The Seven Heads Are The Seven Hills

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The Caesars

#1 Julius, #2 Augustus, #3 Tiberius, #4 Caligula, #5 Claudius, #6 Nero, #7 Galba, #8 Otho.

Vitellius was the first to add Cognomen Germanicus to his name instead of Caesar upon his accession; the latter name Caesar had fallen into disrepute because of the actions of Nero.

Vespasian, Titus and Domitian were actually a separate dynasty called the Flavians.

Between June 68 and December 69, Rome witnessed a successive rise and fall of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, until the accession of Vespasian, the first ruler of the Flavian dynasty.


Revelation 17:10
They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. 11 The beast (nation) who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

For a short time Rome had no leader, and was thought to be no longer a nation.

Revelation 13:2
[ The Beast out of the Sea ] And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.

Originally the British Lion Crest looked more like a Leopard, but now days it looks more like a Lion.
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Revelation 17:3
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

All over the hills of Rome were Pagan temples, with even some of the hills named after Pagan gods.

Revelation 17:9
"This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.

For more than two thousand years Rome has been known as the city of the seven hills.



Blasphemy: NOUN: 1a. A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity. b. The act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God. It is a blasphemy to call a person or hill, god; when they or it, is not a god.


Revelation 13:2
[ The Beast out of the Sea ] And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.

Revelation 17:3
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

Again, two thousand years ago Rome was first called The City of the Seven Hills. Although there are many places in the world now called "The City of the Seven Hills", Rome was the first original.
 

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The statue of Jupiter is now called the statue of Peter. The statue is also giving a trinity hand sign

Temple of the Capitoline Jupiter, we find that no connected and intelligible account of this great national temple exists; and no fragment of it remains, to our absolute certainty. From many writers we gather interesting references to the temple and its possessions, but these writers disagree. Not in the main fact that here was a most important, magnificent, and enormously wealthy shrine, dedicated to the great Jove, but in their accounts of its details; as when Livy says that the statue of Jupiter was the work of Turianus, an Etruscan sculptor, and Pliny records that it was made by Volca of Veii.

These disagreements are not of vital importance; but one has a sensation of being cheated when he spends his time to read one authority only to be contradicted by another. As this temple was more than once destroyed and rebuilt, both sculptors may have made statues of its deity; but there is so much of legend about it that no clear-cut idea of it can be formed.

In imperial times the original meaning of the festival was lost and it became a celebration of the whole city. Then, (G. Vaccai - Le Feste di Roma Antica) somebody at the time of the emperors, when the city had grown bigger, started to wonder which were the seven hills, therefore they were identified with the seven hills that we know today.
The first document that lists them is a description of the city made in Constantinian times. (Early 4th century)



This is the list of hills:


Aventinus (Aventine)
Caelius (Caelian)
Capitolium (Capitoline)
Esquiliae (Esquiline)
Palatium (Palatine)
Quirinalis (Quirinal)
Viminalis (Viminal)


The seven hills are:

Aventine Hill (Latin, Aventinus; Italian, Aventino)
Caelian Hill (Caelius, Celio)
Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus, Campidoglio)
Esquiline Hill (Esquilinus, Esquilino)
Palatine Hill (Palatinus, Palatino)
Quirinal Hill (Quirinalis, Quirinale)
Viminal Hill (Viminalis, Viminale)
 
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Vatican Hill (in Latin, Mons Vaticanus ) is the name given, long before the founding of Christianity, to one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum.

The name "Vatican" is thought to be derived from the Latin "vates", meaning "seer, or soothsayer." Although this is uncertain and it is also possible that "Vaticanus" comes from an Etruscan loan-word. Vatican Hill was the home of the Vates long before pre-Christian Rome. Vaticanus, also known as Vagitanus, was an Etruscan god of prophecy, and his temple was built on the ancient site of Vaticanum (Vatican Hill).

In the 1st century AD, the Vatican Hill was outside the city limits and so could feature a circus (the circus of Nero) and a cemetery. St. Peter's Basilica is built over this cemetery, the traditional site of St. Peter the Apostle's grave.

The Vatican Hill is not one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome although it was included within the city limits of Rome during the reign of Pope Leo IV, who, between 848 and 852, expanded the city walls to protect St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican. Thus, Vatican Hill has been within the walls and city limits of Rome for over 1100 years. Until the Lateran Treaties in 1929 it was part of the Rione of Borgo.

Before the Avignon Papacy (1305–1378), the headquarters of the Holy See were located at the Lateran Palace. After the Avignon Papacy the church administration moved to Vatican Hill and the papal palace was (until 1871) the Quirinal Palace, upon the Quirinal Hill. Since 1929, part of the Vatican Hill is the site of the State of the Vatican City. However, the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, is not St. Peter's in the Vatican, but Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, which is extra-territorially linked, as indicated in the Lateran Pacts signed with the Italian state in 1929, with the Holy See.
 
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Three of the hills of Rome are three faces of the one hill.
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There are only 7 hills that can be seen from the sea, and that is why Rome was called the City of the Seven Hills.

