Ganesha and Genesis
The Etymology of the
Word Genesis
Is to be found in the
Name Ganesha,
Invoked by Hindus at
the Beginning of New Undertakings.
The Word also means a
Collection of Writings.
The name of the city
Gennesaret
contains the Name Ganesha
in a virtually untainted form.
The name of Ganesha was invoked at the
beginning of the enterprise
of making known, i.e. writing, the
scriptures.
The name of Ganesha among Hindus was and is still commonly used to invoke Ganesha's blessings on projects. Those readers who have already studied the preceding material are aware that ancient Judaism, original Judaism, was the transplanting of the Hinduism of India into the areas later described as Canaan, Palestine, Syria, and in fact through the lands of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa (the names of Ghana and Kenya probably stem from Gana and Kanya, a name of Krishna. The deity El Chanan of the Jews is Kanaan, or Krishna of the Hindus, just as El Shadai of the Jews is Sada, a name of Shiva. Numerous towns were named after Rama. The Jewish people named themselves as Kal Israel after Kali, just as they named themselves as a congregation, a people, and a nation after Umma, the consort of Shiva. The bindi of the Hindus is directly mentioned twice in Exodus and twice in Ezekiel as well, as being worn by the devout, the elect, the saved. And Midea, where Moses spent time and married Zipporah, like Ethiopia was regarded as bordering part of the Indian or Vedic culture till even the days of early Christianity. In any case, the reader knows that originally the Torah was a vegetarian testament written by the worshippers of El Shadai, by those who honored God as the Sabaoth (Saba is a name of Shiva), and who worshipped El Chanan, the name given to the incarnation of Vishnu or Krishna.
All these facts
lead us to the origin or etymology of the name of the first book of the
"Pentateuch," "Genesis," which is simply only a slightly corrupted Greek
form of Ganesha. Among the Hindus Ganesha's name was invoked at the
beginning of new ventures. As the people of Judaism forgot their
roots when the cattlemen took over Judaism, the invocation to Ganesha became
an appendage at the beginning of the first chapter of the Torah. and what
was originally an invocation finally was no longer an invocation, but simply
an appendage that became, to us in posterity, the name of the Torah's first
book, "Genesis."
THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GENESIS
The name of Ganesha is invoked at the
beginning of all important undertakings by the Hindus.
The word Ganesha also means a collection
of writings.
So the word Ganesha (transliterated
as Genesis by Greek authors),
had a twofold function:
It was an invocation to the deity Ganesha,
son of Sheba, or Shiva, Lord of the Jewish Shabbath,
to grant success to the writing of
the scriptures.
And it was a description of the collection of writings in the "Book of Genesis" itself.
Gan and Ganesha
Gan is the prefix
of Ganesha, the name of the son of Shiva, who is invoked by many Hindus
at the beginning of their undertakings to assure success, and who is regarded
as a scribe. Statues bear this attribute of Ganesha, showing him
holding scrolls. Moreover, Coomeraswami says that Ganesha's
name also means a collection of writings.
Bible Sources Generally Say Nothing
about the Etymology of the Word Genesis
Have you ever wondered why biblical dictionaries and encyclopedias and dictionaries do not proclaim the meaning of the word Genesis? The word that begins the "Torah" is the name of Ganesha which is the source for the name of Genesis. It is a typical practice among many Hindus to invoke the name of Ganesha before an undertaking in order to assure its success. The word Ganesha according to Coomeraswami also means a collection and "Genesis" is in fact a collection of writings: a eulogy to creation and a vegetarian covenant begin the Book, the story of the creation of Adam and Eve is described, two different descriptions being given to describe the creation of Adam; the story of the Fall of humanity through Adam and Eve follows, then the story of Cain and Abel (which are now rendered with totally opposite morals than they had in their original forms), then accounts of the patriarchs.
We shall see easily
how influential the Gan root with its references continued to be in the
names of Jonadab, John the Baptist, and John of Revelations.
Even the Hebrew Word for Creation has a Sanskrit Source.
