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Amos 4:1-13
1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress
the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that
he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at
that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace,
saith the Lord.
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your
sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
with leaven,
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
and proclaim and
publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Note: Leaven was always forbidden in Worship, this is
unthinkable. Leaven corrupts.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all
your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the
harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city:
one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not
satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards
and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet
have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men
have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink
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of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
Lord.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye
were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
the Lord.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee,
prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,
and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the
morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
Note: Amos 4:3:
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at
that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace,
saith the Lord.
"And ye shall go out at the breaches, . . ." Not at the gates of the city,
as they had used to do at their pleasure; but at the breaches of the
walls, made by the enemy, in order to make their escape, if possible;
they who had broke down the fences of Law and justice, and injured
the poor and needy, shall now have the walls of their city broken
down and they themselves exposed to the most imminent danger,
and glad to get out of them to save their lives, so that: every [cow] at
that [which is] before her; meaning every woman, or every great
person was also derogatorily called a cow, shall make up as fast as
she/he can to the breach before them, to get out; shall follow one
another as quick as they can, and clamber on one another's backs, as
such cattle do, to get out first, literally a stampede.
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Amos 9:10-12
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not
overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen,
and close
up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will
build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called
by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.
Isaiah 58:1-14
58 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances
of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted
our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall
not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow
down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call
this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the
heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to
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thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth
speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy
reward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say,
Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of
the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then
shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and
make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of
water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and
thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of
paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;
and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him,
not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own
words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high
places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
the Lord hath spoken it.
Lamentations 2:13
13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter
of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of
Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
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Ezekiel 26:10
10By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall
shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he
shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is
made a breach.
Psalm 127:1
1Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except
the
LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Ezekiel 3:17
17Son of man, I
have made thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me.
Ezekiel 33:3-7
1 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the
sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts,
and set
him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn
the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the
sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon
him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
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6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the
people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them,
he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's
hand.
7So thou, O son of man, I
have set thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and
warn them from me.
Statues of Apis can be seen with the sun disc and a Cobra snake between
its horns. Can there be a connection between the Apis bull calf and Israel’s golden calf?
Me thinks so. Please read on.
Temple of Apis . . .
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/29660/Apis
Apis, (Greek); Egyptian Hap, Hep, or Hapi, in ancient Egyptian religion, sacred bull deity worshipped
at Memphis. The cult of Apis originated at least as early as the 1st dynasty (c. 2925–c. 2775 bce). Like
other bull deities, Apis was probably at first a fertility god concerned with the propagation of grain and
herds, but he became associated with Ptah, the paramount deity of the Memphite area, and also with
Osiris (as User-Hapi) and Sokaris, gods of the dead and of the underworld. As Apis-Atum he was
associated with the solar cult and was often represented with the sun-disk between his horns.
Much of what is known about Apis comes from Greco-Roman writers. He was black and white and
distinguished by special markings. Some ancient writers said that he was begotten by a ray of light
from heaven, and others claimed that he was sired by an Apis bull. When a sacred bull died, the calf
that was to be his successor was sought and installed in the Apieion at Memphis. His priests drew
omens from his behaviour, and his oracle had a wide reputation. When an Apis bull died, it was buried
with great pomp at Ṣaqqārah, in underground galleries known in the classical world as the Serapeum. It
was probably in Memphis that the worship of Serapis (after the Greek form Osorapis, a combination of
Osiris and Apis in the image of an eastern Greek god) arose under Ptolemy I Soter (305–282 bce).
From Alexandria it spread to become one of the most widespread Eastern cults in the Roman Empire.
Apis: the divine bull of the Egyptian capital Memphis, a manifestation of the god
Ptah.
http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apis/apis.html
Already in the most ancient times, the Egyptians venerated bulls, animals that represented fertility.
