joelr
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http://www.native-science.net/MilkyWay.MotherGoddess.htmNative said: ↑
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.
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
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An galactic ceiling within the burial chamber of Ramesses VI appears the sun being born from Nut within the morning, traveling along her body amid the day and being gulped at night ."
I don't se any evidence of anything except this being the sun.
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".
Not really, everything came from the primal waters, including stars which would include the milky way.
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?
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.
Nun is primal waters. When they specifically take only water and say it also contains Nun this is just confirmation that they believed everything came from literal water.
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IMO. the very Milky Way was in fact created in the initial beginning of the Genesis telling.
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".
Fire stream is not in Genesis. Light was created from the primal waters.
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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.
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.
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).
It's definitely the sun.
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The skyline was amazingly imperative to the Egyptians, since it was here that the Sun showed up and vanished every day. A song to the Sun god Ra appears this reverance: ‘O Ra! In thine egg, brilliant in thy disk, sparkling forward from the skyline, swimming over the steel firmament.’ The Sun itself was spoken to by a few divine beings, depending on its position. A rising morning Sun was Horus, the divine child of Osiris and Isis. The twelve Sun was Ra since of its unimaginable quality.
The evening Sun got to be Atum, the maker god who lifted Pharoahs from their tombs to the stars. The ruddy color of the Sun at nightfall was considered to be the blood from the Sun god as he passed on. After the Sun had set, it got to be Osiris, god of passing and resurrection. In this way, night was related with passing and day with life or resurrection. This reflects the typical Egyptian Idea of Immortality.."
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Do you really accept a concrete "Genesis Flood" to once have covered the entire Earth and its highest mountains? REALLY?
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).
The Israelite myth is about a water flood. It was taken directly from the Epic of Gilamesh which is also a flood story.
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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.
I see no evidence that the scholars are wrong. as if the sun wouldn't play a main role in their myths?
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.
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.
Except they can ready the myths, it's the sun. You have a belief you want to fit into data. That isn't how the truth is found.
The cow birthed the sun. That's it?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.
Besides a preconcieved belief I see no evidence of anything else?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.
NOT when connecting factual notions to the galactic representation of Hathor and other goddesses/cows.
It doesn't need be a "factual notion??", that's the myth, a cow birthed the sun. Cows represent life which the sun gives.
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..
Everything in the heavens is anthropomorphize and you know this.
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.
You can say it 1 million times, you haven't given any evidence beyond cows have "milky" color? The sun was a major part of myths, it was the biggest thing in the sky, gave light and life. It's the most important part of old myths until Gods became more important.
There is no such thing as "intuitive" knowledge people get about the universe, there is no evidence that this is possible and you are re-interpreting myths with the intention of making this true. So it's bound to be incorrect. It's led to to believe you know more than actual scholars in the field. Making data fit beliefs is creation science.