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Mostafa Elshamy © 2015 All Rights Reserved Ancient Egypt: The Primal Age of Divine Revelation Volume I: Genesis Revised Edition A Research by: Mostafa Elshamy © 2015 All Rights Reserved Library of Congress United States Copyright Office Registration Number TXu 1-932-870 Author: Mostafa Elshamy Copyright Claimant and Certification: Mostafa Elshamy This volume, coinciding with momentous happenings in Egypt, is dedicated to: Al-Sisi: Horus of Truth and Lord of the Two Lands and The Egyptians who are writing an unprecedented chapter in the modern history of humanity Table of Contents Introduction ………………………………………………………………………. i-ii Chapter I Our Knowledge of the Ancient Egyptian Thoughts of the Spiritual Constituents of Man ……………………………………… 1 Chapter II The Doctrine of the Spirit …………………………………………. 16 - Texts embracing the Breath of Life ………………………………. 16 - Texts comprising Breathing Nostrils ……………………………… 18 - Texts substantiating Lifetime ……………………………………… 19 - The Breath of life: as a Metaphor ……………………………….. 20 - A Long-term Perplexity …………………………………………… 25 - The Tripartite Nature of Human ………………………………….. 27 - The Genuine Book of Genesis of Man …………………………..... 28 - Neith: the Holy Spirit ……………………………………………… 29 - Seshat and the Shen ……………………………………………….. 37 - The Egyptian Conception of "Sahu" ……………………………… 43 - Isolating the hieroglyph of Spirit ………………………………..... 49 Chapter III The Doctrine of the Soul ……………………………………………. 50 - The Louvre Palette ………………………………………………… 54 - The Oxford Palette ………………………………………………… 57 - The Hunters Palette ………………………………………………... 58 - The Battlefield Palette …………………………………………….. 60 - The Decorated Ostrich Egg ……………………………………….. 63 - Deciphering the Circle …………………………………………….. 65 - The Circle and the "Whole Heart" ………………………………… 68 Chapter IV The Sacred Drama of the Soul ……………………………………... 71 1. The Episode of Childhood …………………………………………. 71 2. The Episode of Maturity …………………………………………... 71 3.0 The Episode of Afterlife ………………………………………..... 74 3.1 The Egyptian Invocations of Loosening Evil Deeds …………….. 81 3.2 The Egyptian Invocations Against the Hostile Party of the Soul… 83 3.3 The Egyptian Invocations of the Nourishment of the Ka-soul …... 85 3.4 The Egyptian Invocations of "Soul to Heaven, Body to Earth" …. 91 4. The Akh: Aspiration for Divine Enlightenment …………………... 95 Chapter V The Primogenial Soul-Tet …………………………………………. 98 - The Djed and Tet ………………………………………………..... 98 - The Decoding Key-set of Djed and Tet …………………………… 103 - The Nature of Primogenial Soul ……………………………… 108 Chapter VI Narmer's Reconciliation Ritual ………………………………….... 112 - Narmer Palette in Scholars' Writings ……………………………… 112 - Deciphering the Palette ……………………………………………. 117 - The Reconciliation rites …………………………………………… 117 - The Obverse ………………………………………………………. 117 Icon 1: The Identity of Sandal-Bearer ……………………………. 118 Sandals in Christianity ………………………………………….... 131 Icon 2: The Falcon's Sentence of Death ………………………….. 133 Icon 3: The Fleeing Enemies ……………………………………… 134 - The Reverse ……………………………………………………….. 135 Icon 4: The Two Intertwined Monsters ………………………….. 135 Icon 5: The Mighty Bull …………………………………………. 135 Icon 6: Decapitation of Enemies of Re ………………………….. 137 Chapter VII The hypothesis of the "Two Land" ……………………………….. 141 Chapter VIII The "Two-Land Soul" of Man ……………………………………. 148 - The Divine Enlightenment ………………………………………… 148 - The Mind of the Soul ……………………………………………… 153 - The Divine Discerning of the Soul ………………………………... 156 - Reconciliation and Pacification of the Soul ……………………..... 158 Chapter IX The "Two-Land Soul" of Egypt …………………………………… 160 1.0 Sed-Festival in Scholars' Writings …………………………….. 160 2.0 The essentiality of Heb-Sed …………………………………… 167 2.1 Episode I: The Reconciliation Ritual ………………………… 167 2.2 Episode II: The Consecration of Lordship ………………… 168 2.3 The Drama of Horus and Seth in Scholars' Writings ………… 168 2.4 The Genesis of the Egyptian Civilization…………………… 173 2.5 Tawy in "Horus Name" ……………………………………… 174 2.6 The Spiritual Throne of Horus ……………………………… 177 2.7 Assuming the Throne of Two Lands by Divine Decree …… 179 2.8 Answering the Three Questions ……………………………… 180 Chapter X Dethronement and Invalidation ……………………………………. 181 1.0 Historicity of King Narmer ……………………………………… 181 1.1 The Cylinder of Narmer ………………………………………..... 185 1.2 Revisiting Narmer's Reconciliation Ritual ……………………..... 186 1.3 Narmer Macehead: the Vivid Consecration of Lordship ………... 186 2.0 Historicity of King Scorpion ……………………………………... 193 2.1 Scorpion Macehead in Scholars' Writings ……………………….. 193 2.2 Investigating Scorpion Macehead ………………………………... 197 2.3 Reconstruction of Scorpion Macehead …………………………... 198 2.4 The Scorpion Motif ………………………………………………. 