UPDATE November 23, 2014

I added another name to the marquee.
Tudor Parfitt is a worthy knight, he is entitled to take a seat at the round table.

Professor Parfitt claims to have located the Ark of the Covenant after a 20 year quest.
His theory places him alongside many other theories or ideas that have been handed down through the ages.

The neb hieroglyph. An elaborate example from a block in the temple of Karnak. Photo: RP.
A distinctive use of the basket hieroglyph, for nb is in the composition block for the word “everything”.

The round, bowl shaped basket, like the hollowed-out shell of half an orange, was such a commonplace item in ancient Egyptian homes and workplaces that it too became a hieroglyph, representing words which sounded the same as the name the Egyptians gave to this type of basket.

They called it neb, which was the same as the word used for ‘all’ or ‘every’, and ‘lord’ or ‘master’. You will see it in the royal title Lord of the Two Lands, neb tawy, which is sometimes used with the king’s official name. It is also the last sign in the cartouche of Tutankhamun’s throne name, Neb-kheperu-ra. In coloured hieroglyphs, the neb basket is often painted in a chequered pattern in two tones of green to show that it was woven from plant materials.

 Sign for nb or lord in Egypt
The pharaoh is often shown in reliefs or in cartouche-related statements as Lord of the Two Lands.
The basket hieroglyph is used as ‘lord’, or ‘king’.
Queens, or goddesses use the ‘lordess’ form, the feminine implied from the “t” hieroglyph but not needed for the basket.
The basket is used for either.

With a feminine ending, the neb hieroglyph can also mean ‘lady’ or ‘mistress’.

One of the most ancient of the king’s titles was the Two Ladies, or nebty name, so-called because it was chosen to put the king under the protection of the two patron goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt. The nebty name is marked by the emblems of the vulture goddess Nekhbet of the south, and the cobra goddess Wadjet of the north, each standing on a neb basket.

Another basket hieroglyph at first looks very similar to the neb, but the thing that makes it different is a simple loop handle hanging from the rim on one side. This is the hieroglyph used for the ‘k’ sound. In the shorthand version of hieroglyphs, now known as the hieratic script, the k-basket is simplified to a bar with an exaggerated loop at one end.

There is some evidence that the royal crowns themselves were originally made of basketwork. The tall, conical White Crown is sometimes shown with green stripes, bound together at the top with a cord made from plant fibres. Some Egyptologists think that this represents the simple hat made from dried grasses as worn by peasant farmers to protect themselves from the sun. This is the crown worn by Osiris, a god of agriculture, who was supposed to have taught the Egyptians how to care for the land, and how to plant and harvest their crops. This striped crown forms part of the elaborate atef crown, decorated with horns, streamers, feathers and serpents, which was worn by gods of the next world. The Red Crown of Lower Egypt was sometimes called the Green Crown and some pictures or carvings show it patterned in a basketwork design, like the neb basket.

• http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.co.uk/permesut39.htm
• Back to Ancient Egypt Magazine – Volume 7 Issue 3 contents

NGoMa LuNGuNDu ~ Lemba Ark of the Covenant
In the Zimbabwean Shona language, the artifact is called ”the drum that thunders”
while the waLemba call it “the voice of God.”

The difference in these two ‘Arks’ or ‘baskets’ can be summarized by placing the Brandenburg spear between them and pointing out the NGoMa Ark is 3 strand vs. the 4 strand weave on the NEB Ark.
Note that the Brandenburg spear has both a 3-fold and 4-fold swastika.
And recall the story about Moses being placed into a basket…

image on left: we see the hand of Robert Bauvel who is pointing out the change to the ‘cross’
that took place in Egypt due to tbe spread of Christianity…
On the left is a symbol of the Christian Templar Cross next to the Egyptian Ankh on a column in the Temple of Isis
Note both the ankh (flanked by two Uas) and the crusader cross are buoyed by the symbol for a basket.
image on the right: we see the three most important symbols used by the Egyptians
Uas ~ Djed ~ Ankh placed on/in the basket of ‘everything’

note: It is here in the Temple of Isis that a ‘switch’ occurs from the asymmetrical Ankh flanked by two uas scepters to the symmetrical Maltese Templar Cross.

• Temple of Isis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

on the left: Oannes Sacred Basket next to the NEB basket

• source of images re: mosaics
  http://www.travelreportage.com/2012/12/02/the-mosaics-of-paphos-pafos-in-cyprus/

Apollo + Daphne and an idea called DNA?

The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave, note the ROY G BIV sequence.

The above video briefly explains how the first image of light as both a particle and wave was obtained.
The two following links provide the details of the story.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlaVHxUSiNk
• http://phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html#jCp

And all of the above brings us up to date with an IDEA that I have been documenting on this word blog since March 2007.

• B-mode SwaStikaS ~ the “Smoking Gun” ~ an Intelligent Design ~ ID ~ windmills of the mInD ~ ThE NET – the SEEd pattern

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U.S. Army Marksmanship Qualification Badges
E = mc^2 is equivalent to mass at rest
What if the geometry of the crusader cross is suggesting a reverence for the the balanced cross?

What if the potent cross >> E = mc^2

Mass @ Rest

UPDATE August 16, 2014

This is a long overdue update.
Let me introduce who I would choose as navigator for the next leg of our collective journey.

I finally got around to adding Crichton E.M. Miller’s name to the marquee.

Without his stellar work regarding the reverse engineering of the ‘Celtic Cross’ resulting in at least two patents what I am about to present would be lacking something vital.

• The Celtic Cross, Crichton EM Miller
• The Working Celtic Cross – ViewZone

Crichton’s passion and my passion were crafted in heaven.
There is even a prophecy suggesting this might be about to come true.

• Intelligent Design ~ HOPI PROPHECY ~ have the two Pahana helpers been identified by their gifts?

UPDATE January 21, 2014

Did you know that if you draw two circles (using a compass) one inside the great pyramid and one outside the base of the great pyramid… and then subtract the length of the inside circle from the length of the outer circle you will get the speed of light 299,792458 in millions of meters per second?

Did you know that the Great Pyramid also contains Pi (3.14) and the golden ratio (1.618).

The Great Pyramid also corresponds with sun and moon and calculates the following:

• the distance to the sun and moon
• the earth’s radius, equatorial circumference, volume, and mass
• the speed of the earth’s orbit around the sun

UPDATE August 7, 2013

sic transit gloria mundi
 “thus passes the glory of the world”

“The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation“
-Walter Russell

“The conversion from Guan to Akan was not only a conversion from patriliny to matriliny, from loose associations to organised confederations, it was also a conversion in architecture from round to square patterns.”

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