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>And this application relates more particularly to the symbolism of the serpent”… (p.99)
>In the same section Guenon also links both Nimrod and Seth to Egyptian representations of the serpent of chaos, Set
>The role of the Egyptian deity Set as ‘ruler of the desert’ was to balance the fertile lands of the Nile Valley, while in the Osiris myth he murdered and dismembered his brother – again indicating the creative and destructive aspects of the primary theme. Rather as the goddess Tiamat (or Nammu, etc) was portrayed in various Sumerian and Akkadian creation-myths, as a ‘goddess of the Sea’, a female deity of Creation who conjoined with the male Abzu (the subterranean sea, the ‘abyss’) to create reality through the sacred marriage of the different waters, to later myths, such as the Babylonian Enuma Elish, in which she was the symbol of ‘primordial chaos’ (from which creation came) as a destructive sea-serpent/ monster who then threatened the Creation… her offspring in this were also involved in supporting her battle, and were portrayed as dragons, serpents, scorpion men, and so on, who were stated to have ‘poison instead of blood’ flowing through their veins, reflecting their negative aspects. It is interesting that these myths of Tiamat depicted her duality, as a creator of reality who embodied the primordial chaos of the abyss from which life also comes
>While Set, (Greek Seth) was the god of storms, deserts, violence, and disorder in Egyptian religion and myth, he also played a positive role in helping the sun-deity Ra repel Apep, the serpent of Chaos (‘Seth’, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt); a role not too dissimilar to the ‘mushussu’ in Sumerian and Babylonian myth, which was the ‘noble/distinguished serpent’ and later a servant of the Anunnaki lord Marduk, the victor over the serpent of chaos Tiamat in the Enuma Elish
>And this application relates more particularly to the symbolism of the serpent”… (p.99)
>In the same section Guenon also links both Nimrod and Seth to Egyptian representations of the serpent of chaos, Set
>The role of the Egyptian deity Set as ‘ruler of the desert’ was to balance the fertile lands of the Nile Valley, while in the Osiris myth he murdered and dismembered his brother – again indicating the creative and destructive aspects of the primary theme. Rather as the goddess Tiamat (or Nammu, etc) was portrayed in various Sumerian and Akkadian creation-myths, as a ‘goddess of the Sea’, a female deity of Creation who conjoined with the male Abzu (the subterranean sea, the ‘abyss’) to create reality through the sacred marriage of the different waters, to later myths, such as the Babylonian Enuma Elish, in which she was the symbol of ‘primordial chaos’ (from which creation came) as a destructive sea-serpent/ monster who then threatened the Creation… her offspring in this were also involved in supporting her battle, and were portrayed as dragons, serpents, scorpion men, and so on, who were stated to have ‘poison instead of blood’ flowing through their veins, reflecting their negative aspects. It is interesting that these myths of Tiamat depicted her duality, as a creator of reality who embodied the primordial chaos of the abyss from which life also comes
>While Set, (Greek Seth) was the god of storms, deserts, violence, and disorder in Egyptian religion and myth, he also played a positive role in helping the sun-deity Ra repel Apep, the serpent of Chaos (‘Seth’, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt); a role not too dissimilar to the ‘mushussu’ in Sumerian and Babylonian myth, which was the ‘noble/distinguished serpent’ and later a servant of the Anunnaki lord Marduk, the victor over the serpent of chaos Tiamat in the Enuma Elish
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