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Genetics in Western History and Religion

In two books, The Iceman Inheritance (1978) and Chosen People from the Caucasus
(1992), I have argued that there was also an increasingly genetic component to the
immense but elusive cultural difference that marks the boundary between the
Mediterranean so-called "Ancient World" and the so-called "Judeo-Christian Era".
The Hebrews invaded Palestine about 2000-1700 BC, or so most scholars think, as part of
the Hyksos migration southward from the Caucasus Mountain region. Until as recently as
1997, however, no one (including me) could make any constructive or sensible
suggestion as to why the Caucasus tribes living around the Black Sea should suddenly
have decided to migrate from their presumably original homelands. But migrate they
certainly did and they inundated modern Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine
and even part of Egypt as "Hittites", "Mitanni", "Hurrians", "Hyksos" and "Hebrews".
But in 1997, Noah's Flood by Columbia University oceanographers Walter Pitman and
William Ryan was published. Their massive collation of diverse evidence placed beyond
any shadow of scientific doubt the fact that the Black Sea Basin had been flooded out in
5600 BC.
During the last "Ice Age", the present Black Sea had been a fairly large freshwater lake
about the size of Lake Ontario (roughly 7500 square miles in surface area). But with the
end of the "Ice Age" about 11,500 BC, the larger ice caps of the glacial era began to melt
and the world's sea level began to rise. After about 6000 years of glacial melting, or
about 5600 BC, the sea level had risen by 300 feet world wide and this was enough for
the Mediterranean to break over the present Bosphorus and cascade down into the Black
Sea Basin. As we have already seen in the Atlantic, this same 300-foot rise in world sea
level flooded the "Plato" and "Atlantis" seamounts and also progressively flooded
Brittany's group of offshore islands once known as "Lyonesse".
Salt water poured down into the Black Sea Basin at the rate of roughly 200 Niagaras for
almost two centuries. The fertile steppe land around the wide margins of the former lake
were flooded at a rate of about 1.5 kilometres per day until the present now-salty Black
Sea reached world sea level, its present surface area of about 275,000 square miles and its
present average depth of about 1500 feet.
Underwater archaeology presently in progress by the famous Titanic-finding Ballard
team, using remote television cameras and also recovering artifacts from the sea bottom,
has already proved conclusively that the margins of the former lake had been very thickly
populated before the flood. The bottom of the Black Sea is dotted with numerous woodbuilt homes and farmsteads. The former inhabitants around the lake, and skeletal
evidence shows that they had marked Neanderthal physical traits, had to flee for their
lives as their former grasslands disappeared beneath a gradual but inexorable deluge of
Mediterranean salt water. These people were primarily herdsmen of sheep and horses.
Hyksos means "shepherd kings" and Hi-bi-ru apparently signifies minor herdsmen in the
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These particular shepherds, however, could not have been very gentle and tolerant. The
Caucasus Mountains were the last refuge of the Neanderthal genetic strain, or "race", of
people because the glacial climate to which the Neanderthals had adapted lingered in the
Caucasus region after the last "Ice Age" had ended elsewhere in Europe and Western
Asia. This was due the relatively high average altitude above sea level of this
mountainous Caucasus region.
The Alpine foothills and the Balkan mountains were also something of a refuge for
European Neanderthals, and they are remembered as the mountain trolls and gnomes of
European folklore. So, fairly pure Neanderthals must have lingered in the higher
mountains of Europe until relatively recently. But the Caucasus Mountains and the
complex jumble of Taurus, Zagros and Elburz mountains leading from them was the
biggest and most recently existing refuge for Neanderthals.
Whether fairly pure Neanderthals still exist or not is a highly controversial matter. As of
the 1950s, it was accepted by anthropologists that some local populations in the
mountainous regions of Europe (Italys spine, the Massif Central of France, the Balkans,
etc.) were very close to being Neanderthals for all practical purposes. Some
populations of the Caucasus and other Middle Eastern mountain chains still exhibit more
extreme Neanderthal skeletal characteristics than the type specimen, a French
Neanderthal dated to about 50,000 BC. It is now politically incorrect even to suggest such
a thing.
Neanderthal culture and society has already been shown to be extremely aggressive and
xenophobic toward anyone who was different in culture or physical appearance from
themselves. There are both theoretical reasons, and also actual cultural/religious
evidence, indicating that "strongly Neanderthaloid" people have an anti-feminist mindset
and tend to worship male sky gods, not female Earth Mothers. The evidence is too
complex and too specialized to cover in this Appendix, and can only be touched upon (if
it is mentioned at all) in a book about "The Jesus Voyage".
But there is one Neanderthal characteristic that is not shared by any other fossil or living
human population. This must be explained at least superficially if we are to understand
Western civilization. And it may also be of crucial importance to an understanding of the
Western World's religious history. Although literally dozens of "Ice Age" Neanderthal
cave sites and rock shelters have been excavated and investigated, not one Neanderthal
cave painting has ever been found.
Although they were large-brained and "intelligent", their intelligence was not artistic or
creative in a visual way. This makes Neanderthal intelligence and mental orientation
significantly different from all other ancestral human populations.
There may be an evolutionary reason for this. The National Geographic (September
2002) reported that many skeletal remains of a hominid similar to Homo habilis had
rather surprisingly been discovered in the Caucasus Mountains of the former Soviet
Republic of Georgia. Homo habilis was previously known only from East Africa and
dated to about 1-3 million years ago. Some features of these bones, notably the lower
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Neanderthals may (note the emphasis), therefore, have evolved from this early hominid.
Homo habilis is thought to have been human, all right, but not the branch of Homo that
evolved into present and modern humanity.
Although there is presently much controversy about it, Neanderthals were once classed as
Homo sapiens neanderthalis, that is, a separate race or subspecies of modern
humanity, Homo sapiens sapiens. These days, though, it is not polite to suggest that
there are physically identifiable genetic races of humanity with different mental and
emotional characteristics. Unfortunately, however, The National Geographic article at
least suggests that the older politically incorrect perspective was probably factually
correct after all Neanderthals may have come from another type of Mankind.