The word Bereishis refers to
Genesis, the first book of the Torah. The prefix Ber means creation, and
reishis are the rishis of the Hindus. Put these together and we have creation
according to the rishis of the Hindus.
Harmlessness or Ahimsa and the Jan Root:
Jonadab the Rechabite, John the Baptist, John of Revelations"
Jonadab is the father of the Rechabites
who do not invade the earth.
The name Jonadab contains the Jan root.
A Rechabite is the Friend of James the Brother of Jesus.
The morality of Jain Buddhism, whose adherents assert an immemorial antiquity, is usually publically recognized as the most strict, or the most focussed, of India's religious systems regarding the welfare of all living creatures. When Jainism is mentioned by the media, we generally see strict Jains wearing mouth and nose masks to prevent insects from being killed by accidental inhalation. The residual influence of Jainism on Judaism may be seen not only in the names using the Gan root, but also in the Jewish Rechabites founded by Jonadab, whose name itself employs the Jan root, and of the Arab Nabateans, who from Mt. Nebo learned the true teachings of Moses, who taught vegetarianism, and who purposely made the bronze or copper serpent in honor of Shiva, Lord of the kundalini serpent power, who is also known as Pasupati, or Lord of Creatures, and Protector of Cattle. Both Rechabites and Nabateans refused to cultivate the earth, thereby acknowledging the sacredness of life of the insects and small creatures living in the earth. Looking ahead to the section of this work dealing with the background of the New Testament--it is a Rechabite who pleads with those beating James, the brother of Jesus, to stop, as Eusebius informs us in his Ecclesiastical History. And the Gospel of Barnabas, cherished by the Muslims because in it Jesus predicts the coming of Muhammad, also asserts that when the deliverer comes he will assert the right to live of all beings including the creeping things of the earth, an affirmation of ahimsa which is quite contrary to the attitude of most of the surahs in the current Sunni version of the Koran, though not contrary to Surah 6, Verse 38:
"There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you. We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered. Quran, Surah VI: 38
Here Muhammad continues the lineage of teaching compassion for all creatures. Combined with his mainly vegetarian diet, his praise of the vegetarian Sabeans, and his affirmation of Hud as the true prophet, and the fact that Muhammad understood precisely that Hud, or Hod, meant Hindustan, and in fact a particular place in India, the kingdom of Oude. In other words, by embracing the Sabeans Muhammad affirmed the Sabean history of the earliest Jews who worshipped Shiva, who raised pillars to him that bore his name, masseba or masseva, regarded him as the military Lord of hosts, or Sabaoth, and named the Shabbath after him.
Condemnation of killing
of any sort, including the the so-called creeping things of the earth,
comes from the Jain Sutras or Jain teachings, and is taught also
in the
Institutes of Vishnu and the Laws of Manu as well,
though the latter two works are compromised by small sections, no doubt
revisions, asserting the validity of animal sacrifices. Both of these
works, we shall see, are the behind the scenes sources of much of what
is in the
Old Testament. We see in other sections of this
study how the vegetarianism of the patriarchs, of Moses, David, and the
prophets has been suppressed and marginalized by the rewriters of scriptures.
John the Baptist and John of "Revelations"
Their names also contain the Jan or
Gan root.
John the Baptist is portrayed by Josephus as eating roots and seeds, and not locusts, just as he is portrayed as a vegetarian in the Ebionite Gospel as described by Epiphanius in his Panarion. John the beloved apostle of Jesus, is beloved precisely because of his Jainism, his compassion for all creatures, a compassion that is shared by the Jesus of the Gospel of the Nazirenes. And in John's "Revelations" all creatures above, on and in the earth praise the creator, for the curse on creation is over in the Final Days, and now humans eat only the fruits and the leaves of the trees, and not other creatures. "Revelations" speaks of there being no sorrow or death, and therefore no animal sacrifices. Just as "Genesis" describes the Alpha, the beginning, as a time of vegetarianism, so too is "Revelations" the Omega, the end, or final time, a vegetarian as well, there being no sorrow, death, mourning, or animal sacrifices.
