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As a Comparative Mythologist, I´m of course aware of the Egyptian creation story too.
When the "primordial waters" came together from chaos, it created the "first fiery entity" which created everything else. And as this prime Atum-Ra entity otherwhere in the Egyptian cultural period was cosmologically closely connected to the Egyptian Goddess Hathor who resemble the Milky Way on the southern hemisphere, you have a DIRECT connection to the Milky Way Mythology too.
Again, the vast amounts of references describe this as water. Even if fire came from it.
Agreed. But WHAT it this fire? Egyptological scholars and others have this primordial fire to represent the Sun but this doesn´t compute with the Hathor (or similar) Egyptian goddesses, which depicts the southern hemisphere contours of our Milky Way as illustrated here -
The great Mother Goddess
This primordial water & fire describe the ancient known part of the Universe, our Milky Way galaxy and its´pre-creation and factual creation. You still can take the outlook of the galactic arms and symbolize these as "galactic rivers of water".
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How would a primordial Nun ONLY be cited for making the geographic river Nile amongst everything else this deity created from the primordial waters? Where are the logics in this?
Uh, because Nun is water?
I just noted this because we´re dealing with the primordial conditions of creation from "water" and in this sense it is illogical to interpret Nun as a terrestrial geographic river.
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IMO. the very Milky Way was in fact created in the initial beginning of the Genesis telling.
well no it doesn't because you gave their word for milky way and it's not there.
Quote the verse where they use the word in Genesis.
You can blame the authors of Genesis for not noticing this, but in fact, the Hebrew mythology had the "Fire-Stream" definition for the Milky Way which fits nicely to the Biblical Genesis notion of "let there be Light".
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This gives itself when working with Comparative Mythology and the cultural Stories of Creation - for instants as told in the Egyptian connection Nun>Atum-Ra>Milky Way goddess Hathor connection above.
Yeah I'm reading it right now and like you point out right here the milky way comes from the primal waters? This myth as well as Genesis simply doesn't start with the milky way or fire. Why is this a problem for you?
Its not a problem for me: The Milky Way is created from the primordial waters (in modern science: cosmic clouds of dust and gases) and when this comes together in a swirling central motion, the central light (Atum-Ra) creates all firm matters in the Milky Way, hence the familiarity of (Atum)-Ra and goddess Hathor who represent the Milky Way contours on the southern hemisphere where the central galactic light is located.
If you do comparative mythology then you have to compare myths. Not re-write them to fit an idea.
I´m not rewriting anything. I´m simply COMPARING, INTERPRETING & EXPLAINING the ancient myths in both mythical and modern astronomical and cosmological terms - and THIS is the only new thing I do. (In fact this isn´t even new as this was already noticed by our ancestors in ancient times. I´m just re-discovering the ancient knowledge).
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Do you really accept a concrete "Genesis Flood" to once have covered the entire Earth and its highest mountains? REALLY?
Yes they REALLY thought that a flood happened and every other culture who borrowed the myth really thought a flood happened because their one true God flooded the Earth.
No, the historic interpreters thought this, but our prehistoric ancestors had the Milky Way symbolized to look like a celestial river running OVER and AROUND the Earth and not ON the Earth. You still can observe this celestial river in the darker seasons as a white band around the Earth. (And of course, a possible creator wouldn´t be that stupid to destroy his immense works!. This is simply a priestal "revenge invention" in order to govern the pub).
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The cultural Egyptian goddesses of Nut and Hathor both resembles the Milky Way as the mythical symbol of the Heavenly Cow, as you can read here -
Book of the Heavenly Cow - Wikipedia
Here the consensus scholars and authors are mythologically and astronomically confused to ascribe both deities to the Sun - which of course is illogical as the Sun cannot depict "a heavenly cow" but it CAN depict the image of the Milky Way contours on the southern hemisphere - and then "the Sun" should be the "central luminosity in the Milky Way.
This only shows that if ancient, historic and present scholars and authors have no clues of the astronomic and cosmologic extend in the ancient Stories of Creation, they have no other options but to take solar symbolism to count for even galactic matters, thus skewing both the ancient myths and its factual meanings.
You can read of more sacred Cow Deities here -
Cattle in religion and mythology - Wikipedia - where cows were symbolically chosen for their milky nursering quality and milky color which logically connects to the term "Milky Way".
The point is Genesis is using a common creation motif that everything comes from primal waters. Actual water. The Nu is clearly water and this is where the idea came from in Genesis which is even more clear that it's literal water. Brahma also created an egg from primal waters.
In fact we don´t disagree with each other at all. I just take the "primordial waters" to count for the modern cosmological terms of "creation from a cloud of dust and gases, i.e. "watery elements", hence the modern creation story of our Solar System - which is a small and orbiting part in the Milky Way creation.
They connect to the milky way because of their milky color??? Scholars are all wrong and your source is milky cows?
We have to understand the ancient way of describing celestial matters by building a story with natural symbols known by humans: If you observe a celestial white band running in the night Sky, you´ll look for similar white/whitish colors and symbols from your surroundings and then you can take running rivers or you can take milk from cows and use this symbolic in order to describe what you observe in the night Sky = then a cow becomes a basic mythical and archetypical symbol of the Milky Way, and you even can take the human female milky qualities to describe the same and then you have a celestial Great Mother Goddess (Hathor and others of different cultural periods) of creation as illustrated here -
The great Mother Goddess - If scholars have no clues of this natural and cosmological symbolism, they of course are all wrong per definition.
The Egyptian myth isn't about a cow being the sun?
No it is not. Its about having a cow to symbolise the southern Milky Way contours and a symbol of Light between its horns to symbolise the central Milky Way light/luminosity. Of course and logically you cannot imagine such a cow scenario to be connected to the Sun at all.
"One of several
ancient Egyptian creation myths said that a cow goddess,
Mehet-Weret, who represented the primeval waters that existed before creation, gave birth to the sun at the beginning of time. The sky was sometimes envisioned as a goddess in the form of a cow, and several goddesses, including
Hathor,
Nut, and
Neith, were equated with this celestial cow.
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Once again this mythical reference cannot be connected to the Sun at all. And once again the scholars and author of these sentences are forced to making wrong conclusions when having no clues of the ancient Milky Way connections and perceptions.
You would have to at least read the original translation but there is 100% no milky way here.
Of course there is no references to the Milky Way there as the authors had no clue of such a connection. In their mythical, astronomical and cosmological ignorances, they just speaks (very inconsistently) of the Sun and that´s all.
A myth with primal waters and an explanation for the sun which is what you would expect.
NOT when connecting factual notions to the galactic representation of Hathor and other goddesses/cows.
Once again: You cannot speak of the Sun as neither a cow nor a female figure. This is scholarly mythical, astronomical and cosmological and disconnected confusions which tend to be superstitious claims when analyzing their interpretations in the deep..
As said several times now: It isn´t the Sun which is the prime entity to be formed from the primordial waters in the cultural creation stories. It is the CENTRAL LIGHT (Atum-Ra) in our Milky Way galaxy from where even our Solar (Ra) System is created.