Conspiracy & Prophecy of Jacob

Abraham married Lady Sarah and left Babylon towards Canaan land, and settled in a place called Shechem (Biblical name) which is now known as Nablus in Palestine.

The Bible defined the Land of Canaan as “the Promised Land”, and named it “Land of Israel”.

Later, following the Exodus from Egypt, Joshua assembled the Israelites in Shechem and encouraged them to reaffirm their adherence to the Torah.

According to Book of Genesis, God promised this Land to Abraham’s descendants.
This is may be why all three religions claim the Land.

Abraham's nephew Lot traveled with him and settled in kingdom of Sodom.

Lady Sarah was barren and offered her Egyptian maid Hagar to bring him a son.
Hagar got pregnant with Ismail.
Sarah was upset and asked Abraham to abandon Hagar and her son in the desert.

Later Sarah was pregnant with Isaac.

Arab tribes raised Ismail as one of them and shared with Hagar the water she discovered in the desert.

Abraham and Ismail built Kaaba, which later was considered by Muslims, as the first foundation of House of God.

Muslims believe Abraham is the first Muslim, and Ismail is the “Sacrificed Son”.
Jews and Christians consider Abraham is their father, and Isaac is the “Sacrificed Son”.

Isaac had twin boys; Esau and Jacob.

Jacob and his mother deceived his father Isaac and had him transfer the prophecy to Jacob.
Jacob, afraid of his brother ran from his father’s house, and at a certain place or spot, the Book of Genesis considered him renamed as Israel and became the father of the Israelites.
Later this place would be known as Jerusalem.

Because Hagar was the maid of Sarah, some Jews and Christians claim they are superiors to Muslims!
Jacob had some children from maids as well.

Jacob fled Back to Haran, his grandfather Abraham birth place.
He worked for his uncle (brother of his mother), and married his two daughters, and a 2 maid of each one of his wives.
Jacob deceived his uncle with his flocks and herds. He stole some expensive households and fled back to Shechem in the Land of Canaan.

To be continued ....
Sami Cherkaoui

The Land of Feuds

We previously established that the land of Shem was penetrated by Canaan, his off-springs and off-roots. They settled on the coast of Anatolia (South Turkey), Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.

We also know that from Aprachid (son of Shem), came Eber who is the main seed of Hebrews.

From Eber came Joktan who is the main seed of Arabs.

The other son of Eber whose name is Peleg (brother of Joktan), settled in Babel, and the Book of Genesis marked that in his days "the Earth was divided", which was politically translated to the start of a “feud” between the two brothers (Peleg and Joktan). As a result Peleg fled Babel to settle in the Arabian Peninsula.

His descendants were Adnan and Maad, from whom Mohammad descended.

Prophet Mohammad goes to his roots and stops at Adnan, saying he does not wish to go further back?

From Peleg's descendants was Abraham, who later will be a dominant figure to the three main religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Abraham had a son from Lady Sara called Isaac and a son from Lady Hagar called Ismail.

Ismail was raised by the Arabs

Isaac was raised by Hebrews and from him came Jacob, the father of the Israelites.

The sons of Shem raised the following nations:

Elam: a kingdom which was established in the lands of Arabia (South Iran and south Iraq).

Assyria:  The Akkadian kingdom in upper Tigris (Iraq) and later was split into two kingdoms; Assyria in the North and Babel in the south.

Lydia: A kingdom which governed Anatolia Turkey (Manisa and Izmir) and later the great Hettite Empire rose from its foundations.

Decedents of Aram inherited northern Mesopotamia and Syria, including the lands between Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Asshur mountains, land of Ema, Assur, Babel, Persia, Assyria, Babylonia and Media.

Muslims believe that Prophet Hud who lived in Madian of Ancient Arabia is also descendant of Aram.

From all those historic nations, great and important civilizations were founded to play significant roles that divided the lands to ethnic sects and later to religious groups; Sumerian, Akkadian, Ur, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrians, Hittites, Median, Persian, Egyptians, Hyksos, Ethiopian, Libyans and others.

The lands of Mesopotamia were divided between Shem, Ham and Canaan.

