Maalik Briggs starred at the stars in the view-screeen, trying not to see the three massive Hallaton warships. He couldn't really pronounce the word Marella had said in regards to the species that inhabited those war-ships- so his brain came up with a more simple and completely arbitrary word.
Marella was standing behind him, tapping her foot impatiently. She wanted him to leave the planet. She was, after all, his body guard and had his best survival options in mind. This filled him with forbidding, he was from this planet - and there weren't that many on it that knew of the other races in the many quadrants of the universe. As far as he knew Galactic Central had barred this planet from being visited/used/taken over.... but the Hallitons, according to Marella, were not part of Galactic Central.
One planet, that had nothing to offer the rest of the universe was certainly not enough cause to revel G.C. into protecting it. Humans, in one form or another had long since proliferated the universe - there was no shortage of them. Originally, this planet had been settled by a group of throw backs who had sworn off technology and wanted to be completely isolated and left out of the workings and ministrations of the rest of the Known Universe.
It was also one of the secret retreats of the Legionaries. Marella, was a Legionary herself. Raised to fight, battle and war since she was old enough to grasp things. Many people may not have agreed with thier culture, but in a seething Universe, their only commodore was their survival skills, which they honed and trained into the perfect soldier.
Originally, the Legionaries had one home planet and were rather respected throughout the Known Universe. Maalik was never told why or what exactly happened, but their planet was attacked and only few survived. After taking their vengeance, they then searched the Known Universe for a new home. Instead of letting their culture die out, they collected orphans as one would collect trading cards. Due to some disease the survivors contracted, they had an unbreakable metal alloy transplanted into their bones - so as their bones became brittle and broke down, the metal alloy survived. The Legionaries are rather democratic, and even though the replacement process is incredibly painful, they elected to have the replacement as soon as they were old enough to go off planet for missions. After ten or so generations, the operation was no longer necessary. The Legionaries now had a genetic bio-metal skeleton.
As a result of the paranoia of having one's planet blown up and their original race destroyed, only as much as 1/3 of the population ( if that) was ever allowed to remain on any one of the three commonly known Legionary planets at a time. Earth, was one of the secret retreats. Marella's foot tapping invaded his thoughts, were the Legionaries just going to leave this planet and abandon its people ?
Rather like Legionaries the Hallitons had thier bio-metal but not their skeletal structure, it was their skin- and with more problems. The Hallitons were a dying race. Maalik knew less about why and the inner workings of their culture as he did the Legionaries. He just knew that due to some undisclosed reason, they were rendered sterile, so they attempted cloning, which worked for a while, but they were now degrading as a species, and fewer clones were surviving. It was rumored that they were collecting humans from all over the Known Universe to introduce into their cloning program. They were already a war like race, feared throughout the Known Universe.
They were defiantly not human, they may have started out that way, but when the bio - metal and the regeneration coupled with the double nervous system had been introduced to their dna, they had left humanity far behind. From what Marella told him, thier nails and hair could cut through hull metal - it made Maalik shudder.
The unceasing tapping of her foot was driving him to action, the working of his mind, with the information he had - his eyes full of the three Haliton warships approaching - did not bode for immediate action. She had been his bodyguard for over ten years, never being allowed to leave the planet. Except when he insisted on vacation time and they supplied a temp.
Tap, tap, tap, tap. Maalik was a scientist in the Nasa program, he was very aware that the President had been contacted, and probably all the higher echelons of all other other world governments had noticed as well. Maalik was also from an incredibly wealthy family, who on the surface had donated a few thousand a year to various charities. A few thousand no one missed. He quickly pulled up all bank accounts associated with his family - even he became a bit short of breath at the end total number. He then spend ten agonizing minutes of Marella's foot tapping while he gained control of the funds.
He probably should feel somewhat bad about this, but he knew that he didnt have the money on his own to do this, and this needed to be done. Perhaps this society wasnt worth saving, perhaps all the world cultures didnt deserve to be saved- but Maalik didnt think he could live a comfortable life knowing that he had left the world populace to become equations in some cloning project. Finnally, he turned and faced the six foot redhead. "I would like to hire the Legionaries."
