SOBEK = URSA MAJOR, Big Dipper https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16019892/solar-eclipse-2017-interactive-map The Celestial River: Identifying the Ancient Egyptian Constellations by Alessandro Berio Shi-shu-mara = the Hindu equivalent to the Egyptian god Sobek, ...or Sobek-Ra Sobek first acquired a role as a solar deity through his connection to Horus, but this was further strengthened in later periods with the emergence of Sobek-Ra, a fusion of Sobek and Egypt's primary sun god, Ra. [25] [25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek#History
For centuries, Hillman tells us, we've identified the interiority with the experience experience. " this vision not only kills things, with regard to them as death, but imprisons us in that cramped cell that is me. If the psychic reality is identified with experience, it becomes necessary for psychological logic: we have to invent an inner witness, someone who, at the center of subjectivity, has experience - and we can't imagine otherwise." If we do not give in to that subjectivism who is no longer letteralizzato in the experience of thinking about himself, we can get rid of that fictional subject, which is our "I". His Automanifestarsi, his radiate. Interiority, subjectivity [and not vague subjectivism] and psychic depth [is] all out there ". then we will discover that " this answer immediately connects the individual soul to the soul of the world: I, I am " animated " as an animal from the soul of the World. [....] any alteration in the human psyche is in resonance with a change in the psyche of the world ".
July 17 SOBEK and the Dragon Bloodline Sobek’s connection to Ancient Egyptian Royalty
Alchemical philosophy is often referred to as Hermetic thought. Many books talk about the Hermetic school of Tuthmosis III of Egypt, who reigned about 1450 BC. But it is not generally known that the school he originally inherited was the Royal Court of the Dragon. Founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC, it was subsequently revived by the 12th Dynasty Queen Sobekhnefru.
The first Dragon Court patron was the Egyptian priest-prince Ankhfn Khonsu (2170 BC). The Pharaonic institution of the Twelfth Dynasty was Queen Sobekh Nefru’s in 1785 BC.
The Royal Court Of The Dragon provided an institution for the pursuit of the work of the Dragon of Al-Khem otherwise known as Thoth or Hermes. From Al-Khem we have alchemy, the Great Work of the Dragon, with its classic texts, The Emerald Tablets and The Pymander.
The Dragon kings supported by the court have rightfully ruled many nations and empires throughout history. The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court, reconstituted by King Sigismund as the Societas Draconis, was based on an entitlement Sigismund assumed he inherited from his presumed Egyptian and Scythian ancestors through the Pictish, Dragon Princess Maelasanu of Northumbria and the Ancient and Original Angevin Royal House of Vere of Anjou, the Imperial Dukes of Angiers.
This line descended through the Tuatha de Danaan (the Dragon Kings of Anu) on the one hand, and the Egyptian Dragon Dynasty of Sobek on the other. The latter strain included the bloodline of the Davidic House of Judah who married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks.
Messeh The New Testament Greek words for anoint is “Chrio” which means “to smear or rub with oil ” . The annointing of priest-kings dates back to ancient Egyptian traditions. The interesting thing is the oil which was used in Egypt came from crocodiles which were called "Messeh", hence the word "Messiah" or "Annointed king" came out to be .
According to one account, Pharaoh’s bride was required to anoint him, before their marriage, with oil drawn from fat of the holy and deified crocodile (messeh)[ Sir Laurence Gardner, “The Hidden History of Jesus and the Holy Grail].
In another version, crocodile oil was used to anoint Pharaoh for his coronation. Thus, the crocodile G-d gave up its life to foster the reign of the earthly god, Pharaoh. The Egyptian term messeh was allegedly adopted by the Hebrews (ca. 1250 BCE) as the mashiach (anointed).
The Hebrew word for “anointed” was then Hellenized by the Greeks to “Christos” and, later, by the English to “Messiah” and “Christ”. The noun (christos), meaning anointed, comes from the Greek verb (chrio), meaning to smear or anoint.
The Book of the Dead suggests that Sobeks, the crocodile G-d’s closeness to Horus can be traced back to his participation in the birth of this god. Sobek was responsible for calling Isis and Nephthys to aid in the protection of the dead. He was the G-d from the Dark Water. Sobek may have been an early fertility god or associated with death and burial.
He was at once an aggressive and dangerous god, but also linked to procreation and vegetative fertility, the latter by being obviously linked to the Nile and its fertile green banks and fields. Partly for this reason, Sobek is often linked to the colour green.Sobek is said to be the son of Neith or Nuit, another very ancient goddess deity.
Goddess Neith Mother Of Sobek holding Egyptian Ank And Christian Cross
The kings and queens of the 13th dynasty particularly favored the cult of Sobek, and kings and queens alike would incorporate the name of the god in their titles, for example Sobek-hotep (Sobek is merciful or satisfied) . In this connection, Sobek was closely related to the Royal god Horus and there are a number of depictions of Sobek as a crocodile with the head of a falcon adorned with the double crown.
According to ancient visitor,Strabo, writing in the 1st century BCE records his visit to the shrine of Sobek accompanied by the then Roman Prefect of Egypt. He visited the Temple that housed the sacred crocodile. As with all Sobek temples there was a small pool where the living Sobek could lie at leisure. When visitors arrived for a godly consultation, they would be required to call upon his name, “Suchos! Suchos!”. If the animal responded and turned towards the visitor this was considered a fairly good sign.
