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The Truth About Egypt's Star Religion
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For over a decade the world of ancient mysteries has come to accept that the constellation of Orion, the Hunter, played a powerful role in the development of Egypt's sky religion. It has been identified as the Egyptian star cluster known as Sahu and is supposed to have determined the basic layout of the Giza monuments. Moreover, Orion has repeatedly been seen as the god Osiris, Lord of death and resurrection in the underworld, just as Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, reflected the light of his sister-wife Isis. Orion's role in ancient Egypt has inspired a generation of writers and researchers to investigate mythologies worldwide looking for and finding Orion correlations with respect to ceremonial landscapes and archaic starlore, elevating this asterism to that of the highest importance among our earliest ancestors. |
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Yet today there is clear evidence that the modern interpretation of Egyptian cosmology hinges on false assumptions. What if a total reassessment of the evidence presented in ancient Egyptian accounts leads us to conclude that Orion is not the image of Osiris, but that of the falcon-headed god Horus? Belgian writer and mythologist Philip Coppens' decade of research into this fascinating subject has led him to identity Osiris not with Sahu-Orion, but with Canopus, the Southern Polar star of the ancient Egyptians, the premise of his important book THE CANOPUS REVELATION (Adventures Unlimited Press/Frontier Publishing, 2004). |
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To them it was quite
literally a 'stargate of the Gods', and esoteric lore from various ancient
and more modern sources demonstrates that Canopus, as the second brightest
star in the night sky, has been important in many esoteric traditions,
from the mystery schools of the Graeco-Egyptian world to the shadowy
realms of the Priory of Sion.
Philip Coppens' presentation will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about Orion, Sirius, and the ancient minds behind the construction of the Great Pyramid. Not to be missed.
Philip Coppens was born in 1971.
He started his career as an investigative journalist, specializing in
the subjects of world politics and intelligence agencies. As a result,
material uncovered on the life of President John
F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was used by a
US government
enquiry in 1994. In 1995, he established FRONTIER MAGAZINE (formerly
FRONTIER 2000) together with Herman Hegge, a newsstand magazine in the
Netherlands and Belgium, creating a series of scoops such as confirmation
of the existence of pyramids
in China. These and other often groundbreaking investigations have
resulted in a series of articles appearing in various magazines, both
in the UK (FORTEAN TIMES, NEXUS) and abroad, as well as appearances
on radio and television.
He is the author of two Dutch-language books. One was published in 1994, on the megalithic civilisation of Western Europe, a synopsis of which was worked into a German 1996 publication (Sind wir allein? - Ulrich Dopatka, editor). In 2004, he wrote DE DA VINCI CODE ONTCIJFERD, a high-level introduction to the mysteries incorporated in Dan Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE.
In 1999, he was the principal researcher for Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince's THE STARGATE CONSPIRACY, which investigated current politician's apparent obsession with ancient Egypt. He is the author of THE STONE PUZZLE OF ROSSLYN CHAPEL (2002), on the enigmatic Scottish chapel and its relationship with freemasonry and the Knights Templar, and THE CANOPUS REVELATION (2004), on the lore of the star Canopus in ancient cultures.
He has edited SAUNIÈRE'S
MODEL AND THE SECRET OF RENNES-LE-CHÂTEAU (2001), by André
Douzet, detailing the existence of a scale model of an enigmatic landscape
that might unveil the true secret of the enigmatic priest. Together,
they have written THE
SECRET VAULT (2004), on the existence of an underground complex
in Notre-Dame-de-Marceille, first discovered by Jos Bertaulet, a friend
of Philip until Jos' death in 1995. He lives today in North Berwick.
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