Many popular books study Vampires. The vast audience
attracted to the subject of vampires know them mostly in fictional,
one-dimensional form. Yet the truth behind the historical characters
is as fascinating as any fabricated account of supernatural persona.
http://rexcurry.net/socialist-vampires.html
The original Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) was an inventively
cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century. Vlad Dracula
is estimated to have annihilated 50,000 people --one-tenth of his
own population.
Some books entertain the idea that Vlad Dracula never
died and is still alive. Others believe that he left multiple
secret descendants worldwide. It is a demonic Da Vinci code
plot. http://rexcurry.net/da-vinci-code-priory-of-sion.html
Vlad's death toll was greatly exceeded in modern times.
The worst blood-letting in history was during the socialist Wholecaust
(of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million slaughtered under
the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); ~50 million
under the Peoples Republic of China (PRC); ~20 million under the
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP). They practiced human
sacrifice on a scale never before seen. http://rexcurry.net/wholecaust-museum.html
One definition of vampire is: a person who preys ruthlessly
upon others. Under the definition, socialists ARE vampires.
Under that definition, the worst vampires were Stalin (USSR), Mao
(PRC) and the leader of the NSGWP. Could they have been Vlad's
descendants, his creations, or his followers? http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
Most books about vampires are well-researched in the sense that they
reference actual historical events. The books are usually poorly
researched in the sense that they should tell more about the real-life
links to the worst vampires, tortures and slaughters in history.
The books might inspire people to learn more about the truths behind
the mysteries. It is hoped that newer versions of popular books are
improved with greater emphasis on factual matters. Truth is more
frightening than fiction. http://rexcurry.net/666-mark-of-the-beast-revelation-occult.html
Another example is the vampire empire of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. It imposed a self-proclaimed dictatorship of the proletariat.
It was implemented by V. I. Lenin (the first premier of the
USSR) after the 1917 revolution and exacerbated by Stalin, and it
was a true dictatorship of the proletariat, with the enslavement
of everyone. In later decades, the rationale for repression
outlined there was advanced again and again by dictatorial socialist
governments as they argued that the small vampire vanguard was necessary
to rule the masses for their own good, and even against their will. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
The letter V as the first initial of the name for
Lenin might just as well have meant vampire. Many people forget
that Lenin had this first name: Vladimir. It is the same name as
Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Tepes, 1431-1476) the old source
for the vampire and dracula terror.
Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov.
Lenin was not his real name. He used the initials and the new
name to hide his past and his true nature. Examples that exist of
his signature show both Vladimir and Wladimir, similar to how the
original Vlad III Dracula was known.
Vlad I. Lenin and Vlad III Dracula have striking similarities
in appearance and in deeds. Vlad III Dracula was the old source
for the vampire terror and Vlad I. Lenin is the modern source for
the vampire terror. Vlad III Dracula ruled, fed and killed in Transylvania,
part of Romania, part of the Caucasus Mountains or Caucasia, and a Slavic
part of the former vampire empire of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Vlad I. Lenin also ruled, fed and killed to a much worse degree than
did Vlad III Dracula, and Lenin did so in the even larger killing field
of the entire Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (which eventually included
the Caucasus, Romania and Transylvania). http://rexcurry.net/rexcurry.net/inquisitions-heresy-socialism.html
The dictionary states that "vampire" is a word of
Slavic origin. The word "Slav" is the origin of the word
"slave." The word "slave" did not originally refer to African-Americans.
It originally referred to Caucasians (people from the Caucasus or
Caucasia) who were enslaved in medieval times of the dark ages by
people like Vlad III Dracula. Those terms are still used by knowledgeable
people when referring to the acts of Vlad I. Lenin and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics. http://rexcurry.net/crucible.html
Vlad III Dracula was also known as Vlad the Impaler.
He used impalement as a method of torture and execution. Victims
were skewered on long stakes that were planted in the ground in his
killing fields. The piercing was done through the sides or the rear
entrance. It could be done so that the victim was still alive and
would be displayed until death and thereafter.
Impalement was a bizarre and ironic evolution of
crucifixion. Emperor Constantine I (also known as Constantine
the Great 272–337 A.D.), for reasons of Christian piety, banned
crucifixion as a means of capital punishment. Impalement was also
adopted because it was not considered crucifixion. http://rexcurry.net/ghosts-hauntings-spirits-haunted-houses.html
Constantine claimed to have a vision before a battle in which
he saw a cross as a sword and the words "In this sign conquer." Constantine
instructed his men to fashion a sword in the form of a cross and it
was carried into victorious battle. It is known as "Constantine's
Sword." Thus the cross, a form of execution and death before Constantine,
was transformed into another form of execution and death under Constantine.
Under Constantine a person would not be killed on a cross, but he
would be killed or decapitated with a cross-shaped sword.
It was under Constantine that the cross became popularized as
a symbol of Christianity. Before then the common symbols of Christianity
included a fish, a lamb, and a shepherd. The crucifix and the cross
spread, even as modern jewelry (it is interesting to note that after
the guillotine was invented, jewelry (including earrings) were made in
the form of miniature guillotines, in a fashion that is similar to modern
jewelry in the form of small crosses and crucifixes, also tools of execution
similar to the guillotine). Cross-shaped swords were the weapons of the
crusades.
Crusades were not just about killing muslims. Crusades were
about killing anyone who was not a christian (that included the slaughter
of Hebrews).
The Book of Revelation, chapter 13 has repeated references to the
forced worship of the dragon and the beast, and the persecution and death
of anyone who would not worship ( http://rexcurry.net/666-mark-of-the-beast-revelation-occult.html
). That occurred in ancient Rome, and under Soviet Socialism, German National
Socialism and under the Peoples' Republic of China. Even today, children
in government schools in the USA are led every morning in robotically
chanting in worship of the enormous beast of government as they gesture
and chant to its flag with their hands over their hearts (In the past,
the gesture during the Pledge of Allegiance was the military salute extended
out to the stiff-armed salute - the salute adopted later by German socialists
in chanting and worship toward their swastika flag).
A common legend is that Vampires feared the cross or crucifix.
Movies depict vampires recoiling in horror at the sight of a cross.
However, Vlad III Dracula is remembered as a Christian knight and
for his crusades. In modern times, under the leader of the National
Socialist German Workers' Party, the cross was worshiped as the notorious
symbol of the Party. The group called their symbol the Hakenkreuz,
not the swastika. Hakenkreuz means "hooked cross."
Although the swastika was an ancient symbol, the
noted cryptographer / symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (Swastika Secrets)
discovered that it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists
to represent "S" letters for their "socialism." With a 45
degree turn of his Hakenkreuz, the leader of German National Socialists
combined the cross with collectivism, merged church and state,
meshed religion and socialism, and mandated the worship of government
and chanting to its swastika flag. It is only one of many forms of occult
socialism. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
There is support for Dr. Curry's work in books by
other authors who believe the Holocaust under the National Socialist
German Workers Party was an Inquisition (including religious persecution)
undertaken by the leader of German National Socialism under his religious
beliefs.
Many religious people refused to perform the straight-arm
salute to the hooked-cross flag of German National Socialism. Those
people (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) considered it to be the sacrilegious
worship of government and socialism. Those people were persecuted
and many were killed. They were also persecuted in the USA for
refusing to perform the straight-arm salute in worship of the national
flag and the government.
