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Contents The Confederacy of the Pacific...... 2 The hand...... 3 The feathered halo...... 6 The mien of the trinity...... 9 The tree-men...... 11 The tora-jinn...... 12 The torii-shin...... 14 The door-jinn...... 14 The sea-jinn...... 14 Gong Gong...... 16 Weir-can...... 16 The dol hareubang...... 17 Pangu...... 19 K’uei Hsing...... 19 Kuan...... 20 Monkeys as grooms...... 20 Dangun...... 21 The Ainu & the bear goddess...... 22 The Basques’ forebears...... 22 The Uru...... 23 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 2

The Confederacy of the Pacific The distribution of a single gene variant such as HLA-A may tell us only part of the tale, since some genes are naturally selected by some environments and others by others, so here is a more recent map (2016), including South America, from the Harvard Medical School. The gene reaches westward from South America and east Asia to the Indus valley, tallying in its extent with the likelihood of reversal of the east-west axis of the zodiac, as shown by the direction of heeling. This makes it even likelier that denisovans reached southeast Asia from the west coast of South America. The tug of war between the asuras and devas about the direction of the sea’s circulation likewise implies that they reached South America from the south.

‘The genome-wide data … show that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American founding population that carried ancestry more closely related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders than to any present-day Eurasians or Native Americans.’1

In other words some genes in southeast Asia and parts of South America are akin, but there are few genetic traces of a land route leading down from the Bering Straits, across Middle America to the Amazon rain forest. The same is even plainer on the map below.

1 Skoglund, P. et al. Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas. Letter, Nature 525, 03 Sep 2015, p. 104-108 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 3

Since there is likewise a gap between Africa and southeast Asia in the spread of the dragon motif, the simple explanation seems to be that long distance travel was easier by raft than on foot, so seadogs traveled from Africa to Antarctica and from there to southeast Asia or South America. The dark red spot in South America stands for the Surui Indians near Rondônia, which till recently was covered by 200,000 sq km of rainforest, more than a third of which has now been stripped by outsiders’ logging.2 When a 2,000 mile-long highway was built across their land in 1969, nearly 90% of them died from disease in the following years. In such a context, survival of the fit is a very limited notion, casting no light on general abilities. The distance from the tip of Africa to the Antarctic is about 4500 kilometers, so the Tangaroa, a raft used in crossing the Pacific in 2011 at a speed of about 100 kilometers a day could have reached Antarctica in about 45 days. In the epic of Gilgamesh, the protagonist is taken by the seafarer Urshanabi to visit Uta-napišti, who has survived the great flood by sailing with his wife to a faraway island. For three days they (Gilgamesh and Urshanabi) ran on, as if it were a journey of a month and fifteen days.3

How many days were there in a month? The devas favored 28, so 28 days plus 15 comes to 43 days, the time needed for reaching Antarctica from Africa on a well designed raft. Here is a piroge from Melanesia.4 The reasons for Uta-napišti’s voyage are said to have been a growth in population, leading to ‘intolerable uproar’ and a great flood, but the sequence of events is more likely to have been a great rising of the waters, followed by squabbling as to who was then entitled to remaining land, followed in turn by some emigration. If southeast Asia and South America were first settled by seadogs, do they share symbols less common elsewhere?

The hand The human hand forms one of the most ancient themes of human art. Prehistoric examples of hand prints (positive images formed by covering the hand with paint and placing it on a surface, rather like modern children create) and stencils (negative images formed by placing the hand against a surface and blowing paint around it) are known from prehistoric contexts in Latin America, the Sahara, Indonesia, Australia and

2 Rondônia, Wikipedia, 2016 3 Gilgamesh 4 Now in the Ethnological Museum in Dahlem, Berlin [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 4

Tasmania … stretching back at least to 35,000 years ago … Usually stencils cluster in certain areas of deep caves … Around 43 French and Spanish caves are known to contain Palaeolithic hand prints and stencils … Associations with cracks were very evident too.5

The symbol is widespread but not throughout the Asian mainland. Indeed all sites are near the sea or were near it when the images were made. The one furthest from the sea may be one in the Sahara in southern Egypt, but the site seems to have been on the shore of a huge lake (about 30,759 km sq), reaching northwards to the Mediterranean, as implied by not only geological evidence but also images of swimmers left on the rocks. The images are no personal mementos, since some are of the feet of emus (Australia), rheas (Patagonia) or the desert monitor (Sahara). Here are some from the southwestern coast of Sulawesi:

The earliest dated image from Maros, with a minimum age of 39.9 kyr, is now the oldest known hand stencil in the world.6

Here are some from Balloon Cave in Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland, Western Australia.

5 Hand stencils in upper Palaeolithic cave art, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, www.dur.ac.uk, 2016 6 Aubert, M. et al. Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia, Letter, Nature, 30 April 2014 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 5

And here are some from the Cave of Hands in Patagonia near the tip of South America.

What do the hands mean? As in the case of the nummulite bearing a cross, we need only record the key features then look for a cosmological explanation. The key features are: 1. Mainly on a white or russet background, sometimes a black one 2. Mainly white in themselves but sometimes russet 3. Not specifically human but also of desert creatures 4. Mainly in the form of stencils 5. Associated with cracks 6. Sometimes paired 7. Sometimes next to stalactites in places hard to reach As regards the hue of the background (1): At the embarkation of the magi as shown by Giovanni da Modena, the earth-centered model of the system of planets and the tallying social order is symbolized in the background by a moon-shaped boat, a russet church and Satan, standing for the 1st, 3rd and 5th of the five planets in the earth-centered model of the system. They can also be symbolized by hues – white for the moon, russet for Mars, and black for the outer space beyond Saturn. In effect the hands stand for the earth-centered model of the system and the tallying social order. As regards the hue of the hands (2): The 1st, 3rd and 5th of the five planets in the original model of the system were the moon (white), Mars (russet) and Saturn (yellowish white). White and yellowish white may easily be confused, so Saturn moving in darkness far from the sun was symbolized by black, which also alluded aptly to nocturnal habits. As regards the use of desert creatures (3): Many aboriginal tribes treat the emu as a sign of the zodiac just right of Scorpio.7 As seen in the sky from the southern hemisphere, signs rise on the right, and Scorpio is followed by Sagittarius. Both are at or near the end of the old axis of the zodiac so stand for desert as opposed to water and also for the holy version of genesis.

