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 3, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
The union of Re and Osiris supposed a challenge to the Ancient Egyptian Art, since new iconography was needed for decorating the tomb walls and the papyri. From the XVIII Dynasty, some passages of the Book of the Dead were introduced in the royal tombs decoration and...
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 | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
There is always news about artifacts of Ancient Egypt. Now it is the turn of the coffin of “Denit-Ast”. It dates from the Persian Period and it is in the Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. As Gayle Gibson exposed, this coffin has many oddities in its...