9 World Chronicles

"Give the office of Osiris to his son Horus! Do not go on committing these great wrongs, which are not in place, or I will get angry and the sky will topple to the ground. But also tell the Lord of All, the Bull who lives in Heliopolis, to double Set's property. Give him Anat and Astarte, your two daughters, and put Horus in the place of his father.  Neith

The bear. A symbol of primitive brute force. The bear was an incarnation of the Norse God Odin and the Viking beserker warriors wore bareskin tunics. In Greece the cult followers of Artemis dressed as bears. The bear is linked with many other war like divinities including the Norse God Thor and the Celtic thunder god. To the ainoo new of north Japan and to Native Americans the bear is an ancestral figure the closest relative to humans as bears can walk on two legs. It is also linked with resurrection symbolism perhaps because of its hibernation.    The formless bearcub licked into shape by its mother became an image of the heathen needing the spiritual ministrations of the church. Similarly the bear is the alchemic symbol for the primary state of matter.

Bear worship (also known as the bear cult or arctolatry) is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu,[1] Basques, Germanics, Slavs and Finns.[2] There are also a number of deities from Celtic Gaul and Britain associated with the bear, and the Dacians, Thracians, and Getians were noted to worship bears and annually celebrate the bear dance festival. The bear is featured on many totems throughout northern cultures that carve them.

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

It is name for the Ethiopian Princess Andromeda who is famous for the story of her rescue from a sea dragon by the Greek Hero Perseus.

Distance to Earth: 2.537 million light years

Radius: 110,000 light years

Age: 10.01 billion years

Stars: 1 trillion

The constellation is associated with the Andromedids meteor shower (also known as the Bielids), first documented on December 6, 1741 over Russia.

Batara Guru

A creator God of the Sumatra mythology. One day Batara Guru sent a swallow down to the sea with a handful of soil to create dry land upon which Batara Guru scattered many seeds. From the spring all the different species of animals. Batara Guru then sent down a heroic incarnation of himself to defeat not a para ha the serpent ruler of the underworld. The divine hero was rewarded with the hand of Batara Guru daughter. They became the parents of the first humans

is the name of a supreme god in Indonesian His name is derived from Sanskrit Bhattaraka which means “noble lord". He has been conceptualized in Southeast Asia as a kind spiritual teacher, the first of all Gurus in Indonesian Hindu texts, mirroring the guru Dakshinamurti aspect of Hindu god Shiva in the Indian subcontinent.

Hut-ka-Ptah (meaning "Enclosure of the ka of Ptah

The Temple of Ptah is a shrine located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. It lies to the north of the main Amun temple, just within the boundary wall. The building was erected by the Pharaoh Thutmose III on the site of an earlier Middle Kingdom temple.

The great temple of Ptah was one of the city’s most prominent structures. According to an Egyptian document known as the “Memphite Theology,”

Ptah created humans through the power of his heart and speech; the concept, having been shaped in the heart of the creator,

The mythology of the Greek character Andromeda who in real life was a beautiful melanated Ethiopian woman. Well documented in history as such. Yet in the 1981 film the clash of the Titans she is portrayed as a non woman of color to the detriment of the story

Chinna-masta

Pantheon: Hindu Tantric

Classification: Devi

Meaning whose head was cut off

Culture :Indus Valley  Bengel, India

In Tantrism she hold her own in one hand and heads mouth opens to receive the blood the spurts from the gaping neck

Abode  Cremation ground

Weapon               khatri – scimitar

Consort                Shiva as Kabandha o

is a Hindu goddess (Devi). She is one of the Mahavidyas, ten goddesses from the esoteric tradition of Tantra, and a ferocious aspect of Parvati, the Hindu Mother goddess. The self-decapitated nude goddess, usually standing or seated on a divine copulating couple, holds her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants.

Cherubim

Classification: Unearthly being, sub class of Angels

Kerubim connected with the Assyrian word Karibu)

Hybrid creatures, half animal half huan  who appear in the Old Testament.

