#or maybe the right one?

[xenonmoon]

OH YES IT'S EGYPTOLOGY INFODUMP TIME

Khonsu had indeed more than one aspect (as most of the Egyptian gods after all) and the most common were this four:

Ḫnsw-pꜣ-ẖrd - Khonsu the Child Ḫnsw-pꜣ-jr-sḫr - Khonsu the Provider Ḫnsw-(heseb-ahau) - Khonsu the Decider of Lifespan Ḫnsw-m-Wꜣs.t-nfr-ḥtp - Khonsu in Thebes Neferhotep*

*I left Neferhotep untranslated because it's composed of the hieroglyphs for nft + ḥtp and they can mean different things depending of the context.

nfr can mean "good", "beautiful", "perfect", while ḥtp if it's a name it means "pity"/"mercy" or also "offer", "offering table", if it's a verb it can mean "satisfy", "being satisfied", "being contempt"

Most of my sources leave it like that (Neferhotep), some of them translate it as "the Merciful" (although it should've been more ḥtp yt in that case?), others "beautiful and contempt", others "parfait d'offrandes" (perfect of offer?) and others again "vollkommen Gnädige" (perfectly merciful?)

Every time Khonsu and his aspects comes up I think of the Bentresh Stela (the picture below is incomplete but you can easily google it)

It's a sandstone stela with hieroglyphic incisions telling the pseudo-epigraphical story of Bentresh, daughter of the king of Bakhtan and sister of Neferure who was married to Ramses II

At some point this girl fell ill and they couldn't find any cure for her, so the king of Bakhtan sent a messenger to the Pharaoh of Egypt asking for help.

Ramses called for all the learned men of the palace and a scribe to go there and figure out a way to heal the girl, but they came home reporting their failure because apparently there was a spirit possessing her causing her illness and the only way to cure her was through divine intervention.

"Alright then" probably said the Pharaoh, going to the temple of Khonsu in Thebes

So basically Khonsu Neferhotep stacked 4 layers of magical protection to Khonsu The Provider and sent him to heal the girl.

It's the only case I know where different aspects of a god exist at the same time and interact with each other

One thing I found funny about this story is that as soon as Khonsu The Provider arrived (through his statue carried from the temple) he casted a magical protection on the girl thus expelling the spirit from the body

And that spirit is super polite with him, greeting the god with a sign of peace and welcoming him to the city before deciding to get back to whatever place they came from.

So everyone rejoiced and started preparing celebrations, at some point Khonsu said to his prophet to tell the people to prepare an offering not only for him but for the spirit too

And as they made an offer for the spirit, the spirit went away in peace

But as the celebrations were over the king of Bakhtan refused to let the god go home and kept the statue and shrine in his kingdom for 3 years and 9 months.

Until one night he had a dream where a golden hawk flew away in the general direction of Egypt - so he figured it was time for Khonsu the Provider to go home.

So the god came back to his temple safe and sound and everyone was happy

Story finished, let's get back to the comic-

Ah

I bet the last one was the cannibal hymn derivative they mentioned in Vengeance of the Moon Knight

They sure are cannibalising the cannibal hymn quite a lot

[doctorsiren]

sock opera

[mylittleredgirl]

that moment when you cross the point of no return with a character should be accompanied by a specific chime i think. like 🔔 congratulations! this one has been installed in the Permanent Collection and you will never stop thinking about them as long as you live

[hinamie]

10 years later

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[savanir]

DP x DC prompt [15]

Danny accepts that because of his half dead status he won't be able to become an astronaut and he has to find a different way to feed his space obsession.

He decides to get really into astromancy (yes, the magic. He already knows everything about astronomy). He gets himself the more spiritual star charts, old surprisingly authentic tomes about the art and divination cards to go with it all and gets to learning.

Tbh he kind of went into this not expecting much but it turns out he had homo magus heritage from his Nightingale roots and he actually manages to call upon the power of the stars.

He figures he can blame the vaporized wall on ghosts.

Meanwhile, a foreboding feeling like cold shivers run down the spines of several magic users that they can only describe as "a child having figured out they need to switch off the safety on their mini nuke launcher in order to fire it"

The JLD is scrambling to locate the source of the surge in magic power before someone with bad intentions can get there.

[stil-lindigo]

bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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[noodles-and-tea]

This trope would be so funny for them

[justheblueberry]

avatar of irminsul

[artkaninchenbau]

People keep on asking for more Baby Robin and Papadile so here is more Baby Robin and Papadile. Now never ask anything from me ever again

[taikova]

here's some drawings from a "mt washington" -song inspired video project i never finished.

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 2

[Pt. 1] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 5] [Pt. 6]

[kenchann]

teased 🎃⚡

[wasyago]

various tango doodles

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[choccy-milky]

herbology class 🌹🌿 (from chap 2 of my fic!)