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ANCIENT EGYPT: RA THE SUN GOD AND QUEEN CLEOPATRA INSPIRES SOLAR NAVIGATOR CATAMARAN FIGURE HEAD - SOLAR BOAT He was said to traverse the sky each day in a solar barque and pass through the underworld each night on another solar barque to reappear in the east each morning. The design of Solar Navigator's figure head is partly inspired by their beautiful Queen, Cleopatra, while drawing modern influences from the faces of today. Horus: The ancient Egyptian god of the sun, son of Osiris and Isis, represented as having the head of a hawk or falcon. www.solarnavigator.net /egyptian_sun_god_ra.htm   (490 words)

Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Apep In Seth's battle for the throne of Egypt, he claimed that he was stronger than Horus because it was he that stood at the prow of the solar barque and defeated the enemies of Re. Each day he attempted to disrupt the passage of the solar barque of Re. Apep was a huge serpent (or crocodile) which lived in the waters of Nun or in the celestial Nile. www.egyptianmyths.net /apep.htm   (375 words)

NOVA Online Mysteries of the Nile March 6, 1999: The Solar Barque The Solar Barque, in short, is one crumb on the trail of the obelisk-makers. He had found the Solar Barque of Khufu. Despite its solidity, the Solar Barque could not have carried an obelisk. www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/egypt/dispatches/990306.html   (886 words)

NOVA Online Mysteries of the Nile Pharaoh's Boat (Solar Barque) Buried in pieces by Khufu's son, the so-called Solar Barque may have carried the pharaoh's body across the Nile for burial, or it may have served solely a symbolic purpose, lying ready to transport the king in the afterlife. The boat's 1,224 separate components included cedarwood planking and oars, ropes of halfa grass, wooden dowels and battens, and copper staples. In a pit at the foot of the Great Pyramid, he uncovered the world's oldest planked vessel. www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/boat.html   (224 words)

Ancient Ships: The Solar Barque of Khufu (Cheops) builder of the Great Pyramid The Solar Barque of Khufu 4th Dynasty 2550-2528 BCE A stamp issued by the modern Egyptian government featured this illustration of the Solar Barque of Khufu It is known that as far as back as 3200 B.C., the people of Byblos on the modern Lebanese coast were harvesting cedar trees in the mountains of Lebanon, to be shipped to Egypt and Mesopotamia for use in building ships and for making structural elements in buildings. www.artsales.com /ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/05_khufus_boat.html   (656 words)

Makara's List of Egyptian Gods from A to H Often the god Set or the serpent Mehen was the one who defended Ra and the solar barque from Apophis. This was Horus as the son of Isis and a guardian deity. He was a fertility deity whom women worshipped in the hope that he would aid them in conceiving children. www.angelfire.com /me3/egyptgoddess/Gods.html   (3124 words)

ANCIENT EGYPT: RA THE SUN GOD AND QUEEN CLEOPATRA INSPIRES SOLAR NAVIGATOR CATAMARAN FIGURE HEAD - SOLAR BOAT He was said to traverse the sky each day in a solar barque and pass through the underworld each night on another solar barque to reappear in the east each morning. Ra is usually represented with the body of a man and the head of a hawk, holding an ankh and sceptre. He was usually depicted in human form with a falcon head, crowned with the sun disc encircled by the uraeus (a stylized representation of the sacred cobra). www.solarnavigator.net /egyptian_sun_god_ra.htm   (490 words)

Apep The god Seth and the god Mehen were often depicted defending the solar barque. This snake god is the chief of the antagonists of the sun god Re and each night he tries to stop the sun god's barque on his journey through the underworld. www.pantheon.org /articles/a/apep.html   (136 words)

Phoenician Religion -- Pagan God Seated on a Throne in the Barque of Osiris Uraei, winged solar discs, Horus-eyes, Anubis, Sekhmet, Thoth, Bes, the whole pantheon of gods, demigods, monsters and demons treated by the fertile Egyptian imagination are readily found in the products of the minor arts (amulets, amulet- étuis, necklaces, pendants. A solar disc in the left corner should be related to the boat supporting the god's throne. www.phoenicia.org /pagan.html   (136 words)

Egypt: Heh and Hauhet, Deities of infinity and Enternity He, like Nun, was also believed to hold up the solar barque of Ra, and to life it up into the sky at the end of its voyage through the land of the dead. It seems that 'million' was a number for eternity - the 'Barque of a Million Years' was the name of the boat that the sun god Ra travelled in during the day, which the Egyptians believed would happen until the end of time, when chaos took over the land once more. Hauhet was the feminine to Heh's masculine, more of a representation of duality than an actual goddess, so she was even less of a deity than Heh, and more of an abstract. www.touregypt.net /featurestories/heh.htm   (136 words)

