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Sistrum

A sistrum is an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument that was shaken during religious ceremonies and when coming into the presence of a deity.

Played by shaking the instrument like a rattle, moveable objects on the horizontal bars or the free movement of the bars themselves against the frame, produced sounds. Originally from Egypt and first seen in the Old Kingdom, the instrument was closely associated with ritual rites in honour of Isis

or sistra. -rə : an ancient Egyptian and Roman percussion instrument sacred to the goddesses Hathor and Isis consisting usually of a handle attached to a small metal strip bent into an oblong loop with holes for three or four loose metal rods that jingle when shaken.

The sistrum was one of the most sacred musical instruments in ancient Egypt and was believed to hold powerful magical properties. It was used in the worship of the goddess Hathor, mythological character of joy, festivity, fertility, eroticism and dance. It was also shaken to avert the flooding of the Nile and to frighten away Seth, the god of the desert, storms, disorder, and violence. Isis, in her role as mother and creator, was often depicted holding a pail symbolizing the inundation of the Nile in one hand, and the sistrum in the other hand. It was designed to produce the sound of the breeze hitting and blowing through papyrus reeds, but the symbolic value of the sistrum far exceeded its importance as a musical instrument.

Ancient Greek historian, Plutarch, speaks of the powerful role of the sistrum in his essay, “On Isis & Osiris”:

“The sistrum makes it clear that all things in existence need to be shaken, or rattled about, and never to cease from motion but, as it were, to be waked up and agitated when they grow drowsy and torpid. They say that they avert and repel Typhon by means of the sistrums, indicating thereby that when destruction constricts and checks Nature, generation releases and arouses it by means of motion.” (Plutarch, Moralia, Book 5, “On Isis & Osiris,” section 63)

The sistrum consists of a handle and frame made from brass, bronze, wood, or clay. When shaken the small rings or loops of thin metal on its movable crossbars produced a sound that ranged from a soft rattle to a loud jangling. Its basic shape resembled the ankh, the Egyptian symbol of life, and carried that hieroglyph's meaning. Archaeological records have revealed two distinct types of sistrum.

A sistrum (plural: sistra or Latin sistra;^[1] from the Greek σεῖστρον seistron of the same meaning; literally "that which is being shaken", from σείειν seiein, "to shake"^[2]^[3]^[4]) is a musical instrument of the percussion family, chiefly associated with ancient Egypt. It consists of a handle and a U-shaped metal frame, made of brass or bronze and between 30 and 76 cm in width. When shaken, the small rings or loops of thin metal on its movable crossbars produce a sound that can be from a soft clank to a loud jangling. Its name in the ancient Egyptian language was sekhem (sḫm) and sesheshet (sššt).

Sekhem is the simpler, hoop-like sistrum, while sesheshet (an onomatopoeic word) is the naos-shaped one. The modern day West African disc rattle instrument is also called a sistrum

Egyptian sistrum

A sesheshet-type sistrum, shaped like a naos, Twenty-sixth Dynasty (ca. 580 - 525 BCE)

The sistrum was a sacred instrument in ancient Egypt. Perhaps originating in the worship of Bat, it was used in dances and religious ceremonies, particularly in the worship of the goddess Hathor, with the U-shape of the sistrum's handle and frame seen as resembling the face and horns of the cow goddess.It also was shaken to avert the flooding of the Nile and to frighten away Set.

Isis in her role as mother and creator was depicted holding a pail, symbolizing the flooding of the Nile, in one hand and a sistrum in the other.^[8] The goddess Bast often is depicted holding a sistrum also, with it symbolizing her role as a goddess of dance, joy, and festivity.^[

Sistra are still used in the Alexandrian Rite and Ethiopic Rite. Besides the depiction in Egyptian art with dancing and expressions of joy, the sistrum was also mentioned in Egyptian literature.The hieroglyph for the sistrum is shown.

