Thoth, Lilith, and the Return of the Watchers
- Michelle Hayman
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Egyptian god; Thoth
In ancient Egypt, birds were not mere metaphors—they were messengers, gatekeepers, and emissaries of gods that were not only believed in, but encountered. Beings like Thoth were not artistic inventions—they were witnessed. They were experienced in visions, dreams, initiations, and, in some cases, physical manifestation. Thoth, the ibis-headed god of writing and lunar wisdom, has long been understood as a symbol of knowledge and magic. But what if he was never merely symbolic? What if the reason Thoth appears again and again across cultures and centuries is because he is not a myth—but a real, non-human intelligence, moving between dimensions?
Thoth is said to be the god of the moon, of writing, and of balance. But his image—a man with the head of a bird—is not artistic abstraction. It’s a spiritual blueprint. Across the world, thousands of people have seen entities that are not quite human: bird-headed, winged, hybrid, luminous. These are not hallucinations. They are encounters.
In the astral realm—the air, Paul speaks of in Ephesians, where the “prince of the power of the air” holds sway—there are beings who move like birds, not only in flight, but in form. Beings that do not walk fully in heaven or on earth. Threshold beings. Hybrids. These entities present as gods, teachers, seducers, even lovers. They often bring knowledge—but always at a cost.
Thoth is one such being. He brings writing, magic, the measuring of time. But in many esoteric traditions, this wisdom is not neutral—it is forbidden light.
This brings us to Lilith.
Long misunderstood, reduced to folklore and demonology, Lilith too is real. The Burney Relief shows her naked, winged, bird-footed, flanked by owls—creatures of the night, watchers of the soul. She is not simply a mythic night demon. She is the archetype—and perhaps the origin—of the rebellious divine feminine, the one who will not submit, the one who takes flight, the one who becomes queen over desolation and death.
She is not the “Queen of the Night” by artistic convention. She is the Queen of Heaven in exile—one who has taken her own throne, away from God, and rules from the shadows.
In Eden, it was not just a serpent who came to Eve. Some traditions say it was a Watcher—a being from the heavens, offering knowledge. Offering union. Offering to make her like God. And she accepted. That was not myth. That was a real event. It birthed a bloodline. It opened the door to hybridization. The Nephilim were not metaphors—they were offspring. Giants. Beings of both flesh and fallen spirit. And they were real.
Eve vanishes from the biblical narrative after Genesis 4:1–2—silent, almost erased. But something else takes her place. By the time we reach Isaiah 34:14, it’s not Eve who stands in the ruins, but Lilith—the screech owl, the night demon, the so-called ‘first Eve.’ She wasn’t content with Adam. She wanted to become like a god. So she mated with the fallen and birthed a hybrid race—neither fully human nor divine. A counterfeit creation. A shadow lineage. While Eve faded into quiet submission, Lilith emerged from the void, crowned in rebellion, wings outstretched, crying from desolate places.
Lilith is the true face behind the “Queen of Heaven”—the ancient night spirit who seduced nations, corrupted altars, and became the mother of spiritual harlotry. In Isaiah 34:14, she appears as the screech owl, haunting desolate places, a demon of the night. But by the time we reach Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:17–19, the people are openly baking cakes and pouring drink offerings to this Queen of Heaven, provoking the LORD to fierce anger. And in Revelation 17:5, her full title is revealed: “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.” This is not just a pagan goddess—it is Lilith enthroned. The spirit of rebellion in female form, the ancient womb of deception, whose offspring are not of God but of fallen ones.
In Revelation 18, Babylon falls—and it becomes the haunt of every unclean and hateful bird. Not a metaphor. A statement of infestation. Wisdom is mocked. Creation is inverted. And Babylon (Rome, as the apostle Peter calls it) becomes the nesting ground of deception. The cage is full.
This is why so many have visions of sirens, harpies, fae with wings and talons and impossible beauty. These are not fictions. These are manifestations. These beings are real. They travel between dimensions. They enter through altered states, trauma, sexual invitation, ritual, bloodlines. They are not part of your mind. They are occupying the spaces between thought and form, whispering, offering, seducing.
The bird-human hybrid is not a metaphor for higher thought. It is the form of the fallen hybrid—the one who was not permitted to fully dwell in heaven, nor allowed to remain fully on earth.
The Screech Owl of the Night
Lilith occupies a more fearsome avian niche in myth. In Mesopotamian and Jewish tradition, Lilith is a night-demon often linked to birds of prey and the eerie cries of nocturnal creatures. The Hebrew Bible contains a cryptic reference in Isaiah 34:14, describing desolate Edom as a haunt of wild beasts and night creatures. The King James Version includes “the screech owl also shall rest there” – a translation of the Hebrew word “Lilith”, indicating a night bird or demon (Isaiah 34:14) Ancient interpreters understood Lilith as more than an owl: in Jewish folklore she is a winged she-demon with a woman’s face who preys on infants and pregnant women in the darkness (Isaiah 34:14) John Gill’s commentary (18th c.) notes that Jews described Lilith as a “she demon…with a human face, and…wings, and [who] destroys children as soon as they are born,” equating her with the child-snatching Lamia of Roman lore. Thus, by the time of Isaiah’s writing, “Lilith” had become synonymous with a screeching night-owl demon, haunting ruins and deserts.
.In Mesopotamian archaeology, the iconic Burney Relief (also called “Queen of the Night”) is a terracotta plaque showing a nude woman with bird’s wings and owl-like clawed feet, standing on lions and flanked by owls. Early scholars Henri Frankfort and Emil Kraeling (1930s) argued this winged, bird-footed woman represents Lilith or her mythic kin (Lilith - Wikipedia). The figure’s alluring yet fearsome aspects – nakedness, wings, and predatory talons – align with later depictions of Lilith as a seductive but lethal night spirit. Modern research often leans toward identifying the relief with a Mesopotamian goddess (perhaps Ishtar or Ereshkigal), but the Lilith interpretation has persisted in occult and popular imagination.
