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ORPHIC EGG

Represents the Cosmos in its most abstract conception

Named after Orpheus

6th century B.C.E.

Base on the beliefs and teachings of "ORPHISM"

Originated from a silver egg

It is believed that Chronos the personification of time created the silver egg of the Universe

Which hatched the primeval Deity Phanes (also called Protogenos who in turn created other Gods ... Orphic egg facts

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The Sacred Bull and Orphic Egg

The ancient symbol of the Orphic Mysteries was the serpent-entwined egg, which signified Cosmos as encircled by the fiery Creative Spirit. The egg also represents the soul of the philosopher; the serpent, the Mysteries. At the time of initiation the shell is broke. and man emerges from the embryonic state of physical existence wherein he had remained through the fetal period of philosophic regeneration.

Among the ancients the sun was always symbolized by the figure and nature of the constellation through which it passed at the vernal equinox. For nearly the past 2,000 years the sun has crossed the equator at the vernal equinox in the constellation of Pisces (the Two Fishes). For the 2,160 years before that it crossed through the constellation of Aries (the Ram). Prior to that the vernal equinox was in the sign of Taurus (the Bull). It is probable that the form of the bull and the bull's proclivities were assigned to this constellation because the bull was used by the ancients to plow the fields, and the season set aside for plowing and furrowing corresponded to the time at which the sun reached the segment of the heavens named Taurus.

Albert Pike describes the reverence which the Persians felt for this sign and the method of astrological symbolism in vogue among them, thus: "In Zoroaster's cave of initiation, the Sun and Planets were represented, overhead, in gems and gold, as was also the Zodiac. The Sun appeared, emerging from the back of Taurus." In the constellation of the Bull are also to be found the "Seven Sisters"--the sacred Pleiades--famous to Freemasonry as the Seven Stars at the upper end of the Sacred Ladder.

In ancient Egypt it was during this period--when the vernal equinox was in the sign of Taurus--that the Bull, Apis, was sacred to the Sun God, who was worshiped through the animal equivalent of the celestial sign which he had impregnated with his presence at the time of its crossing into the Northern Hemisphere. This is the meaning of an ancient saying that the celestial Bull "broke the egg of the year with his horns."

Sampson Arnold Mackey, in his Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients Demonstrated, makes note of two very interesting points concerning the bull in Egyptian symbolism. Mr. Mackey is of the opinion that the motion of the earth that we know as the alternation of the poles has resulted in a great change of relative position of the equator and the zodiacal band. He believes that originally the band of the zodiac was at right angles to the equator, with the sign of Cancer opposite the north pole and the sign of Capricorn opposite the south pole. It is possible that the Orphic symbol of the serpent twisted around the egg attempts to show the motion of the sun in relation to the earth under sich conditions Mr Mackey advances the Labyrinth of Crate, the name theas, and the magic formula, abracadabra, among other things, to substantiate his theory. Concerning abracadabra he states

"But the slow progressive disappearance of the Ball is most happily commemorated in the vanishing series of letters so emphatically expressive of the great astronomical fact For ABRACADABRA is The Bull, the unly Bull. The ancient sentence split into its component parts stands thus: Ab'r-uchad-abra, e, Abt, the Ball, achad, the unly, &c. Achad is one of the names of the Sun, given him in consequence of his Shining ALONE - he is the ONIY Star to be seen when he is seen--the remaining ab'ra, makes the whole to he. The Ball, the only Rull, while the repetition of the name omitting a letter, till all is gone, is the most simple, yet the most satisfactory method that could have been devised to preserve the memory of the fact, and the name of Sorapis, or Senapis, given to the Bull at the above ceremony puts it beyond all doubt. This word (Abracadabra) disappears in eleven decreasing stages, as in the figure. And what is very remarkable, a body with three heads is folded up by a Serpent with eleven Coils and placed by Sorapis and the cleven Volves or the Serpent form a triangle similar to that formed by the ELEVEN diminishing lines of the abracadabra."

