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386 The Secret History of the World
preserved from lightning blasted oak or made by twirling an alder or cornel-wood
fire drill in an oak log. […]
The twelve merry men rush in a wild figure-of-eight dance around the fires, singing
ecstatically and tearing at the flesh with their teeth. The bloody remains are burnt in
the fire, all except the genitals and the head. These are put into an alder-wood boat
and floated down a river to an islet; though the head is sometimes cured with smoke
and preserved for oracular use. […]
To this type of Hercules belong such diverse characters as Hercules of Oeta, Orion
the Hunter of Crete, Polyphemus the Cyclops, Samson the Danite, Cuchulain of
Muirthemne the Irish Sun-Hero, Ision the Lapth - who is always depicted stretched
in a “five-fold bond” around a Sun-wheel - Agag the Amalekite, Romulus of Rome,
Zeus, Janus, Anchises, the Dagda and Hermes. […]
In the classical myth which authorized his sovereignty he is a miraculous child born
in a shower of gold; strangles a serpent in his cradle, which is also a boat, and is
credited with causing the spurt of milk that made the Milky Way; as a young man
he is the undefeated monster-slayer of his age; kills and dismembers a monstrous
boar; […] his other self … succeeds him for the second half of the year; having
acquired royal virtue by marriage with the queen, the representative of the White
Goddess, and by eating some royal part of the dead man’s body - heart, shoulder or
thigh-flesh. 270
We see in the above all the elements of the Jesus myth, realizing that Jesus was
said to have been of the Davidic line, the house of Judah, the Tribe of Dan.
To finish off this little diversion, we find another curious remark about the tribe
of Dan in Judges 5:17:
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?
That’s a strange thing; an allusion to a sea-faring people? The prophet Amos
seems to have some conviction that this tribe of Dan is a serious threat to Yahweh.
He writes in 8:14-15:
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, Oh Dan, liveth; and, the
manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Amos seems to be suggesting that the “sin of Samaria” is directly connected to
the tribe of Dan. And we have some idea already that the “sin of Samaria” was
also the sin of Ahab and Jezebel, the House of the Beloved. Which brings us back
to the question: just what was the tribe of Dan, and why was it changed to the tribe
of Judah? If the tribe of Judah is really the tribe of Dan, then that means that the
House of David is the tribe of Dan. And following the clues, we discover that this
lineage belonged to Ishmael and Esau, not to Isaac and Jacob. We further discover
that the lineage is that of the “architect of the temple of Solomon”, the designer
270 Graves, Robert, The White Goddess, (New York: The Noonday Press 1948) pp. 125-6,.