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  1. Thoth Bestowing Pharaoh With Life and Dominion

    Sandstone fragment from the #Temple of Harendotes (Horus the Avenger) in Philae, #Egypt

    The scene depicts the god #Thoth bestowing #Pharaoh with #Life (symbolized by the Ankh-hieroglyphs) and Dominion (in terms of divine power, symbolized by the Was-hieroglyphs). This act is part of the Hes-purification #ritual in contexts of the #coronation of pharaoh.

    #archaeology #Egyptology #religion #scicomm

  2. Mich würde ja interessieren, ob es #Kemetisten gibt in der Gegend um Siegen/Betzdorf/AK herum.

    Kennt da wer jemanden, der jemanden kennt, der vielleicht Bock auf lockeren Austausch hat?
    (keine abgedrehten Esoteriker) 😅

    Ich bin allerdings weit weg von "tradionell", sondern eclectic (wie isn das dt. Word dafür? 😂)

    Gern Retweet🤗

    #Paganismus #Pagan #Kemetism #EgyptyptianDeities #Ma'at #Maat #Djehuti #Thoth #Thot #Heidentum

  3. Katherine Makoyana is another artist whose galleries have caused me to waste much time.

    This piece with Anubis weighing the human heart against the feather of Maat, while Thoth records the result is pretty fine.

    I especially live the incorporation of Maat herself as the "scales". A very interesting take on the immediate afterlife ritual.

    These truly are fantastic interpretations.

    Artist: Katherine Makoyana- makoyana.artstation.com/

    #kemet #anubis #maat #thoth

  4. @Crazypedia Replying ever so very late to this thread, but there seems to be a lot of that going on lately with so many of us recent arrivals at Mastodon.

    I'm going to throw out there pretty much anything by #LonMiloDuquette A great starting point is "Low Magick: It's All in Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is" #LowMagick opened up doors and blockages for me & helped me to unlock some levels of prior religious programming that I had not consciously keyed into still influencing me the way it was. And, it's not at all a typical #grimoire or manual or how-to guide, it's more a series of personal Essays in a memoir style from a long time practitioner. Casual, non-intimidating, and yet quite impactful.

    Also, his book on the #ThothTarot is possibly the best one out there on the #Thoth deck. I'd handily recommend it over #Crowley 's own writing on the topic. LMD is much more accessible and maybe even more informative.

  5. Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of knowledge, writing, and wisdom, played a vital role in Egyptian mythology and society. #thoth #ancientegypt connectparanormal.net/2024/09/

  6. Alexander de Grote in Memfis

    De Apis (Liebieghaus, Frankfurt)

    In het vorige blogje vertelde ik dat Alexander de Grote zich eind november, begin december 332 v.Chr. vrij eenvoudig meester maakte van Pelousion, de oostelijke tak van de Nijl en Heliopolis. Even verderop lag de oeroude hoofdstad Memfis, die de eenheid symboliseerde van Nijldelta en Nijldal. In het deel van het stadscentrum dat bekendstond als Inebu-hedj, “het witte fort”, loste een Macedonisch garnizoen de laatste Perzische troepen af.

    Vermoedelijk bleven zij in Egypte en traden ze in dienst van Alexander. Dat deed in elk geval een zekere Doloaspis, een man met een Iraanse naam die door de geschiedschrijver Arrianus ten onrechte wordt aangeduid als Egyptenaar. Na Alexanders vertrek deelde Doloaspis de hoogste macht met Petosiris, de hogepriester van de god Thoth, en toen zijn collega aftrad, werd Doloaspis satraap van zowel Beneden- als Boven-Egypte.

    Het graf van Petosiris

    Memfis

    In Memfis bezocht de Macedonische koning de tempel van de god Ptah, de Hut-ka-Ptah. Het heiligdom was zo beroemd dat zijn naam, verbasterd tot Aigyptos, al in de tijd van Homeros door de Grieken werd gebruikt als aanduiding van het hele land aan de Nijl. Zij stelden Ptah, die de ambachtslieden beschermde, gelijk aan hun eigen god Hefaistos, maar ter plekke werd hij vooral beschouwd als een schepper-god die nog ouder was dan de Ra-Atum van het rivaliserende Heliopolis. Elders in Egypte bleef de Heliopolitaanse scheppingsmythe echter populairder dan het Memfitische verhaal. Terwijl de Heliopolitaanse Ra traditioneel gold als beschermer van het koningschap en dus van de Egyptische staat, heeft niet één farao zich ooit gepresenteerd als beschermeling van Ptah.

