Notes: game on...on the radio...Ohtani up...Calhoun on 2nd from dbl...one out...and, bottom of 1st and down 3 again...A's 3-Angels 0...passed ball...Calhoun on 3rd...K...Pujols up...hmmph...0-1...rbi hit...A's 3-1...Fernandez with a hit...Fletcher up...ground out...to top of 2nd...
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In Ancient Egypt iconography Isis and Nephtys appeared at both extremes of the corpse, usually Isis stood at the feet, while Nephtys stood at the head of the mummy.
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The distribution of images is clue in Ancient Egypt decoration. Depending on how the scene is ordered and where it is located it has a sense or not.
https://hairanddeathinancientegypt.com/page/10/
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reviewing yesterday's blog, in one of the quoted captions was the Egyptian word nwn in reference to a figure with two raised hands...well, it was Lady Taparet...
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Funerary stele of Lady Taperet with an image of Nut in nwn gesture.
same site
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(oh!...editing I catch a misread...thought nwn referred to the figure's raised hands...but in fact, it is about Nut's hair hanging down between her outstretched arms!--the black streak...that's a good get by author!...see site)
pic, I gather, is in author's book, Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt...Cole relieved and Alverez came in to get through inning...to bottom of 2nd...runner on...Young up...it was a pinterest linked pic, and hard to track...glad I did for that bit about locations!...had the same thought in yesterday's post...this post eighty fifth in a series...see previous...author goes on about depictions of women mourners in the icons, how they have disheveled hair with distinctive gestures...Arcia to third, Young with double...Calhoun up...and specific locations for Nepthys and Isis...at tail end of post yesterday, noted Egyptian temple pylons represent death and life, with doorway in between with sun symbol on the lintel...author has the two goddesses at either end of coffins...and representing the sun rise, or sun set...add in hawk headed Horus for high noon, and those are the three major position of the sun overhead...ground out rbi...A's 3-2...
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We know that goddess Nut places Isis and Nephtys in some Egyptian coffins of the XII Dynasty. That goddess, as mother of these two mourners, decided to put Isis at the feet and Nephtys at the head of the mummy.
same site
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Upton base hit...Angels 3-3...Ohtani up...a whimsy: council to would be founders of a religion: think up something bizarre to explain the mystery of mortality--mummification (Egypt), human sacrifice (Andeans/Mesoamericans), transmigration of souls (Pythagoreans), the Force (Star Wars), or some such, and there one has it!...hmmph...Ohtani ground out...to top of 3rd...there's no way to resolve the enigmas of a culture that mummified 70 million animals...except to sort of participate in the self same indulgence by going on about the enigmas!...where am I...oh, the Pylons...K, one out...
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In ancient Egyptian theology, the pylon mirrored the hieroglyph for 'horizon' or akhet,
Akhet (horizon)
in hieroglyphs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylon_(architecture)#Egyptian_architecture
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Her name means quite specifically, "Lady of the [Temple] Enclosure" which associates her with the role of priestess[citation needed].
This title, which may be more of an epithet describing her function than a given name, probably indicates the association of Nephthys with one particular temple or some specific aspect of the Egyptian temple ritual. Along with her sister Isis, Nephthys represented the temple pylon or trapezoidal tower gateway entrance to the temple which also displayed the flagstaff. This entrance way symbolised the horizon or akhet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephthys
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so, location location location...the Pylons have Nephthys on one side, Isis on the other...the coffins have the two on one end or another; and the stele have the akhet in the center, and on either side of the lower center location, one will find Isis and/or Nephthys...the stele are a vertical arrangement...I haven't worked it out, but I suspect there is a horizontal arrangement too...
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Nephthys is a protective goddess who symbolizes the death experience, just as Isis represented the birth experience.
same wiki
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Angels made out...top of 3rd?...maybe important to note Egyptians thought of death in Thales' terms, no 'different' than life...Thales' bit about water is a curio...it's said he may have been a Phoenician...say this further...he's an Egyptian...Phoenicians lifted everything from Egypt and Sumer...oh...A's and Angels made out in 3rd...to top of 4th...
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Aristotle reported Thales' hypothesis that the originating principle of nature and the nature of matter was a single material substance: water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus
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an aside, speaking of water...around all the mud brick Ziggurats, pyramids--Egpyt, Sumer, Andes coastline, there is now not a blade of grass...a curio for sometime...related the Sahara desert...one bunt moves runner to second...looking for life on other planets and moons, the scientists are always going on about the necessity of water...runner scores...and another runner scores...A's 5-3...back to gloom...the hieroglyph for water is a wavy line, or three wavy lines...zig zag line actually...this the decoration on Nut's dress...and a home run...A's 7-3...Angles' bullpen parading...