The Siren and the Queen
She appears again and again.
In clay and stone, in vision and dream, across ancient civilizations separated by centuries and continents: the winged woman with bird feet, often nude, often flanked by creatures of the night. Sometimes she is guardian. Sometimes she is goddess. Sometimes, she is a predator.
We call her a siren, or perhaps Lilith, or even Ishtar. Scholars have labeled her the “Queen of the Night,” others have guessed “Queen of Heaven.”
She was once worshipped.
And she was cast down.
And the truth is, she never left.
From Goddess to Demon: The Fall of the Queen
Long before cultures sanitized the feminine divine into Mary or Sophia, there was a female entity worshipped in the high places, adored by kings and commoners alike. She received offerings, sacrifices, incense. Cakes were baked in her honour. Songs were sung to her. She promised fertility, ecstasy, power.
But behind her glory was devouring hunger.
She was not nurturing. She was seductive and consuming.
She appeared with wings because she ruled the air. She had talons because she hunted. She stood nude not as a symbol of purity, but as a challenge to order. Her power was in being unbound—unclaimed, unconstrained, and utterly opposed to divine order.
When the prophets condemned the “Queen of Heaven,” they weren’t speaking of a myth. They were naming a spirit—one that corrupted nations, seduced the people of God, and drew worship away from the true divine source. This wasn’t metaphorical idolatry. It was a spiritual invasion, and this being was at the center of it.
She received worship like a goddess, but she fed like a predator.
And those who honoured her were not communing with heaven, but opening gates to something else.
The Sirens: Echoes of Her Image
Now look again at the funerary siren in the image above
She stands like the Burney Relief woman: upright, winged, talon-footed. Her gesture is softer, her context Greek, but her form is the same. In ancient Greece, sirens were not mermaids—they were sky women, perched on cliffs, with wings and claws. They lured men to death with beauty and sound.
What we are seeing is not a cultural coincidence. It’s not that the Greeks copied Babylon or that Lilith became a siren. It is that they all remembered the same being, through different lenses.
Because she is real.
She walked in temples. She entered dreams. She demanded blood. She inspired awe. And she seduced entire cultures into believing she was a goddess—when in truth, she was a rebel spirit, a watcher consort, a hybrid queen, birthed not of creation, but of defiance.
What the Wings and Talons Truly Mean
Wings, in divine beings, always imply access to realms beyond the physical. They represent movement across planes, messengers or gatekeepers between dimensions. But talons? Talons are for gripping, for hunting. No angel of the Most High is ever described with claws.
Only the fallen.
The hybrid beings—those “neither here nor there”—often take on such forms. In ancient myths, they were the offspring of divine beings who mated with humans, producing giants, monsters, and winged abominations. Some of them took the form of birds, some serpents,fish, some both. They were not fully spirit, nor fully flesh.
And the Queen of Heaven—this being depicted again and again—was one of them.
Her wings grant her access.
Her beauty lures worship.
Her talons reveal her truth.
A Union of Thoth and Lilith: Wisdom Meets Night’s Deception
In many mythic traditions, a union of male and female principles produces either balance or chaos. In occult circles, one finds pairings like Samael and Lilith – the male and female demons in Kabbalah who together rule the forces of evil (Samael and Lilith - Daf Yomi Review). Replacing Samael with Thoth in this equation is provocative: it suggests the fusion of wisdom with lawless rebellion.
This isn’t just myth—it echoes a doctrine of divinity through defiance: the ancient idea that one becomes godlike not by obedience, but by violating the divine order. In Eden, the serpent didn’t offer rebellion outright—he offered apotheosis: “ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5). The fruit wasn’t just forbidden—it was knowledge through disobedience. And the cost was everything.
Some traditions suggest Eve didn’t simply eat—she joined with the fallen, crossed the boundary between mortal and divine, and in doing so, became Lilith: the first to rise in defiance, the mother of hybrids, the screech owl who cries from desolation (Isaiah 34:14).
She wanted to ascend. And she fell.
And curiously, after Genesis 4:2, Eve is silenced—never spoken of again in the Hebrew scriptures. No farewell, no legacy. Just... absence.
Was it shame? Erasure? Or did something else step into her place—something the text leaves behind, but the ruins remember?
Is that why Lilith rises where Eve vanishes?
Prince of the Power of the Air: Lord of the Atmosphere in Myth and Scripture
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul describes humanity’s former bondage as “following the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). This dramatic title – “Prince of the Power of the Air” – is traditionally understood to mean Baalzebub, the chief of demonic forces that inhabit the unseen realm above the earth, unlike the female dragon in the abyss. In ancient cosmology, the “air” (atmosphere) was believed to be a dwelling place of spirits, intermediate between Earth and the heaven of God. Thus, Paul’s phrase denotes a ruler of the aerial domain of evil, influencing humans from the realm of sky and wind. The “power of the air” suggests control over communication, knowledge, and spiritual currents – an appropriate description for a being who spreads deception “on the airwaves” of thought.
Interestingly, there are mythological figures that parallel this concept of an airy ruler or messenger. The Greek Hermes (and Roman Mercury) was a wing-footed messenger god often associated with the air and swift travel. The Greeks identified Hermes with Egypt’s Thoth, calling him Hermes Trismegistus when referring to esoteric wisdom literature (Thoth - Wikipedia). In Hermetic philosophy, Hermes/Thoth is the master of knowledge and words – essentially, the lord of the medium through which ideas travel (the air).
Even in Kabbalistic demonology, air is the domain of a demonic ruler. Lurianic Kabbalah describes a triad of evil with Lilith, Samael, and Asmodeus, each dominating an element.
Bird–Human Hybrids in Mythology and Occult Symbolism
Birds have long inspired imaginations as creatures that traverse the boundary between earth and sky. Many cultures personified this transcendence through bird–human hybrids – part avian, part human figures representing messengers, guardians, or divinities. A survey of such figures reveals their common symbolic roles: they often bridge heaven (not the third) and earth, embody wisdom or spirit, or guard sacred mysteries.
