#ba-bird

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Detail from one of two papyri buried with Tadimut. This is an Amduat, but it's crammed with illustrations from the Book of the Dead and some original motifs too.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

[An Egyptian papyrus with black ink illustrations. Top: a ba-bird faces the twin lions who sit back to back, supporting a sundisc; next a crocodile faces a pottery vessel. Bottom: a ba-bird faces a djed-pillar with arms which hold was-sceptres. Next there is a winged uraeus with an ankh around its body and a was-sceptre behind each wing; below this a mummy lies in a barque.]

[dwellerinthelibrary]

I guess this a simplified version of the funeral scene, with just one mourner. Looks like Tiye's ba-bird is drinking from the offerings made to her.

[Left to right, drawn in black and red: the tomb; the mummy; a mourner; the ba-bird; a woman making offerings, including pouring out liquid; offerings before Amentet in the form of a mummy with her hieroglyph for a head, holding a crook and flail.]

Chapter 125 of the Book of the Dead, from a funerary papyrus belonging to the singer Tiye. Artist unknown; ca. 975-945 BCE (late 21st Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[paulpingminho]

[powdermelonkeg]

Hey do you guys remember when Google worked. Do you. Do you remember when it worked better than the Tumblr search function.

[thunderstruck9]

Hernan Bas (American, 1978), Nectar (or the hummingbird enthusiast), 2020. Acrylic on linen, 72 x 60 in.

[junkmixart]

The Ancient Egyptians believed the soul had three parts, the Ka, the Ba, and the Akh. The Ba was essentially a person’s double, a life force, and at death it was separated from the body. I thought it would be cool if the Ba birds were dead members of the EN9 (Khenti's archeology agency) who work as messenger birds or eyes from the skies! 🐦

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[palaceoftears]

Magnificent Century Rewatch: One Picspam per Episode

Episode 17: The Double Joy

-My dear mother used to say "walk barefoot on earth and it shall take away all your troubles and sorrows, earth shall give you happiness and joy"

-Your mother spoke well, one can only find peace in earth. But I'm not sure if it is on earth or in it.

[bird-likes-to-fandom]

the mutuals are in peril tonight, boys

[blackbirdffxiv]

Am I really leveling trusts JUST so I can spam-run a dungeon for a certain blue bird minion? .... c: don't underestimate my level of insanity and dedication to being a collector/achievement hunter.

[umemiyan]

Hi Robin! I saw you're doing chicken blogging, so I thought you may enjoy these Gojo-looking chickens from my partner's family house:

(and a few fluffy friends extra)

HAHAHAHA I'M CRYING THEY REALLY DO HAVE THE GOJO VIBE

the kinds with the fancy head feathers are sooooo funny thank you so much for sharing these with me omg <3 i just love birds and chickens so much i've never actually had chickens myself but i've wanted some for a while now 😔 maybe someday!!!

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

[pufthebirb]

so.

life series watcher bird symbolism.

the three players who the watchers hate are jimmy, grian and martyn right?

grian is a parrot. we may keep parrots as birds (the way the watchers took grian in and made him one of their own) but parrots will never be fully trained to exactly what theyre told when theyre told to do it (grian is always in some way or another going against the watchers, always getting them upset at him)

jimmy. the canary in the coal mine. the watchers hate him, he listened to the listeners instead of the watchers in evo, so now they will use him for eternity as a prophecy of death killing him first every single time. the way people didnt care about the canarys life the watchers dont care about jimmys

and martyn. the watchers favourite tool. they tried to use him to get rid of grian in last life. they used him in limited life at the last second to cause a bit more suffering in killing scott and impulse. i see martyin as a messanger pigeon. hes the watchers messanger to the real world. when they dont have direct influence theyll use him bcause, like pigeons dont have a survival insinct to this day because their entire species was domesticated at some point, martyn has never even once tried to revolt against the watchers, hes always listened to them like an obedient little bird.

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

i have been getting into birds as one does in their 30s. the most frequent visitor of my bird feeders has been a handsome little red winged blackbird who loves to scream at me when the feeder is empty. But I didn't know they were polygynous until I saw little homie with his 10 birdwives chilling in my cedar tree.

don't mind me just propping up a backyard bird polycule

[dwellerinthelibrary]

I don’t know the name of the figure at left, who looks like a rather distorted jackal god, but he pops up on many papyri and coffins, waving his snakes. He’s one of many new deities (or demons) invented by the fertile imaginations of the 21st Dynasty, from which this coffin hails. It’s at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.

[On a yellow coffin, a human-headed bird with a green sun-disc on its head faces a jackal-headed god with a distorted body, his buttocks protruding and his legs seeming twisted. His naked body is blue, his head is green, his wig is red, and he holds three red snakes, a fourth one draped over his elbow.]

[thunderstruck9]

Hernan Bas (American, 1978), Trying to fit in, 2004. Oil, acrylic and gouache on panel, 31 x 24 in.

[biohazbat]

My love for the color brown has got me with 10 tabs open trying to redesign tim drake's post-robin identity and suit