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uide through the path of the waters. heg: circumambulates the hall once with practicus having previously given him the calvary cross to bear. hiereus: as they approach rises with red lamp in his hand. hegemon and practicus halt before him. hiero: the priest with the mask of osiris spake and said i am the water, stagnant and silent and still, reflecting all, concealing all. i am the past. i am the inundation. he who riseth from the great waters is my name. hail unto ye, dwellers of the land of night, for the rending of the darkness is near. heg: leads practicus round to seat of hiereus. hiereus: as they approach takes red lamp in his hand and rises. hegemon and practicus halt before him. hiereus: the priest with the mask of horus spake and said, i am water turbid and troubled. i am the bani

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

place, the advancement ritual of the path of hb:qof is celebrated. the "hegemon" leads the practicus through the pillars and then circumambulates the temple. as they approach the hierophant, he rises, holding aloft the red lamp, and says: 275 "the priest with the mask of osiris spake and said 'i am the water, stagnant, and silent, and still; reflecting all, concealing all. i am the past! i am the inundation. he that ariseth from the great waters is my name. hail unto ye! o dwellers in the land of night. hail unto ye! for the rending of the darkness is nigh" the "hiereus" says "the priest with the mask of horus spake and said 'i am the water, turbid, and troubled, and deep. i am the banisher of peace in the vast abode of waters! none is so strong that can withstand the strength of the great

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

rs are troubled: oh, woman, in our hours of ease!the reader will remember the rest, but we should also remember that in the earlier ages the vastmajority of mankind itself, suppressed by the too great or greatly abused power of church andstate, only manifested itself at such periods of rebellion against forms or ideas grown old. and withevery new rebellion, every fresh outburst or debcle, or wild inundation and bursting over the barri-ers, humanity and woman gain something, that is to say, their just dues or rights. for as everyfreshet spreads more widely its waters over the fields, which are in due time the more fertilisedthereby, so the world at large gains by every revolution, however terrible or repugnant it may be fora time.the emancipated or womans rights woman, when too enthusiastic

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

ttributed to this god.[1] the god ptah is also united with the gods hapi, nu and tanen when he represents various phases of primeval matter. khnemu worked with ptah in carrying out the work of creation ordered by thoth, and is therefore one of the oldest divinities of egypt; his name means "to mould "to model" his connexion with the primeval water caused him to be regarded as the chief god of the inundation and lord of the cataract at elephantine. he dwelt in annu, but he was lord of elephantine, and "the builder of men, the maker of the gods, and the father from the beginning" elsewhere he is said to be ari enti-s qemam unenet sa xeperu tef maker of things which are, creator of what shall be, the beginning of beings, father tefu ma ma of fathers, and mother of mothers. he supported the he

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

oye, whom she eventually married. they established i am america. the map and associated prophecies suggest that the coming changes will be signaled by the arrival of a huge meteor that will set off various faults and volcanoes around the pacific rim. a series of steps will follow, including the melting of the arctic icecap and a shift in the earth s polar axis. among the major changes will be the inundation of the american west coast, florida, and the mississippi river valley. following the change, five golden city vortexes will arise. these changes were to begin occurring at the end of the 1990s, which obviously did not happen. around 1996, toye and her husband began to back away from the literal interpretation of the prophecies. they began to emphasize the message of the map as an opport

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ues of love, the health of the community, and the taking of the field. whatever repeatedly occurs to defeat their prognostics, falls on themselves; and they are wont to pay their deceptions very dearly. they chew a species of vegetable called puripiri, and throw it into the air, accompanying this act by certain recitals and incantations, to injure some, to benefit others, to procure rain, and the inundation of the rivers, or, on the other hand, to occasion settled weather, and a plentiful store of agricultural productions. any such result having been casually verified on a single occasion, suffices to confirm the indians in their faith, although they may have been cheated a thousand times. fully persuaded that they cannot resist the influence of the puripiri, as soon as they know that they

of love, the health of the community, and the taking of the field. whatever repeatedly occurs to defeat their prognostics, falls on themselves; and they are wont to pay for their deceptions very dearly. they chew a species of vegetable called piripiri, and throw it into the air, accompanying this act by certain recitals and incantations, to injure some, to benefit others, to procure rain and the inundation of rivers, or, on the other hand, to occasion settled weather, and a plentiful store of agricultural productions. any such result, having been casually verified on a single occasion, suffices to confirm the indians in their faith, although they may have been cheated a thousand times. supposedly there is an instance on record of how the huillca could refuse on occasion to recognize even

