Amenists and Druids
Whether the origin of the zodiac is Aryan or Egyptian, it is still of immense antiquity. Simplicius (sixth century AD) writes that he had always heard that the Egyptians had kept astronomical observations and records for at least 630,000 years...Diogenes Laertius carried back the astronomical calculations of the Egyptians to 48,863 years before Alexander the Great. Maritanus Capella corroborates the same by telling posterity that the Egyptians had secretly studied astronomy for over 40,000 years before they imparted their knowledge to the world - J. Lewis (Astronomy of the Ancients)
Throughout our work we emphasize the spread of the elements of civilization from the Western to the Eastern hemisphere. European Celts known as the Scythians were, as ancient Irish annals clearly show, connected to noble families of Egypt during the fourteenth century BC. But even before the time of the Scythians (or more properly the Saca or Sages) the ancient Megalithic Arya of Britain and Scandinavia had emigrated to the lands of the South-West taking their expertise and traditions with them. This fact needs to be borne in mind when we read ancient scriptures, particularly those penned by Judeo-Christian mythmongers. This devious coterie not only plagiarized Astrological and Astro-Theological leitmotifs from Nile Valley mystery schools, they also plagiarized the Druidic corpus of Ireland. This is made evident from reading passages such as the following loaded with Druidic imagery:
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying – (1 Samuel 10:5-6)
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them – (Matthew 7:15-20)
The facts concerning the West to East migration need to be particularly borne in mind when we read of or consider the genius of the Egyptians:
Col. Vallencey has proved, as clear as the sun at noon, that the ancient gods of the Greeks and Romans came from the Hyperboreans - Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis)
Every nation in antiquity had its traditions based on those of the Aryan Secret Doctrine - Madame Helena Blavatsky
...the Curetes (high priests) came to Ida in Crete from the land of the Hyperboreans - Pausanias (ancient Greek historian)
The opinion of Aristotle, that philosophy came to the Greeks from the Gauls and not from the Greeks to the Gauls, is very striking - Godfrey Higgins (Celtic Druids)
The history and the mythology of Ireland go farther back in time than that of England, Scandinavia, France, or Germany. The treasures of the Museum of Dublin show the proof...The relation of Ireland to Greece grows more evident as the study of their myths increases - Henry Binkley Stein (Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah)
We strongly believe that as time passes our theory concerning the intimate connections between the Amenists of Egypt and the Druids of Ireland will be vindicated by archaeological discoveries. Every month new evidence arises confirming the West to East transition of the major elements of civilization. We go so far as to say that solar cultism of the unadulterated kind was not indigenous to Egypt but was transported and seeded there by visiting Westerners, namely the so-called Shemsu Hor or "Disciples of Horus," properly known as the Ari or Arya. It was their colleges that spread throughout the globe before all others. It was their philosophy that inspired the minds of early European savants. And it was their sidereal knowledge that eventually became, after absorption and adaptation, the mystery traditions of Sumerians, Chaldeans, and Egyptians:
The religion of the ancient peoples seems to have been one throughout the entire world; a great brotherhood, a universal faith. Strange has been the impulse of priests and theologians to deviate from the ancient holiness which was so solemn and majestic in primeval days, and to instruct the masses in false doctrines - E. Valentia Straiton (The Celestial Ship of the North)
The Egyptians were sublime philosophers who had dictated theology to the world. And in Chaldea arose the first astrologers who watched the heavenly bodies with curiosity as well as with awe, and who made divine discoveries, and who called themselves The Interpreters of God – W. Winwood Reade (Veil of Isis: Or Mysteries of the Druids)
Long before Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt or Agamemnon sailed with his troops to Troy, great literary civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt had laid the foundations of our arts, sciences, humanities, religion, ethics, law, and economy - Cyrus H. Gordon (Hammurabi’s Code)