The sistrum continued to be used in Egypt well after the rule of the pharaohs. Rome's conquest of Egypt in 30 BC, following the death of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, helped spread the cult of the goddess throughout the Mediterranean and the rest of the Roman world. The Hathor heads were interpreted as Isis and Nephthys, who represented life and death respectively.

Worship of the goddess Isis became extremely popular in the Greco-Roman period and during this time, the sistrum became inextricably tied to Isis. Temples to Isis were built in every major city, perhaps the largest and most richly decorated being in Rome, near the Pantheon. The temple and its surrounding porticoes were decorated with beautiful wall paintings, some of which show priests or attendants of Isis holding a sistrum.

In Greek culture, not all sistrums were intended to be played. Rather, they took on a purely symbolic function in which they were used in sacrifices, festivals, and funerary contexts. Clay versions of sistrums may also have been used as children’s toys.

Minoan sistrum

Minoan clay sistrum found in Archanes, Crete

The ancient Minoans also usthe sistrum, and a number of examples made of local clay have been found on the island of Crete. Five of these are displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos. A sistrum is also depicted on the Harvester Vase, an artifact found at the site of Hagia Triada.

Researchers are not sure yet if the clay sistra were actual instruments that were used to provide music, or instead were models with only symbolic significance. But, experiments with a ceramic replica show that a satisfactory clacking sound is produced by such a design in clay, so a use in rituals is probably to be preferred.^[12]

The sistrum today

The senasel (sistrum) remained a liturgical instrument in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church throughout the centuries and is played today during the dance performed by the debtera (cantors) on important church festivals. It is also occasionally found in Neopagan worship and ritual.

The sistrum was occasionally revived in 19th century Western orchestral music, appearing most prominently in Act 1 of the opera Les Troyens (1856–1858) by the French composer Hector Berlioz. Nowadays, however, it is replaced by its close modern equivalent, the tambourine. The effect produced by the sistrum in music – when shaken in short, sharp, rhythmic pulses – is to arouse movement and activity. The rhythmical shaking of the sistrum, like the tambourine, is associated with religious or ecstatic events, whether shaken as a sacred rattle in the worship of Hathor of ancient Egypt, or in the strident jangling of the tambourine in modern-day Evangelicalism, in Romani song and dance, on stage at a rock concert, or to heighten a large-scale orchestral tutti.

Classical composer Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012) calls for the flautist to play two sistra in his 1988 work Sonate für sechs Spieler (Sonata for six players).

West Africa

Various modern West African and Gabon rattle instruments are also called sistra (plural of sistrum): the calabash sistrum, the West Africa sistrum or disc rattle (n'goso m'bara) also called Wasamba or Wassahouba rattle. It typically consists of a V-shaped branch with some or many concave calabash discs attached, which can be decorated.

Seated woman with sistrum on a coin issued under Hadrian Egyptian Sistrum Broken Egyptian Sistrum

Egyptian goddess holding a sistrum

Another Source states:

Here is another explanation that I found about Sistrum

The Sistrum is not a musical instrument. The Greek σεῖστρον seistron; literally means "that which is being shaken" - Not meaning that which you must shake, but that which is being shaken (obviously) by electric field conditions due to the metallic rods and high energy electric events that can happen on the Earth.

Plutarch said, "that the shaking of the four bars within the circular apsis indicated the agitation of the four elements (water/sea, air, ground, fire) within the magnetic field or compass of the world, by which all things are continually destroyed and reproduced."

The Sistrum is therefore a receiver or detector of the Electric Field conditions that drive climatic systems on the Earth, such as large storms, earthquakes and volcanoes.

Hathor as the 'Strong Electric Field Enclosure', is shown supporting the Sistrum and Nephthys was said to be the home of the Sistrum,

Nephthys defining the capacitor action and the creation of an Electric Field that the Sistrum reacts to. The device was not shaken to scare off Set, but rather the 'agitation' of the metalic bars detected the presence of Set, as he influences electric field conditions.

