The Great Ophiuchus Conspiracy

There are many hacks and hack websites on the internet, and space.com is one of them. We dissect a space.com article to expose the propaganda and disinformation for you. The story starts with this propaganda heading:

An ignored constellation

That is a Logical Fallacy called Lying when one intentionally says something that is known to be false. Since the author of the propaganda piece holds himself out to be an expert, we can levy the accusation of lying. If the author was just a blogger who had an interest in astronomy it would be a Logical Fallacy called Questionable Premise which occurs when someone lacks sufficient background information to know that a premise is questionable.

Ophiuchus made the news a couple of years ago when astrologers finally acknowledged his existence.

Geoff Gaherty, the liar who apparently is a graduate of the Herr Josef Göbbels School of Journalism, is, well, a goddam liar. Astrologers have always known of the existence of Ophiuchus. Maybe we should rephrase that for accuracy. The real astrologers, meaning we Hellenistic astrologers have always known.

Read and weep:

And when Scorpio is found thus, especially about the 27th degree where the bright star of Ophiuchus is, it treats those who are so born through the manifestation of Asclepius or Serapis or their power, or the friendship of physicians. –-from the text colloquially known as “Anonymous of 379” (Robert Schmidt translation)

Congratulations to Geoff Gaherty for winning this week’s not-so-coveted Göbbeling Award.

Now that we have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Herr Gaherty is a liar, we’d like to point out that was the first sentence of his göbbeling nonsense. This is the second sentence:

Even though astronomers have known about Ophiuchus for thousands of years, and that he literally sticks his foot into the zodiac, he has never figured among the astrologers’ 12 signs of the zodiac.

Herr Gaherty, say it isn’t so! We often wonder if Herr Gaherty laid awake all night long trying to figure out how to spin that lie. As we’ve proven, astrologers have known about it for 2,000 years. The Assyrians? Add another 1,000 years. The Kassites? Add another 1,000 years. The Sumerians are the ones who created Ophiuchus so add 2,000 to 3,000 years.

If Herr Gaherty was competent, he’d know there are very valid scientific, logical and astrological reasons, and historical and religious reasons why Ophiuchus doesn’t count. We’ll address those issues after we tackle the next statement.

Astrologers promptly made up a new set of imaginary qualities of “Ophiuchans,” which of course are just as fanciful (and imaginary) as their other inventions.

Sadly, we cannot call Herr Gaherty a liar here, except to say those aren’t really astrologers. They’re attention whores. You now the type: Mommy and daddy didn’t pay enough attention to me so you have to make up for it. They’ll say anything to get people to pay attention to them. It’s far worse now with the monetization of Useless Tube channels.

If you look at the picture of Ophiuchus, you will see that he is apparently wrestling with a very large snake. This is represented by two constellations on either side of him, Serpens Caput (head of the snake) on the right and Serpens Cauda (tail of the snake) on the left.

If Herr Gaherty knew half as much as he thinks he knows the sum of his knowledge would fill 1 byte of data.

The Greeks did not create Ophiuchus. As was the case for everything else they had, they culturally appropriated it. The Sumerians created Ophiuchus except to them it was something else. The Sumerians divided the heavens to three bands of 60°. The northern 60° band contained 12 constellations known as the Way of EN.LIL aka (also known as) Enlil in Akkadian; Bull-El in the Ugarit-Hebrew pantheon; and no Egyptian counter-part.

The middle 60° band (30° north and south of the equator) contains the 12 constellations we know and love called the Way of AN aka Anu in Akkadian; On in Egyptian; An dagada in Celtic-Gaelic; and El-Elyon in the Ugarit-Hebrew pantheon. The southern band containing 12 constellations was the Way of EA (pronounced Yeh-hua) known in Akkadian as Enki; as Ptah in Egyptian; and associated with Yam in the Ugarit-Hebrew pantheon, although Yam might actually be EA’s son NIN.GIS.ZI.DA and Yahweh might have been EA (Grimm’s Law of vocalic glide shifts says a Semitic speaker would pronounce Yeh-hua as Yahweh).

So, Ophiuchus-not-Ophiuchus rests in the Way of Enlil in the northern band of constellations. To the Sumerians, Ophiuchus-not-Ophiuchus was called NE.BI.RU aka Nibiru in Akkadian. In the original Enuma elish…. text (not the Amorite forgery), it was Nibiru who slew the watery monster TI.A.MAT aka Tiamat in Akkadian. The original Enuma elish… text as written by the Sumerians culturally diffused west through Akkad into Nuzi, then Mari, Ebla and then into Ugarit.