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Kakumei backstory
An undetermined time ago, the Great Leviathan, the multiheaded Tiamat rose, Nataraj danced, and RA stumbled on the tail of Apep. It was a time of slow subtle endings when The OTHERS effectively broke through the constraints of dementional time space only hinted with string theory. Having no physical form of their own they invaded, like a virus. Slowely, they were able to bring more beings through thier 'gates'. Gates that were closed so long ago, and by whom we have no knoledge of. These beings have differant names in diferant cultures buy you may recognise - Demons,yokia, shapeshifters, vampires,and thier monsterous ilk. The MINIONS - plage infested, boil ridden canabalistic servants of The OTHERS - spreading the diease of their condition.
The OTHERS affected our plane of being by thier presence instigating THE CHANGE - whre people of certain dna types and boilogical compatabilities enabled thier physiology to mutate, using differant parts of thier brain - adapting, evolving... in the great past, only known to us in myths of the Tuath de Dannan or the ancient east - those who could manipulate thier enviornment in ways that left most people in awe - The Fae, elemental masters. Those who could use thier intoanations effectively remembered vaguely as incantations - magick.
The true goal of the OTHERS was so easy, it was almost impossible to understand: Control, Supremicy. They would control us and every aspect of our lives - to be trite thier goal was to rule the world an everyone in it. A truely staggaring idea. They were almost successfull. In that day and age who believed in such things? Any one who could see the differance between a regular human and an OTHER was thought to be crazy, hallucinating - seeing conspiracies where there were not. Because to the common man none of this was possible.
A few people could See what this was and where this was going, thier beliefs reafermed by the Elemental Masters and the Oracles - the first humans to evolve. A woman named Grail a supposedly regular person, who could see the suble essences around her - the etheric, the demons and fae that were non corporial. Tempest who clearly saw the world as it was - the stark madness of it, which drove the both of them insane. It made them stronger - made their psyche able to deal with the slow changes - They formed a resistance movement, which for many years was looked apon as nothing more than a dangerous vigilanti movement - and it was.
All the while people were Becoming - Grail helped create a new breed of Minion - still cannibalistic, but once they were able to over ride the mental control of their creators - fed only on their own kind. The first being Grail, the second a young man from her past known only as Savage. The two of them continued on their quest to free the minds of Minions and all other people who did not Change from the binds of the OTHERS.
There was a scizm - and the movement split in two, going their differant ways. For many years they worked to fight The Others and thier Minions - Untill Tempest hismelf was captured - reprogramed by the minions - Grail Cracked - broke- conjouring The WIND. It was she who woke the Leviathan, It was she who Invoked Kalie Ma - It was she who danced with Nataraj. The end of the world, the end of our time allong side with Dora, she of the fire, she of Surya, RA, Sekhmet - The first Elemental Master- now a taller fae - She Of The Purifying Flame.
Through nature they broke and healed the planet, rearranging land masses and naming them. She and her group traveled this new world for survivors, reestablishing law and community while collecting what little knowledge there was to be had. Out of the 1/3 of humanity not all were completely surprised, Grail had been warning people for years that The Leviathan - Tiamat would rise. This was the birth of a new age of mankind and the birth of many new things. In her quest for retaining ancient knowledge, a new type of Elemental Master was found - a Technomancer - one who could manipulate her surroundings and emulate technology.
Grail created The Learning Centers in the magnetic center of each landmass - these Centers also contained each government, army and police force and what ever internal agents might be had, making sure to bring calm into the chaos that the end of the world had brought about. She put a ban on 'advanced' weaponry such as guns - she also banned that which poisons the atmosphere - effectively outlawing the use of fossil fuels. The Technomancers of this age creating the most amazing means to supplement that which was destroyed.
Grail then took her most loyal followers and 'retired' to Egypt. One of the few places The Dance of Destruction and Fire did not touch - as Grail would have loathed to destroy ancient relics. She named herself Queen - with The Leviathan and Salamander Fae Dora - reestablishing the Ancient Ways - restoring temples. She closed off the borders so thoroughly that over the years, many people could not find it.
