Going Berserk with David Icke
There are rumors that the historical Count Dracula used to dip his bread in the blood he collected from his impaled victims. This gives me flashbacks of the first volume of Kentaro Muira’s Berserk. Berserk is, of course, the legendary Japanese manga that really set the bar for what qualifies as ‘grim-dark’.
Here is the famous engraving of Vlad III Dracula having a nice little banquet while surrounded by the fruits of his grisly labor:
This image has been in circulation since about the time the movable type printing press was introduced in Europe. It is not only possible but probable that this well-known scene served as the direct inspiration for Kentaro Muira’s Snake Baron:
Wait a minute.
The Snake Baron is a shape-shifting, maniacal vampire dragon operating from the highest seat in the land, and he exercises a distinct preference for the blood of the young. Where have I heard this one before?
…this is straight out of David Icke!!!
A big part of David Icke’s whole trip is that the human experience on Earth has been informed by our interactions with, not vampire aristocracies, but Draco- Reptilian Vampire Aristocracies.
Draco-reptilian Vampire Aristocracies from space.
In Icke’s view, Draco-reptilian shapeshifters and their reptilian-human hybrid puppets have infiltrated the highest stations of industry, finance, and government, from whence they glut their fiendish appetites on the suffering caused by manufactured wars and artificial scarcity models.
The most malevolent among their ranks are physically addicted to human blood, and it is this unsavory reality that first gave rise to the legend of the vampire.
If this sounds like the bottom layers of the QAnon internet conspiracy theory from the 2016 election season, that’s because it is. The #pizzagate years would introduce the world to a frightening spin on Icke’s cosmology where the puppet politicians that take orders from the Draco-reptilians get high taking shots of the adrenalized blood of frightened children, but David Icke laid it all out a few decades before Q did.
Indeed, Icke takes us much deeper into the folds of history than Q ever tried to.
In his 1999 book ‘The Biggest Secret’, he tells us:
'The Royal Court of the Dragon was founded by the priests of Mendes [In Egypt] in around 2,200 BC and this still exists as the Imperial and Royal court of Dragon Sovereignty. The author Laurence Gardner is the present chancellor of the Imperial Court of Dragon Sovereignty. According to him, the name Dracula means 'Son of Dracul' and was inspired by prince Vlad III of Transylvania/Wallachia, a chancellor of the Court of the Dragon in the 14th century. The princes father was called Dracul within the Court. Dracul=Draco.'
As the author of books like Genesis of the Grail Kings and Bloodlines of the Holy Grail, Laurence Gardner’s research provided the basis for Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code series.
Gardner’s long pedigree within elite institutions indicates that he was either: the most well-respected alternative historian ever to contradict the mainstream, or: a disinformation agent.
David Icke takes this notion a few steps further by accusing him of occupying the same seat within the hierarchy of the Dragon Court that Vlad III Dracula did centuries earlier.
To begin unpacking this lofty and bizarre statement, we’ll have to begin where The Royal Court of The Dragon Sovereignty is alleged to have begun; with the priests of Mendes.
Mendes is the greek name for the Egyptian city of Djedet, a place where Herodotus, who was writing in the mid-fifth century BC, tells us a deity with the head and legs of a goat was held in reverence. 19th-century French hairdresser-turned occultist Eliphas Levi, who gave us the famous illustration of the being the Knights Templar called ‘Baphomet’, described this entity as ‘the goat of Mendes’.
Herodotus said the goats of Djedet were held in such esteem that Mendesian women would publicly copulate with them.
Academics and occultists alike have associated the goat of Mendes with the greek god Pan.
In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus was standing outside the cave of Pan at the foot of Mount Hermon in todays Golan Heights while an orgastic rite was taking place inside when he first revealed that he was the Messiah.
In the biblical narrative, the cave of Pan where idolaters revel in the flesh is likened to the gates of hell. Interestingly, Pan-as-Baphomet overseeing a cave orgy is a scene that was reproduced vertabim in chapter 139 of Berserk:
Shoring up the identity between the scene in Berserk and this whole wacky train of thought is the fact that Kentaro Muira depicts the penis of Baphomet as what else but a goddamn snake:
The goat head we find drawn within the inverse pentagram of the Church of Satan is sometimes referred to as Aleister Crowley’s Pan Pangenitor, and sometimes as the Goat of Mendes. This is a living tradition that was built up brick by brick, but when and where it’s true foundations were laid remains indeterminate.
Icke says that the ancient Babylonian priests were called canha-bal because their human sacrifice rituals were dedicated to the god Baal; and the word cannibal comes from the fact that these priests were obliged to taste their ritual offerings: the flesh and blood of other humans.
But these priests were not really human at all. They performed these ghastly vampiric rituals to open themselves up to possession by the 4th-dimensional Draco-reptilians.