As the Snake ejects from Ra (e.g. Coronal Mass Ejection), the sun charges the plasmasphere, releasing charge from Set causing the Sistrum to rattle and shake as a precursor warning to a electrically induced natural disaster or large weather system.

The Greek documentation of the Sistrum is therefore evidence that the Sun Earth relationship has been known and crudely understood by civilizations thousands of years before our time.

link

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ElectricEgyptology/posts/1963501167221568/

(Left) Attracting Negative Charge to Anode Core via Resonance : (right) Tuning Forks

[Resonance / Attraction] Tuning Fork

Traditionally seen as the ships mast, explains how charge is transferred to stars. For further information see Anubis.

Native Americans and Mining Companies

(Hopi on Coal Mine Black Mesa)

Black Mesa is the generic name of a vast region situated north of the Hopi mesas, which counts numerous plateaus mesas , canions, hills and ravines.

It's name come from its juniper forests appearing dark on the horizon contrasting with the bright pastels and colorful strata of the Painted desert just south of there.

Black Mesa also gets the name from the colour of its soil, being one of the biggest coal deposit on the planet, a form of high quality anthracite extensively mined in major operations.

Since ancient daysbthe Hopi used coal as combustible, picked up from the surface deposits since trees are rare in the arid regions.

Later a network of twenty mines and fourteen refineries on thebreservatiins constituted the largest polluting industrial complex on the planet replaced only by the target sands of Alberta.

Big Mountain and Black Mesa are considered some of the most sacred places by both Hopi and Dine (native American nations).

The expansion of open pit coal mines and uranium mines, the increasing radioactive pollution, the expulsion of the majority of their relatives and arbitrary confiscation of their livestock, the destruction of their burial lodges and sacred sites, the escalation of the repression and the continues police harasmentmade almost impossible the conditions in which had to live the last families of resistors refusing to leave their ancestral land.

The governments agents could at any time confiscate their herds, while bulldozers could arise at any random time without warning and level their habitations, ceremonial hogans, or simply uproot century old juniper and bury vegetation.

The grandmother's were gettingfined for merely gathering dead firewood while three hundred miles of barbed wire fence was randomly built across their lands, to mark an arbitrary and virtually administrative border, Separating families and neighbors, and blocking herds on their grazing routes.

Source: Contemporary Shamanic Joirneys volume two Spirituakist Tribes and Communities by SunBow TrueBrother

Mining companies mainly Peabody, with the support of colonialism policies and government maneuvers removed fourteen thousands Dine and one thousand Hopi from their homes in the hearth of their ancestral homeland where they still practiced their traditional lifestyle tonrelicate them in prefabricated Carbondale trailers in urban gets or even in desolate zones contaminated by mining tailing, industrial toxic waste or radioactivity.

Black Mesa is the generic name of a vast region situated north of the Hopi mesas, which counts numerous plateaus mesas , canions, hills and ravines.

It's name come from its juniper forests appearing dark on the horizon contrasting with the bright pastels and colorful strata of the Painted desert just south of there.

Black Mesa also gets the name from the colour of its soil, being one of the biggest coal deposit on the planet, a form of high quality anthracite extensively mined in major operations.

Since ancient daysbthe Hopi used coal as combustible, picked up from the surface deposits since trees are rare in the arid regions.

Later a network of twenty mines and fourteen refineries on thebreservatiins constituted the largest polluting industrial complex on the planet replaced only by the target sands of Alberta.

Big Mountain and Black Mesa are considered some of the most sacred places by both Hopi and Dine (native American nations).

The expansion of open pit coal mines and uranium mines, the increasing radioactive pollution, the expulsion of the majority of their relatives and arbitrary confiscation of their livestock, the destruction of their burial lodges and sacred sites, the escalation of the repression and the continues police harasmentmade almost impossible the conditions in which had to live the last families of resistors refusing to leave their ancestral land.

The governments agents could at any time confiscate their herds, while bulldozers could arise at any random time without warning and level their habitations, ceremonial hogans, or simply uproot century old juniper and bury vegetation.

