#amaunet

[elenath9]

Secrets

“I couldn’t be safer than in the company of Teal’c.” ❤️

Daniel gets to put his Abydos robes back on.  I like that we get to go back there after the pilot episode.  Ooof, it’s hard to learn that Sha’re was impregnated against her will.  Poor Sha’re!  Daniel is in such shock he can’t even go to her for a while.

I like that we get a chance to see Sha’re as herself a little more before she gets killed.  I would have loved if they could have taken Sha’re back to Earth, even for a little while.

Meanwhile, we get to meet Sam’s father for the first time.  The accident to kill the reporter seems a little contrived/too much of a coincidence, but ok. I DO think it was just supposed to be a random accident. I love the reference to movie Jack O’Neil with one L.  Jacob is waaaay too blunt about his illness.  Poor Sam!  I admire him for trying to get Sam what he thinks she wants, but he comes across as kinda selfish in the way he presents it.  I love that General Hammond gives them the awards. ❤️

Herur’ur is skeptical that Daniel is a warrior lol. And Daniel smacks him.  😉 Jack’s got a great aim with that knife.  Sha’re does look at them and doesn’t say anything, which I like, because it shows a little resistance to Amaunet, the way Skaara showed a little resistance to Klorel.  They’re both strong-minded individuals.

[hedgiwithapen]

SG-1: Instead of breaking the time loop, Malikai succeeds in figuring out time travel, and SG-1 wakes up just before the beginning of the series.

(episode: Window of Opportunity) “I lost my son,” Jack said, pity winning more than his anger, more than his frustration. “I know…and as much as I…I could never live that over again.” He looked at Malikai. “Could you?” “Yes,” came the answer, but not from the alien scientist. Jack turned to stare down Daniel. Daniel was not cowed.  “I could. For another minute, just one minute even… one more chance to tell her I loved her.” “You understand. Help me,” Malikai pleaded. “Daniel,” Jack warned. Daniel  ignored him. “One shot’s all we have, he’s going to be very grumpy about this,” Daniel said. “ let me see these markings-- I think-- this one… maybe?” “No, no, I’ve tried that one,” Malikai said. “But not in conjunction with these two, am I right?” Daniel beamed, touching the buttons. “So all we have to do is--” his hand came down. The alter lit.

Teal’c turned over in a bed he had not slept in in many months. His body remembered it better than his mind. He sat up, breathing in the smell of Chulak’s trees. They were like the trees of Earth-- of Tauri.  But they were not the same. He was home. And yet he was not. “Teal’c?” his wife asked, leaning up on her elbow. “You are troubled?” “I am not,” he said. It was a lie. “I am confused.” he amended, sensing that she had sensed his deception. “By what?” she asked. He paused, then plunged. “ I feel as though I have slept for many days. What is today?” She told him. Teal’c bit his tongue. He would be called soon, to go up past the Chappa’ai. Apophis still thought him faithful, and would send him to guard and choose from the captives that would be brought. Select a host for Amaunet. Kill the rest. His friends. They were not yet his friends, if they did not recall. What if they had not been affected as he had by the machine of Malakai?  But then, it would make logical sense for Jack O’neil to recall, as he too had been within the loop. And should he not… Teal’c would have to hope. “My love,” he said, quiet. Thinking. How he had longed for the chance to see things different. “I must ask you to do something for me, and tell no one of it.” “What?” she asked. “I go to attend Appophis.  When the sun is highest, take our son and wait, concealed, near the Chappa’ai. Stay back from it. Then you must wait for me, and trust me.” “Why?” “I cannot tell you why. All I can do is ask, and if you have any love for me, you will do this. Do you understand?” “I do not. But, for you, I will do this.” Teal’c leaned his forehead to touch hers. “I love you. I will return.” He might save his wife and child, and still doom his neighbors. But no. This time, the Stargate program could be aware of the threat the system lords would pose to Chulak. They might intervene. They would intervene.  All he had to do was wait, and hope.  The prisoners from Abydos would arrive soon. And from there… The gods were false, so there was no one to pray to that the people he had once considered family would risk their lives for a woman who was not Sha’re of Abydos. He had killed her twice. He could not do so again. 

[teatrtenei]

NU (NUN)

Male and female primeval dieties who the priesthood of Hermopolis included in the Ogdoad, which consisted of the eight gods who created the world. Nun was called the "father of the gods" and was basically an abstract concept: he had neither temples nor worshippers. There is a myth that Tem created Nun as his home and sailed over him each day in two magical boats, one called Mantchet, "becoming strong", the other Semket, "becoming weak". In Egyptian art Nun was portrayed as a frog-headed man and Naunet, his female counterpart, as a snake. He was sometimes shown plunged up to his waist in water, with his arms supporting the gods who issued from his body. He was also depicted wearing a solar disk with plumes on his head. A variant spelling is Nu. Nu ("Watery One") or Nun ("The Inert One"), in ancient Egyptian religion, is the personification of the primordial watery abyss which existed at the time of creation and from which the creator sun god Ra arose.

