God will afflict Miriam with leprosy when she claims to
speak for God. The first meaning of prophet in the PAGAN
sense meant a charismatic, musical performer. All dramatic
performance is INTERPRETATION which is, according to
Paul, just speaking in tongues.
-Prophe-ta I. a
foreteller, SOOTHSAYER prophet... oraculorumque
interpretes,
sacerdotes
Aegyptiorum,
quos
prophetas
vocant,”, [Priestess
of Egpt prophetess call out] Aegyptius, propheta primarius
PHRASE: Aegyptius, propheta primarius
1. Aegyptius,
2.
Prophetai
3. Primarius I. one of
the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent,
remarkable,
primarius
parasitus,”
the first speaker, he who has a right to be heard
Plaut
2.1.73
PERIPLECOMENUS You are a
simpleton. For, if you lay anything out on a bad wife and upon
an enemy, that is an expense; that which is laid out on a
deserving guest and a friend is gain; as that, which is
expended upon sacred rites, is a profit to the
wise man. By the blessing of the Gods, I have
enough, with which to receive you with hospitality in my
house. Eat, drink, indulge your tastes with me, and
surfeit yourself with enjoyments; my house is at your
service, myself likewise do I wish to be at your service. For,
through the blessing of the Gods, I may say that, by
reason of my wealth, I could have married a dowered wife of
the best family; but I don't choose to introduce an
everlasting female barker at me into my house.
PLEUSICLES Why don't you choose? For 'tis
a delightful thing to be the father of children [liberos]
PERIPLECOMENUS Troth, 'tis very much sweeter
by far to be free [liberum] yourself. For a good wife, if
it is possible for her to be married anywhere on earth,
where can I find her? But am I to take one home who is never
to say this to me, "Buy me some wool, my dear, with which a
soft and warm cloak may be made, and good winter
under-clothes, that
you mayn't catch cold this winter-weather;" such an
expression as this you can never hear from a wife, but,
before the cocks crow, she awakes me from my sleep, and
says, "Give me some money, my dear, with which to make my
mother a present on the Calend ,
give me some money to make preserves; give me something to
give on the Quinquatrus to
the SORCERESS [prae-cantrix]
to the woman who
interprets the dreams, to the prophetess, and to the
female diviner; besides, 'tis impossible for me, in
civility, not to fee the expiating woman; for long has the
mattress-maker been
grumbling,
because she has received nothing; besides, the midwife found
fault with me, that too little had been sent for her. What!
arn't you going to send something to the nurse that brings
up the young slaves? It's
a shame if nothing's sent her; with what a brow she
does look at me." These and many other expenses of the women
like to these frighten me from a wife, to be uttering
speeches to me like to this.
Tympanotriba , ae, m., = tumpanotribês,
I. a taborer, a timbrel-player, a term of reproach
for a soft, effeminate person (alluding to the priests of Cybele), Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 49; cf.
tympanum.
T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The
Churl
STRATOPHANES (to PHRONESIUM.) What say you?
Why have you dared to say that you love another man?
PHRONESIUM I chose to.
STRATOPHANES Say you so, indeed? I'll first
make trial of that. Do you, for the sake of such a shabby
present, vegetables, and comestibles, and vinegar-water,
bestow your love upon an effeminate,
frizzle-pated,
dark-haunt frequenting, drum-drubbing
debauchee, a fellow not worth a nutshell:
6 Is he deranged:
"Hariolus." Literally, "a soothsayer," or
"diviner." In their prophetic frenzy, these persons often
had the appearance of being mad, and were so considered.
7 Drum-drubbing
debauchee: "Typanotriba." Literally, "drum," or
"tambourine beater." He alludes to the eunuch-priests of Cybele, who used to beat
tambourines in her procession-probably in allusion to debauchees, emasculated by riot and dissipation
Părăsītus
, i, m., = parasitos, lit. one who eats with
another; hence, I. In gen., a guest (pure Lat. conviva):
parasiti Jovis, the gods, Hence, parasitus Phoebi,
a PLAYER. actor,
II. In partic., in a bad sense, one who, by flattery
and buffoonery, manages to live at another's
expense, a sponger, toad-eater,
parasite
-Comically, of a whip: ne ulmos parasitos
faciat, that he will make his elm-twigs stick to me like
parasites, i. e. give me a sound flogging, he tutelar
deity of parasites was Hercules, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 79.
