'Ancient Egypt' Articles
My spiritual affinity for Anubis is just an instinctive recognition of a symbol that didn’t die, just transformed. We are all dealing with the same spiritual forces. If you want to reduce the spirit world to cellular memory and to the collective unconscious, or see a connection between that and actual activities in the world which do in fact impact epigenetic development, it is up to you. The gods live. All the modern rationalistic thought hasn’t abolished subconscious influence. All the scientific understanding has not changed our fundamental connection to nature. Give a spiritual force whatever face you want.
In modern reckoning, as popularly depicted in movies like the Mothman Prophecy, when the spirits are questioned about what they “look like”, the answer is and always will be the same. “Depends on who’s looking”.
“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.” Akhenaton (King of Egypt, 14th century BC)
Religion of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian religion can be summarized as shamanism under the influence of nationalism. Like the Native American cultures, they saw the world as a spiritual place and the relationship between the ancient tribes of Egypt changed over time before the organization of the two kingdoms. They didn’t have a Cartesian view like modern thinkers do, and if anything happened in the physical world it was just as much a spiritual event as a physical one. Some Egyptian totems were revered higher than others. The falcon was revered highly in later Egyptian eras as well as in early ones, both for… Seek More
Egyptian Soul and Hell
Egyptian religion was both intuitive and rationalistic. Since its focus was so pragmatic the Greeks and Romans actually saw no reason to compromise it, and translated some of their concepts into Greek or Roman terms. Thus the cult of Osiris gave birth to the elusian mysteries, and other imagery became very wide spread. There was no compromise of Egyptian shamanism until the adoption of Christianity as a state religion by the Roman Empire and there is evidence of Egyptian mythology having a strong influence on it. The view of the physical and spiritual existence being intimately linked went so far as… Seek More
Mana and Justice
I tend to use the kahuna concept of mana to evaluate any path. Mana is a concept of “proven effectiveness”. It plugs into the idea that whoever or whatever was more in synch with the over arching order would be stronger and more able than those who worked against it or were just resistant to it. So, though ancient Egyptian religion was absorbed by eastern orthodox Catholicism and Islam, in a sense it still exists and was absorbed for a reason. Catholicism arose with the spread of the Roman Empire, and the subjugation of native faiths was necessary in their… Seek More
Field of Stars
Can anyone name the worlds oldest religious texts? Bahagavida? Good guess, but in written form it isn’t as old as another. The Egyptian tomb texts predate any religious cannon. They even predate the Book of the Dead which was later published. For the Egyptians, life and death weren’t separate things. They were seen as parts of the same cycle, and we actually use a lot of the imagery today that they used, though we forgot its origin. What composes the human being? Of what are we made? Water and trace minerals. Energy and matter. Ask Carl Sagan he knows. Good… Seek More
Walking With Spirit
There was a goddess named Hathor, the hippo who governed the Nile. You were considered to need to cross the Nile so they invoked the aid of the Bison Goddess by imitating her act of creation. The shaping of human bodies from clay. Except in this case the clay was linked to the spirits of the servants or loved ones by spells carved into the image. So in a sense allowing the living to be with the dead in spirit also. It’s been found that the mind cannot tell the difference between a real experience and that which you vividly imagine.… Seek More
Kingdom of Osiris
The Egyptian Pharaoh was both King and High Priest. At first, the ascension (not unlike the Buddha’s ascension) was considered possible only to the Pharaoh. It was only later that they came to believe that all souls could ascend, and when they transformed into the Akh they were able to wander the whole world though not in imperfect flesh. Also the favour of your family was seen as having a very real impact on your well being. How did they get to that belief of all souls? It’s not really documented. It might have been a cultural transplant. There are… Seek More
