Naomi
03-19-2008, 11:44 PM
Ptah is interesting, I was aware of that one for a while as the consort of Sekhmet, and apparently the Egyptians really thought Sekhmet was controlled by Ptah alone so he was pretty much the only being that could subdue her wrath, and he was accorded usually a small chapel like annex to her temple off the main area from what I remember.
Sekhmet is one of the eyes of Ra the other being Pasht or Bast.
I had that website thetengu.com running as a sort of online shrine to tengu. The site was very outdated so I removed it but I remember including Ptah on the page along with the Crow Mother Kachina Angwusomtaqwa because he was depicted wearing a feathered cloak and resembled a bird by one ancient Egyptian artist. So there was that, which i found very intriguing - the Egyptians didn't just place symbolism to look pretty, it all had a special meaning. Being an architect of the universe he also paralleled Raven, ,who I go on about here and there, I have a very old childhood relationshop with whatever Raven is....not just the corvus species mind you....some sort of dark lord management archon. I am referring to the Pacific Northwest myth here where Raven goes into the sky god's hut to steal the sun and return it to the sky, something that Garuda, another bird god, though an eagle or a parrot, also accomplishes, a continent away. I track links based on underlying design and not necessarily culture, I have no regard for borders.
I had something weird happen last year. I was going through a really tough time emotionally, physically and socially, and all happening at once in the middle of the biggest metaphysical transcendental experience of my entire life.
So I'm on this bed in a room and I'm stretched out over it in an arching position...like Nuit on the stellae but with my stomache up.
I'm in a complete daze of a trance, very ecstatic and listening very carefully to Ningishzidda's voice, when suddenly I become aware of this incantation in my mind I start reciting it word by word and at the end there's that word "ptah" just pronounced very lightly without any vocal chords.
With that came the fully functioning realization that I was meeting someone - Ptah himself - no face, no vision, just darkness behind my eyelids and the awareness of the empty void encompassing all forms. There was an instant of adjustment there as if I was being rerouted and then protected against these other archetypes who had been alerted to my ascenscion past the barrier a day earlier (where everything started falling to pieces).
Ningishzidda disconnected the link to Ptah and suddenly it felt like I was past something - like whatever had been on my trail couldn't follow wherever my mindset had been placed. Ng put me on my back where another event was triggered that was way past cool.
Marduk made an assertion at some point during all of this and then as the stakes seemed to get higher and the archetypes bigger, the protection I felt my mind needed grew to extremely dangerous levels far beyond what I've ever felt during any other invocative or evocative experience. It may be perceptual but the mind is a funny place, what you think is happening within actually has real consequences in the external world, we are much more powerful than we can imagine yet. Even more powerful than I had imagined and I consider myself to be very open minded.
I didn't have the Twinstar memorized at all so when I was deprived of that actual jpeg image I was just hanging onto the NINGISHZIDDA formula which pulled me throughthe whole episode, it was great, like the best risky magical journey you can find, perfect for a thrillseeker like myself.
After discarding the archetypes of Mithras and Erishikigal, and this episode behind me, on the next major ignition I was able to connect with Krsna without any barriers at all and then Siva, both fully invocative - anyone who knows what I am talking about knows you cannot fake these kinds of invocations, the ones where you're not even affecting your actions anymore, everything is spontaneous and perfectly coordinated with external forms. So yeah it was a big deal to me, I used to struggle just to get a phonecall back from Venus...
Seriously I remember one year like in 2000 trying to get a response from Apollo and Venus alternately and being so godamned frustrated because nothing would come through, and Greg knocked on the door to the bathroom - I was sitting in this huge bathtub with these candles sitting around trying so hard to meditate and I just screamed at him "WILL YOU PLEASE GO AWAY I AM TRYING TO MEDITATE!!" the complete antithesis of relaxation and peace and calm. Six years later I'm standing in my backyard in complete bliss ecstasy and I look in the mirror and Krsna is standing there looking back in his pose you see on the old Vrindavan paintings, you know, smiling at me, and there's an instance there where you finally fucking understand the whole grand scheme of things, and what every answer is to every question that can ever be asked. Finally you give up on the questions and just feel the experience of what death is like, reunion with universe is the most extraordinary experience in the world.
Anyways that's mythoughts on Ptah, saw him once and only for a second, the only relative experience I can compare him with is Mahakala who I met a few weeks later. When it rains it pours...lol
I have reason to believe still that Ptah is the distilled form of Raven, distorted and hidden past tons of crap due to teh nature of war.....there's a connection here with the Mithraic rites and Nergal too, all bits and pieces of this singular fractured deity, but I admit I didn't really have time to dig into all of the answers while I was in contact, there was too much stuff going on for me to worry about it.