If they could see the Esquiline Hill they would also have seen the hills on either side of it. It is well known that there are in fact 5, not 7, or 9. This was debated on here several years ago, I recall.

Seven is the traditional figure.
 
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If they could see the Esquiline Hill they would also have seen the hills on either side of it. It is well known that there are in fact 5, not 7, or 9. This was debated on here several years ago, I recall.

Seven is the traditional figure.

Irregardless of how many hills, Rome was first called the City of the Seven Hills.
 
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Revelation 17:9
“This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations

Revelation 17:18
18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

What nation ruled over the nations in Johns day?
 
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These quotes are from the Encyclopedia Americana,1961 edition.
"Words are frequently changed in an entirely arbitrary way, just for the sake of change, as is the case with taboo, and cant. The purpose is to deform the word in any possible way and render it unrecongnizable."

"Cant ,the secret language of a corporation or class of persons, such as criminals, hoboes, students, soldiers, railroaders, conspirators, and the like." This quote should have also included secret societies.

"Canopus. In Egyptian mythology, a water god, represented on vessels of a spherical shape." That is, the shape of a serpent.

"Cannibalism, Kan/i/bal/ism, a customary, socially approved practice, among certain barbarous peoples, of eating human flesh." "The fact that the older, learned term "anthropophagy" derives from the classic Greek anthropos (man) , and phagein (eat), suggests that from ancient times barbarous peoples were known to eat human flesh, or at least were accused of doing so."


Here is a list of proper names of some snakes.


Apostolepis: nick name, messenger snake.

Acanthophis: Adder's.

Canna, Pseudaspis: Mole snake.

Candidus, Bungarus.

Candoia: #1. Aspera, #2. Bibroni, #3. Carinata.

Caninus, Corallas: Emerald tree boa.

Cantherigerus, Alsophis.

Cantil, Agkistrodon bilineatus.

Cantori, Trimeresurus.

Canum, Gyalopion: Western hook-nosed.

Canus, Tropidophis.


Can - Definitions: seed; progression; energy; serpent; 4th calendar glyph (Mayan). Associated.
Chan ['sky, serpent'], Kan, Khan; Kan ['3rd calendar glyph'] (Yucatec, Maya).


CAN - Definitions: vessel for liquid; have learned, come to know. Associated spellings/words: canna, kunnan.

With the Hawaiians, Kanaloa is the personified spirit of evil, the origin of death, the prince of Po, or chaos, and yet a revolted, disobedient spirit, who was conquered and punished by Kane.


Anican Serpent Can

Ani is the short form of Anne.

Ani / can means, "beautiful serpent." Ani is an alternate name for Anne, It is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands.


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913
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Khan (Page: 810)

Khan (?), n. [Pers. & Tart. khān.] [Also kan, kaun.] A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them.

Khan (Page: 810)

Khan, n. [Per. khān, khānah, house, tent, inn.] An Eastern inn or caravansary. [Written also kawn.]


CAN addition

Arkansas

Organized as a U.S. territory 1819 (admitted as a state 1836), named for the Arkansas River, which was named for a Siouan tribe.

The spelling of the term represents a French plural, Arcansas, of a name applied to the Quapaw people who lived on the Arkansas River; their name was also written in early times as Akancea, Acansea, Acansa (Dickinson, 1995). This was not the name used by the Quapaws themselves, however. The term /akansa/ was applied to them by Algonquian speakers; {NOT TRUE} this consists of /a-/, an Algonquian prefix found in the names of ethnic groups, plus /kká:ze, a Siouan term refering to members of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan family. This stem is also the origin for the name of the Kansa tribe and of the state of Kansas; thus the place names Arkansas and Kansas indirectly have the same origin. [William Bright, "Native American Place names of the United States," 2004]



Kansas

From French variant of Kansa, native name of the Siouan people who lived there (1722). It is a plural (see Arkansas). Established as a U.S. territory in 1854, admitted as a state 1861.




Title

Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History

Editor

Frank Wilson Blackmar

Publisher

Standard Publishing Company, 1912

Quote: The first mention of the Kansas Indians in the white man's history was about the beginning of the 17th century, when Juan de Oñate gave them the name of Escansaques. It will be noticed that the second, and third syllables of this word form the name "Cansa," which is one of the numerous forms later used.

George P. Morehouse of Topeka, who has made a rather exhaustive study of Indian lore and tradition, says "The famous historic word Cansa or Kansa is neither of French or Indian origin.




Title

The Kansa or Kaw Indians and their history: and the story of Padilla

Author

George P. Morehouse

Publisher

State Printing Office, 1908

Original from

Harvard University

Digitized

Oct 22, 2008

Length

52 pages

Subjects

Kansa Indians

Quote: The word is plain Spanish, and as such has a well-defined and expressive meaning when applied to an Indian tribe. Cansa or Kansa means 'a troublesome people, those who continually disturb or harass others.' It comes from the Spanish verb cansar, which means 'to molest, to stir up, to harass,' and from the Spanish noun cansado, 'a troublesome fellow, a disturber,'


In other words, there never was a tribe called Kansa.
 
