VISHNU
AND SUKHA AS HEAVEN
21.
Vishnu and Sukha as Heaven :
According
to Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell :
The
Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered (1925) :
"The
Fish of the Setting Sun" is for invocation for Resurrection
from the Dead and its pictorial representation is found on ancient
Sumerian and Hitto-Phoenician sacred seals and on Ancient Briton
monuments are of great importance as they establish and confirm
the evidence of these Indo-Sumerian seals.
This
Sumerian "Fish" title for the Sun-god on this and the
other amulet seals as "Fish of the Setting Sun (S'ukha)"
is of the utmost critical importance for establishing the Sumerian
origin of the Indo-Aryans and the Aryan character of the Sumerian
language as it discloses for the first time the origin and until
now unknown real meaning of the Vedic name for the Sun-god "Vishnu"
and of his representative as a Fish-man as well as the Sumerian
origin of the English word "Fish" the Gothic "Fisk"
and Latin "Piscis."
The
first "incarnation" of the Sun-god Vishnu in Indian mythology
is represented as a Fish-man (see Fig. 19), and in substantially
the same form as the Sumerian Fish-man personification of the Sun-god
of the Waters in the Sumerian seals.
![](images/vishnu/sumeriaosunfishasindiansungodvishnufig19.jpg)
Fig.
19 : Sumerian Sun-Fish as Indian Sun-god Vishnu
From
an eighteenth-century Indian image (alter Moor's Hindoo Pantheon).
Note
: the Sun-Cross pendant on his necklace. He is given four
arms to carry his emblems: (a) Disc of the Fiery Wheel (weapon)
of the Sun, (61 Club or Stone-mace (Gada or Kaumo-daki) of the Sky-god
Varuna, (c) Conch-shell (Shankh), trumpet of the Sea-Serpent demon
(d) Lotus (Padma) as Sun-flower.
(1.
Significantly this word "Kaumo-dakI" seems to be the Sumerian
Qum, "to kill or crush to pieces" (B., 4173; B.W.. 193)
and Dak or Daggu "a cut stone" (B., 5221, 5223).
2.
"Protector of the S'ankha (or Conch)" is the title of
the first and greatest Sea-Serpent king in Buddhist myth, see my
List of Naga (or Sea-Serpent) Kings in Jour. Roy. Asial. Soc., Jan.
1894.
3.
On the Lotus as symbol of heavenly birth, see my W.B.T., 338,381,
388.)
Now
the Sumerians of Mesopotamia called the Setting Sun "The Fish
(Kha)" a fact which has not until now been remarked or recognized.
And this Sumerian title of "Fish" for the Sun is explained
in the bilingual (two languages) Sumero-Akkadian glossaries by the
actual word occurring in this and the other Indo-Sumerian amulets
namely S'u-kha with the addition of "man" (na) by word-signs
which read literally "The Winged Fish-man" thus co-relating
the Winged or soaring Sun with the Fish personification of the supposed
thus the "returning or resurrecting" from the water under
the earth.
This
solar title of "The Winged Fish" is further given the
synonym of "The turning Bi i-i-es'" which latter name
is evidently a variant spelling of the Sumerian Pi-es' or Pish for
"Great Fish" with the pictograph word-sign of Fish joined
to sign "great." This now discloses the Sumerian origin
not only of the "Vish" in Vish-nu, but also of the English
"Fish," Latin "Piscis," etc. the labials B,
P, F and V being freely interchangeable in the Aryan family of languages.
The
affix nu in "Vish-nu" is obviously the Sumerian Nu title
of the water form of the Sun-god S'amas and of his father-god la
or In-duru (Indra) as "God of the Deep". ‘It literally
defines them as "The lying down, reclining or bedded"
(god) or "drawer or pourer out of water".
It
thus explains the common Indian representation of Vishnu as reclining
upon the Serpent of the Deep amidst the Waters and also seems to
disclose the Sumerian origin of the Ancient Egyptian name Nu for
the "God of the Deep". Thus the name "Vish-nu"
is seen to be the equivalent of the Sumerian Pish-nu and to mean
"The reclining Great Fish(-god) of the Waters" and it
will doubtless be found in that full form in Sumerian when searched
for. And it would seem that this early "Fish" epithet
of Vishnu for his "first incarnation" continued to be
applied by the Indian Brahmans to that Sun-god even in his later
"incarnations" as the "striding" Sun-god in
the heavens. Indeed the Sumerian root Pish or Pis for "Great
Fish" still survives in Sanskrit as Fts-ara "fish."
