#ritual

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[greekmythcomix]

🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

[milksockets]

ritual magazine no. 8

[theweightofdivinity]

When the wax drips like prayer,

the body becomes a temple of worship.

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Ritual

[rosieandthemoon]

Talisman Candles - Catherine Sieck

[miamaimania]

Bonfire (1910s) ▲ Ana Mendieta, "Silueta en Fuego" (1970s)