Happy New Year! From the East Coast of Africa to the East Coast of America Seshat 7

Happy New Year!!

Hapy Nwy Anu Hr

(latin Hr)(Latin Annus)

The goddess Seshat, personification of Writing, shown in the act of inscribing the palm leaf rib which denotes the word renpet, "year" in the hieroglyphic script. Egypt, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, c.1250 BCE.
Location :Luxor, Thebes, Egypt

Today is New Years in which people across the world celebrate in the middle of the evening and the term "Happy New Year!" is commonly heard.  However, today is looked at with a new lens for me with my understanding of  Seshat in Predynastic Egypt. A friend, Ramomar, mentioned on a blog last night how the the sounds of the terms we use for the current two holidays correlate with terms that represent concepts used in Egyptian hieroglyphs. For instance, he explained the ancient Egyptian Hapi was the bringer of things, he brought water to the city. Ramomar also correlated the tear of Isis bringing forth fertility to the city and the Ball Drop in New York. I have also found further correlations when looking at the etymology of key terms associated with Christmas and New Years that go back through the Greek and Romans usages of the terms and the Egyptian usages of the terms. All which eventually coincide with teaching so ancient they go back to the early representations of Seshat. In the ancient Egyptian New Year the day was celebrated to the Sun God. and offerings were given to Hapy and Amun or can I get a, I mean should I say, Amen or Imen or Amon.

The talk show sparked my curiosity to begin looking for variations of NU or NW, considering that the vowels were omitted in ancient script, easy for foreigners to pick up a word and pronounce it with various vowels through keeping the consonants. So I googled NWY in Egypt, which meant Nile and there was a picture of Sol Invectus wearing a grown with 7 points. Immediately I thought, he is wearing Seshat's crown, why? Is it because she was the time keeper? Why is he sporting her gear? Who is he? and what does he have to do with the New Year?  And wait, he looks like the statue of Liberty, which is in the New York Harbor...So I wondered is her crown the same? Yes, her star, I mean headdress is also shown with 7 points. Seems there were cultures recognizing Seshat 2,000 years ago outside of Egypt.

Well that was quite interesting but where was the more recent connection to Egypt? When  the person who spearheaded the Liberty construction for the US, Bartholdi, started the project around 1867 he approached Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, to build the lighthouse (pharos) in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah for the Suez Canal. The statue at the Suez Canal was to be called "Egypt (or Progress) carrying the light to Asia". This design  was modified and used for the Statue of Liberty, keeping the main aspects of symbolism that relate to the ancient teachings of the women scribes (Seshat). While there is no mention of Seshat specifically by Bartholdi or Pasha, it is clear there indeed exist a direct connection between an Egyptian influenced architect to the design of statues in Rome and the statue of Liberty.

This design of a statue with a raised arm and headdress of 7 points was also used for the Colossus of Rhodes to Helios (305BC), one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, at the harbor entrance with a light to guide the ships. Wait, Helio, that sounds quite familiar to the city in which Seshat was most known in, Heliopolis.  Heliopolis (Annu before the Greeks changed its name, (wait annu for the Greeks meant year)),  is an ancient city in Egypt that houses Seshat's main sanctuary and is also considered the Sun City. 

The ished tree was grown in Heliopolis during the Old Kingdom and is also associated with Seshat in drawings.  The ished tree, while not an evergreen, like the Christmas tree, was considered by the Egyptians to be unique and was regarded as the tree of life. What does the tree of life have to do with New Years, the number 7,  and America? In early Egypt Seshat, sporting her headdress with 7 pin points, holding the time stick by the tree of life was the reason for whom the New Year was celebrated.  Thousands of years later around the change of AD to BC Christmas was placed on December 25, 7 days prior to the New Year Festival. Perhaps there is more to this connection then coincidence, pagan ritual, or religious births.

Hecate (about 4 BC or prior), another Greek Goddess, also wore the headdress of 7 points. Hecate, during the time of the Greeks was known to have some connection with Egypt and Isis. The exact connection today we have not uncovered, but all the signs are there.


Those in Rome and Greece obviously recognized the connection of where the ancestors they recognized came from and continued to institute the time keeping systems from the teachings of the women who scribed (Seshat) in their calendar of 365 days. Continuing to celebrate on the first day in the evening, Hapy being the god of the evening, and starting 7 days prior with celebrating and gift giving. 

The architects of America and Europe did not stop with the Colossal or Hecate or others of ancient days. To add to the symbolism and connection with the Egyptian Seshat. Seshat was the goddess of the 11th month on the Egyptian calendar and stood guard over the last gate before entering heaven. Lady Liberty was placed on a structure that is shaped in the form of an 11 pointed star, the 11 pointed walls of Fort Wood (completed in 1811, 200 years ago), inscribed "The New Colossus"). Having found the perfect 11 pointed star on the harbor of New York, Lady Liberty was then constructed on a pedestal that is a truncated pyramid. Moreover, Seshat was synonymous with wisdom and knowledge the Lady Liberty in NY was erected to enlighten the world. Why is the usage of ancient symbols in American history important? I await your comments.