EVERBURNING LAMPS

tiber, in the stone tomb of pallas, the arcadian, son of evander, slain by "turnus rex rotulorum" in the wars at the time of the building of rome; nothing could extinguish the flame of this lamp until it was broken. on the tomb were the words "filius evandri pallas, quem lancea turni militis occidit, mole sua jacet hic"-see "martianus, liber chronicorum" lib. xii, cap. 67. two miles from rome an inundation broke down a wall, and disclosed an ancient tomb; on the cover stone were the letters "p.m. r.c. cum uxore" in it an earthen urn was found; when fractured, a bituminous smoke issued; in the bottom was a lamp, which went out; the fragments were still oily; this became dry after exposure.-see "lowthorp, abridgment of philos. trans" vol. iii, sec. xxxv, also no. 185, p. 227. in a certain t

FAUST

iling. there all things may a goat s-foot dare. mephistopheles you ll stay here and i ll find you here again? sphinxes yes! go and mingle with the airy train. we long ago are wont, from egypt coming here, to sit enthroned to the thousandth year. respect to our position you must pay. thus rule we lunar, rule we solar day. at the pyramids our station, we look on the doom of races, war and peace and inundation, with eternal changeless faces. by the lower peneus peneus surrounded by waters and nymphs. peneus wake and stir, ye whispering bushes, softly breathe, ye reeds and rushes, rustle, willows by the river, lisp, ye poplar sprays a-quiver, to my interrupted dream. fearful, stirring breezes wake me and mysterious tremors shake me from my rippling, restful stream. faust [stepping to the edge

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

ich they were distinguished by that early race. if, therefore, surprise has heretofore been excited at the conformity observable between our church institutions and those of the east, let it in future subside at the explicit announcement that christianity, with us, was the revival of a religion imported amongst us many ages before by the tuath-de-danaans from the east, and not from any chimerical inundation of greek missionaries--a revival upon which their hearts were lovingly riveted, and which fiech, the bishop of sletty, unconsciously registers in the following couplet, viz "the buddhists of irin prophesied that new times of peace would come"[149 [149] the round towers of ireland, p. 493. the conditions surrounding the ancient inhabitants of the "white island" or ireland, a remnant of w

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

, on the tiber, in the stone tomb of pallas, the arcadian, son of evander, slain by'turnusrex rotulorum' in the wars at the time of the building of rome; nothing could extinguish the flame of this lamp until it was broken. on the tomb were the words 'filius evandri pallas, quem lanceaturnimilitis occidit, mole sua jacet hie' see martianus,liberchronicorum,lib. xii, cap. 67. two miles from rome an inundation broke a wall, and disclosed an ancient tomb; on the cover stone were the letters 'p.m. r.c. cum uxore; initan earthen urn was found; when fractured, a bituminous smoke issued; in the bottom was a lamp, which went out; the fragments were still oily; this became dry after exposure. see lowthorp, abridgment ofphilos.trans.,vol.iii.,sec. xxxv, also no. 185, p.227. in a certain temple of ven

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

h, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p. 126. 27 world mythology, pp. 26-7. 28 ibid, p. 305. 29 folklore in the old testament, p. 81. 30 ibid. 31 world mythology, p. 280. 32 e. sykes, dictionary of non-classical mythology, london, 1961, p. 119. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 192 world was destroyed by a flood and later recreated by a god named tangaloa. the samoans believe that there was once an inundation that wiped out almost all mankind. it was survived only by two human beings who put to sea in a boat which eventually came to rest in the samoan archipelago.33 greece, india and egypt on the other side of the world, greek mythology too is haunted by memories of a deluge. here, however (as in central america) the inundation is not viewed as an isolated event but as one of a series of des

phere of intrigue that such passages generate is accentuated by the reticent behaviour of the hung league itself, an organization resembling the medieval european order of the knights templar (and the higher degrees of modern freemasonry) in many ways that are beyond the remit of this book to describe.24 it is intriguing, too, that the chinese character hung, composed of water and many, signifies inundation, i.e. the flood. finally, returning to india, let us note the content of the sacred scriptures known as the puranas. these speak of four ages of the earth, called yugas, which together are said to extend to 12,000 divine years. the respective durations of these epochs, in divine years, are krita yuga= 4800; treta yuga= 3600; davpara yuga= 2400; kali yuga= 1200.25 the puranas also tell u

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

against his closed lips in his role ofthe god of silence. hathor maternal force, protection, sustenance, fertility. hathor is the consort of horas. her name means 'house of horus' she has the form of a cow in role of the eternal mother. sothis initiation (femiriine, evolution, growth sothis is the godde ss of the dog star whose annual rise into the heavens marked 67 the advent of the nile river's inundation and thus assured another year of bounty. she is shown naked to ind cate that she holds no secrets from her followers. apis emotions, sacrifice, passion, lust, desire. apis has the form of a bula. anubis initiation (masculine, intelligence, wisdom, rational mvnd_ anubis is the son of osiris and nephthys and thus the step brother of horus. he is called the'initiator of the temple' his chi

