Egyptian Gods I am going to discuss some of the Egyptian Papyrus Paintings of Egyptian Gods found at http://www.a1-nile-papyrus.biz/Egyptian-Gods.html .

First is the god Khepri represented by a winged scarab or dung beetle. The god Khepri, a sun god was associated with resurrection. The beetle became associated with the sun after the Egyptians watched them in nature. The beetle would roll a ball of dung (shaped like the sun) across the desert that carried its babies. This painting is not only of a scarab but also three separate Hieroglyphic signs that make up the name for a very famous King-Tutankhamun. The scarab is painted a beautiful blue with arching feathered wings of browns and blue and is holding a dung ball or Sun disk.

Next is the famous icon of Horus or Eye of Horus. Horus was one of five offspring of the original pair of Egyptian gods, Ra and Rhea. The brothers and sisters of Horus were Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys. Osiris followed Ra as king of Egypt and married Isis, his sister. One brother, Set, killed Osiris, who became the ruler over the land of the dead. Isis, called upon her brother, Horus, to kill Set, which he managed after many battles. Eventually, Osiris was resurrected. The painting is very stylistic with Horus' eye bracketed by a bird figure (possibly another representation of Horus-Falcon headed) on the left and a cobra icon on the right.

There are paintings of Matt with Isis and Isis alone. The last painting I want to comment on is of Anubis the Dog. Dogs were in fact pets back then and had much the same loving relationship that people today do with their dogs. They loved them so much they even wanted to bring them with them in the afterlife and so they depicted them on their tomb walls. The jackal was chosen to represent Anubis. Anubis was the Lord of the West that was associated with embalming and mummification. The dog pictured comes from the tomb of Tutankhamun. The cartouche to the left spells out his prenomen (one of the Pharaohs names)-NebKhepurure. In the cartouche one can see the hieroglyph of the scarab. A very sleek and hansome dog is depicted atop a chest or coffin in an alert "on guard" posture.

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