#ancient Egyptians

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Ancient Egyptians held cats in the highest esteem.

The penalties of injuring a cat were severe and killing a cat led to capital punishment.

They worshipped a cat goddess, half woman and half feline, whom they called Bastet.

When the cat dies, it is the duty of the owners to give them proper burial along with rituals. They shave their head, eyebrows or beard to show their grief.

They even conduct after life rituals for their cat in order to gain blessings from Goddess Bastet.

Cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and then placed in the family tomb or pet cemetery (premises of Temple of Goddess Bastet) with tiny mummies of mice.

The state maintained the cats in the temple of Goddess Bastet. Head priest of the temple was in charge of maintenance of cats in temple premises.

The state also took charge of burial and rituals of stray cats.

The whole kingdom loved and respected cats. Their owners loved and treated them as their own child throughout Egyptian Civilization.

#Ancient Egypt #Ancient Egyptians #Ancient Civilization #cats #Bastet #Goddess Bastet #pet cemetery #mummies

[panafrocore]

Exploring the Legacy and Influence of Cheikh Anta Diop: A Pivotal Figure in Academia

Cheikh Anta Diop was a multifaceted Senegalese scholar whose far-reaching work spanned the realms of history, anthropology, physics, and politics. He emerged as a prominent figure in the study of the origins of human civilization and pre-colonial African culture, asking pivotal questions about cultural bias in scientific research. His profound insights significantly contributed to the…

View On WordPress

#African civilizations #African History #African intellectual history #Afrocentricity #Ancient Egyptians #ancient egyptians history #Black people #Cheikh Anta Diop #Senegalese anthropologist #Senegalese historian #Senegalese physicist #West African #West African history

[nickysfacts]

The Ancient Egyptians were number 1 and the proof is in stone!𓉶

☀️⛰️☀️

#history #obelisk #ancient egypt #tekhenu #architecture #art history #benben #egyptology #monument #sun rays #ancient egyptian history #ra #egyptian mythology #landmarks #kemetic #architecture history #ancient #art #ancient egyptians #the unfinished obelisk #ancient history #herodotus #ancient egyptian art #nickys facts

[i-am-theseeker]

A Prayer to Sekhmet for the Fight Against Cancer

This post and prayer are dedicated to my coworker and friend who is currently battling cancer after a recent diagnosis, she has now started chemo this week so she has been going through health difficulties associated with that. May Sekhmet aid her in her triumph over this horrible disease. Offerings for Sekhmet today: homemade pad […]A Prayer to Sekhmet for the Fight Against Cancer

View On WordPress

#Ancient Art #ancient egypt #ancient egyptians #bast #BATTLE #battles #cancer #egyptian #enlightenment #FRIENDS #friendships #goddess #graeco-egyptian #kemet #kemetic paganism #kemeticism #kemetism #love #love it #paganism #pagans #prayer as ritual #prayers #ritual #sekhmet #the old gods

[riotclitshave]

I make perfume! New recipes but also 3 ancient Egyptian recipes. Look for me on etsy by BeanNoneya or Baba Yaga Alchemy. I make Cleopatra's favorite - the Mendesian, the Metopian, and the lotus based one Susinum.

#ancientegyptianperfume #ancient egyptians #Ancient Egypt #Cleopatra #Marc Antony #Historical perfume

[ancientorigins]

We’ve all read a lot about Ancient Egypt, but what was it like to live there? Thanks to the hard work of archaeologists and historians we have a better idea than ever before.

#Ancient Egypt #Pyramids #Hieroglyphs #Ancient Egyptians #Egyptian Architecture

[unbfacts]

#Egyptian blue #ancient egyptians #color #facts

[blackrainbowblade]

Unfinished statue, probably King Akhenaten kissing his daughter

#ancient egypt #Akhenaten #ancient Egyptian #ancient Egyptians #Egypt #Egyptian #Amarna #Kemet #Kemetic #Kemeticism

[kemetic-dreams]

Mountains of the Moon  is an ancient term referring to a legendary mountain or mountain range in east Africa at the source of the Nile River. Various identifications have been made in modern times, the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo being the most celebrated.

Eventually, a merchant named Diogenes reported that he had traveled inland from Rhapta in East Africa for twenty-five days and had found the source of the Nile. He reported that it flowed from a group of massive mountains into a series of large lakes. He reported the natives called this range the Mountains of the Moon because of their snowcapped whiteness

When were the Indigenous Egyptians driven out of Egypt?

Many moved South (from where they originated in the first place) to as far as today's Tanzania and beyond, during the Arab conquest of the ancient Egypt and North Africa as a whole — in the 7th century CE; and some kept on gradually moving away to South thereafter, as the number of (modern) Arabs and other newcomers was increasing. A few of them however still remain to this day.