7 Emu, Wikipedia, 10 Oct 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 6

As regards the use of stencils (4): In the version of genesis by eruption from Mother Earth, matter is added to empty space, but in the version of genesis by the division and subdivision of a spiral nebula, matter congeals unevenly, leaving gaps. In effect planets differentiate from each other like fingers from the palm of a hand owing to the emergence of gaps, to which stencils draw attention. Moreover, blowing pigment involves air, which likewise alludes to the whole gust or the holy ghost. As regards cracks (5): These are natural gaps. The relevance of gaps or subtraction to the holy version of genesis was widely known up to the renaissance, as shown by start of a sonnet by Michelangelo, who points out that the worth of a block of marble may be increased without the addition of any materials.8 This is also a social message: frugality is not always impoverishing nor material wealth enriching.

Non ha l’ottimo artista alcun concetto The best of artists has no other concept c’un marmo solo in sé non circonscriva than what the marble in itself contains, col suo superchio, a solo a quello arriva to which not even his own hand attains la man che ubbidisce all intelletto.9 unless subjected to his intellect.

As regards the pairing of hands (6): On the wall near Maros on Sulawesi two of the hands are linked symmetrically by an arm. The fingers are then like planets assigned symmetrically to signs of the zodiac. As regards stalactites (7): These are conical; cross-sections of a cone are ellipses; and planets move in ellipses round the sun. In effect cones served as symbols of the system of planets, so placing hand stencils beside them doubled the likelihood that future generations would grasp the symbolism. Moreover stalactites point down, and the point tallies with the orb at the system’s hub, so stalactites were acceptable to mothers in implying that this orb is the earth. Sulawesi lies on the equator 119° east, and Patagonia near the tip of South America 72° west, so the difference in latitude is 360 – (119+72) = 169°. In this sense they are nearly at opposite ends of the earth, but a person a few meters away from the south pole can cross 180° in a few strides, so leaving the coast of Antarctica a few hundred miles further on may cause a raft to drift to South America instead of Sulawesi. In sailing at the speed of the Tangaroa, a balsa raft used in sailing from Peru to Polynesia in 2006, it would take less than a fortnight to cross the Magellan Straits from the Antarctic archipelago to Patagonia, the land of giants.

The feathered halo As shown above, the seadogs may have also been known as penguins, having arrived in Australia from Antarctica. Like their neanderthal cousins whose sturdy knees and curved femurs, enabled them to leap from crag to crag without breaking bones, they may also have been rock-hoppers. Here is a rockhopper penguin with a halo of feathers.

8 Rime 151 9 First stanza of Rime, 151, translated by the author [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 7

On the world-map showing the distribution of denisovan genes, relatively high concentrations are shown among tribes in the Amazon. Here are representatives of the Surui and Karaja, each wearing a feathered halo. A halo is holy and stands for the spiral nebula from which planets evolved through division and sub-division, and the division is shown by feathers, whose follicles branch out from the shaft like branches from a trunk. Feathered headdresses are worn by Indians in North America too but not in the form of halos. Here are figures known as wandjina from Kimberly in northwestern Australia, where they were painted about 5000 years ago. Unlike the aborigines they are white and have unusually big eyes. Neanderthals appear in the western version of the zodiac as the pail-man or pale man Aquarius, so a pale skin may have been typical of denisovans too. All four figures have halos of feathers, three of which have 7 feathers and one of which has 8. The number of planets known in antiquity was 7, but according to the holy version of genesis, they evolved from a spiral nebula, which split into 2 parts, these into 4 and these into 8. Indeed the 8th planet, Uranus, is visible to the unaided eyes of even modern humans when opposite the sun. Each figure has two black blobs for the eyes and one in front of the bronchi, so they are likely to stand for the trinity. A figure whose eyes and navel likewise form a trinity was found in a cave west of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at some point prior to 1891. Although its survival in a cave for centuries may initially appear unremarkable, caves often provide excellent organic preservation. It was found by a man hunting wild boar, who was so alarmed by what he saw that he struck out at it with a machete – but later returned with help to remove it from the cave.10

Radiocarbon dating suggests that it was made by the Arawak or Taino between 1439 and 1522, as does the fact that it was made with only local materials, not any from Europe, in spite of the cross. There is a single brow-ridge over the eyes like those over at Angkor Wat of dancing , who are said to be cloud and rain spirits like the wandjina.

10 National Museums Liverpool. Turin cemí, 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 8

The zemi, as well as dead caciques, have certain powers over the natural world and must be dealt with … Several myths had to do with caves. The sun and moon for example came out of caves. Another myth tells that the people lived in caves and only came out at night.11

The same symbolism was current in Scandinavia, as shown by this image of þórr. Like the devas in the Indian miniature of the tug of war for the sea of milk, he is wearing a conical hat. Here is a more recent painting of wandjina showing them wearing black feathers. Research has shown a clear, previously unknown and widespread, association between Neanderthals, raptors and corvids … this was a systematic, geographically and temporally broad activity … 12

As summed up by the BBC: Our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals were harvesting feathers from birds in order to use them as personal ornaments … the ancient humans appeared to have a preference for birds with dark or black plumage. Species represented at the sites include ravens, crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, various types of eagle and vulture, red and black kites, kestrels and falcons.13

A similar mien was known in Phoenicia, earlier Canaan, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

The holy spirit appeared as the snake Quetzalcoatl with a feathered halo in Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica about 2000 years ago,

11 Corbett, B. Arawak/Taino religion and myths, www.cubaheritage.org 12 Finlayson, C. et al. Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal exploitation of raptors and corvids, PLOS, 17 Sep 2012 13 Rincon, P. Neanderthals used feathers as personal ornaments. Science and environment, BBC, 17 Sep 2012 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 9

Here it appears as a snake with a feathered halo by the Sepik River on New Guinea.

