Path: Supernews69!kudonet.com!not-for-mail From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick.order,alt.mythology,alt.pagan.magick,alt.pagan,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.newage Subject: MNuttall: Horus Date: 30 Jun 1997 17:57:15 -0700 Organization: KudoNet On-Line Services Lines: 89 Sender: tyagi@bjt.net Message-ID: <5p9klb$iis@kudo20.kudonet.com> Reply-To: mpn@doc.ic.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.227.52.9 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Xref: Supernews69 alt.magick.tyagi:13318 alt.magick.order:744 alt.mythology:39323 alt.pagan.magick:5216 alt.pagan:220437 talk.religion.misc:301071 talk.religion.newage:76089 [from thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org: Mark Nuttall ] 93 I found this while looking for something else. Perhaps it'll be of interest to some of you folks. - Mark 93 93/93 From http://users.aol.com/hetnetjer/private/netjer.html Heru (Har, Hor; G/R Horus) -------------------------- "High, Above" A collective term for a number of Names depicted either as hawk-headed men or as full hawks, Heru symbolizes leadership of all sorts and specifically the leadership demonstrated in the position of Ruler of the Two Lands. Heru is known even before the advent of hieroglyphic writing from depictions on Predynastic pottery and walls, of hawks and standards with the hawk sitting atop them; Predynastic and early Dynastic kings wrote their names within a serekh, which is a drawing of a palace with a hawk sitting upon its roof. The Kemetic observed in the hawk theophany the quickness, intelligence, alertness and staying power of a just ruler; nothing escaped the watchful eye of the true Heru, and no wrongdoer escaped His claws. Earlier forms of Heru depict Him as an abstract sky-god, with the sun and moon His two eyes; later ones depict Him as anything from victory personified to the son of the Lord of the Dead, Heru-sa-Aset, who would become the most popular form of Heru in the later periods. Ra - "Sun" ---------- Embodied in the golden sun which is His Symbol, Ra is Netjer of light, life, and heat, and the power inherent in the sun which warms our planet. In several forms, Ra has been venerated as the central Name of Netjer of the Kemetic faith for its entire history, considered both Father and the King of All Netjeru, the Great One Who both creates and destroys. Ra rose to prominence as the early dynasties of the Old Kingdom, who venerated Him as their family patron, began to call themselves "sons of Ra" in their official titularies and constructed great sun-temples and pyramids (considered a special symbol of Ra via their connection to the Ben-ben, a pyramidal-shaped stone from which Ra as a Bennu (a white heron, called "Phoenix" by the Greeks) rose from Nun and sang the song of creation) in His honor. Ra's popularity, as immanent as sunlight itself, continued throughout Kemetic history; even great Names as Amen and Ptah had to "share the spotlight" with Ra, and in Amen's case, a composite Name, Amen-Ra, King of Netjeru, was created to avoid slighting either cult, which by New Kingdom times had power and wealth to rival even the royal house. Ra "lives" within the actual physical disk of sun, mythologically described as the "Boat of Millions of Years" which rises and sets each day, riding from horizon to horizon on the back (or belly) of Nut, and traversing during the hours of darkness the netherworlds where the enemies of Ma'at reside. Even in modern Egypt, the sun is often referred to as Ra, especially on bright summer days. Heru-pa-khered (G/R Harpocrates) - "Heru the Child" --------------------------------------------------- A specific form of Heru-sa-Aset as a youngster, written about profusely during the Greco-Roman periods, Heru-pa-Khered is depicted as a child holding one finger to his mouth (a direct copy of the hieroglyph for "child," not necessarily being related to the modern meaning of "silence" we see in that gesture). Stele with depictions of Heru-pa-Khered standing on the back of a crocodile and holding snakes in his outstretched hands were erected in temple courtyards, where they would be immersed or bathed in water; the water was then used for blessing and healing purposes as the Name was attributed with many protective and healing powers. It is perhaps ironic in this light that late myths describe Heru-pa-Khered as being both physically weak and incapable of protecting himself, relying upon the power of His mother Aset to protect Him until His manhood. Ra-Heru-akhety (G/R Ra-Horakthy) - "Ra-Heru of Two Horizons" ------------------------------------------------------------ A specialized early form of Ra, composite with Heru the predynastic Name of the sky, Ra-Heru-akhety came to symbolize the inherent majesty of the sun itself and is the patron of the ruling class as well as of the institution of kingship. Ra-Heru-akhety is the most common form of Ra venerated after the Middle Kingdom, with His hawk-headed image surmounted by a red sun-disk and a full cobra wrapped around it. He is sometimes more simply referred to as Heru-akhety. The phrase "two horizons" notes the eternal quality of the Name (from sunrise to sunset, and back again). -- (emailed replies may be posted) ------- join the AMT syncretism!!! see http://www.abyss.com/tokus ---------- call: 408/2-666-SLUG!! "sa avidya ya vimuktaye" -- "that which liberates is ignorance"