And since these Atlantides excelled in beauty and chastity, Busiris the king of the Aigyptians (Egyptians), the account says, was seized with a desire to get the maidens into his power; and consequently he dispatched pirates by sea with orders to seize the girls and deliver them into ...
The Egyptians constructed the temple in the 18th century BC. King Thutmose then expanded the temple about 300 years later. Other kings maintained the temple due to its significance and magnificence, with the last restoration works carried out by the Roman emperor Tiberius. The temple also had ...
The ancient Egyptians believed that as thesun god, Ra’s role was to sail across the heavens during the day in his boat called the “Barque of Millions of Years.” In the morning when Ra emerged from the east, his boat was named, “Madjet” which meant “becoming strong.” By the ...
Isis’ song, Horus, was the god of the sky and depicted with a hawk-like head often portrayed with a double crown. These deities were worshipped daily by the Egyptians in temples built by the ruling pharaoh and his priests. The pharaoh was viewed as the intermediary between the deities ...
The Egyptians held the sun in the highest regard above all other parts of nature, and they believed that Ra traveled through the sky on a boat during the day and then went down into the underworld, or Duat, at night. Sometimes he would have other gods accompany him on his journey....
Osiris was given many titles. He is sometimes referred to as"King of the Living"and"Foremost of the Westerners". Both of those titles were given to him because of his being the ruler of the dead, whom the ancient Egyptians called Westerners or The Living Ones. ...
The Egyptians held the sun in the highest regard above all other parts of nature, and they believed that Ra traveled through the sky on a boat during the day and then went down into the underworld, or Duat, at night. Sometimes he would have other gods accompany him on his journey....
When a clay baby is finished, he sneaks it into the mother’s womb with the help of his wife and nature takes its course. Which shows that the ancient Egyptians weren’t silly enough to believe all that nonsense about storks and cabbage patches. His wife is sometimes identified as the ...
Seth, ancient Egyptian god, patron of the 11th nome, or province, of Upper Egypt. The worship of Seth originally centred at Nubt (Greek Ombos), near present-day Ṭūkh, on the western bank of the Nile River. Nubt, with its vast cemetery at nearby Naqā