The Theogony of Hesiod contains the most complete account of the Greek cosmogony myth. Orphic cosmogony has left its impress upon the various forms of philosophy and religion--Greek, Egyptian, and Syrian--which it contacted. Chief of the Orphic symbols was the mundane egg from which Phanes sprang into light. Thomas Taylor considers the Orphic egg to be synonymous with the mixture from bound and infinity mentioned by Plato in the Philebus. The egg is furthermore the third Intelligible Triad and the proper symbol of the Demiurgus, whose auric body is the egg of the inferior universe.

Eusebius, on the authority of Porphyry, declared that the Egyptians acknowledged one intellectual Author or Creator of the world under the name of Cneph and that they worshiped him in a statue of human form and dark blue complexion, holding in his hand a girdle and a scepter, wearing on his head a royal plume, and thrusting forth an egg out of his mouth. (See An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology) While the Bembine Table is rectangular-shaped, it signifies philosophically the Orphic egg of the universe with its contents. In the esoteric doctrines the supreme individual achievement is the breaking of the Orphic egg, which is equivalent to the return of the spirit to the Nirvana--the absolute condition--of the Oriental mystics.

"Yet another view held in primitive times was that the sky was a vast meadow over which a huge beetle crawled, pushing the disk of the sun before him. This beetle was the Sky-god, and, arguing from the example of the beetle (Scarabæus sacer), which was observed to roll along with its hind legs a ball that was believed to contain its eggs, the early Egyptians thought that the ball of the Sky-god contained his egg and that the sun was his offspring. Thanks, however, to the investigations of the eminent entomologist, Monsieur J. H. Fabre, we now know that the ball which the Scarabæus sacer rolls along contains not its eggs, but dung that is to serve as food for its egg, which it lays in a carefully prepared place."

In nearly all the sacred books of the world can be traced an anatomical analogy. This is most evident in their creation myths. Anyone familiar with embryology and obstetrics will have no difficulty in recognizing the basis of the allegory concerning Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, the nine degrees of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Brahmanic legend of Vishnu's incarnations. The story of the Universal Egg, the Scandinavian myth of Ginnungagap (the dark cleft in space in which the seed of the world is sown), and the use of the fish as the emblem of the paternal generative power--all show the true origin of theological speculation. The philosophers of antiquity realized that man himself was the key to the riddle of life, for he was the living image of the Divine Plan, and in future ages humanity also will come to realize more fully the solemn import of those ancient words: "The proper study of mankind is man."

The accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. It has long been viewed as the emblem of immortality. It is the symbol of reincarnation, or metempsychosis, because it annually sheds its skin, reappearing, as it were, in a new body. There is an ancient superstition to the effect that snakes never die except by violence and that, if uninjured, they would live forever. It was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the Supreme Creator, who periodically reabsorbed His universe back into Himself.

In Isis Unveiled, H. P. Blavatsky makes this significant statement concerning the origin of serpent worship: "Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense."

The seven-headed snake represents the Supreme Deity manifesting through His Elohim, or Seven Spirits, by whose aid He established His universe. The coils of the snake have been used by the pagans to symbolize the motion and also the orbits of the celestial bodies, and it is probable that the symbol of the serpent twisted around the egg--which was common to many of the ancient Mystery schools--represented both the apparent motion of the sun around the earth, and the bands of astral light, or the great magical agent, which move about the planet incessantly.

The Pythagoreans were often undeservedly criticized for promulgating the so-called doctrine of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls. This concept as circulated among the uninitiated was merely a blind, however, to conceal a sacred truth. Greek mystics believed that the spiritual nature of man descended into material existence from the Milky Way--the seed ground of souls--through one of the twelve gates of the great zodiacal band. The spiritual nature was therefore said to incarnate in the form of the symbolic creature created by Magian star gazers to represent the various zodiacal constellations. If the spirit incarnated through the sign of Aries, it was said to be born in the body of a ram; if in Taurus, in the body of the celestial bull. All human beings were thus symbolized by twelve mysterious creatures through the natures of which they were able to incarnate into the material world. The theory of transmigration was not applicable to the visible material body of man, but rather to the invisible immaterial spirit wandering along the pathway of the stars and sequentially assuming in the course of evolution the forms of the sacred zodiacal animals.

