9 World Chronicles

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.

What is the Ba or Soul

The Ba an Egyptian symbol for the soul usually depicted as a bird with the head of the deceased. The ba is believed could flit between the world of the dead and the living if one knew the proper power words or spells (thought brought to life by the spoken word)

The Ba is only one of 9 very important components to the human “soul”.

Again, the importance of the sacred number 9 rears its pretty head. 9 being the number of completion.

In the line of this mythology the 8 Ogdoad pairs create Atum (9) and existence and life were created.

Ra would sir the 8 deities would join him to create the Ennead or 9 Shu and Tefntu, Geb and Nut, Ausra and Auset and Seth and Nepthys.

9 Would be import in the representation of the soul as well

The Khet is the physical form  which is why mummification became important as it was seen as essential for the afterlife.

Sah (spiritual body   spiritual representation of the physical body) forms. This spiritual body was then able to interact with the many entities extant in the afterlife. The Sah could manifest in this planes as well as an angry spirit.

Ib is the heart which is the center for emotion its formed from a dop of the mothers blood.

It was thought that the heart was examined by Anubis and the deities during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. If the heart weighed more than the feather of Maat, it was immediately consumed by the monster Ammit, and the soul became eternally restless.

The heart is judged and weighed in the Weighing of the Heart Ceremony. If the heart was judged to be heavy with sin it was devoured by the monster Ammit.

The Ka is your vital essence the spark of life that comes from the universe. It’s the part of all of us that is divine. The Ka is immortal.

Shut (shadow)

A person's shadow or silhouette, šwt (shut), is always present. Because of this, Egyptians surmised that a shadow contains something of the person it represents.

sḫm (sekhem) as the living force or life-force of the soul which exists in the afterlife after all judgement has been passed.

Ren is a person’s given birth name its is seen as the sum of a person’s identity, experiences and knowledge.

Akh is the intellect and is associated as thought as a divine force.

The Ba is the unique aspect of a person, this is what makes us different, it is shaped by the intellect (Akh), the hearth and the Ka vital essence and the life force.

When a person suffers a mortal death the Ka leaves the body, the opening of the mouth ceremony frees the Ba and its components to join the Ka.

The ancient Kemet believed that the afterlife was similar to this life. As above so below. Is a phrase that captures that, and the Ba and Ka would create a new entity to replace the khet that as met it mortal time.

9 Components of Human Existence

Necropolis

A city where the dead are honored. With tombs and funerary shrines. Necro meaning death.

Most of the famous necropolises of Egypt line the Nile River across from their cities. In ancient Greece and Rome, a necropolis would often line the road leading out of a city; in the 1940s a great Roman necropolis was discovered under the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica

Egypt

The Giza Necropolis of ancient Egy pt is one of the oldest and probably the most well-known necropolis in the world since the Great Pyramid of Giza was included in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Aside from the pyramids, which were reserved for the burial of Pharaohs, the Egyptian necropoleis included mastabas, a typical royal tomb of the early Dynastic period.

Abusir

Bagawat

Dahshur

Saqqara

Siwa Oasis

Theban Necropolis

Minya

Algeria

Jedars

Nepasa

Roknia

Brazil

Cemitério de São Francisco Xavier

By Halley Pacheco de Oliveira - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36331204

The Etruscans took the concept of a "city of the dead" quite literally. These tombs had multiple chambers and were elaborately decorated like contemporary houses. The arrangement of the tumuli in a grid of streets gave it an appearance similar to the cities of the living.

Etruscan necropoleis were usually located on hills or slopes of hills.[5]

Mycenae

In the Mycenean Greek period predating ancient Greece, burials could be performed inside the city. In Mycenae, for example, the royal tombs were located in a precinct within the city walls. This changed during the ancient Greek period when necropoleis usually lined the roads outside a city.

Kerameikos outside of Athens

Vergina

Amphipolis

Marathon

Persia

Naqsh-e Rustam is an ancient necropolis located about 12 km (7.5 mi) northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran. The oldest relief at Naqsh-i Rustam dates to c. 1000 BC Darius the Great

The North Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is an architectural complex that served as a royal necropolis and was a centre for funerary activity for over 1300 years. The acropolis is located near the centre of the city and is one of the most studied of Maya architectural complexes.

Iraq

Wadi-us-Salaam, reputedly the largest cemetery in the world.

