6000 BCE NEOLITHIC
CULTURE: This date is nominated by science
as the start of the New Stone Age, when settled living, agriculture, pottery
and megalithic tombs are apparent and replace the previous Palaeolithic life of
hunting and gathering. Settlements along the Egyptian Nile reflect the rivers’
cycles as a guide for daily living and rituals. The African savannah becomes
the Sahara desert.
At
this time, the Northern Hemisphere Winter Solstice sun is in the constellation
Aries. By 600 CE, the sun will be seen in the constellation Aries at the
Northern Hemisphere Spring Equinox. Thus between 6000 BCE and 600 CE
will be a quater turn of the ‘Great Year’.
5900 BCE Champollion
gives c5867 BCE as the date of the beginning of Dynastic Egypt and this date
would accord with the legendary ‘Golden Age’.
c5600 MENA/MANU
incarnates as Menes and founds the First
Dynasty of Egypt at Memphis. Before this, Egypt was ruled by the Divine Kings
of the Atlantean Dynasties.
c5200 ADAPA is the Priest king of Eridu, Sumer. ERIDU is the
oldest city in the world and a pre-dynastic Sumerian settlement. It dates from
just before 5000 BCE and will survive to c2900 BCE when the foundations of the
Sumerian dynasties will be laid. At Tell el-Amarna, in the future, will
be found tablets containing in Sumerian the oldest and fullest form of the myth
of Adapa who was created by Ea as the ‘model of man’, hence the myth has been
associated with the Biblical first man, Adam.
c5000 This
is the predynastic period of ancient Egypt according to some authors. Groups of
people begin to gather in settled communities to lay the foundations for future
cultures. The main centres of population developed in the Delta and along the
banks of the Nile. The regular inundation of the Nile begins in late June at
the ‘First Cataract’ and reaches the northern areas by late September. Egypt is
known as Kemet (the Black Land) and the desert as Deshret (the Red Land). This
land of Kemet falls into two kingdoms that of North and South, which themselves
were divided into regions called nomes, there being 22 in all. The capital of
the Northern Kingdom (Lower Egypt) and centre of the king’s residence is Pe
(near Dep later called Buto). It is the land of the Red Crown and worship is of
the cobra-goddess Edjo. The capital of the Southern Kingdom (Upper Egypt) and
centre of its king’s residence, is Nekhen (Hieraconpolis near Edfu). It is the
White Land of the White Crown and worship is of the vulture-goddess Nekhbet. A
foreign input will change things around 3400 BCE and the two kingdoms will be
united under one crown about 3100 BCE.
The ‘All-seeing Eye’ [of Ra or Horus] guarded by the Two
Ladies: White vulture goddess Nekhbet, guardian of the south Upper Egypt. Red
cobra goddess Wadjet guardian of the north Lower Egypt or Delta region. They
become the two uraei on the forehead of the future Pharaohs of united Egypt.
[Lamy]
At
this present time, the Egyptian constellation Hes-mut (Raging Mother) or Tanem,
known later as the Hippopotamus or Crocodile, is circumpolar. The crocodile
equates with the dragon or serpent. Part of this constellation will become
known as Draco to the western cultures. The Egyptian constellation Necht is
also associated with the future constellation called Draco.
At
this date the star Tuart Isis of the constellation Hes-mut (modern Eltanin,
constellation Draco) ceased to be Pole Star.
The
future city URUK of ancient Sumeria is first settled around this time, at a
site SE of the future Baghdad, Iraq. It is also the city of the future
Gilgamesh (2700 BCE) and referred to in the Bible as Erech. The city developed
around two sacred centres called Kullab and Eanna. Eanna is dedicated to the
goddess Inanna and contains a ziggurat; to the west of Kullab, is located the
‘White Temple’ and the ‘Ziggurat of Anu’. Anu is the god of the heavens or
abzu. Here also will be located the later Seleucid (Iraqian dynasty) Temple of
Irrigal.
Summerian Mother Goddess Inanna/Ishtar [Larousse]
