HTP SONG

for pharaonic chronology and other key Jangleland links see Chronology of Jangleland Pharaohs

Such is the nature of the blog that posts get shoved down when new material is uploaded, so this is just a repeat to get the song link back to the top.

LISTEN WHILE YOU EXPLORE THE BLOG: The most recent version of the song Hathor In Tranquility with Papyrus can be found, thanks to the hosting of Andrew Cowper, at http://www.bloat.plus.com/WillSong.mp3

LYRICS:

5-HoTeP

I have tasted satisfaction from my head down to my toes
Contentment like cows munching where the tall papyrus grows
My love her beauty’s like the flowers that grace the heavens’ lawns
Beauty like the goddess with the Sun between her horns

[This verse connects to the Egyptian conception of the Field of Satisfaction as the afterlife paradise of the West where the goddess Hathor was depicted as a bovine (with Sundisk between her horns) amongst the papyrus plants, just as the Egyptians observed cows munching contentedly in the papyrus marshes beside the Nile.)

Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(Encircling Ra)
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(The Morning Star)

[Hathor = Egyptian goddess of dance, joy, sensuality, and inhebriation. Not Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, (LSD) but Hathor in Tranquility with Papyrus - HTP, which is both the written form of the Egyptian word for satisfaction/contentment, "Hotep", while also being the chemical name of the amino acid which is a precursor to the chemicals of satisfaction and relaxation, serotonin and melatonin. The Morning Star, Venus, encricles the Sun, Ra being the Egyptian Sungod and an essay later in this blog explains how quite probably Hathor was associated with this star of morning even before her assimilation with Venus-Aphrodite. See The Serpent Path Around the Sun ]

In Fields of Satisfaction where the grass is high as trees
Have you heard it whisper when it’s blowing in the breeze
Or seen the ibis wading where the blue green water flows
Down amongst the marshes where the tall papyrus grows?

Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(Encircling Ra)
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(The Morning Star)

HoTeP is a seed of joy held in the griffin’s claw
5-HoTeP is up for sale down in your local store
Hathor makes the milk of flowers and of the sycamore
And makes the jewelled dancers dance around the dancing floor

[The Griffin here is the African plant with Latin name Griffonia from which the chemical 5L-HTP is extracted. This is a potent form of HTP, one which is highly effective in entering the brain. Sold in high street health food stores.]

Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(Encircling Ra)
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(The Morning Star)

See their lightly stepping feet and hear the sistrum shake
Make jubilance at twilight for the Sun-encircling snake (encircling Ra)
Tonight we shall attain HoTeP just like the night before
Tasting satisfaction every eve forever more.

[Reference here to Hathor as goddess of dance. The sistrum was a rattle with metal disks attached as with a tamborine. It was sacred to the goddess Hathor, and she was oftern depicted holding it. Additionally, sistrums were often made decorated with the head of Hathor. "Make jubilance at twilight" comes from an Egyptian song sung at a festival of Hathor (see essay later in blog) The Sun-encircling snake is Hathor in her form of the Eye of Ra. Again, see essay later in blog.]

Sister shakes the sistrum and snakes her way around the Sun
Sister shakes the sistrum and snakes her way around the Sun
Sister shakes the sistrum and snakes her way around the Sun
Sister shakes the sistrum and snakes her way around the Sun

The Beatle rolls the Rolling Stone of fire across the sky
The Beatle rolls the Rolling Stone of fire across the sky
The Beatle rolls the Rolling Stone of fire across the sky
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hathor in the sky
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(Encircling Ra)
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus
(The Morning Star)

[Reference here to the myth of the scarab god Kheper who pushes the Sun disk across the sky. You may recognize the deliberate musical Stones reference in the guitar riff: "You never listen to my advice..."]

Lotus blue, et Lavendarum
Valerian Passiflora
Salvia Griffonia Somniferum

(repeat ‘till fade)

[A Faux-Latin Gregorian chant, referencing various relaxing and euphoric plants, such a Egyptian Blue Lotus, Lavendar oil, Valerian root, Passion flower leaves, Salvia (sage - I'm thinking of Calry Sage oil, not "Salvia Divinorum"), Griffonia (source of L5-HTP), and Sominferum, used to denote the sleepiest kind of poppy but here used as a suffix for Griffonia, with the same meaning - "Sleepy Griffonia".]

JANGLOMETRY - ALL IS REVEALED !

The primary foundation of the British geodetic scheme is defined by the 2 by 1 rectangle with corners at East Point and West Point, the diagonal established by the landscaping of Burrowbridge Mump (minor Golden Section of line) and Glastonbury Tor, construction of Silbury Hill, of Dorchester Big Rings Henge&Cursus (Major Golden Section of line), Whiteleaf Chalk Cross and Barrows. The Pyramid Plan is established by the construction of Cerne Giant (Orion at end of Orion Shaft), the equivalent being (at the same position) in the northern pyramid, the massive Orion's-Belt henge+cursus trio of Thornborough; Wilmington Long Man ("Balance of Upper and Lower" line (lotus-upper and papyrus-lower staffs) due West to Cerne Giant, as with King's Chamber level height ratio), and the Slope Line is established by the Tump of Lewes, Pool Bar Cursus of Lewes floodplain - dead-straight reed-filled, ditch-bordered and exactly at G.P. angle, Landport Bottom ridge Orion-belt G.P angle-orientated tumuli trio Lewes, Woking tumuli, Marlow floodplain Orion-belt tumuli trio.

Phoenix Fire

The plans of Khufu’s chambers hide
Amid our British greenery.
The form is printed far and wide
Where slopes of gold on either side
Run down to meet the sea.
The Mansion of Osiris stands
Upon the Balance-of-the-Lands.
The Earthly and the Oceanic Powers
Are measured in the scales equally.
The Mansion stands amid the Field of Flowers
Enduring like the stars, eternally.

The Triangle Egyptian boasts
Harmonious geometry
Which spans the land from coast to coast
Invoking Beauty by the most
Aesthetic alchemy.
And I would like to build again
Not with stones but with my pen
That pyramid, from fragrant words of rhyme
By the poet’s deft technology
To stand in the collective human mind
Enduring like the stars, eternally.

In times of quiet contemplation
Neither pen nor book in hand
I like to let my meditation
Fly to sites around the nation
Beautifully planned
As a man in drugged inertia
Feeds his gaze on rugs of Persia
Peacefully observing the design
While phoenix-fire flickers in the hearth
So I let the eye within my mind
Journey out along some ancient path.

Come inside, drop gard’ning things
Unfurl the feathers of your mind
When teatime’s four o’clock bell rings
Sit you down and spread your wings
With your course aligned
At Khufu’s Angle ‘cross the southern Weald
Over Plumpton’s plain to Lewes town
Osiris’ road traverses many a field
Leading onward over vale and down.



Why the Great Pyramid? :-

Four Golden Rectangles, with diagonals. Cut along diagonals, stick together adjacent against adjacent, to make four faces Stick four faces together, add a suitable covering, et voila! The Great Pyramid. Arial photo of Great Pyramid - notice same line down middle is present, indicating these half-Golden Rectangle triangles.






So, the reason why the Great Pyramid is such a harmonious form is more readily apparent when considering the faces than the cross section, for these are derived directly from the Golden Rectangle.

Original Glastonbury Pyramid Stage

(Foundation of "Jangleland" is 2 by 1 Rectangle whose diagonal, from East Point to West Point, passes through Glastonbury, Silbury Hill, Dorchester on Thames)

Pharaoh of Pop : McCartney Set 2004 Pyramid Stage Glastonbury

HTP SONG / SCYRING BOWL INCIDENT

LISTEN WHILE YOU EXPLORE THE BLOG: The most recent version of the song Hathor In Tranquility with Papyrus can be found, thanks to the hosting of Andrew Cowper, at http://www.bloat.plus.com/WillSong.mp3

Eye of Horus on an Egyptian Bracelet

SCRYING BOWL

While I'm sipping coffee outside a cafe in Burgess Hill, an inner nudge directs me to a nearby bookshop, and there I find a book about Egyptian magic. I open it and read about a spell for seeing the future by gazing into the swirling patterns of oil on the surface of water in a bowl.

Staying true to the original Egyptian papyrus, the spell requires the use of a copper bowl, and mentions that in the original papyrus text this bowl was also to be inscribed with an image of the god Anubis.

I decide it sounds like fun, and wander off to have a look in the local second hand shops for some kind of copper bowl. Ten minutes later, having handed over mere pennies to the shop assistant, I hold in my hand a small copper bowl inscribed with Egyptian lotus flowers, a Sphinx, three pyramids and a serpent. My feeling: delightfully spooked.