    Zo bezien is het wat merkwaardig dat Alexander, toen hij de macht in Egypte had overgenomen, zijn respect betuigde aan de stier Apis, een van de manifestaties van deze god:

    In Memfis bracht hij offers aan de goden, met name aan de heilige stier Apis, en organiseerde wedstrijden in atletiek en de muzische kunsten; de beroemdste atleten en kunstenaars waren daarvoor uit Griekenland gekomen.noot Arrianus, Anabasis 3.1.4; vert. Simone Mooij.

    Een offer aan Ra of een traditionele koningskroning in Heliopolis zouden handiger zijn geweest om de inheemse bevolking te tonen dat de nieuwe koning hun beschaving met respect bejegende. Het eerbewijs voor de Apis illustreert dat Alexander, zelfs als hij zich aan de Egyptenaren als een der hunnen wilde presenteren, bleef denken vanuit een Grieks kader. Herodotos had (overigens ten onrechte) beschreven hoe de Perzische veroveraar Kambyses in 525 de Apis had verwond, en sindsdien overschatten de Grieken het belang van het heilige dier en de Ptah-cultus enigszins. Ook sportwedstrijden en kunstenaarscompetities waren Griekse, geen Egyptische, gebruiken. Het goedbedoelde feest in Memfis zal zeker enige sympathie bij de Egyptenaren hebben opgeroepen, maar moet ook aanleiding zijn geweest voor verbaasd commentaar.

    Zoon van de zon

    Toen de Macedonische koning enkele Egyptische koningstitels aannam, doorbrak hij opnieuw de verwachtingen. De farao voerde naast zijn persoonsnaam vier titels en de laatste heersers van het onafhankelijke Egypte hadden deze traditie in ere gehouden. Alexander nam alleen de eerste en vierde titel aan. Hij was nu “de Horus, beschermer van Egypte” en de “geliefde van Amun, uitverkorene van Ra”. De enige vorsten die dezelfde selectie van twee titels hadden gemaakt, waren Kambyses en Darius de Grote, en de vraagt komt op of Alexander zich misschien door een Pers als Doloaspis heeft laten adviseren.

    Met het aannemen van deze titels verkreeg Alexander ook de bijzondere rang van “zoon van de zon”, waaraan hij grote betekenis hechtte. Volgens de gebruikelijke genealogie stamde het Macedonische koninklijk huis via Herakles af van Zeus, maar er bestond een tweede traditie, die de dynastie in verband bracht met de zonnegod. Herodotos vermeldt dat de Zon de grondlegger van de Macedonische koninklijke familie ooit speciaal had beschermd; in de koninklijke graven van Vergina zijn afbeeldingen gevonden van een zestienpuntige zon; en Alexander schreef Darius eens dat de aarde geen twee zonnen duldde.

    De Zon van Vergina (Archeologisch Museum, Thessaloniki)

    De oppergod en zonnegod waren dus al belangrijk voor de Macedonische koning voor hij aankwam in Egypte, waar deze twee goden niet alleen identiek bleken te zijn, maar de vorst bovendien gold als zoon van het opperwezen. Alexander zou zich voortaan “zoon van Zeus” kunnen noemen. Misschien aarzelde hij nog even omdat ook hij zich realiseerde dat het aanmatigend kon overkomen, maar korte tijd later zou er iets gebeuren dat alle schroom wegnam. Daarover volgende maand.

    [Een overzicht van blogjes over Alexander de Grote is hier.]

    Deze blog, die u ook via het Whatsapp-kanaal kunt volgen, is niet mijn enige activiteit. Ik bied ook cursussen aan.

    Zelfde tijdvak


    Op weg naar Issos (2)

    november 6, 2022
    Het Narrenschip

    september 4, 2021
    Afrikaans aardewerk

    februari 24, 2019 Deel dit:

    #AlexanderDeGrote #Apis #Arrianus #DariusIDeGrote #DariusIIICodomannus #Doloaspis #Hefaistos #Heliopolis #Herakles #HerodotosVanHalikarnassos #KambysesII #koningsideologie #Memfis #Nijl #Petosiris #Ptah #Ra #Thoth #ZonVanVergina

  7. Inonibird's Stick-Gods never fails to entertain me with its shere brilliance.

    I did NOT expect THAT when I stumbled across this gif! LOL!

