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History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 1

By: Gaston Maspero ; Archibald Henry Sayce

...om to the later, with particular interest in tombs with long and complete hieroglyphic inscriptions that could help illustrate the development of the Egyptian language. Selecting five later Old Kingdom tombs, he was successful in that aim, finding over 4000 lines of hieroglyphics which were then sketched and photographed. “As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...PRESENT-DAY EGYPT “I don’t know if I will ever get used to working in the heat of the Egyptian desert. I honestly think I am about to pass out,”... ...eariness, thanks to Dustimaine’s harsh words, Mitch and Alex continued to work in the hot Egyptian climate for another couple of hours. Dehydration ... ... revealed. Their eyes grew wide as they saw what appeared to be a large, carved ankh, the Egyptian symbol of immortality, of life. “I don’t believe ... ...iling in it like nothing I’ve seen before.” “These symbols look an awful lot like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,” Alex started, “but they’re kind of ... ..., and, well…this doesn’t exactly fit the profile, you know. I mean, the ankh is obviously Egyptian, but…” “Bob, we know. We know exactly what you’re... ...pot, and quickly changed the subject. “You should try this, Mitch. It’s the elixir of the gods…mmm, just the aroma is heavenly.” “No thanks, give m... ...stery.” Mitch nodded, “There are a number differences, for example the lack of the usual gods present, mummification scenes, and canopic jars for st... ...h admitted. “We also don’t see anywhere where they talk about mummification or the usual gods, from what we can tell. Whoever they were, they were d...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...you’re there, could you do me a favour and whip the Greeks for starting things like school and stuff?” “I thought it was the Egyptians that inven... ... Egyptians that invented such things? I read somewhere that Alexander the Greek together with Aristotle plagiarized many things Egyptian.” “Plagi... ..., just like that he got weighed by work. Lucky for him the spirits were there to provide some kind of temporary solace.” “The gods you mean?” “...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...t various time oppressed and sought to exterminate them. Who can point out the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, or even the R... ...s; and that the true sense of the prophecy is, that as various nations, to wit, Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, and Romans, had at various ... ...tiles and make them renounce their God and their religion; they might adore the gods of wood and stone, which the other nations adored, and entirely ... ...nt Sinai, the Lord spake to them these words: “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings,” Exod. xix. 4. (or, ... ...osed her mouth upon the enemies who pursued after them: “the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and cover... ... marvellous things:” Mic. vii. 15. that the Gentiles shall see miracles, as the Egyptians saw them; and the more efforts they make, the more shall it... ...nse unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.” Jer. xix. 13. This countersign alone, although there were no o... ...ll they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clave unto these in love.” 1 Kings xi. 1,2. Improbable... ...rael, now effeminated and “his heart being turned away by his wives after other gods,” 1 Kings xi. 4. did not refrain himself from honouring with hi...

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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

...form of direct acceptance of what is contemporary, as Greece accepted the Egyptian world; or it may tak~ the form of indirect acceptance of what is ... ... He banishes it to be a "struc~". This "structure" is not in a world, of gods, but in this great world of men. It is certainly "there", even if no ... ...sh to hear the tune he played on his jade flute; then he played it to the gods, 'and they inclined their ears; since then men also listened to the t... ...ir ears; since then men also listened to the tune: thus he went from the gods to those whom the" structure" cannot dispense with. It longs as in a ... ...e in a mixture of them, just as the late Romans believed in a mixture of gods. This is made easier by the nature of the claim. Whether it is the C<... ...it. Use needs only to be given an ancient name, and it companies with the gods. When this DUm says Thou, he means "0 my ability to use", and what h...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... of God out of respect unto Christ’s eternal offering of himself; but, I begin from the Egyptian captivity, which denotes the bondage of the sense a... ...rsaken of both her kings. And then he describeth the calamities which the Assyrians and Egyptians should inflict upon Judah. This first revelation of... ... the life spiritual and divine? In the ancient times, when he delivered the church from Egyptian bondage, they sung him “Wonderful in his praises.” ... ...ncerning evil magistrates and delegates of God upon the earth, “I have said that ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High, but ye s... ...lly did not speak. The Manicheans, for example, maintained their two principles, or two gods, the one good, the other bad; the one the cause of all ... ...of Ptolemy; I ask this explanation of the most celebrated philosophers and astronomers, Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, and Latin. I see the vain efforts ... ...gether diverse from the first, in extent, in riches, in people, in laws, in customs, in gods, and even in language itself: which in all Asia, as in E... ...d themselves so far away; and fable, which had substituted so many false and ridiculous gods, of whom they recounted so many prodigies. Upon these t... ...will say that Isaiah speaketh of some single individual called Egypt, when he says, The Egyptians are men, and not God, (Vulg. Egyptus homo, et non D...

