Punt

The replication of heaven on earth is acknowledged to be a contribution of the ancient Egyptians. Properties of the physical world were codified by incantations and projected onto the heavens. The Egyptian ritualized matter, motion, force and energy was extreme. Greek visitors complained that the religious requirements of Egyptian culture was bordering on obsessive. However, to the peoples of the Nile valley the "Holy Land" (Ta Netjer) was Punt.


"The distinctive character of the 1st dynasty, which separates it from all that went before, is the conquest and union of the whole land of Egypt. It became thus subject to the falcon-bearing tribe of Horus, which was the natural enemy of the Aunu, the Set-bearing tribe. This falcon tribe had certainly originated in Elam, as indicated by the hero and lions on the "Araq knife handle". They went down the Persian Gulf and settled in the "horn of Africa." There they named the "Land of Punt," sacred to later Egyptians as the source of the race. The Pun people founded the island fortress of Hafun, which commands the whole of that coast, and hence came the Punic or Phoenic peoples of classical history. Those who went up the Red Sea formed the dynastic invaders of Egypt, entering by the Qocier-Koptos road. Others went on to Syria and founded Tyre, Sidon and Aradus--W.M. Flinders Petrie


The knife found at Gebel el-Arak clearly show one symbol of Punt to be the crescent and a circle of Sa'ba people with ancient sites in Ethiopia and South Arabia. The handle is carved from hippopotamus ivory to enhance power. Hippo ivory is indicative of the god Set and places the origin of the Sa people in a riverine ecosystem. The Land of Sa (Set) must be in lowland Ethiopia. The ancient Sa'ba people of South Arabia and the Hadhramaut utilized wells, cisterns and dams for irrigation of plants and animals. The Gebel el-Arak knife suggests the curved crescent shape is an actual boat. The type of boat used in shallow, slow-moving water conducive to hippo is a punt. A punt-type boat is pushed through the water with a poll. Perhaps the standards shown in the close-up picture are punt poles.

Infant funeral urns found in China have the same crescent and circle symbol combined with another symbol that could be a mountain or a flame. The origin of some Chinese logosyllabic characters has been found to originate with the symbols on the funeral urns. Linguists interpret the circle as representing the ascending soul and the curve as the separation of heaven and earth. The South Arabian word for ascending soul is Ba. South Arabian and all Semitic languages use the word RaQia to describe the separation of heaven and earth. Raqia is translated to Firmamentum (firmament) in the Latin Vulgate . Ba (soul) and Raqhia (firmament) is BaRuQ; the Hebrew word for blessing.




The same symbol appears on the top of a monolith at the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe. Above it, a double pole symbol shows the circle in the middle. Perhaps this circle also represents the soul ascending to heaven.


The Nebra sky disk found in Germany has the curve and circle symbols. It has been interpreted to be a calendar.