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The rescue project is being conducted by the Supreme Council of Archaeology near the ancient capital of Memphis, in the modern-day town of Mit Rahina. The embossed blocks from Ramesses II's reign were made from pink and black granite, and limestone along with a statue of the pharaoh himself. Researchers believe that the limestone blocks that date from the Coptic era (Late Roman Egypt and Byzantine Egypt) was recycled stonework repurposed for later structures.
Ramesses II also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Ramesses was regarded as one of the most powerful pharaohs of the New Kingdom, who led several military campaigns into the Levant and Nubia, and constructed various cities, temples, and monuments.
Dr Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Archaeology said that along with the statue of Ramses, were statues of various Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses.
This included Sekhmet, a solar deity (sometimes called the daughter of Ra) depicted the head of a lioness, who was said to breathe fire and the hot winds of the desert and would protect the pharaoh in life. The goddess was also associated with healing, often believed to be the cause of plague, and would be called upon to ward off disease.
Also discovered was a statue of Ptah, a creator god who existed before all other things and, by his will, thought the world into existence. He was also associated with the god of craftsmen and architects.
Waziri added that the rescue mission will continue until the site has been fully researched and recorded.
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My presumption is that the Creator created all heavenly bodies, by intelligent design. Using the alternative view that there is no Creator I came up with too many hurdles of random coincidence upon coincidence.
According to my logic the same Creator created both Saturn and Earth and the entire Universe by thought alone. We exist within a perpetually self-fulfilling matrix of conscious organised thought, I think.
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Dig in to world mythology and one will quickly find that almost every ancient culture believed, at the earliest stages of mythology, in a single, lone god who sat in the north, and it was from it that the rest of the world (and gods) emanated (e.g. the Japanese Kojiki illustrates this point in all its bizarreness). Talbott has a strong argument that this 'god' was in fact the planet Saturn, earth's first sun. This is the point Talbott illustrates well, but he errs when he supposes that all creator gods of all traditions must therefore be the planet Saturn. I also disagree with Talbott's logic regarding the god of the Hebrews: Talbott supposes that because the Canaanite word El (Saturn) is used repeatedly of the Hebrew god, YHWH, the god of the Hebrews must therefore be the planet Saturn.
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