PART IOVERVIEW

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The Parthenon Code: Mankind’s History in Marble by Robert

Bowie Johnson, Jr. presents overwhelming evidence for a revolutionary and astounding new interpretation of ancient

Greek myth and art. It is this . . .

Greek “myth” is not myth at all but rather the history of the human race told from the standpoint of the way of Kain (Cain).

Greek artists told the story of what happened in the ancient paradise . . .

The Greeks depicted the events leading up to Noah’s Flood, the disappearance of the line of Kain into the earth during the Flood, and Greek artists depicted Noah

himself.

The Greeks also told the story of mankind’s successful rebellion against Noah and his God after

the Flood, and they painted many images of their celebration of the rebirth of the line of Kain after the Flood.

Greek gods looked exactly like humans because, for the most part, they represented the Greeks’ (and our) human ancestors.

The philosopher Sokrates knew the truth of this. In Plato’s Euthydemus, he referred to the

gods Athena, Zeus, and Apollo as his “lords and ancestors.”

Greek artists have left us a true picture of their history, and an artist’s code meant to be understood. They take us back to the woman being born full-grown out of the first man.

And to that woman’s relationship with the serpent and the tree.

The ancient Greeks recount the same events as Genesis, except from the contrary viewpoint that the serpent did not deceive Eve in paradise, but rather enlightened her, and through her,

all of mankind.

PART IIZEUS AND HERA, ADAM AND EVE,

AND THE GARDEN PARADISE

The couple Genesis calls Adam and Eve . . .

The Greeks called Zeus and Hera.

According to Genesis, Adam and Eve were the father and mother of all humanity.

According to the Greeks, Zeus and Hera were the mother and father of all humanity.

Adam and Eve were a brother-sister/husband-wife pair.

So were Zeus and Hera.

The Greek poets and playwrights traced Zeus and Hera back to an ancient paradise they called the Garden of the Hesperides.

Greek artists always depicted the garden with a serpent-entwined apple tree.

Genesis doesn’t say what kind of fruit tree it was. It’s from the Greek tradition we get the idea that

Eve ate an apple.

PART IIIKAIN KILLING ABEL DEPICTED ON THE

PARTHENON

In Genesis, we read of Adam and Eve’s eldest son, Kain (Cain), killing his

younger brother Abel.

On the south side of the Parthenon, in a series of four sculpted scenes, the Greeks depicted their

memory of this very first human murder.

These are the drawings of those sculpted scenes by Jacques Carrey from 1678.

In the first panel, Kain, the taller and older brother, speaks with Abel.

In the second panel, Kain argues with his wife over a sacrifice. The dispute with Abel had affected Kain’s family life.

In the third panel, Abel is depicted as being in the field.

In the fourth panel, Kain kills Abel.

This is Greek narrative art at its best and most revealing.

PART IVKAIN AND SETH,

HEPHAISTOS AND ARES

According to Genesis, after Kain killed Abel, Adam and Eve had another son named Seth. That means Adam and Eve had two sons who, in turn, each had offspring: Kain, the eldest, and Seth.

KAIN SETH

ADAM AND EVE

Zeus and Hera also had two sons between them with offspring: Hephaistos, the elder, and Ares.

KAIN SETH

ADAM AND EVE

HEPHAISTOS ARES

ZEUS AND HERA

According to Genesis, the members of Kain’s line were the first to become forgers “of every tool of copper and iron.” The Greeks deified Kain as Hephaistos, god of the forge.

In the Greek system, Seth, the younger son of Adam and Eve, is Ares, the younger son of Zeus and Hera. Ares is the troublesome god of conflict and war.

From the standpoint of Scripture, Seth was the good son, through whom the line of Christ was traced. Kain “was of the wicked one,” a reference to his association with “the ancient

serpent.”

KAIN SETH

ADAM AND EVE

Bad Son Good Son

CHRIST

But the Greeks considered the association of Hephaistos with the serpent, and his welcoming of the serpent’s enlightenment, to be good things.

In the serpent-friendly Greek system . . .

. . . Hephaistos, the deified Kain, is the good son. Ares, the Seth of Genesis, is the bad son. Zeus loved his elder son Hephaistos, and made him armorer of the gods. Zeus despised his

younger son Ares, calling him “hateful,” “pestilent,” and a “renegade.”

HEPHAISTOS = KAIN ARES = SETH

ZEUS AND HERA

Bad SonGood Son

The Greek hero Herakles made it a point to kill the offspring of Ares, the Seth of Genesis. On this vase, Herakles kills Ares’ favorite son, Kyknos, as Ares looks on.

From opposite viewpoints, Genesis and Greek Religion share a knowledge of the same historical events . . .

. . . And they share a knowledge of the same characters, but with different names.

KAIN SETH

ADAM AND EVE

HEPHAISTOS ARES

ZEUS AND HERA

PART VBEFORE THE

FLOOD, THE SETH-MEN TAKE THEIR

WOMEN FROM THE LINE OF KAIN

And coming is that humanity starts to be multitudinous on the surface of the ground, and daughters are born to them. And seeing are sons of the Elohim (men in the line of Seth) the daughters of the human (the line of Kain), that they are good, and taking are they for themselves wives of all whom they choose.

