Lord Raum is an incredibly powerful and mysterious deity who has aided humanity for many aeons. He was worshipped in Egypt for thousands of years as the God named Khnum, who was one of the oldest Gods of the Egyptian pantheon. The word Khnum means to ‘yoke together’ or ‘build’, paralleling the word yoga.
Technically, Khnum represents life in its purest state, the life-force prior to any kind of separation of species or matter by form. For this reason, He was regarded as pivotal to the maintenance of existence and of extreme importance. Khnum was associated with the entire animal world and all species within it by the same virtue of being the symbol of the life-force.
The Egyptians held Khnum to be the patron deity of the Nile, tied to the survival of Egypt as a civilization. His very word could decide the conditions for agriculture where flooding could produce rich deposits of silt and clay for year-long farming or lead to depletion. As we now know via evolutionary theory, water is where all life begins. Khnum’s most prominent temples were located on islands dedicated to His worship, such as Elephantine, near Syene, and Esna, near Thebes.
Khnum’s power was invoked by rulers for protection of their lives. The name of the Pharaoh who constructed the Great Pyramid of Giza, Khufu, means ‘Khnum is my protector.’ In Egyptian art, Pharaohs are often depicted alongside Him when asking for intercession in protective matters and functions. When the Romans conquered Egypt, the Roman emperors, beginning with Tiberius, used the imagery of this deity for good luck and to symbolize their power. Although Khnum is an extremely ancient deity, his presence remained varied, prolific, and widespread even during the Roman rule of Egypt.
Attachment 4318Domitian with Khnum. The inscription of this scene typically reads, “The son of Re (Domitian Augustus), beloved of Khnum-Re, Lord of Esna.”
The worshippers of Khnum often congregated together to chant. For women wishing to conceive, there were rites held at the Temple of Elephantine as Khnum was petitioned to allow them to create new life.
SYMBOLS OF RAUM
Khnum is portrayed with the head of a ram, a very important symbol connecting into life and nature in its purest guise. The Germanic word ‘ram’ (of supposedly unknown origin) and Raum are connected in meaning.
To put this in simpler terms, the struggle and competition of rams is symbolic of the necessity of fighting to survive and dominate. The ram always serves as a symbol of spring from which life emerges from the deep freeze of winter. Visually, the ram’s horns symbolize the beginning of life, starting from nothing and becoming more complex and varied with evolution and development. Horns of the ram allude to many other processes of creation—ovaries, for example, have this type of shape. The Fibonacci sequence of the series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers is also represented in the horns:
Attachment 4319More often, Khnum was represented with a circle on top of horizontal horns (sometimes with dual serpents attached), showing His connection to continuity and regeneration but hinting at the symbolism of eternal life through raising the serpent in the Sushumna channel.
As the bearer of the Ankh, Khnum is heavily associated with this symbol and its life-sustaining powers and the 'Ba' of the soul:
Attachment 4320A very important aspect of this imagery is His fashioning humans from clay on the potter’s wheel and breathing life into them, as this emphasizes the significance of the raw life-force in sustaining the process of reincarnation and the furtherance of higher nature.
Khnum is depicted in ancient Egyptian reliefs within a circle, surrounded by all species, beings, and Gods, as seen in this relief at the Temple of Esna:
Attachment 4321The word ‘room’ is also connected to the vastness of what Raum rules over, originally meaning ‘space’ or ‘vastness’ in Old English. Symbolic of this vastness is the account that Thor’s chariot is pulled by two rams, while Mangal (the planet Mars) rides a ram in Hinduism.
Raum is related to the ancient Greek mythological ram named Chrysomallos. A winged ram, sired by Poseidon, flew across the sea, rescuing the boy Phrixus and providing him with the Golden Fleece that Phrixus hung in the grove of Ares. Thereafter, the ram returned to the Gods, being sacrificed to become the constellation of Aries. The connection of Aries as being ‘the spark of life’ and Khnum is deeply rooted; He was also associated with Aries by the Egyptians themselves in the Dendera temple complex.
The ram’s horns are also represented in the glyph of Mercury, and the connection of the ram-bearing Hermes (Kriophoros) to Raum is part of this symbolism. Hermes (Thoth) wields the symbol of raw life to ward off disease and decay. This imagery was often deployed in communities of antiquity before plagues could occur.
RAUM AND THE ENEMY
Much of the symbolism of Christianity in using the ram and lambs was stolen and repackaged into the so-called ‘Lamb of God’, Agnus Dei. This false concept was written into the Bible to be the defender of the Davidic ‘house’ of the Hebrew kings, usurping Raum’s function as a protector of rulers.
Attachment 4322The innocence and blood of the ‘Lamb of God’, cross-referenced with the Nazarene with its so-called moral characteristics in the Book of Revelations, actually refers to the virgin life-force that Raum’s domain represents. Raum is also known as an exceptionally friendly deity to humanity, and this is one of the reasons Raum was so beloved in Egypt. Once again, this sinister imposter was written on top of an elaborate process and grotesquely literalized to create a fictitious being to worship.
Endless thieving of Hermes Kriophoros was employed to represent early depictions of the Nazarene:
Attachment 4323By the time of the dark ages, Raum was pushed into the enemy grimoires and represented as a monstrous entity taking the form of a black crow. He is said to know past, present, and future as a coy rewriting of His maintenance of life and to be a destroyer of cities in tandem with His abilities to cause destruction in military terms.
The era of this slander is now coming to an end. The sonorous chants for Lord Raum’s intercession and maintenance of everflowing life begin anew in the Heavenly Assembly of the Temple of Zeus. We are blessed to enlist the help of One so powerful and gracious among our ranks!
REFERENCES
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Jochen Hallof
Les fêtes religieuses d'esna aux derniers siècles du paganisme (Esna V), Serge Saunderon
(Special thanks and credit to [JG] Power of Justice for assistance with editing)
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