#Ra Horakhty

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Neskhonsu offers to Ra-Horakhty and Osiris on her colourful stela. The stela's background is a yellow colour that suggests gold. Ra-Horakhty's body is green, his shoulders covered with white feathers with red and blue tips; Osiris' body is covered in the same feathers and his shoulders are draped with red. Neskhonsu wears linen so fine you can see her body outline through it.

When: Ptolemaic Egypt

Where: Egyptian Museum, Turin

[isupposeimluckyimstillalive]

Smashing snap! The gods for whom the deceased is shaking her sistrum are Ra-Horakhty and Osiris.

Stela of Neskhonsu, sistrum player of Amun-Re

* Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE)

* Wood

* Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

[wanderingskemetic]

Dua Ra-Horakhty on his day and happy Wep Ronpet!

Dua to you oh great lord of the rising sun!

May you help rejuvenate more for the new year and lead me towards Ma'at!

[blackrainbowblade]

Ra-Horakhty sails in the sun-barque.

[shrimptin]

[hesy-bes]

can I have a poem for Ra-Horakhty?

O' Rising Sun,

Harken to my words.

To you I sing my hymns,

voice raising to your rays.

You fill my heart with strength,

bringing light to the new day,

and I thank you for the blessing of your touch.

Guiding me forward to a new tomorrow.

[philoursmars]

Revenons à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55800 photos (environ).  On est en 2017. Oui, mon blog est né en 2017 mais je vais prolonger ce projet...jusqu’à l’année 2018 . Allez....

Au Louvre-Lens, il y eut une très belle expo : “Musiques de l’Antiquité” :

- les 2 premières : harpe arquée - Egypte, Nouvel Empire, 1300 av. JC. 

- œnochoé - chœur d'oiseaux de théâtre - 500 av. JC.

- sistre - Egypte, Basse Epoque, 500 av. JC. 

- Djédkhon Souioufânkh, chante devant Rê-Horakhty - Thèbes, 3ème période intermédiaire, 850 av. JC.

- stèle du chamelier "Lil” - Yémen, 3ème s. ap. JC.

[shxinny]

Montu

Montu es el netkher de la guerra, del alto Egipto y manifestación del sol abrazador, es por esta razón que también lleva el epíteto de Montu-Ra.

Su nombre significa ''Nómada'', es un dios muy antiguo, tras ser reconocido por el epíteto de Montu-Ra fue considerado cómo un netkher de la guerra, uno de sus títulos era ''Horus con el brazo fuerte''.

Tuvo varias consortes, entre ellas se encontraban Tenenet/Tyenenet, netkher de la maternidad, Rattaui/Raet-Taui, señora de las dos tierras y personificación del sol, contraparte femenina de Ra y madre de Harpra y Harpocrates, y Iunyt/Tunit, netkher de la fertilidad y el campo.

El centro del culto de Montu se situaba en Hemonthis (Tierra de Montu), Tebas, Nubia, Medamud, Karnak, lugar donde su templo yace junto al de Amen, Amant y Tod.

Su festividad se celebra el 5to día del mes de la estación de Akhet/Ajet

Fue hijo adoptivo de Amen y Mut, luego sería reemplazado por Khonsu, esto debido a que, según la mitología, Montu se percato que su importancia se vería opacada por la de sus padres, es por esta razón que decidió escapar a Hermonthis.

Los Greco-Romanos le nombraron Month y lo asociaron a Apolo/Sol y Ares/Marte.

Fue sincretizado con Her/Heru, Ra, Ra-Horakhti y Bakh, recibiendo los nombres de:

Montu-Her (Month-Horus)

Montu-Ra (Month-Ra)

Montu-Bakh (Month-Buchis/Month/Bujis)

Montu-Ra-Horakhti (Month-Ra-Horakhti)

Fue en la dinastía XI donde los faraones decidieron portar su nombre, Montuhotep/Mentuhotep (Montu está satisfecho).

Es representado cómo un hombre con cabeza de halcón o de toro, portando el disco solar, dos ureos y la corona de dos plumas. También era representado directamente cómo un halcón.

Imagen: crimson-chains

Fuente 1: Wiki-Mitología

Fuente 2: Cairotoptours

Fuente 3: Egiptología.org

Fuente 4: Worldhistory.org

Fuente 5: Egipto Exclusivo

Fuente 6: Amigos del antiguo Egipto

Fuente 7: Egipto profundo

Fuente 8: Sobre Egipto

Fuente 9: Egyptopia

Fuente 10: Wikipedia (solo para sacar el nombre griego, no lo tomen cómo fuente seria).

Recuerden que todas mis redes sociales y la Per-Ankh están ligadas a mi Beacons, no vemos en un próximo post ¡Adiós!

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Dragons and Riders

By Ra Horakhty art

[egypt-museum]

Ramesses III before the gods of Heliopolis (Ra-Horakhty pictured), The Great Harris Papyrus New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, c. 1150 B.C. Thebes, Upper Egypt British Museum. EA9999,24

[alephskoteinos]

Reading Condensed Chaos again and...well fuck

Cannot help thinking that there is an extent to which Thelema is quietly informing the contours of my development. I suspected as much back in January of last year when writing about Gothic Insurrection and the Left Hand Path, so it's been some time. The emphasis on solar myth, though communicated through paganism and Satanism, is probably the most obvious way, but I look at AL III.72 on the Archangels of Sex album from Nekrophile Rekords and get reminded of exactly what I wrote Alucard and Gothic Insurrection. So do some of the documents from that label outlining their ethos, what with the Solarphallic Eye and its longing for the whole universe. Listening to anything off that label is like a source of spiritual intoxication that links those associations, somehow in a satanic way.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

From the Amduat papyrus of Khonsumes. The tree goddess is a common motif, but apparently it's rare to see Ra-Horakhty being worshipped on these papyri.

