ALFA-TETRAGRAMATON A-BRDT, APHRODITE, LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE. KHEPRI
"Khepri "Homage to you, who are come as Khepri, Khepri when he created the gods."
Khepri is the word that defines a primordial deity, as the scarab (kheper) which was described as "He who comes into being" - without being created by another. Autogenus.
Khepri was shown as a form of Atem, the shadow as against the light and was identified with Re. Re is generally described as crossing the heavens in a sun bark. "I made for thee a shadow for thy journey across the heavens as Atum, coming forth with all the [gods] while the divine ennead who are behind thee and the Sacred Apes praise thy rising and thy appearing in /// the horizon. The divine ennead rejoice, they give exaltation to Khepri..."
Khepri, as one of Re's forms - (Re was also described as a Cobra) - Re is often referred to as he who resides in his bark .
Khepri was said to be responsible for the delivery of the sun daily from the womb of his mother Nut thus the dawn. Being reborn every morning the Khepri represented the god that rolled the sun, keeping it in its correct path across the heavens, to the western horizon -(just as the dung beetle rolled its ball thus becoming the sacred scarab) - where he delivered the sun back to the mother in the underworld which was called Sa, which in the Mycenaean was the symbol, the ankh meaning eternal life.
Khepri was also associated with resurrection and was at times shown close to Osiris in mortuary offering scenes.
Thutmose III proclaimed that
There was assigned to me the sovereignty of the Two Lands upon the throne of Keb (i.e. the earth-god Geb), the office of Khepri by the side of my father...
Thutmose IV also saw himself as ... sovereign, begotten of Re; excellent heir of Khepri
J. H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Two, §812
The following is one of the wishes of Seti I
Grant to him eternity upon earth like Khepri.
Khepri of distinguished birth,
Who raises his beauty in the body of Nut,
Who lights the Two Lands with his disk.
The K of KBR defines the point in space-time that holds all potential, within itself, the ONE that governs the Sun thus governs ALL, thus god.
As for the Barnacle, a house of god Tabarnacle say BRNK L, TBRNK BaRe-NaKy The Tau as the fixed Earth, the BR as the cycle in time and space, the NK as the union between heaven and earth as Ankh last for the god El.
The Y is again the ONE as TWO that bringing forth the third, defining the 3rd...
A-BR-DT
A for ALFA the ONE, the Monad.
The B represents the opener, break through, starting point on the path of life, on the path. The consonant that represents beginning. When placed on the eternal cycle, it represents the beginning of every cycle, the daily and annual cycle of the sun most importantly. The beginning on the cycle, between DARK and LIGHT, LIFE and DEATH.
The R represents an end point on the straight line. On the cycle the R point unites/grafts with the B of the beginning, thus the resultant, a double consonant BR represents the point on the eternal cycle, where DARK becomes LIGHT and DEATH becomes LIFE.
The DT is another double consonant that defines the point that represents the precarious top of the world, the top of the cycle of life. The crown of a vertical, the apex, where all rise only fall, just after experiencing a suspension of time. Like all points or nodes, a still point in time.
In physics, spacetime (or space–time; or space/time) is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. E=Mc2
Space-time is usually interpreted with space being three-dimensional and time playing the role of a fourth dimension that is of a different sort from the spatial dimensions. According to certain Euclidean space perceptions, the universe has three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a large number of physical theories, as well as described in a more uniform way the workings of the universe at both the supergalactic and subatomic levels.
In classical mechanics, the use of Euclidean space instead of spacetime is appropriate, as time is treated as universal and constant, being independent of the state of motion of an observer. In relativistic contexts, however, time cannot be separated from the three dimensions of space, because the observed rate at which time passes for an object depends on the object's velocity relative to the observer and also on the strength of intense gravitational fields, which can slow the passage of time.
CYPRI-ISIS cult of this goddess, starting with the north-western regions of the Peloponnese, and continuing with the rest of Greece and her colonies. The most important of her cult centres was located on the island of Kypros, where Mysteries were celebrated in her honour.
The worship of the goddess on this island was closely associated with that of the Phoenician goddess Ashtarte on the Lebanese mainland.
Aphrodite, and the Nymphai, being situated in sacred precincts that are generally full of flowers because of the abundance of water."
Aphrodite, and the Nymphai, being situated in sacred precincts that are generally full of flowers because of the abundance of water."