    Artist: Inonibird

    #kemet #ancientegypt #stickgods #thoth #set #humor

  8. Back with a new video! (Sorry for the lack of videos, life has been crazy busy again.)

    Finally time to check this game out. Because the day everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived. Thoth is here.

    youtu.be/m86Zn66iMfg

    #AetherGazer #Thoth #Sekhmet #Lingguang

  9. @curiousjay in most RWS-y decks, #5pents does show subjects of poverty, typically at least one of them are on crutches or visibly disabled. both are literally shut outside in the cold. but the strongest figure in the card's image is actually their background, the bright and warm church window, and all the 5 pentacles depicted in the stained glass design. it's strong, but inanimate, not even a subject, it's an object.

    so although 5 pents is about poverty, my interpretation is this card depicts a barrier creating in groups and out groups. it's about division, not scarcity.

    we can assume scarcity is enforced by the decisions of the unseen priests & congregation on the inside, not even pictured on the card. they have such excess, the only possible relief from scarcity for the subjects on the card is maybe some warmth can escape through the window pane more than the grey wall around it. but even so, the subjects are still moving across the card (perhaps away from the church?), the crippled one with great difficulty-- why?

    the actual situation this card may point to isn't necessarily religious but it does moralize poverty and preach a sort of prosperity gospel in a way many powerful churches do. the barrier exists in part due to the belief good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people, and poverty is somehow deserved.

    in #Thoth, this card is titled worry. the image is abstract, but also depicts a grey barrier blocking warm colors behind it. the warmth of the background is only a bit visible through some gaps in this barrier.

    the astrology bits depict the rule of Mercury (planet of both Gemini and Virgo) over Taurus. and these astrological concepts are typically opposed. So this is an intense and unstable strain between the materialism, comfort, and stubbornness of Taurus and the intelligent, reasonable, and communicative/diplomatic personality of Mercury. There are a lot of contradictions, strength and instability, stagnation/inaction and movement, coldness and warmth, all in the same image.

  10. One of the most well-known gods in the pantheon of ancient Egypt, Thoth, is proof of the depth and diversity of Egyptian mythology. #Thoth #ancientegypt connectparanormal.net/2024/09/

  11. #ThreeGoodThings #three #Thoth s at the MET'
    #NYC #metropolitan

    Thoth, for when scientists and scribes had to have gods, or they got the chop.
    Nice lid.

  12. This is extra frustrating because the actual Electron part of this project is pretty minor, the real fun will just be HTML/CSS/JavaScript for the widgets.

    #thoth

  13. Achievement Unlocked: Successfully resisted the urge to register a domain for a new project!

    #thoth #widgets

  14. Did some archaeology to dig up the Konfabulator and Google Desktop Gadget docs so I can steal the good/useful bits for the Thoth widget engine.

    Yes this is easier/faster/more fun than reverse-engineering Plasma 6's widgets and all the associated Qt stuff I don't know and updating their docs/tutorials.

    Super in-progress design docs in the repo: codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

    #thoth #konfabulator #googledesktop #kde6 #plasma6

  15. I've started a portable desktop widget host project out of spite: codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

    Going to be a very long while before it's useful, I think, because I have no idea what I'm doing with Electron/Node, and I'm not a fan of JavaScript. I should be able to get a super-basic Hello World type thing going pretty quickly though, since the Electron tutorials actually work.

    #thoth #electron #widget #plasmoid #desklet

  16. It's the #DayOfSelene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

    For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Thoth is a Moon God of #ancientEgypt. He is often depicted with an ibis head and a moon-disk on his head. He is the inventor of writing (hieroglyphs), and is also considered to have been the scribe of the gods. In #EgyptianMythology Thoth created the 365-day calendar by gambling with Iah, the #Moon, for 1/72nd of his light (360/72 = 5), or 5 days, and won.
    #mythology

  17. Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Nebet

    Nebet (“Lady”), a Priestess of #Thoth (#Tehuti) was the “first recorded female #vizier in Ancient Egyptian history” during the late Old Kingdom of Egypt in the #SixthDynasty (#2300BC).

