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Here with the frame removed it reveals the true size of
the Shepherds of Arcadia painting.
(Notice that the painting is
slightly tilted also.)
by using
Schellenberger and Andrews analysis and the new size we find that using the
shepherd's staffs we now have this.
Using the staff lengths as the radii of a containing circle. We find:
The
white shepherd's
(left, with arm on tomb) staff
make a six-pointed hexagram centred on a spot
The
blue shepherd's(Centre,
kneeling) staff
makes a five pointed pentacle centred on the same spot
And the
red shepherd's
(right, looking around at the Shepherdess) staff
makes a three-pointed triangle also centred on this very same spot.
Note the colours
red,
white and
blue refers to the garments worn by the three male shepherds
The Shepherdess is Calisto. She was
turned into a bear by Zeus and flung into the sky.
She is Ursa Major - The Great Bear.
The three shepherds represent constellations
Constellations
left
to right Ophiuchus - Hercules - Böötes - Ursa Major
The geometric centre of the three polygons
reveals the importance of the rock behind.
An expansion of the centre of the circle
marked by the Shepherd's staffs reveals:
 
Is this Montségur?
Please note that before Cathars took over Montségur it was known as
A Solar Temple
Note that the image on the right here
has been enhanced.
The reason this has been done is because the upper part of
Poussin's painting has been altered.
We know this because Poussin always
went over his paintings with his thumb to remove all brush strokes. However the upper
part of the painting in the Louvre has brush strokes.
There are other reasons in the painting to reach the
conclusion that Poussin is alluding to Montségur here.
The actual centre shown in the painting is slightly down the mountain face.
Now look at this story:
In Geography Strabo (64 B.C-23 A.D.) tells of a massive 300 tons of gold and
silver bullion that was recovered by the Romans from the Celtic temples at
Narbonne. This is near the mouth of the Aude river on the French Mediterranean
coast. A further eighty kilometres up the Aude is Rennes-le-Chateau. Strabo
attributes the bullion as either an accumulation of Celtic sacred offerings, or
else the Celts' loot from the Greek treasuries at Delphi, sacked in 278 B.C. The
Romans somehow lost the bullion near Narbonne during Caesar's Gallic Wars and it
was never recovered.
The gold was taken from a votive lake by a
Roman proconsul by the name of Cæpion. He took 80 tons of gold and money and
immediately re-melted this into ingots. This apparently disappeared during its
transport towards the port of Narbonne following an attack from Volkes
Tectosages, a Celtic group from Phrygia, upset by this profanation of their sacred offerings. They would have
then withdrawn to the high valley of the Aude and would have hidden the treasure
in this area which is easy to police.
In 1830 a man while out walking in
the Garrigue found a gold ingot weighing 20 kilos and not long after this in
1860 near to Bezu another man found a gold bar made up of partially smelted
Arabic coins and weighing almost 50 kilos. Saunière was investigated by the
local Gendarmerie on suspicion of trafficking in gold in Spain and there is also
a report from Spanish police on this matter.
The votive lake may well be
this one.
Described
as Otto Rahn's
Grail lake.
It is called Etang
des Truites. There is no trout in this lake, trout have been unable to survive
in this lake because of volcanic gassing activity.
There is however an endemic
species of Golden Salamander.
The word Truites is a corruption
of the word Druides.
It is described as Otto Rahn's Grail lake and the lake sits
above another lake called Etang du Diable (Devils Pond).
The lakes are on the
slopes of Bartholémy and Soularac (Solar Rock) -
Initials BS.
They sit on the
Archangel's Cross.
The mountains
Bartholémy and Soularac (Solar Rock) are 5 miles
from Montségur and joined by a track known as Trac des Grailles.
Montségur is
known locally as Mount Tabor which had been the place of the Transfiguration of
Jesus.
The feast of the Transfiguration is the much older Celtic feast of
Lughnasagh, named after the Celtic Sun God Lugh.
The city of Lyon
was named after this same Sun God, a place to where Saunière journeyed
on a regular basis.
It is important to state that the Cathars only
occupied Montségur as a result of attacks by the Holy Roman church.
At the fall
of Montségur in 1244 they had only been there 40 years.
Prior to that
Montségur had been a
Solar Temple.
The windows on the north western donjon of
Montségur align on the Summer Solstice
Also note that Montségur is the shape of the constellation of Böötes
Arctaurus means The Bear Watcher.
Remember the Red Shepherd (Arcas) looking around at the Great Bear -
Ursa Major (Calisto) in Poussin's painting.