The mien of the trinity In both frescoes the wandjini have two big blobs for eyes and a blob in front of the bronchi. These stand for the three possible sources of planets – the earth, the sun or a spiral nebula – as shown by a similar figure from the Jōmon period in Japan. In this case the eyes and mouth form a trinity, as emphasized by the triangle of the mien and confirmed by the trinity of the torso. The figure as a whole is shaped as a cross, whose two axes likewise allude to the trinity, since they lead from the earth or sun to the outermost planet – three in all. This symbolism was not limited to Asia, as shown by the German words for navel and nebula – nabel und nebel, which are the same, except for one vowel, and the same is shown by words for parts of a mien: The word eye in English is spoken like ei, which is German for egg, whose yellow yolk stood for the sun; the word nose is akin to noose and nous, the latter being the word in ancient Greek for the holy spirit; and the words for mouth and moon in German are mund and mond. It is easy to coin a new name for a something new and to get it accepted but not to coin a new name for something already named and to change the general usage, so if parts of a mien bear names with cosmological meanings, cosmology may have evolved before things were named. This undermines the notion, popular among linguists and literati, that language is the mother of abstract thought. The name wandjina is akin to , the name in Europe for a melodious water , and the wandjina are likewise said to be cloud and rain spirits, who fashioned the landscape of Australia before vanishing into waterholes. ‘The wandjina gave the law, culture and language to the people to abide by.’14 The word wand in German means wall, so they are wall jinn. Their lack of a mouth may be due to the mien’s having been that of an elephant or stegodon, whose trunk hung over its mouth as the trunk of the world tree. If so, the Jōmon figurine is a later version, since its three main features are two eyes and a mouth, not trunk. This contradicts the view put forward by Julien d’Huy that the dragon motif spread from Africa to southeast Asia and from there to Australia and South America. The symbolic mien seems to have reached Australia before reaching Hokkaido.

14 Wandjinas and Ungud snakes., www.desertriversea.com [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 10

Cloud maidens were also painted on a huge volcanic block in Sigirya on Sri Lanka painted between 477 and 495 AD. These are more realistic but notable for rings set into their earlobes. Lobes lengthened to recall elephants’ ears were common throughout the region now marked by denisovan genes, as shown by depictions of Buddha and other sages such as Laotse, and rings stood for the holy spirit, their favored version of genesis. Buddha’s mother bore him after dreaming of four devas and being impregnated by an elephant, so his long earlobes are hardly surprising. Lengthened earlobes supporting rings or discs are also found in Africa among the Maasai, so it may be thought that the symbolism came from modern man, not neanderthals or denisovans, but the Maasai are one of the few African tribes with neanderthal genes. The research was meant to differentiate between ethnic groups with or without neanderthal genes, not between groups with neanderthal genes and groups with denisovan ones. Neanderthals contributed more DNA to modern East Asians than to modern Europeans. Furthermore we find that the Maasai of East Africa have a small but significant fraction of neanderthal DNA.15

This may have been due to a relatively recent contact between the Maasai and Caucasians, but the feathered halo, seemingly typical of denisovans, is also found among the Maasai. The white feathers stand for the trinity and mark the two axes of the zodiac. This Maasai is also wearing neanderthal or denisovan russet. A further sign that the Maasai knew denisovans personally is found in Indian myth, where denisovans appear as the five woodland-dwelling pandavas, sharing a wife called Draupadi. According to the Mahabharāta, they all tried to reach heaven by climbing Mount Meru, but Draupadi and four other pandavas fell, leaving only Yudhishthira with his faithful dog.16 Mount Meru is a volcano on the equator, just north of Maasai, territory, but this can hardly have been known in India, unless India and the east coast of Africa lay on a trade route, so on having used the Indian Ocean gyre to leave Africa, they may later have used it to sail back and trade. The jinn were merchant seamen, not warriors, so when warriors took societies over later, memories of the seamen were maligned. The Islamic theologian Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328) calls them ‘ignorant, untruthful, oppressive and treacherous.’17 Traders with these qualities would soon be banished and bankrupt, so they must rather have been erudite, truthful, supportive and trustworthy, unlike Islamic theologians.

15 Wall, J.D. et al. Higher levels of neanderthal ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans. Genetics, 14 Feb 2013 16 Meru, Wikipedia, 2016 17 Essay on the Jinn [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 11

A similar transformation of these obliging cosmopolitans into thugs within the context of warrior propaganda can be seen overlooking the ball-court of Copán, where the leaders of the old order were pitted against the leaders of the new in a game as rough as rugby, and the losers were beheaded. Neanderthals and presumably denisovans were barrel-chested with small voice-boxes, so their yodeling carried as far as the yells of howler-monkeys, and the umpire of the murderous ballgame is shown as an ugly denisovan maliciously supervising events.

