Absh is the tortoise which is a combination of Abu and “Sh” “Sh” means the water, pool or well of source.
Ab, Abu and/or Absh is also likely the name of the crocodile.
Abu is also a name of the dog. (NG2 13/21, 196/204, 212/220) Abu is Egyptian name of the island called Elephantine by the Greeks. Abu (Elephantine) is located in Souan (Aswan) just north of the Aswan dammed cataract.
The area of Abu Island was called “the Door to the South.” This matches the Souan as the opening, Southern Gate and also matches Swen as the place of trade or conducting business. (Bunson: Encyclopedia 149-150) Smaller forms of the two lakes or pool of two truths of the double source of Nile were localized on Abu Island. This is additional corroboration that Abu Island is part of the opening and rebirthplace from Upper Mestrea into Lower Mestrea. This also corroborates the area now submerged under Lake Nasser serves as the abyss (amenta) of Lower Mestrea. (AE1 259/269) Abu as the hard thing, the renewal of spark, the water, the water creature and the announcer leads to and from the words sunsum and abusua as spirit and family or simply the two truths, which is to say, one, holy spirit, everything. Abusua might be Abusuan, the combination of Abu and Suan, the island and the surrounding land. It could also be Asuan + bu. “Bu” is the womb, birthplace and dual parent. Souan is the opening, two truths, foundation, flowing motion.
Abusua and sunsum are said to be of Akan or Ghanaian origin, but most certainly they are of Nile Valley origin. The Akan people, like all people, originated in the Nile Valley, no matter how many degrees of separation. Think about it. Many of us say we came from heaven, yet the degrees of separation that led to our creation is so numerous, we have no clue as to every step that led to us being here, yet we continue to balk at natural fact that points to the Nile Valley for all people. Variations for Abu: Abw, Yebu, Elephantine, Gezeeret Asouan (Arabic), Sooan-drtiga (Nubian), or "the Island of Asouan." (Wilkinson: Modern 300) Abu Island contained a Nilometer to gauge the rise of the annual Nile inundation.
Khnum, Father Deity
Khnum was the god of Abu Island and Souan. (Brugsch: History 495)Khnum/Khnum-Ra is the nocturnal Sun and Lord of Shennu or Sheni. (AE1 30/40), (BB 292/304)
"Khn" means to blow, puff away, breathe, thus breath, air, wind. This relates to what we learned about Aswan. The geographic area Khnum presided over on Abu Island is not limited to the Island. Khnum is the combination of the motion and the thing, the flowing and the water, blood, breath. This then relates to the foundation of opening and the opening foundation for another cycle and form of life. For instance, Khnum is the flowing of liquid essence and Khnef is the flowing of breath, air, wind. This flowing also includes scent and smelling and the flowing of sound and hearing and speaking. Khnum and other variations relate to the opening, flowing and foundation of the elemental souls of life which form the senses. Through the senses, we learn and are taught. Each sense is for being and perceiving. (NG1 39/57, 80/98), (BB 62/74, 150/162, 176/188, 205/217, 449/461) Khnum or Ptah or Kheper is the potter who forms both the sun and man from the matter of earth. Atum is the soul of life in the matter of the sun and Atum is also the sun (soul, sensum) of man (the soul of life that provides the blood and breath and flesh of man). Khnum was ram-headed or goat-headed. His color was green with a blue tint as the color of reproduction from the underworld representing plants and the water. This, as we learned, represents the child, the ever-coming one, Horus, Osiris and many other names of deities. (AE1 437/447), (BB 94/106, 130/142, 330/342) Variations: Kneph, Khnef, Num, Nef, Osiris (Wilkinson: Modern 280), (Bunson: Encyclopedia 28), (AE1 473/483)
Satet, Mother Deity
Satet was worshipped at Abu Island and Esnè as goddess of the Nile River inundation, thus Satet is a form of Isis, Mother Earth who brings forth waters and children from the waters. Satet is associated with war and arrows. Satet is the source of the name Ta-Sati or Ta-seti, land of the bow and arrow.This matches Ta-Kens as the name of the land over which Khnum ruled. Khnum is Khn is Khen is Ken. Also Num and Ken are related through Numming and Kenning which relate to knowing, nose and smelling and using the senses.
Khnum is to smell with the nose for determinative. The same word means to choose and select with the nose. It is also the name for the nurse, tutor and educator; the nose being a primary teacher. Khnum is to ken by the nose, and the word modifies into num, to guide, direct; accompany, go together, in such an act as “numming” with noses, and other forms of kenning or knowing each other. (NG1 80/98)These things speak to the meanings contained in the place names Souan and Abu.
Thus, it is likely Ta-seti was the land south of the cataract at Souan, on the Philae Island side, while Ta-kens was the land north of the cataract at Souan, on the Abu Island side. In both cases, the meanings of both words still apply, with one revealed and one hidden. Ta-seti and Ta-kens are another form of the two lands and many forms of two truths such as Khnum and Satet. Quite possibly, the place names Ta-kenset or Ta-Khenset are combined forms of the two lands and the two deities
Once again, despite land being called by different names and despite smaller portions being named, that does not stop the land from still being part of larger designations such as Upper Mestrea and Lower Mestrea. In some manner, the transformations that took place on the land on either side of the cataract at Souan is connected to the Ages of Gemini and Sagittarius. Lastly, Satet is shown wearing the white crown which had antelope horns on it. She was also shown wearing the vulture headdress, reserved for queens who had given birth to heirs. (Bunson: Encyclopedia 374) Variations: Satè, Satis, Sati