There are many shocking links to the Freemasons,
the United States of America, and the robotic chanting of the Pledge
of Allegiance in the USA (origin of the straight-arm salute of the
NSGWP). http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Authors of books about vampires and other current
bestsellers (e.g. The Da Vinci Code, The Holy Blood And The Holy
Grail, etc) make their stories relevant to current events. Such
stories are relevant to the fact that the present government in
the USA is anti libertarian and is out-socializing the previous
administration by more than double and growing (in social spending
alone). In the USA, social security cards are known as the "we eat our young"
cards (and the same slur is used for the government's debt).
There are terrifying parallels in the philosophies
and religions of Vlad III Dracula, Vlad I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin,
Karl Marx, Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and the leader of the
National Socialist German Workers Party.
They were all Christians. Vlad III Dracula (a.k.a.
Vlad the Impaler 1431-1476) was Catholic and is remembered as
a Christian knight and for his crusades. Vlad I. Lenin was baptized
into the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian Orthodox Church traces
its roots to the Baptism of Kiev in 988, when Prince Vladimir I officially
adopted the religion of the Byzantine Empire as the state religion
of the Rus' state. It traces its apostolic succession through the Patriarch
of Constantinople (named after Constantine). The city of St. Petersburg
(on the Gulf of Finland) was renamed Leningrad. Vladimir Putin can be
seen in photographs with Alexius I of the Roman Orthodox Church. Joseph
Stalin attended Tiflis Theological Seminary, a Russian Orthodox institution
via a scholarship that he was awarded (he was also paid for singing
in the choir). His mother wanted him to be a priest even after he had
become leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. When Vlad I.
Lenin died (January 1924), he left behind a document known as "Lenin's
Testament." Stalin organized Lenin's funeral and made a speech
professing undying loyalty to Lenin, in almost religious terms. Marx's
father converted to Christianity and Karl Marx joined the official denomination
of the Prussian state, Lutheranism, and he was thus in a small minority
of Lutherans in a predominantly Roman Catholic region. The head
of the NSGWP was raised as a Roman Catholic by his parents, as was customary
where he lived. His mother wanted him to become a priest. He saw the
swastika symbol while he was a young student with the Benedictins at the
Abbey of Lambach-am-Traum, in upper Austria. The symbol was engraved on
the four corners of the monastery. It was not called a swastika. German
National Socialists called the symbol that they worshippd a Hakenkreuz.
It was a type of cross. It translates as "hooked cross." In
some ways, the head of the NSGWP did become a priest. http://rexcurry.net/swastikacross.html
Vlad III Dracular began a six-year period of rule in 1456,
just three years after Constantinople fell to the Turks. Vlad
went to war in the winter of 1461-62. Vlad's battles drew the attention
of several European rulers, including the Pope. When the opposing
Sultan's army reached Vlad's capital city this is what they saw:
"He marched on for about five kilometers when he saw his men impaled;
the Sultan's army came across a field with stakes, about three kilometers
long and one kilometer wide. And there were large stakes on which they
could see the impaled bodies of men, women, and children, about twenty
thousand of them, as they said.....There were babies clinging to their
mothers on the stakes, and birds had made nests in their breasts." (from
the Greek historian Chalkondyles).
Of couse, 20,000 is small compared to the hundreds of millions
killed by modern vampires in the socialist Wholecaust.
The Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
was the hammer and sickle on a red background. Red is blood.
The sickle is the scythe of the grim reaper. The hammer is
the only method of killing vampires, a form of impalement by driving
a stake through their hearts. The vampire Vlad used a more horrific
form of impalement against his human victims. With its leadership
of grim reapers, the USSR harvested the largest crop of corpses in
history.
Vlad Lenin helped to establish Red Square outside
the Kremlin in Moscow. Lenin established the Gulag (death
camps, slave camps, concentration camps) in 1920 or earlier. Millions
of victims disappeared in the darkest of night.
Socialists re-combined church and state through the
worship of government, socialism and death. Blood-sucking
socialists preach sacrifice of others and self sacrifice even to the
ultimate degree: death.
Vampire socialists are necrophiliacs who love death
and corpses.
Vampires socialists are misanthropes who see themselves
as a superior race to the masses. They obsess about class and they
mentally view people in such categories.
Many socialists say that violence and death are the
only ways that their dogma and their dominance can be achieved.
Their misanthropy claims that it is evolution or natural selection
or that it is inevitable.
They obsess about militarism and they use it to pursue
their domination via the mass slaughter of conquest and war. They
glorify their militarism with absurd parades of their killing
machines. Notorious examples include the former Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Socialists become schooled in the martial arts of war.
Vampire socialists helped start WWII when the National
Socialist German Workers' Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics joined together as allies in 1939 to invade Poland, in
a plan to divide up Europe. http://rexcurry.net/socialistwar.html
Vlad I. Lenin was the main theorist of Leninism,
which he described as an adaptation of his vampiric dogma to "the
age of imperialism." He wanted a well-trained party of professional
revolutionaries to hasten the ascension of his vampires over the world.
The American socialists Francis Bellamy (author of
the Pledge of Allegiance) and Edward Bellamy (author of the book
Looking Backward) called their dogma: military socialism. They
idolized the military and they wanted all of society to ape the military
in what they called: the Industrial Army.
They wanted the government to take over all schools
and use the schools to turn students into the industrial army of
military socialism. They wanted the government flag in all
schools.
Francis Bellamy began the original Pledge of Allegiance
with a military salute. Historic photographs are at http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
and at http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
He wanted all students to collectively assemble in military formation
and chant his pledge to the flag in order to glorify and worship
socialism.
In the early pledge, the military salute was then
extended out toward the flag. In actual use, the second part
of the gesture was performed with a straight arm and palm down by
children extending the military salute while perfunctorily performing
the forced ritual chanting. Dr. Rex Curry showed that, due to
the way that both gestures were used sequentially in the pledge, the
military salute led to the salute of the National Socialist German
Workers Party. The NSGWP salute is an extended military salute
via the pledge. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Mars is the god of militarism and war. It is
the origin of the term martial arts (military arts or war arts).
Vampire socialists adore the god of war.
Mars is the red planet, the planet of blood. Vampires
socialists tried to make planet earth as red as mars. They did it
with the blood of millions slaughtered. Much about socialism is a
symbol of their love of blood.
Those ideas lead some people to the theory that vampire
socialists are extraterrestrials (e.g. Martians) who came to earth
for conquest and to establish a vampire empire. The theory holds
that when they came to earth they pretended to want to aid humans
with books entitled: How to Serve Humans. But the title is misleading.
It is a cook book.
They are cannibals and they cause cannibalism. They
feed on the blood, sweat and tears of humans. They crucify capitalism
in the production of food (and everything), and mass famine results.
They force humans and non-socialists to adopt cannibalism in desperate
attempts to survive.
Seven million persons perished from 1932-33 in the
famine that resulted in Europe's "breadbasket" after the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics imposed collectivist land management in
the Ukraine. By the spring of 1933, an estimated 25,000 people died
every day in the Ukraine. It is the same socialism that resulted
in 27 million people starving to death in 1958 in the so-called "Great
Leap Forward" in China. The Great Leap Forward used the same economic
reasoning used in "Looking Backward" the book by Edward Bellamy.
The German Saxons of Transylvania were victims of
invasions by Vlad III Dracula into what was an independent state.
Vlad did not support a free market economy and he imposed harsh taxes,
duties and tariffs. They caused great poverty and suffering.
Vlad the impaler was said to consume bread that he
dipped into the blood of his victims as he dined among their impaled
bodies. Old drawings depict such scenes.
