Post by Malcolm on Jul 21, 2013 1:15:43 GMT -5
Massey - 'Ancient Egypt' - "The elder Horus came not only in the water. He was also the Kamite prototype of Bacchus as the lord of wine.
When Horus came the grapes were ripe in Egypt and ready to be converted into wine. The season of grapes is dated July 13th in the Egyptian calendar.
There is but little left upon the modern globe of the ancient constellation of the Vine, but the star Epsilon, called Vindemiatrix, is still the sign of grape-gathering, and as we read in the calendar - "July the 9th: the Nile begins to rise abundantly. July 28th: abundance of grapes" (Egyptian Calendar. A.D. 1878, p. 19).
Vindemiatrix, the sign of grapes being ripe is described by Aratos as being so large in size and bright in splendour as to rival the stars in the Great Bear's tail, whereas at present it is but a star of the third magnitude (lines 130 to 140).
The grape-gathering in Egypt is depicted in or near the signs of Virgo and the Vine. It is said of Horus at Edfu, "Thou didst put grapes into the water which cometh forth from Edfu".
From that day forth the water of Edfu was called the water of grapes - that is, wine.
So anciently was the metaphor of the gospel miracle founded on the natural fact. Uaka is a name of the inundation, and also of the festival at which the deluge of drink was symbolically celebrated by the libation that was correspondingly colossal.
(Malcolm - Today we celebrate Uaka as 'Christmas')
The vine was not only set in heaven to denote the vindemia or time for gathering the grapes, the overflow was also figured in the constellation Crater, or the Goblet, as a sign of the "uaka" that was held in Egypt when the land was full of water and the folks were full of wine. When the constellation Crater rose it showed that the urn or vase, an artificial type of the inundation, was overflowing with the waters that restored the drooping life of Egypt.
At that time the Egyptians celebrated a feast in honour of Hathor, at which a deluge of drink flowed freely. It is frankly described in the inscriptions as "the festival of intoxication", and was commemorated at Denderah in the month of Taht, the month of the year that opened with the inundation and the heliacal rising of Sothis. (Malcolm - Sirius - which we also know of as 'The Star of Bethlehem')
Various other fruits were ripe, including dates. Also water-melons were abundant. But Horus is the vine, whose advent was celebrated at the uaka festival with prodigious rejoicings and a deluge of drink of which the vine and cup, or mixing-bowl, were constellated as celestial symbols.
The juice of the grape was the blood of Horus or Osiris in the Kamite eucharist.
Hence the sacramental cup was figured in the constellation "Crater", the Goblet, or it may be the jar, from the Egyptian karau, a jar, the cup having two characters, one in the mythology and one in the eschatology."
When Horus came the grapes were ripe in Egypt and ready to be converted into wine. The season of grapes is dated July 13th in the Egyptian calendar.
There is but little left upon the modern globe of the ancient constellation of the Vine, but the star Epsilon, called Vindemiatrix, is still the sign of grape-gathering, and as we read in the calendar - "July the 9th: the Nile begins to rise abundantly. July 28th: abundance of grapes" (Egyptian Calendar. A.D. 1878, p. 19).
Vindemiatrix, the sign of grapes being ripe is described by Aratos as being so large in size and bright in splendour as to rival the stars in the Great Bear's tail, whereas at present it is but a star of the third magnitude (lines 130 to 140).
The grape-gathering in Egypt is depicted in or near the signs of Virgo and the Vine. It is said of Horus at Edfu, "Thou didst put grapes into the water which cometh forth from Edfu".
From that day forth the water of Edfu was called the water of grapes - that is, wine.
So anciently was the metaphor of the gospel miracle founded on the natural fact. Uaka is a name of the inundation, and also of the festival at which the deluge of drink was symbolically celebrated by the libation that was correspondingly colossal.
(Malcolm - Today we celebrate Uaka as 'Christmas')
The vine was not only set in heaven to denote the vindemia or time for gathering the grapes, the overflow was also figured in the constellation Crater, or the Goblet, as a sign of the "uaka" that was held in Egypt when the land was full of water and the folks were full of wine. When the constellation Crater rose it showed that the urn or vase, an artificial type of the inundation, was overflowing with the waters that restored the drooping life of Egypt.
At that time the Egyptians celebrated a feast in honour of Hathor, at which a deluge of drink flowed freely. It is frankly described in the inscriptions as "the festival of intoxication", and was commemorated at Denderah in the month of Taht, the month of the year that opened with the inundation and the heliacal rising of Sothis. (Malcolm - Sirius - which we also know of as 'The Star of Bethlehem')
Various other fruits were ripe, including dates. Also water-melons were abundant. But Horus is the vine, whose advent was celebrated at the uaka festival with prodigious rejoicings and a deluge of drink of which the vine and cup, or mixing-bowl, were constellated as celestial symbols.
The juice of the grape was the blood of Horus or Osiris in the Kamite eucharist.
Hence the sacramental cup was figured in the constellation "Crater", the Goblet, or it may be the jar, from the Egyptian karau, a jar, the cup having two characters, one in the mythology and one in the eschatology."