Per Necheret

House of the Cheetah | House of the Goddess 𓋹 Blog about my experience reconstructing the ancient Egyptian religion (Dua Mafdat, Dua Anpu,) and ancient Egyptian ceramics practices as a potter. 𓍑 Page name comes from the middle Egyptian word nTrt, which refers to both the divine (Goddess) and cheetahs . 𓋴 This page is dedicated to my Egyptology and Ceramics studies, current projects, Kemetic Practice, and Pottery journey. . PFP drawn by the wonderful Clerical Error

[insimafdat]

No idea how to format this but here goes!

Intro!

Hey all! I’m Insi, or Nisi, and I’m a potter’s apprentice and Egyptology student currently researching and reconstructing ancient Egyptian ceramics and faience! I’m super new to Tumblr. (Please give advice idk how to do this)

My name, Insimafdat, or nsjm3fdt, comes from middle Egyptian. nsj (She who is of) m3fdt (Mafdat). This is a common name pattern you see in ancient Egypt, usually with more popular deities.

My pronouns are She/Her!

❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

My main interests are Pottery and Ancient Egypt/Egyptology. My main focuses within Egyptology are ceramics and the religion, aswell as the language!

I’m a Kemetic Reconstructionist with the main deity I worship being Mafdat. I also honour Ma’at and Anpu. I’m not very witchy in terms of neopaganism, but I do practice ancient Egyptian magic. I try to keep it as historically accurate as possible, so tend to stray away from the Witch label as to avoid new age witchcraft and magic.

If you’re interested in learning about ancient ceramic practices in Egypt, pottery in general, the ancient Egyptian religion and their ancient religious beliefs, or simply enjoy looking at cool pots, feel free to follow!

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"Kill them with kindness" wrong, curse of ra 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑

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[insimafdat]

Since my Faience work is getting a bit more traction, I thought I’d include some of my earlier tests to show a bit more of the progress in refining this recipe.

Here is the first recipe I developed. This one used Ball Clay to make it much more carve-able, but I had the colourant and firing temperature wrong, which led to a very dark and burnt colour.

Still wet and moldable

Dried, as the salts in the paste begin to leach to the surface, carrying with them the Silica and Colourant.

Fired, with a very burned colour due to overfiring. (I know this is a different scarab, but it was the same recipe/problem. I can’t find the photo of the other one when it was fired for some reason?)

Here is a historical example of faience that was also overfired, though mine was fired to a MUCH higher temperature than it should’ve been (I’m surprised it didn’t melt??)

This was the next recipe I developed (Lime based, with a little more soda ash/salt)

Pictures showing it dried alongside other coloured eyes, and then the firing result, with one Red, Two yellows, and three blues. This was fired at 04. Still overfired, however, with a different base (lime) it withstood the temperature a lot better.

Then I reached the most recent alteration, which you can see in my other post. Here are those same pieces drying, and then some closer looks at the cat and eye of ra.

Feel free to ask any questions!!!

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For all you big anubis fans and or the four sons of Horus. Feel free to use!

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Hathor

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from The Dispute between a man and his Ba

ancient Egypt, written approximately during the Middle Kingdom period (2040 to 1782 BC)

[rudjedet]

*grabs tumblr by the face* hey, hey look at me. whatever you do, we are NOT pivoting to "well Hatshepsut COULD be trans because she never said she WASN’T" after we spent years undoing the whole thing where people shoehorn modern gender frameworks into the perception of ancient historical figures whose culture didn't have this framework. we are NOT going to use "don't put words in the ancients' mouths" as an excuse to say "it could still be true because she never said it was false". Hatshepsut - and before her several other female kings like Sobekneferu and Tawosret - only referred to herself with masculine pronouns when she grammatically had to, while she used feminine pronouns everywhere else she could, indicating that she likely didn’t consider herself as anything other than a woman per the ancient Egyptian constructs of such.

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Egyptian group of jars, decorated with the head of an ox, the head of the god Bes, a calf, and a frog

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1390–1352 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 22.2.33a, b

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Ancient Egyptian Jewellery, Lapis Lazuli Amulets

From left to right: 1 Frog Amulet 664–332 B.C. 2 Heart Amulet 664–334 BCE 3 Lion and Bull Amulet 522–343 B.C. 4 Cat Amulet 1550–1295 B.C. 5 Ba Amulet 664–332 B.C. 6 Lion Amulet 1550–1295 B.C. 7 Fish Amulet 1550–1295 B.C. 8 Female Sphinx Amulet 1981–1550 B.C. 9 Harpokrates Amulet ? 1850–1640 B.C. 10 Falcon Amulet 664–332 B.C.

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Amethyst cat amulet from the Ptolemaic Period (300 - 30 BC).

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Over 4,500 years old rare Egyptian beadnet dress, dating to the reign of King Khufu (2551–2528 BCE). The dress was meticulously reassembled from around 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed burial, making it the earliest surviving example of a beaded overgarment, once shimmering in blue and turquoise tones inspired by lapis lazuli and turquoise.

[insimafdat]

My most recent project! Ancient Egyptian Faience Amulets. I’m developing my own recipe off of historical examples, but it’s not perfect yet. Hoping to make better press molds once I alter the recipe to my liking more, and then hopefully start an Etsy store!

[insimafdat]

Finding an Ancient Egypt centred community online be like

- Pseudoarchaeology

- Conspiracy Theories

- Race debates

- Super popular Egyptology community that’s been dead for years

- The perfect community for egyptology but it only has 50 people.

- Conspiracy Theories but Religious

Why is the internet like this about Egypt???