1957 Begins
Some Notes on Egyptian Myth and Legend, By Egerton Sykes
Egyptian myths and legends had already solidified before
the 1st Dynasty of Egypt when they eventually consolidated Egypt
into two or twin kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt, rather like Scotland and England
combined to become the United
Kingdom. It is certain that the system of
names and clan insignia or totems had been in existence for a considerable
period, probably several thousands of years at least, before 3,500 B.C. or so
when the first Dynasty came into power. It would be of great interest to know
when the actual war was fought between Set the Sun God and Osiris the Moon God
and Isis the Moon Goddess, with aid of her consort who was killed,
eucharistically devoured, and planted into the soil every year. That Isis was a great magician is shown by the story of how
she slew both Horus and Set who had assumed the form of black bulls and were
fighting. Her relations to Horus and Set appear to have been those of a neutral
referee rather than those of a mother and son to be one and enemy to the other.
Horus may well have been the Osiris of one kingdom, who became the son of
Osiris when the two kingdoms were amalgamated. In any case it may safely be
assumed that both Osiris, Horus , and Set came much
later on the scene than the great mother Goddesses such as Hathor, Neith, Isis
and others. Throughout the Middle East the
source of everything is the primeval chaos monster whose name is Tamtu, Tiamat,
or Tiawath to the Babylonians, and Tohu or Tchom to the Hebrews. It is in
memory of this early mother goddess that we get such expressions as the 'womb
of time' etc. One would have expected the Egyptians to have a chaos monster
with a similar name but suprisingly enough he was called Nu or Nun. However, on
looking further into the question one discovers a deluge monster named Atmu,
who seems to have preceded Nu, and would therefore fit into the general
pattern. All the deluge monsters date back to the waste of waters seen after
the great deluge, which was not only that of Noah but also that of Atlantis.
Many people object that there are no deluge legends in Egypt but this
is not the case. The earliest tells that the God Atmu caused the waters of the
great deep and drowned everybody except those who were with him in his boat,
which would indicate that when he or she was deposed from the post of chaos
monster he became the Egyptian Noah or Uta Napishtim. The other tells how Ra
ordered Hathor (cow headed) and Sekhmet (cat headed) to destroy mankind, which
they did by fire and afterwards when they were wading in human blood he told
them to stop. As they would not do so he flooded the world with beer which they
drank to such an extent that they became drunk and forgot about killing
mankind. The beer was probably the evil smelling muddy floodwater as it
subsided. Also there is the story of Thoth and the Siriadic Columns, which he
set up to survive both the flood and fire being of stone and brick respectively.
The story is told by Manetho and also by Josephus, the latter says they were
put up by Set or Seth. This story of the Siriadic Columns fits in with the
various Arab Legends about the pyramids, which were set up by the wise men
before the flood. The tale is told by Abou Balkh who says that two pyramids
were 400 cubits in height and that on the casing charms and wonders were
inscribed. (We know the casing of the Great Pyramid built Cairo,
or White Wall
City, therefore some are still under Cairo's foundations!) Masudi also says:
"Surid one of the pre-diluvian kings ordered two pyramids to be built in
which were deposited records of the past." The battles between Set and
Horus and Set and Osiris may well have been ritual combats renewed annually like
those between Mot and Leviathan mentioned in the Ras el Shamara ('Southland of
Ra') scripts. The death of Osiris is the annual ritual sacrifice of a barley
king and the pilgrimage of Isis should perhaps be considered in the reverse
sense, i.e. that she was planting the dismembered portions of his body to bring
about fertility in the barley fields. That barley beer was the national drink
of Egypt is shown by many references in the texts, one pleasant one is of Nefer
Ka-Ptah (Beautiful Soul of Ptah) writing a magical spell on a papyrus and
washing the ink off with beer which he drank in order to have full knowledge in
his mind. Budge mentions annual combats at which the place of Set was taken by
a prisoner who was killed by the noble representing Osiris or Horus. Perhaps
the most important Egyptian legend is that of the Shipwrecked Traveler left
Egypt in a ship 150 cubits (225 feet) in length and 40 cubits (60 feet wide),
and was wrecked on an island where he found a huge serpent, the King of all the
Serpents. Here is the link to that story: The
Island of the Serpent, 1950-54 in List
The story is in the Arabian Nights and is entitled Yamilka,
the papyrus from which the original was taken is in the Leningrad Museum.
Another link with Egypt
and the past is given by the fabulous city fo Brass
and the City of many Columned Iram, both of which are mentioned in the Arabian
Nights. These tales show that before the first Egyptian dynasties arose there
was a tradition of ancient culture in the deserts to the west and the east of Egypt, which
seems to be linked with the first Atlantean refugees. Hoffman has suggexted
that Egypt was first colonized about 13,000 B.C. and that Surid reigned about
13,500, the pyramids being built about 12,000 B.C. He also suggests that the
Atlantean Dynasties, including Osiris and Horus reigned at this time.
Webmasters Notes: in regards to the two black bulls Isis
had to ward off, or referee we find that in Ireland the prolific battle of two
bulls in place names of Tech Donn, and Michael which relate to lands beyond the
Atlantic Sea off Brittany and United Kingdom. These names face the Atlantic
towrds the Kingdoms of Poseidon, and Llyonesse. The use of Bull-Roarers in
ancient festivals, and Bull fights are as old as the
Dragon fights. The other connection found in a book by Naomi Mitchinson, 'The
Corn King and the Spring Queen' which deals with prehistoric times, and is
mostly north of the Black Sea. Here the future
king had to fight for his supremacy against the old king in a bullfight. If we
take the irish island names of Tech Donn and An Tarbh
we come up with 'House of Donn, the Bull'. Regardless of the Crete
connection and the Minotaur these traditions are in fact older mother goddess
religion and can not be resolved by Cornish-Phoenician tin trade, or Amber as
the solution.
Dr. Malaise comment from 'Oceanic Bottom Investigations and
their Bearings on Geology', 1957-
Dr. Malaise thinks that the peoples who introduced the
Sandia Cave Flints (New Mexico) were contemporary with those who produced the
Solutrean points in France and Morocco, and, more that they both came from
Atlantis some 25,000 years ago via Iceland over the then existing Land Bridge.
Note of mention- there are 149 classical sources of writers
about Atlantis known from periods before 400 A.D..
More About St. Michael's Island, contributed by Dr. Kate Muller Lispwski
and
A Letter from Dr. Zhirov, Moscow, 2.XI.57.
to E. Sykes end of 1957
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