This is also the case with the Hebrew Jehovah ["In the Beginning was the
Word"], the Pre-Inca deity Viracocha and other creator gods. Another creator
god of the Egyptians was Atum. Sounds like atom, doesn't it? He 'made' Shu
[Adam] and Tefnut [Eve]. Like Jehovah, Viracocha 'made' people out of clay.
But can you really make a human from a spare rib? Virococha 'created' at
Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, following the Great Flood. Similarly, his Aztec
counterpart, Quetzalcoatl, brought civilization to the Americas post Deluge.
They arrived from a mysterious land in the east.
The chief god of the Incas was the oddly named Pachamac [not a Raincoat
God, I might add, but a creator god!] The Canaanite creator was El, meaning
'god' or 'divinity'. He had 70 offspring by Asheresh! Both Arabic and
Spanish have the word 'el'. We couldn't help but wonder whether El was
linked to the Sumerian Enlil. Alan Alford says that the supergods of the
Sumerians, Anu, Enlil and Enki, were called Isis, Osiris and Horus by the
Egyptians. We also find intriguing the name similarity between the Hebrew
Yahweh/Jehovah and the Roman Jupiter/Jove. Like Jehovah, Jupiter and the
Greek Zeus, Viracocha destroyed anyone who disobeyed him with "fire from
heaven" - the divine thunderbolt.
Why is it that the Pre-Inca Viracocha, the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, the
Canaanite El, the Old Testament Jehovah, and the Celtic Merlin/Myrddin, were
all men of venerable age with long flowing robes, hair and beards and
carrying mysterious staffs with magical properties?
The Egyptian paradise and abode of the dead was Amenti or Amenthes. The
chief god of Aabadju [Gk. Abydos] in the 1st and 2nd Dynasties was
Knenty-Amentiu, a name meaning 'Foremost of the Westerners'. He'd replaced
the Pre-Dynastic Wepwawet, 'Opener of the Ways', and, although supplanted by
Osiris in the 5th Dynasty at Abydos, continued to be worshipped until the
13th Dynasty. Wepwawet was depicted as a jackal, yet, unlike Anubis, with a
white head, indicating his origin as a wolf-god. Depictions of Knety-Amentiu
and Osiris, both gods of the dead and Underworld, are strikingly similar:
mummiform and wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt. [Menes was the king who
united the two Egypts, and his successors were kings of the first two
Dynasties]. Osiris is pictured as green or dark-skinned, the former as he
was once a fertility god, the latter as God of the Underworld. He is the god
of the night - Lord of the West - where the Sun sets, and also the relative
position of Atlantis to Egypt. After it 'sunk', it became the Underworld in
myth, Hades to the Greeks.
In the Book of Gates [a magic-religious text inscribed in many 19th
Dynasty tombs, including those of Ramesses II, Seti I and Horemheb] is Ra in
his tabernacle surrounded by the mehen-snake [looks like electricity]. The 4
deities pulling the Solar Barque represent the cardinal points of the
compass. The god's boat moves through the Underworld, the 12 gates being the
hours of night. On his night sail [mesektet], Ra was always ram-headed, for
some reason. The Book of Gates allowed the dead to pass through these
portals of Osiris.
Another glyph, the solar orb resting on a djed-shaped pillar, reminds me
of the Sumerian symbol for their Sun god Utu [Akkadian/Assyrian Shamash],
esp. the symbol for Utu's shrine at Larsa. One seal depicts:
Amen: "Be It So"
The first thing to note about the word is its origin. It comes from
Latin via Greek and Hebrew, and originally meant 'certainty'. As 'aman' it
meant 'strength'. Curious that the chief god of the Ancient Egyptians was
Amun/Amon, later united with Re/Ra, the Sun God. The latter was the Eternal
Spirit and creator of the world and the cosmos. Ra created life by 'naming'.
by JJ and Nicky
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