It can be seen, by cross-referencing various Egyptian sources, that the wounding that was called the injuring of the Eye of Horus has to do with the influx of agressive Sethian energies in the male adolescence, which could mean that the injuring of the testicles of Seth may represent male grumpiness when testosterone levels drop in later years.

The message then is that there is an optimum, healthy level of testosterone for a male, not too much, but not too little - both of which extremes can lead to agression and depression. How can we say that the story related to such matters? The Egyptians believed that children had intuitive mediumistic abilities. It is not only from Plutarch's essay on Isis and Osiris that we know this. It is an Egyptian text called the London-Leidon Papyrus that describes the method for seeing the future by 'scrying'. It involves looking into a bowl in which oil is floating on the surface, illuminated only by a candle, and with incense wafting about. The text says that the procedure is to be peformed by a young boy, accompanied by a priest. This is surely what is refered to in the story of the god Ra looking into the eyes of the young Horus to see the future. The London-Leidon Papyrus is from a date when one might suspect an influence from Greek oracular methods, which were certainly similar in nature, but the story of Ra telling the future by looking into the Eye of Horus dates from back in the Egyptian New Kingdom long before the rise of Classical Greece. In one sense then the scrying bowl itself is the Eye of Horus, akin to a crystal ball, and in the other sense the Eye represents the mediumistic abilities of the young boy who is not yet a man.

A key question then is how a man might recover the Sight, how Horus might heal his eye. In the Roman novel the protagonist recovers and has his vision of Isis after eating roses. In Egypt, in the original Mysteries, the flowers were surely those of the sacred Nile lotus. When planted in the ground in the Egyptian story Horus' eyes sprouted as lotus flowers.

The petals of the Egyptian lotus flower - which is actually a type of waterlily - are edible and are to be seen all over the place in the sacred art of the Egyptians. Herodotus describes their being eaten by the Egyptians in his Histories. The Egyptians made beautiful drinking chalices in the form of lotus flowers. The dried petals are available for purchase in the UK and can be infused slowly with wine which is then drunk.

From personal experience I can say that the result is a pleasant vibe, subtle but graceful. To say that the effect seems more aromatherapeutic than narcotic is certainly not to diminish its potency. Floral oils can have marked effects, such as the relaxing, sleepy feeling induced by lavender, or the profound muscle relaxation that clary sage oil can bring about. Each of these has a certain feeling to it, and the feeling that comes from wine infused with Egyptian blue lotus petals is that of a gentle, feminine harmony - just what one needs if feeling aggravated by the aggressive agitation of too much Sethian 'yang'. There is no reason why this feeling might not be thought of as a healing of the Eye and a vision of Isis.

In the Egyptian story it was the goddess Hathor, the Egyptian Aphrodite-Venus, the feminine as lover rather than mother, who healed Horus' sight. In the story she did this with gazelle milk. Did she milk the gazelle in the evening, when the milk is full of melatonin? Either way, milk is a good source of the amino acid tryptophan, a precursor to both melatonin and seratonin. Milk is also a high source of calcium, which has a relaxing effect on the body. This is why warm milk is drunk at night as a sleep aid. In the sleep state, when melatonin levels are high, we see visions called dreams. High melatonin levels in the waking state seem to be linked to the ability to see images when slipping into a kind of trancelike daydreaming, the same state needed for scrying with a bowl. This is not hallunication since it can be ended easily just by snapping out of the day dream. It is difficult to imagine achieving this with milk alone, but we now have a stronger source of this precursor to the brain chemicals of relaxation and satisfaction.

5-HTP, derived from an African plant, is available in healthfood shops. This form of tryptophan is particularly effective in entering the brain, when combined with a small amount of B-vitamins, a little carbohydrate, and, in my experience, a glass of good organic cider. A cup of tea in addition may help you go more towards the awake state where seratonin predominates. Serotonin is the chemical of physical satisfaction. Serotonin levels in the brain are higher when St John's Wort - also available in healthfood shops - is taken. People taking St John's Wort report an improved sex life, and this may be because a more satisfied state is a less out of control one. Now to go to a rather different level of reality.