Ancient Egypt gave us numerous bird-human deities. We have already met Thoth (ibis-headed) and Horus (falcon-headed). Similarly, Ra could appear as a falcon, and the goddess Nekhbet as a vulture. These gods’ avian heads symbolized their lofty dominion – sky, sun, moon, and wisdom. Notably, Egyptian apkallu (wise figures or demigods) were sometimes depicted as eagle-headed men, wearing horned crowns of divinity (1860.1 | Antiquity and America). These eagle-headed genies guarded palaces and temples, carrying cones and buckets in ritual scenes to purify or fertilize – their wings and beaks marking them as emissaries of the sky.
Apart from Lilith, Mesopotamia had other bird-like creatures. The Anzû (Zu) bird was a lion-headed eagle in Akkadian myth who stole the Tablets of Destiny – a symbol of usurping divine authority. Assyrian mythology also featured the winged apkallu mentioned above, often shown as eagle-headed men with wings guarding the Tree of Life or the king. They illustrate that in the ancient Near East, bird-men stood at the gates of knowledge, half animal and half divine, tasked with preserving cosmic "order".
In Greek myth, the Sirens were half-woman, half-bird temptresses whose singing lured sailors to doom. The Harpies (“snatchers”) were winged women who carried souls to the underworld. While less noble than their Egyptian counterparts, these hybrids similarly move between worlds (sky/underworld or life/death). They often personify the winds or sudden disasters, showing the ambivalence of bird-spirits: they can bring inspiration or destruction. The goddess Nike (Roman Victoria) is often shown with wings, representing the swift flight of victory. Even Zeus had a bird form (the eagle Aetos Dios) that carried his thunderbolts. In each case, wings = transcendence: the power to travel, to conquer, or to convey souls.
In Hindu tradition, Garuda is a mighty eagle-man, the vehicle (vahana) of Lord Vishnu. Garuda is described as having the body of a strong man with the wings and face of an eagle, often adorned with serpents (Bird Headed Beings in Mythology - Crystalinks ). He is considered a semi-divine (hybrid) being – king of birds and enemy of snakes (Garuda - Wikipedia). As Vishnu’s mount, Garuda symbolizes power, speed, and martial prowess, but also the idea of devotion carrying the divine (since he loyally bears Vishnu). In Buddhist lore, similar bird-men (Garuda or Kinnara) are celestial musicians or protectors. Meanwhile in Japan, the Tengu are bird-like goblins (with beaks or long noses and wings) who are both tricksters and teachers of martial arts – again a duality of wisdom and mischief tied to bird imagery.
Across these examples, bird-humans typically serve as intermediaries: Occult symbolism often incorporates such imagery – for instance, the eagle-headed Benu bird was linked to alchemical Phoenix symbolism of rebirth, and secret societies (as we’ll see) took the owl as emblematic of hidden wisdom. Wings in occult art signify the initiate’s ability to soar beyond mundane limits, while a bird’s head on a human body indicates mind united with spirit (the human faculty joined to a higher, airy perspective). Thus, bird-human hybrids encapsulate the aspiration to ascend – intellectually, spiritually, or socially – above the “clay” of our earthly existence.
Unclean Birds and Demons: “Every Unclean and Hateful Bird”
Birds can symbolize holiness and guidance (doves) but in biblical apocalyptic imagery, unclean birds signal desolation and demonic presence. The Book of Revelation paints a vivid scene of fallen Babylon as a dwelling place of darkness. An angel declares: “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” (Revelation 18:2 ) This verse piles up images of impurity: devils, foul spirits, and hateful birds all roosting in Babylon’s ruins. In ancient Israelite law, many birds of prey or scavengers (like owls, vultures, ravens) were deemed “unclean” – not to be eaten and symbolically impure (Leviticus 11). Such birds dwell among carrion and desolate places, so they became metaphors for spiritual desolation.
Revelation’s prophecy deliberately echoes Old Testament oracles about destroyed cities. For example, Isaiah 13:21–22 prophesies that after Babylon’s fall, “owls shall dwell there” and wild beasts cry in its empty palaces. Isaiah 34:11 and 34:14 (regarding Edom) likewise list owls, ravens, and “Lilith” (screech owl) haunting the ruins. Thus, “every unclean bird” in Revelation symbolizes every demonic, ominous presence, picking at the corpse of a once-great city. It’s as if the forces of chaos and evil – long held at bay – descend like vultures once judgment has fallen.
Biblical commentators often interpret these unclean birds as demons or false spirits. In fact, an early clue comes from Jeremiah 5:26-27, which says wicked men set traps like fowlers: “As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit”. One commentator links this to Revelation 18:2, suggesting the “hateful birds” are “false teachers and leaders” ensnaring souls, found even among God’s people (Revelation 18 and its Unclean and Hateful Birds | Bibledoc). In apocalyptic terms, Babylon’s corrupting influence had become a cage for lies and demonic doctrines – a haunt of “foul spirits” (impure inspirations symbolized by carrion birds). The image of a “cage” also implies these evil forces are now trapped in the condemned city, awaiting final destruction, much as unclean birds might be caught and caged.
Notably, Lilith’s screech owl in Isaiah and the unclean birds of Revelation form a conceptual link: both depict desolation inhabited by demonic-birdlike creatures. This has not been lost on esoteric interpreters, who see in Babylon’s fall a recurrence of Lilith’s rise – the return of primordial chaos (Lilith, mother of demons) to reclaim a doomed civilization. Revelation 18 even calls end-time Babylon “the habitation of devils”, language very close to describing it as a new haunt of Lilith and her cohort. In summary, the “unclean and hateful bird” is a powerful biblical symbol of spiritual defilement.
The Owl of Bohemian Grove: Modern Night-Bird of Wisdom or Moloch?