Remember the CODE Diotrephes: Name means
begotten or BELOVED of Jove who is the "old man" who thrusts
in the reaping hook (meaning a musical instrument) about
now.
Notes
from 2 Maccabees defining the Abomination of
Desolation
The tensions which led to the Jewish revolt were
exacerbated when the Jewish high priest, a Hellenist
himself, offered a sacrifice to Heracles (Hercules)
who was a Greek symbol of homosexuality.
Prophe-ta I. a foreteller, SOOTHSAYER prophet... oraculorumque interpretes,
sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant, Aegyptius, propheta
primarius
John in Revelation 18
as well as ALL definitions of arusal singing and
instruments calls it SORCERY used to DECEIVE
the whole world. The Iraelite NATION was DECEIVED
here and later by usurping women.
A. one who speaks for a
god and interprets his will to man
Prophêt-ês A. one who speaks for a god
and interprets his will to man, Dios p. interpreter,
expounder of the will of Zeus, 2. title of official keepers of the oracle at Branchidae, b. in Egyptian temples, member of the highest order
of the clergy, priest, 3. interpreter, expounder of the utterances of the mantis [Mad Women Corinth]
Mantis diviner, seer, prophet Pythian priestess, 3. Adj., toude manteôs chorou
[round dance] of this prophetic band, dub. in
S.Fr.113. II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis,
Mantis religiosa, Theoc.10.18, Dsc.Eup.1.149.
But of the Jewish prophets
once to PROVE that Miriam was a propheteSS and not a
PROPHET.
--Of the Jewish
prophets, Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.
Luke
1:70
As he
spake by
the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the
world began:
Luke 1:71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised
to our fathers, and to remember his holy convenant;
Luke 1:73 The oath which he sware to our father
Abraham,
MIRIAM, LIKE ALL POETS AND MUSICIANS,
INTERPRETED FOR GOD without authority.
The INTERPRETER also
idenfifies Miriam as claiming to be a MEDIATOR and the word
points to the pagan "gods" known in Egypt as well as Greece.
Interpretes
I. An agent between two parties,
a broker, factor, negotiator, divūm, the messenger
of the gods, i. e. Mercury,
II. An explainer, expounder,
translator, interpreter (syn. internuntius)
portentorum, a soothsayer,
BUT GOD CONFIRMED THAT MIRIAM WAS NOT A REVEALING
PROPHET.
Num 12:2 And they said, Hath
the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken
also by us? And the LORD heard it.
Num 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words:
If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will
make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto
him in a dream.
Num 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who
is faithful in all mine house.
Num 12:8
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of
the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?
Num 12:9 And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against them; and he departed.
Num 12:10 And the cloud departed from
off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous,
white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold,
she was leprous.
BY DEFINITION, The
Feminine form of a "prophet" always identifies a FALSE
prophet or simply a poetess. Coming out of Egypt along
with all of their abominations alerts us to look further.
The musical
grasshopper or Lucusts is John's word to define the
Muses unleashed by Apollyon for the end time final
attempt at seduction. II. the ode sung at
one of these festive processions,
- The history left by the later Greek writers speak of the
same Egyptian form of paganism and shows how the leaving
with the rattles and dancine was a DEFACTO declaration
that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO OBEY THE MALE:
- P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses
(ed. Brookes More) Book 9
-
- And now the expected
time of birth was near,
- when in the middle of
the night she seemed
- to see the goddess
Isis, standing by
- her bed, in company
of serious spirit forms;
-
- Isis had crescent
horns upon her forehead,
- and a bright garland
made of golden grain
- encircled her fair
brow. It was a crown
- of regal beauty: and
beside her stood
- the dog Anubis, and
Bubastis, there
- the sacred, dappled Apis, and the God
- of silence with
pressed finger on his lips;
-
- the sacred RATTLES were there, and Osiris, known
- the constant object
of his worshippers' desire,
- and there the Egyptian SERPENT whose quick sting
- gives long-enduring
sleep. She seemed to see
- them all, and even to
hear the goddess say
- to her, "O Telethusa,
one of my
- remembered
worshippers, forget your grief;
-
- your
husband's orders need not be obeyed;
- and when Lucina has
delivered you,
- save and bring up
your child, if either boy
- or girl. I am the goddess who
brings help
- to all who call upon
me; and you shall
- never complain of
me--that you adored
- a thankless deity."