The Egyptian word for satisfaction was written with the hieroglyphic equivalent of the three consonants H, T, and P, in that order, which seems to me to be something of a revelation, as if the present abbreviation for Hydroxy Tryptophan has somehow gone back into the past to form the ancient Egyptian word for the physical state which it induces. Egyptologists guess that the vowel sounds (not included in written Ancient Egyptian) would have made pronunciation of the word something like Hotep or Hetep, but what we actually have to go on is H T P. Some 5-HTP, some blue-lotus infused wine, a little milk (goat if you can't get gazelle), candle, scrying bowl, and incense (the latter really being ancient equivalents of lava lamp and joss stick) - yoga poses and trance inducing classical Indian sitar music will also help - and away you go. You'll have the Eye of Horus healed in no time.

What about the testicles of Seth? Research continues apace. Apparently resistance excercise - weights - two to three times a week increases testosterone levels in the body. Of human folk it was big-muscled Heracles who, for the ancient Greeks, beat death - by sheer strength - and got away with it, but at the same time too much excercise - particularly of the endurance kind - is detrimental to longevity. From the plant world, Long Jack has met the challenge of scientific experiment. From the labratories, ZMA 'supports the male hormonal environment' and something called 6-OXO is supposed to be effective in restoring the testosterone-oestrogen balance. A world with less young male aggression and less older male cantankorousness is a more peaceful world, a world with less war. Sort this out and we can return to the how things were in that time, as described in the Pyramid Texts:-

When no anger had yet arisen

When no noise had yet arisen

When no conflict had yet arisen

When no confusion had yet arisen

When the Eye of Horus had not been injured

When the testicles of Seth had not yet been made impotent.

LOOP pschedelic eye

THE FOUNDING PHARAOHS OF BRIT ROCK

The diagram shows progressive Brit-rock homes and origins all on a single line - a songline - the slope of the Great Pyramid of Khufu in the Jangleland Plan - Beatles, Moody Blues, Harrison, Lennon, Starkey, Robert Page (Zep), Charlie Watts (Stones). The Henley, Ascot & Plumpton residences all had recording studios built in.

see also JANGLOMETRY - ALL IS REVEALED !

Re Henley: (From Wikepedia) Friar Park is the 120-room Victorian neo-Gothic mansion built by the eccentric Sir Frank Crisp near Henley-on-Thames and bought by the musician George Harrison as his new home on January 14, 1970. Harrison immortalised the building in his song "Crackerbox Palace" (his nickname for the mansion, after Lord Buckley's home in California). A further powerful song, The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll), was also inspired by the mansion's history. Harrison loved tending to the gardens personally, and among the groundskeepers were his older brothers Peter and Harry. George Harrison was photographed amongst the many garden gnomes for the cover of All Things Must Pass, and again with his father Harry a few years later (with the photo appearing in his album Thirty Three & 1/3).

Re Ascot: in September 1973 as John and Yoko were about to separate, Tittenhurst (Ascot) was sold, to Ringo Starr. Ringo lived here until early 1988. For more info see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob41.html

Re Plumpton: from wikepedia: In the early 1970's Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page purchased Plumpton Place, an Elizabethan manor, with C.20 alterations by Sir Edwin Lutyens, surrounded by a moat and extensive gardens. Because of its proximity to the Plumpton Racecourse the grounds also include stables for horses. Page outfitted the manor with a recording studio. The credits for the Led Zeppelin album In Through The Out Door indicates that album mixing was done there. The manor can be seen briefly near the beginning of the Led Zeppelin concert film, The Song Remains the Same where the camera walks up to Page, playing a hurdy gurdy, to inform him of the North American tour dates.

Re Brum: Moody blues originally from Birmingham. Creators of the song Nights In White Satin, they inspired and evolved the progressive rock style. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their seminal 1967 album Days of Future Passed. Used sitars, inspired by George Harrison. Definiately pharaoh's of Brit prog.

more mod than rock, the Jam formed in Woking, one of the locations of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

Equinox Ma'at in Jangleland

(OK it's not quite the equinox, but I'll be away from the computer on Sunday, so posting today)

O Kehpre, winged-scarab, you who establish Solar Ra in the Place of Balance this morning, vivify Jangleland!



This day as Khekper in the Field of Reeds and Atum in the Field of Satisfaction you stand between the Two Pillars of North and South. You are at the Balance of that which is to the North and that which is to the South. You are the unifier of the Two Lands.

Irradiate the glassy dewdrop in the hedgerow, O Ra, on this day of your ordered rising and setting. Bejewel Jangleland.