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One curious modern parallel to these ancient owl symbols is found in the secretive Bohemian Grove in California. Since the late 19th century, the Bohemian Club’s summer encampment has featured a grand ritual called the “Cremation of Care”, performed before a towering Owl Shrine. The owl, approximately 30–40 feet tall, is a hollow statue made of concrete and steel, covered in moss to blend into the forest (Bohemian Grove - Wikipedia). Why an owl? Officially, the Bohemian Club adopted the owl as its mascot from the outset, as a symbol of wisdom and watchfulness in the night. Indeed, the Bavarian Illuminati in the 18th century likewise used the Owl of Minerva perched on a book as their emblem for enlightenment and knowledge (Who are the Illuminati and what do they control? | The Week). In that sense, the Grove’s owl continues a tradition of secret societies using the owl as a token of hidden wisdom – seeing through darkness and keeping the secrets of the woods (the club’s motto, fittingly, is “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here,” discouraging outside business entanglements in their sanctuary.
The Bohemian owl, with its impassive stare and nocturnal aura, evoked the dark rites of old pagan cults. Interestingly, the Bohemian Grove owl can also be connected back to Lilith: one commentary notes the owl statue “may symbolize that same ancient night-spirit presiding over the counsel of worldly powers”, hinting that Lilith or a related night goddess metaphorically oversees the elitist enclave (Bohemian Grove's “Cremation of Care” and the Ancient Queen of ...).
Beyond speculation, what remains factual is the continuity of owl symbolism. The Bohemian Club’s use of the owl aligns with a lineage from antiquity to present: owls as guardians of sacred or secret knowledge. Ancient Babylon carved owls beside their night goddess; Athens put owls on their coins for Athena; the Illuminati used Minerva’s owl to signify illumination. At Bohemian Grove, world leaders meet under the owl’s gaze, performing rites no outsider fully knows.
“And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more... For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
— Revelation 18:11, 23
To its members it likely represents secrecy and sagacity – the ability to speak freely in the dark, “where no prying eyes can see.” To the conspiracy-minded, it represents an occult continuance – a modern “Babylon” where powerful men consort under the sign of an unclean bird. After all, Revelation’s warning about Babylon being full of devils and hateful birds resonates eerily when one imagines an elite gathering under a giant owl idol. Whether benign or nefarious, the owl at Bohemian Grove embodies the enduring power of bird symbolism – as an emblem, it connects modern power brokers back to ancient mythic archetypes of the night.
The False Light of the Nations: Sun Worship, Babylon's Power, and the Beast That Was and Is to Come
At the top of the Stele of Hammurabi, we witness what the world calls divine law—but what the Scriptures unveil as the first coronation of empire under a fallen star. The god enthroned is Shamash, the Mesopotamian sun god. He hands the tools of rulership—the rod and ring—to Hammurabi, king of Babylon. But this exchange is not a blessing. It is a binding. It is not righteousness. It is rebellion in radiant disguise.
The moment captured in stone is a spiritual transaction. Here, a mortal man receives authority, not from the Most High, but from the god of this world—a being cloaked in fire and light, seated above a stylized mountain, crowned with horns, and casting rays like the morning sun.
Shamash, the sun-god, was not a passive deity of seasonal cycles—he was a spiritual dominion, one who offered kings the appearance of divine legitimacy in exchange for worship and control.
The ring and the rod Shamash hands Hammurabi are no mere ceremonial items. In Babylonian culture, they symbolized cosmic measurement, kingship, and divine right. But spiritually, they are the implements of counterfeit authority. They mimic the righteous scepter of Christ (Psalm 45:6), yet are hollow—power given by one who promises kingdoms if only men will bow (Luke 4:5-7).
This exchange echoes the wilderness temptation of Christ:
"And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me... If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine." — Luke 4:6-7
Where Christ refused, Hammurabi accepted. The rod became the staff of tyranny, and the ring, the seal of a beastly kingdom. The king who received it codified law not to liberate but to enslave under divine pretense.
Shamash sits on what appears to be a stylized mountain—a throne of elevation and power. Mountains, in ancient symbolism, are the meeting point of heaven and earth. But this is not Sinai. It is the spiritual high place where the gods descended and man ascended, in defiance of the Most High.
"For they built them high places, and set up images... and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger." — 2 Kings 17:9-11
Babylon’s religion was built on these high places—zones of forbidden communion between fallen spirits and rulers of men. And from these heights, they passed down law, ritual, and dominion—not for peace, but for inversion of divine order.
The Cult of the Sun: From Babylon to Rome
Shamash’s cult did not die. It migrated.
When Babylon fell, its spiritual power was absorbed by Persia, then Greece, and ultimately Rome. In Rome, the sun god rose again—this time as Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. He was the god of emperors, the force behind the divine right of rulers. Temples faced east. Coins bore his image. And Sunday was declared the day of the sun.
But the final transference came when pagan Rome became papal Rome. And here, the counterfeit reached its perfection.
The Papal system, cloaked in the image of Christ, absorbed the trappings of Babylon:
The sunburst monstrance, holding the Eucharist, is a mirror of the solar disc of Shamash.
The ring of the Pope, kissed by rulers and faithful, reflects the ring of divine rulership given to Hammurabi.
The obelisks, taken from Heliopolis (City of the Sun), stand now at the heart of Vatican City—the phallic power of Ra in the court of Peter.
The architecture of St. Peter’s Basilica, aligned to the sun, reinforces the cultic geometry of ancient sun worship.
This is Mystery Babylon reborn. Not through open paganism, but through a seductive blend of religion, empire, and ritual.
"They that sanctify themselves... behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh... and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD." — Isaiah 66:17
"Then he brought me to the door... and, behold, the women weeping for Tammuz... and they worshipped the sun toward the east." — Ezekiel 8:14-16
The worship of the sun—in the name of righteousness—is what provoked God to judgment before. It is happening again.