Hindu culture in ancient times was and is still now a conglomerate of numerous religious ways. Though in our time (2005), due to the misnamed War on Terror, led by a nation which has killed far more people in foreign lands than any other nation, the animosities between Muslims and Hindus is at an all-time high, nonetheless, in spite of these events, it is admitted by people throughout the world that the Hindu and Buddhist cultures are the most tolerant in the world, allowing within their culture all religions without hindrance, which is quite unlike the cultures of orthodox Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Most Hindus are vegetarians, with the exception of a minority of Hindus that "worship the terrible aspects" of Shiva and Kali, but the range of vegetarianism within Hinduism is itself multiform. Most westerners are aware of the Vaishnavas, or followers of Krishna, the Shaivite followers of Shiva, and the Jains, seemingly the strictest of all three, though the essence of both Vaishnava and Shaivite teachings share with Jains the reverence for all life.
The ancient link between Jains and Shaivites may be seen in the name of the acknowledged founder of Jainism, Rishabadeva, which contains the shaba root, even though the sh of shaba may be seen as the final letters of Rish, an abbreviated form of Rishi. The Jains, like the Hindus and like the Hebrews, were fond of compound words in which abbreviated forms of words and names were used in both part of the compound word. The Is, and Ish, and Ja and Je words in Hebrew are a perfect example. It could very well be that the theological dispute between Hindu Brahmins and Jains as to which has historical priority is in fact an unnecessary dispute, and that both traditions simply stemmed from different interpretations of an original history shared by both.
Let us look at some uses of the Jan root in the religions of India.
From the Theosophical Glossaries on the Web:
JAINA, a sect founded in India by Rishabadeva. They deny the infallibility of the Vedas; give reverence to holy men called Tirthankaras, and will kill nothing that has life. They are followers of Jina, and affirm Nirvana. (The Anglicized form of the word is Jains.)
JANAKA, a celebrated king and Adept who is taken as an example of one who, in the midst of the performance of duties, yet became proficient in divine science.
JANA-LOKA, the fifth of the seven lokas, the one where the sons of Brahma reside. (jana, created beings; loka, place, world.)
JANARDANA, "giver of all that men ask," one of Krishna's titles; a class of deities. (jana, created beings, men; ardana, moving: agitating men.)
JANMAN, birth; existence; term of life.
JINA, a name of Buddha.
JNANA, knowledge, especially of the higher truths of religion and philosophy. (See VIDYA.)
JNANA-MARGA, knowledge of the way. (jnana, knowledge; marga, path.)
JNANA-SAKTI, power of knowing.
JNANA-YOGA, the religion of knowledge.
JNANENDRIYAS, the organs of sense, or perception; the organs by which external objects are perceived.
JNANIN, a sage; one possessed of occult wisdom.
From The Sacred Books of the East, a short list of Gan and Gana words:
Ganadatta, disciple of Bhadrabahu,
Ganadhara, chief disciple.
Ganaka (also Janaka), father of Sita, bride of Rama.
Ganardana name of Krishna or Vishnu.
Ganas (troops of gods), the Maruts,
the princes among many people in the Index to the Sacred Books
of the East
are named Gana or have
names with a Gana prefix.
Gandha is a Yaksha who worships Buddha.
Gandhara in the Sacred Books of the East is defined as a country and a people converted by Buddha. One can see the logic of this in that the Gaina Buddhists and the followers of Guatama Buddha both believe in ahimsa towards other creatures.
Charles Souvoy in his study of Hebrew Names in the Catholic Encyclopedia interprets the Jon or Jahn root in much the same way as Levine, as meaning deity, as does Jah. Souvoy interprets the name Jonadab, father of the Rechabites, as meaning God's generosity to creatures. See the Catholic Encyclopedia (1911 edition) on line. Souvoy also translates Jonathan as "Yahweh gave." So Souvoy's study reinforces Etan Levine's view that Jah originally was Jahn. This fact in turn reinforces the fact that Janardana, who is Krishna or Vishnu, and who was known as El Kana and Kannan to the ancient Jews, was worshipped as a deity among the earliest Jews.