In 1459 Dracula attacked Brasov, burned an entire
village, and impaled many people there on a Hill. The horror
is shown in a woodcut in a tract from Nuremberg in 1499. The image shows
Vlad at a table eating while impaled victims are dying around him,
and while his aids hack off limbs. The tract provides this description:
"...he impaled people and roasted them and boiled their heads in a kettle
and skinned people and hacked them to pieces like cabbage. He also roasted
the children of mothers and they had to eat the children themselves."
A woodcut (Strasbourg) exists from the following year with another
such scene. Vlad's legend also spread from German sources, dating from
as early as 1463 (while Vlad was still alive). Dracula's Homepage website
states, "....some of the earliest secular texts to roll off the presses
were horror stories about Vlad Dracula. Written in German and published
at major centres such as Nuremburg, Bamberg, and Strassburg, these had
such unsavory titles as The Frightening and Truly Extraordinary Story
of a Wicked Blood-drinking Tyrant Called Prince Dracula. Researchers
have discovered at least thirteen of these pamphlets dating from 1488
to 1521." A German tract (Nuremberg 1488) states: "He had some of
his people buried naked up to the navel and had them shot at. He also had
some roasted and flayed." The same tract adds: "About three hundred
gypsies came into his country. Then he selected the best three of them
and had them roasted; these the others had to eat."
Ritualized cannibalism exists in the historic religious
beliefs of Vlad I. Lenin, Vlad III Dracula, Karl Marx, Francis Bellamy,
Edward Bellamy and the leader of the National Socialist German
Workers Party. They were all Christians. Vlad III Dracula
(1431-1476) is remembered as a Christian knight and for his crusades.
Vlad I. Lenin was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. One
of its religious practices is communion in the form of a small piece
of blessed bread soaked in wine. Another central feature of the church
is the altar which, in history, was actually used for blood sacrifices.
The Russian Orthodox Church traces its roots to the Baptism of Kiev
in 988, when Prince Vladimir I officially adopted the religion of the
Byzantine Empire as the state religion of the Rus' state. It traces
its apostolic succession through the Patriarch of Constantinople (named
after Constantine). The city of St. Petersburg (on the Gulf of
Finland) was renamed Leningrad. Vladimir Putin can be seen in photographs
with Alexius I of the Roman Orthodox Church. Marx's father converted
to Christianity and Karl Marx joined the official denomination of
the Prussian state, Lutheranism, and he was thus in a small minority
of Lutherans in a predominantly Roman Catholic region. The head
of the NSGWP was raised as a Roman Catholic by his parents, as was
customary where he lived.
An internet website, Dracula's homepage, states: "In
1431, the senior Vlad was summoned to Nuremberg by Sigismund, the
Holy Roman Emperor, to receive a unique honor. He was one of a number
of princes and vassals initiated by the Emperor into the Order of
the Dragon, an institution, similar to other chivalric orders of the
time, modeled on the Order of St George. It was created in 1408 by Sigismund
and his queen Barbara Cilli mainly for the purpose of gaining protection
for the royal family; it also required its initiates to defend Christianity
and to do battle against its enemies, principally the Turks. As an indication
of his pride in the Order, Vlad took on the nickname 'Dracul.' (The Wallachian
word 'dracul' was derived from the Latin 'draco' meaning 'the dragon.')"
The younger Vlad used the term "Dracula," meaning "son of Dracul"
or "son of the Dragon."
A historic religious doctrine involves the belief
that bread and wine change into flesh and blood. The flesh
and blood are then consumed by the believers. Followers of
the doctrine participate in elaborate group ceremonies (en mass)
concerning the act. The act is required to be repeated regularly for
their entire lives.
Those historic relgious beliefs developed from the
Last Supper. The Holy Grail was the container used by Jesus
at the Last Supper. The nexus of Joseph of Arimathea with
the Grail legend dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie
(late twelfth century) in which Joseph receives the Grail from an
apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain.
Building upon that story, later writers recounted how Joseph used
the Grail to catch Christ's blood.
The historic religious ceremony that developed is
often performed in the presence of a large crucifix that graphically
displays the namesake of their religion upon a cross, with
nails through his feet and hands/wrists (another form of impalement).
Followers believe that the namesake of their religion was sacrificed,
or engaged in agonizing self-sacrifice, that could save humanity
through the power of belief and/or emulation. Followers sometimes
wear small versions of the event on necklaces. They believe that the
namesake of their religion died, came back to life and was able to live
forever. Followers believe that their group ritual with wine and
bread will help them to do the same.
There are some legends saying that Vlad III Dracula,
after being taken captive by the Hungarians, was buried alive. The
next day, they dug up the spot where he was buried and found no corpse.
It is interesting to note that in 1448, upon returning to Wallachia,
Vlad discovered that his father had been assassinated and his older brother
Mircea had been buried alive by the nobles of Târgoviste who
had supported a rival leader.
It is difficult to know what the above religious
doctrine meant in the demented minds of Vlad III Dracula, Vlad
I. Lenin, Karl Marx, Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and the leader
of German National Socialists. They were preying people. They
ruthlessly preyed upon others.
Similar historic religious doctrines also drove believers
to use mortification of the flesh, flagellation, hairshirts, and
another form of cilice (a spiked leg band), etc.
The symbol of German National Socialists (the swastika)
was not called a swastika by German National Socialists. In
German it was a Hakenkreuz. It was a type of cross. Hakenkreuz means
hooked cross.
The head of the NSGWP saw the Hakenkreuz while he
was a young student with the Benedictins at the Abbey of Lambach-am-Traum,
in upper Austria. The symbol was engraved on the four corners of
the monastery, where it had been sculpted several years before, upon
the direction of the abbot, Theodorich Hagen.
The hooked cross of German National Socialism was
manipulated to combine its religious meaning with the worship of
socialism and government. The head of the NSGWP turned it 45
degrees to the horizontal and oriented it to always point clockwise.
He manipulated his hooked cross to turn it into the overlapping letter S
to symbolize his vampiric socialism, as shown by Professor Rex Curry. The
German National Socialist leader altered his own signature to use the
same stylized letter S to symbolize socialism. Similar alphabetic symbolism
still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
The hooked cross also symbolizes crossed sickles or
scythes of the grim reaper, so that the German National Socialist
Symbol mirrored the symbol of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The American National Socialist Edward Bellamy also
combined his religion with socialism in his book The Religion
of Solidarity (1874). He argued that individuality is a
delusion and/or is unimportant. He advocated that each individual
subsume himself/herself to anything and everything else, as repeated
later in his book Looking Backward.
In Mein Kampf, the author cryptically described the
new hooked-cross flag of German National Socialism and its red color:
"In red we see the social idea of the movement...." (pg. 496-497).
The German National Socialist leader obsessed about
blood and death. He would carry the Blutfahne (Blood flag), a Swastika
flag which was covered in the blood of his cohorts from the attempted
Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany on November 9, 1923.
The bloody flag was treated as a sacred object, and was carried
at NSGWP ceremonies. One of the most visible uses of the flag was
at the annual socialist party rallies at Nuremburg, where the leader
touched other national socialist banners with the Blutfahne, thus
sanctifying the new flags with the old.
The death's head insignia (Totenkopf or dead-head,
a skull and crossed bones) was used by the NSGWP. It was
used on black uniforms giving a sinister appearance that was appropriate
for the vampiric nature of the German socialists.
The NSGWP leader followed the lead of Vlad I. Lenin
in constructing death camps used to kill people they considered
inferior. Both of them followed in the footsteps of Vlad III
Dracula.