Now from the country being purely inhabited by these African people, to only a few of them remain today, it's amazing to realize how much racism and discrimination they endured for many years, which caused them to flee their motherland!

They originated from sub-Saharan East Africa, from Punt, the Land of the God, at the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon.

A brief history is: the ancient Egypt was inhabited by only these African people up until around the year 332 BCE when the first fair-skinned looking people — Macedonian Greeks started to migrate into the land. These Macedonian Greeks became Copt over 300 years later, in the First century CE. So there were no diverse populations before 332 BCE! The indigenous inhabitants were purely these Africans

#african #constatine de volney #constatine #egyptians #ancient egyptians #ancient kemet #ancient history #egypt #ta meri #kemetic dreams #romans #greeks #colchians #punt #land of the gods #ta netjer #ta neter #somalia

[weiner-enjoyer]

welcome to my ted talk.

this is a post about romances that are written and viewed through the lense of a partner being a deity. mostly talking about fictional characters. this is also me being an anthropology nerd

the earliest example of this that i can think of is greek mythology. as is with most things. in greek mythology, there are likely hundreds of examples of gods courting animals and humans alike, though not always consensually. for the purpose of this post i’ll only be looking at the consensual ones. specifically, we can use the example of ariadne and dionysus.

ariadne and dionysus have one of those princess-in-a-dungeon love stories. king minos, a scary bull, put ariadne in a labyrinth, and dionysus saves her because she’s beautiful. to my knowledge, whether or not ariadne loved him isn’t fully explained. the reason i include this example is that it specifically shows a sort of weakness of the gods; love. almost all gods, in almost all mythologies, are capable of love, and it is almost always their downfall.

this idea of love as a downfall is different from what we usually think of with god-complex relationships. usually, one person is so delusional and in love that they view a partner as a god. but in most ancient examples, these stories are told in relation to the god and not the mortal. so why are gods, especially in greek mythology, so attracted to mortals?

there’s an aspect of rebellion to it. gods and humans are meant to be separated, as demonstrated by titanomachy, the war between humans and gods. but after several thousand years, you would get tired of having affairs with your cousins, right?

that brings me to my next conclusion; it’s simply because love happens. even nephthys, the ancient egyptian goddess, is capable of love; she was depicted as lesbian or bisexual in order to function as being unable to have kids. love is a force that not even the gods themselves can escape, though they often find solace in it.

gods who have affairs with humans are typically not well off. take zeus for example. sure, he’s the king of kings, god of gods, but his life is a mess. everyone hates him, including his wife, and he’s kind of a tyrant. but humans view him as mighty as ever, fearing and loving him just as ever. he finds that power he lost in the humans, so he harvests it.

so where do we get the stereotypical yandere god-loving romances? humans in relationships with gods are never treated with dignity, if they get to live in the first place. why is it so desirable?

i think, in some ways, gods sometimes see us above them in the same way we see them above us. lets go back to the idea of gods finding solace in human relationships; you could argue that the gods would be zealous of humans. we have much less to worry about. in the same way, humans honor gods for many reasons, but in the very core of their supernatural being; the fact that they can just generally handle more, be better, be perfect, even.

the yandere god-loving romance, without doing too much research, may just come from that dynamic. that, as humans, we should worship that which is better than us, and maybe we’ll get some kind recognition in return.

i should note that i have done zero research and i just like talking.

thank you for listening to my ted talk.

#i dont expect anyone to read this #im just autistic #anthropology #archaeology #zeus #greek mythology #dionysus #ariadne #nephthys #ancient egyptians #ancient egypt #ancient egyptian mythology #im a nerd #gods #religion

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Physics can help us understand how the ancient Egyptians built the great pyramids of Giza, as well as how they interact with electromagnetic waves.

One of them is the wet sand technique.

This technique involves wetting the sand to reduce the friction and the effort required to drag heavy blocks of stone on sleds.

A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam demonstrated this technique in 2014, using a simple experiment and numerical simulations.

They showed that wetting the sand to just the right degree can reduce the required pulling force by up to 50%.

This technique may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to transport the blocks from the Nile port to the pyramid site.

Another aspect of physics that can reveal some mysteries of the pyramids is the electromagnetic response.

This refers to how the pyramids interact with radio waves of different frequencies and wavelengths.

An international research group applied methods of theoretical physics to investigate this phenomenon in 2018.

They used numerical modeling and analytical methods to calculate the electromagnetic field distribution inside and around the Great Pyramid of Giza.

They found that under resonance conditions, meaning when the wavelength of the radio waves matches the size of the pyramid, the pyramid can concentrate electromagnetic energy in its internal chambers and under its base.

