The Whore of Babylon

The whore of Babylon seems to be a very big part of the final Babylon. So I would like to start from the original Babylon and find out who was or should be considered the whore of Babylon. The obvious first choice is the goddess Ishtar. Her pre-goddess name was Semiramis. She was the wife of Cush, and the mother of Nimrod. She seemed to be quite arrogant and immoral. When Cush, died and Nimrod took the throne, she did the unthinkable to stay in a position of power. She married her own son. So, this woman became the wife and mother of Nimrod, and also the mother of Nimrods son, Tammuz. Tammuz shows up in the Bible in the book of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 8:14

So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Nimrod eventually died and became deified as the Sun-god. It was at this point she, Semiramis, gained control of Babylon. She used seductive and immodest methods to keep her position of power. Her territory of Babylon was characterized by the harlot or prostitute sitting on and riding a bull. This shows that she was united with but also controlling the beast. That being said, she was literally depicted as a woman riding a beast. This very same imagery is what we read in the book of Revelation.

Revelation 17:3

… And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast…

After her death, she was also deified as the Queen of heaven, the moon goddess, and the goddess of fertility. There are many ancient cultures that adopted this goddess throughout the ancient world.

This goddess became known by many names throughout the ancient world and cultures.

In the Old Testament and the "ancient pagans" Semiramis is the goddess of the Sidonians as we find in the book of 1 Kings 11:4-5. Amongst the Israelites she was known as Ashtoreth.

1 Kings 11: 4-5

For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

We find in the New Testament scriptures she is Diana of Ephesus.

Acts 19: 35

And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

She also takes on the roles of Isis in Egypt, Indrani in India, Cybelle in Asia, Venus in Rome, Ceres in Greece, Shing Moo in China, Hertha in Germany, Sisa in Scandinavia, among others. But this is the very woman that was Semiramis, the wife and mother of Nimrod, the queen of Babylon, the queen of heaven, and the goddess of fertility"

Quick recap: Semiramis became the goddess Ishtar. She was known for her harlotry. She was a woman that was so arrogant and desperate for power she married her own son. She seems to fit the bill of the mother of all harlots.

I highlighted Cybelle because I believe it is important to understand that the black stone has never been found in any excavations in Rome. This could mean one of two things, either we have yet to search the right place and we have no idea where that might be, or two, it was stolen or moved a long time ago and has possibly already been found but is now associated with another god or goddess.

It wasn’t until her death and deification that she really spread throughout the ancient world. In the Hindu pantheon she is known as Sri Bali. This is significant because it shows that she not only travelled to Ephesus as we read in the bible, but also her legend reached India, along with other parts of Asia Minor and the Middle East. The reason this is important is twofold. First, the Kaaba, and second the black stone.

The black stone is directly associated with the goddess Ishtar as well as Diana, Cybelle, and Ashtoreth. We read about Diana’s association with this “image”, which is also translated as stone in versions other than King James. Strong’s Concordance also translates the name Jupiter as Zeus, in the book of Acts. Although it seems that the word image was inserted into the scriptures, we know from mythologies, histories and legends that Artemis was associated with a stone. The stone, in 204 BC was moved to Rome, which is where we get the goddess Diana. According to one non-profit organization the “earliest temple contained a sacred stone, probably a meteorite, which had "fallen from Jupiter." It is quite interesting that the non-biblical/non-profit organization uses the same words we find in the King James Version of the Bible. We also know that the Temple of Artemis was destroyed several times, at some point after that the stone is lost, but it shows up in Mecca in 630 AD. How do we know this? It was found inside the Kaaba by none other than Muhammad.

The Kaaba itself was originally a Hindu temple that was taken over by Muhammad. Before Muhammad ever showed up to Mecca, the Kaaba was already there, and it was surrounded by 360 idols. One of the gods was known as Hubal, the moon god, whose worship was connected with the Black Stone of Kaaba. Among the major deities of the pre-Islamic era were al-Lat ("the Goddess"), worshipped in the shape of a square stone. The name Allat, is very close to the name Allah. But to take it a step further, the name Allah was used for god in many different cultures because the name Allah simply means god. The moon-god named Sin was also called Allah. Evidence gathered from both North and South Arabia demonstrate that Moon-god worship was clearly active even in Muhammad's day and was still the dominant cult. According to numerous inscriptions, while the name of the Moon-god was Sin, his title was al-ilah. In the Hindu histories, we find that Allah was one of the deities in Kaaba long before Islam was founded. It might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word ‘ALLAH’ itself is Sanskrit.

In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother.

 It seems very likely that Muhammad came in to Mecca, overthrew their power, replaced polytheism with monotheism, kept the traditions that were already in place but altered it just enough to represent a one god system.

At the time of Muhammad, his tribe, the Quraysh, was in charge of the Kaaba, which was at that time a shrine to numerous Arabian tribal gods. Desert tribesmen, the Bedouin, and inhabitants of other cities would join the annual pilgrimage, to worship and to trade. This shows that the fifth Pillar of Islam was already being practiced before the Islamic religion.

References to Mecca in the Quran (6:92, 42:5) call it Umm al-Qurā, meaning "mother of all settlements”. That being said, Mecca literally means mother. Going back to the previous paragraphs, not only do we see Mecca meaning mother, but also the name Allah itself in the Sanskrit language. What does the Bible call Babylon the Great?

Revelation 17: 5

… THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS…

Another ritual practiced by Muslims in Mecca is the walking around the Kaaba seven times. This comes directly from the Hindu religion. It is called circumambulation. Circumambulation simply means to walk around ceremoniously. No other Muslim temple in the world does this. It is only done at the Kaaba, which houses the stone of Diana.

To pull this whole thing together, we can see several things come to light about Islam, and about the whore of Babylon. Ishtar was the original whore of Babylon. In no other place in the world is Ishtar still being worshipped but in Mecca. If we consider all of Islam as beast, then we can undoubtedly say that Saudi Arabia, specifically Mecca, is the home of the whore of Babylon, Ishtar.