[1] Was not the dragon vanquished and captured? I did destroy the wriggling serpent, the tyrant with seven heads
[2] For all that you smote Leviathan the slippery serpent, [and] made an end of the wriggling serpent, the tyrant with seven heads

Sound familiar? The bracketed numbers are the actual line numbers from the Ugaritic text. That story then passes to the Hebrews. Isaiah and Ezekiel read a lot of the Ugaritic texts and quoted them quite often. Compare:

• Ugaritic tnn with the Hebrew tnn (tanin) i.e. sea monster
• Ugaritic ’qltn with the Hebrew ’qltn (’agallaton) “squirming”
• Ugaritic brh with the Hebrew brh (bariakh) usually translated as “fast-moving”

That story continues diffusing north and west into Europe. You know it as “Saint George and the Dragon.” That is a most excellent example of the Telephone Game in action which plagues astrology and we wanted you to understand that.

Anyway, Ophiuchus-not-Ophiuchus is Nibiru who cleaved the watery monster Tiamat into two parts: Serpens Caput (head of the watery monster) on the right and Serpens Cauda (tail of the watery monster) on the left. For the Akkadians it was Enlil who slew Tiamat and for the Amorites it was EN.AMAR.UTU. You might recognize EN.AMAR.UTU from his names in other languages: Marduk in Akkadian; Ra or Amen-Ra in Egyptian and Dagan in the Ugarit/Hebrew pantheon, Marduk’s principal city was BAR.KI.BAR which you know as Babylon. In ancient texts, the Amurru and the Amorites are one in the same we know now that the enigmatic Hyksos people of Egypt were Amorites.

The Amorites were an Afro-Semitic people who spoke Northwest Semitic, and like Hilkiah and Jeremiah, committed a wholesale forgery when they re-wrote the Enuma elish… text and replaced all the names of the gods and goddess with the name of Marduk.

From about 900 BCE on, Greece’s biggest export was, well, Greeks. By 600 BCE, ethnic Greeks dominate the priesthood, army, and government administration in Egypt (Pharaoh Nechepso ruling circa 700 BCE was an ethnic Greek), they’re in the courts of kings in the Assyrian, Kassite, Elamite and Hurrian kingdoms, and they dominate the Persian army and government administration. The biography of Alexander-the-not-so-Great is lost to us in history, but a number of historians quote from it and it’s claimed Alexander quipped something like, “Too bad the Greeks in the Persian army and the Greeks in the Persian government aren’t on our side” just before he invaded and conquered Persia.

The point being Greek culture was pervasive throughout North Africa and the Middle East long before the conquest of Alexander-the-not-so-Great. Culture often flows in both directions. Just as Greek culture is spreading, the Greeks are bringing home with them the cultures of other peoples.

Now you know why the Greeks have a gazillion different gods and goddesses. The reason the Greeks have 6 different sea gods is they didn’t understand that EA, Enki, Ptah, Napirisha, etc were the same god, different name, which is one reason they also expanded and added to the number of constellations beyond the 36 original constellations created by the Sumerians.

We don’t dispute the fact that the Greeks gave the constellation symbolizing Nibiru slaying the watery monster a cool new name and a different mission. We just wanted to show you that Herr Gaherty doesn’t understand the subject.

This association with a snake links Ophiuchus to Asclepius, the ancient Roman healer in lore, who observed one snake bringing medicine to another snake. These snakes survive as the two snakes encircling the staff of Asclepius, symbol of medicine.

Herr Gaherty is wrong again.

The caduceus symbolizing medicine is Sumerian in origin:

Since the Akkadian name of the Sumerian NIN.GIS.ZI.DA is Nirah, we’ll use it. The literal translation of the name is “lady-tree-life-permanent.” The wife of Nirah was GESTIN.AN.NA. Sumerian is an agglutinative language and the “NA” demotes genitive case construction for a god/goddess. Literally, goddess of the vines but we would say a “wine god.” The interesting thing is GESTIN comes from GES.TIN which is literally “tree-living.”

Nirah and his father Enki were two of the three gods the Sumerians credited with creating humans. The two were scientists. The biological kind. And they were the only two “serpent gods” in the Canaan-Mesopotamian Region. If you recall the story in the Hebrew texts known as the “Garden of Eden” the serpent there was either Enki or Nirah. In the original Sumerian story it was Enki.

What we really wanted you to see is this:

On the left is the caduceus — the symbol for the medical profession — and on the right is the Staff of Asclepius. Herr Geharty desperately wants you to believe that the staff on the right is the same as the staff on the left. Obviously, it isn’t, but he’s not the only idiot making that claim. It’s probably a good thing we’re talking medicine because a lot of people seriously injured their backs trying to move the goal-posts to prove that the Staff of Asclepius is the same as the caduceus symbol on the left.