The temple of Sobek is at Kom Ombo in Upper Egypt. Sobek shared this temple in a dual dedication which included Haroeris, better known as Hawer or “Horus the Elder”. Hawer was the husband of Heket the fog goddess responsible for the creation of children along with Khum, the ‘potter’ god responsible for fashioning children on his potter’s wheel. ***
p,123 GENESIS OF THE GRAIL KINGS In ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were anointed in the Mesopotamian tradition with the fat of the sacred crocodile, who was epitomized by the god Sobek and was called the Messeh. In Mesopotamia, the equivalent noble creature was the Mus-hus , 22 a giant serpentine quadruped not unlike the great forked-tongued monitors still found in Africa, Arabia and the East, and the mighty 10-foot (3m) Komodo dragon of Indonesia. It is from the words Messeh and Mus-hus that the Hebrew stem MSSH derived - the stem which (with added vowels) formed the verb mashiach (to anoint) and the noun Messiah ( Meschiach ), which means ‘Anointed One’ - i.e. King or Christ (Greek: Kristos ). 23 This was a custom which began with Enki’s anointing of the Adama (King Atabba), an event detailed in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned about 1400 bc. Although the term ‘Messiah’ is generally applied to Jesus, it is correct to say that he was ‘a’ Messiah rather than ‘the’ Messiah, for all anointed kings of the line were Messiahs, as indicated in Psalm 105 (verse 15), and Jesus did not achieve his Messianic status until anointed by the priestess Mary Magdalene at Bethany in March ad 33. 24 As anointed Messiahs, the early Sangreal kings were deemed to retain the supreme prowess of the sacred crocodile — the kingly aptitude of the Messianic dragon. 25 In the book of Ezekiel (29:3), the Egyptian pharaoh is called ‘The great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers’, and a victory song in honour of Pharaoh Tuthmosis III runs, ‘Behold your Majesty in the like- ness of a crocodile feared in the waters’. 26 Crocodiles (dragons), extant in the Nile and Palestine’s River Zerka, were not only worshipped at centres such as Crocodilopolis, Ombos, Coptos, Athribis and Thebes, but they were also mummified and placed in royal cemeteries along with the pharaohs themselves. ***
9 March, 2015 - 12:58Katrina SisowathSobeknefru, Powerful Pharaoh and Queen of the Dragon Court(Read the article on one page) Named after the crocodile God Sobek, Sobeknefru, whose name means ‘she who shows the beauty of Sobek’, succeeded her brother to the throne of Egypt. At the time she came to power, the cult of Sobek had prominence in Egyptian society and following her example many of the pharaohs of the 13th Dynasty felt it incumbent to take the name Sobek. Who was this God? Sobek was associated with the Nile crocodile and is either represented in its reptile form or as a human with a crocodile head. Sobek was also associated with power, fertility, and military prowess, but served additionally as a fiercely protective deity, which was invoked particularly for protection against the dangers presented by the Nile River. He gained ascendance through the myth that linked him to Isis and Osiris, when he helped the Goddess retrieve her husband’s dismembered body parts.
Wall relief of Sobek, Kom Ombo Temple, Egypt (Wikimedia Commons) His cult was established in Faiyum Region, with its capital Sheddet (translated Crocodilopolis) devoted to the care and worship of the god, and of the crocodiles raised in the temple as reincarnations of the deity. One of the most important benefactors the cult of Sobek had was Amenemhat III, Sobeknefru’s father. He had taken a particular interest in Faiyum and in Sobek and so the area blossomed with many new building projects. Sobeknefru would have grown up around the priesthood of the Deity and perhaps Sobek was her personal favourite of the pantheon. When her brother died, the priesthood of Sobek backed her claim to the throne, as Amenemhat IV had no sons.
Glazed steatite cylinder seal of Sobeknefru (British Museum) What we know from Sobeknefru’s reign is that she extended the labyrinth that her father had begun in the Faiyum Oasis—this labyrinth was used as a model for the one in Crete, hinting that perhaps there was an initiation ceremony in both countries that was turned into myth later. Unfortunately, not much else is known about her reign as there is little evidence, unlike Hatshepsut. Archaeologists have not found her tomb (though a pyramid in Dashur may be hers) and so all we have are five statues, several beads, scarabs and seals bearing her name. Other evidence comes in the form of Manetho's text; in the Turin Canon, the Karnak, Turin and Sakkara king lists and a Nile inundation record. She is listed at the mortuary Temple of her father, Amenemhat III which she completed. Surprisingly (or not) her name appears many times at the temple, whereas her brother’s name is absent.
A headless statue of Sobekneferu in the Louvre (public domain) Sobeknefereu was the first known female Pharaoh for which there is confirmed proof, and she is known to have had a prosperous, though brief, reign. Some have claimed that she is the Egyptian Princess who rescued Moses and that he was Amenemhat IV, forced to flee when he killed the Egyptian. When he left and Amenemhat III died, she would have taken the throne. Considering her father’s patronage of the cult of Sobek and the care of the holy crocodiles, it is reasonable to suggest that is why the babies were given to them as a method of population control. It may be surprising that her influence is found in certain families who have claimed descent from her, namely: the Dragon (or Sacred Crocodile) Court, which operated concurrently with the Serpent Cult and the Mystery Schools. It was said to have been founded by the priest-prince Ankhfn Khonso, though it was Sobeknefru who established it as a Pharaonic institution.
