I Am East I Am West

I Am East I Am West (1999) is a statue by Pekka Jylhä in North-West Helsinki.  The Helsinki Art Museum introduction:

I Am East I Am West consists of a large gilt bird made of bronze that is attached by its wing to a column-like red-painted steel pipe. The piece is 5.5 metres high and the bird's wingspan is about 2 metres. The artist Pekka Jylhä (b. 1955) has described the work as follows: "This work of Environmental Art has emerged and developed from a life on the boundary between two cultures. In my childhood in Ostrobothnia, we lived between two strong religious sects separated by the Lestijoki river. Sometimes it felt like I was forced to live with two separate minds. On the other hand, the boundary was a no-man's land where the sects neutralized each other and life was freer and happier.

"An earlier version of this work is entitled Attack (Galleria Anhava, 1992) after Eetu Isto's painting of the same name from 1899. This earlier version consists of a two-headed black bird that symbolizes fear and danger. "I Am East I Am West is a golden (24 carat!) bird flying high in the sky, symbolizing the pursuit of cultural autonomy, like the flight of a bird that is free to choose its own route between two strong cultures. "The canal flowing into the Baltic, beside which the bird is about to land, is an important element of the piece." I Am East I Am West was unveiled on May 27, 1999. The work belongs to the collections of the Helsinki Art Museum.

I Am East I Am West

Notice the language of the introduction text. See how they avoid using the word eagle? Instead they talk about large bird.

Why? Because they are trying to cover the obvious fact, that this sculpture is as masonic as it can get. Beyond any doubt, this is the masonic double-headed eagle. The museum knows it, but chooses not to mention it.

Masonic symbolism: The Double-headed Eagle

The name I Am East I Am West refers to the origins of the masonic double-headed eagle - Roman emperor Constantine, the hero of atonism who used the symbol as he united East and West Rome. (Read more.)

The double-headed eagle of emperor Constantine (Byzantine eagle)

There is another statue of a double-headed eagle in Helsinki, located in the city center, called The Stone of the Empress.

The Stone of the Empress

Having a look of the map reveals something very interesting of these two masonic statues. If you draw a straight line between them, you can see how several statues are located exactly on this same line. There is the statue of President Risto Ryti (1), who was a Freemason, the tarot memorial of another Mason, President Urho Kekkonen (2), masonic Ilmatar and the Scaup (3) and the tarot statue of Aleksis Kivi (4). In addition, on that same line is an ancient prehistoric holy/burial site (5).

From left to right: I Am East I Am West, ancient burial site (5), Ilmatar and the Scaup (3), statue of President Ryti (1), Urho Kekkonen memorial (2), Aleksis Kivi statue (4) and The Stone of the Empress.

What are the odds of coincidence having all these statues, with Freemasonry written all over them, on the same geometric line between two statues of double-headed eagle? You do the math.

So what is this "line forming" all about?

"The Elite" believes in many occult arts, including ley lines ("archaic tracks"), geometric alignments, and the manipulation of Earth's energy grid. I know it sounds ridiculous to many, but it's really not that important whether or not you believe in it. Important is to understand that "the Elite" takes it very seriously. For them it's ancient occult science and a matter of great importance.

"Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths." (Wikipedia)

"Most cultures have traditions and words to describe the straight, often geometric alignments that ran across ancient landscapes, connecting both natural and sacred prehistoric structures together. Usually the names given to represent these invisible lines are translated to an equivalent of 'spirit', 'dream', or 'energy' paths. However, apart from the physical presence of the sites themselves, proving the presence of a 'connection' between them is something that researchers have found notoriously elusive." (ancient-wisdom.com)

On of the most famous ley lines: St. Michael alignment

It's an ancient art. It's not a coincidence one of the structures on the geometric alignment between the two double-headed eagles is thousands of years old burial site. And it's not a coincidence the burial site is right in the middle of these eagle statues.

The ancient burial site in Helsinki

The belief system behind this line forming is all about control. "The Elite" believes the Earth's energy grid has an affect on human mind and consciousness. By manipulating the Earth's natural energy grid, they believe they can manipulate the mind of the people. This geometric alignment in Helsinki is just one small example in one small city. Using geometric alignments with esoterically important structures in cities all over the world, "the Elite" believes they can affect the minds of the people in those cities.

So does it work? Well, let's look at this question from another angle: "The Elite" has studied and preserved the esoteric knowledge of the ancients for thousands of years. Would they go through all that trouble of building these alignments all over the world, if it didn't work?

You tell me.