Neanderthals may not have been able to draw or paint, but they were, however, obsessed
by numbers. Like "The Count" on Sesame Street, they could not help but tally and
enumerate things. The first known human evidence of "time-factored living" are
Neanderthal records of lunar phases (or menstrual cycles) scratched on bone that date
from about 50,000 BC. This predates the famous Western European cave paintings by
about 20,000 years.
Alexander Marshack in his The Roots of Civilization (1961) illustrated many examples
of Neanderthal numerical notations and he showed that they were just as important to the
development of civilization as the "artistic" intelligence of Western European cave
painters. In fact, as Marshack demonstrated, the Neanderthal penchant for playing with
numbers was probably more important for the development of mathematics, surveying,
physics, science and technology than Western European artistic ability.
In terms of easily seen and proved cultural impact on Western Civilization, this means
that it is still possible to draw a line on a map from about the German-Polish border on
the Baltic Sea to the Italian-"Yugoslav" (now Croatia, I think) border on the Adriatic Sea.
You will find that acknowledged world-class artists were generally born west of the line,
while a disproportionate number of world-famous mathematicians, physicists, musicians
and composers lived east of it. Music is, of course, an appreciation of numerical
proportions expressed in sound.
This line is also the boundary that separates good chess players from obsessive ones and
which also separates the extremely wide EEE men's common shoe size of Eastern Europe
from the narrower men's feet of the West. EEE shoes are not normally manufactured
west of todays Czech Republic. Neanderthals had very wide feet, a wide "plantar index".
This line was more true before 1800 than it is today, of course. Two centuries of
relatively fast and inexpensive travel have allowed people to intermarry and mix their
genes. Nonetheless, even now (February 2003), the line remains at least roughly valid.
I have suggested in various writings, including The Iceman Inheritance and Chosen
People from the Caucasus, that Neanderthals must have been fascinated with the number
"One" or 1. It is the sudden difference between nothing and something. "Everything"
that exists can be viewed as multiples of "One", but without "One" there is nothing. I
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inbred or genetic tendency toward monotheism, the conception of just One God who
created "Everything". And, because they apparently could not render anything visually,
this Neanderthal One God would have been a totally abstract entity.
And also, simply because they could not draw or paint very well and did not value or
respect that ability, the Neanderthals and "highly Neanderthaloid" people would have
tended to have viewed the figurative art, particularly the religious art, of other people as
blasphemy and idolatry.
So, in sum of Neanderthal characteristics, we have a very high numerical and logical
intelligence, high aggression, male-dominance, anti-feminism, xenophobia, materialism
(if you can count em, theyre real) and a proclivity toward monotheism as Neanderthal
mental traits. They remain as mental tendencies of "highly Neanderthaloid" populations.
The Great Black Sea Flood of 5600 BC caused the Hyksos and Hebrews to scrabble over
the coastal mountains of modern Turkey and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and
trek down the Euphrates Valley. This led them, eventually, to Sumeria. This was not a
purposeful migration toward a known destination. The Caucasus and Taurus Mountains
had insulated these people from the outside world and it is highly unlikely that they knew
anything about the cities of civilized Sumeria. At least, no evidence of cultural contact
between the Caucasus and Sumeria before about 3000 BC has so far been discovered.
These cities had been founded by representatives of the "Old European" Goddessworshipping civilization, called the "Ubaid Culture" by archaeologists, sometime around
8000-7000 BC while en route toward India. The Black Sea refugees simply moved
slowly down the Euphrates Valley as available grazing for their herds dictated. They
reached the vicinity of Ur in Sumeria by about 3000 BC. By about 2000 BC they crossed
Syria into Palestine. By 1700 BC, they had invaded the northeastern part of Egypt's Nile
Delta (adjacent to Palestine and called "Goshen" in the Bible).
Archaeologists can roughly trace and date this migration by a trail of domesticated horse
bones. These Caucasus people had domesticated the wild Ice Age horses (tarpans)
which lingered on the steppes. The first domesticated horse skeleton so far discovered in
Ancient Egypt dates from about 1650 BC in the Nile Delta, giving archaeologists a rough
date for the arrival of the Hyksos and associated Hi-bi-ru there.
This quasi-military occupation may be the real reason why the Hebrew tribes resided in
Northeastern Egypt for a time (the Bible is confused about the length of their residence in
"Goshen"...four centuries or four generations?). To complete the story, these Hyksos and
Hebrews were expelled from Egypt between 1550 BC and 1350 BC by a counteroffensive launched by the Egyptian Princes of Thebes. This counter-offensive was
initially led by Amose I and its success founded the XVIII Dynasty and began the socalled New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. After two hundred years of sporadic fighting,
the expulsion from Egypt of hated Asiatic "shepherds" was finally complete. This final
expulsion seems to have been the Exodus of the Bible.
After the Exodus, the Old Testament of the Bible bears ample witness to the Hebrews'
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served their God. He was the only "true God" in a big world filled with many other
peoples and cultures which had their own gods and goddesses.
The Bible also bears ample witness to the fact that women had very little social or
religious enfranchisement in Hebrew society. Hebrew heroines of the Bible are, almost
without exception, women who sacrificed themselves sexually to attacking enemies in
order to win some advantage for the Israelites. That was the highest service that women
could be conceived of performing among the Hebrews.
The Old Testament also records the fact that many early Hebrews retained marked
Neanderthal physical traits from their Caucasus Mountains origin. Hairy Esau is known
to most Bible readers, but what most of them do not know is that Esau was not alone.
Esau-like people were very common among the early Hebrew population. According to
the earliest Hebrew commentators, there were enough "Esaus" to contest Jacob's
leadership of the Israelite tribes. Levitecus Rabba, the oldest exegetical work in Hebrew,
calls these people "the destroyers, the sons of Esau" and Zohar says that they were "the
beast within Israel" that had to be eradicated.
The biblical Hebrews must have come originally from some extremely concentrated
source of Neanderthal genetic stock back in their old Caucasus homeland. But
unfortunately, not enough is known about early human populations in this area to
pinpoint the probable geographic location of Hebrew ancestors. But the many Esaus of
the Old Testament and commented on in ancient exegetical works indicate this extreme
degree of Neanderthal genetic material in the Israelite tribes.
