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The Ship of Heaven [Aeon Journal]
... be understood apart from the basic character of the enclosed
sun. Illuminated by the solar orb, Saturn's celestial dwelling
presented a brightly lit half, so that as the Earth turned on
its axis, earthbound observers saw two revolving semicircles of
light and shadow moving in a vast pathway around the stationary
orb of Saturn. Hence, our model implies that the ship was part
and parcel of the sun god's enclosure. In the Egyptian Pyramid
Texts, King Unas announces, "I revolve round heaven like Ra, I
sail round heaven like Thoth." (23) While Ra's image is the
enclosed sun, the common symbol of Thoth is the
crescent-enclosure. Allowing the one image to explain the other,
we see that Unas does not here engage in two separate acts, but
in a single act depicted in two different ways: to revolve
within the Aten is to sail in the crescent ship of Thoth. "I
stand up in thy enclosure, O Maa; I sail round about," reads the
Book of the Dead. (24) From such
The Hermes Connection [Aeon Journal]
... the Hindu Siva (Shiva). A revitalization of the hermetic
legends in Egypt was brought to full fruition by Seti the Great
of the Tanitic Dynasty-- in the second half of the 7th century
B.C., according to the historical reconstruction of Velikovsky.
Seti's royal name was taken from the dark god Set, another
Saturnian image or avatar, whom Wallis Budge claimed was equated
with Hermes/Mercury, (12) although this identification stems
from the late Ptolemaic period. Seti's formalized regnal
association was with the comparable Egyptian deity Thoth (12a),
who is equated with Hermes. (13) Thus, Velikovsky's
historiographic analysis is supported by this association. A
comparison of a "dark god" with other ancient attributes
pertaining to a bright effulgence presents a duality often
encountered in myth. In Roman lore, for example, the Siva-like
god of beginnings and endings, who was secondary only to Jupiter
(Zeus), was the two-faced Janus Bifrons who also wore the
broad-brimmed hat, the petasus. This Janus evolved into a solar
deity and became associated
The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg [Aeon Journal]
... is accompanied by thunder and the shrieking wind. This is
the "voice" of God. Somewhere above the sky a mighty penis
reaches an orgasm that shakes the heaven...As saliva can be seen
mixed with breath during forceful human speech, so the
"speaking" of the divine penis is accompanied by a powerful
blast of wind, the holy, creative spirit, bearing the "spittle"
of semen. This "spittle" is the visible "speech" of God... (49)
In fact the Egyptian Thoth, whom the theologians of Hermopolis
accepted as "the true universal Demiurge," was believed to have
"accomplished the work of creation by the sound of his voice
alone." It was he, according to this particular theology, who
was responsible for the hatching of the world-egg. (50) But
since, as we have elsewhere seen, (51) the Word was synonymous
with light-- and the sources really say nothing about the
fructifying rain-- so must the Seed have been. The "mighty
Thanatos and Anastasis [Aeon Journal]
... by Set and the right to the throne of Egypt...Osiris was
vindicated, and he was pronounced Ôjustified,' that is, Ôtrue,'
or Ôrighteous of voice'" (Pyr. 316-318 ). (46) Once the verdict
in favor of Osiris was delivered-- from that time forward the
idea of truth was associated with [him and he became the god of
truth, and of those who spoke the truth. Moreover, Osiris,
having been declared true of word, or true of voice, by Thoth,
went up into heaven, and reigned there as king. He also became
judge of the dead [and had the power and the knowledge necessary
for "weighing" [the words of men when they should be tried at
the last judgment. (47) Though Jesus was ultimately crucified,
Pilate could find no fault with him and "washed his hands of
this innocent man's blood." Later, Jesus was even termed the
"Sun of Righteousness." (48 ) Jesus and Osiris both came to
preside over
Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Aeon Journal]
... the movements of the planet Venus. This view is almost
certainly incorrect and has had a retarding influence upon a
proper understanding of ancient Egyptian religious development.
Also undermined by this new understanding of Sothis as Venus is
the logic behind the identifications of other celestial bodies
mentioned in the Pyramid Texts, including S3h and Horus as the
Morning Star. Indeed, we would suggest a thorough reevaluation
of all astral identifications in the most ancient Egyptian
texts, including such apparently obvious celestial bodies as
those typically assigned to Ra (the Sun), Thoth (the Moon), and
the circumpolar stars. Until now the study of the most ancient
texts has been governed by a uniformitarian approach to the
ancient cosmos; namely, the belief that the currently most
prominent celestial bodies must have been uppermost in the
ancients' minds as well. The latter belief is demonstrably
erroneous. A new approach to the ancient traditions is
warranted, one free from preconceptions based upon the current
arrangement of the solar system. The key to these researches, as
always, must be the comparative method
Astral Kingship [Aeon Journal]
... Sed festival ceremony...served to neutralize the forces
threatening peace" in the minds of the Egyptian populace who
retained "the faint memory of past struggles" involving the
unification of Egypt and feared a disintegration of that
political stabilization and peace. (117) This purely
sociological and earthbound interpretation of the Sed festival,
on the part of Montet, falls flat, however. Furthermore, he may
have misconstrued the significance of an Old Kingdom Egyptian
text which referred to the divinities Horus, Set, Osiris
Khenti-irty, Isis, Nephthys and Thoth as a single entity within
the framework of the Sed festival. In one chapter of the Pyramid
Texts, the same deities are invoked, reviled and most strongly
urged to return to their place of origin and the king is
forbidden to welcome them. (118 ) Montet found it "difficult to
understand why [such popular gods should have been treated so
harshly." If these deities were originally planetary gods then
it is not at all difficult to understand why they were entreated
to "return to their place of origin.
Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification [Aeon
Journal]
... Jupiter. (2) The one exception, of course, was Athena, whom
Velikovsky identified with the planet Venus, rather than with
the Moon as per the majority of classical writers. Here we must
concur with Velikovsky's judgment, although one can only shudder
at the thought of what course Velikovsky's work might have taken
had he retained the lunar identification of Athena.
