The Prophet of the North is Moses.
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 29 01:39:42 CDT 2007
Four more hours flipping thru the complete Gods and Goddesses of Egypt
with your question as goal allow me to paint a picture of things natural,
geographical, and cosmological that are conducive to life, versus death,
and things transcendant and hidden. So much is spinning in my head, God
grant me it doesn't turn into word salad before I can get it all out.
There is diffusion and incorporation throughout, but broad impressions:
The Nile flows from south/upper to north/lower and empties into the sea.
Gods south are more nature oriented, and gods north are abstract, solar,
perhaps from mental advantage of dense civilization at the fertile delta.
Central are horned bovine goddesses, for woman and cow give life through
milk and birth. Crop-fertility gods are more to south toward head of Nile,
black skin, as Nile silt; also green skin, sprouting, as vegetation itself.
To the East and West are the "bad" gods, of storm and desert, respectively.
Probably from the South are the more African jungle type gods, a violent
male baboon god, and destructive female lion goddess, even fire-breathing.
Probably northly is the Hawk, Horus, as he is associated with the sun god.
Noxious/chaotic/demon gods are worshipped differently than beneficient gods.
Serpents are shown cut with knives, or multiple knives. Effigies
of noxious creatures in wax are melted, to show their destruction.
Noxious creatures include the hippopotamous and pigs. A royal hunt
of hippopotamous represents killing (...Seth?). The night-time sky
goddess, NUT, her figure portraying perhaps the appearance of the
milky way, is conceived of as swallowing the Sun each evening, and
bearing the Sun each morning. During the night, the Sun, or perhaps
his helpers, must defeat the serpent, and pass multiple gates with
jackal as gatekeeper. (Suggested source: jackals haunt funerals.)
Darkness, NUT is associated with a pig that swallows her offspring.
The scorpion on the head of that goddess is drawn lacking its sting,
or legs, or arms. (Would you spend a night in a tomb if it were not?)
The jackal/wolf/dog desert gods (funeray, as the sun dies in the west)
are portrayed as stabbed with a knife. A red (ram/bull?) is slaughtered
representing SETH, chaos god who slew and dismemembered father (of Horus)
OSIRUS and cast filth into the "eye" (read hole, thus mouth) of son HORUS.
Semitic storm god BAAL is prayed to, to NOT make bad weather. (Asshole!)
Yet, bad Seth/Baal is respected due to his power over the sea dragon,
which I will cover later, during transcendence and tantric topics.
A powerful animal, a crocodile, also a female composite croc/lion/hippo,
probably not labeled as bad, nevertheless, devours the condemned death.
One of the gods is tasked with (slaughter/cooking?) of human victims,
so that the Gods may gain strength thereby. Naturally, foreigners are
seen as the most applicable victim.
Now, about sex. The king identifies with the BULL god as a symbol
of potency. There is a westerly BULL god with seven cow consorts.
You see how calf worship would be natural to Israelites in exodus.
A vegetation god, MIN, is also associated with human fertility, as
too big bosom full-bellied hippopotamous goddess. A dwarf god BES
is associated with childbirth; and a female goddess represented as
a brick, for upon such a brick women squat to deliver.
Those are the high points of geography and nature as I read them.
Up to here, it's all survival advantages: fertility, strength, order.
Now for transcendence, cosmic order (versus chaos/nature), tantra.
"Ka" and "Ba" are emanation, and soul, respectively. The Ka of some
higher god may indwell a lesser entity, who is thus his emanation.
The Ba, or soul, of some lower entity would be that higher entity.
They passed around one living holy bull from temple to temple, as
it was deemed the Ka of (names,names,names... let's say Osirus).
Meanwhile, Osirus is the Ka of RE, the sun god. And, of course,
the Pharoah claims to be the Ka of one of them, and hopes upon
his death to actually become that god entity, and be the Ba of
the next Pharoah. A ram is proven to be a BA, onomopoetically!
Now I will add experiences and inferences the book did not know.
A very first ejaculation as a nocturnal emission irrigating
the navel confers the Son-of-God ontological distinction.
This happenstance is physically the primal mound of creation,
that rose out of primal waters at the beginning of creation.
Such a one is AMUN, who is from the beginning because he has
become the father of himself: No progenitor is prior to him.
Hence, AMUN has the sun-god RE as his ba, for the sun is the
physical origin of life, including that life of the AMUN-RE.
It ain't all roses at this point. You may have heard of the
error of some of the sons-of-god, the Nephulim (fallen one)
who took wifes from the daughters of women, and begot them
Nephilim (giants). So there is a responsibility enjoined to
be insular, abnormally socialized, and to not abandon their
first estate, although I don't see where it is written out
explicitly in any religious texts. They were just supposed
to know, in their hearts, due to their innate innocence.
This is also the lotus sprung from the navel of Vishnu that
is capable of bearing Buddha (or vice-versa, not my terms).
These are no sons-of-man, not yet suitable for Jesus' task.
So next we have ATUM, who alone begat the other gods by an
act of masturbation and/or spitting. He is an autofellator.
Autofellatio is also an act of naming. It may occur without
a prior navel event, in which case, it is no big deal. Many
years ago, the autofellatio forum had many thousands signed
up, and none of them seemed interested in ontology, etc.
That is what Jesus said: If a man comes in his own name, he
will be accepted. But I have come in the name of my father.
That much I know. Now I have other, speculative inferences.
In this talk-show information age, it is common to hear the
story of a father getting his dick sucked by his own infant.
But who would dare to think of it before? If thought, who
would dare to suggest it? A sordid mystery never recorded.
Such is the arising of the SETH-HORUS pair. It will not be
revealed until, as Jesus says, the owner of the field goes
to plant, and finds tares. That is, autofellatio discloses
it. It is the basis of Shakespeare's story of Hamlet. The
originally biological father, Claudius, is displaced to an
'uncle" relationship when Hamlet makes his own self-father,
and his Ba cries out for justice against the revealed crime.
But what can Hamlet say to anyone at all to explain himself?
If a young man does not rise up as Hamlet, the hidden crime
remains "written in the books" that is, in the carnal chains
of human generation, until the end-time judgment of all.
But how is Seth useful? Who is that sea-dragon? A pregnant
woman is described as an introjected sea. If she were to
dare to use her suckling infant to suck upon her clitoris,
we get the complementary unspeakable crime. And yet, that
hidden crime will become revealed to the husband should he
also perform Sethian act. In the presence of both together,
we obtain the case of Ahab and Jezebel; In the presence of
only the mother's crime, we get Astarte, consort of the
storm god; In the presence of only the father's crime, we
get Isis, an important distinction.
The god Hapi united upper and lower eqypt, symbolized by
the lily and papyrus respectively. Papyrus grows in the
marshy delta, the north. Isis hid her son Horus from Seth
amongst the papyrus, the same story as Moses. Q.E.D.
Whew! Not how I planned to spend my evening. Of course,
at the start, I intended to ask, North of where? I'd
hoped to solve the eschatological phrases, king of the
North, and king of the South. But I never left Egypt.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
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