Lebanon

Tyre Necropolis

Libya

Necropolis of Cyrene

Malta

Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni

Morocco

Chellah is a medieval fortified Muslim necropolis located in the metro area of Rabat, Morocco,

North Macedonia

Saint Erasmus

Pakistan

Chaukundi

Makli Hill

Peru

Necropolis of Wari Kayan

Russia

Kremlin Wall Necropolis

Somalia

Hafun

Syria

Necropolis of Emesa

Valley of Tombs

Turkey

Tombs of the kings of Pontus

Karacaahmet Cemetery

Eyüp Cemetery

Hierapolis necropoleis

Lycian necropoleis

Ukraine

Caves of The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Uzbekistan

Bahoutdin Architectural Complex

Vatican City

Vatican Necropolis

tempt·ress

/ˈtem(p)trəs/

noun

a woman who tempts someone to do something, typically a sexually attractive woman who sets out to allure or seduce someone.

In the Biblical Account the temptress Delilah wooed and seduced the hero Samson in a plot to steal his strength by shaving his head.

She was successful in her endeavors.

In the epic of Gilgamesh  Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, abuses his people. In response to complaints from the citizens, the goddess Aruru creates Enkidu in the steppe. Abundantly hairy and primitive, he lives roaming with the herds and grazing and drinking from rivers with the beasts. One day a hunter watches Enkidu destroying the traps he has prepared for the animals. The hunter informs his father, who sends him to Uruk to ask Gilgamesh for help. The king sends Shamhat, a prostitute, who seduces Enkidu. After two weeks with her, he becomes human, intelligent and understanding words, however the beasts flee when they see him. Shamhat convinces Enkidu to face the tyrant Gilgamesh in combat.

The Goddess Inanna famously attempted to seduce Gilgamesh King of Urak. He rejected her, infuriating the proud gods. In retribution she unleashed the bull of heaven on Earth. The bull caused tremendous damage and killed people until he was slain by Gilgamesh and the now civilized Enkidu.

Circe the Siren of Greek myth seduced the Trojan Hero Odysseus. He spent a year on her isle before he was able to break free of her spell.

Lilith, the rebel turned demon of Abrahamic beliefs became a succubus as she was fully corrupted. She survived by seducing been in the guise of a beautiful temptress. Those who tell into her trap were drained of the life force.

The Kemetic Goddess Nephthys yearned for a child but was married to Set who rejected her. She seduced her sister Auset’s husband Ausar and conceived the Under world god Anubis (Anpu).

Sopdet  Sharp one

Associated: Sopdet Star (the Sirius), inundation of the Nile

Culture: North Africa Kemetic Egyptian

Cult Center: Per Sopdet

Period of Worship : predynastic peris through Greco-Roman invasion

Consort Sah (Orion)

Offspring: Sopdu Venus

The Astral Goddess

Sopdet (Sepdet, Sothis) personified the 'dog star' Sirius. This star was the most important of the stars to the ancient Egyptians.

SOPDET,  or SIRIUS, is the brightest of all the fixed, stars, and is regarded as the most important star in the sky, in Kemetic Beliefs,  forming the astronomical foundation of their religious system, delineating the rhythms, and cycles, by which they lived, and establishing its, mysterious connection, with humanity.

The heliacal rising of this star came at the time of inundation and the start of the Egyptian New Year.

 As a goddess of the inundation, she was a goddess of fertility. She also was linked to the pharaoh and his journey in the afterlife.

In the mythology of the NTRs (who would latter be called gods by the Greeks), the Sopdet star is their solar home. The source of not only these enlightened being but was viewed as the ultimate source of knowledge. This star can be seen from almost every inhabited region of Earths surface.

This celestial body was sacred to the Freemason and the order of the Eastern star.

Even as early as the 1st Dynasty, she was known as 'the bringer of the new year and the Nile flood'. When Sirius appeared in the sky each year, the Nile generally started to flood and bring fertility to the land. The ancient Egyptians connected the two events, and so Sopdet took on the aspects of a goddess of not only the star and of the inundation, but of the fertility that came to the land of Egypt with the flood. The flood and the rising of Sirius also marked the ancient Egyptian New Year, and so she also was thought of as a goddess of the New Year.

