Ruth116 wrote:


There is NO mention of a "queenie of heaven" in Numbers.  The Israelites did not start worshiping that entity until just before they went into captivity in Assyria and Babylon.

The Golden Calf was actually Hathor with the sun between her horns which was her son, the sun god.  Hathor was called the "queen of heaven". 

As for that incident of Baal Peor, most certainly there was a queen of heaven.  Baal Peor could not reincarnate unless there was a queen of heaven, that is the central doctrine of all MYSTERY cults, such as the myth of Osiris and of Tammuz. 

We find that the queen of heaven was being portrayed by the priestesses called temple harlots, which was the very role which Cozbi the Midianite princess was re-enacting in the fertility rite with the prince of the tribe of Simeon.  The tent in which they were doing this was the harlot's tent where this re-enactment took place, and this re-enactment was called the "marriage of the gods".  This act was believed to make the queen of heaven pregnant so she could give birth to the new reincarnated god.  The old god is the one who died, and the sacrifice that was made was believed to reincarnate into the dying god which the people ate. 

All this is very basic to the ancient Mystery Cults, which were fertility religions.  The eating of the sacrifices of the dead was always accompanied by fertility rites, that is why the princes of Israel were committing fornication with those harlots.  So, yes, the queen of heaven most certainly is in Numbers. 



Since I have used up my limits for the day, I'll have to respond to the post below here:

Ruth, one of Hathor's names was "the Golden One".  The Israelites had been in Egypt for 400 years, and this is the queen of heaven which they knew at that time.  Also Egyptians had something called "the bread of heaven".  This was made with the first ripened grains to which was added honey as a leavening agent, and milk.  The honey was believed to be the dying god's semen, while the milk believed to be the breast milk of the queen of heaven--Hathor's (the cow goddess) milk.  This is the reason that absolutely no leaven was to be included with the sacrifice for sin--it was not to be viewed as a reincarnation of a dying god.  Honey--which was used as a leavening agent--was not allowed any where near the sacrifice. 

Temple prostitutes took the place of the goddess being impregnated.  This was the reason that no women were allowed in the inner court and in the Tabernacle, whereas Mystery Cults needed priestesses (or sodomite priests dressed as the goddess). 

These are some of the clues that the queen of heaven was indeed an element adopted by the Israelites in Egypt.  This was the reason that the I AM forbid them to return to Egypt--in other words, not to take up again the beliefs of the Mystery Cult of Egypt.  This is why in the very first Commandment, Yahweh states that there is no one beside Him--that is, there is no goddess enthroned beside him as his equal.  This is why MYSTERY BABYLON is also called "Egypt".

And after they entered Canaan, the Israelites exchanged Hathor for the Canaanite Ashtaroth, which was far earlier than Jeremiah's time:



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And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

 11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

 12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

 13And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.  Judges 2


Apparently, slaying those princes who had lain with those harlot/princesses was only a temporary fix, because in only one generation after Joshua's they were back to worshiping the queen of heaven--with a different name. 

Edited 3 times by ryld 11/18/11 5:49 AM.