Beel

artist from IG, trying out Tumblr (:

[narabellez]

Hi hi~ This is that awkward phase of when you're trying out a new website lol. Kinda tried Tumblr once before and then just sorta... forgot about it. So, trying it again—especially since I have a comic in mind and my instructor said that Tumblr's a great place to share it, an Egyptian myth based comic. Anyways, hi. Call me Nara or Beel (: The gal up here is my main bab, her name is Aeron. <3 She's a very, very tired immortal.

[narabellez]

《Horus • Aeron • Set》

Finally finished it~ (: I've been working on/off on this for the last... Two weeks?? I spend weekends with my bf, and work during the week haha, so, takes a little while~ ^^

So, I suppose a drop of some lore and some clarification because I apparently love keeping people in the dark on lore lol~

Set and Aeron are together through an arranged marriage. She's technically his second wife, as Set is still married to Nephthys. And through some lovely shenanigans, Horus is Aeron's consort. Which royally pisses off Set. 👁

I have strayed from your typical Egyptian mythos, because this is simply another universe in an endless sea of universes ✨️

..And it's my story. And I'm going to do what ever the fuck I want with my story. 👁✨️

[zooophagous]

I didn't ask if it made sense to keep going. I said I'm going to kick your twisted evil ass.

[sukethson]

HEAT

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[thecollectibles]

Art by Brian Yuen

[rudjedet]

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”

[thatlittleegyptologist]

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

[rudjedet]

‘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

[rudjedet]

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)

[rudjedet]

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

[rudjedet]

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

[rudjedet]

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 

[rudjedet]

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

[chronic-backpain]

Excuse me please post ancient erotica link

[rudjedet]

hey it’s not my fault people keep reblogging the version without it!

[narabellez]

From two semesters ago, for my Mythology class. (: I had already written a paper on the concept of Scapegoats in Mythology, because goddamn, Set is done so dirty and I will throw hands over this. 👁 Especially in modern day media, it's so easy to resort to him being evil bad guy—I should stop myself here, because I can, have and will go on about this. 😅 [Evident in my Mythology class, English 112 website on Mythology... 👁]

Aahaha, so anyways.

This is based on the Tarot card, "The Tower." Shoot, I can't recall what was my reason for picking the tower, and I'm just trying to burn time at work rn.

Anywho, right side up, Set is the 'Necessary Chaos.' [I think the Ancient Egyptians would have loved the philosophy on yin-yang~ ☯️] He's the fighter of Apophis/Apep, protector of Ra.

And then reversed, he's the scapegoated version. The demonized version. He's the reason for all issues. He's the villain.

Aha, again. This is something I can ramble and debate on quite a bit (:

[tackletofset]

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses by ReaperClamp

Row 1> Anubis, Bastet, Geb, Hathor Row 2> Horus, Isis, Khnum, Neith Row 3> Nephthys, Nut, Osiris, Ptah Row 4> Ra, Sekhmet, Seshat, Set Row 5> Sobek, Thoth, Tefnut, Wadjet

[casual-haterism]

misc egyptian stamps i made because i made a stamp border and wanted to use it for something

[rtgdvv]

my beloved osiris!!

btw this artwork was inspired by the painting "once upon a time (snow white)" by henry meynell rheam

[nehdjet]

[do2faj]

I’m drawing Isis and Osiris for an art contest and I didn’t want him to feel left out

[lost-and-kinda-dumb]

a snail ( @snail-official )

a snail

[synystxr]

this was meant to be something else entirely that included my oc, but i didn't like how she looked at all so it's just choso now lol

[hotelwafflez]

Being self destructive to get recognition from the Gods

Call that ascension-seeking behaviour

[luuntears]

Sona or something

[narabellez]

My interpretations of Horus, Thoth and Osiris (:

Horus with long in his pre-consort era, and then the undercut/short hair in his consort era~ [just sprinkles of lore haha]

This is kinda their beta designs??? Might be changed in the future. We shall see~

I showed my instructor my design for Osiris, and I quote, "I love the drowned green color." Which, iykyk 👁

Lol, no, a common myth is that Set tricks Osiris to get into a box and then throws him into the Nile [essentially].