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From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: The Saturn Myth:  Ra
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 09:12:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 09:12:08 1985
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     You've  seen  it  in  the  movies,  you've  read  it in books;  Ra
was the great sun god of the Egyptians.  Right?  Maybe.  Let's see what
the Egyptians  themselves had  to say,  without the interference of any
modern interpreter standing between us and them.  Consider E. A. Wallis
Budge and  his two  volumn "Gods  of the Egyptians", published in 1904,
long before the world had  taken  any  particular  notice  of  the name
Velikovsky;   Budge had  no particular  axe to grind.  His translations
are pretty direct and accurate.

     The following lines  are  direct  quotes  from  "The  Gods  of the
Egyptians", Vol I, pages 339-348:


     "3.  Praise be to thee, O Ra, exhalted Sekhem, Ta-Thenon, begetter
          of his Gods.  Thou art he who protecteth what is  in him, and
          thou makest thy creations as governor of thy Circle.

     4.   Praise be to thee, O Ra, exhalted Sekhem, looker on the earth
          and brightener of Amenti.   Thou art  he whose  forms are his
          own  creations  and  thou  makest thy creations in they Great
          Disk.

     6.   Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem, mighty one,  bold of
          face,  the  knitter  together  of  his body.  Thou art he who
          gathereth together thy gods when thou  goest into  thy hidden
          circle.

     9.   Praise be  to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem, the sender forth of
          light into his Circle;  thou art he  who maketh  the darkness
          to be in his Circle and thou coverest those that are therein.

     11.  Praise  be  to  thee,  O  Ra,  exalted Sekhem, support of the
          circles of Ament;  thou art indeed the body of Temmu.

     20.  Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem, thou shining one who
          dost send  forth light  upon the  waters of heaven;  thou art
          indeed the bodies of Nu.

     28.  Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem, the soul that seeth,
          the governor  of Ament;   thou  art indeed  the bodies of the
          double circle.

     45.  Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem, thou providest those
          who  are  in  the  Tuat  with  what  they  need in the hidden
          Circles, and thou art indeed Aperta.

     50.  Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem;  thou  sendest forth
          thy stars  and thou illuminest the darkness in the Circles of
          those whose  forms are  hidden, and  thou art  indeed the god
          Hetchiu.

     51.  Praise be  to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem;  thou art the maker
          of the Circles, thou makest bodies to come into being  by thy
          own creative vigour......"


          Think real hard, readers.  What is the one thing in our solar
     system which is surrounded by Circles, or a greak Disk?