The all important question of what was the connection between Ptah...Shu...Geb and Maat...is obvious...they are all Egyptian deities who ruled Egypt before the beginning of the dynasties of pharaohs...Also included in this list will be Osiris...Seth...Horus...and Thoth...names that may be a bit more recognizable...

One might have thought that following the Flood and Deluge...things might have calmed down among the gods...It was time to rebuild civilization...not engage in more and greater conflicts...But such was not meant to be...

Shu and Tefnut hand over the reins in Egypt to Geb (“Who Piles Up the Earth”) and his sister..Nut (“The Stretched-Out Firmament”)...It was the first time in recorded history that a brother was allowed to constantly call his sister a “nut” and get a way with it...

Geb and Nut were apparently so named on account of activities relating to the periodic appearance of the Bennu bird...from which the Greeks obtained the legend of the Phoenix...It was for that bird...whose name was the same as that of the contraption in which Ra (Marduk) landed on earth...a space ship...that Geb engaged in great earthworks and Nut stretched out the firmament of the sky... These feats were carried out by the gods in the “Land of the Lions"...

The reappearance of the Phoenix every couple of millennia or so...might suggest a connection with the zodiacal ages...which last (depending upon the span of a particular constellation in the sky) from less than two to more than three thousand years....It is on this basis...perhaps...that “Phoenix Rising” is a term coming more and more into favor as we proceed from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius...Perhaps the NASA space program is even connected in some very weird way??...