NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Luxor Temple, Mortuary Temple, Opet Festival
29 May 2022
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A mix of representations: various aspects of the same deity. Bring about heliopolitan creation: ergo different myths are local variants, esna, khnum forms mankind on pottery whelel, focus on later episode of creation, also (late) myth of celestial cow goddess neith. Mehet weret (flood) as creator: has (ptah"s, creative thought and utterance. Annexed by mortuary temple rameses 3: entrance resembles syrian fortress tower. Abydos reliefs and texts best source for daily. Other: images in great hypostyle hall/karnak (19th. Dyn: two papyri from karnak (dyn 22, ptolemaic temple of horus at edfu, elements of ritual. Invocation to enter the body: of the god. Theban area and beyond troops: potentially first monotheism movement in history which may have lead to judaism, light is the sole life giver, night is death, emphasizes knowledge of other countries and their differences. Aten has created all, cares for them. Aslo cares for other living beings, down to worms and fish.
