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Egyptian and mythology
The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.
The aegis also appears in Ancient Egyptian mythology.
He is the son of Nephthys and Set according to the Egyptian mythology.
* Egyptian mythology in popular culture
* The balance used in the Weighing of the Heart in Egyptian mythology.
Other combinations linked independent deities based on the symbolic meaning of numbers in Egyptian mythology ; for instance, pairs of deities usually represent the duality of opposite phenomena.
* Ancient Near Eastern religion, Egyptian mythology
* Numbers in Egyptian mythology
* Nu ( mythology ), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
In Egyptian mythology, this fish saved the life of the Egyptian goddess Isis, so she placed this fish and its descendants into the heavens as constellations of stars.
Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.
In late Egyptian mythology, Ra passes through Duat ( the underworld ) every night.
In Arabic superstition, the qarînah () is a spirit similar to the succubus, with origins possibly in ancient Egyptian religion or in the animistic beliefs of pre-Islamic Arabia ( see Arabian mythology ).
* Gary Greenberg, author of several books on Egyptian / Hebrew mythology and President of the Biblical Archaeology Society of New York
Aten, the disk of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra, was chosen as the sole deity for Akhenaten's new religion.
In order for his imaginary languages to have this type of depth, Barker developed entire cultures, histories, dress fashions, architectural styles, weapons, armor, tactical styles, legal codes, demographics and more, inspired by Indian, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Meso-American mythology in contrast to the majority of such fantasy settings, which draw primarily on European mythologies.
Magic is central to the entire mythology of Isis, arguably more so than any other Egyptian deity.
Aten ( also Aton, Egyptian ) is the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra.
Hindu and Egyptian mythology frequently feature in 19th century magical texts.
The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Egyptian and Ennead
The contest between them is often violent but is also described as a legal judgment before the Ennead, an assembled group of Egyptian deities, to decide who should inherit the kingship.
Nut ( or ) or Neuth ( or ; also spelled Nuit or Newet ) was the goddess of the sky in the Ennead of Egyptian mythology.
Shu (; meaning " emptiness " and " he who rises up ") was one of the primordial gods in Egyptian mythology, a personification of air, one of the Ennead of Heliopolis.
Nephthys ( or ) or Nebthet () is a member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology, a daughter of Nut and Geb.
Among Egyptian pesedjets, the most important was the Great Pesedjet, also called the Ennead of Heliopolis, after its centre of worship.
* Hu ( mythology ), the deification of the first word in the Egyptian mythology of the Ennead
In Egyptian mythology, Sia or Saa was the deification of perception in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny.
In 1945, Hermetic writings were among those found near Nag Hammadi, in the form of one of the conversations between Hermes and Asclepius from the Corpus Hermeticum, and a text about the Hermetic mystery schools, On the Ogdoad and Ennead, written in the Coptic language, the last form in which the Egyptian language was written.
In Egyptian mythology, Hu () is the deification of the first word, the word of creation, that Atum was said to have exclaimed upon ejaculating or, alternatively, his self-castration, in his masturbatory act of creating the Ennead.

Egyptian and system
In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.
The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.
The hieroglyphic system for Egyptian numerals, like the later Roman numerals, descended from tally marks used for counting.
Today, Cairo is the centre for many government offices governing the Egyptian educational system, has the largest number of educational schools, and higher learning institutes among other cities and governorates of Egypt.
Diocletian's attempts to bring the Egyptian tax system in line with Imperial standards stirred discontent, and a revolt swept the region after Galerius ' departure.
Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.
The Egyptian magical system, known as heka, was greatly altered and enhanced after the Macedonians, led by Alexander the Great, invaded Egypt in 332 BC.
The Decree of Canopus, which was issued by the pharaoh Ptolemy III, Euergetes of Ancient Egypt in 239 BC, decreed a solar leap day system ; an Egyptian leap year was not adopted until 25 BC, when the Roman Emperor Augustus successfully instituted a reformed Alexandrian calendar.
By early 1961, the British had withdrawn their special court system, which handled the cases of foreigners resident in Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti Government began to exercise legal jurisdiction under new laws drawn up by an Egyptian jurist.
), astrological philosophy from Hellenistic Alexandria, early Christian mysticism, early Gnostics, the Hebrew system of the Kabbalah, The Hindu Vedas, the Chinese " Circle of the Dead ", Egyptian " Book of the Masters of the Secret House " ( Ritual of the Dead ).
The ancient Egyptian numeral system was of this type, and the Roman numeral system was a modification of this idea.
The chemical abbreviation for sodium was first published by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in his system of atomic symbols, and is a contraction of the element's new Latin name natrium, which refers to the Egyptian natron, a natural mineral salt primarily made of hydrated sodium carbonate.
By the 1st century BC, the use of hieroglyphs gave way to a Meroitic script that adapted the Egyptian writing system to an indigenous, Nubian-related language spoken by the region's people.
The trabeated system is a fundamental principle of Neolithic architecture, Ancient Greek architecture and Ancient Egyptian architecture.
Among the typological features of Egyptian that are typically Afroasiatic are: fusional morphology, consonantal lexical roots, a series of emphatic consonants, a three-vowel system / a i u /, nominal feminine suffix *- at, nominal m -, adjectival *- ī, and characteristic personal verbal affixes.
The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six or seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have.
Coptic therefore is a reference both to the most recent stage of Egyptian after Demotic, and to the new writing system that was adapted from the Greek alphabet.
Coptic uses a writing system almost wholly derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of a number of letters that have their origins in Demotic Egyptian.
Coptic provides the clearest indication of Later Egyptian phonology thanks to its writing system, which fully indicates vowel sounds and occasionally stress pattern.
The phonological system of Later Egyptian is also better known than that of the Classical phase of the language due to a greater number of sources indicating Egyptian sounds, including cuneiform letters containing transcriptions of Egyptian words and phrases, and Egyptian renderings of Northwest Semitic names.

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