Images of the Gods in Liber Resh vel Helios
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
No opinion per se, except that it isn't Liber Resh
It's a solar adoration - but it's a misnomer to call it Resh. (Nothing against alternative solar adorations: See my Liber Shemesh in my new book Pearls of Wisdom.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
It reminded me of an anamorphic tribal oath I liked.......( I was not ever into that anamorphic scene but a friend was, so I am guilty by association, the only thing I found of value in it was this oath)
"I am darkness and light,
the shadow hunter
and king of the sun,
my claws hold the earth,
my tongue tastes the sky.
i am steadfast and strong,
compassionate and caring.
i am tiger,
and my words are pure." -
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
"No opinion per se, except that it isn't Liber Resh "
Hahaha, oh, gosh.
Of course! -
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
93!
I searched through the thread and ITC issues and could not find a direct answer to this. When "performing" Resh and giving the "sign of your grade," are you visualizing the God form in your exact body position? So, instead of seeing the God in it's characteristic stance, you would instead see it in your grade sign?
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yes.
-
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
And I always thought that when I physically stand in the Sign of Grade (with eyes closed), I should imagine the God in it's characteristic posture.
If I'm wrong then what happens with the God-form when I change my physical posture? When should I release it? -
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
@Quaestor Lucis said
"And I always thought that when I physically stand in the Sign of Grade (with eyes closed), I should imagine the God in it's characteristic posture.
If I'm wrong then what happens with the God-form when I change my physical posture? When should I release it?"When assuming a god-form, you should experience it as your body. Its position should be your physical position unless you are withdrawing from it. When you change position, it also changes position.
It's like your robe. Your robe doesn't keep its arms at its side when you raise yours, right? - But, even more so, it's your body, and you should entirely experience it as being your body, so far as possible.
-
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
I understood, thank you
God-form assumed throughout the whole ritual? And the God-form is the only thing that I need to visualize in Liber Resh, right?
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
@Quaestor Lucis said
"God-form assumed throughout the whole ritual? And the God-form is the only thing that I need to visualize in Liber Resh, right?"
No, because you're doing something entirely different when you go to the adoration.
"Need to visualize" is a complicated phrase. I prefer not to publically talk about anything that's not explicitly in the text of Liber Resh to alluded to by it, especially when there are things one can discover in the doing, or which change over time, or which are individual (three different categories <g>).
Simple answer, though, is, "Yes, that's all that Resh mentions, right?"
-
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
93!
I have problem with assumption of the Khephra god-form (Yea, man with the beetle head is really "CREEEEEEEPY", but it is not the case
) I can't understand, how speaks this god? I mean, from what hole?)Mr. Eshelman, сould you tell, how do you assume this god-form?
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
Usually as a full beetle. Beetles have mouths.
-
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
If you've seen any Grateful Dead shirts with the winged beetle, Kephra, you will notice two little "grabbers" or pincers on the mouth.
Yes, I always have to make this type of reference, or half-morons won't turn into non-morons who go through enlightening websites.
What's really cool is during mid-day, you can take the god-form of a Cow. Chao. Kaos. Anyways, cows go "mu", and of course mu is the all-encompassing word meaning nothing or silence. Stand on your back, (or front) porch, and loudly proclaim "Mu!" Do this five times over seventy-three times for good luck, and ignore anyone who approaches you.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
I have been a member since 2010, but come on very little I think that this is
A very nice understanding
@Frater Sabaechi said
"As humans evolve I think we will stop seperating ourselves from the Cosmos. We are each fractals of the whole, we are the Gods, Aliens and Demons of our past."
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
innemedium.pl/sites/default/files/imagecache/400naszerokosc/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0171.jpg
www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_barque_model_Louvre.jpg
artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-332_Hieroglyphe_Thoth_anagoria.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Sacred_Ibis_RWD.jpg
orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/african_sacred_ibis_001.jpg
ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth_as_baboo_E17496.jpg
farm9.staticflickr.com/8453/8072261542_46960966e8_o.jpg
1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-jxN-GlntA30/UWaK-y4kK6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/77sxH7CZ2RA/s1600/baboon+Rodin.jpg
www.dsphotographic.com/g2/12654-3/Baboons+-009.jpg
images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/152/435580385_3e2f9aa178.jpg?v=0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Edfu.Temple.01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Falcon_(Le_Louvre_(8225557913).jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com/240/459924227_025744a752.jpg?v=0
farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hathor_y_Seti_I.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendera_Römisches_Mammisi_21b.jpg
Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_F-E-CAMERON_EGYPT_2006_HATSHEPSUT00195.JPG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptothek_-_Hathor.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_703.jpg
farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3160/2931264377_8d89cde09e_o.jpg
mifflin.soaringweb.org/images/EGYPT/Egypt_4008_1536x1042.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hathor_Mistress_of_the_West.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_of_Hathor_.jpg
Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
inyurl.com/bmjc5e
fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atum.svg
Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
img2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/218239.jpg
www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.sacer.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarabaeus.JPG
1068.photobucket.com/user/linnaeus1758/media/917779365.jpg.html
fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.
