The obelisks of ancient Egypt represented the benben , the primordial mound upon which the god Atum stood at the creation of the world. As such, they were associated with the benu bird, the Egyptian precursor to the Greek phoenix. According to some Egyptian myths the benu bird was the first living creature whose cry awoke creation and set life in motion. The bird was linked to the morning star and the renewal of each day but was also the sign of the end of the world; in the same way the bird had cried to begin the creative cycle, she would sound again to signal its completion.
The Egyptians believed a day would come when the gods would die and all would return to the uniformity of primordial chaos. The benu bird would not choose this end of its own but would be given its cue by the sun god Ra who, in turn, would have been informed by the god Thoth, keeper of the records of humans and gods.
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Some parallels with our current situation, the end of a Book and beginning a new one, a rebirth. I wonder if anyone remembers a time when this obelisk was whole. Is it only broken in this new Book? So much speculation!
That tekhenu you’re all talking about in Aswan is the largest ever found. It wasn’t erected because of faults that appeared along its base during carving, but it was still considered an important marker outside the Lateran Palace despite the fact (or maybe because of it) that a shorter tekhenu was brought from Karnak to be its double.
Okay, forgive me, it’s early and my brain isn’t really functioning, but you’re saying that that obelisk has a counterpart somewhere else? Or you’re sayign that it’s counterpart is in Karnak?
The writing seems to be in Greek.
|ΑΜ[smudges]
|ΣΑΒΙΝΙΑΝΟΣ|
|ΣΕΡΑΠΙΩΕΝ|
|ΟΡΣΟΥ|
As far as I can tell, it translates to:
???
Savinianos
Serapioen
Orsou
Reginald believes that Savianos and Serapioen are the sons of Ursus, but that didn’t bring me any results in general.
Savinianos could refer to St Sabinian of Troyes (France) who died in 275 CE - he is associated with Patroclus who apparently converted him to Christianity. He was beheaded by the order of Marcus Aurelius, if the lore is correct.
Serapioen could refer to a bunch of people - but there was a St Serapion of Algiers if we’re going the saint route here. Apparently he is a patron saint against arthritis, so that’s nice. He had a pretty gruesome death at the hands of either French or English pirates, depending on who you ask.
Orsou (or Ursus, as Reginald thinks), was also a saint - Ursus of Aosta. He is generally depicted either holding a staff and book or hitting a rock and getting water. Fun fact: he is a patron saint for childbirth which might correlate with Saint Collete and her childbirth patronage…
The other inscription on the obelisk seems to be Eρμεινος which translates to Ermeinos. I didn’t find any search results for that, but Google reallllly wanted it to be Dominos pizza.
Other fun stuff - it seems the obelisk is made of dolerite which is used for all kinds of things like railroads, dams (like Aswan), and even gravestones. There’s a badass violin called the Blackbird that’s made of dolerite! It’s gorgeous, if you’re curious.
Also, searching for those names (specifically Ermeinos) brings up a (seemingly old) book on the obelisks. Not sure it’s what we’re looking for, but would probably be a cool read for anyone wanting to properly study them.
Okay, so we have basecamp evacuating during a moon in the heart of Leo , an obelisk associated with the morning star (alt name for planet Venus) associating with the name Ursus (another constellation? Ursa Major I’d think). I’m getting hardcore cosmos fragment vibes and no idea what to do with them XD
Stonehenge is made of dolerite…
I’m hoping to acquire a small bit of it for spiritual purposes, as it’s supposed to be very powerful in aiding psychic and spiritual abilities. It’s also called Merlinite, because it’s associated with Merlin - who was rumored to have built the Henge, and we all know the tales of his supposed psychic powers.
I’m being kept busy by the mundane, but I wanted to throw out there that the last strange thing I’ve seen on this forum was a old castle that may have properties related to the horoscope, and now an egyptian obelisk that has greek writing about saints on it.
It’s interesting to see this exchange, certain beliefs crossing large but not totally unlikely spans of space.
Same. I wasn’t around here in those days but things feel celestial. Where was Venus when the Moon was in Leo? If you looked up from the obelisk on that night, what would have been above?
I have an astronomy app on my phone…I wonder if it can tell me.
I did a bit of diving on the Egypt front (because The Mummy is life).
Karnak (where our unfinished obelisk was presumably headed) is a metric buttload of temple complexes. One of the temple precincts focuses on Mut, a later-era goddess who had basically assimilated Sekhmet and Menhit, both of whom were depicted with lion heads.
Which again puts us in a place of “cool story, but what do we do with it, assuming it has anything to do with this?”
Hey all, you might want to check out this email I just got to the writeus account. No idea who this kid is, but look at that last line:
Hey I don’t know if this is the right email but I was searching online and found you. Is that puzzle thing thing still going on? cause I think I found something and don’t know if it’s part of it or if there’s a reward or anything. we were out of school early a couple weeks ago and me and my friends went to Central Park and we went to the egyptian thing by the museum. We were just messing around and i found a ring on a tree branch. like a wedding ring. we tried to take pics of it but they didn’t come out and my brother said it was like it was giving off a frequency and maybe it had gps in it and maybe was a geocache. So when we were googling about it we found your site and all the other stuff that was in Central park.
oh how I found you was because the inside of the ring said “belonging to the cagliostro” and when my friend put it on it turned into a strip of paper with numbers on it. 404504.6N 142907.9E
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