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Egyptian Ying and Yang statue

 
By MagnusApollo at February 3, 2006 - 10:54pm | Ancient Mysteries

This is a very impressive statue that I saw in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. Mind you this place looked like a huge warehouse rather than a museum... There were sarcaphogi in rows all down the hallways. People were walking around them, sitting on them, and resting their bags on them. it was dark in there, so most photos didn't turn out without a flash... and there is a rule of no flashes in there (cameras confiscated if you used it.) So, when no one was looking I snagged a couple pics here and there. This one I really liked. It showed what egyptians thought of as ying and yang, and where western society came up with the idea of the little angle and devil on your shoulder.

link: sculpture

The person in the middle is the pharoah, the person on his right is Horace (eagle head) and on his left is Set (the ardvark esque head). Horace is known for the light and good. Set is the dark and the god of death seen as bad. (anubis is the guardian of the dead he was the person that helped those that died through life) This is about 6 feet tall and very impressive. A little thing I wondered about was.. the pharoah seemed to be stepping forward with his left foot, which is the side that set is on. I know that the gods are also stepping with their left foot, but in a carving of a pharoah, that is kinda unusual, since most times it shows the feet straight together. Maybe the sculpture was trying to say that the pharoah leans or is leading towards bad... hmm.. just an idea.

Also... there were similar carvings depicting the same thing. All times Set is on the left of the figure. I couldn't help but think that the left is known as the sinister (latin word for left is derived from the same root) in early cultures in europe. It seems that it was the same way in egypt. Just a weird coincidence??? I really don't think there is coincidence anymore.

Just wanted to share

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Egyptian Ying and Yang statue

By Concetta31 on May 25, 2006 - 10:49am

Hmmmm....that was interesting... Set always being on the left, and you associating the pharaoh stepping with the left foot as leaning on the evil side...

It seems not all that long ago, people just would not allow their children to be 'naturally' left handed. My mom (born in 42) can remember teachers and her parents retraining her brother to use his right hand, because left handed was evil {strict Catholics}[tried to call mom to confirm, she's not there, could have been a borrowed memory from her mom about her brothers..still not a very long time ago in the scheme of things]... ?? could be a left over belief that bled into yester year society?? This thought prompted me to see just when it was that science realized the left hemisphere of the brain controlled the right side of the body and visa versa... what I found, I'm not really sure if it's that substantial to everyone else...but it impressed me...LOL

An interview with Keith Lanier Black, MD. Head of the Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA

DR. BLACK: "Well, I think really the ancient Egyptians were probably one of the most impressive groups of discoverers ever. Three thousand years B.C. the Egyptians had already recognized that the brain actually controlled movement and that the left side of the brain controlled movement on the right side and that language was located on the left side of the brain. All of this information, you know, had been recorded by Egyptian physicians and stored in the library of Alexander. And it was really sort of the birth, I think, of as medicine as we know it today, because the Greek physicians that actually really began to establish the current foundation of modern medicine went to the library of Alexander, where the information had been provided by the Egyptians. That really set the whole foundation"
http://www.breakthroughtv.com/black.htm

Anywho... Now i have a question... Did Egyptians hold a theory that the right brain was the place for spiritual awareness? I would have to lean my thoughts that they did with Set always on the left and Horace on the right. I have to wonder why they would hamper their own society as well as the societies of centuries beyond.

I could be far off on this thought, but maybe the 'gods' were not really gods... Look at this sculpture, they are in human form w/ masks on, and they are the same size as the pharaoh. Maybe they were clairvoyants and psychics; perhaps they really just blew people away with their all-knowing demeanor.. Maybe these spiritually aware individuals knew they just developed their right brain by using it daily. Being that humans are humans…. Everyone loves power, doesn’t matter where in time you look… Maybe they had these nice sculptures up everywhere to brainwash the public to always start things on the right side of the body, thereby employing the left side of the brain??? This would ensure a blank society that would continue to worship, praise and obey. After all, what works better then a daily reminder of fear?

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying any other theory is wrong. Nor am I saying there are no gods. However, I do think there is a connection w/ the emphasis on society to constantly use the left brain and not the right… for centuries… Any thoughts???

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I have to say it...

By Brenna on May 2, 2006 - 9:46am

YIN and Yang... not YING and Yang. Sorry, that drives me insane. If you don't believe me, Google it.

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Set

By MissTeacher on April 14, 2006 - 8:02am

Everytime I hear the name Set used a get a bit of a chill. When I was in college a friend and I were using the ouija board in my family's home. No matter what room we were in on one particular day the only name the "spirit" would spell for us is "Set". At the time I had no knowledge of the Egyptian god. It was because of that session that I researched the name.

I wish I'd known then what I know now about ghost hunting and the paranormal cuz I'd been researching that house more and setting up investigations. LOL! We always seemed to have things going on there. I contacted the current owners several months ago to see if she had any weird experiences and boy did she look at me like I was crazy!!! LOl!! What's a ghost hunter to do - sometimes we just get those looks. =)

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