Black Spirituality Religion : Ques ; So Then Where Did God Come From ?

[Sekhemu]

Here you go Aqil

www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/religion/mythology.htm
Look for the chapter on Atum

 

[Sekhemu]

The concept of an indigenous Male Creator is a strictly Western Judeo-Christian one, and unfortunately, that has found it's way into (as well as helping to create) orthodox Islam.

I am a student of the PERT EM HERU (there's no such book as "THE BOOK OF THE DEAD"), and it says far more than what brother AQIL stated.

The duality of male and female Godship is not only apparent in the PERT, but it lays the foundation for METU NETER and SHETAUT NETER, that the KEMETIANS practiced.

From the PERT:

"Hail NUT!! From her womb pours the soul of the universe, she giveth the Kha to millions of forms...."

The Kemetic (and African proper) understanding of spirituality, is that the masculine and feminine energies were used interchangably, depending on the aspect of creation being examined.

The same holds true for ISLAM, which is the birth child of Kemetic and other antiquitous spiritual systems.

The 99+1 names for ALLAH are not all masculine attributes. An extensive study of QUIF ARABIC will revveal that many of the names are feminine in origin.

For that matter, the name of ALLAH itself is feminine, as SHE was originally apart of the Ancient Sabean (Himyaric, Nubian) Trinity of ALLAH (female= the moon), ALLAT (Masculine = the sun), and MIZNAT (child/neutral = stars).

Not only is this the origin of the SUN MOON and STARS premise that we see that survived into contemporary Islam, but these 3 gods were also derivatives of AUSAR, AUSET, and HERU.

Again, nothing new under the Sun.

HOTEPU, and MA'SALAAMU

Thanks for sharing this Samurai36

HeTeP

 

[river]

Question,

Who said the creator was a He?

Our language does not have a personal pronoun that is not gender specific. We do not want to call the creator an it and "he/she" "he or she" is too much typing besides being awkward to read.

AS for the Judeo/Christian viewpoint here is what the Bible says

Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

It says He created THEM in His own image.It doesn't say "images" as if God has one male image and one female image. But there is just one image in which both male and female could be created. If God is purely masculine how could a woman be created in His image? Do not trip over the masculine pronouns. Those are human idioms that arise from human experience and culture and have nothing to do with the essence of the Creator.

 

[SAMURAI36]

Our language does not have a personal pronoun that is not gender specific. We do not want to call the creator an it and "he/she" "he or she" is too much typing besides being awkward to read.

Actually, "IT" is indeed a non-gender specific pronoun.

PEACE

 

[Sekhemu]

Our language does not have a personal pronoun that is not gender specific. We do not want to call the creator an it and "he/she" "he or she" is too much typing besides being awkward to read.

AS for the Judeo/Christian viewpoint here is what the Bible says

Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

It says He created THEM in His own image.It doesn't say "images" as if God has one male image and one female image. But there is just one image in which both male and female could be created. If God is purely masculine how could a woman be created in His image? Do not trip over the masculine pronouns. Those are human idioms that arise from human experience and culture and have nothing to do with the essence of the Creator.

To be honest it's not me who trips over the masculine pronoun, in fact that would apply to most of your fellow christians, jews and muslims.

Yes they are human idioms, and you are quoting from a book replete with laws and commandments written by men, soley by men. You ask a good question as how could God be purely masculine and woman be created in his image. This is a question that needs to be asked to the vast majority of christians.

I would be interested in seeing how often the bible mentions the feminine expression of God(the shekinah) as much as it mentions the male expression.