by James Bowles

Created on: June 24, 2009

INTRODUCTION:

Throughout all of Europe and the UK one finds figurine remnants of medieval times. Some chiseled in wood, others sculpted on the corbels and walls of churches, some on doorways of homes and buildings, others in cemeteries, and along the roadside. To the casual eye they are look-a likes, but in reality the various genre are as unique one from another as fish from birds. The sheelanagigs are gender specific, and some say rude (note 1). Others called green men are shrouded in sprouting vines symbolic of the renewal of life (note 2).

But those of deeper interest are the ghouls sculpted on the corbels of monasteries and Romanesque churches, for they alone will tell us what history has not: why Henry VIII, sought to divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn; and why Anne Boleyn was imprisoned where she died just three years after her marriage (note 3).

So it may be overly simplistic: "Was Anne Boleyn responsible for some of the most sweeping changes in Europe during her lifetime?" For the truth is - in the three most important years of her life, Anne Boleyn changed the history of England like no other woman before, or since.

APOCALYPSE

The date was 1533, and King Henry VIII was deeply involved in an intrigue shrouded scheme to become the supreme head of the Church in England (note 4).

But here is where history goes wrong, and the corbel ghouls step in to correct the record. History tells us of the struggle for religious supremacy between Protestant and Catholic denominations, but there's no mention of the Egyptian religion that was practiced by the Cistercian monastics and their constituencies. It was this religion that fostered the hatred held by Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, that led to the destruction of over 800 monasteries throughout England and Wales (note 5).

History goes wrong in other ways too, as it fails to record that it was this hatred for the Egyptian religion that brought Anne Boleyn on the world stage. It also goes wrong in ignoring the Egyptian ghouls that stared down on all who walked the grounds - staring as a reminder of the world's first set of "commandments." Better known as Negative Confessions, they come to us from the "Papyrus of Ani" in the "Book of the Dead" (note 6 and 7).

I have not slain people

I have not stolen

I have not told lies

Henry VIII had to destroy the (I have not) featured ghouls in order to establish the supremacy of

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