tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post5794481553779808497..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : Celestial Symbols that Speak of GodAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-55051148878014742362014-02-10T03:29:33.545-08:002014-02-10T03:29:33.545-08:00Thanks, John. This is helpful and very interesting...Thanks, John. This is helpful and very interesting. I am tracing the origin of some Biblical names and wonder about to the prefix/suffix ra in these women's names:<br /><br />Ketu-ra<br />Sa-ra<br />Ra-chel<br /><br />Also in Hebrew ohol is tent/desert tabernacle and bama means exalted. So Esau's wife's name - Oholibama - suggests a woman of high rank and of the priestly caste. What are your thoughts?<br />Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-6935674639105502262014-02-09T21:49:05.948-08:002014-02-09T21:49:05.948-08:00Just to add in an attempt to give meaning to RA or...Just to add in an attempt to give meaning to RA or RE via a Luo worldview. No one one has tried to give meaning to these two titles.RA means He is/I am, RE means He is.but he surpases human attributes. RA and RE are suffixes or prefixes to one's attributes so as to let him attain a name. Kwar is red. Rakwar, the red one, char is white, Rachar, the red one. AMUN RE will have all the attributes of Amun.Achan, do Ra(Luo), I have all the attributes of Achan (I am needy) Ra'chan or Ja' Achan( poor person). Achan is a popular Acholi name with meaning just like the biblical Achan. Ra/Re would mean I AM... with no words to fill the attributes.O'bama or Ra'bam(he is' crooked) are versions of the same name to mean crooked/disabledAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661607100951315753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-77934973816388984512008-10-13T15:17:00.000-07:002008-10-13T15:17:00.000-07:00Arturo, I just finished reading Fideler's book and...Arturo, I just finished reading Fideler's book and found it very interesting. It is very strong on the Hellenistic connection to Heliopolis and the unitive principle (the Pleroma in RC theology). He also makes the connection to the structures of Egyptian, Greek and Babylonian temples. It was refreshing to read someone who sees how Platonism emerges from an older context. Too often when reading western philosophy one gains the impression that everything started with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. He also shows how the old cosmology appears in Kabbalah, and is quite correct that 888 was assigned to Christ, but this is followed by 999 which is the symbol of the eschaton and the consummation of the kingdom. The book seems not to make many connections between the old solar worldview and the coming of the new world, or did I miss that?Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-85021722505564394452008-10-02T08:55:00.000-07:002008-10-02T08:55:00.000-07:00I agree that the Ankh represents an older cosmolog...I agree that the Ankh represents an older cosmology. This is evident in its simplicity also. <BR/> <BR/>The diffusion's center appears to be Africa, not Mesopotamia. This is what one would expect since analysis of the kinship of Abraham's ancestors in Genesis 4 and 5 reveals that they lived in central Africa. As you have said, “Genesis is even more determined than Exodus to give the patriarch’s an African anchoring.”Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-11154341612193042722008-10-02T08:53:00.000-07:002008-10-02T08:53:00.000-07:00Father Mark Gruber has made this comment by email:...Father Mark Gruber has made this comment by email:<BR/><BR/>I consider the Egyptian Ankh to be a symbol of a much older pedigree than the Niger, Indus, Carthaginian etc. exemplars. Therefore it could well have given rise by diffusion to these various cultures. Still the east-west axis line and the solar disc sign is so deeply structured into human cultural awareness that the relevant interplay of various societies’ iconographies are virtually impossible to reconstruct. The solar disc lying upon the horizon line of east and west coincided with the Egyptian image of the key to the doors of the passage of the soul through the underworld… That is, placed on a pole held aloft (think of the serpent in the desert) the sign of the disc upon the bar was a ceremonial key to open the way through the night of eternity. This inversion of the dawn and dusk image gave the metaphysical darkness of death a dawn to open it up. The Christian Copts would go to town!<BR/><BR/>Fr. Gruber is the author of “Journey Back to Eden” (Orbis Books) and an ethnography of the Copts, “Sacrifice in the Desert” (University of America Press).Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-28172430631575981882008-10-01T03:13:00.000-07:002008-10-01T03:13:00.000-07:00I haven't read the book, Arturo, but it sounds int...I haven't read the book, Arturo, but it sounds interesting. Tell me what strikes you most about his treatment of the subject. <BR/><BR/>You might write about Fideler's book and post something at your wonderful blog. Then I will link to your post. It is always a pleasure to read your work.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-8003542587654696752008-10-01T03:08:00.000-07:002008-10-01T03:08:00.000-07:00Have you read the book, Jesus Christ, the Sun of G...Have you read the book, Jesus Christ, the Sun of God, by David Fideler? I am reading it now and am pretty fascinated by it. Any thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com