Life Source God - Alu

Druid Akkadian is the writing of the ancient European Druid civilization which is just as complex as any other ancient civilization. It was just effectively suppressed by the classical empires and then by the Christian church. All ancient cultures have their own pantheon and Druidry is no exception.

(January 2, 2025) Druid culture was perceptheistic in that divine powers were more felt than seen. Personification of the deities only started in a big way when empires began and their distant male rulers were perceived to be similar to the nature gods by the locals. Since rulers were male the divine feminine started to be downgraded at this time. These deities tended to be organized into royal courts.
Consequently, Druid images of deities are usually quite rare except in a few instances involving the goddesses where the Druid cultures have been in contact with the empire cultures of Egypt, Rome, and Hellenistic Greece. This rarity of imagery has has eased the Druid culture's suppression.

Alu

(December 29, 2024) Alu is the masculine life-power source god of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm. He was the first cause and hence he is “that power which lacks” (A.Lu) any other power affecting him.  Alu’s  complementary feminine source power was Kate/Hekate who as the "Revealer" revealed selected souls then residing in the  underworld awaiting their reincarnation. Alu was associated with the daytime divine realm above the earth plane while Kate was associated with the dark night-time and cave-like underworld below the earth plane.  Alu’s  created life-powers were called “fertility-fluids (Akkadian mu)” which flowed to earth as directed by the life network where they either triggered the manifestations of life forms or were manifested directly as "emanations (zu)" becoming sun light/heat and rain

Significantly, the word "Israel" is an ancient Akkadian phrase meaning the "Righteous of Alu" from IŠR.AL. A point of contention throughout Druid history and throughout all Druid lands was the proper relationship between the 2 divine power classes, the life-powers and the magical motion/emotion powers. The runic texts show Israel was a group of people in the Levant devoted to the life-power class exclusively. 

In contrast to the Israelites, the Minoans and Phoenicians just to their north (home to Jezebel) were devoted to the magical motion/emotion power class while all other Druid subcultures were somewhere in-between.

Alu is the source of the word "God" as used today in various western cultures. It is the source of the Islamic "Allah" which is Alu with the addition of the letter he (e/h) on the end which indicates its power form is meant and not its personified form. "Allah" means the "power of Alu."

Like wise it is the source of the Hebrew " 'elohim" as found in the Hebrew scriptures. Notice the letter ayin on the front which is interchangeable with the letter "A" after about 600 BCE. So it is "Alohim" which is the plural form of "Allah" resulting in it meaning "powers of Alu." "Alohim" is translated as "God" in the English Old Testament.

Press of a Sumerian cylinder seal dated to around 2200 BCE. Each of the 6 text columns is a label for each of the 6 images.It is now located at the Louvre (AO 22303, Département des Antiquités orientales). It was donated to the museum in 1967 by a collector so it was not found in an archeaological excavation. Online at: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010147030

Sumerian Description of Life Powers

(September 16, 2023, Updated December 29, 2024)) The Druid culture of the European Neolithic farmers split off from Mesopotamian culture around 8500 BCE. Consequently, the two cultures had much in common including a similar world view based upon the Ancient Pagan Paradigm. This world view is illustrated on this labeled Sumerian cylinder seal dated to around 2200 BCE. The divine realm creates the life powers (called fertility-fluids) which flows down to earth to trigger the manifestation of life forms. 

This illustration show a pot pouring out 3 streams of fertility fluids. One of these streams is being transferred the chaotic rainstorm god represented as a bull for passing on to the earth as rain. The other two streams likely represent ground water and sea water. The text first describes the 3 parts of of the scene from outer to inner before moving on to commenting about the whole scene. Read from right to left, top to bottom (Text number SX1):

  1. The divine-realm's (AN) ejections are the milk which fills-up the fertility-fluids for the land.
  2. Fertility-fluids
  3. The cloud's streams are passing-through to the earth
  4. Storage is being filled by the fertility-fluids
  5. Pests are ejected
  6. Serve wisdom

Lexicon used for this translation: Early-Sign Sumerian Lexicon . Translation justification is here. 

Bought in Jerusalem in 1970. Present location not reported. Seal is made of red jasper, 10 x 9 x 8 mm.

Israelite Temple Sealing: Lacking These Things Due is to Alu Who Originates Nourishments (Drought 732 or 605 BCE)

(April 1, 2023, updated December 28, 2024) The center lime represents the sky-shell with its openings for fertility-fluids.