She is depicted as a nude figure wearing a conical white crown of Lower Egypt surmounted by a star. Late in Egyptian mythology she becomes largely syncretized with Isis.

heliacal rising of the bright star preceded the usual annual flooding of the Nile.[8] It was therefore apparently used for the solar civil calendar which largely superseded the original lunar calendar in the 3rd millennium BC

During the Old Kingdom, she was an important goddess of the annual flood and a psychopomp guiding deceased pharaohs through the Egyptian underworld.

From the Middle Kingdom, Sopdet sometimes appeared as a god who held up part of Nut (the sky or firmament) with Hathor.

She is also thought to be a guide in the afterlife for the pharaoh, letting him fly into the sky to join the gods, showing him 'goodly roads' in the Field of Reeds and helping him become one of the imperishable stars. She was thought to be living on the horizon, encircled by the Duat.

        ‘When I have bathed for the king, for the lord,

        when I have bathed for the shepherd Dumuzid (Dumuzi),

        when I have adorned my flanks (?) with ointment (?),

        when I have anointed my mouth with balsamic oil, when I have painted my eyes with kohl,

        when he has …… my hips with his fair hands,

        when the lord who lies down beside holy Inanna, the shepherd Dumuzid, has …… on his lap,

        when he has relaxed (?) …… in my pure (?) arms,

        when he has intercourse (?) with me …… like choice beer,

        when he ruffles my pubic hair for me, when he plays with the hair of my head,

        when he lays his hands on my holy genitals, when he lies down in the …… of my sweet womb,

        2 lines unclear

        when he treats me tenderly on the bed, then I will too treat my lord tenderly.

        I will decree a good fate for him!

        I will treat Culgi (King Shulgi), the good shepherd, tenderly!

        I will decree a good fate for him! I will treat him tenderly in his ……!

        I will decree the shepherdship of all the lands as his destiny!’ …

        ‘In battle I will be the one who goes before you.

        In combat I will carry your weapon like a personal attendant.

        In the assembly I will be your advocate.

        On campaign I will be your encouragement.

        You are a shepherd chosen by holy …….

        You are the generous provider of E-ana.

        You are the pure (?) one of An’s Iri-gal.

        You are worthy of …….

        You are one who is entitled to hold high his head on the lofty dais.

        You are one who is worthy of sitting on the shining throne.

        Your head is worthy of the brilliant crown.

        Your body is worthy of the long fleecy garment.

        You are worthy of being dressed in the royal garb.

        You are suited to hold the mitum weapon in your arm. …

        You are a fast runner suited to race on the road.

        You are worthy to delight yourself on my holy breast like a pure calf.

        May your love be lasting!

        An has determined this for you, and may he never alter it!

        May Enlil, the decreer of fates, never change it!’

Maat – The Embodiment of Truth

The central concept of Egyptian cosmology and ethics was Maat. The word Maat can mean truth justice righteousness or balance and cosmic law.

The primary duty of the Egyptian pharaoh or King was to be the champion of Maat.

to be sure that the kingdom was living in Maat.

The Goddess Maat became the personification of those principals.

Kings were frequently shown offering a miniature figure of Maat to the chief deity of any particular temple. All daily rituals and sacrifices would be deemed meaningless unless the King and his people were living righteously.  Judges and high officials wore images of the goddess to signify that they were enforcing her laws.

Maat was also a part of the death of a soul and an integral to the success of a soul passing through the Hall of the Two Truth where the heart was weighed against the feather of Maat.

In the book of coming forth by day the Hall of two truths is the place where souls of the dead come to be judged. The hearts of the dead were weighed against a feather of Maat.

If like Ra,  the dead person had Maat in his (her)  heart the scales were balanced, and the deceased would be clear declared true or voice or justified.  If the soul was heavy with untruth and misdeeds they were consumed by a great monster.

Maat was linked to Thoth who was the impartial judge who was said to have put the laws of Maat into writing. This gave a divine precedent for the many works of Egyptian literature that teach or debate how to live in Maat in the real world.

Egyptians’ myth of the golden age include a period when Maat was ruler of the world. she was sometimes said to have drawn in the heaven because unrighteous nature of some men.

The goddess Maat was the beloved daughter of RA the creator sun God. She travels with him in the solar baroque delighting his heart and “giving him life to his nostrils”.

