The title above may be a startling one for some people who are not used to hear such bold descriptions of supposedly "Christian" monuments. The fact is that it is true! In this article I want to reveal a new insight regarding the identity of the ancient Pagan temple, so-called PANTHEON, in Rome. The ancient European native population was the so-called "Pagan" Turanians before the spread of Christianity. They were the followers of their ancient Turanian Oguz religion. This magnificent building called PANTHEON in Rome is an embellished copy of the Turkic YURTS of Central Asia. For the "Pagan" Turanians of ancient Europe, this is a natural outcome since for them, the YURT is a father-and-mother home, a country, and a sacred place. Without question, it was the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples that were the followers of the world’s first trinity Sky-God concept comprising of one universal creator Father-God (ATA TANRI), the Sun-God and the Moon-God. The Turanian Sky-God concept, together with the Turkish language, was in world-wide usage before other religions were formulated and spread. The Judeo-Christian religions, while taking all of their tenets from the Turanian OGUZ religion, also vilified not only this ancient so-called "Pagan" religion, but also its followers to the degree of annihilating them. In this essay, I have collected together many widely-spread and confused parts of an ancient puzzle to compose a picture that shows how the most advanced civilization of the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples was stolen and obliterated.

Graham Speake writes the following about the "Roman" temples: [1]

"Temples: The earliest Roman temples followed the Etruscan model: a flight of steps at one end led to a PORTICO on a raised platform behind which was the CELLA. The addition of columns, either free-standing or engaged, along the sides and sometimes at the end was due to Greek influence. Internally, from the first century BC a domed apse was often placed on the back wall of the cella. The finest surviving of such a temple is the MAISON CARREE at Nimes (Nemausus) (c. 16 BC).

Circular temples were popular from an early date, their form derived from the Greek THOLOS. The so-called temple of VESTA in the Forum BOARIUM dates from the late second century BC and is the oldest marble temple in Rome to survive. The culmination of this form is seen in the PANTHEON, built under Hadrian, where unparalleled attention is devoted to the proportions and decoration of the interior.

It is the eastern provinces, where Rome found difficulty in making any impact on a thoroughly Hellenized culture, that the monumental scale of temple architecture is best observed. The temple of BEL at PALMYRA and the precinct of Jupiter at BAALBECK where columns stand to a height of 65 feet, have more to do with imperial propaganda than with religion."

This tells us that the earliest so-called "Pagan" temples in Italy were made by Etruscans, that is, a Turanian Tur/Turk people whose Turanian identity somehow has been denied by western writers. Referring the source of such domed buildings to Greek is not truthful. In fact, it is plainly wrong. Ancient Greeks themselves owe what they achieved in architecture and artistry to the "Pagan" native Turanians of the ancient world. When the ancient wandering Greeks (Latin Graecus, Greek Graikos, Turkish Garachi (Gara-aichi)) first arrived at what is now called Greece, they had nothing of their own to boast about. There was already a native flourishing civilization of so-called Pelasgians who were Turanian people. Those ancient Greeks learned everything from the native Turanians and when they had the opportunity, they destroyed the old culture of the native peoples and built on the ruins, new structures (copied and embellished from the native Turanians) that they call their own. The so-called Greek columns are not Greek in origin. They are copies from the native peoples culture.

The columned "PORTICO", that is, the "entrance to the temple building" was originally Etruscan. The name PORTICO, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "COPITOR", is the Turkish word "KAPITUR" meaning "it is gate", "it is door", "it is entrance". Thus the so-called Latin word "PORTICO" is not Latin in origin at all but rather Turkish in origin. This further identifies the PAGAN temple PANTHEON as a building by Turkish speaking Turanians contrary to all the disinformation to which the public has been subjected to.

Circular buildings and/or temples with a "DOME" are the Central Asiatic YURTS. The above citing tells us that these ancient Pagan temples were circular and/or semi-circular single room buildings with a dome on it which means that they were fashioned after the Central Asian YURTS. The VESTA of Forum BOARIUM is such a round temple. See URL:          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3ABoariumlauvernier.jpg

Photograph of Boarium Forum, Rome by D. Lauvernier

where two circular temples with a domed roof are observed

in the lower right quadrant of the picture.

Below is a close-up of one of the two temples from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3ATempleOfHercules-ForumBoarium.jpg

TempleOfHercules-ForumBoarium.jpg

About the names VESTA and HESTIA

The Latin term "VESTA" is defined as "the goddess of the hearth and domestic life. [2] Webster’s Dictionary defines it as:

"The goddess of the hearth and its fire, and hence cookery. Her temple symbolized the hearth of the city and contained a fire, rekindled on the day (March 1) beginning the new year, by friction of the wood and in charge of the vestal virgins. See HESTIA". [3]

The English term "hearth" corresponds to Turkish "OCAK, YURT, AILE OCAGI". The goddess of "hearth" is the personification of family fire which is evident from the name VESTA. VESTA, when rearranged as "ATES-V", is from Turkish "ATES O" meaning "it is fire" or "ATES OY" meaning "it is the fire of home" which is the "hearth".

HESTIA is the Greek version of goddess VESTA. When HESTIA is rearranged as "ISETAH", it is the Turkish expression "ISITI" (ISITIR) - meaning "it is heat", "it heats". Additionally, when HESTIA is rearranged as "ISHETA", it is the Turkish expression "ISHITI" meaning "it is light", "it is flame" and "it lights up". Finally when HESTIA is rearranged as "ATESHI", it is the Turkish expression "ATESH" meaning "fire". In Azerbaijan Turkish dialect, ISTI (isti, ISITI) means "hot, fire, flame".

Thus in all of these cases, reference is made to fire, light and flame in Turkish and both names of the personified goddesses VESTA and HESTIA have origins in Turkish contrary to "known" explanations.

In any home, the "fireplace" (hearth) is always the center of attraction. As long as the fire place burns, it provides heat and light, and opportunity for the family to cook and eat implying that the family is alive and well. This concept is expressed in Turkish as: "ocak yanip duman tüttügü sürece, aile devam eder" meaning "as long as the hearth burns and the chimney smokes, the family lives on". So the ancient temple VESTA of Forum BOARIUM is a temple of fire which had a fire going on inside. These ancient circular pagan temples resemble the YURT of Turanian Tur/Turk peoples in Central Asia since YURTS are such dwellings. Thus temple VESTA is again a replica of the Turkish YURT in which a family (aile ocagi) lives, and also in the middle of which there is a hearth (ocak). The YURT is an emulation of the Sky-Dome (GÖK DAMI) by the ancient Sky-God worshipping Turanians.

About the name BOVARIUM or BOARIUM

The name Forum BOARIUM is described as the "cattle-market of Ancient Rome". See URL:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Forum_Boarium.html

The Latin word "FORUM" is defined as

"an open square, a market place; Forum BOVARIUM or BOARIUM, the cattle market, FORUM HOLITORIUM, the vegetable market, etc." [4]

This bit of information about ancient Rome is also very interesting to us because the term "BOARIUM" is an anagrammatized word from Turkish.

First of all, the word BOVARIUM has embedded in it the Turkish word BOA (BOGA) meaning "Bull" or "cattle". Secondly, when the word BOVARIUM (BOARIUM) is rearranged letter-by-letter as "BOA-VIRUM", where V=Y, it is the Turkish expression "BOA YIRUM" (BOGA YERIYIM) meaning "I am bull place", "I am cattle place", "the bull market" or "the cattle-meat market"; in another meaning, it means "I eat cattle (meat)". The English term "meat" has embedded in it, the Turkish word "ET" meaning "meat". Additionally, if English MEAT is rearranged as ETAM, it is Turkish "ETEM" (ETIM) meaning "I am meat" where Tr. ET means "meat").

About the name HOLITORIUM

Firstly, this term HOLITORIUM meaning "vegetable market" has embedded in it the Turkish term "OTLUH" (OTLUK) meaning "vegetables" an/or "plants". When the Latin term HOLITORIUM is rearranged as "OTLUH-UIRIM" where the bogus letter U = Y, it is the restructured and disguised form of the Turkish expression "OTLUK YERIM" meaning "I am the place of plants", that is by another name, "I am vegetable market". In Turkish, terms such as "OT PAZARI", "OT MEYDANI", and "OT YERI" were used in Eastern Anatolia in Turkey. Additionally HOLITORIUM has embedded in it the Turkish word "HAL" (HOL) meaning "covered fruit-and-vegetable market" supposedly having been imported from French.

It appears that the addition of the word "FORUM" to these expressions is redundant and provided as distraction.

All of this connects ancient Rome with Turkish speaking native Turanians. It is known that Rome was founded by the Etruscans. These close Turkish correspondences in BOVARIUM and HOLITORIUM are not coincidental since the natives of early Italy were the Turkic speaking Turanian peoples. Evidently the Turkish language of the natives has been pirated by way of anagrammatizing into Latin and Greek and all other Indo-European and Semitic languages.

About the name THOLOS

Greek word THOLOS means "dome, cupola, and vault". [5]

First of all, this so-called Greek word THOLOS has embedded in it the Turkish word TAS meaning "bowl with a rounded bottom". Additionally, when THOLOS is rearranged as "OLH-TOS", where Greek H=I, it is the Turkish expression "OLI TAS" (ULU TAS, ULU KAB) meaning "great bowl with a rounded bottom" which is another description in Turkish of a "dome" (a rounded roof) or Turkish "DAM" meaning "roof". The expression "Great Roof", "Great Dome" also refers to the Sky-Dome which is the "great circular roof" above all of us.

In the ancient Turanian "Sky-God" religion, SKY (Tr. GÖI or GÖK) was one of the most important elements of the religion. That is why one of the six sons of OGUZ KAGAN was named "GÖK HAN" meaning "Sky-Lord". The Turkish YURT having a circular dome (Tr. DAM) above it is an attribute to the "SKY-DOME" (GÖK DAMI).

The name PANTHEON has been the subject of an interesting modern book entitled "Angels and Demons" by author Dan Brown. [6] The name of the book appears as "Melekler ve Seytanlar" in Turkish translation. After recently reading this book, I could not help but be attracted to the name PANTHEON and its implications. Surely many people read this very interesting book but most read it rather superficially without knowing the hidden story about this famed building. It has been used as a Church for the Catholic religion. Presently, it is one of the tourist attractions of the city of Rome which itself was built by the Etruscans before the Latins seized it from them.

This article is the result of my interest in this so-called "PAGAN" temple after I read the book by the famed author Dan Brown.

The PANTHEON

The ancient building of Pantheon in Rome is said to have been rebuilt in Rome during the period 120-126 AD under Emperor Hadrian. The name PANTHEON is defined as [7]:

"[Latin, from Greek "pantheion" (sc hieron), from "pantheios" of all gods, from "pas", "pan" all + "theios" of the god, from "theos" a god.] 1. A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially the building so-called at Rome. 2. A building resembling or likened to the Roman PANTHEON; especially a building where rest the famous dead of a nation. 3. The aggreagate gods of a people."

Greek PAN, PANTOS, PAS, PASA means "every; everybody, everyone; all". [8]

The source for this etymology is false as usual. It wrongly ties the source to Greek and/or to Latin languages which are manufactured languages from the Turkish of the so-called "Pagan" Turanians. The Greek and Latin languages did not exist when Turkish was a world-wide language in the ancient world.

Discussion of the name PANTHEON

The name PANTHEION supposedly meaning "of all gods", when rearranged letter-by-letter as "POTIN-HEN-A", is a restructured form of Turkish expression "PÜTÜN HAN O" (BÜTÜN HAN O) meaning "it is all God" which gives the exact correspondence with the above given meaning. Turkish word "BÜTÜN" means "everything, everyone, all", "HAN" means "lord, god" and "palace" while "O" means "he/she/it".

Similarly, the "ALL" meaning attributed to the Greek word "PANTOS" and "PAN" would come from a Turkish source as follows:

First of all, the Greek word PANTOS has embedded in it the Turkish word BUTUN meaning "all". Secondly, when PANTOS is rearranged letter-by-letter as "POTNAS", it is found to be a restructured form of Turkish "BUTUNUS" (BÜTÜNÜZ) meaning "we are all" which again provides the exact correspondence with the meaning attributed to PANTOS.

