thoughts.

Seth wanted Anubis to become a god, but what KIND of god? To be like his mother meant embracing the death role, as She is a funerary goddess.

The dead body Seth mentions and the white (a color associated with death) link Anubis with this role.

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Deeply honoured to be presenting on Graeco-Roman funerary art at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 8th March.

I look forward to meeting Egyptian & Egypt-based colleagues on my first-ever visit to Alexandria ♥️🇪🇬📚🏦

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A WWI lightweight fighter with a significant manoeuvrability advantage.

The colour scheme has a skull and crossbones, funerary candles and a coffin inside a black heart - it is that of the French ace Charles Nungesser who scored 45 victories.

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The crescent moon over Julia's head makes her one of the 'daughters as Diana', a funerary motif popular at that time, marking her as a virgin. The crescent moon is the symbol of the virgin goddess Diana, as well as a symbol of eternity. 4/

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🖌hey.its.soosa: Zhenya ◆ Moonlight Sailor

The 77th director of Khrustalny Funeral Parlor, Zhenya is a vital piece to managing the Land of Geo's funerary affairs.

She does her best to carry out a person's last wishes and preserve the balance within this world.

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เดือนวาดภาพประกอบนิยาย บางรูปก็ไม่ได้ใช้ก็มี

⚠️blood // funerary ⚠️

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The Hogarth exhibition is packed with many of his most well-known works. There are so many things to stop and stare at …and a funerary moment too courtesy of A Harlot’s Progress

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I’ve only just learned of Xtabay, but she’s more of a modern myth then an ancient god. Said to enchant men only to kill them. The design of her mask resembles the funerary masks of K'inich Janaab' Pakal, Maya King of Palenque. (20/24)

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Most penitents held this ceremony when their death approached, so the character of my card appears in the form of a funerary bundle

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The teachings of Thaumaturgy were originally used in funerary rites. Freezing blizzards to halt corruption, fires to cleanse the corpse and lightning to expel sins.

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Ancient Egyptians worshipped the sacred white lotus of the river Nile as as a symbol of creation. 💮 Extracting its perfume, they used it for funerary rites, temple decor & offerings. It's also a candidate for the plant eaten by the Lotophagi in Homer's Odyssey.

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YOU are invited to join poet Malika Booker for a special close reading of her poem ‘Nine Nights’ - a reimagining of the story of Lazarus which explores the Caribbean funerary traditions of nine-nights.

Book here:
https://t.co/011zCCkLaC

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Wander (they/he) is a firbolg grave cleric of Silvanus. They're shy and awkward but generally sweet. Their traditional name among their family is 'The One Who Places Flowers Upon Your Graves,' and he's out in the world to offer funerary services to anyone in need.

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Care to pay for this funerary consultant's meal?

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What exactly is a 'naiskos'? It's a small, three sided temple; the dead are usually shown standing within one in Greek funerary pottery and monuments. This is where I got the concept of funeral garlands (below, left) and the egg and dart pattern, seen on many Greek temples. 2/

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🆕 People in early medieval Europe kept reopening graves. What was thought to be isolated events, like grave robbing, is actually a regular part of funerary traditions from the 5th – 7th c. AD

Here's an on the work (🆓) https://t.co/Y84YugyXdo 1/🧵

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Hathor was depicted as a woman wearing a headdress of cattle horns and a sun disk, with more temples dedicated to her than any other Egyptian goddess. She also appeared in funerary texts and art as the goddess, alongside Anubis, who welcomed the dead into the afterlife. 2/3

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For painted sarcophagus from ~400 BCE, encaustic on marble.
The border of a lid is decorated with a repeating sequence of myrtle & flower branches. In the pediment scene with the conical funerary monument (tymbos), 2 women on the right, 2 men on the left.

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my newest character! he’s a phantom rogue and a sage that works as a funerary priest. also he sees ghosts 👀

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Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China. He is known for his interest in immortality, his huge funerary compound that contains some 8,000 life-sized terra-cotta soldiers (continued)

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