...Egypt is highly unusual, in that the early craftsmanship and construction from the Old Kingdom are the finest and the quality and dimensions of each monument reduce from then on throughout the following millennia – Ralph Ellis (Eden in Egypt)
The predynastic Egyptians, that is to say, that stratum of them which was indigenous to North Africa, belonged to a white or light-skinned race with fair hair, who in many particulars resembled the Libyans, who in later historical times lived very near the western bank of the Nile – E. A. W. Budge (Egypt in the Neolithic and Archaic Periods)
Among the ancient crania from the Thebaid in the collection in the Department of Human Anatomy at Oxford, there are specimens which must unhesitatingly be considered to be those of Nordic type – L. H. Dudley Buxton (The Peoples of Asia)
...the famous Egyptologist (Prof. Walter B. Emery), author of “Archaic Egypt”...discovered the remains of individuals who lived in the predynastic epoch. These presented a dolichocephalous skull, larger than that of the local ethnic group, fair hair and a taller, heavier build. Emery declared that this stock wasn’t indigenous to Egypt but had performed an important sacerdotal and governmental role in this country. This race kept its distance from the common people, blending only with the aristocratic classes and the scholar associated them with the Shemsu Hor, the “disciples of Horus”...The Shemsu Hor are recognized as the dominant sacerdotal caste in pre-dynastic Egypt (until approximately 3000 B.C.), being mentioned in the Turin papyrus and the list of the kings of Abydos - Vittorio Di Cesare and Adriano Forgione (Malta: Skulls of the Mother Goddess)
It is singular to find a white race spoken of in the ancient monuments. Dr. Brugsch, the learned German, notices the word Tam-hou or white men. As it occurs on tablets dated 2,500 years before Christ, it is puzzling to indicate the people. Brugsch traces them to Libya. Champollion recognized in the Tamh’ou a type of European ancestry. M. Deveria remarks upon hieroglyphics recording the fact that Horus, the god, leading and guiding a white race. As there are still many Celtic monuments in the north of Africa, over many hundreds of miles, he contends for the existence of an original Celtic people in Egypt, or, in modern language, that the Welsh and Irish were once in Egypt – James Bonwick (Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought, 1878)
Nobody knows just who these blue-eyed, fair-skinned people were, or even where they came from...Anthropologically, they were termed Caucasians…These people, Elliot Smith concluded, were more than intelligent enough to accomplish the amazing building feats that the modern world marvels at on the banks of the Nile – Gerald O’Farrell (The Tutankhamen Deception)
When modern academics composed reference books about early Egyptian history, they scrupulously avoided mention of the impressive body of ancient evidence attesting to the celestial rulers of predynastic Egypt – Tony Bushby (The Secret in the Bible)
Classical archaeologists are in agreement that ancient migrations did take place in prehistoric times, although they often tend to be rather hazy about the dates and the countries involved – Ralph Ellis (Jesus: Last of the Pharaohs)
A few historians have accepted that North-Westerners brought the worship of Marduk (or more correctly Merodach, from the Irish Murdoch) to Babylon. They are apparently reluctant, however, to accept that North-Westerners brought the worship of Osiris, Horus, and Ra (and even earlier deities) to Egypt. Nevertheless, this was certainly the case. The North-Westerners were the Goths or "Goat Men" who gave Egypt its name. The word Egypt derives from Aegyptus or Aegis, meaning "goat." The term Aegean also means the same thing, as does God, Giza, Gaza, Gotland, Golgotha, and Cadiz, etc.
Moses, the goat-horned prophet
It is stated on a parchment found in a brick wall in the foundations of Denderah at the time of King Pepi: “The Great Pyramid was built by the followers of Horus;” the Stellar Cult people were the followers of Horus in the same sense as the Christians are the followers of Christ...The Architect who drew the plans was Nu-er-nub-ari, “the Keeper of the Secrets” – Albert Churchward (The Origins and Evolution of Religion)
The god Horus was often represented with the horns of both a ram and a goat - Frank Higgins (Ancient Freemasonry)
In light of our theories concerning the West to East flow (expounded upon in greater detail in The Irish Origins of Civilization) we deem it logical and also necessary to co-extend and co-apply all references concerning the genius and expertise of Egypt's Amenists to the Irish Arya. The difference between these two groups is, to our mind, negligible.
