The Crescent-Moon As The Symbol of Islam

The crescent moon is one of the oldest symbols known to humanity. In fact, it is the symbol of many ancient civilizations. In ancient Egypt, the crescent moon was a symbol of Mother goddess Hathor and Saitic Isis. 

How did the crescent-moon symbol of Saitic Isis in ancient Egypt become the symbol of Islam today? I have a strong conviction that it was Al Ma'mun, the 7th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, who reduced this ancient symbol to de facto symbol of Islam. 

Al Ma'mun Ibn Harun (the 7th Caliph of Islam) was the founder of Abbasid library in Baghdad (I.e. House of Wisdom), where ancient Egyptian, Greek and Byzantine-Christian texts on philosophy and astronomy were translated into Arabic - many of these translated texts would later go into the formulation of the Quran (see the Mihna). An Avid astronomer, Al Ma'mun built astronomical observatories in Baghdad, and in recognition of his contributions to astronomy, the crater Almanon on the moon was named after him.

That Al Ma'mun was seriously commitment to astronomy is old and well-known in history. What is hidden, however, is how the knowledge of astronomy influenced Al Ma'mun, and the role astronomy played in the codification of the Quran. Let me attempt to bring what is hidden to light with scholarly facts; so, follow me.

To an average Muslim, the word "Quran" means "to recite" or "to read " in Arabic. The only problem with that meaning is that Arabic is not really a language but a script. What many people call Arabic is actually a dialect of middle Aramaic/Syriac. Prior to 7th-8th century CE, "Syriac was the medium of communication and cultural dissemination for Arabs and, to a lesser extent, Persians. Primarily a Christian medium of expression, Syriac had a fundamental cultural and literary influence on the development of Arabic." (Dave Johnson). In other words,  most words in Arabic can best be understood in Aramaic/Syriac. So let's examine the word "Quran" in its original Syriac form. In Syriac, the word "Quran" is written "Qryn" (consonantal Alphabet), meaning "Pentateuchal reader."

What is the "Pentateuch?" Contrary to what we've been generally told that the Pentateuch is the Greek word for theTorah (the first 5 books of Moses); wrong, the Pentateuch is a collection of 5 books on horoscopic astrology, written by Dorotheus in 1st century CE Egypt. The Pentateuch, also known as Carmen Astrologicum, was believed  to have been written originally in Greek, but was  later translated to Palhavi (Persian), Arabic and English respectively - Similar translation was also found in the Indian Sanskrit, called "Yavanajakata." In 7th-9th CE Arabia, the science of astrology that started out in Ancient Egypt for tracking time had become an astrological chart system for reading minds. Arabic authorities started using the interaction between the moon and the sun (crescent moon) to read their client's minds - the general saying then was "the sun receives the moon by exaltation and the moon receives the sun by domicile." I believe Al Ma'mun was one of these Arabic Authorities. Al Ma'mun built 2 astronomical observatories in Baghdad, but he might have gotten his inspiration from Kabba in Mecca. Kabba, in antiquity, was an astronomical observatory post, ignorantly referred to by Muslims as a pagan shrine.

I'm convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Arabic authorities reduced the ancient symbol of the crescent moon to de facto symbol of Islam because of their commitment to astronomy. In fact, the Abrahamic Triad scriptures can be seen as a compedium of astrological charts and messages, disguised in ancient fables!

References

The Hidden Origins of Islam, "Karl-Heinz Ohling," 2009

Walter Williams, "The Historical Origin of Islam," 2003

Lionel Pepper, "The Pentagram Through History," 2008

David Pingree "Carmen Astrologicum book 1," translated 1976.

The "Tukey-Rule."

The question arose as to why most African states lost their indigenous writing scripts. More specifically, why did the Efik, Ibibios and Igbos lose their ancient Nsibidi writing script? To answer this question, one must first understand what I call the "Tukey-rule."

In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, an unmarked chopper landed at the staff quarters of the Princeton University Campus in New Jersey.  No sooner had the chopper landed  than Prof. John Tukey was hurriedly ushered into the unmarked chopper, and transported safely into an undisclosed location. Who was John Tukey and why was he rescued when the United States civilization was apparently on the verge of being destroyed by Soviet nuclear bombs.

John W. Tukey was a great American mathematician best known for development of the Cooley-Tukey algorithm, and was credited for coining the word "software." He was purposefully rescued by the government for his superior computational power. In other words, Tukey was a rare genius and had to live. The unwritten rule, which I call the "Tukey-rule," is when your civilization is on the verge of being destroyed by foreign enemies, the only civilians you rescue are the selected few with superior computational power. The rationale behind this unwritten rule is that certain individuals have the intellectual power to jump start a new civilization should the previous one come to an abrupt halt. John Tukey was deemed to be one of those individuals.

If John Tukey was a very valuable person in 1962, traditional priests were just as important to African states in antiquity.  It was the priests who developed the sacred art of writing, and only they knew how to write. Unfortunately, in antiquity, when the African civilizations were being destroyed by foreign invaders, the priests were neither rescued nor protected as John Tukey was in 1962. The priests became easy targets for the foreign mercenaries, and as the priests died so did the civilization and the knowledge of writing they exclusively possessed. Needless to say,  if the knowledge of writing had not been kept secret from the public and exclusive to the priests, the knowledge would not have died with the priests.       

