Adam, Red Man, Rhedone[s], Rhed-Ones?
Have you ever noticed the strange hints about biblical characters and events in the Rennes Affair, or should I say, the Priory Affair? Have you noticed that Henri Boudet, in La Vrai Langue Celtique, wrote about family descendants from Noah, applying the spread of the Celtic/English Language as a corollary to the spread of his bloodline? Have you noticed how Chérisey takes up the points raised by Boudet when he writes about red ones [i.e the Redones] which Boudet alludes to as being the tribe of the Rhedones who inhabited Rennes in Britany, as well as in the Rennes-les-Bain area?
As I believe Boudet and Chérisey probably do not make these allusions for no reason I started to wonder why they did. A kind of professional curiosity. And it got me thinking about other odd snippets vouch-saved by other Rennes researchers, and whatever else these authors wanted to impart, why is there, in the background of the Rennes Affair for them something about biblical bloodlines and origins?
This idea - which Lincoln et al definitely seem to have had some information on [presumably from Plantard] but then 'ran away with' to come up with Holy Blood, Holy Grail. They invented something entirely 'different'. This is the Jesus married Mary Magdalene idea and their line later married in to the Merovingian line [I must emphasis here that the Merovingians being descended from Christ was invented by Lincoln et al, NOT Plantard. Plantard could think he was in some way a Merovingian descendant for some ulterior motive, but the bloodline from Christ was not his invention].
We then have the extraordinary idea that Gerard de Sède published [Le Fabuleuse Race, 1973] positing that Merovingian origins were from extra-terrestrials. What a strange thing to publish? It just doesn't make any sense. De Sède along with Paul Rouelle said that the book was published as a huge joke at the expense of Pierre Plantard. But what was the joke?
Another early Rennes researcher, Jean Luc Chaumeil, who once was on the outer circles of those who paid court to Plantard, in one of his many books about the Rennes Affair refers to an anonymous book called Dieu est il merovingien [God is a Merovingian] published in 1947. I have even tried to track down this book because the title is so bizarre! And Chaumeil doesn't give any reference for this. But who in 1947 would be writing such a strange thesis? That God is a Merovingian?
Another long term Rennes researcher, in his book AN EXTRA PLAYER ON THE PLAYING FIELD OF HISTORY is John SAUL. This book 'examines the framework of Kingship and the origin of legitimate rule from their beginnings in Mesopotamia into Old and New Testament times, and from the Merovingian kings of France into later underground traditions.' In its pages Saul refers to Court-Circuit -[Rouelle was a friend of Chérisey and together they published this book] they discuss the Affair at Rennes. Saul wrote;
" .... around pages 103-109 (depending on the version of the typescript), one of the protagonists expresses the long-suffering reader's own feelings, and accuses the other of trying to squeeze absolutely everything under the sun into this one story focused on Rennes-le-Chateau. Yet instead of denying it, the other agrees! He then insists that eventually we are going to discover "the knowledge hidden at Rennes and concealed elsewhere as well" and we are then going to find out that "the story is in no sense limited to the Catholic country of France".
"I am completely convinced that the matter is far older than admitted, either by those who are simply interested by it or those presently digging into it."
He then reviews the state of things in the early 1980s.
“Gérard de Sède takes it back to Solomon's Temple, Philippe de Chérisey is thinking of le grand Romain (evoked by Nostradamus]" and, "as for Pierre Plantard, he's happy to have himself as the direct descendant of Christ". But "speaking for myself", the protagonist continues, "I wouldn't be at all surprised if all these other things were just facades”, and if at the heart of the Rennes affair we were to find ourselves dealing with “the question of Origins" [my emphasis]. This is reiterated toward page 153–154 where the story is held to touch “necessarily to the mystery of Origins" with “necessarily" exceptionally isolated in boldface in the two versions consulted."
Chérisey continues these sorts of ideas in his posthumous work UN VEAU À CINQ PATTES [A FIVE LEGGED CALF]. The title refers to a kind of slang, & popular colloquial French term. It means 'something out of the ordinary' and is used in the context of something being unusual or even impossible. From it one is to understand that a Sheep or Calf would only have five legs in the case of a genetic anomaly, and therefore an animal such as this would be a real rare pearl and something out of the ordinary. Is Chérisey thus drawing attention to genetics and bloodlines/origins. Why not? It would not be incompatible for previous hints and nods in that direction I have mentioned above.
