ENDNOTES
Introduction. The Origin of Our Questions
1. See “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the nether world,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.1.4# (accessed January 2015); and Kramer, Sumerians.
2. Jung, Psychology and Religion.
3. Martin, Experiment in Depth.
4. Raffa, Healing the Sacred Divide.
5. Barber and Barber, When They Severed Earth from Sky.
6. Schwaller de Lubicz, Symbol and the Symbolic, 38.
7. Hadot, Plotinus.
8. Frye, Great Code, the Bible and Literature.
9. Toynbee, Study of History.
Chapter One.
Life and Meaning in Myth
1. See “Egyptian Hieroglyphs,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs (accessed January 10, 2015).
2. Harpur, Pagan Christ.
3. Meyerson, Linguist and the Emperor.
4. See “Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baronet (accessed January 10, 2015).
5. de Santillana and von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill.
6. Wilkinson, Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt. Offers extensive coverage of the history of ancient Egypt and its interactions with countries in the Near and Middle East.
7. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia; and Mitchell, Gilgamesh.
8. Mitchell, Gilgamesh.
Chapter Two.
Myths of Creation and the Awakening of Higher Consciousness
1. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, 130; and Kramer, Sumerians.
2. See “Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ (accessed January 2015).
3. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology.
4. See “Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ (accessed January 2015).
5. Heidel, Babylonian Genesis.
6. Jacobsen, Treasures of Darkness.
7. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia.
8. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals.
9. See “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the nether world,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.1.4# (accessed January 2015).
10. Heidel, Babylonian Genesis.
11. Jacobsen, Treasures of Darkness.
12. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia.
13. Heidel, Babylonian Genesis.
14. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia.
15. Faulkner, Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. For example, see Pyramid Text 307, Unis Text 212.
16. Needleman, What Is God?
17. Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
18. Faulkner, Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Pyramid Text 213; Unis Text 146.
19. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia.
20. Budge, The Book of the Dead, 173.
21. Ibid., 28.
22. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt.
23. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos.
24. Waterfield, Theology of Arithmetic.
25. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, 42; Pyramid Text 527, lines 1248–49.
26. Ibid., 3; Pyramid Text 600, lines 1652–53.
27. Ibid., 37.
28. Ibid., 45.
29. Frankfort, Birth of Civilization in the Near East.
30. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, 37.
31. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 39.
32. Budge, Book of the Dead, cxviii.
33. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, 265.
34. Ibid., 58.
35. Ibid., Pyramid Text 301, line 449.
36. Ibid., Pyramid Text 301, line 449.
37. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, 59.
38. Ibid., 60; Pyramid Text 506, lines 1099–1100.
39. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 54.
40. Frankfort, Birth of Civilization in the Near East.
41. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, 80.
42. Budge, Egyptian Religion, 89.
43. Ibid., 90.
44. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, 39.
45. Budge, Book of the Dead, cxviii.
46. See “Thoth,” http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth (accessed January 10, 2015).
47. Kramer, Sumerians, 174–83.
48. Ibid., 69–70.
49. See “Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ (accessed January 2015).
50. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, 70.
51. Ibid., 70.
52. See “Enki and Ninmah: Translation,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr112.htm (accessed January 10, 2015).
53. Kramer, Sumerians, 66.
54. Ibid., 160–62; and “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the nether world,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.1.4# (accessed January 2015).
55. Kramer, Sumerians, 116, Segment F, lines 14–34.
56. See “Me (mythology),” http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_(mythology) (accessed January 10, 2015).
57. Frye, Great Code, the Bible and Literature.
58. Heidel, Babylonian Genesis.
59. See “Marduk,” http://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Marduk (accessed January 10, 2015).
60. Jacobsen, Treasures of Darkness.
61. West, Serpent in the Sky.
62. Schwaller de Lubicz, Temple of Man.
63. Frankfort, Birth of Civilization in the Near East.
Chapter Three.
A Dialogue of the Ages
1. d’Olivet, Hebraic Tongue Restored.
2. Ibid., 399.
3. I. Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak, Egyptian Initiate.
4. Gunther Plaut, Torah.
5. d’Olivet, Hebraic Tongue Restored.
Chapter Four.
Gilgamesh: The Struggle for Life
1. Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men.
