The Danaides

The Danaides is a Walter Runeberg statue from 1893, located in Helsinki's Töölö district.

The Helsinki Art Museum's introduction:

In Greek mythology, the Danaides are the fifty daughters of Danaus, the king of Argos. After falling into a dispute with his brother Aigyptos and fleeing Egypt, Danaus refused to marry his daughters to Aigyptos' fifty sons. Finally, he agreed, however, instructing his daughters to kill their husbands during the wedding night. One of the daughters, Hypermnestra, neglected the orders and her husband killed Danaus in revenge of his slain brothers. The obedient daughters were also punished - they were condemned to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom in Hades.

This symbol of endless labour is a well-worn subject in Western art. In Walter Runeberg's hands it has received a refined and stylish treatment. Despite the rather naturalistic forms of the two women in the sculpture their postures and faces still show a strong idealistic influence. The stronger expressiveness of Art Nouveau is, however, already present. The work has a substantial erotic charge, highlighted by the positions of the figures. Runeberg has depicted their endless suffering and deep despair with paradoxical gracefulness.

The bronze sculpture was finished in 1893 and was originally located in the park of the Sairaala Ensi hospital (now Villa Ensi) thanks to Uno Staudinger, a businessman. Now it is located in the district of Töölö outside the Childrens' Clinic.

The Danaides

Freemason Walter Runeberg was no stranger to tarot symbolism. This piece of art is just another example of his interest and knowledge of esoteric symbolism.

The Danaides represent the tarot card The Star - but not in the typical way. In this case, the statue depicts a tarot card in a reversed form.

The Star portrays a naked woman pouring water from two jars - one on the ground and one into the pond. This represents the flow of the two sides of the brain. The left-brain represents logic and analytical thinking. The right-brain represents intuition and creativity. The jar pouring water to the land represents the left brain and the conscious mind. The jar pouring water into the water represents the right brain and the subconscious mind.

When you have both sides of your brain active, and you are connected to your conscious and subconscious mind, you are in balanced state of being. Therefore this card has a very positive meaning.

But in the art of tarot, there is such a thing called reversed card. The Dainaides has two women (instead of one) condemned to carry water endlessly. This represent The Star in a reversed form, which associates to being disconnected - being "split in two" and in unbalance. Some people define this split with a term bicameral mind. If your conscious and subconscious minds are not connected, your mind is not working as it should. As you see, the women of the statue are like zombies carrying out their never ending duties. They are more robots than humans.

If you think about it, isn't that how most of the people live their lives in today's world? Just look around. Zombies staring their smartphones everywhere, chasing their next dopamine hit.

Perhaps this is how "the Elite" wants us to be. It's much easier to control robot-slaves than human beings capable of using their their own mind. Is it any wonder there's not just one reversed Star statue in Helsinki, but two? More about the second one in the article Fact and Fable.

Cult of Aton - part 16: Knights of Malta

If you wish to understand the structure of the power pyramid of "the Elite", you have to study their chivalric orders. It is a bit of a challenge, because there are so many different orders. Frankly, it's quite impossible to see all the details of the big picture, but fortunately you don't need to. You can get a pretty good understanding of the big picture just by studying some of the most important chivalric orders.

It all began with the Knights Templar (and Priory of Sion) during the first crusade in the late 11th century. After that we have seen the birth of dozens and dozens of chivalric orders, which are all more or less connected to Templars. One could say these orders are kind of like subsidiary companies of the Knights Templar. After all, it's the same super rich and influential families behind all of them, just like with the major corporations of today.

When the Templars got into power struggle with the Vatican in the early 1300's, the infamous Friday 13th operation "destroyed" the Knights Templar. This is the official version of the history, but closer look into the details reveals a very different reality.

"To suggest that the 1307 attacks put paid to the order completely is to fail singularly in understanding the magnitude of the proposed task. It is also to ignore the depths to which Templar International was planted into the very earth of Europe and beyond" - Alan Butler & Stephen Dafoe (The Knights Templar Revealed)

No, the 1307 attack was not the end of the Knights Templar. The size of the order was so huge, that it would have been impossible to destroy it. Yes, many Templars - including Grand Master Jacques de Molay - were captured, tortured and put to death, but in reality this was relatively small number of them. Majority of the members of the Knights Templar survived the attack.

