ESSAH
ESSAH
I have skimmed through the entirety of the index's and not once did I see a mention of ESSAH. She is of importance and I can only gather that she appears as a priest in the book of the dead. Can anyone lead me to more about this ESSAH?
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Re: ESSAH
ESSAH Dear Dwildey5
Dear Dwildey5, Firstly, welcome to the Oracle Forum community and thank you for your research and resulting question. Please find some information on the name Essah, gathered largely by David Denison with some modest additions by myself. Kind Regards Redbeck
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“You radiate with a dynamic and efficient energy. You appear controlled and capable. You value courage and effort in the face of difficulties and these ...
Essah - Urban Dictionary
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Essah is a very nice and caring person. He/She sometimes doubts himself/herself and lose confidence, but she'll/he'll always get back on her/his feet.
What Does The Name Essah Mean? - Names.org
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According to a user from Canada, the name Essah is of Finnish origin and means "The Lord is my salvation". From the Hebrew name Yesha'yahu meaning “Yaweh is salvation", from the roots ‘yasha’ meaning "to save" and yah referring to the Hebrew God. Isaiah is one of the four major prophets of the Old Testament, supposedly the author of the Book of Isaiah. He was from Jerusalem and probably lived in the 8th century BC, at a time when Assyria threatened the Kingdom of Judah. As an English Christian name, Isaiah was first used after the Protestant Reformation.
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As the Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text also containing series of spells to ease the transition of the dead to the afterlife. For instance, the famous Spell 125, the ‘Weighing of the Heart’, is first known from the reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c.1475 BC. These spells were typically inscribed on linen shrouds wrapped around the dead, though occasionally they are found written on coffins or on papyrus. The purpose of the Pyramid Texts was to help the dead Egyptian royalty take their place amongst the gods, in particular to reunite with their divine father Ra. Towards the end of the Old Kingdom, the Pyramid Texts ceased to be an exclusively royal privilege of the Kings and Queens of Egypt, and were adopted by regional governors and other high-ranking officials. The Book of the Dead, was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased.
Thoth, the god of the moon, wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art, and judgment, was credited by the ancient Egyptians as the inventor of writing (hieroglyphs) used in the Book of the Dead. He was was also considered as the scribe of the gods and the underworld. The ancient Egyptians also credited him as the author of all works of science, religion, philosophy, and magic. As a result, Thoth was universally worshipped by ancient Egyptian scribes. Many of these working scribes had a painting or a picture of Thoth hung in their place of work .
In reality there was no single or canonical Book of the Dead which covered several eras between circa 1550 BC to 50 BC and at least 26 dynasties of royalty. Therefore, it is unlikely that every name referred to were gathered in one place and it is also perhaps equally unlikely that an 8th-century BC Israelite prophet would receive or indeed need a spell assisted passage to the afterlife
I am assuming therefore that you have been advised that the name ESSAH appears as a female high priest of note somewhere in the many Books of the Dead in tombs or sarcophagi which would most likely relate to Chapters 17–63 of the Books of the Dead from the Saite period : These chapters provide an explanation of the mythic origin of the gods and places. The deceased is made to live again so that he/she may arise, reborn, with the morning sun. If this case, are we perhaps referring to Seshat rather than ESSAH?The goddess of writing and measurement and the ruler of books and the consort of the Thoth.
Anyway Dwildey5, perhaps it would be helpful you could elucidate further on the sources of your information regarding Essah, obviously a most worthy Egyptian priestess who may have risen to godess status.Please let us know, if you would be so kind. Redbeck
Ongoing, David Denison, has provided you with the following links, as navigation points through which you will locate greater information. Click on the links and follow the signposts given below in this post and the continuation posts that follow. They will take you deep inside the index links and the valuable information they contain:-
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... TRY%20.htm
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... %20798.htm
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... 202216.htm
THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE
A.P. Rossiter 1939
Page 15
"The Egyptians,…" "…made good observations on the stars and were able to say when the sun or moon would become dark in an eclipse (a most surprising event even in our times), and when the land would be covered by the waters of the Nile: they were expert at building and made some discoveries about the relations of lines and angles - among them one very old rule forgetting a right-angle by stretching out knotted cords with 5, 4 And 3 units between the knots."
