Most of those things being pointed as as oxygen systems and whatnot are just guns:
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I know this house well. It’s just off the Tri State Tollway near the Illinois-Wisconsin line.
That pyramid house is 17,000 square feet. It’s the largest 24-karat gold plated object ever built.
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Oh, yeah! I haven’t gone that direction in decades, but now that you mention it…it’s not something you can miss when you’re on the Tri-State.
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Unless you’re going to Gurnee Mills, or the Bristol Renaissance Fair, or [shudder] Milwaukee, or…
…yeah, no reason. Sorry, I tried.
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Someone sent me an image of this Egyptian Hedgehog:
It wasn’t well attributed, so I spent a little while looking up more info on it and what collection it’s in. It’s a porcelain statuette c1800 BCE in the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.
In looking for it, I found that it was featured in an article in the French archaeology magazine, Archéologia, in a very lovely article on hedgehogs in ancient Egyptian art and culture with some really wonderful photo illustrations (and the bits of text in the preview I could make out were interesting too). They had me at the title: The Desert Hedgehog, Protector of the Living and the Dead.
So, being obsessive, I looked up some more of the source images up:
These might really be long eared hedgehogs (Paraechinus aethiopicus) or desert hedgehogs (Hemiechinus auritus).
The image of the cheetah and hedgehog was even featured in a sciencemag article discussing the use of ancient Egyptian art to learn about the Egyptian ecosystems of the past for extra layers of fascination.
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Knowledge of self has always been the root of a complete and thorough education in the ancient Khemetic education or ‘Initiation System’ (called the Mystery System by western historians).
The word education comes for the Latin term, Educo / Educare (pronounced ee-do-sa-ray) meaning to lead forth, to bring out, and to rear up out of. Thus, the true source of knowledge and education begins deep inside each person. Education is literally supposed to bring out the best in everyone. A good Education must recognize the students’ talents and interest. A good Education empowers them to excel at their strengths, while identifying and improving any weaknesses. The foundation of a proper education is Knowledge of Self. We need only exercise honest personal analysis and correct weaknesses that may interfere with our purposes or goals.
Our ancestors of *Khemet carefully handled educating new students called initiates. (*Khemet, also known as Ta-Merry, is the indigenous name for the region of the Nile River Valley.) Before our Khemetic ancestors would permit the new initiates to even enter the sacred education process, the new students were first required to purge themselves of physical, spiritual and mental toxins. In preparation for an ancient education, the initiate had to undergo a cleansing. This included fasting, meditation and supplication to humble the inner spirit and harness the human passions.
Once one gains a full understanding and acceptance of personal tendencies, motivations, positives and negatives, the journey can begin toward applying the Knowledge of Self. This will empower us to access our inherent gifts from the Creator and cultivate the wisdom that is gained from personal, spiritual and academic experiences.
QUIET AS KEPT
The word Paper comes from Papyrus. Paper was first made in Ancient Africa (known as Alkebu-Lan, among other indigenous names). The PAPYRUS plant is the source of the fibers used to create the first paper in the world and only grows along the banks on the Nile River.
Metu Neter, (pronounced ‘Medu Net-tear’) or sacred script, is the oldest writing in the world. The Greek name, Hieroglyphics, is the most commonly used term for the first alphabet. Hieroglyphics are not only found in the Nile Valley , but also in the Grand Canyon, in South America, on remote South Pacific Islands, in China, Japan, Central American Yucatan Peninsula, and the Mississippi River Valley.
The first schools, universities and institutions of Higher Learning started in Khemet along the banks of the Nile River (the River of the God Hapi).
Most of the prominent Greek philosophers and scholars got their training or information studying in ancient Egyptian temples, tombs and lodges. These philosophers included Herodotus, the Greek Father of History, who spent 23 years attending schools in Ancient Egypt. More notables include Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras and Solon. They would slip out of Greece via Elea, near the Etruscan Peninsula (today called Italy), enter Alkebu-Lan (today called Africa) through modern-day Libya and pilgrim to the Nile Valley. Studying at the temples of Wa’rit and Waset, near modern day Luxor and Karnak Temples on the banks of the Nile River, was the greatest goal for scholars and initiates from all over the ancient world.
The world’s first hospitals, doctors and medical schools originated within Nile Valley Civilizations.
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You sure it’s not to glue? As in , “E, duco cement is da best for to cement da knowledge in da kids. Also works good on da papyrus.!”
(PS: that’s a hard ‘c’ in educare)
(PPS: If this post isn’t from @khepra under a different name, then it is excellent mimicry)
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Hermopolitan Ogdoad
A group of eight Gods—four Gods and four Goddesses—who feature in a cosmogony originating from the city of Shmun (Khemennu), lit. ‘Eight City’, known to the Greeks as Hermopolis. They represent a stage of the cosmos prior to the appearance of the land and the light, and in addition to being referred to as ‘the Eight’, are also known as the Hehu, or ‘infinites’, often translated ‘Chaos-Gods’. They are: Nun and Naunet, ‘the Abyss’; Heh and Hauhet, ‘Infinity/Formlessness’; Kek and Kauket, ‘Darkness’; Amun and Amaunet, ‘Hiddenness’. Occasionally Tenem and Tenemuit are substituted for Amun and Amaunet, the latter being increasingly distinguished from the rest of the Ogdoad as Amun rose to prominence as a God of national significance. ‘Tenem’, coming from a root meaning to go astray or become lost, is sometimes translated ‘Gloom’, but is perhaps better understood, in accord with the generally privative character of the members of the Ogdoad, as ‘the Nowhere’. Other substitutions in the membership of the Hehu for Amun and Amaunet are Gereh and Gerhet, ‘Night/Cessation’, and Niau and Niaut, ‘Emptiness’. The four Gods in the Ogdoad are represented with frogs’ heads, the four Goddesses with snakes’ heads.
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Does this go here?
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