The Nagas

Serpent Beings

Guardians

Fallen Angels

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Nagas

Source: http://www.thenewyoga.org/nagas.htm

“There have indeed been civili­zations upon your planet that understood as well as you, and without your kind of technology, the workings of the planets, the positioning of stars - people who even foresaw ‘later’ global changes. They used a mental physics. There were men before you who journeyed to the moon, and who brought back data quite as ‘scientific’ and pertinent. There were those who understood the ‘origin’ of your solar system far better than you. Some of these civilizations did not need spaceships. Instead, highly trained men combining the abilities of dream-art scientists and mental physicists cooperated in journeys not only through time but through space. There are ancient maps drawn from a 200 mile-or-more vantage point - these meticulously completed on return from such journeys.” SETH, in ‘The Unknown Reality’, Volume 1, by Jane Roberts

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‘NAGAS’ - THE SNAKED TRUTH OF AWARENESS

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“The truth is that the human being is not by any means confined within his skin … One of the worst forms of Maya [delusion] is the belief that man remains firmly within his skin … In reality you extend over the horizon you survey.” Rudolf Steiner

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We do not need to strip off our clothes, to walk around naked like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, or go about naked like the wandering ascetics of India called ‘Nagas’ – in order to FEEL our skins and the nakedness of our bodies. Nor do we need to externally peel off our skin in order to shed it from within like a snake or serpent - the meaning of ‘Naga’ -  to no longer sense it as a confining and containing boundary of our being. With our naked skin we can sense the light, warmth and space around us. Yet, that sensuous, bodily awareness of the space around us, though we feel it with the sensory skin surface of our bodies, is not itself an awareness bound by our own bodies, - confined or contained by our skins. The naked truth is that our bodies themselves, whether clothed or not, are always naked - and that in this state of nakedness our skin in no way confines our awareness. The sense that it does confine it can indeed be shed - allowing us to experience the entire world around as a larger skin or circumference of awareness.

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The truth of nakedness constitutes the naked truth with which the serpent tempted Eve.  In the story of Genesis, it was only after eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that Adam and Eve become aware of their nakedness. At the same time they became aware of feeling guilt at having eaten of the fruit. In this way they became doubly naked - feeling shame not at their fleshly nakedness as such but rather through knowing that God would see through it to the guilt they were aware of feeling. The ‘knowledge’ they attained through becoming aware of their nakedness was essentially knowledge of awareness itself – the knowledge that anything we are aware of feeling cannot be concealed by our bodies, and therefore leaves us nakedly exposed to the gaze of the other, the knowledge that awareness communicates - instantaneously. Yet it is by virtue of doing so that awareness is also the very ‘ligament’ that re-links and re-connects us as beings – and the very essence of ‘re-ligion’.

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That is one reason why, right across the globe, and long before either the Book of Genesis or the current age of ‘Globalization’ the serpent or snake was a common religious symbol of this knowing or ‘gnosis’, and worship of the SERPENT SPIRIT – another meaning of ‘Naga’ – a unifying element of early matriarchal religions and civilizations.  For the spirit of the serpent, like that of the human being, is its awareness – an awareness so naked it is not even bound by its skin. The naked truth of awareness – its unboundedness - is symbolized by the capacity of the snake to shed its surface boundary skin - as a whole and in its entirety.

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The serpent of Genesis, the first of the five books or ‘Pentateuch’ of the Old Testament, stood upright. In the Haggadah, a commentary on the Pentateuch, the serpent is described as tall, two-legged and with superior mental powers: “God spoke to the serpent, ‘I created you to be king over all the animals. I created you to be of upright position.” Similarly, the divinities of ancient ‘Sumeria’ or ‘Sumaria’ were portrayed as standing, winged humanoid reptiles, often accompanied by snakes. The Rigveda refers to an entire race of serpent beings called NAGAS - whose leader Ahi fought against Indra – the supreme god of the Aryan invaders.

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According to the detailed historical account presented in Dr. Naval Viyogi’s book ‘Nagas – the Ancient Rulers of India’, these were rulers belonging to a lineage of ruler-priests stemming from Sumeria. In reality, the ancient Sumerian ‘King List’ bequeathed two principal lineages of ruler-priests and spiritual teachings - that of the Hebrew Patriarchs descended from Seth, along with their tradition of esoteric knowledge known today as ‘Kabbalah’, and that of the NAGAS - whose influence spread throughout India from the Indus Valley civilization and is the historic source of the Tantric tradition that later flowered in Kashmir. Both esoteric streams found their way into Egypt, Greece and Palestine.

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The religious symbols of the Naga lineage – not least the cobra – were taken up in the Vedas, in Buddhism and amalgamated into ‘Hindu’ iconography – the cobra around the neck of the god Shiva (otherwise known as Naga Natha – ‘Serpent Lord’). Vishnu asleep in the coils of the multi-headed cobra called ‘Ananta’ (the infinite) and the black (non-Aryan) figure of his avatar Krishna, from whose mouth his soul issued forth at his death in the form of a cobra - symbol of his unbounded ‘inner body’ or ‘soul body’. In Buddhist lore the Nagaradja's are mythological serpent kings which rule the various cosmic oceans.

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Not just in the religious symbolism and mythology of India alone, but in that of China, Tibet, Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, Ceylon, Crete, Palestine, Egypt, Greece and Ireland - not to mention Africa, America and Australia, we find evidence of the ubiquity of ‘Nagas’ – of oceanic and flying serpents, serpent spirits and deities, and of serpent kings - all connected with ancient cradle civilizations and cities of the past, with the races connected with them and the cultures they evolved – whether Chinese or Celtic, Sumerian, Semitic or South American, Dravidian or Druidic, Tamil or Tibetan, Aztec or Toltec, Hopi, Hebrew or Harappan.

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ON THE GLOBAL NATURE OF NAGA CULTURE

“As long as humanity has kept records of its existence, legends of a serpent race have persisted. These myths tell of a mysterious race of superhuman reptilian beings who descended from the heavens to participate in creating humankind and to teach the sciences, impart forbidden knowledge, impose social order, breed with us, and watch over our development. These serpent-like beings were not alone, but were part of a retinue of super-beings thought to be gods by the ancients. Yet, in cultures as widespread and diverse as those of Sumeria, Babylonia, India, China, Japan, Mexico, and Central America, reptilian gods have been feared and worshipped. To this day, the dragon and serpent signify divine heritage and royalty in many Asian countries, while in the West, the serpent represents wisdom and knowledge.” Joe Lewels

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Sumerian and Indus Valley origins:

Aratta is often mentioned in the Sumerian literature as a far-away land controlled by the goddess Inanna from her tutelary city of Uruk. According to the epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, it lay beyond Anshan (now Iran) and a journey to Aratta required the crossing of seven mountains and the dreaded river Kur. It has been suggested that Aratta may be the same as Harappa of the lost Indus Valley civilization. Harappa, along with Mohenjo-daro, was a city of the ancient Dravidians, the legendary serpent people who preceded the Aryan occupation of India.

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These cities did not evolve from primitive villages but were completed as cities within a century or so. They were built from ‘scratch’ as if by an outside force. In other words, they were constructed as a colony, probably by the Sumerians, and presumably by Enki, their chief engineer. The cities sprang up about 3500 to 3000 BC and later came to a violent end around 2000 BC or soon thereafter, according to archaeological evidence. What has puzzled historians is that the people who lived here are not related to the Aryans who came some 500 to 600 years later and settled in the Panjab and Gangetic plain.

Like the ancient Sumerians, the people of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa spoke an unknown language. It has been suggested by historians that these cities were the centre of the Dravidian culture and inhabited by the Nagas, a race of serpent-men. The Ancient Book of Dzyan, probably the oldest of Sanskrit sources, speaks of a serpent race which descended from the skies and taught mankind. Madame H. P. Blavatsky spent three years in Tibet, Bhutan, and Sikkim, accumulating thousands of Sanskrit sources which were compiled into the Book of Dzyan.