What were the changes wrought by this merging of belief and politics? For starters, Pharaohs were anointed with Sacred Crocodile (Messeh) fat when they were crowned, referred to in Egypt as the Holy Mesa, which became the Aramaic Mashih, which in its verb form is MeSHeH or ‘to anoint’. This lead to the early Kings being called ‘Dragons’, ‘Mesas’ or ‘Messiahs’. This practice may have begun in Mesopotamia, but it was Sobeknefru who instituted it in Egypt, which was then adopted by the High Kings of Israel and Judea. Jesus, as a Messiah, would have been anointed with the fat of the Messeh by his Priestess-Wife, as did his ancestors which were of the Davidic line. The belief in the conception of a Messeh without sexual union did not begin with Jesus, but with the Goddess Isis, who conceived Horus with the aid of Sobek who helped her retrieve her husband, though with one key body part missing. The Egyptians believed cosmic forces intervened in the impregnation under the patronage of the crocodile star. We find it in spell 148 of the coffin text: “The Crocodile Star Messeh strikes … Isis wakes pregnant with the seed of Osiris –namely Horus”
Statue of Sobek and Amenhotep III, currently in the Luxor Museum, in Egypt. (Wikimedia Commons) So, if Sobeknefru’s induction of the cult of Sobek into the Pharaonic ceremonies and rituals had such a far-reaching effect on the countries and dynasties in Bible times, did it end with the fall of Jerusalem? No. The rituals were known and emulated by the royal houses in Europe, first with the name Pendragon (Head Dragon) becoming known through Arthurian lore and then with Emperor Sigismund von Luxemburg, King of Hungary reforming the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court as the Societas Draconis in 1408. Emperor Sigismund claimed descent from Egyptian Dragon Dynasty of Sobeknefru through the Davidic line of Judah and the Pictish line descended from Maelasanu (Melusine) and the Tuatha de Danaan. One of the most famous members of the Societas Draconis is Vlad Basarrab, or Dracula, son of Vlad Drakul. Dracula’s son wrote that his father proudly claimed a linear descent of the Priests of the Dragon Court of Queen Sobeknefru, by which he may have meant a spiritual priestly lineage rather than a genealogical one. Whether Emperor Sigismund was correct in his claims of descent from the various lines (many experts believe he forged his genealogy in order to build a power base amongst the other Royal Houses of Europe), or whether the son of the House of Dracul was misled in the mystical power he inherited through the initiation rituals, it is of interest that an almost unknown Egyptian Queen who was nearly erased from all records has had such an influence on literature, beliefs, history and culture, though the true nature of the original Dragon Court is still shrouded in mystery. Featured image: A painting by Lawrence Alma Tadema. Moses being found by the Princess (public domain) References: Conder, Kasey. Queen Sobekkara Sobekneferu – Mirror of Isis. Available from: http://mirrorofisis.freeyellow.com/id278.html Devere, N. The Dragon Legacy: The Secret History of an Ancient Bloodline, Book Tree , 2004 Devere, N. The Dragon Cede. Book Tree, 2010 Gardner, L. Realm of the Ring Lords Fair Winds Press, 2003 Gardner L. Genesis of the Grail Kings, Bantam Press, 1999 SOCIETAS DRACONIS – The Dragon Society. Available from: http://www.dragonsovereignty.net/ By Katrina Sisowath
Lawrence Alma Tadema. Moses being found by the Princess ( public domain )
Gardner, Of Grail Kings https://books.google.com/books?id=1xOsBWv2pckC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=sobek,+dragon+legacy&source=bl&ots=vKrTmlZqQu&sig=5eRIEZO0e-yXwqQ__QDtM9F3M50&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk1a3VzOnUAhUCOiYKHYwmD-kQ6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q=sobek%2C%20dragon%20legacy&f=false
SOBEK & THE 13TH DYNASTY
Sobek & Creation The Egyptian crocodile god Sobek was a Dragon with a curious mythical lineage in humankind. The patron of the Dragon Dynasties was the inspiration for anointing the chosen with messeh, from which comes the word messiah for 'anointed one', crocodile fat mixed with fragrant oils and intoxicants.
The ancient Egyptian portion of this old myth in modern clothes includes the legend of the Labyrinth at Hawara, the priest-king Ankh-fn-khonsu, and the Pharaoh Queen, Sobekneferu, meaning "the beauty of Sobek."
The Royal Court of the Dragon was founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC and was subsequently ratified by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru.
This sovereign and priestly Order passed from Egypt to the Kings of Jerusalem; to the Black Sea Princes of Scythia (Princess Milouziana of the Scythians) and into the Balkans - notably to the Royal House of Hungary, whose King Sigismund reconstituted the Court just 600 years ago. Sigismund’s assumed descent from Melusine.
Her ancestry actually can be traced back to the Scythian Dragon Princess Scota, Queen Sobekh Nefru and the Egyptian Cult of the Dragon.
