Sign Language and Mythology as Primitive Modes of Representation

Myth-making Man did not create the Gods in his own image. The primary divinities of Egypt such as Sut Sebek and Shu three of the earliest were represented in the likeness of the Hippopotamus the Crocodile and the Lion; whilst Hapi was imaged as an Ape Anup as a Jackal Ptah as a Beetle Taht as an Ibis Seb as a Goose. So it was the Goddesses. They are the likenesses of powers that were super-human not human.... A huge mistake has hitherto been made in assuming that the Myth-Makers began by fashioning the Nature-Powers in their own human likeness. --from Sign Language and Mythology as Primitive Modes of Representation It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists but it is embraced by those who savor the concept of a hidden history of humanity and those who approach all human knowledge from the perspective of the esoteric. Gerard Masseys massive Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World--first published in 1907 and the crowning achievement of the self-taught scholar--redefines the roots of Christianity via Egypt proposing that Egyptian mythology was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs. Here Cosimo proudly presents Book 1 of Ancient Egypt in which Massey argues that primitive man found no human agency in the phenomena of the natural world which led to a woeful misinterpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics by the Greeks and Romans as well as a misunderstanding of the essence of Egyptian mythology. As a consequence Massey contends a deep fount of wisdom of the ancients has been lost and he goes on to reveal how it can be rediscovered. Peculiar and profound this work will intrigue and delight readers of history religion and mythology. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry spiritualism Shakespearean criticism and theology but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology including A Book of the Beginnings and The Natural Genesis.