Re: The book of Revelation and the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:09 am
Since we're on the subject, observe the throne of St. Mark, made famous (or infamouse depending on your persuation) by Huller:
Notice the wavy pattern on the base of the throne. It is clearly the same as that which was used to indicate water in Egyptian pictitorial representation.
That this is on the base of the throne is significant in comparing it to the throne of Osiris. The water that Osiris sits over is the waters of Nun, the primordial sea from which everything emerges from and is surrounded by. These waters also had restoring properties, and it was believed that the Nile was itself connected to the Nun.
Further more, Egyptian art is not abstract. It is meant to fully replicate reality in as possible a way in two and three dimensions in relation to the observer. Since it is not possible to depict the waters of Nun visually underneath the throne of St. Mark, it is necessary to depict it on the base, thus conveying to the observer that the waters of Nun is indeed beneath the throne. (As a tangant, that's also why the so-called "ufo of Abydos" is completely ridiculous. Helicopters would not be depicted in that way in Egyptian art. The propellers would be depicted as an X over the supposed helicopter, not horizontaly).
Now I have my own ideas as to who this throne was originally made for (to disagree with Huller, I don't believe it was Agrippa II), but that it was incorporated into Christiandom and depicts clear pagan influence... well, what more can we expect?
Notice the wavy pattern on the base of the throne. It is clearly the same as that which was used to indicate water in Egyptian pictitorial representation.
That this is on the base of the throne is significant in comparing it to the throne of Osiris. The water that Osiris sits over is the waters of Nun, the primordial sea from which everything emerges from and is surrounded by. These waters also had restoring properties, and it was believed that the Nile was itself connected to the Nun.
Further more, Egyptian art is not abstract. It is meant to fully replicate reality in as possible a way in two and three dimensions in relation to the observer. Since it is not possible to depict the waters of Nun visually underneath the throne of St. Mark, it is necessary to depict it on the base, thus conveying to the observer that the waters of Nun is indeed beneath the throne. (As a tangant, that's also why the so-called "ufo of Abydos" is completely ridiculous. Helicopters would not be depicted in that way in Egyptian art. The propellers would be depicted as an X over the supposed helicopter, not horizontaly).
Now I have my own ideas as to who this throne was originally made for (to disagree with Huller, I don't believe it was Agrippa II), but that it was incorporated into Christiandom and depicts clear pagan influence... well, what more can we expect?