@Quaestor Lucis said
"93!
I have problem with assumption of the Khephra god-form (Yea, man with the beetle head is really "CREEEEEEEPY", but it is not the case
) I can't understand, how speaks this god? I mean, from what hole?)Mr. Eshelman, сould you tell, how do you assume this god-form?"
The Picture is a picture.... Assumption is assumption. How you speak is irrelevant. Sometimes I think that my head is the head of the beetle and other times I try to see myself as others would see me as Khephra (the picture). Either way it does not matter as long as it comes from your mouth.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber Resh is not an ancient Egyptian ritual, though it is inspired by ancient Egypt.
My main purpose here is to post some images of what the Gods in Liber Resh look like. Most Gods have more than one form. According to Erik Hornung, the ancient Egyptians did not take these forms as literal pictures of what the Gods looked like, but rather as a hieroglyph or symbolic characterization of their nature.
Many Egyptian Gods have human bodies with animal heads. This form has its origins in a priest or shaman wearing an animal mask, in predynastic times.
One must keep in mind the conventions of two-dimensional Egyptian art. For example, Egyptian conventions in art show the face in profile, while the crown on the top of the head is sometimes shown in front view, sometimes in profile, depending on the style of the crown. When I can, I will also show a sculptural version of the God.
As a river people, one image Egyptians had was of the Sun as a boat floating across the sky. The boat, or barque, is usually shown as something fairly simple. The images I have of this sun barque are not exactly like the description in Liber Resh, as Liber Resh does not follow Egyptian mythology exactly.
Ra in the sun barque:
www.histoire-fr.com/images/ra_barque_solaire_apophis_thot.gifRa in the sun barque, with the benu bird (phoenix) Tomb at Deir el Medina:
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www.dinosoria.com/egypte/re.jpgModel boat for a tomb:
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artnc.org/sites/default/files/EGYPTIAN,%20Model%20of%20a%20Boat,%2082_12,%20view%20A_0.jpg
ihathor.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/egyptian_barque_model_louvre.jpgKhufu's Solar Boat found by the Great Pyramid:
www.phouka.com/pharaoh/egypt/photos/giza/solarBoat-01.html
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/greatpyramid5.htm
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/solar.htm
www.peccator.no/Images/By_Time_Place-Ancient/02egyptian/01/DOT_Egypt_Giza_Sun_Boat_1.jpg
(thanks to Lucero)"Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm."
The prow is the front of the boat, the helm is tiller to steer the boat at the back.
Tahuti is more commonly known as Thoth, which is what the Greeks called him. “Tahuti” is the Victorian rending of the Egyptian name for the God. Contemporary Egyptologists use “Djehuty”. Tahuti can be in the form of an Ibis, a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon. Tahuti is the God of the moon, of writing, and of knowledge.
As a man with an Ibis head, in the Papyrus of Hunefer:
www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Thoth_%28detail%29_Papyrus_of_Hunefer.jpgAs a man with an Ibis head:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thoth.jpg
ravel.webshots.com/photo/1033326393033137413gfCpniTahuti enthroned, tomb of Queen Nefertari:
www.delange.org/Nefertari/nef6.jpgTahuti as an ibis:
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ibis_of_the_God_Thoth.jpgPhotos of the sacred Ibis:
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ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/African_Sacred_Ibis_MG_6948_Pat_Ayling.jpgStatues of Tahuti as a baboon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-Thoth-Baboon-_Walters_481543.jpg
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1.bp.blogspot.com/-odGv8Wmwadw/TZkbieUIXCI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/AUJiiOL8CkE/s1600/baboon.jpgPhotos of the African Baboon:
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images.travelpod.com/users/jonclark2000/africa-05-06.1140685380.baboon.jpg
Ra-Hoor is called “Re-Horakhty” by Egyptologists today. He is a syncretic God, which means he is a combination of two Gods. It is the idea of one God “inhabiting” another. In this case, Ra, (or Re, alternative spelling) is inhabiting Horakhty “Horus-of-the-two-horizons” – referring to the rising and setting sun. Confusingly, Ra and Re-Horakhty look exactly the same most of the time. You can only tell them apart from reading the inscription. He is a man with the head of a falcon, with the red sun disk surrounded by a cobra on top of his head. In two dimensional art, the sun disk is a front view but the cobra is shown side view.