One other characteristic of Hebrew culture also testifies to the same thing. Of all known
early peoples or nations of Europe and Western Asia, only the biblical Hebrews
mounted a concerted effort to establish or (retain) a purely male-dominant Godhead in
their also-unique monotheism. Although they apparently suffered frequent lapses of at
least part of their people cleaving unto idolatry and even worshipping the goddesses of
neighbouring nations, the mainstream of Judaism remained faithful to the One God. And
He was commonly known as Adonai and secretly as vowel-sounds that approximated the
name Jehovah. That is why vowels are not written in Hebrew and in some other
Semitic languages.
These physical, intellectual, emotional and religious Neanderthal characteristics
remained relatively pure and undiluted because of Hebrew cultural and religious taboos
against intermarriage with any other peoples.
Elsewhere, the same Black Sea Caucasus people, driven by the flood and by the desperate
jostling of other refugees, began to percolate into the Balkans and Greece in various
waves that scholars identify as "Mycenaean", "Dorian", "Thracian" and "Aeolian" socalled "Greeks".
The decipherment of the so-called "Linear B" Mycenaean script by Michael Venris in
1954 showed that the Mycenaean language was, indeed, basically an early form of the
Indo-European dialect of "Greek". It came originally from the "Russian" Caucasussteppes. But the Mycenaeans were a transitional phase of the Caucasus inundation, a

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warrior elite who imposed themselves upon a much larger population of indigenous
people and who at least partly adopted the religious conceptions of the conquered
natives. We know that the Mycenaeans, for example, geneally worshipped a Great
Goddess as the supreme deity, although there were also lesser gods and goddesses.
But the rapidly subsequent invasions of yet other tribes of "Greek-speaking" steppe
barbarians, especially the so-called "Dorians", ended the Goddess-worshipping
Mycenaean world and inaugurated a rude "Dark Age" about 1000 BC. It was within this
Greek "Dark Age" from about 1000 BC to 700 BC that the poet (or a collection of poets)
called "Homer" wrote about the Trojan War, the homeward voyage of Odysseus, and
other magnificent seafaring heroes and beautiful heroines of the vanished and glorious
Mycenaean Age that had flourished about five hundred years earlier.
Perhaps there were not so many of these Caucasus-steppe "Greeks" as was the case with
the main Hyksos/Hurrian/Hittite/Mitanni/Hebrew horde which seems to have travelled
southward along the broad valley of the Euphrates River. Therefore, although they
certainly introduced their male sky gods into Greece, they not only tolerated but also
accommodated to the prevailing "Old European" Goddess-worshipping major religious
orientation. Gradually, however, the ancient goddesses (all of whom had originally
represented only some aspects of the Great Goddess) became mere unwilling "wives" of
the invaders' sky gods. The stormy relationship between Zeus and Hera in the transition
to the Classical Greek pantheon illustrates this process clearly enough.
Roughly the same situation played itself out in Italy. Believers in male sky gods from the
"Russian" Caucasus steppes gradually percolated into Europe, went across or around the
Alps and then migrated southward down into the Italian Peninsula. They also
encountered Old European worshippers of the Great Goddess and her Good Shepherd
consort-son, but they reached an accommodation by which a pantheon of roughly equal
gods and goddesses was achieved. Nonetheless, as in Greece where male Zeus was ruler
of all gods and goddesses on Olympus, male Jupiter was Chief of the pantheon in Italy.
At about the same time as the Hyksos and Hebrews arrived in biblical Goshen, say about
1700 BC or so, other close relatives of Indo-European speaking Caucasus-steppe people
reached India from Persia. Known as Aryans, they over-ran the older so-called Indus
Cultures represented by the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, which had been
founded by Goddess-worshipping people of the Old Civilization. There, too, after the
Aryan invasions, a great pantheon was established.
Aside from Greece, Italy and India, a similar evolution of religion took place all over
Europe and Western Asia. Pantheons were established with initially strong
representation by goddesses. As mentioned before, however, only the Hebrews
repudiated polytheism and goddesses completely.
Is any human psychological insight to be gleaned from this pattern of religious evolution?
Objectively, one can say that the Old Religion was somewhat balanced "psychosexually"
because both the Great Goddess and the Good Shepherd were revered -- but it was
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Greco-Roman and Indian kind of pantheistic accommodation of gods and goddesses also
struck a socio-religious psychosexual balance of sorts -- even though it was somewhat
skewed toward male dominance and was therefore more warlike than the "Civilization of
the Goddess" had been.
But the retention of pure Caucasus-steppe worship of only male sky gods, and especially
a monotheistic male sky god, must be considered seriously unbalanced or even disturbed
psychosexually. Monotheistic male-dominant societies have always been ruthlessly
aggressive because there is no compensating and effective feminine representation in
either the Godhead or in the earthly culture that conceived the nature of divinity. These
observations would seem to be objective facts, not mere personal opinion. It is no
accident, therefore and for example, that the most serious crisis threatening world peace
presently is the confrontation between Jews in Israel (supported by Jews in the United
States) and Moslem Arabs in the Middle East.
Only in Egypt, Northwestern Europe and Mediterranean islands during Greco-Roman
times, did the Old Religion continue to flourish in relatively pure form with Isis as the
Great Goddess and the Messiah as her Good Shepherd consort-son. This Egyptian
Christianity survived and developed to became the official religion of Ptolemaic (Greekruled) Egypt about 320 BC.
This version of Messiah worship achieved some popularity in Rome not long before the
"Christian Era" because of the emotional impact that Cleopatra had made on the common
people of Rome when she entered that city as Julius Caesar's consort. Roman veneration
for Isis and "the Crestus" continued even after Julius Caesar was assassinated. Only when
Julius Caesar's legally-appointed successor, Octavian ("Augustus Caesar"), defeated
Antony and Cleopatra at Actium did belief in Isis and "the Crestus" begin (AD 19) to be
suppressed in Rome.