Dracular's homepage states: "According to an early
Romanian chronicle, in the spring of 1457, Vlad invited the nobles
[of Tirgoviste] and their families to an Easter feast. After his guests
had finished their meal, Vlad's soldiers surrounded them, rounded up
the able-bodied and marched them fifty miles up the Arges River to
Poenari, where they were forced to build his mountain fortress. His prisoners
labored under very difficult conditions for many months. Those who survived
the grueling ordeal were impaled."
Legends state that Vlad III Dracula once noticed
that vagrants, beggars and cripples had become numerous in his
land. Vlad invited all the poor and sick in Wallachia to join him
for a huge feast, declaring that no one should go hungry in his land.
As the poor and crippled arrived, they were ushered into a great hall
where a feast was prepared for them. Vlad's guests ate and drank late
into the night, when Vlad himself made an appearance. "What else do
you desire? Do you want to be without cares, lacking nothing in this
world?" asked Vlad. When they answered that such was indeed their wish,
Vlad had the hall boarded up and set on fire. None escaped the flames.
Vlad claimed that he did it "in order that they represent no further burden
to other men so that no one will be poor in my realm." This deed is also
attributed to the bishop Hatto of Mainz.
All vampire socialists ask the masses "Do you want
to be without cares, lacking nothing in this world?" and they promise
it in socialism, and then slaughter by the millions all who are
duped.
It is unclear why Vlad became the source for vampire
legends in the late 1800's. The events in the life of Vlad occurred
in a region of the world that was still basically medieval even
during that time. Similar medieval conditions were re-created
under the modern vampire Vlad I. Lenin and the former Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, where society actually regressed, as if moving
backward in time, during the 1900's.
The phrase “From each according to his ability; to
each according to his needs” has an ominous tone from the mouth
of a vampire. It is a trick phrase because, when compared with
vampires, humans have no abilities. And vampires have one very
special and overriding need: the blood, sweat and tears of humans
and their sacrifice.
Despite their inhuman cruelty, socialists are still
admired by many people. As in the old legends, vampire socialists
seem to have hypnotic powers over others. They mesmerize millions
of people into becoming socialism's willing executioners http://rexcurry.net/socialism.html
They paralyze their prey with fear and terror.
Madame Lenin, wife to Vlad, was pale and assisted
her demonic husband in his passion. The Lenins had no children.
Their lives were spent obsessing about their vampire empire.
There is no doubt that Lenin's desire to enslave the
world crystallized at the time of his brother's death. His eldest
brother, Alexander, was arrested for a plot threatening the life of
Tsar Alexander III to overthrow the government (the old government
that seems angelic compared to the death toll of 62 million people
slaughtered under the empire created by Vlad I. Lenin). When his mother
arrived he burst into tears and immediately confessed everything to her.
At the trial he made no defense and asked no mercy. He was hanged in
the courtyard of Schlusselberg fortress on May 20, 1886.
The death of his brother transformed Vlad. A
famous painting by Belousov, printed as propaganda in millions of
government textbooks depicted young Vlad and his mother grieving the
loss of elder brother Alexander. The painting is called: We will follow
a different path. They followed a different path leading to
the worst slaughter in all history.
Many modern popular books have been written about
the historic religious beliefs mentioned above and how they inspired
secret societies, sinister plots and many deaths.
The Priory of Sion has, since the 1970s, been
an elusive protagonist in many conspiratorial works of pseudohistory.
The Prieuré de Sion created by Pierre Plantard is a hoax.
Usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion or Priory
of Zion, it has been characterized as the most powerful secret society
in history.
A priory is a residence in a monastery governed
by a prior (superior). A monastery is a community of persons
who live give up individuality to live collectively, through self-sacrifice
and they often take vows to live in poverty, and give up private property.
The term "monastery" comes from the root "mono" as meaning living
as one. In a free society, such a manner of living is voluntary
and rare. Under socialism, such a manner of living is involuntary
and is imposed on everyone by government. It results in widespread
poverty.
Sion or Zion has several definitions in dictionaries
including: utopia or an idealized, harmonious community (that concept
is also used as a reference to the historic land of Israel). The
USSR, PRC, and NSGWP all promised utopia or an idealized, harmonious
community. The activities that followed bore no resemblance to
a harmonious society.
The articles of the Priory of Sion as indicated
in its Statute desired the creation of a monastic order -but the
activities of the Priory of Sion bore no resemblance whatsoever to
the objectives as outlined in its Statutes. Article VII stated
that members were expected "to carry out good deeds" and "teach the
truth" and "defend the weak and the oppressed." The statutes of
the USSR, PRC and NSGWP all stated the same expectations, which were
repeated Pravda (truth) and the other government-run media.
Authors who have written about the Priory of Sion
assert that its ultimate goals are:
* the founding of an empire
that would become the next hyperpower and usher in a new world
order of peace and prosperity;
* the establishment of a messianic
mystery state religion; and
* the grooming and installing
of a messiah or "Rex Deus" or "King God."
Stalin, Mao and the head of the NSGWP each had a
messiah complex and installed themselves as Rex Deus and required
worship and complete obediance and sacrifice, even to the ultimate
self-sacrifice by millions: death.
The authors Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry
Lincoln (The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail) claimed that the Priory
of Sion had a long and illustrious history dating back to the First
Crusade starting with the creation of the Knights Templar as its military
and financial front.
They wrote that the Roman Catholic Church tried
to kill off all remnants of the society and their guardians, the
Cathars and the Templars, during the Inquisitions, in order to maintain
power.
The modern socialist Inquisition also tried to kill
off all remants of capitalism in order to maintain power. The
socialist Inquisition killed millions while the old Inquisition
killed few in comparison.
There were four old Inquisitions; in chronological
order, they were the Medieval Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition,
the Portuguese Inquisition and the Roman Inquisition. They started
with the Medieval Inquisition in 1184 and ended with the Spanish Inquisition
in 1834. One would be incorrect to presume that the old Inquistions
were unrelated to each other, or that they were unrelated to the modern
socialist Inquisitions.
The modern socialist Inquisitions also consist of
four major examples: 65 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics; 35 million under the Peoples Republic of China;
21 million under the National Socialist German Workers Party; 4 million
under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. They were the four horsemen
of the apocalypse.
The Inquisitions were institutions charged with the
eradication of heresy through violent coercion.
Heresy (from the Greek verb for, "to choose") is
a natural obstacle to total control by anyone with power. If enough
people decide to think for themselves, the absolute authority of socialism
is threatened. Under socialism permanent structures came into being
to combat heresies. Socialists deemed it poper to convert, sometimes
by violent means, people who maintained divergent opinions from the
government. Socialist leaders often carried out the torture and
the killings although sometimes eager citizens were allowed to contribute,
a role of great prestige in the socialist Wholecaust. http://rexcurry.net/socialism.html
Some Christian fundamentalist authors like Jack Chick
and Alberto Rivera believe the Holocaust under the National Socialist
German Workers Party was an Inquisition (including religious persecution)
undertaken by the NSGWP's leader and under his religious beliefs.
In the Russian Orthodox Church there are no pews. Worshipers
bow down on the ground.
Most churches are lit with candles rather than electric
light. Virtually all churches have many votive candle stands in
front of the icons.
Confession must precede communion, either before the
liturgy or the night before, and the communicant must have fasted
since midnight.
