Ash Williams in the opening of
EVIL DEAD II
1987 • dir. Sam Raimi
By Scott Scheffer
The win at John Deere stands out as one that breaks from the pattern established by at least 40 years of anti-union offensive, exacerbated by the pandemic. It is the most significant union victory for a private sector workforce in years.
The writings on the west gable in Unas’s burial chamber consist of spells that protect the sarcophagus and mummy within. The north and south walls of the chamber are dedicated to the offering and resurrection rituals respectively, and the east wall contains texts asserting the king’s control over his sustenance in the form of a response to the offering ritual.
The offering ritual texts continue onto the north and south walls of the passageway splitting the resurrection ritual which concludes on the south wall. In the rituals of the burial chamber, the king is identified both as himself and as the god Osiris, being addressed as “Osiris Unas”. The king is also identified with other deities, occasionally several, alongside Osiris in other texts.
The antechamber and corridor were inscribed primarily with personal texts. The west, north and south walls of the antechamber contain texts whose primary concern is the transition from the human realm to the next, and with the king’s ascent to the sky.
The east wall held a second set of protective spells, starting with the “Cannibal Hymn”. In the hymn, Unas consumes the gods to absorb their power for his resurrection. The southern section of the walls of the corridor contain texts that focus primarily on the resurrection and ascension of the deceased. The mere presence of the spells[e] within the tomb were believed to have efficacy, thus protecting the king even if the funerary cult ceased to function. [X]
The Mitanni Empire, c. 1500-1300 BCE
A map illustrating the changing fortunes of the Mitanni Empire, an Indo-Iranian society from northern Mesopotamia with its heartland in the Khabur River region, that, at its height c. 1500 BCE, extended from the Zagros Mountains in the east through Assyria to the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Capitals of the Roman Empire: Constantinople & Rome
Constantinople at first had much in common with the temporary capitals of the 2nd and 3rd century CE and the tetrarchic capitals. It was an existing city of medium size, well located on the road network, and unlike most of them, it was also well connected by water. It sat on the Sea of Marmara, which opened onto the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south. It was close enough to the Danube frontier to keep track of war on that front, and not too far from the territories most often disputed with Persia.
