so IAAP releases another video...I missed this one yesterday.
more musings on the 'RAM' (the age of Aries 'The Ram'- thru to the age of Pisces 'Christ/Fisherman' - into the age of Aquarius 'Horus'... the present)RAM..... whose root imo (and as the rosicrucians believe) is likely to be Ab'ram, Son of the Ram....the biblical Abraham of Ur (who taught that the Sun dominated the Universe, signalling the arrival of the Saturnian Age or Golden Age, this preceded the Flood (chronology has its basis in astronomy...the bible as an accurate chronology is a non starter imo, for many obvious reaons....the same is probably true of geography). The worship of Saturn/Molech was followed by the Hebrews long before they embraced the monotheistic faith of god Jehovah, evidenced by many allusions to the burning of victims in the fires of Baal, which was discontinued when Jerusalem was overthrown by the Chaldeans. Abraham founding Patriarch of the Israelites/Hebrews, Hebron 'the city of the Hebrew' adjoined by Ram-ah the administrative capital, the city of the Ram, after Ab'ram himself, the high Ram/Rama..the living god-king, which is reflected in 'Ram'ases (the post Hyksos, who were likely to be Israelites according to Josephus, 18th egyptian dynasties annexed the name) , Hi-ram Abiff (the masonic deity and slain builder of solomons temple) The Rama's (Phrygian capped 'enlightened' Hindu deity, the Phrygian cap apparently desecnded from Abraham).
The Rameses kings became the Ramas of the south, as hiers of the Cushite Gad/Cad (the greatest ruling people of Israel). Cush, who begat Nimrod (babel/babylon), being the eldest son of Ham. (Diodorus states that these Egyptian kings did borrow from the Cushites and as it appears, transferred the oracle of Ammon/Ham to their capital Gath, re-naming it No-Ammon...source of Amun-Ra) The Cushites were known in Hebrew as the Chasdim/Chusdim the root for Chaldean, whose city was Ur, birth place of Ab'ram. The Ram was also the symbol of the god Ammon(early Egyptian deity), as it was of Hermes (also Thoth in Egyptian terms)...them being one and the same (Pausananias states that Par-Ammon was the surname of Hermes and that both Ammon and Hermes adopted the 'ram' as their sacred animal)....Hermes (Ammon/Thoth) was considered to be more important than all the other deiities combined because he was the only 'operative' god...he was not only the the liason, between gods and man but what he proclaimed as the 'vox Dei' was final and decisive. The Temple of Ammon in Egypt (according to Plunkett, an authority on ancient calendars) is oriented to the first point of Aries, the Ram....supposedly denoting the advent of the Vernal Equinox, immediately after the Flood...and that ...circa 1300 B.C. the world was reconstructed when the sun was in the 1st degree of Aries....As this particular constellation rose with the dawn.
Hermes, The Druid God. (pic below)Ammon (pic above)....Ammon was an oracle god, whose oracle was situated in the Siwa oasis, some 500 kilometers west of Memphis. Originally, this was the place where the Libyan desert tribes worshiped a god who had the shape of a ram. The cult was taken over by the Egyptians, who identified the god with their supreme god Amun; they called god of the oracle 'Amun of Siwa, lord of good counsel'. (see No-Ammon above) Alexander the Great claimed to be a son of Ammon.
When the Romans invaded Britain they found that Hermes (or Mercury) was the Britons' chief deity and to whom the erected many images, next to him came Apollo. Homer eludes to and monuments depict Hermes as a curly-haired youth, wearing a wide brimmed hat (the petasus) with its wings or sometimes with wings attached to his sandals, illustrating him (as like apollo) as a swift messenger of the gods....and with the 'Caduceus' the 'potent wand', its power signified by the entwined serpents (likely to depict an intsrument or weapon, possibly a 'serpent rod' such as Moses and Aaron prouced before Pharoah, which defeated the inferior rods of the Egyptian Magi, other intepretations are of duality/state of mind and the dna double helix, as well as typical phallic/fertility interpretations). Other aspects depict a tall, bearded man dressed in a long black gown. the twin serpent caduceus...note positioning in respect of the chakras.
the twin serpents of the dna double helix.