In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts and Masters who have never been surpassed - (The Kybalion)
…in Egypt all the operations of the powers which work in heaven have been transferred to Earth below…it should be said that the whole cosmos dwells in Egypt - Asleptus (Hermetic Texts)
…the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this division…It is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them -Herodotus
The Egyptians were not known as a particularly licentious people, but were remarkable for their spirituality. The consequences of the Church's attitude to sex and sexual love for our culture...been terrible repression on such a scale has been responsible, not only for personal torment and unnecessary soul-searching, but also for countless crimes against women and children - Picket and Prince (Templar Revelation)
The Egyptians are said to have been the first who brought the "rules of government" with the art of making "life easy" and "a people happy" - the true end of worldly politics - to a regular system. But much as they excelled other nations in scientific lore, in nothing was their superiority so conspicuous as in that magic art - Henry O'Brien (Atlantis in Ireland, 1834)
Among the Egyptian festivals was one called the Feast of Lamps, when upon a night in winter the houses and temples were lighted up with numerous lights. This was more particularly celebrated at Sais, in honour of the goddess Neith; but those who could not come up to that city to keep the festival burnt their own lamps at home…The Jews seem to have borrowed this festival...The Christians would seem to have taken the custom from the Egyptians as much as from the Jews, as the purpose of our Candlemass day, which is to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary, more resembles the worship of the goddess Neith than the purification of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity)
From what was written thousands of years ago, it is shown that the modern-day portrait of pre-Pharaonic Egypt is distorted by overwhelming emphasis on the study of existing crumbling ruins and exotic carvings - Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Caesar and other Roman writers, as well as the Greeks, knew nothing of the esoteric wisdom of Ancient Egypt, and therefore of the Druids. They perverted all that had been told them - Albert Churchward (The Origins and Evolution of Religion)
The Druidic Order was divided into three classifications. There were Druids, Bards, and Ovates. Significantly, the Egyptian Amenists employed a similar tripartite system:
The three highest ranks in Egypt were the divine, the royal, and the noble, and the three were distinguished from each other by their peculiar type of beard. Thus the loftiest rank was spiritual, and this primacy originated not in men becoming bishops, but in their possessing those spiritual powers and faculties which have been repudiated and expurgated by the Churches of orthodox Christianity, but which were looked upon of old as verily divine – Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World)
The Egyptian priesthood was hereditary, and formed one of the three classes into which the nation was divided--namely, the priests, the soldiers, and the cultivators of the soil. They held their estates free from the land tax or rent of one-fifth of the crop, as mentioned in Gen. xlvii. 26. They were the only learned or educated people in the kingdom, and consequently they filled every post and office which needed any education. Not only every clergyman, sexton, and undertaker, but every physician and druggist; every lawyer, writing-clerk, schoolmaster, and author; every sculptor, painter, and land-measurer; every conjuror, ventriloquist, and fortune-teller, belonged to the priestly order. Even those posts in the army which required an education, such as secretaryships and clerkships, were held by priests. Much of the skilled labour of the country was under their control. The linen manufactories in the Delta, and the stone quarries between the first and second cataracts, were both managed by the priests – Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity)
From the word Ovate (from the Gaelic Faidh) come such roots and words as Faith, Fate and Vatican. So when Christians pontificate about having "faith," they do so without realizing the word and idea come from the Druids, the true "Men of Faith." The Ovates were judges. The word judge comes from the same roots as Judah (from Yahud) and Jew. In all cases these titles come from Irish roots. They refer to the "Men of the Yews," the Arya, or Servants of Truth who appeared in pre-dynastic Egypt as the blue-eyed, fair-skinned Shemsu Hor.
The Brehon (Judges) laws of Eire were, without a doubt, the most ancient code of laws on earth. It was under the guidance and instruction of those first great teachers that there developed in the Island of Eire that cult of wise men who are know to us by tradition, and in cryptic lore, as the Ancient Magi or Magicians of Eire. This was the great Adept order of priesthood whose history has been suppressed like that of the island itself, but the memory of which is secretly preserved in mythic form in secular or profane history, and in our Irish sacred book, the Bible - Conor MacDari (The Bible: An Irish Book)
The Pope of Rome exactly resembles the Secular High-Priest of ancient Rome, and in Latin his title is the same - Pontifex Maximus. The office was probably an imitation of that of the Arch-Druid, who, as I have described, had supreme power over secular as well as ecclesiastical affairs, and who was surrounded by a Senate of the Chief Druids, as the Pontifex Maximus was by Flamines, and the Pope by Cardinals - W. Winwood Reade (Veil of Isis: Or the Mysteries of the Druids)
As we can see from these examples, etymological evidence reveals plenty of interesting connections between the Western and Eastern schools. In ancient Wales the priesthood was known as Syw (which can be pronounced Suv, Shuva, Shuwa, etc). In Egypt the priests referred to themselves as Shaau (as in sowa or show). The word cow comes from this root. The cow goddess was revered in both Britain and Egypt. The reference to the cow connotes the Age of Taurus when the Druidic schools were very active and prominent.
