The next entries in Manetho as reported by Africanus are brief enough and interesting enough to be quoted in extenso: TWENTY-FOURTH DYNASTY. Bochchoris of Sais, for 6 (44) years: in his time…
Author: Dena
Lower Paleolithic: c. 2 Mil. – 100,000 BC
As hard as may be to believe, there was an Egypt before the Pharaohs. Over a century ago, Charles Darwin, without any real evidence to back up his theory, set forth the…
Opet
Opet was a benign hippopotamus goddess known as a protective and nourishing deity. Her name seems to mean ‘harem’ or ‘favored place’. Our first reference to her comes from the Pyramid Texts,…
Sixth Dynasty
After Wenis the Turin Canon inserted a total of all the years from the accession of Menes down to that reign. The number is unfortunately lost, but the entry serves a useful…
Iskcon Temple
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the founder acharya of the hare krishna movement. Completed in 1998, this is a complex of temples. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was initially raised…
Puranas
The Puranas contain the essence of the Vedas. They were written to impress the teachings of the Vedas onto the masses and to generate devotion to God in them. They have five…
Khephri
God of the sun, creation, life, resurrection, have the appearance of a scarab-headed man, a scarab, and a man wearing a scarab as a crown. The word kheper means scarab, and as…
Wadjet
Wadjet was the predynastic cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, a goddess originally of a city who grew to become the patron goddess of all of Lower Egypt and ‘twin’ in the guardianship…