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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... the Creator? ........................................46 15. What Is Other Gods in the Work ............................................... 47 16. Wha... ..., for He Hath Done Pride ......................305 151. And Israel Saw the Egyptians ...................................................306 152. For a... ...orld, namely Klipot (shells), that person is in a state of “serving other gods.” It is not necessarily the thought of heresy that is the transgressi... ... Creator gives is called, “The Romemut of the Creator.” 15. WHAT IS OTHER GODS IN THE WORK I heard on Av 24, August 3, 1945 It is written, “Thou shal... ... I heard on Av 24, August 3, 1945 It is written, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” The Holy Zohar interprets that there should be stones to ... ... the end of the verse, ‘for He hath done pride.’” 151. AND ISRAEL SAW THE EGYPTIANS I heard on Beshalach In the verse, “and Israel saw the Egyptians ... ...possible to draw half a degree. And this must be specifically through the Egyptians, and this is called “exile,” when the Jews, too, must be under ... ...ing correction of the Masach de Hirik, they exit their rule, meaning the Egyptians themselves shout, “Rise up, get you forth.” And this is, “Me and ... ...it asked, “How are those different from those? Either Israel die like the Egyptians, or Israel will return to Egypt.” The thing is that Egypt is the...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek s... ... of Queen Elizabeth I. It was invented for her in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, her godson. New York entrepreneur Joseph C. Gayetty manufactured ... ...est with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisheries: "They scattered before him parched corn,... ...serious offenses like treason. Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth gods and the paterfamilias was its priest. The family was thoug... ...uded replicas of the late Royal Family of France, a model of the guillotine, and an Egyptian mummy. It was a morbid hit. In 1835 she settled in Lo...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...e the Light into the impure forces, their egoistic desires, called “other gods” (Elokim Acherim). There is only one Creator. There is but one proper... ...hes him away from the Creator, and is therefore called “worshipping other gods.” As a result, ZON stopped their Zivug, the 100 blessings disappeared... ...es a connection with other, impure forces, called “Elokim Acherim” (other gods), which cling to ZA and Malchut of the pure world of Atzilut. This le... ...ns into Acher, and the system of the impure forces (Elokim Acherim, other gods) is created. And had the letters Kuf and Reish not captured the letter... ...strictions of the snow return. 99. What is written next? “And he struck an Egyptian.” This refers to a secret: every time Israel sinned, the Creator ... ...all the goodness and all the Light that He shone upon them. “He struck an Egyptian.” “He” refers to Moshe, the Light that shines upon Israel. For in... ... Light, with which Moshe shone upon Israel. And this Light is called the “Egyptian,” for in Egypt Moshe was born, grew up, and attained the great Su... ...At once He descended to him in strictness and wrenched the staff from the Egyptian’s hand, for the moment the staff was taken from him, it was taken... ...hatchets and axes.” Hence, it is written that the staff was taken from the Egyptian, and will never return to him, for the staff refers to Malchut. S...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ations in the world under appointed ministers, and they all follow their gods. All shed blood and make war, steal, commit adultery, mingle among al... ...y pairs, which are seventy souls, and brought them among the thorns, the Egyptians. And as soon as these thorns came, those pairs out there grew br... ...or sent to deliver Israel from Egypt. And He showed these plagues on the Egyptians and struck them for Israel. What is the difference between the re... ...an all the peoples; they were actually called, “slaves” because they, the Egyptians, were the lowest of all peoples. Babylon were low, as it is writ... ...earth quakes ... Under a slave when he becomes king” come true, since the Egyptians were slaves. The reaSoN for ISrael’S afflICTIoN Pinhas 143) one d... ...nations in the world under appointed ministers, and they all follow their gods. All shed blood and make war, steal, commit adultery, mingle among a... ...eturn to the world to begin with. And the c reator said, “I said, ‘You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High,’” meaning upon the recepti...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...he shadows of the trees. Everything changes. Good men are distorted into Gods, and philosophy is made into a sordid religion. Buddhism, Christianity... ...huns Thais put down plates of food and lit incense that would carry to the gods their wishes. She had been his guardian spirit in a sanphraphun of th... ...od (the night having deadened his soul and put him to sleep as any ancient Egyptian laborer long ago believed of his own life), so Kazem in darkness c... ...hey saw him in the living room in front of a big screen where, what to the gods, were tenuous carbon copies of men falling from the windows of a skysc... ... They were empathic and there was no escape. Jatupon wanted to shake the gods from their slumber, to knock the emerald Buddha from its pedestal, and...