Sometimes the bottoms of the crosses found on Russian
churches will be adorned with a crescent. In 1552, Tsar Ivan IV
(the Terrible) conquered the city of Kazan which had been under the
rule of Muslem Tatars, and in remembrance of this, he decreed that
from henceforth the Islamic crescent be placed at the bottom of the
crosses to signify the victory of the cross (Christianity) over the
crescent (Islam).
The following is from Dracula's homepage:
We do know that Vlad later married Ilona Szilagy, who was
related to Matthias Corvinus, the king of Hungary who had placed
Vlad under arrest following his escape from Wallachia in 1462. It
appears that Corvinus made an arrangement with Vlad to restore him
to his throne. To strengthen the bond, Vlad was offered a royal bride.
After his death, Vlad's wife was left with his three sons. Mihnea,
the eldest, was from his union with the Transylvanian noblewoman. He
had two sons by his Hungarian wife -- Vlad, and a second whose name is
unknown. Only Mihnea succeeded in gaining the Wallachian throne. During
his brief rule from 1508-1509, he showed signs that he could be as atrocious
as his infamous father; nicknamed "Mihnea the Bad," he is reputed to have
cut off the noses and lips of his political enemies. He was assassinated
in 1510 on the steps of a church in Sibiu.
According to genealogical research conducted by historians
Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally (published in their 1989 book
Dracula: Prince of Many Faces), the Romanian male line
died out in 1632. As for the Hungarian lineage, the last male descendant
died late in the sixteenth century, though a female line can be traced
for an additional hundred years. As for indirect descendants, it
has been verified that Professor Constantin Balaceanu-Stolnici of
Bucharest is descended from Vlad Dracula's half-brother, Vlad the
Monk. According to researchers at the Institute of Genealogy of the
Romanian Academy, other claims are unsubstantiated.
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More than 60 years after it was seized by socialists,
the Romanian government returned the country's most popular tourist
site, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner. In
crowning irony, the mythical Dracula's castle has been retrieved
from true socialist vampires who had ruthlessly preyed on the people
of Transylvania, Romania, and the former Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. http://rexcurry.net/socialist-vampires.html
While known and marketed as "Dracula's Castle," it
never belonged to Prince Vlad the Impaler, who is sometimes claimed
to have inspired Bram Stoker's Count Dracula character. But the prince
is thought to have visited the medieval fortress.
The castle did belong to the true socialist vampires
in the governments of Romania and the former Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics.
The modern Dark Age, the Dark Age of Socialism, the Dark
Ages of Socialism, The modern Dark Ages and the Socialist Dark Ages,
The Socialist Dark Age
Looking Backward at Edward Bellamy, Francis Bellamy,
the Pledge of Allegiance, the socialist Holocaust, Wholecaust, &
Wholecost,
The Socialist Inquisitions, The Socialist Inquisition
Romania had been part of the modern dark ages in the
worst blood-letting in history, the socialist Wholecaust (of which
the Holocaust was a part): 65 million slaughtered under the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million under the Peoples Republic
of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers Party.
http://rexcurry.net/wholecaust-museum.html
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The Gothic fortress, perched on a rock, has appeared
in numerous Dracula movies.
Romania still has a vampire bureaucrat known as "the
culture minister" and he made the announcement about returning
the stolen property on May 26, 2006 in Bucharest, Romania.
Romania passed legislation earlier this year to return
property to its former owners and establish a "property fund" to
pay damages for assets that cannot be returned. The fund includes stock
in state-owned companies that are being privatized.
The vampire empire of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics imposed a self-proclaimed dictatorship of the proletariat.
It was implemented by V. I. Lenin (the first premier of the USSR)
after the 1917 revolution and exacerbated by Stalin, and it was a
true dictatorship of the proletariat, with the enslavement of everyone.
In later decades, the rationale for repression outlined there was
advanced again and again by dictatorial socialist governments as they
argued that the small vampire vanguard was necessary to rule the masses
for their own good, and even against their will. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
The castle, worth an estimated $25 million, was owned
by the late Queen Marie and bequeathed to her daughter Princess
Ileana in 1938. It was confiscated by communists in 1948 and fell
into disrepair. It will be transferred on Friday to Dominic van Hapsburg,
a New York architect who inherited the castle from Princess Ileana
decades after the socialists seized it, minister Adrian Iorgulescu
told a news conference.
Van Hapsburg is a descendant of the Hapsburg dynasty
which ruled Romania for a period starting in the late 17th century.
The hand-over ceremony occurred in the 14th century
castle's museum deep within the fortress in Transylvania, Iorgulescu
said.
Restoration work began in the late 1980s and was partially
completed in 1993. It is now one of Romania's top tourist destinations.
In an oddly foreboding twist, the government made
the true owner agree not to make any changes to the castle for
three years.
At the gates of Bran Castle, peasants sell Dracula
sweaters hand-knitted from the thick wool of local sheep, cheesecloth
blouses, and Vampire wine. The castle is the most famous of 15 citadels
and fortresses in the area, which were built by peasants to keep out
marauding armies of Turks and Tartars and cruel local medieval lords.
Another former royal property, the Peles Castle, built
in the late 19th century in the mountain town of Sinaia, will be
returned to former King Michael. He owned it before it was confiscated
by the socialist regime in 1948.
In 1940 during World War II, Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia, Northern
Transylvania, and southern Dobrudja were occupied by the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Hungary and Bulgaria respectively.
King Carol II abdicated in 1940 and the subsequent year Romania entered
the war joining with Germany's National Socialist German Workers
Party, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria. Because Romania participated in
the invasion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the country
recovered Bessarabia and northern Bukovina under the leadership of
general Ion Antonescu. During the Second World War, the Antonescu regime,
allied with Germany's National Socialists. In 1939, the National Socialist
German Workers' Party joined as allies with the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics to invade Poland in a secret pact to divide up Europe.
In August 1944 the Antonescu regime was toppled, and
Romania joined the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against German
National Socialists.
With Soviet Socialist forces still stationed in the
country and exerting defacto control, socialists and their allied
parties claimed 80% of the vote in the 1946 Romanian elections,
through a combination of vote manipulation, elimination and forced
mergers of competing parties, establishing themselves as the dominant
force; Western democracies left Romania in the hands of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1947, King Michael I was forced
by the socialists to abdicate and leave the country.
Romania was a socialist state, under direct military
and economic control of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
until 1958. During this period, Romania's scarce resources left after
WWII were drained by the "SovRom" (Soviet Socialist / Romania) agreements:
mixed Soviet-Romanian companies established in the aftermath of World
War II to mask the looting of Romania by Soviet socialists, in addition
to excessive war reparations paid to the USSR. During this dark period,
up to two millions persons were arbitrarily imprisoned for political,
economical or for no reasons, there were hundreds thousands of abuses,
deaths and incidents of torture against a large range of persons,
from political opponents to ordinary citizens, bringing gloom over
Romania. The estimated least figure of human life losses due to the
socialist terror in Romania between 1948 and 1964 is 200,000.
Nicolae Ceauşescu imposed even more socialistic policies
that further impoverished Romanians and exhausted the Romanian economy.
He profoundly deepened Romania's socialist police state (the Securitate)
and imposed a cult of personality.
The then-existing socialist dictatorship ended 22
December 1989 (the Romanian Revolution of 1989).
It coincided with the similar economic implosion of
socialism in the USSR. In the summer of 1991 a new Union Treaty
was designed which would have turned the Socialist Republics
into a much looser federation. The treaty was interrupted by the
August Coup - an attempted coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev
by other socialists members of the government. After the coup
failed, Yeltsin came out as a hero while Gorbachev's power was greatly
reduced. The balance of power tipped significantly towards the republics.