Evidently PAN is a shortened version of PANTOS. Additionally, the word PAN is very much another form of Turkish "BEN" (MEN) meaning "I", that is, the personal pronoun for first person singular in Turkish. Furthermore the Greek word PAS meaning "all" is very much Turkish word "BAS" meaning "head" which is owned by all living beings. In this context, the words PAN and PAS meaning "me and my head" refer to "man", that is, in general to everyone. But the term "PAN" (BEN, MEN) is also related to the so-called mythological god name "PAN" (PANOS).

Mythologically, there is the "Greek" nature-god "PAN" or "PANOS" defined as: "A god of flocks and pastures, forests and their wild life, patron of shepherds, hunters, etc. Pan was presented as having the legs and sometimes the ears and horns of a goat." [9]

This half-man and half-goat representation of God is another representation of the ancient Turanian Sky-God OGUZ with a "Bull" (OKUZ) icon like the mythological "MINOTAUR".

The PANTHEON is described as a "PAGAN" temple. The term PAGAN is defined as:

"1. One who is neither Christian, Jew, nor a Moslem; a heathen. 2. Early Christian use, a idol-worshiper; a non-Christian. 3. An irreligious person; adj. Pertaining to Pagans. Latin "PAGANUS" meaning "heathen", a rural villager, country man". [10]

In the context of Europe, the correct meaning of this definition is that they were the native farmers, the country-man of ancient Europe. In other words, they were the sun, moon and creator Sky-Father-God worshipping native Turanian peoples, that is, the so-called "Latin" countryside people which antedated the Aryans (arayanlar, gezginciler, karaçilar). This definition of PAGANUS is a pejorative one vilifying not only the ancient Turanian peoples but also the ancient Turanian religion in order to spread Christianity into the ancient "Pagan" Europe. In order to prove the view that this people were Turkish speaking Turanians, let us examine the Latin word PAGANUS meaning "the country man".

a) The anagrammatized term PAGANUS, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "SAPANGU", is the restructured and disguised form of the Turkish expression "SAPANCU" meaning "he who uses plough". But of course it is the farmer or the country-man that uses the SAPAN (plough).    The Turkish word "SAPAN" means "plough" and the Turkish suffix "-GU/-CU" defines a profession. Thus "SAPANCU" means "one who uses plough" which is another way of defining a farmer and/or a countryman. Thus the source for this PAGANUS (PAGAN) concept is pure Turkish and is stolen from Turkish. This is another testimony that the Aryan Europeans not only stole the Turanian Turkish language in manufacturing Indo-European languages but also all the civilization defined by the words of that Turanian language. This sin of the Europeans must be the reason for their continuous vilification of the ancient and modern Tur/Turk peoples.

b) In addition to the above meaning, when the word PAGANUS is rearranged letter-by-letter as "PA-GUNAS", it is the anagrammatized form of Turkish expression "APA GÜNES" meaning "Father-Sun", that is, the "creator sun". It is a known fact that the so-called PAGANS worshipped the Sun.

c) Furthermore, PAGANUS when rearranged as "PAN-A-GUS" is from Turkish expression "BEN O GOZ" meaning "I am that Eye" referring to Sun and also from Turkish expression "BEN OGUZ" meaning "I am OGUZ" which refers not only to the ancient Turanian "OGUZ" (TUR) peoples, but also to their Sky-God OGUZ and AGUZ meaning "the word, language, mouth". This of course identifies the ancient Turanian religious concept of OGUZ and AGUZ. Where OGUZ is the Sky Lord and AGUZ is the WORD of OGUZ – which was the Turkish language.

All of these expressions identify the term PAGANUS with the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples, their Sky-deities and their Turkish language. This also means that the ancient world was a Turkish speaking world with their Sky-God Oguz religion being followed all over the world until the wanderer groups instigated to change and destroy it.

About the name EIDWLOLATRHS (IDOLATOR)

Greek word EIDWLOLATRHS, (where the letter H = I or E), meaning "pagan, heathen, idolator". [11] The Greek word EIDWLON meaning "idol, image".

The Greek term EIDWLOLATRHS, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "AL-OD-EWLITHR-S", is the restructured form of the Turkish expression "AL OD EVLIDIR" meaning "they are from the house of glowing red-fire worshippers", that is, "they are from the house of Sun worshippers".

Similarly, there is the Greek word EIDWLOLATRIKOS meaning "pagan, heathen, idolatrous".

The term EIDWLOLATRIKOS, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "OKUS-TUR-AL-OILEDI", is a restructured form of the Turkish expression "OGUZ-TUR AL ÖYLÜDÜ" meaning "OGUZ-TUR (people) are from Red house", that is, "OGUZ-TUR people are Sun worshippers". The ancient Turanians personified their Sky deity (Gök Tanri) in many forms with many differing names and that is why "God has many names".

Personifying the "Sky-Deity" in some iconic forms, so-called "idols" was how the ancient so-called "PAGAN" people identified with "God" as god influenced all aspects of their life. Having icons of their God near them, in their homes, around their necks as amulets etc., gave them physiological security and closeness to their God and his "protection". There is no difference between this kind of personification of their sky deities and the performing of rituals to them by the ancient "Pagans" and the present day Christians kneeling in front of a Jesus-laden-cross and praying to this "cross-idol" for their wishes to come true. So the same ancient Turanian rituals are still going on but in a different form. Although the founders of the later religions have conned their followers for the last 2500 years, let no verbology or sophistry con the present day people otherwise.

We may recall that The Turkish State of Azerbaijan is also known by the name "Land of Fire". The "Greek" mythological God "PROMETHEUS", that is, from Turkish: "BIR-O METE OGUZ", is said to have given fire to humanity. For his generosity, the "Greek" God ZEUS, which is also from Turkish "SÖZ" meaning "WORD", got angry and had Prometheus chained to the Caucasian mountains where an eagle would torture him daily. Caucasia has always been a land of Turanians, until some of them were converted to Judeo-Christianity and their Turkic identity was lost.

