CeltPerson — June 26, 2008 — Douglas Irvine has taken replicas of ancient egyptian instruments and some that are actually ancient themselves and created what anthropologists believe to be rather close to the music of Kemet. This song, Banquet, is my personal favourite. I have added pictures that change every fifteen seconds or so, their resolution is not fantastic, but we are here for the music not the show! Please enjoy.

In the Western desert of Egypt, a city lost for thousands of years found.

John Darnell, an Egyptologist in Yale’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilization department, and his team have succeeded in doing what most Egyptologists merely dream of: discovering a lost pharaonic city of administrative buildings, military housing, small industries, and artisan workshops. Says Darnell, of a find that promises to rewrite a major chapter in ancient Egyptian history, “We were really shocked.”

Yale Alumni Magazine, Sept/Oct 2010

An intriguing find, connected with the Middle and New Kingdoms.

On July 1, Coloradoans got their first glimpse of the boy king at the highly-anticipated exhibition “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs.”

Featuring more than 100 treasures from ancient Egyptian sites including 50 objects from the tomb of King Tut, the exhibition will have its sole Rocky Mountain appearance at the Denver Art Museum, showing through Jan. 2.

(Hey, part of my collection makes it to the Rocky Mountains. And ‘we’ aren’t there anymore, Tutankhamen )

Oh, well, Tut, it may be a blessing in disguise. Who knows what could happen if we connected with one of your funeral pieces?

If you live in the area, or are planning to visit Denver before the end of the year, check it out.

René

King Tut exhibit arrives in Denver | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan

Ancient Egypt Magazine Issues 7-9 – 2001

Nine Measures of Magic by Dr Panagiotis Kousoulis

Part 1: Heka, its theological aspects and importance
to the fabric of the Egyptian cosmos

• Ancient Egypt, which has long been recognised as the land of myth and magic,… reflected in an ancient text: “Ten measures of magic have come into this world. Egypt received nine of them, the rest of the world only one measure.”
• The Heka (HkA), Egyptian term for magic, existed before the creation of divine and mundane world and it was the cause for the emanation of cosmos. It was the ‘life-giving energy’ which was conceived in the mind of the creator god and expressed as ‘divine logos’.
• “Re ( the sun god) gave to them (mankind) magic (Heka) as weapon in order to repel the strokes of bad events.”

Part 2:–> The role of the Magicican in Egyptian society, Clement of Alexandria, 3rd century AD, regarded Egypt as ‘the mother of the magicians.’

• Khaemwaset, son of Rameses II, a ‘good scribe and very wise man,’ trained to understand and write the ‘language of the gods,’ the hieroglyphs.
• Papyrus Westcar, a magician transformed a wax crocodile into a real one and used it to hunt down his wife’s lover
• Another magician from the same story parted the water of a lake to recover a dropped pendant.
• House of Life (pr-ankh)’, a sacred institution attached to all the major temples.

• created for the magical protection of the gods (Re, Osiris) and the Pharaoh,
  who was regarded as their representative on earth.
• the role of the temple library, where all the sacred books (mdat ntr),
  writings and cultic archives were kept.

PART 3:–> ‘Overthrowing Apophis’: EGYPTIAN RITUAL IN PRACTICE. Throughout Egyptian history, a major focus of ritual activity was intended to overcome personal, divine or foreign enemies of the king or state.

Trampling upon an enemy was a standard gesture in magical rites… common imagery of the traditional enemies of Egypt, … on the king’s footstool and on the sole of his sandals, so that he was constantly trampling on them.