Geb Quotes

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite writers, the American "critic of the seven arts", James Huneker, in his scintillating biography of Frédéric Chopin, on the subject of Chopin's étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, which for me, and for Huneker, is one of the most stirring and most sublime pieces of music ever written: “Small-souled men, no matter how agile their fingers, should avoid it.” "Small-souled men"?! Whew! Does that phrase ever run against the grain of American democracy! And yet, leaving aside its offensive, archaic sexism (a crime I, too, commit in GEB, to my great regret), I would suggest that it is only because we all tacitly do believe in something like Hueneker's' shocking distinction that most of us are willing to eat animals of one sort or another, to smash flies, swat mosquitos, fight bacteria with antibiotics, and so forth. We generally concur that "men" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive "soul" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is — and that, no more and no less, is why we "men" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.

The gatekeeper comes out to you, He grasps your hand, Takes you into heaven, to your father Geb. He rejoices at your coming, lives you his hands, Kisses you, caresses you, Utterance 373 Antechamber, West Wall The king is raised from his tomb

GEB is in essence a long proposal of strange loops as a metaphor for how selfhood originates, a metaphor by which to begin to grab a hold of just what it is that makes an "I" seem, at one and the same time, so terribly real and tangible to its own possessor, and yet also so vague, so impenetrable, so deeply elusive.

Out of the chaos and darkness of Nun rose Ammon-Ra, He-Who-Creates-Himself. I watched Ammon-Ra stroke his generative member, masturbating and spurting out his seminal seed in mighty waves that left the silver smear that we know as the Milky Way across the dark void. From this seed were generated Geb and Nut, the earth and the heaven.

Apophis the god of Chaos Anubis the god of funerals and death Babi the baboon god Bast the cat goddess Bes the dwarf god Disturber a god of judgement who works for Osiris Geb the earth god Gengen-Wer the goose god Hapi the god of the Nile Heket the frog goddess Horus the war god, son of Isis and Osiris Isis the goddess of magic, wife of her brother Osiris and mother of Horus Khepri the scarab god, Ra’s aspect in the morning Khonsu the moon god Mekhit minor lion goddess, married to Onuris Neith the hunting goddess Nekhbet the vulture goddess Nut the sky goddess Osiris the god of the Underworld, husband of Isis and father of Horus Ra the sun god, the god of order; also known as Amun-Ra Sekhmet the lion goddess Serqet the scorpion goddess Set the god of evil Shu the air god, great-grandfather of Anubis Sobek the crocodile god Tawaret the hippo goddess Thoth the god of knowledge

For an imperfect but vivid concrete analogue to this curious abstract phenomenon, think of what happens when a TV camera is pointed at a TV screen so as to display the screen on itself (and that screen on itself, etc.)- what in GEB I called a "self-engulfing television", and in my later writings I sometimes call a "level-crossing feedback loop." When and only when such a loop arises in a brain or in any other substrate, is a person-a unique new "I" - brought into being. Moreover, the more self-referentially rich such a loop is, the more conscious is the self to which it gives rise. Yes, shocking though this might sound, consciousness is not an on/off phenomenon, but admits of degrees, grades, shades. Or, to put it more bluntly, there are bigger souls and smaller souls.

En el origen Atum yace en las aguas primordiales junto a Shu y Tefnut, inertes y equilibrados, fundidos en un abrazo perpetuo. El ojo de Atum cobra conciencia de sí, y Shu y Tefnut se pierden en el abismo inmenso de las aguas. Entonces el ojo abandona a su dueño y parte en búsqueda de los otros dos. Una vez que los ha rescatado, Atum les confiere nuevos nombres: Shu será ahora Vida y Ser eterno; Tefnut, Maat, el orden cósmico y la ley. En la siguiente fase de la creación, esta pareja da a luz al Cielo y la Tierra. Nut es la diosa Cielo; Geb, el dios Tierra. Sin embargo, como ya vimos, Shu mantiene a distancia al Cielo de la Tierra, lo que entraña gran sufrimiento: «A los dioses creé de mi sudor», dice Atum, «pero los hombres proceden de mis lágrimas». Shu separa a Nut de Geb, permitiendo que su propia naturaleza, aire, luz y espacio, provea las condiciones para la vida. Por el cuerpo de Nut, el firmamento, navegan el barco del Sol, la Luna y los planetas. Es un cuerpo tachonado de estrellas y también una vaca celeste

Como en la literatura védica, la divinidad transfiere a los seres su ka, su ātman, se introduce en ellos (para que no la olviden, para que el mundo no vuelva a precipitarse en el caos). Atum se vierte literalmente en la creación, a semejanza de lo que ocurre en las upaniṣad. Los mellizos Shu y Tefnut, macho y hembra, dan lugar al resto de los dioses. Primero, a la pareja formada por el Cielo y la Tierra, Nut y Geb; después, a partir de estos, a dos parejas más: Osiris e Isis, y Seth y Neftis. Tales son los nueve dioses conocidos como la gran Enéada de Heliópolis.

vibrate Ô Ô Ô Ô Ô Ô Ô as in HÔme. Now make the sign of the (invoking) pentagramme in the air in front of you and vibrate Aa, Eye, EE, Ou, Uh (Ay EAO - Oh Hail) Nephthys Aa, Eye, EE, Ou, Uh (Ay EAO - Oh Hail) Horus Aa, Eye, EE, Ou, Uh (Ay EAO - Oh Hail) Isis Aa, Eye, EE, Ou, Uh (Ay EAO - Oh Hail) Set Aa, Eye, EE, Ou, Uh (Ay EAO - Oh Hail) Geb Aa, Eye, EE, Ou, Uh (Ay EAO - Oh Hail) Nuit

