Egyptian Culture

    • Hieroglyphics
    • Alphabet
    • The Alphabet
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      The first hieroglyphic is the vulture. The Vulture is an Egyptian symbol of divine power and is pronounced “AH”

      • The first hieroglyphic is the vulture. The Vulture is an Egyptian symbol of divine power and is pronounced “AH”  https://www.egyptabout.com/
      • The second hieroglyphic is the arm.
        The Arm = “AY”
        This arm symbol for the letter A in Egyptian hieroglyphics is pronounced “ay”
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        The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for the letter B is the lower leg and foot. Human figures were generally drawn standing sideways by Egyptians, including this symbol. The lower leg can be used in words like boy and boot.
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        Hand symbol for the Letter D
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        Mouth symbol for the Letter R
        Hieroglyphics symbol for man
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        Hieroglyphics symbol for a woman
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        Sobek Egyptian Hieroglyph
        Sobek (also called Sobki, Coptic: Ⲥⲟⲩⲕ, romanized: Souk) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature. He is associated with the Nile crocodile or the West African crocodile and is represented either in its form or as a human with a crocodile head. Sobek was also associated with pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, but served additionally as a protective deity with apotropaic qualities, invoked especially for protection against the dangers presented by the Nile. Sobek has been famed for having been revered by the first female Pharaoh by the Nebty name Sat-Sekhem-Nebet-Tawy Sobekneferu, present both in the female Pharaoh’s nomen, Sobek’Neferu (sbk-nfrw – Beauty of Sobek), and her praenomen Ka’Sobek’Re (The Ka of Sobek-Ra).
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        Horus Eye Ra
        Horus or Heru, Hor, Har in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history, and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists. These various forms may be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.
        The earliest recorded form of Horus is the tutelary deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the ruling pharaoh who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris, and he plays a key role in the Osiris myth as Osiris’s heir and the rival to Set, the murderer and brother of Osiris. In another tradition, Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife.
        Claudius Aelianus wrote that Egyptians called the god Apollo “Horus” in their own language. However, Plutarch, elaborating further on the same tradition reported by the Greeks; specified that the one “Horus” whom the Egyptians equated with the Greek Apollo was in fact “Horus the Elder”, who is distinct from Horus the son of Osiris and Isis (that would make him “the Younger”).
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        Horus Eye Ra
        Horus or Heru, Hor, Har in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history, and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists. These various forms may be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.
        The earliest recorded form of Horus is the tutelary deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the ruling pharaoh who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris, and he plays a key role in the Osiris myth as Osiris’s heir and the rival to Set, the murderer and brother of Osiris. In another tradition, Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife.
        Claudius Aelianus wrote that Egyptians called the god Apollo “Horus” in their own language. However, Plutarch, elaborating further on the same tradition reported by the Greeks; specified that the one “Horus” whom the Egyptians equated with the Greek Apollo was in fact “Horus the Elder”, who is distinct from Horus the son of Osiris and Isis (that would make him “the Younger”).
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    • Mummification in,
      • four organs —
        • the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines
          • placed in separate canopic jars.
        • protected by one of the four sons of Horus
        •  four gods in ancient Egyptian religion,
        • personifications of the four canopic jars
        • associated with one of the four cardinal directions
        • north, east, south, and west
        • weighing the heart
          Weighing the heart: The heart played a fundamental part in Ancient Egyptian beliefs. In the Hall of Judgment the heart of the deceased was weighed against an ostrich feather of Ma’at, goddess of truth and justice.
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          Signs & Symbols of Human Body
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          Many Thelemites recite “Resh” (Liber Resh vel Helios, or “Liber CC”) facing the direction of the ever-present sun as it rises in the East, triumphs in the (northern-hemisphere) South, sets in the West, and “hides” in the North. Image shows a close-up of the Stele of Revealing.
          Eagle Ancient Egyptian
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Hathor Goddess Ancient
Hathor (Ancient Egyptian: ḥwt-ḥr, lit. ’House of Horus’, Ancient Greek: Ἁθώρ Hathōr, Coptic: ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic: 𐦠𐦴𐦫𐦢‎ Atri/Atari) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra, both of whom were connected with kingship, and thus she was the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the pharaohs. She was one of several goddesses who acted as the Eye of Ra, Ra’s feminine counterpart, and in this form she had a vengeful aspect that protected him from his enemies. Her beneficent side represented music, dance, joy, love, sexuality, and maternal care, and she acted as the consort of several male deities and the mother of their sons. These two aspects of the goddess exemplified the Egyptian conception of femininity. Hathor crossed boundaries between worlds, helping deceased souls in the transition to the afterlife.
Hathor was often depicted as a cow, symbolizing her maternal and celestial aspect, although her most common form was a woman wearing a headdress of cow horns and a sun disk. She could also be represented as a lioness, cobra, or sycamore tree.
Cattle goddesses similar to Hathor were portrayed in Egyptian art in the fourth millennium BC, but she may not have appeared until the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BC). With the patronage of Old Kingdom rulers she became one of Egypt’s most important deities. More temples were dedicated to her than to any other goddess; her most prominent temple was Dendera in Upper Egypt. She was also worshipped in the temples of her male consorts. The Egyptians connected her with foreign lands such as Nubia and Canaan and their valuable goods, such as incense and semiprecious stones, and some of the peoples in those lands adopted her worship. In Egypt, she was one of the deities commonly invoked in private prayers and votive offerings, particularly by women desiring children.
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The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used in Egyptian art and writing to represent the word for “life” and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself.
The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used in Egyptian art and writing to represent the word for “life” and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself.
The ankh has a cross shape but with a teardrop-shaped loop in place of a vertical upper bar. The origins of the symbol are not known, although many hypotheses have been proposed. It was used in writing as a triliteral sign, representing a sequence of three consonants, Ꜥ-n-ḫ. This sequence was found in several Egyptian words, including the words meaning “mirror”, “floral bouquet”, and “life”. In art the symbol often appeared as a physical object representing either life or substances such as air or water that are related to it. It was especially commonly held in the hands of ancient Egyptian deities, or being given by them to the pharaoh, to represent their power to sustain life and to revive human souls in the afterlife.
The ankh was one of the most common decorative motifs in ancient Egypt and was also used decoratively by neighbouring cultures. Coptic Christians adapted it into the crux ansata, a shape with a circular rather than oval loop, and used it as a variant of the Christian cross. The ankh came into widespread use in Western culture in the 1960s, and it is often used as a symbol of African cultural identity, Neopagan belief systems, and the goth subculture.
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Ankh
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Egypt Pyramids Chephren
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Egypt Sphinx Egyptians
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Djed, wadj, and figures of gods; amulets made of Egyptian faience. Egyptian – Group of 16 Amulets Strung as a Necklace – Walters 481685-1699 – View A.jpg
Created: between circa 600 and circa 500 BC (Late Period)
This group of amulets were strung in modern times to a necklace that follows the order of an amulet necklace found on a mummy in the Faiyum. On this string are 8 “djed” pillars (symbols of Osiris), Thoth, figures of Horus, two figures of Re, a “wadj” (papyrus scepter, symbolizing resurrection), Nephthys, and Khnum. The combination of amulets without an amulet of Isis and only one “wadj” makes it likely that these amulets come from a larger context such as a mummy net or amulet ensemble of a deceased, and not from a single necklace. Wiki
Ancient Egyptian Taweret amulet, New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII, c. 1539–1292 BC
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