I’m in the course of reading the book “The Christ Conspiracy” by Acharya S (a mystical designation for the person named D.M. Murdock – ‘acharya’ is defined as ‘divine personality’ in Hindu, ‘monk’ in Jainism and ‘teacher’ in Buddhism). I was originally made aware of her work during my research of the internet movie “Zeitgeist” and found that her work was cited for many of the claims that I debunked on my page concerning Zeitgeist Astronomy.
On the rear of this book, the author is called “archaeologist, historian, mythologist and linguist”. Her book however better reflects her as a librarian or researcher, as ponderous amount of the text consists of citations of other authors’ works. It is not with these cited authors that I can take issue, as I currently have no access to the original texts.
What I’ve noticed however is that in the passages where she “goes it on her own”, the inaccuracies fly from the page. I’ve come across many of these so far in my reading, having reached page 246 of this 400+ page book.
Last night I read page 238 of the book, where our author is trying to propose that the names of so-called “patriarchs” of the Hebrew Bible are merely borrowed from gods of the people with whom the ancient Hebrews had some association. The portion related to Noach and the Ark was being discussed by our author in relation to ancient Egypt. The passage that particularly resulted in this post was as follows (page 238 of “The Christ Conspiracy” by Acharya S):
“In Hebrew, the word for ‘ark’ is THB, as in Thebes, such that the Ark of Noah is equivalent to the Thebes of Menes, the legendary first king of the Egyptians, from whose ‘history’ the biblical account also borrowed.”
There are two problems here with Acharya S’s reasoning which go to the heart of my questioning her true credentials and motives:
