A Brief History Of The Morningstar.pdf

History of the Morningstar Horus the Elder (3200 BC) is usually identified as a solar deity, some scholars associate him with Venus, and others with the star Sirius. He is experienced as a Falcon-God and later as a Star. Titles given to Horus were; “Horus risen as a star”, “Horus, the star of souls”, “Horus, star at the front of the sky”.

Horus is clearly not the sun as this has been clearly established through the many hymns identifying Re with the Sun. Here a deceased king is brought up to the heavens by the Sun god Re; "Re summons you into the zenith of the sky as the Jackal, the Governor of the Two Enneads, and as Horus Ônty‑mnit.f; may he set you as the Morning Star in the midst of the Field of Reeds.”

Egyptologist Raymond Faulkner concludes that the Morning Star is the planet Venus; "As regards the identification of the Morning Star and the Lone Star with actual celestial bodies, there can be little doubt that, as elsewhere, the Morning Star is Phosphorus, Venus as seen at dawn.”

Egyptologist Rolf Krauss in his detailed study of the Egyptian Star Religion also identifies Horus with Venus; “As early as the beginning of dynastic times Horus seems to be identified with the planet Venus. The names of the so‑called royal vineyards describe Horus as a star. The name of Djoser’s vineyard reveals that Horus is a particular star ‘at the front of the sky’. The identification of Horus with Venus as known from the Pyramid Texts suggests itself…Royal ideology and ideas about the Hereafter seem to have had cosmological and stellar foundations which may well go back to pre-dynastic times."

The Egyptian word Duat is commonly referred to as the 'Netherworld' and derived from the root ​ 'dwå'​ meaning 'morning'. Here Horus as the Morning Star is also Lord of the Netherworld. Pyramid Texts: ​ “O Morning Star, Horus of the Netherworld, divine Falcon, wådåd‑bird whom the sky bore" In ancient Babylon the Sumerian king Etana is driven by pride to acquire a seat beside the Star Gods of the Northern Mountain but is defeated and 'falls'. To the Canaanites he was 'Shaher' the Morning Star who each day announced the birth of the Sun and his brother 'Shalem' the Evening Star announcing the death of the Sun.. Their mother being Asherah and her womb referred to as the 'pit', an aspect of the word 'Helel'. Asherah (Helel) attempts to dethrone the Sun god El is defeated and cast from the heavens. This becomes the Phoenician myth called the 'Fall of the Day Star' (7th Century B.C). This story becomes the Sumerian myth of Ishtar and Inanna's descent into the Underworld.

"The actual name, "Lucifer," goes back to the Greeks, before the Romans. Socrates and Plato talk about this "god of light"; surprisingly, not in the context of Eos (god of Dawn), but ‑‑as a morning star ‑‑juxtaposed with the sun (Helios) and Hermes. This information can be found in Plato's Timaeus (38e) and in Edith Hamilton's Mythology." ​ - The Polytheism Of The Bible And The Mystery Of Lucifer ​ by F.T. DeAngelis Plato referred to the Morning Star as Aster which he at the time believed to also be the evening Star (he would be correct), Aster being a form of a dying-resurrecting god; "Aster, once, as Morning‑Star, light on the living you shed. Now, dying, as Evening‑ Star, you shine among the dead." Plato aside, the Greeks knew Hesperus as the Evening Star and Phosphorus as the Morning Star, both personifications of Venus. Phosphorus also called Eosphorus meant 'bearer of the dawn / light' and would be translated into Latin as the word 'Lucifer'.

By 382 A.D. Pope Damasus I commissioned St. Jerome to write a revision of the Latin translation of the Bible. The Hebrew translation used the word 'Helel' and St. Jerome replaces this with the word 'Lucifer': "Et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem : cui benefacitis attendentes quasi lucernæ lucenti in caliginoso donec dies elucescat, et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestries" The Roman god Lucifer is found in the poet Publius Ovidius Naso's "Metamorphoses" (8th century A.D.), the poet Virgil mentions him in 29 B.C. and the first mention of the Roman god Lucifer comes from Plato's dialogues from 360 B.C., where he is associating Venus with Lucifer and Mercury with Hermes.

Timaeus by Plato (360 B.C.E) Time, then, and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order that, having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they might be dissolved together. It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that it might resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists from eternity, and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made-their several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was revolving-in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then came the morning star and the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which have an equal swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction; and this is the reason why the sun and Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken by each other. To enumerate the places which he assigned to the other stars, and to give all the reasons why he assigned them, although a secondary matter, would give more trouble than the primary. These things at some future time, when we are at leisure, may have the consideration which they deserve, but not at present.

Conclusion: The word Lucifer can be traced to the ancient ideals surrounding the myths associated with the Morningstar and his brother the Evening Star. Early on these myths place the Morningstar into the role of attempted usurper who is defeated and becomes a ‘fallen’ deity. It would not be until the Gnostics of the 1st century A.D. and Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ (1667 A.D.) found Lucifer to be the Serpent in the Garden of Eden and transformed the myth of the Fallen Morningstar into that of the angel Lucifer the principle of compassion for life and creation, defiance of corrupt authority and the current of spiritual evolution.

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