In the previous post in this series Mystery History Pt3a - The Bird Men - Garuda we looked at Garuda, a mythical Bird Man found predominantly throughout Asia. However we also saw images of Garuda finding their way as far north as Russia.
As stated in the first post, mythical Bird Men are found all over the world so today I am focusing on one from ancient Egypt who is fairly well known in popular culture nowadays, however there is always much more to the story than they teach you in school.
THE BIRD MEN.
EGYPT - HORUS.
The name Horus is a Greek translation taken from the ancient Egyptian name 'Heru' meaning 'the distant one' or 'the one on high'.
Horus for the most part is depicted as a man with the head of a falcon however is he also depicted as solely a falcon with his hieroglyph being a picture of a falcon.
As you will see in the upcoming text, the origin of Horus is fantastical and involves a certain amount of brutality as is often the case in the ancient mythologies!
From Wikipedia .........
Horus was born to the goddess Isis after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Osiris, except his penis, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a catfish, or sometimes depicted as instead by a crab, and according to Plutarch's account used her magic powers to resurrect Osiris and fashion a golden phallus to conceive her son (older Egyptian accounts have the penis of Osiris surviving).
Once Isis knew she was pregnant with Horus, she fled to the Nile Delta marshlands to hide from her brother Set, who jealously killed Osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son. There Isis bore a divine son, Horus.
Interestingly is has been said that this 'divine' birth may have been the historical seed for the 'divine' birth millenia later of Jesus Christ. This is because the iconography of Horus and his mother was used as a template for the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus by early Christians.
However stealing the iconography of an already established religion is commonplace throughout history and the early Christian Church did it a lot from many different pagan religions. Some have hypothesised the Jesus's story is completely fabricated such are the alleged similarities between Jesus/Horus birth/life stories and the man never really existed, however I find this hypothesis very flimsy and invalid.
Continuing......
Since Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the sun and moon. It became said that the sun was his right eye and the moon his left and that they traversed the sky when he, a falcon flew across it. Later, the reason that the moon was not as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as The Contendings of Horus and Seth. In this tale, it was said that Set, the patron of Upper Egypt, and Horus, the patron of Lower Egypt, had battled for Egypt brutally, with neither side victorious, until eventually the gods sided with Horus.
As Horus was the ultimate victor he became known as ḥr.w wr "Horus the Great", but more usually translated "Horus the Elder". In the struggle, Set had lost a testicle, explaining why the desert, which Set represented, is infertile. Horus' left eye had also been gouged out, then a new eye was created by part of Khonsu, the moon god, and was replaced.
As I stated earlier, brutal! Chopped off testicles, gouged out eyes, a penis fed to the catfish and a golden dildo, who said history was boring!?
The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection and royal power from deities, in this case from Horus or Ra. The symbol is seen on images of Horus' mother, Isis, and on other deities associated with her. In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "wedjat" (wɟt).
It was the eye of one of the earliest of Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bastet, Mut, and Hathor as well. Wadjet was a solar deity and this symbol began as her all-seeing eye. In early artwork, Hathor is also depicted with this eye. Funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus. The Wedjat or Eye of Horus is "the central element" of seven "gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli" bracelets found on the mummy of Shoshenq II. The Wedjat "was intended to protect the king [here] in the afterlife" and to ward off evil. Egyptian and Near Eastern sailors would frequently paint the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel.
The 'all-seeing eye' is instantly recognisable to many people nowadays as the image has been carried through history to the modern age. It is most famously depicted on the reverse of the United States $1 bill atop a pyramid!
Looking at the note you see the all seeing eye, the pyramid, the eagle (sadly not a falcon) and the inscription 'In God we Trust'.
Which God?
Horus?
To this day there are many hypothesis as to why this image was chosen to adorn the currency of the US however I wonder how many of the conspiracy theorists have looked into the story of Horus when considering the reasons?
Not many I would wager and to be fair neither did I until I started this post.
Its probably unrelated, I just found it interesting that the iconography on this modern currency was closely related to that of Horus, anyway I digress......