We can consider modern revivals of the Dragon Court a sort of personal mythology lived out loud, now gone global, based on perhaps a little truth and a lot of literalism. Descent from antiquity is considered pseudo-history for genealogists, but for others that is a way of suggesting a mythical reality, a psychic or imaginal dreaming out loud.
The Egyptians believed that dreams could be used to get advice or prophecies from the gods, or for healing. Usually a person would sleep in the grounds of a temple, after praying to the god for help.
The Egyptians so revered crocodiles, they named a town Crocodilopolis. There these creatures were worshiped and adorned with bedazzling gold and jewels. The crocodile god, Sobek, symbolized ultimate power, protection, and fertility to the ancient Egyptians. Sobek was one among several gods responsible for weighing the souls of the dead.
In this light, we can't overlook the symbolism of discernment, judgment, authority and guidance in conjunction with the crocodile and the role of Sobek in ancient Egypt. Khnum was also quite closely associated with Sobek (the crocodile god) at both Elephantine and Essna, and with Amun, another ram-headed creator god.
Crocodile meaning is their prehistoric status. These creatures are ancient, and have evolved very little over their reign beginning over 50 million years ago. These creatures represent a deep, abiding connection with the Mother (Nature), and perhaps that's the most profound wisdom they have to share.
Sobekneferu
She was the daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat III. Manetho states she also was the sister of Amenemhat IV, but this claim is unproven. Sobekneferu had an older sister named Nefruptah who may have been the intended heir. Neferuptah's name was enclosed in a cartouche and she had her own pyramid at Hawara. Neferuptah died at an early age however.
Sobekneferu is the first known female ruler of Egypt, although Nitocris may have ruled in the Sixth Dynasty, and there are five other women who are believed to have ruled as early as the First Dynasty.
Amenemhat IV most likely died without a male heir; consequently, Amenemhat III's daughter Sobekneferu assumed the throne. According to the Turin Canon, she ruled for 3 years, 10 months, and 24 days[3] in the late 19th century BC. She died without heirs and the end of her reign concluded Egypt's brilliant Twelfth Dynasty and the Golden Age of the Middle Kingdom as it inaugurated the much weaker Thirteenth Dynasty.
Few monuments have been discovered for her, although many of her (headless) statues have been preserved including the base of a representation of a king's royal daughter that was discovered in Gezer and bears her name.[4] It is known that she made additions to the funerary complex of Amenemhat III at Hawara (called a labyrinth by Herodotus) and also built structures at Herakleopolis Magna.
A fine cylinder seal bearing her name and royal titulary is today located in the British Museum.[5] A Nile graffito, at the Nubian fortress of Kumma records the Nile inundation height of 1.83 meters in Year 3 of her reign.[6] Her monumental works consistently associate her with Amenemhat III rather than Amenemhat IV, supporting the theory that she was Amenemhat III's royal daughter and was perhaps only a stepsister of Amenemhat IV.[4] The Danish Egyptologist, Kim Ryholt, notes that the contemporary sources from her reign show that Sobekneferu never adopted the title of "Queen" or King's sister"--only 'King's Daughter'--which supports this hypothesis.[4]
Her tomb has not been identified positively, although she may have been interred in a pyramid complex in Mazghuna that lacks inscriptions, immediately north of a similar complex ascribed to Amenemhat IV. A place called Sekhem-Neferu is mentioned in a papyrus found at Harageh. This might be the name of her pyramid.
Crocodiles and alligators appear in many ancient myths and legends. Crocodile mythologies are part of the Australian Aborigines’ culture – the crocodile was the selfish keeper of fire until the Rainbow Bird stole it from him while his back was turned. The crocodile also features in several African myths where typically, it appears as kings or gods or simply symbolising regality and kingship. The reason crocodiles are often held in such high regards stems from the fact that they are able to walk on land and swim in water – thus, they exist in two realms, rather than one. Kings were similarly regarded as belonging to two separate realms, as it was assumed that they came to people via ‘divine right’. The most widely known crocodile god is Sobek – the ancient Egyptian god with the head of a crocodile. Crocodiles were worshipped in ancient Egypt because of their great power and due to the belief that if they were appeased, any encounter on the Nile would result in death. Sobek was also associated with pharaonic power, fertility and military prowess, but served additionally as a protective deity with apotropaic qualities. Sobek is associated with various Egyptian creation myths – some believe that he climbed out of primordial chaos and laid eggs from which the earth sprang. The overall theme in these ancient mythologies appears to involve power; the ability to simultaneously inhabit two realms; royalty; and creation. If the dreamer relates positively to crocodiles and is unharmed in the dream or able to control the creature, they typically this would suggest personal power symbols. Given that crocodiles are associated with the Shadow archetype, if the dreamer has a positive encounter with a crocodile, this may be interpreted as the dreamer making good progress in integrating his own Shadow. In some cultures, the crocodile – as a symbol of fertility – is perceived as a feminine theme, referring to the Great Mother. Crocodiles are good, nurturing and fiercely protective mothers - they help the eggs to hatch, then gently carry them to the water. The Egyptian goddess, Tawret, had the tail of a crocodile and frightened spirits who may mean to harm a pregnant woman or child. She also helped spirits ‘re-birth’ into the afterlife.