Genesis (Ganesha)
Johanadab
Jonathan Maccabee
John the Baptist
John the Beloved Apostle
John the Author of "Revelations"
The word Genesis or Ganesha, refers to the Invocation to and beginning accounts of the Torah. The first chapter of "Genesis" contains the vegetarian covenant. Ganesha is the son of Shiva and Parvati, both vegetarians. Shiva is known as Pasupati, Lord of Creatures, and also as Protector of Cattle.
Johanadab or Jonadab is father of the Rechabites, a strict form of the Jains. Rechabites would not cultivate the land. They refused to invade the earth and kill, displace, wound, or otherwise oppress its creatures. In New Testament times a Rechabite pleads with those beating James to stop. This fact alone, combined with the knowledge that James ate "no animal food" according to Eusebius, and combined with the Ebionite Gospel describing Jesus and his associates as vegetarians, as well as with the Gospel of the Nazirenes, which is probably a version of the Ebionite Gospel, reinforces what a growing number of people are realizing, that Jesus and those described as Jewish Christians, or Ebionites, were vegetarians. Johanadab's name of course contains the Jan root.
John the Baptist, lives in the wilderness on a vegetarian diet. Orthodox gospels portray him as a type of ascetic wearing animal skins, and as eating honey and locusts. Epiphanius in the Panarion says the "Ebionite Gospel" portrays him as eating honey cakes, but not locusts. He is portrayed by Josephus as eating roots and seeds, as a vegetarian, just as he is portrayed in the Ebionite Gospel.
John the beloved disciple is beloved, we may conjecture, because of his compassion for other creatures, a compassion shared by the real Jesus seen in the Gospel of the Nazirenes, which is very likely the very Ebionite Gospel described by early church fathers. In the Gospel of the Nazirenes virtually every time Jesus preaches love among humans, in his next breath he advocates compassion for all creatures as well, and says that those who truly follow him will not eat flesh. Some scholars say John the beloved disciple is the same person as John of Revelations; some do not.
John is the name of the author of "Revelations," a book describing the Final Days of vegetarianism, a time in which there is no sorrow or death, and therefore no animal sacrifices. John of Patmos in 'Revelations" speaks of the praise of all creatures, in, on, and above the earth for the Creator. Even the orthodox admit that the Final Days will be vegetarian, but they are so cowed by the rich and influential preachers, industrialists, and government authorities among themselves, that they do not challenge their present carnivorism.
But let us look further
at the Hindu, Jain, and Jewish meanings of the term Gan. We shall
see that these meanings are related, and, like the abundance of other facts
in this study, show that originally there was a Vedic, Hindu, Jain, and
Sakti conglomeration of beliefs, much as exists in India even today, and
that the original Jews, like the pure mainstream HInduism and Jainism then
and now, were vegetarian. We need no further proof of that than the
fact that the vegetarian covenant for all creatures in Genesis 1: 29-30
stares the reader in the face. The original Jews were undeniably
vegetarian. I have dealt elsewhere at length on how the morality
in "Genesis" becomes increasingly immoral and demonic, and how it is obviously
the work of someone who revised the scriptures.
The Gan or Jan Root
Jah or Jahn and Gana
Gaons and Ganas
Etan Levine in The Aramaic Version of the Bible (Guyter , Berlin, NYU, 1988) says the name Jah was originally Jahn. If Levine overstates his case in seeing Jahn as the original form of Jah, rather than a similar description of the same deity, he nonetheless suggests the importance of the Jahn root. Jahn, Jan or Gan, is a frequently used prefix in both the Hindu and Jain traditions. Jahn is a fairly straightforward transliteration of Jain or Gan, (also seen as Gana and Jana), which in Sanskrit usually means the head of a group of monks practicing a strict asceticism which involves practicing compassion towards all creatures and hurting none. In English Jain refers to one who practices the religion. In Hebrew Gaons are Hebrew teachers at the jeshiva or shuls.