The tree-men On the east coast of Middle America the tribe known as the Cakchiquel recalled tree-men, u vinaquil huyub, literally ‘the little man of the forest’. The Indians in ancient times believed that the forests were peopled with these little beings, guardians, spirits of the forest, a species of similar to the alux of the Maya. The Memorial Cakchiquel calls them ru vinakil chee, from che, ‘tree’, which Father Coto translates as ‘the hobgoblin which walks in the mountains,’ and by another name, the Zakikoxol. According to the Memorial, the ancient Cakchiquel used to speak with these little men who were the spirits of the volcano of Fuego, ru cux huyu chi Gag, called Zakikoxol.18

As regards the alux: Their description and mythological role are somewhat reminiscent of other sprite-like mythical entities in a number of other cultural traditions (such as the Celtic ), as the tricks they play are similar.19

The can-man, pail-man and pale man Aquarius is also the leper-can or leprechaun. His cousin the canoe-man is also the volcano-man. As a tree-man he appears in the rock art of Australia, not in the northwest as one of the wandjina, but in the northeast, on the Cape York peninsula leading to New Guinea, as one of the quinkan or five cans. One kind is as friendly to children as Bes in Egypt and as puckish as the alux and : The friendliest Quincans are the tall thin Timaras They keep a watchful eye on children and help them when they are in danger Timaras live in rock crevices and like to play jokes on people by reaching out a long arm and poking them in the ribs when they are looking the other way.20

18 Goetz, D. & Morley, S.G. Popol Vuh: The Book of the Ancient Maya, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 2003, pp. 200-201. 19 Alux, Wikipedia, Nov 2016 20 Mt Quinkan Crater Retreat, www.archive-au.com, 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 12

A can or cone stands for the whole system of planets, so the five cans are the five planets in the original model, but the three figures here stand for the trinity – the mother, the son and the holy spirit. The head of the figure standing for the holy spirit is actually the head of a bat gazing up and is like the mother’s shoulders and breasts. This recalls Botticelli’s transformation of a centaur’s bow into a series of waves, to lessen his apparent opposition to the maiden beside him for the sake of social harmony. The addition of the son on the rock wall as a third faction to the original two – of mothers and sages - marks the rise of the warrior caste, but the painter subverts the image by showing all three as tree-men and -women, evolving through division and sub-division. The mother becomes an image of the whole system of planets in having 2 breasts, 2 arms and 1 arm growing out of her head, to make 5 in all. The identity of the biggest figure as the holy spirit in person is confirmed by the following: At another rock art gallery we saw a spirit believed to be Big Uncle. He was a very tall, thin figure, painted with a white outline, in-filled in red. His long arms and fingers were outstretched, and his eyes bulged white.21

Mothers identified with Mother Earth, and homosexual sages with the holy spirit, so no figure standing for the holy spirit could be called ‘Father’. When Mary in the gospels gives birth to a child not sired by Joseph, Joseph is merely the step-father, but a set of polyandrous brothers would all marry the same woman, save for a homosexual brother, who would still be the uncle. A quinkan is also a kanquin or panquin (penguin), since can and pan are dialect variants of the same syllable, as shown by the fact that the pandavas were also known as the heavenly musicians, the . In effect the rock art on the Cape York peninsula was painted by penguins from Antarctica.

The tora-jinn Sulawesi has the cave with the oldest known stencils of hands. The locals, called the Toraja (Tora-jinn or Trojans), claim to have been shipwrecked on the coast while voyaging from the north then to have used their boats as the roofs of houses.22 Their houses are made of timber, bamboo and reeds, using tongue and groove joinery without nails, as in the stone age. The roof of a 4x10 m Tongkonan is made from over 1,000 bamboo stems cut into 6,000 pieces … The materials are harvested from the 50 hectares of towering limestone cliffs

21 Scheer, R. Aboriginal magic in the land of the Quinkans, www.newagetravel.com 22 Tonkonan, Wikipedia, 11 Oct 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 13

surrounding the small community … The bamboo and wood used for construction is carefully chosen by the community, and permission to cut is granted by the traditional leaders … ‘If there is no forest, the Tongkonan will disappear. .. Then there is no place for family to meet, and the Toraja will be absorbed by big cities, and everyone will become selfish.’ Already there are pressures on the forest. As population increases, demand for resources follows.23

A tongkonan is never removed ‘because of the large number of placentae buried on the east side of the house.’24 This suggests that the east-west axis has not been reversed as elsewhere in the far east, since the placentae are presumably used to symbolize birth, but not all settlers may have arrived from South America on the South Pacific gyre. To archaeologists too the situation is unresolved: By one million years ago an unknown hominin lineage had colonized Flores immediately to the south, and by about 50 thousand years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) had crossed to Sahul … Here we report new excavations at Talepu in the Walanae Basin northeast of Maros, where in situ stone artifacts associated with fossil remains of megafauna (Bubalos sp., Stegodon and Celebochoerus) have been recovered from stratified deposits that accumulated from before 200 thousand years ago until about 100 thousand years ago. Our findings suggest that Sulawesi, like Flores, was host to a long-established population of archaic hominins, the ancestral origins and taxonomic status of which remain elusive.25

The north-south orientation of the houses may show that the Toraja accepted the new axis of the zodiac in the sense of accepting the sun-centered model of the system, since they also revered a smith: The Toradjas of Celebes have a subterranean smith-god called Langkoda (‘The Lame’), who tests the souls of the Toradjas as to their quality, and the smith of the Upper World (Proeë m Paraburu, the Lord Creator and at the same time the Great Physician) reforges the souls that have failed.26

The notion of recycling bodies and souls was part of the old system of beliefs, and the unnecessary duplication of smiths alludes only to the social disagreement about the two models of the system of planets. Mythical smiths all round the world were lame, as were denisovans or neanderthals in general in being flat-footed. They had adapted not to running across open savanna but to leaping from crag to crag on rough terrain. In Greece the smith was the lame and odd-looking Hephaistos, in Ugarit he was the oddly walking Kotar-Hasis, who was also a sailor, musician and instrument-maker, and in Germany he was the hamstrung Weyland. In Buddhism the first of thirty two marks of a great person is that he 'has firmly established feet and walks firmly upon the ground.'27

