Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East, mythology, goddesses, monsters, etc. My goal is to accurately label every post: please tell me if you see something that's not correctly attributed, tagged, or captioned. I am also ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“Book of Caverns, fifth division, scene 9 showing the damned decapitated, bound, and upside down, burning in cauldron perpetually heated by fiery cobras, Tomb of Ramesses IX (image © Francis Dzikowski/TMP 1999).” (via Ancient Egyptian demonology)
(According to the Theban Mapping Project, this is from KV9, the tomb of Ramesses V and VI, not KV6, the tomb of Ramesses IX.)
Relief in the temple of Deir el-Medina with a scene from Book of the Dead (Weighting the heart).
AFAIK it’s very unique for a temple (not a tomb) relief.
Picture © In-Taier, 2012
From The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Spell 87, Papyrus of Ani, 1275 B.C. A spell to assume the form of a horned snake: ‘I am a horned snake, long of years, / Lying down, born every day. I am a horned snake in the limits of the earth. / I lie down; I am born; I am renewed; I bloom every day.’ (via Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - Telegraph)
yahoo wants to buy tumblr so i’m making an early prediction as to what would happen if this were to take place
I would shell for Tumblr Premium, if it meant decent tools at long last (especially for the queue) in a heartbeat. (Although right now I’d settle for queue tools that actually *%^*&%ing worked.)
A closer view.
DSC02403 by Arqueóloga22 on Flickr.
Gods queue in the underworld.
egipto_116 (by respiraelviento)
The mystical Spell 17, from the Papyrus of Ani. The vignette at the top illustrates, from left to right, the god Heh as a representation of the Sea; a gateway to the realm of Osiris; the Eye of Horus; the celestial cow Mehet-Weret; and a human head rising from a coffin, guarded by the four Sons of Horus.
From the tomb of Thutmose III: the deceased king is suckled by Isis in the form of a tree. (By the look of the photo at the Theban Mapping Project, this has been retouched.)
(Source: commons.wikimedia.org)
Banksy does Jean-François Millet’s “Des glaneuses”
Two things tumblr taught me
1. Look at the context.
2. Find the source.
because then some controversies might be avoided, and some rumours not spread
Hard lessons learned, in my case, first from Usenet, and then from LiveJournal. It’s caused me to develop a scepticism so keen and automatic that - I’ll give you an example. This thing where JJ Abrams says to Jon Stewart that he doesn’t like Star Trek because it’s philosophical? Until and unless I see that entire interview for myself, I am taking those GIF sets with large a grain of salt. And I thought Into Darkness was rubbish.
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Tintin’s drug dream: some ****ed-up **** from Cigars of the Pharaoh.
(Where there is pulp involving the Near or Far East, there is always be drugs and/or mesmerism: Cigars also features an evil Indian fakir who uses both hypnosis and the dreaded Rajaijah juice, aka “the poison of madness”.)