Think about it...
Think about it...
As above so Below
Night 31.07.2009
Right now, the Milky Way is over my head, thousands of stars are playing out their roles of creation. Science would like to capture the knowledge of the most extravagant fantasy, which we’ve ever seen – aren’t going to happen.
Last night I stood in wonder beneath a clear night sky, since I do not own a telescope (but is a dream of mine), I use my eyes. I must admit, I can see pretty well without a telescope. As I gazed upwards, my eyes quickly saw the magnificent constellation called ‘Cassiopeia’ she forms a ‘W’.
Cassiopeia is known from ancient days, like each of the constellation are. She was queen of Ethiopia and wife to the king Cepheus, together they would have a daughter called Andromeda. The mythology surrounding Cassiopeia and her daughter Andromeda are numerous in numbers, and shed light upon other constellations.
Cassiopeia was known as a woman, who bragged about her own beauty, even stating that she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs of the sea god Poseidon, who were called the Nereids. This one statement from her, made the sea nymphs angry and they sent a fears sea monster ‘Cetus’ [constellation] after the royal house of Ethiopia. The royal couple was given one way out of this, they had to give their daughter to the beast. Chained to a cliff, Andromeda waited for her fate to take hold of her. Suddenly a giant white horse with enormous wings, leaped towards her, from the clouds. The beautiful horse was Pegasus [constellation] upon Pengasus’ back sat the brave Perseus [constellation], and in the neck of time, he rescued her from the beast. Perseus was able to defeat the beast, with the head of Medusas [a star]. In the moment that the beast saw into Medusas’ eyes, it was turned into stone.
I stood in awe, as my eyes set upon the area of the Supernova 1572 (A).
Look into the Supernova with the Hubble telescope, just click here, and open your mind.
In the last post I talked about the border line between two very old empires, I probably left you a bit ‘hanging’ in regards, to… so much more... *heh* well this is because it is not possible for anyone to explain something in short, especially not at the levels of how the ancient Egyptian worked.
There is clear evidence that the constellations changed in ancient Egypt.
Let me present you with a picture
Sety the First belongs to the 19 Dynasty, which were around 1200 B.C.
He was not a king by blood (royal blood),
but he indeed was a true king of his time.
This image portrays some of the constellation of ancient Egypt, and how they choose to see them. The harmony which one can see everywhere in their writing and images, seem to be less preferred when it comes to this part of the tomb. Their placement seems as important as the images themselves. I completely understand why some descendants thought this to be a devils work, especially considering how the creatures look. But to understand the ancient Egyptian mindset, one has to open up for more possibilities than we have in this so-called modern time. The concept of the ‘devil’ descends from many older cultures too, just with other names and attributes. But I find the ancient Egyptians truly understood these concepts to their fullest, and understood how to depict it in a harmonious way (the story of Seth and Horus portrays their understanding of ‘evil,’ whom was never ‘just’ evil – a person fallen for his own personal inner demon, in the choices they made.)
No one can claim that they truly understand the Egyptian gods, even less can be said about their ‘star-gods.’ But they left us their thoughts and words, as the Greeks probably would call ‘The holy writing from the heavens.’
The Picture above is actually a mythological story about these 'star-gods'. It is believed that it is the battle of Seth and Horus, these images seems portrayed different in tombs. Some of these creatures (images) have been identified with our modern constellation chart.
These stars are called the circumpolar stars (In ancient Egypt they were known under the name ‘Khemiu-seku’), which is probably another word for ‘fixed’ as they did not rise or set, in the time of the Dendera temple.
In these ceiling images we probably find different mythological stories, because of their different looks.
I think that the man, that has his fist raised towards the crocodile’s nose, is a star-form of Sety I (in this case), he is helping Horus in the journey across the night sky. In the man’s other hand, we see his hand raised and a Bull is standing upon an odd looking ‘plate’.
This is actually interesting if you ask me. Because Sety I was known for is love of hunting Bulls, in the Temple at Abydos, is one of the only existing images of Sety I teaching his son Ramesses II how to catch the Bulls. This was also a form of exam for the boy, in that this would show Ramesses II strength, if manhood was upon him. This image above could be indicating his ‘triumph’ over the Bull, fitting perfectly into their stories about the constellations.
“In very many inscriptions the constellation which, as I have stated, represent the hippopotamus, is really represented as a crocodile, or as a crocodile resting on the shoulders of a hippopotamus, so that there is no doubt that the crocodile and the hippopotamus were variants; and we can quite understand, further, that the hippopotamus must have been brought into Egypt by a tribe with that totem, who must have come from a very long way up the Nile, since the hippopotamus was never indigenous in the lower reaches of the river; so that we have in the myth to do with a hippopotamus-worshipping tribe, which, for that reason, probably came from a region very far to the south.
In the area more south of Aswan, the crocodiles were sacred animals, even being mummified.
There is clear evidence that the constellations changed in ancient Egypt.
Let me present you with a picture
from Sety I tomb:
Sety the First belongs to the 19 Dynasty, which were around 1200 B.C.
He was not a king by blood (royal blood),
but he indeed was a true king of his time.
This image portrays some of the constellation of ancient Egypt, and how they choose to see them. The harmony which one can see everywhere in their writing and images, seem to be less preferred when it comes to this part of the tomb. Their placement seems as important as the images themselves. I completely understand why some descendants thought this to be a devils work, especially considering how the creatures look. But to understand the ancient Egyptian mindset, one has to open up for more possibilities than we have in this so-called modern time. The concept of the ‘devil’ descends from many older cultures too, just with other names and attributes. But I find the ancient Egyptians truly understood these concepts to their fullest, and understood how to depict it in a harmonious way (the story of Seth and Horus portrays their understanding of ‘evil,’ whom was never ‘just’ evil – a person fallen for his own personal inner demon, in the choices they made.)
No one can claim that they truly understand the Egyptian gods, even less can be said about their ‘star-gods.’ But they left us their thoughts and words, as the Greeks probably would call ‘The holy writing from the heavens.’
The Picture above is actually a mythological story about these 'star-gods'. It is believed that it is the battle of Seth and Horus, these images seems portrayed different in tombs. Some of these creatures (images) have been identified with our modern constellation chart.
These stars are called the circumpolar stars (In ancient Egypt they were known under the name ‘Khemiu-seku’), which is probably another word for ‘fixed’ as they did not rise or set, in the time of the Dendera temple.
In these ceiling images we probably find different mythological stories, because of their different looks.
I think that the man, that has his fist raised towards the crocodile’s nose, is a star-form of Sety I (in this case), he is helping Horus in the journey across the night sky. In the man’s other hand, we see his hand raised and a Bull is standing upon an odd looking ‘plate’.
This is actually interesting if you ask me. Because Sety I was known for is love of hunting Bulls, in the Temple at Abydos, is one of the only existing images of Sety I teaching his son Ramesses II how to catch the Bulls. This was also a form of exam for the boy, in that this would show Ramesses II strength, if manhood was upon him. This image above could be indicating his ‘triumph’ over the Bull, fitting perfectly into their stories about the constellations.
“In very many inscriptions the constellation which, as I have stated, represent the hippopotamus, is really represented as a crocodile, or as a crocodile resting on the shoulders of a hippopotamus, so that there is no doubt that the crocodile and the hippopotamus were variants; and we can quite understand, further, that the hippopotamus must have been brought into Egypt by a tribe with that totem, who must have come from a very long way up the Nile, since the hippopotamus was never indigenous in the lower reaches of the river; so that we have in the myth to do with a hippopotamus-worshipping tribe, which, for that reason, probably came from a region very far to the south.
From J. Norman Lockyer (1836-1920)
In the area more south of Aswan, the crocodiles were sacred animals, even being mummified.