So she advised
- by vision the sad
mother, and left her.
Exodus
15:[20]
sumpsit ergo Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque sunt omnes
mulieres post eam cum tympanis et choris
this instrument to accompany the singing
and dancing on the shores of the
Red Sea." (Quasten, Johannes,
Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 65)
"The
triumphal hymn of Moses
had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the
employment
of
music in religious services,
though idolatrous, is more distinctly
marked in the festivities which
attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's,
Music, p.
589).
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The sistrum used by the Israelites
was:
- "the
same as the Egyptian kemkem that was
imployed in
the cult of Isis. The solemnity
celebrated on the occasion of the transferring of
the Ark to sion, as well as the dances of the daughters
of
Israel at the annual feast of the Lord at
Shiloh, were similar in their
musical embellishment to Egyptian customs in the
liturgy
and at the parades. As Herodotus reports,
women sang the praises of Osiris while likenesses of
the gods
were born about and during the
festival
of Diana at Bubastis, choirs of men and women sang and
danced to the beating of drums and the playing of flutes." (Quasten,
Johannes,
Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian
Antiquity, p. 65)
-
Cybele
and
her Tympanum
|
Invocation
to
Cybele
- Let
the sky revolve thrice on its never-resting axis!
- Let Titan thrice yoke and thrice
unyoke his steeds!
- Straightaway
the Berecynthian pipe will blow a blast on
its bent
horn,
- and
the festival of the Idaean Mother will have come!
Gallae will march and thump their hollow drums,
- and cymbals clashed on cymbals will
give forth their tinkling notes!
- Seated
on the necks of Her attendants,
- the
Goddess Herself will be borne with howls
- Through
the streets in the city's midst...
Paul
explained speaking in tongues in Corinth
- THOUGH
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
- and
have not charity,
- I
am become as sounding brass,
- or
a tinkling
cymbal. 1 Corinthians13:1
Hymnos
Attei
- Of Attis I will sing, of Rhea's
Son.
- Not sounding His praises with rolling drums,
- nor
on the reed,
- nor
with the road,
- of
Ida's Curetes ...
- But
as the Muse of Phoebus [Abaddon] on the lyre.
- I
will blend the strains,
- Euhoi!
He is Bacchus!
- Euhan!
He is Pan!
- He
is the Shepherd of the White
Constellation!
-
- Paul
Warned Against Bacchus Worship
- And
be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess (
unsavedness);
- but
be filled with the Spirit (the Word); Ephesians 5:18
- Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs,
- singing
and making melody in your heart to the Lord Ephesians
5:19
Ex.15:20 And
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Tympanum , A. Esp., as beaten by the priests of Cybele, Cat. 63, 8 sq.), Cat. 63, 8 (on site) (At Perseus) n., = tumpanon, a drum, timbrel, tambour, tambourine. -Beaten by the Parthians as a signal in battle in
place of the tuba, Just. 41, 2, 8.--
B. Trop., a timbrel, etc., as a figure of something effeminate, enervating: tympana eloquentiae : in manu tympanum
Tumpanon
, to, also in the form tupanon (q.v.): (
[tuptô] ):--kettledrum, such as was used esp. in
the worship
of the Mother Goddess and Dionysus, Hdt.4.76, E.HF892; tumpanôn alalagmoi,
aragmata, Id.Cyc.65 (lyr.), 205; tumpana, Rheas [Zoe] te mêtros ema th' heurêmata,
says Dionysus, Id.Ba.59, cf. 156 (lyr.), IG42(1).131.9, 10
(Epid.); in Corybantic rites, Ar.V.119; t. arassein,
rhêssein, AP6.217 (Simon.), 7.485 (Diosc.); kataulêsei chrêtai kai tumpanois Sor.2.29 .
