[Note: All Basque words are in Italics and Bold-faced Green]
THE BENEDICTINES *
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EARLY HISTORY
OF THE BENEDICTINES
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Gnathberla: Under the protection of the religious order When St. Benedict of Nursia was asked by Pope Felix IV
(526-530) to establish an order of highly motivated and well-educated monks
to evangelize Western Europe, this involved the introduction into these lands
of a new culture, a foreign religion and many new languages. It was a very
tall order, because each group of monks was instructed to:
A CHURCH UNDER SIEGE
The task assigned to Benedict was to train monks to go
out into western Europe and create a Roman Catholic Christian presence in
areas where many Gnostic Christian missionaries from Ireland had long been
active. After the Benedictine monks had established themselves in secure
monasteries they were to do everything within their power to destroy not only
the deep-rooted belief in the very ancient Ashera
religion with its supreme Goddess, but also to re-evangelize the areas
where Gnostic evangelists from Ireland had spread their own Gospels. Most of
these were very different from those in the New Testament. (See "The
Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels, Vintage Books 1989). The name 'Gnostic' is shorthand for five agglutinated
words: .g. - no - os. - .ti - ik.
The only thing the two forms of Christianity could
agree on was the teachings of Christ, and even here were differences; all other
aspects were at odds. It was considered of great urgency to teach orthodox
Christianity because the Gnostic missionaries had already converted all of
Ireland to their particular type of worship and were having great success in
large parts of the continent. These evangelists had no real disagreement with
the ancient Goddess faith, its culture or its language. They were on talking terms with the
abade, the male clergy of the Ashera religion, many of whom they converted to
Christianity to become the most dedicated and enthusiastic evangelists of the
Gnostic Christian church. In short time they spread their form of
Christianity over much of western Europe, establishing numerous monasteries
in England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy and Spain. One of the best known Benedictines, Bonifacius, was
disgusted with the looks of these energetic and incorruptible monks. In the
style of the abade of the Goddess religion they painted their upper eyelids purple,
shaved the front half of their heads from ear to ear (instead of a circle on
top of the head like the Benedictines) and wore long white woolen cloaks,
which made them recognizable and highly respected among the peoples they set
out to convert. The free-spirited Gnostic Christianity they preached was
abhorrent to Bonifacius who complained to the Pope and asked him to place two
of them, the respected monks Adalbert and Clement the Irishman, into solitary
confinement. At the same time these two gentlemen reported Bonifacius to the
same Pope asking that Bonifacius be removed because of his inconsiderate and
ruthless behaviour. The Pope was caught in the middle. The R.C. church could
not do without either of the complainants because the Irish monks would
preach in the universal (Saharan/Basque) language of the people and introduce
a basic Christianity to the people. These Gnostic evangelists were very
welcome wherever they went and, most important of all, they never had to
worry about personal safety. On the contrary, many of the dogmatic orthodox
missionaries, Bonifacius among them, were martyred in the evangelizing
process in areas where the Gnostic monks had not done their
"softening-up" work first. The town where St. Boniface was murdered is said to be
Dokkum in Friesland. However, the translation of the name of the nearby town
of Drachten appears to indicate that he may have been killed there. Like
Gnostic, Drachten is shorthand for a sentence of five words: .d.-.ra-ak.-.te-en:
Irish Gnostic Christianity proved to be popular among
the people of the continent. It was
considered a refinement and natural growth of the ancient religion. They also
promised to end the voluntary sacrifice of a worthy young man. The ease with
which the Gnostic monks successfully converted the people of Western Europe
was a most unnerving threat to the ambitious Roman Catholic Church. The
church fathers' plan to bring Orthodox Christianity to this huge area was
being pre-empted by this "heretical cult". The word "Heretic"
was especially coined for them by a church-grammarian and means: he - ere - eti - ik.:
a most unfair label for these selfless and
dedicated followers of Christ. The Roman Catholic leadership decided it had
to do something drastic and proceeded with an aggressive and far-reaching
solution. THE SCHOLARLY COMMANDOS
The search was on for a highly educated, strong-minded and
absolutely devoted man to organize a monastic Order of disciplined, scholarly
commandos to thrust into the opponents' territory, to courageously and
aggressively establish monasteries and to bring the "right" form of
Christianity to the "heathens" of the Ashera religion. The search
for this super apostle ended in 528 when Benedict was found, who was then
approximately 48 years old. He quickly was given all necessary resources and
support to build and staff the headquarters for his new Order. He was to train
monks for the dangerous and almost overwhelming task of evangelizing all of
western Europe. The name he was given by the Pope was "Benedict
of Nursia", analyzed with the VCV formula: .be-ene-edi-ik.-.t.
