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Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat - A Quest for Immortality (continued)
There are Amduat images over at my Tumblr, dwellerinthelibrary, which focusses on mythology, especially the irresistable visuals of Ancient Egypt. (I can see have a bit of tidying up work to do over there, though!)
The cosmic drama comes to its climax in the seventh hour, as Apophis tries to stop the sun-boat, preventing the sun-god's rebirth and ( Read more... ) -
Snippets from this and that
- J. Gwyn Griffiths. [review of] Elkab I. Les monuments religieux a I'entrie de l'ouady Hellal by Phillipe Derchain. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 59 (Aug., 1973), pp. 257-259. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3856146
"In this region the desert landscape confronts huge formations ( Read more... ) - J. Gwyn Griffiths. [review of] Elkab I. Les monuments religieux a I'entrie de l'ouady Hellal by Phillipe Derchain. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 59 (Aug., 1973), pp. 257-259. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3856146
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Egypt's Sunken Treasures 2
The most important part of this enormous book are the photos - especially those of the eponymous treasures being brought up by divers from Herakleion, Canopus, and Alexandria - but here are some notes from the text:- The gods' attributes suggest the early settlement of the Nile and the ancientness of their worship: "like the Bedouin, the Egyptian ( Read more... )
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The Left Eye of God
Right then. The moon and the sun are linked as the eyes of a god in various places in Egyptian myth - I'll stick a bunch of notes behind the cut - but if my rummagings are correct, how the right eye, the solar Eye of Re, the ferocious goddess, overlaps with the left eye, the lunar Eye of Horus, is this: Thoth brings them both back ( Read more... ) -
Bleeker - The Lunar Eye
"In order to understand the place of the moon in the cosmos, it should be remembered that the Egyptians conceived of the sky as a gigantic face which, like the human face, has two eyes. These are the sun and the moon, the right and left eye respectively. In a hymn we read: 'both thy eyes move in a circle, day and night; thy right eye is the sun- ( Read more... )