The Rod and Ring of Shamash
Hammurabi’s ring, seals law—but not the law of God. It represents the authority to bind and loose, to excommunicate, to rule the souls of men. It is the modern mark of the high priest of Babylon, now wearing robes of white and speaking of peace, yet ruling in the traditions of empire and solar veneration.
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed... Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God... shewing himself that he is God." — 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
The Beast That Was, and Is Not, and Yet Is
This system—first seen in Shamash and Hammurabi—becomes the blueprint for every beast empire that follows. Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome. And finally, the beast of Revelation:
"And the beast that was, and is not, and yet is... and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him." — Revelation 17:8
The false light of sun worship, the counterfeit throne, and the ring of false dominion—they are all present. Not in name only, but in ritual, architecture, and global power.
The high places have returned. The image speaks again. And kings drink from her golden cup.
But the True Light Breaks In
In the end, Christ alone holds the rod of righteousness. He wears no pagan crown. He sits not on man’s mountain, but on the throne of Heaven.
"Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre." — Psalm 45:6
He does not give his authority to sun gods, fallen stars or Roman empires who trample his eternal covernant. His kingdom does not come by deceit or political alliance. And when He returns, every ring, rod, and false throne will be shattered.
Wolves: Rome’s Founding Beasts and Biblical Warnings
Our survey of mythic creatures would be incomplete without touching on wolves – not birds, but significant in the context of founders and predators. In Roman lore, the very establishment of the city was owing to a she-wolf (lupa). The twins Romulus and Remus, semi-divine sons (hybrids) of the war god Mars and the Vestal Rhea Silvia, were abandoned at birth. They were famously rescued and suckled by a mother wolf until a herdsman found and raised them (Romulus and Remus | Story, Myth, Definition, Statue, & Facts | Britannica). Roman historians viewed this nurturing wolf with reverence – a symbol that Mars (to whom wolves were sacred) was protecting his children. Indeed, a woodpecker (a bird also sacred to Mars) was said to help feed the twins as well. Thus Rome’s founders were literally raised by beasts yet destined for greatness, implying a fusion of animal strength with human ambition. Romulus, fed on a she-wolf’s milk and carrying the seed of a fallen god, built his empire on fratricide. He slaughtered his own brother and called the city born of that violence the “eternal city.”
The wolf became a totem of Rome – fierce, cunning, and untamed. Roman legions carried wolf standards, and the image of the Capitoline Wolf nursing the twins became a proud emblem of the empire’s origins. Yet from a biblical perspective, wolves carry a more sinister connotation. Jesus warned his disciples: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Matthew 7:15 ). Here the wolf stands for a deceiver who preys upon the flock. It’s a striking contrast: Romulus as a babe draws sustenance from a kindly wolf, whereas the Church is warned that wolves will infiltrate in disguise to devour the unwary. The metaphor of “wolves in sheep’s clothing” has since entered common parlance for any hidden threat or hypocrisy. In the early Church, Paul likewise cautioned that “grievous wolves” would attack the flock from among and outside the community (Acts 20:29). The wolf consistently symbolizes rapacious, violent instincts that can masquerade as innocence.
Connecting this back to Rome: some later Christian thinkers did cast Rome as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The empire brought the Pax Romana (a facade of peace and civilization), yet it was also the beast that persecuted the saints and devoured nations. The Book of Revelation portrays Rome (as “Babylon”) as a harlot riding a beast, drunk on the blood of martyrs. One could say the wolf-nature of Rome eventually showed in its “ravenous” appetite for power and conquest.
In Christian symbolism, by contrast, Christ is the Good Shepherd and His people are sheep – so wolves are the perpetual adversary. “Ravenous wolves” evoke not only obvious persecutors, but also insidious corruptors (false prophets) that arise within. It is sobering to juxtapose this with the wolf that nurtured Rome’s founders: what feeds the city of man, may threaten the city of God. As Jesus said when sending out the Twelve, “I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves” (Matthew 10:16). The early Christians indeed found themselves as sheep among Roman wolves, literally in the Colosseum at times. In the end-times, imagery of beasts (wolf, dragon, etc.) continue to represent persecuting powers, whereas Christ returns as conquering Lamb. The wolf thus stands as a dual symbol – noble saviour in one culture’s eyes, satanic predator in another’s. The truth often depends on whether one is of the wolf-pack or among the sheep.
Unmasking the “Genie” of Sargon’s Throne
The figure carved into this Assyrian relief—majestic, intricate, and strangely captivating—is often referred to in secular terms as a “blessing genie.” Found in the palace of Sargon II, ruler of the brutal Assyrian empire around 716 BCE, this winged being was not myth to the ancients—it was spiritual reality. This was not art for art’s sake. It was a theological proclamation carved in stone, a portal to something far older and far more dangerous than Mesopotamian pride.
What we are looking at is not a benevolent guardian. Not a helper of man. This is a high-level spiritual power, a member of the ancient order of the Watchers—the same beings described in Genesis 6 and expounded upon in the Book of Enoch. These are not angels in service of God. These are the fallen, those who abandoned their first estate, descended into the realm of men, and offered forbidden gifts. They presented themselves as light bringers, as initiators into mystery. But their purpose was not redemption—it was corruption. This winged figure is not offering a blessing—it is offering a counterfeit covenant, a ritualistic exchange of power for submission, wisdom for obedience, and glory for the soul.
Every feature of the figure speaks the language of deception. His body is layered with detail: a robe flowing like priestly vestments, meticulously plaited beard, and the unmistakable horned crown that, in the language of ancient Mesopotamia, declared him a god. Not a symbolic one—a literal spiritual being, seated within a real unseen hierarchy. He stands poised, hand extended with a pine cone-like object, held with careful intention. In his other hand, a woven bucket hangs—decorated with meaning, yet dark in purpose.