Where: Kunsthistorisch Museum Vienna

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

[jaehaeryshater]

Illustration from Septon Barth’s novel ‘Dragon, Wyrms, and Wyverns: Their Unnatural History.’ The image depicts Vhagar proudly presenting her hatchlings to her mate Balerion, circa 35 AC. The hatchlings are identified by Barth as Sheepstealer, Cannibal, Vermithor, and two she-dragons that remained nameless, as they died before bonding and being named by any Targaryen. ‘The Black Dread’, as he was called, invoked fear in the hearts of not only people, but other dragons as well, and his hatchlings are depicted cowering from him, though he meant them no harm. All except Vermithor, who easily became familiar with his father, which greatly pleased Vhagar. This depiction was later called into question for being propaganda for Jaehaerys’s rule and exceptionalism, but the truth remains unknown.

art by: @ra-horakhty-art

Recently, I promised a sweet Balerion, Vhagar, and family artwork and I (and the artist ofc) have delivered! You might have seen the artist post this already, but I wanted to post it on my blog as well because I’m so proud of the piece. My vision going in was for it not to be depicted just as an artwork for us in the real world, but also presented with a storybook feel, with the added lore that it’s supposed to be an illustration from one of the histories in A Song of Ice And Fire. I tried to take into account not just popular depictions of the dragons, nor House of the Dragon, but specifically from the text and from art that GRRM himself has commissioned. Because of this, Vhagar is bronze-greenish instead of her standard green. After hearing @francy-sketches theory that Vhagar, for lack of a better term, oxidized with age and became green as she got older, I decided I liked that interpretation and have depicted her as green in artwork of her once she gets older, and this color when she’s relatively young. I‘m a bit biased but I do think it looks beautiful and exactly how I wanted it, book accurate and something you could imagine actually seeing in a Westerosi history book.

My main motivator in these dragon arts, as I’ve stated before, is to explore the nature of dragons, not as weapons of war or in context of the Targaryens, but as mythical animals. They’re not quite like lizards, but also can’t be held to the same standards as people. In most dragon lore, they often act like mammals but are physically reptiles. Most stories involving dragons have the creatures caring for their young and maintaining a bond with their mate, so for lack of anything on the subject from GRRM, I take it upon myself to feed my headcanons. I find it sweet to depict times where Vhagar was not lonely, nor being used in war. It adds another element of tragedy, that these dragons did not have to fight each other but were made to anyway. On a happier note, is it not so so sweet how the hatchlings here are so comfortable with their mom to protect them, they’re cowering under her and climbing on her wings because they trust her. My favorite is Sheepstealer on her wing, that’s adorable to me. And Vermithor, I did mean for that to be true instead of just propaganda, but I couldn’t help adding a little Jaehaerys slander. But Vermithor is still a very brave boy and wants to be just like his father when he grows big and strong! Cannibal, on the other hand, is scared out of his mind, all these anxieties and being forced around other dragons caused him to fly away and isolate himself (in my mind).

It was such a pleasure to work with @ra-horakhty-art, they were super accommodating and worked easily with my ideas. The process was super fast and easy on my end, he works hard and quickly so I was absolutely impressed.

[talonabraxas]

RA ∆.∆∆ Talon Abraxas

Ra, also spelled Re, is one of the gods of the ancient Egyptian pantheon. While he’s not the oldest Egyptian God of the Sun, he may be the most well-known and definitely the most important. “Before Ra came onto the scene, there was the falcon god Horus. So when Ra emerged, he merged with Horus and became Re-Horakhty. In this form, he was the morning sun. And as the evening sun, Ra merged with Atum. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, he is referred to as Re-Horakhty-Atum-Horus-Khepri. When Upper and Lower Egypt came together during the Middle and New Kingdoms, Ra was once again combined with another solar god Amun and Amun-Ra was born”

[blackrainbowblade]

Dua Ra-Horakhty

[santoschristos]

Egyptian God Ra

Ra (also given as Re) is the sun god of ancient Egypt. He is one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon and was later merged with others such as Horus, becoming Ra-Horakhty (the morning sun), Amun (as noonday sun), and Atum (the evening sun) associated with primal life-giving energy.

Ra is the Egyptian word for 'sun'. As a solar deity, Ra embodied the power of the sun but was also thought to be the sun itself, envisioned as the great god riding in his barge across the heavens throughout the day and descending into the underworld at sunset. As he made his way through the darkness beneath the earth, he was attacked nightly by the giant serpent Apophis (also known as Apep) who tried to prevent the sun from rising and so destroy all life on earth.

Ra in the Heavens

Ra on the Earth

Ra in the Netherworld

Ra as Creator

Ra as King and Father of the King

RA, LORD OF LIGHT Images by Mahaboka

The Egyptian God Ra - Lord of Life and Light :