#egyptian religion
Ancient Egyptian block statue (gabbro with traces of pigment) of Neskhemenyu, son of Kapefha. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (early Ptolemaic period). From a cache at the Temple of Amun, Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Head (porphyritic diorite) of an ancient Egyptian cow goddess, perhaps Hathor or Mehetweret. Artist unknown; ca. 1390-1352 BCE (reign of Amenhotep III, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Detail of an ancient Egyptian coffin panel, decorated in three zones: top, uraeus-symbols and Ma'at-feathers; middle, a religious text; bottom, various depictions of Osiris and the sun-god Re. Artist unknown; ca. 1070-945 BCE (Third Intermediate Period). From Thebes; now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Painted wooden ushabti of the scribe Seti. Artist unknown; late 18th or early 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Julia Troche. Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. Hardcover edition. 179 pages.
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Herman te Velde. Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion. Ajna Bound, 2020. Hardcover. 198 pages.
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Scene of the weighing of the heart, from a copy of the “Book of the Dead” prepared for Nany, Singer of Amun. Artist unknown; ca. 1050 BCE (21st Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period). From the tomb of Meritamun at Deir el-Bahri; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Some small new Egyptian deity entries on Henadology.These are for a few deities whose names are sometimes considered solely epithets but are also gods in their own right.
1. Merymutef “beloved of his mother”
https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/merymutef/
2. Werethekau “mighty of magic(s)”, is a common epithet especially of Isis, but appears to sometimes have been designated an independent deity…
https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/weret-hekau/
3. Edjet: (ꜥḏt) A Goddess depicted in the form of an ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose, sometimes treated as a form of Hathor or of Bast.
https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/edjet/
4. Isdes, depicted in fully anthropomorphic form or with the head of a jackal (sometimes mummiform, or in the form of a jackal seated atop a sanctuary) or with the head of an ibis, or as a baboon.
https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/isdes/
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