Extrapolating from the Greek sources, Velikovsky identified the
ancient Egyptian gods with the planetary regents of their Greek
counterparts. Ra, accordingly, was identified with the sun;
Thoth with Mercury; Hathor with Venus; and Horus with Jupiter.
(3) The same strategy was also employed with regard to the
pantheons of Mesopotamia and India. That there are problems with
Velikovsky's approach to the ancient sources has been shown by
Cardona, Mewhinney, and others. (4) These writers have
documented that Velikovsky's research occasionally suffered from
his penchant for drawing far-reaching conclusions from a minimum
of hard evidence. Cardona, for example, in his series "Child of
Saturn," has expressed doubt about Velikovsky's thesis
From Myth to a Physical Model [Aeon Journal]
... the general tradition, the hero comes forth as the outflow
of the heart, which is what the myths mean when they identify
the hero as the externalized "will" or "desire" of the
creator-king-- the Demiurge (c.f., the Greek Eros: in numerous
sources one notes that the will or outflow of the creator's
heart took form as the warrior hero). In the case of Egyptian
symbolism the relationship can be confirmed in every major
variant of the warrior hero, from Shu, to Horus, to Thoth. The
heart from which the hero is born is the great goddess.
Venus-Eye I believe it was O.G.S. Crawford who first drew
scholars' attention to the widespread pictographs and symbolic
images of what he called "the Eye Goddess." But the planet Venus
he never mentioned, so he missed the key. It is incredible how
frequently one encounters the identity of the planet Venus or
Venus-goddess as eye or Great Eye. Egypt, Mesopotamia, China,
the Americas, Polynesia-- it is everywhere. But no one
Morning Star* [Aeon Journal]
... point, Horus additionally received the epithet Heru-ahai,
that is simply Horus the Pillar. (267) But because Mars, due to
its eccentric orbit, was seen from Earth to periodically move
down this pillar away from the encircling band, often visualized
as an encircling wall, Horus was also lauded as "he who is south
of [i.e., below the wall." (268 ) One last item I wish to
mention, because we have to draw the line somewhere, is that in
a somewhat late myth, Thoth decreed that Horus Behutet should
thenceforth be called Light-giver. (269) I mention this because
a near-identical name-- Light Bringer or Light Bearer, that is
Lucifer-- was one of the Latin names for the Morning Star. THE
DUAT When we saw Horus described as the god, or chief, of the
Netherworld, the word translated as "Netherworld" by Mercer is
"D3t," and/or "Dw3t," which I shall here simply render as "Dua"
and "Duat."
The Crescent II [The Saturn Myth] [Books]
... enclosure." (25) Is there any direct statement that the
enclosure depicted in the sign is the ship's pathway? The
Egyptians called the band Aten or khu (" glory," "halo"): "Hail
to you who sails in his Khu, who navigates a circle within his
Aten," reads the Book of the Dead. (26) Clearly, the subject is
the crescent-enclosure. In the Pyramid Texts, King Unas
announces, "I revolve round heaven like Re, I sail round heaven
like Thoth." While Re's image is the Aten, the common symbol of
Thoth is the crescent-enclosure. Allowing the one image to
explain the other, we see that Unas does not here engage in two
separate acts, but in a single act depicted in two different
ways: to revolve within the Aten is to sail in the crescent-ship
of Thoth. (27) The circle of the Aten is the "brow" of Re, and
it is on Re's brow that the texts locate the ship: "I fly up and
The Crescent [The Saturn Myth] [Books]
... . Of the black and white brothers the world knows no older
example than the Egyptian pair Horus and Set. In fig. 67 the
heads of Horus and Set appear upon one body, looking to the
right and left. The black head of Set contrasts sharply with the
light head of Horus, emphasizing the pair's role as "the two
opponent gods." Closely related to Horus and Set are the twins
Isis and Nephthys, often portrayed back to back (fig. 67). The
Egyptian pairs Shu and Tefnut, Thoth and Maat, Sekhet and Neith
all reveal a similar underlying character. In the Book of the
Dead the pictograph of the two "portions" of Horus and Set is
the sign, the band of the Aten. (21) The clear implication is
that the sun-god's enclosure possesses two twin-like divisions,
one light, the other dark. Moreover, if the circle of the Aten
is half light, half dark, surely one cannot ignore the related
sign, the crescent-enclosure, which appears to provide a literal
illustration of the
The Great Father [The Saturn Myth] [Books]
... Ani is the hair of Nu. The face of Osiris Ani is the face of
Re. The eyes of Osiris Ani are the eyes of Hathor. The ears of
Osiris Ani are the ears of Ap-uat. The lips of Osiris Ani are
the lips of Anpu... (24) In almost the same words, the Papyrus
of Nu joins the divinities Osiris, Ptah, Anpu, Hathor, Horus,
Isis, and others to the body of Re. (25) In the Memphite
theology Atum, Horus, Thoth, and the company of gods became the
limbs of Ptah. (26) Syncretization of this sort, though
appearing absurd to us today, actually helped to preserve the
original idea against the eroding forces of cultural
assimilation. Faced with a growing number of competing deities,
the priests proclaimed: there was only one great god in the
beginning, whose body encompassed a circle of subordinate
deities. In a subsequent development of the myth, the Heaven Man
passed into a mythical-philosophical explanation of our Earth
and the material universe as a
The Dawn of Astronomy: A Study of the Temple-Worship and
Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians [Dawn of Astronomy (Book)]
... Osiris (as a Mummy) 26 Plan of the Temple of Rameses II. in
the Memnonia at Thebes 159 Osiris seated 27 Plan of Temples at
Medînet-Habû 164 Various Forms of Bes-- as Warrior, Musician,
and Buffoon 28 The Bent Axis of the Temple of Luxor 165
Khons-Lunus, Thoth-Lunus, the Goddess Sesheta 29 The Laying of
the Foundation Stone Ceremonial 174 The Weighing of the Soul by
Horus and Anubis, in Presence of Osiris 30 Plan of the Temples
at Karnak, showing their Orientations to face p. 183 183 Thoth
and Sesheta writing the Name of Rameses II. on the Fruit of the
Persea 31 Plan of Denderah 192 Cleopatra as the Goddess Isis 32
