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Noah’s Ark (Argo Navis or Ship of the Argonauts) from Coelum Stellatum Christianum (Christian Starry Heavens), 1627
Julius Schiller; Publisher: Andreas Aperger; Engraver: Lucas Kilian (after Mathias Kager)expand_more Hand-colored engravingexpand_more The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966expand_more P.14, 663 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/73904/noahs-ark-julius-schiller
Something that is talked about in many cultures, is the global flood myth. The story varies slightly but has common elements in many cultures. The most known is the story about Noah and his ark, but a little bit of study finds that there are older sources and that the catholic religion, including gods, are syncretized from older religions. So what happens in syncretism, is that the characters got different names, but the underlying stories where the same. This is something that is not realy been acknowledged or understood by a lot of people.
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What the author wants to convey with this article is that the origin of the floodmyth may not have been a global cataclysm but most likely the seasonal returning flood in Ancient Egypt and Ra’s solarboat the origin of the ark.
Later other elements where added such as Enlil (Bootes) and Enki (Aquarius) and the story changed. Ancient Sumer is the area where we find temples and ziggurats to “the gods” which have their origins in constellations. The mountain the pre mount Olympus and mount Zion or the eastern Mount Meru on which Angkor Wat for example is modelled.
The gods on the mountain is merely the rotating personified constellations, “directing what happens on earth” as the season changes. There are elements in other stories such as the 7 sages who also have astronomical origins in the stars of the big dipper and their wife’s the 7 stars of the pleiades. All have their origin in the stars. But it’s important to trace back the story to the sun god in his solar boat. If one knows even Noah’s sons can be found as counterparts in the stars.
A good summary of the floodmyths can be found on this webpage: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/a-flood-of-myths-and-stories/ which the author will mirror here, with full credit to the original writer for completeness to this article and future preservation of this information.
A Flood of Myths and Stories
February 14, 2020 by Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Lennlee Keep
We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The Ark Encounter,” this theme park explores the Judeo-Christian story of the wrath of God, the great flood, and the repopulation of the earth. While not all flood stories are the same, the description of the destruction of the world by water is a common theme in many religions and cultures. Most flood stories include an angry God or deity, and a catastrophic water event that destroys the world but is only survived by a chosen few.
But even with that simple plot, the execution can vary greatly.
Gilgamesh sculpture (NOTE AUTHOR ISUTRIKANDA, The author beliefs Gilgamesh is the constellation of Orion, nemean lion skin)
These flood stories also seem to have significant roots in science. Geomythology is the study of how these stories and geology could intersect. Flood stories may explain geological phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, fossils, and other natural features of the landscape.
Christianity (aka Noah’s Ark)
In the Judeo-Christian flood story, God became angry with the sins of mankind. He told his faithful servant, Noah, to build an ark large enough for his family (which included eight people; his wife, his three sons and their wives) and two of every creature on earth. God delivered the promised deluge, killing everyone and everything on earth except the population of the ark.
After the flood, the ark came to rest on a mountain top, a detail that is repeated in many stories across different cultures. This was an attempt to show the immense depth of the water, that it was higher than the mountains. Noah and his family were the only humans alive and are presumably the origins of the current human race.
The same narrative is mirrored in the Quran: Allah told Noah to build the ark, the flood came, and then from Noah, the world began again.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Perhaps the oldest flood story is one of the earliest stories known to man, The Epic of Gilgamesh. Recorded on 12 stone tablets this is among the first pieces of literature in history.
According to the poem, Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king who reigned for 126 years. This might seem a bit hard to swallow, but Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, making Gilgamesh look like a toddler in the grand scheme of things. After the death of a friend, Gilgamesh began to search for immortality and met an immortal man named Utnapishtim, whose story is very much like the story of Noah.
Apparently, Utnapishtim had been granted immortality after building a ship called Preserver of Life and surviving the “great flood.” Like Noah’s Ark, Utnapishtim brought all of his relatives and all species of creatures aboard his ark to save mankind. Sounds kind of familiar.
Some cultures’ flood stories bear only a slight resemblance to the story of Noah’s Ark. They maintain the themes of the ark and an angry God, but their repopulation stories are wildly different.
Aztec
The Aztec flood story shares similarities with the story of Noah’s Ark with some radical plot twists. In this story, Titlacauan warned the man named Note and his wife Nena, of a coming flood. Nata and Nena hollowed out a cypress tree, and Titlachahuan sealed them inside, telling them that they may only eat one ear of maize each. Here is where the story is wildly different from others.