Nu is one of the eight deities of the Ogdoad representing ancient Egyptian primordial Chaos from which the primordial mound arose. Nun can be seen as the first of all the gods and the creator of reality and personification of the cosmos. Nun is also considered the god that will destroy existence and return everything to the Nun whence it came. No cult was addressed to Nun. The name on Nu is paralleled with nen "inactivity" in a play of words in, "I raised them up from out of the watery mass [nu], out of inactivity [nen]". The name has also been compared to the Coptic noun "abyss; deep". The ancient Egyptians envisaged the oceanic abyss of the Nun as surrounding a bubble in which the sphere of life is encapsulated, representing the deepest mystery of their cosmogony.In ancient Egyptian creation accounts, the original mound of land comes forth from the waters of the Nun.The Nun is the source of all that appears in a differentiated world, encompassing all aspects of divine and earthly existence. In the Ennead cosmogony, Nun is perceived as transcendent at the point of creation alongside Atum the creator god. In the beginning the universe only consisted of a great chaotic cosmic ocean, and the ocean itself was referred to as Nu. In some versions of this myth, at the beginning of time Mehet-Weret, portrayed as a cow with a sun disk between her horns, gives birth to the sun, said to have risen from the waters of creation and to have given birth to the sun god Ra in some myths.The universe was enrapt by a vast mass of primordial waters, and the Benben, a pyramid mound, emerged amid this primal chaos. There was a lotus flower with Benben,and from this when it blossomed emerged Ra.There were many versions of the sun's emergence, and it was said to have emerged directly from the mound or from a lotus flower that grew from the mound, in the form of a heron, falcon, scarab beetle, or human child.In Heliopolis, the creation was attributed to Atum, a deity closely associated with Ra, who was said to have existed in the waters of Nu as an inert potential being. Beginning with the Middle Kingdom, Nun is described as "the father of the gods" and he is depicted on temple walls throughout the rest of ancient Egyptian religious history.

The Ogdoad includes along with Naunet and Nun, Amaunet and Amun; Hauhet and Heh; and Kauket and Kek. Like the other Ogdoad deities, Nu did not have temples or any center of worship. Even so, Nu was sometimes represented by a sacred lake, or, as at Abydos, by an underground stream. Nun was depicted as an anthropomorphic large figure and a personification of the primordial waters,with water ripples filling the body, holding a notched palm branch. Nun was also depicted in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a frog, and he was typically depicted in ancient Egyptian art holding aloft the solar barque or the sun disc. He may appear greeting the rising sun in the guise of a baboon. Nun is otherwise symbolized by the presence of a sacred cistern or lake as in the sanctuaries of Karnak and Dendara.

Nu was shown usually as male but also had aspects that could be represented as female or male. Naunet (also spelt Nunet) is the female aspect, which is the name Nu with a female gender ending. The male aspect, Nun, is written with a male gender ending. As with the primordial concepts of the Ogdoad, Nu's male aspect was depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed man. In Ancient Egyptian art, Nun also appears as a bearded man, with blue-green skin, representing water. Naunet is represented as a snake or snake-headed woman.

In the 12th Hour of the Book of Gates, Nu is depicted with upraised arms holding a solar bark (or barque, a boat). The boat is occupied by eight deities with Khepri, Ra's morning aspect, standing in the middle and being surrounded by the seven other deities.

During the Late Period when Egypt was occupied by foreign powers, the negative aspect of Nun became the dominant perception, reflecting the forces of disorder that were set loose in the country.

[templeofvengeance]

CHARACTER STUDIES (I think I've done this pretty recently but I'll try to mix up my answers!)

Basic Information.

• LEGAL NAME : 𓐍𓈖𓇓𓅱 (ḫnsw) (Khonshu)

• NICKNAME(S) : Chons, Khonsu (there's a billion variations on how to spell his name), Protector of the Travelers of the Night, Khonshu who eats hearts, God of Vengeance and the Moon, Traveler, Pathfinder, Embracer, Silly Old Bird, Bloody Pigeon, Little Crow

• DATE OF BIRTH : Sometime around the creation of the Solar System, roughly 4 billion years ago.

• GENDER : He's always identified/presented as male

• PLACE OF BIRTH : Uh. Space? (Or Celestial Heliopolis/the Overvoid.)

• CURRENTLY LIVING : Everywhere and nowhere-- wherever moonlight touches, in a temple close to Luxor, in the Overvoid, all across time and space.

• SPOKEN LANGUAGES : All of them.

• EDUCATION : Nothing formal

• HAIR COLOR : Nothing visible nowadays. In a more human form, he has black hair in a sidelock.

• EYE COLOR : None. (Seems to be black in both his old falcon and human forms. In comics he sometimes has a white eye-like glow in his sockets.)

• HEIGHT : Usually hovers around 8 feet, but he can grow and shrink whenever he wants.