Sobek and Horus represent two powerful opposing psychic forces found in all human beings—the old and the new parts of each of us. The crocodile god, Sobek, is associated with the reptilian brain, the primitive non-verbal part of the brain that ensures our physical survival at the level of stimulus and response. The reptilian brain holds the most ancient evolutionary patterns from which we have evolved. It has kept us protected, alive, and growing forward. In opposition to Sobek, Horus is associated with the neo cortex, which serves as the center of higher mental functions for humans. The neo cortex is also associated with our higher chakras and, among other things, relates to our connection with spirit. To create balance in our lives, Sobek and Horus have come into this work as adversarial allies. It is their task to create a harmonious union within our psyches. Sobek is an ancient creator god who is linked with both Ra and Horus, and who shares a temple with Horus at Kom Ombo. Throughout the long history of Egypt, his representation has changed. During the Old Kingdom Sobek was revered as a god of the Nile and the floods, bringing fertility, while at the same time feared as a god of destruction. From the Middle Kingdom onward he was closely associated with Ra (the sun god) and during Greco-Roman times Hathor (goddess of reconciliation) was considered to be his consort and Khonsu (the moon god) their child. It is probable that some form of the falcon god Horus was venerated as far back as pre-dynastic times when rulers were called Followers of Horus. It would be impossible to cover but a fraction of his attributes here. Horus is considered twice born, once of Nut and Geb, and again as the son of Isis and Osiris, conceived after Osiris’s death through the love and magic of Isis. As a young prince he was groomed and trained to inherit the royal leadership of his father. His primary image is as falcon or hawk and his primary identification is with the sky and the sun. Yet there are leonine images, as well, and by the New Kingdom he was associated with the Great Sphinx and with many other gods that through time assimilated his power. His child form was usually anthropomorphic and thousands of amulets were created depicting the image of Isis suckling the young Horus on her lap. The story of his conception, birth, development, struggles for sovereignty, and eventual and continuing reign as the ruler of the gods makes Horus one of the most prominent gods of Egypt. Much of his mythic battle with Set is described on the walls of his temple at Edfu.
"This I have actually seen, a work beyond words. For if anyone put together the buildings of the Greeks and display of their labours, they would seem lesser in both effort and expense to this labyrinth… Even the pyramids are beyond words, and each was equal to many and mighty works of the Greeks. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids." Herodotus (‘Histories’, Book, II, 148),
The Hawara labyrinth in Egypt was decorated with reliefs of the Dragon god Sobek. The womb temple is a place for rebirth. Sobek is also called the Dream Healer.
According to writing by Herodotus I the IV century BC: the labyrinth was “situated a little above the lake of Moiris and nearly opposite to that which is called the City of Crocodiles” (‘Histories,’ Book, II, 148). The labyrinth (as it has been called by some in the distant past) is said to be an extraordinary underground complex which could hold the key to mankind’s history. It is said that there, we could find details about unknown civilizations in history, great empires and rulers that lived on the planet before history as we know it began. “When one had entered the sacred enclosure, one found a temple surrounded by columns, 40 to each side, and this building had a roof made of a single stone, carved with panels and richly adorned with excellent paintings. It contained memorials of the homeland of each of the kings as well as of the temples and sacrifices carried out in it, all skilfully worked in paintings of the greatest beauty.” Based on the descriptions of ancient texts such as those from Herodotus, and others who visited the magical labyrinth in the distant past, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar called Athanasius Kircher, created the first pictorial reproduction of the enigmatic labyrinth just as Herodotus described it:It has twelve courts covered in, with gates facing one another, six upon the North side and six upon the South, joining on one to another, and the same wall surrounds them all outside; and there are in it two kinds of chambers, the one kind below the ground and the other above upon these, three thousand in number, of each kind fifteen hundred. The upper set of chambers we ourselves saw […] According to these authors, the underground temple consists of over 3000 rooms which are filled with incredible hieroglyphs and paintings, the enigmatic underground complex is located less than 100 kilometers from Cairo at Hawara. There, in 2008 a group of researchers from Belgium and Egypt arrived to investigate the enigmatic underground complex, with the aid of ground penetrating technology which was used to study the sand in hopes of finding and solving the mystery behind the mysterious underground complex. The Belgian-Egyptian expedition was able to confirm the presence of the underground temple not far from the Pyramid of Amenemhat III.
Alchemical philosophy is an intrinsic part of Hermetic thought, from the land of Khem (Egypt). Tuthmosis III of Egypt, who reigned about 1450 BC, maintained a hermetic schoolhe originally inherited -- the Royal Court of the Dragon.
The Egyptian priest-prince Ankhfn Khonsu (2170 BC) was a Dragon Court patron.
Founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC,it was subsequently revived by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru (or Sobekh Nefru) in 1785 B.C. The Royal Court Of The Dragon provided an institution for the pursuit of the work of the Dragon of Al-Khem otherwise known as Thoth or Hermes.
From Al-Khem we have Alchemy, The Great Work of The Dragon, with its classic texts, The Emerald Tablets and The Pymander.
The Dragon bloodline has been elsewhere described as the “Grail bloodline”, and the Dragon kings are the same as the popularly-known “Grail kings”, which the Merovingians were among. The Dragon Court can first be identified in Egypt under the patronage of the priest-prince Ankhfn Khonsu at about 2170 BC.