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were able to secede and regained their
independence, while the other 12 republics continued discussing similar
goals. On December 8, 1991 Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
signed Belavezha Accords which declared the socialist Union dissolved
and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place.
On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the president of the Socialist
Republics and turned the powers of his office over to Boris Yeltsin. The
following day, the Supreme Soviet, the highest governmental body of the
Soviet Union, dissolved itself. This is generally recognized as the official,
final dissolution of the Socialist Republics.
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Modern comparisons: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Charles Lincoln wrote: I think the insult has
at least some "textual" basis in the Buffyverse...specifically,
I got the feeling that Buffy must have suggested that the (WWI I
think) Prussian generals were Vampires in that (Season IV I think)
classroom scene where the stuffy History Prof. ridiculed her for her
"flights of fancy" questioning whether Grigori Efimovich Rasputin actually
died in December 1916 at the hands of Prince Felix Felixovich Yussupov
or sometime later in the 1920s or 30s.....
The Prof asked Buffy, "weren't you the one asking about the sleeping
habits of the Prussian generals?" I don't see how that could
possibly be relevant to anything unless they (like some of the non-vampiric
singing lumberjacks in Monte Python) "work all night and sleep all
day" and given the Buffy had also, separately, speculated that Charlotte
Corday might have been a vampire, killing Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub,
it seems the Slayer was using her personal knowledge to try to put
a spin on historical events.... and then there was that Fifth Season
Angel episode in the submarine where the line between Nazis and vampires
was getting blurry...I thought that was the weakest episode in ATS Season
V, but anyhow....
"Mitch Simmons" <demonrum...@webtv.net> wrote:
I think that the idea of Sub officers under the National Socialist
German Workers' Party being vampires is silly but the Rasputen being
the living dead is a good twist on what is already bizarre history.
Mariposas Rand wrote: rasputin didnt kill millions.
that would be up to prussian generals.
Don Sample wrote: Rasputin is being talked about among
Buffy fans. Buffy's history class in 'Checkpoint.' Starts
out with the professor talking about how Rasputin was nearly impossible
to kill, Buffy making some comments about how he was a little *too*
hard to kill, and leading into the Professor berating her for her
theories from the week before about "mysterious sleeping patterns of
the Prussian generals." (Next up. Who really killed Jean-Paul
Marat?)
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BJ wrote: If you do a search on rexy, he's been all
over net posting the same garbage. There's no responding to him,
because trolls like that have tunnel vision and do not have the
mental capacity to learn from others. They respond, as we saw, by reverting
to their only means of bolstering their pathetic argument -- by name
calling and trying to make others look like the losers.
This bulletin board has long been known
for its ability to chop up trolls into little pieces and dip them
in blood before slurping them down. This troll was especially flavorful,
what with him being curried and all.
I think the reason we reply to trolls
is a) it keeps us on our toes, b) it's entertaining, and c) it actually
helps us to bring the truth to anyone who might be reading.
Here is the fantastic retort to BJ: If you do a search
on BJ, she's been all over net posting the same garbage. There's
no responding to her, because trolls like her have tunnel vision
and do not have the mental capacity to learn from others nor even
to respond to topics. They respond, as we saw, by reverting to their
only means of bolstering their pathetic argument -- by name calling
and trying to make others look like the losers, and she continues to
cast childish insults even after her insults are repeated back to her,
because she is a slow learner (and has not responsded to the topic).
BJ has long been known for her ability to take
men's trolls, and fill them with blood before slurping them down.
BJ thinks that this troll was especially flavorful, what with
him being curried and all.
Is there another reason for BJ's self-description
as a vampire? There is another practice that might be considered
a form of cannibalism or vampirism in that it involves orally consuming
vital fluids from men. It might also be considered a form of cannibalism
or vampirism due to some religious doctrines that suggest the act
involves the destruction of literally millions of humans, or potential
humans. It might be the source of the term "man-eater." Some
self-proclaimed vampires have turned it into a ritual because they
perform it regularly. Vampires consider it a religious experience
due to the position of worship that is assumed. Many historic religious
beliefs consider it evil. Victims feel drained and exhausted after
each attack and yet mysteriously crave the next visit from the vampire.
I think the reason we reply to trolls
like BJ is a) it keeps us on our toes, b) it's entertaining, and c)
it actually helps us to bring the truth to anyone who might be reading.
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Stuthehistoryguy / Arminius started weak but finally
addressed the topic and conceded that Dr. Rex Curry's work is correct.
One of the first appearances of the word "vampyre" in print was
in a 1732 London Journal article entitled "Political Vampyres."
In that context, stu concedes that the vampyres were statists, just
like modern socialist vampires. Back then they were the Whig party,
the party of the nobility, and similar to modern socialist vampires
they favored taxation of the lower classes for the benefit of those at
the top of the political heap (though as stu stupidly demonstrates they
pretended to do the opposite, similar to how stu supports "taxes on
corporations" because stu is too stupid to realize that corporations
don't pay taxes, the lower classes pay corporate taxes through prices.
Stu stupidly supports social security and its theft from the lower classes
and the youngest and poorest etc, giving their money to wealthy retired
people who have more money than the payers ever will. The worst examples
of modern socialist vampires favoring expropriation and enslavement of
the lower classes for the benefit of those at the top of the political
heap was in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part):
65 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Repubics; 35
million under the Peoples Republic of China; 21 million under the National
Socialist German Workers Party. They practiced human sacrifice on a scale
never before seen. http://rexcurry.net/wholecaust-museum.html
It resulted in shortages, poverty, misery and mass
slaughter. They were kings but Stu is too stupid to know.
In the USSR, they dumped the Czar and then King Vlad Lenin and King
Stalin etc set records in poverty and mass slaughter that made the
Czar seem angelic in comparison. In China, the earlier leaders
were dumped and then the socialist King Mao took over and set world
records that have never been broken in poverty, famine and mass slaugther.
In that sense, the word dictator is a synonym for king, though
the ones who call themselves "socialist" are the ones who hold the
records for poverty and mass slaughter.
Quite a similarity to the idea of socialist-as-vampire,
no?
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The modern Dark Age, the Dark Age of Socialism and the
Socialist Inquisitions.
Looking Backward at Edward Bellamy, Francis Bellamy,
the Pledge of Allegiance, the socialist Holocaust, Wholecaust, &
Wholecost,
the Dark Ages of Socialism, The modern Dark Ages and
the Socialist Dark Ages, The Socialist Inquisition & The Socialist
Dark Age
The modern Dark Ages resulted in the worst blood-letting
in history, the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a
part): 60 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics; 50 million under the Peoples Republic of China; 20 million
under the National Socialist German Workers Party. http://rexcurry.net/wholecaust-museum.html
It also infected other lands, including the Dark Ages
of Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Eastern Europe has come out of its Socialist Dark Ages.
The danger still exists as other countries (e.g. Venezuela)
take giant steps toward a socialist Dark Age.
The danger of Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of
Empire even exists as the United States still struggles against domestic
socialism and its growing police state.
The National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP) called
its symbol a Hakenkreuz (hooked cross), not a swastika. The NSGWP was
not the first group to turn a cross into a symbol of death and execution.
One of many different legends has it that the Roman emporer Constantine
claimed to have a vision before a battle in which he saw a cross
as a sword and the words "In this sign conquer" (In hoc signo vinces or
IHS). Constantine instructed his men to
fashion a sword in the form of a cross and it was carried into victorious
battle. It is known as "Constantine's Sword." Thus the cross,
a form of execution and death before Constantine, was transformed into
another form of execution and death under Constantine.
