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The Story of Ausar: The King of Peace
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From the union of Nut and Geb, Nut gave birth and Geb fathered five beautiful children. Their names were in this order, Ausar the oldest son, Heru-Ur the second oldest, Set the youngest boy, Auset the oldest sister and NebHet (Nephythys) was the youngest sister.
For now we will not speak about the metaphysics of this divine family because this will take us off the subject at hand, as it gets into the Kametic philosophy and thought, which is an entirely new subject that needs to be dealt with in itself.
Though I am keeping this story as brief as possible without trying to skip any details. The story goes that Ausar the oldest son came into power during a time when all of the tribes were warring amongst each other. This is the reason why the story of Ra was included.
Upon receiving the throne from his father Geb, making him the third king of Kamet, he sought a way to bring peace amongst his people.
Though this is not stated in the story, the Kametic people and their present descendants say that Ausar went to Tehuti (the one who was knowledgeable of the Will of God-the Metu Neter) and receive his counsel as to how he could bring peace amongst his people. Tehuti informed the young king of how he could achieve this and Ausar went about his way applying to the people the Will of God.
The young king gathered all the nomadic tribes and civilized them and showing them the errors of their ways. When this was done, the tribes now working together began to all prosper and the wars came to a cease. To ensure that the people would live in peace he gave them a body of laws based upon the laws of God, which enabled them to settle their disputes in a just manner, as well as instruct them on the proper ways of living spiritually.
The young king married Auset, who domesticated barley and wheat, and though not stated in the story also was knowledgeable of herbs. Through their divine relationship, Ausar was able to teach their people the science of agriculture, which laid the foundation for Kamet to be the most prosperous land of its time.
Ausar and Auset, together, gave life to Kamet and ruled the united land in peace and harmony. No longer did brothers and sisters fight amongst each other or lift their arms in an effort to destroy each other's families. Through the reign of Ausar and Auset, now people lived in harmony and prosperity.
Evil Re-enters the World of Peace
Because of Ausar, everyone was able to prosper together and for this he was the most loved and most respected king of Kamet. So successful was Ausar in his persuasive teachings that he decided to go to other parts of the world and share his teachings. But in there stood in Ausar's shadow, one who was not so fond of the young and successful king. In the shadow of Ausar there stood a growing envy and hatred for the beloved king in the heart of one of Ausar's kin. The owner of this dark and envious heart belonged to Ausar's youngest brother, Set (Set-an).
It would not belong until Ausar would gather a caravan or go throughout the world bringing his message of peace. Unlike others it must be noted that he spread his good news through his influential words, music and dance; and not through the use of the sword and religious books in the other hands.
While Ausar was away, the beautiful and devoted Queen Mother Auset ruled the land in his absence. But unbeknownst to her, her youngest brother Set was raising a confederacy that he would use to destroy the peaceful kingdom that she and her beloved king had built1. When Ausar would return Set and his confederates would kill him and so they conspired to have a celebration in his honor for Ausar.
The time had come that when Ausar returned there indeed was a great celebration held in his honor. And upon the guest surprisingly Auset was not invited or for whatever reason wasn't able to attend. But, the envious brother Set and his 72 confederates were present and with them they brought a highly decorated chest.
As the festivites got on the way so full were the people in merriment that they were not even aware of the strange gatherings and signals that were occuring around them. Along with those who were also full from drinking was the beloved king himself Ausar.
Now the time had come and Set seeing that all of the guests were full (drunk) he decided to have a game. The game was to see who could fit in the chest perfectly and the successful fit would be awarded the chest2.
Each person tried but most were too big or too small to fit into the chest. And one can imagine that after a lot of peer pressure the king tried to fit into the chest as well. When he laid down I found that the chest was a perfect match for his body size, the disguised confederates of Set jumped up and closed the lid of chest soldering it with iron and took it and threw it into the Nile.
As the first great world atrocities occured, all who could have opposed Set either joined him and his evil plans. Or turned a blind eye, as Heru-Ur had done. No one would help Ausar out of fear of Set except one.
When the news had reached Auset that her husband was murdered by their younger brother she went into mourning and went in search of her beloved husband. She spent years searching for the chest of her king so that she could give him a proper burial. She searched everywhere and soon found the chest of Ausar in a tree in a distant land, as Ausar though physically dead appeared to his lovely wife in dreams.
Eventually she would get his body back and so in love with her beloved king that through magical means she conceived with him and this became the first immaculate conception, while hiding from Set in the marshes.
As time progressed Auset became a fugitive in her own land and as such hid the body of Ausar and went to another town to give birth to her child.
Now, while hunting a boar Set came upon the body of Ausar and so consumed with evil, Set cut the body up into fourteen pieces3 spreading each all over the world. It is said that where each piece landed a shrine dedicated to Ausar would grow.
Again the devoted queen would search for the body of Ausar but this time with the help of others. Ra taking pity upon the weeping queen sent forth the neter Anpu to assist and protect her on her search. The youngest sister NebHet so outraged by her husband's actions and behavior left Set and joined Auset in her search for Ausar.
Keeping the story short, Auset is able to find all the body parts of Ausar and with the help of Anpu they are able to mummify the body and with Tehuti give a proper burial.
The child of Ausar and Auset, Heru after being born had gone through a lot o traumatic experiences, which he had to overcome. It is not known how many attempts were conducted to kill the young heir but one can imaging the old adage, "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!"
Heru being a man and passing his rites who also like Auset received visions from his father, the great ancestor of Kamet, set out to challenge his uncle for the throne. And there were many battles of him fighting Set but Set being older and more experienced in the ways of war, after he introduced it, was always able to gain the advantage.
As time would go by after hundreds of years, Heru would only stalemate against his uncle and eventually narrowly escape his own death and lose his eye.
Peace Returns Through the Eye of God
Fleeing with probably his hand over his eye and with a few fallen commarades he went to the one neter who helped his father, Ausar in becoming such a great a king. The one who knew the Will of God, the only one who Set feared, Tehuti and asked the he repair his eye. Tehuti agreeing repaired his eye perfectly, and though some don't seem to get it saying that he gave Heru the eye of Ra. Tehuti repaired the Eye of Heru giving him the Eye of Life, or shall we say the Eye of God. How else can you defeat evil?
With his new eye (which you can imagine is glowing bright) Heru fought his uncle and beat him in every battle they engaged in. In one battle Heru castrated his uncle assuring that victory would be won and the throne of Ausar returned.
Time after time Heru would win his battles and soon the war. Upon his success, Set would make excuses trying to prove that Heru was not the true heir4 but they would all prove to be lies.
The end result, is that Heru became the ruler of land. Upon his success he returned the body of laws that Ausar had set in place to the people. Through magical means the dead king of Ausar was resurrected, not in body but in spirit and peace ruled the Land of Kam once again.
NOTE TO THE READER:
There are all sorts of lessons that can be learned from this story and this is the reason why this became the most popular story in Kamet. The story given to us by the ancient Kametic sages just like the story of Ra embedded spiritual, philosophical, health, science and esoteric wisdom in this one story. Again, you can clearly see that our ancestors nor are we when we return back to our ancestral traditions polytheistic. Our culture has just been interpreted by polytheistic people who think they were monotheistic.
I would like the reader to know something and it is often said that when the Western scholars went into present day Egypt they could not find a complete copy of this story no where. It is through the Greeks and Romans that they were able to piece together this much of our story.
So what is the reason why they could not find a completed version? The answer is that our ancestors were ancient Africans following oral traditions. Much like most of the other traditional cultures of Africa and around the world. Our important text and sciptures like the words of the oracles were committed to memory or either drawn on the temples as pictures. Western scholars are forever commenting on how our ancestors were primitive yet we had a written script which our laws were written on. But our religious and spiritual text weren't. They were committed to memory, why?
This is because when you memorize something so imitate it. Which is like I said earlier the story of Ausar represents life not just for the Kametic people but for all people. And our ancestors lived the story of Ausar everyday. Will we do the same?
I apologize for not writing the full text of the story on this site but the purpose of this site is to give you insightful information so that we can allow our Shepsu (ancestors) to speak to us through our own spiritual traditions.
I hope you enjoyed this as much as I have and hope this you are gettng an ancestral buzz like I do when I study and research our tradition.
1. Once again it appears that just like the wars that occured in Ra's reign, evil has reered its ugly head again appearing to the have's and the have-not's. Just seems like we can't get rid of evil.
2. Of course this was a stupid game but when one is drunken with pleasure the obvious dangers aren't so obvious. Or shall we say like the elders would say, "Commonsense just ain't Common."
3. True unity is a sign of strength and peace. It is something that evil detests. Here are the reasons why evil seeks out to divide and conquer, to slaughter the innocent, to separated and enslaved nations all to serve its own selfish good.
4. This sounds familiar to many Africans throughout the diaspora have been told by negative forces that they weren't the true heir either.
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