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

was in the form of violent desert storms that could lead to destructive flash floods. the usually cloudless skies made it particularly easy for the egyptians to observe the stars and planets. much early mythology may have developed to explain the movement of celestial bodies. the habitable part of egypt was effectively a giant oasis created by the nile and its annual flood, which is known as the inundation. every year a combination of melting snows and monsoon rains in the mountains of ethiopia caused a huge increase in the amount of water in the nile. when the swollen river reached egypt, it flooded all the low-lying land in the nile valley and delta, depositing a thick layer of silt.7 as the floods went down, the fields were planted, and crops such as emmer wheat and barley grew very qu

e grain than they needed to feed the population. in bad years, the flood might not be high enough to reach all the fields, or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes, and concepts, but there was no god or goddess of the nile. introduction 3 figure 1. the nile valley (black land) seen from the desert hills (red land (courtesy of geraldine pinch) the annual rising of the nile was thought of as part of the divine order of things decreed by a creator deity. this divine order was known as maat, and

oncepts that might in other cultures belong to the realm of abstract philosophy were expressed by symbols, images, and, to a lesser extent, myths. the divine order envisaged by the egyptians placed their country at the center of the created world. this world was still surrounded by the primeval waters (the nun) from which the creator had originally emerged. the ultimate source of the nile and the inundation was believed to be in the nun. foreign lands and the deserts that bordered the nile valley were said to belong to the realm of chaos (isfet, the force that constantly threatened the divine order. there was a tradition that the creator and the numerous gods and goddesses whom he/she had created originally lived in egypt itself. at the beginning of history they withdrew up into the heaven

such maps formed part of the book of two ways (british museum) barque of ra, or include instructions for the rituals that should accompany them. a few spells incorporate elaborate glosses to explain obscure passages. these may reflect the way that religious knowledge was expounded among the elite. some spells are monologues spoken in the person of a deity, beginning with phrases such as i am the inundation-deity who provides food (ct 320; others are dialogues between deities that amount to miniature religious dramas. a few sections of the coffin texts have vignettes: illustrations that form an integral part of the spell. the most elaborate of these are the maps that belong to a section of the coffin texts known as the book of two ways (see figure 4. 26 these maps, which were usually paint

ake. the poison burns like fire, and ra gives a terrible scream that dis- mythical time lines 69 turbs all the gods. as the snake has come from the body of ra just like the eye goddess, it presumably has the same terrible fiery poison as that goddess s snake form. at first, ra is unable to speak because his lips are trembling and his limbs are shaking. the poison had overwhelmed his body like the inundation overwhelms everything in its path. then the sun god takes courage and explains to his followers that he has been stung by an unknown creature, not created by him. he summons his children, the other gods, to see if any of them can help him. the gods are distraught at the catastrophe that has overtaken ra. isis pretends to be as bewildered and upset as the rest. she asks ra if one of his

, the king had to undergo a much more elaborate renewal process to identify himself once again with the life-giving youthful forms of the creator and the sun god.50 the last month of the year was feared as a time when the gods seemed to be punishing humanity as they had after the rebellion against the sun god (see sekhmet in deities, themes, and concepts. the new year began with the coming of the inundation. by the ptolemaic period, the first nile flood was said to have been caused by the return of the distant goddess from nubia. every year, the fearsome goddess had to be persuaded to return home and take on a benevolent form as she reached the southern border of egypt. kiosk-shrines built on the water s edge were decorated with comical figures of dwarfs or ani- 90 handbook of egyptian myt

egypt. kiosk-shrines built on the water s edge were decorated with comical figures of dwarfs or ani- 90 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 18. the sun child inside the ouroboros snake supported by the sky cow and the lions of yesterday and tomorrow. vignette from the funerary papyrus of herweben (british museum) mals dancing and playing musical instruments to pacify the goddess and welcome the inundation (see figure 14. alternatively, the nile flood could be seen as the tears that isis wept every year for her murdered husband or as the efflux from the decaying body of osiris (see osiris in deities, themes, and concepts. during the flood season, egypt resembled the nun again. when the floods began to recede, the land appeared to rise up like the primeval mound, and the fields could be pl

instance, in the account of the creation of the world in seven days described in the book of genesis. for ancient creation myths in general, see the chapter chaos and cosmogony in m. r. wright, cosmology in antiquity (london and new york, 1995. 4. this is one of the reasons why ptah precedes ra in some lists of gods who ruled the world. although the imagery of the primeval mound is drawn from the inundation, the land is said to rise rather than the waters to fall. the rising of the mound was also seen in sexual terms as the life-bringing erection of the earth god. 5. the parts of egyptian temples decorated with marsh foliage may represent this stage of the nun when chaos had been subdued by the creator to realize its potential. the mounds, which were places of life, had their evil counterp