One country ignored the ban - recreating what they remembered of 'society' and the 'standard of living', not to mention armaments. After all, 500 years had passed, Grail was only a myth. The country sent agents out to find Egypt now called by its true name of Kemet or Tamery - in order to conquer. Grail and Dora rose as a combined force - defeating them with ease - creating a space surrounding Tamery - an odd place that would become to be known as the null zone - it changed everyone's life those who entered. It was this place that a more evolved human was born - each having specific talents only dreamed about in our age, close to the Magi and the Fae, but not exactly either. They were welcomed in the world, becoming mercenaries, spies, assassins and on occasion - Cult leaders. Though some would try to lead relatively normal lives - their skills were more often than not, desired in great quantity. Grail and Tamery returned back into their peaceful detachment from the rest of the world, Dora becoming the Regent Master Instructor of the Hekau Learning Center and the only person outside of Tamery to be able to talk to Grail.
Again - Grail and Tamery became that of myth and legend. New Societies and countries rose and fell. There will always be evil - and the learning centers train scholars,Healers, Magi, Elemental, Sohei, Technomages to combat the evil, while providing a useful function to the smooth running of society
The OTHERS affected our plane of being by thier presence instigating THE CHANGE - whre people of certain dna types and boilogical compatabilities enabled thier physiology to mutate, using differant parts of thier brain - adapting, evolving... in the great past, only known to us in myths of the Tuath de Dannan or the ancient east - those who could manipulate thier enviornment in ways that left most people in awe - The Fae, elemental masters. Those who could use thier intoanations effectively remembered vaguely as incantations - magick.
The true goal of the OTHERS was so easy, it was almost impossible to understand: Control, Supremicy. They would control us and every aspect of our lives - to be trite thier goal was to rule the world an everyone in it. A truely staggaring idea. They were almost successfull. In that day and age who believed in such things? Any one who could see the differance between a regular human and an OTHER was thought to be crazy, hallucinating - seeing conspiracies where there were not. Because to the common man none of this was possible.
A few people could See what this was and where this was going, thier beliefs reafermed by the Elemental Masters and the Oracles - the first humans to evolve. A woman named Grail a supposedly regular person, who could see the suble essences around her - the etheric, the demons and fae that were non corporial. Tempest who clearly saw the world as it was - the stark madness of it, which drove the both of them insane. It made them stronger - made their psyche able to deal with the slow changes - They formed a resistance movement, which for many years was looked apon as nothing more than a dangerous vigilanti movement - and it was.
All the while people were Becoming - Grail helped create a new breed of Minion - still cannibalistic, but once they were able to over ride the mental control of their creators - fed only on their own kind. The first being Grail, the second a young man from her past known only as Savage. The two of them continued on their quest to free the minds of Minions and all other people who did not Change from the binds of the OTHERS.
There was a scizm - and the movement split in two, going their differant ways. For many years they worked to fight The Others and thier Minions - Untill Tempest hismelf was captured - reprogramed by the minions - Grail Cracked - broke- conjouring The WIND. It was she who woke the Leviathan, It was she who Invoked Kalie Ma - It was she who danced with Nataraj. The end of the world, the end of our time allong side with Dora, she of the fire, she of Surya, RA, Sekhmet - The first Elemental Master- now a taller fae - She Of The Purifying Flame.
Through nature they broke and healed the planet, rearranging land masses and naming them. She and her group traveled this new world for survivors, reestablishing law and community while collecting what little knowledge there was to be had. Out of the 1/3 of humanity not all were completely surprised, Grail had been warning people for years that The Leviathan - Tiamat would rise. This was the birth of a new age of mankind and the birth of many new things. In her quest for retaining ancient knowledge, a new type of Elemental Master was found - a Technomancer - one who could manipulate her surroundings and emulate technology.
Grail created The Learning Centers in the magnetic center of each landmass - these Centers also contained each government, army and police force and what ever internal agents might be had, making sure to bring calm into the chaos that the end of the world had brought about. She put a ban on 'advanced' weaponry such as guns - she also banned that which poisons the atmosphere - effectively outlawing the use of fossil fuels. The Technomancers of this age creating the most amazing means to supplement that which was destroyed.
