Ra is a sun god. Everyone knows this, right? Well, maybe not. This article rightly cites some very contradictory writings that attribute to Ra some very un-sun-like characteristics, like rising in the west and setting in the east, and is said to shine with an emerald light. He is said to rule over circles and to maintain a dwelling in those circles. That doesn’t sound very much like the sun. However, it does very much sound like something I’ve been researching lately. So let’s start by deconstructing a very well-known image of Ra in his “solar barque.”
Ra is wearing a hawk/falcon-headed helmet.
So does Horus. Confusion of gods? No, more like a symbol of brotherhood. The hawk/falcon helmet is an artifact of Sumer – the Anzu wore them.
The Igigi – equivalent of our modern Teamsters+Corps of Engineers – had a subunit referred to as the Anzu (after the name/title of their founder/leader), which were the Anunaki defense unit, of which each ruler had a “wing” – sort of like the states have National Guard units. Like the Igigi, the Anzu were alternately a planetary-based unit or an off-world squadron that visited Earth, depending on whose interpretation you prefer. At this remove it is impossible to tease out the real meaning other than they had the power of flight attributed to them and have been described as taking part in an aerial battle of grand proportion.
Enki, who had a close association with Anzu, the leader of the Anzu, also occasionally wore a hawk helmet as one might receive an honorary degree – such indicated he, too, had attained mastery of flight and was considered a member of their brotherhood.
Ra (and Horus) therefore were at least honorary members of the Anzu.
The barque is adorned with the Eye of Horus on both ends.
The history of Horus relates that he covered his eye-socket (he lost his eye in battle with Set) with the divine serpent, Uraeus. In the depiction above, one may see both the U-bird (vulture, a symbol of an “outlaw” wing of the Anzu), and the serpent.
Enki was accused of being a serpent by his brother, Enlil, when in actuality it was Enlil who had made a pact with serpents (I don’t have a reference for that statement, just the word of my god-friend, but it fits perfectly with the myth-fragments). They had black ops back in those days, too, and the Eye of Horus started as a symbol of Enki’s “serpent-brotherhood” (falsely so-called). I can’t go into more detail than that at this time, except to say the admonition to be “wise as serpents and gentle as doves” may be a semi-aware corruption of the mission of this ancient intelligence service.
Each of the parts of the Eye stand for a particular sense and the brow represents integration of sensory information into consciousness. Therefore, the barque must have the power of sensing (fore and aft) and a form of consciousness (artificial intelligence?).
The barque is green…
It is a more efficient use of energy to utilize a mass already traveling in the approximate direction one wants to go when traveling through space than it is to launch self-powered craft. A certain type of very energetic comet that naturally produces an ion stream, such as recent comet Lulin, could be transformed into a naturally occurring ion engine…and it would be strikingly green in color due to ion excitation of cyanogen gas. Depending on its orbit, such also could be described as moving from west to east through the night sky.
The barque has a lotus on each end.
It’s a stretch, but there’s a theory out that the lotus stands for the physics concept of wormhole due to similarity in shape. Certainly the lotus adornment in most illustrations looks more like a wireframe depiction of a wormhole than it resembles the actual flower. The recurved shape is likewise intriguing. I’ll leave that idea open for speculation at this time.
Now we get into the really speculative part, because this is stuff I’ve gotten directly from my god-friend or other personal sources, so there’s no authoritative citation possible, other than to say that everything I’ve gotten from these sources has so far proved to be true.
- There are four “identical” followers on the barque. My god-friend had four “identical” followers who accompanied him into his exile. They are, I believe clones that were differentiated only according to gender – two were made male, and two female, and that was the only difference between them whatsoever.
- Ra carries a staff that, historical concepts aside, was identified to me as the Staff of the Magus by my Initiator. It is specifically a symbol of command of MAGICK, not just command in general.
- There is an IBIS on the prow of the boat. The ibis, according to my god-friend, was the symbol of the rank of Ensi, or commander of a vessel. That it is shown as nonhuman may indicate artificial intelligence. Enki’s personal vessel was called the IBEX, which I am told is a play on words in the native tongue as well as a play on symbolism, meant to take a poke at Enlil, whose ego was rather wrapped with bull-fertility symbols. I will get in trouble if I go any farther with explaining that one. ;o)
- The ibis is wearing a symbol of the plant of life, a specific one that incorporates the Plumes of Ma’at and the symbol (I’m told) of a different world entirely. I might mention at this point that associated with Ahura Mazda is the winged-disk of the Sumerian pantheon, the car maker Mazda uses the “owl face” symbol (seen “flowering” above the plant of life), and Inanna/Isis is associated with the owl. Nonsequitur? Coincidence? I’ll let y’all stew on that.
- The red disk above Ra’s head (commonly associated with all Egyptian deities) had its origins in the Sumerian winged-disk. The loss of the wings denotes, according to my god-friend, those who were left behind (and no longer had the power of flight available to them).
So, I don’t know about y’all, but that debunks the idea of Ra being a sun-god as far as I’m concerned, and makes it much more likely that he was an inheritor of the grounded Anzu. Of course, it also opened a whole big speculative can o’ worms, too. The Celestial Mystery School is good for that. ;o)
Exiles of Eridu 