According to most people, the phrase “fairy tale” associates with lots of positive, clear, bright images which gives hope and power to live. We love fairy tales, especially when there are “fairies” around, no matter how the story goes beyond the limits of credibility, it is appreciated. That’s why we often use fairies in our daily speeches. For a very beautiful woman, the phrase “fairy like” is commonly used. If we want to emphasize the maturity of the soul together with the beauty, making the universal good intentions concrete in one single person and adding a nobility of which origin goes towards the ancient times, we borrow the expression “daughter of a fairy king” from fairy tales. With all these aspects, the word “fairy” expresses mostly the magic, beauty and an irresistable attraction.

But in the collective culture, the associations related to the concept of fairy may not contain this much positive images all the time. For example, when saying “genies and fairies” the idea comes to mind is those scary creatures that can’t be seen and can’t be lockes up in a physical shape, however have the power to affect the physical world. It is also quite common to call a deserted place or an old, scary building as “house of spirits” ad we all know that, here the word “fairy” doesn’t have the positive features like the phrases “fariy tale” or “fairy like”: “genies and fairies” are the strange creatures that can hurt and must be kept way from- and if they don’t have a great concern for horror movies a la Wes Craven, people who believe that these creatures are real, prefer keeping away from the “fairy houses”.

The  concept of fairy in western culture seems to get its widest usage in the 12th century and just after that when the Church struggled with the deviant sects; both in linguistical and folkloric meaning the origin of this concept comes from the antiquity: the times that the classified information was too rare, in order to amphasize the times that is before the usage of writing, in the ancient times..But during the process from those ages to these, if we have to begin our journey that has “fairies” in the center , the most appropriate tem that we can point is the 12Th century when the Church has started the “deviant hunts”.

In English, there is the word “fairy” and parallel to that there is the phrase “fairytale”. Structurally, the adjective “fair” that expresses both the honesty and the beauty is related to the term “fairy”. But, in most linguistic studies during the age of the Enlightenment in Europe, the origin of the word “fairy” is considered in relation with the Latin word “fata” or “fatae” which means “destiny”. Then, one of the synonyms of destiny “fate” connected to it. The verb “fatare” which is derived from “fata” in Latin, gives the meaning of “enchant”. In the 17th century, beginning with the pressure of the Church reduced, the experts began to study on the folkloric beliefs, considering the sense of elf “the powers that determine destiny by means of magic” is directly related to the concept of “fairy” while there are crosswise relations between the words. One of the interesting points is that “fairy” is a feminine word. In this connection, there’s a reference to the three female fairies called “fate” often seen in the folklore of the Medieval Europe who have the ability to determine the destiny of the humans and gods. In northern mythology, Edda, these female fairies are called “Nornir” by Odin. Also in Greek culture, maybe and in its former, in Minos folklore, they take form and from the Danube towards Britain, we come across the history’s first “trinity” the cult of “The Three Goddesses” as the derivations of gathering the  three forms “the Virgin- the Mother- the Old Woman”. It’s nearly certain that the concept of “Hekate” has close relations with the three female fairies called “fate” that determine destiny.

The word has different forms in various languages like “Fata” in Italian,  “Fée” or “Faée” in Old French, “Fada” in South France’s language(Provence) , and “Hada” in Spanish.

Cathari sect: “The Ones Who Shine” of Albi          

After a short glance at these linguistic relations in West European culture, it’s useful to concentrate on the word “fairy”s first common form in these regions. However this old form is nearly forgotten. The studies on the history of religions and folklore in the 20th century brought to light that the word “fairy”  is used for a very special group’s members in a way of humiliation in the 12th century: They’re the “Cathar” sect’s members who settled down the southern regions of France and had a more different and radical way of beliefs other than what the Church has taught. The Cathars are people who choose keeping themselves away from the material values and the relations that it brought, a simple life which is well-adjusted with nature (and consequently with God) , a vegetarian eating style and also sharing. But if everything was this much simple, the Church didn’t think that this modest sect was a potential danger for its own presence.

This belief which is qualified as  “Cathari deviation” by the Church began with an objection to the existence of the holy power. And parallel to that, in order to understand the world and the universe exactly, getting closer to god, they defend the idea that being naive and becoming purifed from the material passion are required.  According to this point of view, they got their principle from a verse of Matthew (“Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Matthew 19:21) and the name that they chose for themselves “Cathari” means “perfect, faultless” in Old Greek. According to Cathari, possession and material wealth were the basic obstacles on the way to reach God and reality, so they never accepted any possesion which has worldly values but developed an alternative way of living and organized for their basic needs. Of course, reaching the purity and perfectness (Cathari) was not a stage that any man could easily bear , required patience and maturity. The ones who chose this life style  would primarily go through  the being “naive and faultless” stage then they would  reach the “enlightment” part. In other words, following the Cathar methods meant to be purified and enlightened by the light of God.

This paper doesn’t aim at analyzing Cathari and other medieval “deviant” sects; also it’s not that easy to do this in a periodical. So, let’s content with stating those Cathari who settled down in the south of France, since the 12th century became a serious problem to the Church’s authority. Moreover this problem was not something new. After the Christianity has become the formal religion of Rome and all the religious beliefs except the Church’s worshipping ways were acclaimed as “devianism” nearly in all places where old Pagan beliefs set widespread, similar organizations and sections took place and most of all demolished  harshly. According to this thought, in the 9th century, in Europe, after an opposing sect called “Bogomil”(Friends of God) have had a follow-up that associated genocide, a group whom could ran away from the empire took refuge in the south of France and started the Cathari movement. Bogomil’s premises were the “Paulicien” community and the old Armenian church that appeared as an opposition in Anatolia. Their premises were pre-Christianity period’s old Persian thoughts and partly ancient Mezopotamian beliefs. In other words, the Cathari sect was a ring of an opposing chain of which was an older and more fundamental way of beliefs than the Church itself and during the time being it follows a kind of durability in history. That’s why Pope Innocent, who analyzed the seriousness of the situation, ordered a crusade towards the south of France just to suppress all Cathari either by putting them to the sword or by torturing after a so-called judgement –the famous Inquisition delegations were firstly formed just for this event- and then killed them all. After the movement was completely suppressed, Cathari suffered from a terrible massare and just a few lucky “faultless” passed the Pirenes and managed to hide themselves in the north of Spain. (The rest of the story Of Cathari is also quite interesting, but isn’t seem to fit in these pages.)

In addition to the physical violence, the Church has followed an ideological war against the Cathari beliefs. The ones who deviate the way of God “sinners who interfere with genies and fairies” The word “fairies” was used while mentioning from Cathari in an ironic way. Because the Christian theocracy published a fatwa that the “fairies” were obscure creatures cooperating with Satan and the ones who felt close to them would be judged as “witch or magician” and declared as “deviants”. It’s strange that the word “fairy” which is chosen as a way to humiliate, is taken as a compliment among Cathari believers.

Elves of the Celtic Country                                                                                                 

One of the names given to the Cathari sect was “Albigenses”, that is, the ones who live in the country of Albi.. According to some experts in the 10th century  during the suppression of the Bogomil movement, the ones who managed to run away sheltered there and try to develop their beliefs again.. No matter if they affected the Bogomil movement or not, the factors that the country of Albi to shelter the beliefs of the Cathari, existed since the city was established. It is known that Albi is established  in the 4th century, that is, when Rome decided Christianity as their formal religion and terrorized all pagan temples and old belief members, some people settled down there. and the name they chose for their country is: “Albiga”; “The land of Albis”. “Alba” means “bright white” in Latin. In other words, “sparkling” or “shining”. France – since the 8th century B.C.- is one of the lands that Celtics settled down. The region which contains the southern lands together with Albi is known as the Gauls by Romans, it means “the Land of Celtics”. So that, it’s possible in the first years of establishing, the main dwellers might become Romans but their origin is Celtics. Then what does Albi mean in Celtic language? It’s interesting but it used to describe a special and distinguished class that was known as “sparkling” or “shining”: a legendary class whom we know with the name “Elf” in folk tales.

We came across Elves, nearly in all Celtic community culture and mostly have a “beyond” position, even maybe they have”superhuman” features in folk tales. Like the word “Alba” in Latin, the name given to this people or class has both the concepts of “brightness” and “shine”. In most of old folk tales in Britain, the words “Elf” and “shine” were used together and complete each other. Moreover, in some poets’ works -like Chaucer- the words “Elf” and “fairy” were appraised as synonyms and replace each. When we consider this, centuries before the ideologists of the Church called them “fairies” in a humiliating way, the dwellers of Albiga of which Cathari chose as their land, knew and exalted the concept of “fairy”.

The synonym of the word  “fairy” in Celtic culture since the ancient times, Elf; the same word in Teutonic folklore is “Alb” and “Albi”. The King of Fairies, Oberon was mentioned in medieval French tales known as “Alberon” especially in older versions. The protecting guard’s name in Nibelungen was “Alberich”,that is, “the King of Elf”. Even today in the Celtic-German originated popular names, the concept of “Elf” is still alive: “Alfred” means “the ruler of Elf” , “Albert” is “the shine of Elf”.

In the 4th century,in the culture of the establishers of Albi the concepts of “Shining Elf-Sparkling Fairy” have very bright and strong images. It shouldn’t be forgotten that the “light” is not a very powerful light but a “reflection of a holy light”. We are talking about a kind of metaphor here: just like when we say “a bright person” we don’t mean a man under spots, but emphasize a spiritual enlightenment. In other words the meaning of “bright/shining breed” in the concepts of elf or fairy also contain an ideal model for the “human species” who have weakness and deficiencies: correcting imperfections, purifying and shining. Just after the humanity would reach this stage, the “Golden Age” start and a fair, equal system would rule the world. It’s the thought of a belief that the target that humans have to reach is being like “the ones who shine in the old times(Elves)”. In this way Elf or Fairy is more than genie or the ghost who have supernatural powers and “belong to the other world” but the “beyond” model who purified from its weakness and has to be taken as an example.  Just as the Cathari’s models of perfection, who appeared in Albi after 600 years than its establishment.

Alba Longa: the roads to Rome

Is it possible for us to find a connection that the word “Alba” seems to determine a bridge between Celtic-teutonic folklore and the Cathari belief with the land of Elf or Albi? As far as it seems, that’s not difficult. We mentioned that Alba means “shining white” or “bright white”. On the other hand, “Albiga” the old name of Albi gives us other clues: the establishers of the city didn’t start just from the Celtic-Teutonic culture, maybe this name had a symbolic meaning for the Roman history.

The origin of Rome, is in the city called Alba Longa in which the legendary brothers, Romus and Romulus were born. According to Roman historian Titius Livius, the hill on which the city was established belonged to the “gods of sky” and Jupiter was among them, that is, “the ones who shine with the light of God in the sky” and that’s why the name “Alba Longa” was chosen. In other words, the name of the city that was chosen as the centre of a foundation or a re-starting, again, includes the meaning of “shining through the light of God” and besides,gives clues about “the culture of watching stars”. During the term Christianity became Rome’s formal religion and the pressure on pagan society has just begun, the people who establish Albiga in the south of France were longing for the “old and secular Rome” for the sake of a new beginning from the nucleus of Rome “Alba Longa” and gave the name to the city. We come across similar parallels in other parts of Europe: For example Celtic Britain’s name in Roman jargon was: “Alba”,one of the previous names of England was Albion. In Europe, the land of people who created the Bogomil movement whom Cathari might be inspired is called Albania. During the establishment of Albi, traces of this instinct or the Celtic culture’s concepts of Elf-Fairy had the greater roles, two things seem certain that:

Albi, which became a shelter for Cathari later, was a place that opposed to Rome’s christening with all its historical origin.
 

A concept of “shining- bright breed” whose origin was most probably before Celtics was kept alive in this region’s culture.
 

If we keep on following the traces of the concepts of the “fairy” and “Elf” , we come to Alba Longa, the city of which, Rome was established inevitably. The city on the hills which was dedicated to “the ones who shine with the light of God” is, again according to Titius Livius, was established by Arcanius, Aenias’ son. Aenias, as stated by both Livius and Virgilius,was from Troia and from the ones who managed to escape with a ship from the great ruin after the war. So, the origin of Rome, as said by Titius and most historians, based upon Troia.
 

There are various rumours about the origins ofTroia - their first city was established 3000 years B.C.- But their establishment is dated at 3000 and this brought Troia closer to the Kingdom of Minos, the navigator civilization of the Aegean Sea. Maybe both Minos and Troia, during the migration towards the Mediterranean-from MiddleEast, Anatolia, north shores of the Black Sea and the west of Persia-, nearly at the same time, were established by the people who had the same culture. Arguments on these details are not our topic. So let’s take a look at the Neareast which seems to be a clear source for the concept “shine-bright”.

Near the Caspian Sea, Caucasia and the steps in the north Black Sea, pointed roads for migration for also Indo-European people and became a temporary home for some of them. Another Indo-European nation, Persians settled down in the west and south of Khazar. One of the factors that affect the beliefs of Cathari after the 5th century in Roman lands was, Persian originated Maniseism that created a big problem for the Church and was also a sufficient reason for us to focus on Persia to find possible relations.

In ancient Persian culture and the belief of Zoroaster which were a source of Maniseism too; there’s a word which becomes “fairy, faée, fata” in western languages: Peri.The word  used in Turkish as “peri” was Persian originated. It’s meaning is parallel to the notion of which we use as in the expression “like a fairy girl”: “A beauty who wanders in the sky and shines”. In the Zoroaster culture, another concept that has the same meaning with fairy is: “fravasi”. This is also a feminine word like “fairy” and emphasizes the feature of a “shining beauty”. In the Pehlevi language, “fairy” becomes “feroi” or “ferai”.But in ancient Persian “fairy” had the ideas of “shining” and “sparkling” but also had a “celestial” attribution. On the other hand, this celestiality makes the fairy like a spirit who has both positive and negative images by some supernatural features. Just as the opposition that the images of “fairy godmother” and “a fairy house”, in Persian Culture there are both good fairies and bad ones. Like the dualism of the good god ( Ahura Mazda) and the bad god (Ahura Mainyu).

Now we have a concept of fairy whose origins lie in Anatolia, Neareast and Persia, emphasize the features of “shining and brightness”, mostly become a model for purity and perfectness by mentioning a desirable class (Elf), have the feature of being “celestial” and not God but closer to God than humans.. We can turn to Egypt to look for a new connection or a new ring for the chain.

Peri and Per-Ra: The Dynasty of “The ones who shine”

There are some letters which take each other’s places while a word is borrowed from one language to another: like p and f. Usually, when there’s a connection or an approach between languages, the letters p and f can be used instead of each, like the word “peri” becomes “fairy” or “faée”. As we mentioned before, in Pehlevi language the word “ferai” makes us think that it has such a variation.  And if we reverse this variation and make the syllable pattern proper for the structure of ancient Egyptian language, we get the word “Per-Ra” and it means “the House of Ra”.The late Sir Wallis Budge might translate it as “the House of the God of the Sun”. He was one of those people who made the concept of “the God of Sun” stuck into Ra. But “Ra”is used for the “god of the sun” but it’s not a name, it’s a feature, a title. It has “shining” , “sparkling” meanings and in ancient Egyptian, used in the “celestial” areas, in order to emphasize the heavenly features. In other words, in that short syllable, there are both the concepts of “light” and “highness”.(In the Neareast culture the premise of the notion of “efendi”) So the title Ra “Shining In The High” which is often used for the Sun, became its name. Otherwise, Ra is neither a proper noun nor a word which gives just the meaning of the Sun.

Keeping this informaiton in mind and turning back to the word “Per-Ra”, we found another meaning:”the Shining House”. But in ancient Egyptian, like in the western languages, the word “house” means the building but it also refers to the word “dynasty”or “family”. That is, “Per-Ra” refers to a group of people: something like “Shining Dynasty” or “Sparkling Family”. At this point, there’s a serious parallel with that special class, Elves, in the Celtic culture. Do we know a dynasty in Egypt? All pharaoh families qualify themselves as “the ones who shine like Gods”. And the word which means pharaoh “Per-o” means “big house”and if we keep on analyzing in the same way, it becomes “big family”. But it is possible to say that Per-Ra emphasizes a different “shining”. The oldest historical documents about Egypt is Manethon’s “The History of Egypt” which is written at the end of the 4th B.C. We don’t have the original work, but with a few quotations from several authors, we know that Manethon evaluated the history of Egypt in three stages from new to the old. Today, as the modern historians of Egypt accepted as a source, Torino papyrus has parallel features with Manethon’s chronology, the dynasty in Egypt, that is, the era of “human-kings”, nearly 5000 years ago, Menes was supposed to be the first pharaoh.

