VATICAN NAMED AFTER ETRUSCAN GODDESS VATIKA
Where does the Vatican get its name from? It is not a Latin or Greek word. The name predates Christianity, and is derived from the name of the Goddess Vatika. About 3,000 years ago, the Etruscans ruled the part of Italy where the Vatican stands today. The Etruscans worshiped “Vatika”, the Goddess of the Underworld and Death. One of her duties was to keep a watching eye and take care of those who had passed away, (perhaps wetting their tongues with her finger in case they were thirsty).
The Vatican is a hill. This hill was consecrated to a Etruscan goddess called Vatika, deity of the underworld. In fact, in ancient times this hill was outside the inhabited center of Rome and was used as a cemetery. Constantine, the first Holy Roman Catholic emperor, built on this hill, known as the “Vatican Hill”. A few centuries later, the papal palace was built.
“Vatika” also had several other associated meanings in ancient Etruscan. It was not only associated with the Goddess of the Underworld. The word passed on into Latin to become the word *Vatis*, meaning oracle/soothsayer, poetess (divinely inspired) prophetess/ mouthpiece of deity. In short, it was associated with the ancient Mysteries practiced in the ancient world.
It is ironic that the Holy Roman Catholic Church slew so many people who honored and practiced the ancient wise traditions, yet the very Vatican itself was the place of the ancient epicenter of oracle divination, sex magick, and drug-fueled orgies. Wine has long held religious and cultural importance within the Catholic Church. Archaeological evidence indicates that vineyards existed in the Vatican area since Roman times. As the seat of the Roman Catholic Church was established in Rome beginning in the 4th century AD, wines grown in the surrounding regions became associated with the Papacy and Vatican. Certain strains of these grapes, that grew on the hill, were very bitter tasting, and wines made from them were hallucinogenic, and probably played a role in Holy Rites designed to illuminate the participants. The Roman wines were always spiked with herbs.
The name of the Vatican, in all probability, takes its name from a Latin verb “vaticinor” that has its origin in the word “Vatika”, the entheogenic herbal intoxicating wine drunk by the Priestesses from that place, and meaning poet, teacher, oracle.
This name, also called Vaticanus or Vaginatus, later came to mean the Latin, Vagina, that is, the female reproductive organ. The Vatican, which has its own lands in Italy, ultimately takes its name from the Goddess Vatika.
Image: Statue of the Etruscan Goddess of the underworld, Vatika, who guards the city of the dead or necropolis, where the Vatican stands today. The diamond shape on her forehead indicates both the Vagina and the 3rd Eye (or Pineal gland), both known by the ancients as sources of Prophecy and Wisdom (Sophia).
The Goddess Below is repliacted in many museums in Italy. There is one in the village on LANUVIO near my village of Nemi where I currently live, South of Rome. LANUVIO holds the remains of a very ancient ETRUSCAN temple that has to this day the legend of the snake and the priestesses in its local cave…