Not so unexpectedly, the Jains' notion of the perfect society, paradise, was and is a world in which no creatures are harmed. This utopian notion was transferred into Judaism in the Jewish belief in Gan Aiden or Eden. Notice the following words and definitions I have paraphrased from the Jewish Glossary at http://www.jewishpath.org/ghiglossary.html
Gan Aiden: is defined as Garden of Eden, and is also regarded as the World to come.
Gan Eden, with a variant spelling of Aiden, has the same significance.
It is easy to see also that the
Hebrew Gan Eden derives its meaning of perfection from the Gana notion
of perfection, which entails compassion for all creatures in a world in
which none is harmed. From the same Glossary we have a definition
of the Gaon, which we shall see parallels the definition of Gana taken
from Sacred Books of the East, edited by Max Muller.
Both the Gaon and the Gana are teachers.
Gaon: The word Gaon is defined as the Head of World wide Talmudic Community, comprised of Yeshivas, Shuls Bais, Yaakov's, and other groups. From the Jewish Glossary on the web.
Gana: The head or founder of a Gana. One of the superiors of Gaina monks, v. 22 p. 306, from Sacred Books of the East, Edited by Max Mueller.
Both of these observations
support the assertion by Godfrey Higgins in his Anacalypsis that
the first chapter of "Genesis" was written by Buddhists, meaning, in his
mind, the Jain Buddhists, who, like the Brahmins of Hinduism, trace their
origins to the beginning of time on earth. Higgins was well aware that
translators intentionally hid the names of Jewish deities that were also
Hindu, Ethiopian, and Egyptian deities. The words Lord and God, for
example, both of which have become generic terms for divine authority,
were used in place of El Kana, or El Quannon, both of which refer
to Krishna, who was called Kannan by the Tamil Hindus, and who was the
being after whom Canaan was named. Canaan was the promised land of
milk and honey, favorite foods of the Hindus since the time of the Vedas.
And Canaan in the Torah is at first portrayed as a sanctuary, a refuge,
until it was realized by those rewriting the "Torah" that it would be easily
discovered that Canaan was Inhabited by many tribes who believed as the
earliest Jews believed, in a Deity that commanded compassion towards all
living beings.
GANA AND GENESIS
Gan Eden is the Eden of Genesis Before
the Fall
The similarity between the Gaon, the Hebrew teacher and the Gana, the head of a community of monks is easy enough to see. And we know that the earliest prefallen Jews saw compassion towards all creatures and vegetarianism as part of their covenant with God. The eulogy which begins Genesis, selections from which are printed below, reports that God watched his daily creations and that God saw that it was good. Genesis 1: 29 is an indisputable vegetarian covenant, a command for humans to be vegetarian; and Genesis 1: 30 is a straightforward command by God that none of the creatures of creation were to eat meat.
With the earliest verses in "Genesis" confirming that God saw animal creation as good, and, implicitly, not to be eaten, the overwhelming tone of the eulogy in Chapter One of "Genesis" is one of affirming the goodness of creation. Except for verses 26-28 in the first chapter of Genesis, there is an emphasis on the creatures' goodness, on a peaceful coexistence of all creatures, and on vegetarianism, which is the logical diet following such a view of creation.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good....
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good....
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
These verses, plus the
vegetarian covenant itself of Genesis 1: 29-30, which is a covenant not
just between God and human animals, but between God and all other animals
as well, give us an adequate description of Gan Eden, the place from which
we came, and the Paradise or the World to Come. This is important to realize
because it makes God's later decision to destroy most of animal creation
with a flood a just punishment not only for fallen humans, but for other
animals who disobeyed the vegetarian covenant as well. God gave the
command to all animals.
The Implications of Genesis 1: 30
This affirmation of a vegetarian diet for all animals conforms to a belief commonly held by Jains and many Hindus that all animals have free will and consciousness and must go through successive reincarnations until they successfully contend with their failings. This is sometimes described as transmigration (the belief that the souls of humans may pass or cross over (the meaning of trans) into the bodies of other creatures in future lives). It does not conform to the belief of carnivorous orthodoxies, which affirm that God prefers humans above other creatures, and that other creatures exist for the use of humans. If the will of other animals were non-existent, and, as the traditions of orthodoxy would assert, if they were mere instinctual automatons, having no consciousness and free will, then there would be no reason for Deity to command that vegetation is to be the food of all creatures. But in fact "Genesis" makes it clear that all creatures have consciousness and free will in God's mind, and that these creatures are, like humans, to obey God's command to be vegetarian.