The pine cone, long misunderstood, is one of the clearest signs that what is happening here is a spiritual counterfeit. Ancient cultures believed it held the power to sprinkle holy water or purifying oil—yet it was also a potent symbol of the pineal gland, what occultists today call the “third eye.” It is the supposed gateway to hidden knowledge, inner sight, and enlightenment—but enlightenment apart from God. The pine cone is a symbol that continues into the Roman era and even into the Vatican itself, where a giant bronze pine cone—the Pigna—still stands in the Court of the Pine Cone, flanked by peacocks and watched over by papal eyes. It is a remnant of the same ritual system: initiation into divine knowledge through another spirit, not the Holy Spirit.
The bucket held in the opposite hand was believed to carry “holy” fluids—oil, water, or blood—used to anoint or cleanse. But in this context, it is not bringing life. It is bringing a false anointing, a perverse mimicry of the priesthood. In Scripture, anointing comes from God, by His Spirit, to mark His chosen ones. Here, the bucket and cone represent a false baptism, a twisted priesthood—an external ritual masking internal rebellion.
And then there are the wings—broad, feathered, and overwhelming. They do not signify divine obedience, as with the cherubim of God’s presence, but rather spiritual trespassing. Wings in this context mark the being as one of the “hosts of heaven” that fell, traversing between the heavenly realm and the earthly without permission. These are the “fowls of the air” that Christ described in parables—unclean spirits that lodge in the branches of compromised kingdoms, hiding behind religious language while spreading spiritual infestation.
Paul names their realm directly: “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” These beings are not bound to earth, but they have access to the mid-heaven, the space between God’s throne and the dust of our world. They operate in high places, influencing rulers, twisting doctrine, and offering what appears to be light. As Paul warned, Satan does not come with horns and ash—he comes transformed into an angel of light.
This “genie” was not unique. These beings were carved into nearly every Assyrian palace wall, watching over thrones, temple gates, and military victories. Kings believed they were protectors, but in truth, they were gatekeepers of darkness—sentinels of a false kingdom. The empire’s success was built not merely on armies, but on ritual allegiance to fallen powers. These beings whispered strategy to kings, offered omens and oracles, demanded sacrifices. And the kings obeyed.
This is why every ancient empire that was lifted up in glory eventually collapsed in blood. Egypt. Babylon. Assyria. Rome. All received their crowns from the same source: not God, but the gods of rebellion. These thrones were not ordained by Heaven—they were founded by the devil, who once promised Christ Himself the same power: “All this will I give you, if you will bow down and worship me.”
But Christ refused.
Hammurabi did not. Sargon did not. Nebuchadnezzar did not. And neither do the modern kings who still kiss the ring of that old religion.
Because this being—this “blessing genie”—is more than a relic. He is a living member of the spiritual rebellion, still active, still masquerading as helper, still offering his pine cone of wisdom to those willing to kneel.
He represents the original lie: that man can ascend without submission. That knowledge can be divine apart from the Divine. That blessing can come from those who are cursed.
Christ warned us what would happen in the last days: false christs, false prophets, and lying spirits would fill the earth. And John the Revelator saw them clearly—unclean spirits like frogs, emerging from the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. Spirits that looked ancient, felt sacred, and spoke in blessings—but led to death.
What stands before us in this relief is not ony a fallen angel, a genie but a gatekeeper of Babylon.
An anointer of beasts.
And a reminder that not every blessing is holy—and not every throne is from God.
This relief shows the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, known throughout ancient texts as Inanna, the “Queen of Heaven.” She stands dominant atop a lion, symbol of conquest, raw power, and sovereignty. In her hand she holds a bow, the weapon of divine and sexual conquest alike. Above her shoulder, encircled in rays, is the sun disc of Shamash, whose symbol affirms not only her place within the divine order, but her empowerment by the sun god himself.
To modern eyes, it might look like mere myth or ancient art. But through the lens of Scripture—through the unfiltered truth of the Bible, which every priest claiming to follow Christ should actually read—this isn’t harmless imagery. It’s a blueprint of rebellion. And no amount of incense or tradition can sanctify submission to an earthly throne, a throne Scripture never ordained. What we’re seeing is the visual theology of Babylon, a display of spiritual inversion that stands in direct rebellion against the authority of the Most High God.
Ishtar, the “Queen of Heaven”: Mother of Rebellion
Ishtar is no minor goddess. She is the archetype of the rebel feminine, the exalted consort of heaven who refused submission. She is called by many names across time—Inanna, Astarte, Ashtoreth—and every culture that embraced her saw a collapse into sexual license, child sacrifice, and priesthoods of blood and enchantment.
The prophets did not speak lightly of her. In the book of Jeremiah, we find her worship so entrenched among the people of Judah that they offered cakes to her, burned incense, and defended their loyalty to her—even as judgment from God loomed over them:
“But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her…”— Jeremiah 44:17
This goddess was not folklore—she was a real spiritual power, receiving worship that rightfully belonged to Yahweh. The lion beneath her feet in the relief is not symbolic of humility, as with Christ the Lion of Judah. It is dominion by force. She does not ride the lion as a messianic figure—she stands on it, dominating the beast as her throne.
In iconography, this position always signifies ownership of the beast. In Revelation, we are told of a woman “arrayed in purple and scarlet,” who rides the beast and rules the kings of the earth. Ishtar, in this image, is an early iteration of that same mystery system:
“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”— Revelation 17:5
She is the mother system, the spiritual matrix of all harlotries—sexual, political, and religious—that rise against Christ.
Shamash: Sun God of Judgment and False Light
To the upper right of Ishtar is the solar disc of Shamash—often represented as a radiant circle with four or more cross-branches. He was known as the god who “saw all things,” who traveled the sky from sunrise to sunset, judging both the living and the dead.
But the light of Shamash is not the light of the Lord. It is a counterfeit radiance, a solar theology that replaces the truth of God’s holiness with external brilliance and hidden iniquity. The Scriptures warn explicitly against the worship of the sun:
“And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house… and, behold… at the door… were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord… and they worshipped the sun toward the east.”— Ezekiel 8:16
This provoked the Lord to great wrath, not because of ritual alone, but because these men had turned their faces from the presence of God to bow before the false illumination of fallen powers.