Before that, there’s a “mid-period” in which Egypt was ruled by “semi-Gods” or a very special class. In the first stage of the history of Egypt, Manethon told that the country was ruled by Gods(Neteru) for a long time. But the modern historians behave very selectively and just accept the information about “the period of Dynasties” in both Manethon chronology and Torino Papyrus as real but evaluate the two periods before that as “fiction” and put them aside under the title of mythology. That is, one half of the same source is accepted as “concrete information” and the other half is left as “fantasy and imaginary”.

Arguing the Egyptologists’ approach is not our matter, so we go on: in Manethon’s chronology, the rulers of the era before the “human-kings period” was the period of the Dynasties who had a different name: “Şemsu-Hor”, that is, “The Watchers of Horus”. I wonder if these different from human-beings, the perfect but unknown rulers whose traces were old enough to be deleted from the social memory could be “Per-Ra”, “The Dynasty of The Ones Who Shine” that we think they are parallel to the concepts of “Fairy” and “Elf”.

“People of Şem” and  “Şemsu-Hor”

At this point we may give a little break to Egypt’s culture and look at the pages of Old Testament.

“In those days and after that, there was Nefilim on earth. They were the powerful men, famous people of old times.” (Genesis 6:4) T

These verses are from a very critical point of Genesis, the first book of Moses. (that there were strong arguments in every period in history)The parts that tell just before the God’s punishment of humans with the Flood. In Sumerian lists of kings, the enlisted rulers of the country lived extraordinarily long, even they seem to attribute to a kind of semi-god. Similar to that, Genesis gives us a strange clue with this verse: “the powerful men, famous people of old times”. What “old times” was this and  where did this “fame” of the men mentioned above come?

The word “famous” which is translated in other languages is “Şem” in Hebrew and also means “known, recognized”. Basically in Genesis, it is said that “these were powerful Şem people of old times”.

The mysteries about “Şem” aren’t finished. Again in Genesis, in the verse of which tells people who have sun-dried bricks in their hands instead of stones trying to build the Babylon Tower,we come across this word again:

“Let’s build a city and a tower that will reach the sky, let’s make a name”. (Genesis 11:14) This verse is about the establishment of Babylon in Mezopotamia after the Flood. It says the establishers of the city wanted to “make name”. According to the Holy Book interpreters, this emphasizes their wish to be famous ad become immortal. The real interesting point is the original edition, in Hebrew, the word “Şem” is used instead of the word “name”. “Name, known” are the origins of “Şem” and it also used as for “name” in Hebrew. After a little careful study, it’s not hard to realize that this “name” is related to a very special being, God.

For example, Şemiramot, is a female name which is used in one of Hebrew tribes, Levili. Asurologist Eberhard Schrader says that the origin of the word comes from another femal name Sammumarat  in Asurian language and it can be seen mostly in Nimrod, on the monuments which were dedicated to Nabu. According to another expert, Paul G. Hoffman, Şemiramot  is the name of a place, and the meaning is “the image of Şemiram”. And the explanation to Şemiram is the Name of Ram (he highest one). At this point, is it needed to remind the similarity between the word Ram which means “the highest one”  and  Ra “the one who shines in the high”?

According to most experts of Mezopotamia and Neareast culture, the word “Şem” comes from the word “Şumu” in Akadian language. It is translated as: “The name of He” and is an adjective which is used for “the Highest God”. This approach is a tradition in Hebrew culture when they mentioned God and it is quite harmonious with the word “taboo”. As it is known, God’s name (YHVH) is not pronounced except some rare prays and Holy Book readings, it’s a taboo. Even, in most parts of the Holy Books that “people” read, in accordance with this taboo tradition, God is named as “Ha-Shem”, that is, “the name of He”. Then we can say that the word Şem is related to the name of the God.

