Peoples of the Flavian Book

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Richard Stanley
Postflaviana covers a wide fabric of material whose purpose is to provide a broader and hopefully clearer
understanding of Western civilization, at least, from its roots in pre-history till the current day. Our ultimate
goal is to gain a better understanding of the topical events happening around us, as well as some better
insight into the direction for the global future and where we might fit into it, or not. A key part of our new
paradigm is a re-evaluation of the three Abrahamic faiths: Christianity, Judaism and Islam; that is, the
Peoples of the Book; from both introspective and historical perspectives.
But first some:

Context on Creators of Good and Evil

As rationalists, we posit that from the earliest times religion was, and is, one key means of securing
conformity and control over a respective society by its various lords. On one level this can be seen as
a desirable goal in, if nothing else, putting all members of a respective society into the same frame of
reference. However, the result is determined by the perspectives and goals of the founders and sponsors
of a religion, as opposed to its captive audience. Furthermore, the relative Darwinian success or failure of
any religion must be in the degree to which that religion helps the lords (and, only incidentally, their
people) survive and prosper in competition with others, rather than how well its theological schema
comports with ultimate reality, whatever that reality is.
At a minimum, in Western civilization, good moral behavior is taught, and here one frequently hears
employed the inane maxim that morality stems from solely from the Abramic god. Sometimes just this
aspect alone is enough for insecure and lazy modern parents to subject their lambs to such a fount of
morality:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all
these things. Isaiah 45:7 KJV

Of course, the subtle apologists (the seekers of smooth ways?) find many ways to rationalize the meaning
of this verse, and other Bible translations take the even easier route and water it, and many other verses,
down into a different and more benign context. Ironically, the verse makes sense from a metaphorical or
logical perspective as if there is one Creator of everything, this truly means Everything, the good, the
bad, and the ugly. We know that people interpreted it in this manner because such as the Gnostic sects,
consistent with the scriptural text and subtext, interpreted this god, Yahweh, to being a vain, ignorant,
jealous, and fearsome tyrant. But yet another way to interpret such verses is through a perhaps more
cynical lens, say allegorically, as that of a good shepherd, and his sheepdog, tending his flock so that
the sheep can be fleeced and/or taken fat to market, to be sold as food or slavishly to another owner.
Consistently then, this book of fine morals for our children also elides the proper rules for slavery,
prostitution, divorce, and even the ritual means for enticing Yahwehs literal presence at your Saturday
barbeque. You provide the meat and hell do the cooking. Now you know just some of the reasons why the
mother Church claims it did not want the sheep to read this book. And perhaps this is the reason that

atheists are underrepresented in prison, the divorce rolls, viewers of pornography, etc., etc.?
It has long been obvious to many observers, that the Abramic god of the Old Testament is considerably
less benign than would now be considered lovingly divine. When the Bible finally became accessible to
the lay public centuries ago, it quickly became apparent that Yahweh (the Father of Jesus) was quite the
strict disciplinarian, to say the least, hence the fire and brimstone preaching of early Protestantism. Now,
in addition to the watered down bible verses, we are told by some apologists, that he (like the once
infallible pope) has learned his lessons and mellowed. Similarly, this anthropomorphic Creator of this
particular universe, at least, has chosen to become rather parsimonious with his once numerous and
wondrous miraculous interventions. Perhaps, instead the average human, religious or not, has made
some leaps in the use of his or her critical thinking faculties in the last few thousand years? The time has
come when another such leap is long overdue.
At any rate, the ancient Hebrew Lord Yahweh was quite jealous of his brother gods and goddesses,
the elohim, the earthly divine offspring of the Canaanite heavenly father, El. It appears that this sibling
rural god may have had a fierce inferiority complex with respect to his urban brother Baal. To be fair (given
that it appears possible, if not likely, that the Canaanites commonly practiced ritual sacrifice of the
firstborn): Yahweh, in usurping his father El, appears to have accomplished a significant positive cultural
result by letting the otherwise willing Abram (and by implication the audience) sacrifice an animal instead
of Isaac. Of course, if we are to believe all this happened, then we can infer that Yahweh, or whomever
was actually in charge, previously approved and also allowed this practice to occur for generations.
Evidence of his maturation, or is some other process occurring?
Whatever the actual facts are regarding this aspect, we should appreciate that this claimed
Monotheistic god of the One Universe started out life as one of many tribal sibling earthly gods, whose
other siblings were honored as well. It was only upon this so-called maturing process that his followers
were told they must honor only Yahweh (or Allah, as the case may be). The downside has been a Western
(including Middle Eastern) tradition of violent intolerance in obeisance to the demands of the subliminal,
venal, and jealous god.
Importantly here, our individual world and cosmoviews are almost entirely conditioned by what has been
presented to us from cradle to grave by people and institutions that we generally trust, usually by default.
We process what is important or irrelevant to us based upon this data and then act accordingly. However,
in a cosmopolitan world, the various monotheisms exist in fundamentalist conflict, driving not only the
global Clash of Civilizations, but individual psychological instability as well. We can see the impact of this
when, for instance, an individual is confronted by newly conflicting information or experiences that causes
him or her to convert to a different religion or sect, and maybe even in doing so become so zealous as to
sacrifice their own life and others. For instance, the respective cosmoviews of Sunni and Shia Muslims are
so conflicting that they can barely tolerate each others existence, to the point that the term Islam (peace)
might only be taken in reference to their fellow sect members.
Of course, Christians have always had such conflicts; not just the more recent centuries of bloodshed
between Protestants and Roman Catholics, but from the very beginning: we are told that the apostles, who
supposedly knew Jesus, had strong disagreements with Paul over just who the proper audience should be
for their exclusivist sect of Judaism, or in Pauls case, universalism. Sardonically, we are told that the most
important stumbling block was over the issue of surrendering or keeping ones male foreskin. Is it a
coincidence that the backdrop for this otherwise curious argument mirrors the dynamics of the radically
xenophobic nationalism of Judaic Palestine, versus the then geographically constrained globalism of
Imperial Rome? Imagine if some or all of these bloody controversies were contrived, prefiguring
Machiavelli.
If there is some unseen Creator entity, the true Lord, lurking in the extra-dimensionality of the quantum