The earth is flooded, but the people weren’t killed, instead, they were turned into fish. After the flood, Nata and Nena disobeyed Titlacauan and ate fish. So Titlacauan turned them into dogs. The story ends with the world essentially starting all over again only this time with a hearty fish population and a couple of dogs.
Greeks
Zeus, the king of the Gods, was displeased with the human population, or the Pelasgians, (which is a catch-all term for the indigenous people of the Agean region). Zeus told Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, to construct an ark for himself and his wife, Pyrrha, who also happened to be Deucalion’s cousin. After nine days of flooding, the world was destroyed, and the ark rested on top of Mount Parnassus. When the waters receded, Deucalion and his cousin-wife offered a sacrifice to Zeus to learn how to repopulate the earth. Zeus told them to throw stones over their shoulders. The stones thrown by Deucalion became men, and those thrown behind Pyrrha became women. Which was a relatively tidy (and magical) way to explain the repopulation of the earth while skirting the whole incest issue.
Deucalion and Pyrrha, painting, artist Rupert Bunny, early 20th C.
Asian flood stories retain some of the primary themes but are far more intricate. It’s interesting to note that in the Asian flood stories, humans are not just ark builders and survivors, they have far more agency and control than in other cultures.
Hindu
The Hindu deluge tale is unique from other religions. In Hindu teachings, Manu, or the first man, was not visited by a God, but rather by a fish. In some tellings of this story, the fish is the deity, Lord Vishnu. This fish/God told Manu that the world would be destroyed in a great flood. Manu built a boat and tied it to the horn of the great fish. The fish guided Manu’s boat through the floods and, not surprisingly, to the top of a mountain. When the floodwaters receded, Manu performed a ritual sacrifice and poured butter and sour milk into the sea. After a year, a woman rose from the water and announced herself as “the daughter of Manu.” So it is Manu and his “daughter” that repopulate the earth.
Buddhist
Buddhists have an elaborate flood story called Samudda-vāṇija Jātaka. In an Indian village, there lived 1000 families of dishonest carpenters. These carpenters would tell people that they could build anything from houses to chairs and would take the money and never deliver any goods or do any work. Because of this they were, not surprisingly despised in the village and quickly needed to find a new place to live.
They built a ship and sailed until they found a beautiful island. The island was populated by a man who had been shipwrecked. The man told them that food was plentiful, life on the island was comfortable, and the carpenters were welcome to stay. The only catch was that the island was haunted by spirits. The spirit’s only rule was that every time a human needed to defecate or urinate, they needed to dig a hole and cover it up when they were finished. The spirits wanted to keep their island clean and who can blame them.
The carpenters loved the island and decided to have a big party to celebrate their new home. However, they became drunk on fermented sugar cane and quickly ignored the rules and pretty much defecated and urinated all over the island. The spirits were furious and decided to flood the island with a giant wave, on the full moon. While the spirits were angry they didn’t want to kill the carpenters, they just wanted them gone. One spirit became a ball of light in the sky and told the people that because of their carelessness, the island would be flooded and that they should flee for their lives.
Another spirit was angrier at the carpenters and wanted to trick them. So he appeared in the sky announcing that the previous warning about a flood had been a lie. He said there was nothing to worry about, everything’s fine, keep on partying and there isn’t going to be a flood. Just kidding!
These 1000 carpenter families were ruled by two men, one wise and one very foolish. The foolish carpenter believed the other spirit and told the people to stay, relax, and enjoy the party. The smart carpenter told his people to build a ship, just in case they weren’t kidding.
While the wise man built a ship, the foolish man stayed and proceeded to drink more. On the day of the full moon, as the spirits promised, a giant wave came up and flooded the whole island. The wise man set sail with his people while the foolish man and his people died.
God of Thunder from Chinese mythology
What is interesting about this story is the flood was limited to one island, not the entire world. While there is an ark or ship, there was no need for repopulation, as only a small number of people were killed, and not much land destroyed. And this may be the only flood story with close ties to bodily functions.
China
Throughout history and even today, flooding has been an enormous problem in China. The success of an Emperor’s reign would be judged on how well they dealt with flooding and protected the food supply.