Grail then took her most loyal followers and 'retired' to Egypt. One of the few places The Dance of Destruction and Fire did not touch - as Grail would have loathed to destroy ancient relics. She named herself Queen - with The Leviathan and Salamander Fae Dora - reestablishing the Ancient Ways - restoring temples. She closed off the borders so thoroughly that over the years, many people could not find it.
One country ignored the ban - recreating what they remembered of 'society' and the 'standard of living', not to mention armaments. After all, 500 years had passed, Grail was only a myth. The country sent agents out to find Egypt now called by its true name of Kemet or Tamery - in order to conquer. Grail and Dora rose as a combined force - defeating them with ease - creating a space surrounding Tamery - an odd place that would become to be known as the null zone - it changed everyone's life those who entered. It was this place that a more evolved human was born - each having specific talents only dreamed about in our age, close to the Magi and the Fae, but not exactly either. They were welcomed in the world, becoming mercenaries, spies, assassins and on occasion - Cult leaders. Though some would try to lead relatively normal lives - their skills were more often than not, desired in great quantity. Grail and Tamery returned back into their peaceful detachment from the rest of the world, Dora becoming the Regent Master Instructor of the Hekau Learning Center and the only person outside of Tamery to be able to talk to Grail.
Again - Grail and Tamery became that of myth and legend. New Societies and countries rose and fell. There will always be evil - and the learning centers train scholars,Healers, Magi, Elemental, Sohei, Technomages to combat the evil, while providing a useful function to the smooth running of society
New Introduction
This was my original blog. Then I thought the 'ramblings' part left this blog sounding less than serious. So, in any case I will transfer shemsu thoughts back here, (eventually) because I do tend to ramble quite a bit and I dont think this should be as much of a problem as it was. Funny how the ego bites the forehead some times, this old blog of mine will be used primarily to each of my characters (in my book) reading list and their own spiritual growth - I am even thinking of having some of the write journals - not sure yet.
I also want to try to motivate myself so that I will keep up with all the email journals I subscribe to - I have had a very busy year and have not had as much time as I want. I also want to continue my imvu art that support my story. I am not a very good visual artist - I cant draw a straight line to save my life.
I also want to try to motivate myself so that I will keep up with all the email journals I subscribe to - I have had a very busy year and have not had as much time as I want. I also want to continue my imvu art that support my story. I am not a very good visual artist - I cant draw a straight line to save my life.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Genesh
One day, Lord Shiva and Lady Parvati called the Devas (and I assume the Devi's as well) and said if you can run around the world 3x's and win you will be revared above all others. (Im sure the speech was longer but Im summing up here) So they all took off.
I imagine Genesh standing there going hmmmmm this certainly isnt going to work for me.... hmmm oh well...
Then he walked around Lord Shiva and Lady Parvati three times.
As Lord Shiva and Lady Parvati are the world in which we live, the passive and active aspects of life and the universe Shiva/Shakti... Genesh was ENTIRELY correct.
Hence Genesh is revered FIRST, and for his wisdom... oh remover of obstacles !
