How was the Ancient Pyrmaid of Giza used for religious purposes?
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A) There are 3 great pyramids at Giza. I'm supposing you mean the largest, the one for Khufu or Cheops as the Greeks called him.\n\nB) Its purpose was twofold. One, to hold in security for eternity the fleshly remains of the Pharaoh and two, to allow his spirit, or ka, to ascend to the heavens with ease and to find its way back home with equal ease.\n\nC) There are those who maintain that simply because the pyramid was unadorned, unfilled with either treasure OR mummy, that it must have had some other purpose, perhaps mystical or paranormal. Sorry. A far more likely explanation was that it was left unfinished when news came that an earlier pyramid had been successfully broken into and robbed. Khufu didn't think quite so highly of HIS final resting place after that and probably made arangements for his body and his goodies to be interred someplace a lot more secret than a 450 ft. tall 3 acre monument one can see from the moon!
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You read about the Pyramid of Giza at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
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There's a homepage that has a collection of different versions of the sword of justice (Goddess Justitia). Check it out, see sources below
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The God of the Old Testament certainly exhibits a violent nature. He is truly not a God of love or compassion. I notice his personality makes drastic changes from time to time. The more I study the Bible, the more I am coming to think that it is no more than myth.
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in ancient eygpt.. they used to cover the body with slat and spices and then they'd wrap a linen cloth around it i.e mummies...
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well i will introduce you to the hebrew tree of life. it has ten sephiroth (dots) and with these 10 dots are 22 connecting lines (22 major arcana cards and 22 hebrew letters) then you will see that like i do that the start of tarot is obviously some sort of flash card system for studying qabala. qabala is more then a mystical approach developed by hebrews i believe it comes before hebrews. qabala is quite literally a methodical approach to become totally one in spirit with the moment of now. a system if used correctly would balance out your energy, it would eradicate the ego voice in you. the tree of life is also a excellent filing system that fits all your experiences into it like tarot does. pagan festivals are based on the sun and not tarot. although some aspects of tarot can be and were used time to time. the pagan holiday is based on a 45 day basis. nearly or thereabouts a holiday was 45 days from one another. so there were 8 different holidays in the course of a year.  starting in october with samhain (pronounced sow en)  on october 31st was the day of new transformations, so in a way it best described the death card. it was considered much as the new years is today with the exception that much of the celebrations was done with the ancients in mind. next is Yule. december 20th (depending on the longest night) this celebration was to restart the sun getting warmer and yule logs were burned. next was imbolg or candlemas on or near feb 2  this celebrated that the winter was nearly over and spring was soon coming. next was ostara in or around march 21st this was the beginning of spring and rituals of fertility using rabbits and eggs were used to replenish the stores of foods used up over the long winter. next was beltaine which is another spring rite that equates to may day. may pole dances were fashioned from magick gathering dances sending energy along a ribbon tied to a pole. the patterns made by many ribbons would be divined or read by the local matriarch. then after beltaine was litha or high summer on or around june 22. this is the opposite of yule this is the longest day. then is lughnassa or lughnasadh which is the beginning of harvest. then mabon on or around sep 21. mabon is final harvest and spicing or storing for the long winter months coming. then back to samhain on october 31st.\n\n\nto go on to the rest of the question put to me i would answer that the wheel of the year goes as such winter would be north and the element earth(cold and dry) spring would be air and east (warm and moist) summer would be south and fire (warm and dry) and fall would be water and west (cold and moist)\n\nas i answered in your question relating to tarot and tree of life the four worlds of the tree are\nAtziluth which is the tree of primordial fire and this is the suit of wands\nBriah which is the tree of primoridial water and this is the suit of cups\nYetzirah is the tree of primordial air and this is the suit of swords\n\nAssiah is the tree of primordial earth and this is the suit of pentacles
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That was an old testament law for the Jewish people because God knew that if they married pagan women or men they would be enticed to worship their gods and turn from Him. \n\nDeuteronomy 7:1  "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,  (2)  and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.  (3)  You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,  (4)  for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.\n\nIn the new testament Christians are told:\n\nColossians 3:11  Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.\n\nIn other words, as long as a person is a follower of Jesus, their race has no meaning in God's eyes. If the person is not a believer, that's what matters now.\n\n2 Corinthians 6:14  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?  (15)  What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?  (16)  What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (17)  Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,  (18)  and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
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Why is a serpent used to incite Eve to eat \n>from the forbidden tree in the biblical tale ?\n\nWhy NOT?\n\n\n>Why is the serpent the one who incited Eve to eat \n>from the forbidden tree? \n\nWhy NOT?\n\n>and what does the serpent symbolise? \n>in many civilizations the serpent was depicted as a deity \n>symbol as the egyptian and sumerican civilizations , \n>what was the reality behind the serpent symbol \n>in the garden of Eden? \n\nCould it be the same, the Deceiver? The one who deceived them in the Garden of Eden and the one who got the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations to worship him as Deity?  Isn't that what he always wants? To be "like god"?
