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.
