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representations of astronomical phenomena were fitting subjects for Egyptian temples. One part of the ceiling features depictions of moon deities standing atop disks in which images of the wadjet ...
Podcaster Jay Anderson recounted entering a mysterious “trance” state while visiting the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet during ... "It felt like the statue was locked on to me.
Archaeologists also discovered a terracotta statue of the goddess Isis-Aphrodite. Religious syncretism of this kind was common in ancient Egypt and elsewhere in the Classical world. In this case, the ...
In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...
Inscriptions on both sides of the entrance to the tomb name the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Nephthys. The two were sisters and were often paired together as Isis represented birth and Nephthys death.
The Egyptian goddess Isis was one of the most revered deities of the ancient world, but her influence didn’t stop at Egypt’s borders. Over time, she became a central figure in Greco-Roman ...
As a cheetah deity, Mafdet in Egyptian mythology was a goddess of safety from scorpions and snakes. She was also a symbol of the judicial process (the death penalty). Goddess Mafdet with the head of a ...
That would be Taweret, Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth and the best new minor character in the MCU. This is Taweret, as Steven eventually notes when he pulls himself together at the ...