[ View Thread ] [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

"Bearer of the Name"

Posted By: EL-REB
Date: Monday, 11 November 2002, at 6:35 p.m.

In Response To: "The Mother of All Fathers?" (Charles Pope)

Cleopatra...Ka-Leo-Ptah-Ra,

This name is a Good example, of what you are writing (stating).

The first one,(as the story goes), was the sister of Alexander the Great, who married Ptolemy V (Ptah-Leo).

This name applied to several Queens and Princesses, of the Ptolemy dynasty.

The one we watch in the movies was Cleopatra VII, who's blood stock, was half Greek and half Macedonian.

As the storie closes, the scribe states, she deliberately chose death by snake-bite for the sake of the significance, "which such a death would have in the eyes of (Her) Egyptian subjects", because of the ancient belief that the snake was the minister of Amon-Ra, and the God of the Sun.

This should help your point about Common name and Cobra goddesses.

There may also be a clue here as to the Snake issue?

EL-REB

Messages In This Thread

[ View Thread ] [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]