Within three centuries after the lifetime of orthodox Christianitys St. Paul, or only
about eleven generations, barbarians began to over-run the Roman Empire. Called
"Visigoths", "Ostrogoths", "Lombards" and "Vandals" in our history books, they were
distant relatives of biblical Caucasus-steppe people who had fled from the Great Black
Sea Flood and who had invaded Palestine and Egypt as Hyksos and Hebrews about two
thousand years earlier.
It has become increasingly clear, as research into the obscure steppe histories has
tediously and slowly progressed, that the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards and Vandals
were pushed into desperate migration, in a kind of "domino-effect", by the terrible
"Huns" to the north and east of these other tribes. Greco-Roman writers first heard of the
Huns and mentioned them in AD 272, possibly because of stories told by scattered
Visigothic refugees trickling into northern Greece. These Huns were located in the
vaguely known lands at the northern end of the Caspian Sea.
It is now known, however, that the Huns were a Caucasian steppe tribe that had, during
the third century BC, made an earlier onslaught against China. The Ch'in Dynasty of that
time built the Great Wall in order to hold the Huns at bay. This apparently worked
because the Huns then turned westward to return to what seems to have been their

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original homelands north of the Caspian. But Chinese culture, from then onward, tended
to be inward looking and not typically expansive. Perhaps they had been seriously
intimidated by the Huns. In any event, as late as AD 1325, Chinese maritime expansion
was halted by Imperial decree for fear of "encountering the barbarians" that were known
to exist in the Middle East.
The Visigoths, set into terrified motion by the Huns, made their debut on the stage of
European history at the Battle of Adrianople in Greece in AD 273 where their cavalry
thoroughly defeated a Roman army. It soon became apparent that the usual Roman
infantry legions were no match for the new Visigothic armoured horse warriors armed
with long lances and long swords. The Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards successively
over-ran Greece and Italy. The Visigoths sacked Rome itself in AD 410.
However, the Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards, although fierce warriors in the own
right, could appreciate civilization to some degree, at least, and could be assimilated.
Many of these barbarians became officers in the Roman army and became Roman
citizens. They helped Imperial Rome to develop its own corps of armoured cavalry,
called in Latin clibanarii (Western Empire) and cataphracti (Eastern Empire), with
which to oppose the inevitable onslaught of the Huns.
Even the fierce and warlike Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards who settled in
conquered Rome doubted that the Huns were fully human, according to reports preserved
in the chronicles. The Huns were described as extremely hairy goblins with big heads
and short legs. Christianized barbarians described them as "the Scourge of God" because
of their ruthless extermination of enemies and the hideous atrocities they visited on their
hapless captives.
The long-dreaded onslaught came a generation later when Attila led his Huns through
Central Europe between AD 449 and 451, leaving behind a swath of destruction and
genocide. In that latter year, AD 451, Attila's horde of predominantly mounted bowmen
was somewhat surprisingly defeated at the very closely fought Battle of Chalons in
central France. The victors were a desperate coalition of Romanized Visigoths,
Ostrogoths, Lombards, Roman infantry, native Celtic levies and Teutonic forces from
east of the Rhine. The Teutons had already experienced the terror of the Huns and the
Rings of the Niebelungen cycle of epic poetry prominently refers to this conflict.
For those readers with literary interests, it is at least interesting and it may also be of
unsuspected social importance, that in Year 2000 J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings
was voted "The Most Important Book of the Century" and "The Most Important Book of
the Millennium" by two separate groups of book buyers and readers. One group was
British, the other American, and both were polled by a major international book retailer.
The epic trilogy is now being made into a 3-part feature film which has so far released
the first two parts, "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers". The Lord of
the Rings has smashed all previous theatre attendance and box office records.
Tolkein's "Middle Earth" was rather obviously the "Elder Days" of the Old European
Neolithic-megalithic Civilization. Specifically, "The Shire" was meant to be pre-

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industrial England. The "High Elves" who had come from the West bringing civilization
to Middle Earth were our putative "Atlanteans" from the West who brought civilization
to Western Europe.
The Eastern realm of Sauron's "Mordor" in J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings was
modelled on a mixture of early medieval Hun/Khazars and modern Western
industrialism. The soldiers of Mordor were called orcs...which is Gaelic Irish (the
Goidelic branch of Celtic) for pigs. The word Khazar itself also means pig in the
Gothic branch of Germanic that influenced Yiddish (i.e. Yid Deutsch or Jew German)
so much and we will soon learn the significance of this. Tolkein therefore told an
allegorical, but nonetheless true, history in his masterpiece. It was the West's ancient and
continuing battle against genetic domination by ferocious Caucasus-steppe barbarians.
Even the "Civilization of the Goddess" was reflected in Tolkein's work because such
rings of power as still had strength to do at least some good in the world were wielded by
High Elven queens, Arwen Evenstar of "Rivendell" and Galadriel of Lothlorien.
It can be no accident, therefore (for a man of Tolkein's erudition), that the Evening Star is
the planet Venus and that "Galadriel" is the "Elvish" name for the Morning Star...again,
the planet Venus. But you have to read Tolkein's long appendix "On the Language of the
Elves" to discover this. The Latin word "Venus" was given to the planet, but the name is
interchangeable with Aphrodite, Ishtar, Cybele and...Isis. The planet was named in
honour of the Great Goddess because of its beauty. Our present symbol for the female
sex is also the sign for Venus, and both come from the shape of the Ancient Egyptian
ankh, the symbol of life itself.
But Tolkein, the Oxford scholar of Teutonic and Celtic lore and literature, knew that even
this Ancient Egyptian symbol for life, the ankh, was apparently brought to Egypt along
with basic Christianity by Neolithic and megalithic migrants from the Atlantic West. We
have covered this West-to-East maritime migration in the Historical Perspective: Light
from the West? first section of this presentation. It is the basic rationale of The Jesus
Voyage.
