"I am the 'Jewel' of Asia"...don't think so Dude.. lol..
Kykeon was a psychoactive drink which was taken at the ancient rites of Eleusis, commonly known as the Eleusinian Mysteries. The most popular theory about its ingredients is that it was made from barley infested with the fungus ergot, which contained alkaloids similar to LSD. Kykeon was so important to the Eleusinian Mysteries, that the two families who owned the barley fields in Elusis became quite wealthy and were held in high regard.
'BATH SALTS' IS A STREET TERM FOR 'KHAT' BASED PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS.
IF YOU LOOK UP 'MARMOT'..ON THE WEB -YOU WILL FIND PICTURES THAT
ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE POLECAT PICTURED ABOVE.
HOWEVER A CONFUSED 'PARK RANGER' MAY LIKE TO LEARN SOMETHING.
SO I HAVE COLLECTED SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE POLECAT.
ANOTHER NAME FOR THIS WIDELY DISPERSED RODENT-IS 'WEASEL' OR 'FERRET'.
AND YET AGAIN THE 'JUDAIC' RELIGION PROVIDES ANSWERS...
The Epistle of Barnabas (Greek: Επιστολή Βαρνάβα, Hebrew: איגרת בארנבס) is a Greek epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament.
A form of
the Epistle 850 lines long is noted in the Latin list of canonical
works in the 6th century Codex Claromontanus. It is distinct from the Gospel of Barnabas.
Although the work is not gnostic
in a theological sense, the author, who considers himself to be a
teacher to the unidentified audience to which he writes (see e.g. 9.9),
intends to impart to his readers the perfect gnosis
(knowledge), that they may perceive that the Christians are the only
true covenant people, and that the Jewish people had never been in a covenant with God.
The covenant promises, he maintains, belong only to the Christians (e.g. 4.6–8), and circumcision,
and the entire Jewish sacrificial and ceremonial system are, according
to him, due to misunderstanding.
According to the author's conception, Jewish scriptures, rightly understood, contain no such injunctions (chapters 9–10).He is a thorough opponent to Jewish legalism, but by no means an antinomist. At some points the Epistle seems quite Pauline, as with its concept of atonement.
The Epistle reinterprets many of the laws of the Torah.
For example, the prohibition on eating pork
is not to be taken literally, but rather forbids the people to live
like swine, who supposedly grunt when hungry but are silent when full:
likewise, the people are not to pray to God when they are in need but
ignore him when they are satisfied.
Similarly, the prohibition on eating
rabbit means that the people are not to behave in a promiscuous manner, and the prohibition on eating weasel is actually to be interpreted as a prohibition of oral sex, based on the mistaken belief that weasels copulate via the mouth.[1]
[from the Movie 'Bad Company' another 'Art-ful' Draft Dodger played by Jeff 'Mullet']
It is likely that, due to the resurgence of Judaism in the early 2nd century, and the tolerance of the emperorHadrian, Christians, such as the text's author, felt a need to resist Jewish influences polemically.
THE COEN BROTHERS I'M SURE WOULD BE WELL VERSED IN THE APPEARANCE OF A WEASEL IN THEIR BEAUTIFUL 3000YEAR HERITAGE...BUT AS THEY APPEAR TO BE SOMEWHAT CONFUSED
Among the Karuk Indians of northwestern California, the Weasel is
considered a teacher and protector. There are many stories about Weasel
outwitting witches and serving as a crusader against the evil actions of
those who are jealous, wicked, and mean.
Weasel is a powerful animal
ally called upon to protect oneself and one’s family against the
challenges and attacks of sorcerers.
WEASEL MAKES HIS LATEST ENGLISH APPEARANCE IN THE FORM OF 'RON WEASELY'..
IN THE HARRY POTTER STORIES ...
BUT A MARMOT IS A MARMOT...IS A MARMOT...
[TRY AS I MIGHT-I CAN'T FIND ANY REFERENCE TO THEIR AMPHIBIAN PROPENSITY? NOBODY HAS RECORDED SIGHTING OF SWIMMING MARMOTS?]
IN INDIA -WEASELS ARE SNAKE KILLERS -UNAFRAID OF THE HYPNOTIC STARE OF THE COLD BLOODED REPTILIANS
THE FAMOUS STORY OF 'RIKKI TIKKI TAVI' BELONGED TO A HARD WORKING FAMILY
OF SNAKE[REPTILE] KILLERS..IN RUDYARD KIPLING'S 'JUNGLE BOOK '.
AND IN JAPAN...'KAMAITACHI'...
APPARENTLY THE WEASEL SECRETES A SMELL SO BAD IT COULD STUN A SKUNK..
MAYBE THE DUDE REMEMBERED SOMETHING HE ONCE READ ABOUT?..WHO KNOWS?..ONLY JEFFREY.
