Pyramids - Oh Holy Liberty
© Arnvid Aakre
Anybody guessed what the Holy Family saw on their way to the Nile from Wadi Natron?
Following was the only part I told you in last article:
"Then suddenly one morning something unbelievable rose in east together with the sun. It was the White House - house...".
First: There never lived any Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt.
Reason for this is that the word "Pharaoh" is not an Egyptian title, but comes from the Biblical transcription of the Ancient Egyptian title: Per-eo.
Meaning?
Directly translated it mean "Large House", or "White House".
"White" most likely used as the walls around Per-eo's palace in early Old Kingdom was white!
"House", as a the last ruling god of Ancient Egypt - the falcon god Horus - had to incarnate in a human being to share his power and wisdom with the Nile kingdom. In other words, Horus ruled Egypt via Per-eo, "His Highness the White House".
Just think it all over again, what is the original "White House"? The one in Russia, the one in US - or the "large house" for the "white house" standing in the desert outside today's Cairo?
Egyptian reflection in US is in fact quite amazing, we have mentioned the White House, and just think about the dollar bill with the pyramid and a grand obelisk with it's highly symbolic location. As if that is not enough, what about the Statue of Liberty?
Allow me to get side tracked here, as many have asked for this story.
It all started when Khedive Ismail, who was involved in the building of the Suez channel - made the decision that the Suez Channel had to have a large statue at its north entrance. He took contact with a French sculptor named Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, and the artist started the work on the statue, which should represent an Egyptian Farmer woman holding a torch in her hand to guide the seafarers safely to the gate of the channel.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi finished the model in time (not as Verdi who was a year late with the Opera Aida - as the Opera was ordered to the opening of the Suez Channel). Problem was that Khedive Ismail was a big spender to put it mildly - as Alan Moorehead in his book "The White Nile" clearly show:
"It was not only honest men like Baker and Gordon who were attracted to his service; a plague of speculators descended upon Egypt as well and the easily contrived to get rid of Ismail's money even faster than he borrowed it. In round figures the Egyptian national debt was £3,000,000 at Ismail's accession, and before long he managed to convert his into a deficit of £100,000,000 - and this at a time when the pound was worth two or three times what it is today."
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