KATE BUSH NOCTURN LYRICS PLUS

Obelisks soared up towards the sky with their shafts decorated in hieroglyphs, and were crowned by a reflective, shining, gold-plated, pyramidal point, the pyramidon. The obelisk's phallic form was representative of sexual reproduction, which the ancient Egyptians realized was also a source of life. The fruit which I have brought forth is the ‘SUN’.'īright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial. 'I, Isis, am all that has been, that is or shall be No mortal man hath ever me unveiled. 'Where sands sing in crim-son, red and rust.' 'The sands run red In lands of the Pharoahs.' The kite was sacred to her, and she could transform herself into this bird at will. Isis was a winged goddess who represented all that was visible, birth, growth, development and vigour. 'On this Midsummer night Everyone is sleeping Isis is closely connected with the Greek Moon Goddess, Artemis. Together, Isis and Horus created and sustained all life and were the saviors of their people. The goddess Isis, a moon goddess, gave birth to Horus, the god of the sun.

In this way it became an adequate image of life emerging out of the primeval waters at the first time of creation, just like the sun was said to do, and thus symbolising rebirth.īecause of its association with rebirth, the heron also became a manifestation of the resurrected Osiris, Lord of the Dead, and brother/husband of Isis. There are depictions of the heron perching on a cliff or a little piece of land which is rising above the flooded waters. The silence of the primeval night is broken and light and life is brought to creation. By the cry of the Benu bird, existence was announced as coming into being. The heron also represented the 'Ba' - the soul of Ra. Often the sun-disc was shown above its head, pointing at the connection with the myth of the sun-god and its day and night journey. The standing heron appears in naturalistic or symbolical scenes connected with the sun-god or life after death. In ancient Egyptian, the hieroglyph for 'Benu' means to 'rise in brilliance' or to 'shine'. Though primarily associated with Atum and Re, the resurrection aspect led to an association with Osiris, and the heron was sometimes depicted wearing the 'atef' crown. In the 'Book of the Dead' from the New Kingdom the Benu is represented as a grey heron (Ardea cinera), with two long head plumes and a straight beak.

And of course the somewhat planetary photograph accompanying AERIAL seems very much to show the immortal and invincible arisen Phoenix Heron Bird. It is associated with the Egyptian Benu (or Bennu). The name Phoenix means 'Shining One' (and so does the name 'Lucifer'). The name Phoenix to the Egyptians, as to other pagan nations was a name that symbolized the Sun-god under the names Ra and Osiris. In that aspect it was often placed on sarcophagi. The phoenix symbolizes immortality, resurrection, and life after death. In Egypt it was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock. Each morning at dawn, it would bathe in the water and sing such a beautiful song, that the sun-god stops his chariot to listen. According to the Greeks the bird lives in Arabia, nearby a cool well. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a mythical bird and associated with the Egyptian sun-god Re and the Greek Phoibos (Apollo).

These are the myths of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Christians, and Greeks.

KATE BUSH NOCTURN LYRICS PLUS

The Ancient Near East consists of the geographical area from the Indus Valley to the Mediterranean, plus Egypt and Greece. The 'Indus Bird Mask' photograph shows a standing heron. General CommentOn the 'Indus Bird Mask' photography accompanying NOCTURN Look at the light, climbing up the aerialīright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerialĪll the time it's a changing, like then again Look at the light, all the time it's a changing

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