August Live Q&A Event

Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

Show Notes

Religion of the Masses

* Kemp BJ. How Religious were the Ancient Egyptians? Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 1995;5(1):25-54. doi:10.1017/S0959774300001177

* UEE Encyclopedia- Votive Practice/Personal Religion

Continuity of Ancient Egyptian Religion

* Abu el-Haggag Festival: The Modern-Day Opet

* Moulid Festival of Abu'l Hajjaj

Entertainment in the Egyptian Court

* Autobiography of Harkhuf

[the king saying] “Come north to the residence at once! Hurry and bring with you the pygmy (sic) whom you brought from the land of the horizon-dwellers life, hale, and healthy, for the dances of the gods, to gladden the heart, to delight the heart of King Neferkare who lives forever! When he goes down with you into the ship, get worthy men to be around him on deck, lest he fall into the water! When he lies down at night, et worthy men to lie around him in his tent. Inspect ten times at night! My majesty desires to see his pygmy (sic) more than the gift of the mine-lands of Punt” (Lichtheim 1973, 27).

* Little People in ancient Egypt

* Blind Harper motif

* Westcar Papyrus and the Magician Djedi

His majesty said: “Is it true , what they say, that you can join a severed head?” Said Djedi: “Yes, I can, O King, my lord.” Said his majesty: “Have brought me a prisoner from the prison, that be be executed.” Said Djedi: “But not to a human being, O king, my lord! Surely, it is not permitted to do such a thing to the noble cattle [i.e. the populace].” (Lichtheim 1973, 219)

* Female Dancers

* Seneb

King’s Ancestors

* Royal titulary

* Divine Birth

* Oppenheimer, Adela. The Early Life of Pharaoh: Divine Birth and Adolescence Scenes in the Causeway of Senwosret III at Dahshur," in M. Bârta, F. Coppens, and J. Krejci, eds., Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010 (Prague, 2011), 171-88

* Alexander Romance

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