Shay personified destiny, and existed both as a deity and a concept. In the New Kingdom funerary papyrus of the royal scribe Ani, Shay appears in the Weighing of the Heart scene…
Category: Ancient Egypt World
Mut
God of the sky, mothers, have the appearance of a vulture-headed woman or a woman wearing a vulture for a crown. The very word Mut means “mother” and Mut was the great…
Twenty-second Dynasty
Not long after 950 BC the Pharaonic sway passed into the hands of a family of alien race. Their earliest rulers styled themselves ‘chiefs of the Meshwesh’, often abbreviated into ‘chiefs of…
Athyr
Egyptian cow goddess. Daughter of Nut and Re. In early Egyptian mythology she was the mother of the sky god Horus, but was later replaced in this capacity by Isis. Hathor then…
Ottoman Turk Period
Under the Ottoman’s Egypt was divided into twenty-four districts and each had its own Mameluke bey, which was formerly called an emir. Each of these beys were governed by the sultan in…
Mihos
Mihos was the lion god and son of Bastet called Miysis by the Greeks. His local roots were at Leontopolis, modern Tell el-Muqdam, in nome eleven of Lower Egypt in the Eastern…
Epipaleolithic: 10,000 – c. 5,500 BC
The Epipaleolithic years are largely a transition between the Paleolithic and the Predynastic time periods in ancient Egypt, a time between the hunter-gatherers of before and the appearance of the true farming…
First Intermediate Period
In the First Intermediate Period as the age separating Dynasty VI and XII is called, Manetho, or rather the Manetho known to us from the chronicles of his exceptors, is seen at…