Mythology Book

279 Isis and Nephthys are depicted lamenting over the murdered Osiris. The scene decorates a gilt coffin from the Roman period o ...

280 and the ibis god, Thoth, to help them. Together they pieced Osiris’s body back together into its true shape. Then Anubis emb ...

281 Falcon-headed Horus stands with his father, Osiris, and his mother, Isis, on this funerary stele dedicated to the gods of Ab ...

282 duly consumed the lettuce, unaware that it contained his rival’s potent semen. Still pursuing his quest for the throne, Seth ...

283 she-monster Ammut. This devourer of the dead had the head of a crocodile, the foreparts of a lion, and the rear of a hippopo ...

284 See also: The creation and the first gods 266–71 ■ En-kai and the cattle 285 ■ Ananse the spider 286–87 ■ The Dogon cosmos 2 ...

285 T he Maasai, a nomadic cattle-raising community, historically with a fierce warrior-like reputation, are believed to have or ...

286 TIE THE CALABASH BEHIND YOU AND THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CLIMB THE TREE ANANSE THE SPIDER I n the beginning, Nyame, the sky ...

287 Ananse the Spider is depicted at the center of the finial of a decorative wood and gold leaf staff, dating from around 1900, ...

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290 T he Dogon are a reclusive people who live in an isolated part of West Africa that extends from Mali in the southeast to Bur ...

291 Cave paintings from the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali depict figures and symbols which are most likely of the Dogon. Some, h ...

292 were also paired together. This set off a chain of links, extending beyond animals to plants to create a vast network. The D ...

293 Dogon dancers don masks for dama funerary rites in Tireli, Mali. These are enacted to lead spirits of the deceased out of th ...

294 THE QUEEN WANTS TO KILL YOU ESHU THE TRICKSTER I n Ifá, the religion of the Yorùbá people of western Africa, individuals int ...

295 See also: San creation myth 284 ■ En-kai and the cattle 285 ■ Ananse the spider 286–87 ■ The Dogon cosmos 288–93 Christianit ...

296 and place her son on the throne.” Eshu warned the king, “You had better take care and keep vigil.” That night, as the king p ...

297 contrariness, the two friends came to blows, but rather than jeopardize their friendship, they decided to follow the Babalaw ...

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