Shamash empowered kings, scribes, and warrior-priests to rule by “divine justice”—but his justice was law without mercy, hierarchy without holiness, empire without righteousness. In essence, he is a solar version of Satan himself, promising vision and wisdom, but offering only chains beneath the light.
A Composite Power: Ishtar and Shamash in Union
Together, Ishtar and Shamash represent the union of the rebellious feminine and the illuminating masculine—the goddess of war and seduction, and the god of judgment and fire. This is not a holy marriage—it is a symbolic inversion of the relationship between Christ and his bride.
In this image, the Queen of Heaven stands atop the lion as dominatrix, while the god of light shines above her—not as God over her, but in support of her reign. This is divine inversion. It is what Paul calls “another gospel,” another spirit, another Christ (2 Corinthians 11:4).
Their pairing represents a world where:
The feminine rules the masculine through seduction, domination, and blood.
The light of God is replaced by solar mysticism, hidden laws, and “cosmic justice.”
Popes aren’t anointed by God—they’re installed by cloaked hands in ritual, behind closed doors, by men who serve tradition, not truth.
This is the spiritual economy of Babylon—a system that runs not on faith and obedience, but on manipulation, counterfeit blessing, and occult power.
A Living Warning
This image from Southern Mesopotamia is not just archaeology—it is prophecy in stone. It is the visual DNA of the system of the beast, one that began in Nimrod’s city, was refined in Babel, and institutionalized in empires across the ages. It now reappears—refined, digital, global, and religious—in the harlot system prophesied in Revelation.
And the Spirit still says:
“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”— Revelation 18:4
The Queen of Heaven may still rise on coins, artwork, rituals, and altar pieces—but her throne is crumbling. The Lion she once tamed is returning—not to be ridden, but to break the beast beneath His feet.
Christ, the true King, does not stand upon lions.
He is the Lion.
And He will not share His throne.
The Garden and the Fall: How Humanity Was Corrupted by False Light
I once had a dream—vivid, disturbing, and lingering in its impact. In it, I was walking through a garden lush with life, but not untouched by danger. Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and the moon, appeared before me. He carried the head of an ibis, that strange bird of sky and marsh, and the body of a man. He was radiant—not with darkness, but with a kind of false brilliance. He was alluring, ancient, intelligent. He came to me not with force, but with invitation. And in that garden, surrounded by serpents, he engaged me sexually. I woke with a spiritual heaviness I could not shake.
At first, the dream might seem like a mere tangle of symbols—a mythology-fed subconscious event. But that’s not what this was. It was not a regular dream, not a product of sleep or stress. It was a vision—one of those rare moments where spirit pierces veil, and revelation arrives wrapped in imagery, heat, and unspoken warning. And the more I reflected on it through the lens of scripture, esoteric symbolism, and spiritual discernment, the more I realized: what I had seen was not just personal. It was cosmic. It was archetypal. It was the story of the Garden all over again.
To understand the message, we have to begin with the Garden—not just Eden in the historical sense, but what the Garden has always represented: the soul’s sacred center. In the beginning, the Garden was a place of divine intimacy. Humanity walked with God there. There was no separation, no shame, no fracture. It was a place of innocence, order, purpose, and perfect communion. Not merely a geographical location, Eden was a spiritual landscape—a representation of the human soul in full alignment with the Divine.
But every sacred space is vulnerable when left unguarded.
Into this inner sanctuary came a serpent. And not with violence, but with a whisper.
“Ye shall not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
This was not an outright lie. That’s what made it so devastating. It was a half-truth—a seduction cloaked in promise. The first humans were not tempted with death or chaos, but with enlightenment. With wisdom. With the divine—but on their own terms.
And this is what I saw again in the dream. Thoth in the garden was the serpent with feathers. A bringer of knowledge, cloaked in light, speaking the language of truth but wrapped around deception. Thoth is not simply a god of ancient Egyptian myth; he is, in many esoteric systems, a bringer of forbidden knowledge. Linked to Hermes Trismegistus, he appears as a master of writing, magic, and mystery. To some, he is a wise scribe. To others, a symbol of enlightenment. But strip away the titles and you find the same ancient figure who whispered in the first woman’s ear: You can be like God.
This figure is not of the Divine, though he mimics it. He is a reflection of Lucifer—the light-bearer who fell from heaven, not because he was ignorant, but because he was proud. Because he wanted the throne, not just proximity. And when I saw Thoth in the garden, engaging in what appeared to be sexual union, I realized that the act was symbolic of something deeper than flesh. In spiritual dreams, sex is not just about desire or carnality—it’s about covenant. It’s about merging. Union. Access. Agreement.
What occurred in that garden was not merely a violation—it was an attempted spiritual initiation, an effort to establish soul ties through counterfeit intimacy. It was seduction cloaked in spiritual authority. It was a false god trying to claim territory that belongs only to the true Creator.
The snakes that surrounded us were not decoration. They were echoes—reminders of Eden, of deception, of the subtle weaving of lies into the language of wisdom. Snakes are symbols of transformation and knowledge, yes, but also of rebellion and hidden danger. They slither low, unseen, until it’s too late. In many cultures, they are protectors of ancient secrets. In scripture, they are the personification of the enemy’s tongue. They are, in every sense, the first false teachers.
The garden in the vision was not Eden in time, but Eden in essence—it was the soul’s secret place. And it had been invaded.
This is how humanity was first corrupted. Not with swords, not with slaughter—but with seduction. With whispers. With the offer of light without the presence of God. And it is happening still. Every person carries a garden within—a spiritual space where God desires to walk, speak, and dwell. But when that garden is left open, when the gates are unguarded, other voices slip in. Voices that sound ancient. Wise. Comforting. Powerful. Voices that offer knowledge and transcendence—but without holiness.
