Eso’s Chronicles 394
War Against Byzantium
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1 Of King’s of Jews and/or Luhds?

The discovery of the origins of the Jewry in Khazaria brings to head another mystery. Why should John or Jesus become kings of lowlife?

Answer: Because ‘lowlife’ is consequent to the creation of the ‘elite’, which is the result of the taxation of the ludi, who were the people of the wood and who earned their keep as herders of reindeer. When the original tax, the skin and fur of reindeer, and a little later, the fur of almost any wildlife animal, made a select bunch Vikings and their imitators wealthy (which set them apart from the egalitarian people of the wood), these proto-oligarchs or oligarchs obscenus—not unlike the oligarchs of today—created a union of their own or, better, the oligarch obscenus created about him a court of people, who due to their privileges were not herders, but idlers.

It was these idlers who had the exquisite sense that their positions were insecure indeed, which is why they promoted the idea that the oligarchs were more entitled to be kings than the kings of old. This relationship between the oligarch and his court, the latter which (both) came known as the a mutual admiration society. This society is not all that different from the relationship of a government bureaucracy of today to the top elites of government (presidents, generals, ministers, senators of the supreme court, department heads, etc.). While theoretically a member of a government bureaucracy may vote for whoever he she wishes, come election time, it is unimaginable that he she would not vote for the incumbent, because if this were to be, then—off with his her head, i.e., a cushy government job is exchanged for the status of one a homeless.

Thus, slowly at first, but at an increasing pace, the secular king (the oligarch) began to dismiss the ‘sacred king’ (rex sacer) and push him to the sidelines, where he (generally a male of our species) gradually became identified with a mere homo sacer—a sacred but bare and discredited human being.

The destruction, indeed elimination, of Rex Sacer (by the grace of God) by the oligarch, aka Pontius (the torturer in Slavic languages) gradually brings great changes in society. One of the major changes by Rex Obscaenus (the King of Filth) is the creation of ‘democracy’, which though seemingly an equalizer of status, actually favors the ‘free market’ and ‘globalist’ ideology, which serves the oligarchs by making the common man, the ludi, a co-participant in the destruction of the community. The latter done by reducing his her status to that of a consumer of products fabricated by oligarch cartels.

None of the above happened without resistance by the Ludi. Nevertheless, the Ludi are the losers, because with the loss of Rex Sacer, they have lost their former authority and power to dismiss taxation as a hoax pulled on them by the secular rulers.

Moreover, even if the ludi wished to return to the wood (as they did in Eastern Europe as recently as WW2), this cannot be done easily, because over the course of many centuries, even since the early Middle Ages, the ruling secular elite has deliberately destroyed the wood (claiming this to be necessary for the welfare of the People—lest they freeze, or go without a roof over their heads, or be ‘terrorized’ by the Wolves—the Resistance—taking refuge in the Wood), and in one way or another  stuffed the people into cities. These of course are but abstracted deserts, where creativity has become destructive and is being used solely to make the creators, the creative ones, whether artists or inventors, more Money.

The struggle of the Ludi against Rex Obscenus did not go unnoted in literature. We all know the reflection of the story in the story of Jesus Christ (though in corrupted form), though we know almost nothing of the story of John Basil (King) of the Ludi. Yet another famous version is the story of King Oedipus, which Freud, the famous psychologist, and his school of thought corrupted so thoroughly by their interpretation that the story conveys a story of incest, that it has become almost beyond recovery.

Still, if the reader wishes to understand that the story (and play) is actually a story of the story of the murder of Rex Sacer (Laius) by Homo Sacer (Oedipus), I encourage a read of my version at http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com/

Eso’s Chronicles 393
War Against Byzantium
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Our Continuing Contempt for Ludites

Most everyone has heard of the Ludites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite. Most of us surely have believed them to have been fools, who did not know better than go break the machines of our wonderful Age of the Machine.

Yet were they such fools? And who were these people?

As the above link tells us, we refuse to acknowledge the whence or the true origin of the name ‘Ludi’, which mystery can soon be cleared by searching the Gogaloo library for names beginning with ‘ludi’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi .

See? The link tells us that ‘ludi’ were public games in Latin Rome.

So were the Ludites playing games when they broke the machine looms which came to replace the thousands of artisans not only in England but the world over, who earned their own and the keep of their families as weavers? Not likely.

But when we read on and discover that the public games were for the entertainment of the Roman people, it soon comes to mind that we are faced with a clear reversal of ‘intelligence’. In other words, it is not that the public games (ludi) are for the Roman people, but it is the Roman people (ludi) who are watching public games. Thus, we come to realize that ludi actually refers to people, not games.

This confusion is deliberately sown. Here is why.

Most of us know that the famous inscription INRI which we see above the head of the crucified Jesus, when spelled in full, reads (in Latin): “Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum or in English ‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’”. Now let us take a closer look at the word Iūdaeōrum, i.e. Jews. What if the vowel I should be the consonant L? If so, then the word reads: Lūdaeōrum, which does not mean ‘Jew’, but ‘people’. Which brings us to  discover that the ancient name for Jews originally was People, re: Lūdi.

