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that I have come to you my Lord the Lord of Ma'at
that I have brought myself here to behold your beauties
that I know you Ra and that I know your name
that I have seen you rise in the darkness
that I have seen you rise from beyond the darkness
and have seen you rise with the emissaries of Ra
and he who brings forth dawn upon night
KV 6, Chamber J.
The Book of Night, XII Hour.
The sun emerging from Nut.
[Middle register, detail]
The "Unwearing Ones."
The emmisaries (protectors) of Ra.
[Lower register, detail]
The akhu (transfigured souls) leading
the hounds of Anubis, which here in the XII hour
take on a benign aspect.
Imagine being there as this was paintedI always wanted to have a time machine
Just kind of an Emo thing I wanted to put up. Learing to deal with Set recently. Or trying to. Chaos and the Void, I am trying to learn, are a part of the universe also; in a sense they are like the canvas upon which worlds are created. Set is the blank wall upon which the glyphs are written. So Set has his place in the scheme of things, and the light comes forth after darkness.It's amazing how vivid the colors still are in this one. That's true of many of the murals in the Valley. Then there are some that are greatly deteriorated by way of water across time. The walls are the time machine, I suppose. Writing is a kind of time machine. I put this down, and you may not read it for days or months; but then you come here and read, and it is as if you were there in the past at the exact time that I wrote it. Right at THIS MOMENT.Well I just got up and I think there's an addition I want to make to this post, so I'd better go.Have a good day, Allan. Whenever that day is — LOL.
I went and looked at it a while. I'm used to Nut stretched across the sky, so I couldn't quite find her. I did find a lizard, though. :)Thanks, Isabel.
the goddess nut:http://my.opera.com/wickedlizard/albums/showpic.dml?album=115382&picture=1604864
the other depiction of her is a woman, with her body full of stars and her womb is the moon and her head is like the sun, as if she is swallowing it… i have it in a book on egyptian mythology.she is also depicted as a cow, feeding earth and also this links below.http://z.about.com/d/altreligion/1/0/c/y/2/glossarynuit.jpghttp://touregypt.net/featurestories/pic03212005.jpg
Thanks for the links. Not only for myself but for any readers that may pass by. The second one is unusual, reminiscent more of winged Ma'at than anything I've seen of Nut. But with the solar disks on the body of the figure, there can't be any doubt.
Very interesting. One of my closest friends is teaching herself Ancient Egyptian and I get to hear her latest insights on a weekly basis. It is a fiendishly complex language, not least because the symbols are sometimes words in their own right, or sometimes sounds, and, like Hebrew, (which is clearly somewhat derived from Egyptian) there are no vowels.She read me a beautiful poem on death that was as powerful as anything written since. Unfortunately, I did not memorize it.
She is my favorite of the egyptian goddesses. I recently discovered that she is also very aquarian like me… :p