"...among them one very old rule for getting a right-angle by stretching out knotted cords with
5, 4 And 3 units between the knots."
Dear Dwildey5, Firstly, welcome to the Oracle Forum community and thank you for your research and resulting question. Please find some information on the name Essah, gathered largely by David Denison with some modest additions by myself. Kind Regards Redbeck
nameslook.com › essah
“You radiate with a dynamic and efficient energy. You appear controlled and capable. You value courage and effort in the face of difficulties and these ...
Essah - Urban Dictionary
urbandictionary.com › define › term=Essah
Essah is a very nice and caring person. He/She sometimes doubts himself/herself and lose confidence, but she'll/he'll always get back on her/his feet.
What Does The Name Essah Mean? - Names.org
names.org › essah › about
According to a user from Canada, the name Essah is of Finnish origin and means "The Lord is my salvation". From the Hebrew name Yesha'yahu meaning “Yaweh is salvation", from the roots ‘yasha’ meaning "to save" and yah referring to the Hebrew God. Isaiah is one of the four major prophets of the Old Testament, supposedly the author of the Book of Isaiah. He was from Jerusalem and probably lived in the 8th century BC, at a time when Assyria threatened the Kingdom of Judah. As an English Christian name, Isaiah was first used after the Protestant Reformation.
Search for more names by meaning. Submit the origin ...
Pronunciation · Meanings and Origins · Regional Popularity · Fun Facts
As the Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text also containing series of spells to ease the transition of the dead to the afterlife. For instance, the famous Spell 125, the ‘Weighing of the Heart’, is first known from the reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c.1475 BC. These spells were typically inscribed on linen shrouds wrapped around the dead, though occasionally they are found written on coffins or on papyrus. The purpose of the Pyramid Texts was to help the dead Egyptian royalty take their place amongst the gods, in particular to reunite with their divine father Ra. Towards the end of the Old Kingdom, the Pyramid Texts ceased to be an exclusively royal privilege of the Kings and Queens of Egypt, and were adopted by regional governors and other high-ranking officials. The Book of the Dead, was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased.
Thoth, the god of the moon, wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art, and judgment, was credited by the ancient Egyptians as the inventor of writing (hieroglyphs) used in the Book of the Dead. He was was also considered as the scribe of the gods and the underworld. The ancient Egyptians also credited him as the author of all works of science, religion, philosophy, and magic. As a result, Thoth was universally worshipped by ancient Egyptian scribes. Many of these working scribes had a painting or a picture of Thoth hung in their place of work .
In reality there was no single or canonical Book of the Dead which covered several eras between circa 1550 BC to 50 BC and at least 26 dynasties of royalty. Therefore, it is unlikely that every name referred to were gathered in one place and it is also perhaps equally unlikely that an 8th-century BC Israelite prophet would receive or indeed need a spell assisted passage to the afterlife
I am assuming therefore that you have been advised that the name ESSAH appears as a female high priest of note somewhere in the many Books of the Dead in tombs or sarcophagi which would most likely relate to Chapters 17–63 of the Books of the Dead from the Saite period : These chapters provide an explanation of the mythic origin of the gods and places. The deceased is made to live again so that he/she may arise, reborn, with the morning sun. If this case, are we perhaps referring to Seshat rather than ESSAH?The goddess of writing and measurement and the ruler of books and the consort of the Thoth.
Anyway Dwildey5, perhaps it would be helpful you could elucidate further on the sources of your information regarding Essah, obviously a most worthy Egyptian priestess who may have risen to godess status.Please let us know, if you would be so kind. Redbeck
Ongoing, David Denison, has provided you with the following links, as navigation points through which you will locate greater information. Click on the links and follow the signposts given below in this post and the continuation posts that follow. They will take you deep inside the index links and the valuable information they contain:-
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... TRY%20.htm
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... %20798.htm
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... 202216.htm
THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE
A.P. Rossiter 1939
Page 15
"The Egyptians,…" "…made good observations on the stars and were able to say when the sun or moon would become dark in an eclipse (a most surprising event even in our times), and when the land would be covered by the waters of the Nile: they were expert at building and made some discoveries about the relations of lines and angles - among them one very old rule forgetting a right-angle by stretching out knotted cords with 5, 4 And 3 units between the knots."
