HATSHEPSUT CREATED APHRODITE KHEPRI 1400 B.C.

From 1550 BC on, during the middle kingdom the 'Idea' of the creative god signified as a Kheper or Khepri, was supreme. It was exported/spread to Cyprus, across to the northern and eastern coastal settlements of the Mediterranean, centered at Ugarit, NW. Syria, the Ionic Aegean, the Greek islands and many settlements in Peloponnese, western Asia Minor. During the LBA the Mediterranean coastal cities and islands were covered with Scarabs.
Seshat is the feminine consort/counterpart/wife/child of Thoth the Scribe, he who wrote the story/program of humanity's journey through time. She is a Magician, as is Isis, Thoth, Hermes, etc. Seshat bore the title 'Egyptian Fairy Godmother'. Her magic wand, with its seven pointed star, was the symbol which represented the source of all creative ideas, consciousness. Her powers of cause and effect for any affectation were legendary before the founding of Egypt.
In summary, Thoth is thought, the “magical”, generative, creative potential Power of Consciousness to abstract, imagine and invent symbols and to combine them into greater connected comprehension of reality (existence) and ourselves (consciousness), and use all that power to affect, influence, alter, change and create into the Primacy of Existence. We are the potential Great Magicians.
THOTH: The ancient Egyptians regarded Thoth as One, self-begotten, and self-produced.[21] He was the master of both physical and moral (i.e. divine) law,[21] making proper use of Ma'at.[31] He is credited with making the calculations for the establishment of the heavens, stars, Earth,[32] and everything in them.[31] Compare this to how his feminine counterpart, Ma'at was the force which maintained the Universe.[33] He is said to direct the motions of the heavenly bodies. Without his words, the Egyptians believed, the gods would not exist.[28] His power was unlimited in the Underworld and rivalled that of Ra and Osiris.[21]
The Egyptians credited him as the author of all works of science, religion, philosophy, and magic.[34] The Greeks further declared him the inventor of astronomy, astrology, the science of numbers, mathematics, geometry, land surveying, medicine, botany, theology, civilized government, the alphabet, reading, writing, and oratory. They further claimed he was the true author of every work of every branch of knowledge, human and divine.[29]
18th Dynasty slogan Khepri (Egyptian: ḫprj, also transliterated Khepera, Kheper, Khepra, Chepri) is a god in the ancient Egyptian religion.
Khepri ḫprj is derived from Egyptian language verb ḫpr, indicating the concept in time of transformation "evolution", " continual coming into being", or the act of "creating". This invisible force, the god named Khepri was connected with the scarab beetle as a symbol of the cause, the forces that move the Sun/Ra across the sky. Khepri was thus at core, a solar deity. Also annually the young dung beetles, having been laid as eggs within the dung ball, emerge from it from the receding Nile floods, fully formed. Therefore, Khepri also represented, origins, evolution, creation and cyclical rebirth. The symbol was specifically connected with the rising sun and the mythical creation of the world but also covered noon and dusk. The Khepri as the VERB that best defined 'life in time,' is best represented as a human male with a scarab as a head. Through him all transformations were enacted. He is also depicted as a scarab in a solar barque held aloft by Nun.
The scarab amulets that the Egyptians used as jewelry and as seals represent 'eternal flow' as Khepri.
The Kheper, this scarab as emblem and slogan traveled with the 18th dynasty of Egypt among ancient nations they defeated. Attempting to transform the mindset of the defeated, to believe, the ontological claim as the best definition of existance, as well as the idea that life is earth-born, self-begotten and self-produced. It was stated that Atum/Ra (the Sun God, the supreme deity) originated from himself, not from any other being. A "magical papyrus" from the late period (c 300 B.C.E.) has Ra saying: “kheper-i kheper kheperu kheper-kuy m kheperu n Khepri kheper m sep tepy.” Which translates
At the time of the Egyptian New Kingdom (1539-1070 BC), the funerary texts from the papyri portrayed the scarab as the symbol that gave meaning to the assumed creative force behind all existence.
