Marseille Moon ~ Phoenix Rising!

XVIII LA LUNE

When viewing this card, notice that we are shown that we stand
to one side of the scene presented ~ for now, we are on our side:

Ur La Lune

Dodal

Conver

Cary Sheet

Hadar

Fournier


Notice how well the concept of "side" is represented in the following,
as well as what could be an imaginative description of XVIII La Lune:

At Koptos in Egypt, the Bennu bird is depicted with two human arms
stretched upwards and outwards toward the star Sothis- Sirius , which
appears in the early sky before the sun rises. The Phoenix/Bennu bird
is said to arise "at dawn from the waters of the Nile". Linked with summer,
the Bennu was also associated with the inundation of the Nile and of the
creation. Standing alone on isolated rocks of islands of high ground during
the floods the heron represented the first life to appear on the primeval
mound which rose from the watery chaos at the first creation.

This mound was called the ben-ben.

http://www.leadingtonearts.com/SyncreticArt/ArisingPhoenix_info/PResearch/EgyP.html

NAME: A tzadik; to hunt; Side; in Aramaic: Chaos.

Tzadi becomes tzadik.

Hunting for the fallen, broken vessels of the world of chaos.
Hunting for the soul's lost sparks.

Lower tzadik: connecting souls.
Higher tzadik: revealing and drawing down Divinity into the world.

http://www.inner.org/HEBLETER/tzadik.htm

18th Letter: Tsade

The simplest such word is formed from its combination with Aleph to
form the qal imperative verb Tsey! which is the command Go Forth!
The first occurrence of this exact word is found in Genesis 8.16 when
God commanded Noah to "go forth" from the ark after the flood had
receded. This is the primary elemental force of the Letter Tsaddi.

It is the essence of the idea of a command which is
exemplified by the transformation of the command
Tsey! Go Forth!
into
Tsavah Command
by the insertion of a Vav between the Tsaddi and the Aleph.
The words are closely related.

http://www.biblewheel.com/Wheel/Spokes/Tsaddi.asp

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Legend of the Deluge

The Legend of the Deluge According to Berosus. "After the death of Ardates, his son Xisuthrus reigned eighteen sari. In his time happened a great Deluge; the history of which is thus described. The Deity, Cronus, appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that upon the 15th day of the month Daesius there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. He therefore enjoined him to write a history of the beginning, procedure and conclusion of all things; and to bury it in the city of the Sun at Sippara; and to build a vessel, and take with him into it his friends and relations; and to convey on board everything necessary to sustain life, together with all the different animals, both birds and quadrupeds, and trust himself fearlessly to the deep.Having asked the Deity, whither he was to sail? he was answered, 'To the Gods': upon which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind. He then obeyed the divine admonition; and built a vessel 5 stadia in length, and 2 in breadth. Into this he put everything which he had prepared; and last of all conveyed into it his wife, his children, and his friends. After the flood had been upon the earth, and was in time abated, Xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel; which, not finding any food nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an interval of some days, he sent them forth a second time; and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made a trial a third time with these birds; but they returned to him no more: from whence he judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above the waters. He therefore made an opening in the vessel, and upon looking out found that it was stranded upon the side of some mountain; upon which he immediately quitted it with his wife, his daughter, and the pilot. Xisuthrus then paid his adoration to the earth, and, having constructed an altar, offered sacrifices to the gods, and, with those who had come out of the vessel with him, disappeared. They, who remained within, finding that their companions did not return, quitted the vessel with many lamentations, and called continually on the name of Xisuthrus. Him they saw no more; but they could distinguish his voice in the air, and could hear him admonish them to pay due regard to religion; and likewise informed them that it was upon account of his piety that he was translated to live with the gods; that his wife and daughter, and the pilot, had obtained the same honour. To this he added that they should return to Babylonia; and, it was ordained, search for the writings at Sippara, which they were to make known to mankind: moreover that the place, wherein they then were, was the land of Armenia. The rest having heard these words, offered sacrifices to the gods; and taking a circuit journeyed towards Babylonia."