Mystical-WWW - A 2 Z letters Arthur was then taken on a sacred barque to the 'Isle of Avalon', as the land around 'Glastonbury' (See Glastonbury) flooded in winter forming small islands. Apollo, as a Sun God, and Arthur as a solar hero, were both symbols of poetry, of the hunter and of being possessed with an understanding of prophecy directly and indirectly, that is of the past, the present and the future. It is believed that it is here in Avalon that Arthur dwells, possibly carried in the sacred barque by his three sisters (See Morgan le Fay), or by sisters of Morgan, the fata morgana, or those from an Otherworldy (See Otherworld) realm. www.mystical-www.co.uk /arthuriana2z/a.htm   (136 words)

Egypt: Nun and Naunet, Deities of Chaos and Water He was also shown rising up out of a body of water, carrying the solar barque in his up stretched hands. Finally, it was on Nun's orders that Nut turned into a solar cow, and carried Ra up into the sky after the sun god had grown old and wearied of life on earth. Nun was also thought to continue to exist as subsoil water beneath the earth and as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile River. www.touregypt.net /featurestories/nun.htm   (136 words)

T&T in Egypt - Giza - Plateau Satisfied with our view, we attempted the Solar Barque Museum (these boats would take the souls of the pharaohs to and from the sun), only to find that the cost was too much for our rapidly depleting funds (everything has an entrance fee!). Then we climbed to a short peak on the perimeter of the plateau, which felt like trekking in the desert, if briefly... www.fishcat.com /egypt/07gizaplateau.html   (136 words)

Mehen Mehen was usually depicted as a snake coiled about the barque. He defends the solar bargue of the sun-god during his nightly passage through the underworld. Article created on 21 May 1997; last modified on 21 May 1997. www.pantheon.org /articles/m/mehen.html   (47 words)

Gofmm.htm Mehen defended the solar barque of Re during its night passage through the underworld. Her festival was the Meditrinalia held on October 11. religion.mrugala.net /Divers/Anglais/Gofmm.htm   (47 words)

Abydos In the long passageway to the Osireion (begun by Sety I, c.1290-1279 B.C.E.) at Abydos, is this relief carving of the god Nun lifting up the Solar Barque of Khepry [pronounced kep-ree] (the rising sun), a scene from the Book of Gates. The ancient Egyptians believed that Nun was the primordial waters from which creation took place. www.memphis.edu /egypt/abydos.htm   (47 words)

Talaria Enterprises: King Tut Tutankhamun Pharaoh The Book of the Divine Cow, a version of which is inscribed upon the interior of the first shrine protecting the sarcophagus, suggests that the Mehetweret couch was a solar barque which would speed the king from this world to heaven. One of three ceremonial couches found in King Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Antechamber arranged nose to tail, facing north, along the west wall. This Pharaoh Sarcophagus Vase is adapted from the original found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun (c. www.talariaenterprises.com /product_lists/egyptian_king_tut.html   (815 words)

An Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld From A Shrine of Tutankhamun This text is divided into three registers, similar to the more familiar Amduat and within, the solar barque is absent. In fact, these texts are designated as an "amduat", which here for the very first time the term is used to describe a netherworld text in general rather than the specific text to which it is normally applied. Engraved on the second gilded shrine of Tutankhamun, discovered in his tomb by Howard Carter, was two parts of a book that is completely unique, though they do seem to have similarities to two scenes from the Amduat which were depicted on the child king's third shrine. touregypt.net /featurestories/enigmatic.htm   (1682 words)

Hu They also accompany him on his solar barque and help the bring order in chaos. With Sia he forms a primeval pair, both born from a drop of blood from the penis of Re, and together the personify the insight and wisdom of the sun-god. In Egyptian mythology the creating word of the sun-god of Heliopolis, personified in the same god. www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hu.html   (1682 words)

The Atlantean Symbolism of the Egyptian Temple (Part I) As we explain elsewhere in detail, the word Canopus, the name of the pilot of the Argonavis and of the boat of Osiris, the Solar Barque, indeed derives from the Dravida, and means "Pole Star"( xan-oppu. More exactly, the Celestial Pilot ( Per-aa) is represented by the beautiful star Canopus (alpha Carinae), which is often identified with Osiris or Atlas in this role of theirs. This means that the Pharaoh was the captain of the Ark, the pilot of the Celestial Ship represented in the skies by the Argonavis constellation. www.atlan.org /articles/temple1/index.html   (1682 words)