for a full translation, see miriam lichtheim, ancient egyptian literature, vol. 3: the late period (berkeley, los angeles, and london,1980, 156 159. 23. this section of the myth is probably based on a list of names, epithets, and festivals of goddesses. by the greco-roman period, and probably earlier, the myth of the distant goddess was linked with the winter solstice and the annual return of the inundation from the far south. the flood took some weeks to spread northward, so the priests of each major temple would greet it in turn. for the wild celebrations that marked the return of the wandering goddess, see j. c. darnell, hathor returns to medamud, studien zur alt gyptischen kultur 22 (1995: 47 94. 24. these references are chiefly in the texts known as the teaching for king merikare and

. body and soul. in idea into image: essays on ancient egyptian thought. translated by elizabeth bredeck. princeton: 1992, 167 184. p. f. houlihan. the birds of ancient egypt. warminster, england: 1986. primary sources: bd 77 78, 83 86, 110; bofnut; h&s; cairo calendar; lwd; edfu cosmology; eofs. boats boats were one of the most important forms of transport in ancient egypt, especially during the inundation season, so it is natural that they are prominent egyptian myth. from a very early period the divine realm was thought of as a watery region high above the earth consisting of rivers, islands, and marshes. the duat, the egyptian underworld, also contained rivers, lakes, and marshy ar- deities, themes, and concepts 121 eas. therefore, deities and the spirits of the dead were often shown o

i. wiesbaden: 1977, 427 429 (in english. primary sources: pt 356, 592; ct 80, 515; bd 181, 185; bhc; boe; bofnut; ismailia naos hand of atum the female element or partner of the creator deity, often identified as the goddesses iusaas or hathor nebet-hetepet, was referred to as the hand of atum. see also atum; hathor hapy (hapi) a deity or group of deities who embodied the life-giving power of the inundation, hapy was usually depicted as a very fat man with pendulous breasts and blue or green skin. though egypt was totally dependent on the annual nile flood, the inundation god was not a high-ranking deity. the river nile was thought of as flowing out of the primeval waters (the nun) that continued to encircle the world. hymns and spells credit the creator with making the nile rise each year

he eye had to be rendered drunk before she could return to the heavens as beautiful, gracious hathor. the distant goddess who abandoned ra to live in feline form in the deserts beyond egypt could also be named as hathor. this identification came relatively late, but hathor had long been regarded as the goddess of foreign lands and their products. when the distant goddess returned, she brought the inundation with her, but she had to be pacified with music, dancing, feasting, and drunkenness. this was the mythical justification for the wild, ecstatic elements in hathor s cult. it was proper for the whole of creation to rejoice when hathor appeared again in all her radiant beauty and joined forces with her father. the union of hathor and the creator could be thought of in sexual terms or, mor

shu and tefnut heka (hika) heka was the god of magic as a creative force. see also sia and hu heqet (heqat, hekat) heqet was a frog goddess who helped women to give birth and the dead to be reborn. the knife-wielding frogs shown on ivory wands are probably heqet in her role as defender of women and children. heqet, mistress of joy, was among the deities, themes, and concepts 139 followers of the inundation god hapy when he brought new life to egypt each year. the roman writer pliny the elder noted an egyptian belief that frogs were spontaneously generated from the mud left by the receding nile flood. heqet came to be worshipped as a goddess of the primeval slime who gave birth to the sun god. heqet was regarded as the female counterpart of the creator god khnum, and the two are linked in

king is nourished by the sweet milk of ipy (ipet. during the middle kingdom and second intermediate periods, model hippopotami decorated with marsh flora were placed in tombs and temples. these may represent ipet or taweret as the goddess of the primeval marsh where all life began and the dead hoped to be reborn. the full breasts and belly on composite figures of taweret are probably those of the inundation god hapy, rather than those of a pregnant woman. by the new kingdom, taweret mistress of pure water purified, revived, and nourished the dead. the annual nile flood performed a similar service for the land of egypt. a group of reret goddesses were among the exotic beings who celebrated the return of the distant goddess who brought the inundation with her. in some versions of this myth t

from the goddess hathor. the cult of isis became more and more prominent during the first millennium bce. she began to be honored as the goddess of the sea, responsible for bringing ships safely to harbor. the greeks identified isis with demeter, the harvest goddess who perpetually searched for a lost child. in her stellar form of sopdet/sothis, isis had always been linked with the coming of the inundation that made the harvest possible. she was now credited with inventing agriculture and all manner of useful crafts and institutions. according to hymns of the greco-roman period, it was isis who made the world and decreed that men should love women and children should love their parents. all other goddesses became merely names of isis. in his book concerning isis and osiris, plutarch sugge

