mostlyvoidd-partiallystarss:egypt-museum:Thutmose III being suckled by IsisA unique image depicts ki
mostlyvoidd-partiallystarss:egypt-museum:Thutmose III being suckled by IsisA unique image depicts king Thutmose III being suckled by the goddess Isis in the guise of a sycamoretree. Tomb of Thutmose III (KV34). New Kingdom, mid-18th Dynasty, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.UM EXCUSE METhis is what I get by being humorously flippant about Egyptian iconography.First off, I’m not wrong, this is hilarious, and if any Egyptologist thinks I am they can meet me and this titty tree in the sewers at 11. Secondly, this looks weird but isn’t once you understand what’s happening. The glyphs to the left read mn-xpr-ra snq=f mwt=f Ast “Menkheperre (Thutmose III), he suckles his mother Isis”, which is exactly what’s being depicted here….except Isis is currently a Sycamore tree with a swole arm and a very pointy boob. To understand this, we have to understand why the Sycamore tree is so important to the Egyptians. Basically, the Sycamore tree is a producer of figs, which is a key element in an Ancient Egyptian diets. Right from pre-Dynastic times it was identified as being a good source when everything else was scarce, which led it to come into Egyptian Mythology as the “Tree of Life” and many goddesses became associated with it. This in turn led to goddesses being depicted as the tree. In many scenes in tombs, “trees of life” are depicted as “giving life” to a deceased person by giving them food and water, so that the deceased may continue their journey into the afterlife. In Thutmose’s case, it’s the same and yet a little bit more complicated. The tree is giving Thutmose, as the deceased, life, but there’s an extra element. In the Old Kingdom, the King was considered to be a god on Earth. By the time we reach the New Kingdom, where Thutmose III is, they no longer believe this. Instead, Kings in this period don’t assert their divinity, but rather their divine right to rule by stating that one of their parents was a god and thus it was their destiny to rule Egypt. In this case, Thutmose is stating that his mother was Isis, and in the afterlife it is she, as the tree of life, who provides him with sustenance because she is his mother. TL;DR: Thutmose claims Isis as his mother in order to legitimise his royal destiny and right as king of Egypt, and in her role as the Tree of Life, Isis feeds her child Thutmose to help him arrive into the afterlife. So yes, this is the titty tree of destiny. -- source link