23 Bell, L. Sulawesi communities build big, unique houses by sustainably managing forests. Mongabay, 03 Feb 205 24 Tongkonan, Wikipedia, 11 Oct 2016 25 Van den Bergh, G.D. et al. Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Nature 529, 208-211, 14 Jan 2016 26 Forbes, R.J. The evolution of the smith, Studies in ancient technology, volume 8. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1964 27 Bodhisattvabhūmi, The Realm of Awakening,, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1989, p. 146 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 14

The torii-shin In Japan the tora-jinn became the torii-shin, since Shinto is short for Shin-torii. A tor in German is a door or gateway, and a torii is a gateway in the form of a dolmen.

Torii

One or more torii gates mark the approach and entrance to a shrine. They come in various colors and are made of various materials. Most torii, however are made of wood, and many are painted orange and black.

The difference between the words jinn and shin must have been only the difference between vocalizing or not the first syllable. Jinn was spoken as ʒin, and shin as šin. With the militarization of Japanese society, the canny and obliging djogeon (ʒogeon) were replaced by warlords, who usurped not only their status but also their name in calling themselves the šogeon or shogun.

The door-jinn Here is one above an entrance to Kidal temple on East Java. The mien is said to be that of the giantess Kālá, the ruler of time. The dial of her clock was the zodiac, and its hands were the planets, whose positions she had to calculate. Kal is the verbal root of calculation, so as an erudite woman, Kālá stands for the old order of mothers and sages, and the pupils of her eyes are made up of spirals. The size of her eyes confirms her kinship with the wandjina or wall-jinn, and her tusks confirm the surmise that her mien began as an elephant’s then was changed to resemble a denisovan’s. The tusks were also needed by the cosmology. According to the holy version of genesis, a spiral split up into 2 sections, these into 4, and these into 8, congealing into 8 planets. These were assigned to features of the mien – to the eyes, nostrils, earlobes and mouth – but these are only 7 in number, so the mouth has to have 2 tusks.

The sea-jinn In Chinese myth there is a set of 8 immortals (xia) who live on 5 islands in the Bohai Sea in the neighbourhood of Korea, so these too must have been jinn. In fact the only sizable island near the Bohai Sea is Jeju Island off the southern tip of Korea, so the number is drawn from cosmology, not geography. On looking back, the fourth century statesman Shang Yang said: [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 15

During the time when heaven and earth were established, and the people were produced, people knew their mothers but not their fathers. Their way was to love their relatives and be fond of what was their own.28

In other words there was polyandry with one woman married to two or more men, who were thereby unaware which of the children were their sons and daughters and which were their nephews and nieces. Either way they were closely related and fond of them. Shang Yang goes on: This led to discrimination and insecurity. Therefore as peoples increased in number, they fell into disorder … subjecting each other by force, leading to quarrels and disputes.

This is military eyewash. Polyandry lead to no increase in number and dearth but avoids them, and among the Navajo the homosexual nadle were free to allocate material resources impartially to whomsoever they deemed fit. The Navajo nadle moved between quasi-male and quasi-female identities. The nadle began life as an intersex, which eliminated options such as becoming a father, hunter, or warrior. But nadles were believed to have a special ability to manage wealth, and it was a blessing to have a nadle in the family. The nadle was more woman than man: She practiced women’s activities such as cooking, had the legal status and sex life of a woman, and was usually (but not always) addressed as a woman. In other circumstances the nadle could be manlike, as in presiding over rituals or managing wealth. The nadle was appreciated as a wise mediator for the same reasons the Half-Man–Half-Woman was.29

The role of the nadle was undertaken among the Lakota by the winkte, associated with the moon: The Lakotas credited dreams of Double Woman with influencing men to become winkte; others credited the moon.30

The xian dynasty was named after the jinn and is said to have been China’s first, but its mythical ruler, Yu the Great, neglects his wife and child in trying to control the great flood, which turns out to be only flooding from rivers, not a rise in sea-level. In effect he is shown as an impostor, who also fights with a sea-monster with red hair and the tail of a dragon, called Gong-Gong. So who was Gong Gong, who is said to have hit the earth in a fit of temper, causing it to heel to the southeast?

28 Duyvendak, J.J.L. The Book of Lord Shang, London, Probsthain, 1928, p.225 29 Gender, alternatives to binary, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, www.encyclopedia.com, 2008 (?) 30 Berdache, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 16

Gong Gong The earth does indeed tilt, but whatever direction it tilts in automatically becomes north, so the allusion to tilting is an allusion to the heeling axis in the zodiac. Gong Gong was associated with ethnic minorities in the south, and the pan- shaped gong is still favored by minorities like the Bana in the central highlands of Vietnam, where its sound is ‘regarded as the privileged language bridging humanity and the supernatural world.’ In other words, it links the world of the living with that of the dead – the world of modern man with the world of denisovans. It is the voice of the Bana or Pan. The kind of society favored by denisovans as followers of Gong Gong are recalled in Chinese: Gonggong means public, common, communal and is used to describe, for example, public property (gongong caichan), public welfare (gongong full), or also public affairs (gongong shiwu).31

A concern for the common good does not lead to the rage and violence attributed to Gong Gong, be it by Shang Yang or others. His name, already dividing into equal parts, shows him to be an agent of the holy spirit. The claim that he caused the earth to tilt to the southeast is a jibe alluding to the disparity between his axis, heeling to the southwest, and Chinese rivers flowing mainly to the southeast.