Jews claim that Canaan does not exist as a nation today.

To be continued ....

Sami Cherkaoui

Rebel of Canaan

Canaan and his descendants were in continuous rebel and constant fight of that curse of Noah and the idea of being a servant to Shem.

His off-springs formed major powers, and repeatedly tried to control the regions of Egypt, Syria and Phoenicia.

The Hittites having their strong base in Anatolia and Northern Syria were in continuous wars with Egypt and tried several times to invade the lands.
Later all those hostilities ended with the famous battle of Kaddish, which was resulted with both; Hittites and Egyptians declaring amazing victory.
However both were extremely exhausted and many important political changes happened in the aftermath of the battle.

The Jebusites were also offspring of Canaan, settled in Philistine and built a city and named Jebus which is now the city of Jerusalem. Later Jebus was conquered by King David.

The Amorites who were described in the Bible as the Giants, probably are the same people of Eram in the Koran.
They were the inhabitants of Parts of Arabia, Jordan and North Syria.
The Bibles tell that they were conquered by Joshua, as the Israelites were ordered to destroy all the inhabitants of Canaan, however the Gibenonites (offshoots of Amorite) tricked them to a treaty that kept their lives but only as slaves.

The Elamites were descendants of Elam son of Shem and inhabited the lands southwest of Iran and Iraq.

They were later conquered by the Sumerian king Enmebargesi, and the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who put the Hammurabi Code, a law that was written before the Mosaic Code, a matter which was subject to disputes between civilizations for many centuries to come, probably till our days.

To be continued
Sami Cherkaoui

Qahtan and the Rise of Arabs

The second son of Eber is Joktan: In Arabic he is called Qahtan.
Ethnographers identified Joktan's sons with people around the Indus river?

Joktan had eight sons: Almodad, Hadoram, Hazarmaveth, Sheleph, Diklah, Abimael, Jerah and Sheba.

According to Book of Genesis, refusal of several sons of Joktan as well as Abraham and Lot, to participate in baking bricks to build the Tower of Babel, Joktan had to smuggle them out of Babel to Shinar which was an unidentified Land in Mesopotamia.

Later the tribe of Jerah or Jurhum son of Joktan raised Ismail son of  Abraham,
Ismael's descendants gathered as an Arab Nation that spread in Mesopotamia between and outside the Two Rivers.
Prophet Mohammad of Islam derived from this Genetic Line.

Ismael had 12 sons:
Nabit - he controlled the land from River Euphrates to Red Sea
Qaidar - he controlled from Persia to Sinai - He is the Father of Adnan who prophet Mohammad said he was from his blood line.

Abdeel or Abdullah- He controlled North West Arabia
Mibsam, Mishma and Dumah - Lived in different locations in Arabia Desert
Massa- he is the father of Nomadic Tribe that inhabited the Northern Part of the Arabian desert towards Babylonia
Haidar, Tema, Jetur, Naphih and Kedmah whose tribes moved throughout the Arab Peninsula.

Adnan had 2 sons: Maad and Akk
Akk moved to settle in Yemen

Maad had 3 sons: Anmaar, Nazar and Eyad.
Nazar had 2 sons Mudhar and Rabi'ah who are considered the fathers of the most famous Arab Tribes that were named after their names.

At this point may be we should try to see how we to inter-relate so far, these genetic lines with Geo-politics.

To be continued
Sami Cherkaoui

After The Flood - The New Generations

After the flood and after Noah's settled on Land with his Sons, and afyer the Sons received his Blessings and Wishes, He decided they spread on Earth and each one of them settle on a separate land.
Japheth moved through Turkey and inhabited the lands of North Iran, Armenia and Russia, then continued to explore all the North of East and West Europe, then down to France, Spain, Italy and the Greek Islands.

