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Egyptian gods: Taweret

Taweret is one of those strange and unusual secondary goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon. Her very appearance is very unusual and quite frightening as she is an accumulation of body parts taken from the most dangerous and dreaded animals of Egypt: her body is the one of a hippo, her limbs are those of a lion, her back and tail are those of a crocodile, and her head is either the one of a hippo or the one of a crocodile. Add to that the fact she has the breast of a human woman, walks on her hind legs like a human, and sometimes human hands (or even a woman’s head!), and the strangeness grows stronger.

You might be surprised to learn that this monster uniting all the worst fears of the Ancient Egyptian was actually a positive, helpful and beloved deity: Taweret was a protectress goddess who helped and defended women when they were giving birth. Her role as a goddess of motherhood and pregnancy can be seen in her silhouette: large and heavy human breasts, a round and prominent belly. She was the spirit of feminine fecundity, and she was depicted holding in her hands (or paws) the Sa symbol, the symbol of protection – Taweret was even sometimes nicknamed “the mother that birthed all the gods”! (Taweret itself means “The Great One” – Taweret is actually, for once, her proper Egyptian name, since the Greek name, still used in France today for example, is Thoueris). The reason Taweret was depicted in such a monstrous form was because the Egyptian used the apotropaic logic. Taweret had elements taken from the most dangerous animals of Egypt because she was the ferocity of the mother ready to do anything to defend her child. Sometimes she was depicted with the head of a roaring lioness and holding a dagger in her hand – it was because she battled and destroyed the wicked spirits and evil demons that tried to harm the newborn or the mother in labor.

Taweret was a VERY popular goddess that all women prayed to and thanked – from the lowest-class mother to the queen of Egypt herself, all were helped by Taweret who clearly had no social bias whatsoever. Small statues of Taweret or amulets in her shape surrounded all childbirths. As a goddess of the house and the family, Taweret was often depicted alongside the god Bes, another strangely-shaped familiar god, that I do plan on talking about later. Taweret and Bes were actually merely two of the host of deities that looked over each childbirth: Taweret and Bes were here to defend the mother and the baby against evil spells and wicked spirits, Hathor was here to ease the pain and accelerate the labor, Khnum was here to make sure the labor started at the right time, not before and not after the pregnancy was to end, Bes also helped the woman when it came to expelling the placenta – and I won’t even talk of Isis, Nephtys, Hequet, Nekhbet, Mut, Neit, and all the other goddesses of motherhood… Taweret, beyond protecting the mother/baby and helping with the labor, also had the power to help the lactation and the breast-feeding of the baby: there was a type of small figurine of Taweret with a hole in one of its breasts, that had to be filled with milk, and from the miniature teat the milk would fall drop by drop. This was a magical amulet that was supposed to ensure the mother would keep lactating for as long as the statue dropped her liquid.

Since Taweret is the hippo-goddess, I will talk a bit more about hippos in Ancient Egypt, because the hippopotamus is an… ambiguous beast. Taweret and Seth are actually the two “hippo gods”, and reflect the two sides of the beast: Taweret is the female, positive, protectress, nurturing hippopotamus, while Seth is the male, aggressive, destructive and killing hippopotamus. Yes, the hippopotami were actually needed for the ecosystem of Egypt – for example, by eating the plants growing in the swamps of the Nile, they allowed a passageway for the waters of the flood to fertilize the lands nearby, and thus worked in the shaping and orientation of the arms of the Delta ; their mass extermination would mean a great fracture and unbalance of the Egyptian ecosystem… But Ancient Egyptians didn’t know that, and tried as much as they could to kill all the hippos they could find. Because hippos were perceived as threats and dangers, either direct (they attack, mauled and devoured the people that went in the Nile, either swimming or on boat), either indirect (hungry hippos could devour entire fields in one night). Yes, the hippopotami were considered sacred animals and divine beasts… But only in one nome of Egypt, the one of Papremis. Hippos would only be considered kindly if they were female, since there was the whole “benevolence and fertility” thing. But a male hippo? No mercy, no pity. Especially if it is a WHITE MALE HIPPO! Gosh, those were pure evil and the embodiment of wickedness for Ancient Egyptians. The hippo was, for an Ancient Egyptian, a cursed animal, enemy of both the pharaoh and the gods – in fact, the hippo was the only beast thought to be able to challenge the great power of the pharaoh.

This was because of an incident where the first pharaoh of Egypt, Menes, was killed by a hippopotamus he was hunting – ever since, Egyptians thought that the hippo was the servant of Seth, god of disorder and chaos, and notorious mythological pharaoh-killer. When you see Egyptian paintings of a hippo holding a crocodile in his mouth, it is actually an allegory for the death of Menes, since Menes was the founder of a crocodile-cult. The association of the hippopotamus with violence and murder manifests itself in the myth surround Seth’s various political treacheries. Most people know the story of how Seth killed his brother Osiris by locking him up in a box and throwing him in a river – but older variants of the legend rather talk of Seth drowning Osiris by taking the shape of a hippo and dragging him down the Nile. One of the most famous episodes of the battle between Seth and Horus is notably the breathing-holding contest, where the uncle and the nephew both turned into hippopotami to see who could stay the longest under water. It is no surprise that it was by taking the shape of a hippo that the usually good and kind Horus turned berserk with rage, so much he beheaded his own mother… And in another legend, this time a boat race opposing Horus and Seth, the latter turned into a hippo to try to destroy his rival’s boat, openly cheating. If it wasn’t for Taweret, the hippo would only be known as the devil-monster of Ancient Egypt…

Interestingly, there are other hippopotamus-goddesses associated with childbirth and mother: Ipet, Reret, Hedjet… But they are very obscure figures we know barely anything about, so either they were very early and ancient goddesses that were “absorbed” within the popular Taweret, either they were just alternate names and identities of Taweret all along. In fact, in my personal books, they go with this second explanation, listing Hedjet (The White One), or Ipet (The Nurse) as epithets of Taweret rather than separate goddesses. As a little trivia, Reret means “The Sow”, because for the Egyptians hippos were actually considered “water-pigs” (which ties to the Seth symbolism, as the pig was another one of the sacred animals of Seth) – which I find hilarious because the name “hippopotamus”, which is the Greek name of the animal, means “water-horse”.

While Taweret did not have any myth or legend associated to herself for a very long time, starting with the New Kingdom some stories were invented to include this popular deity in the mythology. One of those stories is a variation of the “exiled Eye of Ra” legend, a tale that is usually told about other goddesses such as Tefnut. In this story, the Eye of Ra becomes angry with Ra for one reason or another, and leaves Egypt for Nubia, taking the shape of a lioness and hiding in the desert. Ra, not knowing what to do without his Eye (which acted as its bodyguard and executioner) does everything he can to appease the Eye and have her return to Egypt. This is the traditional story – now, the New Kingdom variation claims that upon returning to Egypt, the Eye of Ra turned into a female hippo – Taweret – and brought as a gift of reconciliation the flood of the Nile. This story might be why one of her nicknames is “Mistress of the Pure Water”. A Late Period legend also claims that Taweret and Bes both nursed together Horus for Isis, being referred to as “the sow and the dwarf” – but this is very clearly a VERY late addition to the Egyptian myths (as I said in my previous posts, Nephthys was usually the one filling the role of “nurse of Horus for Isis”).

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Marseille. Le Palais Longchamp abrite deux musées, ici le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Ici, une mini-expo : "Nuit".

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Rahu, dévoreur de soleil - Thaïlande. On y dit que le démon n'ayant pas de corps, le soleil, après l'éclipse, réapparaît donc rapidement...!

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Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Guide

This incarnation first appeared in the 1996 movie ‘Doctor Who’ in which was, at the time, an attempt to bring the show back while trying to bring in American viewers. It was a total failure and the show would only come back on TV in 2005 with the new series. However, these were exciting news to the expanded universe: the Eighth Doctor opened a door to explore new and imaginative ideas in this second half of the wilderness years (as we call the show hiatus from 1989 to 2005).

Virgin Books would lose their license to Doctor Who and therefore their publication of the Seventh Doctor books, at the time the only continuation to the show we had, stopped. Instead, the Eighth Doctor Adventures were released, a book series focusing on the adventures of the Eighth Doctor with new, original companions. And, five years later, Paul McGann would once again step into the role in Big Finish.

These guides include only tv, books and audio stories, but this time only I will make an exception: we’ll include the Doctor Who Magazine Comics too. You totally should give these comics a chance for other Doctors too, but Eight is getting special treatment because the Magazine did its own thing with him just as the other media. It has four well defined narrative arcs/”seasons” and introduces their own original companion. So let’s start!

INTO THE COMICS

‘Season one’ – Adventures with Izzy

[ ] Endgame

[ ] The Keep

[ ] A Life of Matter and Death

[ ] Fire and Brimstone

[ ] By Hook or by Crook

[ ] Tooth and Claw

[ ] The Final Chapter

[ ] Wormwood

[ ] Happy Deathday

This season picks up a plot point from the Seventh Doctor DWM’s comics regarding a recurring villain, but you’ll understand it fine enough even if haven’t read what came before. This is collected as The Eighth Doctor Comics Strips volume 01, as that edition has a summary of what you need to know. Otherwise, it’s a perfect jumping point. The Doctor meets Izzy Sinclair, a young girl from Stockbridge that helps him fight the Toymaker when the elder god takes control of the town, quickstating a long road of self-discovery for Izzy.

‘Season two’ – Continued adventures with Izzy, plus Kroton

[ ] The Fallen

[ ] Unnatural Born Killers

[ ] The Road to Hell

[ ] TV Action!

[ ] The Company of Thieves

[ ] The Glorious Dead

[ ] The Autonomy Bug

This season is collected as The Eighth Doctor Comics Strips volume 02 and introduces a temporary companion I love: Kroton, the good Cybermen. It also has one of the best Master stories ever. It also features the only other proper Grace story ever since I think they just ignored the copyright issue and used her anyway.

‘Season three’ – Continued adventures with Izzy

[ ] Ophidius

[ ] Beautiful Freak

[ ] The Way of All Flesh

[ ] Children of the Revolution

[ ] Me and My Shadow

[ ] Uroboros

[ ] Oblivion

This season is collected as the Eighth Doctor Comics Strips volume 03. This season finishes Izzy’s story while also introducing the next companion, Destrii. It also has one of my favorite Daleks stories.

‘Season four’ – Solo adventures, then joined by Destrii

[ ] Where Nobody Know Your Name

[ ] The Nightmare Game

[ ] The Power of Thoueris!

[ ] The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack

[ ] The Land of Happy Endings

[ ] Bad Blood

[ ] Sins of the Father

[ ] The Flood

This season is collected as the Eighth Doctor Comics Strips volume 04. For the most part it shows the Doctor rebounding from his goodbye to Izzy (platonically, I see their relationship as paternal), kinda trying to find a new companion (he is pathetic in The Nightmare Game) and dealing with solitude. Then the story picks up when he is reunited with Destrii and they begin travelling together. It has a great Cybermen story.

INTO THE BOOKS

‘Season 01’ – Adventures with Sam

[ ] The Eight Doctors

[ ] Vampire Science

[ ] The Bodysnatchers

[ ] Genocide

[ ] War of the Daleks

[ ] Alien Bodies

The Eight Doctors is a terrible first book, just skip it and start with Vampire Science – which is much better. There is a certain character there who was supposed to be Grace but then they couldn’t use her because of copyright and I do think knowing that gives an interesting perspective to the book. Alien Bodies (great, too) starts a story arc about the War in Heaven. Or, simply put, a much more engaging time war done in the books years before the TV series ever thought about it.

‘Season 02’ – Continued adventures with Sam

[ ] Kursaal

[ ] Option Lock

[ ] Longest Day

[ ] Legacy of the Daleks

[ ] Dreamstone Moon

[ ] Seeing I

‘Season 03’ – Continued adventures with Sam

[ ] Placebo Effect

[ ] Vanderdeken’s Children

[ ] The Scarlet Empress

[ ] The Janus Conjuction

[ ] Beltempest

[ ] The Face-Eater

‘Season 04’ – Adventures with Sam and Fitz

[ ] The Taint

[ ] Demontage

[ ] Revolution Man

[ ] Dominion

[ ] Unnatural History

[ ] Autumn Mist

[ ] Interference – Book One: Shock Tactic

[ ] Interference – Book Two: The Hour of the Geek

‘Season 04’ – Adventures with Fitz and Compassion

[ ] The Blue Angel

[ ] The Taking of Planet 5

[ ] Frontier Worlds

[ ] Parallel 59

[ ] The Shadows of Avalon

[ ] The Fall of Yquatine

[ ] Coldheart

[ ] The Space Age

[ ] The Banquo Legacy

[ ] The Ancestor Cell

‘Season 05’ – Exiled on Earth

[ ] The Burning

[ ] Casualties of War

[ ] The Turing Test

[ ] Endgame

[ ] Father Time

[ ] Escape Velocity

Following the ending of The Ancestor Cell, there is this smaller story arc with the Doctor stuck on Earth for plot reasons I will not elaborate because I don’t want spoil it too much.