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It may have been used by the Aztecs. However, it was constructed by a much earlier civilization (one which existed in the 8th and 9th c). The name of the site comes to us through the Aztecs, Teotihuacan. We do not know much about the beliefs and practices of Teotihuacan civilization. For the Aztecs the entire site was revered as the place where the gods gathered together to create the world. Certainly, the association with the sun is completely conjectural. Presumably , the assocation with the sun is based on the axial layout of the site. the Pyramid is oriented east-west, along the path of the sun. Although the site as a whole is much more oriented north-south, as evidenced by the 'avenue of the dead' stretching from the 'pyramid of the moon' in the north to the 'ciudadela' in the south.
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as far as I am aware the Angels good or bad cannot create as God has created, and so I doubt that they used materialized human flesh as this would not be physical flesh and bones as we have, and therefore could not transmit the seed of man this way.\nI think it is more probable that these demons actually posessed real human beings at the time, and if you consider that there were many pagan peoples at the time who worshipped false deities with human sacrifice, and dark incantations etc, then possession of these pagans would have been very likely.
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LOL sorry I wasn't aware of that relic. Has it been scientifically studied? Or is it off limits to everyone like the ark in ethiopia?\nHell, we could do that, then implant it in a virgin and bingo, homemade holyman. I guess scientists work in mysterious ways too. LOL
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egypt
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Ancient egyptian religion was actually quite coherent on food offerings for the dead.\n\nEgyptians believed that a man consisted of five parts: his body, his name, his shadow, his ka, and his ba. A ba is what makes each person unique, i.e. his personality and his traits. A ka is the life-force -- when you die, your ka leaves your body.\n\nEgyptians logically concluded that when you are alive, the ka is sustained by food--after all, when you eat, you get stronger. When you don't eat, you die.\n\nSo when egyptians left food offerings for the dead, it was the ka of the dead that consumed the "life-force" of the food, since your body is no longer present to physically consume it.\n\nIn addition, the ancient egyptians often made "invocation offerings" or "voice offerings" rather than actual food. This involved a recitation offerings made for the ka of the dead, and invoked spiritual food for them in the afterlife.
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The creator of all things was either Re, Amun, Ptah, Khnum or Aten, depending on which version of the myth was currently in use. The heavens were represented by Hathor, Bat, and Horus. Osiris was an earth god as was Ptah. The annual flooding of the Nile was Hapi. Storms, evil and confusion were Seth. His counterpart was Ma'at, who represented balance, justice and truth. The moon was Thoth and Khonsu. Re, the sun god, took on many forms, and transcended most of the borders that contained the other gods. The actual shape of the sun, the disk (or, aten), was deified into another god, Aten. \n\n \n\nAs stated earlier, certain gods were worshipped in different areas. Local cities or villages, known as nomes, often had unique gods that were known only to that region. On occasion, these gods attained country -wide recognition and became the myths and legends that were passed on from century to century. Below is a listing of the main gods and their primary place of worship. \n\nAmaunet - A female counterpart to Amon and one of the primordial gods of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad (group of eight gods). She was also worshipped at Thebes along with Amon and Mut. \n\nAmon - Usually associated with the wind, or things hidden, and was also of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad. At Thebes he became Amon-Re, king of the gods. He was part of the Theban Triad, along with Mut and Khonsu. \n\nAntaios - He was originally a double god, "the two falcons", that was later joined to create one, probably that of Horus. \n\nAnuket - Worshipped at Elephantine, she was associated with the gazelle. \n\nApis - Seen as the bull with a solar disk between its horns, Apis was