• WEIGHT : None, he's like a ghost

Family Information

• SIBLINGS : Going off of this family tree (which is actually shown in the show!) and assuming Amun/Atum/Ra are all smashed together into one god like they are in Marvel canon: Shu, Tefnut, Ma'at, Bastet, Hathor (D:), Sekhmet and Ptah. All half-siblings created from/by Amon-Ra, Khonshu being the only one created from two parents. He doesn't see them as his siblings since most gods are descended from Amon-Ra, and as you can tell from the rest of that chart, uh... incest really isn't a barrier for gods to hook up.

• PARENTS : Amon-Ra and Amaunet. (It says Mut on the chart, who is his stepmother after Amaunet died.)

• RELATIVES : Most of the pantheon is probably related to each other in some way, but nothing in any way that counts.

• CHILDREN : None

• PETS : Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley-- //shot in a limousine

Relationship Information

• SEXUAL ORIENTATION : 4 billion years and he's never cared to put a label on it. Probably some variety of ace.

• RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Single and not ready to mingle

tagged by: @threegoldfish (Thank you!) tagging: Whoever hasn't done it yet, consider yourself tagged!

[parrhesiac]

Man, "Children of the Gods," that Rita Repulsa headdress they have Sha're wearing once she's been taken by Amaunet.

The costume designers were doing some serious work on this show, at SHO budget rates.

[parhelios]

my biggest issue with stargate sg-1 so far (no spoilers, i am only on legacy so like mid season 3) is sha're getting shafted like hell. i do genuinely thing the amaunet thing could have been interesting if they'd used her more, but given that the only episode she's been in since the start of season one that i can recall is the one where she was having apophis's kid and that's IT is really frustrating, especially given that sha're is a brown woman & daniel's love interest. idk it pisses me off esp because i really liked what we did see of her and daniel's relationship in the movie. i really hope that she comes back at some point but i am not holding out hope on her having a bigger role at ALL

[jadelotusflower]

Stargate rewatch: 2x01 The Serpent's Lair

Well, it only took...six months, but I'm back on my rewatch!

We start season 2 right where we left off, in fact I think the zoom to the team in the pel’tak is the exact final shot of the last episode reversed.

Sam’s instinct upon waking up blind is to bite the fuck out of Jack’s hand, lol. I love Sam.

Interesting that of the group Daniel regained consciousness first, especially on the heels of getting his brain melted from the ribbon device, but then I guess he’s had the most experience being KO'd? He does seem to be in more pain than the others, however.

Written by Brad Wright, directed by Jonathan Glassner, we got a double show runner episode!

We know things are serious because Hammond is in camo. Sadly, it does not say General on his uniform.

Ugh, Samuels is still around, but I love Hammond's palpable disdain for him.

Things are also serious for daddy Apophis, willing to hold off the attack on Earth until Klorel has been revived in the sarcophagus.

Okay, Daniel’s glasses are back, so was he wearing contacts the last episode and had to take them off after getting blinded by the shock grenade? I’m going to go with that because it’s the only thing that makes sense.

Bra’tac walking in and elbowing Jack in the face! lol, Jack’s really going through it this episode.

“Do you know all I have done to regain the trust of Apophis and join this campaign?” Referring the the end of Bloodlines I suppose, where I did have an issue with Bra’tac’s obvious betrayal so I appreciate they’ve addressed that here. Still, I think we can assume that if Apophis believed that Bra’tac did help Teal’c he would have been executed immediately, so perhaps it was assumed negligence on Bra’tac’s part rather than outright treason?

We breeze right past Bra’tac informing the others about Klorel without much of a reaction from Jack or Daniel, but given the circumstances I suppose to be expected (if unwelcome).

But we do get a “cross that bridge when we come to it” callback which I find delightful.

Klorel meanwhile is having trouble staying in control - he tells Apophis his host is “strong” and that he needs more time in the sarcophagus. This tracks with what we later learn about the sarcophagus side effects.

Apophis however is having none of it; it’s a Goa’uld eat Goa’uld world (literally, as we’ll find out in season 5).

Some lore quirks - Goa’uld society is highly patriarchal which makes sense from a feudalistic/imperialistic standpoint, but not really from a biological one. The Goa’uld genetic memory is passed through the female line, from queen to symbiote. So while Klorel may be Apophis’s son in that Apophis was presumably supplied the, er... "code", it’s Amaunet’s genetic memory that was passed on to Klorel.

On the other hand, perhaps this is why (as we are informed by Bra’tac) that it’s common for Goa’uld sons to turn against/challenge their fathers, as they have the memory of their mothers and ultimately see their father's as something to destroy and supplant - which is a core aspect of Greek mythology.

This will also come into play later with the Harcesis, as Apophis wants to create offspring with his own genetic memory, and perhaps it is Klorel's failure in this episode that spurs this decision. Or maybe not, I'm unsure of the timeline - is Sha're already pregnant and on Abydos at this point?

