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Wine and Wine Offering
Apr. 27th, 2006 09:45 amSome snippets from Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt:
Wine was the drink of "well-to-do" Egyptians, often imported, and and was used in funerary and temple offerings and in medicine. The earliest known scene of a wine offering is from the king Sahure's Pyramid temple. He's shown offering wine to Sekhmet, with an inscription that reads in part, "Wine and libation for the ka of the Mistress of the Two Lands, Sekhmet of Sahure".
Sekhmet was associated with wine due to the story of "The Destruction of Mankind". Noting that wine is often offered along with Maat, the author points out that Sekhmet "represents the untamed nature. The appeasement of Sekhmet, therefore, means the restoration of the cosmic order." One liturgy says, "How sweet it its taste (literally, its beauty) to the nose of the Leader of the gods, Sekhmet, in happiness."
I had no idea that Tefnut was linked to Hathor, and portrayed as a lioness-headed woman! Must follow this up.
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Poo, Mu-Choo. Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt. Kegan Paul, London, 1995.
Wine was the drink of "well-to-do" Egyptians, often imported, and and was used in funerary and temple offerings and in medicine. The earliest known scene of a wine offering is from the king Sahure's Pyramid temple. He's shown offering wine to Sekhmet, with an inscription that reads in part, "Wine and libation for the ka of the Mistress of the Two Lands, Sekhmet of Sahure".
Sekhmet was associated with wine due to the story of "The Destruction of Mankind". Noting that wine is often offered along with Maat, the author points out that Sekhmet "represents the untamed nature. The appeasement of Sekhmet, therefore, means the restoration of the cosmic order." One liturgy says, "How sweet it its taste (literally, its beauty) to the nose of the Leader of the gods, Sekhmet, in happiness."
I had no idea that Tefnut was linked to Hathor, and portrayed as a lioness-headed woman! Must follow this up.
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Poo, Mu-Choo. Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt. Kegan Paul, London, 1995.
