People,
On Merlin, and underground, genetic manipulation from Mike Mott's
book.
" Similarly the sorcerer Merlin, himself said to be the half-human
result of
the union of an underworld being and a mortal woman, covered Uther
Pendragon
with the likeness of his enemy Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, so that he
might
impregnate his rival's wife Ygraine and produce the child which would
become
Arthur, the mythical king of Britain. Uther wanted pleasure; Merlin
had an
agenda of his own. It's meaningful that Merlin's father was said to
have
been an incubus, or a demon/underworld entity capable of having
intercourse
with human women and impregnating them. Merlin had to bring together
the
desired genetic partners, and this seems to have been simply
underworld
manipulation of human history and politics as usual, as far as
subterranean
interference in human affairs go. The fact that Uther and Arthur's
standard
was a crimson dragon is more meaningful than might at first seem
apparent,
as shall be seen. Further examination of Arthurian legend, based as
it is on
much older Celtic myth and archetypes, seems to indicate that it may
in fact
be a thinly-veiled fable concerning two warring supernatural or
underworld
forces, one more inimical than the other, vying for control or
breeding-rights of the localized human gene-pool. This battle for
dominance
is perhaps symbolized by the warring dragons, one red and one white,
and the
manipulation of Merlin's emotions and lust by Nimue, the Lady of the
Lake.
Nimue is synonymous with the cavern-dwelling Hindu Naga-folk, who
dwell in
palaces beneath the floors of deep lakes and oceans, and she is also
very
similar to the daughter of the Japanese Dragon-King, who falls in
love with
a human trespasser and removes herself from her undersea cavern-
palace, long
enough to leave a hybrid child--and perhaps political influence--in
the
surface world. Nimue represents the ancient matriarchal powers which
seem to
go hand-in-hand with underworld beings and deities, but there may be
a more
concrete reason for this recurrence of matriarchal themes, buried in
the
mists of time (as will be seen later). As for Merlin, outcast by
humans and
his own underworld tribe alike, this provides an explanation for his
fascination and lust for, and willingness to obey and work with, the
Lady of
the Lake. Merlin not only had his own subterranean domain, but he was
eventually imprisoned there by the treachery of Nimue, once his
usefulness
at genetic expertise and manipulation had been overshadowed by his
attempts
to affect events in the human realm. The direction of civilization--
i.e.,
"Camelot--" may have taken a better route than it would have
otherwise (if
the invading "Saxon," or continental, forces had not been routed),
but it
was still designed to keep interloping genes out of the local pool
(that of
Britain), and keep the population rich in certain desired
characteristics.
Nimue's hand-picked (intentionally bred) proxy was on the throne, at
least
for a while. Arthurian myth and romance, with roots lost in the
antiquity of
pre-Roman Britain and derived from the Welsh Mabinogion and other
Celtic
traditions, seems to be desperately trying to burst forth with an
ancient
and mysterious message which is cloaked in more historically-recent,
post-Roman, Christianized symbolic constructs.
The careful monitoring and maintenance of bloodlines or genetic
groups seems
to have been a major preoccupation of faerie folk and other
subterranean bei
ngs, as well as of ancient gods and demons. Ireland also is filled
with
tales of fairy lovers: relationships between "Milesians" or ancient
Irish
human beings, and the Tuatha de Danaan, who were the underworld gods
of old
Ireland who have since dwindled into the Gentry, Sidhe (Shee), or
Fairies.
One encounter of this "pagan reality" was purportedly witnessed by St.
Patrick himself, described in "The Colloquy of the Ancients;" while
speaking
with Caeilte, a member of the Fianna (a legendary group of Irish
heroes),
Patrick is astonished to observes a beautiful fairy woman coming out
of the
cave of Cruachan, wearing a green mantle and a golden crown. Although
the
fairy woman is youthful and beautiful, Caeilte is an ancient and
withered
old man. When Patrick asks about this, Caeilte answers:
"She is of the Tuatha De Danaan who are unfading...and I am of the
sons of
Mil (human Irish), who are perishable and fade away."
The question is, of course, at what price to humanity is
this "longevity" or
youthfulness purchased?
It would seem that it was always in the interest of these
subterranean,
older races or species to keep a relatively pure genetic pool of human
beings near at hand for their own use or convenience. Recent
scientific
evidence from Ireland, reported by Reuters News Service and the
science
journal Nature, bears this out.
According to these reports, a group of geneticists at Trinity College
in
Dublin, led by Daniel Bradley, have determined that the oldest "pure"
racial
bloodline in Europe still exists in the West of Ireland, the
furthermost
western edge of Europe. According to the report (March 22, 2000),
Bradley
and his colleagues have used surnames along with the male Y
chromosome in
order to reconstruct a 1,000-year-old genetic map of Ireland,
demonstrating
that the Irish are truly representative of a "race" which is distinct
from
other Europeans--a race apart.
Bradley stated to the press that "When you look at this old genetic
geography of Ireland what you find is that in the West (of the
Emerald Isle)
we are almost exclusively of one type of Y chromosome."
The Y chromosome, passed down exclusively from father to son, is an
object
of interest and study to geneticists, as it accentuates differences
between
populations. According to Bradley:
"It is inherited as a unit so the information you get from it is of a
special type."
The researchers examined the Y chromosomes of men with Gaelic
surnames from
the western-most province of Connaught, finding that 98.3 percent had
a
group of genes on the Y chromosome known as haplogroup 1.
Bradley observed, "When you look at Gaelic surnames they are
different in
frequency of Y chromosome types from non-Gaelic surnames."
Furthermore, more than 98 percent of men with Gaelic names in the
western
half of the island had haplogroup 1, but numbers dropped
significantly on
the eastern side of Ireland, whereas there's a gradient of haplogroup
1
across Europe which starts at almost zero in the Far East and grows to
almost 100 percent in the west of Ireland. According to Bradley and
his
team, this gives a snapshot of what the original ancient racial type
of
Europe once looked like, before successive invasions and influxes by
other
racial or genetic groups.
Was this what Nimue and Merlin were seeking to protect from "Saxon"
contamination? What better place to maintain a genetically-pure
control or
access group or groups than on two large islands like Britain and
Ireland?
But the British Isles are not the only group of islands with such a
combination of relative isolation, and legends of strange
interbreeding
activities."
You can find his book at Lulu Books, Google it. This book is a classic!
Posted by Dean