Yygdrasilian
What's in a Name
At sunset, Nut, Goddess of the Skies, opens her Mouth for the Sun, receiving him once more into her womb.
At dawn, her child is resurrected, emerging anew from the gateway of her Pillars to shine another day.
Horus has many names, but Hadit was not one of them until Crowley reputedly took it from a mistranslation of the Stele of Revealing.
Much is made of this blunder and subsequent attempts by the OTO to gloss over such a blatant misnomer.
It is perhaps noteworthy that an error may sometimes be left unchecked to serve a specific function.
Might the exclusion of Ba- from his Ren, the name, be for a reason?
One’s Ba is released during the opening of the Mouth ceremony with prayers it will join with the deceased’s Ka and become Akh, immortal.
The Book of the Law reads as a series of bombastic declarations, like holy revelations that should inspire awe with every syllable.
Seems like bad medicine to make your first Law an invocation that, symbolically, cleaves your patron deity’s immortal essence in half.
At sunset, Nut, Goddess of the Skies, opens her Mouth for the Sun, receiving him once more into her womb.
At dawn, her child is resurrected, emerging anew from the gateway of her Pillars to shine another day.
Horus has many names, but Hadit was not one of them until Crowley reputedly took it from a mistranslation of the Stele of Revealing.
Much is made of this blunder and subsequent attempts by the OTO to gloss over such a blatant misnomer.
It is perhaps noteworthy that an error may sometimes be left unchecked to serve a specific function.
Might the exclusion of Ba- from his Ren, the name, be for a reason?
One’s Ba is released during the opening of the Mouth ceremony with prayers it will join with the deceased’s Ka and become Akh, immortal.
The Book of the Law reads as a series of bombastic declarations, like holy revelations that should inspire awe with every syllable.
Seems like bad medicine to make your first Law an invocation that, symbolically, cleaves your patron deity’s immortal essence in half.