Summary of Barbara Mertz's Red Land, Black Land

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Egyptian prayer against the night-demon is a example of how people have been afraid of the dark and of what may come out of the dark. The Scottish prayer against ghosties and ghoulies was a charm designed to protect children.
#2 The Egyptian goddesses Isis, Nephthys, and Meskhenet were the wives and sisters of Osiris. They were the ones who delivered Reddjetet’s three children, who would eventually rule the land of Egypt.
#3 The Egyptians, who preserved many details of the activities of life and death, left little information about the pre-birth process itself. The seemingly rich documentation is illusory; it is only rich by comparison with other pre-Greek societies.
#4 The Egyptians were a literate culture, but they were not self-analytical, and writing was not a universal skill. They were busy people who preserved in writing only the matters they needed to know, not all the matters that might be of interest to foreign peoples in some unimaginable future.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Egipto
• Egypt
• Ancient history
• Ancient
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669398776
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Egyptian prayer against the night-demon is a example of how people have been afraid of the dark and of what may come out of the dark. The Scottish prayer against ghosties and ghoulies was a charm designed to protect children.

#2

The Egyptian goddesses Isis, Nephthys, and Meskhenet were the wives and sisters of Osiris. They were the ones who delivered Reddjetet’s three children, who would eventually rule the land of Egypt.

#3

The Egyptians, who preserved many details of the activities of life and death, left little information about the pre-birth process itself. The seemingly rich documentation is illusory; it is only rich by comparison with other pre-Greek societies.

#4

The Egyptians were a literate culture, but they were not self-analytical, and writing was not a universal skill. They were busy people who preserved in writing only the matters they needed to know, not all the matters that might be of interest to foreign peoples in some unimaginable future.

#5

The Egyptians had a very specific physical ideal, and it was reflected in their paintings and sculptures. The males were broad shouldered and lean fleshed, while the females were slim and flat chested.

#6

The Sheikh el Beled is a statue of a man who looks like someone I used to know. He is portly, not fat, and he has a round face that combines joviality and firmness. He is a man of dignity and authority.

#7

The artistic norm in Egypt was to exaggerate the features of the face and body. This was done for a magical rather than aesthetic function. It amuses me to wonder if there might not be another, more simpleminded reason in operation when an Egyptian merchant ordered his mortuary statue.

#8

The physical appearance of the ancient Egyptians is not an important point when it comes to cultural history, but it is a difficult one. Either you know what people looked like, or you don’t. Either you have mummies and skeletons, or you lack them.

#9

The theory that Queen Tiye was a Nubian is more popular than the blue-eyed version. However, the evidence about her ancestry is available - it is objective and indisputable.

#10

The tomb of Yuya and Thuya, the parents of Queen Tiye, was discovered in 1905 by Davis. The contents were amazing, but the most important aspect of the discovery was the identity of the mummies. The descriptions were accurate enough, if one allowed for the sensitive imagination of the beholder.

#11

The mummies of Yuya, Tiye’s father, and his wife, Thuya, are not bad. However, there is no evidence that Yuya was an immigrant to Egypt. He may have arrived when he was fairly young, and his career and titles seem to be consistent with those of any other Egyptian official.

#12

The Egyptians were a race of people who were shorter than we are. Their skin color ranged from pale to dark to darker. Their hair was usually black or brown, and their features were regular.

#13

The Egyptians did not discriminate against foreigners, and they were not limited to just one race. The Egyptians mixed with many different races, and their culture was a mixture of many different cultures.

#14

The Egyptian kingdom was made up of the elongated Valley of the Nile and the triangular Delta, where the river breaks up into several branches before it reaches the Mediterranean Sea. The Egyptians always thought of these two areas as distinct.

#15

The Egyptians loved the desert, and used it to their advantage. The rich black soil of the desert gave life to the ephemeral things that survived for one season, while the sterile desert sand has preserved not only stone but such fragile objects as textiles and papyrus.

#16

The northeast Delta was famous for wine in ancient times, and it provided pasturage for the great herds of the king and the gods. The area was wetter in ancient times, and there were many exits for the Nile River.

#17

The captain invited us to dine with him on the deck. It was a pleasant spot, with the cool night breeze touching our faces and the glitter of stars overhead. We found the food delicious, and the wine even better than we had imagined.

