GOBEKLI TEPE
The pictorial symbols on this pillar resemble more of a migration of a sort. I wonder if there are at least three symbolic representations being presented here - the cause, the duration of the aftermath and the result?
For instance,
2. The duration of the aftermath:
The Oddly shaped vulture with the spread-out wings with the disc positioned at one end, matches the depiction above the vulture's head, of what appears to be the waters. Positioned at one end of the waters, like the disc and the wing, is the vulture (looking as though it is preparing to land), and in front, the vulture's head on a phallus. Is therefore the phallus leading the vulture that follows it? This then would relate to the phallus of Osiris and the phallus of the lakes/waters of Shu.
3. The result:
The final vulture is also positioned at the end but, looks settled, as if after a long journey or migration.
In other words, does the spread-out wings represent the waters? (The lakes of Shu/Jackal - or the winding-watercourse that is stretched-out from the temple of the Phoenix). Does the disc above the wing represent the vulture and the phallus?
1. The Cause:
The lower register is interesting also, with the focus being the head of the vulture. The scorpion in relation to the head would perhaps indicate friction of a sort between the two. The vulture is of course reminiscent of the goddess Hathor/Nut. When the head of the goddess Hathor/Nut is severed from the body, we then read of the head of the vulture. This then would pertain to the 'head of the temple' of the West, of which the waters flow from the vuvla (temple of the Phoenix in the East).
The scorpion is mentioned within the Pyrmiad Texts with relation to this severing of the head, almost as if the scorpion was responsible in some way for the beheading of the goddess.
"A vulture has become pregnant with N. in the night; (he is) on thy horn, O pregnant cow." Utterance 352
"The head of N. (Osiris) is like that of the vulture, when he ascends and lifts himself to the sky." Utterance 539
"Thou hast settled for thy father, so thy father did the same for thee, like the vulture (Nut) which places herself over her son (Osiris)." Utterance 590
The vulture, you explained, could be that of the Shaman, due to his strange feet and body posture. This reminds me of the priests within the hyroglyphs and how they would sit, almost as if they were portraying the three-stepped-throne of Osiris - is therefore the throne a symbolic represntaion of the head of the temple?
Some very interesting connections with the Pyramid Texts - thankyou for bringing this to my attention!
See relevant illustrations pertaining to this from my previous posts: [grahamhancock.com]
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Fascinating.
Shalom