The Saros Regicide Comes To Eagle Pass

The current incident between State of Texas and Fedgov at Eagle Pass, TX has all the hallmarks of political theater. A migration problem the size of North America, and it’s unfolding on one tiny little stage? Bullshit, and putting the nuts in that bullshit is Gov. Abbott recruiting more Pajeets to invade Texas from India while the charade plays out. One wonders if this is some kind of political honeypot. Half the states in the Union are sending token police/National Guard forces to back up Texas, not enough to made a dime’s worth of difference, but enough for Fedgov to accuse those state governments of being “inshurrectionistic” or something. I’m just sayin’, the J6 Commission has exhausted its original mandate and needs more Not-Sees, quickly, in order to justify its continued existence. It gets so tedious, and yet, I feel like I’m missing… something…

The 2024 Eclipse is Coming to Eagle Pass, TX!

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Eagle Pass is in the path of totality for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024. Visit Eagle Pass to experience approximately 4m 23.6s of totality - an incredible site to behold! Our website will be updated frequently with event information and detailed directions for how to make the most of your viewing experience. Click for more information.

There’ll be a solar eclipse visible in the USA this year, and the town at which it’ll enter the United States, is Eagle Pass, TX, where this immigration theater is playing out.

Coincidences require scrutiny.

Many religions attach various interpretations to eclipses, but both Noses and Masons are neo-Babylonian. I wouldn’t expect Catholic-oriented Jesuits to care much. Gov. Abbott being in India recruiting fresh slaves at the moment, I checked Hindu teachings, and it’s just Shiva demons devouring the sun then burning their tongues on it. I’ve no idea how anybody can believe in Hinduism.

A fact about Babylonians: they were serious astronomers.

WHAT IS THE SAROS CYCLE AND HOW DOES IT FORETELL ECLIPSES?

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By Graham Jones, 24 January 2018

We do not know the name of the astronomer. Nor do we know precisely when, where, or how the discovery was made. But we do know that, 2½ millennia ago, a Babylonian astronomer realized that eclipses come in cycles that are [6,585.32] days long. Today, Babylon — once the largest city in the world — lies in ruins. But the eclipse cycles, which we call the saros, continue to beat their slow, relentless rhythm…

Since successive eclipses in a saros cycle take place in different parts of the globe, how did the Babylonians, who didn't travel much beyond the region that is modern-day Iraq, discover the pattern? The answer is that saros cycles apply to lunar eclipses as well as solar eclipses — and a lunar eclipse can be observed from across half the globe. The Babylonians' clay tablets contained a record of half of all the lunar eclipses that occurred.

Next question: what was the religious significance of those predictable eclipses?

“Whack the stunt double”, you say?

The Solar Eclipse and the Substitute King

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By Sarah Graff, 30 August 2017

Excitement, curiosity, and the fear of an irresistible impulse to look directly at the sun were all common responses to this month's total solar eclipse. But for those familiar with the world of ancient Iraq, another association comes immediately to mind: the ritual of the substitute king.

The story of the substitute king and his queen is a tragedy driven by fear, awe of the gods, and the uniquely important status of the (real) king. It begins with the achievements of ancient astronomers and priests, whose observations of the sky and of the phenomena of the earth formed the basis for one of the most important areas of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia, that of divination…

One of the most serious omens was a solar eclipse, which predicted grave danger for the ruler of the area of the world in which it appeared. Ancient Mesopotamian astronomers had developed the knowledge to accurately predict eclipses with a high degree of precision. Once an eclipse was predicted and the area in which it would appear had been identified, the court and the priests took action. If the eclipse took place over Assyria, for instance, the Assyrian king would be in danger, and for the king to be in danger put the entire power structure of the kingdom at risk. So a substitute would be put in his place—literally, a substitute king, or šar pûhi (shar PU-khee) in Akkadian, the language of the Assyrian court and its official documents.

The substitute king did not have to look like the real king, but had to be a man. After he was selected, he was dressed in the king's garment, declared to be the king, and made to participate in other rituals investing him with royal identity. He was also given a young woman as a queen. After this, the true king withdrew from public view until danger had passed. The substitute king and queen were offered as sacrifices for the evil fate that was destined for the true king, taking it on themselves while he remained safely hidden. Like the moment of the eclipse, when both moon and sun are visible in the same place, the substitute king and the true king coexisted only briefly. Once the dangerous time had passed, the substitute king and queen were killed, the true king re-emerged, and the ritual was complete.

Some accounts tried to paint this as the inspiration for Christ’s crucifixion. It clearly is not. In fact, a king killing a random person in order to save himself from death, because he had angered the gods, is nearly the exact opposite of Christ’s example.

With just a moment’s reflection, you’ll surely consider that if there’s TWO legit kings at the time of a solar eclipse… and only one of them gets to live… the puppet has a window of opportunity.

How Sumerians named substitute kings during eclipses and the custom survived even in Alexander’s time

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By Guillermo Carvajal, 23 September 2020

Between 1805 and 1799 B.C. (according to short chronology) or 1868 and 1861 B.C. (according to medium chronology) King Erra-Imitti ruled in the Sumerian city-state of Isin in present-day Iraq (about 20 miles south of Nippur).

His name comes to mean something as a follower of Erra, who was a god of war, riots and political chaos that Babylonians called the plague god.

That sounds disturbingly close to modern events.

After eight years of reign, one day the priests announced that an eclipse was coming. So Erra-Imitti, as usual, sought who could occupy his throne while the phenomenon lasted, otherwise it would mean his death. He found one of his gardeners called Enlil-bani.