Zecharia Sitchin,who presents a quite radical theory in his famous book “12th Planet”,  oppose both calling Nefilims as “famous people” and asserting the idea that the ones who built the Babylon Tower said “Let’s make a name”. He comes with a reasonable suggestion and points that the word “Şem” must be related to the words “Şamu” and “Şamaim” which we see in most Sami languages beginning with the Akadian. each word means “sky”. But after this idea, Sitchin goes further on his claim and says that the concept related to the sky might meant to be the space crafts, “rockets” in connection with “building something which will reach the sky”. So, according to Sitchin, the verse in Genesis which mentions Nefilims, attributes to the “people who fly space ships” by qualifying them as “the people of Şem”. In a similar way, in Sitchin’s comments, the people who built the Babylon Tower say “Let’s make a space ship” instead of saying “Let’s make a name”!

We can’t say “nonsense” and ignore these completely but I think sitchin’s comments are more than fantastic and they’re a bit too “insolent”. I don’t oppose the idea that “Şem” and “Şamaim” or “Şamu” have linguistic relations. Even, maybe this connection can help us to understand the “Elf” and “Fairy”s possible ancient origins that we are looking for.

Watching the Stars

Let’s go back to Manethon and the old Egypt records, the dynasties, I mean just before the “human-kings” period’s beginning, according to Manethon’s chronology, we mentioned that a superior class called “Watchers of Horus” ruled Egypt. The origin of the word in Egyptian language is “Şemsu-Hor”.

The word “Şemsu”(SMSW) is derived from the verb “watch”(Şemsi/Şmsj) and means  watcher, follower. For Horus, there are various comments changing according to different temples’ cults and initiation schools: Sun (related to Ra) or Venus (related to Osiris). And there is a quite famous expression with the word “Akhet”which means “horizon”: “Hor-Akhti”, “Horus in the Horizon”. In the theology of the late periods in which the cult of sun gains importance, it emphasizes the rising of the sun and innovation, in some early astronomical and religious sources there are some signs that the expression of “Hor-Akhti” refers to the morning star mode of Venus. In any condition, Horus, apart from all his roles in mythologies, is a being who is “celestial” and “shining”. Thats why, the diagrams of which Egyptian astronomers’ observation records were kept and the movements of stars were examined, after Alexander the Great’s occupation of Egypt and the Hellenistic dynasties’ ruling period, it’s called “Horoscope”, that is, “Watching Horus”.

Now, if the usage of the verb “watch” as in Turkish (and in many other languages)other than the meaning of “follow”, in other words “watching TV” gives a meanig of “looking”. If the Egyptians used “Şemsu” as to mean “watching the stars, follow them” as we use “watching TV”, this proper noun which is used to state the rulers of the period before the dynasties (Şemsu-Hor) can be the “Watchers of Venus” or the “Watchers of the Sun”.In both situations, we mention the watching of the “shining celestial bodies in the sky”.

The traces of a “Lost Civilization”?

The Mystery of Orion’s author Robert Bauval and The Fingerprints of Gods’  author Graham Hancock’s first associated work, the book which questions ancient Egypt’s esoteric star culture The Keeper of Genesis, “Şemsu-Hor” is considered directly as the ones who keep the information of astronomy of which originated from an unknown, ancient civilization. In other wrds, according to Bauval and Hancock, “Şemsu-Hor” is the proper name for the wise priests of the period before the dynasties of Heliopolis theology. But who are these dynasty of priests? The authors think that they’re the ones who have this ancient and great knowledge of astronomy belonged to a “lost civilization” of whom nearly all the information were deleted from memories, that is , Atlantis. From the pyramids of Giza to the Temple of Karnak, all the magnificent Egyptian historical buildings are the “time capsules” that this civilization left behind for us.

We can’t ignore completely, but we put the “lost land” hypothesis aside.  “Şemsu-Hor” which is the oldest “ruler class” of the civilization history and filled with the images of semi-God, connected with mostly sky, “the ones who shine in the high”, wisdom and enlightenment. We don’t know how much of it is metaphoric and how much of it has the real meaning (generally both of them are seen.) but the legendary “Şemsu-Hor”,

In many ways, it symbolizes a more superior wisdom than the “ordinary” people, maturity and being beyond of it. We find “shine” and “brightness” in their nature.

In a way, it seems that they’re related to the concept of “high” and the sky. But either it brings a privilege which comes from the great wisdom about sky and the practice of “Watching Horus” or just the meaning of the word “wondering in the sky” is uncertain.

