Go figure given our focus on mythology and space lately! But wait until you seen some of the eye-brow raising facts about this planetary body that contain some definite prophetic symbolism.
The greatest discovery from the Galileo fly-by was that Ida has a natural satellite. Although Galileo flew past Ida in August 1993, the discovery wasn't made until late in February 1994 when images stored on the spacecraft's tape recorder were finally transmitted to Earth. The moon has been named "Dactyl" by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
DACTYL IS THE FIRST NATURAL SATELLITE OF AN ASTEROID EVER DISCOVERED AND PHOTOGRAPHED. The tiny moon is about 1.2 by 1.4 by 1.6 km (0.75 by 0.87 by 1 mile) across.
The name is derived from the Dactyli, a group of mythological beings who lived on Mount Ida. The Dactyli protected the infant Zeus after the nymph Ida hid and raised the god on the mountain. Other mythological accounts say that the Dactyli were Ida's children by Zeus. That's the general overview. Let's dig deeper for greater symbolic meaning here.
In Greek mythology, the Dactyls (Greek for "fingers") were the archaic race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea. Their numbers vary, but often they were 10 spirit-men so like the three Curetes, the Cabiri, or the Korybantes that they were often interchangeable. The Dactyls were both ancient smiths and healing magicians. In some myths, they are in Hephaestus' employ, and they taught metalworking, mathematics, and the alphabet to humans. THEY WERE VIEWED AS DANGEROUS UNDERWORLD SMITHS AND MAGICIANS. They are demons believed to live on Mount Ida in Phrygia (Asia Minor), or on the Isle of Crete. They were considered to be the first metallurgists: they discovered iron and the art of working metals by fire.
When Rhea, the mother of the gods, knew her time of delivery was come, she went to the sacred cave on MOUNT IDA. As she squatted in labor she dug her fingers into the earth (Gaia), which brought forth these "daktyloi Idaioi" ("Idaean fingers"), thus, often 10 IN NUMBER, or sometimes multiplied into a race of 10 tens. Three is just as often given as their number. They are sometimes instead numbered as 33. When Greeks offered a most solemn oath, often they would press their hands against the earth as they uttered it. The 10 kings of the 10-horned beast in REVELATION 13 comes readily to mind for me.
So, again, we have the ever present connection between ancient Greek and Roman mythology with Bible prophecy. In addition, we have this persistent idea of things/beings/creatures coming up from beneath the ground, which resonates quite clearly with the Nephilim giants and perhaps even the Bottomless Pit. Plus, some of the accounts recall to mind what we know about the Watchers too.
Dactyl is made more or less from the same kind of material as Ida. As an S-type asteroid, Ida is composed mostly of silicate rocks. Galileo scientists believe the moon may have been created at the same time as Ida when an older, larger asteroid was shattered in a collision with another asteroid, giving birth to dozens of smaller asteroids. Alternatively, it is possible that Ida was hit by a smaller object even more recently, leaving a crater on the asteroid and throwing off the material that became the small moon.
Galileo scientists also believe it is virtually impossible that the moon is a captured object, something created completely separately from Ida that happened to wander near the asteroid and be caught by its gravitational field. According to the laws of celestial mechanics, such an event would deflect the smaller object, but it would not be captured into orbit unless a third force of some kind slowed it down.
The surreal part? In case that wasn't enough, "Dactyl" is derived from the Greek word for "finger", as a finger has one long segment and two shorter ones. What was one of the defining characteristics of Ida the "Missing Link"? Her hands, but mainly her fingers!
What in the world is going on here!?! How does one thread constantly lead to another, and another, and another like this in an endless stream of information?
Is there significance to all of this? Are we supposed to be watching for and examining such "connections" whenever and wherever we spot them? Or is this Satan's trick to distract and deceive us by leading through a labyrinth of lies that we misinterpret as some form of divine communication as "signs and wonders"?
Whatever it is, it's definitely picking up in frequency and intensity as you can tell by my work here lately.
Perhaps in God's sense of humor Ida really is the "Missing Link", but only to us students of Bible prophecy because it led us here to these findings.
Source: http://33witches.blogspot.com
