The planet Uranus's (pronounced Jurenes) name comes from Ouranos the Greek God of the sky. Ouranos is the husband of Gaia and were the ancestors of most Greek gods.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Wooden statuette of a woman holding metal snakes
Dynasty XIII (1786-1633 BCE)
The combination of snake wands and the lioness head is seen in a wooden statuette of woman with movable arms found in 1896 by James Edward Quibell in a cache of magical objects in a tomb dating to Dynasty XIII (1786-1633 BCE) discovered under the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II (1290-1224 BCE), at Thebes. The statuette, which holds a metal snake-wand in each hand, is thought to represent a female sau, a type of magician, who could supply magical protection (the Egyptian verb sa means "to protect") both by making charms and amulets, and by using spoken and written charms.
Nobody knows who this woman or goddess really is though there is much speculation as to her statues and spiritual preferences. They call her the Minoan Snake Goddess of Knossos, Crete from 1600 BCE. When you look at her you see a wide-eye woman with a cat sitting on her head, two serpents, great breasts, good posture and a fantastic dress. She is by far one my favorite statues from antiquity even thought her archetypal attributes are a mystery. Personally as I gaze upon her I see The Summerian Goddess Inanna. She was a dominate Goddess of fertility whose young male consort's annual death and rebirth symbolized the decay and regrowth of vegetation. Her name was changed from region to region and as time past, but the story repeats its self again and again in perhistory religions. Others are reminded of the Egyptian goddess Weret-hekau who was often seen as the cobra rising from the head of the Pharaoh. Her principal tasks were to protect the creator sun god and to act as foster-mother to the pharaohs. Symbolically for me this nameless Goddess represents a time when female spiritual wisdom and serpent magic were revered.
There is much speculation that the Minoans lived in a matrilineal society before Indo-European intruders brought them heavily patriarchal and patrilineal social structures. Though there is a lack of circumstantial evidence to support the ideas of a purely matrarical society. I do however believe there was a time before the sons Abraham began their wars against each other. When a girl had a better chance to rule a kingdom then she dose now.
Our above Goddess appears to come from a time when the patriarch had not yet demonized breasts, snakes, magic and woman. Frankly the whole thing just makes me want to belly dance topless with snakes. All hail the Serpent Breast Lady, I know I do.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Why do we need money?
Image form http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/story/sto_set.html
I am broke…I take that back…it is much more manifestically correct to say that I am on a fix budget. That being the case I cannot help but ask myself "Why do I need money?". I mean apart from the obvious eat or a starve scenario. I guess the question really is, "When did this whole money thing come into vogue?". Who came up with this great idea that keeps me feeling like I am just about to fall off the end of an economic treadmill that has got it‘s knob turned up to aerobic. Once again we can blame the Sumerians. I am not going to blame them for the current speed of the economic treadmill but they did come up with the most ancient form of money we know of called the Shekel. The term came into use around 3000 BC in Mesopotamia and was a reference to a specific mass of barley. It was a unit of currency and a unit of weight just like the British pound. Laws about money came into effect around 2050 BC in the land of Ur (Codex of Ur-Nammu) but were solidified into the laws that we would be more familiar with by 1760 BC in the form of The Code of Hammurabi. The money meme spread like wild fire from there. Still today the images on our dollar reflect it’s ancient ancestors; the eagle, the unfinished pyramid, and the eye. If you want to go in to that more go to http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/.
Why do I need money? I don’t know if I have really answer that for myself . Before money there was barter with strangers and enemies. Other then that non-monetary societies relied on gift economics. Gift economic... I like the sound of that. Maybe we could revive the concept of gift economics. SPREAD THE MEME!!!! Well even though I am no richer in the pocket after all this bla bla bloging I must say I am feeling richer in the mind. I now realize my dollar stands on the back of giants (greedy alien Sumerian giants perhaps but giants none the less). The roots of cash are ancient and the need for it is probably not going away in the near future. So feel free to post any ideas on how I can get more money or how I can get over my need for it. I am open to either but until then I will be wishing I could pay my mortgage with love. -Anaspaceship 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Why is a minute 60 seconds?
Why are there 60 minute in hour, 12 hours in a day/night, or 60 seconds in a minute? We can thank the ancient Sumerians, from the 3rd millennium BC, for being the first recorded civilization to have a numeral system with sixty as the base. In a word they invented sexagesimal (base 60). Though the people of Sumer (today Iraq) claim the knowledge was not invented by them but rather taught to them by their gods the Anunnaki. However base 60 came into the consciousness of humans it has remain incredibly useful to humanity. The Sumerians sexagesary numeral system was passed on to the Babylonians and then to world. Today we still use there wisdom in measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates. Spin around and do a 360. Feel that …now to get a even better feel for their numbers check out the site http://easycalculation.com/funny/numerals/sumerian.php , to see how they wrote fractions go to http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Numbers.html , and to see how they wrote numbers larger then sixty http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Bignums.html . Sixty is the smallest number divisible by every number from 1 to 6. Also the number 60 has 12 factors (1,2,3,4,5,6,10, 12,15, 20, 30, 60), making many fractions of sexagesimal simple. Think of all the ways you can evenly divide up an hour. I came up with today’s question because my daughter is studying Babylon in her 5th grade class but what I learn most from the question of the day is that sexagesimal is my new favorite word. It’s big, it’s smart, and it’s kinky. Say it with me …sex·a·ges·i·mal. Now I dare you to use it in a sentence today. -Anaspaceship
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Egypt
It's some thing to think about. Reincarnation perhaps? Akhenaten reigned durnig the last time our solar system lined up with the center of our galaxy.
Blue Lotus
Nefertiti is giving the blue lotus to Akhenaten.
Perhap it has hallucinogenic properties
that makes the pharohs starwalkers.
-anaspaceship 2010
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