A Place For The Divine

Side blog for my findings and contemplations of the Netjeru in my life (Follow from Screamingfeline)

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Meaning of Colors in Anciet Egyptian Art:

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An emissary of Nefertem reminds you that at every sunrise, the world is created anew. A new beginning awaits you. – Nefertem is an Ancient Egyptian god associated with perfume and flowers (especially the blue lotus), healing, and the newborn sun. Though He was most frequently depicted as a human with a lotus over His head, He could also be shown as a lion as the son of Sekhmet or Bast. Lotus flowers rise up from the muddy waters to bloom at sunrise, just as the sun rises from the dark every morning to illuminate the world once again. In some creation stories, Nefertem is the child-god born from the first lotus emerging from the primeval waters.

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“No walls stand between heaven and earth. You are no farther from me than from your own hot breath. At any moment you enter heaven by saying, ‘I am a temple of Ra.’”

— Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Normandi Ellis

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An emissary of Khepri offers you the chance to start a new chapter of your story whenever you need to. The sun rises for you tomorrow, again and again.

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Khepri is an Ancient Egyptian god of the rising sun, creation, and renewal, and is frequently depicted as a beetle. He has strong associations with rebirth as He rolls the freshly-created sun across the sky every morning.

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☀️Ancient egyptian symbolism in tarot☀️

☀️Some of my personal associations for recurring symbolism in ancient egyptian themed tarot decks, considering I’m not kemetic I don’t mind discussing them! This is just what I’ve come to believe after doing my fair bit of research on the topic, and since I couldn’t find anything like this online I’m sharing mine hoping it’s useful for someone else too!☀️

☀️ Ankh: Originally a hieroglyph meaning “life”. Associated with life on Earth and reaching the afterlife, the goddess Aset, the healer, reincarnation and magic. Also associated with the Sun rising over the horizon.

☀️ Arches: Bringing closure to a situation, new beginnings, positive future. Also initiations and renewing your spirituality or beliefs.

☀️ Bulls or cows, horns: Tied to Hathor, motherhood, fertility of the land, and Apis, new messages, paying attention to communication, specially with our superiors, and in matter of spirituality, with the Divine and our ancestors. Divine guidance or aid.

☀️ Cats: Bastet, motherhood, kindness, love, elegance and passion.

☀️ Cities/villages: community, order, cooperation, material plane.

☀️ Clouds: Clouds bring rain, a rare sight in the deser, they’re a call to stay positive in hard times, a sign of relief coming and the possibility of any hardship solving soon.

☀️ Cocodriles: Associated with Sobek, the Nile River, it’s waters and the fertility they grant the soil. They’re also associated with some forms of Aset and thus further tied to health, motherhood, prosperity and protection. 

☀️ Crook: Originally a shepherd’s tool, associated with protection and guidance. Later became associated with a ruler figure, someone with power over others, Royal, Divine or both. Symbol of Osiris and Pharaohs.

☀️ Crook AND Flail: Often crossed at the chesr, symbol of the Pharaohs, marking the union of the Earthly and the Divine in them. Associated with balance, wholeness, beneficence from power.

☀️ Eye of Horus: Left eye. Associated with the Moon, it’s phases phases, purification. Also often tied to good health, protection and driving away evil. Wadjet is seen as it’s personification, thus being tied to snakes, protection and the Pharaoh, as she protected Horus and the Pharaoh was seen as a child of Aset too.

☀️ Eye of Ra: Right eye. Seen as a part of the Sun, associated with warmth and light. Most commonly associated with the myths of Sekhmet and her power, seen as personified in her.

☀️ Feathers: lightness, morality and justice. Tied to Ma'at, her feather would determine a soul’s worth. All that is good, order and fairness.

☀️ Fields and Harvesting: Tied to Osiris/Wesir, specially crops like wheat, representing his death and passing to the afterlife, mourning and life beyond death.

☀️ Flail: Originally a tool of harvest, associated thus with agriculture, growth, prosperity. Also later associated with Osiris, and Divine or Royal authority.

☀️ Green/brown male figures: Often depicted with a Goose in his head and standing or laying below Nut, this figure is representing her husband Geb, associated with the Earth, creation, fertility and life. Osiris/Wesir is also depicted with green skin, and often with crook and flail across his chest, thus tied to the afterlife, reincarnation, getting over the past, moving forward and sovereignity.

☀️ Jackals: afterlife, associated with funerary rites and Death gods like Anubis or Wepwawet. Guides and protectors. Guardian of cementeries. 

☀️ Lions: Power. Guardians and warriors. Associated with the Aker and Sekhmet among other netjeru.