‘Season 06’ – Adventures with Fitz and Anji

[ ] EarthWorld

[ ] Fear Itself

[ ] Vanishing Point

[ ] Eater of Wasps

[ ] The Year of Intelligent Tigers

[ ] Dark Progeny

[ ]  The City of the Dead

[ ] Griim Reality

[ ] The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

‘Season 07’ – Continued adventures with Fitz and Anji

[ ] Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[ ] Hope

[ ] Anachrophobia

[ ] Trading Futures

[ ] The Book of the Still

[ ] The Crooked World

[ ] History 101

[ ] Camera Obscura

[ ] Time Zero

‘Season 08’ – Continued adventures with Fitz and Anji, joined by Trix

[ ] The Infinity Race

[ ] The Domino Effect

[ ] Reckless Engineering

[ ] The Last Resort

[ ] Timeless

[ ] Emotional Chemistry

[ ] Sometime Never…

‘Season 09’ – Adventures with Fitz and Trix

[ ] Halflife

[ ] The Tomorrow Windows

[ ] The Sleep of Reason

[ ] The Deadstone Memorial

[ ] To the Slaughter

[ ] The Gallifrey Chronicles

INTO THE AUDIOS – THE MAIN RANGE ERA

‘Season 01’ – Adventures with Charley

[ ] Storm Warning

[ ] The Sword of Orion

[ ] The Stones of Venice

[ ] Minuet in Hell

[ ] Solitaire

[ ] If I Should Die Before I Wake

The Eighth Doctor joined Big Finish a little bit after Doctors Five to Seven, but it was still quite early when their main releases were ‘just’ a monthly two-hour long story in the style of the classic series. We call this range of releases the Main Range. As the current Doctor at that point, having McGann back in the role was obviously a novelty and he was instantly joined by India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard, Edwardian adventurer.

Solitaire and If I Should Die Before I Wake are not main range releases but I do think they fit tonally well enough with theses stories and therefore I don’t think there is any problem listening to them here.

‘Season 02’ – Continued adventures with Charley

[ ] Invaders from Mars

[ ] The Chimes of Midnight

[ ] Seasons of Fear

[ ] Embrace the Darkness

[ ] The Time of the Daleks

[ ] Neverland

[ ] Zagreus

This finish the story arc of Charley’s life as was set up in Storm Warning. It all culminates in Zagreus, which is also a 40 years anniversary story of the series. Romana and Leela, former companions of the Fourth Doctor, reappear at the end of this arc and their interaction starts a spin-off just about them in Gallifrey – a series also called Gallifrey. I will not elaborate on it in this post, but let it be noted it happens.

‘Season 03’ – Adventures with Charley and C’rizz

[ ] Scherzo

[ ] The Creed of the Kromon

[ ] The Natural History of Fear

[ ] The Twilight Kingdom

[ ] Faith Stealer

[ ] The Last

[ ] Caerdroia

[ ] The Next Life

Also known as the Divergent Universe arc. It continues at the point Zagreus ended, with Doctor exploring a brand new universe – but there is something disturbingly wrong there. He and Charley are joined by a new companion from this universe, C’rizz.

‘Season 04’ – Adventures with Charley and C’rizz

[ ] Terror Firma

[ ] Scaredy Cat

[ ] Other Lives

[ ] Time Works

[ ] Something Inside

[ ] Memo Lane

[ ] Absolution

[ ] The Girl Who Never Was

The end of this era of Eighth Doctor audios. A goodbye to C’rizz, but a see you soon for Charley. There is a huge cliffhanger at The Girl Who Never Was that is continued on later releases – look at ‘beyond the Eighth Doctor’ if you wanna know about that, but ONLY if you are fine with being SPOILED. Again: THERE ARE SPOILERS THERE.

More from Charley and Eight

‘Season 01’ – The Further Adventures of Charlotte Pollard

[ ] The Mummy Speaks

[ ] Eclipse

[ ] The Slaying of the Writhing Mass

[ ] Heart of Orion

Specifically, this was one single released of four one-hour long stories that are set during the first story arc of Charley in the Main Range. So, certainly before Neverland but you could argue about the when specifically. I like to put it between Minuet in Hell and Invaders from Mars. But why didn’t I put it there, then? To be honest, it’s because I don’t think they fit tonally with the Main Range adventures and therefore it will break immersion if listened then. They are much, much closer to the new who style and just don’t capture the era, for me. So, listen to them as an extra to Charley story, when you miss her.

‘Season 02’ – Adventures with Charley and Audacity

[ ] The Devouring

[ ] The Great Cyber-War

[ ] Twenty-Four Doors in December

[ ] The Empty Man

[ ] Winter of the Demon

2023 saw the Doctor being joined by a new companion, lady Audacity. The first release, which included the first stories in this season, had a cliffhanger that placed them as the Doctor was still travelling with Charley, in their earlier days. So this is also a season that happens during the first story arc on the Main Range, but I wouldn’t place it there because not only it’s still happening, being published, but also because it’s better if you listen to it as its own thing already having the knowledge of how Charley’s story originally developed.

Beyond the Eighth Doctor

‘Season 01’ – Adventures with Charley

[ ] The Condemned

[ ] The Doomwood Curse

[ ] Brotherhood of the Daleks

[ ] Return of the Krotons

[ ] The Raincloud Man

[ ] Patient Zero

[ ] Paper Cuts

[ ] Blue Forgotten Planet

I already WARNED you of the SPOILERS. So, at the end of The Girl Who Never Was, the Eighth Doctor and Charley are separated. He thinks she chose of leave him, and she thinks that he is dead. She is isolated in a terrible situation and sends a distress signal, hoping that someone will rescue her. A TARDIS arrives and she thinks Eight is alive and came for her, but when she enters, she finds an unexpected face – the Sixth Doctor. And they would have a handful of adventures together, as listed here.

‘Season 02’

[ ] The Lamentation Cipher

[ ] The Shadow at the Edge of the World

[ ] The Fall of the House of Pollard

[ ] The Viryan Solution

But Charley story doesn’t end with Six. They do eventually part ways, as told in Blue Forgotten Planet, but Charley got her own spin-off that continues from there. There have been two seasons since then, but the story is unfinished: there is a third series that should be released at some point to wrap the story but we haven’t gotten any news from it for a long, long time.

‘Season 03’

[ ] Embankment Station

[ ] Ruffling

[ ] Seed of Chaos

[ ] The Destructive Quality of Life

THE CLASSICALS

‘Season 00’ – Adventures with Mary Shelley

[ ] The Company of Friends

[ ] The Silver Turk

[ ] The Witch from the Well

[ ] Army of Death

The Company of Friends is a ‘special’ Main Range release as it’s the only audio story that features the Eighth Doctor exclusive companions from other medias. It’s four half-a-hour story: the first with Benny, former companion of the Seventh Doctor. The second have Fitz and the third have Izzy. And then there is the fourth one, that shows the Eight Doctor meeting Mary Shelley. She wasn’t a companion, but would soon become one as a trilogy featuring their travels together would be released in the Main Range.

These stories happened before Eight meets Charley and honestly could be listened at any point, but I put them here, after Charley, because I do think it’s a better experience to enjoy the Eighth Doctor main range era in the order the stories were published.

INTO THE AUDIOS – THE LUCIE MILLER ERA

Beginning 2006, it all changed for Eight. His stories were probably the most popular of the Main Range – much because of the novelty of exploring the Doctor that never had anything on TV – and so he got his own range. The Main Range was now only for Doctors Five, Six and Seven, and ‘The Eighth Doctor Adventures’ began. But it was also 2006, Doctor Who was back on TV. And much because of that, this era is structured more alike to a new who season than classic.

You can jump into this era without any prior knowledge of the Eighth Doctor if you want to.

‘Season 01’ – Adventures with Lucie

[ ] Blood of the Daleks [two-parter]

[ ] Horror of Fang Rock

[ ] Immortal Beloved

[ ] Phobos

[ ] No More Lies

[ ] Human Resources [two-parter]

Notably, Horror of Glam Rock starts a ongoing arc through the seasons about Lucie’s aunt Pat.

'Extras Season’ – Continued adventures with Lucie

[ ] The Dalek Trap

[ ] The Revolution Game

[ ] The House on the Edge of Chaos

[ ] Island of the Fendahl

This was actually a release called The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller, four one-hour stories that makes a small season. It fits the tone of the era very well and it happens relatively early in her timeline, so if you want to listen to it between seasons 1 and 2, you can. The finally feature the Fendahl, a villain from Classic Who, so it’s a good idea to check out Image of the Fendahl from the Fourth Doctor era if you want more context.

‘Season 02’ – Continued adventures with Lucie

[ ] Dead London

[ ] Max Warp

[ ] Brave New Town

[ ] The Skull of Sobek

[ ] Grand Theft Cosmos

[ ] The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

[ ] Sisters of the Flame/The Vengeance of Morbius

The Zygon Who Fell to Earth is part of the aunt Pat story arc. The finale features Morbius, a villain from Classic Who, and it’s a good idea to check the Fourth Doctor story The Brain of Morbius if you want more context.

‘Season 03’ – Continued adventures with Lucie

[ ] Orbis

[ ] Hothouse

[ ] The Beast of Orlok

[ ] Wirnn Dawn

[ ] The Scapegoat

[ ] The Cannibalists

[ ] The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web

There are plenty of villains from Classic Who this season. You don’t need to watch any of their original stories to understand theses audios, and this is valid for the previous seasons too, but as I said if you want more context… You can watch The Seeds of Doom, The Ark in Space and Planet of Spiders.

‘Season 04’ – Adventures with Lucie and Tamsin

[ ] Death in Blackpool

[ ] An Earthly Child

[ ] Situation Vacant

[ ] Nervermore

[ ] The Book of Kelis

[ ] Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars

[ ] Relative Dimensions

[ ] Prisoner of the Sun

[ ] Lucie Miller/To the Death

Lucie’s era ends with a bang. Death in Blackpool is a Christmas special that wraps up the aunt Pat storyline. In An Earthly Child, the Doctor is reunited with someone from his past. Then, the rest of the season deals with Lucie and Eight’s friendship and how they are dealing with everything that happening recently, while also introducing new companion Tamsin Drew.

INTO THE AUDIOS – THE BOXSETS ERA

With the end of Lucie’s era, the publishing format shifted again. Now, the stories were released four at a time, as a boxset. These stories also build up bigger arcs, in sixteen parts, and therefore should be listened sequentially: Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, Ravenous and Stranded. You can jump into the Eighth Doctor audios with Dark Eyes, but it’s better appreciated after listening to Lucie’s era.

‘Dark Eyes’ – Adventures with Molly and Liv

[ ] The Great War

[ ] Fugitives

[ ] Tangled Web

[ ] X and the Daleks

[ ] The Traitor

[ ] The White Room

[ ] Time’s Horizon

[ ] Eyes of the Master

[ ] The Death of Hope

[ ] The Reviled

[ ] Masterplan

[ ] Rule of the Eminence

[ ] A Life in the Day

[ ] The Monster of Montmartre

[ ] Master of the Daleks/Eye of Darkness

Liv Chenka is a character introduced in Robophobia, a Seventh Doctor story that you can listen to if you want more from her, but isn’t necessarily needed here. It’s good, though. She didn’t become a companion until reuniting with the Doctor, this time Eight, here in Dark Eyes. This season explores a temporal conflict between the Daleks, some Time Lords and an enemy from the future, the Eminence. It’s not part of the Time War, tho.

‘Doom Coalition’ – Adventures with Liv and Helen

[ ] The Eleven

[ ] The Red Lady

[ ] The Galileo Trap

[ ] The Satanic Mill

[ ] Beachhead

[ ] Scenes from her Life

[ ] The Gift

[ ] The Sonomancer

[ ] Absent Friends

[ ] The Eighth Piece/The Doomsday Chronometer

[ ] The Crucible of Souls

[ ] Ship in a Bottle

[ ] Songs of Love

[ ] The Side of Angels

[ ] Stop the Clock

Molly’s story wraps up during Dark Eyes, but Liv goes on a companion. She is then joined by Helen, introduced here in The Red Lady. This season is full of time lord political conflicts and if you have watched New Who you’ll notice River Song is a recurring character.

