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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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listography GIVE MEMORIES
TERMS
FAVORITE LISTOGRAPHY MENTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTICES
MESSAGES
  • AMMUT (F)
    • head of a crocodile, body of a lion and hindlegs of a hippopotamus
    • devourer of the dead
  • AMUN/AMEN/AMMON (M)
    • crowned with ostrich feathers
    • creation
  • ANUBIS (M)
    • son of Osiris and Nephthys
    • jackal headed
    • embalming/mummification
  • ATON/ATEN
    • sun disk with rays that ended in hands
    • a form of Ra
  • ATUM (M)
    • double crown
    • creator of gods
  • BASTET (F)
    • daughter of Re
    • head of cat
    • cats, love, sexuality, childbirth, protection
  • BES (M)
    • dwarf with lion and human features or wearing the skin of a lion a la Herakles
    • protector of pregnant women, newborn babies and the family
  • GEB (M)
    • color of plants; Nile mud; ankh; moon; goose on head
    • earth
  • HAPI/HAPY (M)
    • long hair, large breasts and protruding stomach = fertility
    • inundation
  • HATHOR (F)
    • horns/ears of cow; headdress of horns and sun disk red crown; falcon
    • music, protection, love, joy
    • wife of Horus; greets the souls of the dead in underworld
  • HORUS (M)
    • head of hawk; combination crown of Upper and Lower Egypt; boat of Ra
    • pharaoh, sky
  • IMHOTEP (M)
    • son of Ptah
    • patron of physicians
  • ISIS (F)
    • throne on head; holding baby; crook and flail; cow horns with sun disk
    • magic (used spells to help people in need); protection
  • KHEPERI (M)
    • head of scarab; scarab beetle
    • creation, movement of the sun, rebirth
  • KHNUM (M)
    • head of curly-horned ram
    • creation, inundation
  • MAAT/MA'AT (F)
    • feather in hair; feathers on her arms
    • justice, truth, harmony; balance of things on earth
  • MEHET-WERET/MEHTURT (F)
    • cow and sky goddess; cow or half cow, half human with a sun disk between her horns
    • mother of Re
  • MIN
  • MONT
  • MUT
  • NEITH (F)
    • mother goddess = brought gods, animals and humans into existence; invented childbirth; warrior
  • NEPHTHYS (F) ("Lady of the Mansion")
    • headdress showing her name in hieroglyphs
    • protection for dead
  • NUN (M)
    • Carrying a bark
    • in the creation myth, he was the waters of chaos
  • NUT (F)
    • blue with golden stars wose body arches across the sky; feather of Ma'at; scarab beetle
    • sky; body created a canopy over the earth
  • OSIRIS (M)
    • white with crook and flail; sceptre of Seth; ram; mummified (green)
    • fertility; underworld/dead
  • PTAH (M)
    • wrapped in tight white cloak carrying a staff
    • early creator god
  • RA/RE (M)
    • falcon headed; white crown; cobra
    • sun
  • RA-HARAKHTI (M)
    • combination of Horus and Ra
    • rising sun
  • SEKHMET (F)
    • lion headed
    • war goddess; delivers punishment to other gods
    • wife of Ptah
  • SERQET (F)
    • scorpion goddess
    • protects and guards coffins and canopic jars
  • SESHAT (F)
    • panther skin dress and star headdress
    • writing, measurement
  • SETH (M)
    • random animal with long curved snout; sun disk; ammonite
    • chaos/desert
  • SHU (M)
    • headdress with feathers; lion
    • air
    • held up Nut so the earth and sky were separated
  • SOBEK (M)
    • crocodile, headdress of feathers and sun disk
    • Nile
  • TAWARET
    • head of a hippopotamus, arms and legs of lion, back and tail of crocodile, breasts and stomach of pregnant woman
    • protected women during pregnancy and childbirth
  • TEFNUT/TEFENET
    • lion headed
    • water
  • THOTH/DJEHUTY (M)
    • head of ibis; scarab; holding a writing palette; baboon
    • wisdom, writing, knowledge; gave humans hieroglyphic writing; connected with moon
  • WEPWAWET (M)
    • dog's body and head of a jackal
    • guides dead person's soul through the underworld and assists in weight of the souls
nov 11 2009 ∞
apr 28 2010 +