According to JANIA MACGILLIVRAY Jean-Luc Chaumeil [again] had written the following;
"A clue to the 'Initiated', can be found in their reference to the sentence used by Darwin: 'I have leaned on the shoulders of Giants'. According to Chaumeil, American writer Irwin Ginsburgh's book 'First Man, Then Adam' which quotes this sentence in the Preface - gives many answers to those interested in the Priory of Sion".
This saying [I have leaned on the shoulder of Giants] is often erroneously attributed to Isaac Newton, but it actually pre-dates him by around 500 years. It was first recorded as a saying of Bernard of Chartres, the French medieval scholar of the twelfth century. It was recorded later by the English scholar John of Salisbury in 1159:
"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter. And this is not at all because of the acuteness of our sight or the stature of our body, but because we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants."
Why would Chaumeil think Ginsburgh's book 'First Man, then Adam' [with it's subtitle 'A Scientific Interpretation of the Book of Genesis'] would help in the investigation in to the Priory Affair? Why would MACGILLIVRAY think that a clue can be found in Darwin's use of the sentence 'I have leaned on the Shoulders of Giants'? Darwin is recognised as the father of Evolutionary Theory and Natural Selection and by extension genetics. And of course, in the context of this post, Darwin necessarily looks at 'origins' so some in the Rennes Affair are definitely hinting at human origins.
Ginsburgh's book is about extra-terrestrials and the biblical Adam being essentially an alien astronaut1 which I think is a little far fetched [and is probably something more akin to THIS]but the whole point is that even Chaumeil was in some way referring to origins in this way to help illuminate Priory of Sion. It all seems bizarre.
In the Priory Lobineau document [Secret Dossiers] there is found a famous quote:
"ONE DAY THE DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMIN LEFT THEIR COUNTRY, SOME REMAINED, TWO THOUSAND YEARS AFTER GODFROY VI, BECAME KING OF JERUSALEM AND founded the order of Sion - From this wonderful legend that comes from history, as well as the architecture of a temple whose top is lost in the immensity of space and time, whose mystery of which Poussin wanted to express in his two paintings, the 'Shepherds of Arcadia', is undoubtedly the secret of the treasure before which, the peasant descendants and shepherds of the proud Sicambre, meditate on 'Et in Arcadia ego', often translated as 'I too am in Arcadia' [here there is inserted a Sea of David glyph] and King 'Midas'.
It continues further;
"Before ... our era - An important fact is the arrival of the Hebrews in the promised land and their slow installation in Caanan. In the Bible, in Deuteronomy 33; it is said of Benjamin: He is the well-loved of the Etemal, he will live in security with him, the Etemal will always cover him, and will reside between his shoulders [here is another small glyph diagram of a sort of Cross design with nails which reminds me of early representations of the nails of the crucifixion]. It is still said ,Joshua 18, that fate gave as a heritage to the sons of Benjamin among the fourteen cities and their villages: jebus nowadays Jerusalem with its three points of a triangle: golgotha, sion and bethanie [another glyph is inserted]. And finally it is written, Judges 20 and 21: 'None of us will give his daughter for wife to a Benjaminite... O Etemel, God of Israel, why does it happen in Israel that a tribe of Israel is missing today'. To the great enigma of Virgil [in his poem] in Arcadia that was in the secret of the gods, lifts the veil to the Bucolic X-46/50: 'Tu procul a patria (nec sit mihi credere tantum). Alpinas, a, dura, nives and frigora Rheni me sine sola vides. A tibi ne teneras glacies secet aspera plantas!' 2 Six doors or the seal of the Star [Star of David design inserted here], here is the secrets of the parchments of the Abbe Sauniere, Cure of Rennes-le-Chateau, and that before him the great Poussin, initiate, knew when he realised his work at the request of the Pope, the inscription on the tomb is the same". - Lobineau, Dossiers secrets, planche no. 1, 400-600.
What is being hinted at here? That the Rennes Affair has something to do with biblical bloodlines/human origins, in particular the Tribe of Benjamin? And that it is all inter-related in some obscure and occult way to Sauniere? It all seems preposterous!
