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"Columbia" (/kəˈlʌmbiə/; kə-lum-bee-ə) is a historical and poetic name used for the United States of America and also as one of the names of its female personification.It has given rise to the names of many persons, places, objects, institutions, and companies; e.g., Columbia University, the District of Columbia (the national capital), and the ship Columbia Rediviva, which would give its name to the Columbia River. Images of the Statue of Liberty largely displaced Columbia as the female symbol of the U.S. by around 1920.

Columbia is a New Latin toponym, in use since the 1730s for the Thirteen Colonies. It originated from the name of Christopher Columbus and from the ending -ia, common in Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia etc.). [1]

"District of Columbia"

It's built into our name, 'Columbia'. What does Columbia mean and why is this word everywhere? I mean, other than sounding nice and rolling off the tongue?

First of all, here's what it is not. It is not named solely for Christopher Columbus as this quora would suggest, because his surname has an origin and meaning. Let's go deeper than Yahoo Answer's nicer looking clone.

It means Dove or Pidgeon, in Latin genus Columbidae, from columba-, columbi-. Columbarium is the best example.

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Doves and Death

A Columbarium is a mausoleum whose name derives from a dove house.

A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (i.e., urns holding a deceased’s cremated remains). The term comes from the Latin columba (dove) and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons called a dovecote.[1]

Each urn is a soul and each soul is a dove. The connection between doves and souls is described in Judaism:

In post-biblical Judaism, souls are envisioned as bird-like

and

The Guf, or Treasury of Souls is sometimes described as a columbarium, a dove cote

The imagery of the dove flying out in Christianity is often associated with 'the soul leaving the body', and doves have in many cultures been associated with conducting the dead to heaven (again, doves being the holy spirit)[1][2][3]. Therefore the dove is nearly the universal psychopomp.

Peace symbolism

Doves are a symbol of death but they are also a symbol of peace.

In nearly all religious traditions a dove is a symbol of peace; but in Abrahamic traditions also a messenger, representing the holy spirit--the spirit tunnel / radio communication to God, a soul-transciever. Note that doves are also associated with the pagan Queen of Heaven (ishtar, astarte, semiramis, aphrodite, etc)

They say that there is peace in death, which makes sense that the house of the symbol of peace would double as the final resting place of the deceased. This is why Columbia has a kind of spiritual resonation that works for both Christians and Gnostics. The latter of which may make you say, "what's that?" Well let me explain as we further decode the cult of death.

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Liberty symbolism

The liberty symbolism of the dove comes from 2 ideas: 1) the freedom of a bird in flight "free as a bird / dove", 2) by the association of the phrygian "liberty" cap with both DC ornamentation motifs and with Lady Columbia--the personification of America--wearing the hat in late 19th century depictions.[1][2]

The Statue of Liberty freeing-souls-from-bodies

Decoding the Mashup that is The Statue of Liberty is not that difficult if you know where to begin. It begins with a search for the origins of the iconography and the name Columbia. Specifically, one place to begin is with a coin, minted in July 1776 depicting Columbia, wielding a pole topped with liberty cap and with caption "Libertas Americana", whose iconography borrowed from Lady Liberty, which one author claimed was a combination of several dieties including Liberty, Minerva (roman athena) and Hercules, and "the indian princess", assumingly a neoclassical-envisioned Pocohontus [1][2]. Again, another reference to the Phrygians, an idea, an homage, steganographically woven into the fabric of culture. In this particular case, a link from the phrygian cap to the Anatolians whose import is a reference to the Mithraic mystery school tradition, which provides for us a link from the oldest ecclectic religious traditions on earth, gnosticism, and the death ritual.

What ideas does the mashup carry with? Let's break it down

• Roman Freedom dieties : Libertas (female aspect) / Liber (male aspect) of liberty goddess), in Greek "Eleutheria", etymologically connected to both Eleusis and to Artemis;
• Liber/Libertas is connected with cult of Bacchas / Dionysis, god of wine partying orgies...also, like the dove, another psychopompic god.
• Columbia -- as we said before, 'death', 'peace', 'freedom'.
• Mystery cults -- death ritual and gnosticism

An interesting thing is held in this iconography--did you spot it? The connection to Eleusis. And therefore the Eleusinian mysteries, which were the main reason we care about Eleusis. We will have to table that issue for now. Just make notice for later that we have at least 3 connections at this point, linking 'Columbia' to mystery schools, that of dionysis and that of eleusis, and that of the mythraic tradition.

So we have the associations of justice and war (athena), war and brutality (hercules), hunting (artemis), and 'drinking and merriment'. Sounds a lot like America / Lady Columbia doesn't it? A warlike entity inflicting violent judgement of death upon others in the name of justice (athena, artemis), its own heroism (hercules), and with epicurean merriment (bacchus) in order to have peace and freedom. That about sums it up. This personification of America is apt.

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Cover Story

Or is it? The cover story is apt. The cover story is how the world sees us and how we see us, and how we sell ourselves. But isn't it more than that. Look around you.

The point of this essay is to show you that this cover story hides the true intentions and real activity that our country has been engaged in since its inception.

It's death. The creation of death, the reverence of death, the remembrance of death.

Et in Arcadia Ego. Remember: you too will die. (yes I got that from The Invisibles)

9/11 was a death ritual [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8], but it wasn't just 3000 people that were killed. It's the 120,000 soldiers that have committed suicide since 9/11 and the 4 MILLION people that have died abroad in as a result of 9/11.