A very well known German scientist with the unfortunate name of Dr. Otto Muck went
further than Tolkein. Muck suggested that the shape of the Celtic Cross, the ankh and our
symbols for both the planet Venus and the female sex all derived from, and are slight
distortions of, from the city plan of Atlantis as described by Plato. The Jesus Voyage
will illustrate the similarity of these symbols, but for the moment you can return to Paul
Schliemanns dubious map of Atlantis on page 19 and see for yourself that Otto Mucks
argument is clever even if it may not be true.
Therefore, Tolkein was apparently correct in naming his Elven Queens after the planet
Venus and the Western Great Goddess.
The Good Shepherds are also well represented in The Lord of the Rings. Gandalf, the
Wizard, and Strider, the disguised King Aragorn of the West, escort the vulnerable
hobbits toward Mordor. Perhaps it is not going too far to think of the hobbits as innocent

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and pretty ignorant sheep. Poor Frodo the Ringbearer carried what seems suspiciously
like the orthodox Christian burden of Original Sin, being Bilbos heir.
But, to be fair to Tolkein, he disliked and mistrusted allegorical interpretations of his
work which has not prevented many people from making them (including me).
However, I have had the great honour and immense advantage of corresponding with
Robert Graves during his last years on Majorca. Graves had been a special friend and
confidante of Tolkeins and they had often discussed The Lord of the Rings because it
had so much resonance with Gravess own work. Graves received one of the first copies
of The Iceman Inheritance and he wrote (through his wife Beryl because he was too ill)
that the theory was the history that Tolkein had chosen to tell in an allegorical form.
Therefore, Ill stick to my guns with my interpretation of The Lord of the Rings. And, to
continue with it, soon, I think, it will become very clear why Tolkein very obviously
equated Huns and Khazars with rampant Western industrialism.
What may be considered surprising is the immense and overwhelming popularity of The
Lord of the Rings by a generation at the apex of our technology. This may indicate a
strong subconscious desire to rediscover the West's true history and, at least partly, to
return to its original values and religious orientation. President George Bush should
reflect that a great social change might be taking place at the very time that he is trying to
equate war and U.S. industrial globalization with "The American Way of Life".
But we must return momentarily to the Huns because of their unsuspected importance to
the modern Western world and even todays newspaper headlines.
Perhaps the nominally "Roman" participants at the Battle of Chalons were surprised at
their bloody victory. They were certainly relieved. The Huns trickled back through
central Europe to their former homeland near where the Volga River empties into the
Caspian Sea. The "Roman" victors at Chalons were not anxious to follow them for a rematch. Attila, High King of the Huns, died in his Volga capital in AD 453.
Like the Hebrews themselves in back in Palestine about 2000 BC, these later Caucasussteppe Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards and Vandals of the third to fifth centuries AD
had a male-dominant mindset and worshipped male sky gods...Visigothic Thor was not
very different from Judaic Jehovah, for example. And just like the Hebrews, they tended
to reject the idea of any serious reverence for goddesses. Among these invading
barbarians, as among the biblical Hebrews previously (and still), ordinary women had
little enfranchisement in their societies because there was no strong female representation
in their cultural conceptions of divinity.
Orthodox "Judeo-Christianity" of the Roman Church grew at phenomenal speed during
the first few centuries AD. This was partly because the Emperor Constantine accepted it
as an official religion of the Roman Empire in AD 337. But it was also because the
already-encroaching barbarians were genetically and emotionally predisposed to accept
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This predisposition is due to the fact that patriarchal societies, like those of the biblical
Hebrews and the invading barbarians of the first few centuries AD, have a built-in flaw
that threatens male identity. A woman knows that she is the mother of any given child,
but a father can never have absolute certainty of his paternity. That is why all maledominant and patriarchal societies impose restrictions, sometimes very severe, on female
social and sexual activity. In a patriarchal society, a man must feel confident that any
given child is actually his. The child might be his heir, after all.
Therefore, all patriarchal societies also zealously guard against possible sexual relations
between family members of the oposite sex. In patriarchal societies, incest becomes a
crime and a sin, whereas in matriarchal societies incest is usually regarded as mere
normal and healthy sexual experimentation. In matriarchal Polynesia, for example,
mothers were expected to introduce their sons to sex and fathers did the same for
daughters. Brother-sister alliances may even be elevated to the status of an obligation
among royalty within matriarchal societies, as in Ancient Egypt and in Peru. But such
relationships become despicable sins in all patriarchal societies and within their maledominant religions.
As the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards and Vandals inundated the Mediterranean world,
it was natural that belief in Egyptian Isis, the Great Goddess with her Good Shepherd
consort-son, was emotionally and "religiously" abhorred, emotionally repudiated and
historically all but erased. Pauls version of the Christian story shifted the Ancient
Worlds emotional, religious and social focus to Palestine and Rome, making Egypt
increasingly irrelevant.
It was both an intellectual and also a genetic shift in demographic emphasis that divides
the Mediterranean "Ancient World" from the orthodox Christian Era's mindset. And this
orthodox Judeo-Christian Tradition started Europe's inexorable evolution toward the
modern world.
Nonetheless, the Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards do not appear to have been quite as
aggressive and primitive as the Huns and Vandals we will hear about the Huns (again)
and the Vandals shortly. This is probably because the Visigoths, Ostrogoths and
Lombards had a less concentrated dose of Neanderthal blood in their veins and fewer
Neanderthal characteristics encoded in their DNA. They established themselves as a
warlike aristocracy (Feudalism) over the existing European inhabitants who were
mainly descended from the Old Civilization, just like the Mycenaeans had done in Greece
about 1600 BC. And, like the Mycenaeans also, the Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards
did not exterminate the conquered inhabitants of Europe.
They were gradually converted to the "Judeo-Christian Tradition" of the Roman Church,
gradually intermixed with the native people around them and therefore at least some of
their aggression was genetically diluted over the centuries. Most modern Westerners are
probably not much more aggressive than other (coloured) peoples of the world but,
most unfortunately, some Western Caucasians are.
From the Jewish point of view, St. Paul's moulding of the New Testament ensured that
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hopefully sympathetic relationship with Judaism. This hope was largely fulfilled
although Christians have occasionally indulged in bouts of so-called "anti-Semitism".
