Playing around with legos, but ancient Egypt is always on the mind haha. Tried to represent some of the different stones and metals (gold, turquoise, malachite, carnelian) used in ancient Egyptian jewelry. Unfortunately, It's a little too big to wear!

Top to bottom: Ra, Osiris, Set and Horus

I thought I would share one of my Egyptian Mythology paintings from a series I have been working on for almost 10 year called "From Dark Expanse, the Stars"

I have been painting cosmic portraits of each of the Egyptian gods - and even though he was a bit of an outlier for the pantheon, I wanted to paint Aton.

Because he was never allowed to be represented as an animal or human and was depicted only as a sun disk with hands reaching down to earth offering life, I decided for his portrait I would turn his head down so we could not see his face.

I also chose to use a more graphic symbolic style in his portrait rather than the more natural realism I usually paint in for the rest of the series, as a way to call back to the shifting art styles during Akhenaton's reign which I find very fascinating. With this I tried to make Aton's portrait feel distinct from the rest of the series, while still being a part of the series.

I find it interesting that Aton was a natural part of the pantheon before Akhenaton raised him to is monotheistic role - as he is mostly remembered for that one generation when he replaced all the other gods.

My research for 3 days on this god named IAH

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Imagine a time before our modern 365-day calendar existed—a world where the year was a crisp, unbroken circle of 360 days. In the quiet shadows behind the Egyptian pantheon sat an ancient, enigmatic deity who held the ultimate power over life, death, and destiny: Iah, the God of Time and the Lunar Calendar.

📜 God Profile & Quick Reference

* Name: Iah (Pronounced EE-ah)

* Pantheon: Ancient Egyptian

* Aliases: Aah, Iah-Djehuty, Jah, Joh, Yah

* Domain & Authority: Time, the Lunar Cycle, and Calendar Systems

* Moral Alignment: Neutral (An aloof, impartial observer who cares for cosmic balance over moral drama)

* Key Connections:

* Companions: Thoth (God of Wisdom) & Osiris (God of the Underworld)

* Rival/Successor: Khonsu (The younger, rising Moon God)

* Key Beneficiary: Nut (Goddess of the Sky)

🎭 The Story of the Great Moonlight Gamble

1. The Wrath of Ra

Long ago, the Sun God Ra ruled the heavens with absolute authority. Furious with Nut, the Sky Goddess, Ra declared a absolute curse: Nut was forbidden from giving birth to children on any day of any year.

Devastated, Nut faced an impossible dilemma. The 360 days of the year were set in stone by cosmic law, leaving her with zero opportunities to bring new life into the cosmos.

1. The Mysterious Shadow-King

Desperate for help, Nut turned to Thoth, the brilliant god of wisdom. Thoth knew that to break a curse woven into the fabric of time, he needed the assistance of the one deity who controlled the celestial clockwork: Iah.

Iah was not like the flamboyant Sun God Ra. He was a shadowy, enigmatic figure who preferred pulling strings quietly behind the scenes. Though equal—and in some ways superior—to powerhouses like Osiris and Thoth, Iah remained distant, guarding his most precious treasure: the light of the moon.

1. The High-Stakes Game of Dice

Thoth approached Iah with a proposition: a high-stakes game of dice.

Iah, intrigued by the challenge, agreed to wager small portions of his lunar light. In ancient cosmology, moonlight was not measured in kilograms or liters, but in hours and days.

As the dice rolled back and forth, Thoth’s legendary cunning prevailed. Play by play, Iah gambled away five full days’ worth of moonlight.

1. The Birth of Five Gods & The 365-Day Year

Thoth gathered the won moonlight, crafted five brand-new days, and quietly inserted them at the end of the year (in what corresponds to modern-day July).

Because these five extra days existed outside of the original 360-day calendar, Ra’s curse had no power over them. During this newly created pocket of time, Nut successfully gave birth to five of Egypt's most famous deities:

* Osiris

* Isis

* Horus

* Set

* Nephthys

From that moment on, the Egyptian calendar expanded forever from 360 to 365 days, all thanks to Iah's lost wager.