The most important of all symbolic animals was the Apis, or Egyptian bull of Memphis, which was regarded as the sacred vehicle for the transmigration of the soul of the god Osiris. It was declared that the Apis was conceived by a bolt of lightning, and the ceremony attendant upon its selection and consecration was one of the most impressive in Egyptian ritualism. The Apis had to be marked in a certain manner. Herodotus states that the bull must be black with a square white spot on his forehead, the form of an eagle (probably a vulture) on his back, a beetle upon (under) his tongue, and the hair of his tail lying two ways. Other writers declare that the sacred bull was marked with twenty-nine sacred symbols, his body was spotted, and upon his right side was a white mark in the form of a crescent. After its sanctification the Apis was kept in a stable adjacent to the temple and led in processionals through the streets of the city upon certain solemn occasions. It was a popular belief among the Egyptians that any child upon whom the bull breathed would become illustrious. After reaching a certain age (twenty-five years) the Apis was taken either to the river Nile or to a sacred fountain (authorities differ on this point) and drowned, amidst the lamentations of the populace. The mourning and wailing for his death continued until the new Apis was found, when it was declared that Osiris had reincarnated, whereupon rejoicing took the place of grief.

The worship of the bull was not confined to Egypt, but was prevalent in many nations of the ancient world. In India, Nandi--the sacred white bull of Siva--is still the object of much veneration; and both the Persians and the Jews accepted the bull as an important religious symbol. The Assyrians, Phoenicians, Chaldeans, and even the Greeks reverenced this animal, and Jupiter turned himself into a white bull to abduct Europa. The bull was a powerful phallic emblem signifying the paternal creative power of the Demiurgus. At his death he was frequently mummified and buried with the pomp and dignity of a god in a specially prepared sarcophagus. Excavations in the Serapeum at Memphis have uncovered the tombs of more than sixty of these sacred animals.

As the sign rising over the horizon at the vernal equinox constitutes the starry body for the annual incarnation of the sun, the bull not only was the celestial symbol of the Solar Man but, because the vernal equinox took place in the constellation of Taurus, was called the breaker or opener of the year. For this reason in astronomical symbolism the bull is often shown breaking the annular egg with his horns. The Apis further signifies that the God-Mind is incarnated in the body of a beast and therefore that the physical beast form is the sacred vehicle of divinity. Man's lower personality is the Apis in which Osiris incarnates. The result of the combination is the creation of Sor-Apis (Serapis)-the material soul as ruler of the irrational material body and involved therein. After a certain period (which is determined by the square of five, or twenty-five years), the body of the Apis is destroyed and the soul liberated by the water which drowns the material life. This was indicative of the washing away of the material nature by the baptismal waters of divine light and truth. The drowning of the Apis is the symbol of death; the resurrection of Osiris in the new bull is the symbol of eternal renovation. The white bull was also symbolically sacred as the appointed emblem of the initiates, signifying the spiritualized material bodies of both man and Nature.

When the vernal equinox no longer occurred in the sign of Taurus, the Sun God incarnated in the constellation of Aries and the ram then became the vehicle of the solar power. Thus the sun rising in the sign of the Celestial Lamb triumphs over the symbolic serpent of darkness. The lamb is a familiar emblem of purity because of its gentleness and the whiteness of its wool. In many of the pagan Mysteries it signified the Universal Savior, and in Christianity it is the favorite symbol of Christ. Early church paintings show a lamb standing upon a little hill, and from its feet pour four streams of living water signifying the four Gospels. The blood of the lamb is the solar life pouring into the world through the sign of Aries.

The goat is both a phallic symbol and also an emblem of courage or aspiration because of its surefootedness and ability to scale the loftiest peaks. To the alchemists the goat's head was the symbol of sulphur. The practice among the ancient Jews of choosing a scapegoat upon which to heap the sins of mankind is merely an allegorical.