Some of the Templars escaped to Scotland. In there, the order continued to exist under a new identity - the Freemasons.

"Moreover, according to a masonic tradition, an alliance definitely took place between the Templars and the masonic guilds at this period. During the proceedings taken against the Order of the Temple in France it is said that Pierre d'Aumont and seven other Knights escaped to Scotland in the guise of working masons and landed in the Island of Mull. On St. John's Day, 1307, they held their first chapter. Robert Bruce then took them under his protection, and seven years later they fought under his standard at Bannockburn against Edward II, who had suppressed their Order in England." - Nesta H. Webster (Secret Societies And Subversive Movements)

"It is important to remember that the theory of the Templar connexion with Freemasonry was held by the Continental Freemasons of the eighteenth century, who, living at the time the Order was reconstituted on its present basis, were clearly in a better position to know its origins than we who are separated from that date by a distance of two hundred years." - ibid

During the first crusade, the Order of the Knights of Saint John was established as a sister order for the Templars. The order is also known as Order of Saint John and Knights Hospitaller. After the Templar purge, many of the Knight Templar joined the Knights of Saint John. Majority of the magnificent wealth of the Templars was moved to the Knights of Saint John. It is fair to say this order became the "Templars 2.0".

The emblem of the Knights of Saint John is the same double-headed eagle as the masonic emblem of the "Princes of Masonry"

The double-headed eagle of the 33rd degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry

After losing Jerusalem, the Knights of Saint John were looking for a new place for their headquarters. They found one in Rhodes, and changed their name to the Knights of Rhodes.

But not for long. Again Muslim army forced them to leave their headquarters. Eventually king of Spain gave them the island of Malta in 1530. After that the order changed its name to its present version - Knights of Malta.

Over time the Knights of Malta was splintered to many different factions. Today one of the most notable of them is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which has its headquarters in Rome. This order is actually sovereign . It is a country without territories, and has diplomatic relations with 108 states all over the world. It also has its own passports, vehicle registration plates and postmarks.

Must be nice to have diplomatic passports and diplomatic immunity when doing shady dealings.

SMOM passport

Because of the many splintered factions, it is quite difficult to comprehend the organizational structure of the order today. Today the highest ranking leader of all these splintered factions is queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth II in the Knights of Malta outfit

Flag of the Knights of Malta

Flag of England - inverted colors of the flag of Knights of Malta

The symbol of the order is the Maltese Cross, which was inherited from the Templars. It has different versions and names, but all in all they are all Maltese Crosses.

Official Maltese Cross

Cross pattée - another version of Maltese Cross

Pope wearing Maltese Crosses

Maltese Crosses in the crown of the monarch of UK

Knights of Malta is one of the most powerful organizations in the world. Many of the most influential people of the world are members of it.

Often people who seem to be ideologically far away from each other - in public - are behind the scenes members of the same brotherhoods. The public appearance is to hide the fact that all the influential people are part of the same gang. Like George Carlin said: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!"

Knights of Malta is a great example of it. Don't you think it's quite strange that people like Benito Mussolini and Nelson Mandela were members of the same brotherhood? When right wingers and left wingers are brothers behind the scenes, how real is the political left-right paradigm?

Nelson Mandela in the Knights of Malta outfit

Benito Mussolini wearing the Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Maltese Cross in the Nazi flag

Nazis called themselves the New Templars. Many of the high ranking Nazis or Nazi collaborators, including Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Franz von Papen, were members of the Knights of Malta. Some openly, some secretly. Hitler's membership is somewhat disputable, but considering his subordinates were members, it's pretty safe to say he was a Knight of Malta. Hitler always wore his German iron cross (from WW1), which is a Maltese cross. You do the math.