In the XVIIIth dynasty Queen Hatshepset declared herself to be "the creator of things which come into being like Khepera," Scribes were exceedingly fond of playing upon the word which was used as a noun, adjective, verb as well as a proper name."
In Egyptian every instance and variation of the ending of the word Kheper appears in various modulations in the opening line of a creation story found in a papyrus known as “Knowing the Modes of Re and Overthrowing the Serpent of death Apophis.” This mantra is of self-creation and it reads: “Kheper-i kheper kheperu kheper-kuy n kheperu m khepra kheperu m sep tepy.”
It is to this notion that we owe the myriads of scarabs which have been found in tombs of all ages in Egypt. The idea was one that was exported and universally accepted as true. From 1550BC on, during the middle kingdom the Idea of the creative god as Kheper was supreme. It spread abroad to Cyprus, around the northern and eastern coastal settlements of the Mediterranean, the Greek islands, Ionic Aegean and many settlements in Peloponnese, Asia Minor, Ugarit, N. Syria, West Cyprus in the LBA was covered with Scarabs.
Ra was the almost universally-worshipped king of the gods and all-father of creation. As sun god, he was said to command the chariot that rode across the sky during the day. Ra is the most central god of the Egyptian pantheon. Ra was the sun, heaven, kingship, power, and light. Ra a “He” was the patron of the pharaohs and of many Kings. Ra’s hieroglyphic can mean Day, as in light, as in day by day, Ra the present moment, or “That which is”. It was the most powerful symbol of life’s victory over death. "He fiftieth like a bird; he alighteth like a beetle upon the empty throne in thy boat, O Ra."
The seat of K-P-R, Khepera was in the 'Barge' B-R-G, boat of the sun, and the pictures which present us with this fact illustrate an idea which is as old, at least, as the Pyramid of Unas.
Translated, it is the self-created god's assertion of his metamorphosis and how the changes Ra has wrought within itself are directly responsible for the change in everything. A basic reading of Kheper is “I became and the becoming became. I became by becoming the form of Khepra, the god of transformations, who came into being in the First Time.”
Variations on the kheper mantra can be found in documents as old as the Pyramid texts (approx. 2500 BCE).
The ka is usually translated as "the double", it represents a person's double, exact twin, the one we cant see. It is what we would call in abstract the imagined body. The K, ka was said to be created at the same time as the physical body. It is the imagined double of the real thing, an abstraction. The Ka, the Ba and the Ra are the syllabic form of the root KBR or KPR. Early in Egyptian conceptualization the scarab beetle came to represent our abstract idea of the body, the soul and the spirit evolving in TIME. Ba representing the beginning, the first breath if you like and the Ra representing the ETERRNAL SUN in TIME.
I believe the “Ba” to be the soul that the ancient Egyptians linked to the “Ka” the idea of the body. The Ba, (soul) rising from the Ka, (body) becoming KaBa, (BodySoul) on its journey to its final destination, its objective Ra, (the spirit).
Kheper-i kheper kheperu, kheper-kuy, m kheper n khepri kheperu m sep tepy.
“I became, and the becoming became. I became by becoming the form of Khepra, god of transformations, who came into being in the First Time. Through me all transformations were enacted.”
In his poem, Works and Days, the ancient Greek poet Hesiod possibly between 750 and 650 BC, defined five successive Ages of Man: 1. Golden, 2. Silver, 3. Bronze, 4. Heroic and 5. Iron.[7] Only the Bronze Age and the Iron Age are based on the use of metal:[8]
Hesiod knew from the traditional poetry, such as the Iliad, and the heirloom bronze artifacts that abounded in Greek society, that before the use of iron to make tools and weapons, bronze had been the preferred material and iron was not smelted at all. He did not continue the manufacturing metaphor, but mixed his metaphors, switching over to the market value of each metal. Iron was cheaper than bronze, so there must have been a golden and a silver age. He portrays a sequence of metallic ages, but it is a degradation rather than a progression. Each age has less of a moral value than the preceding.[citation needed] Of his own age he says:[9] "And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or had been born afterward."
Who Will Plow My Vulva? Demeter, Persephone or Inanna Queens of hEarth.
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