The Druids worshipped deity under the form of the Equinoctial Bull, as did the early Hebrews and Egyptians, and under the form of an erect monolithic stone, the Hermetic pillar or "gilgal," of which so many are found in Palestine to this day - Frank Higgins (Ancient Freemasonry)
Moreover, the name druid comes from the same root as the word door. The Druids were, spiritually speaking, the "door keepers" or "gate keepers." Indeed, doors were commonly made from the wood of oak trees sacred to the Druids to symbolically commemorate this connection. The idea and image of a portal between realms or to the place of the "mysteries" was picked up and employed by Freemasons and, significantly, a title for Egyptian pharaohs, ruti, also meant "door keeper" or "gate keeper." Additionally, as Comyns Beaumont's writings reveal, the Egyptians were affiliated with the Phoenicians. The magnificent site at Baalbek in the Lebanon (named after the god Bel) was of Phoenician construction. Some of the stones lying at the location are so massive that no modern crane can move or lift them into place. Originally, the Phoenicians were referred to by the historians as the "Kabiri." This word is correctly rendered Kab Ari, with the syllable Ari referring to the Arya of Ireland. As we showed in our book The Irish Origins of Civilization, the name Ireland was originally Ariland, the "Land of the Arya" or "Aryans." Under the title "Phoenician" (from Fin, meaning "fair," "white," "pleasant," as in fine or finesse) the Arya, after the Age of Catastrophe, traveled abroad and established sacred colleges in numerous lands. They were the original disseminators of the elements of civilization.
...many of the gods worshipped at Memphis were considered by Herodotus to be Phoenician deities - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity)
Furthermore, one of the earliest titles or names for the sky goddess of the Irish Druids was "An." This name can also be rendered Ana, Anu, Dana, Danu, or Diana. Significantly, this goddess name turns up as the original names of the temples at Dendera and Heliopolis. Moreover, it was customary for the image of the goddess (the vulture or serpent, etc) to be etched or painted above the portals of most temples. The pharaoh and priests always entered beneath the sign and image of the goddess. Men entered into the temple as they entered the world, via the portal of the female. A study of the shape and symbolism of church doorways and windows confirms the tradition has been well and truly carried on. As patristic as they are, latter day churchmen know how the female symbolism affects the racial memory of their unthinking congregations who erroneously imagine the Christian religion to be something divinely transmitted and utterly unique.
As said, the Druidic Order was divided into three schools. Threeness was a most important archetype for the ancient Arya. It can be considered their hallmark. Significantly, it appears that from the earliest times three schools existed within the astronomical cults of Egypt. Sir Norman Lockyer discerned this from his meticulous examination of temple alignments. He wrote:
To all three schools sun-worship was common, but we may clearly separate them by the associated star-worship. We have found worshippers of northern stars, east and west stars, and southern stars - (Dawn of Astronomy)
A study of the rites of Osiris reveals the truth of what we advocate concerning the intimate ties between Druids and Amenists. We go so far, in our writings, to say the rites of Osiris (Ausares or Aus Ari) were probably transported to Egypt by the Western Arya. Either his worship came with the Megalithic Druids, or it came later with the Celtic Scythians. We favor the former conjecture. Osiris is a form of Herne and also of Iesa, the dying god whose sacrifice and journey into the Underworld allegedly brought new life to the land. Herne was referred to as the "Green Man" and Osiris (although his title was "Lord of the Perfect Black") was often depicted as being green of color.
To the west, to the mansions of Osiris, To the west thou are going. Thou who were best among men, Who did hate the untrue - (Egyptian hymn to Osiris)
Osiris came from the west according to myth. He was born from the sea. He appeared as a local god in the city of Ded in the Nile Delta. Isis was sometimes called the goddess of the west - Henry Binkley Stein (Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah)
Furthermore, there are similarities between the myths of Osiris and the Akkadian Tammuz and also the Irish Miach, an early deity connected to herbalism and nature. The connections between the myths of Osiris and Dionysus have also been investigated by many scholars. Additionally, there are numerous parallels between the accounts of Osiris' life and that of the Biblical Jesus. These have been explored at length by several researchers and historians. The comparisons have shown that the New Testament's resurrection story, for example, clearly originates with the Osirian saga that can be dated to well over 2,500 years BC.