Ruins of the Mamisi (Place of Birth) or Temple of Isis at
Denderah 195 Isis (seated). 33 Ceremonial Procession in an
Egyptian Temple 199 The Rising Sun Horus between Isis and
Nephthys 34 Orientation of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah 202
The Goddess Nu-t 35 Capital, with Masks of Hathor with Cow's
Ears 216 The Goddess Nu-t represented Double 36 The Cow of Isis
217 Various
Chapter III: the Astroxomical Basis of the Egyptiax Pantheon
[Dawn of Astronomy (Book)]
... suggests that the former was imported. In the form of Typhon
the goddess Taurt is represented as a hippopotamus, while for
Anubis the emblem is a jackal. In all illustrations of funeral
ceremonies the above-mentioned figure largely. In the Book of
the Dead we find that in the representations of the judgment of
the dead, besides Osiris we have Anubis. both responsible for
the weighing of the soul. With the moon we find two gods
connected-- Thoth-lunus and Khons-lunus-- though the coimection
is not a very obvious one. Thoth is also associated with the
Egyptian year, and is variously represented, all forms, however,
are based upon the ibis. For the stars generally we find a
special goddess, Sesheta. Khons-Lunus Thoth-lumus The Godess
Sesheta Thoth as the sacred scribe and Sesheta as the
star-goddess are often represented together engaged in writing.
Associated with the phenomena of morning and evening we find the
following divinities. The attributes stated are those now
generally accepted. This is a subject which will occupy us in
the sequel. The Weighing of the Soul
Chapter XVII: the Building Inscriptions [Dawn of Astronomy
(Book)]
... temple of Hathor at Denderah. The Alignment of the Temple of
Hathor at Dexderah The inscriptions state that the king while
stretching the cord had his glance directed to the ak of the
constellation of the Thigh-- the old name of the constellation
which we now recognise as the Great Bear-- and on this line was
built the new temple, "as had been done there before." The
actual inscription has been translated as follows:-- "The living
God, the magnificent son of Asti [a name of Thoth, nourished by
the sublime goddess in the temple, the sovereign of the country,
stretches the rope in joy. With his glance towards the ak [the
middle? of the Bull's Thigh constellation, he establishes the
temple-house of the mistress of Denderah, as took place there
before." At another place the king says: "Looking to the sky at
the course of the rising stars [and recognising the ak of the
Bull's Thigh constellation, I establish the corners of the
temple of Her Majesty." Here
Chapter XXII: Star-Cults (Continued) -- Amen-t and Khons [Dawn
of Astronomy (Book)]
... reference is different-- we have the generic name of the
triad in one case, the specific name of the member of the triad
in the other. As this is the first time a setting star has been
in question, it is well to point out that in this case the
ancient Egyptians no longer typified the star as a goddess but
as a god-- and, more than this, as a dying god; for Khons is
always represented as a mummy-- the Osiris form. Egyptologists
state that both Thoth and Khons were moon-gods. Perhaps the
lunar attributes were assigned prior to the establishment of
sun-worship. I shall show, subsequently, that the temples now
being considered find their place in continuous series
stretching back in the case of Amen-t to 3750 B.C., and in the
case of Khons to possibly long anterior date. In the case of
Amen-t and Khons, therefore, where we are free from the
difficulties connected with the interchange of the titles of
Isis and Hathor at Denderah, the star-cults stand out much more
clearly,
Chapter XXXVI: General Conclusions As to the North and South
Races [Dawn of Astronomy (Book)]
... know it did, about 3700 B.C., for one beginning at the
summer solstice. In the above list I have indicated Osiris as a
Moon-god. Many inscriptions might be quoted similar to the
following one:-- "Salute a te, Hesiri, il signore dell eternitá.
Quando tu sei in Cielo, tu apparisci come sole, et tu rinnuovi
la tua forma comme Luno." [2 It has also to be borne in mind
that the complicated headdress, including the goat's horns, is
represented in connection with Thoth Chnemu and Osiris. [3 Later
he was unquestionably a sun-god, but this would be certain to
happen if the southern intruders worshipped the moon in the
first line. Further, if in later times he represented both sun
and moon, as he certainly did, it is not probable that he did so
from the beginning. All the special symbolism refers to him as a
Moon-god; he is certainly a Moon-god in the myth of Iris and
Osiris, for he was cut into fourteen pieces, the number of days
of
As the Cross of the Cardinal Points [Migration of Symbols
(Book)]
... (Plate II). But the cardinal points still retained their
importance. The sky goddess Nut was depicted bending over the
earth, usually, but not always, with her head to the west and
her loins to the east; her arms and legs were the four pillars
of the sky. Similarly the legs of the Celestial cow of Nut and
Hathor represented the four quarters. The four Horuses of the
horizon were guardians of the four' quarters, or Osiris or Horus
presided over the south, Set over the north, Thoth over the west
and Sapdi over the east. At an earlier period, as has been
indicated, Osiris was the "first of the Westerners" and Re the
god of the East. In the Pyramid Texts, 204-6, Set is King of the
South and Horus King of the North. 9 Dr. S. Birch has translated
an Egyptian "magical text", which refers to four mansions, each
four stories high, situated at Abydos, and gives the
explanation: There are four mansions of life. Osiris
The Genesis of Israel and Egypt [SIS C&C Review]
... of both Egypt and Mesopotamia. In summary then Abraham and
Menes share at least three outstanding features. a. Both were
credited with initiating civilised life and being cultural
innovators. b. Both were believed to have introduced new forms
of religious worship including, almost certainly, flesh
sacrifice. c. Both were associated with circumcision and were
linked to a phallic cult. A further consideration adds yet more
weight to the argument. Abraham, as well as Menes, are clearly
related, in terms of general character, to the god Thoth/Hermes.