Ra, bring Ma'at to Jangleland on this your day of glorious, orderly rising in the East, the Field of Reeds, and your setting West in the Field of Satisfaction. Bring Ma'at in your glorious rising and setting to the orientated Square of Jangleland.

Irradiate the glassy dewdrop in the hedgerow as you radiate Ma'at, O Ra, through Jangleland.

Radiate Balance, O Ra, through Jangleland.

Radiate Good Order, O Ra, through Jangleland.

The H.T.P. Hieroglyph

Extract from The Little Book of EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS (L&R ADKINS) :"The last two consonants of a trilateral could be repeated by phonetic complements...An example of a trilateral is (heiroglyph of loaf on mat), which represents the letters 'htp', and this could be accompanied by the phonetic complements [of] the letter 't' and the letter 'p'."

HTP in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Chronology of Jangleland Pharaohs

Hathor song: http://www.bloat.plus.com/WillSong.mp3

pre 3100 BCE (Before Current Era)
- Upper Jangleland ruled by King Scarab Beatle
Lower Jangleland ruled by Rolling Stone King

see The Scarab Beatle, the Rolling Stone and the Monkeys

3100 BCE - Unification of Upper and Lower Jangleland
under King Scarab Beatle


see Equinox Ma'at in Jangleland

3050 BCE - King Moody Faience Blues

see THE FOUNDING PHARAOHS OF BRIT ROCK

3000 BCE - Pink Floyd

2700 BCE - Intermediate Period - incursion of Punk warrirors,
known as the Nomadic Princes, from the deserts

2500 BCE - Expulsion of Punks, reunification of Jangleland as
prog kingdom under King Ozrick Tentacle

2200 BCE - Jangleland established as "A Gilded Eternity" under Loop. Institution of initiatic soceity The Guild of Eternity (A Gilded Fraternity)

2000 BCE - King Stone Roses

1800 BCE - King Orb

1700 BCE - Dread Zone

1500 BCE - Cold Play

1000 BCE - incursion of Shite

Current Era - Renaissance of Jangleland under The Hapi Monkeys featuring Bes
see
HTP SONG
&
Meet The Hapi Monkeys
&
HTP SONG / SCYRING BOWL INCIDENT
&
5-HTP
&
The H.T.P. Hieroglyph
&
The Scarab Beatle, the Rolling Stone and the Monkeys

The Scarab Beatle, the Rolling Stone and the Monkeys

Thinking about the Beatles and the Stones with part of my mind, and about ancient Egypt with another part of my mind, I bissociated. Upper and Lower, the Southern and the Northern.

The foundation myth of Egypt was that of how the Two Lands became a United Kingdom, the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, mythologized as the pacification of the two powers of Set and Horus.

In Britain in the Sixties the Pharaohs from the North were the Beatles; those of the South were the Rolling Stones. How to unify the two, making the United Kingdom?

Ok, well the Beetle of Egyptian mythology is the Scarab which pushes the Sun. Here comes the Sun, the Sun King. In myth the Sun was seen as a sphere pushed by the Scarab Beatle, Khepr. The Rolling Stones take their name from the proverb about rolling stones and moss. To unify the Two Lands, the Two Powers, is therefore easy: the Scarab Beatle rolls the Rolling Stone of Fire across the sky. Call it the foundation myth of Jangleland.

In this peace from Tutankhamun’s treasures we see the Beatle and the Rolling Stone, and even the Monkees! They are together in the Sun Boat at dawn (when baboons warm their paws in the Sun’s first rays), riding on the water hieroglyph (the Sea of Green? - actually the Egyptians called a region the Great Green and a portion of Egyptologists believe this was region was the Aegean Sea), and two Was scepters act as the Northern and Southern pillars holding up the Sky hieroglyph containing stars which shine before them like a million Suns. Now we’re rocking. And who’s this raggle taggle fellow comes dancing along from across the Water? Well if it isn’t Mr Sistrum Man! Hey, Mr Sistrum Man, play a song for us!