Which, as we know....ties in with the MMT back cover! (above)
According to Canon Bowles images of Hermes were set up on hill-tops of Greece and Britain (one being Silbury Hill dated circa 2660 B.C) as well, the chief honours and highest station went to him because he stood for the Druids' sacred mysteries, their learninng, and their doctrine of the immortality of the soul. (identical to egyptian belief Ammon/Thoth)
Silbury Hill....according to legend where a statue/idol of Hermes was contained...situated symetrically at a mile below the temple of Avebury...this could've been a solar observatory.Hermes directed and taught mankind, gave them the blessings of civilisation and concerned himself with their immortal souls. He invented all the arts and crafts, music, weights and measures, medicine, gymnastics, even the art of warfare. He introduced letters, or the aphlabet of sixteen letters and writing, first known as 'Ogham' (from Ogmius the celtic deity), he presided over commerce and trade, was the god of good fortune, the protector of travellers by building good roads, and so in his honour at all crossroads were erected Hermae, always with his symbol of the Ram's horns. Perhaps in no phase of activity did Hermes exercise more influence than as the conductor of the souls of the dead to the Celtic and Egyptian underworld, it was his greatest service to mankind.
Hermes was credited with the invention of astronomy, as in 'mapping out the heavens', signifying that the seers and sages among the Druids discovered the true movements of the earth, devised the Solar Ecliptic, designed the zodiac of the 12 constellations through which the sun passes annually, classified the principal star groups, according them specified names, invented also the calendar and studied the movements not of regular constellations alone, but those of irregular bodies like comets.
The established view is that the Magi of the Chaldeans, Phoenecians and Egyptians were the earliest pioneers in the field of astronomy, and this is correct if it be recognised that they were Druids. These wise men closely watched the star Sirius, regulated the Sothic cycle by it and accorded to the 'Watcher' in the heavens the name of the Dog Star (canis major, emblem of Osiris) and honoured it further by calling it 'the Star of Hermes. As such it appears in Egyptian, Greek and Bardic mythology the 'Scorcher', watched always with misgiving, for it was regarded as the harbinger of pestilence, drought and wars....although students of myth will also note that it can also seen as a bringer of life through the helical rising of Sirius that preceded the flooding of the nile delta....and therefore agriculture, the knowledge of the movement of Sirius was key to this, though not the only aspect.sirius canis major...and sirius b (tiny speck bottom left)
Plunkett (authority on calendars) contended that a calender was devised by some ancient race whose calculations were taken from as far north as at least 40 degrees or beyond, which signified a latitude abaove a line which includes half of Spain, half of Italy, all Greece, Asia Minor and of course Egypt. Bailly (French astronomer) put this limit higher, to at least 45 degrees. With either estimate the Middle East, Egypt or the Mediterranean areas could not have invented the zodiac and hence the calendar.
It seems that Egyptian belief concerning the immortality of the soul and the judgement of the dead has its origins in Hermes...
kneph
the winged kneph from ceremonial magick
Kneph in Egyptian mythology was originally the breath of life, his name meaning soul-breath. Indeed, according to Plutarch and Diodorus, kneph was identical with the Greek pneuma. Kneph in this context was a spirit that breathed life into things, giving them form. (which sounds exactly like 'the logos' of the Greeks)
Kneph eventually became considered to be the creator god himself, in Elephantine, although his identity was finally assimilated into the more important god Amun.