Europe under the "Judeo-Christian Tradition" also, however, notably reduced the former
social status of women and even indulged in massacres of women as "witches".
Now we must return to the Hunsand discuss the Vandals.
The Jewish position in the Western world was to be immeasurably strengthened when, in
AD 740, an estimated 1-3 million people from the "Russian" steppes, called "Khazars" by
chroniclers of the day, were converted to Judaism. The aggression, chauvinism and
militant xenophobia of biblical Judaism apparently appealed to their ferocious
psychology, although there were also geopolitical and economic factors that contributed
to their preference for Judaism.
This so-called "Khazar" tribe is known to have been just a later name for Attila's Huns,
the so-called Scourge of God. And as we know, the Huns had actually started the
barbarian invasions of Rome by terrorizing neighboring tribes of Ostrogoths, Visigoths,
Lombards and Vandals. The Khazars/Huns are also thought to have been very closely
related to their immediate steppe neighbours, the Vandals.
The descendants of these Khazars are todays so-called "Ashkenazi Jews". They now
represent the vast majority of modern "Jewry" (95%), although they have no direct
genetic or historical relationship at all with biblical Israelites. These "Ashkenazim" were
the prime victims of Hitler's so-called "Holocaust" and are the so-called "Jews" of Central
and Eastern Europe and particularly of the United States to which they emigrated in great
numbers about 1870. And, of course, they also constitute the vast majority of modern
Israel's population.
The Khazars/Huns had ruled the steppes between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea just
at the northern end of the Caucasus Mountains. They started the barbarian invasions of
Rome by setting in motion the terrified tribes to the south and east of them, and their
nearest neighbours are thought to have been the Vandals. The Vandals began to move
out of the Huns path first, and so they entered the Mediterranean world last.
It must be said, and maybe here is the place to say it, that of all the barbarians that
invaded the Roman Empire (aside from the Huns, that is), the Vandals in particular were
also destined to play a crucially important role in the development of our modern world.
Because of their original location on the western side of the Caucasus Mountains, their
route of invasion into the Roman world took them southward down the Eastern Shore of
the Mediterranean. They invaded modern Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel-Palestine,
Egypt and then continued all across North Africa to the Atlantic coast at Morocco.
Although a Christian mob led by Roman Bishop Theophilus burned the great Alexandria
Library and massacred Egyptian Christians in AD 391, the Vandal invasion about half a
century later completed the total destruction of any vestige of living Ancient Egyptian or
Greco-Roman culture. Our modern word "vandalism" aptly recalls the wanton
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There was not much intermixing between the Vandals and indigenous people. Unlike the
Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards in Europe, Vandals (like the Huns) tended to
exterminate the native peoples they encountered in the Middle East.
The Vandals were nearly as fiercely aggressive, xenophobic and "anti-feminist" as the
Huns/Khazars themselves. And it was directly from this "Vandalized" emotional and
cultural outlook that Mohammed drew his inspiration and that Islam took its root.
Islam, at least among the original "Vandalized" Middle Eastern people who developed
and embraced it, is no less aggressive, anti-feminist and monotheistic than Judaism. This
is not surprising since both Judaism and Islam were conceived and developed by very
closely related Caucasus-steppe people.
Therefore, as far as the history of the world is concerned, we are faced with a
significant and terrifying genetic fact. Just one group of very aggressive Caucasussteppe barbarians has played an inordinately large role in moulding the general
pattern of world history. The Huns attacked China in the third century BC, but they
were thwarted by the Chin Dynastys Great Wall. However, in memory of the hairy
barbarians, Chinese civilization remained psychologically inhibited and relatively
(relative to the West, that is) non-expansive territorially.
Then these same Huns returned to their Caucasus-steppes, terrorized their neighbours
and brought about the Fall of Rome. They brought about the European Dark Ages
following the barbarian invasions. Then, pushing the Vandals to over-run the Middle
East, they inspired the religion of Islam. This resulted in the Moslem jihad that
conquered the Middle East from the Mediterranean to India and also conquered East
Africa and North Africa.
In a new guise, as Khazars, they were to mould the modern Western Worlds
technological, financial, military and cultural geopolitical expansionas we will see.
What happened to these Khazar-Hun steppe people who converted to Judaism as
Ashkenazim in AD 740?
It should be emphasized here that the Khazars were hated by their Slavic neighbours in
the Ukraine, Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe because they were raiders and
slavers. In fact, they gave the word slavery to the world by capturing and selling Slavs
in truly staggering numbers.
Joseph Jacobs in his somewhat ironically entitled Jewish Contributions to Western
Civilization (Jewish Information Service, 1921) described what he called the wretched
business, including the way that the Khazars processed their captives. They castrated
the men, raped the women and then killed the children in front of their mothers eyes.
Khazar atrocities are responsible for the chronic anti-Semitism, as one Jewish writer
put it, of Eastern Europeans.
After about five centuries of terrifying the Slavs, the brief but intense Mongol invasion of
modern Russia and the Ukraine in AD 1218 crushed the Khazars as a cohesive Caucasussteppe power. In company with lesser steppe tribes (Magyars, Bulgars, Alans, etc.) the

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Khazars were either dispersed within Russia and the Ukraine, or were pushed into the
territories of Eastern Europe.
They lost their warlike cohesion as Khazars, but they retained their Judaism and some
steppe customs. Surrounded and hated by their former victims, they congregated in socalled rural stetls (small sometimes stockaded villages) or in definite sections of the
cities that were just starting to develop.
These Ashkenazi Jewish enclaves became the Jewish ghettoes of Eastern Europe.
Because they were outnumbered and surrounded by their former victims who hated them,
they had to give up Khazar-style armed aggression. In order to survive, they developed a
veiled pushiness combined with hard work, utter disdain for the values and customs of
their neighbours and a will to survive and succeed by using their Neanderthal traits of
logical intelligence, materialism and skill with numbers.
They more or less changed one of their own genetic and cultural traits: in order to
survive, they began to treat their women a bit better than they had on the steppes. Back
on the steppes, a woman had had less value than a good horse. But it was naturally a
male dominant kind of caring that slightly improved a womans material welfare while
preserving a sense of male superiority. The result was a sort of maudlin sentimentality
about mothers that restricted female social interaction of any cultural importance.