In this episode we see Apophis caring enough about Klorel to wait until he is revived, but also expecting him to prove his strength by overcoming his host and leading the attack. It is Klorel's test to prove himself as well as Apophis's chance to get his revenge on Earth - they both fail, with dire and long-reaching consequences.

Samuels suggests they send a bomb through to Chulak, to which Hammond disdainfully replies that he sees no military reason to do so. It's nice to see Hammond's growth from the first episode where he almost made the decision to send a bomb to Abydos, and a contrast to alt!Jack's bombing Chulak in the mirror universe at the end of last season.

Hammond also gets to gleefully deny Samuels’ request to go to the Alpha site. Get 'im, George.

“You are not a god. You are a parasite within a child, and I despise you.” What a fantastic line. Tony Amendola is so damn good.

Oh hey, Teal'c grabs Klorel to stop him killing Bra'tac with the ribbon device! Growth.

"Danny, watch our backs" - one of the few times Jack actually calls Daniel this in the show? It's certainly overused in fanfic.

And watch their backs he does, taking out three Jaffa even it it earns him a staff blast in the shoulder for his trouble.

I appreciate how physically affectionate Jack is in these early seasons, and there's nothing I love more than an emotional face touch.

Jack "never leave a man behind" O'Neill...doesn't want to leave Daniel behind, but Daniel points out that their plan is to blow up and die on the other ship anyway, which is sound logic.

Daniel doesn't point out that his plan is to drag himself to the sarcophagus, probably because if he did Jack would insist on taking him there himself before continuing the mission, and they don't have time for all that.

Teal'c uses Klorel as a hostage and then just lets him go before they go through rings? I guess it's dangerous keeping him with them since he'll slow them down or try to get free and they still need to blow the other ship/expecting everyone to die anyway but idk, it's still Skaara? Could have hung onto him just in case.

I believe that originally Apophis was meant to kill Klorel for failing him at this point but that was changed, and the shot we see of them both escaping through the rings is an obvious composite.

A correct change, because why would they kill of Skaara at this point, and so unceremoniously? Not to mention if Apophis was happy for Klorel to die he could have just attacked our team instead of letting them use Klorel as a shield.

Bra'tac: *long complicated plan* Jack: *throws grenades*

Meanwhile, Daniel is getting sarcophagus treatment no. 2, which will become relevant this season. It also heals his clothes, maybe a superior model to Ra's.

The death gliders the team uses to escape will also become relevant down the line, one thing I do love about this show is the continuity and seeding storylines that will be picked up later.

A poignant moment for Sam in the glider looking up at Earth as someone who wanted to be an astronaut and go to space - she's seen so much through the Stargate, but it's the first time she's seen Earth from orbit in the way she's always dreamed.

Lots of face touching going on this episode, I dig it.

Absolute lol at Daniel hanging back behind everyone just waiting so Hammond can do a dramatic reveal. Meanwhile Bra'tac, already escorted away to be debriefed is like fuck my drag, right?

I admit I still don't understand the space monkey thing - I mean, I know the reference but don't really get why it's applicable to Daniel, or why Jack said it (or rather, RDA since it was an adlib) to indicate joy at Daniel being alive.

But hey, it's cute! One of those random Jack things.

[everybuddiewantssome]

Ok friends the poll we've all been waiting for. And by we I mean me

(Yes I'm using the word favourite now. Things change). As always, refreshers under the cut!

TBFTGOG- Daniel's thrown to an alternate universe where they're already in the middle of a Goa'uld invasion, fights to go back to prevent the same fate on his earth

Need- baby boy is sarcophagus addicted, at a complete loss of himself

Forever in a day- Sha're gets through to Daniel while Amaunet is trying to kill him, he moves on from her death in the visions she shares

Crystal Skull- with Daniel stuck in another dimension, the team tracks down his grandfather for answers to get him back

The Curse- after his professor dies, Daniel returns to his old university, finding old Goa'uld artifacts

Absolute power- Shifu visits Daniel, showing him a dream where he has all the power in the world. Evil!Danny

Meridian- if yall don't remember meridian I can't help you. Anyway he's exposed to radiation, ascends, it's super sad

Lifeboat- Daniel is burdened with the consciousness of a dozen of people. Janet tries to put the pieces together (it counts as a Daniel ep, ok! This is my poll)

Icon- Stranded on another planet with serious injuries, Daniel grows close with his caretaker, eventually coming up with a plan to escape their war and get home

Prometheus unbound- pretty self explanatory tbh, trapped alone on the Prometheus, held hostage by Vala. Sort of. Comedy ensues

The shroud- having been missing for weeks, the team found Daniel has joined the priors, with his own secret agenda to take out the Ori

[satanstuckathome]

Sha’re/amaunet should have survived, a list:

Teal’c would have such an interesting storyline with them on base

Daniel would be so tortured about it too ig

Sha’re deserves better

Sha’re getting to regain control of her body sometimes, eventually growing ever stronger

Amaunet standing up for Sha’re because disrespecting her host is disrespecting her

(It’s not disrespecting her)

Amaunet and Sha’re sharing custody of their son

Amaunet wanting to go back to Apohpis and Sha’re absolutely refusing because look at all he’s done

Sha’re wanting to sleep with her husband and Amaunet refusing

Sam: you know when Jolinar had relationships she AND her host—

All of SGC: absolutely not

Sam getting another lady to hang out with

Sam getting more weird feelings about her own body sharing experiences

Amaunet falling for Daniel’s alien chick magnetism: hmm actually maybe

Daniel: ummMM?

