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The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.

The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.

by mrvaldesogo | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

The Senet game of Ancient Egypt was a board game for leisure in common life, which also had its funerary side. It was present in the wall decoration and was part of the funerary equipment. According to it, the deceased played against the death and once he or she...

Lunar Rituals with Hair in the Ancient Egyptian City of Heliopolis.

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...

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