In conclusion, the Efik, Ibibios and Igbos lost their indigenous Nsibidi script because their leaders failed to rescue the priests who were the most valuable individuals in their society when their civilization was being destroyed by foreign enemies. As these priests were exterminated, so was the knowledge of writing they exclusively possessed. Today, the Efik, Ibibios and Igbos now use Latin, a derivative of Phoenician script, to transliterate their phonetic sounds.

WHAT USE IS IFA TODAY?

According to Wole Soyinka (the only Nobel Laureate of literature in Africa), "it is a very curious phenomenon that Yoruba scholars are reluctant to come to terms with IFA. Even when they are trying to be somewhat objective about IFA, they are totally incapable of relating to it. They say it is a contemporary world. What use is IFA today?"

You can only ask "what use is IFA today" if you think IFA is merely a literary corpus of ancient verses, parables and anecdotes. However, there is more to IFA than a repository of literary corpus. IFA is high-science!

If African youths had not abandoned IFA for religious superstitions, they would have taken computer science to another level. For example, there are 16 principal Odu IFA elements, and these 16 IFA elements can further be extended to 65,535, and in some cases infinitely. Similarly, a CD uses 16 bits per sample. That gives each sample a range from 0 - 65,535. Coincidence?

There have been talks about computers running out of data storage space. This will never happen because the Odu IFA elements (i.e. patterns of binary code upon which computers operate) can be extended infinitely. So, if Odu IFA elements can be fractalized infinitely; certainly, computer-memory RAM can be extended infinitely.

FROM ABACUS TO MODERN COMPUTER - there is nothing new under the sun

Before the advent of electronic calculators, and certainly before the advent of modern computers, there was Abacus. Abacus is a simple calculator made from beads and wires, widely used by merchants and traders in Asia and Africa. The history of Abacus stretches back more than 2500 years; in fact, Abacus remained the fastest form of calculator until the 17^th Century.

The Abacus

Nearly every ancient civilization had its own Abacus counting frame. The use of Abacus in ancient Egypt was mentioned by the Greek historian Herotodus, who said that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left.

In the West, Leonardo da Vinci was probably the first person to attempt to design an Abacus machine (Circa. 1452-1519). However, Gottfried Liebniz was the first person to attempt to use the Abacus machine for binary calculations; turning the machine into a rudimentary logic gate. (Circa. 1646-1716). In his book “Liebniz and China,” Franklin Perkins expressed to his readers how fascinated Liebniz was with the African and the Chinese I Ching binary geomancy (i.e., Ifa) that he obsessively pleaded with the absolute ruler of France, Louis XIV of France, to invade Egypt, having realized that the knowledge of binary geomancy was salient to executing all four basic mathematical operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing) on his Abacus machine. It was said that Napoleon’s failed invasion of Egypt in 1798 was a late implementation of Leibniz’s plan.

It would take almost another 300 years for early computer scientists to fully understand how Liebniz’s Abacus machine works, and how it could be adapted into a modern computing system we are now familiar with today.

Computers truly came into their own as a great invention of the 20^th Century, but they are essentially a modern day Abacus machine – there is nothing new under the sun.

My review of Joseph Atwill's book: "Caesar's Messiah."

In the book “Caesar’s Messiah,” Joseph Atwill contends that the canonical gospels are typologic fiction formulated by the Flavian Dynasty (i.e. Roman Imperial family) to invalidate the Torah. While the “Flavian thesis” proposed by Joseph Atwill is interesting, but certainly not convincing, I strongly believe that Mr. Atwill's claim is a clever attempt to validate the authenticity of the Torah and the pretended antiquity of the Hebrew sect.

Mr.Atwill is a "Josephus scholar" in that he premised his thesis on Josephus's historical accounts in the 1st Century CE. However, Josephus has been proven to be a pseudegraphical personage, invented to buttress the "Ancient Hebrew" thesis or the pretended antiquity of the Hebrew sect. In other words, Josephus never really existed as a historical figure, and Mr. Atwill's book and thesis must be taken with a grain of salt.

I do agree with Mr. Atwill that the Canonical gospels are typologic fiction, but so is the Torah. The Torah (i.e. Pentateuch) in its original form is called the Septuagint (LXX). However, the Septuagint is a crude translation of the confiscated-Ancient-Egyptian texts to Greek, not the translation of Hebrew texts to Greek an now implied by Mr.Atwill and the proponents of "Ancient Hebrew" thesis.

