The word ‘whore’ had very different connotations at the time when the Babylonians were honouring the goddess of sacred love, Ishtar. Linguistically, in the Aramaic tongue, it all goes back to the ho root words connected with womb shamans, such as hor (cave and womb), horasis (ecstatic vision) and even horaa (instructions) because sacred whores were also the oracles and the lawgivers. In ancient Greece, the word horasis meant womb enlightenment. Even the son of Isis, named Horus, was born from sacred love rites. The word holy, of course, now makes more sense, and so I think it’s a shame that the concept of the ‘holy whore’ has, in modern times, so fallen from grace.
The whole subject of Ishtar and ancient Babylon has been demonised to such an extent, to hell and back, that it’s often difficult to think clearly about it. But this is largely because we’re viewing her story through Semitic spectacles that don’t really fit. The Hebrews hated Babylon. They believed that many of them were taken into captivity there in the 6th century BCE, although scholars now doubt this. But it is through the Jewish myths and stories in the Bible that we have been taught our geopolitical history. This wouldn’t be so bad if we were actually from a Semitic or desert race. But where this kind of indoctrination goes wrong is when conquered races – by which I mean our Caucasian ancestors under Roman Christian domination – take on the hatred of the enemies of its conquerors. We can end up in terrible delusion or maya that is used to manipulate our thinking.
We are taught to hate person A who came from the evil place A – although we’re never properly taught why, apart from a vague allusion to some nameless ‘God’ having hated said person A and all their works.
And then, when any of our rulers’ plans go wrong, or a war needs to be fought, they quickly drag the shadow puppet of person A out of the back cupboard – “here’s one we demonised earlier,” they laugh – and then they hold it up against the fire to cast the shadow of the scapegoat in the Plato’s Cave of our minds until we’re duly convinced to their cause.
So, here I will try to lay to rest some of those demons.
Babylon, the Gateway to the Gods
First of all, the name Babylon – originally Babilu – meant “gateway to the gods”, and that was a reference to it being built as a magical transformer and transmitter through its sacred geometry, and I’ll go more into that later.
The so-called Whore of Babylon in the Book of Revelations is thought to be the goddess Ishtar. She is described as riding on the back of the Beast while getting drunk on the blood of Christian martyrs.
As history, this would be logically and historically impossible. Ishtar/Astarte/Isis was the guiding Divine Feminine godhead of most of the whole Mesopotamian region thousands of years before Christianity was even invented. Just like many of the Bible stories, they don’t work at all as historical accounts once all the archaeological and genetic evidence is in. However, they work brilliantly as myths.
There is no historical evidence that God destroyed the Tower of Babylon because it was inhabited by evildoers, necessarily, although I’m sure they had the usual mix of both.
The city of Babilu was built on sacred geometrical principles, from which it derived its Earthly power or Sovereignty. Thus, it was not ‘God’ that destroyed the Tower of Babylon at all, in fact, but the Assyrian conqueror Sennacherib who had to reduce to ruins such a potent Earth magic centre in the same way, and for the same reason, that Henry VIII destroyed the influence of Rome within Britain in his Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The goddess Ishtar, who the Jews had been taught to hate, was in fact a fictional character in one of the Babylonians’ most potent myths. In this role, she was the daughter of the moon god, Sin, and was considered to be the goddess of love, war and fertility.
We learn more about how the Babylonians regarded Ishtar through her fictional characterisation in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
According to my understanding, The Epic of Gilgamesh is an astrological teaching drama. It is about how the zodiac hero trod the Wheel of the zodiac to bring in the Age of Aries (c. 2000-0 BCE).. The story is set on the cusp of the Age of Taurus, as it gave way to the Age of Aries. While Aries is a Ram to us, he was known as the Day Labourer to the Sumerians.
I won’t go into the whole long poem here… although I devote a whole chapter to it in Stories in Stars. Suffice to say, though, that in this sacred drama, Ishtar was given the part of the Watermaiden, who was always a bit of a shapeshifter in Babylonian tales.
In The Epic of Gilgamesh, she first plays the part of the spoiled princess Ishtar who the hero Gilgamesh meets when and his friend Enkidu reach Taurus, which is ruled by Venus. She had insisted that her father give her the Bull of Heaven (Taurus) to kill Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Her father reluctantly agrees and hands him over. But Gilgamesh and Enkidu infuriate Ishtar by defeating and killing the Bull, thus signalling the end of the Age of Taurus, and then the pair go on as the twins or brothers to Gemini.