(If we reflect the information we gathered about “Şemsu-Hor” in Egypt on the verses in the Old Testament, Nefilims as they’re called “the people of Şem”, are both related to the sky and also “a representer of the watching stars culture”. And the verse about the Babylon Tower becomes like this: “Let’s build ourselves an observatory which goes up to the sky”. (That is, it gives clues of a society who built the first and perfect examples of Ziggurat.)

With these aspects, “Şemsu-Hor”,  as we mentioned, is the most suitable candidate who comes to mind as for the hypothetical dynasty of “Per-Ra” which ruled Egypt before the dynasties of “human-kings”. Just like the “ferai” and “peri” in Persian culture or Elf and Albis in Celtic-Teutonic folklore. Maybe the Cathari, who sermonize to become purified and “enlightened” in Alb and declared as “deviants” by the Church were trying to take “the famous people of old times” as examples in order to be closer to God, who knows? The Church came against the people who alleged to be enlightened and shine with the light of God, and in this way, reach the perfectness of old times, with the claim of “They are the servants of Satan.”

That’s all right, but who’s the Satan?

The fathers of the Church named the Satan, who first missioned to seduce Jesus Christ and then became “the Enemy of the God”, as Lucifer. This word has an interesting irony that the meaning of “Lucifer” is “the one who shines” or “the one who brings light”!

A “God-mother Cult” which is seen empowering in almost all of the cultures before the historical era, loses its power in the “human-kings” period. And the most famous one among them is the Sumerian goddess Inanna, that is Babylon’s Ishtar, Kenan’s Astarte. We see the traces of this goddess nearly in everywhere of the ancient Neareast and th material that symbolizes her is “lapis lazuli”, “the dark-blue stone”. In Turkish, the word “lacivert” comes from Persian language, from this stone and the colour it reflects. As the name, the lazuli is a bright blue stone and even if it doesn’t lighten, it reflects the light which it absorbs. Another name of the stone is “the shining stone” just like sky! (That’s why the expression “Kubbe-i Lacivert” in old Turkish is used to mean “sky”.)

Satan likes “Lacivert”!

I don’t know if it still needs to say that but, the name that the fathers of the Church think appropriate for Satan, “Lucifer” comes from the same origin with “Lacivert”: that is, “the one who brings light” or “the one who reflects light”. The more important thing is, lacivert (dark, bright blue) is Inanna’s, a goddess’ stone and the symbol of a “female”. Lucifer is Satan, and the ones who are acclaimed to worship him, the witches; the women are the carriers of the wisdom which is inherited from mother to daughter. The women who symbolize the three roles and the universe in one single being as in the identities of “Virgin-Mother-Old Woman” as in the model of “Hekate”.

“Fairy” is a feminine word and during the Church’s suppression period, it is thought as related to satan, even used to humiliate and accuse Cathari by calling them “Fairies”. In Celtic language, the original usage of the word “Elf” is Albi which also has a feminine feature. After all these information, a question comes to mind: In accordance with the celestial religions’ masculine ideologies, women are estimated as they have a tendency to “sin” and wickedness, maybe the fathers of the Church were afraid of and anxious about reawakening the old culture, the God-mother cult of whose traces were quite obvious even in the ancient times? The women who were supposed to cooperate with Satan, in fact were just recalling an older and greater fear that lied beneath the collective subconscious?

After all, the “enlightened” breed which seems related to the “highs”...

That is, Elves, Peri, even this “Şemsu-Hor”...

Were they just insignificant memories from an ancient “superior society” in which the sovereignity was in the hands of women?

Moreover, was there a class like that in reality or it was just imaginary, fiction?

If it was so, who were they and where did they come from and where did they go all of a sudden?

When we want to go towards the old times in the history of mankind, in every step we reached about the past, we try to take a “quick” picture of it. In these pictures, we always see somebody that we cannot identify who they are, because the picture is quite doubtful. Are they “Şemsu-Hor”, Peri, Elf, the wise men of the lost civilization Atlantis, strangers from outer space or just “ordinary” people like us? Or else there is nobody at the background in reality but we think the shadows that are extending from right and left as if they are some silhouttes?

Whoever they are, I think they’re trying to make this picture clear, is of great importance on the way to understand who we are. And no matter what you say, it’s not in my hands, I always smell a “scent of a woman” from where the picture is taken. Protective, caring, wise, compassionate, raiser, warm, addictive and common-sensed scent of women...