r jan zandee, edited by m. heema van voss et al. leiden: 1982, 28 37. d. meeks and c. favard-meeks. daily life of the egyptian gods. translated by g. m. goshgarian. london: 1997, 54 55, 159, 195. primary sources: pt 587; bd 83, 153b 154; ad; solar hymns; true name; pgm vii khnum (chnum) the god khnum was usually shown as a man with the head of a long-horned ram. he was thought to control the nile inundation, and he embodied the dangerous but life-giving power of this annual flood. as a creator deity, khnum shaped people and animals on his potter s wheel and put life and health into their bodies. he was sometimes paired with the frog goddess, heqet, but in his deities, themes, and concepts 153 main temple on the island of elephantine at aswan, khnum formed a triad with the goddesses satet a

out khnum. the inscription purports to be a decree of king djoser (c. 2667 2648 bce) but was actually composed about 2,500 years after his reign. it tells how egypt suffered seven terrible years of famine, because the nile did not rise high enough to flood the agricultural land. djoser summoned the wisest of the priests who could read the sacred books and ordered him to discover the source of the inundation. the priest consulted ancient books and discovered that the inundation came from twin caverns under the island of elephantine. he told the king that only the god khnum had the power to unbolt the doors and release the flood from these caverns. djoser hastily made offerings to the deities of elephantine. then khnum the maker of every body appeared to the king in a dream and promised to l

island of elephantine. he told the king that only the god khnum had the power to unbolt the doors and release the flood from these caverns. djoser hastily made offerings to the deities of elephantine. then khnum the maker of every body appeared to the king in a dream and promised to let the flood gush again so that the years of hunger would be ended. it was probably the fertile mud spread by the inundation that khnum was thought to use as a potter god. in the pyramid texts and the coffin texts he mainly seems to make objects, such as boats. one story set in the old kingdom tells how khnum was one of a group of deities who visited egypt in disguise to assist at the birth of three children destined to be kings. khnum s particular role was to make their bodies healthy. later texts and scenes

as destined to rule egypt. each new king absorbed the power to rule from the milk of his mother mut. as an emblem of sovereignty, mut could be shown wearing the white crown of upper egypt or the double crown of upper and lower egypt and holding royal scepters. a few new kingdom hymns name her as the leader of the gods, the female equivalent of the creator sun god. they praise her for creating the inundation from the sweat of her body and caring for all people. mut could also play the role of the shining first-born daughter of the sun god, the eye of ra. she was sometimes linked with the myth in which ra and his daughter take the form of cats to slay the apophis serpent under the ished tree. when mut quarreled with her father, she roamed the libyan desert in the form of a cat and had to be

s semen, sweat, and pools of putrefaction, were associated with the life-bringing flood waters of the nile. in some accounts the body of osiris was divided into anything from fourteen to forty-two parts. during the first millennium bce, these body parts were said to be buried at sacred sites all over egypt. the tomb of the left leg of osiris on the island of bigah was said to be the source of the inundation. the body of osiris also played an important role in some of the new kingdom underworld books. in the darkest hour of the night, the soul of the sun god ra reached the cave where the body lay and became one with the soul of osiris. this allowed osiris and all the dead to awake and live again. in the book of the dead, osiris was shown enthroned in the hall of the two truths overseeing th

swan. it is not clear whether satet and anuket were regarded as mother and daughter or as senior and junior consorts. khnum, satet, and anuket were probably treated as a group because all three were linked to the annual nile flood. 186 handbook of egyptian mythology a rock shrine on the island of elephantine was one of egypt s most ancient holy places. it was often thought of as the source of the inundation. riverworn pebbles in the forms of pregnant or nursing women found in the shrine suggest that it was dedicated to a fertility goddess. in later times the most important nilometer in egypt was situated in the temple of satet on elephantine. this measured the height of the inundation as it reached the egyptian border. satet was associated with the purifying powers of nile water and desert

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

hat odd wrench and creaking were heard again; followed by a thumping which none of the eavesdroppers liked. thereafter two suppressed cries of willett's were heard, and hard upon these came a swishing rustle of indefinable hatefulness. finally the smoke that the wind beat down from the chimney grew very dark and acrid, and everyone wished that the weather had spared them this choking and venomous inundation of peculiar fumes. mr. ward's head reeled, and the servants all clustered together in a knot to watch the horrible black smoke swoop down. after an age of waiting the vapours seemed to lighted, and half-formless sounds of scraping, sweeping, and other minor operations were heard behind the bolted door. and at last, after the slamming of some cupboard within, willett made his appearance

