The Merovingians were also deeply rooted in Vedic cosmology through their Dan heritage. Samson’s famous riddle “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” is a veiled reference to Venus, the Lion Queen Ishtar of Babylon whose children were the honeybees. The pentagonal fleur-de-lis and honeybee symbols were both Merovingian fertility symbols that identified them as Venus worshippers.36
In fact, the Danite religious deities at the heart of Merovingian lore were the same as those of the Phoenicians and Canaanites in their homeland of Israel. They worshipped the same bull-headed sun god Baal (or Moloch) and dawn-goddess Asherah descended from Ishtar.37 Baal himself appears to have been the inspiration behind the Quinotaur sea-bull story, and the Merovingian bloodline itself was named for Mount Meru.38
By the eighth century, the Merovingian dynasty ruled a region extending from present-day France and Germany northward to the Netherlands. Named Austrasia for the Saxon dawn-goddess Austron (also Ostare or Eostre), this was the land of Venus descended from the Danite fertility goddess Asherah and Babylonian Ishtar. With the rise of the Holy Roman Empire in the tenth century, Austrasia became known as Europa, named after the Phoenician bull-goddess. Today the nation of Austria is the only reminder of a Europe once ruled by the Lost Tribe of Israel.
So it is through the Vedic descended gods, traditions, and symbols that we learn the truth about the Merovingians and European royal families. It seems likely that the true royal bloodline was concealed under the Davidic myth to curry favor with Rome and align with the Christian narrative. Though the Dan tribe brought civilization to Europe and helped establish Roman Catholicism there, their real identity and the identity of the royal families of Europe have remained buried in the distant past. Yet there is still more to the Danite legacy than this.
Since the Phoenicians lived adjacent to Canaan or Amurru, many Danites were employed on their sailing ships. Some of the Dan tribe may have even traveled to the Americas as missionaries. As what would be one of the greatest ironies of human history, some of the Lost Tribe might have actually helped bring Vedic beliefs and traditions to the Lost Continent. Perhaps it was on one of these voyages that the Danite sailors first told the legend of the sea-bull Quinotaur from which the Merovingian “vine of Meru” legend was born.
Carried northward into Europe and across the Atlantic to a New Amurru, a single Vedic religion once encircled the world. Through the chaos of war, new gods, and new rulers, the Vedic people who laid the foundation for this global empire were forgotten. The legends of Atlantis and Mu were all that remained of a time when people risked their lives to travel to the Promised Land of gold under the sea. It would not be until the Arcadian revival and completion of Rosslyn chapel in the fifteenth century that sailors would once again voyage to the fabled Lost Continent with a Lost Name.
The Lost Name
One of the more controversial claims about Rosslyn chapel is the Sinclair family’s alleged pre-Columbian knowledge of the New World. This originates in what appear to be carvings of American maize and aloe vera plants in the chapel, plants unknown to Europeans at the time. Some even claim the Sinclairs were aware of pre-Columbian voyages to the New World by Welsh sailors employed by Richard Amerike, a wealthy merchant and sheriff in Bristol, who some believe brought these plants back to Scotland.
In recent years, the discovery of old Welsh shipping records in London’s Westminster Abbey has spawned a new theory for the naming of America. The theory goes that Amerigo Vespucci, a “Florentine dilettante and rascal” working for Lorenzo de’ Medici (Cosimo’s grandson), changed his name in order to take credit for the discovery of the New World during the early Spanish expeditions.39
Proponents of this theory claim that Welsh fishing maps bearing Amerike’s name on certain locations in Newfoundland were stolen and taken to the Spanish monarchy. With proof of an unclaimed land in hand, the Spanish monarchy then funded Columbus’s expeditions to the New World in partnership with the Roman Church. As part of this agreement, Rome sent Vespucci to Spain to ensure the land was claimed on their behalf using the Romanized name Amerigo or Americus to replace the Welsh Amerike.
