Jonas

Yunus, Jonas or Jonah refers to the same historical and religious figure: the prophet known as Yunus in Islam and Jonah (or Jonas in some languages) in the Bible and Christianity.

Arabic/Islamic name: Yunus ibn Matta (يُونُس ٱبْن مَتّىٰ) or simply Prophet Yunus (عليه السلام).

He has a whole chapter (Surah) in the Quran named after him — Surah Yunus.

Biblical/Christian name: Jonah (Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Yōnā, meaning “dove”) or Jonas in Greek/Latin-influenced traditions.

Jonah is explicitly called Jonah son of Amittai (Hebrew: יוֹנָה בֶן־אֲמִתַּי).

His father Amittai is mentioned in both the Book of Jonah (1:1) and 2 Kings 14:25.

The name Amittai comes from the Hebrew word emet (“truth”), so Jonah is sometimes poetically called “son of truth.” He was from the town of Gath-hepher (also spelled Gittah-hepher), located in the territory of the tribe of Zebulun in the northern kingdom of Israel (Galilee region, near modern Nazareth).

A few midrashim even identify Jonah as the boy whom Elijah revived from the dead in 1 Kings 17.

In Islamic traditions, he is Yunus ibn Matta (Yunus son of Matta).

Jonah had no personal enemies named in the texts, but his mission itself put him in direct conflict with the people of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire.

God sent Jonah to warn Nineveh of destruction because of its “wickedness” (violence, idolatry, and oppression).

Jonah hated the Ninevites and tried to flee because he did not want them to repent and be spared, he wanted God’s judgment on Israel’s enemies.

37:139: And indeed, Yunus was among the messengers.

Surah Al-Anbiya (21:87): “And [mention] the man of the fish [Yunus], when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him.

The event is described in the Book of Jonah, Chapter 1, verse 17 (and the fish spits him out in 2:10):

Jonah 1:17 (English Standard Version / common translations): “Now the Lord had appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.

And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”

Jonah 1:17: “Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.

And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”

Jonah 2:10 (the exit): “And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.”

Although the essential portion of his initiation within the King’s Chamber took place within the first twenty-four hours, Yeshua remained in the sarcophagus for another forty-eight hours in accordance with the sign that had been given to Jonah the Prophet.

As the story goes, Jonah had a profound shamanic experience of death and rebirth in which he spent three days and three nights ‘in the belly of a great fish that had swallowed him.’

If we hypothesize that the excerpt from Anna, Grandmother of Jesus (channeled material by Claire Heartsong) is correct, it would profoundly reframe the story of Jonah/Yunus, not by changing the words of the Bible or Quran, but by shifting the meaning from a literal physical miracle to a deliberate shamanic death-and-rebirth initiation.

Traditional reading (Bible Jonah 1:17; Quran 37:142):God appoints a real sea creature that physically swallows Jonah/Yunus.

Traditional view: Jonah disobeys, flees, gets thrown overboard, and is saved in a dramatic show of God’s mercy after his prayer of repentance (Quran 21:87; Jonah 2).

Jonah is undergoing the same ancient initiation that Yeshua later replicated in Egypt.

In the Gospels, Jesus explicitly says: “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40).

It reveals that Jonah’s fish experience was itself the prototype of the pyramid/King’s Chamber initiation.

Jesus was consciously repeating the same rite Jonah had undergone centuries earlier.The “interactive virtual reality” mentioned in the excerpt (visions of future choices, resurrection demonstration, planetary service) would apply to Jonah too — he received prophetic insights and aligned his life while “inside the fish.”

Bible (Book of Jonah): The historical/prophetic narrative remains intact, but it is revealed as an esoteric allegory of mystery-school training rather than a standalone folk miracle.

Nineveh’s repentance becomes the outward fruit of Jonah’s inner initiatory transformation.

Yunus is no longer just “the companion of the fish” — he is an initiate who passed through the same death-rebirth gateway that the Messiah later walked.

