I’m more or less celebrate it anyway just having grown up with the idea that “sure, the dead are around on Halloween, why not?” if not necessarily a spiritual tradition, but I think adding some spiritual elements sounds right to me. But could this work, or is it appropriation,…
This was really helpful, thanks!
Inside the Temple of Edfu, a depiction of
IsisWadjet on the left, andNeftsNekhbet on the right, conferring the double crown of Egypt on Ptolemy V. (by DJMcCrady)(The best match for those cartouches in “Who Were The Pharaohs?” is Ptolemy VI - but it’s not an exact match…)
Ring Depicting Isis and a Snake
Roman, 1st century AD
The British Museum
The BM’s catalogue describes this as Isis “issuing from a serpent’s mouth”, but I reckon it’s more likely to be Isis-Renenutet, or a similar snakey goddess.
The Flower Song (Excerpt)
To hear your voice is pomegranate wine to me:
I draw life from hearing it.
Could I see you with every glance,
It would be better for me
Than to eat or to drink.(Translated by M.V. Fox)
