According to conventional ideas about language, our languages are collections of animal cries and mimicked sounds that evolved into languages in pre-historical times. According to the "phonetic" theory of the alphabet, our Roman alphabet is a set of abstract phonetic symbols that have no meanings other than serving as symbols for sounds. By those definitions, our language is a collection of arbitrary sounds that we write in meaningless symbols. That is not true.
Visual language can communicate across linguistic and cultural barriers more effectively than phonetic languages can. We live in a warring world. The population of this planet is increasing dramatically. Competition for limited resources is becoming more intense. The distribution of resources is becoming more unbalanced. Wars between nations and conflicts between cultures are becoming more frequent. Advancing technology and increased population are making those wars and conflicts more dangerous to greater numbers of people. We need better cross-cultural communications than purely phonetic languages can provide. Better communications among warring states and conflicting cultures can reduce some of the dangers and tensions in this age of globalization.

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Contrary to common belief, the letters of the alphabet are pictures. They're not purely phonetic symbols. Our alphabet contains fifty-two pictures. Every letter, large and small, is a distinct picture having a meaning of its own. Letters that are pictures add up to words that are pictures. Picture words make visual language. Not all of the words in our language are picture words, but many of them are. For instance, our word Man is a picture word. The word Man is composed of picture letters that add up to its meaning. The word Man is composed of symbols for Mother+ childbirth + son. The word Man is not strictly a noun of masculine gender. The letters that are pictures add up to a picture word of mothers and sons that includes all of Mankind.
That is visual language.
See the Illustrated Alphabet Pages on this website to view a complete set of pictures for all fifty-two letters.

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The Isis legend says that there was an ancient king, Assur (Osiris), who was the first king of the first kingdom on earth. A company of evil conspirators murdered Assur. They hacked his body into pieces, and scattered his severed parts. Isis gathered up the scattered parts of Assur and put them back together. She resurrected Assur from the dead. That is the core of the Pagan foundation legend. There was religion before Jesus, but there was no Christianity before Jesus. There was religion before Isis, but there was no Pagan religion before Isis. Pagan religion and culture began with the resurrection of Assur.
The resurrection of Assur is an allegorical tale. Isis was born sometime near the dawn of the historical era (6,000 years ago). The Assur legend goes back into prehistorical times following the melt down of the Ice Age (8,000 to 11,000 years ago). Assur was an ancient enlightened wise man like a Buddha, Confucius or Moses long before the dawn of writing. His works and teachings have come down to us in the form of verbal legends. Assur was a deified ancestor. He was already ancient before Isis was born. She didn't resurrect the corpse of a man who had been dead for thousands of years. She resurrected an ancient, fragmented, and defunct religion. Isis also resurrected his royal bloodline via her own womb. Pagan religion was a mixture of genealogy, politics and education.

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After she resurrected Assur from the dead, Isis copulated with her resurrected king. From that union, she conceived and gave birth to their son, Heru. Assur went on to become the King of the Afterlife and Judge of the Dead. He was the original "Adam" long before Abraham, Moses, and Judaism. Isis went on to become the Earth Mother Goddess, the Pagan's "Eve." Heru went on to become the father of Pharaohs and the progenitor of the bloodline of "divine" kings. The phallus of Assur was one of the important parts that she gathered together for his resurrection. Without that important part, she couldn't have copulated with her resurrected king. She couldn't have become the Pagan's Eve or the Earth Mother Goddess. Assur couldn't have become the Father God of the Pagans.






If Christian monks had invented the alphabet, the alphabet would be full of Christian symbols – the stations of the cross, the crown of thorns, and so on. According to the Pagan foundation legend, Thoth was the "scribe of the gods." Thoth was the "inventor of writing." Pagan monks created our alphabet. They used Pagan symbols for the letters. The phallus of Assur that Isis gathered is the capital letter "P" in our alphabet.



Typographers have got the letter P upside down. It should be an erect phallus. 

The minuscule letter g is a picture of a seed sprout.

The (minuscule) small letter g is a picture of a seed sprout. The sound of g is derived from the sound of someone gagging on a kernel of grain.







Strictly speaking, the capital letter N represents the striding legs of the God son, Heru. However, the letter n generally is a masculine determinative that represents any son or man.