Amongst the Egyptians, Thoth was regarded as the patron of
learning and it was believed he bequeathed civilisation to
mankind. It was said that he invented language, writing and
medicine. The Greeks regarded Thoth (whom they associated with
their own Hermes) as one of the oldest gods. He had a frivolous
and impetuous nature and, it was suggested, could be
destructive. It was said he assisted the Three Fates in the
invention of writing, astronomy, the musical scale, the arts of
boxing and ...
Egyptian Chronology - The Multiple Name Factor [SIS C&C
Workshop]
... of one nome differing sensibly from those of another.'[4.
Changes in religious practices and emphasis among gods also
almost certainly occurred over time. The Ptolemies are known as
a matter of policy to have supported the Egyptian priesthoods
and temples. Hence any given Ptolemaic king probably received
different Egyptian titularies or 'names' in dedications or other
inscriptions in the various temples or other structures which he
built, repaired, or otherwise supported in different parts of
Egypt. If a Ptolemy endowed a temple that was primarily devoted
to the god Thoth would the priests of that temple describe the
king as a son of Thoth or a son of Ra? If he also supported
another temple whose priests considered Ra as supreme, would
these priests call him the son of Ra or the son of Thoth?
Furthermore, if these names were basically religious and
symbolic in nature, should we be surprised that the same names
or minor variants of them were used in the inscriptions of many
different Ptolemaic rulers who provided upkeep or financed
additions to the same temples? All male Ptolemaic rulers
Shoshenq I and the Traditions of New Kingdom Kingship in Egypt
[SIS C&C Review]
... Memphis, Shedsunefertem, was previously identified wrongly
as an embalming table dedicated under Shoshenq I for the Apis
Bull [3; however, like other fragments of his works, this was
ultimately, after several phases of reuse, buried in the
foundations of a later structure. At el-Hiba, between Beni Suef
and el-Minya, Shoshenq I constructed a temple against the west
side of the great mudbrick fortress built over a century earlier
by the Theban High Priests Pinudjem and Menkheperre. This temple
is dedicated to local aspects of Amun, Sekhmet and Thoth and the
scenes and inscriptions were completed by Shoshenq I's
successor, Osorkon I. This monument was built of an inferior
quality limestone, probably quarried locally, and the walls have
been eroded severely by the effects of dampness. It is
nevertheless a rare example of an original building of this
period. None of the monuments mentioned above is precisely dated
within Shoshenq I's reign. At Karnak, however, where the
grandest and best preserved of his building projects is to be
found, we know that the work was not begun until
Velikovsky's "The Tomb of Ahiram" [SIS C&C Review]
... the left-hand side.- These gangs of workmen are very well
documented, and the census lists which were taken at the
beginning and end of each shift are very well documented as
well. That is one source of information for the length of the
year. Q: What happened to the other five days? Jones: They were
festival days. At Deir el-Medineh there were five festival days
for the five main gods they worshipped: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II,
Pharaoh Amenhotep I, the god Bes, the goddess Hathor and the god
Thoth. The other source of information on the length of the year
is the ushabti figures, which are workman substitutes buried
along with the funerary equipment of a good Egyptian burial. A
set of these ushabti figures always comprises 360 figures plus a
number of overseer figures, which provides one worker for each
day of the year, or a gang of 10 for each of the 36 "weeks":
this is another indication of the number of days in the year.
Actual textual information is very difficult to assess, because
we
Exodus [SIS C&C Review]
... refers to the slaughtering of the FIRST BORN (eldest) sons
of Whose Name is Hidden. This was the pseudonym of the dragon
Apepi [11, the great comet of myth. The eldest was also known as
the First Born God, the epithet of Horus, son of Osiris. In hymn
393 of the Pyramid Texts the sky is overcast, the stars are
darkened, the celestial expanses shake (or explode) and the
bones of the earth tremble... etc. Warshawky made a connection
between the Judgement of Thoth and Moses receiving the Law on
Mount Sinai and went on to suggest that the punishment of Seth,
the Bull, being ridden by Osiris, is the same story as Balaam
riding a donkey [12. As a result, Warshawky claimed the Pyramid
Texts must have been written after the Exodus- either the Exodus
preceded the Old Kingdom or the Texts were written after the end
of the Middle Kingdom. The Exodus story has as its background a
human migration from one land to another, involving what became
known as Palestine.
Edfu Books (Advert) [SIS C&C Review]
... and that the Israelites were paid a large tribute by Ahmose
I to leave Egypt- which they used to fabricate the Tabernacle
and the Ark of the Covenant. A further revelation, that springs
directly from this quotation, is that the biblical Mt Sinai is
most probably the Great Pyramid of Giza. If this were the case,
then the circling of the 'mountains' around Sinai was in fact a
ceremonial circumnavigation of Giza- a ritual that is preserved
to this day by the circling of the Ka'ba in Mecca. By Ralph
Ellis Thoth, Architect of the Universe Takes a radical look at
the henges of Britain and the pyramids of Giza, and concludes
that they were both designed to represent maps of the Earth- and
each of these ancient maps comes complete with outlines of
continents and lines of latitude correctly marked. The diagrams
that demonstrate this are simple copies of these great
monuments, but viewed from an unusual perspective. K2, Quest of
the Gods Taking this idea one step further, K2 QotG identifies
the precise location on the surface of the Earth that
The Exodus in the Pyramid Texts? [SIS C&C Workshop]
... the Hymn is a description of the killing of Horus the Child
by Seth, and also a description of the plague of the "killing of
the first born". The killing of the first born in heaven
"caused" the plague on earth to be called as such. Velikovsky
took great pains to rewrite bechor as bekhor, "first born" as
''chosen''.(11) I think the word may derive from the Egyptian
b'ik hor (the Greek Harpocrates) and have both meanings. The
"judgement of Thoth" the Hebrews saw as the giving of the Law on
Mount Sinai, the punishment of Seth being ridden by Osiris as
the story of Balaam and his donkey. The planet involved seems to
be Venus. If I am correct, then the Hymn was written after the
Exodus and this would imply that also most of the Pyramid Texts
were written after the Exodus. Therefore, either the Exodus must
be moved back to the Old Kingdom or the Pyramid Texts must have
been written after the Middle Kingdom. The alternative that the
Alan Alford's The Phoenix Solution [SIS Internet Digest]
... Sirius symbols of the exploded planet? Did Orion mark the
gateway to the heavenly Duat and the 'body of Nut'? The Nine
Bows and the Shemsu-Hor as planets of the original solar system.