.nu- ur. - .si - i.a
Benedict's new monastic order was awarded a distinctive
habit, which was a loose black gown tied around the waist with a rope, with
large wide sleeves and a cowl on the head, similar in design to what had been
worn by the Gnostic St. Pachomius and his anchorite brothers of the Sinai
monastery some centuries before. Black was chosen to clearly distinguish the
Benedictines from the white-robed Gnostic monks. Black clothes had also been
adopted many centuries before by the Luwian pre-Hebraic clergy, who wanted to
be distinguished from the white-gowned abadeak (priests) of the Ashera
religion, who had been given the derogatory title: Druids .d. - .ru - id. Benedict's first action was to get organized in the
area of Subiaco, east of Rome, while he searched for a
suitable headquarters site. .su-ubi-ako
This refers to the voluntary sacrificial death of a
young man in the whirlpool of Corrivreckan 70 km west of Glasgow. This event,
which occurred once every eight years, was of course unacceptable to the
Christian church and the name Subiaco became the Benedictines' rallying cry
and they even carved it on pre-Christian standing stones in Ireland, using
Ogam characters (e.g. Llominaca #121, Litubiri #131, Lubbais #152, Corbi
#244, Caveti #433, see Macalister). The task was of such importance that the
Pope ordered Benedict not to deal with any bishops or other intermediaries
but to report directly to him on all matters. The general had given his
marching orders and the commando units would soon fan out over Western Europe
to spread their own variety of Christianity, which had married Christianity
to Judaism. The Pope's order to have Benedict report directly to him applied
to every Benedictine Abbot from then on, until rescinded in 1893 by Pope Leo
XIII who created the office of the Abbot Primate of the Federation of
Autonomous Congregations. BENEDICT'S FORMATIVE YEARS
No
reliable information exists about Benedict's birth but it is estimated that
he was born in 480 and lived until 547. As an educated young man from a
well-to-do family, he had observed the shocking licentiousness of life in
Rome. In his early twenties he decided upon a life as an ascetic and then
spent three years living the life of a hermit, first near Enfide in the
Simbruinian Hills, later to move into the cave of Sacro Speco, above the lake
then existing near Nero's ruined palace at Subiaco, some 65 km east of Rome. Sacro
Speco decodes as: .sa-ak.-.ro .spe-eko
There were several small monasteries near Subiaco and
he was asked to become abbot of one of these. Although bored stiff, the young
man denied the offer and returned to his cave, where he then came to the conclusion
that self-torment in solitude was not nearly as constructive as group living,
communal worship and doing good works. By now the fame of his sanctity was
spreading and disciples started to flock to him. To take care of his many
devoted followers he organized twelve monastic homes, each with 12 novices,
patterned after Christ's 12 apostles, with himself in general control.
Senators and other influential people came from Rome to offer their sons to
be trained as monks under his direction and two of these young men, Maurus
and Placid, became his lifelong trusted disciples. Maurus is
a contraction of Marurus: .ma - aru - uru - us.
Placid
Many of his associates followed him to Monte Cassino.
To this day Subiaco is considered the mother-house of the Benedictine Order,
but the use of the name as a rallying cry has been forgotten. The militant aspect of the new Order was clearly
demonstrated in the type of site chosen for their main monastery. The summit
of a rocky hill located between Rome and Naples was selected, which had been
a major holy Ashera site of the Volski people. At one time the town of
Casinum had existed there in the 5th century bce. This action set the example
for all future monasteries to be established; when entering a new region, it
became a tradition for the monks to conquer the most important religious
center of Ashera, devastate it, desecrate the holy well and cave, cleanse the
site by prayer and build a monastery on the ruins. On the mainland these sites had usually been on very
prominent locations, steep rocky hills or centrally located islands,
preferably near a year-round flowing well and sacred cave. On the Atlantic
islands the Sea-Peoples had chosen similar sites if they were available, such
as Mont St. Michel in Normandy, Mount St. Michael in Cornwall, England and
Talamhantu on Barra, Scotland. Where such prominent sites were not available,
small and centrally located islands had been selected with the result that a
few of the new Benedictine monasteries ended up in some of the most
out-of-the-way places, only accessible by boat, which created problems for
the landlubbers among the monks, e.g. Iona.(Scotland) and Griend (Friesland).
There was a practical side to this aggressive action, because these were the
sites where very large stone monuments, such as barrow tombs, had existed,
the stones of which were then put to good use in the new monastery
construction. The other major Ashera sites, which had not been used by the
monks, were leveled with the ground, e.g. the Talamhantu center on the Isle
of Barra. Benedict named his first monastery: Monte Cassino. It is desirable
to explain this name because the theme expressed in it would be repeated over
and over in many of the later establishments. "Monte
Cassino" .mo - on. - .te
The word "monte" therefore means a
"welcoming refuge", which later was used for the French word
"mont" and English "mount and mountain". Benedict's
sister, Scholastica,
established a convent near Monte Cassino.