Constantine banned the use of crucifixion as a means of exexution
in 337 A.D. Although a person would not be killed on a cross, he could
be killed or decapitated with a cross-shaped sword. He could also be
impaled, which duplicated characteristics of crucifixion: slow agonizing
death, and display of the victim to others as a form of terrorisim or warning.
There are persuasive arguments that impalement was worse than crucifixion.
It might have been under Constantine that the cross became
popularized as a symbol of Christianity. Before the cross, the common
symbols of Christianity included a fish, a lamb, and a shepherd.
The term crucifix means a cross with a person crucified upon it.
The term cross means that no crucified person is displayed.
The crucifix and the cross spread, even as modern jewelry.
It is interesting to note that after the guillotine was invented, jewelry
(including earrings) were made in the form of miniature guillotines,
in a fashion that is similar to modern jewelry in the form of small crosses
and crucifixes, also tools of execution similar to the guillotine).
If Jesus had been executed via guillotine or lethal injection, would
people wear miniature guillotines and hypodermic needles on necklaces?
When did the cross or crucifix come to be used as jewelry? It might
be possible to discover by examining old art for representations of people
wearing jewelry.
Thanks to capitalism, metal knives (and forks) are abundant in capitalist
countries where they are commonly used for dining. Machines spit out knives
by the millions. That is not the case in anti-capitalist countries where
people continue to eat with their hands or with wooden utensils to shovel
food into their mouths. The lack of affordable metal utensils was the
case in history, too (some places today have not progressed from historic
conditions).
Capitalism feeds the world, libertarians say. And it feeds the world
with classy flatware.
As metallic knives became more affordable, people began to use them
for everyday dining. Even so, a lucky trendsetter might own a single
knife to use for eating. Cutlery would not be provided to diners in town
or while traveling. Diners had to bring their own. And there were times,
and places, where the knives continued to be rare and desired. It was not
something to be left upon a table in a lodging.
One place to keep a smaller knife used for dining was on a chain
hung around the neck. Some of those knives resembled crosses, of
course.
Such knives were eventually accompanied by forks and spoons, on
the same chain.
Today, there continue to be cross-knives on necklaces. Here are
images of some -
Some people describe the American flag and the Pledge of Allegiance
in terms that invoke crucifixes and death. Here is a comment from a grandmother
about a law requiring tiny children to robotically chant the Pledge of
Allegiance daily in government schools: “They should have to say the pledge
of allegiance to the flag. That’s what soldiers died for and still do.”
Crusades were not just about killing muslims. Crusades
were about killing anyone who was not a christian (that included the
slaughter of Hebrews).
Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing of an animal as part of a religion.
It is practised by many religions as a means of appeasing a god or gods
or changing the course of nature. Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost
all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans and from the Aztecs
to the Yoruba.
Remnants of ancient rituals of animal sacrifice are apparent in many
cultures, for example the Spanish bullfights, or kapparos in Judaism,
or ritual prescriptions for slaughtering procedures like shechita or ḏabīḥah.
Slaughtering lambs is a common practise in Islam (the meat being typically
consumed, not burned).
Many Jewish sources discuss the deeper meaning behind korbanot. For
example, Sefer Hachinuch explains that an individual bringing an animal
sacrifice for a sin understands that he personally should have been sacrificed
as punishment for the rebellion against God. God accepts the sacrifice in
his or her place.
A "whole offering" (Hebrew: olah), or "burnt offering", is a type of
Biblical sacrifice, specifically an animal sacrifice in which the entire
sacrifice is completely burnt, consumed totally by fire. This form of sacrifice,
in which no meat was left over for anyone, was seen as the greatest form
of sacrifice. Modern Biblical scholars regard the Moloch offering, which
involved human immolation, as being related to the whole offering.
The animals were brought to the north side of the altar, and killed
by either the offerer, or a kohen (priest). The animal's blood was carefully
collected by kohens and sprinkled around the altar. Unless the animal was
a bird, its corpse was flayed, the skin given to the priest (who was permitted
to keep it). In later times more powerful priests forcibly took possession
of the skins from the lesser priests, and it was decreed that the skins
should be sold.
Korban (Hebrew: "sacrifice" קרבן) (plural: Korbanot קרבנות), is the
term for a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the
Torah. Such sacrifices were offered in a variety of settings by the ancients,
and later by the Jewish priesthood, the Kohanim, at the Temple in Jerusalem.
A Korban was usually an animal sacrifice, such as a sheep or a bull that
underwent shechita (ritual slaughter), and was often cooked and eaten by
the offerer, with parts given to the Kohanim and parts burned on the Temple
mizbe'ah (altar). Korbanot could also consist of doves, grain, wine, or incense.
The Torah narrates that God commanded that people offer korbanot on
various altars, and describes the offering of sacrifices in the Tabernacle
and in the Temple in Jerusalem until the First Temple was destroyed and
resumed with the Second Temple until it was destroyed in 70 CE.
Korbanot were practiced from earliest times, particularly for over
one thousand years in the Tabernacle and during the eras of the Temple
of Solomon and the Second Temple in Jerusalem when the Israelites lived
in the Land of Israel until the destruction of Judea, Jerusalem, and the
Temple by the Roman Empire approximately two thousand years ago in the
year 70 CE.
The korbanot are mentioned in all five books of the Torah outlining
their origins and history, and then in the later books of the Tanakh (Hebrew
Bible). Every regular weekday, Shabbat, and each Jewish holiday had its
own unique korbanot.
Role of the kohen (priest): The Kohanim ("priests") performed the
korbanot rituals first in the ancient Tabernacle and then in the Temple
of Solomon (the first Temple in Jerusalem) and later in the Second Temple
in Jerusalem. The Hebrew Bible describes them as patrilineal descendants
of Aaron who meet certain marriage and ritual purity requirements.
The Kohen Gadol in particular played a crucial role in this regard
on Yom Kippur, a day when multiple korbanot were offered.
The Book of Leviticus contains the details of each korban. In classical
rabbinic literature it is sometimes known as Torat kohanim, the "Law [book
of the] Priests". It delineates the roles both of the kohen ("priest") and
the Kohen Gadol ("High Priest").