The Bible ascribed seven sons of Japheth from whom the following nations raised:
From Gomer: Armenians, Ceimmerians, Scythians, Welsh, Irish, Germans, Huns, Franks and Turks.
From Magog: Slavs, Mongols, Hungarians, Irish, Finns, Pamiris. Pashtuns.
From Madai: Medes, Indo-Iranians, Mitanni, Mannai, Persian, Tajiks, Balochis and Tati.
From Javan: Greeks (Ionians)
From Tubal: Tabal, Tibareni, Georgians, Italics, Iberians, Basques.
From Tiras: Thracians, Goths, Jutes, Teutons.
From Meshech: Phrygians, Illyrians, Caucasian Iberia, Russians.

Ham moved to Africa and parts of the Near East (India)
Egypt was considered in the Bible as the Land of Ham.
Ham became the forefather of the southern peoples (Hamitic Race)
He had four sons from whom the following nations derived:
From Cush: Egypt, Yemen, Eritrea, Arabian Peninsula, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Babel, Akkad.
From Mizraim: Egypt, Libya, Crete and Cyprus.
From Phut: Land of Punt
From Canaan: Phoenicia, Anatolia, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

The Book of Jubilees hinted that Canaan further refused to join his brothers to settle in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile (Africa) and proceeded to inhabit the eastern shores of Mediterranean "squatting" within the inheritance of Shem in the region that later is promised to Abraham.

Offspring of Canaan were:
The Hittites: People of Hatti a powerful entity of Anatolia
The Jebusites: A tribe lived around Jerusalem
The Amorites: Lived between Jordan, Syria and part of Saudi Arabia.
The Girgasites: Egypt Delta
The Arkites: Lived in Akkar North of Lebanon
The Sinites: Lived in the desert of Sinai Egypt
The Arvadites: Lived in Island of Arwad Syria
The Zemarites: Lived in city of Dummar Syria
The Hamathites: Lived in the city of Hamah Syria

Sam or Shem is known as the forefather of the Middle peoples (Semitic Race)
Jews consider him their father through Arpachshad.
His children were Elam, Asshur, Aram, Lud and Arpachshad from whom Abraham was descended.
Sam and his sons were the ancestors of the following nations:
From Elam: Khuzistan, Iran
From Assur: Iraq
From Arpachshad: Iraq, Turkey, Syria (Sham), Lebanon and possibly south Jordan and north Saudi Arabia.
From Lud: Anatolia
From Aram: Iraq, Syria

It is considered by most scholars and historians that the five sons of Sam were the ancestors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Syria, Chaldea and Lydia respectively.
Some historians believe that Sam descended the whole of European people.
The Islamic scholar Al Tabari believes that the Greeks are descendants of Sam.

Now Arpachshad who is considered the father of Jews, and had 3 sons:
Cainan: whom for some reasons the Jews cancelled his name from the genealogical list

Shelah or Salah: Who may be also son of Cainan and not Arpachshad, had a son called Eber who is the eponymous ancestor of Hebrews. He was living in Babel, however it is said by the Jewish traditions that he refused to participate in building the Tower of Babel. He had two sons, Peleg and Joktan.

Peleg: Whom in his days and according to the Book of Genesis "The Earth was divided" and this expression was translated as political divisions between the sons of Noah.
From Peleg there were Reu, Serug, Nabor, Terah and Abraham.

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To Be continued .....
Sami Cherkaoui

Mesopotamia Since Creation

Lords & Slaves

Today, there is a solid international behavior attempting to divide the region again into demographic lands, to reshuffle history at present, and prepare this land and its surroundings for a certain future.

It seems there were certain stations in the past that helped in creating the present we are having now, along with all its complications.
The earliest roots of this story would be the Creation of Adam and Eve our first parents.
They mated, had two sons, one of them killed the other, And murder was the first crime that let evil got active on Earth.

Akhnokh (Idris), who was a prophet but also a teacher (Hermes). He had all  knowledge and science which he taught to humans.
Koran tells that God raised Idris to a higher place. May be this means a higher rank with regards to the enormous knowledge he acquired.
Interestingly he was born in Babylon but left to Egypt to start his teachings.
The Pharaohs were excellent students. They captured all sciences, then spread them worldwide.
Their first inventions were arms and weapons.