Animals and the Gods of Ancient Egypt The early dynastic deity of the necropolis was Khentamentiu, Foremost of Westerners, god of the dead who helped the deceased go to the Land of the West, pilot of the solar barque during it's nocturnal travels. There was also a jackal god named Sed (after whom the 'sed festival' or royal jubilee' was named) who was closely linked to Wepwawet. Another jackal god was Wepwawet, the Opener of the Ways, who performed the Opening of the Mouth ceremony on the pharaoh so he would be able to speak in the afterlife. www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_animalgods.html   (2000 words)

Seth It was Seth who stood in the front of the solar barque to defended the sun god Ra from his most dangerous foe, the serpent Apep. The Asar (Osiris) cults took this opportunity to discredit the followers of Seth; he was now considered to be Asar's (Osiris) evil brother. In the Asar (Osiris) legends, it is Seth who tricks and murders Asar (Osiris). www.africawithin.com /kmt/seth.html   (2000 words)

Nun Being the primeval waters of Egyptian mythology, Nun is in rare illustrations is pictured as a bearded man with the head or either a frog, eagle, or serpent, standing waist-deep in water with arms raised to support the solar barque, in which the sun-disk was being raised up by a scarab. Nun (or Nu) was chaos or the primeval waters from which all life immanent, and was guarded by four androgynous frogs and serpent-headed deities. Occasionally it was thought that the waters of Nun, which surrounded the floating earth, would one day re-envelop the world and Atum would revert to his original form as a serpent; Osiris instead of Re, would sail over the waters of Nun. www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/nun.html   (530 words)

Egyptian Gods: Khnum Every night they sailed together in the solar barque until the sun safely rose again at the dawn of the new day. Khnum also protected the sun (in the form of the god Ra) on its daily journey through the underworld. It was believed that he created the first children on his potter's wheel with clay from the banks of the Nile. www.artyfactory.com /egyptianart/gods/khnum.htm   (83 words)

Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt - EgyptSearch Forums The local deity of the necropolis was Khentamentiu (Khontamentiu, Khentamenti, Khontamenti, Khenty Amentiu, Khenti Amentiu), Foremost of Westerners, god of the dead who helped the deceased go to the Land of the West, pilot of the solar barque during it's nocturnal travels. Some rulers of 0 Dynasty, and rulers of the 1st and 2nd Dynasties were buried at Abtu. The earliest temple found at Abtu was for Khentamentiu. www.egyptsearch.com /forums/Forum8/HTML/001773.html   (3072 words)

Egypt: Tour Egypt Monthly: The Animals of Ancient Egypt Both the Rilapia or Chromis and the Abdju fish were thought to act as pilots for Re on his solar barque as it traveled, warning of the approach of the enemy of Re, the snake Apep, as they traveled through the underworld. The goddess Hatmehit from the Delta city of Mendes, was known as the 'Chief of Fish', and was worshipped in the form of a fish, or as a woman with a fish emblem on her head. Some of the fish in Egypt were the carp, perch and catfish. www.egyptmonth.com /mag06012001/magf7.htm   (1985 words)

Museum of Science : Ancient Egypt Science & Technology : The Egyptian Afterlife The dead chose to travel on the solar barque, a low-slung boat from which Re, the sun god, recreated the world every day, as a way to achieve eternal life. The ceremony was called, "weighing the heart," and explains why the heart remained intact while the priests removed the other vital organs and placed them in canopic jars. A priest had to perform the, "Opening of the Mouth," ceremony over the mummified body, whereby all the incantations restored all the senses to the body. www.mos.org /quest/afterlife.php   (644 words)

dracoBlu: Apep Egyptian Dragon of Chaos True power could be seen in the contrasting elements of Apep as the destructive darkness, and Re, the heat and light giving sun-god travelling through the sky in his solar barque. The battle between Re and Apep was played out daily as a very visible symbol of the natural cycle of life and death. lthough later mythologies described Apep as evil, the early myth-tellers were aware life was the coexistence of all opposite values. www.dracoblu.com /apep.html   (465 words)

Luxor, Egypt, Karnak, List of web links for Karnak www.memphis.edu/egypt/abydos.htm Picture of relief carving of the god Nun lifting up the Solar Barque of Khepry [pronounced kep-ree] (the rising sun), a scene from the Book of Gates, in the long passageway to the Osirion (begun by Sety I, c.1290-1279 B.C.E.) at Abydos. www.interoz.com/egypt/ABYDOS.HTM Comprehensive historical background to the temple built by Seti I. htttp://members.bellatlantic.net/~easfour/s3new04.htm A 3D reconstruction of the cult temple of Snwsrt III in Abydos. Luxor, Egypt, Karnak, List of web links for Karnak www.suziemanley.com /november/abydos_dendera_weblinks.htm   (184 words)

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