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ISIS and ISIL - What's the Difference in a Name? There is a great difference between the name ISIS, the Mother Goddess of Egypt and ISIL a predominately male Sunni jihadist group.I will attempt to apply a suitable definition for the two words/names in question.Definition: 1.a. A statement of the meaning of a word, phrase, or term. b. A statement or description of the fundamental character or scope of something. 2. The act or process of stating a precise meaning or significance; formulation of a meaning: The definition of terms is essential to any successful scholarly study. (*1)
ISIS: is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt. She was first worshiped in Ancient Egyptian religion, and later her worship spread throughout the Roman empire and the greater Greco-Roman world. Isis is still widely worshiped by many pagans today in diverse religious contexts; including a number of distinct pagan religions, the modern Goddess movement, and interfaith organizations such as the Fellowship of Isis.(*2)
ISIL:The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a predominantly Sunni jihadist group, seeks to sow civil unrest in Iraq and the Levant (region spanning from southern Turkey to Egypt and including Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan) with the aim of establishing a caliphate — a single, transnational Islamic state based on sharia. (*3) Here is a brief synopsis Dear Readers of my concerns regarding the naming of ISIL, ISIS.As a concerned planetary citizen, I feel called to speak out about the aberration of taking the sacred name of ISIS and using it as the (mistranslated) acronym in the naming of a terrorist group, which plainly calls itself ISIL - a male dominant would be caliphate, who stones women, rapes women, sell's and use's women as slaves, disallowing all women the freedom to drive or walk anywhere they wish on their own.
By typing the name ISIS in a browser, even if we are researching the Mother Goddess, we are now all at risk of being put on a terror watch list as engaging in suspicious activities associated with terrorism.1:
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The Sacred Name of ISIS Why would a group men claiming to be ushering in a new caliphate name themselves after the Egyptian Mother Goddess ISIS? Since time immemorial the Mother Goddess has been loved and worshiped by millions of planetary peoples. In Egypt, and the empires of Greece and Rome, she was known as the Goddess Isis and for thousands of years before the Christian religion was founded, she was honored and worshiped by all that was holy and good.
Now in the year of 2015 AD, the holy name of the Mother Goddess ISIS has become associated with horrific acts of violence by the media outlets of Israel, Europe, and America. AL-Jazeera accurately identifies the group as ISIL and (too few) other news outlets do report the group and their associated activities accurately as ISIL.
As result of the American, Israeli, and European media outlets who decided to change the translation of the name of the group who identified themselves ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or DAESH) into ISIS when they invaded Syria, a great disservice has been done to the millions of people who have worshipped or continue to worship the Mother Goddess ISIS. Not only those who reverence the Mother Goddess Isis have been affected by the mistranslation and misleading usage of her name - ISIS, those who first hear her sacred name will now associate it with death, savagery, and destruction.
I have read many comments online where a general consensus of "it does not matter" or "the difference isn't very great" is spoken of when questioned on the accuracy in portraying the name of the jihadis who call themselves ISIL as ISIS. Actually the distinction between the name of ISIS and ISIL is very great.The name of ISIS refers to the sacred I AM principle of Goddess first brought forth in ancient Egypt. Isis was known to those who have worshipped her (beginning as early as 6000 years ago) as the Divine Mother of the Universe who who brings her planetary children food/crops-fruitfulness/seeds, water, birth, life, love, perception of the sacred, the nobility of marriage, medicine and healing, the divine wisdom of women and many other blessings associated with the planet we call our Sacred Mother Earth. Most of all, the Divine Mother Goddess is associated with the energies of LIFE. Thousands of years before the deification of the Blessed Mary as the divine Holy Mother there was the deification of ISIS as the divine Holy Mother and Goddess.
The name ISIL (falsely translated and endlessly repeated as ISIS in the media) refers to a group of men (and women) who proliferate photos and videos of themselves slaughtering innocents, ritually sacrificing people, stoning women, raping and trafficking women and children as slaves, destroying ancient artifacts, throwing people off of roofs for being how God made them, and the cutting off of limbs who break their laws as punishment. The energies associated with ISIL are the energies of DEATH and DESTRUCTION. Peoples of the earth, especially those who live in the regions they haunt, when hearing of their deeds and their name, shudder in horror.0:
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Honouring of the Sacred is the first reason that distinction and clarity is needed by the media and anyone who writes about incidences associated with ISIL. The sacred name of the Mother Goddess ISIS should never ever be associated in the collective consciousness with the jihadis who call themselves ISIL. Media outlets, professors, writers, and teachers should take great care when identifying the acts of those who come in the name of death with the name of the Mother Goddess who comes in the name of life.