Standard English dictionaries spell the name pagan with a small letter 'p' and define pagans as simple rustic country folks who had no distinct religion or culture. That is not true. The dictionary definition of pagan and spelling the name with a small letter 'p' was a deliberate Christian attempt to deny Paganism the status of a real religion. The name Pagan is a picture word that reveals clearly who the Pagans were.
Pagans were the sons of the seed of the phallus of Assur. The name Pagan spelled with a majuscule letter 'P' is a name composed of letters that are pictures. The pictures in the name are the phallus of Assur + childbirth + a seed sprout + childbirth + son. The letters that are pictures add up to a picture word Pagan that defines Pagans as sons of the seed of the phallus of Assur.
That is visual language.
See the Illustrated Alphabet Pages on this website to view a complete set of pictures for all fifty-two letters.

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Conventional ideas about languages are partly correct. Many of our words are sounds that evolved into language in pre-historical times. Some structural parts of our languages remain in use from primitive times. However, evolution doesn't account for all that our languages are. Our ancestors domesticated wild plants, wild animals, wild men, and wild languages that had evolved "naturally" from earlier times. The languages we speak today are domesticated and cultivated versions of those original "wild" languages.
Language is culture. Religion is culture. Pagan genealogy and religion was widespread in the world in ancient times before the rise of Western civilizations. Pagan religion and culture were more widespread in the ancient world than Biblical religion is now. Pagan religion defined the culture and refined the languages of the early civilizations. Languages and cultures of diverse nations and tribes all over the world are rooted in Pagan religion.
Pagan culture was the nearest thing to a universal culture that this world has ever known. Pagan religion added concepts to those cultures and words to their languages that the original cultures and languages didn't have. Those original wild languages were limited mediums of thought and expression. Pagan religion made great advances in the mental development of people and in the power of their languages. Pagan religion gave people the power to organize into much larger and more effective communities than had previously been possible. We need to retrace and understand that ancient culture to gain the benefit of that experience in building a 'World Culture' civilization in our future.

Number 4  © Assur's throne rests on a stable foundation of truth.

