Oddbean

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/El_pesado_del_coraz%C3%B3n_en_el_Papiro_de_Hunefer.jpg Detail from the Papyrus of Hunefer (c. 1275 BC) depicts the jackal-headed Anubis weighing a heart against the feather of truth on the scale of Maat, while ibis-headed Thoth records the result. Having a heart equal to the weight of the feather allows passage to the afterlife, whereas an imbalance results in a meal for Ammit, the chimera of crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus.

Copy pasting it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth, after stumbling onto the Name at Mistral chats, —I say by coincidence but whothellknows nowadays anyway—; but certainly too, because of the talks with some and many of you nostr minds. 🤙

I was asking misty about quotidian bureaucratic procedures in Egyptian times. Why did Thoth had to keep records, now I ask?. Even Plato asked the same, as per wiki's Phaedrus... ("good for reminding bad, form remembering") It seems, he noted that to keep records was in need for Egypt to be nurtured... not so much he remembered (or he was not reminded? 🤨 ) that to keep records also fastens Egypt 😅

Hermes the wiki says yes... however the coincidence for me was the similarities of the concept of between... I was just related with Japanese, and somehow Mesomeric but now Thoth sounds much more intriguing

yeah, i recall there is some legendary tablets of thoth too, made of emerald, and the stories of hermes left a long chain of stuff related to this whole hermeticism which has also been perverted by nihilistic satanic sons of bitches, someone pointed this out to me the other day about the demiurge and maybe you read my chatter about the nature of God and goodness and how it has durability... a response to that someone posted two nice quotes, one from the Bible and one from the Tao Te Ching, both more or less saying what i said and what came to me one day in budapest nyugati train station

Hermes also did managed records, messages between folks no? As what I read, those habits of keeping records, bureaucratized finally, played part in what took Egypt down, along with polytheism... Ask the gut with the two shiny mountains in the head :P

i don't think so... but also read Critias to hear about the fall of the land of the gods, Atlantis... unfortunately that text abruptly ends just as it talks about corruption taking hold and a war starting, and other than that in greek you can read about the titanomachy, the war of the titans... so yeah, i think the peoples of atlantis were the ones that the greeks called titans and this is ... well... prehistory the egyptians also have stories about this civilization of "gods" too definitely need to read enoch again, several times, really soak it up, i have only read it once so far, and i have an edition now with the three most well known versions

yeah, for how important he was to the jews of 2000 years ago he didn't feature much in the catholic hot hits compilation in the Book of Jasher it goes into some detail about how for some hundred years or more he was holding classes to teach all the kings of the earth... i forget exactly when but it was around age 300 that he was "taken up to heaven" i should just add that there is a lot of data points suggesting that for the "gods" or "Titans" of northwest africa that in their idiom, ascending to the stars was actually a form of memorial of their death but i'm not sure 100% - i do know for sure that people who had relatively close genetic connections to these different kind of humans were said to have lifespans of 800-1200 years and that they had been around since the beginning of the last galactic age (~25000 years) and that the events of Adam and enoch happened in the last 3000 years before the great flood catastrophe it is possible, since they must have mastered space flight and were able to migrate to "new earths" (the Dogons point to the region around the Pleiades as being part of the region they left for), that indeed they mastered indefinite lifespans as well reading the biblical family trees and mapping them out only puts Adam at 4500 years ago but the geological evidence (as in rocks, not carbon dating) points to the possible date of a global catastrophe at 12000 years ago and that the aftermath took almost 1200 years to fade, a minor glaciation called the ice age or the Younger Dryas was suddenly cut short by something that suddenly heated up the earth and at around the same time there much of the sahara was formed, in Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya they suggest that it was incinerated by a massive object that flew at a low pass across from west india and turned everything from the middle east to mauritania into char, removing so much of the carbon that it became desert via combustion... this is also referred to in multiple mythologies, some talk about a fire dragon that has a great battle across the sky and the origins of old stories of dragons at all, possibly related to Yormundangr and Enso and other mythological snake/dragons that left a trail of destruction

So interesting! Yes, this sounds more plausible than the Bible on these subjects. I do believe the titans and giants were one and the same, with the evolution of semantics being what it is. I mean, the Greeks have 8 words for love, for crissakes. The need for religion(s) to explain away cataclysmic events, so that they can corral/exploit the emotions of the “profane” is just criminal. As a Christian, I am not apostate, yet I have questions. And we are subject to a history inscribed by the victors of bloody state/territory wars. Kinda sus.