☀️ Lotus: Rebirth. Associated with the Sun, day-night and life-death duality. Also associated with abundance, fertility, the rising sun, Ra being born or starting his journey.

☀️ Mirrors: Associated with the ankh, beauty, prosperity, good health, also tied to death and rebirth, and how the afterlife was a mirror of life itself.

☀️ New Moon: Associated with similar meaning to scarabs, the afterlife, and the eye of Horus in pieces, waiting to be whole again.

☀️ Papyrus and scrolls: Associated with Thoth, sacred knowledge, the magician archetype.

☀️ Pyramids: to ascend, Divinity, reaching the afterlife.

☀️ Scales: finding balance, a sign of something being out of place and a call to determine what it is and how to fix it. I personally associate it with Ma’at vs Isfet, but can also be related to commerce, money, and job/life situations.

☀️Scarab or Beetle: common amulet of protection and good fortune. Seen also as a form of the morning Sun, Khepri, manifestation and power to grow. A Scarab was placed on place of the deceased’s heart, to protect them during trials and allow their safe passage to the afterlife.

☀️ Ships and boats: I personally associate these with the Sun’s journey, death and Rebirth, fishing, prosperity and Hathor, commerce, but also unification. Boats would go up and down the Nile carrying goods but also information, news and often the Pharaoh’s decrees, they can represent the pharaoh’s (or inquirer’s) ability to manage successfully a “vast territory” literally or simply handle complex situations.

☀️ Snakes: Wadjet, protection, rulership, unification of lower and upper Egypt. Also A/pep, the personification of Isfet, the concept of disharmony, chaos and disorder, destruction and all evil/harmful. Thus, depending on the surrounding imagery they can take a positive or negative meaning.

☀️ Sphinx: Head of a lion and body of men, the sphinx is commonly given meaning of the lion’s power and strength granted to a logical, intelligent mind, capable of self-control, discipline and correctly channeling it’s will power when deemed necessary.

☀️ Staff or was sceptre: represents power over chaos, granted by Set or Anubis, commonly carried by priests or other important, dominant figures. Representing support, having a single direction, a purpose or path to follow.

☀️ Starry sky, blue female figures: Associated with Nut and her primordial waters. Protection from chaos. Ussually depicted covering others with her body, her feet and hands on the Earth are the four cardinal directions. Giving birth to the Sun each day and due to Ra’s travel through the sky myth, she’s associated with resurrection and safe journeys. 

☀️ The Sun: Ra and Horus. Wholeness, light, power and prosperity.

☀️ Tjet: or “Aset’s knot” Seen as a life-giver symbol, tied to Aset and said to represent female reproductive organs. Also tied to Nephthys, rebirth, blood, cycles and power of regeneration.

☀️ Winged goddesses/Winged female figures: Often representing Aset or Ma'at, among others, associated with the skies, justice, rulership as well as healing and the afterlife.

☀️ Winged sun disk: Symbol of Horus, the hawk.

☀️ Wood: A scarce resource in Ancient Egypt, thus it becoming a symbol of wealth, fertility and prosperity and being used for example, in busts and statues of Netjeru or the Pharaoh and those close to him.

☀️ With love, Nao ☀️

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Ancient Egyptian Decorative Art

Today we present Ancient Egyptian decorative art from the Italian art portfolio Gli stili nella forma e nel colore, rassegna dell’ arte antica e moderna di tutti i paesi, or “The styles in form and color, a review of ancient and modern art from all countries,” by Giulio Ferrari, a conservator for Museo Artistico Industriale in Rome. It was published in 1925 by C. Crudo & C. Torino for Società Italiana Edizioni Artistiche. The illustrations we are featuring today are from Volume One.

View more posts about Ancient Egyptian art.

View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.

–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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An emissary of Bast reminds you that you are loved. Look up and see the beauty that surrounds you.

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“She who gives birth to heaven and earth, knows the orphan, knows the widow, seeks justice for the poor, and shelter for the weak.”