Enkidu dies on the Summer Solstice. Later, when Gilgamesh reaches Libra, ruled by Venus, Ishtar appears again but as Siduri, the female tavern keeper. Her role here is resonant of the Sumerian Inanna of the tavern and the coitus a tergo erotic engravings. On the Autumn Equinox, she sexually initiates the hero Gilgamesh, just as countless initiates to the Eleusinian Mysteries were sexually initiated on that holy festival.
So the Epic of Gilgamesh was originally a play designed to teach those initiates about astrology with picture language as a mnemonic. It’s all about the changes of astrological ages due to the precession of the equinoxes, and it was almost certainly a precursor to the tauroctonies of the later Mithras cult in Rome.
When Alexander the Great conquered Babilu in 333 BCE and the Greeks changed its name to Babylon, they divided Ishtar’s powers of Love and War between their own Venus and Mars. And so the Divine Feminine was cut in half, and disempowered.
The ‘Evil’ of Babylon
When I hear that all the evils of the world can be attributed to Babylon, I can find no historical evidence that this city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was any worse (or better) than any other at that time. However, the perpetual wars over the resources of the Fertile Crescent is still going on.
But if we are going to attribute all the problems we face today to the 13 royal bloodlines which rule the world (and why not?), then we don’t need to go back as far as Babylon. These royal bloodlines come from just four original families or tribes that intermarried because they shared commercial and military interests, long after Babylon had fallen.
According to David Livingstone in Terrorism and the Illuminati, these four families come from, firstly, the House of Commagene, which arose in Antioch in about 162 BCE; secondly, the House of Herod – Herod Agrippa, that is, friend of Caligula; thirdly, the Julio-Claudio Roman dynasty; and, finally, the priest kings of Baal in Emesa, which is known today as Hims in Syria.
These four were later joined by the Ashkenazi Jews – Khazars from Central Asia who converted to Judaism around the 8th or 9th centuries and gradually moved into Russia and Europe.
Livingstone has found that the Knights Templar, (the first “secret service” of the royal families) learned their magical craft from the Ismaili branch of Islam and the Sabaeans.
So, this now tarantula-web network of royal bloodlines has always been and is still supported in their aims of world domination by various types of Hermetic and later Freemasonic magicians. These magicians create entities on the astral planes who, they claim, demand the blood of martyrs… of which there’s been no shortage, Christian or otherwise, in the past 2,000 years.
These cabalists have been able to get away with out-and-out carnage over the millennia through a number of sleight of hand conjuring tricks – and one of those is a distraction technique where they shine the light in the opposite direction to the source of the problem or pin it on someone else.
So various kinds of psychological tricks have been used to demonise Babylon as the source of all evil, notably beginning with the “Whore of Babylon” of Revelations, continuing in the 20th century with the American rocket scientist Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working in Pasadena in 1947, and then more recently with the very obvious attempt to blame the collapse of the world’s economy on “Babylon’s Banksters”.
It’s very easy to pull the wool over people’s eyes when they don’t get a decent education and thus have a blurry understanding of the history of this time, a more or less complete ignorance about the geography of the region even now, let alone then, and have been taught to read myths as history. It relies on people believing what they are told to believe rather than examining the evidence for themselves.
Jack Parsons, along with the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, and the British magician Aleister Crowley were used by these secret societies, during the first half of the 20th century, to create the mind programming for the New Age – a term coined by the Scottish Rite of Freemasons.
Out of all this came Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working and the first channelled literature, The Book of the Law, from Aleister Crowley, which told us that the upcoming “Aeon of Horus” would be an age of absolute carnage and blood-letting on a huge, industrial scale. And so it is proving to be… but not because of the wishes of the holy son of Isis, or any extra-dimensional prophecy. It’s easy to foretell the future when you’ve had a hand in drawing up its blueprints.
This was an extract from Chapter 7 of my book, The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar, which will give you much more about the sacred geometry of Ishtar’s city of eight gates and her Hanging Gardens around a phallic needle or Tower of Babylon.
Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 