About the name PANTHEISM

Related to the name Pantheon is the word "PANTHEISM" defined as: "The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is GOD." [12]

This definition equating GOD with the universe is another common Turkish belief and tradition that "GOD is everywhere and in everything" (Tanri her yerdedir ve her seydedir).

The word PANTHEISM also has embedded in it the Turkish phrase "BÜTÜN- ISIM" meaning "all names", which of course includes everything in the universe that has been named and can be named. Back in the so-called Pagan times, such as the eras of the Turanian Sumerian or the Turanian Masarians and others, everything was being named in the OGUZ language, that is, the Turkish language.

After giving all of this background information now let us examine the word PANTHEON as a ‘temple".

Above is a view from inside of the pagan temple Pantheon from URL:

http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/pantheon/pictorial8.html

The above picture shows the famed OCULUS of the PANTHEON building. Clearly, it is a replica of the Turanian YURTs. The hole at the top (called the Oculus) provides light into the building. When this building was built by the "Pagans" of ancient Rome, the Oculus symbolized the Sun - and it still does now. In the same way, the Sun provides light into the 'Sky Dome' above the earth. The dome of the PANTHEON building symbolizes the sky-dome. Furthermore, the Oculus symbolizes the SUN as the seeing and glowing-fire eye (Turkish "KÖZ GÖZ", "KOR GÖZ" and "GÖR GÖZ") of the ancient Turanian Sky-God. When the PANTHEON building is viewed from above, what one sees is a prominent "Eyeball" structure. Similarly, when one views the PANTHEON dome from the inside, what one sees again is an "Eye" structure. Of course the English word EYE" is nothing but a distorted and disguised form the Turkish word "AY" meaning "Moon" - which was also regarded as an "EYE" of the ancient Turanian Sky-God OGUZ. A bird's eye view of the Pantheon is given below, courtesy of Google's "Earth" program. Clearly and unquestionably, the Pantheon, as a "Pagan" temple, symbolizes the Sun as the "EYE" of the universal Sky-Father-God - and also, the eye of the human being. By another interpretation, it is a three dimensional symbol of the name "O-GÖZ", that is, the Sky-God "OGUZ" of the ancient Turanian so-called "pagan" civilization which has been deceptively usurped by the Christian church.

The Pantheon in Rome as viewed above from an earth satellite.
This picture is from Google's "Earth" program.

About the name PANTHEON

Being a religious term, it has a number of meanings embedded in it as we will see below.

1. PANTHEON, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "N-TAPENOH", reveals the Turkish expression "aN-TAPINAH" (GOK TAPINAK) meaning "sky temple". This explains the Pantheon’s temple aspect in Turkish. AN means "sky" and "TAPINAK" means "temple". But additionally,

2. PANTHEON, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "N-TAPE-HON", reveals the Turkish expression "aN-TAPI HANI" meaning "sky worship house" which of course is a "temple". Turkish "TAPI" means "worship". The PANTHEON in Rome is one such place. This new understanding of Pantheon with its embedded Turkish expressions identifies and connects the ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples with the so-called "Paganism.

3. Furthermore, when PANTHEON is rearranged letter-by-letter as "TEPA-HONN", it reveals the Turkish expression "TEPE HANIN" meaning: a) "it is your head palace" referring to the human "head" as a "temple" of the human body; and b) "it is your sky-dome temple". Turkish "TEPE" ("BAS") means "head". In ancient Turanian religious thinking, the human head, that is, the brain that is housed in the head and that did all of the creating, was also a temple to be worshipped.

Thus again the ancient Turanian "Sky-God" religion makes God and its temple as parallel to man’s head and body. That is why it is said that God created man in his own image. But this statement, when reversed, is also true, that is, "man created GOD in his own image" since it was the human mind that conceived the GOD concept and embellished it to its most prominent dimensions at present. All of this was originally done in the Oguz (Turkish) language by the Turanians.

4. PANTHEON, when rearranged letter-by-letter as "PEN-OT-HAN, reveals the Turkish expression "BEN OD HAN" meaning:

a) "I am the Fire Lord" representing the "Sun" and "fire";

Hence the temple PANTHEON is a temple dedicated to the ancient Turanian "SUN-GOD". The circular opening at the top, that is, the "OCULUS" represents the "sun" as this opening is the only light giving source to the inside of the temple, just as the sun is the most prominent light giving source into our region of the "sky dome".

b) "I am fire house".

It also represents such paganic shrines in which there was a continuously burning fire. The Turkish expression "PEN OT HAN" also means "I am the Fire Palace" or "I am the Temple of Fire" or "I am the fire place", that is, "the hearth" (Tr. Ocak). Thus again it represents the Sun, fire, the fireplace and fatherhome or fatherland (home and country).

Thus it is seen that the name PANTHEON is a composite and anagrammatized word comprising more than one meaning in Turkish all embedded in one word.

A well presented writing is provided online by Freda Parker, entitled "The Pantheon-- Rome -126 AD", A temple to all gods". For a description and history of the Pantheon building in Rome, see URL: http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/pantheon/pictorial2.html

The Religion of ancient Rome

Will Durant writes: [13]

“The Roman family was both an association of persons with things and an association of persons and things with gods. It was the center and source of religion, as well as morals, economy, and the state; every part of its property and every aspect of its existence were bound up in a solemn intimacy with the spiritual world. The child was taught, by the eloquent silence of example, that the undying fire in the hearth was the sign and substance of the goddess VESTA, the sacred flame that symbolized the life and continuity of the family; which therefore must never be extinguished, but must be tended with "religious" care, and fed with a portion of each meal. Over the hearth he saw the little icons, crowned with flowers, that represented the gods or spirits of the family: the LAR that guarded its fields and buildings, its fortune and destiny, the PENATES, or gods of the interior, who protected the accumulations of the family in its storerooms, cupboards, and barnd....."

This description of Roman life is very much the description of the family life of Turanian Tur/Turk peoples who were the native populations of Europe before the Aryans (ARAYANS = WANDERERS) took over the land.

