Sacrificial priest

And I said that I had and he said to me, "This man of copper whom you have seen is the sacrificial priest and the sacrifice and he who vomited out his own flesh. To him was given authority over the water and over those men in mortification."... 

The sacrificial priests of Mesopotamia had acquired a precise knowledge of the size, colour and external structure of the animal liver, especially that of the sheep -... 

Fig. 1.10 Etruscan hand mirror in bronze, 500 - 400 BC Kalchas (son of Thestor of Mykene), the most famous of the sacrificial priests, inspects the animal liver with large caudate process on the table are the trachea and lungs of the sacrificial animal (6)...

In the days of Babylonia the priest-physician would examine minutely the liver of sacrificial animals for signs of import from the gods. The liver was chosen because it contains the most blood as life and blood were deemed synonymous, the liver was considered the seat of the soul. Throughout much of recorded history there was a belief that the liver was at the centre of things mainly because of the wealth of functions that are apportioned to it. 

In an ancient method of sacrificial killing, the priests placed the sacrificial king in a Birchwood box and suspended it between two tall poles (Asherah poles).Allowed three loaves, one for each aspect of the deity or the Triple Goddess, he remained suspended at God s mercy, between heaven and earth, until he decayed and his remains blew away. 

The position of the letter M as an end word is also likely because tracing the inscription yields a St Andrew s cross. As we have seen, this was a very important symbol in Lord Anson s day. A St Andrew s cross is the symbol used in old initiation and sacrificial rites to represent resurrection. It is a symbol of Archangel Michael and the lineage of Melchizedek Priests. Within the Roman Catholic Church, it is the Signaculum Dei or Seal of God. 

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