From the old Kingdom onward, Maat  presence were thought to be vital to the daily regeneration of the sun God. In underworld books she is often shown standing close to Ra and both the day and night boats of the sun. This or the dual nature of Egypt as two kingdoms may explain why Maat can appear as two identical goddesses.

Goddess of cosmic order. Epitomizing the harmonious law of cosmic order and truth.

She was recognized from at least the middle of the third millennium and most likely much earlier.

Her only known sanctuary is in the Temple Complex Karnak at Thebes.

Maat is depicted either in human form wearing an ostrich plume on her head or by an ostrich feather alone.

The rulers of Egypt believed they were governed under her aegis and referred to themselves as “beloved of Maat.

Sia the deification of thought

Culture: North African

Classification: Primal Deity

Associated: Creation, Wisdom Thought

was the deification of perception in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny. He also had a connection with writing and was often shown in anthropomorphic form holding a papyrus scroll. This papyrus was thought to embody intellectual achievements.

Sia is a deity belonging to the Heliopolitan Creation myth. She represents “personification of mind” and “deification of wisdom” and she is born from one drop of blood from Ra, the ancient Egyptian sun god. There exists another god who is also born from one drop of blood from Ra, it is Hu and Hu is the “deification of the word of creation”. Both Sia and Hu represents insight and wisdom of Ra.

At the beginning of time, the god Atum emerged from the swirling waters of chaos to stand on the first dry land, the primordial ben-ben, to begin the act of creation.

The universe was created and given form by magical means, and magic sustained both the visible and invisible worlds. Heka was thought to have been present at creation and was the generative power Atum Ra drew upon in order to create life.

To me belonged the universe before you gods came into being. You have come afterwards because I am Heka" (Spell, 261).

Sia  is the thought, the idea the inspiration.

Hu is the execution of those idea through the spoken word.

Moreover, these three  deities, Sia the Divine thought, Hu the creative utterance, and Heka the generative force, accompany Ra to set the order in the universe and maintain everything created. They are seen together with the falcon-headed sungod standing in the sunboat as it travels across the sky. This points to the mythical concept that every sunrise is equal to the world being created anew.

Sia appeared standing on the solar barque during its journey through the night in New Kingdom underworld texts and tomb decorations, together with Hu, the "creative utterance," and Heka, the god of magic. These gods were seen as special powers helping the creator, and although Heka had his own cult Sia did not

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Ahura Mazda wise lord

Classification: The Supreme God

Associated: Light, Wisdom

Culture: Ancient Persian

Known period of worship Circa 1500 BCE

Cult Centers: Throughout the Near East during the Persian and Roman Empires.

Art References : Various Sculptures and reliefs

Literary Sources: Avestia

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Ahura Mazda represented the Sky and embodied wisdom fruitfulness and benevolence his opponent and also his creation was Angra Mainyu God of darkness and sterility.

 There were other deities, but life was essentially a struggle between the two gods of good and evil. In the 7th or 6th century BC E the Prophet Zoroaster the founder of Zoroastrianism declared Ahura Mazda alone worthy of absolute worship. Ahura Mazda was the essence of beneficent nature. creator of heaven and earth the font of law and morality and  Supreme judge of the universe .

When he was 30 he participated in a spring festival as a member of a priestly family and one of his duties was to draw water from the deepest and purest part of the stream for the morning ceremony. Here at the Daytia river, he met the angel Vohu Mana.

 The entity asked Zoroaster who he was and what was the most important thing in his life. To which Zoroaster answered that he wanted most of all to be righteous, pure and wise. By this answer, he was granted a vision of Ahura Mazda and his archangels from whom he learned the principles that would lead to the religion known late as Zoroastrianism.

He becomes the god of light and truth in the Zoarastrian concept of Dualism.

His chief attendant was Mithras. According to myth his first creation was a wild bull. It had to be confided to a cave to control the beast. It escaped and Mitra was tasked with finding filling the animal.  When the beast was slain it blood fell to the Earth and created life

He becomes the god of light and truth in the Zoarastrian concept of Dualism. His offspring include Could have been a love child  Gayomart  the archetype male.

Beyond, apart and without him, there is nothing in existence. He is changeless, moving all while not being moved by anyone, has no equal, and no one can take the heavens from him. He favors the just man, upholding the truth and proper behavior. Ahura Mazda created the twin spirits, Angra Mainyu, the destructive spirit, and Spenta Meynu, the good spirit.