Horus was told by his mother, Isis, to protect the people of Egypt from Set, the god of the desert, who had killed Horus' father, Osiris. Horus had many battles with Set, not only to avenge his father, but to choose the rightful ruler of Egypt. In these battles, Horus came to be associated with Lower Egypt, and became its patron.
According to The Contendings of Horus and Seth , Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having sexual intercourse with him. However, Horus places his hand between his thighs and catches Set's semen, then subsequently throws it in the river so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by Set. Horus then deliberately spreads his own semen on some lettuce, which was Set's favorite food. After Set had eaten the lettuce, they went to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The gods first listened to Set's claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listened to Horus' claim of having dominated Set, and call his semen forth, and it answered from inside Set.
However, Set still refused to relent, and the other gods were getting tired from over eighty years of fighting and challenges. Horus and Set challenged each other to a boat race, where they each raced in a boat made of stone. Horus and Set agreed, and the race started. But Horus had an edge: his boat was made of wood painted to resemble stone, rather than true stone. Set's boat, being made of heavy stone, sank, but Horus' did not. Horus then won the race, and Set stepped down and officially gave Horus the throne of Egypt. After the New Kingdom, Set was still considered lord of the desert and its oases.
In many versions of the story, Horus and Set divide the realm between them. This division can be equated with any of several fundamental dualities that the Egyptians saw in their world. Horus may receive the fertile lands around the Nile, the core of Egyptian civilization, in which case Set takes the barren desert or the foreign lands that are associated with it; Horus may rule the earth while Set dwells in the sky; and each god may take one of the two traditional halves of the country, Upper and Lower Egypt, in which case either god may be connected with either region. Yet in the Memphite Theology, Geb, as judge, first apportions the realm between the claimants and then reverses himself, awarding sole control to Horus. In this peaceable union, Horus and Set are reconciled, and the dualities that they represent have been resolved into a united whole. Through this resolution, order is restored after the tumultuous conflict.
I don't even know where to start with the 'talking semen' part of this story and I always thought lettuce tasted funny so I won't dwell on it. But I do find it interesting how we have the Good V's Evil meme here as it ties into many other historical narratives of an epic battles of Good V's Evil such as Enlil/Enki (Sumerian Tablets), Cain/Able (Book of Genesis), Pandavas/Kauravas (Mahabharata) and
Archangel Michael/Satan (Book of Revelation) to name just a few.
Are these stories all seeded from one originator in deep antiquity?
Or possibly stories passed down by different peoples distributed around the planet but somehow witnessing the same events?
Or are they just coincidentally similar because people in different places at different times come to the same moral conclusions and each decide independently to write their stories of morality into epic battles often with futuristic weaponry?
This feels like a massive stretch to me. However it is what many scholars would have you believe!
Food for thought.
Concluding this article.....
Egyptologists have often tried to connect the conflict between the two gods with political events early in Egypt's history or prehistory. The cases in which the combatants divide the kingdom, and the frequent association of the paired Horus and Set with the union of Upper and Lower Egypt, suggest that the two deities represent some kind of division within the country. Egyptian tradition and archaeological evidence indicate that Egypt was united at the beginning of its history when an Upper Egyptian kingdom, in the south, conquered Lower Egypt in the north. The Upper Egyptian rulers called themselves "followers of Horus", and Horus became the tutelary deity of the unified nation and its kings. Yet Horus and Set cannot be easily equated with the two-halves of the country.
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Both deities had several cult centers in each region, and Horus is often associated with Lower Egypt and Set with Upper Egypt. Other events may have also affected the myth. Before even Upper Egypt had a single ruler, two of its major cities were Nekhen, in the far south, and Nagada, many miles to the north. The rulers of Nekhen, where Horus was the patron deity, are generally believed to have unified Upper Egypt, including Nagada, under their sway. Set was associated with Nagada, so it is possible that the divine conflict dimly reflects an enmity between the cities in the distant past. Much later, at the end of the Second Dynasty (c. 2890–2686 BCE), Pharaoh Seth-Peribsen used the Set animal to writing his serekh name in place of the falcon hieroglyph representing Horus. His successor Khasekhemwy used both Horus and Set in the writing of his serekh. This evidence has prompted conjecture that the Second Dynasty saw a clash between the followers of the Horus king and the worshippers of Set led by Seth-Peribsen. Khasekhemwy's use of the two animal symbols would then represent the reconciliation of the two factions, as does the resolution of the myth.
