THE SECRET EGYPT

 The Secret Egypt  

Starting with a book by Paul Brunton of the same name, highly recommended. The theme has already influenced countless musicians such as Paul Horn, Alan Parsons, Alpha III, names of German bands like Amenophis or Ramses, etc... vast literature, Erik Von Däniken, Max Toth, etc... the classic progressive “Ocean” by the German band ELOY...  

Jean Michel Jarre (France) performed the Millennium passage show (2001) at the Great Pyramid. Long before that, the legendary Grateful Dead also performed a show in Egypt, at the Great Pyramid. And it is known that John Lennon, during a visit to Egypt, bought a huge statue of the Goddess Sekhmet.  

Archeology for a century has been expert in “dating” ancient sites, regions and artifacts that are found in excavations such as in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt or India.

But it is not possible to precisely determine the dates of events without resorting to ancient texts or books that survived millennia in ancient cultures such as the millenary books of the Bible and the Zohar (Judea), the Vedas (India) or the Zend Avesta (Persia), among others.

In the case of Egypt (Land of Khem or Black Land or even Land of magic), history is narratively recorded in the texts of Plato (Greek philosopher) who was initiated into the Egyptian Mysteries and knew High Egyptian Priests, Hierophants, 500 BC, who informed him of where they came from.

The books of Plato that contain these narratives are Timaeus, Critias and Phaedrus.

Plato says the following:  

Around 9,000 BC a continent located in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and America hosted a highly developed civilization. It was called Atlantis. Its main god was Poseidon, who is associated with Neptune, god of the seas (the god with a trident in his hands).

This continent was a huge cluster of islands, among which there was one called Poseidonis.

This people, for sinning against nature, ended up collapsing into moral and social degeneration, creating a hecatomb through a war of nuclear proportions.

With this, the continent of Atlantis was wiped from the surface of the Earth, sinking definitively around 8,800 BC into the ocean.

Some fleets of Atlantean ships survived, fleeing to the coasts of Africa and Europe (Greece).

One of them, which reached North Africa, founded the first Egyptian dynasty around 5,000 BC, after remaining there and trying to adapt in the African deserts and waging war against the blacks (Nubians and Kushites) for centuries.

The first Atlantean pharaoh was Menes, who ordered the beginning of the construction of the Great Pyramid to deposit the hidden and sacred millenary knowledge of the Atlantean race. The pyramid was completed by the second pharaoh of the so-called first official dynasty, Khufu. Between these two Pharaoh kings there was a powerful warrior known as King Scorpion (who is the Scorpion Goddess Selkhis).  

This king made a pact with supernatural powers of darkness, which was attributed to the god Seth.

The Great Pyramid would in reality be the main site of a series of Cults and Sects that worshipped the Spirits of the Dead and contacted the Afterlife through Sacred Dances and Songs. It contained huge galleries and internal lakes, as well as initiatory tombs, where two Orders evolved: the Solar Order of Osiris and the Lunar Order of Seth.

For millennia, the Egyptians, descendants of the Atlanteans, remained isolated from other civilizations, creating the greatest temple culture in the history of civilizations built to this day.

At the same time, powerful civilizations flourished in Mesopotamia such as Babylon, Phoenicia, Assyria, Persia, etc. This region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is today the region of Iran and Iraq.

Later, Mesopotamian Arabs invaded Egypt, long after Greek colonizations (with Cleopatra on the throne) and Roman ones (with the Ptolemaic Pharaoh kings), mixing the cultures.

The ancient Egyptian gods disappeared, giving way to Arab Islamic culture, which predominates to this day. The arts merged, especially Belly Dance, which was a dance of procreation, worship of nature and the gods.

Belly dance has Arab, Egyptian and Hindu influences, also including traces of Greece and Rome due to invasions and cultural-racial mixing.

It later reached Europe with the Ottoman invasion (Turks and Arabs) around the 7th century AD, settling in the Iberian Peninsula (between Spain and Portugal).

Hence the origin of Arab-Flamenco dance in the region of Spain, derived from the Moorish mixture with Catalans.

The Ottomans stayed in Europe for almost 800 years, where they built castles, temples, etc., deeply influencing the region with their art and religion. They were expelled by the Templars after a prolonged war.

Napoleon Bonaparte, when he invaded Egypt, was amazed by the oriental dancers, taking some to French cabarets, from which today’s Belly Dance emerged. That is, the most refined dance with European high heels, expensive clothes, jewelry, etc., thus losing its original folklore.

It is known that in African deserts the dancers in tribal groups danced almost naked, barefoot, tattooed and anointed with camel milk butter. In the Middle East today there are at least 40 variations of dances, each with its own costumes and special characteristics. What remains of Ancient Egypt are only stones with hieroglyphs and ruins of its marvelous temples. Its culture is buried forever in the sands of the African desert, where the wind called “simum” constantly blows.

Recommended records from this wave of Avantgarde World Mystical Music are by the musicians PHIL THORTON, HOSSAM HANZZI (who worked with Led Zeppelin and Jean Michel Jarre) and OMAR FARUK (unmissable).

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