Sometime in the second millennium there occurred a shift from the consonant L to the consonant R. A city formerly known as Amsteldam became known as Amsterdam; Līga (meaning an Association) became known as Rīga; etc. Grammarians further classify this shift as either a regular or sporadic change. http://www.nativlang.com/linguistics/historical-sound-changes.php (check out the video). There can be numerous reasons why such changes occur, but one for sure is grounded in social prejudice.

To wit: if L becomes associated with the lower class (or what comes to be presumed to be lower class), but R with upper class royalty, then a given society accustomed to the use of L may presume to pronounce all L sounds as R sounds. For example, the common sound of la-la-la of a song, may become ra-ra-ra or a compromise of  tral-la-la.

Besides, we have evidence of the meaning of ‘ludi’ in other languages. In German, people = Leute; in Latvian it is ‘ļaudis’ (lyaudis); the word is also reflected in names, for example, King Ludwig means King of the People; the name is also reflected in the name Louis, one being the French Louis XVI, a king who supported the Revolution, but was nevertheless guillotined by the educated elite, while the ludi still dipped their handkerchiefs in the king's blood.

In other words, Jesus or King John of the Jews, used to mean, in the common language of the people, John the King of the People or King of Ludi. But ‘ludi’ became associated with a dislike or prejudice, which may have caused ‘ludi’ to be pronounced ‘lūdi’, re lewd, meaning low, mean, smelly, shitty (suhdi in Latvian), etc. It is not a far step from lewd to contempt for either yuhd (German: Jude) or Ludite.

If we follow this logic, then ‘Lūdaeōrum’ or the people may have become a too high a pedigree, which needed to be taken down a peg or more, which is why L was changed to I and the word came to be read as ‘Iūdaeōrum’ or J/Y Jews or, to be brutally frank, John was caused to became king of dogs. Not only king of the dogs of Khazaria, the kingdom of the original Jews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_theory_of_Ashkenazi_ancestry , but of all kingdoms, where the King had been instated by the people.

The idea of Israel being located in Khazaria was originally popularized in 1976 by the well known Jewish writer Arthur Koestler in his book, “The Thirteenth Tribe.” Due to the controversy that followed the book, Koestler,  hounded by the negative reaction of Zionists, may have committed suicide, which his wife joined him in http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2574 .

Eso’s Chronicles 326 / 2
Odds and Ends
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HOW DOES ‘GENU’ BECOME ‘IESU’? (1 of 4)

Anyone who reads my blogs, probably knows that I am hooked on calling Jesus (INRI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus,_King_of_the_Jews ) as John Basil. Now that Easter is upon us, it may be the time to return to the question ‘why?’

The main question does not center on the name of ‘basil’ or ‘king’, because the words clearly are a translation from Greek into English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_(name) . Still, it is interesting that if the S in the name ‘Vasil’ (from which derives ‘Basil’) is substituted by an N, we get ‘Vanil’. So, how do we get the S sound become an N sound? The answer is that Basil is the name also for a king of the herbs used in food seasoning; and if we continue to think of the name in terms of flavors, it is easy to transfer Basil to Vanil.

Speaking of letters, it also seems that the letter I in the word ‘Iūdaeōrum’ in the acronym INRI (Latin: Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum) should be substituted with the letter L, in which case the acronym reads ‘Lūdaeōrum’, which means ‘King of the People’ not Jews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi . This common misreading in religious text is clearly a politically motivated misreading. The word ‘Lūdaeōrum’ has with time undergone many changes. For example, in German the name for People is ‘Leute’, also King Ludwigs name means King of the People, whereas in Latvian it is ‘ljaudis’. We ought not be surprised that originally the name Jew meant Ludi, the People, which is whence also the English name for those who were against the Age of the Machine, re Ludites.

Since I am not a grammarian or a linguist, but a lay person, who for his own cultural and political reasons finds the changes of sound or phonetics in words interesting and worth while a pursuit, I do not feel bound to scholarly method, but go my own way—sometimes taking a wrong turn. Then again, the turn may take me not only from Vasil to Basil to Vanil, or from Jew to Leute, but it can introduce a line of thought that appear to be persuasive enough to change the direction of all of Western history.

My inspiration or motivation to persist in the (?questionable) pursuit, is that by preconceiving that the name of ‘Jesus’ (Iesu) was originally the name ‘John’ (Ian) on the basis of no more than a ‘wild guess’ and contrariness, I arrived at a theory that disputes the entire history of the West as a False Flag event. True, the original hint came by way of reading Anatoly Fomenko’s book “History: Fiction or Science?” Fomenko is a Russian mathematician specializing in topology, the latter which he uses to create what he calls a  ‘new chronology’ that aims to ‘rewrite’ and topple the Scaligerian history that was originated by the Catholic Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Fomenko .