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The Path of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ing C H A P T E R 1.1 T H E G R E AT I L L U S I O N Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any ... ...is another power in the world, namely shells, is in a state of “serving other gods.” It is not necessarily the thought of heresy that is the sin, bu... ...oistic desires. These desires are so egoistic that they are like those of the Egyptians, who knew how to use egoism so perfectly that they could mum...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...and in the next. For the mouth of liars, who praise themselves on manmade gods with tangible proofs, as it appears to their blind eyes, without gazi... ...orld, namely Klipot (shells), that person is in a state of “serving other gods.” It is not necessarily the thought of heresy that is the transgressio... ...in keeping Torah and Mitzvot Lishma, and the only reason they serve their gods is for reward and salvation in this world and in the next. Thus, thei... ...and salvation in this world and in the next. Thus, their worship of their gods is because of self-love, too, and they will never perform an action t... ... f o r T h e s T u d e n T However, while they were still mingled with the Egyptians, a portion of their needs was necessarily given into the hands o... ...t method with evidence and proof along their way. Third mEThod: mUl TiplE godS This method was born out of the bosom of the method of two authorities...

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Weird Beliefs

By: Barry Wilson

...Introduction The Temple of Rats Jivaro Head Shrinkers Cargo Cults Self-Flagellation The Black Stone of Mecca Hungry Ghosts Witch Smellers Egyptian Crocodile Worship Christian Snake Handlers The Rope to Heaven The Scapegoat Gods in Human Form Devil Worship The Sex Slaves of Paradise Animal Sacrifice Human Sacrifice Self Mummification Zombies Incorrupt...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...entered his eyes. “You are in your room,” I said. “Where?” “Beside your Egyptian chair.” “Can I sit down on it?” “Yes, it’s ready for you.” Gras... ...to himself, or from an- other world, he repeated lines we had loved: “The gods held me in Egypt, longing to sail for home, for I had failed to seek ... ... sent threads to the ceiling. Wisps floated in front of me where a man in Egyptian clothes, headband studded with rubies, sat beside his courtesan. ... ...eparate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the n... ...I must be able to rest and get away from responsibilities, to welcome the gods of trees and ocean and those long dead, whose marble shrines dot a co... .... There are so many dead. How- ever, life must be better than death or the gods would have chosen to die. Life must be day-by-day and hour-by-hour. A... ...t wasn’t enough for us to quarrel over money! You, with your scarab, your Egyptian clothes, your obelisks, your slaves, your woman! Perhaps Kleis is... ...Byzantium? It seems to be a world of questions. P When I think how many gods exist, I am shocked by man’s confusion and gullibility. “Man is like... ...lue and gold. The Kamen brothers were, as always, mysterious, stiff, like Egyptian clay long dried by the sun. It is too bad they can’t apply some o...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...wledge of this phenomenon would indeed mean Pandora′s box, because if the Egyptians had known this fact and made use of it, that would have meant the... ...eing?), a proof to this effect being the fact he asserted himself as a non-Egyptian in a hostile society. It is also the case of Jesus whose scienc... ... those of the exterior), hence the already advanced ideas, that the 31 Egyptian or Aztec pyramids could have been interplanetary or even intergala... ...a bottom, granting Moses and his people the opportunity to pass, while the Egyptian army missed this chance, vanishing in the waves. To support this... ...ical to that of Gyseth. Furthermore, pyramids absolutely identical to the Egyptian ones were identified. The photographs sent by Viking demonstrate ... ..., too, the terrestrial populations perceived these potent beings again as gods and demigods, and created for them a position as leaders. According t... ...niuses have received their gift through transcendental communication with Gods. Creative nature is of a divine origin and beyond human powers.” ... ...e, there were so many brilliant minds and such a coherent mythology about gods and demi-gods was developed, that the presumed Greek conceits seem to ... ...stly apocryphal.. 