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This 2nd century AD Roman Period coffin belongs to a man who had Roman and Greek names. The lid of the coffin, which the face of the dead person would look at, represents the sky depicted as the sky-goddess Nut shown here in Graeco-Egyptian style surrounded by the 12 signs/figures of the Zodiac.
http://robertbauval.co.uk/articles/articles/nkleo5.html
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in this pic the zig zag become a kind of netting...brings to mind that net the King is holding prisoners in on the Sumerian Vulture Stele...maybe a spurious aside...but the net design shows up all the time in Egypt things...waves, or maybe too, my caustic whimsy...hard to see in pic...at Nut's feet are the scarab, and the ram headed god...symbols of sun rise and sun set...and at Nut's head is the sun rays as lotus flowers, symbol of high noon...the locations are a general sort of thing, I gather, as sometimes things are different but alike...that sort of Andean tocapu symmetry asymmetry...finally got the A's out...Angels up bottom of 4th...Calhoun up...diverted...lost track of game...Ohtani up?...Fernandez up...rbi double...Simmons scores...A's 8-4...bottom of 5th pitching change for A's...Angels make out...to top of 6th...a walk, a hit batter...no one out...Angels just don't match up against the A's, though they own the season series 7-5...that from back in April/May...everything was fine until the Yankees and Red Sox came to Town back to back...a lament all around the league...there's an Egyptian three consonant name for water, I think...Egyptians didn't write out the vowels...A's go down on a double play...to bottom of 6th...Cowert pops out...home run for Arcia...A's 8-5...Calhoun up...two outs...
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Today’s Egyptians have inherited from their Pharaonic ancestors not only their distinguished civilisation, but also certain traditions and words from their hieroglyphic vocabulary.
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Maqqar notes in his book that when Egyptians are angry they may use the vocabulary their forefathers left them, including words like efesh (a person or thing with a bad appearance), which is an Egyptian slang word derived from the ancient Egyptian word ebshay (beetle) as it was believed by our ancestors that a beetle ate the bodies of the dead.
“This is why mummies are depicted in the Book of the Dead with knives to protect them from such insects,” Maqqar says.
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The ancient Egyptians were religious people, so it is no wonder that the origin of the words used at the end of prayers by Christians, Muslims and Jews, Amen, Ameen, and Aman, respectively, are in fact ancient Egyptian. They are derived from the name of the ancient Egyptian god Amun, whose name as stated in the Book of the Dead means “he who is not seen by human eyes”.
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Maqqar has also discovered traces of the ancient Egyptian language in modern English, such as the word “desert”, which is derived from the ancient Egyptian word dshrt (desert). The same goes for the word “beem,” derived from the word byt (bee), and the word “top,” which is an ancient Egyptian word with the same meaning and spelling. The word “net” is derived from the word nt, which was the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess who blessed the equipment of fishermen, he says.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16150.aspx
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cool page!...is 'nt', Nut?...Calhoun got on base somehow?...Upton up...2-2...3-2...A's playing like it's the world series...really want this game to pull within two and a half of the Astros...eight pitch at bat...W...how many runners on?...Ohtani up...represents tying run...0-1...wp...runners second third...1-1...K...sigh...to top of 7th...
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The pronunciation of ancient Egyptian is uncertain because vowels were long omitted from its writing, although her name often includes the unpronounced determinative hieroglyph for "sky". Her name Nwt, itself also meaning "Sky",[2] is usually transcribed as "Nut" but also sometimes appears in older sources as Nunut, Nenet,[3] Naunet, Nuit
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Thoth gambled with Khonsu, god of the moon, whose light rivalled that of Ra's. Every time Khonsu lost, he had to give Thoth some of his moonlight. Khonsu lost so many times that Thoth had enough moonlight to make 5 extra days. Since these days were not part of the year, Nut could have her children.
