"The Grail Cypher: The Secrets of Arthurian History Revealed" By Ralph Ellis (2015).
An excerpt from, "Arthur, His Round Table And The Zodiac" By Ralph Ellis, Passion For Fresh Ideas, August 22, 2014:
But here is the real conundrum. If the legends of King Arthur were based upon the traditions of King Jesus, then how do we get from the name Jesus to the name Arthur? A name change would have been obligatory, of course, because it would not have been wise during the Middle Ages to have mentioned a story about a King Jesus having been in England in AD 70, as that would have attracted the hot pokers of the Inquisition. But nevertheless most pseudonyms have a rationale, so how do we get from ‘Jesus’ to ‘Arthur’? Actually, the answer to this is quite straightforward…
We are perhaps all very familiar with the classical form of the zodiac, but within astronomy there is an alternative method of looking at the layout of the heavens. The Hamat Teverya design is based upon a standard cosmic view of the Solar System, with the observer looking from far above in the heavens, and seeing the Sun far below surrounded by the twelve astrological constellations. But, if the observer stands instead on the Earth and looks upwards, what they will actually see is the dome of the night sky with the twelve astrological constellations around the perimeter and the northern stars and constellations in the center. Take a look at the standard planisphere layout in fig 5.6, that this Earth-bound view creates.
In this alternative layout, the center of the zodiac – the center of the Round Table – is not occupied by Helios the Sun (ie: Jesus or Arthur), but instead by the Great Bear (Ursa Major). However, it so happens that the most common explanation is that King Arthur was named after the Celtic word art meaning ‘bear’, or even art-fawr meaning ‘great bear’, from which we are supposed to derive ‘Arthur’.
However, the true linguistic root for the name of the Great Bear was not Welsh, but Latin and Greek. The name ‘Arthur’ was actually derived from the Latin arctus, which refers to the north (from which we derive the English word ‘Arctic’). But in its turn this Latin word was derived from the Greek arktos arktos, meaning ‘bear’. It would appear that the bear was named first, by the Greeks, while the Latin word for ‘north’ was derived from the position of that same cosmic bear in the northern skies. No doubt the Celts took their name for a bear from this same linguistic lineage.
Thus the bear that stood in the center of the zodiac (in the center of the astrological Round Table, as depicted in fig 5.6), was actually called Arktos or Arctus, in the Greek and Latin respectively. It is from this word, together with a little influence from the Celtic pronunciation, that the troubadours and chroniclers of the Middle Ages have derived the name for their King Arctur or King Arthur.
Video Title: King Arthur & Jesus Christ. Source: Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. Date Published: September 8, 2023.
