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<p>[QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 3228245, member: 88401"][ATTACH=full]842361[/ATTACH]</p><p>pretty sure the image was meant to be this particular form of the Great Mother, the "weaver" of creation more associated with Ta-NEITH- the Egyptian Cybele, a virgin goddess, the spider grandmother(Selket) of the Native Americans. Sehkmet I believe is a formidable aspect(nemesis) of Hathor, Egyptian goddess of beauty, joy, beer, music, children marriage and the goodness of the river of life. They are interconnected but some deities are more associated with aspects of the seasonal wheel of the year and the day directly related to the vicissitudes of the sun(ie at noon or dawn) and the waters and crops while others are more involved in the rise and fall of civilizations. This is where the Mithraic cult and the discovery of Hipparchus about the precessional Earth wheel and the vaster cycle of 26,000 years comes into play. Mithras also has the Lion as a predominant symbol. The time of the RR and the beginning of the empire was a change of civilizations as I believe our times may also be, a new Platonic age as they are called after the famous Greek wise philosopher/mathematician.<a href="https://eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/Precession.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/Precession.html" rel="nofollow">https://eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/Precession.html</a> I know all this is just speculation from my comfortable armchair thousands of years later - hey but we can buy the coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 3228245, member: 88401"][ATTACH=full]842361[/ATTACH] pretty sure the image was meant to be this particular form of the Great Mother, the "weaver" of creation more associated with Ta-NEITH- the Egyptian Cybele, a virgin goddess, the spider grandmother(Selket) of the Native Americans. Sehkmet I believe is a formidable aspect(nemesis) of Hathor, Egyptian goddess of beauty, joy, beer, music, children marriage and the goodness of the river of life. They are interconnected but some deities are more associated with aspects of the seasonal wheel of the year and the day directly related to the vicissitudes of the sun(ie at noon or dawn) and the waters and crops while others are more involved in the rise and fall of civilizations. This is where the Mithraic cult and the discovery of Hipparchus about the precessional Earth wheel and the vaster cycle of 26,000 years comes into play. Mithras also has the Lion as a predominant symbol. The time of the RR and the beginning of the empire was a change of civilizations as I believe our times may also be, a new Platonic age as they are called after the famous Greek wise philosopher/mathematician.[url]https://eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/Precession.html[/url] I know all this is just speculation from my comfortable armchair thousands of years later - hey but we can buy the coin![/QUOTE]
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