The passage of time since Horus was worshipped as a God is huge but his myth still lives on to this day, his images are aplenty in both bird/man and bird form all over Egypt as well as Sudan and Ethiopia.
As with Garuda in the the last post, those who worshipped Horus were of the belief that he was a real entity that had once existed and was divine. Who are we to deny this as myth and fantasy when we have no way to prove that is the case? I'm of the belief that something happened in the very distant past that seeded these Bird Men mythologies, something on a worldwide scale such is the widespread belief in their historical existence. In the next post we will travel across to the America's to see what Bird Men mythologies are to be found on that continent and see if there are any similarities to the stories we have seen so far.
UNTIL NEXT TIME.
I bumped into this old post again while researching these topics.
Looks like the Eyes of Horus , just like the Eye of Ra is symbology for the inner part of the Brain (Thalamus, Pineal Gland etc).
As the elites are hermetists "as within so with out" the internal spiritual Eye is also externalized as control on the material world so that's why it is probably on the Dollar Bill. As you follow @perceptualflaws I guess you know too now. I just thought I might add it while I'm here.
Man another brilliant slice of our mysterious history, although one that adds a whole new dimension to the words "wet lettuce"! :D Mind you ... actually scrap that, Id best not throw another salad themed joke into the mix!!
I think the clue to our history is in the interpretation and the encoding, it's my belief that these ancients cultures were far more advanced than science gives them credit for and as such there is much wisdom hidden in plain sight. It's how we learn to interpret and indeed cross reference these stories that's the important thing. At first glance they may appear fanciful to some but it's what's hidden behind the story that's the important thing ;)
In terms of Jesus Christ he was certainly real and extolled many virtues the hierarchical churh would rather forget, indeed what the Vatican have chosen to leave out of the bible is as important as what's included.
As always my friend another fantastic post .. so good to have you back doing what you do best! @tremendospercy The Master Of Mystery!!
Thanks for the kind words as ever my friend.
I'm certain the ancients were far more advanced than many could imagine, there is no way the Sumerian's and Egyptians appeared from nowhere in the highly advanced state academia would have us believe.
There was almost certainly a pre-flood possibly worldwide but more likely isolated highly advanced civilisation who's remnants attempted to re-educate the devastated masses in their civilisations knowledge after a extinction type event. As the elders died off the knowledge either died with them or was diluted over time.
There are many stories of 'teachers' from antiquity from many places around the globe as I know you're aware so I'm not surprised to see similar beliefs held by unconnected people's.
The time to interpret these myths into their historical truth is upon us, for too long we have been lied to by dogmatic religious institutions and morally corrupt political classes.
Hopefully the truth will out in our lifetimes buddy.
Thanks for your continuing support and friendship mate.
I agree with that point about Jesus and I think my dad would too. Dionysus also supposedly has parallels to Jesus. It is interesting to compare and contrast. My favorite contrast is between the Americas and the other continents, because supposedly they were seperated, but it does not make sense really!
Also, I am glad there are other research geeks out there like I who like to analyze ancient history and mythology, it is really one of my greatest passions and I post about it often!
The Tuatha de Danaan are super interesting, but I dunno if they have a bird person in their midst. They certainly have shape shifters tho!
As new religions form they've always used partial beliefs and mythologies from previous ones to ensure a smooth transition. Most are just control mechanisms put in place to control the populous. Christianity is the best example of this as many of the current 'beliefs' were decided upon 3 centuries of Christ's alledged death at the Council of Nicea.
My man, you always lace your blogs with so much humour, I appreciate that so much about you and your style!!
Haha, thanks babe. I'd like to think if I was a teacher I could give the students a few laughs.
Reading that story of the creation of Horus and the battles with Set I was pissing myself laughing. Like I said babe, History can be so much more entertaining than fiction.
Thanks for your never ending support Lyndsay. ❤️
I'll support you to the end of the Earth, you are one of my most favouritest writers on the Blockchain!!!!!
