The Hindu Archetypes
The magical rainbow that
carries the Twins across the skies relates to motifs such as the Flying
Carpets of Arab legends and the Rainbow Bridges that access Paradise in
Germanic mythology. More exactly, they correspond to the Rainbow Nagas
of Angkor, which serve a similar purpose or, yet, the well-known Vimanas
(or Flying Chariots) of the Hindus. One such is Pushpaka, the giant airship
that transported Rama and his immense armies on their way back from Lanka,
the Paradise they had conquered and destroyed in Indonesia. Lanka is the
true archetype of Atlantis, and it is interesting to find in that war
the War of Atlantis the super-weapons such as Pushpaka and others such
mentioned in the beautiful Hindu saga, the
Ramayana.
Pushpaka was the size of
a full city, and was covered with many palaces gardens and fountains, all
fully bedecked with precious metals and gemstones of many colors. Like
its Amerindian counterparts, Pushpaka left a track on the skies with resembled
a rainbow or a meteor s track. True or fictional, such flying chariots
called
vimanas or
vahanas in Sanskrit permeate Hindu
Holy Books such as the
Ramayana and the
Mahabharata, and
have clearly inspired the other similar traditions like those of the Celts,
the Germans, the Indonesians and the Navajos.
The Meaning of the Fallen Angels
The idea of the Twins falling
from the skies like twin thunderbolts also derives from Hindu traditions.
The thunderbolt is really the
vajra, and represents a falling star
or, more exactly, a meteoritic fall. We encounter, as we already said, the
same motif in the Bible, where both Christ and Lucifer "fall from the skies like lightning". In Indonesian traditions, illustrated in stone in the majestic portals
of Borobudur, it is the Celestial
Nagas that do so, and that serve
as the magic rainbow bridge that links heaven and earth. In Vedic India,
it is the decapitated head of Dadhyanch (or Angiras) that falls from the
skies thus.
Dadhyanch is the archetype
of the Fallen Angels (Angiras =
Angelos
= "Angel") and their
many aliases we encounter in all mythologies. In Celtic mythology or,
more exactly, in the Arthurian Cycle we find this skull, which becomes
the
vajra, as the emerald that fell off Lucifer s crown during his
Fall. And, as we showed, the avatars of Vishnu are really allegories of
such "star-falls"(ava-taras). Indeed, the fall of Lucifer and even
the descent of Christ down to earth is described, in the Bible, as "similar
to the fall of a thunderbolt", an image obviously gotten from the Hindu
archetypes just mentioned.
This falling skull is the
vajra. When it falls down into the ocean, it forms the First Land,
the same as the Primordial Hill that rises out of the abyss in Egyptian
traditions. It is also the holy Mountain (Meru) at the Center of the World,
the one variously called by names such as Golgotha, Calvary, Kailasha,
Qaf, Alborj, Bereshaiti, and others such that mean something like "Skull
Mountain". In Judeo-Christian traditions, it is the skull of Adam that
falls from the skies thus, and that becomes Mt. Calvary (or Golgotha =
"Skull"), as we explain further below.
This type of myth is also
allegorized as the Fall of the Sun or that of his Son (Phaeton, Apollo,
Lucifer, etc.). The events hidden under such allegories are the periodic
giant meteoritic falls that destroy the world, just as they did in the
dinosaurs or lifted off the Moon from the Earth. Conversely, they also
allegorize the huge volcanic bombs thrown from under the earth into the
skies by the giant volcanic explosions such as that of Mt. Atlas, the very
one which destroyed Paradise.
In the Navajo legend we have
the twin Sons of the Sun falling down from Heaven just as we had the fall
of Phaeton (son of Helios) in Greece, or that of Solar Varuna in India.
But, if we look closer, such falls are always dual and often consist of
the fall of the Celestial (or Solar) Twin and of the ascension of his chthonic
dual into Heaven.
The Twins of the Navajos
are armed with the thunderbolt (likewise dual), just as are Zeus and Poseidon
(the Thunderbolt and the Trident) or Indra and Shiva (idem). The gods and
heroes of the Navajos, Pueblos and Apaches are called
Kachina. This
word seems to be related to the Dravidian
Kattiyam = "clever", "dexterous",
"heroic", which implies the idea of a Hero, that is, of the male engenderer
(Skt.
gandha).
In other words, the
Kachina
are the Fallen Angels or Celestial Messengers (= Peyote) who taught the
humans all arts and skills and freed the world from the monsters.