Left: Beatle, Rolling Stone and Monkees. Above: The Sun-Marine on the Pepperland Pyramid

The Serpent Path Around the Sun

The Serpent Path Around the Sun : A Planetary Perspective on the Eye of Ra



The cobra goddess encircles Ra, the Sun disk, throughout his journey across the sky. This cobra, Wadjyt, was equated with the Eye of Ra, linking her to Hathor and more specifically Hathor-Sekhmet, who was also given this name, Eye of Ra. As we shall see in a moment, Hathor, in this role of she who surrounds, encircles, protects the Sun god, was said to shine as a star in the twilight periods of dawn and dusk, in the direction of the eastern and western horizons respectively, and to be with the Sun at his rising and setting. There is a hypothesis that may be formed from this, because the bright heavenly body that continually circles the Sun in a snaking movement, and is never too far from the Sun, from our perspective on Earth, and who also shines brightly as either a morning or evening star in the East and the West, is Venus.

A clear and unambiguous reference to Hathor shining in the twilight of dusk may be found in the lyrics of a song to the goddess inscribed in the tomb of Kheruef at Thebes, an important official of Amenhotep III. This song includes the lines:

Come, rise, come
That I may make
Jubilation at twilight for you
And music in the evening
Oh Hathor, you are exalted in the hair of Ra…
Adoration of Gold [Hathor] when She shines forth in the sky…
Oh my lady, come and protect king Nebmaatre, given life.


Hathor as bovine goddess is frequently shown in association with the cobra, and Egyptologist Alison Roberts went so far as to write that Hathor is “the venomous cobra coiled around the …[Sun god’s] head.”1 The similarity of Hathor’s characteristics to those of Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus is obvious, and the Greeks of the Hellenistic period were quite happy with the assimilation of the two sensual goddesses of sexuality and attraction, but whether a shared connection to the planet Venus derives from coincidence or contact is not a question we shall look at here.

From at least the Middle Kingdom, according to Egyptologists Shaw and Nicholson2, the five planets from Mercury through to Saturn were recognized and depicted sailing in boats across the heavens. Venus was known as God of the Morning and The One Who Crosses, and it has been speculated that this ‘crossing’ shows that the Egyptians knew that it was the same planet that appeared as the Evening Star that then crossed over to become the Morning Star. The crossing may have referred to the intermediary period where Venus transits (crosses) or passes near the Sun so as to be swallowed by the brighter light for a time, appearing neither in the morning nor the evening.


The retrograde movements of Venus, when the relative movement of Earth causes her to appear to move backwards in her course, are distinctly serpentine in shape and call to mind the patterns produced by serpents snaking their way across desert sands, and indeed the looping shape of the cobra hanging down from the Sun disk in the Egyptian representations. The serpentine s-shaped pattern occurs when the Earth-Venus alignment (type 1, central in the diagram) is near one of the Venus nodes (when Venus is crossing the plane of the ecliptic). The four other retrograde movements are like coils or loops and still serpentine in nature.


The cobra continued to encircle the Sun morning, noon, and evening. Roberts tells us that in the coronation “only after the palace snake has coiled herself around…[the Sun king’s] brow does he make his ‘glorious rising.’”3

In Papyrus Chester Beatty I there is a poem in which the beloved is associated with this goddess of attractiveness and with a morning star, and though in this context it sounds more like Sirius, it is still worth mentioning since it fits into the matrix of a general association between the beautiful goddess and a morning star:-

The One, the sister without equal
The most beautiful of all
She resembles the rising Morning Star
At the beginning of a happy year.

At noon the following was sung of Ra, the Sun god:

It is your uraeus snake who has enchanted your enemies4

Then in the evening, as we read in the Book of the Dead, they would sing:

Hail Ra-Atum at your beautiful crossing…
You set in life in the holiness of the western horizon
Your uraeus snake surrounds you.5



In conclusion, there does appear to be a distinct possibility that the Egyptian goddess of beauty and sensuality, in her more fiery Eye of Ra aspect of the cobra encircling the Sun protectively, was in fact a personification of the same planet later identified as the goddess she would finally be assimilated with in Ptolemaic and Roman times, namely Venus.

5-HTP

The Fields of 5 - HoTeP

hymn to Hathor from the 18th Dynasty:

The beauty of your face

Glitters when you rise

Oh come in peace.
One is drunk

At your beautiful face,

O Gold, Hathor.

The above pictures show Hathor, in her bovine aspect, with Sun-disk between horns amongst papyrus plants in the Western Paradise in a picture from the Book of the Dead, and in he female aspect shaking the rattle known as the Sistrum

Egyptian writing didn’t use vowels, but we add them in to make the words easier to pronounce. So htp is usually written as hotep or hetep. It means ‘satisfaction’. It was used in phrases like ‘The Field of Satisfaction’ - the paradise of the Afterlife.

