The bit about Set getting his revenge was a joke on my part. But if I'm to indulge just a bit, I'll point out that it's the One True Desert God who reigns over Egypt today (among so many other places). An interesting tidbit to consider is that the biblical story of Cain and Abel essentially flips the script on the Osiris/Set myth. Abel (the nomadic herder) is now the good guy, and Cain (the farmer) is the bad guy for murdering his brother. So basically Osiris gets "jealous" of Set (why though?????) and then murders him out of spite, because reasons.
I agree that the black window archetype is a real thing when it comes to negative female behaviors. I skimmed so fast through Rintrah's essay; does he equate this with the Rotting Goddess concept? BTW I do find that concept quite fascinating, but I'm loathe to associate it with human behavioral archetypes or any kind of moralistic framing. Using the CosDoc scheme, I would posit that one of the "Lord of Form" (Lady in this case) is the spiritual force presiding over the process of decay and perhaps the intelligence that guided the evolution of fungi. This is a very beneficial mechanism here on Earth, in that it clears away bulky dead husks to make way for new life. If we're to stick to a pagan worldview, we'd know that the forces and processes of Nature can't really be looked at from the perspective of simplistic human morality. Now the idea that eating psychedelic mushrooms gets one in tune with this force is interesting and perhaps destructive when done in an unguided or excessive manner.
On the topic of the Hebrew Bible and Egyptian religion, that is a fascinating topic I can drone on about for quite a long stretch. I will say this though, the way I see it is that Ten Commandments were clearly ganked from the "42 negative confessions of Maat" which is found in the Book of the Dead. Of course the former was taken way out of its original context after the Bible authors appropriated these precepts and retconned them (way after the fact) as being "Laws of Moses." The original Egyptian confessions were not presented as concrete laws of human conduct beamed down from the sky on one day by some deity, but rather a checklist of "don'ts" for when the soul enters the afterlife and has its karma judged; if any of the checklist items aren't fulfilled then the soul is denied entry into the realm of immortality. The implication here is that coming up short means reincarnation; more and more rebirths until these karmic issues are finally balanced out. Other parts of the Bible, like the so-called Proverbs of Solomon, are clearly derived from much older Egyptian Wisdom literature. Overall the Hebrew Bible came about as an exercise in borrowing copiously from Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Greek traditions, and rewriting those source materials to fit their own narrative.
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Date: 2023-03-21 03:06 pm (UTC)I agree that the black window archetype is a real thing when it comes to negative female behaviors. I skimmed so fast through Rintrah's essay; does he equate this with the Rotting Goddess concept? BTW I do find that concept quite fascinating, but I'm loathe to associate it with human behavioral archetypes or any kind of moralistic framing. Using the CosDoc scheme, I would posit that one of the "Lord of Form" (Lady in this case) is the spiritual force presiding over the process of decay and perhaps the intelligence that guided the evolution of fungi. This is a very beneficial mechanism here on Earth, in that it clears away bulky dead husks to make way for new life. If we're to stick to a pagan worldview, we'd know that the forces and processes of Nature can't really be looked at from the perspective of simplistic human morality. Now the idea that eating psychedelic mushrooms gets one in tune with this force is interesting and perhaps destructive when done in an unguided or excessive manner.
On the topic of the Hebrew Bible and Egyptian religion, that is a fascinating topic I can drone on about for quite a long stretch. I will say this though, the way I see it is that Ten Commandments were clearly ganked from the "42 negative confessions of Maat" which is found in the Book of the Dead. Of course the former was taken way out of its original context after the Bible authors appropriated these precepts and retconned them (way after the fact) as being "Laws of Moses." The original Egyptian confessions were not presented as concrete laws of human conduct beamed down from the sky on one day by some deity, but rather a checklist of "don'ts" for when the soul enters the afterlife and has its karma judged; if any of the checklist items aren't fulfilled then the soul is denied entry into the realm of immortality. The implication here is that coming up short means reincarnation; more and more rebirths until these karmic issues are finally balanced out. Other parts of the Bible, like the so-called Proverbs of Solomon, are clearly derived from much older Egyptian Wisdom literature. Overall the Hebrew Bible came about as an exercise in borrowing copiously from Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Greek traditions, and rewriting those source materials to fit their own narrative.