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Greetings iMedDo newsletter subscriber congregation, hope you all having a wonderful summer. If you are new to iMedDo please see our flagship church article “Thyroid Whisperer”<\/a> for all the information and help you need concerning iodine, silver and gold for energy & detox or contact DrBenGo at link iMedDo.club\/book if you need assistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After last month’s episode “God is a Lion”<\/a>, I received divine inspiration to elucidate the meaning of the Lion as savior figure in the ancient Egyptian Serpent Game Mehen which is archaeologically found with lion figurines whose meaning heretofore has been lost to time. In this article, I reference the most up to date modern archaeological breakthroughs regarding Mehen, & I reveal for the first time ever fully playable & theologically sound and consistent rules for Mehen which explain the significance of the Lion statues in the game. With the rules in hand, now Mehen becomes a powerful teaching tool on the hazards of pride like chaos and famine which allows the game and its successor game Senet to be tracked from the spiral loving druids of yore to the Biblical Joseph Cycle to King Tut, to medieval alchemy all the way to modern Christianity. This work is my proof that Christianity ultimately comes from Egypt which fully explains the Semitic connection of the Joseph cycle and how the Bible contains a covered up ouroboros with Jesus as the lion-cub “of Judah” at the center, just as there is a lion (even a lion cub in my reconstructed rules) in the center of the Mehen serpent board game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEHEN THE RELIGION & GAME<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, you need to know, that in ancient Egypt, board games were not just games as we think of them today, but rather an expression of religion. In the most ancient period of Egypt the Old Kingdom, but not in later Middle Kingdom or New Kingdom Egypt, a board game was played that has been baffling board game players and Egyptologists alike. Typical archaeological finds include a spiral serpent shaped board, some marbles, and some lion figurines. As a boardgamer, I simply know how this game was played, and as a religious scholar, I simply had to research in depth the theology surrounding such as game and the history of why it was later replaced and abandoned as a game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig 1: Spiral Serpent Shape typical of Mehen Boards in General circa 3600-2300 BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehen, as you can see from the board above, has something to do with a serpent religion which had some belief in a spiral shaped serpent. Piecing together the archeology we can discover that the worship of the spiral is very very ancient even predating Mehen by at least a millenia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2: Megalithic “Druid” Spirals at Gavrinis Island circa 4200 BC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was at Gavrinis, I could tell the spiral stood for water in river serpent form, and when I exited the Cairn on the island and saw water all around (in megalithic times was the confluence of 3 “snake” rivers), it felt like exiting a tomb and returning to the light of the sun (resurrection). The Egyptian beliefs are strikingly similar where the water of the Milky Way can be considered a serpent. This serpent in its evil chaos form in ancient Egypt was called Apep\/Apophis. Now like saying the name of Voldemort in Harry Potter is bad luck, it was probably bad luck as well to call Apophis by name, and thus even though the big snake on the board is Apophis, you would instead call the board by the name of the protective serpent Mehen instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 3: Mehen (Mehennet) is a protective Black Female Snake Goddess who Guards the Soul of Ra on the Solar Barque (Boat) from Apophis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board of the game Mehen is not Mehen, it’s actually Apophis, but you don’t call the chaos serpent by name, instead the game is called Mehen after the protective serpent. The point of the game as you will see is about protecting against and overcoming\/replacing the chaos serpent. A plausible theory as to why people in later times might have stopped playing Mehen, as they might have been so scared of Apophis that they didn’t want a board around with his image on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MULTIPLE SNAKES IN EGYPT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehen the board game is named after “the coiled one” who IS NOT THE SAME SNAKE as the snake depicted on the gameboard! The big snake on the gameboard is Apophis, the big chaos serpent. Mehen is impled in the marbles, as each marble is a piece of Ra’s soul, and thus each marble is protected by Mehen as they traverse the board on the coils of Apophis from Apophis. Mehen is a non-venomous healing protective black snake, and is different from the venomous uraus snake and is very importantly different from the big snake of the board Apophis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEHEN IS NOT JUST A GAME ABOUT SNAKES, IT’S A GAME ABOUT LIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game Mehen in my reconstructed rules follows a three path course from outside of board to center, center back out, and then outside back to center where each player moves one of their marbles, and the rest of their marbles are used in their hand\/bag\/cup for movement. When you are going from the outside of the board toward the center, your marble represents the dead Pharoah Ra, and Mehen, who is implied in your marble coiled around and protecting the essence off Ra during the most perilous time of his journey through the underworld. But when Ra\/Mehen i.e. your marble reaches the center of the board and overthrows Apophis, then Ra is reborn as the sun\/son of God (where Mehen as God becomes the lioness Goddess Mehenit). So your marble on the second lap instead of dead Ra\/Mehen is now Ra in living lion form (the lion king\/Pharoah) protected by Mehenit (Lioness Goddess with venomous serpent on her brow the uraeus). Mehenit\/Sehkmet the Lioness is the God of this Game on Ra’s second lap. The central former snake den instead becomes a lion’s den (a pride of lions). The lion figurine is placed in the center of the board to indicate that you are on the lion lap and faces outwards indicating the direction of your marble movement for the second lap, and points to your marble allowing you to keep track of which marble is yours in a multiplayer game even when all the marbles on the board are the same color. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PLAY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LION FIGURINES IN MEHEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each player in Mehen is provided a uniquely colored lion figurine. The lion figurine is used as a non-moving marker in the middle of the board after the first lap with both important play and religious significance. The play significance of the lion figurine is threefold 1) it indicates what lap you are on 2) what direction your marble is moving, and 3) keeps track of which marble is yours. For the first lap you leave the lion off the board pointing at your marble to help your remember which marble is yours, everyone’s marble is moving inward so no marker for direction is necessary yet. Once your marble reaches the center your lion figurine is played in the center of the board to indicate that you have completed the first lap, and points outwards indicating direction of marble movement as second lap your now “lionized” marble move outward direction, and lion points at marbles with its front to indicate which marble is yours. For lap three you simple about face the direction of your central lion facing inwards to indicate your marble direction change now moving inwards, and tail of the lion points towards your marble to keep track of which marble is yours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF LIONS IN MEHEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once your marble completes the first lap and takes the center away from the chaos serpent, Ra’s soul guarded by Mehen is able to resurrect\/reincarnate as the sun God represented by a lion. So you put your lion figurine in the middle to indicate that the Lion King (or Queen for female player) now rules. For the second lap the Pharoah goes forth in lion marble form under the watchful gaze of his lion figurine to go hunting. Female lion figurines represent Menhit\/Sehkmet (lion headed goddesses that protect the Pharoah with their venomous serpent uraus eye, and male lion figurines represent the lion savior god Mahes or represent the ascended lion nature of the pharoah himself. Sex of lion figurines does not affect gameplay, as they do not move only indicate information about your marbles direction, position and lap number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE LESSON OF PRIDE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once you understand how the cycle of Mehen fully plays and what it represents after reading the full rules below you will see that the game teaches a lesson about the dangers of pride. The lion Pharoah in the second lap moving towards the outside of the board as he gets farther and farther away from Egypt and the watchful gaze of the eye of Ra in lion figurine form, eventually is betrayed by his enemies and has to make a third return lap again through the underworld before regaining center again as the Eye o Ra having learned his lesson becoming the ascended good Pharoah a Good Dragon instead of a Chaos Serpent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For almost the entirety of the game, the Pharoah is away from Egypt either on lap 1 and 3 in the underworld trying to return, or in lap 2 in his pride out there hunting and killing his enemies. Only when the pharoah in his first turn in the center as the baby lion cub and on his very last turn when he ruturns in all his glory not as a prideful lion but as and enlightened dragon does Egypt prosper the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE GREAT SPHINX & PYRAMIDS AS STAR POINTERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the pharoah is the lion cub (compare to Jesus as the lion cub of Judah) it is the Best time in Egypt as he is like the dwarf lion “Egyptian god Bes and does a great job protecting the people. But for most of the time during the chaos of lap 1, the scary hunting lions of lap 2, and the returned chaos possibly in sorcerer form of lap 3 the Pharoah is away. The Lion figurine reminds the people that God is always watching and protecting their land and the Pharoah. Such is likely the meaning of the greatest lion “figurine” known the Great Sphinx of Giza which Gazes of over Egypt protectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note that even though there is only one great sphinx in Egypt, behind it are 6 big pyramids, the 3 male and 3 smaller female pyramids and this correlates to the 6 lion figurines found with Mehen as 6 player mode with 3 male and 3 female lions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Great Pyramid, and 5 surrounding pyramids corresponding to both 6 players allowed in Mehen, and the two teams of three (3 king pyramids and 3 Queen pyramids). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the Great Sphinx for directionality, and the pyramids as pointers you can both keep track of the marbles in the sky (planets\/stars) and the our big earth marble we live on as well as the flow of the great Milky Way Serpent in the sky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FINDING THE LOST MEHEN RULES FROM NOTHING TO PLAYABLE FULL RULES EXPLAINED BY DRBENGO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People have long speculated on how to play Mehen but were rather lost because of variation of board shape and size, no idea how the marble movement worked, and lack of understanding of the lion figurines in the game. Then in 2024 AD there was a major breakthrough in the Mehen rules where James Masters significantly narrowed down the game-play options which allowed me through my lion and Senet knowledge to pinpoint the missing rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehen, The Ancient Egyptian Serpent Game: A Reappraisal of Game-play Theories”<\/strong> by James F. R. Masters<\/strong> was published in 2024<\/strong> (specifically in the 2023-2024<\/strong> issue) of the Birmingham Egyptology Journal<\/strong> (Volume 10, pages 52-87).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, in 2024 AD, I made my own independent discoveries regarding the lost rules of a related Egyptian game know as Senet: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senet Boardgame Rules Reconstruction Breakthough: The Game of On<\/a> published May 17th, 2024 for iMedDo by DrBenGo Healthwarrior <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEHEN VICTORY IN 2026 AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 is the number of the serpent ouroboros infinity and sounds like English word “Ate” for good reason but is spelled as Eight with and “E” the number of the letter of the Trinity. 5 is both the number of death and the number V in Roman numerals for “Victory” indicating its changing meaning over the course of history. Same with the number 10 (X in roman numerals), originally meant death, and now X for Greek Chi i.e. Christ represents “Victory” over death. Meditating on both numbers, and letters and lions, using my knowledge of Egyptian boardgame Senet, and using most up to date Mehen archeology from the 2024 James Masters paper with much prayer and mediation and divine guidance, I was able to reconstruct a fully religiously thematic and playable modern adaptation of Mehen for use by iMedDo Foundation for religious use teaching! Enjoy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehen: Snake vs Lion Ouroboros Game of Ancient Egypt<\/strong> Modern Adaptation by DrBenGo Healthwarrior for iMedDo Foundation<\/strong> Copyright 2026 iMedDo Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mehen is the protective coiled serpent (Eye of Ra \/ Menhit in serpent form). While the goddess and Pharaoh are away, Apophis rules the center. Players race inward to defeat Apophis, transform into the Lion King, race outward in pride, then return humbly in a third lap. The game teaches the cyclical danger of pride and the path to wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game Mode<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Team-based (White vs Black marbles). Play until all complete the three-lap cycle. Final return order to center determines ranking. Last player receives the \u201clot\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Components (per player)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n