This theory is not unlikely and is even backed by hard evidence. Yet there is evidence for another provenance that is just as compelling. The Icelandic Saga of Eric the Red, the settler of Greenland, tells how Eric’s son Leif came to Vinland. First written in the second half of the thirteenth century, 250 years after Leif supposedly found a western land of “wheatfields and vines,” this story proposes the name America originates in the Scandinavian word “Amt,” meaning “district,” plus “Eric” to form Amteric or the Land of (Leif) Eric. When other Norsemen then sailed to the land Leif had discovered around the eleventh century, they called this place Ommerike, an Old Norse word meaning “farthest outland,” which derives from the Gothic Amalric, meaning “Kingdom of Heaven.”
This Viking story would seem to trump the Catholic conspiracy story if it were not for the fact that a similar name was already in use by Native Americans in South America. The story goes that when the Spanish conquistadors landed on the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua and asked the native Caribs where they had obtained the gold worn around their necks, they pointed to a “prominent” and “high” land they called Amerrique. To this day it is known as the Amerrique Mountains.
When the Spanish later reached Peru in 1572, the native Incans also told them their land was named Amaruca, meaning “land of the plumed serpent.” Strangely the name Amaru (or Amurru) referred to their chief god Viracocha (also Kukulcan and Quetzalcoatl), a plumed flying serpent to which all the land belonged. Records document that the last ruler of the Incas was in fact named Tupac Amaru, meaning “messenger of the plumed serpent.”
Can it be just an accident that the Incan deity Amaru is the same as the Akkadian deity Amurru and that both share the etymological root M’R or Meru? Could Peru have a distant link back to the Holy Land of Amurru, say as a distant Vedic Phoenician outpost? If so how are we to explain the other possible namesakes for America?
On the one hand, we have the American name coming from Europe through Amerigo Vespucci, Richard Amerike, or Leif Ericson, and on the other it is the name given by the indigenous people to their sacred mountains and chief god. The origin of the name America seems so buried under different possibilities and speculation that experts agree we will probably never know for sure. Yet an answer does exist, and it even has something to do with Rosslyn chapel.
In England the name Amerike originates from Ap Meurig, Meurich, Meuric, Merrycke, and Mericke—all etymologically connected to the earliest recorded ruler of Briton named Beli Mawr around 100 BC. My own surname Merrick is part of this lineage, having a coat-of-arms featuring a Merlion, the mythical half-lion and half-sea creature. This in turn ties to the mythology surrounding the famous sorcerer Merlin and legends of dragons living beneath Wales. Once again we are reminded of the Merovingian birth from the Quinotaur sea dragon and its symbolic connection to the European royal families.
The French form of the name is Maurice, taken from the Roman name Marius. An even older form of this seafaring name can be found in the ancient name for Egypt—Mera or To-Mera—loosely translated to mean “of the pyramid.” Pa-ta-Mera meant the “land of Meri” or “land of the pyramid.” In reference to the left eye of Egyptian sun god Horus, the name Merukh-t meant “measurer” and was used to refer to the Moon.
Variations of Meri, such as Mera, Maura, and Mura, are all a direct reference to the Egyptian name M’R for the Great Pyramid. This in turn refers to the sacred Mount Meru, or land of Amurru, descended from Vedic cosmology. Thus the Meru legend is at the bottom of all of these names, including the name given by the Native Americans to their own land!
From the etymological root of Meru, we can easily see how the Rig-Veda made its way around the world. The early migration of the Aryans southward introduced the Meru legend and its Vedic sky gods to Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China, which were then brought back into E
urope by the Danites. At the same time, the legend was carried across the Atlantic by proto-Phoenician mariners and given to the continent under the sea. This is the fundamental story of human civilization from which everything we see today originated.
Now to be fair, this is not the only path taken by the Rig-Veda and the Meru name. Variations of the name traveled with many different people along often-circuitous routes at different times in history.
