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
2008_0610_152547AA Egyptian Museum, Turin by Hans Ollermann on Flickr.
The crocodilian inhabitant of the ninth mound of the underworld.
Art Deco Egypt travel poster via ebay
Scenes from the Fourth Division of the Book of Amduat, as seen in the tomb of Tuthmose III, and the same scenes as depicted in E. A. Wallace Budge’s book The Egyptian Heaven and Hell.
You can never have too many snakes with hats.
From the Book of the Earth in the tomb of Ramesses VI.
“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)
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)
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”.)
2008_0610_152240AA Egyptian Museum, Turin by Hans Ollermann on Flickr.
Baboons hanging around the Lake of Fire from Chapter 162 of the Book of the Dead.