Hermann Göring wearing his Maltese cross

Time magazine named Hitler the man of the year in 1938. The founder of the magazine, Henry Luce, was a member of the Knights of Malta

King Edward VIII was also a Knight of Malta. Before the WW2 British royals had very close relations with high ranking Nazis.

Knights of Malta is behind many international organizations. One of their creations is the Red Cross, which's logo says it all.

The red cross was the symbol of the Templars. The public appearance of the organization is humanitarian charity, but behind the scenes it's something completely different. The idea is to have an organization that does many good things to create trust with the public, which gives the cover to do horrible sinister things in the dark. Who would believe the Red Cross was involved with pedophilia, child sex trafficking or organ harvesting?

Red Cross - creation of the Knights of Malta

Of course there are many good people working in the Red Cross - otherwise the scam would not work. But when we are looking at the top branches of the organization, there are corrupt people doing corrupt things. One example of this is the case of the hurricane Sandy. The US Red Cross raised over $300 million for the victims of the hurricane, but no one knows where the money went. When confronted on this issue, the organization refused to give any records, arguing the information is a "trade secret", and if those details would be disclosed "the American Red Cross would suffer competitive harm because its competitors would be able to mimic the American Red Cross's business model for an increased competitive advantage".

Let that sink in.

If you invert the colors of the Red Cross, you get the flag of Switzerland. This country was also a creation of the Knights of Malta. By creating a country with secretive banking laws, "the Elite" can do all kinds of shady dealings. Without countries like Switzerland, it would be much more difficult for "the Elite" to hide their dark deeds.

Flag of Switzerland

The Maltese Cross is also known as the Black Sun - a telling name for the sinister branch of the Cult of Aton. One example of this is the oil company ARCO's logo.

ARCO logo and the Black Sun. The logo also depicts a pyramid from above.

Another example of the Black Sun is the logo of the Smithsonian institute, which is famous for "selective" study of history.

Black Sun

And of course there is the logo of the Jesuits. (But that's another story.)

Jesuit logo and the Black Sun

But why the Black Sun? If you are familiar with the history of "the Elite" and their Cult of Aton, you know it's all about Sun worship. But in the case of "the Elite", it's actually about a very specific form of Sun worship. It's about worshiping the dark side of the Sun - also known as Luciferianism.

"Akhenaton not only brought political havoc to his country, he brought theological havoc to the world of religious ideas as well. He and his coterie, the "Brotherhood of the Snake," did not worship light in the manner of the Druids. Their understanding of the sun and of light was not akin to that that we possess today. Judeo-Christianity is the child of Atonism and is also controlled by those elites involved in the worship of what might be referred to as "the dark side of the sun." Another word for this kind of worship is Luciferianism. Lucifer is a god of light, or rather, of the dark side of light." - Michael Tsarion (The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

In the year 1969 The Beatles released an album called Abbey Road. That album has a song called Maxwell's Silver Hammer. This bizarre song is about a student boy, who kills people with a strike of a hammer in the head.

The chorus:

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead

Why on earth would Paul McCartney write such a macabre song? 

The answer lies in symbolism.

If you know anything about masonic rituals, you see there's a familiar theme. Hammer blow to the head is a ritualistic detail from the masonic initiation ceremony of the third grade. In this ritual the candidate plays the role of Hiram Abiff, who according to masonic tradition was killed with three hammer blows on his head.

"Now, before the completion of the Temple fifteen of the Fellow Crafts conspired together to find out the secrets of the Master Masons and resolved to waylay Hiram Abiff at the door of the Temple. At the last moment twelve of the fifteen drew back, but the remaining three carried out the fell design, and after threatening Hiram in vain in order to obtain the secrets, killed him with three blows on the head, delivered by each in turn." - Nesta H. Webster (Secret Societies And Subversive Movements)

Masonic ritual of the third degree

More about hammer symbolism on the article Three Smiths.

Masonic symbolism: the hammer

The theme of three hammer blows to the head is also in the promo picture of the song. The picture shows George Harrison holding a hammer and nails against John Lennon's head. If you count the nails, you see Harrison holding three nails, and Lennon holding 12. This is straight from the masonic mythology, where 15 men went to kill Hiram Abiff, but 12 of them drew back. 3 + 12 = 15.

