Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

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Call Out the Malicia, Heinemann, London, UK, 1961 (book cover red eyes); E. P. Dutton, New York City, 1963 (book cover green eyes); both hardcover. A collection of 10 short stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It would have been a worldview intimately familiar to Moses, and the Hebrew peoples, not to mention shades of normal to many in the ancient world. What I appreciated most is that John approaches the topics from a position of true reverence. He firmly believes that these tenets and views will save the modern world from itself, will draw us more completely into the magnificent mysteries of the cosmos. Gamma Serpentis is a yellow-white main sequence dwarf in Serpens Caput. It belongs to the spectral class F6 V. The star has an apparent magnitude of 3.85 and is approximately 36.3 light years distant from the solar system. It has a mass 1.30 times solar and a radius 1.55 times that of the Sun. It is 3.02 times more luminous than the Sun. The star is a suspected variable. It has two 10th magnitude optical companions. κ Serpentis (Kappa Serpentis) Egyptology as a science is less than one hundred years old; as an innate yearning for the spiritual life it is timeless. West's approach to the Egypt experience either as a study or a journey is to relinquish the “cerebral approach” for the sake of the vital experience that its art and architecture conveys.

d'Huy, Julien. "Première reconstruction statistique d'un rituel paléolithique: autour du motif du dragon". In: Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée [New Comparative Mythology] (3) 2016: 1-34. En ligne: http://nouvellemythologiecomparee.hautetfort.com/archive/2016/03/18/julien-d-huy-premiere-reconstruction-statistique-d-un-rituel-5776049.html. ⟨halshs-01452430⟩ When not driven by horses, the chariot of the Greek sun god is described as being pulled by fiery draconic beings. [37] The most notable instance of this is observed in the episode in which Medea is given her grandfather's chariot, which is pulled by serpents through the sky. Taheri, Sadreddin (2015). "Inversion of a Symbol's concept". Tehran: Honarhay-e Ziba Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3. Archived from the original on 2018-07-24 . Retrieved 2018-07-24. In Ancient Egypt, where the earliest written cultural records exist, the serpent appears from the beginning to the end of their mythology. Ra and Atum ("he who completes or perfects") became the same god, Atum, the "counter-Ra", associated with earth animals, including the serpent: Nehebkau ("he who harnesses the souls") was the two-headed serpent deity who guarded the entrance to the underworld. He is often seen as the son of the snake goddess Renenutet. She often was confused with (and later was absorbed by) their primal snake goddess Wadjet, the Egyptian cobra, who from the earliest of records was the patron and protector of the country, all other deities, and the pharaohs. Hers is the first known oracle. She was depicted as the crown of Egypt, entwined around the staff of papyrus and the pole that indicated the status of all other deities, as well as having the all-seeing eye of wisdom and vengeance. She never lost her position in the Egyptian pantheon. SERPENT IN THE SKY: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt, by John Anthony West; Julian Press/Crown (Random House); paperbound.Thereafter, everybody concerned moved into the night sky: Orion, with his two faithful canine companions, Canis Major and Canis Minor; Aesculapius, with Serpens, the serpent; Scorpius, the scorpion; and Lepus, the hare, whom Orion was hunting when he had his encounter with the scorpion. But that is where Genesis, rigorous philosophy and Thomism, and 2000 years of phenomenally deep introspection and revelation help us make sense of our past. On its surface, John seems to paint a beautifully complex picture.

A final note about Ophiuchus: The ecliptic, that line in the sky that marks the path of the sun, moon and planets, passes right through the legs of this constellation. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 18, the sun resides within the boundaries of the serpent holder. So, he should be considered a member of the zodiac. Xi Serpentis is a triple star system about 105 light years from Earth. It has a visual magnitude of 3.54. The primary component in the system is a yellow-white giant with the stellar classification F0IIIp. It is a spectroscopic binary star with an orbital period of 2.29 days. The third component in the system is a 13th magnitude star located 25 arc seconds away from the main pair. β Serpentis (Beta Serpentis) John Bathurst Deane, The Worship of the Serpent, London: J. G. & F. Rivington, 1833. ( alternative copy online at the Internet Archive) Despite its split form, Serpens contains a wealth of deep-sky objects that are of interest to astronomers and astrophotographers alike. Most notably, it houses the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16), which contains the famous astronomical feature known as the "Pillars of Creation" ? a star-forming region beautifully captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a region where new stars are being born, and it provides a stunning look at the life-giving processes of the universe.

Níðhöggr gnaws the roots of Yggdrasil in this illustration from a 17th-century Icelandic manuscript. Serpens constellation lies in the northern hemisphere. Its name means “the serpent” in Latin. Serpens is one of the Greek constellations, first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.

Python was the earth-dragon of Delphi. She always was represented in the vase-paintings and by sculptors as a serpent. Python was the chthonic enemy of Apollo, who slew her and remade her former home his own oracle, the most famous in Classical Greece. Frequently, the trend of historical narcissism assumes that our later developments supercede the intellectual capacity of ancient man. And yet, John brushes aside our hunger for materialistic data, and focuses on the philosophical and esoteric underpinnings of the ancient world. Glinka, Lukasz Andrzej (2014). Aryan Unconscious: Archetype of Discrimination, History & Politics, Great Abington, UK: Cambridge International Science Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907343-59-9.

Galaxies in Serpens

In elegant prose, the author delves into the symbolist theory of what the ancient Egyptians believed about themselves and the universe, asserting that their civilization was the remains of an older and much more advanced culture. That, of course, is an absolute no-no in conventional thiinking. Serpens contains more than 15 stars with known planets. These are Omega Serpentis (spectral class G8III), HD 168443 (G5IV), HD 142245 (K0), HD 168746 (G5V), HD 175541 (G8IV), COROT-11 (F6V), COROT-28 (G8/9IV), COROT-9 (G3V), COROT-33 (G9V), COROT-27 (G2), COROT-23 (F9/G0V), COROT-16 (G5V), and COROT-17 (G5V).