9 World Chronicles

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,

Agwé

Loa of the Sea, Earth Shaker

Venerated in      Haitian Vodou

Symbols: Shells, fish, blue, white, green, brown, oars, boats, mirrors, telescope, fish hooks, net, sailors uniform

Patronage           Sea, river, fishermen, sailors, sea captains, pirates, Thursday, ships, boats, wind, waves, sea travelers

He is known as the great Admiral and the sovereign King of the sea.

His Kingdom is shared with Laserenia,  she is a beautiful deity who many people associate as his consort.

Although in some mythology she is seen as his daughter.

These two are known as the royalty of the sea Agwe is more than simply King of the waters or the sea god is an old spirit one of the first to manifest on earth.

It is believed that Agwe existed in the primordial waters that covered the earth before life began.

Met Agwe is the loa of direction. His territory is the winds and the currents, waves and depths of the oceans. He helps sailors find their bearings when lost at sea. He provides inspiration and guidance whenever an individual needs them in times of turmoil, loss, or indecision. He lives in a glorious palace under the seas. Patron of sailors, sea travelers, and pirates. ("Master Agwe")

Papa Agwe is envisioned as a handsome African man with green eyes,, often wearing a naval officer's or sailor's uniform. He is considered to be a gentleman who commands respect and embodies several ideals of masculinity including bravery, reserve, and provision.

Worship

His colors are blue, white, and occasionally sea-green or brown. His ritual symbol) is a boat with sails. His symbols are painted shells, painted oars, and sea life like the seahorse and starfish. He is syncretized with the Catholic saint Ulrich of Augsburg and occasionally the archangel Raphael, both of whom are depicted holding fish. His holy day is Thursday.

He is saluted or signaled with blowing on a conch shell and/or volleys of gunfire. When he possesses a devotee he often pushes himself around the temple on a chair (his boat) with a cane (his oar), shouting naval commands and saluting members of the congregation. His chevals ("horses" or possessed devotees) need to be kept moist with wet sponges or damp towels and have to be kept from running into the sea, where Agwe belongs.

Offerings

Small offerings to Agwe are poured or dropped overboard in deep ocean water. Large offerings to Agwe are left on constructed rafts (barques d'Agwe) which are floated or towed out to sea. If the raft sinks, it is accepted; if it returns to shore it is rejected.After the offering is left, the supplicants cannot look back at that place or it will anger Agwe. Chevals must be prevented from falling or leaping into the sea and drowning, as it would offend Agwe. Nothing toxic (lead pipes, cement bags, garbage) must be used to weigh down the raft; if it will hurt or pollute the sea, it will anger Agwe.

His offerings include:

Beverages: champagne, naval rum, or anisette. Coffee with sugar and cream.

Items: mirrors, a telescope, toy ships or scale ship models, oars or paddles, sea shells, turquoise beads or jewelry, fish-shaped sculptures or jewelry, fish hooks and nets, nautical uniforms or medals.

Food: Savory exotic foods, melon, boiled cornmeal, rice cooked in coconut milk, rice cooked with lima beans, boiled or fried ripe bananas, white cake, cane syrup, almond oil, olive oil.

Sacrificial Animals: White roosters, male ducks, and white rams or goats whose wool has been dyed with indigo. They are afterwards prepared, cooked, and then placed in serving dishes or on plates as a sacrifice (as king of the seas, he doesn't get hot food at home)

Agwey likes songs

Takes the form of a Handsome old man

He is known for carrying the soul of Africans who died in the Slave trade.

Possession, Agwe can summoned for possession, and its described as a benevolent helpful

Muso Koroni

The pure woman with the primeval soul.

The Knowledgeable One; The Pure Woman with the Primeval Soul

Also known as:

Nyalé; Mousso Koroni

Origin:

Bamana/Bambara

According to myth, Muso Koroni, Leopard Goddess of Mali, is the world’s first female while the first male was a blacksmith. Muso Koroni is among those spirits involved with the magical traditions of smithcraft. Originally a divine Creatrix, she traveled as a whirlwind sparking the process of creation.

She was venerated as  fertility goddess Bambara Mali West Africa.

The mother of all living things she introduced mankind to the principles of farming.

She is depicted either in human form sometimes with many breasts or as a Panther in later guys she uses her claws to bring on menstrual cramps in  women and to  circumcise both sexes.

prior to circumcision a youth is set to possess an untamed wildness. Muso Koroni is pursued by the sun God Pembo. Who impregnates her in the form of a tree.

Color:

Black, associated with fertility and black fertile soil

Elements: Fire, air (wind)

Offerings:

Smiths traditionally craft metal images of her in the form of candelabra. Her spirit is invoked when the lamp’s cups, filled with shea butter, are lit.

Hequet Goddess of the Primeval slime

She who hastens the birth

Classification: Goddess

Culture: Kemetic/Egyptian

Associated: Birth, Rebirth  

Heqet is a frog goddess who helped women to give birth and the dead to be reborn. The knife wielding frog shown on ivory wants or probably hack at in her role as defender of women and children.

The beginning of her cult dates to the early dynastic period at least. Her name was part of the names of some high-born Second Dynasty individuals buried at Helwan and was mentioned on a stela of Wepemnofret and in the Pyramid Texts. Early frog statuettes are often thought to be depictions of her.

Hackett mistress of joy was among the followers of the Inundation God Hapi when he brought the new life of Egypt each year.

Egyptians believed that frogs were spontaneously generated from the mud left by the receding Nile flood. Heqet it came to be worshipped as the goddess of the primeval slime who gave birth to the sun God.

She was regarded as a female counterpart to the creator God canoe and the two are linked in a middle Kingdom Royal birth myth.

The sun God RA sends a group of deities to assist a woman name Ruddaddet giving birth to three children who were destined to be Kings . 4 goddesses Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Hequet disguise themselves as dancing girls while canoe pretends to be their servant.

At the House of Ruddadet her distraught husband asked him for help because his wife's labor is so painful and difficult.

The deities locked themselves in the room with Ruddadet and Hequet hastens the birth of the Royal triplets.

Isis names the children,  Meskhennet predicts their fate Khnum make, some strong and healthy.

The beauties create three crowns for the triplets and hide them in a sack of Burley before returning to their divine realm.

The story implies that the children were sired by RA and they grow to be the sun worshipping Kings of the 5th dynasty.

In new Kingdom Royal birth myths Hequet gives life to the body and Ka  of the Royal infant shaped on the Potter's wheel of Khnum. And temples of the first Millennium BCE known assisting goddess is giving birth to divine children.

At Abydos Haquet was revered for helping Isis bring Horus into the world and for assisting the murdered God Osiris to be reborn. All Egyptians hoped that after they died Hequet would act as a divine midwife to their rebirth.

Barque of Millions

Solar barques were the vessels used by the sun god Ra in ancient Egyptian mythology. During the day, Ra was said to use a vessel called the Mandjet or the Boat of Millions of Years, and the vessel he used during the night was known as the Mesektet.

Ra was said to travel through the sky on the barge, providing light to the world. Each twelfth of his journey formed one of the twelve Egyptian hours of the day, each overseen by a protective deity. Ra then rode the barque through the underworld, with each hour of the night considered a gate overseen by twelve more protective deities. Passing through all of these while fending off various destructive monsters, Ra reappeared each day on the eastern horizon. He was said to travel across the sky in the Mandjet Barque through the hours of the day, and then switch to the Mesektet Barque to descend into the underworld for the hours of the night.

The progress of Ra upon the Mandjet was sometimes conceived as his daily growth, decline, death, and resurrection and it appears in the symbology of Egyptian mortuary texts.

The Underworld Journey of Ra

1st gate: Sia, deification of perception,  standing on the prow of the sun boat, invites a snake called "Desert-Protector" to unlock the gate to the arrival of Ra who, in the form of the god Atum (deification of the sunset sun , observes his enemies being massacred.

2nd gate: the guardian god is called "Swallower Of Sinners" and his gate precedes a lake of fire.

3rd gate: its guardian snake is "Stinger" while the portal itself is the goddess "Mistress Of Food"; some jackals watch over the "Lake of Life" interdicted to the dead because it is the place where Ra draws his breath.

4th gate: some deities carry ropes to measure the extension of the netherworld fields — as well as, in the daily life of the Egyptians, the measurement of the fields was carried out for tax purposes; this is also where the four human ethnic groups (according to the Egyptians) were depicted: the "cattle of Ra", i.e. Egyptians themselves, Levantines, Libyans and Nubians.

5th gate: this gate is the goddess "Lady Of Duration" while its guardian serpent is "Flame-Eyed"; this access is inhabited by the perfidious demon Apep — embodiment of evil and chaos (Isfet), bitter enemy of Ra  — here called "Evil Of Face". 20 deities manage to stem his devastating power by continuing to dissect it, while the heads of those he devoured emerge from his coils. The sun boat moves on and Ra leaves this dramatic region.

6th gate: Ra's boat approaches to seven jackal-headed poles with two enemies bound to each one, waiting to be beheaded.

7th gate: this gate is the goddess "Shining One" and beyond it there are 20 gods holding a rope ending in four whips, four falcon heads and four human heads.

8th gate: this access is inhabited by a flaming snake who burns up the enemies of Ausar.

9th gate: here stand Horus and Set on a hawk-headed lion.

10th gate: Apep appears again, but chained in order not to harm Ra in his transit.

11th gate: this gate is called "Mysterious Of Approaches" and is overseen by the cat-headed god Meeyuty (meow onomatopoeia).

12th gate: here stand the goddesses Isis and Nephthys in the form of snakes: the journey through the gates of the afterlife is finished and the sun rises on the world in the form of a sacred scarab (Khepri, deification of the morning sun.

Ishologu

Undead servant of whicthes typically brought back to live as revenge.

Impundulu

Asanbosam

Classification:  Mythological Creature Demon

Culture Ghana and Togo

Asanbosam is a parasitic creature of African Mythology. It belongs to the folklore of the Akan of southern Ghana, Togo and 18th century Jamaica from enslaved Akan.

The Asanbosam are creatures of the night, and typically avoid or even fear the bright sun The Asanbosam resides in the trees and forest feeding primarily on those who roam by means of its domain. They wait silently in tree, by their curves and hooked feet and catch its prey unaware.

 It is said to have iron teeth, pink skin, long red hair and iron hooks for feet.

I has large blood-shot eyes, long legs, and feet pointing both ways. Its favorite trick is to sit on the high branches of a tree and dangle its legs to entangle the unwary hunter.

Some are more aggressive hunters and will seek to infiltrate human dwellings and steal away with small children. They can be bold in the dusk hours, as from a distance they can appear to be more human.

The Asanbosam feed on the life essence of its human victims although it may consume the flesh and organs as well. Its is said that they are cursed or soulless human, they can only sustain themselves by draining the essence of others.

These creatures can be killed with normal weapons although they are noted to particular strong and fast.

Anti – One who Travels

Classification: Neter/God

Culture: North African Kemetic/Egyptian

Associated: Travel , Ferrymen

A Guardian deity associated with Egyptian upper kemit seems to have been a associated as Horus was

His main role is one of the protectors of the eastern Sky in which sun rises.

Anti is best known from coffin text circa 2000bce.

His worship is quite ancient, dating from at least the 2nd dynasty, at which point he already had priests dedicated to his cult. Originally, Anti appears to have been the patron of the ancient area around Badari, which was the centre of the cult of Horus.

He is depicted as a falcon or a human with a falcon’s head.

he became considered simply as the god of ferrymen, and was consequently depicted as a falcon standing on a boat, a reference to Horus, who was originally considered as a falcon. As god of ferrymen, he gained the title Nemty, meaning (one who) travels. His later cult centre Antaeopolis was known as Per-Nemty (House of Nemty).

Anti appears in the tale The Contendings of Horus and Seth which describes the settlement of the inheritance of Osiris, seen as a metaphor for the conquest of Lower Egypt by Upper Egypt (whose patron was Seth), at the beginning of the Old Kingdom.

In this tale, one of Seth's attempts to gain power consists of his gathering together the gods, and providing good arguments, convincing all of them (in later traditions, all except Thoth). Set fears magical intervention by Isis, Horus' wife (in early Egyptian mythology), and so holds the gathering on an island,

instructing Anti not to allow anyone resembling Isis to be ferried there. However, Isis disguises herself as an old woman, and unknowingly Anti takes her across after being paid a gold ring, having rejected the first offer of gruel, resulting in the disruption of the council by her use of magic.

Anti is punished for his error, by having his toes cut off, which is more severe than it appears, since as a falcon, he would no longer be able to perch.

He would be appropriated into Greek myth as Antaeus.

Yaro – the bringer of the day

Classification: God

Culture Kaffa of Ethiopia.

The kingdom of Kaffa existed from 1390 to 1897 and was centered in what is now Ethiopia.

Yaro is a sky god to whom the Kafa people venerated. He is said to have created the all of mankind with a thought and the utterance of one word, exuding the power of the spoken word.

He brings mankind the days and the seasons.

He is celebrated in annual festival that coincided roughly with the Summer and winter solstice.

Rituals for this deity are celebrated on  either hill tops or river banks in rural areas.

Offerings to this Yaro were typically roasted meats, wine, and sweet cakes.

Yaro is said to be a kind benevolent gods, but when he becomes angry he can create terrible rains and storms.

His sacred day is the

Deng, Bringer of Fertility and Rain

Classification: God

Culture/Religion: Dinka and Nuer of the Sudan and South Sudan

Associated: Storms and Fertility

Deng, also known as Denka, is a sky, rain, and fertility god in Dinka mythology for the Dinka people of Sudan and South Sudan. He is the son of the goddess Abuk.

She is the only well-known female deity of the Dinka. She is also the patron goddess of women as well as gardens. Her emblem or symbols are, a small snake, the moon and sheep.

Among his followers, Deng is regarded as the intermediary between humans and the supreme being. Closely linked with the supreme god Nhialic, he was regarded as the son of god and sometimes as the son of the goddess Abuk. In some areas of Dinka country, Deng and Nhialic are "regarded as one and the same".

He was an important sky god, to some clans an ancestor and creator god of the Dinka people, and he manifested himself in the fertilizing water that fell from the heavens.

The Dinka believe that in the beginning the sky was very low, so low that man had to be extremely careful when hoeing or pounding grain so as not to hit the sky. One day the greedy woman Abuk pounded more grain than she was allotted, using an especially long pestle. Deng was so angered by this that he cursed mankind, saying people would have to work harder for the fruits of the earth and in the end would also have to die.

Lightning is Deng’s club, and rain and birth are manifestations of his presence. If one is struck by lightning, one is not to be mourned because it is believed that Deng has taken that person directly to himself.

Among the Nuer, Deng is considered to be "a foreign deity" and "a bringer of disease".

Dendera Temple Complex

Located Nabta Playa in the Saharan desert

Sacred Places

Significance

Of Nabta Playa in general pushes the foundation of the Kemetic Civilization to 10 to 15 thousand years bce.

Size

The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mudbrick enclosed wall.

Well Preserved

 It is one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt. The area was used as the sixth nome of Upper Egypt, south of Abydos.

Hathor temple

Who was highly venerated by the Kemetic people as a supreme goddess and the Eye of Ra.

Shrine of Auset

Shrine of Sokar

Shrine of Harsomtus

Shrine of Hathor's Sistrum

Shrine of gods of Lower Egypt

Shrine of Hathor

Shrine of the throne of Rê

Shrine of Rê

Shrine of Menat collar

Shrine of Ihy

Shrine to Ausar

Dendera zodiac

The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Ausar in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales).

The first representation of the solar systems and the concept of the Zodiac

The Calendar Circle, which actuarily tracked the movements of the stars of a several thousand year period.