From the point of view of a perfect Paradise, however, this makes perfect sense. The notion of a totally harmonious paradise is one in which there is no sorrow or death, as stated in "Revelations," and in which there is no subjection or dominion, no subduing, for the state of being subdued or dominated is one which causes sorrow in the creature that is subdued or dominated. In a perfect Paradise, all the creatures live harmoniously with one another. There is no resentment-breeding elitism of any sort between any of the animals. The Book of the Hopi (by Frank Waters) demonstrates that the Hopi, like the followers of the vegetarian Quetzalcoatl in the Yucatan, shared a similar vision of a time when all animals lived peacefully with one another. A corollary of such a world is that it would have to be vegetarian, and thus God's covenant in "Genesis:"
"And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.'" l: 29-30.
The verses
Genesis 1: 29-30 are perfectly in tune with the Ethiopic Book of Enoch,
in which all killing, all animal sacrifices, are clearly forbidden, and
in which all creatures are seen as having consciousness and will as well.
In the Book of Enoch, as in the "Torah" God comes "to convict all
flesh," not just human flesh.
Why Orthodox Religions such as Judaism,
Christianity and Islam
ignore their own scriptures
which describe creatures as having
consciousness and will.
We are entering into
areas in which human-oriented religions such as orthodox Judaism, Christianity
and Islam are not comfortable, namely, the ascribing of intelligence and
will to animals. For these human-oriented religions are fully cognizant
that once they open the door to the notion that animals have intelligence
and will, they will have totally lost their already flimsy rationale for
oppressing and killing other creatures as given in Genesis 1: 26-28, and
in Genesis 9: 2-3.
The Original Jews, like the Jains,
Saw all creatures as having consciousness
and will.
The point here is this: the original Jews, like it or not, venewrated a God who recognized that all creatures had intelligence and will, and all creatures, not just humans, and that the other creatures were likewise commanded to be compassionate. When the Fall occurred, it occurred among many animals, and that's why so many animals were destroyed during the Deluge. God's absolute justice, described as retribution or karma, is at all times in operation in creation, not just in the lives of humans, but in the lives of other animals as well.
Having established a little more clearly the mindset of the original Jews, who were indeed a very pure people, devoted to being compassionate to all creatures, which is the literal meaning of being all-compassionate, we now can appreciate how this sense of compassion was carried on from the Hindu-Jain Buddhist traditions, for as other pages of this study demonstrate abundantly, Judaism was clearly the local flowering in Canaan and Palestine of the religious Way of compassion represented by the cultures of India, which included Hindu, Sakti, Vaishnava, Shaivite and Jain Buddhist devotees. This culture, it is recognized, existed in Ethiopia, Midea, in Egypt and the in the Arabian peninsula as well in ancient times.
So, when
Levine says that all the Jah, Ja and Je prefixes, and the iah, or jah suffixes
we commonly see in ancient Hebrew, prefixes and suffixes that are used
with extreme frequency, should be seen as having their source in Jahn (or
Gan), he indeed opens a wide rift in the walls of orthodoxy, and his breakthrough
in biblical scholarship has immense ramifications and does indeed show,
once again, the Hindu-Jain origins of Judaism. Both Hindus and Jains believe
that the perfect world is comprised of one in which compassion is extended
to all creatures.
The pervasive Gan root
We shall see that the Gan root is shared by both the Hindu and Jewish religion. Gan prefixes and suffixes, the evidence demonstrates, refer not only to the garden paradise of the Hebrews, but to Hindu and Jain Buddhist Deities. From the ancient Ganges and Ghandarvas to the twentieth century Ghandi, the influence of the Jahn or Gan root in India is pervasive. To Hindus Jan or Gan is a common root word used to describe numerous religious concepts. Janardana or Ganardana is one of the names of Krishna. Ganesha is the scribe and son of Shiva and Parvati. Janaka is the father of Sita, who is the bride of Rama, the Hindu deity venerated by numerous Hindus, including Shaivites and Vaishnavas (worshippers of Krishna). A longer list of the use of the Jan or Gan root in India is provided at the end of this chapter.