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The feast of the Transfiguration is the much older Celtic feast of Lughnasagh,
named after the Celtic Sun God Lugh. The New Testament presents three almost
identical accounts of the Transfiguration in three of the synoptic Gospels;
Matthew 17:1-9;
Mark 9:2-9; and
Luke 9:28-36, significantly it does not feature in the Book of John. To
reiterate the story these Gospels tell us that Jesus went up onto a mountain
(Mount Tabor), with the disciples Peter, John and James, and in their presence
Jesus was transfigured
shining like the
Sun and then there appears
Moses and Elias (Elijah).
It is
interesting to note here that the painting by David Teniers which we have been
calling St Anthony and St Paul fed by Ravens is listed in the Witt Library
catalogue at the Courtauld Institute as
Elijah and Elisha being fed by Ravens.
This is odd as the painting clearly has a crucifix on the rock at the centre yet
those are prophets from the Old Testament and equally odd is the fact that
Elisha was never fed by ravens although Elijah was fed bread and flesh after God
had sent him into the desert. In the New Testament, both Jesus and John the
Baptist are on some occasions thought to be Elijah. John the Baptist was
actually described by the Archangel Gabriel as coming
"in the spirit and power of Elijah" .
The birthdays of both John the Baptist and Jesus are significant Celtic
festivals. John the Baptist day being Midsummer's Day and Jesus' being the
end of the Winter Solstice.
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Staying with the Transfiguration theme
We have this from our friend Philippe de
Cherisey:
"My dear Roseline, who died on 6 August 1967, the Feast of
the Transfiguration, while leaving the Zero Meridian by car." (Circuit p. 108).
Here are the Old and new PARIS Meridian
markers at the side of the Couiza - Arques road.
Notice that the Red Shepherd ARCAS points at the line
on the tomb
The Meridian.
This tomb was close to
Arques
Note the Cathar name for Arques is Arcas.
The Abbé de Fleury was born in Lodève in the
Languedoc in 1653 and was the bishop of Fréjus in 1698 and became the preceptor
for the young King Louis XV in 1715. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences
and was a Cardinal and Prime Minister by 1726 at the age of 73. He extended the
library for the King but interestingly he sent many of the members of the
Academy of Sciences to the North and to Peru to measure the meridian. He also
sent scholars to Egypt and Greece to search for precious manuscripts.
Interestingly Soularac, the snow capped mountain seen above, is mentioned in a report of a meridian measurement by the
well respected astronomer Delambre in 3 volumes of work from 1806 to 1810 that
followed ground measurements in 1797 by Méchain here it is referred to as
Eastern Peak of the Saint-Bartholémy Mount and the “Peak of Estangtost”.
Delambre was born in Amiens in 1749 and was an astronomer and mathematician; he
was a remarkable man who had a childhood illness which gave him the fear that he
would soon go blind. As a result of this he read every book that was available
to him and immersed himself in Greek and Latin literature. He also acquired the
ability to memorise entire pages and to recite them verbally word for word. He
also became fluent in Italian, English and German and even published a book
called “Rules and methods to easily learn English.”. However his interest in
astronomy is quite relevant to our story and Delambre’s contribution to the
science of Astronomy is so great that he has a crater on the moon named after
him.
Delambre published details of the whole project in Base du système
métrique. The first of the three volumes, containing the history of measurement
of the Earth and the project's triangulation data, was published in 1806. When
Delambre presented it to Napoleon, the emperor said:
“Conquests will
come and go but this work will endure”
In 1809, Napoleon requested
that the Académie des Sciences award a prize for the best scientific publication
of the decade, the award went to Delambre for his work on the meridian.
The very word meridian seems to have a curious etymology and can be
associated with the name Mary or Mari and is of course any line drawn the
shortest distance around the earth’s surface from the North Pole to the South
Pole. This would be designated as a datum line usually given zero degrees from
which the West/East circumference would be segmented into 360 equal degrees. So
each hour the earth will rotate 15 degrees. The word Meridian is largely thought
to have stemmed from the Old French word for noon, literally medhyo-dyeu - mid
day. However the word dyeu, although now taken to mean day is in fact directly
from the word for god and the same base from which the Latin word dei stems. The
name for the Indo-European God Jupiter is from the vocative compound dyeu –
pater (God father) and Diana is from the Latin Diā – na (literally Moon
Goddess). Even Asmodeus is from Aēšma-Daēva, which if we are to translate
literally using Zoroastrianism is literally Wrath of God from the Avestan old
Persian language.
The marking of the meridian is therefore directly linked to a god or goddess and
taken literally could in fact mean the
Goddess Mari – Mari-dyeu.
So we have
A Devils Pond
Salamanders
and mountains with the initials
B and S
And Cursed Treasure
The Benitier
Under the initials BS
Between the two Salamanders
A Pine Cone.
