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“—It’s unfortunate that this has happened. No. It’s fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it— not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. Does what’s happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person’s nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: A New Translation (4:49a)

#marcus aurelius

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“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.”

- G.K. Chesterton

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Wall painting originally from the Temple of Isis in Pompeii,depicts a priest with a mask of Anubis.

Naples National Archaeological Museum

By: Amphipolis (CC BY-SA 2.0)

#anubis #pompeii #egypt / greco-roman mashup is one of my favorite things

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An Egyptian “wand” made from a hippopotamus tusk. This one, made between the 1900s and 1600s BCE, is carved with the words “protection of day” and “protection of night." The exact use of these is unclear, but they were often buried in the tombs of the dead.

{WHF} {HTE} {Medium}

#egypt #egyptian #ancient egyptian

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ϩⲁⲛϩⲟ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ

Egyptian faces

#coptic #egyptian #because I will never get over how amazing these paintings are

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"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."

-Sylvia Plath

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your god's music genres

(No more than 3 per god)

Sobek - Death n' Roll

Set - Industrial Metal, Hard Rock

Anubis - Doom Jazz, Southern Gothic, Blues

Thoth - Electro-Swing, Smooth Jazz

#a little fun #sobek #set #sutekh #anubis #thoth

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Statue of Amenhotep III and Sobek

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1391-1353 BC. Now in the Luxor Museum.

#sobek #ancient egypt

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Hekate Triformis - Roman imperial art - 3rd century Ce - Ravenna Italy

#hekate #hecate #roman

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Fresco from Temple of Isis,sacrarium, north wall, Pompeii (VIII, 7, 28)

Above: navigium Isidis (boat of Isis) and another boat between two busts of Serapis; below: cista mystica between two snakes (similar to a lararium)

Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.

By: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#isis #serapis

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#ancient egypt #nothing has changed #drinking with Khonsu the god or Khonsu your human buddy?

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Deity Aesthetic: Ereshkigal

Mesopotamian goddess of death and Queen of the Mesopotamian Underworld , Kur. One of the most ancient gods of death.

Some of her titles:

Queen of the Great Below

Lady of the Great Earth

The Great Lady under Earth

#ereshkigal #ancient mesopotamia

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“Mother Kali, You dwell in cremation grounds

So I’ve made my heart a burning pit

Where You can dance.

One desire burns in the conflagration of my life:

To watch Your blazing dance!

I sit here still as death in my own funeral pyre,

Looking for You with eyes closed.”

-Ramprasad Sen

#kali #kali ma

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Kaalratri

Pralayanala dhumraave chandrasuryagni lochane

Shailavaase shubhe mataha kalikaavai namostute

Brahma shambhuja nathodheja shaba madhya prasanstithe

Pretakoti samayukte kalikaavai namostute

#kali #kali ma

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Bronze amulet depicting Ishtar standing on a lion, ca. 800 BC – 600 BC.

#ishtar #mesopotamia

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Imhotep will rise and we have no clue where our Rick O'Connell is

#ancient egypt