ISIS
I am not a scholar, Egyptian, nor expert in any way regarding Egyptian knowledge. I am however a woman, and in this form am inner and interconnected with feminine innerstanding. My interest here is to muse about this moment in time when the call for feminine energy and wisdom to rise, and the patriarchal war mongering profiteers waging war in the middle east, have chosen the name ISIS for the "terrorists" in this continuing drama of suffering.
Since 9/11 there has been intentional looting and destruction to the ancient Egyptian knowledge, artifacts and wisdom. Is "oil" really what all this is about? I say nay. The following are some of my musings about Her, in the aspects of the Holy Trinity of the Egyptian Feminine Isis. All women know who she Is, for humanity and all life forms are born from the feminine Ma, Holy Mother. We all have names for Her.
In the beginning there was Isis, Oldest of the Old, who gave birth to the Sun, and from whence all Life arose. Her title was "Giver of Life".
Roman Lucius's Hymn says " Oh Thou Holy and savior of the human race".
It is said that she responds and speaks to those who recognize her as Holy Mother, Ma, Matter. Isis is Nature, natural law, the parent of All aspects of Life, the sovereign of elements, the progeny of the cycles of time, the most exalted of deities.... the goddess of the dead, the nourisher of all life, manifested alone and in One form.....
Mut or Maat
Mother
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut
* In her first aspect she is, Isis, Virgin, wearing the plumbs of Truth ~ innocence.
* In her second aspect she is Mother and wears the red and white crowns of two lands ~ as above so below ~ Life giver. Some say that Maat birthed Isis.
* In her third aspect she wears vulture feathers, and is the Crone of Death.
She has been depicted walking with a staff of the evergreen Sycamore Fig Tree and is associated with the Lotus. The Sycamore exudes a milky nectar and honied fruit. The wood of the Sycamore is used for caskets.
Nekhbet
Crone
Nekhbet is the Vulture goddess, who eats the dead and crosses them over. She is the mother of both life and death. Vultures conceive Eggs that are fertilized by the Spirits of the Winds. Winds as in the song of the Spirit, the resonance and tonality of Life's energetic vibration. Nekhbet is also Goddess of the Moon.
The Three aspects of the Feminine are innerstood as Eternal Life, thus Isis is often shown with the Ankh.
The Three aspects of the Feminine are innerstood as Eternal Life, thus Isis is often shown with the Ankh.
The Ankh is the Cross of Life or simply Life, representing the union of the feminine and masculine principles, and is also called the Key of Life. The Christians later kept the cross and omitted the circle, oval, ovum.
We as humans have expressed innerstanding and relationship with the feminine and masculine aspects of Creation, through the cultural matrixes we created. Therefore, there is one more Goddess am going to mention here:
Anuket the Goddess of the Nile River, water, and fertility is represented as having four arms, two arms that care for the masculine elements and two arms that care for the feminine elements, thus she is known as "the One", or balance and union. Her 'arms' were also in reference to the tributaries of the Nile River.
While she has had a variety of consorts throughout time, most notable is
Amun-Ra, the God Amun - of the Winds, and Ra - the Sun. Interestingly will note here that there are no images of Anuket, that i could find, of her image with four arms. I could ask "why" Anuket is a little known goddess, or spoken of as a "footnote" .... the why is that she is spoken of as "the One", and Amun referred to as "the hidden". Thousands of years ago our ancestors agreed to "hide" or keep hidden certain knowledge because they knew that nearly everything would be destroyed by the colonial patriarch and it's ideological matrix...thus all that was held sacred became the hidden, or the Mysteries, the Great Mystery.
Mother Earth, the feminine "goddess" and her many forms, and names is within all of our many cultures worldwide. She is Changing Woman, change is the only constant of time, space, and form. Mother Earth will Birth, and in that Change, everything will change, we will change, and it is our choice to experience this as an opportunity to birth with Her.
We are within the Change of the Key of Life. We are in the last gasp of what was the old matrix of colonial violence. The Vulture is eating away at the old paradigm of "reality". The Crone brings everything to the simplest form of Seed or Egg. All worlds within worlds are in the Egg of Creation.
We as humans have expressed innerstanding and relationship with the feminine and masculine aspects of Creation, through the cultural matrixes we created. Therefore, there is one more Goddess am going to mention here:
Anuket the Goddess of the Nile River, water, and fertility is represented as having four arms, two arms that care for the masculine elements and two arms that care for the feminine elements, thus she is known as "the One", or balance and union. Her 'arms' were also in reference to the tributaries of the Nile River.
While she has had a variety of consorts throughout time, most notable is
Amun-Ra, the God Amun - of the Winds, and Ra - the Sun. Interestingly will note here that there are no images of Anuket, that i could find, of her image with four arms. I could ask "why" Anuket is a little known goddess, or spoken of as a "footnote" .... the why is that she is spoken of as "the One", and Amun referred to as "the hidden". Thousands of years ago our ancestors agreed to "hide" or keep hidden certain knowledge because they knew that nearly everything would be destroyed by the colonial patriarch and it's ideological matrix...thus all that was held sacred became the hidden, or the Mysteries, the Great Mystery.
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We are within the Change of the Key of Life. We are in the last gasp of what was the old matrix of colonial violence. The Vulture is eating away at the old paradigm of "reality". The Crone brings everything to the simplest form of Seed or Egg. All worlds within worlds are in the Egg of Creation.
Where love's waters flow,
the fire of love dances,
the breath of life sings,
and the forms of earth blossom.
My musings come to an end, without knowing how to end the age of wars, without peace within ourselves. While we emerge with peace, I think of my son's college film graduate thesis...."Touching the Unknown", which was a potential comedy series about what people fear, i.e. death, the mysteries, etc. The first episode, included an interview with a transcendent man who was trying to explain how he could transform himself into pure energy. He said, "i'm just a tool, i'm just a tool...." might we be heartful about what we are "tools" of.
"Behind every pain is a doorway to healing, behind every loss is a lesson of deeper love, behind every light is a shadow. Balance is knowing we all have these deep issues and making a choice to relearn the simple love of life starts with the "you" inside. There is a tiny part of the Creator inside all life - that is the "inner" voice we all have and the place we go to talk to Creator and renew our commitment to RESPECT ALL LIFE and Do NO HARM."
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Blessings, Alis-Itlatol
P.S. When the blues get you down remember that there is always
a smile on a stick, they come in rainbow colors and shades of grey
depending on how you print them out:
a smile on a stick, they come in rainbow colors and shades of grey
depending on how you print them out:
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