Weir-can The pale man, pail-man or can-man appears in Tibet as Vairocana, one of the five self-born Dhyani buddhas or quinkan. His hue is white, his mount the dragon and his symbol the wheel, and he is shown here in denisovan red. His equivalent in the Andes is Wairococha, married to Mama Cocha, said to have been ‘pale and beautiful’: Mama Cocha (or Mamacocha) – in quecha Mama Qucha (Mother of the Waters) – was the Incan goddess of all waters. She stood for the sea and its tides and was associated with lakes, rivers and sources of water and took springs to be her offspring. She was commonly worshiped to calm rough waters and to ensure good fishing.

She was especially revered along the whole coast of what are now Peru, Ecuador, the south of Columbia and the north of Chile, where fishing was (and is) essential for livelihood. This Inca goddess was worshiped in villages round lakes and ponds. One of Mama Cocha’s main tasks was to protect the Inca from tsunamis and disasters at sea.32

31 Hrtig, F. Chinese Public Diplomacy: The Rise of the Confucius Institute, footnote 2, Routledge New Diplomacy Studies, 27 Aug 2015 32 Mama Cocha. Wikipedia, Spanish version, 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 17

She was one of four mothers: Mama Cocha, Pachamama (Mother Earth), Mama Nina (Mother of Fire) and Mama Waira (Mother of Winds). Wairococha thus stood for wind and water (the earth and holy spirit in reverse) and thus for the old axis of the zodiac and the covenant between mothers and sages. Mama Cocha likewise stood for the old order, since she is said to have been sent to earth ‘to teach people to live and work in peace and love.’33 On this image of Wairococha from Tiwanaku, there is a series of 3 dots below each eye and 1 dot above each eye, signifying the 8 planets in the seadogs’ version of the system. In Tibetan mandalas Vairocana is often surrounded by planets in the form of the tara. For some Amazonian natives this is the name of the moon, and in Eire it is the name of a hill said to have been the seat of Irish rulers since ancient times. Wairococha is also shown in Tiwanaku as the figure on the right with his hands in front of his belly.

The dol hareubang The dol hareubang, found on the island Jeju south of Korea, were formerly called ongjungseok and according to the Tamma chronicles were first made in 1754. They are made of volcanic stone, and the hats are volcanic in shape, but the tradition behind them is unknown. They stand with their hands on their belly like Wairococha in Tiwanaku. Their denisovan or neanderthal identity is plain from the big eyes and single brow-ridge over the eyes. What looks like a jutting chin, untypical of monkeys, is really a beard, as shown by the second example. Their presence on an island, not the mainland, suggests that they are seadogs. Three of them once stood outside the eastern, western and southern gates of the Jeju city fortress, so they too are tora-jinn or door-jinn. One hand, either left or right, is usually higher than the other, a scheme alluding to the series of planets represented by weekdays: 33 Mires, A. La Mamacocha y otros cuentos, 1985 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 18

Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn In the Hebrew Sefer Yetzira these are assigned to parts of a mien - eye eye nostril nostril ear ear mouth - but they could also be assigned to fingers, so according to which hand is higher, the series begins with the moon or sun and stands for the respective model of the system. This also casts light on a further statement about Yu the Great, the mythical founder of the Xian dynasty. He is said to have taken 13 years to cope with the flooding, as if he were a great calendar maker, who had split the year up into 13 regular months of 28 days, but in the course of doing his rounds he passed his home village three times without even stopping to view his wife and child. The planet which moves through the zodiac three times in about 13 years is not the sun but the asteroid Ceres, which does so once in 4.6 years. In the seadogs’ model of the system there are 8 planets, so the columns become: Ceres Sun Jupiter Mercury Saturn Venus Uranus Mars The two alternative orbs at the hub of the system are no longer the sun and moon, or the sun and earth, but the sun and Ceres. Ceres, merely a fraction the size of the earth, was never a serious candidate, so Yu’s period of orbit is further evidence that he was really Yu the Negligible. A neanderthal or denisovan presence in the far east is still not widely accepted, in spite of DNA evidence, but this may also be due to meager channels of communication between east and west, as shown by a report already 30 years old: Archaeological excavations over the last ten years have turned up new evidence that clearly shows that the Korean peninsula has been inhabited since the early Paleolithic era. This habitation by early man in Korea seems to have begun more than 300,000 years ago. During the mid-Paleolithic period Neanderthal man dwelt in caves near Chech’on and Ch’ongju. In these caves have been found fossil remains of prehistoric animals that no longer exist on the peninsula, such as the rhinoceros, cave bear and hyena.

Footnote: From these caves it was found that Neanderthal Man that lived from 20,000 to 30,000 years ago had the capacity to create art. Bones were found with engraved human features and animal figures such as the tiger, leopard, fish and bird. In another Paleolithic site of Sokchang-ri near Kongju, radiocarbon data on some human hair dates [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 19

to more than 20,000 years ago. Rock carved figures of a dog, turtle and bear were also discovered.34

At the time of this report, denisovans were still unknown, so whether the fossil remains are of neanderthals or denisovans may still be an open question.

Pangu As mentioned above, the five pandavas sharing a wife in Indian myth are the sons of Pandu (pan- dew). Pandu appears in China as the world-creator Pangu, thought to be from the ethnic minorities Miao, She and Yao in the south of China and the north of Vietnam, appearing as one of the denisovan heartlands on the HLA map above. Pangu is said to have been a man with a dog’s head – a seadog or doge - who married a modern human in the form of a princess: But she didn’t want to be seen with such a man, so they moved to the earth and settled in the remote mountains of south China. There they lived happily and had four children, three boys and a girl, who became the ancestors of all mankind.35

The mention of three boys and a girl is an allusion to the zodiac. Pangu as a pan stands for the spiral nebula from which the planets evolved and also for the zodiac as a whole. The old axis stands for the union of mothers and sages, and the new axis for the union of warriors and sages, so of the four ends of the axes, only one stands for women. In another myth he creates the being Hua Hsu, who gives birth to twins in the form of a brother and sister Fu Xi and Nü Wa, who are often shown as human-headed snakes. Here on a stone brick from the Han dynasty they are shown with a ruler and scissors respectively and not only fondly entwined but also linked by a monkey. In effect they are the mother, the son and the holy spirit, but even the son is a monkey, not a warrior. Fu Xi is said to have invented the 8 trigrams – sets of 3 lines - found in the I Ging or Book of Changes, implying that the book goes back to denisovan times. Indeed it was so esteemed that it escaped the burning of the books in 213 BC, as the first emperor of the Qin dynasty tried to eradicate the past.

K’uei Hsing Pangu was not alone in being able but odd-looking. K’uei Hsing, the patron of examinations, was a genial but odd-looking . He passed the imperial examination with top marks so was entitled to a golden rose from the emperor, but the emperor was so shocked by his looks that the rose slipped

34 Focus on Korea: Korean history, Korean Overseas Information Service, Seoul International Publishing House, Republic of Korea, 1986, p. 8 35 Pan Gu. www.crystallinks.com, 13 Oct 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 20 out of his hands and fell to the floor and broke. K’uei Hsing was so upset ‘that he fell or jumped into the ocean or river from a boat. A sea dragon or one legged monster rescued him.’36 In effect he was a dwarf or singing monkey (Hsing) at home on the sea. The old order of society was a coalition of mothers (sea) and sages (winged snake or dragon), represented by the old axis in the zodiac - a trunk or leg - so the sea-dragon or one-legged monster is the emperor’s socialist foe. The 5-petaled rose alludes to the old model of the system of planets, and its breaking alludes to the holy version of genesis through division.

Kuan Can-men and canoe-men were associated not only with cones, canes and canines but also with kuan. For centuries this has been the name for Taoist temples, whereas those of other religions are called ssu or miao. A kuan is literally a look-out in the sense of an observatory, showing that Taoism was rooted in astronomy and astrology.37

Monkeys as grooms In China, monkeys are associated with horses. In the book Baihu Tongyi (32-92 AD) it is said that a good way to keep horses healthy is to raise macaque monkeys in stables. Macaque monkeys are the primates most able to endure the cold on account of their long fur, and the ones shown cuddling together here are the Japanese kind. In the 16th century novel The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, the protagonist is a monkey, who hatches like a penguin out of an egg then seeks acclaim from the Jade emperor and is put in charge of the stables. There he is happy till finding out that a groom has only a low rank. In the western version of the zodiac one sign is the horseman Sagittarius, as if neanderthals or their kin were the first to travel on horseback, so Rilke begins one of his Sonnets to Orpheus with the rhetorical question: Sieh den Himmel. Heißt kein Sternbild “Reiter”? (View the sky. Is no sign called ‘The Rider’?) Neanderthals and presumably their kin had small voice-boxes and big lungs, so their calls from afar may have sounded like yodeling. Much the same is true of howler monkeys, whose voices can be heard clearly for up to 3 miles, so denisovans appear in Mayan myth as howler monkeys. ‘The howler monkey god was a major deity of the arts – including music – and a patron of the artisans, especially of the scribes and sculptors … a ceramic incense-burner modeled like a howler monkey scribe has been found at Post-classic Mayapan.’38

36 Garofalo, M.P. Great Star of the Literary God. www.egreenway.com, 13 Oct 2016 37 Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge University Press, 1965, vol. 2, p. 56 38 Howler Monkey Gods, Wikipedia, Nov 2016 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 21

The Guaja and Matsigenka also have myths involving the transformation of howler monkeys into human beings.39

The Awá-Guajá people live in the denisovan heartland of the eastern Amazon forests in Brazil. There are only about 350 left, due largely to illegal logging. In 2011 the ethics of modern man were made clear to them, when an eight-year old girl strayed out of her village and was caught by a more civilized tribe. ‘They laughed as they burned her to death … Survival International, a charity for tribal groups, warned that a third of the Awá’s land had already been destroyed and that their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle was being threatened, as animals fled in the face of the approaching logging companies.’40

The Matsigenka or Machiguenga live in the jungle of the Amazon Basin in southeastern Peru, east of Machu Pichu, are known for their herbal medicine and revere medicine-men. Since 1980 they have been endangered, especially by oil companies.41

Dangun Korea is said to have been founded by Dangun, the son of a human father called Hwang-ung and a bear mother. His name recalls that of the merman Dagān in Sumer. Neanderthals were as burly as bears and lived in caves, which offers a clue to the following tale. A tiger and bear came to Hwang-ung’s kingdom and prayed to be human beings. When Hwang-ung heard their prayers, he decided to give them a chance, and each animal was given a bundle of mugwort and 20 cloves/bulbs of garlic. Hwan-ung instructed them to eat only these sacred foods, and to stay in a cave for 100 days. After this, they would become human beings. The tiger gave up shortly and left the cave as a result of its hunger. The bear, on the other hand, followed Hwang-ung’s orders and 21 days later was transformed into a woman.42

The tale is about hibernation. A creature hibernating needs little food and drink, whereas a wide- awake creature does. Can-men and canoe-men lived further from the equator than modern humans, so may have hibernated,43 which may have had further consequences. If, for instance, they spent 3 months in hibernation, they would have had only 9 months left for courtship, mating, child-bearing and weaning. They would not have had 9 months for child-bearing alone, so the rate of an embryo’s development may have been sped up, then the rate may have continued into childhood. ‘Teeth are remarkable time recorders, capturing each day of growth much like rings in trees reveal yearly progress. Even more impressive is the fact that our first molars contain a tiny ‘birth certificate,’ and finding this birth line allows us to calculate exactly how old a juvenile was when it died’ … The study includes some of the most famous neanderthal children, including the first hominim fossil ever discovered … A