Of course, the Stele of Revealing shows Ra-Hoor:
amesa.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stele.jpgThis site has a couple of pictures of Ra and Re-Horakhty with an essay:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htmThis essay on syncretism has some nice images of Re-Horakhty:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sync.htmLady of the West and Re-Horakhty in the tomb of Queen Nefertari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgHorus as a falcon:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_Falcon1_(retouched.jpg
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-schmuela-_IMG_7082.jpgHorus as a falcon, sculpture:
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farm1.static.flickr.com/247/452745893_c6e1935443.jpg?v=0Photo of the Lanner falcon, Egypt:
www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Lanner%20Falcon.jpg
inyurl.com/ybxhat6Realistic painting of a Horus falcon by Fen Lansdowne, click on the upper left painting:
clicks.robertgenn.com/larks-owls.ph
Hathor is a mother Goddess, and also the Goddess of love, beauty, music and dance. She can also take a very fierce form, as the Eye of Re. She is frequently depicted as a woman with the sun disk on her head with two cow’s horns. She is also a cow, and less often, a woman with a cow head. She is also shown as a woman with the ears of a cow on the capital of pillars, and the handles of mirrors.
Hathor in human form:
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Hathor & Queen Nefertari: Hathor is on the left, with a sun disk and cow horns on her head, Queen Nefertari on the right with a vulture crown.
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/Nefertari/hathor.nofretari.jpegHathor heads - face of a woman with cow's ears:
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farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1773700164_488d2ffc87.jpg?v=0Hathor as the Heavenly Cow:
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Tum, more commonly known as Atum, was a man, sometimes crowned as a king, other times without the crown. He was a creator God.
Essay on Atum, with photos:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/atum.htmOsiris & Atum, Tomb of Nefertari.: Osiris is on the left, with green skin, Atum is on the right, with the double crown of a Pharaoh.
www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/03_Egyptian/1200s-BC_Tomb-of-Nefertari_Atum+Osiris_GGW-039.jpgStatue of Pharaoh Horemheb worshipping Atum:
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fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390541_493235554038496_1771113533_n.jpgAtum - modern drawing
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Khephra, also spelled Khephera, Khephri, was a scarab beetle. This beetle lays its eggs in dung, which it then rolls into a ball. So another conception the Egyptian had of the sun was of a ball of dung rolled by a great beetle across the sky. Khephra could be depicted as simply a beetle, or as a man with a beetle for a head. (I like to think of him as a man with a beetle mask.) The scarab beetle was also much used as an amulet, by the living and the dead.
Here is Khephra, as a man with a beetle head:
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www.crystalinks.com/khepri.htmlScarab Amulet from King Tutankhamen,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun_scarab1.jpgBreastplate amulet from the mummy of King Tutankhamen, Scarab in Sun Boat, with Tahuti on each side:
www.blingdomofgod.com/entryimages/scarab_pec_cover-thumb.jpgWinged Scarab amulet from the mummy of King Tut – actually hieroglyphs spelling his name:
farm1.static.flickr.com/130/420305412_96b98ad055.jpg?v=0The scarab in the sun barque:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg
www.uux.cn/attachments/2011/06/1_201106301006241UkhG.jpgStatue of the scarab at Karnak temple:
www.planetware.com/i/photo/granite-scarab-karnak-egy291.jpgPhotos of the beetle species, scarabaeus sacer:
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fw.so/uploads/posts/2012-06/1340025822_1.jpgIt's not just any beetle, it's a specific species. They are quite large, and they can fly. They come out in the summertime. They aren't as common in Egypt today as they were in ancient times.
Love is the law, love under will.