('Strong bull' was a common title for creator gods and kings.) Examples are the white
Mnevis bull and the Bouchis of Hermonthis, which was also white but had a black head. The Apis is
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described by the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus:
The Apis is the calf of a cow which is never afterwards able to have another. The Egyptian belief is that
a flash of light descends upon the cow from heaven, and this causes her to conceive Apis. The Apis-calf
has distinctive marks: it is black, with a white square on its forehead, the image of an eagle on its back,
the hair on its tail double, and a scarab under its tongue.
[Herodotus, Histories 3.28;
tr. Aubrey de Sélincourt]
The animal was venerated in Memphis, where a special shrine was built. It sometimes served as an
oracle.
[Pharaoh] Psammetichus built the southern gateway of the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and opposite it a
court for Apis [...]. Apis is kept in this court whenever he appears; it has a colonnade round it, with
statues six meters high instead of pillars, and is richly carved with figures.
[Herodotus, Histories 2.153;
tr. Aubrey de Sélincourt]
The Apis was considered to be a manifestation of the Memphite creation god Ptah; it was the 'soul (Ba)
Ptah' and 'herald (whm) of Ptah'. The bull was therefore a kind of servant, who was himself divine.
Sometimes, it was shown to the populace; during this procession, its walk was considered to be the
blessing of the country.
When the Apis died, it was buried in a necropolis at Saqqara, which was first used by Nebmaatra
Amenhotep III (1391-1353). The died bull had become identical to the god of the Underworld, Osiris.
Therefore, he was known as Osiris-Apis. During the reign of the Ptolemaic kings (323-30 BCE), the
god Osirapis or Serapis became the most important god of Egypt.
The Apis is usually depicted as a black bull with, between his horns, a sun disk and an uraeus snake. An
example can be found on the tomb of the Apis that died in September 524, which shows the Cambyses,
the Persian king who had conquered Egypt but behaved like a normal pharaoh, venerating the bull.
The Greeks identified the Apis with their demi-god Epaphus, a son of their supreme god Zeus and his
lover Io, who had been transformed into a cow. The cult for Apis still existed in Roman times; the
sacred animal was even protected by an official bodyguard, a lictor. However, the worship disappeared
when Egypt was christianized, atlhough a very brief revival during the reign of the emperor Julianus
Apostata (361-363) is likely.
APIS, a sacred bull worshipped at Memphis from the earliest period, having probably been introduced
into the religious system as early as the 2nd dynasty by the king Kaiechos, who instituted the worship
of Apis and the bull Mnevis.
His name in hieroglyphs was Hapi, and meant "the hidden," as he had to be discovered amidst the
cattle, which was done by certain diacritical marks. According to the hieroglyphic inscriptions which
accompany his form, he was the second birth or living incarnation of the god Ptah, the Egyptian
Hephaestos or Vulcan. Apis is first mentioned and appears in the monuments of the 4th dynasty. The
two bulls Apis and Mnevis are considered to have respectively represented the moon and sun, and seem
both to have been buried at Memphis.
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He was supposed to have been born of a virgin cow, rendered pregnant by a moonbeam or a
flash of lightning. The mother of Apis, according to Strabo, had a part of the temple of the Apis
reserved for her use; and the hieroglyphic inscriptions record a prophet or priest assigned to her service.
On the monuments she shares the honours of the bull, and is represented under the attributes of Athor
as a goddess with a cow’s head. This cow had her especial name, these animals having each a separate
appellation. According to the Greek writers Apis was the image of Osiris, and worshipped because
Osiris was supposed to have passed into a bull, and to have been soon after manifested by a succession
of these animals. The hieroglyphic inscriptions identify the Apis with Osiris, adorned with horns or the
head of a bull, and unite the two names as Hapi-Osor, or Apis Osiris. According to this view the Apis
was the incarnation of Osiris manifested in the shape of a bull. But besides this title, the monuments
style Apis the son of Ptah, who was supposed to be his father by the sacred cow, or the second life of
Ptah. Other monuments, indeed, declare him to have had no father, and to have been Onnophris or
Osiris, but this conflict of ideas must have arisen from his material and spiritual nature, uniting the soul
of Osiris or Ptah mystically with the sacred animal. Besides the mother of the Apis, a cow was annually
exhibited to him decorated with the same insignia -- that is, a disk between the horns and a housing on
the back, to judge from the insignia found on the bronze figures of the Apis -- and then slaughtered the
same day, for no issue of the divine animal was permitted to exist.