It places Jonah/Yunus within a continuous chain of initiates (Essene, Egyptian, etc.) rather than as an isolated biblical figure.

show us a sign and then we will believe.9. I was not sent to earth to buy up faith as men buy fish and fruit and rubbish in the streets.10. Men seem to think it quite a favour done to me when they confess their faith in me and in the holy Christ.11. What does it matter unto me as man if you believe or disbelieve?12. Faith is not something you can buy with coin; it is not something you can sell for gold.13. Once Mart, a beggar, followed me and cried, Give me a silver piece; then I will believe in you.14. And you are like this beggar man; you offer to exchange your faith for signs.15. But I will give to all the world one sign as surety that the Christ abides with me.16. You all have read the parable of Jonah and the fish, wherein it is recorded that the prophet spent three days and nights within the stomach of the mighty fish, and then came forth.17. The son of man will spend three days and nights within the heart of earth and then come forth again, and men will see and know.18. Behold, the light may be so bright that men cannot see anything.19. The Spirit light has shown so brightly over Galilee that you who hear me now are blind.20. You may have read the words of prophet Azrael; he said, The light shall shine out brightly in the darkness of the night, and men shall comprehend it not.21. That time has come; the light shines forth; you see it not.22. The Queen of Sheba sat in darkest night and still she yearned for light.23. She came to hear the words of wisdom from the lips of Solomon, and she believed;24. And she became a living torch, and when she reached her home, lo, all Arabia was filled with light.25. A greater far than Solomon is here; the Christ is here; the Day Star had risen, and you reject the light.26. And you remember Nineveh, the wicked city of Assyria, which God had marked to be destroyed by shock and flame unless the people turned and walked in ways of right.27. And Jonah raised his voice and said, In forty days shall Nineveh be razed, and her wealth shall be destroyed.28. The people heard and they believed; and they reformed and turned to ways of right, and lo, their city was not razed; was not destroyed.29. You men of Galilee, I tell you that Arabia and Nineveh will testify against you in the judgment day.30. Behold, for every one to whom I speak has in him all the fires of God; but they are lying dead.31. The will is bridled by the flesh desires, and it brings not the ethers of the fires to vibrate into light.32. Look, therefore, to your soul and note, Is not the light within you dark as night?33. There is no breath but Holy Breath that e'er can fan your fires of life into a living flame and make them light.34. And Holy Breath can raise the ethers of the fires to light in none but hearts of purity and love.35. Hear, then, you men of Galilee, Make pure the heart, admit the Holy Breath, and then your bodies will be full of light.36. And like a city on a hill, your light will shine afar, and thus your light may light the way for other men.

Who do they think I am?23. And Matthew said, Some say that you are David come again; some say that you are Enoch, Solomon, or Seth.24. And Andrew said, I heard a ruler of the synagogue exclaim, This man is Jeremiah, for he speaks like Jeremiah wrote.25. Nathaniel said, The foreign masters who were with us for a time, declared that Jesus is Gautama come again.26. James said, I think that most the Jews believe you are the reappearance of Elijah on the earth.27. And John spoke out and said, When we were in Jerusalem I heard a seer exclaim, This Jesus is none other than Melchizedek, the king of peace, who lived about two thousand years ago, and said that he would come again.28. And Thomas said, The Tetrarch Herod thinks that you are John arisen from the dead;29. But then his conscience troubles him; the spirit of the murdered John looms up before him in his dreams, and haunts him as a spectre of the night.30. And Jesus asked, Who do you think I am?31. And Peter said, You are the Christ, the love of God made manifest to men.32. And Jesus said, Thrice blessed are you, Simon, Jonas' son.

They joined with Jonah and with Zebedee, and in their boats went out to fish,3. They toiled all night and when the morning came they had no fish.4. And as they neared the shore a man stood on the shore and said, How many fish have you?5. And Peter answered, None.6. Again the man called out and said, A school of fish is passing now upon the right side of your boat; cast out your net.7. They cast their net, and it was filled; and John exclaimed, It is the Lord who stands upon the shore.8. And Peter plunged into the sea and swam to shore.