Awww, thanks babe 😊
You know the feeling is mutual babe ❤️
I laughed so hard at the semen's part. I had never read about that part or maybe I forgot even thought it seems pretty incredible I could have forgot such a weird and funny thing.
These myths are pretty intriguing. I love the the hypothesis I've heard put forth in the documentary DMT the spiritual molecule where someone advance these myths are there to recognize the time our consciousness access the underworld or the world of the death.
The book of the dead was supposed to be learn by heart and so it was theorized these myths are in fact metaphors that we'll observe in one way or another when we're dead and recognizing them should help the dead people navigate the underworld.
I'm glad you had a chuckle, history should be fun to learn afterall.
There are a few interesting hypothesis regarding some of the oldest known myths, I believe they originate from much further back in antiquity than mainstream academia are willing to admit.
Fragments of evidence of a lost civilisation that existed pre ice age are slowly appearing as sites and structures such as Gobekli Tepe push back the previously accepted timelines of 'modern' man.
Similar myths are found on a worldwide scale which appear to teach the same lessons of morality and behaviour after death suggesting a single forgotten originator from a forgotten time.
Fascinating subject matter.
Thanks for reading and leaving a great comment.
I'm from India and the follower of Hindu Religion. According to Hinduism , Garuda is the vehicle of lord Vishnu and it is a common sight to see Garuda and Hunuman(Monkey headed god) on the left and right of the Vishnu deity respectively.
Horus seems to have really similar appearance as Garuda but I'm im not sure if thier History is the same.
But nevertheless it was so interesting for me at a personal level to read about Horus and try figure the parallels between him and Garuda.😊
I'm not sure if the history is the same either but there may have been some event or visitation in deepest antiquity that inspired the stories of both Horus and Garuda independently of each other.
I wrote a number of posts in my 'When does a myth become truth' series in the past that involved Hinduism and the stories from the Veda's. What a fantastic 'historical record' they are. I believe that real history is encoded in many of the ancient myths and hope one day the truth regarding the 'Gods' of the past can be revealed. Thanks for reading and commenting friend.
I was born in a really Religious family, that fact naturally made sure that i grew up being a believer of some kind of superpower.
This always made me a spiritual seeker, always inquisitive learn something about Superpower or Paramatma.
Posts like this has always been my greatest interest, so I have to thank you for writing it.
Following you right away.
Also I'm gonna read your blog on when does a myth become truth
Humans are creatures of habit and it is no wonder that many things such as icons from ancient times influenced the icons and arts of modern times.
Maybe that played a big part in the hand downs from generations to generations of artworks and themes used.
Same as with the types of artwork through the more modern eras, all the way to architecture, where we see hundreds of years of one style and then it changes later on through the centuries, but again incorporating aspects from the past trends.
Just thinking out aloud here!
Good point Jack.
It's true that iconography is borrowed from the past as religions form/morph in a particular region and we can see that throughout history. It's when you have similar depictions and beliefs with previously unconnected regions that you have to ask the question regarding an historically distant, common source.
I doubt we'll ever know the truth barring a visitation from above but it really is interesting delving into these histories and hopefully exposing some people here on Steemit to the fascinating histories found around the world.
Thanks for reading and commenting buddy.
Yeah, it is kind of interesting to see that people in lets say South America had similarities in some things that went on in lets say Egypt or Persia, just as an example.
But then again, all the continents of today were once just one big land mass and the findings of human bones down in nowadays South Africa that date back to God knows when have debunked the theory of "evolution" from ape to human, as the bones are older than those of the extinct species that existed i.e. cromagnum and what ever other names the dudes were given by "historians" that looked humanoid along the path of the so called chain from ape to human.
So there are many things out there that we are yet to learn and accept after decades and centuries of "history" written by "historians" that are all slowly and surely being debunked as science uncovers the truth.
I fully support your efforts, step by step, it is another step in the process.
Thanks mate, I'm convinced the truth is out there to be discovered and sure it would be so much more fascinating than we could ever imagine.
Amazing post @tremendospercy, the eating of body parts was always a speciality of this civilisation and I am sure this is the Pizzaqgate connection and the sacarfice and consomation of the body offered to Set and Anubis and their darkness ) ! I have never been a big fan of Lettuce, now I know why ))
That's a dark path to travel down in a history post for me but you're right, there are many awful practices from the past that the so called elite families that control our current paradigm indulge themselves in.