‘Ravenous’ – Continued adventures with Liv and Helen

[ ] Their Finest Hour

[ ] How to Make a Killing in Time Travel

[ ] World of Damnation/Sweet Salvation

[ ] Escape from Kaldor

[ ] Better Watch Out/The Fairytale of Salzburg

[ ] Seizure

[ ] Deeptime Frontier

[ ] Companion Piece

[ ] L.E.G.E.N.D.

[ ] The Odds Against

[ ] Whisper

[ ] Planet of Dust

[ ] Day of the Master

This season deals with a terrible fairy tale from the Time Lord’s past that seems to be real. Liv reunites with her sister Tula in Escape from Kaldor, and then spends one year with her before the Doctor and Helen pick her back. This is que start point to a spin-off, The Robots, which explores focusing on her and Tula during that one year. I will elaborate on it later on.

‘Stranded’ – Continued adventures with Liv and Helen, joined by Tania and Andy

[ ] Lost Property

[ ] Wild Animals

[ ] Must-See TV

[ ] Divine Intervation

[ ] Dead Time

[ ] UNIT Dating

[ ] Baker Street Irregulars

[ ] The Long Way Round

[ ] Patience

[ ] Twisted Folklore

[ ] Snow

[ ] What Just Happened

[ ] Crossed Lines

[ ] Get Andy

[ ] The Keys of Baker Street

[ ] Best Year Ever

Stranded picks up where Ravenous ended: the TARDIS have been damaged and now the Doctor, Liv and Helen are stuck for one year on Earth while it heals. And so, they start their lives in a house the Doctor used to own in Baker Street, but are met by unexpected neighbors. This season starts very slice-of-live/sitcom-like, kinda, but then evolves in a temporal conflict.

‘Season 05’ – Continued adventures with Liv and Helen

[ ] Paradox of the Daleks

[ ] The Dalby Spook

[ ] Here Lies Drax

[ ] The Love Vampires

[ ] Albie’s Angels

[ ] Birdsong

[ ] Lost Hearts

[ ] Slow Beasts

It’s the current era. Big Finish is still releasing Liv and Helen stories, but they are not the only ongoing story arc for Eight (see: Audacity; and the Time War). However, things changed a bit. They are still released in boxsets – with three one-hour stories rather than four -, but there is no sixteen-parts epic anymore. They are just standalone stories that starts where Stranded ends.

Spin-off – The Robots

[ ] The Robots of Life

[ ] The Sentient

[ ] Love Me Not

[ ] The Robots of War

[ ] Toos and Paul

[ ] Do No Harm

[ ] The Mystery of Sector 13

[ ] Circuit Breaker

[ ] A Matter of Conscience

[ ] Closed Loop

[ ] Off Grid

[ ] The Janus Deception

[ ] The Enhancement

[ ] Machines Like Us

[ ] Kaldor Nights

[ ] Force of Nature

[ ] Face to Face

[ ] The Final Hour

As I said in the Ravenous section, there is a spin-off about Liv reuniting with her sister Tula that is set during Escape form Kaldor. They are both from Kaldor, a planet from the Classic series, and to better appreciate what this spin-off is doing I recommend watching the Fourth Doctor story The Robots of Death. And, why not, listen to Robophobia, which itself is a sequel to The Robots of Death.

INTO THE AUDIOS – THE TIME WAR

And of course, we have stories with Eight set during the Time War. We can divide it into eras: the first four boxsets, when he is travelling with the new companion Bliss; and the current releases, with him travelling with Alex – listen to Lucie Miller season 4 for more context – and Cass. Yes, Cass from the Night of the Doctor. How that’s possible given the circumstances of that story have not yet been fully explained, but of course it’s safe to assume it’s the War’s fault.

‘Season 01’ – Adventures with Bliss

[ ] The Starship of Theseus

[ ] Echoes of War

[ ] The Conscript

[ ] One Life

[ ] The Lords of Terror

[ ]  Planet of the Ogrons

[ ] In the Garden of Death

[ ] Jonah

‘Season 02’ – Continued adventures with Bliss

[ ] State of Bliss

[ ] The Famished Lands

[ ] Fugitive in Time

[ ] The War Valeyard

[ ] Palindrome

[ ] Dreadshade

[ ] Restoration of the Daleks [two-parter]

The Valeyard is a villain from Classic Who. You’ll get more out of The War Valeyard with more context – so watch season 23, Trial of a Time Lord, or simply know that he is a “version” of the Doctor from the future that encapsulates everything bad and evil that exists in the Doctor.

‘Season 02’ – Adventures with Alex and Cass

[ ] Meanwhile, Elsewhere

[ ] Verpertine

[ ] Previously, Next Time [two-parter]

[ ] Nowhere, Never

[ ] The Road Untravelled

[ ] Cass-cade

[ ] Borrow or Rob

OTHERS

The stories ‘Day of the Vashta Nerada’, ‘The Sontaran Ordeal’ and ‘The Silent Priest’, all of them featuring monsters from New Who, are set during the Time War. However, the Doctor is travelling alone and they are all standalone stories.

There are plenty of ‘short trips’, short stories set in the Doctor Who universe, featuring the Eight Doctor. Both in prose and in audio. I did not include them in this guide, and they are not really essential, but they can be good. So, listen or read them if you ever miss a companion or the Eighth Doctor.

ABOUT THIS GUIDE

I will be updating the guide as new stories are released. I will also do one for each classic Doctor, at least, at some point.

[iridediluce]

Taweret: una dea egizia non tradizionale

L’antica dea egizia Taweret, “la Grande”, è raffigurata dagli studiosi e nell’antico Egitto come la dea protettrice della madre e del bambino durante la gravidanza e il parto. Come con molte antiche divinità egizie, ha molti nomi dappertutto. Alcuni dei suoi nomi sono stati Ipet, Opet, Reret, Ta-urt, Teweret e Thoueris. È una figura composita di ippopotamo, coccodrillo, leone e umano e usa la sua…

[mamamoon92]

Groups of Egyptian deities✨

☆The Aai – 3 guardian deities in the ninth division of Tuat; they are Ab-ta, Anhefta, and Ermen-ta

☆The Cavern deities – Many underworld deities charged with punishing the damned souls by beheading and devouring them.

☆The Ennead – An extended family of nine deities produced by Atum during the creation of the world. The Ennead usually consisted of Atum, his children Shu and Tefnut, their children Geb and Nut, and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.

☆The four sons of Horus – Four gods who protected the mummified body, particularly the internal organs in canopic jars.

☆The Gate deities – Many dangerous guardian deities at the gates of the underworld (flanked by divine Doorkeepers and Heralds), to be ingratiated by spells and knowing their names.

☆The Hemsut (or Hemuset) – Protective goddesses of Fate, destiny, and of the creation sprung from the primordial abyss; daughters of Ptah, linked to the concept of ka

☆The Her-Hequi – 4 deities in the fifth division of Tuat

☆The Hours of the day deities – 12 divine embodiments of each hour of the day: partly major deities (1st: Maat, 7th: Horus) and partly lesser known ones 12th: The One Who Gives Protection In The Twilight

☆The Hours of the night deities – 12 goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads.

☆The 42 judges of Maat – 42 deities including Osiris who judged the souls of the dead in the

afterlife

☆The Khnemiu – 4 deities wearing red crowns in the eleventh division of Tuat

☆The Ogdoad – A set of eight gods who personified the chaos that existed before creation. The Ogdoad commonly consisted of Amun, Amunet, Nu, Naunet, Heh, Hauhet, Kuk, and Kauket.

☆The Renniu – 4 bearded gods in the eleventh division of Tuat

☆The Setheniu-Tep – 4 deities wearing white crowns in the eleventh division of Tuat

☆The Souls of Pe and Nekhen – A set of gods personifying the predynastic rulers of Upper and Lower Egypt.

☆ The 12 Thoueris goddesses

[washedinpurewater]

>googling one of the names from @anaputuwet‘s Obscure Kemetic Deity list

>see “Sepu” mentioned

>Sepu, isn’t that the centipede guy??

>google “sepu egypt”

>first few results are this:

>page title is “Taur, Thoueris, and Sepu”

>okay so one of those is Thoueris, aka Mom, but which???

>the one facing right has the most “traditional” iconography I see--crocodile tail, hippo face, paws on the sa

>but then one of them is wearing what almost looks like the Hathoric headdress, and another one is holding a knife (presumably for demon-slayin’), and another one has stars on her back (Mistress of Heaven much??)

>don’t even get me started on crocodile-face and human-head

>tl;dr, who are all of you, I need to know who you are, you look so much like Taweret which means I need to know more about you

[tipsycad147]

Gods of Ancient Egypt

By shirleytwofeathers

The deities listed here are by no means all those recorded in the Egyptian pantheon. It would be impossible to list them all. Anyone interested in an in-depth study of Egyptian deities should read The Gods of the Egyptians by E. A. Wallis Budge. Also there are vast differences in the spellings of Egyptian deity names. This is because Egyptian hieroglyphs had no vowels.

This is a simple list of Egyptian gods and goddesses from Egyptian mythology, along with their titles and some of their attributes. The ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods at different times and in different places. Some gods changed in importance over time.

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Aebehout (Kebehet, Kabachet, Kebhut,  Kebechet, Qebhut, Qeb-Hwt) – Goddess of the Water of Life. The goddess of purification, also is known as the wandering goddess or the lost child, she presides over the magical reviving power of water.

Amaunet (Amunet) – Goddess of Heaven, Wife of Amun. (see also Amonet)

Amen (Amoun, Amun, Amon, Ammon) – The Hidden One; Lord of the Libyans; Lord of the Setting Sun and Moon; The Time Lord; Earth Father; Giver of Breath; Giver of Life, Vizier of the Humble, Who Answers the Voice of the Poor. The great god of Thebes of uncertain origin; represented as a man, sometimes ithyphallic; identified with Re as Amen-Re; sacred animals, the ram and the goose.

Ament (Amenti) – The Westerner; The Hidden Goddess; Goddess of the Land of the West; Goddess with Beautiful Hair. She welcomed all deceased people to the land of the dead with bread and water. (see also Amonet)

Ammit (Ammut, Ahemait) – The Eater, Devourer of the Dead; Eater of Hearts; Bone Eater; Devourer of Millions; Greatness of Death. This is the crocodile goddess also known as Ammit the Devourer. She also assists Anubis with carrying out the Judgements,

Amonet (Amunet, Amaunet, Ament, Imentet, Amentat) – The Mother Who Is Father. A primordial spirit composed of the two deities Ammon and Ammit.

Amun-Ra (Akmun-Ra, Ra, Re, Phra) – The Creator; The Supreme Power; The Only One; Great Father; Father of the Gods; Sun God. Ra is the god of the Sun, head of the great ennead, supreme judge; often linked with other gods aspiring to universality, and king of the gods until Osiris took over his throne.

Anat (Anath, Anta) – The Girl; Lady of Heaven; Mistress of All Spirit; Strength of Life; Lady of Mercy. A goddess of Syrian origin, with warlike character; represented as a woman holding a shield and an axe.

Anhur (Anher, Anhert, Onouris) – Skybearer, The Divine Huntsman. Very early aspect of Osiris, God of war, sun and the sky.

Anput – Goddess of the seventeenth Nome of Upper Egypt

Anubis (Anpu, Sekhem Em Pet) – Foremost of the Westerners. He is god of judgement of life and death, the jackal-god, patron of embalmers; the great necropolis-god.

Anuket (Anqet, Anukis, Anoukis)  – The Clasper; The Embracer; Bestower of Life; Lady of Nubia. She is the goddess of river Nile and the cataract-region at Aswan; wife of Khnum; represented as a woman with a high feather head-dress.

Apep (Apophis) – The chaos snake. Demon enemy of the Sun, the eternal enemy of Ra. He is a god of chaos and war.

Apet (Opet, Tauret, Taurt, Thoueris, Rertrertu, Taweret, Ta-Urt, Tauret) – Mistress of Talismans. The hippopotamus goddess, a beneficent deity, the patron of woman in child-birth and goddess of fertility. In her darker aspect she was the goddess of darkness and revenge.

Arsaphes (Herishef)- A ram-headed god from Heracleopolis.

Apis – A live bull worshipped as a god at Memphis. This is a rare case of an animal being worshipped as a god while alive, then mummified when he died.

As (Aset, Eset, Tait, Isis) – Supreme  Egyptian Goddess, Great Mother, Giver of Life.

