#ancient egypt
-Pocket Goddess Ma’at-
Homage to you, lady of truth,
She to whom the Ennead extend their arms:
I am pure, I have been purified in the southern pool.
I have committed no faults, I have not erred,
I have not done evil, nor have I borne false witness,
I come forward to make a declaration of truth.
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Ma'at isn’t just a concept in Kemeticism. She is a goddess of balance, upon which our hearts are weighed. She inspired us to be true to ourselves and Netjer. To live by the morals of our faith and strive towards that equilibrium each and every day.
I made this piece on request, but also because many of us offer Ma'at in shrine and ritual. Offering Her to the Gods is one of the most beautifully symbolic elements you can add to your practice. And one I would never be without.
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Daughter of Amun-raandSet
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-Pocket Goddess Nut-
O Great Lady, who did come into being in the sky, who are mighty.
Who does make happy, and does fill every place (or being), with your beauty,
The whole earth is under you, you have taken possession of it.
You have encompassed the earth, everything is in your two hands,
-excerpt from hymn to Nut in pyramid texts.
Another piece for Nut, this one colored in the deep tones of the night sky. Her colors shift from Blue / Purple / sometimes Green with accents in silver.
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-Pocket Goddess Sekhmet-
Sekhmet, Sekhmet, Eye of Ra.
Lady of the Red Lands.
She both protector, fierce of claw, and a healer strong in heka. A large, complex name that almost has two faces to her own side of the coin. She is a Name that came to me often this year, and has brought her fierceness with her. While this piece may be a small tribute, it is no less of who she is.
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-Jackal Pocket God-
Did you know there are more than a handful of Jackal names out there? Beyond Yinepu and Wepwawet, even more names take on that mantle of symbolism.
Anubis
Anupet
Duamutef
Khentyamentiu
Sed
Wepiu
Wepwawet
Wepwawet-ReRead more about them here.
They are as wide and diverse even within themselves as any other comparison. They are watchful, guiding, guarding. They blur and blend into one another, but still it remains clear that they carry their own standard. Which one speaks to you?
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And please, if there’s a name you want to see me sculpt. A piece from antiquity? I always take suggestions, and will try to fit them all in one by one into my schedule. I love hearing from you all and hope you continue to send messages.
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Iseqi
Daughter of Amun-raandSet
Beloved of Hethert-SekhmetandHeru-Wer
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Greatly amused to learn from Wikipedia that the asteroid 99942 Apophis was not named for the Egyptian demon, but for the alien character in Stargate: SG1. Considerably dents the rock’s aura of cosmic horror.
““Eye of Horus” is the cultic expression for every offering item, not just water. Every offering item was thus represented as a substance that restored something that had been lost, that returned something that had been stolen, that renewed something that had been used up, that replenished something that had been reduced, that put together something that had fallen apart - in short, it was the symbol of a reversibility that could heal everything, even death.”— Jan Assmann, “Death & Salvation in Ancient Egypt” p.357
Scarabs are engraved stones representing the Scarab beetle (Scarabaeus sacer), which rolls each of its eggs in a ball of mud and may be seen on sandy slopes in the hot sunshine of Egypt; rounding the pellet by pushing it backwards uphill with its hind legs, and allowing it to roll down again. The ancient Egyptian compared this living germ to the sun, which brings matter into life, and the Scarab became the symbol of creation, and sacred to their Sun-god, Khepera. It was their custom as far back as 4,600 years B.C. to bury these engraved Scarabs with their dead, and frequently one was placed in the heart itself. It was an emblem of re-creation, and symbolized this evolution of the soul through eternity.
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Ashlar
Egyptian: The material to be worked upon to achieve perfection through creative activity; the rough ashlar is unregenerate man, the perfect ashlar is the spiritual and perfected man.
[Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper]
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Lily
Purity; peace; resurrection; royalty.
Sacred to all Virgin Goddesses, the Mother and Maid, the One and the Many.
The lily also represents the fertility of the Earth Goddess and later of the sky gods.
The lily in the West shares the symbolism of the lotus in the East.
A branch of lilies depicts virginity, also regeneration and immortality.
Alchemic: The white lily is the feminine principle
Christian: Purity; innocence; the Virgin Mary; its straight stalk is her godly mind, its pendant leaves her humility, its fragrance is divinity, its whiteness is purity; it is also a symbol of the Annunciation and of virgin saints, as chastity; it is the flower of Easter. Dante calls it the ‘lily of faith’. The lily among thorns depicts the Immaculate Conception as purity in the midst of sins of the world. In art a lily on one side and a sword on the other depict innocence and guilt.
Egyptian: Fruitfulness, but the lotus is more frequently used in Egyptian symbolism.
Graeco-Roman: Purity; it sprang from the milk of Hera and is an emblem of Hera/Juno and of Diana as chastity.
Hebrew: Trust in God; emblem of the tribe of Judah.
Islamic: Its symbolism can be taken by the hyacinth.
Minoan: Chief attribute of the goddess Britomartis.
Sumero-Semitic: Fruitfulness; fecundity.
[Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper]
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Obelisk
Phallic; male generative power; fertility; regeneration; stabilizing force.
It is also an axis mundi and the Tree of Life, a ritual world center, a ‘finger of the sun’.
In Egypt it denotes Ra; the ray of the sun; solar generative power.
[Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper]
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Cat mummy (Roman period, after 30 BC) with narrow linen bandages woven into as herringbone pattern. It is 36.5cm high.
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Not sure if I should have titled this “Pharoah takes a Selfie” but hey they probably would if they could have. Upon the endless desert sands in the shadow of his ancestors tombs the Pharoah watches. As with all the Egyptian themed images, using Dreamlights Super HDRI lighting, background due in VUE with Pryamids from Sketchup As normal best viewed on my Artstation Page https://www.artstation.com/p/D1b0A
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via medievalpoc: Black Woman Holding Beauty Implements. Egypt (19th Dynasty; 1292-1187 B.C.E.). Terracotta, 20 cm. Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities
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Archaeologist / Egyptologist Dr. Anna Stevens talks about the bust of Nefertiti.
—Lost Treasures of Egypt: Hunt for Queen Nefertiti (S2E05) (2020)
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Ancient Egyptian block statue (gabbro with traces of pigment) of Neskhemenyu, son of Kapefha. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (early Ptolemaic period). From a cache at the Temple of Amun, Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Figure of Hem-Min
6th Dynasty, 2360-2195 B.C.
Inscribed “Treasurer of the God, Overseer of the Army, Overseer of the Prospectors, revered with the God,” seated on a high-backed chair inscribed on both sides with his names and titles, his hands resting on his knees, and wearing a short pleated kilt and wig of layered trapezoidal curls, his face with prominent chin, outlined lips, and slightly aquiline nose; remains of red pigment on the body and black pigment on the wig.
Height 48.3 cm.
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