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Egyptian Cosmology: The Animated Universe
Author: Moustafa Gadalla
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Egyptian cosmology is humanistic, coherent, comprehensive, consistent, logical, analytical, and rational. This book is informative and well written, so that the whole spectrum of readers--from the serious to the casual--will find the subjects enlightening. The book surveys the applicability of Egyptian cosmological concepts to our modern understanding of the nature of the universe, creation, science, and philosophy, such as ul lThe Egyptians expression of monotheistic mysticism. l lThe Big Bang that started the universe, as described in the Egyptian Texts. l lThe numerical codes of creation. l lThe Egyptian concept of the universal energy matrix, how the social and political structures were a reflection of the universe, and the interactions between the nine universal realms, etc. l lThe Egyptians perpetual cosmic consciousness - As Above, So Below and As Below, So Above - and its applications to man and society. l lThe Big Crunch would end the universe, and the Big Bounce would start creation all over again, as foretold in the Egyptian Texts.l ul **About the Author Moustafa Gadalla is an Egyptian-American independent Egyptologist, who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1944. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Cairo University. Gadalla is the author of eleven internationally acclaimed books about the various aspects of the Ancient Egyptian history and civilization and its influences worldwide. He is the chairman of the Tehuti Research Foundationan international, U.S.-based, non-profit organization, dedicated to Ancient Egyptian studies. From his early childhood, Gadalla pursued his Ancient Egyptian roots with passion, through continuous study and research. Since 1990, he has dedicated and concentrated all his time to researching and writing. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. Chapter 5 - The Dualistic Nature, Item #5 The Egyptian Pharaoh was always referred to as the Lord of the Two Lands. Western academia cavalierly stated that the Two Lands are Upper and Lower Egypt. There is not a single Ancient Egyptian reference to confirm their notion, or even to define such a frontier between Upper and Lower Egypt. Throughout Ancient Egyptian temples, you will find numerous symbolic representations relating to the ceremony of Uniting the Two Lands, where two neteru are shown tying the papyrus and lotus plants. Neither plant is native to any specific area in Egypt. The most common representation shows the twin neteru, Hapi (a mirror-image of each other), each as unisex with one breast. The term, Two Lands, is very familiar to the Baladi Egyptians, who refer to it in their daily life. It is their strong belief that there are Two Lands - the one we live on, and another one where our identical twins (of the opposite sex) live. The two are subject to the same experiences from date of birth to date of death. [More about this concept throughout this book, and particularly chapter 21.] You and your Siamese twin, who apparently separate at birth, will re-unite again at the moment of death. The Baladi Egyptian Enumerators describe, in their lamentations after the death of a person, how the deceased is being prepared to join hisher counterpart (of the opposite sex), AS IF it is a marriage ceremony. This is reminiscent of the many symbolic illustrations in Ancient Egypt of the tying the knot of the Two Lands. To be married is to tie the knot. As far back as the Unas (so-called Pyramid) Texts, one finds that the Pharaoh Unas (2356-2323 BCE) unitesjoins with Auset (Isis) immediately after departing the earthly realm. This is based on the premise that since every man is Ausar in his dead form, each joins hisher counterpart (Auset in the case of a man), at the moment of the earthly departure.
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Egyptian cosmology is humanistic, coherent, comprehensive, consistent, logical, analytical, and rational. This book is informative and well written, so that the whole spectrum of readers--from the serious to the casual--will find the subjects enlightening. The book surveys the applicability of Egyptian cosmological concepts to our modern understanding of the nature of the universe, creation, science, and philosophy, such as ul lThe Egyptians expression of monotheistic mysticism. l lThe Big Bang that started the universe, as described in the Egyptian Texts. l lThe numerical codes of creation. l lThe Egyptian concept of the universal energy matrix, how the social and political structures were a reflection of the universe, and the interactions between the nine universal realms, etc. l lThe Egyptians perpetual cosmic consciousness - As Above, So Below and As Below, So Above - and its applications to man and society. l lThe Big Crunch would end the universe, and the Big Bounce would start creation all over again, as foretold in the Egyptian Texts.l ul **About the Author Moustafa Gadalla is an Egyptian-American independent Egyptologist, who was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1944. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Cairo University. Gadalla is the author of eleven internationally acclaimed books about the various aspects of the Ancient Egyptian history and civilization and its influences worldwide. He is the chairman of the Tehuti Research Foundationan international, U.S.-based, non-profit organization, dedicated to Ancient Egyptian studies. From his early childhood, Gadalla pursued his Ancient Egyptian roots with passion, through continuous study and research. Since 1990, he has dedicated and concentrated all his time to researching and writing. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. Chapter 5 - The Dualistic Nature, Item #5 The Egyptian Pharaoh was always referred to as the Lord of the Two Lands. Western academia cavalierly stated that the Two Lands are Upper and Lower Egypt. There is not a single Ancient Egyptian reference to confirm their notion, or even to define such a frontier between Upper and Lower Egypt. Throughout Ancient Egyptian temples, you will find numerous symbolic representations relating to the ceremony of Uniting the Two Lands, where two neteru are shown tying the papyrus and lotus plants. Neither plant is native to any specific area in Egypt. The most common representation shows the twin neteru, Hapi (a mirror-image of each other), each as unisex with one breast. The term, Two Lands, is very familiar to the Baladi Egyptians, who refer to it in their daily life. It is their strong belief that there are Two Lands - the one we live on, and another one where our identical twins (of the opposite sex) live. The two are subject to the same experiences from date of birth to date of death. [More about this concept throughout this book, and particularly chapter 21.] You and your Siamese twin, who apparently separate at birth, will re-unite again at the moment of death. The Baladi Egyptian Enumerators describe, in their lamentations after the death of a person, how the deceased is being prepared to join hisher counterpart (of the opposite sex), AS IF it is a marriage ceremony. This is reminiscent of the many symbolic illustrations in Ancient Egypt of the tying the knot of the Two Lands. To be married is to tie the knot. As far back as the Unas (so-called Pyramid) Texts, one finds that the Pharaoh Unas (2356-2323 BCE) unitesjoins with Auset (Isis) immediately after departing the earthly realm. This is based on the premise that since every man is Ausar in his dead form, each joins hisher counterpart (Auset in the case of a man), at the moment of the earthly departure.
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