Martu, Lord of the Mountain Also Amurru, The ThundererCulture Mesopotamian Amorite/Amurru The Parton god of the city of Ninab.bêlu šadī or bêl šadê,Bêl Šadê could also have become the fertility-god 'Ba'al', possibly adopted by the Canaanites, a rival and enemy of the Hebrew God YHWH, and famously combatted by the Hebrew prophet Elijah.Amurru also has storm-god features. Like Adad, Amurru bears the epithet 'thunderer', and he is even called 'hurler of the thunderbolt' . Yet his iconography is distinct from that of Adad, and he sometimes appears alongside Adad with a baton of power or throwstick, while Adad bears a conventional thunderbolt.
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.
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.
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 formwhich is why mummification became important
as it was seen as essential for the afterlife.
Sah (spiritual bodyspiritual 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, Å¡wt (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.
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.
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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,
#WarGod #GodOfWar #EgyptianMyth Apedemak The War God Of KushClassification God:Culture: Meroe of the Sudan, Nubia, Kush Apedemak or Apademak was a lion-headed warrior god worshiped by the Meroitic peoples inhabiting Nubia. In the temple of Naqa built by the rulers of Meroe, Apedemak was depicted as a three-headed leonine god with four arms[1] and as a snake with a lion head. However, he is usually depicted as a man with a lion head.
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).
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.
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, Maatpresence 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.
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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Culture: North African Kemetic/Egyptian Civilization
Associated: Writing, Recording, Mathematics
Seshat, goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. Scribe of
the gods. Credited with the invention of writing and the alphabet.
Seshat was the goddess who measured and recorded the world.
As “Lady of Builders” she was the matron of architecture
astronomy and mathematics. Known as she who was foremost in the library.
Seshat usually wears a Panther skin a symbol of priestly
office. She sometimes carries a palm frond carved with notches to mark the
passing of years.
As a goddess of writing session was the keeper of Royal
annals and genealogies. She was shown recording the booty game by Kings and
battle perhaps as a reminder that a share was due to the gods.
Seshat was even said to descend into the underworld to
record everything in the realm of the dead. From his early as the second
dynasty she was shown assisting Kings to layout the foundations for temples and
align them with the stars and planets.
In the divine realm Seshat
was in charge of building and the
mansions of the gods. She was sometimes assisted in this task by the gods of
sight and hearing.
Seshat also built mansions in the West for the fortunate
dead. She was occasionally identified as an aspect of the goddess Nephthys. In
the coffin texts sextette is said to be angry at a child she gives birth to just
as later tradition made Nephthys reject her son Anubis. And another coffin text
Thoth ans Seshat bring writing to a man
in the realm of the dead. These writings were spells that would help the dead
person to Vanquish terrors of the underworld and become a powerful spirit.
In later mythologies she is said to be the scribe of Hatshepsut
the 18th dynasty female Pharaoh.
Her mysterious headdress consists of a 7 pointed star or
seven petaled flower which is associated with the cannabis plant.
In it is written that Seshat opens the door to heaven for
you, is often translated as reference to the psychotropic effects of the
cannabis plant.
"Cannabis is mentioned as a medication in the following
ancient Egyptian medical texts: Ramesseum III Papyrus (1700 B.C.E.), Eber’s
Papyrus (1600 B.C.E.), the Berlin Papyrus (1300 B.C.E.), and the Chester Beatty
VI Papyrus (1300 B.C.E.). The Eber’s Papyrus is the oldest known complete
medical textbook in existence. Most scholars believe that it is copy of a much
earlier text, probably from around 3100 B.C.E."
A thus a modern veneration for the Goddess persist.
