RESURRECTION OF OSIRIS

JOHN12

 

RESURRECTION OF OSIRIS

 

02/11/2008 14:31

In the Ennead mythology, Nut (alternatively spelled Nuit, Newet, and Neuth), was the goddess of the sky^[2]. Her name means Night. Some of the titles of Nut were Coverer of the Sky, She Who Protects, Mistress of All, and She Who Holds a Thousand Souls. Originally she was the goddess of the daytime sky, but in later times she was known simply as the sky goddess. Nut was said to be covered in stars touching the cardinal points of her body. Her headdress was the hieroglyphic of part of her name, a pot, which may also symbolize the uterus. The ancient Egyptians said that every woman was a nutrit, a little goddess.

Nut was the goddess of the sky and all heavenly bodies, a symbol of resurrection and rebirth. According to the Egyptians, the heavenly bodies—such as the sun—would be swallowed, traverse the inside of her belly through the night, and be reborn out of her uterus at dawn. A sacred symbol of Nut was the ladder, used by Osiris to enter her heavenly skies. This ladder-symbol was called maqet and was placed in tombs to protect the deceased, and to invoke the aid of the deity of the dead. She was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, which usually evolve into a sky father associated with an earth mother.

 

The Book of the Dead says, “Hail, thou Sycamore Tree of the Goddess Nut! Give me of the water and of the air which is in thee. I embrace that throne which is in Unu, and I keep guard over the Egg of Nekek-ur. It flourisheth, and I flourish; it liveth, and I live; it snuffeth the air, and I snuff the air, I the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in peace.”^[3]

In a later myth Nut becomes a daughter of Shu, god of the air, and Tefnut, goddess of moistness. She was paired with Geb, the earth, with whom she had five children: Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus the Elder^[4]. In another myth, she originally lay eternally, having sexual intercourse with Geb, but Shu (the air) later separated them, and it was said

 

[First reference to chaos that would reign]/Isis/Hathor/Nut [all one]

 that if she ever returned to that position, chaos would reign (because the world was that space that existed between the two).

 

Sometimes Nut was considered to be the daughter and wife of Ra, at other times she was identified as his mother, who gave birth to him each morning (the pink dawn sky being the blood of this birth).

Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Pronounced Hwt-Hor) (Egyptian for house of Horus) was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow. Hathor was an ancient goddess, and was worshipped as a cow-deity from at least 2700 BC during the second dynasty. Her worship by the Egyptians goes back earlier however, possibly, even by the Scorpion King who ruled during the Protodynastic Period before the dynasties began. His name, Serqet, may refer to the goddess Serket. The two figures flanking the top of both sides of the Narmer Palette are interpreted as images of the cow goddess. The palette is among the earliest carved religious images known from the Egyptian culture.

Later she was described as the wife of Ra, the creator whose own cosmic birth was formalised in the Ogdoad cosmogeny after his worship arose and displaced that of Horus. At that time images of Ra bear the eye motif.

The goddess Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the Overarching Sky, and was born on the fourth intercalary day. At some time Isis absorbed some characteristics of Hathor a powerful deity who was the mother of Horus. He represented the pharaohs, and as a deity provided them with protection. In later myths about Isis, she had a brother, Osiris, who became her husband, and she then was said to have conceived Horus. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was murdered by Seth. Her magical skills restored his body to life after she gathered the parts of it that had been strewn about the earth by Seth

Atum (alternatively spelled Tem, Temu, Tum, and Atem) is an important deity in Egyptian mythology, whose cult centred on the city of Heliopolis.

 

[Second reference to chaos, but at the end of the Creative cycle]Osiris/Ra [very closely linked as Osiris replaced Ra, but Ra was the replacement of the Sun of Osiris as well]

His name is thought to be derived from the word ‘tem’ which means to complete or finish. Thus he has been interpreted as being the ‘complete one’ and also the finisher of the world, which he returns to watery chaos at the end of the creative cycle.

 

As creator he was seen as the underlying substance of the world, the deities and all things being made of his flesh or alternatively being his kas.

Atum is one of the most important and frequently mentioned deities from earliest times, as evidenced by his prominence in the Pyramid Texts, where he is portrayed as both a creator and father to the king. He is usually depicted as a man wearing either the royal head-cloth or the dual white and red crown of Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt, reinforcing his connection with kingship. Sometimes he also is shown as a serpent, the form which he returns to at the end of the creative cycle and also occasionally as a mongoose, lion, bull, lizard, or ape.

In the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony established in the sixth dynasty, he was considered to be the first god, having created himself, sitting on a mound (benben) (or identified with the mound itself), from the primordial waters (Nu).

 

Early myths state that Atum created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut from spitting

 

or from his semen by masturbation in the city of Annu (the Egyptian name for Heliopolis)^[1], a belief strongly associated with Atum’s nature as an hermaphrodite (hence his name meaning completeness). Strictly, the myth states that Atum ejaculated his semen into his mouth, impregnating himself, possibly indicating autofellatio, which has led many to misinterpret (Via euphemism or Bowdlerization) the myth as indicating creation from mucus.

When the Ennead and Ogdoad cosmogenies became merged, with the identification of Ra as Atum (Atum-Ra), gradually Anubis (Ogdoad system) was replaced by Osiris, whose cult had become more significant. Anubis was said to have given way to Osiris out of respect, and, as an underworld deity.

 

Personal Note

02/11/2008 13:08

I was just wondering (because of the Bible study group I attended on Tuesday 28/10/2008), who gave Paulus for instance his knowledge that he wrote down?

As according to The Great Wave of Faith Like Potatoes Christians (or is it now Faith Like Mushrooms), we can only “know God” from “God’s Word”?  But “God’s Word” is only seen as The Christian Bible by the Potatoes/Mushrooms.

But it seems to me, that none of the people who wrote “God’s Word” or added to it in writing, ever used “God’s Word” for their knowledge to write “God’s Word”?  How do you understand that the only way to understand God is by way of “God’s Word”, but those who wrote “God’s Word” (which is the only way to know God) never used “God’s Word” for that matter as it was impossible.  So where did they get their knowledge of God?  So does that still mean that “The Christian Bible” is the only way to know God?  I cannot see those who wrote it, using it – it does not make sense!

Nothing in this life can as be fulfilling as The Nothingness!  Nothing!!!

02/11/2008 13:11

And this the End of “The Resurrection of Osiris”, why I had to add my little input at the end, I do not know.

But if you look at what is said of Isis/Hathor, who should not be in a certain position as then:

that if she ever returned to that position, chaos would reign (because the world was that space that existed between the two)

and at the end it is said that at the end of “the creative cycle”, or then as quantum physics allow for being a creator in this chaotic world,

which he returns to watery chaos at the end of the creative cycle.

Would be done by Ra, the husband of Hathor, but she is also Isis and Isis was the wife of Osiris.  So which ever way, when creativity ends, which is linked to the position Hathor is not suppose to take in, then there is going to be chaos.  But if she goes into that position on the other hand, there will be chaos also.  So who knows what is the best for ALL?

 

Maybe my statement at the end of my personal note.  As I have first hand experience of that and I explained how to get there.  At least that is something to look forward to that is not of chaos of indication.

02/11/2008 16:24 or 4:24PM and 24 or 42 gives the 11 22 or 22 11 or 1221.