foam: speaking for ourselves at least, we simply do not know how to prove such exists or does not.
However, based upon our investigations and analysis, we are prepared to demonstrate that Yahweh (or
Allah) and His Son Jesus, as depicted in the canons, are man made frauds. As part of our wider project,
we will examine the canonic and other texts with a credulous eye; and attempt reverse divination (similar
to reverse engineering) into the motives of the authors.

Abrahams Seed Becomes Insinuating Roots and Grafted Branch

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of
Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. Ezekiel 16:3 KJV

The late archaeologist Cyrus H. Gordons The Bible and the Ancient Near East demonstrated how
Abrahams descendants (the Hebrews, if we are to believe the canonic accounts) must necessarily have
been half-Hittite (i.e. Aryan). Of course, the biblical claim that Abraham came to Canaan is no surprise to
most, but he chose to park his familys bones in a Hittite trading colony, Hebron, where the Hittites there
recognized him for being a very important man. Gordon found multiple external support for this:
1. This description of Abraham is typical of contemporaneous wealthy caravan merchants with a
necessary armed retinue, here being Abrahams tsabian host. This armed host also served the
function of shepherding their retainers flock of sheep and goats which were the main source of
renewable and trade-able wealth besides the typical stash of gold and silver carried by such
merchants.
2. Todays Urfa was and is misinterpreted as the large city of Ur (also misnomered slightly as Ur of the
Chaldeans) further to the south, when in reality this northern Ur was a typically named trading
colony outpost of the larger city, as was Hebron for the Hittites.
3. The general region where Abraham is said to have come from, todays Urfa (Edessa) / Harran, that
there is record of the Amorite people using Yah based personal names.
4. Yahweh is known to have been the typical patron god of the desert tribes to the south of Jerusalem.
In my estimation this likely means that the fearsome and bloodthirsty god had been transported
virally back to the Ur / Harran region. No doubt he is a great inspiration for ISIS.
5. Cylinder seals from this area demonstrate that camels are not an anachronism as commonly
claimed.
6. The early descendants, at least, of Abraham practiced the levirate marriage practice, common to
the Hittites. In this practice when the husband dies the wife automatically becomes the wife of a
brother-in-law or the father-in-law.
7. Other archaeologists, such as Silberman and Finkelstein in their Bible Unearthed, have noted that
there is no evidence to support the Book of Exodus claims of either the exodus from Egypt or the
related genocidal conquest of Canaan by Joshua.
8. Also from Bible Unearthed, curiously, it seems that the Canaanite peoples who prior occupied the
area (of Judea and Israel) in three widely separate climatic cycles of hill country boom and bust had
only one thing unique about them from other neighboring Canaanites and similar hill people of the
wider region, namely that they clearly didnt eat pork. Yet we are told by the religious canon that this
innovation didnt occur until Moses ~600 laws of pagan cultural practice inversion were enacted.
By combining the propagandized biblical subtext of supposedly backsliding Hebrews with Gordon,
Silberman, Finkelstein and others we see that some elite minority element begins a long, brutal conversion

