Links
Via ratmmjess: The Hohlenstein-Stadel Lion Man, "the oldest imaginary being in the world".
On Flicker, a lion-headed Horus at Edfu.
Photographer Joan Lansberry's site includes great snaps from the Brooklyn Museum, the Sekhmet head that hypnotised me during my own visit, and the Predynastic birdlike lady nicknamed "the Nile Goddess". Plus more Sekhmets at the Met and a whole page of Set.
Striking gods from the Beltane Fire Society's Samhuinn 2009 celebration.
BBC: Oldest evidence of arrows found
On Flicker, a lion-headed Horus at Edfu.
Photographer Joan Lansberry's site includes great snaps from the Brooklyn Museum, the Sekhmet head that hypnotised me during my own visit, and the Predynastic birdlike lady nicknamed "the Nile Goddess". Plus more Sekhmets at the Met and a whole page of Set.
Striking gods from the Beltane Fire Society's Samhuinn 2009 celebration.
BBC: Oldest evidence of arrows found