We have already explained VESTA being the goddess of "fire" in the hearth (ocak). LAR was the Etruscan protective God which, in my view, stands for Turkish "AL ER" meaning "The Red Man", "The Red Being". Even PENATES is a restructured form of Turkish "BEN ATES" meaning "I am fire" which refers to the FIRE-GOD, that is, the Sun.

Will Durant, referring to emperor HADRIAN, writes the following about the PANTHEON, [14]:

"His most famous reconstruction was the Pantheon-the best preserved building of the ancient world. The rectangular temple reared by Agrippa had been destroyed by fire; apparently only the Corinthian portico remained. North of this remnant Hadrian had his architects and engineers raise a circular temple, in the most indigenous of Roman styles. ....... At the top of the dome an opening (the OCULUS, or "eye"), twenty-six feet in diameter, gave the interior its sole and sufficient illumination. From this majestic dome, the largest in history, an architectural lineage descends through Byzantine and Romanesque variations to the dome of St. Peter’s, and that of the Capitol in Washington."

Indeed the rotundas of the great buildings of St Peter’s Basilica (the name BASILICA is from Turkish "BAS KILISE" meaning the "Head Church") in Rome and that of the Capitol in Washington D.C. are extremely embellished forms of the Turkish YURT. They are also the models for most of the domed religious and state buildings in Europe and the United States. Their "domes" represent the ancient concept of Sun and Moon being the "EYE"s of the Sky-God. They all have an elaborate "EYE" design at the top of the dome. Of course the Turkish mosque domes are also the same, that is, when viewed from inside, an elaborate "eye" symbol represented by an "eye" design at the top is seen. All of this states that the "dome" building is an ancient Turanian invention and it has nothing to do with Greek, Latins or Islamic cultures. It must be remembered that even the Sumerian ziggurats had a "dome" structure over the entrance of the temple complex. Thus it is purely Turkic and Turanian! To this list one must also add the name of the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem which also has a "BACA" at the top of a round building. Externally round buildings represents a "Head", that is, Turkish "TEPE" of "BASH", with an "eye" at the top which makes them the mythological Cyclopes, that is, TEPEGÖZ in Turkish. Of course, in this concept the name refers to the Sun and Moon disks in the sky.

Here I want to note one feature of the "eye" on the dome of St. Peter’s basilica and that of the Capitol in Washington, which is that "eye" is a closed one rather than an open one as the Oculus on Pantheon is. The closed "eye" represents a "blind eye" concept and hence the "moon" in the religious sense. Indeed the Moon is also known to be the "ULU-KÖR GÖZ" meaning "great blind eye" as versus "ULU KOR GÖZ" meaning "the Great Glowing Fire Eye" which is the Sun. This Turkish expression has been usurped into western languages as "LYCURGUS". The Greek version of this name is "LUKOURGOS" which is an anagrammatized and usurped form of the Turkish "ULU KOR GÖZ" (the great fire eye, that is, the sun and the "eye" of man), "ULU GÖR GÖZ" (the great seeing eye, that is, the sun and the "eye" of man) and "ULU KÖR GÖZ" (the great blind eye, that is, the moon and the not seeing "eye" of man). The source for all of these is Turkish and Turanian.

See the online URL below for the YURT shaped Pantheon from a map from 1625.

http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/pantheon/pictorial2.html

http://www2.siba.fi/~kkoskim//rooma/pages/EPEA235B.HTM

An external view of Pantheon: Drawing by Etienne Du Pérac from the mid 16th century.
Its round shape, dome and "Portico" are visible.

Even the external form of the Pantheon in Rome is an elaborate form of the "Pagan" Turanian "YURTS" - in stone. The so-called "portico" (from Turkish "kapitur") is originally an Etruscan addition to the circular building and has nothing to do with the Greeks. Pictures of the Pantheon at Rome are given on p. 213-214 of the book entitled "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown [15] which clearly shows the dome of the building from inside. The building is provided with one large circular opening (26 feet in diameter) at the very top of the dome and it is called "THE OCULUS". By another name it is also referred to as "The Demon’s hole". As is the case of BACA in a Turkish YURT, the OCULUS is the only opening that lets sunlight in. Sunlight from the Oculus illuminates the inside of the building as the only source of light. When observed from inside of this Pagan temple, the OCULUS appears as one large eye opening in the dome just like the Sun that appears as one large opening in the sky-dome. DOME is from Turkish word "DAM" meaning "the roof" which the sky is. In this Pagan temple, the OCULUS clearly represents the Sun, that is, the ancient Turanian SUN-GOD, as the Eye of the Sky-God in the sky dome. It is interesting to note that the so-called "Latin" word "OCULUS" means "The Eye".

We must also mention that the two eyes of all living beings are the only seeing openings in the head that let visual information (via the sunlight) enter the head, that is, the brain. Thus there is an allegoric semblance between the head of living beings and the ancient Turanian Sky-God (Gök Tanri OGUZ) whose good eye was the Sun and whose not-so-good eye was the Moon.

About the KARATAY MEDRESE in Konya Turkey

At this point I want to introduce a Turkish religious temple named "Karatay Medrese", founded during the reign of Turkish SULTAN IZZEDDIN KEYKAVUS II, and built by the Seljuk Emir Celaleddin Karatay in 1251 in the city of KONYA, Turkey. The medrese complex, which was built as a theological school, has domed buildings, one of which is known by the name "KARATAY MEDRESE", and another one is known as the Karatay Medrese Museum". The first one is associated with the famed dome with blue tiles and the other one is associated with the "INCE MINARE" and hence is also referred to as Ince Minare Medrese. Both domes have an "OCULUS" (ULU GÖZ, BACA) at the top facing the sky directly. It seems that these openings have been enclosed with a recently built protective "light-house" or "chimney" like structure at its top. In the Karatay Medrese the class rooms are arranged around a central courtyard. The large square rooms in the corners are roofed with a dome. Two GATES, so-called "PORTAL" or "PORTICO" (from Turkish "KAPITUR"), of great complexity and beauty lead visitors into the domed complex. A picture of the "Karatay Medrese" is given below.