The Arabic number 4 is a representation of the "Maat" mat upon which Assur's throne rests. The "Maat" truth mat upon which Assur's throne rests represents stability based on unalterable truths like the movements of the heavens, the changes of seasons, and the absolute certainty of mathematics. "The primary meaning of Maat is 'straight,' and as far as we can see the same ideas were attached to the Greek word kanon (i.e., a straight rod, a mason's rule, and finally a rule, a law, a canon, which governs men and their actions) . . . The Egyptians used the word in a physical and moral sense, and thus it came to mean 'right, true, truth, real, genuine, upright, righteous, just,' etc." (E.A. Wallis Budge in Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection pp 309.) The ancient people lived in an uncertain world. They were vulnerable to floods, famines, years of low crop yields, disease, war, social unrest, economic downturns, political upheavals, and disasters of all kinds. Egyptian civilization was extremely concerned about political stability, economic stability, and social order. The Maat plinth upon which Assur's throne rests represented the stability of the throne and the certainty of the King's wisdom and judgment in an unstable and uncertain world. "Great is truth (maat), the mighty and unalterable, and it has never been broken since the time of Osiris." (From the Precepts of Ptah-Hetep, 2000BC.) ADDENDUM #1 Scribes of the Thoth school selected the Maat mat under Assur's throne to represent the number 4. According to the foundation legend of Egypt, Thoth was the "scribe of the gods." He was "the inventor of writing and of numbers." "It was Thoth who first taught men to speak clearly." Scribes of the Thoth school selected the Maat mat under Assur's throne to represent the number 4. Those scribes of the Thoth school were also wordsmiths. The name of the Maat mat is probably the source of our word mat. Thothian scribes didn't just arbitrarily pick symbols and sounds and assign meanings to them. They used a system of icons, god names, and the functions of gods, to create words. According to the foundation legend, "Assur gave names to things that formerly had none." Thothian scribes used Assur's name to create words and give them meaning. Our words sure, assure, andcertain are derived from the name Assur. Although the word certain is spelled with the letter c, the cer- syllable in certain has the sur sound from the name Assur. The use of Assur's name to give meaning to words like sure, assure, and certain conveys some feeling for Assur's place in their society and religion. Those linguistic connections convey some feeling for the significance of the plinth under Assur's throne, and for the meaning of number 4. "I stand four-square for the truth." ADDENDUM #2 The Maat "truth feather" represents the feather from the shaft of an arrow. The feather on the shaft of an arrow causes the arrow to fly true. The Maat mat upon which Assur's throne rests was symbolic of solid physical truths and unalterable cosmic truths. The Maat feather, the "truth feather," was symbolic of spoken truths such as the given word of an individual, ideological truths, or learned truths of the intellectual kind. Egyptian religion set high value on truth speaking. In the final judgment, Assur weighs the heart of a deceased person on a balance against the feather of truth while the soul of the deceased recites a negative confession of all the wickedness that he or she has not done. If the deceased person's heart was as light as a feather i.e., true, pure, Maat, that person was promoted to heaven. The truth feathers attached to Assur's "white crown" sent the soul of the departed straight to heaven. (See the Alphabet F page on this website for a further discussion of Maat.) (See the Alphabet G page on this website for a further discussion of Assur's White Crown.) The goddess Maat was Thoth's wife. Thoth was the scribe of the gods. Maat was the goddess of truth and justice. Hers was "the law that has never been broken" i.e., math. Our word math is derived from the name of Maat, the goddess of truth and justice. Pagan scribes of the Thoth school were wordsmiths. They used the names of gods to create words and used the functions of gods to give meanings to those words. Many gods had multiple functions and alternative names. Thoth was also the god of science. One of Thoth's alternative names was Tekh. Our syllable tech as in technology was derived from the name of Tekh, the god of science. Our word math is derived from the name of Maat, Tekh's wife. Our word mathematic is derived from the combined names of Maat and Tekh. Maat + Tekh = maat ma tekh i.e. mathematics. Our word myth is also derived from the name of Maat, the goddess of truth and justice. It is ironic that in our language in our culture, we use a form of the name of the goddess of truth as a synonym for "untrue." Such pejorative usage of Pagan names is leftover propaganda from a bygone era. Monotheism destroyed Paganism in an ancient power struggle. The use of Propaganda to dehumanize "the enemy" was as much a part of that ancient war effort as it was in later wars including those going on in the present. The old Pagan myths were the teachings of Maat, the goddess of truth and justice. The use of her name to mean "untrue" was ancient propaganda. ADDENDUM #3 This was borrowed from the "Alphabet F" page of this website. The Goddess Maat was the goddess of truth and justice. Maat was Thoth's wife. She was the goddess of truth and justice. Maat's name is the Egyptian word for truth. Maat's name is the name of the truth feather. Maat's law was "the law that has never been broken." Math is the law that has never been broken. Our word math is derived from Maat's name. Maat, the goddess of truth and justice, along with her position atop the scales of judgment, is surely the original motif for the Roman "Lady of Justice" and through stages of evolution, Maat is the ancestress of American "Liberty." Resurrect Isis. The world family of EarthMother's children was the nearest thing to a universal culture this world has ever known. For a brief era (c. 3000 - 2000 BCE) the Isis bloodline was the royal bloodline of all the kingdoms on earth. That era was the nearest thing to a "Golden Age" this world has ever known. Monotheism's attempt to destroy the EarthMother has resulted in a world anarchy of warring states. Let us return us to the way of the goddess of universal love.

Number 5  © Arabic Number 5 is a symbolic representation of Assur from the classical Judgment Scene.

