Greetings,
This is a very timely find for me as we are preparing to do the Opet
Festival in Second Life in 1455bce. It seems likely to me that there was
probably ritual sex at Opet. This question becomes especially
interesting for us as our Pharaoh is Hatshepsut. We are currently
working out exactly what to do so I'd love to hear if there is any more
news on this papyrus.
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of Sociology and Social Work
University of Tasmania
On 26/09/2012 4:31 AM, mandrake wrote:
> On 25/09/2012 18:25, Noah Gardiner wrote:
>
> I think it is a fantastic insight that the Egyptian folk stories (ie
> Tale of Two Brothers, Khemwaset etc) are ways of discussing sexual
> mysticism -
> indeed they are often very explicit - as when a grave robber thinks he
> is getting his way with the lovely
> Tabubue and wakes up naked in the street with his penis in a clay pot!
>
> I will check out the full article in the library as the authors are
> being coy -
> the festival of local sufi saint and his wife at Luxor, is said by some
> researchers to be an archeological memory
> of the festival of Opet (Amun & Mut).
>
>
> Older versions of the festival had a symbolic sexual component (now
> suppressed) -
> although I'm currently reading Mahfouz's "Cairo Trilogy" - which covers
> the period from 1918 - independence. It
> is full of "cigarettes, and whiskey and wild wild women" -
> also much Islamic and Koranic folklore - of which the author was an expert -
> do you have any thoughts on this view of Egyptian society?
>
>
> mogg
>
>> This will certainly interest Mogg and many others on this list, if you
>> didn't already know about it: "A recently deciphered Egyptian papyrus
>> from around 1,900 years ago tells a fictional story that includes
>> drinking, singing, feasting and ritual sex, all in the name of the
>> goddess Mut."
>>
>> I don't know the site, but the article seems legit:
>> http://www.livescience.com/23401-cult-fiction-ancient-egypt-priest.html
>> --
>> Noah Gardiner
>> Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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