The Chinese have many stories and myths about floods, gods, dragons, and spirits. Just as in other flood stories there are few survivors. But the Chinese flood story has a very complicated repopulation tale.
One day a farmer managed to capture and imprison a thunder God. The farmer went into town but warned his children to stay far away from the caged deity. The children took pity on the thunder god and released him. In gratitude the God warned them there was going to be a great flood. He gave the children a (presumably very large) gourd and told them that they would be safe from the waters as long as they are inside the gourd.
The rains came, the brother and sister got inside the gourd. They were the only people to survive the flood and having a brother and sister as the only survivors made the repopulation part of the story a little tricky since the incest taboo in almost every culture is very strong. There were a few different endings to this story. In one version, the brother and sister were given a special “pass” from the heavens, like “It’s okay just this one time.”
In another version, the sister put her brother through many seemingly impossible physical challenges before agreeing to marry him. He completed the tasks, they married, and she had a child. The child was born damaged, without arms and legs. The brother killed the baby by cutting it up and throwing the pieces over the hill. The next day the brother and sister found that the pieces had turned into men and women.
In another form of the story, there is no incest at all: The brother wasn’t able to meet the sister’s challenges, and they didn’t marry or procreate. Instead, they repopulated the human race by creating humans from clay.
Norse
The Norse flood story is starkly different from the others in that the world was flooded, but not with water. When Odin and his brothers Villi and Ve killed the giant Ymir, the blood that poured from his body flooded the earth. That’s right, the world was drowned in blood. In this literal bloodbath, a single frost giant named Bergelmir and his wife made an ark, were saved, and repopulated the earth.
Aborigines
The Aboriginal culture has a history rich in storytelling, and their flood story has a noticeable lack of the common elements. No angry deity and no ark. But the story is so entertaining that there are several children’s books about the frog who flooded the world. (NOTE AUTHOR ISUTRIKANDA, “The frog is interesting due the frog godess Heqet, Hecate link, part of the Egyptian underworld Duat)
A frog named Tiddalik was very thirsty and drank up all of the water in the land, which caused an incredible drought. Creeks were dry, plants withered, and watering holes dried up. After many animals had died, all the remaining animals got together in a great council to devise a plan. They decided that the only way to get the water from the frog was to make him laugh. All the animals took turns, the kangaroos, emus, bears, and possums, with no luck. Finally, an eel wriggled and shivered and folded himself into funny shapes and Tiddalik couldn’t hold back any longer. The frog started a low laugh that sounded like distant thunder, and when he opened his mouth, water came pouring out, flooding the land. The flood gradually subsided, and the land was verdant and peaceful again.https://www.youtube.com/embed/U11TTKY9Vtg?feature=oembed
Ojibwe/Chippewa Tribe
Nanabozho in the flood. (Illustration by R.C. Armour, from his book North American Indian Fairy Tales, Folklore and Legends, 1905)
Native American tribes have long told stories to preserve their language, and to teach values and moral lessons. Such is the story of Waynaboozhoo (or Nanabozho) and the Great Flood. This story explores the time which is not commonly explored, the period between the flood and the receding of the water.
The story goes that the Great Spirit was unhappy with man and created a great flood. The only survivor was a man named Waynaboozhoo who had made a raft of logs and sticks for himself and other animals that were alive. They floated around for over a month, but the waters had not gone down. Waynaboozhoo decided that he was going to have to rebuild the earth, and he needed mud from the ‘old world’ buried deep underwater.
First, a loon tried, but the water was too deep. A beaver was also unsuccessful. While they were arguing about who would try next, a coon (small duck) named Aajigade said that he would try. All the animals told him to go away, that he was too small. Then they continued arguing until the sun went down. Suddenly someone noticed the body of the little coon floating on the surface. Waynaboozhoo picked him up and saw a small piece of mud in his bill. He revived Aajigade, who flew away.
Waynaboozhoo shaped the mud, and it became bigger and bigger. He needed a place to put it, and a snapping turtle, Mikinaak, offered his back. The land grew and grew until it was the size of the whole earth.
The Reality in Flood Myths?
Flood stories pervade hundreds of cultures and there are striking similarities to many of the accounts. It seems that at least some of these stories could be based upon actual events. Geologists have proposed the possibility of a great flood in the Middle East at the end of the last Ice Age, which was about 7,000 years ago. At that time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake surrounded by farmlands.