The number 5 depicts Assur seated upon his Judgment Throne. According to the foundation legend of Egypt, Isis resurrected Assur from the dead. After his resurrection, Assur went on to become the king of the afterlife and judge of the dead. The number5 represents Assur in his role as judge of the dead. In Egyptian religion, Thoth was "the scribe of the gods." Thereby, Thoth was the god of scribes. Scribes of the Thoth school were the educated intelligentsia of Egyptian civilization. Thoth was the "inventor of writing and of numbers." Scribes of the Thoth school created our Roman alphabet and the Arabic numbers. All of the alphabets and numbers they created are pictures of Pagan religious icons derived from the legend of Assur and Isis. The number 5 is a complex figure. Many individual parts of Assur are letters of our Roman alphabet. The number 5 symbol combines a number of individual parts of Assur into a single symbol. The horizontal top bar of the 5represents the beard of Assur. The beard of Assur by itself is the letter J in our alphabet. The upright back member of the 5 represents the backbone of Assur. The backbone of Assur by itself is the letter I in our alphabet. A portion of the curved part of the 5 represents the thigh and lower leg of Assur. The lower leg of Assur is the letter L in our alphabet. The bottom portion of the curved part of number 5 represents the Maat ''truth mat" upon which Assur's throne rests. The Maat truth mat upon which Assur's throne rests is the number 4 in this number set. Altogether, the number 5 is a compound symbol representing the whole Assur including his principle functions as the founding god of Pagan civilization. ADDENDUM #1 The number 5 represents Assur in his role as judge of the dead after his resurrection. Assur was the first enlightened human being, like Moses, Jesus, or Buddha, of whom there is any record. There was only a verbal record of his works and teachings. By the dawn of writing, Assur was already an ancient deified ancestor. Assur was the original Adam. Unlike Biblical Adam, Assur was not considered to be the first human being. He was revered as the first human who was "wise" . The Pagan belief in life after death, and subsequently the Christian belief in life after death, sprung from the resurrection of Assur. Paganism and Christianity both require a moral life on earth and a final judgment after death to gain a desirable place in the afterlife. The number 5 is a picture of Assur seated on the Judgment Throne in the classical Judgment Scene where he renders the final judgment of a deceased person's life on earth. ADDENDUM #2 Egyptian religion and Egyptian civilization began with the resurrection of Assur. In prehistoric times before his resurrection (before writing) there was an UrRe religion based on the works and teachings of Assur. UrRe religion was a mixture of hawk god, sun god, and ancestor worship. Paganreligion began with the birth of Isis and the resurrection of Assur. After Isis resurrected Assur from the dead, Pagan religion replaced the prehistoric UrRe religion throughout the Mediterranean region. (See the Sunwing page on this website for a further discussion of UrRe religion.) (See the The Genesis of Isis page on this website for a discussion of the Genesis of Pagan religion throughout the Mediterranean region.) Resurrect Isis. Powerful evolutionary forces are forging humankind into a global civilization. This website promotes a peaceful and prosperous "WorldFamily" global civilization and a universal language. To achieve this we must return to our roots. Our cultures, our languages, our religions, all sprung from the womb of EarthMother Isis.

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The number 6 represents Thoth, the god of wisdom and learning. The number 6 is a picture of the head of an ibis. In Egyptian art, Thoth is depicted as an ibis headed god. Thoth was the scribe of the gods. He was the patron god of scribes. According to the foundation legend of Egypt, Thoth was the inventor of writing and of numbers. Scribes of the Thoth school created the letters of the Roman alphabet and the numbers of the Arabic number set. They used Pagan religious icons to create the symbols that are the letters and numbers we know and use today. The number 6 is a Pagan religious icon. We use Pagan religious icons to record and communicate the content of our thoughts. Our languages and cultures are rooted in the ancient culture of Isis. Cuneiform writing reminded the ancients of bird tracks in mud. Pagans of the Isis bloodline valued wisdom as the highest human virtue. The "Sacred Ibis" was an enduring wisdom symbol in Pagan religion. One might wonder why they chose the ibis as a symbol to represent the god of wisdom and learning. The common pun that someone's handwriting looks like "chicken tracks" has truly ancient origins. The earliest enduring forms of writing were impressions made in clay. The ibis is a wading bird that probes for food in shallow waters along streams and ponds. Its footprints in the mud of its habitat reminded the scribes of cuneiform clay tablet writing. The Pagan's concept of wisdom was divided into distinctly different branches of wisdom. The educated wisdom of scribes was regarded differently from the agrarian wisdom of farmers or the military wisdom of soldiers. Farmers, soldiers, and "tradesmen" of all kinds were illiterate classes of people. Heru, the hawk god, was the patron god of soldiers who did not need to be educated in the literary arts. When armies went on military campaigns, professional scribes went along as accountants, message writers, and etc. The common feature of armies subservient to civilian governments in Western civilizations may have sprung originally from this ancient literary tradition. Thoth was the patron god of all the scientific, literary, and bureaucratic professions that required writing skills. They chose the ibis as the symbol for the patron god of the educated literary branch of wisdom because its footprints looked like cuneiform clay tablet writing. ADDENDUM #1 Priest scribes of the Thoth school were linguistic architects and wordsmiths. They designed languages and formulated words. According to conventional language theories, our modern languages "evolved" from prehistoric languages by chance. There was no design or designer involved in the process. That isn't true. Our languages are man-made structures in much the same way that our houses are man-made structures. Our houses may be built of wood from forests that evolved out of the ecosystem of the planet, but the houses did not evolve out of the forest by chance. For the most part, constructors of houses refined and formulated naturally existing materials to create the products from which they built houses. Ironsmiths refined nails out of raw iron ore. Sawyers sawed lumber from naturally existing trees. They built their houses on foundations of field stone mortared together to serve their purpose. Scribes of the Thoth school designed and constructed languages by similar processes. Our major languages are structures built partly of linguistic materials from prehistorical times and partly from the creations of Thothian genius. For instance, Thothian scribes used the names of gods and the functions of those gods to formulate words and give them meaning. Thoth was the all around god of wisdom and learning. Our word thought is derived from the name of Thoth. Our word hero is derived from the name of Heru, the god of wisdom in action. Our word assure is derived from the name of Assur, the founding father god of Pagan civilization. Those are very direct god name words that derive their sounds and meanings from the names and functions of Pagan gods. Many words in many languages are derivatives of god names. They're not always as direct and obvious as these examples are. Thoth was the god of writing and also of science and mathematics. Tekh was another of Thoth's names. The Tekh version of his name is found in a variety of technical terms like Tekhnology. The tech- syllable in technology is derived from the god name Tekh. The -tic syllable in mathematic is derived from Tekh. Thoth was the god of astronomy. He was the counter of the stars, the maker of the calendar, and the measurer of time. The tick-tock of the clock is derived from the name of Tekh. It was Thoth who "first taught men to speak clearly." Our word talk (tawk) is derived from Tekh. Thoth was the god of writing. Our word text is derived from Tekh. Thoth was wise. Our word tactic is derived from Tekh-Tekh. Resurrect Isis All that we know as human civilization, our cultures, our languages, our genealogies, are rooted in the old Pagan religion of Earth Mother Goddess, Isis. In order for a peaceful and prosperous world civilization to exist on this planet that leaves out no part of humanity, we must return to our roots. The only alternative is a civilization based on predatory militarism as it is being practiced and promulgated over the world today.

