Re: Mercury the Divine Child and Mars of the Exodus

I think this discribes the core and epicenter of the Hebrew religion 
as captured by the Jews at the cave of Machpela where were kept the 
oricle heads, the Teraphim. 

It appears the "king of the city" had come down from the Mount of 
Olive riding on the cold of an ass, thus he was the Divine Child 
born in a cave in a winnowing basket pitched with pinetar like the 
one Moses was put upon the waters in. The Dactlyes are the 
Nazarite/Curetes, the Guardian Angels of the Divine Child who was 
going to take the chosen people on a new Exodus. They were prepared 
by an emersion into the Arcadian stream, more then likely found in a 
cave.

Jon

"According to Robert Graves, Hercules was popularly known among the 
peoples of Phoenicia and Israel as Melkarth; and his cult was 
imported by Phoenician traders into parts of the Greek world, such 
as Crete, where he was known as Melikertes.4 It hardly needs to be 
stressed that the Phoenician Hercules Melkarth ("king of the city") 
has a name sounding similar to and probably easily confused with 
that of the dragon-slaying archangel Michael. 

            In Greek history the term Heroic Age is given to the 
epoch during which Hercules was active. This was an era during which 
gods and men were said to have interacted on an everyday basis. The 
hero par excellence of the time was Hercules himself, and indeed the 
very word "hero" is said to be derived from his name. In 
archaeological terms the Heroic Age is equated with what has come to 
be known as the Mycenaean Age. As we have said, in literally scores 
of details the Heroic/Mycenaean Age of Greece is revealed to be 
contemporary with the Exodus/Judges Age of Israel (and the latter 
two epochs also being provably contemporary with the Pyramid Age of 
Egypt). I will not burden the reader with an exhaustive examination 
of this evidence, but a brief overview needs to be presented. 

  

            First and foremost, both Hercules and Moses have 
mysterious births and are designed by the deity for a special 
mission as saviours. Both inaugurate numerous new laws and religious 
customs: thus almost all of the Jewish religion is attributed to 
Moses, whilst many or most of the customs and beliefs of the Greeks 
were attributed to Hercules. Both are enemies of human sacrifice and 
of the serpent deity: thus Hercules strangles the two serpents sent 
to destroy him in his cradle, whilst Moses' staff devours the two 
magical serpents of pharaoh's magicians. Moses "pushes apart" the 
waters at the Sea of Passage with his staff, whilst Hercules pushes 
apart the pillars at either side of the strait separating Europe 
from Africa, which henceforth bears his name. Both have mysterious 
ends, involving the ascent of a high mountain, Moses to Horeb and 
Hercules to Oeta. 

            The Hebrew hero Samson, coming at a slightly later 
period than Moses, displays even more obvious parallels with 
Hercules. We need only mention here his great physical strength, his 
killing of a ferocious lion with his bare hands, his ultimate 
betrayal by a woman, and his pushing apart the pillars of the 
Philistine temple. 

            Hebrew traditions about the Exodus even appear to have 
been incorporated into the body of Greek Heroic Age myths. Thus for 
example the Greek tale of the flight of the Danaids from Aegyptus 
(Egypt) seems to refer to the flight of the Israelite tribe of Dan 
during the escape from bondage.5 This is confirmed by the story's 
close link with the legend of Cadmus (Kadmos), the hero credited 
with introducing the Phoenician alphabet to Greece. In this 
tradition Agenor, the twin brother of Belus (father of Danaus and 
Aegyptus), was said to have left Egypt to settle in the land of 
Canaan. Shortly thereafter, Agenor's daughter Europa was abducted by 
Zeus, whereupon he ordered his sons, who are named as Cadmus, 
Thasus, Cilix, Phoenix and Phineus, to set out in search of her.6 

            The occurrence of the name Phineus in particular 
provides probably the most direct and unequivocal link with the 
Exodus. There seems little doubt that the Greek Phineus is one and 
the same as Phinehas, the grandson of Moses' brother Aaron, who 
slays the Israelite Zimri along with his Midianite bride in their 
tent.7 In the Greek legend Phineus attacks Perseus along with his 
bride Andromeda, daughter of the king of Joppa (Jaffa), at their 
wedding-feast, but is slain by the Gorgon's head, which Perseus 
exposes.8 Again, in another tradition, the Greeks told how Phineus, 
who had been plagued by harpies, was rescued by two of the 
Argonauts, Calais and Zetes, who pursued the harpies through the 
air.9 This accords with a Jewish tradition about Phinehas, which has 
the flying swordsman Zaliah pursue Balaam through the air, on the 
orders of Phinehas.10 

            The story of the Danaids, as well as that of Agenor and 
Phineus, must have arrived in Greece through the same channels as 
the Phoenician alphabet. After their entry into Canaan the Twelve 
Tribes were allocated separate territories. Dan's portion was in the 
very north of the country ? regions now comprising eastern 
Lebanon.11 It is known that they became closely associated with the 
Phoenician kingdoms of the region. Some of the Phoenician traders 
and settlers who brought the alphabet to Greece must have been from 
the tribe of Dan. 

            It is important to remember here that the cycle of 
legends surrounding such evidently Hebrew personalities as Danaus, 
Cadmus and Phineus, were placed by the Greeks in the same epoch as 
Hercules; and the connection is proved beyond question when we 
remember that the abolition of human sacrifice is a central element 
in all the stories (witness Perseus' prevention of Amdromeda's 
sacrifice and the Argonauts' rescue of Phineus from the harpies). 
Indeed most of the deeds performed to Hercules were also shared by 
the other great heroes of the age. Thus Hercules' abolishment of 
human sacrifice is mimicked also by Theseus when he slays the bull-
headed Minotaur in the Labyrinth. For this reason it should come as 
no surprise to find that not only Moses, but Samson, as well as 
various other Hebrew characters, share numerous characteristics with 
the divine hero of the age, Hercules, the character known in the 
Phoenician/Hebrew tongue as Melkarth and in the language of Syria as 
Samsum (Shamash). 






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