Hypocephalus of Shishaq (Sheshonq) שִׁישַׁק

The above facsimile represents Michael Lyon’s masterful reconstruction of the Shishaq Hypocephalus. See M. Lyon, “Appreciating Hypocephali as Works of Art and Faith”, FARMS Book of Abraham Lecture Series, 1999. Numbers, corresponding to Book of Abraham Facsimile 2, have been inserted, and Figure 7 has been adjusted (slightly) to more authentically represent the Egyptian depiction. See other Hypocephali (below). As an artist and careful researcher, M. Lyon may have been a little conflicted: Should he be true to the Egyptian, or to the “Mormon” representation? There happens to be an ancient point of view that reconciles both.

ADAPTED EXPLANATION

Fig. 2. Stands next to Kolob, called by the Ah-meh-strah-ans [see Note ב] Oliblish אל לב ליש, which is the next grand governing creation near to the celestial or the place where God resides; holding the key of power also, pertaining to other mazalot מַזָלוׂת; as revealed from God to Avram, as he offered sacrifice upon an altar, which he had built unto the Eternal.

Note: The term “planet” comes from the Greek meaning “wanderer” i.e. “wandering stars”, “asteres planetai”. (Jude 1:13) This is not a word that Abram would have used. The expression “fixed planets” (Facsimile 2, Figure 5) appears to be something of an oxymormon, since planets by definition are “wanderers” (manifesting apparent motion in relation to the so called “fixed stars”). The Semitic term “mazalot”, meaning “stars of fortune or fate - lucky stars, abodes of gods” is translated “planets” (KJV), but the word may also refer to “stars” or groups of stars that appear to move together, and appear relatively “fixed” with respect to each other. (LDS Doctrine and Covenants 88:42-43)

Scripture combined with the Kirtland Egyptian Papers indicate that dual Oliblish [see Note ד] is both a planet (divine abode, like missel, Na mesile possibly meaning “mazal” מַזָל) and a central fixed star. Could the pair of Oliblish-im be massive multi-stellar creations of celestial objects some of which possess crushing gravity - able to interface with, stir, knead, and roll the great starry arms of the galaxy? Joseph Smith’s Grammar and Alphabet of the Ah-meh-strah-an Language, 2^nd Part, 5^th Degree, , pg. 24, 2^nd Part, 2^nd Degree, , pg. 31.

In light of Kolob being the great central galactic nucleus or X-shaped bulge surrounded by a halo of unseen matter, Oliblish-im (which are double, see Note ד), may be positioned griffin or keruvim like at the bicameral ends with Kolob in between. Thus the Oliblish-im may both orbit central Kolob (planet like) and be in the general fixed direction of the veiled galactic center - the direction of the “mazal” of Sagittarius. (Iyov (Job) 12:22) Alternately, perhaps Oliblish (אל לב ליש = in the heart is the crusher) aptly describes a gamma ray emitting (and therefore life altering) galactic plasma structure, e.g. one of a pair of Fermi lobes or bubbles crowning the crushing center of our galaxy. Could it be that one of the time standards “in Kolob” involves an incredibly swift (→ c) revolving pillar of plasma? See Fig. 4. See Note ה. The “grand central powers that govern” the structure of the galaxy involve gravitation and plasma electrodynamics.

Fig. 5. Is called in Ah-meh-strah-an Enish-go-on-dosh; this is one of the governing mazalot also, and is said by the Ah-meh-strah-ans to be the Sun, and to borrow its light from Kolob through the medium of Kae-e-vanrash, which is the grand Key, or, in other words, the governing power, which governs fifteen other fixed mazalot or kokhavim כּוׂכָבִים, as also Floeese or the Moon, the Earth and the Sun in their annual revolutions. This mazalah receives its power through the medium of Kli-flos-is-es, or Ha-kokhavim, the kokhavim represented by numbers 22 and 23, receiving light from the revolutions of Kolob. Spelled with the letter “Qoph” as in the Hebrew word “qophim”, meaning “apes, monkeys” (22 and 23),“Qol-leb” in this case, means “Voice of the heart”. (Iyov (Job) 40:9) As suggested in the section Meanings of Kolob, the Hebrew expression for “near unto me“ (e.g. “qarob elai”, “קָרֹוב֙ אֵלַ֔י” spelled with a monkey in the word qarob) describing Kolob, is a play on words with the Elohit (Adamic) name Kolob in the heart or midst of God’s creation. Compare “Qoph” with Ah-meh-strah-an symbol for “Flo-ees The moon”, 2^nd Part, 5^th Degree, pg. 25.

Note: If the Sun is to be classed with “other fixed ... stars”, and if “the Moon, the Earth and the Sun” are understood to have “annual revolutions”, this is not describing a geocentric model of the universe. According to the cosmological revelation that Abram received by way of Urim v'Tumim, the Earth is a member of an order of “planets” (mazalot, Abraham 3:9). The Earth is not perceived to be a planet (wandering star), or orbiting body in a geocentric model. See Joseph Smith’s Grammar and Alphabet of the Ahmehstrahan Language 2^nd Part, 3^rd Degree, pp. 29-30 regarding the Sun (Enish-go-ondosh) as a gravitational body and a “fixed star”. Fixed, that is, with respect to other “fixed stars”, yet “central” to the solar system, and moving (planet like) with respect to a greater cosmic center. See Joseph Smith’s Grammar and Alphabet of the Ahmehstrahan Language 2^nd Part, 2^nd Degree, “Flos isis”, pg. 32. It is likely that governing mazalot or kokhavim extend from the bicameral center of the galaxy into the outer courts or arms of the galactic temple. (LDS Doctrine and Covenants 88:51-61)

Abraham 3:13 lists “Kokob” after the Elohit (Adamic) name of the sun. The sun is classed as a “greater light”. “Kokob” is mentioned before the moon, which is an orbiting “lesser light” (Abraham 3:13), with the understanding that “Kokaubeam .. signifies ... all the great lights ... in the firmament of heaven” (compare Abraham 4:16, Iyov (Job) 25:5). It was revealed to Abram that the Kokaubeam “were very great” (Abraham 3:2) apparently at great distances, and were not mere points of light in the night sky. The sun is then a kokab, translated “star”, and the moon a mazalah, translated “planet”. The planet earth is a more central body in the earth moon system, wherein satellite orbital motion decreases with distance from the barycenter; but there are other orbital systems with different barycenters. (Abraham 3:5-9)

As for how the sun can be both a fixed star and a “planet”; consider that it takes the sun more than two hundred million earth years to complete one orbit (planet like) around the great galactic center in company with other “fixed stars”(one Galactic Year, LDS Doctrine and Covenants 88:43-44). Joseph Smith’s Kirtland Egyptian Papers do not support the idea that Abraham’s cosmological revelation is exclusively framed in an astrological, geocentric model. The Book of Mormon departs from a geocentric model. (Alma 30:44, Helaman 12:15) Moreover, Joseph never said that the great governing center of our local universe could be seen by unaided human eyes. In fact he (by way of scribes) suggested the opposite. (Joseph Smith’s Grammar and Alphabet of the Ahmehstrahan Language, 2^nd Part, 5^th Degree, “Flos isis”, pg. 25) See also TETRAGRAMMATON AND EARTH, and Note ה.

Figure 5 is understood by mainstream Egyptologists to represent the sky goddess Hathor, who in fact, is affiliated with the sun. Hathor is here depicted as the maternal, heavenly cow. See Ritner on Figure No. 5. But the Hebraic minded, may see in the bovine symbol a connection to “eleph”, a Hebrew word for “cattle” or “kine”. It happens that “eleph” is also the Hebrew word for one “thousand (1000)”. (Tehilim (Ps.) 90:4) “Eleph” relates to, and is spelled with the letter “aleph”. In fact, it is spelled the same as “aleph” (אלף), or “alaph” - which suggests being yoked together, bound, the learner to the teacher, the lesser and the greater, the satellite and the central body.

Ah-meh-strah-ans in Ptolemaic times could have recognized that aleph is equivalent to the number one in Hebrew Gematria. Just as Figure 4 (next to Figure 2, Oliblish) communicates information by way of Hebraic/Ahmehstrahan Gematria about “the measuring of the time of Oliblish”, so figure 5 (next to Figure 1, Kolob) can be seen to symbolize that one day with El is a thousand (eleph) solar years. There is therefore a sense in which Figure 5 relates to Figure 1, much as Figure 4 relates to Figure 2.

Fig. 6. Represents this earth in her four quarters . The Ah-meh-strah-an name for this earth under the unified governing influence of interplanetary and interstellar agencies is similar in pronunciation to the sacred Tetragrammaton. See Note א. The Earth is a member of an order of “planets” according to Abraham 3:9.

Fig. 7. Represents Virile God [see Note ד] sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of Ruah ha-Qodesh unto Avram, in the form of a dove (adapted from the symbol of an erect, virile serpent with legs; consider B'sorot Matti 10:16).

Note: Modifying Figure 7 so that the Egyptian virility symbol discreetly appears to represent an arm, doesn’t necessarily change the intended meaning (from an Ah-meh-strah-an point of view). The Hebrew word for “arm”, “z’roa” (זְרׂעַ), is akin to the word for “seed”, “zera” (זֶרַע). Consider Messianic Yesha’Yahu (Is.) 48:14; 52:10; 53:1, 10. The name of the Egyptian god of virility sounds like the Hebrew word “min” (מִין) in connection with “kind” of seed.

Fig. 8. Contains writings that cannot be revealed unto the world; but is to be had in the Holy Temple of God.

See Ahmehstrahan Counting and Gematria

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