According to other authorities several cows were kept in the Apeum on the announcement of the birth
of an Apis, the sacred scribes and priests proceeded to verify the characters of the calf. The marks of
the Apis were a black coloured hide, with a white triangular spot on the forehead, the hair arranged in
the shape of an eagle on the back, and a knot under the tongue in shape of a scarabaeus, the sacred
insect and emblem of Ptah, a white spot resembling a lunar crescent at his right side. These marks have
been supposed to be for the most part certain arrangements of the hairs of the hide as seen in some
animals. A house was built to the calf Apis facing the east, in which for four months he was nourished
with milk. When he had grown up he was conducted, at the time of the new moon, to a ship by the
sacred scribes and prophets, and conducted to the Apeum at Memphis, where there were courts, places
for him to walk in, and a drinking fountain. According to Diodorus, he was first led to Nilopolis, and
kept there 40 days, then shipped in a boat with a gilded cabin to Memphis, and he was there allowed to
be seen for 40 days only by women, who exposed themselves to him. Like all the sacred animals his
actions were oracular, and he had two chambers, his passage into one of which was deemed fortunate,
and into the other unlucky. Thus the licking the garments of a visitor was supposed to prognosticate a
tranquil but short life, and his refusal of the food offered to him by the hand of Germanicus, the
approaching death of that hero. The actions of the children who played around his shrine or
accompanied his processions were also considered oracular. The day of his birth was kept as an annual
festival.
His life was not allowed to exceed 25 years, and should it have attained that maximum reckoned from
the date of his enthronisation, the Apis was killed and thrown into a well, in which the priests asserted
he had precipitated himself. This well was known to no one, and no one was allowed to reveal the place
of burial. If the Apis died before the 25 years he received a splendid burial at Memphis in the
Serapeum, for after death he was called the osor-hapi, or Serapis. This funeral was expensive; his body
was placed in a barge, and accompanied by a procession of a Bacchanalian character, passing through
the brazen doors of Memphis. As universal joy prevailed at his discovery, so his death threw all Egypt
into a general mourning, and every one shaved off his beard. This mourning continued till the
discovery of another Apis.
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His birthday was celebrated by an annual feast, the natales Apidis, of seven days’ duration, during
which it was supposed the crocodiles were innocuous, and a silver cup was thrown on the occasion into
a certain part of the Nile, which was considered a flux of Apis. This festival coincided with the rise of
the Nile.
Divine Cults of the Sacred Bulls, and Serapis
by Anita Stratos
...
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/bull.htm
When Egypt fell under the rule of the Ptolemies, a new god was created by Ptolemy I in an effort
to unify Greeks and Egyptians by establishing a deity that would be familiar to both cultures.
The new god was named Serapis, which combined components of the Greek gods Zeus, Asklepios,
and Dionysys as well as the Egyptian deity Osiris and the sacred Apis bull cult. Although the god had a
Greek appearance, it also had some of the features of an Apis bull as well as an Egyptian name. Serapis
was declared a god of fertility and the underworld, but even though Egyptians tolerated this new deity,
they never truly accepted it. On the other hand, because Greek leadership supported the new Serapis
cult, many Greeks did accept and follow it, but the artificially created cult never achieved its goal of
religious unity between Greeks and Egyptians.
The Serapeum of Saqqara . . .
by Jimmy Dunn
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/serapeum.htm
Serapeum is a name usually applied to building that were associated with the cult of the Apis bulls, or
the later composite god, Serapis. We actually know of two Serapeums, one located at Saqqara and the
other in Alexandria. The one at Saqqara was more closely related to the Apris bulls, while the
Alexandria Serapeum served as a cult center of Serapis. In reality, these two complexes served very
different purposes, the Serapeum in Alexandria being more Greek in origin, while the one at Saqqara
was built at least as early as the 18th dynasty. In this article we will focus on the earlier structure at
Saqqara.
