GUADALUPE THE BABYLONIAN GODDESS

 

Apostle Dr. Gabriel Sanchez Velázquez and his
son Adi

By decree of Pope John Paul II given in 2002 in Mexico during the canonization of the mythological character (who never existed) called Juan Diego and who now has become a bearded Indian, with a refined nose and wavy hair; the myth of the Virgin of Guadalupe should become the most distinguished name under which Semiramis is known and venerated in Latin America.

Not until the beginning of 17th century in Mexico had anyone heard about the apparition of Guadalupe.  In 1810 when Priest Hidalgo took the banner of Guadalupe as his flag in the Battle of Independence of Mexico, what is not said is that the Spanish took the image of the Our Lady of Remedies who at that time was more known, powerful and venerated by the Mexican population.

With the passage of time, until recent decades, Guadalupe was the religious myth most popular in Mexico, but now there is a constant infiltration of religions of Guadalupe in all the Latin-American countries. Before the end of this century, if Christ does not come first, the 12th of December will be a religious day that is obligatory to observe in all Latin America. We submit ourselves to the tests. It is one of the thousand strategies of the Roman clergy to halt the advance of the Christian Evangelical Churches.

In this Huejotzingo's convent,
 one finds the Guadalupe's first painting,
 painted before 1531

But, how did this myth of Guadalupe appear? Although this question should be answered in a separate book, I should note here that several centuries before the Spanish conquest of Mexico, in the hill of Tepeyac, the place where later it was said that Guadalupe appeared, was situated one of the most important religious centers in all Mesoamerica. There they gave homage to Semiramis in the name of TONANTZIN, which in the Náhuatl language of the Aztecs, means: OUR MOTHER, mother of all, and had the connotation of being the mother of God.  She was a virgin and a mother. I underline, virgin and mother, because it is a perfect copy of the Babylonian Semiramis. We remember what was established in the previous chapter, which due to its importance, I transcribe again. In the book Strange Sects and Religious Cults on page 12, also mentioned in the book Babylonian Religious Mystery on page 21, it says: “But not taking into account the name or place, she was the wife of Baal, the virgin-queen of heaven who gave fruit without having conceived”.

Tepeyac was one of the most well known places of prehispanic worship in all America. There is historical evidence that there were pilgrimages from Peru and all Central America to the hill of Tepeyac, in addition to the inhabitants of Mexico, to worship Tonantzin on the 12 of December.

How did they do it? With small drums, dances, and with flowers and birds with bright plumage. Furthermore the natives had to do it because Tonantzin, apart from being “our mother”, was the mother of all gods. When the Franciscan monks wanted to oppose the worship of Tonantzin by putting in its place the original Virgin of Guadalupe that is in Extramadura, Spain, and to whom Hernán Cortés the conqueror of Mexico was devout, because he was originally from there, THEY DID NOT SUCCEED. Guadalupe was the goddess of the oppressor. The Indians despised her. (At the entrance of the old Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico, on the right side, today is the original Spanish Virgin of Guadalupe, and her head is inclined in the opposite direction of the “Indian” Guadalupe who was depicted later.)

Therefore an Indian named Valeriano painted two images with the same indigenous features. One is in the dome of the convent in Huejotzingo, Puebla and the other is wrapped in a peasant’s cloak (but not in cloth of maguey fiber as they have said) and placed on the hill of Tepeyac in a modest chapel forgotten for decades. Even though some monks tell the Indians it is Tonantzin, her name is Guadalupe.

The image of Guadalupe, identical to the one in Tepeyac, remained covered with lime in the dome of the abandoned convent of Huejotzingo until the remodeling of this colonial building was ordered at the end of last century.

Little by little, the Indians were identifying Guadalupe with there old goddess, which had been lost in  the conquest battle, and she became the psychological consolation of the pressure of the Spanish power over the Indian.

Juan de Zumárraga, the first bishop of Mexico during the time which priests say Guadalupe appeared and left her image in the maguey cloth of Juan Diego who at once took it to the bishop in Tlatelolco, wrote to King Fernando many letters and reports; even with details of a fire on the altarpiece of the Franciscan church on Madero Avenue next to the current Latin American Tower in the city of Mexico, but says nothing of the  apparitions of Guadalupe. Besides, on the date that the apparitionist priests say that Guadalupe appeared and her image was taken to Juan de Zumárraga, he was in Spain to give an important report. How was he in Spain and also received an audience with the mythological Indian Juan Diego?

Guadalupe is not an Náhuatl term, but Arabic. It means WOLF RIVER. Guadalupe is the Virgin of the River of Wolf River. As was already said, the original is found in Extremadura. And it reflects the cultural influence of the Moors (as were called the Muslims that dominated Spain).

Currently the party for the “Most Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of Mexico and Empress of America, is for the mother of God. She is the most miraculous virgin and has been crowned as an empress, since the beginning of last century, in a crude way. Since it is a painting and not a sculptured idol as the Babylonians and Roman-Catholic virgins commonly are, they hung a beautiful gold crown with a knot in front of the peasant’s cloak that came up to her head.

So each time more emphasis is being placed on this special religious time of the year that is from December 12th, when the Virgin appeared, until December 25th when the Virgin gave birth.

With this complex process and curious religious crossing of races, are added “the nativities” that in all the Catholic world and now also in the Episcopal and Lutheran world they put up. The nativities are an invention of Francis of Assisi.  Did you know that in the first thousand years of Christianity a nativity was never put up for the 25th of December?

Therefore the Christmas celebration exalts more Semiramis than any other goddess. In the nativities the small figure of the “God child” has come to be another element which is overshadowed by the Virgin.

But under the revelation of the Holy Spirit, the born again Christians hear the voice that says: “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4).

Another important contrast should be made: An unbeliever, the more Catholic they are the more Marian; but for those born again, we are Christians that have the living Christ as the center of our faith and our worship.