Notes - Sunday, May 20, 6247 (2007)

UNOFFICIAL NOTES for Sunday, May 20, 6247

Completed movement meditation

Reviewing the translation from the Book of Coming Forth

• Distinguishes translation and transliteration, which is a translation with context and meaning
• Budge's work is a translation; see Bro Ray's transliteration below
  
• Shows several images of lotus, including the blue lily, which is not a lotus, although it's often referred to as one; the blue lilly blums during the day
• Referred to as "sesheni" in the medu neter
• Budge, like others, has borrowed the word lotus, when in fact it's a water lily
  
• Compares this to lotus petals on the based of the Buddah
• Where Budge says field, this is impossible, since it is an aquatic plant
• The correct translation is marsh land, not field
• The flower comes forth and closes in conformity with the sun; not the other way around as suggested by Budge
• The flower gives a fragrance, and we see the neter coming forth from the lily
• It is not a known fact that lilys submerge under water; the original writers may have extended its opening/closing to adding its submergance under water
• See images of a man and wife wearing a water lily (at the top)
• Medicinal benefits
• Has been said that it can reduce tremblings (anti-sposmatic), and is a minor opiate
• Laboratory studies have not found these properties in the water lily, although it has been found in the Asian lotus
• It has been reported to provide a euphoric ("high") when placed in wine
• Used the water lily as a sign of rebirth, fragrance, and "perhaps" as a mind altering plant

Plants

• Shows an image of a mandrake (see the image above)
  
• Would use the root and leaves to create images of a man and woman
• Reviewing the narrative of the "Destruction of Humankind"
• SUMMARY: Ra here's humans saying he is getting old...and he get's made, and says 'bring me my eye I'm going to kill them'. He calls on his council (Shu, Tefnet, Get, Nut, etc.). Ask for the advice of the neteru. Nu says 'act like a ruler, but since you ask, send your eye'. The eye comes forth in the form of Ht Hrt, and she begins killing humans. Ra calls her back, but after nightfall, Skhmt goes into the hills and wades in the blood. Ra calls her back, and asks her to return with mandrake root and give them to the ones who make beer (in the medu neter it is sdjrt), and grind it in 7,000 containers of beer. The beer, spiked with mandrake, causes sleep. Ra asks her to pour the beer in the four sections of the sky. Skhmt drinks the beer and goes to sleep, halting the slaughter. Ra becomes weary and rides a cow (Nut) into the sky, and stretches himself out on his back (on the sky).

• How does this relate to meditation?
• Mandrake is the giver of the pupils of the eye; contains an anesthetic (relives pain), induces sleep (causes the pupils to dilate), slight hallucinogenic
  
• See images of woman giving sharing mandrake to widen their pupils (said to enhance their sexuality) [see nearby picture]
• Mandrake also contains atromine, hyoscyamine; causing delirium, makes you stretch out, can be dangerous; ancestors must have developed a method for prescribing proper doses, and suggests a fairly extensive understanding of medicine
  
• Silver is the moon, gold is his body; the people are not ridiculing his aging, merely stating that he will begin his rebirth, since Ra "dies" everyday
• Story appears to be written by someone who was making fun of Ra
  

Making Transformation into a Blue Water Lily
(Retranslated by Raymond Davis)

Words (to be) Said by (the) Asir Anu

I am (the) pure Water Lily coming forth with (the) Sunshine
The guardian (of the) nostrils of Ra
The guardian (of the) nose of Ht Hrt
I make my descent
I search (for) him who is Hru
I am the pure (one) coming forth from(the) marshland