Now that somebody mentioned The Mummy, it makes me wonder: How accurate was the ancient egyptian they spoke in it? (Also, tumblr keeps redirecting me to dashboard any time I try and open your blog, any idea why?)
The spoken “Egyptian” was heavily accented Middle Egyptian transliteration and a lot of it is mispronounced as the actors cannot be expected to learn the pronunciation of transliteration when Egyptologists themselves don’t know how Egyptian was spoken. Basically what happened was the script writers gave an Egyptologist the lines they wanted the characters to say, then these were translated into Middle Egyptian complete with transliteration, the actors then learnt the transliteration. So they are speaking more or less correct Egyptian, just really badly.
You’re being redirected because I turned off the ability for my blog to be viewed by non logged in users as someone had linked a video I’d reblogged to their Facebook and I had 20 people on my blog at once. I’m sure I’ll put it back to viewable again at some point.
I started to developp an universe on Egyptian mythology. I had a lot of fun working on those characters :p More research about backgrounds and universe soon :)
Figure 4: Ba leaving and returning to the tomb, and shadow with phallus. Tomb of Amennakht (TT 218), Deir el-Medina, Ramesside. Altenmüller 1990: 16, fig. 6. Reproduced with the kind permission of Hartwig Altenmüller.
Book of the Dead Spell 188, a spell for sending forth the soul and going forth by day as a man, states: ‘You have blessed me with a (ba)-soul and shadow, so that we may be seen yonder.’ Coffin Texts Spell 413 is a request for the divinisation of the ba and the shadow, again suggesting that these two entities are closely connected in Egyptian thought. The association between the ba and the shadow and their relationship with the corpse in turn may partly explain the sexual aspect of the shadow. There are a few texts in which the word Swt associated with a god describes the sexual power of that deity. The connection between the shadow and the sexual aspect of the deceased may explain why the shadow is depicted with a penis in some vignettes to the Book of the Dead Spell 92, going forth in the day, when the shadow was free to walk the earth at will before returning to the corpse in the evening.
Nicola Harrington,
Living With The Dead: Ancestor Worship And Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt, pg 4
For all you aspiring Egyptologists out there. Here’s the University of Memphis’ online collection of Egyptology books that are all in PDF format. It was last updated in 2015, but that does mean most of the links probably still work.
Some stuff is 2003, other stuff is 1893. But there’s lots there.
Greek
settlers living in ancient Egyptian cities ‘translated’ Egyptian gods into
their own familiar deities. The ancient Greek Ptolemies, who ruled Egypt for
over 300 years, introduced Greek versions of Egyptian gods to encourage
cultural integration in their kingdom. They also sought the support of
Egyptian priests in order to be recognised as legitimate pharaohs, and
renovated temples and built magnificent new ones. After
30 BC, aspects of this Greco-Egyptian religion also spread across the Roman Empire.
Religious life played an
important role in the ancient Egyptian cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus. Greeks and
Egyptians lived and worshipped side by side, acknowledging similarities and
differences in their practices. Underwater finds at Thonis-Heracleion include
religious offerings from across the Mediterranean world, reflecting diverse
beliefs.
Discover more about the deep
connections between the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece in the
BP exhibition Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds (19 May – 27
November 2016).
And my dreams about the Duat Will be scattered like crumbs of Light, Until I reach the fields of Ialu; There are many years to come and pass by, Many years and doubts await ahead, But somewhere You drew the border, And the beginning of my beautiful madness Is marked with a very thin line of Your pen
(- Is everything as you ever wanted? - Everything is as You knew it, and You wanted it; as it’s written in the Book and in the routing-tables of the Universe…)
The timetable of phone calls Corresponds to the movements of the stars, And the sailings of celestial boats of the Constellations Are mirrored on Earth… There is the White Cypress, There is the Bridge over the Abyss, There is the Night of my Initiations And the world that would never be like before, again.
Breaking the curtain And throwing off the Veil from the Mystery, - I will follow You, O Star of Unfading Light, Green Moon and White Moon… … And at the moment whenever the heart Will keep silence, frightened And seek for the justifications In the words of the Declaration-of-Innocence…
Be with me, as You know In the day of my judgement, I want to remember Hermopolis and Amarna And all the moments of our first meetings.
The Infinity of Your Holy Names - The Thought that creates the World, Vowed from human fates, and hopes, and sufferings, And from our searching for Faith…
Was my Choice just coincidence, Or was my path predetermined And laid off, and calculated, And measured with the divine cubit rod of Yours?..
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