Shiva Tandava Stotram
Jatatavee gala jjala pravaha pavitha sthale,
Gale avalabhya lambithaam bhujanga thunga malikaam,
Dama ddama dama ddama ninnadava damarvayam,
Chakara chanda thandavam thanothu na shiva shivam. 1
Jata kataha sambhramabrama nillimpa nirjari,
Vilola veechi vallari viraja mana moordhani,
Dhaga dhaga daga jjwala lalata patta pavake,
Kishora Chandra shekare rathi prathi kshanam mama. 2
Dara darendra nandini vilasa bhandhu bhandura,
Sphuradigantha santhathi pramodha mana manase,
Krupa kadaksha dhorani niruddha durdharapadi,
Kwachi digambare mano vinodhamethu vasthuni. 3
Jada bhujanga pingala sphurath phana mani prabha,
Kadamba kumkuma drava praliptha digwadhu mukhe,
Madhandha sindhura sphurathwagu utthariya medhure,
Mano vinodhamadhbutham bibarthu bhootha bharthari. 4
Sahasra lochana prabhoothyasesha lekha shekhara,
Prasoona dhooli dhorani vidhu sarangri peedabhu,
Bhujangaraja Malaya nibhadha jada jhootaka,
Sriyai chiraya jayatham chakora bandhu shekhara. 5
Lalata chathwara jwaladhanam jaya sphulingabha,
Nipeetha pancha sayagam saman nilimpanayakam,
Sudha mayookha lekhaya virajamana shekharam,
Maha kapali sampade, siro jadalamasthu na. 6
Karala bhala pattika dhagadhaga jjwala,
Ddhanam jayahuthi krutha prachanda pancha sayage ,
Dharadharendra nandhini kuchagra chithrapathraka,
Prakalpanaika shilpini, trilochane rather mama. 7
Naveena megha mandali nirudha durdharath sphurath,
Kahoo niseedhi neethama prabhandha bandha kandhara,
Nilimpa nirjari darsthanothu kruthi sindhura,
Kala nidhana bandhura sriyam jagat durandhara. 8
Prafulla neela pankaja prapancha kalima prabha,
Valambhi kanda kanthali ruchi prabandha kandharam,
Smarschidham puraschidham bhavaschidham makhachidham,
Gajachidandakachidham tham anthakachidham bhaje. 9
Agarva sarva mangalaa kalaa kadamba manjari,
Rasa pravaha madhuri vijrumbha mana madhu vrtham,
Suranthakam, paranthakam, bhavanthakam, makhandakam,
Gajandhakandhakandakam thamanthakanthakam bhaje. 10
Jayathwadhabra vibramadbujaamga maswasath,
Vinirgamath, kramasphurath, karala bhala havya vat,
Dhimi dhimi dhimi dhwanan mrudanga thunga mangala,
Dhwani karma pravarthitha prachanda thandawa shiva. 11
Drusha dwichi thra thalpayor bhujanga moukthika srajo,
Garishta rathna loshtayo suhrudhwi paksha pakshayo,
Trunara vinda chakshusho praja mahee mahendrayo,
Samapravarthika kadha sadashivam bhajamyaham. 12
Kada nilampa nirjaree nikunja kotare vasan,
Vimuktha durmathee sada sirasthanjaleem vahan,
Vilola lola lochano lalama bhala lagnaka,
Shivethi manthamucharan kada sukhee bhavamyaham. 13
Imam hi nithya meva muktha muthamothamam sthavam,
Padan, smaran broovan naro vishudhimethi santhatham,
Hare Gurou subhakthimasu yathi nanyadha gatheem,
Vimohinam hi dehinaam sushakarasya chithanam. 14
Poojavasana samaye dasa vakhra geetham,
Ya shambhu poojana param padthi pradhoshe,
Thasya sthiraam radha gajendra thuranga yuktham,
Lakshmeem sadaiva sumukheem pradadathi shambu. 15
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Negitive Confession
Taken from The Wisdom of Maat by Dr. Muata Ashby
(I have not)
1. done what is wrong / vaiant: I have not acted with falsehood
2. robbed with violence
3. done violence (to anyone or anything) Variant: I have not been rapacious (taking by force; plundering)
4. commited theft /variant: I have not coveted
5. murdered men or woman / Variant: I have not ordered someone else to commit murder
6. defrauded offerings / variant: not destroyed food supplies or increased or decresed the measures to profit)
7. acted deceitfully / vairant: I have not acted with crookedness
8. robbed the things that belong to god
9. told no lies
10. snatched away food
11. uttered evil words / variant: allowed myself to become sullen, to sulk or become depressed
12. attacked no one
13. slaughtered the callte that are set apart for the gods/ variant: slaughttered the sacred bull (apis)
14. eaten my heart (been overcome with anguih and distraught) / variant: committed purgery
15. laid wast the ploughed lands
16. been an eavesdropper or pried into matters to make mischief
17. spoken against anyon / variant: babbled, gossiped
18. allowed myself to become angry with out cause
19. commited adultery /variant: committed homosexuality
20. committed any sin against my own purity
21.. voilated sacred times and seasons
22. done that which is abominable
23. uttered fiery words. been a man of anger
24. stopped my ear listeninng to the words of right and wrong (Ma'at)
25. stirred up strife (disturbance) cause terror. not struck fear into any man
26. cause anyone to weep /variant: hoodwinked
27. lusted or committed fornication nor have I lain with others of my same sex varient/ I have not molested children
28. avenged myself /variant: cultivated resentment
29. Worked grief, abused anyone / cultivated a quarrelsome nature
30. acted insolently or with violence
31. judged hastely varient/been impatient
32. transgressed or angered god
33. multiplied my speech o vermuch (talked to much)
34. done harm or evil /variant: thought evil
35. worked treason or curses on the king
36. befouled water variant/ held back the water from flowing in its season
37. spoken scornfully / variant: yelled unnecessarily or raised my voice
38. I have not cured god
39. behaved with arrogance / variance: been boastfull
40. been overwhelmingly proud or sought for distinctions for myslef
41. never magnifid my condition beyond what was fitting or increased my wealth, except with such things as are (justly) mine own possessions by means of Ma'at. / variant: I ahve not disputed over pssessions except when they concern my own rightful possessions. / variant: I have not desired more than what is rightfully mine.