    The vizier was appointed by the Pharaoh, and the vizier’s “paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, such as a prime minister, at times even small details of it such as sampling the city's water supply.”

    “All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, would report to the vizier.“

    #WomensRights #Autonomy
    #Occupations #Education
    #Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen

  18. اهالی ماستودون! آیا می‌دانستید «توت» خدای فرزانگی، نوشتن و ریاضیات است؟
    #thoth #toot #توت #بوق

  19. Did some archaeology to dig up the Konfabulator and Google Desktop Gadget docs so I can steal the good/useful bits for the Thoth widget engine.

    Yes this is easier/faster/more fun than reverse-engineering Plasma 6's widgets and all the associated Qt stuff I don't know and updating their docs/tutorials.

    Super in-progress design docs in the repo: codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

    #thoth #konfabulator #googledesktop #kde6 #plasma6

  20. Did some archaeology to dig up the Konfabulator and Google Desktop Gadget docs so I can steal the good/useful bits for the Thoth widget engine.

    Yes this is easier/faster/more fun than reverse-engineering Plasma 6's widgets and all the associated Qt stuff I don't know and updating their docs/tutorials.

    Super in-progress design docs in the repo: codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

    #thoth #konfabulator #googledesktop #kde6 #plasma6

  21. Did some archaeology to dig up the Konfabulator and Google Desktop Gadget docs so I can steal the good/useful bits for the Thoth widget engine.

    Yes this is easier/faster/more fun than reverse-engineering Plasma 6's widgets and all the associated Qt stuff I don't know and updating their docs/tutorials.

    Super in-progress design docs in the repo: codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

    #thoth #konfabulator #googledesktop #kde6 #plasma6

  22. Did some archaeology to dig up the Konfabulator and Google Desktop Gadget docs so I can steal the good/useful bits for the Thoth widget engine.

    Yes this is easier/faster/more fun than reverse-engineering Plasma 6's widgets and all the associated Qt stuff I don't know and updating their docs/tutorials.

    Super in-progress design docs in the repo: codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

    #thoth #konfabulator #googledesktop #kde6 #plasma6

  23. Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Nebet

    Nebet (“Lady”), a Priestess of #Thoth (#Tehuti) was the “first recorded female #vizier in Ancient Egyptian history” during the late Old Kingdom of Egypt in the #SixthDynasty (#2300BC).

    The vizier was appointed by the Pharaoh, and the vizier’s “paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, such as a prime minister, at times even small details of it such as sampling the city's water supply.”

    “All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, would report to the vizier.“

    #WomensRights #Autonomy
    #Occupations #Education
    #Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen

  24. Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Nebet

    Nebet (“Lady”), a Priestess of #Thoth (#Tehuti) was the “first recorded female #vizier in Ancient Egyptian history” during the late Old Kingdom of Egypt in the #SixthDynasty (#2300BC).

    The vizier was appointed by the Pharaoh, and the vizier’s “paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, such as a prime minister, at times even small details of it such as sampling the city's water supply.”

    “All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, would report to the vizier.“

    #WomensRights #Autonomy
    #Occupations #Education
    #Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen

  25. Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Nebet

    Nebet (“Lady”), a Priestess of #Thoth (#Tehuti) was the “first recorded female #vizier in Ancient Egyptian history” during the late Old Kingdom of Egypt in the #SixthDynasty (#2300BC).

    The vizier was appointed by the Pharaoh, and the vizier’s “paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, such as a prime minister, at times even small details of it such as sampling the city's water supply.”

    “All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, would report to the vizier.“

    #WomensRights #Autonomy
    #Occupations #Education
    #Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen

  26. Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Nebet

    Nebet (“Lady”), a Priestess of #Thoth (#Tehuti) was the “first recorded female #vizier in Ancient Egyptian history” during the late Old Kingdom of Egypt in the #SixthDynasty (#2300BC).

    The vizier was appointed by the Pharaoh, and the vizier’s “paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, such as a prime minister, at times even small details of it such as sampling the city's water supply.”

