Startling New Discovery by Hebrew Scholar Confirms the Hooked X is a Symbol for Deity/God

A couple of weeks ago a friend called with a tip about a book he thought we should read.  Terry Tilton, a Past Grand Master of Freemasons in Minnesota, Past President of the Philalethes Society, the academic branch of Freemasonry, a Biblical scholar, and a Methodist Minister, said he thought work in the book by Rabbi Mark Sameth, might have ramifications for my own research.  I quickly found the book on-line, was immediately intrigued and ordered it.  Roughly a week ago the 150-page book arrived and I devoured it in a few days.  Brother Tilton was right, the findings of Rabbi Sameth indeed have ramifications for the Hooked X symbol, my "Templar's in America" research, and my wife's Goddess research that we are still trying to make sense of.  There is sure to be a lot more to come as I consult with other researchers and those better versed in Hebrew mysticism and it's history.  That said, here is what we know for sure...      

Rabbi Sameth traces the history of The Name that first appeared in in a three-lettered form YHW around 1,400 BCE.  This was a time when dual-gendered deities were being worshiped in Mesopotamia and Egypt and the people created The Name that later (circa 850 BCE) became YHWH, or the immutable word of God "Yahwey" otherwise known as the Tetragrammaton.  According to Rabbi Sameth, the utterance of The Name and it's dual-gendered meaning had always been reserved to the priestly elite.  This is why knowledge of the meaning of The Name was unknown until recently.  Not coincidentally, this is also the time we first see the progenitor of the Hooked X symbol in the form of the crossed crook and flail on Pharoah Akhenaten and his son, King Tut's chest. 

Those who read my book, The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America, (Pages 86-96) might recall I postulated the "X" symbolically represented the upward pointing peak, symbolic of the male, and the downward pointing "V", symbolic of the female.  Combined into an "X" represents the union of male/female and the concept of dualism.  I then argued the hook added to the upper right arm created a little "v" representing a child.  In this case, a daughter inside womb of her mother with the father completing the Hooked X symbolically.  I also argued the Hooked X represented what Christianity cryptically calls the "Holy Trinity."  Their definition described as the "Father, son, and the Holy Spirit" without making clear what the Holy Spirit is supposed to be.  It seems to me they're intentionally veiling the obvious missing piece, the mother, thus completing the Holy Trinity aspect of God which is what I believe the Hooked X symbolically represents    

Pharoah Akhenaten reigned in Egypt from 1353-1334 BCE.

Pharoah Tutankhamun reigned in Egypt from 1334-1324 BCE.

Getting back to Rabbi Sameth and The Name, he continues to trace the historical journey of Tetragrammaton from Egypt to Jerusalem up through today.  He also explains the philology of YHWH and how the pronunciation of the word of God is veiled within the Hebrew letters that need to be pronounced backwards.  This reveals HW to be pronounced HU ("he"); HY pronounced as HI ("she").  Here we see how the both the pronunciation and dual-gendered meaning of The Name was kept secret known only to the priestly elite and passed on only to worthy initiates "mouth to ear."  Rabbi Sameth argues the dual-gendered meaning of The Name was a tightly held secret within the priesthood, especially after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD.  He then explains how he learned after making the dual-gendered meaning of the Tetragrammaton discovery himself, the secret of the dual-gender nature of YHWH was previously discovered by Michelangelo Lanci, a Vatican librarian in 1827.  His work was published but, not surprisingly, quickly suppressed by order of the Pontifical Government.  

If we take a look at examples of the Tetragrammaton, we see The Name within an equilateral triangle with the point sometimes pointing up, and sometimes pointing down.  This instantly brings to mind the symbolism of the upward and downward peaks/triangles of the Seal of Solomon and the Hooked X symbol.  They mean the same thing and both contain the sacred secret of the male/female nature of Deity/God.  This makes perfect sense since the same Hebrew people were were involved with both sacred symbols representing a carefully hidden ideology.  That Monotheistic Dualism ideology began in Egypt and was secretly passed down through the Hebrew priesthood into Jerusalem and forward into the present.

After reading the book, we had a long talk with Timothy Hogan, a Freemason and Biblical scholar about Rabbi Sameth's work and the connections I saw with the Hooked X.  He agreed wholeheartedly with my idea and explained how because The Name was immutable the word "EL" was used for God and was able to be said out loud.  In Hebrew, "EL" is spelled "Aleph Lamed" or "AL" which is abbreviated to just "A" (Aleph).  Here is where things get interesting.  In Hebrew mysticism, aleph has a numerical value of one and implies the oneness of God.  Aleph is also the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet and used for "a."  The Hooked X symbol is used for "a" on all five North American Rune stones carved in the late 14th/early 15th Centuries.  I have also argued the Hooked X is a straight-lined version of the Hebrew aleph and makes sense it was used for "a" within these inscriptions.  

The conclusion to all of this is the Hooked X is analogous to the Hebrew aleph which is a sacred and secret symbol for Deity/God.  This is why the monk(s) who carved these stones used the Hooked X as a symbol of recognition for future initiates and as an acknowledgement of God to protect their sacred work; a land claim in the case of the Kensington Rune Stone.  The discovery of the dual-gendered meaning of both The Name and the Hooked X, that followed the same path through 3,400 years of time and the Hebrew priestly line, provides profound factual evidence on the veracity of Rabbi Sameth's research and our own collective research over the past 22 years.