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The Shepherds staff, The Pharaoh is the Shepherd of his people so he holds it. It just soo happend to enter the Hieroglyphs as a symbol, since everything in the Glyphs are symbols of what egyptians revered. Its quite interchangeable with the crook and the flail. Its not exclusive to Egypt, before them The Babylonian rulers kept it.It just got shorter over time. So,the common shepherds hold the long staff, the King holds the short one.It is very true in the modern world, military commanders hold a small staff.
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johntomSWPhd · 36-40
@revenant Thanks. Well, I dont think so. The Symbol that you talk about is an allusion of the Biblical story of Moses holding up the snake on the staff and any Hebrew who saw this was healed and Moses and Akhenaton were brothers, I beleive and Akenaton was a Pharaoh. This is how the staff and the snake symbolism entered Medicine.I dont know if one should connect both these serpents from different cultures.But it could be possible, the snake on the pole could be an allusion to Kundalini.
revenant · F
@johntomSWPhd The pharaohs had a small serpent as decoration on their forehead just above the 3rd eye. Kundalini ?
I am not sure..just thinking mind you !
what if much of our knowledge comes from Egypt ?
I am not sure..just thinking mind you !
what if much of our knowledge comes from Egypt ?
johntomSWPhd · 36-40
@revenant You mean like this? its not new, its very common in India.
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Intelligence is often associated with Serpents. Well, I charted the migration of out of Africa. Some people who stuck by Egypt turned out to be Superior Builders, I see Dubai as a the same replica of Egypt in the modern era, Skyscrapers are the new Pyramids. So, yes. Egyptians have always been great Builders. But knowledge? not really, Alchemy, Medicine , Astrology, Astronomy etc and its study are far superior in other regions.But one of my fav Kings is Ramses 2.
Intelligence is often associated with Serpents. Well, I charted the migration of out of Africa. Some people who stuck by Egypt turned out to be Superior Builders, I see Dubai as a the same replica of Egypt in the modern era, Skyscrapers are the new Pyramids. So, yes. Egyptians have always been great Builders. But knowledge? not really, Alchemy, Medicine , Astrology, Astronomy etc and its study are far superior in other regions.But one of my fav Kings is Ramses 2.
revenant · F
@johntomSWPhd ah the nagas !
well to build the pyramids I think you would have to have great knowledge about much of everything !
I do not know Dubai..but skyscrapers are just gone tomorrow and nobody will miss them !
well to build the pyramids I think you would have to have great knowledge about much of everything !
I do not know Dubai..but skyscrapers are just gone tomorrow and nobody will miss them !
xmedleft · 51-55, M
@johntomSWPhd Egyptian writing was pictographic, not phoenetic, so unlike English single characters represent whole words or concepts. The ankh symbol stands for a word they pronounced as "Ankh" which was their word for eternal life. In the simplest version of Tutankhamun's name there are 4 clusters of pictures
There is a feather that means this will be a royal name
There is a river and the sky which was the Egyptian way of expressing mirror
There is a falcon with 2 mouths which represented the God Amun and
There's an ankh meaning eternal life.
Thus Tut/ankh/amun's name was a short sentence: "I am the very image of Amun in his eternal life."
There is a feather that means this will be a royal name
There is a river and the sky which was the Egyptian way of expressing mirror
There is a falcon with 2 mouths which represented the God Amun and
There's an ankh meaning eternal life.
Thus Tut/ankh/amun's name was a short sentence: "I am the very image of Amun in his eternal life."
xmedleft · 51-55, M
@revenant The snake on the Pharaoh's headdress represented Lower Egypt (the desert half). The vulture represented Upper Egypt (hills, mountains, the divisive Nile area).
Ancient Egypt was actually 2 kingdoms and a pharaoh wore the symbol of the part he controlled. Then sometimes they managed to take over both Upper and Lower -- those pharaohs would wear both headdresses together.
Ancient Egypt was actually 2 kingdoms and a pharaoh wore the symbol of the part he controlled. Then sometimes they managed to take over both Upper and Lower -- those pharaohs would wear both headdresses together.
xmedleft · 51-55, M
@revenant Maybe, maybe not, but it's a big planet and that may not necessarily be the EGYPTIAN interpretation.
Different things mean different things to different cultures around the world and the new age idea that the snake means the same thing in every culture and the bull means the same thing in every culture, etc., is as bad an over generalization as the Americanization view of the world.
Different things mean different things to different cultures around the world and the new age idea that the snake means the same thing in every culture and the bull means the same thing in every culture, etc., is as bad an over generalization as the Americanization view of the world.