A fair bit of what we know about life in Ancient Egypt comes to us from Herodotus. In the last episode, I told you about some of the wild animals of Ancient Egypt that Herodotus mentioned. In this episode, I’m going to be focusing on the animals that the Egyptians worshiped as gods...
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The belief that some animals, such as cats,baboons, crocodiles, jackals, and various birds, weresacredby virtue of their association with certain gods resulted in the Egyptians’ mummifying literally hundreds of thousands of such creatures, burying them in special cemeteries. ...
metaphors, and materiel through which a culture may express its ideas about – and interact with – the “divine” (Wilkinson2003; Guthrie2005; Counts and Arnold2010; Allen2016). In religious and other cultural contexts, animals are not only sources but also recipients; the often complex and c...
of a hillside or a series of caves. Meanwhile, the fundamental purpose of the grove—the visitation of resident gods—sometimes promoted activities not entirely conducive to modern concepts of conservation. Animals were routinely captured to serve as sacrifices to the gods. Many groves witnessed ...
Imaging the gods: animal mummies from Tomb 3508, North Saqqara, Egypt A collection of mummified animals discovered in 1964 in a Third Dynasty mastaba tomb at North Saqqara, Egypt, offers the unusual and unique opportunity to ... S Atherton-Woolham,L Mcknight,C Price,... - 《Antiquity》 被...
There were other lesser gods and goddesses in sacred cat form.Aker, or Ruty, was a double lion. These twin lions of “yesterday” and “tomorrow” guarded the horizon. This was an important occupation because the horizon was a place of regeneration for both deities and kings, as well as...
In the Cretan myth he was a son of the grain-goddess Demeter and her consort the harvest-man Karmanor (Carmanor). In the Eleusinian and Argive myths he was the swine-herd brother of Triptolemos whose animals were swallowed up by the earth when Haides seized Persephone. Eubouleus was ...
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Even animals that ate from or touched the sacred trees or the seeds that fell nearby are mortally punished (6). C. Why are sacred trees not burned? 1. The tree is protected by the Welli (23, all the ethnic groups)) 2. The tree is protected by God (11, only one Druze) 3....