Up To The Land

In the James Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only", the character named KRISTatos

informs the viewer:

Milos Columbo. His name came up in connection with a smuggling operation last

year.  That's the least of his offenses. Drugs, white slavery, contract murder.  In

the Greek underworld, he is known as "the Dove."  A very sick joke.

Leaving behind the murky world of fiction, where everything is "based on a true

story", we venture into the supposedly liberating world of history, where fact is

often concealed.  We turn our attention to a man whose name means "Dove", as if

some kind of "sick joke":  Titus the Destroyer, known officially as Titus Flavius

Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, well-known to anyone who has read Flavius

Josephus' "The Wars of the Jews".  This is "the son" of the

General-turned-Emperor Vespasian.  Commissioned by his father to carry on

the Roman war in Galilee and Judaean and to lay siege to Jerusalem, "Hawk"

would have been a far better name for the man.

Where do we learn that Titus means "Dove"?  On page 130 of

"Our Italian Surnames", by Joseph Guerin Fucilla, we find that "[t]he Romans

enjoyed conferring bird names upon their fellow men such as Titus, dove,

Gaius, magpie, Gallus, rooster..." etc.  (There was a Cestius Gallus, a Roman

General that Vespasian replaced, a contemporary of the resistance leader

Simon, making us wonder if this is the cock that crowed three times when Simon

Peter denied "Jesus".)

Given what we now know about the name "Titus", we can make some sense out

of the scene of the baptism of "Jesus" by "John", where "the Spirit" descends "in

the form of" or "like" a dove.  The authors of the Christian "Gospels" or "Good

News" accounts are informing us that "Jesus the Savior" is none other than "Titus

the Destroyer".  (Inversion is the simplest of methods of hiding the truth.)  The

Roman Flavian family (consisting of Vespasian, Titus and Domitian), who reigned

as Roman Emperor until the end of the "First Century" are sharing an inside joke

with the Roman elites about how they were able to con some of the Jews into

worshiping the Emperor, a mere man, as Diius ("God").

The connection in the Christian scriptures doesn't end there.  The Hebrew word

for "dove" is יונה "Jonah".  With this in hand, we can no make better sense out of

another "Jesus saying" that is typically interpreting in an altogether different

fashion than what we will arrive at, "There shall be no sign given ... but the sign of

Jonas the prophet."  Note that while the other 3 Gospel narratives associate this

answer to a request for a sign from heaven with the "signs of the times", namely

the impending destruction of Jerusalem, the Gospel of Mark makes no mention

of Jonas.  This actually supports my theory that the Gospel of Mark is indeed the

Priority text (i.e., the first of the canonical Gospels), as scholarly consensus goes,

and that it was probably authored by Vespasian (Marcus Aurelius-style, meaning

"on the battlefield", as the later Aurelius is supposed to have done with his Stoic

philosophical work "Meditations") or one of his people, since it makes no mention

of his son "Jonas".

So what was this sign of Jonas the prophet?  Well, we know that the prophet Jonah

went to non-Jewish Nineveh to warn it that it would be destroyed if it didn't repent.

The inversion of this is a non-Jewish Titus going to a Jewish Jerusalem to warn it

about the destruction which he would carry out if it didn't follow his orders.  Titus

the Destroyer was the "Second Coming" of "Jesus", the literary gloss of a Dovish

Messiah that was retrofitted to recent Jewish history.  As with the expectations

concerning "Jesus" at his "Second Coming" that are often held by fundamentalist

Christians, Titus played the role of Conqueror, Destroyer and Judge.

Much more can be said on this and related subjects and I hope to do so at a later

date.  I owe mountains of credit to the work of Robert Eisenman, Joseph Atwill

and Cliff Carrington (and to a lesser degree, Barbara Thiering), without whom I

may not have been able to make these and other important connections.

Thursday, July 7, 2011