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Amun took the form of the noble King
Thuthmose and found the queen sleeping in her room. When the pleasant
odours that proceeded from him announced his presence she woke. He
gave her his heart and showed himself in his godlike splendour. When
he approached the queen she wept for joy at his strength and beauty
and he gave her his love ... Hatshepsut, with the backing of the temple of Amun, proclaims that she was the divine Wife of the god Amun Source Then his majesty said to them: "This daughter
of mine, Khnumetamun Hatshepsut – may she live! – I have appointed
as my successor upon my throne ... she shall direct the people in
every sphere of the palace; it is she indeed who shall lead you. Obey
her words, unite yourselves at her command." The royal nobles, the
dignitaries, and the leaders of the people heard this proclamation of
the promotion of his daughter, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt,
Ma'at-ka-Ra – may she live eternally! When you rest in your building where your beauties are worshiped, Amun-Ra, the Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands, give Hatshepsut Ma'at-ka-Ra life, duration and happiness. For you she has made this building fine, great, pure and lasting ... ... were we not wean'd till then? |
Hatshepsut |
To learn and from
time to time to apply what one has learned –
isn't that a pleasure?
K'ung-fu-tzu (Confucius), Analects 1:1
One who goes unrecognized yet
isn't annoyed – isn't that a noble person?
K'ung-fu-tzu (Confucius), Analects 1:1
Superior and alone, Confucius stood
Who taught that useful science – to be good.
Alexander
Pope
I admire Confucius. He was the first
man who did not receive a divine inspiration.
Voltaire
Petrie was a man of good education and it was
stated that he had an uncle, a Scotch baronet, though Larry never referred
to him; but was proud of an ancestor who cut off his thumb to avoid being
taken for a soldier by the press gang.
WG Spence on Larry
Petrie, who blew up the SS Aramac near Brisbane, Australia, on
July 27, 1893 Source
There seems to be a general belief that we are
opposed to all Governments. Certainly we are opposed to all existing forms
of government. But you see, the only government we know is a mixture of
subjection, roguery and robbery. Governments of today govern the people
whereas our government is a government of the people, for the people ...
We are credited with a passion for destruction but I should like our
opponents to note what we would destroy – theft, slavery, misery and
starvation of body and mind. The doctrine of Anarchism is almost identical
with the doctrine of advanced Socialism, what some people call, Scientific
Socialism.
Larry Petrie; Liberator, February 26, 1888
July
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Day of Hatshepsut,
ancient Egypt
Hatshepsut Maatkare (Hatshepsut Ma'at-ka-Ra; sometimes spelled Hapshepsut, Hatchepsut or Hat-shep-set; c. 1504 BCE - 1458 BCE) was the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. She was the daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. She ruled from 1473 BCE to 1458 BCE and is regarded as the first female monarch in history.
As Pharaoh, Hatshepsut initiated building projects that were grander and more numerous than any of her New Kingdom predecessors.
"No-one knows if she was murdered, died or retired from politics to let Thuthmose III and her second daughter rule, but she disappeared when Thuthmose III became Pharaoh in his own right. Her body has not been found, so it is difficult to prove one way or another." Source
At the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, in Luxor, Egypt, 62 people were gunned down by Islamic militants on November 17, 1997.
Pictured:
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Dayr al Bahri (Deir el Bahari): "The
mortuary temple of Queen
Hatshepsut is one of the most dramatically situated in the
world."
Feast day of St
Pantaleon of Nicomedia
(Panteleemon; Panteleimon; Pantaleon the Physician)
(Purple
loosestrife, Lythrum
salicaria, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Pantaleon was a 4th-Century
doctor from Venice who survived six attempts on his life. His executioners
wanted him dead merely because he treated his patients without charge, so
perhaps they were representatives of the Venetian equivalent of the AMA
(Australian Medical Association). Actually, it was on the orders of
Pantaleon's employer, the Emperor Maximianius (Maximian), that Pantaleon
was to be murdered.
They
tried drowning him, immolation, submersion in liquid lead (when a bath of
liquid lead was prepared, Jesus
Christ in the form of Pantaleon's mentor, the
priest Hermolaus, stepped into the cauldron with him and the lead became
cold), setting wild beasts on him, breaking him on 'the wheel' (a
torture device, forerunner of cat-scan equipment), and running him through
with a sword. Pantaleon, however, didn't succumb to death until one
particular blow. The magical ability of some other saints to withstand
decapitation was not one of Pantaleon's super powers.
His relics were
translated (moved) to Constantinople, where they received great honour. His
blood, which may still be found in a small vial, is said to liquefy and
become oxygenated on this day each year (like the blood of St
Januarius, f. d. September
19).
Charlemagne brought a
part of his relics to France, some parts of the good doctor's body being
in the Abbey of St Denys near Paris, and his head at Lyons.
Saint Pantaleon, who
also received the name of Panteleemon ('the all-compassionate'), is
the patron of physicians and midwives, and is invoked against lung
disease. He is one of the Fourteen Holy
Helpers. In art, he is represented in numerous ways, including as a
physician holding a phial of medicine; healing a sick child; as a martyr bound
with hands above his head to an olive tree, to which he is nailed, with a
sword at his feet; pushed off a rock with a pitchfork; or with a stone
tied to his neck.
His patronage includes
bachelors, doctors, torture victims and sufferers
of tuberculosis
and other lung disease.
Together with Saints Cosmas and Damian (fd September 26),
Pantaleon is the patron of the medical profession.
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"Before the birth of Confucius, a
'Ch'i
Lin' (unicorn), a mythical beast synonymous with auspicious
omens, is said to have appeared before Yen ChêTsai, the Mother-to-be
of Confucius. From the mouth of the Ch'I Lin slipped a jade
tablet inscribed with a prophecy, 'A child as pure as crystal
will be born for the continuations of the declining Chou (Dynasty)
to become a king without a kingdom'.
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