Symbol: The Seven Seas

The Seven Seas, a phrase used to indicate a place that gods and other mystical, or quasi-historical sailed. Was this a legitmation of a celestial symbol? Which symbol was it?

Medieval European and Arabic literature often spoke of the Seven Seas. Which seven seas are intended depends on the context. "Seven Seas" was a commonplace phrase in many ancient literatures before it was taken up by the Greeks and Romans; it appears in a translation of one of Enheduanna's hymns to Inanna (Hymn 8), written about 2300 BC in Sumer.

One possibility that can make sense in a new world based on Electromagnetic forces would be that boat symbol, the symbol which gods "sail" the seven seas, is the sunlit part of the god, then the Seven Seas would be that which the boat sails.

"In the XIXth Dynasty we know that the Tuat [the Underworld] was believed to be situated not below our earth, but away beyond the earth, probably in the sky."
-- E. Budge, quoted by Cardona, 1994.

This accounted for the idea that, to the south, the Seven Seas were, in the sky. The Ring's of Earth. Seven, possibly 9, according to Olmecs, since they lived on mountains and were 10 degree's further south than their mediterranian contemporaries. This is sourceable from the "Chilam Balam".

The Egyptians did use words that accurately seemed to reflect this arrangment:

"...a clue as to its real nature [of the Duat] comes to us from its description as having been divided into regions each of which, among other things, was called 'qerert' -- an Egyptian word that means 'circle.'"

If this is true, it would have a very large gap in these rings that would travel through the skies every night. That would be the 'doorway through the underworld.' This, of course, would be, in actuality, the earth's shadow.

What happened to this ring system? Why do we not have one now, even though all magnetic planets have them? It could have been disrupted during the arrival and orbit of the moon.

Recently, Saturn's rings have been in the news refering to how they seem to be in constant motion, moving to and from each other.

"The rings are different from the picture we had in our minds," said Larry Esposito of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who led the study done using ultraviolet imaging.
"We originally thought we would see a uniform cloud of particles. Instead we find that the particles are clumped together with empty spaces in between."

They seem to be passing charge to one another from Saturn homopolar motor by "clumping" together when their charges differ and as the charge equalizes, they drift apart.

This could be accounting for the Olmec's word that refer to the rings as "The House of Nine Rushes". What is a "Rush"? A website dealing with the River Styx in Mythology indicates:

"And there [in Hades] is housed a goddess loathed even by the immortals: dreaded Styx, eldest daughter of Okeanos, who flows back on himself, and apart from the gods she lives in her famous palace which is overroofed with towering rocks, and the whole circuit is undergirded with silver columns, and pushes heaven; and seldom does ... " -Statius, Thebaid 8.21

"That cold water [of the River Styx] that drizzles down from a steep sky-climbing cliffside, and it is one horn of the Okeanos stream, and travels off that holy river a great course through night's blackness under the wide-wayed earth and this water is a tenth part of all, for in nine loops of silver-swirling waters, around the earth and the sea's wide ridges he tumbles into salt water, but this stream, greatly vexing the gods, runs off the precipice ... the imperishable, primevil water of Styx; and it jets down through jagged country [Hesiod may also be describing the Arkadian stream]." - Hesiod, Theogony 775

It seems that those Olmecs, surrounded by oceans in the Yucatan we're not fooled into thinking the Styx/Absu was a river/ocean. It was seen differently. Like an island of firey bushes or underbrush. The following passage has much weight under this new hypothesis:

"On this side Styx encircling its nine regions, on that a barrier of fiery torrents [Pyriphlegethon] encloses his [Hermes descending into the underworld] path." - Statius, Thebaid 2.

It appears that the ancients of the past we're being as accurate as they could be, we simply did not have the capacity to understand their words for over 2500 years.