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contain items of tin rather than lead. The Gaulish word Tinne, for Oak,
also implies the metal to which Fulcanelli alluded to might really be tin.
Tin was a reducing agent in the manufacture of Tyrian Purple (or
Royal Purple) from dead mollusks. The ancient Phoenician dyers
employed four species of shellfish that contained a sac of coloring matter:
the Buccinum lapillus of Pliny, which is the Purpura lapillus or Purple
haemastoma of modern naturalists, Murex trunculus, the plentiful Murex
brandaris, and the sea snail Helix ianthina. 800 Reducing these mollusks
with tin produced the malodorous dibromoindigitin, which is similar to
the blue dye indigotin or woad. The best purple Dibapha cloth of the
Tyrians was dipped twice, first in Murex dye and then in Buccinum.
Tin is also associated with the oak-god Jupiter. The Temple of
Jupiter in Harran was triangular with a pointed roof. The stone used was
green and the image of Jupiter was made of tin. It sat upon a throne on a
dais raised eight steps high. Eight is the symbol of rejuvenation or
reduplication being 2 x 2 x 2. It is the sacred numeral of the chief God,
Tinne, in the Boibel-Loth calendar. 801 The Boibel-Loth calendar, with
three hundred and sixty plus five days based on the number eight,
replaced the ancient Beth-Luis-Noin calendar of three hundred and sixtyfour
plus one days, based on the number seven. The base-eight calendar
corresponds to the eight-fold name of the God of Light, JEHUOVAŌ. 802
The whitish wandering planet identified with Tin has the
singularly important name of Z-D-K meaning Zedek or Zadok. 803 The
Jews claimed that the Gentiles profanely called it Jupiter. We
investigated the importance of Zadok and Righteousness in Chapter 11.
Jupiter and other thunder gods such as Hercules, Zeus, Duir,
Janus, Thor, Bel, and Hermes are all oak-gods. 804 Yahweh in his aspects
of El or Jah, which are interchangeable terms, is also an Oak-god. The
Roman poet Virgil, who lived from 70BCE to 17BCE, mentions the roots
of the Oak tree. He says they run as deeply into the ground as the
branches rise to heaven. The oak is therefore highly reminiscent of the
fundamental hermetic maxim as above, so below. In the dimension of
time, the oak stands at the turn of the year. 805 The Oak tree therefore
symbolizes the annual resurrection god who rules Heaven and the
Underworld, the ram-headed god Osiris, Hercules and all immortal gods,
particularly Amun-Ra.
Therefore, our drifting has brought us to tin as another possible
solution to Fulcanelli’s riddle. The mineral form of tin is cassiterite,
tinstone or tin dioxide. So perhaps cassiterite, rather than galena, might
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