Egyptian religion had ancient origins and lasted for at least 3,500 years. The Egyptians saw divinity in everything — in river, desert, and vegetation; in the sun, moon, and stars; in animals and kings; in birth and death. They created a vast and confusing multitude of gods.
Egyptian religion had ancient origins and lasted for at least 3,500 years. The Egyptians saw divinity in everything — in river, desert, and vegetation; in the sun, moon, and stars; in animals and kings; in birth and death. They created a vast and confusing multitude of gods.
This was for LIT 208 (Mythology and Folklore).
It includes s\topics such as Egyptian Creation myth, gods and goddesses, mythical creatures and folklore.
Has some videos to aid in the instruction.
Notes are also included within the presentation.
This was for LIT 208 (Mythology and Folklore).
It includes s\topics such as Egyptian Creation myth, gods and goddesses, mythical creatures and folklore.
Has some videos to aid in the instruction.
Notes are also included within the presentation.
Watching the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is like watching Superman (slide 2). Characters stand where they are, with no seeming attempt to jump, raise their swords and fly away. At-least in Superman you get to hear “Up, up and away”! (slide 3) Twilight is supposed to be the new Romeo and Juliet; enough for my wife to drag me to the cinemas. And then I realized Rome and Juliet die at the end, but in this movie the actors act as if they are already dead!
(slide 4) Movies are like women – Difficult to understand until it is too late!
Not to be sexist (slide 5).
(slide 7) “Simple and pure fun” – The best example is Tremors – a B-grade low budget movie starring Kevin Bacon. The movie is simple – make less noise, kill creatures and have fun along the way.
(slide 8) “A discovery, it’s a roller coaster!” No slack, no fillers but relentless from start to finish. Payback which starred Mel Gibson and Lucy Liu - the entire movie is mostly in two distinct colors, shades of black everywhere - every city, town, street which is contrasted by the red lipstick worn by - Lucy Liu. What makes the movie special is the pace, how the plot moves forward every minute.
(slide 9) “It makes sense!” – Memento – unlike the “inspired” Amir Khan’s Ghajini or the numerous regional versions, Memento was an Onion. You peel the layers, you get more layers. You have to wait till the very end to make sense of it all.
(slide 10) “An emotional tug” – When Rose lets go of Jack and as he sinks into the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean in the movie Titanic, you feel the sense of sadness, a loss, an emotional tug!
(slide 11) The above matrix is not mutually exhaustive – A movie might lie in more than one quadrant. Let’s take cases - Iron Man and let’s try place it in the matrix. A man builds a flying suit of armor and beats up bad guys – Simple and Pure fun. A billionaire playboy realizes his true calling while being captured and held by terrorists, needs magnets to stay alive, likes his beautiful assistant, does not show it, invents an arc reactor, beats the bad guys and saves the world! Definitely a Roller Coaster! And no wonder we all like Iron Man which is corroborated by the Movie Matrix.
Another example – Sholay 2 (Ram Gopal Verma ki Aag). Now let’s see where it fits in? It’s a discovery all-right that Bollywood can make atrociously bad movies. It fits into none of the 4 quadrants and no wonder was a huge flop!
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Magazine about Ancient Egypt - January 2021 - Online museum Joel van Aalderink
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Ancient Egypt1The Civilization of the Nile River V.docxdurantheseldine
Ancient Egypt
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The Civilization of the Nile River Valley: Egypt
Geography – Isolated by deserts on both sides.
The Nile’s periodic flooding made civilized life possible in Egypt. During drought or famine, Egypt was the place to go because Egypt always has water (cf. the story of Joseph and his brothers in Genesis).
The kingdom was divided into two parts: Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt (Upper Egypt is in the south), with Lower Egypt being a bit more cosmopolitan than Upper Egypt.
Unlike Mesopotamia, stone was plentiful.
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Pre-Dynastic Egypt: There is some evidence that very early on (3400-3200 BC), Egypt was influenced by Mesopotamia (corresponds to Jemnet Nasr period at Uruk). The evidence includes:
the use of rectangular sun-dried mud-brick in building,
the use of cylinder seals only during this time (Egypt usually used stamp-seals before and after this period),
pictographic writing (the “idea” comes from Mesopotamia),
the idea of kingship, social stratification and specialization,
certain kinds of painted pottery,
and pictures of twisted animals and battling with animals.
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Egypt seems to go from the Neolithic to a complex civilization overnight. Linear development is not apparent. Agriculture appears to be introduced from outside.
The Pharaoh (the king) is somehow responsible for the yearly success of the Nile. His throne was Isis, the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus. The king is identified with Horus.
Egypt seeks to portray changeless continuity over thousands of years. This is somewhat true, but not entirely accurate. Ancient Egypt went through a few periods of relative chaos or lack of centralized power. Egypt, however, as is well known, chose not to usually record such periods for posterity.
