duck-in-the-desert - Tumblr blog

[duck-in-the-desert]

The Eye of Ra returns! Happy Winter Solstice, everyone.

[duck-in-the-desert]

Nun’s female element - the element that allowed him to become a creator god - could be independently personified as Mehet-Weret, the ‘Great Swimmer’ or 'Great Flood’, a cow who, briber from the first waters, gave birth to the sun god Ra in the primeval March and raised him into the sky on her horns.

P.41 P.1 Tyldesley, J,. (2011) ‘Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt.’ Penguin:London (via starsandepithets)

[duck-in-the-desert]

Mehet-Weret statue

So at the start of the year, I was looking for a Mehet-Weret statue for my altar. I was having some real trouble trying to find anything online that I liked and was in my price range. I remember being told to stop looking online and the right thing would present itself soon. So I started touring charity shooed every other weekend to try to find something. I had a very clear picture in my head of what I was looking for… but I never found it and so I forgot all about it.

Until yesterday.

When I stumbled completely out on the blue, on this poor little lovely. She was caked in dirt and broken in two places. The shop assistant seemed grateful someone was finally taking her.

I already had paints so I painted her navy last night and left her to dry overnight.

This morning I added details… and I’ve got to say I’m really impressed with how she turned out.

Dua Mehet-Weret!

Dua Nut!

Dua Hethert!

[duck-in-the-desert]

Duality | Onism - donalboyd

[duck-in-the-desert]

Hi. I’m really sorry to ask for this help, but it’s basically become where the Government is telling me “Nah u need at least X more tests before we consider even helping you get a shitty wheelchair”, and my mental health is suffering being stuck in-home all the time.

This explains what I need, why I need it, and what it’s for. If you wouldn’t mind sharing, it might help.

[duck-in-the-desert]

The Stalker by Jaco Marx

[duck-in-the-desert]

here’s to all of the people whose names have been lost to time. the unmarked graves, the forgotten memories, the writers of anonymous scribbles on the walls, the ordinary people who made great men great, the people who perhaps did not impact as many lives but who nonetheless made a difference. your stories may never be told, but despite all that, you too are history.

[duck-in-the-desert]

[duck-in-the-desert]

Untitled By Mark Dumont

[duck-in-the-desert]

-Sha-Beast of Set Painting-

Homage to you Set, Lord of the Northern Sky, who resides beyond the Imperishable Stars. O Powerful-of-Forefoot, may you stretch forth your arm to let Ap/ep fall! Advance, O far striding Master of the Seven Stars. May your powerful face be gracious to me. May you establish a crown upon my head like the Disk upon the head of Ra, and give to me all life, and strength, and health. (Modified from) Eternal Egypt - Richard Riedy

—————————————————————————————————

Set has always been a name that comes to me when change is required. Not easy change usually. It can be in difficult times, in growth or in destruction. He doesn’t open doors for me, he takes the door down and removes it from this reality. 

I started this piece because I had an urge to try my hand at painting on a wood board. Painting and drawing like this have been hobbies that I left behind many years ago, so it’s an old friend to rediscover them. And funny enough, the moment that I finished, a door was removed from a problem I’d been facing and opened up solutions that are honestly a huge relief for us financially and mentally.  It’s still not easy, but the way is there. As is His way always.  Dua Set!

Senebty,

Iseqi

Daughter of Amun-ra and Set

Beloved of Hethert-Sekhmet and Heru-Wer

[duck-in-the-desert]

☀️Khepri Lord of the Rising Sun☀️

~please do not repost or remove caption thanks~

[duck-in-the-desert]

Thoth drawing, 2018

[duck-in-the-desert]

🌞Ra on His Solar Barque🌞 ~please do not repost, use or remove caption thanks~

[duck-in-the-desert]

