A New World Monument to Mithras - Old News documentary

Athena of Ilium is associated with Anahita (Leach 1972:52). Anahita is linked with
Mithras and has been identified with the planet Venus, (Leach 1972:52). R. D. Barnett
(1975:468) identifies Anahita as an associate of Mithras on an ancient seal. William W.
Malandra (1992:126) tells us her full name is Ardvi Sura Anahita and that it is the Iranian
name for the Heavenly River Goddess. The heavenly river is the Milky Way. In Anubis
Cave 1 her engraved image is believed to span the Heavenly River called the Milky Way
- from Lyra to Aquila, the same constellations associated with the Chi Nu and Oxherd
figures.
Giorgio de Santillana (1969:295) refers to a “Mother Scorpion dwelling at one end
of the Milky Way, who receives souls of the newly deceased”. The Great Mother is
mother of the Three Fates one of whom is Clotho the spinner, another is Lachesis who
measures, and the third, Atropos, who cuts the thread of life sending souls on their way.
Summary:
I now have a better understanding of the enigmatic Chi Nu first reported in 1993
(McGlone et al. 1993:163). She is primarily an Indo-European goddess encompassing
multiple manifestations of the Great Mother. Her reluctance to leave her bed and lover
connects her with fertility and power to give strength to the souls with whom she comes
in contact. The aspects of the Three Fates go beyond her providing color to the sunrise
and sunset like Eos or Hesperus who announce the arrival or departure of the sun.
They identify The Great Mother as the power who spins the thread of life, measures it
out and then cuts it placing another soul on the Milky Way. The swan or goose next to
her represents the guide of the souls along their Milky Way journey. She is the wife of
Bel. This constellation would hold a great deal of interest for people concerned with the
celestial road traveled by souls.
The initiates of Mithraism could learn the mysteries appropriate to their grades.
When they viewed the figures in Cave 1, they only would see it in terms of what they
had been taught. As they ascended through the grades, they would come to know the
Great Mother in the fullness of her mystical glory.
Cave 4:
This cave contains the greatest number of Ogam-like markings of all three sites.
Among the markings in this cave appear the names of Bel and Grian. This group of
markings will require a great deal of work to properly transcribe and translate. There is
what appears to be a natural seat rising from the cave floor.
Cave 5:
Cave 5 has a number of carvings within it. How many of these may be associated
with the creators of the panels in Caves 1-4 is difficult to determine. One set of
markings in Cave 5 is clearly associated with them however, as Scott Monahan reported
(1986:157-159). The inscription consists of a set of vertical lines with a horizontal
stemline through them. The stemline actually has another line which, like the stemline
in Cave 3, runs parallel to the stemline then crosses it and parallels it again. The
translation of the marks offered by Barry Fell reads, “ In the month of June reaches, the
illumination this far out.” (Monahan 1986:158). This translation, predicting an alignment,
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