In respect of Boudet's writings about the Redones/Red ones and the biblical Adam, when you investigate the origins of who/what Adam was I came across an anthropological site by the Professor Alice C. Linsley, whose specialist subject is genetics and bloodlines and biblical history in terms of ANTHROPOLOGY and the science of genetics [not theology, dogma, crackpot ideas]. She wrote an interesting article called Adam was a Red Man. These discoveries of Alice - nothing at all to do with the Priory - nevertheless touches on references I have referred to above.
In Adam was a Red Man she writes the following;
"The Biblical writers recognised that the people among them with red skin were of an ancestral line of extreme antiquity [my emphasis]. Some of these people were rulers in Edom. These are listed in Genesis 36. Esau the Elder and Esau the Younger were among them. Esau is specifically described as being red in Genesis 26.
The name Adam is derived from the root אדם (A.D.M), which is a verb meaning "to be red or ruddy" (Strong’s #119).
The Hebrew word for red is edom and it is a cognate to the Hausa word odum, meaning red-brown. Both are related to the word dam, meaning blood, and to the name of the first man Adam, who was formed from the red clay which washed down to the Upper Nile Valley from the Ethiopian highlands. These soils have a cambic B horizon. Chromic cambisols have a strong red brown color. It is evident then that the Upper Nile is the urheimat of the Adam and Eve story.
Jeff A. Benner, an expert on ancient Hebrew, explains:
"We are all familiar with the name "Adam" as found in the book of Genesis, but what does it really mean? Let us begin by looking at its roots. This word/name is a child root derived from the parent דם meaning, "blood". By placing the letter א in front of the parent root, the child rootאדם is formed and is related in meaning to דם (blood).
By examing a few other words derived from the child root אדם we can see a common meaning in them all. The Hebrew word אדמה (adamah) is the feminine form of אדם meaning "ground" (see Genesis 2:7). The word/name אדום (Edom) means "red". Each of these words have the common meaning of "red". Dam is the "red" blood, adamah is the "red" ground, edom is the colour "red" and adam is the "red" man. There is one other connection between "adam" and "adamah" as seen in Genesis 2:7 which states that "the adam" was formed out of the "adamah".
In the ancient Hebrew world, a person’s name was not simply an identifier but descriptive of one's character. As Adam was formed out of the ground, his name identifies his origins.
Though the story of red Adam comes originally from the Upper Nile, the account was preserved by his Edomite descendants, one of whom was Abraham. Abraham's territory was between Hebron and Beersheba. As can be seen from the map below, his territory was entirely in the region of Edom. The people who lived there had a reddish skin tone. That is why the Greeks called this region Idumea, meaning "land of red people."
Isaac was Abraham's proper heir, and as such, he inherited Abraham's territory. Edom was under the control of Horites, what the Jews call their "Horim." Both Hebron (where Sarah lived) and Beersheba (where Keturah lived) are in Edom. Abraham's territory extended between the settlements of his two wives, and included mountains, lowlands wells, and the water system at Engedi.
David is related to the Horite rulers of Edom and he is described in the Bible as red/ruddy. Samuel, the son of a Horite priest from Ramah, anointed him ruler.
And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are these all the children?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here." So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he." Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. (1 Samuel 16:11- 13)
A red people is mentioned in African creation stories. It is said that God created the first human by mixing soil with his blood. This is circulated among the Igbo, for example, whose ancestors originated in the Upper Nile Valley. The Igbo belong to MtDNA haplogroup L1, believed to have first appeared approximately 150,000 to 170,000 years ago in East Africa.
The red descendants of the Proto-Saharans appear mainly to be in Haplogroup R1b, the point of origin of which was the wetlands extending from the Nile to Lake Chad. Lake Chad was Noah's homeland. Some of Abraham's Horite Habiru ancestors can be traced back to the shrine city of Nekhen. One of the more intriguing discoveries at Nekhen was the recovery of an almost complete beard in association with the redheaded man in Burial no. 79. The facial hair of the man in Burial no. 79 had been trimmed with a sharp blade. The presence of long wavy natural red hair and a full beard suggests that this individual may have been Ainu (Annu). The Ainu were among Abraham's ancestors, and although they were widely dispersed before Abraham's time, the Nile Valley appears to be their point of origin. The Annu built the original shrine of Heliopolis which is called "Onn" in Genesis 41. Joseph married the daughter of the high priest on Onn." [Re-posted from HERE]3.