Starting in the late 1870s, these Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews emigrated to
America in huge numbers and settled mainly in New York City. From there, they spread
to Florida and California (Hollywood particularly) where, among other things, they
started Americas media and movie businesses. They put their Neanderthal traits to
quick and effective use.
Although they represent only about 4% of the U.S. population, they account (no pun
intended) for 35% of all corporate VPs and CEOs, 30% of all university professors, 30%
of all media reporters and editors and 35% of all American millionaires and billionaires.
These figures come from Charles E. Silbermans A Certain People: American Jews and
Their Lives Today (1984).
In short, they became inordinately influential in American society
It should be said, in fairness, that there have been many recent attempts to discount any
Neanderthal or other "racial" proclivities in "modern humanity" (always conveniently
undefined). Most of this research has been undertaken since The Iceman Inheritance
was published in 1978 and Chosen People from the Caucasus was released in 1992.
These politically correct studies have, of course, been highly promoted, and especially on
North American television and in North American newspapers and magazines.
Typically, they involve complicated statistical analysis of DNA genetic comparisons.
Whether these studies are science or "pseudo-science" is a matter of highly controversial
opinion. Most of the public cannot grasp the difficulties of making DNA comparisons
between living people and ancient human populations. Then, too, statistics are so easy to
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wants to prove. As someone once put it, "first come lies, then damned lies and then
statistics".
Obviously, The Iceman Inheritance and Chosen People from the Caucasus have very
definitely placed me on the currently "politically incorrect" side of the matter. My view
is that the truth will become, and is fast becoming since Year 2000, quite clear to most
people...and in spite of all the statistics and propaganda that has been so well
disseminated by media since about 1980.
This gradual triumph of anthropological and genetic fact is not because the so-called
"truth" somehow has some mystical and omnipotent power to manifest itself. It is a
matter of self-evident events, common sense and clear dangers to our world's continued
existence.
People have begun to realize that, for some reason, Caucasians have expanded all over
the world at the expense of other races. This reason cannot be a higher level of socalled intelligence because our own Western IQ tests show that Far East Asians score,
on average, about 10% higher than Caucasians do.

The Iceman Inheritance offered an explanation that made sense a higher average level
of aggression, not intelligence, in Western humanity. This was an observation that also
conformed, as it still does, to many other interlocking anthropological facts. The
frontispiece was a map of The Iceman Inheritance that graphically and unarguably
showed the gradual but inexorable expansion of Western humanity from the Neanderthal
homeland about 80,000 BC until todays globalization of technological, financial,
military and cultural conquest. Unfortunately, reduced to this size, youll have to squint
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Prominent episodes in this expansion have included the Arab-Islamic conquest of the
Middle East and North Africa between AD 622 and about AD 1550.
Then there was the conquest of North and South America by Europeans between AD
1492 and about AD 1880 and the genocide of an estimated 10-20 million native people.
Connected with The Conquest, transatlantic slavery of Black Africans stands as the
most terrible of all human tragedies. It is noteworthy that Iberian Jews, Ashkenazi Jews
and American Jews were very major players in both the genocide of The Conquest
and in subsequent transatlantic slavery of Black Africans. According to both Jewish and
Iberian sources, from 50% to 75% of the Spanish and Portuguese Conquistadors
were actually Jews who has been expelled from Iberia. It has been estimated that
between 20 and 100 million people died in slavery and because of it.
To modern Westerners who are dulled by hundreds of thousands or even millions of
casualties in two major world wars and the much worse potential of nuclear and
biological warfare, these figures of Black African deaths by slavery might seem
meaningless. But then we have to remember that the worlds population was
considerably smaller between 1492 and 1860.
Because the Jews have appropriated the word Holocaust to propagandize their
casualties under the Nazis during World War II (supposedly 6 million died), Africans
have had to fall back on the Swahili word Maafa to refer to their much greater
victimization. As for the decimated Amerindians of North and South America, they have
been too stunned and demoralized even to coin a word for their catastrophe.
Simultaneously, the Far East was discovered and then dominated by Europeans, but the
people of East Asia were too advanced technologically and culturally to be exterminated
completely. Their territories were colonized or partitioned and their natural resources
were stolen. Only Japan remained independent in practical termsuntil 1945, that is.
Australia was colonized during the 1800s and the native population was virtually
exterminated by slavery and bounty hunting. They hauntingly remember their world
before Caucasians came as Dreamtime.
It has been noted previously by many historians that the actual rationale or excuse for this
expansion, slavery and genocide was to spread the Judeo-Christian Tradition to the
benighted coloured people of the world.
After two thousand years of unremitting brainwashing of Christians using the Bible,
including Paul's historically bogus New Testament, this supposed "Judeo-Christian
Tradition" still dictates the United States' and some Western European anti-Arab and
anti-Islamic policy in today's Middle East. The ongoing and current "Israeli-Palestinian
confrontation" and the "Iraq crisis" are directly related to two thousand years of
purposeful Judeo-Christian myth that has both distorted the facts of "Christian" religious
history and has also therefore moulded modern Western geopolitical alliances.
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Well, now weve come down to the nitty gritty of the planets survival. The major
competitors in historical Caucasian expansion, the Islamic Arabs and the JudeoChristians, are finally facing each other and doing so with high-tech weaponry.
Nuclear and biological weapons would wreak destruction and havoc that could affect the
entire world. Some people are fond of calling this impending war the Armageddon of
biblical prophecy. But is a genetic proclivity toward aggression, and not Gods
supposed Will, behind the inevitability of Armageddon?
Initially, the Islamic Arabs expanded throughout the Middle East and much of Asia. And,
initially too, the somewhat later European maritime expansion avoided the Arab-Islamic
sphere of influence in the Middle East.
