Iu-Su and Karast, the Egyptian Origins of Jesus and Christ
From Gerald Massey's Ancient Egypt: Light of the World
If you would like to listen to my narration instead, here is the video version:
By now, most mindful people will have learned about the esoteric meaning of Christ and the raising of the chrism oil. And some know that the letter J was invented in the early 1500s, and about the variations of the term preceding ‘Jesus’, such as the Hebrew Yeshua, Greek Iesous, Arabic Issa, etc. But I rarely see any references to the Kemetic origins of the Jesus Christ mythology (btw, I had a friend whose uncle was Leon Uris, who wrote Exodus). Since I have just finished reading the massive Gerald Massey tome, Ancient Egypt: Light of the World- it’s the most repetitive book I’ve ever read, more than The Universal One or Anacalypsis!- I wanted to highlight some passages from this book pertaining to Iu-Su/Iusa, the coming son, and karast, the embalmed mummy. It seems there are very few dogmas holding a tighter grip on Western culture than modern Christianity, but by presenting this information, we can extrapolate to something I feel has even a greater grip: germ theory, which I will cover more in later articles. We must stitch together all of these other pieces and see the bigger picture. We cannot continue to stuff ourselves with convenient ‘foods’ in front of our convenient TVs and phones and ignore all the information readily available and then not understand why we get sick. We cannot just get a magic bullet or convenient free pass by believing in someone that we think will absolve our sins and then enter ‘heaven’. This is not to denigrate Christians who are truly on a spiritual path, but that, like everything else, the essence of Christianity has been hijacked and co-opted, like everything else: medicine, garage startups, science, etc.
The Ass-headed Iu
Recall that the Kemetic neters/gods had animal forms. For example, Shu represented the wind and took the form of a lion, which is known for its roar. Iu took the form of an ass:
The Egyptians call the Ass by the name of Iu, Aiu, and Aai, three forms of one primary diphthong in which the seven vowel-sounds originated. Iu signifies to come and go, which might aptly describe the Ass's mode of producing the voice. Aiu or Iu with the A prothetic shows the process of accretion or agglutination which led to the word Aiu, Iao, Ioa, Iahu becoming extended to the seven vowels finally represented in the fully drawn-out name of Jehovah, which was written with the seven vowels by the Gnostics. The English attribute the dual sound of "hee-haw" to the Donkey, and, if we omit the aspirate, "ee-aw" is near enough as a variant and the equivalent of Iu, Aiu, or Aai, as the name given to itself by the Ass which was registered in language by the Egyptians.
Winnie the Pooh’s donkey friend was named Eyeore, and this is sort of the sound donkeys make, as explained above. I suspect the name Ior/Igor is related, which is related to George/Jorge. And ‘Iahu’ sounds like ‘yahoo’, which is similar to the exclamation, ‘hee-haw’. Think ‘Netanyahu’. More on Yahweh later, but here is an interesting video on IAO:
Back to Massey:
But we must make a further digression on account of Joseph as a form of the young solar god in Israel who was Ιu, the ass-headed sif or son of Atum-Ra, in Egypt… It is now known that Jacob-El and Joseph-El were worshipped as two divinities in Northern Syria, and it is there we find a remnant of the seed of Israel or Isiri-El, and therefore of Jacob-El whose son was Joseph… These probably originated with Іu in Kheb, or Lower Egypt, as Jacob, and Іu, the sif, or son, as Joseph; the two divinities being humanized in the later legends of the Іu, Aiu, or Jews, as was the common way in converting mythos into history. It can be shown that Joseph was a form of the divine, the beloved son, whose father was one version of the mythos and Jacob in another. Io or Jo = Іu in the name of Joseph is taken by Hebraists as the equivalent of lahu; and in Ps. lxxxi. 5, the name of Joseph is written lahusiph- that is, lah the siph or sif, which in Egyptian denotes the son. Also the names that is Joseph-lah and of Josephiah (Ez. viii. 10) proclaim the fact, in accordance with the use and wont of the Hebrew language, that Joseph is lah = Iu in Egyptian. In the same way the name of El-Іasaph (Num. i. 14 and iii. 24) identifies the deity of Joseph, and affirms that Іasaph is one with lah, and therefore is Joseph-El. Joseph as son is Іu the sif, or the coming son, in Egyptian.
So ‘sif’ means son, as in Iu-sif or Joseph. Iu-su or Iusa also means the coming son, the resurrecting Sun rising from the east:
The Hebrew deity Ihuh was not simply the one god in a single form of personality; he is the Egyptian one god in his various attributes. He is the one god both as the father and the son, who in the words of Isaiah (IX. 6) is the everlasting father and the prince of peace, who as Egyptian was Atum-Huhi the eternal father, and Iusa the ever-coming son; Atum-Ra as closer on the horizon west, and Atum-Horus as opener on the horizon east.
You see how ‘Huhi’ the father is the reverse of Iu the son. Considering ‘hee-haw’ from earlier, this makes me think that the names Huey and Howie connote fatherhood. Stephen Pidgeon suggests that ‘Iowa’ is a version of this son and ‘Hawaii’ is the reverse. Btw, ‘Kahuna’ is akin to the Cohen priests, the Kahns, Dhyan Chohans, etc. I have already mentioned Ior/Igor/George/Jorge/etc., and of course there’s Yusuf, like Cat Stevens. If we include J names, then we have Joseph, Jesse, Judas, Jude, Joshua, etc. I mean, Jason could mean Yah’s son!
Su/Seb, the Goose
Although su and sif mean son, it is interesting how both Su and Seb are names for the Earth as represented by a goose. We can see the similarity of sif and Seb when we think of the name, ‘Joseph’, which is Iu-sif. The Ancient Egyptians considered ‘su’ as the sound geese make:
The Goose in hissing cried "Su". The Hippopotamus in roaring said "Rur" or "Rurrur". Various others in uttering sounds by nature were giving themselves the names by which they were to be known in later language. The name of the Cat in Egyptian is Mau or Miau. This, then, was one of the self-namers, like the Goose Su.
A zootype of the nocturnal Sun as Atum-Ra was the Ass. The Goose that said "Su" was a zootype of Seb the God of Earth.
Earth itself was imaged as a Goose that rested on the Nun or the Waters of Space. This was the ancient Mother Goose that every morning laid her Golden Egg. The Sun sinking down into the underworld is described in the Ritual as “the Egg of the Great Cackler”: “The Egg which Seb hath parted from the earth.” (Rit., ch. 54) The Giant with no heart or Soul is a figure of Darkness as the devouring Monster with no Sun (or Soul) in his body. Hence the heart or Soul that was hidden in the Tree, or in the Egg of the Bird far away. The Sun is the Egg that was laid by the Goose of Earth that brought forth the Golden Egg.
So the Mother Goose nursery rhyme that I had read as a kid represents the Earth, laying the golden egg every morning, the Sun. So although the Sun and the Moon are considered the Father and the Mother, where the Earth is the Son- which matches su/sif meaning ‘son’ and matches the Su/Seb goose representing the Earth, we have this other polarity where the Sun is the Son of the Earth. This heliocentric/geocentric paradox is like the chicken or the egg, or really goose or the egg! Wikipedia’s article on Mother Goose does not mention anything about Egypt.
More on Iusa
We see that the Kemetic conceptions of spirituality are multi-faceted (like the cat representing Iu/Horus in the image above) for different fractals of similar processes, in this case, of transformation, whether it is a fish (Ichthys), the Natzer fruit, human (Osiris mummy resurrected into Horus or Iusa), etc., or whether it is at the daily fractal of the sun rising again from the darkness or the annual fractal of the seasonal cycle, etc.:
The earliest Horus was not incorporated in a human form. He represented that soul of life which came by water to a dried-up, withering world upon the verge of perishing with hunger and with thirst. Here the fish or the first-fruit of the earth was the sign of his incorporation in matter; hence the typical shoot, the green ear, or the branch that were imaged in Child-Horus. The saviour who came by water was Ichthys the fish. The saviour who came in fruit as product of the tree was the Natzer. The saviour who came by spirit was the soul of the sun. This was the earliest rendering of the incorporation of Horus as the primary life and light of the world made manifest in external nature, before the doctrine was applied to biology in the human domain, where Horus came by blood, as the mode of incarnation in the human form. In the later myth Osiris is the deity who suffered as the winter sun, assailed by all the powers of darkness. He also suffered from the drought as imaged in the fire-breathing Apap-reptile, and in other ways as lord of life in water, vegetation, and in various forms of food. This suffering deity or provider was the god in matter. Ra is the god in spirit, Osiris in matter. Not only in the matter of earth, but also in the human form - the form assumed by Horus as the child of earth, or Seb. Osiris, the great sufferer in the dead of winter, was not simply the sun, nor was Osiris dead, however inert in matter, lying dumb in darkness, with non-beating heart. He was the buried life of earth, and hence the god in matter imaged in the likeness of a mummy waiting for the resurrection in Amenta.
Italics are mine, since this embalmment with oil and resurrection is discussed next. I can’t find information about this ‘Natzer’ fruit, but I’ve heard the name ‘Netzer’.
Here is what Inez Perry writes in an early section of her and George Carey’s The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation, which corresponds with these symbols of fish, fruit, and man:
Karast mummy and karas mummification/embalmment
Now we come to the Egyptian concepts that correlate with the Greek word, Christos, the oil annointment related to ascenscion and resurrection.
The resurrection of the human soul in the after-life was the central fact of the Egyptian religion, and the transfigured, re-erected mummy, otherwise called the Karast, was a supreme symbol.
Osiris in the monstrance should of itself suffice to show that the Egyptian Karast (Krst) is the original Christ, and that the Egyptian mysteries were continued by the gnostics and Christianized in Rome… Whilst the mummy was being prepared for burial, chapters of the Ritual were read to it, or to the conscious ka, by an official who was known as the man of the roll.
This makes me think whether the word ‘krst’ is ka rest, as in the soul resting in peace, i.e., the ka soul mentioned above.
We have now to show that in making the mummy the Egyptians were also making the typical Christ, which is the anointed. The word karas, kares, or karis in Egyptian signifies embalmment, to embalm, to anoint, to make the mummy. Kreas, creas, or chros, in Greek denotes the human body, a person or carcase [carcass], more expressly the flesh of it; cras, Gaelic and Irish, the body; Latin, corpus, for a dead body; these are all preceded by the word karas or karast, in Egyptian, with the risen mummy for determinative of the meaning. Each body that had been embalmed was karast, so to say, and made into a type of immortality in the likeness of Osiris-sahu or Horus, the prototypal Christ. It will be made apparent by degrees that the religion of the Chrestoi first began at Memphis with the cultus of the mummy in its two characters, which represented body and spirit, or Ptah in matter and Kheper (Iu-emhetep) in spirit. Hence the hawk as bird of spirit issuing from the karast-mummy was an image of the resurrection.
Massey refers to the ‘Chrestoi’ above, which preceded modern ‘Christianity’, as documented in Godfrey Higgins’s Anacalypsis and other works. And we see Imhotep (‘he comes in peace’, like the rising newborn Sun every morning, coming and going) is related to Iu-emhetep above, which makes sense, since Jesus was the Prince of Peace. And keep in mind, hotep/htp reversed is ptah/pth, e.g., Iu-ptah, Jupiter, Iu-pater, which is Iove before it changed to Jove sometime after 1524- Yahweh, Jehovah, Iove/Jove, right? What is the meaning of the planet Guru (Jupiter) in Jyotish? It means ‘banish darkness’, i.e., reach enLIGHTenment, activate your pineal by raising the chrism oil, the kundalini up your 33 vertebrae.
The Karast-mummy was the body of the dead in Osiris who were prepared by human hands to meet their Lord in spirit when wrapt in the seamless vesture of a thousand folds, which was typically the robe of immortality, when they were baptized and purified and anointed with the unction of Horus taken from the tree of life. The process of preparing, embalming and Christifying the mummy obviously survives in the Chrisome or krisum of the Roman Catholic Church. The chrisome itself is properly a white cloth which the “minister of baptism places on the head of the newly-anointed child”. The chrisom as ointment is made of oil and balm. In the instructions for private baptism it is charged that the minister shall put the white vesture, commonly called a chrisome, upon the child. The chrism-cloth is still the vesture of immortality, for if the infant dies within a month after birth, the chrisome is its shroud and the chrisom-child becomes an image in survival of the Karast-mummy in Amenta.
This Catholic ‘chrisome’ cloth is now spelled ‘chrisom’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrisom .
Also, the transformation of a chrysalis into a buttefly or moth is probably related, looking at the ‘chrys’ root. Or if you think about it more generally, ‘cr’ means create/generate, so something new is being born.
And then there’s KRS-One, but he says this refers to Krishna!
I know this information won’t add anything to most people. However, what I’m seeing is that one by one, people are understanding that everything is a lie, an inversion. The way to understand this is to learn from different subjects and connect the dots. Otherwise, you’re only supporting the masters that are enslaving you. The sublimity and mastery of ancient spirituality was inverted into one of convenience and not doing the Great Work. But that’s everything that’s got us into this mess, the microwaved foods, fast foods, the magic pills, painkillers, the weedkillers, on and on, as Yusuf sang: “Switch on summer from a slot machine, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.”
Thanks for reading.
More on IAO from Christopher Jon Bjerknes:
Thank you for doing this reading and presenting these ideas. Total agreement on how every truth has been inverted, and this now seems to be getting more obvious so we can start to see the true picture.