"...among them one very old rule for getting a right-angle by stretching out knotted cords with
5, 4 And 3 units between the knots."
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Re: ESSAH
Continuation…...
THE EGYPT CODE
Robert Bauval 1988
Page 30
"It is quite natural, therefore, that the divine tutors of Time and and Calendar should be Thoth, God of Science, and Seshat, Goddess of Writings and Annals.47
Page 31
"It is generally agreed by Egyptologists that the king's first jubilee (or heb-sed festival, as it called by the ancients) was celebrated in the thirtieth year of his reign. But some others are of the opinion that the 30- year period was calendrical, i.e. that it fell in cycles of 30 years irrespective of the number of years the king had reigned. At any rate, it is evident from the text quoted by Budge that the term 'thirty-year festivals' is a euphemism for royal jubilees. Also the mention of the 'Thirty-Years periods' alongside the term 'years of Ra' should affirm to us that the computations of this period had something to do with the sun or rather its yearly cycle, and thus, by extension, the solar calendar. Such an association with the sky and Seshat's royal duties is also evident in the 'stretching of the cord' ceremony, since, as we shall see, this entailed observing the motion and position of the circumpolar stars. Indeed, because of this last role / Page 32 / Seshat was also called 'Lady of Builders', 'Goddess of Construction', 'Founder of Architecture' and perhaps more aptly, 'Lady of the Stars'. To be concise, we can think of Seshat as the royal librarian, the royal scribe, the royal astronomer, the royal architect, the royal engineer, the royal herald and perhaps even the royal adviser all rolled into one" — a sort of Condoleeza Rice to the pharaohs.
It is well established that the 'stretching of the cord' ceremony was practised from at least the Second Dynasty (e. 2900 BC). As Egyptologist George Hart further explains: 'As early as Dynasty II she (Seshat) assisted the monarch . . . in hammering boundary poles into the ground for the ceremony of "stretching the cord". This is a crucial part of a temple foundation ritual.'50
To be precise, it is fair to say that much of the knowledge we have about the'stretching of the cord' ceremony comes from very late inscriptions, mostly from the temples at -Edfu and Dendera. Earlier evidence of the ceremony is found only in drawing form, without any explanatory captions. Nonetheless, as I.E.S. Edwards correctly argued:
In spite of the relative late date of the inscriptions referring to the episodes of the foundation ceremonies, there is no reason to doubt that they preserved an ancient tradition. Some indication that similar ceremonies were already current in the pyramid Age is provided by a fragmentary relief found in the Vth Dynasty sun-temple of Niuserre, which shows the king and a priestess impersonating Seshat, each holding a mallet and a stake to which a measuring cord is attached. The scene is in complete agreement with the text in the temple at Edfu which represents the king saying: take the stake and I hold the handle of the mallet. I hold the cord with Seshat' .51
In the many depictions of the ceremony found all over Egypt, Seshat always faces the king and each is seen carrying a peg in one hand and a mallet in the other. A short cord is looped between the two pegs, and it is evident from this scene that the protagonists are aligning the axis of a temple or pyramid by stretching cord and aiming it at a distant object, and then fixing the alignment by hammering the two pegs into the ground. Here are some of the inscriptions from the temples at Edfu and Dendera which describe the scene:
[The king says:] I hold the peg. I grasp the handle of the mallet and grip the measuring-cord with Seshat. I turn my eyes to the movements of the stars. I direct my gaze towards the bull's thigh [meskhetiu; Plough]. . . I make - firm the corners of the temple . .52
[A priest says:] The king stretches joyously the cord, having turned his head towards the bull's thigh and establishes the temple in the manner of ancient times.53
[The king says] I grasp the peg and the mallet; I stretch the cord with Seshat; I observed the trajectory of the stars with my eye which is fixed on the bull's thigh; I have been the god who indicates Time with the Merkhet instrument. I have established the- four corners of the temple.54 / Page 33 / [A priest says:] The king . . . while observing the sky and the stars, turns his sight towards the bull's thigh. . .55
