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- jackal god,
god of embalming
- cult
originally located at Abydos
- Western
Desert – home of the dead
- jackal dogs
prowl cemeteries, predators.
- Iconography
- jackal dog
- male body
with jackal head
- often shown
tending the mummy.
- before
popularity of Osiris worship
- Anubis most
important god of the dead
- first
associated with burial and afterlife of Pharaoh
- influence
later extends to less elevated people.
- Guardian of
mummy, especially from evil forces of the night
- brings
deceased to Hall of Judgment
- as a
caretaker and protector – represented as jackal dog (no human
body)
- found in
tombs
- Tomb of
Tutankhamen
- Tomb of
Nefari
- associated
with the color black
- regeneration
- death
- night
- mummies
- associated
with embalming.
- Creates
first mummy – Osiris
- god of
embalmers
- embalming
priests impersonate Anubis
- “Lord of
the Mummy Wrappings”
- “Foremost
of the westerners”
- “Lord of
the sacred Land”
- “He who
is in the place of embalming”
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- deities conceived in human form
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probably develops in Early Dynastic period
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gods/goddesses represented in human form but with the head of an
animal.
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- “The Mighty One”
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goddess of war, strife, destruction, daughter of Re.
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Especially brutal to enemies of her father.
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Associated with
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death, destruction, disease, plagues
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Her consort is the God Ptah
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head of lion, cult-worship in Memphis
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Hot wind of desert associated with her hot breathe.
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Solar calendar 360-last five days were sacred to Sekhmet, rampant
in her rage, done to passify goddess.
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Different statue worship each day
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200-, Luxor Temple, 17 Statues
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After a while people became compacent and didn't worship Re so
Sekhmet is sicked on them.
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Without mankind they wont have cult worship. Gods dyed beer with
pomegranate juice with a drug spread over land is spread out and
she drinks it, and forgets about mans disloyalty.
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- local diety of delta
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fetish was cat
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daughter of Re
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positive/beneficial aspects of Sekhmet
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represents positive aspects of the sun
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also personifies the moon.
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Associated with music and dancing
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Patroness of maternity
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iconography: cat-headed woman.
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Holds sistrum
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kittens nearby
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Major cult center at Tell Basta (Gr Bubastis)
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House of Bastet
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Herodotus ancient of site
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Cats sacred to goddess
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Herodotus thought the temple was the most pleasing
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700,000 people go to land to goddess.
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Mummies and rats buried together for nourishment
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Instrument that shakes
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- primordial
sea
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waters of chaos
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dark, without form, still, stagnant, without life.
- Creation
of the benben-
earth mound
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promoted by Heliopolis
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central image of creation
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act of creation takes place on top of mound
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no myth tells how benben was formed.
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Sun first appeared on a mound.
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- Sun
becomes linked with benben. Sun linked with pyramids. remember –
pyramids, because of their shape, one linked with the concept of the
benben.
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- creator
god
- leaves
large goose egg on mound
- sun emerges
from egg
- primeval god
“Completed One”
- may have
created self
- worshiped
primarily in Heliopolis.
- Regarded as
creator god and solar deity
- “The
Universal Master”
- iconography
- male, wears
Egyptian crown
- gives birth
to other gods without a mate
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- god
of Earth.
- With goose
on head
- male;
god of earth
- body black
or green (inundation colors)
- can have
goose on top of head.
- In one
creation legend the goose lays an egg and it produces the sun.
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When
sun established itself in the sky, it did so above the benben. Images
of sun and pyramids became powerful symbols for the ancient
Egyptians. Whenever there was worship connected to the solar diety in
Egypt, the form of the pyramid or an obelisk would be present.
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- god
of Air; male
- Atum
spits out
- notice
act of spitting and resulting creation of air
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- goddess
of moisture, Dew, heat; Daughter.
- Atum
vomits her forth
- notice
act of vomiting and resulting in moisture
- becomes
consort (wife of Shu)
- possibility
of Atum's self-copulation
- 4th
century B.C.; British Museum
- First
couple born of the sexual desire of Atum (masturbation)
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- female;
goddess of the sky
- sister and
wife of Geb.
- Has wings.
- Usually
represented in art as vault of the heavens
- relief and
painting
- woman
with arched back covering earth
- extends
to horizon
- fingertips
and head to west
- tips of
toes to east
- Body
sometimes filled with stars
- At sunset
nut is thought to swallow the sky, gives birth to it every
morning.
- She stood
over, Shu holding on, Geb at the earth.
- Union with
Geb
- Nut
descends to Geb in nightfall
- produces
darkness.
- His
position represented the hills and the valleys during copulation
- in other
myths
- is mother
of Re- sun god
- pink of
dawn = birth blood
- associated
with rebirth
- but is
also one of the protectors of the dead
- iconography:
female; spread wings.
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- personification
of sun in all its strength= mid-day
- major cult
center= Heliopolis=”Sun”
- iconography
- body of
man, head of falcon, solar disc
- links with
other divinities
- e.g., with
Atum= Re-Atum (setting sun)
- Amun-Re =
principle deity of Thebes
- links with
other divinities
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- sky
god
- Hor =
“The one on high”
- iconography
– represented as hawk or falcon
- the bird
that soars highest
- originally
one of the earliest gods (Pre-Dynastic)
- local god
of Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt)
- associated
with solar cult after unification of Egypt.
- iconography
- hawk or
falcon
- body of
man, head of hawk
- does not
receive solar disc
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note: hawk/falcon head with solar disc =
- Right
eye was sun, left eye was moon, wings touched horizons
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