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ing brings peace and salvation to the faithful and obedient among men. there is no doubt that in the myth as taught in ancient egypt the star to which reference was made in these terms was originally sirius. bro. ward remarks: 711. the association of these ideas with the dog star is undoubtedly a fragment which has come down from ancient egypt, for the rising of sirius marked the beginning of the inundation of the nile, which literally brought salvation to the people of egypt by irrigating the land and enabling it to produce food(*the m.m. fs book, p. 50) 712. for us, however, the star is invested with a symbolical meaning, and reminds us of the star of initiation which marks the assent and approval of the lord of the world when a new candidate has joined the mighty brotherhood which exist

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

greek pantheon were nor looked upon as creators of the universe but rather as regents set over it by its more ancient original fabricators. the garden of eden from which humanity was driven by a flaming sword is perhaps an allusion to the earthly paradise supposedly located west of the pillars of hercules and destroyed by volcanic cataclysms. the deluge legend may be traced also to the atlantean inundation, during which a "world" was destroyed by water, was the religious, philosophic, and scientific knowledge possessed by the priestcrafts of antiquity secured from atlantis, whose submergence obliterated every vestige of its part in the drama of world progress? atlantean sun worship has been perpetuated in the ritualism and ceremonialism of both christianity and pagandom. both the cross an

n its long stalk, nerve fibers" crocodiles were regarded by the egyptians both as symbols of typhon and emblems of the supreme deity, of the latter because while under water the crocodile is capable of seeing--plutarch asserts- though its eyes are covered by a thin membrane. the egyptians declared that no matter how far away the crocodile laid its eggs, the nile would reach up to them in its next inundation, this reptile being endowed with a mysterious sense capable of making known the extent of the flood months before it took place. there were two kinds of crocodiles. the larger and more ferocious was hated by the egyptians, for they likened it to the nature of typhon, their destroying demon. typhon waited to devour all who failed to pass the judgment of the dead, which rite took place in

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

, nephilim, and humans became increasingly wicked. after our wickedness reached a boiling point, god could no longer restrain his angry hand, so he--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 4 alerts a righteous man named noah that he is soon to destroy the world in a flood, and that noah s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the earth s coming inundation. what s more, noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. the vast majority of angels, nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which lasted for 40 days. before the waters subsided, noah released a raven from the ark to discover whether dry land was yet peaking above the waters, but it only flew back and forth. next no

islands. no matter what place or age we examine, serpents provide a central theme in that region s mythological tales. serpents are also repeatedly associated with villains. story of the flood [1.3] even more frequent than the themes of serpentine gods is the theme of a global flood. the number of stories regarding a worldwide flood is incredible, and the similarities between the various tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a flood with poured forth from the bleeding god ymir consumed the whole of humanity, save a man named bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian

gure. the first incarnation of the benevolent god vishnu arrived to earth in the form of a fish, and warned a man named manu of a coming flood. the fish informed manu to build a massive ark which, needless to say, saved manu s life--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 7 in the aztec mythologies of mexico, only 2 humans survive a massive flood. coxcoxtli and his wife xochiquetzal survive the great inundation in a boat they were told to construct prior to the flood. after the subsiding of the flood waters, their boat came to rest on a tall mountain. in yet another central american tradition, that of a tribe called the mechoacanesecs, the god tezcatlipoca desired to destroy all of mankind. this god however schemed to spare a small group of humans to repopulate the planet after the coming floo

MORALS AND DOGMA

ts at the corners. if these and the bordering have any symbolic meaning, it is fanciful and arbitrary. to find in the blazing star of five points an allusion to the divine providence, is also fanciful; and to make it commemorative of the star that is said to have guided the magi, is to give it a meaning comparatively modern. originally it represented sirius, or the dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the nile; the god anubis, companion of isis in her search for the body of osiris, her brother and husband. then it became the image of horus, the son of osiris, himself symbolized also by the sun, the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal see

n fact_ connected: and they commenced by giving to particular stars or groups of stars the names of those terrestrial objects which seemed connected with them; and for those which still remained unnamed by this nomenclature, they, to complete a system, assumed arbitrary and fanciful names. thus the ethiopian of thebes or saba styled those stars under which the nile commenced to overflow, stars of inundation, or that _poured out water (aquarius. those stars among which the sun was, when he had reached the northern tropic and began to _retreat_ southward, were termed, from his retrograde motion, the crab (cancer. as he approached, in autumn, the middle point between the northern and southern extremes of his journeying, the days and nights became equal; and the stars among which he was then f

