Tamara L. Siuda

My collection of random Internet curiosities, snippets, and noise. Inclusion or reposting does not necessarily imply my endorsement or agreement with any content.

[markv5]

Как приготовить тесто

[sungodsevenoclock]

“How to prepare the dough

To begin with, take some flour

Ah, no, the flour is sleeping. Let’s not bother her, she might bite

We’ll prepare the dough some other time”

[tamarasiuda]

100 Gods of Egypt (Make 100)

One hundred articles/essays on ancient Egyptian deities for an upcoming book. Sponsor your favorite god or goddess! A Make 100 Project.

About 60 hours left to go on the 100 Gods of Egypt Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to do a new book. Deity sponsorships and a deluxe hardcover version are among the special perks, but it’s all pretty neat. Come join us!

[zooophagous]

Signed, hand drawn original Altar cards! Set, Sekhmet, Sobek and Anubis respectively. I need to raise some money by April (for something fun) and I know many people can’t afford my larger commissions, so I thought I’d offer up these small pieces at a special price of 25$ each. This includes shipping (20$ if you’re a patreon patron)

I am open for commissions on these, and the four above are also for sale! (An even 90$ for all four)

[pipistrellus]

STILL ON PATROL

I learned something new and horrifying today which is… that… no submarine is ever considered “lost” … there is apparently a tradition in the U.S. Navy that no submarine is ever lost. Those that go to sea and do not return are considered to be “still on patrol.”

?????

There is a monument about this along a canal near here its… the worst thing I have ever seen. it says “STILL ON PATROL” in huge letters and then goes on to specify exactly how many WWII submarine ghosts are STILL OUT THERE, ON PATROL (it is almost 2000 WWII submarine ghosts, ftr). Here is the text from it:

“U.S. Navy Submarines paid heavily for their success in WWII. A total of 374 officers and 3131 men are still on board these 52 U.S. submarines still on patrol.”

THANKS A LOT, U.S. NAVY, FOR HAVING THIS TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL HORRIFYING TRADITION, AND TELLING ALL OF US ABOUT IT. THANKS. THANK YOU

anyway now my mother and I cannot stop saying STILL ON PATROL to each other in ominous tones of voice

[tharook]

There’s definitely something ominous about that—the implication that, one day, they will return from patrol.

[thehoneybeewitch]

Actually, it’s rather sweet. I don’t know if this is common across the board, but my dad’s friend is a radio op for subs launched off the east coast, and he always is excited for Christmas, because they go through the list of SoP subs and hail them, wishing them a merry Christmas and telling them they’re remembered.

Imagine a country whose seamen never die, and whose submarines can’t be destroyed…because no ones sure if they exist or not.

[hardoncaulfield]

No but imagine. It’s Christmas. A black, rotting corridor in a forgotten submarine. The sound of dripping water echoes coldly through the hull. You can’t see very far down the corridor but then, a man appears, he’s running, in a panic, but his footsteps make no noise. The spectral seaman dashes around the corner and slips through a rusty wall. He finds himself at the back of a crowd of his cadaverous crew-mates. They part to let him through. He feels the weight of their hollow gaze as he reaches the coms station. Even after all these years a sickly green light glistens in the dark. The captain’s skeleton lays a sharp hand on his shoulder and nods at him encouragingly, the light sliding over the bones of his skull. The ghost of the seaman steadies himself and slips his fingers into the dials of the radio, possessing it. It wails and screeches. A bombardment of static. And then silence. The deathly crew mates look at each other with worry, with sadness; could this be the year where there is no voice in the dark? No memory of home? The phantasm of the sailor pushes his hand deeper into the workings of the radio, the signal clears, and then a strong voice, distant with the static but warm and kind, echoes from the darkness; “Merry Christmas boys, we’re all thinking of you here at home, have a good one.” A sepulchral tear wafts it’s way down the seaman’s face. The bony captain embraces him. The crew grin through rotten jaws, laughing silently in their joy. They haven’t forgotten us. They haven’t forgotten.

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

I am completely on board with this. It’s not horrifying, it’s heartwarming.

Personal story time: whenever I go to Field Museum’s Egypt exhibit, I stop by the plaque at the entrance to the underground rooms. It has an English translation of a prayer to feed the dead, and a list of all the names they know of the mummies on display there. I always recite the prayer and read aloud the list of names. They wanted to live forever, to always have their souls fed and their names spoken. How would they feel about being behind glass, among strangers? Every little thing you can do to give respect for the dead is warranted.

I love the idea of lost subs still being on patrol. Though if you really want something ominous, let me say that the superstitious part of me wonders: why are they still on patrol? If they haven’t been found, do they not consider their mission completed? What is it out there that they are protecting us from?

[amusewithaview]

@boromir-queries-sean

[emilysidhe]

 There’s been something in the water since we first learned to float on it.  Not marine life, although there’s more of that than we’ll ever know.  Not rocks and currents and sand bars and icebergs either, although they’ve all taken more than their share of human life.

But something deeper.  Something Other.  Something not natural.

Sailors have always been superstitious.

Not one of them described it right.

You don’t hear about it so much now that we don’t lose ships anymore, really, not like we did at the height of the sea trade when barely an inch of ocean floor didn’t bear some wreck or other.  And better ships and GPS and weather satellites have all played their part in that.

But we have protection now that we didn’t before.  They don’t interfere with war and battle, even on behalf of what used to be their country, or with rocks and weather and human stupidity.  Those are concerns for the living.

But the Other Things, the Things that shouldn’t be there - They can’t get to us now without a fight.  It’s a fight They haven’t won in a very long time.

As long as we remember them, as long as we call out to them - not very often, just once a year will do - they will keep protecting us from the Things that go bump in the deep.

More than fifty submarines, Still On Patrol.

[animatedamerican]

I love everything about this, but it’s the last bit that made me say “okay now I’ll reblog it.”

[tamarasiuda]

@beautifultoastdream Thank you for sharing your Field Museum story. You are the first person to verify that I am not the only person who has done that thing there. (Disclosure: I worked there and convinced my colleague the late Frank Yurco, the exhibit’s curator, to have that plaque installed. He is himself now still-on-patrol of the exhibit hallways, with Harwa and the others.) And my tumblr, which often only sits and collects dust, just made my world a little bit smaller and a little bit brighter. <3

[nemmica]

I met a baby the other day who taught me that kids aren’t learning the thumb-and-pinky-out gesture for “phone” anymore. She puts her flat, open palm up to her ear and babbles into it, simulating a flat and rectangular smartphone.

[deafchan-deactivated20201105]

It’s begun. We are now officially the last surviving generation of this ancient civilization..

[mausflug]

For this month’s CharacterDesignChallenge I made a Sehkmet. There’s this myth where Ra sends her to punish some humans and she get in a serious killing spree, murdering almost the whole mankind. Ra dyes beer red so Sehk mistakes it for blood (…apparently she likes drinking blood? I dunno) and gets her drunk to stop the massacre. Happy End!

[mareya]

the other side

[relative]

i dont think i can put into words how much i enjoy this

[keyexquisite]

this is beyond beautiful

[minusmanhattan]

Chicago, Il, December, 2016.

[thegreenwolf]

Curious Gallery 2017 Programming

January 7-8. 2017, Portland, OR - a weekend of taxidermy, natural history, oddities and more!

Portland-Area Artists! Want to learn some new skills? We have a really nice variety of hands-on workshops as part of our programming this year, from taxidermy to tentacles! Plus I’ll be holding this month’s Still Death session, featuring real animal skulls as drawing references, the afternoon of Sunday the 8th. You can find the hands-on workshops mixed into the programming at https://www.curiousgallerypdx.com/programming/ 

Please be aware that you will need to purchase tickets to the event either via the website at http://www.curiousgallerypdx.com/shop/ or at the door; you’ll be able to sign up for the workshops at the registration desk. (Most of our programming does NOT, of course, require you to sign up, you just show up–our hands-on workshops have limited space due to limited materials and the need for the facilitators to be able to help everyone in attendance.) 

Most of our hands-on workshops have an additional materials fee, which is NOT included in your weekend or day pass. Once you’ve signed up for a workshop at the registration desk, you will be able to purchase tokens with cash or card to give to the workshop facilitator to cover your materials. Please understand that while your weekend or day pass to Curious Gallery helps to pay for the event venue, printing and other costs, 100% of the materials fees go to the workshop facilitators to help them cover their costs. 

[tamarasiuda]

I’ll be speaking at this. See you there! 

[kickstarter]

Today in Kickstarter, Thursday March 14, 2013 (PI DAY!):

- Great interview with legendary animator Ralph Bakshi on his latest project (above)

- The perfect project for Pi Day

- There is room for everyone on Kickstarter

- BBC News video piece on the African soccer documentary Keroche

- A Big Day for Fans

- Thank you. 17,144 times from the Ancient Egyptian Daybook

[tamarasiuda]

The Daybook went to press (finally! after a complete revamp). And I never knew that it was featured on the KS Tumblr before today. How cool is that?

[tamarasiuda]

Tips?

How do you even follow threads on this thing? I keep giving it a try but other than looking at nice pictures I end up getting lost in how to track what’s being read and how to read it. Feeling a bit sheepish that a social media has gotten ahead/away from me, but there ya go.... maybe I’m getting old.

[jedavu]

Mountains of the Sea by Ray Collins

[warrenellis-deactivated20200730]

NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble via NASA http://ift.tt/28QSdzN

[secondgenerationimmigrant]

Free Academic Resources Masterpost

OK, folks, this is the promised masterpost on the places where you can satisfy your craving for knowledge on Ancient Egypt for free, or nearly free.

I have to admit that when I started researching this, I knew of far less places than I do today, so whatever comes out of this, it has been a fun and useful learning experience.

This list seems huge but is by no means exhaustive, so I’m calling everyone in the community to contribute. If you find another corner of the web that has some interesting stuff, feel free to add it here. I am calling @intaier, @thepaperwitch, @thetwistedrope, @merelygifted, @bigbadjackal and @pajamapartyonrasbarque in particular to contribute because I know they have a certain academic slant, but everyone is invited! The more, the merrier!

Before we start, here are some pieces of advice:

If you are in college or university, there is a chance that your institution will have a subscription to JSTOR and some other scholarly journals about egyptology, as well as some relevant databases. Check it out and milk it while you can, as much as you can.

If you are no longer in college/university, check if you alma mater gives its  alumni access to its journal/database subscriptions. Some do (mine doesn’t -  T_T)

If you look around on the web, chanches are that you will find PDF versions of scholarly books about Ancient Egypt. Legality might be an issue, though. It’s up to you.

Make use of inter-library loans to get the books you need through your local library. You will be surprised at what you can get.

Now on to the list, broken down by category.

Completely Free, No Registration Required - scholarly articles

SAOC - The Oriental Institute of Chicago offers sixty-something monographies for free in pdf to download on their website. Among the Highlights, the “book of Going Forth by Day” translated by T.G. Allen and “Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice” by Ritner.

BIFAO - This is from the French Institute of Oriental Studies. The entire collection of their Bulletin publication up to 2009 is avalable to download for free. Years 2010-2015 are behind a paywall. It’s in French though.

ENIM - This is a French online open-access journal of Egyptology, that allows free download of all its collection. Some articles are in English, but most are in French. Monographies are also available to download for free.

BMSAES - The British Museum Studies In Ancient Egypt and Sudan journal, published online by the British Museum on an open-access basis, which means it’s all free.

The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology - Curated by the UCLA, this is a collection of peer-reviewed articles (it means that they are fact-checked by other scholars before publication) on various topics related to the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. There is a fuller version with indexed search, interactive maps and links at this other link. You will need to register for access, but you can use several popular access options like Google Accounts or OpenID. It’s still work in progress, so not all topics have been written up yet. Might be worth checking at regular intervals.

AWOL - The Ancient World Online Index lists online, open-access publications about the Ancient World. The data is mined from a sister curated blog, and there is a fair amount of stuff on Ancient Egypt and Mythology. Languages may vary. There is a lot of stuff in English, but also a bunch of things in French, German and Dutch and even a publication in Italian, from the Turin Museum.

Completely Free, No Registration Required - other resources

Beinlich Wordlist - This is a dictionary of Ancient Egyptian hosted by the Fitz Museum of Cambridge UK. Since it derives from a German print work, it can be searched only through the German translation, or with the “manuel de codage” (a standard notation used to transliterate hieroglyphs) transliteration of the word you’re looking for. Still pretty damn useful.

The Theban Mapping Project - This is basically an interactive map of the Valley of The Kings and the other Valleys, with info on every single tomb. It’s rad, and there is some bibliography as well, if you search through the tabs.

The Online Archive of the Griffiths Institute - This Oxford-based Institute has digitised and made available online for free a whole bunch of amazing stuff, such as the photographs from the Tutankhamon dig, photographs from Petrie’s digs, “vintage” watercolours, tracings and squeezes of ancient paintings and reliefs, and a whole corpus of hieratic inscriptions. It’s really interesting.

