The Big Sky
On the Origin of the Christian Cross; Part III: The Ankh III.
The Book of Seshat
The earliest proto-Hermes life giving figure in Egypt is the goddess Seshat. Seshat is also the earliest Egyptian cult credited with inventing writing, architecture, harmony, mathematics, measurement, and medicine. She is also the goddess of marijuana. She is the first leopard print wearing hoochie momma. And, she's Egypt’s first historian.
I just love her.
Seshat did not use the Ankh. Seshat is older than the institutional ankh. Initially, Seshat and the Nebty girls used The Shen Ring.
Egyptians initially get their writing, number and measuring systems from trading with the Sumerian/Babylonians and the people we later call Phoenicians. One trade we are pretty certain about is that The Shen Ring comes directly from the Babylonians “Rod and Ring” symbol. And, R&R is the one institutional object, in this story so far, that happens to predate the institutional Ankh.
For the Babylonians, the Rod and Ring is the basic symbol of Kingship and Divinity from prehistoric times up until today. Every source empire and pretty much every empire since has used it. (Even the Olmec) That tradition starts in Sumeria and then moves to Babylon. From it, we eventually get the bulk symbolism that constructs the winged circle of Asher and then the Faravahar of Zoroaster. But, the interesting thing is that to the Sumerians and early Babylonians this wasn’t anything at all like a “holy seal of the sun”. No. That whole symbol set is actually a tap back from Egypt. To the Babylonians, initially, it was just a simple tape measure.
Apparently, in Ancient Times, Divine Kingship meant simply being the motherfucker who knew how to count.
Okay, perhaps that’s being a little unfair. They did think the tape measure was Holy. And, they saw it as an empirical proof of divinity.
Let’s try again:
Divine Kingship meant being the motherfucker by whose standard measurement everything else was counted. This sentiment is not much better. But, I think we can agree that it does appear slightly more badass.
Thee Globus Cruciger
It’s amazing what you can do with some string and a stick. For instance: You can make a compass, draw magical circles, cut wet stone, raise a tent, make a mono chord, herd cattle and string fish. And, of course, the mason line is nothing but a string and a stick. This really does make all the sense in the world. Besides, the actual mainstream academic consensus is that the Holy Symbol of Godhead and Kingship really is just a fancy tape measure.
(In case there’s any doubt how ancient this shit is, you should know that the root cognate of the Sumerian word for “love” means “Earth that has been measured.” As in, love is a measure of your relationship to something else. And, if there’s anyone still reading this from our previous chats, you’ll remember that the conditions making or having “love in the world” includes having the leisure time to motherfucking think.)
A speculative opinion shared by dozens of people, is that the top half of the ankh, at least at some point, represents the Rod and Ring. And, that the bottom half is symbolic of the Egyptian Royal cubit or Heka and the Ka.
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Here I am loath to give Masonry and similar cults too many props. But, you have got to admit that they play the “symbol of a symbol of an ordinary object” game quite well. They make sure this is the first thing you see. This is pretty sensible considering one of the pictographic meanings of the Letter Aleph is that of a compass or set of measuring sticks.
The Book of Seshat
The earliest proto-Hermes life giving figure in Egypt is the goddess Seshat. Seshat is also the earliest Egyptian cult credited with inventing writing, architecture, harmony, mathematics, measurement, and medicine. She is also the goddess of marijuana. She is the first leopard print wearing hoochie momma. And, she's Egypt’s first historian.
I just love her.
Seshat did not use the Ankh. Seshat is older than the institutional ankh. Initially, Seshat and the Nebty girls used The Shen Ring.
Egyptians initially get their writing, number and measuring systems from trading with the Sumerian/Babylonians and the people we later call Phoenicians. One trade we are pretty certain about is that The Shen Ring comes directly from the Babylonians “Rod and Ring” symbol. And, R&R is the one institutional object, in this story so far, that happens to predate the institutional Ankh.
For the Babylonians, the Rod and Ring is the basic symbol of Kingship and Divinity from prehistoric times up until today. Every source empire and pretty much every empire since has used it. (Even the Olmec) That tradition starts in Sumeria and then moves to Babylon. From it, we eventually get the bulk symbolism that constructs the winged circle of Asher and then the Faravahar of Zoroaster. But, the interesting thing is that to the Sumerians and early Babylonians this wasn’t anything at all like a “holy seal of the sun”. No. That whole symbol set is actually a tap back from Egypt. To the Babylonians, initially, it was just a simple tape measure.
Apparently, in Ancient Times, Divine Kingship meant simply being the motherfucker who knew how to count.
Okay, perhaps that’s being a little unfair. They did think the tape measure was Holy. And, they saw it as an empirical proof of divinity.
Let’s try again:
Divine Kingship meant being the motherfucker by whose standard measurement everything else was counted. This sentiment is not much better. But, I think we can agree that it does appear slightly more badass.
Thee Globus Cruciger
It’s amazing what you can do with some string and a stick. For instance: You can make a compass, draw magical circles, cut wet stone, raise a tent, make a mono chord, herd cattle and string fish. And, of course, the mason line is nothing but a string and a stick. This really does make all the sense in the world. Besides, the actual mainstream academic consensus is that the Holy Symbol of Godhead and Kingship really is just a fancy tape measure.
(In case there’s any doubt how ancient this shit is, you should know that the root cognate of the Sumerian word for “love” means “Earth that has been measured.” As in, love is a measure of your relationship to something else. And, if there’s anyone still reading this from our previous chats, you’ll remember that the conditions making or having “love in the world” includes having the leisure time to motherfucking think.)
A speculative opinion shared by dozens of people, is that the top half of the ankh, at least at some point, represents the Rod and Ring. And, that the bottom half is symbolic of the Egyptian Royal cubit or Heka and the Ka.
Here I am loath to give Masonry and similar cults too many props. But, you have got to admit that they play the “symbol of a symbol of an ordinary object” game quite well. They make sure this is the first thing you see. This is pretty sensible considering one of the pictographic meanings of the Letter Aleph is that of a compass or set of measuring sticks.