5. Also in ancient Egypt there was a snake inhabiting the 'abyss': "Nu ... ('watery one') or Nun ... ('inert one') ... is the deification of the primordial watery abyss in Egyptian mythology. In the Ogdoad cosmogony, the word nu means 'abyss'. The Ancient Egyptians envisaged the oceanic abyss of the Nun as surrounding a bubble in which the sphere of life is encapsulated, representing the deepest mystery of their cosmogony. In Ancient Egyptian creation accounts the original mound of land comes forth from the waters of the Nun. The Nun is the source of all that appears in a differentiated world, encompassing all aspects of divine and earthly existence. In the Ennead cosmogony Nun is perceived as transcendent at the point of creation alongside Atum the creator god. Nu was shown usually as male but also had aspects that could be represented as female or male. Nunet ... also spelt Naunet is the female aspect, which is the name Nu with a female gender ending. The male aspect, Nun, is written with a male gender ending. As with the primordial concepts of the Ogdoad, Nu's male aspect was depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed man. In Ancient Egyptian art, Nun also appears as a bearded man, with blue-green skin, representing water. Naunet is represented as a snake or snake-headed woman." (Wikipedia) Number 13 was connected with this water serpent: ... Nu ... is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 50. It is derived from the Phoenician letter nun
Nun is thought to have come from a pictogram of a snake (the Hebrew word for snake, nachash begins with a nun and snake in Aramaic is nun) or eel. Some have hypothesized a hieroglyph of a fish in water for its origin (in Arabic, nūn means large fish or whale). The Phoenician letter was named nūn 'fish', but the glyph has been suggested to descend from a hypothetical Proto-Canaanite nahš 'snake', based on the name in Ethiopic, ultimately from a hieroglyph representing a snake
Nahš in modern Arabic literally means 'bad luck'. The cognate letter in Ge'ez and descended Semitic languages of Ethiopia is nehas, which also means 'brass' ... Ka4-13 seems to be the position of 'rebirth' and this is where we will find θ Hydrae:
... Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ ... is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300 ... In ancient times, Tau was used as a symbol for life and/or resurrection, whereas the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, theta [θ], was considered the symbol of death ... The 8th star is θ. Could it be Tuna Vai who dies there, where Hydra has its neck? Comparing the signs 8 and θ we can imagine the full Moon resting on the horizon and reflected on the surface mirror of the ocean, thereby creating a twin copy of itself (similar to how the morning star Venus creates a copy of herself during her 8 nights of invisibility). This could be the origin of the 8 sign. Somewhat later Moon has sunken down so only her upper half is visible, reflected on the water. The horizon could be the origin of the horizontal line through the middle of theta. |