Noah lived in ancient Mesopotamia, and was known as the person who built the ark to save humans and animals from a devastating flood.
All religious and history books confirm that he at least had three sons Sam, Ham and Japheth.
In the book of Genesis Noah cursed Ham (because he saw him naked) and decided to punish his son Canaanby being always a servant to his brothers and brothers' sons and their decedents.

Noah blessed Sam (Shem) and wished for Japheth to multiply in numbers, and be under the "protective umbrella" of Shem. Canaan always be their servants!
Talmud elaborated more and concluded that either Ham saw his father mating his wife or Ham himself had an intercourse with his father's wife.
In any case now there are already Lords and Slaves

To be continued
Sami Cherkaoui

Mesopotamia between past and present

After the death of Alexander the Great, a series of civil wars tore his empire apart that resulted in the formation of a number of states ruled by his surviving generals and formed the Arsacid Dynasty.
However, wars with Rome and the Nomads, and the fighting among the Parthian nobility had weakened the Arsacids and the empire broke and vanquished by the Persian Sassanids, and Parthia folded into a newly formed province Khorasan.

In the 7th Century AD, the Sassanid Empire was conquered by the Muslim Armies under the famous Arab military leader Khalid Ibn Al Waleed.
Consequently Mesopotamia was reunited under the Arabs, but governed by two provinces: Northern Mosul and Southern Baghdad. Later under the Abbasid Dynasty,

Baghdad became the capital of the Arab Empire until the sack of Baghdad 1258 by the Mongolian leader Hulagu Khan who left Baghdad with 1 million person dead, and the city was totally burnt including the House of Wisdom and all its libraries.
He used the invaluable books to make a passage across the Tigris River.

This year marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age.

Later the Ottoman Turks took over Baghdad and Mesopotamia was ruled as three separate territories: Mosul, Baghdad and Basra which is a territory included Kuwait.

At the end of WWI, Mesopotamia was occupied by the British Army who under the authority of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia, set up the government of Syria and Iraq under one Hashemite ruler.

After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, in 1920, the nation-state of Iraq was formed with its present days borders. Kuwait was a British protectorate, granted its independence from Britain in 1961.
Today we see further attempts to divide the region again into demographic lands. to reshuffle history at present, and prepare it for a certain future.

This ends a brief outlook of Mesopotamia and will try to dig more in the past of this region to see why it reached this mess and confusion in the present days

Sami Cherkaoui

Mesopotamia Under Alexander The Great

Past, Present and Future of the Cradle of Civilization

Under the Persian Achemenid Empire, Cyrus the Great became the pre-eminent power of the world. However lately conquered and fell to Alexander the Great of Macedonia. He invaded Persia and managed to overthrew King Darius III and conquered the entirety of the Persian Empire.

He then proceeded to take Syria and most of the Levant coast. He captured Tyre after a long siege. Then he moved to Egypt and many towns were quickly capitulated on his route except Gaza which fell after a long siege similar to the one of Tyre.

In Egypt he considered himself a liberator and was pronounced as the "Master of the Universe", and founded the city of Alexandria which was named after him.

He then marched back into Northern Iraq and defeated Darius once more at the Battle of Gaugamela and captured Babylon. Darius fled to Media then Parthia and Alexander set off in pursuit and just got Darius after his kinsman Bessus stabbed him.

A strange incident then happened there.
Alexander claimed that while Darius was dying he named Alexander as his successor to the Achaemenid Throne, and he considered himself the legitimate successor to Darius.
He declared war against Bessus to avenge Darius death, and followed him to Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.

Alexander the Great had a complete change in attitude and was rapidly transforming into an "Asian Manner" person. He changed a lot of his habits and traditions to new ones from the Asian roots.
He married a Persian woman. He appointed Persian rulers.
The Persians and Indians started to see him as a new prophet rather than an invader.
He was proclaimed as King of Asia. But he preferred to take the Persian title "King of Kings".

This made his military generals conspire against him. They refused to follow his orders and invade further the Indian sub-continent. Then he died mysteriously in Babylon.

To be continued
Sami Cherkaoui

Past, Present and Future of the Cradle of Civilization

INTRODUCTION

Mesopotamia - The Land Between The Two Rivers
The Cradle of Civilization is in the region of Mesopotamia that is the area between the two rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and includes Iraq, Northern Jordan, parts of eastern Syria, (Lebanon), Kuwait, southeastern Turkey and western Iran.
These countries are well known as the countries between the two rivers.