Astarte (Ashtarte) – Lady of Heaven; Mother of the Blessed. A goddess of Syrian origin; introduced into Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Atem (Atum /Temu, Tem) – Dark Eye of Ra. Personification of God in human form and of the setting Sun. Father of the human race, he helped the dead. In one of his forms he was worshipped as a huge serpent.

Aten – The disk of the sun Originally an aspect of Ra

Athor (Athyr, Hert, Hat-Hor, Hathor) – The Great One of Many Names; The Golden One; Lady of Malachite; Lady of Turquoise; Sady of the Sycamore; Lady of the Date Palm; Lady of the West; Lady of the Dead; The Womb of Horus; House of Horus; Lady of the Evening; My House in the Sky; Lady of the Uterus; Lady of the Vulva; The Womb Above. This popular goddess is the matron goddess of all women, the embodiment of the female principle. She has many functions and attributes.

Auser (Osiris)- Lord of the Far World. Osiris is the god of the underworld and the afterlife. He is identified as the dead or mummified king; also a god of the inundation and vegetation.- Lord of life after death, Sun god, Universal Lord

Au Set (Isis, As, Aset, Eset, Tait) – The Great Lady; Queen of the Earth; Light Giver of Heaven; Mistress of Magic; The Many Named; Queen of the Throne; She Who Is Rich in Spells; Great of Sorcery; Redemptress: Star of the Sea; The One Who Is All; Mother of Gods. Isis is the divine mother, goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and motherhood. She is the wife and sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus. She is one of the four ‘protector’-goddesses, guarding coffins and Canopic jars; sister of Nephthys with whom she acted as a divine mourner for the dead. Supreme Egyptian Goddess, Great Mother, Giver of Life

Auf (Euf Ra) – Aspect of the Sun god Ra

B

Babi – God of baboons

Ba-neb~Tetet (Banebedet, Banaded, Banabdedet, Banabdjedet) – The Soul of Mendes; Lord of Mendes; The Ram of Mendes. The calm cool headed ram deity who found a peaceful solution to the power struggle between Horus and Set.  God of discussion, arbitration, peace.

Bast (Bastet, Pasht) – Mistress of the Oracle; Great Conjuress of the Casket. The cat goddess with dominion over sex, fertility, marriage, magic, music, childbirth, and the pleasures of life. Cat Goddess known to protect pregnant women and children. The protector of Ra, his third eye.

Bes  – Dancing. Lord of the Land of Punt. Bes is the dwarf god with leonine features; a domestic god, protector against snakes and various terrors; helper of women in child-birth. Dwarf God God of Pregnant woman, newborn babies, and family also known to protect from snake and scorpion bites

Buto (Uajyt, Uatchet, Utchat, Per Uadijit, Uazrr, Uto, Uraeus) – Eye of Ra; Lady of Heaven; Lady of the North. At times she was portrayed as a cobra, sometimes winged, sometimes crowned. Goddess of protection, hiding from evil. See also Wadjet.

D

Djehuti (Zehuti. Thoth, Tehuti, Thout)  – Lord of Divine Words; Lord of Books. Thoth is the ibis-headed scribe of the gods, the god of wisdom, inventor of writing. The ape as well as the ibis is sacred to him. Judge of the Gods.

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Edjo (Buto, Wadjet, Udjat) – Goddess of protection. Sister of Nekhbet. Lady of Flame; Lady of the North; Lady of Heaven; Queen of Holy Spirits. The cobra-goddess of Buto in the Delta, a goddess of protection, appearing on the royal diadem, protecting the king.

Ernutet (Renenet, Renenutet) – Lady of the double granary, Goddess of the 8th month of the Egyptian calendar.

Eset (Tait, Isis, As, Aset) – Supreme Egyptian Goddess, Great Mother, Giver of Life.

Euf Ra (Auf)  – Aspect of the Sun god Ra

G

Geb (Keb, Seb) – Father of the Gods. A fertility Earth god, similar to the Greek Cronus, always shown with erect phallus. Presides over fertility, new beginnings, creation, and crops.

H

Hapi – God of the Nile in inundation; represented as a very fat man. God of the Nile, crops, fertility, water, and prosperity.

Hat-Hehit – Fish-goddess of Mendes in the Delta; sometimes represented as a woman with a fish on her head.

Hathor (Athor, Athyr, Hert, Hat-Hor) – The Great One of Many Names; The Golden One; Lady of Malachite; Lady of Turquoise; Lady of the Sycamore; Lady of the Date Palm; Lady of the West; Lady of the Dead; The Womb of Horus; House of Horus; Lady of the Evening; My House in the Sky; Lady of the Uterus; Lady of the Vulva; The Womb Above. This popular goddess is the matron goddess of all women, the embodiment of the female principle. She has many functions and attributes.

Heh (Neheb) – God of eternity, longevity, and happiness. Shown as a man squatting on the ground wearing a curved reed on his head.

Heqet (Heqtit, Heket) – Midwife of the Sun, Giver of Life; Spirit of the Primordial Waters; Mother of the Spirits. She is the frog-goddess of Antinoopolis where she was associated with Khnum; a helper of women in child-birth.

Herishef  (Arsaphes) – A ram-headed god from Heracleopolis.

Horus (Haroeris, Haru-Er, Harsiesis, Harpocrates) – The Enchanted One. Horus is the god of war, sky, and falcons. He is regarded as the son of Osiris and Isis, for the former of whom he became the avenger.- Falcon headed Sun and Sky God, Divine Child, reborn Sun

I

Imentet (Amentat, Amonet, Amunet, Amaunet, Ament)  – The Mother Who Is Father. A primordial spirit composed of the two deities Ammon and Ammit.

Imhotep (I-Em-Hetep, Imouthes) – He Who Comes In Peace. The deified chief minister of Djoser and architect of the Step Pyramid; in the Late Period venerated as the god of learning and medicine; represented as a seated man holding an open papyrus; equated by the Greeks with Asklepios. God of knowledge, medicine, magick, compassion, drugs, herbs, sleep

Isis (As, Aset, Eset, Tait, Au Set) – The Great Lady; Queen of the Earth; Light Giver of Heaven; Mistress of Magic; The Many Named; Queen of the Throne; She Who Is Rich in Spells; Great of Sorcery; Redemptress: Star of the Sea; The One Who Is All; Mother of Gods. Isis is the divine mother, goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and motherhood. She is the wife and sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus. She is one of the four ‘protector’-goddesses, guarding coffins and Canopic jars; sister of Nephthys with whom she acted as a divine mourner for the dead. Supreme Egyptian Goddess, Great Mother, Giver of Life

K

Kabachet (Kebhut, Kebechet, Qebhut , Qeb-Hwt, Aebehout, Kebehet) – Goddess of the Water of Life.The goddess of purification, also is known as the wandering goddess or the lost child, she presides over the magical reviving power of water.

Keb (Seb, Geb)- A fertility Earth God of new beginnings, creation, crops.

Khepri – God of scarab beetles Ra’s aspect in the morning

Khensu (Khons, Khonsu) – God of the Moon; Traveller; The Navigator; He Who Crosses The Sky In A Boat; God of the New Moon. He is the moon-god, represented as a man; with Amun and Mut as father and mother, forming the Theban triad.

Khepera (Khepra, Khepri, Kebechet, Khepera, Kefri) – Father of the Spirits, He Who Becomes. The scarab-beetle god, identified with Re as a creator-god; often represented as a beetle within the sun-disk. A god of transformations, rebirth, resurrection of the body, reincarnation, and rebirth.

Khnemu (Khnum, Khnoum) – The Sculptor Who Gives Life; The Molder; The Divine Potter; Lord of Destiny; Father of Fathers; Mother of Mothers; Lord of the Cool Water. The ram-headed god of Elephantine, god of the Cataract-region; thought to have moulded man on a potter’s wheel. Ra’s aspect in the evening.

Kuk – Personification of darkness

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Maahes – Egyptian lion-headed god of war

Maat (Ma’at, Maa, Maut, Mayet) – Lady of Heaven; Queen of Earth; Mistress of the Underworld; Eye of Ra; Daughter of Ra; Lady of the Judgement Hall. Ma’at is the goddess of justice,order, truth, right, and orderly conduct; represented as a woman with an ostrich-feather on her head.

Mafdet – God of justice. Executioner of criminals, protector of the King’s chambers

Mehueret, Mehurt – Lady of Heaven; Mistress of the Earth. A universal Mother Goddess associated with night.

Menhit – Minor lion goddess, Wife of Anhur

Menthi (Menthu-Ra, Mentu, Mont) – Sun god, often with a bull head. In his war aspect he personified the destroying heat of the sun. God of protection, war, and vengeance.

Meretseger – She Who Loves Silence; Lioness of the Summit; Lady of the Necropolis. A protector of tombs and guardian of the Necropolis.

Meshkenet (Meskhenet) – Goddess of Childbirth. Protects labouring women and newborn babies.

Min (Minu, Menu) – Lord of the Eastern Desert; Lord of Foreign Lands. The primeval god of Coptos; later revered as a god of fertility, and closely associated with Amun.

Mut – Lady of Heaven; Queen of Deities; Mother of the Mothers. The vulture-goddess who is the spirit of maternity. Her name means “mom.” An extremely beloved goddess later represented usually as a woman.

N

Neheb (Heh)  – God of eternity, longevity, happiness

Nehebkau – Serpent God of the Underworld

Nefertem (Nefert-Temu, Nefertu) – The Lord of Fragrance. He is the god of the lotus, and hence of unguents, perfumes and fragrance; worshipped at Memphis as the son of Ptah and Sakhmet; represented as a man with a lotus-flower head-dress.

Nehebkau (Neheb-kau) – A serpent god of the Underworld, dangerous to both the gods and humans. Death, cursing, vengeance. Some-times represented with a man’s body and holding the eye of Horus.

Neith (Neit, Net, Nit) – The Oldest One; Nurse of the Crocodiles. This goddess of Sais is represented as a woman wearing the red crown; her emblem, a shield with crossed arrows; one of the four ‘protector’-goddesses who guarded coffins and Canopic jars; identified by the Greeks with Athena.

Nekhbet (Nekhebet) – Lady of the South. The vulture-goddess of Upper Egypt, presides over maternity, childbirth, life and death.

Nephthys (Nebt-Het, Nebthet, Nebhet) – Funerary Goddess, Lady of the House; Lady of Life; Lady of Darkness; Lady of Death that Is Not Eternal; Mistress of the Palace, The Revealer, Mistress of the West. Nephthys is the river goddess, sister of Isis; one of the four ‘protector’-goddesses, who guarded coffins and Canopic jars; with Isis acted as mourner for Osiris and hence for other dead people.

Nun (Nu) – God of the primeval chaos.

Nut (Nu) – Life giver, Mother of the Gods, Protector of the Dead. Mother of Stars; Queen of Heaven; Mother of the Deceased; She Who Holds a Thousand Souls; Mistress of All; She; Who Protects. Nut is the goddess of sky and stars, represented as a woman, her naked body curved to form the arch of heaven.

O

Onnophris (Unnefer, Wenen-Nefer) – a name meaning ‘he who is continually happy’, given to Osiris after his resurrection.

Onouris (Anhur, Anher, Anhert) – Skybearer, very early aspect of the God Osiris

Opet (Tauret, Taurt, Thoueris, Rertrertu, Taweret, Ta-Urt, Tauret, Apet) – Mistress of Talismans. The hippopotamus goddess, a beneficent deity, the patron of woman in child-birth and goddess of fertility. In her darker aspect she was the goddess of darkness and revenge.

Ophis (Wepwawet, Upuaut)  – Opener of the Ways. the jackal-god of Asyut in Middle Egypt; a god of the necropolis and an avenger of Osiris. Opener of roads, God of the Underworld

Osiris (Auser) – Lord of the Far World. Osiris is the god of the underworld and the afterlife. He is identified as the dead or mummified king; also a god of the inundation and vegetation.- Lord of life after death, Sun god, Universal Lord

P

Pakhet – A goddess of motherhood and of war

Pasht (Bast, Bastet)  – Cat Goddess known to protect pregnant women and children. The protector of Ra, his third eye.

Per Uadijit (Uazrr, Uto, Uraeus / Buto / Uajyt, Uatchet, Utchat) – Cobra goddess and protectress of Lower Egypt

Ptah (Ptah-Neb-Ankh) – The Opener, the Divine Artificer, Father of Beginnings, Creator God. Lord of the Sky; Lord of the Two Lands; Lord of Truths; Lord of Sunrise; Father of Fathers; Power of Powers. He is the god of creation, creator-god of Memphis, the patron god of craftsmen; equated by the Greeks with Hephaestus.

Ptah-Seker-Osiris – A composite deity, incorporating the principal gods of creation, death, and after-life; represented like Osiris as a mummified king.

