“The Orion Mystery”, a Review of Sorts

I just finished reading a book called “The Orion Mystery”. It was a very interesting book and I learned things that I had no clue of before. The book was recommended reading for me by an influential guide to my spiritual journey. I took it with me on our vacation to California, enjoying the ability to relax and read. This wasn’t the type of book that you could relax and read without paying attention to what it was that you were reading!

We stopped to have dinner with friends on our trip. They were interested in this book as well as it dealt with the Egyptian pyramids. They had made a trip there two years prior to this and had actually walked in some of the areas that were being described in the book. They gave me more insight to the things that I had read up to that point. I had never been able to pick the constellation of Orion out in the sky before, I can now. The link between the Pyramids and Orion is amazing to me.

There is a lot of very specific jargon in the book pertaining to longitudes and latitudes, meridian lines, angles, the movements of the stars, and a religion that I had no idea of its existence, the stellar religion. I wish to learn more of this religion after reading this book.

While in California, we spent a lot of time outdoors. The sky is so vast from the desert, it seems as though standing there in the dark, I was one with the sky and the stars. Orion stood out clearly; I found it on my very first glance at the night sky. I wondered at the thoughts that went through the minds of the Egyptian people as they stood, all those years ago, and watched the night skies. They were very observant of the stars and their movements.

The pyramids at Giza hold a new meaning for me. I look at them differently than before. I will always marvel at them, but to realize the full magnitude of what they represent is almost more than a mortal mind can comprehend. The night sky, built on mother earth. The magnitude of that undertaking is huge. All those years ago, way before the birth of Christ, they had it figured out. They understood what they were looking at and the Egyptians matched it, star for pyramid, upon the earth. The river Nile runs as the Milky Way, it’s truly amazing.

As I stood and felt the night sky around me, watching the stars rise and move across the sky, each star appearing slowly as the night deepened, I could almost feel the awe that went through the Egyptians as they put things together. I feel in awe of all that I have learned. I miss not having that huge expanse of sky at the moment as I am back home in the Pacific Northwest with the clouds covering the sky.

I highly recommend this book to any that are interested in the meaning behind the Pyramids. I will never look at the constellation of Orion again without thinking of the Pyramids and the amazing understanding of the Egyptians that built them.

This is a bit of a post script to this blog entry. I received a gift last night for my birthday and it mentions once again the “star people” in reference to Native Americans. Until last night I hadn’t put things together, but both the Egyptians and the Indian tribes looked to the night skies in religious beliefs. When I set sacred space for the Munay-Ki, it’s “Father spirit, leader of the Star Nation” that I ask to help set my sacred space. It’s an interesting thought and one that I shall have to think upon a bit more.