— The Book of the Dead; some epithets of Aset/Isis

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Selected Epithets of Sokar

excerpted from the

LAGG

and translated by myself

Lord of the Heavens

Lord of Light

Lord of the Cave

Duaty / Of the Duat

He Who is Within the Secret Chamber

Bull of the West

Foremost of Rosetjau

Lord of the Desert

Lord of Joy

Pharoah

Who creates light in the womb of his mother

Sublime God

Ruler of Eternity

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O thou who didst wear the White Crown even when coming forth from the womb! O eldest son of the First  Primeval One! O possessor of (many) faces, manifold of forms! O medicine of gold in the temples! O lord of time who grantest years! O possessor of everlasting life! O lord of millions, rich in myriads! O thou who shinest when rising peacefully! O thou who healest for thyself thy throat! O thou lord of fear, (at whom men) tremble greatly! O possessor of (many) faces, rich in uraei! O thou who appearest in the White Crown, lord of the wereret-crown! O thou august offspring of Har-Hekenu! O Soul of Re in the Bark of Millions! O weary Leader, come to thy Shetjyt-shrine! O thou lord of fear who came into being of himself, O weary of heart,  come to thy city! O thou who rejoicest, come to thy city! O thou well-beloved of the gods and goddesses, O thou whose waters are great, come to thy temple! O thou who dwellest in the Netherworld, come to thine offerings! O thou who protectest thyself, come to thy temples! O thou whose darkness is more enduring than  the light of the sun! O august kiki-plant of the Great Temple! O august rope-maker of the Night-bark! O thou lord of the henu-bark, youthful  in the Shetjyt-shrine! O thou excellent power who art in the realm of the dead! O august controller of Upper and Lower Egypt! O thou hidden one whom the common folk know not! O thou who blindfoldest him who is in the Netherworld from seeing the sun! O lord of the atef-crown,  great in the temple of         Herakleopolis! O thou who art greatly majestic beside the na’ret-tree! O thou who art in Thebes, who flourishest forever! O Amun-Re, King of the Gods, who dost perpetuate thy flesh in peaceful rising! O thou who increasest offerings and sacrifices in Rostau! O thou who placest the uraeus on the head of its lord! O thou who establishest the earth in its place! O thou who openest the mouths of the four great gods who are in the realm of the dead! O living soul of Osiris when he appears as the moon! O thou whose body is hidden in the great Shetjyt-shrine in Heliopolis! O divine one who hidest Osiris in the realm of the dead! O thou whose soul rests in heaven, whose foe is fallen!

Litany of Sokar, translated by R. O. Faulkner (via sebaisokar)

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Beaded Shroud Fragment, with Jackal and Hieroglyphs, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period (323-30 B.C.) [183 x 519]

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/dzxpq2/beaded_shroud_fragment_with_jackal_and/

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Nebt-het (Nepthys) and Aset (Isis) as the “Two Kites,” surrounded by poppies and jasmine, which were flowers grown in Ancient Egypt. Kites are birds of prey that have a high-pitched shriek that sounds like the cry of those in mourning, which is one reason why these birds are associated with the Two Sisters who mourned Wesir (Osiris). Pen and ink. Prints available here.

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The Nisut (AUS) of the House of Netjer shared a prayer to Sekhmet that She wrote based on translations of ancient texts, and I'd like to share that here. (We have Her permission to do so.)

To reiterate: this is not something I personally wrote.

Prayer to Sekhmet against COVID-19

Rev. Dr. Tamara L. Siuda, March 20, 2020

O Sekhmet, Eye of Ra,

Powerful Flame,

Protectress of those whom She created,

O Sekhmet Who lights up the land with Her flame,

Who gives life to everyone:

Come, Sekhmet! Free us!

Save us from the misfortunes of this time.

May they never have power over us, forever.

Powerful One of Fire,

Who makes the virus tremble with fear of Her,

Come to us! Stop all calamity!

May our beginning be life, our middle be health, and our end be strength.

May there be cooperation between us.

May there be protection against all our enemies living or dead.

Appease in our favor the Great Nine;

Appease in our favor the Lesser Nine;

Appease in our favor all the blessed dead,

as Ra is agreeable to His following,

in this time of our need.

O Pure Mother,

grant that all of the peoples of our world,

the generations we know and generations still to come,

be pure of all evil contamination,

of all bad winds,

and all bad journeys for this time.

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Our Lady of Pestilence, I pray, I ask You to watch us kindly in this time of need, She, before whom evil trembles, Help us to stand strong, Help us to have courage to face the dark and unknown, Our Lady in red, She of many names, I pray to You for comfort, I ask that all those helping us, Those that work tirelessly and with endless effort to help us heal, That they be blessed by You, Most beautiful of the Gods, Hear our voices, Guide us and help us to find our strength.

Dua, Sekhmet!

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“It came to pass that the land of Egypt was in misery, as there was no Lord, (functioning) ⟨as⟩ a (proper) king of the time. It happened that King Seknenre, was (but) Ruler of the Southern City and misery was in the city of the Asiatics, while Prince Apophis was in Avaris and the entire land paid tribute to him, delivering their taxes in full as well as bringing all good produce of Egypt.

So King Apophis adopted Seth for himself as lord, and he refused to serve any god that was in the entire…”

― The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry

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Claws, paws, talons, and fangs, 

Protected on all sides. 

Enveloped by primal weaponry, 

The soldier’s armory forged in love. 

Don’t do battle here.