Goddess represents Prakriti or Nature and Shiva represents Purusha, the Supreme Soul. The son of Parvati is therefore incomplete as he is made only of Prakriti and has no Purusha. By replacing his head with a new one he will be comprised of both Prakriti and Purusha.

Why an elephant? The sanskrit word for elephant is 'Gaja', which is comprised of two root words 'Ga', meaning heaven and 'Ja' meaning born, thus, 'heaven-born'.



The elephant can be used in many symbolic ways, for example, the large ears are equated with Ganesh's ability to hear prayers, the trunk can be used to make sound (mantra, om, nada brahma) and can form a shape similar to Om.



Ganesh is worshipped as 'Remover of Obstacles' and this one of the strengths of the elephant.



Jai Shri Ganesh!

Dance of the Seven Veils

For some time now I have repeatedly come across severed heads, not literally you understand, but in reading about mythology and even occasionally in the news.

There has been a severed head found in Arbroath, Scotland link here

and more recently another in Edinburgh, Scotland link here

and also the Virginia Tech beheading in January link here

In Mythology



My interest and love of Hindu mythology is where I started asking about the reoccuring theme of decapitation.

Shiva cuts off the head of Brahma, Ganesh and Prajapati. The goddess Chinnamasta decapitates herself and Rama severes the 10 heads of Ravana. Kali devotees have often had their heads removed in honour of her too. In the next post I plan to explore the beheading of Ganesh, the god with the elephant head.



In Christian mythology the beheading of John the Baptist is what interests me, and even more is the Dance of the Seven Veils which was performed by Salome for Herod Antipas which led to the beheading.



I recently watched a video of the Dance of the Seven Veils and I came to the conclusion that this is a representation of the Kundalini energy. The belly-dancing female represents the Kundalini snake wriggling and writhing through the seven chakras with each (coloured) veil discarded representing the opening of each chakra.

From Babylon/Assyrian mythology the story of the goddess Ishtar visiting her sister Ereshkigal in the underworld also resonates with the seven chakras/veils as Ishtar has to travel through 7 gates to reach the underworld, discarding a piece of clothing as she goes, by the time she enters through the final gate she is naked. While Ishtar is in the underworld all sexual activity is stopped on earth (relating to the Svadisthana/sex chakra being closed?), later Ishtar leaves the underworld and returns through the 7 gates regaining her clothing at each gate. This story seems to me to be refering to the Kundalini energy descending through the chakras and then once again rising to be united with the crown chakra/Shiva.

I am not sure of the meaning of all this yet but just throwing out a few things that are going through my mind.

UPDATE: In the Rudyard Kipling story, The Man Who Would Be King, Danny (the God-King) has his severed head carried by his friend Peachy back from Kafiristan.

an excerpt from the book:-

He fumbled in the mass of rags round his
bent waist; brought out a black horsehair
bag embroidered with silver thread; and
shook therefrom on to my table—the dried,
withered head of Daniel Dravot! The morning
sun that had long been paling the lamps
struck the red beard and blind sunken eyes;
struck, too, a heavy circlet of gold studded
with raw turquoises, that Carnehan placed
tenderly on the battered temples.

“You behold now,” said Carnehan, “the
Emperor in his habit as he lived—the King
of Kafiristan with his crown upon his
head. Poor old Daniel that was a monarch
once!”



This book which was made into a film in 1975 starring Sean Connery as Danny and Micheal Caine as Peachy Carnehan has been linked to the story of the fallen angels in this excellent you tube video, Hollywood Insiders: Fallen Angels.