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Map of Egypt
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Egyptian history begins with King Narmer
Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt
He is likely the same person as Menes
Mizraim is often the Hebrew name for Egypt
The combination of the two crowns appears.
This is the beginning of the First Dynasty, and of Egyptian history
He established his capital at the new city of Memphis (= neutral ground)
It was a new city, said to have arisen out of the ground when Narmer diverted the Nile.
The royal burial grounds of Saqqara and Giza are located nearby.
The uniting of Egypt is commemorated on the Palette of King Narmer (fig. 2.3)
Egyptian artistic canon for relief figures is manifested:
head and feet in profile, with one foot forward, but eye and shoulders shown frontally (cf. fig. 2.2)
This is the beginning of Egypt’s Bronze Age
It is also the beginning of Egy.
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2. Egyptian mythology is the
collection of myths from
ancient Egypt, which
describe the actions of the
Egyptian gods as a means of
3. Ancient Egyptian Deities
Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and
goddesses who were worshiped in
ancient Egypt. The beliefs and rituals
surrounding these gods formed the core
of ancient Egyptian religion, which
emerged along with them sometime in
4. Egyptian Base Gods
In different eras, various
gods were said to hold the
highest position in divine
society.
5. Osiris: is an Egyptian base god, usually identified as the god of the
afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted
as a green skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy
wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large
ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and
flail.
OSIRIS
6. ANUBIS
Anubis: is the Greek name for a jackalheaded god associated with
mummification and the afterlife in
ancient Egyptian religion. He is the son of
Nephthys and Set according to the
Egyptian mythology. According to the
Akkadian transcription in the Amarna
letters, Anubis' name was vocalized in
Egyptian as Anapa. The oldest known
mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom
7. HORUS
Horus is one of the oldest and most significant
deities in ancient Egyptian religion, who was
worshipped from at least the late Predynastic
period through to Greco-Roman times.
The most commonly encountered family
relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis
and Osiris but in another tradition Hathor is
regarded as his mother and sometimes as his
wife. Horus served many functions in the
8. Figure of a Horus
Falcon, between
circa 300 and circa
250 BC (GrecoRoman). Courtesy
of the Walters Art
Museum.
9. Praised for controlling vermin and killing
dangerous snakes such as cobras, the cat
became a symbol of grace and poise.
As a revered animal and one important to
Egyptian society and religion, some cats
received the same mummification after death
as humans. Mummified cats were given in
offering to Bastet, who is the Goddess of
cats, Lower Egypt, the sun and the moon. In
1888, an Egyptian farmer uncovered a large
tomb with mummified cats and kittens. This
discovery outside the town of Beni Hasan had
SIDE NOTE
CATS IN
ANCIENT
EGYPT
Picture: A bronze
statue of the cat
goddess, Bastet
10. Bastet also known as
BASTET
baast, ubasti and Baset refers
to a cat goddess of ancient
Egyptian mythology who was
worshipped. She was the
Goddess of cats, Lower
Egypt, the sun and the moon.
Bastet may have been the
11. alabaster cosmetic
jar topped with a
lioness, representing
Bast, an eighteenth
dynasty burial artifact
from the tomb of
Tutankhamun circa
1323 BC - Cairo
Museum
12. Egyptian Heros?
The Egyptians didn't have the same
cosmology as the Greeks and Romans. There
are tales of great deeds done by the Egyptian
gods and goddesses, but they aren't the
same as the Heroes and demigods of Greek
and Roman mythology.
Most of the Egyptian 'heroes' would have
been pharaohs who won great battles or did
great things for their country. However there
are many myths.
13. Creation Myths
Among the most important myths were those describing
the creation of the world. The Egyptian developed many
accounts of the creation, which differ greatly in the events
they describe. In particular, the deities credited with
creating the world vary in each account. This difference
partly reflects the desire of Egypt's cities and priesthoods
to exalt their own patron gods by attributing creation to
them. Yet the differing accounts were not regarded as
contradictory; instead, the Egyptians saw the creation
14. The sun rises over
the circular
mound of creation
as goddesses
pour out the
primeval waters
around it.
Picture Courtesy
of Wikipedia
15. Hermopolis Creation Myth
The creation myth formed in the city of Hermopolis focused on the nature of the
universe before the creation of the world. The qualities of the primeval waters
were represented by a set of eight gods, called the Ogdoad. The god Nu and his
female counterpart Naunet represented the inert primeval water itself; Huh and
his counterpart Hauhet represented the water's infinite extent; Kuk and Kauket
personified the darkness present within it.
and Amun and Amaunet represented its hidden and unknowable nature, in
contrast to the tangible world of the living. The primeval waters were themselves
part of the creation process, therefore, the deities representing them could be
seen as creator gods.
According to the myth, the eight gods were originally divided into male and
female groups. They were symbolically depicted as aquatic creatures because
they dwelt within the water: the males were represented as frogs, and the
females were represented as snakes. These two groups eventually converged,
resulting in a great upheaval, which produced the pyramidal mound. From it