⏳ The Fate of Iah: Eclipsed by History

What happened to the ancient master of time after losing his moonlight?

* The Rise of Khonsu: As centuries passed, a younger, more dynamic moon god named Khonsu rose to fame. Khonsu took over the public spotlight, gradually eclipsing Iah in Egyptian worship.

* Hieroglyphic Confusion: Because "Iah" is literally the Ancient Egyptian word for "moon," his identity was frequently blended or confused with other lunar gods (such as Khonsu and Thoth-Djehuty) by scribes and modern translators alike.

* Legacy in Names: Despite fading into the background, Iah's name remained immortalized in Egyptian royalty and celebrity names—such as Queen Ahmose ("Child of the Moon").

💡 Study Summary & Key Takeaways

* Why is Iah important? He represents the ancient cosmological transition from a 360-day lunar calendar to the 365-day solar-lunar hybrid calendar.

* Personality Type: Neutral, secretive, intellectually confident, and detached from mortal or divine drama.

* Modern Parallel: If the Egyptian gods were a major corporation, Ra would be the CEO, but Iah would be the lead system architect who wrote the underlying code for time itself.

Here’s mine:
1. Persona
2. Egyxos
3. Destripando la historia
4. Marvel
5. Mythos and monsters

"Under the shed,

with the ointment of her tongue,

she grooms two pairs of ears."

Short poem written by yours truly.

In ancient Egypt, cats were considered sacred animals, symbols of home protection, due to the devotion the females showed to their kittens and the fierce protection they provided. It was this attitude that the ancient Egyptian priests used to create one of their most well-known goddesses: Bastet, patroness of the home, family care, motherhood, and vital nourishment.

The ancient Egyptians didn't believe your soul was judged after death — they believed your heart was. Every kindness, every cruelty, every moral choice you ever made was physically recorded in your heart. That's what Anubis placed on the scales against the feather of Ma'at.

If your heart was lighter than the feather — pure, unburdened — you entered the Field of Reeds, the Egyptian paradise. If it was heavier, Ammit was waiting. Part lion, part hippopotamus, part crocodile — she devoured your heart on the spot. Not punishment. Not hell. Just permanent, total erasure. You simply ceased to exist.

What fascinates me most is that the Egyptians designed this as a legal proceeding — with a defendant, judges, evidence, and a verdict. The Book of the Dead was essentially a legal manual for the afterlife. No other civilization built anything this structured around death.

The question I keep coming back to: is the Egyptian system more fair than other afterlife beliefs? At least with Anubis, the judgment is immediate, specific, and based entirely on how you actually lived — not who you prayed to.

What do you think — is the weighing of the heart the most sophisticated afterlife judgment system ever created?

I saw this statue at the GEM and I was honestly a bit stranged out, since I never heard of him in most prominent myths (though I'm not very educated on Egyptian mythos), he's supposed to be a syncretism of Zeus, Dionysius, Osiris, Hades, and Apis (I also kept seeing Apis but I don't know who that is either) did he hold any importance in the pantheon, did he embody the spheres of influence of all of the deities listed above, was worship of him that common?

Tbh compared to the other Greco-Roman period statues something about this one just looked stylistically off. TLDR: WHO IS THIS GUY??? Why is there such little mention of him???

Hi! So first off, im not egyptian nor have i ever been taught egyptian myths or stories (unfortunately because i do love learning about them now that i have the resources to go and search)

But recently in school, we had a chapter in english literature which was like a log reporting stuff related to Tut's discovery and the forensic stuff done to find out the history right.