42. I have never thought evil (blaphemed) or slighted the god in my native town
This is THE BEGINNING, and its probably the last thing people think about when they ask me to teach them. Ethics.
Im not sure if its because now people just assume the 'teacher' will not go over this, or insist they have any ? When I
started studdying seriously with my first teacher, this was my beginning. There are many text out there that discuss
"proper behavior" from Anqeshok to Ptah-Hotep. Many who have approached me asking about Ancient Egyptian
Magick are usually not thinking they are going to get lessions in proper behavoir. Usually they do expect to lear at
least about the dieties. One of my former students mentioned, after reviewing a lession plan for a group, introducing
Kemet/Tamery (ancient egypt) and her dieties grumbled that he learned more editing that than he had from me in the
six months I had taken him on.
My favorite excersis, that seemed to take students more than two weeks to do was to go through this list and write one
or two thoughts in regards to how it is still aplicable today. I also had in my possession another book by Dr. Ashby, a
study guide for the negitive confession where he broke them down into sections, for example Right Speach, Right
Behavior and other such things, and then included text from kemetic Saages and how certain aspects were cariied
over into the 10 Commandments.
My Teacher explained very long ago that the priests of her temple would Read this In the morning after waking and then
again in the evening before going to sleep. I think this should be touched on, as this activity helps you keep yourself in
check so to speak. Of course the negitive confession appears in more than the book of going forth by day/ aka the papyrus
of Ani. It was part of a manuscript burried with the dead, in order to assist them in thier afterlife. Though I have herd of the
practice of reading it when a loved one dies. There isn't just ONE negitive confession to be found in ancient text,
sometimes there are 30 or more than 42, sometimes its in the manner of a brief statement, insted of many declariations.
This alwsys make me thin of the Four Noble Truthes and the Eigthfold Path. Life is suffering. The origin of this suffering,
is because people have attatchments.Attatchments can be 'let go' aka the cessasion of suffering the last noble truth
is the path to the cessasion of sufffering through the Eight Fold Path.
Prajna is the sanskrit word for Wisedom and here we have
Right View
Right Thought
Sila is the sanskrit word for Ethical Conduct
Right Speach
Right Action
Right Livelyhood
Samadhi the sanskrit word for right Consentration
Right Effort
Right Mindfullness.
Right Concentration
Even in the wisdom text are the above considered and quite apparent.
Ptah-hotep even had something I consider a manual of proper behavior. Keeping all of this in mind, I think one could
have an improved life whether they adhear to any specific Traditional teaching or not.
True wisdom, does not very from culter to culter, though the words may be differant, as thier symbols, they say
just about the same thing.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Set notes
taken from the mind of egypt
history and memaning in the time of the pharaohs
by jan assman
various exerpts
The myth of Heru and Set relates the foundation of the state in terms of the overcoming aggression
(text taken from the memphite theology. a slab from the 25 dynsaty)
warning: for some odd reason mr assman likes to reffer to heru the elder and heru the young without diferentiantation. This is confusing to me at the least so I thought I would give fair warning. In some text is is said that Heru the elder is a brother of Asar, Set, Auset, Nebt-Het. Heru the younger was born of Auset and Asar via hekau....