![](images/vishnu/poseidonofthegreeksasthesumeriansunfishgodfig20.jpg)
FIG.
20 : Posedion of the Greeks as the Sumerian Sun-Fish god Pis or
Beiesh
From
Greek vase painting of filth century B.C.
This
Fish-man form of the Sumerian Sun-god of the Waters of the Deep,
Piesh, Pish or Pis (or Vish-nu), also appears to disclose the unknown
origin of the name of the Greek Sea-god "Pose idon" the
Neptune of the Romans (see Fig. 20). That name now seems to mean
"The Likeness (eidon) of Pos "i.e. Pis or Piesh"
"The Great Fish" and thus discloses the derivation of
that Greek name and myth from the Sumerian.
Moreover,
the second part of that Greek name eidon as well as its cognates
in the Aryan family of languages are also clearly derived from the
Sumerian. In Sumerian Bi-ad = "see, look, form". Now in
Early Greek eidon is spelt Fid-on, "see or look" and is
cognate with the Latin Vid-eo, the Sanskrit Vid or Ved, "know"
Gothic Vit and English "to wit" and "witness"
and thus again is disclosed the Sumerian origin of Aryan words.
![](images/vishnu/vishnuassunfishmanfig21.jpg)
FIG.
21 : Vishnu as Sun-Fish man (S'ukha or Biesh) in Assyrio-Babylonian
monuments. (After Layard)
Further
and complete identification of this Sumerian solar divinity or angel
of Induru (Indra), "The Setting Sun-Fish" with Vishnu
is in the Sumerian tradition which connotes "Three" and
"Steps" with the Winged Sun-Fish and "The Great Fish"
and thus discloses the Sumerian origin of the Indian Vedic tradition
frequently referred to that Vishnu takes "Three Steps."
In
the Sumerian definition of the Setting Sun as a "Fish"
we find the Sun described as "The Stepping Fish-man and S'ukha
or "The Winged Fish" which is defined as"Bi-i-i-esh"
which is varient of spelling Pi-esh or Pish or "Great Fish"
and its secondary meaning is Three. Presumably group of fish and
three was early primitive expression for "a large number".
These
"Three Steps" of the Sun-god Vishnu are thus seen to be
the three steps or stages of the Sun’s supposed daily progress
:
(1.
Upwards from the horizon of sunrise to the zenith,
2.
Downwards from the zenith to sunset and,
3. The supposed retrograde or "resurrecting" stage as
a Fish, from west to east, through "the waters under the earth"
to the point of sunrise.)
![](images/vishnu/thesunfishmanfig22.jpg)
Fig.
22 : Sun-Fish-man (S'ukha or Blesh) bestowing the ambrosia of Resurrection
and Life, in Assyrio-Babylonian monuments (After Layard)
This
now recovers unknown name of the common Assyrio-Babylonian images
of the Fish-man divinity traversing the waters (Fig. 21), or carrying
a basket and bestowing the Life-giving ambrosia of Resurrection
(Fig. 22). On his name as the so-called "goddess Nina".
This
Sun-Fish divinity of the Resurrection and the Life of the old Aryan
gentiles (non jewish) seems also the source of the title "The
Fish" applied to Christ by the early Christian fathers and
his symbol as such is usually represented facing eastwards like
the Sumerian and Hittite Sun-Fish-god.
"S'ukha"
name for the Resurrecting Sun-Fish is apparently the Sumerian source
of the Sanskrit name Sukha for "heaven" and for "the
western paradise of the God of the Deep" (Varun) who is represented
in Indian mythology as a Fish-man as in the Sumerian seals of this
Sun-Fish, or as riding upon a Fish. This Resurrecting Sun-Fish name
"S'ukha" seems also to disclose the Sumerian origin of
word on Amulet "Sukha" as "Swaha" in Sanskrit
used by Brahmin for invocation and in Buddhist Amulet.
Through
the later dialectic dropping out of the k in the guttural (speech
sound) kh of the kha, whereby Khatti became "Hatti" (or
"Hitt-ite") and Khamurabi became "Hamurabi"
and thus "S'u-kha" became "Shuha" and "Swaha."
The
personal name Uggu equates fairly well with the Vedic Uccaih - "the
famous" (Uccaih-shravas) sumamed Kaupayeya, who was a king
of the Kurus, and a maternal uncle of the Panchcal or Phoenician
prince Keshin Darbhya. The Kurus and Panchals are repeatedly referred
to as kinsmen and allies under a joint king. This would explain
the Gad or Kad title in the seal and this Gad or early Gothic personal
name Uggu is probably the original of the latter Aryan personal
name aspirated as "Hugo".