The hypothesis is that the European glaciers melted and the Mediterranean Sea overflowed with a force that was 200 times greater than Niagra Falls. That would be an incredibly fast-moving wall of floodwater. There is physical evidence that supports this theory, including stone age structures under the Black Sea.
Other theories include tsunamis and suggest that comets might have caused the flooding as well.
The big question is, will there be another catastrophic flood? With increased deforestation, climate change and rising sea levels we seem to be headed in that direction to create a new flood story of our very own.
Lennlee Keep is a nonfiction writer, filmmaker, storyteller and reticent D&D player. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Southeast Review, and ESME. Her films have been shown on PBS, A&E and the BBC. The ex-wife of a dead guy, she talks about death more than most people are comfortable with. She is working on a memoir about addiction, grief and a literally broken heart. Lennlee lives in Austin, Texas with her son and their guinea pig, Chuck Norris. She is much funnier than all of this might lead you to believe.
After this great summary of the global flood myth stories, one of the things is to be recognized is the syncretism, the renaming ad reuse of Gods and characters.
Enlil / Enki – Ziusudra Ziusudra is one of several mythic characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Utnapishtim
Zeus / Poseidon – Deucalion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion
Jaweh – Noah – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_flood_narrative
Odin – The giants blood (orion) caused the flood.
Although some of these relations are suspected, what is not realy known is that this story is captured in the circular zodiac and that all these gods and characters can be found in constellation counterparts.
For example Enlil is Bootes, Enki is Aquarius, the boat is Argos Navis, the dove Columba and the crow Corvus. The story of Jason and the argonauts send a dove in front although the story was not the flood story anymore. The flood story was Zeus and Deucalion. One can ask themselves this question:
- Was the (global) floodstory a real event captured later captured in the stars?
- Was the floodstory merely and allegory for the turning skies and capturing the seasonal flood of the nile, with links to the solarboat of Horus? How old is the boat Argos Navis in the stars and could it have been used in numerous other cultural links such as “Charons boat” which iconography does link him to Zeus/Kronos, the grimreaper and thus Enlil/Bootes?
The author beliefs that the boat is also the “boat of Charon in the underworld” and due to iconography sees Zeus in Charon. Zeus would be the personification of life and death and thus also the grimreaper, his sickle like Chronos relaated to Bootes. Just as Enlil was Bootes with his sickle.
Charon as “the boat man” in the underworld as he sat on the ship argos
So as the skies turn, time passes, so God is in fact the father of time or time itself. This role was Bootes. The ox driver or plow driver,Enlil, or Supa in the babylonian patheon.
https://therealsamizdat.com/2015/04/23/nascence-of-the-babylonian-zodiac/
I dont think anyone has tried to find the greek gods or mythology in the Zodiac, but they are there.
Zeus was never found or recognized in the zodiac, but its based on Enlil (Ninurta) and Bootes.
The hints to that is Kronos his father with the sickle and the sky thunder attributes they share with Enlil. Jaweh fighting Typhon or Ninurta fighting Anzu or the Lamashtu. The clues to Bootes are the sickle on his belt. His area in the Zodiac linked to the god of agriculture, as nile silt deposited the fertility to the lands. Although they never existed in Egypt where this constellation was Taweret. From Sumer it went to Greece, Rome was Kronos/Zeus and eventually turned into Jaweh omitting Enki/Poseidon out of the picture and Ziusudra turning into Noah with addition of his sons the Dioscuri who were the two gates of heaven, Orion and Apollo.
It is noteworth that Leo, the later summer solstice symbol, also has a sickle shape front and Amun carried the sickle shape sword the kopesh as highlighted in the authors paper which needs an update in light of the authors latest findings.
https://www.academia.edu/124359624/On_the_dating_and_meaning_of_the_great_Egyptian_Sphinx
As described in the authors article, the lost Zodiac symbols the watery part of the zodiac, the underworld starts at aquarius, the “great flood” happening as the sky turns, likely related to the annual nile flooding.
The image below, intricate in nature is a zodiac depiction according to the author, although probably never recognized as such. Its the solar boat, precursor of Argos Navis, amd the hydra snake symbolizing chaos or the flood. The dogs in front of the boat possibly a link to the Canis constellations.
The Flood had swept over the land,
And the huge boat had been tossed about by the windstorms on the great waters,
Utu (the sun-god) came forth, who shed light on heaven and earth,
Ziusudra opened a window in the huge boat,
The potent Utu brought his rays into the giant boat.