Moses as the purported writer of the Torah could not have written the Torah in Hebrew, even if he had lived, because there was no Hebrew script when Moses supposedly lived. I maintain that Moses or Ahmose is a pseudegraphical-Egyptian name that was created by the Greeks to hide the identity of Akhenaton or AmenHotep IV, an Egyptian king famously known to be the father of MONOTHEISM. I further maintain that the Septuagint/Torah/Pentateuch/Old Testament was formulated by the Greeks from the Ancient Egyptian texts, and the New Testament was formulated by the Romans. Before the two books (Old and New Testaments) were combined into one, the followers of the old testament (mostly monophysites) fought the followers of the New Testament (I.e. dyophysites) for nearly 1000 years (see the Crusade). The outcome of this fight led to the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the rise of Mohammedanism in Constantinople, and later Islam.

In other words, Islam in its original form was a form of orthodox Christianity, and remember that before the invention of Jesus by the Romans, there was Serapis in Hellenistic or Coptic Egypt, and before the invention of Separis by the Greeks, there was Ausar(Osiris) the father in Ancient Egypt. 

Ladies and gentlemen, the stories of the Hebrew as described in the scriptures are distorted and plagiarized stories of the Ancient Egyptians.

Pseudepigraphical Method

It is extremely critical for a student of history to understand that in the most early history of mankind, many nations indulged in a pseudepigraphical method of linking their history to the most remote antiquity, and hiding the pretended antiquity of their history in a way that would make it difficult for others to challenge. What is pseudepigraphy? Pseudepigraphy is a form of writing, mostly adopted by the Greco-Romans to delibrately ascribe false or incorrect authorship to authentic-literary works.

I maintain that around 2,300 years ago  (300 BC), the Ptolemy rulers of Hellenistic Egypt used an advanced pseudepigraphical method to compile the Septuagint, now called the Pentateuch. The Romans after them used the same method to compile the Novum Testamentum. Contrary to what we've been sold by the mainstream historians that the Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Pentateuch to Greek, conscientious scholars contend that the Septuagint is a translation of the Ancient Egyptian texts to Greek, not Hebrew texts to Greek as now implied. The mainstream historians' claim is premised largely on Flavius Josephus's (acclaimed 1st Century Jewish historian) historical accounts, but the conscientious scholars have proven beyond reasonable doubt that Flavius Josephus was a "pseudepigraphical personage" invented to further buttress the prenteded antiquity of the Pentateuch and the Hebrew antecedents.

I consider this ancient cover-up to have been the reason why the library of Alexandria was burnt down to destroy the evidence. I further consider this as to be the reason why the Kemetic bloodline is denigrated in the Pentateuch, and the Abrahamic bloodline elevated; even though, the Abrahamic bloodline and the authorship attributed to it are pseudepigraphical (I.e. false). Lastly, I consider this as to be the reason why the Egyptologists and others would never concede Kemet as part of the greater Nile Valley African Civilizations - this is anti-Kemetism. 

If you study Kemet and learn what happened out there during the Hellenistic reign of the Ptolemies, I promise, the present paradigm will make more sense to you.

Their power is tied only to your ignorance. Wake up!

IS HUMAN EVOLUTION A PERFECTING PROCESS?

The idea that human evolution is a perfecting process is ludicrous.

First off, man cannot evolve outside of the information or instructions 

he receives from his environment. And since environmental instructions 

are not perfect, evolution cannot be a perfecting process.

Secondly, every forward evolutionary step is coupled with a backward

devolutionary step. In other words, evolution and devolution are mutually 

exclusive. I shall illustrate my logic using the genetic disorder of sickle-cell 

anemia. 

The genetic signature of many people in the tropics had changed or 

mutated over time to develop a natural-defense-mechanism to malaria. 

This mutated gene forces the regular disc-like shape of the red blood 

cell to be sickle, an evolutionary feature that allows tropical people to 

withstand deadly malaria-fever. I must mention that human genetic 

signature is a binary signature. That is, when one side of the signature 

changes to accommodate a new set of environmental instructions, the 

other side devolves to compensate for this change. So, while sickle-cell 

signature is a natural shield against deadly malaria fever, its complementary

or  "trade-off" pair is actually destructive to the flow of oxygenated blood 

in the human body.  Similar trade-offs can be seen in people who suffer 

from Alzheimer, Autism, hypovitaminosis D etc. For example, Alzheimer and 

Autism are reverse compensations for the complexity of the human brain 

power, and hypovitaminosis D is a reverse compensation for hyper-melanization.

Let me now tie my reasoning above to the issue of genetically modified

foods (GMO). Many people are worried sick that the current surge in

the consumption of GMO foods would be harmful to human health. Yes,

the consumption of GMO foods would be destructive to the human body in

the short run; because, the GMO foods would introduce new or un-recognized 

set of instructions into the human cells. But in the long run, as the human body 

gets used to these GMO induced instructions, at least one human genetic 

signature would change or mutate to neutralize the adverse effect of GMO diets 

on the body. So, this dramatic change in human genetic signature is what many 

people call evolution. Again, since evolution and devolution are mutually 

exclusive. The moment at least one genetic signature evolves or changes to 

neutralize the adverse effect of the GMO diets, another genetic signature 

devolves or mutates to replace the evolved genetic signature.

In conclusion, evolution is a gradual change in the genetic structure of 

the biological populations due to a change in the environmental instruction 

or information. And since environmental instructions are not perfect; then, 

evolution cannot be a perfecting process.