199 3. The Incorporeal Crowns of Lordship ……………………………… 200 4. Dethronement of Narmer and Scorpion …………………………… 206 5. Invalidation of Unification ………………………………………… 206 Introduction This volume is the first critical and prolific research in the ancient Egyptian religion. It is the outcome of a solitary and independent endeavor, self-supported for 14 years and continuing. The references that have been available for this research are well known for academia and are much less than what is accessible for professionals, yet they have been more than enough for the research. The notion of "mysteries", which is synonymous with the ancient Egyptian religion, has generated a vast realm of immorality. From the publications of the majority of Egyptologists who addressed the Egyptian religion, I witnessed prejudice, partiality, egoism, superiority, ignorance, misrepresentation, and falseness succeeded by philosophization of falseness. This research validates the quote “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” of Napoleon Bonaparte. Since deciphering the hieroglyphs by Champolion in 1822, the scholars of Egyptology, who addressed the religion of ancient Egypt, have taken us to a clandestine sphere that is displeasing and tramontane to our contemporary traditions. For the last two centuries, the ancient Egyptian religion has been presented to us, either brazened or curtained, as a myth, superstition, and hallucinations of primitive people who entertained the deficiency of rationality. The study of the Egyptian religion has been dominated by a Western-centric view that influenced the establishment of what I term "Temple Egyptology". The discipline of the Egyptian religion has been established, by the monks of Temple Egyptology, as a recreational field. Whoever Egyptologist is welcome to address the topic conditioning his abiding by what is termed mainstream discipline. None of the Egyptologists has been against the discipline considering that all have been the students and graduates of the same school. The absurd and fallacious ideas concerning the faith of the ancient Egyptians are reflected in all disciplines of humanities. In this research and for the first time in history, the chapters that have been decisively and violently torn out from the history of ancient Egypt by Christian Rome are revived. The fact that Egypt has been colonized by the Greeks and Romans for millennia should not escape our intellect. Kings and Emperors of the colonizing party have venerated the Egyptian religious traditions and have been initiated in its mysteries. The enumerated iconography on the walls of temples and on sarcophaguses, in addition to literature, is a vivid witness of the colonizers' laudable knowledge of the Egyptian traditions. Scenes of Greek and Roman Kings and Emperors posing for the "Smiting Motif" and for crowning by the White Crown and Red Crown or the combined one, and earning the title "Lord of Two Lands", authenticate the historical intimacy of the colonizers with the Egyptian traditions. By revealing the essence of the Egyptian mysteries, we will understand why the chapters in question should have been torn out in favor of the enforcement of the new religion of Rome. The existence of these chapters has never been psyched out by scholars or even dreamt of the plausibility of its subsistence. Unfortunately for Christian Rome, what they believed had been rooted up turned to be only the facsimiles. The originals have been there, subterranean hidden. Without getting into a protracted and grievous history, thousands of monuments and papyri have been excavated and moved to museums worldwide, where they are treasured and preserved by utmost care. Among these monuments, there are many artefacts that are, unknowingly, considered master pieces of the Egyptian Faith. The physical property of the Egyptian collections certainly remains of the museums nevertheless; the intellectual property of the rediscovering and the reinterpretation shall remain Egyptian. Counter to the mainstream methodology of Egyptology, this research has been set out from the very beginnings; the speechless Predynastic Egypt. Predynastic Egypt, the enlightenment of Dynastic Egypt, is a prodigious surprise for humanity. The slate palettes are books of revelation inscribed on stone. The generic context is the essence of the Soul and each palette represents a diacritical chapter. Dynastic writings are ineffectual in contemplating the context of the palettes and by contrast, it is in vain to truthfully interpret the dynastic writings secluded from the pictorial narrations of Predynastic artefacts. The genuine interpretation of the iconography and the intelligible reading of the Egyptian literature reveal the never known "Egyptian Book of Genesis of Man." Moreover, we will encounter the doctrine of the "Tripartite nature of man; Body, Spirit, and Soul"; the long problematic and much debated issue of all ages. This
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