Did you ever wonder why the Israelites built a golden calf? Why not a golden fish, or
lamb, or that of a lion? Or some other symbol? Why a golden calf? The answer lies
in the religion of the Egyptians. In the Zodiac. Their calendar year
revolved around the observance of the constellations and their order. The Egyptian
Zodiac began with Virgo and ended with Leo as can be seen in
their Sphinx, which has a head of a woman and body of a lion.
The Sphinx faces the rising sun, and is, therefore, a time marker.
The fact that it faced East, fixed each month as a time when the
sun would rise in a different constellation. Egypt’s year began in
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what we in the Western world call September, when the sun
would rise in Virgo. The end of the year came in August, when
the sun rose in Leo. Each month would see the sun rising in one
of the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
The Egyptian pantheon of gods included 44 male gods and 32 female goddesses. They
were generally connected to the 48 symbols in their Zodiac. They also worshiped "gods"
who lived in either the Nile River, the Great Sea that lay to their north, and also the
regions of hell beneath the earth. The Egyptians had turned every Zodiac symbol into a
god. Instead of worshiping the True God of Creation, Jehovah, Lord of Sabaoth,
they worshiped the dark forces of hell. Their religion was the very epitome of what the
Holy Bible calls idolatry. It is no wonder then, that God’s first two commandments were
declarations against making or worshiping images like those “in heaven above, or that is
in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
Exodus 20:2-4
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth.
Psalm 74:12
12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
earth.
Note: Who is the King of old, this God, that is working salvation
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...
Isaiah 12:2
2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH
is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Acts 4:12
12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
The Exodus of the children of Israel . . .
The story begins with Moses and the children of Israel eating the Passover meal on
Saturday night and leaving the land of Egypt on Sunday morning, April 11, 1491 B.C..
Moses appeared to the Israelites as a savior figure, a mediator between man and God,
and they followed the Cloud that had a fiery glow about it. They left Egypt with their
husbands and wives, many of who were Egyptian.
Exodus 12:37-39
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and
herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth
out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt,
and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Having come out in "mixed company," having married Egyptians who taught them their
false religions, for all they knew, the Egyptian sun god, Ra, might be in that glowing
cloud. Horus, son of Isis, was the Egyptian counterpart to Moses and was considered
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the "Egyptian savior god". The journey took about six weeks, but ended up lasting 40
years. At sunrise on the 22nd day of their journey (May 3) the sun moved to a position
between the horns of Taurus the Bull. As we shall see, this was a very important
occasion in the religion of the Egyptians and, perhaps, for the Israelites who had adopted
the pagan practices of Egypt. After all, they had lived in Egypt for over
four hundred years, and were well acquainted with the Egyptian religion. In late
May, the Israelites set up camp at the foot of Mount Sinai. God called unto Moses out of
a thick cloud and instructed him to have the people sanctify themselves, wash their
clothes and be ready to meet with God on the third day.
Exodus 12:40-41
40Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was
four
hundred and thirty years.
41And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out
from the land of Egypt.
The Lord God spoke directly from the Mountain of Sinai to the
people:
On Sunday, May 31, 1491 B.C., (Exodus 19), God came down upon Mount Sinai in a
huge display of Glory and verbally delivered the Ten Commandments to the people
(Exodus 20). Afterward, Moses was called up into the mountain, where he remained for
forty days. During that time, the people brought their gold to Aaron and demanded that
he make a golden calf. This was a direct violation of the first two Commandments.
Exodus 20:3-4
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
So, why did they want to make a golden calf? The answer can be found in the
stories of four central characters in the Egyptian pantheon — Draco, Taurus, Virgo
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and her newborn son. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pantheon
This also could have been considered a timed "prophecy" by which the Egyptians
expected the arrival of their "savior/deity" when Moses met with God to receive the
Law. They may have expected him to come when the sun was between the horns of the
bull, Apis.