A cherub is one of the unearthly beings who directly attend to God, according to Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden

They are presented as guardians of the sacral points round which Jewish life and belief center the Tree of Life , the Ark of the Covenant , the temple and they indicate the presence of God.

In the vision of Ezekiel they for the living chariot of Yahweh.

In the book pf Revelation as they are described as beast and they stand around the throne of God.

They are full of eyes before and behind and this identifies them as cosmic being symbolizing the stars.

According to a Christian interpretation which goes back to the Greek Dionysius

In Islam, the cherubim are the angels closest to God and sometimes include the Bearers of the Throne and the archangels. Below the angels of the throne, the angels subordinative to Michael are also identified as cherubim. In Ismailism, there are seven cherubim, comparable to the Seven Archangels.

Their protective symbolism derived from the earlier Persian an Mesopotamia am gars guardian spirits who flight temples. They are usually appear in art as blue winged heads sometimes with the book symbolizing define divine knowledge by reason of their proximity to God whom they are sometimes shown supporting in flight. In baroque art cherubs are undistinguishable from cupids or putti.

The Book of Thoth

Classification: Sacred Text

Last Known Location: The Tomb of  Neferkaptah the City of Memphis

Author: Thoth Djhuty

Associated: Supreme knowledge

The Book of Thoth represents the accumulated knowledge of the wisest of the Kemetic Ntrs. Ut is said to contain the secrets of the universe and the most sacred and powerful spells in existence. The wielder of this book would attaint supreme knowledge. But the knowledge is far to great for mortals. And carries a curse of the Gods.

Karkota the 3 Eyed Goddess

Culture/Area: Hindu

Classification Goddess

Snake

Of the Mahanagas

Naga, (Sanskrit: “serpent”) in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, half human and half cobra. They are a strong, handsome species who can assume either wholly human or wholly serpentine form and are potentially dangerous but often beneficial to humans.

Color Black

Attributes : Rosary and waterjar

Karkota Dynasty ruled over the Kashmir valley and some northern parts of the Indian subcontinent during 7th and 8th century. The Serpent Empire as it was called was founded in 625 bce. Their rule saw a period of political expansion, economic prosperity and emergence of Kashmir as a center of Indian culture and scholarship.

Astoreth

Classification : Goddess

Origin Palestine and Philistine

AKA; Astarte

Known Period of Worship

1200 BCE to 200 BCE

Cult Center Palestine Costal region including Jerusalem

Various art references

Literary Source Vetus Testamentum

She was initially a goddess of both war and love. And is usually depicted wearing a horned head dress.

Biblical references include Kings 11.5 and II kings 23.13. Solomon is said to have built a temple in her honor near Jerusalem.

Astarte, also spelled Athtart or Ashtart, great goddess of the ancient Middle East and chief deity of Tyre, Sidon, and Elat, important Mediterranean seaports. Ashtaroth, the plural form of the goddess’s name in Hebrew, became a general term denoting goddesses and paganism.

King Solomon, married to foreign wives, “followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians” (1 Kings 11:5). Later the cult places to Ashtoreth were destroyed by Josiah. Astarte/Ashtoreth is the Queen of Heaven to whom the Canaanites burned offerings and poured libations (Jeremiah 44).

Astarte, goddess of war and sexual love, shared so many qualities with her sister, Anath, that they may originally have been seen as a single deity. Their names together are the basis for the Aramaic goddess Atargatis.

Astarte was worshiped in Egypt and Ugarit and among the Hittites, as well as in Canaan. Her Akkadian counterpart was Ishtar. Later she became assimilated with the Egyptian deities Isis and Hathor (a goddess of the sky and of women), and in the Greco-Roman world with Aphrodite, Artemis, and Juno.

I observed everything that took place in the heavens, how the luminaries,

which are in the heavens, do not depart from their paths, that each one rises and sets in

order, each in its time, and they do not depart from their laws. 2. See the earth and observe

the things that are done on it, from the first to the last, how no work of God is irregular in

appearing. 3. See the summer and the winter, how then the whole earth is full of water, and

clouds and dew and rain rest over it.

