09/06/2020  BROTHER-SISTER MARRIAGE IN ANCIENT EGYPT. BROTHER-SISTER MARRIAGE IN ANCIENT EGYPT. Yet from the 13th Dynasty (1795-1650 BC) on polygamy was common among kings and some of the ruling elite. While one principal wife (hemet nesw weret) was chosen, others were probably taken by the king in order to assure a royal heir, or cement relationships with foreign countries or even powerful regional leaders.  Kings might have as many as several hundred wives, and in some periods other high officials took more than one wife. Also, the tradition of brother/sister or father/daughter marriages was mostly confined to the royalty of Egypt, at least until the Greek period.  In tales from Egyptian mythology, gods marriage between brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters were common from the earliest periods, and so Egyptian kings may have felt that it was a royal prerogative to do likewise.  However, there are also theories that brother/sister marriages may also have strengthened the king's claim to rule. It was not uncommon among common people to marry relatives.  Marriage between cousins, or uncles and nieces were fairly common in Egypt prior to the Greek period.  Interestingly, after the Greek arrival, one study found that 24 percent of marriages among common people were brother/sister relationships. 09: PM 0 Comments  (Add Comment)  | 0 Kudos

08/29/2020  TROPK Term and Agreement TROPK is now recruiting. However, we are very selective in whom we allow into our family. We like to thank everyone for adding our kingdom's page. We want to extend our invitation to join the TROPK, become a member of the kingdom?  We have many open roles with that said we also want to be sure that if and when you, no longer want to play these roles, please delete or give us back our characters, please. We like to keep our connecting characters where they belong in the TROPK family. Please sign agreed to our-Term and agreement. 05: PM 0 Comments  (Add Comment)  | 0 Kudos

08/14/2020  Roles wantedEgyptian Gods & Goddesses Ancient Egyptian Gods & Goddesses    The Ancient Egyptian religion involved many beliefs that include things in daily life. People worshiped gods by offering them prayers and sacrifices. Pharaohs were also sometimes viewed as gods on earth. Egyptian religion was not based on firm theological principles. Its primary focus was simply the interaction between humans and the gods. Here is a list of the gods that were worshiped in ancient Egypt:      * Ra is the eagle god of the sun.     * Anubis god of the dead     * Bastet is the Cat goddess.     * Sehkmet goddess of fire, war and plague     * Nut is the goddess of sky and stars, mother of gods.     * Geb is the green god of Earth.     * Horus is the god with falcon's head, god of pharaohs.     * Osiris is the god of the afterlife.     * Isis is the goddess of magic and healing, wife of Osiris.     * Seth is the god of deserts and evil.     * Thoth is the scribe god.     * Ma'at is the goddess of truth.     * Amun is the god of Thebes, king of gods in New Kingdom.     * Wadjet is the goddess of pregnancy and motherhood, goddess in snake form.     * Anuket is the goddess of river Nile.     * Hathor is the goddess of the moon and children.     * Ptah is the creator god     * Bes is the dwarf god of safe journey The Egyptians also worshipped Scarab Beetles and cats. (N Sidore) 06: PM 0 Comments  (Add Comment)  | 0 Kudos

08/02/2020  TROPK Form Tropk is a family of unity that we all are wishing to have. A place of stability in knowing that a hand will always be reached out to help us rise to a new future. A place that we all can be ourselves were our fragmented past is never judged. That the person we were is not who we are today. This is a place where we have a tomorrow to look forward to. It is a guiding light in a path of darkness were the warmth that is felt can truly be called home. If this is what you are searching for traveler then please do not look any further. You are in the right place. So please take the time to look over the family values/laws. Every family must have a stable structure if it wishes to grow strong. I believe these values/laws are simple and form that stability to make this family strong. After reading them if you still wish to enter the family then please let me know. I look forward to all who take that first step into the future. Please know that this family is not being based on how many members are in it. We do not care about numbers. We want this family to be a group of roleplayers wanting to have fun and work together to create beautiful dark works of art in the form of writing as well as forming friendships with each other.  If your still content on joining then please send me a message with the following information within it. All information is to be IC please. I will not ask for personal information so do not worry. Full Name: Age: Race: Site: url: Reason for wanting to join: 　 Family Values/Laws -Respect yourself and all family members. -Never turn your back on another family member. -Confined in each other in times of need. -If a family member betrays the family they are sent to be judged by all family members. All evidence must be presented before the family. However, the final judgment will be granted by the leader [Blood Goddess Saqqara]. -All family members being judged have the right to defend themselves with there evidence of there innocence. -All Allied members are to be welcomed and treated as if they are family. -No wars are to be made without parable cause with all evidence presented before war can be declared. The final say is only given by the leader [Blood Goddess Saqqara]. -Respect each others own role-playing rules if they have any. -Above all have fun! 06: PM 3 Comments  (Add Comment)  | 0 Kudos

