by mrvaldesogo | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
The most evident proof of the importance in Ancient Egypt of Isis and Nephthys in a rebirth process is in the Books of the Day and Night, which describe the journey of the sun god through the sky. According to the thought of Ancient Egypt, especially during the New...
by mrvaldesogo | Feb 16, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
The religion of Ancient Egypt developed during the New Kingdom sophisticated religious texts, which combined the solar theology with the Myth of Osiris. As a consequence, the art of ancient Egypt included in its corpus of images a new solar-Osirian iconography. As we...
by mrvaldesogo | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
It was a fact, that the ancient Egyptian corpus of images needed an iconography for expressing the union of Re and Osiris. And little by little in this iconography Isis and Nephthys, the two mourners of Osiris, became essential. In the XIX Dynasty the ancient Egyptian...
by mrvaldesogo | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
One of the main challenges for priests and artists in Ancient Egypt were to combine the osirian and solar cosmogonies in the funerary literature and iconography. The two main pillars in the belief of resurrection in Ancient Egypt were the myth of Osiris and the solar...
by mrvaldesogo | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
In the last post it was considered the role of Nephthys in the religion of Ancient Egypt. It is a fact that Nephtys was a very important goddess in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. Isis needed her help for granting the resurrection of Osiris; they both Isis and Nephthys...