The number 7 represents the god Set or Seth. The number 7 and the alphabetic letter Z are both derived from the same icon. They're both pictures of the uas or was, Seth Scepter. According to legend, Assur was the "inventor" of agriculture and animal husbandry. He was also Father God of the Pagans. In the classical Judgment Scene from all periods, Assur is always depicted holding a shepherd's crook and a grain flail. The crook and flail identify Assur as the Father God of farmers and herders. Sometimes in the Judgment Scene, Assur is depicted holding the Seth Scepter along with his crook and flail. The functions of the crook and flail are obvious. They're farm tools. The function of the Seth Scepter is not so obvious. Whatever the function of the Seth Scepter was or was not, in Assur's hands it was surely a symbol of power. Considering the aura of mystery and uniqueness that Number 7 has always had amongst the numbers, the Seth Scepter was probably an object of magical or mystical powers. Perhaps there was a cult or guild of magicians and mystics devoted to the god Seth. Our modern concepts of Voodoo and "Black Magic" might best convey the powers that the Seth Scepter symbolized. All things considered, the Seth Scepter in Assur's hand was probably the original "magic wand." It represented magical powers of some kind. Addendum #1 The number 7 has always had some special meaning of evil or bad luck related to it. Being the "seventh son of a seventh son" is still considered to be especially ominous in some cultures, and calling someone a "seventh son of a seventh son" is still used as a curse. The aura of bad luck or evil surrounding the number 7 has ancient origins that spring from the legend of Assur and Isis. Egyptian religion, Egyptian culture, Egyptian civilization, began with the resurrection of Assur. However, Assur didn't die a natural death, he was murdered. Seth was the Egyptian god of evil. According to the foundation legend of Egypt, Seth and a company of conspirators murdered Assur. They hacked his body into pieces and scattered his severed parts. Isis gathered together Assur's scattered parts and resurrected him from the dead. Isis conceived their son, Heru, from her union with her resurrected king. Afterward she had to ever wary of "fiends of Seth" who were trying to murder her son. Despite his part in Assur's death and his enmity toward Isis, Seth seems to have had a mixed career in Egyptian religion and politics. Seth's place in Egyptian religion and politics is difficult to understand. It appears that no one has ever made a linear study of the god. The record is confused and confusing. In the early dynasties Seth was a member of a respected company of gods. Perhaps there was a cult of mystics or guild of magicians devoted to the god Seth. In later dynasties, he sometimes appears as the god of evil. Sometimes he appears as a brother of Heru. By the end of the dynastic period, Seth was the personification of evil. Dynastic Egypt, as we know it, began with the military unification of two warring kingdoms, "Upper Egypt" and "Lower Egypt." Seth was an ancestral deity of the Upper Egypt southern kingdom "Blackland." Our word south is probably derived from the name of Seth. There was surely political tension between the former warring kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt long after their "unification." Power struggles amongst political factions and old enemies could account for some of Seth's changing fortunes in Egyptian religion and politics. The annual flooding of the Nile and wet soils in the Nile Delta render the Delta region unsuitable for the preservation of history. Heavy stone monuments sink into the mud. Wooden structures are washed away. Mud brick monuments dissolve. Durable artifacts get buried under silt. Papyrus records decay. Corpses rot. As a consequence, our knowledge of Egyptian history is based heavily on records from the southern half of the kingdom. Dynasty XV, the Hyksos' "foreign kings" Dynasty (1663-1555 BC), worshipped Seth and the Semitic war god Reshep. A civil war or a revolution against the Hyksos lasted for generations. During that period, there were different kingdoms contending with the Hyksos and vying for power amongst themselves. Ahmose, a Theban prince, finally succeeded at driving the Hyksos out of Egypt. Following the overthrow of Dynasty XV and expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt, Seth's fortunes fell. Ahmose I founded the fabulous Dynasty XVIII. The gods Amun and Thoth gained prominence in Dynasty XVIII. One of the "kings" of Dynasty XVIII was Queen Hatchepsut. Akenaten, the "heretic king" introduced the worship of the sun disk, Aten. When Akenaten died, his heir, Tutankhaten changed his name to Tutankhamen and reintroduced the worship of Amun. Tutankhamen was probably murdered. He left no heir. His successor and possible murderer left no heir. Dynasty XVIII ended with a cousin of Tutankhamen, Horemheb, who also left no heir. So, who would be king? Ramses I, the son of a non-royal general named Seti, "follower of Seth," rose to power. Ramses established Dynasty XIX. Dynasty XIX resumed the worship of Seth. During the reigns of the Ramses kings of Dynasty XIX, Seth was apparently back in good standing in Egyptian politics and religion. Ramses II of Dynasty XIX reigned for sixty-seven (67) years (1279-1212 BC). Ramses II had 52 sons. Following his long reign, the kingdom went into a long decline. There were economic depressions, internal power struggles, and foreign invasions. Dynasty XIX ended with foreign conquest and domination. Apparently Seth's fortunes fell with the fall of the empire. Seth, the Egyptian god of evil, is the prototype of Satan in Christianity. Seth is a "fallen angel," so to speak, in Egyptian religion as Satan is in Christian religion. In the end, Seth with his scepter is the prototype of our familiar concept of the Devil. (See the Alphabet Z page on this website for a further discussion of Set or Seth.)