Part Three: New Horizons. 10: THE METAPHYSICAL PYRAMID: The
Double-Lion god in the Egyptian Duat, the etymology of Ta-Meri-
ancient land of creation, rebirth and ascension. The two
horizons or 'mountains' of the Duat. A new theory on the
satellite pyramids- did they literally represent planetary
satellites? The cosmic identity of Thoth, and why he was called
Hermes Trismegistus? Why Egyptian sarcophagi were designed to be
empty. 11: SECRETS OF ABYDOS AND GIZA: Two exploded planets in
Egyptian and Mesopotamian mythology. How numerical symbolism was
used to represent planetary gods in ancient Egypt. 12: KHUFU-
SON OF A SATANIC GOD: A reappraisal of the Egyptian 4th Dynasty.
Decoding the symbolic meaning of Sneferu's two giant pyramids at
Dahshur. Evidence for Khufu being an evil tyrant and literally a
'satanic' king. Was Khufu imprisoned inside the Great Pyramid
A Critical Re-appraisal of the Book of Genesis, Part Two [SIS
C&C Workshop]
... p.169. 46. Ibid., p.170. 47. Note: Before the Babel incident
of Genesis chapter 11, Scripture informs us: "Now the whole
earth had one language and few words" (11:1). 48. The
Babylonians have a legend of a god-like being, Oannes, whom they
believed to have been the original instructor of mankind. An old
Babylonian account says that "for six days he instructed
Alorus." The place occupied by Oannes in Babylonian stories is,
in Egyptian tradition taken by Thoth. The Egyptian maintained
that it was Thoth, "the lord of wisdom," who taught mankind to
write. 49. Ginzberg, op. cit., p.195. 50. Wiseman, op. cit. [45,
p.66. Occasional Publications Series A list of the titles
complete with prices is now being prepared. Members seeking
further information should contact Derek Shelley-Pearce at the
address given on page 1.
\cdrom\pubs\journals\workshop\w1987no2\03book.htm
Letters [SIS C&C Workshop]
... . From there, via Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, it is only
a matter of island hopping to Queensland. b. In the early 1960s,
British Museum scientists (no referenec given) discovered that,
from about 1,000BC onwards, eucalyptus resin was employed in the
embalming of the dead, among other uses. As such a commodity
could only have been obtained in those times from New Guinea or
Australia, did Egyptians make regular expeditions that far
afield? c. The Gympie 'Ape Man' bears a resemblance to Thoth,
depicted as a squatting ape prior to 1,000BC. Mr Gilmour claims
to see a symbol, between the squatting legs of the 'Ape Man',
identical to the Egyptian hieroglyph for a papyrus flower,
Thoth's symbol as the god of writing. If I have not strained
credulity too far already, may I now direct the reader's
attention to an article in Nexus magazine (PO Box 30, Mapleton,
Queensland 4560), April/May 1994, by Paul White? In it, he
claims to have been
It's Time to Get Serious About Manetho [SIS C&C Review]
... same gentleman known by modern historians as Ramesses III?
What if modern scholarship misread Manetho from the very outset?
Manetho Revisited The work of the Manetho must be part of the
basic toolkit for any budding Egyptologist, yet modern textbooks
appear disturbingly light on information. According to a 1902
publication, 'This distinguished man was born at Sebennytus, the
Thebneteret of the hieroglyphic inscriptions, and he flourished
in the reigns of Ptolemy Lagus and Ptolemy Philadelphus; his
name seems to be the Greek form of the Egyptian Ma'en-Tehuti,
i.e. 'gift of Thoth'... He is described as a 'high priest and
scribe', and bore a reputation for great learning, and he was
undoubtedly admirably fitted to draw up, in Greek, the history
of Egypt... He divided the kings of Egypt into thirty
dynasties... Now the principal versions of the King List of
Manetho are four in number, and they are found in the famous
'Chronography', which was drawn up about the end of the VIIIth
century of our era by George the Monk,
Pharaoh Seti the Great and His Foreign Connections [Kronos]
... that the Greek predilection for geometric explanations of
nature, their use of the "Golden Section" in pottery, sculpture,
and temple alike, and even the dualism between "sensible and
intelligible worlds"-- nearly definitive of Plato's system-- are
as much stamped with the seals of ancient Egypt as were the
doors of Egyptian tombs. All of this still leaves unaddressed
the revised chronology. In this case, there are two significant
pieces of Greek evidence: The Greek emphasis upon Hermes,
identical in all respects to Egypt's Thoth, and the cosmological
Timaeus of Plato, which contains definitive related passages to
the Egyptian Book of Gates and to the theology of Heliopolis.