The
Sumerian word-sign here for "grave," Gur or Khar, is defined
as "box, receptacle, slay, lie down, dig," and thus seems
to be the origin of our English word "grave." In the Akkadian
the sign is called Khdra, also Kapru (pre sumably cognate with Kaparu,
"cover, destroy"), and thus presumably the origin of the
late Phoenician Khabr or Qabr "a grave" and the Gothic
Kubl, and English "cover."
The
definition of this Fish-House sign Kuad in the glossaries as "The
cities (kiki) of the House of the Fish of the Sun" presumably
relates to the numerous Phoenician cities called "Kad-esh"
or "House of the Kad" evidently deriving their name from
the sacred Fish of the Sun-temple therein as "The House of
the Kuadi of the Sun". This also would explain why in late
Syrio-Phoenician the word "Kadesh" means "holy".
This
Sumerian name for "Fish" (Kha), with its sacred solar
associations, although it has dropped out of use in Sanskrit as
a term for "Fish" never- the less appears to survive in
religious terms in Sanskrit, as Kha for "The Sun" "Heaven"
and "Supreme Spirit" and as the unaspirated Ka, meaning
"The Sun" and "Sun-god Vishnu." And it also
accounts for the Indian Brahmanist tradition that long ago the Sun-god
assumed the form of a Fish in the Fish incarnation of Vishnu, in
which he subdued the Serpent of the Deep.
And
it was presumably this ancient "pagan" Sun-Fish, the Piesh
or Vishnu, which formed the legendary leviathan of the Deep called
"Peishta Mor" or "The great Peishta", which
St Patrick slew in Ireland.
And
this Resurrecting Sun-Fish of the Sumerians and the "Dagon"
of the Philistines was presumably the Aryan source of the symbol
of a Fish for Christ, among the early Christians, a large proportion
of whom were Syria-Phoenicians of Galilee of the Gentiles. And the
destruction of its effigy by St Patrick was merely in series with
the wholesale destruction of beautiful pre-Christian crosses by
the early Church throughout the British Isles, merely because they
were "pagan," or pre-Christian. And the Piscina or "Fish-bowl"
built on the south side of the altar in old Christian churches in
Britain and elsewhere is evidently a survival of the Sumero-Phcenician
Fish shrine of this pagan "Sun-Fish of the Resurrection and
the Life" invoked in these seals.
The
Sun-Fish of these seals is also called by Sumerians "The Fish
Lord of Bel", The Net of entry (to the Waters of Rebirth ?)
and under this title he is given the same explanatory title of "Na-pi-tub"
(or "Neptune") as before. The word for "net"
here is the same word which is used by the great Sumero-Phoenician
conqueror Bi(d)as'nadi (the Pasendi or Prasenjit of the Indian records
and the "Eannatum" of Assvriologists) the son of Mudgal
and grandson of Uruas'-the-Khad, in his celebrated monument of victory
generally called the "Stele of the Vultures" on account
of the vultures figured on it or carrying off the limbs of the dead
foes. In this, in reciting his treaty with the chief of his vanquished
enemies, "the men of Umma or Gishkhu he calls himself 'The
great Net of the Setting Sun and Rising Sun'" and repeats the
phrase several times and invokes the vengeance of the Net on those
who may break the treaty.
Amongst Indo-Aryans we find "Holder of the Net" as the
name of one of "The Sons of the Sky or Dawn" (Aditya)
in Brahmanism.
Other
words for heaven :
Imin, the “Himin” is also known as Heaven by Eddie Goths
and Hawk is symbol of Sun.
The
Makers of Civilization in Race and History :
historical
"Sumerian" or Aryan king Gaur or St George (Indra / Thor/
Adam) established Civilization, c. 3378 B.C., with the aid of his
gallant son Prince Michael (Daksh) and his men in his first mountain
capital in Cappadocia, called Imin or "Heaven," the Himin
of the Goths, against these Devil-worshipping aborigines, still
survives in the Gentile tradition incorporated in the Apocalypse.
This is "the War of Heaven against the Devil and his angels,"
in which the historical Sumerian Prince Michael is seen to be the
Archangel of Heaven who cast out "the great Dragon, that old
Serpent called the Devil and Satan who deceiveth the whole world,"
in which the Devil is seen to be merely the totem of the cult of
these Serpent-worshipping Chaldees who, with their Devil-priests,
were ejected from the neighbourhood of the Aryan city-state.
Thus,
we come to know the location of heaven which is first mountain capital
in Cappadocia.