I realized then, that it is of no importance what people all through history call their gods, nor it is a vital importance how they present them, how they give an account or representation in words or in artistic representation ; the important factor here is that they must have not missed the essence of a true god . Thus, gods which are laws that effected the Egyptian back then and still effecting us now, and has effected all people although history, but we just call them differently and we give them a different representations and form ! Egyptian have constructed their universe so intricately and so precisely in accord with their believes, believe that draws from universal laws and projected them as form , they represented them graphically, sketch or design, gave it names, shape, attributes and a statue ,build temples around it ,;now they have ( a god ) A (Lasting) system of belief has to be built upon the actual simple truths, Egyptian civilization lasted for more than 3000 years, perhaps they understood the under lying laws of creation to such a high degree of truth and accuracy that they lived in harmony with it for such a long time. When it comes to depicting, or expressing their believe on the walls of their temples or a papyrus paper, at first glance it looked like naive children like paintings , but at close scrutiny soon you will realize the height of the spiritual awareness that they have attained ,their metaphors are only limited because words and hieroglyph are limited in their conveyance of the meaning behind After all Mosses have brought five of the Ten Commandments delivered from Mount Sinai can be found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.... Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery...Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor..." - Exodus 20: 7-16
'Not have I despised god...Not have I killed...Not have I fornicated...Not have I despoiled the thing of the god...not have I defiled the wife of a man...Not have I cursed god...Not have I borne false witness'. - Egyptian Book of the Dead "...Chapter CXXV of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead...consisted on a series of negative confessions that the soul of the deceased was obliged to make before Thoth in his capacity as divine judge and scribe. From the book of the dead you find this painting
The goddess nut is the divine personification of the skies, she is arching over Geb the god of earth, just like when we look towards the skies and earth we see that the skies surrounds the grounds; and in between the two of them they project all aspects of the world of physicality, the realm of the senses, the apparent; the sun god Re on his journey East West constituting a day; what is in between goddess nut and the god Geb resembles the worldly activities of the daily living, and that is exactly what any human being experience in their day , they see the sky ,they see the earth, they see the sun appear in the morning and disappear at night , there are countless activities that accruing through out the day , and all the physical laws represented here as deities , demy gods, and the divine deities that are presented in a human form some blessing and creating reality ; some to organize and manage the worldly issues, just beyond this picture were Geb and Nut, outside this realm beyond the apparent, when you transcend the seen, you find a world beyond the physicality ,the realm of the gods the realm of the universal laws depicted as a government office ; where the creator, the spirits of the dead, and gods ,demigods hard at work they are taking care of the Ka and the Ba (spirits)of the dead Pharaoh at the end of his life journey ,to start the afterlife, This underworld activities is like what is behind stage of a play (alkawalees) In general, it seems when you look for the truth, nothing is as straightforward as it appears at first glance ! Egyptians would worship one god, the god of their village or city, but recognized a pantheon of gods that had a hierarchy. The highest god in the hierarchy was the sun-god: either Horus, Re, or Amun-Re. In later Egyptian history,
the sun-god at the top this hierarchy of gods doesn't quite match the overall picture exactly. For at the top of the universal order stood a teenage girl goddess who was often represented as a pair of twins, Ma'at. wearing a huge ostrich feather crown. This unprepossessing goddess literally ruled everything. she was not power and strength She was not the sun and; she represented, rather, more subtle strength and abstraction. She was "Truth" or "Order." For the Egyptian
the personification of the fundamental truth, law and universal order, is Ma'at, A woman Her totem symbol is a foundation, a base , representing the stable platform on which order is built. without her all the universe and creation would perish. The primary duty of the pharaoh was to uphold this order by maintaining the law and administering justice. To depict this devotion some pharaohs took the title of "Beloved of Ma’at," emphasizing that they rule Egypt is with justice and truth. At any event in which something would be judged, Ma’at was said to be present, and her name would be invoked so that the judge involved would rule correctly and impartially. In the underworld, and after life, when the person dies the heart of the deceased was weighed against Maat's feather. If the heart was heavy with wicked deeds, it would outweigh the feather, and the soul would be fed to Ammit. But if the scales were balanced ?, indicating that the deceased was a just and honorable person in life, he would be welcomed by Osiris into the Blessed Land. Maat's presence in all worlds was universal, and all the gods deferred to her Worshipped and revered widely throughout all of Egypt. Even the gods are shown praising Ma’at. "Truth," Ma’at; The Egyptian word for this balance ,perhaps the single most important aspect of Egyptian culture that you can learn. For once you really understand this concept, the whole of Egyptian culture begins to make sense. The order of the universe (Ma’at ) functioned with unswerving accuracy; it was maintained by the goddess Ma'at. This meant that the concept of "truth" meant for the Egyptian the rational and orderly working of the universe rather than its diverse phenomena. The Egyptian, then, believed that he or she understood how the universe operated; There for all phenomena could be explained by understanding of the rationality of the universe I cannot emphasize strongly enough how important this concept of Ma’at is to subsequent history. This idea that the universe is rational , and that the "truth" of the universe is the underlying rationality and order of the universe , this realization was passed from the Egyptians to the Greeks. The Greeks called the underlying order of the universe, logos, or "meaning," "order," "pattern." The early Christians adopted the logos in order to explain the moral order of the universe; the first line of the Gospel of John is, "In the beginning was the logos (word), and the logos was with God, etc." But the concept for the Greeks and the Christians was more or less the same as Ma’at . The Egyptians believed that the Ma’at of the universe was a god that benevolently ruled all aspects—human, material, and divine—of the universe; the Christians
Mesopotamia In ancient times the land now known as modern Iraq was almost equivalent to Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia from the Greek language means (between the two rivers) which are the
Euphrates and the Tigris, This region is known as the Cradle of Civilization, for it was here in about 4000BC that the Sumerian culture flourished. Land was cultivated for the first time, early calendars were used and the first written alphabet was ) invented
first laws was documented to buy and sell , marriage , the significance of two witnesses they have left us with an inheritance of historic accounts in art, law ,astronomy ,philosophy and theology, that stared the monotheistic religions and consequently led to the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Ur of the Chaldees “the home town of Abram” was a great and famous Sumerian city, dating from that time. After the collapse of this Sumerian civilization, King Hammurabi of Babylon reunited the people in 1700BC, and the country flourished under the name of Babylon. The word Babylon is derived from the word Babel, bab meant door or gate ;and el that meant god their for Babel is the gates of the gods ; On Hammurabi's death, the land was under Assyrian rule for about two centuries. It was then restored to its former Babylonian glory under Nebuchadnezzar II, who built the famous Hanging Gardens, and made Babylon the most famous city of the ancient world.
many civilization risen here namely Sumerians, Assyrians ,Babylonians Akkadian and many more each had there own distinct culture language and ritual among others, has left us with the
Enuma Elish the 'Epic of Creation is such The Babylonian 'Epic of Creation - Enuma Elish' is written on seven tablets, each are between 115 and 170 lines long. The name (enuma elish), comes from the first few word in the tablets, which means “When in the height heaven” It supposedly was written no later than the reign of Nebuchadnussar around the 12th century B.C.E. But there is also little doubt that this story was written much earlier, during the time of the Sumerians. Drawing some new light on the ancients, Henry Layard found it within the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, in north Iraq by the city of Mousil, texts that were similar to the Genesis creation in the Bible. George Smith first published this text in 1876 under the title, The Chaldeans Genesis, an Akkadian text, written in the old Babylonian dialect.
The enuma elish THE FIRST TABLET When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both Their waters were mingled together, And no field was formed; no marsh was to be seen; When of the gods none had been called into being, And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained; Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven, Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being...
(Mesopotamia mythology 1700 B.C.) In general, it seems when you look for the truth in mythology nothing is as straightforward as it appears to be at first glance. But once you realize it; its simplicity will engulf you
Genesis chapter1 and Enuma Elish creation myth comparisons One of the two Bible creation myths was probably derived from the much older Mesopotamian creation myth "Enuma Elish". The six days of creation in the Genesis myth parallel the six generations of gods in the Enuma Elish myth in type of god in Enuma Elish that is created (i.e. god of the earth) to what is created or happens on the corresponding day in Genesis (i.e. the waters are gathered together to expose dry land). To god Marduk Four where his eyes Four where his ears When his lips moved Fire blazed forth The four ears were enormous He hears every thing The same were his eyes He perceives everything (Mesopotamia myth1700 B.C.)
Marduk the benevolent god , omnipresent, omnificent, and omnipotent the sixth generation god makes man as a slave so the other gods can rest. God (Elohim) makes man on the sixth day and he himself rests. The Enuma Elish six generations of gods: On the \seventh day the gods rest and human start the heard work to serve the gods (in Buddhism it would be the start the five cardinal of suffering ) and indeed the down of man from the garden of Eden
I suppose the old Mesopotamia mythology is imbedded in our culture, and indeed is still our view of what truth is , which is sensually the foundation of our reality, the biblical story of Noah and the flood is very well documented , and precise account was given ‘in the epic of Gilgamesh, that start like this
The Biography of The author.rahoomi Page 1 9/16/2007
I was Born In Iraq Baghdad, 1954, from A Muslim father, and according to Islam religion children follow the father's religion, And so I was raised as a Moslem, at the age of ten I found out that my mother Is Jewish, And according To The Jewish laws, Children follow the mother religion, Now According to That I am Jewish Myself.. now we can see the conflict that arise from this dilemma ,With the dual religions, and the choices of being one or another, , Some of this And some of that , Therefore a profound question imposed It's self , which religion is the right one ? Of course I don't have to tell you that the whole Middle East conflict is based on the differences between these two religions,
I was personally torn out between these two historical social political world organizations ,I had to deal, and solve the problem with in first
Conflicts, such a complex issue to resolve,and here is my resolve.
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