Phra (Ra, Re) – The Supreme Power, The Creator, Great Father

Q

Qebhut  (Qeb-Hwt, Aebehout, Kebehet, Kabachet, Kebhut, Kebechet) – Goddess of the Water of Life. The goddess of purification, also is known as the wandering goddess or the lost child, she presides over the magical reviving power of water.

Qebui – God of the North Wind

Qetesh – A mother-goddess of fertility. Adopted into ancient Egypt from Kadesh in what is now Syria.

R

Ra (Re, Phra, Amun-Ra, Akmun-Ra) – The Creator; The Supreme Power; The Only One; Great Father; Father of the Gods; Sun God. Ra is the god of the Sun, head of the great ennead, supreme judge; often linked with other gods aspiring to universality, and king of the gods until Osiris took over his throne.

Raet-Tawy – Female sun goddess of Upper and Lower Egypt. Female counterpart of Ra.

Rat (Tat-Taiut, Rait) – Lady of the Heavens; Mistress of the Gods; Mistress of the Heliopolis; Mother of the Gods; Goddess of the Two Lands. Goddess of wisdom and knowledge, shown as a woman wearing a disk with horns and a uraeus.

Renenet (Renenutet, Ernutet, Thermuthis) – She Who Rears; The Nourishing Snake; Lady of the Double Granary .Goddess of harvest and fertility; represented as a snake or a snake-headed woman. Goddess of the 8th month of the Egyptian calendar.

Renpet – Mistress of Eternity. Goddess of youth, springtime, the year, and the general idea of time.

Rertrertu (Taweret, Ta-Urt, Tauret, Apet, Opet, Tauret, Taurt, Thoueris)  – Mistress of Talismans. The hippopotamus goddess, a beneficent deity, the patron of woman in child-birth and goddess of fertility. In her darker aspect she was the goddess of darkness and revenge.

Reshef (Reshpu) – God of war and thunder, of Syrian origin.

S

Sarapis – A god introduced into Egypt in the Ptolemaic Period having the characteristics of Egyptian (Osiris) and Greek (Zeus) gods; represented as a bearded man wearing the modius head-dress.

Sati (Satet, Satis) – She Who Shoots Forth; She Who Runs Like an Arrow; She Who Pours. This Nile River spirit is entrusted to maintain balance and peace at the Nile’s first cataract, the traditional border between Egypt and Nubia. Goddess of the Cataracts, Goddess of fertility, water, the hunt, planting.

Seb (Geb, Keb) – A fertility Earth God of new beginnings, creation, crops.

Sebek (Sobk, Suchos) – Lord of Death, the Hidden One.

Seker (Sokar, Socharis) – The guardian god of the door to the Underworld.

Sekhem Em Pet (Anubis, Anpu)  – God of dead, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies

Sekhmet (Sakhmet) – The Mighty One; The Terrible One; The Powerful; The Beloved of Ptah; Dark Sister of Bast; Great of Magic; Lady of Terror; Lady of Action; The One Before Whom Evil Flees; Mistress Dread; Lady of Flame; The Scarlet Woman. Goddess of lions and fire also goddess of vengeance, a lion-headed goddess worshipped in the area of Memphis; a fiery manifestation of the Eye of Ra. She represented the destroying power of sunlight and was the goddess of war and battle, physicians and bone-setters.

Selqet (Selket, Selquet, Selchis, Serqet, Serquet) – Mistress of the Beautiful House. A scorpion-goddess, identified with the scorching heat of the sun; one of the four ‘protector’-goddesses, guarding coffins and Canopic jars. Protectress of marriage, goddess of happy marriages and married sexual love.

Seshat (Seshet, Sesheta) – Lady of the Builder’s Measure; The Great One; Lady of the House of Books, Queen of Construction; Goddess of Writing. The goddess of writing and measurement, the divine keeper of royal annals.

Set (Seth, Seti, Sutekh, Suti, Sertesh) – Great of Strength; He Who Is Below; Lord of the Desert; Lord of Chaos and Disorder. God of deserts, storms and violence, evil, and chaos also later version ruler of the underworld. He is brother of Osiris and his murderer; the rival of Horus; equated by the Greeks with Typhon.

Shai (male), Shait (female) – Guardian angel, presiding over destiny and fate. Sometimes a Goddess, sometimes a God.

Shu – Lord of the Sky. God of Air and the North Wind. Connected with the heat and dryness of sunlight. Shu and Tefnut – his twin sister- form the first pair of gods in the Heliopolitan ennead; shown often as a man separating Nut (sky) from Geb (earth).

Sobek (Suchos, Sebek, Sobk) – Lord of Dark Water; The Hidden One; He Who is Shut In. Sobek is the crocodile-god, worshiped throughout Egypt. An aggressive guardian who repels and devours malevolent spirits who threaten his devotees. Rows Ra’s Sunboat through the Duat.

Sopdu – A god of war Associated with the sun and with the planet Venus

T

Tait (Isis, As, Aset, Eset)  – Supreme Egyptian Goddess, Great Mother, Giver of Life.

Tatjenen – The primeval earth-god of Memphis; later identified with Ptah.

Tat-Taiut (Rait, Rat) – Lady of the Heavens, Goddess of Wisdom and knowledge.

Taweret (Thoeris, Taurt, Ta-Urt, Apet, Opet, Rertrertu) – Mistress of Talismans. The hippopotamus goddess, a beneficent deity, the patron of woman in child-birth and goddess of fertility. In her darker aspect she was the goddess of darkness and revenge.

Tefnut (Tefenet) – The goddess of moisture, dew, rain, and mist. She is said to live at the bottom of the underworld. She and her twin brother – Shu – form the first pair of gods in the Heliopolitan ennead.

Temu (Tem, Atem, Atum) – Dark Eye of Ra. Personification of God in human form and of the setting Sun. Father of the human race, he helped the dead. In one of his forms he was worshipped as a huge serpent.

Thoth (Tehuti, Thout, Djehuti, Zehuti) – Lord of Divine Words; Lord of Books. Thoth is the ibis-headed scribe of the gods, the god of wisdom, inventor of writing.The ape as well as the ibis is sacred to him. Judge of the Gods.

Thermuthis (Renenet, Renenutet, Ernutet) – She Who Rears; The Nourishing Snake; Lady of the Double Granary. Goddess of harvest and fertility; represented as a snake or a snake-headed woman. Goddess of the 8th month of the Egyptian calendar.

U

Uajyt (Uatchet, Utchat, Uazrr, Uto, Uraeus, Buto, Per Uadijit)  – Cobra goddess and protectress of Lower Egypt

Udjat (Edjo, Buto, Wadjet) – Goddess of protection. Sister of Nekhbet. Lady of Flame; Lady of the North; Lady of Heaven; Queen of Holy Spirits. The cobra-goddess of Buto in the Delta, a goddess of protection, appearing on the royal diadem, protecting the king.

Unnefer (Wenen-Nefer, Onnophris) – a name meaning ‘he who is continually happy’, given to Osiris after his resurrection.

Upuaut (Ophis, Wepwawet)  – Opener of the Ways. the jackal-god of Asyut in Middle Egypt; a god of the necropolis and an avenger of Osiris. Opener of Roads, God of the Underworld

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Wadjet (Udjat, Edjo, Buto) – Goddess of protection. Sister of Nekhbet. Lady of Flame; Lady of the North; Lady of Heaven; Queen of Holy Spirits. The cobra-goddess of Buto in the Delta, a goddess of protection, appearing on the royal diadem, protecting the king.

Wadj-wer – Personifies the Mediterranean Sea and other lakes.

Wenen-Nefer (Onnophris, Unnefer) – A name meaning ‘he who is continually happy’, given to Osiris after his resurrection.

Wepwawet (Upuaut, Ophis)  – Opener of the Ways. The jackal-god of Asyut in Middle Egypt; a god of the necropolis and an avenger of Osiris. Opener of Roads, God of the Underworld

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Zehuti (Thoth, Tehuti, Thout, Djehuti)  – Lord of Divine Words; Lord of Books. Thoth is the ibis-headed scribe of the gods, the god of wisdom, inventor of writing.The ape as well as the ibis is sacred to him. Judge of the Gods.

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The Great Doctor Who (Re)Watch: 8th Doctor Comics, part 4

Where Nobody Knows Your Name - This was a really sweet story that explores the some of the effect the Doctor's labors have upon him, but in a charming and heart-filled way.

The Nightmare Game - A decent football-themed romp but kind of bland.

The Power of Thoueris - The Doctor faces off against a phony god in ancient Egypt in a fun but forgettable yarn.

The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack - Nicely drawn and written but not essential, even if it does tap into some interesting English folklore.

The Land of Happy Endings - An utterly delightful way to pay tribute to the very earliest Doctor Who comics from the 1960's.

Bad Blood - A lot of contreversial themes present here, but they're treated appropriately and respectfully, and display some strong emotional range for the story.

Sins of the Father - More heavy themes here but not as well handled, but still a good tale.

The Flood - Legitimately one of the best Cybermen stories I've ever seen, and about as good a final story for the Eighth Doctor in comics as anyone could hope for.

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Egyptian gods: Bes

Bes is one of the Egyptian gods most noticeable by his physical appearance. Unlike most of the Egyptian gods, which were depicted as tall, thin, beautiful human/humanoids (and always on the side!), Bes was a stout, potbellied and ugly dwarf (and always depicted from the front!). His face is bearded, his eyes round and bulging, his tongue constantly out of his lips, his head abnormally large, and he keeps contorting his face into all sorts of grimaces… Add to that the mane/ears of a lion, a leopard’s tail coming out of the leopard-skin-loincloth he wears, and a headdress made of ostrich feathers, and you have a truly bizarre deity… But far from being scaring, Bes’ twisted and deformed physique was meant to be funny and hilarious. Bes was a jovial and happy being who acted as the jester of the gods, amusing them by his strange physique, his constant jumps and acrobatics, his hearty laugh and his music (Bes is often depicted holding a drum, and in the Late Period a lyre).

Legend claims that Bes was a deity from Nubia, who was brought back to Egypt by the Eye of Ra, when it returned, appeased and joyful, from her exile – Bes was following her (no matter if the “her” is Hathor or Bastet). As such, Bes was a god of dance, of laughter, of joy, of drunkenness, entertainment and parties – women dancers of Ancient Egypt had the habit of tattooing him on their thigh, since they considered him their patron god.

But more than just a bringer of merriment and fun, Bes also had an apotropaic function, in a similar way to Thoueris (that I described in a previous post). By his wild music, his twisted dances, his grimaces and his grotesqueness, Bes was thought to scare away evil spirits and push demons away from their victims. This protective role was sometimes highlighted by Bes holding weapons, such as a knife or a bow. Thought to be a god of the house and the family, Bes was especially renowned as a protector of newborn babies and mothers in labor. He also was prayed to so robbers, murderers and other criminals would not enter the house – and his protection extended to shielding Egyptians from dangerous beasts (scorpions, crocodiles, snakes…). His face basically worked somewhat like the face of the Gorgon in Ancient Greek art – as a hideous protective sign/spell.