[Aphrodite] is the daughter of Caelus (Sky) and Dies (Day); I have seen her temple at Ellis."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1. 86 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Did not the water conceive Aphrodite by a heavenly husbandry [Ouranos], and bring her forth from the deeps?"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7. 222 ff :
"Kronos . . . cut his father’s loins with unmanning sickle until the foam got a mind and made the water shape itself into a selfperfected birth, delivered of Aphrodite from the sea?"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1. 86 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Did not the water conceive Aphrodite by a heavenly husbandry [Ouranos], and bring her forth from the deeps?"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7. 222 ff :
"Kronos . . . cut his father’s loins with unmanning sickle until the foam got a mind and made the water shape itself into a self perfected birth, delivered of Aphrodite from the sea?"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12. 43 ff :
"He [Kronos] cut off his father’s [Ouranos'] male plowshare, and sowed the teeming deep with seed on the unsown back of the daughterbegetting sea (Thalassa)."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13. 435 ff :
"When the fertile drops from Ouranos, spilt with a mess of male gore, hand given infant shape to the fertile foam and brought forth Paphia [Aphrodite]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13. 435 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Kypros, godwelcoming island of the fine feathered Erotes (Loves), which bears the name of Kypris the self-born [Aphrodite] . . . Paphos, garlanded harbour of the soft haired Erotes (Loves), landing place of Aphrodite when she came up out of the waves, where is the bridebath of the sea born goddess."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41. 20 ff :
"Before Kypros and the Isthmian city of Korinthos, she [i.e. the city of Beroe or Beruit in Phoinikia] first received Kypris [Aphrodite] within her welcoming portal, newly born from the brine; when the water impregnated from the furrow of Ouranos was delivered of deep sea Aphrodite; when without marriage, the seed plowed the flood with male fertility, and of itself shaped the foam into a daughter, and Phusis (Nature) was the midwife--coming up with the goddess there was that embroidered strap which ran round her loins like a belt, set about the queen’s body in a girdle of itself . . . Beroe first received Kypris; and above the neighbouring roads, the meadows of themselves put out plants of grass and flowers on all sides; in the sandy bay the beach became ruddy with clumps of roses . . .
There, as soon as she was seen on the neighbouring harbourage, she brought forth wild Eros (Love) . . . without a nurse, and [Eros] beat on the closed womb of his unwedded mother; then a hot one even before birth, he shook his light wings and with a tumbling push opened the gates of birth." [N.B. In this passage Aphrodite is born pregnant with Eros who she births on the day of her own birth.]
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 193 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Kypris [Aphrodite] fled like the wind from the pursuit of her lascivious father [Zeus], that she might not see an unhallowed bedfellow in her own begetter, Zeus."
"Fishes [constellation Pisces] . . . Diognetus Erythraeus says that once Venus [Aphrodite] and her son Cupid [Eros] came in Syria to the river Euphrates [when Typhon attacked Olympos]. There Typhon, of whom we have already spoken, suddenly appeared. Venus and her son threw themselves into the river and there changed their forms to fishes, and by so doing this escaped danger. So afterwards the Syrians, who are adjacent to these regions, stopped eating fish, fearing to catch them lest with like reason they seem either to oppose the protection of the gods, or to entrap the gods themselves."
THE MEANING OF THE APOLLONIAN CYPRESS
TREE AND THE PHAROS KHEPER SCARAB
Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean cypress, is a native
conifer of the Eastern Mediterranean, the cradle of Western civilization. It
grows 20 to 30 feet tall, with aromatic wood and scaled leaves. Cypresses are
very long-living trees. There's something magical about a conifer. Long before the development of botany as a science that explains why some trees shed their leaves each fall and some remain evergreen, we brought pines and spruces indoors at year end to symbolize life, light and new birth. The cypress, native to the area where civilization began, has a long history of meaning and symbolism.
The name of the plant came to English from the French "cyprès", which came from the Latin "cupressus", which in turn comes from the Greek "kyparissos" (κυπάρισσος), which in name is said in Greek Myth to have come from Keos or Crete. According to Greek mythology, Kyparissos, was a youth who mistakenly killed his beloved pet deer that belonging to god Apollo and went into such melancholy and sorrowful as told by Ovid in his "Metamorphoses," the young boy threw himself on the ground for he couldn’t accept death and couldn’t stop mourning for all time. As a result his body was transformed into what we now call cypress tree. Apollo the Dorian god, in classical metaphor stands of the death and rebirth of nature, much as in the myth of Adonis. Apollo in sympathy is supposed to have proclaimed that the cypress should "preside at every funeral rite," in memory of the boy.
Cypress trees are associated with death and rebirth, (sacred to Pluto), late 12c., from O.Fr. cipres (12c., Mod.Fr. cyprès), from L.L. cypressus, from L. cupressus, from Gk. kyparissos, probably from an unknown pre-Greek Mediterranean language. It is possibly related to Heb. gopher, which is named as the tree whose wood was used to make the cover of the ark (Gen. vi.14). Hebrew, kaphar is still confused with gopher.