Sha’re: I can work with this

Amaunet/Sha’re finding out about the whole Hathor thing and how fucking dare she

The morally complex episode where we face the fact that Teal’c has been forced to coexist with one of his oppressors and that’s kind of fucked but also Amaunet is less evil now???

The Tok’ra get involved. I don’t know what they’d do but I think it would be interesting.

More stuff, probably, but I’m only part way into season 3.

[inventors-fair]

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[mask131]

Egyptian mythology: Off a chaotic start

A good way to understand the nature of Egyptian mythology is to take a look at its various creation myths.

Egyptian mythology was created by uniting, fusing and cumulating rites, beliefs, legends and theologies coming from different sub-realm, city-states and history eras, and trying to stitch them together into a cohesive whole. Terry Pratchett beautifully summed it up in his book “Pyramids”: the Egyptians never threw away a god, just in case he could be useful later, and so they piled on gods and myths and stories and rites, even though they contradicted each other. 

The creation myths of Egypt work in a similar way. Egypt didn’t have one, but several “religious centers”, specific cities with each their own pantheon of local gods, each their own set of legends and beliefs, each their own take on religion. If you think the myth-variations of the Greek city-states were complex, oh boy, get ready, because compared to the Egyptians, the Greeks are a piece of cake. Each of those major religious center had its own creation myth, that by default entered in conflict with each other, and yet co-existed in the people’s mind and religious practices. 

The most famous and widespread of those creation myths, the one people are most aware of today, is actually the creation myth of the city of Heliopolis (in the original Egyptian, “Iunu”). The Heliopolis theogony was based around a group of gods known as the Ennead (”pesedjet” in Egyptian), nine deities forming a family through whose genealogy the world was created. A reason this creation myth became so popular is because it is very similar to the way the Greek cosmogony work. According to this myth, in the beginning there was just the Nun, the primordial ocean, the endless dark and lifeless waters. From these waters a mound appeared, and on it appeared the primordial, creator-god Atum (later identified and fused with Ra). Atum, the All-Deity, then gave birth (either through masturbation or by sneezing/spitting) to the deities Shu and Tefnut, the air and th humidity, who mated together to give birth to Nut and Geb, the sky and the earth, who in turn had four children - Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. (A variation of the myth includes “Horus” as the fifth child, but that’s... a complicated business). So far so good.

But then, you have to confront and compare the Ennead of Heliopolis with another group of gods supposedly responsible for the creation of the world. The Ogdoad of Hermopolis (in Egyptian, “Khemenu”). According to the cosmogony of Hermopolis, before the world existed there were eight deities, four primordial couples each the manifestation of one of the pre-creation elements: Nun and Naunet (primordial waters), Amun and Amaunet (the primordial air or the hidden/secret power), Kuk and Kauket (primordial darkness), Huh and Hauhet (shapelessness or infinity). These eight abstract deities suddenly joined together, gathering their power and essence, and in a great explosion of energy they created the world. From this point forward the texts disagree and split into two traditions. Everybody agrees from one of the first created things the sun arose - but for one group the sun was hatched from an egg placed by the god Thot on a mound coming out of the waters ; while for another group the sun arose from a blooming lotus flower (which was a manifestation of the god Nefertem). 

These are however but two of the numerous cosmogonies of Egypt. Beyond these two stories of groups of gods creating the world, either through their family tree or a cosmic gang-bang, there are also several Egyptian cosmogonies which rather present one lonely creator-god who manifested or shaped the world one way or another. In Memphis for example (Inebu-hedj in Egyptian), it was thought that the world, the gods, the elements and every living being were created by the god Ptah, who conceived all of them in his mind/heart as ideas, and then made them exist by pronouncing their name out loud. This tradition is similar and yet opposing the one of Elephantine, where the primordial creator-god is called “Khnum” and is said to have shaped and modeled physicaly the world, the gods and every living things out of clay. Hopefully, the Egyptian themselves tried to link together and unite those conflicting theogonies into one more cohesive ensemble: for example the Memphis creation myth evolved to include the Ennead, by claiming that Ptah was the secret power behind the manifestation of Atum and the formation of his descendants (Ptah was notably identified with the mound that came out of the Nun before Atum appeared). Another “tie-in” cosmogony would be the one of Thebes (in Egyptian “Waset”): the city had taken as a patron-god the deity Amun, and as it rose into power as a new religious capital/religious center, it took “away” from the Ogdoad ensemble Amun, and claimed that he was creater, vaster and older than the other Ogdoad members. According to the Thebes belief, Amun was THE primordial power and creating force of the universe - while he was part of the Ogdoad, he had created it around him, AND he also was the one who created the Ennead. 

