Sunday, December 19, 2010

Shin-Mu

Also called Shing-Mu, various spellings - Queen of Heaven.  Hislop (The Two Babylons) equated her with Ma-Tsoopo, a sea goddess worshipped in "Fuh-kien" China.  People have all kinds of opinions about Hislop, but I won't say he's wrong for tracing out similarities in word-sounds to ancient meanings from long before writing was invented.  He wrote: 

The name of Shing Moo, applied by the Chinese to their "Holy Mother," compared with another name of the same goddess in another province of China, strongly favours the conclusion that Shing Moo is just a synonym for one of the well-known names of the goddess-mother of Babylon. Gillespie (in his Land of Sinim, p. 64) states that the Chinese goddess-mother, or "Queen of Heaven," in the province of Fuh-kien, is worshipped by seafaring people under the name of Ma Tsoopo. Now, "Ama Tzupah" signifies the "Gazing Mother;" and there is much reason to believe that Shing Moo signifies the same; for Mu was one of the forms in which Mut or Maut, the name of the great mother, appeared in Egypt (BUNSEN'S Vocabulary, vol. i. p. 471); and Shngh, in Chaldee, signifies "to look" or "gaze." The Egyptian Mu or Maut was symbolised either by a vulture, or an eye surrounded by a vulture's wings (WILKINSON, vol. v. p. 203.) The symbolic meaning of the vulture may be learned from the Scriptural expression: "There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen" (Job xxviii.7). The vulture was noted for its sharp sight, and hence, the eye surrounded by the vulture's wings showed that, for some reason or other, the great mother of the gods in Egypt had been known as "The gazer." But the idea contained in the Egyptian symbol had evidently been borrowed from Chaldea; for Rheia, one of the most noted names of the Babylonian mother of the gods, is just the Chaldee form of the Hebrew Rhaah, which signifies at once "a gazing woman" and a "vulture." The Hebrew Rhaah itself is also, according to a dialectical variation, legitimately pronounced Rheah; and hence the name of the great goddess-mother of Assyria was sometimes Rhea, and sometimes Rheia. In Greece, the same idea was evidently attached to the Mother of the children of the sun (see ante, p. 20, Note), For one of her distinguishing titles was Ophthalmitis (SMITH'S Classical Dictionary, "Athena," p. 101), thereby pointing her out as the goddess of "the eye." It was no doubt to indicate the same thing that, as the Egyptian Maut wore a vulture on her head, so the Athenian Minerva was represented as wearing a helmet with two eyes, or eye-holes, in the front of the helmet.--(VAUX'S Antiquities, p. 186.)

I was looking in Barbara Walker's The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets to see if she had an entry under sisters (she doesn't) when I came across her entry on Shin-Mu:

"Mother of Perfect Intelligence," China's Holy Virgin, who miraculously conceived her firstborn son, a Savior and spirit of the grain.  Her infant "came like a lamb, with no bursting or rending, with no hurt or harm," and was tenderly adored by sheep and oxen.(1)  [Sound familiar?]

After producing this child, Shin-Mu resumed her archaic Great Mother character and gave birth to 33,333 creatures.  Patriarchal myths deprived her of a vagina, and so insisted all these creatures were born from her arms or breast.  A Christian traveller in China explained Shin-Mu's miraculous motherhood: she had "no place on her body whence to bring Them forth as other women of the world, whom for sin God hath subjected to filthiness of corruption, to show how filthy sin is."(2)

After she was virginized and even deprived of a vagina, Shin-Mu's only remaining connection with sexuality was similar to the virgin Mary's: she continued to be the divine patroness of whores.(3)

Persians diabolized her and called her Shimnu, the "Great Devil," so called in a Manichean Confession-Prayer found at Turfan and in the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas, at Tun-huang.(4) [Tocharians???]

Notes:

(1) Hays, 241.
(2) Briffault 3, 171.
(3) Briffault 3, 177.
(4) Legge 2, 334-35.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

...mu mut maut, if you talk of mother then its mati(N)=to know=
(s)ma(r)ty=mater(Lat). ma tzopo=
ma/maitl(N)=hand(mate)=matlalli(N)=
netland=ma(N)=hunt land/sea with net=maho(Jap)=run under full sail=
maquiça(N)=escape from danger=
magic(E)=maho/majo(Jap)=witchcraft/
sorceress=mago(sp)=magician/wizard=
uitz altia(N)=come to the altar/
tealtia(N)=t/reality=ue altia(N)=
bealté(OE)=beauty/beatitude...
now tzopa(N)=squeeze=ma-quiza(N)=
ma-/hand quiza=(s)queeze(E), hmmm,
so, tzopa=go to the end, finish;
build with stone. wow!
miko(Jap)=maiden in service to
a temple/tepetl(N)tepe(mideast),
necromancer, medium.
mikko(Jap)=secret passage/sailing(stowaway).
well,
the japanese are rain magicians.
the quiahuizteca(olmec/mother race
of mexico?).
quiahuitl(N)=rain/storm, the strongest witching sign in the
tonalamatl=a(r)hui(s)t(letra)=
harvest/aristo/a(h)u(i)-n-t/l
(letra)=aunt(E), usually older
sister=pitli(N)=p(r)ie(s)t.
it was japanese women who were
weather witches coming out of the
deer/orchard age of tlaloc/
rarog=tarocco/taroc=tarot(cards), the raingod, both related
numens have dwarfs. the kingdom
of wei=ue(N)=way(big)recalled
waa(japan)as having many dwarfs,
the source of the famous japanese
turnip legs i bet.
as i look over japanese it's
a late oral language, e.g.,russian,
makes heavy use of a selection
of nauatl verbs, doesn't seem they
have the complete set, because it
is designed for memory, to be held
in the mind entirely like an encantation. so we have discovered
the dousers among us. their time
in amerinda was 2k bc, before japan, as lords of mexico they came into history, defeating the
mayan on the laderas/sides of the
volcano, popocatepetl/smoking
mountain even though their lords
were drunk.
me(Jap)=bud,sprout=metl(N)=
metis(myth)=first goddess of wisdom, mother of athena, rope goddess. rope=nawa(Jap). the 2d
meaning of me(Jap)=eye. that's
identity.
like the ainu, whom they used
to despise, they, too, got so drunk
worshipping their gods they forgot who they were or where they'd been.
one last note, like the mayan,
who ended up in the yucutan=
yuhcatla(N)=desert, similar to
where they started, gulf of ormuz
in coastal iran(perseus, father of
ehecatl/hecate), the japanese after
amerinda volcanica landed/chose
volcanic honshu/fuji. if you coast
off both countrys you will see the
similaritys, orizaba/hill of the
star is as beautiful as the east
coast of japan, their mountains,
upside down vases of water, seen
from the sea. who could resist?

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