Why build a golden calf? Moses had been raised in the palace of the Pharaoh, and
could have been the heir apparent of the Egyptian King, had he not killed an Egyptian
and fled into the land of Midian some forty years before. Could it be that these
Jew/Egyptians thought Moses to be the next Pharaoh, symbolized by the symbol of
Apis, and build this in his honor? After all, Apis represented the Egyptian
king/Pharaoh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_(god)
List of deities of Ancient Egypt:
Hathor-Menkaure-Bat triad of the fourth dynasty – the deities flank the pharaoh and
provide the authority to rule – Cairo Museum
Aken – ferryman to the underworld
Aker - deification of the horizon
Am-heh - minor underworld god
Ammit – crocodile-headed devourer in Duat, not a true deity
Amun or Amen – "the hidden one", a local creator deity later married to Mut after rising
in importance
Amunet – female aspect of the primordial concept of air in the
Ogdoad cosmogony; depicted as a cobra snake or a snakeheaded woman
Andjety - god thought to be a precursor to Osiris
Anhur - god of war
Ankt - a minor war goddess
Anput - female aspect of Anubis and his wife
Anti - god of ferrymen
Anubis or Yinepu – dog or jackal god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches
over the dead
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Anuket - gazelle-headed goddess of the Nile River, the child of Satis and among the
Elephantine triad of deities
Apophis or Apep – evil serpent of the Underworld and enemy of Ra; formed from a
length of Neith's spit during her creation of the world
Apis – bull deity worshipped in the Memphis region
Ash - god of oases and the vineyards of the western Nile Delta
The Aten – sun god worshipped primarily during the period of Atenism in the eighteenth
dynasty when Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) introduced monotheistic worship
Atum – a creator deity, and the setting sun
Babi - baboon god associated with death and virility
Banebdjedet - ram god of fertility
Ba-Pef - minor underworld god
Bastet or Bast – protector of the pharaoh and solar goddess, depicted as a lioness, house
cat, cat-bodied or cat-headed woman
Bat – cow goddess who gave authority to the king; her cult originated in Hu and
persisted widely until absorbed as an aspect of Hathor after the eleventh dynasty
Bata - bull god
Bes – dwarfed demigod associated with protection of the household, particularly
childbirth, and entertainment
Chenti-cheti - crocodile god
Geb – god of the Earth, first ruler of Egypt and husband of Nut
Ha - god of the western deserts
Hapi or Hapy – deification of the annual flooding of the Nile, associated with fertility
Hathor or Hethert – cow or cow-goddess of the sky, fertility, love, beauty and music
Hatmehit - fish goddess, originally a deification of the Nile River
Hedetet - scorpion goddess, later incorporated into Isis
Heka - deification of magic
Hemen - falcon god
Heqet – frog or a frog-headed goddess of childbirth and fertility
Hemsut - goddess of fate and protection
Heryshaf - ram god
Horus or Heru – falcon-headed god of the sky, pharaohs, war
and protection
The four sons of Horus - personifications of the four canopic jars
Hu - deification of the first word
Huh - deification of eternity
Iabet - goddess of the east, consort of Min and cleanser of Ra
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Iah - god of the moon (Hmmm, I wonder if
with the Arabic, this is where they get Al-lah.
Why, yes it does. (Non-Christian Religions / Islam) Islam
Allah is the Muslim name for God; the one Supreme Being [from
from al the + Ilāh god.
Arabic,
Compare
Hebrew elōah = God, Hebrew 'Elōhim, plural (used to indicate
uniqueness) of 'Elōah God, meaning One God, the one True
God, Jehovah; Mighty God, Immanuel]).
Iat - minor goddess of milk and, by association, of nurturing and childbirth
Imentet - goddess of the necropoleis west of the Nile
Isis or Aset – goddess of magic, motherhood and fertility and
consort of Osiris; represented as the throne
Iusaaset – a primal goddess described as "the grandmother of all of the deities"
Kebechet - deification of embalming liquid
Khepri – the scarab beetle or scarab-headed god of rebirth and the sunrise
Kneph - a creator deity
Khnum – ram-headed creator god of the flooding of the Nile River
Khonsu – god of youth and the moon
Kuk –frog-headed personification of darkness, whose consort or
female form was the snake-headed Kauket
Maahes – lion-headed god of war, weather.
