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SUPERPOSITION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ISIS AND NEPHTHYS OVERLAPED.

by mrvaldesogo | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

The artists of Ancient Egypt had a particular conception of perspective, which affected in the way they depicted groups of living beings and amounts of things. In our last posts we saw how in Ancient Egypt the funerary scene of Osiris being flanked by Isis and...

Nephthys in Ancient Egypt, Assitant of Isis.

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...

Had in Ancient Egypt the Goddess Nephthys a Lower Status?

by mrvaldesogo | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

There is a scene of the Book of the Dead from the tomb of Ay, in which are depicted on the solar boat the gods of the Heliopolitan cosmogony and the Myth of Osiris (apart from Seth): Re-Horakhty, Atoum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Horus…and out of the...

Requirements of Professional Mourners in Ancient Egypt.

by mrvaldesogo | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

Among the Ancient Egypt gods, Isis and Nephtys occupied a very important role. It is an ancient Egypt fact, that the two professional mourners in the role of Isis and Nephtys did a mourning rite during the funeral for granting the dead’s resurrection. All along our...

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