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[sunofhathor]

The World Needs Love.

Pray For It.

Invoke it.

Harness The Power Of Love.

Give It Freely.

[virtual-artifacts]

Sandstone stela to the the god Osiris.

Photo by Kenneth Garrett 

This stela is very unusual, it’d be great to get some informations about it. Any ideas?

[djar-em-rekh]

Hi @virtual-artifacts

This stela depicts the tomb/coffin of Osiris with a willow tree growing on top of it. 

As the myth goes, after being murdered and thrown into the Nile, the corpse of Osiris did wash ashore under the branches of a willow tree. The tree thrived and grew around his coffin, engulfing it. Osiris’ ba perched in that tree. Thus the willow (salix subserrata) became sacred to Osiris and instead of depicting Him some stelae would show a willow tree growing on top of his coffin/tomb. The vaulted shape of it would also be reminiscent of the primal mountain of zep tepi. The whole composition symbolizes the faith in his resurrection, and his connection with the thriving vegetation.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

David Sanhueza, Sekhmet (an illustration for the card game “Immortal”).

[tackletofset]

anubis by folkensan69

[shitpostsampler]

@knitmeapony suggested this one, but due to tamblr formatting reasons we couldn’t share the direct suggestion. Anyways it was such a good phrase and we hope y’all enjoy!

[lilakatly]

#yellowtintedweek 5/7 😺 Bastet, the cat goddess. i love Ancient Egypt ❤

[sirfrogsworth]

I’m convinced baby hippos have some sort of evolutionary camera posing gene. 

[arachnospooky]

@washedinpurewater

[twofacingshrines]

Kemetic Lenormand Card (2) Clover

Bes was an instant fit with The Clover card! 

 Luck, Lightheartedness, Small Happinesses, Opportunity, Being Untroubled, Comedy 

Did you know Bes is a patron of children? It was said that if a baby smiled and laughed for no reason or without prompting, it was Bes making faces at them. Though He may not have the same popularity today as He did in antiquity, He’s not one to overlook.

If you are interested in following or supporting the creation of this deck, get an original card, or even small prints of my work monthly, please join me over at my Patreon.

PATREON

Or find a print of this piece over on my Etsy:

ETSY

Senebty,

Iseqi

Daughter of Amun-ra and Set

Beloved of Hethert-Sekhmet and Heru-Wer

[sekhenetnut]

[djar-em-rekh]

The blood of Geb

Researching Kyphi ingredients of the time is a wonderful puzzle, that will at times lead to informative details: the ancients associated minerals, resins and plants to the divine sphere - not only frankincense and myrrh, but also coniferous resins, which were considered to originate in the blood of Geb (Papyrus Salt 825 II).

Lebanon cedars jump immediately to mind, because their wood is so present in ancient objects, because their oil was important in funerary context - although taking a closer look at the way in which they did associate products, the species of a tree or the botanical origin of a resin are usually secondary in importance. The primary way of sorting them in a theological way corresponds to trees with similar attributes and resins that behave/smell in a similar way. This is the reason for the use of few names concerning incense (nenib, ‘ntw, sntr) - they are group names for products with shared properties, although different ones from each other in the detail.

Thus, not only cedar can be meant, but also resins from pine trees, spruce trees or fir trees - they fall under the category of ‘ntw and appear in the Edfu temple list of resins described as being of a similar red like Asian lands, of soft consistence and appealing scent. When pressing a pouch full of it one quarter will flow out.

So I decided to check. I had during the summer access to a spruce tree that exuded enough resin for me to harvest it. I harvested liquid resin and some that had already solidified a bit on its cones.  The liquid resin took weeks to reach enough solidity to be scraped off and added to the drier one. It was a mess of a sticky job which I would not repeat anytime soon.

I hoped it would dry in the same way frankincense and myrrh dry and waited for 2 months.

Well, all the resin is now dry enough to handle it, but the bigger chunks are still very soft. Even the small droplets can still be squished a bit. So I put them into a glass pot, closed it and thought I had the perfect storage.

Well - no. The next day sticky and very soft contents greeted me. I had to take it out and place it again on the earthernware dishes I had used for drying. A few days later it was “solid” again. So now I will store it in an porous earthernware open jar as I will with all further fresh resins I may harvest.

The result speaks for itself. The ancients were pretty descriptive. The agreeable scent here is dominantly citrus as head with a warm wooden base. Looking forward to this Kyphi batch :D

[nervousbreadchaos-deactivated20]

Odd God Squad - Sopedu 

Ah, who am I putting an extra candle on my shrine for this week? I’ve been having fun with Odd God Squad each week, and this time I got randomly given the name Sopedu. So, let’s take a little look into this guy’s life. Sopedu has a few themes to Him. He is known as a sky god, the personification of the scorching summer sun, as well as a war god, and a protector of the eastern borders; for this, He earned the epithet ‘Lord of the East’. In the Pyramid Texts, Sopedu is spoken of as a child of Isis. He was born from Her as she took the form of the star Sirius. He is close to Horus for this reason; another hawk deity, and child of Isis. At times, the two joined forces as Horus-Sopedu. Sopedu is generally depicted as a sitting hawk, with two feathers upon His head, and a flail over His shoulder. Interestingly, His hieroglyphs translate to ‘sharp ones,’ which connects closely to his hawk-form and His epithet ‘Sharp of Teeth’. Odd God Squad // Obscure Kemetic Deities List 

[rediankhesi]

me: eating my heart

Sobek: what do you have.

me: ....starts eating faster

Sobek:

GET-

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

The Heliopolis Obelisk, 1878 

The oldest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in existence, this example dates from the reign of the 12th Dynasty king Senusret I, who ruled from 1971 to 1926 BC. It was one of a pair erected to commemorate the Heb Sed (30th Jubilee) of Senusret I.

It still stands in its original position, now within Al-Masalla in Al-Matariyyah, Cairo. From Album of Photographs, Egypt, by Félix Bonfils, 1878.

[sekhenetnut]

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Diadem of Princess Sithathoriunet

The diadem was made to be worn above the princess wig. It is made from gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and glass paste. Princess Sithathoriunet was daughter of Senusret II. This diadem was discovered in the Tomb of Sithathoriunet, Funerary Complex of Senusret II at El-Lahun.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 44919

[cosmicsage]

Photographer: Sandip Choudhary

[ankhnu]

Sekhmet. Goddess of war and revenge.