With the 8/8/08 Olympics around the corner Olympic symbolism is in the air.
Olympic Torch & Rings Origins
The symbols
By William J. Kole.
The most beloved emblems of the modern Olympics have a decidedly dark past.
The
torch relay that culminates in the ceremonial lighting of the flame at
Olympic stadium was ordered by Adolf Hitler, who tried to turn the
1936 Berlin Games into a celebration of the Third Reich.
And it was Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine that popularized the five interlocking rings as the symbol of the Games.Today, both are universally recognized icons of the Olympics.
But historians say neither had much, if anything, to do with the Games born centuries ago in Ancient Olympia."The
torch relay is so ingrained in the modern choreography that most
people today assume it was a revival of a pagan tradition - unaware
that it was actually concocted for Hitler's Games in Berlin," author
Tony Perrottet writes in a new book, The Naked Olympics.
A
sacred flame did burn 24 hours a day at Olympia. And relay racers
passed a torch to light a sacrificial cauldron at some other ancient
festivals. But the ancient Greeks opened their Olympics by word of
mouth, sending heralds - not torchbearers - running through the streets.
The
modern tradition of spiriting the Olympic torch to the main stadium
didn't become a fixture of the Games until 1936, when a 12-day run
opened the Games in Berlin.The Olympic rings, another universally
recognized symbol of the games since they made their debut in 1920 at
Antwerp, Belgium, have their own Nazi connection.
Originally,
they were designed in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the IOC
and father of the modern Olympic movement, for a 1914 World Olympic
Congress in Paris. They were supposed to symbolize the first five
Olympics, but the congress disbanded when Archduke Ferdinand of Austria
was assassinated in Sarajevo, triggering World War I.
Leni Riefenstahl, the Olympia
filmmaker who also chronicled Hitler's rise to power, had the rings
carved into a stone altar at the ancient Greek city of Delphi, spawning
the myth that they were a symbol dating more than two millennia.With
Hitler's influence, the rings became part of the Nazi pageantry at
Berlin - and they've come to symbolize the Olympics ever since. (Link)
Olympic Marketing Symbolism
1972:
Mascot: Waldi
1976:
Mascot: Amik
1980:
Mascot: Misha
1984:
Mascot:
1988:
Mascot: Hodori
1992:
Mascot: Kobi
1996
Mascot: Izzy
Atlanta Monuments
The Bombing:
Centennial
Olympic Park was designed as the "town square" of the Olympics, and
thousands of spectators had gathered for a late concert by the band Jack
Mack and the Heart Attack.
Sometime after midnight,
Rudolph planted a green military ALICE pack (knapsack) containing three
pipe bombs surrounded by nails underneath a bench near the base of a
concert sound tower. He then left the area. The pack had a directed
charge and could have done more damage but it was tipped over at some
point.
Security
guard Richard Jewell discovered the bag and alerted Georgia Bureau of
Investigation officers; 9 minutes later, Rudolph called 911 to deliver a
warning. Jewell and other security guards began clearing the immediate
area so that a bomb squad could investigate the suspicious package. At
1:20am, the bomb exploded.
A Georgia woman named
"Alice
"
Hawthorne, was killed by a nail that struck her in the head. The bomb
wounded 111 others. Turkish cameraman Melih Uzunyol died from a heart
attack he suffered while running to cover the blast.
Alice (Bomb) kills herself (Alice Hawthorne).
2000:
Mascot: Olly, Syo and Millie
2002:
Mascot: Copper, Powder and Coal
2004:
Mascot: Athena & Phevos
2008
The Olympics in 2008 are now in China and have brought recent controversy over the Tibetan ordeal.
Here we have zeros and 8's designed into octagons on the Golden Gate bridge in protest of China. The One world, One dream is also the theme for this years Olympics and that of the "New World Order".