associated with Osiris and Ptah. \n\nAton - Also known as Aten, he was worshipped at Tell 'Amarna. \n\nAtum - A primordial god that was represented in the form of a human and a serpent. He was the supreme god in the Heliopolitan Ennead (group of nine gods) and formed with Re to create Re-Atum. \n\nHathor - The goddess of love, dance and alcohol was depicted as a cow. At Thebes she was also the goddess of the dead. She was worshipped at Dendera as the consort of Horus and Edfu, and was associated with Isis at Byblos. \n\nHorus - The earliest royal god was the shape of a falcon, with the sun and moon as his eyes. The sky-god was the ruler of the day. The many forms of Horus are; Re-Harakhti, Harsiesis, Haroeris, Harendotes, Khenti-irti, Khentekhtay (the crocodile-god), and Harmakhis, which is Horus on the horizons, in which the Sphinx of Giza is considered to be his aspect. \n\nIsis - The mother of Horus and sister and consort of Osiris was worshipped at Philae. Associated with Astarte, Hathor, Nut and Sothis, she was later worshipped over the entire Roman Empire. \n\nKhnum - Resembling a human with a rams head, he was worshipped in Hypselis, Esna, Antinoe and Elephantine. \n\nKhonsu - the moon god was the son of Amon and Mut. The main temple at Karnak is dedicated to him. \n\nMin - God of fertility coalesced with Amon and Horus. Min was mainly worshipped at Coptos and Akhmim. \n\nMut - Worshipped at Thebes, she was a consort of Amon and part of the Theban Triad (group of three gods). \n\nNut - Mother of the sun, moon and heavenly bodies. \n\nOsiris - He is regarded as the dead king that watches over the nether world and is rejuvenated in his son Horus. As the symbol of eternal life he was worshipped at Abydos and Philae. \n\nPtah - Worshipped in Memphis, he coalesced with Sokaris and Osiris. \n\nRe - He was the sun god of Heliopolis. From the fifth Dynasty onwards he becomes a national god and is combined with the supreme deity Amon. \n\nSerapis - He was mainly worshipped in Alexandria and was later worshipped by the Greeks as Zeus. He was never fully accepted by the Egyptians in the Ptolemaic period. \n\nSekhmet - She was part of the Memphite Triad with Ptah and Nefertem. She was the mistress of war and sickness. \n\nSeth - The son of Geb and Nut in the Heliopolitan Ennead was in the for
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Here are some links that might be helpful:\n\nhttp://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/women_egypt.html\nhttp://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/eyeliner2.html\nhttp://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam23.html\nhttp://www.werner-forman-archive.com/Ancient%20Egypt.htm\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~ancient_egypt/dema.html\n\nBy the way, these were all found from a search for ancient, cosmetics, and egypt on images.google.com. Good luck on your project!
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She was the first wife of Adam created as his helper.  Myths tell tales of Lilith choosing her freedom over Eden and the children of Adam's she'd given birth to.  She then hid in a cave and took the demons as her partner and spawned many demon children.  Stories differ though, Christians liken her to the serpent which seduced Eve.  Where you can find her is really not applicaple, you don't find her, she finds you!
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she refused the recumbant sexual position benaeth adam, and he tried to compel her by force, so she spake the secret name of god and rose up and flew away to the banks of the red sea where she coupled with demons and bore thousands of demon children. God sent three angels to bring her back to adam, savey sansevy and smengeloff, but she made a deal with them instead and to this day their names can be used to banish her. she has hair red as a rose and her adornments number forty, minus one, around her neck she wears all the jewels of the orient. It is the mystery of these adornments that she appears to have arms and legs, for god cut off her arms and legs after she tempted eve. She has two children that she came to have by herself, a daughter, also named lilith with dark hair who is the queen and mother of all djinn and a son who is known only as the "flame faced prince" she arose bteween adam and eve because adam had tried to couple with eve at the time of her menstrual impurity and from the filth formed of the blasphemous union she arose and fertilized eve before adam, thus concieving cain--want to know more?- e-mail me