The Wax Revelation

The Wax Revelation How the head cones, the crowns, the scale-weights, the "T," the Cross, and the Summer Feast are one thing — and where the Angels came from Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush · Van Kush Family Research Institute · Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas I want to go over my discoveries, in order, so you can see how one thread became all of it. (Every figure carries a source line. The tomb paintings and papyri shown are faithful photographs of works long in the public domain; where a modern photograph or facsimile carries its own copyright — the 2019 Amarna cones especially — it is credited and linked rather than reproduced.) PART I — THE DISCOVERY It started with the weights Before the head cones, it started with Flinders Petrie. Petrie found small wax-and-metal blobs all over Egypt and worked out they were scale-weights — calibration for the balances, the standard you weigh against. That was the key: the Egyptians and the Phoenicians after them were a weighing civilization, not only a counting one. You don't count grains of a medicine or a spice — you weigh them. Weighing is how you microdose, how you trade fairly, how you keep a temple honest. That is why Ma'at — the feather of truth on the scale — and the Carthaginian goddess Tannit are the same idea: the balance is justice. The blindfolded "Lady Justice" holding the scales is the last surviving statue of her. Gravity is what makes a scale work, and the scale is what makes justice real. The weight was wax. That was the first thread. … Read the full post on melek.salon: https://melek.salon/melek/@melek/the-wax-revelation