The grandmother's were gettingfined for merely gathering dead firewood while three hundred miles of barbed wire fence was randomly built across their lands, to mark an arbitrary and virtually administrative border, Separating families and neighbors, and blocking herds on their grazing routes.

Source: Contemporary Journeys volume two Spirituakist Tribes and Communities by SunBow TrueBrother

Mining companies mainly Peabody, with the support of colonialism policies and government maneuvers removed fourteen thousands Dine and one thousand Hopi from their homes in the hearth of their ancestral homeland where they still practiced their traditional lifestyle tonrelicate them in prefabricated Carbondale trailers in urban gets or even in desolate zones contaminated by mining tailing, industrial toxic waste or radioactivity.

Black Mesa is the generic name of a vast region situated north of the Hopi mesas, which counts numerous plateaus mesas , canions, hills and ravines.

It's name come from its juniper forests appearing dark on the horizon contrasting with the bright pastels and colorful strata of the Painted desert just south of there.

Black Mesa also gets the name from the colour of its soil, being one of the biggest coal deposit on the planet, a form of high quality anthracite extensively mined in major operations.

Since ancient daysbthe Hopi used coal as combustible, picked up from the surface deposits since trees are rare in the arid regions.

Later a network of twenty mines and fourteen refineries on thebreservatiins constituted the largest polluting industrial complex on the planet replaced only by the target sands of Alberta.

Big Mountain and Black Mesa are considered some of the most sacred places by both Hopi and Dine (native American nations).

The expansion of open pit coal mines and uranium mines, the increasing radioactive pollution, the expulsion of the majority of their relatives and arbitrary confiscation of their livestock, the destruction of their burial lodges and sacred sites, the escalation of the repression and the continues police harasmentmade almost impossible the conditions in which had to live the last families of resistors refusing to leave their ancestral land.

The governments agents could at any time confiscate their herds, while bulldozers could arise at any random time without warning and level their habitations, ceremonial hogans, or simply uproot century old juniper and bury vegetation.

The grandmother's were gettingfined for merely gathering dead firewood while three hundred miles of barbed wire fence was randomly built across their lands, to mark an arbitrary and virtually administrative border, Separating families and neighbors, and blocking herds on their grazing routes.

Links:
Contemporary Shamanic Joirneys volume two Spirituakist Tribes and Communities by SunBow TrueBrother

https://www.peabodyenergy.com/Home/Company-News-1138

Megalits Ontario Kelso Conservation Area Ontario Canada

Megalitic structures

Stine Canals and Stone W

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Stone walls

Stine walls

Stone bricks

Canals

Megalits Ontario

Since when nature create such structures?

Stine bricks

These were pictures posted in the hallway of a hospital in Newmarket Ontario of a local artist.

Was Tula The Capital of the Toltec Empire Theotihiacan?

Teotihuacan name comes from two words Teo means God in Nahuatl and Ti means God. The name stands for The City of God Wahcan.

Tula the Toltec Capitol had different variation in names such as Tollan or Tullan. It is possible to be Teotihuacan.

(The Toltec Empire, Toltec Kingdom or Altepetl Tollan was a political entity in modern Mexico. It existed through the classic and post-classic periods of Mesoamerican chronology, but gained most of its power in the post-classic. During this time its sphere of influence reached as far away as the Yucatan Peninsula.)

Cronyn's description of the site:

"Under the ruins of Teotihuacan lies the ruins if a much earlier civilization buried beneath 15-20 feet of debris washed down from the surrounding hills."

On the ruins of this long dead metropolis arose Tula of early Nahuatl times.through the city an avenue several miles in length runs which was lined with temples.

On the Nirth it terminated innthe temple studded wall inclosing the grand Court of the Pyramid of the Moin.

South West it passed the Pyramid of Querzalcoatl.

Midway between these extremes stood the Pyramid if the Sun, raising its bulk above the conglomeration of temples palaces and Shrines.

