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25. Heru Awa 23? Moon &oU
26. Shepes 29? Justice Z
27. Menew 27 Fool 2
28. Wew 28 Death uu
[29. Het Her (Hathor) 08 Empress X ]
From 0 to 15 on the list are unambiguous houses that are found on the Senet Oracle
Board. Tem's identity as the cubit ruler itself (1) is reasonably certain, because he is
missing from the part of the traditional sequence of the Ennead that does not change.
(Other members vary and the sequence as a whole varies.) The identities of the
remaining 13 on the list as major deities, including Hathor as the hypothetical termination
unit, are not certain. "Sep" as Fortune (Shay) and "Arm@-wa" as the meditating Hermit
("Benew" Bird) are plausible. Either "Menew" or "Pehety" can stand for the Baboon
Fool. The rest are just conjecture. There may not be any correlation of the last 13 with
the Senet Board, or this list may have represented another "Senet" layout done in a linear
fashion. My selection of Hathor as the end point of the ruler is pure guesswork. I
consider her to be the consort of Ra-Tem.
The Egyptians, like many ancient peoples, had no concept of zero as a number. Their
system of mensuration was reciprocal so that reality for them remained always in a state
of unity, either explicit or implicit. Division into multiplicity, and even the diversity of
deities, were all considered illusory manifestations of a single unified reality. The myth
of Set dismembering Osiris into pieces that were then reassembled and brought back to
life is a symbolic representation of this ancient world view. Thus the popular notion that
the Egyptians were polytheistic is a misunderstanding of Egyptian culture.
The Egyptian Reciprocal Numbering System
(written with Arabic numerals)
1/9, 1/8, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
The Senet Oracle Board Mensuration Encoder
My theory is that the Senet Oracle Board functions not as a ruler like the cubit stick, but
as a mensuration encoder. I suggest that the basic dimensions of the Senet Board
encode the universal constant ratios that are fundamental to physics and mathematics.
The various different components of the board represent the various fundamental
properties to be measured. The squares on the board represent orders of magnitude and
are interpreted by their relative positions on the board. Operations on the board that
transform its grid scale via the spiral principle discussed earlier enable it to function in
the macroworld, the microworld, or the human scale according to the wishes of an artist
or engineer just as the cubit ruler mensuration demonstrates. Thus a square can represent
a positive exponent or a negative exponent or human scale, depending on whether you
interpret it macrocosmically, microcosmically, or in terms of human events.
We will begin in the quantum microworld with a formula for the representation of a
nucleon (proton or neutron) in terms of universal constants. This is an outrageous