Pyramid Texts Online - exactly what it says on the tin. From the Pyramid of Unas. You can search by placement on the pyramid walls, read the complete english translation, or look at the complete hieroglyph transcription.

Wepwawet Wiki - Info on the NTRW, organised and mantained by the KO temple. Lists epithets and offerings (the latter from UPG and KO practice).

Partially Free, No Registration Required

The Memphis University Bibliography - This is a list of resources available to read online of download in PDF, curated by the University of Memphis (the one in the US, not in Egypt, unfortunately). Last updated in March 2015, it has a lot of material, including lots and lost of stuff from Assman and Hornung, but be careful as individual documents might be behind a paywall (they are so many, it’s hard to check them all).

Partially Free, Registration Required

JSTOR - It’s a hub website that publishes a lot of scholarly journals in the field of humanities. If you have an academic subscription through your college/university, chanches are that you can access a lot of it. If not, most stuff is behind a paywall, but there is a way around. You can register for free and with this free account you are allocated a “shelf” where you can place up to three articles, which you can read online for free (not all articles are available in this fashion, though). You can only take articles off your shelf after a set number of days (15 days or a month, IDR). They are on Tumblr, too.

Academia.edu - This is more or less like a social network for researchers, where people from different fields post their publications in order to get comments or disseminate them more widely and boost their citations. Some people upload entire books or their Master/PhD thesis. Some folks only add an abstract or a title for their publications but don’t make the full-text available. That probably depends on journal/publisher policies. You can follow researchers or research topics and the relevant publications will end up in your feed. You can also opt to get email alerts when your favourite researchers publish something new, and periodic digests of new publications for your topics. There are quite a few BNPs of Egyptology on there, like Manfred Bietak, Dimitri Meeks and Salima Ikram and Ian Shaw, among others. You can also join sessions of discussion about draft papers (it depends, some are by invitation only). You can log in with Facebook or a Google account.

Researchgate - Is quite similar to Academia.edu, but more geared to the biomedical sciences, IMHO. It has a “Questions” feature that is quite interesting. I have seen a few papers on bioarcheology or geoarcheology. You will need an institutional email for this one (there might be workarounds, though).

Weblists and Webrings

Egyptology.com - Big list of Egypt-themed websites. Doesn’t seem to be very well-annotated (especially towards the end), or well-organised, and not all of the websites seem to be particularly academic, but it’s worth a shot.

Sefkhet’s list of online resources - This one is much better annotated and split in sections about online databases, dig websites, learned societies, etc. Problem is, it seems to have been last updated in 2007, so not all links might work (the one for the Akhet Hwt Hrw temple is as dead as a dodo, for example).

Egyptology-uk.com - This list is smaller but more current and is mantained by the Sussex Egyptology Society. Not all links are academic. There is a travel agency specialised in archeo-tours and even a jewellry website.

[tamarasiuda]

Very useful. FYI: Wepwawet Wiki is run by a person who is associated with Kemetic Orthodoxy, but it is not an official temple website, and we have no control over it, nor does it speak for anyone other than the authors.

[themarvelproject]

Marvel house ad for the  Excalibur Special Edition #1 (1988) one-shot with art by Alan Davis and Paul Neary remastered as a promo poster by The Marvel Project.  My first encounter with the art of Alan Davis was in New Mutants Annual #2 (1986) and I fell completely in love with his smooth lines, expressive faces and remarkable ability to convey emotion and energy. That annual was also my introduction to Captain Britain, Psylocke and the mythology of Marvel UK, which was completely new and fascinating to me. A few years later, Excalibur was like a dream come true with the pairing of Chris Claremont and Alan Davis in a book with a great cast of characters that further expanded the X-Universe and set the stage for years of great stories to come.

[tamarasiuda]

(tap) is this still on?

Oh hey. I still have this thing.

[erikkwakkel]

[tamarasiuda]

erikkwakkel:

Medieval surgeon’s manual

These pages are part of a medieval surgical manual written by the 14th-century surgeon Jan Yperman. It describes in detail how to treat various wounds and illnesses. So far so good. It also shows, however, what instruments needed to be used. For a compound fracture of the leg, for example, the jagged-edged scissors in the top image were recommended. And each incision came with its own curly knife on a stick, of course - as shown in the lower image. What’s more, this book-knowledge was by no means theoretical. The book’s dimensions, which is about the size of an iPhone, suggests it was carried around by a 15th-century surgeon on his way to his patients. Break a leg. Or rather, better not.

Pic: Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 3094 (1475-1500). More about the manuscript here.