12 + 3 nails

Not the first time The Beatles posed masonic symbolism on their promo pictures.

Masonic "hidden hand"

Masonic "hidden hand"

The eye

Cult of Aton - part 14: The Priory of Sion

As the readers of this blog know, this site is full of examples of esoteric hidden in plain sight symbolism. Most of the examples are of recent times, but that doesn't mean "the Elite" didn't know how to do it a long time ago.

Here is a picture from a book called Livre du Cœur d'Amour épris from 1457. See anything strange?

If you haven't studied hidden in plain sight symbolism, you might not see anything out of the ordinary. But if have, you might see something interesting going on with the man laying on the ground. See how the lance leans against the tree? See how the legs of the man are placed? Can you see the familiar pattern?

Yes, there is a hidden masonic logo on this picture.

And to underline this masonic theme, there is a winged helmet in the middle. The reference here is to the Greek god Hermes (or Mercury in Rome), which is a well known symbol of Freemasonry. (Read more: The Fazer Rooster)

"Mercury, as known to the Romans and as Thoth by the Egyptians, the god Hermes, is considered by Pike to represent the Master of the Lodge." (Russell R. Boedeker, 32nd degree Freemason)

Of course one could claim it's all just a coincidence. But if you look at the context of this picture, you'll see it's far from coincidence.

The book was written by Rene d'Anjou, a learned man of the hermetic traditions and the esoteric arts. He was the king of Naples, Jerusalem, Sicily, Aragon, Majorca and Corsica, and the Duke of Bar, Lorraine and Anjou.

Rene was a man of many titles, but the most important title he ever had was the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. Yes, he was a leader of a powerful secret society.

Rene d'Anjou

As a name, the Priory of Sion became better known to the public after the Dan Brown novel Da Vinci Code. With this book "the Elite" tried to give ordinary people the impression, that the Priory of Sion is just some fancy fiction. And we must admit they succeeded in it quite well. There is huge amount of people who still consider the Priory of Sion as a fictional brotherhood from a fictional novel.

Publishing Da Vinci Code was a counter move for the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, in which the authors of the book were able to present many proofs for the existence of the Priory of Sion.

The brotherhood was presumably established at the late 1090's under the name of Order of Zion right before the creation of Knights Templar. According to the great researcher and author Michael Tsarion, the esoteric roots of the order go to 1070's and Egypt.

"The earliest reports on the Order of Zion concern its creation in Alexandria Egypt by an adept calling himself Ormesius (or Ormus), who concerned himself with "blending" Egyptian paganism and Christianity. In 1070, Ormesius took his new order to Italy and then, later, on to France. In France his order was headed by arch-crusader and knight, Godfroi de Bouillon. At this time the order was renamed "Ordre de Sion.""  - Michael Tsarion (The Irish Origins of Civilization)

The close ties between the Knights Templar and the Order of Zion are obvious. Godfroi de Bouillon was the first Grand Master of both orders. One could say the Order of Zion gave birth to the Knight Templar, but that would miss the bigger picture. Both of these orders were established by the same royal Atonists families of Europe - the same people behind Culdean and Cistercian orders. (Read more: Culdean Order and The Birth of The Knights Templar)

"From the same womb that bore the Templars came the Order of Sion (or Zion). This order hailed from the same Templar cities of Burgundy and Champagne. Undoubtedly, its heads were the same coterie of secret Culdeans, Jews, and Kabalists who had accompanied Godfroi and Baldwin to Jerusalem and guided their hands there. The elite members of the Order of Sion are believed to own over 10,000 castles in France alone." - Michael Tsarion (The Irish Origins of Civilization)

Godfroi de Bouillon

In 1188 the Knights Templar and the Order of Zion parted ways. The same year Order of Zion changed its name to the Priory of Sion.

