Tag: ancient Egypt
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Ba And Ka: The Human Soul in Ancient Egypt
from kingtutone.com: In Ancient Egypt, they believed that the human spirit was made up of five parts: The Ib, Sheut, Ren, Ba, and Ka. Although all five were of importance, the Ba and Ka are of major significance. The Ba is the most similar to the western idea of the soul, and the Ka is…
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Pagans Are Really Annoyed That ISIS Took The Name Of Their Goddess
from Huffingtonpost.co.uk: The shock ubiquity of the terror group ISIS with its sudden takeover of swathes of Iraq has caused a bit of a branding problem. Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of nature and magic, has had her name appropriated for many products and places over the years, before the Islamic State of Iraq and…
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Pharaohs of the Sun
from NationalGeographic.com: On a morning in the year 1353 B.C. a young pharaoh of Egypt rose before dawn to greet the sun with a poem he loved and perhaps had written: “Beautifully you appear from the horizon of heaven,” he prayed as sunlight began to flood Egypt’s capital city of Thebes. To him the rays…