Geb commanded that the Ennead assemble before him
and he separated Heru and Set
he prevented them from carrying on thier conflict
he set up Set as nswt (meaning south and or political) King in Upper Egypt
even to the place where he was born in Sw
And thus Geb set up Heru as bit (north and or religious) king in lower egypt
even to the place where his father had drowned
Thus Heru stood in the one place
and Set stood in the other place
they agreed on the two counties in Ayan
that is the boundary between the two lands
Bad it was in the opinion of Geb (or Geb regretted)
that the share of Heru was equal to the share of Set
Then Geb gave heru the heritage of his father
for he is the son of his son, his first- born
Geb speaks to the Ennead: I have declared [Heru] you to be successor to the throne
Geb speaks to the Ennead : you alone [Heru} the Heritage
Geb speaks to teh Ennead: belongs to that inheritor [Heru} My heritage
Geb speaks to the Ennead: belongs to the son of my son to the Upper Egyptian jackle
Geb speaks to the Ennead: To an opener of the body [Heru] Wepwawet
Geb speaks to the Ennead: That is a son who was born [Heru] on the birth day of Wepwawet
Heru stood up over the land
he it is who united this land.
Called by the great name Tatenen
South of his wall, lord of djet (eternity)
The two magic realms grew on his head
There appeared Heru as nswt and as bit king
who united the Two Lands in Inb-hd (memphis)
at the place at which the Two Lands were united
It came about that reed and papyrus were attatched to the double gate of Pert en Ptah (the house of ptah)
That is to say: Her and Set, who made peace and united
by pledging brotherhood so that they ceased thier conflict at any place to which they came-
united in the house of Ptah, the scale of the Two Lands,
in which the Upper Egyptian and the Lower Egyptian lands had been weighed.
Of primary importance with in the myth is that the conflict between Heru and Set takes the form of a legal dispute, which will be decided by Geb. The conflict between the brothers is resolved not by a test of strength but by law.
In assending the throne, every king repeats the unification fo the Two Lands. On the kings' throne, the unification of Heru and Set is depicted graphically. According to early roay theology, every king is an incarnation of both gods, Heru and Set; thus the king bears two titles mswt and bit refferring to the dual character of the Egyptain state, and the title of the queen is She who sees Heru and Set.
The antagonism between Heru and Set draws a dividing line that is not merely geographical. The essential meaning of this conflict is the opposition between civillization and barbarism (((or upper and lower chakra behavorior/over comming fixation'/attaining enlightenment)))
or between law and brute force. The symbol for Heru is the eye, for set the testicles. Aggrssive force is thus associated with procreative energy. Another typically Setian notion is 'strength', which like force, has positive connotation. Set is not Satan; rather, he embodies an indispensable feature of life -one that would be literally castrated in his absence, just as life would be blind with out the Heru power of the eye. The constrast between eye and testicles represents an opposition between light (reason) and sexuality ((( here I will beg to differ, .... its more than sexuality it has to do with the aggressive/primal energy -- fucking christians and their bashing of sex I swear!!))) a familiar contrast in the history of religion.
Text from the Reign of Hatshepsut:
I united the two lords, that is , thier parts
by ruling like the son of Auset
and being strong like the son of Nut
Here heru symbolizes rule and Set force.
moving on....
Heru and set also appear to symbolize the change from old disorder to new order.
...... skipping long paragraphs of boringness
by the way after the revocation of the initial judgement of Geb Set is then the Ruler of the Deasert.
orriginally he was a god indiginous to seqqara.
back to the book
Set has a much more important role. Ra takes him into the sun bark and entrusts him with the task of warding of the (edit crap) Apep, who menaces the course of the sun with standstill. A theory of force underlies this tradition: as force cannot be legalized, the law must be equipped with force --force must be placed int he service of the law.
history and memaning in the time of the pharaohs
by jan assman
various exerpts
The myth of Heru and Set relates the foundation of the state in terms of the overcoming aggression
(text taken from the memphite theology. a slab from the 25 dynsaty)
warning: for some odd reason mr assman likes to reffer to heru the elder and heru the young without diferentiantation. This is confusing to me at the least so I thought I would give fair warning. In some text is is said that Heru the elder is a brother of Asar, Set, Auset, Nebt-Het. Heru the younger was born of Auset and Asar via hekau....