Ziusudra, the king, prostrated himself before Utu
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/reflections-on-the-mesopotamian-flood/
This makes sense in a way, as the sungod UTU (summer solstice), Horus, lion, Sphinx, Horus in the Horizon, is in the middle of Argos Navis. The boat is right there where Hydra is.
Development of the Greek constellation
Argo Navis is known from Greek texts, which derived it from Egypt around 1000 BC.[4] Plutarch attributed it to the Egyptian “Boat of Osiris.”[4]
Quote WIkipedia: “Some academics theorized a Sumerian origin related to the Epic of Gilgamesh, a hypothesis rejected for lack of evidence that Mesopotamian cultures considered these stars, or any portion of them, to form a boat.[4] “
That wikipedia entry is incorrect, The dragon Hydra IS the boat of UTU Shamash and it proves it is identical to the god Horus in his boat. Both are clear astronomical depictions related to Hydra and Argos Navis, This cylinder seal, is the smoking gun, that “Argos Navis” the boat, was known as a boat even in 2200BC! But it gives more. It also shows a man headed lion/Sphinx, directly linking the sphinx, Horus in the horizon to the sungod and Leo due the exact constellation position.
The Sun God Utu-Shamash in his Reed Boat. Line drawing of a printout from a Mesopotamian cylinder seal. Akkadian period, 2224-2154 BC. Paris: Biblioteque Nationale. Drawing from Henri Fankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, fig 96B, p. 90, Penguin paper edition, 1985.
Apep (also Apophis) was the Great Serpent ancient Egyptian god of Chaos (isfet) that reigned over the Underworld and fought sun and creator god Ra in his solar barque (also solar barge), in endless fights, night after night. Image from Wikimedia Commons, author : Soutekh67
Argos Navis was not shown in the Babylonian zodiac from Gavin White, but the Acadian clay tablet clearly shows the sungod and his boat and even a sphinx for Leo as sungod, summer solstice to complete the puzzle and showing a clear relation between Sphinx, Horus, solar barks. All elements found at Giza.
Further explaining the Acadian clay tablet.
Quote: “The Sun God Utu-Shamash in his Reed Boat. Line drawing of a printout from a Mesopotamian cylinder seal. Akkadian period, 2224-2154 BC. Paris: Biblioteque Nationale. Drawing from Henri Fankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, fig 96B, p. 90, Penguin paper edition, 1985. His tall conical hat or helmet with four rows of bull horns indicates a high god, and the fiery rays or flames shooting from his shoulders shows he is Utu/Shamash, the sun god of the Sumerians and Babylonians. He steers his boat, made from bundles of reeds waterproofed with bituminous tar, from the stern with a long steering-bar. No paddle or oar is needed, for in a way his boat is self-propelled. This is because the figure on the prow, a low-grade god or demon with just one pair of horns, who poles the boat along with a forked punting pole, is actually part of the prow. Between them is the boat’s cargo: a human-headed lion tied to the prow, a large jar, a plough, and other objects. Below, fish swim in the water, indicated by three wavy lines. On the shore at the left Inanna/Ishtar, the goddess of fertility and vegetation, stands in a field. She holds plants in her hands, and an ear of grain, perhaps barley, sprouts from her body. Is the sun god sailing through the underworld at night, or through the sky in the daytime? Henri Frankfort thought this seal might show “the sun’s progress through the night, beneath the earth which is the domain of the goddess.” But Inanna/Ishtar, bringer of life-giving rain to the crops in the fields, was a sky goddess as well as an earth goddess, and worshipped as “Queen of Heaven and Earth.” Both sky and earth were surrounded by the primeval salt sea, so the sun god could just as well be travelling across the sky in his boat in the daytime as he could be travelling through the underworld cavern of Kur at night. As the planet Venus, Inanna was both the morning and the evening star, and like the sun god and her father Nanna/Sin, the moon god, she travelled across the sky in a boat like this one, whose shape is like the crescent moon. Here Inanna is framed by the stern of the sun god’s boat, which, like the prow, terminates in the body and head of a divine being: the world serpent or dragon, whose body coils down around the stern and at the bottom begins to blend with the winding pattern of the reeds, until the boat itself becomes a kind of hybrid, a living creature whose stern ends in the winding tail and head of the world serpent, and its prow in the skirted body and head of a god. For thousands of years, a common theme and image in Mesopotamian art, literature and religion was the war of the gods against the forces of chaos, as embodied in giant serpents, dragons and other monsters. Eventually these forces of disorder were defeated and made to serve the enforcers of law and order, often as vehicles or conveyances: as a ship or steed, a winged lion or chariot puller. Here is another cylinder seal impression that clearly shows the world dragon or chaos monster as a boat (note again the triple wavy line of water below it), as it carries a thunderbolt-wielding storm god (possibly Ninurta) and two other sky gods, the god being represented by a star or sun and the goddess by a star in a crescent “boat.” Perhaps the sun god and Inanna?” https://ancientworlds.net/aw/Post/799411
Storm god (Ninurta/Enlil ->Bootes) on Dragon(Hydra). Cylinder seal from the first millenium BC. Akkadian Babylonian?From Ugo Bardot, MYSTERIES OF THE COSMIC THUNDERBOLT, ch 2, online. = Plate 19A in Samuel Noah Kramer’s “Sumerian Mythology” ch 3, “Myths of Kur”
What you see here above is BOOTES, ENLIL the later ZEUS.