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These sources concern the ancient people called the Nagas or Sarpa which were semi-divine beings with a human face and the tail of a dragon. Blavatsky believed that these Sarpa are undoubtedly the Seraphim of the Old Testament; the Seraphim would thus have the same etymological roots as the Sarpa of ancient India.  Hindu mythology and literature are also replete with the sexual liaisons of gods and mankind, and of the procreation of numerous strange beings called Dravidian and Dasyus. This race reportedly lived in large walled cities. They were a coarse, cannibalistic people, dark-skinned and flat-nosed. The Aryans who came later ran into the remnants of these serpent people; they are vividly described in the Ramayana:

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“Near Bhogavata stands the place where dwell the hosts of the serpent race, a broad-wayed city, walled and barred, which watchful legions keep and guard. The fiercest of the serpent youth, each awful for his venomed tooth, and throned in his imperial hall is Vasuki who rules them all.”

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In the epic Mahabharata, a group of “celestials” arrive by aerial car to attend the wedding feast of the Aryan kings:

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“The gods came in cloud-borne chariots, came to view the scene so fair. Winged Suparnas, scaly Nagas, bright celestial cars in concourse sailed upon the cloudless sky.”

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These Nagas intermarried with Aryans, producing kings and heroes. For example, in the Rig Veda there are names like Divodasa which indicate that there was some cross-breeding between Dasyus and Aryans soon after 1500 BC. Many of the ancient Hindu gods mated with humans and, like in Sumer, produced a hybrid mammal-reptile, the semi-divine kings which resound throughout the literature of both Sumer and India. One of the great epics of India, the Ramayana, is the story of Sita, the bride of a northern Prince called Rama, who is abducted by Ravana, the serpent king of Ceylon [the modern Sri Lanka].

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Ceylon, the island kingdom of Ravana, is the stronghold of the Nagas. It is described as the home of the Nagas in very ancient Chinese sources. In one of the first literary references to Ceylon, when it traded with China before the Aryan occupation of India, it is described as a land of strange reptilian-like creatures. Because of its gems and spices and its convenient location as an entrepot, it became popular with Chinese merchants. Fa-Hsien, the Chinese pilgrim trader, disclosed that originally the island was occupied by Nagas or serpent deities with whom merchants of various countries carried on a trade. The Nagas never showed themselves to the outsiders. They simply set forth their precious commodities with price labels attached to them. The visiting merchants made their purchases according to price and took the things away.

R.A. Boulay

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Africa:

Legends of serpent-gods also abound throughout the mythology and religion of Africa. To the Dogon of Mali and Upper Volta, their ancient god created the sun and moon, then the earth from a lump of clay, and finally the first primitive beings who were twins called Nummo, half-human and half-snake.

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In the Nyoro tribe, legends say that god sent the first human couple down from heaven when he established the world. The man had a tail and produced two maidens and a boy. These in turn bore the chameleon, the father of mankind.

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Other African tribes also trace their ancestors to lizard-like people. To the Kumbi, the first men that god created had tails. The Ewe-Ho tribe describes men with tails who had climbed down on a rope to Earth. To the Jagga, their ancestors came down to Earth from heaven on a thread from a cobweb: the ancestor was called ‘the tailed one’. 

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R.A. Boulay

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China:

While the serpent-god shows up in the form of the dragon in Chinese history and mythology, there is no doubt that we are dealing with the winged, legged serpent or Naga of the Hindus. China chose the dragon as the national emblem for profound reasons. They believed that the Celestial Dragon was the father of the First Dynasty of Divine Emperors and as a result the dragon's pictorial emblem became regarded as inspiring divine beneficence to the land of China.

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According to Chinese history, Asian dragons were present at the Creation and shared the world with mankind. Like the Western serpent, the dragon was linked with the development of Man; and it was the dragon that taught him the essential arts such as how to make fire, how to weave nets for fishing, and how to make music.

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The Chinese dragon was unrivalled in wisdom and its power to confer blessings and as a result came to symbolize that most beneficent of men, the Emperor who was believed to have dragon blood. This affinity with the dragon is shown by the imperial accoutrements: the Emperor sat on a dragon throne, rode in a dragon boat, and even slept in a dragon bed.