The Burning Bush of the Old Testament
is a Symbol of the Plant as a Fire
Body, a Concept of the Jains.
The burning
bush out of which God spoke to Moses may be seen itself a Jain image. Jains
regard plants as fire bodies, meaning that they contain the fiery spirit
of life, a fire which existed in humans when they consumed the plants.
Jains and the followers of Agni regarded plants to be containers of the
element of fire, not simply because plants could become kindling or be
burnt, but because they were believed to contain the necessary fire of
life for survival and for inspiration. Hymns to the fire god Agni
[whose name in Sanskrit is the likely candidate for our English word ignite]
see the deity Agni as existing in the elements of the earth. And Agni is
most elaborately portrayed as existing in plants and as demonstrating his
power in the plants.
The Vegetarianism in the First Chapter
of Genesis
Finds Companion Scriptures in the Ethiopic
Book
of Enoch.
Gan Eden: the Earthly Paradise
The first chapter of "Genesis" may be likened to the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, for the orthodoxies, perhaps one of the most deliberately ignored bodies of scriptures, because of its insistence on vegetation being the food of humanity, and because of its condemnation of animal sacrifices and bloodshed of any kind, seeing them as having been caused by the fallen angels, especially Azazel. Notice the emphasis on the vegetation of the earth, and the righteous bough imagery, here used to describe the collective of the righteous.
And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because 16 they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth' shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.17 And then shall all the righteous escape,
And shall live till they beget thousands of children,
And all the days of their youth and their old age
Shall they complete in peace.
The Earth will be tilled in righteousness.
An abundance of vegetation will mark
the final time.
This fits with the satiety of the Sabeans.
All oppression and violence will be
absent from the earth.
That is, none will subdue the earth
or have dominion over other creatures,
which is the ideal of orthodox Judaism
seen in Genesis 1: 26-28
18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and 19 be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield 20 ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth 21 destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations 22 shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.
God will rain down blessings from heaven in those times.1 And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send 2 them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.'
1 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was 2 hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones. 3 And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers 4 called me -Enoch the scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves 5 wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness 6 of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'The moral idea is obvious. Those who followed the fallen angels were terrible examples for their children, and those children following the bad examples of their parents shall likewise suffer. One would think that all the research showing the detrimenal effects on health of animal foods would be enough for most people to change. But the force of the rich, the media, are strong, and they choose to promote what makes profits, not what is right.
The city of Gennesaret contains the name Ganesha in a virtually untainted form, consonants (supplemented by vowel forms) being the main element in the ancient Hebrew alphabet.The Name of the City of Gennesaret contains the Name Ganesha
Bereishis: Creation according to the Reishis
Bereishis: Genesis, the
first book of the Torah
Ber is creation, reishis
are the rishis of the Hindus
Creation, Ber, bar, or
var
According to the rishis
of the Hindus
ber or bar is creation
reishis are the rishis
of Hinduism and India
THE WORD RISHI EXISTS
IN ANCIENT HEBREW
AND RISHI RELATES TO
CUSH
The word rishi, meaning a holy man, a sage, a religious poet or singer of sacred songs.
3573 Kushan Cusha, rishi, King ( from James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance...)
ARHATS, initiated holy men of the Buddhist and Jaina faiths; often used synonymously with Rishi, Mahatma, and Adept. (Literally, "worthy ones.")
RISHI, singer of sacred songs; poet; one of those to whom the Vedas were revealed, later regarded as a patriarchal sage
SAPTARSHI, (also SAPTA-RISHI), the first seven sages or great teachers of men. (sapta, seven; rishi, sage.)
The Hebrew definition of creation, broken down into its components, reenforces the Hindu origins of Judaism. Hindu sages wrote the original Jewish scriptures.