This is the pattern of the fall, repeated in modern forms. Ancient gods repackaged as new-age guides. Occult wisdom dressed up as empowerment. Spirits offering enlightenment, while all they truly offer is enslavement through ego and counterfeit union.
Thoth, in the dream, wore the guise of brilliance. But it was a brilliance that carried weight, not freedom. His head was that of an ibis, a bird that lives between water and air—between the mystery of the subconscious and the clarity of spirit. Birds, like the air, represent spirit in movement. The ibis walks in the shallows—never quite immersed, never quite grounded. It mirrors the spiritual being who travels between realms, delivering knowledge—but not necessarily truth.
The dream revealed what the ancient myths obscure: beings like Thoth are hybrids, not in biology but in symbolism. They blend sky and earth, spirit and flesh, bird and man. They are threshold entities—neither fully fallen nor fully redeemed. And throughout history, these hybrids appear again and again. Lilith, with her owl feet and siren call. Harpies and sirens, seductive destroyers. Baphomet, the monstrous synthesis of male and female, beast and man. They are all images of rebellion—of mixing that which should remain divided. They are perversions of divine order.
What I experienced in the vision wasn’t just personal—it was a reenactment of the ancient corruption that still seeks to repeat itself in every generation. Humanity fell not by accident, but by desire for self-deification. The idea that we could rise without God, ascend without obedience, wield light without Source. This is the very essence of the antichrist spirit: not raw darkness, but false light. It looks like wisdom. It feels like elevation. But it ends in separation, just as Eden ended with exile.
And yet, visions like this do not come to destroy. They come to awaken.
If your garden has been infiltrated—whether through dreams, deception, or spiritual compromise—it can be restored. The lie can be renounced. The union can be broken. What was entered through seduction can be undone by truth.
God gives us discernment not to make us fearful, but to make us free.
When I woke from the vision, I prayed. I broke the tie. I cleansed the garden. And I offer this now, not just as interpretation, but as an act of invitation:
Let God reclaim His space in you. Let your garden be sealed once again—not by ignorance, but by truth. Let the Light that cannot be imitated fill what was once open to seduction.
Because in the end, there is only one true Light. And He does not arrive with feathers or riddles or half-truths.
He comes like the morning. Like the voice in the cool of the day, calling your name.
Guard your garden. Watch for snakes. And walk with the One who made you whole.
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The Moon Between the Circles: The Lunar Mystery of the Vesica Piscis
There is a shape older than language, etched into cathedrals, carved into stone, whispered through symbols known to the soul before the mind. Two circles overlap, and in their union, a third form appears: a portal, an almond, a womb, an eye. It is the Vesica Piscis, the “bladder of the fish,” a sacred form that has radiated spiritual meaning across centuries and traditions. But beneath all its layered interpretations, there remains something constant, something undeniable—this shape is lunar. It belongs to the moon.
Though not a literal crescent, the Vesica Piscis holds the moon in form and function. Look closely. The arch of the curves reflects the gentle sweep of a waxing or waning moon. It is not the full radiance of a circle, nor the absence of a void—it is the between, the passage, the phase. The moon is never still. It reveals itself in portions, always changing yet always whole, and so does the Vesica. It is not the circle of the sun—masculine, singular, absolute. It is the opening between two spheres, the place of mystery. The moon lives here.
In nearly every culture and mystical system, the moon is the domain of the feminine. It governs the tides of water and emotion. It speaks in dreams and silence. It waxes and wanes like the womb itself, holding potential, waiting, becoming. The Vesica Piscis reflects this same rhythm. It has long been understood as a symbol of the Divine Feminine, the holy womb, the matrix through which creation enters matter. In medieval Christian art, the Virgin Mary is often framed inside the Vesica, surrounded by radiant light. This is not accidental. It is the geometric echo of a moonlit gate. It is the shape of conception—not just physical, but divine.
This sacred geometry does not end with Christianity. The symbol reaches further back into the mystery religions and ancient wisdom schools. Isis, the great Egyptian goddess of magic, motherhood, and the moon, bears the lunar throne upon her head. She is the heavenly queen, the opener of hidden realms. The Vesica becomes her doorway. The crescent she wears is not just a sign—it is a cipher. To understand the moon is to understand the veil. And the Vesica is the veil made visible.
There is also a deeper esoteric interpretation. In Hermetic and alchemical traditions, the Vesica Piscis is seen as the result of a sacred union—the merging of opposites, sun and moon, spirit and flesh, heaven and earth. One circle represents the solar, masculine principle. The other, the lunar, feminine principle. Their intersection is not chaos, but creation. The Vesica is where new life begins. It is the place where spirit enters form. It is the secret of incarnation.
But it is also the portal of return. The moon does not only receive light—it reflects it. It governs the hidden side of spiritual work: intuition, vision, and initiation. The Vesica, like the moon, does not shout—it reveals itself in phases, in glimpses, to the patient and the prayerful. It is not for the proud, but for the mystic. Not for the loud, but for the listening.
In the architecture of Gothic cathedrals, the Vesica appears in rose windows and arches. It opens a space for light to enter colored glass, transforming sunbeams into story. In sacred geometry, it becomes the starting point of the Flower of Life, the Tree of Life, the structures of cosmos encoded in proportion. And in all these instances, it whispers the same thing: there is a mystery between the visible and invisible. A moon between two suns. A passage between worlds.
We live in a world that has forgotten how to speak the language of symbols. But symbols never forget us. They return in dreams. They resurface in visions. They call us back to what we once knew. The Vesica Piscis is not just a shape. It is a mirror of the moon, a vessel for the divine, a signpost pointing toward what is veiled but waiting.
The moon does not shine with its own light. It reflects the light of the sun, just as the soul reflects the light of its Source. And in that reflection, there is wisdom. There is rhythm. There is rebirth.
To meditate on the Vesica Piscis is to remember the moon’s gentle power—not a power that conquers, but one that opens. Not the harsh light of noon, but the soft glow of revelation. Not a shout, but a sigh from heaven. And in that silence, something is always being born.
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