No diety had a greater shrine than Quetzalcoatl. Avast court over six hundred feet wide by nineteen hundred feet long surrounded by a massive walk two hundred and sixty feet thick at the base and thirty two feet high, crowded by fifteen minor temples rising from all four sides bore whitness to the reverence the Toltecs paid to their greatest and most revered ditties

The famous wall.of Babylon dwarfs into insignificance in presence if this vast sanctuary erected to the God of the Winds.

In the center if the court on a truncated Pyramid is a ceremonial altar reached on all sides by stairs containing the thirteen traditional steps representing the thirteen cycles of The First Sun Age.

In the rear of this altar stands a higher one approached by a single.stairway of 39 steps symbolically of the 39 Ages.

(Remembet the history books were thrown in flames by the conquering Spanish.)

Vast underground stairways of soft conglomerate stone faced with cement take us to underground chambers of the fire worshipers who preceded the lava flows which inundated the southern end if the valley.

Source "Jesus in America Valiant Thor's Book of Querzalcoatl" by Valiant Thor

Links

https://youtu.be/C8rwS8jR550

https://youtu.be/FeT8eaWH5u0

https://youtu.be/gYYZaJyhKx0

https://youtu.be/epRamUdm5qg

https://youtu.be/P9r3ykTgznk

Mount Builders Sea People and Serpent Peoples

One of the stories in the book "Jesus in America Valiant Thor’s Book of Quetzalcoatl" By Valiant Thor talks about Philistines called Sea People or People of the Ocean invading North America and other Lands.

Norsemen welcomed them as traders and adopted some of their legends.

The mighty invasion of the serpents fleeing from the great destruction washed the shores of the American Tropics breaking into small lost families each known under its leader as a Great Sun. All counted their time by the cycles of Venus star of both dawn and evening.

At the end of a 104-year cycle and sometimes at the 52-half cycle their great Suns met in giant colcave to check their time and pool their knowledge.

The serpents regarded the one called the Healer that seems to revere the Dawn Star, as holly and there were ordered not to harm him.

There was a Serpent tribe in America in the Mississippi region, during the golden age of the Healer considered to be Jesus of the Christian religion.

Those we know now as Great Mount Builders were tribes speaking the word -family and branches of the Algonquin language. These were the Ancients of the country.

In the days of the Great Mound Builders, these mounds marked the sites of the cities. The Mounds were a sort of writing a manner of recording passing history a royal marriage, or a dynasty ended. They were to be read from inside outward and about them swirled the cities. One had an even longer history than the modern town of London.

The mounds were probably faced with lumber and then painted in brilliant colour, perhaps to resemble those of the Mayas with whom they seemed to have some commerce.

In fact that commerce may have been extensive since there was much mining in Michigan.

To this happy and peaceful land came the Great Robed Master.

In the Indian Mound of Pittsfield were found three pages of parchment now held in old Harward upon which were quotations from the Old Testament written in archaic Hebrew.

In the southeast of Newark the father of Bancroft Indian recorder of untold legends speaks of finding the only engraved pictograph of the white-robed teacher ( Jesus) Above his head in Ancient Hebrew were the words of the Ten Commandments. His hair and beard are well pictured as well as his flowing toga.

How many mounds have been plowed and levelled and their contents scattered which red men held as holy, planting trees of the sacred cedar upon them to keep them safe through two millennia? The invasion of the serpents from perhaps 700 A.D onward coming up the Mississippi in their long snake-painted dugouts, carrying their sacred fire, brought an end to peaceful living, brought with them war and pillage and the priesthood of the Sacrificesrs. They turned away from the sills of cedar seeing the symbols of the Healer.

links

http://mysterious-hills.blogspot.com/2006/03/pittsfields-hebrew-scrolls-spark.html

https://www.historicalblindness.com/blogandpodcast//written-in-stone-the-archaeological-frauds-of-pre-columbian-trans-oceanic-contact-theories

https://www.homeofgolf.com/profiles/town-creek-indian-mound/