Umbrae
The 'current' Aeon can get confusing. In A.C's Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot) there are many references to Nuit.
In the Egyptian Mythos, Nuit (or Nut) is also Hathor (see the horned solar disk on the head the WCS High Priestess). In the form of Hathor she was the Goddess who nursed the gods (and pharaohs (both male and female)).
Hathor was married to Horus. Each year at her Temple in Dendara they’d take out the effigy of Hathor, parade it around on New Years day, then sail it up-river to the Temple of Horus in Edfu.
At the Temple of Hathor In Dendara there is a bias relief carving (I remember where it is, and could walk you there but I'm unable to tell you which (it’s not the picture in the Court of the New Year ceiling) room it's in) in a room on the second floor (in what I remember as the SE corner)…anyway…there is Nuit. Takes up the entire ceiling. She swallows the sun and gives birth to the sun (and all the signs of the zodiac). Our guide explained she created/creates the universe. She is the mother of all.
Yet she cannot be a mother without a father.
So they take her to see her husband Horus.
These were the finals monuments of Ptolemaic Egypt. The Temple of Horus at Edfu was one of the last of the great monuments (57 BCE±).
We have what is 'known', or today’s knowledge of Egyptian mythos, and Hathor/Nuit; versus what was 'known' or assumed by Crowley.
He states the first Aeon was that of Isis, and the second of Osiris. Both were doomed to fail since they were incomplete. Female only...Male only. Then he discusses the Aeon of Horus; which – by itself is incomplete. Horus requires Nuit and visa versa for completeness.
A.C. Tells us (pg 115):
Now Hadit has no historical basis except in the Quasi-Egyptian mythos invented by Crowley. There are references on the web to Hadit being worshiped in some singular town of Behedet, and is also referred to as ‘Horus of Behedet’. Such references only appear in Thalema based sites, and sites describing Thalema and related information. Victorian and post Victorian understanding of the Egypt mythos was incomplete (at best).
Does this make Hadit moot?
No. Crowley was ‘doing something’ that really had no historical basis. I believe he was laying groundwork FOR and of the new age, the new Aeon.
We can get hung up on who was what where and when – but it belies the point.
We can actually transfer modern Egyptian mythos fact right into the images with no conflict.
Nuit frames the card, embraces Horus, and together they give birth to – The New Aeon.
But in the bigger picture – perhaps I’m just as wrong as AC.
In the Egyptian Mythos, Nuit (or Nut) is also Hathor (see the horned solar disk on the head the WCS High Priestess). In the form of Hathor she was the Goddess who nursed the gods (and pharaohs (both male and female)).
Hathor was married to Horus. Each year at her Temple in Dendara they’d take out the effigy of Hathor, parade it around on New Years day, then sail it up-river to the Temple of Horus in Edfu.
At the Temple of Hathor In Dendara there is a bias relief carving (I remember where it is, and could walk you there but I'm unable to tell you which (it’s not the picture in the Court of the New Year ceiling) room it's in) in a room on the second floor (in what I remember as the SE corner)…anyway…there is Nuit. Takes up the entire ceiling. She swallows the sun and gives birth to the sun (and all the signs of the zodiac). Our guide explained she created/creates the universe. She is the mother of all.
Yet she cannot be a mother without a father.
So they take her to see her husband Horus.
These were the finals monuments of Ptolemaic Egypt. The Temple of Horus at Edfu was one of the last of the great monuments (57 BCE±).
We have what is 'known', or today’s knowledge of Egyptian mythos, and Hathor/Nuit; versus what was 'known' or assumed by Crowley.
He states the first Aeon was that of Isis, and the second of Osiris. Both were doomed to fail since they were incomplete. Female only...Male only. Then he discusses the Aeon of Horus; which – by itself is incomplete. Horus requires Nuit and visa versa for completeness.
A.C. Tells us (pg 115):
A.C. said:
Now Hadit has no historical basis except in the Quasi-Egyptian mythos invented by Crowley. There are references on the web to Hadit being worshiped in some singular town of Behedet, and is also referred to as ‘Horus of Behedet’. Such references only appear in Thalema based sites, and sites describing Thalema and related information. Victorian and post Victorian understanding of the Egypt mythos was incomplete (at best).
Does this make Hadit moot?
No. Crowley was ‘doing something’ that really had no historical basis. I believe he was laying groundwork FOR and of the new age, the new Aeon.
We can get hung up on who was what where and when – but it belies the point.
We can actually transfer modern Egyptian mythos fact right into the images with no conflict.
Nuit frames the card, embraces Horus, and together they give birth to – The New Aeon.
But in the bigger picture – perhaps I’m just as wrong as AC.