Butduring the last near-century or so, it has become quite evident that a "certain" group
has been inordinately instrumental in the establishment of modern Israel in the Middle
East (1917, Balfour Declaration). This same group has had an inordinate influence in the
development (1940-1945) and deployment (1945-1960s) of nuclear weapons. This
"certain" group orchestrated the actual proclamation of Israel's existence in the Middle
East (1948) and has been disproportionately influential in the financially motivated
rampant expansion of modern Western industrialism all over the world (1960s to the
present). This certain group is active throughout the West, but has been most
influential in the United States since about 1870. And, technologically, the exponential
expansion of Western industrialism has been fundamentally and increasingly dependent
upon the exploitation of Middle Eastern oil since about 1960.
Quite obviously, this onslaught against the Middle East's and entire world's resources and
peoples cannot continue without eventual Arab-Islamic policies of resource self-defence
and cultural preservation...or "rogue opposition and terrorism", as the United States
prefers to term it.
It isn't at all surprising that violent reaction to late Twentieth Century Western aggression
has manifested itself most forcefully among highly "Vandalized" Arab-Islamic Middle
Eastern people. They are themselves just as aggressive, chauvinistic and xenophobic as
that "certain" group of people who have played an inordinately influential role in
moulding Western policies. Except for the Vietnamese, the Moslem Arabs and
Palestinians have borne the brunt of that certain groups aggressive machinations since
1950.
Gradually, however, even some Westerners in company with most other peoples of the
world have begun to realize the fundamental cause of the most serious threats to the
world's safety and peace. They will either quietly withdraw from helping with the United
States' and Israel's so-called "War Against Terrorism"...or else they will actively join the
militant opposition to American-Israeli Middle Eastern and globalization policies.
We see this process already starting in current newspaper headlines. There is mounting
opposition to the War Against Iraq momentum that has been promoted by that
certain group within American industry and media, especially CNN, The New York
Times and The Wall Street Journal. This international opposition has begun to isolate
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before there will be yet another so-called and highly inaccurately termed Anti-Semitic
backlash in the West.
So, the genetic profile of today's Middle Eastern confrontation actually involves mainly
the descendants of some Caucasus-steppe barbarians (Jews) initiating financial,
military, territorial and cultural aggression against descendants of yet other Caucasussteppe barbarians (Islamic Arabs). No wonder the conflict is so merciless.
It is as dishonest and as useless to ignore this self-evident anthropological fact as it is to
deny the truth that the salient characteristics of these contending barbarians are their
shared Neanderthal cultural and physical traits. In spite of all the statistical goodfacts
promoted in North American media, both Jews and Islamic Arabs are fiercely
monotheistic. Both Judaic and Islamic religious law is anti-female in because womens
social and sexual activities are rigidly curtailed and both Jews and Moslems permit
polygamy. Both Jews and Moslems have been major players in enslaving conquered
people they didnt exterminate. If North American, Western European and Israeli Jews
seem more modern and democratic these days, it is only because they have had to pay
lip service to Western European ideals in order to ensure Western tolerance and
continued Western military and financial support for Jewish and Israeli goals.
But the immediately obvious clencher of their shared Neanderthal traits is that both Jews
and Moslems have severely limited visual artistic ability. Both Judaic and Islamic
religious law prohibits the representation of any living thing as idolatry. Islamic art is
purely geometrical and, as for the Jews, modern art (non-representational abstract, neoprimitive and linear art) had to be invented before they could contribute to Western
culture as visual creators. It is only because Jews control so much of the Western artistic
press that some modern Jewish artists are highly regarded, and I defy anyone to name just
one world class Moslem painter or sculptor.
Also, both Judaic and Islamic religious law and custom demands sexual mutilation as a
symbol of religious affiliation (I have not covered this particular repercussion of
Neanderthal physical traits in this Appendix).
In these cultural and psychological characteristics, the Jews and Islamic Arabs differ
from all the rest of the worlds people. Only people from Eastern Europe and parts of
the Middle East can claim Neandertals per se in their direct ancestry. So wrote the
worlds acknowledged authority on Neanderthals, Dr. Eric Trinkhaus, at the conclusion
(page 451) of his monumental work The Neandertals (1996).
If we pull our focus back from specifically "Middle Eastern" conflicts, however, we can
also perhaps perceive an even larger truth about the evolution of the European West since
the dominance of the orthodox "Judeo-Christian Tradition".
Our modern world, with its rampant industrial pollution and concomitant environmental
destruction, derives directly from the Old Testament's assurance and supposed divine
purpose that all the earth's plants, minerals, animals and people existed only for the good
of the "Chosen People". They did not, according to Jehovah, exist for any other
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human life could flourish. Vandalized Islam took roughly the same values directly from
Judaism. Neither Jehovah nor Allah can be considered ecologists.
The Great Goddess and the Good Shepherd knew better.
The present world could rather obviously use a revival of Neolithic "true Christianity".
Only some sincere reverence for the ancient Great Fertility Goddess and her Good
Shepherd consort-messiah can save us lost lambs that have gone astray. We have turned
our over-exploited world into a life-threatening geopolitical, religious and environmental
mess because of the gradually increasing influence of a Caucasus-steppe, male-dominant,
monotheistic and anti-feminist mindset.
Compassionate and responsible Neolithic "true Christianity" has always been opposed by
psychosexually unbalanced and purely materialist monotheistic barbarians. Our major
problem is that we have always been purposefully misled and confused about which
religious orientation really represented which genetic and psychological perspective.
We have been propagandized into believing that male-dominant monotheism represents
the apex of compassionate spirituality, while polytheistic paganism reflects the depths of
moral and materialist depravity. But the present state of the world's political security and
environmental purity vehemently argues otherwise.
We really do have Saviours, and all we must do is pay them the respect they are due in
objective reality and also modify our behaviour to what we know is true and right
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The only truly demonstrable Salvation is, of course, the continual regeneration and
maintenance of a vital environment. That was always the message symbolized by the
original Madonna and Child. And this message has absolutely nothing to do with socalled Scriptural promises of eternal cloud-riding and harp-playing in the biologically
sterile non-environment of some male Gods monotheistic heaven.
But it has everything to do with the Great Fertility Goddess and the Good Shepherd. This
10,000-year-old truth is what The Jesus Voyage is all about.

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