16,060. RUDMENTS, pt. 1,364

RUDMENTS, pt. 1,364

(Seostis and the Cobra of Gold)

Have you ever stopped to wonder

why people don't ever say 'He, or she,

died' any longer? The normal way now

is to say someone 'passed.' What's that?

If an ancient had said that, we'd be

laughing at them for their primitive

and misguided naivete! Yet now it's 

perfectly acceptable for anyone to make

that reference  - like spirit souls in the

night making their traverse through

the skies, stars, and heavens, to their

latest destination. Yeah, hey, better 

watch that laughter, please. 

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Assumptions are made here daily and

moment by moment. Time continues

perfectly on after death? How is that

meant to be? Which Dad will we meet

in Heaven? The one who was Dad when

he died? Or the one who has moved 

along in the continuum of what has

transpired, and taken on different

characteristics, or a different being

entirely? Once the 'Human' of us

 passes on, is all assertiveness gone?

Do we maintain any characteristics

of those types of traits? What is left

then, of those characteristics of  'us'?

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One of the easiest things to do is to

is to scoff at another view  -  Sadly, I 

must mention here that they are ALL 

the same. In essence, we come from 

Godhead, and are headed right back

to it, no matter what you did or did 

not do, nor by how many scalpels 

you may have sliced in your supposed 

belief systems. YOU are, as is everyone,

never doomed to eternal Hell, and

however that got started it's an

insane prelude to stupidity. We are 

all bound for the same places, each

Heavenly and eternally recurring,

within their own senses. Why should

you be damned and accept that? By

buying into that 'eternal damnation'

story line, you're refuting the glory

of life, which is a constant and a

steady Glory, no matter what else

you may make of it.

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Ah!! Hours go by and I'm still dreaming

over this stuff. Memories and conjecture

do somehow mix, but they never add up

to much. It's all very strange.

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A couple of interesting notes  -  the 

traceable (and written) history of the 

Egyptian dynasties run to 34, each one 

broken into eras and groupings, and they

take us 'back' - by our now-numberings,

to 6,000BC. Before that, with the arrival

of 'agriculture' and other imparted 'skills',

spreading backwards, were the near eastern

cultures, and Mesopotamian cultures, which

formed the next-earliest ('back') in time

cultures, from that large black area of

mysterious pre-time, from which our

myths, creation tales, and initial and

earliest culture formations stem.

 All of those ancient cultures, and

most of which we just ignore, are the 

continued basis of our societies today.

One small, finger-nail-sized lick of

it, The Bible, purports to tell the story,

but is ridden with agenda and mission,

so as to block the rest. In some ways it's

Chairman Mao's Little Red Book in its

present hijacked and riddled form.

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One of the mainstays of Egyptian 

Pharaonic  culture was its sense of 

order and precision  -  think of it, an

important adjunct of social-building

to an early society-in-formation, when

EVERYTHING was new and untried.

After agricultural skills this was most

important. Once the lush, west of the 

Nile area dried up and became desert,

that became an important facet of

record-keeping and early accounting

of trade and commerce. Later cultures,

after Egypt had dwindled and changed,

took over those qualities, with the 

resultant expansions  of trade and 

import, and export, with Egypt led to 

expansions  -  timber, grains, and

trade needing accountability. The 

ONE basis of our social situations

was set up  -  right up to Greek, 

and then Roman predominance. 

(Amazing that time-keeping wasn't 

really established  until later. But, 

in essence it was all there and tracked 

celestially. Funny too, Egypt established 

itself as lands and counties, which they 

then called 'Nomes', as well  as the 

Mayoral/Gubernatorial equivalent.

Called the Nomarch! In the same 

strange  way, the 'God' of the Nile and 

the successful yearly harvest, which 

was met with jubilation, celebration 

and parade-like festivals. That God's 

name was Hapi! Pronounced 'Happy'.

Mmmmm?

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1.- Ancient Egypt was divided into provinces

(or 'nomes'), as they were called under

provincial governors, or 'Nomarchs'. The 

 nome system is first attested early in the

'Old Kingdon, in the Third Dynasty. At this

period, a typical nomarch sems to have spent

his early career serving in different provinces

or in other branches of the civil administration.

As a royal servant he would be buried in the

cemetery of the capital, Memphis. However, 

from the Fifth Dynasty some nomarchs began

to serve primarily in one nome, where they

lived and were eventually buried.  This one

decentralizing trend, together with the

hereditary right of ruling families to the 

governorship of their provinces, became 

widespread in the later Sixth Dynasty. From

this time on, more and more governors

adopted what became the most characteristic

nomarch title : "Great Chief Of Nome X'.

Their impressive tombs, increasingly located

in Upper and Middle Egypt instead of around

Memphis, reflect their power and practical

independence, in contrast to the scanty 

records left by the contemporary kings of the

later Sixth to Eighth dynasties. These grand 

monuments highlight something of an anomaly

in early Egypt : royal officials who became, for

a time,  hereditary nobility.

2. - Although Osiris ordained the annual 

inundation, the God most associated with

the Nile itself was Hapi, depicted as a

human figure with a large belly and with

pendulous breasts. This corpulence

represented the bounties of the Nile, the

waters of which flowed to nurture Egypt.

Hymns addressed to the Nile spoke of its

bounty, expressing joy at its coming, and

sorrow at the plight of when the Nile floods

failed. The inundation was ritually greeted 

with thanks and jubilation in honor of Hapi, 

its patron divinity. The God is depicted with

a papyrus plant, another symbol of the 

benefits of the Nile, sprouting from the

top of his head. The Nile was a river of 

creative forces. Its source was believed 

to be in the underworld, where it was 

connected to a subterranean stream.  

From the underworld it issued to the 

surface between granite rocks close to 

the first cataract near Elephantine in

the far south. As the fount of Egypt's  

fertility, the (supposed) source of the Nile 

was linked to the ram headed creator God

Khum, who was believed to have fashioned

Humankind from Nile mud. The Goddess

'Satis' was often depicted pouring cool

water upon the earth to endow it with

life.