For example, the people who migrated across the Mediterranean into Spain from North Africa were known as Moors or Moorish, a derogatory name meaning dark (think Moon and night). They came from Moroccan cities such as Marrakech (again meaning “land of God”) and Mauritania—both located beneath the Atlas mountain range west of Egypt. In this way the word for “dark” was likely taken from these dark people’s belief in Meru and the corresponding Egyptian root M’R.
We can say the same about Meru as a name in India. The Mauryan Empire that first unified the entire Indian subcontinent in 340 BCE was named after its emperor Chandragupta Maura. In this case, the emperor’s name is believed to have originated from Moriya or Maurya after his presumed homeland on Mor Hill.40 Scholars consider this hill to be another reference to the sacred mountain of the Rig-Veda.
In the end we always arrive right back where we began—the proto-Vedic people from Armenia who spread their cosmological theory of harmony around the world. It matters not which namesake we choose for America, as all paths lead back to Meru. This is what Sinclair and Hay were trying to tell the world with their little chapel in the Scottish Pentlands.
The Lost Temple
In recent years, a new science called archeoacoustics has emerged to investigate the use of acoustical symbolism in the design of sacred spaces. In Hindu temples, such as the Brihadeshwara Meru Temple at Tamil Nadu in southern India, acoustics play a central role in the design. Fashioned after the same Meru tower design etched in Rosslyn, its Sangitha Mahal or Hall of Music on the first floor is well known for its excellent acoustics.
Mayan stepped pyramids closely resemble those at Brihadeshwara and also incorporate an acoustical design. Meru-like temples at Chichen Itza, Palenque, and Tikal in Guatemala create sound effects of bird chirps and raindrops. Some archeomusicologists believe these chirping sounds were intended to mimic the song of the legendary quetzal bird associated with the plumed serpent god Amaru.
Recently a group led by Stanford’s Miriam Kolar reported that Peru’s 3,000-year-old flat-topped pyramid Chavín de Huántar contains a series of “resonance rooms” designed to amplify the voice of a speaker from within the building. We find similar resonance rooms in the underground Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni on the Mediterranean island of Malta, suggesting the possibility of a shared knowledge of acoustical resonance between the ancient Peruvians and people of Malta.
In the Hypogeum sounds in the Oracle Chamber are amplified through a large labyrinth of resonantly tuned rooms. In the words of British researcher William Griffiths:
A word spoken in this room is magnified a hundredfold and is audible throughout the entire structure. The effect upon the credulous can be imagined when the oracle spoke and the words came thundering forth through the dark and mysterious place with terrifying impressiveness.
The most amazing thing about the Hypogeum is that all of the rooms were designed to resonate at a frequency of 110 or 111 hertz. This frequency is particularly significant because in a 2008 UCLA brain-activity study, 110 hertz was identified as a special trigger frequency for brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. The UCLA researchers found it had the effect of deactivating the language center while shifting dominance from left to right brain, enhancing emotional processing.
Long ago it may have been common practice to resonate the brain at this frequency to help induce altered states of consciousness. This is suggested by the original Greek name Melite, meaning “honey,” for the island of Malta. Based on the ancient association between Venus and honeybees, it was probably an allusion to the Venusian goddess Mylitta at the Hypogeum and the use of entheogenic Ambrosia to commune with her. This is borne out by the discovery of a number of small Venus figurines on Malta.
Once a center for the practice of sensory deprivation and incubation to induce revelatory visions, the Hypogeum was a sacred temple for the dark-skinned Phaeacian dream cult that lived there. Using entheogens and acoustical resonance to induce a shift in consciousness, ancient priests and philosophers would venture into the underworld of the mind seeking knowledge. Greek philosophers Parmenides and Empedocles are documented as having used dark caves to “commune with the gods.” Perhaps the resonant Hypogeum was where they did this.
The same may be true for the acoustical designs of Aztec and Mayan temples. Since “Maya” is a Sanskrit word meaning illusion, the American Maya may well have been a transatlantic extension of the dream cult of the Phaeacians. As a colony possibly founded by Phoenician/Phaeacian missionaries, the American Maya may well have been named after the “Illusory Power of God” associated with the Vedic goddess Mahamaya. To reach the golden summit of Meru inside their minds, the Maya would have been taught how to build acoustically resonant temples and instructed in the use of entheogenic plants in communion ritual.