process, first in the figurative backwater of Judea and then in prosperous Israel. The effect, if not the
purpose, was to create an insular society at fundamental odds with its neighbors on almost every level.
While it is also known that communities of Yahweh adherents lived peaceably amongst the El and Baal
adherents neighboring communities for a long time it should be telling to note that the Bible tells us that it
was only the priestly tribe of Levi that was not apportioned tribal land after the claimed conquest.
So, in light of all this, could there be a different explanation than either the canonic one or that of the
complete deniers of biblical historicity allow for? Yes, and it is that we can clearly see the contours of a
takeover via cultural insinuation and identity sublimation and thus the hijacking of a region and its
Semitic Canaanite populace by a relatively small number of non-Semitic outsiders (Abrahams
descendants) who claim to be Semitic. We assert that this modus operandi was repeated elsewhere, by
related peoples, in Sparta, Rome, Normandy and England, at least. We see it replayed most recently in
modern Israel and Palestine Canaan.
Yes Pilgrims, the Abramic Religion Trifecta is a huge scam with layers upon layers of murderous deception,
that plays to peoples delusional identity conceits and fears, amplified by programmatic ignorance flowing
from the divinely ordained shunning of the metaphorical Tree of Knowledge. For knowledge is power, and
if you refuse it, that power will be wielded by others with the drive and ambition to do so. All the better if
you slavishly consent and tell yourself that it is in your best interest to be ignorant. Go ahead, kick the tires,
but dont look behind the sacred veil.

Western Civilization is Flaviana

The Flavian dynasty was a branch of Romes elite Sabine tribe. Along with what we suspect was their
extended family the Sabas, Sabians, (the biblical) tsabians, Sakas, Scythians, Ashina, Ashkenazi, and
the later Savoy, al Sabahs, and Sauds the Sabines have a much older history than that of ancient
Rome, while also extending unbroken into the present, which well be discussing to a major extent in future
content.
Strictly speaking, the root term for this website might better be Sabiana or something similar. But since the
Flavian branch of the Sabines played such a pivotal role in the foisting of what is generally termed
Christianity upon the world, our specific emphasis upon the Flavian imperial dynasty seems appropriate.
Besides, it has a better ring to it than Postsabiana, right? The root syllable sab has three distinct meanings
in ancient texts: in the Indo-European tongues it represents wisdom, in the Semitic tongues it stands for
the mystic number seven, and in Sumerian it means shepherd. This odd mash-up of sacred meanings may
be the reason why this became such a widespread signifier of royal power.
At its core we assert that Western Civilization is a product of Flavian construction. To provide some
background for those not familiar with the Flavians: they were a dynasty of late first century Roman
emperors, who were most famous for the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, and for providing sponsorship
for the Jewish priest-turned-historian Josephus Flavius.
Through the recent comparative literary analyses of Joseph Atwills Caesars Messiah, it can now be
definitively stated that the life of the Apostle Paul (the imagined founder of Christianity for the gentiles) was
a literary reflection of Josephus Flavius exploits as a Roman operative. Indeed, the entire New Testament
corpus is closely intertwined with Josephus War of the Jews, indicating a systematic effort, such that
neither work can be fully and properly understood without referring to the respective context of the other.
Atwill was not the first to have made such observations. However, such arguments have often been
summarily dismissed with by simply claiming that the equivalence can not be true because the events of
the NT and the Jewish War occurred decades apart. Atwills analysis shows that the widespread claims of
the NTs chronology ultimately are self-referential, despite the centuries of claims by respected scholars,