External view of Seljuk Turk's Karatay Medrese in Konya, Turkey.

(From URL: http://www.arkadaslar.info/Dick%20Janzig's%20photos/konya%200867_dj.jpg)
(Permission for use of this picture by Dick Janzig is gratefully acknowledged with my thanks.)

One very important aspect of the "one room domed buildings" of the KARATAY MEDRESE is that they are provided with a large circular opening at the very top looking at the sky. This opening is very reminiscent of the circular openings, (BACA), at the top of Turkish YURTS - and also the one that the famed PANTHEON has, which is called "THE OCULUS", that is "The Great Eye". The dome of the Karatay Medrese has been embellished with star strewn "blue-tiles" which seem to represent the "sky-dome". The same "blue" is also named with the 'European' name TURQUOISE meaning "Turkish blue". A picture of the dome from inside the Karatay Medrese is given below:

Dome of Karatay Medrese with an opening (ULU GÖZ) at the center with a cross across it.
The main opening is surrounded with other "sun" diagrams in a turquoise blue background.
(http://archnet.org/library/images/thumbnails.tcl?location_id=9322 )
(© Aptullah Kuran/Aga Khan Trust for Culture. )
(Permission to use this picture is gratefully acknowledged.)

When this name TURQUOISE is rearranged letter-by-letter as "QOI-USUTER", we see the restructured and disguised form of the Turkish expression "GÖY ÜZÜTÜR" (GÖY YÜZÜDÜR) meaning "it is the face of sky". The face of sky is in the color of "sky-blue" that is, the "Turkish blue". Additionally, the names Tur, Turk and Oguz are embedded in the word TURQUOISE. The Turkish word GÖI (GÖY, GÖK) means "sky" and also "blue", "ÜZÜTER" (YÜZÜDÜR) means "it is the face". This Turkish greenish-blue color has embellished the temples of Tur/Turk peoples since ancient times. The names TUR and OGUZ are probably the first names of the ancient Turanian Sky-God. The "blue" color of the sky is very dominant in the arts of these Tur/Turk peoples since ancient times. Turkish tiles (CHINI) using "blue" as the basic color are famed throughout the world. The Italian words TURCHINA, TURCHINO, TURCHINICCIO, AZZURRICIO and AZURRIGNO are testimony to this fact, [C. Graglia's New Pocket Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages", Third Edition, London, New York, 1864.]

TURCHINA meaning "blue, turquoise" is nothing but the Turkish word "TUR CHINI" (TÜRK ÇINI) meaning "Turkish ceramic tiles". Even the English term "CHINA" is the distorted Turkish word "ÇINI" meaning "ceramics" of all kinds. The etymology of the term "china", that is, porcelain ware, is said to be from the country name "China".   This etymology is most likely false. The likely source for it is the Turkish word "chini" meaning "tiles" or "porcelain ware".

TURCHINO, meaning "azure, blue, turquoise", when rearranged as "TURHN-COI", is the Turkish expression "TURKÜN GÖYI" (Türkün mavisi, Türkün gökü) meaning "The blue of Turk" or "Turkish blue" or "sky-blue". TUR was one of the many names of the ancient Turanian Sky-God.

TURCHINICCIO, meaning "blueish", when rearranged letter-by-letter as "TURC-COI-CHINI", is the restructured and disguised form of the Turkish expression "TÜRK GÖY ÇINI" meaning "Turkish blue tile".

AZZURRICIO, meaning "colored with azure, of a sky-blue color", when rearranged letter-by-letter as "AZRR-COI-UZI", is the restructured and disguised form of Turkish expression "AZERI GÖY ÜZÜ" (HAZAR GÖY ÜZÜ, OUZ-ER GÖY ÜZÜ) meaning "Turkish peoples' sky-face". The names AZERI, HAZAR and OUZ-ER are the names of Turkish peoples since the times of ancient Sumerians and Masarians. The adjectives AZER, ASER, USER are used in the titles of many kings of the ancient Turanians of Masar (falsely so-called "Egypt" from "Gypsy"). Turkish words ÜZÜ, ÜZI and YÜZÜ all mean "the face". Thus the term "GÖI ÜZÜ" (GÖY YÜZÜ) means "the sky-face" or "the face of sky". The face of sky is the "sky-blue" color which again corroborates the fact that the source for all of these Italian words is Turkish.

AZURRIGNO, meaning "of a sky-blue color", when re arranged letter-by-letter as "OUZ-R-RANGI", is the restructured and disguised form of Turkish expression "OGUZ ER RENGI" meaning "The color of OGUZ man" which is another way of describing, in Turkish, the term "turquoise" for the sky-blue color. Embedded in this Turkish expression "OGUZ ER RENGI" is the hidden meaning that "it is the color of the Sky-God-Men OGUZ". The Turkish word "RENGI" means "the color", "OGUZ ER" means not only the Tur/Turk peoples but also one name for the ancient Turanian Sky-God. Since OGUZ ER is the "Sky-God", it may be reasonable to say or assume that Sky-God's colour is "sky-blue". It is no wonder that the ancient Turks have even called themselves the "BLUE TURKS" (GÖK TÜRKLER") in history.

All of this is proof of how the Turkish language, and together with it the Turkish culture and civilization, have been usurped by the European religion and language makers.

It is not surprising that a temple similar to the pagan temple of PANTHEON in Rome is found in the city of KONYA built by the ancient Sky-Father-God, Sun-God and Moon-God worshipping TUR/TURK/OGUZ peoples who have been vilified by the Judeo-Christians as "pagans" without giving their TUR/TURK or OGUZ names.

The Turkish city of Konya during the reign of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia was not only the capital of the empire at that time, but was also the religious centre of the State. Many world famed religious monuments built by Turks in Konya are strewn all over the city. The name of the city during the Roman times was ICONIUM. The name ICONIUM has embedded in it the Turkish expression "AY KUN UIM" (AY GÜN ÖYÜM) meaning "I am the home of Moon and Sun" which identifies itself as a religious center of the sun and moon worshipping ancient Turanian Tur/Turk peoples. Naming this city in this manner was in accordance with the ancient Turanian tradition of naming towns after God. Even now, when something new is started, the name of ALLAH (AL ILAH) is invoked and prayers are done before the start of work.