It was subsequently established more formally as a pharaonic institution by the twelfth dynasty Queen Sobekh Nefru in 1785 BC. The Court was re-formed in 1408 by Emperor Sigismund von Luxemburg, King of Hungary, later to become Holy Roman Emperor in 1433. The Dragon kings whom the court has supported have rightfully ruled many nations and empires throughout history. In the case of England, the last legitimate Dragon monarch was Richard III.
Amenemhat IV, or Amenemhet IV was Pharaoh of Egypt, likely ruling between ca. 1815 BC and ca. 1806 BC. He served first as the junior coregent of Amenemhat III and completed the latter's temple at Medinet Maadi, which is "the only intact temple still existing from the Middle Kingdom" according to Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
The temple's foundations, administrative buildings, granaries and residences were recently uncovered by an Egyptian archaeological expedition in early 2006. Amenemhat IV likely also built a temple in the northeastern Fayum at Qasr el-Sagha.
The Turin Canon papyrus records a reign of 9 Years 3 months and 27 days for Amenemhat IV. He served the first year of his reign as the junior co-regent to his powerful predecessor, Amenemhat III, according to a rock graffito in Nubia. His short reign was relatively peaceful and uneventful; several dated expeditions were recorded at the Serabit el-Khadim mines in the Sinai. It was after his death that the gradual decline of the Middle Kingdom is thought to have begun.
Amenemhat died without a male heir, though it is possible that the two first rulers of the next dynasty, Sobekhotep I and Sonbef were his sons. He was succeeded by his half-sister (or perhaps his aunt) Sobeknefru, who became the first woman in about 1500 years to rule Egypt. He may have been Sobeknefru's spouse but no historical evidence currently substantiates this theory.
Sobekneferu (sometimes written "Neferusobek") was an Egyptian pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty.
Her name meant "the beauty of Sobek." She was the daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat III. Manetho states she also was the sister of Amenemhat IV, but this claim is unproven. Sobekneferu had an older sister named Nefruptah who may have been the intended heir.
Neferuptah's name was enclosed in a cartouche and she had her own pyramid at Hawara. Neferuptah died at an early age however. Sobekneferu is the first known female ruler of Egypt, although Nitocris may have ruled in the Sixth Dynasty, and there are five other women who are believed to have ruled as early as the First Dynasty.
Amenemhat IV most likely died without a male heir; consequently, Amenemhat III's royal daughter Sobekneferu assumed the throne. According to the Turin Canon, she ruled for 3 years, 10 months, and 24 days in the late 19th century BC. She died without heirs and the end of her reign concluded Egypt's brilliant Twelfth Dynasty and the Golden Age of the Middle Kingdom as it inaugurated the much weaker Thirteenth Dynasty.
Statue of Sobek and Amenhotep III, currently in the Luxor Museum, in Egypt. ( Wikimedia Commons )
And the first King of the Messianic Dragon succession was the biblical 'C(Kain)', head of the Sumerian House of Kish.
"On recognizing this, one can immediately see the first anomaly in the tradition of the Genesis story, for the historical line from David to Jesus was not from Adam and Eve's son, Seth, at all. It was from Eve's son Cain, whose recorded successors (although given little space in the Old Testament) were the first great Kings (or Kains) of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
According to the Dragon tradition, the importance of Cain was that he was directly produced by Enki [Satan] and Ava [Eve], so his blood was three quarters Anunnaki. His half brothers Hevel and Satanael (better known as Abel and Seth) were less than half Anunnaki, being the offspring of Ateba and Ava (Adam and Eve).
We can now progress our story by considering the oldest Grant of Arms in sovereign history - the Grant of Arms which denoted the Messianic Dragon Bloodline for all time. The Sumerians referred to this insignia as the Gra-al... From biblical history, we know it better as the 'Mark of Cain'." Laurence Gardner
The Dragon King was known as the King of Kings and his symbol, Draco, represented his succession through the Egyptian pharaohs, the Egyptian Therapeutae, the Qumran Essenes to the Merovingian kings of Europe.
"The kings of the early succession (who reigned in Sumer and Egypt before becoming kings of Israel) were anointed upon coronation with the fat of the Dragon (the sacred crocodile).
This noble beast was referred to in Egypt as the Messeh (from which derived the Hebrew verb 'to anoint'), and the kings of this dynastic succession were always referred to as 'Dragons', or 'Messiahs' (meaning 'Anointed Ones').
In times of battle, when the armies of different kingdoms were conjoined, an overall leader was chosen and he was called the 'Great Dragon' (the 'King of Kings') - or, as we better know the name in its old Celtic form, the 'Pendragon'.
In pictorial representation, the Messianic Dragon was, in essence, a large-jawed serpent with four legs, very much like a crocodile or a monitor. This was the Sacred Messeh whose name was 'Draco.'
Draco was a divine emblem of the Egyptian pharaohs, a symbol of the Egyptian Therapeutate, of the Essenes of Qumran, and was the Bistea Neptunis (the sea serpent) of the descendant Merovingian Fisher-Kings in Europe." — Laurence Gardner
“Through the work of Sir Laurence Gardener we discover that Sumaire in the old Irish language means Dragon.
He writes:
‘It is also reckoned that the subsequent culture of the region, phonetically called Sumerian (pronounced ‘Shumerian’) was actually Sidhemurian (Shee-murian). This case is now considerable since the early Ring Lords of Scythia , the Tuatha De Danaan king tribe were actually called the ‘Sumaire’.'
1361 BC,: Prince Ankh-fn-khonsu firrst established the Dragon Court in our lineage, to the reign of the Pharaonic Queen Sobekh Nefru. Wife of Pharaoh Amenhemet IV, Sobekh Nefru reigned during the age of the Dragon God Sobekh, the custodian and protector of the blood royal. She built the labyrinthine temple in his honour at Khayyum, a structure which was later copied by the Minoans of Crete. Within the temple complex Sobekh Nefru ratied and re-established the Dragon Court of Prince Ankh-fn-Khonsu and the Dragon Court and her ancient genetic, Anunnaki dragon legacy descended to her ancestral daughter Merytaten, granddaughter of Queen Nefertiti
Named after the crocodile God Sobek, Sobeknefru, whose name means ‘she who shows the beauty of Sobek’, succeeded her brother to the throne of Egypt. At the time she came to power, the cult of Sobek had prominence in Egyptian society and following her example many of the pharaohs of the 13th Dynasty felt it incumbent to take the name Sobek. Who was this God? Sobek was associated with the Nile crocodile and is either represented in its reptile form or as a human with a crocodile head. Sobek was also associated with power, fertility, and military prowess, but served additionally as a fiercely protective deity, which was invoked particularly for protection against the dangers presented by the Nile River. He gained ascendance through the myth that linked him to Isis and Osiris, when he helped the Goddess retrieve her husband’s dismembered body parts.
Wall relief of Sobek, Kom Ombo Temple, Egypt (Wikimedia Commons) His cult was established in Faiyum Region, with its capital Sheddet (translated Crocodilopolis) devoted to the care and worship of the god, and of the crocodiles raised in the temple as reincarnations of the deity. One of the most important benefactors the cult of Sobek had was Amenemhat III, Sobeknefru’s father. He had taken a particular interest in Faiyum and in Sobek and so the area blossomed with many new building projects. Sobeknefru would have grown up around the priesthood of the Deity and perhaps Sobek was her personal favourite of the pantheon. When her brother died, the priesthood of Sobek backed her claim to the throne, as Amenemhat IV had no sons.
Glazed steatite cylinder seal of Sobeknefru (British Museum) What we know from Sobeknefru’s reign is that she extended the labyrinth that her father had begun in the Faiyum Oasis—this labyrinth was used as a model for the one in Crete, hinting that perhaps there was an initiation ceremony in both countries that was turned into myth later. Unfortunately, not much else is known about her reign as there is little evidence, unlike Hatshepsut. Archaeologists have not found her tomb (though a pyramid in Dashur may be hers) and so all we have are five statues, several beads, scarabs and seals bearing her name. Other evidence comes in the form of Manetho's text; in the Turin Canon, the Karnak, Turin and Sakkara king lists and a Nile inundation record. She is listed at the mortuary Temple of her father, Amenemhat III which she completed. Surprisingly (or not) her name appears many times at the temple, whereas her brother’s name is absent.
A headless statue of Sobekneferu in the Louvre (public domain) Sobeknefereu was the first known female Pharaoh for which there is confirmed proof, and she is known to have had a prosperous, though brief, reign. Some have claimed that she is the Egyptian Princess who rescued Moses and that he was Amenemhat IV, forced to flee when he killed the Egyptian. When he left and Amenemhat III died, she would have taken the throne. Considering her father’s patronage of the cult of Sobek and the care of the holy crocodiles, it is reasonable to suggest that is why the babies were given to them as a method of population control. It may be surprising that her influence is found in certain families who have claimed descent from her, namely: the Dragon (or Sacred Crocodile) Court, which operated concurrently with the Serpent Cult and the Mystery Schools. It was said to have been founded by the priest-prince Ankhfn Khonso, though it was Sobeknefru who established it as a Pharaonic institution.
What were the changes wrought by this merging of belief and politics? For starters, Pharaohs were anointed with Sacred Crocodile (Messeh) fat when they were crowned, referred to in Egypt as the Holy Mesa, which became the Aramaic Mashih, which in its verb form is MeSHeH or ‘to anoint’.
This lead to the early Kings being called ‘Dragons’, ‘Mesas’ or ‘Messiahs’. This practice may have begun in Mesopotamia, but it was Sobeknefru who instituted it in Egypt, which was then adopted by the High Kings of Israel and Judea. Jesus, as a Messiah, would have been anointed with the fat of the Messeh by his Priestess-Wife, as did his ancestors which were of the Davidic line.