Geb commanded that the Ennead assemble before him
and he separated Heru and Set
he prevented them from carrying on thier conflict
he set up Set as nswt (meaning south and or political) King in Upper Egypt
even to the place where he was born in Sw
And thus Geb set up Heru as bit (north and or religious) king in lower egypt
even to the place where his father had drowned
Thus Heru stood in the one place
and Set stood in the other place
they agreed on the two counties in Ayan
that is the boundary between the two lands
Bad it was in the opinion of Geb (or Geb regretted)
that the share of Heru was equal to the share of Set
Then Geb gave heru the heritage of his father
for he is the son of his son, his first- born
Geb speaks to the Ennead: I have declared [Heru] you to be successor to the throne
Geb speaks to the Ennead : you alone [Heru} the Heritage
Geb speaks to teh Ennead: belongs to that inheritor [Heru} My heritage
Geb speaks to the Ennead: belongs to the son of my son to the Upper Egyptian jackle
Geb speaks to the Ennead: To an opener of the body [Heru] Wepwawet
Geb speaks to the Ennead: That is a son who was born [Heru] on the birth day of Wepwawet
Heru stood up over the land
he it is who united this land.
Called by the great name Tatenen
South of his wall, lord of djet (eternity)
The two magic realms grew on his head
There appeared Heru as nswt and as bit king
who united the Two Lands in Inb-hd (memphis)
at the place at which the Two Lands were united
It came about that reed and papyrus were attatched to the double gate of Pert en Ptah (the house of ptah)
That is to say: Her and Set, who made peace and united
by pledging brotherhood so that they ceased thier conflict at any place to which they came-
united in the house of Ptah, the scale of the Two Lands,
in which the Upper Egyptian and the Lower Egyptian lands had been weighed.
Of primary importance with in the myth is that the conflict between Heru and Set takes the form of a legal dispute, which will be decided by Geb. The conflict between the brothers is resolved not by a test of strength but by law.
In assending the throne, every king repeats the unification fo the Two Lands. On the kings' throne, the unification of Heru and Set is depicted graphically. According to early roay theology, every king is an incarnation of both gods, Heru and Set; thus the king bears two titles mswt and bit refferring to the dual character of the Egyptain state, and the title of the queen is She who sees Heru and Set.
The antagonism between Heru and Set draws a dividing line that is not merely geographical. The essential meaning of this conflict is the opposition between civillization and barbarism (((or upper and lower chakra behavorior/over comming fixation'/attaining enlightenment)))
or between law and brute force. The symbol for Heru is the eye, for set the testicles. Aggrssive force is thus associated with procreative energy. Another typically Setian notion is 'strength', which like force, has positive connotation. Set is not Satan; rather, he embodies an indispensable feature of life -one that would be literally castrated in his absence, just as life would be blind with out the Heru power of the eye. The constrast between eye and testicles represents an opposition between light (reason) and sexuality ((( here I will beg to differ, .... its more than sexuality it has to do with the aggressive/primal energy -- fucking christians and their bashing of sex I swear!!))) a familiar contrast in the history of religion.
Text from the Reign of Hatshepsut:
I united the two lords, that is , thier parts
by ruling like the son of Auset
and being strong like the son of Nut
Here heru symbolizes rule and Set force.
moving on....
Heru and set also appear to symbolize the change from old disorder to new order.
...... skipping long paragraphs of boringness
by the way after the revocation of the initial judgement of Geb Set is then the Ruler of the Deasert.
orriginally he was a god indiginous to seqqara.
back to the book
Set has a much more important role. Ra takes him into the sun bark and entrusts him with the task of warding of the (edit crap) Apep, who menaces the course of the sun with standstill. A theory of force underlies this tradition: as force cannot be legalized, the law must be equipped with force --force must be placed int he service of the law.
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