Naturally, the kinky party in Kentaro Muira’s baphometic sex-cave involves some light cannibalism.
But this is a grim-dark comic book authored at the tail end of the Satanic Panic, and this disgusting imagery is familiar to us from the deeper stratum of heavy metal music that was being produced at the time.
Surely if there were any real evidence for Icke’s sweeping claims we would find it outside works of blatant fiction and the philosophic ambulations of French hair-dressers.
Beyond Baphomet: Deeper Into Darkness
David Icke asserts that the modern-day Christian mysteries are but a repackaging of Mystery Babylon.
Meanwhile, Christians assert the root of Satanism is ancient Babylonian sorcery. If Icke’s statement regarding the true origins of Christianity could be borne out, the ideological ramifications for Christians and Satanists alike would be unprecedented. A spiderman meme is called for, but I’m not going to take the time to make it. Instead, I’m going to direct your attention to the ceremonial trappings of Christianity’s most powerful denomination.
There are 37 Notre Dame cathedrals in France today. Notre Dame means ‘Our Lady’ in French; these are churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Here is a gargoyle from Notre Dame de Paris gracing the cover of a terrifying album by industrial noise savants Current 93:
In The Biggest Secret, Icke mentions in passing that winged gargoyles symbolize the elite draco-reptilians. In the same way, he says Dracula’s cape symbolizes a dragon’s wings; because the draconic vampire aliens of the highest pedigree have wings, like dragons.
Apparently, you can fit two whole Notre Dame de Paris’ inside the Notre Dame at Amiens.
Upon entering the cathedral at Amiens, you are confronted with a gigantic inverted pentagram in stained glass looking down on you in the central atrium:
The Notre Dame cathedrals are of Catholic origin. Conspiracy theorists have made much of the supposed fact that the audience hall in Vatican City looks like the head of a snake, both inside and out:
More level-headed Redditors have asserted that the only way to get both windows in the same frame is to use a wide-angled lens, and this parallel conspiracists have observed is evidence of nothing more and nothing less than pareidolia. Pareidolia is the human mind’s tendency to seek patterns, even among data sets that are clearly unrelated.
But the mindful conspiracist is not so easily disuaded. They will point you to the copes miter cap, and the fact that it resembles the hats worn by the priests of the bronze age Mesopotamian fish-god Dagon, whose name sounds an awful lot like the modern english ‘Dragon’.
Is this pareidolia doing its dirty work, again?
I don’t know if any of this demonstrates a grand conspiracy at work as well as it demonstrates how the mind of a conspiracist (and the human mind, in general) works, but it all becomes violently unnerving when placed within the confines of David Icke’s world-view.
It is unclear to me how Icke made the leap from the Draco-reptilian Baal worship of Babylon to the goat-centric bestiality of Egyptian Mendes. Further uncertainty arises when we try to pin down exactly how a Wallachian prince of the 14th century got mixed up in all this. I don’t know, something about dragons.
Let’s look at the official narrative behind the Order of the Dragon that Laurence Gardner by way of David Icke tells us gave the Count Dracula his name in the first place and see what we can piece together ourselves.
The Order of The Dragon
The story goes like this:
Dracula’s father, Vlad II, took the name Dracul when he was granted membership into the vaunted Order of the Dragon. Established by Sigismund of Luxemborg in 1408, the Order of the Dragon was a fraternal order modeled after Charles I of Hungary’s Fraternal Society of the Knighthood of Saint George. These were crusading orders pledged to the defense of Christiandom. In particular, members of Sigismund’s Order of the Dragon were bound to the service and defense of the royal family of Luxemborg.
With Sigismund I ascending to the throne of Holy Roman Emperor in 1433, the Order of the Dragon became the most influential knightly order of its time and place. Vlad II Dracul was so proud of his membership that he had Wallachian coins minted which bore the standard of a winged dragon:
While Laurence Gardner by way of David Icke calls it ‘The Royal Court of the Dragon Sovereignty’, Sigismund’s Order of the Dragon had no official name. It was known variously as Geshellschaft Mit Dem Drachen and Fraternitas Draconum by it’s membership. The protocols of the order were perserved in it’s statutes, where we are told the order was brought in existence to:
‘crush the pernicious deeds… [and the] followers of the Ancient Dragon.’
In the borderlands where the Holy Roman Empire straddled the territory of the Ottomans, ‘followers of the Ancient Dragon’ meant the followers of Mohammad and the keepers of Islam.
Saint George was a Cappadocean Greek who became a Roman soldier in the Praetorian guard under Emperor Diocletian. He was tortured,beheaded, and martyred
for refusing to recant his faith in Christ during the Diocletianic Persecution of 303. Because the Diocletianic Persecution was specifically directed toward military personnel, George had served as the patron saint of militant christianity from early on, but the dragon-slaying convention in the Saint George legend only emerges after the 11th century, roughly corresponding with the start of the crusades in the Holy Land.