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 60.56)

(Read right to left. Capital letters on seal. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verb is italic bold. (Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
  1. Lu  AḪu  Ya  Su (Levant Text 60.56.1) 
  2. Bu  UṢu  ALu (Levant Text 60.56.2) 

In English. 

  1. Lack is not being attended-to by Su (dark new moon god)
  2. Nourishments will originate with Alu

Previous Hebrew Translation Attempt

Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows: 

  1. Belonging to Ahiyau
  2. son of Sha'ul

Comment: Names are not a translation because they can cluster any arbitrary set of letters.

References

Avigad, Nahman; Sass, Benjamin (1997) Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals. Published by THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, THE ISRAEL EXPLORATION SOCIETY, THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, and THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/4786835/1997_Avigad_N_revised_and_completed_by_Sass_B_Corpus_of_West_Semitic_stamp_seals_Jerusalem 

Alu in Druid Akkadian Etruscan Gold Foil Texts from Pyrgi (550 BCE)

(December 29, 2024) These mentions are only found on the foils having Etruscan style runes and not the foil having the Phoenician style runes:

Long Text

  • Life-manifestations are made ineffective by eagle-vultures (who cut the channels).  Freedom does not make ineffective those revelations (of fate) associated with the emanations of Alu.   (Med Text 7.5)
  • Astrology-magic motivates Alu. Associations can make ineffective the revelations (of fate).  Emotion-owls are not being nourished. They are not being opened.   (Med Text 7.9)
  • Alu can make ineffective the high-powers.  The priest-parents (life priest) openings can make ineffective Alu.  Activity makes ineffective the associations. (Med Text 7.11)
  • Alu emanates the high-life-powers. Make ineffective the omens about Alu.  Those are revealed by the priest-parents.  They can activate the openings.   (Med Text 7.13)

Short Text

  • Restraints can make ineffective the openings (through the sky-shell).  That can make ineffective astrology-magic associated with Alu.    (Med Text 8.3)
  • Priest-parents of Alu don't life-curse their Alu.      (Med Text 8.6)
The Codex Runicus, shown above, was written in 1190 CE during the reign of Danish King Valdemar 1 according to the old Danish writing on its front page. This important book is the last testament of the Druids and the most complete statement of their philosophy which exists.
The Codex Runicus is now a part of the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The collection in its entirety consists of approximately 3000 manuscript items, of which 1400 are in Copenhagen.
The collection is named after its founder, the Icelandic philologist and historian Árni Magnússon (Latinised as Arnas Magnæus, in Danish Arne Magnusson). Shortly before his death in 1730 he bequeathed his collection of manuscripts and printed books as well as his fortune to the University of Copenhagen, where he was professor of Danish antiquities.

References


Photos from: University of Copenhagen's Interactive Online Scan with Zoom: https://www.e-pages.dk/ku/579/
Dictionary used is always the latest version which is found on this site here.  
Letter Chart Used: Rune (North European) Letters

Alu In the Codex Runicus From the Balkans 1190 CE

(December 29, 2024) The Codex Runicus describes the middle-ground Druid theology in which life powers can be properly associated with the magical motion/emotion powers. The life powers make the connection changes in the life network and the motion powers push the fertility-fluids through those connected threads/channels. This way dominate in Aegean Islands and mainland Europe. Contrast this way with the life power devotion of the Israelites and the magical motion/emotion power devotion of the Minoans and Phoenicians.

A debate between those devoted to the life powers and those devoted to the magical emotion/motion powers often breaks out during a drought when each side seeks to blame the other's powers for the drought. This has been good for history because these arguments have given us most of our archaeological stone texts because each side wants to write down their viewpoint on stone.

Alu in the Triple Text From Sardinia 499 BCE

(December 29, 2024) This former column base of a Pagan temple has three inscriptions, each with their unique letter style. The Pagan temple was destroyed and its parts used in the building of a Christian church. The date on this early photo is wrong being derived from the Greek letter style as used on the Rosetta stone. The letter styles date it to about 499 BCE and they all talk about the 499 BCE drought. The top text (1) is in the Etruscan/Aegean island letter style of that date. The middle text is in the Greek letter style, the same style used in the Rosetta Stone dating to 200 BCE but also used before then. The bottom text (3) is in the letter style in the Phoenician letter Punic lineage being halfway in style between its beginning around 1200 BCE and end around 150 BCE. 

Etruscan/Aegean Style Text (1)

Greek Style Text (2)

Phoenician Style Text (3)

(No mention of Alu, just a discussion involving the motion/emotion powers)