Fertility Cult
The trident, obelisk, fleur-de-lis, frog, and pine cone were fertility symbols used in pagan religions and are still used today. Pagan gods of Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome were associated with the pine cone, and the staffs of the gods were often adorned with the pine cone. The high priests of paganism used this symbol to identify themselves with these fertility cults. The pagan goddesses were also worshiped in fertility cults and Mary receives similar veneration today. Many of the images in this album are featured in Amazing Discoveries' Total Onslaught: The Wine of Babylon lecture. Purchase The Wine of Babylon DVD or view the lecture online.
A relief of the lion god holding a pine cone staff, which symbolized fertility.
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An Assyrian cherub holding a pine cone and bucket of holy water. Notice the fleur-de-lis atop his triple-crowned helmet.
Source: Sumerian Gods and Goddesses Online.
Source: Sumerian Gods and Goddesses Online.
Largest pine cone in the world, in the court of the Court of the Pine Cone at the Vatican.
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Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of revelry and drunkenness, with his pine cone staff.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Dionysus—the Greek god of wine, ritual madness, and ecstasy—holding a pine cone staff as a symbol of fertility.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Fleurs-de-lis in the architecture of Troyes Roman Catholic Cathedral.
Source: Cornell University Library on Flickr.
Source: Cornell University Library on Flickr.
Poseidon, ruler of the sea or underworld, holds a trident similar to the one carried by the hoofed sun god of Babylon.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Adad, Enlil, Baal, Neptune, Poseidon, and other gods of storm and sea were depicted as carrying tridents. It was symbolic of lightning. Wavy lines represent the female and were associated with the serpent. The straight line is male, representing the phallus. Thus, this symbol represented male and female union.
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A cross adorned with tridents in St. Paul's Cathedral in London. In pagan times, the trident, which is the joining of the straight line with the wavy line, symbolized the union of the male and female deities.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Outside the Pantheon in Rome, where the pagan gods were worshiped. Notice the obelisk, a phallic symbol of Osiris, and the cross on top of it. The elephant is a representation of the "eleph," which is a symbol of the sun god.
Source: Italian Notebook Online.
Source: Italian Notebook Online.
Obelisk in the center of St Peter's Square—a phallic symbol representing Osiris.
Source: Christus Rex Online.
Source: Christus Rex Online.
St. Peter's Square.
Notice the sunwheel pattern on the floor and obelisk (phallic symbol of Osiris) in the middle. Also notice the cross with the circle around it under the obelisk.
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This statue represents the mother goddess figure, known under many names such as Artemis, Diana, and Cybele. This figure becomes Mary in Catholic circles.
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Artemis, also known as Diana of Ephesus, with her many breasts to nurture the world.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Mihail Chemiakin's bronze iconic landmark "Cybele," goddess of fertility and abundance, stands on a Prince Street sidewalk. The statue stands 15 feet tall with eight pairs of breasts, four pairs of buttocks, three animal heads (two rams and a lioness), and a human face. The mirror reflects the back of the statue.
Source: New York Daily Photo.
Source: New York Daily Photo.
An icon of Mary feeding Jesus in the milk grotto. People come here to pray for fertility.
Source: Arthur A. Hazboun Online.
Source: Arthur A. Hazboun Online.
Erotic sculptures at the thirteenth-century sun temple at Konarak, India.
Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 122.
Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 122.
Jesus, portrayed with a globe in one hand and making a symbol of the pagan trinity with the other, is adorned with fleurs-de-lis. Cathedral in Nurnberg, Germany.
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Ancient fleur-de-lis on the Assyrian cherub god.
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pine cone in the Vatican courtyard. Pine cones symbolized fertility in pagan religions throughout history. The goddess Isis was always depicted with two peacocks, similar to the two peacocks next to the pine cone.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Pope John Paul II shown here holding his staff with the pine cone and the bent cross. The bent cross is a symbol common in occultism and Satanism signifying victory over Jesus.
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The pine cone staff of Osiris. Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
On the Futamigaura seashore in Japan, bronze frogs combine the sun with water symbolizing fertility. This is a form of pantheism. The frog was also worshiped in Egypt.
Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993).
Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993).
Pope John Paul II wearing a fish mitre, and carrying a staff with both a bent cross and a pine cone fertility symbol. Notice the four-spoked solar symbol on his mitre and the Maltese cross on his robe.
Page 37 of Catholic historian Theodore Maynard's The Story of American Catholicism says, "“It has often been charged..that Catholicism is overlaid with many pagan incrustations. Catholicism, it must be added, is ready to accept the accusation—and even to make it her boast."
Note also the arms of Jesus shaped down into a "V" on the Pope's staff. This is a sign used in occultism to show victory over the Son of God.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Page 37 of Catholic historian Theodore Maynard's The Story of American Catholicism says, "“It has often been charged..that Catholicism is overlaid with many pagan incrustations. Catholicism, it must be added, is ready to accept the accusation—and even to make it her boast."
Note also the arms of Jesus shaped down into a "V" on the Pope's staff. This is a sign used in occultism to show victory over the Son of God.
Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
A fleur-de-lis held by a hand on exhibit in a Roman Catholic Church.
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The goddess stepping on a serpent's head. Christ is the one who should crush the serpent's head (See Genesis 3:15). Ironically, she also nurtures a serpent. The serpent represents death and resurrection, a counterfeit of Christ's death and resurrection. In this way, through the female, there is the fertility power to produce new life.
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The icon of Mary in the milk grotto in Bethlehem.
The Catholic Church has elevated Mary to the level of mediator, advocate, and co-redeemer of humanity. In 1854, Pope Pius IX declared Mary "immaculate," and in 1951, Pope Pius XII defined and enforced the doctrine of the Bodily Assumption of Mary, thus placing Mary in a position to act as mediator.
This is what they believe according to Catholic Laymen, July 1856: "The sinner that ventures directly to Christ may come with dread and apprehension of his wrath; but let him only employ the mediation of the Virgin with her Son and she has only to show that Son the breasts that gave him suck and his wrath will immediately be appeased."
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The Catholic Church has elevated Mary to the level of mediator, advocate, and co-redeemer of humanity. In 1854, Pope Pius IX declared Mary "immaculate," and in 1951, Pope Pius XII defined and enforced the doctrine of the Bodily Assumption of Mary, thus placing Mary in a position to act as mediator.
This is what they believe according to Catholic Laymen, July 1856: "The sinner that ventures directly to Christ may come with dread and apprehension of his wrath; but let him only employ the mediation of the Virgin with her Son and she has only to show that Son the breasts that gave him suck and his wrath will immediately be appeased."
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The white patches on the walls of the milk grotto in Bethlehem are supposedly preserved milk from the breasts of Mary that apparently squirted against the walls as she nursed the baby Jesus.
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The famous milk grotto in Bethlehem where woman today seek fertility blessings. Ancient pagan goddesses were seen as fertility goddesses, and Mary is depicted as the same.
Source: Travel Webshots Online.
Source: Travel Webshots Online.
Mary and Jesus crowned. Notice the pagan trinity hand sign, and the trident.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
Source: Ben Abraham Online.
