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Gods and Goddesses
Amen-Ra
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Other names Amen, Amun
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Amun (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen, Greek Aμμων Ammon, and Aμμων Hammon, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who gradually rose to become one of the most important deities in Ancient Egypt, before fading into obscurity.
Amun's name is first recorded in Egyptian as ỉmn, meaning "The hidden (one)". Since vowels were not written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptologists have reconstructed the name to have been pronounced *Yamānu
Gradually, as god of air, he came to be associated with the breath of life, which created the ba, particularly in Thebes. By the First Intermediate Period this had led to him being thought of, in these areas, as the creator god, titled father of the gods, preceding the Ogdoad, although also part of it. As he became more significant, he was assigned a wife (Amunet being his own female aspect, more than a distinct wife), and since he was the creator, his wife was considered the divine mother from which the cosmos emerged, who in the areas where Amun was worshipped was, by this time, Mut.
Amun became depicted in human form, seated on a throne, wearing on his head a plain deep circlet from which rise two straight parallel plumes, possibly symbolic of the tail feathers of a bird, a reference to his earlier status as a wind god.
Having become more important than Montu, the local war god of Thebes, Montu's authority became said to exist because he was the son of Amun. However, as Mut was infertile, it was believed that she, and thus Amun, had adopted Montu instead. In later years, due to the shape of a pool outside the sacred temple of Mut at Thebes, Montu was replaced, as their adopted son, by Khonsu, the moon god.
When the armies of the Eighteenth dynasty evicted the Hyksos rulers from Egypt, the victors' city of origin, Thebes, now held the mantle of the most important city in Egypt. Therefore, Amun became nationally important. The Pharaohs attributed all their successful enterprises to Amun, and they lavished much of their wealth and captured spoil on the construction of his temples.
Amen as the Ram
When, subsequently, Egypt conquered Kush, they identified the chief deity of the Kushites as Amun. This deity was depicted as Ram headed, more specifically a woolly Ram with curved horns, and so Amun started becoming associated with the Ram. Indeed, due to the aged appearance of it, they came to believe that this had been the original form of Amun, and that Kush was where he had been born.
However, since rams, due to their rutting, were considered a symbol of virility, Amun also became thought of as a fertility deity, and so started to absorb the identity of Min, becoming Amun-Min. This association with virility led to Amun-Min gaining the epithet Kamutef, meaning Bull of his mother, in which form he was often found depicted on the walls of Karnak, ithyphallic, and with a scourge.
Amen as the Sun God
As Amun's cult grew bigger, Amun rapidly became identified with the chief God that was worshipped in other areas, Ra-Herakhty, the merged identities of Ra, and Horus. This identification led to a merger of identities, with Amun becoming Amun-Ra. As Ra had been the father of Shu, and Tefnut, and the remainder of the Ennead, so Amun-Ra was likewise identified as their father.
Ra-Herakhty had been a sun god, and so this became true of Amun-Ra as well, Amun becoming considered the hidden aspect of the sun (e.g. during the night), in contrast to Ra-Herakhty as the visible aspect, since Amun clearly meant the one who is hidden. This complexity over the sun led to a gradual movement towards the support of a more pure form of deity.
During the eighteenth dynasty, the pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV) introduced the worship of the Aten, a god whose power was manifested both literally and symbolically in the sun's disc. He defaced the symbols of the old gods and based his new religion upon one new god: the Aten. However, this abrupt change was very unpopular, particularly with the previous temple priests, who now found themselves without any of their former power. Consequently, when Akhenaten died, his name was striken from the Egyptian records, and all of his changes were swiftly undone. It was almost as if this monotheistic sect had never occurred. Worship of the Aten was replaced and worship of Amun-Ra was restored. The priests persuaded the new underage pharaoh Tutankhaten, whose name meant "the living image of Aten", to change his name to Tutankhamun, "the living image of Amun".
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Gods and Goddesses
Lucifer
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Other names Shining One, Morning Star, Light-Bringer, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Holly One
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Within the mystical Trinity (since 17th Century): Lord, Devil, Satan, Sabaoth, "G", Architect and God
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4th Millennium BCE as Luci (God of Wisdom, Gold and Good Fortune);
71 -117 CE as Lucifer (Savior, Shining One and Light Bringer)
Revived by Jesuits from 1534 as the Great Redeemer, Bringer of Greatest Knowledge and Power
Location Rome, Church of Gesu
Major Centre(s) Rome, Church of Gesu; all Jesuit Churches of the same design
Period of worship Since 4th Millenium BCE (as Luci), but as Lucifer, revived from 1571 to present day
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Lucifer is a complex deity and consciousness, representing in Judeo-Christian Tradition and popular Western Culture the proper name for the Devil and Satan, before his “fall from Heaven” as the most powerful of all Angels, second only to the Divine Creator of all Existence.
In Western Occult Tradition since the 16th Century, Lucifer is considered the true name of “God” of the Roman Church, the supreme secret source of their claimed power and authority and the claimed object of devotion of all major secret societies of western cultures such as the Freemasons and the Sovereign Knights of Malta, especially the Society of Jesus. The United States and in particular its industrial-military apparatus claims in secret to worship Lucifer as its God and source of instruction and law – hence the motto “In God we Trust”.