In art, Kneph was depicted as a Ram (sometimes as a serpent, circle of kneph), the animal symbolic of the ba, a major aspect of the Egyptian notion of the soul; the Egyptian word for "Ram" was "ba". He was also depicted wearing a uraeus (serpent), symbolic of his authority, as creator. In his hand he always bears the ankh, symbol of life.The Circle of Kneph (and its serpent allusion) was one of the many epithets borne by Hermes and whose followers, the astronomers or seers, were called Nephelim or Knephelim. (see genesis/ gene of isis) It was in effect the solar ecliptic, the sacred circle, in which was wrapped up the Hermetic doctrine of the zodiac or circle of months, weeks and days. He who sat upon that circle, the ecliptic, was and is the Sun.
Avebury (formerly Ab'ury) in Wiltshire is probably such a symbolic circle...A Pre Flood astronomical temple sacred to Saturn.
the serpent (the head being at Overton Hill on the right and the coil on the far left, which fully formed would be over 3 1/2 miles long, probably following an existing 'ley line'. Ley lines to which Alfred Watkins has attributed to Hermes, Watkins also identified Hermes as the chief god of the Druids...under Tout) passing through the circle or Sun.
Originally, according to Stukeley, the West Kennet Avenue stretched all the way to the Sanctuary on Overton Hill, while the other, the Beckhampton Avenue, of which very little survives, terminated near the Beckhampton Long Barrow. Stukeley interpreted the avenues as representing a great stone serpent passing through a ring (the Sun) formed by the Avebury circle.
The village of Avebury in Wiltshire has given its name to one of the greatest stone circles (unhewn monoliths unlike Stonehenge) in the British Isles. Located in the midst of a rich prehistoric landscape, the village lies a few miles away from the Ridgeway and in close proximity to Silbury Hill, the Sanctuary, the West Kennet Long Barrow, and the long barrows of East Kennet and Beckhampton.
The story goes that while returning from a day's hunting one winter's evening in 1648, John Aubrey, on passing through the village of Avebury, recognized in the earthworks and standing stones around him an ancient temple, which he attributed to the Druids.
In the early 18th century, William Stukeley visited the site on several occasions and witnessed, to his great distress, the destruction of numerous stones by farmers intent on clearing the land for fields. Stukeley agreed with Aubrey's identification of the site and in 1743 published his book Abury, a Temple of the British Druids. Stukeley recognized in Avebury/Abury 'the aboriginal patriarchal religion' and associated Abraham/Ab'ram with it.
Mostly dating to around 2,600-2,500 B.C.E., the Avebury complex, which covers about 28 acres and is partially overlapped by the village, comprises a huge circular earthwork ditch, originally about 30 feet deep, and bank about a quarter of a mile in diameter which encloses an outer circle of standing stones. Within this outer circle are two inner circles, both about 340 feet in diameter. The northern inner circle, of which only a few stones remain, apparently consisted of two concentric circles; an inner one of 12 stones and an outer one of 27 stones. At the centre of the northern circle stood a trio of very large stones, two of which survive, called "the Cove." At the centre of the southern circle stood a tall stone over 20 feet in length called "the obelisk." It had already fallen when William Stukeley saw, and drew it, in the 18th century, and is now gone altogether (its site, as with the other missing stones at Avebury, is now marked by a concrete pillar).
A site I came across seems to have similar ideas....
Avebury is a huge British Temple and stone monument erected at least 2,000 BC in the shape of a serpent if seen from the sky. Once known as Abury which according to the historian Deane is evidently Abiri or Ab-ir (after the Abiri people or Cabiri) – Abir = Serpens solis (sun snake.) Although some have argued whether it should ever have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun,) the fact remains that even as far back as the 17th century there was a Mr Aubury who said himself that it should be pronounced and spelt Aubury (found in the legier-book of Malmesbury Abbey.)