It does seem strange that the Order of the Dragon, dedicated in the honor of Saint George the Dragon-slayer, would take the dragon as both its insignia and it’s name-sake; in the King James translation of the book of Revelation, Satan is described as ‘the great dragon’. This might be why in old Romanian, ‘the dragon’ and ‘the devil’ are referred to using the same word: dracul. Again, this is the namesake of Count Dracula. In Romanian, his chosen name would have meant ‘son of the devil’ as much as it meant ‘son of the dragon’.
And maybe this, right here, is the major junction which unites the legend of Vlad III Dracula with ancient Babylonian blood rituals. Roman history Diodorus tells us the cathiginians would sacrifice their children to a bronze idol of Cronos, another name for the child-eating Greek god Saturn. If Saturn and Satan are one in the same, then the dragon may be said to symbolize Saturn.
Though the power of the Order of the Dragon waned with the death of Emperor Sigismund in 1437, several Hungarian noble families adopted its insignia into their family crests as a proud testament to their former service. A notable example within the context of our discussion is that of the house of Bathory:
This is the house from whence came the Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who is as much a cornerstone of the modern vampire fiction as Count Dracula is.
Rumors of her atrocities began to circulate as early as 1602, but it wasn’t until 1610 that formal investigations were brought underway. The alleged discovery two bodies on her estate resulted in the Countess Bathroy’s detainment.
The scholarly debate over rather she was a serial murderer with a body count in the hundreds, or was herself the victim of a witch-hunt instigated by rival houses, is ongoing.
What we can say with relative certainty is that she died a prisoner after being accused of torturing and killing as many as 650 girls in what would become one of the most lurid court cases of her century.
Elizabeth has earned the epithet ‘The Blood Countess’ as her most famous association is with the legend that she drained and bathed in the blood of her many victims, all of them virgins, as a means of restoring her youth. This legend first appeared in print in 1729 with the publication of Jesuit scholar László Turóczi’s Tragica Historia, but its veracity was almost immediately called into question when the witness accounts recorded during the original proceedings resurfaced in 1765.
None of them contained any reference to the Countess’ grisly bloodbaths, but the legend has flourished marvelously regardless.
I’m not saying I believe a word of the following paragraph, but:
If considered within the bounds of everything David Icke told us, we might take the seal of the House of Bathory as a call sign. Proceeding from that potentially erroneous conclusion, we might further conclude that the noble House of Bathory descended from the same elite Draco-reptilian bloodlines as that of Vlad III Dracula.
That’s why both figures stood accused of similar crimes; because they did, in fact, commit them. Eye-witness accounts have either been secreted away or destroyed, and modern efforts to expunge these ghastly crimes from the record are being spear-headed by scions of the Draco-reptilian bloodlines.
To throw another log on paranoia’s fire, the statutes of the Order of the Dragon refer to its members as barons.
Recall that the First Apostle in Berserk is called the Snake Baron. Of all the honorifics Kentaro Muira could have chosen.
Well, Did David Icke Read Berserk or Not?
Did David Icke read Berserk?
The timeline checks out. The first volume of Berserk, the one with the Snake Baron in it, was published in 1988.
David Icke did not publish his first book until 1991. When he did, it was The Truth Vibrations, about the author’s woo-woo experiences in Peru. His next five books would be carried by mainstream publishers because he hadn’t gotten around to writing about the 4th dimensional prison warder consciousness and Babylonian blood cults of the Snake People just yet.
Then again, Ike wouldn’t have had to have look further than 1988’s B-side creature feature ‘The Lair of The White Wurm‘ for his inspiration. Based on an unfinished novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, The Lair of The White Wurm is a psychadelic romp through the shape of extra-dimensional conspiracy theory to come. It’s about an ancient, predatory cult of shapeshifting humanoid serpents that have disguised their activities through time by infiltrating the British aristocracy.
Icke might have also looked to the 1986 appearance of King Hiss in Mattels popular toy and cartoon franchise ‘He-man And the Masters of the Universe’ for his inspiration—
For you see—
King Hiss, cruel overlord of the Snake Men,
belonged to a shape-shifting race of interstellar conquerors!!!
Did King Hiss Inspire the works of both Kentaro Muira and David Icke?That would be hilarious. In the case of the Snake Baron, I think the answer is: ‘most definitely’. The visual and chronological proximity of both characters is impossible to ignore.
But the theme of snake-as-nemesis runs deep. While writing this piece, I gathered a fat sack of auxillary references.
I’ve crafted a seperate container for them, which you can find here:
Man vs. Snake: The Long Hisss-tory of Serpent-as-Nemesis.