The list could go on and on, but these are the five most common and brought up creation myths when it comes to Ancient Egypt, and they perfectly show how, despite each legend contradicting the others, they still were worked on so that they could eventually be tied and linked together into a vaguely cohesive mythology (if you can close your eyes on minor and secondary unlogical details). 

[stargatedreamerr]

would anyone be interested in reading a Sha’re and Daniel reverse AU fanfic? I’ve been reading “one dimension removed” (aka my fave stargate fic) and got inspired

I’ve got some amazing ideas in mind but it would mostly be just a fanfic where I edit the canon dialogue/transcript to replace Daniel with Sha’re…

If anyone else has some ideas, suggestions are more than welcome :)

Current ideas include

- amaunet being the main system lord antagonist (apophis would be given amaunet’s role)

-Daniel unfortunately is taken to be apophis’ host

-there would be a different harcesis involved 🤫

- oh biggest plot point I wanted to cover with this is Sha’re ascending in “meridian”

[hedgiwithapen]

Make me Suffer about Sha're pls

Set just before the episode “ secrets” in season 2 Daniel will be here in one month. There is no way to call him sooner. 

The baby will be here in six weeks.  There is no way to delay it longer.

She will be free until the moment the child is born. 

It's not enough time. It never is.

The gods, she had once believed, gave all of her people their time and their world and their duty.  Now she bore a god in her throat, woven through her brain. Daniel had corrected her on that, once. That the Brain, not the heart, is the most important part of a person, what makes a person who they were. But her mind is no longer her own. 

Her heart still is.  Amaunet could move her lips, her fingers. Amaunet could conceive a child in her womb. But he grows under Sha're's heart. 

He will be free, as Sha're is not. 

It has been almost a year since she has seen her husband, almost a year since she last felt his eyes on her face, his hand on her hip.  That he will see her now, like this, is almost too much to bear. His heart, if not already broken, will break again, and she will be the cause of it. 

She does not tell her father of the plan. She will not even tell Daniel of it until it is too late to stop. She will trust him with the child. she will stop her own heart. Better to die herself than as a puppet, made to harm those she loves most.  In every universe, Daniel would fight for her. In this one, she must make the choice before he can die doing it. 

[templeofvengeance]

"Um ... does your father know how to sing? Just curious ..."

... He can't even fathom what this is about, but it does force him to draw back further into his memory than he usually cares to go. What could loosely be considered his 'upbringing,' any time when the sun god was so gentle or kind. Using his voice for anything other than booming declarations. It's few and far between, tainted by what he knew now.

Amaunet sang. Sometimes he still hears her whistle on the wind.

"Is there a point to this?" Khonshu asks impatiently, though his voice softens a bit after. "I have no memory to prove either way. Perhaps."

[templeofoccultpractices]

Amun

Other names:Amon, Ammon, Amen, Amana, Yimen,

"The Hidden One", "King of the Netjeru"

Major cult center:Thebes

Symbols:two vertical plumes, the ram-headed Sphinx (Criosphinx), Solar disk, Blue, Nile goose, Lion, Lapis lazuli, Numbers 2 and 7, Shutt crown/Swty, Ammonis cornua, Mollusc animals

Domain:Sun, sky, Earth,

Powers: balance (creation and destruction), justice, protection, enlightenment, prosperity, revenge, vitality, healing, royalty, political power

Hybrid Gods:Amun ra, Amun min, Zues ammon, Jupiter ammon

Consort:Amunet, Wosret, Mut

Offspring:Khonsu

Greek equivalent:Zeus

After the rebellion of Thebes against the Hyksos and with the rule of Ahmose I (16th century BC), Amun acquired national importance, expressed in his fusion with the Sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra (alternatively spelled Amon-Ra or Amun-Re).

Amun-Ra retained chief importance in the Egyptian pantheon throughout the New Kingdom (with the exception of the "Atenist heresy" under Akhenaten). Amun-Ra in this period (16th to 11th centuries BC) held the position of transcendental, self-created creator deity "par excellence"; he was the champion of the poor or troubled and central to personal piety.With Osiris, Amun-Ra is the most widely recorded of the Egyptian gods.

As the chief deity of the Egyptian Empire, Amun-Ra also came to be worshipped outside Egypt, according to the testimony of ancient Greek historiographers in Libya and Nubia. As Zeus-Ammon, he came to be identified with Zeus in Greece.

Amun and Amaunet are mentioned in the Old Egyptian Pyramid Texts.The name Amun (written imn) meant something like "the hidden one" or "invisible".

Roles

Personification of the hiddeness of the primeval waters. Kings of the gods and god of the wind,solar god,creator god and fertility god. God to call upon if you get stung by a scorpion or if you vemon from a scorpions tail.