The fact that they we are slowly becoming aware of their depravity is testement to the bravery of some independant journalists and the age of the Internet. If we can get the information onto the blockchain the only way to stop it getting out will be for them to shut down the grid, which in all honesty they're insane enough to try. Let's hope they are defeated before it comes to that.
Thanks for the support as always buddy.
Awesome post! I looooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ancient history and mythology, and I love to study the parallels. It does seem like something odd is going on since there are simularieties throughout cultures across the world. I personally cannot explain it but I love to investigate it.
Maybe these gods were extraterrestrials, or maybe they are archtypes ingrained in the collective human psych through morphogenic fields, or maybe they are spirit-people that humans saw when in altered states of consciousness! I would love to know. Maybe in this lifetime we will know, but most likely not.
If you like ancient history I am working on an ancient history blog as well! From the Tuatha de Danaan of anceint Ireland to Mesoamerica!
I believe the stories have an historical seed that goes way back into pre history.
Back to a time before the flood to a currently undocumented high functioning civilisation destroyed and scattered by a natural or unnatural cataclysm.
Whether they originated on Earth or not I couldn't say however there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest we have been visited and manipulated for a very long time.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
I think I agree, but really who knows? I hope to find out through more intense research and hopefully new discoveries. Maybe if science is revolutionized then these things will also come to light!
Interesting. The connection of the secret societies to these Egyuptian gods fascinates me. I had a great uncle who was in Knight's Templar (I think... the one with the red cross over a white shield), and the back side of his insignia pin has Anubis on it. A cross on the front, Anubis on back... seems odd to me!
Well there is a lot of interesting history regarding the Knights Templar too.
Many have hypothesised that they found historical records/artifacts that contradict the teachings of the Christian belief system when excavating in the holy land on the first crusades. There is also plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Essenes community that the man known now as Jesus Christ was part of had links going back to ancient Egypt! Incredibly interesting stuff mate.
If you are interested in that you should read a book called The Hyram Key and the subsequent writings of the same authors, It'll blow your mind dude.
I will check into it. I have delved pretty deeply into the topic but have not read that. Are you familiar with Brien Foerster on youtube? He does wonderful hidden / forbidden archaeology tours of Egypt and other megalithic and monolithic ruins. Fascinating man!
You are talking about the Pharonic Knight Templars that on returning from the crusades with millions in stolen gold set up Switzerland in 1291 ! They now control the world through secretive and often nefarious means ! Look up on Youtube "Octogon the Empire of Darkness ! "You will find some answers there on all this ! The red cross is known as the collpased pyramid, as indeed if you take a pyramid and unzip all four corners and push down upon the apex and collapse this form you get the Octogonal Cross of the Knights Templars ! As indeed the national flag of Switzerland is the same but with a reveresed as ever or mirrored imagery where the colour of the cross and background are exchanged ! As always with these people the truth is always hidden in plain veiw to keep you blind @fishyculture !
Never heard that "unzipped pyramid" thing before either... lol! I thought I was pretty well versed, but there is always room to learn more!
history is wayyyyy more interesting than we think and there was alot more going on than the school books told us
It most certainly is mate.
I am an Egyptian and I hope you go and look at the wonderful civilization
I have been to Egypt a number of times @tohamy7 it's a wonderful country with the most amazing history.
Thanks for reading dude.
this is wonderful , egypt is a country with to many histories , thanks for sharing
i love this post
Thank you, you're welcome.
It's just a very interesting comparison and it shows us again Egypt have secret history and it's always good to read smth about that
Thanks, I agree it's very interesting mate.
Our past and even our present clearly have some secrets we don’t know as of yet.
In time this things would eventually reveal and we will finally known “the truth”. In the meantime the best thing we could do is to try to make the best of our lives and be a good example to others
Can't argue with that mate.
when you know history you will come to understand the future
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Do you have any movie recommendations that go deeply into this topic? I'm sure there must be a movie somewhere
Thank for your share
i know more knowledge about Egypt