The Vih King, the most ancient of Chinese books, whose origins are cloaked in mystery, describes the days when man and dragon lived together peaceably and even intermarried, how the dragons came to represent the Emperor and the throne of China, and how the Chief Dragon had its abode in the sky.

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R.A. Boulay

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‘OANNES’ AND THE NAGAS AS OCEAN SERPENTS

Nagas are not just serpentine but also aquatic and oceanic spirits - the female Nagi being ‘the princess with the fishy smell’ in Indonesian legend. “The kings of Chota Nagpur were descended from a Naga named Pundarika, who was reported to have foul-smelling breath.” (Eliade). In Mesopotamian culture the Naga takes the form of the amphibious wisdom-disseminating god ‘Oannes’, akin in nature and form to the Sumerian water god ‘Enki’ or ‘Ea’.

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The traditions of ancient Mesopotamia recount the story of an amphibious ancestor who taught the arts and crafts of civilization to Mankind. Written in the Third Century BC by the Babylonian priest Berossus, it describes the origins of civilization as his forefathers believed it.

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… one of Aristotle's disciples who also wrote an Assyrian history of his own, now lost. The account speaks of a group of creatures who came out of the Persian Gulf called ‘Annedoti’ led by one Oannes. They reportedly were amphibious creatures with the head of a man, the body and tail of a fish, yet legged like a man.

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“He had the whole body of a fish, but above his fish's head he had another head which was that of a man, and human feet emerged from beneath his fish's tail. He had a human voice, and an image of him is preserved unto this day. He passed the day in the midst of men without taking food; he taught them the use of letters, sciences and arts of all kinds. He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge.

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He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect the fruits; in short he instructed them in everything which could tend to soften human manners and humanize their laws. From that time nothing material has been added by way of improvement to his instructions. And when the sun set, this being Oannes, retired again into the sea, for he was amphibious. After this there appeared other animals like Oannes.” (Berossus)

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Augustine wrote concerning the fish: “If you combine the initial letters of the five Greek words, which are Iesous Chreistos Theou Uios Soter, Jesus Christ the Son of God the Saviour, they make the word ICHTHUS, meaning fish, and the mystic meaning of this noun is Christ, because He had power to exist alive, that is, without sin, in the bottomless pit of our mortal life, as in the depths of the sea.” The amphibious ‘Oannes’ is also associated with the Johannine Christian tradition that reveres Saint John over the other Apostles. John the submerger or ‘baptiser’ is Joannes or ‘J-OANNNES’. 

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And both the traditional and still popular symbol of Jesus is the fish – more specifically the geometric shape formed by the overlap of two circles at their centre called the ‘Vesica Piscis’ - symbolic also of the female labia. The ‘Essenes’, of which Jesus the ‘Nazarene’ is thought to have been a member, derived from the ‘Naaz’ or ‘Naasenes’ – a sect revering SOPHIA as the light-bringing ‘wisdom’ of the serpent (OPHIS).

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The Sumerian word for the gods (Annuna or Anunnaki in Akkadian) means those who came or ‘fell’ to Earth from the Heavens. These ‘gods’ were trans-human beings from both another plane of awareness and another physical planet. A suggested name of this planet - ‘Nibiru’  - is itself also a possible root of the term ‘Hebrew’. The appearance of the Sumerian gods was quasi-reptilean.

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Their chief god was the god of the skies named AN or ANU. The first name of the first city they created when they came down to Earth – Eridu – may well be the root of the word ‘Earth’ (‘Erde’) itself. Their ‘Land of the Gods’ was called E-din - the ‘Eden’ of Genesis. Sumerian records also tell of their attempts to create a more intelligent species of human mammal – ‘Homo Sapiens’ – through what appears today as experiments in interbreeding or genetic engineering.

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The Hebrew term Seraphim – meaning ‘fiery’ or ‘shining’ serpents - is used to refer to venomous snakes (‘Nagas’) encountered during the Exodus, at which time God commanded Moses to create a serpent idol, gazing upon which would cure its venom. “The Hebrew word ‘seraph’ … appears only a few times in the books of the Old Testament … associated with Philistia and the Negeb, lands which were traditionally the home of the descendants of the Nefilim [Nephilim] after the Deluge.” (R.A. Boulay).

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