So anyway, I’d gone to the gym, which on this occasion had required the consumption of a certain amount of coffee to boost my motivation, and then afterwards I was thinking about how to ‘come down’ a bit, to smooth off the caffeine vibe. I decided upon a combination of cider, St John’s Wort and 5-HTP. 5-HTP, or 5-Hydroxytryptophan, is sold by health-food shops as a precursor to melatonin, the brain's natural relaxation / sleep chemical, and is also a chemical precursor to serotonin, the brain chemical that causes feelings of satisfaction. High melatonin levels at night are related to high serotonin levels during the day, and visa versa. Seratonin makes the body feel satisfied. When you’ve had some carbohydrate, for example, your brain signals to your body “Now we are sated”, and the body relaxes, enjoying the release of serotonin. Also after orgasm. And the chemical abbreviation actually spells out this Egyptian word for satisfaction, htp. I like that. So there I was, having taken my 5-hotep, sitting supping cider in the Bull in Ditchling, and they were playing a compilation of ambient lounge classics, you know the sort of thing. “If your fond of sand dunes….” I started to feel quite blissy - maybe it was the fusion of the coffee, the HTP and the post-gym endorphins. The one thing to bear in mind with HTP is that it is also a precursor to the sleep chemical; it can go either way. In fact I usually just take it to help get a restful night’s sleep. But it seems from my experience that perhaps the caffeine can be enough to signal to the body not to fall asleep, enough to tip the 5-HTP towards the serotonin pathway.

So I’m sitting there and suddenly this htp / satisfaction thing really starts to speak to me, like I’ve entered the Field of Satisfaction. Cosmically satisfied. Forget L-ucy in the S-ky with D-iamonds, we’re talking H-athor in T-ranquility with P-apyrus. Hathor is the Egyptian cow goddess of beauty, dance, sensuality, alcohol - in short, pleasure. She was often depicted standing amid the papyrus thickets of the Afterlife paradise. Picture yourself in a boat on the Great Waterway. Look for the girl with the Sun between her horns. Let me take you down, cos’ I’m going to the Fields of Satisfaction. I CAN get my… Sa-tis-fac-tion. You get the general idea. Reminds me of a post-St John’s Wort poem (actually song) I wrote a while back (St John's Wort increases the accumulation of serotonin in the brain):

I have tasted Satisfaction from my head down to my toes
Contentment like cows munching where the tall papyrus grows
My love her beauty's like the flowers that grace the heavens’ lawns
Beauty’s like the goddess with the Sun between her horns

In fields of Satisfaction with the grass as tall as trees
Have you heard it whisper when it’s blowing in the breeze?
Or seen the ibis wading where the crystal water flows
Down amongst the marshes where the tall papyrus grows?

It now occurs to me that this song could have a chorus:

Hathor in Tranquility with Papyrus!
Hathor in Tranquility with Papyrus!

Meet The Hapi Monkeys

Above: The Fab Four Sons of Horus

(Ape-headed Hapi bottom right)

Above: Bes, Egyptian Protective Dwarf God

Bes playing Harp and Tamborine, Ape playing Lyre, Hathor Sistrum




Welcome to the Jangleland Blog, the official blog of The Hapi Monkeys, featuring Bes.







To listen to their song, Hathor in Tranquillity with Papyrus:

http://www.bloat.plus.com/WillSong.mp3






The Hapi Monkeys featuring Bes

In the pictures above we see, from left to right, the Egyptian dwarf god Bes dancing and playing the harp in honour of Hathor, the cow goddess of joy, dancing and drunkenness, from the Temple of Philae in Upper Egypt; Bes again playing the tambourine (this must have been before he joined the Happy Mondays (In a striking echo of his Ancient Egyptian namesake, the lanky Manchester anti-hero Bez, of course, danced with the Mondays while shaking maracas and tambourines and things); an ape playing a lyre from the same temple, perhaps this is Hap[i himself, Hapi being the ape-headed god of the North, one of the Four Sons of Horus each assigned to a cardinal direction) thi siamge also from Philae; and far right the sistrum, a type of rattle with metal disks like a tamborine, decorated with the head of Hathor.


The blog will feature a series of posts which shed some light on the mysteries of which this song sings.