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Frits Thaulow: Master of light, water, and northern atmosphere.

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Yugoslavia, 1984

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central park (1/2)

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Serpent legged Dionysus

Naukratis, 1-2nd century CE Roman Egypt.

He bears a cornucopia and grapes, he is depicted wearing a nebris (deer skin cape associated with Dionysus and the Maenads), a himation and the Hemhem (triple atef) crown. Harpokrates (Horus the Child) in the top right corner.

The Hemhem (meaning “To Shout Out”) crown was an attribute of multiple Gods at varying points, but noticeably Horus the Child of Esna and the Nubian God Mandulis who was called "Sun, the all-seeing master, king of all, all-powerful Aion” and whose cult was continuous with Hellenistic Egypt. In the case of Horus, Ptolemaic and Roman period Esna developed a particular theology of Horus the Child* depicted with the hemhem crown as “The perfect youth, sweet of love, who repeats the births again and again.” The triumph of the Sun each dawn and the renewal of all life in the world. It is only natural that Dionysus, a Life Giving God presiding over the renewal of vegetation and the salvation of the human soul, should be wearing it.

*Budde 2010, Child Deities. UEE.

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