William Blake Ancient of days.

This is an image of Urizen who is the embodiment of conventional reason in the Mythology of William Blake, and is used to convey an example of technocratic repression, and is an important character in Blake’s opposition to a politic of empiricism and industrial power.

Will write more about William Blake later as am studying his work and considering his political ideology which existed in opposition to figures such as Lock and Newton .

Anceint Egypt, the essence of a thing in it’s name

”Like many ancient peoples the Egyptians believed that a name captured the essence of a thing, but they also held that such supernatural power lived in the inscriptions themselves – that spelling was, in fact a spell. ”

pg 32

TechGnosis – Myth and Mysticism in the age of Information
Erik Davis

Serpent’s Tail; New edition edition (12 Nov 2004)

Embalming Ritual – Transfiguration

”The Goal of the embalming ritual is a state of unity. ‘

‘Just as the magic of writing is able to capture a make visible a meaning, so to is the person captured and made visible as a symbolic form or hieroglyph in the mummy. ‘

‘A function of these transfiguring recitations is to collect, so to speak the limbs of the body, imagined as being scattered, into a text which it as a new. Such descriptions normally list the individual body parts from top to bottom, begining with the head and equate them with deities, we would like to look at a closer example of this form it is part of a liturgy for the dead of the middle kingdom (19th century B.C) entitled ‘Uniting the Limbs of a transfigured one for him in the Necropolis’.

It contains the following text.

you have taken shape by being the entirety of all the gods;

Your Head is Re 

Your face is Upeat

Your noise is Jackal (Anubis)

etc. ”

Pg: 54.
Remembering the Body.
By A. Assmann (Author), J. Assmann (Author), G. Brandstetter (Author, Editor), et al (Author), H. Volckers(Editor)

Publisher: Hatje Cantz (Jun 2000)

William Blake Ancient of days

This is an image of Urizen who is the embodiment of conventional reason in the Mythology of William Blake,  and is used to convey an example of technocratic repression,  and is an important character in Blake’s opposition to a politic of empiricism and industrial power.

Will write more about William Blake later as am studying his work and considering his political ideology which existed in opposition to figures such as Lock and Newton .