Saunière refers to the concept of Gnosis in his Devil Stoop as you enter
his church
The depiction of the Pineal gland
the symbol of Isis.
Copied by the Roman Catholic Church
The Pineal Gland
The place where it is thought that God lives
The Third Eye
The Grail
The Pine Cone
An unambiguous PAGAN symbol.
Santos Bonacci explains the significance of the Pineal Gland
The Tree of
Knowledge by Alvin Boyd Kuhn (pdf)
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But back Philippe de Cherisey.
Remember that Philippe de Cherisey
also said:
“Two contrary desires share my heart, glory to publish
all that at the great day, and to jealously keep this treasure without ever
saying anything. My whole life needs to hesitate and I awake in the same moment
that I die….. By the celibacy which is imposed on them the priests are the best
guards of treasures than one can conceive…..A priest, because it is concerned
[with] Sky and Earth, must meditate on the relationships of astronomy with the
geography…..With the difference in the phenomena which should be seen to
believe, Cromleck of RLB [Rennes les Bains] is seen only when one believes in
it, nothing is really proven there, not even the roulers or hones it posed which
will appear readily to the whims of nature.”
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So finally this:
"Mesures altimétriques: un point géodésique de
"premier ordre"
Après une mesure ponctuelle de notre pic par
François de Plantade
durant le premier tiers du XVIIIe siècle, les premières mesures géodésiques
visant à effectuer un "nivellement général", c'est à dire une détermination de
tous les principaux sommets de la chaîne des Pyrénées, remontent aux travaux du
géodésien H. Reboul, assisté de l'astronome J. Vidal, entre 1787 et 1789."
Translated
"Measurements: a geodetic point of "first order"
After a spot of our peak by
François de Plantade during
the first third of the 18th century, the first geodetic measurements to
make a "general level", it is a determination of the principal summits
of the chain of the Pyrenees, date back to the work of the mathematician
H. Reboul, assisted by astronomer J. Vidal, between 1787 and 1789."
"Dès ces premières mesures géodésiques,
le Pic de Saint-Barthélemy a été considéré, de par son panorama, comme "point
géodésique de premier ordre", c'est à dire un point nécessaire à la
triangulation principale. Pour le Pic de Saint-Barthélemy, Reboul avait trouvé
une élévation de 2322.5 m par des mesures effectuées le 9 septembre 1789 "à la
Montagne d'Appy, Tabe, ou St-Barthélemy", et vérifiées par Vidal (cela ne
rehaussait que de quelque mètres la mesure de
Plantade
qui était de 2319 m). Ensuite ces deux mêmes scientifiques avaient entrepris une
nouvelle campagne de mesures, plus précise, entre 1816 et 1817, dont les
résultats ont été cités par plusieurs auteurs. Le statut de "point géodésique de
premier ordre" dont a joui dès le début le Pic de Saint-Barthélemy, fait qu'il a
été toisé à chaque nouvelle campagne de mesure."
Translated
"From these first geodetic measurements, the peak of
Saint-Barthélemy was considered, because of its panorama, as
"first-order geodetic point", i.e. a necessary main triangulation point.
For the peak of Saint - Barthélemy, Raj had found an elevation of 2322.5
m by September 9, 1789 measurements "on the mountain of Appy, t or
St-Barthélemy", and verified by Vidal (this raises to some metres
Plantade measurement which was 2319 m). Then these same two scientists
had launched a new campaign of measurements more accurate, between 1816
and 1817, whose results have been cited by several authors. The status
of "first order geodetic point" enjoyed from the beginning the peak of
Saint - Barthélemy, is it been glared at each new measurement campaign."
"Ensuite, il faut savoir que le Pic de
Saint-Barthélemy a reçu l'insigne honneur de faire partie de la petite centaine
de points remarquables choisis de part et d'autre du
"méridien de l'Observatoire"
pour mener à bien "la mesure du monde",
comme disaient les révolutionnaires, ceci afin de définir une unité de longueur
totalement nouvelle et "universelle": le mètre."
Translated
"Then, you should know that the peak
of Saint-Bartholémy received the honour to be part of the small hundred selected
highlights and after the "meridian
of the Observatory" to carry out
"the measure of the world",
as the revolutionaries, in order to define a completely new and "universal"
length unit:
The Meter"
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So why is the Meridian important?
Well on the 15th February 1894 a 26 year old French Anarchist called
Marshal Boudin ( a contemporary of Saunière) tried to blow up the
Greenwich meridian building
Clearly it was important to some.
The correct marking of the Meridian clearly had Military value
but also beyond that it had Religious value.
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