The pantheon of Egyptian gods is filled with mighty human-animal hybrid deities such as Horus, the falcon-headed god of kingship; Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification; and the...

2023年12月2日 · Some of these wandering-demons included Sehaqeq the headache demon (shAqq), He who lives on worms, He who overthrows the cat-fish, and the Emissaries of Sekhmet. As apparent by their epithets, wandering-demons were often the personification of a specific illness and punishment (s).

The Egyptians believed that in the netherworld, the Duat, there were various gates, doors and pylons crossed every night by the solar boat (Atet) of the sun-god Ra and by the souls directed to the world of the dead. [4] Ancient funerary texts provide …

The demons depicted on the gate to Menekhibenekau’s tomb are the human-animal hybrids common in the Egyptian imagination. One gate is guarded by a turtle-headed demon named “eater of his own excrement,” a lion figure called “he with alert heart,” and a …

Nehebkau[pronunciation?] (also spelled Nehebu-Kau) was the primordial snake god in ancient Egyptian mythology. Although originally considered an evil spirit, he later functions as a funerary god associated with the afterlife.

2021年2月1日 · Ram-headed demon, hands outstretch probably to hold two snakes. From a royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt. (1325 BC).British Museum (Public Domain) And neither are Egyptian demons a completely separate species. They come from the same familiar categories mentioned above, the living, the dead or the gods.

Perhaps the most common Egyptian demons were the ghosts of one’s immediate family members. Often the spirits of the recently deceased were invoked in ritual texts that asked for their...

Egyptians imagined the long route to the afterlife as marked by a series of gates over which these demons watched. Swansea University Egyptologist Zuzanna Bennett has recently studied more than...

2024年7月1日 · Ancient Egyptian demons played various roles, from protectors to bringers of chaos and bad luck. Demons were categorized into guardian demons, wandering demons, and servant demons. Rituals and spells were utilized to summon, control, or …

SET, OR SETH, whom the Greeks called Typhon, the nefarious demon of death and evil in Egyptian mythology, is characterised as "a strong god (a-pahuti), whose anger is to be feared." The inscriptions call him "the powerful one of Thebes," and "Ruler of the South."