by mrvaldesogo | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Pa-aton-em-heb (“The Sun Disk is in Feast”), was “Royal Singer” of the end of the Amarna period. It seems that his tomb was originally in Saqqara (although the location remains unknown) and was dismantled. Some blocks of the chapel are nowadays...
by mrvaldesogo | May 18, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
In Ancient Egypt there were many different ways of referring to same idea. For instance the concept of fertility could be expressing through the image of god Min, the icon of sematauy, the scene of copulation of Nut (the sky) and Geb (the earth)… It also...
by mrvaldesogo | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
In Ancient Egypt groups of common mourners walked during funerary processions making many gestures of lament: raising arms, beating their arms…One of the most typical gestures of these mourners was to pull from their lock of hair. We can watch this typical mourning...
by mrvaldesogo | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
It seems that in Ancient Egypt there were a relationship between the hair element and some rites of Heliopolis. The funerary texts show that the hair, the lock of hair and the cut of this lock of hair were somehow connected with religious practices of this ancient...