both secular and within the church. The events in the NT can be placed anywhere in time since it was only
Josephus Flavius himself that provides historical commentary regarding the period and region in question.
How convenient.
You have probably never heard of the Flavians, which only goes to show how successfully and
systematically they have deflected attention away from themselves and onto the religion they invented
(Christianity), as well as its institutionalized poor cousin, Judaism. This unique religion, of course, existed
as a creation of political statecraft much earlier but Vespasian, Titus and Domitian took control of its
institutions and re-invented it in a new role: the Chosen People cast upon their identity pedestal as
eternally privileged scapegoats, the killers of Christ.
For this key aspect, for those so inclined, we highly recommend first, James Carrolls Constantines
Sword, specifically for its exposition of the Roman Churchs consistent theologically driven dialectic
treatment of the Jews as living examples of evil (the killers of Christ) amongst us, and (as such) too
valuable to extirpate as with the case of lesser heretics and heathens. Secondly, the late Israel
Shahaks Jewish History, Jewish Religion, focusing especially on Chapter 4 regarding the Roman de
jure creation of a Jewish buffer class, to insulate the emergent Euro nobility from the masses. Third is
Shlomo Sand, whose Invention of the Jewish People provides an historiography of the multi-generational
program to justify the creation of modern Israel, modeled upon the previously concocted foundational
narratives that form the basis of European nation-state identity, and enters into a valuable discussion of
tribal identity and genetic legerdemain. One irony here being that the Book of Genesis specifically lists the
Ashkenazi (most of todays Jews) as not being Semitic; and that the modern Palestinians must be the
descendants of Herodian era Jews as the claimed (Flavian caused) Diaspora was vastly oversold.
We are well aware that many of our readers will be quite positive and adamant that the Flavians and
more broadly, the Caesarians and Sabines cannot possibly play any role in current society and events.
Such grand meta-narrative is impossible (or is that rather to be avoided?) beyond more than a few
human generations, or so says all convention and institutionalized Postmodernist
cant. Everyone knows that the Roman Empire collapsed long, long ago. . Or did it? Perhaps the
common and superficial understanding of the parameters and context of this collapse are obscuring what
is actually important to comprehend?
Curiously, the so-called barbarians that invaded the Roman Empire were not pagans as typically inferred,
but rather Christians. Its just that they were not Trinitarians who insist upon the triune divinity of Jesus,
rather they were unitarian Arians who held to a more mundane tradition that Jesus was a purely human,
albeit noble, shepherd of sorts. By shepherds hook or crook, the Arian case lost again, and Europe and
the West became unified under the divine Trinitarian schema. Apparently in order for the Western social
scheme to unfold to its current vector, Jesus needed to be fully acknowledged as a divine entity, rather
than as a mundane and typical human rebel seeking temporal power in zealously delivering his subjects
from the oppressive dominion of Rome. The Hellenic graft, ala Romans 11, upon the Judaic Root of Jesse
took centuries to fully take upon the collective western mind.
Besides being a convenient fiction, Nicene Christianity, at least, is a diabolically ingenious amalgamation
and political reworking of the prior ubiquitous Mystery Cults. These cults functionally equivalent rituals
served to reset the prior mental framing of the initiates via a process of purification, via confession of sins,
followed by a phantasmagorical ceremony of shock and awe, and a brief audience with the salvic divinity.
But, because Christianity became the operant paradigm from cradle to grave the shock and awe
conversion was no longer needed and as such was replaced with the mild sacrament of baptism, and the
carrot of Heaven and the stick of eternal Damnation. Fear is the most powerful motivator of the brain, and
it serves to cause the subconscious hard wiring to knee-jerk override a calmer and conscious state of mind
where rational processes take place.

In any case, we encourage you to open your mind and consider that your contextual framework of
understanding has been too programmatically constrained. Or perhaps you have other motivation for being
adamantly opposed? For some, the current paradigm has been profitable to a greater or lesser extent, but
even for those that have not materially fared so well their existential social identity, if not their delusional
sense of eternal fate is slavishly tied to a concept of a cartoonish concept of cheaply gained Salvation. We
assert that an essentially fear driven adherence to a faux salvation is a devious form of self-regulating
slavery built upon layers and layers of bad contextual framing, aka conventional history and especially its
interpretation.
Our overarching thesis is that what was put in place by the Flavians et al. as the central and crystallizing
social motif that binds us loosely together within the western global oecumene is what is much more
important than the temporal status of waxing and waning empires and states. What cannot be denied is
that globalization is occurring at a rapid pace. Is this good or bad? Perhaps this is not the best framing of
the question, and perhaps it should better be, under what terms should such harmonization occur? Will
the new global boss be the same as the old boss, i.e. the scions of the Flavians, the Caesarians, and their
Sabine clansmen?

Postflaviana More Broadly Defined

And this leads us to the reason we have chosen the name Postflaviana for this website. We consider
ourselves to be Postflavians, as a rejection of the means and methods of these scions, or
the Scionists [sic], and that a globalization, or new world order, can only be positive for humanity if such a
deceitful and selfish oligarchy is not allowed to continue to sit upon the inherited extreme apex of power,
maintain and increase its absurd imbalance of wealth at everyone elses and the environments expense.
As such, we awaken slowly as from a dream within a dream, to the realization: Toto, we are not in Kansas
anymore. The past is prologue and as such this site is collectively intended as a grand meta-narrative,
which will emerge via the blog posts and other content, with the goal for an emerging book.
We hope youll join us and contribute to our outwardly spiral process of traveling down the yellow brick
road. But, like Dorothy, will we find a wizardly shepherd behind the veil? One(s) that are merely misguided
albeit kind and gentle. Dream on.
Richard Stanley
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