Continuing a theme
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoWow. I really missed out in school. I learned about gods such as Osiris, Thoth, Set, Anubis and Isis but somehow didn't hear anything about the Egyptian god Min. I can't imagine why I wasn't taught about him in either elementary or high school. It is a mystery.
Best Egyptian god name goes to Huh. I have a sinking feeling I'm going to have to name a deity that in my stories. And maybe give him a sister called Oh and a maybe a partner named Ah-hah.
Best Egyptian god name goes to Huh. I have a sinking feeling I'm going to have to name a deity that in my stories. And maybe give him a sister called Oh and a maybe a partner named Ah-hah.
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Date: 2/14/08 08:16 pm (UTC)Indeed. It has nothing to do with Min holding a phalus and a flail now, does it. Or with the fact Egyptians were genrally open about sexuality issues and modern-day society is still not getting the point that teaching kids about it is not going to harm them in any way.
In Romania, they waited until college to teach about those obscure fertility and androgynous gods. XD
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Date: 2/14/08 08:19 pm (UTC)I didn't take any classes on religion in college, so I have to find out all this stuff on my own. Heck, I have several very large books on mythology and they don't even mention this. I'm glad the internet will give me all the good stuff.
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Date: 2/14/08 08:24 pm (UTC)I recently ran into Min's name again in a documentary on Alexander the Great I've translated as homework, actually. Though my favourite is still Mafdet, Bastet's predecessor. (What can I say? Cat person!)
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Date: 2/14/08 08:31 pm (UTC)If the Egyptian gods/goddesses was still worshiped, I was imagined Sekhmet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekhmet) would be the goddess of college guys. Let's destroy things and then go get drunk! WOO!
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Date: 2/14/08 08:38 pm (UTC)gah. Now I want to watch this stupid cartoon series called Mummies Alive! again... and it's not available anywhere. *pouts*
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Date: 2/14/08 09:11 pm (UTC)I would read this. I would read this many times. XD
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Date: 2/14/08 11:14 pm (UTC)On a somewhat related topic, recently I was talking about modern day Greece with a friend of mine, and I discovered Turkish Oil Wrestling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C4%9Fl%C4%B1_g%C3%BCre%C5%9F). The wrestlers train in close contact (http://www.flickr.com/photos/designldg/sets/72157603717562864/), and as a result they have no qualms about resting together between matches (http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=turkish+oil+wrestling).
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Date: 2/16/08 03:48 pm (UTC)somewhat unrelated: catzilla icon love!!!
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Date: 2/15/08 12:35 am (UTC)Oh could also be known as Ah or Uh. And Ah-hah could also be called Uh-huh... And he could have a twin brother named Nuh-uh...!
*points at Egyptians and dies laughing*
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Date: 2/15/08 12:45 am (UTC)That is simply priceless.
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Date: 2/15/08 01:29 pm (UTC)Share, please!
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Date: 2/15/08 01:46 pm (UTC)The symbols of Min were the white bull, a barbed arrow, and a bed of lettuce, that the Egyptians believed to be an aphrodisiac, as Egyptian lettuce was tall, straight, and released a milk-like substance when rubbed, characteristics superficially similar to the penis.
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Date: 2/15/08 11:03 am (UTC)Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. XD XD XD
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Date: 2/16/08 10:51 am (UTC)I want to metaquote that. ^_^ And
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