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The number 8 pictures twin twined cobras of Isis. The familiar physician's caduceus defines what the number 8 represents. Isis was the Serpent Goddess. Isis resurrected Assur from the dead. Among her many attributes, Isis was also the goddess of medicine and healing. She used a combination of magic, medicine, and "words of power" to resurrect Assur. It took some powerful medicine to raise a dead man. Cobra venom was powerful medicine in the Mother Goddess religion. The Sacred Asp of Isis has been associated with the healing arts since ancient times.    Although the physician's caduceus is a relatively modern figure, it has ancient origins related to medicine and healing. A twin twined serpent vessel that Gudea, Prince of Lagesh, dedicated to the healing god, Ningishzidu, dates to 2000 BC. A serpent twined Sumerian medicinal vessel dates to 2500 BC. The Greek/Roman god of healing Esklepios/Aesculapius is always depicted with a serpent entwined "healing staff." Addendum #1 Priestesses of the Temple of Isis knew a cure for snake bite. An interesting anecdotal story about Isis tells how she used the bite of a serpent to extort a secret out of a king. The story is a well known classic known as the "Legend of Ra and Isis." It was a common belief in Egyptian religion that knowing the secret name of someone or something could give one power over that person or thing. Egyptian Pharaohs went to great lengths to keep their true names secret. The "Legend of Ra and Isis" deals with the goddess Isis and the sun god Ra, but surely the original events from which the story evolved began with a mortal "sun king" Pharaoh and a priestess of Isis. According to the story, Isis desired to be a goddess and live amongst the immortals. "Her heart rebelled at the millions of men, she chose rather the millions of the gods." "Could she not be in heaven like Ra and make herself mistress of the earth and a goddess by knowing the holy name of the god?" She fashioned a "sacred" serpent out of clay and placed it along the path where the sun god walked each day. The serpent bit the god. " The life was coming out from him. . . His two jaws rattled, his limbs all trembled, the poison took possession of his body." "I am wounded by something deadly, knoweth it my heart. Not know I who has done this to me. Not have I tasted pain like this. Never was anything more deadly than it." "Came Isis with her power and her skilled mouth, with the breath of life her incantations cure diseases." She said "What is this O father god? What is it? Has a snake shot sickness into thee?" "I was passing over the way, passing through the two lands of my country when I was bitten by a snake." "I am colder than water; I am hotter than fire; my limbs are all full of sweat. I tremble; my eye is without stability; I cannot see the sky; bursteth out water from my face as in summer." She said "Verily it shall be overthrown. By words of power I will make it depart." Said Isis to Ra "O tell me thy name father god." The king then went on and enumerated a long list of his titles and epithets. But "Not was driven the poison out of its course; not was relieved the great god." Said Isis to Ra "Thy name is not enumerated among the things thou hast told me. O tell thou it to me, and out shall come the poison." Said the majesty of Ra "I give myself to be searched out by Isis, shall come forth my name from my body into her body." The great god was removed from his name. Isis, great in words of power said " Run out poison, come forth from Ra. Eye of Heru, come forth from the god and shine without his mouth. I have worked; I make to fall down upon the ground the poison which is defeated." Thus said Isis, great lady, mistress of the gods who knew Ra by his name, his own true name. "Verily was removed the great god from his name." The "Legend of Ra and Isis" is fully transliterated and translated in The Gods of the Egyptians by E.A. Wallis Budge. The "Legend of Ra and Isis" was originally one of the many "soma mystery" stories that were extant in the ancient world. The version that Dr. Budge translated is from a Dynasty XVIII papyrus. It is a long and elaborate version of an older and simpler story. The many intrusions of later day text into the story reveal that the scribes who wrote it had no clear understanding of the soma mystery about which they were writing. However, the story does reveal that minions of Isis knew a cure for snake bite. Addendum #2 Priestesses of the Temple of Isis knew the mystery of the Forbidden Fruit. Isis was Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Pagan religion, Isis was the Earth Mother Goddess, mother of everyone on earth. In Biblical religion, Eve was the mother of everyone on earth. In Pagan religion, Isis was the serpent goddess. In Biblical religion, Eve spoke with a serpent in the Garden of Eden. In Pagan religion, Isis was twice wise. In Biblical religion, Eve discovered a fruit in the Garden of Eden that made her wise. There can be little doubt that the goddess Isis was the model for Biblical Eve. Wisdom was the highest virtue in Pagan religion. Their religious life was a quest to gain the wisdom of the gods. In Pagan religion, serpents (asps) were wisdom symbols. Motivated by hatred, monotheists did everything in their power to demonize the Pagans. They transformed wisdom symbols of Pagan religion into symbols of evil in Biblical religion. Remnants of that ancient propaganda war are still with us. 3000 years later, in the United States, in "the most enlightened culture in the history of the world," there are still Christians who kill snakes because they're evil. "Their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps." Deut. 32:33 "And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof; then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and she did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked . . ." Genesis 3:2-7 This story from the Bible has been handed down to us as "the fall of man" from a pristine state of grace. This "original sin" of Eve and the serpent are taught in Monotheism as the original source of all of the evils of the world. Monotheism has corrupted the story. What that story clearly says is that they ate poison, their eyes were opened, and they became wise. The Biblical story of the Garden of Eden is about the awaking of humankind from its primordial "naked" state of ignorance. It is not about a fall from grace. Ye shall not eat of it "lest ye die." Obviously, the "Forbidden Fruit" is a lethal poison. If you eat it you will die. "Their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps." Is the Forbidden Fruit the "poison of dragons" that Pagans of the Isis bloodline mixed with their wine? Is the Forbidden Fruit and cruel venom of asps the original bread and wine sacrament that Christianity later turned into a meaningless ritual? Apparently, priestesses of the Temple of Isis knew the mystery of the Forbidden Fruit as well as a cure for snake bite.