Bes was a VERY popular god, with a widespread cult among every Egyptian house: his face was often carved on beds, since he was thought to defend the sleep of humans against nightmares. His face carved on beds was also supposed to protect men against… let’s say “sexual failures”, as he boosted their bed-prowess. In fact, Bes was thought to have (and often depicted as having) an enormous penis, contrasting with his dwarfish size – even in the most SFW depictions of the god, where he wears a loincloth, you can guess the large size of his genital by his bowed legs… It was because Bes was a god of all the forms of joy, and all the ways of enjoying life – ranging from music to the “pleasures of the flesh”. More surprisingly, Bes was also associated with prettiness, or rather the art of makeup, makeovers and every-day preparations of women. This is why his face was depicted on things such as perfume bottles, blush/rouge boxes, or hand mirrors. The ugliest of the gods was in charge of making women pretty…

His importance grew so much that, when depicted with a shield or a sword, he became one of the forces supposed to defend Egypt as a nation against its enemies! Mind you, Bes never had a true temple or sanctuary to himself – he was a god with a « home-worship » and « house-cult », present everywhere in the shape of amulets, little statues, paintings, carvings and other depictions easy to place on a vase or a furniture. His only altars were found for a very long time within one’s home… But his immense popularity made it so that, by the New Kingdom, Bes gained his own oracle, in Abydos, in the funeral temple of Sethi the First: people came from the four corners of Egypt to ask the god questions, and obtained answers through dreams. Egyptians asked Bes all sorts of questions: how to heal my sickness, will I find a wife, will my travel go well, will my troubles at work soon end, how can I help my family who is in a bad situation currently… As you can see, these were mostly day-to-day concerns, since Bes was one of the gods of daily life; and apparently the answers people received were so good that the oracle kept working all the way up to the fourth century CE! Bes even grew to become one of the protectors of the dead in the afterlife – with a fame rivaling the one of Osiris himself! Bes also had a special relationship with Horus, especially in his form of “Horus-The-Child”. The two were often depicted together, with Bes acting as either the protector of Horus-the-Child, or as his servant/assistant in other functions (such as healing/medicine-god ones). In the home-altars I described above, you often found an incantation engraved on a back of a depiction of Horus (as a young naked child depicted from the front) crushing crocodiles with his feet an strangling snakes or lions with his hands – his head surmounted by Bes’ face. This was an “Horus of the crocodiles” depiction, and pouring water on the depiction while reciting the incantation, before drinking the water, would make one protected against things ranging from lion attacks to insect bites and the venom of snakes. And during the Late Period, the relationship of the two grew so much that some amulets or protective images depicted Horus-the-Child with the head of Bes…

Bes’s immense popularity was such that he survived for a brief time the Christianization of Egypt, in the form of a local legend of Karnak – though it is a warped and much more demonized version of himself. According to this tale of early-Christian Egypt, Bes haunted/was hiding inside one of the doors of the Karnak temple, and if anyone mocked his ugliness or deformities, he would strangle them ferociously…

I will end this brief post with two gods I do not know much about, but which are important to understand the figure of Bes. One is Beset, who is basically the female double of Bes and thought to be his wife – as you know by the “triad logic”, Egyptians thought a male god could not exist alone, and so were always prompt to invent him a wife. Egyptians first did so by literally creating a feminine double for Bes, Beset, a deity that protected the household and was depicted as a woman with the head of a lion, holding snakes in her hands. However, as Bes was associated with Taweret/Thoueris, the two forming the duo of deities protecting women in labor and newborn babies, some people decided to make Taweret his wife instead of Beset. The second name I want to mention is Aha. Aha is an old good spirit/benevolent genie, maybe even minor god, of Egypt, whose name was known and invoke all the way up to the Middle Kingdom. Aha is thought to be the “ancestor” of Bes, as in one of the prototypes of the god that ended up “absorbed” by his descendant: Aha was a warrior-spirit (his very name means “warrior”) as well as a fecundity spirit, whose job was to protect pregnant women and children. Similarly to Bes, Aha was depicted as a dwarfish or gnomic humanoid, half-monkey (or half-distorted human with a very round face and long limbs) and half lion (mane, ears, and tail).

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Doctor Who - Guia do Oitavo Doutor

Essa incarnação apareceu pela primeira vez no filme de 1996, também intitulado 'Doctor Who', no que era, na época, uma tentativa de trazer Doctor Who de volta à atividade enquanto conquistava um público estadunidense. Foi um fracasso completo e a série só voltaria em 2005. Apesar disso, foi um evento animador pro universo expandido: o Oitavo Doutor era um canal para explorar ideias novas e imaginativas nessa segunda metade dos anos selvagens (como ficou conhecido o hiato do show entre 1989 e 2005).

A Virgin Books rapidamente perdeu a licença de publicação de livros de Doctor Who, o que acabou com os lançamentos dos livros do Sétimo Doutor, naquele ponto a única continuação que tinhámos para a série. Em seu lugar, a BBC lançou As Aventuras do Oitavo Doutor, uma série de livros focando em histórias do Oitavo com novos companions. Além disso, cerca de cinco anos depois, Paul McGann voltaria ao papel ao reprisar o personagem para a Big Finish, empresa que produz audiodramas.

Essas guias para os Doutores vão incluir apenas histórias da TV, livros e histórias em áudio, mas vou fazer uma exceção pro Oitavo Doutor: nós vamos incluir os quadrinhos da Doctor Who Magazine. É super válido dar uma chance pras hqs da DWM dos outros Doutores, mas pra esse guia só o Oitavo vai receber esse tratamento especial porque a DWM explorou o personagem do seu próprio jeito, independente, tal como as outras mídias. Eles tem quatro arcos narrativos/"temporadas" e introduzem companions originais.

Bora lá então!

SOBRE OS QUADRINHOS

‘Temporada um’ – Aventuras com a Izzy

[ ] Endgame

[ ] The Keep

[ ] A Life of Matter and Death

[ ] Fire and Brimstone

[ ] By Hook or by Crook

[ ] Tooth and Claw

[ ] The Final Chapter

[ ] Wormwood

[ ] Happy Deathday

Essa temporada começa a partir de um enredo das hqs do Setimo Doutor na DWM que envolvem um vilão recorrente, mas dá pra entender mesmo sem ter lido o que veio antes. Essa temporada foi encadernada como "Eighth Doctor Comic Strips volume 01" e essa edição tem um resumo do que tava rolando. De qualquer jeito, é uma porta de entrada. O Doutor conhece Izzy Sinclair, uma jovem garota de Stockbridge que o ajuda a derrota o Toymaker qual o vilão toma controle da cidade, começando uma longa jornada de autodescobrimento para a Izzy.

‘Temporada dois’ – Mais aventuras com a Izzy, mais o Kroton

[ ] The Fallen

[ ] Unnatural Born Killers

[ ] The Road to Hell

[ ] TV Action!

[ ] The Company of Thieves

[ ] The Glorious Dead

[ ] The Autonomy Bug

Essa temporada foi reunida em "Eighth Doctor Comic Strips volume 02" e introduz um companion temporário que eu amo: o Kroton, um bom Cybermen. Também tem uma das melhores histórias do Mestre, de todos os tempos. É também a única outra aparição relevante da Grace em outras histórias uma vez que problemas com direitos autorais impedem o uso da personagem. Eu acho que eles só ignoraram isso dessa vez, pra ser sincero.

‘Temporada três" - Mais aventuras com a Izzy

[ ] Ophidius

[ ] Beautiful Freak

[ ] The Way of All Flesh

[ ] Children of the Revolution

[ ] Me and My Shadow

[ ] Uroboros

[ ] Oblivion

Essa temporada foi encadernada como "Eighth Doctor Comic Strips volume 03" e finaliza a história da Izzy enquanto introduz a próxima companion, a Destrii. Também tem uma das minhas histórias Dalek favoritas.

‘Temporada quatro’ – Aventuras solo, e depois com a Destrii

[ ] Where Nobody Know Your Name

[ ] The Nightmare Game

[ ] The Power of Thoueris!

[ ] The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack

[ ] The Land of Happy Endings

[ ] Bad Blood

[ ] Sins of the Father

[ ] The Flood

Essa temporada tá completa no encadernado "Eighth Doctor Comic Strips volume 04". No geral é o Doutor, sozinho, lidando com a solidão e a saudade depois de se despedir da Izzy no arco anterior. E tentando encontrar um companion novo (é patético isso em The Nightmare Game). Mas no final a história toma outro rumo quando ele reencontra a Destrii e os dois passam a viajar juntos. E tem uma história Cybermen muito boa.

SOBRE OS LIVROS

‘Temporada um’ – Aventuras com a Sam

[ ] The Eight Doctors

[ ] Vampire Science

[ ] The Bodysnatchers

[ ] Genocide

[ ] War of the Daleks

[ ] Alien Bodies

The Eight Doctor é um livro muito ruim, pulem e comecem com Vampire Science. Inclusive, tem uma personagem lá que era pra ter sido a Grace mas não teve como por causa dos direitos autorais; e saber disso trás uma outra perspectiva pro livro que é interessante. Alien Bodies começa um arco narrativo sobre a Guerra no Céu (War in Heaven, no original). Sendo sucinto: uma guerra do tempo muito mais interessante e que existiu muito antes da série moderna sequer pensar nisso.

‘Temporada dois’ – Mais aventuras com a Sam

[ ] Kursaal

[ ] Option Lock

[ ] Longest Day

[ ] Legacy of the Daleks

[ ] Dreamstone Moon

[ ] Seeing I

‘Temporada três’ – Mais aventuras com a Sam

[ ] Placebo Effect

[ ] Vanderdeken’s Children

[ ] The Scarlet Empress

[ ] The Janus Conjuction

[ ] Beltempest

[ ] The Face-Eater

‘Temporada quatro’ – Aventuras com a Sam e o Fitz

[ ] The Taint

[ ] Demontage

[ ] Revolution Man

[ ] Dominion

[ ] Unnatural History

[ ] Autumn Mist

[ ] Interference – Book One: Shock Tactic

[ ] Interference – Book Two: The Hour of the Geek

‘Temporada cinco’ – Aventuras com o Fitz e a Compassion

[ ] The Blue Angel

[ ] The Taking of Planet 5

[ ] Frontier Worlds

[ ] Parallel 59

[ ] The Shadows of Avalon

[ ] The Fall of Yquatine

[ ] Coldheart

[ ] The Space Age

[ ] The Banquo Legacy

[ ] The Ancestor Cell

‘Temporada seis’ – Exilado na Terra

[ ] The Burning

[ ] Casualties of War

[ ] The Turing Test

[ ] Endgame

[ ] Father Time

[ ] Escape Velocity

Com o final de The Ancestor Cell, começou um arco narratico menor com o Doutor preso na terra por motivos que eu não vou elaborar pra não tirar muito a surpresa da leitura.

‘Temporada sete’ – Adventuras com o Fitz e a Anji

[ ] EarthWorld

[ ] Fear Itself

[ ] Vanishing Point

[ ] Eater of Wasps

[ ] The Year of Intelligent Tigers

[ ] Dark Progeny

[ ]  The City of the Dead

[ ] Griim Reality

[ ] The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

‘Temporada oito’ – Mais aventuras com o Fitz e a Anji

[ ] Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[ ] Hope

[ ] Anachrophobia

[ ] Trading Futures

[ ] The Book of the Still

[ ] The Crooked World

[ ] History 101

[ ] Camera Obscura

[ ] Time Zero

‘Temporada nove’ – Mais aventuras com o Fitz e a Anji, mais a Trix

[ ] The Infinity Race

[ ] The Domino Effect

[ ] Reckless Engineering

[ ] The Last Resort

[ ] Timeless

[ ] Emotional Chemistry

[ ] Sometime Never…

‘Temporada dez’ – Aventuras com o Fitz e a Trix

[ ] Halflife

[ ] The Tomorrow Windows

[ ] The Sleep of Reason

[ ] The Deadstone Memorial

[ ] To the Slaughter

[ ] The Gallifrey Chronicles

SOBRE OS ÁUDIOS - A ERA DO MAIN RANGE

‘Temporada um’ – Aventuras com a Charley

[ ] Storm Warning

[ ] The Sword of Orion

[ ] The Stones of Venice

[ ] Minuet in Hell

[ ] Solitaire

[ ] If I Should Die Before I Wake

O Oitavo Doutor entra pra Big Finish pouquíssimo depois os Doutores Cinco a Sete, mas aind assim bastante cedo na história da empresa quando os lançamentos deles eram "apenas" histórias mensias de mais ou menos uma hora e meia a duas horas - no estilo da série clássica. A gente chama essa linha de lançamentos de Main Range. Como ele era o Doutor mais recente naquela época, o McGann ter voltado ao papel, especialmente sem ter sido uma série só dele, chamou bastante atenção. No elenco recorrente dessa primeira fase entrou a India Fisher como Charlotte Pollard, uma aventureira edwardiana.

Soliraie e If I Should Die Before I Wake não são lançamentos do Main Range mas eu diria que eles tem um tom parecido o suficiente e que não faz mal ouvir essas histórias por aqui mesmo.

‘Temporada dois’ – Mais aventuras com a Charley

[ ] Invaders from Mars

[ ] The Chimes of Midnight

[ ] Seasons of Fear

[ ] Embrace the Darkness

[ ] The Time of the Daleks

[ ] Neverland

[ ] Zagreus

Essa temporada terminada o arco narrativo quanto a vida da Charley que começa em Storm Warning. Culminando em Zagreus, que é também um especial de 40 anos da série. A Romana e a Leela, antigas companions do Quarto Doutor, aparecem no fim desse arco e a dinâmica das duas dá pontapé pra um spin-off sobre elas em Gallifrey - que recebe título homônimo. Eu nnão vou elaborar sobre Gallifrey nesse guia, mas fique resgitrado que surge daqui.

‘Temporada três’ – Aventuras com a Charley e o C’rizz

[ ] Scherzo

[ ] The Creed of the Kromon

[ ] The Natural History of Fear

[ ] The Twilight Kingdom

[ ] Faith Stealer

[ ] The Last

[ ] Caerdroia

[ ] The Next Life

Também conhecido como o arco do Universo Divergente. Continua de onde Zagreus parou, com o Doutor explorando um novo universe - mas tem alguma coisa muito errada rolando por lá. Ele e a Charley ganham um novo companion, o C'rizz.

