Nile - Sacrifice Unto Sebek
ennead—a group of nine.
Ancient Egyptians organized their gods into groups of nine; their principal group of gods was “Great Ennead of Heliopolis,” the sun god Ra, his children Shu and Tefnut, their children Geb and Nut and their children Osiris, Seth, Isis,and…
Sobek the crocodile god by ~Lemondjinn
The Ancient Egyptians prayed to Sobek for protection from crocodiles.
For some reason that I can’t quite figure out, Sobek is one of my favorite gods.
The Weighing of the Heart from the Book of the Dead of Ani. At left, Ani and his wife Tutu enter the assemblage of gods. At center, Anubis weighs Ani’s heart against the feather of Maat, observed by the goddesses Renenutet and Meshkenet, the god Shay, and Ani’s own ba. At right, the monster Ammut, who will devour Ani’s soul if he is unworthy, awaits the verdict, while the god Thoth prepares to record it. At top are gods acting as judges: Hu and Sia, Hathor, Horus, Isis and Nephthys, Nut, Geb, Tefnut, Shu, Atum, and Ra-Horakhty
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/young_explorers/discover/museum_explorer/ancient_egypt/death/weighing_the_heart.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Land/Weighing_of_the_heart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat
What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible. Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.
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| — | Egyptian Book of the Dead (via beachyhouse) |
A rare and sought after member of the Tokarev pistol family. The Tokagypt 58 manufactured in Hungary by FÉG.
Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts
well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?
this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.
the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.
It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.
Bolded for importance.
They circumnavigated Africa. It was the stories of those voyages that made the Portuguese want to do it. People of the Ancient World were a hell of a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
