Egyptotheism

 

 

 

Egyptotheism: Chapter 1: The Politics of Religion

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          During the Pre-dynastic era of Ancient Egyptian History, each Tribal family lineage had a Heraldic crest or symbol in the form of an animal or aspect of Nature.  This was a Totem that represented the Tribe. The Totem was like a modern Political Faction; in USA we have Donkeys representing the Democrat Party and Elephants for Republicans.  In Ancient Egypt there was the Family or Tribe of Horus, and the Tribe of Set (Seth, or Setesh).  

          The dominance of one party over the other is preserved as a religious story.  In the Osirian Myths we have the Tribe of Horus claiming eternal victory over the Tribe of Set, by conquest or vanquishing him.  There were at least 2 historical battles in the Tribe of Set; one was during the 2^nd Dynasty and the other in the 19^th Dynasty.  

          The Tribe of Moses was of the lineage of Setesh, for he was exiled out of Egypt at about the same time Set worship abruptly stopped. The religion was justification regardless that it was fiction.  The Tribe of Setesh was first imprisoned, then liberated and exiled into the Desert, where Setesh rules.  

 

          Setesh (Set) is in Egyptian “religion” the God of the Desert, of Foreigners, Storms, War, Chaos, Earthquakes, Destruction, Darkness, and later of Evil overall.  He was venerated by King Sety the First and Ramses the Great.  After Ramses died or after the last battle with the Hittites, Set worship declined in Egypt.  The Hittite King identified Ramses as “of Set,” after a battle.  Ramses and Sety both had red hair, symbolic of Set’s attributes.  The places where “Moses met YHWH” were in the Desert and in high inaccessible mountains. People or animals with attributes of Set were “sacrificed.”  Moses was told he “was not Egyptian” that is “from the Horus Tribe,” whom was then dominant.  

          The winner of a tribal conflict in Ancient Egypt meant preserving that information in a religious story.  The story though fictional represented the outcome of the conflict.  Most of the known Kings of Egypt were from the dominant Horus faction.  Many Second Dynasty Kings had erased names due to the conflict between Horus and Set tribes.  The last King had both gods near his name plate, representing unity.  

 

 

          The later Biblical character named Jesus the Christ was from the tribe of Setesh, as based on his Western attributes of “white skin, red hair, controls Storms and Earthquakes, rode a Donkey (an animal of Set), was sacrificed, and had ritual Cannibalism as a sacrament.”  Set was a cannibal and YHWH only demanded “meat and burnt offerings in an earthen altar.”  The Communion meal of the “body and blood of Christ” represented both the Cannibalistic rites of Set and the Wadjet Eye of Sacrifice in Egypt in the Opening of the Mouth funeral ceremony.  Jesus as YHWH incarnate is shown in the Trinity.  YHWH’s first 2 Commandments of being a “Jealous God” and not wanting people to worship images represents Set, whom was jealous of Osiris, and the fact all images of Set were hacked out in Egypt following his (tribe’s) exile.  If YHWH was “only one God” then who are the “other gods” he is jealous about? This was after the Exodus out of Egypt, so it is obvious he meant them.  The same tribe became the Tribe of the Islamic Prophet (the Tribe of Ibrahim), also from the Desert, according to his Genealogy.  The Egyptian way of bowing to the ground (SENTA) became the way Muslims pray to their God, by “surrendering their will.”  Set as the God of War would want that.  

         

          The Animal totems later merged with a human form, or people with animal heads or crowns.  The Monotheism of Setesh allows a human form for God.  The collection of totems became the hieroglyphic language of Egypt, in lieu of writing with non-objective shapes.  

          If we use political factions in a modern religion, the “donkey vanquished the elephant tribe in the last election” would be the motto.  We would need a character representing the donkey and one for the elephant; both are actually elements of Setesh.  We would need an “eagle” faction to represent Horus.  

          The purpose of preservation of information in a religious context does not “prove a deity” but rather what was represented by the deity, as in the Tribal Heraldry.  The head or leader of each tribe was either Horus or Setesh, represented by the Horus Falcon or Set Animal.  In Egypt, this was Horus Narmer who united the Two Lands by combat.  Other Kings united their people by combat, such as Alexander the Great or the Hawaiian King Kamehameha.  In the Osirian Myths it was King Horus who united the Two Lands by vanquishing Setesh.  Art imitates life.