#egytian

[postcard-from-the-past]

Egytian bazar in Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey

British vintage postcard

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KING TUT

[deitiesmasterlist]

Egyptian Deities

Goddesses

Amunet : Goddess of creation, protector of the kings.

Anuket : Goddess of the cataracts of the Nile and fertility.

Bastet : Goddess of protection, cats, perfume/ointments, fertility, pregnancy, children, music, the arts, and warfare. Symbols : feathers, cats.

Hathor : Goddess of the sky, the sun, sexuality and motherhood, music and dance, foreign lands and goods, and the afterlife.

Heqet : Goddess of protection of women in childbirth, fertilily.

Isis : Goddess of funerary rites, motherhood, protection, and magic.

Maat : Goddess of truth, justice, and order.

Menhit : Goddess of war and crown.

Mut : Mother goddess.

Neith : Goddess of creation and hunter.

Nekhbet : Goddess of protection. Symbols : Vulture.

Nephthys : Goddess of mourning, the night/darkness, service, childbirth, the dead, protection, magic, health, embalming, and beer.

Nepit : Goddess of grain.

Nut : Goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe.

Pakhet : Sun goddess of war, hunter and protection.

Renenutet : Goddess of nourishment and the harvest.

Satis : Goddess of war, hunting, and fertility.

Sekhmet : Goddess of the sun, war, protection and healing.

Tefnut : Goddess of moisture.

Wadjet : Goddess of protection.

Gods

Aker : God of the earth, underworld and the horizon. Symbols : Lion, sun disk.

Amun : Creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes.

Am-heh : God of the underworld.

Anhur : A god of war and hunting. Symbols : feathers, spear, lance, lion.

Ani : God of festivals.

Anubis : God of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld. Carries the dead to the judgement place of the Underworld. Symbols : canine, wolf.

Apedemak : Warior god.

Apophis : God of chaos. Symbols : flint, snakes, crocodiles.

Aten : God of the sun disk, creator, giver of life, and nurturing spirit.

Atum : Creator god and solar deity.

Baal : God of the sky and storms.

Babi : God of the underworld, agressions, destruction, judgement, virility and sexuality of the dead in the underworld.

Bennu : Solar god of creation and rebirth. Symbols : heron.

Geb : God of the earth.

Hapi : Personification of the Nile flood.

Horus : A major god, god of the sky, the sun, kingship, protection, and healing. Symbols : Falcon.

Khepri : God of the rising sun, renewaland creation. Symbols : scarab beetle.

Khnum : God of creation, the source of the Nile, the patron deity of Elephantine. Symbols : Ram.

Khonsu : God of the moon, travelling, healing and protection. Symbols : falcon.

Maahes : God of war, weather and protection. Symbols : knives, lotus, lion.

Min : God of agriculture, fertility, sexuality and virility. Symbols : lettuce

Montu : God of war and the sun. Symbols : curved sword, spear, bow and arrows, knives, falcon, bull.

Nefertum : God of the lotus blossom. Symbols : lotus, lion, cat.

Neper : God of grain.

Osiris : God of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation.

Ptah : Creator god and patron of craftsmen and architects.

Ra : God of the sun, order, kings and the sky. Symbols : falcon.

Set : God of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners. Symbols : donkeys.

Shu : God or peace, lions, air and wind.

Sobek : God of protection. Symbols : crocodile.

Sopdu : God of the sky and of Egypt's eastern border regions.

Thoth : God of the moon, writing and scribes, and patron deity of Hermopolis.

[illustratus]

The Death of Cleopatra by Juan Luna

The Death of Cleopatra depicts Cleopatra moments after her death, with Luna taking inspiration for the painting's composition from Plutarch's account of her life in his Parallel Lives series. Her corpse is found at the centre of the painting, lying on a bed adorned with a golden headboard and covered with rich bedsheets, with the sheets themselves decorated with hieroglyphs and the footboard similarly adorned in gold. Cleopatra herself is bejeweled and dressed in a manner befitting that of an Egyptian queen, and smoke coming from a nearby lamp, said to contain incense, hovering above her body signifies that she had died, giving the piece a mysterious aura. While Cleopatra is clothed, the cloth above her belt and around her breasts is transparent, playing into the popular concept of an "eroticised" Cleopatra that is common in other works of the era depicting her death.

Two servants in various states of collapse are also present in the painting, with the first, Iras, already dead by Cleopatra's feet. The second, the dark-skinned Charmion, is seen falling after she adjusts Cleopatra's diadem, dying shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, the asp that reportedly caused Cleopatra's death is seen by the foot of one of the room's columns, barely visible as it slithers away.

The setting for The Death of Cleopatra is funerary in nature, indicated by the various decorations in the room such as the sphinx by the footboard, canopic jars by the headboard, the lamp and even the columns decorated with hieroglyphs. A statue of Anubis is also present in the background, foreshadowing what was to come.

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The dying Antony is brought to Cleopatra

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