The importance of the bull as the symbol of the sun at the vernal equinox is discussed in the chapter on The Zodiac and Its Signs. The bull and the ox are ancient emblems of the element of earth--consequently of the planet itself. They also signify the animal nature of man, and for this reason were sacrificed upon the altars of such ancient Mysteries as the Jewish and Druidic. Plutarch wrote: "The Apis ought to be regarded by us, as a fair and beautiful image of the soul of Osiris." Osiris represents the spiritual nature of the lower world which is murdered and distributed throughout the substance of the physical spheres; Apis is the emblem of the material world within which is the spiritual nature-- Osiris. The Apis is also the symbol of the exoteric (or profane) doctrine, in contradistinction to the esoteric (or divine) teachings represented by the uræus worn upon the foreheads of the priests. Front this is derived the mythological allegory of Serapis, who in a certain sense is not only the composite figure of Osiris and the lower world in which he is incarnated but also of the Mysteries, which are the terrestrial bodies containing the secret teachings, or the spiritual soul.

There are three distinct forms of the cross. The first is called the TAU (more correctly the TAV). It closely resembles the modern letter T, consisting of a horizontal bar resting on a vertical column, the two arms being of equal length. An oak tree cut off some feet above the ground and its upper part laid across the lower in this form was the symbol of the Druid god Hu. It is suspected that this symbol originated among the Egyptians from the spread of the horns of a bull or ram (Taurus or Aries) and the vertical line of its face. This is sometimes designated as the hammer cross, because if held by its vertical base it is not unlike a mallet or gavel.

There are four basic elements (according to both ancient philosophy and modern science), and the ancients represented them by the four arms of the cross, placing at the end of each arm a mysterious Qabbalistic creature to symbolize the power of one of these elements. Thus, they symbolized the element of earth by a bull; water by a scorpion, a serpent, or an eagle; fire by a lion; and air by a human head surrounded by wings. It is significant that the four letters inscribed upon parchment (some say wood) and fastened to the top of the cross at the time of the crucifixion should be the first letters of four Hebrew words which stand for the four elements: "Iammin, the sea or water; Nour, fire; Rouach, the air; and Iebeschah, the dry earth." (See Morals and Dogma, by Albeit Pike.)

That a cross can be formed by opening or unfolding the surfaces of a cube has caused that symbol to be associated with the earth. Though a cross within a circle has long been regarded as a sign of the planet Earth, it should really be considered as the symbol of the composite element earth, since it is composed of the four triangles of the elements. For thousands of years the cross has been identified with the plan of salvation for humanity. The elements--salt, sulphur, mercury, and Azoth--used in making the Philosopher's Scone in Alchemy, were often symbolized by a cross. The cross of the four cardinal angles also had its secret significance, and Masonic parties of three still go forth to the four cardinal points of the compass in search of the Lost Word.

~ Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of All Ages

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Phanes: God/dess of Creation

Phanes (FAH-nees) is a primordial Hellenic deity. In Orphic cosmogony, they are responsible for the creation of the universe and the forces of creation, light, fertility and the generation of new life. They were the first ruler of the universe and the architect of the Golden Age.

Phanes was described as radiantly beautiful. They were often depicted with enormous golden wings, four eyes, the heads of a bull, a lion, and a ram, cloven hoofs, two sets of reproductive organs, hair of fire, and the cosmic serpent coiled around them. See also: this Italian Renaissance drawing of them, based on a 2nd century CE Greco-Roman bas relief. (content note: artistic nudity)

Theoi.com page for Phanes

More Orphic fragments about Phanes

Name meaning: the one who reveals, the one who brings to light

Things to love about them, from various myths:

-Hatched from an egg generated by Time (Khronos) and Necessity (Ananke). I like this because I feel it implies that change happens when the time is right. -Often described as intersex in ancient sources; having both sets of reproductive organs, they don’t need anything other than themselves to make new life. -Put souls into human bodies -Drew the zodiac signs on the heavens with a pencil -Peacefully passed on ruler-of-the-universe power to their daughter, Nyx

Ideas for altar items:

-feathers, especially feathers painted gold -bulls, lions, rams -snakes -eggs and eggshells -pencils, paintbrushes

Ideas for devotional acts:

-MAKE THINGS -do the thing you’re nervous about, trust that it will work out -go lie on the floor surrounded by butcher paper and magic markers -dance (i.e. a form of creation that uses only the worshipper’s body) -watch the sun rise -practice “being in the moment” -practice loving yourself -be the change you want to see in the world

Ideas for offerings:

-ART!!!! -candles, or any light source -vegetarian food (since Orphism promoted a vegetarian diet, I imagine an Orphic deity would prefer meatless offerings) -read their Orphic hymn 

Personal:

I associate Phanes with lying on the kitchen floor when I was a kid, coloring with magic markers on big sheets of butcher paper, existing totally in the moment and in the sheer joy of unscripted creation. To me, their presence feels very open and trusting and curious, but they’re also a raw, powerful, unstoppable force that won’t be fenced in. Forget about going to bed at a reasonable hour.

I started worshipping Phanes recently, and I adore them. I want them to be more widely worshipped. I want them to have e-shrines. I want them to have devotees drawing them and crying about how much they love them and putting their pretty face on the intersex pride flag. 

If you love Phanes too, reblog to gift them the visibility they deserve!

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In the centre a standing, naked youth, holding a long staff with his left and a thunderbolt with his right. His hoof-shaped feet rest on an upturned cone (half egg) from which flames are pouring forth. Above his curly head with five rays, is a similar cone, turned in the opposite direction and also aflame. Above this fire the head of a serpent, which winds itself round the figure in four spirals. Behind his shoulders with the two wings, the horns of a crescent are visible. On his breast the mask of a lion's head, while from his sides the heads of a ram (r) and a buck (1) are budding forth.

The figure is standing in a kind of niche, which is boarded by an elliptical band which is divided into twelve parts. Each part contains a sign of the zodiac. Beginning above the head of the deity to the left viz: Aries-Taurus-of the Gemini, which embrace each other, one holds a lyre-Cancer-Leo-dressed Virgo with cornears in her left-Libra, carried by a standing, naked youth-Scorpio-Sagittarius in the figure of i Centaur, shooting a bow-Capricornus with a fish-tail; Aquarius, a standing, naked youth, emptying an amphora over his l. shoulder-Pisces.

In the corners the heads of the winds, two young and beardless, two shaggy and bearded: Zephyrus (top right)-Notus (top left)-Boreas(bottom left)-Eurus.(bottom right). The relief has an inscription:

696.

Beside the god's legs:

Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. In the lower corners: P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater. The name of Euphrosyne has been obliterated as well as possible in accordance with the rule that in the Mithras-cult no women were allowed.

Although formerly little attention was paid to the relief, it has been one of the main topics of discussion during the last few decennia. On the ground of an inscription from Rome (No. 475), Cumont is of the opinion that the youthful-figure must be the god of Eternal Time, identified with the Orphic Phanes. There is of course a chance, that the relief should have belonged to an Orphic sect before it came to be the property of the followers of Mithras. In connection with this suggestion we venture to point to the obliterated name of a woman. The analogy between the god of Time and Phanes can be accounted for. if one remembers, how Phanes owes his existence to Time. So.it might be a resemblance of father and son. Iconologically important on the other hand is also the Phanes-Pan identification, which here finds its expression in the hoof-shaped feet of the god, whereas moreover the whole shows a close relationship with the-representations of Mithras' rock-birth, the Persian god with whom Phanes had also been identified. So the relief is of a very syncretistic nature. Astrologic, Orphic, Chaldaeic and magic influences are interwoven in this relief, as was shown by Nilsson. 00000000000000000000000000000

Euphrosyne is a Goddess of Joy or Mirth, and the incarnation of grace and beauty. The other two Charites are Thalia (Good Cheer) and Aglaea (Beauty or Splendor). Her half-brother is Hephaistos, or Hephaestus, the god of metalworking and volcanoes. Her name is the female version of a Greek word euphrosynos, which means "merriment".

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