From the 17th Century, Lucifer is intimately connected with a Sacred Trinity of Deities known publicly as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit). This Triad is also known as Satan, Mithra and Lucifer; and is also known in the configuration of (Father) Sabaoth, (Lord) Baal and (Savior) Christ.
As a result, Lucifer is worshipped and known under a number of symbols and names, including but not limited to Shining One, Morning Star, Light-Bringer, Lord, Savior, Francis, (Frank), Holy (Holly) One, Devil, Satan Redeemed, Pride Personified, The Architect, "G" and God.
Etymology of the word "Lucifer"
Contrary to contemporary historical texts, the term Lucifer originates from the great Cuilliaéan heritage of Ireland in the 4th Millennium BCE as the oldest priests, prophets and goldsmiths of western civilization as the personification of the ancient hominid Homo Prometheus (“red horned ones”).
The word Luci (pronounced ‘lucky’), originates from ancient Irish as the patron of skills, gifts, gold, coins and craftsman who celebrated his feast day upon the full moon (mid or "ides") equivalent to the month of March. More than 4,000 years ago, the Holly Priests that oversaw the minting of the first proper coins of western civilization (from Irish cuin originally meaning a “metal cornerstone of value; a token or memorial”) were called the Luki fear (Lucifer) or Men of Good Fortune. The day of “Luci” later became used as the Birthday of Mithra by the 1st Millenium as an eastern personification of Lucifer, exemplified as the Passio (Passion) and the period of Nisan, or Dies Sanguinis (“Day of Blood”), also known as the Ides of Mars (March). The day was also celebrated by the earliest followers of Jesus as being the day of his birth. Hence, from the 1st Century CE, a complex interconnection existed between the ancient Celtic God of Luci, Mithra and the legendary stories of Jesus.
In European culture, the ancient origins of Lucifer as Luci are celebrated in the god known as Loki and in the English word “Lucky” and its derivation being “Luck”. In Latin, the connections to “gold” and “good fortune” are deliberately hidden from the root word “lucis”; and the meaning of “skill” and “gold craft” is also deliberately hidden from the Latin root ferre. Thus, only a few scholars with access to ancient uncorrupted Latin texts have known the true etymology of the term Lucifer and its connection to a much more ancient God, connected to the Holly (the origin of the term Holy) as the “Holy One”.
Upon the destruction of the Imperial Mint of Mithra at Jerusalem in 69CE at the hands of the Nazarene rebels, General Vespasian assumed power in Rome declaring himself Lucifer and thus the personification of the god of all authorized coins “from Heaven”, usurping the role of the Cuilliaéan priests and gold smiths. Vespasian as Lucifer, ordered the imperial standard of the sun emblazoned with the three letters IHS to be his symbols as Lucifer meaning “Invictus Hoc Signo” meaning “By this sign (we are) unconquerable”. Vespasian also adopted the “Oculus Omni” or the “All Seeing Eye of Lucifer” to Lucifer. From 70 CE, the feast day for Lucifer was changed to the Ides of August (15th August) to distinguish it from the feast day of Mithra (14th March), given the collapse of Mithraism across the Roman Empire. The title and use of Lucifer was abandoned by 117 CE upon the ascendency of Emperor Hadrian.
In reference to Lucifer as a term to describe the Morning Star and Venus, Cicero (106-43 BCE) wrote: "The star of Venus, called Φωσφόρος in Greek and Lucifer in Latin when it precedes, Hesperos when it follows the sun." Similarly, Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) is alleged to have written: "The star called Venus … when it rises in the morning is given the name Lucifer … but when it shines at sunset it is called Vesper".
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Gods and Goddesses
Satan
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Other names Sabaoth, Lucifer, YHWH, Beelzebub
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Satan being traditionally applied to an angel in Judeo-Christian belief, and to a jinn in Islamic belief.
While Hebrew ha-Satan is "the accuser" and Satan itself means "to overcome" — the one who challenged the religious faith of humans in the books of Job and Zechariah — Abrahamic religious belief systems other than Judaism relate this term to a demon, a rebellious fallen angel, devil, minor god and idolatry, or as an allegory for evil.
The word 'Satan', and the Arabic شيطان "shaitan", may derive from a Northwest Semitic root śtn, meaning "to be hostile", "to accuse." An alternative explanation is provided by the Hebrew in Job 1:7. When God asks him whence he has come, Satan answers: "From wandering (mi'ŝut) the earth and walking on it".
Satan has many appearances, depending on the source. Many people connect the term Satan with the more goat-like appearance of the devil, with cloven hooves, goat legs, and horns. This image of Satan may be related to the notion of the Satyr, a half-man/half-goat in Greek Mythology, but evidence for this connection is lacking.
The name Satan can be used to describe all forms of the Devil. For example, people may believe that Satan is invisible, that he resembles the Minotaur, that he is a small devilish spirit, or that he looks like a man. The human-like form is the one most commonly known as Mephistopheles. In many descriptions, he looks like a dark angel. He is typically depicted with horns, a pointed tail, bat-like wings, and a staff or trident. In the biblical Book of Revelation, he is described as a dragon.
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