Ma'at – goddess who personified concept of truth, balance, justice and order
Mafdet – goddess who protected against snakes and scorpions
Mehen - protective snake god which coils around the sun god Ra
during his journey through the night
Menhit – goddess of war, associated with Sekhmet
Meret - goddess associated with rejoicing, singing and dancing
Meretseger – cobra-goddess of tomb builders and protector of royal tombs
Meskhenet – goddess of childbirth and the creator of each person's Ka, a part of their
soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth
Min – god of fertility and lettuce, often represented as a man with an erect penis
Mnevis – the sacred bull of Heliopolis
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Monthu - falcon god of war
Mut – mother goddess, associated with the waters from which everything was born
Nefertem - god of healing and beauty
Nehebkau - guardian of the entrance to the underworld
Neith – goddess of creation, weaving, war and the dead
Nekhbet – vulture goddess; patron of pharaohs and Upper Egypt
Neper - androgynous deification of grain
Nephthys or Nebthet – goddess of death, night and lamentation; the nursing mother of
Horus and the pharaohs
Nu – deification of the primordial watery abyss
Nut – goddess of the sky and heavens
Osiris or Wesir – merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife and
consort of Isis
Pakhet – a synthesis of Sekhmet and Bast
Petbe - god of revenge
Ptah – creator deity, also a god of craft
Qebui – god of the north wind
Ra – the sun, also a creator deity, whose chief cult center was
based in Heliopolis
Rem - fish god who fertilises the land with his tears
Renenutet - deification of the act of giving a true name during birth
Saa or Sia - deification of perception
Satet – goddess of war, hunting, fertility and the flooding of the Nile River
Sekhmet – lioness goddess of destruction, pestilence and war; fierce protector of the
pharaoh, and later as an aspect of Hathor
Seker or Sokar - falcon god of the Memphite necropolis
Serket – scorpion goddess of healing stings and bites
Seshat – goddess of writing, astronomy, astrology, architecture, and mathematics;
depicted as a scribe
Set or Seth – god of the desert, storms and foreigners; later god of chaos
Shai - deification of the concept of fate
Shed - savior deity
Shezmu - god of execution, slaughter, blood, oil and wine
Shu - personification of air
Sobek – crocodile god of the Nile; patron of the military
Sobkou - messenger god
Sopdet - deification of the star Sothis (Sirius)
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Sopdu - personification of the scorching heat of the sun
Ta-Bitjet - scorpion goddess identified as the consort of Horus
Tatenen - god of the primordial mound
Taweret – hippopotamus goddess of pregnant women and protector during childbirth
Tefnut – goddess of moisture, moist air, dew and rain.
Tenenet - goddess of beer
Thoth or Djehuty – ibis-headed god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom,
medicine, music, astronomy and magic
Unut - snake goddess
Wadjet – snake goddess and protector of Lower Egypt
Wadj-wer – fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean Sea or lakes of the
Nile Delta
Weneg - plant god supporting the heavens
Werethekau - personification of supernatural powers
Wepwawet – jackal god of warfare and hunting
Wosret – a localized guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus; an early
consort of Amun, later superseded by Mut
Hathor, the Cow Goddess and
Isis, Queen of Heaven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor
Hathor was worshiped by Royalty and common people alike in whose tombs she is
depicted as "Mistress of the West" welcoming the dead into the next life. In other roles
she was a goddess of music, dance, foreign lands and fertility who helped women in
childbirth, as well as the patron goddess of miners.