I started this blog out by describing each constellation, somewhat through the Macedonian’s (Greeks) point of view. Their legends and myths change through each century and their rulers, and other factors.
- Now why did I go about it in this way, if I wanted to describe the ancient Egyptians point of view?
Simply because between these two Empires lies a truth, a distinct border between the ‘old ways’ and the new so-called ‘modernized people’, which we all descend from, as we also descend from the older ones of the ‘older ways.’
Ancient Egypt could probably be called the last great civilization from the more ancient world. And through this great society, we have their surviving documents and monuments, which teach us much from a ‘lost past.’ One thing which depicts the ‘border-line’ between the very ancient ones and the new world was the most basic to our nature, namely the writing systems, which became more like the Greeks.
But surely it must be the zodiac representation that is the defining border between them. For the Greeks changed this to the circle and inside they placed the symbols of the constellations. Where as the ancient Egyptians portrayed it in lines, just as they normally wrote. In those most ancient of days, all knew about the setting of the sun and the coming of the stars and the Lovely Moon, and much more.
I state that I believe that it is from the ancient Egyptians that the Greeks came to create their stories and legends about the constellation. Because in ancient Egypt they already had stories about the stars, they even gave them colors. Upon the walls of their toms can be found; the names of the stars as just being a small part of their great understanding of both life and death.
But there has not been found a star chart like we see in later Greek history, a circular one. Other ancient cultures do have circular forms just like the Greeks came to have, but Egyptians wrote it different. They also have the 36 Decans in boats, and the heaven of Nut. The only place so fare known, where we find something from ancient Egypt, which look a little bit like the circular star chart from the Greeks time period, is in the Valley of the Kings. One section of the tomb, gives illustrations which match the modern chart, which was to come later on.
This border gives clear evidence, that something major was happening behind the scenes in the days of Alexandria the great and his descendants. The way that people ‘saw’ our universe was slowly changed, and subjects became separated, just as you see in the topic of Astrology vs. Astronomy – two sides of one coin. The creative force meets the scientific mind.
- Now why did I go about it in this way, if I wanted to describe the ancient Egyptians point of view?
Simply because between these two Empires lies a truth, a distinct border between the ‘old ways’ and the new so-called ‘modernized people’, which we all descend from, as we also descend from the older ones of the ‘older ways.’
Ancient Egypt could probably be called the last great civilization from the more ancient world. And through this great society, we have their surviving documents and monuments, which teach us much from a ‘lost past.’ One thing which depicts the ‘border-line’ between the very ancient ones and the new world was the most basic to our nature, namely the writing systems, which became more like the Greeks.
But surely it must be the zodiac representation that is the defining border between them. For the Greeks changed this to the circle and inside they placed the symbols of the constellations. Where as the ancient Egyptians portrayed it in lines, just as they normally wrote. In those most ancient of days, all knew about the setting of the sun and the coming of the stars and the Lovely Moon, and much more.
I state that I believe that it is from the ancient Egyptians that the Greeks came to create their stories and legends about the constellation. Because in ancient Egypt they already had stories about the stars, they even gave them colors. Upon the walls of their toms can be found; the names of the stars as just being a small part of their great understanding of both life and death.
But there has not been found a star chart like we see in later Greek history, a circular one. Other ancient cultures do have circular forms just like the Greeks came to have, but Egyptians wrote it different. They also have the 36 Decans in boats, and the heaven of Nut. The only place so fare known, where we find something from ancient Egypt, which look a little bit like the circular star chart from the Greeks time period, is in the Valley of the Kings. One section of the tomb, gives illustrations which match the modern chart, which was to come later on.
This border gives clear evidence, that something major was happening behind the scenes in the days of Alexandria the great and his descendants. The way that people ‘saw’ our universe was slowly changed, and subjects became separated, just as you see in the topic of Astrology vs. Astronomy – two sides of one coin. The creative force meets the scientific mind.