Of course even as Ave Bury the ‘Ave’ reverts back to the root of ‘Eve’ which we know means ‘female serpent.’ (Deane also believed that the Kaaba or Caabir of the Muslims – which was a conical stone – resolved itself into Ca Ab Ir – the ‘Temple of the Serpent Sun.’)
continues at link below...www.phil.fah-designs.com/gardinerosborn/articles/article_3.htmlFinally...is the serpent passing through the circle of the sun (as we see in the Avebury construction) somehow symbolised in other imagery?
cherokee sun myth
Though Ophiuchus (meaning serpent bearer) is not one of the 12 zodiacal constellations, the sun passes this constellation on its annual journey around the sky. In fact, the sun spends three times as many days in Ophiuchus as it does in Scorpius. Ophiuchus is believed to represent Aesculapius (very similar to Hermes), the ancient god of health and healing, and its brightest star is named Rasalhague, which is Arabic for “Head of the Snake Charmer.”
Aesculapius
And Serpens -- the only two-part constellation in the heavens, with its head on one side (Serpens Caput) and its tail on the other (Serpens Cauda) -- is draped across his body.
From Albert Pike, Morals & Dogma (the masons bible) 'Knight of the Brazen Serpent' 25th degree.Souls, the Ancients held, having emanated from the Principle of Light, partaking of its destiny here below, cannot be indifferent to nor unaffected by these revolutions of the Great Luminary, alternately victor and overcome during every Solar revolution.
This will be found to be confirmed by an examination of some of the Symbols used in the Mysteries.
One of the most famous of these was THE SERPENT, the peculiar Symbol also of this Degree. The Cosmogony of the Hebrews and that of the Gnostics designated this reptile as the author of the fate of Souls. It was consecrated in the Mysteries of Bacchus and in those of Eleusis. Pluto overcame the virtue of Proserpine under the form of a serpent; and, like the Egyptian God Serapis, was always pictured seated on a serpent, or with that reptile entwined about him. It is found on the Mithriac Monuments, and supplied with attributes of Typhon to the Egyptians. The sacred basilisc, in coil, with head and neck erect, was the royal ensign of the Pharaohs. Two of them were entwined around and hung suspended from the winged Globe on the Egyptian Monuments. On a tablet in one of the Tombs at Thebes, a God with a spear pierces a serpent's head. On a tablet from the Temple of Osiris at Philæ is a tree, with a man on one side, and a woman on the other, and in front of the woman an erect basilisc, with horns on its head and a disk between the horns. The head of Medusa was encircled by winged snakes, which, the head removed, left the Hierogram or Sacred Cypher of the Ophites or Serpent-worshippers. And the Serpent, in connection with the Globe or circle, is found upon the monuments of all the Ancient Nations.
Over Libra, the sign through which souls were said to descend or fall, is found, on the Celestial Globe, the Serpent, grasped by Serpentarius, the Serpent-bearer. The head of the reptile is under Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, called by Ovid, Libera, or
Proserpine; and the two Constellations rise, with the Balance, after the Virgin (or Isis), whose feet rest on the eastern horizon at Sunrise on the day of the equinox. As the Serpent extends over both signs, Libra and Scorpio, it has been the gate through which souls descend, during the whole time that those two signs in succession marked the Autumnal Equinox. To this alluded the Serpent, which, in the Mysteries of Bacchus Saba-Zeus, was flung into the bosom of the Initiate.
And hence came the enigmatical expression, the Serpent engenders the Bull, and the Bull the Serpent; alluding to the two ad-verse constellations, answering to the two equinoxes, one of which rose as the other set, and which were at the two points of the heavens through which souls passed, ascending and descending. By the Serpent of Autumn, souls fell; and they were regenerated again by the Bull on which Mithras sate, and whose attributes Bacchus-Zagreus and the Egyptian Osiris assumed, in their Mysteries, wherein were represented the fall and regeneration of souls, by the Bull slain and restored to life.
Afterward
the regenerating Sun assumed the attributes of Aries or the Lamb; and in the Mysteries of Ammon, souls were regenerated by passing through that sign, after having fallen through the Serpent.As Above....So Below.