"Until 1188 the Ordre de Sion and the Order of the Temple are said to have shared the same Grand Master. Hugues de Payen and Bertrand de Blanchefort, for example, would thus have presided over both institutions simultaneously. Commencing in 1188, however, after the 'cutting of the elm', the Ordre de Sion reportedly selected its own Grand Master, who had no connection with the Temple. The first such Grand Master, according to the "Prieure documents', was Jean de Gisors. 

In 1188 the Ordre de Sion is also said to have modified its name, adopting the one which has allegedly obtained to the present the Prieure de Sion." - Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln (Holy Blood, Holy Grail)

"The Order of Zion was the invisible head organization and the Knights Templar its military and administrative branch. Up to 1188, these two orders had the same grand master. The Knights Templar saluted each other with: "Hail, Zion!" or "Zion be praised!"" - Jüri Lina (Architects of Deception) 

The history of the Priory of Sion is long and colorful. Studying the details of its history is somewhat difficult, because it's so shrouded in mystery. Still, one could say the Priory of Sion has been very involved with many secret societies and brotherhoods, such as Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons and even the infamous Illuminati. According to the great Michael Tsarion, the founder of Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt, was secretly doing the bidding of Charles de Lorraine - the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. According to Jüri Lina, the Priory of Sion was behind the Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

"As early as 1614, the mystic Robert Fludd (grand master of the Order of Zion) started the secret Rosicrucian movement in England. After him came Thomas Vaughan and Elias Ashmole. The Rosicrucians intended to take over the lodges of the freemasons. The Prieure de Sion was the secret organization that created the Scottish Rite within freemasonry in the 1700s." - Jüri Lina (Architects of Deception)

The symbol of the Priory of Sion is the fleur-de-lis. This is a very common symbol in heraldry used by many royal families across Europe. It can still be seen in many places. Many people think that fleur-de-lis represents France, but think again. The symbol has been used for a long time all over Europe.

Fleur-de-lis in European Coats of Arms

Rene d'Anjou's Coat of Arms with fleur-de-lis

Fleur-de-lis on the grave of Leonardo da Vinci. He was one of the Grand Masters of the order.

International Scouts symbol

The symbol itself represents the Nile Delta, the country of the Hyksos and the birth place of the Cult of Aton. The name Sion, or Zion, is a reference to the Hyksos capital Avarice. The city was also known by the name Zoan, which became later Zion.

"Scholars surmise that the Templar-Freemasonic order takes its name, Sion (pronounced sheeon), from the first letters of the holy family of Egypt - Set, Isis, Osiris and Nephthys. These four deities were sacred to the ancient Egyptians as well as to those with ancestral ties to the land of Egypt. And this, together with the implications of the term "Zion," gives us our connection to the Egyptian Cult of Aton. The Atonist Levites had occupied the Hyksos city of Zoan, or Zion, also known as Avaris - the real City of David. The word Zion comes from the Irish Zon that denoted the sun, as well as sun-worshippers. This proves that the Levites were dyed-in-the-flesh sun-worshippers." - Michael Tsarion (The Irish Origins of Civilization)

The Fazer Rooster

At the city center of Helsinki stands a Björn Weckström statue called The Fazer Rooster. Helsinki art museum introduction:

"The Fazer Group donated 'The Fazer Rooster' to the City of Helsinki as a part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. The work belongs to the collections of the Helsinki Art Museum. 'The Rooster' is located in front of Fazer's famous café on Kluuvikatu. It was unveiled on September 17, 1991. The bronze sculpture is a stylized Fazer symbol, a rooster. In fact, it is so stylized that it invites the viewer to see other forms - someone has suggested that Weckström used a cervical vertebra of an elk as a model."

See how there's yet another obelisk?

Mr. Karl Fazer, the founder of Fazer company, was a Freemason. Are you surprised to hear that the rooster is a masonic symbol?

Karl Fazer and the masonic "hidden hand"

Rooster was one of the symbols of the Greek god Hermes. In Rome, this god was known as Mercury.

Hermes/Mercury and the rooster

In masonic context, Hermes/Mercury is an embodiment of masonry. The symbolism of freemasonry is considered as hermetic.

