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The universe according to ancient Egypt was created from the primal waters, the universe according to the Vedas of India was created from the causal ocean. According to the Egyptians a lotus flower emerges from the primal waters and according to the Vedas a lotus emerges from the causal ocean.

 

Within the lotus of ancient Egypt the god of the Sun Ra is born bringing life to this universe and within the lotus of the Vedas Brahma appears to engineer this universe and within both of these traditions they speak of a universe which undergoes cycles of creation and destruction.

 

Egypt worshipped deities and gods in relation to that deity, Vedic India worship deities and gods in relation to that deity as each morning within the temples of Egypt the deities were woken, bathed, dressed, worshipped and offered a variety of foodstuffs and within Vedic India the deities are woken, bathed, dressed, worshipped and offered a variety of foodstuffs.

 

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'Amun' is said to be the ultimate god of ancient Egypt where some 4000 years ago he is said to have merged with 'Ra' the god of the Sun hence 'Amun Ra' and although 'Amun' is a word which tends to be vague we find 'Ra' within the language of Sanskrit meaning 'fire' 'gold' 'bright' which are descriptions of the Sun.

 

'Amun Ra' is described as having blue skin and has feathers within his hair which is quite similar to Krsna who possesses blue skin and wears peacock feathers and as from the feet of Amun Ra flows the river Nile so from the feet of Krsna flows the mighty Ganga.

 

Now of course nobody is saying that Amun Ra and Krsna are the same person but when we consider that Krsna appeared some 5000 years ago and Amun Ra seems to have been in his ascendency around 4000 years ago this may reflect the cultural ties and influences between the two countries some 4000 to 5000 years ago.

 

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Once a year within the city of Karnak they would parade publicly the trimurti deities of 'Amun Ra' 'Mut' 'Khonsu' just as once a year within India they publicly parade the trimurti of 'Jagganatha' 'Subhadra' 'Baladeva' and just as within India they bathe, dress and decorate the deities so within Egypt they would ceremoniously bathe the deities before dressing and decorating them with precious jewels.

 

Within the lands of Egypt the deities are placed upon small boats which are then carried by the priests throughout the streets just as within India the deities are placed upon chariots which are pulled throughout the streets and all the time both of these festivals are accompanied by musicians and singing and dancing.

 

As the huge crowds gather to celebrate the festival they blow trumpets, sing, dance and offer prayers for some two miles and upon reaching the Luxor temple the deities are rested and a few days later they return and as this festival lasted some 24 to 27 days, within India it would last some 25 to 26 days.

 

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As the primal waters of Egyptian cosmology produces a 'mound' upon which the god 'Ra' appears, it seems this mound is similar to the cosmic axial mountain of the Vedas known as 'Meru' and according to Egyptian cosmology it is this mound which is represented on earth as their pyramids.

 

'Pyramid' has nothing to do with Egypt as it comes from 'pyramis' a word from Greece whose meaning is 'fire in the middle' its simply outsiders giving names to other peoples cultures, but if these icons of Egyptian culture were allowed to speak, according to their language and their own civilisation, they would say 'hi, my name is meru'.

 

According to Egyptian hieroglyphics their name for 'mountain' is 'meru' and their name for the pyramids is 'Mr' apparently they did not do vowels just as the name 'Nefertiti' is the hieroglyphic 'NFR' which the academics speculate as 'Nefertiti' as they fill the blanks with an 'E' and similarly the hieroglyphic name for the pyramids would be 'Mer' and when we consider the hieroglyphic name for 'mountain' is 'meru' a picture begins to emerge.

 

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Above we can see the hieroglyphics as presented by the Egyptologist, orientalist and philologist Edgar Budge and as previously mentioned we see the name for 'mountain' is 'mer' and 'meru' and we see the land of Egypt was known as 'Ta mera' and the people of Egypt were known as 'Ta merau'.

 

The river 'Nile' also seems to be related as it seems to be from 'nila' a word from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is 'blue' as seen within 'nila kantha' a name for Siva whose meaning is blue ( nila ) throated ( kantha ) and as we know the river was known as the 'blue nile'.

 

We also have the 'stone tablets of amarna' which go back in time some 3400 years and records a conversation between the Vedic king of Mittani whose Sanskrit name was 'Dasaratha' and Amenhotep lll who was the king of Egypt and subsequently the husband of the daughter of Dasaratha which shows the social and cultural ties between these people.

 


 

“Note the great Hamite-Cushite race from the East was the first to settle Egypt and Babylon; that this bible race can be traced to the Mount Meru, on the high table-lands of Central Asia; that the races emigrating from that region can be traced from thence, to the four quarters of the earth, and that however widely separated, they can be re-traced to their common home, - the Eden of Genesis”  -  The Mountain of the Assembly” written in 1891 by Orlando Dana Miller and Stephen Munson Whipple

 

"The land of punt in the Egyptian ethnological traditions has been identified by the scholars as the Malabar coast of Deccan ( India ). From this land ebony and other rich woods, incense, balsam, precious metals, ect, used to be imported into Egypt ". German Egyptologist  -  Friedrich Wilhelm.

 

"It is testified by Herdotus, Plato, Salon, Pythagoras, and Philostratus that the religion of Egypt proceeded from India....It is testified by Neibuhr, Valentia, Champollian and Weddington that the temples of upper Egypt are of greater antiquity than those of lower Egypt...that consequently the religion of Egypt, according to the testimony of those monuments....came from India...The chronicles found in the temples of Abydos and Sais and which have been transmitted by Josephus, Julius Africanus, and Eusebius, all testify that the religious system of the Egyptians proceeded from India." Greek author and philosopher Philostratus.

 

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“In those primitive days, the central seat of Ethiopia was not the Meroe of our day, which is very ancient, but a kingdom that preceeded it by many ages; that was called Meru. Lenormant spoke of the first men of the ancient world as 'Men of Meru.' Sanskrit writers called Indra, chief god of the Hindu, king of Meru. He was deified and became the chief representative of the supreme being." -  Druscilla Dunjee Houston.

 

“On comparing the religious system between the Egyptian civilisation and Vedic civilisation we are struck by their resemblance to each other. The principle of trinity with that of unity, the pre-existence of the soul, its transmigration, the division of caste into priests, warriors, traders and agriculturists are the cardinal points of both system. Even the symbols are the same on the shores of the Ganges and the Nile. Thus we find the lingam of the Shiva temples of India and the phallus of the Ammon temples of Egypt. We find the lotus as a symbol of the sun both in India and Egypt and we find symbols of immortality of the soul both in India and Egypt. The power of rendering barren women fruitful, ascribed to the temple of Shiva in India is also ascribed to the temple of Ammon in Egypt”.  The theogony of the Hindus  -  Count Biornsttierna.

 

“In mount Meros we have only the Greek form of Meru, as long ago shown by Creuzer. The one is the Navel of the Earth for the same reason that the other is. Egyptian Meroë ( in some Egyptian texts Mer, in Assyrian Mirukh, or Mirukha ), the seat of the famous oracle of Jupiter Ammon, was possibly named from the same “World-Mountain.”  William F. Warren.


 

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