hot and burning winds came from the desert, venomous like poisonous reptiles, were called stars of the scorpion (scorpio. observing that the annual return of the rising of the nile was always accompanied by the appearance of a beautiful star, which at that period showed itself in the direction of the sources of that river, and seemed to warn the husbandman to be careful not to be surprised by the inundation, the ethiopian compared this act of that star to that of the animal which by barking gives warning of danger, and styled it the dog (sirius. thus commencing, and as astronomy came to be more studied, imaginary figures were traced all over the heavens, to which the different stars were assigned. chief among them were those that lay along the path which the sun travelled as he climbed tow

rising of the nile. aquarius, his urn, and the stream flowing from it, in opposition to the sign of the summer solstice then occupied by the sun, opened in the evening the march of night, and received the full moon in his cup. above him and with him rose the feet of pegasus, struck wherewith the waters flow forth that the muses drink. the lion and the dog, indicating, were supposed to _cause_ the inundation, and so were worshipped. while the sun passed through leo, the waters doubled their depth; and the sacred fountains poured their streams through the heads of lions. hydra, rising between sirius and leo, extended under three signs. its head rose with cancer, and its tail with the feet of the virgin and the beginning of libra; and the inundation continued while the sun passed along its wh

t of vegetation, when the sun, descending from his altitude, seems deprived of his generating power. osiris is a being analogous to the syrian adoni; and the fable of his history, which we need not here repeat, is a narrative form of the popular religion of egypt, of which the sun is the hero, and the agricultural calendar the moral. the moist valley of the nile, owing its fertility to the annual inundation, appeared, in contrast with the surrounding desert, like life in the midst of death. the inundation was in evident dependence on the sun, and egypt, environed with arid deserts, like a heart within a burning censer, was the female power, dependent on the influences personified in its god. typhon his brother, the type of darkness, drought, and sterility, threw his body into the nile; and

hus osiris, the "good" the "saviour" perished, in the 28th year of his life or reign, and on the 17th day of the month athor, or the 13th of november. he is also made to die during the heats of the early summer, when, from march to july, the earth was parched with intolerable heat, vegetation was scorched, and the languid nile exhausted. from that death he rises when the solstitial sun brings the inundation, and egypt is filled with mirth and acclamation anticipatory of the second harvest. from his wintry death he rises with the early flowers of spring, and then the joyful festival of osiris found was celebrated. so the pride of jemsheed, one of the persian sun-heroes, or the solar year personified, was abruptly cut off by zohak, the tyrant of the west. he was sawn asunder by a fish-bone

o them light and heat were mysteries; as indeed they still are to us. as the sun caused the day, and his absence the night; as, when he journeyed northward, spring and summer followed him; and when he again turned to the south, autumn and inclement winter, and cold and long dark nights ruled the earth. as his influence produced the leaves and flowers, and ripened the harvests, and brought regular inundation, he necessarily became to them the most interesting object of the material universe. to them he was the innate fire of bodies, the fire of nature. author of life, heat, and ignition, he was to them the efficient cause of all generation, for without him there was no movement, no existence, no form. he was to them immense, indivisible, imperishable, and everywhere present. it was their ne

e which is born of death; and everywhere the ancients still saw the combat between the two principles that ruled the world. everywhere this contest was embodied in allegories and fictitious histories: into which were ingeniously woven all the astronomical phenomena that accompanied, preceded, or followed the different movements of the sun, and the changes of seasons, the approach or withdrawal of inundation. and thus grew into stature and strange proportions the histories of the contests between typhon and osiris, hercules and juno, the titans and jupiter, ormuzd and ahriman, the rebellious angels and the deity, the evil genii and the good; and the other like fables, found not only in asia, but in the north of europe, and even among the mexicans and peruvians of the new world; carried thit

sun, was a constant miracle and wonder; the sun himself the visible emblem of the creative and generative power. to them the earth was a great plain, over which the sun, the moon, and the planets revolved, its servants, framed to give it light. of the stars, some were beneficent existences that brought with them spring-time and fruits and flowers--some, faithful sentinels, advising them of coming inundation, of the season of storm and of deadly winds; some heralds of evil, which, steadily foretelling, they seemed to cause. to them the eclipses were portents of evil, and their causes hidden in mystery, and supernatural. the regular returns of the stars, the comings of arcturus, orion, sirius, the pleiades, and aldebaran, and the journeyings of the sun, were voluntary and not mechanical to t

