Hmmm... I find it quite interesting that the constellation of Ursus Major should show up in this tapestry along with Masonic symbols as my researches have uncovered a cult of the Great Bear in ancient Egypt, especially in the time of the now largely forgotten Egyptian
Queen Sobekneferu, who was alleged to have been a practitioner of the dark arts.
Queen Sobekneferu is though well known to modern occultists as she was the Egyptian queen who was portrayed through the character of Queen Tera in Bram Stoker's (1847-1912) novel
The Jewel of the Seven Stars, a book which would subsequently form the staple of many modern mummy horror movies including her latest incarnation in Tom Cruise's 2017 movie
The Mummy. Bram Stoker, who was an Irishman, is, of course, better known for his classic gothic horror novel
Dracula. However, he was also allegedly a member of the Victorian Rosicrucian Society
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which briefly had as its head the notorious
Aleister Crowley who has featured in the transcripts on a few occasions. He thus had strong connections with the British occultic circles of his time.
Sobekneferu is thought to have been Egypt’s first female ruler, who lived around 1800 BC. Although she ruled for just four years at the end of the Twelfth Dynasty the repercussions of her reign were long lasting and continue to be felt to this day.
Quoting British author
Andrew Collins:
Collins has is fact published a book on Sobekneferu and I should really get round to writing a post on it. She is historically linked to the completion of the famous great labyrinth, which had been started by her late father, Pharoah Amenemhat III..
In Theosophy (which is based primarily on Madam Blavatsky's writings), it is believed that the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the seven rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth (Sanat Kumara), and finally through the seven
Masters of the Seven Rays (i.e., Blavatsky's Ascended Masters) to the human race.
It may well be that the Golden Dawn shared a similar outlook to their Theosophist contemporaries where the Seven Stars of the Great Bear were concerned, one which may have informed Stoker in his writings.
But could there be another connection with Ursa Major, one that relates directly to the quest for the Grail perhaps, as represented by the figure of the famous grail questor Percival?
The C's subsequently elaborated further on this point in connection with Laura's questions concerning the Egyptian Pyramid Texts and the Seven Sages (Could these be the Master of the Seven Rays and Blavatsky's Ascended Masters perhaps?) in the
Session dated 22 August 1998:
Was this celestial meaning perhaps known to the ancient Egyptians?
The word "celestial" when used as an adjective means "positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy", as in a celestial body. It can also mean in a religious context "belonging or relating to heaven", as in the celestial city. Finally, it can mean something which is "supremely good" as in celestial beauty. However, sticking with the first meaning, could the C's have meant that the court of seven related to a celestial body or group of such bodies, as in a star or constellation? If so, could they have had in mind Ursa Major whose stars may have been viewed by the ancients as a handle turning the heavens around the pole star Polaris?
Coming back to the Chinese silk tapestry though, does the use of Masonic symbolism and the depiction of the constellation Ursa Major suggest that there may have been a far more ancient connection between the Egypt of the Pharaohs and China? Afterall the C's said that the progenitors of modern Freemasonry were the Osirians of Egypt:
This date of 5633 BC long predates the emergence of the Chinese civilisation that we know today. Does this Chinese tapestry suggest then that Egyptian Freemasonry, Egyptian deities such as Isis and Osiris, and Egyptian star-based mythology such as that espoused by Queen Sobekneferu may have influenced the ancient Chinese?
The Chinese to this day are associated with the symbol of the dragon (as depicted by the constellation of Draco), which in other cultures is often linked with the Reptilians or lizzies - think, for example, of Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan:
Since the brother/sister, husband/wife combo of
Fuxi and Nüwa, (the Chinese mythological creators of humanity) are often depicted as having serpent tails instead of legs, does this suggest that they represented hybrid creations of the Reptilians?
However, in ancient Egypt, one of the most sacred animals was the crocodile, which, as we saw above, was used to depict the crocodile god Sobek, a deity that was linked to the constellations of Ursus Major and Draco. As with the dragon in China and other parts of the Orient, could the crocodile have represented or symbolised the Lizzies, especially as the C's said that the Reptilians actually look like upright alligators?
I attach below a statue of the god Sobek, which was unearthed at
the site of the Labyrinth at Hawara and dates to the reign of Amenemhat III,
Sobekneferu's father.
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I must say the figure does look a bit like an upright crocodile or alligator to me. So, as at Angkor Wat and Mohenjo Daro, could the Lizzies have openly appeared to their followers in Egypt during this time period? Given what the C's said here, it is not out of the question: