THE PORTAL
RG VEDA 10.129
THE HYMN OF CREATION
1. Neither Existence nor Non-Existence was as yet,
Neither the world nor the sky that lies beyond it;
What was covered? And where? And who gave it protection?
Was there water, deep and unfathomable?
2. Neither was there death, nor immortality,
Nor any sign of night or day.
The ONE breathed without air by self-impulse;
Other than that was nothing whatsoever.
3. Darkness was concealed by darkness there,
And all of this was indiscriminate chaos;
That ONE which had been covered by the void
Through the heat of desire (tapas) was manifested.
4. In the beginning there was desire,
Which was the primal germ of the mind;
The sages searching in their own hearts with wisdom
Found in non-existence the kin of existence.
5. Their dividing line extended transversely.
What was below it and what above?
There was the seed-bearer, there were mighty forces!
Who therefore knows from where it did arise.
6. Who really knows? Who can here say
When was it born and from where creation came?
The gods are later than this world’s creation;
Therefore, who knows from where it came into existence?
7. That from which creation came into being,
Whether it had held together or it had not
He who watches in the highest heaven
He alone knows, unless … He does not know.
Meditations Through the Rg Veda, Antonio T. de Nicolas
Nicolas Hays Ltd. 1976 pg. 229
1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2. The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.
Old Testament/Holy Bible
One foot he centred, and the other turn’d
Round through the vast profundity obscure,
And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds,
This be thy just Circumference, O World.
Thus God the heav’n created, thus the Earth,
Matter unform’d and void:
John Milton; Paradise Lost, 7.228-33
THE PRIMORDIAL WORLD
THIS IS THE ACCOUNT of when all is still and placid. All is silent and calm. Hushed and empty is the womb of the sky
THESE, then, are the first words, the first speech. There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, or forest. All alone the sky exists. The face of the earth has not yet appeared. Alone lies the expanse of the sea, along with the womb of the sky. There is not yet anything gathered together. All is at rest. Nothing stirs. All is languid, at rest in the sky. There is not yet anything standing erect. Only the expanse of the water, only the tranquil sea lies alone. There is not yet anything that might exist. All lies placid and silent in the darkness, in the night.
All alone are the Framer and the Shaper, Sovereign and Quetzal Serpent, They Who Have Borne Children and They Who Have Begotten Sons. Luminous they are in the water, wrapped in quetzal feathers and cotinga feathers. Thus they are called Quetzal Serpent. In their essence, they are great sages, great possessors of knowledge. Thus surely there is the sky. There is also Heart of Sky, which is said to be the name of the god.
POPOL VUH, Allen J. Christensen, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, pgs 67-69
RG VEDA 10.130
HYMN OF CREATION
1. The Sacrifice, drawn out with threads on every side,
Stretched by the song of one hundred singers and one.
The Fathers who have here gathered, weave these songs,
They sit beside the warp and chant: “Weave back, weave forth.”
2. Man stretches it and man shrinks it;
Even the vault of heaven he has reached with it.
These pegs are fastened to the seat of the Sacrifice,
They made the Sama-chant their weaving path.
3. What were the measures, the order, the model?
What were the wooden sticks, the butter?
What were the hymn, the chant, the recitation?
When the gods sacrificed the god (Prajapati, Purusa)
4. Gayatri was linked to Agni, and Savitr with Usnih;
Soma, brilliant with song, was linked with Anustrup;
Brhaspati’s voice
To Brhati’s was joined. (See R.V. 1.164)
5. Viraj joined Varuna and Mitra;
Tristup became Indra’s measure, day by day.
Jagati became the measure of all gods.
By this knowledge men became Rsis.
6. When the first Sacrifice, Our Fathers, was born,
By this knowledge men became Rsis.
Now I behold those
Who first performed the Sacrifice.
7. Those who knew Sacrifice and meter, songs
And measures, were the Seven Divine Rsis.
Knowing this ancient path, the sages
Have taken up the reins like chariot-drivers.
Meditations Through the Rg Veda, Antonio,T. de Nicolas
Nicolas Hays Ltd. , 1976, pg.230
Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ “ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of it’s fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Old Testament/Holy Bible
THE SQUARE ROOT OF 3
To open this portal, one must first draw a circle with a compass on paper or a stick and string on dirt or sand. Before that, there is Neither Existence nor Non-Existence, just a blank piece of indiscriminate chaos until you chose where you want to draw the circle. That very act of deliberately and or randomly choosing where to place the compass point establishing the center of the circle is intimately related to the square root of 3 as are most, if not all, the geometric constructs that follow.
The second step is the ‘sacrifice’ and maybe even Eve’s eating of the fruit from the tree in the midst of the garden. From the Rg Veda 10.130 chant to the left, verse 1,’ The Sacrifice, drawn out with threads on every side’. Taking the compass, whose width is the radius of the circle, and placing the point of the compass anywhere on the circumference, allows for six equal ‘swings’ of the compass dissecting the circumference into six equal arcs.
Step three is connecting these six points creating the six equal chords that make up the hexagon. The Framer and Shaper at work, They Who Have Borne Children and They Who Have Begotten Sons?
Step four creates the ‘cube’ by connecting the six ‘corners’ of the hexagon to their opposites through the center of the circle, or ‘seat of the Sacrifice’. (RV 10.130, verse 2) With a slight shift of perspective, this optical illusion flips from a two-dimensional drawing of a triangular grid to a 3-dimensional cube with the center projecting a corner into three-dimensional space directly at the viewer. The diagonal of a cube is the ‘square root of three’ and by extension, the earth being a sphere, could also imply the earth’s axis.
Hortulanus: “the stone is divided into two principle parts by the magistry, into a superior part which ascends above and into an inferior part whish remains below fixed and clear. And these two parts moreover are concordant in their virtue since the inferior part is earth which is called nurse and ferment, and the superior part is the spirit which quickens the whole stone and raises it up”.
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes, Anonymous, Kessinger Publishing, p.18
All of this of course depending on one’s level of knowledge and the cultural backdrop or context, interpretation and use, where some of the math involved can be used to navigate oceans and or other featureless expanses such as the afterlife using geometry or trigonometry and mythically encoded formulas that measure time and space. The cube is composed of six equilateral triangles, mathematical constants that do not vary regardless of the diameter of the originating circle.
From Rg Veda 10.130, verse 4 at left are four pairs of gods possibly linking together to form the cube. Gayatri to Agni, Savitr to Usnih, Soma with Anustrup, totaling six, and the fourth pair, Brhaspati and Brhati are linked by ‘voice’. Could this pair represent the ‘invisible’ to us interior diagonal of the 3-dimensional cube? Might it also further imply the knowledge that the diagonal of a cube is the square root of three? The Quetzal Serpent, from the Quiche Maya Popol Vuh creation story to the right, may be mythically encoding, not necessarily the square root of three, but a certain level of knowledge referring to the tilt in the earth’s polar axis.
Step five creates the ‘six-pointed star’, composed of two inverted 60/60/60 degree equilateral triangles, the same mathematical constant mentioned above expressed a different way. This geometric design with an open hexagonal center repeats itself ad infinitum, creating ever smaller hexagons and six pointed stars, a true portal, of sorts. Again, from Rg Veda 10.130, verse 5, at left, in keeping with the geometric progression we are following, three gods are joined together. Viraj joined Varuna and Mitra, implying a triangle, with the following; Tristup became Indra’s measure, day by day. Jagati became the measure of all the gods, clearly suggesting another triangle. If these verses do refer specifically to the six-pointed star, then they also allude to another mathematical constant found in the circle, and that is the square root of three. The six- pointed star can be composed of two inverted triangles or three overlapping rectangles created by connecting the three sets of opposing cord pairs of the hexagon. The long sides of these rectangles are always the square root of three, a covenant, and ‘the measure of all the gods’. Every arc, cord, and line found with the six-pointed star in the hexagon is a direct reference to the square root of three. The space between each arc and it’s associated chord I call the ‘pocket’, a space certain elements found in the art I have been looking at seem to perfectly fit, further implying the square root of three. The six-pointed star and the enclosed horizontal rectangle, discussed in more detail below, are diagnostic tools for finding specific references to and encoding the square root of three. Any two elements in a long side corner-to-corner relationship of this rectangle are in a square root of three relationship. The entire rectangle itself can also be used as a specific graphic ‘symbol’ encoding the square root of three. One such example is the size and shape of Osiris’ chamber in the weighing of the heart scene from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, as seen in both the Papyrus of Ani and the Papyrus of Hunefer. A particular baseline alignment in the Papyrus of Ani puts Tutu’s eye and the balance beam of the scales on the same upper horizontal line of this rectangle, implying she is watching the weighing of Ani’s heart possibly in relation to the square root of three and the feather of truth.