Make the King mighty in your womb. He shall not die – (Pyramid Texts, Hymn 431)
There is no death in the Osirian religion, only decay and change, and periodic renewal; only evolution and transformation in the domain of matter and the transubstantiation into spirit. In the so-called death of Osiris it is rebirth, not death, exactly the same as in the changes of external nature - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World)
We find that the doctrine of eternal life and of the resurrection of a glorified or transformed body, based upon the ancient story of the resurrection of Osiris after a cruel death and horrible mutilation, inflicted by the powers of evil, was the same in all periods, and that the legends of the most ancient times were accepted without material alteration or addition in the texts of the later dynasties. The story of Osiris is nowhere found in a connected form in Egyptian literature, but everywhere, and in texts of all periods, the life, sufferings, death and resurrection of Osiris are accepted as facts universally admitted – E. A. Wallis Budge (The Legend of Osiris)
Osiris was the god through whose sufferings and death the Egyptian hoped that his body might rise again in some transformed or glorified shape, and to him who had conquered death and had become the king of the other world the Egyptian appealed in prayer for eternal life through his victory and power. In every funeral inscription known to us, from the pyramid texts down to the roughly written prayers upon coffins of the Roman period, what is done for Osiris is done also for the deceased, the state and condition of Osiris are the state and condition of the deceased; in a word, the deceased is identified with Osiris. If Osiris lives forever, the deceased will live for ever; if Osiris dies, then will the deceased perish - ibid
Both sagas, the Osirian and the Christian, make mention of the heavenly abode and the heavenly being. However, it is the Egyptian accounts alone that make the Astro-Theological aspects of the “story” abundantly clear to readers. The version compiled by the Biblicists conceals and skews these aspects. The "heaven" of Christian mythmongers is not the night sky per se, but the angelic realm beyond human perception. It is an unseen fanciful abode of god. However, this adaptation does not make Christianity any less pagan in complexion. Not in the least. Any talk of "heavens" is Astro-Theological, regardless of the sanctimonious propaganda that would have us believe otherwise.
You shall set me to be a magistrate among the spirits, the Imperishable Stars in the north of the sky – (Pyramid Texts, Hymn 519)
You shall lay hold of the hand of the Imperishable Stars, your bones shall not perish, your flesh shall not sicken, O King!, your members shall not be far from you, because you are one of the gods – (Pyramid Texts, Hymn 412)
The king is the son of Atum and is a star. The King's mother was pregnant with him, (even he) who was in the Lower Sky, the King was fashioned by his father Atum before the sky existed, before earth existed, before men existed, before the gods were born, before death existed – (Pyramid Texts, Hymn 571)
Gerald Massey highlighted a key motif within the rites of Osiris later adapted by Christian mythmongers for their story of a supposedly mortal Jesus. He shows that the origins of the very word Christ can be traced to Egypt:
…in making the mummy the Egyptians were also making the typical Christ, which is the anointed. The word karas, kares, or karis in Egyptian signifies embalmment, to embalm, to anoint, to make the mummy. Kreas, creas, or chros, in Greek denotes the human body, a person or carcase, more expressly the flesh of it; cras, Gaelic and Irish, the body; Latin, corpus, for a dead body; these are all preceded by the word karas or karast, in Egyptian…Each body that had been embalmed was KARAST, so to say, and made into a type of immortality in the likeness of Osiris…or Horus, the prototypal Christ - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World)
...it is entirely false to represent the Egyptians as making the mummy and preserving it for the return of the soul into the old earthly body. That is but a shadow of the true idea cast backwards by Christianity - ibid
In the same book, Massey goes further and emphasizes that Osiris was the Christ before the Christ. He was undisputedly one of the main models for the New Testament's savior who died, was enclosed in a cave, and rose again to eternal life. Again, the solar (or Astro-Theological) symbolism of the rite is conspicuous:
The word krs denotes the embalmment of the mummy, and the krst, as the mummy, was made in the process of preparation by purifying, anointing, and embalming. To karas the dead body was to embalm it, to bandage it, to make the mummy. The mummy was the Osirian Corpus Christi, prepared for burial as the laid-out dead, the karast by name. When raised to its feet, it was the risen mummy, or sahu…Hence the name of the Christ, Christos in Greek, Chrestus in Latin, for the anointed, was derived…from the Egyptian word krst…Not only is the risen mummy or sahu called the karast, Osiris as lord of the bier is the Neb-karast equivalent to the later Christ the Lord…Thus the Egyptian karast was the pre-Christian Christ, and the pictures in the Roman Catacombs preserve the proof. The passing of the karast into the Christ is depicted in the gnostic iconography. It is in the form of a child bound up in the swathings of a diminutive Egyptian mummy, with the halo and cross of the four quarters round its head, which show its solar origin
…that Christ the anointed is none other than the Osiris-karast, and that the karast mummy risen to its feet as Osiris-sahu was the prototypical Christ
The dogma of the incarnation was an Egyptian mystery. Baptismal regeneration, transfiguration, transubstantiation, the resurrection and ascension, were all Egyptian mysteries
In her book The Celestial Ship of the North, Mrs. E. Valentia Straiton explained that key sections of the New Testament were undoubtedly plagiarizations of content from the Amenist Book of the Dead.