2. Jung, Two Essays in Analytical Psychology, 71.
3. Sandars, Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Mitchell, Gilgamesh.
5. Sandars, Epic of Gilgamesh, 62.
6. Ibid., 66.
7. Ibid., 62.
8. Ibid.
9. Kramer, The Sumerians, 1489.
10. Sandars, Epic of Gilgamesh, 84.
11. Ibid., 97.
12. Ibid., 100.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., 101.
16. Ibid., 70.
17. Ibid., 102.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., 107.
20. Ibid., 112.
21. Ibid., 108.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., 113.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., 116.
26. Ibid., 117.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., 66.
29. Kramer, Sumerians, 199–206.
30. Sandars, Epic of Gilgamesh, 61.
Chapter Five.
Ancient Egyptian Myths of the Awakening of Higher Consciousness
1. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt.
2. Schwaller de Lubicz, Temple of Man.
3. Ibid., 2.
4. Schwaller de Lubicz, Symbol and the Symbolic, 100.
5. Ibid.
6. Budge, The Book of the Dead, 32.
7. Schwaller de Lubicz, Temple of Man.
8. Sellers, Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt.
9. Sandars, Epic of Gilgamesh, 88.
10. See “Axial Precession,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession (accessed January 10, 2015).
11. See “Ra,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra (accessed January 10, 2015).
12. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar, 646.
13. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 73.
14. Schwaller de Lubicz, Temple of Man, 359.
Chapter Six.
Journeys through the Netherworld
1. Tracol, Taste for Things That Are True.
2. Kingsley, Reality, 31.
3. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts.
4. Eliade, Shamanism.
5. Brunton, Search in Secret Egypt.
6. Budge, Book of the Dead.
7. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia.
8. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 17–25.
9. Ibid., 245.
10. Ibid., 246.
11. Ibid., 247.
12. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, 88–96. Contains the whole of the available text.
13. See “Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature,” http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ (accessed January 2015).
14. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, 91.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., 88.
17. Ibid., 89.
18. Ibid., 90.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., 91.
21. Ibid., 92.
22. Budge, Book of the Dead, 246–47.
23. Ibid., 247.
24. Ibid., 282.
25. See “Arrow of Time,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time (accessed January 10, 2015).
Chapter Seven.
The Search for Wholeness and Higher Consciousness
1. Budge, Book of the Dead. See “Introductory Commentary,” ci–cvi, on the Abode of the Blessed, figure 1.
2. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts.
3. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos.
4. Wilkinson, Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
5. See “Salem Witch Trials,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Timeline (accessed January 10, 2015).
6. See “List of Executed for Witchcraft,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_witchcraft (accessed January 10, 2015).
7. Versluis, Philosophy of Magic.
8. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 57.
9. Ibid., 67–68.
10. Ibid., 170.
11. Ibid., 126.
12. Ibid., 128.
13. Ibid., 190.
14. Ibid., 31.
15. Ibid., 39.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., 320.
18. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos.
19. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 215.
20. Ibid., 170.
21. Ibid., 171.
22. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 125.
23. Kingsley, Reality.
24. Ibid., 186.
25. Ibid., 224.
26. Ibid., 29.
27. Versluis, Philosophy of Magic.
28. Kingsley, Reality, 510–13.
29. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 125.
30. Hamilton and Cairns, Collected Dialogues of Plato.
Appendix 1.
The Lineage of Myth
1. Budge, Book of the Dead.
2. See “Sumer,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer (accessed January 12, 2015).
3. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals.
4. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts.
5. Budge, Book of the Dead.
6. Faulkner, Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts; and Faulkner, Egyptian Book of the Dead.
7. Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
8. Hornung, Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife.
9. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts.
10. Allen, Middle Egyptian.
11. Faulkner, Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian.
12. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts.
13. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts.
14. Schwaller de Lubicz, Temple of Man.
15. Mitchell, Gilgamesh, 5.
16. Johnson, “The Wisdom of Festival,” 20–23.
17. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia.
18. Ibid.
19. Mitchell, Gilgamesh.
20. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic.
21. de Santillana and von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill.
22. Frankfort, Birth of Civilization in the Near East, 56.
23. Kramer, Sumerians.
24. See “Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baronet (accessed January 10, 2015).
Appendix 2.
Meanings Contained in Glyphs
1. Schwaller de Lubicz, Symbol and the Symbolic.
2. d’Olivet, Hebraic Tongue Restored.
Appendix 3.
Creation Represented in Number Systems
1. West, Serpent in the Sky.
2. Schwaller de Lubicz, Symbol and the Symbolic.
3. Lawlor, Sacred Geometry.
4. Naydler, Goethe on Science.
5. Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life.