Five Days Out Of Time

כ" באדר תשס"ז

This morning, I dreamt. One thing I will document regarding it is the mention of a name consisting of two names. Both parts of the name were longer that I can document, but the portions I retained in normative consciousness are: Shirl Nut

I also link this name to a dream I had some time ago and had since forgotten until now. The dream was called In Five Days. I had forgotten about the dream, because nothing significant to the dream seemed to actually happen "five days" from the date of the dream.

However today, I have a different understanding of "in five days". The dream was referring to the five days out of time created by Thoth for Egyptian sky goddess Nut to give birth to five principle Egyptian gods/goddesses [1]. The five days of the ancient Egyptian calendar are called five epagomenal days.

The five epagomenal days intercalate the solar and lunar cycles (sod ha-ibbur) into a single calendar [2]. Converting the ancient Egyptian epagomenal days to the Gregorian calendar for the sake of observance, the epagomenal days correspond to:

July 27 - Birthday of Osiris (Egyptian) - First epagomenal day
July 28 - Birthday of Horus (Egyptian) - Second epagomenal day
July 29 - Birthday of Set (Egyptian) - Third epagomenal day
July 30 - Birthday of Isis (Egyptian) - Fourth epagomenal day
July 31 - Birthday of Nephthys (Egyptian) - Fifth epagomenal day

While clearly the second part (Nut) of the abbreviated name Shirl Nut directly pertains to the Egyptian goddess Nut, the first part of the name - שיר ל - pertains to "giving birth". From the shoresh שרה, the name refers to "loosening" [3] the birth canal, making birth possible. Extrapolating from this, the "singing lamed" [4] refers to the actual birth (of expression).

Taking all this together, the five epagomenal days and the five days of the dream are speaking to the birth of messianic consciousness and expression. Messianic consciousness is the "ibbur" being born (into expression) "in five days" that is both in the world, yet simultaneously, out of the world (see "in five days" dream). The name Shirl Nut is the part of that process already revealed to normative consciousness.

Footnotes:

[1] See Peregrinating Among The Te'amim regarding the unified five and the expressive five, Binah and Malchut.

[2] The "secret" of the Hebrew calendar is called sod ha-ibbur and also pertains to intercalating the solar and lunar cycles into a single calendar.

[3] Etymological Dictionary Of Biblical Hebrew, R. Matityahu Clark

[4] Ibid., where the shoresh שיר means to express thoughts in poetic form

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