The number 9 depicts the familiar ankh symbol.  The original ankh figure began as a simple image of the sun breaking over the horizon at sunrise. It symbolized Assur rising from the night of death into the light of a new day. Although the ankh symbol is commonly interpreted to simply mean "life," it means more than just life. The ankh is the symbol for resurrection to life. The Egyptian religion began with the resurrection of Assur. From that simple beginning, the idea of Assur rising from the dead led to ever more complex ideas and speculation regarding life after death. The simple sunrise symbol representing that event developed into more elaborate symbolism. The simple sunrise ankh developed into the familiar "sandal strap" ankh which became the common form in Egyptian art. The sandal strap ankh was a compound symbol that represented more than just the resurrection of Assur. It also represented his travels and works after his resurrection. Although the ankh symbol evolved into more artistic and elaborate forms, it never lost its original "sunrise" significance. (See the Why Resurrect Isis? page on this website for more discussion about resurrection and the ankh symbol.) (See the Alphabet L page on this website for further discussion of the "sandal strap" ankh symbol.) Addendum Taken from the "Why Resurrect Isis?" page of this website. In later times, Christianity transformed the Egyptian resurrection symbol into the cross of Christ to symbolize Jesus' resurrection. The Christian resurrection was a later day chapter of the Egyptian resurrection. Christianity is a child of Mother Goddess Isis religion. The resurrection of Isis is another chapter of that religion. (See the Alphabet J page on this web site for a further discussion of Isis and Jesus.)