The sungod to the right and virgo, with moon symbolism next to that.
Noah, is a version of “the sungod” “on his bark”.
Noah in his boat with his sons, Cain and Abel are the constellations Ophiucius and Orion. One slays the other as the sky turn.
The astronomy part of “his sons” is loosely adopted from Zeus and his two sons, Hercules and Apollo and the Dioscuri, seen on triumphal arches who in itself, with it’s triptych shape, encode the sun bouncing over the equator, a linear display of a circular zodiac passing. The sons occupy the opposite sides of the zodiac whilst the sungod sat at Leo.
But even earlier from Ra and his two children, Shu and Tefnut, the dry air and wet season, astronomy in stories.
The author thinks that story of “one slaying the other” is also found in the Rome creation myth of Romulus and Remus, where the wolf who nurtures them is a direct link to the central wolf constellation of the Babylonian zodiac who gnaws at the suspended plow at the center of the zodiac. The author feels this astronomical analogy goes back to Narmer as Orion and the scorpion king but has no direct proof for such. Bootes can be possibly identified as the scorpion king with his plow on the macehead found with the Narmer pallet but this is guessing at best. They are the pastoralist vs agriculturalist same as the Cain and Abel story.
Noah is basically a character based on older sungod in solar boat astronomical allegory and originally as such related to the Nileflood which occured at summer solstice at Leo.
The author has written extensively about the sphinx, Leo and Nileflood relation in the paper the dating and meaning of the great egyptian sphinx
https://www.academia.edu/124359624/On_the_dating_and_meaning_of_the_great_Egyptian_Sphinx
Previously the oldest sources was Horapollo linking the sphinx to Leo at 500bc, but the Acadian clay tablet proves sphinx was Leo at 2200bc.
Noah and his sons also returns in the Vaticans logo in a way. Where the sungod is “the pope” and the two keys the respective gates of heaven. Extensively discussed in the authors codex dei article on this blog.
The regeneration of the earth, the corruption of mankind and ultimate near destruction of mankind by war or deluge could be a cyclical natural pattern executing over the ages, from golden to iron age as described in the Yugas and Greek mythology, but that is speculation and goes out of scope of this article. The other key might even be “an iron key”, indicating such but Orion and Ophiucius are known as the golden and silver gates in heaven.
For now, the author has shown that there is a clear lineage of Noah to Argos Navis with it’s dove constellation Columba and crow corvus. It also clearly lines up with the solar bark of Utu/Shamash and the annual flooding of the Nile at summer solstice.
The author also believes the link to Hydra is the reason for the snake boats of the vikings and dragon makara boats of the greek ship design, as can be seen in “the Charon vase”.
The author suggests this boat design feature, comes from Hydra, at the position of Argos Navis. Apep is also Hydra and the links between Shamash/Utu and Horus/Ra are extremely obvious. Centaurus with it’s spear might be Seth if we have to look for him.
Quote Wikipedia: Over time, Argo became identified exclusively with ancient Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. In Ptolemy‘s Almagest, Argo Navis occupies the portion of the Milky Way between Canis Major and Centaurus, with stars marking such details as the “little shield”, the “steering-oar”, the “mast-holder”, and the “stern-ornament”,[5] which continued to be reflected in cartographic representations in celestial atlases into the nineteenth century (see below). The ship appeared to rotate about the pole sternwards, so nautically in reverse. Aratus, the Greek poet / historian living in the third century BCE, noted this backward progression writing, “Argo by the Great Dog’s [Canis Major’s] tail is drawn; for hers is not a usual course, but backward turned she comes …”.