They are also the countries in which the first societies known had emerged and developed, and from where the basic three religions were sourced.
Later it developed to include the Near and Middle East lands, which included the Nile Valley in Egypt, the Indus Valley in India and the Yellow River Valley in China.
Great Dynasties established, ruled and either vanished or developed into further civilizations; Samarra, Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk, Akkadia, Ur, Assyria, Babylonia, Hittite, Achamenida, Parsia and many others.

The earliest language was the Sumerian, then the Semetic then the Akkadian then the Aramaic.

Mesopotamians were first to develop industrial tools and materials to improve their social lives, facilitate their trading methods and strengthen their military force.
They invented metal tools, glass making tools, textile making machines, weaving tools.
They built dams, water storage tanks and irrigation systems.
They used copper, bronze iron and gold to make their military armors.
They invented the sexagesimal numeral system, which is the source of 60 minutes/hour and 24 hours/day, 7days/week, 30 days/months, 12 months/year calendar, created the 360 degree circle and mastered in map making.

Mesopotamian people worshiped many Gods through their history, and told legendary tales about those Gods in a mythical way, the echoes of which are still banging till now.

Because of the different religions and powers, Mesopotamia became a battle field where different civilizations and their relevant empires clash, to conquer.

To Be Continued .......

Sami Cherkaoui

Inanna Myth: Moon Vs Mood

Inanna

Inanna is the Queen of  Heaven, Goddess of  Sexual Love, Fertility and Warfare.

Her symbol is the eight-pointed star.

She is the Goddess of the Planet Venus, the daughter of the moon God Nanna, and sister of the sun God Utu and the rain God Ishkur.

She stands on two lions as she was the Queen of Power.

One day she decided to attend the funeral rites of  her brother in law Gugalana the Bull of Heaven who was married to her sister Ershkigal, Goddess of the Underworld.
Gugalana was killed by the King of Uruk Gilgamesh and his companion Enkidu.

Before leaving to the Underworld, she instructed her servant Ninshubar to beg the Gods: Enlil, Nanna and Enki to save her if she does not come back in three days.
She was aware how much her sister used to hate her, and she was quite sure that Ershkigal would do anything to get rid of her.

Inanna and Erishigal: Meeting the Shadow of Oneself

For her trip she dressed elaborately with a turban wig, a lapis lazuli necklace with its intense blue color, beads upon her breast, pala dress, mascara, pectoral, a golden ring and laspis lazuli measuring rod.
Each garment represents a powerful mes or ability she used to have.
This elegance made her sister hates her even more..

Inanna - Sumerian Mother Goddess

When she arrived at the first gate of the Underworld, she called on the gatekeeper to open, but the gatekeeper and under the instructions of Ershkigal said she will be allowed to enter if she hands over her lapis lazuli Measuring Rod.
He said this is one of the rules of the Underworld.
She obliged and passed through the seven gates and at each gate she gave up one of her garments she had been wearing, thus reaching her sister's steps naked and stripped of all her powers.
She was deprived from talking.
After she had crouched down and had her clothes removed, they were carried away. Then she made her sister Erec-ki-gala rise from her throne, and instead she sat on her throne. The Anna, the seven judges, rendered their decision against her. They looked at her -- it was the look of death. They spoke to her -- it was the speech of anger. They shouted at her -- it was the shout of heavy guilt. The afflicted woman was turned into a corpse. And the corpse was hung on a hook.

Erskigal's hate for Inanna was due to her destiny, she can not leave her kingdom of the Underworld to join the other 'living' gods, and they can not visit her in the Underworld, or else they can never return. Inanna symbolized erotic love and fertility, and contrasts with Ershkigal.

After three days Ninshubar asked the three Gods to save her. 

Only Enki was deeply troubled and agreed to help. The other two refused blaming her for her own mess.

