Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
COVID19 AMID MONOTHEISM
Before Pharaoh Akhenaton instituted monotheism in the 18th Dynasty, the Kemetic people were beholden to many gods. Osiris Isis and Horus among them. These 3 earlier gods (Ausar Auset Horus) have come down to us as the Trinity. (Father Son Holy Ghost ).
Before the 18th Dynasty and far back into prehistoric Ethiopia (Abyssinia/Nubia ), Africans equated nature with divinity. This included stars, sky, moon, animals, plants, birds, beetles, earth. They were known as, neters nefers for powers immortal that permeate space time by virtue of divine values.
The earliest gods were hermaphroditic, Neith, being man and woman at once. Over time Kemet and Nubia knew many gods, Maat, Thoth, under different names.
Today both Islam and Christianity are the main “religions”—an unknown word in ancient Kemet and Nubia—where obeisance to natural powers and forces was constant in every life: working , relaxation, everything. No one day was set aside as in our time. Today’s religions are revealed by men. The original obeisances were based on nature as observed and experienced by men .
Akhenaten based monotheism on the Sun. The earlier priests of Amon (Amen) used constellations.
Today, absent the aspects of devotion , we scientifically study the stars, the sun and everything else. But we are befuddled by coronavirus Covid19 , now, today, May 13, 2020, perhaps, because our philosophy and theology disdain nature and the infinite powers and forces saturating our own divine experiences. Now we perceive ourselves to be “human” not gods, as before, despite references in the Bible to our divine status as “heirs with Christ “.
So as to the implications of this ostensibly mathematical post implying incipient multiplicity, it replicates nature and science and diversity of thought, fluidity of forms , and all else, modernly, anciently, as it was originally , unassailably.
The post is certainly not intended to deprecate Jesus Christ, my literal savior and beloved divine brother in the faith, in “the way” of the ecology and evolution of the 21st century .