Mascots: The 5 Elements
2008: Eternal Flame [Phoenix] Torch relay:
2008 Stadiums:
The "Water Cube"
&
"The Birds Nest"
"According to the Zohar, the earthly Paradise was called "The Bird's Nest". The Messiah would reveal himself in Galilee. A star of all colours would appear in the East, the power of the Messiah would be made manifest, and the Messiah would enter his place, The Bird's Nest, where angels would offer him gifts. The Bird's Nest occupies the central Sephira, Tiphareth, on the branches of the Tree of Life, where the phoenix's egg will hatch."
(Link)
2008: Presidential Candidates
McCain (from Phoenix) and Obama (First Black Phoenix?)
2008: Hancock
To
be released in one month is Hancock starring Will 2k Smith.
Hancock
resonates 1776 with John Hancock and the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, "The Foundation of America". Hancock now in 2008 is
symbolized by the Nation's Symbol of the Phoenix known as the Bald Eagle, and exoterically
this eagle (Hancock) is black, alluding to a "new" foundation and Barak Obama?
2012: Zion
Zion
Land of the Chosen:
Zion
is a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its
capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three
millennia. It commonly referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem
(Mount Zion), on which stood a Jebusite fortress of the same name that
was conquered by David and was named the City of David.
The
term Zion came to designate the area of Jerusalem where the fortress
stood, and later became a metonym for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the
city of Jerusalem and the entire Promised Land to come, in which,
according to the Hebrew Bible, God dwells among his chosen people.
Then
theres also Zionism, a political movement and an ideology that
supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where
the Jewish nation originated over 3,200 years ago and where Jewish
kingdoms and self-governing states existed up to the 2nd century AD.
While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the
Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally
secular, beginning largely as a response to rampant antisemitism in
Europe during the 19th century. After a number of advances and
setbacks, and after the Holocaust had destroyed Jewish society in
Europe, the Zionist movement culminated in the establishment of the
State of Israel in 1948 and succeeded in reaching the zionist dream or
goal.
The Matrix:
Zion
is a fictional place in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on
the planet Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between humankind and
sentient Machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the
world.
Ethiopia:
For
Rastafarians, Zion is to be found in Africa, and more specifically in
Ethiopia, where the term is also in use. Some Rastas believe themselves
to represent the real Children of Israel in modern times, and their goal
is to repatriate to Africa, or to Zion.
I find it
interesting that Ethiopia would be referred to as Zion when one of its
Canonized books of scripture is the Book of Enoch which isn't canonized
in the Catholic Church as its the book which goes into detail about
Enoch (Thoth/Mercury/Hermes/) the 7th from Adam who walked with God and
never died. (Book of Enoch also covers a more detailed account of the
Watchers/Nephilim/Giants/Annunuki/Fallen Angels)
Nephilim
are beings who appear in the Hebrew Bible, specifically in the Book of
Genesis, and are also mentioned in other Biblical texts and in some
non-canonical Jewish writings. Genesis Chapter 6, verses 1 through 4
describe the origin of the Nephilim:
- "Now
it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and
daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters
of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever
they chose. Then the LORD
said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is
flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." The
Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the
sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to
them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
While
this book today does not form part of the Canon of Scripture for most
of the Christian Churches, it was quoted as a prophetic text in the New
Testament (Letter of Jude with also a probable reference in I Peter
3:19,20 to Enoch 6-36, especially 21, 6; 2 Enoch 7:1-5) and by many of
the early Church Fathers, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church regards it
to be inspired Scripture. The currently known texts of this work are
usually dated during the Second Temple period, between the fourth/third
century BC and the first century AD.
2012: XXX
The
Olympics in 2012 will also be the 30 Olympiad Games resonating XXX,
Which the movie version besides porn features Vin Diesel.
Who [Vin Diesel] is also staring in a new movie called Babylon A.D.
released on August 28, 2008, which involves another Messianic/Zion plot
in New York.
"Babylon = Land of the Bad
Zion = Land of the Good"
Prince Will is also 30 yr old (XXX) in 2012: The New Fresh Prince [King]?
"Aquarius Initiation"
Through the Looking Glass New York (Babylon) [2001] too London (Zion) [2012].
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