ENKI 

 The deity of crafts; mischief; water, seawater, lakewater, intelligence and creation

Enki created two asexual figures from the dirt under the fingernails of Gods.
One he named Galatura and the other Kurajara.
He taught them how to reach to Ershkigal and make peace with her.
He instructed them to reach the corpse of Inanna and sprinkle it with the food and water of life.

Galatura and Kurajara reached Ershkigal who was in deep agony, she led them to Inanna's corpse and asked them to relieve her as well and she offered them rivers of water and fields of grain.
They denied the request of Ershkigal and sprinkled Inanna's corpse sixty times with water of life, so she got her soul back.

However, Demons of her sister came to her and insisted that she was not free to go unless someone takes her place.
They wanted her to choose one of her family including her husband Dumuzi, and they let her see him enjoying a moment under a tree not caring for his wife's absence.
This view displeased her, but his sister begged that she can be in his place.
So it was decreed that Dumuzi spent half a year in the underworld and the other half to be spent there by his sister.
She stood up and walked with them and when she was passing the gates of the Underworld back to her World, she was retrieving her garments one by one at each gate.
When she passed the first gate out, she had all her powers back.
But Inanna regretted what she agreed for her husband and started to miss him.

The fertility she controls with her godly powers begins to fade when she misses her husband during the six months that he is in the Underworld.
This infertile time corresponds to the Fall and winter months.

When her husband is with her, everything is filled with love and life, and this time corresponds to Spring and Summer.

Some scholars interpreted this myth as an allegorical report of related movements of the planets Venus, Mercury and Jupiter, and those of the waxing Crescent Moon in the Second Millennium, beginning with Spring Equinox and concluding with a meteor shower near the end of one synodic period of Venus.

Inanna and The Moon Cycle

The seven gates resembles the Moon Cycle of seven days till the Moon became a thin Crescent, and seven days to reach back to reach a Full Moon.
The Human Body follows the same Cycle.

Astrologists and Scientists co-relate between the Moon Cycle and Life Cycle.
Scientists also resembles the Moon Cycle with the Woman Blood Cycle, and Woman Mood as to the changes she experienced during her blood cycle.
They claim that the Moon has a strong Physical and Psychological influence on  Woman's Mood.

Moon, Mood only a letter makes a difference.......... or not?

Sami Cherkaoui

Esis - Osiris A Life Cycle

Well, in order to end this series on creation, and after putting some lights or sheds on the interlink with Religion, Myth and Science.. It would be useful to mention the mythology of Esis and Osiris... Why?

Because this could be a perfect Mythical example that is directly related to the concept of Creation, what is meant.... What are the causes.... What are the procedures...

How it is inter-related to Science and Religion....
With Life and Death.....
With Good and Evil....

ESIS - OSIRIS

The story in brief is about Esis who is an Egyptian Goddess, who was worshiped by Egypt as well as by the Greco-Roman worlds.

She was the Goddess of  Motherhood, Fertility and Magic.

Her link to Magic is in her hair knot which became a symbol of Esis and called the Knot or Buckle or Blood of Esis, which later resembles Eternal Life or Resurrection.

She became associated with the harvest of wheat and grain, consequently with Fertility.
She was a friend to good and bad people at the same time.
Her parents were the God of Earth and Goddess of Sky.

ESIS ARTS

Her brother Osiris became her husband..
From him she conceived Horus... who was also her father and the ultimate God who had different forms in history.

HORUS

It is suggested by some scholars that he name is also linked with the Arabian Goddess Al Ozza which was worshiped by Arabs before Islam.

The story tells that Set another brother of Esis, conspired against his brother Osiris by locking him in a coffin box and threw it in the sea... So he could marry his sister Esis.

Esis went to look for the coffin of Osiris and found him in a tree in Phoenician city Byblos and brought it back to Egypt..

Set found the coffin and chopped the body of Osiris to thirteen pieces and scattered them all over Egypt.
Each part represented one of the 13 full moons (each year has 12 or 13 full moons
Esis found only twelve pieces and made the thirteen's out of Magic

Osiris was resurrected and became Lord of Dead and Afterlife .
Esis conceived from him Horus.