On the appointed day Enlil-bani was crowned king and sat on the throne awaiting his fate, which was none other than to be sacrificed at the end of the eclipse. But something unexpected happened. While taking Erra-Imitti’s place, the king waited patiently eating a hot oatmeal broth. And suddenly he fell dead. Perhaps because of a heart attack, perhaps for another reason.

He died of Suddenly?! Whoa, this IS really close to modern events.

This might not be true, but I hear the leaders of the infamous Japanese Ninjas were titled “the Gardener” because of all the poisons they grew. Certainly, a king’s gardener would be familiar with the local plant life. Aaaand in this story, the gardener replaced the king temporarily, who then died ‘suddenly’, in the same room, while eating something. Whose garden did they use for that soup’s ingredients?

The eclipse was over and the priests ordered Enlil-bani to leave the throne, as it was mandatory. He refused, claiming that a king had already been sacrificed and, since he had been officially crowned for the occasion, he was the legitimate monarch. The priests agreed with him, and he reigned for 24 years.

The story, which is only known from very later Babylonian copies, may not have been exactly like that. In fact, it is a legend, perhaps apocryphal, but whose background reveals a very ancient practice, that of the ritual of the substitute king, a custom reflected in numerous Sumerian texts. One of them is found on three cuneiform tablets now in the British Museum, published in 1958 in the article A part of the Ritual for the Substitute King by the Assyrian scholar Wilfred G. Lambert.

Oh nooo, I’d say that story sounds VERY plausible, once you make allowances for it being written by the winner. “The king make me a fake-king so I would die in his place, then he choked on hot soup and I was the only king left in the room. Lucky me!”

Although his servant was the loser in that story, I looked up the god Erra.

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The [Epic of Erra] opens with an invocation. The god Erra is sleeping fitfully with his consort but is roused by his advisor Išum and the Seven (Sibitti or Sebetti), who are the sons of heaven and earth—"champions without peer" is the repeated formula—and are each assigned a destructive destiny by Anu.

Anu is the Mesopotamian sky god. He doesn’t play a major role in the mythology, surprisingly.

Machinist and Sasson (1983) call them "personified weapons". The Sibitti call on Erra to lead the destruction of mankind. Išum tries to mollify Erra's wakened violence, to no avail. Foreign peoples invade Babylonia, but are struck down by plague. Even Marduk, the patron of Babylon, relinquishes his throne to Erra for a time… The world is turned upside down: righteous and unrighteous are killed alike. Erra orders Išum to complete the work by defeating Babylon's enemies. Then the god withdraws to his own [city of worship] with the terrifying Seven, and mankind is saved. A propitiatory prayer ends the work.

Foreign invaders, plagues, total war between righteous and unrighteous, resulting in the destruction of white man err, “Babylon’s enemies”. Hmm.

The poem must have been central to Babylonian culture: at least thirty-six copies have been recovered from five first-millennium sites—Assur, Babylon, Nineveh, Sultantepe and Ur—more, even, as the assyriologist and historian of religions Luigi Giovanni Cagni points out, than have been recovered of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

That was quite a rabbit trail. On the one hand, there’s nothing to connect Erra to the coming solar eclipse in Eagle Pass. On the other hand, Erra sounds like the god that Clown World doesn’t know it wants, and he’s not an obscure god either if his texts outrank Epic of Gilgamesh in popularity.

For travelers in the circles of ancient Mesopotamian mythology, anyway.

If the Eagle Pass standoff is being staged in deliberate preparation for the solar eclipse’s arrival, then it heralds the murder of the puppet-king to appease the… unhappy imperial powers that be. It happens that USA has two puppet kings, Biden and Trump. One can argue either way, as Enlil-bani demonstrated.

The eclipse also kicking off an Erra-esque series of plagues and riots initiated by foreign invaders resulting in the destruction of the Empire’s enemies, would be pure Cohencidence.

Me being Christian, I place no stock in astrological omens of regicide. But. I must make allowances for the fact that I’m ruled by neo-Babylonian necromancers who probably do. At least, they’re known to justify their actions with prophecies in order to claim legitimacy, which may have been the ancient reason for why “the gods” regularly and predictably got angry with the king. On the Saros schedule.

Postscript

There’s one other mythological significance to Eagle Pass, Texas: it’s where the Confederacy escaped the Union.

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In June 1865, rather than surrender, [cavalry General Joseph] Shelby and approximately 1,000 of his remaining troops rode south into Mexico. Reportedly, Shelby sank his battle flag in the Rio Grande near present-day Eagle Pass, Texas, on the way to Mexico rather than risk the flag falling into the hands of the Federals. The event is depicted in a painting displayed at the Eagle Pass City Hall. For their determination not to surrender, Shelby's men were immortalized as "the undefeated". A later verse appended to the post-war Confederate anthem "The Unreconstructed Rebel" commemorates the defiance of Shelby and his men:

I won't be reconstructed, I'm better now than then.
And for a Carpetbagger I do not give a damn.
So it's forward to the frontier, soon as I can go.
I'll fix me up a weapon and start for Mexico.

The plan was to offer their services to Emperor Maximilian as a "foreign legion". Maximilian declined to accept the ex-Confederates into his armed forces, but he did grant them land for the New Virginia Colony, an American settlement in Mexico near Córdoba, Veracruz. The grant was revoked two years later following the collapse of the empire and Maximilan's execution.

That could explain D.C.’s interest in provoking a political incident there, but not why Gov. Abbott would play along. Also, it’s still two months to the eclipse, a long time to keep a charade running.