She was allowed to adopt for her nuns the same habit as the monks
wore. Her name comes from: .skola-asti-ika
Another major Benedictine monastery using
"mont" was built in northeastern Spain called Mont Serrat, also built on a
high rock outcrop .mo-on.-.t.
.se - er. - .ra - at.
In the above text I have translated some of the important
names of the Benedictines. All of their names can be readily translated with
the use of the VCV formula and the modern Basque dictionary which means that
this language has changed very little over the last 1500 years. Even the name
"Vatican"
proves to be pure Basque when analyzed with the VCV formula: .ba - ati - ika - an.
The fact that the pre-Christian, universal language is
still clearly discernable in the majority of words and names we speak means
that an important element of the Neolithic civilization is still with us in a
very fundamental way. DAILY LIFE OF THE BENEDICTINE MONKS
After some years on the job, Abbot Benedict realized
that much greater discipline among the monks was required if the Pope's
enormous ambitions were to be realized. In about 535 A.D. he wrote his "Little
Rule for Beginners" known as the "Rule of St
Benedict", which provided complete instructions for monastic government,
spiritual and material well being. The "Little Rule" dictated a
routine that filled day and night and established a highly disciplined pattern,
later adopted by other monastic orders. The Rule divided the day into strict
periods of prayer, sleep, intellectual and manual work. It wasn't long before
the Monte Cassino monastery was renowned for its teaching, scholarship,
devoutness and above all, its discipline. The novices were put through a
tough training course and had to perform as was expected of them or else they
were punished, often with floggings. It was the first Orthodox Christian
place of higher learning in western Europe and its methods of corporal
discipline carried on into later secular institutions. The activities in the scriptorium section of the
monastery were two-fold; one was public and the other secret. To outsiders it
was a workshop where monks preserved and multiplied Christian writings and
where the ancient legends and myths of the people were written down and
preserved for eternity. Scriptorium: .s. - .k. - .ri - ip. - .to - ori - um.
What the public did not find out about until later was
the work the "grammarians" did. These highly skilled professional
linguists, some were monks, others were Ligurian laymen, were hard at work at
Monte Cassino developing Latin as the Christian liturgical language, to
replace the Ligurian tongue which was still spoken by a majority of
inhabitants of Italy. They also trained specialists in the art and science of
language invention, to be put into practice in areas the monks were
evangelizing in the north. To make up new Latin words, they made use of the
eolithic language, which in reality was the Saharan/Basque/Ligurian language.
The scriptorium was the only place in the monastery where the ancient
language was allowed to be spoken and consequently was out-of-bounds to all
those not involved in language invention. The name Ligurian
tells us what was in store for it: li-igu-uri-an
The church was not entirely successful in reaching this
goal in northern Italy because Rhaeto-Romance, also called Ladin, is the last
remnant of Ligurian still spoken in a few out-of-the-way valleys in the Alps
(Lahovari). CLEANSING THE PRE-CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
Another task assigned to the Order was the gathering,
translating and censoring of large numbers of classical Greek and Roman
writings. In the process of translating, these documents were cleansed of all
references to the global pre-Christian civilization and religion, its
elaborate rituals, celebrations, sacraments and other unwanted wisdom, all
aimed at wiping out any memories of this very early and peaceful
civilization. Those references to the Ashera religion that remained, were
twisted routinely to put the ancient religion in a cruel or decadent light,
always referring to it as pagan, heathen, idolatrous, savage, barbaric, cruel
etc. often followed by "cult", something despicable. Many years later
Charlemagne re-enforced this policy by making it an official order in his
Edict #78, dated March 23, 789. It read: #78. "let no false writings and doubtful narratives, records
which entirely contradict the Catholic Faith, ....let not such documents be
believed or read, but be destroyed by fire, lest they lead people into error.