[ 'LASSIE'- SAW ACTOR JEFF BRIDGES PLAYING A 'PARK RANGER' IN THE U.S NATIONAL PARKS WHERE 'ALPINE MARMOTS' ABOUND]
['Collie Man' Jamaican 'Rasta' Street term for Cannabis dealer]
WHAT'S THAT SMELL?.. SKUNK [CANNABIS]
ACCORDING TO CARL GUSTAV JUNG, ANIMALS ARE ALWAYS HELPFUL WHEN THEY
APPEAR IN DREAMS.
MARMOTS HAVE AN AMAZING HISTORY AND A HIDDEN SECRET.....
Marmots have been used since ancient times to find gold
2500 years ago, Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, wrote about large golden ‘ants’, bigger than foxes, which were used to find gold in the ancient Persian empire. Long dismissed as a fabrication, research from the mid-1990s suggests that Herodotus’s ants were golden marmots in what is now Pakistan. The ancient Persian word for marmot means mountain ant. The marmots there burrow in sandy, gold-bearing soil, collecting it on their fur. Historians now believe that the tribesmen used to extract gold from this sand that the marmots carried to the surface.
NOW PONDER FOR A MOMENT IF YOU WILL THE EPIC TALE OF 'ULYSSES'....
WHO WENT IN SEARCH OF A 'GOLDEN FLEECE'...HA HA..SEE WHERE I'M GOING HERE?...THE GREEKS AND THE INDIA NATION HAVE A VERY ANCIENT HISTORY/SHARED MYTHOLOGY....LONG BEFORE ALEXANDER THE GREAT...THESE DUDES WERE SWAPPING INFORMATION ABOUT MEDICINE SCIENCE AND A WHOLE LOT MORE...GREEKS [HELLENES]INVADED INDIA AND INDIA ADOPTED MUCH GREEK ICONOGRAPHY AS A RESULT'KRYSNA'- 'CHRIST'-' HRISTOS'- 'THE ANOINTED ONE'? GREEK PHYSICIANS USED A KIND OF 'TEA' OR 'TINCTURE' MADE FROM CANNABIS SEEDS STEEPED IN WINE TO TREAT SENSITIVE EAR AILMENTS...THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO...AND AS WE KNOW CANNABIS CAN BE ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN
...A classical but ambiguous mention is found in Homer’s Odyssey (Book IV), 9,10 around the late 7 th or early 8 th century bc. Zeus’ daughter, Helen, served wine mixed with a drug called nēpenthés (νηπενθές) that quiets all pain and strife and brings forgetfulness of every ill. Helen served this mixture to Greek soldiers who had painful reminiscences of their comrades slain during the Trojan war, triggered by Telemachus’ visit—a case of posttraumatic stress disorder. “Nē–Penthés” literally means “No–Grief.”
Homer’s text tells us that this medication comes from Egypt; it might have been cannabis or opium
BUDDHIST AND HINDU SYMBOLISM ON THE COINS OF APOLLODOTUS I
It is a well-known fact that Greek Art and culture greatly affected Buddhism.
It was the Greeks who first made a human Statue of the Buddha; a trend which later found its way into China. This trend of Buddhism was adopted for Hindu Gods as well.
Indians did not have a concept of Temples in ancient times.
The concept of making a human statue of a God, putting it in a free-standing temple and worshipping it originated from Greece. Hence the birth of the art movement of Greco- Buddhism.
Some of the earlier coins of king Apollodotus directly associate the elephant with Buddhist symbolism, such as the stupa hill (arched-hill symbol) surmounted by a crescent or a star (the Chaitya symbol); a feature also seen on the coins of the Mauryan Empire, many local coins of Taxila or those of the later Kuninda kingdom.
Also the zebu bull on the reverse is often shown with a nandipada taurine mark on its hump on the less-worn coins,something which strenghtens the role of the animal as a religious or geographic symbol, rather than a mere decorative image.
The nandipada and the zebu bull are generally associated with Nandi, Shiva's humped bull in Hinduism.
The same association was made later on coins of Zeionises or Vima Kadphises. The elephant, pendant to the bull, and shown with a girdle on the obverse, also must have a symbolic role, possibly Buddhist, as it was associated with the stupa hill in the earliest coins of Apollodotus.
Apollodotus experimented with different coin standards for his silver, until he concluded on a standard lighter than the Attic which would prevail for centuries.
Later rulers, however, usually struck round coins instead of the square (typically Indian) shape of most of Apollodotus' silver.
He issued a number of bronzes with the image of Apollo and a tripod, which were also very popular for centuries.Apollodotus also issued a small series of monolingual Attic tetradrachms, intended for export into Bactria. For these, Apollodotus I clearly used Bactrian celators to strike an exquisite realistic portrait of the king as an aged man,wearing the Macedonian hat called kausia, with a reverse of sitting Goddess Athena holding Nike; a common Hellenistic motif introduced by the Diadoch Lysimachus. On these coins, he did not use an epithet for himself.
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