About one hundred of the permanent 613 mitzvot (commandments) based
on the Torah (Pentateuch) itself, concern the korbanot, according to Maimonides,
(excluding those mitzvot that concern the actual Temple and the kohanim
themselves of which there are about another fifty):
1. Not to burn anything on the Golden Altar besides incense
(Exodus 30:9)
2. To offer only unblemished animals (Leviticus 22:21)
3. Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar (Leviticus
22:20)
4. Not to slaughter it (Leviticus 22:22)
5. Not to sprinkle its blood (Leviticus 22:24)
6. Not to burn its Chelev (Leviticus 22:22)
7. Not to offer a temporarily blemished animal (Deuteronomy
17:1)
8. Not to sacrifice blemished animals even if offered
by non-Jews (Leviticus 22:25)
9. Not to inflict wounds upon dedicated animals (Leviticus
22:21)
10. To redeem dedicated animals which have become disqualified
(Deuteronomy 12:15)
11. To offer only animals which are at least eight days old
(Leviticus 22:27)
12. Not to offer animals bought with the wages of a harlot
or the animal exchanged for a dog (Deuteronomy 23:19)
13. Not to burn honey or yeast on the altar (Leviticus 2:11)
14. To salt all sacrifices (Leviticus 2:13)
15. Not to omit the salt from sacrifices (Leviticus 2:13)
16. Carry out the procedure of the burnt offering as prescribed
in the Torah (Leviticus 1:3)
17. Not to eat its meat (Deuteronomy 12:17)
18. Carry out the procedure of the sin offering (Leviticus
6:18)
19. Not to eat the meat of the inner sin offering (Leviticus
6:23)
20. Not to decapitate a fowl brought as a sin offering (Leviticus
5:8)
21. Carry out the procedure of the guilt offering (Leviticus
7:1)
22. The kohanim must eat the sacrificial meat in the Temple
(Exodus 29:33)
23. The kohanim must not eat the meat outside the Temple courtyard
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
24. A non-kohen must not eat sacrificial meat (Exodus 29:33)
25. To follow the procedure of the peace offering (Leviticus
7:11)
26. Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling
the blood (Deuteronomy 12:17)
27. To bring meal offerings as prescribed in the Torah (Leviticus
2:1)
28. Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers (Leviticus
5:11)
29. Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers
(Leviticus 3:11)
30. Not to eat the meal offering of the High Priest (Leviticus
6:16)
31. Not to bake a meal offering as leavened bread (Leviticus
6:10)
32. The kohanim must eat the remains of the meal offerings
(Leviticus 6:9)
33. To bring all avowed and freewill offerings to the Temple
on the first subsequent festival (Deuteronomy 12:5-6)
34. To offer all sacrifices in the Temple (Deuteronomy 12:11)
35. To bring all sacrifices from outside Israel to the Temple
(Deuteronomy 12:26)
36. Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard (of the
Temple) (Leviticus 17:4)
37. Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard (of the
Temple) (Deuteronomy 12:13)
38. To offer two lambs every day (Numbers 28:3)
39. To light a fire on the altar every day (Leviticus 6:6)
40. Not to extinguish this fire (Leviticus 6:6)
41. To remove the ashes from the altar every day (Leviticus
6:3)
42. To burn incense every day (Exodus 30:7)
43. The Kohen Gadol must bring a meal offering every day (Leviticus
6:13)
44. To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on Shabbat
(Numbers 28:9)
45. To bring additional offerings on the New Month (Rosh Chodesh)
(Numbers 28:11)
46. To bring additional offerings on Passover (Numbers 28:19)
47. To offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat
(Leviticus 23:10)
48. To bring additional offerings on Shavuot (Numbers 28:26)
49. To bring two leaves to accompany the above sacrifice (Leviticus
23:17)
50. To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana (Numbers
29:2)
51. To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur (Numbers 29:8)
52. To bring additional offerings on Sukkot (Numbers 29:13)
53. To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret (Numbers
29:35)
54. Not to eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished
(Deuteronomy 14:3)
55. Not to eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions
(Leviticus 7:18)
56. Not to leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating
them (Leviticus 22:30)
57. Not to eat from that which was left over (Leviticus 19:8)
58. Not to eat from sacrifices which became impure (Leviticus
7:19)
59. An impure person must not eat from sacrifices (Leviticus
7:20)
60. To burn the leftover sacrifices (Leviticus 7:17)
61. To burn all impure sacrifices (Leviticus 7:19)
62. To follow the [sacrificial] procedure of Yom Kippur in
the sequence prescribed in Parshah Acharei Mot (After the death of Aaron's
sons...) (Leviticus 16:3)
63. One who profaned property must repay what he profaned plus
a fifth and bring a sacrifice (Leviticus 5:16)
64. Not to work consecrated animals (Deuteronomy 15:19)
65. Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals (Deuteronomy
15:19)
66. To slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time
(Exodus 12:6)
67. Not to slaughter it while in possession of leaven (Exodus
23:18)
68. Not to leave the fat overnight (Exodus 23:18)
69. To slaughter the second Paschal lamb (Numbers 9:11)
70. To eat the Paschal lamb with matzah and marror on the night
of the 15th of Nissan (Exodus 12:8)
71. To eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the 15th
of Iyar (Numbers 9:11)
72. Not to eat the Paschal meat raw or boiled (Exodus 12:9)
73. Not to take the Paschal meat from the confines of the group
(Exodus 12:46)
74. An apostate must not eat from it (Exodus 12:43)
75. A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from
it (Exodus 12:45)
76. An uncircumcised male must not eat from it (Exodus 12:48)
77. Not to break any bones from the paschal offering (Exodus
12:46)
78. Not to break any bones from the second paschal offering
(Numbers 9:12)
79. Not to leave any meat from the Paschal offering over until
morning (Exodus 12:10)
80. Not to leave the second Paschal meat over until morning
(Numbers 9:12)
81. Not to leave the meat of the holiday offering of the 14th
until the 16th (Deuteronomy 16:4)
82. To celebrate on Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot at the Temple
(bring a peace offering) (Exodus 23:14)
83. To rejoice on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering)
(Deuteronomy 16:14)
84. Not to appear at the Temple without offerings (Deuteronomy
16:16)
85. Not to refrain from rejoicing with, and giving gifts to,
the Levites (Deuteronomy 12:19)
86. The kohanim must not eat unblemished firstborn animals
outside Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 12:17)
87. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression
(Leviticus 4:27)
88. Bring an asham talui when uncertain of guilt (Leviticus
5:17-18)
89. Bring an asham vadai when guilt is ascertained (Leviticus
5:25)
90. Bring an oleh v'yored offering (if the person is wealthy,
an animal; if poor, a bird or meal offering) (Leviticus 5:7-11)
91. The Sanhedrin must bring an offering when it rules in error
(Leviticus 4:13)
92. A woman who had a running issue (unnatural menstrual flow)
must bring an offering after she goes to the Mikveh (Leviticus 15:28-29)
93. A woman who gave birth must bring an offering after she
goes to the Mikveh (Leviticus 12:6)
94. A man who had a running issue (unnatural semen flow) must
bring an offering after he goes to the Mikveh (Leviticus 15:13-14)
95. A metzora (a person with tzaraas) must bring an offering
after going to the Mikveh (Leviticus 14:10)
96. Not to substitute another beast for one set apart for sacrifice
(Temurah) (Leviticus 27:10)
97. The new animal, in addition to the substituted one, retains
consecration (Leviticus 27:10)
98. Not to change consecrated animals from one type of offering
to another (Leviticus 27:26)
99. Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer (Parah Aduma)
(Numbers 19:2)
100. Carry out the laws of the sprinkling water (Numbers 19:21)
101. Break the neck of a calf by the river valley following
an unsolved murder (Deuteronomy 21:4)
Women and Korbanot
Women were required to perform a number of korbanot, including:
* Childbirth The offerings following childbirth
described in Leviticus 12.
* Thanksgiving The todah (Thanksgiving) offering
and its accompanying mincha following recovery from illness or danger
* Passover The pesach (Paschal) sacrifice on Passover.
Women could offer the sacrifice and hold a seder themselves if they wished,
even if married.
* Chatot and Ashamot Chatot (sin) and ashamot (guilt)
offerings in atonement for transgressions and unintentional errors.
* Nazir Offerings relevant to fulfillment of, or
transgression of, the Nazirite vow.
In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or nazarite, (in Hebrew:
נזיר, nazir), refers to a Jew who took the ascetic vow described in Numbers
6:1-21. The term "nazirite" comes from the Hebrew word nazir meaning "consecrated"
or "separated".
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