1) < I am The only God, your God …you shall not have Gods others than Me> Exodus 20.2,3. This divine commandment refers to ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...d to kill both sisters. They fled, and he pursued. In the end, the Olympic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tape... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and Chi... ...nd scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ..., invented that language‘s symbols to write out questions they wanted the gods to answer. The questions were written on ox bones or the tummies o...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...d to kill both sisters. They fled, and he pursued. In the end, the Olympic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapes... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China... ... and scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ..., invented that language‘s symbols to write out questions they wanted the gods to answer. The questions were written on ox bones or the tummies of ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...were ever forced from our trees to walk on two legs, we worshipped the volcano gods and the killers on the ground. Our ancestors worshipped brute fo... ...ing what Nature gave them, they became corrupted by their worship of the Fire Gods: the Gods of the Volcano that kept them warm and safe during the ... ... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...s. They became worshippers of fire. Sitting around a fire chanting to their gods is the oldest form of tribal worship there is. It is the oldest f... ... you love God or hate him: he is feared. What is the hallmark of all Ancient Gods? Exploding into rage and laying waste to the land by catastrophi... ...ecame a cultural nation of dimwitted fools, idiots… and liars: To lie like an Egyptian was a Roman’s highest praise for being out-smarted by a rival ... ...s that Egypt had once been. As if that were a reason to be proud of being an Egyptian, while living lives of near- total slavery and mindless submis... ...nd mindless submission to all and any authority figures in their culture. The Egyptians kept on revolting and rebelling… even being found slaughtere... ...for an armistice. The Romans slaughtered the mercenaries and slaughtered the Egyptians until they got so tired of killing weak, screaming cowards; ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ―Every religion has its scriptures or traditions that describe its god or gods and the morality that their supreme being requires. The scriptures an... ...nts of Jericho. But we don‘t have the stone tablets of Moses, evidence of Egyptian chariots in the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be ... ...ly exist? Could he write? If he wrote did he write in his native tongue of Egyptian? If he wrote in Egyptian did he write the Pentateuch in hieroglyp... ...h in hieroglyphics? Or did he know Phoenician writing, which was based on Egyptian writing? If he lived about 1200 BCE he couldn‘t have written in H... ...hey may have developed their concept of there being only one God from the Egyptians or the Zoroastrians. Many think 48 that the ideas of Mithrai... ...t inhabit every living thing, as many primitives believed, or the powerful gods living in the sea or in the sky occasionally casting lightening bolts... ...r in the sky occasionally casting lightening bolts, or the more beneficent gods of the harvest or those that produce rain. Such ideas seem to be very... ...tian, Zoroastrian or Muslim, you are a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A... ...ders the killing of whole nations, or lets the Red Sea engulf the pursing Egyptians after Moses had crossed. Can he tell lies, do uncharitable acts,...

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