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The "Tale of Two Brothers" is an ancient Egyptian story that dates from the reign of Seti II, who ruled from 1200 to 1194 BC during the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. [1] The story is preserved on the Papyrus D'Orbiney, [ 2 ] which is currently held in the British Museum.
Anubis as a jackal perched atop a tomb, symbolizing his protection of the necropolis "Anubis" is a Greek rendering of this god's Egyptian name. [7] [8] Before the Greeks arrived in Egypt, around the 7th century BC, the god was known as Anpu or Inpu. The root of the name in ancient Egyptian language means "a royal child."
Bastet was a local deity whose religious sect was centered in the city in the Nile Delta later named Bubastis. It lay near what is known today as Zagazig . [ 16 ] [ 18 ] The town, known in Egyptian as pr-bꜣstt (also transliterated as Per-Bastet ), carries her name, literally meaning House of Bastet .
The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. [1] "Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts [2] consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey ...
Maahes (also spelled in Greek: Mihos, Miysis, Mios, Maihes, or Mahes) (Greek: Μαχές, Μιχός, Μίυσις, Μίος, or Μάιχες) was an ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of war, [1] whose name means "he who is true beside her".
In early Egyptian mythology, Anhur (also spelled Onuris, Onouris, An-Her, Anhuret, Han-Her, Inhert) was a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis.
What is known of the Duat derives principally from funerary texts such as the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns, the Coffin Texts, the Amduat, [1] and the Book of the Dead. [7] [3] Each of these documents fulfilled a different purpose and give a different conception of the Duat, and different texts could be inconsistent with one another.
Bastet The matriarch of the long line of companions; she and Ramses have a deep bond with one another. After her death at a ripe old age (noted in Seeing a Large Cat), it will take Ramses years before he even considers accepting another feline companion. Almost always referred to as 'the cat Bastet'. She first appears in The Curse of the Pharaohs.