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Vatican

The word Vatican is a compound word, but you will not find a dictionary that tells you that. Have you ever given any thought to the term, social engineering?


Cancun

Ekab is now called Cancun. And Quintana Roo was the name of Andres Quintana Roo, a Yucatecan journalist and statesman during the days of the Yucatecan Independence movement.
Cancun means Nido de Viboras in Maya, or Nest of Vipers.
The word Maya as a name for the indigenous inhabitants of the area is not accepted by all experts. In Tulum, the people call themselves Itzá, among other names, but when the Spaniards began to speak to them in Spanish they answered, "Ma-u-than," which may be translated "Don't understand your language."
This was later evidently misinterpreted as "Mayat'an," or language of the Maya. Yucatan is probably a misinterpretation of "ki-uthan," which means "He speaks well." Catoche almost certainly meant "Our homeland."
The Mayan word kan does mean serpent. Kan is a letter of the Mayan alphabet represented by the face of a snake. Kukulkán means The Plumed Serpent.

The usual interpretation of this is that it refers to both a god and historical figure, known as Quetzalcoatl in Nahuatl, the language of the northern tribes of Mexico.
Kukulkán is associated with the planet Venus. Kan may also be a generic term for king or great leader.
It is interesting to note that Mayas are clearly linked genetically to the Mongols of Northern Asia, in appearance, blood-type and in the characteristic Mongol "blue spot" which newborn infants bear at the base of the spine.
The Mongols also called their national leader Khan. Although contemporary Mayas agree that kun means nest, this translation does not appear in the standard Cordomex dictionary of the Mayan language.
Modern Maya contains many Spanish words. The Spanish word for den or animal's nest is cuna. It also means cradle. Kun can be a suffix that changes a noun into an active verb, somewhat the way "-ing" turns the noun snake into the verb "snaking." In this sense it seems to mean acting or beginning from. Thus Cancun could mean where kan acts or where kan begins. It could also mean The Refuge of Kan, since Quetzalcoatl did flee Mexico and find refuge in Yucatan.

The problems of translation are complicated by the existence of two different forms of the sound 'k.' One is pronounced like the European or American k, but with a crisp click. The other is written k' and indicates a glottal stop (similar to the common mispronunciation of "bottle" as "bo'-le").
Kan and k'an are two different words, as are kun and k'un, with several meanings. The earliest recorded spelling of Cancun was Cancuen.
Ku means god or great. It could also mean enchantment. Cancuen would then seem to mean where great kan (or where God Kan) was.
Entwined serpents are common in Maya sculpture. Quetzalcoatl had a twin, Ehecoatl. The Mexican word cuate, for buddy, is derived from the Nahuatl coatl, which means snake, but also means twin or brother.
Jose Diaz-Bolio proved that the snake in question was the rattlesnake, and in 1968, the Mexican national seal was changed to reflect this discovery.
Bolio has demonstrated very convincingly that the markings of the rattlesnake are echoed in the Mayan calendar, architecture and mathematics.


Canary Island

It is said that the Fortunate Isles are called Canaria after the multitude of huge canines who live there.
So why is a bird named after a dog? A person might think that the islands were named after the birds, but according to Pliny such is not the case. "Canary" derives rather from the Latin word canis, "dog", and the name Canaria was given to one of these islands because of its population of fearsomely huge canines.
According to the chamber of commerce there never was a population of wild dogs. The Island was known for it,s snakes that would leap from tree limbs to catch little bird in flight. That means that the story Pliny told is a fabrication. Now what do you think of that?


Refutation of James Bernstein
First Bernstein says it was the church, not the councils that set the canon, then two pages later he says the church determined the canon. Yet Bernstein tries to prove his point by telling us the canon was determined by the Council of Laodicea A.D 363 and third Council of Carthage in A.D 397. Obviously then Bernstein contradicts himself. First he says it was not the councils, then he refers to two church councils to prove the church had the authority to set the canon.
The first council accepted only 26 books and rejected the book of Revelation, while the second council accepted all 27 books including Revelation. The obvious question: What good is the "authority of the church" if it contradicts itself? One council rejects the book of Revelation the other council accepts Revelation. Which "authority" was right?
What does it mean for the Catholic Church to canonize scripture?

Note: The Book of Enoch was accepted as scriptural from 167BC to about 700 AD.


khan (kän, kăn)
noun.
From Persian khān means house, from Middle Persian.

From ancient times people would remark while in the Vatican dungeon, that they were in the belly of the beast or serpent, or, in the can. And that is where the word can comes from. Even to this day people in prison or jail will say they are in the can.


Jeremiah 51:34
"Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.


The word "canon" is derived from the Greek noun κανών "kanon" meaning "reed" or "cane," or also "rule" or "measure," which itself is derived from the Hebrew word קנה "kaneh" and is often used as a standard of measurement.
 
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Yes, that is how I interpret it too. I'm sure that's what the original readers thought too.

But then there is Jerusalem, which has been arouind a lot longer! BTW both cities are the only ones to be commonly referred to as 'the Eternal City', as far as I can see. So they can fight it out :)

Historically many cities claimed the 7 hills distinction, though a number are stretches of the imagination.
 
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