I received an additional impetus for my ‘rewrites’ from the fact that my ancestors arrived in Latvia from the region of Croatia or thereabout after the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden, which wae ended in Livonia in 1710. My forebears came here as Herrnhuters, a ‘deviant’ Christian sect with roots in the Jan Hus movement of the 15^th century, which movement may itself be a derivative of the early Eastern Christian sect known as the Bogomils. The Bogomils were exterminated by the Catholics in the 14^th century, at which point the remnant went underground and became the stimulus of later ‘Protestant’ movements. Interestingly, the Bogomils were able to survive a little longer in the Croatia region due to support for it by local princes, whom the Catholic Church—for reasons of its own politics—left to themselves. While the Herrnhuters were ‘exterminated’ for reasons of church politics in Latvia, they survive today as the Moravian Church in North Carolina, the U.S. http://www.moravian.org/the-moravian-church/the-moravian-church/history.html and a few other places.

In any event, the Herrnhuters came to Latvia on the invitation of a local German baroness (from the town of Valmiera) to revive the civil society (composed mostly of wood dwelling people and nascent peasants) after the trauma of the war, which left the northern region of what is now Latvia nearly without a population. The ‘new’ population arrived from what is now eastern Latvia, a region named Latgale, then mostly Catholic and land starved, because the families of Latgalians tended to have many children.

The Herrnhuters, who arrived in Livonia in 1739, ‘reeducated’ the remnant and the new arrivals, and in the process of teaching and preaching, created the foundation of a new and revitalized culture—that of the Latvians. This achievement was later taken from them by a jealous Lutheran church, which used the Herrnhuter connection to the German overlords in the post-French Revolutionary period (1789-1799) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution to politically exterminate them often by making use of the tool of the Inquisition: fire. My family history is intimately tied to this history: my grandfather (whose mother was falsely accused of burning down her husband’s inn), when he was himself denied and frustrated as a would-be Herrnhuter preacher, turned to choir directing, teaching, and later (at early middle age) founded a newspaper that played a significant role in helping shape the character of the Latvian national. This is not to say that the Herrnhuters were unsympathetic to the emerging ‘new age’ ideas. My grandfathers own grandfather, married a local woman named Anna, born 1770. While her maiden name remains unknown, she is proudly listed (I presume in the church wedding calendar) as “the daughter of Liberts” (Liberta meita), i.e., the daughter of a free man, one not bound as a serf to a local baron.

As the Latvians, after gaining independence, attempted to further guess and shape their characteristics, they were as exposed to the unknown as we all are, but since they had been effectively under foreign domination since the 12^th century, there was very little direct input about their history from their own. This made history for Latvians the Great Unknown. The Christian Eastern Church claimed influence going back to the 11^th century from the ‘Eastern Orthodox Church’, while the ‘Western’ church claimed arrival in the 12^th century from Luebeck, Germany. The latter, having arrived with Bishop Alberts, in or about 1201, claims to be the founder of Riga, now the capital of Latvia.

Bishop Albert also managed to soon (1208) wage a Crusade against King Visvaldis of Jersika (possibly a colloquialism for Jerusalem). The crusade coincided with the Crusade of the Catholic Church, begun that same year, against the Cathars in Languedoc in southern France. Was there no spiritual or cultural connection between these two geographical sites?

Due to the political influence of the Lutheran church—which paradoxically based its influence on the dominant position of the Baltic Germans until an agreement between Hitler’s Reich and Stalin’s Soviet Union, caused most of them to leave for Germany—the connection between the Cathar Church in Languedoc (who many say had an affinity with the Bogomils) and the destruction of Jersika, Latvia, was never investigated.

As a consequence, such early Christian influences in proto-Latvia, the ‘new’ Latvians (of the 20^th century) chose to believe (in spite of circumscribed and limited evidence to support the theory) that their ancestors had been bound to archaic Gods. Hence, many call themselves ‘pagans’ to this day. This new pseudo-religion of ‘true believers’ (Dievturi), in spite of the group’s small membership, held strong sway over the Latvian community’s subconscious even among the refugees from the Soviet Regime in North America and the renewed Latvian State (1991-…). Again, since the Lutheran church often acted as a center for the community of refugees abroad, the ‘pagan’ element was given leave be, because it provided no competition worth mentioning to the ‘established’ church or faith.

The status quo in Latvian culture remains in place ever since the Herrnhuters were pushed aside by the Lutherans, about the middle of the 19^th century to this day. For example, no one wishes to notice that ‘pagan’ is a word that is not a synonym of the word ‘heathen’, but is conjunct of two words, re: ‘pa’ + ‘ian’ or in Latvian pa-Jānis. ‘Pa-’ is often used in conjunction with a prefix to a word if the user wishes to diminish the status of the addressed—be it a living or inert object.

( To be continued.)