Features

Part of the Ogdoad.He wears a crown of two vertical plumes, and is either human or has a ram-headed,or is a sphinx.His skin is said to be blue perhaps lapis.

Early History

Amun rose to the position of tutelary deity of Thebes after the end of the First Intermediate Period, under the 11th Dynasty. As the patron of Thebes, his spouse was Mut. In Thebes, Amun as father, Mut as mother and the Moon god Khonsu formed the divine family or the "Theban Triad".

Female counterpart of the Amun and a member of the Ogdoad

Amunet

Other names:Imnt, Amonet, Amaunet

Major cult center:Thebes,Hermopolis (as a member of the Ogdoad)

Consort:Amun

Symbols:Egyptian cobra, snakes, vulture, red crown deshret

Hybrid Gods:Neith-Amunet

Amunet or Imnt is a primordial goddess in ancient Egyptian religion.Thebes was the center of her worship through the last dynasty, the Ptolemaic Kingdom, in 30 BC. She is attested in the earliest known of Egyptian religious texts and, as was the custom, was paired with a counterpart who is entitled with the same name, but in the masculine, Amun. They were thought to have existed prior to the beginning of creation along with three other couples representing primeval concepts.

Roles

Protector of the king,air and invisibility,hidden forces,female counterpart of Amun,part of the Ogdoad.

Description and History

Her name, jmnt, is a feminine noun that means "The Hidden One". She is a member of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, who represented aspects of the primeval existence before the creation: Amunet was paired with Amun—whose name also means "The Hidden One", with a masculine ending (jmn)—within this divine group, from the earliest known documentation. Such pairing of deities is characteristic of the religious concepts of the ancient Egyptians. In early concepts known as the Ogdoad, the primeval deity group to which they belonged as "Night" (or as the determinative D41 meaning "to halt, stop, deny", suggesting the principle of inactivity or repose),was composed of four balanced couples of deities or deified primeval concepts.

Speculation exists that Amunet may have been conceived by later theologians as a complement to Amun, rather than being an independent deity originally, however, the Pyramid Texts, the earliest known religious texts of Ancient Egypt, mention "the beneficent shadow of Amun and Amunet"

Draconian

Egyptian-Draconian Grimoire Asenath Mason

Let me clarify. The idea of Khepra being the Sun at midnight, or alternatively the Black Sun, is a new invention, only dating back approximately 120 years or so. Before that, historically speaking, he was the god of the sun at dawn, so the idea of him corresponding to the sun at midnight is a modern occultism invention. Amun was the original hidden god, dating back to ancient Egyptian antiquity. Before there was RA, there was Amun. Before the light there was the hidden one. Before the light came onto the scene, there was the hidden. Before the light is always the dark.

Amun was known as the chief of the ancient Egyptian deities, but is also one of the most mysterious in hindsight. He was the patron deity of Thebes, and the easiest way to think of Thebes is that it was the ancient city that was where Karnak and Luxor are located still to this day. He was known as the king of the gods, or the equivalent thereof, but also corresponded to protecting the king, self-creation, and fertility. Briefly, he was a deity that was so open to interpretation that it was up to the individual follower to define him, rather than a set list of correspondences for one to memorize and come into line with.

Amun is often times misunderstood as a solar deity, but in reality, as you can see above, he was actually a nocturnal deity. Well, even that is not true as he did not correspond to the Moon, but rather he corresponded to the nebulous and the hidden, the veiled, unknown, and subjective. Ile was in fact so popular that he was blended with later deities such as Amun-Ra, and to this day his name has still continued in the phrase "Amen." While Aleister Crowley has discussed his perspective on the word, we can confidently say that is only one perspective on it, as he did not address the draconian roots of the deity, but rather the aspects of him that fit his particular magical system. In this working we are going to look at his true ancient history and draconian roots, and make contact with one of the most ancient and veiled deities on the planet that can assist us in developing our dark sight and our ability to see into the hidden and the concealed.

──────⊰In Workings⊱──────

𖤓*Please know basic protections and energy work before attempting any deity work.*☾

*It is important to note that everyone's experiences are different and will work with spirits for different reasons. Some people may like a spirit while others will not and that's okay. Ask these spirits what they will work with you on as well as ask them if they can help you with whatever it is you need.*

Some people may believe Amun and Ra to be the same and some people may work with Amun-Ra. A combination of both deities.

Ideas for honoring and working with Amun may include

Altar

Set up an altar/sacred space for performing rituals or giving offerings. Items may include

⬩Altar cloth

⬩Cup or chalice

⬩Incense and incense burner

⬩Offering bowl

⬩Statues of Amun, ram headed sphinx, lion, snake, goose, or sun

For more information on basic deity work and altar setups check out the deity work post

Offerings: Bread, Lapis Lazuli, Goose figures, Frankincense, Ram figures, Lion figures, Myrrh, Snake figures, Solar charms, Solar stones, Vulture figures

Rituals

Ideas for rituals may include

⬩Fertility rites and rituals

⬩Honoring the life you have

⬩Honoring the sun

⬩Summer solstice ritual

Hymns to Amun-Ra

Lord of truth, father of the gods, maker of men, creator of all animals, Lord of things that are, creator of the staff of life.