THE EGYPT CODE
Robert Bauval 1988
Page 30
"It is quite natural, therefore, that the divine tutors of Time and and Calendar should be Thoth, God of Science, and Seshat, Goddess of Writings and Annals.47
Page 31
"It is generally agreed by Egyptologists that the king's first jubilee (or heb-sed festival, as it called by the ancients) was celebrated in the thirtieth year of his reign. But some others are of the opinion that the 30- year period was calendrical, i.e. that it fell in cycles of 30 years irrespective of the number of years the king had reigned. At any rate, it is evident from the text quoted by Budge that the term 'thirty-year festivals' is a euphemism for royal jubilees. Also the mention of the 'Thirty-Years periods' alongside the term 'years of Ra' should affirm to us that the computations of this period had something to do with the sun or rather its yearly cycle, and thus, by extension, the solar calendar. Such an association with the sky and Seshat's royal duties is also evident in the 'stretching of the cord' ceremony, since, as we shall see, this entailed observing the motion and position of the circumpolar stars. Indeed, because of this last role / Page 32 / Seshat was also called 'Lady of Builders', 'Goddess of Construction', 'Founder of Architecture' and perhaps more aptly, 'Lady of the Stars'. To be concise, we can think of Seshat as the royal librarian, the royal scribe, the royal astronomer, the royal architect, the royal engineer, the royal herald and perhaps even the royal adviser all rolled into one" — a sort of Condoleeza Rice to the pharaohs.
It is well established that the 'stretching of the cord' ceremony was practised from at least the Second Dynasty (e. 2900 BC). As Egyptologist George Hart further explains: 'As early as Dynasty II she (Seshat) assisted the monarch . . . in hammering boundary poles into the ground for the ceremony of "stretching the cord". This is a crucial part of a temple foundation ritual.'50
To be precise, it is fair to say that much of the knowledge we have about the'stretching of the cord' ceremony comes from very late inscriptions, mostly from the temples at -Edfu and Dendera. Earlier evidence of the ceremony is found only in drawing form, without any explanatory captions. Nonetheless, as I.E.S. Edwards correctly argued:
In spite of the relative late date of the inscriptions referring to the episodes of the foundation ceremonies, there is no reason to doubt that they preserved an ancient tradition. Some indication that similar ceremonies were already current in the pyramid Age is provided by a fragmentary relief found in the Vth Dynasty sun-temple of Niuserre, which shows the king and a priestess impersonating Seshat, each holding a mallet and a stake to which a measuring cord is attached. The scene is in complete agreement with the text in the temple at Edfu which represents the king saying: take the stake and I hold the handle of the mallet. I hold the cord with Seshat' .51
In the many depictions of the ceremony found all over Egypt, Seshat always faces the king and each is seen carrying a peg in one hand and a mallet in the other. A short cord is looped between the two pegs, and it is evident from this scene that the protagonists are aligning the axis of a temple or pyramid by stretching cord and aiming it at a distant object, and then fixing the alignment by hammering the two pegs into the ground. Here are some of the inscriptions from the temples at Edfu and Dendera which describe the scene:
[The king says:] I hold the peg. I grasp the handle of the mallet and grip the measuring-cord with Seshat. I turn my eyes to the movements of the stars. I direct my gaze towards the bull's thigh [meskhetiu; Plough]. . . I make - firm the corners of the temple . .52
[A priest says:] The king stretches joyously the cord, having turned his head towards the bull's thigh and establishes the temple in the manner of ancient times.53
[The king says] I grasp the peg and the mallet; I stretch the cord with Seshat; I observed the trajectory of the stars with my eye which is fixed on the bull's thigh; I have been the god who indicates Time with the Merkhet instrument. I have established the- four corners of the temple.54 / Page 33 / [A priest says:] The king . . . while observing the sky and the stars, turns his sight towards the bull's thigh. . .55
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