District of Death

On the face of it, if America were a person, that person would be a hit man. A death dealer. By our membership in this country, we too are death dealers. It's why we are so depressed and unhappy: we know our country is killing people and we are powerless to stop it because of the corporate profit motive. When you think about it, 3000 people is quite literally nothing compared to 5M+. But we are still not convinced we've been at war for 15 yrs because our media calls it everything 'but' war.

• Insurgency
• Occupation
• Conflict
• Skirmish
• "A strategy"
• Plan
• Project

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Language, at the heart of it all

The world is made of language. --Terence McKenna

As you can see above, the cabal ('the cult of death') loves to mess with language because then they can mess with the world. Warp reality. Win hearts and minds. Brainwash you. Abuse your sensemaking with neuro-linguistic programming and other forms of social psychology treachery.

They understand that when you control language you can control reality, because as the bible says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." --John 1:1

This seems to be the only line that the cult of death people got from the bible. That language is technology of creation. What they've created though, is only death. But you see, in death, they're liberating you, liberating your soul. They are helping.

Aren't they?

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322 :: Death and Easter

322 is the number of the skull and bones society, the Yale secret society associated with masonry to which GWB and Kerry belong. Along with Sr. Bush and Prescott ("trading with the enemy:nazis") Bush. The latter whom ostensibly stole the bones of Geronimo, a great warrior, just 'cuz'. (just cuz he was a dick)

Knowing who these guys are...(too long to explain that...let's say VITRIOL, bones in the room of contemplation, etc). I believe the 3/22 is a reference to the death cult again.

Death worship is part of gnosticism (ecclectic mashup religion)--part of the universal serpent/death worship religion well before Christianity.

The real reason is that that March 22 is a pagan holiday, Arbor Intrat, part of Sanguem, commemorating the death of Attis, phrygian consort of 'the mother of all goddesses', Cybele.[1]

We know the surreptitious cultural significance of phyrigians through cultural meme of the liberty cap, mithraism (bull on wall st), carrying over from greece to rome to france to the us and uk and infused within our modern DC culture through a currying of neo-roman, neoclassical, authority-chic, semi-brutalist, cryptognostic architectural styles and motifs within 'official' city planning. A perfect example is the transgender statue of liberty that represents both cybele and attis alchemically transmogrified via coincidencia oppositorum into pagan goddess Columbia (note the liberty cap), or as some might suggest more unpopularly, Isis (cybele was the roman borrowgoddess isis) [1][2][3] [5] What lady liberty is not, is a manufactured 'freedom' goddess, plucked from the vacuum of a French imagination.

Here's a list of middle-to-near-east, pagan, borrowgoddesses or "Queens of Heaven" that are all relating to the same death/rebirth goddess, representing both fertility and war, love and violence [1]:

• Semiramis -- Assyrian
• Cybele -- Anatolian
• Anat -- Phoenician
• Ishtar "easter" 'moon goddess' -- Babylonian
• Astarte -> (Asteroth) -- Judaic
• Isis -- Egyptian
• Innana -- Sumerian
• Hera or Aphrodite/Venus or Fortuna or Ceres -- Greek/Roman
• Asherah -- Akkadian
• Black Maddonna / Mary Magdalene -- Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox; note there are 3 marys in catholicism, to throw you off.
• Shingmoo -- Chinese
• Virgo Paritura -- Druidic "black maddonna" (Isis)
• Ostara, Eostre, "easter", Hertha -- Germanic
• Dianna -- The Pagan Ephesians
• Etruscans - Nutria
• Indian - Isi/Indrani
• Krishna - Devaki
• Scandinavians - Disa
• Sumerians - Nana

So to recap, these Queens of Heaven are all mythologies that were name-changed in different cultures but essentially are the same figure--a fertility goddess representing blood, sugar, sex, magic; plants, darkness, death, and rebirth. She was the mother Goddess of agriculture, of nature, of the earth. Gaia, but not sanitized to tell the half-truth of life--rather one that told the whole story that 'you too will die'.

The connection with death and rebirth is not alone in the symbolism of the dove but with the the rite of Easter, which is a pagan holiday incorporated into the Christian tradition of the rebirth and ascention into heaven of Christ. I posit that it comes from Ishtar.

Now some argue that easter came from Germanic Ostara/eostre the germanic goddess of fertility[1]; others like myself will argue it's from Ishtar. It's possible that it's both, triangulated from the iconographic depictions of both goddessess being queens of heaven of fertility, death and rebirth.

I argue that because Turkey is right next to Greece and Greece was a seafaring mercantile, it makes more sense to my mind that it's Ishtar-based, rather than Germanic, because travel by boat has no impediments like the high Swiss alps and Appenine mountain range between the two countries.

Also, because of the maritime culture, Greece at the time had a very close relationship with Egypt ('hellenic egypt period') in which much of the esoteric mystery school culture (gnosticism) carried over into the "western culture" domain, which is how we end up with black maddonnas (isis), the symbolism of the rose, madonna lilly, acacia, lotus and poppy, while you don't see the germanic yews, oaks, clovers, and thistles in motif in christian reliefs. The common natural element is, however, the pinecone.

The pine is interesting because it's the key to all this. Many have equated the pine symbolically to the pineal gland, the dmt-releasing 'third eye' that goes into high activity upon death. Some believe this is also represented in the symbol of the eye of horus, which is the borrowsymbol on the dollar bill, the eye of providence ('all seeing eye' or symbol of the illuminati). Of course, all this makes sense, if you follow the pinecone pineal backwards through time, from the pinecone fountain in Vatican city back to the obelisks of egypt and beyond.

One could make the argument that DMT then is the scientific material representation of that same death dove psychopomp, the holy spirit that carries one into the afterlife upon death.