"Mercury, as known to the Romans and as Thoth by the Egyptians, the god Hermes, is considered by Pike to represent the Master of the Lodge." - Russell R. Boedeker, 32nd degree Freemason

"Manly P. Hall in his work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, states, “…he [Hermes] was the author of the Masonic initiatory rituals…Nearly all of the Masonic symbols are Hermetic in character" - ibid

"In all the old manuscript records which contain the Legend of the Craft, mention is made of Hermes as one of the founders of Freemasonry." (masonicdictionary.com)

Another famous symbol of Hermes is the caduceus. He inherited it from his Egyptian counterpart Thoth. Thoth, the god of wisdom, was depicted with a head of an ibis bird. There is an interesting passage in the Bible about rooster and ibis.

"Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding?" - Job 38:36 (New International Version)

Funny how easy it is to find blatant paganism from the Bible.

Hermes holding the caduceus

Thoth holding two caduceuses

Hermeticism is an integral part of freemasonry ("Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn", "Hermetic Degrees",  "Hermetic Rites" etc.) and the esoteric arts of "the Elite". The father of hermeticism is the mythical Egyptian high priest and mage called Hermes Trismegistus. For Freemasons he is the so called forefather of masonry. 

"Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes," emerged from the amalgamation of the wisdom gods Hermes and Thoth and is one of the most enigmatic figures of intellectual history. Since antiquity, the legendary "wise Egyptian" has been considered the creator of several mystical and magical writings on such topics as alchemy, astrology, medicine, and the transcendence of God. Philosophers of the Renaissance celebrated Hermes Trismegistus as the founder of philosophy, Freemasons called him their forefather, and Enlightenment thinkers championed religious tolerance in his name. To this day, Hermes Trismegistus is one of the central figures of the occult — his name is synonymous with the esoteric." - Florian Ebeling

Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes symbolism is widely used by "the Elite":

Hermes and the UBS bank

Hermes statue, Rochester, USA

Hermes, Grand Central Terminal, New York, USA

Golden boy (Hermes), Manitoba legislative building, Winnipeg, Canada

Hermes, Budapest, Hungary

Freddie Mercury statue, Switzerland

Hermes logo

Hermes statue in the first James Bond movie Dr. No (upper right corner)

Going back to The Fazer Rooster. The obvious Hermes symbolism is not the only layer of symbolism in this statue. There is another layer, not too surprising for the readers of this blog.

First we have to look at the satellite image of Helsinki. The statue forms a straight line on the map with the tarot statues of Lönnrot memorial and Alexander II statue.

From left to right: Lönnrot memorial, The Fazer Rooster, Alexander II

And another line:

From left to right: Lasipalatsi clock tower, The Fazer Rooster, The Stone of the Empress  

And another:

From left to right: Fact and Fable, The Fazer Rooster, The Law

And another:

From left to right: Aleksis Kivi statue, The Fazer Rooster, The Shipwrecked 

See the pattern? Always in the middle.

Let's take a closer look on the two last lines. The Fazer Rooster is in the middle and the four other statues around it are all tarot statues. Fact and Fable depicts the tarot card Star, which is ruled by the sign of Aquarius.

On the opposite side is The Law, which depicts the tarot card Strength, which is ruled by the sign of Leo.

Aleksis Kivi statue represents the card The Hierophant, which is ruled by the sign of Taurus.

On the opposite side is The Shipwrecked, which represents the card Death, which is ruled by the sign of Scorpio.

The four tarot statues around The Fazer Rooster

The four signs, Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio are the four Fixed signs of the zodiac, forming a cross on the zodiac wheel.

Fixed signs

There are two tarot cards, that have these signs on the corners of the card: Wheel of Fortune and The World. In the most well known tarot deck, Rider-Waite, The World has Sophia the goddess of wisdom in the middle.

(The card is somewhat confusing, because the symbol of the sign of Scorpio used to be and eagle.)

From the upper left corner: Aquarius, Scorpio (used to be an eagle), Leo and Taurus

But if you look at some other older decks, instead of Sophia there is someone else as the main character of the card. Can you guess who?

The World and Hermes

The World and Hermes