In Anthropological terms the above, for me, was interesting to read in its own right.
But of course it is also important in the context of Adam, red man, rhedones and the other hints found in this weird affair of the Priory of Sion.
Plantard had earlier wrote a book on GISORS in 1961 which touches on these subjects, creating a kind of thread throughout all the publications he has put out. Some of the content was later used in the book by Gérard de SÈDE published as 'The Templars Are Among Us'. One of the pages in the manuscript carries this image;
The text says something like this;
Gather what is scattered!
Jacob awoke and said: Surely the Eternal is in this place, and I did not know it! He was afraid, and said: How dreadful is this place! This is the house of God, this is the gate of Heaven! And Jacob arose early; he took the stone from which he had laid his head, he erected it as a monument, and he poured oil on its top. He gave this place the name of Bethel: but the city was previously called Luz. (Bible.)
This stone, subsequently called "Jacob's Stone”, after multiple peregrinations, [was] transported by the tribe which had custody of it, arrived in England; it has since been known as the “Coronation Stone”.
It was talked about a lot in 1956, when it was stolen by the Irish. After putting the English police on alert, it returned to Westminster Abbey a few weeks later".
According to the account given in Genesis, Jacob was fleeing from his elder twin brother Esau, whom he had tricked out of receiving their father's blessing of the first-born. On his flight, Jacob rested at a city called Luz and used a group of stones as a pillow.
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. After waking up, Jacob exclaimed, "How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." Subsequently, he called the place Bethel, which translates to "House of God". He set up the stone he had slept on as a pillow, and consecrated it. He also made a vow to God in reference to his eventual return.
In the narrative of Levite's concubine, in Judges 20:18, where the Hebrew Beth-El is translated in the King James Version as the "House of God", the people of Israel go to Bethel to ask counsel of God when they are planning to attack the Tribe of Benjamin at the battle of Gibeah. There is a famous incident involving Levites concubine that the Priory of Sion seem to hold important. It is described as this at wikipedia;
"The episode of the Levite's concubine, also known as the Benjamite War,is a biblical narrative in Judges 19–21 (chapters 19, 20 and 21 of the Book of Judges). It concerns a Levite from Ephraim and his concubine, who travel through the Benjamite city of Gibeah and are assailed by a mob, who wish to gang-rape the Levite. He turns his concubine over to the crowd, and they rape her until she collapses. After she dies from her ill treatment, the Levite dismembers her body and presents the remains to the other tribes of Israel. Outraged by the incident, the tribes swear that none shall give his daughter to the Benjamites for marriage, and launch a war which nearly wipes out the tribe, leaving only 600 surviving men. However, the punitive expedition is overcome by remorse, fearing that it will cause the extinction of an entire tribe. To ensure the survival of the Benjamite tribe while still complying with their oath, the Levites pillage and massacre the city of Jabesh-Gilead, none of whose residents partook in the war or in the vow, and capture its 400 maidens as wives for the Benjamites. The 200 men still lacking women are subtly allowed to abduct the maidens dancing at Shiloh".
It is this incident which the Priory refer to in their Lobineau Secret Dossiers and which take on an extraordinarily significance in importance.
At the front of the book of 1961 by way of explanation Plantard has written:
"GISORS
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As it seems possible to believe, if the castle of GISORS has a secret, the science of deciphering can, like an Ariadne thread, guide us from the darkness of the hermetic labyrinth towards the Light of the Sun.... I believe it is interesting for those who wish to pursue the search for the way, to publish the seven answers made at the time. Meditation is the best guide of the following pages...
Pierre PLANTARD September 1961".
Some of these aspects are used on the tympanum of the porch of the parish church at Rennes-le-Chateau above the key representing the coat of arms of Pope Leo XIII (accompanied by his motto Lumen in coelo, "light in the sky"). We can read the inscription in Latin, Terribilis est locus iste ("This place is Terrible", a truncated quote from Genesis, XXVIII, 17-7) followed by the explanation Domus mea domus orationis vocatibus ("My house will be called house of prayer", reference to Matthew, XXI,138).
