The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is located on the University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, MI. and it’s well-worth a visit if you’re in the area. The Coffin of Djehutymose is one of the exhibits. He was a priest of Heru and Hethert at Edfu, lived during the Saite period, and died around 600 BCE….
Category: Ancient Life
Dedication (Pagan Blog Project 2012 #8)
The ancient Egyptians went to a lot of trouble for their religion. Herodotus certainly thought so, and said they were “religious to a higher degree than any other people.” The temple complex at Karnak, dedicated to Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, covered 200 acres. It’s one of the largest religious sites in the world. There were…
Community in the Kemetic World (Pagan Blog Project 2012 #5)
“The reward of one who does something lies in something being done for him. This is considered by god as ma’at.”-Pharaoh Neferhotep, c.1300 BCE “Ma’at, then, is the principle that forms individuals into communities and that gives their actions meaning and direction by ensuring that good is rewarded and evil punished. The concept of doing…
Men and Women in Ancient Egypt
People The Egyptian word for people used in creation texts with a picture of a man and a woman following the phonetic part of the word. Humanity seems to have been divided into two genders from the beginning. This is in contrast to other ancient mythologies that made woman an afterthought or offshoot of the…
Coffin Text #1130
Map of the netherworld from the coffin of Gua, from Deir el-Bersha, Egypt. 1985-1795 BC. Ra says: Proceed in peace, that I may repeat to you the good deeds that my heart has done in the midst of the coiled one in order to silence evil. I have done four good deeds in the midst of…
Egyptian Glass – Toledo Art Museum
Display Information Unguent Bottle Nice little glass piece. About 3″ tall.
Scribes, Officials, and the Deities
I’ve been reading Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz. It’s an engagingly written, enjoyable read. Talking about the scribes and other officials, she said: “One of the significant aspects of Egyptian life which is brought out by the Hekanakhte letters is the combination in one man of functions which we would consider incompatible, or…
Kemetic Spirituality
On Following the Sun we were talking about the spirituality of ancient Egypt: Do the people of Kemet separate spirituality from anything, even entertainment? Unfortunately, unless someone makes some really interesting “finds”, we may not have much evidence either way. I would think that anything “unclean” didn’t have a place in the inner area of…