User talk:WinstonMatthews

Hey Winston Matthews,

Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seshat

You asked whether Seshat's 7 leafed Papyrus, or Star could possibly represent Cannabis.

I would actually look first at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shesha or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga

''The epic frequently characterizes Nagas as having a mixture of human and serpent-like traits. Sometimes it characterizes them as having human traits at one time, and as having serpent-like traits at another. For example, the story of how the Naga prince Sesha came to hold the world on his head begins with a scene in which he appears as a dedicated human ascetic, "with knotted hair, clad in rags, and his flesh, skin, and sinews dried up owing to the hard penances he was practising." Brahman is pleased with Shesha, and entrusts him with the duty of carrying the world. At that point in the story, Shesha begins to exhibit the attributes of a serpent. He enters into a hole in the Earth and slithers all the way to bottom, where he then loads the Earth onto his head. (Book I: Adi Parva, Section 36.) ''

Now of course some Yogis in India smoked Cannabis, and certainly Cannabis use seemed to follow the Mitanni (Indic) and Scythian Chariots with this technological expansion, which other cultures copies and perfected (Egypt had advanced chariots by 1500 B.C.).

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_%28etymology%29

BUT THE REAL QUESTION IS, is SESHAT (Egypt) cognate with SHESHA (7 headed Naga)?