Evidently the Seljuk Turks coming from Central Asia to the Middle East knew this meaning of the name ICONIUM and what it represented for their ancestors in ancient Anatolia. The Seljuk Turks kept the name of the city as KONYA. Even the name "KONYA" has embedded in it the Turkish name "KÜN" and "AY" meaning "Sun and Moon", and also "KÜN ÖY" meaning "Home of Sun" or "Sun City". Similarly the name "HELIOPOLIS" is named after the Sun God. It means "City of the Sun" as the ancient Greeks called some ancient cities of the Turanian peoples in Masar (Misir) and the Middle East. Same for the city so-called "BAALBEK" (Heliopolis) in ancient TYRIA (TURIYA - which was changed to 'SYRIA' sometime in history) meaning "TUR ÖYÜ", that is, the "Home of Tur". Even the name BAALBEK has the Turkish words "ABA", "AL" and "BEK" combined in the form "BA-AL-BEK" meaning "Father RED Lord" which describes the Sun in a Turkish expression. Turkish "ABA" (APA) means "father", "AL" means "red" and "BEK" (BEY) means "lord".

The ancient Greeks and Romans were also the followers of the ancient Turkish OGUZ religion initially. But they could not tolerate this ancient and fantastic civilization of the Turanian Tur/Turk peoples. Hence they devised sneaky ways to obliterate this civilization by way of distorting and usurping all of its names and traditions.

The "portico" of the Karatay Medrese has a very obvious and prominent feature that is identical with an Etruscan gate known as the "Porta Del Arco", in Volterra, Italy, [second century B.C. Werner Keller, "The Etruscans", p. 100]. Both structures have three protrusions along and above the arch of the gate as is clearly visible in the pictures below. In the Etruscan gate, the protrusions are three carved heads. [40] The ones on the Karatay Medrese gate are elaborately designed "eye" (Tr. GÖZ) like ornaments. This is the ancient symbol of the trinity concept of the ancient Turanian Sky-God religion that the founders of Christianity pirated from the "pagan" Turanians. This similar embellishment of an arched gate by the Etruscans and the Turanian Tur/Turk peoples is not due to a coincidence. It is due to the fact that the Turanian Tur/Turk peoples and the Etruscans had the same ancient religious culture and were the same people at different locations and times.

On the left is a picture of the Etruscan arched gate called "Porta Del Arco" in Volterra, Italy. On the right is a picture of the Seljuk arched gate of the Karatay Medrese in Konya, Turkey. Please note the three similar protrusions (two on either side and one on top of the arch) in both structures. This is a symbol of "trinity" concept of the ancient Turanian Sky-God religion.

A comparison of an Etrusk gate in Volterra, Italy and a Seljuk gate in Konya. Turkey

Decipherment of the name OCULUS

The Latin term OCULUS meaning "eye" has the Turkish word "KÖZ" (GÖZ) meaning "eye" embedded and wrapped with another Turkish word in it. OCULUS is a large circular opening (26 feet in diameter) at the top of the PANTHEON. Such an opening is also called "BACA" in Turkish. Embedded in the name OCULUS are a number of Turkish expression related to the ancient Turanian OGUZ religion. These become obvious when the name "OCULUS" (OKULUS) is deciphered as:

1)     OCULUS, when rearranged letter by letter as "ULU-COS" (ULU-KOS), reveals the Turkish expression "ULU-KÖZ" meaning "The Great Eye" which describes the large opening in the roof of the Pantheon. It should be noted that this OCULUS opening in the Pantheon is located at the highest point of the Pantheon. In Turkish, this point would be known as TEPE-GOZ meaning "Eye at the Top".   "ULU-KÖZ", in one meaning refers to the great "eye" like the opening at the roof of the Pantheon building, and in another meaning, as a temple, refers to the Sun as the Great EYE. As I have pointed out in many of my writings, in the ancient Turanian religious concept, the Sun was regarded as the "working fire eye of the Sky God.

"The Great Fire" (ULU-KÖZ) describes the SUN, the Magnificient Fire Eye of the creator Sky-Father-God of the ancient Turanians. Additionally it means "Great Opening" that is "ULU BACA" in Turkish.

2)     "U-L-OKUS" is from Turkish "U AL OKUZ" meaning "it is Red Bull" which was another icon of the ancient Turanian Sun-God. Furthermore, "U-L-OKUS" is from Turkish "U ALA OKUZ" meaning "it is Spotted Bull" which was the icon of the Moon-God. Lastly, "U-L-OKUS" is from Turkish "AL OGUZ" - the name of the ancient Sky-God.

3)     "UL-U-KÖZ" , is from Turkish "AL O KÖZ" meaning "Red is that glowing Fire" and "Red is that Eye" both describing the religious understanding of the Sun.

4)     "L-GOU-US" is from Turkish "ALA GÖY YÜZ" meaning the "it is the spotted sky face" which is what is seen through the OCULUS of the Pantheon from inside.

5)     Additionally, the term OCULUS is a distorted form of the Turkish word "AÇULUSh" meaning an "opening". The OCULUS at the dome of the Pantheon is certainly an opening or a window. Thus again the source is Turkish. Furthermore,

6) The so-called "Latin" word "OCULUS" meaning "an eye, an opening, a hole" and having the meaning of "ULU-GÖZ", "BACA" and "AÇULUSh" in Turkish also refers to the "eye" on human head and the head of other animals. Eye is an opening into the human brain (mind) which enlightens the human internal world about the external world. Just like the Sun, that is, the "Eye of God" lightens up all things in the sky, the human "eye" (Göz) also illuminates the human mind with the information that the sunlight brings in.