Only the canonical books and Catholic treatises and the sayings of sacred
writers are to be read and delivered" (Duckett p122). After the censor's work was done, the original document
containing the objectionable passages was burned as ordered, even if it had
been borrowed from elsewhere, in which case a cleansed copy was returned. The
censored manuscript was then sent to the copiers in the scriptorium for
multiplication. Epics like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius' Voyage of
the Argo and many others were thus censored and shorn of any favourable
references to the previously omnipresent supreme Goddess and Her
civilization. This savage censoring has done enormous harm to the wonderful
classical and ancient literature which had been passed on by word of mouth
for many centuries without change. Much of this historical information was
located in several world class institutes of learning such as the famous Library of
Classical Antiquity at
Alexandria, founded by the Ptolemies about 300 bce. Another famous library was started by Ptolemy III in
the Temple of
Saragis. The knowledge contained in these institutes left no
doubt that a world-wide civilization speaking a universal language (Genesis
11:1) had existed before the coming of Judaism and the library's existence
was a major irritation for the Christian church in Rome, which had decided to
deny the existence of this Neolithic civilization. As the church had no
direct control over these educational facilities, special action was
necessary. The oldest and best library was targeted first and burned just
before 300 A.D. The satellite library in the Temple of Saragis was
attacked and burned in 391 A.D. The confusing inconsistencies, the invented
and inserted mythologies and glaring gaps in the Odyssey and the travelogue
of the Argonauts are obviously the work of crude censorship. But the ancient
oral traditions were never completely eradicated by the church and to this
day are remembered as folklore and myths which make it possible to get some
idea about the early civilization of our ancestors. Any "heathen" population was invariably
described in these censored documents as having its own primitive and distinct
language, which covered up the fact that they had all been speaking exactly
the same highly evolved universal language. Many early personal and
geographical names, even words, managed to survive unaltered, which allowed
me to prove that all the tribes had spoken the same language. It is true
that, after Emperor Charlemagne's reign, no more classical literature was
lost due to fire, wars or neglect, however, it is also true that all the
surviving literature which had gone though Charlemagne's cleansing sieve, was
severely mutilated, often rendered useless and embellished with phony
information. Not until archaeologists discovered the huge libraries of clay
tablets in long-ruined palaces of the Near East, dating from classical and
ancient civilizations, would we have access to authentic, unaltered original
literature. Even so, when documents such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi library were discovered
early in the 20th century, the church managed to assign trusted censors who
succeeded in delaying and obstructing release for many decades, to the point
where we do not know today how much of the literature disappeared or was
hidden before the remainder was made public. THE BENEDICTINES' OPERATIONS MANUAL
We would not have known about the activities inside the
protecting walls of the scriptorium, were it not for an amazing book called
the "Auraicept
na n'Ecez", the Benedictines' operational manual (see Ogam ). Parts of
this book dated from different centuries, the earliest we have are from about
700 A.D., but it must have been first initiated the moment language invention
was started in Monte Cassino. There is little doubt that this manual was
confidential and should not have been released to the public. However, some
parts of it found their way to the British Museum in London and Trinity
College in Dublin and are now available in print (Calder) and reprinted
recently in Ireland. Irish scholars insisted that the book was written in
"Celtic" but were unable to provide a single translation that made
sense, although they tried very hard. In my web page I explain that the
language of the Auraicept is
Basque, more accurately: coded Basque, which can be decoded by using the VCV
formula and a modern Basque dictionary, as shown. In the Auraicept it is described how the grammarians made up languages
and that they took a great deal of pride in their work as for instance the Auraicept indicates in: Beithe-luis-nin
(Auraicept lines 1057, 1134, 4013) .be - ite lu - is.
ni - in.
Some of the linguists who knew the universal language
best, worked on specially organized dictionaries for the use of the grammarians,
the creative minds who assembled the words using pre-determined linguistic
rules. For a short time, the Benedictine monks in Ireland made good use of
the pre-Christian Ogam writing system. Between 500 and 1500 A.D. these hard
working Basque-speaking grammarians created all west- and central European
languages, including Celtic, French, Spanish, German, Hungarian,
Scandinavian, even Finnish and Polish, an enormous accomplishment. GO FAR AWAY AND START A LEARNING CENTER
In order to get an idea of the enormity of the
Benedictine effort and the extraordinary time period over which their efforts
were spread, I will first name some of the most important monasteries and
scriptoria, complete with dates of establishment, if these are available to
me.
It appears that the very first monasteries created by
the Benedictines were small establishments with limited staff, similar to the
monastic houses that Benedict had established near Subiaco. These were well
suited for initial take-over of the new site, exploratory evangelical work
and scouting out of new locations and attitudes, but inadequate for sustained
social development, language invention and language introduction, which
required a much larger and more diverse establishment. Benedictine establishments were known as "Missions", which word expresses the
purpose of the order, seen from the monks' point of view. The following
analysis shows that "Mission" was originally
written with one "s", .mi - isi - on.:
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For further detail, please
refer to:
Nyland, Edo. 2001. Linguistic Archaeology: AnIntroduction. Trafford Publ., Victoria, B.C., Canada.
ISBN 1-55212-668-4. 541 p. [
see abstract & summary]
Nyland, Edo. 2002.
Odysseus and the Sea Peoples: A
Bronze Age History of Scotland Trafford Publ., Victoria,
B.C., Canada. 307 p.
[see abstract & summary].
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