Specialists in Egyptology know that the Book of Gates is
peculiar in literary history. Thus we are not merely indicating
some generic Egyptian characteristic, such as reverence for
Osiris. On the Egyptian side, two matching pieces of evidence
emerge: The Book of Gates inscribed on Seti's alabaster
sarcophagus and also, with very minor variations, in his
cenotaph at Abydos. There is also the curious story
Pharaoh Seti the (Great and His Foreign Connections - II
[Kronos]
... and Neugebauer, in his Egyptian Astronomical Texts, I, try
to make sense of the thing, but there is much to be said for the
notion that it is not even a clock for any ordinary purpose.
Neugebauer's account is worth further discussion in a later part
of this series. (6) Finally, on the West side of the roof, one
will find the "Dramatic Texts", usually supposed to deal with
the "mysteries" involved in the relations between the principal
gods of the Egyptians. Horus, Thoth, Isis, Osiris, Set,
Nephthys, Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, and Nut figure strongly in
these mysteries; there is a family history to unravel, and
Pharaoh's relation to it or identity with it. LIVING DESCENDENTS
OF SETI'S CENOTAPH The present Dalai Lama of Tibet- the
Fourteenth- is, for Tibetan Buddhists, an incarnation of
Chenrezi- a timeless spirit, some of whose bodies are entombed
in the Potala at Lhasa. Many Occidentals may find this belief
quaint and absurd. Buddhists acquainted with the
"Let There be Light" [Kronos]
... " Why would it be said that the Sun was as resplendent as
the Sun? But why, then, did the ancients themselves confuse
Saturn with the Sun?-- for there is no doubt that the later
Egyptians, who passed the fallacy on to the Greeks, looked upon
Ra as the embodiment of the solar energy. The answer to this
riddle, as to many others of similar kind, is best illustrated
by the story of Thamus, a mythological king of Egypt, who, with
the following words, reproached Thoth for having invented
writing:" 'Most ingenious Theuth [Thoth... one man has the
ability to beget arts but the ability to judge of their
usefulness or harmfulness... belongs to another; and now you,
who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection
to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they
really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in
the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not
practice their memory. Their trust in
Mercury [Velikovsky Archive Website]
... Sinai refers to Sin, the Moon, so the name of Mount Nebo in
Moab where Moses died (2) was called already in that early time
by the name of the planet Mercury. Later in the seventh and
sixth centuries before the present era, this god was much
venerated, especially by the Chaldeans and other peoples of
Mesopotamia, as the names of Nabopolassar and his son
Nebuchadnezzar prove. (3) In earlier times Mercury was known to
the Sumerians as Enki. (4) Equally pronounced was the position
of Thoth, the planet Mercury of the Egyptian pantheon, the
theophoric part of the name Thutmose. (5) For the northern
peoples, Mercury was Odin. (6) It is characteristic that in many
astronomical texts Mercury, the Greek Hermes, the Babylonian
Nebo, the Egyptian Thoth, is portrayed as the planet-god which
had in his dominion the physiological capacity of memory in man,
(7) as well as that of speech. According to Augustine, ? speech
is Mercury.? (8 ) Direct information that confirms
Deification of the Planets [Velikovsky Archive Website]
... the Moon, but prima facie with the planets. Marduk, the
great god of the Babylonians, was the planet Jupiter; so was
Amon of the Egyptians, Zeus of the Greeks and Jupiter of the
Romans. (1) It was much superior to Shamash-Helios, the Sun. Why
was it revered by all peoples? Why was the planet Mars chosen to
be the personification of the god of war? Why did Kronos of the
Greeks, Saturn of the Romans, play a part in hundreds of myths
and legends? Thoth of the Egyptians, Nebo and Nergal of the
Babylonians, Mithra and Mazda of the Persians, Vishnu and Shiva
of the Hindus, Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl of the Mexicans,
were personifications of planets; innumerable hymns were
dedicated to them and adventures and exploits ascribed to them.
? The life of our planet has its real source in the Sun,? wrote
E. Renan. ? All force is a transformation of the Sun. Before
religion had gone so far as to proclaim that God must be placed
in the absolute and
'KA', AND EGYPTIAN MAGIC [Quantavolution Website]
... soldiers with weapons pointing the wrong way, cut bowstrings
and so on, together with magic words and instructions for use.
There is also a story of a wax model of a crocodile being thrown
into a river, turning into a real one, and seizing a man.
Magical rites and incantations were used to install souls in
animals, to cure illnesses, to provide a home for the dead
person by preserving the khat, or physical body, and to raise
the dead. The means for achieving all this is the god Thoth. He
is referred to as the god who made Osiris victorious, just as
the Greek Hermes is referred to as the slayer of the monster
Argos. (Horus is called the Lord of the Divine Staff whereby all
the gods have been made victorious, and Hermes Trismegistos,
Thrice Great Hermes, is a name of Thoth). He was the "son of
Aner, coming forth from the two Aners?" Egyptian aner is a
stone. (Budge). The ibis is a bird renowned for its skill in
CHAOS AND CREATION: CHAPTER 09: THE OLYMPIAN RULERS
[Quantavolution Website]
... skies. Again Seth is taking the onus for Horus' action,
while Zeus is doing his own job. The next phase, perhaps upon
the occasion of the destruction of planet "Apollo" and the major
displacement of Mercury, sees, in Egypt, Seth and Horus
battling, and in Greece, a revolt of the giants against the
Olympians led by Zeus. This set of events, then, would occur
over a thousand years later than the death of Osiris and would
mark the appearance of Mercury, Hermes, or Thoth as a new great
god-- that is, a god who is threatening the Earth with
destruction. The last battle against Typhon will be described
below on the occasion of the Venusian catastrophes. There Seth
is Typhon. THE BONDS OF SATURN AND JUPITER The primeval clouds
that had gathered around the pulsing electric axis between Sun
and Super-Uranus had furnished atmosphere to the magnetic tube
in which the planets grew and moved. The flow and the magnetic
field diminished, but the skies were not fully open until Jovean
times. Remnant gases
GODS FIRE: CHAPTER SIX: THE CHARISMA OF MOSES [Quantavolution
Website]
... ; the Jewish legend says that it was a temporary moratorium
on births for all people. Even birth control policies in America
have been declared forms of infanticide and genocide by
religious and racial minority leaders and writers. Egypt was a
heavily regulated, bureaucratic state. There is something to be
made of Moses' name. It is clearly Egyptian, meaning "child" or
"son" [8 and lacks the surname or prefix as, for example, in the
pharaoh's name, Thoth-Moses, or "Child of the God, Thoth"
(Mercury, Hermes). A variant theory says Moses means the "born
one" in Egyptian, which is only a clumsy version of "child."