Alternatively, Nephthys the sister of Esis, shift-shaped as Esis and seduced Osiris, who thought she was Esis and conceived from him Anubis, God of the Underworld whose name was associated with mummification and afterlife.

Nephthys later convinced Esis to adopt Anubis.

As a Death and Resurrection legend, in which evil seeks to destroy a deity, thus bringing darkness, she was associated with the Lunar Cycle, in which the moon appears to be destroyed by darkness, and then brought back to life.

As a Life-Death-Rebirth deity, Horus AND Osiris became a reflection of the annual Cycle of Crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's desires for a successful afterlife. 

And so the legend became extremely important, outstripping all others.

The legend's ventures into both Life and Afterlife meant that religious rites associated with the legend eventually began to take on aspects of a mystery religion. Where initiates were said to be able to partake in Horus/Osiris' Resurrection, purging themselves of past ills, and entering a new life.

This is why Esis is also known as the Goddess of simplicity, protector of the dead and Goddess of children from whom all beginnings arose.

The Ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of her tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris.

Esis was associated with the star Sept (Sirius).
The appearance of the star signified the advent of a new year and Esis was likewise considered the Goddess of rebirth and reincarnation, and as a protector of the dead.

BOOK OF THE DEAD

The Book of the Dead outlines a particular ritual that would protect the dead, enabling travel anywhere in the underworld, 

In the Book of the Dead, the dead were taken into the presence of the god Osiris, who was confined to the subterranean Duat.
It also depicts the dead living on in the 'Field of Reeds', a paradisiac likeness of the real world.

The path to the afterlife as laid out in the Book of the Dead was a difficult one. 
The deceased was required to pass a series of gates, caverns and mounds guarded by supernatural creatures
Then the dead person's heart was weighed on a pair of scales, against the goddess Maat, who embodied truth and justice. 
At this point, there was a risk that the deceased's heart would bear witness, owning up to sins committed in life.
If the scales balanced, this meant the deceased had led a good life. Anubis would take them to Osiris and they would find their place in the afterlife.
If the heart was out of balance with Maat, then another fearsome beast called Ammit, the Devourer, stood ready to eat it and put the dead person's afterlife to an early and unpleasant end.


The judgement of the dead and the Negative Confession were a representation of the conventional moral code which governed Egyptian society.

So....

In this story we can see the full cycle of life being repeated again and again in various forms and shapes but always with the same fixed elements... Sun, moon, Earth, Sky, Sea, Nature, Darkness,Light, Fertility,  motherhood, Death.. Etc...

But most importantly the Good and Evil who are in continuous struggle to overcome the worlds...
Same like what Religions tell us.....
And same like the Actual Facts are telling us

Sami Cherkaoui

The Divine Ratio - Story of Phi

The Divine Ration In Human Bodies

The Golden Ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, equals approximately 1.618. It is 0ften referred to by the letter Phi.

What is this ratio?

The Golden Ratio In Paintings

Dan Brown in his book De Vince Code explained how the golden ration interferes with artists work, Living creatures and Plants.

The Golden Ration In Plants

Some scientists linked it to more than 2400 years ago.

The fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians.

Applied Ration in Monaliza Face

Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.

Golden Ration In Construction

Ancient Greeks studied it for its frequent appearance in Geometry. They attributed the discovery to Pythagoras.

The Acropolis

Beginning in the Renaissance, a body of literature on the aesthetics  of the golden ratio was developed.

As a result, architects, artists, book designers, and others have been encouraged to use the golden ratio in the dimensional relationships of their works.

A geometrical analysis of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia, reveals a consistent application of the golden ratio throughout the design, according to Boussora and Mazouz.

Kairawan Mosque

It is found in the overall proportion of the plan and in the dimensioning of the prayer space, the court, and the minaret. Boussora and Mazouz also examined earlier archaeological theories about the mosque, and demonstrate the geometric constructions based on the golden ratio by applying these constructions to the plan of the mosque to test their hypothesis.

Speaking about Islamic Architect, it is worth mentioning that the Quran emphasized in so many verses that God created everything in proportion, Gave wealth and power in proportion, caused rain in proportion.