#18

The captain took a chance coming through the narrows of the Gebel Abu Feda so late in the day. The oars dug in, and we swung away from the cliffs. There were 20 miles of this sort of thing, and when we emerged from the narrows, we were ready to stop for the night.

#19

The final city on the eastward stretch of the Nile is Denderah, the site of the Hathor temple. In the 21st century A. D. , people will travel far to visit the Temple of Denderah, but they will only see a late version of the wonder that we now behold.

#20

The captain decided to lie over in Thebes until morning. He was an indulgent captain, as he allowed the men to go ashore. We went up to pay our respects to Amon, a sheep to be offered at the sunset service. We then visited the town.

#21

We passed the obelisks of Karnak, and soon were approaching Hermonthis, also on the Theban plain. Montu, the war god, lived here. Then we rounded the far bend and headed south under a stiff wind. The pace seemed like flying after the hard days of rowing.

#22

The House of the Prince is on the island of Elephantine, and his House of Eternity is being built for him in the north. However, there are tombs high in the western cliffs across from the island, and explorers and adventurers would go to visit them alone.

#23

We travel from Egypt to Nubia, passing through the Second Cataract. The river descends in a series of rapids and a chaos of glistening black boulders above the gorge. Above the fort is our destination, and it is a sight: a massive fort with battlements and ramparts.

#24

The deserts of the Libyan and Arabian Peninsula are high above the valley. In prehistoric times, the Nile cut its way through a plateau of limestone and sandstone, so that by the pharaonic period, the valley was at the bottom of a trench whose cliffs were several hundred feet high.

#25

The Egyptians also mined gems in the desert. They quarried limestone and sandstone, and obtained quartzite and the beautiful bekhen stone from the Wadi Hammamat.

#26

The Egyptians had many reasons to venture into the desert. The desert provided them with copper, which they used to build the pyramids. The Egyptians also acquired slaves, mercenary soldiers, cattle, and miscellaneous booty from the East.

#27

The desert on the west of Egypt, the Libyan, was not as exciting as the eastern desert. It had some valuable minerals, such as diorite and amethyst, but its most distinguishing characteristic was the string of oases that ran in a line roughly paralleling the Nile.

#28

The Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton was one of the most affectionate fathers in ancient Egypt. He may or may not have had sons, but there is no doubt of the parentage of his six daughters. They were called King’s daughter, of his body, born of the Great Royal Wife.

#29

The Egyptian culture was very family oriented. They had a very close relationship with their parents, and it was considered an honor to be loved by your parents. Children in Egypt played with sticks and stones, and bits of broken pottery.

#30

The Egyptians were the original owners of the domestic cat, which they used to keep rodents out of their grain stores. The cat eventually made its way into the house, where it has remained to this day.

#31

The Egyptians had a love of cats, and they were often depicted in art. Some cats were even used as household pets. However, some cats were also loved for their ritual significance.

#32

The Egyptian word for cat was spelled miw, and was pronounced the same way. The Egyptians seem to have been domesticated early, as there were already several breeds of dogs by the time they appeared in Egyptian reliefs.

#33

Dogs were not a popular subject for sculpture, as they were not sacred animals like cats or baboons. They were instead seen as pets and hunting companions.

#34

The Egyptians had a variety of pets, including camels, donkeys, goats, pigs, cattle, and some wild varieties. The children would have enjoyed playing with the other animals, especially the young ones.

#35

The Egyptians did not have any time to waste. Life was short and hazardous, and children entered adulthood at an age that seems scandalously young to us. They did not have any time to waste, as life was short and hazardous.

#36

Egyptian love poetry is dated from a relatively late period, but we cannot conclude that the state of mind it describes only occurred after 1200 B. C. The boy must make his feelings known first, and the girl remains modest and shy until he does so.

#37

The Egyptians also depicted the possibility of love at first sight, and admitted that it could happen. Ramses II fell in love with his bride, the princess of Mitanni, the moment he set eyes on her.

#38

The prince, newly arrived in Syria, is greeted by the local boys because of his beauty and the sad tale he tells. The king of Naharin falls in love with him, and they are married. When the prince tells his wife of the destiny foretold by the Seven Hathors, she urges him to get rid of his dog.

#39

The Egyptians did not have a lot of taboos about sex or relationships, and they did not differentiate between physical and emotional love between young unmarried people. They did not have a stigma attached to children born out of wedlock, and they did not consider homosexuality to be a deviation from the narrow code of morality.