Hi all,
"those alive knew what it all meant, it was obvious, common knowledge or either esoteric knowledge. but if the world changes, time passes and common knowledge changes then it is just a painting or an image. we may understand bits of it but we also know that nothing in the images is random, it all conveys a message, tells a story"
You've hit the nail on the head there Matt. 'Normal' in ancient times was the absolute domination of events in the heavens. The art along with every single image, picture, carving, hieroglyphs - all owes its origins to celestial events. It has little if anything to do with events here on earth apart from ancient cultures doing their best to records such events (in veneration). It's the very reason why the images and text were considered sacred. I would strongly argue ancient history is upside down!
"if the God King planets were chosen to be the astral double of the Pharaoh or ruling king at that time then did they choose a lady to rule? was she linked to the king at that time? if it was a man did they have to accept a queen planet as their double?"
I know what you are saying but I would put it the other way round. In the eyes of the ancients, it was the sky-gods who dictated astral kingship. Humans merely did their best to follow 'divine order.' So god-king planets came first, humans doubles chosen second.
This raises some probing questions, such as what happened if the planet king died (moved away from earth) before its human counterpart? What if the human double died before the planet? Probably too much to go into here just now, but in my first book I discuss this very issue and offer some thought provoking answers. Such as the possibility earth bound kings were ritually sacrificed at the end of their reign (following the doctrine of heaven). Egyptologists (Bob Brier) do actually discuss the possibly of this, but of course, they haven't a clue as to why the AE's may have done this.
Hatshepsut
Obviously, the earthly Egyptian monarchy, the Egyptian elite, did their very best to keep the royal blood line going and keep it in the family. Unfortunately chaos, many times threw up some surprising doctrines such as placing Venus/Hatshepsut as the 'foremost of the noble women.' Venus/Hatshepsut 'outsizing,' thus outranking other bodies to rule, not in her normal role as 'kings great wife,' but as Pharaoh in her own right. Her domination of the heavens meant she took on the role of intermediatary between heaven and earth. A role normally ascribed to the dominant kingly Mars (later joined by, mercury and the moon).
Notice the deep red flesh on Hatshepsut's statues. This is indicative of Venus coming close enough to earth as to reveal a deep red incandescent orb. Normally only the kings were painted the traditional deep red.
I actually think it is ludicrous to believe a female would go around wearing a false beard, kingly skirt and be depicted without breasts. We are led to believe Hatshepsut was an assertive woman who would stop at nothing in her quest to become pharaoh. And yet she then proceeds to dress up as a bloke! Absurd. Just as with the illusive kingly crowns (none found), to my knowledge no false beards have been found. The beard should attributed to a trait shown by all bodies - cometary traits, or should I say bearded tails. The shepherds crook was planetary bodies shepherding numerous personified bodies, the kas (doubles) of the Egyptians, yet another basic trait of the sky kings. The kings also wore the flail, this was to keep the astral populace in order, a good whack should sort them out!
Other epithets given to Venus Hatshepsut.
'Like a god she brings peace and prosperity to Egypt'
'Her beauty is unsurpassed.'
"the image above is said to be the Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut. It seems to have the wig/crown of Hathor. was it interchangeable, is this the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut or Hathor?"
I would personally go with the personification of Venus/Hatshepsut.
In recent documentaries Z. Hawass believes he has identified Hatshepsut's mummy, however, many Egyptologists disagree with his 'evidence.' They even go so far as to accuse him of 'following the money' with his 'Hollywood' style documentaries.
Sphinx
Many kings and queens were depicted in sphinx form. I believe the sphinx represents a planetary body amidst the dust on the horizon. Recumbent because it appeared stationary. It's possible the front paws represent the plumed cometary tails of Comet Venus pointing towards earth.
Gender traits and why (in short).
Mars, once a earth-like planet basically battled itself to death. This was observed for millennia, hence Mars the god of War, and so male. Venus, basically a new planet in the process of cooling down. Trailing cometary tails but no working dynamo to destroy, no intrinsic magnetic field to rip apart, no vast oceans and mountain rages to catastrophically disperse into space - in other words, in ancient eyes, no warring, aggressive male traits observed. A beautiful and seemingly serene queen gracing our skies - a relative passive but supportive queen to the perennial warring Mars. This was despite Venus no doubt being pummelled by space debris. Its viscous surface assimilated anything thrown at it. The sound 'glug' springs to mind.
Hatshepsut and Thuthmose
I identify Thuthmose with the Moon predominantly (there are other reasons) because of the name i.e. Thuthmose means 'born of the god Thoth.' As it fell under the influence of the earth, the moon went through numerous guises. Sometimes appearing relatively small (Thoth) other times outranking (out sizing) Mars, Venus, Mercury to become 'born of Thoth' and Egypt's greatest warrior pharaoh Thuthmose. The warring aspect due to the moon observed battling up incalculable amounts of debris during capture.
A rough sequential order of Hatshepsuts era.
Venus/Hatshepsut crosses the orbit of Earth with the Moon/Thuthmose and tons of other stuff in tow (following the DA of circa 1,000 B.C.) This being the main reason why Venus/Hatshepsut outranks all other bodies for about 20 years (as the record). Initially, Venus and the Moon (appearing almost equal in size) rule together but then, just as the record shows, the moon/Thuthmose III disappears from the records. He isn't mentioned anywhere. No images, no references, nothing. Thuthmose seems to have disappeared of the face of the earth. This has led Egyptologists to erroneously speculate he was away training with the army amongst other things. This is incorrect, it is simply the moon/Thuthmose vacating the skies above. I would guess the other side of the earth, either way, the absence of records means Thuthmose as the moon wasn't seen. Hatshepsut/Venus looming larger than ever naturally declares herself pharaoh, sole ruler, god king of Egypt. Unfortunately, the moon has other ideas, warring Thuthmose comes back into view with a vengeance. It is now the turn of Venus/Hatshepsut to literally disappear from the records. (The records shows Egypt's monarchy magically disappeared and appeared many times, hence the mass confusion over the genealogy of royal figures). It is not know what happed to Hatshepsut, no records exist as to the cause of her death. This is because Venus either moved to the background thus warranting a name change or perhaps she reverted back to her role as 'great wife' to a version of Mars, Amenhotep II ('Amun is pleased') or even the Moon still adorning the Thuthmose name.
A number of years later the Egyptians look back at the time when a queen ruled Egypt as king and believe this must be a mistake. How can a queen rule as god-king, our fathers must have made a mistake. They subsequently, and in light of the 'normal order' of warring kings ruling the heavens, expunge any record of Hatshepsut from the annuls of history via a chisel.
It is with enigmatic episodes such a Hatshepsut's reign where we will find a rough idea as to the movements of the planets.
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