House of Eset and Set

OSIRIAN MYTHOLOGY RE-ENACTMENT

Daniel Kolos’ Theory – Isis broke with tradition

“There are several possible places in ancient Egypt where ritual or ceremonial copulation may have been done with family, priests or other witnesses present. One of these are the annual conjugal visits of male deities with their mates, such as Amun to Mut at Karnak, or Horus of Edfu to Hathor of Dendera. A second place could have been at the conclusion of many of the festivals that were celebrated throughout Egypt, where the order of proceedings were a religious ritual, a feast with music, singing, dancing, intoxication and possible copulation, something noted by Herodotus at the Festival of Bast and something that may have been copied by the later Greek Dionysian rites or deteriorated into the Roman Saturnalia.

A third place would have been in private households such as at Deir el Medina where each house had a separate room with a Hathor or Bes “altar”, a raised platform bigger than a table but smaller than a bed, with room around it for musicians and singers, or family members to witness whatever was happening on that platform, whether it be the act of conception or birthing.

Finally, the final funerary meal at each burial, which, judged by the elaborate dishes such as the ones recovered in Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, may also have been the occasion of “replacing the departed” as reconstructed at Greek and Judean funerals by Marvin Pope (Song of Songs, A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Bible, DoubleDay, 1977)”

Daniel Kolos, October 1997

Osirian Mythology Re-enactment Script

Mark Thompson’s theory:

Seth being “Of great length in Nose and Ears” a remark that was obvious to Mark that I never read or thought of. Seth can be defined as very old when one considers that the nose and ears continue to grow, long after the rest of our bodies shrink and shrivel. In this case the size of the nose and length of the ears of Seth convey a long life.

The deity Seth was very old during the time when rain fell and the desert was savannah grassland. It is generally thought that Seth and Horus or Amun Ra are the two oldest male gods in ancient Egyptian mythology. There are theories proposed that these two may have represented tribal leaders. Real people that at some point in history have had their stories passed down in oral histories through generations. Accounts of their tribal unrest and bravery that could have played an important role in their mythological appearances.


Shabaka Stone lines 10a to 17a

I chose to reference this stone because it dates back in early dynastic times. Before a time when foreigners took the ancient Egyptian’s myths and colored in their own details. The lines in the script that are taken from the stone are part of Geb’s narrative at the beginning of the script.

Seth is innocent of his brother’s murder – Pyramid Text Utterance 242

Line 247a states: “Extinguished is the flame. The Flame- serpent is not found in the house of him who possesses Ombos”

These lines are serpent charming spells interpreted from the ancient Egyptians mythology and legends. Lines taken from such stories that carry weight, affect HEKA and were spoken by revered beings, gods or other personae in legend.

These lines taken in the context of serpent charming spells are meant to be such, but key symbolisms and ideas in these lines, hypothesized from concepts drawn from their mythology paint the bigger picture here. Broken down they are as follows:

“Extinguished is the flame…” someone’s life has gone out, someone’s soul has departed.

“Flame serpent” the snake, a revered and feared animal to many ancient cultures and seen to the Ancient Egyptians as the “living spine”. This animal symbolizes both divine protection and the harbinger of death.

“Him who possesses Ombos” The deity who ruled the nome of Ombos was Seth. Seth was revered in fewer and fewer provinces in an effort to erase his name from history and legend and his effect on HEKA.

These lines taken from the Pyramid Texts as extrapolations from a forgotten and obscured mythology of Seth which tells a different side to the murder of Osiris.


Horus’ Conception – Pyramid Text Utterance 535

Lines 1280 to 1282b state: “The bird comes, the kite comes, they are Isis and Nephthys. They [have] come in search of their brother Osiris, they have come in search of their brother. Thou who are here, thou who are there, weep for they brother. Isis weep for they brother, Nephthys weep for they brother. Isis sits, her hands upon her head. Nephthys has indeed seized the tip of her two breasts because of their brother. Anubis being on his belly, Osiris being wounded, Anubis before the fist(?)”

These lines are generally accepted to be the mythology which sparked the Greeks/Romans imaginations and were the predecessor lines to the stories that we understand today as the conception story of Horus. The Pyramid text lines spell out the original meaning and there are key points which the rendition of the Ancient Egyptians’ myths leave out. What was the function of Anubis being present? Was Anubis another name for the deceased? Was Anubis another name for Osiris? Or was Anubis an observer to the conception act which was the creation of Horus? See Daniel Kolos’ theory.

Anubis before the fist line remains a mystery as there is no consensus on what the closed fist hieroglyph means. This hieroglyph also fell out of use during subsequent history and there is no writings yet to date that has both hieratic and hieroglyph that give clear and undisputed evidence on what the hieroglyph means.