Sekhmet isn't very nice though, and she's as real as anything, a very good mother figure by the way, I triggered that one spontaneously once after I had my first kid. I really didn't like the idea of having anyone touch my kid and this triggered a whole series of Sekhmet consciousness which was really fun to go through, I felt like a lioness for about three fucking months...
Sekhmet is one of the eyes of Ra the other being Pasht or Bast.
I had that website thetengu.com running as a sort of online shrine to tengu. The site was very outdated so I removed it but I remember including Ptah on the page along with the Crow Mother Kachina Angwusomtaqwa because he was depicted wearing a feathered cloak and resembled a bird by one ancient Egyptian artist. So there was that, which i found very intriguing - the Egyptians didn't just place symbolism to look pretty, it all had a special meaning. Being an architect of the universe he also paralleled Raven, ,who I go on about here and there, I have a very old childhood relationshop with whatever Raven is....not just the corvus species mind you....some sort of dark lord management archon. I am referring to the Pacific Northwest myth here where Raven goes into the sky god's hut to steal the sun and return it to the sky, something that Garuda, another bird god, though an eagle or a parrot, also accomplishes, a continent away. I track links based on underlying design and not necessarily culture, I have no regard for borders.
I had something weird happen last year. I was going through a really tough time emotionally, physically and socially, and all happening at once in the middle of the biggest metaphysical transcendental experience of my entire life.
So I'm on this bed in a room and I'm stretched out over it in an arching position...like Nuit on the stellae but with my stomache up.
I'm in a complete daze of a trance, very ecstatic and listening very carefully to Ningishzidda's voice, when suddenly I become aware of this incantation in my mind I start reciting it word by word and at the end there's that word "ptah" just pronounced very lightly without any vocal chords.
With that came the fully functioning realization that I was meeting someone - Ptah himself - no face, no vision, just darkness behind my eyelids and the awareness of the empty void encompassing all forms. There was an instant of adjustment there as if I was being rerouted and then protected against these other archetypes who had been alerted to my ascenscion past the barrier a day earlier (where everything started falling to pieces).
Ningishzidda disconnected the link to Ptah and suddenly it felt like I was past something - like whatever had been on my trail couldn't follow wherever my mindset had been placed. Ng put me on my back where another event was triggered that was way past cool.
Marduk made an assertion at some point during all of this and then as the stakes seemed to get higher and the archetypes bigger, the protection I felt my mind needed grew to extremely dangerous levels far beyond what I've ever felt during any other invocative or evocative experience. It may be perceptual but the mind is a funny place, what you think is happening within actually has real consequences in the external world, we are much more powerful than we can imagine yet. Even more powerful than I had imagined and I consider myself to be very open minded.
I didn't have the Twinstar memorized at all so when I was deprived of that actual jpeg image I was just hanging onto the NINGISHZIDDA formula which pulled me throughthe whole episode, it was great, like the best risky magical journey you can find, perfect for a thrillseeker like myself.
After discarding the archetypes of Mithras and Erishikigal, and this episode behind me, on the next major ignition I was able to connect with Krsna without any barriers at all and then Siva, both fully invocative - anyone who knows what I am talking about knows you cannot fake these kinds of invocations, the ones where you're not even affecting your actions anymore, everything is spontaneous and perfectly coordinated with external forms. So yeah it was a big deal to me, I used to struggle just to get a phonecall back from Venus...
Seriously I remember one year like in 2000 trying to get a response from Apollo and Venus alternately and being so godamned frustrated because nothing would come through, and Greg knocked on the door to the bathroom - I was sitting in this huge bathtub with these candles sitting around trying so hard to meditate and I just screamed at him "WILL YOU PLEASE GO AWAY I AM TRYING TO MEDITATE!!" the complete antithesis of relaxation and peace and calm. Six years later I'm standing in my backyard in complete bliss ecstasy and I look in the mirror and Krsna is standing there looking back in his pose you see on the old Vrindavan paintings, you know, smiling at me, and there's an instance there where you finally fucking understand the whole grand scheme of things, and what every answer is to every question that can ever be asked. Finally you give up on the questions and just feel the experience of what death is like, reunion with universe is the most extraordinary experience in the world.
Anyways that's mythoughts on Ptah, saw him once and only for a second, the only relative experience I can compare him with is Mahakala who I met a few weeks later. When it rains it pours...lol
I have reason to believe still that Ptah is the distilled form of Raven, distorted and hidden past tons of crap due to teh nature of war.....there's a connection here with the Mithraic rites and Nergal too, all bits and pieces of this singular fractured deity, but I admit I didn't really have time to dig into all of the answers while I was in contact, there was too much stuff going on for me to worry about it.
Sekhmet isn't very nice though, and she's as real as anything, a very good mother figure by the way, I triggered that one spontaneously once after I had my first kid. I really didn't like the idea of having anyone touch my kid and this triggered a whole series of Sekhmet consciousness which was really fun to go through, I felt like a lioness for about three fucking months...