    “All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, would report to the vizier.“

    #WomensRights #Autonomy
    #Occupations #Education
    #Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen

  27. Second piece of the serie "Sekhem" I started with the help of Jérémy Cundekovic.
    Thoth, The Thrice Great, and his smart logistician baboons. God of the moon, magic, wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science. A great powerful one, but a little self important.
    #egyptiangods #thoth #DigitalArt

  28. @Crazypedia Replying ever so very late to this thread, but there seems to be a lot of that going on lately with so many of us recent arrivals at Mastodon.

    I'm going to throw out there pretty much anything by #LonMiloDuquette A great starting point is "Low Magick: It's All in Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is" #LowMagick opened up doors and blockages for me & helped me to unlock some levels of prior religious programming that I had not consciously keyed into still influencing me the way it was. And, it's not at all a typical #grimoire or manual or how-to guide, it's more a series of personal Essays in a memoir style from a long time practitioner. Casual, non-intimidating, and yet quite impactful.

    Also, his book on the #ThothTarot is possibly the best one out there on the #Thoth deck. I'd handily recommend it over #Crowley 's own writing on the topic. LMD is much more accessible and maybe even more informative.

  29. @Crazypedia Replying ever so very late to this thread, but there seems to be a lot of that going on lately with so many of us recent arrivals at Mastodon.

    I'm going to throw out there pretty much anything by #LonMiloDuquette A great starting point is "Low Magick: It's All in Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is" #LowMagick opened up doors and blockages for me & helped me to unlock some levels of prior religious programming that I had not consciously keyed into still influencing me the way it was. And, it's not at all a typical #grimoire or manual or how-to guide, it's more a series of personal Essays in a memoir style from a long time practitioner. Casual, non-intimidating, and yet quite impactful.

    Also, his book on the #ThothTarot is possibly the best one out there on the #Thoth deck. I'd handily recommend it over #Crowley 's own writing on the topic. LMD is much more accessible and maybe even more informative.

  30. @Crazypedia Replying ever so very late to this thread, but there seems to be a lot of that going on lately with so many of us recent arrivals at Mastodon.

    I'm going to throw out there pretty much anything by #LonMiloDuquette A great starting point is "Low Magick: It's All in Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is" #LowMagick opened up doors and blockages for me & helped me to unlock some levels of prior religious programming that I had not consciously keyed into still influencing me the way it was. And, it's not at all a typical #grimoire or manual or how-to guide, it's more a series of personal Essays in a memoir style from a long time practitioner. Casual, non-intimidating, and yet quite impactful.

    Also, his book on the #ThothTarot is possibly the best one out there on the #Thoth deck. I'd handily recommend it over #Crowley 's own writing on the topic. LMD is much more accessible and maybe even more informative.

  31. Mich würde ja interessieren, ob es #Kemetisten gibt in der Gegend um Siegen/Betzdorf/AK herum.

    Kennt da wer jemanden, der jemanden kennt, der vielleicht Bock auf lockeren Austausch hat?
    (keine abgedrehten Esoteriker) 😅

    Ich bin allerdings weit weg von "tradionell", sondern eclectic (wie isn das dt. Word dafür? 😂)

    Gern Retweet🤗

    #Paganismus #Pagan #Kemetism #EgyptyptianDeities #Ma'at #Maat #Djehuti #Thoth #Thot #Heidentum

  32. Mich würde ja interessieren, ob es #Kemetisten gibt in der Gegend um Siegen/Betzdorf/AK herum.

    Kennt da wer jemanden, der jemanden kennt, der vielleicht Bock auf lockeren Austausch hat?
    (keine abgedrehten Esoteriker) 😅

    Ich bin allerdings weit weg von "tradionell", sondern eclectic (wie isn das dt. Word dafür? 😂)

    Gern Retweet🤗

    #Paganismus #Pagan #Kemetism #EgyptyptianDeities #Ma'at #Maat #Djehuti #Thoth #Thot #Heidentum

  33. Mich würde ja interessieren, ob es #Kemetisten gibt in der Gegend um Siegen/Betzdorf/AK herum.

    Kennt da wer jemanden, der jemanden kennt, der vielleicht Bock auf lockeren Austausch hat?
    (keine abgedrehten Esoteriker) 😅

    Ich bin allerdings weit weg von "tradionell", sondern eclectic (wie isn das dt. Word dafür? 😂)

    Gern Retweet🤗

    #Paganismus #Pagan #Kemetism #EgyptyptianDeities #Ma'at #Maat #Djehuti #Thoth #Thot #Heidentum