The belief in the conception of a Messeh without sexual union did not begin with Jesus, but with the Goddess Isis, who conceived Horus with the aid of Sobek who helped her retrieve her husband, though with one key body part missing. The Egyptians believed cosmic forces intervened in the impregnation under the patronage of the crocodile star. We find it in spell 148 of the coffin text: “The Crocodile Star Messeh strikes … Isis wakes pregnant with the seed of Osiris –namely Horus”
So, if Sobeknefru’s induction of the cult of Sobek into the Pharaonic ceremonies and rituals had such a far-reaching effect on the countries and dynasties in Bible times, did it end with the fall of Jerusalem? No. The rituals were known and emulated by the royal houses in Europe, first with the name Pendragon (Head Dragon) becoming known through Arthurian lore and then with Emperor Sigismund von Luxemburg, King of Hungary reforming the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court as the Societas Draconis in 1408. Emperor Sigismund claimed descent from Egyptian Dragon Dynasty of Sobeknefru through the Davidic line of Judah and the Pictish line descended from Maelasanu (Melusine) and the Tuatha de Danaan. One of the most famous members of the Societas Draconis is Vlad Basarrab, or Dracula, son of Vlad Drakul. Dracula’s son wrote that his father proudly claimed a linear descent of the Priests of the Dragon Court of Queen Sobeknefru, by which he may have meant a spiritual priestly lineage rather than a genealogical one.
A US team in Egypt has identified the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep I, believed to be the founder of the 13th dynasty 3,800 years ago
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Sobek Sobek (also known as Sebek, Sebek-Ra, Sobeq, Suchos, Sobki, and Soknopais) was the ancient god of crocodiles. He is first mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and his worship continued until the Roman period. Some sects believed that Sobek was the creator of the world who arose from the "Dark Water" and created the order in the universe. Sobek was a god of the Nile who brought fertility to the land. As the "Lord of the Waters" he was thought to have risen from the primeval waters of Nun to create the world and made the Nile from his sweat. One creation myth stated that Sobek laid eggs on the bank of the waters of Nun thus creating the world. However, as well as being a force for creation, he was seen as an unpredictable deity who sometimes allied himself with the forces of Chaos. Sobek first appeared in the Old Kingdom as the son of Neith with the epithet "The Rager". According to some myths his father was Set, the god of thunder and chaos, but he also had a close association with Horus. He was paired with a number of goddesses in different locations, most notably Hathor, Renenutet, Heqet and Taweret, and was sometimes referred to as the father of Khonsu, Horus or Khnum. In some areas, a tame crocodile was worshiped as the earthly embodiment of Sobek himself, while in other places crocodiles were reviled, hunted and killed. It seems likely that Sobek began as a dark god who had to be appeased, but that his protective qualities and his strength were valued when they were used in defence of the Pharaoh and the people. He could protect the justified dead in the netherworld, restoring their sight and reviving their senses. Because of his ferocity, he was considered to be the patron of the army. Sobek was sometimes considered to be an aspect of Horus because Horus took the form of a crocodile to retrieve the parts of Osiris' body which were lost in the Nile. Yet Sobek was also thought to have assisted Isis when she gave birth to Horus. He also rescued the four mummiform sons of Horus (Imsety the human headed protector of the liver, Hapy the baboon headed protector of the lungs, Duamutef the jackal headed protector of the stomach and Qebehsenuef the falcon headed protector of the intestines) by gathering them in a net when they rose from the waters in a lotus bloom. However, he was also associated with Set, the enemy of Osiris. He was also worshiped as the manifestation of Amun-Re and was often depicted wearing either the headdress of Amun or the sun disk of Ra. The strength and speed of the crocodile was thought to be symbolic of the power of the Pharaoh, and the word "sovereign" was written with the hieroglyph of a crocodile. It was thought that Sobek could protect the Pharaoh from dark magic. During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Dynasties, the cult of Sobek was given particular prominence and a number of rulers incorporated him in their coronation names. He was depicted as a crocodile, a mummified crocodile or a man with the head of a crocodile. He often wore a plumed headdress with a horned sun disk or the atef crown (associating him with Amon-Ra) and carried the Was sceptre (representing power) and the Ankh (representing the breath of life). Mummified crocodiles representing the god have been found in many ancient tombs. The Egyptians mummified both infant and mature crocodiles and even interred crocodile eggs and foetuses with the deceased in order to enlist the protection of Sobek in the afterlife. Sobek was known as the Lord of Faiyum, and it is thought that his worship originated in that area. In particular, he was very popular in the city of Arsinoe (known as Shedyet by the Egyptians) near the Faiyum, causing the Greeks to rename the city Crocodilopolis. There is a twelfth dynasty temple at Medinet Madi dedicated to Sobek, his wife Renenutet (the snake goddess who was the protector of the harvest and granaries), and Horus. The temple was originally built by Amenemhet III and Amenemhet IV, but restored during the New Kingdom and expanded during the Ptolemaic period. Tame crocodiles were kept in a sacred pool and hand fed choice cuts of meat and honey cakes and adorned with precious jewels. However, worship of the god extended to Thebes and Kom Ombo where there was a dual temple dedicated to Sobek and Horus. The left (northern) side was dedicated to Horus the elder (as opposed to Horus son of Isis) while the right side (southern) was dedicated to Sobek. Each temple has its own entrance, chapels and its own dedicated priests. The temple was constructed during the Ptolemaic period, but there is evidence of an older structure at that location which may date from the New Kingdom. In the temple of Kom Ombo, Horus appears with his wife Tesentefert (the good sister) and his son Panebtawy (the child god) while Sobek appears with Hathor (who is more often considered to be the wife of Horus the elder) and his son Khonsu (usually considered to be the son of Amun and Mut). copyright J Hill 2010 http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/sobek.html