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

of trade. he was supposed to vent his displeasure by sending disastrous inundations, which completely destroyed whole countries, and were usually accompanied by terrible marine monsters, who swallowed up and devoured those whom the floods had spared. it is probable that these sea-monsters are the poetical figures which represent the demons of hunger and famine, necessarily accompanying a general inundation. poseidon is generally represented as resembling his brother zeus in features, height, and general aspect; but we miss in the countenance of the sea-god the kindness and benignity which so pleasingly distinguish his mighty brother. the eyes are bright and piercing, and the contour of the face somewhat sharper in its outline than that of zeus, thus corresponding, as it were, with his mor

ages destroyed, and everywhere signs of desolation and ruin. on a projecting cliff close to the shore he beheld a lovely maiden chained to a rock. this was andromeda, the king's daughter. her mother cassiopea, having boasted that her beauty surpassed that of the nereides, the angry sea-nymphs appealed to poseidon to avenge their wrongs, whereupon the sea-god devastated the country with a terrible inundation, which brought with it a huge monster who devoured all that came in his way. in their distress the unfortunate athiopians applied to the oracle of jupiter-ammon, in the libyan desert [208]and obtained the response, that only by the sacrifice of the king's daughter to the monster could the country and people be saved. page 239 cepheus, who was tenderly attached to his child, at first ref

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

through the path of the waters. hegemon circumambulates temple once with practicus, havinggiven him the calua y cross to carry. as they approach the east for the second time <127> iiierophant rises holding up cup of water. hegemon and practicus halt. the priest with the mask of osiris spake and said: i am water, stagnant and silent and still, reflecting all, concealingall. i am the past- i am the inundation. he who riseth from the great water is my name. hail unto ye, dwellers of the land of night! for the rending of darkness is near. heg. leads practicus round to hiereus who rises cup in hand as they approach. hegemon and practicus halt before him. hiereus the priest with the mask of horus spake and said: i am water, turbid and troubled. i am the banisher of peace in the vast abode of the

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tly northward across the land, and only the towns remain above the water. thus, every summer, the land is irrigated; hopefully not too well, for flooding creates havoc- nor too low, for famine can easily invade us if the life-giving waters do not reach deeply into the farm lands. our three seasons are determined by the gods- and by the nile's temperament! june through september marks the time of "inundation "emergence (of the land from the waters) occurs from october to february, and finally "drought" lasts until june, beginning the cycle over again. the laborer's tasks are also patterned by the seasonal changes. planting takes place during the emergence, followed by harvesting and the preparation for the next planting during the drought. while the land is completely flooded, pharaoh's inn

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

ace of death p. 14 in the underworld, and to make it to dwell in his body again for a short time" with these words, he led forward a man dressed in linen, and wearing palm-leaf sandals, who, like all the egyptian priests, had his head shaved, and having kissed his hands and embraced his legs he implored him by the stars, and by the gods of the underworld, and by the island of the nile, and by the inundation, etc, to restore life to the dead body, if only for the smallest possible time, so that the truth of his accusation against the widow might be proved. thus adjured zaclas touched the mouth and the breast of the dead man three times with some plant, and having turned his face to the east and prayed, the lungs of the corpse began to fill with breath, and his heart to beat, and raising his

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ong the road and passing through the two lands of my country, for my heart wished to look upon what i had made, when i was bitten by a serpent which i did not see; behold, is it fire? behold, is it water? i am colder than water, i am hotter than fire, all my members sweat, i myself quake, mine eye is unsteady. i cannot look at the heavens, and water forceth itself on my face as in the time of the inundation"[fn#70] and isis said unto ra "o my divine father, tell me thy name, for he who is able to pronounce his name liveth [and ra said "i am the maker of the heavens and the earth, i have knit together the mountains, and i have created everything which existeth upon them. i am the maker of the waters, and i have made meht-ur to come into being; i have made the bull of his mother, and i have

fn#177] which is the beginning of the land. there is too a flight of steps,[fn#178] which reareth itself to a great height, and is the support of ra, when he maketh his calculation to prolong life to everyone 'netchemtchem ankh'[fn#179] is the name of its abode 'the two qerti'[fn#180] is the name of the water, and they are the two breasts from which every good thing cometh forth [fn#175] i.e, the inundation, or nile flood [fn#176] the elephant city, i.e, elephantine [fn#177] a portion of northern nubia [fn#178] this is probably an allusion to the famous nilometer on the island of philae [fn#179] i.e "sweet, sweet life [fn#180] the qerti were the two openings through which the nile entered this world from the great celestial ocean "here is the bed of hapi (the nile, wherein he reneweth his

r the word may mean a "dweller in the swamps" as golenischeff thinks. then the scorpion tefen entered in under the leaves of the door and smote (i.e, stung) the son of usert, and a fire broke out in the house of usert, and there was no water there to extinguish it [but] the sky rained upon the house of usert, though it was not the season for rain.[fn#213 [fn#213] i.e, it was not the season of the inundation. behold, the heart of her who had not opened her door to me was grievously sad, for she knew not whether he (i.e, her son) would live [or not, and although she went round about through her town uttering cries [for help, there was none who came at [the sound of] her voice. now mine own heart was grievously sad for the sake of the child, and [i wished] to make to live [again] him that was

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