Cooper / Tier 0 — Lucifer and the Gods of the Mysteries / person (deified)
Nimrod
Where each worldview places it
The historical fountainhead of the mystery religion. He founded the first government, ran the original college of sun priests in Babylon, and was deified after death as the sun god, the prototype of Osiris[1]. Cooper parallels him with Lucifer: both "rebelled"[2]. He has level-0 hints as the worshipped god and a level-1 hint as the first ruler, so he is placed here.
- Aliases
- Controls / directs
- the College of Priests of BabylonThe Builders of the Tower of Babel[3]
- Answers to / controlled by
- nonehe rebelled against God[2]
- Lineage
- He was the son of Cush[2]. He founded Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh[2]. "Seth, son of Noah" defeated him and cut him up, which became the Osiris legend[4]. He was reborn as Tammuz through Semiramis[5], and is remembered in the lion of Babylon, Judah and England[6] and as the founding mason of the Tower[7].
- Dates
- shortly after the flood[2]
- Places
- ShinarBabel/BabylonErechAkkadCalneh
- Key events
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 3
- 01"The kingdom of Nimrod is the very first government mentioned in the Bible". He gained power by protecting people from beasts, then walled cities, then tyranny (after Hislop, Woodrow, Josephus and the Jewish Encyclopedia)[2].
- 02Masons were first organized as a corporate body at the Tower of Babel under Nimrod, "who was a mason" (article read)[7].
- 03The obelisk is his symbol, and one was "erected by our forefathers in Washington, D.C."[2].