That’s what happens when people are clueless and have no idea what they’re talking about.

Now that you know who NIN.GIS.ZI.DA is and what he does and the symbol that represents him, there are a few other things you need to know. You already know his Akkadian name was Nirah. He was known as Kothar in the Ugarit-Hebrew pantheon; as Thoth to the Egyptians; as Hermes to the Greeks; and as Mercury to the Romans.

The symbol on the left on the graphic above is called the Staff of Hermes or the Staff of Mercury. Now you now the rest of the story. What’s that thing the British say? It’s a fair cop. They got the right answer for the wrong reasons. The Staff of Hermes-Mercury is the correct symbol for the caduceus — not the Staff of Asclepius — since it was originally the symbol for the medicine god NIN.GIS.ZI.DA.

If you’re wondering why we use the symbol for NIN.GIS.ZI.DA and not the symbol for Asclepius there’s a very logical and historical reason. The Celtic-Gaelic witch-doctors used it. If you want to call them “medicine men” we’re good with that. Why would Celtic-Gaelic witch-doctors be using Sumerian symbols? Recall earlier we said that the Sumerian god AN and Akkadian god Anu and Egyptian god On were the same as the Celtic-Gaelic god An dagada. But why? Well, who permanently destroyed the Hittite Kingdom? The Celts-Gauls were one of three tribal groups who simultaneously assaulted the Hittites and we mean assaulted.

Get it now? Okay, this will help. Gaels and Gauls are the same thing and the same people. They were one of several very, very large Celtic tribes. They hypocrisy of the First Nation/First People supporters becomes clear when you understand that the whole of Europe from modern-day Spain to Poland and western Belarus, and from the British Isles to the Balkans and western Ukraine was the home of the Celts. Are you familiar with the term “toponym?” That’s a place name typically derived from geographical features like rivers, creeks, lakes, valleys, mounts and mountains, and even large fields, steppes or plains. Many of the place names in Bulgaria are Celtic. When the Thracians came to Bulgaria they kept the Celtic place names and even adopted Celtic personal names. The Avars and Bulgars who came later kept the Celtic toponyms, too, but some were Slavicized after the Bulgars adopted Slavic culture. Anyway, it was one big giant culture and language continuum so that if you lived in Poland, you could get on your horse and ride all the way to Spain and along the way you could talk to everyone since they spoke your language with a few dialectical differences.

Surely, you get it now. No? Alright, the Greeks called the Celtic people Cimmeroi and their land Cimmer. The Greeks got that from the Hebrews right about the time of the Septuagint but you won’t find Cimmeroi and Cimmer in Codex Lenningradis or Codex Aleppo. That’s because the Greek letter “C” is pronounced like the Hebrew letter “G” so you should look for Gimmeroi and Gimmer? Nope, you won’t see that. Classical Biblical Hebrew is a consonantal language meaning there’s no vowels. The speaker supplies the vowels and vowels weren’t standardize until the maybe the 2nd or 3rd Century of the Common Era. There’s another problem. Hebrew scribes didn’t have a lot of writing material so to save space when you have double-consonants they were marked with a “dot.” A double “M” like in g-m-m-r had a “M” with a dot in the bosom indicating it was doubled. The scribes didn’t have Sharpies. Their inks were vegetable-based and as you might guess those little dots faded over time. Eventually, the Hebrew texts rendered it as g-m-r.

Now do you get it? Yeah, g-m-r is Gomer. Today, there’s millions and millions of people in the British Isles, large parts of Spain, areas in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and northwestern Germany who all have one thing in common: they are descendants of Gomer. You know, like Gomer, Gog and Magog? Yeah, that. Now you really know the rest of the story.

Upon further review, we over-estimated Herr Geharty’s knowledge. It isn’t equivalent to 1 byte. It’s more like half a byte. Be aware of propaganda and disinformation on the internet. There are many like Herr Geharty who have a peculiar disdain for astrology and astrologers and as we’ve proven, they are willing to lie and deceive people.

The good new is Herr Geharty has died so he will no longer be able to contaminate the internet spewing his lies and deceptions. But, the more important issue is, what does that say about space.com? A few things we’ve learned about space.com is:

• The people posting articles on space.com are not necessarily experts
• They allow non-starters, low-information voters, hacks, propaganda artists and liars to post articles on their website
• No one at space.com fact-checked the article. It would have taken 3 minutes to figure out that Anonymous of 379 and others astrologers writing 1,500 to 2,500 years ago mention Ophiuchus or fixed-stars in Ophiuchus

We recommend you black-list space.com. There are many primary sources on the internet providing info about space-related topics who are educated and trained in their fields and the factual info they provide will serve you better.