“Neith was a formidable creator goddess who could be called the Great Mother. Her name may mean “the terrifying one.” She was commonly shown as a woman wearing the Red Crown of the north. Her temple at Sais in the Delta was one of Ancient Egypt’s most famous buildings. Neith was a very important deity in the Early Dynastic Period. The curious symbol that represented Neith in these early times may originally have been a click beetle. Later this symbol was reinterpreted as two arrows crossing a shield. Click beetles are usually found near water, and Neith was often equated with Mehet-Weret, a primeval goddess whose name means the Great Flood. She was the mother of the creator sun god and so had claims to be considered the oldest of beings. At Sais, Neith was called “the great mother who gave birth to Ra; she instituted giving birth when there had been no child birth before.” By extension, Neith could also be regarded as the mother of that other divine child, Horus. As early as the New Kingdom, Neith was alluded to as"the Mother and Father of all things.“ A text in the Roman Period temple of Esna describes how Neith created the world by speaking seven magical words. As the personification of the fertile primeval waters, she was the mother of the snakes and the crocodiles “who are in the abyss.” Neith, “the nurse of the crocodiles,” was shown as a crocodile woman suckling two small crocodiles. She was often named as the Mother of Sobek, the most important crocodile god. When Neith spat into the primeval waters, her spittle turned into the terrible chaos monster, Apophis, who nightly challenged the rule of the sun god. One festival at Esna commemorated Neith saving the newborn Ra from her children (the crocodiles and chaos serpent) by carrying him across the waters. Neith, “mistress of the bow,” was depicted holding a bow and arrows. The arrows of Neith were used to strike down the enemies of the sun god, including her offspring Apophis. In the Pyramid Texts, Neith was named as one of the four goddesses who protected the royal sarcophagus and canopic chest. This protective role was later extended to all the dead.”

— “Egyptian Mythology; A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt” by Geraldine Pinch (via sat-ra)

[duck-in-the-desert]

Ma’at - list of pdfs

Translations of Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts

☀️ Instructions of Ptahhotep

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/literature/ptahhotep.html

☀️ Instructions of Kegemni

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/kagemni.htm

☀️Instructions of Amenemhat

http://wsrp.usc.edu/information/REL499_2011/Instruction%20of%20King%20Amenemhet.pdf

☀️Loyalist Instructions

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/sehetepibre_stela.htm

Modern Scholarship

☀️ The Ancient Egyptian Concept of Ma’at: Reflections on Social Justice and Natural Order by R.J. Ferguson.

http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=cewces_papers

☀️The Concept of Law and Justice in Ancient Egypt with specific reference to the Tale of the Elequent Peasant by N.J. van Blerk

http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/2447/dissertation.pdf

☀️The Representations of Law and Justice in Ancient Egypt by J.G. Manning

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1378&context=yjlh

☀️Law and Order in Ancient Egypt: the development of criminal justice from the Pharoanic New Kingdom to the Roman dominate by A.J. van Loon

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/30196/Law%20and%20Order%20in%20Ancient%20Egypt.pdf?sequence=1

☀️Innocent Suffering in Ancient Egypt by D.P. Bricker

http://www.tyndalehouse.com/tynbul/library/TynBull_2001_52_1_04_Bricker_SufferingEgypt.pdf

Depictions in Art and Architecture

☀️The presentation of Ma’at: Rituals and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt by E. Teeter

https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/saoc57.pdf

☀️ Ma’at as a Theme in Ancient Egyptian Tomb Art by T.M. Schroeder

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=ojur

☀️ Keeping Ma’at: an astronomical approach the orientation of temples in Egypt by J.A. Belmonte and M. Shaltout

http://www.uranos.fr/PDF/ETUDES_19_D02_TEN.pdf

[duck-in-the-desert]

Four granodiorite statues of goddess Sekhmet, originally from the Temple of Mut at Thebes. Reign of Amenhotep III. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1400 BC. Now in the British Museum.

[duck-in-the-desert]

Cario Set Statue. 

(x)