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According to the Egyptians, during the day, the heavenly bodies—such as the sun and moon—would make their way across her body. Then, at dusk, they would be swallowed, pass through her belly during the night, and be reborn at dawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(goddess)
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the five day bit for the five day collection...Calhoun makes a play on ball hit to the wall...one out...A's make out...to bottom of 7th...with the advent of the industrial age and machines, the rotation of the sun and moon, and all, became mechanical too...prior, it was magic...and one of those go figure coincidences, is that the moon and sun are the same size in the night sky...and it was likely only the studious understood moonlight was reflected light from the sun...the sun shined sunlight, the moon shined moonlight...gold and silver became sun and moon...and, and it's a duality...dualities are everywhere in the old myths...Nephthys and Isis are a duality...the moon and sun located overhead located them on the top of stele, on the top of doorways...another take on the rod and ring would be the rod represents the earth...the ring the sun overhead...Horus is sometimes called Horus on the Horizon...or some such...Egyptians were big on epithets...and puns...one thing having many names and meanings...Fletcher with two out double...
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Nu (also Nenu, Nunu, Nun), feminine Naunet (also Nunut, Nuit, Nent, Nunet), is the deification of the primordial watery abyss in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad cosmogony of ancient Egyptian religion. The name 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".[1]
Nut is also the name of the sky goddess of the Ennead of Heliopolis.
The name is spelled phonetically with the nw hieroglyph
(may be repeated three times), with the determiners "sky"
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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.[
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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 the scarab deity Khepri standing in the middle surrounded by the seven other deities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_(mythology)
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hmmph...there is likely some Khepri-as-sunrise import to that...about the time the Egyptians started up, the Milky Way crossed the sky in the same location as the sun and moon...pretty much straight over head horizontally...a Nile in the sky...think I had that in the quotes in recent posts...a river for the Solar Boats...Angels made out...or A's...where's the game?...A's up top of 8th I think...looking about for nt, the goddess of fishermen, mentioned in quote...not much luck...A's make out...to bottom of 8th...
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Certain species of fish were associated with various deities and therefore considered to be sacred. The symbol of the patron goddess of fishermen, Hat-Mehit, was the Lepidotus Fish. The goddess Neith was associated with the Nile Perch, the Nile Carp was associated with Osiris, and the gods Ra and Atum with the eel. The Chromis and Abdju fish served as pilots for Ra's solar barque, warning him of the approach of the serpent Apophis as the barque traveled through the Duat. The Nile Mormyrid was a symbol of the evil god Set, and therefore reviled (in some instances it was held as sacred because it was thought to carry some of Osiris' own flesh.
The Bolti fish was regarded as a symbol of rebirth because it carries its eggs in its mouth. The Tilapia was believed to have multiple lives, and to be self-created. The image of a fish with lotus flowers issuing from its mouth was a symbol of resurrection. Amulets of both were buried with the dead. The heart was likened to a "red fish swimming in a pond.
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The artists documenting the Egyptian expedition to Punt under Queen Hatsheput depicted a number of sea creatures living in the Red Sea, among them rays, a swordfish, a unicorn fish, a flatfish, a spiny lobster, a triggerfish, a surgeonfish, a wrasse, and a Loligo squid.
https://cowofgold.wikispaces.com/Fish
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about Nut, and the lotus flower sunbeams...the lotus flowers beaming from the fish's mouth jogged my memory...Upton with a double...Calhoun to third...Ohtani up...representing the tying run...they'll walk him?...nope...a liner in the gap!...a two run single...A's 8-7...Pujols up...0-1...ground out...to top of 9th...
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Plate 26, Nut, New Year Chapel ceiling, Dendera
Image © Antonios Goyios
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site has long take on Nut...for study...but, there's a no brainer pun on sun and heat...so, while the sun, and moon, are rolling about overhead, there's a connotation...a romance...A's have a runner...the lucky fellow is Geb...
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Geb is the husband of Nut, the sky or visible daytime and nightly firmament, the son of the earlier primordial elements Tefnut (moisture) and Shu ('emptiness'), and the father to the four lesser gods of the system – Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephthys. In this context, Geb was believed to have originally been engaged with Nut and had to be separated from her by Shu, god of the air.[3] Consequently, in mythological depictions, Geb was shown as a man reclining, sometimes with his phallus still pointed towards Nut. Geb and Nut together formed the permanent boundary between the primeval waters and the newly created world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geb
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another A's batter hit by pitch...five on the day...Angels from here on out be nervous, be very nervous, coming up to plate...game being close a shield...:)...ground out...to bottom of 9th...
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Similar to modern fishing, angle fishing was a very common fishing technique, which requires a hook, however, no fishing rods were used at the time, instead, thick hand lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting,_fishing_and_animals_in_ancient_Egypt#Fishing
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that's a fit with the Moche fishermen...along with their reed surf boats...Egyptians with reed boats too...Fernandez up...K...one out...Fletcher down on three pitches...and another K...game over...gloom...A's 8-7...A's with the catch in their net...
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