It is impoortant to note that the OCULUS is also known as "The DEMON’S HOLE" which is given in Italian as "BUCO DIAVOLO" meaning "Hole of Devil", that is, "Seytan deligi", "Seytan Bacasi" in Turkish. Implied in the term "DEMON’S HOLE" is the fact that the Judeo-Christians villified the SUN as the "devil". In fact, the term "DEVIL" has embedded in it the Turkish word ALEV meaning "fire" or "flame". The word DEVIL also has embedded in it the Turkish phrase "AL-DEV" meaning the "Red Monster". This shows how the founders of the more "modern" religions villified the ancient Turanian Sun God – by taking a Turkish phrase and anagrammatizing it into the word DEVIL. This is corroborated by the fact that the devil is portrayed as an evil person having horns, oxen feet and tail, and dressed in red (al). Furthermore DEVIL also has the Turkish word "DEV-YEL" meaning "monster wind" which is a giant storm. Turkish DEV means "giant" and YEL means "wind".
Here we must note that the Italian word "BUCO" meaning a "Hole" is nothing but the Turkish word "BACA". Hence the source of this Italian word is also Turkish. All of these correspondences between Turkish and the terminology used by the ancient "Roman" inhabitants are not due to coincidences. It is due to the fact that the so-called ancient "PAGANS" were Turkish speaking Turanians.

In every form of decipherment, we have the Turkish meanings of the word OCULUS related to Sun as fire, as Eye, as an opening and as God. Thus the source of the term OCULUS is pure Turkish rather than Latin as wrongly claimed. Hence the etymology of the word OCULUS as given in dictionaries is bogus and intentional disinformation.

The appellation "The DEMON’S HOLE" for the OCULUS of the Pantheon, in one meaning, is a villification of the Turanian Sun-God, that is, the so-called Pagan Sun-God. In the other it describes the sun in Turkish. We see this fact when we rearrange the name "DEMON" as "MEN-OD" and read it as in Turkish. It is the Turkish expression "MEN OD" meaning "I am Fire". Of course the sun is fire and flame but it is no devil or demon as it has been portrayed by the founders and advocators of later religions.

The famed character "MEPHISTOPHELES" in the grand opera Faust is a personification of the "devil" as he has horns and a tail and he is dressed up in the colour red. This ‘devil’ character MEPHISTOPHELES takes Faust on a tour of Hell which is portrayed with lots of fire and burning. Again this western representation of "devil" and "hell" is a villification of the ancient Turanian Sky-God and the Sun-God whose prominent colour was Red (Al) and whose prominent icon was the Bull (OKUZ). This villification of the Sun God (Sun or fire) as a devil is ironic because everyone, including the villifiers, know that we all owe our existence to our Sun. Our Sun is our Creator in our corner of space and this is undeniable!

The Turkish YURT

The Central Asian YURT is a one-room circular dwelling made of wooden lattice work with a dome on it. Externally it is covered with felt and/or trained animal skin all over. It has an opening at the floor level which serves as the door to the dwelling and a circular opening at the center-top of the dome called BACA. The BACA generally has a "+" shaped T structure in the center of the opening. A fire hearth is provided on the floor of the dwelling. The BACA not only lets the sunlight in but also acts as a chimney for the smoke that rises up from the fire hearth. The inside circular wall of a YURT is embellished with Turkish carpets and/or other ornaments made with felt or other material hung on the wall. The name "YURT" in the form "YURUT" may be arranged as "TUR-UY" meaning "the home of TUR", that is, the "dwelling of Tur/Turk peoples". A YURT (YURUT) is that!. The original Pantheon in Rome was built by the native Turanian Etruscans and other native Turanians. The present Pantheon in Rome is a fancy stone and concrete copy of a Yurt design.

Thus the Turkish word YURT is a dwelling (öy, üy) where one is born and lives. Another Central Asian name for Yurt is "AK ÖY" meaning the "White House". In one meaning, Yurt is "white house" because it is generally covered with white heat-holding woollen (felt) material. But more importantly it is a symbol of "AK-HAN" meaning the "White Lord" representing the white and round disk of "SUN", that is, the Sun-God (Gün Tanri). Furthermore "AK-HAN" (AK SARAY, BEYAZ HAN) also means "White palace" such as the "White House" name used in USA and in some other states. The name of "White House" as the name of a "head palace" of a state comes from this ancient Turanian name. Similarly the Turkish word YURT is also the term for "motherland" or "fatherland", that is, the country where one is born and lives. A motherland and/or fatherland is a sacred land to be respected and defended.

Some YURT pictures of Central Asia are shown below:

See the picture of a YURT at URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt

From URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3AYurt_in_Tos_Bulak.jpg
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

A Kyrgyz Yurt in the making
From the Site by Elmira Kockumkulkizi and Daniel C. Waugh, URL:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/culture/dwellings/dwellings.html
(Permission for use of this picture by Daniel C. Waugh is gratefully acknowledged with my thanks.)

A finished Kyrgyz Yurt
From the Site by Elmira Kockumkulkizi and Daniel C. Waugh, URL:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/culture/dwellings/dwellings.html
(© Elmira Kochumkulkizi)

Uzbek woman at the entrance to a yurt, in Turkestan.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

For an interior view of a YURT with the OCULUS (ULU GÖZ), please see for example, pictures given at URLs:

http://www.oasisdesign.net/design/examples/yurtbath.htm

http://www.rainieryurts.com/gallery27.html

The inside view of a YURT, that is, with an "OCULUS" at the top, the Turkish "ULU GÖZ" or "AÇULUS" is the same as that of the PANTHEON building.

Symbolism of YURT BACA (SHANGRAK) on Kyrgyzstan flag

The online wikipedia encyclopaedia gives the following explanation regarding a Central Asian YURT: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt )

"The crown itself is emblematic in many Central Asian cultures. In old Kazakh communities, the yurt itself would often be repaired and rebuilt, but the shangrak would remain intact, passed from father to son upon the father's death. A family's depth of heritage could be measured by the accumulation of stains on the shangrak from generations of smoke passing through it. A stylized version of the shangrak (chimney) forms the main image on the flag of Kyrgyzstan. Its cultural iconography is also represented in the tubeteika, a traditional Central Asian skullcap which bears a resemblance to the yurt."

[PK.: "tubeteika" must be "TEPE-TAKI" meaning "what is worn to the head".]