39 Kowalewski, M.M. et al. Howler monkeys, behavior, ecology and conservation, with allusions to Cormier, 2013, and Shepard, 2002), in the series Developments in primatology: progress and prospects, Springer, New York, 2015 40 Sanchez, R. Loggers burned Amazon tribe girl alive. Daily Telegraph, 10 Jan 2012 41 Machiguenga, Wikipedia, German version, Nov 2016 42 The legendary founder of Korea, Dangun Wanggeom, www.ancientorigins.net, 17 Feb 2016 43 Stanway, P. Schizophrenia and related ailments as adaptations, Aulis online, 2015 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 22

remarkable finding of this five-year study is that neanderthals grew their teeth significantly faster than members of our species, including some of the earliest groups of modern humans to leave Africa between 90-100,000 years ago. The neanderthal pattern appears to be intermediate between early members of our genus (e.g. Homo erectus) and living people, suggesting that the characteristically slow development and long childhood is a recent condition unique to our own species.’44

In effect Hwang-un’s mother curled up like a bear and slept through winter, then in spring she emerged and was seen to be human. Given the choice between a woman as cuddly as her and a tigerish modern woman, Hwang-ung chose the cuddly alternative.

The Ainu & the bear goddess A similar mixed marriage is recorded in an Ainu tale: There was a very populous village. It was a village having both plenty of fish and plenty of venison. It was a place lacking no kind of food. Nevertheless, once upon a time, a famine set in. There was no food, no venison, no fish, nothing to eat at all; there was a famine. So in that populous village all the people died.

The village chief had two children, a boy and a girl, so the boy was sent off with the family’s treasure to serve as money, to see if he could survive elsewhere. On his wanderings he came across the dragon-god and the bear-goddess (the holy spirit and mother earth), who had planned their society more carefully so were not short of food. On the contrary, they offered him not a fish but a whale. Finally the bear-goddess declared: ‘Now we can live together.’ … Afterwards they lived together. This is why the bear is a creature half like a human being.45

He must have become one of her husbands.

The Basques’ forebears A belief in bears as forebears is also found at the other end of the Eurasian mainland: As Petiri Prébende, the last Basque bear-hunter, said in 1986 … ‘Basques used to believe that humans descended from bears … We were created by the bear.’46

Frankl and Silva mention some Pyrenean-Basque folk-beliefs common in polar regions too: bears are forebears of humans; they understand human speech; they differ from humans only in being furry; they guard other creatures; and they are healers and bring luck..

44 ESRF reveals human children outpaced neanderthals by slowing down. The European Synchroton, 16 Nov 2010 45 Chamberlain, B.H. Ainu Folktales. The man who married the bear-goddess, translated literally, told by Ishamashite, 9 Nov 1886 46 Frank R.M & Silva F. European folklore in the paleolithic continuity and the European ursine genealogy, 2012 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 23

The Uru Seadogs are found on not only the open sea but also lakes such as lake Titicaca in the Andes, where the Uru people travel in reed boats and build islets of totora reeds, whose roots form a natural layer about two meters thick. The islets are anchored by ropes tied to sticks driven into the lake’s bottom and were originally placed about 9 miles from the shore, to be at a safe distance from aggressors. At need the ropes can be raised and the islets moved. There are 42 islets altogether, this being the number of possible pairs of 7 planets, so the Urus must have had an interest in astrology as well as in boating. Though no warriors they called themselves sons of the sun, to reveal their favored model of the system of planets. The symmetry of their name implies that they favored the holy version of genesis, according to which a spiral nebula split into two. In the same sense it is said in English that the first words spoken in paradise were: ‘Madam I’m Adam.’ The two segments – Madam I & I’m Adam – each contain all the information needed to recreate the whole saying, like a cell reproducing through symmetrical fission. Uru is also Old Babylonian for flood or deluge, as if the Uru had been borne to South America on a flood or the high seas in the literal sense of the words. Despite the fact that the Uros today share many lineages with the surrounding Andean populations, they have maintained their own divergent genetic ancestry … The Uros have historically been the target of discrimination of the pre-Inca, Inca and the Spanish, and this continues today.47

Lake Titicaca was also linked to Viracocha, who is said to have begun creating the world there.48 Like Ϸórr in Scandinavia, who held a cane or pole called Griðarvølr, he too had a cane and punted to the shore of Lake Titicaca, where he planted crops and taught the arts and crafts. According to Piedro Cieza de Leon, who went to Peru as a soldier in 1548: 'Before the Incas ruled or were even heard of in these kingdoms… there came and appeared to them a white man of large build whose aspect and person showed great authority and veneration… In many places they say that he gave commandments to the men about how to live, and that he spoke with love and much humility, admonishing them to be good and not cause harm or injury to one another but instead to love each other and have charity. Generally they call him Ticivirachocha… The large stone figures in the city of Tiahuanaco are said to date from that era…'

According to the navigator Pedro Sarmiento de Gaboa:

47 Uros people of Peru and Bolivia found to have distinctive genetic ancestries, National Geographic, 11 Sep 2013 48 Pueblos Originarios. Cosmogonia, la creación de Viracocha, www.pueblosoriginarios.com, 2005 [email protected] Voyages of the Magi (3) 24

'All the Indians agree that they were created by this Viracocha, who they believe was a man of medium height, white and clothed in a white robe gathered around his body and that he carried a staff and a book in his hands.' On his departure from South America, 'he and his two companions went into the ocean and walked away over the waters without sinking, as if they had been walking on land.'