Sistrum
, a metallic rattle which was used by the Egyptians in
celebrating the rites of
Isis, and in other lascivious festivals,. By the Jews, Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 6 .--Hence sarcastically,
as if used for a war -
trumpet by the wanton Cleopatra
Ovid: book 9
the sacred rattles were there,
and Osiris, known
the constant object of his worshipers' desire,
and there the Egyptian serpent
whose quick sting
gives long-enduring sleep. She seemed to see
them all, and even to hear the goddess say
to her, "O Telethusa, one of my
remembered worshipers, forget your grief;
your
husband's
orders need not be obeyed;
and when Lucina has delivered you,
save and bring up your child, if either boy
or girl. I am the goddess who brings help
to all who call upon me; and
you shall
never complain of
me--that you adored
a thankless deity." So
she advised
by vision the sad
mother, and left her.
Exodus
15:[20]
sumpsit ergo
Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque
sunt omnes mulieres
post eam cum tympanis et choris
Ex.15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the
sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Egressaeque I. inf. egredier, Plaut. Poen.
3, 4, 32), (a). To step out, leave, b). To move out,
march out, B. Trop. in speaking, to digress, depart, deviate, wander, B. Trop., to overstep, surpass,
exceed
Plautus Poen. 3, 4, 32)
AGORASTOCLES It's time to be quiet, for the door makes a
noise. I see the Procurer Lycus coming out of doors;
come this way, pray!
ADVOCATI Why not? But, if you please, cover up our
heads, that the Procurer mayn't know us, who have been his
decoyers (745)4 into so great a calamity. (He throws the
lappets of their garments over their heads.)
4 His decoyers: "Illices." "Illex" was a bird-call,
quail-pipe, or decoy used by fowlers for catching birds.
Transcendo
or trans-scend. I. Lit. (freq. and class.; cf.: supero,
transgredior). to climb, pass, cross, or step over, to
overstep, surmount.
Yaca (h3318) yaw-tsaw'; a prim. root;
to go (causat. bring) out, in a great variety of applications,
lit. and fig... break
out, ..be condemned, departure), draw forth, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out),
get away.. lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out,
And Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.Ge.4:16
And I said unto
them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So
they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. Ex.32:24
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against
the Lord, a wicked counsellor. Na.1:11
Then shall the
Lord go
forth, and
fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day
of battle. Zec.14:3
Take heed in the plague of
leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all
that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
Deut 24:8
Remember what the Lord
thy God did unto
Miriam by the
way, after that
ye were come forth out of Egypt. Deut 24:9
ALL of the "musical" events and terms in the Bible are MARKS to
identify people who refused to listen to the Word of God through
the PROPHETS. I can find lots of evidence
that the "Spirit OF Christ" spoke through the prophets
(2 Cor 3; 1 Pe 1:11; Rev 19:10)
But, I haven't found the Spirit OF
Christ instructing the kings whose musicians were
Levitical Warriors
under King and Commanders of
the Army.
But they refused to hearken,
.........and pulled away the shoulder,
.........and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Zechariah
7:11
They made
their hearts as hard as flint
.........and [they] would not listen to the law
.........or to the words that the LORD Almighty
.........had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.
.........So the LORD Almighty was very angry. Zechariah
7:12
Therefore it is come
to pass, that
.........as he cried, and they would
not hear;
.........so they cried, and I would not hear,
.........saith the Lord of hosts: Zechariah 7:13
Here
is what Miriam did which was common to what the Israelites
did in Egypt and never ceased to do.
Sistrum,
a metallic
rattle
which was used by the Egyptians in celebrating the rites of Isis, and in other lascivious festivals,.Ov. Am. 2, 13, 11 By the
Jews, Vulg. 1 Reg. [Samuel] 18, 6 .--Hence sarcastically, as if used for a war -
trumpet by the wanton Cleopatra Verg.
A.8.696 Luc.
10.63
Image of Bast:
Ovid, art of love
And hast thy walks around Canope's walls,
Who Memphis visit'st, and the Pharian tower,
Assist Corinna with thy friendly powers.
Thee by thy silver Sistra I conjure,
A life so precious by thy aid secure;
So mayst thou with Osiris still find grace:
By Anubis's venerable face,
I pray thee, so may still thy rights divine
Flourish, and serpents round thy offerings twine
May Apis with his horns the pomp attend, [re: golden
calf]
And be to thee, as thou'rt to her, a friend.
