Jesus Christ Under Scrutiny The biblical version of Jesus Christ has come under scrutiny thanks to books like the Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood Holy Grail. More recently, Shannon Dorey's research on the ancient African Dogon religion further exposes the biblical version of the saviour. According to Dorey, the Dogon religion is ancient and the original saviour, who is a hermaphroditic being, comes from a much older time than the biblical Christ. She believes that this older saviour is associated with the myths involving the Merovingians. The Merovingian bloodline appeared in the Holy Blood Holy Grail and in the Da Vinci Code fiction, where the Frankish royal family was supposed to be descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. According to Dorey's research, the Merovingian bloodline is much older than the biblical Jesus and Mary Magdalene. It predates these biblical myths by thousands of years. Through her research, Dorey has found links between the fish and serpent like alien Nummo talked about by the Dogon, and the Merovingians. According to legend, the Merovingians traced their ancestry back to Merovée, a semi mythical person who was born of two fathers. One was a king named Clodio and the other a sea monster that seduced his mother when she was swimming in the sea. The Merovingians were supposed to have been descended from aliens, who were the offspring of "nephilim" or fallen angels. Because of their ancestry, Merovée and his descendants were reputed to have supernatural powers and unnaturally long lives. According to the Dogon, the Nummo were aliens beings who came from the Sirius or Pleaides star systems. They were immortal and androgynous and were identified as being female because their androgynous appearance tended to appear more feminine than masculine. They were identified with the goddess in world mythology and were symbolized by the sun. Because they were also self fertilizing, they were identified as being virgin goddesses. Dorey shows pictures of ancient Ubaid artefacts that depict the Nummo as they were described by the Dogon elder Ogotemmêli. These statues date from 4500 BCE and were uncovered in southern Iraq from the ancient village of Ur. Some of the human/Nummo hybrids talked about in the Dogon religion were also androgynous but perceived as being primarily male. This would associate these figures with the two male fathers talked about in Merovingian myth. Because of the structure of the Dogon religion, Dorey believes it comes from an oral culture at a time when memories were much more powerful than they are today. Dorey believes the symbols represent specific information and because we aren't able to remember the meaning of them from story to story, it has until now prevented the mythology from being deciphered. It is a complex mythology and Dorey believes it to be the oldest complete mythology in the world today. Dorey's books, The Master of Speech, The Nummo and Day of the Fish reveal how this was the key mythology of the world that was known to all people at one time. © 2000-2012 Elemental Expressions Ltd. All Rights Reserved.