Amon-Re "who hears the prayer, who comes at the cry of the poor and distressed...Beware of him! Repeat him to son and daughter, to great and small; relate him to generations of generations who have not yet come into being; relate him to fishes in the deep, to birds in heaven; repeat him to him who does not know him and to him who knows him ... Though it may be that the servant is normal in doing wrong, yet the Lord is normal in being merciful. The Lord of Thebes does not spend an entire day angry. As for his anger – in the completion of a moment there is no remnant ... As thy Ka endures! thou wilt be merciful!

All gods are three: Amun, Re and Ptah, whom none equals. He who hides his name as Amun, he appears to the face as Re, his body is Ptah.

The tempest moves aside for the sailor who remembers the name of Amon. The storm becomes a sweet breeze for he who invokes His name ... Amon is more effective than millions for he who places Him in his heart. Thanks to Him the single man becomes stronger than a crowd.

𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓𖤓

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My OCs/FANFICs I'm Working On

Why am I posting this? Cause lol. It's taken me years to become confident in my writing to actually post what I've been writing so I thought I'd share. I'm writing this in reverse order so it'll be from my most recently conceived to my oldest.

Adela Kunzli - Attack on Titan; Eldian from Paradis and member of the Scouts. Her story is A Love Like This Burns So Deep, and each chapter has a section from the past and the present. The story is rated Explicit for both loving and dark reasons. I came up with her back at the start of the year. Like, I had her one week and went fuck it, I've got to write this lol. She's one of two OCs I have that I have a bunch of What If's/One-Shots for.

Sarah Evans - AEW/Wrestling; Only fic/oc to take place in the real world. Sarah's a wrestler who goes by Diana Spector in the ring. She exists because I became horny for some wrestlers and am not a fan of celeb x you/reader style stories personally, but I like the concept of them, so I came up with this. Originally started out as an Orange Cassidy/OC but is now Preston Vance/OC. My threesome chapter for her is just sitting in my drafts, and nothing else has been written outside of drabbles I keep deleting and re-writing.

Bryn Olasdotter - Teen Wolf; A Valkyrie and member of the McCall Pack. She is in Only The Moon Howls. Originally she was named Brandi Hale and was Derek's cousin and Stiles's love interest before evolving into Brandi Segher and being a weretiger after the episode came out where Derek said he's the only member of his family left. Between the airing of seasons one and two, she became Bryn and a Valkyrie. Bryn initially had a love interest named Miguel, who was a werejaguar, but I scrapped that because as Bryn evolved and the show continued, they didn't make sense together. Bryn has always, since the beginning, had body image issues (though she used to suffer from body dysmorphia and was bulimic) and has a contentious relationship with her mother.

Akiko - Naruto; I have a bunch of Naruto OCs, but she is my most prominent. Originally thought up back in 2003 (?), her name was initially Hikari Jasmin, and she was the great-granddaughter of Ebizo. She became Akiko more recently, and her family has changed, but her personality, looks, and skill set have all stayed the same. I'm currently writing the first chapter of the story, which is a Kankuro x OC and is mostly smut with some plot, lol.

Hal - Saint Seiya/KotZ; Hal stayed the same the most out of all my OCs from the time she was conceived till now, with only three changes happening. Originally her name was Alexandra; she was a Kido kidlet like the other Bronzes and had armour but was not a Saint of Athena but worked for another deity. Her name is now Hal (a nickname), and her father is the British Ambassador to Japan, and she's not a Saint/Knight/Warrior or whatever you want to call it to a deity. Originally she was the love interest for Hyoga, but I switched her over to Ikki once I realized that even though it was opposites attract, Hyoga's non-manga love interests aren't even close in personality to Hal's, and she is better suited for Ikki. And omg, was that the best thing because I think Ikki and Hal are absolutely adorable together, and I just can't with them. They're so wholesome but smutty at the same time, lol.

Amaunet - X-Men/Marvel; My first ever OC was not Amaunet; it was actually a mutant named Reign, but as I began creating other mutants and Marvel characters, she went from being the top to just being there, and Amaunet became the main. Her real name is Jochebed Nassar, and she is from Palestine. I won't go too far into her backstory as I am writing her story up, but where she grew up is extremely important to who she is. Originally her name was Jennifer Howlett, and she was Wolverine's daughter from Egypt, but that didn't last long once I realized her name didn't match; she did stay as a Howlett for a time, but I scrapped that back when I re-worked her to fit into New X-Men Academy X, becoming the person she is now. Jo is my main character in multiple X-Men multiverse fics, such as 'House of M Doesn't Happen,' and Universe 161, aka everything, is canon up until when I stopped reading comics because I hated how cross-overy it became and just made up the rest on my own. Jo is the only one I have drawings of because of her various gear/costumes. She has aerokinesis.