Rituals and Offerings

The Chariot Racers Matter

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01/20/2011

Serverus — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Egyptian lore is similar to Greek lore, in that it is filled with stories of the doings of the gods, and that the gods themselves have a habit of coming down and wandering among people when they feel like it. They even have wars with each other down on earth.
As a matter of fact, many historians and mythologists have suggested that most of the Greek god stories are really just adaptations of Egyptian holy stories. Many other religions and cultures have borrowed from Egypt. Certainly the Book of Proverbs in the Bible borrowed a number of Egyptian sayings. An especially glaring example can be found in Proverbs 21:2, which is a direct use of an old Egyptian proverb…

All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

Actually, the Egyptian version replaces The LORD with, The GODS, referring to the symbolism of Anubis weighing the heart in the judgment of the dead.

01/19/2011

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Notably, the first domestication of dogs from wolfs occurred in Persia, North America and possibly Northeast Africa. The earliest reference to dogs in Egypt comes to us from the predynastic period. Bones of domesticated dogs have been discovered dating to the fifth millennium BC in Egypt, and we find the first representation of domesticated dogs on the Moscow cup from the Badarian age (4000-4500 BC). We begin to find natural representations of dogs with collars on the Asmolean Palette and the Hunting Palette. These palettes date from the predynastic era during the Naqada II (3500-3000 BC). But we find many more domesticated dogs in murals starting in the Old Kingdom.
We even know many ancient Egyptian dog’s names from leather collars as well as stelae and reliefs. They included names such as Brave One, Reliable, Good Herdsman, North-Wind, Antelope and even “Useless”. Other names come from the dogs color, such as Blacky, while still other dogs were given numbers for names, such as “the Fifth”. Many of the names seem to represent endearment, while others convey merely the dogs abilities or capabilities. However, even as in modern times, there could be negative connotations to dogs due to their nature as servants of man. Some texts include references to prisoners as “the king’s dogs”.
Anubis is often referred to as the jackal headed god, but Egyptians seem to have identified other dogs with this god, and at times domestic dogs were buried as sacred animals in the Anubieion catacombs at Saqqara.
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12/12/2010

Serverus — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

n geometry and trigonometry, a right angle is an angle of 90 degrees, corresponding to a quarter turn (that is, a quarter of a full circle). It can be defined as the angle such that twice that angle amounts to a half turn, or 180°

11/22/2010

Serverus — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Myth of Athens begins with Athena (also known as the Roman god Minerva) and Poseidon (god of the seas, Neptune). Athena and Poseidon both wanted to be the protectors of Athens. To keep the two from arguing, a man named Kekrops was pronounced as an arbitrator. The two gods, Athena and Poseidon, had to create something valuable for Athens. Poseidon created a well (though many sources say he gave the city the horse) and Athena created the olive tree. In the end it was the olive tree which won out as a symbol of peace and prosperity, and Athens was thenceforth named after the Goddess Athena, and Kekrops became the first king of Athens.

11/20/2010

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11/10/2010

Serverus — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Wadjet is one of the oldest known Egyptian goddesses, and her most famous representation is that of the snake on the crown of the pharaoh.

As a patron goddess of Egypt, she was associated with the land and depicted as a snake-headed woman or a snake—usually an Egyptian cobra,—sometimes she was depicted as a woman with two snake heads and at other times, as shown here, a snake with a woman’s head.

Her oracle was located in the renowned temple in Per-Wadjet that was dedicated to her worship and gave the city its name. This oracle may have been the source for the oracular tradition that spread to Greece from Egypt.

Also, the most sacred part of the temple was the inner sanctum, where only high priests and the pharaoh could enter. Anyone else trying to get in would be punished by death.

Anubis Thriller

Serverus — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just thought you would like to see what Anubis has been up to while he is on the lamb.
But seriously, if I had the powers of a god, this would be one of the first things I would do.

That’s amore

Serverus — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This is one of the oddest things I have created and put on public display.
You don’t want to see the ones I havent put up.

Shame on you if I have to explain this… But… [link]

11/02/2010

Serverus — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hapi: An appropriately named fertility god.
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The Egyptians generally did not use coinage for money, not until very late in their history. Even weighed metals like silver were not as preferred as the bartering of livestock, food, or goods.

The closest thing the Egyptians had to a real coinage system is the deben: or about 92 grams of metal, ten kit equalled one deben.

Most daily transactions were based on oral agreements, given the fact that the sums involved were often small, people could neither read nor write and scribes were not always available. But when the amount was significant, the wise lender had it put in writing. IOU’s were written on pot shards or any other piece of matter flat enough to be written on.
Example
Owed by Apahte, son of Patai: 30 pieces of silver.
Written in the year 28(?), on the 30th of Mesore.
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