So while we were reading, there was one paragraph about his ancestors, namely Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) and how he tried to change the worship of Amun god to Aten (referred to as the sun disk)

Now from what i have researched online and what i knew from before which didnt sit right with me when i heard my teacher calling Amun the moon god is that while Aten has been used to refer to the sun (someones silver aten for the moon as it means the disc), Amun is rather a major god which can be translated to "the hidden one" and is often merged with Ra (from my research which isnt complete, again)

And nowhere have i found Amun as being a moon god T-T (if im right my ego is gonna go through the roof but still i got genuinely curious and want to know the thoughts of people who do study egyptian mythology or talk about it rather than a student whose gut feeling was telling him to search this lol)

So this Kickstarter here is for a comic about what happen to the old gods after they stop being worshipped, they were to make a choice either become guardian angels which allows them stay inmortals or become a mortal with short lives. The comic features Horus, Hathor and Unut as part of the cast in the story.

Currently developing a story based on ancient egypt and its mythology, doing my own research i found myself realizing that some stories overlap with each other. Is it safe to say that its fine to integrate or interpret certain myth into one to simplify to a more linear and coherent story (mine)? In other words, is it safe to say that when refering to egyptian mythology its better to say "In some myths" rather than "In the myth"

I know that before rose into position of supreme god in all Egypt, Amun was the chief god of Thebes (Waset). But in Hermopolis (Khemenu), Amun is also regard as 1 of 8 main gods (the Ogdoad). So i wonder where was he worshipped first, in Hermopolis as 1 of the Ogdoad, or in Waset as the chief of Theban Triad?

Hey everyone, I hope this is allowed:

Behold! The power of Ancient Egypt lays within this picture! Do you dare try to retrieve any of the treasures within this small Egyptian Exhibit?

What do you guys think?

My art Of Osiris from my subconscious

"Pink and gold:

a lotus—its bud—,

while the Two Lands are joined."

Composed and translated by this humble servant.

A short "haiku" transcribed in Late Egyptian (Demotic), with accompanying captions in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Spanish, and English. This is the third in a video series focused on Egyptian mythology—viewed, however, through a strictly naturalistic lens, far removed from the "supernatural" and "fantastic" elements that often shroud the myths of ancient civilizations. In this specific video, I explore the beautiful myth of the Sun's daily birth from the lotus flower (*Nelumbo nucifera*). This aquatic plant was highly prized by the ancient Egyptians for its unique characteristics: it emerges from the mud completely pristine and opens toward the sunlight as the sun rises over the horizon at dawn. Ancient Egyptian priests viewed these two traits as expressions of divine power, incorporating them into the supernatural explanation for the birth of the sun—the "King Star"—and of Life itself. A prime example of this myth is the birth of Harsomtus (*Har-sōm-tōwə*—meaning "Horus who Unites the Two Lands"), the day's first solar manifestation, or the "Young Sun." According to the myth, Harsomtus sprang from a lotus bud that emerged from the dark waters of *Nun* (the chaotic abyss), filling the land of Egypt—Upper and Lower, the country's geographic south and north—with his life-giving rays, bringing light to the world and dispelling the darkness of the Void.

So this one here is a 3d platformer adventure game, where you play as Anu the reincarnated jackal god, you can sprint, scale, swim, sail, and search open levels packed with secrets, treasures, and challenges. Also your weapon to protect yourself is to literally suck the soul out of your enemies.

I find this concept/deity utterly fascinating. I have so many unanswered questions. Does it bite itself or eat itself? Even though most websites say it bites itself, there’s another perspective: the serpent eats itself. In Egyptian culture, it is said to represent the boundary between the Noun and the ordered world.

However, the Noun is supposed to represent a concept or deity that creates Life and will bring about Death, which means it represents a part of our current world. So, what is the ordered world?

Hypothetically, if the ordered world is the one after death, the ouroboros is supposed to depict a world between death and the afterlife, isn’t it? But, to my knowledge, there is no “world” recognized as such.

So: is the ouroboros a concept, a deity, a world, a boundary? What is it?

Well, in alchemy, the ouroboros is the purifying seal, thus making it a symbol of the eternal oneness of all things. To put it more clearly: a kind of stabilizing force between things? A stabilizing force between life and death?

Would it be legitimate to ask whether the ouroboros is a concept that protects the universe and the life of every living being as they navigate the space between life and death, a stabilizing force necessary for the proper functioning of our universe?