What is Egyptian religion? Is it a flying falcon that shoots at people when they are disobedient, a mummy coming back to life after chanting a resurrection spell, or maybe a handful of superstitions getting everyone riled up at the local village? It may seem like a very straightforward topic, but as bizarre as it … Continue reading Watch Out, The Flying Falcon Is Here!! →
The world has always had a very intricate relationship with ancient Egyptian culture. This renewed fascination of the culture sparked with the collapse of ancient Egypt when the Romans conquered and gave rise to a craze that has been coined as what many refer today as Egyptomania. Nonetheless, this fascination has been misdirected in multiple … Continue reading Egyptomania: A Misdirected Infatuation →
It is quite obvious that both magic and religion were widespread and prosperous during the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt with the substantial evidence we have of spells, wands, cult statues, prayers, and much more. However, when reading about their magical spells/incantations and religious practices, it becomes difficult to find rules to categorize them into … Continue reading Is Magic Just A Degraded Form of Religion? →
Before being emerged into the world of Egyptology, life and death in many different religious contexts seemed like a very straightforward topic to me. Following the general concept of living a life devoted to the individual’s particular god (if there is one), dying, and leaving it as that. The constant and most pressing question though … Continue reading The Old and Middle Kingdom In Ancient Egypt: The Affects of Morality on the Afterlife →
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