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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] And to further show how the symbolism of the earth, blackness, the seed, the "sun" or son of the earth is found in the symbolism, note the following passage carefully: [QUOTE] 632a. Thy sister comes to thee, rejoicing for love of thee. 632b. Thou hast placed her on thy phallus, 632c. that thy seed may go into her, (while) it is pointed like Sothis. 632d. Horus the pointed has come forth from thee as Horus who was in Sothis. 633a. Thou art pleased with him, in his name of "Spirit who was in the Dndr.w-boat"; 633b. he avenges thee, in his name of "Horus, the son, who avenges his father." [/QUOTE]It represents the symbolic renewal of the country as personified by the inundation of the Nile, which flows from the south and is associated with the "flow" (like the Nile) of kingship and the royal line which is the personification of this essence with the newly risen "king" as the manifestation of the balance between the forces of life and death and the well being of the country. The symbolism is found firstly in Sothis, the morning star or great EASTERN STAR of the horizon, Sirius, which announces the YEARLY inundation of the Nile and the return of the fertility of the black earth. She represents she who is ready to give birth and ready for the new birth of spring as Horus the living seed, who is avenging the season of death and dismemberment of his father (the yearly threshing the dead grain and chaff after the harvest) at the hands of his uncle set (the season of dryness). This is the manifestation and representation of OSIRIS as the LIVING EARTH (great black and great round) regenerating himself by becoming the great green (plant, animal and human reproduction) which is the great circle (cycle) of creation and is symbolic of the creative essence of the universe itself, which is the invisible blackness that encircles all. From this you get the concept of the King as Osiris or Horus, the risen seed, being symbolic of the "daily bread" of the people as he who is the living life force of the earth and the reproduction of plants and animals and the propagation of the seed (agriculture, animal husbandry), the seed of animal husbandry and life sustainment harnessed by the king is symbolized by the lassoing of the Great Bull and is symbolized in the Apis bull: male seed of cow reproduction, another symbol of Osiris and of course Hathor is representation of the womb or uterus. And all of this is why Jesus was born in a manger, or in other words in a farm setting, surrounded by cows, announced by the rising of a star in the East and immediately visited by Magi signifying their understanding of him as the "risen lord", which is actually a personification of Serapis, the Hellenized version of Osiris and Apis, the "savior" (of his father) and a deity of grain and the harvest. [QUOTE] n Egyptian mythology, Apis or Hapis (alternatively spelt Hapi-ankh), was a bull-deity worshipped in the Memphis region. According to Manetho, his worship was instituted by Kaiechos of the Second Dynasty. Hape (Apis) is named on very early monuments, but little is known of the divine animal before the New Kingdom. Ceremonial burials of bulls indicate that ritual sacrifice was part of the worship of the early cow deities and a bull might represent a king who became a deity after death. He was entitled "the renewal of the life" of the Memphite god Ptah: but after death he became Osorapis, i.e. the Osiris Apis, just as dead humans were assimilated to Osiris, the king of the underworld. This Osorapis was identified with the Hellenistic Serapis, and may well be identical with him. Greek writers make the Apis an incarnation of Osiris, ignoring the connection with Ptah. Apis was the most important of all the sacred animals in Egypt, and, as with the others, its importance increased as time went on. Greek and Roman authors have much to say about Apis, the marks by which the [b]black bull-calf[/b] was recognized, the manner of his conception by a ray from heaven, his house at Memphis with court for disporting himself, the mode of prognostication from his actions, the mourning at his death, his costly burial, and the rejoicings throughout the country when a new Apis was found. Mariette's excavation of the Serapeum at Memphis revealed the tombs of over sixty animals, ranging from the time of Amenophis III to that of Ptolemy Alexander. At first each animal was buried in a separate tomb with a chapel built above it. Khamuis, the priestly son of Ramesses II (c. 1300 B.C.), excavated a great gallery to be lined with the tomb chambers; another similar gallery was added by Psammetichus I. The careful statement of the ages of the animals in the later instances, with the regnal dates for their birth, enthronization, and death have thrown much light on the chronology from the Twenty-second dynasty onwards. The name of the mother-cow and the place of birth often are recorded. The sarcophagi are of immense size, and the burial must have entailed enormous expense. It is therefore remarkable that the priests contrived to bury one of the animals in the fourth year of Cambyses. [/QUOTE]From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_(Egyptian_mythology) Sothis: [QUOTE] The Greek name for the goddess called Sopdet by the Egyptians. She was the personification of Sirius, the Dog Star. This star, after a long period of invisibility, reappeared again in the sky just when the Nile innundation was about to begin - the so-called heliacal rising of Sirius. The start of the new year, heralded by the rising of the waters, was linked with this 'going forth of Sothis' and led to the goddess being called 'lady of the new year'. On the basis of a depiction on an ivory tablet from the 1st Dynasty, which shows Sothis in the form of a cow with a plant between its horns, it has been concluded that at this early time already, a relationship was seen between the arrival of the goddess and the new year. Only once in every 1,460 years did the heliacal rising of Sirius coincide with the start of the solar year. Such a event occurred during the reign of Antoninus Pius in 139 AD. Taking this as a starting point, it can be calculated that earlier concurrences took place in 1,321 BC and in 2,781 BC. As we also have records of the phenomenon from the reigns of Senwosret III and Amenhotep I/Thutmosis III, this makes it possible to draw up a more precise chronology of Egyptian history. Sothis was often mentioned as a member of a triad, with her husband the god Sah (the personification of the constellation of Orion) and the child, the god Soped. Parallels link the three divinities with Osiris, Isis and Horus. As early as the Pyramid Texts, it is stated that Sothis united with Osiris and then gave birth to the morning star. Sothis is usually depicted as a woman with a star on her head, and sometimes also cow's horns, copying Isis who in turn had adopted this attribute from Hathor. [/QUOTE]From: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/glossary.aspx?id=359 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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