Buber says: "That Moses bears an Egyptian name, no matter
whether it means 'born, child (of somebody)' or something like
'seed of the pond, of the water,' is part of the historical
character of the situation; he seems to derive from a largely
Egyptianized section of the people." [9 Some say the Hebrew
A FIRE NOT BLOWN: CHAPTER 12: CATASTROPHE, MYTH AND SKY
[Quantavolution Website]
... the other great cats. Wine was thought to be the blood of
those who had perished in battles in the sky. Radiation was
attributed to the five planets visible to the naked eye,
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The eye was thought to
be a source of radiation. Axe, hoe, spear and arrow were symbols
of lightning and radiation. Seven is an important number, being
five plus the sun and moon. The Cretan goddess is concerned,
like Artemis, with both animals and radiation. Thoth, the
Egyptian god of electricity who was equated with the Greek
Hermes and the Roman Mercury, was active in the sky. He
restarted Ra's boat when it had stopped. This Egyptian story is
in harmony with accounts from elsewhere, such as the record of
phenomena at the battle of Beth Horon after the Exodus, during
the invasion of Palestine by the Hebrews under Joshua [Joshua X:
13. The tholos tomb, a burial chamber approached by a passage,
the dromos, may be an imitation of the column rising
A FIRE NOT BLOWN: CHAPTER 19: LIFE [Quantavolution Website]
... reversal of the Mycenean dipas, cup, or heaven. Hittite
tipas is a cup, and also means 'heaven'. The Latin lanx, lanc-,
dish, may be El, the one above, and ankh, life. FIVES Greek
pimpremi, burn, may have a connection with the five planets that
were held to radiate divine force. The Cumbrian and Welsh, i. e.
Gallic, word pimp, used by shepherds counting sheep, means five.
The draughts board was said to have been invented by Thoth.
Alexander the Great also claimed to be the inventor. Greek
pessos is a 'man' at draughts. Etruscan pes is five. The squares
on the board may represent areas of the sky, and the Egyptians
called the 'men' dancers. At Carthage there was an important
body of five magistrates called the pentarchy. At Rome the term
quinqueviratus meant a body of five officials. CAULDRONS The
phenomenon described by Jeremiah as a seething pot facing the
north may have had some influence on the design of ancient
pottery as well as
A FIRE NOT BLOWN: CHAPTER 22: SACRED BIRDS [Quantavolution
Website]
... associated with Horus. The object appearing in Egyptian art
and hieroglyphics and called the utchat, or udjat, was the eye
of Horus or of Ra. The osprey, a bird of prey like the eagle,
was in Latin sanqualis. As with the eagle, the Romans watched
its flight. The name may incorporate sankh; the radiation of the
god was thought to give life. The buteo, falcon, was watched for
its flight. The ibis, which had great skill in killing snakes,
was associated with the god Thoth, who was equated with the
Greek Hermes and was the Egyptian electrical god par excellence.
Latin ardea is a heron. It was noted for the long crest on its
head. Of the two elements of the word, ar is clearly the fire.
Dea is rather less obvious, but Hebrew dea, knowledge, is an
attractive possibility. Ardea was the name of an Etruscan city
near Rome, capital of the Rutuli. The peacock was sacred to
Juno. Its Latin name was pavo. Perhaps the pattern on its
A FIRE NOT BLOWN: CHAPTER 24: THE NORTH [Quantavolution Website]
... is light. Hungarian kivilagit means to illuminate. The
Illyrians may even have been the people of the great light,
since the root ur means great. Perhaps Yggdrasil is the steed
[means of travel, of the light of the frightener, or the light
of the frightener's steed. The name of the actual horse of Odin
was Sleipnir. In Greek myth, the father of Eros, love, was
Poros, the passage to the sky. This suggests a link with
Dionysus and Hermes. Hermes was the Greek equivalent of Thoth,
and Dionysus was one of the deities who controlled the
thunderbolt. The Greeks were aware of the connection between a
deity of the thunderbolt and sexual passion. Tall trees such as
the pine [Greek elate, the sycamore and the cypress may be
associated with the poros. Greek hule means wood [as a material.
If reversed, hule becomes eluh, the final h being pronounced
more like ch, as in the Scottish word loch. Egyptian ucha is a
pillar. Hule, wood, is probably the tree of
SOLARIA BINARIA: PART TWO: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY:
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE JUPITER ORDER [Quantavolution Website]
... bits of the residue of a large planet, long ago exploded
[103. The time of the "asteroidal explosion" is recent (Van
Flandern) even under long-time reckoning; it is very recent if
placed in the context of Greek legend. In this context, several
events coincide and relate to the larger theory of Solaria
Binaria. Apollo has a younger brother, mischievous Hermes
(Mercury), who is a swift, winged messenger of Zeus (Jupiter)
and the gods, who is connected with electricity (especially as
Thoth, in Egypt), the creator of illusions (mental problems),
and is god of thieves, travelers, and healing. He, too, becomes
a great god, known to many- East Indians, Mexicans, Teutons, and
others. Though Yahweh reflects Jupiter, he also has qualities of
Thoth; Moses was probably a devotee of Thoth, and acts towards
Yahweh as Hermes towards Zeus (de Grazia, 1983a).