The second reason for the need of distinction between using the name ISIS or ISIL has to do with the women, men and children who are, or may, innocently research the name Isis in the context of the Mother Goddess, either for personal reasons or for a school project due to GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE and terror watch lists, which keep track of key words typed into browsers and emails as part of the planetary war on terror.
Through the (possibly) unconscious and definitely unscholarly behaviors of the European, American, and Israeli media in mistranslating ISIL as ISIS, millions of innocent children and adults by the very act of typing the name of the (Mother Goddess) ISIS into a browser, are, or will be, watched or put onto terror watch lists. The global surveillance in the name of the war on terror, is especially active now as ISIL uses social media and the media as a way to recruit and horrify. I am not sure Dear Readers if you understand the level of my concern and the profound significance my heart perceives in a 'mistranslation' by the media and the effect this can have on the lives of ordinary people.In the never ending planetary war on terror, in this age of global surveillance via the collection, storage for future use, and the sharing of private data and online behavior, the typing of the word ISIS will, (as this posting most certainly will for using the words - terror, terrorism, ISIS and ISIL) get one noticed by the watchers.
An example, let's say your child has a project for school and they are studying ancient Egypt - if your child types in a name greatly associated with ancient Egypt, the Mother Goddess - ISIS, your child's name and your household will most likely, especially if they live in Great Britain and America, be put onto a data collection list - possibly a terror watch list as the group associated with this name ISIS (ISIL) are considered by both governments to be terrorists. ISIL uses social media to recruit and glamorize violence so those who collect key word data will be analyzing anything having to do with their name - even the wrong name ISIS! Since the collection of data and how it is analyzed is top secret, (we only have Edward Snowden's disclosures which have shown us the sheer comprehensiveness of the gathering of the most minutiae of all of our electronic data) having our name isolated and associated by those on the endless hunt for terrorists will most likely happen for many a person searching about the ancient Egyptian mythology of Osiris - Isis, or the Mother Goddess Isis.
I hope Dear Readers I have shown the distinction between using the names ISIL and ISIS and how it is important to all of humanity that the American, Israeli, and European media outlets and writers of news become more responsible for their actions in the translation and naming of groups which are considered terrorists in an age of unregulated global surveillance, secret courts, secret rendition sites, and data collection in the name of democracy and freedom.Lastly, there are a few troubling coincidences concerning the name of the Mother Goddess ISIS and aspects associated with calling ISIL, ISIS.First, what I consider to be a most interesting coincidence, leads me to believe that the renaming or branding of the jihadis of death after the Mother of Life may not have happened as randomly as I once thought. This coincidence has to do with the vehicles the jihadis drive.
I felt troubled when first seeing photos of ISIL and their caravans of matching white Toyota Tacoma's coming out of the desert. So I did a search on the name Tacoma to see if there was anything randomly happening to what I was perceiving regarding the desecration of the sacred name of the Mother Goddess Isis.
What little I could find on the name Tacoma was that it is actually a sacred name of the First Nations Peoples from the Washington state area of America. There is an online blog which translates the name Tacoma as "Mother of Waters".
Secondly, at a time of the reemerging sacred consciousness of the Divine Feminine I am aware of the increasing number of attacks on women planet wide - from the Daughters of India suffering from rape and acid attacks, to the women who must go through physical and psychological violations and measures set upon them by predominately male religious politicians concerning their bodies, to the myriad of other measures used to keep women locked into a patriarchal version of a perceptual reality based on limitation, repression, and oppression of their sacred feminine divine selves. In this time of awakening it is important for women and young women as well as men to have the freedom to learn about their sacred history and mythology without worrying that by doing so, especially learning of the Mother Goddess ISIS, that they will be put on a terrorist watch list for typing in the name ISIS.This is the time of sacred awakening and reemergence Dear Readers, not the time to shut down in fear. Be real. Be true. Be who you are. You are an eternal being of sacred consciousness having an embodied planetary experience. No matter what the ruling paradigm seeks to convince you of through the use of the energies of fear, manipulation, oppression, and surveillance - you are soul embodied in a sacred vehicle of consciousness having an experience on this planet we call Earth. with love, Johanna "…The right to be left alone—to think, to experiment, to contemplate—has been essential to the development of individual personality. The private space, protected from the intimidating observation of others, is the sacred ground where self-discovery occurs, and to the degree that external forces intrude, whether of the state, church, or marketplace, the sense of self will wither."ROBERT SCHEERhttp://www.salon.com/writer/robert_scheer/
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