Once again we find concepts from the Rig-Veda at the center of another ancient culture. Since the Vedic goddess Mahamaya is the maiden aspect of Kali and dark counterpart to Venusian goddess Shukra, she may well be the archetype upon which Kukalkan, the Mayan god of Venus, is based. Mayan religion, together with Aztec, Hopi, and Incan beliefs, exhibits unmistakable similarities to Phoenician/Phaeacian and earlier Vedic beliefs.
Any understanding of the traditions of indigenous people in America must begin with an explanation of how Vedic concepts, temples, rituals, and symbols traveled across the Atlantic millennia before Columbus ever arrived. And when studying the ancient temples of America, it would also be wise to consider the Venus Blueprint as a template for the construction of acoustically resonant spaces capable of inducing and controlling altered states.
As a symbol embodying the essential elements of the Rig-Veda, the Blueprint could have been introduced into the New World to support Vedic teachings and provide a guide in pyramid-temple building. It could have served to ensure the accurate reproduction of Vedic cosmology to lock in the same spiritual model across different cultures in geographically distant lands. Through the Blueprint design, temples would have been guaranteed to conform to Vedic harmonic principles, thereby providing a spiritual model for social coherence anywhere in the world.
The Lost Science
In 1624 Sir Francis Bacon published New Atlantis, a utopian novel expressing his deepest aspirations and ideals for humanity. In it he describes the creation of a utopian land named “Bensalem” (loosely meaning “Son of Jerusalem”) on an island somewhere west of Peru where “generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit” would reign. Inspired by his involvement with Freemasonry and ties to the Rosicrucian Order (as a Grand Master), Bacon proposed an ideal college of learning for this utopia named “Salomon’s House,” in which science would become “the very eye of this kingdom.”
To guide this new secular civilization, he proposed the Baconian method of scientific investigation (i.e., the scientific method) to avoid false images he called “idols of the mind.” In particular there were four idols or beliefs he felt might prevent an otherwise unbiased study of nature:
Idols of the Tribe—human tendency to perceive more order and regularity in systems than truly exist,
Idols of the Cave—individual weaknesses in reasoning due to likes and dislikes,
Idols of the Marketplace—confusions in the use of language, taking scientific words to have a different meaning than their common usage,
Idols of the Theatre—following academic dogma without asking questions about the world.
Bacon argued that avoiding these idols would lead inductively to the discovery of forms and models that accurately describe natural ph
enomena and their genesis.
Of course, he could not foresee the much greater idols that would emerge later in the twentieth century, such as the military-industrial complex, multinational pharmaceutical and consumer product manufacturers. He could not have imagined that huge, multinational corporations would recruit young scientists toward war-making and for-profit ventures rather than the search for enlightenment as Bacon had envisioned.
Nonetheless Bacon worked hard to realize his utopian vision in the New World. He funded the Virginia colony and others in the Carolinas and Newfoundland in hopes of making America into the New Atlantis. His legacy continued after his death with the European Freemasons and Rosicrucian Order together playing a leading role in the American Revolution. With Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington all being Freemasons, their Masonic friendships were instrumental in bringing France into their war against the British.
It is no secret that Masonic principles and symbolisms were used in the U.S. system of government, its buildings, currency, and statuary. Indeed the United States of America became the very embodiment of Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, achieving some semblance of the Bensalem and Salomon’s House of Science he had proposed. Yet long before any of this, America was already a colony of the very utopian ideals Bacon professed.
America was indeed a Vedic outpost of the Phoenician Holy Land, the land of Amurru long ruled by serpent gods of the Sun, Venus, and Moon. This was the land of the sacred mountain—a mirror of Jerusalem in Peru. With roots reaching back through the Hebrew Qabala to a forgotten age, both periods of American colonization were inspired by the same lost science of harmony discovered in Armenia some six thousand years ago.
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