Osiris

Ever since man, we wondered about our origin, so our advances in technology allows Anthropologist to answer this lingering question. Early civilizations, discovered in the 1800’s, were found along the Nile River and other areas just northeast of Africa. The early civilizations were diverse in particular ways, but had similarities too. The political, social, and institutions of these areas will be analyzed further, because ideas eventually developed to form better civilizations in the future.…

Introduction Decorum has derived from the French word and by time to décorer to decorate. Decorum from the Latin: "right, proper" was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory that was about the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject. The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behaviour within set situations. In Literature: The concept of literary propriety, in its simplest stage of development was outlined by…

Mummies, pyramids, tombs. All three of these icons of death are associated with ancient Egypt. This was a deeply religious society obsessed with death and the continuation of life in the afterlife. As such, many steps were taken to preserve the body and possessions of the dead as they journeyed to the Duat (underworld) in death. These steps included mummification of the body, storage of household objects, jewelry, and whatever possessions were deemed necessary for the next life. However,…

Christmas, the 25th of December, is the most important festival of the year. Celebrated by most countries in the world, Christmas is a time of shopping, taking a break from work, connecting with friends and family, and reflecting on the year. Though most Christians view it is a day in honor of God to remember and celebrate the birth of His Son, taking a closer look and an investigative perspective draws parallels with pagan customs practiced long before Christ was born. In this essay, I will…

Greek leaders in traditional Egyptian garb and adornments. Such procedures were done in order to assimilate the Ptolemies into the culture of their kingdom and legitimize their reign as true pharaohs. Even women, who were usually omitted from ancient works, are captured in Ptolemaic art. This represents a gradual acceptance and reevaluation of the female as an individual, as depictions of Ptolemaic queens in Egyptian headpieces were carved into stone tablets. Poetry became another effective…

To ensure the restoration and refocus of the traditional gods to be continued and reduce the power of the Cult of Amun, the Egyptian pharaohs within the late 18th and early 19th dynasty, Horemheb, Ramesses II, Seti I and Ramesses II, re-established the return and worship of the traditional gods for a political purpose, ensuring control of the Egyptian empire. In the effort to remove all previous mentions of the Aten, the following pharaoh’s destroyed all mentions of Akhenaten to the pharaohs…

mummification process had also held religious significance, on the tomb of numerous pharaoh’s references to the gods throughout the process of preservation had been made. The following had been inscribed on the tomb of Petosiris, pure, pure is the Osiris Great of the Five... Your purification is the purification of Horus, and…

1. The flourishing of Egyptian and Nubian societies along the Nile River can be attributed largely to the shift in climate which happened in North Africa during the 6th millennium B.C.E.; the general migration of the Sudanic nomads disseminated itself over time along the Nile Delta, and down the river itself. 2. Until the completion of the Aswan Dam (1968), the Nile always flooded yearly, creating floodplains and leaving alluvial mineral deposits in the downstream soil which made it very…

It was possible that immorality would soon sprout in the infant church due to the cultural mores of the city. Thessalonica was within sight of the home of Greek gods- Mt. Olympus. In light of this, we see there were cults of Dionysus, Aphrodite, Osiris,…

As Herodotus is known to be the progenitor of “Orientalism,” to which Munson elucidates the interlocking Herodotean components, operating in his theory of ethnicity. Availing the The Bacchae by Euripides, Said argues in his spilt thesis that: “The two aspects of the Orient that set it off from the West in this pair of plays will remain essential motifs of European imaginative geography. A line is drawn between two continents. Europe is powerful and articulate; Asia is defeated and distant,” and,…