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History of the Morningstar

Horus the Elder (3200 BC) is usually identified as a solar deity, some scholars
associate him with Venus, and others with the star Sirius. He is experienced as a
Falcon-God and later as a Star.

Titles given to Horus were;


Horus risen as a star, Horus, the star of souls, Horus, star at the front of the
sky.

Horus is clearly not the sun as this has been clearly established through the many
hymns identifying Re with the Sun. Here a deceased king is brought up to the
heavens by the Sun god Re;

"Re summons you into the zenith of the sky as the Jackal, the Governor of the Two
Enneads, and as Horus ntymnit.f; may he set you as the Morning Star in the
midst of the Field of Reeds.

Egyptologist Raymond Faulkner concludes that the Morning Star is the planet
Venus;

"As regards the identification of the Morning Star and the Lone Star with actual
celestial bodies, there can be little doubt that, as elsewhere, the Morning Star is
Phosphorus, Venus as seen at dawn.

Egyptologist Rolf Krauss in his detailed study of the Egyptian Star Religion also
identifies Horus with Venus;

As early as the beginning of dynastic times Horus seems to be identified with the
planet Venus. The names of the socalled royal vineyards describe Horus as a star.
The name of Djosers vineyard reveals that Horus is a particular star at the front of
the sky. The identification of Horus with Venus as known from the Pyramid Texts
suggests itselfRoyal ideology and ideas about the Hereafter seem to have had
cosmological and stellar foundations which may well go back to pre-dynastic
times."
The Egyptian word Duat is commonly referred to as the 'Netherworld' and
derived from the root 'dw'
meaning 'morning'. Here Horus as the Morning Star
is also Lord of the Netherworld.

Pyramid Texts:
O Morning Star, Horus of the Netherworld, divine Falcon,
wddbird whom the sky bore"

In ancient Babylon the Sumerian king Etana is driven by pride to acquire a seat
beside the Star Gods of the Northern Mountain but is defeated and 'falls'.

To the Canaanites he was 'Shaher' the Morning Star who each day announced the
birth of the Sun and his brother 'Shalem' the Evening Star announcing the death
of the Sun.. Their mother being Asherah and her womb referred to as the 'pit', an
aspect of the word 'Helel'. Asherah (Helel) attempts to dethrone the Sun god El is
defeated and cast from the heavens. This becomes the Phoenician myth called the
'Fall of the Day Star' (7th Century B.C). This story becomes the Sumerian myth of
Ishtar and Inanna's descent into the Underworld.

"The actual name, "Lucifer," goes back to the Greeks, before the Romans. Socrates
and Plato talk about this "god of light"; surprisingly, not in the context of Eos (god
of Dawn), but as a morning star juxtaposed with the sun (Helios) and Hermes.
This information can be found in Plato's Timaeus (38e) and in Edith Hamilton's
Mythology." - The Polytheism Of The Bible And The Mystery Of Lucifer by F.T.
DeAngelis

Plato referred to the Morning Star as Aster which he at the time believed to also
be the evening Star (he would be correct), Aster being a form of a
dying-resurrecting god;

"Aster, once, as MorningStar, light on the living you shed. Now, dying, as
Evening Star, you shine among the dead."

Plato aside, the Greeks knew Hesperus as the Evening Star and Phosphorus as the
Morning Star, both personifications of Venus. Phosphorus also called Eosphorus
meant 'bearer of the dawn / light' and would be translated into Latin as the word
'Lucifer'.
By 382 A.D. Pope Damasus I commissioned St. Jerome to write a revision of the
Latin translation of the Bible. The Hebrew translation used the word 'Helel' and
St. Jerome replaces this with the word 'Lucifer':

"Et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem : cui benefacitis attendentes quasi


lucern lucenti in caliginoso donec dies elucescat, et lucifer oriatur in cordibus
vestries"

The Roman god Lucifer is found in the poet Publius Ovidius Naso's
"Metamorphoses" (8th century A.D.), the poet Virgil mentions him in 29 B.C. and
the first mention of the Roman god Lucifer comes from Plato's dialogues from 360
B.C., where he is associating Venus with Lucifer and Mercury with Hermes.

Timaeus
by Plato (360 B.C.E)

Time, then, and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order that,
having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they
might be dissolved together. It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature,
that it might resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists from
eternity, and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such
was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and
five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to
distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made-their
several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was
revolving-in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit
nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then
came the morning star and the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which
have an equal swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction; and this is the
reason why the sun and Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken by each
other. To enumerate the places which he assigned to the other stars, and to give
all the reasons why he assigned them, although a secondary matter, would give
more trouble than the primary. These things at some future time, when we are at
leisure, may have the consideration which they deserve, but not at present.
Conclusion:
The word Lucifer can be traced to the ancient ideals surrounding the myths
associated with the Morningstar and his brother the Evening Star. Early on these
myths place the Morningstar into the role of attempted usurper who is defeated
and becomes a fallen deity. It would not be until the Gnostics of the 1st century
A.D. and Miltons Paradise Lost (1667 A.D.) found Lucifer to be the Serpent in the
Garden of Eden and transformed the myth of the Fallen Morningstar into that of
the angel Lucifer the principle of compassion for life and creation, defiance of
corrupt authority and the current of spiritual evolution.


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