The ‘Narmer
Palette’ celebrating the union of Upper and Lower Egypt under the Pharaoh
Menes. [Gardner, ‘Art Through the Ages’]
c3200 BCE MENES
or NARMER is also known as the Pharaoh Aha, the first mortal king of Ancient Egypt.
He is credited in legend as being half human and half divine. He is founder of
the historical dynasties of Ancient Egypt. As such, Menes unites Upper Egypt of
the White Crown, with the Delta region of Lower Egypt and the Red Crown. The
national capital is established at Memphis, the geodetic centre of Egypt. (68)
The earlier symbols of the two kingdoms are maintained; they are the sedge, the
bee and the papyrus. (49) In a future time the bee will be important to the
European dynastic line of the Merovingians.
However, the scholar
Champollion will in the future put the date of the beginning of Dynastic Egypt
at c5867 BCE and this date would accord with the legendary ‘Golden Age’. Which-ever
date is the truest, the unification of Egypt is nominated the ‘Archaic Period’
of Dynastic Egypt, a time when a fully-fledged culture seems to appear out of
nowhere. Possibly this is because of the intervention of another race and an
experiment to run Egypt to a plan of ancient wisdom that is guided by the
‘Inner Masters’ according to mystic tradition.
At unification, Narmer
moves his capital from This in the south to the new city of White Wall
(Memphis) in the north and commemorates the event of unification on the ‘Narmer
Palette’ which is located at Nekhen (GK. Hieraconpolis) city of the falcon god
Horus. (49) The depiction of a possible marriage ceremony between Narmer and a
northern princess, indicates consolidation of the Red and White Lands, (49) and
is perhaps symbolic of an alchemical marriage.
One wonders if the story of the red and white,
of the uniting of two lands of Egypt, is the story of the dual mother goddess –
the Vulture and the Cobra - of the two states becoming the one male god Horus
of the united Egypt. Was the Narmer Palette the for-runner of the ‘Sam Tau’?
Around the time of the Union of Egypt,
migration from the Western Delta to Libya took place (33) and then from Libya
to Crete. Is this the path of the spider or mother goddess, making her way out
of Egypt to eventually become Arachne/Ariadne in Crete and Greece? The
classical Labyrinth can be symbolised in the spider’s web, both of which are a
symbolic reference to the hidden side of life.
Theseus, Ariadne and the Labyrinth. 15th Century
Giraudon
As reigning king, Menes was regarded as the living embodiment of the
falcon-god Horus or Ra-Harakhty. As ruler of the united kingdom of Egypt the
reigning king from now on will wear the two crowns of the two kingdoms; it is
known as the double crown. Edjo and Nekhbet, the Cobra and Vulture goddesses of
the north and south, become the dual protectors of the whole of Egypt. (see
5000 BCE) Nekhbet is the vulture goddess of births; Edjo as protector against
enemies or perhaps disintigration. They may be the goddesses of destiny and
fate but are gradually supplanted by falcon sun god Horus.
King
Menes began the first human dynasty of ancient Egypt. The Sanskrit root ‘man’
means ‘to think, a thinker’; Pythagorean ‘Monas’ means a conscious thinking
unit; ‘Manas’ is mind as the 5th principle of man. Ancestors of all
races are called Mannus, Manu, Menes, Minos, referring to a ‘thinking being’ or
man [as opposed to a god or animal] [239]
Menes
other and royal ‘Horus’ name is Narmer, which according to some means Nar
[fish] mer [chisel] [to chisel out means death of the substrate] but the name
could also mean ‘great fish’ and be a possible reference to Oannes the fish god
of Babylonia.
PTAH: is
the chief god of the new capital Memphis. He is master of destiny and creator
of the world. To the future Roman’s he will become known as Vulcan. Ptah is
always represented as a mumiform figure, but he also manifests himself as the
Apis-Bull, a fertility god, and through his association with Soker, was also
known as a funerary god. [287 p.27] Apis is Latin for Bee and thus provides a
connection with the earlier Egyptian symbolism before the time of unification.
The association of the bull and the bee becomes clearer from a study of Mithraic
symbology. In Mithraism the vital principle is symbolised by the bull/oxen from
which the bee or soul springs. [322 p.32]
HOR-AHA
AND WIFE NEITHETEP: a 1st Dynasty King
and Queen of Egypt based at Nubt, the abode of Seth. At this time there is in
existence a temple to Neith of Sais, she is the great Mother Goddess. (49)
DJT OF
ABYDOS is the 3rd monarch of First Dynasty known as the ‘Serpent
King’. His stele is the oldest known example of the use of a frame, recess or doorway
as the foundation of the royal ‘Horus-name’. At his time the cult of Hathor is
known Egypt and in Lebanon. (67)
In the early period, the pharaohs are called
the ‘Horus Kings’ as the representatives of the falcon god and are under the
protection of Horus the Elder. By the 2nd Dynasty the kings have become
‘sons of Re’, another form of the sun god. Close to White Wall was the chief
religions city of Iwaw [Hebrew On, Greek Heliopolis] where the earlier sun god
Re is supplanted by the god Atum. (49)
According to Jane Sellers, from the First
Dynasty to the Persian conquest of Egypt in the Twenty-Seventh Dynasty, there
will be a predicted eleven total eclipses over Egyptian centres of power. (240
p.57) Such phenomena is put forward as being represented and recorded in the
mythology of the battle of the Egyptian gods. As the cosmic influences change
through the motion of precession there is a change of orientation between earth
and stars, and stars replace stars in their heavenly location relative to earth.
c3200 BCE The site of Jericho is established. It will
become a succession of walled towns from now until c1580 BCE when it will then
be destroyed by Egyptian invasions.
3114 Beginning of a Mayan Great Cycle
of 5,130 years, to end in December 2012 CE.
(165)
