(T)hey are provoked by injuries, propitiated by services and by gifts, rejoice in honors, are delighted with a variety of sacred rites, and are annoyed if any of them be neglected.
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.” - Book of Genesis
Which is then fleshed out in First Enoch:
And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations ot to abandon this plan but to do this thing.”
Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.'
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Atum (or Atem, Tum, Tem, Temu) is the hermaphroditic creator God of Egypt. He is pictured as a man with a double crown. His name means “all” or “perfection” or “the complete one”.
That same writing states that Atum's hand is the title of the god's wife based on her Heliopolitan beginning. Other myths state Atum created by masturbation, with the hand he used in this act representing the female principle inherent within him. Yet other interpretations state that he has made union with his shadow.
In the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians believed that Atum lifted the dead king's soul from his pyramid to the starry heavens.
In the Book of the Dead, which was still current in the Graeco-Roman period, the sun god Atum is said to have ascended from chaos-waters with the appearance of a snake, the animal renewing itself every morning.
I summon you, Headless One, who created earth and heaven, who created night and day, you who created light and darkness.
You are Osoronnophris whom none has ever seen.
You are IABAS! You are IAPOS!
You have distinguished the just and the unjust.
You have made female and male.
You have revealed seed and fruits.
You have made men love each other and hate each other.
I am Moses your prophet to whom you have transmitted your mysteries celebrated by Israel.
You have revealed the moist and the dry and all nourishment.
Hear me!I am the messenger of Pharaoh Osoronnophris.
This is your true name which has been handed down to the prophets of Israel.
Hear me!
ARBATHIAŌ REIBET ATHELEBERSĒTH ARA BLATHA ALBEU EBENPHKHI KHITASGOĒ IB AŌTH IAŌ
Hearken to me and turn back this daimon!
Which I found kind of amusing when I read this bit of bad transcription. Why? Well, aside from Hermes (identified with Thoth, of course), there's this fact:
Moses was a prophet from the tribe of Levi. After him, the role of ‘Levite’ was formalised according to God’s instructions. Moses was not recognised as a ‘Levite’ as such, because he predated the concept in Israel.
Orion's Belt: String of Stars & Region of Star Birth - Space.comIn November, one of the world’s most well-known constellations rises up over the eastern edge of the northern hemisphere: the constellation Orion. Looking back into ancient Egyptian culture, we find that the region of Orion in the sky was linked to their god of the dead, Osiris.One of the easiest ways to identify the constellation Orion is by his tell-tale belt of three stars. The central star in Orion’s belt is named “Alnilam”, which means ‘string of pearls’.
Ancient Egyptians believed Alnilam portended fleeting public honors to those born under its influence, but we may also find here the source for references to the “pearly gates” that the dead pass through from this life into the next.It was as though the dead traveled into the afterlife through the region of the Orion constellation, where they met the god of the dead, Osiris, and passed through the string of pearls at the center of his belt.
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