At the close of Menthotpe I’s glorious reign nothing seemed to suggest that the power of his family was nearing its end. Yet so it was. The Turin Canon concedes to S’ankhkare’…
Upanishads
The term Upanishad means sitting down near; this implies the students sitting down near their Guru to learn the big secret. In the splendid isolation of their forest abodes, the philosophers who…
Lingaraja Temple
Situated in the ancient capital of the Kalinga empire, Bhubaneswar’s, the Lingaraja Temple is probably one of India’s most remarkable ancient, architectural achievements, with a 54-meter tower dominating the landscape. Encapsuled by…
Denwen
Denwen was a fiery serpent god attested in the Pyramid Era, hence very old. he would have caused a conflagration destroying other deities were he not prevented from doing so by the…
Thot, Thout; Djhowtey, Djehuti, Tehuti
Egyptian moon god. Over time, he developed as a god of wisdom, and came to be associated with magic, music, medicine, astronomy, geometry, surveying, drawing and writing. Thoth was generally depicted in…
Hatmehyt
Hatmehyt was a fish-goddess worshipped in the Delta, particularly in the northeast at Mendes.The fish as a divinity is comparatively rare in the Egyptian pantheon, but Hatmehyt’s name means “she who is…
Isis
God of women, mothers, children, magic, medicine, and the Ritual of Life, he have the appearance of a beautiful woman in magnificent clothing, sometimes shown wearing the sun disk. She has almost…
Hathor
God of the sky, the sun, the queen, music, dance and the arts. Appearance of a cow bearing the sun disk between her horns, or a woman in queenly raiment wearing the…