Miracle of Kaaba - English Version - The Golden Ratio

Some Islamic scholars are trying to prove that Mecca and Kaaba are good examples of the golden proportion.

This is why scientists refer to is as the Divine Ratio.

Both Egyptian pyramids and those mathematical regular square pyramids that resemble them can be analyzed with respect to the golden ratio and other ratios.

One Egyptian pyramid is remarkably close to a "golden pyramid" – the Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu).

The Great Pyramid

The golden ratio is also apparent in the organization of the sections in the music of Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in Water), from Images  (1st series, 1905), in which "the sequence of keys is marked out by the intervals 34, 21, 13 and 8, and the main climax sits at the phi position.

Its slope of 51° 52' is extremely close to the "golden" pyramid inclination of 51° 50' and the π-based pyramid inclination of 51° 51'; other pyramids at Giza (Chephren, 52° 20', and Mycerinus, 50° 47' are also quite close.

The height of the great pyramid is equal = 146.515 meters, and its base equals 230.363 meters.

The Pharaohs used a simple math to find that half of the base is 115.182 m and the "slant height"  is 186.369 meters.

Dividing the "slant height" 186.369m by "half base" 115.182m gives 1.6180, which is practically equal to the golden ration!

The Pharaohs bring this ratio by discovering that the earth/moon relationship is the only one in the solar system that contains this unique golden section ratio that "squares the circle. 

If the base of the great pyramid is equated with the diameter of the earth, then the radius of the moon can be generated by subtracting the radius of the earth from the height of the pyramid.

The height of the great pyramid times 2p exactly equals the perimeter of the pyramid.
This proportion results from elegant design of the pyramid with the height equal two diameters of a circle and the base equal to the circumference of the circle.
The number Pi is the mathematical constant 3.1415, with the ratio of the diameter to the distance around the circle, called the circumference.

In the pyramid it is the ratio of the height to twice the length of the base.

Whether the relationship to the golden ratio in these pyramids is by design or by accident remains controversial. Several other Egyptian pyramids are very close to the rational 3:4:5 shape.

The Golden Ratio In Music

The musicologist Roy Howat has observed that the formal boundaries of La Mer correspond exactly to the golden section.

Trezise finds the intrinsic evidence "remarkable," but cautions that no written or reported evidence suggests that Debussy consciously sought such proportions.

Also, many works of Chopin, mainly Etudes (studies) and Nocturnes, are formally based on the golden ratio. This results in the biggest climax of both musical expression and technical difficulty after about 2/3 of the piece.

Pearl Drums positions the air vents on its Masters Premium models based on the golden ratio. The company claims that this arrangement improves bass response and has applied for a patent on this innovation.


Long before the advent of digital recordings, the Babylonians and Hindus, and then Pythagoras and his followers translated music into number and geometric proportions (Durant 1939).

For example, by dividing a vibrating string into various ratios they discovered that several very pleasing musical intervals could be produced.

Hence, the ratio 1:2 was found to yield an octave, 2:3 a fifth, and 3:4 a fourth, 4:5 a major third, and 5:6 a minor third (McClain 1978).

The harmonic system utilized in the nineteenth century by various composers was based on these same ratios. Indeed, Bartok utilized these ratios in his musical compositions.

These same musical ratios, the Pythagorians discovered, also were found to have the capability of reproducing themselves. That is, the ratio can reproduce itself within itself and form a unique geometrical configuration which Pythagoras and the ancient Greeks referred as the the "golden ratio" or "golden rectangle." The gold rectangle was postulated to have divine inspirational origins. Indeed, music itself was thought by early man to be magical, whereas musicians were believed by the ancient Greeks to be "prophets favored by the Gods" (Worner, 1973).

The Golden Ratio has fascinated layman and mathematician for centuries.

It seems like magic that it turns up in such different arenas as pine cones, earth-moon and planet  relationships, the Cheops Pyramid in Egypt, the Mona Lisa  and even our DNA.
Indeed its widespread appearance shows that there is a unifying mathematical principle that is more subtle than science has thus far been able to define.

It remains a mathematical mystery or should we say .......

God's Mystery...

Sami Cherkaoui