‘Temporada quatro’ – Aventuras com a Charley e o C’rizz

[ ] Terror Firma

[ ] Scaredy Cat

[ ] Other Lives

[ ] Time Works

[ ] Something Inside

[ ] Memo Lane

[ ] Absolution

[ ] The Girl Who Never Was

O fim dessa era de áudios do Oitavo Doutor. Um adeus pro C'rizz mas um até logo pra Charley. Tem um gancho enorme em The Girl Who Never Was que é continuado em lançamentos posteriores - dá uma olhada em 'pra além do Oitavo Doutor' caso queira saber sobre isso, mas APENAS se você não se importa de receber SPOILER. De novo: TEM SPOILER LÁ.

Mais da Charley com o Oitavo

‘Temporada um’ – The Further Adventures of Charlotte Pollard

[ ] The Mummy Speaks

[ ] Eclipse

[ ] The Slaying of the Writhing Mass

[ ] Heart of Orion

Esse foi um lançamento de quatro hist´rias de uma hora que se passam durante o primeiro arco da Charley no Main Range. Por isso, com certeza se passa nates de Neverland mas você pode argumentar quando exatamente. Eu gosto de colocar essas histórias entre Minuet in Heel e Invaders from Mars. Mas por que eu não coloquei essas histórias por lá? Sendo sincero, é porque na minha opinião elas não tem o mesmo tom das outras histórias do Main Range e quebram a imersão se ouvir elas no meio das outras. Elas tem uma estrutura muito, muito mais próxima da série moderna e não capturam muito bem o espírito da era da Charley. Então recomendo escutar como um conteúdo extra quando bater uma saudade dela.

‘Temporada dois’ – Aventuras com a Charley e a Audacity

[ ] The Devouring

[ ] The Great Cyber-War

[ ] Twenty-Four Doors in December

[ ] The Empty Man

[ ] Winter of the Demon

2023 foi um ano em que o Doutor ganhou uma nova companion, a senhora Audacity. O primeiro lançamento, que incluem as duas primeiras histórias dessa temporada, acabava com um gancho que posicionava essas histórias nos dias em que o Doutor ainda estava viajando com a Charley. Então essa é uma temporada que ocorre durante o primeiro arco narrativo dos dois no Main Range, mas eu não coloquei por lá porque não só é um arco ainda em atividade como eu acho melhor escutar isso como uma temporada a parte ima vez que você já explorou a história da Charley como ela foi planejada originalmente.

Pra além do Oitavo Doutor

‘Temporada um’ – Aventuras com a Charley

[ ] The Condemned

[ ] The Doomwood Curse

[ ] Brotherhood of the Daleks

[ ] Return of the Krotons

[ ] The Raincloud Man

[ ] Patient Zero

[ ] Paper Cuts

[ ] Blue Forgotten Planet

Eu já te AVISEI que lá vem SPOILERS. Pois bem, no final de The Girl Who Never Was o Oitavo Doutor e a Charley se separam. Ele acha que ela decidiu parar de viajar com ele, e ela acha que ele morreu. Ela tá presa em uma situação terríivel e envia um pedido de socorro, torcendo pra alguém resgatar ela. Uma TARDIS pousa e ela acha que é o Oitavo Doutor, vivo e vindo buscar ela, mas quando ela entra ela vê um rosto inexperado - do Sexto Doutor. E a partir daí eles tem diversas aventuras juntos, listadas aí em cima.

‘Temporada dois’

[ ] The Lamentation Cipher

[ ] The Shadow at the Edge of the World

[ ] The Fall of the House of Pollard

[ ] The Viryan Solution

Mas a história da Charley não acaba no Sexto. Eles eventualmente tomam rumos diferentes, como contado em Blue Forgotten Planet, mas a Charley ganha uma série só dela que continua a partir daí. Desde então tiveram duas temporadas, com uma terceira pra sair algum dia encerrando essa trama. Já faz bastante tempo que estamos esperando, dito isso.

‘Temporada três’

[ ] Embankment Station

[ ] Ruffling

[ ] Seed of Chaos

[ ] The Destructive Quality of Life

OS CLÁSSICOS

‘Temporada zero’ – Aventuras com a Mary Shelley

[ ] The Company of Friends

[ ] The Silver Turk

[ ] The Witch from the Well

[ ] Army of Death

The Company of Friends é um lançamento "especial" do Main Range que é a única história em áudio envolvendo companions do Oitavo Doutor das outras mídias. São quatro histórias de meiahora: a primeira com a Benny, antiga companion do Sétimo Doutor. A segunda tem o Fitz e a terceira a Izzy. E aí tem a quarta, que mostra o Doutor encontrando a Mary Shelley. Ela ainda não era companion, mas em breve se tornaria: saí no Main Range uma triologia de histórias focando nas viagens dela com o Doutor.

Essas aventuras se passam antes do Oitavo conhecer a Charley e podem ser ouvidas a qualquer momento, mas eu pessoalmente recomendo ouvir elas depois de já ter acabado de ouvir os lançamentos iniciais da Charley.

SOBRE OS ÁUDIOS - ERA DA LUCIE MILLER

A partir de 2006 tudo mudou pro Oito. As histórias dele eram provavelmente as mais polulares do Main Range - muito por causa da novidade de explorar um Doutor que teve tão pouco - e assim ele ganhou uma linha de lançamentos só dele. O Main Range continuou focando nos Doutores Cinco, Seis e Sete, mas o Oitavo começou a estrelar "As Aventuras do Oitavo Doutor". Mas vale lembrar que era 2006: a série moderna já havia começado. Muito por causa dela, essa era é estruturada muito mais próxima de temporadas da série moderna do que da clássica.

Você pode começa a ouvir histórias do Oitavo por aqui, se quiser.

‘Temporada um’ – Aventuras com a Lucie

[ ] Blood of the Daleks [two-parter]

[ ] Horror of Fang Rock

[ ] Immortal Beloved

[ ] Phobos

[ ] No More Lies

[ ] Human Resources [two-parter]

Horror of Glam Rock começa uma narrativa recorrente envolvendo a tia da Lucie, chamada Pat.

‘Temporada extra’ – Mais aventuras com a Lucie

[ ] The Dalek Trap

[ ] The Revolution Game

[ ] The House on the Edge of Chaos

[ ] Island of the Fendahl

Esse foi na verdade um lançamento posterior chamado The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller, quatro histórias de uma hora compoem uma mini temporada. Batem muito bem com o tom da fase original e acontecem relativamente cedo na linha do tempo da personagem, por isso recomendo escutar entre as temporadas 1 e 2. O finale conta com os Fendahl, um vilão da série clássica, então caso queira mais contexto recomendo assistir "Image of the Fendahl", história do Quarto Doutor.

‘Temporada dois’ – Mais aventuras com a Lucie

[ ] Dead London

[ ] Max Warp

[ ] Brave New Town

[ ] The Skull of Sobek

[ ] Grand Theft Cosmos

[ ] The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

[ ] Sisters of the Flame/The Vengeance of Morbius

The Zygon Who Fell to Earth é parte do arco da tia Pat. O finale conta o Morbius, um vilão da clássica. Caso queira mais contexto, recomendo assistir The Brain of Morbius, história do Quarto Doutor.

‘Temporada três’ – Mais aventuras com a Lucie

[ ] Orbis

[ ] Hothouse

[ ] The Beast of Orlok

[ ] Wirnn Dawn

[ ] The Scapegoat

[ ] The Cannibalists

[ ] The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web

Essa temporada tem bastante vilões da clássica. Não precisa conhecer eles pra entender as histórias, nas temporadas anteriores também não. Mas, caso queira mais contexto: vale assistir The Seeds of Doom, The Ark in Space e Planet of Spiders.

‘Temporada quatro’ – Aventuras com a Lucie e a Tamsin

[ ] Death in Blackpool

[ ] An Earthly Child

[ ] Situation Vacant

[ ] Nervermore

[ ] The Book of Kelis

[ ] Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars

[ ] Relative Dimensions

[ ] Prisoner of the Sun

[ ] Lucie Miller/To the Death

E a era da Lucie termina no auge. Death in Blackpool é um especial de natal que amarra e encerra a trama da tia Pat. Em An Earthly Child, o Doutor reencontra uma figura do passado. E a partir daí, o resto da temporada lida com a amizade da Lucie e do Oito e como eles estão lidando com os acontecimentos recentes, enquanto introduz uma nova companion, Tamsin Drew.

SOBRE OS ÁUDIOS – A ERA DOS BOXSETS

Com o fim da era da Lucie, o formato de publicação mudou de novo. A partir daqui, as histórias são lançadas em bloco de quatro, boxsets. Essas histórias também formam arcos maiores, em dezesseis partes, e portanto devem ser escutadas em sequência: Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, Ravenous e Stranded. Você pode começar a ouvir os áudios do Oitavo por Dark Eyes, mas é uma fase melhor aproveitada depois de ouvir a fase da Lucie.

‘Dark Eyes’ – Aventuras com a Molly e a Liv

[ ] The Great War

[ ] Fugitives

[ ] Tangled Web

[ ] X and the Daleks

[ ] The Traitor

[ ] The White Room

[ ] Time’s Horizon

[ ] Eyes of the Master

[ ] The Death of Hope

[ ] The Reviled

[ ] Masterplan

[ ] Rule of the Eminence

[ ] A Life in the Day

[ ] The Monster of Montmartre

[ ] Master of the Daleks/Eye of Darkness

Liv Chenka é uma personagem introduzida em Robophobia, uma história do Sétimo Doutor que você pode escutar caso queira saber mais sobre ela mas não é necessária. É uma boa história, dito isso. Ela não se torna companion até reencontrar o Doutor, dessa vez na Oitava incarnação, aqui em Dark Eyes. Essa temporada explora um conflito temporal entre Daleks, alguns Time Lords e um inimigo do futuro, a Eminence. Não é parte da Time War, vale destacar.

‘Doom Coalition’ – Aventuras com a Liv e a Helen

[ ] The Eleven

[ ] The Red Lady

[ ] The Galileo Trap

[ ] The Satanic Mill

[ ] Beachhead

[ ] Scenes from her Life

[ ] The Gift

[ ] The Sonomancer

[ ] Absent Friends

[ ] The Eighth Piece/The Doomsday Chronometer

[ ] The Crucible of Souls

[ ] Ship in a Bottle

[ ] Songs of Love

[ ] The Side of Angels

[ ] Stop the Clock

A história da Molly é encerrada em Dark Eyes, mas a Liv contiua como companion. Se junta a ela a Helen, introduzida em The Red Lady. Essa temporada é cheia de conflito político time lord e se você tiver assistido New Who vai reconhecer a presença da River Song como personagem recorrente.

‘Ravenous’ – Mais aventuras com a Liv e a Helen

[ ] Their Finest Hour

[ ] How to Make a Killing in Time Travel

[ ] World of Damnation/Sweet Salvation

[ ] Escape from Kaldor

[ ] Better Watch Out/The Fairytale of Salzburg

[ ] Seizure

[ ] Deeptime Frontier

[ ] Companion Piece

[ ] L.E.G.E.N.D.

[ ] The Odds Against

[ ] Whisper

[ ] Planet of Dust

[ ] Day of the Master

Essa temporada lida como um sombrio conto de fadas Time Lord que parece ser mais real do que se acreditava. A Liv reecontra a irmã Tula em Escape from Kaldor e passa um ano com ela antes do Doutor e da Helen buscarem ela de novo. Esse é o pontapé pra outros spin-off, The Robots, que explora esse ano que as duas passaram juntas. Eu vou elaborar sobre The Robots mais tarde.

‘Stranded’ – Mais aventuras com a Liv e a Helen, mais a Tania e o Andy

[ ] Lost Property

[ ] Wild Animals

[ ] Must-See TV

[ ] Divine Intervation

[ ] Dead Time

[ ] UNIT Dating

[ ] Baker Street Irregulars

[ ] The Long Way Round

[ ] Patience

[ ] Twisted Folklore

[ ] Snow

[ ] What Just Happened

[ ] Crossed Lines

[ ] Get Andy

[ ] The Keys of Baker Street

[ ] Best Year Ever

Stranded continua de onde Ravenous parou: a TARDIS foi danificada e agora o Doutor, a Liv e a Helen tem que ficar na terra por um ano enquanto ela se recupera. E por causa disso eles começam a viver em uma casa que costumava ser do Doutor, em Baker Street, mas acabam sendo recebidos por vizinhos inesperados. Essa temporada começa bem slice-of-life/meio sitcom, mais ou menos, mas se transforma em um conflito temporal.