Astronomically, Mercury would have been next to Apollo, would
have acquired atmosphere and debris
GODS FIRE: CHAPTER TWO: THE SCENARIO OF EXODUS [Quantavolution
Website]
... No rulers would ever conduct any kind of discussions in
which plagues were the topic, without watching the sky; they
were talking of gods and the gods had one true home and one main
realm- the sky. This had been true since the days of creation,
thousands of years before, by ancient reckoning in many
cultures. The Pharaoh did not dispute the existence of Yahweh,
indeed he reasoned and behaved as a typical sceptical and
sophisticated ruler: "Maybe their god, which is not unlike our
gods, Amen, Thoth, and Horus, has gotten something going for
them." His obduracy, of which the Bible makes much, is to a
certain degree rational and prompted by his knowing full well
that the Hebrew complaint was almost entirely political and
economic. It was Moses' scientific renown, coupled with the
increasingly terrible natural manifestations, that prompted the
Pharaoh to conduct the negotiations on Moses' religious grounds.
He wanted any information (and so did his advisers) that would
help cope with the deteriorating general situation caused by a
raging
GODS FIRE: [Quantavolution Website]
... himself to his people and, it is important to stress, to
their enemies. The limitations of space on the kapporeth or
coverpiece of the Ark define in part the sculpture. Unlike the
winged lions and bulls, griffins and other animals fashioned as
cherubim in Assyria and elsewhere, the Ark's cherubim were
probably two-footed with unisexual human features [25. A later
Assyrian assemblage (Figure 11) is similar. So are two figures
from Egypt, showing two winged goddesses hovering protectively
over idols of Osiris, in one case, and Thoth in the other [26.
The cherubim could not be seated or squatting, because they were
facing Yahweh, but would stand with faces elevated, says the
legend [27. Figure 12 may convey some notion of their
appearance, in accord with legend and with the Bible. It may be
seen that their wings would be spread wide as a covering of the
box so that, in effect, two platform levels would be created,
one on the ample but separated pair of wings and again on the
lid of the
LIVING WITH ELECTRICITY [Quantavolution Website]
... goose, Greek 'chen', was known to the Egyptians as
'chenchenur', the great cackler. At Rome, geese were sacred to
Juno; they gave warning of the Gauls' night attack on the
Capitol. In the 1939 -1945 war, pheasants in country districts
of England gave reliable early warning of the approach of German
aircraft. We have already met the hoopoe with its erectile
crest. The ibis was a symbol to the Egyptians of the electrical
god, because of its skill at killing snakes, and to the ibis
Thoth owes the shape of his head. Thoth armed the gods for their
victory over Set. The ichneumon, or mongoose, was sacred to the
Egyptians because of a similar skill, that of finding crocodile
eggs, and the mongoose is known for its ability to catch snakes.
The jackal is sab in Egyptian. I suggest that this may be
related to the Latin 'sapere', to be wise. Anubis was the
jackal-headed god. Ambitious politicians and military men copied
the priestly practice of dressing up in the skins of animals
QUANTAVOLUTION: COSMIC HERETICS: Part 3: Chapter 9: NEW FASHIONS
IN CATASTROPHISM [Quantavolution Website]
... and cites all of his sources. It is not so easy to explain
the parallels between Velikovsky and Beaumont. Velikovsky never
mentioned or cited Beaumont. Could Velikovsky have read and
forgotten Beaumont's books? His method of proof is entirely
different; practically everything-- style, format, language,
method, and evidence-- is different; only the conclusions are
the same. And I should stress that when Deg came into possession
of the Beaumont materials, he found them mostly unusable for
methodological and theoretical reasons; Beaumont's stress upon
Thoth, however, helped convince Deg that a catastrophic age
ought to be assigned to the god Hermes and the Planet Mercury.
Moreover, with regard to both Velikovsky and de Grazia, too many
of Beaumont's conclusions are the same as theirs to explain them
as sheer coincidence. I guess that either in the 1920's or
1930's when V. was in Palestine, the books, published in England
and dealing with matters of interest to the Near East, made an
appearance in the bookstores and were seen by V. A second
possibility
GODS FIRE: [Quantavolution Website]
... , as many surmised. It denotes a young ox, an ox in the full
vigour of its youth." [30 The only reason I can offer for this
modification of the universal cow-bull theme is that the
Israelites knew that the comet was a young body in the sky. It
had not been known to them for long. The bison and bull, always
with a divine celestial connection, had been worshipped and were
sacred since time immemorial [31. Zeus, the thunderbolter,
assumed the image of the bull. Thoth (or Hermes or Mercury) took
the image of a ram, afterwards. Figure 7. Moses' Tablets and
Golden Calf Heretics. La Somme le Roy, ca. A. D. 1295 British
museum Add. MS 54180, folio 5v) Zeus, it will be recalled, had
fathered and mothered Athene who was the Greek planet Venus. The
new heavenly body, the Messiah, would take the form of a calf.
The Venus connection is obvious, with Baal, then, being Venus.
And for
A FIRE NOT BLOWN: CHAPTER 27: GLOSSARY [Quantavolution Website]
... only thing that depended on the gods. Much depended in the
mind of the ancients on the arrival or departure, presence or
absence, of objects in the sky, especially new arrivals. Much
depended, too, on the power of heroes who had divine ancestry,
on divine inspiration and on radiation. libation As well as the
Malatya relief which shows a god holding his thunderbolt over
the cup at a libation ceremony, there is a reference to libation
in the Book of the Dead which is amenable to an electrical
interpretation: Thoth dwells within his hidden places and
performs the ceremonies of libation unto the god who reckoneth
millions of years, and he maketh a way through the firmament."
[Budge's translation, p. 392 magh Hebrew for a Persian priest.
Cf. Latin magnus, great. The Sibyl became maior videri, bigger
in appearance, as the god Apollo inspired her. manna Egyptian
bener, sweet, may be related to the Latin Venus, Vener-. mouse
Greek mus, sminthos. Smintheus was one of the epithets of Apollo
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