Alexander Jamieson / Celestial Atlas, 1822 / Plate 25 / Canis Major, Canis Minor, Monoceros, Argo Navis, l’Atelier de l’Imprimeur & Pyxis Nautica constellations.
The dove Columba was always part of Argos Navis, so was Corvus the crow.
Conclusions
Although current academics rightfully say that there is no current “written proof” that the zodiac existed before a certain time or that the sphinx was leo before a mention hy Horapollo in 500BC. There are clues in the iconography of Acadian clay tablets of 2200bc (which is also written proof) that parts of the zodiac where very much in use in their mythology and that they did play a significant role in Egypt and Babylon. It was the basis for circular zodiac stories and their religion/mythology stories.
Others long suggested the origin of Noah’s ark in the flood stories of Babylon but found no evidence of a boat in their zodiac.
The author has proven that there was, in a similar settings as Egypt, as Utu’s / Shamash boat, parallels to Horus Ra solar bark. This is the oldest origin of Noah’s boat story and also of Argos Navis of Jason and the argonauts, complete with Dove Columba and Crow Corvus in later stories.Dismissed as mythology this was their way of visualizing the sky and the passing of time and if understood the clay tablets iconography can be clearly “read” as such, much like a written text.
In Babylon their mythology and gods had constellation counterparts, places in the sky and together enacted their mythological stories. Enlil/Enki made it to the Greek Roman Pantheon as Zeus/Poseidon. But it was Enlil who send the flood and Enki who warned mankind. In the the catholic religion the two gods where merged into 1, monoteism, Jaweh only who was more Zeus than Poseidon, who took the backseat, Zeus/Kronos father time became the main god and the one who send the flood AND warned a single man.
In Egypt Enlil/Enki part of “the flood and boat story” was not there. Enlil was Taweret as per the dendera zodiac and no plough for ursa major but a leg of the bull. In Egypt the boat of Ra/Horus and the leo constellation was marking indeed a flood but it was the annual seasonal flooding of the Nile and the solar boat traversing the sky throughout the year. Many later elements did not occur in Egypt.The story was later bastardized and adapted with figures such as Enki/Enlil added.
The author believes that the solar bark was enacted in earth by the pharaoh as the living sungod visiting the 3 Giza pyramids, which the author believes night have been a deliberate placement to mimic the zodiac center as khafre Leo the sphinx and it’s two extremities, but such is speculation until proven otherwise.
The origin of the global floodmyth
Is thus possibly to be found in the annual nile flooding. This seasonal occurence was captured in the earliest forms of the zodiac, where then later gods where added to this story. This story syncretized into later cultures and transmuted in a global flood deluge send by God(s) to instill the fear of God in people or maybe hint at a recurring cyclical moral decline of humanity as a whole and it’s ultimate destruction and rebirth. There is no evidence whatsover that this was the case for Egypt and that Egypt was thus the left over civilization of a global flood or atlantis deluge. The story was vastly different there. Although it featured a boat of Ra and was linked to a flood, there is no god sending a flood into this story and saving mankind. In Egypt, it was Ra, the sun-god and Horus/Leo that was worshipped. Not Enlil/Zeus/Bootes.
At first I thought the sphinx should have been an Apis bull, because Graham was right, at spring equinox it looks at Taurus and not at Leo.
As argued and proven in this document, the sphinx links to Leo (Horus) and the solar boat but as Graham rightfully said, it doesnt allign with the constellation of Leo in a spring equinox in the time of the pyramids.
One thing was overlooked here by Graham, to make everything work, even at spring equinox
We do find a perched Horus next to Taurus and Orion in the old zodiac (like the narmer pallet) so as such it would still match Horus in his solar boat looking at his “own image” the sun at spring equinox. Therefor there is no current evidence that Egypt was the remnant of a lost destroyed civilization and their part of the solar boat and flood story related to the journey of Ra/Horus through the sky and the flood was of agricultural benifit, as the god Bootes later shows.
Sun in Horus. Horus in the horizon. The lion and the sun.
Stijn van den Hoven – May 2025
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