The Vigorous Nature of Seth's Coition

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Hello new followers, welcome to this Egyptologist’s random blog! Here I yell about Egypt, my novel, and life as mum of a precocious toddler, all the while sharing bullshit memes and making lettuce shitposts. This is a personal blog, so don’t expect purely Egyptological content. I also swear a lot.

For personal health reasons I’m currently not taking Egypt(ology)-related questions. You can check out the FAQ, which I’m working on updating with 2 years of material. You’re still welcome to send writing-related asks, silliness about Egypt or anything else, personal messages, etc. Just no asks that would require me to do cross-referencing, research, all that stuff. I’m still going to make bitchy little posts about ancient Egypt though, don’t worry.

My official field of expertise is ancient Egyptian medicine, subspecialty head trauma/surgical treatment (particularly in the Edwin Smith Papyrus). I’m also the unofficial Seth expert by virtue of this apparently being a void that had to be filled on Egypt-interested Tumblr.

My other fields of interest are:

  • The early Middle Kingdom/12th Dynasty
  • Material culture and art history
  • Literature
  • Engineering/technology and materials

As of 02/02/2023 I have 65 Egyptology-asks in the inbox still waiting for an answer. Once I worked my way through those I’ll reconsider taking new asks on ancient Egypt.

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The book I’m writing is a historical fantasy set in Ancient Egypt, about an infamous thief with the powers of the desert looking for her own identity in all the wrong places. When her hubris finally catches up with her, she must help the harsh general who has his own reasons for not trusting her defeat a magician with more heka than any mortal should possess. In her search for who she is, she decides to involve herself with many more cosmic powers than might be healthy - certainly more than would be smart. I yell about this thing a lot, you’ll get used to it. If you see a random post or tag talking about D, that’s ma'am miss thief. Not to be confused with C, who is my 2 y/o daughter.

NB. This blog is a trans-supportive space. Trans women are women and trans men are men, straight trans people are as valid as queer ones, you don’t need to be dysphoric to be trans, and although in general I may still make honest mistakes when talking about these things I am always open to be corrected. TERFs here to co-opt our explanations about Hatshepsut in order to invalidate the trans experience can fuck off or it’s on sight.

And while I’m here, aro/ace people belong in the queer community because they are queer. Biphobes can also stuff it. I don’t care who you love or how you love them, your heart is not anyone’s to pass judgment on. If they do, tear theirs out and feed it to Ammit.

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one of my professors, a historian who has been interviewed as an expert in various documentaries, said that the secret to documentaries is saying something very obvious, as slowly as possible. for example, if you say “the romans…….. enjoyed their dinner parties” or "being a gladiator... was... very... dangerous" then the filmmakers can get that clip and immediately pan over some cool pictures of mosaics or something. this has forever changed the way i view documentaries

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getting lots of notes just by quoting something that a funny person i know IRL said feels like stealing. however i guess sometimes funny people dont know how funny they are and i have to be the one to bring their good quotes to a wider audience

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A Break from the Lawn
A new study at King's College, Cambridge reveals the striking benefits of letting lawns go wild. But can others be persuaded to break with a
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In 2020, for the first time since being laid in 1772, a section of a King’s College lawn the size of just half a football pitch was not mown.

Instead, it was transformed into a colourful wildflower meadow filled with poppies, cornflowers and oxeye daisies.

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[Researcher Dr Cicely Marshall] found that as well as being a glorious sight, the meadow had boosted biodiversity and was more resilient than lawn to our changing climate. The results are published today in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence.

Despite its size, the wildflower meadow supported three times more species of plants, spiders and bugs than the remaining lawn - including 14 species with conservation designations, compared with six in the lawn.

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The meadow was found to have another climate benefit: it reflected 25% more sunlight than the lawn, helping to counteract what’s known as the ‘urban heat island’ effect. Cities tend to heat up more than rural areas, so reflecting more sunlight can have a cooling effect - useful in our increasingly hot summers.

“Cambridge has become more prone to drought, and last summer most of the College’s fine lawns died. It’s really expensive to maintain these lawns, which have to be re-sown if they die off. But the meadow just looked after itself,” says Marshall.

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Not a girl or a boy, but a "sekhet" third thing <3

I cracked myself up on my way to work with this joke (yay sleep deprivation!) and complained to my girlfriend that it was such a niche joke no one but my kemetic church and her would get it, so actually, I decided to share this lovely link for context and education <3 And yes, this is how I personally identify, although I go by "nonbinary" for ease of understanding lol.

~Em

PS: Ashley runs our spirituality/kemetic blog if anyone's interested at @caffeine-and-sunshine

Read about the Sekhet Gender, Egypts third gender

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Is this a real thing, and if so, are there any places that talk about it more extensively?

thatlittleegyptologist

Sorry for taking a while, life has been a Thing. But, no, this isn't a thing. sxtj is most often translated as 'castrated' and it occurs in 2 pyramids (Pepi I and Merenre) and also at the temple of Sobek. The translation is far from certain, although at the temple of Sobek is it almost certainly 'castrated' and is likely a reference to Seth (Romans are fun). These texts are extremely theological in nature, so we're missing significant cultural context (especially for concepts existing within the Pyramid texts) and likely a good deal of metaphor.

One of the quoted sources mentions this:

Inscribed pottery shards discovered near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), and dating from the Middle Kingdom (2000-1800 BCE), contain a listing of three genders of humanity: males, eunuchs, and females, in that order. (See Sethe, Kurt, "Die Aechtung feindlicher Fürsten, Völker und Dinge auf altägyptischen Tongefäßscherben des mittleren Reiches," in: Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 1926, p. 61.) The word for male includes a picture of a penis and a picture of a man kneeling. The word for eunuch includes a picture of a man kneeling, but not a picture of a penis. The word for female includes a picture of a woman kneeling, but no picture of body parts (unless the shield-like shape which designates "woman" is a picture of the female pubic region).

One: that source is from 1926 and oh boy is it out of date.
Two: The presence or not of genitalia in a word does not dictate it's gender. 'smtr' to examine has a penis glyph in it and it has nothing to do with gender. Similarly the word donkey aA also has a penis in it and indicates nothing to do with gender.
Three: 'man kneeling' is just the sign for man. It's used as a pronoun and to indicate the speaker or identity of a person is male.
Four: The word sxtj doesn't have a penis, no. It does however have a sign for a bird trap, which I'm fairly certain doesn't indicate gender at all but it does have the 3-consonant value of 'sxt' which is why it was used.
Five: 'no picture of woman's body parts'...that's a well with water in which is being used as a metaphor for a womb. This is what you get for looking at sources from 1926 when we didn't fully understand all the signs yet.

I've got the Gardiner's sign list references for both signs I mentioned here:

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I can see one of these sources is where the Niankhmun/Khumnhotep 'names are intermingled meaning joined in life/joined in death' comes from which is very funny if you can read hieros because that doesn't exist and the word for 'death' is 'mwt' so....that's not real either.

So, no. This isn't anything. Periodically it comes back around, and while I've no doubt other genders existed in Ancient Egypt they likely did not follow our understanding of gender, and thus may be completely hidden to us right now.

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