Hathor is commonly depicted as a cow goddess with head horns
in which is set a sun disk with Uraeus. The Uraeus; plural Uraei or
Uraeuses; from the Greek οὐραῖος, ouraīos, "on its tail"; from Egyptian jʿr.t (iaret),
"rearing cobra") is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra (asp, serpent, or
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snake), used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity, and divine authority in ancient
Egypt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraeus
The Ancient Egyptians viewed reality as multi-layered in which deities who merge
together for various reasons, whilst retaining divergent attributes and myths, were not
seen as contradictory but complementary. In a complicated relationship Hathor is at
times the mother, daughter and wife of Ra and, like Isis, is at times
described as the mother of Horus, and associated with Bast
(Baast, Ubasti and Baset). Bastet is the name commonly used by
scholars today to refer to a feline goddess of ancient Egyptian
religion who was worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet
The cult of Osiris promised eternal life to those deemed morally worthy. Originally the
justified dead, male or female, became an Osiris but by early Roman times females
became identified with Hathor and men with Osiris. The Ancient Greeks identified
Hathor with the goddess Aphrodite and the Romans as Venus.
The Egyptian cow goddess Hathor, was the mother of Apis, and the
of Isis,
animal equivalent
who took on a human form. Isis/Hathor was worshipped
as the queen of heaven and provider of the Egyptian throne, along with its authority for
the Pharaoh.
In fact, Pharaoh was considered to be the incarnation of Horus, son of Isis and Osiris.
Isis was seen in the Zodiac as Virgo, the virgin, holding her son,
Horus, in her lap, and sporting the horns of the Apis
bull with the sun disc on her head. Isis was also
depicted with a large Cobra snake (representing her husband,
"Osiris, lord of the underworld") on her forehead. Note:
Isis' son, Horus, also has a small Cobra on his forehead.
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Some of Isis's many other titles
were . . .
Queen of Heaven,
Mother of the Gods,
The One Who is All,
Lady of Green Crops,
The Brilliant One in the Sky,
Star of the Sea,
Great Lady of Magic,
Mistress of the House of Life,
She Who Knows How To Make Right Use of the Heart,
Light-Giver of Heaven,
Lady of the Words of Power,
Moon Shining Over the Sea.
Isis' son, Horus/Pharaoh, the son of Osiris, equivalent to the “seed of the
serpent.” Eye of Horus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eye_of_Horus_bw.svg
The Apis Bull and Horus . . .
In Egyptian astrology, Taurus was thought to be the Apis bull.
Taurus was the animal equivalent of Horus, son of Isis by her
"brother/husband," Osiris. As the story goes, Osiris was the "lord of the
underworld," the one who represents satan in Christian theology. The Apis
bull is
seen in many pictographs of ancient Egypt with a disc of the sun
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between his horns. A serpent (Uraeus) also sits atop the head of Apis in front of
the sun disc. This serpent is also prominent on the headdress of the Pharaoh, being the
symbol of the Pharaoh’s "parent deity".
At the Egyptian temple, Apis was used as an oracle. His movements were interpreted
"as prophecies". His breath was believed to cure disease, and his presence blessed those
around with virility. Apis was given a window in the temple through which he could be
seen, and on certain holidays was led through the streets of the city, bedecked with
jewelry and flowers.
Genesis 1:1-2; John 1:1-5; Proverbs 8:1-36; 1 Corinthians 1:20-24; Job 38, 39, 40; Job
42:1-6; Isaiah 6:1-5; Revelation 19:1-16; Ephesians 3:9-12; Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22;
John 3:35; John 4:24-26; John 5:20; John 13:3; John 16:15; Ephesians 1:1-14;
Colossians 1:12-20; Acts 17:24-31; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8; Colossians
,
2:2-3 Romans 8:38-39; 2 John 1:3; Jude 1:21; 2 Corinthians 5:17-19; Hebrews 1:1-8;
Hebrews 2:9-18; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28; Revelation 4:1-11; Revelation 15:1-8;
Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 1:8.
Isaiah 40:28-31
that the
everlasting God, the Lord, the
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Note:
Who created the earth, the ends of the earth?
Answer: The Creator God, The Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
created ALL things: John 1.
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29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and
they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and
his name shall be called
Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God,
The
everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,
and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of
hosts will perform this.
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Romans 16:27
27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus
Christ for ever. Amen.
-Paul (<:) Jesus first!
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