This effect may have some applications for designing nanoparticles that can manipulate light at the nanoscale.

#Ancient Egypt #pyramids #wet sand technique #University of Amsterdam #Ancient Egyptians #theoretical physics #electromagnetic field #Great Pyramids of Giza #electromagnetic waves #Nile

[panafrocore]

The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut: A Masterpiece of Ancient African Architecture

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, known as Djeser-Djeseru which means “Holy of Holies,” stands as a remarkable tribute to the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut during the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. This architectural masterpiece is nestled opposite the city of Luxor, flaunting its grandeur and significance in the history of African architecture. As you approach the temple, your eyes are…

View On WordPress

#African architecture #African History #Ancient Egyptians #ancient egyptians history #North African History #The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

[nickysfacts]

All praise the goddess Sekhmet, who exemplified the unstoppable power of femininity!𓁴

#history #sekhmet #ancient egypt #goddess #eye of ra #ancient history #egyptology #egyptian mythology #divine feminine #kemetic #ancient egyptian history #mythology #ra #sun #femininity #feminine power #grl pwr #ancient egyptians #womens history #myth #hathor #ancient kemet #ancient #girl power #feminine history #egyptian goddess #nickys facts

[christabelq]

A few shots of Theda Bara playing the title role in the 1917 silent movie CLEOPATRA. I'm reading about Cleopatra at the moment in Kara Cooney's WHEN WOMEN RULED THE WORLD: 6 QUEENS OF EGYPT, so she's very much on my mind. If you're interested in the female rulers of ancient Egypt, I'd definitely recommend this book. It goes into detail about how they rose to power, the challenges they faced because of their gender and how the patriarchy usually tried to take credit for their achievements and wipe out all trace of them after they were gone. Like a lot of what you read about the ancient world, some of it's guesswork, but the arguments are convincing and seem to fit the evidence. I ❤️ this subject, so might get around to writing a proper review when I'm done. As for the movie pics, I get that Elizabeth Taylor's take on the character is better known, but I think Theda looks more iconic.

#ancient egyptians #egypt #ancient egypt #cleopatra #queen cleopatra #like for like #follow for follow #follow back #when women ruled the world #1917 movie #1910s fashion #theda bara #silent cinema #silent movies #silent movie stars #kara cooney #h rider haggard #women in history

[rhianna]

The materials, of which I purpose to make use in the following inquiries, are comparatively few, and will be contained within a small compass. They are such as are to be found in the composition of most names, which occur in antient mythology: whether they relate to Deities then reverenced; or to the places, where their worship was introduced. But they appear no where so plainly, as in the names of those places, which were situated in Babylonia and Egypt. From these parts they were, in process of time, transferred to countries far remote; beyond the Ganges eastward, and to the utmost bounds of the Mediterranean west; wherever the sons of Ham under their various denominations either settled or traded. For I have mentioned that this people were great adventurers; and began an extensive commerce in very early times. They got footing in many parts; where they founded cities, which were famous in their day. They likewise erected towers and temples: and upon headlands and promontories they raised pillars for sea-marks to direct them in their perilous expeditions. All these were denominated from circumstances, that had some reference to the religion, which this people professed; and to the ancestors, whence they sprung. The Deity, which they originally worshipped, was the Sun. But they soon conferred his titles upon some of their ancestors: whence arose a mixed worship. They particularly deified the great Patriarch, who was the head of their line; and worshipped him as the fountain of light: making the Sun only an emblem of his influence and power. They called him Bal, and Baal: and there were others of their ancestry joined with him, whom they styled the Baalim. Chus was one of these: and this idolatry began among his sons. In respect then to the names, which this people, in process of time, conferred either upon the Deities they worshipped, or upon the cities, which they founded; we shall find them to be generally made up of some original terms for a basis, such as Ham, Cham, and Chus: or else of the titles, with which those personages were, in process of time, honoured. These were Thoth, Men or Menes, Ab, El, Aur, Ait, Ees or Ish, On, Bel, Cohen, Keren, Ad, Adon, Ob, Oph, Apha, Uch, Melech, Anac, Sar, Sama, Samaïm. We must likewise take notice of those common names, by which places are distinguished, such as Kir, Caer, Kiriath, Carta, Air, Col, Cala, Beth, Ai, Ain, Caph, and Cephas. Lastly are to be inserted the particles Al and Pi; which were in use among the antient Egyptians.

#deity #history #ancient egyptians #ancestor worship #babylonia #egypt

[froggirlboycow]

RIP to the ancient egyptians, i just know yall would love the stray cat game

#stray game #stray #cat #cat game #ancient egyptians