‘Temporada cinco’ – Mais aventuras com a Liv e a Helen

[ ] Paradox of the Daleks

[ ] The Dalby Spook

[ ] Here Lies Drax

[ ] The Love Vampires

[ ] Albie’s Angels

[ ] Birdsong

[ ] Lost Hearts

[ ] Slow Beasts

É parte da era atual. A Big Finish ainda tem lançado histórias com a Liv e a Helen, mas não é o único arco em atividade (veja: Audacity; e a Time War). Dito isso, as coisas mudaram um pouco de figura. Embora os lançamentos ainda sejam em boxsets, agora eles tem apenas três histórias de uma hora e não quatro; além de não ter mais nenhum arco narrativo recorrente em dezesseis partes. São histórias fechadas em si mesmas que partem do fim de Stranded.

Spin-off – The Robots

[ ] The Robots of Life

[ ] The Sentient

[ ] Love Me Not

[ ] The Robots of War

[ ] Toos and Paul

[ ] Do No Harm

[ ] The Mystery of Sector 13

[ ] Circuit Breaker

[ ] A Matter of Conscience

[ ] Closed Loop

[ ] Off Grid

[ ] The Janus Deception

[ ] The Enhancement

[ ] Machines Like Us

[ ] Kaldor Nights

[ ] Force of Nature

[ ] Face to Face

[ ] The Final Hour

Como eu disse na seção de Ravenous, tem um spin-off sobre a Liv passando um tempo com a irmã que acontece durante Escape from Kaldor. As duas são de Kaldor, um planeta da série clássica, e portanto esse spin-off é melhor aproveitado se você já assistiu "The Robots of Death", história do Quarto Doutor. E, por que não, escutar Robophobia, que por si só também é uma continuação de The Robots of Death.

SOBRE OS ÁUDIOS – A TIME WAR

E claro que a gente tem histórias do Oitavo que se passam durante a Time War. A gente pode dividir ela em duas eras: os dois primeiros boxsets, quando ele está viajando com a companion Bliss; e os lançamentos atuais, com ele viajando com o Alex - escutem a quarta temporada da Lucie Miller pra saberem do que se trata - e a Cass. Sim, a Cass de Night of the Doctor. Como isso é possível a gente ainda não sabe ao certo, mas é fácil assumir que é culpa da Time War.

‘Temporada um’ – Aventuras com a Bliss

[ ] The Starship of Theseus

[ ] Echoes of War

[ ] The Conscript

[ ] One Life

[ ] The Lords of Terror

[ ]  Planet of the Ogrons

[ ] In the Garden of Death

[ ] Jonah

‘Temporada dois’ – Mais aventuras com a Bliss

[ ] State of Bliss

[ ] The Famished Lands

[ ] Fugitive in Time

[ ] The War Valeyard

[ ] Palindrome

[ ] Dreadshade

[ ] Restoration of the Daleks [two-parter]

O Valeyard é um vilão da série clássica. Você vai aproveitar muito mais The War Valeyard tendo contexto do personagem - portanto assista a temporada 23, Trial of a Time Lord, ou pelo menos saida que essa é uma "versão" do Doutor do futuro que encapsula tudo de ruim e maldoso que existe no Doutor.

‘Temporada três’ – Aventuras com a Alex e a Cass

[ ] Meanwhile, Elsewhere

[ ] Verpertine

[ ] Previously, Next Time [two-parter]

[ ] Nowhere, Never

[ ] The Road Untravelled

[ ] Cass-cade

[ ] Borrow or Rob

OUTROS

As histórias ‘Day of the Vashta Nerada’, ‘The Sontaran Ordeal’ e ‘The Silent Priest’, todas com participação de monstros da série nova, e acontecem durante a Time War. Dito isso, o Doutor está viajando sozinho e elas podem ser escutadas isoladamente.

Tem várias 'short trips', histórias curtas envolvendo personagens e Doctor Who, com o Oitavo Doutor. Tanto em prosa quanto em áudio. Eu omiti elas desse guia, dado que eu não considero elas essenciais, mas várias delas são boas. Portanto, recomendo escutar/ler essas histórias quando tiver com saudades de um companion ou Doutor.

SOBRE ESSE GUIA

Eu vou atualizar esse guia a medida que novas histórias forem anunciadas. Além disso ainda vou fazer guias pra, pelo menos os outros Doutores da clássica. Só preciso de um tempinho.

[tiny-librarian]

Although often touted as an “Untouched Tomb”, Tutankhamun’s Tomb was far from untouched when it was uncovered in 1922 by Howard Carter and his team.

Oh, and before we begin, This is NOT the “Sealed Entrance to the Tomb of Tutankhamun” as I see people insist so often I want to pull my hair out.

Spoiler Alert: It’s the seal on the third shrine that surrounded his sarcophagus. 

Also, all of the Carter quotes come directly from his journals + diaries + notes on the object cards for things found in the tomb, which can be read here.

Now on with the (Kinda long, so be forewarned...but at least there’s pictures!) show!

When the tomb was first discovered, Carter could immediately tell it had been broken into more than once, just by looking at the first sealed doorway (Pictured below)

Now that the whole of the sealed doorway was laid bare various seal impressions bearing the cartouche of Tût-ankh-Amen were discernible, more in particular in the lower portion of the plastering of the doorway where the impressions were clearest.

In the upper part of this sealed doorway traces of two distinct re-openings and successive re-closings were apparent, and that the seal-impressions first noticed, Nov. 5, of the Royal Necropolis - i.e., ‘Anubis over Nine Foes’, had been used for the re-closing .

Here are some clearer pictures of bits of the doorway after demolition, showing the patchwork of seals across it that were mentioned:

The second sealed doorway showed much of the same, although it doesn’t appear any photographs were taken of it:

The second sealed doorway, at the end of the descending passage, leading directly into the Antechamber, was almost an exact replica of the first doorway, save perhaps the seal impressions were less distinct - stone and rubble having been piled against them before they were dry and hard. Corresponding in position to the breaches in the first doorway, were similar traces of successive openings and re-closings clearly marked upon the plaster, but the breaches in this case had evidently not been quite so large. Here, I must plead heat of excitement at the moment of the discovery, for I find my notes are not sufficiently complete to give a detailed enumeration of the seals employed; however, notes after examining of both the original and subsequent closings at the time of the discovery, record: `No appreciable difference from the several sealings on the first doorway'. Since, from fragments preserved, I find no reason for changing that conclusion.

Modern writers also mention these robberies as well, such as this quote by Zahi Hawass, mentioning how as much as 60% of the jewelry that had been stored in the treasury was likely stolen:

For example, robbers entered the Tomb of Tutankhamun twice, most likely soon after it was first sealed. Fortunately, it was saved both times by the necropolis police, although many portable and salable items were removed. In fact, it has been estimated that about 60 percent of the jewelry from one room in particular was stolen in ancient times.

The Golden Age of Tutankhamun -  Zahi Hawass

It became even more apparent after entering the tomb, as Carter wrote the day after they’d first looked inside:

Everywhere we found traces of disorder caused by some early intruder, objects over-turned, broken fragments lying upon the floor, all added to the confusion, and the unfamiliar plan of tomb repeatedly caused us to ask ourselves in our perplexity whether it was really a tomb or a Royal Cache? As the better light fell upon the objects we endeavoured to take them in. It was impossible. They were so many. Beneath one of the couches, the Thoueris couch in the S.W. corner, we perceived an aperture in the rock-wall which proved to be nothing less than another sealed-doorway broken open as by some predatory hand. With care Ld. C. and I crept under this strange gilded couch, and we peered into the opening. There we saw that it led into yet another chamber (afterwards called the Annexe) of smaller dimensions than the Ante-chamber and of a lower level. Even greater confusion prevailed here, the very stones that blocked the entrance, forced in when the breach was made, were lying helter-skelter upon the objects on the floor crushed by their weight. It was full of one mass of furniture. An utter confusion of beds, chairs, boxes, alabaster and faience vases, statuettes, cases of peculiar form, and every sort of thing overturned and searched for valuables. The remaining portions of the plaster covering the blocking of this doorway bore similar seal-impressions as on the other doorways.

In neither of these two chambers could we see any traces of a mummy or mummies - the one pious reason for making a cache. With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. Behind that closed doorway was the tomb-chamber, and that Tût-ankh-Amen probably lay there in all his magnificent panoply of death - we had found that monarch's burial place intact save certain metal-robbing, and not his cache.We then examined the plaster and seal-impressions upon the closed doorway. They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King. We also discovered that in the bottom part of the blocking a small breach had once been made, large enough to allow of a small man to pass through, but it had been carefully reclosed, plastered and sealed. Evidently the tomb beyond had been entered - by Thieves! Who knows? But sufficient evidence to tell that someone had made ingress.

Here are some photos taken during the excavation, showing the general disorder and how things had been tossed around both by the robbers looking for loot, and by whoever had re-sealed the tomb and attempted to put things back in order:

It was later made obvious that the robbers made it to every room in the tomb during the two separate break-ins. 

Carter’s notes show how both the door between the antechamber and burial chamber, as well as the one between the antechamber and annex (The fourth room, the treasury, leading off from the burial chamber had never been sealed) were plastered over and re-closed.

The blocking of the doorway leading to the Burial-chamber bore at least one hundred and fifty-one seal impressions that were made at the time of interment, and some ... subsequent impressions when the small hole made by the thieves was reclosed.

A photograph showing a closeup of part of said door before it was broken into by the team:

Here’s a photograph showing the seals above the other doorway (Into the annex) which was only partially filled, as noted by Carter:

Only the upper part of the blocking of the doorway leading to the Annexe remained, the thieves having broken through the lower portions. 

In conclusion: While Tutankhamun’s Tomb was, indeed, discovered remarkably intact, it was robbed at least twice in antiquity. Much of the easily portable treasures, such as jewelry or expensive linens and cosmetics, were carted away by the thieves. Considering Tutankhamun was a Pharaoh with a short reign, and buried in a rush in a tomb unlikely to have been meant for him, it really makes me wonder what sort of riches were originally buried inside of the tombs of major Pharaohs like Ramesses II, Seti I, or in the Pyramids of Khufu,  Menkaure, or Khafre. 

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Masterpost: Egyptian mythology (summer 2023)

Intro:

The triads (or how Egyptians played dolls with their gods) - Off a chaotic start (some creation myths)

Ennead time:

Seth - Isis - Nephthys

Simple facts about Ancient Egypt: Of big things like history, geography and pharaohs

The Great Goddesses: 

Sekhmet - Bastet - Hathor

Simple facts about Ancient Egypt: Various jobs and social classes, from the scribes to the peasants

Familiar, local, small or household gods:

Taweret/Thoueris - Bes - Hapi

Simple facts about Ancient Egypt: Everyday life in Ancient Egypt - house, family, makeup, children... 

[tiny-librarian]

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive. This heterogeneous mass of material crowded into the chamber without particular order, so crowded that you were obliged to move with anxious caution, for time had wrought certain havoc with many of the objects, was very bewildering. Everywhere we found traces of disorder caused by some early intruder, objects over-turned, broken fragments lying upon the floor, all added to the confusion, and the unfamiliar plan of tomb repeatedly caused us to ask ourselves in our perplexity whether it was really a tomb or a Royal Cache? As the better light fell upon the objects we endeavoured to take them in. It was impossible. They were so many. Beneath one of the couches, the Thoueris couch in the S.W. corner, we perceived an aperture in the rock-wall which proved to be nothing less than another sealed-doorway broken open as by some predatory hand. With care Ld. C. and I crept under this strange gilded couch, and we peered into the opening. There we saw that it led into yet another chamber (afterwards called the Annexe) of smaller dimensions than the Ante-chamber and of a lower level. Even greater confusion prevailed here, the very stones that blocked the entrance, forced in when the breach was made, were lying helter-skelter upon the objects on the floor crushed by their weight. It was full of one mass of furniture. An utter confusion of beds, chairs, boxes, alabaster and faience vases, statuettes, cases of peculiar form, and every sort of thing overturned and searched for valuables. The remaining portions of the plaster covering the blocking of this doorway bore similar seal-impressions as on the other doorways.

In neither of these two chambers could we see any traces of a mummy or mummies - the one pious reason for making a cache. With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. Behind that closed doorway was the tomb-chamber, and that Tût-ankh-Amen probably lay there in all his magnificent panoply of death - we had found that monarch's burial place intact save certain metal-robbing, and not his cache.

Extract from the Journal of Howard Carter, November 27th, 1922