Terribilis est locus iste is a truncated sentence that has 22 letters, a symbolic number, notably that of the feast of Saint Mary Magdalene on July 22. The quote is part of Jacob’s Vow at Bethel. The full vow is as follows and to which we have referred in parts to above; Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!” Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had been Luz previously. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.”
The context describes the God's appearance in a dream, given to Jacob while on the road to Haran in Mesopotamia, the region where Rebekah's brother Laban lives. Forced by nightfall to sleep on the ground with a rock for a pillow, Jacob dreams of a ladder, connecting earth to heaven, and full of angels going in both directions. Atop the ladder, the Lord stands and gives to Jacob the very promises He gave to Abraham. He also promises to be with Jacob on his journey from and back to the land of promise. Jacob wakes up and worships the Lord, vowing to make the Lord his God. Bethel itself was an ancient Israelite sanctuary.
The adjective 'awesome' or “terrible” [used in this context] is because Jacob believes that he has been in the presence of Jehovah and of the heavenly host. The belief that those who saw “the angel of the Lord” face to face would die is expressed in the terror of Jacob. Cf. Jdg 6:22-23; Jdg 13:21-22. Others have noted how the office for the dedication of a church may be relevant. This was a liturgical celebration common to all Latin Christendom which was held on the anniversary of the consecration of the church in question The feast served one common purpose, namely to connect the newly consecrated church typologically with the site where Jacob wrestled with the angel. When Jacob utters his exclamation, he locates on earth a locality that serves as the house of God, a place where the divine presence is particularly strongly felt.
An interesting point of interest is this rock of Jacob that he anoints and his naming of it as Bethel. This is discussed further HERE. It necessarily presents many disparate ideas together in a coherent whole .... and as I posit, perhaps these considerations should be investigated further? A further kind of professional curiosity?
1 "The theory of the "ancient astronaut" and above all of the "alien Genesis", with all due respect to Sitchin, von Daniken, Kolosimus and Ticket, clearly shows its enormous limits, which in the limited space of this short exposition I will try to show in synthesis, without going into the merits of the "translations" but solely based on the objective difficulties that arise from these alternative theories and from the forcing's that have been made in exegetical terms in order to justify them. Given the premise that, unlike many traditionalists, I do not at all deny the existence of alien Intelligences (in all the nuances and declensions of the term - «There are more things in heaven and on earth ...»), and also granted that some of these may have manifested themselves in the past to human civilisations in decline and spiritually regressed, and have been exchanged or elevated to the rank of divinity, the doctrinal fallacy arises when this hypothesis becomes general exegesis, when for example it becomes a theory extended indiscriminately to all Anunnaki, to all celestials, forcibly transferred to the category of alien race (or rather, species), and perhaps extending this one-sided interpretation to the pantheon of other civilisations, finally to that of all civilisation's!" Read more from this author HERE.
2 "You are far from your homeland (nor can I believe it). You see the harsh Alpine snows and cold Rhine without me alone. You don't freeze, they hurt! Let not the tender ice cut your rough plants". This sentence and concept is found in many Priory documents and also the work of Cherisey [in Circuit].
3 Alice also wrote;
"The continent of Africa has always had the greatest genetic diversity and it is the point of origin of all humans. Noah's homeland was in the region of lake Chad, but his ancestors moved there from the Nile Valley. Many Africa stories speak of how the High God assigned certain regions of the land to different populations. According to the Shilluk of Sudan, the High God Juok/Jwok made white people out of white sand and the Shilluk of out black dirt. When the Creator came to Egypt, he made the people there out of the Nile mud which is rich in red silt. That is why the Egyptians are shown in ancient Egyptian reliefs as having a red-brown skin tone. Each population had its designated area. The southern part of the Nile valley had an influx of Bantu people around 1200 BC. The part of the Nile Valley where Abraham's ancestors came from was known to have a population of people with a red skin tone.
https://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-dispersion-of-early-hebrew.html
An interesting video I came across in the Google search engine when you type in the title 'First Man, then Adam' is below; it asks certain relevant questions and although I do not subscribe to the theological suppositions it makes, I think the questions about first humans is what the Priory Affair may be hinting at if the odd snippets and quotes dotted obscurely through its literature is carried forward in professional curiosity!
