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Statue of the ancient Egyptian goddess Taweret, who protected women in childbirth. The goddess is typically depicted as a pregnant hippopotamus, hippos being one of the fiercest and most aggressive animals known to the Egyptians; she is also sometimes shown with lion paws and a crocodile's tail. This statue is housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo credit: Wellcome Images/Wellcome Trust/ CC-BY-4.0.
Epagomenal days: day 3- ISIS
Today is the third of the epagomenal days for me and I thank Isis for reminding me today is Her day!!
I accidentally purchased an Isis statue thinking it was Maat so I'll have to devote that to Her. She is a goddess I'd love to worship and work with some day.
And so, a poem for Her!
Hail to you Aset, the moon who shines over the sea.
Your magic is in the air we breathe and the music in our voices.
Oh, star of the sea, your motherly love protects and guides us all towards Maat.
In your many forms, you make light everlasting and enchant our hearts.
Your very existence overflows with affection and compassion, encompassing us all.
My adoration is all for you as the great patron of pardon and peace.
Dua Isis, the brilliant one in the sky!
Dua Isis, light-giver of heaven!
Your children come to greet you now,
O Heru-Wer, Lord of Strength,
With arms full of offerings and mouths full of praise!
Primeval One, Reborn under Nut and Geb,
You created the sky for your beloveds
Who in return worship you and your creation!
May you be satisfied with what we offer,
May you be nourished, may you be strengthened,
May you and your ka be satisfied!
May you rejoice upon your day!
Out here hitting the Bong of Anubis
*me hitting the bong* this isn’t that bad actu-
Egyptian sky god Horus, who has the head of a Lanner falcon and wears the double crown of a united Egypt. His right eye was the sun or morning star, representing power and quintessence, and his left eye was the moon or evening star, representing healing. Horus was associated with kingship, and pharaohs were considered his manifestation on Earth.
"Supremacy" Watercolor and Colored Pencil on 12" X 4.5" smooth Bristol paper. Art direction by Sandra SanTara ORIGINAL and Prints available here (clicky)!
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Part 2/2 of the DEITIES Profiles I completed for this year’s OC_tober run /o/ All of them can be viewed in the #DEITIES Profiles tag of the project blog to see additional artwork and notes, here’s the last 10 for convenience:
DEITIES Profiles: Serqet / Sobek / Wepwawet / Montu / Shezmu / Pakhet / Anuket / Yamm / Thoth / Ra
DEITIES x OC_TOBER ➝ Full Character Lineup PREV ➝ [ PART I (01-10) ]
DEITIES Website >> https://deitiesproject.com/
[ Twitter / Instagram / Artfol / Carrd / Ko-Fi ]
Part ½ of the DEITIES Profiles I completed for this year’s OC_tober run – since I think they all look kinda nice together /o\ All of them can be viewed in the #DEITIES Profiles tag of the project blog to see additional artwork and notes, but I’ll link the first 10 here for convenience:
DEITIES Profiles: Osiris / Set / Isis / Nephthys / Horus / Anubis / Bastet / Sekhmet / Mafdet / Hathor
DEITIES x OC_TOBER ➝ Full Character Lineup NEXT ➝ [ PART II (11-20) ]
DEITIES Website >> https://deitiesproject.com/
[ Twitter / Instagram / Artfol / Carrd / Ko-Fi ]
Dedicated to Isis, the Temple of Philae is one of the most beautiful and best preserved in Egypt. Legend has it that when King Osiris was killed by his brother Seth, and he scattered his remains throughout the country, Isis picked them up and recomposed him on the Island of Philae.
Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)
While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs
Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion
Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks
You’re doing the good work, friend.
ok but can we go back to the ancient erotica pls
We sure can!
is there a version of this post where y'all talk about how the ancient Egyptians had advanced technology (that is lost and unknown to us) that allowed them to cut multiple ton granite stone to such precision that if you were to try to slide a human hair between the cuts, the hair wouldn’t fit? and if you try to take a photo of the cut from a few inches over head that you can’t even tell the cut line is there? unless the ancients were some sort of advanced earth benders, how do y'all explain that???
Yeah it’s called “the ancient Egyptians were skilled stone workers with the attested tools at their disposal and we didn’t lose that knowledge actually” and you can find all the pertinent evidence in The Complete Pyramids, run along now.
i made a great response to this but then i realized your complete and utter rudeness is not worth it at all. i had a genuine question and there was no need to respond like that. and no, my “earthbender” comparison wasn’t serious.
You know why I was harsh? Because you coached your question in the exact same terms every single conspiracy theorist uses to deny ancient Egyptians their agency when it comes to their stone working. Your reply had the exact same tone of many, many people who tried to play gotcha with me in 119k+ notes, and I’m just not here for that. There is a need to respond like that, actually, because conspiracists will take a mile if you give them an inch on their barely disguised racist beliefs that the Egyptians couldn’t have built their monuments themselves. You either shut it down immediately or you give them ammo. If you got caught in the crossfire of that, that’s regrettable but there is a reason for it.
And why am I making that “dumb comment”? Because I’m an Egyptologist. I have studied this, reviewed the evidence, read all the theories. And as I stated, we do have proof. We do have evidence that metal tools and harder stones can, in fact, cut stone. The same tools can, in fact, create a level surface on a quarried block because the Egyptians, like many contemporary civilisations, knew how to use things like measures and plumb lines.
There is, again, nothing lost or too-advanced about it. It’s technology that is actually still in use today in various fields and quarries together with more modern techniques. If you look through the recent reblogs you’ll find one that attaches many different videos showing exactly what I’m talking about.
And to reiterate, if you’re genuinely interested you can find all of this info in Mark Lehner’s The Complete Pyramids, which is relatively easily accessed online. Barring that, you can look at his website or any of the freely accessible articles by the same and also read up on this. It’s no skin off my nose if you don’t want to take my word for it, but that is why I added sources.
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living in ancient china mustve sucked you would go ask your neighbor if you could use his pitchfork cuz yours snapped in half and he would be like "my friend.....to borrow one thing is to borrow everything..." and he'd write it down and 3000 years later ppl just know you as dickhead the borrower
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Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a big deal in feminist science fiction for being one of the first widely popular and critically acclaimed works to do cool shit with sex and gender (which was certainly nothing new, but previous such works had rarely "taken off" the way LHoD did). It was criticized for referring to the genderfluid characters with the indefinite "he," which was a la mode in style guides at the time, instead of using alternating or gender-neutral pronouns. In time Le Guin came to agree with this criticism; she considered her decision not to take things further one of her biggest literary regrets, stating that "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns."
I tell you this only because the phrase "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" is one I think about a lot.