Karttiki

Classified Goddess

Pantheon Culture: Hindu

Origin: Indus River Valley

Literary Sources

Epic and Puranic Text

Sacred Stone Lapis Lazuli

She is one of the9 Navasaktis who in Southern India rank as their hight deties

She was revered as a Mother goddess

Abrahamic religion.

Anakim were described as a race of giants, descended from Anak, according to the Old Testament. They were said to have lived in the southern part of the land of Canaan.

Goliath (Book of Samuel) The Philistine Killed by David.

 Nephilim, in the Hebrew Bible, were the offspring of the fallen angels and human women and the motivation for the flood tales

Nimrod (Old Testament) Nimrod is described in Genesis 10:8–12 as “the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The only other references to Nimrod in the Bible are Micah 5:6, where Assyria is called the land of Nimrod, aOg (Book of Numbers)

Rephaite In the Hebrew Bible, refers either to a people of greater-than-average height and stature as dictated in the Hebrew scriptures of Genesis.

ZAMZUMMIM the name given by the Ammonites to the inhabitants of the Transjordanian territory whom they dispossessed. They were part of the nation of giants known as *Rephaim, who formed the ancient population of Transjordan.

Rephaim (Old Testament) to a people of greater-than-average height and stature as dictated in the Hebrew scriptures of Genesis 14:5; Genesis 15:20;

Celtic mythology

Cewri Giants (Welsh: cewri) feature prominently in Welsh folklore and mythology. Among the most notable are Bendigeidfran fab Llyr, a mythological king of Britain the chief antagonist of the early Arthurian tale. Both Arthur and Gwalchmai fab Gwyar feature prominently as giant-slayers in Welsh tradition.

 "Ysbaddaden, Chief of Giants," is the primary antagonist of the Welsh romance accounts. he is A vicious giant residing in a nigh unreachable castle.

Idris Gawr or Idris the Giant; of English mythology lived circa 560 to 632) was a king of Meirionnydd , Meiri-on-nydd. in early medieval Wales.

Cormoran the giant is said to have made St. Micheal Mount his home, with his wife Cormelian. He was slain by Jack the Giant Killer

 Gogmagog was a legendary giant in Welsh and later English mythology. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, he was a giant inhabitant of Albion, thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus.

Fachen, In Scottish folklore, is a monster or giant described by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands as having a single eye in the middle of its face, a single hand protruding from its chest instead of arms, and a single leg emerging from its central axis.

Fomorians: The Fomorians (Old Irish: Fomóire, Modern Irish: Fomhóraigh or Fomóraigh)[1] are a supernatural race in Irish mythology. They are often portrayed as hostile and monstrous beings who come from under the sea or the earth. Later, they were portrayed as giants and sea raiders.

Balor In Irish mythology, was a leader of the Fomorians,

the other notable include Banba,

Bres,

Buarainech,

Cethlenn,

Corb,

Cuchulain,

Elatha,

Ériu,

Ethniu,

Fódla,

Tethra,

From Bohemian Silesian myht there is

Rübezahl.

Greek and Roman mythology.

Argus Panoptes,

Caca,

Cacus,

Cyclopes,

Arges,

Brontes,

Polyphemus,

Steropes,

Geryon,

The Gigantes were/

Alcyoneus,

Athos,

Echion,

Enceladus,

Klytius,

Hekatonkheires,

Briareus,

Gyges,

Cottu,

Menoetius,

Talos,

The Titans.

Atlas

Coeus

Crius

Cronus

Dione (occasionally considered a Titan)

Epimetheus

Gaia

Hyperion

Iapetus

Mnemosyne

Oceanus

Ophion

Phoebe

Prometheus

Rhea

Tethys

Theia

and Themis

From Hindus mythology.

Hiranyaksha

Hiranyakashipu

Mahabali

Ravana

Kumbhakarna

Norse mythology

Jötunn

Ægir

Bestla

Gorm

Angrboða

Baugi

Bergelmir

Billingr

Bölþorn

Geirröd

Gilling

Gjálp and Greip

Gríðr

Gullveig (possibly)

Gymir

Hroðr

Hrungnir

Hymir

Járnsaxa

Kári

Loki

Alvaldi

Rindr

Skaði

Suttungr

Þjazi

Þrúðgelmir

Þrymr

Útgarða-Loki

Vafþrúðnir

Ymir/Aurgelmir

Shinto folklore

Emperor Keikō - According to records, this 1st century AD emperor stood 10ft 2in tall.

Emperor Chūai - Was said to be ten feet tall, with "a countenance of perfect beauty".

Other

Brobdingnag giant, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Paul Bunyan (American folklore)

Ferragut (also known as Ferragus, Ferracutus, etc.)

Flaming Teeth, a giant in Fijian mythology.

Hurtaly, who is Og, in Jewish mythology.

Gargantua and Pantagruel

John Henry of American folklore.

Iovan Iorgovan from Romanian mythology.

Jentilak of Basque mythology.

Basajaun

Olentzero

Kapre of Philippine mythology.

Kroni, of Ayyavazhi mythology.

Kalevi and his sons, Uralic mythologies.

Ojáncanu, Cantabrian mythology.

Ogias the Giant, Manichaean mythology.

Oni of Japanese folklore.

St Christopher of Roman Catholic.

‘Uj ibn Anaq of Islamic mythology.

Matsieng

Ellert and Brammert

Crooked Mick, of Australian folklore.

Mbombo of African folklore.

Kua Fu, Chinese mythology.

Pecos Bill of American folklore.

Alfred Bulltop Stormalong, of American folklore.

Akaguagankak (Yup'ik Indian giant)

Asin (Alsea Indian giant)

Basket Ogress (Northwest Coast Indian giantess)

Big Owl Man (Apache Indian giant)

Caddaja (Caddo Indian giant)

Cenu (Micmac Indian giant)

Cheveyo Kachina (Hopi Indian ogre)

Gray Giant (Navajo Indian giant)

Ice Giants (Algonquian Indian giants)

Kee-Wakw (Wabanaki Indian giant)

Kolowa (Creek Indian ogre)

Kuku (Wabanaki Indian giant)

Kukwes (Micmac Indian ogre)

Lofa (Chickasaw Indian ogre)

Maushop (Wampanoag Indian giant)

Mhwee (Lenape Indian giant)

Shampe (Choctaw Indian monster)

Stoneclad (Cherokee Indian giant)

Stonecoat (Iroquois Indian giant)

Wetucks (Narragansett Indian giant)

Windego (Anishinabe Indian giant)

Winpe (Mi'kmaq Indian giant)

Witiko (Cree Indian giant)

Western African-Congo

Efik

Anansa, goddess of the Sea, allure and beauty.[citation needed]

Vodun

Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers.

Yoruba

Oshun, goddess of luxury and pleasure, sexuality and fertility, beauty and love, the river and fresh water  venerated in Ifá, Yoruba religion, Dahomey mythology, Vodun, Santería, Candomblé, Haitian Vodou

Afroasiatic Middle East

Canaanite

Astarte, goddess of sex and war, Canaanite version of Inanna.

Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty, and sex; "Qetesh" is her Egyptian name.

Egyptian

Bastet, goddess of felines, love, protection, perfume, beauty, and dance.

Bes, god of music, love, and dance.

Hathor, goddess of love, beauty, and music; originally a sky goddess.

Min, god of reproduction, love, and sexual pleasure.

Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty, and sex; apparently borrowed by the Egyptians from the Canaanites.

Hausa

Zamani, god of sex and beauty.

Mesopotamian

Inanna/Ishtar, goddess of sex and war.[3]

Nanaya, goddess personifying voluptuousness, sexuality and sensuality.

Western Eurasia

Albanian

Prende, goddess of love, beauty and fertility.

Balto-Slavic

Lithuanian

Milda, goddess of love and freedom.

Slavic

Dogoda, Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love and gentleness.

Siebog, god of love and marriage.

Živa, goddess of love and fertility.

Celtic

Áine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth, and sovereignty; possibly originally a sun goddess.

Branwen, Welsh goddess of love and beauty

Cliodhna, Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty.[4]

Norse-Germanic

Freyja, goddess of love/sex, beauty, seiðr, war, and death; often thought of as the Norse equivalent of \

Lofn, goddess who has permission from Frigg to arrange forbidden marriages.

Sjöfn, goddess associated with love.

Greek / Hellenic

Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex and beauty, Greek version of Astarte and ultimately Inanna.

Eos, Greek reflex of Hausos, who may have been the PIE lust/sex goddess.

The Erotes

Anteros, god of requited love.

Eros, god of love and procreation; originally a primordial deity unconnected to Aphrodite, he was later made into her son, possibly with Ares as his father; this version of him was imported to Rome where he came known as Cupid.

Himeros, god of sexual desire and unrequited love.

Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery.

Voluptas, Roman version of the Greek Hedone.

Cupid, Roman version of the Greek Eros, also called Amor.

Suadela, Roman version of the Greek Peitho.

Venus, Roman version of the Greek Aphrodite.

Etruscan

Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers.

Turan, goddess of love and vitality.

Western Asia

Armenian

Astghik, goddess of fertility and love.

Hindu-Vedic

Kamadeva Hindu god of human love or desire.

Rati, consort of Kama, goddess of love, carnal desire, lust, passion and sexual pleasure.

Persian Zorostarian

Anahita, seems to have gained an association with fertility and sex due to being influenced by the Mesopotamian Inanna; originally appears to have been a water goddess.

Asia-Pacific / Oceania

Filipino

Bangan: the Kankanaey goddess of romance; a daughter of Bugan and Lumawig

Amas: the Aeta deity who moves to pity, love, unity, and peace of heart

Dian Masalanta: the Tagalog goddess of lovers,

Mangagayuma: the Tagalog deity specializing in charms, especially those which infuses the heart with love; one of the five agent brothers

Far East Asia

Chinese

Yue-Lao, a god of love, who binds two people together with an invisible red string.

Tu Er Shen, a deity who oversees love between (effeminate) homosexual men.

god. On her first assignment with a client, a prostitute was supposed to make a sacrifice to him.

Qian Keng (Peng Zu), a god of health-focused sex.

Buddhist

Kuni, god of love.

Native Americas

Central American and the Caribbean

Aztec

Xochipilli, god of love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song.

South America

Rudá, god of love.

Papyrus

A symbol of life merging from primeval water. The plant is used to produce the papyrus paper, the world’s first paper

Papyrus, writing material of ancient times and also the plant from which it was derived, Cyperus papyrus (family Cyperaceae), also called paper plant. The papyrus plant was long cultivated in the Nile delta region in Egypt and was collected for its stalk or stem, whose central pith was cut into thin strips, pressed together, and dried to form a smooth thin writing surface.

Papyrus is a grasslike aquatic plant that has woody, bluntly triangular stems and grows up to 4.6 m (about 15 feet) high in quietly flowing water up to 90  cm (3 feet) deep. The triangular stem can grow to a width of as much as 6 cm. The papyrus plant is now often used as a pool ornamental in warm areas or in conservatories. The dwarf papyrus (C. isocladus, also given as C. papyrus ‘Nanus’), up to 60 cm tall, is sometimes potted and grown indoors.

The ancient Egyptians used the stem of the papyrus plant to make sails, cloth, mats, cords, and, above all, paper. Paper made from papyrus was the chief writing material in ancient Egypt, was adopted by the Greeks, and was used extensively in the Roman Empire.

Due to its prevalence in the Nile Delta, the papyrus was the heraldic plant of Lower (northern) Egypt, while the lily or lotus stood for Upper (southern) Egypt.

The goddess Wadjet, depicted as a rearing cobra  or a woman with the head of a lioness , was the tutelary deity of Lower Egypt, and often is shown carrying a papyrus-shaped scepter.

In ancient Egyptian cosmology, the world was created when the first god stood on a mound that emerged from limitless and undifferentiated darkness and water, a mythical echo of the moment each year when the land began to reappear from beneath the annual floodwaters. Papyrus marshes were thus seen as fertile regions that contained the germs of creation Ceilings in temples and tombs were frequently supported with columns in the form of papyrus plants, turning their architectural settings into models of this primeval marsh

In one of the great mythic cycles central to Egyptian religion, the goddess Isis took her infant son Horus to the papyrus thickets of the north to conceal him from her brother Seth, who had murdered her husband Osiris and usurped his throne. Horus grew to manhood here, hidden among the swaying reeds whose rustling sounds soothed him and masked his cries, until he emerged to defeat his wicked uncle and reclaim his patrimony (. Horus was protected and nursed while a baby by the goddess Hathor, who was worshipped in the ritual of the Shaking of the Papyrus.

To celebrate her role as wet-nurse of Horus and symbol of rebirth and resurrection in the celestial realm, this goddess is shown in the form of a cow emerging from the papyrus thicket The handles of mirrors, associated with Hathor as the goddess of eroticism and beauty, were often in the form of papyrus plants.

The Papypus has served mankind well

Hotep: An offering table that is set before the gods. Certain pharaohs names connected to the word Hotep to the god. Amun hotep, Mentuhotep. In this form Hotep means pleasing to the god, The name of the physician Imhotep means bringer of peace. It is used as a greeting by many today

Hotep is an Egyptian word that roughly translates as "to be satisfied, at peace". The word also refers to an "offering" ritually presented to a deity or a dead person, hence "be pleased, be gracious, be at peace". It is rendered in hieroglyphs as an altar/offering table. The noun ḥtp.w means "peace, contentment

According to Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University’s Chair of African American Studies, hotep has been used as a greeting among some back people since at least the 1970s. Reporter D.L. Chandler recalled hearing the greeting in the 1980s. A letter to the editor of The Black Collegian in 1990 used the greeting hotep.

In particular, hotep is used as a greeting by adherents of Afrocentrism, a movement that looks to African history to inform values for the black diaspora. Afrocentrists often look to Ancient Egypt as the source of African culture, hence the adoption of the Egyptian term hotep.

Canopic Jar: One set of a set of 4 jar in which the liver lungs stomach and intestines of the dead were stored. These jars were generally fashioned after the sons of Horus.

Canopic jars were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. They were commonly either carved from limestone or were made of pottery. These jars were used by the ancient Egyptians from the time of the Old Kingdom until the time of the Late Period or the Ptolemaic Period, by which time the viscera were simply wrapped and placed with the body. The viscera were not kept in a single canopic jar: each jar was reserved for specific organs. the name derives from the location Canopus (now Abukir) in the western Nile Delta near Alexandria, where human-headed jars were worshipped as personifications of the god Osiris

Hieroglyphs for the four sons of Horus used on an Egyptian canopic jar

from the 19th dynasty until the end of the New Kingdom 15 39 to 10 75 BCE, the heads represented the four sons of the god Horus (jackal-headed Duamutef, falcon-headed Qebehsenuf, human-headed Imset, and baboon-headed Hapy).

The four sons of Horus were a group of four gods in ancient Egyptian religion, who were essentially the personifications of the four canopic jars, which accompanied mummified bodies. Since the heart was thought to embody the soul, it was left inside the body. The brain was discarded.

Attributes of the Sons of Horus.

Imsety, the  Human aspect, housed the liver. He was  associated with the South and the Goddess Auset.

Duamutef. the Jakal head.  protected the stomach.  he was associated with the Deity Neith and the North.

Hapi, who was the Baboon, housed the lungs and was associated with the East and Nephtys.

Qebehsenuef the falson headed, holds the intestines and is associated with the West and Serket.

1542• Portugal helps Ethiopia end the Arab invasion.

c. 1550 

In Italy the Beretta family branched into guns

Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves.

1562• Britain begins slave trade in Africa

1570• Angola becomes a Portuguese colony.

7. 1591• Moroccan forces destroy the Songhai Empire

8. 1625• Holland involved in the slave trade.

1630 - The first true flintlock.

1638      

The French build a trading station on the estuary of the Senegal river in west Africa

1637-1641• Holland seizes Portugal’s Elmina, Sao Tome, and Luanda trading posts.

10. 1642• France involved in slave trade

11. 1651• Britain invades Gambia

1652      

Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope

The Pleiades.

The Pleiadeans represent a very unique mythology having roots not only in modern alien conspiracy theory but in most major religious belief sets on the planet. I can't name another occurrent that stands out so blatantly as our belief or interpretation of the Pleiadeans.

When we talk about any belief system we like to point out when we can where they give the origins of a particular Deity or a particular occurrence. we can easily say where the Pleiadeans come from. which is the Pleiades star cluster . Which is in the Taurus constellation. This is an important notation because the Taurus star system is the celestial home of the Aesir of Norse mythology.  Norse mythology makes reference to another people who they saw as equals, who were in this case called the Vanier.

So let's understand a little bit about the star cluster.

The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, are an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. It is among the star clusters nearest Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.

Distance to Earth: 444.2 light years.

Radius: 17.5 light years.

Constellation: Taurus.

Coordinates: RA 3h 47m 24s | Dec +24° 7′ 0″

Other designations: M45, Seven Sisters, Melotte 22.

Age: 100 million years.

 In UFOlogy, Nordic aliens are humanoid extraterrestrials purported to come from the Pleiades who resemble Nordic-Scandinavians. Professed contactees describe them as being six to seven feet tall (about two meters) with long blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair skin.  UFOlogist George Adamski is credited with being among the first to claim contact with Nordic aliens in the mid 1950s, and scholars note that the mythology of extraterrestrial visitation from beings with features described as Aryan often include claims of telepathy, benevolence, and physical beauty.

Kemetic Beliefs.

According to Kemetic traditions, the seven stars, represent an open invitation to  seekers to a more refined level of consciousness. Viewed as a “school of learning” only those who have been purified of energetic block. Invitation to and initiation into the Pleiadian wisdom teachings come during  deep meditation. The Pleiades are also viewed as our solar system’s source of electrical energy from the little sister star Electra.

The Pleiades in Norse, Celtic, and Bronze Age Mythology.

To Scandinavian, or Viking cultures, the Pleiades were thought of as Freyja’s children, Frejya being the Norse goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. For protection, some would paint seven spots, representing the seven stars, of this star system. Ladybugs were associated with the cluster because of the seven spots on their wings.

The Pleiades in Asian Cosmologies.

The first astronomical mention of the star cluster was in the Chinese Annals of roughly 2350 BC and was referred to as the Blossom Stars or Flower Stars.

The sprawling Xiaoling Mausoleum the tomb complex of the founder of the Ming Dynasty. when viewed from the air, the tomb complex echos the arrangement of the visible Pleiadian stars. Called the “treasure mound,” the tomb is said to hold “great cosmic secrets beyond gold treasure.”

In Japan, the Pleiades, relates to the cultural value of “harmonious grouping,” a foundational ,  characteristic of samurai and shogun societies.

According to myth, Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess quarreled with her brother Susanowo, the embodiment of the power of nature. Intimidated, she hid in a cave. The world went dark, and to entice her back out, the gods gave a string of seven brilliant jewels that would later be called the Pleiades cluster.

In Hindu mythology the seven sisters, are called the Krrtika.

In Vedic astrology, One born under the influences of the sisters is said to be fiery, warlike, and adventurous.

Native American Pleiades Myths.

A Cherokee myth tells the story of seven boys who rose into the heavens and became the Pleiades cluster,

 “The Iroquois, Chumash, Zuni, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot have all labeled the shining collection as an important source of enlightenment.

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This is a small sample of Pleiadean myth and symbolism. This relatively tiny star cluster has taken on proportionally huge significance in almost every ancient tradition and cosmology. In both ancient and modern cult. They remain present.

The Pleiadian, the children of the 7 sisters, the Nordics or Vanir have always beena friend to mankind, Or so mythology tells us.