The Egyptian "Book of the Dead," which is traced back to 4260 BC, years before the writing of the New Testament, has its foundations in the lore of the heavens and in the poetical imagery which follows the sun through the different signs of the zodiac. Many phrases, many headings of the chapters of the New Testament are similar to those in the "Book of the Dead"
Factually, the common title - Book of the Dead - should be rendered differently. In Egyptian the title is Peri-em-heru that correctly translated means "Book of the Coming Forth by Day." It can even be rendered "Book of Manifestation" or "Book of Resurrection."
How could a book whose title read The Coming Forth By Day be fitly named the Book of the Dead? Something was amiss here. Someone had blundered. Yet the book dealt mainly with the great trial of the soul of the deceased in the Hall of Judgment, the Hall of Osiris; and Osiris was the Lord of Amenta, the realm of the dead, the dark underworld. He was the king of "those in their graves." It was apparently the book of the typical Christian judgment, enacted in the world of souls following the demise of the body - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (The Lost Meaning of Death)
A study of the solar and stellar temples of Druids and Amenists also reveals the similarities between the two contingents. Not only were ancient temples meticulously built, they were perfectly aligned in a similar manner to solstices, equinoxes, cardinal points, horizons, and important stars and constellations. Indeed, scientists have discovered that the Great Pyramid at Giza was aligned to the site of Stonehenge in England. Other sites in the British Isles, such as Tara, Newgrange, and Callanish, etc, have also been found to align with major sites in Egypt. Moreover, in both lands temples were dedicated to the goddess. In Britain the very design of temple sites (such as Glastonbury, Silbury Hill, Tara, Ard Macha, and Newgrange, etc) clearly indicate they were earthly representations of female breasts and womb. In Egypt it was the same story. The major temples were dedicated to prominent earth and sky goddesses such as Apt, Neith, Mut, Maat, Hathor, and Isis, etc. Indeed the most important ritual, the laying of a temple's foundation stone, was always performed by the ruling pharaoh in the company of a female representing the goddess Seshet. This goddess had to be figuratively present when the foundation stone was to be set in place. There were no exceptions to this custom. Seshet was referred to as "the mistress of the laying of the foundation-stone." She was depicted with a star-shaped headdress. Many inscriptions record the stages of the precise rites undertaken during the inauguration of new temples such as those at Karnak and Thebes. One such inscription from approximately 1380 BC records the procedure enacted between Seshet and the reigning pharaoh:
The hammer in my hand was of gold, as I struck the peg with it, and thou wast with me in thy capacity of Harpedonapt. Thy hand held the spade during the fixing of its (the temple's) four corners with accuracy by the four supports of heaven
A shrine at the temple of Dendera (which features a striking and well known zodiac) was dedicated to the goddess Isis. She in turn represented the star known then as Sothis and now as Sirius. The temple in her name had, therefore, a dual purpose. It was built for the worship of the goddess Isis, but was also aligned with Sirius, the star observed nightly by the priests of Dendera. The shrine and temple was the "house" of the goddesses' servants.
...we are certain that Isis personified Sirius. That "Her Majesty of Denderah" was Sirius, at all events in the later times referred to in the inscriptions, but has been determined astronomically - Sir J. Norman Lockyer