Genesis 6:1-2

In Chapter Six of Genesis, before the Flood, the men from the line of Seth are described as taking their women from the line of Kain: “taking are they for themselves wives of all whom

they choose.”

The Greeks depicted men from the line of Seth as Kentaurs, half-men/half-horses, who often carried branches, signifying to the Greeks that they were part of a strange “branch” of humanity.

And the Greeks depicted these Kentaurs carrying off their women, just as it says in Genesis.

According to Genesis, only the line of Seth, through Noah and his family, survived the Flood. The line of Kain disappeared into the earth.

The Greeks depicted that same horrendous event as a man named Kaineus being beaten into the earth by Kentaurs, the line of Seth.

Kaineus means “pertaining to Kain,” or the “line of Kain.” On this partially damaged

vase, the artist has written the name KAINEUS next to the man being pounded

into the earth by the Kentaurs.

In the most ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, Kain is spelled in uppercase letters, just as it is on the vase.

Every religion celebrates something, and ancient Greek religion celebrates the resurgence of

the way of Kain after the Flood. Here the line of Kain in the person of this “pure” child re-emerges from the earth into which the line of Kain had disappeared during the Flood.

According to Greek “myth,” the father of this child is Hephaistos—Zeus and Hera’s eldest son,

the deification of Adam and Eve’s eldest son, Kain.

PART VINEREUS

THE GREEK NOAH

The Greeks knew exactly who Noah was. They called him Nereus, the “Wet One,” and Halios Geron, the “Salt Sea Old Man.”

The Greeks depicted Noah often on vases.

Sometimes Greek artists depicted Noah as an old man with the bottom half of a fish, signifying that he had come through the Flood.

Sometimes they depicted him as a seated old man holding a fish.

And sometimes simply as an old man.

PART VIIHERAKLES’REBELLION

AGAINST NOAH

Herakles, the great hero of the Greeks, was not an imaginary or mythical figure. He was a real man—the man who led the great rebellion against Noah and his God after the Flood.

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. I Chronicles 1:10

Herakles is the Greek version of the great rebel Nimrod. According to the Scriptures, Nimrod was the first man, after the Flood, “to be a mighty warrior on the earth.” Herakles’

given name was Alcaeus, meaning “mighty one.”

Herakles is Nimrod and Nimrod means “Rebel.” The only system to rebel against back then was Noah’s. Herakles and his followers fought to push Noah and his God out of the picture, and exalt

instead mankind as the measure of all things.

On this vase-painting, Herakles threatens Noah with his club.

Here, Herakles pushes Noah aside.

And here, the vase-artist depicts Herakles bringing Noah and his rule to a halt.

On this ancient shield band panel, Herakles grabs Nereus, the Greek Noah. The artist made Noah’s bottom half a fish so we don’t miss the point that he came through the Flood.

Herakles demands to know something that only the Salt Sea Old Man can tell him. A flame and a snake come out of Noah’s head. Herakles demands to know how and where to find the

enlightenment of the serpent.

Herakles’ first 11 labors and his other battles all had one objective—embodied in his 12th and final labor—getting back to the serpent-entwined tree in the ancient garden for another bite of

the serpent’s apple.

The spirit of Athena guided Herakles in all his battles which ultimately led to the

reestablishment of way of Kain.

And Athena rewarded the great hero after he had pushed Noah and his God out of the picture and reestablished the way of Kain.

PART VIIIATHENA

THE REBORNSERPENT-

FRIENDLY EVE

The Greeks recognized Athena as the reborn serpent-friendly Eve who reemerged

victorious after the Flood.

In this rare and revealing partially damaged vase painting, Athena stands proudly by the tree

receiving instructions from the serpent.

Hera is the original Eve of Genesis, but Athena also represents Eve—Eve worshipped as the one who brought the serpent’s enlightenment back to mankind after the Flood.

The Greeks depicted Athena as being born full-grown out of Zeus—a picture of Eve being born

full-grown out of Adam.

The key to understanding Greek myth/art is making the Genesis connection. This fresco by Masaccio portrays the taking of the fruit from the serpent’s tree as shameful.

According to the Greek way of looking at mankind’s past, the taking of the fruit was a triumph for humanity. In this sculpture by Tegner, Athena is born full-grown out of Zeus just as Eve

came out of Adam, and she has come out exulting in the serpent’s enlightenment!

Two opposite interpretations of the very same event.

The essence of the ancient Greek religious celebration is very simple: after the Flood, the reborn and victorious serpent-friendly Eve . . .

. . . Nurtures the reborn line of Kain.

What are commonly believed to be a hodge-podge of strange and sometimes incomprehensible images painted and sculpted by ancient Greek artists, present to us, in reality, a coherent historical narrative—the story of who the Greeks were, and where they

came from—a story that matches the Genesis account in convincing detail.