08/01/2020  Egyptians Deity Circle of the Nile TROPK Bio Egyptians Deity Circle of the Nile) Protection alt Headrest of a scribe protected with protective deities including the god Bes, who warded off evil demons from the headrest's owner as he slept  © Angry deities, jealous ghosts, and foreign demons and sorcerers were thought to cause misfortunes such as illness, accidents, poverty and infertility. Magic provided a defense system against these ills for individuals throughout their lives. Stamping, shouting, and making a loud noise with rattles, drums and tambourines were all thought to drive hostile forces away from vulnerable women, such as those who were pregnant or about to give birth, and from children - also a group at risk, liable to die from childhood diseases. The wands were engraved with the dangerous beings… Some of the ivory wands may have been used to draw a protective circle around the area where a woman was to give birth, or to nurse her child. The wands were engraved with the dangerous beings invoked by the magician to fight on behalf of the mother and child. They are shown stabbing, strangling or biting evil forces, which are represented by snakes and foreigners. Supernatural 'fighters, such as the lion-dwarf Bes and the hippopotamus goddess Taweret, were represented on furniture and household items. Their job was to protect the home, especially at night when the forces of chaos were felt to be at their most powerful.Bes and Taweret also feature in amulet jeweler. Egyptians of all classes wore protective amulets, which could take the form of powerful deities or animals, or use royal names and symbols. Other amulets were designed to magically endow the wearer with desirable qualities, such as long life, prosperity and good health. Healing Magic was not so much an alternative to medical treatment as a complementary therapy. Surviving medical-magical papyri contain spells for the use of doctors, Sekhmet priests and scorpion-charmers. The spells were often targeted at the supernatural beings that were believed to be the ultimate cause of diseases. Knowing the names of these beings gave the magician power to act against them.Since demons were thought to be attracted by foul things, attempts were sometimes made to lure them out of the patient's body with dung; at other times a sweet substance such as honey was used, to repel them. Another technique was for the doctor to draw images of deities on the patient's skin. The patient then licked these off, to absorb their healing power.  Acting out the myth would ensure that the patient would be cured... Many spells included speeches, which the doctor or the patient recited in order to identify themselves with characters in Egyptian myth. The doctor may have proclaimed that he was Thoth, the god of magical knowledge who healed the wounded eye of the god Horus. Acting out the myth would ensure that the patient would be cured, like Horus.Collections of healing and protective spells were sometimes inscribed on statues and stone slabs (steal) for public use. A statue of King Ramses III (c.1184-1153 BC), set up in the desert, provided spells to banish snakes and cure snakebites.Statue of Horus Horus © A type of magical stela known as a cippus always shows the infant god Horus overcoming dangerous animals and reptiles. Some have inscriptions describing how Horus was poisoned by his enemies, and how Isis, his mother, pleaded for her son's life, until the sun god Ra sent Thoth to cure him.  The story ends with the promise that anyone who is suffering will be healed, as Horus was healed. The power in these words and images could be accessed by pouring water over the cippus. The magic water was then drunk by the patient, or used to wash their wound.CursesThough magic was mainly used to protect or heal, the Egyptian state also practiced destructive magic. The names of foreign enemies and Egyptian traitors were inscribed on clay pots, tablets, or figurines of bound prisoners. These objects were then burned, broken, or buried in cemeteries in the belief that this would weaken or destroy the enemy.In major temples, priests and priestesses performed a ceremony to curse enemies of the divine order, such as the chaos serpent Apophis - who was eternally at war with the creator sun god. Images of Apophis were drawn on papyrus or modeled in wax, and these images were spat on, trampled, stabbed and burned.  Anything that remained was dissolved in buckets of urine. The fiercest gods and goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon were summoned to fight with, and destroy, every part of Apophis, including his soul (ba) and his heka. Human enemies of the kings of Egypt could also be cursed during this ceremony.Magical figurines were thought to be more effective if they incorporated something from the intended victim, such as hair, nail-clippings or bodily fluids. This kind of magic was turned against King Ramesses III by a group of priests, courtiers and harem ladies. These conspirators got hold of a book of destructive magic from the royal library, and used it to make potions, written spells and wax figurines with which to harm the king and his bodyguards. Magical figurines were thought to be more effective if they incorporated something from the intended victim, such as hair, nail-clippings or bodily fluids.  The treacherous harem ladies would have been able to obtain such substances but the plot seems to have failed. The conspirators were tried for sorcery and condemned to death.The deadAll Egyptians expected to need heka to preserve their bodies and souls in the afterlife, and curses threatening to send dangerous animals to hunt down tomb-robbers were sometimes inscribed on tomb walls. The mummified body itself was protected by amulets, hidden beneath its wrappings. Collections of funerary spells - such as the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead - were included in elite burials, to provide esoteric magical knowledge.The soul had to overcome the demons it would encounter by using magic words and gestures. The dead person's soul, usually shown as a bird with a human head and arms, made a dangerous journey through the underworld. The soul had to overcome the demons it would encounter by using magic words and gestures. There were even spells to help the deceased when their past life was being assessed by the Forty-Two Judges of the Underworld. Once a dead person was declared innocent they became an akh, a 'transfigured' spirit. This gave them akhw power, a superior kind of magic, which could be used on behalf of their living relatives.  Egyptian Nile Delta Sacred Great Word, its divine Voice from the God Osiris 04: PM 0 Comments  (Add Comment)  | 0 Kudos

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