The Greek word for cypress was and still is kyparissos, which in meaning at the least compares kheper , the resurrection scarab, being reborn every morning, every year. Being reborn every morning Khepri was associated with resurrection and was at times shown close to Osiris in mortuary offering scenes.
The meaning of Kheper could be presented as in the phrase Men-(Kh)eper-Re where it best translates as: strong-transforming-Ra, and some renderings in common English the word for manifesting.
A similar usage, but not with the implications of transformation, as an insect larva, transforming into an adult-form bug but as in the concept of process of constant renewal. The Ptolemaic era Ptolemy V of the Rosetta Stone, 196 BC is named Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Coins of Greece and other Greek influenced kingdoms had coins using the King's profile and the word epi(ph)anous, namely basileus epi(ph)anous, (King- are The Transforming Strength (of) Ra, or Ra's Steadfastness (of) Transformations.
A much later word that replaced the kheper, 'transforming' was the Greek language "epiphanous", Manifested).
The cypress tree has also become a Christian symbol for death and resurrection. it is not associated with the underworld. It has a universal symbolism of Heaven's calling. The dense and narrow Italian cypress (C. sempervirens) became a graveyard tree because of its association with the heavens and divine light. The evergreen leaves of the cypress are said to be symbolic of the resurrection of Christ. Cypresses are long-lived trees; according to Iranian legend, the cypress tree of Kashmir, planted by Zoroaster, lived 1,405 years.
The Mediterranean cypress is a tree that was present where Western literature and religion began; it appears in the "Shahnameh," a Persian epic by Ferdowsi (940-1020). Amots Dafni, Efraim Lev, Sabine Beckmann, and Christian Eichberger, in "Ritual Plants of Muslim Graveyards in Northern Israel," report that the cypress was planted around graveyards as a representation of both death and the immortality of the soul. A summary of the significance of conifers in human culture published by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAOUN), lists several legends and associations that helped establish the cypress as a dualistic representative of death and immortality. A dying Adam begged his son to bring oil from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden to him; the boy was too late but planted a slip on Adam's grave where a tree grew with branches of cypress, cedar and olive. These three woods made up the cross upon which Christ would later die. Just as In Ovid's "Metamorphosis," the youth named Kyparissos was transformed into a tearful cypress tree.
During the European Middle Ages, legends and myths evolved as cultures changed; through its association with Adam and Jesus, the cypress tree became a potent Christian symbol. FAOUN reports that the entry doors of St. Peter's basilica were originally carved of cypress. During the Middle Ages, years of plague and instability, the subtle dual symbolism of death and resurrection simplified into the more concrete concept of death
Renaissance artists used symbolic objects to communicate with an audience that was largely illiterate. Later, during the Victorian era, the cypress with its dark branches and tall columnar shape was a symbol of the cemetery and death and was widely planted in European as well as Middle Eastern graveyards. The 19th century artist Van Gogh may have preserved the symbolism in a painting that he completed during his stay in the south of France in 1890; the cypress tree occupies a central position in the famous "Road with Cypress and Star," reaching from earth to the heavens.
the word "transformer", or "transformes", the phrase Men-(Kh)eper-Re becomes: ultimate-transforming-Ra and in common English the word for Re manifest transformer. A similar usage. The Ptolemaic era Ptolemy V of the Rosetta Stone, 196 BC is named Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Coins of Greece and other Greek influenced kingdoms had coins using the King's profile and the word epi(ph)anous, namely basileus epi(ph)anous, (King- are The Transforming Strength (of) Ra, or Ra's Steadfastness (of) Transformations. A much later word that replaced the kheper, 'transforming' was the Greek language "epiphanous", Manifested).
Here I would like to offer that I believe the origin of the word for the Cypress tree is the concept coined by the Egyptians Kheper. The tri-literal was a common concept around the Mediterranean and the rest of the civilized world from very early on like before 3000 BC in Sumeria.
On the question of the origin of life, the scarab that seemingly generated annually spontaneously from the slime of the mound that surfaced when the Nile receded, gave life after death as a real probability, given the creative cycle of a Khepri (scarab of the Nile delta) that represent the cycle of life as experienced in the Nile Delta, the idea of, or the hope of the eternal renewal of life, of resurrection, of genesis transformation, rebirth and regeneration. I posit that today we find the root kpr, in all of the following words. Starting with my favorite: Keeper; Cyprus, (Κύπρος) Gabriel; Cypress.
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