Ilmatar and the Scaup

At the Sibelius park, in Helsinki, stands a statue called Ilmatar and the Scaup (1946) by Aarre Aaltonen. The theme of the statue is the creation myth of Kalevala.

From Helsinki Art Museum web page:

"The sculpture's subject is Kalevala's creation myth. Ilmatar, the spirit or goddess of the air is impregnated by a storm and expects Väinämöinen (the symbol of Kalevala's epic). She drifts in the sea for 700 years until a scaup settles on her knee, mistaking it for an islet, and lays seven eggs which she then begins to brood. The heat from the brooding makes Ilmatar move her leg and the eggs break, becoming the earth, sky, sun, moon, etc. Aaltonen's work is an interesting amalgamation of international Art-Deco-inspired forms and a national epic subject. The figure in the sculpture is evocative of the interpretations of the Classical myth of Leda and the swan portrayed in painting and sculpture."

Ilmatar and the Scaup

The myth is very similar to the Egyptian creation myth, where the Bennu bird flies over the primordial watery abyss and lands on a rock. Bennu was the prototype for Phoenix, the symbol of rebirth the masons venerate.

Egyptian Bennu bird

Masonic symbolism: Phoenix

The masonic theme is fitting for the park named after a famous Finnish Freemason Jean Sibelius.

Composer and Freemason Jean Sibelius and the masonic "hidden hand"

According to Manly Palmer Hall, the masonic eagle used to be Phoenix.

"These were the immortals to whom the term 'phoenix' was applied, and their symbol was the mysterious two-headed bird, now called an eagle, a familiar and little understood Masonic emblem." - Manly P. Hall (The Lost Keys of Freemasonry)

This is interesting, because the bird in the statue Ilmatar and the Scaup is actually an eagle, or more precisely a vulture. Just look at the size an shape of it. Does that look like a small duck? Compare it to a picture of a vulture:

A vulture

The reason of this "mistake" is in the translation. 'Scaup' is in Finnish 'sotka'. In old Finnish that meant the same thing as 'kotka' - an eagle.

Looking at the statue with knowledge of symbolism, one sees the connection to ancient Egypt.    Ilmatar, the mother goddess, is a version of the Egyptian mother goddess Wadjet - the origins of the masonic serpent and eye symbolism. The "scaup" (eagle/vulture) of the statue represents the counterpart of Wadjet, the vulture goddess Nekhbet - the origins of the masonic eagle symbolism. Together they are called The two ladies.

The two ladies - Wadjet (cobra) and Nekhbet (vulture) and Ra

So called Tutankhamun death mask with The two ladies on the forehead

In Egyptian belief system The two ladies were the mother goddesses who assisted the soul in birth and death. Wadjet was with the soul in birth, Nekhbet in death.

At some point in Egypt's history the role of The two ladies shifted to the next generation goddesses Isis and Nephthys. Again, they were the mother goddesses assisting the soul in birth and death.

The two ladies - twin goddesses Isis (left) and Nephthys (right)

And when Christianity was born, the same concept was recycled again. Mary the mother of Jesus represents Isis/Wadjet (the birth givers), where as Mary Magdalene represents Nephtys/Nekhbet
(the death goddesses).

Isis and Horus - Mary and Jesus

Mary Magdalene holding a skull (a death symbol)

The two ladies were also the two mothers of the Sun. In many Egyptian pictures (see above) they were depicted with the sun. Together this trio formed the Egyptian hieroglyph called akhet. It depicts the sun in the horizon between two mountains. Mountains were goddess symbols, so again, this is about the sun and its' two mothers - The two ladies.

Akhet

Akhet

Example of modern akhet symbolism

Akhet, the sun in horizon, is also a symbol of spring or fall equinox. On those days, the day and night are equally long. This is often depicted with a circle representing the sun and a horizon line in the middle of it. One of the most well known modern akhet symbol is the logo of Nissan: The sun in the horizon, with the horizon line, combined with the name Nissan. The name refers to the Hebrew calendar's month of Nisan, which starts at spring equinox.

On the symbol of the sign of Libra, is a another sun in the horizon. This time it refers to the fall equinox, which is on the day the Sun moves into the sign of Libra.

In the context of "the Elite's" Cult of Aton, akhet may also refer to the ancient capital city Akhenaton built during his reign as a pharaoh. The city was named Akhet-Aten, which means "Horizon of the Aten".

The ruins of Akhetaten, also known as Amarna

So it's not a surprise to see akhet - or the sun in horizon - in Masonic symbolism.

Or in the symbolism of any organization with Masonic influence.

USSR coat of arms