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The number zero depicts the "Eye of Heru." The Eye of Heru represents the highest wisdom i.e., gnosis, the divine knowledge. The word gnosis is related to Genesis and genius. The words Genesis, genius, and gnosis are all derived from genes-of-Isis. The Pyramid Texts contain scores of references to eating the Eye of Heru. The Pyramid Texts are a collection of spells and prayers inscribed in the inner chambers of Dynasty V and Dynasty VI pyramids at Saqqara. The pyramids at Saqqara contain an archive of texts from the earliest eras of Egyptian history. The Eye of Heru as magical food, as a magical talisman, as magical symbolism was a key element of Egyptian religion from the very beginning. The Egyptians didn't kill hawks for the purpose of eating their eyes. Hawks were sacred animals in Egyptian religion. Pagan ideology regarded wisdom as the highest of human virtues. They equated vision with wisdom. "I see, therefore I know." The Pagans didn't "worship" animals. Hawks were wisdom symbols. They revered the hawk's enormous powers of vision. The prodigious powers of hawk's vision represented the highest wisdom. Roman emperors may have dined on hummingbird hearts to to gratify their exotic appetites, but the Egyptians didn't eat hawks' eyes. They Eye of Heru that they ate was magical medicine that gave them 'hawk eyes.' It opened their eyes and made them wise when they ate it. Outside of Egypt, the Eye of Heru sacrament was more widely known as "soma." The "Soma Mysteries" were the most profound sacred rites of the Pagan religions of Asia and Europe. Soma was a powerful sacrament that expanded Pagan minds and magnified their powers of vision. It gave them 'hawk-eye' powers of vision. Allegedly, imbibing soma gave a person the power of vision to "examine the tip of an autumn hair." The soma sacrament was a secret mixture of psychoactive substances that altered the minds of those who ate it, and lent power to those who knew its secret. Its formula was a closely guarded secret for millenia in the Pagan world. Just knowing the secret formula was a source of power -- and a source of danger as well. There was a sentence of death upon all who revealed the secret to uninitiated people, and a sentence of death upon all to whom it was revealed. The ancient world abounded with stories and symbols that contained guarded allusions the "Soma Mystery." Soma contained lethal ingredients. The Biblical tale of the 'forbidden fruit' is one version of the many versions of Soma Mystery stories that were extant in the ancient world. Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden ate forbidden fruit. The forbidden fruit was poison. "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." But "the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise." It was poison, but they ate it anyway. "And the eyes of them both were opened." (Genesis 3:2-7) It was poison, but they didn't die when they ate it. It opened their eyes and made them wise. The mystery of the Soma Mystery was in how they were able to eat it and not die from it. Christianity took over Europe and annihilated Paganism. Christianity replaced "wisdom religion" with authority religion. Christianity obliterated all of Pagan records and killed all of the Pagans who had any esoteric knowledge. Seeresses, priestesses in the temples, midwives, healers who had any medical knowledge, any and all women who had any education in the 'arts' of Isis were killed. Seekers of gnosis, the divine knowledge, or any form of enlightenment, were scourged and burned as heretics. The Soma secret was lost to the purges and torches of monotheism. Thus began the Dark Ages of Europe. Resurrect Isis. Restore the Soma Sacrament. Let us return to the path of enlightenment. Let us experience gnosis, the divine knowledge. Addendum The Soma Sacrament in Egypt was imbibed in the form of bread and beer. They ate the "bread of eternity," and drank the "beer of everlastingness." The Eye of Heru was in the bread. The antidote was in the beer. The bread without the beer was poison. The beer without the bread was poison. The Eye of Heru, the Forbidden Fruit of the Bible, the bread of eternity and the beer of everlastingness of the Egyptians, and the original Bread and Wine Sacrament of early Christianity were all allusions to the "Soma Mystery" of the ancients.