Strangest of all are the suggestions that Tír is linked to a sister world, variously known as Geb, Jörd, Gaia – or even Terra, a name akin to that of our world, Tír. Manifold are the references to this sister world in the legends of Tír, notably those of the warrior races such as Fir Bolg and Shee. In both traditions the two worlds are spoken of as twins – as if worlds like infants, might share a single cosmic birth. Communication and even passage between worlds is said to be possible through Dromenon or the power of the Fáil. This same passage is said to have allowed the seeds of war to be carried from one world to the other, though such history is uncertain and largely denied. Most intriguing is the suggestion that the fates of the two worlds might also be entwined, as is occasionally seen, even dramatically so, in living twins. The implications are unknown, perhaps even unknowable. Yet one is tempted to question if the answers to the afflictions of one world might be discovered in the struggles and tribulations of the other? – Ussha De Danaan: last High Architect of Ossierel

Anubis the god of funerals and death Apophis the god of chaos Babi the baboon god Bast the cat goddess Bes the dwarf god Geb the earth god Heket the frog goddess Horus the war god, son of Isis and Osiris Isis the goddess of magic, wife of her brother Osiris and mother of Horus Khepri the scarab god, Ra’s aspect in the morning Khnum the ram-headed god, Ra’s aspect at sunset in the underworld Khonsu the moon god Mekhit minor lion goddess, married to Onuris Nekhbet the vulture goddess Nephthys the river goddess Nut the sky goddess Osiris the god of the underworld, husband of his sister Isis and father of Horus Ptah the god of craftsmen Ra the sun god, the god of order. Also known as Amun-Ra. Sekhmet the lion goddess Set the god of evil Shu the air god Sobek the crocodile god Tawaret the hippo goddess Thoth the god of knowledge

On, es el nombre que le dieron los hebreos y aparece en la Biblia en los capítulos 41 y 46 del Génesis. Heliópolis, literalmente, la ciudad del sol, fue el nombre que los griegos le dieron a la egipcia Annu. Y le dieron dicho nombre porque existía para los egipcios una Annu celestial en un lugar indeterminado, al igual que harían los cristianos con Jerusalén, y los musulmanes con la Meca. La Annu celestial era la capital del mundo mitológico. Ese mundo mitológico conocido como la enéada de Heliópolis comienza con la aparición de Atum, también identificado como Atum-Ra, el andrógino que se crea a sí mismo, a partir de Nun, las aguas primordiales. De él emanan: Shu, representado con una pluma sobre su cabeza, el aire, y Tefnut, representado por una cabeza de león, el cálido aliento húmedo.  Se trata de dos gemelos, que serán casi idénticos en su naturaleza. De ellos emanan Nut, el cielo estrellado y Geb, la tierra. La primera en forma de cuerpo arqueado lleno de estrellas y el segundo recostado en el suelo con las piernas cruzadas. Ambos se representan desnudos, pero no se tocan, pues es la primera separación, aquella, que la Biblia describe en el Génesis como: “–y Dios creó los cielos y la tierra”–.

A continuación, vamos a comentar la historia tal como la cuenta el papiro Bremner-Rhind, que se conserva en el museo británico de Londres, con nuestros comentarios entre paréntesis. Para ser pronunciado: Así habló el señor de todas las cosas, después de que hubiese venido a la existencia. “–Fui yo, quien vino a la existencia como Khepri–”. (el dios primordial Atum fue asociado al Sol como fuente generadora de vida y tendrá tres aspectos: Khepri, el escarabajo sagrado, el amanecer; Ra el mediodía y Atum el atardecer) …– y todos los seres vinieron a la existencia después de que yo viniera a la existencia. Numerosas fueron los seres que surgieron de mi boca antes de que el cielo hubiera venido a la existencia– (recordemos que Atum era andrógino y se generaba a si mismo) –antes de que la tierra y los reptiles hubiesen sido creador en ese lugar, yo creé en Nun– (las aguas primordiales) ….. –hice todas las formas antes de que hubiera escupido a Shu, antes de expectorar a Tefnut, …después de que yo hube venido a la existencia como único dios, hubo tres dioses además de mí. Y Shu y Tefnut se alegraron en el Nun en el que se encontraban…Shu y Tefnut engendradon a Geb y Nut. Geb y Nut engendraron a Osiris, Seth, Isis y Neftis de su útero, uno tras otro, y ellos dieron origen a las multitudes que habitan esta tierra–. (con esto viene a decirnos que somos hijos o descendientes de los dioses)

With such men at the helm, the GEB, for all its good works, would fall considerably short of heaven.

While the GEB achieved remarkable things in upgrading southern education, it failed to deliver major results where it had originally wanted them most: in black education.

In mapping out his strategy, Rose adopted the GEB model of using Rockefeller money as a catalyst for government cooperation.

In its thirty-year existence, the GEB dispensed $130 million, equal to more than $1 billion today.

While keeping apart from the management of the RIMR and the GEB, Rockefeller remained more involved with the University of Chicago.

Ich hab' so viele Lieder gesungen und geb' es zu: Ein jedes handelt von dir.