Question 1, 14
1. In your own words explain how the deity Horus became the king of Egypt and Osiris became king of the underworld.
Set tricked Osiris into getting into a box, which he then locked, and had sealed with lead, then he threw it into the Nile River (sarcophagi were based on the box in this myth). Now Osiris’ wife, Isis, looked for his remains until she found them rooted in the trunk of a tree, it so happen that the trunk of the tree was holding up the roof of a palace in Byblos on the Phoenician coast. Isis is said to have remove the coffin and open it, but found Osiris already dead. Isis casted a spell she had learned from her father that brought Osiris back to life so he could impregnate her. Isis became pregnant and Osiris died again, so she hid his body in the desert.
Some months later, she gave birth to Horus. While she was off raising Horus, Set had been out hunting one night, he came across the body of Osiris. Infuriated, he ripped the body of Osiris into fourteen pieces and spread them throughout the land. Isis found out and went and gathered up all the pieces of the body, less the phallus which had been eaten by a fish thereafter considered taboo by the Egyptians, and bandaged them together for a proper burial. The gods were impressed by her loyalty and thus resurrected Osiris as the god of the underworld.
Now Set was thought to have been gay, Set is described as trying to show his authority, by seducing Horus (by using the line how lovely your backside is) and then having femoral intercourse with him, in which Set takes the lead role. However, Horus put his hand down between his thighs and catches Set’s semen, then cut his hand off, throwing it in the river, so it would not be said to have been inseminated by Set.
Now, Horus covertly masturbates, and intentionally spreads his semen on some lettuce, which was Set’s favorite food (now the Egyptians thought that the lettuce was phallic, because Egyptian lettuce was hard, long, and seeped a milk like substance when rubbed). After Set has eaten the lettuce, both of them go to the gods to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The god’s begin by listen to Set’s claim of authority over Horus, and they call Horus semen forth, but the answers from the river, nullifying his claim. Lastly the gods listen to Horus’ claim of having authority over Set, and so they call his semen forth, and the answers came from inside Set. As the result, Horus is declared the king of Egypt.
2. Egyptian kings were often depicted as relatively the same size as deities. False
3. Many Egyptian representations included hieroglyphics. Typically, shorter texts and longer texts indicated different things what were the differences?
4. Egyptian faience was a rare and costly material and only used to make figures for the kings.
5. Geography and natural resources played a large part in the production of Egyptian art. Write an essay (two paragraphs minimum) exploring how available materials were used by artists.
6. Funerary texts, such as the Book of the Dead, were often written on what Egyptian equivalent of paper?
7. During the late Predynastic Period, the culture of northern Egypt communities slowly began expanding to the south.
8. A falcon depiction in Egyptian art typically represents the god ?
9. The crown is associated with Upper Egypt and the crown is associated with Lower Egypt.
10. The resurrected Osiris is often depicted with what two colors of skin?
11. Is this an example of raised of sunk relief?
12. What is the name of stela component that contains a rectangular glyph depicting a pharaoh’s ‘Horus name’ and typically has an image of a deity?
13. Tombs often had , which were stone carvings identifying the buried. Royal versions would have a serekh as part of the relief.
___ Crook
___ False door
___ Stelae
___ Pylon
14. Every king was to be associated identified with this deity during his lifetime.
__ Osiris
__ Wadjit
__ Hathor
__ Horus
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