Ancient and modern definitions of Zo.....What secrets do they hold? Is there a connection to the Zozo Phenomena?

            The upper case letter Z is a picture of  

Set or the Set scepter.

The capital  letter Z represents hell or the afterlife in hell following death and the final  judgment in ancient Egyptian beliefs.

According to the foundation legend of Egypt, the evil god Set and a company of conspirators murdered Assur. They hacked his body into pieces and scattered his severed parts. Isis gathered together Assur's scattered parts and resurrected him from the dead. She then copulated with her resurrected king. The union of Assur and Isis produced their son, Heru. During Heru's growing-up years, Isis had to live on the run, hide in swamps, and resort to all manner of stratagems to protect her son from the fiends of Set who were out to kill him. When Heru reached maturity, he avenged the murder of his father in a horrible war against the forces of Set in which both parties suffered losses and injuries.
Despite all of this, Set and Heru often appear to be coequals in Egyptian art and symbolism. In some versions of the Judgment Scene, Assur is pictured holding only his crook and flail. In other versions he is seen holding the Set scepter along with his crook and flail. That suggests that Assur is an ancestor of Set and not his "brother" as some genealogies have it. In some cases, Set appears to be a brother of Heru. In other cases he seems to be the "dark side" of Heru. Many Egyptian gods are depicted holding a Set scepter in their hands. Possibly the Set scepters held in the hands of gods represent their power over evil forces within themselves or in the outer world. All in all, Set seems to have had a checkered career in Egyptian religion.
Set, the unnamable animal with his forked tail, his scepter, and his reputation for evil is apparently the prototype for our conventional concept of Satan. According to the Biblical concept of the Devil, Satan was a "fallen angel." Set seems to have suffered the same fate in Egyptian religion. He began as one of the good gods and ended up as the devil. Before the dawn of dynastic Egypt, Set was a member of a venerated company of gods. By the end of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, he was the personification of evil. Apparently Set lost his position in heaven through his involvement in the political power struggles of people on earth.

The lower case letter z is a picture of a rattlesnake poised to strike."Their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps." Deut. 32:33.

In the symbols that are letters of the alphabet, the minuscule letter s is a picture of a cobra poised to strike. The minuscule letter z is a picture of a rattlesnake poised to strike. Cobras are asps. In the Pagan religion, the Sacred Asp of Isis was a wisdom symbol. The serpent that spoke to Eve in the Garden of Eden was the Sacred Asp of Isis. God said "ye shall not eat of it [the forbidden fruit] lest ye die." The serpent said "your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods." The venom of asps is a psychoactive drug that they imbibed to make themselves wise.

The Egyptians could cure snakebite. They had an antidote for the venom of asps. They kept cobras as house pets for their venom. They could cure the bite of the asp, but they had no antidote for the venom of vipers. The bite of a rattlesnake was a death sentence. Death from a viper's bite was a horrible death writhing in fever and agony. The bite of a rattlesnake was hell. The sound of letter z is derived from the buzz of the rattlesnake's tail.

---

ZotZ

 In Mayan mythology, ZotZ is known as an evil Bat-God

The cult of zotz began around 100 B.C. among the Zapotec Indians in what is the modern-day Mexican state of Oaxaca. The cult of zotz worshiped an anthropomorphic  monster with the body of a human female,  head of a bat (though the exact proportioning varies with account). The bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice. This god soon found its way into the pantheon of the Quiche Kiche, a tribe of Maya who made their home in the jungles of what is now Guatemala. The Quiché identified the bat-deity with their god Zotzilaha Chamalcan, the god of fire.

There is some evidence to support that the zotz myth may have sprung from actual large, blood-drinking bats of the Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil areas. Evidence is in the form of fossils of Desmodus draculae, the giant vampire bat. There have also been skeletons of  draculae found which were sub-fossil, of very recent age. These sub-fossils suggest that the species were still common when the Mayans civilization existed, and may still be in existence today, though it is doubtful. Alternately, Zotz may have originated from the Spectral bat , a large carnivorous bat native to Central and South America.

The curse of the Zo People of Burma 

The history of the ZO people is obscure, shrouded in myth and legend.However through historical, linguistics, archaeological findings and ethnic relationships, it is widely accepted that the ZO belongs to the Tibeto-Burman groups. The ZO people are an indigenous tribe, living mostly in the present-day Tonzaang and Tedim townships of Northern Chin State and the Kabaw valley of Western Sagaing division in the Union of Burma.

They are ZO not because they live in the highlands or the hills, but all ZO and called themselves ZO because they are the descendants of the great  ancestor, “ZO”.   This people traditionally named their sons and daughters, villages, places imbibing the great great progenitor “ZO”. Names such as Zogam, Zozaam, Zotui etc. stand testimonial to the affiliation that these people has had to their great ancestor Pu ZO from time immemorial.

Traditionally viz- animism was considered to be the most widely practiced religion among Zo people, until the Swedish-American Baptist missionaries forced Christianity around 1899.    They were forced into submission, and this caused the Zo people much dismay, thus dividing them into 3 countries, and abandoning their customs and beliefs held for countless generations.

Some of the more strict religious shamans rebelled, and cast curses on the missionaries. The Zo Shamans say that the sounds of the wind in the trees are the voices of the ghosts of the dead communing with one another or warning the living of what is to come.
  Their religious belief is known as animism, i.e.belief in spiritual beings, and.ghosts, manes, demons, deities--inhabit almost everything The dead ancestors, passing intodeities, go on protecting the  tribes  as the dead chiefs watch over the tribe. In animism funeral rites and customs--feasts of the dead, the human sacrifices, and head shrinking were common practices.

The Zo shamans held their beliefs sacred, and swore revenge upon their Christian enemies. Their traditions shattered, to this day, they remain vindictive and divided.....as witnessed in this link:

We (The Zo People) are divided against our wish

In 1872 a dictionary of Americanisms includes a definition: "Zombie, a phantom or a ghost, not unfrequently heard in the Southern States in nurseries and among the servants."

ZOM-bee) 
noun, also zombi

1. A person behaving like an automaton: listless, wooden, or lacking energy.
2. A snake god in West Indian, Brazilian, and West African religions.
3. In voodoo, a supernatural force or spirit that can enter a dead body; also, the soulless body that is revived in this manner.

Zoism

(n.) Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages.

       

                                 Zoanthropy

(n.) A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.

                           Zoroastrianism

(n.) The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.

 Some believe the demon Ahriman found a way to manifest its "face" in this catastrophe. That this is a touched up artificially produced picture made by someone in the media either as a very sick joke, or else as an attempt to influence the subconscious of religiously inclined gullible people who would, as a result of seeing this image, then feel more inclined to support a "crusade against evil." Whatever the answer, it certainly bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Steiner's sculptures of Ahriman's head. Seen here:

                                        

                                        Zopilote
  

(n.) The urubu, or American black 
 vulture.

                                Zo-har

–noun -  a medieval mystical work, consisting chiefly of interpretations of and commentaries on the Pentateuch: the definitive work of Jewish cabala.

"ZOZO"Taken from the goun or fon dialects in the republic of Benin west Africa meaning something steaming hot!