Look down, oh Isis! on the teeming fair,
1 Samuel 18:[6] It happened as they came, when David
returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women
came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing,
to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with
instruments of music. [7] The women sang one to
another [h6030 Anah] as they played, and said, Saul has
slain his thousands, David his ten thousands. [8] Saul
was very angry
"was a typical woman's
instrument... Although it occurs in the Psalter and in
religious hymns (Exod. 15; Jer. 31:4), it was not permitted in
the temple. Its functions in the bible was restricted to
secular or religious frolicking, cultic dances, or processions
(e.g., II Sam. 6:5; I Chr. 13:8; Ps. 68:25-26). Its absence in
the temple ritual was possibly due to its strong female
symbolism, which always accompanied the tambourine, and which
made its use so popular at all fertility rites." (The Int.
Std. Bible Dict., p. 474).
the sacred rattles were there, and Osiris, knownj
the constant object of his
worshipers' desire,
and there the Egyptian serpent
whose quick sting
gives long-enduring sleep.
She seemed to see
them all, and even to hear
the goddess say
to her, "O Telethusa, one of
my
remembered worshipers, forget
your grief;
your
husband's orders need not be obeyed;
and when Lucina has delivered
you,
save and bring up your child,
if either boy
or girl. I am the goddess who brings
help
to all who call upon me; and you
shall
never complain of me--that
you adored
a thankless deity." So she
advised
by vision the sad mother, and
left her.
"Thus they made a golden bull, the image of an animal that was
held to be the most sacred in that land; they offered unholy
sacrifices, performed impious dances and sang hymns which differed in no way from
the pagan
mourning songs. Philo, De specialibus
legibus
"This reference probably
indicates the use of songs from the cult of Osiris... it can hardly be denied that Egyptian
influence on Jewish musical practices was quite significant.
This would stand to reason because of the high quality of Egyptian cultic music. The tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells
over which a white skin was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam used this instrument to
accompany the singing and dancing on the shores of the Red Sea
(Ex. 15).
"The trumpet... was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army. The name of the Sistrum (2 Sam 6:5) was mena'ane'im. It was the Egyptian kemken used in the cult of Isis.
"The music during the transferring
the Ark to Sion (David rose up to play)
and the dances
of the women at the Shiloh (Judges 21:21), were similar to
the Egyptian
liturgy and parades. "As
Herodotus reports, women sang the praises of Osiris while liknesses of the gods were born about and, during the festival of Diana at Bubastis.
Paul will say that the songs in Corinth
should be revealed doctrinal truth (1 Cor. 14:6) but Miriam
claimed that she as a prophetess had the right to speak for
God. However, the presbyterian Girardeau wrote that--
"In the first place, it will
be noticed from the account of the triumphant rejoicing on the
shore of the Red Sea that the men sang only: 'Then sang Moses and the children of Israel
this song unto the Lord, and spake saying.'" (Girardeau,
George, p. 33)
"In the second place, it
was Miriam and the women who used instruments of music on the
occasion: 'And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went after her with timbrels and with dances." (Girardeau, p. 33).
A Rabbi notes that: Shamans often journey to other realms through deep meditation induced
through drumming
and chanting
(Exodus 15:20; 1 Samuel 10:5; Maimonides in Mishnah Torah,
Hilchot Y'sodei HaTorah 7:4). In the course of these journeys
they encounter various spirits at the doorway to each plane who demand of them a sort of password in the form of symbols that they would image, each
symbol representing the name and attribute of the spirit
guarding entry to that particular realm (Heichalot Zut'rati,
MS Oxford 1531, folio 44a; Ma'aseh Mer'kavah 54b). Upon return
from the journey, the shaman kisses the earth in gratitude for
her revelatory experiences (Sefer Ha' Zohar, Vol. 3, folio
168a). On rare occasions, the shaman may become "trapped" at
the passageway to one of these mystical realms, in which
instance a disciple or colleague must apply to the shaman's
knee a twig from a myrtle plant that is
wrapped in pure wool and dipped in balsam oils. If that fails,
one more ingredient is added: the light touch by the finger of
a woman who is in transition from her menstrual cycle (Midrash Heichalot Rabbati, Ch. 18).
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