"Typhon is the Power of Drought"

Let this, then, be stated incidentally, as a matter of record that is common knowledge. 33 But the wiser of the priests call not only the Nile Osiris and the sea Typhon, but they simply give the name of Osiris to the whole source and faculty creative of moisture,181 believing this to be the cause of generation and the substance of life-producing seed; and the name of Typhon they give to all that is dry, fiery, and arid,182 in general, and antagonistic to moisture. bTherefore, because they believe that he was personally of a reddish sallow colour,183 they are not eager to meet men of such complexion, nor do they like to associate with them.

Osiris, on the other hand, according to their legendary tradition, was dark,184 because water darkens everything, earth and clothes and clouds, when it comes into contact with them.185 In young people the presence of moisture renders their hair black, while greyness, like a paleness as it were, is induced by p83dryness in those who are passing their prime.186 Also the spring-time is vigorous, prolific, and agreeable; but the autumn, since it lacks moisture, is inimical to plants and cunhealthful for living creatures.c

The bull kept at Heliopolis which they call Mneuis,187 and which is sacred to Osiris (some hold it to be the sire of Apis), is black and has honours second only to Apis. Egypt, moreover, which has the blackest of soils,188 they call by the same name as the black portion of the eye, "Chemia," and compare it to a heart;189 for it is warm and moist and is enclosed by the southern portions of the inhabited world and adjoins them, like the heart in a man's left side.

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The outmost parts of the land beside the mountains and bordering on the sea the Egyptians call Nephthys. This is why they give to Nephthys the name of "Finality,"228 and say that she is the wife of Typhon. Whenever, then, the Nile overflows and with abounding waters spreads far away to those who dwell in the outermost regions, they call this the union of Osiris with Nephthys,229 which is proved by the upspringing of the plants. Among these is the melilotus,230 by the wilting and failing of which, as the story goes, Typhon gained knowledge of the wrong done to his bed. cSo Isis gave birth to Horus in lawful wedlock, but Nephthys bore Anubis clandestinely. However, in the chronological lists of the kings they record that p95Nephthys, after her marriage to Typhon, was at first barren. If they say this, not about a woman, but about the goddess, they must mean by it the utter barrenness and unproductivity of the earth resulting from a hard-baked soil.

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39 The insidious scheming and usurpation of Typhon, then, is the power of drought, which gains control and dissipates the moisture which is the source of the Nile and of its rising; and his coadjutor, the Queen of the Ethiopians,231 signifies allegorically the south winds from Ethiopia; for whenever these gain the upper hand over the northerly or Etesian winds232 which drive the clouds towards Ethiopia, dand when they prevent the falling of the rains which cause the rising of the Nile, then Typhon, being in possession, blazes with scorching heat; and having gained complete mastery, he forces the Nile in retreat to draw back its waters for weakness, and, flowing at the bottom of its almost empty channel, to proceed to the sea. The story told of the shutting up of Osiris in the chest seems to mean nothing else than the vanishing and disappearance of water. Consequently they say that the disappearance of Osiris occurred in the month of Athyr,233 at the time when, owing to the complete cessation of the Etesian winds, the Nile recedes to its low level and the land becomes denuded. As the nights grow longer, the darkness increases, eand the potency of the light is abated and subdued. Then among the gloomy rites which the priests perform, they shroud the gilded image of a cow with a black linen vestment, and display her as a sign of mourning for the goddess, inasmuch as they regard both the cow and the earth234 p97as the image of Isis; and this is kept up for four days consecutively, beginning with the seventeenth of the month. The things mourned for are four in number: first, the departure and recession of the Nile; second, the complete extinction of the north winds, as the south winds gain the upper hand; third, the day's growing shorter than the night; and, to crown all, the denudation of the earth together with the defoliation of the trees and shrubs at this time. On the nineteenth day fthey go down to the sea at night-time; and the keepers of the robes and the priests bring forth the sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water which they have taken up, and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found. Then they knead some fertile soil with the water and mix in spices and incense of a very costly sort, and fashion therefrom a crescent-shaped figure, which they clothe and adorn, thus indicating that they regard these gods as the substance of Earth and Water.

40 When Isis recovered Osiris and was watching Horus grow up235 367as he was being made strong by the exhalations and mists and clouds, Typhon was vanquished but not annihilated;236 for the goddess who holds sway over the Earth would not permit the complete annihilation of the nature opposed to moisture, but relaxed and moderated it, being desirous that its tempering potency should persist, because it was not possible for a complete world to exist, if the fiery element left it and disappeared.

Isis and Osiris by Plutarch

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Isis_and_Osiris*/B.html

Kenneth Grant, The Typhonian Current and the Merovingian Mythos

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2005/12dec/merovingianmythos.html

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[ce399]

I've recently been skimming through Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III's The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind the Legend, Weiser Books, 2003 and came across a passage that sent up a red flag in my collection of references: The macrocosmic force contained in the Lovecraftian Elder Gods is echoed microcosmically in the "individual and Racial Unconscious" of the Forgotten Ones. The Forgotten Ones are, in part, a set of "primitive survival drives:" "hunger, aggression, sex." (Pg 120)
more later...

[ce399]

A dot connect is required btwn the surrealist concept of spectral memory and/or hauntology, a Mayan codex (the name of which escapes me at the moment - starts with a "B'), (maybe) Perkins and the aforementioned concepts in Lovecraftian occultism.

Though Eisenhower's farewell address in 1961 probably summarized it best:

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

It is quite clear at this juncture, if we are to accept the notion of an occult current in fascism, that (Italian) Futurist (100 years) and (social) Darwinist (200 years) socially engineered America serves as a "force multiplier" for these Lovecraftian "survival" modes - as does Typhon.

So, what's the point?... if we mean to combat fascism...we had also better brush up on our occultism. Because we can't really know the fascist character if we project upon it our familiar secular and liberal mental landscapes. That is going to take us to mad places, but that's the nature of comprehending the method.

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/02/jfc-fullers-army.html

Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT should cite these concepts when seeking a Bush Administration "truth commission." He will undoubtedly fail to admit, however, that Bush has been President of the United States for the last five-hundred years..and counting.