The god Sah and his consort, Sopdet, who is probably better known by her Greek name, Sothis, personified the constellation of Orion, which he is sometimes referred to, and the bright, first…
Category: Ancient Egypt World
History of Thebes
Cities in ancient Greece were built in fertile plains and close to a high ground (Acropolis) for protection and they were all walled (except Sparta). In the big and fertile Boeotian plain…
Bat
Bat is one of the cow goddesses, particularly of Upper Egypt. She is hardly ever depicted in Egyptian art, though we find her more often in jewelry such as amulets head is…
Nun
It was from Nun that Ra created himself, rising up on the first piece of land – the primeval mound out of the lotus blossom, born from the world egg, or as…
Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Whether Bochchoris was taken captive by Sabacon (Shabako) and burned alive, as Manetho would have us believe, we have no means of knowing. However, it is certain that this younger brother of…
Qadesh
Qadesh was Middle-Eastern goddess of sacred ecstasy and sexual pleasure, adopted in the New Kingdom by the Egyptians into a triad with the gods Min and Reshep. Her name, probably meaning the…
Khonsu
God of the moon, time, knowledge, have the appearance of a young man in the posture of a mummy with the royal sidelock and punt beard. He wears the moon disk on…
The adze
The adze was used for planing and carving. It was made of a wooden handle, often fashioned from a branch cut at its ramification, to which a blade was fitted. These were…