A LIGHT SHINING IN THE DARKNESS
LAYING THE 24" RULE
- Neith And The Owl City -
One does not have to cite authority to conclude that, according to the inscriptional records, Egypt has the longest uninterrupted history among major civilizations. And because there’s a scholarly consensus concerning conventional Egyptian chronology, Jade temple use it as the standard by which ancient universal history can be measured and synchronized. Here we will use the 24” gauge as the Rule of Temporal Measure, a century per inch, beginning with Anno Lucis.
This discussion will focus mainly on the Libyan Palette. It represents prima facie evidence of a pictorial record. Direct your attention to the 4th city on the top row. An objective description is simply: A falcon clutching a hoe in its talons, while sitting atop the wall of an enclosure containing the icon of an owl. The wall is intact, yet the scholarly consensus is that the falcon is in the process of breaking down the wall and attacking the city. With an agricultural implement!
No where else in Egyptian iconography is such an instrument so used. On the other hand, we see such a tool used by the kings, not for tearing down but for building up --- especially temples; and by the gods, specifically the Ogdoad, for the purpose of creating.
It would be more logical to suppose that the zoomorphic figures upon the walls with hoes were meant to communicate the idea that each had a part in the construction of the city, or laid the foundation to temples for their respective gods in those cities.
Concerning the temple of a god, Pharaoh says, "I take the peg-pole*, I grasp the club by its handle, I stretch the cord with Seshat...
SESHAT
"...I turn my sight to follow the stars' movement, I fix my gaze on the [astrality?] of Meskhetyu (i.e., "the bull's thigh", "plough", or our "big dipper"). The star-god that announces the time reaches the angle of its merkhet..." [i.e., "instrument of knowing". Cf. Gnomen < Grk gnōmōn, "indicator", "CARPENTER'S SQUARE" ... (or the shadows cast from a moon dial)]; "... I establish the four corners of the God's temple."
When Pharaoh gazes upon the stars, he's observing the body of Nut, the goddess who personifies the night sky (shown below arching over a niwt hieroglyph and an image of an earthly sphere.
If you take the circumference of the niwt and raise it from a horizontal to a perpendicular, you will produce a celestial meridian, and the so-called "crossroads" will now represent the four cardinal points of the compass (i.e., "The four corners of the god's temple"?). With that in mind, reflect upon Apuleius' Lament of Asclepius, in which Trismegitus declares, "Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or, to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the power which rule in heaven have been transferred to earth below? Nay, it should rather be said that the whole Kosmos dwells in this our land as in a sanctuary.".
There was actually a place called Pet n Kam, which translated into The Heaven of Egypt. It was located in On (Heliopolis). [Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dict., Vol 2. 995a]
Again we see that Khem is associated with specific nomes; for surely it would be absurd --- perhaps even sacrilege? --- to construct heaven in the mud. Is it not more than likely that the niwt symbol not only indicates a town/city, but a circumscribed area in which the temple of a god forms its center? More importantly, we see here vestiges of a time when the goddesses were crucial participants in the building process! And if Nut is a variant of niwt, and niwt is a variant of the red (Neith's) crown, then Nut is the celestial counterpart of the terrestrial Neith. Make sense?
Do you think the following COINCIDENCES (just to illustrate a few) weren't also observed by the ancient Egyptians, or that they wouldn't perceive it as an instance of DIVINE DESIGN? If one were to delineate a pattern in the heaven based on Pythagoras' Theorem, a mosiac would appear. And as above, so below.
* The Jadeist is reminded of the linquistic interchangeability of pole, pillar, and column, and consider them as synonymous terms in the context of meaning "great" or "high".
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